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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Clinton News Record, 1941-03-13, Page 3Typhoid Rapidly Is Disappearing As A Disease All Across the North American Continent-" Onty One PerHundred Thousand Contracts It ,A11 across the North American Continent Typhoid Fever is a dis- appearing disease. At the begin- ning of- the' present century t;lie sate of Mortality fora this disease 9n the United States averaged '34 in every hundred thousand of pop - elation; it dropped; to less than one per hundred thousand in 1939. In n'iany places it was much high• er than this. If the conditions pre- vailing before 1900 had eoutinned the United States would now be having, 44,000 'typhoid deaths an- nually instead of 2,400. ONCE WAS PLAGUE) The situation In Canada .is in -part better than 'that recorded for our nearest neighbour. At the be- ginning of the century the typhoid deathrate for; this country was about 60.1 per hundred thousand of population. In 1938, this rate had dropped to 1.8. In Ontario it was but one in -every, hundred thousand while in Saskatchewan the rate was 0,9. ° This improved condition in re- gard to what forty years ago was a plague may be ascribed to a combination of factors: better gen- eral 'education in health matters; better recognition of the, principles . or hygiene; and most of all to the use of pure water and pasteurized Milk. ' In 'the present war the example of the last- war is happily being followed with regard to the inocu- lation of soldiers against typhoid. and para -typhoid fevers. Inocula- tion against tries maladies was so isuecessful in the war of 1914-18 that very few 00 our British de- fenders succumbed to them. Pilot of Death Plane Joseph C. Mackey, pilot who flew the military plane carrying Sir Frederick Ranting, which was wrecked in the bush country of Newfoundland, last week was brought to hospital at Montreal suffering from head wounds and shock. Safer To Fly Than To 'Walk Air Fatalities Are Fewer Than Those Which Take Toll of Pedestrians No mode of travel carries an ab- solute guarantee of safety, says the Galt Reporter. Probably more people meet their ends while using the simplest form of locomotion provided by nature, walling, than by utilizing swifter modes of trav- el, such as airplanes. Death comes to them individually. A pedestrian here, knocked down and killed by an automobile. Another, thousande of miles away, slips on an icy pave- ment and receives fatal injuries in the fall, These isolated incidents of death ` attract little attention, A few paragraphs in the local papers, andh t at is all, unless the person enjoyed national prominence,. We accept these fatalities as the logical consequence of the hazards P70 must continually meet in this risky business of living, Fatal train wrecks and airplane crashes receive a prominence out of all proportion to the really few fatalities directly attributable to these modern modes of travel. The ingenuity of man has made it safer to fly than to jay walk across the ice -encrusted street of a busy city thoroughfare. However, certain ;hazards remain, and one of several possible ones turned the westbound flight of the. Trans -Canada, Airlines plane into a tragedy -at'Armstrong the other week, a tragedy in which 12 lost their lives, Previously, 81,000 passengers had been carried by T,O,A. without in- jury of any kind. A total of 8,165,- 000 miles had been flown in creat- ing this, aplettd40 record. Outstanding Movie Actor and Actress of 1940 Savirig Ontario's Natural Resources G. C, TONER Ontario Federation of Anglers. (No. 33)' THE OWLS' FOOD The short eared owl should have a real •welcome from every farmer since it is .one of our most potent destroyers of mice; It le a .bird of the open fields 'or marshes. The only place where 8 have ever seen it was.Oataragiu marsh, near Kingston, where Ed- win Beaupre found it -breeding many years ago. These 'owls have late winter or spring roosts in groves of evergreen trees, They bolt their food entire,.regurgita- ting the skin and hones as a pel- let, when digestion is completed. Se, when a roost is found, ex- amination of the ground under the trees will often show many pellets and these, if collected and sorted, give a definite picture of- the recent food of the owl.! What They Ate L. L. Snyder and C. E, Hope of the Royal Ontario Museum of Zoology have been studying the food of this owl for some time. past. On a golf Course near Toronto they found a rd'ost of ' these . owls in some ornamental evergreens, to which they resort year after year. In 1936 during April the observers collected :a half bushel of the pellets from this roost. From other evidence they assumed that about 18 owls were present and that the pellets represented about 1,000 meals of these birds. The next step was to sort out and find what animals were rep- resented in these remains of the food. They did this by compar- ing the bones that they found in the pellets with bone specimens that they have in the museum. As each enimal has characteeis= tic skull or teeth it was a fairly simple job for one who knows how. Mostly Meadow Mice They found 1,181 meadow price, 450 deer mice, 1 house mouse and the remains of 15 birds. Figured in percentages the owls took, as food, during the month, of April 72% meadow mice, 27% deer mice, the remain- der making up less than 1%. To my mind, it shorts that the short - eared owl is definitely bene- ficial, The mice taken by these birds had been doing consider- ably damage to young trees and shrubs. Property owners told the authors that mice were a veritable plague in the vicinity that year, The owls helped con- trol this plague without cost to man. Maid of Erin By HOWARD L. TERRY I came from the land where the shamrock, green growing, Is the emblem of love in the homes of the Isle, Where free was my youth as the wild waters flowing Through highlands, through low- lands, through green -walled defile. I've hissed the bieseed stone in our dear Castle Blarney, I've paddled my boat on the waves of Killarney, I've searched the dark chambers of Fingal's vast cave, I've climbed the high mountains, I've swum the blue wave. I've scaled the steep peaks which the boldest decline, The wild beasts subdued by these dark eyes of mine. My father had castles 'and riches untold -- I cared not foe: riches, the life they unfold, And many a one who had courted me lctlg, Must needs be content with a smile and a song. I loved but the mountains, the moorlands, the sea, The roar of the ocean was music to me, The shadowy wood and the pin- nacled height, The fast -racing waves and the bright stars of night. Olt, to live in the love Of this freedom of Mine, To gaze'on earth'a beauty, to drink of its wine. And so all untamed the sweet days passed away. But now, far from home, Fre the raven locks' grey, And memory nai•se0 the sorrowful strain, "Ohl give me my youth and any Isle again," • 1940 Crani. Crops The thi',.•cl estimate of the 1940 Canadian grain crops in bushels is as follows, with the 1939 pro- duction shown for comparison: 1940 1939' Whose 551,390,000 520,623,000 Oats 380,526,000' 384,407,000 Barley • 104,256,000 103,147,000 Rye 13,994,000 15,307,000 Flaxseed 3,189,000 2,044,000 Peas 1,355,000 1,307,000 Beans „ 1,477,000 .1.,527,000 Buckwheat 6,092,000 0,848,000 Mixed •grains.43,133,000 44,072,000 Corn for husking „ 6,956,000 8,097,000 "Given htimour, when you are my 'age you • feel younger than when you are young." —Ethel Barrymore. Ginger Rogers, crowned the outstanding actress of 1949, Is shown, LEFT, arriving for the annual dinner of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, accoinpanied by her. mother, Mrs. Lela Rogeys. James Stewart- was awarded the "Oscar' for the best actor of 1940, at- the same.bangnet, and Jimmy is shown here accepting the award. T H E W A R•WEE K --Commentary on Current Events TURKEY'S STAND KEY Tip BALKAN SITUATION "The position taken by the Bulgarian government does not lead to consolidation of peace, but to extension of the sphere of war and to Bulgaria being involved in it. In view of this, the Soviet Government, true to its policy of peace, cannot render any support to the Bul- garian government in the ap- piication of its present policy." —Soviet Note to Bulgaria. "Turkey will oppose by arms any aggression directed against her territorial integrity or her independence."—Foreign Min- ister Sarscoglu of Turkey. The diplomatic sensation of the weed tame when, for the first time since ,irtnitary 15, the Kremlin in Moseew made a Pronouncement relative to the war in Europe which could bo termed official. The long silence was broken with the hand- ing of a sharp note to Bulgaria— incidentally an indirect slap at Hit- ler—containing the information that Russia refused to give sup- port of any kind to Eulgaria's new Axis -dominated policy. Ankara Gives Closest Ear The Soviet reproof to Bulgaria had a variety of repercussions in the capitals of the world. London was inclined to discount its value as a factor in the tense Balkan situation. Berlin inferred that Mos- cow "didn't understand." In Ath- ens, the :elcscow move appeared ,to have been timed carefully to co- incide with .British -Greek- negotia- tions taking place there. (It could not fail to stiffen Greek resistance to the Germau "Peace" offensive). But in Ankara the closest atten- tion was paid to the Russian note. It became strongly evident that Turkey was encouraged, to take pleasures against any further Ger- man moves, feeling that it could count on at' least passive Russian approval should It make a firm stand. Would Turkey Fight? Turkey's recent pledge to "hon• or all her obligations" stili did not make it blear what action Turkey would take should German troops not sweep 'towards the Dardan- elles; should German pr llulgtteian armies not attack the borders of "Turkey -in -Europe" , but solely were concentrating on the Greek frontiers in order to Throe a peace upon Greece. :1 C'oii'lii Turkey fight if Greece went tinder? In the ans- wer to that question lay the key to the outcome of the Balkan situ- ation. HEAR WAR WILL TAKE $1,000,000 PER DAY C. Fraser Elliott, K.C., LEFT, Dominion commissioner of income tax, with James S. Duncan,' CENTRE, president Toronto Board of Trade, and W. G. H. Jephott, president of the "Institute of Chartered' Accountants of Ontario, The commissioner told the midwinter banquet ofhe t institute tote that under new wartime tax regulations, direct taxation would take seven per cent, of the national income, or something over $1,000,000 a day. Replying to. the 'speech, Mr. Duncan warned that excessive taxation defeats its ewn 01)3504.byweakening the economic structtre of the country. Nazi Alms In Balkans The Nazi press last week (leder- - 00 that the military occupation of Bulgaria wasto prevent .any British effort to "disturb the pewee"' in the Bensons, that is, to open 'up a new war front In that zone. The indications - were that Hitler desired at all costs to avoid an upheaval there and that he ex. petted to achieve his objectives' without threatening Turkey, dii•eet-, Hitler's immediate airn, as we have pointed out before was to bolster 'the flagging Italian Waref- fort at as little cost as possible so that 'Mussolini could' continue t0 keep` a _large section of the Bri- tish fleet busy in the Mediterran• can, plus formidable British land forces, far from the scene or the Battle of Britain, (His occupation of Bulgaria secondarily -served 'to give idle divisions of the German army ,something' to do; and added considerably to Axis 'prestige in southeastern Europe and the Near East). For the -Present, the, Dar- danelles and Suez could wait, Hit- ler's actions indicate!!, But the -Brie, tisk might move first, from Sal- onioa, and scotch hie plans by forcing him 16 accept the reality of a .two -front war. Supremacy Ai Sea Unless. she can maintain suprem- acy at sea, Britain must succumb, Such supremacy' involves ability to keep the sea' lanes open (the Axis presented "a strong challenge In the Mediterranean and the North Atlantic), and particularly to trans- port in safety the industrial out- put of the United States. The Roosevelt administration in Wash- ington last week was thought' to have readied plans to give the Bei- tish, following the passage of the Lease -Lend bill, what they so vit- ally needed; repair facilitiesini Un- 1 ited States ports; a eu•ppiy of mer- chant ships; and convoys. U. 8; Takes Risks The. United States in the opinion of most experts was expected to adopt a full war economy for the nation immediately after enact- ment of the bill, since each and every provision made to aid Bri- tain could bring war to the west- ern hemisphere. The 81. S. would have to be ready for anything. Nevertheless a war incident was deemed much more likely to occur in the Pacific than the Atlantic. In the Far East American naval and air power had been mobilized with due consideration for even- tualities. And there, the U. S. was ready to fight. • I VOICE OF THE PRESS BIG TIME PROSPECT "The finance companies that offer loans up to $500 on easy repayments' might be able to in- terest the Dominion Government. —Woodstock Sentinel-Revien- -o-- CAN'T BEAT PIONEERS The enthusiastic golfer is still face to face with the fact that the axe and bucksaw have done more for this 'country than the niblick ever will --- Guelph Mesa cnry. —o— IT'S EXPENSIVE, TOO Owing to some oversight a man was recently appointed a judge in Nicaragua who has been dead for four years. That habit of not burying the dead has caused some strange appointments in Canada, too. — Toronto Satur- day Night, —o— FIGHT FOR THE MARKET Ontario farmers had better look to their laurels. In the first six weeks of 1941 Ontario farm- ers have delivered to packing plants 225,000 hogs. Alberta farmers have delivered 176,000. Last - week Albertans delivered 31,000 against Ontario's 83,000, Competition for markets for farm products within Canada has never been great while the, west could rely on selling its wheat crop'. With thewheat - market badly clogged western farmers . are turning to mixed farming products which compete more di- rectly within Canada. What is happening in hog production shows what the west can do when forced to it,—Lethbridge Herald, Scientific Experiment In Long Beach, Calif., a 33 - year -old chiropractor named Wil- fred C. Blair locked himself in a closet with a 25 -Ib. cake of dry ice. Aim: a "scientific experi- ment" with carbon dioxide. As the ice melted, it gave off CO2 fumes. In 20 minutes, the chino- praetor was dead. Next to lis body police found a notebook containing his pulse, temperature and respiration record. St Patrick's Day Games. Many. Are The Requests For Suggestions For Games Suit- able :For St. Patrick's `Day— From A Number of Sources The 'Following Have "Been > Gathered RING TOSS: On a good sized piece of board draw and paint`s green ..shamrock at least a foot aoross. . In each cf. the leaves drive three nails, long ones• -with large heads. Have • them well separated. ' Paint beside or tinder each. nail a figure,to be the value of the ring'tossed upon that nail, Provide each'• player with three rubber jar rtings from the kit- chen: Give a prize for the 'high - eat score made when the rings are tossed from a distance of three feet or more, SLIPPERY SNAKES: For this have a supply, of long macaroni, .cooked and drained: Provide each player with a silver fork and a piece of 'macaroni. Linethem ail 'up to race across the room. When a piece of macaroni slips from a fork, the player carry- ing arrying it is out of the race. First one at the'goal wins. ROCKY ROAD TO DUBLIN: Cut out of wrapping paper or dard'board small, and large,. ir- regular pieces. Lay them on the floor in as big a ring as possible and fasten each to position with a tiny bit of melted candle wax' underneath. On linoleum flour paste will do the trick and is eas- ily removed afterward. The play- ers in turn ti'y to run the "rocky road," without missing a single piece of paper or steppingon the floor around the bits. The one who completes the circle without error In the fastest tizne wins. FAIRY RINGS: Each player receives ten small brass curtain rings and a knitting needle. The rings are laid flat on the floor. At a signal, each player stoops and tries to get the rine on the needle without touching them or the floor with the hands.. First player with all rings on needle wins. Any player whose hand touches floor is disqualified. PADDY'S PIGS: Green plead - eine is provided for each player, and green toothpicks are passed around. Each one tries to model a pig. For variation, brown pinsticine may be used, for model- ing potatoes. IRISH SONGS: From a plug hat decorated with clay pipe and bunch of shamrock, each playef draws the name of an Irish song or of a person mentioned in an Irish song. When called upon by the leader, each player is expect- ed to sing, play or recite .one verse or chorus of that song before the count of nine. Failure results in paying a forfeit to be decided by the whole group, Should Test Seed Teri Plant It That's the First Step in War Crop Production For 1941.--. Pamphlet Outlining Methods of Home Germination Tests Can Be Obtained From Ont. Dept,, of Agriculture With Ontario being geared for the greatest possible crop produc- tion this year, the first step in farm war production effort is to make sure the seed yon plant tests high in germination, otherwise you may with Toast, Muffin's, Tea Biscuits, Waffles and , Pancakes. watt harvest poor crops despite favor- able weather conditions, Unfavorable harvest' conditions in Central and Western Ontario last year have increased the need of testing seed before planting. This has been demonstrated re- cently at the Ontario 'Agricultural College, Guelph, where it was found that some plump seed of satisfactory color germinated poor- ly while some badly weathered lots. germinated much better than their ' appearance would indicate, CAN BE DONE AT HOME The only suits way to make post. tive your seed grain will give maxi- mum crop returns, is to have it tested for germination and this tau be done at home by every farmer in Ontario. Pull directions for germination tests are contained in a small pamphlet written by Dr. G. P, 11•Ic- Rostie, Ontario Agricultural Col- lege, Guelph, and can be obtained from your Agricultural Represent- ative or by writing direct to the Statistics and PubliOations Branch, Ont. Dept. of Agriculture, Toronto. Seeds of the following crops can be satisfactorily tested at !tome: oats, barley, wheat, rye,. buck- wheat, field corn, peas, beaus and soybeans, 20,000 Uses Are .Known For Plastics Crowding other materials from the field, plastics now range in. form from toothpicks to tele- phones, from lipsticks to light fix. tures, from ash trays to air- planes. They have 20,000 definite industrial and commercial uses, with new ones being discovered. And the leading plastic is syns theta resin, compounded from the physician's friend, phenol (cars belie acid), and the undertaker's standby, fo1maldehyde. Both are derived from the distillation of coal, Owl Bounty A price has been placed on the heads of the great horned owl and the snowy owl, enemy of up- land game birds, by the Saskat- chewan Fish and Game League. Hunters will be paid 50 centa for each of these birds shot, Owen L. Dutton, president of the Re- gina branch, declares. LIFE'S LIKE THAT By Fred Neher ,;/1� fin' 13 ii,' • 4 00 s by Wr Oil .1 P eliKii., 1'1''r2..,�'', i . <.GC "Let's organize a bridgeWcluFb, girt;, thou we can sit down and talk!" • r - REG'LAR FELLERS --.. Just Practice By GENE BYRNES GOTTA GO DOWN TO THE BANK AND MY AACCOUNTOUT ! ITS IN A MUDDLE/ /r YOU OUGHT TO BALANCE YOUR BANK BOOK AT LEAST ONCE A MONTH f THAT'S THE ONLY WAY TO KEEP iT STRAIGHT,d Loam, POP/ (les EAST sf Gee 0, A ru Olt,, 01) Walla neoe ..-r