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A A lot of inflated bladders have been
agitated since Rutgers beat Princeton
six to four in New Brunswick, NJ.,
November 6, 1869.
And indeed, 1t is a moot question
whether Canada wasn't a year ahead
production of football tFaorUnited868,1 the MontrealltFootbal
CIO was formed, but its feats, and its antecedents are be-
clouded, except for the fact that in 1873 the Club put up a
trophy, ownership of which represented Canadian supremacy.
The date of that first American game, November 6, is
interesting as indicating that football then was far from
being such. an overwhelming part of American collegiate.
life as it later has become. Assuredly the colleges and pros
of our day would not wait for November 6 to begin their
activities, Canada's Big Four and Western Conference teams
are at it in July and by August have had a cbuple of games
underr their belts, The collegians have pushed back the
calendar to mid-September for opening games.
But Rutgers and Princeton of 85 years ago did not junsp
the gun. This was one of the few years in which football,
as a college sport, was placed in its correct category of im-
portance relative to the matter of securing an education,
which le the primary reason for the existence of colleges,
Canadian educational institutions have never .allowed
sport to interfere seriously with learning. What college
sports have to offer by way of character building is the pro-
motion of hlitiative, resourcefulness, and a spirit of team play
born of mutual. dependence. When a college team takes the
field in Canada, where there is no platoon football, it is
on its own.
In the crisis that arise in his post -collegiate life, the
student (unless he goes into professional fofotball) must do
without play-by-play steering from the coaching staff. Sport
plays its part in educating young men to be Independent.
But in Canada, at least, it Is not over -played, nor made
superior to the real functions of the universities.
Eger comments and ru5ueations for Ih!s column will be wekontgkf
by Elmer Ferguson, c/o Culvert House, 437 Yonee 5,,, Toronfa,
Catvert DISTILLERS LIMITED,
AMHERSTOURG, ONTARIO
.. PLAIN HORSE SENSE ..
By F. (BOB) VON PILIS
Perhaps the Toppit case will
bring to the farmers of Ontario
the realization that the much
boasted Of legislation concern-
ing dairy products as the Edible
Oil Act and last year's Milk In-
dustry Act are not what they
are supposed to be.
Toppit is a product made of
whole milk and edible oils which
can be whipped up into some-
thing,that looks and tastes very
much Ince whipped cream. It is
used in restaurants and by
bakeries to top cakes, fruitcups,
eream puffs and other desserts.
Atter the Edible Oils Pro-
ducts Act was proclaimed the
eompany was taken into a
magistrate's court and fined for
manufacturing a product forbid-
den under the Act.
The company appealed and
the higher court threw out the
conviction: The company now
has the right to continue Its
operations, subject, of course, to
the results Of an appeal by the
government agencies to the
Supreme Court,• if and when
such an appeal is made.
Stronger Law Needed
There are two aspects of this
case which are important. The
first is that the Edible Oils Pro-
ducts Act—as we have said time
and time again — is not worth
the paper it is written on. We
have warned of its loopholes
and predicted that new dairy
substitutes, other than marga-
rine, would come in, It will be
up to those who were so enthu-
siastic about this piece of legis-
lation to try ,and stop the gaps
in it.
The second aspect which
wants to be looked at very
closely is the fact that the manu-
facture of Toppit could have
been stopped last year b'y the
simple and only fair measure of
compensating the manufac-
turers for the expropriation of
their business; because expro-
priation it is, whatever way you •
look at it,
EXPROPRIATION
Any person who sets up shop
to manufacture a product which
is not prohibited, and Toppit
was absolutely legal at the time
it was started, invests his sav-
ings and his work to build up
a business, cannot be expected
to lose all that if some day he
is told to close down for the
protection of some other group.
If a government, be it muni-
cipal, provincial or federal,
takes the property of ,a man for
any reason, it is only right that
it should pay for it. Nobody
would be expected to give up
his house or a piece of land,
say for a railroad or -highway,
without compensation. The
same should apply if a man has
to give up his means of making
a living.
Compensation
The owners of the Toppit
Company put their case before
the government last year when
the Act was in the making, They
asked whether they would be
compensated for the loss of their
business. They were told to go
and look for something else.
We hope they will be able to
maintain their rights.
This column welcomes criti-
cism, constructive or destruc-
tive, and suggestions, wise or
otherwise; it will endeavour to
answer any questions. Address
all mail to Bob Von Pilis, Whit-
by, Ont.
Finger -prints
Solved Murder
Little June Devaney was fast
asleep in the babies' ward of
Queen's Park Hospital, Black-
burn, when Nur"se.Iiumphreys
came in at midnight to quiet a
crying child in the next cot, The
nurse Left the ward to attend
to other duties. When she re-
turned, three-quarters of an
hour later, JUDO was missing.
A bottle Of distilled water.
which she had last seen on a
trolly at the other end of the
ward, lay' under the cot, and
the nurse noticed footprints, too
large fol" a child's„ on the poi•
ished floor. She raised the al•
arn1,
June was nowhere. in the.
hospital, The police were cell-
ed, andabout dawn fkund her
body in steno long, grass about
seventy yards from the build-
ing. Shehad been brutally, mur-
dered. The only clues were the
footprints, which had been made
by someone wearing socks, a few
fibres from the sill of a bay
window in a room adjoining the
ward and others secured by
scraping the footprints, and fin-
ger and thumb and palm prints
on the bottle found under the
cot. These prints did' not tally
with those of any member of
the hospital staff. Neither did
they correspond with any of the
1,250,000 prints filed at Scotland
Yard.
It seemed probable that the
murderer of the three-year-old
girl had been familiar with the
hospital; so, while reproduc-
tions of the prints on the bot-
tle were sent to every police
force in Biltain, and to every
anger print bureau in the
world, a special ,peal investiga-
tion was set on foot. Over 2,000.
persons who had had 'access to
the hospital during the previous
two years were traced and their
finger prints taken.
Everywhere the detectives
drew a blank. The prints re-
mained unidentified. Then Chief
Inspector. Colin Campbell, of
the Lancashire County Finger-
print Bureau, suggested an op-
eration without precedent in po-
lice inquiries — the fingerprint-
ing of the whole male popula-
tion of Blackburn over the age
of sixteen, and of every man
who worked in the town but
_lived outside it.
Sixty local police officers and
a contingent of the Metropolitan
Police were put on the job. They
went to work in pairs, calling at
every house in Blackburn with
their inking pads and finger-
print cards.
There were bounds to be peo-
ple who would resent having
their prints taken, and some
who had reasons, for disliking
the idea. They could not be
compelled to submit to the pro-
cess against their will. But the
authorities gave an undertaking
that . the finger -prints .would be
used only for the murder In-
quiries and then be destroyed,
and so strong was the feeling
aroused by the crime that there
were few refusals.
About 46;000 men were finger
printed -, in three months, but
still, the detectives had not
found their man. They had
checked .the house-to-house vis-
its against electoral lists and
ration cards — the year was
1948 — and it seemed that they
would have to . admit defeat.
Then an issue of new ration
cards revealed that there were
800 men living in Blackburn
whose names had not appeared
on the lists the police had work-
ed on, and who had not been
finger -printed. They were now
sought. out . Among them .was a
man af 22, Peter Griffiths.
' Ironically, Griffith's home had
been one of the first to be visit-
ed by the linger -print men,'
They came during the prelim-
inary investigation because
James Brennan, Griffith's half-
brother, was one of the 2,000
who had had access to the hos-
pital; his daughter was a pa-
tient there at the time of the
murder. The police did not
know then that Griffiths had
also, as a boy, been a Queen's
Staved From River -• Two harbor patrolmen. pull Jack Bates from the Don River, Toronto, after
his car'wos swept Into the river by flood waters as hurricane Hazel lashed the tiIy.
Rescue Operation — Alex Nicholson, whose car was washed
from the, road into the Don River, Toronto, is rescued by a fire-
man on the end of a firetruck extension ladder.
• Park 'patient, and 'fie had been
missed in the mass fingerprint-
ing operation. Now, at last, he
was tracked down and his prints
taken. They corresponded with
those on the bottle.
The case was soon complete.
The fibres found on the win-
dow -sill and scraped from the
floor tallied with the material
of the suit and socks Griffiths
had been wearing at the time
of the murder. It was found
that he had taken a taxi to the
Queen's Park district about mid-
night on the night of the crime,
But none of this would have
come to light but for the mass
finger -printing. It was the bold
and spectacular operation set
on foot by Chief Inspector
Campbell that brought Griffiths
to the scaffold.
IRISH RACE IS
VANiSHING!
It looks as though -we've
been living under a delusion
about the Irishif the writers
of a book, "The Vanishing
Irish", that has just come out,
are to be believed. The popular
conception of the typical Irish
family—charming, witty Paddy
doting on his still pretty wife
and his household of dozens of
children, besides the chickens
and pigs—just isn't true. In fact,
Ireland, once renowned for its
big families, is now a land of
bachelors and spinsters.
Of Ireland's population, 64
per cent are single, 6 per cent
widowed, and only 30 per cent
married. And the average age
of marriage is round about 34
for men and 28 for women.
As a consequence, the popula-
tion of Ireland has fallen from
over 8,000,000 in 1841 to 4,300,-
000 at the last census in 1951.
In'' Southern Ireland the posi-
tion is even snore serious, and
now there are less than 3,000,-
000 in the Republic.
What are the reasons? Emi-
gration accounts for part of the
loss, but by no means all of it.
What is it that keeps Paddy
away from the altar? On one
point nearly all the contributors
agree. He may be a fine, witty
lover, but as a hubby he is out.
When it comes to a marriage,
he looks for wealth and strength
to keep him, not beauty for him
to admire or companionship for
him to enjoy, He is irrespon-
sible and much prefers the race-
track and the pub to the home.
Celibacy has been raised into
a virtue. Marriage isn't regard-
ed as a normal goal, and any-
thing in the least suggestive of
close friendship between men
and women before marriage is
often regarded as the worst of
sins. In many country districts
this is extended to include
"keeping company," which is
just normal healthy courtship.
Many a nice Irish colleen
would rather walk hone alone
in the dark than face the shame
of being "named" by letting a
boy see her home. Mixed social
gatherings, far from being orga-,
nized by the priests, are gene-
rally frowned upon.
"Priests have told me with
pride that married couples had
come to them after a year to
ask why God sent thorn no
children,' Inquiry disclosed that
they were ignorant r f the facts
of life." So writes Shane
Leslie,
Scan O'Faolain sums up: "I
have heard only four plausible
explanations for Irish Contin -
once: that sexual desire is sub—
limated by religion, exhausted
by sport. drugged by drink, or
deflected by either an innate or
an inculcated puritanism,"
This Stomach -Ache
Is Worth Money
At Coal Harbour, a former
Royal Canadian Air Force base
on Vancouver Island, a bustling
whaling station is now in full
operation. About 400 whales are
expected in the current season.
And like all whale catchers, fac-
tory hands there are keeping
a sharp look -out for amber-
gris.
This most coveted whale
product is the result of the huge
mammals getting indigestion af-
ter eating a diet of squid,
cuttlefiish or octopus. The horny
mandibles of these creatures
are nearly always ambergris -
coated when found inside a
whale.
The material used as a 'fixa-
tive for costly perfumes also
floats on the surface of the sea
when disgorged and occurs in
different colours, ranging from
white to silver grey and brown.
Each colour has a distinctive
smell. Soft black ambergris is
most loathsome, white is pleas-
antly aromatic, and other sorts
are rather "fishy," especially
when fresh.
The biggest lump on record
reached the London .market in
1913. Weighing 336 lbs., it earn-
ed its weight in gold. Special-
ists alone should handle this
substance. A, well-known Lon-
don merchant once paid heavily
for a lump.. Then, becoming sus-
picious, he cut it epon and to
his horror found a wick inside.
The most precious of the
world's animal products, in this
case was just a large piece of
submerged candle!
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Forget about counting sheep
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reproduces the sound of a roll-
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it switches off automatically as
soon as the subject is sound
asleep.
With it you can get a tiny fan
fitted into an "ozone" box: This
fan sends the fragrant odour
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face as you listen to the sound
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One Guess -• His personality
literally surrounds him, and you
don't need to see the face to
recognize SIP Winston Churchill.
This picture was taker; during
Sir Winston's attendance of a
Conservative Party Conference
recently in Blackpool, England,
Hard Luck Couldn't
Get Them Down
Some ,people frighten them-
selves ince believing that they
can't get well. When that hap-
pens, there's little hope, for It's
the mind that plays the ;nest
important part in any recovery.
The very sound of the words
"infantile paralysis" has a
frightening effect, yet there are
athletes who have been struck
down, but have recovered to
take their place in the front
rank, Doris Bart, the great
American tennis player, is one.
Another is Walt Davis, the 6 ft,
6 in. Texan who broke the
Olympic high jump record in
1952 with a leap of 6 ft. 8%
inches, an extraordinary feat
for a man who the doctor
thought might have to lie in an
iron lung for the remainder of
his days.
Derek Pugh, geologist and
South London Harrier, who
broke the European 400 -metres
record, was struck down by
infantile paralysis while study-
ing, in Paris, He thought his
running days were finished but
determined to get fit again At
first they did not expect him to
survive, but he was brought
back to a hospital in Orpington,
where he recovered gradually.
After nearly a year he was
about on .crutches, but nevi re-
linquished his ambition to get
back to the track, and eiowly
built up strength by scrambling
about an mountains during geo-
logical expeditions. Eventually
he went into training, and re-
ports say that be Ls so much
better that he will return to
serious running in the future.
Clayey La Croix was tern�ati
by Bill Tilden "the hardest i11Y'•
ting guy in tennis." P)ayi11;
with Helen Wills Moody and
Helen Jacobs, ho won several
mixed doubles titles, and was
singles champion of Oakland,
Berkeley and the Bay Counties
between 1928-32.
In 1945, while serving as an
officer in the Pacific, he got a
stomachful of shrapnel. "You
can thank your lucky stars•that
tennis, kept you so fit," said the,
surgeon who operated, "or you'd
be dead."
La Crpix's days of serious
tennis were finished, but he
made himself fit again, set about
helping those less fortunate
than himself, and with the co-
operation of Dr. T. 3. Canty, of
Mare Island Naval Hospital, de-
signed a two-inch metal arm
that fastened at end to the
handle of a tennis racket, and at
the other to a screw into an
artificial arm. With this device
he has taught 25,000 children
and 7,000 adults with no arms
to play tennis.
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