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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Clinton News Record, 1940-07-04, Page 6PAGE G THE CLINTON NEWS -RECORD THURO., JULY 4; 1940 NiYiSi'■' a medw ■ ■"i r r'J6i e...'f■Y.m.5. r°irti'iwee■'iW I Read - And Write For You (G.p ht) By John C. Kirkwood Asee-Wti!4'Yii's'r'ti"■!■1WNn'L"■'■W.`iW%W■ eWAri The absurdity of the hullabaloo about women keeping men out of work is shown by the fact that in a recent census decade the pecentage, of women gainfully employed in creased by just 1 per went: Mien - and : women - who apply, with letters, for positions, usually write very, very bad letters. Ag a 'rule the second paragraph of their letters tells about themselves - about their personal history. They seem to feel that the 'pers % or firm addres- 'sed wants, at the very beginning, a biographical record of the applicant for employment. What • employers want from those who write them seeking a position is a very positive and impressive statement regarding the letter -writer's ability to contrib- ute something of value to the firm or institution is he or she be em- ployed. Personal particulars should be left to the last, and it is better to put them a supplementary sheet - better than to incorporate then: into. the letter sent. Here is an illustration of what a good letter is. It was written by a man seeking work. He wrote so: I am now Treasurer -Controller in an old well-known company grown complacent. Combining technical competence in my field, with a rather comprehensive ex- perience in management en- gineering. I have secured un- common results in budgeting, costs, taxes and managerial ac- counting for several manufactur- ers selling from $10,000,000 to $40,000,000. Capitalizing a Fin I . ance Officer's unique opportun- ity to diagnose and prescribe, 1 have successfully sponsored new products, awakened "sleepers" in the line, have developed person- nel policies, have eliminated waste, and have made many suc- cessful management surveys of offices, departments and com- plete companies at home and abroad. My record will survive the closest scrutiny. Not a word in this letter about his age, his schools, his various jobs: these wene set forth on a separate sheet. His main letter concentrated on giving those addressed a picture of his values - on showing what he could do if he were employed. His effort in his letter was to lead' the reader of it to say, "Here's a man who would be very valuable to us." We in Canada estimate the value of the tourist industry to Canada to be $300,000,000. The United States estimates the value of the tourist in- dustry to them to be $0,000,000,000.1 A writer on the value and on the by-products of the tourist industry to the United. States says as follows: The tourist industry has help- ed to create among the people a spiritual unity which has not been equalled since the early days of the republic. In 1925 the nation boasted about seventeen indifferently -run national parks, totalling about 8000 sq. miles. Today there are twenty-nine na- tional parks, totalling 30,000 sq, miles, equipped with recreational facilities that are models for the world. Roads everywhere leading to them have been improved. Shoddy $50 -a -piece tourist camp shacks are on the wane, unable to compete with modern tourist ; courts, representing investments of between $50,000 and $150,000. Five years ago the tourist had difficulty in getting exaet infer- oration about 'such -and -such a place. Today The United States Travel Bureau serves as a clear- ing house for the free distribu- tion of untold reams of travel literature covering every spot on the hemisphere. Similar eulogies of the tourist in- dusthy as it relates to Canada could be written. Tourism has effects of a beneficial sort not always' perceived by us when we try to measure the gains to the nation and to individual communities of our growing tourist industry. _• • Pepperell Montague, of Barnard Col- lege, Columbia University, says about this law of increasing returns - about an idea in education which is at var- iance with the - views held by many teachers. Dr. Montague says: If you will but ,disregard . all well-meaning advice to disperse your studies over a wide field, and if you will take instead something like the, highly unified course of study prescribed at Oxford or Cambridge, then you will realize the truth of the Law of .In: - creasing Returns. For, whatever your chosen field may be geology, or literature, or economics• or mathe- matics, there will come a time, a magical moment in your life, when you will feel the body of .concentrat- ed, unified and painfully acquired. knowledge within you become sud- denly quick and alive in its own right. You will have acquired an enthusiasm that will grow ,by what it feeds upon and be to you' an ever mounting ; joy,: If, on the other hand, you pursue the will-o'-the-wisp- of two genera- tions ago - the all-round liberal ed- ucation befitting a -gentlemanand consisting of a polite acquaintance with a dozen varied subjects, you will find after ten years that none of these "acquaintances have become. friends, and that most of them will have slipped altogether from your mind. More than a thousand years ago, so archaeoligists say, a band of Ind- ians wandered down from the •plat- eaus beyond what today is San Fran- cisco to search for a canyon where they could build homes that would be safe from marauders: They built the strange cliff city of the Walnut Creek Canyon in Arizona. There are 300 of the individual dwellings with- in the space of three-fourths of a mile. Seen from above they are little black dots in the narrow canyon walls, because the caves were hollow- ed out of the soft strata, and were walled up with bricks. Today paths lead ep and around the entrances to the cliff dwellings. Each Indian farmed a plot several feet wide be- fore his door. The canyon itself is only a few hundred feet wide, with a towering pinnacle in .the centre.' Forest rangers are cutting paths' downthe steep canyon walls so that tourists may inspeet the tiny rooms in the sheer cliffs. Here's a new phrase - "The law of increasing returns". Listen to what a great educator, Professor William It is quite within the possibilities that in the very near future many of us will have to become farmers in: a small way to keep ourselves alive - for this terrible war is bound td uproot many of us, from our wonted way of life, and only Mother Earth may give us the assurance of bread in exchange for our labour. Preach- ing this idea is a new book, "Rural 'Roads to Security," by the Right Rev. Mgr. Luigi G. Ligutti and the Rev. John C. Rawe. Their book tells of projects at King City, Ontario, and. in Nova Scotia. The authors support the belief of Henry Ford that in- dustrial workers wouldhave greater comity and a higher total income if they engaged in part -tine subsist- ence farming. Their book is publish- ed by Bruce, Milwaukee. THE WEED OF THE WEEK• OX -EYE' DAISY Ox -eye Daisy, a hard perennial weed, prevalent tluoughout Ontario is now in bloom. It has a short thick rootstock and grows from 6 inches to 3 feet high. Several stems may be found growing from one root, says John D. MacLeod, Crops, seeds and Weeds Branch, Ont, Dept. of Agriculture, Toronto. The leaves slightly clasp the stem, the lower ones being long, narrow and toothed along the edges, the up- per ones are small and without teeth. Flowers are one to two inches broad on long stalks with from 20 ,to 30 white rays and a bright yellow disc. The seed is gray and white or black. and white with 12 conspicuous white ribs running the length of each seed. Flowers appear from June to Aug- ust and seeds mature during July to September. A .single plant may produce 5000 to 8000 seeds. It propa- gates by seed and new shoots from the crown. peep Canadian D;ollars At Home For years, residents of the. Drum- heller Valley, individually and col- lectively, have been pleading for a National Fuel Policy, arguing that the prosperity of Canadian coalfields was linked closely with Canada's prosperity. ' Such pleas have, so far, fallen on 'deaf ears; in fact when the United States trade agreement was'negotiat- ed, Canadian coal 'was penalised. It was thought and not without a grain of truth -, that the people of Alberta's mining area were concerned' primarily with their own Immediate problem, the agitation being dismis- sed as just another local grievance. With Canada at war the arguments propounded by spokesmen for the coal industry are being echoed by writers across Cahada. Editorial writers in Liberty„ MaeLeans and now the National Home Monthly are urging the Dominion government to take some action to•the end that one of the richest resources in Canada can be utilised in the war effort. Dr. H. L. Stewart, writing in the June issue of the National Home Monthly, points out that it required another war -- that of 1914-18 — to prove the worth of Alberta domestic coal in Winnipeg. Dr. Stewart admits that it was with reluctance that Win- nipeg accepted Alberta coal but, he. adds, it "proved such a success that, in a city whose winter climate i& far more exacting than that of any in Central Canada, multitudes have never returned tothe foreign imports inover twenty years." He then asks, "Cannot we learn from experience, at least from war to war? Or ,must we repeat the same costly failures, in deference to the same long dis- credited rhetoric?" Approximately ninety million dol- lars worth of American coal repre- senting slightly more than nine mil- lion tons, is imported annually into the Dominion. It is argued, by those who have 'something to gain from such imports, that the heating prob- lems of Central and Eastern Canada are entirely different to those inthe west; that Canadian coal has been. tried and found wanting; that the long haulage makes it uneconomical as a fuel; that the trade relationship with the United States must remain undisturbed. The fact of the need for conserving Ox -eye Daisy is most troublesome in pastures, meadows and on road- sides. The seed is a common impur- ity in grass seed and is difficult to remove because of its size and weight. f Sow graded timothy seed which is free from this weed seed, mow pas- tures and hay fields before bloom appears, plow shallow immediately after, cultivate thoroughly and sow buckwheat, rape, fall wheat or rye or continue cultivation until late fall. Ox -eye Daisy will not long survive where thorough cultivation and a short rotation of crops is practised. Do n.ot leave infested fields under hay or pasture for too long a period. Do not attempt to keep timothy fields for -seed which are infested with this weed. Rogue the seed crop and make sure that all short plants are removed. • The use of chemicals has proven, an affective and economical method of eradicating this weed from roadsides and areas where cultivation is 'im- possible. Write the Crops, Seeds and Weeds Branch for circular 14o. 58, "Weed Eradication by Chemicals," Mr. MacLeod advises. Prevent Ox -eye Daisy from ma- turing seed by spudding, pulling, mowing, cultivation and spraying. A CHAPTER EACH DAY You are living a gospel, A chapter each day, By deeds that you do, By words that you say. Men read 'what you live, Whether faithless or true. Say! *hat is the gospel according to YOU? , Ninety Million Dollars of Canadian currency each year is overlooked in the eatery by lobbyists, who think only in terms . of immediate profits. At this moment when Great Brit- ain has placed every able-bodied man in some useful occupation; when mines, Hills and factories are work- ing twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week; when the Canadian Minister of Industry is calling for an . intensive effort on the part of capital and labor, hundreds of men in Alberta's mining fields are walk- ing the streets while much needed Canadian currency is being sent each week to New York for coal — cur- rency, it must be remembered, which is at a ten per cent discount. This . ten per cent premium . on Canadian funds is utilised to increase the subvention on Alberta coal from $2.50 to $3.00 a ton and to decrease' freight rates from $8.00 to $7.50, would make possible the shipment of exactly nine million tons of Canadian coal to the Eastern markets without any additional cost to consumers, while giving employment to thous. ands 0± miners• and retaining for Canada the ninety million dollars of. Canadian currency. More important than subsidies however is the principle which allows American coal to be imported while holders of U.S. securities are called on to sell their stocks. The situation appears incongruous in our eyes, just as much as the argument that be- cause, in peace time, a trade agree- ment was signed with our good neighbour to the south, terms of the agreement must be kept despite the increased volume of war orders plac- ed in recent months which transforms the terms of the agreement into a picayune and outdated document. Canadian coal for Canadians is no longer a slogan. It has developed into a war -time issue. The Dominion government must take cognizance of the need to conserve currency, man- power and resources. A National Fuel Policy 'must be instituted with- out delay. Government, in its wisdom, has dictated fiscal policies to holders of foreign securities. Government should similarly control fuel requirements of Canadians if, by so doing, the re- sources of Canada can be conserved. AMMaIM CREDIT UNION MOVEMENT ton, Ont.; Garden City Press Credit IS EXPANDING RAPIDLY Union Limited, Toronto, Ont.; West Fort William Credit Union Limited, Nine Charters Issued During June, States Hon. P. M. Dewan, Ontario Minister of Agriculture: -24 Credit Unions have 9,449 Members and Assets of $1,688,909 Nine credit unions charters incorp- orating the groups concerned, were issued during June, Hon. P. M. Dewan, Ontario Minister of Agri- culture announced to -day. These new- ly incorporated credit unions have upwards of 640 members and $31,000 in assets. They bring the number of active credit unions in the prov- ince to 24 with a total membership of 9,449 and with total assets of $1,688,909.13. Most of the credit unions just in- corporated, have been operating as unincorporated groups, following a preliminary study and educational period by their members on the aims and objects of the credit union move- ment. Charters were applied for as soon as the regulations and standard forms under the , ^.redit Unions Act, 1940, were approved, A large number of oragnizations• have indicated they will be applying for charters as soon as technicalities connected with transferring the as- sets of an unincorporated group to a chartered company are completed, Mr. Dewan states. Credit union charter applications require the signatures of twenty of the prospective members together with the usual witnessing and other legal formalities, but so-called 'of- fice incorporations' are not permit- ted. Applications for charters are made on prescribed forms while standard forms of by-laws in: prin- ciple are used by all credit unions operating in, the province, Similarly, standard forms of annual returns and audited' statement. giving re- ceipts and disbursements, profit and loss and balance sheet are used by all incorporated credit unions. The filing of certified ennusl re- turns with the Department is com- pulsory. In. this way a check is maintained on all operations. Mr. Dewan warned that a limited number of credit unions incorporated some ten to fifteen years ago are in serious danger of losing their charters unless the provisions of the new Credit Unions Act, 1940, and Regulations thereunder are followed out carefully. The new credit union charters just issued are as follows—Farmunited Credit Union Limited, Toronto, Ont.; Hamilton Street Railway Employees' Credit Union Limited,' ifamilton;, Ont.; .Hamilton Dominion: Civil Ser- vants Credit Union Limited, Hami-l- Fort William, Ont.; St. Charles Credit Union Ltd., Timmins, Ont.; St. Ann's Credit Union of Hamilton, Limited, Hamilton, Ont.; Kapuskas- ing Credit Union Limited, Kapuskas- ing, Ont.; Brotherly Credit Union Limited, Toronto, Ont. TO SMYRNA FAIR IN WAR TIME Mediterranean Shop Window for France & Britain The flags of Turkey, France and Britain will fly side by side from the same building at the Smyrna Fair, to be held from August 20 to Septem- ber 20. It will be a triple entente of com- merce, stationed in the largest build- ing in the Fair 'Grounds. The offer of this building by the Turkish authorities was readily ac- cepted by France and Britain, and arrangements for exhibits are al- ready well advanced, BRITAIN'S ARMY OF THE BLIND Are Even. Working on Munitions FUSION CABINET BARRED BY KING STAND, IS VIEW OTTAWA Long-awaited revamp- ing of the Cabinet has been robbed of much of its psyehoilogical value, at Ottawa, by the extraordinary statements made in the house of Commons by Prime Minister Mac- kenzie King last week. These statements are taken .to mean that Mr. King, despite the war emergency now confronting this country, is still thinking in terms of party power and of the stability of his own personal leadership. Ire the House of Commons he laid down two ironclad conditions which, he said, would govern future Cabinet re -or- ganization under his premiership: 1. "I hope he" (the leader of the. Opposition) "will not ask me as the leader of the administration to accept as a colleague any of those in the front :benches before me who have said that they thought I was quite unqualified to be the leader of the Government at the present time," 2, "When I take into the admin- istration additional gentlemen in order to strengthen, it, one of the first qualifications which I shall require of them, as of anyone else, is loyalty to myself, and not a dis- position to stab the leader of the party in his breast when he is try- ing to serve his country to the best of his ability at a time of war," Many unexpected war time tasks are now being carried. out by the '75,000 blind folk of Britain. The blind are not only typists in Government offices and telephonists in the Royal Air Force; many of them have become expert craftsmen is munition factories. At St, Dun- stan's the amen were taught four years ago to use sharp tools like borers, circular saws and sanding machines. They have not had , one accident, in the interval. Over 100 St. Dunstan's men blind- ed in the last war are today making netting. for camouflage on the guns of this one.' For the use of blind musicians, the National Institute for the Blind have already issued in braille all the new songs which the troops are singing. Blindstereotyp- ers have also prepared a braille edit- ion of the Norwegian National An- them. The blind knit woollies for British soldiers at Narvik and for prisoners' of war in 'Germany. Pannier baskets for the Army's pack mules in different parts of the Empire and in France have been made by the Blind Employment. Fac- tory in Waterloo 'Road, London,' where they also turn out fenders for warships. They are but a few of the thous- ands of Britain's' blind who areevork-• ing far into' the night 111 their own perpetual black -out. Sar Union Hope These statements at once made any union government, any govern- ment including members of other parties, impossible. Members of the opposition parties have just come through a general ,election in which they have declared on platform after platform their belief that Mr. King is not qualified to be the leader of the Government at the present time. Under similar circumstances in Britain, Premier Neville Chamberlain would never have invited Rt. Hon. ,Winston Churchill into, the Govern- ment and Mr. Churchill, in turn, would neyer have brought in. the leaders of the Labor party. The ob- vious course, it is pointed out, is for a Prime Minister to invite into the Cabinet the men who are best able to serve the country, Once they have joined the minis- try, the usual rule of Cabinet solid- arity must prevail. Ministers having had 'full opportunity at the council table to work out policies, must abide by the decision of Cabinet. They are bound to the cabinet, not to the Prime" Minister. Shock to Members The second condition imposed by Mr. King—that of personal loyalty to himself—came to many Parliament War Savings Certificates lour-Ont War Savings Certificates become a mechanical operation in the Bank of Canada offices, in Ottawa, after the details of each operation have been punched on cards by the operators shown in the upper view. Centre view shows the machinery which sorts the cards by denomination, produces the certificate and affixes seal and signatures. Lower view shows an inserting and mailing machine, capable of inserting four different pieces of mail and sealing envelopes at the rate of 5,500 an hour. Standing at the left is L. A. Williams, designer and producer of the roachine. men as a severe shock. In a real sense it is regarded as meaning that Mr. King is placing his own political safety above that of the state; is assuming that men would join his government to lead a palace revolu- tion, without any intention of being loyal to the Government of which they had become a member. The feeling in many quarters here is that these statements can have no other effect than to advance mater Tally the date of Mr. King's retire- ment. Indeed his words are thought by some to mean that he himself foresees conditions under which he would prefer to retire than to con- tinue at the head of the Government,.. r'r Cheek Over Yor Stoek of !NG Doll't Let It Get Low Remember us for all your printing requirements, including COUNTER CHECK BOOKS