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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Clinton News Record, 1940-10-17, Page 6PAGE 6 THE CLTNTON NEWS -RECORD THURS,, OCT. 17, 1940 jea5iir:'N ger°aVal YerNY'.Y,R`r"J°A'V lair"lo`ie` 'r`«"r'ii"ar-Wa r Veiii" il'AM,a ■s 1 Read By John C. Kirkwood A13,d Write - For You r■ (Copyright) :' "{ .✓1,■ate,,, atesaseea teeataaeseees aw°r'''x e-eeeatateess°aaa's'eetaWeeseee■o"r°e"e°ai°i 1e"t A dog may become famous - -in her home. In writing about this in- cident, this woman said, "He used his knife as a vehicle of food." In this connection I saw a recent "'letter to the editor" from which I abstract the following: `;I have been unable to find out the period and cause of the abandonment by genteel people of the table knife as an instru- ment for carrying• feod to the mouth.. There is no doubt in my mind that gentlemen of the Revolutionary per- iod, such as George Washington, Thomas Jefferson and others, used the table knife almost entirely." I am hoping, however, that no one will argue that it is good manners today, in Canada or Britain, to eat with one's knife. There was a time . say the time of George Washing- ton. - when people did not bathe frequently. Bath -tubs and bathrooms are iiob quite 100 years old. There is a progress in .manner@ just as there is in methods of transportation. ',dog -lover circles. Take "Saddler", by way of example - a smooth fox -terrier who has received for fifty-five times the award for the best dog in the show. No other dog bas had an equal distinction. Now his owners aye with- drawing him from exhibitions. Sad- dler's valedictory, as voiced by his owners was, "Saturday at Far Hills was saddler's last show. Wissie and 1 naturally feel a• pang in our hearts that he will not campaign any more. But our greatest feeling of satisfac- tion is that Saddler leas helped to prove in no small measure one thing. a deg keeping form and shown fear- lessly reaches his proper level under our great panel of judges covering our dog shows." Saddler came into the world in a howling storm in the' town of Work- sop in England on` March 12, 1936. His mother brought him through the storm to the kitchen door, scratched repeatedly until admitted, and thus saved the' puppy from death by ex- posure, .If only Saddler's mother could know of her son's glory and, fame and triumphs! A scientist has beenlooking for- ward 1200 million years in a purpose to predict what manner and forms of animal fife will occupy the earth then He has .been helped inhis effort by surveying the evolution of animal life in the remote past when the earth sustained dinosaurs, weigh- ing 30 tons, by way of example. James Ritchie, professor in t h e University of Edinburgh, is not very predse in what he has to say about animal life as it may - not will - be 1200 million years hence. Yet he has ideas. Here is. what he says: "The dinosaurs (vehich lived some 120 mil- lion years ago) reached a longth of 100 feet. No other 'creature could stand up to them. But inhabiting the world with them lived small retiring rat -like creatures in size utterly in- significant, showing no hint of latent greatness. Yet these were the fore- runners of the great group of the mammals. The dominant dinosaurs and all their kindred have disappear- ed from the face of the earth, and their insignificant eo-dwellers have in the course of ages become the masters of Creation. Man is their greatest and most dominant repre sentative. It may be that while he rules the earth some line of evolu- tion is budding all unsuspected, as in the days of the dinosaurs, which will eventually blossom in the far Futuro as the successor of humanity. The world may become a place in which birds and beasts will be beset by a growing lethargy, until they meet the problem which faced and defeated the reptiles, and which for them also can end only in the limbo of lost causes." Added up, all that Professor Rit- f dile says is, "We can't even guess what will be the manner of life on the earth 1200 million years hence." ' In my boyhood I used to hear the term "York shilling" used frequent- ly, to signify 121/2 cents. Today we hear = perhaps use - the term "two bits" er "six bits" - a "bit" being equal to 121 cents, but the common use of "bits" is in the United States, and perhaps in particular sections of that country - the South and West. I saw a letter from a man who is curious to know the origin of "bit" as applied to currency. He said: "I early learned the difference between the New England shilling and the York shilling, for my mother, who had been reared in Buffalo, never learned to figure prices as quoted by Yankee shopkeepers, and often tried to pay in six of her own shillings, or 76 cents, for somethings for which the storebeeper was asking six of the Down East shillings, 9r a Stoller. When we moved to Washington in 1881 I learned a new namefor the value of 12% cents. Nobody spoke of shillings, but the storekeepers and market folk reckoned in "levys" That was the common term through- out the South for what the West termed a "bit." Talking about the word "bit": An Irish colleen once said to me, when I asked her the distance to a certain place, "A mile and a bit and the bit's as long as the mile" and she said it with a smile. Who is there among us who has never suffered from toothache? 1 I suppose that we are becoming 'wise in regard to ways by which toothache can be prevented or lessened, not hi the matter of severity, but in respect of the numbers of persons who suf- fer from toothache. Tooth decay can be arrested or minimized - by care in what we eat. Cavities are caused by acid decomposition of the enamel t and the underlying dentin, associated with protein breakdown or destruc- tion of the organic substance of the tooth - mainly the pulp. Tooth decay is restricted to people and animals who eat liberally of carbohydrate - containing foods. The best defence against tooth decay is a diet high in vitamins A. C. and D, fairly rich in fats and containing little or no sugar. A smooth tooth is less likely to pro- vide lodging places for food particles, beneath which bacteria produce acid by fermentation of starch, and hard. enamel is not as easily attacked as is soft rename1 Sugar and candy eating causes tooth decay. Sugar seems to be far more of a menace to the health of the teeth than are starch foods. Here's what one 'auth- ority says about tooth decay: "All- around optimum nutrition plays a part in tooth health by maintaining some property of the mucous secre- tion or of the saliva, or both, which tends to suppress the growth of micro-organisms whose presence in large numbers would be inimical to thehealth of the teeth." A good-hearted Canadian woman resident in. England saw a soldier on leave holidaying in the Lake District, in which district she has her present home. Seeing the word "Canada" on his shoulder, she spoke to him, and then invited `him to have dinner in L. FINEST.. F U1T rPE, rosy Canadian Apples are one of the finest foods that can be bought. They're plump and wholesome, heavy with delicious inide. llat two or three of these apples every day —.'they're geed for you.. Ana be sure to serve plenty of tasty apple desserts — •-applc pie, baked apples, apple dumplings and applesauce. Canadian Apples are inyour neighbourhood store. Buy there NOW. Marketing Service DOMINION D[ 1 ARTMENT OF A:GltSCWLrU:nE, OTTAWA r, T,James 0.rtL rdu,e,, '' Minister fir. 7:k_ CORD FDR XDLI There' is an increasing demand for engineers, with emphasis on admin- istrative engineers for time and mo- tion studies, costs, standards, and production control. In the fieldof mechanical enginering the demand is for drafting, testing, development and research. There are increasing opportunities for electrical engineers, and for acro nautical engineers for drafting, and stress analysis and de- sign also for civil engineers, who are needed for structural steel design and general construction. Employers are building up a re- serve of technical personnel by using junior jobs as preliminary training for work requiring graduate qualifi- cations later on. In the engineering field many who have been steadily employed are being promoted or giv- en increases in salary so that they may be retained. In the .business field the demand for accountants predominates. Most calls for copywriters and sales pro- motion men • with two to four years experience come from commercial firms rather than from advertising agencies. Employment' opportunities in the field of foreign trade present an interesting situation. All this should be of great interest to parents of sons and to young men considering the problem' of a career. SHARP DECREASE IN 1940 APPLE CROP "_In a report on the -fruit crop for 1940 issued at the end of September the Dominion Bureau of Statistics estimated the apple crop for all Can-. ada at 3,722,400 :.barrer's, a decrease of 2,969,500 barrels compared with the 1939 bumper crop of 5,791,000 bar'- refs. On September 16 and 17 a ' gale blew over the. Annapolis Valley, Nova Scotia, one of the principal commer- cial apple producing centres of Can- ada, and blew down about 600,000 barrels. Extensive damage was done to the more valuable varieties by that gale. Much of the fruit that with- stood the high wind and remained on the trees was injured, to some extent. It is now estimated that Nova Scotia will harviest omly about 780,000 barrels compared with 2,300,000 bar- 'rels in 1939; New Brunswick 30,000 barrels compared with 75,000 barrels last year; Quebec 230,000 barrels in comparison with 337,000 barrels in 1939; Ontario 649,600 barrels as against 1,010,500 in 1939 and British Columbia, 2,082,800 barrels compared with 2,069,000 last year. . This year's, pear crop for the Do- minion isplaced at 547,000 bushels a decline of about 30,000 bushels from 1939. Nova Scotia is expected to ac- count for 22,000 bushels of this year's crop; Ontario, 237,700 bushels and British Columbia, 287,800 bushels. The yield of plums and prunes in 1940, at 222,700 bushels is about 45,- 000 bushels below the total output a year ago. Of this year's production. 8,900 .bushels will come from Nova Scotia; 59,500 bushels from Ontario and 145,300 bushels from British Col- umbia. The production of all other fruits in 1940 is less than in 1939. WORLD'S LONGEST JOURNEY From Tibet to the Argentine by Cance) Ship & Train The longest journey in the world has been covered by the Cashmir goods sent during the last six months from Scotland to the Argentine. It began in the mountains of Tibet. Chinese merchants still travel by camel from Tientsin to Tibet over the road once trod by Marco Polo, the Venetian merchant adventurer of the thirteenth century. They go to buy from mountain herdsmen the fleece of the Tibetan goat. It is the lightest wool in the world. From Tientsin the wool is shipped in bales to Scotland. In Hawick it is spun and knitted into garments which are then shipped to Buenos Aires. Inrthe last six months the Argen- tine has taken from Scotland more Cashmir goods than in the previous twelve. To -day smart women in Buenos Airse can amuse themselves as did the great ladies of the 18th century with theii vast shawls of Indian silk, They can take a Braemar juniper and draw it through a wedding ring: one of the most popular of these jumpers weighs only 21/2. oz. A. few years ago the demand in the Argentine was for the heavier weights. Central heating has chang- ed that, and Iightweights are to -day the vogue. The stand collar, intro- duced three years ago, is standard now and this season's popular shades are bottle or tartan green, jade, wine, marina, Royal blue and marve. CANS FLATTENED BY THE MILLION To Save Shipping Space for Export Samples of a flattened can which ingeniously solves a formidable pack- ing and transport problem are now on their way from Britain to Brazil in charge of the representative of an English firm who are the largest makers of metal containers in the British Empire. Other representa- tives are shortly leaving for the West Coast South American states, for Ecuador, Peru, Chili and Colombia. The idea of the flattened can is simple. The cans are made to the normal cylindrical shape, with side seams properly soldered. They are then pressed flat so that, whop pack- ed for transit, they take up only one fifth of the space occupied by made- up cans. The great saving in freight- age costs (a heavy charge in these deys) rapidly repays the small cost to the overseas customer of the three simple machines by which the flat- tened cans, when they reach their destination, are re -assembled to their normal cylindrical shape. So completely has the idea been worked' eut that the lids and bottoms of the cans, which are packed' sep- arately, are supplied stamped and lined with sealing compound ready for use. Already millions of these flattened cane, which can .be used for jams, vegetables, fruits, juices, butter and margarine, dried milk, and even paint, have been sent •to. many export markets: a _l. a • CROP REPORT The year 1940 goes upon record as a year of good crops in Canada as a whole and as a year of extraordinary good crops in the Prairie Provinces, where the *heat yield is the second largest in the history and may prove, when returns are complete, to be act- wally the largest. To this' general picture there have been local excep- tions, certain crops' in Ontario having been adversely affected by cold, wet weather and certain, crops, in British Columbia by shortage of moisture during the growing season. For the Prairie Provinces preliminary' esti- mates, place this year's total wheat crop as slightly below that of the record production of 1928. - Grain is generally of high grade and quality: The Dominion Bureaus of Statistics estimates: wheat production of the three Prairie Provinces at 534,000,000 bushels., which is 71,481,000 bushels larger than the third estimate of last' year's crop and compaa'es with a ten- year average of 307,013,000 bushels. The estimated average wheat yields by Provinces follow: Manitoba 20.0 bushels, Saskatchewan 16.7 bushels, Alberta 23.4 bushels,. The 1940 wheat acreage in the Prairie Provinces of- ficially estimated at 27,750,00 acres, is the largest on record and is more than 1,900,000 acres in excess of 'last year. Production of coarse grains is slightly higher than in 1939 and win- ter inter feed supplies are generally suffie• ient. Production of oats is ,estimated. at 251,500,000 bushels and of barley at 89,000,000 bushels. Threshing is virtually finished in Manitoba and Saskatchewan. In Alberta operations have been delayed by frequent rains, but threshing is now about 75% com- pleted. Wheat marketings have been affected by Governmental restric- tions, but from August 1 to October 3 deliveries by farmers to country elevators totalled 156,724,000 bushels, compared with 259,198,000 bushels in the same period last year. In Quebec Province well up to average yields are reported of hay, grain, roots, apples, small fruits, tobacco and maple products. In Ontario the hay crop was heavy, Fall wheat a good yield, and late roots, except potatoes, are promising, but Spring grains were damaged by wet weather at harvesting. Small fruit were plenti- ful, but the yield of most tree fruits, as well as of corn and tobacco, were substantially below average. In the Maritime Provinces a fair to average harvest of all the main staples is generally indicated, with the excep- tion that apples will be a light crop, owing to extensive damage by storms. In British Columbia the hay crop was heavy; yields of tree fruits good and the crop of tomatoes a record one; slightly below average were the grain, root and vegetable crops. ' WEAPON AGAINST T TANKS "Molotov cocktails", so named now being manufactured in Britain. vehicles of armoturced divisions. `,aa.r.a,rar.avir.osa,raY, because of the use the Finns made of thein against the Russians, are They are considered to be an effe ctive weapon against tanks and other Windbreaks Are Essential i Northern Ontario (Experimental Farris News) In many parts of Northern Ontario, the virgin bush is so close to dwell- ings and farm buildings that it af- fords protection from the penetrating cold of winter winds. As the clear- ings become larger and the standing timber retreats, the buildings become exposed to the full force of the winds. Only there is it realized how great was the protection of the natural bush, states E. T. Goring, Dominion Experimental Station, Kapuskasir-g. In other sections all the natural for- est has been burned off by forest fires or has been cleared away. Un- fortunately in such districts attempts to replace the .natural shelter of the forest have been few, It is not always realized just how costly it is to be without adequate protection from wind. In dwellings, the fuel required to heat the house is often doubled when there is wind, and even then it is almost impossible to maintain an even and comfortable temperature. In barns and poultry houses the problem is equally serious. Much of the feed that should be go- ing into profitable production has to be used up in producing heat to keep the live stock warm. As the propor- tion of feed that is used in this way is large enough under the best con- ditions, every effort should be made to bring about conditions where the minimum will be required. To create such conditions shelter for the buildings must be provided. The only practical way of doing this is by planting trees in belts suffic- iently broad to stop the wind. Ever- greens are the most valuable trees, but deciduous trees, such as poplar, are also good, The latter give shelter more quickly and while not so satis- factory as evergreens, serve to stop the gap while the others are growing. The shelter belts or windbreaks should of course be planted on the sides from which the prevailing winds blow. These in Northern Ontario are on the north and: West. Unfortunately it takes some tune for trees to grow. This is all the more reason for establishing the windbreak as soon as possible. In the newer sections, it will then have time to grow and give shelter before the natural forest is cleared away, while in the burned over areas the sooner it is started the sooner it will produce the protection and comfort that only it can give. LEGION WILL HELP EDUCATE THOUSANDS OF MEN UNDER ARMS OTTAWA—Canadian Legion War Services has announced that its fall and winter program of education among the forces at sea, on land and in the air, is now under way and that applications are being received from men in alI parts of the Dominion who wish to take up or to continue studies in academics and vocations. According to Lieut -Col. Wilfred Bovey, O.B.E., of Montreal, national chairman of the Legion's military education division, negotiations cone ducted during the summer have re- sulted in the wholehearted co-opera- tion of every provincial department of education, and scores of prominent educationists and qualified instructors have offered their services on an hon- orary basis. It is anticipated that between three and four thousand men under arms in Canada alone, with hundreds more stationed in Great Britain, Newfoundland and Iceland, will become enrolled as students for the new study season. Col. Bovey said it was expected that a Legion education officer would leave shortly for England to re- establish classes among the Canadian forces overseas. He pointed out there would be a great demand for such activity if Hitler confines his as. mutts on Britain to the air. — —..... wnm.vwe�x The Canadian way of LIFE The Berrie Depends Upon the E . ' E TOWN '° `E A 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 Olrselves for a Change For year's 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 be set aside to point out THE VALUE of WEEKLY NEWSPAPERS to CANADA and your home town