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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Clinton News Record, 1939-09-14, Page 6GE 6 THE CLINTON , NF,WS-RECORI; THURS., ' SEPT. ;14, 1939. were among those who had the licenses cancelled, ' FROM HERE AND - THERE Parents of Gerald McPherson of Logan are awaiting word of his whereabouts. Ile is believed to be in Greece, Gerald won a $1200 scholarship from the University of Toronto a year ago and has been pursuing the study of archaeology in England 'during the year and on the continent this summer. When last heard from he was in Greece. The congregation of St. Mary's Anglican Church, Dublin, gathered recently to pay tribute to Rev. A. O. Capper, the rector for the past none years. A laudatory address was read and a suitable gift presented, Goderich Collegiate opened last week with an enrollment of 264 pupils. No changes have been made in the teaching staff. Interior re- decorating has been in progress dur- ing the summer holidays. Mrs. Joseph Curry of Goderich recently celebrated her 96th birthday. She is 'a daughter of the late David. Cantelon, an early resident of God- erich. She married Joseph Curry and moved with him to his Goderich 'township farm, returning to Goderich about five years ago. Her husband died eleven years ago, Mrs. Douglas McDougall of Goderich township is a grandchild and was present at the family celebration. In connection with the reunion of S. S. Na. 15 of East Zorra, a brief history of the school building secured from the log -book, reveals that the first school building was erected some time in the 1840's. Thus the rudiments of education have beer.• taught in that section for almost one hundred years. A four -months -old deer was found ,hanging dead on a fence on the farm of John Errington, West Wawanosh. Evidently it had attempted to jump the fence and got one leg caught. Evidence of the struggle the deer had made for life was a trench dug with its feet below the spot where it was found hanging. Short wave radio fans who have operated amateur 'stations, recently received notice that for the duration of the war their licences have been cancelled'. They were instructed to make their sets inoperative. Edmund Daly and Ian McTavish of Seaforth It's a mall world after all, con- tends ontends 'Miss Ruth Simpson of Ridge - town on her return from Amsterdam, Holland, where she has been attend- ing the Worldlsi Conference'" 'of Christian Youth as one of the eight representatives of the United church. While walking, down Oxford street in Old London she heard her name called. Turning around she stood face to face with another lady from Ridgetown, who has been visiting in England. The 0. A. C seholarship of $100 awarded by CKNX Wingbam to u Bruce County pupil and selected by a committee: eotnposed of Warden Fenton of Port Elgin, G. R. Gear, Agricultural Representative, and W. Cruickshank of Wingham, was awarded to Edward Fischer, son of Reeve and Mrs, Jacob Fischer of Garrick. AUTUMN TIPS TOR MOTORISTS 1. Because of earlier darkness, ac- cidents involving motor vehicles in- crease ncrease greatly in September and Oc- tober over July and August. Make sure headlights are properly focussed and burning brightly. Reflectors should be cleaned and dim bulbs re- placed. Be sure and use long -life Canadian -made lamps. 2. Brakes should be checked now after the summer's heavy driving. At 40 miles an hour, a ear cannot be stopped under 115 feet. Have the car wheels "pulled" to assure proper check. 3. A good anti -freeze is an econ- omy, not an expense. Many cases of freeze-up, causing costly repairs, are due to motorists thinking they were protected. But boil away types of anti -freezes evaporate on warm days, leaving the radiator not suf- I ficiently protected when cold weather comes again. The permanent type of anti -freeze keeps at full strength all winter long. A popular brand has been considerably reduced in price this Autumn. 4. Old, worn tires are dangerous on rainy Autumn days and parti- cularly on icy pavements. For saf- ety's sake, they should be replaced now. 5. Nothing cuts down a car's ef- ficiency more than a rust-elogged cooling system. Formerly it was a long, expensive process to clean it out by acids but garages now report a simple, three-step cleaning process which does the work in half an hour at low cast. After having the cool- ing system cleaned, be sure and use an anti -freeze which contains special rust inhibitors. ye°cwsP•.)i':1) mpoy b �SN5a i6.. cottca6• p.pycoso"0106 6 ee• �ov0a orxs -seats u e tU .Selye "t<� ao oc °lei os° IS‘I‘ „0" °u. sb, $p l 0,01. s oS trice•, F LS icV ° d as ei sl' 0" No matter where you live in Canada, there in always a variety offish available to you, either fresh, frozen, smoked, dried, canned or pickled. Your family will enjoy FISH. It can be served in an infinite number ofdelicious ways. Send for the FRlE recipe booklet today. DEPARTMENT OF FISHERIES, OTTAWA. La...WRITE FOR FREE BOOKLET Department of Fisheries, Ottawa. 213 Pleas° send me your 52-oSge Booklet, "10Q Tempting Irish Recipes".' Name • (PLRASIt PRINT LETTERS PLAINLY) Address CWI7 ANY Y Dq@, Y A QUEEN MARY'S OUT -RIDER Royal Tribute to Britain's "Courtesy Cops" Any rank -and -file police motor cyclist on "courtesy cop" duty 'in Great Britain may now suddenly find himself requisitioned as an escorting out -rider to Queen Mary while she is motoring through the police division to which he is .attadhed. • Provision of a patrol preceding the Royal C'ar has been decided' upon to avoid risks in unescorted drives as a consequence of Queen Mary's motor accident earlier in the summer on her Way home from watching the tennis championship at Wimbledon. No particular officer will be detail- ed as an escort. The police chief in each division will be responsible for supplying one of his. specially trained patrol men while the Royal car re- mains within the boundaries of his division. The decisions marks a new develop- ment in the use of police motor cycl- sts as "wardens" against road ac- cidents, first tried out in April of art year. The men were at once nicknamed "courtesy cops" because their attitude to road users was one of "education rather than prosecu- tion." The experiment has proved so suc- cessful that the House of Lords has urged its extension at a cost of about £2,500,000 a year; and, on the basis of the reduction• in accidents effected by motor cycle police patrol work in Lancashire, it is estimated that the system would save over 1,000 lives and 100,000 injuries a year. The selected police motor cyclists will be on Royal duty when Queen Mary goes in her maroon and scarlet saloon to some specially important function at which big crowds and heavy traffic are expected. This car is in the same Royal colour as the King's; for her entirely private visits to friends, and for shopping expedi- tions, Queen Mary uses a dark green saloon car, the index number of which , beginning with the single let- ter "A", is known to every police- man in London. When she drives in this car, Queen Mary will continue to have 110 escort, for, on these trips, not even Superintendent Green, her personal detective, or Mr. 0. Hum- phrey, her chauffeur, know where she is going until she gets into the ear. Her motor cycle escort will now ride in front of her on all semi-of- ficial as well as official occasions when Superintendent Green tele- phones the route to Scotland Yard. From there it is passed on to police stations affected, so that constables can be placed at every road junction which, the Royal car is to pass and hold up all other traffic to give un- hindered passage to the Queen Moth- er with her advance guard on his motor cycle. EIGHT LAUNCHES IN SEVEN DAYS Record Activity in Britain's Shipyards CANADA AND SAUDI ARABIA, Arabian ' " count'r'ies and their' romance have an attraction Tor us, and none' more so than the Kingdom' of Saudi Arabaia. The inhabitants are an ancient race but the kingdom is a very modern state, as such. It is only seven or eight years old: , It is a personal union for two countries, the Sultan of; Nejd being- also the King of the Hejaz. In the 19th century Nejd was an independent state and the stronghold of the Wahhabi sect, This was a Puritan movement within Islam. The Wahhabis purport to follow in detail the practice of the prophet Moham- nied, and regard hs infidels all who do otherwise. Their enemies are the enemies of the true faith and there- fore their every campaign is a holy war, death in which is a sure pass- port to Paradise. In their communit- ies tribal distinctions are completely eliminated. The old pastime of tribal. raid and counter -raid is discounten- anced. The blood feud is no more. Nejd fell under the Turkish yoke but in 1913 the present King, Abdul Aziz Ibn Rahman al Faisal Al Saud, threw off Turkish rule and captured from the Turks the Province of Hasa. In 1921 he added to his dominioris the territories of the Rashid family of Shammar, which, he captured by force of arms, and in 1925 completed the conquest of Hejaz. In 1926 he accepted the surrender of the greater part of Asir, the whole of which is now part of his kingdom. He is 59. His son, born in 1905, is the hetr- apparent. There is a treaty with Great Britain which recognizes the independence of the kingdom. Nejd, or The Plateau, has no defin- ite frontiers, but may be said to oc- cupy over 800,000 square miles of Central Arabai and reaches eastward to the Persian. Gulf. The pppulation of 1,2'75,000 is chiefly nomadic and composed of Arabs, Negroes and half-breeds. The capital city, Riyadh, has a large mosque, the Westminster Abbey of the Wahhabis. The city has a population of 30,000. The Hejaz, meaning the Boundary, extends from Asir on the south to Transjordan on the north and from the Red Sea and Gulf of Akaba on the west to Central Arabia. The coast line on, the Red Sea is about 800 miles, the area about 112,500 square miles, and the population about 400,000. Amongst the ports Is Jedda, the reputed tomb of Eve, the mother of mankind. There is very litte direct trade be- tween Canada and Saudi Arabia, most of the commodities of both countries passing to and fro through British ports. The .Arabs export woven cloaks, dates, hides and skins. No fewer than eight vessels, all of them of importance in one way or another, have been launched in the United Kingdom within seven days, and together they afford an example of the diversity of ship typss under construction in British shipyards at the present time. Two of the vessels are warships, and form part of Britain's immense Naval rearmament programme. They are the 23,000 ton aircraft carrier R.M.S.. "Formidable", the largest warship ever built in Northern Ire- land, and H.M.S. "Kenya", a Fiji - class cruiser of 8,000 tons displace- ment. Of the six merchantmen launched, the motorship "Port Quebec" will shortly be seen in. Canada, for upon leaving the Sunderland yard where she is building she will join the ser- vices of the Port Line (formerly the Cemn'monwealtls & Dominion Line - between Europe and North America. .Another motorship launched, was the "Dolabelia", of 12,000 ,tons, the last of a quartette of motor tankers for the Anglo-Saxon Petroleum Co„ Ltd., while a third was the Clan liner "Clan Macdonald", of 9,200 tons dw. The fourth motorship was the. "Merchant Prince", a cargo vessel of 9,500 tons for Greek owners. The other two vessels were steamers., the "Oriole", for coastal cargo trade, and the "Cormarsh", an, addition to Brit- ain's ever-growing fleet of coastwise colliers:, Two of the above ships are com pileting on the East Coast of Scot- land, two on the Clyde, three on the: English North East Coast and one at Belfast. SAVING SEED OF ANNUAL FLO.WERS There is no doubt that the best seeds of annual': flowers are those, raised by specialists, but some people like to grow their awn. ' In, order to get the:, best seed, vigorous plants with goods flowers should be chosen. as seed parents, and inferior plants growing nearby should be removed, states Isabella Preston, Division of Horticulture, Central Experimental Farm, Ottawa. One color or variety only should be grown in one part of the garden, so that there is less danger of bees crosspollinating the flowers. If seed pods are not form- ing, a small camel -hair brush should be used to dust the pollen of one good plant on to the stigma of the other, so that there is no doubt of it being. pollinated. When tihe seed pods have grown to their full size, they grad- ually turn brown and crack open. If time permits, these pods can be gathered daily, just when they, begin to open, and laid in shallow boxes in a dry place until the seeds can be easily shaken aut. A piece of muslin should be laid over the boxes' to pre- vent the seeds getting mixed. When the seeds are dry they must be sep- arated from the pods and any dust or trash that has become mixed with them. If only a few are grown, hand picking is( the simplest method to adopt. Large quantities are cleaned by the use of sieves. A fine sieve will take out the dust and leave the seeds, except the verytimall ones like poppies which can have the dust left. A coarser sieve is useful for round seeds which can drop through, leaving the trash in the sieve. Seeds of plants like Asters and Zinnias have to be cleaned by hand by the amateur. If the daily picking of the seeds is too much trouble, the plants can be rooted up when most of the seed pods have formed and are beginning to ripen. They are then laid on sheets outdoors during the day and brought inside at night until the seed -pods ripen and the seeds can be beaten or shaken out. They must then. be cleaned as described above. After the seeds are cleaned and dried, they should be put in envelopes and care fully labelled, and be kept in air- tight containers in a cool place until Spring. TO REASSESS LANDS Mogg & Quinlan who recently com- pleted the equalization of assessment of the County of Huron and whose work is being reviewed by the Town of Goderich and the township of Stephen, who feel that they have been assessed too high, have been engaged to reassess all of the prop- erties in the township of Hulett and I the Village of Blyth, upon the com- pletion of which they will proceed with the equalization of the County 'of Lanark. Agricultural Societies' Fairs and. Exhibitions 1939 .'. September 11-16 London (Western Fair) . Sept. 11-16 Blyth , Sept, 15, 16 Milverton Sept, 14, 15 New Hamburg Sept, 15, 16 Wiarton Sept. 14, 15 September 18-23 Ailsa Craig Sept. 21, 22 Atwood Sept. 22, 23 Clifford ° Sept. 22, 23 Exeter Sept. 20, 21 Hanover Sept. 19, Kincardine Sept. 211 22 Listowel . Sept. 20, 21 Seaforth Sept. 21, 22 Stratford Sept. 18-20 September 25-30 Bayfield Sept. 27, 28 Brussels Sept. 29, 30 Ilderton Sept. 27 Kirkton Sept. 28, 23 Lueknow Sept. 28, 29 Mitchell Sept. 26, 27 Owen Sound ... Sept. 30, Oct, 2 & 3 Palmerston Sept. 26, 27 Port Elgin Sept. 28, 29 Ripley Sept. 26, 27 Strathroy Sept. 28-30 Thedford Sept. 26, 27 Wingham Sept. 27, 28 Clobber 2-7 Dungannon Gorrie 8t. Malys Teeswater Oct. 5, 6 Oct. 6, 7 Oct. 5, 0 Oct. 3, 4 READ THE ADVERTISEMENTS IN THE NEWS -RECORD WHAT BRITAIN HA'S IT WILL HOLD Twenty-five years ago the ,Great,. Waal started,' and it may be of inter- est to see what has happened to the British Empire ; in that time. W. 1. . Clark, in the Windsor' Star, points out that King George VI rules over 15' per omit, more of the earth's surface than his father, Georges V, did in . 1910. Britain awns more than one ship in every four in the world. British investments in countries.. outside the United Kingdom total over $18,000,000,000. East of . Suez . there are British Ships and, cargoes daily carrying.• goods to the value of more than $500,000,000. The British maintain and protect 36,000 miles ofimportant sea comW munications. Eaeh year Great Britain imports. 60,000,000 tons of raw materials and.. foods. Safe transport is assured the ships carrying these loads. Out of every £100 worth of sniff, £60 is imported. Of every 100 barrels of oil pro- duced in the world, Britain controls the production of 20 barrels. Opt of every 100 miles of frontiers bounding British territories, 10 miler • are bounded by the seas.' The British own and control 175,- 000 miles of cables by which com- munications binds together the vat- ions ations dominions, colonies' and posses.. Bions with London. These are just a few items to buck . you up, in case you are thinking that the British flag is vanished front the world. 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