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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Clinton News Record, 1940-10-10, Page 6PAGE 6 THE CLINTON NEWS -RECORD THURS., 'OCT. 10, 1940 ! Read •- And Write - For You (copyright) By John C. Kirkwood ::r rout. Only 5 percent of the stutter- ers had been shifted from use of left hand to use of right hand. The world's largest clock is in Jersey City, N J. It measures 50 feet across its face. The minute hand, including counter -balance, is almost 40 feet long, and can be read almost three miles away. It was built in 1908, and weighs 2200 lbs. Big Ben is Britain's ' most famous clock, and' its 13 -ton bell is heard all over London, and, via radio, all the world. i 4: 71111 Locomotives, like old horses, find their, way ultimately to the; scrap. heap. One famous locomotive may even now, have been converted into scrap for the making of guns or ammunition — the old "Coronation" locomotive which hauled the Royal Train in Britain when George VI and Queen Mary succeeded to the throne 29 years ago. A new "Life" of John D. Rocke- feller I has been published. The sub- title is "The Heroic Age of American Enterprise." John D. came by his thrift nature honestly: his father had impressed upon him oyer and over again the necessity of driving careful bargains. John's father, William, is reported to have said, I cheat my boys every time I get a chance. I want to make 'em sharp. I trade with the boys and skin 'em, and I just beat 'em every time I can" — John used to buy candy by the pound and sell it to his brothers and sisters by the piece and make a profit. What is the age limit for the tree? The best authorities say that trees can never reach an age of over 2000' years, and that only rarely does a tree reach an age of 2000 years. Yet the Big Tree found in the Sierra Nevada Mountains, has an age of, admittedly, 5000 years! It is there- fore, the oldest of all living things. If you want to start a competition, then ask entrants to rank flowers ac- cording to popularity. You would find the correct answer in a fat book —one four inches thick, and weighing. six pounds — a book called The Agricultural Index. It lists, for one thing, all articles on flowers that have appeared in 128 magazines and all government pamphlets and all books dealing with flowers. Here is the ranking of some flowers as based on the disclosures of The Agricultur- al Index: Roses (178 mentions), irises (83 mentions), gladioluses ('74), dahlias (63), lilies (63), mums (57), tulips (44). And there are the least popular: Hyacinth (9), marigolds (6), zinnias (6), pansies (4), and popies (4). The greatest amount of dreaming is done by persons who are between 20 and 25 years of age, according to a study made by Doris W. MaCray of Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Dreams increase with the variety and activity of the individual's in- tellectual life. Students report the heightened frequency of dreams dur- ing examinations and intensive school work. Dreaming decreases with age. A dream Beldon lasts more than ten minutes. So, if you say that you never dream, or have few dreams, you de- clare yourself to be unintelleetual! { } The new Clipper aeroplanes— strata -clippers — have a flying range of from 5000 to 10,000 miles. Now flights by strato-clipper are being made from Los Angeles or San Francisco to New Zealand time 41 . days. Dogs as well as children are being evacuated from England — chiefly to U.S.A. Some doge are evacuated "for the duration;" others perman- ently, on the understanding that the shipper is to receive a choice of their progeny after the War is over. It is stated that a great deal of sympathy has been wasted on the dogs and the terrors they undergo during the increment aerial bom- bardments. It is said that British dogs are taking their boirbardments in stride — that their reactions are perfecty normal: there is no panic, no fear, no whining or distracted barking. The recent U.S.A. census, so far as figures have been released, shows a total population of 131,409,881 — a disappointing increase over the figures of the previous census. The rise in population in the decade was only '7 per cent as compared with 16.1 per cent between 1920 and 1930. Decline of the national birth rate and the virtual stoppage of immigration are stated as being the explanations of the small rise in population. Some writers put the maximum of U.S.A. population to be reached at 150,000,- 000. They think that this will a more or less static figure, and will be reached in 1970 or 1980. Movie Sound Track Now Is Years Old Nikola Tesla, famous inventor, how 84 years old, says that he has invented a "telcforce" with which aeroplane motors would be melted at a distance of 250 miles. This new force could be generated from a special plant that would cost no more than $2,000,000, and which could be built inside 3 months. The beam from this new machine would melt any engine, whether Diesel or gasoline driven, and also would ignite the explosives aboard any bomber. No possible defense against it could be devised, says Mr. Tesla. Mr. Tesla's record is such that his views and assertions are entitled to respect and to earnest consideration. Illinois Scientist Produced Device Long Before First Talkie Appeared The man who gave the movie in- dustry its modern voice continues to work in a laboratory at the Univer- sity of Illinois. The motion picture industry is celebrating its 50th an- niversary. It was on Oct. 6, 1889, when Thomas A. Edison announced completion of a photographic device which showed objects in motion. It was 17 years ago that Joseph T. Tykociner, research professor of el- ectrical engineering, announced from his laboratory in the state university that he had been able to join action pictures and sound on the same film strip. The first publie announcement was in a lecture June 9, 1922-,' before the Urbana section of the American. In- stitute of Electrical Engineers. The first story concerning Prof. Tykoc- iner's development was sent out a short time later. About lefthandedness: there has. been a prevalent — but non -substant- iated — belief that teaching left- handed persons to use their right hand, particularly for writing, causes them to become stutterers. The new- er belief is that the very reverse is true — namely, that stuttering tende to decline in those who change over from being left-handed to being right-handed., ' A study made of'1594 students re- vealed that 1422 were right-handed, 138 were ambidexterous, 34 were left-handed, and 77 had been changed 'from left to right hand at least foe writing. Of the right-handed 1.1 per 'cent were found to stutter. Stutter- ing was also discovered" in 2.9 per eent of the left-handed and: in 1.3. per cent of the ambidextrous, and in 1.3: per cent of those who shifted from the use of the 9eft hand to the use of the right hand. Further 20 stutterers were found to be 75 per cent, right-handed, 5 per cent left- handed, 20 per cent to be ambidext- EIRE PREVENTION WEEK By Proclamation of His Excellency the Governor General of Canada, the week of October 6th to 12th has been set aside as Fire Prevention Week. This week provides an annual oecos- to impress upon public consciousness the enormous cost of the fire waste, to the end that conditions may be. improved and fire' . carless,ness re- duced. The world has passed through a year of the second Great War and, we have all read accounts• of the devast- ation and havoc that has been wrought by means of incendiary and high explosive bombs and we are shocked by the details of such acc- ounts. Yet in the twenty years since Fire Prevention Week was first es- tablished in Canada, this country Lias recorded more than 800,000, fires in- volving a property loss of over $726, 000,000 and a loss in human lives of more than 7,700. Our complacency in this respect is only matched by the complacency with which we watched Hitler attain power. Fire is no respecter of persons. Every man has a responsibility to- wards his neighbours and that re- sponsibility should cause every right- thinking person to pause and consid- er what he owes the community in which he lives. We owe it to our- selves but in a greater degree to our fellow -citizens to permit no condit- ion to exist upon our premises that will invite a visitation of fire. A great majority of fires are so easy to prevent that it is certainly a moral crime to tolerate the things which bring them about. Cities and towns, like individuals, reap what they sow. To permit the erection of firetraps, to fail to pro- vide an abundant and reliable water supply and means of using it or to fail to apply the everyday rules of fire prevention, is to constantly face a menace of heavy fires and sweep- ing conflagrations. Why tolerate a conditionwhich not only levies tribute upon life and pro- perty but in effect imposes an added cost to the conduct of every feature of business activity hnd increases the burden of the people in providing the necessities of life. We cannot afford to go on and 'be indifferent to all. Fire Prevention Week is a particular week set aside to call attention to the menace of fire. And just as we must throw our whole strength against the forces which aim to destroy our liberty, so should we be prepared to battle that other terrible deuton—Fire. The Dominion Fire Prevention Association in co-operation with pro- vincial fire marshals, local fire chiefs insurance organizations and other organizations of national scope is constantly working in the further- ance of the aims of Fire Prevention. Are you doing your part? Edison had conceived the idea of joining his two inventions, the motion picture and the phonograph, and made attempts to combine action on the matin picture film with sound on the phonograph record. The first commercial sound picture, "The Jazz Singer," utilized sound recorded on a separate record in a development of Edison's idea. But the phonograph record soon was discarded. It was displaced by the sound track located' on the Min alongside the pictures and insepara- bly linked with the action. The phonograph sound records easily lost synchronization with the action, and quickly wore out. The sound-on-fihn could not get out of synchronization,, and lasted as long as the picture. It was revolutionary in the movie in- dustry. Today it is nnivcrsarry used. This sound -on -film method had been announced five years before "The Jazz Singer" by Prof Tykoci- ner after 10 months of research at tie Univessity of Illinois. Tnis idea of recording sound photographically and reproducing it by use of a light beam had occurred to him a quarter century earlier, in. 1896, when he first carne from his native Poland to Am- erica. ' In New York the following year he saw his first movie, one of the old Biograph productions. The action without sound seemed most unreal to him, and he conceived the idea of photographing the sound on the same film with the action. a, This was not accomplished till 25 years later, years during which Prof. Tykociner led a busy life in electrical research and development of wireless and other communication methods in Germany, England, Russia, Poland and. America. , Prof. Tykociner joined the Univer- sity of Illinois research faculty in 1921. There he found. Prof. Jacob Kunz, who had perfected a highly sensitive photoelectric cell. With this device, now an integralpart of every modern• sound movie projector, Prof. Tykociner perfected and demonstrat- ed the sound.on-film system. EVERGREENS WILL HELP WIN WAR Millions of Canadian Trees Going to United States SPREAD CHRISTMAS CHEER American Credits Needed To Purchase War Supplies Letter To Clinton GivesVivid Picture of Raids A vivid picture of a night raid on London is contained in a letter re- ceived Monday by Mr. and Mrs. A,. T. Cooper ,of Clinton, from their son Willis C. Cooper, who lives at Esher, about fourteen miles from London. He is a director of Gillette Industries in London. His wife and three child- ren are now in Toronto but he plans to "stick it out" in London. Writing on the 24th of September he says: "It- is now just on eight o'clock and time for the ,Roche to arrive. The siren will be going any moment now for another of London's raids. Last night's was one of the worst we have had and widespread damage was caused. I was standing out in the close, with two of the other male residents of the close, with planes overhead on their usual course toward the centre of London, when we heard the loud scream of descending bomb. We all lay down flat as it came down somewher in the neighbourhood but didn't go off. It may be a delayed action bomb and explode any time up to ninety-six hours. On the other hand it may have been a dud. It is a particularly rotten feeliny when one hears one of those beastly things deseendieg, especially when one is in bed. One tries to make oneself as small as possible, and one can 'feel' the bomb pushing through the air. Anyway, that was alright, but about five minutes later another plane released two 'breadbaskets' of incendiary bombs and we could hear these swirling down with a swishing sound. We again lay prone and then the popping of the 2,500 or so incen- diary bombs started. They were in two lots and all fell in Esher, the nearest being about three hundred yards away. The whole of the vil- lage was lit up like day. After dash- ing back home to see if everything was O.K. I ran down to see if I could help the people where the bombs had landed. I was one of the first to ar- rive and helped put out many bombs by throwing sand and oil on them. Only one had penetrated a roof and started a fire in an attic which was Quickly put out. You have to be quick with these things otherwise they form a target for succeeding planes to bomb. What a life this is—raids every night, very little sleep for any- one, queues of poor people without homes, queues waiting to go down the underground, damaged property everywhere and yet hardly a single OTTAWA—Millions of Canadian evergreens will start moving into the United States next month—paradoxi- cally onth— paradoxi-cally helping win the war against Hitler by spreading Christmas cheer. Last year, shipments of Canadian Christmas trees across the line were valued at $536,692 in Canadian funds. But since the trees were sold in the United States, this sum became avail- able to Canada in the form of Am- erican exchange. Nowadays, American credits aro neede to purchase munitions, and oth- er war supplies manufactured in the United States factories. In terms of warplanes, for instance, Christmas trees last year would have provided about 20 front-line fighters, priced somewhere around $25,0.00 apiece. During the next two months, mil- lions of trees will be shipped to New York, Pennsylvania, Illinois, Michi- gan, Ohio, Connecticut, Missouri and Maryalnd. In• 1939 these states inn - ported 4,643,961 trees; an increase of almost 500,000 over shipments of the previous year. The Canadian Govern- meet expects still another increase this Christmas season. The department of agriculture re- ports that many of the trees shipped are grown by farmers. Ordering by operators has been• go- ing on since fast summer and shortly will be concluded. Cutting gets un- der way early in November and car- loads start rolling south later in the month. Some Targe operators send buyers into Canada late in the summer to purchase the trees standing. They re- turn later hs the fall to hire workmen for cutting end bundling. There has been a movement In Scotch pine 'especially in the border' cities of Ontario. ' Meantime, Canada's forests are helping• in another way to maintain ? the Dominion's foreign exchange 1 positior. W. IL gnimit long face. Really the morale of this country and particularly of the Londoner is .superb. Nobody could ever overwhelm this people and I'm proud to be as- sociated with them in this long and bitter struggle and to play my small part in aciheiving victory as we surely shall. On the following day Mr. Cooper writes: "I spent the whole of the nighton guard on the roof of Claremont. You will rememlier that beautiful old home near us built by Clive of India. It was very cold, but we were warmly clad. There were four of us, two on guard for two hours while the others slept and all on guail at dawn. Sleep" was out of the question for me espec- ially after one o'clock when he had two high explosives and one magnes- ium bomb down almost over top of •us. I was on the roof at the time and fell down so flat and so quickly on my face that I hurt myself a bit. The bombs just missed the building by inches -and shook it to its founda- tions. There was the usual and never- ending procession of Germanplanes until the all -clear at 5.30 this morn- ing. It is almost dark now and in a few minutes we'll be in the middle of it again. What a life, and what a crazy world!" WHO WILL BE THE NEXT VICTIM OF THE FIRE DEMON Last year the Fire Demon number- ed among his victims in Canada 263 men, women and children. In 1938, 118 children lost their lives by fire, while in 1939, the lives of 73 of our little ones were claimed. This is a staggering admission and the respon- sipility for such tragedies can in many cases be laid directly to the negligence of parents who far too of- ten leave their helpless infants alone in the house while they visit neigh- bours or go to a show. These holo- causts frequently occur in rural dis- tricts where neighbours are long dis- tances away and the parents are un- able to reach their buring home in time to save their children from a horrible death. Every parent should realize that it is his duty to teach his children the principles of fire prevention. They should ndt be allowed to play with KING GEORGE VISITS BRITISH SCHOOLBOYS WORKING THEIR HOLIDAYS Britain's war effort is a whole effort. Even schoolboys are spending their holidays working on the land and one of their visitors recently Wesel no less than King George himself. fire, matches should be kept out of their reach and the playing with cel- luloid toys should be discouraged. By a strict adherence to the use of common sense, parents can thus save themselves the bitter anguish and life-long regret which must be ever present when a child perishes by their neglect. HURON COUNTY JUNIORS ASSOCIATION ,OF TORONTO The Huron County Juniors As- sociation of Toronto is opening its fall activities with a Bowling Party on Saturday, October 19th, at 8.30 p.m. at the Central Bowling and Re- creation Club, 22 Shepherd St. All Huronites in Toronto or visit- ors from Huron County are cordially invited. Many pleasant reunions have taken place at these get-togethers. The district or town representatives for the next year will be appointed at a short business session. COUNTY HOME VALUABLE CM KILLED No. 4 Highway was scene of aue accident Monday morning betwseut a car driven by Harold Trembly, seinen- of eleli'srn-of Camp Borden, accompanied by lbie mother, and the herd belonging to the County Horne being driven arrear- the paveemnt in charge of two mew.. One animal was severly injure& ' died shortly afterwards. 'The ear Now badly damaged while the occupants: escaped with only a shaking up. Traf- fic framefic Officer Taylor investigate& If at first 'you don't succeed Try, try to pay us a Tittle otos your subscription, if if le 6lr arrears. The Clinton News -Record The Canadian Way of LIFE The Home Depends Upon the HOME TOWN NEWSPAPERS The progress and prosperity of Canada has been made possible to a great extent by the constructive and unselfish efforts of its weekly newspapers. BUT who knows or truly appreciates' that fact? Let's Talk About Ourselves for a Change For years the weekly newspapers of Canada have devoted mil- lions of dollars worth of space boosting every worthwhile civic, provincial and national business and welfare :movement. NOW in this world -revolutionary era it is timely that at least one week he set aside to point out THE VALUE of WEEKLY 'NEWSPAPERS to CANADA and your .home town