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‘ABBOTSFORD, SUMAS AND MATSQUI NEWS

What “Modern Engineering
Could Do In Changing
The Climatic Conditions

Hints of a “made-over” world,
thanks to modern invention and nat-
ural science, were given at a recent
meeting of geographical experts in
London.

The talk was by Leopold Amery,
former Dominions Secretary of State
for Great Britain, who captured his
aedicnce’s imagination by setting
them upon a magic carpet and
whisking them to far places at will.

“The first stopping place was

t the foggy i of . Lab-
rador. Here he bade them look down
at the narrow channel skirting the
northern extremity of Newfoundland.
He pictured to them what engineers
there might some day do by dam-
ming the straits of Belle Isle, there-
by “diverting the Labrador icebergs,
which now drift inside the Gulf of St.
Lawrence,” thus “securing an earlier
spring for the whole of eastern Can-
ada.”

The occasion of the meeting was
the launching of the first issue of
the Geographical Magazine, a new
journal for the ad t of ex-

Growing Excellent Grapes

Vineyards Produce Fruit As
Good As Italy’s

Vineyards yielding grapes as good
as any in California or even in Italy
are located in British Columbia.
Dreams being shared by Kelowna
farmers cultivating 100 acres of
plantings and of those in Sumas
area, include:

Villages and djstricts springing
up in the Fraser valley and Okana-
gan around central wineries.

Ind d on a fi ‘e patch.
Sharing with Old World growers rich
rewards from the United States,
which last year imported liquors and
wines valued at $49,000,000.

Fertility of these two potential
vineyard regions of the province has
been proven.

Experience of F. Beltrame, pioneer
grower of the lower mainland, shows
Sumas district alone has many areas
that fill the bill just as well as Italy,
southern France or California. He

B.C.

ploration and research.

Scarcely had they time to imagine
the vast added area of smiling fruit-
fulness that might thereby be creat-
ed, when he whisked them off to Con-
stantinople and showed them the
narrow stream of the fast-flowing
Bosphorus. This he suggested might
some day be closed by a 200-foot
high dam, behind which the water
would gradually rise until there was
restored that great inland ocean
“which “once included the Black Sea,
the Caspian and the Sea of Aral al-
most to the Afghan border.” Neither
of these enterprises, he said, was
from the purely technical point be-
yond the powers of present-day en-
gineering.

His carpet fluttered on and hover-
ed, next over the 6,000-foot high
plateau of Abyssinia. Beneath was
the 40-mile-broad Lake Tana. Be-
yond was the wide Blue Nile stream
emerging from the lake to plunge
into a 400-mile-long ravine. This
ravine, the travellers could see, lay
amid mountain ranges towering a
mile high above it on either bank.
The Blue Nile flowed on a 1,000-mile
course to join the White Nile at
Khartoum. The damming of this
gorge with infinite possibilities of in-
creased fertility for the already rich
cotton fields of the Sudan and Egypt
he described to-day as even “nearer
to practical politics.”

The magic carpet sped on faster
still. The breathless voyagers were
afforded a glimpse of vast swamps
of the. Upper Nile that Mr. Amery
indicated were capable of being
drained. They saw from afar the
ancient irrigation system of Meso-
potamia that might some day be re-
stored. They were shown the possi-
bility of systematic colonization with
reindeer and musk oxen of that great
prairie region of Northern Canada
which their guide reminded them
little deserved its present title of
“Barren Land.” They saw also the
fertile clay belt round Hudson’s Bay
that might, he suggested, be drained
and brought under cultivation.

Mr. Amery'’s carpet must have
passed close in its flight, though it
did not stop over yet other regions
of little less magic possibility. There
fis the Dead Sea area in Palestine,
hundreds of feet below the level of
the Red Sea with which a now block-
ed up gorge still connects it. There
are the 6,000,000 acres of “‘shotts” in
Southern Algiers where the western
desert of the Sahara is so deep be-
low the level of the neighboring
Mediteranean Sea as to make mod-
ern engineers dream of a day when
they may be able to admit vitalizing
water to now barren soil.

“Sees His First Train
Subpoenaed by Royal Canadian

ged the potentialities 22 years
ago,

At present he was about 40 acres
under crop in addition to one-year
and two-year-old vines, on his ranch
near Sardis, on Sumas Prairie, near
the river at the foot of Sumas moun-
tain.

The grapes are excellent in qual-
ity and sell readily in Vancouver,
New Westminster and other centres,
and are pronounced as good as any
imported from California or other
United States grape-growing dis-
tricts.

Grapes average $80 a ton, yields
approximately five to eight tons an
acre, and small holdings not exceed-
ing 10 acres are advocated, Mr. Bel-
trame claims, from years of patient
experimentation.

Early Diagnosis Needed

Ignorance Is The Cancer Patient’s

Greatest Enemy, Says Speaker

Only one-third of cancer patients
who undergo treatment receive it in
time to be cured, Dr_R. O. Davison,
deputy minister of public health for
Saskatchewan, stated in Toronto.

The chairman of the Saskatchewan
Cancer Commission, speaking before
the Canadian Social Hygiene Coun-
cil and the Toronto Health League
declared, “ignorance is the cancer
patient’s greatest enemy.”

Formation of a Canadian branch
of the British Empire Cancer Com-
mission in conjunction with the
King George V. silver jubilee cancer
foundation was urged.

Neglect, lack of pain, failure to
take the disease seriously, inabiltiy
to pay for treatment, fear, were
some of the reasons given by 200
examined in a Saskatchewan clinic
for failure to be examined earlier.

Of 543 practitioners questioned,
124 had never seen a cancer case.

Would Help Dairy Farmer

England Thinking Of Establishing
Milk Bars Through Country

Britain may soon be quenching jts
thirst at Milk Bars.

The idea comes from the Milk
Marketing Board.

The board’s vice-chairman, Ben
Hinds, told farmers at Pwllheli that
milk bars “would enable the touring
public to obtain for themselves and
their children best nutritious refresh-
ments.”

They were contemplating estab-
lishing bars in many parts of the
country.

Already schools of Britain have
their “bars.” Walter Elliot, Minister
of Agriculture, inaugurated the
| scheme, Soon he may be “drawing”
the first tankard to quench Britain's
thirst—-and help the British dairy

Mounted Police to give evidence in
Halifax as a Crown witness, Louis
Westhaver, 22-year-old native of
Guysboro county, recently realized
two of his greatest ambitions—to
see a train and a tramcar.
in both. The 150-mile trip to and

him 10 cents.

Canada’s First Railway
Plans for the celebration of the

100th anniversary of the opening of| complained, “the honorable member |

| farmer.—London Daily Mirror.

| So
| Had Ready Wit
} Sir John A. Macdonald was not

“LAUGH, AND THE WORLD LAUGHS WITH YOU!”

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THE WORLD: “Well done, John! You certainly do cheer a body up!”
(Britain continues to lead the world along the road to prosperity. The
Jubilee festivities put enormous additional sums into circulation, and the
latest trade figures show a substantial increase in experts) News of the

Preparing For The Future

British Television Station To Occupy
Wing Of Alexandria Palace

The first British television station
will be built at Alexandria Palace it
is officially announced.

The B.B.C. wants nearly the whole
of the south wing, which comprises
the Masonic suite, the Pillar Hall and
refreshment bar,’ E. A. Cawdron,
chairman of the trustees, said.

The postmaster-general stated in
the House of Commons in February
that steps would be taken to estab-
lish a television station in London
during the latter half of this year.

Experts emphasize that television
will not come into general use for
some considerable time. There is no
danger of listeners’ ordinary sets be-
coming rapidly obsolete.

A scold’s bridle, once used to pun-
ish talkative women, was sold re-
cently in London for $40.

US tidenmite,

Canada Agrees To Pay $350,000 In
Settlement Of Damages

The United States senate ratified
a convention with Canada under
which the latter agrees to pay the
United States $350,000 in settlement
of damages in the State of Washing-
ton caused by sulphur fumes dis-
charged from the smelter of the
Consolidated Mining and Smelting
Co., at Trail, B.C.

The sum would be for damages
suffered prior to January 1, 1932.
The convention also sets up a tribun-
al to decide whether any damage
has been caused since that date and
if so what indemnity should be al-
lowed.

The ancient Egyptians practiced
plastic surgery. .

Deserts cover 24 per cent. of the
earth’s surface. _

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ENLARGEMENTS

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Everything considered, snapshoot-
ers are a lucky lot. As we have
| seen, they have the edge on ordinary
| mortals in the matter of really per-
Sonal, meaningful birthday or other
|. types of greeting cards. And they
|have the means of creating gifts of
| exceptional charm and value.

These particular “means” are the

snapshot negatives from which beau- |

| tiful enlargements can be made. If

| Enlargements make Ideal gifts for friends

and relations.

3%4 inch film will easily give you a
sparkling 8 x 10 inch enlargement.
A word about subjects for enlarge-
| ments—particularly if they're to be
used as gifts. Choose pictures that
j will mean something to the recipi-
}ents. A shot of Fido trying to climb
ja tree after Cleo, the cat, will be
vastly appreciated by big brother or
sister away at College, but it won't

: a| you haven't yet experimented with! who doesn’t care for either dogs or

| only an astute politician, but had

He rode! ready wit. One day in the House of|

of having stolen part of the political
program of the other party. “Sir
| John has stolen the brains of the
Opposition,” he thundered.

| point of order. “Mr. Speaker,” he

Canada’s first railroad are being) has accused me of petty larceny.”

d by the C:
Association,

Railroad

Historical

the Champlain and St.

21, 1836.

Montreal.
Canada’s first railway was known as) official state tree,

Georgia has made the pine its

and the brown

Lawrence! thrasher its state bird.
Railroad,and operated between La-|

prairie, Que., and St. Johns, Que, It
was opened by Lord Gosford on et numbers from 8,000 to 45,000 since

Navajo Indians have increased in

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enlargements, now’s the time.
In enlarging a picture you get not

< | Commons an opponent accused him | only a bigger, more realistic image,| we've seen have been landsca
from the Nova Scotia capital was!

free. The street car excurs'on cost |

but the opportunity to select the best
part of any negative for magnifica-
| tion. Suppose you have a good nega-
| tive of the youngsters at play in the
sandbox — a picture which their

In a flash Sir John arose to a/|Srandparents would be delighted to/| livered

| have, enlarged, as a gift. But sup-
| pose there’s something incongruous—
a wash on the line, a lawn mower or
anything else that doesn’t add a
thing to the charm of the view—to
the right or left of the children. With
|an enlargement, that distracting, un-
| necessary feature can be completely
| eliminated.

| Enlargements may be of almost
| any size. Any good negative, no mat-
} ter how small, may be “blown up” to
| make a picture five

I size of the original. A sharp 24% x

mean very much to Aunt Cynthia
' cats.
| Some of the best enlargements

es—or
seascapes. Mountains usually make
| good pictures,

| A friend of ours makes a practice
j;of getting informal shots of his
| friends which are enlarged and de-
to the various cronies as
gifts. All of which simplified his gift
| problem.

| With the coming of summer you
will be getting many pictures that
will make beautiful enlargements

such as a picture of grandmother in|

| the flower garden, or sister standing
jin front of a tree filled with beauti-
| ful spring blossoms.
| Opportunities for beautiful pic-
| tures are countless at this time of

year, so go forth with your camera

or six times the} and get them.

JOHN VAN GUILDER,

pias esa will be ineligible for re-em-
prient en itoha forestry

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Need For Reform Of
Immigration Laws Stressed
At Social Work

Meeting

Passing Of The Summer Kitchen

The Old Time Appendage To The
Average Home Is Fast
Disappearing

That blessed appendage to any
house, the shed, has almost disap-
peared from the city. Like the ubi-
quitous bench of our childhood, its
going is a loss for which nothing can
compensate. The shed had its uses
for all members of the family, for all
its servitors, when the family ran to
servitors. It was the summer kitchen,
through which sweet airs blew across
the spicy odors that the cook was
combining at a table as large as
many modern rooms; it was the
Place where_small boys given to

lashi as they supp ly wash-
ed behind their ears, were sent to
take their summer baths; it was the
place where wood was piled high for
winter, the daring climbing up the
precarious footing, or hiding there in
the darkness when hide and seek was
on the boards. The shed was also
given over to Blue Monday, when the
smell of soapsuds was kept away
from the house instead of rising, to
contaminate the bedrooms’ ozone-
and-lavender scented air. The diffi-
cult starching and ironing rites of
the past were performed there, an
ancient stove, past the more delicate
operation of baking, heating the
great irons, as well as the water in
which the clothes were washed and
boiled. Not long ago we had the joy
of entering one such shed, where
there were baskets full of fresh
clothes that had been dried on lines
in the garden that remains from a
more luxurious time, and an ironing
board and-an array of pots and pans
upon the walls also brought mem-
ories of that spacious era when
families sat and talked over the din-
ner table and the world had not be-
gun to hurry.—Bride Broder in Tor-
onto Mail & Empire.

Carrier Pigeons Unreliable

Manitoba Forestry Service Finds
Their Work Of No Value
Carrier pigeons have fallen from
their high pedestal. In flight par-
lance they are termed a “bust” and

servic fe: when immer air “patrols
zoom away over forest areas of the
hinterlands.

Carefully conducted experiments
last year revealed the best “homers”
were more unreliable than tempera-
mental humans. The majority would
not fly at night and often they ob-
jected to day flight routine. They
can be depended on only for short
distances during good weather.

A few of the birds that made
assigned runs in any time up to 24
hours will be retained. Many took
much longer and their work was
practically valueless. Sometimes
they refused to fly or delayed a long
time before taking off. Not a few
failed to return.

Best travel records were flights of
150 miles in three hours, 100 miles
in two hours and thirty minutes and
60 miles in one hour and fifteen min-
utes. A few will be used to report
progress of fires and employed dur-
ing forced aeroplane landings.

The Thoughtless Adult

Usually More Careless Than Boy
About Camp Fire

| Need for reform of border immi-
| gration laws was urged by Miss
| Mary McPhaedran, Vancouver, be-
fore the national conference of social
work in Montreal.

She cited as an instance the case
history of the James family. Mr.
James was born in United States of
English parents. He married an
English girl domiciled in Canada
while visiting Canada and they went
back to the United States. Two
children were born in the United
States, then the family moved to
Canada. Another child was born.
Now the family is divorced and the
status of the children seems impos-
sible to define, she said, except that
the third child has a dual nationality.

In another case a Canadian work-
ing in the United States married an
American there and had _ several
children. He lost his job with the
depression and was deported to Can-
ada. Result is he is living in Can-
ada, unemployed, while his wife and
children are destitute in United
States—immigration laws separating
them.

In a third instance, Miss McPhae-
dran told of the trouble an Ameri-
can couple had in adopting a six-
year-old Canadian girl. It took two
years to complete formalities.

Canadian law had one bright side,
lacking in United States, which al-
lowed the secretary of state, on ap-
plication from welfare societies, to
suspend rulings on humanitarian
grounds, she added.

“The theory of local responsibility
for relief is outmoded,” Fred R.
Johnson, state superintendent of the
Michigan Children’s Aid Society, De-
troit, told delegates.

“Unemployment causing the need
for relief is not a local issue,” con-
tinued Mr. Johnson. “The causes
which produce it are national and
international. We have not yet mas-
tered the technique of relationship
between the federal government and
our states in the field of relief. Gov-
ernmental hinery is cumb
It takes time to develop new methods
of organization.”

“In these days we are faced with
two alternatives,” said Prof. Percy
Nobbs, dean of architecture at Mc-
Gill University, in an address on
housing. The alternatives as he de-

housing for the lower wage earners;
or let them live in cast-off accom-
modation, which means in the slums.
I am reasonably assured that this
second alternative costs so much in
sickness, misery and inefficiency that
the community as a whole is better
off by shouldering the burden of an
assisted housing for these wago
groups.”

Due to the success of the educa-
tional campaign and the publicity
maintained by Christmas seals, the
depression has brought no curtail-
ment of anti-tuberculosis programs
in Canada, Dr. G. J. Wherrett, execu-
tive secretary, Canadian Tuberculosis
Association, Ottawa, explained.

Dr. Wherrett mentioned the funds
raised by the Canadian Red Cross
Society for the study of tuberculosis
among school children and a five
year educational program in the
Maritime provinces, where death
rates were particularly high, to
which the Canadian Life Insurance
Officials Association granted over
$200,000. One large insurance com-
pany had contributed funds to send
80 students from Canada to study

The current effort being made to)
educate the public in the importance
and technique of building and dispos-
ing of camp fires will strike a sym-
| pathetic note among many citizens. |
| It is a good work.

The automobile has transformed
| many a city-dweller into a camper.
| Governments, realizing this, have
built roads that tap scenic wonder-
lands and virgin fores
vices have trails for the]
hikers. To-day, as at no time be-
| fore, the natural resources for recre-
ation are open to the people's use.}
And abuse.

Forest ser-
cleared

| The boy in a well-organized camp}
is not the chief offender. He is
taught how to build and care for)
fire. Enemy No. 1 of the forest is|
the thoughtless adult who leaves his
| camp fire smoldering, ready to be
spread by a gust of wind or careless-|
ly flips a cigarette or cigar butt
aside.—Rotarian Magazine.

Radio receivers outnumber tele-
phones in the United States, there
being 19,000,000 radios, exclusive of
auto sets and homes having more
than one receiver, compared with
tabout 11,000,000 home telephones.

| Vancouver juvenile court

tuberculosis in Europe.

“Facilities are now available in
every province,” Dr. Wherrett said,
“for carrying out a fair program. It
is of interest to note that one proy-
ince, Saskatchewan, provides free
treatment for all tuberculosis pa-
tients, irrespective of their ability to
pay, while another province, Mani-
toba, has a municipal levy which dis-
tributes the cost of indigents among
various municipalities.”

A Protective Agency
More children are coming into the
since the
general public is beginning to recog-
nize it as a protective service rather
than a punitive agency, said Judge
Helen Gregory MacGill, its presiding
officer, who was in Montreal to at-
first Cana-

tend the sessions of the
dian Penal congress.

An Old Argument
It as thought worth while to
cable half-way around the globe that
Amelia Earhart, the aviator, pro-
nounces it “tomayto.” Wh ouldn't
she. The dictionary endorses that

pronunciation and if it is “‘potayto
why should it not be “tomayto”’?

scribed them are “provide assisted ~~~