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NATIONAL MOUSING ACT LOANS 1 / FULL CORD .. .. .. .. $10.00 l'-wu,l" Special Attention To Fruit Farm Loans * Low Rates and Attractive Terms (Formerly Pettit and Whyte) SUN LIFE BUILDING Phones:; Bus., 7â€"3618; Res., 1â€"5518 BLACK Tor PAving â€" 4 boxes for $1.00 Phone or Write «* _ SERVICE sTATIONS3 + MUNICIPAL ROAD WoORK RESIDENCE 238â€"J 16 MAIN 8ST. W. PHONE 133â€"Râ€"3 dollars a year to feed, clothe and educate each boy. It costs the boys nothing except their fare to the school if they have it If they haven‘t, that‘s paid, too. Candidates are screened ruthleasâ€" ly. "We are not looking just for farmers, but for leadersâ€"men, who ‘.m carry to their own communiâ€" ies the gospel of better farming and higher living and educational standards," Popence explains. This year there are already 100 :::lzmm-llm.f: how hard it is for the boys to get in, and how desperately schools of this kind are needed. " This pressure has solved the disâ€" cipline problem. If a lad doesn‘t toe the mark, he is sent home, A noâ€" tice on the bulletin board explains -hyhldtndn-lad-uunlt that there are other boys waiting for every desk and every bed. There are no credita, no degrees. Kach scholarship is for one year anlyâ€"â€"but the boys are kept three full years if they do their part. Poâ€" penoe‘s teaching is simple and diâ€" rect. "Here is the classic text on sugar, coffee, rubber, quinine, teak, mabogany, and exotic fruits such as papaya, guava litchi, mango, cherimoya, and durian, one of the most delectable fruits in the world and also the most offensively odoriâ€" ferous., Popenoe has a green thumb for boys as well as buds. The students come from almost every couptry in m."nlblclfilhoi"l to the class "It shows 125 differâ€" ent methods, but all you need to learn is fiveâ€"and now we will go out and learn them." Then be takes them out in the field and says, ifl-flfibhnfi off buda," and he dices one after boys are neither all rich nor all poor," says Popenoe, "but they are all u:hul to learn and willing to 1t costs United Fruit a thousand educational plantâ€"a cross between an experimental station and a seedâ€" bed of tropical tutoring. This was the forerunner of the school he is operating today. A The new school is on an ideal site, with good soll, plenty of waâ€" ter, and the widest possible range mmwamm tudes. Popence congratulated himâ€" self on his find. "Later," he said, "I learned I had only rediscovered .wlnnncldtholdm missionaries, who had farmed it for fairyland valley on the Atlantic Coast of Honduras, where Popence introduced practically every tropiâ€" cal plant that grows and developed Bossarabla in 1889, an immigrant Popence. "After you have asliced a boy of 11, and ran a few thousand buds, you will find you United Fruft Co lw“:" ; atB mm and Company empire. ‘The are .up Five years ago Zemurray in the fields by 6:30, where Dr. Wilson Popenoe, veteran plant | }ey work with the faculty for five explorer, how much it would cost to| burs. Each student takes care of launch a school to educate boys for fruit trees, works in the nurseries, agricultural leadership in m:mondhdmudm- America. Popence said, "Half a gardening. n million "dollars." "Okay," said Zeâ€"| _ ‘"OB®lesson we learned," says murray. "But I could do better with | POP2NO®. "is that you can‘t force $750,000," said Popenoe, who be.| P%P!¢ tOchange their eating habâ€" Meves in plucking the fruit when|!t* At first we put all the frosh iIt‘e ripe. "It‘s yours," said Zemur.| Y@E®tables, fruits and dairy proâ€" ray, and added, "If you need more, 4uU¢ts on the tableâ€"and the boys come back for it." Just lot them stay there. So we Popenoe came back several timâ€"| W®"t at #t differatly. es, but meanwhile he built and|, _ "I= the first year the boy» work equipped cutâ€"stone study halls, labs |!" the gardens all morning, and and dormitories in the hills 20 miles | ETOW!NE lads get hungry. 80 pretty out of Tegucigaipa, Honduras,. Ajâ€" 200" they begin to nibble on carâ€" m...w.“m‘mmm-ununm of graduates after three years of | {0®at00s, and before long they find intensive schooling. Sixty students themscives eating every kind of were graduated in March, 1046, 40 | Y°E¢twD‘¢. ‘The second year they more in March 1947, and there are | WO"k in the orchards and nurseries, 160 boys in the school today. and they soon learn to eat all the Popence started his horticulitural | {"uUits. In the dairies they learn to experiments while still â€" in hign| ITimk fresh milk and buttermilk school. Halfway through Pomona | 4"4 cat cheese. College he quit because he was| A threeâ€"year study of the nutriâ€" "tired of reading about plants and tion values of the native food wanted to grow them." His father | Plants in Middle America is under sent him and his brother Paul (now | Way. Food plants long neglected famous for his Institute of Family | and forgotten are being rediscovâ€" Relations, in Los Angeles) on .!M"M‘u-yh."mlamr- plantâ€"hunting trip around the world | "3Y. "they. have found in Mexico Mummaml! weed called malva, which conâ€" that would do well in southern Caliâ€" | tains every element needgd by the fornia. This was Popence‘s first big| buman body. The Aztecs ate it in success. Next, he explored Guate. | the old days, but most of their desâ€" mala and Mexico for wildâ€"avocados. | CPdants never heard of it. It is one Today a large percentage of all| Of many native food plants which California avocados derive from | We hope to bring back." ; Popeno«‘s finds. For ten years he! ‘The demand for the school‘s roved the world for the U.S, Deâ€"| graduates is enormous. Half the partment of Agriculture as one of | first class were offered jobs as its top plant hunters. @eManstrators and salesman of _ Popence warned the United Fruit| 2ETicultural machinery. But this Company 20 years ago: "You have| WAS discouraged; the purpose of all your eggs in one banana crate. | the schoo! is to train boys to carry Here you can raise anything that| on the good work in their home will grow in the tropics. Let‘s set| fommunities. For the same reason, up an experimental station and deâ€" | graduates are not permitted to take velop new crops." The result was, banana jobs with the United Fruit WMWW’Mmy.M!nMdmnm a number of new crops. He recruitâ€" ed student IMIN__IEW i‘u.‘ tin . K-.lu.v the United States and Europe, and evolved a unique WHAT NE MAN HAS DONE WITH A DRAM, A MILLION DOLLARS carmnsed from The Pan Ameriâ€" by J. P. McEvoy, in The A LOT OF LEAVEN IN A LITTLE LOAF HE GRIMSBY INDEPENDENT ‘Then the student tries It. He hacks and gouges and often gives up, disâ€" couraged. "Don‘t give up." says CEManstrators and salesman of 8E"icultural machinery. But this Was discouraged; the purpose of the school is to train boys to carry on the good work in their home tommunities. For the same reason, graduates are not permitted to take banana jobs with the United Fruit Company. Half a dozen of the first class were retained as teachers in the school, several others went into _ "In the first year the boy» work in the gardens all morning, and growing lads get hungry. So pretty soon they begin to nibble on carâ€" rots and onions, and radishes and tomatocs, and before long they find themaselves eating every kind of vegetible. ‘The second year they work in the orchards and nurseries, and they soon learn to eat all the fruits. In the dairies they learn to drink fresh milk and buttermilk and eat cheese." A threeâ€"year study of the nutriâ€" tion values of the native food plants in Middle America is under way. Food plants neglected mmm::‘.gm- M"Mcn-ph.".,.m". ray, "they, have found in Mexico a weed called malv®, which conâ€" tains every element by the lllllbo‘,.'l\oAmultln the old days, but most of their desâ€" :'-ummh:-mom.uuou many native food plants which we hope to bring back." : people tochange their vatin; d r eating its. At first we put all the fresh vegetables, fruits and dairy proâ€" ducts on the tableâ€"and the boys just lot them stay there. So we went at it differeitly. government service as agricultural extension workers,. The . majority :thuobtldrmmflh neut 43 oys ond iermanate mtout a 50," Popence m.l‘ wouldn‘t sound like much of a proâ€" ject up Northâ€"but when you send one wellâ€"trained boy into a small country like Honduras or Guateâ€" mala, it is a lot of leaven in a little lived nowadays he would probably use a jJeep. Paul Revere rode a horse. THE CANADIALN BANK OF COMMERCE JOHN HOLDER, Manager THE income of many Canadians will be increased this spring byâ€" e The refand of the Compulsory Savings partion of A their 1942~Income Tax. KEEP these funds on deposit with us until you have nccunulato;l enough to p;rchue one or more Canada Savings Bands in $50 or higher denominations. You can buy them through any branch of this Bank. mfdflngdnachmthd'u&vinpad- Invest in Canada Savings Bonds mm : RUSSE OOE . ... ,, ATTENTION FRUIT GROWERS BEES for $5.00 PER COLONY ATION 1604