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(This is the second of two articles
on Canada's popular sport of curl-
ing. In the first article, which ap-
peared last week, Elmer Ferguson
told about the early days of curl-
ing in Canada,)
Part fl: CURLING COMES OF AGE
® What the Grey Cup is to football, the Stanley Cup to
hockey and the World's Series to baseball, is the Canadian
Briar Tankard to curling.
There are, as we remarked last week, some 200,000
curlers in. Canada; men, women and juniors. Of the senior
male group, at least 20,000 entered the lists last fall in the
fond hope of reaching a chance at play for the world's most
sought-after curling trophy.
But, as in other sports, only the cream of the crop sur-
vives when, in the battle that starts at Regina in early March,
forty-four good curlers and true, representing Canada from
Newfoundland to British Columbia, fight It out for the Can-
adian title in this sporting round robin. Last year, Edmon-
ton had the Brier, the Grey Cup and the oil mullions—a rich'
collection
There's high drama 1n the Brier. Pounded in 1927, it
was suspended for three years duringWorld War II, resumed
in 1940 at Saskatoon. On the final cay of the meet, a three-
way deadlock for first place developed„ necessitating a sudden -
death playoff between rinks representing Alberta, Northern
Ontario and Manitoba.
Almost 5,000 curling fans, with nothing but their own
red-hot enthusiasm to keep them warns, hung on grimly
until two o'clock on a bitterly -cold morning to see the first
post-war champion In Canada crowned. It was the rink
skipped by Billy Rose from the tiny village •of Sedgewiek,
Alberta.
There. are 35,000 school students playing the game in
Canada, grounding themselves in the inherently sporting
character of the roarin' game. And the national school
championship brings out some fine curling, as youngsters from
every province in the Dominion compete. Women curlers
have their tournaments in every province.
In Quebec proince, there is, among other winter meet-
ings, the Lieutenant -Governor's Trophy and the Seagram
Bowl, Awarded annually to the province's international bon -
spiel, the Seagram Bowl game is rated one of the classics of
the curling world, attended by representative rinks from
coast to coast. But perhaps it is the club matches, the hun-
dreds of lesser 'spiels, that make curling great in a social
and sporting sense.
For it's a great game, a game devoid of inquests, where the
skip's decision, right or wrong, is never questioned; the game
of true sportsmanship. And the truly amateur game in the
finest sense of the word,
Your comments and suggestions For this column will be welcomed
by Elmer Ferguson, cfo Calvert House, 481 Yonge S1., Toronto.
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CNR Announces
4.2ewy Fast Service
The Canadian National Rail-
, ways has just confirmed that
It will fully dieselize its
transcontinental passenger train
services concurrent with the
next timetable change on April
24.
At that time a new fast trans-
continental passenger train will
considerably reduce the running
time of the Montreal and
Toronto section of the C.N.R,
run to Vancouver.
This decision was reached fol-
lowing careful study which in-
cluded a number of experiment-
al runs with road diesels on
transcontinental t r a i n s. The
t sts conducted over the last
1ve months show that a sub-
stantial reduction in the Mon-
treal and Toronto schedules to
the Pacific Coast can be made
by switching over entirely to
diesels from steam locomotives.
Meanwhile the railway is
studying how it can best use
this time saving, having regard
to the convenience of travellers
and communities along its 2930 -
mile transcontinental route,
C.N.R. officials emphasized
that the amount of time to be
cut off the schedules would be
determined largely by the ques-
tion of arranging convenient ar-
rival and departure times at
principal cities, and connections
with the other main routes
ser v e d by transcontinental
trains.
Hauled by powerful new road
diesels, the fast train will be
made up entirely of new equip-
ment. The consist will embrace
asx
a wide variety of passenger ac-
commodation, both first-class
and tourist, including dinettes,
g r ill service and standard
diners,
Average French
For years Paris dress de-
signers have been telling the
women of the world what they
must wear. Yet it would seem
that Messrs. Dior, Batman and
the rest have been putting on
a bit of a bluff in assuming a
knowledge of the feminine
figures of other countries. Up to
now they cannot even have
known the average measure-
ments of the girls of their own
country, for official statistics on
this interesting subject have
not been published since 1911.
Now, however, a new scienti-
fic study of the face and figure
of "Miss France" has been pub-
lished under the title "Research
on the Anthropology of French -
yeomen." It is a summary of a
thesis recently presented to the
French Academy of Sciences,
and consists of 350 measure-
ment -laden pages.
"Miss France" is apparently
five feet three inches tall, and
weighs 123 pounds. Her bust is
at least "medium to ample"; at
most it is "magnificent" Her
waist is narrow, her hips fairly
broad. Her fingers are "long,
slim, and aristocratic."
Her finger -nails, in their na-
tural state, range in colour
from lilac -pink to deep rose.
And it would seem that French-
women are born mostly with
the one colour of hair —
brunette, only 15 per cent be-
ing natural blondes.
'THIS ONE WILL REALLY SLAY YOU"—Dr. William A. Irwin eX-
hlblts a prized item of his extensive gun collection: a violin
that's nothing to fiddle with, A .44 -caliber pistol, barrel Is 'fitted
into the scroll; trigger protrudes from underside of neck, and
cocking hammer is fashioned to resemble part of the scrollwork.
The instrument, at least 75 years old, is believed to have been
fashioned in Pike County, Ky., heart of the legendary feudin°
country.
Here's a 'S6 O y pkk Previewe -
Scenlc Cortina D'Ampezzo, agave, background, in the Dolomite
Mountains of northern holy, will be the site of'the 1956 Winter
Olympics. Below, workmen at Melbourne, Australia, tear down
old grandstand at cricket grounds preparatory to enlaging seat-
ing capacity to 43,000 for the 1956 Summer Olympics. Total
spectator capacity of the grounds will be 104,000.
Ear -Rings Getting
More Popular
Fashion scouts on the look-
out for new trends predict that
ear -rings will be more popular
than ever this year.
News comes from Cape Town
that office workers there are
wearing coloured buttons as
ear -rings. Most popular are
buttons with pictures of race-
horses, dogs, yachts and leap-
ing fish set in glass.
Jewellers report that never
before have so many women
and girls owned and worn so
many pairs of ear -rings. The
"potent spell" of television is
another cause of the ever-grow-
ing popularity of ear -rings, for
many T.V stars wear them.
Mothers are even letting their
little girls wear ear -rings at the
early age of six or seven. Some
are influenced by an old belief
that ear -piercing improves the
sight.
A wealthy Spanish duchess
whose jewels are famous has
been seen wearing ear -rings of
cherry -stones. Another woman
wears ear -rings fashioned into
tiny lanterns of platinum, the
"light" being a solitaire dia-
mond.
Some of the largest and heav-
iest ear -rings known are those
worn by young women of the
Loi aborigines in the interior
of Hainan, an island in the
China Sea. Made of brass, each
ring is a foot in diameter. A
"set"—consisting of twenty for
each ear—weighs ten pounds.
Women of the Garo tribe in
India have long believed that
the security of their souls de-
pends upon the number of ear-
rings they wear.
IH'ow the Victorians loved ear-
rings! When she was still very
young, Queen Victoria wore
long pendants hanging from her
ears.
Archaeologists have found
beautiful and priceless ear-
rings worn by long -dead queens
which prove that the use of
ear -rings for personal adorn-
ment goes back thousands of
years.
Haggis Expert
Margaret Walker must have
the most unusual job in Scot-
land. She is a haggis -sampler in
a factory in Edinburgh that
specialises in the making of this
traditional dish.
The factory has been making
haggis for 120 years. Margaret
has been a taster for 20 of them..
She knows every wrinkle in
what Burns called the' "great
chieftain o' the pucldin' race."
She only needs to take a tiny
bite to know whether it is good
PLAIN 1-10kSE SB4
By F. (1801:) VON PILLS
It was with a certain amount
of satisfaction that we took
note of the decision of the
Federation of Agriculture to ap-
proach federal and provincial
governments and demand im-
proved and expanded marketing
legislation.
We could never share the
' opinion' of so many farm leaders
that the federal marketing act
(bill 82) gave farmers sufficient
power to control the marketing
of their products on the nation-
al level, not to speak of export.
As long as two provinces,
Quebec and Alberta, did not
have provincial marketing legis-
lation, the federal act for all
practical purposes was useless
as it provides only for the dele-
gation 01 federal ,powers to
marketing boards established
under a provincial act.
Alberta is expected to enact
the necessary legislation at the
coming session, but there are
no signs that anything will be
done in Quebec.
Mutual Self Help
What is needed is a federal
marketing act which will enable
producers of any given com-
modity to organize orderly mar-
keting of their product in all
ten provinces and to enter ex-
port trade if they so desire.
Farmers want and need Sta-
bilized prices, but so far they
have been looking towards
governments for action. Thelit-
tle they got, wasgivento the*
ISSUE 8 1955
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k n, .e
not as their due, but as'a hand-
out coming from the desire to
catch the farm vote.
More and more our farm or-
ganizations are Losing the spirit
that once united the farmers of
Ontario and eventually drove
them to form their own govern-
ment. The annual cap -in -hand
visits of unions and federations,
farmer or labour, with govern-
ments may be welcome for the
self-confidence of these govern-
ments, but are not instilling
vigour into our organizations.
Grandiloquent speeches at farm
or labour conventions, preced-
ing and following these visits,
do not alter the decisions of
governments.
If we want to prevent pater-
nalism and domination by party
governments, and we do, we
have to do the job ourselves
through cooperative action. If
we mutually help each other by
working together, we help our-
selves and at the same time we
help to preserve freedom and
democracy.
The veterans of UFO are dying
out, but once in a while you
still meet the odd one who
speaks wistfully of days gone
by when farmers knew what
they wanted and went out and
got it..
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This column welcomes criticism,.
consfiuctive or destructive, and
welcomes suggestions, wise or
otherwise; it will endeavour to
answer any questions. Address
!nail to Bob Von Pilis, Whitby,
Ont.
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quality. The colour of the hag-
gis is her main guide. A good
haggis is firm and has a healthy
sheen. A bad one has a pasty
green colour.
Margaret is particularly pleas-
ed with haggises this year. The
factory is once more able to use
sheeps' stomachs to hold them.
That makes it the genuine
article. Until recently a substi-
tute receptacle had to be used
as the stomachs were unobtain-
able.
Even after 20 years Margaret
still thinks there is nothing like
haggis. She always has one on
her table on St, Andrew's night,
Burns' Night, and New Year.
And she often takes one home
on ordinary days.
Margaret sees over half a ton
of haggis produced every week,
but she would never give away
to details of the recipe. These
details are a closely guarded
secret, more important to her
than any atomic plans. Where
is the recipe kept? In the vaults
of an Edinburgh bank!
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