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JUDGfgENT IN .EXPOSURE
With the generally clerk tone of the suit, the dark background and the
lack of briiliant sunshine,^this picture would require a slightly longer
than average exposure.
'f 7E}AES ago, whea photography hand, are usually very light in color.
1 was young, people began to look For ihstanoe a white sailboat with
for ways and means of taking the clean white sails, or a pretty blonde
guesswork out of exposure. Today girl in a light dress, would both
because of improved film latitude, qualify as truly "bright" subjects,
and handy inexpensive exposure But surroundings must also be con -
guides, that hope is almost a rear- sidered—so beach and snow scenes
ity; there is no longer any excuse are classed as bright subjects be -
for improperly exposed pictures. cause they reflect so much sun -
However, incorrect exposure is light
still one of the most common faults Finally, there are the "dark" sub -
of amateur photographers, and the Sects--snoh as woodland scenes, and
' main reason is that too many people pictures made of people while they
give the same exposure for every stand in the shade of a house or
sdapshot—no matter what the sub- tree.
Sect. That is basically wrong, be- What it all comes down to is
cause really bright subjects need this. There are three major types
less exposure than the average, of subject matter ... shaded (dark)
while shaded or dark subjects re- . average ... and bright, Give
quire more than average exposure. shorter than normal exposure for
The vast majority of subjects, of bright subjects; use normal ex -
course, come under the "average" posure in picturing average sub-
classification because they do not Sects; and longer than normal ex -
contain a tremendous amount of posures tor shaded subjects—and
either very dark or very light col- you'll be well on your way toward
ors. improving the quality of your snap -
"Bright" subjects, on the other shots. 409 John, van Guilder
PRICE BOARD FACTS
purchase to the nearest office of the
Your questions will be answered by Prices Board.
the Women's Regional Advisory Com- Q, -How much should I charge a
mitte to the Consumer Branch, War-
time Prices and Trade Board and teacher who is corning to our house
should be sent to 291 Dundas street, to board?
London,
Q. Can a merchant charge me 'in-
terest on furniture I boughton my veiling inyour locality for similar
charge account? accommodation,
A. No. Not unless it is past the Q. Has the price of skim milk and
end of the month following that in buttermilk been reduced, If so, how
which you made the purchase. much?
Q. I bought a pair of second hand A. According to the new milk re -
white ice skates for my little girl gulation, the price of skim milk, but -
and discovered I had paid more than termilk and standard milk must be
a similar new pair would cost. .Is
there no ceiling on used goods?
A. Used goods must not sell for
More than similar new goods. Would
you please report the details of your
A. The board you charge should
be in linewith rates .generally pre-
Scurvy Counteracted by Georgetown Retaining Direction of Winds Fine
Rationing Lemon Juice ' Name Despite Progress Way to Forecast Weather
Scurvy, a disease caused' by lack It may be that in time George- Worried about' the weather? Want
'town, 11 C., will be forgotten as a to know whether to apply that spray
of vitamin C, has long been xecog-
nized., once separate part of Washington. or whether to go on that picnic to
"It was a scourge to those who And the time may also even come morrow? Here's a way to make
traveled long distances by boat un- when the little stone house in the your own New York state local fore
til quite modern times. Many sail- 3000 block of M street will not be casts, from Prof. R. A. Mordoff,
ors and passengers on long voyages called the headquarters of George teacher of meteorology`at the New
before the 19th century died of this Washington. But it is most likely York state college of agriculture. It,
disease before they reached their that the territory which lies to the may help since daily weather maps
west of the lower part of Rock creek or detailed forecasts from U. ` S.
journey's end.
in 1 04 the regular issue of a wilkal r na be referred to by its old weather bureaus are no longer avail -
"But
familiar name of `Georgetown. able ' because of wartime recau
ration of lemon juice was made 1?
compulsory in the British navy and The selection of the present site tions.
of Washington was not
thereafter scurvy was a compare- particularly First; get a barometer, which in-
helpfultively rare disease among British Claett toGeorgetown,
in the Washington
writes John theabarometer tes sreading in air prises,r it in
-
Star. Star. Nor did the corrin of the
"However, before vitamin C was g dicates a high-pressure area is com-
isolated, the whole concept°of some railroad operate in favor of the ing, which means fair weather. A
Chesapeake & Ohio canal, once 'a falling barometer, on the other
diseases being due to the lack of principal source of revenue for the hand, generally means storm condi
certain so-called accessory factors old town. For these and other rea- tions.:
had to be recognized by scientists sons Georgetown lost its grip. But ' A southeast wind and falifng pies=
and much experimental work on ani- it began to stage a comeback about sure usually brings either rain or
mals performed. It was found that 30 years ago, and today many of its snow depending on the temperature.
the guinea pig suffered from `scurvy old mansions which had once passed A northwesterly wind and rising
and was a suitable experimental an- :unnoticed are regarded highly and pressure indicates an area of high
inial for these studies," says Cherni- now seem to be much sogght after pressure to the northwest. This will
cal and Engineering News. • l y prominent persons in guest of normally produce fair weather with
"Using this animal as an indicator fine old homes. _lower temperatures.
of activity it was possible by vari- Among these might be cited the If the northwest wind is. blowing
oils methods of fractionation and purchase some years .ago of the and the pressure falling, a cold
separation to isolate crystalline vita- Robinson house, on R street just drizzly rain may be expected.
min C." west of Wisconsin avenue, by Alex-
ander C. Kirk of the diplomatic a southwest wind is blowing, a "high".
corps, who not only bought thisold is generally advancing and will pass
Even Japanese Beetle house and the ground surrounding to the south. These conditions in -
it but must have spent a large sum dicate fair weather with moderate
Threatens an Invasion in modernizing it and adding to it temperatures.
As if we weren't having enough to such an extent that it now has "These general suggestions are
trouble with his human counterpart, no semblance of the old home built not infallible but they enable aper -
the Japanese beetle threatens a ma- by Col. William Robinson about 1830, son to forecast the coming weather
jor "invasion" of the East coast, ac- the year 'he went to Georgetown more accurately than by a mere
cording to Dr. E. Porter Felt, ento- from his ancestral home, Bunker guess," Professor Mordoff con-
mologist. Hill, in Westmoreland county, Vir- eluded.
Appearance of the tree scaven- ginia.
gers one to two weeks early this
summer presages more general in-
festation along the Eastern sea- Jap Landing at Gona Near
reduced by 2c a quart. The order went
into effect December 16, 1942.
Q. We drive our passenger ear 50
miles into town to shop once a week.
Can we do this?
CHURCH DIRECTORY
A. Yes:gThere are no eatpas-
• -restricting the use of private.'pas=
THE BAPTIST CHURCH senger cars. The ruling only applies
Rev. A. E. Silver, Pastor to private commercial vehicles, which
11.00 a.m.— Sunday School must not go more than 35 miles
7.00 p.m.—Evening Worship from their registered address with -
The Young People meet each Mon- out obtaining a permit.day evening at 8 pan.
ST. PAUL'S CHURCH
Rev. G. W. Moore, Lth.
11,00 am.—Morning Prayer.
2.30 p.m. —Sunday School.
7.00 p.m.—Evening Prayer.
The Boy. Sleouts Association
THE SALVATION ARMY nounces the appointment of Harry C.
Capt. S. Curtis . Firth, Sarnia, as new Field Secretary
for Western Ontario. Ile takes the
11.00 a.m.—holiness Service place of A. S. Fleming who has been
2.30 p.m.—Sunday School. transferred to new Scout duties in
7.00 p.m. --Salvation Meeting. Hamilton and adjacent counties. He
will make his headquarters in London.
ONTARIO STREET UNITED Firth's' experience in Scout work .in -
Rev. G. G. Berton, , M.A., B.b. eludes membership: in a Toronto Troop
11.00 a.m.—Divine Worship• as a boy, service as Scoutmaster and
Near Noon—Sunday: `School. ' Rover Scout Leader in Sarnia. Dis-
2.30 p.m,—Turner's Church Service trict Comrissiorier for Sarnia 1933 to
and Sunday School. 1940 and District Commissioner for
7.00 pin..—Evening Worship. St. Clair from 1941 to the present
time. A graduate Gilwellian, he knows
'WESLEY-WILLIS UNITED the Cub Scout and. Rover programs
Rev. Andrew Lane, 13,A., B.D. thoroughly. Through prominent par -
11.00 arm—Divine Worship ticipation in Scout conferences and
7.00 pan.—Evening Worship.'- rallies hr, is widely known to large
Sunday School at conclusion of numbers of Western Ontario Scouts
V'
Konigsberg Raid Marked
board, he said. The beetles, which Allied Aerial Junction
usn do not trouble commercial New Guinea Based Allies
silt' • Russia's first bombing expedition
orchards and forests, feast on shade Gona village, latest landing spot in months against German cities
trees and garden plants. They oc- for Japanese forces on New Guinea, had for its targets the shipyards,
cur along the East coast from Arm- lies on Gona or Holnicote bay, nd. on locomotive and tank shops, chem-
ginia up to and including southern the north shore of the huge islayear plants and over a mile of well -
New England. This village is about 130 miles south-
east of Salamaua also on the north equipped docks of Konigsberg. This
Dr. Felt warns that trees and gar- coast, seized by the the sev- historic city of 300,000 people is at
dens growing in light soil with sun- eral months ago. It is 20 miles north- the eastern end of Germany's Baltic
ny exposure are prime targets of the west of the north coast settlement sea coast. It is capital of the prov-
insect aerial marauders, while trees at Buna,established in peacetimes ince of East Prussia, which was sec -
and shrubs growing in heavy soil as an aproach to the Yodda gold- orated from the rest of Germany
with cold northern exposure are fields. The latest landing is at the when the Free City of Danzig and
more likely to escape the full blow of nearest north coast point to Port the adjoining land corridor for Po -
infestation. Although the voracious Moresby, last important United Na- land td the Baltic was set up by
"invaders" have been reported as tions foothold on New Guinea. It the treaty of Versailles in 1919.
far west as St, Louis, Japanese bee- lies 100 air -line miles northeast from The Russian raid on Konigsberg
ties to date have generally confined the Port, directly across the narrow, marked a virtual junction of west -
their destructive attacks to the East. southeastern end of New Guinea. • ern and eastern. aerial attack by
Having in April sampled the ob- United Nations bombers on German
Stay Out of Debt stacles to troop movement across industrial centers within a week's
y New Guineas 'highlands in the time. A few days earlier, Royal Air
If you would live to a ripe old Markham valley near Salamaua, the force raiders had set themselves
age, never. fall in debt. This is Japanese may now be set to make new distance records in reaching all
the advice of Misao Chiba,,editor of a new and more direct try at a land the way to Danzig, a mere 80 air -
the magazine Long Life. After approach to Port Moresby. The first line miles west of Konigsberg. For -
spending eight years investigating 50 miles straight inland,' to Kokoda, mally an important outlet for Rus -
the secrets of longevity, he an- will present no severe natural ob- sian grain and timber, Konigsberg is
Rus -
flounces the following results, in or- stacles. This region is level and . 695 miles southwest of Moscow. It
der of their importance: provided with a fairly direct road. is 330 miles northeast of Berlin.
Of the thousands 01 persons over Supplies could be sent in small boats The distinguishing industry of
BO years of age questioned through- on the Kumusi river, entered at Konigsberg, says a National Geo -
out Japan, not one has ever been the northwest corner of Gona bay, graphic society bulletin, is the man -
heavily in debt. for a few miles of the distance of ufacture of necklaces, brooches,
The vast majority are always op- this Kokoda-leg of the crossing, prayer chains, cigar holders and
timistic. countless trinkets and ornaments
All partake of plain meals. from amber of the nearby seacoast.
Most are early risers. German Objective
These are the only points com- Alexandria, the German objective
mon to the majority of aged per- in the north African drive, is a thor- Ireland's Part in American History
sons, Chiba's questionnaire re- oughly modern city of nearly 800,000 Recent opening of an American
veals. He adds that there is noth- inhabitants. It is Egypt's principal Officers' club in Belfast, Northern
ing secret about the last three points port, on the Mediterranean coast at Ireland, adds to the evidence that
for optimism frugality and • early the west edge of the Nile delta. United States forces poised there
rising have been regarded from an- The city is today playing a major have reached considerable numbers.
cient times as essential factors of and prosperous role in the war, as For many of the lads in khaki near
longevity. it did in the First World war, when Belfast and the lads in blue at Lon
As for the first point, that of not an army of half a million, whose donderry, the visit to the northern
contracting debts, the investigator upkeep cost $200,000 a day, was sup- tip of the emerald isle is a return
claims that he has made a, startling plied largely from Egypt's gran- to the land of their, ancestors.
new discovery. - arses:
In addition to beingmarked byThe unties enof who lst had settledvne in
the counties of Ulster province in
vast supplies passing in and out of Northern Ireland—and thereby ac -
Cowbird Faster Than Pigeon
The cowbird has a bad reputation. the port, Alexandria is the popular quired the name, Scotch-Irish—
It lays its eggs in the nest of other leave area for the British' navy in constituted an important factor in
birds. It is too lazy or too inefficient the eastern. Mediterranean, as well immigration to America in Colonial
to build its own nest. But in a race as for land troops stationed near by. days, says a National Geographic
Alex -
starting at Chicago's municipal air- The cosmopolitan throng of Alex- society bulletin. One historian com-
bknownandria, too complex for analysis, is puted that they formed more than
port, the little blackbird, as
the cowbird,. has beaten three car -s .today colored by the uniforms of all.one-sixth of the colonial population
vier pigeons at their own game, It 'United Nations, and the costumes of at the time of the Declaration of
was the winner in a 56 -mile race and hundreds of refugees from at Independence. They predominated
it covered this distance in 45 min- European countries. in tire "Winning of the West," ao
utes, 30 minutes faster than the cording to Theodore Roosevet.
homing pigeons. Overlooks 'Atlantic Narrows'
Tne race settles an argument be- The coast of Maranhao state,
tween the owner of a flock of hon-Tpec ive Everything
ing cowbirds and the president of which' Brazilian forces are reported A prospective officer was up be -
the Inland Bird Branding association, to be combing fora possible Axis fore the anti-aircraft officer condi-
who owns the pigeons. A11 of the submarine base, occupies a central date board at. Camp' Stewart, Ga.
birds released at the airport position along the slanting northern He had been given the problem of
ati 3:05 werep. m. and onea of the covet:,. shores of Brazil, east of the mouth moving a platoon of men from one
birds reached the yard of its owner of the Amazon, says a National point on a piece of paper to another
at 3:50 P. m. Half an hour later the Geographic society bulletin. point at the end of the paper, by
arrived H at the Although far outside the Carib- giving them_ the proper commands.
pigeons their owner, proving they premisesses bean danger zone for United Nations The candidate jumped to attention
shipping, it overlooks the approaches and began reeling off the' com- SHORT CUT TO TOIfIO: U. S.—.completed months ahead of schedule,
homing pigeons but that they were to the "Atlantic narrows," between mends: "Plat000n, attenshunl ALASKA H1C'H'WAY OPENED IN will be one of the United Nation's
slower than homing cowbirds. the eastern hump of Brazil and the Right shoulder arms! . . . Left I most important routes for 'planes,
western hump of Africa. Through facet Forward march!" DECEIVIBE;R. — Cre of the !roil<Ps
these narrows passes war -time ship- Suddenly the soldier stopped. A greatest highway construction pro -
S.
guns and men. It brings the U.
Canada's Parliament Building not only between the east boardmember inquired, "What are Sects was completed on December S. approximately 2,000 miles closer
From all parts nt the world m the' pingoats of the United States and q, let when tate United States openedot Tokio by land Photo shows: U.
summer come visitors to the parl.a- South America, but also bound for you reply, I 'Wy, sir,. came I
ment buildings in the ancient ca i- the reply, ' I was waiting for the the Alaska Military TTighway— theiS. .Army Corps of Engineers throw a
g capi- East fronts around South platoon to get to the end of the first'. overland route connecting the temporary pontoon bridge over a riv-
tar city of Quebec where, during Africa. On the other hand, any shel- paperl"
the sessional months, the laws of thorn
of the U. S. with its mor- er on the conte, later a poriitanent'.
ter offered by this strategically various horn territorial possession. The road structure will be built.
the province of Quebec are drafted aced coast is offset .by
by the only French-speaking legis- navigation difficulties which it also Understand Now??
lative body on the North American -
presents. Rays of light must fall head-on
continent.
The style'of the historie parka. the retina to be visible; the hu-
ment buildings is Seventeenth Cen- man eye cannot -perceive rays of ,Shall Money G7 OWS't0 et' was donated to the Queens Cana -
tui Renaissance. Their construe- A Foul Trick light from' their sides as they pass dian Fund, and the other half used to
y Every night before climbing into through space in front of the eye.
tion began in 1883. The main front Iced Private Darwin Cummin s ofapparent' illusion of seeinglight Substantial Sum purchase material with which girls of
of the vast square of theg The g the Chadian National Telegraphs will
q govern -Carne Bareley, Texas, 'plants a kiss rays when sunshine enters through The steady drip, drip, drip: of cents,
Ment building is remarkable for the on the photograph of his girl friend, a window into a darkened room is • make comforts for the chitsm o of
fine proportions of its central tower,ntekeis, dimes quarters and, an ° en s' the Royal Sailors .test a Portsmouth,,,
which he keeps next•to his bed. One explained by the fact that floating r,iottal bill, into a gallon wine jugdur-dedieated to Jacques Cartier, who night recently Cummings came into particles of dust reflect some of theEngland: Tlie jug bank was the idea :.
discovered Canada in 1534. Niches his tent after lights were out. He light rays to the retina. Similarly, }ug a period of six months from the of 14.'B. Tommie, delivery supervisor' of
in the masonry on either side of he^'followed his usual habit:and then the light from anti -air raid search- pockets of operating, office and nes- Montreal Telegraph head office, who
main entrance hold statues of Car- of into bed and went to slee g g
g B• lights would be invisibe to ground senser staffs of the Canadian Nation-
, planted the "crock" our his desk' in.
tier, of Champlain, the founder of When Cummings awoke the next observers, asserts the 'institute, if al Telegraphs, grew to a flood worth earlysummer and invited the staff to
Quebec (1608), of Maisonneuve, morning, he flew into a rage. And atmospheric particles and dust did 130.81 when the jug wns emptied our
founder of Montreal (1642), and of no wonder. Someone had replaced not turn and reflect to the; eye some contribute some small change every
Father de Breboeuf, the Nreet Jesuit y ing Christmas week, half of the mon- a da
martyr, a his girls picture with that of Adolf of the rays sent out ,by they search- pay y.
Scbickelgruberl lights.
New Field piecretal y
Western Ont. Boy Scouts
morning service.
PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
Rey. D. J. Lane
10.00 a.m.--Sunday School.
11.00 arm=Worship'Service.
THURS., JAN. 7, 1E3
stun
BRITAIN'S NEW MIDDLE EAST March 1942 saw hint commanding the
FIGlITI1NG LEADERS: C -IN -C small British army in Burma, infltet--
ing heavy losses on the Japanese dor-
MIDDLE EAST WITH G.O.C. EWE- ing a long, plucky fighting retreat.
TH ARMY -General, the Hon. Sir Lieut. Gen. Montgomery was in.
Harold Alexander, I(.C,B., C.S'.I., D. France in August, 1914, and had
S'.0., MO, new C-in-C, Middle East; more than 3 years service on the Wes -
and Lieut. Gen Montgomery, C.B., D.S. tern Front Winning the D.S.O. and .
0., new G•C:C, Eighth Arniy, are French Military Cross. Between wars
both dealing successfully with re- he served, on th Rhine, in Ireland
newel battle in the Western Desert. England and India. He took the third
Both have a fine fightingseeord. Gen- Division to Prone() in 1939 and
eral Alexander -'won the French Le- brought them .back frons Dunkirk. Bw-.
glom of Honour at the Marne, the fore going to the Middle•East he was -
M.C., at Loos ane) the D.S,O., on the G.O.C.-in-C. South Eastern Corn -
Somme during the 1914 war. In 1939 mand in England. Picture Shows --
he cornantnded the let Corps in L. to R. General Alexander and Lieut,
France and organized the final de- General Montgomery, in the Middle
fence and evaeutaion of Dunkirk, East fighting zone.
and Scooters.. Ile is a keen .camper
and a strong advocate of "keeping
Scouting out of doors"
For many years Firth''has been a
salesman for., the Sarnia Branch :of
the National Grocers Company, hay -
2.00 p.m.—Sunday School, Bayfield. ing, gone to it from the T. Kenny
3:00 p.m.—Worship Service at Bay- Company when the iatter amalgama-
field. ted with National.
DAWN TO DUSK "SHUTTLE SER-
VICE" — ALLIED AIR ATTACKS
ON RO'MMEL'S CONCENTRATIONS
—Allied Air Forces have been ham-
mering at the enemy in the Western
Desert. Day and night enemy arm-
oured cars, motor transport and aero
drones have been attacked while
ground crews have worked unceasing,
ly to refuel, re -arm and bomb -up ths•
aiticrafit. Bietuile Shows --L}.. ,Col.
Hademan briefing crews of a South
African bomber squadron Ler an at•
taek on enemy positions.
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