The Clinton News Record, 1942-02-26, Page 6PAGE 6'
Buy Pot -Grown Plants
For Garden Bald Spots'
Bare spots in a rock garden give
it a moth-eaten appearance. These
spots often appear when it is too late
to do anything about it unless we
buy pot -grown plants for quick ef-
fect.,This is ,`sometimes a costly
,'proceure, but rock gardeners can
find many quick .temporary fillers
among the large selection of seeds
now being offered.
A rapid grower from seed is the
wall rock cress' (Arabis albida), 1
While it is a rapid grower, it also
possesses many useful qualities.
This one does not need so much re-
straint as some of the other rock
tresses. For growing in a particu-
larly large bare spot, try. Sedum
anglicuni; which is one of the easiest
of all rock plants to grow from
Seeds. Unlike most of the seduins,
it does not grow so rapidly that it
needs to be torn out for chicken
greens.
For a tiny bare spot, the tufted
evening primrose, which grows only
three or four inches high,or the
caespitosa form, is adequate. Both
bear beautiful flowers—white when
they open and tinting towards pink
or rose as the flowers wane.
A survey of the seeds available
willdisclose many African and Cali-
fornian dwarfs. They are .particu-
larly useful in dry and sun parched
areas high up in the rock garden.
Discover Quetzal Bird
One Hundred Years Ago
First white man to see, accurately
• describe a quetzal was Robert Owen
of England. in 1840. Plume -hunters
nearly exterminated the birds,
which are, now protected by the
Guatemalan government. The first
live baby quetzals were taken out
of Guatemala by Explorer Von
Hagen three years ago. Three; all
of which have since died, wbnt' to
the Bronx zoo. Six went to London.
When last heard from two of these
were still living. Chicago also ac-
quired two young quetzals last May.
The adult male quetzal flies slowly
and gracefully, swirling its long tail
plumes to dodge branches. It lives
only in a few damp jungles or rain
forests at altitudes of 5,000 feet or
more, nests in hollow trees perfor-
ated by woodpeckers. Fromthe nests,
which are hard to find, the young
can be taken during the nesting
season. Surprised in their sleep,
adults can occasionally be caught
by hand. Natives also captured live
adults for Von Hagen by stunning
them in the open with slingshots.
If confined after capture, the grown
birds are likely to beat themselves
to death, unless they are givenlAan
injection of sedatives, but they soon
become very tame, eating out of
hands and perching on fingers.
Their favorite delicacy: Avocados.
Real Eyelashes on Bust
The bust of San Diego de Alcala,
on view at the Museum of Modern
Art in New York, as part of the
exhibition of Mexican art, has real
eyelashes and real teeth. Creation
of the bust evidently was not so
much a work of art by the unknown
sculptor, as it was an effort to
make painted wood resemble flesh
and blood as closely as possible.
The Mexican artist who created
this bust was no pioneerin piecing
out portrait busts with human hair
and teeth, as the idea originated in
Spain. It was customary for the
sculptor to save his own or his
friends' eyelashes until he had a set
which were the right size for the
work on hand. Sometimes they
were taken from a dead person, as
eyelashes will stand the test of time
without disintegrating. San Diego,
who lived in the Fifteenth century,
performed heroic work for the sick
during a time of pestilence in Rome.
It was for this work that he was
canonizedin the year 1588 A. D.,
about a hundred years after his
death.:
Necessity of Salt
Salt is essential to the good health
of man. It is an essential and prom-
inent constituent of the blood and
of other fluids of the human body.
Carnivorous animals, eating the
blood as well as the flesh of their
prey, obtain in this way sufficient
salt for their needs; man and the
herbivora take salt in addition to
that normally contained in their
food. Salt performs important func-
tions in the body and from it hydro-
chloric acid of the gastric juice is
formed. It also is chiefly respon-
sible for the normal solvent power
and osmotic pressure of the blood
and other body fluids. It has been
found that the administration of
sodium chloride in some form is
beneficial to workmen who are ex-
posed to conditions of unusually high
temperature and •humidity.
Town ,Sells City Park.
Legend has it that farmers, from
time to time, have been sold the
Brooklyn bridge, the Empire State
buildifrgor a gold brick, but it re-
main d 'for the town of Ada, Okla.,
to pull a prize boner that should be
given top honors. Walter Brooks
bought 10 acres of ground from a
tax resale list, . After buying the
property through a bidding sale, he
went to look at the •property. He
discovered that he had purchased
part of the city park. How the
park property was listed on the tax
rolls was not accounted for, so now
the town is seeking some means of
canceling the sale; giving Brooks
back his money, and the town keep-
ing the park, '"
TIDE CLINTON NEWS•RECORD.
THURS., FEB, 26, 1942;
Siamese Stars Travel. So
Fast Tail Drags .Behind
Not all stars travel alone, like the
sun. Many are paired, the two
members revolving around each
other like the ends of a spinning
dumbbell. Such bright stars as
Capella, Spica, Castor, Mizar (a
Big Dipper star) and Algol (the
"Demon Star") are binaries (dou-
bles). Some stars occur in groups
of more than two. Astronomers es-
timate that one-fourth or more of
all the stars in the sky are doubles
or multiples. Recently astronomers
heard of a pair of stellar Siamese
Sometimes the stars of a binary
are so close together that even the
most powerful telescopes show them
as one. But if their orbits are near-
ly edgewise to earth, then one star
will periodically eclipse the other,
and the light will correspondingly
vary. By timing the eclipses,
astronomers can .tell approximately
how far apart the two stars are.'
A remarkable eclipsing binary is
the star Beta Lyrae, in the constel-
lation of Lyra (The Harp). Astron-
omers have long known that its two
components must • be exceedingly
close together, for one has hardly
stopped eclipsing the other before
the other starts eclipsing• the first.
Dr. Gerard Peter Kuiper of the
University of Chicago's Yerkes ob-
servatory has surmised that the two
stars comprising Beta Lyrae are
in actual contact, like snowballs
crushed together.
At an astronomical meeting at
Wellesley, Mass., Dr, Kuiper pic-
tured star material rushing from
the larger of the Beta Lyrae pair
into the smaller at speeds around
200 miles per second—so fast that
some of it is hurled clear beyond
the small star to form a tail like a
comet's. As the stars revolve the
tail is dragged around behind them,
like a lagging feather.
Declines Boat Vacation;
Misses Slocum Disaster
On June 15; 1904, fire on the ex-
cursion steamer, General Slocum,
took an appalling toll of 1,021 lives.
Sister Claudia, who recently cele-
brated her golden jubilee of re-
ligious life, was that day in charge
of a young girl patient in St. Vin-
cent's hospital, New York. The
girl's parents and relatives, all
members of. the Lutheran church,
Were eager to take her on the ex-
cursion. Sister Claudia was obdu-
rate to all pleading. Her patient,
Janie, would not be permitted to
go because' of the physical strain.
The family and relatives, to the
number of 15, were outspoken in
their disappointment, and declared
that they would stay at home unless
they could take Janie with them. '
They kept their resolve. Later that
day, when New York newspapers
told with screaming headlines the •
horrors of. the General Slocum dis-
aster, one and all rushed to the
hospital to thank Sister Claudia for
her rmness. It was her strength
of character that had saved their
lives.
Recently the New York Sun paid
glowing tribute to this sister's years
of work for the sick. It is a story
of sacrifice and devotion to Catholic
ideals.
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Saleswoman Should Pick Rat
Saleswomen are better judges of
what is stylish, what is proper, and
what is more becoming in the way
of headgear than the average wom-
an herself is, according to an expert
saleswoman in one of New York's
leading stores. If more women
would listen to the advice • of the
salesgirl who is showing her hats,
they wouldn't look so funny in their
freakish hats. The hats Iook funny
because they are set on the wrong
faces, usually, and that is one of
the reasons men make so much fun
of milady's hats. This expert goes
on to say that saleswomen should
guide their customer into the proper
style hat and that a customer should
listen when said saleslady tells her
that is the right hat for her. She
also takes a crack at the plump
patrons who wear slacks, with the
statement that slacks are only for
women with young figures. "But
try and make a woman believe that
she does not look good in slacks,"
she says.
Leprosy Diagnosis
First signs of leprosy are small,
innocent -looking white patches or
nodes on cheeks, nose or ears. Lat-
er the patches may spread to other
parts of body, swell to thick, yellow
ulcers,' After 15 or 20 years the
disease may eat away nerves and
bones. Although leprosy develops
slowly and secretly, a . sharp med-
ical sleuth can easily spot it. For
the leprosy germ is a delicate devil
shaped like a pointed rod, the My-
cobacterium leprae. To confirm a
hunch, a doctor need only serape a
bit of tissue from the lining of the
nose, a nodule or pale patch, stain
it, examine it under the microscope.
What Cameo Is
A cameo is a small sculpture
carved in relief on a stone or gem,
Many substances are used for the
carving, including shell, 'agate,
onyx, coral, mother-of-pearl, sar-
donyx, etc. The material used gen-
erally has layers of different colors,
the figure being cut in relief on one
layer while the contrasting color
serves as a background. Cameos
nave been produced in many dif-
ferent countries since medieval
times.
By Th i
Training Dog Easy Whet:
Confidence Is Gained
All dogs are blessed with natural
intelligence and are not hard to
train. Of course, as in everything
else, the would-be trainer must
start .the right way. This unfor-
tunately is not always done and the
result is that the puppy is thrown to
one side and labeled "brainless,"
Whereas, if a trainer would only
take the trouble first to gain the con-
fidence of a puppy before attempt-
ing any method of teaching, there
would not be so many. so-called
dumbbells.
Gaining the puppy's confidence is
the first and most important step
in the training. The timid and nerv-
ous type requires great care. One
must understand a puppy of this na-
ture much more thoroughly' than
that of the more aggressive' and
fearless type, and a wrong move
during the training of a timid puppy
may result in complete and per-
manent failure. After all, dogs are
very human, more human than
many people will admit. 1f the
trainer would lose sight of the fact
that he is training an animal and
train it more as a child, he would
meet with satisfactory results be-
cause the two methods of training
are more or less identical.
One must first gain the confidence
'of a child if the best results are to
be obtained. Dog training is based
on, this same principle. Of course,
many people lack the necessary
qualifications to become trainers,
such qualifications as proper under-
standing and sympathy. These are
most important , factors. Without
them one would only meet failure
and ruin what might have been a
really high-class trained dog, and
it is not so much what we teach
but the manner in which we teach
it that counts.
Mercury Most Elusive
Planet; Gains on Earth
The planet Mercury is about
36,000,000 miles from the, sun, as
compared with the earth's distance
of 93,000,000 miles. It moves around
the sun four times during one of our
years, and so it gains three laps
on the earth each year. Three
times it swings out to the east of
the sun to be visible in our evening
sky, and three times it swings out
to the west of the sun to be visible
in our morning sky.
Because of its nearness to the sun,
Mercury receives about six times
as much heat as we do. Also it
appears to turn the same face
always toward the sun, in the same
way that the "man in the moon"
keeps his face always -toward the
earth. The result is that the sun-
ward side of Mercury is hot enough
to melt lead, while the part where
eternal night prevails is intensely
cold. These extremes of tempera-
ture combined with its lack of at-
mosphere make it certain that our
kind of life could not exist in this
world.
American Indian Origination
Anthropologists — they are the
men who study man -have estab-
lished "beyond reasonable doubt"
that the American Indian originated
in Siberia, where practically the
same types exist today. He mi-
grated here, 'trickling down through-
out our continent, by way of Alaska,
The time of the Indians' coming
was around 5,000 years ago. How
is he faring today? The once van-
ishing Indian population of the
United States is now over 361,500,
a gain of nearly 100,000 since 1900.
Furthermore, the Indians are
steadily moving toward a wholly
self-supporting existence. And our
red brothers have the proud satis-
faction of knowing that they con-
tributed to our love of the out-of-
doors gave us corn and tomatoes,
potatoes and squash, added to our
store of words, and founded the first
real American art with their fine
handicrafts.
Indian Princess
Pocahontas, the warm-hearted In.
dian princess who saved the life of
Capt. John Smith, was the daughter
of the great Powhatan, head of the
strong Virginia Confederation,
whose rule extended over 40 tribes
from the James to the Potomac
rivers. Captain Smith, a gallant
soldier of fortune, organized the
first English settlement in what is
now the 'United States, at James.
town in 1607. One _ day the daring
captain ventured into the dangerous
Virginia country and was captured
by Powhatan's braves. They were
preparing to "beat out his brains,"
as Smith himself wrote in a third-
person account of the adventure,
when Pocahontas. "the King's dear-
est, daughter . got his head in
her arms and laid her own against
his to save him from death." The
soldier's life was spared and Pow-
hatan and he smoked the pipe of
peace.
Chimney Swift Fastest
The .chimney swift has been
clocked at more than a hundred
miles an hour. Excepting the duck
hawk, he is the swiftest bird that
flies; And the unique thing about
this speedster is that his wings beat
alternately rather than in unison.
He catches his food,bathes and
drinks while on the wing. From the
time he leaves his chimney until be
returns to it, he is never known to
light. It has been estimated that
individuals may cover a thousand
miles in a single day in search of
food.
STAFFORD ROBERTS.
newly appointed Commissioner of the
Ontario Division of the Canadian Red
Cross Society.
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"YOUR HOME STATION"
CKNX
WEEKLY PROGRAM HIGHLIGHTS
920.kcs. WINGHAM` 326 meters
FRIDAY, FEB. 27TH:
8.30 a.m. Studio Roundup
9.15 a.m. • Anne Shelton songs
5.45 p.m, Ozzie Nelson Orth.
6.45 p.m. Your Evening News
SATURDAY, FEB. 28TIi:
9.80' a.m.. Kidzlies' Studio Party
1.80 p.m. CKNX Music Hall
7.00 p.m. Sport Reporter
8:00 p.m. CKNX Barn Dance
SUNDAY, MAR. 1ST:..
12.35 p.nz. Sunday Singers
v 4.15 p.m. CKNX Program Gossip
6.45 Organ Music
MONDAY, MAR. 2ND:
8.00 a.m. CKNX Breakfast Club
3.00 p.m. "Our Family"
4.00 p.m. 'At Home with the Ladies'
10.00 p.m. Victory Loan Program
TUESDAY, MAR. 3BD:
8.25 a.m. Overnight News Summary
3.45 p.m. Gene Autry
6.15- p.m. Parade of Bands)
7.30 p.m. Secret Service Scouts
WEDNESDAY, MAR. 4TH:
'7.30 a.m. Rise and Shine
10.80 a.m. Church of the Air
7.00 p.m. "Ogden's Hoedown"
7.80 p.ni. Laura at the Piano
THURSDAY, MAR. 5TH:.
9.00 a.m .Voice of Memory
12.00 noon "Farm and Home Hour"
7.00 p.m. Salute to Brussels '
9.00 p.m. Old -Time Varieties
Our Fighters s Must
Have More Weapons
--Canadians Must Buy
MORE VICTORY BONDS
• Night and day the war, goes
on. And night and day Ontario's
wheels of industry, powered by
mighty `Hydro', turn -and turn!
On every front, Canadian -made
war weapons are helping to
stem the tide of tyranny.
More than half of Canada's
war output comes from this
Province. Given life by 'Hydro's'
2,000,000 horsepower, thous-
ands of industrial plants work
unceasingly day and night. The
lights over their machines myst
not go out. Their operation must
continue with increasing tempo
to assure an ever greater output
of. Canadian war weaponsfgr
all battle Fronts.
Lack of electrical energy must
never slow production. Every unit
of electricity you save in your
home, office or store will con-
tribute to the all out war effort,
By far the best way to finance
war production is for all of us to
continue to buy Bonds issued by
our Government. Remember,
they are investments, not taxes!'
It must be one .or the other.
Hitler's "new order" takes what
it wants. But we live in a Demo-
cracy. We have a choice. Let
us choose Victory Bonds—to the.
utmost of our ability.
THE HYDRO -ELECTRIC POWER
COMMISSION OF ONTARIO
MAKE YOUR DILLM:S
WHEN ydu buy Victory Bonds you are lending
money to Canada to provide weapons for the men
who are doing the actual fighting.
LET us make possible, by lending our money, wea-
pons that are equal or superior to those of the en-
emy ... "Given equal weapons" said Mr. Churchill,
'we can beat the life out of the enemy !"
OUR fighting' men can. do it! And we at home can
help But only if each of us does our share by
lending our dollars to Canada to the very limit of
our ability. That means that we must buy as many
:Victory Bonds as each of us can—not next month,
next' year, but NOW!
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