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The Clinton News Record, 1940-04-25, Page 6PAGE 6 THE CLINTON NEWS -RECORD THURISI., APRIL 2.5, 1940 ) ' ��� �TY'SIr.�Y�'Y���'YY�YII i � Y�� ��,1•� �"i �''`iY'c"�'�ti°� r°1n°�"�Yr�°r'iPil'i r`�'�"�?Y"Y"Y'5+�,� I Read - And Write For You } (Copyright) By John C. Kirkwood • .10010100Y"o i'VedWeiWati1W•VeiYeWoraWYWrYWeibWerei ' Y The following extract from a priv- ate letter from an English women, living in Susssex, England, sieter liv- ing' in Toronto—a letter dated Meech llth — will, I feel sure, be read with welcome by many reader of the News ,Rekord, So far here things are as usual. Meat rationing begins today. Each person is allowed to buy 10D worth of meat, but fowls, rabbits, liver, lddney, tripe and game are not eiationed. The bacon ration has been increased from 6 oz. to 8 oz, and the butter ration is 4 oz. per week, but mar- garine ,dripping and cooking fats are not rationed. So far there is no feeling of not having enough. . Fruit and vegetables are plenti- ful„ and so is fish, I heard that an, American visitor came. with stores of food, and was quite embarrassed at her hotel, where there was ample, "to know what to do with it. • Of course we all know what's ahead of. us. There will be less choiceof pure woollen' goods be- cause of the army 'needs, and linen is being made only for ex- port and military purposes. So the civilian has not really felt thepinch in materials. One Irish industry which stands to gain from the war is "tourism." A big influx of visitors for summer vacations .from Britain and North in Ireland. is expected by Eire, for Eire are. no blackouts and food rat- ioning. on this, continent, we in Canada confidently expect a enormous inflow of visitors from, the. United States but Canada has a competitor—Ven- ezuela. A representative of Venezuela who was in the United States for several months surveying the possi- bilities for tourists said "We realize in Venezuela that the nations of the Western Hemisphere are bound to- gether in their destinies and that there is the ,essential truth that only through visiting each other can we reale learn to understand our neigh- bours". An American tourist can visit Venesula on a cruise ship for a few hours without papers of any kind, and may remain eight days without al passport, landing with an ordinary! card of identification supplied by the transportation companies. Projects' for the conservation _ of wild life always interest me, and 1: read with sharp attention about the. plans to protect the rain sea otter and .sea Lion, and other forms of Wild Life, on Anacaps and Santa Bar- bare, islands off the Southern Cali-' fornia coast, The former island is: treeless, while the latter has several' small groves and scattered trees, On , Anacaps nest the brown pelican and. the cormorants and the disappearing American eagle. Perhaps it is subtle salesman ship by the makers and distributors of j i eee women's wear that explains the annual awards of the Fashion Acad- emy of the United States for America's best -dressed women. The committee of 'judges or selectors consists of a hundred designers and stylists. The winners in this year's survey of well-dressed women includ- ed Gladys Swarthout, of the Metro - 1 politan Opera, chosenbecause she is a typical American women wearing typical American clothes; Katherine Hepburn, representing the stage; Mrs James H. R. Cromwell, repre- senting society; Iielen Rubenstein, representing business; and Anna Neagle, representing international screen. All told thirteen awards were made. The basis of the awards was "style understanding," "The question of how much money was spent on clothes did not enter in- to the selection at all," said the director of the Fashion Aeademy. "American designers," he continued are .more than holding their own. durability to be used alone and se is mixed with either wool or cotton in the making of stockings, overcoats; and all other articles of denies. But afer one or two wearings, along with. laundering, these "sufu" clothes were found to become mere rags and tat - tees. Stockings would not hold their. shape for more than two hours or iso after having been donned. The man wearing a sufu suit and which was made wet with rain reached home with the 'cuffs of his sleeves at his elbows, and his trousers reaching only to his knees. So the wearers of sufu clothing - chiefly women - aro up iru arms against the government which compels them to wear sufu clothes, which have a life of about one-tenth that of clothes made from cotton. Chemistry, it is aid, is supporting Darwin's theory of evolution. Dr. Williams, chemical director, Bell Telephone Laboratories, says that all living things present evidence • of act- ual identity of chemical structure. The action of adrenalin, he points out, is the same for the frog, rabbit and man. "Chemical evidence is evolu- tion", says Dr. Williams, "is impres- :sive because we da not, as in the case of the Darwin theory, have to be sate -fled with mere resemblance They are creating fashion genie in- of outward form. We witness actual spired by the peaceful Americans. identity of chemical structure recur- ing at each rung of the ladder throughout the living world. The gardener and the lichens on the stone at his feet possess some astounding kinships of physiological process which bespeak a common descent." Many brillant artists bane declared their independence from Paris dict- atorship cf post eras." Now, if Canada had a Fashion Academy, who among Canadian wo- men would be selected as being the best -dressed. The agitation for guaranteed in- comes for all won't cease, despite the rebuffs given to Upton Sinclair and Dr. Townsend and others of like faiths and aims. _ A numerically •strong agitating body is The Workers Alliance -organization. Its programme provides for a guaranteed income for --YOUR HOME STATION" CKNX 1200 kcs. WINGHAM 250 metres WEEKLY PROGRAM HIGHLIGHTS FRIDAY, APRIL 26th: all individuals living alone of 4116 a 10.30 a.m. Salvation Army a week, and higherrates for families. 1.30 p.m. Piano Ramblings The idea is that the government 7.00 p.m. Four Belles should enlarge public works oper- '7.30 p.m. Phil Labadie ation, paying a minimum wage of 8.00 p.m. Gulley -Junipers $20 for a 30 -hour week, and that in- SATURDAY, APRIL 27th: dustry should operate on 30 -hours. A; 9.30 a.m. Kiddies' Party .spokesman for the idea said: "Private 12.46 p.m. GKNX Hill -Billies industry can absorb all of the un -I 6.30 pan. Baseball Scores employed. There is abundant capital . 7.45 p.m. Barn Dance available to finance the expansion;SUNDAY, APRIL 28th; ' of industry, which would create jobs for all. We have no scarcity of in -I 11.00 a.m, Anglican Church ventive genius nor of adminstrative 2.00 pen, Triple -V Class skill nor of natural resources:' 0.46 p.m. Pym at the Organ It is being said by an increasing) 7.00 pm, Presbyterian Church number of observers and thinkers MONDAY, APRIL 29th: that after the war, in Canada, and 10.00 a.m. Harry J. Boyle elsewhere, there 'will be new social! 1.00 p.m. Gene Autry and industrial set-ups and relation-, 7.00 p.m. The Jesters ships; also that we shall have per- 8.00 p.m. Sarah Cruickshank manently large numbers of unemploy- ables who will have to be maintained TUESDAY, APRIL 80th: by either the State or Industry or! 11.00 a.m, Piano Ramblings both, 12.45 p.m. Cactus Mac 7.00 pan, The Novatones The women of Japan are carrying on a "peaceful rebellion": they are rebelling against the government's enforcement of the use of staple fibre as a substitute for wool and cotton THURSDAY, MAY 2nd: and other articles. Staple fibre, let 11,00 a.m. Piano Ramblings it be said, resembles rayon and is 7.00 p,m, Doc Whipple made of pulp. It has not sufficient 8.30 p.m. Grenadier Guards Band WEDNESDAY, MAY 1st: 8.30 a.m. Breakfast Club 5.46 pen. Piano Ramblings 8.00 p.rn. Little Band Great Lakes Cruises Delightful Holiday -"v- • - to x A delightful break in the long Le trans -Canada rail journey and.perfeot summer cruises are combined in the services offered 'by the Canadian Pacific Great Lakes ,steamers. Two gleaming white ships; the "_Assiniboia" and the "Keewatin" make convenient connections at Fart William and Port ileNicoll, terminal points for. their water journey 05 542 en- chanting miles, and cruises aro operated especially for vacation- ists who like the charm of the vast 'inland seas. These two fine passenger silips, travel westbound en Weiinesdays and Saturdays; eastbound on Saturdays and Tuesdays. The route of these "•Circle Cruises," WiSTA=y1101=21/511=0SSUFSiT from June 15 to mid-September, is most interesting. Westbound from Port McNicoll, the ship ,glides through beautiful Georgian Bay, past Manitoulin Island, and into Lake Hei•on. It' sails up St. Mary's River, through Sault Ste. Marie to Lake Superior, largest of the Great Lakes, to Fort Wil bare. The schedules provide feepopu laax week -end cruises from Sault Ste. :Mario or either terminal point, hair the length of the full cruise. Other delightful five-day cruise trips are 'made by the spacious cruise ship "Manitoba," 303 feet long, 2,0:1.0 tons and, of steel' con- struction. These • ; crulsos trona July 1 to August 26 are from Owen Sound and Port MoNicoll to Fort William but the route is via the North Inside Channel of Manitou- lin Island and there is a special stop at Mackinac Island, rich in stories of early explorers and fur traders. Shipboard activities on all these vessels are :patterned on those of an ocean liner morning bouil- lon, afternoon teas, midnight snacks, impromptu parties, mas- querades, dances and moonlight promenades on deck. Pastimes include shuffle -board, deck quoits and other sports. The ships are equipped with spacious decks, cosy lounges and any staterooms —the last word ivaluxurious com- fort Have We Enemies In Our Midst? "I heard,. of a lad from Vancouver who is training at the Exhibition and who had to pay 35 cents for a pair of Red Cross socks." "Shocking." "Dreadful!" And of all that tea-party, there was only .one woman smart enough to track the story down properly.A young fellow in training at St Thomas —• not the Exhibition — and who came front; Moose Jaw — no Vancouver — did not know his way to the right agencies when he found himself out of socks. A Toronto boy had several good pairs because he had fond 'aunts and fond ' aunts friends to knit for him. But the local fiddle was short. of money Therefore he swapped a pair of socks he had received from the Red Cross in the ordinary way, for 35 cents of the Westerner's money so he could: go to a show. Simple and reasonable wasn't it? Then there is another tale going the rounds about the girl who placed a note in the toe of her finished Red Cross snake, asking the soldier who received them to write to her. She got an answer from a man who said he had bought them for 35 cents in a Peterboro store. Occasionally the locale for that tale changes to Bar- rie or, London or somewhere on the Danforth- but the 35 cents seems to remain at 36 cents. Well, what would stop a soldier who had been spending his money too freely, from selling socks to a kind soul working in a dry goods' store --- or somewhere — and who would be glad to put them on her counter, "to help the poor young soldier." Gossip has been going along for 15 years come next September and in all that time we have never given ourselves over to causes. And even now we are not devoting our .sym- pathy` to one good cause more than another. But we do think that fair play is fair play in war as in peace. Listen. In the last war as in this, the Red Cross have never had a set- up for selling anything. If the oc- casional soldier in the Great War had to buy a sweater or a shirt from his quarter master—well, the man who likes to make an odd penny on the side, doesn't become 100% honest just because he has been promoted to quarter master. Reel Cross sup- plies have to be shipped to a central distributing unit of any given comp- any or regiment—usually the manin charge of stores. But there is no way and there never has been a way by which any monies received, for same, can get back to the Red Cross. We Would Like The Job Of Tracking Down Stories If any of our readers are )rearing shocking tales about the Red Cross or the Salvation Army, the Y or the 1{nights cf Cclumbus,'we shall be glad to have then' passed on to us, Names will not be used. If we find a sound basis for any story we promise you we won't hide it under a bushel of wool. It does seem on the whole though, that it would be a far, far better thing never to click a needle in the cause of war than to go to meetings and listen in on untruths that are certainly not helping Britain and Canada in these days of trouble. GAMBLING GAVE US SANDWICHES The Ea11 of Sandwich has been credited for over a century with one of the most satisfactory inventions in human history. It is said that when he was too busy to leave the gambl- ing table for regular meals, he used to call for a slab of meat between two slices of bread, and thus the sandwich got its naive. Hann its first primitive form, the sandwich has been getting more and more civilized. It now is found in all shapes and sizes, in various calor schemes and a wide variety of flavor- some fillings. From the dainty one - bite type to the hearty kind cern ,prising two whole slices of bread (with crusts) and plenty of filling, sandwiches play an important role in our diet. SPRING FEVER With the nicer weather this week we begin to• herr people talking about spring fever. Old timers say spring Bever is just plain laziness' but they probably had the same feelings in their working days. It was: easier` then to quit anal go fishing. After months of being cooped up in shops and homes•, people feel a longing for the wide open spaces. They can hear the trout jumping iii the streams, or the baseball being knocked about the diamond, or they feel an itch to, lift a .golf ball onto the green. Unfortunately this is a world of work, and we have to stick to business many days when we should like to be playing. Spring fever seems to have the opposite effect on the women. With therm it is a time to get busy house cleaning. Already it has started inl a mile, form, but it will deyelop with the warmer weather ands .there will be rugs to clean ;anal window's to,. wash. Such is life. The Mayor Sees It Through From Her Town Hall, She Mothers a Borough By Frank Davey Into the lives of ordinary British People war has brought a crowd of new problems, new difficulties, new experiences. The war is not unreal 'pst because its casualty lists are, as yet, mercifully short. Iso this article a Fleet Street reporter tells the plain tale of one citizen of war. A woman of middle age walks into the Mayor's Parlour of the Town Hall with two bundles under her arm. There is an air of dignity about her. Why . not? For she is the Mayor. But high ceremony has beeci shelv- ed, together with the mayoral chain of office, the councillors' cocked hats and robes,and the town mace. It is wartime, and there is work to be done. This town, of some 60,000 inhabit- ants, has changed its character in the past half-century.From a placid market -town, it has grown into a dormitory for London Professional and business men, and a shopping. centre for their wives. It lies just outside the fringe of barrage balloons which encireles London. Today, it is seeing the war through. Something of the spirit of the famous Burgomaster of Brussels, who met the enemy at the gate of his town, inspires this woman Mayor. She has ruled the destinies of the place in peace. Now she is throwing her- self into the task of organising its defence. * * i * * When she was re-elected on No- vember 9 — the traditional day of mayor -making — there was no elab- orate luncheon. Instead, there was a small tea-party in the mayor's parlour. Those bundles she has brought in are part of her war work. One contains copies of a poster to be billed in the streets. It bears the words: "Lend To Defend The Right To Be Free" on a'bright blue ground. The mayor is President and Secretary of the local Savings Campaign. She has just come from a schoolroom where the teacher was talking to the children about Sir John Emcees broadcast appeal for the savings of the people to help win the war. Already the school had started its own savings scheme. The teacher told her pupils how the stamps on their 'cards would be turned into, money to "defend our people" and how the Chancellor of the Exchequer's needed their pennies an d sixpences every week to buy aeroplanes and anti-aircraft guns to keep their homes' safe from the enemy. One little girl had got the idea. "Please teacher," she asked, "if I � bring a penny willit buy a screw to put in an aeroplane?" The mayor chuckles as she tells the story. She adds that this teacher has taught boys now grown up to become soldiers and sailors, and has determined to :send from the school a parcel to each "old boy" called up for service. There is a lot of knitting going on. The wool is bought with funds obtained by selling leather gas -mask cases made by the handicraft class. That other bundle of the mayor's holds multi -coloured tailor's patterns which have been given her. She shows me a gay cot cover, one of many made out of such squares for evacuat- ed babies by branches of the Women's Inst.tute, * * k .k * Tine mayor looks out of the window at trenches and air-raid shelters. Everywhere in the streets signs point the way to them. Sandbags protect the windows of the shops, whose lights are heavily curtained at night. This borough has already had first- hand experience of was. At a Coun- cil meeting the other day, says the mayor, there was handed sound a jagged and twisted fragment of metal that had been picked up in the street, still hot. It had fallen during anti- aircraft gunfire at a German plane,. which flew from the mouth of the Thanes over this district on its way to the English Channel. It was photographed in the local paper as a warning to citizens not to stand in the road to watch when enemy planes come over. She is anxious about the increase in the rates for pay for air raid precautions, in spite of tine Govern- nient 35 per cent grant for this. work. She thinks it is hardly enough, and that A. R. P. should be a rational charge. "No fewer than 2,000 people ase taking part in Civil Defence here," she explains. "They are ambulance driver's, stretcher-bearers, canteen workers•—many of them are women," The Town Hall itself is the "re- port centre" for the area. Night after night A.R,P. officials sleep on the premises ready for action if there should be an air raid in the darkness For here ere received the first warnings of the approach of enemy aircraft. From here are radiated the "yellow light" signals to the scatter- ed posts in the district where amble- ance, fire and rescue squads• must spring . to preparedness. * ry, � ..0 �1. The. towii'e Medical Officer has moved )tis home nearer to be on the spot, The Town Clerk has shut up house and taken a flat near by; his wife is on duty at a first-aid post from 2 o'clock every afternoon till 10 at night:' The Borough Treasurer is head 0f the control centre. The Mayor herself is at work at the Town Hall from 10.30 in the morning• every day until nightfall. When national registration clay came along, the town's free library became the centre from which en- umerators went to call at every house. Officals there have been busy making out ration cards. The Mayor says her secretary is' managing the Foods Control ,scheme, and she has to write ell her awn letters. Yes, the Mayor is busy. SMELT NEW FISH TO LAKE HURON A new fish has appeared in rec- ent years in Lake Huron and other Great Lakes. This is the smelt which runs to spawn into many, streams shortly after the ice goes out. In some .streams, particularly those flowing into Lake Huron smelts rain in such numbers that large quantities are caught each spring by people liv- ing in the vicinity. The smelt is not native to the Great Lakes but first appeared a few years ago. Its native home is the Atlantic coast where it lives in the sea, run- ning into streams in spring to spawn. Some lakes in Maine and New Bruns. wick contain them all the year round and it was from such fresh water lakes that they were introduced into the Great Lakes. The smelt first gained access to the upper Great Lakes through plant- ings by the State of Michigan. As early as 1906 smelts were planted in the St. Mary's river from Sault Ste. Marie (Michigan) hatchery. Plant- ings were made at the same place at intervals up to 1921 but it is doubt- ful if any of these plantings were successful: In 1912 several million smelt eggs were planted in Crystal lake, Michigan, but mature smelts were not noticed in this lake until 1922. The next year they appeared in lake Michigan near the outlet of Crystal lake. The first records for lake Huron carne in 1932 when many were taken in herring nets at the south end of the lake. Specimens were taken at Tobermory the same year. The first smelts were taken in lake Erie about 1936; they have been recorded also in lake Superior and lake Ontario but they are not yet as conn -mon in any of these lakes as in Lake Huron. About five years after the smelt is first recorded in a locality, spawning runs are noticed in nearby streams or it is reported as abundant. Smelts were introduced into Mich- igan to serve as food for land -locked salmon which it was expected would thrive in lakes once smelts had be- come established. A. biological study of the smelt in Green Bay, lake Michigan indicated that they feed on much the same feed as lake heyrings and whitefish although they also eat small fish. Smelt are eaten in large numbers by lake trout and to a lesser extent by perch any ling. Smelt are said to make excellent bait for lake trout. In Green Bay the smelt spawn at the At 7 weeks your chicks aro ore the- way to becoming moneymaking- Fall and Winter layers, Keep them_. going in the right direction by feed» ing Roe Complete Growing Mash' —the feed that has helped., hundreds of thousands of Ontario,. chicks grow into sturdy, strong, productive pullets. This complete feed is of a, medium texture, high in digestible nutrients—with the correct balance of proteins, minerals and vitamins your chicks need to pay you big returns in Fall and Winter eggs. Ask your Roe Feeds dealer. 9 GROWING MASH Sold by H. CHARLESWORTH Clinton ViTAA11ZED FOR .• 'HEALTH, FARM • is• PROVEN RESII[TS i�. end of their second year of life when they are 6;t to 8% inches in length. . In Green Bay the smelt are report- ed to be a serious problem to the commercial fishermen since they get tangled in their gill nets to such an extent that the nets will catch only, a few, if any, of the mare desirable species. Only time will tell whether the appearance of smelt in such numbers in the Great Lalces is beneficial or otherwise; in any case, it is too late to do anything about it now. The time to consider such problems is be- fore introducing a foreign species. VALUES When you are believing That the world is mad, That both men and women Are most always bad, If you pause a moment To give things their due, You will find life lovely What is wrong with you? —Edgar Daniel Kramer,.. Fencing th E T511 1r i. 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