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mildenee with a posithive ee of satisfge= L 2PARAEL k w/c/s. 722C _at TW3 Wa CNTS .. RE CO. who operâ€" hould use recomâ€" 4*A BCE % Mess in trees round it eokbones â€" a methâ€" lusion of made to to the n preg» : color wer lip. ard to er tip. > COd A L W a y 9t aebl= Ni 14 ) there are more horses on Canadâ€" ian farms this year than last. The 1939 total is 2,824,340, as comâ€" pared with 2,820,700 in 1938, an increase of 3,640. The Cabinet oficer, in a speech prepared for a joint session of the American Political Science Assoâ€" eciation and the Society for Public Administration, blamed many of the world‘s present ilts on United States policies after the first Great HMHonry Wallace, Secretary of Agâ€" riculture, declared in a recent adâ€" dress that Canada and Latinâ€"Amerâ€" ica, as fields for investment of United States capital, offered an economic substitute for the counâ€" try‘s vanished land frontier. Destiny in This Hemisphere "We must recognize," he said, that our destiny lies increasingly in this hemisphere, and insofar as we are able to make plans for the investment of funds, we can well cwousider laying increasing emphaâ€" sis on Canada, LatinAmerica and possibly Aqstralls." Investment In Canada Urged leart discases were _ death‘s greatest ally in Canada duvsing the first six mounths of 1989, according to figures releasod by the Dominâ€" on Bureau of Statistics. Of the 57,â€" 949 deaths during the period, comâ€" pared with 55,726 in the corresâ€" ponding period of 1938, heart disâ€" eases caused 9,780, Many Violent Deaths Doaths as the result of specified eauses, with figures for the corresâ€" ponding period of last year in bracâ€" kets follow: Heart diseasos, 9,780 (9,172); cancer, $,119 (5.8S8); auâ€" tomobile accidents, 488 (5149); othâ€" er violent deaths, 1,954 (2,152); diseases of the arteries, 5.785 (5,â€" 183); tuberculosis, 3,22%§ (3,272); influenza 3.241 (1,633); pnoumonia 4,213 (4485); nephritis, 3528 (3,â€" 490); suicide, 479 (496); homicide, 53 (74). In Cznada During the First Six Months of 1939 Heart Disease bave gon who need trition of It‘s an involveod reply when weaâ€" ther experts take many factors into consideration to answer the quesâ€" tion, "Why no snow this winter?" Prevailing Winds From Pacific The crux of the reason seems to be that to a most unusual extent the provailing winds in Ontario this season have beea from the Pacific Ocean. "By the time these winds from the Pacific cross the Rockies and drop their moisture there they are both warmed and dry when they reach bore," the a DJ Mo Stresses Opportunities Here Lack of snow in Toronto and disâ€" trict this fall and "winter" bas set & record for all time since weathor éata first first kept in this city, ninetyâ€"nine years ago, the Metsoroâ€" logical Bureau has announced. There was no measurable snowâ€" just odd snowâ€"flurries up until bee,. 15th Ww ther It is officially reportec[ Fall Minus Snow: â€" Allâ€"Time Record The reels are made in the Unitâ€" ed Kingdom. To dats the silent films have been found satisfactory for instructional purposes and no consideration has been given the n=o of sound films. Cover 100 Subjects For instance there is one reel on bayonet drill. There is another for machine gun practics and othâ€" ers covering such things as the platoon in attack, handling of varâ€" lous arms, tank work, s‘gnalling and methods of fighting in various types of countryâ€"side. These films of the silent variety, are oneâ€"reel pictures, which cover about 100 subjects with which the various arms of the Canadian Actâ€" ive Service Force must bo familiar. Canada‘s fighting â€"mon are now learning the tricks of their new trade in the most upâ€"toâ€"date manâ€" ner possible and training includes the viewing of moving pictures that show in detail the right way for things to be done Silent Films Teach Troops t in Ontario This Season â€" For One Reason, It Hasn‘t Bcen Cold Enough Ideas on Drill, Arms in Easy Found No. 1 Death Cause Een oonompiiigg 6 w um Only "lampâ€"lighter" in Chatham was Frank Hargreaves, and Henry Marshall and Michael Dyer shared dutics as the "bridgeâ€"tender." No editorial note was added to the dir. ectory to explain what a "tombâ€" stone traveller".was, but one cit» izen was listed as filling that post. In the unmechanized town of that remote date, quite a number of the men were still going to daily work as hostlers, or in livâ€" ery stables where "comfortable and stylish rugs" were always at hand, and commercial travel was described as "a specialty." Stylish Rigs, Then When this rare "Chatham City Directory and County Gazeteer" was published and compiled by Sames Soutar in that golden, preâ€" automobile era, there were still more than a halfâ€"hundred men making a good living as "horseâ€" shoers and blacksmiths." f Invention of the automobile un» doubtedly helped expand Windsor and Detroit, but just think what happened to Chatham and its 52 blacksmiths listed in the city dirâ€" ectory of 1885â€"86, when gas bugâ€" gies started chugging down the muddy streets, says the Windsor Daily Star. That Was In 1885, Old Directâ€" ory Shows; Autos Also Stole Jobs of Hostlers and Livery Chatham Once Had Fiftyâ€"two Blacksmiths In the same week: Hermann Goering became absolute ecoromic dictator of Germany . . . President Roosevelt recommended to Conâ€" gress enormous additional expendiâ€" tures for the U, S. air forces and coastal dofences . . . Premier Kamâ€" on do Valera of Kire, sought to put the kibosh on the Irish Republican Army . , . the Russian military maâ€" chine stalled in Finland . . . . . Canada‘s Parliament got ready for a session which will doubtless be filled with acrimonious debate and lengthy inquiry. . . Writing from Paris, Now York Times‘ correspondent Archambault said: "At present the nature of the Allied campaign that will develop in 1940 turns on the answer to the question: Will the Germans atâ€" tack in the spring? Thero is a very general assumption that they will. It is argued here that the Nazi leadership . might strive to defeat France before the main British army enters the lists, and before certain neutrals may decide to take sides grou oved the whic the 1940 The Balkan pot kept boiling throughout the week ... King Carâ€" ol shook his fist warningly at both Russia and Germany, but it beâ€" came more evident that should the war on the Westorn Front remain deadlocked, southeastern Europe would become the now â€" battle BUSY DIPLOMATS In the eighteenth week of the war the world discovered that Eurâ€" ope‘s diplomats had been spending a busy Yuletide . . . Foreign Minâ€" isters of Italy and Hungary appearâ€" ed to have agrood upon a defensive alliance between the two countries, assuring Hungary full Italian supâ€" port in the event of attack either by Germany or Soviet Russia, said pact to be kept secret . .. Russia signed a threeâ€"year commercial and navigation agreement with Bulgarâ€" ia, ratified a trade treaty with China, and continued negotiations for a similar compact with Japan Was the War Secretary‘s resigâ€" nation due to his extensive demoâ€" cratization of the army, a conflict with his generals, disagroement with the Prime Minister, or inabilâ€" Ity to get along with Winston Churchill? Would pnblic indignaâ€" tion at the demotion of this most popular Minister grow to the exâ€" tent of driving the government out of power? Only a week previous, a prominont British daily had called for the clearing of all "deadwood" Sut of the Cabinet . . . Sir Oliver Stanley‘s name was mentioned for the discard, but now Sir Oliver sits in Horeâ€"Belisha‘s chair. Christmas and New Year‘s exâ€" citements over, European war news threatened to fall as flat as the proverbial pancake . . . front page news here suffered from a surfeit of diplomatic hearsay, unâ€" confirmed reports and false rumâ€" ors . . . the Russoâ€"Finnish affair was magnified beyond all proporâ€" tion . . . the newspaperâ€" reading populace were beginning to experâ€" ience a letâ€"down feeling when along came that sensation, the "Mystery of the Disappearing Cabinet Minâ€" ister." Roredom was banished. NEWS PARADE Christmas and h PUSH IN THE SPRING? a C nans uld m Cond fo mo ware n n such as Poland, cope to mies of Lav« Ching is one of the largest wheatâ€"growing nations. If all this knowledge were lost many years would be needed to make it good. Literally btlilons of imicrobes have been evacuated from Pars by the Pasteur Institute. _ Collee ed from every part of the world, they represent all the known «is eases causod by gorms. While seal ed in their glass vessels they can do no harm, but a bomb could scat ter them far and wide. Collected From Ail Over World Even then they would be harmâ€" less unless some of the worst feli on a passerby. If, however, they fell into a fountain, they could do immeasurable damage. The disasâ€" ter of their loss by bomb or shell fire would be of a different kind. They have taken years to collect, and scientific men have spont thousands of hours to study, clasâ€" sify and grow them. From Pasteur Institute in Paris â€" They‘re Not Harmful So Long As They Remain in Glass Vessels Many Microbes Are Evacuated Included are: Wilson, Rcosevelt, Hindenburg, Stresemann, | Hitler, Dol!f‘uss, Mussolini, Poincare, Briand, Masaryks, Benes, King Alexâ€" ander, Lenin, Stalin, Mustapha Ke mal, De Valera, Venizelos, Chambâ€" erlain, Eden, Pisudski, Stn Yat Sen, Chiang Katshek., "Mou!ders of National Destinies" & .. by F. H. Soward . . . Toroni>: Oxford University Press . . . $1.20. This book will interest anyone who wishes to review recont treeds ie international aiffairs, and wil} make a valitable companion to our reading in the nowspapers. Intoresting incidents and ano~ dotog are skilfully Interwoven, and, though brief, the biographics are vivid, colorful, fullyâ€"roundod | porâ€" traits. trecing their â€" careers, explained graphically events and policies in countries at peace and at war. "MOULDERS C" NATIONAL j DESTINIES" by F. H. Soward Professor i. wardi, wellknown to the Canadian radio audience through his talk. over the CBC, has taken a score of the loadinz figures in the world today, and, by *T he Book Shelf The arrival cf the first division of the C.A.S:F., under has won the enthusiastic acclaim of the Britishers, who ne swing smartly past during route marches. Scottish troops TlOM, as they swing along an English country road. Vearin sA Atmros, ds tridsion. Tss rdstess > B ids i s a s d shown lining up for ins;ection, TOP REC‘LAR FELLERSâ€"Very Serious C T Canadian Troops In England Cheered Duringâ€"Route Marches ininant Axndm? radidet tds i06 ds sc 0k cA d 13 1i a n 8 English country road. VWearing their battle dress, the o tan The declaration of war created a problom for most of the province‘s sportsmen‘s _ organizations who wero undecided whether to relax most of their activities or increase them to meet the emergency. A re cent statement from the province‘s leading conservation organization the Ontario Federation of Anglers, indicates in a very forceful manne: what stand should be taken in these times and we report it in this corâ€" MICKIE SAYSâ€" Recently a banquet for gourâ€" ments was held in Paris, A prize was offered to the guest who could name correctly the vintages of the wines and the names of the dishes served. The winner placed five of the wines, but could only name three of the seven dishes, And the greatest foodâ€"specialists in France could not differentiate between venison and hare. THE SPORTSMAN AND WAR PROMOTERS OF HAND BILLS N ADVERTISING SHEETS KNOW GETTER‘L TO TEST THEIR ALLEGED POPULARITY GY TrRymw‘ TD CHARGE MONEY TER ‘EM By VIC BAKER Guesswork NTAR!IO UTP2OORS the ieadership of Maj.â€"Gen. A. G. L. MceNaughton, ver tire of watching the Canadian troops as they othl_me ‘first‘ division receive a hearty cheer. BOTâ€" in «t € Away up on the odge of the Arcâ€" tice Circle, Canada‘s radium indusâ€" try continues to make steady proâ€" gress, according to reports receiyâ€" ed by the Department of Mines and Resources, Ottawa. Production of radium from the proporty of Eldorâ€" ado Gold Mines Limited on Great PBear Lake, NW.T., has passed the 100â€"gram mark, and the output of uranium oxide and other associate minerals has yielded a further sub stantial return, Pitchblende â€" 135 Tons Daily Reserves of pitchblende ore have been increased, and the capacity of the mill at the mine has been stepâ€" ped up to 135 tons daily, with reâ€" covery improved and costs lowered. The refinery at Port Hope, Ontario‘ has a productive capacity of 108 grams of radium per year with facâ€" flities for processing from 8,000 to 10,000 tons of uranium compounds, and for extracting radioâ€"active lead and silver, also sulphide, and other materials. Although they mine and the refinery are more than three thousand miles apart, the output at the two points is carefully corre lated, and an expansion program Canada‘s Radium Industry Grows At a critical tim@ such as this in tho history of our Dominion an outâ€" standing opportunity is presented in which organizations such as the Ontario Federation of Anglers can plan and carry out a programme for the promotion of conservation of the natural resources of this proâ€" vince with farâ€"reaching and lasting benelit to Canada, Conserve Fish and Game Wars are now more than ever a auestion of endurance and finanâ€" cial resources are a factor of the greatest importance. Ninancial reâ€" sources are dependent on the mainâ€" tenance of trade ct high levels ard continuous progress in all inâ€" dustries. The tourist trade of Ontâ€" ario is one of her greatest indusâ€" trics and, important as it has been in the past, the closing of Europe to tourists on account of the war promises considerable augmentaâ€" tion of this trade in the future, if we seo to it that the supply of naâ€" tural resources of fish and game are not allowed to become depletâ€" ed. ner as an example for other organiâ€" zations of anglers and hunters who may still feel undecided. rkes Steady Progress up on the Edge of Arctic Circle; Mines on Great Bear Lake, Refinery at Port Hope, Ont. ts > Canadian "Seotties" are ~* + weariaS "i Won‘t Give Nurse a Kiss. . . . I Don‘t Want My Face Siappeod Like Pop‘s Was." â€" LIFE‘S LIKE THAT About oneâ€"third of the potatoes grown in the United States are used on the farms where grown. Canadian tobacco growers harâ€" vested a record crop this year when the production amsunted to 108,770,100 _ pounds _ compared with 101,394,000 pounds in 1938, and 72,098,400 pounds in 1937. recently completed now gives the indusiry economical processing faâ€" cilities which can be geared to the world demand. Develop Uses for Radium With problems of development and production largely solved, the Canadian radium industry is now directing attention to product reâ€" search, market research and marâ€" ket development, Although widoly used for the troatment of cancer, the possibilities of radium as an industrial mincral are still largely unknown. It is now being used in luminous compounds and in radioâ€" graphy â€"â€" the "xraying" of heavy castings and metal parts to detect flaws â€" but these uses by no moans exhaust the probable field of service of the minsral. flaws â€" but moans exhat of service of GET A LITTLE AirR Many of us spend almost all of our time indoors. We dash from our homes to a closed automobile or street car and then to a stuffy office. For days at a time we spond hardly an hour in the fresh air and sunshine. Is it any wonder that an ontbreak of the commor cold does strike so many of us? Jt is well esâ€" tablished that fresh air and sunâ€" shine are essential to good health. Many of us fail to get anything like a proper quota during periods of cold weather. â€"â€" Halifax Chronâ€" icle. HELPLESS CREW The whole population of eleven million people are agreed that farâ€" mers should get more for their proâ€" duct, but amongst the eleven milâ€" lion people there is not one who can tell us how to do it. â€" Farmâ€" €1‘s Advocate. HERE‘s HOPING Partial eclipse of the sun is due to take place on November 11 in 1940 and we can think of a couple of individuails in Europe who should be in similar state by that time. â€" Peterborough Examine». The wicked thrive because they go after what they want while the good wonder why somebody does not do something. â€"â€" Quebec Chronicle â€" Telegraph, THE INACTION OF VIRTUE V(‘)“I‘CE PRESS ONTARIO By GENE BYRNES Bee Hive Syrup 25 to 30 per cent, of the rock. _ A process has beon developed whereâ€" by a product of almost pure magâ€" nesia can be obtained and the posâ€" sibilities of producing the maguesâ€" ia at cost low enough to compete successfully with that of the imâ€" ported material is now under conâ€" sideration. In Canada the brucite occurs as small crystals or grains in ¢rysialâ€" line limestone and comprises about At presont Canada obtains most of its magnesia from the United States, Europe and Asia. Get Magnesia From It Commercia!l deposits of brucite were first discovered in Canada in 1937 at Rutherglen, Ont, by M. P. Geudgo of the mines bureau, Suvseâ€" quent field work has disclosed othâ€" er deposits all within easy reach of transportation. From brucite magnesia is obtainâ€" ed for the making of basic high grade refraciories essential for use in the steel and other motalurâ€" gical industries #o vital in timo of war. Recent discoveries of brucite in Ontario and Quebat and subseâ€" quent research by the fedoral mines bureau may make Canada inâ€" dependent of foreign sources of the high grade refractory atertals, tho mines department has announeâ€" ed at Ottawa. ElpoddbflnkoCo-hyl.- of Forei dqnul-l_ on-S-: Ontario and Quebec Brucite Eind By Fred Neher P510 14 1