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I3y John C. Kirkwood {'
Fame for many is as brief as a' lets, and ledgers a Peter Cooper,
butterfly'slife. - or almost so, and founder of the Library. Thepapers
many are the• ways taken by men and
women and youth to get their name
in the newspapers. ' IH'ere is the way
talten by Ted Terry of Butte,' Mon-
tana he rode a bull from a Montana
ranch,to New York's World Fair; and
so set a record for "bull -back" rid-
ing. The journey of 3000. miles con-
sumed three years. Terry rode only
in the summer months, and at the
rate of five or six miles a day. The
final lap from Chicago took fifteen
weeks. The bull was bridled and sad-
dled, and was as docile as Walt Dis-
ney's Ferdinand.
In addition to the bull Mr. Terry
had a collie dog and a 15 -year-old
white mare which carried the sleep-
ing bag and supplies.
Being a multi -millionaire - and be-
coming one . - is a continuously -hard may someday soon be• replaced by
job. Take the case of Sir Abe Bailey, paper ones. The new paper package
whose death, occured in August of canebeused tor `any product except
this year, at age 75. carbonated beverages. The new pack -
Bailey was born in Cape Colony, age is a development in the effort to
South Africa. His father was a mer- make this continent Independent of
chant. When gold was discovered in; tin for normal peacetime needs.
the Transvaal in the 1880's, young I The basis of the new package is
Abe Bailey hurried :there' from his, the application of plastics to a thin
Scottish father's general store, a n d ; .sheet • of paper, which eonprises an
began trading in gold shares. Before interior bag for a cardboard package.
he was 23 lie had made himself a I various advantages are claimed for
millionaire. In his early days he was the new container: it is considerably
a good cricketer and he held the cheaper than tin; the containers can
middle -weight and heapyweight box- be shipped flat to users, thus cutting
ing titles of South Attlee. Later he down freight expenses; they are eas-
became a racing man in a big way - ily disposable. The first market to
in England. He was a member of
parliament hi South Africa for 17
years. In 1911 he was knighted, and
was made a baronet in 1919. He was
a soldier in the Boer War, and was
involved in the Jameson Raid, and
was sentenced to death, along with
others, for his part in that misadven-
ture, but the death sentence was com-
muted, and Bailey spent 13 months in
prison. He made and lost two foe -
tunes, and then made a third. On
his estate at Colesberg in South Af-
rica he bred the finest stock, and in-
troduced sheep in Tasmania. His in-
come as reported to the British tax
authorities exceed._ $1 million. In 1838
he had both legs amputated - this
in South Africa, and a month later
proceeded to England to see the mg, eraser, typewriter platens, wash -
Derby rune i ers, garden and fire hose, fly -swat -
It cannot be said that Sir Abe ters, golf and tennis balls, hose for
Bailey at any time in his life tookpneumatic tools, paint sprays, sand
things easy. A millionaire - a self- I blasters, acetylene welders, pump
made millionaire - has to be a hard diaphragms, printers, rollers, en -
worker, and probably cannot slacken! graving gum --but why go on?
up at any time. The chemists have learned to make
a rubber equivalent. The German
chemists make it for coal, limestone
Rocks flow, though not so rapidly i and water. American chemists make
as water, and mountain -making is make it from chlorophene.
going on all the time. Everybody Yet genuine tubber has by no
knows that mountains were pushed
up - from terrain which was at one
time as level as a dancing floor. The
process of mountain -building still
goes on - and thus is explained why
we have eathqualces. If a film had substitute.
been made of the earth when a solid
crust began to form some hundreds
of millions of years ago, and if we
could project that film in a few hours,
we would no longer speak of terra
firma. The earth's surface would ap- *
pear as a restlessly heaving ]Hass.
What Causes the heaving. The an -
saver is energy, chiefly in the form • •
of heat, deep below the crust. r e
touch on many important events in
New York City and in the nation
during the last century, includingthe;
laying of the Atlantic cable, the
building of the Brooklyn Bridge, the
inauguration of a public water sup-
ply in New York, the planning of the
rapid transit system, and thecon-
struction of the first moderns sky-
scraper. It is said that the trem-
endous volume of correspondence is
due to a large extent to the absence
of the telephone. Because typewrit-
ers and carbon copies of correspond-
ence were unknown, men made rough
drafts, carefully preserved, which will
provide historians with a more com-
piete nineteenth century background.
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Metal containers for emit, vege-
tables, syrups, soups and such things,
be invaded is the coffee market,
which uses more than a billion con-
tainers a year.
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It used to be that "there's nothing
like leather," but old sayings can
become obsolete. Rubber has displac-
ed leather to a very large extent and
rubber substitutes. Rubber as pro-
dued by nature was for long consid-
ered to be indispensable, but today grower essential for the nature -made rubber is being replaced ' gion rf is e serious disease.
suppres-
by man-made rubber.
The uses of rubber have been As a talo, diseased plants can be
phenomenally widened. Thus rubber detected only late in the growing
is used in the making of bathing capsseason. The symptoms are very var-
and suits, gloves, shoes, heels, soles, iable but the most characteristic ones
mackintoshes, tires, bands and belt are described by H. N. Reeled in a
Science Service Circular which may
be obtained free on request from the
Publicity and Extension Division,
Dominion Department of Agriculture,
Ottawa. The first symptoms are usu-
ally a rolling and wilting of the
leaves which resemble the condition
sometimes seen in healthy plants in
dry weather. The affected leaves soon
lose their normal green colour and
feel thin and snaoth to the touch^
The whole or part of the leaves turn
yellow, then brown, the affected
parts eventually dying.
This necrosis or scorching of the
leaves, which is frequently at the
margin, somewhat resembles late
blight but occurs only on the leaves
of individual stems, while late blight
is usually fairly evenly distributed in
• the field. The tips of stalks of the
s affected leaves wilt, while the basal
part remains rigid. Eventually the
whole leaf dies. One or more stems
in a hill may wilt, while the remain-
der appear healthy. The stems that
wilt are usually more or less stunt-
ed.
THE CLINTON NEWS.RECORD
sorted to plants should be cut as
case to the ground as, possible in or-
der to prevent seeding.
After harvest cultivation at reg-
ular intervals until late fall will kill
millions of seedling plants. Seed may
be produced until frost kills the
plants, therefore when mowing is re-
sorted to as a means of control it
should be continued until late fall.
Ragweed seed, particularly hulled
seed,' is difficult to remove from
clover seed. ,
Ragweed is a nodous .weed under
the Weed Control Act. This legisla-
tion states that it must be destroyed
before seeds mature.
The co-operation of every muni-
cipal council,organization and indiv-
idual is essential in preventing this
menace to health and crop production
from producing flower and seed. The
work must be accomplished now in
order to be effective.
Write the Crops, Seed and Weeds
Branch, Ont. Dept. of Agriculture,
Toronto, . for complete pamphlet on
Ragweed.
Bacterial Ring Rot
Threat To
Potato Crop
From now till harvest is the best
time to detect the comparatively
new but serious disease .of potatoes
known as bacterial ring rot (.bacter-
ial wilt and rot). Already the dis-
ease has caused serious losses in wid-
ely scattered localities in Canada and
the United States and threatens fm-
ther damage if not successfully con-
trolled. Every potato grower should
keep a sharp look -out- for this dis-
ease, states H. N. Racicot, Associate
Plant Pathologist, Division of Botany
and Plant Pathology, Dominion De-
partment of Agriculture, and report
at once any suspected cases. Speci-
mens of vines and tubers should be
sent to the Dominion Botanist, Cent-
ral Experimental Farm, Ottawa. Only
slightly affected tubers should be
sent, as badly decayed ones are use-
less for microscopic examination. The
whole -hearted co-operation of every
means been displaced, and is not lik-
ely to be fully displaced for a long
time. It is both cheaper and more
available, in the quantities which in-
dustry requires, than is its man-made
THE WEED OF THE
WEEK
s
RAGWEED
Common Ragweed, Public Enemy
The reason for bird migration is Number One to all hay fever suffer -
still a scienfic mystery. Yet the ers, is very prevalent throughout old
problem is being studied intensively Ontario and may be found growing
by many scientists. Some of this on roadsides, waste places, vegetable
study relates to Kent Island• in the
Bay of Fundy. For the past five
years studies of birds have been go-
ing on there under the auspices of
Bowdoin College - an American in-
stitution. The island was purchased
by John S. Rockefeller as a sanctuary
gardens, hoed crops and grain fields,
states John D. MaeI;eod, Crops, Seeds
and Weeds Branch, Ont. Dept. of
Agriculture.
It is objectionable from anagri-
cultural standpoint and also because
of the inconvenience caused to hay
for eider ducks, which were rapidly fever sufferers. Pollen grains, which
disappearing to the points of extinc- are very light, are now being dist-
titan south of Labrador. Ornitholo- ributed through the air and may be
gists go to the island to study the carried long. distances by the slight -
colony of herring gulls, the largest est breeze,
of its kind on the Atlantic seaboard.' These offending particles may be
In the past five years 30,000 of these easily inhaled and cause untold dis-
birds has been banded, and out of cemfort to hay fever sufferers. It
every 100 banded birds reports are; is estimated that approximately
received of two. The reports come'. 60,000 persons in Ontario annually
from near -by Labrador and from far -1 suffer from hay fever and that 80
away Venezeula, but most of them per cent of these cases are due to
come from Fulton Market, New York the inhalation of Ragweed pollen.
City, where fishermen discharge their Ragweed is an annual weed which
catches. depends on seed for reproduction. An
average plant may produce 5000
Increasingly women are becoming seeds. These will retain their vitality
inventors and patentees of their in- i in the soil for many years. Pollen
is produced along the spike topping
ventions. Here are some feminine I
the plant and its branches from mid -
inventions: a rolling pin with ornpel July until frosts !rill the plants.
parchment surface to which dough I The prevention of aced production
will not stick; a climate reproducer , i is of vital importance. If plants are
a machine designed to produce the destroyed
early seeding will be pie -
climate of any health resort in one's1xoom; a bedspread roller -upper, At- vented, pollen will not be
produced
rani plants will be killed.
tached at the Poet orf the bed it rolls Ragweed can be 'eradicated by
up the spread like a window -shade. spraying with a 15 percent solution of
Each week eight to twelve of the Elephant Brand A.mnionium Sulphate.
700 or mere patents ` granted at. Dissolve X5 pounds of the sulphate
Un
.Washington go to women. Under -.'in one gallon of water and spray
standably most of the patents to when, Ragweed is coming into .blos-
women relate to the household, like, sons using all the pressure possible,
kitchen cabinets, pie pans, 'cooking I All plants should be soaked ,thorough
utensils, and to items of personal le down to the ground, :Complete
wear. eradication is possible by spraying
The tubers from diseased hills
range from sound to cempletely rot-
ten; but generally some of them show
the crumbly, yellow rot, mainly in
the region of the ring, that i5 so
characteristic of the disease. Some
of the apparently sound tubers con-
tain the causal bacteria. It is im-
perative that diseased crops should
never be used for seed; for not only
do slightly infected tubers produce
diseased plants, but they cause many
healthy sets to become contaminated
during the operations of seed -cutting
and planting.
The most important means of con-
trol is the exclusive use of disease-
free seed, but full details of what to
do when disease has been discovered
will be found in the circular.
with a 20 percent solution of Iron
Sulphate (2 pounds per gallon of
Cooper Union Library has come in- water), Hand pulling of scattered
to possession of more than 50,000 -plants is also an effective means of
arigrnal manuscripts, letters, pamph- eradication. When mowing is re -
UP TO THE HOUR
Folk who criticized the girls of a
year or two ago as lacking in the
quality that builds a nation are en-
joying real eye openers these days.
Fe,- instance we carne upon one large
bank where four lady tellers are at
week. These girls are alert and busi-
nesslike down to the last figure. No
flirting or lightness there. Efficiency
marks their every more. Their in-
experience is overcome by extra will-
ingness and attention to their. duties.
Why are they there? Well, the young
men w,ho formerly held those posi-
tions are M the King's uniform. Still
others have assumed fitting clothing
and are housepainting and preparing,
to the satisfaction of all who employ
them. Others are in newspaper of-
fices, while the sales forces are fem-
inine to almost 100i''. And the work
throughout is being well done. Teach-
ers on vacation are pitching right in-
to important jobs that would not; be
d-ne wave these girls to sit by. Every-
where we see umnistal able evidences
that the girls of this present sent hour
are not only as womanly as were their
tethers and ,grandmothers, bet that
they are endowed with an efficiency
and an adaptability to the needs of
the present hour that merit' all praise.
BRITAIN'S OTHER ARMY
Back to the field of Britain have gone thousands of women, They,
too, are an army — an army producing foocd.
Canada and U. S. Sign Agreement Mutual
Defence
Ottawa:—The good neighbour pol-
icy, characteristic of relations be
tween Canada and the United States
for long years, was placed on a con-
crete base on August 18 last, when
Prime Minister MacKenzie King and
President' Franklin D. Roosevelt sign-
ed an agreement at Ogdensburg, N.X.
for the mutual defense of both
countries.
Exactly two years ago, on that
date, President Roosevelt had stated
in Toronto: "I give you assurance
that the people of the Unitad States
will not stand idly by if domination
of Canadian soil is threatened by
any other Empire." The practical
means for carrying that asstuance
out were sealed in the agreement
reached by the leaders of the two
countries forming the northern half
of the western hemisphere.
Text of the joint statement issued
after the bistoric meeting follows
'The Prime Minister and the
President have discussed the mut-
ual problems of defense in relation
to the safety of Canada and the
United States.
"It has been agreed that a per-
manent joint board on defense shall
be set up at •ince by the two
countries.
"This permanent joint board on
defense shall commence immediate
studies relating to sea, land and air
problems including personnel and
material.
"It will consider in the broad
sense thedefense of the north half
of the Western Hemisphere.
"The permanent joint board on
defense will consist of four or five
members from each country, most
of them from the services. It will
meet shortly."
Check -Up By Police Starts As Nat'anal
[Registration Ends
Ottawa: A national check-up of
registration by police authorities
started the day following close of
registration booths, awarding to Mr.
Justice T. C. Davis, deputy minister
of National War Services. During
the three designated days for regist-
ering, millions of persons called at
registration booths, manned by 50,000
All Firearms Must Be
Registered By Police
Regulations which formerly ap-
plied only to revolver and pistols
have been extended by order -in -
council to include all firearms, and
such weapons as rifles and shotguns
are no exception.
Rifles and shotguns must be regist-
ered not later than September 15 at
municipal or provincial police stations
or with the R.C.M.P. Purchase and
sale of rifles and shotguns are now
subject to permit front police auth-
orities.
Nonresident aliens who desire to
import firearms for sporting pur-
poses are obliged to secure permits
from the Commissioner of the R. C.
M. Police, at Ottawa. Resident aliens
who desire to repossess weapons sur-
rendered, following an order -in -coun-
cil of Julie 10, must also secure a
permit, from the R.C.M.P. Commis-
sioner in Ottawa.
CANADIAN MILLS
OPERATING FULL BLAST
From figures released by the De-
partment of Munition, sand Supply,
mills and firms engaged in the manu-
facture of personal equipment for the
fighting forces are operating full
blast. During a two week period
22,000 full battle dress uniforms were
produced, while 91,000 pairs of socks,
90,000 shirts, 40,000 sets of sealer -
wear .and 69,000 pairs of boots were
being turned out.
appointed officials and 180,000 volun-
tary workers, to answer questions
and receive a registration certificate.
"Only a very small minority failed
to comply with registration," stated
Mr. Davis.
Gratification of the manner the
huge task was carried out was ex-
pressed by Hon. James G. Gardiner,
Minister of National War Services.
Those who reached the age of six-
teen after August 21 and hereafter
will have to register within 30 days
of their birthday.
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constituencies have already reported
that the task was carried out en-
tirely free of charge to the govern-
ment.
Reports that blank certificate cards
were obtained by certain persons,
who might issue false certificates to
people who do not wish to register,
are being investigated. Mr. Davie
points out that these would be use•
less, as they can be checked in Ot-
tawa by the Dominion Statistician,.
Dr. R. H. Coats, in five minutes. Sie
hundred clerks and statisticians are
busy in the Bureau of Statistics
classifying cards,
INCREASED PENALTY FOR UN-
REGISTERED RIFLES AND
v SHOTGUNS
A recent order -in -council of the
Dominion Government has been pas-
sed increasing penalties for the non -
registration of rifles and shotguns up'
to. $500 or two years imprisonment,
or both, for conviction of indictment.
This is an increase from the previous
a
penalty of $50 or 30 days, or both.
Register your fire arms at the
nearest police station, Provincial Po-
lice office, or your Reeve of the
rural municipality in which you live
prior to September 15th.
RESCUE BOATS FOR
AIR FORCE USE
A $600,000 contract has been plac-
ed by the Department of Munitions
and Supply for six large rescue boats
for the Royal Air Force. The launches
are between 60.70 feet in length.
Powered with three engines they will,
be capable of doing 35 knots.
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