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THE CENTRE REPORTER,
CENTRE HALL. PA
By Charles Sughroe
Run Grim
Race to
Canada and Russia Busy An-
nexing Northern Lands.
Montreal.—A grim and silent war,
which has already cost the lives of
many men, 1s being waged by Canada
and Russia for the possession of a
vast snow-covered empire in the Arc
tic.
The prize is supremacy over 2,000
000 square miles of land and a mas
tery of secrets which may revolution-
ize the future of the world. The bat.
tle is being waged, not by troops and
guns, but by groups of intrepid ex-
plorers and sclentists,
Until recently the Arctic was re
garded as a land of frozen waste,
Today It 1s known that some of the
so-called barren lands are among the
richest of the world
O11, gold, silver, lead, zine, coal, ra-
dium, great reserves of fish, game and
timber, are being found in Increasing
quantities. It has been learned,
that in the Arctic are the solutions
of many weather problems which
have so far baffled meteorologists,
LOO,
islands Are Annexed.
Many of the made to
date have been made on land already
in Canadian or Soviet territory. But
hitherto unknown islands are now be
fing found by each country and qulet-
ly annexed
Airplane bases,
methods of communication
outside world are being
for it is believed that
which can control the Arctic may in
time dominate the world's mineral
supplies and monopolize highly Impor-
tant air routes between Europe and
the Far East
The battle for possession of the
Arctic was started five years ago when
Stalin decreed “the Arctic must
become Soviet Arctic,” and ordained
a five-year plan for the
Canada took up ! ha
discoveries
settlements and
with the
established,
the nation
that
lenge,
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Britain's Youngest M. P.
Miss Jennie lee, the “baby” mem
ber of the British parliament, now vis
iting in the United Sintes.
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| Since then both countries have ac-
complished miracles in the vast Arctic
wastes, which hitherto had been re-
garded as useless and uninhabitable.
Russia's five-year plan has just end-
ed, and a report has been issued,
showing what it has achieved In the
polar regions during the few
years. This what the Russians
have done:
Salled from
Russia down
straits and Into
season-—a feat
plished.
Covered 50,000 miles by sea, 40,000
miles by land and 16,000 miles by alr,
Towns Established.
Established towns on land hitherto
regarded as uninhabitable, of
these is lgarka, which already has 15.-
000 inhabitants, and holds the key to
the
tant
Ine
Inst
is
const of
Bering
in one
accom-
the Arctie
through the
Viadivostok
never before
One
Kara sea, one of the most impor.
Arctic.
systematic
areas In the
reased by migration
the population of another key
tion, the Island of Novaya Zemyla,
and organized it og military lines
Mapped and plotted navigation
routes along the whole {ussin's
northern borders,
Established on Franz Josef Land
the most northerly radio station in
the world, It is powerful enough to
communicate with the Antarctic,
Settled a permanent post on Wran-
gel Island.
Canada's activities In the Arctic
have been less spectacular than those
of Russia, but just as successful
Canada is not driving whole popu-
lations Into remote territories, but Is
concentrating on extending its kKnowl-
edge of the of the Arctie.
Year by year it is Increasing its hold
The population of the 1258217
square miles of land which Canada
has taken over is less than 13,000, but
it knows every Inlet of their country,
and has established for their benefit a
wireless network.
posi.
of
3
soaoratihy
geograpny
vast
Already Canada Is
most northerly mines
In a short time it will
dinm from the shores
Bear lake,
Recently it established a regular afr
| service further north than lussia has
yet attempted.
the
the world.
ra-
Great
working
in
be selling
of the
Woman Cashier, 74,
Calls Thugs’ Bluff
Mare!
Her
somewhere
Catherine
years
is
Chicago.— Miss
is seventy-four
fighting weight
around 92 pounds,
Sitting in the where
she works as cashier for the
vated lines, she was approached by
two young gunmen.
“Open that door,” sald one,
thrusting a revolver through the
change aperture, “or we'll fill you
full of lead” Miss March leaned
back in her chair, folded her arms
and shook her head.
“Go head,” she Invited. “I guess
I've lived long enough anyway.”
The robbers went away.
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By
LEONARD A. BARRETT
An argument for a decree of divorce
was that the husband Instead of
procuring lenses as
prescribed by an
accredited ocullst
purchased for his
wife spectacles at
the 5-and-10-cent
store. He saw his
world, his home,
and his life's com-
panion through
cheap lenses. His
wurld was not only
cheap but very self
ish and small, If we
look nt the heavens
through a tele
scope we nre lost
in the immensity of space. When we
the hidden purt of the universe
revealed through the microscope we
aware of grenter mysteries than
we ever dreamed could be segregated
in small a space. A New York
enpitalist was recently asked his
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“1 eannot understand his popularity.
He isn’t so rich” His world was
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One's world Is as big as his life's
purpose makes It. The outside world
is but a reflection of the world within,
We make our world out of the value
we place upon the meaning and pur
pose of life. If we see the world
through “cheap” lenses, it 18 no larger
than that expressed by George Bernard
Shaw: “The longer | live the more }
am inclined to believe that this earth
is used by other planets as a lunatic
asylum.” If we see the world through
lenses clean, clear and polished, with
adequate preparation and selfidisclh
pline and a commanding purpose, the
world will be as big as we want to
make It. Emerson writes, “That
only which we have within can we
see without. If we meet no gods, it
is because we harbor none.”
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