Hardy Norse Explorers Make Trip To Barren Lands On The Coppermine River Waking the dis- to the turbed only at long intervals by white | Water through a rock wall of an-ele- ted lake from whence, looking men over the centuries, two young a northward toward the Arctic, the Norwegians — Hjalmar Nelson-Dale . ree peaceful Coppermine meandered and Helge Ingstad—are today, if all | slowly through a broad plain dotted has gone well with them, beating | with herds of caribou, to the shores their dangerous way back across the of the Northern Sea. barren lands from the headwaters of| It was in the summer of 1927 that the Coppermine River. | the two young Norwegians—Nelson Only twice in the last 160 years, so; Dale was born in Canada, and so is far as is known, have white men Norse-Canadian—left Edmonton for penetrated to the source of the river | Fort Resolution, there to start out in the mysterious hinterland through! on the first leg of their hazardous which the Coppermine River flows. _| journey. its discovery was made in 1772 by} In July, 1927, they wrote to O. C. Samuel Hearne, following an earlier Boness, Edmonton lawyer, that they attempt in 1769, when the desertion, were leaving Resolution—last onit- ofhis Indians compelled abandon- Post of civilization—in a few days inent of the effort. |and that if all went well they hoped Hearne’s successful expedition of to reach the Coppermine river in the 1770-1772 was marked by the massa- fall of that year, spending a year in tre—which he was unable to prevent! the “terra incognita,” and returning —of a peaceful Eskimo tribe by his to civilization by dog train. own Indians, and history has marked| The fall of 1928 should see the two that fateful spot on the map of the’ adventurers safely back provided Northland with the name of ‘Bloody they have met with no mishap. Walls,” the slaughter occurring close | Ingstad isa qualified attorney-at- by some falls on the Coppermine law in Norway and for some time River. |was correspondent for ‘Tidens Then in 1821 came the thrilling and/ Tegn,” the largest newspaper in that ill-fated Franklin expedition, which | country. P traversed 5,550 miles out and back | His partner has hunted and trap- across the barren lands from Hud-! ped in the north for some years and son Bay, to leave the bones of many went north with Ingstad.after a trip of its members lying in the inhospi- home to Norway in 1926-27. Hat: afl ot] table earth over which the survivors ; dragged their weary way. Neither adventurer apparently was Mh | Sma.c Sports Frocks Helping To How Canadian “Moth” planes are helping to fight wheat rust in the West is told in a statement made pub- lic by the Department of Agriculture, as follows: “It would be almost impossible to imagine two more widely separated things than an aeroplane and the rust which attacks our wheat. Yet we find the Royal Canadian Air Force co-operating with the Depart- ment of Agriculture through the Do- minion plant pathological laboratory at the Manitoba Agricultural College, Winnipeg, in the great work being done by Drs. D. L. Bailey and C. H. Goulden in studying and formulat- ing a plan of control for one of Can- ada's worst and most costly enemies. “The aeroplane has been extensive- ly used for the purpose of locating | diseased conditions in our forests, and also in dusting from the air for the control of the spruce budworm. The work differs considerably, however, in connection with wheat rust and consists mainly in the exposure of slides at different altitudes and in dif- ferent locations. These aeroplane ex- posures attemipt to collect from alti- tudes of from one to five thousand feet the date of the earliest appear- ance of rust spores, the region over which they first appear, the rate at which the spore content of the air in- The Duchess of York recently open- ed the new half-million dollar home for nurses at the Kingston and Dis- trict Hospital, Kingston Hill, Eng- land. She was photographed while strolling through the grounds after the ceremony, creases over various regions, the yvisi- | aware before he left that Mr. Blan- Fashioned Another 100 years almost elapsed chet had preceded them by three until, in 1924, G. H, Blanchet, of Otta- | years in their attempt to reach the wa, made his brilliant dash into the| Coppermine river head waters. At the youthful age of 42, Capt. 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Roosevelt Was bility of spores caught at these high- er altitudes, and the relation of ccr- tain) environmental and climatic fac- tors to the rate of development and spread of rust. Personality Can Be Changed Example Of What Person Can Do Personality is a strange thing. Sometimes I think we are born with Canadian “Moth” Planes Are Combat Spread Of Wheat Rust In West “The air force stations at Lac du Bonnet, Norway House, Cormorant Lake, and High River, have assisted in this work. Each station is supplied with tightly stoppered bottles con- taining wooden paddles to which are attached microscope “slides lightly smeared with vaseline. These slides sre exposed for 13 minutes of vary- ing altitudes, the slides replaced in the bottles and then returned to the Government laboratory at, Winnipeg. “In one instance at Lac du Bonnet &@ surprisingly high number of spores was caught on a slide, which seermed to indicate the plane at an altitude of 5,000 feet had travelled through a pocket or eddy of air where the con- centration of rust spores was very dense. Where the spores originated is speculative, but the fact that at the time threshing was being done at Morden, where there was a heavy lo- cal outbreak of rust seems to point to that district as the originating point. When the patchy nature of these outbreaks is considered, one is led to suspect that there may be some relation between these clouds or eddies of spores and localized heavy fleld infections. One can well imagine a rain washing down these Spores on a more limited area, where they would germinate and produce a heavy infection. “The Department of Agriculture has proved on several occasions the efficiency of the aeroplane in many lines of investigation, and the day may not be far distant when “Moths” will be common in our agricultural communities,” one special kind just as we are born with a certain nose and with hands whose finger prints are unlike any other in the world, and which can’t be changed. But, dn the other hand, if Theodore Roosevelt had allowed the personality he was born with to rule him, he would have gone through life a despondent anaemic individual with a spirit weighed down by the despair of tuberculosis. But he pulled himself up and out of it. Sometimes I%hink anybody can do the same TRANS-CANADA HIGHWAY Construction work on the last part of the trans-Canada highway, will be How To Order Patterns Address: Winnipeg Newspaper Union, 175 McDermot Ave., Winnipeg thing. And sometimes I think that Selfishness {s harder to cure even than a physical disease. started early next month. The finish of the last link between Revelstoke and Golden, B.C., will complete a motor highway across Canada from Halifax to Vancouver. The above illustration shows the route and indicates the por- | tion just being completed. placed on the retired list at his own request in recent navy changes, Build Mammoth Grain Elevator New Wheat Pool Elevator At Fort William Will.Be Most. Modern For the Continent The board of directors of the Sas- katcehwan Co-operative Wheat Pro- ducers, Limited, has awarded the contract for the erection of the super- structure of Pool Terminal No. 7, Porth Arthur, to the Barnett Mc- Queen Construction Company, Fort William, Ont. This new terminal elevator, which is being built by the Saskatchewan Wheat Pool, will be the most modern and the fastest terminal grain cleya- tor on the North American continent, according to C. D. Howe, of C. D. Howe & Co., cnosulting engineers, Port Arthur. It will have two stor- ages of 3,000,000 bushels each, in ad- dition to a work house with a capa- city of 900,000 bushels, and it will be able to take delivery of 390 cars of grain in ten hours, or 500 cars per day during the rush season. It will haye a shipping capacity of 150,000 bushels per hour, and a drying capa- city of 1,000 bushels per hour. Large Area Of Forest Land Of the total non-agricultural area of Canada about one-half can be made to produce timber crops if per- manently dedicated, protected, and managed to that end. Investigations show that the only economic use for one-third of the land area is in the growing of wood. a “Where do the old autos go?” “They don’t.” “Waiter, I am going to die. Bring me a bec?!” “Yes, sir. Light or dark ?"—Mous- tique, Charitroi, | years several Film Wild Game Life In Alberta Noted Hunter Will Spend Summer Months In Mountains Of Jasper Park The moving picture camera, and not the death spitting rifle, is the weapon of Major A. Radycliffe Dug- more, well known wild animal photo- grapher of England, who has reach- ed New York, after an extensive ex- pedition through the wilds of Africa, during the course of which he record- ed on film the habits of animals ranging from the nimble and elusive gazelle to the ponderous and fiery rhinoceros. To round off his experience of game photography on four conti- nents, Major Dugmore ig considering ip the coming on a two or three months’ Journey by pack horse through the mountains of Jas- per Park, Alberta, where he will be able to “shoot” «Rocky Mountain sheep, goat, caribou and bear. Major Dugmore will probably com- mence his journey from Berg Lake, at the foot of Mount Robson, 12,972, the highest peak in the Canadian Rockies. With him will be his wife and daughter, “Bams” Dugmore. The latter is as keen a camera enthusiast as her father. Since she has been fourteen she has been with him on his quest of game photography. Major Dugmore holds no brief for the slaughter of game with firearms. The camera, he states, offers better sport, provides more effective and durable trophies and demands great- er skill in stalking. Sending More Buffalo-North It is expected that some 1,100 head of buffalo, mostly year-olds, will he shipped from the Wainwright Paric, Alberta, early in June to the range in the far northern part of the proy- ince, where during the past three thousand head have been transferred. The former mon- Pattern No.... Town ... ——_—— : The cost may not make the man but the lawsuit makes the attorney. Mistress—It is very ungrateful of you to leave. Haven't we always treated you as one of the family? Servant—Yes. That is why I am Jeaving. He: No. Fortune has never knock- ed at my door, but his daughter often has, She:—His daughter? He: Yes—Miss Fortune. PRAISES CANADIAN HOSPITALITY Measuring the Rainfall One Inch Means Over 113 tons Of Water To the Acre You have often seen the statement that the rainfall during the past week fas been so many inches. Do you have an adequate idea of what this means? Few people have. You read in the weather bulletins that two or three Inches of rain some- times fall in a day, but these figures really convey very little information, and give no idea at all of the prodig- ality of nature. An acre contains 6,277,640 square inches of surface, and an inch of rain means, therefore, the same number of cubie inches of water. A gallon contains 27,727 cubic inches of water, and an inch of rainfall means 22,622 gallons to the acre, and, as a gallon of water weighs 101 Ibs., the rainfall on an acre is 226,220 lbs. Counting 2,000 Ibs. to/ the ton, an inch of rain Means over 113 tons per acre. How He Deciphered It Chemist Made Up Prescription From Badly Written Testimonial A young man was given a testi- monial so shockingly written that he was unable to decipher it, A friend suggested that he should take it to a chemist, for chemists are skilled men, having spent long lives decod- | ing what. doctors call handwritings. | So the testimonial was handed to a chemist. “What do you make of that?” ask- ed the young man. The chemist} glanced over it for a moment and | then disappeared behinf a screen. There was a subdued tinkle of glasses for a couple of minutes andj then he emerged. “I think you will} find that all right,” he said handing} over a bottle. “Half-a-crown, please!” \ Peggy: “Oh, mummy, may I go to the fancy-dress party as a milk- archs of the plains have increased so| Baron Perenyi, Minister of the In- rapidly in their sanctuary at Wain-| terior for the Republic of Hungary, | wright that their numbers have far| who visited the Hungarian settle- exceeded the carrying capacity of the; ments adjacent to the lines of the pasture in the park, | Canadian National Railways in West- ern Canada recently, expressed him- The average man's word is consid-| self as much impressed by the help ered as good as his bond—by aj/which Canadian-born citizens are stranger. | giving newly arrived Hungarians in | settling on the land and Senerally es- The proudest ina | tablish u es in Canada. Ww. N. 2 aes ful man’s life is when he tells Fatal “Canada is a place where anyone ! he got there, {can make an honest lving with hard maid?” “No, dear, you are too small.” Peggy: “Then why can't I go as a condensed milkmaid?” work,” His Excellency said. “All that has been said of Canada is true. It is a land of real opportunity and 2? shall certainly come back again where I find so many of my countrymen hap- | PY, contented and prosperous.” | the breath of my life.” | The photograph shows Baron } Fair One—‘Well, why don't Perenyi on the left and Albert Paizs, hold your breath?” noted Budapest editor on the right. | = Mr. Paizs visited Canada three years ago and published a book, “The Hun- garian in Canada,” which attzacted (Maany Hungarigns w Canada. Nervous Youth—“Darling, you are you! Blubber is now believed to be the! equipment that enables whales to withstand the pressure of great sea- i depths, | i; German Settler Booms Canada During Trip To Homeland Induces Thirty Young Men To Migrate To Dominion Carl Schulz, of Uckmark, Branden- burg, Germany, who came to Canada @ year ago and purchased 1,000 acres of unbroken land on the Canadian National Railways near St. Walburg, Saskatchewan, proved to be a good colonization agent for Canada. Fol- lowing his purchase he returned to Germany to settle matters regarding his estate there and while in his homeland he talked the gospel of Canadian opportunity. The result was that when he returned to Winni- ; Peg recently he brought with him thirty promising young men and ; more than one hundred are following ‘as soon as they can dispose of their |interests overseas. The twenty will work with Mr. Schulz until they are able to take up land of their own. Mr. Schulz says that a very heavy immigration to Canada from Ger- many can be looked for, starting next year. Thousands of young Germans are turning their eyes towards Can- ada and will come as soon as they ean dispose of their holdings in Ger- many. Johnny: “Is sister going to have all this?” Mother: “No, my darling, this is for you.” Johnny: “So little!” A Scotsman rang up a doctor in a state of great agitation, “Come at once,” he said, “ma wee bairn has swallowed a saxpence.” “How old is it?” asked the doctor. “1894.” “This is intolerable. I have found @ button in the soup.” “Lucky man. The management gives a class of brandy to whoever discovers a button in the soup.” — Buen Humor, Madrid.