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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1947-01-16, Page 7Chronicles of Ginger Farm By Gwendoline P. Clark Last Thursday was a day to re- member even to a person used to English fogs, It was a real pea- souper, although not as bad as the black fogs of London. And of all days Thursday was the one on which the company that Bob works for had arranged' a banquet in Tor- onto for its employees. All day:I was worrying about what the night might bring forth and my fears were certainly not lessened when news got around of a man being killed near here on a level cross- ing. The poor fellow saw the light of the train but, • owing to the dense fog, mistook it for the light of the station. I had still another shock during the evening when our telephone tang and it was "long distance", Of course in the space of a split second I had Bob in a smash-up, probably in a morgue, or at best in hospital, Then the operator went on—"Niagara Falls is call- ing." Niagara Falls—that meant Second. Niece. My heart sw,ped its sledge hannner pouncing and I was able to assure Second Niece quite emphatically that we would just love to have her for the week- end. * * * Came bedtime and as I put out Mitchie the cat I tried not to see that the fog was getting worse. Anyway we were not expecting Bob home that night because he had other plans. However, some- tinie during the night I heard foot- steps—Bob had changed his mind and come home. He told me next morning tliat it was the worst fog he had ever experienced in Ontario, so apparently I had reason to be concerned. What we parents have to worry about!' That is what i was turn- ing over in my mind this morn- ing. And then i wondered if we would have less worries if there were fewer cars and trucks on the road. What clo you think about it? Anyway I am pretty sure there are a good many women who hardly know a minute's peace once the family car is out of the gar- age—yes, and when Father is driv- ing too, because Father has been known to exceed the speed limit) * * Bu • had ing t APP Jami so m I It h greeyoungnow— well,source folk if they should arrive home to find Mother sitting up for them S know one mother who will neve r go to bed until all her fam- is- under one roof and l t add she keeps pretty late hours at times. u m w Well, what should we do about it? Should we stay up or go to bed? Personally I think if we have instilled the right ideas in our off- spring in their childhood and ado- lescent years we can trust them not to go too far astray. Liberty they must have because this is an age of liberty. Some day the pen- dulum may swing back — who knows? We know there are good- and bad of every age and. in every genera- tion. You who have a grown-up family can't you remember the times when you were told by your mother—"If I had done so-and-so when 1 was a girl ..." And Sundays—do you remember the Sundays? Scissors were never allowed out in niy home on Sun- days. 1 remember so well one awful crime l committed. I wanted so badly to make a dress for my doll so 1 took the dolt, some dress goods, and the scissors and hid un- der the dining -room table. Surely a pitying Father must sometimes grieve for the interpre- tation that was, and is, given to FIis Commandments. TO the old days it was too literal — in these rays too elastic. A'ircr'aft for Britain Australia is to produce British Vampire jet-propelled fighters and gas turbine erigines. Australia is at , present producing Mosquito fighter bombers. Tudor military transports, Lincoln heavy, bombers, Mustang fighters and Rolls-Royce Merlin engines for Lincolns. THE 'BIG 8' NEARS COMPLETION Its rounded upper and lower deck sections forming a gigantic figure 8 that dwarfs the workers, part of the body of the new Boeing Stratocruiser, peacetime version of the B-29, is shown nearing com- pleting at Seattle, Wash. The huge double -decked luxury airliner will carry 80 passengers. What Housing Shortage! Mrs. Myrtle Ann Dibble, Jackson, Mich., dressmaker, isn't waiting for the housing shortage to ease up—she's building one of her own, with a bit of help from daughters Laurette Lee, 13, and Mona Mae, 12. The house will have seven rooms and a recreation room. Mrs. Dibble is doing the carpentry, laying the cement blocks, installing wiring, plumbing, plastering, finishing, The girls are mortar car- riers and helpers. ,knower to Previous Puzrle I Leads U. S. 9th Army 1 HORIZONTAL 2 Metal N 1 Pictured U. S. 3 Acid fruits lel P Army man, - 4 Limbs • E Lt. -Gen. — 5 Extinct bird R E IL H. -- - 6 Male offspring a 11 Anger 7 Newspaper Ik 12 Plant part paragraph I 13 Girl's name 8 Transgressor 14 Alaskan city 9 Poems a mics of the zodiac 16 Lion's neck 10 Burmese wood United States*40 Vent'lates 28 It is (contr.) 41 Petty quarrel 32 Goes -at an A N N P O E C H A R $ T E A T. M A D. 0 P A Y 0 L A 5 T E T 0 1- ;r�T R A L M N M Y M L ENI - LE $ 5 P ANN RICHARD5 E- G D A A P E A 5 p A E A L N E R E S 0 R A M A 5 NE E E ANE T 0 RAl 1 M 50P L hair spirit 17 Dill 15 Sea eagle 18 Patterns 17 Assistant 20 Farm attached 19 Encountered to a mansion 21 Be indisposed house (Scot.) 24 Frozen water 22 Compass point25 Neither 27 He commands — of the 23 Fish 24 Insert 26 Dormouse 29 Company (ab.) 30 Symbol for nickel 31 Muse of poetry 35 Storms 38 Written form of Mistress 39 Exist 40 Encourages 42 Parts of plants 44 Type of thread 45 Peel 48 Window ledge 50 Before 51 West Indiap shrub 52 Negative word 53 Essentials VERTICAL 1 Be victorious 42 Vend easy gait 43 Wild plum 33 Arduous 44 Observe journey 46 Blackbird of 34 Hops' kiln cuckoo family 35 Rodent 47 Narrow Intel 36 War god 49 Lieutenants 37 Sign of the (ab.) 18 9 11 MUM ®■®®® ©■■ • 50 EN 1 rr r n � �i■■.....■■■■ 40 =wl vA� 30 18 11 Row to 'Vicinage the Automobile' Editor's note:' 'If you drive an automobile (from the front seat or the back) consider the following editorial by Bertram M. Tate which was recently. published in Mayfair Magazine. It may apply to you. There are thousands of people driving automobiles who don't know the first thing about driving an automobile. • If that strikes you as a half-bak- ed, smarty -pante generalization, it may be because you don't know the first thing, either. When we look in the newspaper any Monday morning to learn who has been killed in motor accidents, we learn that even when drivers know everything else about driv- ing, they don't know the first thing. The first thing, you must under- stand about your car is that it does not belong exclusively to you. Un- less you get this point straight you cannot be an intelligent driver. The legal concept of ownership is already out of date as it applies to automobiles. And until every mo- torist gets it clearly through his head that his car is not entirely his own property, driving will continue to threaten his purse, his health, his sanity and his life. Conduct of Motorists Regulations governing your con- .,eet as a motorist will continue in- effective as long as you cling 4o your belief that your car, like your shoes, is a private and independent means of getting you from A to B. As things stand, our laws are merely the expression of how much interference you deem necessary for other motorists. They are neither thoroughly nor sincerely obeyed, because you regard them as an en- croachment upon your essential sovereignty as a driver. So many motorists are so many votes, and the law is timid, Every policeman's wage is a charge upon your wages, so enforcement is but a token. Short of providing a constable to ride with every driver: the law can- not cope with your innocent arro- gance in supposing that your car is your very own to manage as you please. Without thousands of other auto- mobiles, yours would be of no use to you. You could not afford even to own it. The highways, the gas stations, the bridges, the repair shops, the hot dog stands—none of the facilities upon which the value 'of your car depends could exist without the support of thousands of motorists. Control Necessary Your car is nothing without thou- sands of other cars. Our economy could not function without thousands of cars, The au- tomobile is a social institution. -It is a foundation stone of modern life. It is a public utility. Society needs the automobile; but society will soon have to take charge of it. It has become capricious Moloch to be appeased with Sabbath off- erings of human dead. It must be brought under control, Which is to say that thousands of drivers must be brought under control. Self-con- trol may conceivably be the an- swer; but, as to that, one cannot find a basis for optimism. Self-con- trol for this purpose must be rooted in a clear conception of the public character of the automobile, The trusteeship of every motorist, the debt he owes every other motorist, the equity which society has in his car, must become plain. Many "Clever" Drivers There is really no such thing as clever driving any more. An auto- mobile, being cleverly designed, re- sponds eagerly to the whims of the stupidest moron. No higher talent is required of a motorist than to keep his mind on what he's doing and obey the law. If he would faithfully do that, all would be well; • Yet the roads abound with "clev- er" drivers. Cleverness in driving consists only of outwitting or in- timidating other drivers, ;,red in tak- ing chances. The driver who thus displays what he conceives to be an CHECKED ✓BITCH -oriMonyBack bin caused by eczema - For quick 1 retie(from. pi g nondt,io loot; a pure. pining, medicated, cared, tchfnr uk 3. D. u E Dore, TIOngg Greaseless li is 1. D. D, irRESCRIPTIOtV: Greaeeleaa and' -Walesa. Soothes.` comforts and 4uroklyy cal`. nteuse Itching. Don't suffer Askoat drugsisl today for D. D. D. PRESCRIPTION. accomplishment, even a social. grace, `reveals only boorish irre- sponsibility. Yet, regarding his car as a private means for accomplish- ing private purposes, and having been encouraged to take less and less responsibility upon himself, he can perhaps hardly be blamed. His neighbors are more impressed by - imitation white sidewalls on his tires than by consideration for them in traffic.' It is hard to understand why mo toring is considered less difficult and dangerous than flying. You are free to drive a car, no matter how big a fathead you may be; while to qualify as a pilot you must have considerable instruction, and put in hours of supervised practice. Yet aircraft almost never collide. They ram mountains, they run foul of bad weather, their mechanisms fail; but they practically never injure each other. The bulk of damage to automobiles and their passengers is done by other automobiles. As Driver Sees Himself Almost any nincompoop, male or female, is allowed to drive. And the motorist appraises an accident strictly in terms of what it costs him in money. Discredit seldom fol- lows responsibility for an accident. The disadvantage of responsibility lies only in having to pay the bills. We are ashamed of poor form- on the golf course; we blush and stam- mer when we trump our partner's ace; we will rent a dres suit to cover up honest poverty; yet we'll drive our cars dangerously and stu- pidly with the lordliest unconcern. We are embarrassed by the revela- tion of any trifling misfortuneor inadequacy, even when it hurts no- ' body else; yet we are never asham- ed of incompetence as drivers. We don't even recognize competence as a factor in driving. There are only dumb drivers and smart drivers, lucky drivers and unlucky drivers, large new impressive cars and lit- tle old contemptible cars. Because practically nobody un- derstands the automobile. Practic- ally no driver sees himself as a small, dependent unit in a great 'social process. ',Practically every driver sees himself as Ben Hur in the Hippodrome. Sense of Trusteeship Canadians have natioinalized or socialized a good many public utili- ties, few of which are more basic to the country's life than the auto- mobile. It would be a tremendous legislative undertaking to transfer title in every automobile to the Crown; yet all the arguments which resulted iu the other expropriations are present. Sooner or later some politician who has unsuccessfully tried every other battle cry is going to get hold of this. And when he declares that private ownership has shownitself incapable of proper management of automobiles, he'll be as right as he'll be unpopular. If he argues that automobiles should be taken away from drivers who cannot live up to their trustee- ship, we will have brought it upon ourselves. Nothing but this serious sense of trusteeship will protect us from the danger of injury and death. And trusteeship can hardly be coerced. But if somebody starts advocating a law whereby our cars can be seiz- ed when we fall short of our public duty as drivers, the families and friends of thousands of dead will vote for it. Pigeon Awarded Medal for Gallantry Happy whimsicality colored the recent ceremony at the Tower of London to honor an American hero, says The Christian Science Monitor. High-ranking officers of the United States and British Armies and Royal Air Force were ,e present on historic Thanes -side lawn's to see "G.1. Joe"; a United States Ariny pigeon, presented to the Constable of the Tower. He: received the Dickin 'Medaj for • gallantry. This is the first time the medal, highest Britisn award for animals and birds, has been award-'. ed outside the United Kingdon: The official citation of his mile a -minute flight over a 24• mile course reads; ' l'le came .'through' from the British Tenth Corps head- quarters inItaly with :a message. that saved the lives of at least 100 soldiers, stopping the bombe rcl- ment of a spot occupied by the Allies. Had Joe been five minutes late it might have been a com- pletely different story." "Well done, G.I. Joel" a British - general said as be hung a bronze' medal with blue, chocolate, and green ribbon around the pigeon's neck. GETTING UP, AT NIGHT? flow miserable you feel when youg sleep is disturbed. Tired, achey, listless all day long. Why not take Gin Pills -an old reliable remedy for relieving kidney trouble? Com- pounded to help soothe and tone up the kidneys Gin Pills are sold on a satisfaction -or -money -back basis. Regular size, 40 Pills Economy size, s0 Pills aim PILLS FOR THE KIDNEYS (In tho U.S.A. ask for Gino Palls) Natlanal Ora & Chemical Comms of Canada. Umlbd Here's really effective gentle relief from CONSTIPATION Get glorious relief from sluggishness the proved Phillips' Milk of Magnesia way. So effective. So gentle. Just take 2 to 4 tablespoonfuls with water. You'll be thrilled with the way it helps you start each day keenly alive and refreshed. What's more, Phillips' Milk of Magnesia is one of the fastest neutralizers of excess stomach acidity known to science. Its double -action means relief from constipation and relief from acid indigestion. Remember ... //cosi, as bYlle as 25CT®BESURE OF THE BEST ... MADE IM CO,107O4 (,ENV/lyf PHILLIPS' 1� OF MAGNA v 4 n0.1R/ • se 51111E 5111111* —PH �NU,NF' LLIPS�I talc OFhuc,p t� 4! TABLETS / ","%.ns,4135 4"}° v '5 ' YMtIAD .1 NIIIN Cara e e nnox M VOICE . jlll 11 1,11 ,1 f 1e i;t� II ' ii i : iI POP—Where Water Is Scarce "ONE EVERY TWO OR THREE HOURS WHEN SUFFERING IN HALF - A TEASPooNFLSL OF VYATLR By J. MILLAR WATT. (ileliuroii. by ','lie 1501 s:'eduoesL Ma) 2 3 - 4 5 6 7 1 8 9 to 11 kiff:A la 14 15 'I6 —'';;17 18 9 11 MUM ®■®®® ©■■ • 50 EN 1 rr r n � �i■■.....■■■■ 40 =wl vA� 30 18 11 Row to 'Vicinage the Automobile' Editor's note:' 'If you drive an automobile (from the front seat or the back) consider the following editorial by Bertram M. Tate which was recently. published in Mayfair Magazine. It may apply to you. There are thousands of people driving automobiles who don't know the first thing about driving an automobile. • If that strikes you as a half-bak- ed, smarty -pante generalization, it may be because you don't know the first thing, either. When we look in the newspaper any Monday morning to learn who has been killed in motor accidents, we learn that even when drivers know everything else about driv- ing, they don't know the first thing. The first thing, you must under- stand about your car is that it does not belong exclusively to you. Un- less you get this point straight you cannot be an intelligent driver. The legal concept of ownership is already out of date as it applies to automobiles. And until every mo- torist gets it clearly through his head that his car is not entirely his own property, driving will continue to threaten his purse, his health, his sanity and his life. Conduct of Motorists Regulations governing your con- .,eet as a motorist will continue in- effective as long as you cling 4o your belief that your car, like your shoes, is a private and independent means of getting you from A to B. As things stand, our laws are merely the expression of how much interference you deem necessary for other motorists. They are neither thoroughly nor sincerely obeyed, because you regard them as an en- croachment upon your essential sovereignty as a driver. So many motorists are so many votes, and the law is timid, Every policeman's wage is a charge upon your wages, so enforcement is but a token. Short of providing a constable to ride with every driver: the law can- not cope with your innocent arro- gance in supposing that your car is your very own to manage as you please. Without thousands of other auto- mobiles, yours would be of no use to you. You could not afford even to own it. The highways, the gas stations, the bridges, the repair shops, the hot dog stands—none of the facilities upon which the value 'of your car depends could exist without the support of thousands of motorists. Control Necessary Your car is nothing without thou- sands of other cars. Our economy could not function without thousands of cars, The au- tomobile is a social institution. -It is a foundation stone of modern life. It is a public utility. Society needs the automobile; but society will soon have to take charge of it. It has become capricious Moloch to be appeased with Sabbath off- erings of human dead. It must be brought under control, Which is to say that thousands of drivers must be brought under control. Self-con- trol may conceivably be the an- swer; but, as to that, one cannot find a basis for optimism. Self-con- trol for this purpose must be rooted in a clear conception of the public character of the automobile, The trusteeship of every motorist, the debt he owes every other motorist, the equity which society has in his car, must become plain. Many "Clever" Drivers There is really no such thing as clever driving any more. An auto- mobile, being cleverly designed, re- sponds eagerly to the whims of the stupidest moron. No higher talent is required of a motorist than to keep his mind on what he's doing and obey the law. If he would faithfully do that, all would be well; • Yet the roads abound with "clev- er" drivers. Cleverness in driving consists only of outwitting or in- timidating other drivers, ;,red in tak- ing chances. The driver who thus displays what he conceives to be an CHECKED ✓BITCH -oriMonyBack bin caused by eczema - For quick 1 retie(from. pi g nondt,io loot; a pure. pining, medicated, cared, tchfnr uk 3. D. u E Dore, TIOngg Greaseless li is 1. D. D, irRESCRIPTIOtV: Greaeeleaa and' -Walesa. Soothes.` comforts and 4uroklyy cal`. nteuse Itching. Don't suffer Askoat drugsisl today for D. D. D. PRESCRIPTION. accomplishment, even a social. grace, `reveals only boorish irre- sponsibility. Yet, regarding his car as a private means for accomplish- ing private purposes, and having been encouraged to take less and less responsibility upon himself, he can perhaps hardly be blamed. His neighbors are more impressed by - imitation white sidewalls on his tires than by consideration for them in traffic.' It is hard to understand why mo toring is considered less difficult and dangerous than flying. You are free to drive a car, no matter how big a fathead you may be; while to qualify as a pilot you must have considerable instruction, and put in hours of supervised practice. Yet aircraft almost never collide. They ram mountains, they run foul of bad weather, their mechanisms fail; but they practically never injure each other. The bulk of damage to automobiles and their passengers is done by other automobiles. As Driver Sees Himself Almost any nincompoop, male or female, is allowed to drive. And the motorist appraises an accident strictly in terms of what it costs him in money. Discredit seldom fol- lows responsibility for an accident. The disadvantage of responsibility lies only in having to pay the bills. We are ashamed of poor form- on the golf course; we blush and stam- mer when we trump our partner's ace; we will rent a dres suit to cover up honest poverty; yet we'll drive our cars dangerously and stu- pidly with the lordliest unconcern. We are embarrassed by the revela- tion of any trifling misfortuneor inadequacy, even when it hurts no- ' body else; yet we are never asham- ed of incompetence as drivers. We don't even recognize competence as a factor in driving. There are only dumb drivers and smart drivers, lucky drivers and unlucky drivers, large new impressive cars and lit- tle old contemptible cars. Because practically nobody un- derstands the automobile. Practic- ally no driver sees himself as a small, dependent unit in a great 'social process. ',Practically every driver sees himself as Ben Hur in the Hippodrome. Sense of Trusteeship Canadians have natioinalized or socialized a good many public utili- ties, few of which are more basic to the country's life than the auto- mobile. It would be a tremendous legislative undertaking to transfer title in every automobile to the Crown; yet all the arguments which resulted iu the other expropriations are present. Sooner or later some politician who has unsuccessfully tried every other battle cry is going to get hold of this. And when he declares that private ownership has shownitself incapable of proper management of automobiles, he'll be as right as he'll be unpopular. If he argues that automobiles should be taken away from drivers who cannot live up to their trustee- ship, we will have brought it upon ourselves. Nothing but this serious sense of trusteeship will protect us from the danger of injury and death. And trusteeship can hardly be coerced. But if somebody starts advocating a law whereby our cars can be seiz- ed when we fall short of our public duty as drivers, the families and friends of thousands of dead will vote for it. Pigeon Awarded Medal for Gallantry Happy whimsicality colored the recent ceremony at the Tower of London to honor an American hero, says The Christian Science Monitor. High-ranking officers of the United States and British Armies and Royal Air Force were ,e present on historic Thanes -side lawn's to see "G.1. Joe"; a United States Ariny pigeon, presented to the Constable of the Tower. He: received the Dickin 'Medaj for • gallantry. This is the first time the medal, highest Britisn award for animals and birds, has been award-'. ed outside the United Kingdon: The official citation of his mile a -minute flight over a 24• mile course reads; ' l'le came .'through' from the British Tenth Corps head- quarters inItaly with :a message. that saved the lives of at least 100 soldiers, stopping the bombe rcl- ment of a spot occupied by the Allies. Had Joe been five minutes late it might have been a com- pletely different story." "Well done, G.I. Joel" a British - general said as be hung a bronze' medal with blue, chocolate, and green ribbon around the pigeon's neck. GETTING UP, AT NIGHT? flow miserable you feel when youg sleep is disturbed. Tired, achey, listless all day long. Why not take Gin Pills -an old reliable remedy for relieving kidney trouble? Com- pounded to help soothe and tone up the kidneys Gin Pills are sold on a satisfaction -or -money -back basis. Regular size, 40 Pills Economy size, s0 Pills aim PILLS FOR THE KIDNEYS (In tho U.S.A. ask for Gino Palls) Natlanal Ora & Chemical Comms of Canada. Umlbd Here's really effective gentle relief from CONSTIPATION Get glorious relief from sluggishness the proved Phillips' Milk of Magnesia way. So effective. So gentle. Just take 2 to 4 tablespoonfuls with water. You'll be thrilled with the way it helps you start each day keenly alive and refreshed. What's more, Phillips' Milk of Magnesia is one of the fastest neutralizers of excess stomach acidity known to science. Its double -action means relief from constipation and relief from acid indigestion. Remember ... //cosi, as bYlle as 25CT®BESURE OF THE BEST ... MADE IM CO,107O4 (,ENV/lyf PHILLIPS' 1� OF MAGNA v 4 n0.1R/ • se 51111E 5111111* —PH �NU,NF' LLIPS�I talc OFhuc,p t� 4! TABLETS / ","%.ns,4135 4"}° v '5 ' YMtIAD .1 NIIIN Cara e e nnox M VOICE . jlll 11 1,11 ,1 f 1e i;t� II ' ii i : iI POP—Where Water Is Scarce "ONE EVERY TWO OR THREE HOURS WHEN SUFFERING IN HALF - A TEASPooNFLSL OF VYATLR By J. MILLAR WATT. (ileliuroii. by ','lie 1501 s:'eduoesL Ma)