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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Clinton News Record, 1932-04-07, Page 7THURS., APRIL 7, 19 2 THE CLINTON NEWS -RECORD Health,. Cooking Care of Children AG • 1illati011 �f I 1 II A -Column Prepared Especially for Women- Eut Not Forbidden to Men FRIENDSHIP ANI) SUSPICION Friendship and suspicion cannot ,dwell together Friendship loves the sun; Suspicion, cloudy weather. "Friendship needs must trust; Sus- picion has to doubt, And, seeking hidden .faults, turn things inside -out. 'Friendship 'clings £o Truth, which is Suspicion's foe. 'Tis Truth that feeds the wick for Friendship'ssteady gIoW.' 'Nc matter what , the problem, ah, Friendship understands. • And prefers ready helpfulness, with eager, outstretched hands. And never questions 'jc oidly, nor probes -with bitter sneer, -But eases every burden,, dispels each chilly fear. F iendship seeks companions, Sus- picion walks alone, Eyelids drooping meanly, in his heart, a stone. Friendship's joy is service, fair or foul the weather. Suspicion turns from giving—so they cannot dwell together. --,Wilhelmina Stitch. Does the fact that so many women are out in the business world, eon• peting with men, that they have the franchise and can when they • choose kill men's votes, exempt men from any ,obligation to 'treat women with the chivalry which gentlemen • used to be happy to pay and ladies as happy to receive at men's hands? There seems to be some differ • ace of opinion on this question. Some amen say: "If women are go- ing to compete with men in bust- ness; if they are going into polis tics and will, on occasion, render my vote of no effect; if they are going to .encroach on All my perserves and oust me from my ancient privileges, why they will have to take the rough with the, smooth. I shall give • them no more consideration' than I do to nten.' Other men say: "I will not employ women except in subor- dinate positions and at small salter- ' les; no woman shall hold an execu- tive position in my business for I - will not asic my !nen employees to compete with them on an equality. It is not fah to the men. Women are all right•as assistants but they cannot hold responsible positions as executives." While other men say: "'In my business if a woman quail, fies for an executiveplace she can have it, few of them do, or even if they clo they later marry and give it up.- But women have an equal • chance with men with me. Oh, well, no. I do not pay then just as high salaries even for the same work, It ' isn't done, you see. Men's expenses are heavier!' And anyway, Inert and women are different." Personally, I .do not like anything that looks like a sex war, a war be- , tween men and women. Men and women are supposed to work togeth- er to build up the race and make a ' better' world, by their united efforts. And I'm not, never was, so wild over the gaining of ''Equality," But I do think that woman, as rational human beings, capable of developing along any line of endeavor just as men are, should have an opportunity • of making their influence felt, not • only in the home, but in the state, • from which for so many years, they • were barred. In taking that atti- tude I do not say that women are any more capable or any less capable. than even. I simply believe that working together they will achieve better results than either would alone. . A man, he was the old-fashioned; -chivalrous kind of man, once said to me that he didn't like the idea of women leaving anything to de with politics. That polities were so filthy • that •ha hated to have a woman soil ' her hands with then!. That didn't go down with me at all. Politics are nothing more nor less than the eon - ...ducting of the business of the coun- try. There is nothing inherently filthy in the conducting of the busi- ness of the country any more than in the conducting of private business • or the conducting of the home, What then makes polities filthy? Only the way they Etre _concluded. , A true. woman, if there is a'.filthy snot in 'her. home, will try to clean it up. So, I should think, a true woman would try to dean up the filth of politics, if she had a free hand, Per- ' haps er-haps that is one reason why her ad- vent in the :field of politics has 'not be{en welcomed very warmly. Bat the are .getting away from the subject we started out to.dis- cuss. Are men no longer 'tinder any obligation to 'treat woman ' with con, sideration, to exercise toward them the old-fashioned 'chivalry of which poets. sang and novelists wrote? I think the obligation is .just the same as it always was. Women are phys- ically weaker than men; they are net as: able to protect themselves, they need protection: there are many things which a woman cannot de for• herself, she must have some man do- these for her; in short, she.is a WO - man and man is *mane as a1w;o- man looks up to man for protec- tion, so musty a man treat a woman with -consideration and chivalry. • But one thing which I always ob- ject to' and, -think is most unfair, is the attitude some. women take that a man must defer to her in all things. To illustiate, when women go into a bank tc -do business, or into a library office, they shoe/14'0e ready to take their turn, just as men do. A wo- man has no iight to expect a man to step back and give her leis place, and so many seem to do that with- out so much as a smile of thanks, While I should expect a man to treat me always with courtesy and consideration, when I meet him in business I am perfectly willing to, take my turn and to accept just the sort of courtesy -he would extend to. a man in the same position. His time is just as valuable as mine and my being a woman gives. me no right to demand that he shall waste it on my account. A. woman can be perfectly womanly and still exact no more con- sideration from her associates than is demanded by common business oourtesy, No woman has any right to use her sex to exact undue privil- eges from men in the business world, On the other hand a man is just that much more of a gentleman if he takes the, trouble to remove his hat when doing business in an office presided over by a woman, or shows any of the many little acts of conrtesy usu- aIly shown to women. Many women are in the business world, not because they •chose, per- haps, but because they must earn a living for themselves, and it may be, for others. Circumstances have pushed thein out into this world but in taking their places there they have dropped none of their woman- liness. They are just as feminine as they ever were, or as their sisters who have had no. occasion to enter it. To then is due just as Hutch the chivalry .of melt as the woman who lives in the sheltered life of the hone, When men and women work to- gether for the common good of the world; when men accord to women the chivalry due her sex and women look up to men, and not in vain, as protectors from dangers from which they cannot protect themselves, then will this old -world be something like the place it was meant to*be as a home for the human race. REi3EICAH, TRUE RELIGION The uprooter of sin. The begetter of life. The revealer of God. The light of intellect. The fashioner of law. The guide of history. The foe to superstition. The comfort in sorrow, The enemy of oppression. The strength in weakness. The star of .death's night, The promise of the future. The pathway in perplexity; The escape from temptation. The illuminator of darkness. The secret of national progress. Tile charter of all true liberty. The forerunner -of civilization. • The steadier in the day of power. The ornatnent and mainspring of literature. The moulder wf institutions and government, • - The regulator of all high- and wor- . thy standards. The answer . to the deepest hunger Ings of the heart, THE CHILD The whole world revolves about the ehild. 'In the child's tiny fin- gers, head and heart, lie the weal and woe' of the future., Ile is a batty developing' in strength and power with the advancing years. What is awn from that bank in the years ars that are to come depends. upon what is deposited there while he is still. a child. Wb cannot de- posit 'carelessness, neglect and in, difference and expect in later years dividends of knowledge, integrity and righteousness. ---.Selected. T Edited By Leban Ilakaber KI'alc OI11EN PAGE 7 Household Economics FALLING : HEIR It often happens that 'a person - who i$ appointed to,;a position io an' Institution begins tb inquire of,oth- ers as to what her 'predecessor did; time off, etc; Now if. this inquiry is 'made in orders to1111 this •posi- tion better than it had been filled before, it would be •a good thing. But in nearly all cases the inquiry is made to shield oneself from what she thinks might be excessive duty ;or 'overwork. When this is the case the end is already, in sight. People Who take positions would naturally fall .heir to all: ' the good, work and good gtialities of, a predee- essoi•, but surely should try to avoid the waste and loss caused by the predecessor's` carelessness and lazi- ness. Sometimes such a person' says, "I do not want to clo more than my pre; decessor. " That; in fact, mane that she will de much . less if she is not carefully supervised. What her pre- decessor did has nothing to do: with it. Whether or not she holds her position and is able to have a good reconunendation when she wants` to leave depends on what she herself does and haw well she fills the place. The person who is afraid ,of doing too, much has already failed. Very few people are over worked. Doing less. than we should' do is immoral. Doing more than we are expected to do is righteousness in action.. Rewards ttlways come to righteousness. Many people are out of work and money and are having a hard time because they do .not understand this Iittle piece of philosophy of life. This applies to all people and all work everywhere. No one can es- cape it. Success or failure is writ- ten in it and each does his own writing- - —J. W. Jones, in Ohio Chronicle. WOMEN'S INSTITUTES AS AN EDUCATOR Twelve hundred Women's Insti- tutes in the Province usually give.. some coti.sicleration, during March and Aprjl, to formulating a program for next year'. The Institute year ends in April, and the educational program for the following twelve months is usuaIIy completed in May, or early in June, printed copies be- ing placed in the hands of the mem- bers. The general practice is to hitve an address, paper, or demon- stration of real practical value to the housewife, at each. meeting. Most branches aim to have something to hear, something to see or something to do, for all concerned at these gatherings. The following is a good example -of one such meeting: ll'totto—The Doors of Opportun- ity are marked "Posh and Pull." Roll call—"A Canadian Product, Where Found and How Used:' Canadian Vegetables -- Their Food Values, Canadian !Vegetables -Ways to Serve. Canadian Appies versus Import- ed Fruit. Discussion and Recipes. Paper --"Famous Canadian Wo- men." Two Humorous Recitations. 'Community Singing. Social half-hours with afternoon tea at the close. The opportunity to hear from wo- men of experience of methods which have proven effective and to take in the discussions, have added mat- erially to the efficiency 'of country women in -the housing, clothing, and natritlon of the family. Where the Department of Agri- culture supplements the efforts of local groups with literature on foods, health, etc., and provides instructors for Short Courses, it will readily be seen that the Institutes' are of real educational value to the rural women and girls, WHOSOEVER YOU ARE There is 0)1)4child who thinks you are; perfect, ' There is some work that will nev- er be done if you d.on't-do it. There is some'one who -would miss you if you were gone. There is a geed reasonfo r be- coming' better than ,you are. There is someone who hates you because they don't understarld you. There is a place to ,be fill which you alone lam fill. There is a God who sees ore in you than you have yet suspected. ted. • cd in TURNS TO RIGHT • It's an' interesting fact, discovered after careful observation of people's shopping habits, that eight people. out of fourteen, on entering a shop instinctively turn to the righk. Only a little idiosyncrasy, but our men- chaints might turn it to profit for themselves. They should place their most profitable Iines vor specials to the 'right of the door, OlAith Scram (6anabiatit OF TIIL•' e ltr 1 A, uuriattttt &:ditc,i't,$ GRANT FLEMING,• M.D. .+. ASSOCIATE SECRETARY Prevention We find occurring a surprisingly large number of accidents which lead to suffering', permanent disabilty and not a few deaths.' It is obvious, therefore, that .it is molt desirable to prevent accidents and to ,take re- asonable precautions with that object in veiw.. Sicknessr might, -in many cases, be. classed as an accident, for in its occurrence, there is the element •of chance incontact with disease gernis, :but in this article, we use the term "accident" to' describe unexpected and unforseen injuries - to the body. • We • give the.. name accident to many injuries which really should not be thus called' because they are the result of carelessness and could be foreseen. If we run in front of a snoter-car, the injury wliiich- 'likely follows could have been -foreseen, and so is the result of our careless- ness or thoughtlessness. Such an injury' should not really be called an accident, but -we generally use the term•to describe all injuries whether or not they are the result of our own lack of. care. . This point is stressed because if you think 'of all - the accidents of which you have heard, you will find that most of them would not have occurred if reasonable care had been: taken. It is because we take so many chances that so many accidents happen.. Accidents do not all 'occur away fromhome; a very large precentage of them happen right in our homes. We standon and reach from a chair instead of using a step -ladder. The rug is torn and we neglect to emend it until someone trips. _and has a fall, We fail to remove snow or to cover it with sand, and someone Slips on :the icy steps. We leave poisons on , the same shelf -'with bottles contain- •ing harmless substances. The elect - Tie fixture becomes loose and is al- lowed to remain -so. It, is just because we, are careless in regard tp these and -ether similar things .that people take poison • un- knowingly,'or we fin&so many brok- en bones, sprained joints and bruises as the results of falls in the home. The trouble is that we take chances every day, and no harm results. This goes on until we become careless, and then, one clay, the accident.hap- pens. 'Most accidents are due to our own fault, and no one is to blame but ourselves. It is a question of personal responsibility, and not all the safety laws in the world will pro. tect us unless we do our part. The reason why we write this art- icle is because we see the number of accidents increasing. Those who value their health and strength must give heed, not only to preventing disease and to living a hygienic life, i. but they must also take reasonable! precautions to protect themselves OLD AGE PENSION from injury. BURDEN SHIFTED Questions concerning Health, ad- dressed to the Canadian Medical As- sociation, 184 College Street, Toron- to, will be answered personally .by letter. Moving Perennials; It often 'becomes advisable to prove perennials but people seem r'eluct- •ant to do this; although it is really not: difficult. Not 'only, d¢ most plants benefit by a change every few years but it is often possible to re," arrange . to advantage an old bed. Then clumps" become too largo; weeds creep in and dead roots need There .are two periods when mov lug 'can be conveniently carried out, in the early spring and in ,Septem- ber. At both these times growth is dormant and lifting the whole clump or a portion of it, dividing with a sharp, spade, and replanting in moist earth can be carried out with little harm. New perennials can be added then. There are a few exee`ptions to this rule. Oriental poppies, for in- stance, rather difficult to handle at any' time, should be moved or set out in August, while late bloomers, like Delphinium, .are best planted in October. In• all work of this kind it should be borne in mind that the secret of successful transplanting is speed in getting the roots into the ground, and plenty of water. The soil must be pressed down firmly all around the' plant. Care must also be taken that the plant is set to the same depth as before, with particu- lar attention to the Iris and Peonies. If these are planted too deeply they will not give good results. Mare ! covering of the small roots is enough !for the former, -while an inch on top of the crown will do for the Peony. Before laying , out a new perennial bed or renovating an old one dig in plenty of fertilizer and work up the soil as finely as possible. A World Paper Shortage The average man would laugh if he were told that, within his life, time, there will come a period when he may not be able to buy a news- paper or book without paying a price that would now be regarded as exorbitant. But this is a recognizes' fact to those people who are in close touch with the pulp and paper industry. They may be called alarm- ists, but they have facts and figures to support and explain how grad- ually this situation will come about) unless an alternative source •of sup- ply is found. Every ratan, woman, and child in the United Kingdom uses about 70 lb. of paper per annum. This consumption is far in excess of the amount ever dreamed of a few years ago, and the demand is still increasing. With a normal advance of 25 per cent. in ten years, the' consumption in 1940 will be (say) twenty-five million tons, and in 1910 thirty-one million tons. According to experts all over the world, the supply of timber cannot meet this demand, especially now that artificial silk, the photo film, the explosive indusry, and a new type of varnish are all made of iden- tically the same raw material, name- ly wood pulp. With these considera- tions in mind, scientists have set about endeavouring to fincl a substi- tute for timber for the manufacture of pulp. Many substitutes of vegetable ori- gin have been experimented with, but gradually they have been reject- ed as unpractical for one reason of another. The obvious , solution to the problem lies in the use of bam- boo. The supplies of bamboo in Burma and India alone are inexhaus- tible, and at the present time 99 per cent. is not used for any productive purpose. Here, then, seems to lie the answer to the world demand for' pulip, and, what is more, it lies with., in the Empire. For Many years I have been in charge of a Government experiment- al factory in Hera l an in India, and have been able to prove that just as good, if not .better, paper can be made from bamboo pulp at half the cost of wood pulp. This bamboo is 'an interesting "grass.", Its growth is so vapid that it can be watched with the naked eye. If a stake is planted alongside sz young culm, in twenty-four hours it will be found to have grown a. foot to eighteen inch, es.; in three months' time it will reach. its full height of 120 feet; with a diameter !of eight inches, The :power of conquest and ex- tension of these plants is almost limitless. They propagate by push - Out long roots to twenty or thin- ty' feet; carrying nodes at nine to fifteen inches apart, from each of which a cuien proceeds. In the Lush ai Hills in North Burma, an area one-third the size of England, the Chin highlander has been respon- sible for the conquest of the bam- boo. Everywhere he trowelled he burnt patches of virgin forest, and, as soon as he abandoned the clearing, the bamboo sprung up until now practically the whole forest is over- grown and trees no longer exist. Wood is a sixty -years' erop where- as bamboo is an annual growth and its total life may be from seven to twelve years. It has the usual habit of flowering only at long in - intervals, and the seeding cycles vary with species from thirty to sixty- five years. Within this cycle, re- production is by rhizomis. The young cutin appears in the early weeks of the monsdon, and continues branchless until next monsoon, when it develops s, braneh system. The roots are not individual to the euim but are grafted and lnteoigrown throughout the whole clump. So young culms are not the product of any single calm but are related to the clump as a whole, and food can be drawn from any part of the root clump. The bamboo plant conserves its energies for the seeding year by producing no young culms the year before, The -following year it flow- ers, and produces an enormous crop of seeds, while the -parent clumps die, A few months later the seeds germinate and root. During the following monsoon they throw up a scattered crop • of meagre stems which may be two feet in height; the next year's produce are, perhaps, three feet; the third year they are larger; and so on until The clump habit is well established. The whole process varies with species from six to twelve years, and such es- tablished cycles repeat themselves at regular periods within a year or two. The rare cases of abnormal flowering can be ascribed to abnor- mal conditions, such as total failure of a monsoon; then famine condi- tions aro . established, heating the plant into the belief that its time has come, and causing it to throw all its energies' into providing for - the next generation by flowering. Culm nodes will throw roots .when plant-. ed. If a cutting taken front a clump which has run half its cycle of forty years is planted a thousand miles a- way, the clump founded by it will seed and die twenty, not forty, years hence. The bamboo is almost a human plant, and, by Its force of character - and growth, is Bound to become lcnoivu to the public, who, in the near future, will undoubtedly have to conserve this Empire' product for papermaking. --IW. Raitt, In The Empire Review. Municipalities Now Asked to Pay Only Ten Per Cens, INCLUDED IN MARCH BILLS Duo To New Arrangement of Federal 'Government TORONTO, April 1.--(CP)--Bills to municipalities from the Ontario department of public welfare for March contributions towards cost of old age pensions are based on a new arrangement initiated by the Do -- minion Government, whereby mun- icipalities are responsible only for 10 per cent. of the burden, IIon. W, G. Martin, minister of the . depart- ment, announced today. Legislation enacting the new basis of cost distribution has yet to- be ratified, said Mi', Martin, but is as- sured of adoption. In anticipation of this, the department is extending the benefit of the new plan to the municipalities, he said. Refunds will be forthcoming for municipalities when final ratification is made, the minister announced, under a pro- vision making the new scheme retro- active to August, 1031. Under the old apportionment, the Dominion Government bore 50 per cent,, the Ontario Government 30 per cent, and the municipalities 20 per cent. The new division makes the apportionment 70, 20 and 10 per cent. respectively. BLYTH At a special meeting of the coun- cil Iast week A, II. Erskine was ap-••irtad clerk of the village and J. H. R. Elliott a member of the Hall Board to fill vacancies caused by the death -of J. D. Moody. Mr. and Mrs. Jas. .Gibson cele- brated the fifteenth anniversary of their marriage at the home of Mrs. Gibson's parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. Johnston. A most enjoyable time was spent by those prlesent. Mr. and Mrs. Gibson were presented with a set of sherbet glasses during the evening. The Cautauqua series closed lie e on Thursday evening and was con- sidered to' be the best of any series held here. Those who attended con- sider they'. had, a wonderful treat. It being the holiday weak the children of the school thoroughly enjoyed each program together with many teachers who are home for holidays and other visitors who are with friends. Word was received he this 'week of the death of Robt, S. McClelland of Denver, Col., 'after an illness of some months. He suffered a break- down, heat fall from which he never fully recovered. The funeral was held no Tuesday to : Fairmont cemetery. A large number of railway friends• were pre- sent to pay respect to one who had held positions in railway offices for , many years. Ile was' quite *ell known here, having . visited his sis- tors, the Misses McClelland on sev- era! occasions. He is 'survived by his widow, one son and one daugh- ter. , Another of the older residents pas- sed away last week in the person of William Wells of Hullett after an illness of sone months. The late Mr. Wells was born' in BIansltard township 77 years ago and when a young man came to Hullett. He was married to Miss Rebecca Watson of Hullett, about 48 years ago. He leaves • a family of three sons and two daughters, viz., David,' Morris, Robert, Londesboro; Mrs. Henry Armstrong, Auburn, and Miss Nettie and Harvey at home.. The late Mr. Wells was a Conservative in poli- tics, a member of Danadian Order of Foresters, also a member of Queen Street United Church. The. funeral was conducted by Rev. E. L. Ander- son and interment was made in Union Cemetery. The pallbearers were: Jas. Leiper, Debt. McDonald,` Thos. Dougan, Wm. Howatt and W. J. Parks Rev. E. L. Anderson, Mrs Ander, son and family visited with friends at Wellburn and Lambeth recently. COUNTY NEWS EXETER: The funeral of And, Few Gibson was held on Monday af- ternoon. Mr. Gibson was a son of one of first settlers on Thames Road, the late Robert Gibson, and lived on the farm where he was born and which was left him by his father, Mr. Gibson was a successful farmer and an extensive raiser of hogs and cattle. Andrew Gibson was knoon far and wide, and at one time was considered very wealthy. Ile loaned money to many. Ile bought exten- sively of land in the West which he farmed on shares. Re was twice married , first to Miss Resnick, sis- ter of Wm. Kernick, North Ward and some time after her death • to Miss S. Mitchell, of Ribbert, who now survives him. He had no feet - living other than Bert Baiter, whom he reared from a child, and who is now married and living in London. Mr. Gibson was a member of the Thames Road United church, and served as Sunday school teacher, as well as having other offices he the church management. Ile left the farm and moved to Exeter about three years ago having bought the Wynn hone on Carling street, Six nephews acted as pallbearers. A- mong those present at the funeral were Mr. and fibs, Bert Boulter, London, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Hack- ney, Motherwell, Jos. Creasy, Kirk - ton; Mr. and Mrs. Walter Madge, Hensall, Mrs. Alexander, sr., his sister, of Cromarty. GOIYERICI•I: A recommendation of the Special Committee that the 1iydro Electric Prower Commission of Ontario be notified that certain stoles and guy wires recently installed on the streets in Goderich must be changed or removed, was adopted at the regular meeting of the Town Council last Friday night. The ses- sion was a short one and at the close council went into committee to discuss the estimates. Advertising brings a new world to your home. -pancakes with bread and as a general table syrup! A nourishing and delicious food that builds healthy bodies. Particularly re- commended for growing children by expert dietitians. An economy, food that the whole family will enjoy. Send 10c for "Canada's Prize Recipes'. 200 practical, home -tested recipes. QJ. �-r The CANADA STARCni CO., Limited, MONTREAL Sii. 011.01AIIIVIVEM12011691101111•1465 '496.44.11111311:11.17.041.5M19,31., LOS ...A.i1,7:001:$ LVO, .114,01i:IO-Pr*sptettpaplaThe Road Siiceess