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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance-Times, 1937-02-04, Page 2PAGE TWO THE WINGHAM ADVANCE-TIMES Thursday, February 4, 1937 Tho Wingham Advance-Times Published at WINGHAM , ONTARIO Every Thursday Morning by The Advance-Times Publishing Co. Subscription Rate — One Year $2. Six months, $1.00 in advance. To U. S. A., $2.50 per year. Foreign rate, $3.00 per year, Advertising rates on application. .00 need here is a Sports Association that would be more or less respon­ sible for organizing the various branches of sport. The idea if prop­ erly’ worked out would be a good one. Some people are interested in some branches^ of sports but not so keen on others but if the association was made up t»f all groups and they co­ operated the benefits to our boys who take part in the various branches of sport would be very’ great, That proper coaching benefits a team has been proven beyond doubt by the progress that has been made by our hockey team. This would ap­ ply in baseball and if the association could assist the ball club what a fine thing it would be, There are some who do not think the idea is such a good one. They feel that each branch of sport should paddle its own canoe. We think each branch of sport should be operated by those who are mostly interested but if the association could assist them financially or otherwise we be­ lieve it would be welcome. It is something that is worth think­ ing about. * * * * Storms at sea. floods and icy winds in Europe. A most serious flood' con­ dition in the United States. Huron roads be a F to­ other high- They with affairs at the 66th Annual Meeting held in Toronto on Wednesday, Jan­ uary 27th. The Outstanding features of this statement were an exception­ ally strong cash and liquid position, a large growth in deposits, an en­ larged security portfolio and increas­ ed profits. Total deposits amount to $112,478,- 420, an increase of $6,541,209 during the year and over $14,000,000 in the past two years. The security portfolio comprising investments in Dominion and vincial Government bonds and high-grade securities is at the est point in the Bank’s history, total $51,538,902 as compared $39,-516,079 in the previous statement, an increase of $1,022,823 during the year. As has been said, the Bank is in a particularly strong liquid position. Its cash assets are shown at $26,289,- 533 which is 21.7% of Public Liabil­ ities. Immediately Available Assets have reached a total of $93,363,826 or 77% of Public Liabilities. The per­ centage last year was 65.29%. Current Loans and Discounts in Canada including Municipal Loans are shown in a total of $45,970,186, a decrease of $12,069,667. Current Loans are less by $11,113,193 and Municipal Loans by $956,474. The re- ■ duction in Current Loans is princi­ pally due to a liquidation of advances against grain, The notes of the Bank in circula­ tion at thp end of the year were $5,- 570,701, a decrease of $331,530 due tp the gradual reduction in the amount of notes which htc Bank may have in circulation under the provision of the present Bank Act. Bank Premises Ac­ count now stands at $5,760,000. The sum of $100,000 was written off in 1936! compared with $75,000 in the previous year. After making provision for Domin­ ion and Provincial Government tax­ es, the net profits for the year were $951,277 compared with $901,556 in 1935, an increase of $49,721. Out of Profits $700,000 was provided for div­ idends, a contribution of $75,000 was made to Officers’ Pension Fund, $100,000 was written off Bank Prem­ ises Account, leaving $76,276 to be added to Profit and Loss Account, which now stands at $668,977. The Capital Paid Up is $7,000,000 while- the Reserve Fund and Undi­ vided Profits is $7,668,977. GRIDDLE CAKES 0 Bread Griddle Cakes One and one-half cups fine stale bread crumbs, 1}& cups scalded milk, 2 tablespoons melted butter, 2 eggs well beaten, 14 cup flour:, teaspoon salt, 4 teaspoons baking powder. Add milk and butter to crumbs and’soak until crumbs are soft, add eggs then flour, salt and baking powder mixed and sifted. Heat griddle or frying pan, grease and drop mixture from tip of spoon on griddle. Cook on one side. When puffed full of bubbles, turn oyer and bake on other side. Serve with butter and corn syrup. Buckwheat Griddle Cakes One cup flour (sifted), 1 cup buck­ wheat flour, % cup white sugar, % teaspoon salt, 2 teaspoons baking powder, % cup butter or butter and fryings melted, 1% cups'sweet milk. Baked Griddle Cakes One pine griddle cake butter; Ya pound cottage cheese; Ya tea.spoon salt;; Ya teaspoon cinnamon; Ya. tab­ lespoon sugar; 1 tablespoon milk; 1 egg, well beaten; V2 cup honey or maple syrup. Make the griddle cakes about four inches in diameter. Cover and keep them in a warm place until ready to use. Blend the seasonings with the cottage cheese and add the milk and egg. Spread the griddle cakes, and fold or roll the cakes over the cheese, pressing the. edges of the cakes se-I curely together. Line the cakes in a greased baking pan; pour over the top of each the honey or syrup. Bake in a moderate oven for 15 minutes, Fried apples or sauted pineapple slic­ es make a delicious accompaniment for these cakes. Griddle Cakes Two and one-half cups flour, 3 tea­ spoons baking powder, 1 cup bran, 2 cups of milk, 2 eggs, 8 tablespoons melted shortening. Mix and sift the flour, baking powder, salt, and sugar together. Stir in the bran. Add milk to well beaten -eggs. Pour slowly in­ to dry ingredients. Mix thoroughly and add melted shortening. Bake like any pancakes and serve with butter and syrup. Delicious Griddle Cakes One and one-quarter cups sifted flour; 1% teaspoon salt; 2 egg yolks, slightly beaten; % cup milk ;2 table­ spoons melted butter or other short­ ening; 2 egg whites, stiffly beaten. Sift flour once, measure, add bak­ ing powder and salt, and sift again. Combine egg yolks and milk; add gradually to flour, beating only until smooth. Bake on hot, greased grid­ dle. Serve hot’ with maple-flavored syrup. One teaspoon sugar may be added with flour if a sweeter griddle cake is desired. Makes about 9 grid­ dle cakes. HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY At the recent annual meeting of the Horticultural Society it was noi­ sed that the membership for 1936 was 129, this is the lowest membership in several years. A decrease in mem­ bership of a society always gives the ■officers cause for -worry but our local society has during the past few years done much better than most societies, in many places the Horticultural So­ cieties have ceased to exist while here it is very active and carries on a fine work. The greater the membership how­ ever the greater its usefulness, so we urge our citizens to join the Horti­ cultural society this year and’*' thus ■encourage those who take a more ac­ tive interest and do so much work gratis. The membership fee is not large County fine weather, slippery .and returns to one almost completely j our only bug bear. We must by way of premiums. ijc SOME WEATHER The end of January and'up till now •we have not had what might be class­ ed as winter weather. Last year at this time we had it plenty cold and ■there was much snow. We are not suggesting that we pre­ fer a winter such as last year but as the weather has been so unusual so far this season one cannot help but make a note of it. One old-timer who was in the of­ fice Saturday told of the winter 47 -years ago. He said that year there was only two weeks when there was snow on the ground and then very little. Will this condition be repeat­ ed this year. It is hard on winter -sports but easy on the coal bill. Many are of the opinion that we will make up for these ideal condi­ tions in the spring months. They -■are of the opinion that we always bave a certain amount of cold wea­ ther. Here’s hoping they are wrong. Even if February goes on the ram- ■page we have the satisfaction that it can not last very long as the sun is getting higher each day. Spring is on the way. Although we have not had a- temperature of 82 such as Alex. Crawford tells of in Florida we certainly have had* a great winter so far. -I* 5^ SPORTS ASSOCIATION Several times in the last few years We have heard it said that what we * FORdj^OTEtS CHOOS£wl RATESW ♦tsoJI r to i Zsol SMcurnftotri! >** IB 1 1 B e a a V*1 w 11 . I | »i Jjg’/hreprw »•■;••»!£ - HOTELS ?»«’h>coMVENiany '••./located ► EASY VKOM 'moderm ► HOTELS favored people. * * * * A child was badly burned in East­ ern Ontario last week. He tried to hurry a fire with coal oil. Many grown-ups have found this to be a dangerous practice. & sjt Magistrate Walker of Bruce Coun­ ty is determined to stop drunken driv­ ers. He gave one such driver recent­ ly 30 days, the maximum penalty. 4^ ’I1 5!: Premier King said “The more I see of conferences, rhe less patience I am coming to have with them.” Unless all parties taking part in such meet­ ings do so with a proper co-operative spirit it stands to reason that the re­ sult will be negative. This has been the case with international confer­ ences ever since the war. The na­ tions do not trust one and other. sji ak sjs Judge James E. Madden tried the prison fare at the Guelph Reforma­ tory the other day. He was served on battered aluminum plates. If they had used Crown Derby it would have been news, ❖ ❖ ❖ # The Government has been fostering a campaign for the use of more sea foods. The consumption of fish in Canada is small compared with oth­ er countries and we have an abund­ ance of fish in our lakes and oceans. ❖ The silly statement of Jean Fran­ cois Pouliot in the House of Com­ mons that business would be good throughout the land if every Tory was fired is one of things that makes a great many people wise crack the expense of the politicians. # j|t s|c # New South Wales will celebrate the time of the Coronation next May with a two-day holiday, May 12 and 13. No there is an idea. sjs * Provincial debts have increased from $813,400,000 in 1925 to $1,622,- 100,000 in 1935, 99 per cent, wonder we are taxed and taxed. OF $ <<■? at at No to or as <x: <7 •:# u IP ?>? :•« A 1 >$<$ &$• lli $■:?•* F5 & •£: R 8$ gS S3: h: $>$ 1 HiRS :'S:Ss5WS? of the most recent develop-One ments in Canada’s national radio sys­ tem is a museum of permanent sound, established at Ottawa by the CBC. The museum has been made possible by the installation of the Blattner- ;• phone recording equipment and op­ erates in conjunction with the Cor­ poration’s short-wave receiving sta­ tion. Programs of historic interest from any part of the world can be permanently recorded and rebroadcast JILU $ * !$ S’-' M 7 :•$< ■l- •% 8 I 1r L SO _ any time. There are only three j studios; (upper right) diuy of the Blattnerphone recording machines, and (lower right) a Blattnerphone room which is typical of the instal­ lation at Ottawa. \x-: at Blattnerphone recording installations in the world, the other two being in England and in Poland. The above illustrations show (left) the Blattner­ phone control boards in the Ottawa For The Best Eye Service CONSULT F. F. HOMUTH Eyesight Specialist Phone 118. Harriston LARGE GROWTH IN DEPOSITS The Dominion Bank 66th Annual Statement Cash and Liquid Assets in High Per­ centage. Earnings Improve The shareholders of The Dominion Bank were presented with a highly satisfactory statement of the Bank’s Maitland Creamery Buyers Of THE UNITED FARMERS’ CO-OPERATIVE COMPANY, LIMITED. Witham, - * . OfttarKh plume By F. H. Wooding There has been established in Can­ ada the nucleus of what one day may become the most elaborate museum of permanent sound in the world. This museum, one of only three in existence, already has become of ex­ treme value and the passing of years will add to its worth, especially when the events of today have gone down in history. Imagine, if you will, posterity of one hundred years hence, actually hearing with perfect fidelity the voice of His late Majesty, King George V, the opening of the 17th Parliament of Canada, or the wedding of Theif Royal Highnesses, the Duke and Duchess of Kent! But, remarkable as it may seem, for all time to come the records of these and of other ev­ ents ,barring unforseen destruction, can be preserved for reproduction. From time to time there have been broadcast over our national radio sys­ tem proceedings of outstanding events —events that, centuries from now, will be as essentially historical as are today the rigning of the Magna Carta, the scourging of Attila, or the Battle- of the Plains of Abraham. These broadcasts, which future generations will be able to hear with the same clarity as the day they were origin­ ally made, have been recorded by an amazing new instrument, known as the Blattnerphone, which is now a part of the technical equipment of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation at Ottawa. The invention of the Blattnerphone has made possible recordings of radio programs of any length and these re­ cordings, which are not subject the influence of time, atmospheric physical conditions, can be used often as required. Like most technical apparatus the Blattnerphone cannot be attributed to the genius cf one man. It is the out­ come of reseaich and study by en­ gineers who devoted many years to­ ward its development. Valdemar Poulsen; a Swedish inventor, may rightfully be considered the father of the Blattnerphone, however, since it was he who, in 1900, discovered the general principles of magnetic record­ ing and impressed others with the possibilities of recording and repro­ ducing sound' frequencies magnetical­ ly. To Poulsen’s discoveries may be added the work of Herr ’Stille, a Ger­ man engineer, who actually develop­ ed the system for broadcasting pur- ; poses, although technicians of the I British Broadcasting Corporation, in I collaboration with Stille Inventions, - Limited, contributed to the improv­ ed quality of reproduction which the stringent impose. Company, which now owns the pat­ ent, likewise made improvements, ! pecially in its operation and in magnetic materials. Exchange >of Programs When Canada’s national system was created by Parliament in 1932 it was strongly recommended that ex­ change of programs with other coun­ tries be effected. Since, however, the broadcasting activities of the system ■ are confined to nightly periods and | since the best of foreign programs jare available in this country mainly 1 dttrittg the daytime when the system’s I networks are not in operation, it was | necessary to establish some means of i recording them for reproduction at later hours. With this in mind of- 1 ficials of the system, as the initial I step toward this end/ installed the conditions of broadcasting Engineers of the Marconi j es­ its Blattnerphone in the Ottawa studios. Later, it avas considered advisable to erect-near Ottawa a modern short­ wave receiving station through which programs could be received at any­ time during the day or night. This was a logical step and one which would enable the system to make greater -use of the Blattnerphone as a recording medium. Up to that time there had been re­ corded and placed in the archives per­ manent recordings, among them be­ ing the Christmas message of His late Majesty, King George V, to the Empire in 1934; the opening of the ITtli Parliament of Canada; the fun­ eral services of Sir Arthur Currie; proceedings in connection with the Economic Conference in London in 1933; the Jubilee celebrations of 1935; the wedding of Their Royal High­ nesses the Duke and Ditches of Kent in 1934; and the launching of the R. M. S. “Queen, Mary” in 1934. Experiments in Overseas Program I Reception Upon completion of the short-wave station near Ottawa, engineers' com­ menced experiments in the matter of overseas program reception. At first conditions were not entirely satisfac­ tory but with certain improvements it was found that broadcasts from England, Germany, France and oth­ er countries could be received with excellent fidelity when atmospheric conditions were good. When im­ provements were made in the station the Blattnerphone was put to use in recording certain broadcasts from ov­ erseas in which, it was felt, the Can­ adian listener would be interested and which might form valuable: additions to the archives. These were picked up during the daytime by means of the short-wave transmitter, relay to station CROC by special wires, mag- netically recorded by the Blattncr- The CBS short-wave- receiving"sta- tion near Ottawa, which operates in conjunction with the Blattnerphone recording equipment. It is through this station that certain important programs originating in England and in foreign countries are received in ■Canada during the daytime, trans­ mitted to the Ottawa studios, record­ ed, and then rebroadcast at night when the Corporation networks are open. photic and then rebroadcast at night. Among these recordings are a speech made on behalf pf the Youth Move­ ment of England by His Majesty King Edward VT.II> whim yet Prince of Wales, 1935; the Moose River mine rescue, 1936; memorial services for His late Majesty, King George V, from- St. Paul’s Cathedral, 1936; the proclamation of King Edward VHI, 1936 address by Kt, Hon. Stan­ ley Raidwin, 1936; Canadian memor­ ial program for King George, 1936; and the unveiling of the Vimy Ridge Memorial at Vimy, France, 1036. Recently there were added the farewell address to the Empire of the former King Edward VHT and the proclamation ceremonies of the as­ cension to the Throne of King George VI. From a descriptive point of view the Blattnerphone is as intricate and complicated an apparatus as a lino­ type machine in a newspaper office. Its operation likewise calls for ■ un­ usual skill ott the part of trained en­ gineers, With this in mind it would be useless to attempt a lengthy word picture of its mechanics, but it is felt that the reader may be interested in a few of its less techincal aspects. The Blattnerphone, for example, uses steel tape as the recording med- i-unl and this tape, which is mounted on cast aluminum spools, is a mile and a half in length, three thousandths of an inch thick and a little over a tenth of an Inch in width, and is cap­ able of accepting programs of about half an hour’s duration, It is inter­ esting to note that a recording made by this machine is reproduceable with exactly the Same clarity as at the time of the actual broadcast and that it is not subject to deterioration in any way. A. recording ma'de by the Blattnerphone may be kept indefin­ itely or “wiped out.” When a tape is thus , cleared it may be used again. Long Programs Can Be Condensed Another great advantage which this system of. recording offers is that long programs can be condensed. For example, the proceedings in connec­ tion with the opening of Parliament in 1935. resulted in a complete record­ ing an hour and a half in length. Since, however, the event occurred during the afternoon it was possible to eliminate unnecessary parts by re­ recording, thus making it suitable for reproduction over the national radio network later that night. Only paus­ es in the ceremony were deleted and nothing of value was dost for the listener, Blattnerphone recordings likewise prove of value from time to time in making possible a means of quickly reproducing voices of annouheers, soloists, and even whole programs. This has permitted making correct­ ions in individual performance by de­ monstrating to the performers them­ selves their errors. It is not difficult to realize that Canadians have in their possession, a legacy of recordings which, from a^ educational standpoint alone, are in" valuable. In the future, mdreover, re­ cordings of events as equally import­ ant as those listed above will Jitid their way into the archives. The Blattnerphone,- ift conjunction with the Corporation’s short-wave receiv­ ing station, Is Indeed performing & service of the utmost importartce,