ery British Dominion Has An Independent Function In The League of Nations Body One fadt which has been made cleat by the recent sassion of the! Ve lee League of Nations at Geneva Is thati Ww, B&B. f Canada and every British Dominion! has a definite and independent func Of Montreal Livestock Yards tion in that body. Despite the condl- W. EB. Watson, one of the best} ons under which this country SEN cen vanbSl:: ann ; in eesti | tered the League and vorla Se Ss at a the World! Canada, and for some years past a| remains in the romi, cls e artments minds of some Buropean stateenend= mi we official of the depart | cf colonization and agriculture of the erroneous idea that G | Gea that Great Britain) ine Canadian National Rallways, has| is the spokesman for 2 c = pire. He the whole Em | been appointed to the managership | cf the Montreal Livestock Yards, | succe’ ay, who! session brough! 51 succeeding Mr. Q. J. Tansey, w ; SR MD oceans) sand has resigned. The announcement was fore, and in suc vay, 2 the arin SRE Donkin Md ae | made by Major F. L. C, Bond, on be- Giintly, loarsOnetes These ara Jnalf of the stockyards company, Mr.| 4 ee “Twi ran ov duties ence to the World Court, when Ween tai taken over his duties See res taken ity. atveral Euro Mr. Watson is a native of Grey an deli | = legates to a British Domin | County, Ont, but came west many fon being separately represented). is even if the questlon dealt with was) Tope" Agniculturl Colinge, aad for Seatees Importance to that) number of years was attached to the |Manitoba Department of Agricul- ture. Later he joined the Dominion Livestock Branch as swine grader for the provinces of Manitoba and Saskatchewan. In February, 1924, he joined the departments of coloniz- ation and agriculture of the National Railways, at Winnipeg, as assistant agricultural agent, and in 1925 was advanced to the position of agricul- Watson, Well-Known Live-| stock Man, Appointed Manager | Several episodes during the last} Such a contention is absolutely contrary to the whole basis of Do- minion inclusion in the League and the World Court and the British dele- gate, Sir Cecil Hurst, replied very forcibly with the statement that even if an English Judge was on the court, the Dominion§ would have the right of representation should it be dealing with a question which di- rectly affected their interests. Neither Canada nor any of the self-governing Dominions have ever recognized the right.of Motherland delegates to vote or speak for them and the sooner this is clearly under stood by all member states of the League, the sooner will progress be made in matters; affecting our inter ests. ~ Canadians are heart and soul be- Shows Large Increase hind the general idea and ideals for < ve a the maintenance of world peace ot Canada’s National Wealth Now the League, but they will never be| Estimated At Over Forty Billion setisfied to take any position of in-| This Canada of ours is getting to al System for the district of Saska-) toon, and in 1927 was transferred to| the Winnipeg offices of the depart- ments as superintendent of farm employment, which position he occu- pled unfil going to Montreal. their vital interests to any one but] Port up $300,000,000 worth of iron their national representatives. and steeel products we might as well sa Se < make ourselves—and thus distributt Our Potential Wealth zi among ourselves some $160,000,000 In wages every year, some of whick Canada Destined To Be the Michest|¥OUld come to Algoma. The nation: Country In the World #1 wealth of Canada was estimated before the war to amount to five bil lion dollars, Today, according to a) | government official, it is around | peonty, billions. Consider this: There are several concerns in Canada “C. & whose values are hovering around virgin ee athe United, States| the billion dollar mark; the C.P.R., of eflintes EA aa oie tia rich-| International Nickel Company, Royai seeice he = | Bank, Bank of Montreal, Consolidat- est country in the world, due to the} 42 ; immense progress of both agriculture ed Smelters and Canadian Nationai end industry in that country. The | vailways. This country hasn't be- fact is, however, that Canada is ape Be TeaLy, OeyelongAtS NTE: country of larger area, and of far sources. We are the fifth commer- greater wealth in natural resources clal/ndtion! on'the) earth, jand the r capita. With a balanced devel- communities which are getting most sae of Canadian’ resources, out of our growth are those which = pied with an equally balancea| Pelieve in Canada—Sault Dally Star, growth of those two great arteries of economic Iife—transportation and Immigration To Canada banking—Canada is destined to be the wealthiest country in the world.|Many Canadians Return From Already her exports per capita have United States To Take Up In a recent article written for a Toronto financial paper, James Boyle, Professor of Agricultural .Economics at Cornell University, states:— a value four times those of »the Residence Here United States.” For the eleven months of the cur- rent fiscal year, April 1, 1928, to A Hazardous Occupation February 28, 1929, immigration to Canada totalled 152,911, an increase Natural Scientists Face Many Dan-|0f 15,979 over the corresponding gers In Tropical Jungles period in 1927-28 or 12 per cent. Pursuit of moths and butterflies in| 12 the month of February this the tropical jungles of Ecuador is a year total immigration was 4,634 hazardous occupation, according to compared with 4,312 in the corres- W. Judson Coxey, “member of the|Ponding month in 1927, an increase Philadelphia Academy of Natural of seven per cent. Of the total 1,- Sciences. who returned from a pro-|691 were British, 1,415 from the tracted expedition. United States, and 1,528 from other Coxey told of meeting bird-eating | Countries. spiders the size of dinner plates ard From April 1, 1928, to February killing venomous repies in the, 28, of this year, 31,420 Canadians haunts of rare and beautiful/butter-(W2O had gone to the United salle flies. One of the spiders encounter- intending to remain there per-| ed, Coxey said, he was forced to manently returned to the Dominion Nancot with a revolver as it was The number who returned last month sbout to spring at him. was 1,698. Rattlesnakes which give no warn- ing when attacking, wer: brought | Had the Symptoms pack by the scientist. They are} A confirmed hypochondriac, meet- known as “Ecco” or * snakes be-| ing his doctor in the street, said:— cause of their markings and have) “Doctor, I have just come from “rattles” which make no no la popular lecture and I am afraid 1 —————_ |have kidney trouble.” Leave It To the Yankee esp teeitiean tonne aid the The English visiting merchant was) doctor, “the curious thing about that| talking impressively to an American. disease is that the victim dots not| “Jn my firm,” he said, “the clerks) experience the least pain or discom- use 0 gallons of ink in a year.”) fort.” “That’s nothing compared to “Heavens!” gasped the other. “My| mine,” replied the Yankee. “We evmptoms exact] saved that much ink last year by in- structing our clerks not to dot their nes Wor Canada Ayro-Avian light anada have been placen according to a cable from London. to be fitted with Armstron; of the planes are air-cooled engines of 80° horsepower The other two will have Cirrus en- gines of 90 horsepower. This is said to be the first instalment of a much large order L Can you tell me if tt defendant was expensively garbed?’ gro Witness: “'Deed she was Ah knows expensive garbage when ah sees it! “why is baby's bed so high? The se Eee Oiilite is net tatae wens “My busband and I sleep soundly °** MMs te mt to try to like what one and that is to hear him if he falls a sedi eut in the night.” —-Lustige Kolner Zeitung, Cologne A League of Nations committee Ww. N. U, 1781 [at $362,500,000,000. “VA Secondary Conder | Selentists Do Not Put | Alean “What a fight that fellow gave!” And so on, into tho night. one of several photographs published by the Tourist Department of the Canadian Pacific Railway to remind the unhappy angler that “Spring has the streams are o-open.’ Archambault, north of Montreal. This is came—and all Photographed near Lake Ke Of Thele Work The successor of the famous Pas- teur is Dr. Roux, director of the Pasteur Institute in Paris, Dr. Roux’s salary is 20,000 francs per year, or in Canadian money, pre- cisely $800, This great and famous scientist lives in a garret, with an {ron bedstead, a table, a chair ana 4 washatand as the only furniture. Of course he is at the laboratory at 7 in the morning and does not quit the place till 8 in the evening. Around him in the research rooms he has gathered a devoted band ot young scientists from all lands; Rus- sians, Germans, Belgians, Czechs, 6 Japanese, an Arab, and several Americans. One of these, assistants told Mr. Pierre Van Paassen, a representa- tive of the New York Ryvening World, the following typical anec- dote about the professor the other day, A young German doctor told the “maitre” hp was leaving. “Why?” asked Dr, Roux. “We are Approved Dairy Herd Sires Reports Of Canadian Record Of Per- Prospects Brighten In Maritime Section on the eve of making a great dis- covery. Another three or four years announcing the result of our inves- Betterment In the Economle Condl- Owners of dairy herds looking for sires bred from high producing stock| reasons, “Comment?” shouted Prof. would find great assistance in locat-|Roux—"a scientist goes because of ing suitable animals in the reports of] money! Monsieur, that is nothing the “Canadian Record of Perform-|less than treason!” “Can you im- ance for Pure-Bred Dairy Cattle.”| prove my situation, Maitre?” asked This publication, issued each year by| the German doctor. “I can give you Stock Branch of the De-|a raise of 100 francs a year ($4), no partment of Agriculture, at Ottawa,| more. I know you are an excellent gives the records of the hundreds of|confrere, I doubt not that some day cows tested during the year that| humanity will be grateful to you. reach the standard for registration.| But that’s all I can do!” The breeds thus tested include the eee the French-Canadian, the Guernsey, the Would Increase Income 5 ary venty year Of Poultry Farmers |!” 1905. He served twenty yea) | Since the first of the year, there has been an increase in car loadings for the Atlantic region of the Cana- dian National Railways of 3,100 cars over the same period last year. This forms a very good index as to the! economic conditions of the tural agent. In 1926 he was P| times. Numerous large works have pointed superintendent of coloniza-| jen undertaken including pulp and tion and agriculture for the Nation-| paper mills and additions to hydro- facilities at Halifax are rapidly near- ing completion and they will bring Halifax in line with the most modern ports on the Atlantic seaboard. cold and dry storage warehouse is also under construction at Moncton, and this should prove a very valuable the Red polled, and the Shorthorn. In all these breeds provision is made for| Research Workers Seek Dict Vor the registration of bulls, which are Hens During February and handling of products requiring this admitted after having four progeny March in the Record of Per to the world.” The assist- ant then cautiously intimated that he was going because of financial class of storage. Altogether the pros- pects look very bright for the con 5 "i 5 r | betterment in the feriority m its councils, or relegate) be some country, even if we do im-| tinuance of the y; 5 i ee: lecouigra te condition of the Maritime ments are under way and there has been considerable increase in caplitu: investments both for new buildings and for additions to existing plants there are quite near en their milking herd or secure a sire of approved breeding. “What is it that lives in a barn, eats oats, walks on four legs, and can gee as well from behind as from Sure To Hear Of Them Palpitatingly, the infatuated young man sought counsel at the bazaar of an ancient and prayed that the ancient tell him how be might learn of his fair lady's faults. “Tl bite. What is it?” First Flapper—I say, your brother ford's been the making of that boy. each of t r of dollars from a different dam. Report No. 20) will be added to the annual income of the “Canadian Record of Perform:|of Canadian farmers and poultry ance” contains the names and regis- tered progeny of a large number of Winnipeg Newspaper Union Fashion deley t 8 requires yards of 40-inch material with 1 py yard of 86-inch contrasting. All patterns 25 cepts in stamps or coin How ie Order Patterns Size 8 requires 2 yards of 40-inch material with 14 yard of 18- inch contrasting and ¢ ds of 40-inch material. has set the cost of the World War, * j bus Size 36 requires 3% \ 7 oll with the regular diet of grain, plus some beef scraps or milk. experiment and five poultry special ists are working under him. Cattle and Airships Million and Half Sacrificed To Par nish Gold-Beaters’ Skin For Two Dirigibles | to sacrifice 1,500,000 cattle, ‘ea and I think we will be justified in|* The work is being done on a grant| age Lumber Company's and old Arc ef $10,000 a year, of which the em-) tic Ice Company's property, and is) pire marketing board and the On-|jocated between| Tache Avenue and) burial. The officers and non-com- poultry department, is directing the In the construction of two new dirlgibles the United States will have ae = — Work of Preservin Order 15, Large Our Vast Northern el a ee wee Some yea the south . n to challenge (i ied Arctic t) bors to clination ie Je bec! | ture trouble became TB | invaluable and nigh Pe | of the government, oa vat | dian Mounted Police, © | to-hand solutio | nortly afterwards th | cstablishing “more | posts was | began in 1 | detachment at | Cape Chidley, Cape Chi | or the continental m: | Depar' | cist the Customs oa | trol the inward and outward Hudson's ™RDY u lane of hk. D, PURD veatern boundary. of er SON The Alberta Wheat Poo! announc: ter weit of Greenland. Han rdy vis Strait, es the appointment of R. D. Purdy] csyprised of Davis SIE ng as manager of Alberta Fool Eleva-| Bay, Smith Sound, Kane ‘, tors Limited, to succeed C. M. Hali,|- 7 (ay channel, hitherto ec retired. Mr. Purdy has been ae furnishing the avenue of app) of Alberta Wheat Pool Organizatton| | north Pole. since January, 1926, and this change the N Riis southern: makes him manager of the subsi- most of these poundary islan' ‘ diary organization known 48 tie aie detachments of polic Pool Hlevators, as well. Alberta Fool) ("8 "ponds Inte Elevators operate more than 31C) oa ne ade” PAngoietune, country élevators in Alberta, as well) ei Le gee aaithres terminsis on the Pacldc| perland Gulf gson Strait. On te coast. Mr. Purdy came to the Wheat | the soiiejand, North Devon, 18 Dun- Pool from the Bank of Montreal PN er Sis sd on Ellesmere Island, having been assistant, manager Clee northernmost, is a detachment at the Edmonton branch. He was born} 'e ae eninala, oniEan Basta, in Brighton, Ontario, and came West ee aan mjod degrees novi In * | addition, constables have been Tent {o the Royal Canadian Air Force Lt service at its bases on Hudson Stralt, whence it kept ice conditions contin- Manitoba To Have | :ously under observation last winter: Airplane Factory} rom these various Arctic station’ lithe whole northeastern archipelago i led Seven Acres Of Land In St. Boniface) has been and still is being controll! with the banking . business before coming to the Pool, breeders when a squad of research Sold For Site | and administered. The police patrols workers now experimenting at the { By referring to the pages of) Ontario Agricultural College at! eralded as the greatest industriit.| jowneys. For example, in the early” this report one may discover that} Guelph, finally track down the ans- their homes) wer to a difficult problem. herds from which they may strength-| The scientists seck—and belleve| announcement that the factory|etachment crossed Ellesmere Island they now sce indicated—a dict that| would) be brought to St. Boniface|{o visit the cluster of islands to the will make the Canadian hen set at| was made by B, C. Mills, of Mills|west—Axel, Heibery and others — hatching under the feeble sun of! 4nq Company, Winnipeg, following a|some undiscovered territory until a February or March, produce as large! special meeting of the Cathedral| quarter of a century ago. This patrol i very lon An airplane manufacturing plant | have not hesitated to make very ig the non-commissioned Bache Peninsula advancement in years, will be estab | party of 1927 , lished in St. Boniface immediately. | officer in charge of and healthy a family as her cousit| city council, when seven acres of|lasted fifty-four days and covered who sits during these months in the) janq were sold for the site. ubout 1,300 miles. southern United States. Briefly the) he plant, according to Mr. Mills,| About the same time a non-com= research workers propose to capture! wij] he the Canadian branch of one| nuisstoned officer in charge eof the sunshine and compress it into labell-|o9 the largest aeroplane manufac-|Pangnirtung detachment made a women} ed tins of chicken food. venerable one, “and praise her in their hearing.” turing concerns in the world, and it| patrol of about the same distance, Experiments carried on since the| wil. be controlled entirely in Can-| skirting the southeastern coast of beginning of the year indicate that|aqa, The name of the parent cons | Paffin Island and returning across the desired effect may be attained| pany has not yet been divulged. | the almost unknown interior. A to a great extent by mixing cod liver} ‘The seven-acre site of the new constable, finding the body of a fur | plant, which was sold with track- | trader in his cabin on Baffin Island, age, is known as the old Rat Port-| hauled it out on his sled for 450 miles of difficult travel to Ponds Inlet for an inquest and Christian tario Department of Agriculture! the Norwood Bridge. |missioned officers in charge of each are contributing half. It will TE ae: OS niounted police detachments have take three years to work out a satis- ’ |commissions as customs collectors, factory answer, the workers say. Canada’s Ae ‘i B | postmasters, coroners, and magis- Percy Graham, head of the college eal Beauty Land) ¢eates, Bache Peninsula is believed | th 3 h - Mire erdetarevObe Ghiscmt erksantad |, 2) ce cee eee ce Te ee |in tho world, The Eskimos here : : aye P have shown less disposition for vio- Canada’s great Northland is pic-|jonce than further west, but on one tured, not as a region of: solitude) occasion, in 1920, a white man was’ and waste, but as a land of beauty) yiled by them near Cape Crawford, and attractiveness, in the report of | the northwestern tip of Baffin Is- the Royal Canadian Mounted Police,}j.nq, The non-commissioned officer : areas ae z ‘ tabled in the House of Commons.|iy charge at Ponds Inlet investigat= Bast of the Great Slave Lake the a : ed, found the body, in his capacity scenic beauty is inspiring, according as coroner held an inquest, arrested to Inspector Gagnon, who, describ-| the accused, collected the witnesses ing a lengthy patrol to Fort} The part the cattle take in the jand as magistrate committed the ‘construction of the most modern o! {transportation through furnishing | the “gold-beaters' skin” for the air. | mance of industry, | “Gold-beaters’ skin” is nothing more or less than a small tough sec tion in the intestine of a steer. It go i | putting gold between two strips o. |this skin they could hammer ‘t foi ldays, making the finest gold ledf without tearing the skin. | Its great strength, along with it lightness of texture, and the furthe: r fact that it permitted less diffusion| Plenty Of Big Game To Be F of gas than any other known sub- Alaska stance, recommended it for balloon} As a big game country, Alaska months ago." When the Empress Dowager of Building Two Ways China died, in 1908, her pearl neck-! The statement made at the cons lace was buried with her, It contain-| ‘ention of contractors held in Ham- .wepaper Union, ed nearly six thousand pearls and ilton that mate: used in construc. was valued at $900,000. tion now almost entirely of 2 AE Canadian origin and manufacture She “I didn’t think you'd break Was something to enthuse ove, your engagement with Eva; you build two ways when we build that Ae s9 5 9a ie s™ eS agi said she was your dream girl.” . | He—"She was—but I woke up.” Powder in guns for 40 years wa “found in good condtion by Univer Giinceenamancsan ++ | sity of Nevada. | ship forms a new chapter in the ro- this name from the Middle Ages, | when goldsmiths discovered that by Reliance says: | i acoused for trial. “The Hornby and Inconnu chan-| “ s ae Weems court was sent from eastern Canada, nels are the most beautiful routes| nich tr ‘ ; 2 “| which tried, convicted and sentenced possible; at every moment there is ‘ ‘ " - *}\ those responsible for the homicide. something to captivate attention, | Thore also have be = eithor in the abrupt shores or cliffs,| ious mania and homicaat mene or their varied coloration, or the among hon . homicidal. Ingpalby | thousand and one islands one en) between th See The srelehiang counters, Both channels are lined aaseinttoee ges lal it with innumerable pleasant little nar. | “"" S°°% bors. ee L “The waters are very clear nnd SESE Eo *)cold, and full of delicious trout.” | Te Egyptian government {s plan set ning & motor road over the route : Will ater Hones followed by the Israelites on their 40 years' journey to the Promised ae Land. But nothing is said as y und In) about drying up the oe Red Sea, say: | t di Sea, says | the Buffalo Courier-Express, | work. This was tried in England be-|comes a close second to Africa,| anne fore and during the war and proved| despite its lack of lion, elephant ana| ,. eS No Ditterence successful. rhino, Furthermore, it is likely to at- The average time, the New York | aaa tract hunters longer than the latter| -{!°8t™™ Points out, taken by a faut | | Event Not Included terrain, for hore is tess annum THltoad train to pass a grade ern, Brown was relating his narrow es-| “leaning up” of a district. ing is seven seconds—whether the ‘ cape from drowning to some of his| What is even more important to| "PPeRS to be anything on the deat friends. ‘As I went down for the | the territory back of Anchorage anq|'"® °F Dot SS= S| third time,” he said, “all the past, the opus! railroad, are plenty of —— 4 rents of my life flashed before my ™€ caribou, mountain sheep ¢ “L feel terrible Fi us aa i : Y) goabiail blackiand ibeiwn becr Lik Me. I think Tim « es “Really,” replied one of the listen-, What is even moree important to) “Well, you can't die here." “T guess you didn't see yourself the ordinary nimrod. ere. This ig it costs less to| *8® living room." paying back that fiver I lent you six PUlit for the Alaskan hinterland than to attempt Nairobi. We one way. “Is he mean?" s| “Mean! He's so mean th sre Hey Lait | ‘ at if he) made’ tt new cre - ve) | . oe my ean [ime he wouldn't give you al “Um ig ee look like fies m has i ye SUppose y, 5 | #Me?" Pages Guy SWalio we i. Yverdon. a