HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1948-11-11, Page 7OLD TIME PHOTOS SUGGEST THAT WHAT THE COUNTRY NEEDS IS A GOOD 5 -CENT
Coffee and cake for a nickel. Two nickels O;ne nickel and you could see
bought you four eggs, bread, coffee and soup. the tnovies,in this nickelodeon.
Five cents was once the price
of a shave; a haircult was 10
cents.
NICKEL
At any carnival or amusement park, one nickel
was all it cost you to go on most of the rides.
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It was Sunday afternoon; 'Part -
ler and 1 were both reading. Pre-
sently we heard a car outside and in
a matter of seconds someone was
honking a horn like fury. That, in it-
self, annoyed us. Partner made no
attempt to go out. "If anyone wants
us he can come to the house," he
sai.d, The horn went on honking!
Then I began to wonder — "Maybe
someone is hurt—perhaps one of us
should go out." So 1 opened the
front door and called "hullo." Im-
mediately a man got out of the car—
or rather- panel truck, for that is
what it was. He was smartly dress-
ed, in fact a little on the flashy side,
but made no attempt to crime to the
house. Instead, all he did was call
out — "Have you got any eggs to
sell?"
"No," 7 answered shortly, "none at
all."
"Any ducks—or geese, maybe?"
"No," 1 repeated, "nothing at all.
We don't do business on Sundays."
"Oh . oh, 1 see," responded
our caller. And with that he climb-
ed into his truck again and drove
clown the lane at a pretty fast clip
and was gone before 1 could call
Partner to the door.
* * *
• This little episode may have been
on the • level; maybe the man really
was looking for eggs. On the other
hand if, after honking his horn loud
and long, no one appeared, he
might have assumed there was no
one at home. In which case he could
have done a little exploring --which
might not have been too profitable
for us. After all the idea is not too
far-fetched. So often farm people
are away between chores on Sun-
days and no one going by would
be suspicious if they did see a small
truck in the driveway or anyone
walking around farm premises in
broad daylight.
Anyway that's that — and it
could be that there is a moral for
drivers in my little story, if nothing
else. That is — "To honk your
'horn is not only bad manners, it
can also arouse suspicion,"
* * -5
And now, just in case you would
,i.e to know the final outcome of
tact week's .cat -story 1 had .Better
..41 you that Mark, the one kitten
;mit remained alive last week,, has
;,irvived. And I really think he
,lost have established something of
, record as he went for six days
and nights without eating or drink-
kn. The only nourishment he got
1Y AS what I gave him by means of
s medicine dropper — and that was
i.ery little.( I also gave him a one-
Stop close several times daily of a
tye1l-known stock medicine which
,lost farmers keep on hand all the
:ime. Unfortunately while I was
doctoring .!lark . his mother dial.
klince Whisky had been given "a
hot" and had never been sick at
Al, it was quite a shock when she
tttoped around for just a few hours
..told then quietly passed away. So
aew we are reduced to .one cat and
rte kitten,
* 4 4
Taking it all round we had quite
• a time with our livestock last week.
"!'here was the night we mbved one
pen of .pullets to their winter quay
cars. Moving the ones from the pen
was easy but there were others roost
ing in the trees that tae just could -
t t get at all, so nest morning ther
were still thirty-two pullets rututin
around. That night I undertook ti
t.e that the tentttining pullets did
bot go to roost in the trees, I'le-
• licvc me, 1 gave myself a job' It
developed into a sort of endurance
test, The chickens were determined
ay get into the trees; I was equally
determined that they wouldn't So
I ran from tree to tree and the chic-
kens few up or flew down, accord-
ing to where they were when I tried
shooing them into the pen. We
kept it up for over an hour—and
there are still six at large, These
birds are hybrids—a cross between
Rocks and Leghorns and the scar-
iest things you ever knew. Now
they are in their winter quarters we
always knock on the door before
entering the pen. Walk in with-
out warning and they fly all over
the pen. So it pays to be polite!
* *.-
Another day We sent some cattle
to market. When Norma was being
loaded Bob preceded her into the
truck with a long lead rope. I hap-
pened. -to look out of the pantry
window just in time to see Norma
make a bolt for the barnyard with
Bob running, with more speed than
dignity, out of the truck, but still
hanging on to that rope. Poor Nor-
na—her bid for freedom didn't do
any good.! After all, what could one
cow do against three men?
The Bookshelf ...
The Varsity Story
By Morley Callaghan
A Canadian novel of a different
and very welcome sort is Morley
Callaghan's new tale with its back-
ground of the University of Toronto.
Not in any sense either a guide -book
or a historical study, this is a sensi-
tive and penetrating story of Hien
and women who lives are bound up,
in one way or another, with that
scat of learning which for so many
years has exercised such a strong
and still -growing effect on the life
of our nation.
The most striking of Mr. Callag-
han's many well -drawn characters
is Arthur Tyndall, the young New
Zealander who is Warden of Hart
House. His alien background tends
to make him a careful and critical,
although always friendly observer;
and throughhis gift for friendship
and enquiring niind he is able to
understand not only the students
and staff members but also the
. essential spirit of the university
better, perhaps, than anyone wholly
Canadian could do,
Morley Callaghan's craftsman=
ship is visible on every page, and
"The University Story" is a book
that should appeal, not only to the
hundreds of thousands. of Varsity
men and women, but to all who
like a well -told ' tale.
The Varsity Story .. By Morley
Callaghan . . The Macmillan Co.
of Canada . . Price $2,50.
With the Move and Koko Folks
by Grace Sharp
Last week,, using fired Allen and
The New York Times as my au-
thorities, I hinted that the folks
receiving phone calls on giveaway
programs such as "Stop The Music"
know, in advance of the program
coming on the air, that they are
going to be called. If true, this na-•
turally meats that millions who sit
listening and hoping for fortune to
bit them smack in the eye might
just as well tune in something else,
for all the chance they have. -
" - *
So when I read a letter to The
Times from the Producer of that
program indignantly deifying that
anything of that kind ever happens,
at first I though it was a case for
my chipping in with a humble apo-
logy. "We do not notify listeners in
advance on "Stop The Music." They
are not forewarned by phone, letter
or wire," wrote Mr. Goodson.
"People can receive, and do receive,
freshly made telephone • calls
throughout the hour we are broad-
casting, and up to. the time. we be,
gin our closing signature."
* * *
"Our phone numbers are picked at
random by means of a carefully
worked out system," the producer
goes on to say. "When a name is
chosen from a certain page . of a
phone 'book, we also take pains to
select the next tithe successive
names as well. This is so that if we
geta busy signal or "don't answer"
in any town we can keep going front,
number to number until we con]-
plete a call."
"just a few minutes prior to
broadcast time we start trying to
get a circuit through to the first
town scheduled. We hope to con-
plete that opening call as soon as
possible so that we can begin our
game with unininnunt delay," the let-
ter continues. "Last Sunday we
started at about four minutes to
sight to telephone Colorado Springs
and completed the call onto our
stage at four minutes after eight.
:rum then on we kept putting in
iesh calls till our close. These are
'ie facts. "Stop The Music" is not
•ed, rigged or set up in any way.
e do everything in our power 1'
y fair with the public."
* * *
Which would seem to be definite
i
• rt h. But ou the sarns page, The
Times quotes from the Ltort Wayne
Journal -Gazette something regard-
ing a Mr, Kenneth Crosbie, who
was a big wiener on "Stop The
Music" the previous evening.
'The phone had rung and Crosbie
' answered. "It was about twelve
minutes before the 'Stop The Music'
program came on," Crosbie said.
"The New York operator told me
that I stood second in line for a
chance at the 'Stop The Music'
prizes. There wasn't anything to do
between the time I was called and
they played the qualifying tune, so
I just sat there and chewed the fat
with that New York phone oper-
ator. I guess they wanted to keep
the lines open so I had to keep
talking." -
* ' * , *
Also cited is the experience of
Reginald Turner of Winston-Salem,
a winner on April 186, as reported
the following morning in The Jour --
nal of that city. "Mr. Turner had
been telephoned from New York
about 7 p.m.—and hour before the
program started,. The operator -told
him she was conducting a radio
survey and wanted to know to what
program he was listening. Mr. Tur-
ner told her, she seemed satisfied,
and asked him if the was going to be
home for the next two hours. He
assured her he was, and she thank-
ed him. Mrs. Turner put two and
two together and carne up with the
answer, and immediately the entire
family, together with many friends,
were recruited to guess the mystery
song"
TII PA
M FROM
This week we continue our
diseussiou''of the possible dangers
of commercial insecticides, begun in
a previous issue.
Another way people ntay con-
sume these chemicals is by eating
them directly in the form of spray
residue. on fresh or canned foods.
There are still only whispers of
washing compounds which will re-
move them before the crops are
marketed or canned, as commercial
canners very well know. Practically
every packer of canned baby food
absolutely refuses to buy any crop
which has been treated with long-
lasting insecticides or even grown
on treated soil.
* * *
There's still another important
route into the human stomach—by
way .1 dairy products- or meat.
The ugh' they cannot be dissolved
in water, these insecticides dissolve
readily in oils and fats. As an
animal. eats treated feeds the DDT
is stored in its fat tissues. In dairy
cattle it is given off again in the
butter -fat content of the milk. A
very effective fly -spray has been
made. from butter churned from
such milk. " * "
This means that anyone eating
neat or dairy products from ani-
mals fed DIDT-treated feed will
also eat DDT. And experiments
have proved that DDT is a poison,
not only for insects, but for mam-
mals as well
* * *
Symptoms of acute DDT poison-
oning in mammals usually begin as
tremors of the musclss of the head
and neck.. As these get worse con-
trol of movement is lost and con-
vulsions finally set in. Then the
animal goes into a state of depres-
sion, which gradually gets worse
and results in breathing failure and
death, in from 3 to 2.s hours after
the original tremors, Symptoms in
man may—of may not—follow the
same pattern.
* * +•
We already know how much
DIDT—fed in one dose—it takes to
kill a rat. Yet by eating it grad-
ually rats have built up three times
a fatal dose in their fat tissues. This
means that they were carrying, in
their bodies, enough poison to cause
death. Yet the, did not die because
the poison was not in the blood
stream, but stored in the fat tis-
sues. So far no one knows how
much DDT a human being can eat
and remain alive. But—just as in
animals -the amount of it a human
consumes becomes stored het his
fat tissues.
8. * *
And here s where possible future
danger—and great danger, comes
in. Suppose a man or a woman or
a child keeps eating small amounts
of DDT continuously and unknow-
ingly. It is st -' in the body fat.
Then that person becomes ill, and
cannot eat normally. The person
then begins li ing in part on the
body fat. With those. fat tissues
being 'broken down rapidly, the
DDT in them will be released into
the blood stream at a anuclt higher
rate than is nortnal. Will the DDT
harm that person?
Resistance to DDjT varies among
individuals. Even the same per-
son's resistance is not the same
all the time. Therefore, nobody
knows when even a relatively low
amount of DDT might prove to be
poison which tips the scales be-
tween life and death in a person
whose resistance was already low-
ered by sickness or other cause.
* * a•
The reports from which I have
quoted were issued as a warning.
Tltey are not enough to cause us
to stop using these insecticides,
which are so important to our food
supply. Already the, have destroy-
ed billions upon billions of disease -
carrying insects. but it's no secret
that much of the spraying, in the
past, has been on the basis that
if one gallon of spray is good, ten
will be ten tines better.
* * *'
In future much greater care will
have to be taken. The reckless use
of DDT—such as the fogging of
entire towns—has brought forth
the official warning from the U.S.
Food and Deug Administration
that such action is "playi' -• with
dynamite."
New - And All
Of Them Useful
Tiny Radio. Only aboutthe size
of a pack of 'cigarettes, this radio
has antenna; and earphones which
plug in at top and is carried much
like a hearing .aid.: Weight 41/s
ounces, has 3 tubes and operates
on batteries good for 30 hours or so.; -
Two Way Screwdriver. Blade has
two working ends and can be -pull--
ed from Handle and reversed. - One
end v,till tighten cross -slotted
screws, the other the ordinary kind.
Electric Shoe Shiner. Shoe is
placed—even without taking it off
foot=in this machine and switch is
turned. Coarse brushes first retiove
dirt, ,!;hen another brush is fitted
and the shoe is cleaned and polish-
ed
Midget Plane, Baby British built
plane flies 55 miles to the gallon of
fuel, with average speed of 66 miles
per hour, Weighs only 430 pounds
or less than average motorcycle.
Portable Light. Has indicator to
show how much charge is in bat-
tery. May be recharged by plug-
ging into any AC outlet.
Drill Phis Saw, Designed to make
an electric drill do double duty as'a
6 inch rotary saw. Used for cross-
cutting, ripping, beveling, or for
makng cutouts up to 254 inches
deep. Guard can be adjusted to pro-
tect fingers at all times.
Extra Closet Space, Space saving
plastic hanger for women's gar-
ments, holds a skirt, a slip, a pair
of slacks, two belts and a jacket at
one nine.
Heating Mirror. A new radiant
glass heating panel, designed for
use in bathrooms and other small
rooms, employs a mirror and an
electric light. The light works on
a separate switch, so that it can
be used independently of heating
plate. Maker says a person can
work in front of mirror and at the
same time be warmed by its ra-
diant heat.
Truck That Dumps From Side.
This new dump truck body dis-
charges from truck's left side.
Maker claims as advantages for
side dumping (a) ease of control by.
operator; (b) clear view of exact
position of truck and location of '
dumping ground. Load is thrown
clear of path of truck tires.
New Deodorant. Works on princi-
ple of surface absorption, and at-
tracts the millions of tiny particles
which travel on small waves, hold-
ing them to eliminate the odor.
Differs from ordinary deodorants
which either send forth a pleasant
to mask an unpleasant odor, or
serve to desensitize the olfactory
nerve. Nontoxic, noncaustic, non-
corrosive and harmless to humans,
animals or birds,
Helping, Red Feather Campaign—This is Marilyn !.avis, 18 -
year -old collegiate student who was selected as Miss Cheerleader
of 1948 from 200 entries in a jalopy parade held to raise enthu-
siasm in 'the Red Feather Campaign, She is perched on th.
fender of her schools four -wheeled "wreck".
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