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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1933-09-07, Page 7THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 1933 THE SEAFORTH NEWS: PAGE SEVEN pn�uu�un�mi.�an�-oq�mt�ml—�uu�an�•uu�—u q.. i 1 is i I i • i ate 1VI®n thl Y Statements We can save you money on Bill and Charge Forms, standard sizes to fit ledgers, white or colors. It will pay you to see our samples. Also best quality Metal Hinged Sec- y tional 'Post Binders and Index. 1 1 ■ II ■ I I . a I 1 i The Seaforth News 1 a Phone 84 T aaeiseeaa....■au111 111 i llasese.ap D, H. McInnes Chiropractor Electro Therapist Massage Office — Commercial Hotel Hours -Ton, and 'Thurs. alter- noon's and by .appointment FOOT OORRECTIO'N by:manipulation—S•tn-ray treat- ment Phone 227, 'Founded in 1900 A Canadian Review of Reviews This •weekly magazine offers' a re- tarka'ble selection of articles and car- toons gathered from the latest issues of the leading 'British and American journals and reviews. It reflects the current thought of both hemi's'pheres and features covering literature and the arts, the progress of science, edu- cation, the house 'beautiful, andwo- men's interests. eon all world problems. Beside this it has:.e department of -finance , investment and insurance, I'ts every page is a window to some fresh vision Its every column is alive -wire contact with life! The test car, equipped with a stan- dard Ford V-2 motor, capable of mak- ing but 80 utiles per hour in the Ford 'body, is said to be capable of doing 1120 miles an hour in the Dymaxion, with 100 as its most efficient speed. >Forty miles to the gallon is said to have been attained in actual trials. The plan of steering with one wheel at the rear is merely following the marine steering system, where a rud- der is used. The front wheels are al= ways in Line with the direction in which the car is travelling, Having thein stationary also allows them to be enclosed by the body. 'To compensate for loss of stabil- ity with the reduction of the number. of wheels, the center of gravity is low=1 ered and is placed "well forward, More 'weight is thrown on the front wheels than on the rear. The total weight of the oar is 1V880 pound's, o'f which: 080 pounds rests on the rear wheel and '7150 on each of the front wheels. By staking the frame from the front to the rear axles in, a single unit, much of the tort in the present type of automobile body 'is eliminated. Another safety feature claimed for the Dymaxion is that the braking is entirely on the front wheels, and, as the driver's 'seat is in the extreme front of the car with the motor 'locat- ed aft, there is no hoodahead of the driver to interfere with His view, Balsa wood, weighing fait; -sevenths as much as cork, is used for the bum- per, WOIR'LD WIDE is a FORUM Lts editors are .a'hairmen,, not com- batants, Its articles are selected for 'their outstanding . merit, illumination and entertainment. To sit down in your own home for a quiet tete a tete with some of the world's 'best in'form'ed and clearest thinkers on subjects of vital interest is the great advan'ta'ge, week by week, of those who give welcome to this entertaining magazine. "A magazine of which Canadians may, well be proud." Literally, 'a feast of reason and a floyv o'f: soul.'." "Almosjtevery article is worth fil- ing or .sharing with a friend." Every one o'f the pages of World Wide is T00% interesting to Canadians Issued' Weekly 15 cts copy; $3.50 yearly On Trial to NEW subscribers 8 weeks only 55 cts net One Year " $2.00 " QOn trial in Montreal and suburbs, also in U.S, add 'tic for every week of service. For other foreign countries add 2 cis.) NEW ,STREAMLINE A new oar at the Century of Pro- gress iEtt hilbition at Chicago is the new ,Dymiaxion, a :new 'development in streamline, just completed at the old Locomobile plant in Bridgeport, C'or'n. ;The machine offers several maid - ties. It is a three wheeler with the steering off the third or rear wheel. Such an arrangement a'll'ows for the shaping of the entire car in a raindrop design, within a reasonatble length, With everything enolosed within the outer shell of duralu'mlin, the Dy- maxion overcomes wind resistance with only 20 per cent of the power 'generated, according to the company. THE HYDRO AND HEPBURN I undertaking' and 31x. Hepburn's num- The +following statement was issued, ereus addresses had by no means es - this week by the Hydro -,Electric Tows caped attention. er C!ommission. of Ontario in regard, 'In only one of the six dlustrations tc 'mislead'ing" assertions that hays cited by the !Commission did it seem been trade relating to ;the poweresitu-I as though there was the probability of atiou in the Province of Ontario and1a typographical error, and this the leave not been withdrawn, l Commission pointed out. et is doubt - ,his public address ;at ,Woodbridge l fill, however, if the press of the Prov- en August 23rd, Mr. Mitchell F, ince that has been reporting Mr. Hap - Hepburn, according to the Press of Ihurn's statements will concede , that August.1314'bh, ''`Nook the-plabfornt and the press is culpable for the ara•on esus statements. Speaking editorially, for example, on August. the 22nd. The London Free; Press states: "Mr. Coolie charitably hopes that Mr. Hepburn.. may have been tuisquot- ly as fitting a 'heading as could be ed. 'U'nifortuuately :it 'ts. not so. We used because Mr, Hepburn's - state- have heard him make all these state- ment it in no real sense a reply to the n11ists on a score and. nio're platforms official statement presented by the in 'Western :Ontario. They will all be Hydro -Electric Power +Commission round by turning up the files of the an August 2'2ttd. Free Press.". Mr, Hepburn implies that the Com- This testimony respecting the reoe- ntission's statement represents `"the tition by Mr. -Hepburn of his state - meats opinion of me 'person- stents certainly does not support Mr. ally," This is not so. In the. Commis- ,Hepbtirn's contenti'on ;Of "typograph- i, ica• 'erro s+let's statetiven�t the only personal I rs. _ reference to Mr. Hepburn. :was one If Mr. Hepburn's' many utterances which credited hint with a desire for with regard to t'he Commission's po- persoaal' probity. The Commission, wer reserves and prospective demands necessarily of course, did not conceal as brought to his attention have all the fact that the statements it review- 'been misreported, an if they are—to ed had been reported as made'by Mr. use his own expression -4 obviowslly Hepburn Mr. Hepburn did not issue absurd statements" or, as The Star ;his representations anonymously, and says, on the face of them, "absurd; the Commission could not with truth tie's," then let Mr. Hepburn publicly treat them as such. and without ambiguity withdraw the The 'Commission's statement dealt 'assertions such as are specifically set specifically with grossly inaccurate out in the :Commission's formal state - and inconsistent statements made'Ihy meat which brings these 'matters to 31r, `Hepburn and reported' in the pub - public attention. lic press of the Province.'From many 'Mr. 'Hepburn -has not helped mat- misrepresentations specific illustra-: tens, either for himself or for the pub- lictions weee selected. They were quoted dt 'Ontario that the 'Commission in full and each su'b'jected to critical serves, by substituting in his latest analysis and contrasted with the facts; statement, evade at Woodbridge, at These 'misrepresentations were briefly additional set of misleading assertions suniiflifrized in' the Commissions re- for the earlier ones that elm tOommis cent statement as follows: sion in its formal statement of August 'Mr. (Hepburn is ,reported iu differ- 2l ltd elnallenged. What YIr. Hepburn ent 'loc'alities publicly to have stated must do, in justice to 'the hydro users that a. Hydro -Electric power `surplus' of 'Ontario, is definitely to retract his exis'rs or will exist variously amount- former harmful statements and not to ing to 350,00.0 horsepower, 11,000;000 add to them. horsepower, '1,;500,000 horsepower, and (Willi regard to various statistical 1!5,000,0'00 'horsepower.H'e Hellas, with - his which Mr. Hepburn employs out regard. to consistency, dated his -in his Woodbridge address purpo'rtin'g fictitious !figures of surplus variously to deal with power demands and sup - at 310,312 4933 and 1191317. He has various- plies,: it is sufficient to say that in its ly stated that 4'000,1000 horsepower, Formal statement of August the 72nd and 1000,000 horsepower of un -needed the Commission specifically refers to power, was contracted ` for by the its comprehensive publication entitled. Conunission, Whereas the. total even- ho ven- "Trends of Electrical Demands in Re- tial quantity to be •delivered for the lation to Power Supplies," where such Niagara system under all contracts in!Sormation es relates to the matters negotiated since 1,1192 .17, amounts to only of 'w'hich ler, Hepburn speaks ,is as - Arnim horsepower and all a# this sembled in its true relationships' one power and more was needed to pro- year with another and embraces the vide for established 'trends." period from before the depression in The challenge was presented to Mr 1929 to the year 191317. Had Mr. Hep - Hepburn cotter to su'bstantia'te his burl? -not ignored the data therein pub - statements or ddfihitely to retract lisped, he could hardly have again pre - read a statement in reply to the Hyd- ro Commission," This statement is published in The Globe, Toronto, und- er tee, general news caption o.f "Hep burn 'Renews Alitack." This is preba'b PROBLEM' SOLVED ;From .'Russia comes • word of a somewhat gruesome series of experi- ments, claimed to prove that sound. organs from dead ''bodies • may be brought to life and transplanted, in an announcement by a director of the All 'Ukraine .Blood Transfusion institute. The etperinients were carried out by Dr. A. Vorony, a memlber of the in- stitute, who declared they had solved' one of the greatest problems of mod- ern surgical science. They demon- strated, he declared, that even dead men may contribute to creative -sur- gery by 'contributing sound parts of their bodies for transplantation into thean'atom0ies Of ailing suhee:cts, Doc - to, Voeony said he found !his biggest 'stumbling block in the scarcity of ap- plicants willing to exchange an ailing organ for a healthy one taken from a dead body. ;He declared, however, that he had proved sound organa of sound bodies recently recalled to life, would readily acclimatize them'se'lves , to strange location's, IIn one instance Dr. Vorony declar- ed, he treated a woman who had sw'all'bwed "enough poison to make 40 men uncomfortable." He removed her kidney and replaced' it. with one from a dread man. ;Rejuvenation, he said, began itnmediately..Dr. Vorony said his most sensational stunt was transplanting. a kidney to the neck of a dog. The kidney lived and function- ed in •the dog's neck for two years and i'the dog did likewise, although suffer- ing same iscon'ven'ienlce." ;The physician insists he will event - Imlay show that such transfers cyan ,be undertaken for "permanent resid- ence's.""Alt present, he declared, they do merely "relief duty." The one ';n'hunt the dog ;b not sa stmuch asay as" Clic 'hand that threw, it ' them. This ,he has Railed to do, seated erroneous data as for example, ,eeee H'epheeti iw itis W'ood'bridge when he cites 1,030,217.6 horsepower as address says: the amount, of power capacity needed I am represented as having made a to supply actual demand's in 1932 on number 'of obviously_absurd .state- all systems of the Commission. The tents with relference.to :the Commis- correct figure is very different from sion's.'over-purchase of power and its what Mr. :Hepburn's latest nrisrepre- surplus of expensive but unneeded el- senta'tiee makes it. ;Furthermore, Mr. el- ectric supplies."Iepburn, when he computed his al- 1In this comment does Mr, -'Hepburn leged total of 3'511,,300 horsepower, in - that his `statements, re- developed as power capacity in 1x93'7 un- acknowledgepresentatively :cited by 'the 'Commis - v. waterepower sites—etill in sion, were '"ob'vi'ously absurd";or a state of nature—to the"extent of 83,- men - does; he imply that the,Commission in 000 horsepower, These items are n-ien- quoting his s'tatemen'ts has done so in tioned simply as being illustrative- of a manner that makes them appear as several Misleading statements the "Obviously absurd statements" Mr. Press reports Mr. IHeplburn to have Hepburn's comment is certainly am- made at Woodbridge.biguous. His statements as minted by !Some of the figures 3fr. Hepburn the .Commission on August 2_rnd leave now cites are correct—nota lily those no doubt respecting what they actual- obtained directly from the Commis- ly say, sinus Am?eat 'Re'portse-phut the addi The 'Toronto. Daily Star in i'ts'eda- tional figures of his own are mit core continent, made with reference meet, and his new representations on a to the Commission'sstateme .statement, said basis of the: figures he cites are still nn August Mad that definitely' and seriously misleading. If "`Mr, Hepburn has not been as care - nature evidence of ,their nrisleadfaig ful in his utterances albout:the ,Hydro. nature is required it is to be found in AS Ire should be; or he has been gross- The (Globe's editostiall interpretation of ly misreported" Mr. Hepbu,rn's newest r'epresen'tations and in w'ha't follows The Star ,suggests made on. August 25th, :a's follows;: that statements by Mr, Hepburn "on "Roughly this (Mr. Hepburn's) the face of them are absurdities?' Mr, statement," says The Globe, ''`means Jeepiburn's statement, ,AIRiE absurd, that an excess o'f 1000,o00 'horsepo'wer 'but ,with a single 'exception—which at $llS is !costing the consumers. $115, - the Commission specifically noted in 000,000 yearly, and this excess. cost 'ts statotnenr—t'heir absurdity would �•ilit continue until the available power not be obvious to any but those who is sold' could immediately recall to mind the The facts in this regard --as already details of the correct data that the published by the. Commission are: Commission has from time to time The capacity which the Commission published. had in hand at the end of its (last fiscal S4 ,was this nnis'leadittg feature of year on all systems combined was Mr. 'Hepburn's statements, 'broadcast 1'71610;01512 horsepower. This includes all throughout the country to the injury .and purchased power and is of 1O'ntario5 ,muntcipa9'ly-owned entelr- sufficient 'to assure a commercially 'prise, and apparently designed to dis_ continuous supply for a peak load Of turb public 'confidence in tile' •Coni- not more„ than '1,1585,000 'horsepower. miss'ion's -'administration. ;of Hyidno TheCotn'ntissionts actual peak de- itffairs, that irnpelied-the Commission mamds for She fiscal year, including its publicly and 'specifically- to take cog- definite contractual Obligations, were miz'ance of eters.•1h2892l6'p horsepower, Consequently, Ile/eh,aespeot'to the suggesfiau of'the special reserve to enable idle fac- misreportin.g, Mr. Hepburn at Woad- tonics in muesaoipalities on 'all 'sys- bni'd'ge says that "the Comm'issi'on has terns to commence recovery from de - apparently employed a staff ole news- pression was about I206,000 horsepow- er. paper clippers, rea:dintg for typograph- This accord's with' the 208,000 cal • errors 'fn reports of my speeches horsepower cited by the Cont'tn;ission in order to set up straw men which 'in its statement,tior the Niagara system the Commissioners may knock'down." alone. The charge of seeking 'for ,typognapee !Nevertheless, I�Irr. H'ep'bur.n's lates icai errors is absolutely without Foun misrepresentation has misled even the dation. The Hydro Commission in the Globe into asserting that there is eenteral course Of its efforts to serve the public is interested in ail references made to ;Ontario's municipally -awned lug which \'Ir, Hepburn professes aux-' ing the Scriptures he had had con- iety, the Commission takes this op stoney to ''brush them from the pages i ortunity of once more .assuring On- of the Holy Word, The .grasshopper tario citizens that they have the most'1may +have .his uses, but there's such'a, substantial warrant for, d'is'counting such fears. There will not be any tut- used power to the extent of 1,000,+000 'horsepower hi :19,37 unless several most improbable things shoold happen simultaneously, For such a situation to materialize it would require firstly, tr n which for eight- een growthe ripht- o g een' years were, at the rate of ,1114 per cent per year—and some important elements of which have persisted right through the depression—must cease entirely for the next "four years; and it would require, 'further, that the in- dustrial situation, which has already •shown material improvement—produc- ing g in recent months of 191313 an in- crease of 7.7 per cent over last year in power demands of the Niagara sys- tem municipalities—must for . four more years continue to become subs stantially worse. ,Moreover, past ex- perience points to, 'the probability that, with moderately rapid, recovery from the .depression theaggregate load's on the , Commission's systems w'111 in 191317 equal, if indeed not ex- ceed, the power provisions that have ;been made. ;Not only The Globe, but also sev- eral other prominent Ontario newspa- pers have been taking Mr. Hepburn's misrepresentations tut their misleading face value, and a oon•sideralbie propor- tion of the citizens of Ontario who have 41383,000,'000 at stake in their Hydro -Electric undertaking, have thereby unjustifi'a'bly been placed'in a position of uncertainty. The Commis - ion has ommision'h'as repeatedly published all the relevant facts, and ;Mr. Hepburn has consistently disregarded Them. The Commission has not desired. controversy nor does it intend to car- ry- on unnecessary or unprofitable dis- cussion. The widespread creation of absolutely unjustified doubt with res- pect to the municipalities'; property is an injurious consequence of Mr. 'Hep - burn's misrepresentations that the Commission as trustee for the munic- ipalities could no longer ignore. : St officially pu'blis'hed its •statement on August 'tend. I't has now shown why Mr. IHep'burn's reported reply entirely fails in dealing with the matters spec- ifically brought to his attention, The matter still at issue is, does Mr. Hepburnstand by his statements as made repeatedly from the public plat- form and `whioh are representatively quoted in the ;Commissio'n's sta'teutent of :August the 22nd, or does 'he not? This is the question that requires to be answered definitely andj without amlbiguity. Toronto, August 311'st, ;19'313. "excess power" now .be'ing paid' for to swppdy you, the extent of 1,000,000 leorseemwer. hopped about the aisles, assembled on IA's for ,the situation an ,11037, regard, tile collection p'la'tes and even invaded the pulpit itself, so that 'while read- Walht and For Sale Ads,'3 timeta,: f# ,GRASSHOPPER PLAGUES Automo'b'iles from the prairie prov- 'aces, 'particularly 'Manitoba, have been observed in 'Ontario this summer with their radiators : covered with heavy mosquito netting. The curious were informed that they were vital- ly necessary in driving through the grasshopper -infested 'areas of !Western Cana'd'a. and the 'United (States. 'The thing as having too much of a good thing, as the owners of the devastated grata fiields could have attested. `Its from a very old man — says he's 'well on ie the eig.hties'--bless his old heart, (He recalls the great grass hopper year out here in ,1873, he says, and hopes 1119313 won't' be Quite so bad, We'll read it at our leisure, later," the minister said, 'pocketing it, They '.drove on 'toward their ' tiny manse, passing 's number of the de- stroyed wheat stand's on the way. Those who have never seen an insect - eaten wheat +field -leave but a poor idea of the havoc it presents. There is the dried -out look, the 'hailed -out look; the +burned -out look, the cutworm look, .but most pathetic of all is the hopper look. 'The tender green shoots 'that had made such brave _;headway just a w'ee'lc or so 'ago are stricken at half growth as ' though by some strange, terrible cancer, so that .a :ten - acre stretch of once proud young grain that ntay'have escaped all other vicissitudes asd 'have promised rich. maturity, resembles nothing so much as a stubble tfield •that has been cut viciously and very unevenly. 'In some cases the remaining stalks lie in a diseased, pulpy mass, mingled with ridges of dead h,oppens that have been killed off by the 'Government hopper poison, but not soon enough. Often a ;field that looks, .from the road, as 'though it contains some grain that may still be saved, shows on closer in- spection that Ithis idea is a fiction. The hopper is a thorough worker. an the doorway of one farm home a woman sat listlessly scraping potatoes in a pan. Potatoes are one crop the hoppers can't get at. She looked up and waved to the minister and his wife, and her face brightened. ;But there would be aro wheat there, they saw. It was the same at the next place, At the last 'farm they stopped to buy some eggs and butter. The farmer here was a philosopher. ;He could even smile a little. After supper the pastor and his wife read the letter of the donor of the tet; dollars, The octogenarian had ;been on the p'l'ains of the Northwest 'Territories iii 18713, ,Itt 'July of that year the settlers, he said, were cer- tain Ithat the end of the world was at hand. -- "Suddenly the sky darkened," he 'wrote; "and the sun was so obscured by the clouds of enormous locusts that neany folk fell on their knees and began to pray. Marks were left on the upturned faces by the pests as they flew with lightning speed on their way. Not a green blade o'f anything 'was left anywhere in the land, IL'ater saw on the south shore of one of ,the lakes a veritable hedge of : the dead insects, 'fully ,four feet in height where, they had been washed ashore in the north 'wind. The terrible visita- tion left ;the country famine -stricken, We heard of former hopper .plagues, in the days when 3Ianitob'a' as such wasn't in existence, but was called the great 'plague of grasshoppers in the 'Red River Settlement, 'but this was lWest is now in its second year, and 'J'ob's comforter talk, we thought. The the'damage to crops has 'been devast- plague of '73 is the most notorious, The degree and extent olf it staggered us. 'Back east everything about it was highly exagger'a'ted and our friends abing. All sorts of repressive treasures have been adopted by scientists in the employ of the ;Provincial Wand Federal Governments, but they have not been there believed that the insects were so very successful. Apparently thesi large that they .were the 'size of bats, plagues ruts in cycles. 'In the third There was no railroad in those times, year a parasite appears naturally as you know. We were marooned out. which attacks and destroys the grass -'there with the hoppers for weeks and hopper, so that lby the 'fourth year the weeks before supplies could be .sent condition is 'bacic to normal. for and delivered, via,St. Paul, Minn. 'However, modern s'cienc'e has ac- iSo, remembering all this 7 send you oorrtplisihed' sonte'teing in keeping a little gift for your grasshopper fund them in cheek and (conditions are not and only wishit could be more," as :hopeless as they were in 'i✓3T3, the time of !the lash greatp!lague. The fol- lowing article by a w'ri'ter in the New Cooking ,Schools. Outlook tells the story: The 000'king schools held at Strath - The pastor s'toipped ih'is sh'ab'by little toy, ,Exeter, 1St, Mary's and Aylmer` car :ou'ts'ide uhe village past chfice'aitd' recently ander auspices ;of the'De- went inside .for ni,ail. iIn 'better times' pantment of ;Agriculture, ;proved 'very Ire used to call every day, but ,for successful 'For instance at 'Aylmer, etal years now he !had 'beet; unable to more than 700 women attended each take a daily paper, so the trips to'tlie'day Mr of 'A. ,Putnam, superitt post ollfice had diminished to semi- "tend'eat IWo'nten's Institutes for weekly ones. 'After cxc'hlanging greet- IOirtani'o was in charge and his assist- ings'wiith the po'stm'aster anti+a thaed- ants were !Miss Edith Hopkins and ful of friends and aaqu'ainit'ances the Miss M, E. MMLelD'ia'rmid. The idea was. Pastor emerged' with a scant sheaf of to ,demonstrate 'holes 'to make the 'best letters and his weekly paper from use of Ontario's ,bountiful foodstuffs; Winnipeg. He threw !them on the seat new ideas for preparing economical while he looked to see whether '"'biz- !menus; new way's to get the best out zie" had enough gas to get them of meats; new thoughts onpreparing 'home. x dainty salads and -desert and enjoy - The pastor's "wife 'took up the let -' able beverages; new suggestions for ters. There .was a letter in an un- canning fruits and vegetables; and known hand' addressed as follows new methods for making the table al -- '"Rev. J• W. 'Blank, 'Grasshopper 'lowance go ,farther and Still keep the. Area, ISlask." 1fam'ily well-fed. Printed' recipes were ,A year ago they both would have also 'furnished. It is likely that the laughed at the unique address, hint at cooking. school ',pl,an wilt be extended tt fire roinent there was little about the to other centres in the future. 'term "grassiho'plper"'to' induce mean -1 ment. The land was too ,full of the Asthma Gan be Cured. 'Its suffer-' winged pest. Crushed quantities of ung is as needless as it is terrible to them stuck to the wheels, 'armiies endure. Jfter its many years of re more were 'roasting alive on the en-, lief of the moat stubborn cases an gine,' the linen lap rug contained a „oufferer oan dbinbt the perfect effect small lake •of the insects, and the iveness olf Dr: 5. D. Kellog+g'ta A-.' pastor 'could ;feel them playing Atop- thea Remedy. •Cotnedrt of body and:' scotch along the rim Of his hat. On peace of mind return frith its use anc the Sabbath several trillions of them 'nights of sound: sleep come back for had attended divine service. They, good. IA'sk your druggist; Ise east