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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1937-06-24, Page 3TI'IIJ'RSAAY, JUNE 2q, 1937, Introducing Dr. 3. J. •Gagnier Ca.nada's "Ambassador of Good Music". That. in a fete words, serves to describe J. 3. 'Gaglnier, Doctor o3 Mask, c'an1Ooser and conductor and director of music at the Montreal ,situdio's of the Canadian Broadcast- ing Corporation. To outline and ana- lyze the career of this famous French- ;Canadiam would be a lengthy task, indeed, so arduous -.a worker is he, and sr, extensive has been his con- tribution to the field of mask both fn Canada and in the United States. About the year ]91113', General +F. S. M.eighen, impressed with the wank of T. J. Gagnfer in connection with the Montreal Opera Company whose ef- forts during three successive "years received popular a'ppr'oval, retained the services of the talented leader. This association was to prove a step - ,ping -stone in the latter's career. For, - at that time, !General R S. :a1eighen and Sir John Corea') were organizing Canada's famous regiment, ".His Ma- jesty's Canadian Oren adier Guards." 1J, J, G'annier immediately assume-( the role •of hand leader, :During four seasons the Regiment- al Band filled the desire for a: higher type of music in Mnntrenl, by provid ing a series of Sunday afternoon con- eerts at Ilie Majesty's Theatre. \Vhe•n the war 'brake out in 191'4, Dr. ,Gag - alter was kept busy organizing tary 'hands for Oversewn, amtong these being the 114th, 60th, 8174tH, 1(19th, and 246.111 regiinental band's, gut 191116, Montreal's popular enter- tainment spot was Solnner .Park, and as 'leader of its musical organization, J. 3, Gagner rode on the crest of the wave which today is still in the as- cendency. Under the baton of their conductor t h e Canadian Grenadier Guards' Rand ;gained world-wide acclaim through its concert tours and radia broadcasts, For the past three years the national radio system has preeent- 41101 ed the music of this fine organization over its coast-to-coast network, and over stations of the 'National Broad- casting Company in the United States, on successive Sundays during the summer program season. ,Every broadcast has brought its quota of fan mail from all parts of the United 'States and Canada, even from such distant points as 'Jamaica, Africa, Ja- 4pan, and other countries. Today, J. 3. Gagnier.is a captain in the Canadian militia and a holder of the Efficiency Service Medal. Above all, one should remember that Dr, Gagnier is essentially a sym- phony and opera condnrotor. There is hardly a serious musical movement in Canada to which he has not con- * tributed. In 1921 he directed the op- era season at the St. Denis Theatre and the Theatre Francais. lint 1904 he reorganized tine Montreal Symphony Orchestra which gave a series of highly successful concerts over a per- iod of five years, tater he founded the Montreal Little Symphony which {flayed for several seasons, giving hi - numerable concerts for eduea iooa] institutions, including McIG'ill Univer- sity. He also has been re;sponstb e for the presentation of oratorios by chor- al groups and orchestras. Drama, ..,"The Hours That Count" "The Hours that Count", a mystery thriller of the Cornwall coast, written by Clifford 'Noon, will be produced for national network listeners of the CDC on Sunday, June 24, at 7100 p.m. 'FEST. Rupert Lucas will direct the play which will originate in the Tor- onto studios with a cast of well known dramatic artists. The play deal's with identification and bringing to justice of a clever criminal in a setting which custom- arily owes its drama to the sea; ra- ther than to the misdeeds of man. The action of the drama is laid .in the neatly equipped and properly run inn, owned and presided over by one, O'- Roui-ke. A storm is blowing up when Captain Galloway enters. He is Joiti- e.d by Rogers. a meek pian; a myster- ious stranger, and Brce, a village drnnlcard. How the arni of the law reached into this quaint setting to claim a criminal, is told in a well sus'tain'ed storywhich is pungent with salt wa- ter atmosphere. The author is Chris- topher Stapleton, of Hamilton, who wrote this well -paced play under his nom 4e plume, Clifford Noon. Corporation Features Day by Day O.A,ll Times Eastern Standard) Thursday, June 24: 9.00' pan. "The Ghost Room"--dra- niatic presentation direction Rupert Caplan. From Montreal. '110,00 pen. "Music for. 'Music's Sake". Soloistwith orchestra direc- tion Isaac Mamott, ]Frani Winnipeg. Friday, iIli•ne 26': 6„30 pan. "Front a Viennese Gar- den", Music of old Vienna presented by Jeanne l)esjardins with piano and all -string orchestra directed by Jean Deslauriers. From Montreal. 9.30 p.m. 'tour New Canadian Coins'„ At interview with the Toron- to sculptor, Emmanuel Hahn, From Toronto, Saturday, June 26: 9.00 pan, Waterloo Musical Society Band ltestiva'I. CBC-INIBC internation- al exchange program, prom Water- loo, 9.30 ping, "Our Heritage of Free - don" --,"Freedom 'Before the Law", a talk by Honourable C. H. Caham. From Montreal. Sunday, June 20: 7.00 pan. "The Hours That Count", by .Christopher Stapleton. Produced by Rupert Laces, .From Toronto, 2.30 p.m. "Music Tine"—orchestra direction Percy Harvey. From Van- couver. 9.30 p.m. "Fugitive Melodies". Or- chestra direction Samuel Hersem'hor- en, with The 'Guardsmen and Jean 'Haig, soprano. From Toronto. 1000 p.n1. "Tudor String Quartet", with Anna Moncrieff Hovey, pianist. THE SEAFORTH NEWS PAGE THREE 'Foom Winnipeg. Monday, June 28: 9,.3+0 p.m. '9F,ighting Through".. A series of talks ' by those who have been neemploytid. (From Montreal. 110.30 p.nm, "Soliloquy". ]ns+trurnen tal ensemble direction Robert Talbot. Front Quebec. Tuesday, Jane 29; 6,:0) p,111. "IPictu'res in Black and White". Musical sketches with solo- ists; A11dan 'Reid, anganist, and the Acadian Concert Orchestra directed by .19a•rjorie Payne, Prom Halifax. '10.30 p.m. Mart Kenney and his Royal York Hotel Orche's'tra. Dance \Lusk. Froom Toronto, Wednesday, Jane 30: 9.00 pan. 'aktatoneobiie Vagabonds". R. 'H. Perry and Graham Melones. Seoand of a series of .broadcasts of a coast ,to coast motor tour. From Fred'ertictop. 10,310 p.m. "In a 'Romantic Mood". Orchestra direction .Jack Slatter, with 'Gordan McIntyre, tenor, From To- ronto, CENTENARY OF QUEEN VICTORIA Laurel wreaths antl great boactuets brightened Queen Victoria's statures Sunclay-11100th anniversary of the day an 16-y'etcr-old• princess was wakened to learn she was• a cheep. 'Wreaths were placed at sttttttes opposite Buck- ingham (Palace, at 'Temple Bar facing St. 'haul's, niar'king the centenary of the young (roman w110 now has more sculpture in Icer honor in the empire's capital than any hero or Icing. Yet '100 years ago 'Victoria's coron- ation ---a. year after her 'acceesiem—oc- curred with pageantry curtailed (be- cause conservative 'peens did not con- sider too match public acclaim "deli- cate" for a young woman. That was ithe accepted attitude of the time and the youthlful Queen's own feeling, She lived to see her gold- en and diamond jubilees celebrated spontaneously with a fervor never 'be- fore known in lEgland. Conservative in thought, Victoria— perhaps uuconscionsdy—isped the ad- vance of the 'machine age by merely pursuing what she considered her duties as a queen. 1 -ler patronage call- ed wide attention in their early clays to the railway, telegraph and tele- phone. , For instance, she abetted the rail- way in its battle with .the stage coach when s11e rode 'by rail froom Windsor to Paddington in 35412, !Railways had first been 'built in iEmgland i11 1113125 and did not really out until seven years after they reached London in 115318, but royal patronage did much to advertise their advantages and dis- pel fears' cif unsafety. Introduction of telegraphy got wide publicity when the 'Q,u'een re- ceived congratulations by that means frau IN'apoleon '71'1 on the relief of Lucknow. So also ill :118518 when the first cable was established (between America and the United 1K'ilrgdom, the Queen sent elaborate congratulations to !President ijam•es Buchanan, arous- ing much ,interest on both aides of the Atlantic. 1D'isapprovin,g or frivolous conver- sation and happiest in the country ;life of Balmoral, Queen Victoria yet gave her approval to introduction of penny postage stamps in 0640, and the lcrplione, invented by 'Beal in 187ai,' W as one o'f the we,pders at the Crys- tat :Palace Exhibition ditring her re•ic;n, .Photography 'benefited 'from the tact ,the Queen was drequently photo- graphed, and proving pictures were brought to 'England in time far Mc - tures to be taken of Victoria driving 'n London. Electric light carie about 11800, and the lir.at 'Bentley Daimler automobile --in 100151 ---was also a pro duct of Victorian tinges, Victoria never realized her own po- sition gave advocates of women's rights their ,str'on'gest argument. .Se definitely anti -feminist she even op- posed the marriage of widows, she was thoroughly disinterested in great- er emancipation of woolen, yet in 1602 her signature was placed on the wonncn's ,prop'enty act," for the 'first time entitling married women to the utanagenient of their own money and land. The Queen was never absorbed in literature, ihut compulsory elementary education came into ,being in ;England in her time, Kipling was never for- given for calling her "the widow of Win risme". but aIle ;comp limente1 Browning an his wife's poetry and sent l31ckeea a voltene o'f her .oven 'vri'hn;gs" called "l,eaves" inscribed 'irons the humblest of writers to the greatest." 1)omeslic life interested Victoria 111 Ire tha 11 i oven fiatis, even more than politics, and 111 it she found 11er great- est success. 'Cliree of her children will celebrate her centenary. Princess i_otrise, 1Duchese of 'Argyll, who was in Canada during (ler hus- band's terns as governor general, re- cently journeyed to ,London from her country home to he present at a charity affair..A statue of the Queen by this sculptress daughter stands outside Royal Victoria College i11 Montreal. The Duke of 'Connaught. Victoria's remaining eon. is recover- ing. Froin illness, while .Princess Bea- triee, mother of the. former Queen cvf Spain, celebrated her 60th 'birthday by attending a London fashion show, So by the closest of ties London today is linked with ;Victoria's reign, and when :floral and oratorical tribute is paid, her family will note extension of the progress given impetus (hiring the 'longest reign in British history, Radio will carry the sound of celebra- tion to the corners of the empire, air- planes will take letters in a few days to countries it took months; to reach in Victoria's days -•-all of which might or alight not amaze the conservative but conscientious 'Queenwho just •by doing her duty quickened .England':: interest in scientific anti social lis- covery. JOHN COURTNEY KILLED AT GODERICH (john Courtney, 95 year old farmer. ]'11th concession Ashlfield "1'owasbip, was killed almost instantly' at 1Gode- rich 'Tuesday afternoon about four o'clock, when he was struck by a light delivery .track driven by Norval .Precious, Goderich barber. Courtney, who had' come to ;God:erich two hours earlier in the afternoon, was in the act of crossing from Courthouse Park to the corner of Hamilton street and the Square. The radiator at the car, the right headlight seed the right fender were considerably dented by the blow. Courtney was a bachelor. Act inqueat will be held on Friday. Counter C eck lo • . We Are Selling' Quality Books Rooks are Well :Made, Carbon is Clean and Copies Readily. All styles, Carbon Leaff, and Black Back. Prices as Low as You Can Get Anywhere. Get our Quotation on Your 'Next Order. • The Seaforth SEAFORTH, ONTARIO, News OISON CONTROL OF POTA'T'O BEETLE According to the advice and ex- perience o'f the Field Crop and Gar- den Insect Diviaion, Emtoneolitgical Branch, Dominion 1D'epartment of Ag- riculture, the hest and cheapest poi an to use inthe control of the potato beetle in Eastern Canada is calcium arsenate, at the rate of Ny_. pounds to ':0 gallons of Bnrdea:ux mixture, the ti'orcleaux itself being Composecl of 6 f, copper sulphate, '4 Ib, lime, and -10 salines of water. IS the calcium ar- senate is used alone in water instead of Bordeaux, two or three pounds of hydrated lime should he added to ach 40 gallons. Should arsenate of lead or Paris .green be preferred to the calcium arsenate as the poison to lie used, two or three pounds of the arsenate of lead. or one-half to one pound of Paris green may be substi- tuted in each 40 gallon barrel of spray. Some growers prefer to apply the poison in powder form, using a dost composed of one part of arsenate of lead to 6 parts of hydrated dime, Best results id1 cleating are secured when the application is made in the early morning: or late evening when the vines are wet with dew and the air calm, fin spraying potatoes, the poison shanld be mixed with Bordeaux as the latter material isnot only a valu- able fungicide but repels the attack of such destructive insects as flea beetles and leafhoppers. Two or three applications in a season should gide sufficient protection from all insects. Potato 'beetles are n found in the field before the new crop of pot- atoes is even up and they lay their eggs ou the under -sides of the levees. \\'hen the yellow masses of eggs ars hatched is the time to make the first application of the ;poison. Ln spraying. both the tipper and lower surfaces of the leaves should be covered with an abundance crf the material. When the plants are small, 50 to 715 gallons per acre and when the plants are. fully grown, 10.0 to 1120 gallons per acre is not too nodi at each application, Fruit Crop Report The following report on the com- mercial fruit industry in Ontario was furnished ;by the Statistics Branch on May 211st: Western Ontario ('Toronto westl— Ald fruit trees cane through the win- ter without killing but in the Niagara district •quite a ntneber of 'frisk trees *11ee'ln1bed 'from the effects. of .the 11931 clronnlit in certain areas and parts of orchards and were replaced thin spring. 'Strawberry plants are generally in healthy, condition :bet many .plantations show a ,patchy stand and are titin in 't'he rotes. Dec to the drought the bearing acreage will be approximately 25 per cent. be- low last year. 'Raspberries are gener- ally in good condition except where weakened from the 193+6 drought. In 1Georgian Bay district and localized areal' in the Niagara !Peninsula sonic new stands of raspberries are report- ed 4o be below'normal in appearance. Grape vines are generally in good condition with the recovery 'front last year's spring frost and later drought ,better than expected. Heavy precipi- tation has supplied plenty of moisture for development, Bloom• prospects for apples are good to medium for all varieties in Western 1Ontario, with 'the following exceptions---S!pys are light in 'Essex. ant and Middlesex; Snows are light of. Middlesex; Wealthy have a pock bowing in lElginsOxford area; and `iravensteitt are poor,in Brant. In the Niagara Peninsula, peaches, plums. sour cherries and•st;eet cherries all 'lave a fell abloom. Pears have a med- ium to good blossom except in the stony Creek section where a number of orchards are light. Strawberries are in 'blossom and al'though the acre- age is 1215 per cent. s'm'aller,the crop will be considerably larger than 'the email .crop of fast year if 'favourable weather conditions •prertrail. )Eastern Ontario (Toronto East) — All 'fruit trees came through the mild winter in excellent condition bti't strawberries in the extreme eastern counties suffered a considerable am - mount of winter killing froth ice in natches that were not well covered with straw. +Rainy weather has given some ,grounsis to •fear a heavy scab in- festation later on, although sprays. are toeing applied in most orchards aceorcling to spray sc'heclule. Moist- are supplies are plentiful, and in fact excessive 11n low lying - orchards. Planting of new apple orchards and replacements have been suede on an, exceptionally heavy scale and nurser les have scarcely been able to keep pare with the demand. Varieties being rilalit,ed run 35 per cent. 31eIntosn, 1115 per cent. Spy, 1110 per cent Snow. 10 per cent delicioes, and 'the balance made ap of Cortland. Gano, ,Golden Russet, Scarlet Pippin and LaSalle. Many new patches of strawberries are being set out. Clean Range For Chicks Chicks showed not he -used two years in sltccession on the same ground. as a :guard against pioking ep' cliseaee 'germs, When the chicks are on range they consume a considerable quantity of green feed, .especially ff it is fresh and tender, The trou'bl'e witha lot of our crops is that they soon 'become tough and fibrous. Fall sown rye .makes a splendid early pas- ' tore. Oats sown early in the spring makes tender green feed for june aid July. If oats are planted at intervals of two or three weeks they give splen- did green feed up until the middle of bey. Rape or 'kale may be sown for summer pasture. Some poultrymen place the colony house at the edge of the corn Iekl so that the chicks may have shade, 03ais- ing chicks in the shade of permanent trees is not always the best plan, as the land cannot 'he worked up to .the sun the sante as in a .corn field. We have seen several rows in the corn field planted to a green crop for the chicks so that they ;would have 'both` green .feed and shade in the one field:' With plenty of tender green feed the t cost of raising the pullets may be re- duced as :compared with an 6x11 dry feed .ration. 50,000 Acres Tobacco 'Under very favourable soil anti wea- ther .conditions the largest acreage of 'flue-clrred tobacco in the 'history of Southwestern Ontario was planted the latter part of May, 'From greenhouses and hotbeds at the rate of between 4,000' and. 7,000 plants.,per acre' the young plants were set out, chiefly 'by' horse-drawn planting machines. The Ontario Flue -cured Tobacco Marketin a A'sspciatiou e.stinlates that approximately 0'50,000acres will be' grown this year, an increase of about 116 4010' acres over the '11936' acreage and virtually double that of 1935. Some 500 new farms of various sizes are be- ing developed in the counties of Nor- folk, Elgin, Oxeord, Brant, Kent and Essex. .Norfolk County remains the •centre of the industry and it has wit- nessed a tremendous ''boom in the con- struction of kilns and greenhouses this apring,uy W'ith a favourable grow- ing season, thp''production is likely to be doulble •that'of last year. Seasonal Crop Report .A summary of crop' conditions by the Statistics Branch shows the fol- lowing: ,Rains an May further retard- ed the seeding of spring .grains, es- pecially on heavy souls and fields that were soaked by excessive ,precipita- tion in 'April. ,At the end of iklay ap- proximately 10 per cent. of the spring grain acreage in Optario. had. been sown,`althottgh most counties expect ed.to ,finish •by.earty in June. 1'n noun ties'bordering the St. Lawrence River, progress was slower. An unusual fea-a` (titre of Gte present season is the fact Viet seeding was as early in North- ern (Ontario as in most of Western and •Central (Ontario, Im Old ,Ontario the season I'as been two or three. weeks later than usual, whereas in the Northern districts, it is" a=.'week to ,two weeks earlier. IEat1y, sown •gra.in'has lm'ade good .growth and later •seeding has greatly ,ihentditedi, by the warns o1ear weat'hee earl ,,'in June. With a nrontitluattionc of satisfactory weather conditions and abundant soil moisture, growth should ;be ,rapid. 'The outlook " 'for held crops As promi1ing. 'The con- G' dition of spring grains on Tune 1st was placed 'between 911 and .1x7 per cent. of the long-time average. This is approximately .the same as on June list, 1935• and '19016. The acreage which farmers had intended to sow to spring grains will be slightly reduced on ac- count of leeeness ;of seeding, and a's a result, the acreage of late craps such. as buckwheat, corn, dry beans, and soya beans will be increaseel. The 10416,:0140 acres of fall wheat that came through the winter has made excellent growth during the past mouth and there is every indication of an excellent yield per acre. ;Fall rye is in full head and also promises a good yield. Alfalfa is making very rank growth and cutting has already started in Westero 'Ontario. Sons of the alfalfa fidlds are spotty and in Eastern Ontario many old alfalfa meadows were so badly ,winter— kill-ed that they have 'been plowed up. Last year's seedings of alfalfa in Eastern 'Ontario are in fairly ,good condition, however,- Hay and clover made good growth, .bort the total yield will not he heavy as a number' of fields are 'thin and 'uneven .from winter ;killing and last year's drought. Pastures were retarded by cold wea- ther during the ;first three weeks of May, but are now coming. along very thickly. Lit•ea'teck are now on pas- ture andshowing the effects of better feed. 1 say, dad quea'tioned lb -year- old Pommy, what are heirlooms?" "Why. heirlooms are 50121ething that are handed down from father to son," ,was the reply. "Well," said Tommy as he hitched his trousers, "I think these heirlooms must be ton big torr Ole." Send nS the haggles of your visitors.