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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Clinton News Record, 1940-08-22, Page 6PAGE 6 THE CANTON NEWS -RECORD THURS., AUGUST 22, 194Cr ,Ady.m. R'LY1eA ec"'i'L"eti'r'o'e 1en"a'ti' "di,°i'L"ii'ee.wm".V''Nw.'r!5.'S."" ri; ( Read - And Write For You r'. (copyright) By John C. Kirkwood A watery grave can't always hide might become the fashion -creation what's buried' in it. Take the case, centre of the world, succeeding Paris by way of example, of the Monitor, - this because Montreal is so largely first ironclad battleship' in the world, French, But New York City is "out" and which was sunk seventy-seven for 'this distinction. Like the Belgians years ago, with all its crew, having and the French themselves, Fashion foundered in a heavy storm. For a has become a refugee. long time the hulk of the Monitor The jealous French declare that the had been forgotten, .but two years ago very atmosphere of New York is the President of the National Geo- inimical to real creative genius and graphic Society- became inquisitive, design, but New York scoffs at all and set afoot plans for photographing criticisms of it and of its ability to the sunken Monitor and other ships 'wear the crown that Paris has lost - which had gone to the bottom nearfor the present at any rate. it. So photographic pictures were taken - from a variety of altitudes ranging from 50 feet to 2700 feet above the sea, Special cameras were used, but the conditions were not ideal - 'a heavy haze hung over the spot, and light did not penetrate to any great depth of Water. It is planned to take more photographs. So someday you are likely to see the, Monitor - and other ships - as buried in the sear in the pages of the Na- tional Geographic Magazine. Perhaps in some very naughty moods of yours, you have tried to imagine how you could kidnap some person, for the ransom you would exact, and, get the ransom without your getting caught. And even if you have - never had such evil thoughts, you have probably read, with judical attention, about the schemes devised by kidnappers to get the ransom money without their be- ing enmeshed in the net cast by the police. So what do you think of the ways proposed by three m e n who sought $100,000 ,from a manager of Sears, Roebuck stores in the Mil- waukee area? But ht this rase, it -was not a kidnapping crime, but an extortion plot. The plotters had no grievances in respect to this store manager: they just wanted money, and picked on a man deemed able to cough up $100,008. ' The first effort was a threat to plant a time bomb in a Sears, Roe- buck store - this unless Mr. Davis, the store manager, paid up before a specified date. He was directed to wrap $100,000 in small bills in a par- cel, this parcel to be dropped, from an aeroplane to be flown over Lake Michigan, to a submarine which would be waiting ami which would be visible. This submarine was a homemade contraption. But experi- ments made by the criminals with the submarine revealed the discon- certing fact that it would not sub- merge! Fashion is Big Business. It was France's second largest industry. In America the fashion market ranks, in sales volume, with steel, motor vehicles, the oil business, the meat packing industry, and electrical ma- chinery. Taking into account all lines of feminine merchandise, from mil- linery to shoes, the American market consumes a production estimated to have a value of $3,500,000,000 per an- num. But what about London? Here's what one commentator says in regard to London.: "England> has been and will be putting forth every possible effort to fashion and provide clothing for the nations. If Great Britain happens to win this war, or even to maintain herself against Germany for a conisderable length of time, British prestige will be enormous, and I believe that she will make a superhuman effort to achieve the same end toward which America is striving - to secure for herself the fashion crown which Paris has in- voluntarily ceded." Over a thousand golfers met in mid-August at the Forest Hill Club, Bloomfield, N. .1. to compete in a hole -in -one tournament. This annual tournament was initiated in 1932. All entrants must have made a hole in one on a legitimate golf course. Prior to this year's contest a total of 4,360 players have participated in this hole -in -one event. Jointly they fired 21,800 shots, and in all this time only three golfers hit the bulls - eye. The most spectacular of these perfect shots was made by lack Hag- en - no relation to the great Walter - veteran professional, In 1933 he was the first 'player to tee off, and he dropped his ace on the third of the five shots allotted each contestant. Talking about golf: when you ar- rive at the seventh or ninth hole, eat candy and improve your score. This Then the conspirators is not just fancy or humor. It has p proposed a th.e authority of Dr. Paul Michael, new way of getting the money. They writing in the Journal of the Ameri- ordered Davis to hire a motorcycle, Cam Medical Association, He has and to carry the money to a specified deserted location. But it was a police- man who rode the motorcycle, and , who deposited, a dummy package at the spot specified. This spot was watched by a number of concealed policemen, but nobody collected the package: the mac who should have picked up the package said, after- wards, that he had got "cold feet." From the beginning the police had suspected a certain man because he had done some metal repair work at one of the stores: they matched pieces of the bomb - which had been exploded as per threat - with scraps found in the abandoned shop of this metal -worker. With this clue they tracked down all three men. It is the submarine "technique" that is interesting. Conscription in Great Britain has swallowed up most of the country's chimney -sweeps - which is just "too bad," for dirty chimneys are an abomination to housewives when fires become necessary for warming rooms. In Britain central heating, while becoming.. common, has not yet, by any means, put fireplaces out of business. Chimneys, like people, have an an- cestry. Before the Norman Conquest there were no chimneys. In the manor houses of that period fires were built on an open hearth raised in the centre of the great hall, the smoke escaping either through the door or from a small opening in the roof. Later on the wall fireplace was 'introduced, and this meant chimneys. But chim- neys at the beginning were built only in the larger castles and monasteries, and it was several centuries before projecting shafts - above the point of emergence in the roof - were added. made intensive and extensive studies of the effects of sugar on golfers at the middle of the course. From the 11th to the 16th hole the blood sugar is well below the gusting level. Sugar in the blood provides immediately available energy and therefore cor- rects fatigue. Now we may look for new "ap- peals" in the advertisements of mak- ers of candy and chocolate bars, Have Their Headaches (Paisley Advocate) In operating a small newspaper, with a limited number of readers, over a limited area, it is essential that the Editor try the impossible, that is, please everybody. One of the most frequent causes of displeasure, finds the Listowel Banner, is the ap- pearance of items that are not exactly correct in fact, These errors occur through the impossibility of checking every item at its sources for its cor- rectness, leaving us in a position of knowing only what we are told about many of the stories we write. There- fore, if we ever print an article con- cerning yourself, and it isn't quite as correct as it might be, dont get in our hair about it, for we are here, willing and ready to make corrections, Don't consider us at fault, because, after all, if the news item concerns you, or yours, isn't it your duty to see that we get the facts correctly? Continu- ing the Banner remarks: It is really surprising to us, the conceptions that some people have of how a newspaper earns its necessary revenue. AFTER HARVEST CULTIVATION. HELPS TO CONTROL WEEDS Is Practical and Effective, States Ont. Dept. of Agriculture After -harvest cultivation is one of the most practical and most effective methods of controlling weeds, states John 1). MacLeod, Crops Seeds and Weeds Branch, Ont. Dept. of Agri- culture. Pants draw heavily on the food stored iia the roots in order to produce flower and seed''.and they are at their weakest stage immediately after the crop. has been removed. For the control of annual and win- ter annual weeds, shallow, thorough cultivation is recommended by using the plow, one-way disc, cultivator or disc harrow. Seeds are brought near the surface by this plan where they germinate and may be killed by sub- sequent cultivation. An abundance of moisture plus the methods outlined above, will destroy millions of seed- ling plants of such weeds as Wild. Mustard, Stinkweed, Ragweed, Fox- tail, False Flax, Pigweed, Lambs Quarters, Shepherds Purse, etc. For the control of perennial weeds having deep tap roots, such as. Blad- der Campion and Chicory, deep plow- ing is recommended as soon as the crop hag been removed, followed by cultivation, using wide, sharp shares which overlap. Thorough, frequent cultivation both ways is essential in order to cut roots and bring them to the surface where the sun will assist in destroying them. The "dry-cleaning" method has proven the most effective in control- ling weeds with creeping rootstocks. Included in this group are four well known perennials: Field Bindweed, Perennial Sow Thistle, Twitch Grass and Canaea Thistle. The disc plow has proven an effective implement in the control of these weeds. Deep plowing is needed for Sow Thistle, Canada Thistle and Bindweed, and shallow plowing for Twitch Grass. The field should be left in this rough state as long as dry weather prevails followed by frequent thorough cul- tivation. It should be plowed late in the fall and left in the rough state or ridged up for the winter. The use of the disc harrow is not recommended for the control of per- ennial weeds. An abundance of moisture will prove favourable for the control of annual weeds but will upset all plans for the control of perennials, partic- ularly those with underground root- stocks. Two objectives should be kept in mind when planning after -harvest cultivation. (1) Practise a green summer fal- low when controlling annuals—per- mit seeds to germinate and destroy them later by cultivation. (2) Practise a black summer fal- low when fighting winter annuals, biennials and perennials. Deep the ground absolutely black until frosts will make further cultivation impos- sible. After -harvest cultivation will con- trol weeds and will mean a larger succeeding crop and, greater returns. The golden age of the domestic chimney in England was the Tudor period, lasting from 1485 until 1603, during which time fireplaces were built intomansions r m sons ,and cottages alike, for the first time. The most glorious of the chimney stacks , are those built in brick. Brick was so much easier to handle than stone for really decorative architecture. The Tudor masons were great masters in their craft excelledin, the construc- tion of beautiful, and dignified ehim- n.ey stacks. Examples of their fine craftsmanship are to be teen it) Hampton Court Palace, built by Cardinal Wolsey and presented by him to Fleury VIII. Perhaps 'you read in your news- paper quite recenty that Montreal The Gardener By A. E. Hunter Frequently you have heard of the gardened home. You know some peo- ple give as much consideration to the selection cif plants for the garden as to their curtains, rugs and food. I like to think of you having a plant- ing which is as neat and up-to-date as your clothing. It is interesting to note the stages through which the amateur gardener passes. First, he appreciates flowers and plants perhaps cannas and annuals as a foundation planting, Then he real- izes these are only temporary in. ef- fect so. he visits his nurseryman and orders a dozen spiroa. Like the young school boy who parts his hair in the middle of his head and plasters it down, he plants the apireas three on either side of the walk in straight rows. After planting and comparing results with other plantings he con- cludes that this way of planting is monotonou.s He has started to observe other gardens and the effect of evergreen, trees for foundation planting , He is going to change to evergreens but Ise makes another mistake. He buys cheap, common varieties. They are chosen without thought of their natural size, and here also unsatis- factory. So he does as you should do, buys the dwarf evergreens (coni- fers) and arranges them according to! their ,grown height, avoiding the planting of spiral ones under the win- dows. They would obstruct the light and vision. Use then at the corners or between the windows. Then if you feel you can, afford it, plant the dwarf varieties in front of the taller. ones. If you mix a few foliaged Varieties with the green and gold you will have a pleasing arrangement. If you plant a caster blue spruce, put it out by - itself where it may grow its natural shape. It is than they look their best. A weeping birch is also a beautiful tree to plant on the lawn where it may grow un- hampered by other trees or buildings: o * i• Our minds weary of the same thing. Our clothes wear out. Our automobiles' pass their period of use- fulness and We are not distressed for time brings neve and better things. Repeatedly, after someone has giv- en us a little news item, such as a personal, wedding announcement or write-up, obituary or birth notice, or. any of the myriad of little "newsy" items that make up a weekly news- paper, we are asked, "And how inuch will that cost?" These items are our "bread and butter's and We are only too glad to get the information, and consider ourselves indebted to any- one who phones or drops in to tell us of the little happenings. Such. items as iVe' derive revenue from in- clude engageensnt announcements, in memoriam and cards of thanks, an- nouncement of coining events, articles for sale, etc. So in future, if you have beenone of those laboring un- der the delusion that we charge' for the publication ofnews items, don't hesitate on that score for if we could afford it' we would be paying you for the information. This is the joy we get from garden- ing - to change and to gdd plants and new varieties as our garden ap- preciation and our finances inerease. "Full many a flower was born to blush unseen, and waste its frag- rance on the desert air." That is not. so. A flower which produces its seeds has ,,not wasted its perfume on the desert air. I wish to glorify the flower that his its purpose, whatever it may be. Surely flowers do not bloom merely so that we may enjoy them, else the poet would be right But we human beings look in upon their affairs as it were. Flowers are here that we may find them, plant them, understand them and improve them too. Theplant seems to say "Here I am,' do what you will with me." A child, and poet love flowers and call them bits of rainbow. A botanist says "I must know why you are red, how your saprises, and I must understand you." The farmer says, "I shall use you, for you shall be food, fibre and finance. to me." "I. shall' plant you," says the gar- dener. "You shall make quiet, peace- ful spots about my home, furnish me with gay blossoms, beautify the place." "I shall change you," says the plant breeder, "se your fruit will produce. less seeds. I shall double your size. I shall magnify- and qualify your color.". If your ca terhury bells and fox- gloves haventt been standing the Winter, loosen the roots in Septem- ber but do not disconnect them. Then cover them over in late fall with a flower pot, inverted. Poenies should be planted in September, about the 16th. Get the bed ready. Make it rich with decayed fertilizer and add a few handfuls of bone meal to each plant for peonies usually.remain for years in one place. Iris may be planted yet. also oriental poppiee or madonna lilies. Sugar Beets In Manitoba Sugar to sweeten the dispositions of Canadian citizens has long been produced from beets grown on the rich clay loams of Kent, Ontario, and processed in the Chatham plant of the Canada and Dominion Sugar Company, as well as on the fertile irrigated lands of Southern Alberta for the Canadian Sugar Factories at Raymond. This year farmers of the Red River Valley are having their first experience in commercial sugar beet culture on sin area totalling 20,000 acres, within a radius of about 60 miles from Winnipeg and the mil- lion -dollar plant of the New Mani- toba Sugar Company, now nearing completion. During the latter part of June the writer, B. Leslie Emslie, visited sev- eral farms in the vicinity of Winni- peg, where the young beets, grown from treated seed, fertilized and fav- oured by a plentiful moisture supply, had made exceptionally good growth and were ready for thinning - sootier than the grower wished, perhaps. The "check -row" system of planting de- posits the seed at intervals of 18", so that cultivation between the rows may be made in both directions. If the planter could be adjusted to sow only a single hull - containing usual- ly three seeds - to a hill, the prob- lem of thinning would be simplified. But inmost of the fields inspected three or four hulls to a hill had been dropped, resulting in a clum of from 9 to 12 young plants which could be separated only by hand and, that with difficulty. Maritime Provinces Have Holiday Appeal ntario residents, although they have in their home province an unsurpassed holiday play- ground, are this year "discover- ing" other parts of Canada. Forced by war to stay within the broad bounds of the Dominion, they have found that Canada has, among other attractions, a "Rivie- ra" at St. Andrews -by -the -Sea, N.B„ Old Prance in Quebec Pro- vince; a real •Swiss village near Lake Louise In the Canadian Rockies and the fiords of Norway on the Pacific Coast. It has been no hardship for these travel loving residents of Ontario to stay in Canada. In addition to the atmosphere and attractions of older lands, they have the "freshness of Canadian towns and cities, The charming Maritime Provin- ces have been particularly popular this year. New Brunswick, reach- ed from Eastern Ontario in slight- ly more than half a day by the Canadian Pacific Railway, has all the attributes of a perfect holiday land. The outstanding resort in New 'Brunswick is St. Andrews - by -the -Sea on blue Passamaquod- dy Bay. Two splendid golf cour- ses, tennis courts, fishing and hunting in season, boating, hiking and riding are among the more popular sports but all of them take second place to a sheltered sandy beach—Katy's Cove, main- spring of summer activities at this world-famous resort. Nova Scotia is most enjoyably reached from New Brunswick by steamer, the Princess Helene. Na- turally air-conditioned by cool ocean breezes, the province pos- sesses all the charm of the sea- side. It has scores of coastal re- sorts, two of the better known being The Pines - at Digby and Lakeside Inn at Yarmouth. In- land, the Annapolis Valley has many claims to fame. It is the largest "apple orchard" 1n the British Empire and is historically interesting as the homeland of "Evangeline." The Cornwallis Inn at ICentville serves this district. Good roads through the interest- ing countryside make driving an unusually attractive pleasure. M charge of Church Huts near Amiens, following the French col- lapse. The party set out on bicycles shortly before their huts were blown up and the Scoutmaster's knowledge of roads and maps enabled them, to avoid the main highways thronged with refugees, and reach the coast in time to escape, Scout Goodwill Even For A Wounded Nazi Bomber The goodwill of the Scouting bro- therhood, even where German en- emies are concerned, was demonstrat- ed by an English Cubmaster of a southern coastal town who saw a large bomber plunge into the sea. With assistance he captured several members of the crew as they reached shore he their rubber boats. The Cubmaster, who was able to speak German, was told that the pilot of In one field of 90 acres six women on their knees were tackling the job of thinning. At the rate they were going it seemed they would be on the job till fall; but probably reinforce- ments were brought up. The owners of this 90 -acre field explained that it was just a trial plot to find out the cost of growing beets. They had invested in expensive machinery, in- cluding a large tractor equipped with four pairs of discs in front, which straddled and pared the rows and five hoes behind which cultivated between the rows. In another field a few rows had been sown by the straight -forward method, and here the young plants were well spaced and could be thin- ned much more easily. The exper- ience of this year will doubtless lead to some change in methods next year. It can be predicted that many will not repeat the experiment. Possibly the job of beet growing in Manitoba will be taken over largely by those of continental European origin, who are accustomed to scraping acquaint- ance with the soil and can raise their own help. May the Manitoba sugar industry prosper and not waste its sweetness on the desert airl SCOUT NEWS Wolf Cubs of Bradford, Yorkshire, have presented the Bradford Royal Infirmary with an automatic steam still, for providing distilled water. Clergyman Scouter Leads An Escape From France A clergyman. Scoutmaster, Rev. David Easton, was credited with lead- ing in the, safe escape•fromn France of six Church of Scotland ministers the aircraft was caught in his para- chute gear under the tail of the plane. Being unable to swim, the crew had been forced to leave him to his fate. The Cubmaster immed- iately went out to the bomber, dived under the tail, and freed the pilot. The man died, however, before he reached shore. LIFE'S GREATEST JOY If I can bring some word of cheer— A ray of sunshine, bright and clear, Reflecting from its Source, above Some measure of the Father's love, I'll do it thankfully. If I can reach some aching heart. To. heal the wound and stop the smart— "Whom, when or where" will matter not, So long as kindly deeds are wrought. To help humanity. If I can lend a hand to one Who feels discouraged and undone--• About to lose, where he should win, Against the odds confronting him, I'll do the best I can. And thus will come life's greatest joy, My humble talents to employ In proving at a time of need, Through kindly thought and word and deed, A friend to fellow -man, —Albert E. Elliott.. The advertisements are printed foe your convenience. They inform mad save your time, energy and money. TheAR. n i oritelt tdaccc JUST LIKE lir Ckeek $ver Your Stock of PRI1i%G Don't Let It Get Low Remember us for all your printing requirements, including COUNTER CHECK BOOKS The C1illto Newsieeord PHONE