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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Clinton News Record, 1942-05-28, Page 7'HUBS., MAY 28, 1942 THE CLINTON NEWS -RECORD HOUSEHOLD ECONOMICS CARE OF CHILDREN .miommarseausos•••••• swage COOKING PAGE 7 Outstandingly Good SQA THIS MODEST CORNER IS DEDICATED TO THE POETS Here They Will Sing You Their Songs—Sometimes, Gay, Sometimes Sad _But Always •helpful and Inspiring. " FARMHOUSE IN WISCONSIN Broad and welcoming white and square ith gay red shutters here and there id a tall brick' chimney climbing high rest against a cloud -fleeced sky— he picture lingers in my mind, cannot tell just why— id yet, on second thought, I seem to know ie reason that the -memory lingers So: t was the farmer's wife, tending beside the gate hat made the picture one to content plate- tardy and strong as her own Swed- ish soil; right yellow hair rushed back from a broad brow; world of wisdom lurking in her eyes; woman .young in years et strangely wise— Awl against a gray ship; Against a bank of flowers I see silver -gilt hair; • Then the ship the little ship moves; Sideways down the slip, To the Ohio river. Then there are banquets, people Mov- ing, People smiling, people talking. The man 'at my side is telling me about Scapa Flow. I see the gray North Sea; I see ships sinking; He is talking of Scotland, and I see the Kilties Moving down Princess Street; I hear the bag -pipes, and I see Cul- loden; I see the high moors of the north countiy. I touch the thoughts of the people, Eating and drinking, I see the gay wives, And I think: "I, too, am gay." I am like someone who pushes, With small and ineffective hands, here was the look of elemental Against the gray side of a ship things That will not move. n her quiet face; look that spoke of frequent con- I look at the Admiral—at a still and querings. patient face -- Greeting 'everyone who is presented;. er husband waved. a friendly, wind- giving each his due; bronzed arm Giving each his rank. om the wide doorway And I think: "Here is one who f their great red barn, knows." ere lay their kingdom; And I see a stormy 'sea and a dark ere, their fertile land; night ,and a convoy on the At - en a stranger, stopping for a while lantic; ould somehow understand ornething of their high hopes and I see an Admiral on his bridge; soaring dreams I see something else: or that new homestead I see a great ship moving, no longer n a friendly land. still; Eleaner G. R. Young. No longer immovable; I see a heart beginning to beat, Faintly, faintly, faintly. I see a country coming to life; I see a world coming to life; I see the forging of a sword. —A Jacqueline Shaw. MASS BLACKOUT hrough the shallow moonlight he spasmodic drill f a siren whistle enetrates the still, hrowing up a mountain o stand off men and men o neither shall be witness o the other then, hen multitudes of street lights the lap of town rop without reluetanee to blackened ground, d wardens like Orion ndi dogs like Sirius n the south sky's margin re watching over us. nd who but moles among us ould bury in the dust, hen heaven's starry banner ows flag -lilac over us. —Elizabeth Jane Astley. HE FORGING OF THE SWORD aunching of a Submarine Chaser) am a leaf blown among the crowds. drop gently, blown this way and that. feel. the thoughts of the people; touch them and; they say different things. • • e marines at the salute; the vete- rans; he local guards; the bands; the workers; CYCLE OF RETURN e gay wives And I, too, am gay. L We who have lovedthe city, look here and there, Tho .arrogant•city— say to myself: "I am gay." The restless, Its superb indifference,', bands Its flashing magic -- ave children in them with soft We have believed in its strength curls; iris playing as if they loved to play; eking their soft and shining hair; nd all the time the photographers low out their magnesium bulbs; nd one thinks: "Asn I in this pie- ture?" What picture is this?" am a leaf blown on these thin winds of war. SHELL IN THE HAND Within this shell held in the open- „ hand, Is heard the sea's long dynasty of sound, The flight of water over shifting sand, The sound of water over marshy ground. Caughtin this narrow hollow in the spume, The spindrift by the reedy creeks where otters Swim by the willows and the kelp is • strewn, Upon the satin of the sleeping waters. Bend down the ear and hear a music wake Curling again in silver and in foam, Hear the sea's- viol when its surges break Across the reefs when the low . tide turns home, To wash along the shingle and leave ' there, Music's immortal imprint on the air .Harold Vinal Ships and lives must be conserved To bring tea from Ceylon and India, to bring coffee from South America, ships must cross oceans infested with submarines. Today those ships and their naval escorts are required for more essential services. Every ship, every foot of cargo space, is needed to carry war materials, and to bring essential goods to Canada. So Canadians must now reduce their consumption of tea and coffee. You must reduce your normal consumption of tea by at least a half. You must reduce your normal consumption of coffee by at least one fourth. These reductions are absolutely necessary. TEA CONSUMPTION MUST BE CUT AT LEAST IN HALF COFFEE CONSUMPTION MUST EE CUT AT LEAST ONE FOURTH THIS IS THE LAW You must not buy more than 2 weeks' supply of tea or coffee for yourself and household in any one week. You must not make further purchases of tea or coffee at any time when you have two weeks' supply on hand at the reduced ration. (Exception: those in areas remote from supply.) • Retailers have the right to limit or refuse customers' orders if they suspect the law is not being kept. Retailers must not have on hand more than one month's supply of tea and coffee, whether packaged or bulk. There are heavy penalties for violations of this law. E• WA$TIMER3,,�5� D; TRADE BOARD GR .k !IUATION ,w.,.M.w.....M.�...,,, By "PEG' ,...r,.,,�,,.,.......... . As we scan the paper day after day University, Hospital Training School just now we see such items as "Gradu- ation Exercises of Hospital, diplomas presented to graduates of e politicians speak as they always. speak. Is this the final answer? he Admiral speaks ' well-chosen The quiet land stretching to the word§: horizon, he heads of the firm speak slowly' The farmhouse in the lee of the 'hill, and with care.Waiting? see a well-known. a beloved profile (' Helen Frith Stickney. Its roar was 'the goading to action. But now, in the days of tumult, The roar is swollen with strange sounds. Filling the city canyons, It reverberates, sullen and matter- ing. Now, people looking back, We remember the long fields under the plow, • or Business College. Then comes the graduation which University etc. Graduation leads us into our life work. Many and varied are the reminiscences of seems to be the order of the day. that 'Articular (day, On previous We look at these young people re graduations we look forward to the calving their roll signifying that they day when we will have acquired the have finished their course and we lmowledge which will start us on our realize that they are academically knowledge life. But when that day comes fitted to accent such positions for we realize that what we know is which their education qualifies them. Our minds travel bac over their lives and we visualize the different stages of graduation through which they and we have passed. As far as we can remember the first stage towards our final gradin ation is when we leave the arms of mother and.as toddlers we appreciate the fact that we are alive. We can recall little things which we have done, and are very anuch surprised when others tell us how we were the torment of the neighborhood. Likely at that period of our lives we were enrolled as Sunday School scholars. Would that there were more of that done at the present clay! "A lecturer recently declared at the outset of his lecture that he re- ceived his moral training at the knee series. 'They have allhadtheir per - of a devout 'mother and across the plexities; all had times which were knee of a determined father." In hard but through the grace of God many hontes today both these proced- they have lived through them and ares have been done away' with might have followed the' vows which they we say with a loss to the child. took many years before. some people retain their age remark- ably well and to the last they are able to get about and attend to their duties. For others sickness is their lot and they must go on from day to day, at times feeling that they are a burden even to those who love them and who would do anything for them. But to all of us there comes the final graduation, that day when we leave everything but our unforgiven sins behind us and set sail to yonder shore. There are many who long for that day, but just as earthly gradu- ation days cannot be fixed to suit each student, so we step up for our diploma one by one as •ouru life work here is ended. We can in our mind see our Sav- iour and our loved ones waiting for us there and can anticipate the joy which will await us. Can we allow, even for an instant, any ether picture to• came into our mind? Christ has promised us than reunion' upon our graduation from earth. He has given us a course of study here to fit us for that glorious time. It is true our frail craft has tossed through the billows. Many times we thought we would go down nothing in comparison with what is to be known. We have made friends with whom we must part. Altogeth- er there is a sadness about the long looked for hour which we clad not expect. Then, very often, we graduate into married life and begin to buikl•up a home for the future generation. We live peacefully ,or otherwise through the years as they come and ga. To but Ho has always been near at hand some young couples those solemn to say "P:eace," and peace has been words in the marriage ceremony "till our lot. These things have happen - death do us Part" :leans so little. ed time and time again. - There have How soon in some instances the been occasions when we thought we counts are implored to 'break the vow could not ride above the stormy sea, which was made to God. It is a but in a short time the tempestuous pleasure indeed to read in our papers waves have calmed down and again where couples are celebrating their we have been sailing through peace - golden and diamond wedding miniver' ful waters. Later on we are told that when school opens we will start in the new class. We have seen the older child- ren going to the big building with its many windows, but when the time comes for us to go we would rather stay home and play. The period' of full time play has passed. So on the opening day Mother or Daddy takes us and introduces us to the teacher who in all probability will have a great deal to do with the formation of our character. We look back with varied thoughts on that day. Following graduation our young men and young women go into the line of business whichthey have "Heavens is not reached at a single chosen. In 'some form or ether they take as their motto, "I will lead my bound; ladder bywhich we life in purity and practise my pro- But we build the rise From the lowly earth to the vaulted skies, And we mount to its summit round by round. God is always ready to help us but we must accept Him as our Saviour and Helper, and, then we will be free to ask his aid through troublous times and when our Graduation Day into the Eternal Ages comes 'He will be there to hand us our scroll into the Realm Beyond.. fession faithfully." If we were all to follow the Florence Nightingale pledge of which those words are a part there would be a much greater unity in our business relations with one another, there would be less dis- honesty and deception. Then on we go and we graduate About the only time our work is from middle life into the age when taken seriously is when with fear and we retire from business and when we trembling we carry our report home begin to feel that we have reached the to be signed and we find, that out top of the hill and are starting on idea of good behaviour does not come the downward trail, we are on the up to the standard of our parents. slope of the hill which is being touch. The stage of our public school' edu= ed by the western sun; our strength tion passes on and we enter the is waning and we donot think per- i Cone late then on to hsps as clearly as we used to do. "PEG" v WHAT YOUR WAR SAVINGS STAMPS CAN ACCOMPLISH $10 will stop a tanx•witn one round of .1.1i.,gr,,25-pounder- shells. $20 buys;. a. cannonade of four 4.7-: inch anti-aircraft shells. +76 .will provide. a 600 lb bomb to drop .over Berlin or Berohtesgaden. HEALTH Since sugar rationing was first introduced, the plcpERsoN shipping situation has become more serious. The danger to ships and lives has increased. Consequently it has now become necessary to reduce the sugar ration from 3/4 ib. to 1/2 lb. per week. per person. Only persons in areas remote from sourceof supply are permitted to have more than two weeks' supply on hand at any time. • SUGAR FOR PRESERVING WEEK Special provision is made for additional quantities of sugar for home . preserving and canning. In addition to your ration, you may purchase 4i lb. of sugar for every pound of fruit that you preserve or can, and 3/4 Ib. of sugar for every pound of fruit made into jam or jelly. Every person who buys sugar for can- ning or preserving is required to keep an accurate record of the sugar purchased for this purpose. If any sugar remains after canning and preserving, it shall form part of the regular ration of Y2 lb. per person per week. Loyal Canadians will be glad of this new opportunity to do their part to ensure Victory. THE WARTIME PRICES AND TRADE BOARD sus MAW BEFORE YOU NE SO mum CiheSNAPSNOT GUILD PICTURING PETS 1 A LMOST everyone has a pet, and " nearly every pet makes an ex- cellent- camera subject—if properly handled. Picturing pets does offer a few problems—for most amateur photographers find it difficult to get the pet to pose, er to get sharp fo- cus of a subject that's always on the move. To pursue our pet with the cam- era would be a great mistake. The dog or cat naturally becomes ex- cited and runs away, making it im- possible to get any pictures. There are several simple remedies—either gently restrict; the pet's freedom of movement, pick your spot and tempt him there with a bait of some sort, or select a moment when he is quiet, then avoid any action that may disturb or excite him. Restriction of movement doesn't mean tying the pet to the nearest tree. And it's true that excellent pic- tures can be taken when someone is holding a cat in his or her lap, or shaking hands with a dog—these things providing enough restraint to make the subject "stay put." But there are other methods. For ex- ample, wait until your dog is in his kennel; post yourself outside with the camera ready for action. Then whistle or make some other sound that will bring him to the door. When he glances inquisitively from the doorway --snap the shutter. Today's illustration 'was made in much this same manner. SkippY- leading the usual dog's life—was resting comfortably on the front seat of the car. The camera was carefully focused on the door, and at the call of "Here' Skippy," he jumped up to the window sill, and this appealing picture was snapped. When you use bait -a saucer of milk for the cat or a bone for the dog- the swine predocusing tech- nique, can be used. Or an assistant can be of help, tempting the pet to the desired spot with some choice. tidbit. When the dog or cat gets in a good position,the'asslstant quick- ly steps aside while the photograph- er makes the picture.. !f' rods, pet' lits learned some. By setting the camera in advance— then calling the dog -this interest- Inc] nterestIng snapshot was made. Pet pic- tures are easily taken, and they add their full share of interest and • variety to your album. snaps depicting each of th ese stunts. Perhaps he has been taught to sit up, roll over, or "speak" be- fore receiving a morsel of candy. Snapshots of these tricks, mounted in your albumacross the page, will add interest and variety to your col- lection. You can take pet pictures with any camera. If you follow the hints mentioned, the subject will assume a natural pose and there will be no movement to stop. Of course, your dog displays considerable live- liness when rolling over, you will have to use a shutter speed: of 1/100 second or faster.,,, Don't overlook the canary, the parrot, love birds, rabbith, and many other pets. ,; found- In 'hey' all make interesting andsp- pealing pictures and will be eicel• lent additions to your album., tlew.ar��6lMasiswaat G