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TLANTICU RDIAN

NOVEMBER1 945

ST. JOHN'S, NEWFOUNDLAND

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CONTENTS

• General Articles

New Citizens for NewfoundlandBy Teel Meaney

Who's Who Among NewfoundlandersAbroad 10

Cruise in the Dorothy O. 16

Herring for Europe 19By Dick O'Brien

Cure for a "Sick" Nation 26By Brion Cohill

A Girl on Her W oy 28By Elizabeth Norrie

Dugouts 33By Paul Maher

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From to-day's research will come theWorld of Tomorrow. With the never·ending search for something better, moreefficient, a new way of life will beevolved. The pattern is already in theweaving, the plans are on the board.The makers of Nafco products are can·tinually seeking new ways and means ofproducing the finest heating and cookingunits possible.

• The Old Home Town - 7Curling8y A. 1. Borrett

• PoetryThese Sholl Not ReturnBy A. (it Scammell

The Ballad of Dog Hood DalyBy Re.... L G. Filzgerald

Teo in the lamplight Again!By Florence Miller

• FeaturesGuardian Angles

Newfoundland Newsletter

Pointed Paragraphs

West Coast Newsletter

The Editor's Page

This Month's Cover

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This interesting pre·war photo, fromthe deck of a Clarke Steamship Co. Ltd.steamer in St. A.nthony Harbor, isperhaps prophetic of post·war pleasurecruises In the Gulf of St. Lawrencewhich Clarke Line officials will beplanning as soon as their ships arereleased from war duty.

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• \Ve give you this month two newfeatures ~..-\ \\'est Coast :\'ewsletterand ~Iho's \<Vho among \"ewfound­landers Abroad. Dick O'Brien, whowill keep us in touch with \\"hat goes onin that up-and-coming section of thecountry where we have many friends, isstation announcer of YO\\-:\ at CornerBrook and compiler of the Gerald S.Doyle west-coast radio news bulletin.He is thus in a good position to keepabreast of current happenings and topass them on to A.tlantic Guardianreaders.

\\I"ho's V:ho among XewfoundlanclersAbroad is just that. .\ record of whathappened to and where now is youngJohnnie Jones who used to be in thebank at such and such a place, orl\Irs. McCarthy's youngest girl whomwe hear got herself a big job in Bostonor ;\few York. Interesting to New­foundlanders both at home and abroadas a month to month feature, \\I"ho's\Vho among l\ewfoundlanders .-\broadwill, we hope, acquire with the yearspermanent value as a record ·whichdocs not exist elsewhere.

•.Art Scammell's pocm, These ShallNot Return, is a deeply personal ex­pression like all real poetry. It never­theless, again like all real poetry, putsinto words what others from whom thewar has taken loved ones feel but can­not say. vVe are quite proud of it.

The result of personal experience alsois Paul ;Vlahcrs' "Dugouts". The first

Atlantic Guardian's PlatformTo make Newfoundland better

known at home and abroad;To promote trade and travel in

the Island;To encouraQe development of

the Island's natural resources:To foster qood relations between

Newfoundland and her neigh­bors.

contribution from a returned New­foundland serviceman (we hope to havemany more), it throws a sidelight onone of the seldom-mentioned but in­teresting little details that arc com­monly lost by those writing of the greatsweep and tragedy of war or recordingthe straight factual matters of an.historic period.

.In days when too many of :\'ewfound­land's sons and daughters for her owngood are going to other lands to seekthe opportunities which, it would beidle to deny, they do not. always get athome, it is encouraging- to read TedMeaney's story, :\'ew Citizens for >Jew­foundland. Strong men and womenused to and enjoying a rural life butwho have had some broadening ex­pcrience in other countries and will notaccept a low living standard as thenatural order of things arc needed in~cwfollndland. Ted :\leaney givesgood reasons why :\cwfoundlandshould take carl' to keep these newcitizens.

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ContributinqEditors:

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Charity·Anne Gallop

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ATLAnTIC GUARDIAn

Subscription Agents for Newfoundland andCanada:

Wm. Dawson Subscription Service, Ltd.,70 King Street East, Toronto, Onto

ATLANTIC GUARDIAN is pub­lished monthly by Ewart Young,1625 Lincoln Ave., Montreal 25,Quebec, Canada. Printed by Wood­ward Press Inc., Montreal. Sub­scription rates: Canada and New­foundland 51.50 per year; UnitedStates and all other countries 2.00.Sinltle Copies 15 cents (20c in U.S.),Entered as Second Class Matter atthe Post Office Department, Mont·real, Que. AU communicationsshould be addressed to the Editor.

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Tlte Mqgazine of Newfoundland

Vol. 1 No. 10 Montrtal, Qllt. November, 1945

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Newe~

Ifu NEWFOUNDLANDBy Ted Meaney

u.s. Army MP's helped bring the new citizensoshore.-DaiIY .VClIJS Photo by F"JlJ1..' Knmrdy

OF .\LL the" boy-meets-girlstories that have come out

of this war, the romance of l\ew­foul)dland Foresters in Scotlandis one tha t belongs to the historybooks. The big difference aboutthis storv is that three hundredand fifty; boys met three hund­red and fifty girls, married themand had a family of four hundredJ\ewfie-Scottish children. Onesunny afternoon in August,seventy-six of the boys camehome with seventy-six wivesand eighty-three children aboardthe Swedish repatriation shipDrottingholm.

,\s the great white mercy-ship,which has found home for thous­ands of "'ar-exiles, docked within

Seventy-six Foresters plus

seventy-six Scottish brides

plus eighty-three bonnie

bairns add up to a lot of

new blood for an old land.

f\ T L A :\ TIC G l] ,\ R D I .\ :\

the ancient gateway of St.John's Harbor, curious city-folklined the Battery Road andsqueezed onto the U.S..-\rmyPier below. Eager relatives whoswarmed half-way up the ganl'(­way were eased back and along line of i\l P's, Customsofficers, ~ urses, and even acouple of Colonels, filed ashoreeach carrying a baby wearing aridiculously large name-tag. TheCanadian ~aval Band playedAnnie Laurie, the babies bawledand spectators gaped, laughed,cha ttered and cheered wi th thefeeling that here was one happyending in a war in which happyendings are so few.

That e"ening I saw them allin a vacant ~aval hospitalwhere they were quartered toawait transport to new homesall over the island. They hadjust cleared the tables after sup­per and it was like walking in onsomething between a big house­party and a baby-show. lnlawsfrom nearb\' towns were thereto meet their new Scottishdaughters and see the babies.~early e"eryone was eating fruitand chocolate for which theyhad starved for five years. Theycouldn't get over the fact that itcould be bought without"coopins". Jack i\Iarshall's con-

The Foresters and their Scottisk brides crossed the Attantic on the Swedish ship "DroHingholm".The youngsters hod the run of the ship, most of the time keeping everybody else on the run.

All arrived safe and sound, however - still smiling. - Et'(IIi1I! Ttlrgralll Photo by A. O. YO/III/¢'

NEW CITIZENS FOR NEWFOUNOLAND

fectionery opposi te the hospi talon Quidi Vidi Road was prac­tically cleaned out.

THE CHILDREN TOOK OVERIn the main hallwav, Master

Charles Harris, for~,erly ofDumfriesshire, was poundingth underous discords ou t of thebase of an upright piano. Hismother sat patiently nearby.The noise didn't bother her.She just hoped Charles wouldn'tsmash the piano. The mothers,I learned, were inured to noiseafter that trip across. Thechildren took possession of theship and it needed a police forceof stewards to prevent Illutinyand keep the youngsters fromfalling overboard or getting lostin the engine room. \Yhen thesituation threatened to get outof hand, Swedish diplomats, whoare part of the Drottingholm'spermanent personnel, reached anunderstanding with the juvenileswhereby the Swedish Govern­1l1ent agreed to erect swings incertain reserved corridors if thelittle fellows would stop pl'\yingcommandos in the smokingroom. It worked.

Dishes rattled somewhere inthe rear of the building. I foundthe kitchen where the \VarBrides Committee had preparedthree hundred suppers. Theysaid that eyes, long accustomedto meag-re British rations,popped at the fruit and butteron the tables. There "'as a rowof bottles with milk formulasheating on an electric stove­another late supper and big

baby-noise from down the halltold who was waiting for it.

"The family wing" was once acon valescen t section for theNavy. [t was a warm night andheavy sleeping sui ts, special forthe sea-trip, added nothing tothe good humour of the children.One worried father who washaving trouble with a six-monthbundle told me that Pauline(the bundle) was used to thepowdered milk formula stan­dardized for Britain's wartimebabies by the Ministry of Foodand this canned milk formulawas too rich. If Pauline couldtalk she would probably telleverybody to get out and let agirl have her rest, and to heckwith the milk formula.

Louis, Wilma and Mary\Valsh, aged one to four, fatherLouis \Yalsh of Fleur de Lys andhis "'ife, a petite blonde fromLangholm, made up a lovelyfamily. Young Louis, sleepingheads and tails with \\'ilma, waswide awake. He was evidentlyimpressed by his first sight ofSt. John's Harbor. Betweenlicks on a candy bar he wastelling about the "big boots andthe wee boots and the boyeesswil1lt11in' j' the water", .~\n

unadulterated Scottish accentfrom a four-year-old child soundslike a language that might be­long peculiarly to children.

HAVE MUCH IN COM'I10N

[t was clear that all these solidmarriages could not be explainedsimply as boy-meets-girl, which

.\ T L .\ :\ TIC G U A R 0 I .-\ K

At the end of the trip there was a hearty reception. Hundreds of people lined the docks asthe parents, accompanied by the children, all of whom wore huge identification tags, landed.

- Daily X,-J:s Photo by Frank KUlfudy

NEW CITIZENS FOR NEWFOUNDLA"1D

is rather a perfunctory formulain wartime. :\ewfoundland boysmarry Scottish girls because,first of all, thev are so much likeourselves - hospitable, hard­working, homeloving, and God­fearing. In the :\orth they arelargely a rural people and pro­vincial in a cosy sort of way.There is probably some attrac­tion in the Scottish accen t too,certainly in the way they pro­nounce i\'ewfoundland which issomething like "ne-found-Iond".And, of course, Scottish womenare famous for their cookingwithout gas ranges and othermodern conveniences. They lisewood and coal-stoves the sampas we do and many 01 themdon't bother with stoves at all.One forester told me that thebest food he had ever tasted wascooked over the old-fashioned(and still common) Scottishfireplace with the oven set intothe bricks and the indispensable"girdle"- a heavy iron frying­pan wi th no sides - suspendedfrom an iron bar. Some of thewi ves searched the shops of St.John's looking for "Rirdles", ademand which, in hardwarestores, doubtless caused a liftingof eyebrows!

Newfoundland had a prioraffection for Scotland whichdates back to the First WorldWar when our famous New­foundland Regiment trainednear Inverness and did garrisonduty in Edinburgh Castle. Theywen t back to Scotland on fur­10URh, Scottish mothers wrote to

Newfoundland mothers and toldthem news abou t the boys andhow much everybody lovedthem.

At the\ beginning of World\Var II, another army of ourboys wen t to Scotland for a dif­ferent but still vital mission­this time to cut pitprops forBritain's coal mines. They werebilleted all over the WestCounties and places like Aber­deen, Inverness, Dumfries andLockerbie were second homes toboys from TwillinRate, CornerBrook, Flowers Cove and BonneBay.

HOW ROMANCE BEGANThe timber output of the

:\ewfoundland Unit was farahead of all others - Canadiansand British - but they had timeto meet the Scotch lassies a t RedCross affairs, in church, on thebus, in the usual wartime wayand sometimes in ways not sousual. Reg Squires and HaroldYoung, of Deer Lake, on theirsecond day in Scotland, werewalking throuRh a small villagein Deeside, minding their ownbusiness, when along came twoyoung ladies and politely askedthem for their identificationcards.

The boys, thinking this was aScottish way of getting ac­quainted, explained pleasantlytha t they had no cards, bu twould the girls like to take awalk) They would not and,moreover they were seriousabout this card business. At atime when l\azis were getting

(Continued on page 40)

'kJ1w.'4- 'kJIw.Among NEWFOUNDLANDERS

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BANK MANAGER

MAX E. PARSONS,Bank of Montreal,

Bedford, Que.

Born in Grand Bank in 1895, i\laxEvans Parsons lived for many years inHarbor Grace where his father, SelbyParsons, is now the oldest resident­at 89. He entered the service of theBank of Montreal in 1918 at St. John'sand held several managerships in theIsland, the last being at St. George's.Transferred to Head Office in Montrealin 1934, Mr. Parsons was in charge ofstaff at that office when appointed tohis present post as manager of theBedford, Que., Branch, in February,1945. Married in 1920 to Mabel

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Christian, sister of the latc GordonChristian, L.R..-\.l\I., Z\1r. Parsons isthe father of two girls - i\largaret, aLeading \"ren with the \V.R.C. .5., atHalifax, and Jean, a Commercial Artstudent in l\lontreal. He is interestedin club and general welfare activitiesand is fond of fishing and shooting­a liking developed in his younger daysin Newfoundland.

MINISTER

REV. HAROLD R. BURSEY, D.Th.,St. Andrew's United Church,

St. Laurent, P.Q.

Formerly of Old Perlican, T.B., sonof \\'m. J. Burse}' and the late Lily E.Bursey of the \Vhite House, St. John's,

WHO'S WHO .\~IO:\G NEWFOC:\DL.\!\DERS .\BROAD

Rev. Dr. Bursey began his career asa schoolteacher at Little Bay Islands,Haystack and Spencer's Cove. Enter­ing the ministry of the l\lcthodistChurch, he served as a probationer atRed Bay, Labrador, King's Point,N.D.B., and Burgee, receiving specialordination at Grand Falls in 1923. Thefollowing year he began his collegecareer at l\lcGill University and the\\'esteyan Theological College, graduat­ing in 1930. \\"hile attending college1\lr. Bursey built two churches. one at..-\huntsic and the other at l\lontrealNorth. He served for four years aspastor of l"!verton Charge in the

~:s~~dr~~~~_St~irs~u~~~t\~'~sl~~~~~~received his Doctor of Theology degreethrough post-graduate studies from\VebsLer Universil\' in the CnitedStates in July, 19.15. Dr. and l\lrs.Bursey - the former Constance l\LNorman of Bay Roberts - have oneson, Lewis Gerald, now a McGillstudent and winner of the LeonardFoundation Scholarship for 1944,awarded for high standing in FirstYear Science.

KEEPING IN TOUCHOne of the mo;n

purposes of

ATLANTIC GUARDIANis to link Newfoundlanders athome with Newfoundlandersabroad.

Whether you live in the oldland or elsewhere you willwant this magazine coming toyour home regularly.

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24 and 25.

HOTEL MANAGER

THOMAS H. MOYST,Hotel La Salle,Kingston, Onto

Born in St. John's in 1905, son of1\lrs..\mclia 1\loyst and the lateThomas F. 1\loysL, second engineer,who Rave his life in the line of duty onthe ill·fatcd 5.5. Caribou. Thomas H.l\loyst worked at a variety of jobs inNewfoundland - two years !;ailing theAtlantic on a schoon('r, one summer atthe limestone quarry at .\guathuna, aperiod as timekeeper for a constructioncompany at Deer Lake, and as anaccountant with the International Pulpand Paper Company at Corner Brook.Joining the staff of the Glynmill Inn atCorner Brook, where his mother nowresides, he moved up from desk clerk tomanager, a position he held for twelvevears. In l\larch, 19-13, he moved to;'roronto, Ontario, and secured a posi­tion as night auditor in the BritishEmpire's largest hotel - the RoyalYork. Seven months later he \\-asoffen..'<I the position as manager of theHotel La Salle at Kingston where he­has now bccon for two years.

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These Shall Not Return

Their broken dreams andhopes, forever slain, cry au tto us from earth and sea andsky:

tThis must not be invain!' "-

Dedicated to the 550 New­foundland soldiers, sailors.and airmen who gave theirlives in World War II, amongthem the author's brother,Sgt. B. T. Scammell, R.A.F..who rests in an Englishcemetery.

By A. R. Scammell

Tlw:-c shall not H'lUrJl.

Each in his hour on alien lands or seas,They read Death's contract, gauged the sacrifice,Then named their lo"'e<.l ones beneficiaries,And freely paid the priet'.

For olhers thert· will he glad we!comings,The station crowds, the mother's long caress,The kiss of wives, and warm, familiar thingsOf home, and peaCt' and rest.

These shall not return.Their wives and mothers sit alone and wait,And watch their happy neighbours down the street;Knowing they must not run toward the gate.F or one they will not meet.

These shall not rt'turn.They would have died again to spare you this.Th<.')' may not come and sit and talk with you,But in the silent places of the heart,They have home-comings too.

These shall not return.Yet they were young; they did not wish to die.Their broken dreams and hopes, forc\'er slain,Cry out to us from earth and sea and sky:"This must not be in vain!

"Guard justice, truth; these only stand at last;The bombless years may be a hidden snare;Give victory a meaning; hold it fast!\Ve leave with you the future; build it faid"

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The Old Home Town-7

CURLINGBy A. l. Barrett

From the pioneer days of the railroad to the present

boom period in herring, this busy Bay of Islonds town

has played a leading part in West Coast industry.

I t was on the 29th of Septem­ber, 1863, that the litlk schooner"Elmora", having on board twofamilies of illll1lig~al1ts fr0111 BaySt. Georg-e, sailed into the Bay ofIslands up the Humber Estuary,and just at sundown droppedanchor off the" orth side of theHumber .-\rm.

The vo~·ag-e. though occupying­only two or three days. was notwithout incident. and as a resultthe little band of adventurershad increased since the "El­mora" set sail froIII Sand," Point.Out into the (;ulf of S't. Law­rence, somewhere bet\reen Cape5t. Ceorge and the South head-

land of Bay of Islands the storkboarded the little vessel and pre­sen ted one of the two families ofpioneers wi th a bouncing babyboy. The stork's present is tothis day residing in the old home­stead in Curling then establishedby his parents, just 82 years ago.

Early morning following thearrival of this little band ofpioneers up the Humber, Wm.H. Bagg and Capt. CharlesParsons, master and owner of the"Elmora" put out their boat andpaddled to the South side of theArm.

A heavy forest of pine, spruceand birch extended to the sea­shore, coming to a place where alarge lIat rock extended from theshore at what was then known asBirchy Cove because of the greatgrowth of birch at that particularspot. The two young men de­cided it was a good place to haulup their boat. There they landedand set out to explore the sur­roundings, and stake out home­steads for themselves. So beganthe first settling of what is nowknown as Curling.

Fishing and lumbering wereamong the early industries, andstill hold a prominen t place.Hunting was an important andprofitable occupation in winter.Foxes and mink were quiteplentiful. Wolves were numer­ous and it was not safe to ven turefar without firearms. A frequentsight, both fall and spring, wascaribou swimming across theHumber Arm in their semi­annual migration tours.

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TRADED WITH CANADA

In those early days there wereno transportation or communica­tion facilities, no roads, no taxesand no law. People took or senttheir fish and other products toNova Scotia or to Quebec and inreturn brought back their sup­plies on which they paid noCustoms levy, and public housespaid no license fee. In the year1869 a still was operated on St.Mary's Brook by two mennamed Butt and Ross, who camehere from N ova Scotia. Besideswhat was disposed of locally, atleast one cargo of between 150and 200 tierce of whiskey wasshipped to Nova Scotia thatseason. Being contraband, thewhole cargo was seized by theNova Scotia authorities, and theoperators were put out of bus­iness. Not until 1877 was lawand order established and Cus­toms duties collected.

The coming of the trans­coun try railway in 1895 usheredin a new era for Curling. Withan inllux of population, newplaces of business were estab­lished and new industries wereintroduced, and Curling rapidlybecame the clearing port forother ports of the Bay of Islands,also for many places along theNorth-West Coast of Newfound­land.

In the fishing operations theherring industry holds majorplace today, having in the pastyear a market value of one and ahalf million dollars. The total

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CURLI:-IG

catch amounted to two hundredthousand barrels, and gave ~m­

ploymen t to more than twothousand persons.

In the past few years therehas been invested more than halfa million dollars in real estatealong the waterfron t of Curling,consisting of wharves, stores,packing stations, smoke houses,woodworking factory, machineshop, barrel factories, withothers in process of construction.Negotiations are also in progressfor the establishmen t of a coldstorage plan t.

Curling has electricity, bothfor ligh t and power, and a move­men t is now on foot for theinstallation of a public watersystem. At present many peoplenow have installed in theirhomes individual systems ofwater and sewerage; the amoun tso invested is estimated ataround one hundred thousanddollars. But the need is for apublic system and a greatersupply.

SOIL IS FERTILE

Agriculture at Curling is con­fined to kitchen gardening. Thereare some fine tracts of hin ter­land, but much of it is inacces­sible through the lack of roads.The soil at Curling is very adapt­able to fruit growing, and somevery fine apples, plums, cherries,and bush fruits are produced.The plum crop in an averageyear exceeds more than twothousand bushels. These consistof blue plums, damsons, and

several of the greengagevanetles. Fruit growing couldbe considerably developed ifthere was a grea ter source ofoutlet to take care of the surplus.There is an opportunity for theestablishment of a fruit cannery.There is also opportunity for theestablishment of several otherindustries with cheap electricalpower and shipping facilitiesavailable.

Curling is not an incorporatedtown, and consequently thereare no municipal taxes. Thispossibly is a detriment ratherthan an advantage to the com­munity. The past ten yearsthere has been a dearth of publicimprovements, except by indi­vidual effort. The Commissionof Government maintains acoercive attitude: llyou mustincorporate or we will do nothingfor you in the way of localservices and public improve­ments." Such an attitude ismore or less resen ted by thepeople. They dislike beingdriven.

However, with incorporationwould come taxes, so also wouldfollow public services and im­provemen ts borne by the wholecommunity and not by a few,moved either by personal motiveor public spirit. And as allwould contribute to the improve­ments, so also would all share inthe benefits, having the consola­tion tha t they, too, helped tomake Curling a better place inwhich to live.

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Something new in vacation voyages - a fish-laden

banking schooner becomes a private yacht for a party

of Montrealers seeing the sights in Newfoundland.

I.1

Vacationing in Harbor Grace,Newfoundland, in July of thisyear, Mr. H. Perkins, Secretary­Treasurer of Asbestos, Ltd.,Montreal, was invited by Skip­per Johnny Rose of the bankingschooner Dorothy O. to take alittle trip on the water. Mr.Perkins, who takes to the waterlike a duck although he has livedin Montreal most of his life,didn't waste any time gettingdown to Crosbie's & Co.'swharf. With him were his wife,also an ardent sailor despite her

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city background, and Mr. andMrs. George Sheppard of Mont­real, former Harbor Gracians ontheir first visit home in ten years.

Mr. Perkins and partythought it might amount to asail around the harbor in one ofthe banker's dories - at most amotor boat outing. But to theirgreat surprise and satisfactionthey found themselves invitedaboard the Dorothy O. SkipperJohnny Rose, it seems, doesn'tbelieve in half measures. In afew moments the 140-ton ship

CRl:ISE I'.: THE DOROTHY O.

was sailing down the harborheaded in the direction of a gian ticeberg which Skipper Rosethought his city-bred guestsshould see at close quarters.

:\. lot of things about his visitto Newfoundland impressed ;\1r.Perkins, for instance the sceneryalong the Humber River, thefishing in Dennis Pond nearHarbor Grace, and a night'scamping under a piece of sailduck 6 feet by 4 feet. But thereal highlight of the trip was thecruise in Conception Bay aboarda full-rigged banker with a$17,000 catch of codfish belowdecks.

SOLD ON 'EWFOUNDLAND

SO enthused, indeed, was l\Ir.Perkins that on his return toi\lontreal he made a bee-line forthe office of Atlantic Guardianto tell the editors about it and todisplay the pictures which arereproduced on these pages.

. Naturally, l\Ir. Perkins is com-pletely sold on :\ewfoundlandand is already looking forwardto his next visit.

:'IIr. Perkins was struck bythe warm-hearted ness and in­formalit" of :\ewfoundlanders."Take, 'for example", he said"Uncle John Sheppard, managerof Crosbie's Fish Plant at Har­bor Grace. I don't know whoseuncle he really is, but to every­body in the plant and, in fact,Harbor Grace in general - it'sUncle John. He's a real :\few­found lander with all the dry

humor and wit that is so typicalof :\ewfoundland".

It was "Uncle John" who wasresponsible for the introductionof Skipper Johnny Rose to the:'Ilontrealers. Capt. Rose comesfrom Hermitage Bay on thesouth-west coast and is a veteranof 20 years' fishing on the GrandBanks. ",\ real sea-dog and agreat guy", said i\fr. Perkins.

The Skipper took great painsto see that his guests enjoyedthemsel ves. The cruise lastedabout five hours, during whichthey circled the iceberg as closelyas possible to give the visitors achance to see its massi ve peaksand admire the multi-coloredforma tions. I t was one of thelargest bergs ever seen in thebay, estimated at nearly 200feet in height.

When they got back to HarborGrace, Skipper Rose invited hisguests down to the forecastlewhere his cook had been busyduring the trip preparing a "feedof Hagdowns - described assalt-water birds so nlllnerous onthe Banks that the fishermenhave difficulty in keeping themfrom stealing the bait on theirhooks. "But the" are deliciousto eat", :'Ilr. Perkins stated,Hand we sure will remember thatfeed".

Atlantic Guardiall ,is ah.t'avsglad to hear from people who ha'"e"isited .Vewfoundland and to gettheir im/Jressions. whether theseare for publication or lIot Editor.

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"Uncle" John Sheppard poses with hisMontreal friends - Mrs. Sheppard, George

Sheppard and H. Perkins.

Surrounded by rope and dories, Mrs. Perkinswatches one of the crew at work. The ladies

were quite at home on the schooner.

The Dorothy O. circled the giant icebergwhile the party took pictures. SkipperJohnny Rose {right} gave his guests a goodtime, wound up the cruise with a "feed" of

solt-water birds.

_ Photos by fl. PtrkillS

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HERRING FOR EUROPEBy Dick O'Brien

Herring is big business in Newfoundland these days, especially in picturesque Boy of Islandswhere a large port of UNRRA's 200,OOO-barrel order will be filled. Above, the busywaterfront at Curling where the herring, packed in barrets, begins its long journey to Europe'swar-impoverished larders. - Photos by Dick O' Britn

Early in September two 5,000­ton ships charted by the New­foundland Railway arrived inCurling to load herring packedlast year for the United :\ationsRelief and Rehabilitation Ad­ministration. The total con­tract, negotiated by the :\ew­foundland Fisheries Board, wasfor one hundred thousand barrelsof split hard-cure herring packedin pickle and was filled largely bythe industry in Bay of Islands,though at the beginning therewas some skepticism as to how

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Newfoundland could fill such alarge order on short notice.

However, when it had beenexplained by the :\ ewfoundlandFisheries Board tha t the onehundred thousand barrels ofherring would help in alleviatingthe food shortages in the liber­ated countries. no time was lostin getting the pack started.Fishermen, factory workers andpackers were soon organized tohandle the U:\ RR.-\ order.

Two months ago RaymondGlIshlle, Chairman of the :\ew-

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found land Fisheries Board, \I'enton the air and broadcast aspecial message to fishermEn andpackers alike. "I ha"e greatpleasure in stating", \If. Gushuedeclared, "that an amount ofherring-, in excess of the onehundred I housand barrels con­tracted, was packed in sectionsof :\ewfoundland during lastseason. This is sureh' attribut­able to the fine manner in whichthe fishermen and the packersworked in harmon,'." :\11'.Gushue ,yen t on to speak of thedela\' which has taken place inthe -shipping of this herringfrom :\e,doundland. The properships were not available, but hepromised that everything pos­sible would be done bv the :\ew­found Fisheries Boa;d to havethe balance of the herringshipped from :\ewfoundland be­fore October.

1,500 MEN ENGAGEDThe total amount of herring

packed for UNRRA in Bay ofIslands during the 1944-'45 sea­son is said to be in the vicinity ofsix tv thousand barrels valued atapP;'oxil11ately one. million dol­lars on tne foreign market. Thenumber of packers, big andsmall, contributing to this isabout 90, though by far thegreater amount \I'as packed bythe eleven leading packers of thearea with premises on the Curl­ihg waterfront. Some six hllJl­dred fishermen were paid tHreedollars and t\l'en t ,'-seven cen tsper barrel, a;ld 50;11e nine hun­dred- other Tllen were eng-aged itl

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the processing and packing ofherring- at the various plants.

It was not until June of thisveal' that the first of this her­~ing- packed in Ba,' of Islands

(Colltiuued ON paJ!.e ";2)

Fifty thousand barrels of herring havealready been shipped from Boy of Islandson UNRRA order. Fishermen ore now en­gaged in securing the new season's catch ona bigger scale than ever before. Above,George B.asha of M. G. Bosha and 5on5,Curling, is shown tollying barrels aboard

5.S. Cedarton.

NEWFOUNDLAND EWSLETTEHBy Ted Meaney

• \Vartime establishments in'ewfoundland are being turned

to peace time purposes. TheBritish American Oil Company(capitalized at $150,000,000)which recently bought out theUnion Oil Company, is takingover the Canadian 0:avy'selaborate fueling system of tanksand pipe lines anchored in therocky brow of the hills on thesouth side of St. John's Harbour.,This, incidentally, gives the Im­perial Oil its first real competi­tion in :\ewfoundland.

Out on Topsail Road, threemiles west of St. John's, theDepartment of Public Health isalmost ready to take over thethree-hundred-bed :\aval Hos­pital which will be used as an

. adjunct to the GovernmentSanatorium nearby. The NavalHospital "No.2" on Quidi VidiRoad will be utilized for specialtreatment of tuberculosis bonepatients.

The Department of Publi.Health has never felt quite athome in the museum buildingafter the priceless array of :\ew­foundland relics was evictedand scattered to half a dozen

store-houses around the country11 years ago. The Governmentis now planning to restore themuseum to its own home andset up the Health Department inthe vacant Naval Buildings atFort William. The Departmentof :\atural Resources will sharethe same buildings.

These buildings are owned bythe British :\dmiralty whose onlystipulation as regards tenancywas a typically British proviso:" ... in the even t of another warthe buildings will revert to the.-\dmiralty."

•.-\Ithough the peak of wartimeprosperity in :\ewfoundland waspassed late in 1942, nationalearnings have held a high levelfar above the expected slumpwhich glooming predictions pro­mised after completion of baseconstruction work. The primaryindustries, fishin~, logging, min­ing, paper making still have thehighest payrolls. In liberatedEurope and in the traditionalmarkets of Spain, Portugal, \VestIndies opened up once again withthe .-\tlantic Ocean free of U­boats, there is a high price de­mand for salt codfish. This is

War projects find peacetime use - Ilero's widow visits Port Rexton ­National earnings at high level - Coal drops jOe. per ton - T.B. Asso­

ciation making color movie.

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supplemen ted by new marketsin the U.K. and .S..-\. for freshfrozen cod. i\lost of our fisher­men have done well this season,particularly Bank fishermen.The Labrador fishery was theonly exception which broughtreturns below last year. Thebiggest single boost is theUNRRA Contract for 200,000barrels of salt cured herringwhich will boost fishermens earn­ings by 3 million dollars. i\lostof the herring is destined to feedliberated Europe.

Loggers cutting pulp wood forthe paper mills are among thehighest paid laborers in theIsland. Roland L-:lms of SopsArm, White Bay, probably holdsthe record with an average ofS14.00 per day for nineteen daysrecorded on Bowater's timesheet last month. In one dayElms cut and piled six and one­quarter cords of pulp wood, all ofwhich passed inspection. Elms,the champ, is a man of mediumbuild, weight about one hundredand seventy pounds, with noth­ing extraordinary about his phy­sique except massive shoulderand arm muscles. The secret ofwood-cutting, he says, is ac­curacy rather than brutestrength,- to make every swingof the axe count.

Bell Island i\1 iners, sixteenhundred of them, are workingfull time digging and blasting4,000 tons of iron ore per dayout of the sloping shafts runningtwo miles under the AtlanticOcean. Their weekly payroll is

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S6,OOO and, with British steelmarkets taking more ore thanever, the future looks bright forthe I ron Isle.• Keeping warm in :"ewfound­

land is still an expensive pro­position in winter. Hard coalfor hall stoves and furnacescosts S35.00 per ton. Soft coalis 23.50. Citizens have beenwriting letters to the papersabou t the cost of coal andeditorials have harped on thesubject for the past three years.Last mon th the Departmen t ofSupply reduced the ceiling oncoal by SOc. a ton, representinga saving for the average house­holder of about 2.00 during thewin ter. Hard pressed house­holders thought this was funny.On second though t they wereprobably thankful that the pricewas not increased.• On i\lay 22, 1944, Mrs.i\linnie Squires, a pretty dark­haired widow of Port Rexton,Newfoundland, smacked a bottleof champagne against the bow ofa ten-thousand-ton Liberty shipin Brooklyn shipyard and sent itdown the ways, christened theJOSEPH SQUIRES after herdead husband.

Joseph Squires, formerly ofSalvage, Bonavista Bay, quithis job at Bethlehem Shipyardsin Brooklyn in 1942 and signedon as a seaman aboard an oldHog Islander called the i\laidenCreek, en route to \Vabana,Newfoundland, for a load ofiron ·)re. Squires gave up a bigmoney shore job because, as he

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explained it, he could "do a moreuseful war-job in the merchantmarine."

On that trip the old YlaidenCreek ran into a forty-eight hourstorm. Heavy seas combed herfore and aft and leaks weresprung in a half a dozen places.On the third night out the skip­per gave the order to abandonship. There was no chance ofgettin': the boats away. unlessvolunteers stayed behind to tendthe falls. Joseph Squires andanother shipmate stood on theboat-deck of the sinking shipuntil all the boats were away,taking thirty men to safety.Squires and his mate went downwith the ship.

At the christening of theLiberty ship 1\1 rs. Squires re­ceived the D.S.C., awarded post­humously to her husband with acitation from President Roose­velt. Last week !\Irs. Squireswas visiting her home in PortRexton, proudly wearing themedal. She intends to go back toher job with the Vulcan ProofingCompany, Brooklyn. There shesupervises the manufacture ofrubber life rafts for shipwreckedsailors.• Things are looking up in thetown of Harbor Grace which hasseen better and harder timesthan any town in the Island.The new Town Council, set upafter the fire which sweptthrough the business district lastsummer, is laying new watermains and rebuilding streets andimproving public se~vices.

Many homes are already re­built, some of them with ma­terials from dismantled Cana­dian Army Camps. Pikes havebuilt a modern hotel and FrankArchibald has another underconstruction nearby. Crosbiesare shipping out thousands ofquintals of bank fish and Moores'filleting plan t nearby is workingat capacity. Simmons Brothershave started a paper bag factoryand McKay's Shoe factory isopera ting again and providingemployment for returned sol­diers. Imperial Oil is planning toerect fuel storage tanks there tosupply bankers and other vessels.

• An All-Newfoundland moviein technicolor, directed and actedby :\ewfoundlanders for localaudiences, is now being filmed bythe :\ewfoundland TuberculosisAssociation as a special featurein its educational program.Funds from last year's sale ofChristmas Seals contributedfrom all over the Island are pay­ing for the picture which is en­titled "The Silent Menace."Photography is under the direc­tion of Lee Wulff, who has takenover 75,000 feet of film in New­foundland during the past eigh tsummers for the Tourist Bureau,United States Army and others.Dr. James McGrath, AssistantDirector of Medica! Services,Department of Public Health, isnarrator in the film and authorof the scenario. :VI rs. EllaBerger is Ylr. VJulff's assistan t.

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Cure For A "Sick" NationBy Brian Cahill

IT IS very hard to write an"answer" to an article such as

Philip Henry's "A Whole '\a­tion is Sick."

:\s a '\ewfoundlander you areangry and ashamed to be sopilloried before 2,000,000 readersand thrown into white-lippedand inarticulate fury by suchunnecessary and untrue state­ments as "American servicemen... discovered ... the gift mostesteemed by many l\ ewfound­land girls was a set of good"store teeth."

.-\s a reporter you are dis­gusted that Mr. Henry shouldbe allowed to g-et away with awhole article based upon theentirely false premise that thesurvey recently made by a g-roupof U.S. and Canadian doctorswas made on lIa representativecross section of the island's320,000 population." :\ littlereal research would have re­vealed to 1\1r. Henry that the

survey was made of only a fewhundred people picked not "atrandom in different types ofcommunities" but deliberatelyamong people considered likelyto be suffering from the type ofdeficiency diseases which thedoctors wished to study. Thisalone upsets the theme that "awhole nation is sick" and con­victs 1\1r. Henry of the cardinalreportorial crime of not check­ing his facts.

But even a bad reporter de­veloping an unbalanced storybased upon a false premise canbring up some startling factsand, as a reasonable person try­ing not to let emotion interferewi th j udg-emen t and concernedfor the real welfare as much asthe passing reputation of yournative country, you cannot dis­miss ":\ Whole Nation is Sick"as containing nothing whateverof the truth about Newfound­land.

Almosl as soon as the October .1[agazine Digest hit the stands, we wereinundated with calls from subscribers drawing our attention 10 thearticle, "A Whole Nation is Sick", in that issue and asking us what wewere going 10 do about il. After due consideration in editorial session,it was agreed thai Associate Editor Brian Cahill undertake to giveAtlantic Guardian's views on Ihe mailer. Readers will note that the"reply" given herewith is directed as much to those in authority inNewfoundland and Ihe Newfoundland people in general as it is to.Mr. Philip Henry and the editors of .Magazine Digest. - Ewart Young.

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CURE FOR A "SICK" NATION

It is the human and naturalthing to retreat from unpleasantfacts and when these facts arepresented unfairly and in an in­sulting manner, it takes morethan ordinary bigness of natureto recognize them and do some­thing about them. Thus "To­bacco Road", a play depictingthe sordid lives of ignorant andstarving llshare-croppers" in theSouthern United States is notpermitted to be staged in manysuch states. The southerner re­fuses to face facts presented tohim in what he considers aninsulting manner. The samething applies elsewhere. NovaScotians do not take kindly toexposes of working and livingconditions in the coal mines andEnglishmen become highly in­dignant if you tell them thatLimehouse slums are an abom­ination before the Lord.

MEASURES MUST BE BASICFacts, however I are cruel and

cold things and it is a fact thatNewfoundland's infant andadult death rate is scandalouslyhigher than it should b,. andthat the results of a criminallystupid and cruel policy of a baresubsistence dole ration over aperiod of years are now becom­ing apparent particularly in theyounger generation of New­foundlanders. These facts mustbe faced and something must bedone abou t them.

That something must be basic.Vitimanized flour and cookinglessons and increased social ser­vices are not enough. They are

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not even the beginning of asolution. Vague talk aboutraising the educational standardof the people is a lot of baloneyalso.

What the country needs isthat heads of families go homeat regular intervals with enoughcash money in their pockets tobuy their wives and childrengood food, good clothing, goodmedical services, a radio, and afew books - with, perhaps, anoccasional bottle of beer, and ahandful of good cigars for thehead man himself.

The responsibility for bringingthis about rests upon theGovernment and the people ofNewfoundland. Newfoundlandmust embark now, not nextmonth or next year, but now,on a program of selling New­foundland's products abroad, at­tracting reputable industries tothe country and seeing that theprimary producer, the fishermanand the lumberman get not onlya "fair" share but by far thegreatest share of the cash moneythat must exist somewhere whenmillions of dollars worth ofpaper, fish and minerals arebough t and paid for.

The Government must adoptbold measures that go to theroot of the problem. It mustrealize that the need for such aprogram supersedes the need forincreased education and socialservices and if, unfortunately,there must be a choice betweenthat program and one solely ofeducation and social services the

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A GIRL ON HER WAYIt's a long step from Bayley's

Cove School to McGill Un i-

versity in Montreal, but she

won a McConnell Memorial

Scholarship and 17-year-old

Hilda Tremblett is on her way.

By Elizabeth Norrie

Hilda Tremblett, of Bona­vista, :'\Tewfoundland, is a girlwith a future. She is 17 and shelooks 14, and she is the holderof one of the top-ranking scholar­ships which Canada's l\IcGiliUniversity has to offer.

Her story begins in Septem­ber, 1944, when McGill Uni­versity announced the creation,by J. \Y. McConnell, l\lontrealpublisher and industrialist, of anumber of scholarships, coveringtuition fees and cost of board andresidence for the full periodnecessary for the holder to ob­tain an arts or science degree(provided the standard of workwas maintained). Open to stu­dents resident in Canada or!\ewfoundland, the McConnellMemorial Scholarships, as theywere called, were established"as a memorial to the gallan tmen and women from :\lcGiliUniversity who have given their

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lives for the defence of Canada,in order that outstanding youngCanadians who could not other­wise afford to come to theuniversity may equip themselvesto play a brillian t part in thefuture development of this Do­minion."

From !\lontreal the sceneshifts to Bonavista, ;'-iewfound­land, where Central School Prin­cipal R. J. Horwood heard of thenew l\1 cGili scholarships, andimmediately thought of one ofhis four grade XI pupils~ six­teen year-old Hilda Tremblett,daughter of fisherman StewartTremblett of that town. It wasMr. Horwood who later sentaway for the application forms

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and who persuaded Hilda torecord thereon her 88 per cen tstanding in the June finals.

Then came the summer holi­days, and Hilda went off toi\lemorial College. in St. John's.She took a five weeks course andbecame a "third grade" teacher.September came around, andHilda went to Greenspond totake charge of 19 pupils ingrades one to fi VI" in the t\l'O­room school there. :\nd it \I'as inGreenspond, after a teachingcareer of exactly one week thatthis fair-haired, blue-eyed slip ofa girl received a telegram sayingthat she had been chosen for a:\lcConneli :\Iemorial Scholar­ship.

Without the scholarship, acollege deg-ree for Hilda would,at the present time, have beenou t of the question. :\ Ir. andi\lrs. Tremblett didn't muchlike to think of Hilda away offin Montreal, "but," said Hilda,"they wouldn't stop me fromhaving a colleg-e education foranything in the world."

And so Hilda left Bonavistaand her paren ts, and brothersHarry and Bill; stopped brieflyin Gambo, to visit 21-Year-oldschoolteacher sister, Evelyn, andarrived in :\Iontreal one weeklater, ready for all that :\IcGilican offer. If she has her way,it'll offer plenty in the way ofcourses in mathematics - IIIjust love math, and I'm anxiousto begin work - I don't likehaving nothing to do." shesaid when inteT\'ie\l'ect 2-l hours

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after her arrival on the campus.(Her "10"1"" for mathematics isobviously justified by her g-radeX I standing- of 93 per cen t inalg-ebra, trigonometry and g-eom­etry.)

She was all read" to like:\Iontreal, though she'admitted,after one da,' of Canadian citylife. that she missed the g-oodfresh air of home, '''Tis dustyhere," was her COllllllen t.

Head of her class all throughschool, Hilda was first a pupilat Bade,"s Cove L'nited ChurchSchooL transferring, after g-radeVIII to Central I'nited ChurchSchool. She's not quite surewilat she wants to be, but teach­ing- is probably the career she'llchoose. "\\'hatever I find I cando best, is what I should do,"she said, shyly, when asked herplans. For she is shy, this clear­skinned youngster with a jollylaug-h and a love of sports and ofthe ou tdoors.

But when she speaks of thework she's prepared to do at:\ IcGil!, a note of con fi<;lencecomes in to her voice. It's aconfidence well justified by heracademic record,

:\nd so Hilda Tremblett, from:\'e\l'foundland, along- with fourother holders of i\fcConnell 1\11"­moria I Scholarships (hailingfrom British Columbia, :\Ibertaand :\lanitoba) has arrived in;\Iontreal to take her placebeside young- Canadians work­ing to equip themselves "toplaya brilliant part in the futuredevelopment of this Dominion."

The Ballad ofDog Hood DalyBy Rev. L. G. Fitzgerald

My Goodness! Who'd a thought it, when young Frank went off to BostonAnd left me livin' all alone, in Bonavista Bay?But he got good edjacation, Iivin' with his mother's uncle­That was nearly thirty year ago - he's forty·two today.And he's managin' a branch here, fer a firm in U.S.A.

Now, I'm livin' in the City here, with fine things all around me,"Vith clothes galore and fancy grub, and money in the bank;All the same I can't help wishin' that he'd left me where he found me,I'm too ole a man fer gaiety, and never used to swank-And I'm tired a pretendin' that I like it here, to Frank.

Now, he's Francis Daly, junior, and he calls me Dad and Father;Somehow I'd kinda sooner when he used to call me Da,He wasn't like a stranger there, at home in Sandy Harbor,The three of us were happy then - may God be good to Ma ­And what care I fer servants, talkies, bridge and prattle ... Bah!

I am lonesome in the midst of crowds, and poor, with worldly riches;How foolish all this struggle and this worry seems to be!The rush to get to Nowhere, and the strain to finish Nothin'­All the senseless strivin' tenseness in the faces that I see;But it all can't buy Contentment - that's the strangest thing to me.

They just bought me a Tuxedo, but they won't get it on me though!Just think what Uncle Neddy Green and Skipper Joe would doIf they saw me silk pyjamas, all bedecked with Russian dragons,And the colored scent the barber used, to give me a shampoo,Or the dinner coat I had to wear at gran'daughter's dayboo!

Just think a me, who used to be at homc, "Ole Dog Hood" Daly,Bein' told by grown wimmen that I'm "Just too, too divine"-If that reaches home I'm finished with me mates in Sandy Harbor.Tholl~h I'm strong and straight - come May the eight I'll then be sixty-nine­But I d never live to raise again this ole, white head a mine.

But no one sees that herabout - they think I should be happy;So I left me friends and fish in' gear to give their plans a try,But the North keeps on a-callin' - I can see it's no use stallin' ­Keeps a-tuggin' at me heartstrings till a mist comes to me eye,And I wished they had learned to let a 91eepin' Dog Hood lie.

TOW I'm sittin' in an easy chair and gazin' at the fire,Before a green-tiled fireplace, where the servants call me "Sir"­But I miss me flour-barrel chair and barrel-oven cooker,And the smell of birch, and cracklin' of dry juniper and fir,And the appetizin' odor of a good salt water tur.

\Vha's one cup a tea to the likes of me, in fancy egg-shell china?Her-doves, and chicken a la mud - or any furrin dish-Like noodles, lilac sherbot, apertifs and bullyun,Mackey roons and sparrow grass? \Vhen all I do is wishFer doughboys, brewis, fresh cod's heads, or a bit of watered fish.

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THE Bc\LL\D OF DOG HOOD D.\LY

The smells and sounds a I\ewfoundland are not here in the City­The smell of bark and oakum, and the nc\v bass rope and twine,or pitch and tar in springtime, and the scent of hay in summer,And the burnin' turf in autumn, and the tangy smell a brine­:\h! that makes revivin' incense for this sad ole heart a mine.

The hearty hail from loaded skiffs, all racio' fer the harbor,And sinkin' to the gunnels with fresh, squirmin', lashin' cod,The music of accordeons across the Gut in summer,The happy song of plough men turnin' over new spring sod,And the merry sounds a Xature, all proclaimin' i'\ature's God.

Raindrops on the cottage roof, the rooster's call at dawnin',Seas that thunder on the beach, dwies on the window pane,The howl of dogs at midnight from far off a-down the valley,The motor boats at daybreak, and the raulin' of a chain­Oh, I'd give a thousand years a this to know it once again.

I can see the schools a caplin now, that roll along the beaches,.-\nd the gleamin' shoals where herrin' sparkle, in the midday sun,The leapin' silver salmon in the clear pools in the river,And the evening-star a-twinklin' all alone when day is done-Oh, I wish you'd see - at least fer me - that this is LIFE, my son.

For the roarin' seas on headlands are forever callin', callin',And tht· skies above the Sugar Loaf where carded clouds are curled;The sunsets, red and amber, where the sun sinks in the oceanTo wash the day's grime from his face - where lathered foam in swirled,.\nd groom - another day to cheer - that top·knot a the world.

I still can hear the ole church bell, on silent Sunday mornin's,\Vhen a Sabbath hush is over all and everything is still,.-\nd the honest, hearty neighbors quietly talk of !ish and weather,After Mass and Benediction, grouped around the Chapel Hill ­Or on Sunday cvenin's saunter to the ruined water mill.

"Young fella boy! Don't lose it", punctuating ole come-all-yees,\Vith a bull's-eye to the wood box at the end of every verse;Crude and backward you may call it - just an outport bumpkin's pastime­But it never hurts our neighbors, our salvation, or our purse,And I know of City pastimes that are certainly much worse_

Can you blame me if I'm dreamin' of me rOOlll in Sandy Harbor,Of me skifT, beached underneath the flake fornenst the empty stage,Of the wood-pile and potaty ground, beside the white-washed cottage,And the horny-handed "Skippers"- tough, but mcllowin' with age,\\·ho yarn and arg' fer hours, and then end up in a rage?

I wonder do they miss me - me ole lobster pots and killicks,The woodhorse and the cellar, the ole stable and the store,The punt I built two year ago, just purposely fer gunnin',.And the little .ole back kitchen, where the kittle sang of yore?Do they whisper "\\-here's our lover? \\'ill he see us any more?"

I am comin' back, ole cottage - tell the lobster pots and killicks;Your faded walls, me cracked ole chanties, never did annoy;I'll clear your garden path of weeds and mend the picket fences,And bathe me cramped and stifled soul and chuckle like a boy,And I'll live to be a hundred in your clean, sweet, simple joy.

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Yes, I'm comin', ole white cottage-tell me gunnin' punt and kittle;Back to the woods and barrens where the hare and bull-moose roam,Back to the peaceful meadows, to the skiff moored on the collar,Back to the c1eansin' breezes purified by ocean foam -] could kiss the very beach rocks in my sea-girt, Qlltport home.

Father Gray, OUf pastor, told me - and it seems the good man knew it­(And, thank God, I took his counsel then, and did not sell a thing)"Old oaks can't thrive in flower pots, and whales can't Jive like goldfish,This is not good-bye, ole sea-dog - I'll see you in the spring".Yes, please God, the month of May will hear my cork in' mallet ring.

Then I'll breeze again before the wind, a-singin' at the tiller,Racio' Uncle Ned and Skipper Joe across the harbor bar,In the sport fer kings I'll revel, fearing neither man nor devil­Where the sea gulls dive fer herrin', like a swiftly fallin' star,I'll be smokin' good black baccy - not a twenty-cent seegar.

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SHIP FISH BY AIR

Regular air shipments of fresh fishfrom Prince Edward Island to 1\[ont­real may be operating within a fewweeks if plans now in a formative stateare completed, states a Canadian Pressdespatch from Charlottetown.

Details of the setup were not avail­able immediately, but it was learnedthat three former members of theR.C.A.F. are planning to fly tish toMontreal, using a Canso aircraft.They plan to make 20 round flightsmonthly.

CLOSER TRADE TIES

Returning from a business trip toKcwfoundland, ]. H. Norton, trafficmanager of the Canadian NationalRailways, :hlantic Region, said, "thathe was favourably impressed \\lith thefuture business possibilities betweenCanada and Newfoundland," accordingto a C.P. story from Moncton, N.B.He particularly mentioned the increas­ing production of frozen fish in New­foundland, which has been going to theUnited Kingdom, but will undoubtedlyhave to find a North American market.

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TO THE TRAVELLING PUBLICOF NEWFOUNDLAND ,

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DUGOUTSBy Paul Maher

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Travelling through north-westEurope with the 59th (l\ew­foundland) Regiment R.A.. , Isaw, through the medium ofholes in the ground, the dif­ferences inherent in the Germanand the English peoples.

Take a German dugout. It isbuil t for one purpose and oneonly: War. Individual traits ofworkmanship are absolutelynon-existent. The dugouts areall the same - monotonous foot­steps, not of an army of men. butof a single giant creature, hikingforever backwards, yet neverforgetting to be the same.

ALL WERE THE SAME

See them in France: Five feetlong, four feet deep, eighteeninches wide; never an inch tospare, never a loosened stoneresting on its floor. One afteranother they are iden tical.

See them in Belgium, Holland,and Germany: Back the Germangoes, but his dugout neverchanges. Five by four by

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eigh teen inches. Did he digthem wi th his hand trowel or asmall spade? We could hardlybelieve it. The walls were asstraight and smooth as a table­top. Look where you may, nota single ridge between spade­cuts could be discerned. Theundulating wavy pattern com­mon to such a project was en­tirely absent in the abandonedshelters of the back-trackingHerrenvolk.

\Vhen they were covered itwas with logs of not under sixinches in diameter, the wholesprinkled with earth and boughs.The German covered well, or notat all, as he does most things.

So before we saw Germany,we knew Germany and Gennans.

..\ nation, the people of whichhad lost all individualitv - whoworked, ate, and slept to a plan.Eighty-two million people withone mind, the mind of the State,performing all tasks as bidden,regardless of personal dictates.

.c\ German dugout was nevera tem porary home. Never, neverdid it strive to give relaxation,a little sense of peace, of home.Always it was a dugout. TheGerman war was the same - awar wi thou t though t of peace;and as in 1918, noll' again in1945 this was their undoing.

WAR FOR WAR'S SAKE

The German people, indeed,fought a total war. Too total.They ousted the word "peace"from every mind, banished itfrom every border. Deep inwar they for>:ot all things relat-

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DUGOUTS

ing to the object of their strug­gle. In the end they were fight­ing war for war's sake. Lookingnever backwards, nor ever to­wards the future, all energieswere concentrated on the pre­sent black murderous war.Their eyes, focussed too rigidlyon the means, had becomeoblivious of the end. Germanydestroyed herself.

In the field the arch-enemiesof the Germans were the English.They built their dugouts likewee homes. They capturedsomehow a restful atmosphere,a breath of peace, even in clay,installed themselves in com­parative comfort, and brewedtea in inconceivable condi tionsand on all occasions. This, theysaid, is my home. I will placehere a picture of my wife andson. I will defend it to the lastbecause it is my home. Thissoil, through dirt, struggle, dis­comfort and bloodshed I havecaptured. I t is now English soiland I refuse to be parted fromit, come what may.ENGLISH DUGOUTS DIFFERENT

The English built mostly on alarger, roomier scale. Neglectingfor not a moment all the prin­ciples of safety and strategicnecessity, they built for twooccupants. To talk of home andloved ones, of cricket and Char­ing Cross was as much of theEnglish war as ever fightingcould be. Keeping so much ofpeace abou t them, they had everbefore their minds the object forwhich they were fighting. Their

(Continued on page 44)

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sections extending from the ex­treme East as well as the \Vestwere represen ted.

This year eighteen thousandpeople bought admission ticketsas against fourteen thousandlast year - and nine thousandat the first exhibition. This yearsaw more visitors from sectionsoutside Corner Brook and Bayof Islands including prominentcitizens of St. John's. Thebooths in which products of,-\griculture and Industry weredisplayed, numbered forty andincluded displays of grain fromCanadian i'\ational Railwaysand fruit and vegetables fromPrince Edward Island.

Officiating at the opening ofthe Fair were: i\lagistrate X.Short of Corner Brook, P. G.Tipping, Fair President, andHon ..-\. J. \Valsh, Commissionerfor Home .-\ffairs and Education,representing His Excellency theGovernor who officiated at thetwo previous fairs bu twasunable to attend this year.Premier J. \Valter Jones ofPrince Edward Island was alsotei take part at the opening, butwhen over Harmon Field Base

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near Stephenville Crossing itwas found that weather condi­tions would not permit a landingand his plane returned toCanada. Returning the nextday I Premier Jones was accom­panied by Dr. J. E. Latimer of]\lcDonald College, who is nowmaking a Tax Survey in P.E.!.;B. Graham Rogers, Supervisorof the Prince Edward IslandTravel Bureau; Hon. C. H.Blakene\', ;\1 inister for Educa­tion in ~ ~ew Bruns\vick, andPeter Rogers, a college studen t.

;\ Ir. Rogers said he though t adirect steamship service betweenCorner Brook and Prince Ed­ward Island could be establishedprofitably. "There appears tobe", he declared, "a potentialmarket here for Prince EdwardIsland produce, but I suggestthat first a study be made tosee what products of the districtshould be taken in exchange".The l\linisters discussed thepossibility of establishing an ailservice between Corner Brookand P.E.!. to increase the touristtrade for both countries, and theinauguration of an air expressservice, both of which could

prove very beneficial to bothparties concerned.

It is expected that the Fair tobe held next year will be evenmore elaborate and many foreignand local commercial firms havealready made application forbooths.

• The re-employment of em­ployees of Bowaters 'ewfound­land Pulp and Paper 1ills Ltd.,at Corner Brook, who joined theservice and have now been dis­charged, commenced at CornerBrook during the early part ofAugust, and at the time of writ­ing, some fifty men who haveseen action in the jungles ofAfrica, the beaches of Salernoand the Italian interior, havebeen returned to their formerpositions in the employ of thePaper I'd ill.

Mr. Newman Gough, Employ­ment Superintendent, states thatin order to establish equitabletreatment to the men, the\' havebeen divided into three' cate­gories: permanen t men, thoseemployed full time; temporarymen, those who worked ratherregularl~' but not on a per-

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manent job, and casual men,those hired when extra men wereneeded. In the first case onlyhave men been guaranteed per­manent work, but the Companyhas promised to do everythingpossible to employ all veterans.In the first instance also, wherepossible, the men will be ad­vanced in the same manner asif they had been in continuOllCemploy. I t is known that oneyoung man employed per­manently, and earning thirty­five cents per hour when enlist­ing, has been advanced to aposition which pays seventy-fivecents per hour. All men whoprove their ability will be ad­vanced in the same manner, anda man whose waf service hasrendered him unfit for his formerwork, will be placed in the posi­tion best suited to his qualifica­tions and desires.

• The sight of an outboardmotor is nothing strange to thepeople of Corner Brook, but a120 horsepower machine weigh­ing approximately 3Y2 tons, seenrecently in operation in theHumber Arm. attracted a great

deal of interest. The outboardmotor, known as an "InvasionPusher", was purchased byBowater's for attachment to oneof their barges. Such bargeswere originally towed by com­pany tugs.

The motor is classed as "out­board" because it is attached tothe barge in much the same man­ner as an ordinary outboardmotor would be attached to acanoe and is capable of hittingoff approximately twelve knots.According to an official of thelocal Traffic Department, thepusher is the same type as wasused to drive the invasion bargesin the llpushes" into Salerno andNormandy, and the machine inCorner Brook is said to be thefirst placed in civilian use ineither Canada or Newfoundland.The barge, with the motorattached, was found to be ofgreat benefit recently in theloading-of-herring operations,as, so powered, the barge couldtake at one time five hundredbarrels of herring from one pointon the Curling waterfron t to thepoint of loading.

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CURE FOR ." "SICK" :\ATION

Cure for a "Sick" Nation(Continued from page 27)

latter must be set, for the timebeing, to one side.

The Government must adoptsuch measures as the establish­ment of the equivalent of theCanadian Trade and CommerceDepartment, complete with anExports and Imports CreditBank that will lend money toNewfoundland businessmenwho wan t to sell goods abroadand to foreign businessmen whowant to buy things in "'ew­foundland. I t may sound a littlesilly at first to lend a chapmoney so that(he can buy stufffrom your store but it's soundbusiness - the Canadians aredoing it and it's paying off.

Tewfoundland must under­take such projects as the build­ing of a road across the country.Don't say we can't afford to doit. We can't afford not to do it.Tourists in thousands came asfar as North Sydney this sum­mer as soon as gas ra tioningwas lifted and looked across the

gulf and wondered what itwould be like to take their caracross and explore a new andexciting country.

NEW APPROACH NEEDED:\e\\"foundland must under­

take a publicity and selling cam­paign to make the word :\ew­foundland on a cod fillet or acan of salmon mean quality sothat restaurants and hotels willfeature "Newfoundland" pro­ducts. The name itself, "New­foundland", is a perfect adver­tising catchword. It's distinc­tive and memorable and faintlyadven turous, and people willremember and ask for it.

The Government must lookabroad and see what othernations are doing. Break awayfrom the old-fashioned and theorthodox. It must stop admin­istrating or governing thecountry. The country has beenadministered and governed with­in an inch of its life, and what itwants now is someone to run itthe way a bunch of good busi­nessmen run a moderately largebusiness. Theymust put in a good

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efficient manager, give him hishead but check him occasionally,and judge him not by how manyrubber cushions he supplies forthe stenographers' chairs but byhow well he makes and sells thecompany's products so that thestenographers can get higherpay and buy their own cushions.

This has taken us pretty farfrom Mr. Henry's article, butwe came along a straight road.The article was unbalanced andunfair and written without pro­per background but if we wantto stop other such articles wemust remove the basic facts onwhich they can be built.

That can only be done byspeedy and startling and imag­inative and unusual and un­heard of and unprecedented andunorthodox methods. A.II theothers have been tried and failed.

New Citizens ...(Continued from page 9)

into the country by parachute,any stranger, anywhere in theBritish Isles was likelv to betaken for a German agen t.

The older girl, with auburn

hair and brown eyes, was sorrybut if they couldn't produceproper identification the boyswou Id have to come and see theconstable.

That wasn't funny. To acouple of law-abiding New­foundlanders it was insulting,war or no war.

"If your constable wants tosee us tell him to come up tothe :-Iewfoundland ForestryCamp any evening after eight."Young snapped back.

The word :\ewfoundland wasidentification enough to turn anasty incident into a friendlyfoursome. They wen t home totea and to the cinema thatevening, and, to make a lovestory callously short, the twoboys married the two girls andare living happily ever after inDeer Lake.

START NEW LIFE HERESeveral matches were made in

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found land story that will endwith "and that's how I met yourmother".

Foresters are not eligible foran y of the benefi ts of theGovernment's Civil Re-estab­lishment Plan which applies onlyto uniformed men. But theyworked hard - twelve to four­teen hours a day - and earnedgood wages during the war, andmost of the men have sizeablestakes saved for a fresh start atearning a living in fishing, log­ging and farming. Scotlandtaugh t them a lot abou t farmingand trades and this country willbe the better for it in years tocome. At any rate, Newfound­land owes the Foresters a squ¥edeal for the vi tal war-job theyhave done.

After a couple of days in St.John's, most of the families wereloaded aboard a special train totake them to their new homesthroughout the Island. A tightlittle group gathered on the rearplatform waiting, a little self­consciously, to wave goodbye.There was nothing spectacularabout it - nothing except thequiet, good-humoured courageof these young women, far fromhome, facing a stern new lifewhich they knew, as well as wedid, wouldn't be all plain sailing.

As the train pulled out of thesta tion, wi th small heads andarms blossoming along the drabsides of the coaches, it seemed tome that Newfoundland was get-Iting for its own, the kind ofpeople we like best. '- ---l

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Herring for Europe(Continnedfrom page 20)

was moved. The Random,charted by the NewfoundlandRailway, collected the amountson the ou tside sections of theBay which were packed by thesmaller concerns and latermoved to Curling to collect herload of approximately fifteenthousand barrels. The 5.5.Cedarton and the 5.5. LiverpoolLoyalist, the former sub-let byBowaters to the :'>ewfoundlandRailway and the latter charteredby the Railway, arrived inCurling to load for Ul\RRA.For five days one hundred andseventy-five men were employedin stevedoring, freighting inboats, schooners. etc., and at somam' different locations that itwould be impossible to evaluatethe full benefit to the people ofthe area.

Both ships tied up in one coveand herring was loaded fromwharves, schooners, small-boats;but the greatest asset of all inthe loading operations was thecrane-barge of Bowaters whichwas recenth' fitted with a 120H.P. outboard motor. Thisbarge was used in conveyingherring from one point on theCurling waterfront to the pointof loading. \\'hereas smallerboats could accommodate any­where from ten to fifty barrels,the average load for the bargewas five hundred barrels.

On September 8th, the Cedar­ton and the Loyalist sa,iled for

HER R I :\ G FOR E l' R 0 P E

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thousand barrels, leaving ap­proximately ten thousand bar­rels in Curling still to be shippedat this writing.

200,000 BARRELS TillS YEAR

The :\ewfoundland FisheriesBoard has announced recentlythat a further contract has beenmade with U1\RRr\ for the sup­ply of two hundred thousandbarrels of herring- during the1945-'46 season. .-\lready greatpreparations are being made inBay of Islands. Pierce Fudge,who recently returned from avisit to the Ba\' in connectionwith his Union ';'ork, states thatin the main all g-ear is ready forthe first run. Several boats havebeen purchased for next year'scatch, including- the i\ationalSecond, purchased in c;anadarecently by l\l. G. Basha. TheNational First is also owned bya Curling packing- concern. Outthe Bay several smaller boats

are being constructed whileothers are being repaired. I t isexpected that Bay of Islandswill ag-ain playa leading role in"Herring- for Europe" during- thecoming season, and so help themillions of people so desperatelyin need of food.

In addi tion to the pack forU:\ R R.-\, tens of thousands ofbarrels of herring were caught inBa,' of Islands for other buyers.SO';le four to five thousand bar­rels of special dressed cure weremade read\' for S..-\. Haram of!\e\\' York. The Scotch cureduring last season was approxi­mate'" twent\'-five thousandbarrels, and fu~ther amounts ofherring were used in smokingand filleting operations. .-\ sub­stantial quantity of tinned Kip­per Snacks was produced byI\Iaritime Packers, Lark Hr.,Ba,' of Islands for foreignma'rkets where such a product isconsidered a delicacy.

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June, has brought Bay of Islandsthe tidy sum of S2,225,OOO.Returns for the coming season,when the Scotch cure will bedoubled, the demand of foreignmarkets expanded, the produc­tion of local herring productsgreatly increased, and the packfor C:\ RRA 200,000 barrels, canbe expected to total a t leastS5,000,000.

Dugouts(Continued from page 35)

ultimate aims, peace and se­curity, moulded every singlemove, lit every step of the way.Always they went into battlearmed with Peace, and theobjects of their sacrifice.

Obviously this is the onlyway. \Var is, happily, an un­natural state of affairs and mustbe tempered liberally with someof the frivolities and relaxationsof our normal existence. Ob­~viously again, an object cannotbe attained if it is obliterated bythe means of attainment. Think­ing along these'lines, I came tothe conclusion that, knowingmore of peace the English knowmore of war than the Germans.The German is desperatelywrong when he divides the two,the Englishman unerringly rightwhen he finds, in the depths ofwar, room for pe3.ce and relaxa­tion.

Tea II/ The LamplightAgain!

By Florence Millerh'5 tea in the lamplight again!The kitchen is warm and aglow,""here red curtains shut out the night,.-\nd shut in the things that we know.Tht' wO<Xl-llre chuckles and burns,And joins in tht> gladsome refrainThat sings in the heart of a happr old

house -I'lt's tea in the lamplight again!"

It's tea in the lamplight again!The summer is over once morc;The picnics and outings are done;The boats are hauled up on the shore.Th(' houses arc dark all around,Save those of a few who remainTo sample the charm of each season's

deJighl-It's tea in the lamplight again!

It's tea in the lamplight again!It's scallop, and blueberry-pieThat's smothered in rich yellow cream;It's bread and fresh butter-oh my!It's chatter of lessons and school;Of teachers, and all in their train;A new one who rules with a beautiful

smile-It's tea in the lamplight again!

It's tea in the lamplight again!Though outdoor adventures are

throughWhere living is simple and true.Though leaves, lately green overhead,Lie withered and dead in the lane,There's joy in the heart of a happy

old house.When it's tea in the lamplight again.

Newfoundland Newsletter(Continued from page 23)

This is the first movie of itskind ever made in ;\ewfound­land. The late Varrick Frisell's"White Thunder" was filmed atthe Newfoundland Sealhunt butforeign actors played the prin-

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cipal parts. Several wartimedoclIlllenlarv films \\-ere madehere, but ~one could be con­sidered an all-:\ewfoundlandproduction.

I t is difficult to say just wherethe film is being made. At thismoment the cameras ma\- beturning in anyone of a-halfdozen places - down in a BellIsland mine shaft, or out in thelumber woods, or in a trap skifTon the East Coast, or following adockyard riveter under the hullof a -ship, or standing behind ateacher in an outport school. Or,you migh t even see them on astreet corner here in St. John's.I t is tha t kind of a picture­Kewfoundland scenen', and!\ewfoundland people,' true-to­life as well as educational-

trying to translate into terms ofeveryday living the grim storyof tuberculosis and how it takesits deadlv toll in even' class,creed and occupation. -

.-\Ithough "The Silent :\Ien­ace" will g-ive detailed demon­stration of home-treatment, Dr.:\lcGrath emphasizes that Sana­torium treatment is best, butbecause of the shortage of Sana­torium beds it is home-treatmentor nothing for the majori ty oftuberculosis patients in thiscountry.

It is hoped to ha ve "The Silen t:\Ienace" completed for the firstshowing- late in December. Itwill be shown all over the Islandby the :\ewfoundland FilmBoard.

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ST. JOHN'S

CORNER BROOK

ICEBERGS ARE MONEY-MAKERSSE:\i\1 EN who have to keep a watchful eye on the numerous ice-

bergs that drift by the coast of l\ewfoundland in spring andsummer are not apt to have much appreciation for the awesome andpicturesque aspects of said bergs. The same is quite probably trueof shore fishermen who frequently must maintain close guard overtheir nets to ward off disaster from drifting ice. So that whenstrangers come around and rave about the shapes and colors of theice formations, the fishermen don't often go out of their way toadvertise the icebergs to the visi tors.

But Newfoundlanders sometimes forget that icebergs, alongwith coastal scenery and fishing boats and salmon rivers, have acertain fascination for people who are accustomed to tall buildings,crowded streets and a way of life entirely different to what theyfind when they go to l\ewfoundland. Fishermen, sick of ice them­selves, probably don't realize that tourists from l\lontreal or Bostonor New York would take back pieces of those majestic bergs assouvenirs if they could.

Read what H. Perkins of Montreal reports in "Cruise in theDorothy 0." on another page. Here is one man - a tourist if youlike - who is an ardent booster for the country largely because aschooner skipper took time out to personally conduct him and hisparty on an iceberg tour' Captain Johnny Rose of Hermitage Bayrendered Newfoundland real service when he put to sea fromHarbor Grace that July afternoon.

To benefit from the tourist trade to the extent that nature andgeographical location make easily possible, Newfoundland must beprepared to cater to visitors, to appreciate the differences in view­poin t on such everyday things as icebergs when strangers comearound.

For Newfoundland there is as rich a harvest in the tourist tradeas in the fishery itself, but until that is generally realized throughoutthe coves and villages where the visitors naturally want to go to seethe things that interest them, the~phrase "Newfoundland - Vaca- -L;tionland of North America" willhave no real meaning in fact orin financial return.

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INTERESTING FACTS

ABOUT NEWFOUNDLAND

• In 1943-44 Newfoundland's exports totalled

$42,397,415. The island's Fisheries, Forests

and Mines represent a major source of supply.

• Last year Newfoundland accepted and filled

an order for 100,000 barrels of herring for

UNRRA. This year the country will produce

200,000 barrels of herring for European relief.

• Newfoundland has in operation 14 Fish

Refrigeration plants with a total daily freezing

capacity of more than 400,000 pounds. Fresh

fish processing is rapidly becoming big

business here.

WATCH THIS ISLAND DEVELOP

AS A LEADING FISH PRODUCER!

So. 11 in a s~ri~s of adurliIt'mnlls spon_IortJ by tht Yne'for",dlalld Gm.'t'nuntllt.

8t. John's. th~ Capital-Photo by Gustafl And~rsoll

Land of Old Customsand New Horizons ..

This is Newfoundland, the land of never-ending beauty, the land where

sport is at its finest, where countless lakes and rivers teeming with salmon and

trout challenge the angler's skill, where the wide-open barrens provide

unending opportunities for the sportsman after

Ptarmigan and Snipe - the land that is kindly

and hospitable.

Newfoundland is planning on a large influx of

visitors to her shores in the future, and with the

advent of easy, swift air travel from the large

centres of population, it will be simple to visit

The Great Island for a vocation that will be long

remembered. Plan on a trip to Newfoundland

yourself, soon.

For further information, write to:

NEWFOUNDLAND TOURIST DEVELOPMENT BOARDST. JOHN'S and

CORNER BROOK, NEWFOUNDLAND

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