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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Clinton News Record, 1940-10-31, Page 6PAGE 6 THE CLINTON NEWS -RECORD TIURS., OCT.' 31, 1940 aM�"aWa'!►'�"�"Yf"J'e'S,"d�S"�w•."r".'�'1i''�7'i a!a"a°y"r`�ba'� r'�''ii°�".°s'fi'1'r"r'r•1'� 1!�'0�`,rYd'iti IRead -.And rit tG hti For .You ,aa :opyr2g By John C. Kirkwood `ti 'Mi-LWied AVYi°a'ia'a°°ANY'AN'tisP 'a'ti&WiesYah,"h±'s"rWa°a'r°+gMhiSi a' t A most interesting exhibition is being held in New York City - an exhibition of clocks. The clocks shown represent three centuries of the art and craft of :clock -making. In the collection on display are clocks that repeat the quarter hours by pulling a cord outside the case, and clocks with large and small bells to strike the hours in musical and strange numerical combinations; clocks with' the numbers reversed, and leap .year clocks that adjust their time auto- matically. English clockmakers were recog-, nized in the seventeenth and eigh-! teenth centuries as the masters of the craft. Thomas Tompion (1638- 1713) was called the father of Eng- lish watchmakers, and was buried h Westminster Abbey. In both Britain and America the ranks of policemen have been and are being recruited from university graduates. Thus, out of 299 proba- tionary patrolmen graduated last month in connection with the New York City Police Department, 236 had. attended or been graduated from col- lege. Twenty -tree of these rookies held master' degrees. Of these 299 mew men thirteen had been lawyers, three were law clerks, seven were bank clerks, three were accountants, two were advertising managers, 24 were salesmen, eleven were teachers, seven were students, and one was a writer. Among the new probationary policewomen fifteen out of eighteen had attended college. Tiffany,s, famous New York jewel- lery store, has a new home - one specially built for it. Its opening was celebrated strikingly, and the newspapers carried long stories about the event. It was in 1837 that Charles F. Tif- fany, son of a cotton goods manufact- urer in Connecticut, went to New York, at the age of 25, to join a friend, John B. Young, then employed in a stationery and fancy goods store. Then New York's population was but 200,000. These two men opened a store, 15 feet wide, their chief merchandise being Chinese and Japanese curios and art objects. Their sales for the first three days totalled $4.98. This was in .Septem- ber,'yet on the day before New Year's Day they took in $675. Ten years later the firm entered new premises, and engaged in the production of gold jewellery,, silverware and plate. When occurred the European revolu- tion in 1847-48, there were unusual opportunities for obtaining jewellery. The firm began to make extensive diamond purchases, including the jewels of Marie Antoinette, For fifty years the firm has owned Tiffany diamond found in the De Beers mine at Kimberley, South Af- rica, in 1877. It is the largest canary - colored diamond in existence. Shall London or New York become the world's diamond centre? Amster- dam was this centre up to the time . when Germany occupied Holland. London confidently hoped to succeed Amsterdam, but the bombing of Lon- don has given New York its chance I to he the world's diamond centre, to I New York has gone many of the ex- pert diamond cutters and traders from European cities - Amsterdam, Antwerp, Paris, Berlin and Brussels, and together they have formed a company called the Radio City Jewel- ers Centre. All told there will be thirty-six jewellers in the 2 -storey building taken as a diamond centre. Britain has very anany fine old barns, many of them huge in size and built of stone. These barns were 4;01 - ed "tithe barns." From early Saxon times right up to 1836, barns were built and used to store the tenth part of the world's wealth which was ex- acted by the church for revenues. In 1836 an act was passed by which tithes in kind were commuted to a yearly rent charge. Buildings of real- ly enormous capacity were often re- quired for the storage of the miscel- laneous produce - wheat and vege- tables, wool and wine, cattle, pigs, poultry. During the Middle Ages every parish in England had its tithe barns. Now these barns are being used in- to defensive positions for Britain's Home Guard. a live one - may be introduced. Living rooms or .sun porches are good places to hang the cages. Have you ever heard or suffered from housewives' eczema? This af- fliction is sometimes erroneously diagnosed as ringworm. Housewives' eczema is caused, so certain doctors claim, by the use of soaps - soaps which contain substances causing rashes and eruptions. This suggests that one should shun soaps which are complex mixtures of fatty acids and alkali salts to which resin, naptha, borax, gums, synthetic perfumes, civet or nusk and ambergris have been added. Many of these strange additions are known to cause eczema. Far better to use guaranteed pure soaps and to shun highly -colored and "cheap" soaps - this if one wants to evade soap eczema. It was 25 years ago, in the month of October, .that the first wireless telephone messages were sent across the Atlantic from America. Two young Americans were sent to Paris by the American, Telephone and Telegraph Company to attach radio telephone receiving apparatus to an antenna on the Eiffel Tower. France was them at war, and the Eiffel Tower was the centre of France's wireless communication sys- tem. The two men were able to listen in on 'voices" from America only with difficulty. At the beginning no success was met with, but later mes- sages from America began to be heard. Growing out of that experience is world-wide wireless telephony. No wonder that the telephone people are celebrating - or were celebrating on October 21st - the feat of speaking across 3000 miles of space. One of the most splendid four- teenth century barns in existence is that at Abbotsbury, Dorset. This was built by the monks of the neighbor- ing Benedictions abbey. At least one- half of the original barn is in use and in perfect repair, and when it was complete it had . a total length of over 300 feet. Something new in the way of ideas is bird cages which enclose miniature gardens. They may contain live birds, but more often the feathered occu- pants areel lifeless ess being stuffed birds. Live birds disturb the gardens contained in the cages. Dwarf ferns, grasses, cacti, and various succulent plants are made to grow from earth and hunus spread on the cage bottom, Sometimes the vegetation has , a jungle -like effect. If a few flowers are used, a humming bird - but not Those "dare devil" men who crash motor cars into each other and do other hair raising stunts with motor cars have really done something use- ful: they have taught motorists • how to drive their cars with greater saf- ety. For examples when one takes a curve at high speed, skidding may be prevented by stepping on the gas, and at the same time depressing the brake with the left foot. The brake snubs down the car's front end, the accelerator gives traction to the rear wheels, and the car takes the fast turn in easy control. These "death dodger daredevils" have learned other things of value to motorists, so we should not throw stones at them too readily, Red Cross News An opportunity for business girls to join the ranks of women volunteer- ing for war -service training is given ni the Red Cross Office Administra- tion Service, formation of which was announced yesterday. This service is another section of the Canadian Red Cross 141/...men's Voluntary Service Corps, of which Mrs. H. P. Plumptre is National Commandant. The Transport Service, the first section to be established, has been operating, successfully f o r several weeks and hundreds of khaki -uni- formed women drivers in various parts of the country are taking the intensive course of study. A third section, the Nursing Auxiliary, is in process of formation and details will be announced shortly. Volunteers for the Office Admin- istration Service will take lectures and training in the evenings if they are experienced in the various phases of office work. If untrained, they must be prepared to give at least 32 daytime hours a week and must be ready to give immediate service if required. The Office Administartion Service is purely voluntary and those accept- ed for the course will be trained first 1 for Red Cross work and secondly in preparation for military or other pub- lic service. Women between the ages of 18 and 45 years will be considea ed although a higher age limit is per - I mitted in cases of applicants with special qualifications. They must have two personal character refer- ences and a medical certificate from a doctor approved by the Red Gross. Although the drill will not be as strenuous as. that prescribed for the Transport-Hervice, those accepted for the course will have to take physical i training as well as such subjects as despatch and report -writing, King s Regulations & Orders, Military Law, business administration, military de- portment, and so on. Business administration subjects cover accounting, switchboard opera- tion, Comptometry and all secretarial work. Applicants for the course must pay for their own uniforms, and, because the service is voluntary, officers and privates will dress alike. The uniform consists of a practical office grey serge skirt, pale grey broadcloth shirt with dark green tie, grey tunic with the Red Gross insignia, grey felt stroller hat with badge, brown gloves and low-heeled shoes. The whole out- fit costs about $30.00. Mrs. C. Errington Christie, exper- ienced voluntary Red Cross worker, has been appointed National Com mandant of the Office Administration, Service. Special University Detachments are being established to provide stud- ,eats with the background training preparatory to taking the. Red Cross Office Adminintration Service train- ing. Enrolment has been taking place at the University of Toronto for sev- eral days. The Toronto University girls will wear a grey wedge cap, one-piece grey. dresses with military pockets and tie in their College ecl- nur. "The Office Administration Service has been formed in preparation for a demand for trained office workers," Mrs. Plumptre said, "It is also the answer to the plea of hundreds of business girls that there is no place for them in war service." BRITAIN STILL DELIVERING THE GOODS Month's Exports $1,365,485 Up "The Nazi flag has been driven from the seas while our flag flies everywhere. Our export trade has been maintained with all parts of the world .outside the territories occu- pied by the enemy." This message from the British Ministry for Overseas Trade, Mr. Harcourt Johnstone, M.P., has been generously confirmed by the export figures for August subsequently an- nounced. During that month the United Kingdom exported 232,554,729 worth of goods, or £1,365,485 worth more than during July. The total exports for the first eight months of the year were of a value of 2312,630,969. There are many striking increases over the same period a year ago: over 25,000,000 worth more of chemicals, drugs, and dyes; nearly £3,500,000 worth more cotton yarns and manu- facturers; almost 22,500,000 more of woollens and worsteds; silk and arti- ficial silk is up by close on 22,300,- 000; pottery and glass by over 12,- 000,000; electrical goods by over 21,- 500,000. "After twelve months of war," the minister for Overseas Trade declares, "Britain is still delivering the goods to her overseas customers. German bogus offers to South American countries to deliver German goods in September and October 'when Britain has been defeated' cut no ice in the face of our solid trade achievements. "The facts are that there is no sign of a single German ship deliver- ing a single bale of goods anywhere across the Seven Seas." SHIPS OF CONCRETE British Admiralty Order A Fleet of Novel Barges Reinforced concrete is being used for building British ships, the Admir- alty having recently ordered a num- ber of concrete barges. Larger sea -going vessels may also be built by this method, which has been made practicable owing to the revolutionary progress made by Brit- ish engineers and scientists in the technique of reinforced concrete dur- ing the years of peace. It is claimed for concrete ships that they are sometimes as much as 35 per cent cheaper to build and re- pair than steel vessels, they do not require such heavy building equip- ment or much skilled labour, their speed is equal to comparable steel ships carrying the same crew and with similar engine power, and they can withstand buffeting from heavy seas better than their steel counter- parts. Another enormous advantage in war time is that steel is released for other vital purposes and England her- self has unlimited quantities of the chalk, stones and sand for making concrete. During and after the last war when there was a shortage of steel and general ship -building facilities, about 100 concrete ships totalling 150,000 tons carrying capacity, were built in Britain, Norway, the United States, France, Italy and elsewhere. Some of these vessels were as large as 6,500 tons, and proved quite success- ful, although none have been built since 1922. Since those days British concrete research has been unceasing. Com- pressive strengthhas increased three -fold, great 'improvements have been made in steel reinforcement, and a tensile strength of 27,000 pounds to the square inch is now possible, against only 16,000 pounds in: 1918. HENS Always scratch hardest when +i• the worms are scarce. The hens have nothing on us. We're cer- tainly er fainly digging our toes in to 3: catch up en the arrears on our subscription list. If you are in ; arrears will you oblige with a ''remittance? .r The News -Record 4 Weddings DALE—McMICIAEL A wedding of interest was solem- nized at the Egmondville United. Church manse, on Tuesday morn- ing, October the 29th, when the Rev. A. R. Gardiner, united in ,marriage, Marjorie, younger daugh- ter of Mr. and Mrs, T. J. McMichael of Plullett, and William Johnson Dale, youngest son of Mr. and Mrs. James Dale of Hallett. • The bride wore a floor -length gown of mauve grey slipper' satin with a corsage of fire - chrysanthemums. 'Phey wereunat- tended. Immediately after the 'cere- mony, the bride and groom left on a two weeks motor trip through North- ern -Ontario. The bride chose a sol- dier blue coat trimmed with silver fox and black accessories for travel- ling. On their return they will reside on "Pleasant View Farm." Hullett. HENRY—ACHESON At the Church of St. John, the Evangelist, London, the wedding was solemnized of Mary Phyllis Acheson, R.N., daughter of Mr. and Mrs..Rob ert J. Acheson, of Goderich, to John Stuart Henry, son of Mr. and Mrs. Stuart M. Henry, Toronto. The bride graduated from St. Joseph's Hospital training school, London, last Year. The groom is with the R.C.A.F. in Brandon. Rev. T. Finlay officiated. The bride was in a rose rust suit trimmed in brown squirrel with brown squirrel hat and accessories. She wore a corsage of gardenias. Mrs. J. M. Graham attended her sister and the groom's brother, Stuart M. Henry, Toronto, was best man. They will live in Brandon. PITBLADO—FOSTER Of interest to many friends was the quiet wedding which took place at the home of Mrs. Agnes V. Fos- ter, Ashfield, at 11 o'clock Saturday, October 26, when her daughter, Mabel Elizabeth, became the bride of John Tyrie Pitblado, only son of Mr. and Mrs. John T. Pitblado of Colborne Township. Rev. A. A. Maloney of Lucknow officiated, To the strains of the Bridal Chorus from Lohengrin ,played by Mary Davison, Brussels, the bride entered the living room on the arm of her brother, Ralph. Foster. She was becomingly gowned in rose silk net over taffeta, her finger-tip veil falling from a floral halo. She carried a cascade bouquet of roses and heather.. The bridesmaid, Miss Irene Foster, sister of the bride, wore turquoise net over taffeta, with wine The 7'raan Dove "Published by the courtesy of the Chicago Tribune" 1 - velvet accessories, and a corsage of Peerless roses. Mr. Murray Kernig - ban, of Toronto, was groomsman. During the signing of the register, Miss Edna Davison of Brussels sang "Because." Following the ceremony a buffet luncheon was served. Miss Elizabeth Foster, aunt of the bride, presided at the tea table. Misses Marion and Margaret Foster and Mrs. Clayton Foster assisted in serv- crepe. Mrs. Pitblado wore a navy blue satin back crepe gown. Both had corsages of Talisman roses. Mr. and Mrs. Pitblado left on a short motor trip to northern points, the bride traveling in a suit of French imported tricotine, black accessories, and twin silver fox furs. On their return they will reside at 9 Welling- ton street, St. Catharines. ing. For her daughter's wedding Mrs. A bachelor is Poster chose British blue Alpaca Mrs. anything. a man who never SCOTTISH CLAN GIVES $3,300 TO RED CROSS Officers of the Order of Scottish Clans gathered from various parts of Canada and the United States Mon- day night presented the Canadian Red Cross with a check for $3,300 for the purchase of ambulances. The order previously spent $5,100 in Canada and England to aid the war effort. Of the money for the ambulances, $2,300 was subscribed by members in the United States. 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