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THE COLBORNE EXPRESS. COLBORNE, ONT.» APRIL 20, 1944 MAC DONALD'S OTTAWAREPORTS That Food Production In Canada Has Increased 150 Percent Over Pre-War Levels The Canadian farmer, by his food production efforts is playing a gieat part in winning the war, and at the same time is helping to lay the foundation for permanent world peace, K. W. Taylor, Wartime Prices and Trade Board's food co-ordnator, told foods officers at an Ottawa conference recently. With a labor force only 75 percent of the pre-war total, Canadian agriculture has increased food production 150 percent over pre-war levels. "We can't look for a decent and lasting peace settlement in Europe if negotiations are carried on in an atmosphere of hunger, misery and despair," said Mr. Taylor. "It is in our interests . to see that the people of Europe get at least basic requirements so as to arouse in them hope for the future." Much of the food for Europa at the end of the war will have to be sent from Canada and the United States. Shipments of food to Greece will bt increased to 31,200 tons monthly in 1944, Prime Minister King announced early this month in the House of Commons, The major part of the increase consists of 9,000 tons of wheat a month, a gift by the Argentine Govern-to 15,000 tons monthly sent to as a gift of the Canadian people. .The United States will supply through lend-lease monthly 4,700 tons of pulse (peas, beans, etc.); 1,000 tons of fish; 300 tons of vegetable stew mix; 300 tons spaghetti; 300 tons soup; and 600 tons canned milk. Experiments conducted at the Dominion Experimental Farms, Napan, N. S., an a medium clay" loam soil, (not underdrained), indicate that a direct saving can be made in reducing the average rate bf seeding. Over a period of 15 years, oats seeded at 2 bushels an acre gave a yield of 42bushels; at 2$i bushels the yield was 52 bushels, and at 3J4 bushels, the yield was 53.7 an acre. When bar- There's plenty these days to make people nervous. And overtaxed nerves can turn nights and days into misery! If you suffer in this way, try the soothing, quieting effect of Dr. Miles Nervine which contains well-known nerve sedatives. Take Nervine according to directions for help in general nervousness, sleeplessness, hysterical conditions, nervous fears; also to help headache and irritability due to nervousness. In the meantime, eat more natural food... get your vitamins and take sufficient rest. Effervescing Nervine Tablets are 35c and 75c. Nervine Liquid: 25c and $1.00. by staying at FORD HOTELS as low as $|50 so higher rt„!2a per person Montreal Toronto and the LORD ELGIN ("Ottawa *2*> fo »3L» if' per person, Bj:i: No higher! ,j 400 lovely roon ley was seeded at V/a bushels an acre, the 5-year yield was 36.3 bushels; at 2% bushels an acre the yield was 35.4 bushels, while the 3-bushel rate of seeding gave 35 bushels an acre* i ests also indicate that the heavier grain seed-ings have a tendency to reduce the clover yield the following year. This year as last, farmers are asked by the Dominion Department of Agriculture to tie fleeces with paper twine which does not injure the wool. When a farmer ties fleeces with binder or other sisal twine, he has to take a discount of a cent a pound from the market price of clean wool because fragments from sisal often become tangled with the wool and show up light in woven cloth since sisal does not take the dye. A fifty-cent subsidy on every pound of packaged bees imported Lom the United States up to June 15 as encouragement to farmers to go into honey production is announced by Wartime Prices and Trade Board. It will also help offset increased costs of U.S. s*^cks, it is pointed out by the Little pigs don't need much iron but they do require more than the sow- supplies in her milk. The Dominion Department of Agriculture advises that one of the simplest ways to provide this necessity is to give each litter a sod or shoveful of earth every two or three days until the pigs are four weeks old. Sucklings pigs raised indoors need iron if they ate to stay lively and healthy. If they cannot be given earth, then tiny amounts of chemical iron should be fed, but if the latter is used, direction should be followed carefully. Too much is not only wasteful but may be harmful. SCOUTING ... New Zealand now has 18,000 registered Boy Scouts. The Chins Up Fund, raised by Canadian Boy Scouts to help their brother Scouts in Britain and in conquered Europe after the war, has just passed the $44,000 mark. Eight year old Roger Widdowson, a British Wolf Cub has for • past year been staging Punch and Judy shows for his friends. In that time he has raised nearly $135 which he has put into War Savings. A record unique in Canadian Scouting was chalked up recently when ten members of the 8th Oshawa, Sea Scout Troop received their King's Scout Badges at one time. The King's Scout is the highest rank available to Boy Scouts and was inaugurated at the suggestion of the late King Edward VII. Just before he died at Edmonton recently, Dr. Geo. H. Malcomson, former Provincial Commissioner of the Boy Scouts Association in Al-ber.a asked that the Scout Promise be repeated at his funeral. This was done by W. J. Dick, President of the Alberta Boy Scouts Association who was attended by a guard of honour of Boy Scouts. March Sets Record For New Planes Aircraft assembly lines in the United States moved at record speed in March with 9,118 new 'planes, Aircraft Production Chief Charles E. Wilson reported. hers and transports. The previous monthly record was 8,700 in Febrtt- Wilson said the "remarkable" •March output may represent the 1944 aircraft production peak. THE WAR • WEEK -- Commentary on Current Events Britain On Eve Of Invasion: Lull On The Italian Front England last week was so ciowded with invasion forces that Britons had to change their way of daily life, says the New York' Times-. They had been used to queuing up for rationed foods; now they were queuing up for buses and tubes, for places in;; a. lunchroom or tea shop. Civilians had to leave for their jobs earftfr and get home later. In London the streets were jammed with British, Dominion and Allied troops. "Snowdrops" -- the 'JSJijIk, don nickname for w hite-helmefiAl' American military police -- were, patroling the sidewalks in ever-greater numbers. Londoners could catch a glimpse of a four-starred black limousine rushing General another. Someone said: "That car attracts as much attention as royalty used to." Invasion Date Set This is England's fifth year ot war, the third spring which has been filled with invasion talk. Britons are tired and war weary, but this time they know the invasion of Europe is really coming, that the date has been set. A merchant* marine officer recently returned from England said: "Itlooks to me as though -you could walk ' from Land's End to Edinburgh on packing cases, trucks tanks and airplanes." There is still room, however, for signs ot spring to poke through, crocus and daffodils are in bloom, gardeners find moments to spend on -oses as well as vegetables. Russian Advances told of the great new Russian advances. They told, too, of new BEARING UP Like most Lt.-Col. Mary Agnes Brown, WAC director in the southwest Pacific, is quick to make friends with the Teddy-bear-like koala, No. 1 pet of the Aussies. _ regulations coverug the coasta! aieas of England facing the Continent; of the severance of telephone connection with Ireland "as part of the general measures tc prevent a possible leak of vita] information"; of the cancellation of all leave and travel permits for members of the British armed forces, although this was said tc be aimed chiefly at preventing an Easter week-end travel jam. Domestic Crisis While all these things were heightening tension in Brtish minds a domestic crisis arose. Strikes in Britain's coal mines, which have waxed and waned for six weeks while disputes over wages and consideration spread to new mining areas and broke out in other industries. .About 90,000 miners went out in Yorkshire, 20,000 shipyard apprentices in Qydcside and Tyne-side struck,, about 30,000 shipyard, Wcraft and engineering workers were re-ported out in Belfast. Appeals by Government and labor leaders brought some men back to their jobs and all signs pointed to a more geneial return after the Easter week-end.* Tbcre.was no sign that problems •had been solved and the crisis met. As a result the British War Cabinet drafted a new regulation to make the incitement and fomenting of strikes au offense against the state. The powerful Trades Union Congress, joining Labor Minister Ernest Bevin in warning against of work stoppages would bring ►about a major national disaster, imperiling the prosecution of the Italian Lull I .On the Italian front last week there was a lull in the fighting. Artillery was engaging in violent duels--no fun for those where the shells land, but involving only a faw people. Planes were in the air now and again, but their activities meant little to the men on the ground. The Germans had tried a sizable thrust at the Anzio beachhead, but ! had been pushed i^iack. Even patrol activities fell A lull docs not mean that the frontline soldier is called back to the rear areas. He stays right .where he is--in or near his foxhole. He sleeps more, perhaps t:.kes more time to eat his K rations. --He' rriay even try to write a letter, if he can find a flat surface. But shellfire is usually audible even if the bursts not close. Such luxuries as a ..how line for hot food and a chan'ce to wash himself and his c.-tfies are far from possible, even though the fight has slacken- Hope For Letters Within their limited areas of times are apt to go in for slightly longer and talkier "bull sessions". They gripe about the usual sub- NAZI BATTLESHIP CAUGHT BY BOMBERS The 4t,CC0-ton Nazi battleship Tirpitz is pictured as it lay helpless in Norway's Alten Fjord while British dive-bombers scored at least 24 hits on her. Caught by surprise, the previously crippled ship was attacked on April 3 by the largest group of aircraft ever concentrated against one ship. WHEREZIT: VOICE OF I H E PRE_SS Battle Of Britain A sentence in a speech by Fligh' Lieut. Teeling, in the recent for eign affairs debate in the Hous< of Commons, provokes fruitful re flection: "People do not realizi that only 700 people tool part in the battle of Britain which was as important in man} ways as Trafalgar and Waterloo." --London Spectatoi Fighting Gurkhas As a fighting man none is bettei than the Gurkha of India. A unit ol them underwent a trying ordeal foi twelve days on Hangman's Hill al Cassino, but they returned witl their morale unshaken. --Hamilton Spectatoi "Dream" Home A "dream home" is a place to live in where the taxes are low, the insulation thick, the dog friendly, the neighbors generous, the garden pretty, the outlook good, the inlook better. --London Free Press Like The Fron; Line Here's how you can get a pretty fair idea of what the front is like, according to a paragrapher. Note how you feel when lightning keeps striking close and multiply by 10,-000. --Kitchener Record No Guns Needed Land boundary between Canada and the United States is marke i by --Chatham News From Bad To Worse A contemporary says Germany has lost her reputation. It would be more accurate to sav that she has made a bad one worse. --Brantford Expositor New Diamond Field Developed In Urals During the war inntensive diamond mining has developed in an area of the Western Urals. The Urals' "Diamond Land" was discovered in 1829, when the first Russian diamond was found in this area. During an entire century only 239 diamonds were mined. After the Revolution the "Diamond Land" was carefully explored and its industrial exploitation begun. The demand for diamonds, which are widely used in the n in- tries, and above all in tank and ed greatly during the^ war. with small electric power stations, industrial buildings, dwellings and clubs have sprung up in the diamond area of the Urals, where formerly there was only virgin forest, and even the huts of trappers were few and far between. ject.s. talk a little shop, then swing into talk about sports or things at home. They smoke plenty of cigarettes, but they light no fires in the open no matter how cold it t,ets. Smoke by day or flame by night are too obvious targets. The men at a mortar- site get off a few si ells, "just for practice" as they there is always a hope that f courier will come up with letters, for the mail follows the infantry into the most incredible places. Waiting And Waiting Basically, when a unit is in the line a period like the present brings li tie rest in the usual sense. It is all waiting and more waiting -- either for enemy shells or bombs or for word to be relayed along from the company commander through the platoon leader that something is Up that will mean the end of the break. What the next "something" would be was not clear last week. In recent weeks both sides have tried stiff offensives and both sides hr.ve been stopped. Cassino was still in German hands; the small beachhead below .Rome was still in Allied bancs with a small gain repo'ted yesterday. The current stalemate was running into its third week and further Allied progress seemed to hinge on new decisions by the High Command. Map above shows how Japanese forces invading India from Burma have cut, north and south of Imphal, the Manipur Road main supply route for British forces operating in the Kabaw Valley. Above Imphal, British supply base for the area, Jap thrust may turn north westward against railroad which connects with Ledo Road and supplies Chinese-American troops driving southward toward Jap base at Myitkyina. Diamonds are found in four dis-tict colours. The absolutely colour- yellow and brown. BACKACHE? Look out for Trouble With Your KIDNEYS If your back achea or ii you have disturbed sleep, burning or smarting, look out for trouble. This condition is a sure sign that your kidneys are not fully ridding your blood of poisonous acids and wastes. When the kidneys slow up. wastes collect. Backache, dizzy spells, puffy eyes and rheumatic pains may follow. Your kidneys need help--and there is a time-tried, proven way to help them known as GOLD MEDAL Haarlem Oil Capsules. These Capsules contain carefully measured quantities of that widely known diuretic called Dutch Drops You will find their action fast and elective. 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