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Survey Shows Birds' Service For<»ees British hidustrial Revival to Agriculture American Magnate Declares Methods Will Be British and Not American Doubly Romantic Many Species Falsely Accused or Hurting Crops, Fed- eral Bureau Finds IiuecU Principal Food Destruction of Weed Seeds is Another Useful Habit whether blrda are usaful or Injuri- ous to crops depends upon what thar •at. Many birds are accused of eat- Inc or destroying tbts or that crop when In reality the accusation Is un- founded^ Because of tkia the Buroau of Rlologlcai Surrey of the U.S. D«- New York.â€" ThrouKh business meth- ods that will be British and not American, the British Empire, wlthla the nest 20 years, will experience the greateat Industrial renalsaance o( modem history. This was the optnoa expressed in New York by Robert W. Johnson. American Industrialist and Tice-prealdent of Johnson A John- son. New Brunswick. NJ, on bis re- turn from Europe. "My tour of English industrial cltlea and my conversations with British in- dustrialists and Parliament members of the younger generation coaQrm a conclusion to which I had been moved a v'stematlc Investigation of the food of those species which are most com- mon about the farm and garden. Within certain limits, says this au- thority, birds eat the kind of food that U moat accessible, especially when their nntural foods are scarce. The Investigation revealed that the partment of Agriculture, says "The . . ^ , . ^ . i^ „„.i,„.. Pathflnder," has spent many years In «»' •"«" '\«»" "'"<»/ °' T'""*,ri!hn tor American business, said John- son. "I am convinced that Great Britain Is to experience the greatest Industrial revival of modern hlatory. 1 feel equally certain that the methods by which this renaissance is to be brought about will be typically English . „ , „ . , J . , J ... I and not adaptations of practices learn- great majority of land birds subsist! J^^ „^ „,^„ ,,„„t,y. upon iiiHects during the period of nest- 1 Ing and molting, and also feed their yiung upon them during the first few weoks. Many species were found to live almost entirely upon InHects, tak- ing vegetable food only when the former wore not obtainable. Because of this It la difncult to estimate the value of birds to the farmer In re- Records of British Members Is Sought London. â€" An undertaking promis- ing the collection of vast, hitherto un- stralnlng the great tide of insect life, j tapped sources of Information for all Another useful function of blrda Is , whose ancestors have taken part in the destro>-ing of weed seeds. In! the British political life of past gen winter when Innects become scarce the birds turn to vegetable food such as seeds of weeds. One of the most familiar and wel- erations Is promised by the project to which 200 members of the House of Commons have now signed a me- morial In support. It Is for the Oov- come of our feathered visitors Is thoiornment to appoint a committee to bluebird. It Is one of tbe earliest ' prepare a complete record of mem- nortlirrn migrants, and everywhere is bers of Parliament from 12G4 to 1832, hailed as a harbinger of spring. So ; describing their personalities, polltl- far as known the bluebird has never cal views and elections, been accused of stealing fruit or of j Col. Joslah Wedgewood has already preying upon crops. Nearly 70 per collected the particulars for the Staf- cent. of Its food consists of Insects fordshire members. Sir Martin Con- and Ihilr allies, while over 30 per way. Sir Charies Oman, John Buchan cent. Is made up of various vegetable , and Sir Robert Hamilton are also co- i'lbstances. But so far as vegetable operating. fo<^>d is concerned the bluebird Is posi- 1 , ,^ tlvely harmless. The western species of this bird Is even more commend- able In its food habits t'uan its east- ern relative. Robin Pays Its Way In Scots Australians Tour Industrial Towns in Britain Plymouth, Eng. â€" Six hundred Scot- ran,-' parts of the country the ^gjj Australians have arrived here for rubin Is one of the most cherished of a tour of British Industrial towns. our birds. It Is found throughout the gygry one Is of Caledonian descent. United States, far north through Can- ^„j the tour will end la Scotland after ada and even in Alaska. The robin i yigHg ^^ Exeter, Salisbury, London, York, Newcastle and Scottish towns, finishing In loverueas. Each indl- ti an omnivorous feeder and Its food lablts cometlmes causa appre- hension to fruit growers. It Is fondjyijuai "Selected has been successful of fhcrries and other small fruits. („ ^Is particular calling. But examination of over a thousand j Sugar, cotton and fruit growers slomnchs showed that more than <2 {^0^ Queensland, wheat farmers from per c?nt. of its food is animal matter, | go„ji, ^nd Western Australia, Victoria ptlnclually Insects, while the remalnd- 1 ^ool farmers, wool manufacturers, •r Is made up largely of small fruits, I cattienien, timber merchants, fish mostly wild. Although robins take a j canners. Iron and steel masters from •mall amount of cultivated fruits. It the big cities are mixed with bank- must be remembered that they are hUtb, merchants and industrial sales- natural enemy of the Insect world, gjen. and that they work during the Whole The object of the visit is to bring «e«aon to make the crops poealble. gimllar typsa of business men In the Thiis when the fniit-ripeningr period | British Isles Into contact for their eoir.^s they already have a standing i mutual benefit It Is also felt that account w^th the fanner for services ! actual testimony from those who rendet cd. hare succeeded will do much to dispel According to a department bulletin ' misgivings among possible Intending emigrants. the very character of the food of birds of the titmice family gives a peculiar value to their services to tbe farmer. It Is In the winter season that titmice do their greatest work. When there are no Insects flying or orawliag about these birds must feed upon siicii species us they find hiber- nating In crevices or upon the eggs of insects IslU In similar placet. Tber* jire some seveuteen species of titmic* In this country and as many sub- •pecios. Near^v 70 per cent, of their foo<l consists of animal matter. The former is made up of small caterpil- lars and moths and their eggs. Tit- mice are known as chickadees. Elx- aminalton of the stomcahs of thes» 1 ^^tlons. birds revealed that they contained In- jurious insects to tbe extent of over BO per cent. The vegetable food of this species seems to consist moat of hrokeu up seeds. House Wren Frisnd of Farmer The food habits of the diminutive house wren are entirely beneficial to tha fanner. They live principally upon animal foodâ€" 98 per cent. Insects and lh«lr allies and only 2 per cent, vege- table matter. The house wren Is only •n* of a numerous group of birds of SiBillar bablU. Over Fifty Minerals Being Produced A notable feature of the progress of the Dominion as a mining country la the diversity of lines along whlob' Can- adian mlnlns has advanced. Soma fifty dltfarent minerals, metalllo and non-metallic, are listed in the produo- tlon figures for 1928, and thia numbar Includes a variety such as nickal, oobalt, asbestos, gold, lead, silver, copper, and zinc. In which Canada either leada world productloa or ranks among tha greatar producing Grand Banks Ice Patrol Is Reviewed by Comm. Gabbett G>a8t Guard Cutter Mofave Arrives at Halifax: Daity Broadcast Is Made H»Hfax, N.SU-Tha wMk olf tha intomatlonal loa patrol tfai* aattaoa waa reviewed by Commander Cecil H. OablMtt, of Vh9 Unfted Stabee Ooa«e Gaavd outter Mojave, whan tha rsaw J put 4n hare af tar its aaoond tour of duty on tha Orand Banla. It wae tha tint lima that tha Mojave, which altomates on psitrol with tha cutter Modoc at fortnichtly interv«Li^ had oallad here. Commander Gabbett rt- ported that weather eondltiiOTis, on the whole, bad been excellent since the patrol waa begjvn in March, although iai'ing the Kojmvtfu Meomi tour five days of coatlnuoua fog were enoonnt- ered. The Mojave, like the Modoc, is elec- trically driven, and is one of the few vessels of that type afloet The ship is equipped with every nvoderrn aid to itavigation, including a fathometer which tells the depth of water under the vessel by means of sound waves. The radio equipment permits tran»- mission of mesaages over a radius of 2,000 miles, and daily reports are sent to Washingrton. On her present cruise the Mojave transmitted a total of 70,000 words by radia Pour broad- casts are sent out daily to inform steamers of the position of icebergs south and east of the Grand Banks, and steamers in communication with the cutter are requested to report the position and descriptaon of any other bergs sighted. These are carefully plotted on a chart and a complete record is kept of the movement of the bergs until they melt or drift out of the trans-Atlantic steamship lanes. From the glaciers in the far north about 5O0 icebergs drift down into the steamship lanes during a normal sea- son, but last y4ar only 350 berrgs were reported as a result of the cool wea- ther. It was one of these mouTi tains of ice into which the steamship Ti- tanic crashed to sink with a loss of 1,500 lives in April, 1912. It was as a result of that disaster that tiie inter- Amundsen Bid ToAidRecalk Nobile Feud Veteran Explorer of Arctio! Forget* Dispute Over Norgo Trip to He^ Fellow-Flyer An Aretie drama of mate HmH mmi intansity woold be pvaduoad If Roald AnHindaan wtaraa Falar «as> plorar should go to tha arid ti Genanil Umbarto Nobila, now iiihwim in tlM* dirieiUa Itali*, oinea thM* kw Im«i friction botwaao tha two man «f«r ainoa the famous flight of tbe Sorgm t» tha North iVtIa in 1926, aaya ths Associated Ptresa. After the flight was aQ oyer, tfaa pnbliahed memoirs of the two dmb showed that all had not bean amooth between them, Nobila â- â€¢ tba builder and captain of the Norc* rafarring te Amundsen ae merriy • paasengor, while Amimdsen accused tba Italian flyer with "attempting to appropriate for Italy the last great undartaklng of his Ufa. the flight of tU dirigtbla over tbe North Pole. N10RGE ALSO WAS MISSING On that trip the Norge also waul massing for many hoora. Radio com- munication had been maintained b»- tween the dirigible and land atatiooa until the Norge croeeed tbe Pole when no further messages were intercepbeiL For many hours the fate of the expe- dition was unknown and the world waited anxiously for news at length to hear that the dirigible had landed safely at the tiny village of TeDesr, Alaska, about ninety mHea from Nome. After that air voyage Anrundseti said that his exploration days wens over and recounted his discovery of tbe Northwest Passag^e into the Aretie Ocean, the Northern Magnetic PoVe and the South Pole. Lincoln Ellsworth, of New York, who had financed, at least in part, the two air expeditions of Captain Am- undsen, was the first to denounce No- bile after the Norge flight by saying that others had been responsible' for the safe navigation of the dirigible from Spitzbergen to Alaska. AMUNDSEN CRITICIZED NOBILE For a year Amundsen had refused national ice patrol was established byi to be drawn into the controversy. In the United States under an agreement that year Nobile had been promoted with several other nations. As an ' from colonel to t.*<^neral and was de- e.KanvpJe of the work of the patrol, OommaTider Gabbett reported that on corated by the Itali:an government. Tlien AmiUTvdsen published his nuto- the present cruise the cutter received i biography and dwelt at great length a wireless message from a large pas- j on Nobile's conduct while in the air senger liner that she was in a dense over the Pole He said that while he fog and asking if any icebergs weroi and Ellsworth had limited themselvea near by. The steamer gave her posi- 1 to two tiny Norwegian and American WON 14,000-MILE RACE Finish Barque Hsrgozin Cecllle reached Cardiff 96 days out of Australia. Below Is Jennie Day, 24, an artist, who was a stowaway discovered on the ship nearly starved. Ontario's Mines Show Progress Hon, Charles NicCrea is Op- timistic of Canada's Min- eral Future 'Ottawa. â€" During the first three months of this year the value of mineral output ot this province had exceeded the corresponding months last year by $1, 2&0,000, Hon. Charles McOraa, Provincial Minister ot Mines, raoantly said. "Within tba next 2a years Canada, and especially Ontario, will hSTe reached a degree o( pros- perity beyond the bounds of realiza- tion at tbe present time," he said. "Wa are only beginning to raise the curtain upon the vast mineral re- sources which lie beneath tbe great pre-Cambrian shield of the earth. And fully 95 per cent, ot these resonrces lie wholly within Canada," he said. He then went on to speak of tbe pre- Cambrian layer of the earth's crust as the greatest mineral bearing atratum known to e.tist In the entire world. He told u( properties lying In the Province ot Manitoba which contain $600,000,000 worth of minerals, which await the spade of the miner. tion and speed, and by referring to their charts the Mojave officers were able to give warning that the steamer was in danger of colli(iing with a large berg. The steamer changed herr course and the danger was thus averted. The Mojave and the Modoc wiU re- main on patrol until the Iceberg men- ace has passed. During the patrol the morale of the 110 members of the crew is kept at a high point by frequent exhibition of Tr,otion pictures and other enteriainment, and when the outter is in her home port at Boston dances are conducted weekly aboard the vessel. flags to save weight and space, Nobiila took armfuls of small Italian flags to oast into the air over the Pole and finally let loose a huge flag whioh, Amundsen said, threatened to tie up a propeller. The American Move London Times (Ind.): The United Statea Is tor the first tinae for years entering upon an International negoti- ations. That is all the greater rea- son why the British dovernment should strongly support this Initiative. Canada Boys Win Cup in Shoot London. â€" Canada won the King's Special Challenge Trophy for 1927 In the miniature rifle shootlne com- petition for boys ot the British Bmplre. Canada's average for 3,000 boys who competed was 79.2 points }Ut of a possible 100. Britain to Compel Food Profiteers to Show Accounts ADAMSON'S ADVENTURESâ€" By O. Jacohsson. International Finance liondon Ileferea (Cona.): There vUI aeon ba no one In control ot •radlt who U not also an Intamatlooal floanctar. Are International flnan- fliara daalrabla custodlaaa ot t^a fata •C BSUouT WIU tbair aetiviUaa tend la world peace or to world wsrT Ob- MfT* bow two groups of tbam Iots •no another wbas thar tall uti Ob- 9Viy tbaIr callousnata towards oom- auMltlaa whan tbay work togatbarl London Morning Peat (Ooas.)! Osnada movas mora slowly than tha Ualtad States because aha baa a â- auUlar population. It She daalrea to tska her share In tha daTalopmant ot tha Continent, It Is a little diflloult to aae why she followa bar pfaaent policy ot restricting Immigration from the Mn>bar Country. Nova Scotia's Sah DepoaiU In Nova Scotia many attempts bad been made to turn to oommarclal'uaa •oma ot the numeroua salt springs found In vartoua parts ot the province, but until the discovery ot valuable salt badi near Malagsab, In Cumber- land county, no Important salt In- dustry bad bean developed. Sine* 1919 there has bean an Important and growing production ot rock aalt from the Malagaah mine, which finds a ready market especially In the flib- curlng Industry of the Marittmaa and ot Newfoundland. CaD on 36 Metera Cornea Out of North llontraal, Qua^-Iaolated In a tar north misalen, with radio as hla only contact with the eutslda, Fatbar L. Ducharma Is anxious to gat into communication with ama- tanri on II metres, la • lottqr written April 10 at the Roman OathoUo Mtsston at Ohester- Hald Inlet, far up on tha wast coast ot Hudson Bay, Father Ducharme lays that ha has oallad repeatedly on the short ware longths but could gat no responaa. Ha adds that be plans to come on the air each Batur- «ay night- just aa KDKA. Pitts burgh, aigna off in the hope of getting s oontaot London. â€" The Government baa de- cided to compel merchanta to disclose their accounts where food profiteei^ ' Ing Is charged. I Replying to questioiu In the Hons* jof Commons regarding the dlfflculty ;la obtaining Information experienced !by the Food Council, the ofllclal body i commissioned to Investigate prices, Stanley Baldwin, the Premier, saldt {"The Government Is prepared to gtrf • the Food Council all the support r^ quired to enable them to obtabx e»> , sentlal information, and they are so I Informing the council. Unless, there- ,<tore, within a reasonable period, tbe requisite Information Is supplied by I those traders who have so tar tailed to do so, the Qovernment proposes to ask Parliament to grant the necesaary powers." This announcement Is understood to, mean that the Food Council may bo armed with authority to compel tbo attendance ot witnesses and tiia pn^' ductlon ot books, refusal carrying penalties ot a fine and Imprisonment. « . Indian Gave Us Maple Sugar ' The early aettjeri In panada from the Old Land learned from the Indians' the art ot maple sugar making, and Indeed followed tpj pattpX 7Mrs their crude methods until modera' equipment replaced the old. As a'* matter ot fact, until about 50 year* ago there was little Improvement oa primitive Indian methods. Man In Restaurant: Olve ma a ateak and some prohibition buns. Waitress: I'm sorry, but wa havaal any prohibition buna. Man: Vaa, yea have; 1 got aome dry as a bone bore the other nlghtl A very mean man went Into a glaa^ ware shop In search ot a present IW a friend. After spending aoma tliM looking at different artlclea and fln*> Ing them too expensive, be at last saw a vase which was broken In sav* eral pieces. He Ipqulred the frtm, and, finding It was practically nothing^ ,. decided to sen dlt to his friend, hoptag that he would think It had been brsksa In the post. Accordingly, ba asksd. the assistant to pack and dispatch vi, A few daya later ha received the fob . lowing reply from his friend t "Thaakt ' tor tbe vase. So thoughtful ot you ll • wrap up each pisce separately,"