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The Sylvan Lake News 1926-01-08 - 1938-12-29
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Aftermath Of War or People Is Seen tn Sad Lot Assyrian the While alc ships yeractes of ope conti manoeny: for po: the only work in which it can alts. nants of th During ans lent inst the noknowl- an peor the Assyri ald ain later thelr stian Lintry., iustrated when There how- ully om Traq ve thousand Assyrians e the But many were murder- ed and the rest found Conditions of living Intolerable, The responsibility lay with the to find this remnant of A nation a home. But the best that could be don and It isa hirt League sad reflection upon humanity was tract of malarial marshes in the Ghab district of Syria. Britain promised a large sum towards the cost of their settlement here, but when the French decided to relin- quish the Syrian mandate, the scheme fell down. To-day some nine thousand of these Assyrians without a home are drag- ging out a miserable existence on the banks of the Khabur, a tributary of the Euphrates in Northeast Syria. The rest must remain in Iraq. Those on the Khabur, however, are in little less satisfactory state than their brethren in Iraq. Last year there was a severe drought; their crops failed, their animals went short of pasture. The Syrian Government even refused them the right to plant nine acres of tobacco In this extremity they have appealed to the League. The responsibility rests with that body, with Britain and with Iraq. The dictates of humanity demand that immediate aid and a peaceful settlement must be effected without delay. Here is one of the minor, but not less grim and pitiful, aftermaths of war Montreal Star. Trains Timber Wolves Joe Laflamme Claims They Are Easy To Break To Harness Timber wolves up Gogama way in Ontario's northern sector and their) it was carried off by the Empress servers, apprentices and specialized cousins in Saskatchewan had best) Marie Louise which would explain) workers, it was indicated that Cana- be on their guard unless, of course, they want a taste of the bright lights and teeming traffic of Man- hattan. Towering Joe Lafiamme the man who's going to drive a team of tim- ber wolves down Broadway again was ready for the hunt he hopes will net him seven of the animals be- tween now and November. I did it before, says the 225- pound former Montreal policeman. proudly. I had a fine team of nine wolves and we exhibited at Madison Square Garden in 1926. When I mushed them down Broadway, thou- sands of people stood in the streets and cheered. Laflamme said he'll probably se- cure some of his new team in the same manner in which he got the old one trap the animals in specially padded beaver traps. He already knows of two wolves he expects to get in Saskatchewan, he said, and the others will probably be obtained around Gogama, where he has lived since 1920, Canvas harness was required for the team, Joe said. A wolf would chew a set of Jeather harness to shreds, he de- clared. One wolf T used as a lead would take a three-quarter-inch rope in his mouth, and without any exer- tion or strain on a muscle, would cut) it in two. He said he never had any particu- lar difficulty training the wolves, Dentist Goes To Arctic Dr. C. G. Ellis, fying dentist from Toronto, left Edmonton by aeroplane) for Aklavik, N.W.T., inside the Arctic circle, from which point he went to Old Crow, a mining settlement in northeastern Alaska. He will also visit every Anglican mission school in the western Arctic. There is a real sex distinction in Japan where the alphabet contains two sets of characters, one for men and another for women. ontinues tts departmental) attention to UNUSUAL birthday is one of the most colourful disturbance that this picture is worth Ground after he had fainted. Napoleon s Ring Lost For Over 100 Years Has Been Returned To France From Austria the Coronation Ring, has returned to France from Austria after its whereabouts had been unknown for over-100 years. i The ring is a large emerald held in place with eagle s claws, with a dove of peace beneath the canopy and crown suggestive of the insignia of the Holy Roman Empire, It is un- usually large, for a reason made clear by Gerard's picture at Mal- maison of the Emperor in his Corona- tion robes, in which he is clearly shown to be wearing it over thick white kid gloves. The ring was handed to the Em- peror at the Coronation service by) the Pope. Alter 1811 there was no further trace of it, and the pages of the inventory of the crown jewels on; which it should be described have been torn out. It is suggested that) its presence in Austria London Times, Great Opportunities Opportunity Knows no limits in democratic country like Canada. (This remark says the Oshawa Times is occasioned by the fact that Can- ada s Minister of Finance the Hon. Charles A. Dunning, came to this country from England while still in his teens, and engaged as a farm boy at 10 a month. 1 INCIDENT tish air secretary, that 31,650 volun- AT THE TROOPING OF 1 attractions in the British capital. comment. HE COLOUR The traditional Trooping of the Colour ceremony put on by the Brigade of Guards on the occasion of the King s So seldom is the ceremony marred by It shows one of the guardsmen being carried off the Parade (Canadian Aienen Estimated That About 200 Pilots, Have Joined The .A.F. In Britain The exodus of Canadian civil One of Napoleon's crown jewels, pilots to Great Britain to fly with London's the Royal Air Force probably will be accelerated by the announcement in London by Sir Kingsley Wood, Bri- teers, including 2,100. pilots, be recruited for the force, learned. For the past few years, many Canadian flyers who obtianed private flying licences through flying schools and clubs in the larger Canadian cities have been taking advantage of opportunities offered by the R.AF. Such pilots have gone to England on their own initiative and at their own expense, The number of Canadian pilots now with the R.A.F. has not been officially disclosed but it is estimated at about 200. While the British recruiting cam- paign also is aimed at obtaining ob- would it was dian airmen are only interested in the request for pilots. A century ago it took 83 out of 100 workers in the United States to produce farm crops; to-day, with machinery, 17 out of 100 are suffici- ent. Inscriptions found in Mesopotamia show that enterprising business men of 3000 B.C. formed holding com- panies, even as in our own age. land dog. Wrong Environment London Psychologists Make Study Of Tke Backward Child What makes Jack a dull boy? psychologists have been making inquiries and have reached definite conclusions. They list their answers in order of importance as follows: Home en- vironment, poverty, lack of sleep, lack of food. Children reflect their home atmosphere with extraordinary fidelity, If a boy is raised in a home where conversation centres upon bet- ting, food, gossip, etc., he is prone to dullness. Indeed, a study of 350 Cockney children, born and raised in the heart of London, shows that although they are natives of the world s greatest city, they suffer acutely from lack of stimulation. Of these children, aged between six and seven years, 46 per cent. had never seen any animal except a horse, cat Sixteen per cent. thought sheep were larger than cows, 23 per cent. had never set eyes on a field or a patch of grass, even in a park, and 98 per cent. had never seen the sea. Many Unmapped Peaks A four-man Harvard expedition came out of the heart of the great Chugach mountain range in Alaska to report at least a dozen unmapped peaks more than 10,000 feet high and tremendous glaciers and ice fields. Bradford Washburn, leader of the expedition, reported the first suc- cessful ascent of Mount Saint Agnes on June 19. JAPANESE BOMBS CAUSE TERROR IN CANTON A picture taken from the centre of Shameen showing Japanese bombs exploding around the Wongsha station, the Hankow-Canton terminus. The dome at the right is at the top of the Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank. Prevalence Of Weeds Weeds Are The Worst Canadian remy Of The mers Prevalence of weed the greatest difficulty in mais Successful farming and in producing partic more abundant supply of clean forage ar d grain and other the preduce In order to get best from the 1a es to. seed, ceased their farr 3. war farms in keeping weeds on in tio: of the introduc- oO; and in pre and the read kinds. e of principal r why, are not brought under bette: is because ni cous control of such large numbers put into th through lack of care in ordinary farm op tions Despite the fi produce or pr been shown from rious inv tions that, while many farmer exercising care in the selection and cleaning of thei d, there are others who give less attention to this important question that it rightly deserves. In one survey, 74 fields were selected in Alberta, Saskatche- ts soil are wan,, Ontario and Quebec, and 573 samples of soil in all were taken; 191 from the surface, 191 from a depth of two to three inches, and 191 from five to seven inches. To convey some idea of the weed seeds in these samples, a typical field in Alberta may be taken as an example. Weed seeds found in six ounces of the surface soil numbered 51 of ball mustard, 78 lamb's quarters, 4 black bindweed, and one seed of grass. From six ounces of soil taken at two to three inches in depth, 59 seeds of ball mustard were found, together with 70 lamb's quarters, two black bindweed, and one each of sedge and other sorts. From the soil at five to seven inches deep, the weed seeds were 39 of ball mustard, 69 lamb's quarters; two black bindweed, and two of other sorts. The matter of clean seed is of vital importance, for some of the weed seeds are so prolific in the production of secds thut relatively clean fields may become badly contaminated in two or three years if the weeds are allowed to go to seed. For example, a single plant of wild mustard, stin weed, foxtail, pigweed, of campion produces 10,000 to 20,008 di worm-seed mustard about 45,001 shepherd's purse about 50,000, and tumbling mustard about 1,500,000 seeds. With such productiveness, soils: become quickly infested with weed seeds, although on account of their inconspicuousness the presence of the seeds is not fully realized at the time. Seed cleaning therefore is a vital operation to agriculture. In the 78 page illustrated bulletin Weeds and Weed Seeds, the matter of seed cleaning apparatus is fully dealt with. The bulletin may be obtained free on application from the Publicity and Extension Division, Dominion De- partment of Agriculture, Ottawa. They Know French Beavers That Cut Trees To Order In Broad Daylight Beavers that understand French and that cut trees to order in broad daylight may be seen any time at the Canadian Beaver Restoration Colony at Terrebonne, 20 miles from Montreal, The colony was founded in 1930 by Edward Lavoie, self-styled Beaver Man, who is hailed as the logical and able successor to the late great Indian naturalist, Grey Owl. Lavoie claims to be the first man successful in raising a number of third-genera- tion beavers in pens. Joy and pride of the Beaver Man is Jacques Cartier , the first beaver born on the colony. He.is four years old, weighs 60 pounds and can cut a two-inch poplar in 90 seconds ex- cept when he stops to have his pic- ture taken, which is often. Lavoie asks Jacques Cartier if he would like to put on his tree-cutting act for visitors and the invariable answer from the beaver is a grunt of assent which sounds like oui Brockville Recorder and Times. Lazy Beavers Punished Not all beavers are industrous but the lazy ones pay a severe penalty for their idleness, They are driven away from their home settlement, and, sometimes, are marked, by hav- Ing their tails cut off. These out- casts always are males. 2262
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