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, By R, 1' WILKINSON
Ordinarily Angus wouldn't have
interfered. Boys the age of his
son Craig were apt to have,• love
affairs -lots of them—before they
settled down and thought .about
getting married;' It was natural, a
state that ever youth had to pass
Through, But this latest heart throb- •
ber seemed to have a hold on the
youth, Angus had made discreet
inquiries, and discovered her name
was Leslie Day and that she was
'a good deal older than Craig.
Angus wasn't stupid enough to
*ask his son direct questions, Since
the boy's mother had died he had
learned that roudabout, indirect
methods were far more apt to
produce results.
"Suppose we , go down'''to 'the
beach and open up Peak's Head for
a few weeks, Craig? Have some
people down and make a holiday pf
it? Anyone •in particular you'd like
to have around. for a few days?
"Swell! I was going td suggest
it myself," Craig's voice assumed a
note of casualness. "I'd like to
have Don Waldron down and Lis -
beth Gale. Then there's a girl
I've been seeing some. Leslie Day.
She's a good sport."
"Fine! ou $o ahead' find' do
the in•itfn alfa 7'fl haver,Qedway,
,tat ,.,t nb.-foci
run doi'n to the Head and get
Things ready."
Two days before they were to
leave for the }lead, . Angus called
a friend and made a few arrange-
ment that he _didn't confide-. to
Craig. The friend said sure, he'd
be glad to come and bring his
niece.
Angus was an hand when Craig
and his young friends arrived.
Easily he picked Leslie Day out of
the crowd. Anyone could tell she
v^c older than Craig. She had dark
, and eyes and a quiet ntan-
ngua feeling toward Leslie Day
suffered none during the evening
and half day that preceded Jim
Crouch's arrival with his niece,
whom he introduced as Dorcas
Haines. Jim hadn't •underestimated
a bit. Dorcas was a knockout.
"They play well together, don't
they?" he said, turning to Leslie
Day, who sat beside him beneath
the orange and green umbrella.
"And look well together," she
supplemented.
Angus had an uncomfortable
feeling that Leslie could s c e
through him perfectly.
"Look," he said, "it's no fan sit •
-
ting here. Suppose you let me show
you around?"
Angus decided before the week
had passed that }tis scheme was
working perfectly. Craig was 'spend-
ing as much time alone with Dorcas
as he possibly could without ap-
pearing rude,
Craig carne into his father's
room on the sixth evening.
"Dad, T must talk to you, 1—
I'm in love."
"That's quite natural. Miss Day
is a fine girl."
"That's the point, Dad. It isn't
Leslie. It --it's Dorcas."
Angus did his best. to appear
surprised. He tried to think of a
fid original and paternal remarks
apropos to the situation, and made
a botch of the whoie business. In
the end, Craig looking rather cha-
grined, said good night and de-
parted. Angus sat by his bedroom
window a long time. Well, he'd
made a pretty mess of things.
He found her the next morning
totter the orange and green um-
brella near 'the courts.
"Miss Day, I've a job to do that's
really the hardest thing I've ever
tackled: Please be as kind as you
can when you hear nte,"
"Is it about Craig?"
Angus stared. He opened his
mouth, closed it, became acutely
conscious of the amused look in
her eyes and reddened. "That," he
blurted suddenly, "is only half of .
it. The other half is that I've
fallen in love with you myself. Did
you know that, too?"
"It would rather spoil an other-
wise delightful scene if I wire to
say yes. Therefore I won't, Are
you asking me to marry you? If
so—the astonishing part is, I share
a similar feeling. I mean, oh, it's
all so ridiculous!"
Angus'•heart,leaped. "That makes
it perfect! Your blushing, I mean.
1 had begs n to think you were too
sure -�h, bang, I've known it from
the first day, And so have you, I
guess, ;But what else tffattera iiaw"
that we've been truthful with each
other?"
"Nothing," said Leslie.
Tap ;a* th's Depths
For Steam Power
"We need water, minerals and
power, and if we were half as
interested in exploring the depths
of the earth as we are In exploring
outer space- we might be able to
obtain adequate amount of fresh
water and salts from the sea and
minerals from the earth as by
products of power production, anis
all, three for little or nothing after
first costs are paid," writes Ira S.
Martis,' of Upland, Calif., to the
New York Times.
Since shafts and tunnels two
miles deep have already been made
. and operated successfully he sug-
gests that we direct the big rockets
required for exploring the atmos-
phere down at the earth after
which we can .dig hales only a
mite' it tw deeper.
A small rocket, e.g.,-one weighing
forty pounds, containing a mixture
of explosives and quartz sand, land-
ing at a velocity of 1,000 feet per
second; relas'es 20,000,000 •foot-
' pbund's of,'energy plus the energy
of the explosives. The rocket deep-
ens. and enlarges the hole, shatters
and pulverizes and heats surround-
ing''tnaterials, and lines it with
quartz gibes, Martin reasons. From
depths already attained or from the
surface, steel casing could be
driven through this pulverized
material to any, required depths by
methods Used in tunnelling under
rivers and' harbors, but with less
effort and risk, Removing muck
with clamshells operated from old
shaft bottom levels would not be
difficult.
After tvfn shafts have been com-
pleted and joined:by fluid connec-
` tion at the bottoms, water fills the
pressure well by gravity alone and
boils under its own gravity pressure
with heat, the temperature increas-
ing at the 'rate of 0.2 degrees F.
per foot of depth. The water re
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'New Mirror and Saw Transfornt Old Bedroom
BY ETNA. PDXES
IR"hVE you taken a good impale -
tial look at your bedrootrt suite
lately?
The chances arc very good that
ft's betonle Is bit shabby with the
passing years," But the chances
are litho good that the budget
won't take a big'; bite for a new
suite, - ;
Bven if Au can't afford to toss
out the old fucpiture, you can.
work magic With 'what you've got.
Just . as you'd buy a ,new hat to
dress up ,an old "suit, ' o you can
turn a shabby, otlt-of-date dresser
into a handsome, modern piece
through the use ofmirror magic.
If your dresser i$ the old-
fashioned "type with mirror at-
tached; the first step is to .strip it
of gingerbread, Using a screw-
driver, remove the mirror and its
moorings, Use putty to plug up
the holes and' a coat of shellac or
varnish . to smooth the surface.
Then you're ready to remove the
legs.
To get a close -to -the -floor -ef-
fect, in keeping with modern de-
sign trends, use a saw to take off
the,high, spindly legs.
Now, you can apply decorator's
magic. Pick a new mirror, one in
good design, chosen to blendwith
the style of your bedroom furni-
' ture, Hang it flat on the wall over
the dresser, placing it vertically
at eye level and centering it so that
With the aid of a saw, putty and a new mirror , a modern chest, giving an entirely new
this out-of-date dresser becomes .. , feeling to an old roan at a budget price.
not more than three inches of side. That's all there is to the worked wonders for your bedroom
dresser extends beyond it on either I face-lifting. But you'll find you've j on mere pin -money.
turns to sea level as super -heated
water and steam. In this process
salts and minerals are deposited as
steam rises to turn machinery
which generates electrical power.
The greater the depths attained,
the hotter the water and steam, and
the higher the superheated steam
will rise through vacuum:
insulated
pipes to turbines which' may be
located anywhere above flea level.
At a certain dairy farm visited
recently the owner was much dis-
tressed because inost of his cows
were affected with a watery brown
diarrhea. They were not too sick,
but were gaunt and more or less
off feed. The owner was chiefly
concerned over the decreased milk
production, This was really serious,
for the cows were down to about
a third of what they were giving
before the ,scouring started.
Trouble had started with a single
old cow. When she became "loose"
the owner blamed the, trouble on
frozen or moldy silage that she
night have eaten. However, as
more animals became affected, he
began to think that maybe the
scouring represented some kind of
a "catching" disease, It turned out
that this was correct, for the diarr-
hea was shown to be so -Called "win-
ter dysentery."
* * *
It may appear almost anywhere,
and generally shows up between
December and March; thus ex-
plaining its name. The disease is
also known as "black scours" and
vibronic enteritis. It spreads rapid-
ly in a herd and is caused by a
germ called Vibro jejuni. The
germs are given off in the watery
manure, and infect other animals
that swallow then with contamin-
ated food or water. '
* * *
The germs may be carried on
shoes or by animals like cats and
dogs. We knew of one outbreak
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Wheel of Torture—At a speed of
135 -miles -per -hour a new high-
speed tire developed ley Goody
rich engineers pulls away from
the simulated road falter than
inside' pressure cah re tore the
rubber to its original shape. The
grueling test' would tear an
ordinary tire apart, but the new
one is said to be,ttbie to with-
stand hundreds of miles of sus-
tained high speed driving. Photo
was made at 1/1 O,000th of a
second.
that followed the route of a certain
milk hauler, and appeared in every
barn' where he stopped for milk.
In the case of the farmer mention-
ed earlier, he evidently caused his
own trouble by bringing the germs
home on his overshoes after visit-
' ing a neighbor's herd that was in-
fected. * * *
It usually takes about four days
for scouring to start after animals
have swallowed the germs. Symp-
toms of the disease are about as
already described, with the prin-
cipal one being that stinking thin
diarrhea. Deaths seldom occur, but
extremely lowered milk production
make winter dysentery a pretty ex-
pensive disease on a dairy farm.
* * *
Nor is it limited to milk cows
for it may break loose in calves
or beef animals. Calves may be
seriously set back and fattening
stock may suffer through heavy
losses in weight and condition.
Scouring usually enda without
treatment after about three days,
but ,it may take much longer for
normal millc yields to be regained.
There is no more definite pattern
for -the disease, since a diarrhea
may persist for weeks, and the
severity varies. Sometimes it is ex-
tremely mild, while again it is so
bad that the manure is bloody anci
contains strings of mucus.
* * *
Scouring is sometimes caused
by spoiled feeds like the silage first
suspected by . our farmer friend.
Shipping fever, changes of feed, co-
ccidiosis, and various kinds of poi-
soningmay also cause severe scour-
ing that might be mistaken for
winter dysentery. If you're in doubt
at any time, it'll probably pay you
to get a veterinarian on the job
to make a definite diagnosis. You'll
want to get started with treatment.
as soon as possible, and there's no
need of doctoring something be-
fore you know what it .is,
* * *
In case it really does break out,
there are several effective remedies.
An ounce or two daily of weak chlo-
rine or copper sulfate solutions are
often helpful, Your veterinarian
will have newer anci more effective
drugs not generally available on
farms, 'so you may want (tint to
treat the animals.
* * *
His call may be an ecanontiell''
one, for the quickest way to stop
the scouring is the quickest way
to stop losses of milks or weight that
can run into money pretty fast.
Whether you do the treating or have
a veterinarian do it for you, both
affected' and healthy animals had
better be treated,, since treatment
may prevent infection before it
actually occurs.
*
.* *
Along with medication of stock,
you'd better not track manure in
feedways, or allow dogs and eats
and visitors •'to do it, Remember
that the dirty staff lg loaded with
dangerous germs, 50 13E, CARE-
1rULI
Enzymes Regulate'
Our Lives
Oxford University has been
granted thirty thousand dollars for
research into certain branches of
bio -chemistry, including those con-
cerning enzymes and proteins.
Bio -chemistry is the study of the
chemical processes which take
place in, living plants .and animals,
and at present much research is
being concentrated on the compli-
cated protein compounds called en-
zymes which regulate our breathing
and digestion and other activities.
Without enzymes even the lowest
forms of life would be impossible.
It has been estimated that a single
cell from a plant or animal contains
approximately one thousand differ-
ent enzymes.
The commonest enzyme is the
one in the yeast cell, which pro-
duces alcohol and carbon dioxide
from sugar and is used in making
cheese, fermenting beer and other'
alcoholic beverages, and in clarify-
ing wines and fruit juices.
Other enzymes enable us to di-
gest food. Digestion begins with
the secretion of saliva. In this
saliva we find an enzyme called
"pytalin," which breaks up compli-
cated molecules found in starch.
The oxidation or burning of our
food must proceed at body tem-
perature, and it is the remarkable
enzymes that accomplish this,
Kills Pain
They enable us to use the oxy-
gen we breathe in for burning the
food at low temperature.
Out of the thousands of different
'varieties" of enzymes, the scien-
tists have isolated one which is
likely to prove a boon to mankind.
It is called the "hyaluronidase"
enzyme, and has the remarkable
faculty of breaking down barriers
between living cells.
Because of this, dentists have
seized upon it. In the old days,
before extracting a tooth, the den-
tist would jab a needleful of the
drug, novocaine, into the gum to
deaden .the pain.
He could not always be certain
that he had jabbed it into the
proper tiny nerve, and the proce-
dure often had to be repeated until
the needle itself was more painful
than the extraction.
Now, when the hyaluronidase
enzyme is mixed with the novo-
caine, ti causes a rapid spreading of
the pain -killer.
But what may prove to be the
most important discovery is that
influenza and peneumonia germs,
carry the hyaluronidase enzime
arotittd with them.
This may result one day in the
front-page headlines we all want
to see: "SCIENCE CONQUERS
COLD AND 'FLU!"
UNDAY SCI IOL
LESSON
By Rev. R. B Warren. B.A., B D
The Sin of Greed
Exodus 20: 17; Luke 12: 13-21-29-34
Memory Selection: Thou shalt
not covet. Exodus 20: 17.
It is significant that the last of
the ten commandments is the one
that deals with a heart condition.
Thus it is a !key to the understand-
ing of them all. If the heart is
right we will keep the other corn-
mandments. In otic next lesson
the shall see that Christ's new com-
mandment calls for a heart of love.
Man needs new heart.
There was quarrelling over the
division of the inheritance in our
Lord's day, too. He refused to be
a judge in such disputes. Instead,
he told the story of the foolish
rich man who thought his soul
could be satisfied with material
goods. When looking for barns for
his great crop he never thought
of the bosoms of the needy, the
houses of the widows, the mouths
of the orphans, and infants. He
thought only of himself.
Thousands of people are in hos-
pitals for the physically and mental-
ly ill, who wouldn't be there if
they had obeyed the simple formula
of Jesus, "Rather seek ye the king -
dont of God; and all these things
shall be added unto you." But
then take their own way and worry
and contention about the things
which shall pass away take their
heavy toll of mental and physical
health. How foolish are we mor-
tals! Put God first and all our
needs will be met. And happy is
the man whose wants are not
greater than his needs. Earthly
treasures wil dissolve when the
elements shall melt with fervent .
heat but treasures in heaven will
abide. The Christian way is the
best way for two worlds.
ALLY'S SALLIES
"I'd like to change my lunch hour
from 2 to 3, sir. Then the after-
noon won't seem to be so long."
EEN
Go,
Support
With some tall things it is '.go
excellent plan to provide support,
This may be in the forth of short
Stakes or even twigs and it May
be necessary to tie the stems of
'the plant to -the same loosely with
soft raffia, twine or the special
twisting material sold by ped
stores. With busy plants sueli5 as
peonies, most experienced garden-
ers place a wooden or wire bop
around the plant fairly, early in the
spring. This- will provide effective
support and 'even hold up the heavy
bloout,s,•
In the famous Kew Gardens near
London, they have an excellent
trick for supporting 'big shtubgike
flowers such as delphiniums and
even climbers like sweet peas. Be-
fore these plants have: grown more
than a few incites high, some old
branches or brush are firmly stuck
into the ground close about them.
Prunings -off fruit trees or shrdbs
are ideal. As the plants develop
they will grow all around and hide
these dead branches and be firmly
supported.
* * *
Working It Will Help
Behind some of the new houses
completed since fall will be some
pretty unpromising garden mater-
ial. Nowadays, it is true, builders
are a little more considerate and
sometimes make an attempt to save
and put back the rich top soil
after grading has been completed.
No natter what it looks like now,
it is amazing what a difference
there will he in a few months and
still more in a few years.
Quickest results with the new
garden, of course, will be obtained
where a few loads of rich loans are
brought in and. spread aver the
whole lot. This applies to lawn,
and flower and vegetable gardens.
Where this is not possible or is too
expensive, one can go at things
more gradually. Thorough and fre-
quent cultivation will work wonders
and slso digging in all sorts of
green materials, like grass clip-
pings, leaves or special crops. The
latter are usually oats, peas or rye,
which are sown, allowed to grow
and then dug in. These things sup-
ply humus and that is the big need
of both heavy and light soils.
* * *
Never Too Late
Even where the first planting
could have been done weeks ago
there is still time to have a good
garden. In most sections of the
country one can go on planting
seeds, both flower and vegetables,
right up to the end of June, and
in some places up to mid-July.
With standard vegetables like
beets, carrots, beans, lettuce, etc.,
the experts advise spreading plant-
ings regularly up to about mid-
June in any case so that the har-
vest will be likewise spread over
many weeks.
To hurry along the late plant-
ings, one can take several short
cuts. The ground should be extra
well prepared and some quick -act-
ing commercial fertilizer applied
to push growth. Watering, if pos-
sible, wilt also help. This growth
with vegetables is especially de-
sirable and particularly with those
of which the runts are eaten.
A Tribute To The Weekly Newspaper
By BRUCE WEST
In The Globe and Mail, Toronto
While sitting reading the Huntsville Forester the other day,
it occurred to me how vastly important was the weekly news-
paper in the national scheme of things. And what a powerful
voice is represented by the combined efforts of these hundreds
of small community papers spread across the length and breadth
of the land.
Every now and then, on the metropolitan dailies, some of us
get illusions of grandeur. We see our giant presses rumbling out
hundreds of thousands of copies of our papers, see the teletypes
and the telegraphs chattering madly, the big trucks tearing off
to all points of the compass, hear the newsboys shouting on the
streets.
And the mammoth size of the operation sometimes dazzles us
into the idea that we're fairly large potatoes in the journalistic
world. In a sense, I suppose, the size and circulation of a news-
paper is important. But I often wonder whether our very size
is not a handicap, occasionally, in getting close to the people we
serve and whose feelings we are supposed to reflect accurately.
The best newspaper brains on the largest dailies in the
United States, for instance, wrote off Harry Truman with great
assurance before the last U.S. elections. But Harry proved they
were wrong. If they had been reflecting accurately the mood of
their country, they would have been right.
1 don't know, but it seems to me that you wouldn't catch a
weekly newspaper editor being wrong very often about the win-
ner of an election in his community. And it strikes me that it's
more important to be right about a few people than wrong about
a lot of people.
The weekly newspaper editor usually has time to Tight up his
pipe, stretch out his feet and have a talk with the subscribers; It's
not a, daily newspaper editor's fault that he can't do this. A big
daily has a way of chewing ravenously at his time. But in the
case of the weekly editor, he may often, in one day, exchange
opinions with a farmer, a welder, the mayor, a housewife and
the president of the town's largest industry.
These exchanges of thought need, by no means, be formal.
The chances are, if the editor has been in his chair for some time,
that he recorded the birth, high school graduation and marriage
of one or all of these subscribers. In which case Subscriber William
Jones becomes merely Torn Jones' boy. And, an editor who might
be fooled a bit concerning the attitude of William Jones is not
likely to be misled very far by Tom Jones' boy.
Out of this intimate and friendly relationship There must
surely grow that most magic of all journalistic ,ingredients, some-
times called the ability to "keep a finger on the public pulse."
If this bond has been well and truly forged, no newspaper can
fail to be important, even though its entire list of subscribers could
be mustered in a small community hall.
All of us go through life, to some extent, trying to make o• ur
lone, small voices heard 'midst the clamor of the multitude which
sounds all around us. Whenever some publication is close enough
to us to reflect our thoughts and the things we want to say,
we feel that we have become articulate and our loneliness is
alleviated in some degree.
In this respect the weekly editor occupies a golden chair, a
chair of great dignity and great responsibility. He has been given
the opportunity of acting as the voice and, in many ways, the
conscience, of the place in which he lives. And this small town
or village, multiplied, is Canada.
The golden chair, of course, is not without its lumps. It is a
little difficult to throw the book at a local political candidate and
then be confronted with his injured and reproachful countenance
the very next day, or even on the same day. In the case of the
weekly newspaper, the so-called man on the street cart cease
being one by merely taking a half dozen steps into the editor's
office.
Not only that, but the weekly editor may haveto interrupt
his written discourse on the complicated world situation to help a
customer compose a classified ad offering a washing machine for
sale. This may be awkward at times, but I can't help thinking
it is educational. Sometimes the problem of the lady who wants
to sell her washing machine tan bring the world situation into
a little clearer perspective. Such incidents can serve as a sort of
decompression chamber for those who have been prowling
around rather deeply in the world's affairs.
Perhaps the daily newspaper, trying to keep pace with the
events of a fast moving world, is a victim of the atmosphere in
Which it serves. Readers who in a few short years may forget
Stalin's first name are not likely to forget the day Aunt Maggie
won the prize for the best cake at the fall fair. Or, that Elmer
Smith's hound trotted out the sideroesd One day and turned up
three weeks later 30 miles away. in Jackson's Junction.
And I'll be hanged if I can say for sure which is the more
important. Stalin is getting a lot of publicity these days, but, for
all I know, Elmer Smith may have had a pretty good hound.
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