HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance-Times, 1941-11-06, Page 7Thursday, November 6, 1941
known since babies
By Harry J. Boyle
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DRIVE IN YOUR COMMUNITYSUPPORT THE WAR WEAPONS
spend less- to bus mors
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The real test is the firing
a good rifle must function
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Just about the time you think yon
can make both ends meet, someone
moves the ends.
baskets, we started
ashes. By the' time
of the furnace^ was
cellar floor looked
may
it is
GET THE FAMILY OFF TO
A GOOD START WITH A
TEMPTING BREAKFAST
teaspoon
teaspoon
cup milk,
tablespoon butter
egg yolks, beaten until thick
and lemon-colored
egg whites, stiffly beaten
.Published by the War Savings Committee, Ottawa
The help of every Canadian is needed for
Victory. In these days of war the thoughtless,
selfish spender is a traitor to our war effort.
A reduction in personal spending is now a vital
necessity to relieve the pressure for goods, to
enable more and more labour and materials to
be diverted to winning the war. The all-out
effort, which Canada must make, demands this
self-denial of each of us.
we've
EIGHT CANADIAN WARSHIPS LAUNCHED IN ONE CEREMONY •i
must provide the money so much needed
to win the war. . . and one way to do
that is to buy more Wav Savings
Certificates.
them board the train after
boys we’ve
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WINGHAM ADVANCE-TIMES
Notice To The Public!
Having' enlisted with the,Canadian Forces for Active
Service for the duration of the war, I will be absent
from my business for an indefinite period:
AUCTIONEER BUSINESS
For the benefit of my clients^ I have arranged with
Mr. Wm, Scott, of Monkton, to conduct my business
for me during my absence. Arrangements for sales
can,be made at Kemp’s Coal Office, Listowel,
‘ MONUMENT BUSINESS
The Monument business will be continued by my part
ner, Mr. Wellington Ronald, in the present location. I
will gratefully appreciate the courtesy of the public if
the patronage given to me will be continued to the
gentleman conducting my business until I return, for
which I sincerely thank you.
F. W. KEMP
PHIL OSIFER OF
LAZY MEADOWS
Furnace Firing
At Lazy Meadows we have always
•depended on a range to heat the kit
chen and the back’two bedrooms, and
.a heat'er in the front parlor sends <up
sufficient heat for thez dining-room,
the living room and the two front
bedrooms. 'Maple and beech blocks
stoked into those two stoves have al-‘
ways seemed to us to be the.perfect
.answer to any heating problem we
may have.
I must admit at times, hovever, that
the thought of installing a furnace
seemed to be pretty bright. Sitting in
■one of-the homes-in the village1 bask
ing in the warm air which seemed to
come in a never-ending stream from
the furnace registers seemed like a
winter variety of heaven. My idea,
however, was that all you had to do
-with a furnace was throw coal on the
fire and fiddle a bit with the drafts.
How sadly mistaken I was on that
score!
Last Thursday I dropped in to see
my cousin in the village. It was a
chilly day and I found her muffled in
•clothes trying to warm herself over a
small electric plate. She asked me
rather plaintively if I knew anything
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Eight new' warships were christened at one shipyard at Sorel,* christened in rapid succession. ' H.M.C.S. Brookville, RIGHT, was
Que., recently, The corvette La Malbaie is pictured LEFT, slid- christened by Mrs. C, G, MacOdrum, wife of the mayor of Brookville,
mg down the ways. Throe more corvettes and four minesweepers were1 Ont..
about a furnace. I confessed my ig
norance of furnace firing but backed
by considerable experience in keep
ing stoves going I o.ffered to try.
Everything went'lovely. First of all
the bottom of the furnace was filled
with half-burned coal and ashes.
There was nothing around to put the
ashes in and so, finding a number of
those small
filling them
the bottom
cleaned out
like a miniature of the Sahara desert
with the ashes taking the part of sand
dunes.
Finally the furnace was cleaned out.
My Sunday suit was liberally speck
led with gray ashes and dust. Kind
ling? There just didn’t seem to be any
kindling. Some of the ashes had to be
dumped and the baskets broken up
to give the proper start. Paper . . .
no paper to be seen. This required,
a trip upstairs, during which I forgot
that the smoke pipe dipped low in the
furnace room and I gave myself a
resounding blow on the top of the
head. I reeled upstairs to get the
paper.
The fire was set. A neat pile of
smashed baskets rested on top of a
mound of paper. A flickering finger
of flame caught at the corner of the
paper and it started with a dull roar.
Everything seemed to be going nice
ly until the cellar began to fill up
with smoke. When I bumped my head
I had evidentaly knocked the smoke
pipe out of the chimney.
Replacing the pipe in the chimney
required crawling in over the top of
the coal in the bin. There was just
space to wriggle through and I felt
like a boat with its hull scraping on
rocks. The pipe was just about in
when an avalanche of coal decided to
roll back . . . me with it. I skinned
my elbows and dipped my face right
down into the coal. And all the while
the smoke grew thicker. The pipe was
at last-put back in the hole.<
By this time the baskets were warm
ashes. That required building the fire
over again and dumping out some
ashes. The flames were going nicely
and I shot in a dose of coal expecting
to see it burst up into flames. Noth
ing happened! I waited for some
time. Still no flame! The coal evident
ly put out the fire -altogether.
Have you ever scraped coal out of
a furnace . . . bashing your knuckles
to it.
last the fire Started. Then for
and trying to make the grates turn
over? If there ever was a job intended
to make you forget all the good reso
lutions of your life it is that one,
” I fussed and fumed and fumbled and
managed at last to get a small bit of
coal in the centre of the furnace
going strong. I turned dampers and
pulled wires until the furnace seemed
to shake every time it saw me walking
close
At
some reason or other it stopped mak
ing a noise. I sat and watched it care
fully, wondering what the next move
would be. Curious to know just what
was going on I opened the door
rather cautiously , . , and then
“boom" , . . the grates rattled and
coal dust
door.
I was
would go out then, but
shot out theand flames
certain .that the furnace
strangely en
ough it started to -burn merrily with
no interference. The furnace was go
ing, I was covered with dust and dirt
and completely disgusted with life in
general.
Stoves may be old-fashioned but
they are certainly not as temper
amental as furnaces,
LETTERS TO
THE EDITOR
Belgrave, Ontario,
October 27th, 1941,
Editor Advance-Times:
Please allow me space to draw at
tention to the powers that be, to the
danger of the bridges south of Wing
ham. I know this has been done be
fore, but as I was injured in a collis-
■ion on one of them last July, I feel
I am in a better position to judge the
feelings of the motorists concerned in
the accident a week ago Friday after
noon, than those, who so far have not
been involved. Surely some system of
lighting—similar to that used in cities
—could be installed, or a patrol of
ficer stationed in the vicinity.
We speedily raise millions of dol
lars for the destruction of human
life, what is wrong with the preser
vation of those who are unable to take
their place in the fighting line?
Yours faithfully,
Robert Winter.
MAKING THE
. TOOLS OF WAR
Take a passing look at an explosive
bomb — a 500 pound one. It is 36
inches high as it stands on end, and
13 inches across. It is made of cast
steel, blade and forbidding in appear
ance, shaped much, like the churns
seen in the country in the old days
when dairy butter was van article of
commerce, and' before barrel churns
were invented. Loaded with its prop
er complement of T.N.T. and ammon
ium nitrate, sealed, with the firing ap
pliance and the directive fins attach
ed, it is not difficult to see in the eye
of the mind, the devastating power of
this instrument of war produced in
Canadian plants,
A filling plant is as clean as»»a hos
pital ward. It is absolutely clean. The
visitor wears clean rubgers -provided
by the plant. These rubbers are used
for nothing else but walking on clean
floors. Matches, lighters and other
trinkets are left behind when the vis
itor starts bn his trip of inspection.
T.he clothes of the workmen are clean.
They wear a standard uniform. The
men leave their suits behind when they
leave the plant. They are trained to
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quiet, efficient work. In a place where
carelessness might mean loss of life
and serious danger to property, care
fulness becomes an ingrained charac
teristic. The enormous size of the
plant, the extent of the operations, the
movement of traffic in and cut, gives a
profound and lasing impression of the
tremendous activity developed in Can
ada as a result of the war.
When the shells leave the factory
where they are made, they are clean.
The^filling plant cleans them again—
they might have taken on some ex
traneous substance on the journey.
They are then poured. This is done in
several operations. A smoke box is
added, The men who are watching
the firing of these shells want to know
where they hit, Smoke will prove the
indicator. When the filling operation
is complete, they are sealed, varnish
ed, ready for shipment. They are stor
ed in arsenals, ready for1 the journey
to their final destination. When they
explode on the field of battle they ex
ert a pressure of 50 tons to the square
inch.
AU munition plants have certain
common characteristics, They occupy
large ground areas. The buildings are
low. They employ large numbers of
men — 3',000 in a shjft — two shifts
to the dp.y in one plant. They are
away from large business centres; but
life seems to go on a good deal more
calmly in a munitions plant or shell or
bomb loading plant than in the ordin
ary busy hive of- industry.
The guns of Napoleon, fired one
shot per half hour at Waterloo. The
French 75's in the Great War ran 20
to 25 per minute. The Bofors anti-air
craft gun fires 120 per minute. -Time,
which brought these modifications,
changed also the relative size of muni
tions plants from one war to another
— put six men at work on the home
front to one on the war front. These
are the factors which have increased
tremendously the material contribu
tions to this war in comparison with
the wars of the pas.
WHERE ARE THE
OLD RIFLES?
Where are he old rifles, those which
turned back the Huns in the Great
War and thus became partly wrecked
in the struggle? Everybody seems to
have forgotten them. They have been
pensioned, 'so to speak, left to sed
entary life in armories and other odd
storage places throughout the coun
try.
But the government, like
ant, has a long memory,
where they were. 'Rifles are hard to
get, delivery is slow — so these vet
erans have been called on for further
service. They are now in an Ontario
town — thousands of them — under
going renovation. Fifty men are in
the plant doing nothing else but turn
ing old rifles into new.
If they could only speak what tales
these battered veterans could tell.
They were in every conflict in the
Great War, in every advance, in every
retreat. They witnessed magnificent
courage, much tragedy, some comedy.
Such is life to a rifle on active service.
Some of them carry stories on their
faces, the initials of the men who held
them, the initials of the girls they left
behind them. Somtimes they carry the
names of battles. The grim notches
filed in the barrels are records, be
tween-the lines, of foes slain in battle.
Some are worn beyond repair, but
they have salvage value. It is always
possible- to take some parts from one
t
and some from another, also worn and
useless, and by adding the parts to
gether and supplying some which can
be made in the plant, provide a
rifle — at least as serviceable as
were.
What parts wear out first? It
be the handguards. Quite often
the barrel or the forends — the wood
en section under the back part of the
barrel. The barrels pass through some
rather trying experiences. Sometimes,
as is natural in a gun which has serv
ed in War it has failed to receive pro
per attention. It may be left out, part
ly burned, and for some time unclean
ed. The inner surface of the barrel
starts to corrode. The rifling is des-’
troyed and it is no longer an effective
weapon.
There is another peculiar “disease”
of gun barrels. It is called “ringing”.
It is produced when the gun is fired
while there is something lodged inside
the barrel. When that happens, the
bullet may not leave the gun. It be
comes thoroughly packed against the
obstruction and- the tremendous vol
ume of the gas, exerting its pressure
upon the bullet and the barrel, ex
pands he inside of the barrel and a
small area in close proximity to the
obstruction is enlarged. 1'f this hap
pened in a shotgun it would be “good
night” to the gun, conceivably also to
the man who held it, but a rifle barrel
has tremendous resisting power.
When it has passed through an exper
ience of this kind, it will never be
quite the same again!
When these rifles are gone over
there are, of course, some which are
scrap, save only for the salvage left
in them. Some have a value only as
drill rifles that are not to be fired.
They serve the purpose of giving
trainees, in the first days of their mili
tary experience, the “feel” of having a
rifle in their hands. There are others
which may be termed emergency
rifles. They would be all right for the
Home Guard, but they would not be
turned over to regular troops as serv-'
ice rifles for prolonged use. Then
there are the others, and a good many
of them, which for all practical pur
poses, after renovation, are as good as
new and quite able to take the “gaff”
for another campaign — even if Hit
ler lasted for longer than seems, at the
moment, probable.
There afe very few gunsmiths in
Canada —* that is, men who make a
regular business of it. Of course,
there is always the handyman who can
fix anything, but the foreman in this
plant knows his guns because gnus
have been ins life. Many of the men
who do the work are fatitt boys, handy
fellows with their hands,* accustomed
W We see
their last leave home . .
known since they were babies. We say
’’Good Luck . . . we’re all pulling for
you”, as we bid them Good Bye. But
are we? f Are we “pulling" ... all we
can? What are we doing to help them?
Are we giving them the things they
*
need so badly . . . ships and tanks and
guns and planes and ammunition? Are
we giving them all they need? That’s
one thihg we can do ... we who stay
at home ... one thing we must do. We
to fixing up things at home. They like
their work. “It is rather nice’’ said one
chap with a blush, “to take these old
guns apart and patch them up and feel
them growing young again under your
hands until they become almost as
good as when they left the factory.”
Before it leaves the plant, each rifle
is tested,
test, for
smoothly
straight.
HOGS AND
PLUMP GRAIN
WAR SAVINGS CERTIFICATES
Two years ago when the grain crop
was particularly good in quality,
many hogs when marketed showed a
tendency of being overfinished. This
year the Ontario grain crop is making
up in quality what it may lack in
quantity. Reports from many sections
indicate that oats are weighing up to
40 lb. to the bushel and barley 50 lb.
or more. This plump grain makes good
feed. The kernels have more meat in
them with a lower percentage of fibre.
In' connection 'with the high feeding
value of this grain,'the live stock men
of the Dominion Department of Agri
culture, fearing a repetition of the
overfinish in hogs of two years ago,
desire to issue a word of caution to
hog feeders. They say that hogs will
require less of the good grain to put
on proper finish. When skim-milk is
not available, tankage or some protein
supplement should be fed to balance
the ration. While this caution is given
against overfinish, the suggestion is
not being made to market the hogs
lighter. All hogs should weigh 200 to
210 lb. alive when marketed. The aim
should be to have them properly fin-
inshed in that weight range. So, when
the grain is plump and of high quality,
it will be necessary to use judgement
in feeding it to the hogs to avoid over-
finish.
Issued by Press and I’ubllciy, Pub
licity and Extension Division Depart
ment of Agriculture, Ottawa, Canada,
by Betty Barclay
If you want to start the family off
to a happy day, make Hie first meal
a tempting one. There’s really no ex
cuse for hum-drum, slap-dash break
fasts. Variety th fruit and jiggs and
breads is just as easy as monotony;
and a good cup of coffee is just as
easy to make ns a poor one.
Whether you use drip coffee equip
ment, u percolator or a plain coffee t
pot, remember that the secret of
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fee success is to keep the apparatus
scrupulously clean, to measure the
quantity of coffee and water exactly,
and to time the brewing to the second.
You can pour second cups generously
if you use decaffeinated coffee, for
nobody to count cups when this brew
is served. Remember that decaffein
ated coffee needs slightly longer
brewing—when made by pot or per
colator—to bring out its full flavor.
You can add welcome variety to
breakfast if you serve art omelet thick
ened with quick-cooking tapioca.
Drip Coffee
Use one well-rounded tablespoon
drip grind decaffeinated coffee far
each cup pint)' of boiling water.
Preheat drip coffee 'pot. Put coffee
in upper compartment of pot. Pour
fresh briskly boiling water over it.
Cover and let stand in warm place
until all water had dripped through
once. Remove upper compartment and,,
cover pot. Serve.
Fluffy Omelet
tablespoons quick-cooking
tapioca ’
salt
pepper
scalded
4
Add quick-cooking tapioca, salt, and
pepper to milk and cook 'in double
boiler 15 minutes, or until tapioca is
clear and mixture thickened, stirring
frequently. Add butter. Cool. Com
bine with egg yolks, stirring constant
ly, Fold in egg whites. Pour into hot,
buttered, 9-inch frying pan. Cook over
low flame, 3 minutes. Then bake in
moderate oven (350 deg, F.) 15 min
utes. Omelet is sufficiently cooked
when a knife inserted comes out
clean. Cut across at right angles to
handle of pan, being careful not to
cut all the way through. Fold care
fully from handle to opposite side
and serve on hot platter. Serves 6.
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to see the largest display of monu
ments of any retail factory in Ontario.
All finished by sand blast machines.
We import all our granites from the
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ets’, agents* and middleman profits by
•eeing us.
& J. Skelton 4 Son