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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1949-07-28, Page 7Car Washing. At Home Made Easy -A new; easy -to -apply -car washing device now marketed in Canada means motorists can do a professional Wash job on their car for only a few cents. The instrument used is a simple, mop -like pouch containing• a special detergent that cuts road film, dust and car grease all in one operation. Attached to a long aluminum handle, with. coupling for a garden hose, it can be used without danger of spoiling clothes. Actual washing action is simple and quick. Water • runs through the rophead, dissolving the detergent and washing the car. When the detergent is exhausted the flow of clean water both rinses and polishes the car's finish. Other uses for the E -ZEE washer are numerous; windows, walls, cellars, ceilings, boats, porches, Barge floors and many other places can be washed easily and inexpensively with this new money and time saving device. TIIEFA1fl4 FONT Jo k*12u-sseJt This has. been such a peculiar 'season that I don't really know if the following advice, in regard to pre -harvest .spraying of apples, is going to reach you in time to be any good. However, here it k for what it's worth: * * * To anyone whose apple crop is really important, the experts say, pre -harvest sprays should prove highly valuable. It has been proved that such treatment prevents a large percentage of premature dropping of the fruit before it has reached proper maturity and coloring. * * * To put it another way, pre - harvest spraying reduces the num- ber of windfalls, and lengthens your picking season by holding the apples on the trees until they can be handled properly. * * * Down in New Brunswick the Do- minion Government Experimental Station made a test, using a naph- thalene acetic -acid preparation called parmone, on McIntosh ap- ples and other varieties, The details regarding the test are rather in- teresting. * * * First of all, 12 McIntosh trees were selected — all the same height and size. Six of them were treated, The other half dozen were left un- treated. Then, beginning the day aftertreatment and continuing for another 25 days, the windfalls were picked up and counted from under both the treated and untreated trees. * * * Figured au a basis of the per- centage of the total crop that fell off, it became clear to. the experi- menters that the spraying began to exert a real influence on the fifth day after treatment and remained effective up to and including the l8th day. * * q: (That was the over-all picture, as the rapidity with which the ma- terial becameeffectivevaried con- siderably, ranging from two to eight days, and the length of time it re- mained effective also varied — from 14 to 25 days, depending on the individual tree. I imagine that over in Russia they have apple trees that always behave eactly alike, but over here they haven't yet reached such perfection. Maybe we should start reading Karl Marx to them,) *, * * To get on with my' apple -knock itig, these 'pre -harvest sprays have also been used successfully on such varieties as Crimson Beauty, Melba, Keetosh and Linton. Applied as soon .as a few apples began to fall, it definitely reduced the number of windfalls, thereby improving the size, color- and quality of the crop. The effect was so pronounced 00 some very early varieties that some of plc apples became over -mature and cracked open instead'of falling * * Trees of the early kind that have been sprayed should be picked be- fore the apples reach the "crack. open" stage — and one application of tlsespray appears to be sufficient. With the McIntosh, which is con- siderably more uncertain, the ex• perts think there might be a benefit from applying two sprays, one week apart. , ew There are a number of different products available for this purpose and their use should reduce some of the worry connected with the harvesting of a high-grade crop of fruit. But don't forget this: No mat- ter what product you use, be sure to' follow the manufacturers' direc- tions closely, and don't try any guesswork, * * * Which should be about enough 'for one session — except' for this: The best "drought" story we've heard is the one about the chap who stood with a bunch of friends, all of whom were bemoaning what the dry spell was doing to 'them. After listening to them for a little while, he said, "Heck, you guys don't know anything, If we don't get rain soon, every weed in my .garden is going to be ruined." Postman's Loss — Rose Marie Couch, who short weeks ago was an 'unnoticed mail girl at Universal -International Studios in Hollywood, has forsaken the mails to please the males. Rose Marie may soon be opening fain letters of her own for her first semen performance in "The Kid From Texas.". Directly above the letter slots in the Ilastings, Neb., post office are placards with: "Have you mailed your wife's letter?" Smiling Loser By . Richard 'HW Wilkins** Kirby' found ,the ,girl seated on an upturned box behind the station crying, 'He hesitated, feeling awk- ward, then said:. "Hello. Anything wrong?" SIbe looked, up quickly, apprais- ingly. "No, 'please go away," Instead; Kirby' squatted on his heels. "You, must have lost some money on that last race. Black Fox, fooled every one by not coming in. I lost too. '"I suppose I'mn• a baby to cry, but 1 .couldn't help it. I—we -- father and 1 staked everything on Black Fox. Then that terrible I'm- a-Runnin,' who nobody thought had a chance,had to win.'. She hestitated, dabbing at her eyes. He seemed like a nice young man. And she did so want com- pany' and to talk .. He discovered her name was Polly Hayden. The next day he called 'ather house and .met her father, a jolly faced old gentleman with white walrus moustaches, "We really shouldn't feel so badly Polly told her father after the introductions were over. "Kiri) lost a 'lot more than we and he isn't conmplaining at all." That •night Polly and ICirby had , dinner at a little inn• out on the Tamiami trail., He knew she was wonderingwhen and' how he was going to pay his racing debts, and where he was going to get the money to establish himself in the law business. You just can't hang out a shingle in Miami and expect business at once. But he didn't offer the informa- tion. nformation. The next day he hired an office on Flagler street, then called up Col, Stratton and asked that racing enthusiast to meet him at Hialeah. "Colonel," he said over a sane- wich and coffee an hour later. "I'm going to take you up on the offer you made me for I'm -a -Rennin'. The colonel stared. "Now wait a minute, Kirby. Has the horse died or broken a leg or something?" "Nothing of the sort," Kirby laughed. "I'm quitting racing for good. It's no business for an ener- getic young lawyer to be wasting his time at I hired an office this morning." They went out to the stables and, ooked at I'm-a-Runttin'. The col- onel couldn't uuderstand'it, but he wrote his check for $50,000 and the papers were passed. Conscious of a queer sensation .in the pit of his stomach, Kirby headed back for the stables for a last farewell. Outside I'm-a-Runnin's stall he stopped dead still at sight of Polly Hayden talking with his stable boy. Her eyes blazed at him. "Sol The good loser. The man who can lose everything, who will have to spend the rest of his life paying .One View Of Britain's Problem Britain's present grave economic emergency is providing a brilliantly clear X-ray picture of what's wrong not only with Socialism, but w.hat's wrong with so ruoh of today's thinking about the how of curing the world's ills, says The Financial Post. This is not to imply that Britain's malignancy would have been avoid- ed or cured overnight had some- thing other then a Socialist govern- ment been in power. What we are now seeing in, Britain` are the fruits of a half century of missionizing for a flabby etopianisni:and a political pandering of votes for which all parties: must share some responsi- bility. As an illustration, Canadians need remember no further,back than our own elections of last ,months,. In that election, Liberals promised the adoption or extension of many pol- icies which were fathered and moth- ered lir Socialist gospels and prat - dee, and the Conservatives protn- ised chiefly to give le more of these measures ;than the Liberals. Britain's fundamental' difficulty today is, in its simplest, starkest form,. the unwillingness of her ' people to work hard enough. The Socialists find they have been un- able to repeal the laws of human nature, As Whaley -Eaton, of Wash- ington, says: "It is . , . Socialism that has 'broken down, with Britain as the prime example, and only. American money until now has prt- vented recognition of 'lite 'act." his racing debts and still smile! Oh, what a fool I've been!" "Wait a minute! Listen!" Ile caught at her arm but she jerked away. He followed her out to her car: "You're got to listen," he said desperately, getting in beside her; "I only did it because •T thought it would make you feel better. And It worked. I' meant it when I said. I was through - with racing. I've sold I'm -a -Rennin' to Colonel Strat- ton. Lookl" He held out -the bill of sale and the check. Shestared at him round -eyed, frightened. "Oh, you shouldn't havel Kirby, you shouldn't You'll never be able—I mean, you love horses. Any one can see that. You loved I'm -a -Rumen'." Not half as much as 1 love you," he told her soberly. He put his arm around her, _"You believe that, don't you? ' You must believe it" "Darling, of course 1 do. And— I am glad that you're going to be a respectable lawyer, only—only-" "Only what?" "Well, sometime, after we've been respectable for a good long while, we'll buy another horse, won't we? A horse as great as I'm-a-Runnin'? Because—we both love horses, don't we?" "We do," Kirby agreed joyfully T a^ Down On The Farm—While the man he accused of helping him supply government secrets to Russia waited for the jury's verdict in New York, Whittaker Chambers relaxed in his Westminster Md., home.:"I've played my part, now it's up to the jury," Chambers said when asked about the Alger Hiss trial. Hoeing His Own Row --"There are plenty of good things: a guy can do," says former telephone lineman Ray Burd, who lost the use of both legs during the war. The crippled veteran proved his statement by turning to farming Above, helped by Ora Bell Jarrett, he uses a mule -drawn sled on the Jarrett farm. He still must report to a hospital every three day. Needle In His. Heart—Five-month-old Dickie Morse had been breathing too heavily for either his or his parents' comfort. They brought him to a hospital for a check-up. An X-ray, right, showed Dickie had a half-inch sliver of needle in his heart. A surgeon at the hospital performed the delicate operation, removing the piece of steel from the baby's heart muscle.:, Doctors say Dickie probably rolled over on a needle carelessly left in his crib. A piece stuck in him and in a few days worked itself to his heart. He's okay now, and all set to gohome Diplomat Crashes—The engineer and fireman of the Dploanat, eastbound St. Louis -New 1'o'rjr 1 Iyer were killed when the train crashed into the rear end of a stalled cattle train near Deer Park, Md, None of the passengers on the streamliner were injured seriously. The Diesel in which the two. men died lies on its side, and in foreground is the wreckage of -the cattle train.