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By John C. Kirkwood
F. Hopkinson Smith, engineer, 000,000 on race horses, and ended
Painter, novelist, lecturer, attended that year about $600,000 the loser.
a party of literary people several Pendergast may come to the con -
years before World War No. 1. He elusion that remaining in prison is
had attired himself to look like the:' more tolerate than being on probe -
Kaiser, being clothed in a white and tion.
much decorated uniform, and wear-
ing a brass helmet. He put medals When this present war is over
and crosses an many o£ the guests,
and amused them by saying, "I am a there may be several kings and
man of peace. I vont a piece of
China. I vant a . plate of Morocco.
I vent a piece of every country which
don't own the whole of alretty."
William Lyons Phelps, In his re-
cent book, "Autobiography with
queens without a throne. if Hitler
wins, there may be no King of Nor-
way, of Denmark, of Belgium; no
queen of; Holland; na kings in the
Balkan countries; no king of Egypt.
If the ancient buildings of' Britain
and France should be destroyed in
large numbers, thenn these countries
would lase much of their touristap-
THE CLINTON NEWS -RECORD
THE WEED OF THE
WEEK
YELLOW GOAT'S BEARD
A weed with large yellow flower
heads may now be observed in flower
along roadsides, railway tracks and
waste places in many parts of On-
tario, This weed may at a glance
be mistaken for Perennial Sow
Thistle but it is Yellow Goat's Beard
a perennial weed which has been on
the increase' in recent years and
which may be identified by its long
slender tap root, up -right stem from
1 to 3 feet high, leaves long narrow
and taper pointed; large yellow
Bawer heads, from 1 to 21 inches
broad which are succeeded by come
spicuous heads of downy seeds look-
ing like very large dandelion seed
By means of these downy heads
or parachutes, seeds may be carried
long distances by the wind, This
Letters", had this to say about the method of propagation is the cont -
habits of literary men: "Most proles- Peal. Both London and Paris, if ributing factor responsible for the
sed pessimists are happy mien; most greatly destroyed, would be rebuilt prevalence of the weed.
as modern cities, and so would lose Yellow Goat's Beard is in flower
June to September. Seeds are usually
ripe and are dispersed by the wind
the latter part of June and early
July to September.
This weed does not appear to stand
cultivation as it is seldom seen in
fields under crop. Thorough cult-
ivation of infested meadows! and
pasture fields will eradicate it. Stray
plants on roadsides, head lands and
waste places should be pullled, spud-
ded, sprayed or cut immediately. This
professed humorists are not. Josh.
Billings usually cried copiously while
composing. A man who called on
him in a newspaper office while he
was hurriedly writing manuscript
for the importunate printer, was told
that he must wait: Billings was writ-
ing and crying. His friends was
sympathetic and wished to know the
cause of his grief. "Oh, nothing.
Be always cries when writing." At
that moment the boy came out of
their present appeal to both the eye
and the imagnation.
Navajo land is peopled by 48,000
men, women and children, only 5%
of whom understand English. The
Navajos are - or have been - wholly
without any written language, being
essentially oral -minded. Now they
•
are to be taught and entertained by
radio. At Window Rock, Arizona, has
the room with the fresh copy. The been erected a broadcasting station,.
manuscript was doubly tot with ink teen which will be broadcast pro -
fid tears. His friend glanced at it, grammes in the Navajo's tongue.
and read; "Nothing can cure a man . These broadcasts will be largely edu-
of laziness, but a seeand wife will cational, in relation to the practice
'sometimes help." of agriculture, land management and
---, stock handling. Also, subjects of
You have read, of course, of Tont tribal interest will have discussion,
Pendergast, a f ormier boss of the such asthe arts and crafts, resource.
Democratic machine which controlled conservation, and tribal government.
and corrupted Kansas City, and who In the past the rank and file of the
was sent to prison for 15 months for tribe have been difficult to reach by
evading Federal income taxes. Pend -1 would-be teachers.
ergast was recently .released from
prison under strict rules of pre- i In. a small New
obYork hotel, in 'a
tion. Thus: he must remain out of room overlooking Broadway, a man regarded as the "baby brother" of
politics; lie must not enter his old is dying - willingly. He is a very internal combustion engines, is likely
office, where for 13 years he held the tired man, and his interest in life to achieve supremacy over the four -
reins as dictator of Kansas City; he is slender. He is not a very old man, stroke by the discovery of a French -
must have neither direct nor indirect being in his 70's. In the heyday of man, M. Marcel Kadenacy, and sub -
political participation; he must not his life he had importance and dis-1 sentient researches of British engin-
gamble, He may not leave the limits Unction. Today he is pretty thor- eers.
of Kansas City without written per- oughly a forgotten man. Because of I Engineers throughout the world
mission from the judge who has im- this man millions upon millions of are watching with interest the de
posed these "musts,' His business men, women and children in all lands t velopment of the new principle in
contacts must be within strict legal have daily a kind of pleasure and I engine design and results already in
limits; he must live a 'clean, upright, entertainment which they believe to , dicate that it marks the opening of
temperate life"; he must keep good absolutely indispensable - the pleas -
'company, and once a month must re- are and entertainment provided by
port to the probation officer and give the movies. This man's name is Ed -
a strict accounting of his activities. win S. Porter. He was the inventor,
WHO NAMED CANADA
'Reasonable Derivations Saggested
by. the Word
Tracing the history of plaoe-namet3
in Canada is not at all simple, not
is it always definite, The late' George
Johnson, Dominion Statistician; a few
years ago estimated that Canada had
about ten 'thousand' place-names. Now
it must be nearer twenty thousand
(states Observer in The Family. H.ex-
NeW Brvnewick Names as a com-
pliment to King George III, whose
ancestors were of the House of Han-
over or 'Brunswick, a principality of
Prussia.
Quebec -Of Indian origin, meaning"
"where the river narrows." Name
given first to the city and the prov-
ince was named after it.
Ontario --Corruption -of an Indian
word meaning "sparkling or beanti-
aid and Weekly Star), And the origin ful water." Name first given to. the
of . some is rather complicated: Take, lake and then to the land around it.
for instances; the name of our own Manitoba.—Namof Indian origin,
country, There are at least five more It also was first given to the lake.
or leas reasonable derivations of the Some think from Obji:bway"Maniat-
word Canada suggested. First there bow" meaning "the strait of. the
is the .Algonquin Word "Cantata," I Manitou or spirit"; others -say, from
meaning "welcome," supposed to Sioux "miner meaning water and
have been used by the Indians when, "tuba" peairie�—the water or lake of
they first saw Cartier. Second from' the prairie.
the Iroquois word "canatha," mean- I Saskatchewan --First given to the
ing "a collection of huts. Third from river of that name. Prom Gree word
the Spanish "Acanada," meaning "kishiska," meaning rapid, and
"there is nothing here," that is, that 1 "djuvan" current; the river with the
the Spaniards saw no traces of gold swift current.
as they skirted the shores of the I Alberta—Named by the Marquis
Gulf of St. Lawrence. Fourth from a of Lorne, then Governor-General of
Portugnese word, "Canada," mean- i Canada, after. his. wife, H.R.H. Prin.-
ing "narrow passage" and implying cess Louise Caroline Alberta.
that the Portuguese long before Car -1 British Columbia Named for
tier's time sailed up the St. Lawrence Christopher Columbus, at the sug-
and gave the name "Canada" to the gestion of Queen Victoria.
country through which the-cempara- I The names of some countries also
tively narrow river (marrow above have. interesting origins. India means,
Quebec) flowed. r the country through which the River
It may be of interest to nee elm Indus flows.
derivation of the names a the Saxony took its name from the
is important as the whole plant eon- Provinces. Seax, a short, crooked dagger, which
tains a milky juice which enables Prince Edward Island was named the old Saxons carried.
it to' mature some seed if it is not after Queen Victoria's father, Prince Russia is called after the Russ, a
destroyed at once. Edward, afterwards Duke of Kent. tribe who lived there long ago.
Yellow Goat's Beard, is on the in- Nova Scotia—Latin for New Scot- Portugal got its name from Pontus
called when William Cale, the name the Romans gave to
crease. Learn to identify it and land — was so
eradicate it before it becomes est- Alexander, Earl of Stirling, was
ablished in your community.
MOTOR SHIPS' LONGER RANGE
At Less Cost As Result of
New Invention
The two-stroke engine, generally.
an era in which the four-stroke en-
gine will gradually disappear.
The purpose of the new method is
to secure the sante power from the
He must pay before April 1st, 1941, along with Edison, of the first movie 1 two -stroke's explosion as is obtained
his back income taxes, amounting to camera, and was the creator of the in a four-stroke engine and solve the.
$125,000. I first "story film." problem of disposing of all the ex-'
About the prohibition of gambling: ' It 11 be interesting to recount i boast gases at high velocity while
steps by which he climbed from zero istics of economy.
to a fleeting flame, and, presumably M. Kadenacy's patents have been
to considerable wealth. Porter was subjected to intensive research in the
a telegrapher at ago 14. Then, sue -
British
near London of a famous
cessfully, he was a plumber; a skat British enginering firm, and after
ing Zink exhibitionist, a sign painter five years practical warp on units
and: a tailor - all before he had reach °f all sizes and types a series of
ed his 18th year. Then he joined the engines has been evolved to which
navy for three years as electrician,
At age 21 he went into the moving
picture business - in 1893 - to work
for and with Edison. It was not
until three years later that moving
pictures were projected on a screen.
The first or early screenings were of
the newsreel type - not of the story
type. Porter urged that story films
be shown, and succeeded in having wider range on a single fuel load.
shown "The Life of an American
Fireman" - in 1899. Then followed
other story films, one of the most
popular being "The Great Train
Robbery". This film remained the
most popular of all films until "The
Birth of a Nation" came along. Por-
ter became associated, as employer
and partner, with D. W. Griffith, the
creator of this epic film. lie left
Edison to form hie own company,
and later went into partnership with
Adolf Zukor, to form the Famous
Players Company.
At age 43 Porter retired from the
screen to enjoy a sort of leisure, but
two years later he was back at busi-
ness, this time president of a comp-
any malting a movie prejector - a
projector used by most of the world's
theatres. Later he devised a popular
camera to project 16 mm films, and
simultaneously he worked with Lee
De Forest on sound -on -film talking
pictures and with Natalie Kalmus on
teehnicolor, Although now an invalid
and rather weary of life, he expects
shortly to announce what he de-
scribes as a revolutionary type of
still camera. •
"I rarely see pictures any more,"
says Mr. Porter, and he confesses
that he has lost most of his interest
in movie -making. Early fires burn
out in of us. Early intensities
exhaust us., Staleness is apt to fol-
low, in one's later years, the flaming
enthusiasms of youth.
will
granted the territory by the English
King.
Italy means the country which was
once ruled by a king named ltalus.
retainingthe two -stroke's character -
in a single year Pendergast bet $12,- the story of Porter - to indicate the
At 7 weeks your chicks are on the
way to becoming money -making
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.
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t,. Clinton
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the system has been applied with
outstanding success.
The new method is applicable to
big land and marine engine units,
suc£t as those for 6,000 horse power
motor ships. Apart from the great-
er economy in running costs, the
lower fuel consumption without loss
of power will have the great advan-
tage of giving vehicles or vessels a
SONS OF LORD TWEEDSMUIR
SERVING 1VIT1T THE FORCES
The three soar of the late Lord
Tweedsmuir aro serving with the
forces.
William Buchan has donned Roy-
al Air Force blue as an ait'eraftsman.
He is 24 -and volunteered. He has
never been in the. _air and is wide-
cided whether to aim for a post as
pilot, gunner, bomber, mechanic, or
one other of the many branches of
the service.
His other brothers are with the
Canadian Active Service Force. John,
the new Lord. Tweedsmuir, is a mem-
ber of the Governor General's foot -
guards and is attached to headquart-
ers staff of the 1st Division. Alstair,
youngest of the trio, is attached to
Canailia:n Military Headquarters in
London. He is a member of Princess
Louise Dragoon Guards, which is
now a mechanized cavalry unit.
William has been a resident of the
Old Country for %oane time. Ile is a
free lance newspaperman, author and
publisher, and recently engaged in
publication of small six -penny books
on such vital topics of the days as
the Siegfried and Maginot Lines.
A book I want to recommend to
young men - perhaps, also', to young
women - and to parents, has a title,
"Your Career in Business". It is by
Walter }loving, and its Canadian
publishers are William Collins, Sons
Ss Company. It is a book of good
counsels on how to get a jab, and how
to hold and make progress in a job.
The first chapter. is entitled, "He's
Looking for a Job", and it opens
with the record on an interview be-
tween an employer and an applicant
for work. "What kind of business
do you think you are best suited
MILLIONS OF THISTLES
Now Grown in England for Finishing
High Grade Cloths •
The British Ministry of Agricul-
ture is not in the least alarmed to
know that millions of thistles are
growing on a farm in Wiltshire,
England.
These plants, equivalent of the
Biblical tares, will never be destroyed
to make room for war time food
crops, for they are themselves a
valuable item in Britain's war econ-
omy.
The thistle heads are used in the
manufacture of highest grade cloth
of two distinct varieties: one for the
very heavy but smooth uniforms of
British Naval officers, the other for
a specially soft lightweight cloth
with 'a texture like doeskin, produced
in Britain solely for export to the
United States where it has become
fashionable as sports or holiday wear
among well-to-do Americans.
Known as teasles, the thistle heads
are fastened to a cylinder and they
constantly brush against the cloth,
combing the tiny fibres until the
right surface is produced. A similar
system, worked by hand, is used for
making cloth for billiard tables,
which must have an extra smooth
one way surface. The scarlet peace
time tunics .af Guardsmen are teased
by hand too.
In ordinary mills artificial thistles
made of wire are used, but only the
natural thistle head is capable of
producing the finest results.
High grade British cloths are in
greater demand abroad since the war
in every type of fabric, from Scot-
tish tweeds to West of England wor-
steds, One of the largest firms, cus-
tomers of the "thistle farmer, are 33
per cent up on last year's exports.
for?" asks the employer, and the
young man answers, "Why, I don't
knew. I just want to go into busi-
ness." And a sentence farther on in
this book is: "And so they come,
young Hien and young women, willing
for the most part to work hard, but
with no . very clear understanding o f
what it is they have to sell, no con-
victions as to just what they want
to do."
It is really tragic - this lack of
understanding on the part of work -
seekers of how to sell, themselves,
and so they defeat themselves in
Work -seeking Get this book. Buy
it, or borrow it from your public
library' - this if you are looking for
a job.
McK1M'S NEW DIRECTORY
PF. PUBLICATIONS
DENY NAZI ALLEGATIONS
Germans interned in Tanganyika
at the outbreak of war have written
to the Governor denying Nazi broad-
cast allegations that they were ill-
treated and even beaten while in
camp. The letter, signed by nine
Germans now on parole, stated that
they wished to express their apprec-
iation of the "very decent" treatment
of interness by the authorities. "All
just demands were met with good
will and the utmost consideration"
THURS., .TUNE 20, 1940
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PALEE
PEPPERY COLONELS
If Canadian colonels, and other
ranks as well, are not peppery
enough, and if army soup has no
savour, it will not be the fault of
the Department of Munitions and
Supply. Purchases of pepper for the
first three months of this year came
exactly to 10,027 pounds. It also
appears that the appetites of the
troops, the sailors and the airmen
were sufficient to knock off 3,100
tons of meat during the same period
of time.
PLACING LAKE TROUT
IN LAKE HURON
The tug "N. Ellen M" owned by
Wallace Menary of Lion's Head is
distributing the fry from the South-
ampton fish hatchery reports the
Kincardine News. The fry are plac-
ed in cans in which the water has
to be changed continually until the
small fish are placed in the water.
Ninety cans of fry are placed in the
lake each trip.
Over three million of the fry are
being placed in Lake Huron and
nearly a million are held in reserve
to be placed in inland waters. The
fry are distributed over a large sec-
tion of the coast of Lake Huron and
the waters adjacent to Providence
Bay, South Bay, Fitzwilliam Island,
Stokes Bay, Main Station Island,
Pike Bay, Round Island, Chief's
Point, Southampton, Port Elgin and
Kincardine are receiving their quota.
In former years the Miseford which
was owned by the Provincial Gov-
ernment, distributed the fry but with
the sale of that boat last year the
work has been let by contract and
Menary's were the successful ten-
ders this year.
Canada .has one new daily news-
paper, three new weekly publications,
ten new semi-monthly and four few-
er monthly publications, according to
the 1940 (the thirty-third annual)
edition of McKim's Directory of Can-
adian Publications, just off the
press.
The publication, in. the tradition of
its predecessors, summarizes exhaus-
tive information on markets, media
and population throughout Canada,
constituting all industrial analysis
reference of all towns having pub-
lications.
In the preface to the current ed-
ition, under the title of "Advertising
in War Time" it is pointed oat that
"in the corning months of war and
in the reconstruction period which
must follow, advertising will again
be called upon to assume new bur -
time . analysis and wise fore
handedness, rather than unreasoning
fear and excessive caution should be
the keynote." Reference is made, in
this connection, to, the Canadian Ad-
verti:sieg book of the year "Tire,
Story of Advertising in Canada! A
O'hroniele of Fifty Years" by H. E.
Stephenson and Carlton McNaught
and particularly to the chapter in it
entitled "The War (1914-1918) and
After: Expanding Fields."
The Directory is published by A.
McKim Limited, Advertising Agency,
head office, Montreal, and with
branch • offices at Toronto, Winnipeg,
Vancouver and London, England.,
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THOUSANDS OF BRITISH
CYCLISTS LINE UP
AGAINST THE ENEMY
The war has given the bicycle the
status of "light cavalary" on Brit-
ain's civil defence front.
25,000 of them are being mobilised
by the National Cyclists' Union as
a swift retort to parachute invaders.
The Ministry of Home Security re-
gards the skilled cyclist as invaluable
on roads which may be made impas-
sable to heavier vehicles or when the
telephone is put out of action.
Chester and Brighton have led the
way in setting up First Aid Cyclists'
Corps as a vital part of their A.R.P.
scheme. The Corps are equipped with
first aid boxes, helmets and respir-
ators, and on a test they saved 28
minutes in treating 'casualties."
Shortage of petrol has caused a
rush on bicycles since the war. Wom-
en have become such enthusiasts that
special fashions in`cycling suits have
' been designed for them. A great
part of the British industry's out-
put is however produced for export,
and manufacturers have formed an
export group in association with the
newly formed Export Council. In
1938, the last year for which figures
are available, Britain exported 576,-
1 458 bicycles, of which 156,166 were
to countries outside the Empire,
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