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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1934-01-18, Page 3THURSDAY, JANUARY 18, 1934 THE SEAFORTH NEWS. PROVINCE OFFERS $40,000,000 LOAN '''Toronto, Jan, 15.-10.ne of the first acts of Premier George S. Henry on .assuming the portfolio of Provincial Treasurer is his announcement of a new V0,000000 Province of Ontario 'Debenture Issue dated January 116th, •134, and offered in three maturities, choice of which is optional with the subscribers. . 11. Three year 4% 'Debentures due January ,116th, S1937. Denominations, $1,0110; price 99 and interest; yielding 4.36% to maturity. 2, Six-year 41e/e% Debenteres due January 1116th, 119140. Denominations $500, and $1!„000; price )roo and interest; yielding 4.50% to maturity. 3. .Fifteen -year 4,4% Debentures due January Thth, 119149. Denomina- tions $10.0, $500 and $1000; price 97 and interest; yielding 4.78% to matur- ity. :Setbscriptions for the debentures , . will be received at all branches of the -Chartered Banks, at all branches of the Province of Ontario Savings Of- fice and by recognized bond dealers and stock brokers. "As will be be seen," said Premier ?Henry, when interviewed by the press, "this issue, in accordance with the policy followed on our previous is- sues, serves the needs of a large and c -vied class of investor. By the pro - ..di!,., - .son of denominations of $100 and '500, in addition to the usual $1,000, the small investor, equally with the large, has in these debentures on ideal •09Portunity for investment in a secur- ity .backed by all the resources of our Province, A choice of three separate maturities is -offered so as to nee the requirements of the buyer who de- sires near -'by maturities as well as the • one who prefers a longer term. "I question if many investments have the almost impregnable security that is contained in the assets of On- , tario. In addition to this security of principal thd rate of interest is very attractive." „flee, ;410K1ee Many -Purpose Oil.—Both in kite house and stable there are scores of uses for Dr, Thomas' Eelectric Oil. Use it for cuts, 'bruises, bares, scalds, the pains of rheumatism and sciatica; sore throat and chest. Horses are li- able very largely to similar ailments and mishaps as afflict mankind, and are equally amenable to the healing infhsenee of this fine old remedy which has made thousands of firm friesyls during the past fifty yeers. • A PAGE THREE' The Seaforti N ews bargain subscription offer 4 t New and Renewal subscribers el Jan u,.,ry 31st N o matter when your subscription ex*ires, you will save by renewing now. THOUSANDS OF DRAWINGS Three eittle pigs and a big bad wolf have changed Moviedorn's whole outlook on animated cartoons. - Prio-r to the makilig of this pic- ture, cartoons were regarded by the- atre managers more or 'less in the light of fillers—cheap bits of film which would lengthen their programs, Today all is different. With the three pigs and the villainous wolf practically .household bywords, ani- mated cartoons have 'become very def- inite parts of thearte programs. Naturally, Walt Disney's "Silly Symphony" series, of which "Three Little ;Pigs" was a part, has taken the lead in !popularity, becoming !almost as important as the feature picture itself. ;Never before in the history of mo- tion pictures has a short subject been received by the movie -going spublic with the enthusiasm given "Three Little Pigs." All of which brings us to the cre- ation of the little porkers and their arch enemy, th-e wolf. Disney 'first conceived the idea of making this fairy tale marc than a year ago. However, his staff showed no enthusiasm Over the idea, so it was shelved: Of course, :he could have made it anyway. !But 'Disney doesn't work that way. sOle never puts anything on the screen unless his staff is just as enthusiastic about it as he is. So he set out to sell his staff—which he did after nearly a year's effort. [Having once decided to make the picture, Disney called his story de- partment together to work out the story and gags. Various artists also were assigned the task of drawing their conceptions of the pigs and the wolf. With the story best of the animal actual production picture. The technical , 1- completed and the characters selected, was started on the work involved in Three Little Pigs" present er1 a g ,Want and For Sale Ads, 3 times, 50e gantic problem. Although the picture runs 0043' about tight minutes, e2„- 9912 separate drawings were required for it. Seventy men and women spent two weeks making these drawings. Of these, forty were -animators. Their job was to draw the original pictures, each man being assigned the particu- lar .animal and bit of action for which he was most suitable. When the drawings 'were completed they were turned over to the thirty women in the inking and coloring de- Partment, Some of these Women traced on sheets ,of celluloid with ink the characters drawn by the ani- mators. The celluloid drawings were then turned over to the other women for painting. Each drawing had to be painted individually, teh total paint- ing job being done in sort of progres- ies early in the year. And it cost .sive manner. $20,500 to make it. Each painter used only one color, "Right now we have 400 prints of and when she had applied her color the •picture playing throughout the to all required parts of the drawing United States. And we are getting ed- it was passed on to a girl using a difs. ditional revenue from return engage- ferent color. ments, of which we have had quite Once the drawings had been traced a number. on celluloid and painted they were "A good many theatres ,have play - sent to the camera department for ed it for four. weeks or more. And the Photographing, Since the picture was Filmarte Theatre here ran it for eight made in .color, this had to be done weeks. But the profits aren't going with a technicolor camera,. to be anything like $1,000,000." And the 112,992 drawings were photographed one at a time on mo- No day should pass without some - tion picture 'film, thing being done. an the meantime the musical score, The world is too small for the played by a twenty-fonr piece orches- covetous, tra, voices and sound effects, were be- The giver makes the gift precious. ing recorded, a delicate jab, since the Every advantage has its disadvan- timing must fit exactly the motion of tages, the picture. The difference of even a split sec- Miller's Worm Powders were devis- ond would be sufficient to throw the ed to promptly relieve children who entire off balance. -The souud stiffer from the ravages of worms. P track then and to be synchronized is a simple preparation warranted to perfectly with the 'picture and trans- destroy stomachio and intestinal fared to that strip of film. • worms without shock or injury to the There was practically no cutting most sensitive system. They act necessary at completion of the Mm thoroughly and painlessly, and though due to careful planning at the be- 'n some cases they may cause vomit - ginning. Disney knew haw long he g, at is an indication of theist! wanted the completed production and )owerful action and not any nauseat- he knew how many drawings were re- ing property. quired to make a film of that length, So the story was shaped to fit 12,- 9-92 drawings and alt the sound re- cording was measured likewise, !After completing the English ver- sion, 'French and !Spanish version's of the 'film were made, 'This was a com- paratively simple job, requiring ,orrly the changing of the sound track with the dialogue spoken in either 1French or :Spanish instead o English. "I wish you would correct the im- pression that 1 have netted a million dollars on :Three Little Pigs'." Disney said after he had finished his detail- ed account of how the picture was made. "True, the 'film has had a tre- mendous response from the public, far beyond even my wildest dreams. "But don't forget that it was sold as a part of the 'Silly Symphony' ser - '''••e•• fk- 41.ee • We ?ire Selling Quality Books Books are Well Made, Carbon is Clean and Copies Readily. All styles, Carbon Leaf and Black Back. Prices as Low as You Can Get Anywhere. • Get our Quotation on Your Next Order. • Seaford] News 3 SEAFORTH, ONTARIO, • McCurdy with I3alltv,iti and Curtiss corMed the Curtiss :Aeroplane and Mo- tor •Company, and while thie ssrganiz- ttion 'has grown into one of the larg- est air manufacturing eplants in the ,vorld, the three early experimenters remained together. They pooled their early !patents which later were sold to the United States and !British gov- ernments, WHO DISCOVERED AMERICA . Just who did discover America ? Christopher Columbus got away with the honor for a long -time but the FIRST CANADIAN FLIGHT claim of John Cabot cannot be set The youth who at the age of twen- tside.Christopher Columbus discos,- ty-one made the Mat airplane flight ered the West Indies bat not the con- tinent of America, it is claimed. John Cabot in 1497 bumped into the island of Cape Breton cm the eastern Can- adian shore at the tip of che province af Nova Scotia, thereby establishing - a claim as the discoverer. Then along: came claims on behalf of the Norse- men who also, it would appear, made landings in the province of Nova Scotia about the year 1000 A.D„ leav- retry 2,3rd, 1909, to the London ing behind them stones with runic in - Times "First flight c,f a flying machine in Canada occurred here today when Mr, Douglas McCurdy, native of Baddeck, Nova Scotia, flew a distance of about one-half mile at an elevation of about thirty feet above the ice on Baddeck Bay in an aerodrome of his own de- sign, named the Silver Dart." it was a great day In Canadian avia- tion history. The weather was good and the inhabitants of the little town of Beuldeek, away off on the end of Nova Scotia, jutting out into the At- lantic Ocean, were on hand to see the flight which had been announced to take ,place thefirst good weather. In- terest ran high, for never before had a flight been made even at this little which had seen more aviation experi- ments than any other part of the Bri- tish Empire up to that time, since here was the headquarters of a group of four young men who have since made names in aviation •hietory. Backed by Graham Bell, these four young chaps had done considerable experiment- ing. They were 'Glen H. Curtiss, Tho- mas Selfridge, the first man to die in an aerial accident, P. \V. "Casey" Baldwin, and J. A. D. McCurdy, the youngest of the group. As the Silver Dart, which had been completed some months before, glid- ed along the ice of :Baddeck Bay, it gradually rose tinder its own power. Behind the plane, then called an aero- drome, came a small army of skaters bent on following the plane to its landing. Young and old had come to the scene armed with skates to follow in the procession the adventures of this daring young pilot. Great was their joy when McCurdy rose, flew nearly half a mile. and came dawn again as gently as a bird. The following day a wire to the As- sociated Prese of New York told of more success, "McCurdy made a nice flight of four and a half miles at the rate oi forty miles per hour, .eircum- navigating or rather circumdroming Baddeck Bay at an elevation of be- tween forty and fifty feet in the air. At one point he crossed a tongue of land going over a tree in his way. At the lower end of the bay, finding him- self too close to shore for a safe re- turn, he came down on the ice. One of the wings was broken during the landing and a wheel was injured in skidding." On March Sth the plane flew eight miles in the fast time for that day of 111 minutes and 15 seconds. Later the Silver Dart with McCurdy went to Pettawawa Military Camp to show government authorities the develop- ment of aViation, but because the field was mainly used for !cavalry work, the flights were not successful. McCurdy made his next flight in Canada in August, NM, when he en- teeed a race -with Charles F. Willard Of California between [Hamilton • and Toronto. McCurdy took the route over Lake Ontario, while Willard that of the share line. The young Canadian made the trig in 36 minutes, the fastest time to that date between the t WO cities, The next day -McCurdy wrecked his plane at a Toronto avia- tion field,. but came out unhurt. When war broke catt,.McCurdy ganized a training school for pilots near Toronto under government aus- -Fees, and here most of the earily war time pilots were trained, while Am- ericans interested in military aviatioin came to train at this school as well. in Canada is still in aviation. Then a pioneer he is now a manufacturer of .aircraft. In his office safe he keeps the records, of his pioneering days in aviation, and there is only one other copy of those records, and that is in the library of the Smithsonian Insti- tute, The story of that is summarized in the words of Graham Bell, inventor of the telephone, who cabled on Feb- scriptions, one of which was found et the head of Yarmouth harbor and is now seen in the public library in that town. 'Now the Egyptians are being put forward, one of the basis - for the claim being that when Chris- topher Columbus arrived he found the Indians calling the constellations of heavenly bodies by names similar to those bestowed by the ancient Egyp- tians, states the Tourist Bureau. In Mexico there were pyramids, hiero- glyphs seelptures in which the hair on the 1 man figures portrayed is dressed much like that shown in Egyptian paintings. So, who did dis- seever America, anyway? 1..-,eseeeeeseeelgesee1e0 • 'DHE BOUNDARY FENCE The boundary fence was a sacred fence in the old days. There were curses for the man who removed it or interfered with it, There were fete at its building and celebrations and .periodical sacrifices while it remained. The 1Dutch, who settled New York, whipped those who removed rails or posts or othewise interfered with fences, and for a second offence the penalty was death. ;Fences there have been of all sorts and varieties; the whitestone and gra- nite dykes of auld Scotland that have stood the test -of cenories; the hedges of the English lanes, bright VI ith May, fragrant with dog roses and. alive with birds; New England's lines of stones wrenched from the stub- born earth by straining oxen and ar- ranged by the patient toil of the pio- neers. They are still standing after a dozen generations, these old New - England walls, but for all their size the earth is -gradually swan.) wing them up again. Cnnade had fences peetdiar to her- self in the good old day.'. recalls the Vancouver Province. Stamp e from the pinelands that refused to decay and were swung by ox power and 111a51 power into rough and ready lJers. from the cefh- s-,vamos the fruit ot winter labor; rails. split by mute, inglorious Lincolns from logs of elm or ash or cedar. or even. a, in some of the Midland coaioiee fr.1511 hinele want ea., butte ,, -..it. The stump fences were effective. brit ugly and tremendously wasteful ce land. It has pretty well disappeared. and with its going the old simile "homely as a stump fence" •has lost nisch of its force. The rail fence was wasteful, too, and not remarkable for beauty. But it had the advantage of being easily and quickly erected, the! the material was available, and so it was good for temporary purposes. Its corners formed ,excellent grounds for weeds, but also for wild': flowers and blackberries and in, the.... hollows of its rails wrens and blues bird's found nesting places, "They are mostly gone now, these old logs and rails and stumps. Trim painted posts and iron and wire have taken their places. The modern fence, is efficient, no doubt, it is horse -- proof and bull-peoef and hog -proof and chicken -proof. But who can sit on it and swing his legs or carve his initials on it or run on it, or eliase squirrels along its length or fin ' co71 and hidden corners where the ' e•-',, are so iptentiful and luscious n t tempt one to sit down In a fea,.. h modem fence holds out and ! 1 in.. But there are a dozen frnetkv the,: old •fence it hasn't the :a11'12 nationa of performing." "S!,••"...s!.."!