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• When these lines were written,
there very fortunately had not been in
recent National Hockey League• battling
any such disturbing injuries„as the skull
fractures suffered in the past by Ace
$alley and Elmer Lack and it is de-
voutly to be hoped that no such near-
tragslj,mwiU,4ltlt the annals of the game.
But if such An accident cities befall, it will be -in part the
fault Of the victim, because he, like ell other hockey players,
refused to wear a helmet. In baseball there is nothing like
the contacts or the physical dangers that are constantly pre-
sent in hockey, But during the past summer, Frank Lane of
the Chicago White Sox revived the idea of compelling all
batters to wear protective headgear at the plate, And, of
course, he was 100 per cent correct.
Serious consequences have followed "beaning" of batters,
whether purely accidental or the result of trying to "dust off"
the hitter, just as falls on the ice, or headlong crashes into the
boards, whether from checks or trips, lay hockey players open
to similar injury.
Ballplayers are like hockey players, and said to oppose
this safety device however. 'False pride" Is the explana-
tion offered. "Pride goeth before destruction" is a proverb
recomntended to the attention of potential beanball victims of
baseball, or head injuries In hockey.
In other sports, where head injuries are always a possibility,
protection -is accepted and in some cases mandatory. Jockeys,
football players, auto race drivers and fighters in training all
use protective headgear. Some football players even wear
fase masks, not only in scrimmage practice but in games.
After the Ace Bailey crash, there was an edict that all
hockey players mist wear helmets. The teams provided
these, but after a few weeks they were tossed into the discard.
Players said they were too hot. But the truth is, the players
were too proud of their physical toughness to wear them.
They considered helmets effeminate.
But if those exposed to danger in other sports wear helmets
for safety, why should hockey players be too proud to do like-
wise?
Your comments and suggestions for this column will be welcom.d
by Elmer Ferguson, 0/0 Calvert House, 431 Yonge St., Toronto.
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By BOB ELLIS
Listening the other day to C.
Ii. Millard, National Director of
United Steelworkers, address-
ing the Semi -Annual Meeting
of the Ontario Farmers Union
we could not help being greatly
impressed with the speaker's
aincerety and his concern over
the welfare, not. Only of his own
steelworkers, but of all working
people.
Referring back to the times
when women and children used
to work twelve hour days in the
mines and factories of Britain,
Mr. Millard said that such con-
ditions would be unthinkable
today; the change had been
brought about by the people
themselves when they organized
into unions. '
Same Interest
NIr. Millard said that an or-
ganization was as strong as the
loyalty of its members to it. "It
is not enough to organize for an
immediate material profit. Far-
mers must have faith in far-
mers, workers in workers, and
both in each other."
The interests of farmers and
It's No Yolk - Mrs. Fronk Miller
is rightly proud of the huge
half -pouted egg;. that wasjlaid re-
cently on her, farm, Above, Mrs,
Miller smiles after crackilfg the
giant" egg into a bowl. Below is
a close-up of the contents of the
big shell -a normal egg and Iwo
yolks.
workers, the two largest groups
of producers and consumers,
were interdependent. If one
group was down and out, the
other would soon follow. As an
example Mr. Millard cited the
farm implement industry which,
due to the reduced purchasing
power of the farmer, had laid
off over half of its employees.
Those unemployed, of course,
could not buy the farmer's prod-
ucts and eventually all would
"end up in the same soup."
Farmers, Organize!
He was therefore not speak-
ing unselfishly, said Mr. Millard,
when he urged farmers to build
a strong organization of their
own.
The 500 farmers who had
come to Arthur from as far
as 100 miles away to listen to
Canada's great leader of work-
ing people, heard his offer that
"anything that labour has learn-
ed by way of research and or-
ganization is at your disposal."
Proud of Union
Earlier in the day the meet-
ing was given a report by Chris.
Hansen, Junior President of the
Saskatchewan Farmers Union
On union activities in. the West,
plainly concerning wheal and
livestock marketing.
There were 1050 union locals
with close to 70,000 members in
Saskatchewan, Mr. Hansen stated.
He also related how Mr. Gar-
diner, Minister of Agriculture.
was once asked at a political
meeting what he thought of the
Farmers Union,
For an answer Jimmy Gar-
diner pulled out his member-
ship card and said that en bad
been a member for twenty
years, that he was proud of the
union and that every farmer
:Should belong to it.
Resolutions
The meeting discussed and
?adopted a number of resolutions
demanding legislation provid-
ing for national marketing agen-
cies; an enquiry into the prob-
lems created by edible oil imi-
tations of dairy products and an
enquiry into the causes. of high
prices of farm machinery, fer-
tilizer, binder twine and 'ubber
goods.
The union farmers alar[ went
on record' as'favouring union
security for farmers and workers
by the volirtary revocable
cheekoft or other suitable
mane, and urged the govern-
ment to bring in the necessary
legislation,
This column welcomes sug-
gestions,. wise or foolish, and all
criticism, whether constructive
or destructive and will try to
answer any question. Address
your totters to Bob Ellis, Hos 1.
123 • 18th Street, New Toronto.
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With Creat Care
How's your plasties IQ?
The woman who already knowa
there are some 15 major types
of plastics on the market and
that certain ones will stand up
under heat and rough treatment
and other's will not,ban give her-
self a high rating. This know-
ledge will spare her such minor
calamities aa .trying to sterilize
the baby's rattle in boiling water
and having, it emerge, looking,
like a wad of well -used chewing
gum. The plasties used in most
toys have -`many • good qualities,'
but resistance! to bailing water -
is ltot One of them, - .•
On the .other hand, it• is • pee}
feetly safe to dunk melamine plas-'
tic dinnerware in hot water or,
thrash it ,around in the dishwater.
It's made, to stand Up under such
treatment: Even a smmall child can
be entrusted with'' the'dishwdsh:J
ing when' the set is melamine be-
cause pieces don't, fracture when
dropped.
Few housewives, realize there is
•as great . a difference between
various types of plastics as there
is between different types of wood
or metal. Many people believe all
plastics are the sante and expect
an inexpensive toy to stand up
as well as a policeman's nylon
body armor. Yet they 'wouldn't
think of using zinc tableware 'or
stuffing a pillow with wood shav-
ings.
Plastics for homemaking, which
had their beginning in the kit-
chen, are now spreading through-
out, the house. The average home
contains close to 100 different it-
ems in plastics, ranging from urea
radio cabinets to polythene ice
cube trays.
Since its first application in
cosmetic squeeze bottles, poly-
thene has become one of the fast-
est developing of all the newer
plastics. Latest of the numerous
household articles to be made of
this semi-rigid material with the
waxy texture are polythene gar-
bage cans that can't corrode or
rust and are readily cleaned with
warm water. They are also clat-
ter -proof and so lightweight a
child can tote one with ease.
So dissimilar are the physical
properties of the various plastics
the wise shopper should carefully
consider each one's fitness for use
by asking herself a number of
questions before making her sal-'
ection.
Does the article have to be boil-
ed or sterilized? Then nylon,"me-
lamine or phenolic are the pias-
• tics to buy. Must the product
withstand, the effects of repeated
rubbing and washing without de-
veloping a surface haze or
scratch? If so, see whether the
•
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Rody L. Ryon, and Mrs. Carl Mannes prepare the gifts for Mrs.
R"or's husband and 24 of his buddies.
article is available in urea, phe-
nolic, melamine, polythene or ny-
lon. Must it resist attack from
household chemicals such as am-
monia, bleaches, soaps or food?
In this case, polythene is usually
the safest. Will it be subjected to
relatively hard blows and rough
handling? Melamine, phenolic,
polythene and vinyl plastics are
the ones specially compounded to
take a beating. Finally, will the
item be safe with children?
Again, melamine, phenolic, poly-
thene, vinyl plus polystyrene
should fill the bill.
Basically, the plastics industry
is a surprisingly simple one to
understand. All plastics fall into
one of two classifications. They
are either heat -resistant and call-
ed thermosets or heat -sensitive
and known as thermoplastics.
Feminine fingers, schooled in the
touch of different types of tex-
tiles, woods and glass, will soon
tap a plastic and tell immediately
whether it's polythene or poly-
styrene. Feminine tongues, which
don't trip on words like carbo-
hydrate or gauge and denier, will
shortly be just as casual with the
basic names given to plastics,
A SIXBITC
We were under the impression
that we were familiar with
about all the horse -racing stories
and anecdotes that had ever
been published. Indeed, at vari-
ous times we have been guilty
of inflicting a few on the read-
ing public,
However, in the latest issue of
"The Police Gazette" - which
isn't a bit like the old sheet we
used to buy surreptitiously and
read behind closed doors
Charles Morey has a batch of
them, some of which were new
to us, and all well worth pass-
ing on. So here are a few of
them
Bookmakers, in the days when
they held sway, were like every-
body else. Some were good, some
were bad; some were on the
level, some were cheaters, end
some were just plain lucky,
Back in 1910, ,,at bookmaker
operating at Saratoga refused to
subscribe to the morning line It
was the custom of the other
bookmakers to chip in and pur-
chase a line of prices from an
expert, The lone hold-out used
to wait for the other books to
post their prices. Then he would
"steal" the line.
The other bookies brooded
about it for months and decided
to fix the cheater. 011e day,
when Man 0' Wai' was entered,
they posted an opening price of
3 10 1 on Big Red. The cheating
bookmaker followed suit. Then
the ethers euticicly changed their
odds to 3 to 5.
Meanwhile, the cheater was
being Pushed from all sides by
bettors, eager to get 3 to 1. He
soon found himself with thee-
senda of dellers on Big Red and
no bets, en anything else.
The date was August 13, 1919,
The race was the Samford Stakes,
It was the only race Man 0' War
ever lost, And the winneies mune
was Upsell
l LC
Don'. Give up the Ship too Soon
Department:
At Aqueduct last stammer a
filly named Grecian ??'laid ran
away before the start of a race,
jumped the fence, and disap-
peared into the stable area. She
was returned to the post, while
her backers moaned. Their
moans turned into cheers when
she romped home the winner by
three lengths.
A couple of decades ago. at
Belmont Park, a filly named
Watch Her was an even -money
favorite. in a race down the
Widener Chute She too, tan
away, but she did it in spades.
Watch Her raced through the
Chute, jumped the rail, and gal-
loped through the paddock out
onto a highway which parallels
Belmont, It took the efforts of
several mounted policemen in
corral her,
She was taken back to 1 ho
post. Bookmakers were offering
any price against her, with no
takers. Watch Her zipped 10 the
front at the break and galloped
on the lead all the tan- to lvin
easily.
A man who had just been fired
from his job drifted into Rock-
ingham Park in Salem. New
Hampshire, one afternoon in 1045.
Figuring that things couldn't get
worse, he decided to try his luck
with the horses. Tie noticed that
a horse entered in the first race
was named Mighty Tough, and
that another in the second race
was called Detach. He coupled
the two horses in the daily
double,
• Bingo! The pay-off was $8.1114.-
40 for •$2,001
A mice-in-a.lifetime happen-'
ing' Perhaps. At a Midwest
track, two soldiers rattled up to
the gate in a 'well-worn convert-
ible. They had $3.10 between
them. Their uniforms- got them
in at the pass gate. A dime por-
Pretty Kitty - Veteran show cat
"Cythohrt"relaxes 'In this basket
during the recent opening of the
International Show of the Cat
Club in Paris, France. Some 300
felines were exhibited at the
show.
chased a program. They placed
the program on the ground and
rolled a pebble over it twice,
noting where the pebble stopped
but neither of the selected
horses appealed to them. They
rolled the pebble twice more and
this time shot their $2.00 bank-
roll on a daily -double ticket.
Again bingo! The pay-off was
$2,400 for $2.00!
At Monmouth Park in New
Jersey, several lucky people
cashed in a double of $2,831.40
on the combination of 8 and 1.
One exultant winner explained
that he was caught in a traf-
fic jam on his way to the track
and was anchored behind one
car for most of the trip. The
license number was 81. An old
lady, cramming big back notes
into a tiny purse, gave the cred-
it to her parents. "I played any
age, - 81." she explained. 'But
suppose I were a year older or
younger!"
An axiom of the' turf insist.
there are 1,000 ways to lose a
race. The 1,00th way came up at
Rockinghatn Park a few years
ago, Jockey Warren Yarberry
turned into the stretch aboard
the front -running Singing Slave.
As the jocks say. he was just
"lookin' an' cookie.'
Singing Sieve's backers were
raring 10 the pay-off windows as
the filly flew past the sixteenth
pole five lengths in front. Just at
that moment, a hurricane roared
into Rockingham. 11 lifted bar-
berry neatly out of the saddle and
deposited hint, startled but un-
injured. In the infield.
:a • a
A good jockey doesn't need in-
structions, and a poor one can't
follow them, Some years ago the
clever veteran, Ty Meloche, was
riding for an inexperienced ow -
nee In the paddock, before the
race, the novice horseman told
the rider he had prepared In-
strections for hint
He showed the pop -eyed Me-
loche a neap of the Thistle Downs
racing strip on which, he had
indicated the various furlong
poles with exact instructions on
robot to do at each post. "Be on
your toes at the start," read the
intructions, "Drop into third
place at tate first turn and retrain.
on the rail. Move to the Outside
midway tap the backstretch and
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take the lead at the top of the
hoone stretch, Go to the whip at
the eighth pole and win going
away."
Meloche gulped in dismay and
stuffed the riding orders into his
boots. The horse he was riding
finished a bad last,
"What happened, can't you
read:" screamed the owner, as
the horses pulled up after the
race.
"Sure, I can read," Meloche
grinned. "The trouble teas—those
other horses couldn't!"
Blood Money
Most inventors rub their hands
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of gold.
Not so with Wallis Barnes, In
recognition of his war -time boffin
labours as designer -in -chief of
block busters, earthquake bombs
or tall -boys and similar Iovelies
used by "Bomber' Harris in his
softening -up campaigns, Barnes
was awarded £10,000 by the
British Royal Commission on
Awards to Inventors. He refused
to toticlt a penny of it, however.
He gave it all to a fund to help
to educate the sons and daughters
of R.A.F. men killed in the war.
Such money, he regarded, in
David's words, es "the blood of
men who went in jeopardy of
their lives."
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