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18, 1089 Mrs. Wm. E. P. Berg and Grande TURED ement here n it was re- accused of and sought yptured, and news, how- of our new ted in this n mistaken nt a week Northfield ON at the helm est He can s God and HURCH Pastor 21 aver Lodge and Church, nther s Day n. NDY is a patented which auto- ter the first ust as auto- a downpour ribune ad. tometrist, his next T RIVER, on; RY- morning, PE, Mon., . JOHN, AWSON irs, May Fri, mor- R LODGE jon, May : STORE, 20-48 THURSDAY, MAY-18, 1989 Weekly News Parliament B ldgs, Ottawa By RENE PELLETIER, .P. Letter From WHEAT OTTAWA, May 12 The question of wheat has occupied the attention of the House of Commons almost ex- clusively this week. We have been debating Bill No. 83, which is An Act to Assist Agriculture in the Prairie Provinces. 1 believe that this bill is so very important that people would welcome any in- ation concerning it, It is there. my jon to deal at length this bill. ma is rather complicated and diffi- to understand at first glance. The general principle involved is an attempt to provide crop insurance on a compulsory basis out of a levy on western wheat production, supple- mented by loans from the consoli- dated revenue fund if necessary. Under this bill, assistance may be ex- to farmers in the western provinces under emergency or crop failure conditions for the year 1939-40. In township in which the average yield of wheat is under 12 bushels per acre, farmers will be granted an award, the amount of which is based upon the yield per acre, providing the average price of wheat is below 80 cents per bushel. These awards cannot exceed 1.00, 1.50 or 2.00 per acre, tively, according to yield and not be paid with respect to more than half the cultivated acreage, not to exceed 200 acres under cultivation. In future years whenever the Governor in Council declares such year to be an emergency years, as a result of the price of grain being less than an average price of 80 cents per bushel, the amount of this will be tabulated in the same manner. Section 4-of the bill sets out the conditions for declaring an area to be a crop failure area, originally read as follows: The Governor Council may, whenever the Minister finds that as a result of drought or damage by grasshoppers the average yield of wheat is five bushels per acre or less in each of not less than one hundred and thirty- five townships in any one prov- ince in the spring wheat area, declare such ar a to be a crop failure area. - (2) The Minister may, subject as in this Act provided, with the approval of the Governor in Council, award to each farmer in a crop failure area, by way of assistance, a sum not exceeding two dollars and fifty cents per acre, with a minimum award, regardless of acreage, of not less than two hundred dollars; pro- vided that no award shall be made: Important Public TEMPORARY CHANGE OF EDMONTON AND DAWSON CREEK - HINES CREEK AND INTERMEDIATE POINTS May 31 to June 3, 1939 Trains Nos. 1-8, 1-5 from Edmonton at 5.40 p.m. Thursday, June 1st to Dawson Creek Hines Creek, Nos. 4-2 from Dawson Creek 7.15 a.m. and Nos, 6-2 from Hines Edmonton WILL NOT OPERATE. INSTEAD SPECIAL TRAIN will leave Edmonton at 5.40 p.m. Wednesday, May 31st operating on time schedules trains Nos. 1 Dawson Creek 5.55 p.m., Hines Creek 1205 Noon Thursday, June 1st. SPECIAL TRAIN will also leave Dawson Creek at -7.15 am., Hines Cr ek 1.10 p.m. Thursday, June Ist operating on Time Schedules 4-2, 6-2, arriving Edmonton 7.20 a.m. Friday, June 2nd. Trains Nos For additional information see Posters and cor sult Local Agents Northern Alberta Railways Co. (a) with respect to more than one-half the cultivated land of the farmer, nor (b) with respect to more than two hundred acres of the cultivated land of the farmer. (3) The Peace River District of the province of British Colum- bia.and the province of Alberta shall, for the purposes of this section, be deemed to be one province. It is to be noted that sub-section 1 Jot this section stated that it was jmecessary that there should be an average yield of wheat of five bushels Jor less per acre in each of not less than one hundred and thirty-five townships in any one province. We felt that this would prohibit the province of Manitoba and the prov- ince of Alberta from coming in under this scheme and, after a great deal of debate, the Minister agreed to change the number of townships to one hundred in Alberta and Mani- toba. We consider that by securing this amendment we have done a most valuable work for the farmers of Manitoba and Alberta. The third sub-section of the bill was not clear-and it might have been assumed that the Peace River Dis- trict of the .province of British Columbia and of the province of Alberta would, for the purposes of this Act, be deemed to be one prov- ince. After a considerable amount of arguments this sub-section was finally made clear so that there would be no question about the in- clusion of the Peace River country in the rest of the province of Alberta. This, of course, is very important, because no one can conceive that there could ever be 100 townships in the Peace River country of five bushels per acre or less. By being included with the rest of the province of Alberta, we want to benefit should there be a'sufficient number of town- ships elsewhere in the province with a crop failure. Section 5 deals with the regula- tions which may be made by the Minister with, the approval of the Governor in Council. They contain such things as the manner in which informations ate to be supplied, the form in which the required informa- tions will be requested, how the average price of each grade of wheat will be ascertained and so on. Section 6 is the one which will be of paramount interest to the people of the Peace River country. It authorizes all purchasers of grain to collect 1 levy from all producers of grain. It also provides that this money will be placed in a special fund to be used for the payments which become due because of crop failure or emergency conditions. Notice TRAIN SERVICE BETWEEN Creek 1.10 p.m. Friday, June 2nd to 1-5 arriving at THE NORTHERN TRIBUNE The balance of the bill, consisting of seven other clauses, is taken up with detailed instructions. For ex ample, if a farmer qualified by reason of crop failure, the payment which he will receive will be made in two instalments. The first one on the first of December being 40 of the total and the balance in the month of March next. These awards are exempted from the operation of any law relating to bankruptcy or in- solvency or toattachment and cannot be assigned. Generally speaking, those are the main clauses of the bill which are of interest. I might say in passing that if anyone of my readers would like to secure information concerning any particular point about which they may be in doubt, I shall be very glad to aid them. The whole scheme is an attempt to introduce a crop insurance. How- ever, there is one thing about it which I do not like. It has almost been claimed that the problem of drought was a national problem. Under this type of insurance scheme, it now becomes clear that western Canada will be made to pay its own drought relief out of a levy collected from the farmers. It amounts to saying that the West must now care for itself. It is true that should there come about a condition so serious that the fund would not meet the payments required, a certain amount would be granted out of the consoli- dated revenue fund, but this would have to be a very grave situation in- deed, because unless there is above 2,300,000 acres within any one prov- ince with less than five bushels to the acre, no assistance would be forth- coming under the crop failure clause. I am sure that you will agree with me that this is a vast area of land, and that if such a thing did happen, even the present scheme could not in any way take care of the situation. I hope that nothing like this ever does happen, and yet we cannot qualify under the scheme unless it does. T am in agreement with most of this legislation, but I believe that the conditions are so severe that they will not be found to be practical from the point of view of the wheat growers of the West. Bill 63 is the bill which provides for the fixing of the price of grain at 70 cents per bushel. I need hardly comment on this, as everyone in western Canada is fully aware of the work of the Bracken committee. That body was one of the most representa- tive ever set up in western Canada. It includes boards of trade, farmers organizations, wheat pools, teachers alliances, municipal bodies, and pro- vincial governments. . . . They came to the conclusion that the West could not survive unless they receive at least 80 cents a bushel at Fort Wil- liam. Their arguments have far more weight than any argument which T could possibly submit. They showed clearly and definitely that it is not possible to grow wheat and even pay the cost of production if the fixed price remains at 70 cents. The people who can best answer that question are the farmers themselves. If 70 cents was the price paid to the farmers on their farms, it would be a different question. But 70 cents is the price for No. 1 Manitoba North- ern wheat at Fort William. Most of you know that this means 30-cent to 45-cent wheat to the Peace River producers. FARMING WITHOUT SOIL NOW BEING TAKEN UP SERIOUSLY So far soil-less farming has been carried out largely on an experimental scale, but recently the passengers and crew of a trans-Pacific clipper plane dined on Wake Island on vegetables produced in ten days from trays filled only with water These trays yielded 83 pounds of tomatoes, 20 pounds of lettuce. 20 pounds of string beans, 15 pounds of squash and 44 pounds of corn. The diners declared that the vegetables tasted every bit as good as those grown in soil. Wake Island should make an ideal base for hydroponic farming (as soil- less farming is technically called), for although it has no soll 4j jeases a glorious tropical climate. An experl- mental station is being established there, and farming in tanks will be taken serlously. London Tit-Bits, NOT ONLY AIRCRAFT According to the Society of British Aircraft Constructors, wastage In a major air war is heavy; some experts have rated it as high as 100 per cent per month, which means 12 complete replacements of Air Force equipment ina year. And similarly of per- sonnel? YOU WILL BE ROYALLY WELCOMED T THE NEW HOTEL VANCOUVER This is YOUR hotel built for the people of Canada. It * offers the best in service at the most moderate prices. Rates begin at 3.00 a day for rooms with tub baths and showers Use its delightful modem facilities and enjoy the hominess and hospliality it offers. CAFETERIA Where you can obtain a most delicious meal at a very moderate : Price. Quick service, breakfast, luncheon, dinner. MARY EASTMAN A network radio star of long standing, currently featured on big commercial over the Columbia Broadcasting System and the Light Up Listen Club. Miss Eastman was heard last Friday at 7:30, on the Light Up Listen Club program over CFGP, the Peace River's own radio station. Her singing was greatly enjoyed. AERONAUTICAL TIT-BITS By J. W. Neil AIR ROUTES AND COMMUNICA. TION IN THE UNITED STATES It was Boy Scout Nevill Chamberlain, of Sale Moor, Cheshire, who sailed An epidemic of crashes on the from London with party of ten air lines in America has focused young Scout settlrs bound for Aus- attention on the operation of the air- tralia, ways and the system of communica- gt; es tion. Boy Scout Day at World's Fair There are in the United States A Boy Scout Day at the New York some 22,000 miles of lighted and World's Fair has heen announced for radio-equipped air routes controlled Thursday, June 20. when all Scouts and operated by the Bureau of Air and Scouters In uniform will be ad- Commerce, which has spent many mitted af the special reduced admis hundreds of thousands of dollars in : 2c, A gathering of Scouts Is Cepected similar We the record ats the establishment and maintenance tendance of Scout Day it the Century Of aids to air navigation. But it was not the Prime Minister. of Progress Exposition In Chicazo In There are approximately twenty- 1933, two air line companies operating in a the United States. Fifty per cent of After Home and Church, Nothina the flying is done at night; and for Equals Scout Training the first six months of 1938 the air We cannot do without religion; we lines few 7,174,134 passenger miles cannot surpass the influence of the per fatality The operators con- home in the trainins vf our youth. But fidently expect that over 1,000,000 after these, I know of nothing which passengers will have been carried on Geloping manhood. agd decent citizens, (the aif lines during 1998, thus setting Cireumstances gave me opportunities NeW high record, and it is signifi- for high service, but the more I see of Cant that none of the recent accidents the work of Scouting and its allied has affected passenger reservations organization, Girl Guiding, the more I or the standing of the shares on the Fealize how good an influence they are Stock Exchange. in the country s the strongest bul- As recently as two years ago, one Warks of decency and xood citizenship fatal accident on an air line. would in the eommanity on. J. H, Woods set bookings and shares back for two ity Yes eee jor three weeks. ite a Bike ae ites The recent accidents have been The construction of a. sound. bike weTibed chiefly to the tact that the out of the parts of three old unes, and dif lines are trying to operate in the the cycling of 620 miles in six days, MOst extreme weather with equip- was the example of ingenuity and Ment and instruments that as yet are stamina given by Scout Troop Leader simply not good enough. Bill Monour, of Thorpedale, Australia. In Canada we are content to make The purpose was attendance at the haste slowl: slowly that some- recent Scout Jamboree at Sydney. The times we don't appear to move at all, stout hearted Scout cyclist carried ag happens when our planes get a bit full Scout kit, Including blankets and Scout stave, and most of his grub. On t00 much for the ground-sp At the return tip he was held up. two Seems that across the line some, more days by bush fires, so required elght enterprising than their fellows, are days for the mere 600 odd miles. Scout attempting the impossible. seonour Gd Bot renerd the take ae ee LIGHTS ON THE ROUTES tracrdinary since he had once a week for some time been riding 50 miles Along the federal airways the De- and back to attend his Scout Troop partment of Commerce is responsible meeting, ons for the establishment and main- Dean H. F. Hall, of Sir George wil- tenance of aids to air navigation, ex- lama .M.C.A. College, Montreal, was CePt to airports. Rotating beacon at one time a Boy Scout Patrot lights, erected on 51-foot steel towers, Leader. are spaced approximately ten to fif- eee teen miles apart along the airways. The world s largest Boy Scout is They flash six clear beams of dead. He was Iread Spray Levendusky 1,600,000 candlepower every minute, of Force, Pa. He weighed 527 pounds. and can be seen 30 to 40 miles. Fly- ing high over the desert, beacons are Joint sponsoring of a Scout Troop often visible 100 miles. by the Hamilton Police Department and a private citizen who will provide Intermediate landing fields are 5 ie bine, ay Mee the Spaced approximately 50 miles apart, hhourd of Pollee Commissioners. have boundary and obstruction lights, ee and have beacons and illuminated Viceroy Is Chief Scout For indi wind-indicators. All beacons, whether The Viceroy of India, the most hon- Marking fields or not, operate from orable the Marquis of Linlithgow is sundown to sunrise and in fog or bad Chief Scout of the recently established visibility. Roy Scouts Association of India. The Two landing strips or runways, Shee commissioner Me RATOet aves liber aie Gok ine, aaa ere Sir Muhammad Abmad Sald khan of than 406 fect wide, approximately at Crates (oan othe eight angles, are previded in the i S08 form of a cross, Tor L. At high- The Scouts Made It the Tidiest Town level fields above 4,000 feet, the run- See che. mabe oe Och lways are more than 3,000 feet in on, the mayor of Orford, Lance. shine denesibed jet town length. in the county. the Boy Scouts sat up. Intermediate landing. fields are discussed the matter, and wrote the available 24 hours a day for emer- Mayor offering to clear the streets of gency use, and may be used by the offending paper and other litter. private pilots at any time. The offer was promptly accepted, and the following week Orford. was the WEATHER REPORTS tidiest town in Lancashire. Large scale development of air . soe transport would have been impos- Scouting Helps Cure Of Lepers In The sible without adequate weather re- Philippines ports and forecasts, now prepared incyelve yearn ago, Scoutmaster, Irv-lunder the direction of the Weather ing Hart. orga joy Scout Troop Bureau in Washington. in the leper colony of San Lazaro, the Reaiy communicstions and weather Phillppine Islands, Today there are seven troops, a Cub Pack and a Sea broadcasting stations, located ap- Scout Ship. and the Scoutmaster has Proximately every 200 miles along become the dixtrict. Field Commis- the air routes, are grouped into three sioner. Not only has Scouting greatly networks or chains in accordance improved the whole tone of the leper with the airways they serve. Each community, but has contributed to the chain broadcasts the hourly weather complete recovery. and release, of /report at a known time, which is dis- cheee al attitude and a new readiness net from the times of the other to follow the prescribed course of Chains, Also, each station broadcasts treatment. a brief report of local weather con- ditions 30 minutes after each hour. Directional radio - range beacons operated by the Bureau of Air Com- There are 650 poople per square mile In Belgium, Midland continues to press for fair grain prices. What helps business helps all. o merce mark the airways by trans- hitting four beam courses, two of ch le along the air route, the her two beng usually at right nigles and serving in some cases an. ting winway. The two iyps of radio-range bea- ns which are powerful enough to be heard up tn 100 miles are located -proximotely 200 miles apart. Two types of medium-power beacons have a range of about 50 miles, and are used in some instances to supple- mentethermrvice of the high-powered beacons. Marker beacons with a range of about 18 miles are used at intermediate landing fields and ope ate when local visibility is less than two miles, or when local ceilings are less than unlimited, and at other limes on request i A pilot flying along the range course towards a beacon can check his position exactly when he is over the station, because the signals fade out altogether as he passes though the cone of silence, and surge in again as he flies away down the opposite course. Marker beacons transmit only identifying code signals and d) not provide directional beams, but are useful for checking and reporting sitions. under conditions of bad ibility. Interest in noting that anges and telephone stations were first led in the United States so long ago as 1927, and though a good deal of justifiable criticism has been levelled at the unsatisfac- tory and unreliable operation of some of the stations under certain circum- stances in mountainous country, for example, some of the beams swing out of their true position and the phenomenon of multiple courses has caused confusion in bad visibility there is no question that in general the beacons have provided direc guidance to a far larger number of pilots and on a fa Rreater scale than would have been possible under a system of giving and receiving bearings, either by radio telephony or telegraphy. Recently, because of the increasing air traffic, an safety agreement was drawn up and airway traffic control procedures were laid down with particular refer ence to the areas where traffic is densest, namely, the Chicago ar the Newark area, and the Cleveland area, When thinking of air transporta tion in the United States, we must remember that 50 per cent of the scheduled flights are done at night, and that the terminal airport. of Newark handles more traffic than Croydon, Le Bourget and Tempelhof 1 put together. Quite obviously strict control of ali incoming and out- going planes must be exercised at airports, which is only possible with the wholesale cooperation from trey various operating companies. A line com and i: ing y maintain s instructions to its incom- nd outgoing planes through its own radio transmitter, located on or near the field. the airport control giving general instructions to the airline companies. All incoming traffic has to contact the control direct when at least ten minutes away, for landing instruc- tions. If an approach has to be made on instruments through low clouds, the control determines which of Even though blind landings are not stlempted part of regular sched uled fight practice, each aeroplane vas to iljust its sensitive altimeter rrespond to the nearest ground n sensitive altimeter, and when, rminal, there are several ach one must check hig against the others and with the control at least once daily. It is from this sensitive altimeter, ad- justed to the local ground. station height, that the pilot reports his exact height to the control. When on the air routes all east- bound planes, or any planes flying a true. course from 360 to 179 , must cruise at odd thousand-foot levels, above sea level; that is, at 1,000 feet, .000 feet, 5,000 feet, etc. Westbound planes, or any planes flying a true course from 180 359 , must always cruise at even thousand-foot levels; that is, at 2,000 feet, 4,000 feet, 6,000 feet, etc., above sea level rossing. an airway must do ight of 500 feet above the level at which they were flying, i.e, it 1,500 feet, 2,500 feet, 3,500 feet, ete,, und at an angle of not less than 15 The most. recent Department of Commerce ruling regarding flights long the airways directly affects private fliers. These are now sub- ject to control and have to obey the same traffic rules as the scheduled flights, That is to say, a Might plan bas to be made out before starting and handed to the control. The pilot must hold a transport, limited com- mercial, or private pilot's license, besides a non-scheduled instrument rating which calls for 200-hours of solo flying and 20 hours of instru- ment flying and practice. The aero- plane must be fitted with the necess- ary equipment for instrument flying and two-way radio. The ruling only comes into force if a private pilot wishes to fly on the commercial air routes in bad visibility, when he would have to fly on instruments. In clear weather this restriction does not apply, neither does it apply if the pilot wishes to fly on instruments in thick weather and away from all air routes, MORAL Re-Armament NEW YORK, May 12. Thousands nf people will be erowding inte Madi- win Square Garden Sunday night for the greatest meeting for Moral Re Armament. set heh in America, but Bill Pickle won't he there, The funeral of the ex-hootlegger and Jani tor at Penn Stite Calleae, Penn, whose real name wax William Gllland, was bonducted this week by his greatest friend, Dr. Frank Buchman, the foun- der of the Oxford Group movement, Outstanding figure in the word umpaisn for Moral Re-Armument and loading speaker at Sunday's gather Dr. Buchman initiated the Oxford uy ae a result of his firm: eonvie- that human nature could be weed, ian the individuctl, in the Uon. BIL wax the man who Dh Important part is establishin basia for that conviction started thirty-one years suo iW State when, following a close ntance With Dr. Buchman, Bill a his Operations ax canipux hootlegger to heeome a positive fares among the students, Although hy remained one of in several planes is to approach first, and then the operating, company takes over and maintaifs contact until the plane is beneath the over- structions. landing Further, as most of the ae arriving and departing will be tra ports on scheduled flights, their cruising speed is about three miles a minute, so an acurately estimated time of arrival is an absolute neces- sity if traffic is to be successfully handled in bad weather. What the control would do if it had to give bearings and weather broadcasts be- sides listening to five loud-speakers and directing the approach and de- parture of a never-ending stream of. air traffic is just beyond thought. cast, when the control issues Tinal ank's intimates in Uhe years that fallowed, it wax not until Ald. Rus- sulle heat seller. Kor sinners Only Ippeared early In te present decade That BAN became a figure, ksown in iny countries, Chapter 1) of Rus Ie book wis entitled Bill Pickle. The walrus-mustached veteran was 1 eat gatherings of the Oxford Group in America, even after he was well past the eighty sear mark, Sunday's meetings In Madison Aponsored by the mother of the a rdia and other p would. certainly But BHT's of the great Navi his co-owner of carefully Canadian policyholders. and Provincial Governme: You also. have a substanti farms of Canada. Today, more than Two Per Here s What YOU as a Life Insurance Policyholder Your sAvinGs in life insurance make you a selected securities investments made in accordance with Govern- ment requirements and widely diversified for the safety of yourself and upward of 3,500,000 other You own a share of the bonds of our Dominion nts, and municipalities. ial stake in the public utilities, in the industries, and in the homes and Billion life insurance dollars are at work through- out the Dominion financing worth- while projects, aiding employment, contributing ta Canada s progress. . Life Insurance GUARDIAN OF CANADIAN HOMES ed
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