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Canada To Proceed With
Rehabilitation Of Duck
Breeding Areas In West

Rehabilitation of duck breeding
areas of Canada along lines similar
to a United States undertaking is
proposed by Ducks Unlimited (Can-
ada), incorporation of which was dis-
closed in the Canada Gazette.

* Ducks Unlimited plans to spend
$3,000,000 in a five-year program to
“increase and perpetuate the supply
of wild ducks and other migratory
_ waterfowl within the Dominion of
Canada.”

W. G. Ross, Moose Jaw member of
the Saskatchewan legislature and a)
director of the company, said at the|
annual meeting of the Manitoba |
Game and Fish association that the)
program would be tied in with the]
prairie farms rehabilitation plan. |

Ducks Unlimited was described as
@ non-profit organization formed to|
work with the prairie provincial gov-
ernments and with the farms rehabi-
litation commission. Its purpose is
not to create private reserves from
which the public would be excluded)
but to collect $3,000,000 for increas-
ing the permanent water surface of
the prairie provinces and to restore
what has been destroyed by wanton-
ness,

The money will be raised entirely
in the United States by private sub-
scription of sportsmen, interested be-
cause 85 per cent. of North American
ducks breed in Canada. The program
calls for $600,000 annual expenditure.
each year for five years.

Canadian directors are Mr. Ross;
QO. Leigh Spencer, Calgary; James A.
Richardson, Winnipeg, and S. S. Hol-
den, Ottawa. Four United States
directors will be chosen from four re-
gions into which that country has
been divided for the Ducks Unlimited
fund-raising campaign.

Suggests A Change

Educator Thinks Figure Represent-
ing Uncle Sam Needs New Suit
The long, lank figure with the tall
bestarred hat by which Uncle Sam is
habitually represented puts the nation
in “a bad light,” and needs new tail-
_ oring and a changed personality if
the traits of the American people are
to be truthfully symbolized, Profes-
sor Clyde R, Miller of Teachers’ Col-
_ lege declared in New York. :
“The present Uncle Sam is not a
lovable character,” he told 250 stu-

Blind Pianist Is Clever

Has Memorized Thousands of Tunes
And Is Also Composer

Alee Templeton is the blind pian-
ist at the Rainbow Room in a New
York cabaret who has been twice
held over because of his popularity.
Sightless, he can run his light fingers
over the keyboards skillfully enough
for famous musicians to applaud
loudly. Sheet music being of no help
to him, ten thousand tunes or more
are ever-ready in his head. He plays
any one of them upon request.

It is his fervent wish that cabaret
audiences should not feel maudlin
about his affliction. Except for being
escorted to the piano and back to his
dressing room, he relies upon his own
sixth sense while entertaining. His
ear is so sharply attuned that he can
place a voice in any part of the room
and tell approximately what table it
is coming from. He smiles ingratiat-
ingly. He makes no attempt to em-
phasize or conceal his blindness. He
is grateful that people are not pat-
ronizing.

The blind pianist was born 26
years ago without the power of vis-
ion and has been musically inclined
since he was one. At four, he already
had composed something and since
then he has written hundreds of
musical compositions. He dictates his
songs on the piano and someone else
writes down the notes. Now he is at
work on a symphony, of which he
has finished three movements and in
which the Detroit Symphony Orches-
tra is interested. He can remember
all the notes of any song by hearing
it twice played upon the piano.

At the Rainbow Room he amuses
the guests by calling for seven or
eight numbers at the same time.
When he has enough of them, he can
expertly weave such odds and ends
as “Poet and Peasant Overture,”
“Moonlight * and Shadows,’’ Men-
delssohn’s ‘Spring Song,” “St. Louis
Blues,” “Auld Lang Syne” and “Tig-
er Rag” into a convincing symphony.
Several philharmonic orchestras
around the country have invited him
to join them as soloist this season.

dents. “He is a seri
penny-pinching, budget - examining,
church deacon type who fails on near-
ly every point to represent most Am-
ericans.”

The current symbol of Uncle Sam
plays the people false, the educator
continued, by failing to demonstrate

_ their “humor, sense of fun and laugh-
ing wit.” Besides, he said, “he seldom
shows their goodwill and humanity.”

Professor Miller admitted that the
current Uncle Sam symbolizes the es-
sence of justice and honesty “to the
very last penny,” but he deplored the

, absence of the qualities of ‘“‘mercy’”
and “expansive generosity.’

Life Of An Editor

Building Up Successful Paper Is No
Easy Job
One issue is through, then you sit
down (sez you), and you've nothing
to do till the next, but alas and alack,
this isn’t a fact for the Lino is crying
for text. So you take off your coat,
and you scan every note, and the mill
you keep driving till hazy, and you'll
make a good “rag,” if you don’t stop
to brag, and if you're not awfully
lazy.
. Wor the machine must be fed, and

lots of feeding, but life’s on its way
and each passing day, events are both
subtle and speeding. You grow old

headlines are rare and elusive, and

you'll learn as you live, that facts are

@ sieve, and nothing, but death, is

conclusive,

So when one issue's done, you'll

. rest not, my .son, but you'll bear

down and be a go-getter; and maybe

some day, your public will say, “Your

paper gets better and better.”—Tren-
ton Courier-Advocate,

Supply Getting Low

= to be seen being carried by fashion
dames these days than ever befor
And whenever we see one we are re:

news reporter who greeted her on her

might haye won.
“Is that your dog?” he asked.
“It is,” she replied.
$ “Is that the only dog
pi teia??

you have?”

let it be said, it’s hungry and takes

and grey, as each story you play, for

There are more infinitesimal dogs! vided they are not

arrival with an animal so small that traits and
it could have been lost in any cup it}

fy “Well,” said the reporter, “all I can| wi
say is you are darn near out of dog.”

New Strain Of Alfalfa
Seed Will Soon Be Subjected To
Further Tests
The pr tion of a new variety of

soy-bean by the Division of Forage
Plants, Experimental Farms Branch,
Dominion Department of Agriculture,
calls for attention to the fact that
the Forage Plants Division is engag-
ed in the breeding of many other
forage plants. In the course of its in-
vestigations, the Division has produc-
ed a new strain of alfalfa, but before
being released for distribution this
new strain will be subjected to furth-
er tests.

If this new strain mantains its per-
formance in the succeeding tests, it
should prove of considerable value to
the alfalfa grower, lead to cheaper
seed, and thus help in extending the
acreage seeded to this crop. The new
strain was produced at the Central
Experimental Farm, Ottawa, as the
result of intercrossing a number of
self - fertilizing selections isolated
from the Grimm variety. The new
strain was tested in 1936 in compari-
son with the standard varieties for
yields of hay and seed. The data ob-

only slightly outyielded the standard
varieties in the hay test, but in the
seed test it outyielded the best stand-
ard variety by 50 percent.

Using Royal Insignia

London Streets to Be Decorated With
Appropriate Dignity

London streets will go “Royal”
during the coronation. The City of
Westminster emblems, used for_‘the
Jubilee ceremonies, will be replaced
by the Royal Standard, the Crown,
the Royal Cipher and the Royal
Arms. For the Jubilee only the cross-
ed battle-axes of Westminster were
the proper decorations.

The Crown may be used either
| alone or in conjunction with other
| emblems and the Royal Cipher may
| be used in schemes of decoration pro-
associated with
| advertising matter relating to indivi-
dual firms or commodities.
| Authorities are anxious, however,

tained showed that the new strain).

minded of the actress and the ship| that all decorations be done with ap-|

t/ propriate dignity, particularly por-|

photographs.

| Red squirrels are fond of mush-

|Tooms and they dry quantities of

| them in the forks of tree branches.

| year. — 2197

The north pole is moving south-
ard at the rate of six inches a

|

ture of the victorious crew practicing on the river near Hammersmith Bridge.

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Would Increase Efficiency

British Health Authorities Advocate
Holidays With Pay For All
Workers
The moyement to give holidays
with pay to all workers is deserving
of every support. A committee rep-
resentative of employers and trade
unions is being set up by the Minis-
ter of Labor to investigate this re-

form, which is long overdue.

The general adoption of an annual
period of healthful leisure would help
to raise the physical standard of the
nation—a most imperative concern
of the government. Health authorities
agree that it would increase efficiency
and decrease the time lost through
sickness.

At present only 3,000,000 workers
enjoy paid holidays. The bill now be-
fore parliament seeks to secure this
right to 12,000,000 employees.

There is no logic in existing ar-
rangements which give some workers
holidays with pay and condemn oth-
ers either to no holiday or else to a
vacation which is really a period of
unemployment.

From a list published last year by
the Ministry of Labor, it appears
that the bulk of those in the basic
industries, such as coal, iron and
steel, agriculture, textiles, engineer-
ing, and shipbuilding, receive no pay
for holidays, while, on the whole,
people in the secondary trades are
paid.

But there is no general rule, for in
many cases holidays are granted
under local agreements.

The benefits of a national system,
varied to suit particular districts and
industries, could not fail to be felt by
employers and employees alike.—
Overseas Daily Mail.

Sustains Great Weight
The minute fiber spun by the silk-
worm, in proportion to its size, is the
strongest known to-mankind. The
separate fiber, about one-fourth the
diameter of the finest human hair,
will, if twisted into a rope an inch

Created For Pictures

Newspaper Staff Would Not Work
With Screen Editor Typo

The excitable individual in shirt
sleeves and eye-shade who grabs
three telephones at once and yells
into them “City Desk!” has no being
outside the moyie newspaper, says
Neil MacNeil, assistant night manag-
ing editor of the New York Times.

In a talk on the functions of the
city editor, MacNeil, who formerly
was night city editor of The Times,
told the New School for Social Re-
search that “the loud-mouthed, two-
fisted, strutting city editor of the
stage and screen could never get out
@ paper.”

“The city staff wouldn’t work for
him,” he declared. ‘Truck drivers!
cannot edit modern newspapers. The
morale of a news staff is a delicate
and fragile thing—and the pride and
joy of the city editor,”

Whereas the police reporter was
the star of the staff before the war,
crime news now constitutes less than
three per cent. of a leading modern
newspaper, the editor said. The war!
had caused a shift in emphasis in
news values that dwarfed ordinary
crime and ‘‘resulted in social and eco-
nomic problems making page one.”

The great problem of the modern
newspaper is not in filling up its col-
umns, MacNeil continued, but in
making room for worthwhile news
while avoiding sensationalism, press-|
agentry, propaganda and other eyils.

Will Exhibit In Glasgow
Canada will be represented in the|
British Empire Exhibition to be held}
at Glasgow in 1938, the department
of agriculture has disclosed. The Ca-
nadian pavilion was one of the out-
standing features to be seen at the
last great show held at Wembley in
1924-25,

The lord mayor of London Spends
between $100,000 and $150,000 annu-
ally in maintaining the dignity of his

square, sustain a weight of 32 tons. | office.

Trans-Atlantic Air Mail

Is Delayed

By Reason

Of A Diplomatic Snag

May Be Logical Conclusion

Natives Believe Elephants
Bury Their Own Dead

Charles Low, in his book, “Great
Asiatic Mysteries,” deals with the
problem as to whether elephants bury
their own dead. During the opening
up of Assam and Burma—countries
where wild elephants are probably
more numerous eyen than Ceylon and
Southern India—hundreds of men
have been employed clearing and
burning the jungle.

“Yet engineers,” Mr. Low asserts,
“in charge of this work have stated
that never have they come across the
body of an elephant which has died
of a natural death, though they had
seen hundreds of carcasses of deer,
gaur, gayal, buffalo, and tsine lying
dead—and also the remains of ele-
phants which had been killed by
themselves and others,

“What, then, becomes of the bones
of those elephants which die of old
age or disease? . . . The skeletons of
elephants shot by sportsmen have
been known to remain in evidence for
as long as seven or eight years, al-
though subject yearly to inundation
in the rains and to fire in the dry
weather. The truth is that we are all
in the dark on this subject.

“The natives of Assam, who, with
their ancestors for centuries before
them, have lived practically cheek by
jowl with the elephant in his jungle
fastnesses, say that these creatures
bury their dead, and that this is the
explanation of why no one ever sees
a dead elephant other than the
corpse of one slain by some hunter.

As for the question of whether this
animal is capable of doing such a
thing, mo one who has seen an ele-
phant stacking teak, tree-felling, or
doing any of the dozens of exacting
tasks which these animal laborers
perform, entirely on their own initla-
tive, throughout the Hast, can seri-
ously doubt his ability to perform
the task of interring one of his own
brethren.”’—“Public Opinion” Sum-
mary.

Assam

Hog Production Up

Highest Figure Recorded in the Past
Six Years

The abundant and relatively low-
priced supplies of feed grains which
were available in Canada during the
latter part of 1936 contributed to a
considerable increase in hog produc-
tion in all provinces. At December 1,
1936, the number of hogs on Cana-
dian farms was estimated at 4,422,-
400. This is the highest figure record-

|ed at December 1 in the six years in

which the December survey has been
conducted. It represents an increase
of 7 per cent. over the number on
farms at June 1, 1936, and is 12 per
cent. greater than the estimated num-
ber for December 1, 1935.

Doctor—I don’t like to mention it,
but that cheque you gave me has
come back.

Patient—Well, that sure is funny,
Dec, so did my lumbago. |

Nine inches of rain fell in 35 min-
utes at Assam, India, probably a
world’s record in rainstorms.

THE DARK BLUES BREAK THE JINX AND WIN THE BOAT RACE

Germany possesses a definite lead
today in the international battle for
supremacy on the air trade routes of
the North Atlantic.

Her Zeppelin, Hindenburg, will
start flying passengers, mail and
freight May 5 from Frankfort to New
York for the second successive sum-
mer without competition.

Aeroplanes that could beat her
crossing time are ready and waiting
on both sides of the ocean, but plans
for scheduled flights have been held
up by international red tape.

Mail flights originating in the Unit-
ed States apparently are assured for
this fall but Pan-American Airways,
the line that probably will make
them, expects to fly no passengers
until 1938, ;

Those plans are based on a British-
United States commercial agreement
which seems to have hit a temporary
diplomatic snag in Washington.

First leg of the United States-
European line that was to run across
Bermuda and the Azores under this
agreement was scheduled to be open-
ed between Bermuda and this country
before now. An English flying boat
has been ready for days to take off
from Bermuda. A United States fly-
ing boat has been ready to make a
return hop. Neither boat has moved.

“It’s government trouble,” a New
York spokesman for the British com-
pany, Imperial Airways, said.

The “government trouble” has no
official definition. Unofficially it is re-
ported to be a disagreement over
whether New York or Montreal
should be the western terminus of an
alternate British-American route that
would cross the Atlantic by way of
Newfoundland and Ireland.

The issue is one of national pres-
tige.

Montreal as a terminus would put
Canada in first position on this end
of the trans-Atlantic map and would

provide a closer link between two _

great parts of the British Empire.
New York as a terminus would put
the United States in first place on the
ocean caller's route.

It is on this point of prestige that
the Germans have won a victory by

heduling the Hi g flights
again this year. The Hindenburg will
fiy 18 trips instead of last year’s 10.

Biggest factor in the ultimate ans-
wer to “who will fly the Atlantic?” is
not “who can fly it?” but “who has
the right to fly it?”

The air is controlled by the coun-
try which lies beneath it. There lies
the biggest reason why the United
States did not have a trans-Atlantic
line long ago.

From a technical standpoint, Pan-
American Airways was ready to start
as far back as 1934, long before any-
one else. Four years before that it
had obtained fiying rights from New-
foundland, Greenland and Iceland. By
1931, it had agreements with Canada.

When Pan-American was ready to
start, England’s government-control-
led line, Imperial, was not. Imperial
had other plans of empire first.

So Pan-American flew to Honolulu
instead of to England, and the Brit-
ish flung sky links of empire across
India and Africa.

Now England’s empire network is
almost done. On April 1 she inaugu-
rated the world’s greatest airmail
service. Every letter a Briton posts
to another part of the empire will be
flown whether he marks it airmail or
not.

Only Canada remains to be hooked
up with Britain. The English are
ready to tackle the Atlantic. The
house of commons has been advised
experimental flights will start in June
on two routes; by way of Ireland and
Newfoundland in the summer and by
way of the Azores and Bermuda in
the winter. Big air bases have been
set up at Foynes, Ireland, at the
mouth of the Shannon river; at Bot-
wood, Nfld. and at Hamilton, Ber-
muda.

On the American side, Pan-Ameri-
can, which has no competition, is
ready to start as soon as the United
States government gives the word
and congress approves a $750,000 ap-
propriation for a trans-Atlantic air-
mail service in the treasury-post of-
fice appropriation bill,

|

For the first time in 13 years Oxford University won the Oxford-Cambridge boat race, and did it in con-

vincing style.

er peng

It was one of the most exciting races ever
gether for four miles. The Dark Blues then pulled ahead

and won by thr

ep chee staal Salant oF 5

witnessed on the Thames as the boats stayed to-

ee lengths. Above is a recent pic-

Railway Crossing Accidents

The number of persons killed in
| railway crossing accidents in Canada
during 1936 was 211, Transport Min-
ister Howe told J. C. Lenderyou (S.C.,
Calgary East) in the House of Com-
mons. There were 243 accidents, the
minister stated. At protected cross-
ings 113 persons were killed and 367

injured; at unprotected crossings 98
were killed and 322 injured.

The foot of the ostrich is designed

| for both speed and power.

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