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Erosion Waste

NEW YORK. Dec. i8 -(CP)- Q1 we 19031763320 acres of farm lands and badlands, mountains ind M8515, desert and swamp that l, the United States, only 460.000,- ioo acres of good cropland remain. By the mid-l950s, exports warn, zhese productive acres may be in- luiiicicnt to support the popula ion in tile manner to which it is iccusiomed.

The Soil Conservation Service, .\'lll(‘ll seeks to show the Ameri- i-an farmer how best to work his land, says that 500,000 acres o! topsoil are being lost annually ‘o erosion and over-use. If forecasts oi a rising population and declin lng crnplancls - good land that dill not be damaged by continuous use providing proper farming methods are practised - are borne out, the danger point of land iv.- suiiiciclitly will be reached short- ly aitrr i050.

It is estimated that about thrne acres oi land are required tn pru- ridc each inhabitant 0f the Unit- ed Slates with food and clothing n an "average" standard of living 420,000,000 acres now are in use for the 1047 population of 144.230. 000. The reserve of 31,000,000 acres , lllll be exhausted government sta-

tlsllcs show, after i950 by which

lime the population is expected t0 be at least 147.500.0043. rising to

170,000,000 by i970.

About 550,000,000 acres o! good trupliihds were available in ths United states in i800. Erosion and m; iarmlos. practices since have destroyed or damaged millions upon millions of acres. a situation pra- nleni to a lesser extent in the Canadian West where excessive use oi the land has been wide- spread since the turn o! the can

iury. Between 1895 and 1000. the annual loss in the United States was 1.000.000 acres oi wpsoil but

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MONCTON. N. B-. Dec. 18 - sinca the movement of 1947 crop potataes in Atlantic region began on Sept. 1 up to Dec. 6, E. B. RObD, general freight agent C.N.R.., re- ports that the national system has handled 4.441 CBHuBdS from Prince Edward Island, N.b. and Quebec points.

The nearly 200,000,000 pounds of potatoes, Mr. Robb says, have been carried over C.N.R. lines as lax west as Manitoba to all sections oi the eastern United states and to the Atlantic ports of Saint John and Halifax for shipment oversea!

The estimated crop for i041. he said was 15,762,000 bushels for NB 0,788,000 for REJ. and 3.047.000 lr-r Nova Scotia figures for the At- lantic region section o! the Pro VLXIIOB of Quebec were not avail- a e.

it now has dropped to an estimat- ed 500.000.

For 50 years Hugh H. Bennett, the B. C. 83s first and only chief. has been trying to redeem Ameri- can farmland from the exhaustion o! over-farming, erosion and waste. In a recent address he said ult- terly‘. '

"Because oi our thriftless wavs with the use o! our God-given heri- tage o1 productive land, such u probably no nation before us ever fell heir to we have left in this country today only about 460,000,- 000 epres oi good cropland. Al. but about 100000.000 acres of this is subject to erosion . . . Erosion is still costing us in the United States more than $1.000,000,000 a. year in such measurable items as direct cost to farmers, contribu- tion to flood damages, siitation of reservoirs and so on . . .

"Nothing less than scientific. acro-by-acra treatment and use of the land will halt erosion, safe- guard our productive land and maintain it in a permanently pro- duptlve condition"

The B. 0. S. in 1934 completed the only general reconnaissance survey ever made of the United states. The service terms it ‘if anything, conservative in the a- mounts oi erosion shown, as In dicated by subsequent detailed sur- veys in specific localities." In ad- dition. 260000.000 acres have beam conservation-surveyed in detail, on a scale adequate for individual farm planning.

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MOOSOMIN. Susla, Dec. 17-— (OPi-Fire today swept through the eight-room Moosomin public school causing damage estimated at nearly $70,000. The 200 chil- dren who attend classes will use makeshift classrooms in other buildings in the town. Moosomln is 140 miles east o! Regina.

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PORT ARTHUR — (C?) - A two-year study of wolves in north- western Ontario will bg under- taken shortly by Anton de Vos, biologist with the Ontario depart. merit of lands and forests. He will wit!‘ <19“! and mark pups to learn their habits, mortality and other soological (acts.

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DECEMBER- 19. 1947

Russian UN Delegate Andrei Gromyko. right, assumes a Napoleonic pose as he chats with Herschel V. Johnson, Us. delegate, at tiic Gen- eral Assembly meeting at Flushing, N.Y. They found themselves allied in the battle over the proposed partition of Palestine.

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New Haven, Conn, Dec. 1B - (AP) - Mice that don't get can- cer are coming from a laboratory assembly line here for designing and producing strange new varie- ties oi mice.

The cancer-resistanﬂ‘ mice are prize specimens because they may help explain how cancer starts and possibly how to control it.

The laboratory, operated by Dr. Leonell C. Strong, geneticist at the Yale University school of Medl cine. produces 20.000 to 30.000 mice annually. Many of these are fam- ily lines which consistently pro~ duce dwarfs, giants, mice with looped tails, hair with a permar- ont wave, or peculiar oolourlngs and mice with great susceptibility or great resistance to cancer. They all are due to genetic changes pro- duced artificlaliy." "

In 1939 Dr. Strong began in- looting mice with a powerful can- cor-producing chemical, methyl- cholanthrene. In each succeeding generation, the mica developed cancers at the site of the injection.

But after several years, ths strange kinds of mice began ap- pearing. The chemical brought

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mal mice, and also giants weigh ing nearly triple the average weight. In other lines, the new

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Private Museum Draws 43,000 In Two Years

LEITIBEIDGE. Aita., Nov. 1k (C?) — Al a boy. Walter Gurney wanted to collect items - but he never had enough money to do it. Hﬁwever, l2 year: ago he and his w e took a trip to Havana and that crystallised his determination.

Now Gurney’: museum is one o! the showplaces of Lethbrldlze. More than 43.000 visitors _ in- cluding many from such distant places as South Africa. Enope and Australia havc insps-zved the collection in little more than two years,

At present. Mr. Gurney has about F150 mounted birds and animals. There are 640 birds‘ eggs and l5 outstanding f"e"lf5_ y; has a baby 0h: vﬁih the bodv of an elephant. 8n albino mouse and an albino ‘rllien.

German Drlsoner-oi-War left be. hind a complete- set o! war badges and also 13 different battleships carved out oi wood.

In the Indian section are arrow. heads. hammers. stOne piws. knives, iomohawks, head dresses and bead work. Thera are sea rhelis from all over the world including coral and mother of oeai-l,

Mr. Gurney didn't rton there. H8 has. in addition. a coin and currency collection dating hack to 146 A. D. There are two hand- mPde coins dated 2:13 A. i), and 244 A. D. And strangely enough, there is also the now unknown

Mr. Gurney says it takes four

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MONVFON. n. 3.. Dec. 1a _ There were bright popping eyes and happy smiling faces among

normal. The buck is believed to be

Freak antler of deer shot by Ernie Moore. Gait, 0nt., near Nor-t] Bay, is examined by Mrs. I. McLennan, his sister.

The other antler it lhreo years old.

Campaign In

LONDON, Dec. la --(Reuters)- British women are seeking 1,000,- 000 signatures to a petition de~ mandilig seats for 23 women peers in the House ox Lords, the only remaining male legislative strong- hold in Britain.

In their campaign, the organi zers have circulated thousands oi copies of the petition and have re- ceived supporting messages from Canada, New Zealand and other parts of the Commonwealth.

Leading the drive is Baroness Ravensdaie, 50-year-old eldest daughter oi the late Lord Curzon former Viceroy of India and for- eign minister alter the First World ,War. She complains that shc has never been able to vote in nor life. A woman peer is not allowed the voting rights of a commoner.

Women never have been allow- ed to sit in the Upper House, al though there are many women

the 125 needy youngsters aggembl. ed in the Salvation Army Citadel here last night for their annual “Christmas party" sponsored by tlieﬂanadlan National Railways War Veterans Association of Moncton.

Their gay, excited appearance reflected-the happiness in their hearts. 1t was a great evening for the children. 1n addition to being greeted by old Santa himself each one was gvien a big Christmas dinner with all the trimmings- oranges, apples, candies and a. "whole, big nickel."

This was ,the seventh consecu- tive annual "Christmas party". according to George Bailey, presi-

coat colours, markings or spots became a family trait.

By the same icind o! selection of resistant mice, Dr. Strong pru~ duccd family lines of mice which did no; ggi, cancer at the site where the chemical was injected. The tumours developed at remote sites on their bodies. By continued in-‘oreeding oi the most resistant ones, ho got mice that resisted. this kind oi tumour but got cancer o! the lung. Next came mice that developed tumours in the abdo- men instead of the lung, and 1i- nally after many generations he has mice which either do not gel? any tumours at all or which resist cancer for extremely long periodz. after receiving the cancer-produc- ing chemical.

These resistant mice also do not get cancer spontaneously. ‘

Dr. Strong was the first to demonstrate that a cancer pro- ducing substance can alter gene-

tance. The experiments are evi- dence, he said, that cancer may be mused by a chemical or virus that changes the genetic structure i0 the body cells.

The puzzle now is to learn woy cancer doesn't occur in th_e body cells of the cancer-resistant mice. Possibly, Dr. Strong said. the" cells may contain something which prevents cancer. He hopes to breed mice whose body cells would pos- aess this protective substance. if t exists to such a degree that it could be detected and isolated by a biochemist. Finding it might then lead to development of a chemical that would act like a vaccine a- gainst cancer.

Maritime Holstein Directors For 1948

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0. B. Sharwood, Norton, R. A. Profltt Freetown, and iborne Ln- gan, Woltvlile have ed as the Maritime ‘Representa- tives for i048 on the Board of Di- rectors of the Holstcin-Frieaian As- sociation of Canada according to word received by Mr. Ci. M. Clem- ons, Secretary-Manager oi the Aa- aociation. Brantiord, Ontario. These men were chosm through a mail ballot amongst the Association members in their respective Pro- ivincos. m. Sherwood and. Mr. Pro- iitt were re-eiected while Lorne {can is replacing Courtney B.

dccidad to retire this year.

Other Directors elected were u icllowa: W. l-L Hicks. Allssiz, 8.6. J. M. Hosford, South Edmonton, Alberta, n. l. Stewart, Regina. Saskatchewan. J. E. Orawiod. Wlnnipel. Manitoba w. A. Hodge, 5t. mutant. Quebec, H. b. Guil- bcrt. Verona-u. Quebec, Jules Montour, ‘rroia Riviera, Quebec.

Directors to represent Ontario will be elected at the Annual Meet- ing of the Association to be held in ‘Ibrcnto on rectum: c.

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‘Luaby, Amherst, Nova Scotil, who

dent of the G. N. R. War Vet-mans‘ Association. to be held by that organization.

members in the House of Com- moiis.

Undeterrcd by the failure of six campaigns since i019, the organiz- ers base their hopes on the Gov- ernment's offer last year to intro- duce legislation if the House of Lords is willing to admit women peers; and on the increase in the number o! Labour peers sympa- thetic to the principle of equality of the sexes.

The first drive was launched in 1919 when its leader, Lady Rhond- da,.became a peei- in her own right. The last was in 1930, when l. motion by Viscount Astor. ‘.0 a!- low women peers in sit in the house, was lost by four votes.

There are 25 women peers in their own right -the barony held by one dates baﬂi to i309 - but

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her, the Baroness D'Arcy De Kiiayth and Convers, is only nine years old.

The denial of the right to sit in tiie Upper House is regarded by the petitioners as the last bar- rier against the political emanci- pation oi women.

The women's view got a hearing iii Gommoris during the debate on the powers of the House oi Lords early ill November when Mrs. Rah Illamiiiig, n Labour member, said that though only a small group oi women might be ailectcd. an in- justice to one was an injustice to all

A piquant note was struck dur- illg the debate for, while the women peers were campaigning to sit in the Upper House. Quintin Hogs. eldest son of Lord Hallsham, a former Lord Chancellor, bitterly deplored the fact that, by till law or succession, he must event- ually do so.

He opposes the hereditary prin- ciple for peers and objects to being debarred from standing for elec- tion to the House of Commons. from which ‘the most influentiaa members or the Government us- ually are drawn.

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