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1 Read And Write For You
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By John C. Kirkwood
•.1�e'Y.YL'�S•.'.'.iiiir'rtii"r°e'r"e'e"L'S,'Ii'.�r1'."i"r"e`L'1'�'ii'e"il w �e'rtii ` If you have trouble getting to of applications, methods of applying
sleep - and staying asleep - what isi for a position, conduct during inter -
your way of inducing sleep? Charles views, and so on. "Getting the right
Dickens had his way: it was to have' job is a real job in itself," says Dean
the head of his bed pointing north. John T. Madden of the New York
His theory was: the magnetic cur- University School of Commerce. "It
rentsTunnorth and south between is a jab which should be started long
before graduation."
It is reported that there is an in-
creased demand for students trained
in accounting, .salesmanship 'and for-
eign trade,
I saw an advertisement of The
Ford Company headed, "The Ford
Way of Doing Business", and because
it interested me greatly, I am hoping
that .some of its contents will interest
my readers. Here are extracts from
this Ford advertisement:
In 1914 The Ford Company
began paying the then astounding
figure of $5 a day as its mini-
mum wage. The Ford minimum
is now $6 ,a day, with wages
rising to $10.80 a. day. The
average wage today is $7.25, ex-
clusive of salaried employees:
The Ford Motor Company em-
ploys men w ..:bout regard to race,
creed or colour.. The large pro-
portion of employees are mature
men of long service with the
company.
Increased wages and employment
over a period of many years have
resulted in a 300 per cent in-
crease in the built-in value of the
Ford car and a 75 per cent re-
duction in its price.
Canadian tobacco producers are sad.
over Britain's failure to .buy their
1939 crop. Where, then, is Britain
getting its tobacco requirements, see-
ing that it has greatly curtailed its
imports of American tobacco? Well,
it is getting tobacco from Turkey,
and so will have to try to persuadi
its people to like Turkish tobacco.
Britain's will was, prior to the out-
break of the current war, to use more
Canadian -grown and cured tobacco,
largely because of the duty factor,
which made U.S.A. tobacco prohibit-
ively expensive. Between 1936 and
1938 Britain imported annually, on
an average, 220 million lbs. of U.S.A.
tobacco, In 1938 it paicl 11 million
the poles, and by letting them flow
in a straight line through, one's body,
deep sleep resulted. So Dickens car-
ried about with him a compass, and
when he entered a strange bedroom,
he had the bedhead put to the north.
Vendors of gramophone records
have records whose monotonous music
lulls - allegedly - one to sleep.
Sir Andrew Yarrow, a famous
British shipbuilder, found that by
having his berth in a Canadian sleep-
ing car, on a journey across Canada,
over the wheels, the oscillating,
rythmic bed put him to sleep; and
when he went home, and because he
was a poor sleeper, he had made him
a bed which was mechanically made
to duplicate the movement or sound.
or both of his pullman bed.
It is said that there are 630 dif-
▪ ferent things on the market designed
to put one to sleep. - priced from
30 cents to $350.
Another item for housewives on the
matter of cooking: Put the chicken -
N or other class' of fowl - with the
breast down, instead of on its back.
It is declared that exposing the back
and thighs to the greatest heat while
protecting the breast prevents over-
cooking the white meat so that it
pulls away from the wishbone. A
4-1b. chicken thus cooked will, it is
said, be ready for the table in a
little less than two hours. It is worth
while to do a little experimenting.
If you are a motorist, be thankful
that you do not live in Italy. There
a gallon of gasoline costs $1.03! Be
glad that you are not in Europe at
all just now for motor fuel is so'
precious that its use is greatly re-
stricted. In Great Britain they are
using large gas bags. On the 'roof
of a motor -car you may see a roof -
length balloon holding in coal gas the
equivalent of one -gallon of petrol, and dollars to America for tobacco'.
on this gas the car runs. Imagine
the frequency of changing the gas
bags,!` million boys and girls like to build
In Germany no automobiles may be model aeroplanes, There is now an
driven except on approved business.1educational agency called Air Youth
Even in New Zealand there are re -I of America, with at its bead 27-year-
strictions - the allowance being from old Winthrop Rockefeller, fourth son
8 to 12 gallons monthly. of John D. Rockefeller.
;s6.
Do you remember those most un-
usual films - "Chang", made in Siam;
"Range", made in Indo-China;
On this continent upward of two
MASS PRODUCTION SLOWLY
KILLING SMALL TOWNS
"Grass", made among the migratory (Prean The Canadian Statesman,
tribes of Persia? They were made Bnwuianville)
by Ernest Sohoedsack - a man: 6 feet .
6 inches tall - a man with itching Ten people are thrown outfjpf work.
feet. He says that it is not so easy Another ten or a dozen citizens are
now to make films like those named, dependent on the first group. Thus
though he would like to make neve the buying power of a score of peo-
ones in far countrries. "Making pid- pie has been lost to the town of
tures back -of -the -beyond isn't as easy Bow,nanville. That is just one of
today," he gays, "its it office was. many angles affecting the closing this
week of the oldest bakery in this
community.
This calamity, if it may be termed
such, brings close to home the un-
desirable conditions which exist in.
many small towns, and which we have
discussed in these columns before,
that of outside bakers being allowed.
to peddle their goods in town with-
out paying a cent of taxes. Think of
it, fifteen out-of-town brands of bread
being sold in a town of less than
four thousand population! This: is in
addition to our two local bakers.
What is the outcome? The sur-
vival of the fittest, you say, And
what a penalty citizens are uncon-
about 8 million unemployed persons, sciously paying for this modern trend
of elimination of the small-townbait-
people
k
o rollo the un- chain store bakers Whose chief inter -
There are ctunbersome sound equip -
Silent to be considered, a staff of
technicians not necessary during the
ancient days, and the current political
set-ups haven't simplified location
work. Suspicion is rife among the
politicos. Anyone' carrying a camera
is mistrusted. The tentacles of dic-
tatorship are throttling• Ethopia and
China. The tribes I filmed in Persia
for "Grass" are to more"..
Isn't it a pity I have, and 15n
sure many others have also, wished
for new films oe the "Grass" and
"Chang" description many, many
times.
In the United
States theme are still
and each year sees 600,000 young a' -
people added to th f er by the all-powerful mill -owned and
employed. About one-third of the est is dividends. Certainly not the
welfare of the community.
The ruthless competition these
mogul bakeries use, by their cut-
throat and unethical methods, is driv-
ing hundreds of town bakers to the
wall. Only a couple of weeks ago
we recorded the discontinuance of
Newcastle's old established bakery.
mon and other supervisors. Many Who is taking the place of these
desiring white-collar jabs will have industrious and highly respected bat
to switch their question - to go after, ars who are such an important part
overalls jobs. of e"?n'Y town — public spirited in.
Already there are being lie establ!sl d I building up their communities, sup.
porters of all worthy causes, raise
new industries on this continent, to families who are a credit to the town
make products which Europe is not
now able to. supply. Thus, by way pee give employment in many local
of example, Czechoslovakian glass- people?
ware largely used on this continent It's a ecand a nd, sen boy with
by lamp manufacturers for bases', is horse and wagon, sent -hereby
trims and decorations is being re- his rcannotco ill t ed capitalistic bate
placed with substitute products•. Much cry, carrot fiat the important owns
furniture,of the local baiter. Thus the. towns
gift merchandise, china- are beoomin
ware, lamps and shades are beingng poorer o rommunise
Supplanted with domestic manufao- obf mase through the modern process
'tuners. of mass production for profit.'
unemployed are young persons - be-
tween the ages of 16 and 24.
It is becoming increasingly clear
that in the future the demand will
be for those who have been well-
trained for new jobs. Of a certainty
there will be new industries estab-
lished which will require many kinds
of specially trained mechanics, fore -
Since the finding of jobs is be -
ton -ling increasingly hard, our univer-
sities and other bodies are paying a
good deal of attention to the matter
of instruction on job-findinW, Take
New York University, by way of 11
lustration: it is giving a Course of
10 .lectures on the •strategy of job-
6 finding. This course is conrlucted by
lrersominel experts. The eonese will
iii) i b lecture -discussions on employ-
) rrtent'' opportunities in yatiious fields;
personal qualifications and job re-
quirements, the mechanics of letters big event,
HURON PRESSES CLAIM FOIL
1992 PLOWING MATCH
Warden George Feagare Reeves
Telmer, of Goderieh, and Gamble, of
Hawick, returned Thursday from
Parente 'where ,they represented Alm-
on Cminty-at the,amnual•eouvention of
jhe.,I?lowmen's Association... They
pine .leach tessured:tiiat they had been
successful in cony nei g the associa-
tion 1o,'holdf ceieternational plowing
match in .Huron in 1342 and of the
county's capability of handlingthe
Newsy Notes from England
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BY AN OVERSEAS CORRESPONDENT
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BRITAIN'S SHOP IS WIDE OPEN flax now produced in Northern Ire-
land and the Continent. After some
years' experimenting the Research
Station, already famous for its work
on plant breeding, have developed
new 'strains yielding about twice the
weight of fibre given by the ordinary
varieties. It has been found to be
particularly suitable for the . heavy
type of linen required by the Services..
The, growing and processing. of
"green" flax is now being organised'
by the`Ministry of Supply in consul-
tation with the National Farmers'
Unions of England and Scotland and
with factories which already produce
flax. '
Contracts for flax straw at fixed
prices will be enadc by the factories
with farmers in Norfolk, Northants;
Essex, Kent, Dorset, Cambridigeshire,
Lincolnshire and Perthshire.
The Ministry of Agriculture have
agreed that the crop will qualify as
with other types of flax, for the £2
per acre ploughing -up grant in Eng-
land and Scotland.
A considerable quantity o#.process-
ing machinery will be needed to deal
with this unexpected extension of flax
growing.
Industrialists's Message te' Canadian
Customers
Enemy propagandists seize every
opportunity to suggest that the in-
uustry of democratic Britain is too
felly occupied in working for the war
to have any goods left to .export:
Lord Dudley Gordon,: new Presi-
dent of the Federation of British In-
dustries, the largest association of
industrialists in the world, meets this
challenge in a special message to Can-
ada by saying:
"The great task of furnishing our
fighting forces, and in part those of
our allies, with- the best equipment
obtainable has not lessened our ef-
forts to keep going and indeed in
many directions to increase our nor-
mal overseas trade.
"We anticipate, and we are ready
to meet, calls on our services from
all over the world especially .from
Canada and other Empire countries,
great and small, South American and
neutral European countries. Neither
Britain's industrynor her goverment
is losing sight of the vital part ex-
ports will play in Britain's great
stand for democracy.
"Inevitably the needs of the fight-
ing Services came first; even so, we
have solid reserves of productive cap-
aeity, man power and inventive skill.
In short, we welcome inquiries from
overseas and are ready to meet the
demands of customers old and new."
BRITISH BUSINESS MOBILISES
Group of Experts to Win Trade War
Almost in
the shadow of Big Ben,
a group of representatives of busi-
ness men throughout the country are
to meet regularly and frequently et
the Department of Overseas Trade.
Like a military staff, they will sit
round a table and plan a war cam-
paign, but the army supporting them
will be one of factory workers, in-
dustrialists and inventors.
Appointed by Britain's Minister for
Overseas Trade, Mr. R. S. Hudson,
tl.is committee will provide a channel
for the investigation of difficulties
and the encouragement of effort in
export trade. Through their intimate
knowledge of all kinds of manufac-
tures, these staff officers of the in-
dustrial war front will also be able
to provide the Minister with a reliable
.estimate of productive capacity avaiI-
able from tine to time for export.
Represented on the committee will
be the Federation of British Indust-
ries, largest association of its kind in
the world, with a membership of
some 2,500 individual firms and 150
trade association; senior officers of
Chambers of Commerce in the in-
dustrial centres of London, Glasgow,
Manchester, Birmingham, Bradford
and Leicester; and of the Association
of British Chambers of Commerce,
the body to which is affiliated every
Chamber of Connmerce in the United
Kingdom,
The secretary of this national com-
mittee will be Mr. W. M. Hill of the
Department of Overseas Trade,
RECORD YEAR FOR SCOTTISH
YARDS
Old Shipbuilding Centres Are Being
Re -opened
The present year will be one of
the busiest ever experienced by Scot-
tish r shi
ands.
PY During the past 12
months an enormous volume of ship-
ping tonnage, both Naval and mer-
cantile, has been laid down, so that
by now there is not a vacant berth
of any size in the whole country.
To meet the needs of the Admiralty
and the merchant service it is un-
derstood that some of the yards dos-
ed down by National Shipbuilders'
Securities Ltd., which before the war
bought up redundant shipyards and
put them to. other uses, will be re-
opened and given suitable work.
Some of these
establishments ere al-
ready busily engaged in various in-
dustrial activities, but others have
been maintained by National Ship-
builders' Security on a "care -and -
maintenance" basis, pending just such
an emergency as has now risen. Sir
John. Gilmour, Minister of Shipping,,
has give an undertaking that if the
facilities of these yards are required
for the successful accomplishment of
the national shipbuilding programme
full advantage will .be taken of them.
A large proportion of the Scottish
yards are fortunate in having been..
able to keep on their staffs nail to-
day highly skilled, personnel might
have been lost to other industries had
it not been for the heavy warship
building programmes of recent years.
"GREEN"' FLAX
Britain's` New Linen Fibre
for the Services
"Green"flax; the result of investi
gation liy the Linen Research enation
at Lamberg in Northern. Irelandi, 'ia
about to be 0dwn nidely in England
and Scotland.
The fibre is quite,distinet from the
FEAR CHRISTIAN IDEALS
Nazis Will Not Allow Soldiers To
Have A Bible
Because the Nazis fear Christian
ideals will undermine the brutality of
German soldiers, the Bible has been
banned from the front. Soldiers of
the Reich are not to be allowed' to
read the Scriptures.
The Nazi research department has
discovered that the regiments where
the Christian ideals were the strong-
est were the units which revolted
first in the last war. With that in
mind, Hitler does not want his sol-
diers getting any encouragement to
mutiny from the Bible.
In an announcement banning the
Bible, the soldiers are told: "Neither
the Bible or the works of religion
)rust be .carried in the soldier's pack.
Adolph Hitler has not mobilized the
German people for spiritual inter-
ests."
With the Bible barred from the
German army, the soldiers can be ex-
pected to indulge in all the brutality
of the 'Kaiser's armies. Hitler wants
to intimidate the world by bestiality.
—W. L. Clark, in Windsor Star.
OLD-FASHIONED SKATES'
STILL IN USE AT WINGHAM
Many have often heard of their
fathers and granfathers skating on
wooden skates, but those at the arena"
in Wingham on a recent Saturday.
night were much surprised when they
saw Mr. Delbert Metrias who is 72
years old, on a pair of these old-
time skates. The skates used by Mr.
Merritt are very old. He has had
thein in his possession; for over 60
years and they were second-hand
when he purchased them,. so he thinks
they -may be close to 100 years old.
The wooden part of the skate is shap-
ed
ha -ed on top like the sole of a boot and
at the heel a screw projects' which is
sunk into the heel of the boot to
help hold the front of the skate from
slipping. The blade, of course, is of
steel, about an inch frr depth, and is
sunk into the wooden part. The skates'
are fastened on by two straps, one:
at the heel and the other at the toe.'
Mr. Merritt purchased them when the
lived at Smithville and used them for
a number of years. The next style
of skate, after the wooden one, was
the semi -spring skate, anti then the
spring skate._
SLEIGHS MUST HAVE BELLS
Shades of yesteryear) Last week-
end Crown Attorney Holmes receiv-
ed three complaints from mothers to
the effect that their dhildren had nar-
rowly escaped being run over by
horses and cutters sneaking up on
them without blowing their horns, or
rathd ringing their bells. Se he
dusted off the old statutes and sure
enough the section was still there
requiring that each horse drawing a
sleigh or cutter must wear at Least
two ,bells on the martingale, hips or
elsewhere. Ile has asked The Signal -
Star to bring this to the attention
of the public.—Goderich Signal -Star.
REMOVE TEMPTATION —
LOCK YOUR AUTOMOBILE
Though the theft of automobiles is
becoming more and more frequent, it
seems as if there is a tendency on the
part of owners to minimize the im-
portance of removing the keys from
their cars. They appear to believe it
cannot happen to them. The advance
of mechanical knowledge has increas-
ed the temptation presented by an
unlocked automobile and a full gaso-
line tank. Any person lacking in a
sense of the rights of others. does not
hesitate to take advantage of the op-
portunity to steal. In this age, many
cars are parked on streets, and roads
and people are so car -minded that a
driver is taking a real chance in leav-
ing his car unlocked. The driver who
removes his key may, by so doing, be
the means of preventing a serious
crime or injury to others. With the
automobile, it is not the owner alone
who rimy suffer but many others who
may eonne in contact with the driver.
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FUN WITH LIGHT F;F .CTS
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Here, all the light comes from the right. Try different, lighting effects 1
with a subject such as this. Use the diagrams below.'asguides in placing{
your photo lights.
HALF the fun of taking snap-
shots at night is in working
out novel lighting effects. You don't
need a lot of lighting equipment,
either. Two photo bulbs in card-
board reflectors, and a light -toned
wall for a baolcground — these
enable you to evolve numerous in-
teresting lightings that add value
to your pictures.
The diagrams below show how
you change the position of your
lights to obtain different effects.
a stands for subject, C for camera,
and B for background. The number
1 indicates a No. 1 photo bulb in
cardboard reflector, and 2 indicates
a No. 2 bulb. These two bulbs,
when in reflectors, are sufficient
for box -camera snapshots on high
speed film.
At left, first row, is the regular
45 -degree lighting. Center, a more
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dramatic effect,, with) one light din
rected-on the background. Right,.
a still more striking; effect, with a.
light on the subjecti from either.
side. Second row, left; a silhouette.
effect, with one light behind the -
subject and turned toward the wall..
Center, backlighting, with a light.
to the right behindthe subject.
Note shield "X" which keeps light
from shining into the camera lens,
At right, "halo" lighting, with one
light behind the subiect, shining
through the hair.
In taking these shots, keep the
lights' the right distance from the
subject, and don't let them shine
into the camera lens. You should.
then get good pictures—and you'll
find that careful arrangement of
lights will make them more intense..-
ly interesting.
267 John van Guilder
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TORPEDOES TRAVEL FAST
A type of torpedo user! by the
British and the Royal Canadian'
Navies, consists of a hollow steel
body and an explosive head It is
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cylindrical in shape, twenty-two feet
long and twenty -ane inenes in diam-
eter and weighs over one -and -a -halt
tons. It travels at a speed of about
fifty miles an hour.
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An opportunity to turn an unused article
into ready cash because you haven't used
the advertising possibilities at your disposal
to tell prospective customers what you have
for sale.
FOUND
Customers. A small advertisement costs
little, but it pays .dividends in quick re -1
turns.
Whether e you have furniture, live-
stock, farm implements to sell, or want
something quickly you'll find it pays to
advertise.
Use a ClassifieJ or 4isp1ay
Advertisement
It pays to tell it iii
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