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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance-Times, 1941-11-20, Page 7Thursday, Nov. 20th, 1941 Round Trip Rail Bargains (Good in Coaches Only), From WINGHAM « NOVEMBER 28 * 29 To °ZT^JVA MONTREAL QUEBEC •, $13.65 $18.55 Trois Rivieres $16.20; Ste. Anne de Beaupre.$19.15 Plus Government Tax 10% Extra, First train from Toronto 10.55 p,m, November 28. Return Limit — Up to December 1. wet good on 3 p.m. trains from Ottawa and Montreal. TO THE*MARITIMES NOVEMBER 27 Pacific Stations in New Brunswick All Dominion Atlantic Ry, Stations in Nova Scotia Not Good Return On 3 P.M, Train From Montreal For limits, detailed service, etc. Consult Agents — procure Handbill CANADIAN PACIFIC CANADA AT WAR NO. 2—TOUR OF LARGEST AUTOMATIC GUN PLANT IN ONTARIO | By C. Bari Rice, formerly of Springfield Times, Lac Du. Bonnet, Man. | hundreds of operations. There total of 161 different parts in gun, requiring 3,000 separate ations. In the plant, there are than 4,000 machine tools and 17,000 different gauges. 100 Per Cent Canadian When the Government let the con­ tract for the construction of these guns, it stipulated that where possible, onjy Canadian materials were to be used. As a result, these guns are one hundred per cent Canadian, with the An automatic gun plant jn Eastern Canada, is now the largest single pro­ ducer of machine guns in the British Empire today, , In the spring of 1938, the Canadian Government decided to make Bren Guns for the Canadian Army, Now the ■plant consists of some 19 buildings, covering more than a million square feet of floor space. At the outbreak of war, the working personnel con­ sisted of slightly over 400 persons. "Today, more than 4,500 are employed’ is a each oper- tnore over of the tremendous amount of work Involved in their production. The body of a Bren Gun starts along the machine line as a rough forging weighing 45 pounds. The body is the part of the gun which houses the fir­ ing mechanism. This forging passes through 269 separate operations be­ fore tt is completed. As many of these operations require more than one handling, and must be gauged follow­ ing each operation, it means that lit-, orally several hundred persons have had*a hand in the production of the gun body. By the time all operations are completed, what had orginally ••been a forty-five pound forging, weighs only five and one half pounds. Guns For Airplanes Browning machine guns are also produced in this plant. These are the guns used in our fighting airplanes, six or eight being housed in the wings of Hurricanes and Spitfires. A Brown­ ing gun is capable of firing more than one thousand rounds per minute, and a blast from one of our fighter planes’ six or eight guns, will prac­ tically cut an enemy plane in two, A Browning Gun while not quite as intricate as a Bren. Gun, requires nevertheless, a great deal of care and detail in its production. There are 178 different parts, requiring 2,500 oper­ ations for its construction. The weight of a Browning, 35 pounds, is some­ what greater than that of a Bren. This plant also produces the Boys Rifle. It js used for an entirely differ­ ent purpose- than the other two guns mentioned. It is a heavy sturdy gim, firing a single bullet. These bullets are armour-piercing however, and the Boys Rifle is used extensively in ac­ tion against light tanks and' armoured vehicles. 'In the course of the next few months, production will be doubled. So perfect has become the system of mass production of automatic gun equipped in this plant, that the United States has sent representatives to study the details. The same firm is • also turning out marine engines on a large scale. Triple expansion engines to, power Corvettes are built here, and now production is under way on the engines that are to be used to power the Tribal Class Destroyers Canada is now building for the British Navy. WINGHAM ADVANCE-TIMES PHIL OSIFER OF LAZY MEADOWS By H. J. Boyle . € The young woman shown in this efficient weapons are being turned out ■photo is welding cartridge clips for by the hundreds in Canada and pro- Bren machine guns. These light and} duction is always increasing. on war -production, and in another exception of the walnut, imported •nine of t.en months, that number will [ from the United States, used for the be increased to around 9,000. Nearly 40 per cent of the employees are wom­ en, and they can handle the machine tools with all the dexterity of men. More women will be used as meh are called to other types of war work. The production of a Bren Gun is an intricate job, and requires literally A. H. McTAVISH, B.A. Teeswater, Ontario Barrister, Solicitor, Notary Public and Conveyancer Office: Gofton House, Wroxeter every Thursday afternoon 1.30 to 4.30 and by appointment. Phone — Teeswater 120J. gun stocks. Bren Guns are as nearly fool proof as it is possible to make them. They cannot be assembled, incorrectly. If one part fits into another, that must be the correct wav, otherwise they would not go together. They weigh just 22 pounds. Each gun is equipped with a spare barrel, and twenfy-four magazines, each magazine holding thirty cart­ ridges. It is a simple matter to slip one magazine oft and put another in place; the operation requiring only a few seconds. Details of the construction of any type of ordnance cannot be given. It is possible however, to mention a few pertinent facts regarding certain parts of guns, which .will give one some idea MATTRESSES A reader sends along a note saying, “Why don’t you write a piece some day about mattresses?" • The letter serves to sot a train of thought in motion . . . and sure enough the column starts out about mattresses. Feather ticks were discarded at Lazy Meadows when I /was a boy. Mother ^heard some place they were unhealthy and that literally billions 'Of germs used to hide in among the feathers of a .tick. She persuaded Father to buy some new mattresses. He was firmly convinced that germs were all a lot of nonsense and so when he came back from town that .evening he had one mattress and a firm glint in his eye which warned everyone to accept the mattress with­ out questioning, It was placed on the spare bed. - In due time it w.as moved to father and mother’s room and a new one was purchased for the spare bedroom. Soon another' one was 'purchased for the spare room . . , the spare one moved to our parents room and we were given the old one. After being used to the billowing feather tick that used to roll and toss with us on the bed ... it was a* strange sensation to climb in on top of that new straw tick. | have neyer been able to figure out whether that hard straw matress was .comfortable or not. It was hard in places and soft in others. By rea­ son of two small boys to burrow down in the centre of it during the cold winter spells it began to dish out at the sides and. wear through at the middle. There was a round spot in the centre where the straw was all dished out ami it was bulked up along the sides in regular dyke-like, sort of ar­ rangement. Climbing into bed you would start sleeping up on the sides and the first thing you knew there would be a scramble of boys in the middle, The tussle and pulling and tugging of small boys had a rather bad effect on the mattress, Mother was sick at the time and our hired girl never used to both­ er a great deal with sweeping, I can remember quite plainly how she used to push the little pile of straw back into the corner under the bed, Need­ less to say that after mother recovered from her illness the hired girl was given a very short notice to pack her “duds and git,” " Grandmother used to have the soft­ est feather beds in the district. It was always a treat to get spending a few days at her house. Climbing into bed .... it seemed as if you were scramb­ ling up on top of a partly inflated balloon the way they used to billow out around you-. Grandmother would come tip-toeing up the stairs softly with the lamp in her hand. I can see her yet. Edging in the door quietly she would set the lamp down on the chair and tuck the quilts in under the feather mattress. Then shoving’ the quilts up close around my shoulders she- would stoop down and her lips would give a quick “feather-touch” , kiss on my forehead. Feather ticks were great in winter time. They were warm and pleasant to sleep in but during the summer time it was an entirely different mat­ ter. On an evening when the weather was sultry and hot the ticks were quite apt to make you feel as if you were roasting. Every time you turned the tick seemed, to conform to your shape and bury you a littfe deeper in its smothering density. The feath­ ers had a way of coming through the ticking and it was not unusual to get up in the morning with feathers clust­ ering to your skin where you had been sweating. Uncle Josh’s daughter Miliy is a school teacher. She has been living away off in the city for a long time now and more or less away from all our country customs. Last Christmas Josh was in the village one day and the station agent told him that there was a large parcel for him down at the station. Josh drove down with the sleigh and looked at the strange flat bundle. Josh always was a curious sort of fellow and so he had to peek 'in at the contents of the parcel. It turned out to be a mattress . . . one of those springy, soft kind which are designed to give you your full beauty sleep. Josh was pleased beyond words and he drove away off whist­ ling to beat the band. I didn’t see him for some time but one day he came to Lazy Meadows and we chanced to ask him about the mattress which it developed his daughter had sent him. “I have been getting up at five o’clock since I was a boy,” he said. “Never missed one single morning •until we got that new-fangled mattress. I slept in until eight o’clock the next day. Mrs. Josh took it. off our bed and put it on the spare one. She says that the old straw tick is good enough foe us. 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' 1 It was a time when people chose to live on farms or in towns because of value to the war effort and the farm- 1 ranges, snowcapped and festooned, same ers arc grateful for every hour of the with hanging glaciers, beautiful val­ leys, sparkling lakes, sandy beaches, ►g streams, green forests, and' * ! ....- I days. I In these areas may be enjoyed the j This casual labor has been of great attractions of majestic mountain their personal tastes. The amount of money and equal industry work done, but farm production can- and skill would produce similar re- not be maintained with casual or un- ’ tumblin turns in the towns and on the farms, skilled labor. It must be worth while picturesque stretches by the sea. As It was not a time when city people for farm boys and girls and skilled wild life sanctuaries, the national got two or three times as much for , workers to stay on the farms and pro- • parks are also serving as vast outdoor their, work and for their capital as duce food if we are to keep production museums, where the fauna and flora they do in cities today. While the abreast 'of need. ; may be seen and studied in its nat­ ion hour day has changed to the eight j The cost-of-living bonus which is Ural state. hour day, and the sixty hour week has | being paid by order of the government , The national parks of Canada re­ shortened to the forty-eight or the to industrial workers is based on the present a great natural resource which, .forty or the thirty-six hour week in highest wages paid from 1926—1940. cities, the twelve to sixteen hour day Thus urban workers are receiving the and the seven day week have remained highest wage rates ever paid, to them in fujl effect on the farm the year and with full time employment and round. Then why do people stay on farms? are fatter than they have ever been The answer is that they don’t and they before, won’t when work is available in the , cities as it is now. The young people leave the farms when they can lead an easier, better-paid life in the city. A food supply problem that has been acute since early summer is the lack of farm help. Every day appeals were ; issued for more ,n *4,n • crops. Thousands much overtime their pay envelopes ‘ J' • with reasonable care, cannot be de­ pleted by use. They are also an im­ portant economic asset in war time both from the standpoint of the health of the nation .and as an attraction to American tourists who bring with, them dollars much needed for Can­ ada’s war purchases in the United States. It is estimated that more than half the total population of the Unit­ ed States travel for recreation, edu­ cation and enjoyment each year. In a vast wave they spread over the North . American continent, visiting their national monuments, and historic shrines. Many include in their itinerary the counter part of these places of interest in. Canada—where they arc sure of a friendly welcome. The usefulness of the national parks ns pleasure and health-giving resorts ts becoming more and more recog­ nized. This is evident from the rapid growth in attendance during the past few years. system .n lionists scious number be expi No such condition exists for farm­ ers. The higher urban wages have in­ creased the cost of what farmers buy and, despite increases in the prices of food, farmers are still receiving less net income than they received in 1926 -1929. help to save the ’ The immediate food supply problem own great national jfarks, of town young is to restore the balance between ur- _.______ ______ _ | band and farm incomes. i t____________ iTHE NATIONAL I PARKS OF CANADA I ______ j Among Canada's greatest tourist I attractions are her National Parks, areas of outstanding beauty and inter­ net aside by uallv es- primitivc j and ‘ >L,’'A c6'^Wk.?’ooks 4Wl=WOW‘Af,£ obligations. I if * .. *' . . .... : wig 3K The Advance-Times Phone 34 • est which have been ■ statute for tablished t j beauty and w ' they are alsc ; wild life of th | site: j reef . immeasurable I ideal sur • {unities 1 ! life. Canada's natb instituted more t I when a small area surr Imineral springs at Banff in the Rocky i Mountains was set aside in 1885 as a • public possession. Other additions in the region formed the nucleus of the great chain of national playgrounds which now stretches across the Dorn- of .th public use. maintain mder c< 1 cc tial rca: h rroundin for the S of scrv ntry ist to Ori; the the landscape, ng the native and preserv iric t lV.V quailed r interest, ivir v pr >v c if 11m ►yir alttv ide, t<pp ►uld- ng As is ill or- With a Dominion-wide of these national playgrounds evergrowin; becoming • substantial $ of visitors icted in the future ig volume of vaca** national park con* increases tn the 4 to the parks may al pa ian fifty ►mail area ■1<ystem v years a, vas go, ►unding hot MONUMENTS at first cost Having our factory equipped with the most modern machinery for the exe­ cution of high-class work, we ask you to see the largest display of monu­ ments of any retail factory in Ontario. Al! finished by sand blast machines. We import all our granites from the Old Country Quarries direct, in the rough. 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