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The Clinton News Record, 1940-06-06, Page 6'AGE'6 THE CLINTON .NEWS -RECORD T i URS., JUNE 6, 1940 1 Read And Write For You ,`. (copyright) By John C. Kirkwood $.6V i'^"rS,°e15,^r'iWrti°rrr"r^r'YW.PAIN^YiY^Y11'.Sh^r^A^Yr'r"i'^Y�;i`�'L i1L� When he was 11 yearsold Phiilippe women outnumbered men in 'the. Bunau-Varilla, a French lad, dedi- cated his life to the project of build- ing the Panama Canal, At age 26 he was director-general of a French company that undertook to build a canal across Panama. On May 18th, this year, he died in Paris, at age 81. Colonel Bunau-Varilla got the idea of building a canal at Panama in 1869. He,was listening to a conver- sation between his mother and an engineering student, the talk being centred on the Suez Canal, which had just been completed. The stud- ent regretted that he had had no part in the building of time Suez Canal. "You are too late for that," said the mother' of Bunau-Varilla, "hut not for Panama," but the young engineering student was staggered by the suggestion. "This young man lacks courage,' said the listening lad to himself. "The idea is splendid. I will do it." At age 25, after he was graduated from the Ecole Polytechnique, Count de Lesseps en- gaged him as assistant engineer in the Panama Canal Company, and in the following year he was made chief eingineer. Years ,later, after the suspension of activities, the United States Gov- ernment undertook to ' eonmplete the Canal. There was a controversy over the relative merits of the Panama and Nicaragua routes. Bunau-Varilla advocated the Panama route with great persistence. An earthquake helped toward the eventual decision to use the Panama route. Bunan- Varilla, as the first minister of Pan- ama. to the United States, arranged on behalf of the French company the sale of its rights to the American Government for $40,000,000. It takes about 10 lbs. of raw silk to make a parachute. Nazi para- chutes are made of Italian silk. Italy has been supplying Germany with upwards of 10,000 bales of taw silk per annum for the past four years. A. bale contains 132 lbs, Other sources of raw silk are Japan and 'China; also the Soviet Union - its Caucasian district. There is another military use for raw silk - making powder bags for big guns - big naval guns. t.. No fewer than 1,600,000 women, I More than half of whom live in Southeast England, can never hope to find husbands. The authority for; this saddening statement is The Statistical Review recently issued by the Receiver -General. Two years ago At 7 weeks your chicks are on the way to becoming money -making Fall and Winter layers. Keep them going in the right direction byfeed- 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. eivitt GROWING MASH Sold by H. CHARLESWORTH Clinton VITAMIZEIr.FOR HEALTH... FARM PROVEN FOR. RESULTS United Kingdom by 1,631,000. Boys were more numerous than girls in every age group until 15. At age 20, however, girls were in a major- ity. Evidence of the longevity of women is given in the record of deaths: of the 109 who had reached the age of 100 or more, 93 were women, 17 be- ing spinsters and '76 widows. The current war is destroying British men at a greatly accelerated rate, thus contributing to the width of the numerical margin off women: over men. For every 1000 aeroplanes in op- eration there' are required 32,000 men; or at the sate of 32 men per plana. In addition to ground men pilots are needed; also skilled air- craft workers. Thus it becomes ap- parent that adding to a nation's air fleet is not just building planes; it is a good deal more. The moon, so I read, is the off-. spring literally - of the earth. At the beginning - or originally - the earth was a perfect sphere of gas. But in its. spinning assumed new shapes - it became a spheroid, then egg-shaped, then pear-shaped. In the course of millions of years the stalk of the pear developed a bulb. Then the waist of the -stalk became thinner and thinner. By this tiem a day - an earth day was but three hours long,. so fast did the earth spin. The centrifugal force was tremendous. Tides raised by the sun aided that force in distorting the shape of the earth. The liquid pear, now coated with a crust 35 miles thick, could not go on carrying its great bulb. It ended up in there being flung from the whirling mass a vast portion of its substance, eestimated to contain five thousand cubic million miles of matter. In this terrible catacylsm or convulsion the moon was born. Sonne astrophysicists profess to see in the basin now filled by the Pacific ocean the scar of that planetary catast- rophe. Here's a new word for you to ab- sorb into your vocabulary - "hydro- ponics" - signifying the growing of vegetables in trays of water in which chemical food has been dissolved. A $6,000,000 plant is about to be erected on the Gulf of Mexico - to mine the sea for magnesium. It is said that there are contained in the ocean 175,000,000 million tons of gold, silver, capper, iron, radium and other metals and minerals. Each cubic mile of ocean has a potential value of 35,000,000,0001 This magnesium plant about to be built will have a capacity of 12,000,- 000 gallons of sea water. Operating at capacity it will find enough mag- nesium in a cubic mile of ocean to keep it going for 800 years'- may be! Perhaps some day soon you will be reading in the advertisements of chewing -gun arguments for this practice - or habit - based on what Professor R. L. Hollingsworth, a distinguished' psychologist has said, namely: chewing relaxes; so also do grimacing, fidgeting, wriggling, watch -chain twiddling, coin -jingling, doodling, smoking, knitting, crochet- ing and tatting, But chewing is the relaxer par excellence. How many colors can you mine or identify? Can you name 200? A list of colors and tints has been pre- pared - and is accepted - by the clothing industry . At the head •of the Textile Color Card Association of the United States is a woman - Mar'garet Hayden Rorke.. She guides the colo fancies of America, Her first task was to persuade an entire nation on a single definition for color names. After weeks of discussion the first list of color names was is- lsued, From an initial list of 92 hues, the list has . grown to 200. "New quirks in color can be found anywhere," says MTs. Rorke, - "in news events, history, art or music.I .For instance, our Coronation series of patriotic British colors in 1937 followed the coronation of King George VL We predicted the pop- ularity of vivid South American reds and yellows with our Pan-American card when President Rooseveltmade his goodwill advances to South Am- erica in 1938." "Color," she continued, "is .exper- iencing its greatest boom in Am- erican history." Not only are rep. resentatives of the fields of apparel and cosmetics interested in co-ordin- ating color, but also furniture and automobile makers. R.C.A,F. GETS YACHT . As a contribution to Canada's war effort, J. Harold Crang, prominent Toronto broker, has placed his 38 - foot motor yacht, "Heide", at the disposal of ,the Royal Canadian Air Force 'to be used for rescue work, for which her speed and design are specially suited. Honourable G. D. Howe, Minister of Munitions and Supply, accepted the offer on behalf of the Government, • The Weed of the Week YELLOW ROCKBT A weed Vinay be observed in flower at this particular time •of the year which resembles Wild Mustard and is often mistaken for it, says John D. MacLeod, Crops, Seeds, and Weeds Branch, Ont. Dept, of Agriculture, Parente. , This is Yellow Rocket, a perennial weed which appears in new parts of the Province each year and which is apparently on the increase. It is usually )Found in low, damp parts of the fields. Upon; Tse examination Yellow Rocket will, be found to resemble Mustard only in the colour of the flower. It may be easily distinguished from this weed by, its dark green, smooth and shiny leaves, somewhat oval in outline. It. is usually in flower from May to July, and ma- tures seed during July and August. Hand .pulling of scattered plants drainage and thorough cultivation in preparation for a spring crop will keepit under control: The seed of Yellow Rocket is a common impurity in clover and al- falfa steed and has been listed .as a secondary' noxious 'seed in the Can- ada Seeds Act. This weed should not be permitted to mature seed, particularly in the clover seed pro- ducing areas. Learn to distinguish Yellow Roc- ket and eradicate it before it becomes established. Suggestions for Getting Rid of Ants Although the majority of our Can- adian species of ants live in colonies or nests outdoors they frequently cause annoyance by invading kitch- ens and pantries in search of food. One of the most common and trouble- some household species, known as the red ant or Pharaoh's ant, Monomer - tem Pharaunis L., confines itself en- tirely to heated buildings such as bakeries, restaurants, houses, etc. This tiny, reddish-yellow ant hadits origin in the tropics. The common large black carpenter ant, Campon- atus pennsylvanicus DeG., although normally an outdoor species nesting principally in decaying wood, fre- quently occurs in dwellings, partic- ularly frame houses and summer cot- tages, and may cause injury to wood- work as well as annoyance by its presence. A third common species is the small yellowish -brown, lawn ant, Lasiusniger var. americanus Em., which nests in lawns and gardens of- ten entering houses in search of food. Ants are social in their habits, and live together in colonies. The ma- jority of the ants in a colony and the ones most commonly seen, are wing- less undeveloped female workers, whch are incapable of reproducing their kind. Each colony also posses- ses one er more true female or "queen" which are responsible for the generation of new individuals. The white, helpless, larvae and pupae which develop from eggs laid by the "queen" are cared for by the work- ers which may be seen transporting them to a place of safety when the nest is threatened with danger. Ants which enter dwellings will feed on many kinds of foodstuffs, but are particularly fond of sweet and fatty substances. Control — The most satisfactory material so far discovered for de- stroying ants is sodium fluoride, sold by druggists ,in the form of a fine white powder. This powder should be scattered or dusted lightly in places frequented by the ants and left undisturbed until .the insects have disappeared. As .sodium fluoride is somewhat poisonous care should be taken to prevent children or pets from gaining access to it. As an alternative to the above, baits may be used. They may consist either of meat bones, or sponges dip- ped in sweetened water. When large numbers of ants have collected on the baits they may be destroyed by im- mersion in: very hot water. A bait trap which has been used with suc- cess may be made by taking a small tin can with a tight hist, punching several holes in the sides and top and introducing a small piece of sponge moistened with a syrup pre- pared by mixing 10 grains of sodium arsenite, 6 ounces of sugar and 1 pint of hot water, In using this bait due cognizance should be taken of the poisonous nature of •sodium ar- senite, Ants may be discouraged from entering houses by keeping shelves, tables and floors, in kitchens and pantries, as free as possible from crumbs and other food fragments, and 'by storing foodstuffs in ant - proof containers. In addition open- ings in floors and walls through which ants may gain entrance should be carefully plugged. When it is possible to find the nests in the ground outside, the ant colonies may be destroyed by punc- turing the surface with holes' and pouring in a small quantity of car- bon bisulphide. Heavy gas is given off by this liquid and its effect may be enhanced by covering the nest with an old coat or sacking. Care should be taken not to expose carbon bisulphide near fire as itis very in- flammable., t GIVES YOU 2000 TEETH TO GRIP. THE ROAD FOR GREATER SAFETY You pay no mute for Dunlop Supremacy. In addition to Dunlop `Fort' ... 'the world's Gift. est tire' ..,. we carry a wide range of Dunlop QualityTiresforevery Purse and purpose. as KEN G. WATERS Automotive Parts NEDIGER'S GARAGE, Chevrolet & Oldsmobile Dealer. LESLIE BALL, Pontiac, Londesboro. THE> ,WORLD"5,.F'tNESt TIRE" The Militia Carries On (The Printed Word) It is worth remembering, when one feels dismayed about the relative invisibility of ,Canada's armed forces, that Canada's soldiers are not all in uniform. There are still thousands of trained men, veterans of the for- mer war against Germany or grad- uates of the Non -Permanent Active Militia, ready to serve when called upon; and although present members of the N.P.A.M. lack uniforms,'they are still turning out for parades and displaying a keenness that is the best reward of their officers. As in peacetime, militia officers and other ranks are serving their country at considerable personal in- convenience and expense. The aver- age taxpayer has little realization of the value he gets from the sums reluctantly voted for the upkeep of the' militia. Nominally, .the men are paid for the time spent in training. Actually, they train for many mare days than they are paid for, and the small amount of pay received is pool- ed to pay for various expenses neces- sary to the training, but not charg- eable to the public,.purse. Officers, in addition to pooling their pay, have extra expenses in the way of paying street car fares for their men, buying them boots when necessary, and help- ing out in countless ways the less affluent members' of the unit. An artillery unit recently held some Sunday manoeuvres. A friend of the commanding officer drove out into the country to see the show and was surprised to find that the guns were represented by sticks placed in the ground. The explanation given was that some rigid Sabbatarians had opposed the granting of permission for the guns to be taken through the city streets on a Sunday. Nevertheless, the militia carries on. These Mian More Than Thrift War Savings Certificates! The Government could have called them "National Safety Certificates." For that, in stark truth, is what they are. War Savings Certificates. are what, in peace days, we might call a "fine investment." They make for thrift, lay a foundation of secur- ity, appeal to the spirit of self-re- spect and self-reliance. On these grounds, as well as upon the, grounds of democratic responsibility, of a wider devotion to the democratic creed of voluntary citizenship, they meet a need. But, far more than these things, and more terribly vital, War Savings Certificates are a challenge to pat- riotism. They are a call to all of us, and provide the means for all of us, to answer the challenge of war service; a dictate of war duty which no one can ever expect to be for- given for ignoring. War Savings Certificates are OUR share in this war. They ask us whether, in this terrible conflict, with all that we are or ever hope to be at stake, we are content with lip -loyalty to our cause; content, with abuse of Hitler; unwilling to make even moderate sacrifice for the sake of all our future. hi war -rocked France today the soldiers of democracy are dying for its defence. Are we willing to back them up? To deny ourselves things we can yield easily for their sakes? Are we willing to contribute some- things to feed and arm them, to sus- tain their strength, to tell them that back at home their people are sup- porting tlsem.? This .... this above all else , . is the challenge of War Savings Certificates, Over in Old England across the seas men and women and little child- ren, workers and farmers, old and young, rich and poor, humble and ob- scure, are yielding their all for vic- tory. Giving upin taxes, subscribing to loans, buying war savings sertifi- caks, they are giving a testimony of devotion to democracy and liberty as noble as anything that history has scan, It is for us here in Canada to sliow whether such devotion is ours, whether democracy and free- dom. -mean as much to us as it does to them. Let ns in these corning weeks give proof of such devotion. Let us make this War Savings Certificates cam- paigna crusade; telling our Govern- ment and men on land and sea and in the air that we fight behind thern.. It is the least,'' God knows, "that we can do. Faster Airplanes Produced By War History is repeating itself in this war as far as speeds of aircraft are concerned, perusual of latest perfor- mance shows. As in the first Great War, air -craft manoeuvreability of planes took tremendous leaps for- ward. Rickety crates staggered along through the air in 1915 at somewhere near 60 miles an hour. By the end of 1918 they were screaming along over France at 166 miles an hour, an accomplishment which would have been unthinkable except for the striving of aircraft designers and engineers under the necessity of get- ting ahead, and keeping ahead of the enemy. At the start of the present war last September, the fastest British Warplane was the Spitfire, rated at 370 miles an hour. Working under the same stress as did their forbears over 20 years ago, however; the speed of allied aircraft has been pushed almost a hundred miles ahead of that figure, with the French announcing a new long-range bomber capable of 465 miles per hour. Wind -tunnel experts in England already have designed models and tunnel flown them at speeds higher than 600 miles an hour. It will be not so far in the future before these wind -tunnel models are the real thing standing on the line ready to roar off to enemy countries at hitherto almost unheard of speeds. War's impetus is the answer, and while it niay take months, or even a few years to manufacture planes capable of 600 miles an hour, a glim- pse into the future is afforded by the knowledge that in just six mon- ths of war, speeds of allied military aircraft have jumped almost 100 miles per hour. Trustees and. Ratepayers to Meet Inspectors To Give. Addresses Inspectors Beacom, Kinkaid and Game and Mr. Norman Davies, In- spector of Agricultural Classes, will address a meeting of teachers, trus- tees and ratepayers at a meeting to be held at the Library Hall, Brussels, on June 13th at 1.30 p.m. Mr. M. A. Campbell, Provincial Secretary of the School Trustees'' and Ratepayers' Association will out- line the work of the Association and some of the services available for schools in Ontario. The subjects of "Transportation" and "The Larger Unit of Administ- ration" will be introduced for discus- sion. The meeting is of a general nature and not with the object of ad- vocating any particular phase of the educational system. COMES FROM ENGLAND TO CANADA TO ENLIST A roundabout way of enlisting for service in the Second Great War is that taken by Murray Munro, son of Mr. and Mrs. Ross Munro of Kincar- dine. Three years ago, Munro went to England, where he was employed in an airplane parts factory. While overseas, he attempted to join the Canada forces but was not permitted to do so without returning to Can- ada, so he sailed for home, arriving in Kincardine a week or so ago. He reports that the British people, though only a short distance from the theatre of war, are calm and are prepared 'for any emergency which may arise. One of the "souvenirs" he brought back was a gas mask such as has been issued the civilian population of the British Isles. SO THEY SAY "The !Trojan War was fought be. cause of one very beautiful woman. This one is being fought because of one ugly man." "—A. P. Herbert, ]>2 F "Every good -living person devote the proper time to prayer, but when fighting the ungodly, no one will feet that he is despoiling the Sabbath by working all seven days of each week for a just and righteous cause,'' —Lord Nuffield. "The adaption by Great Britain of one of the most astounding Acts on its Statute Books, was not subser- vience ubseavience to a foul Gestapo but a de- liberate sacrifice of a nation's most cherished possession on the altar of Freedom; the voluntary giving up of her rights, for the Right." Prof. A. R. George, McGill Univeristy. "The Germans don't want these refugees to get away safely They machinegun them in the roads, those poor, poor people without homes -- without food. No one smiles. Life is just one long hell ... I have been in a constant sweat of fear, but I am content hecause I am doing usefurk things . , . I've been and am right in the thick of it ... when .merle- ani ought to be — and I'm proud": Elizabeth F. Adams, of Provid- ence R. I., an ambulance driven with the Anne Morgan lJs]t ]xrt France. "Now that we're thoroughly' frightened, we'II be. all right. The Raiser made the mistake of fright- ening the English and now Hitler has made the same awful blunder Now Hitler s going to find out what we're like when we're fright. tined".' — George Bernard Shaw r! bee W Ter 'toe el �r T •t A l:; I ql eAl Don't het It yet Remember us for all your printing requirements, including COUNTER CHECK BOOKS The Clillton Nowsiocord PHONE 4 1