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The Clinton News Record, 1940-04-04, Page 6..a • PAGE 6 THE CLINTON NEWS -RECORD THURS., APRIL 4,' 1940 ,%t•VaMele 'eAsNA'L4`Y,°ai iW'i �' I WM.' APVINWWWi . W. 1" es° ti r 1 Read - And VV,rite For You (Copyright) By John C. Kirkwood• Each gun was supplied with ,65 shells, increasing in size from shell No. 1 to shell No. 65. This gradual increase in size was made necessary by the feet that each shot wore down the walls of the barrel, until at the 65th shot the calibre. had gone fear' 21 centimeters (8.19 inches) to 23,5 centimetres. After that the steel tube had to be changed. The cost of each shot was in the neighbourhood' of $12,000.' During the last month of the war 180 shells, each weighing 100 kilos (220 lbs.), and shot from three Big Berthas, fell in Paris. One gun had a range of 80 kilometre,a (about 50 miles); another had a range of 100 kilometres (about 63 miles); and the third a range of about 75 miles. One gun was taken away by the Ger- mans; one was dismantled by the Germans'. and removed by them; and the third was destroyed by French bombing planes. These cannon were called "Berthas" after Bertha Krupp, head of the fam- ous Krupp armament works. The greatest damage done by these guns was caused • by the shell that exploded in a Paris church, in 1918; it killed 100 worshippers, mostly women and children. hunting on small capital; Around the It is said that Germany has con- world on dime; Cheap hobby -horses•. striated anew long-range cannon The chapter on "Around the World counted on to strike terror to the on a Dime" tells' of a named person dies. who saw much orf the world without The making of packages and cone much money. Thus, two boys made tainers is a big business. Each year their way across Africa on a motor is held in the United States an ex - cycle. A young university graduate, sick, penniless and on crutches, went round the world, tutoring en route as a means of earning essential money. Then he wrote a book, "The World On One Leg." Don McLain, natural- ist, when in his teens, owning a canoe and a dog, made a tour of the Great Lakes by water, It was while doing this that he resolved to become a naturalist. IL L, Meneken, journalist, author, editor, critic and columnist, has writ- ten a book, "Happy Days", which is the story of his boyhood. One of the chapters has as its title, "Larval Stage of a Bookworm." Mencken says that the first long story read by him was "The Moose Hunters" as found, in serial form, in an English annual, Chatterbox. He was seven years when he read this story, and it was a lab- orious effort, for he was not a very good reader of the printed word. Then he read numerous other books - some of them' wholly unsuited to a lad of 7 or 8 years of age. Then he dis- covered "Huckleberry Finn" and he says of this discovery that it was grocery, hardware or jewellery store, "probably the most stupendous event let your eyes scan the packages and of my whole life." And he goes on containers in therm. In other words, to say: "I read it over and over. In. increase your package consciousness. fact, I read it regularly not less than Packages are devised for your ad - annually down to my forties, and only vantage and to satisfy your aesthetic a few months ago I hauled it out and sense. read it once more - and found it as magnificent as ever." The book which •started me reading, 1 HOME GARDEN AS in my childhood, was "Swiss Family Robinson". I suppose that many of SOURCE FOOD my readers can name the book which started then off on. a path of pleasure without end. What was your first book? Probably' you know that your ex- penditure for yourshelter - meaning rest - should not exceed 20-25% of the family income; or to put it dif- ferently, your monthly rent should be about equal to one's income foe one week: But you may not know so surely what you can afford to" pay fore a house - either a'purchased house, or the house you mean to build. Well, the rule is: the -house you can afford, in an economic sense, should not cost more than double the family income for a year. So, if your income is $2000, then your house should not cost you, to build or buy, more than $4000. A book which many young persons - including young married persons - would find both interesting and en couraging has for its title "You Don't. Have to be Rich". The author is a banker, and the publishers Appleton- Century Company. The sub -title of the book is "The Wise Management of a Small In- come", but one doesn't have to have any incomeat all to get inspiration or stimulation from some of the book's chapters. Titles of early chap- ters are: Earning your way in high school; College on a shoe -string; Job- hibtion of 'packages and containers, with awards for the best of them in these classifications: folding cartons, (as used for lard, golf balls); col- lapsible tubes (as used for tooth, paste); fibre cans (for ice cream); glass containers (marmalade); metal containers (kerosene cans); set-up paper boxes (gift packages); plastic containers (as used by watchmakers and makers of cosmetics), counter or shelf display containers, (for electric lamp bulbs). floor displays (for numerous .drug and grocery prod- ucts); window displays (for hardware tools); shipping containers (for fruit); family group (as used by makers of "family" or related lines - makers of tinned soups, eg); opague wraps, bags, envelopes (for coffee, pickles); transparent wraps, bags, envelopes (buttons, cheese); labels and seals; closures (bottle and tube tops); rigid transparent containers (perfumes, pretzels, toothbrushes;) and a variety of miscellaneous con- tainers. So when you are inside a drug, The world'slongest road - having a length of 14,166 miles - has been half built. It is a ,projected road ' stretching from the Argentine to Alaska, and, of course, would traverse the length of British Columbia. This road its not fathered by any single organization. Thus, a 2250 -mile section extending from Faisbank in Alaska to Seattle is be- ing constructed by the Alaskan In. ternational Highway Commission. Another section is being built jointly by the United States and Panama. If and when completed the road will link directly sixteen North and South American countries, besides Alaska and the Panama Canal Zone: It will pass through every mainland republic in the Western hemisphere except Brazil, Paraguay and Uraguay, and these countries will have roads to connect with it. Those who ale young today are promised by men of authority - scien- tists' - things more wonderful than • anything the human race h.as had in the past. Thus, it is saidthat the eleetrical industry is still in its in- fancy - that what it does today is not a patch on what it will do toe. morrow. Yet electricity has given us power and a control over power the Iike 'of which was not imagined two :generations ago. It has given us radio and wireless telegraphy and 'telephony, and the electric lamp, and the telephone. , It has displaced coal and gas. So what is it going to do tomorrow? • About the Big Bertha guns used by the Germans in the Great War No. 1; it may be interesting to mnany to recall them to telt about 'their size,' their power - and their fritility, There were three of`.these. mammoth engines of desteuctiorea:'They had a calibre of little mere thau.,;8 ipches; a '.lengths: of ;about 123„ Eeyt, and weighed 200 tons. The diameter at the explosionchamber was one metre 39.37' inches. SUPPLY During the time of national emerg- ency many .persons are anxious to do something that will aid in con- serving the resourcesof the country, thus insuring anadequate supply of necessary. commodities said J. F. Ritchie, Horticultural Division, Cent- ral Experimental Farm, Ottawa, in a recent address. The home garden can be made the source of a whole- some, nourishing, inexpensive food supply that will lessen the demands on the regular vegetable -growing and canned vegetable industry of the na- tion, thus leaving a large surplus available for national purposes, he observed.• The importance of obtaining good, Mem seed cannot be over -stressed. Cheap, poor seed is a bad investment. Canadian -grown registered seed is now available for many kinds and varieties of vegetables. The best seed can be depended upon to ger- minate well and produce vigorous, uniform crops. With soil' and seasonal conditions varying widely, the dates of sowing served both in the hotbed frame and out of doors are consequently dif- ficult to state definitely. The fol- lowing suggestions are given as a relative guide: Sow in hotbed in lat- ter part of March or early April, cabbage, cauliflower, celery, egg plant, pepper, and tomato. Sow in. the field, mid-April to early May, asparagus (seed sowing), lettuce, anion (seed), onion (sets), peas (smooth), spinach, ttnnip, Brussels sprouts, cabbage, cauliflower (cold frame started) rhubarb roots plant- ed. Field -sown, mid-April, -beet, car- rot, chard, Kohl rabi, parsnip, peas (wrinkled), potatoes (sprouted), cab- bage ]ate for fall and winter. Late May, early June; bear, beet, carrot, corn, cucumber, citron, and melon. Plant out egg plant, peppers, and tomatoes. Late June, early July; set out late cabbage, cauliflower, and sow 'Illative.. Micl-July, August, Chine ese.,•cabbage, radish, spinach.It has been fennel plants grown through- out the seasonwithout a severe cheek produce much better craps. $1,000,000 A DAY Subscribed By Britons•For 100 Days One hundred million pounds ire one hundeed days has been voluntarily, lent to the State by the people of Britain in response to the Govern. ment's appeal to `lend to defend the night to be free". The King, referring to this "re- markable result", said: "it is a fine example of the determination of my people to dedicate their energies and their resources to the winning of victory and peace." The investors were almost all "small men" -- such as workers in offees and factories -and their total comprised £49% million in National Savings Certificates price 15 shillings each, and £50%. million in, Defence Bonds of f25 each. In spite of this huge sum from the ordinary citizen's savings, the total amount of deposits in the Post Office Savings Bank and the Trustee Savings Bank has risen, after allow- ing for all withd$awals, by £8,000,000 since war began. The State is also richer by an in- crease in the yield of taxation. Re- ceipts in early March were already up by £110,000,000 for the financial year, and of this additional buttress to the . nation's financial stability about £90,000,000 belongs to the war period. To maintain war supplies' both for the Services andfor export trade, the Ministry of Supply .had ordered £140,000,000 worth of raw materials up to the end of the first six months of war, and are now spending at the rate of 116,000,000 a day to keep industry fed with the sinews of war and overseas trade. Britain's New Army Boots Seven. Million Pairs A Year The output of the British boot - making industry is now substantially greater' than the figure of 130,000 pairs of Arany boots a week given by Mr. Chamberlain at the beginning of the year, and the production, which he compared with that of 120,000 pans of Army boots a year in peace time, is steadily increasing to the, neighbourhood of 7,000,000 pairs a year. The British Army's new boot is sixteen ounces lighter than the one which became famous during the last war. ,Trade experts have been so successful in combining durability with lightness and good fitting that when the official pattern was sealed they dubbed it "the country gentle- man's regulation. boot." The British Admiralty is buying some twenty ]finds of boats, shoes and slippers. Minesweeper's knee boots are tested with nine inches of water over a period inside each and if a drop leaks the beet -is eejeoted. For airmen there are knee boots lined throughout with natural lamb fleece and for every man in the air there are forty on the ground wearing Air Force ankle boots. The British boot trade is prepared for any further demand's upon it. Large quantities of a special type are now going from British factories for the French Amy and from 1914-1918 Britain equipped not only the British forces butin part the armies of France, Italy, Russia, Serbia, Ruman- ia, and the United States. MILITIA CAMP Middlesex -Huron Regiment to Train at Carling Heights July 6-13 The Department of Defence an- nounces that nom -permanent militia units of Western Ontario will receive at least eight days' training in camp this year. The First Infantry Brigade, which includes the Middlesex and Huron Regiment, will camp. at Carl- ing Heights July 6 to 13. The pro- gram mapped out for the summer camps is the heaviest in this district since the last war. What Causes The Chinook? Correctness of Old Theory on Warm Wind Disputed by Swiss The theory that the Pacific's Jap- anese eument sends chinook winds over the Rockies to warm Southern Alberta received a set -back at Banff this month when Bruno Engler, Swiss ski instructor, said he thought fric- tion caused by the passage of winds through narrow, funnel-like mountain. valleys accounts for the warm. breezes. Bruno, in town for the close of the Dominion ski championships, said Alberta's Chinooks reminded hien of similar winds he his native Switzer- land. These winds he said, are called "icon" winds sand, generally speaking, they moderate -the winters of Switzer- land' as do the chinooks along the continental divide here. Wind's, he said, do queer things in mountain ranges,. as high as the Rockies or the Alps. Sometimes they get literally trapped. Winds blow into the entrance to valleys and ranges, find- themselves' blocked arid begin to fight their'way back. This; said. Engler, sets up a friction., "and if., you know, your physics you know that friction does make heat." "YOUR HOME STATION" CKNX 1200 Ices. WINGHAM 250 metres' WEEKLY PROGRAM I-IIGHLSG•IITS FRIDAY, APRIL 5th: "Mary, a.m Queen of Scots" 12.45 p.m. The. Bell Boys 1:30 p.m. H. V. Pym, piano 6,15 p.m. Harry J. Boyle 8.00 p.m. Gulley -Jumpers SATURDAY, APRIL 6th: 9.30 .a.ni. Kiddies' Party 6.15 pen. Harry J. Boyle 7.00 p.m. Wes McKnight 7.45 p.m. Barn Dance SUNDAY, APRIL 7th: 10.45 a.m. Tena Reid, organ 11.00 a.m, United Church 1.30 p.m. Melody Time 7.00 p.m. Presbyterian Church MONDAY, APRIL 8th 11.15 a.m. "Mary, Queen of Scots" 6.15 p.m, Harry J. Boyle 7.16 p.m. "Ell & Zeb" 8.00 pm. Sarah Cruickshank, TUESt AY, APRIL 9th: 11.00 a.m. H. V. Pym, piano 12.46 p.m. Cactus Mac 6.15 p.m. Harry J. Boyle WEDNESDAY, APRIL 10th: 11.16 a.m. "Mary, Queen of Scots" 7.00 p.m. Four Belles 8.00 p.m. GKN% Little Band THURSDAY, APRIL llth: 8.30 par. Breakfast Club 6.15 p.m. Harry J. Boyle 8.30 p.m. Grenadier Guards Band THE SPRINGTIME The trees were bare and black and still; The leaf buds hard and tight; The pines and cedars hung their heads Beneath a cap of white. And it was winter on the hill, And winter in the sky; Yet flashing through the withered trees, I saw a robin fly. I hurried to my little house, I whispered to the hedge, I whispered to the lilac bush Just at the garden's edge. They heard, I think—they stirred a bit— Oh, it is almost spring! For up the farther road. to -day I heard a robin sing! —Abigail Cresson. If you have anything to, buy or sell use the classified columns. Will Boyish Bob Come Back Again It's Predicted for Wartime Use As A Hair. Style The war is creating simpler hair styles in the United States as well as in Canada and other belligerent nations, • the Annual Hairdressers Convention and Exhibition at Toronto was tarda A return to the boyish bob, which has been out of fashion for thepast seven years, will be general in Can- ada next year, Bernard 0'. Snowden, of Windsor predicted,' "War is bring- ing a return of tailored styles in clothes.," he said, "and with them will come the tailored hair styles." Three factors are bringing a retain of the boyish hair cut for women in the United States, said A. Vernon, of Rochester, N.Y., "Hair becomes val- uable in wartime in the making of certain ammunition, and at the same time hair styles become simpler, be- cause in such times of stress women are less concerned with appearing glamorous and more concerned about not having to waste time on, an elab- orate headdress," he said. "These two forces, coupled with the fact that hats now are designed to show the hair and not hide it will bring back the shingle or semi - shingle hair style. "There will still be a few curls or waves in. front, because a woman even in wartime can quickly look after them, but there'll be no earls at the back," he predicted. BENEVOLENCE? We hear our American cousins say- ing over and over again that they are helping Britain and her allies by supplying them with munitions. One would think that these munitions are supplied at the expense of the Ameri- can pocketbook. But what are the facts. The United States would sup- ply munitions to the Germans were the Germans ably to supply the cash for such supplies and to transport these supplies to the place where they are needed. The United States aids Britain on the strict basis of cash and carry. Their motto he the present war is the old principle of an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth. Allies and Germans are free to deal on equal terms with the United States. Where, then the benevolence that Americans• talk about? Where the aid extended to Canada when American interests have reduced the value of the Canadian dollar from 100 cents to a little over eighty cents? Wherein lies the right of the United States to negotiate a peace which they openly proclaim is no con- cern of theirs.—Exeter Advocate, ///A n • You canget those h G heavy, money. VY, 1,1a"up to 400 pounds of grain per pig—by using Pg y \1NNp y '�O NgIA �` /illifi making hogs to market quicker— and save Roe'W nde o rgrow Hog Concentrate. See your Roe � Feeds dealer and start your hogs on the short 4 "Roe Road" to market today. Complete feeding directions in every bag. • ROE Woukxq,,tow HOG CONCENTRATE H. CIIARLESWORTH Clinton - Ontario Show Farmer Management of Wood Lot Prince Edward Island Led Way in Establishing Practical Courses of Instruction Ottawa.—With a view to improving the management of farm woodlots ire the Maritime Provinces, short courses of instruction on this important phase of :forestry are now being provided at the Acadia Forest ,experiment Sta- tion, near Fredericton, N.B. These courses have been made possible through the col -operation of the Gov- ernments of Prince Edward Island, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and the Dominion Forest Service of the Department of Mines and Resources, Ottawa, and are to be given annually. In each case they will last from six to eight weeks, and are available to a selected group of farmers' sons from each, of the three provinces con- cerned. Privately Owned This activity started in the fall of 1937, when the Dominion Forest Ser- vice was requested by the Govern- ment of Prince Edward Island to make an investigation of the possible aid that could be given to the pro- vince in solving its forest problems. As the forest holdings on Prince Ed- ward Island are largely in the hands of the farmers, it was decided that the most effective assistance would be through organized publicity and demonstration in handling woodlots, Accordingly a short course in wood - lot management to be attended by sons of farmers who owned woodlots was erganized at the Acadia Station,. The first course opened on Nevem-, ber first of the same year,• and was so successful that the other Maritime: Provinces requested a,, siisi ar ar- rangement. Practical Work:, The courses are practical. rather - than theoretical. The aim is to teach . the students through lectures and . demonstrations the value of the - forest resources and the proper treatment of the woodlot, so as to , obtain the greatest possible continu- ous financial returns. Approximately half of the time is spent in the lec- ture room, and the remaining time in the forest doing practical work, On the completion of the course, each student is qualified to survey his home woodlot, and to decide on the _ proper method of treatment. He has sufficient knowledge to not only mark trees for cutting; but to manufacture those trees to the best advantage, . into different products such as logs,. pit -props, pulp -wood and fuelwood. CAUSE FOR DIVORCE In 1700 an Act was passed by the British Parliament which laid down . that any woman, whatever her age and whether she be married, single or a widow, who by the use of perfume, cosmetics, paint, false teeth, wigs,. iron corsets, padded bust and hips, or high -heeled shoes, inveigles a male subject of His Majesty into marriage,. shall be guilty of having broken the law which prohibits the practising . of witchcraft !and other arts of black magic, and any such marriage will be counted for null and void. r�J THOSE SPRING CATALOGUES With the approach of Spring comes the annual influx of cata- logues from out-of-town business firms in their effort to induce patronage from local residents. And doubtless sufficient sums will be realized from this community to pay the firms for this faxen of advertising. We have no bone to pick with these out-of-town. firms, We realize they have every right to present their goads in this manner and to promote whatever sales they can in this district. This is a free country, and if they can offer their merchandise in an ap- pealing manner and induce local customers to buy from them, that is their privilege, and no one can forbid them the cpprtunity. Nor have we any bone to pick with those from this eam- munity who may be induced to buy through these firms. They have the right to spend their money where ani) how they please, and, should they feel they can obtain better merchandise or better prices, it is their inalienable right to take advantage of such bargains. However we wish to point out that local merchants are in a position to successfully overcome this form of competition. They have the loyalty of the townspeople to support them --something outside firms can never gain by any means of advertising. They have the respect and friendship which no city firm can win from than. But, unless they will advertise their goods in a systematic manner, this loyalty will count for nothing. Unless local merchants acquaint the people with prices and suggestions, they cannot poss- ibly hope to overcome the annual appeal made, by city business houses. And their best medium to display their goods is in the columnns of the weekly newspaper. We know local merchants are offering every -day necessities at prices to compare favourably with outside competition and we know their merchandise is on a par with other centres. It is for therm to present these facts to the public and persuade thein to spend their money at home. Each year, TIIE NEWS -RECORD turns down a substantial con- tract of advertising from outside cities in an effort to help local merchants, and to keep their pages open fon local advertising. if the merchants fail to take advantage of this, circumstance they have only themselves to blame. THE NEWS -RECORD cannot force people to buy at bonne, to patronize local merchants, but we can, and do, all in our power to build local trade and foster good -will. To the merchant belongs the responsibility of acquainting the public with the bargains they offer, and the quality of merchandise they stock. It is a certainty that if people knew local prices were so favourable; and if they knew the merchandise they desired was availabletown — it is a certainty they would prefer to spend their nmaney at home. And so we say to the merchants — Help The NEWS -RECORD Help you,,