HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1939-08-31, Page 7Canadian -Built Fighter Is Undergoing Initial Tests
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The R.C.A.F. wi11 soon be augmented by 28 Westland Lysander planes, the first of which was recently tested
at Melton Airport, Toronto. The planes are being built by the National Steel Car Company and are designed
to assist ground troops in the time of war as well as to carry a load of bombs. The first of the 28 planes.
to roll. off the finish line is shown ABOVE, just before undergoing its initial tests.
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PATROIAERS PATRuLLED: Re-
minds us of the old rhyme about
the dog that had fleas and the fleas
had other fleas to bite 'em ("so
on ad infinitum")—this newest
wrinkle in Ontario's high*ay traf-
fic regulations. The Attorney -
General's department has divided
the Province into three zones —
Eastern, Central, Western—with
a specially qualified Provincial pa-
trol officer, rank of sergeant, as
supervisor over all the motorcycle
officers in each wino. So while
the sop watches you to see that
you don't go over 50, a super -cop
is watching him to see that he
does his duty.
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A NATIVE RETURNS: Canada
has few authors of note who have
made. any stir beyond our shores,
and of these a great many dis-
posed to live in the United States
or abroad ... A double "welcome
home" is therefore extended to
writer Mazo de la Roche, creator
of the famed "Jalna" books who,
-after a long sojourn in England
and the U.S., lias come back to live
.Toronto. Her return boosts
.t a endo ,�! iy ltea.ar 's if -re-
spect.
While we think of it, diel you
know that the little church high on
a hill at Erindale, Ontario, is the
church attended by the Whiteoak
family in the "Jalna" novels?
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BEYOND DANZIG: Dr. Hans Si-
mon, former German diplomat,
and now a member of the New.
York School for Social Research,
declared last week that Danzig is
simply the, stepping -stone for a
Nazi policy which.looks much fur-
ther 'than the banks of the Vistu-
la or the Polish Corridor — to-
wards world domination. Reduc-
. tion of Poland to a state of vas-
salage is doubtless• next on the
program; a big clean-up in the
Balkans (Juosglavia, Rumania,
etc.) ; maybe another clean-up in
the Baltic, then the incapacitation
of France.
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PROPAGANDA JITTERS: Italy
and Germany are proving that it's
pretty well possible to control the
press of a country, to have noth-
ing printed in the .newspapers
which isn't to the advantage of the
existing government. Radio is a
great deal harder to handle but
the propaganda bosses through the
medium of the Gestapo, in Ger-
many for instance, clamp -down in-
exorably on owners of receiving
sets who tune in broadcasts from
beyond the country's borders.
Art, the movies, magazines, the-
atre, are similarly muzzled. But
one channel that cannot be con-
trolled, so far, at any rate, by Fas-
cist machinery, is the postal ser-
vice. Through the medium of the
letter -box, Hitler and Mussolini
may yet meet defeat.
Now Stephen King -Hall, British
publicist, has launched a highly
organized correspondence service
which sends letters to as many as
50,000 private individuals in Ger-
many, giving them true news of
the international situation and a
picture of Hitler as the rest of the
world sees him." '
The letters are passed by the
recipients into many other hands
. , and has Dr. Goebbels a head-
ache!
The new hair style decrees beat
the drum "loudly for curls and
more curia and to make easy the
problem of keeping her myriad
rolls intact milady may now have
the aid of a new hair -grooming
device which serves every hair set-
ting purpose. It's a riew comb
designed to comb, curl and dress
the hair in several easy motions.
It has a stationary comb at one
end for combiu Athmhair prior to
curling it and .a, movable comb at
the other to curl the hair.
Heat Dries,
. scur Haar.
M !ally's Lacks Require Care Fn
Summer
Your hair is suffering from too
much sun..
It needs attention. Do give it a
proper brushing. Remember that
every head of hair that ever was
'needs five minutes' brushing morn-
ing and evening. Don't sigh about
it. Don't think that this means the
end of your .wave and set — be-
cause it doesn't. Brushing distrib-
utes the natural grease through
the hair, and that means you will
keep your wave and set a great
deal longer. If you deny this nat-
ural grease to the hair, it goes like
straw, and you know what happens
then. It doesn't keep its wave for
two seconds. It sticks out here and
it goes like hay there, and secret -
]y you are rather thankful that you
can't see the back of it, because
Heaven only knows what that is
looking like!
Use a good lotion. Buy yourself
a hair tonic.
For the time being wash your
hair with yolks of eggs. Use plenty
of water for the rinsing, because it
is this meanness on the water that
makes such an enormous differ-
ence to a head of hair.
NTAR K
UTDOORS
By VIC BAKER
REEL INFORMATION
One of the questions that event-
ually pops up at all discussions
surrounding the art of angling is
"who invented the fishing reel"?
As a matter of fact crude reels
.were used over 300 years ago. At
that time within two feet of the
enc] of the rod, there was a hole
made to put in 'a wind, turned
with a barrel to gather up and .
loose line.
The earliest type of reel with
which we are familiar, consisted
of a spool with handle riveted
directly to the spool.. These reels
were made .,of brash and were
without click or 'drag. Reels of
this type are still on the market
and retail at about one dollar.
The mtilitplying reel was an
American invention, introduced
by a Kentucky watchmaker about
1834. Black bass fishermen
everywhere still favour the orig-
inal style reel, with few refine-
ments. innovations such as free
spool, level winding and anti -
back -lash devices now are built in-
to these reels, but the general
construction remains the same.
Also extensively developed
have been the big game fish reels.
These reels are now built in sizes
large enough to hold 1,000 yards
of 39 -thread line. They are equip- .
ped with handles that turn one
way only, and adjustable drags
that can be controlled by the ang-
ler. . We have come quite a way
since the first primitive reel was '
lashed to a rod.
One railway in England is
building 90 new engines,, including
20 of the Coronation Scot type.
VOICE
C4 hie
PRESS
A FINE BODY OF MEN
While of course, they are not
possessed of what would undoubt-
edly be the invaluable gift of 'ubi-
quitousness, Ontario's highway
traffic police are, on the, whole,
as fine a body of men as one can
find engaged in similar work any-
where. "
Their work is not of a sensa-
tional nature. Unless the circum-
stances are exceptional, the most
serious criminals with whom they
deal are motorists who transgress
the pro -visions of the Highway
Traffic Act. When they are call-
ed upon to display courage they
show that they can tackle any-
thing, from a bank bandit to a
murderer.
.And it is to their credit that the
highways of Ontario are clean
and well kept, in the traffic
sense. There is much reckless and
negligent driving. There is much
foolishness and stupidity, but it
always occurs—or nearly always
—when there is' no officer in
sight.—Guelph Mercury.
AN OLD TUNE
So many men grab the stool
when there is a piano to be mov-
ed.—Brandon Sun.
CRAZE FOR LIMELIGHT ..........
It is related that Mussolini
loves to be photographed for pic-
tures to be published in the,Italian
papers and that accredited camera
men are at liberty to take snaps
at any time they see him: Thus
another angle is afforded' of his
craze to be in the limelight.—
Brantford Expositor.
WHY?'
When England was of the same
population that Canada now has,
she had a great literature. We
have very little, and not of the
highest class.— Catholic Record.
Books A nd You
BY
ELIZABETH EEDY
THE OWNLEY INN
By Joseph C. Lincoln and Freeman
Lincoln
Shades of salt -spray and bape
Cod folks saunter across the pages
of a new and satisfactory puzzle
story by the father -and -son team al-
ready celebrated as the authors of
"Blair's Attic" a mystery of a sea-
son or two ago. Once you have read
a 'Lincoln" story you will look
for more ... and more.
Who stole the valuable Copy of
"The New England Primer" (1749
edition) from the strongroom of
the Knowlton Library of American
Literature? Who killed the Klan of
Mystery on Sepatouk Island, and
was he the crook? Which one of
the islanders is an unscrupulous
collector? Sleuthing away to''solve
these mysteries :we find Dick
Clarke, a Bainbridge youth engaged
to Anne Francis, and Seth Ownley,
proprietor of the Island Inn.
The plot unfolds with plenty of
intrigue, love, native types .of peo-
ple—in fact everything you expect
to find in a "Lincoln" book.
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Hands will 'not suffer from
household work if they are liber-
ally smeared beforehand with a
good cream or lotion? In this
way the hands will be soft and
white after the subsequent wash-
ing with soap and Ovate::. Fingers
and nails stained with vegetable:
parings or gardening should be
rubbed with a lemon cut in half.
Dig the nails well inside the centre
of the lemon. -
Stamp Story.
A Woman Lost Her Temper
And Found An Idea.
Even losing one's temper may be
put to a practical use. We owe the
facility with which we stamp our
letters today to such an event,
A woman, being angry with herr
husband once stopped her sewing
in order to "rub it in" more effec-
tively, and kept pricking a straight
line with her needle' on a pattern
book lying on the table, then ang-
rily she tore it along the line of
The husband seized apon the
pin pricks.
LIFE'S LIKE THAT
By Fred. Nebe>ia
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