3 £ ABBOTSFORD, SUMAS AND MATSQUI NEWS nine ain, Salata aaa ae € Progress In New Gold Fields Largo Amount Of Work Done On Labrador Claims Remarkable progress has been made already in the Labrador gold- fields, according to Hon. W. J. Walsh, Newfoundland's Minister of Agricul- ture and Mines, who has returned to St. Johns from the Lake Wabush dis- trict, He was accompanied on the expe- of Poker Hands a You can obtain a pair of first quality Ladies ‘ pure thread Silk Stockings, 45 gauge. Combined with excellent wearing qualities, these Stockings have the dull, sheer appearance which is so de- sirable, and they are obtainable dition by Dr. O. K. Snelgrove, geolo- gist, and J. W. Foote, mining engin- eer. All three seemed enthusiastic about the future of Labrador. They reported that of the 22 con- mee World Whew Situation People who had the privilege of listening to Premier Bennett’s speech Before the members of the Montreal Board of Trade at the banquet tendered to him on his return from attending the World's Economic Conference, and the Wheat Conference of the leading wheat exporting and importing coun- tries which followed the larger world gathering, undoubtedly learned many things about world matters, and especially wheat, which were entirely new to them and must have impressed them with the magnitude of the problem which now confronts Canada in disposing of its chief article of export,— wheat. S Prior to the Great War, Canada was rapidly forging ahead to first place among the wheat exporting nations of the world. Gradually the United States, which had been the great exporter, was relinquishing her position as a wheat exporter and more and more rapidly approaching the stronger economic position where her production of wheat would not be more than sufficient to meet her own domestic requirements. In fact, it was confident- ly stated by persons in authority that in a few years the United States would be a wheat-importing rather than a wheat-exporting nation. Canada, Australia and the Argentine found their markets in Great Britain and the principal countries of continental Europe, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Holland, Belgium, all of which countries took large quantities of imported wheat either directly from the country of origin, or indirectly though the London and Livepool markets. Then came the Great War. Wheat was in greater demand than ever. Europe was willing to pay almost any price to get it. To meet the demand of the Allied nations it was urged as a patriotic duty upon the people of Canada, equal almost to enlisting in the army, to raise wheat and more wheat. Greater production of food-stuffs was the slogan, and the most intensive organization was directed to bringing about that larger production. The United States again turned to quota pro- duction of wheat because of the prevailing high,prices and market. | granted by the Newfound- land government since the Labrador, Was opened to prospectors last fall,) nearly one-half are being actively in- | vestigated by field parties. The Lake | Wabush camp, which is reached after |@ 200-mile aeroplane trip from Seven | Islands, Quebec, had a population of 39 when they left. Mr. Walsh and his party spent a | week in the interior. They said flies were unusually scarce. Unsettled |weather conditions had interfered | Somewhat’with the work of the field | parties but despite this a remarkable | amount of work had been accomplish- ed. in the latest shades. Sizes 9,944, 10. ing your own with Turret fine cut, as you can make more than 50 cigarettes from a 20c. package. | pays to “Ron Your Own” with TURRET FINE CUT CIGARETTE TOBACCO SAVE THE POKER HANDS Im; iperial Tobacco Company of Canada, Limited There is genuine economy in roll- y % oaulits ert If GO oe 8h, as ELE TE; ee A Pe) ASHAMED OF HER ~ FIGURE Husband Persuaded Her | To Take Kruschen Trade, recently took first, to Paris | By following her husband's advice, | 224 won te, SAA Hee rUah pro; this woman made a tremendous im-| totype kilogram. |provement in her appearance—she| This is Britain's official copy of actually took off 32 lbs. of her excess | the “international standard kilo- | yaaa et of her experience, she/ gram,” on which all metric and scien- “A year ago I was troubled with | tific measures of weight are based. Prototype Kilogram Valuable Only About Thirty Standard Meas- ures Are In Existence A secret mission in the charge of a high official of the London Board of The war taught the nations of Hurope the lesson of the importance of being able to teed their people in times of war or other emergency. Germany| learned the lesson, Italy learned it, France learned it, and, while not directly involved in the war, Spain learned it throngh the high price she had to pay) for wheat and other imported food commodities. , ner and other) At Sevres, which is the home of the complaints. And I got so fat that) international committee of weights I was ashamed of my figure. I was|and measures, the “British proto- persuaded by my husband to take), - Kruschen Salts. Before I began, 1|‘YPe” Was compared with the inter- weighed 161 lbs. After taking Krus-|04tional standard. | chen for a short time the rheumatism These comparisons have been made Freight Car Was Elusive Ex-Sergeant Proved He Did Abandon His Post An ex-sergeant brought an atmos- phere of comic relief into the mili- tary tribunal at Paris, which is still hearing appeals from war-time court- martial sentences when he success- fully appealed against a sentence passed in 1918 of 15 days’ imprison- ment for twice abandoning his post. Sergeant Nigon was ordered to es- cort a freight car. 5,000 Not Chance Meeting Recalls ‘i Ship Inspector Meets Sailor He Say From Torpedoed Vessel A thrilling rescue in the days ¥ British ships carried on a h trade along routes infested — mines and German “subs was called at Montreal harbor when tain R. H. Monks, deputy port ¥ den, boarded the steamer ‘Clan pin” in the course of an inspe for the night he went to sleep, when he awoke up the box-car had disappeared. The railway authorities assured him §as masks. When the convoy stopped who asked if he and Captain Monks found himself A ted by a of the crew remembered h to recall who the man was. 7 man then proceeded to identify For a time after the war, while the necessary work of reconstruction of was less painful, my nerves got only once before since 1889. self as the man whose life the their countrysides and industrial towns and cities was under way, the coun- tries of Europe still offered a good market for imported wheat and at a high price. But the governments of these countries organized to raise more wheat, meet their own requirements and thus safeguard themselves against | starvation on the one hand, ow the possibility of being required to pay ex-) cessively high prices on the other hand in the event of a further war or, world emergency. They offered bonuses to their farmers to produce wheat, they fixed uneconomic high price for domestic grown Wheat, they imposed) prohibitive tariffs on imported wheat, they arbitrarily governed all impor-| tations, and fixed minimum quantities of imported wheat that might be used) by millers and in the making of bread. Premier Bennett outlined the effect of these things in his speech. The four great wheat exporting nations are Canada, Argentine, Australia and the United States, the chief of which is Canada, while the great wheat importing; i | _ Nations are generally listed as being Great Britain, France, Germany, Italy,| Spain. But, Premier Bennett pointed out, whereas European countries in) 1930 produced approximately 900,000,000 bnushels of wheat, in 1933, just) three years later, they produced 1,220,000,000 bushels, an increase of| 320,000,000 bushels. Even more illuminating was Premier Bennett's statement that this year} France will produce between 75,000,000 and 100,000,000 more bushels of) wheat than Canada; Italy will produce 75,000,000 bushels more than Canada; | Germany and Spain combined will produce 125,000,000 bushels more than | Canada, These countries were the former buyers of our Canadian wheat; now) they are producing more than Canada. Mr. F. E. Murphy, who was the United States Government delegate to} the wheat conference in London, gives the wheat production of these four} European countries this year as 1,015,000,000 bushels, against Canada Sy estimated crop of 300,000,000 bushels, Argentine’s 220,000,000 bushels, | Australia’s 174,000,000 bushels, and United States’ 499,000,000 bushels. In other words, these four European countries will produce almost as much) stronger, and my step lighter. Then I} i Kueaee PRRBERC aLeHEeS RAN cinput an international and the British good, so I persevered with it and got | ilograms were weighed against each my weight down to 129 Ibs., a reduc- Other on a balance sensitive to a tion of 32 lbs. of unwanted fat. I am | hundredth part of a milligram. There not pOnat aE when I say ee I feel | are 28,350 milligrams to an ounce. younger an: more active, lave Much better figure and am healthier|, The prototype is made of a plat- than I have been for years."—(Mrs.) ‘num alloy called irido-platinum. In vOS: |spite of the high resistance of this Kruschen is a blend of six mineral’ metal to external influences the Bri- salts which assists the internal or- tish kilogram could have changed its ans to throw off each day those we waste products that would otherwise | Weight by a few hundredths of a accumulate in the form of fatty milligram or so. If minute changes tissue, | occur they are reported to parlia- ment. Founded Centuries Ago Plans for the journey were kept | For 1,700 Years | iridio-platinum is worth several hun- | In this year of céntenaries, tricen- | dred pounds sterling as metal alone, tenaries and bicentenaries all over the | while a “prototype kilogram” is na- world, the Bavarian boosters of Weis-| turally worth far more than its price senburg are Inviting all and sundry to | as metal, for there are only about 30 celebrate with them the 1,700th anni- | in existence—one for each of the prin- versary of their city’s founding. | cipal nations. It was back in 233 that the hardy local tribesmen first broke through the fortified military road built by) Military Command Changes the Romans, destroyed the citadel of | Pei a Sah | Toronto Officer Goes To Victoria To Biricianis and built with its stones a} Take Over Military District castle called the Wizinbure. Frag-| ments of the city wall erected at that| Major-General E.O- Ashton, SMG; V.D., district officer I$ secret lest bandits might attempt to|the door. He declared he did not History Of Bavarian City Dates Back steal the prototype. A kilogram of’ ap, it would come back. It turned up two days later. He was then told the train would proceed again next morning but when he looked for it again it had dis- appeared. Eventually he discovered it had arrived at its destination with- out the loss of a single gas mask. In reply to questions he said he did not sleep in the box-car because a soldier was only allowed to sleep in a horse car during the war. If he would have been run over. He did not get inside because if he had done so they would not have been able to shut andon his post because a post is a fixed point and the box-car was a movable object. “It was a phantom car,” he said. “It kept disappearing.” He was acquitted and the sentence quashed. Air Permeated With Gas Carbon Monoxide From Cars Menace To Human Life Subjected to a “gas-attack” of in-) creasing from had slept next to it on the track he), treal port official had saved qu the Great War when Captain ship had been torpedoed off coast. About to jump into remaining lifeboat the shi, heard groans from some place on | deck. Returning he found a mem of the crew, badly wounded. the man up, Captain Monks him to the lifeboat only a mint fore a terrific explosion sent tl to the bottom. * After two days on open were picked up by an Ameri stroyer and taken to an where the wounded man was gi treatment. Has Radio Wave Peins ee por Tacoma Dairyman Is Obliged 1 Ground Himself To Obtain Relief : Scientists have started an int t. gation into the unique case of tin Bodker, dairyman in the ' district, who suffers intense from radio waves Unless he ground himself. x is Tacoma and Seattle specialists have d they were baffled. ah Bodker some years ago began of large cities } wheat this year as the four chief exporting nations. In addition, the Danu-| me, with 31 towers and a number CS irae district “No. 2, ‘Toronto, fa bian countries, gary, ia, Jugo-Slavia and Bulgaria,—will pro- » duce in the neighborhood of 327,000,000 bushels. Russia is steadily increasing ber wheat production and, while unquestionably her own people need it, the Soviet authorities nevertheless export large quantities in order to finance necessary purchases abroad. In the face of this situation, brought about, so Premier Bennett declared, by a condition of things expressed in one little four-letter word, Fear,—fear of starvation in the event of another war which contingency is still hanging over Europe, and fear of ransom, or, in other words, of being again com- Pelled to pay excessively high prices for imported wheat in order to stave off starvation,—the World wheat conference entered into an agreement which Provides on the one hand for a limitation of exports of wheat from the chief exporting nations and a reduction in the acreage sown to wheat by the four largest exporters of wheat, and, on the other hand, for no further increase in production by European countries, except Russia. for a removal of some of the restrictions now imposed by European countries designed to reduce the consumption of wheat by the use of substitutes, and for an eventual re- duction in the tariffs now imposed on imported wheat when the price reaches @ certain stipulated figure. Admittedly this agreement is in the nature of an experiment. Whether it will prove practical in actual operation remains to be seen, because there are many factors which enter into the calculation entirely beyond the control of man. However, the facts and figures here presented are undoubtedly of vital interest to the people of Western Canada and provide much food for serious thinking and planning on their part. “I seem to know you. Did I once{ Like America, Australia had mal lend you money?” cattle until European explorers came “Did you get it back?" there. Yes, “Then you don’t know me.” Paris plans to build many schools. Bowel Complaints of Children — During the Summer Months Mothers should look well after their children during the hot summer months. Despite all they can do the children may be seized, at any time, with diarrhcea, dysentery, summer complaint, or other forms of bowe trouble. There is a safe remedy in Dr. Fowler's Extract of Wild Strawberry; a remedy that has received the en- dorsement of legions of Canadian mothers during the 88 years it has been on the market. Don’t experiment, Get “Dr. Fowler's” and be on the safe side. Manufactured only by The T, Milburn Co., Lid, Toronte, Ook - | big gates, still remain. The Ellinger | gate, in particular, is considered one |of the finest medieval structures of lits kind in all Germany. Miniature Paintings Microscope Needed To See Fine Work Of English Artist Painter of miniatures so small that | 20 of them will fit on a postage |stamp, Stanley A. Burchett, of Lon- don, formerly of the Grenadier Guards, claims that they are the about an eighth of a postage stamp queen. One is a seascape showing a sailing vessel at dawn, and the other a still-life of marigolds in a blue vase. To appreciate the pictures fully it is | necessary to use a microscope. Man; smallest pictures in the world. Two, | in size, have been purchased by the/| y | leaving shortly for Victoria where he will take over military district No. 11, which includes the province of British Columbia and the Yukon Territory. Brig.-General _T. Vv. Anderson, D.S.O., district officer commanding military district No. 10, with head- quarters at Winnipeg, replaces Ma- jor-General Ashton at Toronto, and it is understood Brigadier W. B. Bee- man, D.S.O., whose appointment to command military district No. 11 be- came effective a short time ago, will succeed Brig.- |go to Winnipeg to | General Anderson. Long Trip For Biplanes British Machines To Fly 12,000 Miles | Over Africa may some day “require the wearing Suffer intense pain. Physicians coul of gas-masks in self-defence,” says find nothing wrong with him, but the Sir W. I. DeC. Wheeler, medico-soci-| pains much like rheumatism, per- find it difficult to believe that the| Three large British troop-carrying miniatures are real water-colors| biplanes are detailed to make later painted with a brush. this year the longest and most ambi- ——— tious formation flight yet contemplat- Dentistry In Olden Times ed over the breadth of the African Even the ancient Egyptian had to|continent—a journey of 12,000 miles be told to “open wide’ 'and probably | from Cairo in the east to Bathurst had trouble with his false teeth drop-| and Dakar in the west. Their route ping out occasionally, according to Dr. | g0es south as far as Khartum and J. K. Lowry, McGill University apex} thane westwards over French Equa- cialist in his branch of dental science. | torial Africa, Nigeria, the Gold and He told of dental work done by the| Ivory Coasts, Sierra Leone, the Egyptians as early as 3400 B.C, in| Gambia and Senegal. They will fly a talk before a local service club, He | over thousands of square miles of ter- also described known traces of dentis-|titory which were unexplored less try among the Greeks, Etruscans and| than a generation ago. the Romans. ———__— France has ruled that motion pic- Japanese tea exported during 1932| ture films in foreign languages can showed an increase of 4,072,000 | be shown in only 15 theatres in the pounds over 1931, country. Z More than 250,000 persons are now} A new high-speed passenger and employed by the British post office! mail ‘plane in Germany has a speed the American College of Surgeons. motor-car upon human in Dublin. Permeation of the atmosphere with gases from autos accounts for an un- estimated portion of the annual death rate, he said. “The blood of traffic policemen has been found to be charged with car- bon at a high tion, and the blood of those who con- stantly motor in cities must be sim- ilarly polluted.” An Interesting Swap United States Museums Trade Specli- mens Of Extinct Birds The Carnegie Museum now has a great auk and the National Museum at Washington has a cahow—most of a cahow anyway—and therein lies a tale of barter among scientists. For one let of a ologist, who is an honorary fellow of sisted from time to time. ee Light on the unseen effects of the! water faucet while suffering pail . life was and they immediately vanished. When thrown by Sir William at the meet-|he took his hand off the faucet th ing of the British Medical Association Pains returned. Bodker wrapped One day he put his hands on ae cane with copper wire, bored a hole through the floor of his living and “grounded” himself. . The case was brought to the atten- tion of Los Angeles physicians by one of Bodker’s relatives living there, and Bodker was persuaded to go to that city. A Human Loud Speaker Official possessor of the toughest lungs in the United Kingdom, W. B. Anglis, town crier of Marlborough, Wiltshire, England, aged 63, won the championship from twelve rivals in the National Town-Criers annual con- test at Lyme Regis. The three judges sat in a tent 100 yards from the yel- Z ling contestants. Commodity prices in Belgium are increasing. ‘ ¥ great auk, the Carnegie Museum gave the National Museum a “practically complete skeleton of a cahow. Both the great auk and the cahow are—or were—birds, now extinct. The auk, a native of Bermuda familiar to crossward puzzle people, was a very large bird which moved around at night and buried itself in the sand by day. The cahow, a pretty large bird too, stayed in the far north. Tornadoes are the swiftest of winds, travelling as fast as 400 or 500 department of 226 miles. miles an hour, —