WORLD HAPPENINGS BRIEFLY TOLD Eleven Anglican South Africa will each receive a stone from Canterbury cathedral in England in token of “friendship and goodwill.” The United States tariff commis- sion was under orders to investigate the competition between domestic and foreign pulpwood. Canada is the largest seller of this forest product in United States markets. The Lewis machine gun, standard equipment for the British army since Great War days, is being replaced as rapidly as possible by a new and lighter weapon produced in Czecho- slovakia known as the Bren gun, Demonstration of a batteryless telephone which generates its elec- tricity from voice sounds has been made by three Montrealers—Armand Parent, Pierre Dufresne and Carmen “Norasco. Four workmen were killed and four wounded when a road construc- tion laborer sank a pick into an un- exploded Great War shell. The acci- dent took place on the road between Venice and Tarviuio, Italy. A show place among southern Al- berta farms, the 7,000 acres owned by the Duke of Sutherland estate, near Brooks, have been purchased ly the Eastern Irrigation District. Five thousand acres are reported irrig- able. Word was received by the Ameri- can Geographical society of the suc- cessful ascent of Mount Steele, 16,439 feet high, by Walter Wood, who led an expedition for the society into the Yukon territory. The feat has never before been accomplished. The Daily Herald declared today the Japanese government is prepar- ing to open diplomatic negotiations with Great Britain, Holland and other powers “with the idea of secur- ing emigration rights in the Far East for several millions of her surplus population.” Early this month between 70 and 80 young Canadians will be taken in- to the Royal Canadian Air Force. From a “waiting list” of nearly 6,000 youthful flying enthusiasts the de- fence department has selected this number to begin their three years’ course. Announcement of inauguration of a monthly air mail service between Fort Chipewyan, Alta, and a new post being opened at Goldfields, Sask., was made by the post office depart- ment Sunday. Goldfields is situated on the north shore of Lake Atha- baska, approximately 120 miles east of Fort Chipewyan. Canada’s Canning Industry Three Provinces Supply People Wit! Fruits And Vegetables The canning of fruits and veget- ables is carried on most extensively in the provinces of Ontario, British Columbia and Quehec, where climatic conditions are favorable for the growing. The principal fruits cauaed in Ontario are: Apples, pears, plums, peaches, cherries, currants, gocse- berries, blueberries, raspberries and strawberries. In addition, British Columbia has the apricot and the loganberry. The vegetables canned include: Tomatoes, peas, corn, beans, beets, carrots, pumpkin, squash, spin- ach and asparagus. The canning sea- son begins in June and continues through the summer and autunia un- til October, being at its height in July, August and September. The pack in 1933 consisted of 1,201,275 cases of fruits and 4,531,542 cases of vegetables valued at $2,5y4,- 951 and $9,257,296, respectively. Of the canned vegetables packed, toma- toeS rank first in the number of cases with 1,659,856, baked beans with 1,045,796 cases coming next, fol- lowed in order by peas with 822,890 and corn 401,856. Of the fruits zan- ned, pears came first with 394,274 cases, followed by apples with 230,- 704 cases, peaches 161,615 and plums 135,716. Other importaat canned goods were: Soups of all kinds 1,438,- 523 cases and tomato juice 462,478. — St. Thomas Times-Journal. Clerk—“These are especially strong shirts, madam. They simply laugh at the laundry.” Customer—‘I know that kind; 1| had some which came back with their sides split.” Aztec medicine compared so favor-| ably with European knowledge of the subject that Franciscan friars had the cathedrals in} Has King’s Medal Indian Chief Proud of Present Given Sioux Tribe 150 Years Ago Proudly displaying a medal given to the chief of his tribe 150 years ago by King George IIL, in recognition of their services to the British forces during the American Revolutionary war, Chief Sitting Eagle of the Pipe- stone Sioux, posed in Winnipeg for his picture recently. “Chief,” he was asked, “would your people consider taking this country back if it was offered to you.” The chief became indignant. People, ap- parently, are always asking him to | take the country back, and it’s get- ting on his nerves. “Ugh!” he snorted. “We had this country once, when it was in a lot better shape than it is now. Pale- faces won it, and Indian always plays for keeps. You got it, you keep it; no exchanges can be made on this goods, thank you,” he declared. The chief's medal, which he will hand on to his nephew when he goes to the happy hunting grounds, is as handsome as it is rare. It is one of seven which were struck following the war, and given to the seven chiefs of the Seven Nations. On one side is facsimile of the King and on the reverse side a picture of a lion and a wolf allied against an unseen foe. The Sioux at Pipestone are not natives of western Canada, but came here many years ago from the United States. They do not come in for treaty money which the govern- ment disburses every year to Cana- dian Indians. Birthday Of Panama Canal Waterway Was Opened To Traffic 21 Years Ago The Panama Canal, which shortens the water course from New York to the Pacific coast by more than 8,400 miles, came of age on August 15. Since it was opened to traffic 21 years ago—Aug. 15, 1914—fulfilling a dream which led the Spanish to make engineering surveys as early as 1521, $394,566,620 in tolls has been paid for 82,673 passages of ships be- tween the Atlantic and Pacific ASSISTING NATURE By Jack Miner, During the past year I have read }& number of articles both in maga- | zines and in newspapers, as well as subject of “Nature's Balance,” decry- ing actions or systems on the part of man which the writer described as “Interfering with Nature,” “Upset- ting Nature’s Balance,” and so on. To all who adopt that attitude I should like to put myself on record to the effect that? personally, I be- lieve the so-called “Balancing of Nature” was left entirely with man, and that I believe in assisting nature for the benefit of humanity. God created everything and then He created man “in His own likeness and gave him dominion over all;” that is, as I understand it, the power and authority to manage everything here on earth. Look, for mstance, at the animal world, with the live-stock in the farmer's as Did many letters that come to me, on the) tawa, and by study, experimentation and the rigid selection of choice grains, developed a wheat that could » planted in the spring, that would yield several bushels more per acre than had been the rule previously, that would mature within a certain period of time, and that yet retained all its former qualities. We have to- day the Marquis and the Garnet and other species of wheat, developed by man. God created the original, the germ; but man was given, and has used, the power to develop, manage and control it. Or if you will consider your flower garden, look at the Iris, God gave to us in America a little, insignificant flower growing along the banks of streams, which we called, commonly, the ‘flag’. From it man has develop- ed the Iris that grows three or four feet high, varied in color, and some Stories About Swordfish Ship's Crew Vouch For One About Fight With Whale Legends have gathered around the swordfish, Broken swords found in the hulls of wooden ships may have been thrust in accidentally. In the museum of the College of Surgeons, London, there is part of the bow of a whaler impaled. by a sword a foot Little Journeys In Science ALUMINUM (By Gordon H. Guest, M.A.) Aluminum is a comparatively new industrial metal. Iron, copper, lead, tin, and the precious metals have been used by man for ages but alumi-_ num is a recent gift of science to in- dustry. The industrial metals are all ‘ long and five inches in cir It had penetrated more than thirteen inches of wood. In the British Mu- seum there is a sword that had gone through twenty-two inches of wood. On a voyage from Ceylon to London a vessel suddenly sprang a leak. showed that a hole an giving out an < But man had to interfere with Na- ture to accomplish this, Or take the rose. Did God create the American Beauty Rose? No. He gave man brains, and a little old wild Rose which served as the germ, so to speak. Today, through the efforts of outstanding botanists, man has been given flowers of beauty and frag- rance, as the Creator intended should be done. But let us look at another side of ie God create the Jersey Cow, and Hol- stein, and the Hereford? No. He gave man the original stock and then God, through man’s instrumentality, developed many breeds, some for the high cream content of milk, some to produce the greatest quantity of milk, and some as the best beef cattle. All have been on earth a long time, of course; but their differences are the result of man’s management. And, remember, man had to interfere with Nature to develop them. Much the same thing is true of the Horse, different strains being culti- vated for particular purposes, such as Cc and . At the same time God created the little wild rose, He creat- ed also the weed, typical of which is the Canadian Thistle. Still he gave to man the brains and the means of controlling these also, so that they inch in diameter had been punched in the vessel's copper sheathing. The in- surance company denied liability, on the ground that the damage had been done by some agent other than a fish. ‘The jury that heard the claim against the company found that the damage had been done by contact with some substance other than water, adding a rider that a swordfish probably was responsible. In a small book on life in the sea, R. J. Daniel, lecturer on oceano- graphy in Liverpool University, rec- ords an exciting incident off the coast of Auckland to show that a may be restrained from ing the plant world. : In your orchard are many varieties of fruit. Did God create the Stark Delicious apple, the Northern Spy, and other varieties? No. He gave man the little wild Crab Apple, and the Hawthorne, which is a miniature apple or germ, and from these man developed what we have today. Yet, for heavy draught work, and the blue-blooded descendants of original Arab stock for racing. Recently I was in some of the southern States, where the character of the farm work to be done is too heavy for the common ass, yet where the climate is too warm to permit of the horse doing its best. In that part of the continent, therefore, man has crossed the ass with our common horse and produced a beast that withstands the heat and is also strong enough to do the work of till- ing the soil. Yes, he has developed the mule. But the mule kicked and, so far as I know, has gone no further, In poultry, if you trace back vari- ous species, it is very easy to see that it has been the work of man that has oceans. The canal now has a cap estimated at about 348 ships a day, although in the fiscal year ended June 30 the average number of daily transits was only about fifteen. The highest daily average was less than eighteen in the peak year of 1928. Militia Units Alliance of 14th Canadian Light Horse With New Zealand Force Alliance of the 14th Canadian Light Horse, non-permanent active militia of Canada, with headquarters at Climax, Sask., to the Queen Alexan- dra’s Mounted Rifles, New Zealand military forces, has been approved by the king, it was announced at Ot- tawa by the department of national defence. The 14th Canadian. Light Horse was in 1910. of the unit is located at Climax, Sask., and is under the command of Lt.-Col, W. Van Allen. ters U. S. Government Profits Contents Of Chain Letters Prove Rich Harvest Send-a-dime chain letters promise to pay off for the United States treasury in a way to make envious the originators of that 40-day wonder of personal prosperity financing. In Denver alone, reputed point of origin of the dime chain idea, 100,000 letters are impounded, with the con- tents to be turned over to the treas- ury after a year of gathering dust. Postmaster J. C. Stevic estimated the Denver holdings at from $3,000 to $4,000. Greatly Indebted Of the late Bishop Ames, the fol- lowing anecdote is told: While pre- siding over a certain conference in the West, a member ‘began a tirade against universities and education, thanking God that he had never been corrupted by contact with a college. After a few minutes, the bishop in- terrupted with the question: “Do I understand that the brother thanks God for his ignorance?” “Yes,” was the answer, “you can put it that way if you want to.” “Well,” said the bishop, ‘‘all I have to say is that the brother has a good deal to thank God for.” The Tokyo earthquake of 1923 caused a greater monetary loss than the entire Japanese-Russian war. Indian native medicine taught in the|More than 400,000 buildings were first college they established for| demolished. natives of Mexico. To be 70 years young is sometimes =: than to erful and hopeful A statastician reports that there have been over a milion deaths from cancer in the United States in the past ten years. 2114 Pp the breeds, Leg» horns, Brahmas, Minorcas, Plymouth Rocks, and so on, some of which are especially valuable as layers, and others as food. Our much prized tur- key is nothing more or less than the wild turkey, domesticated and im- proved. Seventy-five years age our Cana- dian north-west was grazed by mil- lions of wild buffalo (Bos bison). Then came the white man who, real- izing the value of the fertile soil, established a park where a herd was placed to preserve the species from extinction, slaughtered the great roaming herds and, turning the land upside-down, made it into one of the largest and most valuable of earth’s great wheat-fields, with towns and cities and stately governimcutal build- ings dotted here and there across its vast expanse. Remember, though, that in order to bring about this state of things, man had to “Inter- fere with Nature’, as some would call it. And speaking of wheat-fields, wheat has been man’s favorite food for centuries. Yet wheat, even as it was being grown in Canada in com- paratively recent years, had certain weaknesses. It had to be planted in the fall and did not always survive the severity of the western winter. It was not producing as abundantly as seemed desirable and it did not mature rapidly enough always to escape the early autumn frosts. Then came to our aid such men as Profes- sor Charles Saunders, cerealist of Ot- to some people’s state- ments, if you kill the mice that girdle these fruit trees when they are small, you are “interfering with or upset- ting Nature's balance.” If you are raising poultry, or other bird life, and hawks begin to destroy and live on the birds, and you fail to take a gun and shoot the hawks, then you are not using the brains God gave you. If your clothing were to become in- fested with vermin or your dwelling with rodents, you would destroy the insects or animals that were troub- ling you. Yet (if they were consistent in their argument) these people would have to maintain that in doing so you are “upsetting Nature's balance”, since God created all these creatures at the same time. Or how about the fly, carrier of typhoid? Do you con- trol it or, preferring not tto disturb “Nature's own”, let it live? Person- ally, I am glad He gave man “domin- jon over all” these things. Indeed, one is moved to ask the question, What would our animal world, our farms and orchards and gardens, our whole world, be like if man had not assisted Nature? Yet the very minute the white man dis- covered this continent, came ashore, cut down a tree and began to develop North America into a garden for hundreds of millions of people, that man, according to some, disturbed the balance of Nature. As for me, I thank God for all He made, for the raw materials He gave us with which to work; that He made us in His own likeness, after His own image, and endowed us with sufficient brains to develop those raw materials and keep on discovering and bringing within reach of us all the blessings He created. To illustrate my mean- ing, allow me to quote the poem, “Making a Garden,” written by Ida M. Thomas: Man ploughs and plants and digs and weeds, He works with hoe and spade; -God sends the sun and rain and air, And thus a garden's made. He must be proud who tills the soil And turns the heavy sod; How wonderful a thing to be In partnership with God! I say, He wants all of us to be partners. |The nicely-flared cuff of these croche' fall sleeves. Note the interesting con! fit! All stitches are easy, and work B., Winnipeg. There is no Alice Brook Here's what the well-gloved woman will be wearing this fall with her frocks and light-weight coats! And she won't mind showing her hand either, ted gloves have just the right fit over trast of the cuff design with the plain crochet of the hand. And how beautifully and comfortably that glove does up quickly in light-weight wool. In pattern 5431 you will find directions for making the gloves shown In a small, medium and large size (all given in one pattern); of the gloves and of all stitches used; material requirements. To obtain this pattern send 20 cents in stamps or coin (coin preferred) to Household Arts Dept., Winnipeg Newspaper Union, 175 McDermot Ave. an illustration s pattern book published. swordfish will attack a whale. The whale had its calf, which was the object of the swordfish’s attack, The attack was made from below, but the swordfish’s fin occasionally showed above the surface as it manocuvred for position. The whale circled the calf, beating the water with its tail. After fencing for about fifteen min- utes, the swordfish darted at the calf, but received a blow from the whale that sheared almost the whole back fin. The blow was so severe that the swordfish was paralyzed. It was taken out of the water by a ship's crew who had watched the fight. Boy Is Good Canner Takes Many Prizes For Vegetables, Fruits And Pickles Red currant jelly, canned straw- berries and raspberries are preserves that Allan Heagy, of Stratford, can make better than any girl under 16 years of age at the Canadian Na- tional Exhibition, Toronto. He won first prize with his red currant jelly in the handicraft ex- hibits. For pickles, gherkins or mix- ed, he placed second. He showed that feminine hands meant nothing to him when it came to preserving raspber- ries and strawberries, another first prize for him, and then his canned peaches, canned vegetables and mustard pickles couldn’t be equalled by the girls. Magnetic Sweeper Useful Picks 291 Pounds of Metal Objects Off Texas Roads Magnetic highway cleaners have removed large quantities of nails and other metal objects from South Texas highways. : In the 18-mile stretch between Pharr and Mercedes, the machine re- moved 291.5 pounds of nails, scrap iron, tin cans, wire, bolts and other objects. On highway 66, in Brooks county, the machine recently picked up 111 pounds of metal. The machine is operated by the Texas highway de- partment. Extend Facilities heavy while is only about one third as heavy as iron. Iron, the chief structural metal of — the past, rusts easily, whereas alumi- — num is little affected by air or moist- ure. 4 The story of the discovery of an economical method for extracting — aluminum from its ores is a most in- teresting one. A young American . scientist, Charles Hall, decided that the decomposition of the ore a means of electricity was the best — method to use. The large-scale pro- cess of to-day js practically the same as the one devised by Hall in his woodshed in 1886. F Aluminum resembles tin in app ance and can be easily hammered in- to very thin sheets. It is fairly hard and strong, being superior to most metals in these respects, although not equal to steel. It is a very good conductor of heat and electricity and — forms alloys quite readily with many — metals. i 4 Y ‘The properties of aluminum, espec- £ ially when it is made into alloys with — certain metals, enable man to put it to a great variety of uses. Its light- — ness, strength, and resistance to cor- rosion make it suitable for all kinds of construction purposes that range — from kitchen utensils and small con-— tainers of all kinds to an engine base in a single casting weighing 3800 pounds. In the construction of modern office buildings as much as 100,000 — pounds of the metal have been used for such purposes as roofing, cornices, window frames, ornamental fittings, — and even furniture. ‘Gas tanks, street cars, and truck bodies are being made ~ of aluminum, and the automobile and aircraft industries absorb approxim- ately one third of the annual output of this new industrial metal. In a@ single year the washing-machine in- dustry required over 21,000,000 — pounds, Pe In a finely divided state, suspended in a suitable oil, it is used as a pro- tective paint» for metal objects, such as steam pipes and radiators. It has wide use as a thin foil for radio con- densers. Aluminum finds an important use in the manufacture of thermite which — is used extensively for welding. Ther- mite consists of a mixture of iron — oxide and aluminum powder and — when ignited the chemical reaction — which takes place produces a very — great temperature. By means of thermite a broken part in a machine can be welded without taking the machine apart, which is certainly a great advantage. England Builds New Houses Over Two Million Have Been Erected Since Armistice Sir Kingsley Wood, minister of health, opening St. Andrews Gardens _ at Liverpool, England, said that more than 300 flats had been erected on the site of a former abattoir near the centre of the city. For the first — time balconies had been provided on the front elevation to a number of living rooms and the horizontal treat- ment afforded greater window area. a Since the armistice no fewer than © 2,670,500 new houses had been built in England, said Sir Kingsley, and — the capital cost involved and derived from the state, the local authorities and the private capitalists during that period amounted to $9,000,000,- 000. ~ Sir Kingsley declared that the — policy of the ministry of health had not led to a lowering of housing — standards, and denied that there was a craze for cheapness and. an indif- ference to the quality of the houses Pool crease Equipment Sixteen new country elevators now being built or purchased by Saskat- chewan Pool Elevators, Limited, brings the company’s facilities in this province to 1,081 elevators, the total capacity being approximately 3614 million bushels, it was announced. Also a 30,000 bushel house at Neville has been dismantled and rebuilt into a modern elevator of 45,000 bushels In- capacity. The total estimated cost of the programme is $159,000. Like the little girl who was wont to lose her whereabouts, Canadian flour occasionally loses its identity. Practically all of the flour imported into Haiti is of Canadian origin, but the greater bulk of it being shipped) chair—considered a bad-luck sign by to Haiti through United States ports| all gamblers. is billed as a U.S. product. The East Indian banyan tree is distinguished by the fact that roots| ond piece of cake at the party, be- come auxiliary trunks, thus permit- ting the tree to extend over a wide descend from its branches and area. A proposed program of lighting over 6,000 miles of national roads in France by electricity is expected to reduce accidents by 35 per cent. Canada-now has 128 landing fields) scientists feel sure that the bai and airports. Pp F Superstitious But Polite Ziegfeld Risked Bad Luck Sign Rather Than Appear Rude The story was told at Saratoga’s Arrowhead Inn. Florenz Ziegfeld, who was most superstitious, had taken over the bank at Monte Carlo. — King Edward entered the room, — placed his foot on the rung of Zieg- feld's chair, and asked: “Do you mind if I watch?” “Not at all, your Majesty producer replied. Flo then proceeded to drop $400,000. Not once during this session did the superstitious— but polite—Ziegfeld ask the ruler to remoye his foot from the player's A Real Diplomat Mother—You didn’t ask for a sec- did | you, Sonny? yi Jack—No, Mother. I just asked Mrs. Green for the recipe so that you” could make some like it, and she gave me another piece without my asking for it. J After feeding poultry and game birds on the poisoned bran bait used in grasshopper control, North Dakota leaves the birds unharmed.