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tain and, other countries visited re- the bathroom, shut the door turned'
coney by a group of twelve Canadian off the lights, epened the window,
editors.. It was written for the weekly and looked out. There Was nothing
newspapers of Canada by their owa to see and no guns to be heard.
.representative'on the. tour, Hugh Tem- Half and hour later, I wakened
plin, of the Fergus News -Record. again and dressed.'. After all, it was,
my as night int London and one more
walk in the ).,Iaokout would be pleas
ant.` But out ids all *as still' and I
As the days, passed in London and s +.
no < German bomber ever came near walked to Waterloo Bridge with two
the city ,the Canadian editorsg
. rew Canadian soldiers hurrying to catch
restive and impatient. They did not a train, them went back to the. hotel.
want to go home againand have toSu rvivors of the Blite.
admit that they'had never heard a
bomb .burst in anger.i It wasn't hard to get stories of the
Our hest; were most 'gb li i blitz second hand. Nearly everybody
`tg 'obliging n
every way. If there was anything we had been bombed. Nobody bragged
wanted, we had only to ask the Bri- about it. It was weeks before I knew'
ish Council, and it was arranged. We that. Toby O'Brien, our host from the
wanted to see the Canadian Corps in British Council, had been carried into
action and we saw it travelling over ,a hospital after being blown out of
the countryside on a large-scale man- his car one night. He didn't tell me
oeuvers. We desired to meet Prime' till -I asked him. The Savoy itself had
Minister Churchill face to face: in six or seven Wombs • ,one of which
two days came word that we would blew the end out of the'restaurant
not only meet him but we would also Canadian Military Headquarters in
hear hint• speak in the House of Com- Cockspur street had suffered more
tions. We wanted to see a blitz—but than the Active Army in the field.
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it seemed' that the British Council So it went everywhere. At the Press
wasn't able to manage that for us. Club one night I listened to amazing
One night, I sat in the office of Mr. stories of Fleet Street in the blitz.
Robertson, editor of the Daily Ex- It had been hammered almost to de-
press. A messenger came in. "The struction, when a great land mine
yellow light is on." That means that came floating down on a parachute.
an enemy plane has crossed the coast If it had gone off,every building for
somewhere. It happens nearly every blocks around would havegone over
night. A few minutes later, there was like a row of dominoes. The parachute
more excitement, The purple light caught on a wire across the street
had gone on. That indicated that the and the great land mine swung in
plane was d'enfinitely headed towards • the breeze till the demolition squad
London. I j ;711 i took it carefully down.
All over the city ,in. A.R.P. posts! Then there was the woman who
and newspaper offices, men watched ,sold purses to Major Christie and me
for the redlight to come. That would in Liberty's. Somehow the talk drif-
be the one that would send the sirens ted around to bombing,
screeching through the streets. There ,<I went home one night and the
had )leen np red light for months, Iroof was off my house. The constable
'With the -Watchers on the Roofsays to me that I can't go in there.
I says, I am going its: I live here and
The editor who had graduated from my sister lives here and we're going
the -University of Toronto in 1914, to keep on. living here. And we're there
thought we might see a raid after all, yet, though it's inconvenient in win -
so we hurried up to the roof, George ter not having a roof on your house."
Drew was there and John Collingw•ood' The amazing understatement of all
Reade, as well as several of our own these people was what impressed Inc.
party. With the light of electric I found it, high and low. One night
torches, we went up metal stairs, past a Canadian editor suggested to Col.
great tanks of water in the top storey Astor that we would like to se a bit
and out on to the roof, where two of bombing. Said the Colonel: "I. wou-
nten in steel hats kept a constant ld not advice it. We have found it a
vigil. slightly uncongenial experience."
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I stayed with them for an hour, but , On a Train in an Air Raid
the Jerry never reached London. Out
to the eastward we saw flashes from We left London on a Southern
the anti-aircraft guns, but that was Railway train without hearing a bomb
sll. The others went below but.I re- burst. With their usual thoroughness,
retained, listening to 'stories of the the British Council had reserved two
days when London was the hot spot. compartments. Five editors took one
These men, veterans of the last war, of them: Major Christie, Grattan 0' -
were in the thick of it then, but they Leary and 1 had room to spare in the
had the same philosophy that carries other. Outside in the corridor, a man
all London through its dark hours: from the Royal Army Ordnance Corps
"If a bomb hasn't got your number on and his girl stood in the corridor. We
it, it won't get you: if it has, it does invited then in. The girl was able to
not platter where you are." knit by the dim 'radiance of a tiny
light in the compartment and the man
On my last night in London, I carne ' talked to us rather guardedly.
out of the brightness of the Royal 1.
Automobile Club into the blackness We must have been near the South
of Pall Mall, For the first tune, I saw Coast when the train slowed to a
the long fingers of the searchlights crawl and the white light went out,
waving across the London sky. In leaving only one dim blue bulb burn -
daylight, I had seen the guns' and the' ing•
searcitligths in Hyde Park, but this ; ''You're in an air raid," the young
was. the first night there had been soldier said.
any sign of life. The purple light must r We didn't believe it. There had
have been on again. been too many false alarms.
They faded out after awhile but I "All right," he said, "butif you
walked hopefully along Pall Mall and
through Trafalgar Square and down hear machine guns, lie on the floor."
the Strand, and nothing happened. I It must have been nearly half an
It was nearly one o'clock when I hour before the lights came en and
wakened suddenly in my bed in the the train 'speeded up. In no time we
I were out on, the station platform at
Bouinemouth. An Imperial Airways
officer was there to greet us.
"There has been an air raid, but the
All Clear has just sounded."
Perhaps ,he thought we looked dis-
appointed.
"No bombs were dropper)," he ad-
ded.
CHURCH DIRECTORY
THE BAPTIST CHURCH
Rev. A. E. Silver, Pastor
2.30 p.m.—Sunday School
7 p.m.—Evening Worship
The Young People meet each
Monday evening at 8 p.m.
ST. PAUL'S CHURCH
Rev. G. W. Moore, LTh.
11 a.m. Morning Prayer.
2.30 p.m. Sunday School.
7 p.m.—Evening Prayer.
THE SALVATION ARMY
Lieut. Deadman
11 a.m. —• Holiness Service
3 p,m. —. Sunday School,
'7 p.m. — Salvation Meeting
ONTARIO STREET UNITED
Rev. G. G. Burton, iM.A., Ba18.
10.00 a.m.—Sunday School.
11 a.m.—Divine Worship
9.30 a.m. Turner's Church Ser
vice and Sunday School
7 p.m. Evening Worship
WESLEY-WILLIS UNITED
Rev. Andrew Lane, B.A., B.A.
11 a.m.—Divine Worship
7 p.m.-Fvening Worship.
`Sunday .School at conclusion d
morning service.
PRESBYTERIAN., CHURCH, •
Rev. B. F. Andrew
Sunday School 10 a.m.
Worship•Service 11 'a.m.
3 p.m. Worship Service at Bayfield
2 p.m.—Sunday School. Bayfield.
Two Planes Across the sky
Just then, two ,planes went over,
quite low down. The long finger of a
search light swept across, picking up
one of them directly overhead. That
was strange. I thought. They don't
put searchlights on our planes. Could
it be another German? Had they re-
turned? .
Bishop Renison and Dave Rogers
went away in the officer's! car. . The
other six of us piled into a station
wagon and followed. A few blocks
away, we carne over the top of the
hill and saw the Channel in the moon-
light.
Suddenly there was a terriffic ex-
plosion and a great fan of yellow
light covered much of the sky ahead.
It had come. I. knew it as surely as
I knew we were in Bournemouth.
I wasn't frightened in the •least.
That seems strange, looking back, but
tperhaps' it was because we were ali.
newspaper men now, on the path of
as big story. Not. One of the others
seemed nervous either.
I thought: "'Phis is better than any
fireworks at the Toronto Exhibition."
In less than a second, there was
another blast.. That made it certain.
I thought, of the words of the Ring:
"We're all in the front line now. We.
are really into it at fast."
I wondered what: the driver of a
car did in a. blitz. The driver seined`
to wonder, too. An A.R.P. worker ori`
the•'corner sheuted "Put our that.'
light." He might have been shouting'
at our driver (who didn't pay any
attention) or at a boy with,,a white
lamp on his bicycle.:
A Warni‘Welcome to Bournemouth
;Water seemed to pour down out tof
the sky ahead. • It was incomprehen-
sible, but the gutters were full on the
sides' of the road. For the first time
somebody spoke: "He must have
smashed a water main."
It Waentt until next morning I heard
about that. One bomb had burst in
the seaand sent water into the sky',
for a quarter of a mile inland. They
were not bombs,, either, it seemed ,but
two of the dreaded) land mines that
had floated down on, great white para-
chutes and exploded on the beach,
one in the water and the other on the
side of the cliff. Next morning, I pick-
ed up a pocketful of splinters and
part of the parachute cord. The cord
was over, an inch in diameter. The
mines must have weighed 1500 pounds.
each.
The station wagon drew' up at the
Royal Bath Hotel and We stepped out
on broken glass and entered. Inside
there was chaos. The Bishop and Mr.
Rogers had been knocked over by the
blast but were on their feet again.
Two women were trying to calm little
dogs. The door leading to the lounge
had been blown loose from the stone
archway, frame and all.
There was no light except little pen-
lights, which we always carried. I
walked to the arch where the door
had been and stood beside a stranger.
We looked back into the huge lounge,
and as we stood there, half the fancy
plaster ceiling dropped past our faces.
A few feet farther in and we would
have had very sore heads, if not
worse. My unknown friend said: "It's
not too secure in here,' I laughed,
There it was again: that British un-
derstatement.
Four people in the hotel needed
hospital care. One, man was nearly
scalped by flying glass. A young girl
was carried out on a stretcher. She
was not unconscious. Through it all,
the old grandfather clock in the lobby
kept going.
The Airways people weighed us in
the only room on the ground floor
where a candle could be burned. The
lady who managed the hotel brought
excellent sandwiches and coffee within
an hour. She apologized because she
had no beds for us. They were full of
glass and most of the windows were
out. Those on the side next the sea
were soaked) with water.
B. K. Sandwell and I decided to
sleep on mattresses' on the floor. The
lady manager ledus upstairs with the
occasional light of a torch. She apol-
ogized that we had to ;sleep on the
floor. "You see," she said; "We've
been a bit pushed about. here to-
night!"
There it was again! Half her hotel
was wrecked: Plaster continued to
fall here and there at intervals, yet
they had been "pushed about!"
After an hour or so, we slept well
The only disturbance was the sound
of Wren: shovelling up plate glass off
the streets all night. Every window
within a mile was gone, if it faced the
sea. Five miles away, windows were
cracked.
When we came to think it over, we
agreed that if the German had: pull-
ed his bomb lever half a second soon-
er, not one of us would' have survived.
Evidently those bombs did not have
our number on them!•
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NEW ELECTRIC LOCOMOTIVE
Britain's First Mixed Traffic Unit
Does 65 m.ph.
Successful tests have been carried
out with Britain;; first electric loco-
motive for mixed traffic, Designed
for the Manchester to Sheffield line,
where a wide diversity of traffic call-
ed for a standard design; of locomo-
tive capable of hauling all classes of
trains, this unit was one of 70 under
construction at the outbreak of war
in connection with the electrification,
of this branch of the London and
North Eiastern Railway. Work on
these locomotives was suspended, ex-
cept in the case of the first which it
was decided to finish so that, when
electrification is resumed, the other
69 might incorporate any modifica-
tion shown to be necessary.
Equipped to give 1,860 h.p. at the
one hour rating, it can haul an ex,
press train at 65 m.p.h. on the level
and an express freight train of 500
tons at 40 m.p.h. up in one in 125
grade, or a freight train of 700 tons
at 26 m:p.h. up the same gradient.
This engine is of the articulated
double bogie type, the simplest and
cheapest forms of electric locomotive
know ,and a design which in some ov-
erseas countries has, proved difficult
to run smoothly at speeds around, 60
m.p.h. In this particular case, how,
ever, tests have shown perfectly
smooth running at an average speed
of 65 m.p.h.
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Contains Much Go14
You've probably been thinking all
these years that the murky color
of the Chattahoochee is ,caused by
mud. But unh-uh, You know What
that color' is caused by? Gold,
Yessir, -there's gold in that river.
You can take Benjamin P. Tug-
gle's word for that, because after
three; years .of secret labor, he hast
perfected, he says, a machine which
will extract colloidal gold from
the Chattahoochee.
He says that $45,000,000 worth of
the precious ` metal washes down
the stream annually, and he esti-
mates that"with the use of his new
machine he can realize.a net profit
of $30,000,000 -yearly: '
Tuggle says he will .install his
machine in the river near the Ros-
well bridge where, he points out,
tests have shown colloidal gold
far finer than "float" or "flour"
gold, can be recovered by his secret
process at a rate of from 2 tents
to 5 cents worth per ton of water
processed.
Tuggle !explains the source of the
gold by saying it has been eroding
from Georgia mountains for cen-
turies and finding its way into the
Chattahoochee.
He claims his machine has been
tested and proved successful. In
fact, he revealed that he already
has obtained $6 or $7 worth of gold
in some of his tests.
Capt. Garland Peyton, director of
the state mining department, who
has checked Tuggle's work and his
invention, says, "we have yet to
see any conclusive evidence of the
ability of his machine to profitably
extract gold from the Chattahoo-
chee. As yet he hasn't done enough
experimenting along orthodox lines.
He has used his own machine and
his own method."
Immigrant Girl's Fish
Cart Turns Into Millions
Anybody who ever exclaimed, or
felt like exclaiming, "I never had a
chance," should have a look (with
the mind's eye) at Mrs. Fannie
Feinberg. This lady runs a fish
shop in the famous Fulton Fish
market in New York, has three of
her five sons on her staff, and does
an annual business of $400,000.
'In rating the chances of normal
persons to succeed, surely none
could be put much lower than a
little immigrant girl of 11, speaking
only Russian, and having all her
worldly goods tied up in a handker-
chief. The time was 1885. But this
girl was eager to work, and de-
termined to get along.
In a few years she had acquired
a husband and a fish cart. By dili-
gence the cart was worked up to a
standing store. Then one day op-
portunity knocked on the door, and
Fannie threw it wide open. An or-
der came to supply the fish for a
large hotel banquet. Fannie took
charge of it personally, and instead
of merely delivering the number of
pounds ordered, she decided to have
the fish cleaned and cut into in-
dividual portions ready to be cooked
and served.
That extra service not only made
a permanent friend of the hotel but
attracted others, and the little store,
always seeking to give better serv-
ice, grew into a market handling
nearly 8,000,000 pounds of fish a
year.
Slot -Machine Entertainment
Another new development in slot -
machine entertainment made its ap-
pearance recently in Hollywood and
it bids fair to engulf the nation be-
fore long. It is called the "Talking
Juke Box." The device looks like
the nickel -in -the -slot music box—
and it will play most anything
requested—by asking an operator at
some distant point. The machines
are connected with leased wires
from a central station, with girl
operators ready to serve your every
request. Drop a coin in a slot and
front the central office a sweet soft
voice asks, "number, please," just
like thu telephone operator. The
customer then mentions the song or
orchestra numberhe wishes and
presto—just like that—the operator
selects the record, puts it on a turn-
table, plugs the music into the prop-
er outlet, and lo, and behold, the
'music "comes out right here,"
Lincoln Gave Testimonial
During the War Between the
States a chiropodist named Isacher
Zacharie visited President Lincoln
in the White House and wheedled
this testimonial out of the Presi-
dent: "Dr. Zacharie has operated
on my feet with great success, and
considerable addition to my com-
fort." This foot doctor urged Lin-
coln to have trained chiropodists at-
tached to each regiment in the
army. They had chaplains to care
for the souls of the soldiers, why
not chiropodists to look after their
soles!
Both Sexes Favor Man
Men stick together and women
stick with men, according to one
physicologist, who declares that in
divorce cases men and women
friends of both parties tend to side
with the husband. Men do this from
the tendency of men "to stick to-
gether," and that women do it be-
cause many of them like to :'get
something" on one of their sex, he
explains. Of course, he states that
there are exceptions, but his survey
over a period of years indicates
that this is the way it seems to hap-
pen more often.
PUBLIC RELATIONS O'Fr ICER
APPOINTED TO WESTERN,
ONTARIO
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London—It was learned to day
from the, Directorate of Almy Public
Relation:; Officer for Western Ontario'
has been appointed,, His headgc,:r-
ters will be at Military District No. 1,
THURS. JAN:, 1942
Piano With' 'Solo Voice'
Is Popular LInstrumeni
Nine out of: 10 pianists—from' the
leanging menace to the finger•
ripping charmer — have wished al
some point during their key -thump -
mg careers that they had an or-
chestra to accompany them. Well,
now they can have, : And• right in
their own home, too. I
A recently invented musical' ad
junot for the piano which goes, urr.
oder, the name "solovox" can do al.
;most everything in the. way of re-
producing harmonious and varied
sounds except sing to you. Tell it
•(by . fingering its piano -like key-
board) to "take the melody" and it
becomes your, instruinent soloist.
,You accompany its theme on the
piano.
The "solovox" is a miniature 36
'keyboard which attaches to the
right-hand side and below the regu-
lar keyboard of any piano=uprighl
or,grand. The position of, the "solo -
vox" keyboard allows the pianist to
use his right ,thumb to "pick out"
,use
desired solovox—i. e., solo' voice
'—while leaving his left hand and
right fingers for the piano accom-
paniment.
In a manner somewhat similar to
an . organ's reproduction of various
orchestra instruments, the solo
voice can be, alternately, a violin,
saxophone, flute, horn and so on- Un-
like an. organ, however, it will not
play chords. No matter how many
keys are depressed only one note
will sound at one time.
The solovox's complex mecha-
nism was the brain child of Laurens
Hammond, inventor of that musical
parrot and jack of all musical
trades—the novachord.
Footless Bed No Novelty,
Say Furniture Creators
The footless bed is here to stay.
Once a novelty, it has constantly
increased in popularity to the point
where the once essential footboard
seems doomed to extinction. And
bedrooms look the better for it, too,
Such a wide variety of beds of this
type are now available that one can
be found to fit almost any require-
ment. Whether your room is mod-
ern or whether it is planned -along
traditional lines, there is a footless
bed with a headboard to fit into you:
,decorative scheme.
The attractive upholstered head-
boards, and those covered with slip-
covers, lend a bright note of color
to the room. , Some interior decora-
tors match the'headboard upholster-
ing to the drapery. Others use it
to offer a pleasing note of contrast.
Now wooden headboards in at-
tractive designs are coming into
popularity. In standard shades of
walnut, mahogany and maple they
will match the chest and vanity you
now have in your bedroom. A num-
ber of these were featured at the
midwinter furniture markets.
Still 'a third type of headboard
offered to the public are those with
upholstered panels,which offer in-
triguing possibilities to the home
decorator. The central panel is
supplied upholstered in white mus-
lin. All you need to do is stretch
material of your own selection over
this panel, hold it in place with a
thumb tack or two and replace the
panel in the frame of the headboard
where it is held by little metal clips,
No More Barred Cages
Berred cages no longer obstruct
the view of visitors to New York's
zoo; they find themselves strolling
on an African plain populous with
lions, antelope, giraffes, ostriches
and zebras. African drums throb
in the background. Broad moats,
cunningly camouflaged, separate
spectators from animals and lions
from grass -eaters.
The old signs, "Don't Feed the
Animals," are gone, and for five
cents a bag the public may buy
scientifically prepared food for 12
varieties of animals at vending ma-
chines, Four thousand pounds 01
fish a month are used at the zoo,
most of it for the sea lions, and an
attendant beside their pool now sells
butterfish at five cents each. Two
of the sea lions always stay on
the far side of the pool; if a visitor
can throw a fish so accurately that
one of them catches it, he gets a
free fish to throw,
Scale Weighs Postage Stamp
"Split-second" scales, which can
weigh the impact of a falling post.
age stamp or the force of a 2,500;
pound weight with equal accuracy,
are being used at the University of
Washington in secret aviation tests
for. the United States army. The
scale's, which record forces which
strike an airplane in flight, were
invented by Prof, F. S. Eastman,
university aeronautical engineer.
They are used in testing airplane
parts in the university wind tunnel
•on the campus. When stresses are
placed on airplane parts, the scales
contact an electric coil. The force
is indicated in pounds and regis-
tered immediately on dials and
gauges,
Stricter Border Rules Enforced
American tourists leaving the
United States for short or extended
trips into Canada or Mexico are ad-
vised by the National Automobile
club to carry with them some evi-
dence of citizenship .to facilitate
their re-entry into the United States.
Although regulations at present do
not require such documentary
proof, conditions are such that it is
a good precaution. Aliens should
carry their passports or if natural-
ized, their citizenship papers.
London•, Ont., and his function is to
maintain a liaison between the Cana-
dian Army and newspaper and radio
stations through Western Ontario.
Named to undertake this work was
Lieut. Bruce M .Pearce, editor of the
Simcgs Reformer for the past 20
years and' well-known in Western On-
tario newspaper circles. ` He is a; far -
Right Heating Important;
Describe Various ,Types.
Proper heating of the home is be,
coming more and more an essential
consideration of the prospective
home purchaser or builder, believes
one heating authority'.
In planning a new home or look,:
ing for one to buy investigate the
heating facilities as carefully as you.
do the plumbing or the lighting
fixtures, the expert advises.
Be sure. that therheating unit is
properly suited to your needs an
is sufficient) large enough and
capable of heating a home comfortl
and not just, of the minim i
Y J
requirement to meet local ordit
nances or regulations, he said.
House heating may be divided
roughly into three classifications:
(1) Direct radiated heat as .fur-
nished by an individual radiant fire,
wall heater or radiator; (2) Circu'
lated heat as derived from a circus
lator, floor furnace or a gravity
warm -air furnace, and (3) Winter'
air conditioning or forced warm -air
heating.
The term "air-conditioning" is
Many times confused with air heat-
ing equipment.
True air-conditioning is available
for residential installation and such
a system furnishes circulation,
cleansing, humidification and tem-
perature control of warm air during
the winter or heating season, and
temperature control, cooling, dehu-
midified or humidified, filtered air in
summer. This type of equipment
requires a cooling agent such ae
refrigeration or evaporated cool
ing. '
The usual forced air unit or win-
ter air conditioner is capable in the
summer time of only circulating
fresh, filtered air through the home
and does not actually lower the tem-
perature of the air passing througb
the unit.
Ostracized Animal.Is
Used as New Guinea Pig
Although the mongoose is barred
from the United States because of
its bent for slaying other small ant
mals, it has played a beneficent,
though unwilling, role in efforts to
check the epidemic of pneumonitis
which has been prevalent in Minne•
apolis and generally over the coun
try, it was revealed.
The story was told in the leading
article of the Journal of the Amen
ican Medical Association, describ•
ing investigations by Drs. John M
Wier and Frank L. Horsfall Jr. o!
New York, which led to discovery
that the disorder is virus -carried.
Penumonitis, long a puzzle to set
ence, is neither' pneumonia nor in
fluenza, although it has some oi
the superficial symptoms of both
Efforts of the two doctors to trans
fer the disease to laboratory animals
were fruitless.
When they decided to try the mon
goose, they had to take their speer
mens to the British tuberculosis re
search station at Kingston, Jamai,
ca, because its importation into the
United States is forbidden. There,
using frozen and vacuum dries
throat washings from New York
pneumonitis patients, they inocelat-
ed 90 mongooses, 64 per cent of
which developed the disease.
The 'sick mongooses then were
used to transfer the disease to nor•
mal animals.
"The work may long serve as a
model in research and an inspiring
example of preparedness for future
epidemiologic emergencies," the
medical journal said.
Snakes Are Pleasant Companions
Snakes are pleasant companions
when you understand their attitude
toward life, according to Miss An
nette Loving, a snake -charmer wits
one of the leading circuses in the
country. She say that a python ii
quite gentle as long as it is wet
fed. She allows them a single coi
around her body and always keep!
a hold on their tails, "because e
double coil is an invitation to dis•
aster, and if they start tightening
up on me, I twist their tails back
and that makes them relax," Miss
Loving said that it takes a snake
about nine days to digest a mea
and at that time she doesn't wort
with them, because they are as liml
as a rope.
Smell That Bacon Fryin'!
If you are one of the countless
homemakers who like old -fashioner
flavor combined with modern con
venience you'll sing a song of jot
when you learn that it is now pos
sible to buy bacon on the rind it
breakfast size packages of approxi
mately one pound each. This new
bacon, recently introduced on the
market, is sliced in thin even slice:
to the rind. All the housewife
needs to do is to run a sharp knife
blade along the top of the rind, ther
remove the number of slices re
quired for immediate serving.
Steal Dead, Lion's Tooth
The "most original" thief ha,
been found. He was last heard o
in Oakland, Mich. The crime, ac-
cording to police, is unique in the
annals of criminology.
Someone with an ice pick recently
extracted the gold tooth from a dead
lion that had been mounted, A den
tist had given the lion one of the
largest gold teeth ever made, whey,
the animal Wore away the tooth
during a role in a picture.
The gold tooth has been located
in a local pawnshop, but police are
still looking, for the "most original"
thief.
mer President of the Ontario -Quebec
division of 'the C'aniadian :Weekly
Newspaper. Association. During the
past year 'Mr, Pearce• has served as,
a subaltern in the 41st Battery', 25
Norfolk Field Brigade, R.C.A. at Sim-
roe.
Tough Meat Made Tender,
Bacteria Is Destroye , i
Tough beef can he made astend
e.
and fresh asnew mown hay, scien-
tists say. All, one needs is a violet',
ray machine.
The Food Foundation of Mellon.
Institute has announced that *fresh
beef, if exposed to ultra -violet raye
for three days, will be as tender• asp
meat hung in a refrigerating plant;
for eight weeks. It was only after
years of experimentation that this i
tenderizing process was discovered,,•
the Food foundation has announced.
Until now the general public won.
dered why it could get juicier and:,
moire tender steaks at restaurant!
than at home. The reason was than
the better restaurants paid the high.
et- price for seasoned meat which
the lady of the house would not or.
could .not pay. Only 3 per cent oh
the meat formerly was "hung."
Now it is possible for all meat
to be treated by ultra -violet ray and..
then everyone can buy restaurant••
grade meat at a comparatively low.
price. If so, there will be no more:
shouting about "this tough steak"
by the head of the house when he
starts to carve it.
The new method can be applied'
also to mutton and to fowls, for there,
is tough mutton and tough chicken
under present conditions and these,
too, can be made more palatable.
Another advantage of this violet;
ray treatment on meat is that it
actually kills any bacteria which
might have been in the beef, the
scientists say. The day may soon
come when the ultra -violet ray,
treatment may be enlarged to in-
clude many other' foods in which
the growth of bacteria is suspected•
or possible.
R. R. Retires Cowboy and
Horse From N. Y. Streets.
For many years, visitors to New.
York have been startled to see•
freight trains running on one street
of the nation's largest city. They.
have been flabbergasted even more
to see each such train preceded by.
a curious figure astride a horse,
decked in a ten-gallon hat and wav-
ing a red flag (or a red lantern
if the sun had set).
What they saw was a Tenth ave
nue cowboy fulfilling an 1850 law.
which permitted the New York Cen
tral to run freight trains on the
open street along that thoroughfare,
provided they traveled not more
than six miles an hour and era
ployed "a proper person to precede
the trains on horseback, to give the
necessary warning in a suitable
manner of their approach."
This anachronism was brought tt
an end recently when the Manhat-
tan vaqueros, represented by 21•
yenr-old George Hayde on his faith-
ful nag Cyclone, escorting a Diesel
electric -powered freight, made their
last roundup. As part of the mod
ernization program nearly complet•
ed to bring the West Side highway
up to date, the, trains will in the
future run above and below ground,
the horses will go to a riding acad-
emy, and the cowboys will take
more prosaic jobs with the corn
pany.
Brazil's 'Dictator'
The spotlight is on Brazil and the
undeveloped wealth of Brazil's
mines, forests and fields is a prize
to tempt aggressor nations. But
Brazilians are aware of the danger
of attack and are quietly strength•
ening army and navy. Most impor-
tant, Brazil is whole-heartedly sup.
porting the "Good Neighbor" policy
of the Western hemisphere.
Brazil is ruled by a dictator—
President Getulio Vargas—but he
does not follow the pattern of Hitler
and Mussolini. There is no regi
mentation, no persecution, no milt•
theism in Brazil. Only political
controversies are banned.
Vargas has unlimited power,
Congress has been suspended, pout-
ical parties abolished. The presi
dent controls army and navy, de-
termines diplomatic, economic and
social courses. Censorship governs
radio and the press.
The dictatorship will end, under
a constitution written in 1937, when
the president calls a national pleb-
iscite. But Vargas is a benevolent
dictator and Brazil is prospering
under his guidance.
Improving Human Race
Abuse of alcohol, faulty system
of schooling and the narrowing of
three great problems that challenge
medicine, psychiatry and modem'
science today, Dr, C. Charles Bun
lingame of Connecticut, one of the
pioneers in mental treatment, re-
cently said.
The mental weakness of men and
women, according to Dr. Burling-
ame, is contributed by "itis -educa-
tion" which permits a college edu-
cation for all who wish it, even
though they may not have the brain
for white collar training; the con-
trol of alcohol and its removal from
the category of social and health
problems, and the fact that men
past 40 are drugs on the industrial
market.
Vatican Currency.
Under the: terms of a financial
convention ratified between the
Vatican and Italy in January, 1931,
the Vatican state issues currency.
Recently, new coins hearing the
head and armorial markings 01
Pope Pius XII were put into circu-
lation. The Vatican coins are of
the same value, material and
dimensions as the Italian coins, the
only difference being in^the minting.
WHAT YOUR WAR ,SAVINGS
- STAMPS CAN ACCOMPLISH
. $10 will stop a tank with one round
of 18 or• 25 -pounder shells.
$20 buys a cannonade of four 3.7 -
Inch. anti-aircraft shells:
5 provide p a.500 -1b. bomb to
drop over Berlin or Berchtesgaden, '