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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1927-09-01, Page 3tt pis Bird of a Hundred Names By L. A, Hodges If we were to find out suthlaBlythat a friencl of ours traveled under a s'co'rn of aliases, ,the unexpected' dieco•Yery, no doubt would shock us'. It would, that is, if our Mena was a human be- ing. But if he happened • `to be a species other than ourselves, our In- tsrest in him would be quickened favorably. So when we learn that the flickei;is a y •i:.ow hamner, a "golden -winged Woodpecker," a 4 "high -hole," a ,jape,,' ti "yucker" and so on through the list •of at least thirty names, wo Conclude that our friend ot th'e open ,glade -must betruly a feathered law- - ocr- ri::e. And if we go forth to verity cut conclusion 'we probably will end by being surprised at ourselves. We are apt not only to justify the long.liet of '{lames, but to want to add a kt of ( new cries to it! We see him spring from the ground 'at our approach—from beneath our very feet, even—almost as. oaten as we sen him wing from the trees; for he is not, as some birds seen to be, a scorn- er of the soil. Ants are an important. item in his diet, a,predilection that accounts• perhaps for his love of earth. - 1 have, however, seen him- sit where no ant colony was and 'Moho for thirty minutes at a time the self -same ''' spot—probe with such slow delibera- lion that be eeemed actually to be "smelling" the earth. After we have seen hint at thie dozens• of times, we feel line calling him "Old Ground Smeller." The wild cherry is his staff of life 'in season. He ,seeks the tree at early morning to breakfast on the black fruit; is there at high noon for lunch - con, and at the sunset -hour for sup- per, while his golden wings flash In and out df the laden boughs repeatedly between meals. Before the last morsel is cleared from the leafy festal -board, we find ourselves wondering why " everybody doesn't call him "Wild Cherry Woodpecker." IIe likes to "give himself airs"; whether vaingloriously 'br whether to supply unselfish entertainment is, however, a queetion. When I see a group of flickers perched motionless in the naked top of a dead tree I feel that ennui threatens the silent sitters. There is that about the immobile, hunchbacked figures which hints of Tine's too heavy hanging. "Company" ]las come, but the- "party" somehow Justwillnot get under way and it loops as though a none -too -good. time is going to be had by all. Suddenly one of the flickers throws caution to the winds. Somebody has got to be the "life of thear p tY " and if none of the other flickers dare be it, then the self-appointed Hotspur must and R will! He galvanizes into action, He bobs his head; he see -saws, bows and scrapes: -In short,. he cuts. fantastic capers. The performance electrifles the other flickers. They seem to decide that to bob, see -saw, bow and scrape. is the best possible way to en- tertain. So they, too, proceed to cut fantastic capers,. When we see the flicker at this bit of stage -play a num- ber of times, we. probably will want to ie" tag him "The. Clown Bird."' On the other hand, if we can read dignity in the performance we may honor him with the courtly title "Sir Iinight of the Golden Feather," In late' spring of last year a flicker, proceeded to hew, a hole in the small trunk of a dead elm that I haveaper- minted to stand on my lawn. The trunk is a mere stub of a trunk, ten feet high; and the flicker was drilling a roomy aperture,open to the sky, iia the broken top, Thisparticular' hewer of wood, was a male; and as there was no female in evidence,it:looketi as though he was rough-hewing a' select bachelor, apartment. For thus or five days he drilled into the yellowish wood. Then he went away. About a week latero a pair of blue- - birds rejoiced at finding the newly - chiseled opening. ng. The female lined the bottom -of the, eight -inch hole with ,j) -gr sses and soon was warming her four bluish eggs Then the flicker came back, ' One must be charitable. Yet one finds it herd to justify the actions of that flicker. Coldly he, destroyed the bluebirds'. nest,. pitching, eggs. and every, particle of nest -Material ruth-, lessly to the ground. rt was dolibe ate ouster. Ile slid not eat the eggs 0'—noticing as crude as that. Ono of the azure -tinted ovals, falling on a tuft of grass•, dict not so much aa break. The flicker simply wanted e that bluebird nest out of thele, and, with a few businesslike movements of Side body.aud head he put that nest out fthero. He drilled the hole an in.oh or two deeper, then went away, this' time not to return, A, bit of whimsy this, that entitles ,shim to the uance--what? Just here 1t is well to mention a Pitfall. -Though we may coin our cognomens, we may not hastily con- clude that they therefore are shin- ingly new. Some authorities say the flicker las over a hundred common mantes: - C)ur new names may be old and Tongue -worn, somewhere. A woman who applied at a ^London police -court for a summons against her husband for cruelty stated that int had, made hien a good wife. Tho. pity was that she had failed to make him a good husband. Ono way to settlV the iluestiol of 'whether it is pili ^awf,' or. ":::off," is to go off .and golf. • CARMAN 1111111011M Opens, Sat, Aug. 27 1V. L. Mackenzie Xing presses • the but- ton that sets in motion the most color- ful entertaining .program in Exhibition History. HAUL the Prince of Wades will dedieate The Princes'' date"—Che. new $160,000. Eastern Entrance. he massive new Live Stook Pavilion .will be opened to the public for the first time --and countless other new features, new 'exhihiLs and • new Entertainments' such as the world championship $60,080 Swim Marathon will be presented this year. 13y,allmeans see the Confedera- tion Celebration at. the 1937 Canadian National Exhibition, August 27 to. Sep- tember 10. Send for program to -day. 49th Year .1' Celebraefnt of the FcAQk'�, Canada's Cat Ee'`.. Birthday JOI5NJ,DISON \V/ H.W.WATERS. President reneralManager.. ' � s Undecided. "Have you named the baby yet?" "We think we'll cell him Oswald, al- though his 'Uncle Jake has lots of money, too." -Boston Globe, Plain Talking. Teacher—"What is a plain?" Johnnie—"A place where, all the hills are flat."—Cincinnati Enquirer. Even Now. • He (during traffic hold-up)—"That man created quite a sensation 30 ears ago by driving a motorcar at 10 miles an hon." She—''He could do the same to- day." "What should we do without horses?" asks a contemporary. Some people would stop reading their news- papers altogether, "Walk slowly andlive long,,) ad- vises a doctor. But his prescription does not hold good when crossing the road. First Bright Lail—"What 1s a rare volume?" Second Ditto -"It's a book that comes back after you have lent The man who as a boy thought nothing of walking ten miles to town and back now has a son who doesn't thing much of it either:" Pett—"I've got a fine' job, I have the whole day to myself;" Pitt— "What itt"What do you do?" Pett—"I am a night-watchman,' Lady -"Can you toll me if there is any Saxon work in this church?" Old Man -"Lor' bless yer, mum, I be the, Saxon." Sweet news is the announcement by, a Czechoslovak company that it has developed a much cheaper meth- od of manufacturing sugar. "We have learnt the beauty of space," declares a contemporary. Everybody will recognize the feeling that pervades the house when unclesir able relations return home. Said the stern young woman teach- er --"Tommy, if you cannot behave yourself I shall have to take your name." Outside Tommy confided to a chum—"My teacher's threatened to marry me if I' don't look out." "Well,. John, did' -you get your din- ner all tight without me? Did you, find the boiled pudding Ilett for you in the saucepan?' "Yes, thank You, I found it all right; it was good, and I finished the lot.' "I'm glad of that! But where's the pudding cloth?" "Was there a cloth? I never noticed one." 4A' achine Knives ei MONDS CANADA $AW CO, LTD.. MONTREAL VANCOUVER OT. !OHN, 0,a.. TORONTO 13 The Highwayman -••_ with iron heels I spurn the turf, Tho. late moon sees ine ride; The belfried owl on yonder tower Hoots to my ringing stride! Halloo! Halloo! A coach insight! n'at Purees, knot your strings to -night! By moonlight on a wintry heath A forester am I— Diana to tate clouds again, And darkness cloak, the skyl Ilalloo! Halloo! A coach in sight! Fat purses, knot your strings tonight! —C. E. L'Aml. The Airport Future "There is a great_ opportunity for the cities and towns that can secure a place on these air "rout,es," says a recent bulletin of the Babson Sta.tis- tical.,Organization, Wellesley, Mass. "So far we have 'refrained from making any general predictions re- garding the airplane industry. It is not something that can be built up over night, as the experience et the past 10 years has demonstrated, The time has now come, however, w': en advances in aeronautics will be much more rapid. Safer and better planes are being built, and suitable landing fields and marked airways are being developed; The public gradually is becoming 'air -wise: Next spring Several new passenger and express air lines will begin operating. Even- tually airplanes will fly over carefully marked routes provided with beacon lights, radio direction and emergency landing fields provided through the co-operation of the United States De partnent of Commerce. Several routes have some of these facilities already. "Some day every roof availabble for advertising that is located -on an es- tablished air route will be very valu- able. Such space can be obtained at low 'prices now. CIients who are ad- vertising should 'sign up the best of these locations for as long a period as possible. As the airplane industry develops, it will bring as many new opportunities as the automobile has brought. It eventually will affect real estate values, develop new lines of business and change the travel halite of a largo number of people. We urge clients to consider seriously these in. fluences now because the time 1s near at hand when they will begin to be felt." — a RETAIN YOUR VIGOR. This Can Only be Done by Keep- ing the Blood Rich and Red. If you would regain your vigor and ambition, keep your blood and nerves in good condition. Anaemia, or thin blood lowers the vitality, starves the nerves and causes a general run-down condition. When the blood is thin the skit loses its color, the shoulders droop and weight is lost. The victim of 'anaemia loses appetite, suffers .from indigestion, headaches and sleep- lessness, and is nervous and exhaust ed after slight exertion. If you have any of these symptoms do not delay but begin treatment now with Dr. Williams' Pink Pills and you will be gratified with the prompt improve- ment in your condition. Among the thousands who have found new health through the use of this medicine is Mrs. Herbert Nagle, Ludlow, N.B., who says;—"I had not been feeling well for Some time and was gradually growing weaker. I would take dizzy spells and often. faint. I was subject to severe headaches and found It hard to d0 my work. I took doctor's medi- cine for some time, but it did me no good, and I was still growing weaker. In this condition I began the use of Dr, Williams' Pink Pills, and in . a short time found they were Helping ine. I continued the use of the pills for a while longer, and found that the trouble that had bothered me was gone and I was once more a well wo- man." Get Er Williams' Pink Pills at your druggist's on write The Dr. Willams' Medicine Co., Brockville, Ont., and the pills will bo sent fest paid at 50 cents a box. .Yes,, For. Crying Out Loud. He --"I'm . an auctioneer you know anti make a large amount of money. every time I conduct a sale." She—"Well, for crying out loud!" Industrial Conditions London Daily Telegraph (Cons.) Mass prociiiction on the grand scale is possible in many American. Indus- tries, -with their large protected 'mar heti, though it is less applicable here. But even if the fullest allowance be made for those and .other differences' between British and American prac- tice, it cannot be doubted that the American workman owes much of his good fortune to his readiness to co ojierate, with his employer instead of treating hits as an enemy. I1 is a 'simple aril unheroic prescription-- that the workman should be self -con- sole' ,,, elf-:consolo•.' insteadatclass-conscious.. Now packed in Aluminum. Prof. W. S. Holdsworth, K.C.,D,C.L„ Vinerlau Professor of English Law at A11 Souls College, Oxford, returning with Mrs. Holdsworth, from a lecture tour of the United. States on the Cunard liner Ausonia, to England. He received two 'honorary degrees and the Ames Prize of Harvard during his American visit. ' • British Settlers One hundred and fifty-two young Englishmen trained at the Labor Min- istry's farm have arrived at Quebec and are now on their way to agricul- tural employment in the West. Until they were selected for Canadian set- tlement, they were among the unem- ployed in England and doubtless faced a depressing future. Now this is all changed. They come to a coun- try where industry is greatly reward- ed, where men with no, better chances than themselves have risen to lead their provinces, and where farming,' the chief source of the country's wealth, cannot be sacrificed to other industries in the way in which it has been in'yingland. They should be full of hope for the future. But not only they; so also should all Canadians, if this experi- nient succeeds. And whether is suc- ceeds or not now depends mainly on our organizations and individuals in tate West. That the man aro the right material, we have no reason to doubt. That they have been taught enough to fit them for a start on a Canadian farm goes without saying. They will. not shirk their tasks. But they can- not undertake them with any degree of composure if life itself becomes a mere empty drudgery. Though, in coming to Canada; they are being given .a new start with great promise for the future, it must not be forgot- ten that they .themselves will be sac- rificing adrificing many of the better things which life has to offer. It is no easy matter for a man who has been brought upin the bright surroundings of human companionship and who is accustomed to the quick exercise of wits, to devote himself suddenly to the exclusive exercise of his muscles and the solemn delight of lonely meditation. British Trade Policy London Spectator—The debate (on the Board of Trade) provides ample food for reflection.; - The neces- sity as well as the desirability of large combinations In industry was brought out by all parties, and accorded of- ficial recognition by the President; of the Board of Trade. And the old Pro- tectionist leanings common to the Conservative adn Labor parties were strikingly revealed. Finally, the dis- parity between the waterlogged heavy industry of the North and the lighter technical industries of the South was increasingly emphasized as the de- bate proceeded. .. There can be lit- tle doubt that a program which in - chided the reconstruction and reor- ganizationr of the heavy industries by means ot amalgamation (compulsory in certain cases): Protection for these industries in some form or an- other; the relief of industrial and ag- ricultural rates; and, last " but not least, Imperial development through reciprocal' preferences, would contain much that would commend itself to a large proportion of the Conservative party. Roads and Railways .London Nation and Athenaeum— Tile opening -up of the country by rail- ways • and the general adoption of steam -driven machinery were the two dominant technical causes of our nineteenth-century, development. What railways and steam were in the nine- teenth century, roads and electricity bid fair to be inthe twentieth, , Why should not the roads do for tis neo -day what the railways did a hun- dred years ago? Why should• not road development help to rescue our trade from its post-war malaise just as the, railway development of the 'thirties anti 'forties served to rescue it from the malaise which itad hung over it since Waterloo? Minard's,•Llniment'tor burns. MISTAKES OHMS MIKE IN CARE OF LITTLE OHS Many mothers give their children solid foods at too early an age and say proudly that their babies "eat everything that grown-up people do." Such a course is almost certain to bring on indigestion and lay the foun- dation of much ill -health for the lit- tle one. Other mothers administer harsh, nauseating purgatives which in real- ity irritate and injure the delicate stomach and bowels and at the same time cause the children to dread all medicine. .Absolutely no meat should be given toa ohild.until it reaches the age of 18 months, and thee. only if approved by the doctor. For medicine, all strong, disagreeable oils and powders should be abandoned and Babys' Own Tablets given instead.. • Baby's Own Tablets are especially made for little ones. They are pleas- ant to take and can be given with ab- solute safety to even the new-born babe. They quickly banish constipa- tion and -indigestion, break up colds and simple fevers and make the cut- ting of teeth easy, They are sold by medicine dealers or by mail at 25 cents a box from The Dr. Wlliams' Medicine CCo., Brockville, Ont. A Colonization Line Quebec Soleil (Lib.)—It is our be- lief, unless the contrary is proved, that the lines which will lint up the Trans -Canadian lines to James Bay or to Hudson Bay, without being an im- mediately paying proposition, will have tjteir use for the development of the region and the exploitation of na- tural resources which need develop- ment both in that territory and in the sea. The recent discovery of a new wheat which comes to maturity in ten .clays less, pushes back a considerable way the limit of the grain zone and for that reason the territory • which can be colonized to advantage. Im- will -make colonization ti nration and g greater progress if the rail precedes the settler, 1n proof of which the prairies may be cited which, would have remained a somi•desert steppe if we had delayed to build a 'railway across them, until the number of colonists justified the .expense, 109 Your grocer knows when you order BED ROSE ORANGE PEKOE you area judge of fine tea. Classified Advertisements . ' SaTv11.TIONs lrAOLIAT The P' f Diet.ettorship Leads Always to War or Re- volution, Asserts Former Italian Premier "The forms of dictatorship that have arisen in b}uaope—iii Italy, Spa•rn, Poland, Hungary, Russia -are only adventures of parties' consecrated to violence," writes, Francesca Nitti, 'fernier Italian Premier; in August Current History, "It is. easy and often even agreeable to assume a dictatorship. Instead of thinking, flg"tthtg, struggling, it is found expedi- ent to transfer the whole solution to a single panty, to a single man, At fleet sight this seems' very simple. But the difficulty is to eliminate the dictatorship dater. All personal pow- er necessao4hy tends to defend itself, that is, to abolish all opposition, and to do this it is necessary to nullify and destroy the law and' resort to violence. This means that the dicta- torship, to preserve its own existence, must abolish all individual guarantees and transform itself into a rule of oppression. All oppaeaston engenders hatred and the bloodiest persecutions. A country under a distatorship is in- evitably transformed into a country of slaves and rebels'. The mass are the slaves, the superior nitride are the re- bels.. Then the motive tdlat had deter- mined the dletablesbip, viz., the desire of order end the hope of eliminating conflicts, no longer exists. Conflicts lose. all civil spirit and ere changed into 'savage and bloody persecutions. Dictatorships ere always proclaimed as a necessity to void revolution, but they always lead to revolution. All the dictatorships of modern history have ended in revolution or war. Witten the dictatorsbdp must cheese it wayf re- solving always war es ao e Y solving the difficulties that confront it with 'the Ieast humiliation pess:bie." Motor Invasion of the Antipodes Ottawa.—Hon, John Pratten, Minis- ter of Commerce and Customs in the Government of Australia, has return- ed to Ottawa from Toronto. He had conferences here with several Minis- ters, particularly with Holl. James Malcolm, Minister of Trade and Com- merce. It is understood that as a result of his visit to Canada an important an- nouncement will be made with re- spect to extensive developments in the automobile industry in Australia. Details are not available here, but. it is reported that General Motors of Canada, which handles the export. trade of General Motors to various parts of the Empire will establish int. portant plants in the Antipodes to make such portions of their ears as possible there for that field. When the average Englishman tra- vels abroad he very rarely has any trouble with the native language; it is the natives who have all the trou- ble. 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The Turks show the highest Percentage of all. There are about 20,000 Turks in France and 8 per cent. of then are naturalized. - An American tourist recently stop- ped three hours to admire some bean- tiful scenery in a lonely part of Eng- land. Meanwhile, his driver put the engine trouble right. "If the League of Nations would only agree nott to have another war until the last i is t one paid for, ever- lasting peace would be a. tore 1,"— Lord Dewar. Wife—"I saw tine doctor to-tiay about my loss of memory." Hubby,- "What ubby—"What did he do?" Wife ':jade me pay in advance." CANCER FREE BOOK SENTonREUUaST, Tells cause of cancer and what 10 de for pain, bleeding, odor, etc. Write for it to -day, mentioning this paper. Ad- dress Indianapolis Cancer hospital Indianapolis, Ind.' Spraaned Lignnerem, Gentle massaging with Min- ard's will quickly relieve the pain and stiflnese. SICK ABED EMIT MOT I EMIT After Taking Lydia E. 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