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TIIE CLINTON NEWS -RECORD
THURS., FEB. 5, 1942
From These Operations One ot 6tir I a
Planes Failed to Returned
This is the <eighth of a series of of an official report. The All-Canadiala
articles describing a trip to Great moment, the Station Germander'
Fan'
Britain, written by Hugh Tentplin of his address of welcome short and we
the Fergus News -Record, representing hurried out to the landing field. A
the C.anadian Weekly Newspapers As- Flight Lieutenant was waiting for
scpciation. Ile was a guest of the Bra me and after anting my name, took
tish Council while in Engl. rel. me to meet a group from Ontario—
Flight Lieut. R. R. Burnett of Dur-
ham, the Medical. officer, Pilot Offi-
Before leaving Canade, to fly the cer Jimmy Thompson of Listowel and
Atlantic to Lisbon' and England', I had Ian Stewart from my own tewn of
aisitedmany of the training centres Fergus.
and schools. in Ontario connected with As we talked, the first two Hung-
• the British Commonwealth An Train- canes came tearing in. had never
Mg. plan. I had followed the yeting seen one at close range while in the
men, through their courses of training air. I knew that they were tiny little
• here and' was partieularly anxious to Planes', but there speed took the
see them on active service in Eng- breath away. They dived down over
land. the field, waved their wings and were
1 away to the west, tranina into the
It was a beautiful, bright, sunny wind and landing at 90 Miles an hour
morning about the end of September or so. There is no room in the plane
Wheel left London in a ear provided for anyone but the pilot. The first
by the Beitisn Council. • The car was landing he makes in, a Hurneane or
new and capable of doing 90 miles a Spitfire must be life'a greatest
an hour on a broad roacl. The driver . •
. was interesting. He had acted „as a The two en;nricanes were followed
chauffeur for the British Government by a. Spitfire, no larger, bet with oval
officia1s. fox years. When Ramsay wing's and some slight differences in
MacDonald was Prime Minister, tins. centaur. It belonged to an R.A.F.
rnan had driven Inc C. Re knew suadeon farther north and ban come
London and its seburbs life a book. in for more fuel to take jt home .
We headed for the East Coast, the As the third and foneth Hineicimes
last car in a group of four, each of dived low in salute ,one of my friends
which flew a Canadian ensign over said: "That's Corbett and MeOlusky.
the radiator. I sat in the broad back They've both been in action."
seat with a large-scale map on my J2 wondered how he knew, but as
knee. In doing so, I probably broke they taxied in, I could see for myself,
some of the most stringent regula- The cloth that covers each of. the
nom in wartime England, but the twelve' maehine guns had been shot
map had been given to me by an off. Their guns had been fired.
officer at the Canadian Amy Head- They led me over to ineet Squadron
quarters the day before, so I took a Leader Corbett tte he climbe& out of
chance. With its aid, I was 'able to his plane.
trace our course accurately: there is
no 'other way in England now. Every "You've been in a fight?"
signpost and place name between He didn't seem excited.
London and the coast has been delib- ! "Yes," he said. "The air was full
erately obliterated. of Messersehmitt 109's today, We met
j them two or three at a time, all the
Lost In Rural Englandway." ueated at Britain's famed Rugby
'
Perhaps it was just as well that I Squadron Leader Corbett comes School, was killed on active service
had the map. The ers knew the
from, Montreal. He had been. in fights in Britain last December 11th. He
dtriv
city, but as we got away from mainalefore. His stow had all the coolnesa was 19 leers old and had: the cause of
roads anapproached a swampy of an official repert. The All-C'anadian freedom in hie heart.
tion of the coast, they gat lost. I had •
d por-
Squadron had escorted bombers to Pilot Officer Magee had poetry in
noticed the leading ear take a wrong Mazingarbe, where there is. a power his heart too, and, in. the form of a
turn in a busy town but our driver station and: chemical plant. They had sonnet, he left a message to youth
• reached then" objective when they which his parents. consider may be a
an old house eeeently modernized by
a wealthy owner. In front, roses in
g•
.onueus curved around the drive. At
the back, vegecaeles grew between
the rows. of dwarf apple trees.
We sat down to tea at e long table
in, the dining room. I answered ques-
tions aboutthe training itt 'Canada
and they told me about the way the
fire power of the Hurricanes Was be-
ing ,stepped up. They were interested
in the Clipper flight across the At-
lantic: I was interested in these men
who live dangerously, day to clay.
Every few minutes the mine of a
passing plane caused seine:one to rush
to the long French windows', hut al-
ways there would be a _shake of the
head. The Pilot ofifaer beside me
showed me a picture pf Pilot Ofeicer
Graham. "A damn. good fellow," he
remarked. Gre,hatine( home. me in the
Maritime, it seemed,
B--ut there was hope. Plenty of
planes landed at other airdromes to
refuel, Plying over England, you saw
one of them, every thine' or eour min—
utes. ,
Since I cane home, I read, a tete:a-
n-Dm my friend in 402 Fighter Snead -
ran. They lea-ve moved. now and the
new quarters are not so ocirafmtable.
To them went the honor of testing
the new dive-bombing Hurricanes
with 12 guns and a bomb under each
wing. They had been succeesful.
Piot Officer Graham never came
back. Ile has been listed as missing.
Sgt. Pilot PacClusky was badly -
jured while making a landing in Eng-
land. He died in the hospital. One of
the other officers I met crashed into
a cliff in France while trying out the
dive bombers.
It was some time since Pieme Min-
ister Winston Churchill said it, but it
is still as true as ever: "Never before
was so 'much owed by' so many to so
For The Cause of Freedom
Pilot Officer John Gillespie Magee,
Jr., art Ammican citizen born of mis-
sionary parenen in Shanghai and ed -
had to follow till the leader.
he was. lost. Then the map came ih were attacked by 109's. He got in a
- handy. We arrived at a city on the burst at one of them and Sergeant
Thames estuary only a few minutes McCluslcy, coming behind him, had
late for luncheon.. • finished it off. He did, not know if
The owner of that big seaside hotel ally R.ON.F. planeshad been lost but
gave us a royal weleoma Over the he saw none in trouble.
stairway leading to the dining room Conversation After Battle
he had a huge Canadian: flag. As we .
walked upstairs, the strains of ne The fourth Hurricane had pulled in
Canada" came from a Ade room. alongside and the pilot was climbing
The City Fathers came arounet after out. His guns hadi beert used, and
the luncheon and requested that are as two of the ground crew helped him
give them a few minutes of our time. out, I heard his voice all excited. I
They had a drive on to sign up veo- was introduced' to Sergeant George
men recruite for war Work. We went MeChisky of Kirkland Lake. .
to the recruiting centre, where a loud ' "I know the editor of your beme
speaker over the door blared con- paper and other people in Kirkland
timidly and girls, sat inside the plate Lake," I said. "I'll be reporting for
New Instruments Explore
greater thing than anything he had
done in the way of fighting.
The sonnet was composed last Sept-
ember as the exultant freedom of
soaring 30,904 feet over the earth
made a word pattern in • his mind.
These words were scribbled. .on the
back of a letter after he had returned
to earth:—
Atomic Nuclear Cores
In the field- of the science of the
atom's nucleus or core, a sensation-
al advaece was made. Dr. Alfred
0. Nier, young chemist of the Uni-
versity of Minnesota, sueceeded for
the first time in isolating a very
minute amount of uranium -235, The
pure element wee deposited on plat-
inum plates, by a mass -spectro-
graph," which separates atomic
twins by their weights.
Physicists at Columbia university,
then, proved conclusively that it was
this uranium -235 which, bembarded
with neutrons, explodes. A single'
atom of this uranium le penetrated
by a single neutron particle. So.
excited becomes the nuclear heart
of uranium -235 atom that it breaks
into two parts and energy of nearly
200,000,000 volts is liberated.
As soon as one pound of • pure
uranium -235 is prepared, a revolu-
tion may occur in human society,
since man will hove tremendous
power t his disposaL
Prof. I. I. Rabi and his co-workers
at 'Columbia universinediscovered a
remarkable method of making the
atoms broadcast radio waves. The
startling consequence of this discov-
ery is the conceptiOn that the hu-
man bodies themselves are radio -
broadcasting stations, as are all ob-
jects, dead or alive.
But no one yet knows how to find
the radio waves coming out of t -ie
hurnan brain or the body as a whole.
High Flight
Oh! I have slipped the may bonds
of earth
And danced the skies on laughter -
silvered wings;
Sunman! I've climbed; and joined the
tumbling mirth of sun -split clouds
—and done a hundred' things
glass windowassembling wireless
the Northern News when go back. You have not dreamed of—wheeled
s. '
nneemenees, some ee us made hem Have you a story for me?" and soaredand swung
personal appearances in the window,Myelin.
Had he a story? That was an that High in the sunlit silence.
but doubted if that helped much. was necessaiy. I listened as this On- the"s'
' Visiting a Fighter Squadron tario boy gave me a first-hand story I've chased the shouting wind along,
of an air battle that had been fought and flung
Number 402 Royal Canadian Air less than an hour laefore. It was his
Force Fighter Squadron was. station- Bret fight and he had won. I never
ed not far front the East Coast in saw a more pleased or excited youth.
those days. The buildings were more , Be was fining just behind and,
than comfortable. "Luxurious' might alongside the Squadeon Leader about
• he a better word. The effiees were in 15000 feet up, protecting the bonn
what was probably a new brick sehool ines down, belove, droppin.g their eggs
ahd commissioned officees and ser- on Mazingarbe. The German came at
venal: were qtuatered itt country them from above, out of the sun.
houses nearby, one of them awned in hey opened up their formation. Cor -
the far past by Anne Boelyn, one of bett peeling off to the left and he to
the wives of Henry VIII. the right, "just exactly like in prac-
• Because we were late and the first tice." The German missed them both.
The Squadron Leader got in his shot
first and then he, IncOluslcy, finished
CIIURCII DIRECTORY 'off the Inesserschmitt He saw it
go down with a long trail of smoke
behind it. Just above the clouds., he
saw the German pilot jump loose and
float down with his parachute. He
was glad of that. He didn't want to
kill the German pilot: not the first
time anyway.
I (could have listened to more of
his enthusiastic details, but some of
the other chaps in the squadron be-
gan to make rude remarks. Appar-
ently one isn't expected to give inti-
mate details of a fight like this to an
outsider who happens to come along.
At first their jibes didn't register, but
-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.
2.89 p.m. Sunday School.
7 p.m.—Evening ,Prayer.
THE SA,LVATION ARMY
Mrs. Envoy Wright la;
11 a.m. — Holiness Service
3 p.m. -- Sunday School
7 p.m. — Salvation Meeting
ONTARIO STREET UNITED
Rev. G. G. Burton, M.A., BPD.
10.00 axe—Sunday School.
11 a.m.—Divine Worship ,
920 a.m. Turner's Church, Ser.
vice and Sunday School
7 p.m. Evening Worship
WESLEY-WILLIS UNITED
Rev. Andrew Lane, B.A., B.D.
.11 a.m.--Divine Worship
7 pan.—Fnening Worship.
'Sunday School at eonclaiieneo
morning service:
going over tire mama' and refuelling sent to ai.eegning,,and will be forever
If an alarm came • these Hurricanes proud( of Mare
Iwould be ready to take the air again Pilot Ofifeer Magee livea in .Shaeg-
if bombs dropped, nothing but.direat hai for nineeeyars 'ana than me sent
to Magian& eor his <education. After
leagby he cane to 'the .1.1inted('Statee
adi the, firet thne in the summer ef
1939. and there won a scholarship 1
at last they penetrated and Sergeant
Pilot MeClusky left rne to go and pet
in his official report.
The other Hurricanes were coming.
in one or two togeth.er. Nearly all had
been in action. • The men on the
ground mentally tallied( them off. At
last they were all in but one. Pilot
, Officer Grainun was absent.
One Plane Didn't Return
There was an air of anxiety, but
not without hope. Quite often, fighter may have been a greater contribution
planes inn short of fuel and eorne in than anything he may have done in
at some other drome nearer France. the way of fighting, for sueely our
We would go to have tea: by that American youth must enter this con-
time,he would probably join us. Diet in the high spirit of idealism and
My eager craft through footless halls
of air.
Up, up the long, delirious, burning
blue
I've topped the wind-swept heights
with easy grace
Where never lark, nor even eagle
flevv—
And, while with silent lifting mind
I've trod
The high, =trespassed sanctity of
space,
Put out my hand and touched the face
of God.
Million Volt X -Ray Unit
Takes Picture in Minutb.3
Taking a picture through four
inches of steel in less than two min-
utes, a job formerly requiring an
Bamboo 150 Feet High ,
In Jungles of Burmese
Another odd kind of Burmese
boat is fitted with long -handled
oars. The oars are so long that they
Cross each other in the boat. The
man who is rowing holds the right -
side oar in his left hand, and the
left -side oar in his right hand.
Among the rivers of Burma is the
Irrawaddi. It runs for 1,300 miles,
from the mountains in the northern
part of the country down to the Bay
of 13engal. One of the cities on its
banks is Mandalay, whieb was
rnade farnoue through a poem writ-
ten by Kipling.
Burma is a big country, with
about a quarter of a million square
miles. The population is close to
•
A great deal of the ocamtry is
covered with forests and Jungles.
In the jungles there are dense
bamboo thickets, The bambpo
stalks grow so closely together,, n
some parts, that a person could not
push his way through them. The
Wabo bamboo in Burma has stalks
as much as 10 inches thick, and
they reach a height as great as 150
feet. That is rather tall for a plant
which is classed as a grass!
Among the wild animals are
tigers, bears, leopards, apes and
monkeys. The rhino and the ele-
phant also roam the land.,
• Rangoon, the capital of Burma,
contains more than 400,000 people.
It hasa fine water supply system,
and many modern built homes.
hour's exposure, is possible with the
new million -volt X-ray outfit in the
research laboratory of the General
Electric company.
Though three similar million -volt
X-ray units are in use m hospitals,
this is the largest to have an in-
dustrial application. Just as the
physician or the surgeon is able
by X-rays to look inside the body
of his patient, so engineers can look
into the casting from which, for
example, a huge turbine will be
made. Defects which might cause
failure of the machine, possibly with
fatal results, are detected before
there is trouble. Up until now, the
largest industrial equipment in the
world is a 400,000 -volt unit in
Schenectady, which the new appara-
tus supersedes.
With the 400,000 -volt unit, three
hours and a half were required to
make a picture through five inches
Of steel. With the new one, only
five minutes are required. The ex-
posure time must be increased 21/4
times per inch of steel to be pic-
tured.
The giant unit is housed in a spe-
cial building of its own. Unique,
construction features are employed
to Make it the safest possible build-
ing for the operation of high-voltage
X-ray equipment.
• Pilot Officer Magee sent the son-
net, scribbled on the back of the letter
to Ms parents, Reverend andI Mrs.
John G. Magee who now live in Wash-
ington. Mr. Magee is assistant min-
ister at St. John's Church, Lafayette
Square. The Library of Congress
learning of the poem, has requested
the original manuscript for inclusion
in a collection called "Poems of Faith
and Freedom" which includesworks
of Burns, Clough, Longfellow, Walt
Whitman and Shelley.
After learning of his son's death
Mr. Magee wrcke to the R.C.A.F.—
"When my wife and, I saw how deeply
be felt about the situation in Septem-
ber, 1a40, we gave our consent and
blessing to him as he left us to enter
the R.O.A.P. We felt as deeply as
he did and we were wend of his de-
termination and spirit. We knew that
such news as did come might come.
When hie sonnet reached( us we felt
then that it had a message for .Ait-
erican youth but did not know how to
get it before them. Now his death
has emblazoned it across' the entire
country. We ere thinking that this
Colombia Third in S. A.
Lizards, alligators, porcupines,
opossums, foxes, squirrels, mon-
keys, pumas and jaguars are ani-
mals common in one part of South
America or another. The birds in-
clUde parrots, storks, ' spoonbills,
eagles kites and hawks
Colombia ranks third in popula-
tion among the nations of South
America. It has about twice as
many people as Chile, but not so
many as Brazil or Argentina.
The jewels known as emeralds
are obtained in Colombia, and it
also has riches of gold, platinum
and oil. The emerald mines were
in operation before the first Spanish
soldiers and settlers arrived. They
were forgotten for about three cen-
turies but were opened again in
modern times by American com-
panies, An emerald is worth as
much as a diamond of the same
size, sometimes being even more
valuable.
Blood Given 'Sun Bath'
To Combat Infections
A new method of treating blood
poisoning and other serious infec-
tions, including childbed fever' was
announced by Dr, George Miley of
Philadelphia, at the annual meet-
ing of the American Medical asso-
ciation.
The method consists, essentially,
of "sun-bathing" the patient's blood.
The sun-bathing is done not by the
sun's ultra -violet rays themselves,
but by artificially produced ultra-
violet rays. A measured amount of
blood, the amount depending on the
patient's weight and condition, is
taken from his veins, and after ul-
tra -violet irradiations of from 9 to 14
seconds, is put back into his veins.
The irradiation is done as the blood
is put back. This method of treat-
ing infection has been attempted be-
fore, but did not succeed until de-
velopment of a special chamber in
which a system of baffles keeps the
blood turbulent while the ultra -vio-
let rays are hitting it. Credit for
development of this device, Doctor
Miley said, belongs to E. K. Knott,
electrophysicist of Seattle.
Out of 27 patients with severe in-
fections, 22 recovered. • Doctor Mi-
ley has had the treatment himself
and reported that neither in his case
nor in that of any others were there
any bad effects on the blood or on
kidney futtctiott.
Carageen Moss Helpful
In Tuberculosis Cases
Carageen moss is a fine red sea-
weed found chiefly on the south and
west coasts of Eire. This is most
beneficial to people who suffer from
bronchial troubles and mild forms
of tuberculosis. Many readers may
be surprised to learn that quantities
of carrageen moss were used dur-
ing the last war to treat soldiers
suffering from the effects of gas
poisoning. Some of it was taken to
the war hospitals in Flanders from
the coast of Normandy, where it
grows in fair abundance
.In ho part of the world, however,
has seaweed been exploited to, such
good purpose as in the Far. East,
where it has long been the staple
food of the peasants. In Japan it
is consumed not only in the raw
state, but it is also made into nour-
ishing soups and Stews, jams and
other sweet confectiont. Chemists
have even produced substitutes for
tea and sugar from tbe same plant.
Dr. E. Ie. 1Baker, the well-known
scientist and dietitian in the United
States, attriautes the great age arid
vital health of many Japanese peas-
ants to their regular diet of sea-
weed food. This, he declares, has
also given these people the rnost
Perfect teeth in the world and ex-
ceptionally fine hair,
The Japanese also use seaweed
for malting clothes and shoes and
domestic furnishings. And a large
factory recently established outside
Tokyo turns out about five tons of
seaweed "wool" every day. This
new product resembles the genuine
article to a remarkable degree, only
it is more hard wearing. Ferther-
more, the cost of manufacture is
considerably less than that of
making synthetic wool out of staple
fiber. •
Vitamin -Deficiency Disease
Except far pellegra in the South,
acute vitamin -deficiency disease is
not a problem of any real conse-
quence in the United States. The
serious problem is a widespread
"latent deficiency." Even when
people have money enough to buy
all the kinds of food they choose,
their diet still may lack enough' vita-
mins. To provide an adequate vita-
min intake, the Nutrition Group
calculates that each adult civilian
shoUld have daily 6,000 Interna-
tional Units of Vitamin A; 2.5 to 3.0
milligrams of Bl; 2.5 milligrams of
B2; 15 rnilligrama of nicotinic acid;
75 milligrams of Vitamin C. The
diet should also contain proportion-
ate amounts of other parts of the
B complex.
Rope and Wheel
The rope and the wheel were sim-
ple mechanical devices of primitive
man to lighten his burdensome
struggle to survive. The origin of
both is shrouded in antiquity. Vines
swinging from trees presumably
were utilized as ropes in the first
crude hoisting and hauling devices.
Sections of hollow logs were doubt-
less used as wheels in the first 'me-
chanical traiisportation of objects
too heavy for backs of man or beast.
Down through the ages, from pre-
historic times to this day of me-
chanical and electrical civalization,
there has been little change in the
principles of application of the =lie
and the wheel to the job cif lifting
and moving material. But many
I
changes have ben mad
ee ithe rope We drove around the field, past the faith . . . May we thanei e thent
and the wheen
l themselves.
Hurricanes, already. d egged inte A.F. for all the taain ng. an you
their pita Armenian Were 'scrambling have given our boy. We saw a tre-
i• • i dhelp
over them, remoeing the empty 'cart- mendous change in him when he re -
ridge belis and replacing them, with turned to as from • his training, a
fresh ones, full of long Mine of glue chertan that Was all for the nvol31. We
leaing bullet noses. Mechanics Were. ala not reaiet- that we gave our con- '
y
PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
Rev. E. F. Andrew
Sunday School 10 am.
Worship Service 11 a.m.
S Worship Service at Bayfiela
2 p.m.—Sunday School, Hayfield.
i hits would dsenige them.
,.• The Commando: showed me tens
own bedroom, with it glistening
iiidd-
eribath in the next room. This Was
which would send him 'to Yale. He
entered, at Yale in- Septemebr 1940,
when, having attained Ms eighteeettli,
year, he felt he muat fight.
He enlisted, in Montreal eaalY in
Ootober aed, on ,completion cif his
training at No, 2' Service Flying
Training School eet .11plandee near
pttawa, he Wan comnassioaea,fram.
Ole ranks itt June,. 194i tend, proceed,
overseas „ slonaln, afterward,
Scientific Eating
Early crusader for fruits and
vegetables was Sylvester Graham,
advocate of whole -meal Grahatn
bread. In Mathattan a Graham
boardinghouse was founded, and
middle-class intellectuals eagerly
took up vegetable diets along with
bloomers and female suffrage. (At
this time some zealots founded a
"Society for the Suppression of Eat-
ing.")
Next great food crusader was
Wilbur Olin Atwater, who in the
1870s, following European methods,
figured out the number of calories
different occupational groups should
consume. No vitamin faddist, At-
water urged XL S. workmen to fill
their calory quotas with greater
"energy-yielders"—meat, potatoes,
and bread—instead of watery stuff
low in calories.
In the early 1900s, Henry Clapp
Sherman, now a professor at Colum-
bia, discovered the value of min-
erals—iron, calcium, phosphorus.
Then came the researches on vita-
mins, beginning with the discovery
of a "vitamine" (B) by a Pole,
Casimir Funk, in 1911.
•
Wood -Pulp Output in
U. S. Shows Increase,
Defense Advisory Commissioner' '
Edward R. Stettinius Jr. announced a
for the first time in 30 yearathe out- •
put of the U. S. wood -pulp industry
practically. equalled U. S. consump—
tion and production this year, should
hit a record 9,000,000 tons, •tip 27 '
per cent from 1939's 7,107,000 tons.
Furthermore, if U. S. pulpsters
bring old plants into action, they
can boost production another 10 or
12 per cent.
Last year the U. S. was the
world's No. 1 pulp importer. Of the
2,026,209 tons it imported, more than
half came from Scandinavia. The
U. a. is still the No. 1 importer,
but now it is also the No. 2 world
pulp exporter, second only to Can-
ada. The department of commerce
amounced U. S. pulp exports in
July hit an all-time high of 65,548
tons, nearly six times a year ago.
• A break in the British blockade
would release a tidal wave of low-
cost Scandinavian pulp, force prices
far below anything TJ. S, mills could
meet. Already pulpmen have had
reason to be leery of the LanpnAmer-
ican market. Last spring, alter Nor-
way's collapee, they were hounded
by Latin-American purchasing
agents. Suddenly the agents van-
ished. Nazi salesmen had prom-
ised tbern low-priced pulp deliveries
(backed by bonds) before October
1. When Nazi pulp failed to show
up, Latin-Americans returned to
the U. S. market. But U. S. pulpmer.
plan no new plants.
Nicotine Acid Saved
• Pellagra -Ridden South
Third of the B vitamins on the
national defense list is nicotinic acid
(which is not to be confused with
nicotine itself). • This is the stuff
which has saved so many lives in
the pellagra -ridden South, and bus
important in maintaining normal
function of the skin and digestive
tract. The chart calls for 18 milli-
grams for a moderately active man
of 154 pounds, 23 for a very active
individual, and 15 for a moderately
active woman of 123 pounds, Best
sources are yeast, wheat germ,
dried whey, salmon, liver, kidney
and heart. It is also in turnip greens,
collards, kale, milk, peas, potatoes
and tomatoes.
With vitamin C, the backyard
garden forges to the front. This
element is the scurvy preventive
and is necessary to keep teeth, gums
' and capillaries in good condition.
• 1The committee recommends 75 mil-
ligrams or 1,500 international units
i for the hypothetical 154 -pounder of
moderate activity. Top of the gar-
den list for C is the green pepper,
one of which supplies 3,600 units.
lAnsi brussels sprouts come next
with 3,000 units in six sprouts. A
small tomato supplies 540 units, but
{various greens, such as turnip, kale,
mustard, all have upward of 2,000
units per portion. Cabbage, pota-
toes and asparagus are other good
1 vegetable sources. Oranges and
' lemons are the traditional vitamin C
foods, but many fruits are rich in it,
• Light on Pole Vaulting
Jumping over a light beam is a
hew sport made possible by the use
of the electric eye in connection
with the pole vault. It was tried
recently for the first time at the
Schenectady Patrolmen's associa-
tion interscholastic track meet. In-
stead of the usual pole across the
uprights, four parallel beams of
light shine from one standard and
impinge on a series of four photo-
electric cells in the other standard.
If a jumper fails to clear any one
of the beams any of four red but-
tons indicates the fact, A narrow
ribbon of paper stretched parallel to
and at the height of the lowest
beam serves as a target for the
jumper.
Cultivation Stimulates
' Dahlias; Pruning Advised'
Experienced growers all know
that the secret of success in grow-
ing dahlias is constant cultivation.
We must dig around them after
every rain and at least once a week.
A three -pronged hand cultivator will
prove the most satisfactory imple-
ment for this purpose; of course, M
the care of a large patch a wheel.
hoe will do the work more rapidly.
When first planted, deep cultiva--
tion is necessary. Six or eight:
weeks later, when the roots are•
close to the surface of the soil, we•
can dispose with cultivation and ap—
ply a mulch of lawn clippings or
peatmoss. This mulch should be.
two inches deep and applied in such
a manner that every inch of soil
surface is covered.
,Tust before applying the mulch, n-
th well toscatter bonemeal over the •
ground betweeu the plants. Bone -
meal is always a safe food, and if
applied feom time to time will in-
crease the size of the flowers.
While the plants are small, they.
do not require so much water as
they do when they have attained
two-thirds of their growth. How
much water they demand will de-
pend somewhat on where they are
planted.
If close to shrubbery border or to
trees, where alien roots will have
an opportunity to absorb their mois-
ture, it will be necessary to water .
every day. If planted in an open
lot, like a cutting garden, once or
twice a week will be plenty.
Something on the Ball
Baseball was about 30 years old
before baseball pitchers learned how
to put something on the ball. Soon
freak deliveries like the fadeaways,
spitballs, emery balls, shine balls,
flngernail balis and knuckle balls
were wrecking batting averages on
every diamond in the cotintry. Sci-
ence accomplished this. University
professors demonstrated that it was
all a matter of air pressure. When
you throw a ball without any spin,
the air is churned up behind it and
suddenly creates pressures one way
or another that pulls the ban off its
course. Throw the ball forward with
a spin and one side of the ball is
Iturning backward and the other side
j is turning forward. In other words,
!a spinning ball follows its nose. If
the nose is spinning to the left, the
ball curves left, if down, it causes
a drop and if up, it spins upward,
Spinach Spurned
The child whose deep-seated sus-
picion of spinach made him refuse
broccoli had the right of it. So said
Chemist Roger Williams Truesdell
of Los Angeles to the mothers and
fathers of • Redlands, Calif., last
week. "After all," said he, "young-
sters have been exactly right in
their tearful resistance to the sup-
posed builder of sturdy bodies. The
calcium properties of spinach are
not available to the human system.
Only 20 per cent of'its iron is avail-
able. But this is not the worst of
it. The oxalate radical in spinach,
precipates the calcium from other
foods and carries it away." °
SUNDAY GARMENTS
an Sunday g'arrnents. Tommy sits ,
Lfica,,semething on a shelf,
A, trim male polished replica
Winne has concealed himself,
He Mustn't bulge his trolled'. legs,
'lee Mustn't, scrape!" hi e aucicles,
Or soil hia Marna Or eent get
'VeMie dirt; �nbifkitoIis
rte
In Sunday garments Tommy sighs
Leprosy 'Feebly' Contagious
In the U. S. leprosy is one of the
"feeblest" of contagious diseases,
far less infectious than tuberculosis.
But in tropical lands, it spreads
like wildfire, still claims some
3,000,000 victims throughout the
World. With the exception of Mo-
lokai's famed Father Darniee and
is few other workers, practically no
doctors or nurses have ever become
lepers. The disease is not inherited,
but babies are very susceptible,
may catch it from their parents.
Most of the thousand victims in the
U. S. are aliens, and a good 500 of
them have only a mild form, go
about their business with no danger
to anybody.
Alcohol and Prohibition
More than a fifth of all tr. S. men-
tal patients are alcoholics. In 1920,
the first bone-dry Prohibition year,
the number of admissions to mental
hospitals dropped from 45 per 100,-
000 of the population to an all-time
low of 72. Prohibition did it, says
Dr. Neil Avon Dayton of Tuft's col-
lege,Boston, By 1921, when boot-
legging had begun, admissions rose
to 77; the following year they
....limbed to 82. Dr. Dayton, who
firmly believes that liquor makes
lunatics, accuses psychiatrists of
neglecting this important problem,
For 'clothes with rent and stitches,
Remembering the comfort of
His Moriday-faded breeches.
• —Keith Phonies
awe &gag&
'Irrepressible Sternutation' '
"Is there any cure for hay
fever?" asked a patient once of
Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes, "Yes,"
he answered. "Gravel . taken
about eight feet deep." Today, al-
though physicians know little more
about hay fever than Dr. Holmes
did, their attitude is more optimis-
tic. To them the disease which an-
nually sets 6,000,000 U. S. victims.
gasping is a common form of aller-
gy: A bodily sensitivity to certain
foreign substances such as eggs,
milk, wheat, horsehair, pollen
grains, banana oil. Once these sub-
stances get into the bloodstream of
sensitive people, there enstie such
violent reactions as hivea, vomiting,
blinding headaches, and what Hen-
ry Ward Beecher lovingly called
"irrepressible sternutation" (sneez--
ing).
No Passports to Canada
Permanent residents of the United
States entering Canada as tourists
do not require passports. They sim-
ply report to the Canadian immigra-
tion and customs officers at the port.
of entry, answer the necessary ques-
tions and obtain the requisite permit,
for admission of car and outfit,
Decision regarding personal entry'
rests with the examining immigra-
tion officer and it is suggested that:
the possession of identification pa-
pers facilitates entry if documen-•
tary evidence should be required.
Naturalized citizens of the Unitedi
States should be prepared to pre-
sent their certificates of naturaliza-•
tion and residents of this country'
who are not citizens thereof shouldi
be prepared to present proof of their:
legal entry into the United States.
Germs Fighting Germs
A number of developments in the,
direction of making harmless germs
fight harmful germs have been ie -
ported. Drs. Selman A. Wakeman.,
and H. Boyd Woodruff of New Jer--
sey found soil germs which destroy:.
specific disease germs, both grain—
Positive and gram-negative, that is,.
all types of bacteria. Dr. Edwin C.
White of the Brady institute, Johns
Hopkins, hes cultivated a mold, a.
single -celled plant organism, which.
exudes a germ -destroying substance.
that acts on most germs tested.
Dr. Albert Tyler of the California,
Institute of Technology has found a,
rnethod of extracting substances
from the disease germs themselves
that will destroy these germs.
WHAT YOUR WAR SAVINGS
STAMPS CAN ACCOMPLISH:
$10 will stop a tank with one rouncn
of .18 or 25 -pounder shells.
$20 buys a cannonade of four 3.7—
'etch anti-aircraft shells.
'M will provide ' a 600-11:::' bomb to. •
drop over 'Berlin or Berebtesgaden.