———— = ‘ABBOTSFORD, SUMAS AND MATSQUI NEWS. Rings On Douglas Spruce Indicate That Ancient Tree Has Lived For 3,200 Years Canadian Wheat Flour May Launch Campaign To Demon- strate Value For Bread Making A campaign to demonstrate to the | people of Europe. the value of Cana- | dian wheat flour for bread making, is Man's intel has s ed ' B n that various objects, animate and in- ¥ = a animate, reveal in their own bodies ; Trading In Hogs On the Basis Of records of the ages, but that his own : Official Grades - body is not similarly endowed, and ‘The new hog grading regulations when discovered presents evidence of put into effect by promulgation in the the most disputable nature. Not s0| “Canada Gazette” of January 30 ex- with trees. A tree is a self-revelation, | tend the provisionss for trading in as is told in an address appropriately | hogs on the basis of official grades in delivered by Professor F. E. Lloyd! such a way as entirely to eliminate so a section of the Canadian Pulp ffat-price trading. Hogs sold from on 853 Association at Montreal. | farmer or other-producer right down aoe ee speaks in the language of the line to the final packer or proces- y, and to those conversant with ser must be traded in on the basis the tongue, discloses its age. The! of official grades. This ensures to rings on a Douglas spruce on this! the farmer full benefits of the agree- continent, for instance, prove that it ment with the packing industry has lived 3,200 years; and probably | whereby a premium of one dollar is nothing else that is living and is not | paid for all hogs grading “Select vegetable, so similarly indisputably | Bacon.” The regulations also provide survives for thousands of years. for that premium for quality, which Prof. Lloyd reverts to what has |is rightly his, passing back in larger ‘appened in the world since the seed- | measure to the original producer. ae of that ancient spruce germinat-| Complete information as to grades ed. of the Chaldees to start his pilgrim-| be secured on application to the De- age. He sees the Christian religion |e at Ottawa. being founded. The storms that have buffeted that tree in vain have blown | Some Good Blind Cooks on a host of wars, migrations and up- heavals. The leayes on it have come,| Acute Sense Of Touch and Sound and gone, and come again, endlessly, | Makes Success Possible but dynasties that believed them- It is surprising to learn that it is" selvcs implanted everlastingly have | now possible to teach blind people to been cast down into the dust. | cook, and that some of them are do- Man. the family of man, has been | ing very well indeed at this work. unable in his body to disclose the | They distinguish different ingredients story of his endurance. His age by means of the sense of touch. The has always been problematical, and|same sense also helps them in meas- pone agrees who was first, or how uring quantities and in the manage- old were the oldest. Man might, | ment of the cooking-stove. Other like a horse, have his age told by his | senses come into play. Sound tells the teeth, but what he now has more of- | blind cook when a liquid begins to ten indicates a stage in the dental | simmer, when it gets hotter, and fin- He sees Abraham leaving Ur | and the procedure to be followed can [ under ation of the department i of Trade and Commerce, H, H. Stev-| ens, Minister of that department, told | the supply committee of the House of | Commons. } The details of the scheme are be- ing worked out and the announcement was perhaps premature as definite plans were lacking. He had been_ greatly encouraged by similar cam- | paigns carried out in the past and he | was of the opinion that advertising might play a leading part in a return | to prosperity. | Mr. Stevens referred to the recent | campaign to further the interests of Canadian grape growers. The govern- \ ment had contributed financially, and there had been remarkably successful results. A campaign to popularize , the Canadian apple abroad and to} stimulate interest in Europe in Cana- | dian sea foods and in Canadian cat- | tle, had met with marked success. Have Double Inclination Reason Given As To Why People Stutter People who stutter were pictured | Some Many Instruments Of War Submarine Not Only Menace To Human Lives On the eve of the World Disarma- ment Conference, the submarine again has made tragic appeal for some cessation in the arming of na- tion against nation. The sinking of the M-2 in the English Channel raises the total of men lost in peacetime op- eration of submarines during the last ten years to 613. Of course, this is only a part of the price paid in human lives for the privilege of preparing for war. The submarine is only one instrument of warfare. In the United States alone fatalities with military airplanes have reached half that figure during same period. The total for "planes in all nations must exceed it. Experiments with poison gases and other weapons have added their quota. But the prolonged tragedy of sub- marine disasters has evoked a special outcry against undersea craft. It is also said that they are a stealthy weapon. Butis an airplane dropping bombs or gases at night upon a civil- ian population any less furtive? It is argued, too, that submarines have no peacetime usefulness. Have ten-inch |~ guns any greater utility. This is no defense of the submar- ine, But just at this time when the nations are thinking about putting Clever Speaker Turns Back Pages Of Canadian Political History To The Days Of Storing Potatoes Tubers Keep Best At a Temperature Around 38 Degrees The current issue. of the newslet- ter issued monthly by. the Dominion Dairy and Cold Storage Branch con- tains an interesting reference to some of the effects of freezing on potatoes. Potatoes keep best at a temperature around 38 degrees Fahrenheit. At any temperature below this some starch is converted into sugar. The lower the temperature the greater the change. A sweet flavour is not a sign that a potato has been frozen but merely that they have been kept so cold that sugar has accumulated—frozen pota- tors are soft and unusable. Sweet- ness cru be overcome by storing po- tatoes for a few days at ordinary room temperature. A Bit Of History Reason Highland Clan Was Massacred "By English King The massacre of the MacDonalds of Glencoe, a Highland clan, occurred Macdonald | Turning back the pages of Cana- dian political history to the days of Macdonald, Tilley, Tupper and Blake, R. S. White, veteran Conservative member of the House of Commons, recently spoke before the Canadian Club of Ottawa. Mr. White, who sat in the parliamentary press gallery a half century ago and looked down from that vantage point on the polit- ical giants of the period, gave it as his considered opinion that the aver- age ability of the House of Commons today is as high as it has ever been. Fifty years from now, he said, peo- ple will be talking of the political giants of today, just as we now do of those who trod the political stage in 1882. Mr. White, who knew politics and statesman not only as a journalist, dut also as a member of the House of C told the Canadian Club that he was “degraded” from the press gallery to a seat on the floor of the House in the year 1888. He represented the Ontario constituency of Cardwell. At present he Royal. represents Mount art His periodicity has been set by | ally when it boils. And if a dish by a scientist at Baltimore, as being | Ne away some of their weapons, it may Bee aa ake ae = eee on ne | be well to recognize that other instru- gas ba apply the brakes at the sents of human slaughter may be no SEG Ae jless hateful in war and useless in A battle for control between! )ace—Christian Science Monitor, “starting” and “stopping” mechanism in the brain is the cause of stutter- ing, the American Orthopsychiatric | Association was told by Frederick W. | Brown, member of the committee for mental hygiene. WwW i ariff One part of the stutterer’s brain, the eras ofgthe® news Sri ahaa containing a preference for British motor complex, which controls speech, | a z a * Columbia lumber will go a long way is urging ‘go ahead and say it,” | . Q towards improving conditions in the while another part, the thalamus, | j 2 - canich’ asdsiteiemuotlonal stresses \lumber industry in that province. ake 5 | British Columbia exports, about 100,- » British Columbia Lumber Mills Are Looking Forward To Large Orders From Britain Mr. White delighted his lis- teners with many anecdotes of polit- ical figures who have passed into his- tory. Just in passing, he expressed the view that “one of the vices of our Heuse of Commons” is the long speech. People might agree or disagree with the policies of Sir John A. Mac- donald, but all must admire his tal- ents, Mr. White said. Sir John, in his opinion, was ‘‘the daddy of them all.” The old Conservative leader was not what would be called a good speaker, It was his personal popularity which in February, 1692. King William III. had issued a proclamation by which all clans were required to submit by ist January, 1692. For one reason or another this particular clan had fail- ed to make submission, and the Mas- ter of Stair, Sir John Dalrympole, ob- tained a decree to “extirpate that set of thieves,” which the King is said to have signed in ignorance of its real meaning. Every man under sev- enty was to be killed, and this was} done by one hundred and twenty sol-) diers of a Campbell regiment who had the lowness of his brow, but low-|is cooking too quickly, that fact is brows are claimed by high-brows to | advertised by the sense of smell. Elec- be a3 indicative of man in the present | tric stoves are safest for the blind as they were of him in pre-glacial | cook. eras. No such uncertainty the age of the venerable Douglas spruce. Its birth certificate is in its trunk. Its rings make a weather chart of the centuries. The narrow rings tell the seasons which were short and cool; the wide rings record the years of warmth and sunshine. That old tree tells the story of the weather for three thousand years. iy Man's body does not reveal even the weather of the ages, and tells less than do the trees whose pulpy substance is despised for its imper- manency and woodiness of intellect. Man’s age can only be inferred from the buried bones and trinkets he leaves strewn in his primitive habitat. The early history of the inhabitants of British Columbia has been told by Professor Hill Tout through what he has dug out of their middens at Van- couver. But as remotely of the past as are the utensils picked up from where the cave-woman threw them, they are but of yester-year in the lives of the magnificent old Douglas spruce.—Winnipeg Free Press. TAN Winnipeg Newspaper Union| The Oldest Field Root The mangel appears to be one of the oldest of our cultivated root crops, states the Agrostologist of the Federal Department of Agriculture. Although exact records are not avail- able the production of the mangel can be traced back as far as 2000 B.C. The evidence of its production at that date is contained on an old plate found in an Egyptian. grave. This plate represents & Tabourer placing @ large root on a table as a sacrifice. According to Theophiast red and white roots were commonly cultivated in Asia Minor as far back as 320 B.C. \ — DELIGHTFULLY PRACTICAL LIT- TLE RIG FOR A TINY GIRL FOR PLAYTIME It is so cute, dainty and swinging of skirt. And all because the de- signer inserted godets at the front of this one-piece dress. They are ———— More than 120,000 radio receiving is clamoring “Don't say it!” Stuttering occurs only when the | speaker's emotional responses get out of control, Brown declared. s An Embarrassing Present “Tf someone gave you a railroad as a present, what would you do with it’? The St. Thomas Times-Journal | wants to know. Personally, we should . try to find out what we had done to the donor that he should play us such a dirty trick. Even ties are like- ly to be embarrassing when received as presents, to say nothing of rails and trains and stations and such. Wild Life Sanctuaries Jasper Park is the greatest .wild life sanctuary in all Canada. It is esti- | mated that there are 22,000 mountain sheep within its borders; 7,000 Rocky | Mountain goats, 22,000 mule deer, 3,- 500 elk, 10,000 moose, 10,000 caribou, and 4,000 bear. Banff comes next with 4,000 mountain sheep, 2,000 goats, 3,000 mule deer, 1,500 elk, 150 moose and 250 bear. Government aid is asked by the Ulster fiax industry. . 000,000 feet of lumber a year to Great Britain, out of a total British import of some 4,000,000,000 feet. It is believed B.C. should get a large share of the total if it enjoyed a pre- ferential tariff’ But the immediate problem, surprisingly enough, will be for B.C. plants to supply any large orders that may come from Britain, particularly as new orders are coming in heavily from Australia to B.C. mills, What He Owes and Owns It is important tha: the farmer know what he owes and what he owns, and be in a position to pre- sent this information in a business- like way to his banker in case a loan is required. The lender is entitled to a true statement of the financial af- fairs of the man who would borrow from him. A Travelling Dental Parlor Fully equipped as a surgery and a waiting-room, and carrying a dentist and a nurse, a motor dental surgery car is now visiting the 11,000 chil- dren in the ninety schools under the Isle of Ely County Council. been hospitably received by the High- landers. Two Good Waiters “Do you know, John,” remarked Mrs. Jaggs, as her husband tumbled upstairs, “that I've been awake for hours waiting for you to come home from the club.” ‘ “Tf that isn’t just like a woman!” growled Jaggs. “And I have been at the club for hours waiting for you to go to sleep.” * Outlived Them AN Oldest Inhabitant (to district visit- or): “I be ninety-four, and I ‘aven’t got an enemy in the world.” District Visitor: “That is a beauti- ful thought.” Oldest Inhabitant: “Yes'’m; thank God, they be all of ’em dead long ago!” Vimy Ridge Monument The Vimy Ridge monument, largest memorial ever erected, will he com- pleted in 1935, Hugh L. Alward, Tor- onto, son of Walker S. Alward, the sculptor, stated, upon his arrival from England. The monument, commemor- ating the capture of Vimy Ridge in 1917, will be 145 feet high. KASHMIR’S RULER MAY ABDICATE AND BRITISH REGENCY SET UP” oratory. the fourth floor. One other student was his great asset. Mr. White told low Sir John would come back and gossip with the “back benchers’’ when. quiet reigned in the House of Com- mions. It had been his pleasure and privi- lege to know Sir Wilfrid Laurier well. “A charming man and a great orator,” he called the Liberal leader, He spoke of Sir Charles Tupper who bad “actually foamed at the mouth” in the course of one ofshis fiery ex- hortations to the House of Commons. He referred. to Sir Leonard Tilley, Hon.