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The Clinton News Record, 1935-05-09, Page 7'_THUI S., =MAY 9, 1935 THE CLINTON NEWS -RECORD Health Cooking BROWN LABEL - 3341/2 Ib. ORANGE PEKOE - 40( 1/2 Ib. t, Mitt lli RcVe�aV r1l►'-Colularn Prepared Especially for Women— But Not Forbidden to Men THE GREEN MONTH 'What of all the co ors shall I bring to you for your fairing? Fit to lay your finger on, fine . enough for you?— 'Yellow for the ripened rye, white for ladies' wearing, Red for briar -roses, or the sky's own blue? Nay, for spring has touched the elm, spring has found the willow, ends that call the swallow home sway the boughs apart; e Green shall all my ,curtains be, green shall be my pillow. • 'Green shall be t he nosegay I wear upon my heart! —Marjorie Pickthall. Origin of May -Day. May Day, which has come to be the e day when Labor asserts itself, and in some cases, makes itself rather disagreeable to the rest of us, al- though all labor, one way or another, in such a country as this, had an ear- ly origin and was in early times a day of festivity. But May 1st has Colne to bp recognized, especially in Europe, tie • the day for labor demon strations, instead of the old, merry happy festivities which used to mark the date, May -Day is an old festival which dates back to antiquity and has been observed in many lands, by various names. It had, of course, its ori- gin in the spring changes of the sea- sons. In England the custom origin- ated in the English Church and it was observed in honor of St. Philip and St. James the Less, but in an- tiquity- it goes back to the old Ro- man festivals. May Day has given inspiration to many poets and writ- ers and artists. ' In England May is the most beau- tiful season in the year and as Eng- lish people have always loved the beauties of nature it was natural this festival should •become popualr — stern winter was over and Spring emerged more beautiful each suc- ceeding year, it was small wonder that May Day should` be welcomed with joy, and even long before the 16th century the day had been cele- brated. King Henry 'VIII and Cath- arine attended the May Day festivit- Edited By Mabel R. Clark taking part in them, but later on on- ly the middle classes joined in the festivals and still later only the very, lowest classes, until. in .modern -times only in the remote districts can any trace be found'of a revival of the old customs. It was the custom in the early timesfor the people to go: out into the woods the evening before May Day to gather flowers and boughs, fresh with the dew; which they used to decorate their homes until they were gay with color. Then the peo- ple marched to the village green ,or square and danced around the May Pole. In some communities the May- pole was a permanent one, used from year to year, in others it was set up each year, often an evergreen tree being used. They were usually paint- ed in bright colors and bright ban- ners were attached to the top. Par- ishes often entered into,' friendly contests to see which should have the most beautiful Maypole. Ws the (boys and .girls gathered a- round the pole they danced and sang ballads and always chose one girl as "Queen of the May." This was con- sidered a great honor add she sat on a flower -decked throne and received the homage of her subjects. At the conclusion of the festivities • the children would go home laden with Dowers, many of them ,carrying a doll, which they represented as the 'Virgin Mary, and singing carols and ballads, received gifts as they stop- ped from door to door. May Day festivals were abolished by the Puritans and the Maypoles taken down, but were revived under King Charles II and were still prac- ticed in some of the remoter districts as late as 1852. Some attempts are being made in this country and the United States to revive in a measure this lovely old festival, some schools annually crowning a "Queen of the May." It is a.pretty custom and would be good tor our youth . May the effort prove more popular as the years roll a- round. -- tEBEKAH • • • • • OUR RECIPES FOR TODAY • • s * Spring is the time for lamb * * and here is a nice dinner menu ** * with lamb as the main dish. * An old farmer used to say 'kat * * when he began to have lamb, * green peas and new potatoes he * considered he had begun to * • live on the year's products: * • • Fruit Cocktail • • • * Roast leg or Rolled shoulder * • of lamb, mint sauce, gravy, * Potatoes, Buttered Peas, Rolls, * Spiced currants,, Lettuce and Tomato Salad, Lemon Tarts, Tea or Coffee. Select leg or rolled shoulder of suitable :size for family. To prepare for the oven wipe * ies but we 'have no record of their teal& SeMoe (tttttbiatt DIABETES I' , * * with a damp cloth and rub sur- * * * face with salt and pepper. * Place meat in a roasting pan * and insert in a hot oven 500 * degrees F. for thirty minutes * then reduce heat to 300. degrees OF. THE * F. and cook slowly until done. G•D qi * Tinie reqnired is usually 30 to e 1i at Ansnria ins * 35 minutes per pound. and Life Insurance Companies in Canada. e Edited by * GRANT FUZING. M.D., Associate Secretary There are more diabetics about to- , day because they all live so much longer, thanks to the much improved methods of treatment which have been developed during the past few • years, When we eat carboyydrate foods—, • starches and sugars—they are chang- ed, during the process of digestion, into one simple sugar which can be used by the body as a fuel to keep it warm or to provide the energy re- quired to contract the .muscles, For this purpose, it is stored away as • glycogen -animal starch—in the liver or muscles for future use. Any real excess of sugar is changed into fat. ' The person who eats a great deal of -.sweets grows fat. The use of sugar by the body is controlled by the pancreas, an organ ,situated in the upper part of the : abdomen. Control is exercised 'through the secretion of a substance named insulin. A lack of insulin leads to thedisease called diabetes, rip which the sugar, instead of being - used, collects in the blood and passes ',out in the urine.' Heredity is a factor in diabetes. `Unsuspected cases are found in the familiee of known eases. It is un- wise for two diabetics to marry and x'have children, as their offspring are -so liable to become diabetic. There • Is no reason why a diabetic should not smarry a non-diabetic, provided there is no history of diabetes in the family of the Latter, Diabetes..is most commonly found in those who, after middle life, be- come overweight. Diabetes is com- paratively rare in adults who keep their weight close to or under the 'average for their sex, age and height, The discovery of insulin changed the whole outlook for the diabetic. Be- fore insulin, a strict diet, which in many eases had to be so limited as to almost starve the patient, was re- quired, Many cases can be control- led by a modified diet, but for the more severe cases, insulin is one of the wonders of medical science. In suck eases, through the com- bined use of insulin, diet and exer- cise, the diabetic may live a comfort- able, useful and happy existence. Overfeeding is always ,harmful to ,a diabetic, but he can enjoy a satisfy- ing amount of food. It is now possible for a diabetic, under regular medical supervision, to regulate his -diet, control the a- mount of insulin used, and to take sufficient exercise to enable him to live a normal life. For the simple reason that he must take care of him- self, the diabetic will escape many of the pitfalliv of disease which trap the unwary. Questions concerning Health, 'ad= dressed to the Canadian Medical As- sociation, 184 College Street, Toron- to, will be answered personally by letter. * * • * Brown Gravy To make brown gravy re- move all the fat liquid from the pan except 2 tablespoon- fuls. In this brown an equal amount of flour, add one and half cups of water, stir con- lstantly until it thickens. Cook two minutes,' season with salt. • Mist Sauce * * * * • * M * * * * Place 1/3 cup of chapped mint * * leaves in a dish, In another * * dish place 2 tablespoonfuls of * * sugar to i/a cup of, vinegar, stir * and heat until dissolved then * * pourover mint leaves. *. • * • • * * ♦ • • • * • * * •• •.• • • • GODEiRICH: Through the death "of R. 0.• Hays, K.'G., Goderich has lost one' of its best and long known citi- zens. M!r. Hays was in his 83rd year and had conducted a most successful legal practice for over fifty years. He retired three years ago and had been in ill -health practicallyever since. A. private service took place ;at his late residence on Wellington street at 2.15 p.m. on •Satnrday after- noon, May 4th. The public service took place at St. George's Ang- lican church at 2.80 p.m. READ THE ADVERTISEMENTS IN THE NEWS -RECORD PAG Care of Children Household Economics YOUR WORLD AND MINE by JOHN C. KIRKWOOD (Copyright) There was a time when city men made jokes about farmers and farm- ing. Today most city men are envy- ing farmers and wishing that they were farming—not because farming is a profitable enterprise, but because farming as a way of life has fewer anxieties in it than have city em- ployments. Salary ' and 'wage cuts, extensive unemployment, high taxes, and a feeling of insecurity have made tens of thousands of city men look on farmers with envy., I do not think that city men feel that they could make farming pay. Most of them recognize that to be a successful farmer, one must know a vast amount about the science ofag- riculture. They do not for a moment think that nature unassisted or but Tittle assisted is --a larger contributor to the farmer's income than he him- self is. Whatever may have been the situation in pioneer days, it is clearly perceived that today it takes know- ledge as well as industry to make farming pay—and a vast amount of knowledge at that. plc * y In my hands is a book with title The New Business of Farming. It is a book written in 1918—so 'it is al- ready old, and it was written by ono who did not contemplate the terribIe' years for farmers and all others' which followed the autumn of 1922 Yet I am inclined to think that what the 'writer of this book said 17 years ago has not been made obsolete or false by the passing of time. ' Thur, he says: There are plenty of individual opportunities in farming as in ev- erything else. The best equipped will win out. One man succeeds where another fails. If you want to farm, for heaven's sake farm. Do nob be discouraged by the ob- stacles, for they make the fun. Seventy percent, of city busi- ness men fail at some period of their life, but comparatively few farmers have a visit from the sheriff. This man likes figures—and, if I may say so, most farmers, most re- tailers, most manufacturers, most heads of families, do NOT like fig- ures, They absolutely refuse to be ananalysts of their businessess and, personal affairs. Thus, this writer says that an itemized capital account of 729 typical farms in a particular area showed that the investment, averaged, was as follows: 2 % feed and seed 73% real estate 16% live stock 7% machinery and tools 1% produce (unsold) 1% cash 100 % The more capital, he says, the big- ger will be the returns; the larger the business, the more economiies that can be introduced, and conse- quently the higher the ratio of pro- fits; the more hours of the men'§ time profitably employed, the great- er the labour income; the greater the diversity of work (within limits), the better the yearly use of labour; the larger the farm, the less per acre cost of machinery and the more effi- cient its use. These are axioms -- self-evident proposition. Just the same, it is both an easy and a com- mon thing to forget some, if not all, of these axioms of business farming, I read this book with sharp in- terest when it was published and I have returned to it this year to re- discover what it says about the ar- ithmetic or the economics of farm- ing. Some of the author's counsels and comments are as follow: • The economic unit of •man lab- our on a farm- is not one man, but two. The economic unit of horse labour is not a 2 -horse team, but a 4 -horse 'team. A farm should have at least enough acres to keep two men and four horses busy all the year. On a 50 -acre Tarin one horse cares for 21 acres of cultivated crops, but on a 265 -acre farm, one horse will care for 49 acres of crops. A man will produce 150 -acre as much on a farm 'as on one of only 109 acres. The equipment for 125 acres of land—horses, men and tools -will, with very little addition- al cost, farm 175 acres. An investigation in a parti- cular area showed that the aver- age farmer having 80 acres earned $370 for his own labour, ° while the one farming 175 acres received $635 for his time, andel ithe fanner cultivating 260 acres received a labour income of $1000.. Less than 3 per cent. of ithe farmers having only 100 • acres' made a labour income of $1000, but 33 per cent. of those using 200 acres or more eerie - ed $1000. T find the foregoing findings ex- ceedingly interesting and suggestive. Probably the figures may require revision in reiaiiion to today' --see- ing that prices since 1918 -,probably_ war -swollen prices—have sadly eol- lapeed in recent years. Just the same there is indicated a manner of meas- uring farm operations, and always we need to know how to measure our respective business'es. This writer says that without suf- ficient money, the .farmer cannot ev- en earn interest on what he has, let alone a wage for himself, and he dif- ferentiates farmers from city men, saying that the farmer is neither an employee nor a broker, but is work- ing for himself and therefore must himself supply all the capital needed in his business. In the area of the country where was made a special investigation, a single man who bad less than $4000 invested in his farm made a labour income of $100 and only one man made $800; but when the farmer's in- vestment was from $4000 to $0000, one man in every twelve made $3 a day for his time and work; and when the investment. was. $15,000, then 46 per cent. of the farmers made over $1000 a year over and above the in- terest on their investment, * * 111 Some more findings by this writer are as follow: The average east for labour on farms is somewhere in the neigh- borhood of 40 per cent. of all costs. On large farms $100 worth of Iabour farms five times the area that it will on small farms. The average farmer, trained to the work from his youth, does not make day wages unless he has a capital of $4000. It is better to hire a good farm' than to own a poor one. The local market is always the best so far as it goes. The best chance for the indi- vidual is the cultivation of per- sonal efficiency. "The man is 75 per cent. of the proposition, and the farm. 25 per cent." ' Farmers as a class are indepen- dent because they are so largely self-employed. '"The boy on the farm," says this writer (Julian A. Dimock), "has the inestimable advantage of working side by side with his father. He is early taken into the family discus- sions of ways and means. The boy learns the value of money and the ways in which it can be made. He does not simply draw an allowance and concern himself solely with mak- ing the amount in hand last over un- til next payday. The association with life in the growing of crops and the breeding of livestock, get the boy in touch with the revolving wheels of this old earth of ours, and broadens his foundation until he isnot like a reed in the wind, banding before ev- ery blast. He understands the com- parative importance of things, and is not so likely to be carried away by false idols' I like well Mr. 'Dimocic's concluding words: "The fernier is a constructive worker. His livelihood comes from making the land produce. He adds to the wealth of the world. His moral fibre is thereby strengthened. Moral qualities are the fundamen- tals of .civilization. Intellectual a- chievements can be freely borrowed. Agricultural machinery may be cheaply purchased. Social- efficiency can be quickly developed by an acute monarchial government. But moral- ity is of slower growth, and the na- tion which ,becomes efficient' at the expense of morality is in danger of falling into the abyss. - From the days of mythology, the touch of the soil has beenrecogeized as the vital factor in the advance- ment of the world."' A PASSING SPASM "I came in to ask for a pass to Chicago," said the stranger to the superintendent. "Pass? You're not entitled to a pass. You are not an employee. Sorry " '.No, but the rules say free tran- portation can be granted to `neces- sary 'caretakers of live stock, poultry and fruit'.' Well, Dm going on this trip with an aunt that's, a hen, a girl friend that's a peach,' and a nep- hew.thats a mule. Now, do I get the,pass?' THIS MODEST CORNER IS DEDICATED TO THE POETS Here They Will Sing You Their Songs --Sometimes, Gay, Sometimes Sad— But Always Helpful and Ins piring- AN EARLY SONG The spring has come, you say! Spring never goes; Spring is not that which comes before the rose-- Nor ose=Nor that alone—the far -deep •heart of thine Is vital with innumerable springs. In depth of winter comes a smell of earth, And pale arbutus flushes 'neath the . snow—i. Deep down the lifeblood pulses; spring is here— • Brave spring, sweet spring, that comes, but does not go. —Oraee Duffield Goodwin. THINGS WORTH WHILE Nothing in life is worth a thought save loving, Forgiving, forgetting and keeping sweet the while. The being brave and bright and true and tender, And meeting troubles with a cheery smile. i ' Then Death will come to you with sweet caresses, As you set sail upon the uncharted sea, Followed by thoughts of foes made into friends by loving, ' And all life better for your ministry. --Wilhelmina Barry. 11 U * 9 IF I WERE YOUNG AGAIN If I were young again and full of mirth There is no road that would not know my feet, Jade depths of jungle, dark and blos- som -sweet, And perilous mountains at the rim of earth. I would know ways of bird and wind and flower,' Sunrise and nightfall and the pas- sionate sea, Above my head no roof would ever be Save the far Heavens in their star - swept hour. I would behold each slowly breaking dawn As though it were the last my eyes could know, Drink deep of water ,plunging on a stone Like music out of silence, I would go Clinging to every hour lest it should wane, - If I were full of mirth and young again: —Daniel Whitehead Hickey. LET'S GO FISHIN' I don't want a million dollars, don't want to own a trust; I don't want to take a plunge and see the other fellow bust; I don't want to corner foodstuffs till the world grows weak and gaunt— But I would like to go a-fishin' and have all the time I want. I don't want a nomination, I don't want to own a State; I don't want to be a boss, I have no platforms to dictate; I don't want to run a party, nor to have real power to flaunt -- But •I would like to go a-fishin' and have all the time I want. For there's nothing else in life be- sides the greed to get it all, And ambition's just a siren who will lead you to a fall; For I know a lake of crystal which ,, the .speckled beauties haunt— And I would like to go a-fishin' and have all the time I want, -Anon, THE PRICE OF SUCCESS If you haven't the patience to work and wait, To build with precision and lay your brick straight; If you haven't the courage to grin now and then When the structure falls down, and to .start in again, Just remain where you are and be satisfied, too;, For, the hazards out there will be toe much for you, If you can't stand alone in the thick of the fight, And persist in your courso when you know you are right; If you can't keep your faith when it's greeted with sneers, Don't leave the broad highway to carve out anew, For the hardships out there will be too much for you. But if you will take all the fates have to give, Stand hardships and set -backs, still glad that you live. If you cling to your faith and keep plodding along When disaster besets you and every- thing's wrong; If you're willing to battle and never give in, Go after your dream for in time you will win. tiAnon. LIFE Life is too brief Between the budding and the falling leaf, Between the seedtime and the •golden sheaf, For hate and spite. We have no time for malice and for greed; Therefore, with love make beautiful the deed; Fast speeds the night. f Life is too swift Between the blossom and the white - snow's drift, Between the silence and the lark's uplift, For bitter words. In kindness• and in gentleness our speech Must carry messages of hope, and reach The sweetest chords, Life is too great Between the infant's and the man's estate, Between the clashing of earth's strife and fate, For petty things. Lo! we shall yet who creep with cum- bered feet Walk glorious over heaven's golden street, Or soar on wings! —IW'. M. Vories. 111 111 * WONDER Lord, when the pink buds of the al- mond break On branches black and bare, When the first dewy blackbird notes awake The tingling young blue air. Let me not miss Spring's sweetness or ,its ache. And when each day new marvels doth declare, Bringing fresh dear familiar wood- Iand cries. New little flowers to open shining eyes, Let me not lose the heart -leap of surprise. The throb of wordless prayer. Lord, let my tears rise warm for the first rose, Let them not fall The lupin or the lily of the vale, And when the garden glows And swoons with scent and color, till the tale Of Summer seems unending es it flows, Lord, let its poetry never turn to prose. When the first beech flames orange in the gale, And the first hedge turns crimson In the glade, While with such golden pomp the Summer goes, Let me drink deep of Autumn's burn- ing wine, And when the colors fade, May they gleam still within this heart of mine., Give me Thy .gift of wonder, angel laid Within my . hand—new-warm, dear Lord, from Thine. —Doris Canhan. WORKMEN'S COMPENSATION STATEMENT During the month 01 April there were 4,486 accidents reported to The Workmen's Compensation Board, as compared with. 4,880 during March, and 3,884 during April a year ago. The fatal accidents numbered 18, as against 21 in March, and 11 last Ap- ril. • The total benefits awarded amount- ed, to $395,73231, of which $315,216: 01 was for .compensation and $80,- 616.30 for medical aid. The benefits awarded during March were $511,- 469.91, and $370,1.24.66 was awarded,, during April a year aro.