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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1940-12-12, Page 7THURSDAY, DECEMBER 12, 1940 RED 'CROSS TO COLLECT 1940 LICENSE 'PLATES A pian for the swivagiug of 11)4(1 autos uxbile license !plates by the Ont- ario Division of the Canadian Red Cross Society was announced today by the Honourable .litchell V. Hop - bum, !'rime Minister of ,Ontario, .Mr. 11eiken% pointed out that if all or nearly all the 10.4(1 plates were recov- ered. 'the Red Cross fonds -would ben- efit thy a substantial sunt and almost three hundred tons of scrap strep wcwlal the 11111(1t. avail:abl2 for war .p11 - Dorothy Colquhoun is frequently heard over the CBC network pre- senting talks of ptu•ticeular interest to women. Her next talk is entitled "Turkey Tips" and will be broadcast Thursday afternoon, December 19. The talk will give advice to house- wives on 'Buying and cooking Christ- mas dinner. BOYS! GIRLS( RUN YOUR OWN PLAY -STORE Have your friends pay you with Popeye coils. POPEYE'S PLAY - STORE, a dandy new game with cut- outs and past, -ups. Pun galore: with old boxes ami bottles! Watch for this game every week on the l'opeye Page in The Coptic Weekly with The Detroit Sunday Times, BUS TIME TABLE Summer Time Table Leaves Seaford, for Stretford: Daily 8.25 a.m, and 5,15 p.m.. Leaves Seaforth for Goderich: Pslly except Sunday and hol., 1.01 11.m. and 7,40 p.m. 001. and hal., 1,00 p.m. and 0,211 p.m, rrnectlon at Stratford for Toronto. Hamilton. Buffalo, London. Detroit, Tavistock, Woodstock. Brantford Agents: Queen's, Commercial, tick House poses. "1 hope the motorists .01 ()Marin will 20 -operate wholeheartedly" said Mr. '13efbburn, "'rids arrangement gives them an opportunity to render effective aid in two ways and at no cont to themselves. Three hundred Molts of steel Would he an important aid to the war industries and the cash derived ft',om the sale of 1(12 (Afetal will .be effectively used by the Red !Cross. in 'present emergency,- when steel mills are tvorlcdnlg 4o capacity we must avoid waste of material and I am sure that motorists Wiltsupport this worth- while underta'kinlg." it is understadd that • the Red Cross Society's ,Paan for the salvaging of the old ,plates has been made pessi_ble. thy the co-operation of imperial Oil Limited and the LI nrhers of the Au'to- ntotive Transport A - sociation. All 3mperal 'oil service stations will act as collecting deters For the plates and Automotive Transport t \,s+ dation anentlnrs-hale !greed 111!transport the collected plates 10 the steel mills. !loth operations are beim conducted without charge, D. H. McINNES CHIROPRACTOR Office — Commercial Hotel Electro Therapist Massage Hours—Mon. and Thurs. after- noons and by appointment. FOOT CORRECTION by manipulation—Sun-ray treatment. Phone 227. THE SEAFORTH NEWS Bank Loans Show Marked Increase The Do -minion - Bank 70th An- nual Statement.—Earnings Higher At the Annual M- eeting of the • share- holders of The Dominion 13ntrk held in Toronto on 'Wednesday, December 1:1(11. the 70th Annual Statcvneti't .was presented. Among several or the marked features of the statenlena is the sound cash and licptid !position; the large in- crease in commercial loans; deposits by the public only slightly (below the !figures of last year; and intprovec! earnings. The not profits are $9548,7188. com- pared with 1802,2916. for the previous fiscal .period of ten mouths. After iiro- viding $3910,1'05, dor Dominion and Provincial taxes - au 'amount of $105, 930. in excess of the previous year - $1700,000. for dividends, a contribution of $195,000. to the Officers' 'pension Fund and the writing -down of Bank Premises, Account thy $1150,000., $23,- 788 was added to the (profits all! Loss Account, -which now stands at $8611,- 14t18, Doposits by .the ,public, not bearing interest, have increased by $3,01)7,000, to $41,(015,000; deposits. (hearing in- terest, which stand at $780,62r2,0110,. are 10-1,71k1,0011. less than a year ago. 'total deposits .by the public amount to $1't 69711.00 as compared with 51129, 313,000, last year, a decrease of $1-, G19,015]. During the year approximate- ly $22,1100,11011. deposited au the pu4>'1ic was w'ithdraw,l to purchase the First and Second of !Canada's 11,Var Luaus, - Dominion and Provincial t;oVern- mem delposits total $8,715,-3$7, ccim- pared with $113,51137,383. a year ago, a decrease of $41174,026 C'ts11 Assets total $289S5.390., rep- resenting 20. 98.2%- of liability to the public. while iulntediately available assets at '$71\fi2,41,(100, are51,432/'( of lialbility to the public. The flank's i'artfiliu of Dominion, Provincial and other high-grade -tv- urfties is shown at $38,4$9,000., a de- crease of S22,000,00t). compared with the showing of a year ago. 'fills re- duction was due in elle main to the in- creased demand by the Bank's cust- omers .for loans to finance the 119.0 grain crop and to carry out tear con- tracts. Commercial loans and discounts in Canada are shown at $74,1!57,(11)1, au advance 1)1 over 415;7140310.t1, during ,the year. •Call and Short Loans in rCanada and elsewhere are $3,817.1)0111 lower than the figures of last year by „1;1.10,000, due to 1 :mailer demand for such fin- ancing. Letters of Credit amount to 1,333, 11011, as compared with 1$12.1451),000, last tear. The increase k accounted for by activity by the hank's customers in (0reigit !business. Bank's !'remises Account now stanch at 55,487,000., S1154,000. having been written off as compared with 91125,400: the previous year,' Capital $7,010,010). and Reser 2e $7,1101,(1110, rennin unchanged. A tourist sealed outside a hotel in Florida was watching a Negro porter as he swept the floor. Deftly but slowly the man made little piles or the scattered ends, half -burnt mat• ales. and litter w11)ch had aeoumu• Wed the night before. The morning was rather warm, and clouds were gathering in the sky. "Samba," said the tourist, "don's you think there is an excessive 11111011)10 of humidity in the atmos• phere today?" "What's dat?" exclaimed the Negro, wiping the perspiration from his face. "I was merely extending an inter- rogation to learn if youthought it was going to rain" answered the tourist "Well, I never," said the porter. 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Also best quality Metal Hinged Sec. tiona.l Post Binders and Index The Seaforth News PHONE 64 PAGE SEVEN THE DOMINION ANK Condensed Statement as at 31st October, 1940 ASSETS Cash on Hand and in Banks, including Bank of Canada $ 28,955,390 Deposit with Minister of Finance 261,950 38,489,760 3,817,616 Government and Other Securities Call Loans Commercial Loaves and Discounts Bank Premises Liabilities of Customers under Letters of Credit, Acceptances and Sundry Other Assets LIABILITIES Deposits $ 71,524,716 76,829,024 5,487,573 4,610,997 $158,452,310 $130,411,517 Deposita by Other Banks 3,270,542 Notes in Circulation 4,761,084 Letters of Credit, Acceptances and Sundry Other Liabilities , 5,147,978 Capital, Reserve and Undivided Profits $143,591,121 14,861,189 $158,452,310 The General Manager, The Dominion Bank, Toronto, Ontario. We report that we have examined the above condensed Balance Sheet as at October 31st, 1940, and compared it with the books at Head Office and with the certified returns from the Branches. We have esamined the cash, and the securities representing doe Bank's investments, held at Head Office and certain of the larger Branches as at October 31st, 1940, and in addition we examined the cash and the securities held at certain of the important Branches during the year. We have obtained all the information and explanations that we have required, and in our opinion the transactions of the Bank which have conteunder our notice have been within the powers of the Bank. In our opinion the Balance Sheet discloses the true condition of the Bank and is at drown by the books of the Bank. Toronto, Ontario. November 20, 1940. A. B. SHEPHERD, P.C.A., of Peat, Marwick, ,elirehell 01 Cil, W. 0. GCENDINN0NG, F.C..A,. of Glendinning, Gra,' 0 Roller", THOMPSON SETON An eighty year old former Canad- ian who remembers the days when wild pigeons flew over Toronto in myriads has just published his auto- biography. He is Ernest Thompson Seton, the naturalist -artist -writer, whose "Wild Animals 1 Flave Known." in 22121211 Silvertop, the crow of the Rosedale ravines, and the wily fox or the Don Valley figure, -estab- lished his reputation forty -odd years ago. in February, 1915, at a ship's concert aboard the Lusitaniu, on the voyage when that Ill-fated vessel escaped torpedoing by hoisting 111e. American flag, Ernest Thompson Seton gave a demonstration of bird and aninlul calls. His latest, "The Trail or an Art• 191," is the story or his life. and it tells. among -other things, hots' the tum who had been christened Ernest Soros Thompson changed his name in middle life to Ernest Thompson Seton. It seems that the Thompsons had originally been Setons. The nat- ttralist, however, Is the sole member of a large family to resume the an. slant cognomen. The Thontpsons were living near South Shields; on Tyneside when, in 1866, the father and mother, with six-year-old Ernest and two-year-old Alan, now living in Toronto, and other children, who included the future Chevalier .1. Enoch Thompson, Spanish consul in Toronto, moved out to Canada. They settled on a farm near Lindsay, where the family first slept in a brick barn and the boys lived in a carpenter's workshop, There Ernest learned to use his hands, to grind axes and set saws with a file. Seeing a finely polished maple axe handle, made by his brother, snap at the first blow, he discovered that hickory was better for the purpose. One clay he observed a little kingbird darting down and pecking a crow, and there- upon acquired a taste for the study of birds. He made friends with local hunters anal trappers and withthe town taxidermist, Mr. Thompson senior subsequently moved with his family to Toronto,. where Ernest passed itis 'teens, The future naturalist knew Ashbridge's Bay when it was a duck hunter's re- sort; (1'' recalls the trapping '"'t snowbirds. which were then released from traps at the Toronto (lute Club and the slain made auto snowbird pie; he remembers how that celeb' rated water -color painter. William Armstrong, used to sever his easel on the beach near the light -house for a Toroolo Island that 12110 then 8 cottlgeless wilderness of lagoons and sand ridges. It was there that young Ernest earned the dollar that bought his first book on birds- Ross's. Birds of Canada. Ernest, considered sickly, was sent to a cleaved 101.01 111 til' K1)w111'01/1 Lakes region. But there he suffered from the prevalent "stakes," which science discovered, long afterwards. was malaria and caused by the bite of u certain mosquito. One day up in. the country the young man discov- ered a lynx in his bedroom. His father, who had sent him to study art in London, England, when his son was nineteen, was ii rather Peculiar 1111111. The son recounts that on his, Er'nlest's, tw•eltil•lil•01 -birth day, the father, calling him into his study showed him a ledger in which was posted everything the .boy had cost that parent. birth t'ha'ges in- cluded. He must have been nal en abaclt when 'Thompson, the elder, de- clared that he would expect this money back plus Interest at six Pel' cent, Repayment of this "debt" shay have impelled hint when Ernest in- vested sixty dollars in tur'key's and chickens and, securing settee in a rattle car at Montreal, got his poul- try, safely to its destination in the west despite blizzards and delays. Lire on the Manitoba - prairie 9121 wonder's for Ernest Seton Thompson. The buffalo had gone, but there were antelope and deer, coyotes, badger's and kit -foxes, to say nothing of go- phers. Myriads of wildfowl haunted the lakes. He saw prairie chickens in their mating dance, watched vari- ous sorts of hawks sweep over the (115)1ie and observed a clog, 111e future ferrous "Bingo," outwit wolves, Thompson and his two 311010ers tools free homesteads of 160 acres each and plowed the rich black soil. Besides a little farming he developed 111s graphic and ornithological abili- ties, He found the first recorded nest or the nits -called Philadelphia warb- ler and sent the first nest and eggs of the Connecticut warbler to the Smithsonian Institute, Washington, 2212010 it may stillbe seen in a case, notes Lewis Gannet i11 the New York Herald'Tribuue. Unable to finch scope for his abil- sties, truest Thompson, like many another young Canadian of the era, be tried his luck in the United States which still welcomed all comer, with open arms. poetic uh8rly 1'uu11(1• inns. That was In 1880. when the naturalist -artist dent unknown to New York 10 s0e1 fort nip. with his pen. In 1895 he teals warned that if he did not slop writing and 'h'aw'ing he would go blind. So, for complete rest, he went to New Mexico, worked on a cattle ranch and communed with nature. His first great -animal story "Lobo," appeared in Scribner's ling 11811))', in 189.1. Ills success ..•ont1unwd. The insistence by llurrtltnglles :ant Theodore Roosevelt that Ernest tit; This timet Tllnmpsant Seton 02110 11 nature taker did out (romp the sty!+ of the man who lives 1)t Seton Cast!. In Seton Village. New Mexien, 1)w who now issues "an old man's hook. in which "the thoughts .1I an .11d m:1) go Intel: to tine bright skies '1 youth. TWO MILLION STEAM TRAPS \\'Int is belictc•d to he a wol'1tl port) leas 10 2')) set tip by a 1(1•it.iv Bent which las just sold its Iwo trillionth steam trap. A steam trap is an automatic taht which gets rlel of water t'nndeltsin„ from steam i1) pipe lines ami .steam heated units, TienT are malty types and nutty ways in which they work. Some von. it float which lifts in the *'iter that Ponies t1 it, so opening 1 111,p ulnae:). valve. 21(1110 11a01 a buekei which sinie0 as it fills wild this 80 tor and Vials a varie off its .eat. Yet otitis Pur1y a thermostat whit -11 closes to steam and (1pees to (mole) w0.101, automatically draining it off. Traps are to be found in whaling ships in tine Antarctica, in the oil re- fineries of Iran, in the woollen mills of Scotland, and cotton mills of Vir- ginia, on machines for polishing or- anges. Ironing shirts. and peeling nuts; in breweries, battleships and Buckinghatil Palace; in Westminster, Washington, Ottawa and Canberra. BLOOD FOR AIR-RAID VICTIMS Now Kept Fresh in Store at London's Depots - British research w'or'kers have i'e- vllul101112ed the technique of blood transfusion and in London blood is 11(1(0 being .Mored under proper scien- tific c+ouditio10 ready for use after 1111 1 d id0, Formerly. donors of blood hud to ho a2,ailuhll' at 00 instant's. notice because al patient's life may have depended on fresh supplies of blood :and there was no known way of pre- venting .its deterioration if it were not made use of almost at 0111e. To- day. thanks to the work carried out in British laboratories, blood is being stored away without loss of its vital- ising properties either during 01orag" 01 after transfusion into the lents system. 1t lasts utmost a. buts as his own. The advance has been Iron ht about. by niter plats wilic'h sterilise and clarify the blood, preventing bit, terial contamination and consequent decay. Tile result is that London's Blood Supply 1)epuls have now got ade- quate supplies of blood stored against casualties front 1)b' • raids- SURPRISE aitis SURPRISE PACKAGES Altille1) 011111l•s 11u'ek shells in a magazine beneath one of Canada's great coastal 1114-nce guns. These can be hurled for miles at any enemy who ventures near the Dominion's shores.