Gas Training for Canada's Naval Forces—Just in Case The best military minds are of the opinion that pas uill make its appearance just as soon as its use is deemed necessary, and so mil precautions are beinp taken by wise countries to deal with the menace, if and when it comes. Anti-pas mcthotls have been made part of the training of Canada's naval forces. I hese photos were made at a Canadian naval shore station. Removing victim from gened area, f iclirn must he able to grasp rescuer about neck as shown. Masked members of the class make a strange sight as they stand alnnit witnessing the demonstration. Gas frequently hangs around for long periods in loir spots. A sniff may kill, so these hoards are used to mark gas pockets. If fins persists in linrifiinn around in low spots, a hifih pressure stream of water will sometimes clear it out. Painted with special gas detect ing chemical these boards are set up at strategic spots. Color changes when gas is present. Decontamination stpiad scrub bing the clinging gas from roof j of their station. Mustard gas I clings for long periods. When gas fumes are so stubborn they tvHl not leave, the only cure is to turn the surface of the ground, as shoivn here. g sffajjsnFI A Writer, Local Character—-A Tale By STANLEY CORDELL (Associated Newspapers—WNU Service.) WHEN it came time to run the pipe line from the spring to the kitchen of our new property on Sunset Lake, I sent for Pete Walker Pete is considered something of a char acter. And something of a horse trader, too. His reputation intrigued me, because as a dickerer, I fancy myself as no slouch either. Pete appeared the next morning, riding atop an express wagon which was loaded with implements and tools required by a man of diversi fied trades One look into his sharp, blue eyes and I knew the stories of Pete’s shrewdness were well founded. ‘Mornin’,” he said, and climbed down. "Understand you got a job you want done?” “Yes,” I said briskly, "I have. Come along and I’ll show you." He followed me around the camp, and I pointed to the kitchen. "I’m going to pipe water from the spring up there down here," I said. “Can you give me a price on digging the ditch for pipes?" Pete scratched his chin. "What’s it wuth to you?” he asked. Well, I thought with secret de light, we're off. I appeared to medi tate. “How would $2.00 be?” I said without batting an eye. Pete considered a minute. "I’ll do it at that price.” he said, “if you’ll buy your pipe from me an’ let me lay it.” Aha! I thought. So that was it? He'd get my promise by digging the ditch for practically nothing, then soak me for the pipe. "We’ll talk about the pipe later,” I told him crisply. "Let’s get the ditch dug first.” Pete looked at me carefully. I had the uneasy feeling he was weighing my character, and was on the point of passing some significant remark Pete said slowly, “1 heard about a jigger who shot his sister because she was goin’ to marry a guy he didn’t like.” when he astounded me by nodding. “O K. I’ll dig her for $2.00. If you’re satisfied, I guess you’ll let me sell you the pipe.” I was puzzled, still. So far as I could see, there was no catch to the proposition. I picked up a spade and scooped out a shovelful of earth to show him how and where I wanted the ditch to run. “You writer fellers,” said Pete, “must sometimes have a time of it gettin’ material for your stories.” “That’s right,” I said, thinking of the rumors I'd heard about his fund of material. “Know any good sto ries?” “Well,” said Pete slowly, “I heard about a jigger the other day who shot his sister because she was goin’ to marry a guy he didn’t like.” “What?" I said. “Impossible! Don’t try to make me believe any thing like that!" “Matter of record." He shrugged. "Reckon you can check up on the facts if you're so minded.” He picked up a shovel and drove it into the ground. "But good lord, I exclaimed, "that didn't actually happen?” "Think what yuh please. Thought mebbe you’d like to hear about it.” He had begun to dig off at a tan gent and I called his attention to this fact, spading up the earth in a direct line with the spring "What was the man’s name?” I asked. "Newell Leighton. Seems he'd had a rival in school. Rival's name was Bates. Bates was bigger'n him and a kind of bully Always taking credit for things Leighton done an’ tormentin’ him on the least provo cation. Leighton he got so after a while he hated this Bates guy, an’ you couldn't blame him. Swore that sometime he'd get his revenge. "Well, the two of ’em graduated from school and went out into the world. Only before they went Bates give Leighton a good beatin’ just on general principles. There was a girl on hand, name of Eva Hatch. Leigh ton, he was in love with Miss Hatch and he’d taken her to the com mencement dance. Bates was drunk and he insulted the girl; and Leigh ton, he made objections, which was just what Bates wanted, cause it gave him an excuse. Everyone thought Leighton a coward because he didn't try to fight back. But t’want that. Early in the fight Leighton had broke his arm, an’ he never let on. But pretty soon he fainted, an’ even Eva Match laughed at his weak ness.” Pete paused to light his pipe and I waited anxiously. Here was a story worth listening to. "About seven years later,” Pete continued, "Bates met Leighton’s sister and fell in love with her, and she with him. Bates was a changed man, but this didn't make no dif ference to Leighton. Soon's he found out about it he went raging mad. He said she'd never marry that skunk. He’d kill her first. "Well, Mabel, that was Leighton’s sister’s name, was a spirited little thing, an' she up and told him to go to blazes, as she loved Mr. Bates and no one else could make her happy. Leighton, he near went in sane. He was older'n her, and be cause their maw and paw was both dead he felt he had a right to tell her what to do. "But Mabel wouldn’t even listen. An’ pretty soon she ups an’ leaves j him, gets out of the house, says1 she's going to Mr. Bates. Well, Leighton follows her, sneaks up un der a window an’ sees her in Bates’ arms. An’ he shoots her. Folks said he was crazy, an’ I guess maybe he was, because when Bates came tearin’ out of the house he finds Leighton a-sittin' on the grass laughin' his fool head off. Which don’t stop Bates a-tall in what he in tends to do, because he chokes Leighton to death then an’ there." Pete Walker knocked out his pipe, picked up his spade and headed for the express wagon. "Well, now you think over about that pipe,” he said to me from the high box seat. "An’ if you’re the kind of chap I think you are. I’ll get the job.” I nodded, thinking deeply of the story he’d told. And so I paid Pete Walker his $2 and he drove on home. That night after supper I strolled out to look at the ditch, and it sud denly occurred to me as I stood there that it was I who had done' most of the digging. Pete Walker, had talked and I had dug. I chuck led. That was shrewd all right j Well, let him think he’d put one over. I was satisfied with the bar-, gain. And so 1 returned indoors and began jotting down notes on the story j Pete had recited. After awhile, j thinking to rest my mind and tackle the thing again later with a fresh viewpoint I settled before the fire place and picked up the current issue of a popular magazine. I slit the wrapping, rolling it backwards and opened to the first story. Some thing about the title and the illustra tions arrested my attention. I read, and as I read a slow anger gripped | me. For the yarn was the very story Pete Walker had repeated that afternoon. So that was it? That's what he | called being shrewd. I began to laugh. And presently I stood up and went to the phone. After a mo ment I heard Pete’s voice. "Pete,” I said, "I’ve decided to buy that pipe from you, and let you lay it.” He chuckled. “Knew you would,” \ he said. "I figured you were that kind of a guy. You’re shrewd.” "Thanks," I said dryly, and hung up. — Pushing 'Little Woman* Around Custom in India There are some places in the world where pushing the Little Woman around is a permissible pastime. One such place is that re mote region in northwest India marked down on the maps as Waziristan. It is an old Waziristanian custom for husbands who dislike their wives, for one reason or another, to have the women's noses cut off by the local barber. Sometimes, in the heat of anger, the amputation is done at home by the husband him self and with whatever instrument comes to hand. If the legends of Waziristan are true, it is ordinarily the wayward wife who gets too friendly with an nother man who pays for her folly, with her proboscis. But, it is said, lesser offenses—such as nagging too long and too loudly—also have been paid for with severed snouts. The old-line Waziristans defend their ancient custom by pointing out that there are other places in the world where law and order was maintained among the womenfolk of the community by methods that may seem a little drastic to outsiders. In : Siberia, for example, there is a tribe called the Hanghis. The Hanghi men are absolute masters of their wives and it is their habit, when they want to chastise the girls, to take off all their clothes and lock them out in the Arctic weather for awhile to think things over. During this cooling-off process the women are denied anything to eat —and if they run away they are beaten, not by their husbands but by the old women of the tribe who seem to find a grim delight in in flicting a punishment which most of them have suffered at one time or another. Maybe the Waziristans know about an unpleasant social custom on the Pacific island known in the at lases as Busy In this little insular empire the menfolks are the bosses and when they get miffed with their wives they toss them into the muck of a pig sty and force them to take their meals with the hogs until they decide to behave. I — ' ■ ■ ■ =T| Farm Topics [ FEEDING CHANGE NOW POSSIBLE Increasing Demand for More Milk Is Cause. By C. F. MONROE (Ohio State Agricultural Dairy Experiment Station.) At present there is a demand for an increased quantity of milk, and current prices justify attempts to meet this demand. In fact, dairy men can afford to modify their feed ing program to meet the emergency. The exact method for individual cases will, of course, be subject to the conditions prevailing in the par ticular dairy. Many cows do lack the ability to produce, but there are also many cows that would do much better if given the chance. Only by permit ting the cows to have a fair trial can their producing ability be deter mined. An attempt should be made to have the cows freshen in good con dition. In this sense, the lactation period really begins with the dry cow six or eight weeks previous to freshening. After the cow freshens the feeding should be increased gradually. The cow in heavy milk flow requires a concentrate mixture containing some high-protein sup plements to insure a sufficient pro tein intake. Hay should be fed lib erally and the cow allowed to pick it over rather than be restricted to all she will clean up. If corn silage is available, it should be limited in amount to permit the heavy produc ing cow to eat more hay. Such a procedure is recommended where the hay is of good quality and hence palatable to the cow; otherwise lim iting the corn silage has no justifica tion. A large improvement in milk pro duction cannot be expected to come from just one change, of course. The entire feeding and management program in summer and winter must be considered. Much of the low production can be traced to un derfeeding on July and August pas ture, to undue exposure and short pasture in the late fall, to the use of poor quality roughage and poor management in the winter. For best results there can be no weak places in the program, because the weak nesses generally speed the decline in production to such an extent that many of the good points are made less effective. Farm Terracing Aid Under the new setup, farmers can terrace their land now and pay for it later, the AAA official said. Machinery of the terracing pro gram is simply operated, Vance said in explaining that county AAA committees set a reasonable price for terracing easier farms of the county through offers made by co-operating contractors. Once the fair price for a county is de termined, farmers get bids for their farms from the contractors, take the offer they like best and get their terracing done. It goes without saying that prices of terracing will vary by farms. Establishing a reasonable price for a county will serve as a yardstick for measuring costs of easier and more difficult jobs. When terracing has been com pleted and checked by county AAA officers for specified re quirements under the farm pro gram, contractors are paid by the AAA and charges later de ducted from farmers’ conserva tion payments. Needs of Soil More food can be produced for immediate war-time needs and ag riculture can be placed on a firmer footing for the future if farmers will follow a few basic soil building prin ciples, according to an agricultural bulletin. “One of the first essentials,” says the bulletin, "is for the farmer to find out what are the nutritional require ments of his soil. Since soils and crops vary in different geographical sections, the farmer’s best proce dure is to enlist the co-operation of agronomists of his state agricultur al experiment station or of his coun ty agent. “By analyzing a sample of the farmer’s soil and determining its needs for nitrogen, phosphorus and potash, these experts can provide valuable information to guide the farmer in selecting the correct analysis of fertilizer. They will like wise suggest the amount to use.” More Eggs, Dairy Products Uncle Sam is asking for increased production of eggs, dairy products, and pork products. Next year, for example, American hens are called on to lay 4,300,000.000 more eggs. Although poultry flocks are in creased, production per layer will have to rise to new heights. Hen house lights step up production as much as four or five eggs a month during the winter. Even the poultry are asked to pitch in and do their necessary bit. I I Your Income Tax Easily Estimated LJ ERE'S a convenient guide to * 1 estimating your new income tax. It’s based on the new, simpli fied income tax form, but—you may pay LESS tax than this shows. You may deduct for contri butions to the U.S.O., Red Cross YOUR INCOME TA^T| Weekly TAX