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Zurich Herald, 1940-08-01, Page 7Railway Brakeman 'le'Loaned io FiIrxx'Company For Movie Samuel H. (Smoky) Shaw, a native of Everett, Ont„ has been braking •on IC. P. R. trains out of Medicine Hat, Calgary and other Al- berta points since 1917 but he has found a new temporary vocation— that of a movie star. Picture shows the railroad man, who is now known •Vs {Clark Gable to his friends, in a scene on the open observation of .P.R. No. 7 between Calgary and Banff with British film actor Eric Portman. At the camera is Fred Young, .chief cameraman of the Ortus film production "Forty -Ninth Parallel" now in the making at Banff, Lake O'Hara and Montreal Stars -of the picture are Raymond Massey, Elizabeth Bergner., ;and Leslie Howard, but to his friends and most C.P.R. folk in the west .Sniolsy Shaw is the real one. He has been loaned to the film company at the request of the director., Michael Powell, for lie shooting of all the railroad sequences. Smoky now resides at Medi- cine Hat, Alta. —C.P.R. Photo. - How Can 1? BY ANNE ASHLEY Q. How can I prevent the sharp points of feathers or pine needles from working through the covers of cushions or pillows? A. This can be prevented, when filling cushions or pillows, if the wrong side of the material is rub- bed thoroughly with beeswax. Q. How can I make a good cement for mending broken china? A. Stir some plaster of Paris into the beaten white of an egg, to the consistency of paste. Q. How can I destroy perspir- ation odor on the body? A. Bathe in a basin of warm water, to which has been added two tablespoons of compound spirit of ammonia. This will leave the skin clean and fresh. Q. How can I prevent circles from forming, and also remove the odor, after cleaning a fabric with gasoline? A. After cleaning with the gas- oline, put about one-third part 'vinegar into the water with which the cloth is dampened before iron- ing. This .will prevent any circles from forming and will remove the gasoline scent. Q. How can I deodorize gaso- line? A. Add five or six drops of oil of sassafras to each quart of gas - cline used. Tourists May Visit Commons Rules Are Imposed; Caution Vs Exercised in Tourist Calls Toursits and other visitors have not been denied admission to the Parliament Buildings but certain restrictions have been imp•ose•d, Speaker James Glen told the House of Commons last week. He describ- ed reports to the effect all visitors were barred as incorrect. "Instructions have been given that where visitors desire to enter the building they do so it a.ccompan- • led by some person who is respon- sible, who is well-known or who holds a responsible position," said the Speaker. MUST BE ACCOMPANIED Cases have arisen, he said, where remembers of parties of visitors be- ' ing shown about the building by glides became seperated from the parties and disappeared. In view of conditions and the fact that the pre- vious building had been lost by fire in the first Great War this could n bepermitted. Accordingly, all visitors would have to be accompanied by some !person known to the officials, who would be responsible for them. It was necessary that members of the protective staff know where all per. eons admitted to the building were. The Speaker also asked the co- operation of members of Parlia- itaaent. Cornwall's Most Radio -Conscious I': Cornwall, youngest city of the Dominion, holds the title of being )nore radio conscious than any Other city or town in Canada with it fdpulation of 6,000 or more, e Cording to statistics issued at 'Ottawa by the radio division of Ole transport department. In Cornwall, licenses issued ring the last fiscal year avertg- 369 per 1,000 of population. Crewels also led all other coin !unities in the fiscal years of 7 mull 1118/416. Love Notes to Gold Are Found In Pianos 0. W. Haines, a Los Angeles. piano tuner observing his sixty- first birthday, estimated he had sweetened more than 6,000,000, sour ,000,000- sour notes. He added: "I have found in pianos every- thing from love letters to false teeth, from salt shakers to $500 in $20 gold pieces." U. S. Vice -Presidential Nominee Acting under direct orders from President Roosevelt, the Demo- cratic national convention in Chicago nominated Secretary of Agriculture Wallace as vice-presi- dential candidate. Modern Etiquette BY ROBERTA LEE Q. When you are going to have a guest who is very careless about ashes and cigarette ends, is it all right to ask this guest to be care- ful? A. If this guest MUST be invited, in spite of causing you such nuees- ine•ss, the only thing to do is to place ash trays in every possible place where he may sit. Q. When a girl and her escort en- ter a restaurant together, shouldn't the girl go first? A. Yes; the girl should follow the waiter to the table. her escort last. Q. What is the symbolism of zin- nias? A. Thoughts of absent friends. Q. When a young woman's best girl friend is soon leaving for a month's vacation, what is the best way to show friendship? A. It would be nice to give her a gift that you know will be nice for her trip. Or you might give her a party before she leaves. Q, Doesn't it show poor taste for a person to attempt to display his knowledge on any particular sub- ject, when with others? A. Yes, We always find that the ablest person is the simplest and Most modest. Q. low Should a girl introduce her escort to another girl? A. "Edith, this is Edward Carter — Edith Hall." 1 SiopPED offs 4 ✓iffy •or Money Back For gniokrelief from itching of e,esema, pimples, ath- lete'sfoot, goatee Boobies, rashes and other externally aiiueed,kin troubles, use world-famous, cooling, ante eoptio, liquid D. J'. D. Presoription. Greaseleoe, ulainlesg. Soothe,irritation and quickly stops intense itohing. 85o trial bottle provoa it, or money back. Ask ,pour druggist today for D. D. D. PRESCRIPTION. 1 HEALTH TOPICS 41-N-01.* ,11. 41 41 • :. • 4'4:0..4 .....vv -0-11,11. Watch Sunburn Watch that sunburst, advised the Health League of Canada, in are- cent bulletin. Sunlight is necessary to vigor- ous health, and so are eggs, meat, milk and cheese. But after being deprived of direct sunlight on the greater part of the skin for inanY months, one should no more ex- pose himself to hours of direct sunlight than he should indulge in a banquet of a dozen eggs, half a bullock, a ,gallon of milk and an entire cheese at one sitting. The Health League advises that tan is becoming, but it should be acquired gradually. Sun -baths also should not exceed ten minutes for the first time. An additional five minutes might be added to subsee quent sunnings. Long and unaccustomed expos- ure to hot sun rays is likely to re- sult in severe burns„ and these may be as deep and dangerous as burns received in other ways. HAVE, YOU HEARD? The tailor was selling his best friend a new suit. He was raving about the garment. "I'm telling you, Harry," he said, "that even your best friend won't recognize you in that suit! Just take a walk outside for a minute and get the feel of the garment." Harry went out and returned a moment later. The proprietor rush- ed up to him with a happy smile. "Good morning, stranger," he beamed. "What can I do for you?" First Farmer: "it is a bad season — my corn is hardly an inch high." Second Farmer: "That is no- thing — the sparrows have to kneel to eat mine." The manager of an Aberdeen firm called the bookkeeper into hire office. "Macpherson," he said, "the ac- countant is leaving, and I'm gaun tae gie you his job." The young bookkeepers face lit up with expectation. , "Thank you, sir," he relied. "And what will my salary be now?" The manager shook his head. "The same as you're gettin', ,but ye'll ha'e a hat -peg to yersel now," he replied. A new summer cottage was named "The Nutshell." It bore its name only a fortnight be- cause the owner became exasp- erated by boys who called near- ly every day to ask: "Is the Colonel 1n?" Little James, aged four, was at the piano and doing his best to reach the keys at the same time he operated the pedals, just as he had seen his mother do. After many ef- forts he cried out in disgust, "I can play the keys all right, but I can't reach the gas," Angry Customer "These eggs are not fresh." Grocer: "Not fresh? Well, sir the boy only brought them from the country this morning." Customer: "What country?" At the end of the first week away from home on a. new job the young husband wrote to his wife. "Made foreman — feather in my cap." After the second week he wrote: "Marie manager — another feath- er in my cap." But after the third week he wir- ed: "Sacked — send money." His wife telegraphed back: "Use feathers. Fly home." WATE LOCAL REPRESENTATIVE For an established Investment House Must be able to produce good character references. Experience desirable but not necessary. Excellent remuneration to right party. APPLY TO: BOX 100 FINANCIAL ADVERTISING CO. OF CANADA LTD. 226 Bay Street TORONTO, ONT. Burma Highway Is Like Movie Dream Threads Way Through The Snow -Capped Mils and Rice Fields ' The Burma Road, which Great Britain has agreed to close to halt a flow of war supplies to the Chinese Central Government, is a• highway which might have been conceived by a Hollywood director and executed by the Pharahos of ancient Egypt. It is a vital part of the 2,000 - mile long trade route from Bur- ma's seaport of Rangoon to the Yangtse river, connecting the Bur- mese railroad at Lashio with Kun- ming (formerly called Yunnanfu), the capital of Yunnnan Province. Work on the most difficult stretch of the great new road, between the Burma border and Kunming, was not started until the fall of 1937, when military exigencies caused the British auth- orities to cut through a freight route to British Asia to ship pro- ducts to regions cut off by the Japanese occupation of Pacific ports. The Hollywood setting is pro- vided by sparsely settled regions of snowcapped mountains and riceborclered plateau lakes, trop- ical jungles of bamboo and teak- wood, and forests of towering evergreens where bands of gib- bons scream in the shadows and strange birds chatter and sing. The suggestion of ancient Egyptian methods of construction is inescapable. Most of the con- struction was done by hand by thousands of men, women and children with only a few crude tools. Canada's Making Wild Life Survey Dominion Government Is Sponsoring A Study of the Fur -Searing Population of Our Country Many of Canada's valuable fur - bearing animals are subject to a marked fluctuation in numbers, ac- cording to the Department of Mines and Resources which, with the as- sistance of the Bureau of Animal Population, Oxford University, and the Hudson's Bay Company, is making a study of wild life popula- tions. This survey takes the form of an annual questionnaire distributed to resident traders, trappers, the Roy- al Canadian Mounted Police and officers of government departments stationed in the Northwest Terri- tories. The investigation is carried on from year to year because the situation is ohanging continually and it is hoped that the work will produce data from which a fore- cast can be made relating to the expected abundance of each impor- tant species. The results of the study may also suggest measures to prevent unne- cessary depletion of any species of wild life during the periods of scar- city. -9-4-4- /I .2 -e -15-4-A. 9-9-,1-11.-9-9-111.* 1).4.1. 0.41.-1 1 . i- t I Science Is Doing a --•w ib a, ♦ •rd -6' ..-.lc..•44.0- NEW VITAMIN M Discovery of a new vitamin M, affecting the number of red and white cells in the blood, has been announced by Dr. Paul L. Day of the University of Arkansas. Liver is the chief source of the vitamin, according to Dr. Day, who is now studying other meats as possible sources. HEAT OF CIGARETTE Every puff of a cigarette gener- ates heat of 1,375 degrees Fahren- heit, engineers of the Westing- house Electric and Manufacturing Company recently discovered in de- monstrating an optical pyrometer used to measure the heat of gases and metals by their colors. SKIN RESISTS INFECTION Within an hour after dangerous bacteria enter a scratch, the skin all over the body becomes resistant to those same germs. This discovery of natural resist- ance to infection, made in tests on rabbits was reported last week in Science, journal of the American Association for the Advancement o4 Science. The germs were streptococci and staphylococci. Both cause bad in- fections and diseases. CAN SPOT CAMOUFLAGE Prof. George B. Riggs, last week peered through his green eyeshade visor. Green trees and plants ap- peared red. But When he gazed out through the same green _vizor at a green -painted bench or fence, they retained their natural appearance. So, Prof. Riggs disclosed, he be- lieves he stumbled onto the basic principle of a goggle which might permit aerial observers to shot cam- ouflaged gun emplacements. Prof. Riggs, botanist at the Uni- versity of Washington oceanogra- phic laboratories, said he believed the distinction between natural and green -painted objects was due to the chlorophyll (green coloring ma- terial in growing plants) giving off a reddish florescence when viewed throuh the special goggle lens. Behavior During Electric Storms Advice to Golfers, Swimmers,. Housewives on How to Es- cape Being Struck by Lightn- ing Some "don'ts" for in -and -out-of- door be'navior during lightning storms have been sukgested by Dr. Karl B. McEachron, head of the General Electric Company's high- voltage engineering laboratory at Pittsfield, Mass. Golfers, several of whom were killed last summer when they took shelter under trees, are warned to remain in the open during an elec- tric storm and not to hold on to the curbs. Swimmers are warned to stay out of the water until the storm passes. STAY AWAY FROM PIANO Housewives need not stop using their needles during a storm, but should not use their electric sewing machines. It is best to stay away from the piano and to postpone the bath as long as the lightning is flashing. To those who still may believe that lightning never strikes twice in the same place, Dr. McEachron reveals that the Empire State Building in New York City is struck forty or fifty times a year. BLUEBELL BINDER TINE —AT— Manufacturer's Princes Finest Quality 600 and 651E foot grade, Large or Small Balls. Special Prices on Pure Manilla, Rope & Wire Cable See your Club Secretary, Co- operative Manager, or write The UNITED FARMERS CO-OPERATIVE CO., Limited Cor. Duke and George Sts. TORONTO—ONT. ,CICLASSIFIE DVERTISE ENTS.., BAKERS/ tsQUII'MENT BAKERS' OVENS AND MACBIN- ery, also rebuilt equipment always on hand. Terms arranged. Corres- abence iCo, 105 Bathurst . Hubbard Port- able Oven St.. Toronto. 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