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THE CLINTON NEWS -RECORD
T'IHURS., JAN, 18, 1940.
I Read For You
(copyright)
by JOHN C. KIRKWOOD
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Imagination! Ws money for those
having and using it. Thus, .some im-
aginative Than got this idea: to have
one's license plate reproduced hi min-
iature on a piece of metal or celluloid
to which is attached a sterling silver
keychain and ring. On this ring you
put your car and other keys.
The advertisement of this novelty
said: "There's a real kick in hawing
your friends exclaim "Oh, do let me
•see that!"
You've heard, of course, of Paul
Revere and his famous ride. Well,
American negroes havie their leg-
endary heroes. One is John Henry:
something between a pagan god and
a comradely man. He is credited with
having the str engtli' of a god and the
weakness of a prodigal sen. The
negroes sing about shim when they
work or play. He is supposed to ap-
pear when toil is exhausting, or when
spirits droop ,and always he brings
with him inspiration and entertain-'
went.
Now they are putting on -a "John
Henry" play in New York, and John
Henry is played by Paul Robeson—a
very famous negro, who hes won
65 years ago a sculptor named Dallin fame on two continents for both his
• was awarded a prize in an equestrian seting and his singing. Robeson was
competition design offered by the city I an all-American athlete and is a
of Boston; that is to say, Dallin's world-famous concert, screen and
design was accepted and he was about! stage star. He made the play "Show
to be instructed to execute his design' Boat" a sell-out, •by his singing of
"Old Man River."
You may live to see the day when
houses will have no cellars—no under-
ground home for the furnace; and
when houses will be heated by hot-
water -heated coils imbedded in a
cement floor. Heating the floor seems
sensible. They are heating factories
in heroic size. He was just 22 years
of age at that time. The $25,000
required to pay for the statue and
its erection was to be raised by pub-
lic subscription, but something hap-
pened, and the project was officially
dropped. Yet Dallin kept on fighting
for what he believed to be his rights,
and now, when he is 78, he has won in this wayalrea
out, and from a certain fund an dy. The heater of
amount of $27,500 will be granted the water can be housed in an earth -
far the erection of the statue. •level contiguous outhouse.
Justice is sometimes tardy. You About so-called death rays. I read
just have to admire a man who never an article which pooh-hoohs the idea
loses his hold on his purpose.
This European war is bringing
some men—formerly obscure, perhaps bounced that they have invented
—into the limelight. The British War death ray machines, but the article
Office asked for a mycologist "at which I read—in the New York Times
once". Now, a mycologist is a bot-
anist who knows a lot about fungi.
This mycologist was wanted to in-
vestigate the cause of dry rot in
tent canvas. scientifically impossible — currently,
at any rate, that the radiation that
Britain Ministry of Labour has will put the sparking system of a
compiled a list of 75,000 scientists, gasolene engine out of commission is
technicians, and professional men effective only at a range of a few
whose knowledge may be useful and feet.
used in connection with war activities. So a pleasant dream will have to
In the last war advice was sought be abandoned—pleasant to content -
on fleas and 'their relation to a trench plate when it meant the frustration
ailment; for advice on currents in of enemy planes.
the Aegean Sea. And there were'
found a peer who kept fleas as a
hobby and who was able to trace the
vital link between cause and effect in
the trench ailment; and a professor
who had studied the currents of the
Aegean to disprove a German profes-
sor's theory about the course of mine
sweeping in those waters. Among the
registered specialists is a well-known:
medical man who is recorded as one Culling oiler the old files in this
of the greatest experts on instrument office last weekend we were auricle
design; and a 'physiologist who says with the marked similarity of news
that he can make an astronomical dispatches twenty-five years ago and
telescope out of an old motor car! those of the present day. Samples of
I have this to remark on telescopes the headlines catching our eye follow:
made from motor cars: many, many "SEVENTY TOWNS IN RUINS.
a motor car owner has seen stars, EARTHQUAKE TAKES 2 0, 0 0 0
and has gone to some of them prob- LIVES."
ably; just because of his ownership "FAMINE IN GERMAN CITIES.
of a motor car. GOVERNMENT PROHIBITS BAK-
ING."
"SHOT TO DEATH. VON FALK-
A member of the U.S.A. Depart- ENHAYN'S SONS KILLED IN AIR
anent of Agriculture has gone to Chili RAID."
in search of a cannibal insect. This "IT IS A WAR TO FREE THE
insect is wanted to destroy the so- WORLD." says English writer.
called white -fringed beetle which has The news items under these head -
been injuring certain Southern crops. ings also are similar to present day
This malevolent beetle made his first news reports. A despatch from Ronne
appearance in U.S.A. only in 1938., says: "Twenty thousand lives lost,
Every beetle is supposed to have a:thirty thousand persons injured, a
parasite, and it is hoped to find his 'million homeless and in need of relief,
78 towns and villages wholly or partly
destroyed, a territory extending from
the Adriatic to the Tyrrhenian Sea
and ruining works of art — a loss
If you were out of a job, would that is irrepparable. Such was the
you have much or small competition result of an earthquake that held
in seeking a new one? In New York sway in .Italy for a brief thirty sec -
City was blade an inventory of per- ends Thursday morning."
sons applying for positions and reg- From Paris="Captain. Von Faiken-
istering with the State, Employment hayn, son of the acting chief of gen-
Service. This inventory contains the eral staff of the German array, was
names of 354,512 indtvpduals, seeking shot to death by a French aviator
employment in 210 separate °coma- while making a reconnaissance
tional categories. flight."
Among the occupations listed by From Paris—"The bread famine in
applicants are one osteopath, two Germany appears,to be growing in
aviators, one practical nurse and mid- intensity. The Burgomaster of Dort -
wife, four fishermen and oystermen, round declares 'Strict economy in the
five lumbermen, 50,000 operativesitt consumption of bread is essential to
the apparel industry, more than 14,- ensure German victory'."
000 construction labourers, more than "An American journalist has just
10,000 chauffeurs, and upwards of famous English writer, G. R. Chester -
Good advice to all of us is: Maker ton. Quoting the writer he says: 'This
yourself scarce. One'schances of is the war to free the world! First
holding,:a job are improved when one and last it is a fight for freedom.
cannot be replaced. Prussia has always been on the side
Iof tyranny and resolved to destroy
of death rays and rays which can
stop aeroplane engines. Probably
there are many. men who have an-,
tells of a rather elusive man whose
machine failed to function in the re-
cent Spanish civil war. The article
says that a death ray machine is
Is History Repeating
Itself
News Dispatches Bear Marked
Similarity 1915-1940
enemy in South America, whence
came the destructive beetle.
e!.democracy."
If a 100 years hence you want your Were it not for the date on the
birthday to be celebrated in a notable paper we quote from Cane might easily
way, do something when you are think ho was reading from recent
young which 'will get public recog- daily papers. Speakers on more than
nition because of its value. Take, by one occasion recently have given. ut-
way of example, Alexander Hamilton 1 terance to. the quotation of the Eng -
First Secretary of the Treasury ee lish writer. Reconnaissance flights
the United States. He made a report have headlined the news. The recent
on the public credit, which was de- earthquake in, Turkey only :a few
glared to be the ,most American State weeks ago bioug'ht death and untold
paper except Lincoln's Emancipation suffering to thousands. It a known
Proclamation. And so on January letfact fact that Germany has been, exper-
1939, the 150th anniversary of Hanril- nencing a food shortage for some time
ton's birth, was laid a wreath on and is taking measures to curtail con-
Hamilton's grave in Trinity Cemetery sumption to a minimum.
New York, Tor us these extracts from, the news
twenty-five years ago were very, in-
teresting. We are told that the Brit
Making, money is a machine opera ish Empire is fighting an entirely
tion, and a legitimate one—if clone different war and in ways . this
ys
by the Mint. Last year, the U.S.A. is true. Using more modern methods
mint mad 874,089,100 coins, having of warfare the conflict will be dif-
. a face value of $38,289,169,8.4. Of the feren.t, but the toll of death -'and the
number made, 383,709,520 - were suffering and Sorrow will ever ee-
nickels. main the same.
Newsy Notes from England
BY AN OVERSEAS CORRESPONDENT
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TEN COLOURS FOR STOCKINGS: contrast of hatlessness when off duty.
The war is breaking the ranks of
the hatless brigade."
The weight of the tin hat is also
increasing the civilian demand for
lightweight felts. The popular weight
The colours of women's stockings iS now three and a half ounces as.
are to be "rationed' in Great Britain against five and a quarter ounces
•
"Burnt Nude" One of New British
Ration
next year, but it has nothing to do
with the war.
The list of shades for silk and
artificial silk stocks had reached the
fantastic total of 600, though in many
cases even experts could not tell one
from another. So the British Colour
Council, whose standardised colour
shades for everything from house dec-
oration to military uniforms are re-
garded as standard references all over
five years ago, and to -day there is
much increased output of fur felts
made in Lancashire whicharevery
light in weight.
Navy blue and Air Force blue are
both popular shades for felts. Quan-
tities of them are now being export-
ed to Scandinavia, Australia, South
Africa, the West Indies and Latin
America.
In many eases each hat is adapted
the world, is to produce a "ration in nine different wa s to suit the
card"' for 1940. wearer's features or the shape of his
The card will contain only ten head. ,
shades, with the fascinating names of A leading hat manufacturer states
Burnt Nude, Carib, Goblin, Newnvar- that the King's observance of formal
ket, Mistbeige, Graphite, Dryad, Gun-
metal, Vogue and Copperskin.
"Women customers will welcome
this ,simplification as much as the
manufacturers," said an official of
the Council. "The list contains emlery
colour of fashion significance from
Spring to Autumn. Burnt Nude,
Goblin, Dryad and Carib are warm
and glowing; Copperskin, a neutral
beige, is excellent with blues and
browns. Vogue and Mistbeige express
the trend for "wine -tinted" hosiery;
Newmarket (a darker beige) and
Graphite and Gunmetal, both greys,
fulfil today's demand for colors which
are practical as well as attractive.
"If any new feature in fashion col-
our should arise, additions to the
range would, of course, be considered
immediately and the dyers, manufact-
urers, wholesalers and retailers in-
formed. Ours is not a 'take it or
leave it' policy."
SWIFT NEW CRAFT
Joins Thames Fleet of Firefloats
A new type of high speed motor
boat which does just over twenty
knots) has just been added to titra
fleet of Thames firefloats for the
protection of London's docks.
The boat, wheh has been designed
and built on the hard chine principle
by a famous firm of British naval
constructors, is 45 feet long with a
moulded depth of 5', 3r/_^" and a max-
imum draft of 3', 6". The six cylind-
er petrol engines, each developing
110 horse power at 2,700 revolutions
per minute, are directly coupled to
the three propeller shafts.
The two wing engines drive the two
turbine fire pumps each with a capac-
ity of 750 gallons per minute at a
pressure of 100 lb. per square inch.
The main armament is a 5 inch
monitor seconded by swivelling deck
boxes to which hoses can be connected
if necessary, together with foam mal,-
ing equipment. Current -for a power-
ful searchlight and other needs is pro-
vided by three 12 vpit dynamos, and
the engine room is protected against
fire risks by extinguisher equipment
controlled from the wheel house.
130,0000,000 CIGARETTES
'Were Smoked In Eight Weeks
By B.E.F.
Britain is making sure that no
fighting man goes short of his supply
of "fags" in this war.
It is in the hands of an industry
which produces about forty-six mil-
lion cigarettes a year. One popular
brand' alone is made at the rate. of
3,000,000 a day, and production for
several other brands exceeds 1,000,000
daily.
So even though the troops "smoke
like chimneys" it will not embarass
the biggest and most efficiently or-
ganised tobacco industry in the world,
whose requirements exceed 188,000,-
000 pounds of tobacco a year, includ-
ing Empire crops from India, Canada,
the Rhodesias, Nyasaland .and Cyprus.
During the first two months of war.
about 180 million cigarettes went out
to France, and most of them have
now "gone up in smoke Each sol-
dier and airman is entitled td a free
issue of 50 a week, and they can buy
extra supplies in Canteens and
through the Overseas League, which
sent out 824 millions in the last war, t
at less than hall the retail price at I
home.
Mothers, wives and sweethearts can
now send boxes of not less than 100 f
cigarettes to their menfolk in. France'
duty free.
The men of the Royal Navy are s
very exclusive about their cigarettes,
which are supplied duty free at sea.
Some manufacturers make certain
brands specially for the Senior Ser-
vice, and each cigarette bears the ad-
ditional marking "For I1.11. Ships
only."
dress during his wide range of en-
gagements has given a fashion lead
of great help to the trade.
BIRTH OF THE R.A.F.
First "Bomb" Was A Bag of Sand
The birth of the R.A.F. is graphic-
ally recalled by the retirement of Mr.
R. M. Hanlon, who in May 1911 or-
ganised on behalf of the Parliament-
ary Aerial Defence Committee the
demonstration at Hendon of which
the ultimate outcome was the for-
mation of the Royal Flying Corps'.
"I assisted Mr. Claude Grahame
White," Mr. Hanlon said in an inter-
view, "in an assembly of Naval and
Military chiefs and among those who
came to the demonstration were Lord
Roberts, Mr. Winston Churchill, Lord
Charles Beresford, Mr. Lloyd George,
Mr. Asquith and Lord Haldane.
"Colonel Seely, who was Minister
of War at the time, showed very
little interest in aeroplanes until he
could be satisfied that bombs could
be dropped effectively from the air.
For his benefit a week before the
demonstration we dropped a bag of
sand weighing a hundredweight from
Grahame White's Farman 'plane. We
expected Grahame White to crash
directly he had released his load but
he flew smoothly on his way.
"Then men who did the flying at
the demonstation itself were Cody,
Drexel, Gustav Hamel, who was the
'ace' of those days, Bleriot, Robert
Loraine, Gresswell, Platen and of
course, Grahame White himself. We
chalked the outline of a battleship on
the ground and dropped on it dummy
bombs which a friendly builder made
for ine out of two halves of plaster
of Paris and filled with chalk."
Mr. Hanlon was a manager for the
Dunlop Rubber Company, from which
he has just retired after 43 years of
unbroken service, and from 1915 to
the end of the Great War he was in
charge of the construction of airships
at the White City. They turned out
ev'lery week from the eight halls there,
eight Blimps for submarine "spot-
ting" over the North Sea.
As a lad Mr. Hanlon rode one of
the earliest pneumatic tyred bicycles.
In those days punctures• were much
more frequent than now and on one
occasion Mr. Hanlon and a companion
picked up. 37 in the 100 miles between
Waterford and Dublin. They mended
them with gelatine lozenges.
Mr. Hanlon drove an early Pamhard
fitted with tube ignition and had a
motor license for his "voiture a pet -
role" from France in 1902. His Lon-
don license was No. 86 of the 17,000
issued on the first day under the
Motor C'ar Act of 1903. With it ho
keeps a summons to Hayward's Heath
police court for driving near Balmy
at Moro than 20 miles an hour.
He supplied tyres to London's first
taxis in the days before they had
meters, and charged, like the hansom
cabs, on time.
CROMARTY SCHOOL RAZED
BY FLAMES
A fire of undetermined origin gut-
ted the Cromarty School, S. S. No. 6,
I•Iibbert township Thursday. night.
The blaze was discomered about ten
o'clock by persons living near the.
school, which was a one -room striae -
tare of whites brick with slate roof.
t was erected in 1906.
Residents of the community were
called and an effort was made to
ight the fire. The exhaustion of the
water supply made it impossible to
quench' the blaze. : Trustees of the
chool held a meeting Saturday to
decide what was to be done about
the pupils, numbering about thirty,
are unable to explain how the fire
Muted, as the furnace is located
some ` distance from the woodshed
where the blaze was first discovered.
No estimate of the loss has been
arrived at, but it will be partially
covered by insurance. Just when re-
beilding will commence remains a
question. Ross McKay of Hensall is
the teacher of the school.
TIN HATS BRING
BOWLERS BACK
"Tin hats" are creating a new
Vogue for the bowler this winter in
Britain.
"So many are having to wear the
'tin hat' on national service," says
an official of the Men's Wear Colin- 1
oil, "that they do not like the coldin
Mrs. Newrich: "You will be care-
ful orf nay ).new pnoliisiied lknyollenm,
won't you, plumber?"
Plumber:' "Don't worry about me,
ady. I. won't slip. I've got hobnails
me boots;"
INVEST IN CANADIS FRST vertu LOAN
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LONDON
TORONTO
LOCAL REPRESENTATIVE
GEO. H. ELLIOTT
Canada Life Insurance Office
Clinton, Ont. Telephone 203.
An Internment Camp
It has been necessary to establish
a few internment camps in Canada
to take care of enemy aliens who
have been detained in the Dominion
for acts "likely to assist the enemy."
How are they treated? Are they
subjected to the treatment handed out
in the concentration camps in Ger-
many, of which we read such horrible
details? Here is what a represen-
tative of our own Public Information
Office writes. The writer is a highly
trained and reliable newspaper man
who has spent many years in Europe
as a special correspondent. He visit-
ed the concentration camp at old Fort
Henry, near Kingston, Ontario.
The :men lamented their freedom
but made no complaints of the treat-
ment they receive. Eseh room of the
internees has its room captain. The
room captains have a camp captain
and together they are responsible for
allotment of necessary fatigue duties
and for the maintenance of cleanli-
nes and order within the camp. It
is a system df responsibility worked
out with the cooperation of the camp
commandant and the adjutant and
quartermaster.
The result has been an almost en-
tire lack of breaches of discipline.
Offences have been minor and few.
Since the camp opened, there has only
been one orderly roenn case; and that
was not serious: The rooms are
models of cleanliness.
The camp captain served with the
German Army in the World War. His
"Achtung" as he calls the internees
to attention has the soldier's chal-
lenge. Like the rest, he regrets other
days. "But under the circumstances,"
he told the visitor, "we are as well
treated as we could expect."
Internees draw the same rations
as a Canadian soldier and at Fort
Henry have the advantage of a Ger-
man chef, interned with them, and
promptly asigned by them to take
charge Of their cooking. He writes
out his Essen Kerte (bill of fare)
with a touch of professional pride.
Here are his menus for two days,
as written out by the cook himself:
First day — Breakfast—Potato cake
and bacon, bread, coffee; Lunch —
boiled beef, potatoes, cabbage, bread
and butter, coffee; Supper Rice
soup, bread and butter, coffee. Second
Day — Breakfast—Oatmeal, bacon,
bread and butter, coffee; Lunch -
Irish beef stew, potatoes, tea; Sup-
per -Jellied beef and pork, bread and
butter, coffee.
Conditions in the internment camps
are very far removed from the brut-
alities of German concentration, camps
as revealed in the British White 'Pap-
er. Under the necessary censorship
and within limitations, internees at
Fort Henry can receive and send post-
free, both parcels and mail. At fixed
periods, they can receive visitors. Five
visitors cane while the writer was in
the camp. In each case, the visitor
was the wife of a Aman interned. The
man was escorted from the camp
proper to an orderly room where he
was permitted to talk with his wife.
The pair on either side of a table.
There was no suggestion of having
to talk through anything remotely
resembling a grille.
To break the monotony of life with-
out active occupation, some o f the
men are developing old hobbies. One
internee, a designer in civil life, re-
tains his skill by sketching his com-
rades. Another is painting Christmas
cards. A woodworker, devising souv-
enirs, protects his work corner with
a grille. "I don't want the others
here," he says. "They take my tools:.
A radio enthusiast has strung a mock
aerial in one of the rooms. But the
antennae -and leads are only pieces of
string. Chess and cards are favourite
games.
To the press photographer, the
interneeshave rooted objection. They
were asked if they would consent to
photographs showing them in groups.
playing medicine ball, cards or chess,
or seated in the dining room they
built for themselves — photographs
not bringing out their features. "If
it is an order we will submit," a room
captain replied.
"It .is not an order," was the reply,.
"it is voluntary. If you object, there
will be no photographs."
"We will not object," the room
captain said, "providing we have al
guarantee that the photographs will
not be given to the press."
"We will do better," was the re-
joinder. "As you object, we will not
take any photographs in the camp
at all."
And the only photographs secured
were of the administrative staff and
arriving mail.
But if the internees dislike press
photographs, they welcome the visit-
ing relatives with tremendous en -1
thusiasm. As the visitor passes by,
they line up by the cookhouse and
shout' German greetings. German
songs echo curiously over old Fort
Henry.
Yesterday a visiting wife looked up,
smiled, and waved her hand. And
the impromptu choir waved and sang
—"A hundred days we wait for you,
Rose Marie.'
LITTLE TIME LEFT
TO TRACE HEIR
Brother of Seaforth Man Must be
Pound by end of Month
Almost a year's search for the heir
to an $8,000 portion of his father's
estate has failed to shed any light on
the mysterious disappearance of
Warren Potter, Tr., of Woodstock.
Unless he turns up by the end of this
month the money will be divided a-
mong the other beneficiaries, who in-
clude Wilbert Potter, of Seaforth, two
other brothers and a sister.
On January 31, 1939, Warren Pot-
ter, Sr., was found frozen to death in
his Woodstock home on Sydenham
Street, Ile had been dead about five
days When discovered. His will left
$8,000 to an estranged son, Warren,
who left as a teen -aged youth twen-
ty-five years ago after a quarrel, and
has never been seen since. The stip-
ulation was that be must be found
within 12 months of the date of death
and that time is nearly up.
John Potter, of Woodstock, another
brother of the missing man, doubts
if the mystery of his disappearance.
willever be solved.
"We haps had only one clue," he •
said. "A. woman in London said that
she had a young fellow come to live •
with her during the war who answer- •
ed the description of my brother. He •
told her he had came from Woodstock .
and had run away from home. She
said he joined the army and was kill- -
ed 12 days after he landed in France
He joined up under a different name •
to ours.
Mr. Potter explained that the fam- -
ily is endeavoring to run down this
slim lead through the governmental
records at Ottawa, but he isn't very.
hopeful after the long lapse of years.
Wilbert Potter, who has been a .
resident of Seaforth and Egmondville •
for about a year, formerly lived in,
Staffa. —Huron Expositor
VARNA
(Intended for last week)
Mrs. D. Dewar of Bayfield spent.
Monday with her sister, Mrs. Mossop.
We are pleased to report that little •
Anna Ostrum who has had pneumonia
is much improved and we hope will .
soon be around again.
The young people of the village and
community have organized a club.
The Red Cross meetings are held
in the township. hall every Wednes-
day afternoon, all ladies who are in •
-
terested in Red Cross are expected
to attend. Sewing machines have been .
secured for the work.
Miss Bessie and Harvey Chutor
entertained a number of the club .
members on Tuesday evening.
A meeting of the council was held
on Monday. All the old members
being present except Mr. Thompson
'who resigned and whose place was
filled by Mr. C. Parke.
cikeSNAPSSIOT GUILD
PICK A PICTURE SPECIALTY
A S YOU become more skilled in
" photography, you may find that
certain subjects or types of pictures
appeal to you strongly. If so, it is
wise to specialize on this preferred
type. Such specializing doesn't limit
you; Indeed, if you master the tak-
ing of one kind of picture, the knowl-
edge will help you in taking other
kinds.
Here are a few of the picture spe-
cialties that many amateurs find in-
teresting. Perhaps in the list you
will find one that just tits your own
needs:
Action pictures: If you have a
camera with fast lens and rapid
shutter, this is an interesting field,
full of thrills and dramatic opportu-
nities. Both winter and summer
sports offer splendid chances for ac-
tion shots.
Flower pictures: This is a year-
round specialty. In winter, picture
your window garden; in summer, the
outdoor garden, Any camera is suit-
able, but more satisfactory results
will be obtained if it is fitted with. a
portrait attachment.
Outdoor pictures at night: Mod-
ern fast films now snake such shots
easier. Short time exposures with
ordinary equipment, or even snap-
shots with ultra -fast lenses, onaole
you to picture street scenes and il-
luminated shop windows. Twilight
offers many interesting picture ef-
fects; and snow scenes have strik-
ing beauty ander moonlight or
street lamps. All you need is a cam-
era, and a tripod or some solid ob-
ject to support it during time ex-
posures with the slower lenses.
Architectural pictures: It's great
fun to explore a town in search
of interesting architecture— novel
doorways, odcl bits of old-fashioned
"gingerbread" decoration, or such
historic structures as the one pic-
tured here. This, too, is an all -year
specialty.
Table -top pictures: Neve is a spe-
cialty that offers ample scope for
originality. Construes small scenes
or situations, using doll's; toy ani-
mals, toy houses, etc,—then picture
them. Any focusing camera," or a
fixed -focus model with portrait at-
tachment added, will do. And "table-
4r„f+,4 yip
Picture taking is more fun when you ,
choose a specialty and master
Architectural pictures — such as this
one — make up one of many fascin-
ating fields.
topping" is an entertaining pastime •
at any season.
Silhouette pictures, pet and ani-
nmai pictures, nature pictures—these •
are also worthy specialties. Infer- •
mal portrait snaps of the baby or
other members of the family also •
are a popular fleld;' and there are.
many others. Choose your specialty
—ealtivate it—build up a fine col-
lection of pictures in this one line—
and you'll be au abler photographer •
in any other field.
iso John van. Guilder