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Found In Many Parts Of Citi, First Target of Japanese

Limestone Regarded by Geologists
As World's Most Useful Rock

Limestone, which is obtainable in |
more than 1,500 localities in Canada, |
much of it of fine quality, is regard-
ed by geologists as the world’s most |
useful rock. It is of immense value |
to man and to all living creatures in
@ variety of different ways; in fact,
there is scarcely a phase of human
life in which limestone does not play
@ part. Calcium carbonate, or carbon-
ate of lime, the principal constituent
of limestone, is absolutely necessary
for the growth of human beings and
animals. It is obtained from eggs,
Sate vegetables and other food deplored that beyond one supple-

|mentary volume issued by the gov-

To the industrial life of the coun- ernment several years ago, dealing
try limestone is indispensable. The, with the Medical services, nothing
annual production of Canadian quar-j)had been written on the operations
ries, according the the latest avail-|of the Canadian corps. Other coun-

able figures is 12% million tons,!tries had published voluminous ac-
which, when made into its primary counts—notably Great Britain and
purposes, has a selling value of about | Australia—but on Canadian achieve-
$34,000,000. This value is exceeded ‘ments in the great struggle Canada
only by that of coal, copper and gold. | continued to preserve absolute silence.

Limestone is used in great quanti-
ties in the form of crushed stone for
highways, railway ballast and con-
concrete aggregate. It is the princi-
pal raw material in the manufacture
of Portland cement; and also in the
manufacture of calcium carbide and
cyanamide, which latter are the bases
of many chemical products. The
iron and steel industry, as at present
constituted, could not exist if lime-
stone were not available to free the
fron from its ores. In the production
of gold, silver and other metals, lime
and limestone play important parts.
Quantities of lime are used in tanning
leather. Limestone is indispensable
to the pulp and paper industry —
every piece of paper is made
by its aid. So, too, does the glass
industry require limestone for most
of its products—particularly for win-
dow glass. Limestone is essential to
the manufacture of washing soda,
baking soda and many other chem-
icals. Large quantities are used in
the refining of sugar. The uses of
lime for plaster, mortar and white-
wash are generally known. When
limestone is pulverized and mixed
with linseed oil it is known as putty.
Pulverized limestone is also used in
the compounding of rubber for foot-
wear and flooring. It is used in oil
cloth and in cold-water paints. Some
cigarette papers contain as much as
30 per cent. pulverized limestone.
Limestone is a source of carbon diox-
ide gas which, when compressed into
the solid state, forms the refrigerant
known “as dry-ice, now coming into
wide use. A certain type of lime-
stone when melted in a small blast
furnace and blown by high-pressure
gteam into myriads of fibres, yields
a fluffy material known as rock wool
—one of the most efficient insulating
materials on the market.

Many other uses for limestone could
be mentioned, for they number bun-
dreds, but one of the most interesting
and certainly the most spectacular
use of limestone is its use as 4 build-
ing stone, Canadian limestone for
pbuilding purposes is notably superior.

Canada’s Part In Great War )

No Official History Has Yet Been
Published

| “The Canadian Legion, of the Bri-
|tish Empire Service League, is in
' daily receipt of inquiries from all over
the country as fo when Canada's of-
ficial history of the Great War is to
be published,” said Major John S.
Roper, M.C., K.C., president of the
Legion at Ottawa.

Major Roper, commenting upon the
publication of battalion war histories,

Winnipeg Newspaper Union|

THIS LITTLE MODEL IS VERY
CHARMING

Smart and in the newest feeling is
this simple all-day type.

And you can’t find anything easier
or quicker to fashion.

‘It has the one-sided rever and the
modish insets to give contrast to the
| sleeves.

The skirt, you will note, has the

New Western Fur-Bearer

.
Polecats Exhibited At Winnipeg At
Annual Fitch Show

The fitch (or polecat).is now defin-

British soldiers shown detraining at the railroad station of Woosung
Fort, on the outskirts of Shanghai. This fort was the first target of
Japanese forces in the move for the occupation of Shanghai. - Claiming that
they were fired on from the fort, Jap warships shelled the stronghold and
silenced it. The British Tommies shown here are defending the international
settlement.

Fariers Stould Advertise Boom Awaits New Products

Sale Of Products Might Be Stimulated | Opinion Of Head Of General Motors
By Co-Operative Action Research Laboratories
Dr. G. I. Christie, President of} The world is not finished.
the Ontario Agricultural College, who Its. machinery will start again as
is a close student of agriculture in| Soon as some one gets out a product
all its ramifications, and who is in}! which persons with 28 billion dollars
close touch with the farmers all over ; in saving deposits in the banks of the
the province, has provided some food | United States like better and want
for thought in his suggestion that the | more than they do their money.
sale of farm products might be stimu- | This is the view of Charles F.
lated by some intelligent advertising. Kettering, or Boss Kett, as associates
“If it pays industry to take full affectionately call the directing head
page advertisements,” says Dr. Chris- of the General Motors Research Lab-
tie, “someone should find a way in oratories. He is the man responsible
which newspapers and other adver- for the development of the self-start-
tising mediums can be utilized for er, Ethyl gas, and other great gifts
the farmers, for it cannot be left to to the motor industry.
the individual farmer.” It is a well Business will shake itself free from
recognized fact that co-operative buy- | stagnation and walk lively again, he
ing and selling among the farmers, said, when it offers for sale new ser-
fruit growers, etc., has been excep- vices, new interests, new products —
tionally satisfactory, a striking ex- and begins to make up with develop-
ampfe being the California orange ment for the wasteful eight years |
growers. Their policy of co-operation given to exploitation.
in the marketing of their products, Framed above Mr. Kettering’s of-
which included alvertising on a very fice door in the laboratories are these
large scale, brought results far be- words:
yond their expectations, and others “No one ever would have crossed

‘Shiaaentiate Now Advanced That

Western Canad a Will Soon Have
Reached Wheat Growing Limit

That the prairie provinces-are ap-

| Proaching much more closely than

people suspect their peak point in
wheat production and egports, was the

| feature of an address before the Royal

Canadian Institute in Toronto recently
by Dr. D. A. MacGibbon, Winnipeg,
member of the Board of Grain Com~
missioners. A possible maximum
wheat crop in western Canada of be-
tween 670 and 700 million bushels
was calculated.

Observing the rise of wheat produc-
tion in Ontario and Quebec in pion-
eer days and the decline following
this period, Dr. MacGibbon suggest-
ed that western Canada will pass
through the same phases, production
rising to a peak and which, with the
passing of the pioneer, will gradually
decline to a fairly fixed level.

He pointed out the almost uniform
progress in acreage devoted to wheat
during the last 25 years, concluding
that a study of the facts gave no rea-
son fo suppose that the limits of
wheat cultivation have yet been
reached. In this respect Alberta, Dr.
MacGibbon stated, only began to
show promise as a wheat producing
province in 1910, Saskatchewan pro-
duced widely fluctuating I

reach the point of maximum ‘produce
tion there will be a considerable de-
cline just as there has been in Mant-
toba, Ontario, Minnesota and else-
where, Dr. MacGibbion concluded,
Where the volume of production will
be stabilized in that event would de-
pend upon at least two factors, the
very large areas in each province
which were better suited to the pro-
duction of wheat than any other pro-
duct and the very high quality of the
wheat which is produced in these
areas.

Soviet Architects Are
Planning Great Palace

tiful Cathed:

1 Being Demolished
To Make Room For It

More than a thousand architects,
including forty foreign experts, are
engaged in drawing up plans for the
new “Palace of the Soviets,” the gi-
gantic auditorium which is to rise
on the site of the cathedral of Christ
the Redeemer, now rapidly disappear-
ing.

Ten thousand workmen swarm
daily over the mammoth white cathe-
dral—Moscow’s largest if not its most

from year to year, but with a steady
adyance in the acreage, while Mani-
toba in contrast had produced her
largest crop of wheat in 1915 and a
decline in her acreage in wheat has
been under way for six or seven
years.

Between 1910 and 1914, the speaker
continued, 57 per cent. of the acreage
devoted to field crops in Manitoba
was planted to wheat while for the
five years, 1926 to 1930 inclusive, the
percentage shrank to 37 per cent. with
an average crop of about 40 million
bushels. In contrast to Manitoba a
study of the proportion of wheat
lands to total land devoted to field
crops in the three prairie provinces
shows that between 1910 and 1914
the percentage was 57 per cent. de-
voted to wheat. and between 1926
and 1930 the percentage was 63 per
cent.

These facts indicate, he continued,
that any expansion in wheat acreage
must take place in Alberta and Sas-
katchewan where pioneer settlement

have followed in their footsteps, “the ocean if he could have gotten off
What has been accomplished in Cali- the ship in the storm.”

fornia through co-operative effort He doesn’t say prosperity is around
that utilized to the utmost degree the corner. He despises platitudes. |

advertising to sell orange juice and

MWe does say’ that in 1929 he was a)

oranges can be ished by the
the facilities afforded by newspaper
farmers of this province in populariz-
ing the products they have for sale.

This question is large enough and
important enough to arrest the at-
tention of every farmer. It must be
anmitted that one farmer or even
any small group of farmers cannot
hope to accomplish much in this di-
rection, but Dr. Christie is right when

telligent advertising and farmers’ or-
ganizations could do worse than in-
vestigate the chances that co-opera-
tive effort offers as a means of creat-
ing greater sales for farm products.
—Owen Sound Sun-Times.

he points out the possibilities of in- |

p t—he couldn't get people to
see any danger signals. Today he is
an optimist, and believes that the
water level can be raised if everyone
helps.

“J don’t know if we want to go
back where we were in 1929,” he said.
“J believegwe had better go back to}
some natural normal place halfway
between the abnormal place we were
and the abnormal place we are now.”

He blames “exploitation of the fu-
ture” for the depression. We were
trying, he asserts, to make civiliza-
tion a life of existence instead of
recognizing it as a thing of growing
experience and adventure.

It has been stated that the thou-

is still going forward and where price
relationships of wheat to other farm
crops have been, at least until re-
cently, out of their normal align-
ment.

Probable fimits of acreage for
wheat production in these two prov-
inces and the potential yield were
then outlined. Believing it quite in-
correct to assume that there are
still yast areas of virgin soil to be
taken up, Dr. MacGibbon pointed out
that the Saskatchewan C i

beautiful—d the building
as fast as they can. The cathedral
was built in commemoration of the
retreat of Napoleon from Moscow. It
held, in its prime, ten thousand wor-
shippers. Today ten thousand ex-
worshippers are busily removing the
last trace of its existence.

Fifteen thousand will find places in
the big auditorium. A further six
thousand can listen to speeches in
the smaller hall, besides there is to
be a series of smaller rooms, com-
mittee rooms, refreshment rooms and
laboratories.

After the general specifications had
been completed, a competition was
called to enable all architects to sub-
mit designs. The competition is still
in progress and it is understood high~-
ly satisfactory sketches have been re-
ceived both from Russian and from
foreign architects.

The acoustic properties of the main
halls are to be in the hands of a
group of Americans.

‘ Empire Cabinet

Believe Move Would Be a Valuable

Institution At the Present Time

London newspapers have suggested
an Empire cabinet, comprising a
representative of each dominion and
two o> three British statesmen, would ~
be a’ valuable institution at the pres-
ent time. ¥

The newspapers reached this con-
‘clusion in editorials which discussed
j the appointment of Rt. Hon. Stanley

on Immigration of 1930 examined the
question of available Jands and
estimated that the remaining area of
arable soil in that province
not exceed 12 million acres, and that
it would require many years to bring
this land under cultivation. Assum-
ing this figure correct and computing
from Saskatchewan's record crop
of 321 million bushels of wheat in

could ,

| Melbourne Bruce, assistant treasurer
of Australia, as “minister represent-
ing the commonwealth” at London,
England.

Sir John Marriott, noted constitu-
tional authority, in an interview said
he hoped Mr. Bruce would remain a
member of the Australian cabinet
| during: his stay in London. He sug~-
| gested the addition of Hon. G. How-
;ard Ferguson, Canadian High Com-

Unripe apples were recently ex- sands of letters Henry Ford receives |
posed to a 1,500-watt electric lamp go through the pulp mill for conver-
for five days, and scientists watched sion into cardboard which is used to

bias seaming, so entirely
']Jending the figure graceful height and
| youthfulness.

The original carried out the chic
idea of black and white in a soft can-
ton crepe.

Sheer woollens are also suitable.

Style No. 842 is designed in sizes
16, 18, 20 years, 36, 38, 40 and 42
inches bust. Size 16 requires 314
yirds of 39-inch material with %
yard of 35-inch contrasting.

Spring is the most important, the
most colorful season in Fashions. All
the more reason why you should have
an authentic guide, such as our new
Fashion Magazine, to show you the
way in design, colors, etc. Of course,
there are styles for afternoons, for
stouts, for home wear, lingerie, chil-

itely on the list of Canada’s domestic-
ated fur-bearers, and Winnipeg is the
first city in North America to stage
an annual show—the recent exhibi-
tion of the Canadian Fitch Breeders’
Association being the pioneer event of
its kind on the continent. The ani-
mal is’ reported to be a native of Asia
and Eastern Russia, but it thrives
well in Manitoba, where climatic and
other conditions are to its liking.
Prize-winning fitch from the Edin-
burgh =xhibition and from the Inter-
nation! Fur Show at the Crystal Pal-
ace were on view in Winnipeg.

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1S i |wealth was to put rich people to
“Goodness, I believe my hair is be- aaehin siectmacate that property,
ginning to fall out.”—Esquella, Bar-}

eelona. Yugo-Slavia may limit its lumber
is Ww. N. U. 1930 ou

the dey t of the red color on wrap the smaller parts of his auto-

1928 from 46 million acres of c= atonaré Rt. Hon. J. G. Coates,
pRe Reet pared }

cupied farm land he showed a prob-|yyinister of Public Works for New
SMe mosximund yield of 405 million | Zealand, and General Jan Christian
bushels or 85 million additional from | Smuts, leader of the opposition in the
the 12 million acres yet to be added. | South African House of Assembly, to

the fruit.

Present occupied farm lands in
Alberta amount to 29 million acres.

mobiles.

Recent surveys show there is an out-

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side possibility of seven million acres
capable of being used for wheat pro-
duction in the Peace River country.
Of this about 60 per cent. it is
estimated, can be used for wheat
production. Consequently the largest
wheat crop in Alberta to date, name-
ly 171 million bushels may, by the
same rough methods applied to Sas-
katchewan, be raised by 40 million
bushels, making a total for all the
provinces of between 670 and 700
million bushels.

Factors in support of a
figure than this were outlined by
|pr. MacGibbon, among which were
the use of fertilizers to increase
| yields, mechanized farming methods
| reducing areas needed for feed crops
| and releasing of land for wheat,
price relationship favoring produc-
|tion of other cereals and increasing
|wheat, and the work of the plant
| breeder who may produce wheats cap-
| able of developing on soils now deem-
|ed sub-marginal. On the contrary
Manitoba is on the downward trend,
large areas in Saskatchewan and
Alberta now used for wheat produc-
|tion do not produce wheat of the
highest quality, and as these two
provinces pass out of the pioneer
|stage farmers will cease to de-
jvote these lands to wheat, but to

larger

INSTP.SroR!

NERVOUS PUPIL: “W-why the rope?”
“Safety First, Sir. If I was to knock you
"window there, it'd be a nasty drop down into the area!” i | Wabre Jakob, Berlin.

| mixed farming for which they are
through the} technically suitable.
After Alberta and Saskatchewan

|

form the nucleus of a “real Imperial
executive,”

One Explanation

Teacher: “Why did Joseph's broth+
er put him in the pit?”

Boy: “Because he had on a coat
of many colors, sir.’’

Teacher: “What had that got to do
with it

Boy: “Please, sir, if he'd had on a
dress suit they would have put him in
the stalls.”

Nearly two tons of copper coins
were collected by Cambridge, Eng-
land, students in a one-day drive for
funds for ex-soldiers.

Spain plans an extensive public
works and construction program.

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Lady: “I would like to see an evé-

ning dress that would suit me.”
Salesman; “So would I, madam.”—«