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Show LERI FREE PRESS, LEHI, UTAH HEART of CANADA Made Jefferson President Matthew Lyon, Irish Boy Who Was Sold for a Yoke of Oxen and Was Congressman From Two Statee, Kept Burr From White House. t4 ill '"hi t ill Hu it f M a &ULla:: 1'--. One of Toronto's Susy Street. ing manikins sway to music in coats and gowns. American Industries There. Peer out of your train window as you reach Toronto or Hamilton. Look at the familiar names on factory signn boards. There seems hardly any United States product that is not also made In Canada under the same trade-namScattered over all southern Ontario you see factories making farm and other machines, motor cars and parts, chemicals, electrical goods, foods, items of rubber and glass. Familiar advertisements run In the papers ; window displays are the same as one might see in Pittsburgh or Minneapolis. The reasons for this migration of American Industries are plain; proximity, common language, similar tastes and living standards, and particularly the Import tariff; also, many American firms too small to finance a factory in y Europe or the Orient have here only to move across the line. "What share of all the things you sell Is made In Canada?" one asks at a sporting goods shop. "About 80 per cent now," says the clerk; "and it's growing each year. All these blcyc'es, sweaters, fishing tackle, bats and balls, boots and socks they are all Canada-made.- " You think of Bret Harte's "Roaring Camp" when you see KIrkland Lake's gold camp on Saturday night. In crowded, crooked streets a dozen men to every woman ; stores open till midnight even the hardware and furniture stores. Finns and Chinese weargold pieces as watch ing charms; a crowded movie showing "Ten Nights in a Barroom"; brawny Russian miners sprawled In barber chairs, getting an polish ; the smell of fresh-cu- t pine and the noise of saws and hammers, as work by floodlight on a new "hotel"; young engineers in caps, boots, sosweaters, and cially playing cards In a crowded lobby, snapping the cards down noisily. Outside a kilted bagpipe band goes whining by, on Its way to a Legion party; motor cars file past, bringing a shift of miners, tin lunch boxes In hand, from a mine which some days yielded $122,000 worth of gold. For, be It known, 78 per cent of Canada's gold Is found In the fields of Ontario. And this boom town of KIrkland Lake with its line. its Lake Shore, KIrkland and You cannot find a "typical Ontario s mines, where men face" any more than you can identify bore holes 4,000 feet deep is one of mind in America. a home-towthe greatest gold centers. When Col. John Graves Simcoe, first Ontario's Nickel. set lieutenant governor, up his new Go to Sudbury, home of the great capital at Niagara village in 1792 and International Nickel company and of offered free land to all comers ready Frood mine, and the rush and roar to serve the king, a stream of Imm- the is the same. Here still more Finns, to was which form the igration began a "Finnlandia" cafe, and Finns buying character of the new province. talking machine records of Finnish For years a steady flow came from songs,: and Finns squatting about shoe the United States. Some were Gerand cigar stands, playing more shops man Lutherans and Mennjmites; many Finnish tunes on mandolins and singwere United Empire ; Loyalists; but boisterous Finnish songs In a from Scotland, England and Ireland ing "beverage bar." came another stream. Immigration of Ontario How dramatic the has never stopped. Toronto today has nickel, first found by story accident ! Some an "East Side" as polyglot as New "red mud" drew the attenYork's, though not so named. Incition oT a worker, in building the Canadentally, perhaps 50,000 of Its residian Pacific railway, during 1883. The dents were born in the United States. red mud was nickel ore. Then the Of late years the French from Quebec, world used only 200 or 300 tons n with their language, faith, habits, and year, nowever, a Glasgow engineer, newspapers, are drifting steadily west. James Riley, In 1889, found how to In north Ontario. harden steel with nickel. Soon the Finns, Russians, Poles. Germans, United States navy began to use and Chinese pack the mines and lum- nickel-stee- l In armor plates, and other ber camps. Greeks, Syrians, and ItalThe World navies quickly followed. ians are here, engaged as cooks, waitwar kept Canada digging nickel day ers, barbers, bootblacks, gardeners, and night. . peddlers, hucksters-ma- ny After peace, when the Washington growing rich. Just as In the disarmament conference reduced battown hotel one States. In one country tleship building and cut the demand may Identify five different races among for nickel, the International and thi the help. In mining towns like Sud- Mond Nickel companies, now consoll bury, group after group may pass you dated, acted with courage and resource in the Saturday night parade, their fulness. "By technical research they talk a lingual riddle such as fell on found new uses for nickel," says ancient Babylon. Thomas W. Gibson, deputy minister of . . Tet, pick the census reports to mines. "Now It Is shown to be as pieces and you see how completely useful In the arts of peace as In the British Ontario Is, how predominantly shock of war. and the mines of SudEnglish-speakinbury supply 85 to 90 per cent of Pie Your train, as you reach Ottawa, world's consumption. In 1911 Ontario mined only about halts almost in the lobby of a vast, thateaulike hoteL Only a few paces, $42,000 worth of gold. In 1931 more than $13,000,000 worth by subway, and you step unexpectedly into crowds of Englishmen smoking was-- recovered. From only about In 1900, Ontario's output of all pipes, gesticulating French politicians from Quebec, and animated women metals has Increased enormously. In trolllig toward a ballroom where minc 1931 It was nearly $73,000,000. by National Geographic Socl.ty. Washington. D. C. WKU Service. Prepared of the area of all of the and ONE-NINTpopulation are Included In Ontario's borders. And Ontario, like a colossal motor, Is the heart of Canada. Exceeded by other provinces In forestry and fisheries only, Ontario takes first place in farming, trapping, mining, electric i power, banking, and manufacturing. t Not only that; she Is dominant in many cultural ways. And while Quebec, New Brunswick, Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta, and British Columbia share the common frontier with us, all our relations social, financial, and economic are closest with Ontario. Toronto papers reveal our kinship in thought and behavior. On the map you see Ontario shaped roughly like a tilted bust, Its face against Hudson bay, measuring about 1,000 miles up and down. It lies above the Great Lakes and south of Hudson bay; roughly, also, Quebec Is east of It and Manitoba on the west. Its organized districts include Nlpls-elnCochrane, Tlmiskaming, Sudbury, Algoma, Thunder bay, Rainy river, and Kenora. Patricia district, still largely unexplored and uninhabited, Is a wild area, s of the comprising nearly 'whole province. Though Quebec was French, It was English-speakin- g people who first colonized what Is now Lower Ontario, while It was yet under the governor at Quebec. To make life easier for French-speakinsubjects, the British (by the Quebec act of 1774) left French civil law In force, although English criminal law was decreed. At once language troubles and other problems came to Irk the English-speakin- g colonists, now drifting up the St. Lawrence valley beyond the French ' settlements. Among other things, they wanted to own lands under the English freehold system, and not to pay yearly tithes to seigniors, as by French custom. Creation of the Province. To this Great Britain agreed In 1791. So a new province, called Upper Can- ada (now Ontario), was established. It embraced all land west of the Ottawa river, which still separates Quebec from Ontario. Even today the ; language changes as you cross this new-mod- Nearly two centuries ago, July 14, there was born in Ireland a boy destined to become a big business man. to represent two of o'ir states In congress and to cast the deciding vote for a President of the then untbought-o- f United States of America. Mary Gilbert Smith writes Id the Boston Globe. His father, a member of a prominent family, was executed for his part In the White Boys' Insurrection. His mother married again. Young Matthew Lyon, studious and enterprising, was well treated by his stepfather, who was proud and fond of the boy. But be had heard of the strange new land beyond the seas and longed to try his fortunes there. One morning when he was fourteen he bargained with a sea captain to carry him to the province of Connecticut In return for his services as cabin boy. He had a guinea which he had saved from his pocket money, and he gave this to the captain for safe keeping. The captain hid him In the hold, so that do one would find him before the vessel sailed, and took the precaution to lock him in. Dad he not done so, young Matthew's adventure would have ended that same morning. When his stepfather came seeking him, and called to him effeetlonately. the lad would have responded at once had he not been restrained by the locked door. When they reached Connecticut, the captain betrayed the boy's trust by selling him into service as a one of those Impecunious emigrants who paid for their passage to the New world by serving as for a number of years. Fertunately for young Matthew, bis services were secured by Jahes Ba con, one of the wealthies merchants In Connecticut; he was worth half a 1750. 1 el one-thir- d well-know- e. bond-servan- ts n Several years ago the writer made some preliminary , tests oa small quantities of infested wheat with view to determining If radio methods could be effectively need to exterminate the eggs and larva) forma which may be concealed within the material, as well as the adult insects. wavea were Thirty and used, the former of low capacity and the latter of high capacity. The 30- waves were effecmeter tive in exterminating adult Insect la small quantities of wheat within a period of about 90 seconds, but the eggs later hatched out With the waves, an exposure of six seconds was sufficient to exterminate eggs, larvae and adults. The testing plant has been la operation for a year and many kinds of infested materials have been successfully treated, including wheat, corn, flower and garden seeds, tobacco, spices, nuts, beans, peas, cocoa beans, packaged and bulk milled cereals, and so on. Results of the writer's research work Indicate definitely that weevils in all stages of their development, from eggs to adults, can be exterminated without injury to the germinating properties of grain, or appreciably affecting the moisture content, and without adversely affecting the food value. There are Indications that the germinating properties of wheat and other seeds treated may be enhanced. Worms, mites and other Infestations of cocoa beans, spices, tobacco, nuts, packaged cereals, and so on, can be exterminated without Injury to the products treated. Where the equipment Is properly installed there are no adverse effects npon persona working or stationed In the vicinity of the apparatus. J. H. Davis In the Scientific American. above-mentione- d Lyon, Fair Haven. Vt, ty 179&" James Lyon was the eldest son of Col. Matthew Lyon. The book is printed on paper made in Colonel Lyon's mill and bound in leather tanned in bis tannery. It was James Lyon who published at Fair Haven the paper in which was printed Matthew Lyon's article attacking President John Adams, which caused Colonel Lyons arrest under the alien and sedition law. He wsa fined $100 and sentenced to four months' Imprisonment at Vergennes. He was In jail at the time of the congressional election, but his con stltuentr rolled up so large a majority for him that be was released to return to congress. The largest crowd assembled In Vermont In early days sped him on bis way. He arrived In time to cast the decisive vote that made Thomas Jefferson President over Aaron Burr. The restless spirit of the pioneer now urged Matthew Lyon to turn from things accomplished to a new country where everything was yet to be done. In Fair Haven be was at the head of a household of 16. Leaving bis sons In charge of his many enterprises, be went to Arkansas and later to Kentucky, the next state aft er th original 13 to be admitted to Atlae Handicapped the Union. Here he made bis home Atlas may have carried the world for the rest of his life, and from here oa his shoulders, but be never could he was again returned to congress. see what was going on there. 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Bacon gave a yoke of oxen for Lyon's services until he was twenty-one- . In after years when the young Irishman was a candidate for office this incident was distorted by his political opponents to show that he was of low origin and unfit to be a In representative congress. Lyon never apologized for the manner of his entry Into Connecticut nor toid of the deception that had been practiced upon him. Rather, he acted as if It were something be was proud of. He swore "by the bulls that redeemed me" to beat his opponents and he did. Of his work here, J. A. Graham, in a book published in London in 1797. says In part: "Fair Haven Joins on Skenesbor ough (now Whitehall. N. Y.) and ib the most flourishing manufacturing town In the state. It owes its consequence to Its founder, Colonel Lyon, whose enterprise and perse verance in promoting and carrying on manufactories has been of Infinite utility to the public. He has erected a furnace for casting all kinds of hollow Iron ware and two forges, a slitting ml" for the making of nail rods, a paper mill, a printing press and corn and sawmills. "It is a curious fact that Colonel Lyon has executed a good deal of printing at his office, on paper manu factured by himself of the bark of the basswood. tree, and which Is found to answer every purpose for common printing. "He has held some of the first of fices of the state and do man ta tt can be more qualified to do so, as his knowledge of the finances and of the country Is scarcely to be equaled, cor does his Integrity ever suffer him to lose eight of the real good of the people. His friendship and gereroslty are as great as his ambition. His passions and all his pursuits are exerted for the benefit of mankind. Zenas H. Ellis of Fair Haven, who lives in the old Matthew Lyon home, has gathered a notable collection of Colonial relics, including a copy of book and one of the Franklin's autobiography. 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