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The Clinton News Record, 1942-06-25, Page 6PAGE 6 THE CLINTON NEWS -RECORD • You might :be thenext victim of fire -lire that can quickly destroy your home, your - business, yourpro- perty, your whole life's work. Let Pilot •Insurance 'accept the risk -ready and quick to pay any just claim. The cost is very low. We write Pilot Insurance to cover selected risks :in Automobile, Fire, Burglary, Plate Glass, Pub- lic Liability and other :. general insurance. J. W. CRAIGIE, Goderich GEO. G. MacEWAN, Goderich. Representing PILOT INSURANCE COMPANY Unemployment Insurance Commission People who come to an -employment and Claims Office of the "Unemploy- ment Insurance Commission to claim benefit will not be forced to accept unsuitable work. This was stated definitely today by Mr. R. N. Watt Manager of the. Local Employment and Claims Office who said that some misunderstanding ex- isted' on this point. The Unemploy- ment Insurance Aot, said Mr. Watt set forth clearly certain disqualifications for benefit. In no case, however, was it stated or implied that a man must take any job offered no mat- ter how unsuitable, or unsatisfactory the wages. The Unemployment Insurance Act states that an applicant for benefit is disqualified if it is proved that he has refused' to accept a situation which is suitable and which has been drawn to his attention by an Em- ployment Office or other recognized agency. Similarly, he is disqualified if he neglects• to avail himself of an opportunity of suitable employment of which he is aware. Again he is disqualified if, withont good !cause, he refuses or failsi to carry out any writ- ten direction given to him by an Of- ficer of the Employment Office with a view to assisting him to find suitable employment. These directions must have been reasonable having regarxi both to the circumstances of the claimant and to the means of obtain- ing that employment usually adopted in the district in which he or she lived. It will be observed, said Mr. Watt that in all these disqualifications it is expressly stated that the employment must be suitable. There is no desire ..- on the part of the Unemployment in- surance Comrnission to try to force people into vacancies which they are not suited to at wages which are 'con- siderably below those which they are accustomed to earning. Consequently if claimants are reluctant to visit the Employment and Claims Offices in I order to register their claims for benefits on the ground that they may be treated unfairly, they need delay no longer. v IN TRIBUTE TO THE RAINBOW BRIDGE The splendor of Niagara Falls is quite enough alone, But Nature added yet a touch of mag- ic, on her own, As though to make the scene com- plete, we mortals to enthrall, Atop the torrent of the Falls, a rain- • bow tops it all. The Architect of Nature built this spectacle supreme. A symbol grand, of hope and faith, . a multi -colored dream, But, Man, with slightly cruder brush, has done his• best today, And built the wondrous Rainbow I Bridge, above Niagara's spray. This mighty arch. a common bond, in haughty courage stands, And nurtures contacts close and strong, between our troubled lands, Though waters separates our shores, this steel is yet a sign, That we have still another link with these "across the line." —Trixie Harris, 1063 St. Lawrence Avenue. SFA d" NE QUARTER j'7e ROUND TRIP tqt GOOD going all day Tuesday, June 30th, until 2.00 p.m. Wednesday, July 1st, 1942. RETURN t Leave destination not later than midnight Thursday, July 2nd, 1942. For fares and further information apply to your nearest Ticket Agent „ CANADIAN NATr®.;NAL Change in Officers ALEX C. MORRIS FRANK C. WEST Alex. C. Morris, whose appointmentas vice-president' andeneral• manager of Canadian;: Oil. companies, Ltd., has just been announced,. succeeds Frank C. West to these posts. Mr. West, director of the`, company since,1918, retires because of continual ill health. Old Temple Bells Melted • By Japs' Metal 'Harvest' Old temple bells, mellow with the years, are a symbol of the Japan which is being' devoured by ever - hungry war gods. More than four years of the China campaign, plus the United States embargo on scrap, have left the empire in dire need of a melting pot for copper and brass and iron. The great' foundries, of Japan were fashioned to handle scrap, not raw Ore, and months would be need- ed to make the change. Pig iron and scrap melt down into materials' of war.. when mingled in the proper proportion, but alone they take a different sort of furnace. Japanese leaders asked:. the peo- ple literally to dig mines in the streets. Brass was needed, too, so the temples are being stripped of their treasures, including the bells— silencing their sweet yet melan-�' choly tolling of sunrise and sunset and of the hours. For months, iron manhble covers have been missing in the streets around the sprawling Imperial hotel, with woes/ or concrete sub- stitutes in their place. Now more will go, for this mobilization of metal is all-inclusive. .Ashtrays and broken stoves . I picket fences and iron gates, rusty old stovepipe . . discarded tools . hinges from doors . . . and even the treasured old cannon which dot the Tokyo parks. Men with quick, eager eyes are going through the empire's ware- houses with typical oriental thor- oughness, looking for rusty type. writers and old buckets or perhaps. a discarded filing case, while out; through the countryside others are ripping the metal caps frolci tele- phone and telegraph poles. a. Device to Aid Accuracy Of Guns on Battleships. Development of a device to in-. crease the firing accuracy of battle -1 ships by holding them on even keel in rough seas was revealed at the' University of Pennsylvania. The device is a high-speed ro-i bot -action stabilizer, said Dr. Nicho- las Minorsky, civilian attache of the' navy. The navy is already using it, he. hinted in an address before the ap- plied mechanics division of the American Society of Mechanical Engirfeers meeting on the campus. Explaining the mechanism, Dr. Minorsky said he invented a stabil- izer after the World war which con- sisted of two huge tanks at either side of a ship. Liquid was sent automatically from one tank to the other to offset the 'rolling of the ship. But the liquid didn't move fast enough, and, contrary to its purpose, aggravated the roll, he said. A method to speed the action of the liquid is the secret of the new stabilizer, he said. Robert Louis Stevenson Robert Louis Stevenson, essayist, novelist and poet, was born in Edin- and died in Samoa on December 4, 1894. His entire life was a battle against disease and illness, but he triumphed over pain to write some of the world's best known literature. Educated in engineering and law, he turned definitely to literature in 1878, many of his books recording scenes and events encountered in his ceaseless search for health. He traveled in Europe, America, the South Seas and finally settled in Samoa in 1890. Best known of his works, which in collected form fill 28 volumes, include "Treasure Island," "The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde," "Kidnaped," "The Black Arrow," "The Master of Ballantrae," and "Weir of Her- miston." Mushrooms in Siberia e Produce Alcoholic Kick The urge to drink seems to be universal and Mother Nature sees to it that, in almost every part of the world, there issome growing thing from which "hooch" can be made. On many, a tropical isle thena- tives use the fermented sap of the palm • tree for primitive cocktail parties that have knocked many . a hard-boiled seadog on his ear. Ev- ery African tribe has at least one' secret recipe by which it distills potent "booze"- from roots and leaves. But of all the queer sources'. of alcohol there is none more unusual or surprising than a pretty mush- room which grows on the peninsula of Kamchatka in eastern Siberia. This fungus, which the botanists list as the "Amanita muscaria"—and which the Siberian tribesmen who get wildly drunk on it call the "Mukhomor" — has an incredible kick in it. It doesn't matter wheth- er the mushroom is eaten fresh or whether it is dried. It takes only horror to provide a big binge—and a hangover which is hard to take. The chief users of this queer brand of liquor seem to be the Ko- riaks, who live on the bleak shores of the Penzhinsk gulf. They spend a good deal of their time cultivat- ing the mushroom and drying it against the long winter months dur- ing which they forego gainful labor in order to get, and stay, cock- eyed. Some of the tribesmen roll the dried stuff into pills which they swallow without chewing—but their favorite drink is •concocted by mashing up a good-sized Mukhomor in a cupful of juice which they make from an herb and a species of blue- berry. Nebula Speeding Toward Earth at 338,000 M. P. H. Out in space a nebula is speeding toward the earth at the rate of 338,- 000 38;000 miles an hour. But no collision or astronomical catastrophe is expected. So Dr. Paul W. Merrill, Mt. Wil- son, Calif., observatory astronomer, said in a report to the Astronomical Society for the Pacific. The nebula was first detected on a photographic plate with one of the smaller telescopes at Mt. Wilson. William C. Miller, assistant to Dr. Merrill, made the photograph of the footloose nebula, Resembling a faint star, the nebu- la is said to be a rare "island uni- verse." It is estimated to be 10,000 light years from the earth. A light year equals six million million miles. From a photographic analysis of the light from the nebula, in studies made with the use of the 60 -inch and 100 -inch reflecting telescopes at Mt. Wilson, it was determined that hydrogen, oxygen and helium are present on the nebula. Dr. Merrill said the nebula actu- ally "is of extraordinary brightness and may well be several thousand times larger than our whole solar system." burgh, Scotland, November 13, 1850,1 • See Same Moon Always Scroll, Rug Design The scroll is an outstanding unit in many of the old hooked rug de- signs: It, too, is part of the Amer- ican tradition. You see it in pat- terns created in rural New England, New York, Pennsylvania, and the South. It was used extensively by New Hampshire rugmakers of the 1840s, when American sailing ves- sels carried the "FIag of Stars" into every seaport of the known world. The carvers from the shipyards often wandered inland, as journey- men cabinetmakers. It is not wholly imagination that tells us they contributed to local rug design- ing; a certain New Hampshire man recalls that his grandfather who was a ship's carpenter, always add- ed to each of his wife's rug patterns the sketch of a special scroll he had created for the skipper's cabin. Finally Selects a Name After using 17 different names in various parts of the country over a period of six years, Martin War- chafsky, 24, Los Angeles, has final- ly settled on one that suits him, and in a petition on file in the su- perior court he asked to, 'have the name legalized. The name finally selected was "Rogers Copernicus Christopher G. heck II." It was _explained in the petition that Warchafsky greatly admired Will Rogers, Copernicus, and Christopher Columbus and Wanted to adopt their names. The initial "0" is for ,"Grubstake," a name he stated he , need at times and by which he 9s known to some.),, Re, intends to use as a signa_tu're, "Rogers. C. C. Bock II," he stated.:: The moon, the earth's only satel- lite, revolves around the earth from west to east at an average distance of 238,862 miles in a period of about 27.3 days. Its period from full moon to full moon, or the ordinary month, is about 29.5 days. The moon turns on its axis in' the same period of time it requires to revolve once around the earth, which explains why the same side of the moon is always visible to the observer. As the moon moves around the earth, it rotates just enough to keep the same side toward the earth at all times. Ac- cordingly, part of the surface of the moon is never visible from the earth. The visible part consists of about three-fifths of the total sur- face. This is due to the fact that the rotation of the moon on its axis is not uniform, that is, it wob- bles slightly, disclosing both of its poles at different times and making more than a ' hemisphere visible from the earth. Whigs, Tories In America before the RevoIutinn there were political divisions known as Whigs and Tories, but no formal party organization. During Colonial period the Whigs were those who sought to vest greater authority in the Colonial assemblies, while Tories supported the Crown. Names were taken from two chief political parties in Great Britain, where Tory finally became Conservative party and Whig the Liberal. Dur- ing American ` Revolution, the To- ries came to be known as Loyalists and the Whigs as Patriots, although all four terms apparently remained in use. • War Disrupts Long Letters The European war has forced a halt in the three-year letter writing marathon' between a Columbus sta- tionary fireman ta-tionaryfireman and an English lino type operator. The postponement was taken at a point where the Columbus man, C. E. Webb, admitted that his British competitor was far ahead after hav- ing written a 151 -page letter in rely to a 100 -page manuscript Webb has authored. However, the .Columbus man is not going to call it quits. He has 180 pages of What will be a 200 -page, letter completed, and will- mail it when the war, is ended THURS., JUNE 25111942 Ant Lion Solves Food Problem by. Digging Pit When someone speaks of an "ant lion," we may think of an insect in the shape of an ant.: The fact is !that the full-grown insect looks far more like a dragonfly than like an ant. The ant lion is nearly the same size' as a dragonfly, but it does not yold'its wings straight out when it alights. It folds the wings length- wise over the body. The female lays eggs aboutthe ground, usually only one in each Spot: ' From an egg comes a larva which grows to a length of about half an inch. It is the larva which has earned the name of "ant lion." The larva has no wings, but it has half a dozen legs which can be Used for walking. It isn't very good at walking in a forward direction; more often it walks backward. Food is a problem of the larva,, and it has a clever way of obtaining' It. Digging a small, funnel -shaped pit, it makes a trap for ants. •- The ant lion hides itself in a hole at -the bottom of the pit, with only its head in sight. Then along come ants which tumble in. When they reach the bottom, they are seized and partly eaten. Thanks to such food, the ant lion grows to a point where it is ready for the next step Ili its life. Then it spins a silken cocoon, forming a small round ball. The cocoon stage lasts two or three weeks. At the end, it comes I forth as an insect with four wings.I A full-grown adult has a body about an inch long. It files about in the twilight, perhaps having no memory of the time it was a 1pri'a in a pit, waiting for ants to fall down. • Right Type of Spring . Needed for 'Sweet Steep' "Sweet sleep" is not only a mat- ter of a good mattress, but of hav- ing the right type of spring for that particular mattress. First, of course, there is the fa- miliar box -spring, which consists of a wooden frame into which the metal springs are securely anchored and over which there is first an entire layer of padding, the whole surface covered with ticking, generally in a damask or other ornamental type of weave, and in attractive colors. Once expensive, the box -spring is now within reach of most moderate budgets; in combination with the in- nerspring mattress to which it is supremely fitted, it makes a hand- some sleeping equipment which is insect -proof, easy to brush and keep clean, and which permits a bed to be made up in a firm, imposing mode. Second, there is the coil spring set in a metal frame. One should ask for "double -deck coils" because the former are longer and more resil- ient, and h1ence more comfortable. Third, there is what is known as the open -coil spring: these are soft and flexible and are made to be used with a pad or solid type mattress, and should never be used at all with any innerspring mattress because they are too soft and yielding. When you are changing your beds around, never place an innerspring mattress on top of an open coil spring, as this combination does not work but will give a sliding, slithery effect to the bed as a whole, and induce rest- less sleep. Prettier Potato The military genius which devel- oped the "jeep" automobile, the long-range bombardment airplane and the Garand rifle have intro- duced the 1941 model dehydrated po- tato. The war department s recent months i foods. "Take the w en the subject.' the army quart search laborato for the ordinary reported that much progress had been made in n condensing various hire potato, for ex- ample," said a department report "Extensive research in Chicago by experts attached to ermaster corps' re- rY has done wonders spud. "This year's dehydrated potato has about the same taste and food value as the 1940 model but, ac- cording to experts, it has a better color when mashed." One -Minute Stretch Got a minute to relax before you go out tonight? Then try this sim- ple routine advocated by screen star Lucille Ball. Lie fiat on the floor without a pillow. Extend arms back over head, fingers touching floor. Now stretch. Then slowly raise arms, stretching like mad, moving them forward and down until they are at your sides. Then stretch hands down toward toes, pulling your head slightly for- ward and off the floor. Stretch those neck muscles. Now relax and lie absolutely still a few minutes. Add a cool shower and you'll feel a new woman. .1 Eminent Domain The federal government may ac- quire land owned by individuals by simple purchase, by gift or by emi- nent domain. Under the Constitution the fed- eral government has the right to take private property 'for public uses without the consent of the own- er, provided just compensation is I given: Eminent domain isbased on the principle le that • an individual's r P i. p� vete interest should' not be permit. ted to stand hi the way of the corm• munity interest. Only Ventriloquist Hawk .b Known Finally Killed The New Brunswick partridge family should issue at least a vote of thanks to Ben Geroux; a guide, for he has just succeeded in shoot- ing Old Turk, perhaps the only ven- triloquist hawk known in bird an- • nals. For at least 10 years this cagey fish hawk has feasted on the fat of the land, notably tender young chicken partridges, wholly because of its strange powers of imitating the genuine mother bird. The mother partridge is a smart bird. If she hears 'a human voice she cries out a warning to her brood, starting them helter-skelter- for the underbrush while she runs in the opposite direction. If she is seen she will even drag a wing along the ground, as if it were bro- ken, so if a human happens to be a hunter he will follow her. Any- thing to lead danger in any direction, save that taken by her young. When the coast is clear again she has another peculiar call that means "0. K. Come on out." The chicks understand and soon scamper out from cover. Old Turk could imitate the mother partridge perfectly. If a • partridge saw him and gave the warning cry his meal was as good as served. All he did was fly close to the scene and after waitinga few min -1 he would give the "coast is clear" cry so exactly like the real mother that the youngsters would come on the run notwithstanding that the mother bird, wild with fear, would try to warn her chicks again. But it Would generally be too late for Old Turk would swoop down and get one or two of them before they could hide again. yr Kneehole Desk Allows Room for Sitter's Knee The kneehole desk .is one of the most beautiful pieces that has come down to us from the Seventeenth century. It is so called because it is built with an opening in the cen- ter, between the two banks of draw- ers, to make room for the sitter's knees. The desk is made of mahogany and is rather highly styled. The carved moulding, the willow pull and the bracket foot are typical of the best pieces of this type. Other kneehole desks, particularly those made in maple, cherrywood or pine, are more simple. Some of them do not have an opening all the way through, but have a panel in the back, closing one side. j The kneehole desk produced in America during the Eighteenth cen- tury is conceded to be one of the best pieces developed in this country and while it usually features the bracket foot, carved or plain, many of them had cabriole feet, while others had a closed base which rest- ed"on the floor. Reproductions of the kneehole desk are available at moderate prices today and lend an interesting note to the well -furnished room. Some are finished both front and back so that they can be placed in the center of a room; others, which are put against the wall, are not finished in the back. The kneehole desk with a mirror over it is very often used in the bedroom as a Vanity. Permanents How many permanents should one have a year? This depends upon several factors—chiefly on how you Wear your hair. If it's short, possibly shingled in back, three or even four. a year will be needed if you want a completely waved head. (Hair grows at the rate of one-half inch a month, and since the wave is never closer than one-half inch from the scalp, the end of three or four months will find you With about two inches of straight hair.) Long hair or long bobs require only two or three per- manents a year. Two may be suf- ficient with a few curls picked up at the neckline and around the face. All of this, of course, refers to per- fectly straight hair, without any natural wave. With even a mild natural waviness, the new growth has at least some body, and the need for more curling is not so urgent. Not Ladies Like many other things, the lady- bird is so named as to conceal, rather than reveal, its identity. It is a beetle (not a bug). This very small insect is often seen in gar- dens, and is one of the best friends of the farmer. There are charac- teristic black spots on its wings, and the insect is usually red or yellow in color. They are some- times called "ladybugs." So great is the affection of gardeners for this insect that in various countries it is called "Little Animal of Our Lord" (Holland), "Lucia" (Italy), "St. Michael's chicken." Ladybirds feed on many other harmful insects and thus save gardeners much damage. Anvil Awaits Peace Blacksmiths at Fittlesworth, Eng- land, are hoping soon to revive a 400 -year-old custom started at the time of the Spanish armada, that of firing the anvil to announce the end of a war. The custom is be- lieved to have originated at this smithy when blacksmiths signaled. Drake's victory. The report can be heard 10 miles away, and the end of every war since the defeat of the armada has been sionr,loti' la this way.. Ukraine 'Breadbasket of Europe; Rich Minerals: "Tickle, Burma with a hoe, and she .will laugh with a harvest " The same thing; might be said of the Ukraine. In its fine, black soil,., ' :crops grow quickly and well. Mil. lions' of tons of wheat, barley and, other grains are harvested each. year—so much that this region has- been called "the breadbasket of Eu- rope." Besides the grain, there are large- crops of other kinds. In a recent year the Russian Ukraine produced, 8,000,000 tons of potatoes and 7,000,- 000 tons of sugar beets. Before the present warfare start- ed, the Russian Ukraine had more- than 8,000,000 cattle, 7,500,000 swine and 3,000,000 sheep and goats. How many of these animals have been, slain or driven away the past she. weeks, it is hard to say. -The rich soil of the Ukraine is: not the only thing that makes it a prize for a foreign invader. It also. is a center of mineral wealth. Coal, iron and manganese are obtained from mines in many parts of the region. Coal is one of the main things a nation needs when it has factories. to run: In the past 22 years, the. Russians have made big efforts in. this line, and they could not have. succeeded to such an extent without the coal of the Ukraine. The amount mined each year runs from 60,000,- 000 to 75,000,000 tons, or more than. half of all the output of Russia. Iron ore is another important need, of factories, and in this the Ukraine also ranks high. It supplies about three-fifths of Russia's' iron ore. Government Suggests Way to Conserve Hosiery Harriet Elliott, associate admin- istrator in charge of the consumer division of the Office of Price Ad-. ministration and Civilian Supply, says: "Consumers should conserve their- own heirown supply of silk by taking good care of the hosiery they now have• to make it last as long as possible."' How long can you wear your silk stockings? Longer, we bet, if you FAITHFULLY follow the old rules. which you have long since grown,. careless about. 1. Wash stockings every day— immediately after taking them off. 2. Use lukewarm neutral soap- suds. Don't rub. Press gently to• force soap through the fabric. Squeeze, don't wring. 3. Dry in shade. Sunlight and, heat deterioriate silk. 4. Take care of runs immediate- ly. Run preventative or colorless, polish carried in your bag is a good precaution. Be careful of rough fingernails when you put stocking on. Never shove your foot in from. the top of the stock and pull fold stocking down on foot and pull' on gently. Furthermore—it is pointed out by Miss Elliott that women who stock up heavily on silk hose are taking unfair advantage of the majority who do not have the income to buy in quantity. Since the amount of' silk available for hosiery manufac- ture will be limited, these large pur- chases are a selfish raid upon the - nation's supply. Tooth Care Scientific progress of modern civi- lization has backfired in the case of teeth. We lose them faster than did our - grandparents. So Dr. Ralph L. Christy, an ex- pert on dentures from Denver, Colo., declared recently in Los Angeles,. where the Southern California State. Dental association was in session. It was the contention of Dr. Chris ty that the reason a great many per- sons have mouthfuls of false clack- ers is due to the so-called bettering! of living conditions, He said that processed and re- fined foods, soft and palatable, have. made the teeth think they were not; needed, hence they have been falling; out. Dr. Christy suggested a remedy in the form of exercise, such as. chewing on something tough like a: bone or a gristle—or perhaps a, bride's biscuit. Jumbo Generator Old Jumbo Generator, in originals Edison Pearl Street plant, New, York, developed 75 kw. per hour. Plant had eight generators. Pres- sure on boiler tubes then was about 120 pounds to the square inch; tem- perature of steam about 345 de- grees, One modern turbu-genera- tor, serving same city, produces. 160,000 kw,, or four times energy needed to light and run New York's; World's fair. Higher efficiency of- present-day fpresent-day boilers and generators, (in part due to new and better steels) delivers a kw. of energy on. nine -tenths of a pound of coal; old- timers ate up four pounds to the kw. Shintoism The Shinto faith belongs to Japan and although - it may have been much modified by the teaching of' Buddha it remains still the religion, of the,people. It is the simplest of faiths. Shinto, means God's "Way" and to the founders of the sect, "God's Way" must have been a way of pleasant- ness and peace. Shintoism pos- sesses'neither sacred books nor a code of ethics. Shintoism is composed mainly of two elements without moral teach-, ing — ancestor worship�agd the, adoration of Nature.