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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Clinton News Record, 1940-05-09, Page 7`PAGE s" THE CLINTON NEWS -RECORD THURS., MAY 9, 1940 Ford President Greets C.W.N.A. Mead ATOUR of the great manufac- turing plant of Ford Motor Company of Canada, Limited, at Windsor, Ontario, was one of the highlights of the twelfth annual ineetibg of the Ontario -Quebec division of the Canadian Weekly Newspapers - Association. The editors were welcomed to the Ford plant by Wallace R. Campbell, president of the company and then followed the various steps in the building of the cars and trucks by the more than 7,000 Canadian workers currently employed in the plant. In the above photo- graph Mr. Campbell,right, greets R. A, Giles of Lachute, Quebec, who' is president of the C. W. N. A. Read - And Writer For You (Copyright) By John C. Kirkwood b • ■ Where will Canadians spend their summer holidays this year? Will it be in Canada?, or will they go a - cruising - say to South America, or to far-off Australia, or to Tahita, or to Alaska? The much publicized Tahiti is be- coming a tourist objective. Tahiti is one of an island group in the Southern Pacific. It is a small island, about 33 miles long, with a 120 -mile coast. A motor road skirts the island. It' was to this island that the infamous Captain Bright - made real to us by Charles Laughton in a "Cruise of the Bounty" film - and his crew went in 1788. But today the island's people; may be said to be civilized. They have moderately good farms and schools and shops, it is a tropical island, with tropical flora, and has mountain peaks. There one can see' pearl divers and out -rigger canoes. Then, if one wants to see something very ancient, one can go to Yucatan, Where, centuries before the Spaniards went to the New World, the Mayas had built up a very remarkable civil- izatio n, and had built strangemonu- ments. onu-� ments. Ancient Yucatan has been called the American Egypt. The Mayans had fine templed cities - cities with very wonderful buildings made gay with carvings and colored frescoes. They had ast- onomers. They had pyramids and heroic sculptured figures. Just what! blotted out this strange and highly - developed Mayan civilization remains a mystery. This year one can visit Yucatan - just 48 hours distant from New Orleans, by ship across the Gulf of Mexico. This summer and autumn Portugal is to celebrate the 800th anniversary of the founding of the Portugal State in 1140. There is to be an Exhibition of the Portugese World. The great days of Portugese history will be made occasions for special celebra- tions. These great days include the expulsion of the Moors; the achieve- ments of Prince Henry the geog- rapher and navigator; the voyages of Vasco de Gama, who sailed adventur- ously to discover a route to fabulous India; the circumnavigation of the globe by Magellan; the winning of Brazil for Portugal, and the estab- lishment in the New World of a vast empire. The situation of Portugal - at the edge of the mysteries of the Great Ocean - fostered the longing of the Portugese to go to distant places. In` the course of a single century the Portugese reached out to nearly two.; thirds of the earth. They colonized the islands of Madeira and the .Azores; they mapped the practically unknown coast of Africa; they dis- covered the Australian continent; they visited Abyssinia; they took pas -1 session of Brazil; they found a sea- way to India; they discovered Green- land; they visited Ceylon; they went to the coasts of China, Her present lowly status in the • roster of nations is not preventing Portugal from recalling her past glorious history and place in the sun. • on the insertion of a nickel hi bar rooms, lunch rooms, pool rooms and other like places. The slot -machine fihns, when set going, last for 3 minutes. There are ten subject on a reel. If kept going continuously they take $1 an hour. Those ,promoting the "phonofilm" device, which will play music and show pictures at the same time, anticipate fantastic profits from the machines. But before you put any money in- to a company making andilor operat- ing' the new mechanism, it might be wise to inquire into the history' of that other somewhat similar enter- prise - the making of a dozen or se photographs of yourself for 25 cents, you sitting in a gaudy booth while the camera did its stuff. When these "photofilm" companies began opera- tion, they were supposed to make limitless millions for those holding shares in them, yet one does not hear much about these photo -taking ma- chines nowadays. Those Norwegian Fjords about which we have been reading so much lately were formed by glaciers, When the glaciers melted away in a long - past age, the sea flowed into the val- leys thus made. These fjords cut in- land sometimes for more than 100 miles. The largest and longest of them has a length of 112 miles, and there are great precipices - some of them 4000 feet high, Down these precipices and bordering hillsides may tumble waterfalls. At the end of the fjords may be lore -lying countryside dotted with the houses of fanning folk. Here, too, villages and cities may be found. In some of the fjords - the Oslo fjord, for example - islands occur. Norway's shoreline has a length of 12,000 miles! Science has a better way of tend- erizing beefstake than the time-hon- ored way of pounding the steak with the edge of a plate or with a hammer head having a studded surface. The scientific way is breaking down the tough connective fibres by the use of ultra -violet rays in association with a relatively high temperature and humidity, in an atmosphere free from bacteria and mold spores. What used to require from four to eight weeks of "hanging" is now done in two or three days. Some day soon you may be offer- ed an investment opportunity which will make gold mines quite uninter- esting to you. You may be offered a chance to buy shares in a company installing 5 -cent "movies" in beer:' parlor's, cocktail lounges and pool rooms - and perhaps in arcades. In the United States a dozen companies are ,engagecl in this sort of enterprise. At the head of one of these corn - is James Roosevelt, son of the!! American President. Those new mechanisms are likely. to. replace the }calf -million phonographs operating, If youwere in. a spelling match, and were asked to spell this word, "4-n: propylcyclohexanel-1", y u ' d probably ask the giver out of words to re -pronounce it - this several tunes - before you began to trip over the spelling. This word is the name of a chemical substance derived from the liquefying of wood - for science is now able to turn wood into water - not, 'however, H20. This liquefying of wood has been accounted for by Professor Harold. Hibbert of McGill University. DEMONSTRATION WOODLOT ATTRACTS MANY VISITORS Nelson. McLarty, farmer., of Col- borne township, and councilor of Col- borne township, has had many sight- seers to view a demonstration wood - lot on his farm. This woodlot has been government inspected, Mr. Me- Larty has a great love for trees and states that the work of beautifying his bush was a source of pleasure to him,• He .regrets that many farmers aparently have lost interest in the care of their bushes. Mr, McLasty and son, Lloyd, have just completed planting 1,225 spruce. and pine trees, .adjoining the' present demonstration let. This farm of Mr. McLarty's .is the, old George Howitt homestead Names Link r O111WillI ,#z'c ties itl� ari�a �■ �' CI$S By Alta Lind Bodges As one drives" along the fine paved highways today and sees the differ- ent names of places on signboards, one sometimes wonders how the var- ious places came to be known as such and such. Let us consider -just Huron County, The name Huron comes from the tribe of Indians that lived along the eastern shore of this great inland'sea that bears the name today. The Huron Indians have been called the Romans of the Western World, so superior were they to the other tribes found in Ontario. The county town. of Huron, is God - diet', so named after Lord Goderich, an influential shareholder in the Canada Company, as was Lord poi - home, after Whom Colborne township was named and indeed the names of nany shareholders in that now fam- ous company of English capitalists have been perpetuated in towns and townships of Western Ontario; Bid- dulph, .Bosanquet, Blanshard, East - hope, Downie, Ellice, Fullerton, Galt, Hay, Hibbert, Hullett, Logan, Mc- Gillivray, McKillop, Stanley, Us - borne, Stephen and Tuckersnuth, were all named after shareholders' of the Canada Company. The name Tuckersmith in all early maps is spelled Tucker -Smith, but is never written so today. The Maitland River, which empties into Lake Huron at Goderich, was called Menesetung by the Indians, who lived along its banks. When T. W. Gooding an d Frank Deschamps arrived at Goderich in 1826 to found a fur trading post at the mouth of the Menesetung, almost the first thing they did was to re- name the river the Maitland, in honoe of Sir Peregrine Maitland, Lieutenant Governer of Upper Canada. A great- nephew of Maitland died in Goderich less than two years ago, in the per- son of Capt. George Montgomery, a Fenian Raid Veteran. The towns of Huron County are Goderich, Clinton, Seaforth and Wingltam. Goderich has never been1 known by any other name and Wing - ham has always been known as Wing- haun; Seaforth as a town, has never been known by any other name, but before the town was founded, that little section: of the Huron Tract was known as "Guide Board Swamp." The founder of Seaforth named it after his old home in Scotland, and where the name Wingham catne ,from, no one seems to know. Clinton: was just known as Vanderburg's Corner, but when William Rattenbury laid out the town of Clinton, he named it after Lord Clinton, on whose Devon- shire estate he had spent his boy- hood. Exeter, which looks like a town, but is really a large village, has never been known by any other name. So many settlers from Devonshire settled here in the early days that they named the village after their old home parish in England. Brussels was first known as Ain- leyvilie, having been so named by its founder, William Ainley. The Government refused to recognize the name and when a post office was established, the office was officially known as Dingle. When the village was incorporated, it received its third and last name and ever since has been known as Brussels. The little village of Saltford, across the river from Goderioh, has also been known by three different names. When Tiger Dunlop and his brother, Capt. R. G. Dunlop, settled on the banks of the Maitland, and a little village sprang up around them, the settlement became known as Gairbraid, which was the name of the Dunlop estate in Scotland. Later the village became known as Mait- landville and when salt was discover- ed there in the sixties, the village became known as Saltford, and as! such it is known today, although no salt works are in existence there to-' day. The Manchester of years ago is today known as Auburn. The Kin - burn of our grandparents' days be- came Constance when a post office was established, as Eastern Ontario already boasted a post office known, as 'Unhurt. The pretty little village of Lon- clesboro was Hagyarcl's Corner before Hagyard laid out a village and named it after Lord Londesborough, his former landlord in Yorkshire, Eng- land. Dublin was known as Carron- brook until it became a police village and was renamed Dublin by the early Irish settlers. Gerrie was :founded by the Leech brothers, who named it Howich Village, but it was better known, far and wide as Leechville, so prominent were the Leech brothers in the early days. Grand Bend was formerly known only as "'Brewster's," where an early settler by that name established a mill, The mill clam flooded the fields of near -by settlers who "got even" by going :as a mob to the mill and completely wrecking it. • I•iolmesvilie and . Egmondville were. both much larger .in their earlier days than they are today. The form- er was first known as Bridgewater, but Egmondville has always been known by its present name. Zurich in the many years since .. it has been founded, has borne only one name and was so named because most of the early settlers in the district were German Swiss. The little Village, of St. Helen's was laid out by a Government en- gineer at the request of William Gordon and Henry Mathers. The former was the first postmaster and he named the little place after his wife, Helen, and was probably the only place in the whole Huron Tract named after a woman. Hensall was so named by the Pettypiece brothers, who founded the village and named it after their old home parish in England. The pic- turesque Village of Bayfield was founded by Baron de Foile, of Eng- land, who died suddenly before he ever had the privilege of seeing "the city of his dreams," do the eastern shore of Lake Huron. Save Money With! a Vegetable Plot Estimate 120 Hours Spent Shopping for Vegetables Which Could be Grown at Home in Same Time It takes less time to grow vege- tables in a home garden than it re- quires to shop for them in the mar- ket; and the quality of the home product cannot be equalled by mar- ket vegetables. One reason for this difference in quality is found in the deterioration in flavor which in most cases sets in when vegetables are harvested. Peas, sweet corn, lima beans, pod beans, and many other vegetables lose more than half their delicious flavor within a few hours after pick- ing. Within half an hour the differ- ence is noticeable; so the wise home garden owner picks her vegetables just before she cooks them. She can also pick many half grown, at which stage some crops are at their best. For instance, baby car- rots, about as large as a lead pencil, and baby squash, an inch or two in length. Seldom if eveir can these delicacies be found in markets be- cause they quickly spoil, but their flavor and tenderness are supreme. The idea that vegetables cannot be grown as cheaply as they can be bought gained some headway in the prosperous twenties among suburban- ites who employed high priced casual labor to cultivate gardens rather than doing the work themselves. Even with wasteful methods of production cost are much less now, and the sup- erior quality of really fresh vege- tables would justify higher than mar- ket prices. But the real saving in the house- hold budget comes when a home gardener does his (or her) own gard- ening.. Then the good health and fine appetite which work in the garden produces, increase his enjoyment of the vegetables he grows, while his living expenses are substantially re- duced. It has been estimated, on the basis of careful study, that tho average home maker devotes 120 hours a year to buying by the market fresh vege- tables which could be grown at home with 120 hours' pleasant work. The home garden thus maintained, however, would produce not only much better vegetables than could be bought, but more of then. The family would consume more, and expendit- ures for other foods would be lessen- ed. The saving in the budget, de- pending upon the family size and in- come, would amount to from $50 to $100 in a year. No experienced gardener would consider this saving to be the chief reward of gardening, however. That conies in the deep; satisfaction which is imparted by work in the soil, in the pride of accomplishment which a successful gardener feels, in serial contacts with other garden fans and generally, in, a more wholesome and healthful life. PAINFUL INFORIES WHILE OPENING .FRUIT JAR Mrs. Fred Vipond of Hibbert met with a peculiar and painful accident last week when she was opening a jar of fruit. The top was hard to remove and in twisting it the jar broke in two, the pressure of the right hand forcing the broken glass down on her left wrist and -injuring the cords of the third and fourth fingers of the left hand so badly that she had to' be taken to Stratford Hospital for treatment, retraining there for a couple of days before she was removed to the home of lies daughter, ' Tors, Ernest Robinson. FOREIGN EXCHANGE ACQWSITiON ORDER As announced by the Minister' of Finance, the Foreign Exchange Acquisi- tion Order, 1940, has been enacted by Order -in -Council under the authority of the War Measures Act: Unless exempted by the Order, every resident of Canada who, on May 1st, 1940, has any foreign currency in his possession, ownership or control, whether in Canada or outside Canada, is required forthwith to sell such foreign currency to an Authorized Dealer (i.e. a branch of a chartered bank) for payment in Canadian dollars at the official buying rate of the Foreign Exchange Control Board. "Foreign currency",' for the purposes of the Order, means any Cur- rency (excluding coin) other than Canadian currency and includes bank notes, postal notes, money orders, cheques, travellers' cheques, prepaid let- ters of credit, bank drafts and other similar instruments payable in any currency other than Canadian currency, and also includes any amount in foreign currency of which a resident has a right to obtain payment by rea- son of a deposit, credit or balance of anyr.kind at or with a bank, savings bank, trust company, loan company, stockbroker, investment dealer or other similar depository. The Order does not require the sale of any foreign securities. The Order does not affect any foreign currency, deposit or securities of any non-resident of Canada and for greater certainty the Order ex- pressly declares that a non-resident visiting Canada for business or pleas- ure for a period or periods not exceeding six months in the year continues to be a non-resident for the purposes of the Order unless such person enters or has entered Canada with the intention of becoming a permanent resident. No resident is required to sell any foreign currency if he satisfies the Foreign Exchange Control Board that he held such foreign currency on May 1st, 1940, solely as trustee or agent for a non-resident and that the non-resident's interest therein had not been acquired from a resident since 'September 15th, 1939, except in a manner approved by the Board. Under certain conditions stipulated in Section 1 (b) of the Order, a resident who is not a Canadian citizen may be granted exemption, but only after application for exemption is approved by the Board. No life insurance company incorporated in Canada is required by the Order to sell any foreign currency which it needs for the purpose of carry- ing on its business outside Canada. Further particulars may be obtained from branches of chartered banks. Any resident who has any foreign currency in his possession, ownership or control on May lst, 1940, regardless of amount, should con- sult his bank at once in order to ascertain the extent to which he is affected by the Order. - FOREIGN EXCHANGE CONTROL BOARD Demonstration of New Transport Uits Made on Rough Tough Ground The gun may bump high over a reserve of spare parts for others. hump and drop deep in a ditch but How much the task of the repair still it goes on and on. No smooth parts and workships is relieved by pavement is necessary to get this this development most of us can im- weapon to its destination. Drawn by agine for ourselves. The vehicles are, a four-wheel drive tractor it must go in no sense, experimental. They have or disintegrate. For the tractor been all tried and proved and have makes nothing of ordinary obstacles) acqnitted themselves satisfactorily and tears its way through country under all conditions. Numbers of that would appal a commercial interested people, including the Act - vehicle. ing Minister of National Defence, At a demonstration of mechanical Hon. C. G. Power, the Acting Deputy transport in Ottawa this week, these Minister, Col. H. DesRosiers, the tractors and not only these but trucks Chief of the General Staff, Major - as well proved their ability. They General T. V. Anderson saw them were tried over the roughest testing undertake severe tests and come ground the environs of Rockliffe through without check, under the dir- Aerodronme could provide. They were ection of Col. N. 0. Carr, Director thrown over at 'various perilous cue- of Mechanisation and Artillery. grecs from the horizontal and even the vertical brit functioned efficient- ly in whatever position they found themselves. If one got stuck—and one did — in a steep ditch in soft ground another made a job of haul- ing it out so quickly, it seemed simple. Canadian plants are to provide 94 per cent. of the mechanical transport which will be used for troops abroad. This is possible only because of the co-operation of The Ford Motor Company of Canada and The General that adopted by Bill Thompson, Mea - Motors Corporation of Canada with ford skier, but which, Dale believes is the Department of National Defence,' more reliable. Bill Thompson chased They too have enjoyed the assistance a rabbit down a hill and killed it of allied industries so that new with a blow from his ski pole. Dale _ Fsteps to his back door, new bodies- and other equip justp clicks on ment could keep pace with the pro -1 the beam of a big 'flashlight and duction schedule of the automobile blasts away at the bunnies with a plants. !ten -gauge shot -gun. When rabbits did considerable dam - The units on parade at Roekcliffe age to the fruit trees on his farm, were some of the new output of Can- Dale decided it was time to take ac - ado's factories. Fifteen hundred- (tion. Ile tried ort mint; traps. They weight trucks pulling anti-tank guns, I caught the rabbit, but by the time field gun tractors, 3 -ton load Carriers, 1 morning came the clever jack had engineer derrick, 30 hmrdreweight made his escape. Two failures sent load carriers and wireless trucks were Dale in search of another method. He displayed, And it does not ratter piled some hay in the barn -yard and Whether they come out of Ford or went in to eat his supper. Emerging General Motor's factories many of the later, be flashed on his light and, parts are interchangeable. There euro enough, there was a rabbit nib-' might be a General Motors body on bling at the hay. Bang, went the gun Flashes Light at Bunnies, Kills Them From Doorstep Not Quite as Sensational as Illeaford Ski -Hunting, Admits Holland Farm- er, But it Works HOLLAND CENTRE, Alynn Dale of Hamilton's Mill, Holland township, has a system of hunting jack -rabbits which may not be as sensational as Repairing Winter Da age to Lawns As soon as the soil is dry enough to permit work the lawn should re- ceive a thorough raking in order to remove the winter's accumulation et debris and to comb out any dead ' grass that may be present. Any 1 weeds that can be detected should be removed at this time. Thin and bare areas should then be thoroughly, !scarified by raking and reseeded with suitable grasses. A mixture consist- ing of four parts, by weight, of Ken- tucky bluegrass and one part of Col- 1onial Bent is highly satisfactory for reseeding in most locations, Up to 5 per cent of White Dutch clover seed may be added to this mixture if desired. The seed may be covered by lightly raking the soil or by cov- ering vary lightly with screened top soil. It may be necessary to water newly seeded areas occasionally since the soil should not be allowed to dry out until the seedlings become well established. When. watering, a very fine spray should be used in order to avoid uncovering the seed and wash- ing it away. The lawn should receive one rolling in the early spring to counteract any, heaving, which has occurred. The time when this operation may be carries) out effectively depends on the con- dition of the soil. If the soil is too ch'y the roller will have no effect and if too moist rolling will cause the soil to puddle. If winter damage has resulted from poor drainage it will be necessary to correct this condition. Shallow de- pressions in the lawn may be correct- ed by topdressing with compost or good top. soil. In the case of larger depressions it will be necessary to lift the socl, build up the area to the ! desired level with good top soil an replace the turf. Unsatisfactory un- derdrainage may be corrected by lay- ing a suitable system of tile drains. The most common cause of poorr lawn is low soil fertility. Adequate fertilization is a very necessary part of a suitable lawn maintenance pro- gramme. The application in the early 'spring of 8 to 10 lb. per 100 square feet of a 10-6-4 or a similar com- plete fertilizer is recommended. There area number of good lawn fertilizers on the market which will produce satisfactory results if applied at the recommended rates, The fertilizer, should be broadcast uniformly over the lawn at the first signs of active growth. It is necessary to water the fertilizer immediately after applica- tion in order to avoid. burning the leaves. a Ford`chassis or vice versa and the vehicle would be just as efficient. When. these vehicles work in con- junction with the British forces, wheels, tires and bodies will be inter- changeable with those Of the British Army. It, would be possible for a vehicle of the standard type :1 Mir - wheel drive to have a. General Motors front assembly, a Fordrear• end and wheels and body made by a British pa factory, or any rt of this combine- A girl called on o and ul of - tion. The parentage maybe pure at fered her services as shepherdess. the start but nobody knows how mix- "No, no, lassie," said the farmer, ed the stock eventually may become."I advertised for a shepherd, not 0 Simplification and standardisation sliephcrdess." of mechanical units has been carried "I know that, but surely there's no Out to the. utmost degree. Not in this reason why the work should not be war as in the last will there be mil- undertaken by a woman." 1 tiple makes of, truckssash requiring "Well, a woman tried it once and special stores of repair parts and re- made a. Mess of it." placements. Anyone of the new type "Who Was she?" put out of business. can become a "Bo -Peep." and the rabbit, puzzled by the light, fell in its tracks. More reliable than` Bill Thompso n's ski -hunting method, declares Dale, and not half so stren- 1 liens. Alynn Dale is a son of Christopher Dale, of Tackersmith, and a brother of Mrs. Albert Vanderburgh, of town.' • TRIED AND FOUNT) WANTING The purpose of all spring, opera- tions is to encotn•age a dense, deep- rooted, healthy turf which will with- stand summer heat and drought and compete with summer weeds. Tho necessity of starting lawn work as: early as possible, therefore, cannot: be overemphasized. ..