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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Clinton News Record, 1940-05-23, Page 6PAGE 6 . 1 Read - And Write - For You } (Gnopyright) By John C. Kirkwood Very soon now we shall be read- division of labour - the classification ing - or scanning long lists ofl of varieties of employment; but who - names of university and high school ever thought that labour would, and collegiate institute students who someday, have over 17,000 descrip- have been successful in their exam- .tions? inations, and in particular we shall Itall means that work -seekers re - be giving attention to those winning quire more and more to be special-. ists -, able to do competently a par- ticular type of work. The jack-of- all-trades type of man - the handy man - is out of luck in these present times. What employers want is per- sons 'trained' to do efficiently and swiftly a single thing. If you read the `help. wanted' ad- vertisements in newspapers, you will see that advertisers are, increasing- ly, calling for men of specialized ability. Here's an illustration: Wanted—Designer-Engineer Fractional horsepower motor design engineer. Must be well .experienced in designing, devel- oping and manufacturing of single phase, shaded pole induc- tion motors from 1-20 horse- power down. Only high -type in- dividual with the actual exper- ience as outlined will be consid- ered, The multiplication of occupational classifcations means that competi- tion for jobs is lessened, which means, in turn, that the chances of war to protect cats. Anorder had, one's' getting employment are im- been issued by the State Fish and Game Commissioner to have eats kil- led because of their destruction of gamefowl. But instantly a vast pro- test was made by farmers, women's organizations and cat lovers and cat clubs, and the commissioner was compelled to rescind his order. Farm- ers published advertisements in local newspapers warning sport sin en against hunting cats on their. farms. "No Hunting" signs were put up on farms. The State's game department had Portrait of a living person in 1839 or -offered 200 pheasants to the county 1840. When a photographic journal which killedthe largest number of asked the question, in 1858, "who eats and crows during the summer. made the first photographic port - There has been no outcry against the Tait?", Dr. Draper published an an proposed open season on crows, but ower to this question in that same eats are not to be classed with crows, journal. He explained that he had despite the fact that they delight to Seed on quail. An authoritative "Dictionary of Occupational Titles" has been com- piled, and it lists 17,452 different jobs! There used to be - and prob- ably still is - a lot of talk about the honours and prizes and scholarships. Yet the striking fact is that the mall who is most likely to succeed he life does not, as a rule, carry off many of the prizes and honours awarded for scholastic success.. Then, ' too, this, has to be remembered, namely: many a one does not achieve con- spicuous success until after he is 60 years of age. In the British cabinet, by way of example, most of its mem- bers are' over 60, and Nevins Cham- berlain was' close to his 70th birth- day before he became premier. One may have local or community er provincial successes in his 30's, his 40's, his 50's, but national suc- cess, or emergence into national con- sciousness, does not come early in the lives f' most men; and when it does come, it the result of faith- ful service and fine achievements in smaller fields of action and en- deavour.' They have been having a cat -war in Kansas - a war on cats and a proved - this is he or she who has competency in a particular class of work. Competency and specialization are becoming more and more neces- sary in industry, commerce, 'finance, translportetio,nj letailing, account- ancy, and in every other vocational classification. The first "fast action" camera in the world was made and used by Dr. John WiIIiam Draper. Dr, Drap- er is credited with making the first Give gout 1940 chicks a'"head start" with Roe Vitafood Chick Stater— the farm -proven diet that is building money -making layers for leading Ontario poultry farmers. CHICK STARTER At weeks, "follow-through" with Roe Complete Growing Mash—the vitamized feed that gives your chicks everything they need for steady, profitable egg production in the Fall! ROE COMPLETE GROWING MASH, R08 "VITAMIZED" PODS ARe SOLD BY; worked with sensitive plates before anything was published in Europe' by Daguerre or Talbot. This was in 1839. To prove that Dr. Draper's camera was the first camera of modern type eight y ars of research was conduct- ed by Rev. Howard C. Cobbs, wlio was a professional photographer be- fore he studied for the ministry. And now Draper's old -box -shaped camera is to be housed permanently in the Smithsonian Institution at Washing- ton, after having rested for a full century in Hanipton Sydney College, 1 in Virginia, where the first "fast action" portrait was made by Dr. Draper. Two queens were frozen to death this past winter. They lost their lives on a journey from. Medina, Ohio to the New York World's Fair. They were queen bees, sent to restock the hives of the live be exhibit at the Fair. A' queen bee, to perform her part in bee economy, and to be happy, must, it is said, have the odor of the particular hive in which she is to live the odor being her badge of admission or password. If an ordinary worker bee tries to enter the wrong hive, the guards at the door will kill it - by fighting. But, in the case of an unwelcome queen bee, she is just smothered to death. The queen bee now at the Fair 'was sent from Natchez in a tiny wooden box. To assure her acceptability on arrival, she was accompanied by worker bees, who were sent to Natchez to feed and groom her on her journey. The ends of the little cage containing .her were corked up with sugar candy and the cage was placed in a new hive at the place of arrival. By the time the workers had cut through the candy, the queen had absorbed the odor of the hive, and so was able to take her abode among her 10,000 subjects at the Fair - this without resistance or sin otherment. I Perhaps it is fitting that a college to cultured Boston Should prepare a manual for the use of its students !designed to enable them to be better writers of the English language. This college - Simons - is "approaching the problem of illiteracy through a 'standard of literacy." A question- , naive circulated among the faculty had revealed that 12 per cent of the students do not Imow or use satis- factory English. The manual which has been prepared for distribution among students in. September next I contains basic rules for grammar, punctuation, spelling and the like; ' symbols to be used in correcting papers; reading suggestions, and in- formation on answering examination questions, preparing q , p p g reports, insert- ing footnotes, compiling bibliograph- ies. The problem of oral English is .yet to be dealt with. One might think that college students would not need what may seem to some of its to be a kind of instruction to be 'given in high school, yet the factisi'`that in Can- ada as well as in the United States our writers, of all ages and levels, better a very deficient ability to write good English. It is a rare thing to find a writer of English who makes no slips or 'errors in grammar, style, rhetoric and correct construction. THE CLINTON NEWS -RECORD PHURS«, 1VIAY 23,:1940 Toronto- Maple Leat Basebali News Despite the Toronto Maple Le present unimpressive position in th International League standing, the isn't a club in the league that doesn i respect them. After beating them both ends of a double-header on Ma 12th in Buffalo, Manager Ste O'Neill of the. Bisons described th Leafs as "a sure bet for 'a play berth." Others who have voiced t opinigis that the Leafs will be i there at the finish are Ace Park star shortstop of the Syracuse Chie and Roy Van Grafter; veteran u pire, Parker, now'in a Toronto hospi recovering from a' serious leg injury declares that the Syracuse player rate the Leafs "the best team w have met so far this' season," whi Umpire Van Graflan states that ne er in. his career as an arbiter ha he seen a good ball club suffer s consistently from bad breaks. Tony Lazzeri, manager of th Leafs, who confidently predicted place for his club in the first divisio before the season opened, is still the same opinion: "Yoh got to ge the' breaks to win," Tony says phil osophically, "and we just haven' been getting them. But it's a long season and it'll all even up. We'l be in there before it's over.'.' Practically everyone who has see the 1940 Leafs inaction rate the 100% . stronger than last year. Th 1939 team failed because it lacks power, but there is no dearth of tha essential in the present lineup. Har- ley Boss, secured from San Francisc to play first base, has a mean bat- ting average of .302 over a 10 -yea span in Double -A baseball. At secon is Dario Lodigiani, who is leading th Toronto hitters at the moment wit a mark of .825. Fred 'Chapman almighty shortstop, is hitting the bal well but right at the fielders. Hi hitting can't help but improve and along with Lodigiani, . he gives the Leafs one of the best double play combinations in the league around second base. Flea Clifton, a flaw- less fielder but light hitter, and Mic- key De Jonghe, who packs' plenty of power but is an uncertain fielder, have been alternating at third. Carl Fairly, a smart all-around ball play- er, is the sixth infielder. Milt Gray, a coming great, is split- ting the work behind the plate with the veteran Tommy Heath. Gray has youth, speed, a great arm and ha will hit, if his .317 average in the Eastern League last summer is any criterion. Heath supplies the ex- perience. Eric Tipton in left field is a line hitter who is belting the ball at a .310 clip. Buddy Bates, centrefielcl flash, has yet to strike his true stride. He finished the 1939 season with a .321 - marls at Memphis. Fern Bell, who hit .286 with Pittsburg last year, has just been purchased to patrol right field. Bell has never failed to hit above .300 in Double -A company. John Tyler, reserve out- fielder, is a long ball hitter who drove in close to 00 runs for Buffalo last summer. The Leafs have steady pitching to go with that power. Starting pitchers, are Carl Fischer, Jim Walkup„ Phil Marehildon, JiJimReninger•, ' Lester McCrabb, Pat McLaughlin, and John Pezzullo. This is one of the best balanced pitching staffs in the en- tire league. Fischer, a brilliant left-hander, proved his worth beyond doubt in 1939 and. dim. Walkup, smooth curve - bailer, after recovering from shoul- der trouble has recently come through with two beautiful pitching efforts. Phil Marchildon, 1939's Promising young rookie from Pene- tang, has been learning things from Coach Sad Sam Jones and looks a much improved hurler. Big Jim Ren - Inger has already won 3 games and is a decided acquisition. Lester Me - Crabb, on option from the Philadel-, phia Athletics, has shown. plenty in two appearances and looks as if he might win 15 games without straining himself. Pat McLaughlin had a great year in 1939 with the trailing Toledo Club in the American Association. He has been purchased outright from Connie Mack. John Pezzullo,•the other lefty on the staff, is a -warns weather pitcher and will become increasingly useful as the summer wears on. John Borly and Earl Caldwell, veterans of the staff, are being used more and more in re- lief roles. This completes the roster which Manager Lazzeri thinks will be good enough over the season to land the club in a playoff spot.on The Leafs are at he practically theho whole last weep in May. Retain- ing on May 21 from a three-day stay in 'Rochester, they take on Buffalo in Maple Leaf Stadium on May 21, 22 and 23. A holiday double-header is scheduled with Rochester for May 24, the concluding game of the three game series to be played the follow- ing day. Montreal comes to Toronto for games on May 81 and June 1. The Leafs then go' on the road, not to return. until June 10, when they open at home with Syracuse. After- noon games in May commence at 3.30 P.M.;, double-headers at 2 P.M. Night games will start early in June, when the weather warms up. af5' e 55 't n y ve e off he N Parke fs m tal s e 10 v s 0 e a n o t 1 n m e d t 0 r. d e h 1 s X Newsy Notes from England. BY AN OVERSEAS CORRESPONDENT . STAINED GLASS WINDOWS' Are Being Shipped Throegl' the Minefields • bne of, the world's leading crafts- men in stained glass put out the fires of his kiln, where the colours are burnt into the glass, 'and said fare- well to his staff when war broke out eight months 'ago. To -day the fires are re -lit, the staff is re-assembed, and • the London workshop is busy satisfying orders from abroad. The first of the war orders leaves England soon for the United 'States. It is a great window for St Paul's School Chapel, Concord, New Hamp- shire. Another window will shortly be shipped to Canada,where it will adorn the chapel of Wycliffe College, Toronto; another is going to the Scottish Church, Salisbury, Rhodesia, and yet another to St. Mary's Church, Wellington, New Zealand. The hands which produce the mast- erpieces in coloured glass are those of Reginald Bell. He learnt the art from hie father, who learnt it from Ins own father before him. "The craft of stained glass came from Europe, where the French, Swiss, Dutch, Germans and, later, the Italians were experts," says Mr. Bell. "But centuries ago it was in- troduced to Britain, chiefy through the clergy, and it took growth. Crafts- men took so naturally to the art that as early as the 14th century glass 'painting schools arose all over the kingdom and English stained glass became,the most sought after ever M the centuries of Europe where it originated,' and where it was already tending to decline." Medallion , windows for nurseries, with portraits of animals, are among recent fashions in stained glass, which is by no means confined to church decoration. BELLS FOR WORLD'S CHURCHES Still Being Made by Britain is War Time Great church bells cast in the an- clent foundries of England and rung in olden time to warn her people of the invader's approach must now be silent, for the electric siren is the only sound allowed in modern war, Yet the bell founders are still busy making carillions to ring out in dis- tant parts of the world. New silver sixpences were thrown into the mould when, three bells, the largest nearly a ton, were cast re- cently and have just been shipped to a church in Phaner0•meni, Cyprus, less than two hours' air journey from Christendom's most famous chimes of all, the Bells of Bethlehem. Throwing in "lucky" silver is only a superstition, for bells are made from two metals only, 13 parts of copper to -4 of tin. British bells are in great demand overseas in spite of tariffs because the secret of scientific tuning is in. the hands of a few specialists fam- ilies, passed on through generations. There are only three founders who make the biggest types of bells, Can- ada and the U.S.A. are,the best cust- omers. The Dominion removes im- port duty from bells for church use, and campanologists in the States have so 'great a preference for English chimes that an expert ringer was sent to Kent, Connecticut, in 1930, with ten 25-civt, tenor bells to teach tite peculiar English change -ringing: Bells from a London foundry which was the birthplace of Parliament's "Big Ben" are now hanging in Christ- church Cathedral, B.C.; Valleyfield Cathedral, Quebec; St. John's, New- foundland; St. Lucia, West Indies; Waikato, New Zealand; Durban, South Africa; Kkartount Cathedral; Achimota and Takoradi, Gold boast; Oshawa, Ontario; and Schevining, Holland. TIjRKISH SHIPYARDS To Be Built by Britain for 22,000,000 Britain's ally, Turkey, has entrust- ed to British engineering firms a £2,000,000 contract which will make Istanbul the most important shipping centre in -the Eastern Mediterranean. and Black Seas. New shipyards for building and re- pairing will be erected at the Golden Horn, historic strategic bottle -neck providing the only outlet from the Black Sea to the oceans of the world. Turkey's decision to build her own ships instead of buying or ordering them to be built abroad will be a severe blow to the German drive for trade•in the Balkans. In recent years Turkey has ordered 'many vessels from German shipyards - one order alone was for 14 ships - and the new scheme will not only make her prac- tically independent of other powers for shipbuilding, but it is also pos- sible that so.nia Eastern European states, such as Greece and Yugoslavia will place orders with Turkey. Turkey's 'expansion will completely overshadow.' her two Black Sea com- petitors,' the Rossi.&n shipyards at Odessa and the Rumanian: facilities. a, ;aa+4 .:»t 4.444'A : 4+44. ++; 444, at Constanza, and will give her the maritime domination of this import- ant area both for repairing merchant- men or warships of practically any size, and for building new tonnage. The yearly traffic passing the Golden Horn into the Black. Sea aver- ages 14,000,000 tons of shipping, or about 15,000 vessels, 'consisting chief- ly of ships flying the flags of Greece; Turkey, Britain, Italy, Rumania, Rus- sia, Yugoslays,-Bulgaria and Scand- inavia. All these countries, including Britain, will find the facilities a great boon. BRITAIN'S BIGGEST COLLIERY To Send Up 40Q Tons of Coal an Hour By _midsummer four hundred tons of eoal an hour will be coming ftp from a new colliery about to be open- ed at Cowie in Fifeshire, to meet the overseas demand for British coal. Borings were begun by the Fife Goal Company seven years ago in a virgin area and the new pit is ex- pected to be the biggest in the Brit- ish Isles. It is the most up-to-date colliery anywhere. Instead of bringing the coal up in tubs, it will be loaded into a special cage at the pit bottom and wound up one shaft. Below the surface, the mine cars will be hauled by Diesel locomotives, and, by combining the cutting and loading operations into one 'shift, it is hoped to reduce the number of shifts from three to two a day, which will be safer for the men and cheaper for the owners. At the pit -head they are now put- tign up baths, a canteen, a first aid room, lockers and a park for the men's bicycles. A GOOD OLD BINDER An old binder was sold at a Bruce County auction sale the other day after forty-two years of continuous service. The original canvas is still on the binder, which is good for many years to come, It was sold for $45 and probably cost little more than twice that amount when it was new in 1808. The owner of the binder stated that it went into the imple- ment shed regularly when the crop was cut, and that care probably ac- counts for its condition. There is a. • "The Pick of them ail" KEEPS NEW CARS:. YGUN G T 111 •White Roser,emoves:ca5bbn;iri old! meters,, keeps; ne,w: engines clean. Result}--qutckeaed.motor response„ new- resiliency. Try White 1tose:in•yourrcar—you can "actually feet the difference"! WHITE ROSE MOTOR OIL Made by the makers of the famoresWHITE ROSE gasolines CANAD.l'AN:'Oft '• C,OMPA" L'L.1V(i E D•• SCREEN VETERAN RETIRING AT ELEVEN Shirley Temple with her first million and more, in the bank — is "retiring", The curly-haired child will sever connection with 20th Century -Fox Studio when her 24th and latest film, "Young People," is released. It was finished last week. No other motion picture star ever marked as the No. 1 attraction for four years in a row. Based on box office revenue, Shirley was the world's best from 1935 to 1938, in- clusive. Last year she slipped to third place, but even then she was the top feminine attraction, only Clark Gable and Tyrone Power being ranked ahead of her. Announcement that her seven-year stay at the studio would end was made by her mother, Mrs. George Temple, and 20th's President, Joseph M. Schenck. Both agreed the parting was amicable. Mrs. Temple said she was concerned because stories "to suit the growing -up phase in Shirley's life" had not been found. She added that she felt her slaughter was entitled to "those nontrial, natural benefits that may be derived from mingling hint which many farmers ;night take and competing with a large number note of. of other children," r BRITAIN TO BUY- FRESH AND STORAGE EGGS:. As a result of extended communica- - tions between the British and the Canadian Governments, Great Britain , has undertaken to purchase Canadian . fresh and' storage eggs duripg 1940 at a price fixed by the British Min- istry of Food.' Sales may be made direct from the Canadian exporters through their agents in Great Britain . to the Ministry of Food in that country. Holders of import licenses in Great Britain have been advised by the Min- istry of Food that it will be permis- sible for contracts to be completed if entered into prior to April 19th for shipment prior to May 31, 1940. No further private importations into Great Britain will be permitted and it is understood the intention of the British . Ministry of Food is that im- port licenses will be recalled shortly. Canadian importers claiming to have sold storage eggs for fall delivery should confirm their con- tracts and prices through their agents with the British Ministry of Food, which will constitute itself as the sole buyer of eggs in Great Britain after import licenses are withdrawn. ee l' Ter +i ur Stoc of 11'..1 MG Don't tot It Got Low Remember us for all your printing requirements, in el u .lin g COUNTER CHECK BOOKS Tho O!illtoll News -"mord — PHONE 4 — D 1