ence wien “e them across, ABBOTSFORD, SUMAS AND MATSQUI NEWS ey Te Geld Tysncl Under The English Channel Is Again Receiving Serious Consideration ; ‘e Several times in the last half cen- Women and the Senate tury has the proposal to bulid a tun- uel under the English Channel been Will Make» Application For Leave mooted it was explained| 3 application to the Privy Council, that the military reasons for refusing| which was not meant to interfere permission were based on the possl- 4 with the “means devised by the Can- adian Government but is taken in or- i der to obtain definitely an interpre- | tation of the word ‘person’ in Sec- | tion 24 of the Act.” bility that Great Britain might be in- vaded and captured and that the vi torious enemy would demand posse sion of the tunnel as part of the spoils of war. This seemed far-fetched, for it seemed unlikely that -if England | were really under the iron heel of an invader she would worry much about what happened to the tunnel. A few years ago Marshal Foch was reported to have said that if the tun- nel had been in existence in 1914, the war might easily have been averted. Undoubtedly if it had not been aveit-_ ed it would have been greatly short- ened, and in the course of the strug- gie the tunnel would have paid for itself many times over. In the event of another European war with Eng- land involved as an ally of France, the possession of the tunnel would prove of incalculable value in trans- porting troops and supplies, and in avoiding the hazards of ferrying hazards which are bound to increase as the airplane multiplies and becomes more effec- tive as a military weapon. But it is not hecause of its service in a future war that the tunnel fs now being ad- vocated, but as a means of swifter communication between the British Isles and the ccntinent of Europe. Italy, Belgium and Switzerland are all as anxious as France to see the work approved and construction be- gun. They look into the future and see trains running every half hour between Paris and London, spec’al through trains from Scotland and Southern France, and perhaps lafer a tube in which motor traffic can pass under the sea floor from one country to another in half an hour. The chen- nel passage is notoriously a bad one, | and its perils have kept thousands of | people from enjoying’ a visit to the Continent and intimidated equal rumbers of Europeans from visiting the British Isles. The only inter-! ests that would seem to be adversely affected by a channel tuminel are the shipping interests, and this would ap- ply only to the passenger service. Tafont iS T= Canada Owns 50 Per Cent. Of Timber The people of Canada, through} their Federal and Provincial Govern-- ments, still own outright about 50 - per cent. of the total standing timbe this, however, consists of the less val- vable stands. New Sports Type | It is effectively interpreted in ma- rine silk crepe with front closing ves- tee with rolled collar, and pointed cuffs of blue and white silk pique | with diagonal stripes. The skirt shows attractive front fulness in plaits at each side with inverted plait at centre. It’s a sports dress that meets the demands for every type of woman, and is designed in sizes 16, , 18, 20 years, 36, 38, 40, 42 and 44 j inches bust, and~ only requires 3% yards of 40-inch material with % {yard of 40-inch contrasting. Sheer | woollen with silk crepe; printed and | Plain silk erepe, shantung, washable The man who tackles a business for which he is not fitted is apt to find it more troublesmoe and vexa- tious than profitable. } vestee, crepe satin with dull surface, and printed and plain linen are prac- | tical combinations for Style No. 222. | Pattern price 25 cents in stamps or coin (coin preferred). | general silk crepe in pastel shade with white | Grain Storage Capacity Has Been Greatly Increased During Year One hundred*and eight new eleva- tors were built at country points on the C National ys this year, according to T. P, White, Super- intendent of Car Service for the Western Region of the Company. These provide an additional storage capacity of 3,566,000 bushels, divided among the Prairie Provinces as fol- lows: Manitoba, 21 elevators with 744.000 bushels; Saskatchewan, 18 elevators with 546,000 bushels; Al- berta, 69 elevators with 2,276,000 bushels. The capacity of all elevators at the Canadian head of the lakes, namely, Fort William and Port Arthur, Ont., during the crop season, 1927-28, was 72,510,000 bushels. With new eleva- tors and additions to existing eleva- tors, the capacity for this year’s erop at those ports will be 86,000,000 bushe's in eleyator space, The lake- head is the largest grain receiving terminal in the world. On the Pacific Coast, namely at Vancouver, Victoria, New Westmin- ster and Prince Rupert, the capacity of the elevators last year was 9,795,- 000 bushels. This Capacity will be in- creased this year by 14,175,000 bush- els, an increase of 4,380 000 bushels. The Dominion Government, under the jurisdiction of the Board of Grain Commissioners for Canada, operates interior storage elevators at Calgary, Edmonton, Moose Jaw and Saska- toon, with a combined capacity of 12,000 000 bushels. There are also pri- vate elevators doing a storage and mixing business in the Calgary, Ed- monton," Moose Jaw, Saskatoon and Winnipeg Districts, with a capacity of 11,192,000 bushels. The total stor- age capacity may be summed up in this way: Bushels Head of Lakes ...... '86,000 000 Pacific Coast . - 14,175,000 Government Elevators 12,000,000 County Pleyators - 80,000,000 Private Elevators .... 11,192 000 203,367,000 Grand Total Ontario Wheat Pool Close Of First Year Of Operation, Finds Feeling Of Elation With the recent mailing of cheques to the 7,000 growers who supplied 1,750,000 bushels of wheat, the On- tario wheat pool closed its first year of operations. The management ex- presses gratification at the prices se- cured. “We feel,” said H. B. Clemes, manager, “that Ontario wheat for the first time, both pool and non-pool, has been so'd within a reasonable parity with Western wheat’—yielding members a gross return of _$ & for the higher grades of red winter, and $1.30%4 on white and mixed wheats. Jennie: “Dick didn't blow his brains out when you rejected him. He came round and proposed to me.” Jeanette: “Then he must have got rid of them some other way.” The Y: )i sacred ip bird (above), has been presented to the Canadian National Exhibition for exhibition in the poultry department. Frank M. Johnston, director of the poultry department, is seen holding this bird which has a tail fifteen feet! in length. New Municipal Hospitals Twenty Hospitals In Rural Alberta Now In Operation With the building of the new $60,- 000 forty-bed municipal hospital at Grande Prairi®; the building of the mufhicipal hospital at Stettler for which tenders have been called, and the completion of smaller 14-bed hos- pitals at Vulcan, in the south, and Elk Point, in the northeast, the num- ber of municipal hospitals in Alberta will be brought up to twenty, accord- ing to Hon. George Hoadley, minis- ter of health. Mr. Hoadley has just received the Grande Prairie hospital vote, and is gratified to find that the district gave a majority of 107 over the Two-thirds vote required, the actual count being 1,463 for the hospital, and 678 against. Two scrutineers from Sex: smith, where some opposition to the new hospital was registered, conduct- ed the court. Vancouyer’s wheat shipments have’ risen from half a million bushels to over 70- million bushels in seven years. We suggest enc.osing 10 cents ad- ; ditional for a copy of our Fashion i Magazine. How To Order Patterns 175 McDermott Ave., Winnipeg Pattern NO Woy) sss ase “They say the god Janus has two faces,” “It must be a terrible job to wash| them every day.""—Moustique, Char-' lerol. wow wie. RIE oak Seton dol pret eng a es mein de | Address: Winnipeg Newspaper Union, | _SETTLER-MAKES GOOD In March, 1928, L. S. Gaspar arrived in Canada from England and was |placed by the colonization department of the Canadian National Raliways | more and better food and therefore, jin farm employment at Watson, Saskatchewan. He was so successful that | in July he was able to bring out his fiancee, Miss Lillian May Little, of Bris- tol, and they were married in Winnipeg on July 31st. Mrs. Gaspar will assist | | jUup land of their own. ” | Canada's Vast Says Latent Wealeh Of North] and Is Only Awaiting Development The Price Of Bread | Shews No Indication Of Any Imme-} diate Decrease The price of bread in Canada shows} no indication of any immediate de-| crease and depends not on the low wheat prices of the pool at present. but on the prices when the crop has] been harvested, said a prominent | Canadian milling authority in an in-| terview at Montreal. { The price of bread in Eng’and has, been steadily on the decrease since) Jast April and it is expectd that fur-| ther drop is imminent. The price | there now is 16 cents a loaf, a lower! cost to the consumer than has been reached for the last five years. The reason for this, it was explained, is partly due to the crops this year in the Argentine and depends in a les- ser degree on those of Australia. Moreover, Engiish importers of wheat and flour buy ‘from hand to mouth” and do not lay up a long sup- ply for future use. They are enabled to do this due to the availability of newly harvested crops at all times of the year. Sy It is natural that when the crop is harvested and the markets flooded that the prices will decrease. This| is the difficulty. The Canadian buy- er has purehased at a higher price. \ The level to which the price falls following the harvest is below the price he must ask m order to profit. Therefore, with the present market very low, bread here must remain at its present price level because the wheat purchasers still have quanti- ties of this commodity on hand that they hought at higher pPices. _ Foolish Rumors Denied Wheat Pool Officials Say That Carry- Over This Year No Larger Than Last Statements emanating from vari- ous sources to the effect that the wheat pool had an enormous carry- over from the 1927 crop and was in a “blue funk” because of the large volume of new crop to he delivered within the next few months, were characterized as “ridiculously inac- curate” at the headquarters of the Alberta wheat pool, _ Officials stated that the estimates of the wheat pool carry-over had been placed by certain newspapers as being anything up to seventy million bushels. As a matter of fact the wheat pool carry-over this year, they said, would not be any larger than that of last year, which was in the neighborhood of ten million bushels, There was a possibility that it would be less than the*latter figure. “It is true that the Canadian wheat crop will he large this year,” headquarters of the pool at Calgary stated, “but such far-fetched. esti- mates as that of 700,000,000 bushels, which was recently wired from Win- nipeg to Chicago are entirely uncall- ed for and do a great deal of damage. As a matter of fact, the crop may not exceed that of last year and out- rageous estimates only tend to lower prices,” officials said. Headquarters stated that the pool handled last year’s crop, in spite of the damaged condition of a large portion of it, in a capable and effi- cient manner. There were no grounds for the belief that it would not han- dle the forthcoming crop @n an even more efficient way. Penalty ‘For Drunken Drivers No Quarter To Be Given In hres Attorney-General Has Ruled Drunken drivers will be given no quarter in criminal prosecution, Hon. W. H. Price, attorney-general for On- tario, has ruled. The practice, once common, of laying charges of reck- less driving in cases of drunkenness The Canadian Club was addressed” on Friday by the autocrat of a land more than half as large as the Unit- ed States, rich beyond all telling in both precious and base metals, in coal, in oil and in timber, its land areas prolific in animals cad in val- uable furs, its waters teeming with. fish and the mammals that prey on them. For when the Hon. Charles Stewart goes up into the higher fif- ties of latitude he becomes lord of all he surveys. Holding the dual port- folios of the Department of the In- terior and the Department of Mines, and also being Superintendent of General Affairs, he is the real gov- ernor of the northern and ldrger part of the Dominion of Canada. Over all. this vast region, by far the greater: extent of which is virtually unex- plored, into which only here and there bas the surveyor driven his stakes, and where the voyageur may travel hundreds of miles along mighty- Streams without seeing the smoke of any camp fire but his own, Mr. Stew- art, as he told the CGanadian Club,-- has complete control. It is little wonder that such an Em- pire fires the imagination of its rul- er. With rapid phrases Mr. Stewart sketched the wealth of natural re- sources awaiting development in Can- ada’s great northland, far beyond the the frontier of the more or less set- tled belt, three hundred miles wide, that parallels the boundary line. He took time to glance at this latter and to observe that, even there, the possibilities of development of a vast part of its natural resources were but little realized, and most inadequately estimated. But it was evident that his heart was in the north, that his eyes were set on the treasure hidden in the great pre-Cambrian shield, stretching from the region south of James Bay to Portland Canal. He talked of pulp and paper manufacture, and of water powers and electric de- velopment, as well, and his implicat- tion throughout was that these, like mining, despite the enormous advanc- es made during the last few years, were still in their early stages in Canada. His message was plainly directed to the young men of Canada. It was not “Go West” but “Go North.” Above all it might be read as an in- direct exhortation not to go south, not to the leave the best young man's country in the world on the eve of an era of great material progress. It is sometimes said that the big oppor- tunities have gone, that there are no More openings through which a young man without influence or money may win his way to great achievement. It is not true. Twenty years hence the youth of that day will look back on this period and wisn they had been born early enough to take advantage of the chances that some of their fathers’ contemporaries were! bold enough to seize. To the boys of this generation Canada’s north should be what California was to the boys of eighty years ago, and what the Yu- kon was within recent memory—the land of adventure where wealth awaits him who can win it.—Vancou- ver Star. To Investigate Forage Conditjons A botanical survey of parts of Wood Buffalo Park,. near Fort Smith, Northwest Territories, will be made this summer by officers of the National Museum, Ottawa. The forage plants and range condi- tions in certain areas of the park will be investigated with the co-operation of the North West Territories and ener Branch of the Department of the Interior, area. which administers this Canada’s net debt was decreased by $87,000,000 ‘as on March 1, 1928. Eighty-two per cent, is held in Can- was severely condemned by the at- torney-general recently. A conviction for being drunk in charge of a car will mean jail without the option of a fire, but for reckless driving a fine alone may hé imposed, he said. H The minimum penalty for a first| offence of drunken driving is seven! days, and the maximum thirty. For a} second offence the sentence is not| less than three, and for snbseqeunt | offences not less than three months} | nor more than a year, i rere ead | The Jack of nourlshment in the| Equatorial and Arctic zones cache those people short. People who live} in the fertile temperate zones have} grow taller, | | | Occasionally, says the Atchison her husband in his farm work at Watson and next year they intend to take! Globe, there is more brains in the back seat than at the wheel. ada. Husband: “The most stupid men marry the handsomest women.” Wife: “You flatter me!"—Bues ‘Humor, Madrid