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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1941-8-13, Page 7FIRE INSURANCE THAT FITS Within' no fire ineurance policy is just a' policy -it must give you all the protection against fire loss you, need in your own particular circumstances, WALTER SCOTT Brussels Representing 411 Writing selected risks in --Automobile, Fire, Plate Glass, Burglary, Public Liability, and other general insurance. Head Office, Toronto. Pilots Learn To Handle Planes At Elementary Flying Schools By HUGH TEMPLIN ' One year ago,' Mount Hope was a little 'crossroads village south of Hamilton, about halfway between that city and the Grand River. How it got its name, I don't know, but the hopes of the early oitizens mast 'have been realized at last. The village itself Is little changed as yst, but on the high ground nearby there are two air training camps, one cf them operated by the Royal Al: Force of Great l3rtain, the other by the Royal Oanaddan Air Force es a unit of the British Commonwealth Air Tratiniug Plan, Previous stories in this series have hollowed 'Nie future pilot through the first two months or more of bis training but he has not been in the air yet. He has had to Prove his fitnese in many ways, gut the nearest he has come to actual flight has been in a miniature plane, anchored firmly to the ground. At souse one of the 26 Elementary Ins Training Training _ .Schools • scattered across-Calada, he will experience the thnfll of his first flight, unless he has, at some time before enlistiiiant, paid for a ride as passenger, or is one of those rare recruits with training as commercial pilots. The "No Admittance', Sign It isn't easy to get inside the gate atony of the R.C.A:F. training schools. That is as it should be, and no one can object to the rules, but sometimes, the guards interpret them more strictly than at others. I drove up to the gate, armed with letters from the 'Training , C'onnmand and accompanied by a Flying Officer in uniform. The Cosnmandddng Officer was expecting me. But the guard at the barrier was adamant. I had no pass, so I didn't get in. He must have bean qhesNApSI4OT GUILD PICTURE OPPORTUNITIES Keeping the camera ready for the unexpected resulted In this unusual snapshot. Picture opportunities are abundant, so have your camera with you wherever you go. IT ISN'T very often that You'll find a dog looking inquisitively around a corner at a cat, but if you do, it will be an occasion well worth photographing. You've probably seen similar oddities, and often, expressed the desire to take pic- tures which really capture such sit- uations. Many opportunities like this occur but once, and, by having your camera with you at all times, you can take advantage of these in- cidents to make a number of inter- esting snapshots. Besides the unusual, there are. many other bins that afford excel- lent subject material for the cam- era hobbyist. For example, activi- ties of general interest offer an abundant source of picture oppor- tunities, ktiking, motoring, swim - Ming, boating -in fact, any sport will Yield a number of good enap- shots. Or, wherever you • go -to the mountains, seashore, or inland lake -you'll have the chance to pie- $ere the scenic beauty as well as the Interesting happenings on a memorable vacation, a week -end . trip or just a day's taunt. There's no single formulato fol- low when you take your, camera with you, but there ate soros good VOW well worth reniemheriag. First, always look for scones that • are characteristic of the place you are' visiting, whether you are out for just a short drive, or a trip to some distant section of the country. Second, try to organize your shooting so that the pictures tell a reasonably well ordered story. Not just a lot of shots of one ' thing, but a step-by-step account of what you did and what went on. Third, always be on the look- out. Watch for unusual or "d16 ferent" pictures such as the one il- lustrated above. They add a great deal of interest and variety to your album. In scenic shooting, don't let broad, breath -taking views mislead you. They're good subjects -but in- clude a foreground object or "frame"' when possible, to give them depth and creative feeling of distance. In picturing the things you do, always try to include some action =not necessarily rapid motion, but people doing something. In brief, make each picture tell a story. Chance! to get excellent snap - Shote are everywhere, and it's easy to build a fine collection, reef your camera with you constantly, and bring back a permanent record of your experience& - 342 John Van Guilder THE MUSSELS POST an N.C,O, in the In>pertals miss to h'i'nt Were Mlles. Proteetai;tiouq by my guide and a telephone call tt, the Commanding Oaleer didn't shoe 1 the feet that I had no pass: iPinuaily,. I IG was suggested to the guard that lie write. me out one btmstelt, He did eo, and I Passed triumphantly fir 4 le. There tsm't much beauty about rhe Mount Hope School, The conntt•y- side is flat and uninteresting, A year ago, the camp site was still farm land, The landing Reid hasn't grown ups in grass yet, though the runways are paved. The buildings are of the familiar pattern found at all the schools, with everything standardized for sapid and economi- cal construction, The outside of the buts is covered with roofing paper, Everywhere there is a lo» r of newness. The 'First Flying Instruction After .graduation from the initial Training School, the future pilois. pant from the outer studeute and go to the .Elementary Flying Training Schools, of which Mount Hope isa typical example. These schools aro not sun by the Government, but by ,private companies, each one spon- sored by a 'Canadian Flying Olab. One result is that them is a eer- tadn division of labor at eachf,i these Elementary School. There is a civilian• manager, whose duty it is to supervise all the actual flying instructions and maintenance of the planes, end an R,C.A.F. officer in charge of disctpline and of the classroom teaching. The arrangement has been criti- cised, but it seems to be worlcing well. Early in the war, • when the great Air Training Plan was first put into operation, it 'enabled the EiC.A.F. to take advantage of the most experienced instructors avail- j able, the enthusiasts who had kept alive the Flying 'Clubs. That slaved Precious weeks and has 'worked so i well, there is not likely to be any ' immediate change, except in miinor deitiabls. All other types of schools are directly under the R.C.A.F. All the planes used .at Mount Hope are Fleet Finches. Some other schools are Tiger Moths. There was a time, months ago, when they used some of each or whatever training planes were available, but there is no longer any scarcity of training planes The Fleet. Finches and the Tiger Moths' are both double,seated biplanes. Two pairs of wings enagle them to $y stead - Sly in the hands of beginners and to land at a safe speed. Flying speed is slightly over 100 miles an hour; landing speed less than .half that. Officials at Mount Hage are proud of one record. Since the sieliool was opened Last October, not one student has been injured or killed. The hIs- inial hasn't had an emergency case to handle. I found similar records at other schools. It is not the begin- ners who crash, but those who think they are experienced pilots W17IaNzs , A.'[7tIDST lath, Mgr Parachutes and Their Uses The student takes his fret flight in the'frant seat of a Fleet Trainer with an experienced pilot in the rear. Before he goes up, he puts on one of seveki types of warns flying suets, helmet witdi ear phones, se that he can listen to the instruct- or, and a pair of big, sola moccasins, A parachute is strapped to Ins body. There is a broad belt of webbing around the waist, with two narrower straps over the shoulders and two more around the legs. All the straits are fastened to a loch' in front of the body The parachute itself is carefully folded inside a bag whieh serves as a cushion on which the atue'diate. sits while flying, The "rit,. Cord" isn't a cord' at all 'Fastened to the belt„ on the left side, is a• Lange metal. handle, in easy reach of the right hand When it is pulled a metal cable, like that used in cam- era shutters, jerks open the bag in which the parachute is folded. Few students will ever have to use one, in Canada at least, but the feel of a parachute on the back gives added confdenee . 'One of . the 'buildings at Mount Hope is the parachute roam. The parachute is made of finest grade Japanese silk, with braided cords The length le g'bout 40 feet and the cost of one is about $400, Parachutes are given constant oare, since lives depend on theme , Every few days, they are unpacked and hung up in i tower, looking like tis flock of big bats hanging from the ceiling. Fold- ing and repeaking are done by experts, 'An interesting chute story comes Mom another school. New pariu chutes were' taken there for testlnr. A weight wee attached and the petnathufeta taken tip in one of the big bomgers. rt Was laid on two Om*); woes an opening It the ONTARIO AN URGENT APPEAL TO i)N 'ARCO FARMERS Keep your cows milking! Ontario cheese factory patrons did a good job in May and June, They increased cheese production by 2,574,772 pounds. Don't let the drought be a tool for Hitler. Britain must have 112,000,000 pounds of cheese this year. This requires effort on your part. Drought conditions call for heavier grain feeding immediately. (1) Feed any available grain or silage. (2) Buy Bran and Shorts at the pegged prices from your nearest Feed Store at a saving of $3.00 per ton. Prices at 1, : war May levels. . (3) Feed new grain at once. (4) Don't stint, Milk flow must be maintained. YOU WILL NEED GREEN FEED THIS '• Work up a stubble field. After the first rain, sow one bushel Rye or Nall Wheat and two bushels of Oats per acre. This mixture will also provide early Spring pasture. You will be surprised and pleased at the quick and steady growth. ONTARIO IS >BRITAIN'S "FRONT LINE" -FOR DAIRY PRODUCTS, SO KEEP YOUR COWS MILKING! Feed the cows to feed Britain ONTARIO DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE HON. P. M. DEWAN,•Minister W. R. REEK, Deputy Minister floor' of the - plane. One of the ground crew, net too bright appar- ently, was given the duty of going aloft and releasing the parachute to be tested. His duties were siinple, The weight rested 0, na couple of - planks stretched across the opening. A71 he had -to do was tip the planks at the proper time, to let the para- chute -go. All went well until one day when a plank got caught. Sera: - ins at it, the aircraftsman lost his balance and felt forward through the stole. Quite` unexpectedly, he tested a varachute, but it was his own. Hope is Flying Officer W. P. Pleas- ance, The Aduiindatre.tou Officer, who was our guide; is Flying Officer L. W. Code. -v- FALL FAIR DATES i t Arthur October92,32 2, 3 Atwood Sepember 29, 39 Ayton Ocaber 2, 3 Blyth September 17, 13 Bayfield ,September 24, 25 Danbam September 4, 5 Drayton September 23, 24 Dundalk September 23, 24 Dungannon Sept. 3t1, 1 Elmira Aug. 24, SOct,ep.t 1 Exeer ...,.,....,Setemger 17, 18 Ferghe September 11, 12 Grand Valley Septemger 26, 27 Corrie Oetaber 3, 4 Hanover September 11, 12 Holstein September 25, 26 Ivncardine September 18, 19 Listowel September 17, 13 Milverton September 11, 12 Markdale September 1S,i9 lifildmay September 16, 17 Mitchell Septemger 93, 24 Neustadt September 5, 6 New Hamburg ... Septemger 12, 13• Orangeville September 9, 10 Gwent Sound.September 27-10 Pnlmierston Sep'ttmber 19,20 Paisley September 22, 23. Port Eigiu September 26, 27 Ripley September 23. 24 Stratton September 15.17 Toronto C.N,E. . , Aug. 22 -Sept. 5 Tavistock September 5. 6 Teeswater .... Se--ptemger 30. Oc. 1 Tiverton October 6. 7 Underwood , ... October 14 Wharton September 11, 12 Zurich VSeptember 22, 23 GET YOUR PERMANENT ' ON THE NEW ZENITH HEATERLESS THERMIQUE End Curl 51.25 and $1.75 and $2.25 Including Shampoo Permanent $2.00, $2.50, and 55.00 Including finger wave and shampoo Telephone 55x for an Appointment IRENE PEASE Over IS W. Eckmler's Store How to Alm A Spitfire. At the .Elementary irlytng Fram- ing School, the sttudentpilots flies about 50 hours, 25 of them under the eyes of an instructor and the. rest alone. He may go up as often as four times a day, bat never over four hours altogether in one day: - The other half of the day is spent in the lecture rooms. Two afternoons a week, there are sports' at 4 o'clock, tennis', softball and soccer. One building houses the Link trainers, which are eontiuually used for test- ing the students. Lectures includ3 such subjects as navigation, .engines, rigging, theory of flight, armament and signals. Ola.ssrooms vary according to the sugject taught. I will describe only one of the most interesting. It is obviously important that pilots of fighting planes shoud be able to recognize an enemy at a dis- tance and get in the firat shots -and those shots must be accurate. A.11 flying schools teach aircraft recognition. Walls of classrooms and hails are covered with pictures of British, American and enemy planes. Models, made of plastic and brought from Britain or carved from wood by Canadian boys, accurately meas- ured to scale, are s,aspended from wires In various positions and can be moved across the room. rasing these models, the student learns to aim with the sights used on the famous 'Spitfire plane. I Sound this sight a fascinating piece of optical equipment. It is not rough larger than a flashlight and is Illuminated by a small bulb at the bottom. The pilot looks through a sloping piece of glass which is transparent and yet acbs as a mirror, On the glass, a circle of light ap- pear,e, with a cross -bar of light broken in the middle. In the exact centre of the circle is a spot of bright light. . There are two dials on the gen .sight, similar to those on .the lens of - a oamera. The pilot sees an enemy Dime in the distance. Ile sets one dial according to the type of plane, say a Mestsenscbmuibt 109, and the other; for the distance at which he intends to open fire, say S00 yards. After that She can concentrate on keeping tete enemy plane inside that circle of light. ` When it ischase hough that the wings of the ap- ,pa'eachtug plane fill the space in the broken. bar of light, the pilot tenches a button and fire of eight machine gyms' converges on the spot marked by the bright point of light on the guti,'siight. In training, no guns are fired but the toil learns to Sedge bistsnce and to aka saturate'','and quickly, Commanding Officer, at Mount Last Third Of Cigarette. , Contains Most Nicotine, w' "Cold hands, warm hart," the . old saying goes. Tele Northwestern National Lida Insnurance company recently mod- ernized the axiom to cold bands.." glowing cigarette. A study of than effects of smoking releasedby the - firm included the statement: ' "If your hands and feet are Le.-- blbnally cold, 'smoking will *mass, them colder. Though- there is Fest dispute among medical authorities-. albout some of the effects of tobac- co, there is uni'vensal agreentn.at that it slows dorm: the blood floes' to the hands and feet." The study also looked info the matter of smoking mothersto- cover that about 50 per cent .of hospital materially eases sm'3ke nowadays as compared to ents Young mother out of Eve - '01010 smoked 10 years ago and virtually none 25 years ago. - "Tests have indicated,''' the re- port stated, "that there is little or no danger of nicotine• reaclit'n the infantthrough the mobilises milk if she smokes less than . Batt:' a d,ozen cigarettes a day; tuts' made with heavy smokers shots definite nieotine content in tits }milk." - The last third of the cigaratgg or cigar gives off as much as f. perrent more nicotine if smoked' rapidly, the study Ends, because of idle increase in moisture content 1 the shorter filtering and the prev- iious accumulation of chemicals from the outer two-thirds. ri, Needs 200,000 Gallons Water The Radio Air School, Clinton, will need 200,000 gallons of water per day, it is stated. Mat is alit to be twice the amount required '31y the town of Clinton. Machinery for drilling the new well is now being placed in position and drilling will commence at once. Make Jams and Jellies the Modern, Easy Way VERY SHORT ROIL -For jam yota need only a one minute to two -minute, fall,rolling boll -for jelly a bait-minuts. to a minute. ECONOMICAL -Very little juice ban time to boil $way, e0 you average ea* half more jam or jelly from an equal amount of fruit,+ LOVELY TASTE AND COLQUR- The short Certo boil does not affect t6R fresh fruit taste • or, spoil the natural colour. ENDS GUESSWORK -With Cent you get tested, easyto•follow reelper. Follow them exactly and yon'R never have failures. brei CERTO IS PECTIN EXTRACTED FROM FRUIT