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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Clinton News Record, 1940-04-18, Page 6PAGE 6 THE CANTON NEWS -RECORD THURS., APRIL 10, iC,10 rl'.M■".:.'.V.Ui•■sd"°°° ... ° .'°°.•,l■ ...y4°d..'ti°.'.ti.Y.°a'■°. ■ . ■'.•■"..".'.Yti' country to educate themselves to y� remove the blight of illiteracy and 1 Read ,,And �IuC� Wri▪ te ForYou Chu to give a new prosperity to their; kstricken country, One of their activ- (Copyright) $�'• ities is handicrafts. In China today . there are already at work 2000 small By John C. Kirkwood ■ Industrial•Cooperatives and the goal is 30,000 of these cooperatives - this tle'll'■N'•J`Lti'■S`■tiYW`."■'" "'"■"■ti"e'Ne.9?.''NN'.•:■•.5,',1.`■b■'4Pd■'.r;°{.Y,r+'., to check the necessity of importing. Advertisers. are becoming' increas- ingly cautious - perhaps "careful" is the better word in regard to what they say in their advertisements all in a purpose to make their adver- tising believable, And, by the same token, the public is likewise demand, ing that advertisements shall be be- lievable. A watchdog of advertising and ad- vertisements, dvertisements,: and a court of refer- ence as well, is the organization known as The Better Business Bur- eau. This organization is internation- al, and units of it are to be found in numerous U.S.A. eitics, and in a few Canadian cities. The New York City unit received in 1939 a total of 13,199 inquiries and complaints, and a substantial part of the inquiries was due to questions asked' by writers of advertisements and by merchandise executives interested in making sue that their statements were correct before releasing .their.advertisemenits for publication. In regard to com- plaints, 25 per cent of them were found to be unjustified•. Publishers of newspapers and mag- azines work hand in band with The Better Business Bureaus, in order to make sure that the advertising ap- pearing in their publications is free from false statements and inac- curacies. Also our great department stores are most careful in what they say about the merchandise they ad- vertise. If therefore, you have ever said or thought that advertising writers let fancy blot out truth, then know they are as conscientious as you are, per- haps more sol Talking about advertising leads me to report that our good hotels are planning to do more advertising in an effort to left average occupancy over the 70 percent level which for many years has been considered the point at which hotels can about break even. Occupancy, in the past five years, has averaged only 63 per cent in regard to a very large number of the larger hotels. Ten or so years ago the operators of many hotels felt that it was not dignified to advertise, meaning to go out after trade. Today, however, managements are convinced that ad- vertising can do more than merely keep a hotel's name before the pub- lic, and that advertising and other forms of sales promotion can increase the number of hotel users. Both transportation companies and hotels are successfully active in pro- moting the travel habit - largely by advertising, and their promotion work has led to the rise of "packaged tours" in which hotel accommodation is included, with rail or bus servic to points of interest. ,Canada should begin doing who, the United States is doing, namely make the general 'public aware o publications produced by the Federal Government, witlithe idea of Maros- ing the number of buyer -readers of these publications. The United States has produced about 65,000 publica- tions! These cover a wide variety or range of •subjects. Popular publica- tions are "Infant Care" - of which 2'/z million copies have ,been sold; "The Child from 1 to 6"; "Famous Trees"; "The Care and Repair of the House"; and a description of United States postage. stamps. There is a good demand for government publi- cations on sex education, agriculture, and home economics, Last year the U. S. Government Printing Office sold nearly 13 mil- lion books and other publications, with •sales netting about $1,000,000. Japanese goads. e While the immediate programme is to make goods for home consumption, the ultimate aim is to make goode. for export, tat f (These industrial cooperatives are giving .employment to refugees from coastal districts, especially to women, who are occupied largely in.the mak- ing of rugs from ancient Chinese pat- terns, in weaving and spinning, in the makipg of cloth shoes, coats and un- derwear, and blankets. Spinning wheels are to be found everywhere. Foreign trained experts are giving guidance to Chinese operatives. Inall sixty or more items for home use are being made in cooperatives. If you Want to start an animated hiscussion, begin talking about what's wrong with educational practices and theories. as these relate to public and high school courses. Say that educe.- tion duce-tion is being made too easy, or that pupils do not have enough discipline in both school and home, or that too much time is spent trying to "teach the "whole" child mentally, physic- ally, socially and emotionally. Say Chat children have too much home work, or that they are being taught useless things, or too many things, that teaching is too superficial, that teaching should relate more to voea- tion than culutre. Yet there is one thing that you are unlikely to say, namely, not enough attention is being paid to the subjects' reading. Yet many percep- tive teachers are insisting that one of the serious deficiencies in present- day education is the neglect of right or better reading. Many teachers say that their students are so seriously deficient in reading ability that they find it difficult to teach any subject. And related to deficient reading abil- ity is inability to write correctly or fluently. One man - the Dean of Har- vard Law School - has said that most of the failures in law school are due to deficiencies in reading .and writ- ing ability. One famous school has as a basic requirement the reading of a hundred great books and their maximum understanding. A current story Mates to a "baboon boy" a native South African boy Who was nurtured by' baboons up to the age of 13 •or sir. He was discov- ered in 1903 by two troopers of. the Cape Mounted Police - in the comp- any and care of a troop, of baboons. On being caught the boy was taken to a mental hospital, where he re- mained for a year, and was then turn- ed over to a farmer for whom he sub- sequently worked. When caught, the boy jumped about and showed a strong desire to walk on all fours. He mimicked like a baboon, and jerked and rodded his head like a baboon. Ile objected violently to being washed, and was with difficulty led to abandon his dirty habits in and about the house. He could not speak, but chattered like an ape. He retained his old taste in food and preferred a meal of raw corn and cactus. He took no account' of time. In the course of time, however, the boy became a dependable worker, and was, reportedly, 'remarkably intelli- gent', and acquired the use of lang- uage, by which he was able to relate details of his life among the baboons. BACK OF DOOR IDEAL FOR STORAGE The smallest house seems larger when provision is made to take care of the little things that take up so much room. If you put the backs of your closet doors to work this spring as storage space, you will be am- azed to see the cluttered look disap- pear front your interior. To do this just install, a TOW of shelves on the backs of your bedroom closet doors; use one shelf for shoes, another for socks and stockings, one T have previously spoken of what for lingerie, and if the storage unit the Chinese are doing in their court is hung low on. the door, the top shelf will hold small hats. The dentatus of our Country and Etepire, occasioned by another Great War, cause Us to pause and recount the progress Made in the quarter-century since the beginning of the first Great War. Then but 10,000,000 acres were sown to wheat in contrast to over 25,000,000 acres now; then we exported but 25,000,000 lbs. of bacon and ham to Great Britain in a year, whereas this year o'ur shipments will total over 260,000,000 lbs. Then the average yearly production of 'a dairy cow was 4,500 lbs. of milk which now has been raised to 6,500 lbs. Farmers have, been alert to the findings of science end the better practices developed by our agricultural colleges and experimental farms. Changed methods have brought vast improvements; higher standards of :product's have been attained and maintained, Science, too, apelied by practical men of knowledge has, through the solving of many of our immediate problems, greatly increased the productivity of our farms and added immense sums to the farmers' _yearly revenue. Rust -resisting varieties of wheat 'have new ended the annual losses occurring from this perennial blight which is'ostiteated in have cost the farmers of Western Canada hi the 62 years of wheat growing, eh `q befit ih excess of half a billion dollars. Grasshopper control eff6i'ts have been perfected to the point where the damage from these pests hes been'greatly '2urtailed, one authority placing the saving from this work at several hundrals•of millibhs 'ref b0shels of grain in the last seven years, And the agficultural'implement engineer has been busy designing machines to meet the specific needs of'the 'moment. Speed, Tess man -power, and lower costs of operethen, have been iite god] and as a result most machines haveundergone great changes. Tractors have b'een'tremendously improved. New machines have been made evaila.ble. One -Way -Disc Seeders• -till and sow in one operation, cutting the cost of these operations by 40% to 50%. The'new Small Cotnbihes extend the use of this new row cost harvesting method to farms of all sizes—saving upwards of $1;60 per acre in harvesting costs. Massey -Harris is proud to have played an important part in adding the contribution of the implement maker to those of the scientist and farmer in furthering The interests of agriculture. —0144 .r ,fid ✓iL01da- f f "g4e.: 46e•ei. 74,E SER//OE ARM OF THE CANAi)/AN ha;"au f4iM t��utic uoe�o� "Naval Eye Witness" raw I was about a week at Asea in destroyer on what I suppose was a pretty typical convoy trip in the At- lantic, except that our weather wasn't so bad as it' might have been. She was rather an aged ship, 20 years old to be precise, which as everyone knows isn't exactly juvenile for a destroyed. However, since the war started she's done about 73 per cent of her time •at sea which is pretty good going, and a tribute to her en- gineering department. Generally speaking, the worse the weather the longer the time at sea.. On one oc- casion she did a 13 day trip, follow- ed by a day and a half in harbour, and then another 11 days at sea. Our ship's company numbered 140, counting officers. They were of. all ages from twenty to fifty five, some of them being pensioners and reserv- ists who were at sea in the last war and before, later returned to the. blessings of the land, and then came back to the Navy on mobilisation. Their shore jobs were varied. We had several postmen; a poultry farm- er, and a plate -layer, a commission- aire and crane driver, two builders, a boarding house keeper, bus driver, a licensee, gamekeeper, joiner and a mental nurse. I spoke to all and sundry and never heard a grumble. I don't pretend they all loved coming to sea again, and in a small ship at that; but' they were a cheery lot and were thinking of starting a band, if someone could scrounge a drum and a few tin whistles. Anyhow, I remember be- ing on the bridge in the cold chilly dawn out in the Atlantic, with the ship, butting into a heavy westerly swell and everything rather cold and wet, and a rather raucous voice lift- ing up a voicepipe from the wheeI- house — "Why does my heart go boom?" I'm sure I couldn't tell him — at that hour of the morning. I can't be too explicit as to what we did, or where we went. But leav- we did, or where we went. But leave we picked up our convoy and escort- ed it for about three days. Our weather was variable. We had a good deal of fog and some rain, and a stiff easterly breeze which superim- posed a little breaking sea on top of a heavy swell and made the ship kick about quite a lot. Our convoy steamed along with their Connnodore in charge, while we acted the part of a watchdog and made flag signals—"Speed so-and-so. Close up"—when. they showed a ten- dency to straggle. As it's no longer a secret, I can say we were keeping a careful lookout on our asdics, those deadly devices used for submarine de- tection which have been described as unseen, impalpable fingers groping beneath the sea. Our depth charges were also ready for letting go at a moment's notice, and twice we did let one go on getting what is innown as a 'contact'. It might have been a submarine; but wasn't. Well—on we went, with our convoy gradually getting better at keeping station, even in thick weather, of at night without lights. Merchant Naval officers aren't accustomed to steam- ing in close order, and being drilled more or less, by flag signals andnm winking orse lamps. But after very little practice they might have been on the job for years, and their stay. tion keeping would have done credit to the Mediterranean Fleet. If ever there was a time when the Royal and Merchant Navies were interde- pendent and indivisible it's now, a foaming white. , They'll hang- poised for a moment with the forefoot out of water, while the wave sweeps aft with its crest surging knee-deep along the low upper deck. Then the bows fall into the next hollow with a shock that jars the whole ship, while the stern, with its rude der and whirling propellers, is mom- entarily lifted in the air. Sometimes the ship'11 get out of step with the sea and take a whop- per clean over the bows. A boiling cataraet'll come roaring over the forecastle, to go sweeping aft past the bridge structure and down an to the upper deck in two cascading waterfalls. Spray'll be driving high over the bridge and funnel tops. Everything's cold and wet and abominable; but still the ship's cook, a seasoned veteran, is managing to produce some sort of a hot meal for the shin's company with his pots and pans skidding wildly across the red- hot top of his galley stove, Having seen their work, I can give full marks to the officers and men of the Merchant Navy who are carrying the food and supplies upon. which we depend. But having also been at sea in one of the convoying. destroyers I can't help saying that their job's the toughest that can be imagined. They don't have the ex- citement of meeting U-boats every time they go to sea. More after than not it means day after day of dis- comfort in vile weather. But there's no doubt that the Cone voying System is an outstanding suc- cess, a success which is largely due to the close co-operation between the two Sea Services and the Royal Air Force, the endurance, grit and sup- reme skill of our seamen, and to the, organisation which directs them. Though a submarine was sunk in our vicinity while 'w.ere were out, we were not actually in at the death. Indeed, there weren't too many sub- marines about, for attacking convoys these days is rather a risky business for the U-boats. We steamed on with- out incident, reached our appointed rendezvous far out at sea, and tuned our convoy over to the care of others. Then we parted company and sped off to another rendezvous, where we picked up another lot of ships we were to bring home. We'd managed to get a peep at the sun and some star sights, so knew our position pretty accurately. And next morning we picked up our convoy right ahead and plumb on time. Sometimes, when it's blowing a gale and sights of the sun or stare have been unobtainable, escorts have great difficulty in picking up their convoys, and have to search for as long ,as 36 or 48 hours. But this time we were lucky. We joined up, took up our usual station, and turned aur bows homeward. We had more thick weather on the way, and fog's always,a bugbear at sea with a •eon- siderable slumber of ships in •corp- any. But they all got home safely, and iso did 'avec But this convoy work's no sinecure for the eseoris, which, as I've told you, spend long periods at sea. And in those winter gales of the North Atlantic the .]notion is difficult to imagine—a combined• pitch and roll wholly disorienting to the uninit, iated. At onemomentthe_bows'11 be climbing to. the advance of a steep,. slate -coloured, hummock crested with Canadians Still Lead As Telephone Talkers, PLAYING HOST TO 20,000,000 VISITORS In the next few months Canada hopes to play host to the largest number of .people hat ever wenn vis- iting anywhere in theworld, at any time. If present expectations are realiz- ed there will come to visit us this year between 15 and 20 trillion Am- ericans. Same of them will find their way to the farthest nooks and cern- ere ernere of the Ddminion. They will be. friendly, perhaps curious. They will be interested in Canada At War as much as they will be in visiting and revisiting our lakes, mountains and playgrounds. For two reasons this unique phe- nomenon oftourism is of greater im- portance to Canada this year than ever before. 1. Canada needs American (tour- ist dollars to help win the war. 2. Canada must this year be in- terpreter as well as host to those vistors from a friendly but neutral democracy. 5 5 :k Fust we must make stare that this hoped-for flood of tourist visitors really gets here. Just recently the Winnipeg Trib- une drew attention to the fact that we spend $2 millions a year in our fisheries deparbment in order to market about $40 millions of fish. In the 'business of tourism we spend $300,000 and hope to get $300,000,000 of trade. While we think it good business to spend $5 of federal funds for $100 worth of fish we spend only 10 cents to get $100 of tom•ist business. So long as we are at war, the Am- erican dollars these visitors will. bring are an essential war sinew. We should not hesitate to spend at least a million dollars to merchandise Canada's tourist attractions in the U, S. A. * * e . Even a little state like Illinois with not a fraction of the tourist oppor- tunities that Canada possesses is spending a quarter of a million this year. Equal or larger expenditures are being' made by state and tourist For the eleventh consecutive year Canadians are rated as the world's greatest telephone talkers and con- tinue to lead the people of the United States by quite a margin, according to figures just released by the Stat- istical Division of the American. Tele- phone and Telegraph Company. This brings the record up to January 1939. On the average, each person in Canada in 1938 placed 235 telephone calls as compared with 236 the pre- vious year. These figures compare with 223 for the United States. Next in order came Denmark with 185, Sweden with 181 and Norway with 96 yearly conversations per capita. Canada ranks fourth in. the matter of telephone development with 12.13 telephones per hundred of population. First is the United States with 15.37 followed by Sweden with 12,73, New Zealand 12.69 and Denmark in fifth place with 11.61. Apparently the dictator countries do their talking by means other than the teleiihoue fur Germany with 5.20, Italy with 1.41 and Russia with. 0.75 telephones per 100 population rank far down the list. Among the larger Canadian cities, Toronto and Vancouver lead in the matter of telephone development, Both record 26.34 telephones per 100 population. Washington, D,C., leads with 40.14 while next in. line come San Francisco with 38.53 and Stock- holm with 38.28. Of interest is the fact that North America's 21,617,000 instruments is more than, half the world's 41,090,000 telephones. New York City with. 1,632,000 telephones has 273,000 more than all Canada with 1.359,000 iti struments. FORMER LUCKNOW WOMAN IS 101 BRANTFORD -- A great many things have changed since she was a girl, "and not for the better, eith- er," according to Mrs. R. G. Ellis, who will celebrate her 101st birth- day at the home of her son, George Ellis, here Saturday. "I do think the airplane, the auto- mobile, the ra.clio and other inven- tions are fine things," site said. "But in the 'old days you eould always de- pend on a man's word, es if you had all the documents and lawyers in town to bade you up. You can't do that airy more. Everyone used to try to live a good religion, moral life,, but nowadays so many people are out only for a good. time." Mrs. Ellis attributed her longevity to hard work and plain living. Al- though her eyesighthas failed, her hearing is good and her memory ]teen. She thinks the women of today wear too few clothes, If it weren't for their coats they would, freeze, Mrs. Ellis said. Mr. and Mrs. Ellis farmed for Five years near Lucknow. When. the Canadian troops move to France they will have direction of their own canteens, At present in England these ase provided by Bri- e tisk auxiliaries. authorities all over the U.S.A. They know the value of merchandising their assets so as to gain a share of the record expenditure that is ex- pected to be trade by tourists on this continent in 1940. Canada has an excellent Travel Bureau which has been doing splen- did work within its limited re- sources. It is greatly hsuclicappecl because it lacks tine money to "fol- low though," The first essential of our tourist effort is to make sure we are doing sonable distance". a good enough sales job. Right now The point is, that irrespective of our national effort looks puny in re - I lotion to the opportunity that exists, tltc variations in the law among the several provinces they all require two good headlights which must both be in operation when the motor car is If, as and when these tourists wine cn the highway after dusk or before to Canada, what are we going to telldawn, or when light or atmospheric them? Conditions at other titres of the day It is a certainty that most of them are not sufficient for safe driving will want to talk about the war. They ,without lights. will want to tell us, perhaps, why 1 This is the time of year when many they are isolationist. They will want lamps which have been in use all to know what we are thinking' and winter need replacing, and with the doing. 'advent of spring and much heavier How well are we prepared to talk traffic on the highways at night the about "the issues at stake"? Iwise motorists has his lights checked'. Is there a danger that we will sit !He takes the precaution to replace a back on our fence rails or club chairs lamps which are black or partly burn - and sneer at our visitors for not be- f ed out, and has the, reflectors off ing in the war? his headlights cleaned. The patriotic Are we ready to speak with clarity motorist always makes sure that the and conviction about fighting for the eutomoble lamps he buys are made right to live our own, life—an ideal 41 Canada, which must surely bd common to I Another safety measure to the pub - every citizen of this continent ie is the annual registration of all motor vehicles in operation on the public thoroughfares. The license plates identify the ear. Of interest in this connection are the colours of the license plates for the cars registered in the respective provinces. The fol- lowing is description of 1940 plates is the description of the 1940 plates registered in the respective provinces The following is the description of the 1940 plates; giving color of the numerals in each case first, followed' by the color of the background of the marker. Nova Scotia, White and black: Prince Edward Island, white on black: New Brunswick, yellow on dark green: Quebec, white on black: • Ontario, black on yellow: Manitoba,. white on light green; Saskatchewan,. .g � �': • NAPO T%3 1/050 l'165use-- �E Tyg.' A'� E�0 yE it F FOR IgAll g YOU • If you want your baby pigs to wean themselves when mother sow's milia starts dwindling—feed Roe Baby Pig Starter and water from the 3rd week. It's the perfect, farm -proven founda- tion for future pork packers. Your pigs. get vitamins, proteins, minerals--• everything they need for longer,, stronger frames and premium quality pork. Leading Ontario pig men feed. Roe Baby Pig Starter during the all- important weaning period — and get more and better pigs to market weeks: earlier. Complete directions in every bag, �. CHARLESWORTH Clinton whether living north or south of the 49th parallel. Let's not be penny wise and pound foolish about making 1940 a banner tourist year. And let's be prepared to talk about the issues at stake when our visitors arrive. --The Financial Post. Law Requires Good Headlights in aII Canadian Provinces The Highway traffic laws of every one of the nine provinces of Canada require two headlights for illumin- anion of the road on the front of red or white: Alberta, black oa each motor vehicle, and one tail light. Grange : British Columbia; yellow on In most provinces the power of the black. head .lamps meet be s; 4fficient to - make objects clearly descernable at least 200 feet in front of the car. Quebec requires 100 feet of illumin atio,n, and New Brunswick "a sea - READ THE ADVERTISEMENTS IN THE NEWS -RECORD ROUND TRIP BARGAIN FARES APRIL 26-27 F rout CLINTON TO Stations Oshawa and east to Cornwall inclusive, Uxbridge,.. Lindsay, Peterboro, Campbellford, Newmarket, Cellingwood, Meaford, Midland, North Bay, Party Sound, Sudbury, Capreol and West to Beardmore. P.M. Trains April 26 'A.II Trains April 27 To TORONTO Also to Brantford, Chatham, Goderich, .Guelph, Hamilton, 'eeendon, Niagara Falls, Owen Sound, St. Catharines, St. Marys, Sarnia, . Stratford, Strathroy, Woodstock. See handbills for complete list of destinations' For fares, return limits train information, tickets, ete:" Consult nearest agent CANADIANTF N ir"