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THURS., JUNE 27, 1940
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Worms tam and so, too, do house -i Radio has replaced the telphone on
wives who suffered much from their battle fields. In the first World War
hot kitchens in July and Augustg1 one of the first things that happened
they are now learning to do the fain-- l in any offensive was the destruction
ily cooking out-of-doors. But it may of phone lines by the enemy bomb -
have been the .manufacturers of ard'ment, with the result that many.
cooking equipment who put this good commanders were not able to get a
idea into their heads. Thus, here are complete picture of the strategical
a
quotations from an advertisement of I situation when such understanding
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a"new type outdoor grill .
If you have art outdoor fireplace
modernize it by placing one oti
these deluxe grills in it. Or if
you are building a fireplace, pur-
chase a grill for it.
And another maker's advertise -
went bids housewives to discover the
fun of outdoor cooking in your own
backyard. Escape the hot kitchen
during summer. ,Here's a new and
delightfully different way to enter-
tain your guests.
And then editors have their say—,
as for example: Many of the new
portable grills are collapasible, and
one large one, built like a tea wagon
even has rubber tires and warming,
shelves. Prides range all the way from
$3.50 to $49. If the grill isnot set
up too far from the kitchen, salads
may be served in the first flush of
their youth, little baking powder
bisuuits will be piping hot in •a linen
napkin; and the fruit will still wear
that faint patina of chill from the
ice -box.
So one can have daily picnics right
in one's :own garden thanks to this
was an urgent necessity. Today
front-line units are equipped with
portable radios and transmitters, and
are in direct communication by voice
,not only with their own unit but also
with the chief of operations, An oral
order can be given and heard simult-
aneously by every unit of a hundred
thousand men. Truck convoys have
two -ways sets similar to the police.
radio outfits. Mobile reconnaissance
cars have the same equipment. Air-
planes talk to troops on the ground
and receive and give orders by voice
With radio equipment in general use
•a commander does, not have to dele-
gate command. Radio communica-
tion and especially direction finders
-are playing vital roles in tank man-
oeuvres and movements of motorized
columns.
Radio beams are direct pointers to
cities; planes can ride the waves into
a city. The radio direction finder
gives the bomber the sense of a
bloodhound.
outdoor grill, and all the things that
fancy can suggest and that the purse,
can ^buy; L -.,-.
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11 hope that we is Canada will soon
have an opportunity to see the Abe
Lincoln film, starring. Raynwnd
Massey. Yet in the United States
this picture has not been nearly as
well received as was the stage play
despite the fact that many have
found the films, with its larger back-
ground possibilities, more t o their
liking. One movie theathre which
was to show .the film advertised it
in the local newspaper after his.
Manner:
"Abe Lincoln in Illinois" is the big-
gest flop in the history of the show
business. It is the greatest motion
picture in history. The RKO Radio
studios spent a fortune in money in
producing it. Yet the cruel fact re-
Mains- that the theatre -going public
of America from New York to 'Frisco
is shunning this top picture of the
century. The public is depriving itself
of the grandest entertainment ever
conceived on the screen.
This advertising, so report says,
produced very satisfactory financial
results,
At 7 weeks your chicks are on the
way to becoming money -making
Frill 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.
GROWING MASH
Sold by ''
H. CHARLESWORTH
Clinton
VITAMIZED FOR
• HEALTH...FARM
PROVEN FOR
Canada this • year is being extensively
advertised as a playground and tour-
ist land in U.S.A. publications - and
not alone by the Federal and Prov-
ince' governments. Thus, in the New
York Sunday Times of dates June 9th
there were advertisements about the
attractions of Canada and of part-
icular spots and resorts and hotels,
signed by these advertisers: Canada
Steamship Lines; American Express;
Vacationland; Ensign Tours; Can-
adian Pacific Hotels; Canadian Na-
tional Railways; Timagam Lodge;
Canadian Pacific Railway; Chalet God was undoubtedly the motive
Cochand, Ste. Marguerite Station, power which finally led to theinvent-
Que.; Mont Tremblant Lodge, Lae ion of printing by types. For one
Mercier, Que.; Royal Muskoka Hotel;
Manor Pineteau, Lake Tremblant,
Que.; Chantecler, Ste. Adelle en haut,
Que.; Nova Scotia Province; Domaine
d'BatreTle, Ste Marguerite du lac
Masson, Que.; Yarmouth, N.S.; Man-
oir Richelieu, Murray Bay, Que.;
Chateau Frontenae, Quebec City;
Laurentide Inn, St. Agathe, Que.;
Laurentian Resorts Association; Jas-
per Villas, Montreal; Tourist Bureau,
Province of Quebec.
Thus it is seen that in addition to
what our governments maybe spend-
ing to attraet tourists to Canada, aretook six men six full years of labor
the spending of private and coo-, to produce it. The types were cut one
mercial advertisers. Also to be spok- by one. The Bible was in two volumes
en of are the editorial articles in im-� each about a foot high and eight in-
portant U.S.A. newspapers and snag- .hes wide. •
azines, and of such articles there are The Bible even provided the names
of the first types ever made. The
types used by Gutenberg was known
as B42— Bible 421
There are in the alphabet twenty -
idea that Florida is too hot in sum -'six letters, and the same letters can
mer, and that therefore it is not al be used over and over to spell thous -
vacation country in summer. But the I ands of words. In a page of words
very reverse would seem to be true. portions of the alphabet are employ -
Florida advertises itself as a sum-
mer tourist resort!
Last winter was Florida's best
tourist season in nine years, and now
it is said that it seems likely that
this year's summer's tourist volume
will reach an all-time high. Its peak
temperatures are declared to be low -
The Birth Of Type
Gutenberg's Revelutionary Discovery 500 Years Ago
There are good grounds for at- English, was the Bay Psalm Book,
tributing Gutenberg's invention of 1640, of the first ,edition.'' •of which
printing to the year 1440. This but ten copies are known to exist
means that until 500 years ago, to -day. One is in.. the Bodleian 'jib
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though there were extensive libraries rary at Oxford and the others are on
all over Europe every book had this side of the Atlantic, seven of
to be slowly and laboriously written them in the libraries of public in-
by hand. This put the cost far be- stitutions, from which they will•never
yond the reach of ordinary people. come on to the public market. In a
A nian would spend his whole life year the infant art, still quite feeble
writing one copy of the Bible in the appeared on the continent.
exquisite "book -hand" which in- Printing In Canada
fluences• hand writing to this day, Halifax was the first publishing
and which was the model for the first centre in what is now Canada. Cons.-
types ever made in Europe. petition in Boston had become so
The world was emerging from • a keen that, indesperation, et the age
thousand years of mental darkness. of fifty, -Bartholomew Green, Jr.,
Men were putting on to canvas Pict- betook himself and his printing press
ures which to -day area constant in- to Halifax, which place he reached
$piration. A new spirit was abroad in its early days in the autumn of
and everywhere men sought the 1751. It was to his Spirit of enter -
Truth. prise that we owe the establishment.
It was at this time that Gutenberg of, in point of time, the first of all
gave to the world the art of writing our periodicals, the Halifax Gazette,
by movable types.' which appeared' in January, 1752.
Methods of printing had been used nIn 1850 there was great activity in
before. The Chinese and Japanese the establishment of newspapers in
used 'a kind of type in blocks thous- Upper Canada, the number being est -
ands of years ago. Texts of Chi- imated at thirty-six. Only four have
nese classics are\ said to be in exist- withstood the vicissitudes of time
ence dated the year 175. Koreans until today.
used copper types in the early
fifteenth century, But Europe knew EXPERIMENT PUSHED
nothing of this. Like the medicine ON ELECTRIC GUN
of Hippocrates and the culture of A fleshless electric machine gun
Ancient Egypt it went from the ken may become available to the United
of man who had to begin again from States Army,
the beginning. A Pittsburgh manufacturing comp -
William the Conqueror had his own any will supply the weapon and at -
block seal, and some time afterwards tempt to perfect it. The gun is the
woodcuts became fairly common. invention of Virgil Rigsby of Hull,
They were used to illuminate the Texas. Still in the experimental
hand-written books of the time. Thestage, the gun has a muzzle velocity
great disadvantage with a woodcut of 400 feet a second.
was that it was only useable as a B. D. Atwell, engineer for the
whole. The letters could not be taken Pittsburgh firm's plant, said the
apart and used in another formation. principle of the gun is sound but "it
This meant that the great amount will take a much higher muzzle vel -
of labour involved in cutting one of Deity to make a war weapon, of the
the set words was lost if another gene
was needed. Magnetic coils jerk the bullets
The great hunger for the Word of through' the gun barrel. The coils
thing the long researches of Guten-
berg and others cost money, and the
Church supplied it. Had there been
no Bible to print it is most likely
there would have been no demand for
the books which were to come from
the first printing presses.
The first words which Gutenberg
printed with his movable types were
those of the Lord's Prayer: "Our
Father which art in Heaven . .,"
and the first book ever printed with.
movable types was the whole Bible,
which in itself is a singular fact. It
many.
Many of us in Canada have the
ed numbers of times; after printing
has been accomplished with the solid
wooden block the carved .letters are
lost. If, instead of engraving the
whole page on a solid wooden block,
small movable blocks were used for
engraving each letter, then the same
letters could be used any numbers
er than those anywhere else in the' of times, The letters would have
Eastern United States, Prices have to be carved in wood with small hart -
been fixed at rates from 30 to 50 .dies to them so that they could be
pier cent lower than winter rates, taken up ;and placed together as if
As attractions Florida offers night one were spelling. The result of
baseball genies, organized water this reasoning was the birth of mov-
sports of every kind, fresh and salt able — the keystone of the art of
water, fishing, sailing and motor -boat printing, Out of a piece of hard
regattas, swimming meets, inland wood, Gutenberg sawed some thous -
sightseeing, bathing beeches, aquas- and very Harlow. At one end he cut
tutus, 'motor tours, viewing marina anr very narrow. At one end he Cut
a letter in relief, and bored a hole
through the other. After having
thus furnished himself with a numb-
er or the letters of the alphabet, he
placed whole words together, arrang-
New York City has one physician ' ed them in lines on a string, until
to each 497 inhabitants. According ; they forrned a page; then he bound
to a recent compilation the Associa- I them together with wire and so pre -
tion of American Medical Colleges vented them front falling apart. Gat -
reports 12,131 applications for admis- enberg then blackened his wooden
sion in one year, of whom 6223 were type with ink, and, taking up the
admitted. It is authortatively said' whole together, he pressed it upon a
that no community that can support sheet of paper.
a physician is without adequate! Gutenburg saw little of the bless. -
medical service. I ing that printing would bring to the
Probably in Canada there is an. world. Summoned tor debt, his wend-
equally adequate supply of medical;erful plant ruined in war, spent his
men. At any rate our medical schools last years as a pensioner on the
are makng it increasingly hard foe! charity of the Archbishop of Mentz -
one to become a physician. I Nobody noted his death, and he
Yet there is being developed a: new, passed away in 1468.
vocation in the field of medicine Of the Americas Mexico benefited
which is attractive to young men mid by the new art for exactly a century
women, who are -interested in science before it was introduced into English
and- who would like to enroll in, the t America. Cambridge Mass., can
war against disease - young men and boast. of having had the first print
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women. who may not be able to un- • ing shop in. North America, just as
dertake the prolonged training re- Cambridge also had the honor of est-
quired for the profession of medicine. ablishing the first university in all
The workers in this field are known' that vast area from the Gulf of Mee-
as
etas "clinical laboratory technicians", ice to the Arctic. Stephen Dave wag
or "medical technologists". The the first printer in North 'America,
medical technologist does his work in although his name does • not appear
a ; clinical laboratory, which is a on any publication issued from his
specialized 'chemical and biological; press. EL n.onconformis 'minister
laboratory, attached to a hospital, or,brought Dave to America to set him
he operates independently under the' up in. business. His name deserves.
direction of a clinical pathologist. I to be remembered — the Rev. Jesse
The medical technologist makes men Glover --a but he died on the long
alyses and reports of blood, sputum,' voyage and Dave was obliged to
urine, fen's, stomach contents, tissue carry on without his patron, The
and the like. 1 first American book, printed in
life through glass -bottomed boats,
ice-skating spectacles, and, of course,
night clubs.
may be operated from batteries or
from a power line.
Concealed troops with electric ma-
chine guns could silently operate
against enemy troops, who would
find it difficult to spot the machine
gunners.
Scientific Agriculture
Great War Time Role
The role of technical agriculture.
during the war said Dr. J. W. Swains,'.
Director, Science Service, Dominion
Department of Agriculture, in a re-
cent address at McMaster University
in Hamilton, Ont, is clearly to as-
sist in maintaining a sound agri-
cultural industry in Canada, compet-
ent to supply the agricultural pro-
ducts required to a greater degree
than ever before, able to furnish the
United Kingdom. and the allies of
Canada with whatever_ they may
peed,` and to amintain a standard that
will make post-war adjustments pos-
sible without .serious trade disturb-
ances.
With an industry dependent so
largely on .overseas trade, and with,
those markets greatly reduced, and
future demands extremely uncertain,
technical agriculture has before it 'a
great field of work. Canada.''s larg-
est market, the home market, should
be more fully exploited; much at-
tention has
t-tention'has been given to selling ap-
ples and; poultry in Great 'Britain,
probably toe little to selling them in
Ontario and the Prairie Provinces.
Soil, fertility must be improved and.
maintained; the best cultural prac-
tices employed; the best seed produc-
ed and used; improved varieties .de-
veloped and utilized; farm economics
studied and applied; plant and animal
pests and diseases controlled; new
uses for agricultural products found
and exploited; storage and processing
facilities used much more extensiv-
ely; and production and marketing
policies and educational programs
carried through as effectively as
possible. Canadian produce iehould
be of the finest quality, with the
greatest economic production per
acre in order to obtain the lowest
possible cost to the producer and to
the consumer.
In all this work, ,scientific -tech-
nical agriculture must give leader-
ship and guidance, for on its help
the agricultural community will be
dependent as never before in the
history of Canada. Careful planning
by agricultural leaders and by in-
dividual farmers will be absolutely
necessary in order for agriculture to
play its part successfully in the
years ahead.
READ THE ADVERTISEMENTS
IN THE NEWS -RECORD
INDUSTRY SOUGHT BR UCEFIELD,
WHEN GRO WING VILLAGE YOUNG
By W. 11.. Johnston in,. the Landon Free Press
Surrounded by one of the most away. City firms made tempting of -
fertile districts in Western Ontario, tiers for eream delivered in cream
cans at near -by railway stations. The
cash returns were satisfactory, and.,
in consequence,the small rural, cheese
factories and creameries Jangled -red,.'
and in many cases were closed al.-
together.
The first wagon shop was opened
by Hugh McIntosh, and: for many
years manufactured a large number
of wagons for the farmers in the
district, but, litre many other articles,
the day came when wagons were
turned out wholesale by large faa-
torles, and the small plants were
closed.
Other flourishing businesses in the
early days were several shoemakers+'
shops, : tailor shops, a stave mill and
cooper shop, carriage shops, ate; Most
of these early concerns are now elope
ed, and all owing to the same cense
-- competition from the large fac-
tories.
But we must not run away with
the thought that Brueefield is dead'
or dying. Instead, she is very Innen
alive, and still carries on a large,
trade with the surrounding country,
it was no wonder that mechanics and
small manufacturers should flock to
Brucefield at an early period in her
history. The first blacksmith was
William McMillan. Others were
James Johns, 13. Kaiser, Duncan Mc-
Donald and Sam Pollock.
In the early days, a bag of wheat
was often taken, to London or God-
erich on theback of an ox, and the
flour brought back was precious in
the farmer's home. In order to, supply
this staff of', life, Adam Smith open-
ed a flour mill, and for many years
prospered,' but as roller mills began
to multiply, the old stone mills were
forced to close their doors.
W. T. O'Neil was the first harness
maker, and his was a busy shop for
many decades when horses furnished
the motive power en the farm and
the highway.
A. grain elevator that was kept
open for, about half a century by
William Scott & Co., and through
which has passed minions of bushels
of grain, is now under the control of
Laird Mickle, of Hensall.
In earlier days, a pump factory
was conducted by a MVir.• Lang. A
cheese and butter factory prospered
for several years, and was run by
Hugh McCartney. It was gradually
crowded out by larger concerns in
other plaees. Large creameries sent
out their trucks over a wide territory
sand gathered the cream, making no
charge to the farmer for trucking it
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REAL WINDPIPE
Peter Grippe, twelve, who for ten
years breathed through a rubber tube
in his neck, has been given a real
windpipe of skin taken front his arm
by plastie surgeons at London's Hoes
pital for Sick Children. The sound. •'
of his own voice frightened the bon
when he found himself able to use it,,.
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Midland, North Bay, Parry Sound, Sudbury, Capreol and West to
Beardmore.
P.M. Trains July 5 All Trains July 6
To TORONTO
Also to Brantford, Chatham, Goderich, Guelph, Hamilton, 'tendon,
Niagara Falls, Owen Sound, St. Catharines, St. Marys, Sarnia,
Stratford, Stretbroy, Woodstock.
See handbills for complete list of destinations
For fares, return limits, train information, tickets, etc..
Consult nearest agent
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