1936-10-13 — Page 22

Where the railway cuts through the“ Rockies."

ALBERTA, Canada. LACKBERRY

pie

has found its way on to the menu. So the year speeds on. It's the same over this alde, save that the hedge- row fare is strengthened by the addition of blue-berries as well. Walking into the railroad snnek- bar counter in a spot reputed to have established habitable Can- ada's record for freezing points be- Jow zero, I put down a ten cent bit and asked for a allee of blue-berry ple.

You're

Englishman? querled the Bilghitiy greying woman on the other alde.

N

"And you're another," I retorted. for the accent was more Cockney than Canadian.

Yes, 17 years ago she had come out from Middlesex.

"What part of Middlesex? " Enfield." came the reply.

Think of Enneld only 17 years since! Had It changed? So I told her of the newer, Outer London. And then "all aboard,” and I had left behind pretty certainly one who would have given a lot for one more sight of the old streets and a look into the eyes of whomever might still remember the girl who left for Canada. 17 years, before.

Ant, one han to slay where the.. bread and butter is," and my last glimpse of her, as the train moved onwards, was as she tossed the sticky and crumby dish I had been eating

train

from, all stained with blue-berry, into the washing-bowl, without even

a glance at the vanishing train,

A night's ride beyond, and there was an hour's walt, ni Moose Jaw, Sull rolled on those endless prairies that the radio, and aeroplane are surely

· tlestined to make tolemble to a gener- ation without the skirmishes which planeering and new beginnings at first supplied to offset a very dil environ- inent.

Unvarying plains three times the Krea of England Not a hill, not a wood of a rivulet in aight. Nowhere to go on a Sunday, except the "pool" saloon at the dirt cross-ronds, or the denominational meeting-place,

*

The women save their souls by visit. Ing. One could see as much in the shop-windows at Moose Jaw. Spode dinner plates at 00 dollars for a ret et 12-or £1 a plate. Porcelain ten-rris Al £10 to £15 a set, and nt so much st Individunt plate or cup, so that thr whole set could be slowly but surely eventually accumulated.

There they were, offered for sale at these prices in a halfdozen shop win- dows, crammed with expensive chimi

exclusive pattern o wire of ane another. One need scarcely nok what auch apparent extravagance drasted. If a long winter put an end to prides and lolsures' outlet through a flowery garden, then, the küchen-dressers and the well-covered dining tables of those timber-frame dwellings dotted so regu- Jurly along the sky-line were matched against each others' in a housewifely and hospitable rivalry.

So many of these dwellings looked so very temporary, and mostly un- painted. Melancholy structures most of them, to be honest, with conspien- pus exceptions preping out frem be

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Cattle on the plains of Alberta,

CROSSING CANADA +

CORN Gives Place to

tween the shade of a few planted hardy evergreens.

The old idea was three good har vests of wheat and then retire to the charms of British Columbia, And in the days before the virgin soil lost ita virtue, three harvests would be often enough with which to make a man'a fortune.

The same buildings stand. That is why, it seemed to me, they still looked so temporary. They had been bullt by people who expected soon to make a fortuny, and then move on,

Wheat, has been the golden lura of These prairie provinces in times not so long past. It was as much a fever in these parts as gold was in Alaska, when Dawson City. its capital, boasted a population of about 25,000, in these days reduced to a skeleton guard of somewhere around 500.

Now the cattle are putting in an appearance on the prairies. Grass has to be sown to keep the blowing surface soli in place that recurring ploughing without manuring has lightened. Even horses are back again, replacing ma- chines. Pour abreast, they go routi and round the this, parched crops, drawing the reapers and birulers,

When grain was cheap, na In the past five seasons, oats grown on the place were cheaper to use as horse- feed thazi gasoline consumed by tractors, Besides, tractors ennuot breed, and 11's the second one of these mechanical aids which feris expensive, not the first.

Strange how similar this bit of the story renda to the farming news at home. Horses are a bright patch there in the farming picture, in spite of the mechanical age we live in. Well, when cattle and horses begin to show up on a form, then it makes for a more per manent scttlement.

Tho old-time grain-growing farmer. could shut the place up and be off to the city to spend his winter, But out here on the prairies one can see, the beginnings of a change la that pro- cedure. Farm splmals can fend best for themselves in the aummer in sich A climate A hard winter, and they want buildings, fodder and daily, almost hourly, attention.

Already, they tell me, the farm in- come in the tires prairie provinces of Canada has reached a ffty-Afty basis, cereals accounting for one-half, with cattic, pigs and poultry making up the other.

The prairie farmer has begun to form. "Depression" has made him.

A very different kind of land is Bri- tish Columbia. The sight of peaches hanging luscious, almost ready for the picking, from trees na slout as any orchard tree at home, Ats my idea of

good country.

No wonder this fortunate corner bas. potatoes to sell at a premium to Ita burnt up and barren neighbours. Land and climate which can as much as that cannot be far out in the reckon- ing as places ultimately suitable for bolld comforts and geniality,

A six-footer in charge of the rail- road's property back in Calgary had told me it would be so. And he's right. It would be hard to find fault with sunshine which is never more than a few miles. distant from a sea-breeze to Lemper it.

The sight of small boats chasing 10- pounders in channel and Inlet waters

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LIVESTOCK

by John Sussex

with scarce a ripple on them looks near enough paradise on a summer's diny.

I'm talking now as, a countryman pure and simple, as one who has taken note of the Ine of shabby-dressed men who didn't get a job when our · bont touched the quayside. That spectro is here, as it seems evoTY». where under one guise or anollier,

But unemployment, shabby clothes and unpainted homes have nothing, essentially, to do with scenery and re- sources which, used property, would be ample for making and sustaining the good life. Debts can jaundice any view from a veranda, however blissful the range of natural prospect may be to the eye of the visitor.

Yet such a personat mal-de-mer doesn't destroy the solid background of blue sky, swift running waters and alow. fertility of soil, stoutness of use- ful ümber, coal under the earth, fishi in the nearby sea, fruite on every cul- tivated acre, with both a summer and a winter kind to every sort of dower and shrub one had grown used to, and even prettier and more flourishing beside.

If Man succeeds in making a final mens of this combination of minister- Jeg beauty and bounty, then he will deserve to be hounded out of such prospective Garden of Eden, with every gate bolted and borred against his return for over.

Fue), essential in even a moderate winter, lies there waiting to be burned on the half-cleared spaces, or slands up- right by the million acres waiting the axe and the band-saw,

If any one dared to talk private property in timber in the face of such resources, to another, however outcast, looking for fuel, then such a pedantic should be dubbed Junatio on sight, There never was auch a waste of it, heaps on heaps of fallen trunks, stout boughs and branches piled up in the centre of each new clearing costing less to burn as a bonfire than to hew into logs.

A Datter which calls for some "in

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vestigation by any Interested is a well substantiated statement made to mo that British Columbia could do and would place some 3400 North of Scot- Jand Nshermen. Boats, nota, fishing grounds and market would be assured If the right men can be mustered.

Fifty cannerics working night and day at the moment in and about a tecming coastline that the world buym from, makes the proposition 1pok . fenalble.

Fishermen acgregate themselves in colonies hereabouts, it seems. One 25- land, so they tell me, is inhabited by murmonising Finus, plenty more, and on the mainland, by increasing hosts of Japanese.

Yet the most prosperous community of them all is an all-the-year-round fishing group of Scotsmen. It's their akilful repulation that makes tho authorities ask for more. The odd thing about this kind of proposition 18 that it's nobody's business nowadaya to set the wheels moving,

But there are fish to be caught on these constie. And what's clear is that if fishermen from Scotland don't come after them, then the Japanese will.

The issue's as simple as that, not about Ashing only, but the growing of gooseberries, the washing of collars And what all this stands for as well, until it may well be that one day the ely of Vancouver may be obliged to acclaim a Japanese Lord Mayor,

If high office ever becomes the logt. cal reward for industry and devotion to work then the Anglo-Saxons in these paris had better begin to look out for themselves.

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Francis LEDERER ONE RAINY AFTERNOON

Chapter Ono

THE KISS

WIDA LUPINO

balcony

the lover

acanc with elimbing to where the picture blonde is awaiting him. This pidaann Philippe.

"In America," he explains, "they

It is Paris and Springtime. Also always make love on, balconies

raining in torrents. A taxicab out of doors" draws up to the door of a popular The girl next to film shrinke far- cinema house, and the page boy ther away, and contemplates aliang opens the door. Inside the cab aing har soat,

young man da about to king à de- "Let's go the program." Philippe eldedly pretty young woman.. The says, and anatches it out of the young man looks up in annoyance | astonished gleľ's hands. aver the interruption.

On the screen the balcony climb "on the main feature started is completed, and the two pictur yet" ho nak.

lovers talt into each other's arTTO, "No sir," the page boy answers. "At last!" erlos Philippo, thor "You're just in ilme.”

Toughly delighted. And carried swap The young man nettica back in by the Inspiration, he turns Intul the taxi, nud closes the door. "Drive {sively in his went, draws the girl" on!" he says.

beside him into his arms, and be

woman.

A few minutes Inter the cab re-core abe can niter a round, he turns. The page boy opens the door klases her. It is a long kin, and and again surprises the young man the girl can do nothing but endure in the unme altitude of being about It us aitones. The instant his arme to kiss the decidedly pretty young loosen, however, she slaps him fult.

In the face. It is quite a slap. It "Well the young man says, "has questionable which Philipps wit it started?

reniomber the longest, the kiss or . The page boy blinked, "Er...the slap. The sound of it remounda not quite. You can sinil make it." through the house, and creates con- - "Delve on!"

niderable excitement. Philippe and the girl rise in thele, seats: the girl incolierent with rage.

Again the cab returns and again the scene is repeated,

"Well," says the young man. "Has It started?'

But this time tho page boy shaker his head. "Now you're too late. The picture has been on for three min- uten."

"You...you!" who sputter. Why thin la.......How dare you!”-

Philippe is suddenly aware that she is not Yvonne.

"Mademoiselle," he bega thought ...I...

***

"I don't care what you thought.". saya the young indy. "It's what you did!"

"Good," anys the young man, and he and the young lady get out of the cab. The page bey shaken his head in complete bewilderment. The house now is in an uproar. This strange occurrence which no The soreen goes dark; the gelskm. myatined the page boy has a flash on. Mombers of the audience. perfectly simple explanailan. The crowd around Philippa and the girl. young inan 1s Philippo Martin, na A lady Inquires solleitously of, fier netor, gay, handsome, and a littlo "Did he try to stent your bag?" too susceptible to beauty and ro- "Thatthal creature klased mance. Je has been carrying on a mal mik irtation with Yvonne, the

The audience is Parisian and lib- young wife of the Minister of Jua erol. A roar gaeg up, and there are tice. Yvonne enjoys the flirtation, cries of "Bravol Encore!" On thla but lu nervous, she will accompany good-humared noto the matter him to the cinema only when the might have ended, but in the nudi- platura has started and the bounelesco is an iron-jawed lady, Prest- Is darkened. Philippe ja beginning dont of the Society for the Proteo- to algh for the day when he saw tion of Publio Maralo. She senɖɔ a pictura at the beginning and stay for the pollco.

until the end,

The giri-cho is Monique Perelin, Philippe bays two tickels but daughter of the publisher of the they enter the theatro separately, Influential "Morning Journal"--has Yvonno going fleet, and being on by this time had enough of the corted alone to hor neat. It is then matter. She wanted no scene in ths Philippe's cus to take the reserved Drat place, and sha la prepared to logs seat bealde her. On this occa-accept Philippe's rather airy apalo- slon, however, thers is a slight dia-gy and call it quite. But Madama arrangement of nis plan, Yvonne's President is adamant. If a fland seat is No. 68: Philippo has No. 60. can so brutally naaault a young girl He holds his ticket upside down, in a pubija place, then no man's and the uebereits escorts him to daughter is safe. Not only is the loge sont No. 99. All unconscious manciity of young Parisian women- of the error, Philippe salties him- hood. In danger; the safety of the self comfortably boelda a young Republie itself is threatened. lady, mistaking her in the darkness

The gendarme artivos, and on for Yvonne. For a few minutes beMadame President's Insletenos, gives his attention to the picture takes the names of the parties con Hollywood Importation ut cerned. In their excitement. Mo nothing can hold Philippe's atton-nique and Philippe give their cor tion for long. He turns to the girl rect names and address, beside him.

* carry on," warns Madame Presidente "for the zake of all womankind."

"I hate blondes," he says vohe tently. The girl draws (wy from him nervously. She in a blonde.

On the screen there is a romantio

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