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CLINTON NEWS -RECORD
THURSDAY, AUGUST 5; 1954
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(By BENJAMIN BEy11RWDGE) }
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Some people have sternly brought did Dr. Tory, who expressed his
me to task for, so lightly passing
over the spectacular accomplish-
ments of Henry Marshall Tory in
' myreview of E. A. Corbett's, bio-
graphy of that great Canadian.
An alumnus of the University of
British • Columbia irately reminds
me that Dr. Tory founded McGill
College, which later became the
University of British. Columbia. In
Calgary, a reader is indignant be-
cause I mentioned that Dr. Tory
was a founder and first president
of Carleton College in Ottawa --a
smaller, though now thriving
school of higher learning — and
neglected to say that be had been
the founder and first president of
the University of Alberta as well.
What a remarkableman was
this Henry Marshall Tory (he died
in 1947). What Canadian, in fact,
has done more? But in spite of
this, there are perhaps even mil-
lions of Canadians who never,
heard of this man or have forgot-
ten that they once did—this man
who began his career as a school-
master and Methodist preacher,
and who practiced the rather un-
usual art—at least for a man --of
knitting throughout his lifetime.
Dr. Tory was a great man for
Royal Commissionsand served on
Many of them in a country whose
appeal to such devices is almost
fanatical. But I have no argu-
meat with Royal Commissions, nor
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good humor in this regard by
drawing a comparison between.
Americans and Englishmen. "The.
Englishman's creed is," he said:
"As it was in the beginning, is
now and ever shall be, world with-
out end, Amen'. The American
creed is:. 'As it was lir the begin-
ning, is now, and by gosh it's got
to stop.' And the Canadian creed
is, of course: 'As it was in the
beginning, is now, and, ladies and
gentlemen, if we are going to do.
anything about it we'd better ap-
point a Royal Commission.."
A great many people who have
been reading in Canadian papers
about the Stratford Shakespear-
ean Festival this year may be sur-
prised when I say it has been a
success for the second time. The
presshas not been good. Or per-
haps I should•say it has not been
good enough. However, Brooks
Atkinson of the New York Times,
who is a barometer for this sort
of thing, cannot prevent himself
from applauding the merits of this
Canadian theatre in spite of its
failings this year. He. is stimulat-
ed by the very spirit of the Strat-
ford theatre, and he says it is
worthwhile. That should be en-
ough ,for most of us.
It was a bit unusual that Soph
oeles' "Oedipus Rex", the third
play of the season, should. have
taken the spotlight from Shake-
speare. Will niay not have liked
James Mason's performance as
Angelo in "Measure for Measure",
and many have wondered if it was
a right play for the British actor.
Will may not have liked the man-
ner in which "The Taming of the
Shrew" was buflesqued in carnival
and contemporary costumes: but
then his `All's Well That ands
Well" went over very well in mod-
ern dress last year.
The supporting actors have 'leen
good. And this after all, is the
really important thing, since the
idea is to develop Canadian stars.
Even though Miss Moisewitsch's
unique stage, in that unique and
now world famous tent which
houses the festival, has been the
real star of this season's produc-
tions, the festival idea is strcng,
and Canadians and Americans who
have seen the plays this year will
try to get back to Stratford in
1955.
Somehow Nicholas Monsarrat,
the British information officer in
Canada, has found out that at
]east 2,000 Canadians will be at-
tending the International Festival
of Music and Drama at Edinburgh
from August 22 to September 11.
It is a fine thing' that so many
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Tree ready to fall in timber salvage operations following the
great Mississagi-Chapleau forest fire of 1948, Mid-surnmer is
expected to see completion of the Ontario Government's giant
salvage operation.
"Supersonic Flight" Simply P1.. Explained;p
Shock Wave, Thrust, Other .Problems
Breathes there a layman who
never to an airman has said, "Skip
the technical terms and in simple
English define for me supersonic
plight and its difficulties."
Simply defined supersonic flight
is flying faster than sound. The
more prominent :difficulties are
pressure wave, shock. wave, and
thrust. Other phenomina are too
complex to describe in other' than
technical terms.
Consider first pressure wave.
The .air about us is composed of
minute particles known as mole-
cules. These molecules race about
and collide with each other at an
approximate speed of 1,600 feet
per second or 1,000 miles per hour
under normal temperature con-
ditions. Normal temperature be-
ing considered as 59 degrees
Fahrenheit,
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Canadianscan avail themselves of
the opportunity to be in Scotland
for these grand events. Both Moira
Shearer and Margot Fonteyn will
be dancing there. Stanley Hollo-
way will appear in "A Midsum-
mer Night's Dream", and it will
later come to Canada on tour.
Weed of the Week
RAGWEED
Ragweed has achieved so much
prominence as the major cause of
hay fever that most of its other
upleasant characteristics are over-
looked: In addition to being re-
sponsible for some,.80 per cent of
the hay fever however, Ragweed
also is a great robber of soil rnois
tune and plant food; is commonly,
an impurity in red clover seed;
reduces the palatability of past-
ures, even causing off -flavored
milk from dairy cows.
• An annual plant, it' is still very
difficult to control, being a per-
sistent seeder, even after being
mowed off once or twice during
the summer. Each plant produces
about 5,000 seeds and these have
great vitality, can stand heat, cold,,
moisture, burying and'a till grow
when conditions become right,
Ragweed has one, weakness in
that it doesn't like long midsum-
mer
idsummer days, or early fall frosts, For
these reasons it hasn't made too
much headway in Northern Ont-
ario. districts: Accordingly, there
is an annual exodus of hay fever
sufferers to, these northern resorts
during the hay fever season.
Many of the people . who each
year abandon the pollen -filled air
of Old Ontario do not recognize
the Ragweed plant from which
they are fleeing. This is unfortun-
ate, since only when everyone re-
cognizes and destroys this weed on
sight will we ever be free of Rag-
weed pollen hay fever.
Ragweed is not particular about
soil types, growing on soils from
too wet to too dry, from sand to
heavy clay. It is common on road-
sides, in back yards, gardens,
parks and farmers' fields. It can
be handled, hoed, pulled, or spray-
ed, quite safely until pollen is
formed, which is not usually be-
fore mid-July. ,
Ragweed is usually a low grow-
ing, insignificant looking plant,
with much branched stems, finely
divided, ragged leaves, pale color-
ed on the under side. The flowers
are inconspicuous, yellowish color,
arranged on long, slender spikes.
Control is simple. Roadsides
are being sprayed with 2-4-D and
where this practice has been con-
tinued a couple of years Ragweed
has practically disappeared. $pray-
ing should be extended to cower
more roadsides, parks, vacant lots
and otherareas where Ragweed
exists.
In gardens it should be hoed out
or pulled out. In stubble fields
not seeded down to grass it should
be plowed, disced, or cultivated
early enough to prevent seed sett-
ing. Cutting Ragweed is not sat-
isfactory unless it is cut very close
to the ground, since it sets seed in
the axils of the leaves very low on
the plant.
Property owners in general, and
owners of large tracts of unused
land in particular, must accept
their responsibility in destroying
Ragweed, thus saving themselves
and the population in general
much suffering from hay fever.
The actual crop increase as a re-
sult of Ragweed eradication will
be highly profitable.
When one speaks, moves or in
any way disturbs these molecules
the disturbance is transmitted by
molecular collision. The molecules
move in all directions. Their aver-
age speed in transmitting distur-
bances is 'approximately 1120 feet
per second or 760 mph.
Sound, is therefore a pressure
wave and its speed of 760 mph is
a measure of molecular ability to
transmit pressure waves or distur-
bances in the air.
An aircraft travelling at con-
ventional speeds, or as the en-
gineer says low velocity, creates
a disturbance and hence a pressure
wave. The greater speed of the
pressure wave starts a molecular
parting or verifying of the air
ahead of the aircraft. Under such
conditions the airflow over the,
aircraft survaces remains smooth
or streamlined. '
A high speed aircraft moving
successively faster tends to catch
up with its own pressure wave.
Eventually the craft is travelling
as fast as the wave itself. The
molecules of air cannot now move
out of the path of the aircraft and
therefore come •in direct contact
* with it. As the velocity of the
aircraft approaches the speed of
Even before many of us in Can- sound the air becomes less pre-
ada have had an opportunity to pared for penetration' and resists
view black and white television in the penetration even more.
our homes the ,manufacturer's are
coming out with color TV. It's
here alright, but it isn't likely
there will be a great rush for it.
Raytheon has just put a few 19 -
inch color sets on the market for up, however, the people are less
$1,095. Stromberg-Carlson pians and less able to get out of the
to make about 50 of the 15 -inch way. At a certain speed they
models, , would either'be"tlrown out of the
N 4,
.
Suppose a car was to be driven
down a street teeming with people.
At slow speed the people could
move out of the way quickly and
so let it pass. As the car speeds
Diogenes, the Greek philosopher,
lived in a tub. And Prophet Jones.
("His Holiness, Rt. Rev. Dr. James
F, Jones, founder of the Church of
Universal Triumph", an American)
has a Steinway grand piano with
a bed built into it. But Liberace
has "a greater imagination than
either of them. He has a swim-
ming, pool built in the shape of a
piano, even to the keys! The
popular, and much talked -about
American pianist is off TV for the
summer.
way or begin to pile up. To main-
tain the car's- speed against this
pressure of people would require
more power from the motor.
It was once believed that at the
speed of sound the molecules of air
would pile up and form a solid
wall that could not be penetrated,
Instead the air undergoes a change
which engineers call a shock wave,
The shock wave can perhaps be.
described as being a critical point.
A point at which the air immed-
iately in front travels at greater
speed than the air immediately be-
hind. The air entering the shock
wave area does so at greater speed
than that which leaves it. There
is an almost instantaneous change
of velocity that result's in an in-
crease of density, pressure and
temperature of the air. The air-
craft itself is subjected town in-
crease in drag.
The air behind the shock wave
has suffered a deceleration and is
in effect, being dragged along. To
take care of this engineers and
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Money arrangements can readily be made l
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THE BANKS SERVING YOUR COMMUNITY,/
One hundred and' eighty seven
garden club members in Huron
County have had their club garden�
inspected recently by G,' W. Mont
gomery,.Clinton, agricultural rep-
resentative for Huron'County, and
Jean Steckler home economist; The
gardens on the whole were found
to be very,, good in spite of the
dry weather.
The club gardens were scored
considering a number of factors.
The general appearance of the
garden with straight,even, web -
filled rows was one consideration.
The size of the plot arid- arrange-'
ment of crops as outlined in club
members' manual was also taken
into consideration. Sonne gardens
did not allow following such a plan
and in that case early crops, mid-
season crops and late crops should
have been grouped and grown to-
gether. Freedom from weed dis-
ease and insects, along with. the
care and cultivation of crops was
another feature to be considered.
The quality of the vegetables, and
the yield, which depended a large
part on the fertility of the soil,
snd cropmanagement was of ma-
jor consideration. Flowers were
also grown in the club gaiden, and
could be used tastefully to beaut-
ify home surroundings.
designers have to some extent
channelled their thoughts into
terms of higher thrust pr power
and swept back wings.
The straight winged aircraft re-
acts to the shock waves by por-
poising, uncontrollable pitching,
tucking Under, vibration of con-
trols and rolling tendencies. Pro-
gressive designing of the swept
back wing is countering these ill
effects.' The question of thrust
however is still posing a problem
to engineers,
No doubt the horse in front of
the cart, the engine in front of the.
auto and the propellor at the front
of an aeroplane has channelled
lay thinking off, propulsion in terms
of pulling power. Jet aircraft and
the sonic barrier have proved the
point that vehicles are pushed for-
ward and accounts for the air-
man's Measuring of power in
terms of .thrust. < '
field crop weed killers in the area
of the home gardens, Vapours
from these chemical weed' killers
have been known to have 1' armful
effects up to one-quarter of a mile. •
In the home garden, vine crops,
tomatoes and zinnias were most
noticably affected. These crops
are retarded but may not be ser-
iously harmed.
To complete the year's work of
the 4-I1 Home Garden Club, mem-
bers will exhibit their record book
and produce at an Achievement'
Day. They will also participate
in judging vegetables, and answer.
a garden quiz on vegetable grow-,
ing and canning, freezing and stor-
ing vegetables which has been a..
special feature of the program thin.
year.
Clubs taking part in the project,
this year are as follows; Seaforth,•
Mrs. W, Haugh, Brucefield; Mrs,
John Hillebrecht, Seaforth; Miss,
Ann Haugh, Brucefield, (87 mem
bers); Kippen, Mrs. ldon Jar=
rott, Hensel, Mrs. W. Bell, Kip-
pen, (19 members); Auburn, -Mrs."
W.. Bradnock, Auburn, Mrs. K..
Machan, Auburn, (18); Belmore,
Jean MacDonald, RR. 2, Wing -
ham; Ntrs. F. Doubledee, Wrox
eter,'(15); Gerrie, Mrs. G. John-
ston, Gorrie, (14); Blyth, Mrs. J.
Hesselwood 'Jr., Blyth, Mrs. C.
Ladd, Blyth, (12) ; Brussels, Miss
Thelma Maier, Brussels; Miss Jean
Smith, Ethel, (11); Dungannon,
Mrs. J. Finnigan, R.R. 2, Auburn
Mrs. H. Mole, Dungannon (10);
Elimville, Mrs. J. Woods, R.R. 3,
Exeter; Mrs. 11. Punter, R.R. 3,
Exeter, (la); Cranbrook, Mrs. G.
Corlett, Walton; Miss Ann Steff-
ler, Brussels, (10) ; Hurondale,
Mrs. Harry F. Dougall, R.R. 3,
Exeter, (9) ; Molesworth, Miss
Margaret MacDonald, Listowel;
Miss Ruth Simpson, Listowel (9);
Carlow, Mrs. T. Clark, R,R. 5,
Goderich; Mrs. William Clark,
R.R. 5, Goderich; Miss Barbara
Buchanan, Goderich,(7); Ethel,
Mrs. S', Alexander, Ethel; Miss
Grace Lamont, Ethel, (6).
Production in the garden this
year was generally held back with
the dry weather but rain should
bring crops back to normal by
early fall. Tomatoes were show-
ing signs of a heavy crop and were
in a healthy condition. Onions
were also showing ` outstanding
growth this year. Some gardens
in the armyworm district were be-
ing attacked. The corn especially
should be watched in these areas,
and controlled as in field crops.
Cabbage butterflies have also ap-
peared recently and the worms
can be successfully controlled by
dusting with Derris Dust (Roten-
one active ingredient).
Today it seems we must be more
careful in applying roadside and
Fly Sprays
We have sprays for barns, livestock or house.
Let us know your requirements and we will supply
the best spray to take care of them.
BUG KILLERS
We carry a complete stock of these, either to
use dry or wet.
Now is the time to spray weeds. Weed killers
work best on hot, dry days.
Have Western Oats recleaned, good feed for
poultry on range.
Fred O. ord
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