HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1950-9-13, Page 2Hints That Keep
Children Safe
Making home safe for children
is only wisdom, says Helen Hol-
broole, housing specialist, "Look
around the house and take care
of any accident risks in children's
way," Miss Holbrook advises, in
offering helps to parents.
*
When children are in the crawl-
ing stage, she commends the use
of gates at the bottom or top of
stairway's — wherever the child
might happen to be.
*
Don't place chairs or stools near
a stove so youngsters can climb
up and reach hot handles or pans,
she cautions, Keep pan handles
turned away from the edge of the
stove. Also keep hot irons and pails
or tubs of hot • .ter out of the
yoltngster's way,
* *
Have safety hooks that don't
conte loose with a simple flip of
the finger on high chairs, cribs,
play pens, and strollers, Window
screens and doors, too, should fas-
ten securely and unscreened win-
dows should have bars if young-
sters are in the crawling state.
Even a tiny child can push a loose
screen out the window.
k * *
When there are small children
of any age in the family, insecti-
cides, cleaning supplies, and matches
should be kept out of reach.
* * *
Keep sharp knives in enclosed
racks. See that fireplaces or ra-
diant heaters have screens or stove
guards.
:k * *
Tape, glue, or sandpaper any
splinters or protruding nails ire
boards, boxes, and wooden furni-
ture around the house. Put scat-
ter rugs away while the children
are small.
* * *
Those old-fashioned electric wall
sockets with open ends, which at-
tract young fingers, may be re -
pieced by enclosed modern outlets
for electrical wiring.
• * *
On gas kitchen stoves the safest
kind of knobs are those with
modern safety locks—the type that
have to be pushed in so the handle
will turn.
* * *
Be careful with fluorescent light
tubes. Bury the burned -out ones
promptly so there'll be no tempta-
tion for children to play with the
tubes.
* * *
Provide safe toys, observing the
familiar rule against sharp points
and paint that peels or licks off,
being careful to watch fragile toys
that leave sharp edges when broken.
A Plane Comes Home—Lt. Le -
ray Mix signals a plane return-
ing from a mission over North
Korea. Mix, landing signal offi-
cer, was photographed by a
camera man aboard a "flat -top"
in the Seventh Fleet. The lumi-
planes landing under the cover
nous stripes n his orevalls aid
cover of darkness.
LOBSTERS KNOW THEIR
WAY BACK HOME
For centuries man has been
baffled by the ability of animals to
find their way home. No completely
satisfactory explanation for what
we can only call the "horning in-
stinct" has been worked out. Last
week the lobster posed a puzzler.
In Science, Edwin P. Creaser and
Dorothy ,Trayia of the Bermuda
Iliologkkal Station reported that
they had trapped Bermuda spiny
'lobsters and turned them loose
far from where they were caught,
,About 20 per cent were re -caught
in the same traps three days to a
month later.
Mr. Creaser and Miss Travis
commented: "The recoveries of the
specimens released in deep water
two miles out at sea seem partieft-
iarly significant. The return to the
original site after release at the
biological station jetty entailed mi-
gration against tides conflicting with
chose originally, and migration
around land masses for about five
miles. It seems apparent that lob-
sters are fully 'aware' of Melt -loca-
tions and can return to their ori-
ginal summer feeding grounds when
released elsewhere. How this is
accomplished remains an unanswer-
ed and puzzling biological mystery,"
IIIEFARM non
J 612ussell
' Writing a column like this, which
appears simultaneously in a large
number of Ontario papers, I am
somewhat at a disadvantage regard-
ing the time element. Over a week
must elapse between my writing
this and the time it appears in print.
That being the case, if I try to
comment on any current happening,
the whole thing may be over and
forgotten when you read it.
* * *
For instance, as this is written all
Canada is in the grip of the rail-
way strike. When you read this,
the strike may be—and I sincerely
hope WILL BE settled, But even
if it is, I doubt if it will be for-
gotten. The automobile has come
to play such a prominent part in
our daily lives that most of us
had entirely overlooked just stow
dependent we are on the services
of the railroads. But now we have
had a very rude reminder.
* * *
Who was originally to blame for
the strike is a ]natter on which I
wouldn't care to express an opinion;
but I think the Queens' professor
who tried to act as mediator wasn't
far off the target when he said that
both labor and management acted
childishly.
* * *
However, even should the strike
be settled by now, the problems it
presented were so serious that it
deserves deep consideration from
every thinking Canadian, and espe-
cially from those who derive their
living directly from the soil. So here
is an Editorial—published while the
strike was in its first week—from
the Financial Post. I'm passing it
along to you without any comment
except to say that The Post's atti-
tude, on most platters, is that of
Management rather than Labor.
* * *
This Editorial was headed FARM
LABOR GULF WIDENS, and
ran as follows:
* * *
"Any hopes of a better under-
standing between organized labor
and Canadian agriculture were
blasted by the railway strike this
week.
* * *
"Of all the innocent sufferers
from a transport tie-up, as a class,
the farmer is by far the hardest
hit. Virtually everything he pro-
duces is of a perishable nature—
some of his crops must be marketed
in .a matter of hours—and a very
large proportion of his production
normally moves by rail.
* * *
"Most ordinary manufactured
goods can be stored for weeks or
months with no deterioration in
quality or appeal. The same applies
to the great bulk of our raw ma-
terials, like metals, lumber, coal,
etc. But it is a different story
entirely when we consider agri-
culture.
* * *
"True, wheat and other grains,
when matured are not of perishable
nature and can be held almost in-
definitely in proper storage, But few
farmers who 'take grain -growing
a business have facilities for long
holding. In any case, grain -growing
is confined to only one area of
Canada. Elsewhere it is 'nixed or
specialized farming and prompt
marketing by rail is vital.
• * *
"With even meat animals, and
before they have left the farm, there
can be no long delays. Hogs, sheep,
cattle and calves are all marketed
at certain definite weights. The
whole schedule of farming is based
on them being marketed at those
weights. If held beyond that, the
cost of feeding increases sharply
while quality and value deteriorate.
To make first -Class bacon, for in-
stance, a hog must weigh around
200 16, and reach that size at six
months old. Once there, however,
he must be slaughtered within a
matter of days or his quality slumps.
* * *
"The CCF's hope of marrying
into one party, labor and farmer,
is as hopeless as most of their
dreams."
Eyes Right!—That arrow oI the picture is intended to guide
your eyes over to the right, to notice the beautiful 20 -karat
diamond engagement ring. Well, okay, if you insist on looking
to the left, that's French movie star Denise Darcel. The ring
cane from her fiance, Peter Crosby, real estate broker. They
plan to marry in October.
One of the most amazing sports
novelties of this or any other sea-
son has turned up in the persons of
the softball quartet known as "The
King and His Court." (Actually
it's a -quintet, but as only four of
the players appear at one time,
there's no use quibbling over such
a matter.)
When Word first got around
Toronto and its environs that folks
would have the chance of witness-
ing a softball foursome playing
against fully -manned teams, there
was considerable shrugging of
shoulders among the fans. The
fours take their softball very seri-
ously in those parts—almost, al-
though not quite as seriously as
they do their pet hockey team. In
fact there are those who argue that
the grade of softball played in and
around what is sometimes tag;ed
"The Queen City" is better and
faster, as a whole, than it is any-
-where else on earth.
:k * *
That, of course, is taking in a
whole heap of territory. But it's too
hot, right now, for any heavy argu-
ing; so we'll just say that Toron-
tonians know good fastball when
they see it, and let it go at that. So
it's not .too surprising that when
they saw the advance notices of
"The King etc." they took it as
being something strictly for laughs
—a bunch of clowns who would put
on trick stuff between regular
games, or something of the sort.
* * *
But as for the notion that four
men—any four leen—could get in
there and even hope to make a
showing against mighty outfits such
as Tip Tops, Peoples, Robertsons
and others of that ilk, it was just
too ridiculous for words, "A smart
promoter's brainstorm and maybe
not too smart, at that," as one by-
stander put it. "They alight get one
fair crowd, just as a novelty, but
after that they'll be playing to
empty pews!"
K * ,
However, as the ancient ditty put
it, "Ain't it funny what a difference
just a few hours slake; and before
Eddie Feigner—"The Ring"—and
his cohorts had been in Toronto two
days, they were the talk of the
town. Prospective fans by the thou-
sands were turned down, solely be-
cause. the parks where the games
were played weren't half big enough
The Old And The New—A French farmer. carrying a scythe,
watches ,a modern harvesting machine at work in -a farm dis-
trict 'otttside,of Paris. Unusually good -weather •and'abundant
ralnfall`have e(Ittiljitled to•get I+rances'harvett.operations'ati'1'"
a :gr1'eslrly start this year.
to accommodate those wishing to
attend. And when you saw season-
ed newspaper men—even sports
writers! believe it or not—trying to
spend their own personal money for
tickets, and unable to do so, you
may be certain that something ex-
ceptional was going on.
* * *
That "The King and His Court"
are something more than just clever
comedians is best evidenced by the
game with the Tip Tops• The lat-
ter,
atter, in case you don't already know,
are Champions of the World.'And
you may be certain that there's
nothing they'd have liked better
than to have crushed the opposing
foursome, and driven them clear out
of the park into Lake Ontario.
* * k
And the result? At the end of
nine full innings of ball the score
stood TIP TOPS — 0; THE
COURT -0. The world's champions
champions had made three hits and
committed one error; the visitors
had played errorless ball and made
four hits. And of the Tip Tops' trio
of bingles, only one of them had
cleared the infield.
So you may take it from us, gen-
teel reader, that this Eddie Feigner
is really somethingout of this
world, and his teammates aren't
far behind him. A lot of Eddie
Feigner's truck stuff is slightly over
the borderline of illegality. But
when he's in there pitching for
keeps and sticking to 'lore -or -less
straight stuff, he has the other fel-
lows fairly breaking their necks
trying to get even a lout( foul off
of him.
* * *
Just what permanent effect "The
King and His Court" might have
on the game is interesting to think
about. For one thing, within.a year
•or less there will probably be half
a dozen outfits trying to copy the
act. We'll be invited to see three-
man softball teams, two-man soft-
ball teams and even, possibly—al-
though Heaven forbid—one-man
ball teams, until the public finally
turns sour on the whole thing,
* * *
But another effect might be that
the softball solons, both here and
South of the border, will give
some prayerful consideration to a
matter which, in our opinion and
that of many more, has been too
long neglected. In regular baseball
they're looking for some Way to
give the pitcher a little better break
—too many base hits, too many
hone runs, show pretty clearly
that the batter has too 'much of an
edge under the present rules,
* *
In 'softball, just the reverse is
true. The success of "The King
and His Court" -99 games iu 105
days -75 wins, 22 losses, four ties"
points up, all too vividly, the fact
that the pitcher has too much of
an advantage to make for good all-
round sport. For several reasons
we personally never did develop
into anything like 'a real, dyed -in•
the -woof softball bug; and the prin-
cipal of .those reasons was that we
very soon got tired of seeing battery
come up to the plate, make feeble
gestures in the direction of th,
ball, and then go out on strikes. A
little marc latitude for the pitchci
in baseball—and a little fess of the
same in softball --would, we really
believe, mean an improvement it
both sports from the standpoint of
the ,customer.
Stones That Grow
When British settlers first penet-
trated into Southern India they
found that in one place the natives
worshipped a huge figure of a bull,
carved from solid stone,
At frequent intervals special cele,
brations were held when the priests
annointed the image with oil, and
pilgrims rubbed it in much as if
they were massaging a human
being.
The British were amused when
the priests told theist that the stone
bull was alive and that every year
it grew bigger. Since then it has
found that the bull has, in fact, in-
creased in size.
Mr. William Barber, of Iken
Cliff, Surrey, does not find this the
least bit amazing, for there is a
boulder near the place where he
was born which, as a last, he has
often rocked by hand.
To -day it has grown so big that
even with a man's strength he can-
not budge it.
He Waters Them
Mr. Barber is quite sure that the
boulder has grown; that it is not
imagination, because for the past
quarter of a century his hobby has
been growing stones.
He takes as much care of them
as a gardener does of a sensiitive
plant. At regular intervals he
waters them and periodically turns
them over. Through the -years he
has noted the measurements of
leach stone, and says that the aver-
' i;e growth is one -sixteenth of an
inch every four months.
In Arizona there are trees which
have • turned to solid stone. They
are among the oldest things on this
planet.
They belong to the period when
prehistoric animals roamed the
earth, before the first man appear-
ed. There are thousands upon thou-
sands of them, piled up in heaps or
lying singly, in an area of ten
square miles which is called the
Petrified Forest,
London's Fossils
When the last Ice' Age receded
huge floods covered the earth and
these trees stood in the way. So
powerful was the surge of water
that they were pulled up by the
roots and submerged.
They lay under the water for
thousands of years until they be-
came completely petrified by the
gradual absorption of minerals in
the water. Today they lie in the
middle of a desert, a reminder of a
cataclysm greater than any atom
bomb,
There are stones in London
which are as old as those trees.
They are the walls of Bush House,
St. Paul's Cathedral, the Bank of
England and the Cenotaph.
The stone for these buildings was
quarried at Portland.
At one time Portland was at the
bottom of the sea and often, when
cutting the stone, traces of fossi-
lised fish and shells of species that
are extinct today have been found.
Some of these fossil 'larks can
still be seen in tete walls of the
buildings.
Made Fortune From
"Uncurling" Hair
A elan who was mainly respon-
sible for putting baking powder on
the market died recently and left a
fortune, His success has been
equalled time and again by men and
woolen who have hit on a simple
device and sold it to a grateful
world.
George H. Downy tied a new
idea; liquid springing. Despite what
11e. had been told at school, he found
that all liquids are compressible,
and that when compressed they are
far more resilient than rubber,
He applied his principles to air-
craft springing, although they can
be adapted for use on road and rail.
To -day every British air -craft car-
ries Dowty hydraulic equipment,
and the turn -over of the firm mak-
ing it is extremely high. Yet in 1930
Dowty's premises consisted of a
single room over a garage rented at
a few shillings a week,
A young insurance agent felt
highly embarrassed one clay when
the pen he had handed to an im-
portant client scattered blots all
over his signature. From that day
be devoted all his spare time to
making a pen that would not blot.
The modern fountain pert is the
result. The man's name was L, R,
Waterman,
Women, too, have invented hun-
dreds of articles in common use to-
day. One is the reel of cotton which
was invented by a young English
girl named Christine Shaw in the
early eighteenth century. It is to
her that the cotton industry, em-
ploying thousands of Bien and wo-
men, virtually owes its existence.
Mrs. Walker. an American Work -
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HAVE you nnslhing needs dyeing or clean-
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FARMS *11R SALE
515,00e.u0, 14(VI•JLY 100 -'era b'arm 10
Durham Colney. between Port Hope and
Rico Lake. Brien house, largo barna,
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]Hydro throughout, plus water pumped luta
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A clean, prosperous farm for Immediate
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140 -ACRE. *an01 l0501 farm, .l tulle !vest
of Dunnville, on No. 3 highway. 105
acres cultivated land, 35 acres bush: 11 -
room frame hour°: new, double garage,
30'x00', hip barn, henhouse, drive shed.
woodshed, all 1n good condition; 2 water
wails, 1 gas well, 50 trees In orchard,
electricity and gas in house, Good site for
cabins, 010re, ete. Apply Stove Kuehta,
R.R. 5, Dunnville.
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a5OTORCXCLES, Haley Davidson, New
and used, bought, sold, exchanged. Large
stock of guaranteed need motorcycles. Re-
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also Guns, Boats and Johnson Outboard
Motors open evenings until nine except
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We repair all makes of fountain 50,1a—
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MUSICAL INSTRUMENT REPAIRS
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TORONTO 2, ONTARIO
ing woman, dreamt one night that
she had earned a fortune by 'laking
curly hair grow straight.
She could not rest until she had
made endless experiments in her
kitchen, and eventually succeeded
in discovering a lotion which
straightened curly hair. It became
the rage with Negro girls and she
made a fortune out of her dream.
Ideas don't always make for-
tunes, however. In 1860, a young
schoolmaster, Philip Reis, rigged
up wires from one building to an-
other. His pupils were told to lis-
ten at a primitive microphone made
from wide -wrapped knitting needles,
and Reis sat in a room and played
the violin into the world's first tele -
The instrument worked, Reis and
his pupils believed in it, but the
scientific world did not,
In 1876 the telephone was in-
vented again, successfully this time,
by a young American called Bell.
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Two Qun110ed Teachers wanted for S.S.
No, 0 eilla10 school at Quadevllle, and -
No. 0. Bruceton Co„ Renfrew. Duties to
commence Sept, 5, 1900, State salary
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ISSUE 36 — 1950
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