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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1943-11-25, Page 4COLDS uality counts most —dor that rich, satisfying flavour which only a fine quality tea yields, use,. PP t,< l i t ; : \4" t., Sr.,. -ss bon Bros., Publishers WALTON mr, alt `lliv, oohs Bolger. Mr. and Mrs. Harry Bolger (incl children visited on Sunday with the former's !deco near Wroxeter. Mae. George Dundas of Maintop has returned home after visiting rel. ativee in Toronto, Cosby Ennis. RCAF.. who has been spending two weeks' furlough with his parents. Mt and MPS, Fred Ennis, left for Menu real Monday, Mrs. Annie Morrison ltas returned from a visit to Peterboro. Mrs. Bolton of McKillop is visiting her daughter Mrs. W. J. Humphries. 'sir, and firs, Russel Marks and Laurence and Mr. llitgh Campbell and Ronnie Bennett have returned from their hinging trip. Russel Marks, Hugh Campbell and Ronnie Bennett were e the lucky ones. each bringing home 11 deer: 1 to tin • of the T P \V'.U, will 111 heli at the home of Mrs. H,al. Kuk- h} r n 1i:•11 y, 1),q, 1st ]hi is ht 1;;;;:; n, n +,1 the year Lvel,v- ou �1, h 11 cent. 1 1'l'` le-eie \ii,,,.• Family.' 1V;;I P.?, tr r I,.11'.it in ih.' 71' • 11,.1l1. Meer: Pro. Cd .,.tent . Vr. n Ji• .,sale;, Is Vi- i.. Tits •,. :Ind 311' Jt, C*.TNSTANCE Air. and . , 1e•0 Siephan-on spout Sunday at the borne ui Mr. and Mrs. \\'m: Le,;an of Blyth. \Ve are sorry to hear Mt.. Ligan is not in 'the best of health. 111•. Jos, Riley has returned from Clinton IIospinQ where he underwent an operation. Mr. and Mrs. Rdbt, Grimoldhy spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. John Mann. Mr. and Mrs. Walter Kingswell of Goderich spent a few days last week at the home of their daughter Mrs. George McIlwain, Mr. and Mrs, Fred Wakefield spent a week with their son, Mr. Charles Wakefield of London. HARLOCK A meeting of the federation of farmers was held on Monday evening of this week. A nice gathering was 'present and after adiscussion of the radio broadcast the evening was pleasantly spent 111 games. Lunch of coffee and sandwiches was served. The next meeting will be Monclay evening next weep at the home of Mr, and Mrs. Jack McEw•ing, Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Hogarth and ,foe visited on Friday evening at the home of Mr- and Mrs. Robert 'Watson, Mrs. Albert Rapson went to St, 1u eph 11,•spi1al in London on Sun- day. where she ,experts to undergo an operation for inward goitre. We Ilene the operaIiell is successful and wish Mrs. ILspsen ; s1,.','r'y, recovery. JiIs. ,least Rapson and Leah and ch`l4retl av're home Saturday,• return-. to Stratford on Sunday. VARNA Pto. Fi;lrold Peck of the RCAF is home on Leave for a few days, • P1'.. ('lute'. ..of Ipperwash Beac•lt spent the week end at his home. ACI. Floyd MeAsh of the RCAF, of St. Eugene. Ont., spent the last two we,.l:4 with his parents. r.;c'rtie Smith of 1110 Wrjs, RCAF„1 from Patricia Bay, B.C., is visiting her par, tits Mr, and Mrs. John Smith. Mrs. Imilswm't11 and Mrs. Rohinson of London. spent a day last week with. tie former's mother Mrs. Smith and 31r:• Dennison. The many - friends of Mrs. John Aldin?ten will be pleased to know she is progressing after her recent operation for appendicitis and will coon 1a' home. 'tit. and Mrs. Edwin ('hitter. in • mummy with Mr. and Mrs: Walter McBririr, and children, of Blake, spent' Sumba, in Aai•riston with Mr. and Mr.-.. Harvey clatter, Mr. and .1I rs. A. Ings spent Sunday with friend.; in London. Mrs, Haydock and little sen of Ot- tawa am the guests of her aunt, Airs. A. 'McConnell. TO HELP EVENT Many FROM DEVELOPING RIGHT AT START 3 -Purpose Medicine a Success At first sniffle, sneeze or nasal irrita- tion, put a little Va-tro-nol up each nostril, its stimulating action aids N'a- ture's defenses against the cold. And remember -' when a head col d makes you suffer, or transient congestion "fills up” nose and spoils sleep, 3 -purpose Va-tro-nol gives val- uable help as 11 (1) shrinks swollen Membranes, (2) relieves irritation, (3) helps flush out nasal passages, vicars clearing clogging vicars' ;- eliet it brings, VAile®•aal, STA F FA Mt'. and 3Irs: R. A. Sadler, Mr. and Mrs. 0. W. Reed and Robert Sadler, Jr., with 11lr. and Mrs, M. J. Gray at Millbank. Ma and Mrs.... M. Miler, Mr. :ilia Mrs, Gordon Hoggarth with t and Mrs, Milton McCurdy, of Kuktoa, 311'. and Mts. Archie Jeffery and Spencer and lobs, William Sadler with Mr. and Mrs. Angus Earl, Wha- len. (bliss Ida( 1leMillan, Motherwell, with lir. and Mrs Arthur Kenip, ?des, Mary E. Miller with iter aunt, Mrs Archie Miller in Stratford, Mrs, N, W. Dingle, Toronto, with her aunt, Mrs, l., A. Sadler, M''. and Pias. Gerry Agar attended the funeral of the former's grandfa- ther, Charles Agar, Drayton. Mr. and Mrs. James McKellar, of Landon, air. and Mrs. Peter Pigeon til children. Mitchell, with their parents, Mr. and Mrs J 11. Drake. SAYFIEL-D tl. s ih r na Toms of Goderich Col- ,iiont at her .1-n,in the village.. 111•; W.A, .I St 1 t l( w United 1/0 1,1 I vers t':=Sit l sole of laiano end ,its in the base 11 ni ii t arrh c,(. Tharsalay last ll%'ln o- 11r, acid .ti Clairo Pollock of (104- s1 _tit Sunday with :sir. H. - `Aatirl - Sterling i, visiting, 'cis in 1'nrt Elgin and Toronto. . Uu Saturday- evening friends from ;y ii -1d a!VI the surrounding country aih Ptd at the Town Hall. Pte. (-lave' 1Iotsott. who was home on le1.0c, was the gtiest of honor and was presented with te pen and pencil t sweater and sox. Air, I-Iopson finished all his friends mud all joined in community singing and dancing. Mr. and M i's. 1. ('oldw•ell of Owen Sound spent a few days with Rev. A. Coldwell and family before leaving for Florida where they expect to spend hte winter. Miss L. Cameron expects to spend the winter months with her cousin in Kincardine. Miss Agnes Campbell, supt, of the Guelph General Hospital, spent the week enol with Mrs. 0. W. Rhynas. Diesel's, Geo, Little, Walter West- lake and Jack Howard, have- been up north for a hunting trip and arrived home the beginning of the weelc with two deer and a black hear. Mr. -A. E. Erwin received word on Saturday that his sister-in-law, Mrs. Topping, was dangerously ill in Toronto, and left for that city the Saute Clay. We are sorry to know that Mr. A.. McGregor is not -gaining as well as his many friends would like. Mrs. Boyd of Gravenhinst visited with her sister Mrs. J. Howard and (111eut.led the funeral of her 011111 the lite .1Irs. F. W. Neelin, What Is Your Pet Superstition The place issomewhere behind one 0f 001' far -lung battle fronts. The characters are any three sol- diers of the United Nations, The go- ing has been hard. Weary men are snatching a brief rest, taking time out for a smoke. "Tight, fellow,.' says the Ameri- can, "or are you superstitious about three -on -a -match?" "0f course not," is the invariable answer, "hut just the same, I'll light my own. No use in tempting fate, you know." Three -on -a -match. Death to one of three. Here is superstition Number One of our global war. For almost a century, fighting men the world over have avoided three -on -a -match. And now, as superstition reborn of war fears reaches a new flood tide, three nn a match rises to the top of e wave sweeping' through our armies in action, our training camps, our homes with men in service. Why do superstitions always re- vive and flourish in time of war? The answer can be found in the re- cords of a student of superstition, an amazing young Frenchwoman, Claudia de Lys, who has travelled the earth to track down strange be- liefs frequently hidden in primitive tribal lore Her rows of steel files carry data on more than 80,000 superstitions which she has catalog- ued to date, and each day of the war sees these files growing and expand- ing, Miss de Lys spent her 'teens and early twenties in the Far East, and she rates a Ph,D. in anthropology from the University of Calcutta. Her search for knowledge has carried her far off the beaten track, fre- quently into danger. She is now settled in New York and at work on an encyclopedia of superstitions, "Fear," says Miss de Lys, "is the basis of all superstition—fear-of the E Sl AFORTH N. unknown, _ fear 'et disaster, fearof earl. Superstitious beliefs are here- ly the outward cxptcsition Of fear. "Superstitions have forged them-' sthrs into (haats which impede our proe;reee, They color Our language, ,jeopardize the development of med• kat se knee, Ali too 'frequently superstitions ac- quire a practical or factual angle and so bed themselves even more deeply. Such as the case with thr'ee- oil-a-ntateh," It became firmly entrenched in the British mind during the- Boer war, when thousands of Tonnties fell tie- titit to the deadly accuracy of Boer marksmen. Three -on -a -match all too frequently spelled death for one of the three, for the clashing light of a match at' night made a perfect target for keen -eyed Boers shooting to kill. Three, according to Miis de Lys, is not the only number playing' a part in many of the superstitions Which run rampant during war years. In Friday the 13th, an unlucky day avoided alike by workmen starting a new job and generals leading their men into battle we find a blend of two numerical superstitions. The day we cal Friday was the ,seventh clay according to the ancient lunar calendar, the lucky seventh. It was a day of no work, of worship, in short a Sabbath day to early man, For centuries Friday remained a good day, a holy day. But somewhere along in the 3Middle Ages when the flame of man's intelligence flickered IOW, Friday got mixed up with the o e,uhehuittgly evil number thir- teen, and a good day became a bad day. Thirteen has had an uesarove. re- putation c. er since that misty eon when num first learned to count. L•a- ea: his ten fingers and two feet; which he thought of no units, he ar- rived zrived at tache. Beyond lay the un- knuwn, the unpredictable thirteen. Conversely, of yourse, there are those few who believe both Friday and thirteen to be good luck, and this contrary attitude crops up time and again in relation to many other superstitions. A somber chapter in the endless book of superstitions is the chapter on jinxes. In recent months our war industries have' reported an untold number of accidents among "accid- ent -conditioned" workmen, workmen who believe that they are jinxed, who are sure that disaster awaits them. Tribal lore once again yields the basis for the jinx phobia, a sup- erstition so strong, says Miss deLys, that it produces fatal results, a fear so deep that the fear comes true. In contrast to this grim note, many superstitious beliefs are rich in colorful and amusing detail. Take, for instance, the charming fantasies lying behind lucky pieces. Miss de Lys has found that practically every boy in uniform carries a lucky piece —a four-leaf clover, a rabbit's foot, a coin with a hole punched in it, or perhaps an elephant -hair charm, The .four-leaf clover is quite sim- ply an earthly manifestation of the solar compass, which man discovered when he followed the sun from ris- ing to setting, from East to West, and drew crude lines, a double cross to indicate directions. The Druids .popularized the clover idea, and soon this rare little plant was endowed with magical power's. The rabbit's foot is an ancient tal isman. Although few followers of this old-fashioned superstition real- ize it, most of the charms sold today are made from the bunny's front foot, whereas it is the left -hind foot of the hare, and only the left -hind foot, which engenders good luck: The punched coin, a favorite of servicemen, can be traced back to the days when early man ranging along the seashore found pebbles with holes punched in them. In his simplicity he believed these to have been worn by a sea -god whose prot- ection he, weak mortal, would ac- quire if he, in turn, wore the peb- bles, England reports a run on eleph- ant -hair charms. Faith in these ent- ertaining lucky pieces goes back at least 3,000 years to a certain wily maharajah, who bestowed an eleph- ant -hair charm upon a worthy and deserving peasant. To the mahar- ajah's everlasting amazement and distress, the charm worked, and in a year the peasant returned, strong as an elephant, at the head of an army to oust his former ruler, In the language of superstition, good can conquer evil, so for each bad luck superstition, there can be found an offsetting good luck super- stition. Charms and mascots belong on the good side of the ledger. In this group we find many ' familiar and homely little customs, such as knocking on wood, crossing the fing- ers, and turning a hat or cap back- side -to, Servicemen, so they have told Miss de Lys, are staunch sup- porters of this turning,the,cap, around belief. little do most of them realize that they aro carrying Conran idea which found favor ltmeng thecenturhins and elegant nobles of ane100t Homo, No story of superstition revitaliz- ed by writ is complete without some mention of iltaSeoteeehuntan mascots or tatliemans or chants, and animals. the latter beloved by armies since. history has been written. When the soldiers of Rome tramp- ed the roads of Gaul, pet mascots were popular. One of the legions of Vespasian boasted a mascot eagle Caught in the Australian Alps, which had been trained to ride en ,, the standard of the legion in piece of the traditional golden eagle, In an- cient Egyptian paintings we find cats riding in war chariots, Statuary .dug out of the ruins of Babylon shows trained lions and leopards, mascots of the Assyrian kings, charg- ing into battle, Marching men of this generation carry with them a strange assortment of cats and dogs, goats and pigs. And many a ranking naval man refuses to put to sea unless his black cat is aboard, A curiously accurate outline of history could bewritten its the fan- tastic phrases of superstition drawn from each age and each nation. But the real task that lies ahead for ser- ious students and researchers, such as Miss de ys, is the debunking of these misbeliefs which cloud our thinking and confuse our emotions, Poultry Feathers More than Costume Good stock, good condition, and goodd-pluaage of poultry, and good troduetion give the poultryman a pride, in his work. By the same tok- en, bare backs and feather pulling proclivity in a flock east a rellertion 011 good management, because• these conditions reveal deficiencies in feed- ing. Gruen feed, consisting of second or third crop alfalfa or clover, is not only a great conditioner in the fall but also seems to contain some pro- tein coefficient that helps to give a lustre to the plumage. Hens have a high botl), tempera - THURSDAY, NoV5M@ag 0, 1948 REGENT IHEATR1 Seaforth NOW SIIOWINU TfIMS. 1+'R1, SAT,. '1'\Vo' FEAT Ciltic36 -•- Ind show starts at 5,45 filoll(111' and the Llun steads in "FOOTLIGHT GLAMOUR" what talent 1 What motion l AJSQ Vengeance Of The West Starring Bill Elliott Galloping feast' rides the brills 1' MONDAY, TUESDAY, WEDNESDAY 2i tl show starts 9.10 Authentic inside factual stuff in fictional forst - on Canada's least -known ally, makes "China" A GREAT PICTURE! Alan Ladd Loretta Young NEXT THURSDAY, FRIDAY, SA.TURDA• • 2ntl show starts 9.15 A. Great Ice Spectacle "Silver Skates" Kenny Baker Patricia Morison COMING — "So Proudly We Hail" 1st show starts each evg at 7.81). Matinee each Sat. at 2,30 titre and they need their feathers to keep then( warns, particular.'ly in the winter time, and warmth is essential to maintainerproduction. production. The loss of feathers means higher production costs, and is a menace to health as well. In sUremer tithe, full plumage pr'ovidep effective insulation against the 'bleat of the sun. Observation by Canadian poultry authorities shows that birds which are kept busy, fed ample green feed, and are not over- crowded, rarely lack a full coat of feathers, EARLY 'NOMINATIONS Nominations will take place on Fri- day or thie week 01 I-Iullett, Honsall, Goderich, Goderich 1}vp., Colborne, Blyth, Asllileld, East and West Wa. wamosh, Turnberry, Howiek. ismizinliminamem TUNE IN ON Old -Fashioned Revival Hour 7 to 8 P.M., L),D,S,T. Pilgrim's Hour 2 to 3 P.M., E.D.S.T, ON MUTUAL NETWORK — SUNDAYS Local Station — C.I{,L.W„ Windsor CHARLES E. FULLER, P.O, Box 123, LOS ANGELES 53, CALIFORNIA 'don't hang up too soon c SHE'LL ANSWER AS PROMPTLY As SHE CAN .—But it's not likely she wild b. able to answer your call before he! telephone has rung several times Allow plenty of ' time befor< hanging up; it may save you re- peating your call later. Please remember that the partv von .1 e caning may be lar from lite telephone, or unable to answe immediately, With war business crowding t to wires, it is important to reduce all such avoidable calls. Here is one wa'v von can halt) REMEMBER ... DON'T HANG UP TOO SOON 1% a4'&uie Se4w nice e Buy War Savings Stamps and Certificates Regularly, 04 ,4". t4 ,s zo alotds. P. D. WILSON ' Manager.