ABBOTSTOR SLOAN b AMS) AND MATSQUI NEWS: eo oad Empire Search For Raw Materials Is A Highlight Of Britain’s Defence Program Empire search for important raw materials is a highlight of Britain's defence program which has called ‘upon private industry to line up be- hind the government in shipyard, machine shop and construction camp. The idea is to guarantee a source ‘of supply, expedite the program and guard against an industrial slump after the rush period is over. - Faced with the problem of locat- ing a convenfent spot within the em- pire for the accumulating of large oil reserves, Sir John Cadman, com- - missioned by the government, con- centrated on Trinidad as a focal point of the proposed oil defence plan. Situated at the heart of the em- pire, within comparatively easy ac- ‘cess of the British Isles and the Do- minions, the island off the coast of Venezuela produces large quantities of oil, has modern refineries, pipe- lines and organized transport. It has been pointed out that while British finance controlled some of the largest oil undertakings in the world, the projects were for the greater part in countries outside the empire. With a shortage of iron and steel threatening to hold up armament manufacture, one section of the Eng- lish press has called for further re- duction of import duties on pig iron and semi-finished steel. It has been suggested the next report of the im- port duties committee may recom- mend government control of the in- dustry in the interest of the country and to counteract the European steel cartel and prohibitive duties on im- ports from other countries. On the Clyde $175,000,000 worth of naval tonnage is under construction or ted It is possibl workers may have to be recruited from Belfast to cope with the situa- tion. Work on some private con- tracts has gone begging with the ex- ception of the sister ship of the Queen Mary on which considerable progress has been made. Another suggestion affects the building industry. It has been re- ported. the government may ask local authorities to slow down their hous- ing programs and give priority to new airdrome construction through- out the country. This, it is claimed, would also distribute employment over a longer period, and avoid a slump. x Meanwhile the Building Industries National Council has offered to assist the government with information on the available resources of labor and material; of the extent to which pro- ductive capacity can be rapidly in- d if y, and ii tion and planning of building works. large-scale A Western Film Scenic Setting To Be In Prince Albert National Park The Prince Albert National Park will become more than a vacation resort for tired business men and pretty surf bathers this summer. _ Will be the location for a movie unit and among those to be present will be Gary Cooper and Jean Arthur, the “Deeds” headliners, according to a - report received. The two stars will appear in a film tentatively titled ia “Timber” to be produced in the park a a during the summer. : ; Already on the way to the park = are M-G-M cameraman Bob Light- will be followed later by others, in- ory cluding Cooper and Miss Arthur to Swell the total number to 50. The It her and a party of assistants. They Motoring In The Rockies The All-Canadian Route From Win- nipeg To Vancouver Motoring in the Canadian Rockies provides one of the unforgettable thrills of a vacation spent in Canada, and of all the routes open to motor- ists the most spectacular is that link- ing the Prairies with the Pacific, which traverses the two great moun- tain playgrounds, Banff and Yoho| National Parks, and furnishes access to such well-known tourist resorts as| Banff, Lake Louise, Moraine Lake, Emerald Lake, and the wonderful Yoho Valley. The route from Winnipeg to Van- couver forms the western half of the Trans-Canada highway and is con- tinuous but for the uncompleted sec- tion across the Selkirk range. Pend- ing the completion of this stretch from Golden, British Columbia, to Revelstoke, British Columbia, known as the “Big Bend” highway, motor tourists may bridge the gap by ship- ping their automobiles by rail. As in the past few years, a daily automo- bile transport service in each direc- tion between Revelstoke and Golden will be provided during the 1937 sea- son, commencing June 15 and ending September 15. The train journey between Revel- stoke and Golden will be made by daylight, thus providing a wonderful opportunity of viewing the beauties of the Selkirks, with their endless vistas of snowcapped peaks, glaciers, and verdant alpine valleys. There will be no delay or unnecessary ex- pense to the motorist, as automobiles and passengers will be carried on the same train and the aut biles will borate interior decorations, featured Luxurious Flying Hotel Wrecked Hindenburg Was Last Word In Airship Construction The wrecked Hindenburg, con- sidered the greatest product of the science of airship construction, was the largest Zeppelin ever built—803 feet long. Powered by four huge 1,000-horse- power Diesel engines, it had a maxi- mum speed of 84 miles an hour. Its pay-load capacity of 15 tons consti- tuted the largest combination of pas- sengers, freight and mail ever lifted off the ground by aircraft. As a flying hotel, it was the most luxurious of the 150-odd airships built in the 36 years since Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin made his first historical dirigible flight. Bla- by murals depicting the passenger quarters. A promenade more than 150 feet long, inclosed by unbreakable glass, provided an unobstructed view in all directions. Staterooms, similar to those on ships, were equipped with folding desks, and shower baths, with devices for measuring the consump- tion of water, which was distilled from air on the trip. The airship had a completely equipped kitchen, with electric ranges and refrigerators and a large Stock of linen, china and silver. The huge freight compartment would hold 24,000 pounds of baggage and pas- sengers were allowed to take along their cars or even light airplanes. The ship was piloted from a forward gondola, separate from passenger quarters. From the control gondolas, a pass- ageway led to the wireless room, which had the latest developments in all types of radio apparatus. On either side of the lower passageway were the huge containers of crude oil which fed the engines. The ship's electric generators were in a tightly closed compartment spacious be ready for immediate delivery on arrival at Golden or Revelstoke. Uses Of Cocoanut Palm= Ceylon Has Issued Report On Pro- ducts Made From Tree Ceylon has 20,000,000 cocoanut palms, and also a cocoanut research | group which has just issued a re- |port on the innumerable uses to which this Pooh-Bah among trees is being put. The natives eat the white meat of the nuts and drink the milk in them. The meat is desiccated for decorating cakes or dosing unwell dogs. It is dried to make copra,| which yields cocoanut oil used in soap, margarine and candles. The shell is used in theatres to imitate the clatter of horses’ hoofs or turned into charcoal and used in making gas masks. The fibre goes into ropes, brushes, doormats, carpets and upholstery. The leaves make fans, baskets, brooms, thatch and Ceylonese lob- ster-traps. The trunk yields fuel and the timber known in commerce as “porcupine wood”, useful alike for building and for the making of carved knick-knacks. The roots are boiled to make a kind of coffee or roasted and ground to make tooth powder. The young bud is the tasty vegetable “palm cabbage’. The juice of the unopened flower makes a toddy which can be boiled down to sugar or distilled into a potent ar- rack. An arboreal Pooh-Bah, indeed. —New York Times. _ New Kind Of Exhibition Display Of Air Raid Precaution Apparatus In London Londoners have discovered that if they are to wear a gas mask in they have to put their glasses aside| ~ a , and furnished current for lighting, radio, steering gear, mag- netic compasses, giant searchlights and cooking. The gas which held up the sky Behemoth was contained in 32 bal- loons arranged in a continuous chain from bow to stern. Movement around the ship was provided by two corridors, one running through the bottom of the vessel along which} were located all fuel and water tanks, crew’s quarters, supplies, etc.,| and the other running through the centre of the ship from tip to tip. The latter, a primary girder in the structure, served as a passageway for gas-cell inspection. The ship was moved by four-bladed wooden propellers mounted on four power cars, two on either side. Com- munication between the four cars and the control gondola was by a mechanical telegraph system similar to those on ships. The outer covering of the ship was a cotton material made strong and watertight by doping with a liquid containing aluminum powder. | The Hindenburg was named in| honor of Germany's late- president and war hero. A sister ship is now under construction. Built at Fried- richshafen in 1936 especially for trans-Atlantic service, she made ten trips last year, carrying from 21 to 5ST passéngers each time. Her fastest crossing was from Lakehurst to Frankfort last July—45 hours and 43 minutes. Statistics show that animated car- toons are more in demand in other Occidental countries than in the United States. These cartoons now! are made in French, Spanish, Italian and German. . } Poultry Outlook Favorable Market Would Take All Canada Can Send Possibility of afi egg shortage next fall is causing real concern. The im- pression now is that eggs will be scarce from September to January and that poultrymen will do well to get their birds in lay at that time. Some authorities are advising pro- ducers to raise every chick that they can this spring. While the cost of feed is rather high, prices of all commodities are rising and it is rea- sonable to expect that when condi- tions adjust themselves eggs and poultry will also be higher. The egg market at Eastern centres is now two to three cents above the corresponding period of a year ago,| and, with some recent reductions in| feed prices, the prices of eggs and feed are coming more in line with each other. While the outlook for poultry is not yet as critical as that for eggs, there is reason to believe that with the higher prices prevailing for other classes of meats, the outlook for poultry, particularly chickens, is very favorable. Canada has just experi- enced the largest period of export of poultry in many years. Industrial employment and the general indus- trial condition in England are at a high peak and when times are good, English IA Proposed Merger Of Western Provinces To Lower Government Cost The Search For Truth World’s Largest Research Institution Dedicated At Pittsburgh Mellon Institute, Pittsburgh, dedi- cated its $6,000,000 new building, the world’s largest research institution, its exterior a Greek temple nine stories high, its interior new labora- tory magic. It has 34% miles of corridors lead- ing to 322 laboratory rooms where at present 185 scientists work. In the new laboratories the scient- temperature of tropics or Arctic, or the climate of the Sahara for his experiments sim- ply by turning a thermostat. If he wants a vacuum resembling that on the surface of the moon he can get it out of a pipe in any labor-| atory. Other pipes will give him steam, gas, hot or distilled water. Shelves hook into the walls. Ten is enough to change the shelf arrangement of an entire room. ist can minutes get the When the proposal for the annexa- tion of the Yukon territories to the province of British Columbia comes before the next session of the Fed- eral Parliament, it is likely that one of the grounds upon which the fed- eral government will defend it will be as a first step in the direction of &@ more logical regrouping of exist- ing local governments west of the Great Lakes. The stand will be taken by the King government that, geographic- ally, the Yukon belongs naturally to British Columbia. And the sugges- tion will probably be made at the” same time that, ultimately, Alberta should also merge with the Pacific coast province to form one integral economic unit devoted principally to mining, livestock, lumbering, and fruit growing. Then, still applying the principle of geographic logic, the Ministry will likely propose “that Manitoba and Saskatchewan, the two great prairie, In this magnificent temple i ae eS provinces should con- poultry is in demand. In order meet that demand, chicks must hatched and raised and England looking to Canada for more market poultry. High feed prices are not peculiar to Canada. It is a situation that affects every country, the poul- trymen in England eyenmoreso than the poultrymen in North America, scientific workers receive an aver- age pay of $4,000 a year. These men| and the 777 scientists who have pre- ceded them since the institute was founded in 1911, have by their dis- coveries, established ten new Amerti- can industries, alded about 4,000 | American companies, invented about | 650 novel processes and products and, been granted 669 United States to be is cern a merger in the interests of re- ducing the governmental overhead which the people of the West have been finding so burdensome. Such an ultimate regrouping of western local governments, with lower costs and greater solvency re- sulting, is the undoubted hope of those on Parliament Hill who for the past several years have been wrest- |markable manner of governing not so that Canada’s prospects in a com- petitive way in market poultry should be even brighter in 1937 than they were in 1936. Typical of the improving quality of Canadian chickens going to Great Britain is the fact that one car going for export recently contained all milkfed birds, 350 boxes of Milkfed A and 150 boxes of Milkfed B, In Days OF Old When King Henry VII. Had His Eng- lish Mastiffs Hanged As Traitors No account of the infliction of} capital punishment on animals is complete without mention of King Henry VII. of England and his re- only his famous private menagerie but his British realm as well. He carried his notions of the royal pre- rogative so far, we are told by Miss Strickland in her “Lives of the Queens of England,” that he had four English mastiffs hanged as traitors because they overcame one of his} lions with whom they were set to fight. It also appears that he “put to death one of his best falcons, be- cause it feared not to match with an eagle, ordering his falconer, in his presence, to pluck off the gallant bird’s head, saying, “it was not meet for any subject to offer such wrong patents. The dedication was in honor of An- drew W. Mellon and the late Rich- ard M. Mellon, founders of the insti- They set it up as “an inde- pendent non-profit scientific institu- tion whose sole aim would be the | search for truth.’’ tute. Sells Canadian Products Intensive Advertising Campaign In United Kingdom Is Success During the past few months the federal government has been con-| in certain centres in the! ducting, United Kingdom, an intensive campaign, drawing the attention of consumers} variety and merits of the/ tish Columbia from Vancouver, they ada to the Canadian food products available for) As a result in some in-| stances the sale of Canadan produce| Youths who now their use. Calling” ling with the problem of western provincial solvency. 2 At the same time, it is believed that the real motive for the start now being made with the Yukon and British Columbia lies in the political exigency facing Hon. Duff Pattullo, British Columbia premier. Despite the fact that the Yukon, from a rev- enue standpoint, has been a losing proposition for the Dominion to the tune of upward of $300,000 annually, | there is said to be a strong sentiment in British Columbia for its annexa- | tion. The reason lies largely in the be- “Can-| lief that if the mineral resources of forcibly the Yukon territory were opened up by a road running up through Bri- would afford employment and oppor- tunity for thousands of B.C. men and are idle. Hitherto in the week in which the somata the province has never been able to was launched in their areas increased| ¢Mlist the co-operation of the Fed- by from 20 to 100 per cent. in com-| eral Government for the construc- | parison with the corresponding week tion of such a highway. The belief of the previous year. The largest | is that, with the federal promise to wholesale organization in Scotland,| 4nnex the Yukon to British Colum- for example, with hundreds of retail| bia, Premier Pattullo will pledge outlets, reported an increase of 163, Himself, in the per cent. in the sale of salmon. though the campaign will not termi- election campaign Tou now pending, to construct this high- way as a provincial undertaking if nate until the end of the year, it is returned to power.—Financial Post. already being reported from the United Kingdom that supplies of cer- A Valuable Industry unto his lord and superior’.’’ But these “were symbolical execu- tions’ and “were meant as signifi- cant hints to Henry VII.’s turbulent nobility."—New York Sun. Motorist Gate Is New Two farmers in Wellington, New Zealand, have invented a “motorist As a car approaches the “barrier,” the gate lies down grace- When the car is through the gate and passes over a second device gate.” fully. the gate rises and slides place again. into Neither Bolivia nor Paraguay has @ seacoast or seaport. tain Canadian products, particularly hams, canned milk, canned vege- tables and canned lobster are in- adequate as compared with supplies of similar foreign articles. Uniform- {ty of quality and continuity of sup- plies are essential—Brandon Sun. Best Friend Britain Most Liked European Nation By The American People A recent nation-wide poll conduct- ed by the Institute of Public Opinion, marking the twentieth anniversary of the United States entrance into the World War, indicates that Great Britain is the most liked European nation among the American people | its _ Here's An by a wide margin. Great Britain heads the poll with Fisheries In Canada Employ Many Thousands Of Workers Canada’s fisheries provided em- ployment for more than 85,000 work- ers during 1935, the last year for which figures are available. Of the total, more than 70,600 were men who worked in the “‘primary opera- tions” of the industry, catching and landing the fish and shellfish. The remaining fifteen thousand or so, most of them men but some of them women, were employed in the can- ning and curing plants such as the salmon and lobster and sardine fac- tories and the plants processing dried and pickled fish. Although British Columbia tops all provinces in annual marketed value of fisheries production, more a pee Shs » stars are expected to arrive in June.| S¢Curity and comfort. At an exhibi- y a 55 per cent. vote, with France sec-| people are employed in the Atlantic x a : In the meantime, however, filming of| on of air raid precaution apparatus | ourehiold ond and Germany third. The vote in| Coast fisheries than in like work any- ae certain background shots will take|*2 Marylebone recently, spectacle ron favor of Great Britain was five times) where else in the Dominion. Fishing place. Lightner is expected to find snow in the park and has announced he may have to go farther north for the snow or wait until it arrives again. Among those to arrive first will Demarest.—Saskatoon Star-Phoenix. Definite Information Passing through a village, be Phyllis Gordon Demarest, film writer, and her mother, Mrs. Estelle the wearers found they had to don pairs of special elastic fitments provided by the authorities. Ordinary glasses that clip behind the ear prevent the mask from fit- ting securely, leaving a small space in the vicinity of the ear through which gas could filter. At this exhibition, parents were urged to make at least one room in their homes gasproof. Mothers were shown gas masks of all sizes, to fit everyone in the family from the baby Let Your Serap Bag greater than accorded France ‘and oe! most seven times greater than for Germany. The vote by percentages was as follows: Britain 55, France 11, Germany 8, Finland 4, Ireland 4, Italy 3, Switzer- land 3, Belgium 2, Norway 2, Sweden | 2, Denmark 1, Greece 1, Holland 1) | U.S.S.R. (Russia) 1, all others 2, This Is Unusual | | conditions on the Pacific Coast are different from those which are found in the Atlantic areas and conditions in the inland fisheries differ again from those in the sea fisheries either east or west. About 56,650 people were employed on the Atlantic Coast, the figure including nearly 2,500 who were at work in the freshwater fish- eries of Quebec and New Brunswick, and in British Columbia the person- nel slightly exceeded 17,000. The |Woman Married Twice Has Not freshwater fisheries outside of New Changed Her Name | Brunswick and Quebec gave employ- A married woman never has, "ent to about 8,750 men. changed her name although she was! married twice. She is Mrs. Barker, motorist asked an old inhabitant the paahe Trick Pas way to a distant town. The old up. The “ideal” family gasproof shel- ter, furnished with a table set for a did not know. On reaching the end meal, toys for the children, tinned of the village he heard shouting be- ‘ | . hind him. Turning, he saw the old Sema os nenies won, Talo beds, cards, puzzles and other things was | Old Ash Dump Useful Flower Basket 3 man, accompanied by another, run- ea CPN a widow, of Leek, Staffordshire.’ At Coalhurst, Alta. an old colliery : ning after him, waving his hat. He Pee PESO NG Ca PATTERN 5848 When she left the church the second ash dump which has been smoulder- - stopped, and waited for the two to 3 Like to piece a quilt just like one your mother and grandmother ‘did | me her name was still Mrs. Barker.) ng fori 20 eyes ig ls sunDl ying Tongs approach. Teen oud ie pelted’. tol before you? Here it is—Flower Basket—a very simple one, too! Let your) The bridegroom was her late hus- building material. Hundreds of tons a “This is me mate, Charlie Buffle,” of ash are being spread on the high- & SP way between Coalhurst and Kipp. Even’after being dumped on the road !steam and smoke are noticeable for | scrap bag do the trick, for it harbors many gay odds and ends of col f al- ‘a said the old man. pieces by meteors if it were not for | fabric which you can cut in no time into ae quilt patches. It's Heal bend ee mer eae pea a E e either.” ss the layer of atmosphere around it.' you, whether different scraps shall be used in each 11 inch block, or ‘Hall eee een the same for she ne f : Friction, caused by air resistance, S4M° eae ce Slee in the sketch. In pattern 5848 you will find the| Miss Barker before her first mar- burns up most of the “shooting stare’ Block Chart, an illustration of the finished block in actual size, showing | lage. ““"E don't know, fi x DiHetiieeis tp have. a wind instru- contrasting fabrics; accurately drawn pattern pieces; an illustration of the | — | time. 5 fame before they reach us. i ilt; i ; -by ¢ i ae ment orchestra of 90 pieces. y Sait A epeaeres Sahel Step-by-step directions for making the| According to a California scientist, as : It’s a good thing to give credit | To obtain this pattern sends20 cents In stamps or coin (coin preferred) | Mamiea;Jeapjoutward from she surtace) 1 PuOETSDaE pert a A ag ; : “Canada’s 1935 exports of fish were| where credit is due, but it'a better to|t® Household Arts Dept., Winnipeg Newspaper Union, 175 McDermot Ave. | 0f the sun at the rate 6£)20,000 rates! Pi AAted DOTS gee eee rare Valued at a total of $24,435,000. Gp aU era ’ | E., Winnipeg. a minute, and often reach a height polar regions were not developed un- i Reread get p - 3 There is no Alice Brooks pattern book published | of 1,000,000 miles. til 1930.