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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1936-09-24, Page 3BIG CHIEFS OF THE GRID TRIBE eee "It's right here hi the book" Abel Eliowitz, (right), might be whispering to coach Jonny Ferraro of Montreal's Bgi Four squad.. They form the two-man board of strategy in the new football deal, and are whipping the candidates into trim nightly at the Westmount Athletic rounds. Gadge anoxic l4ected To Fumes WINNIPEG, — Perfection of a "gad- get" which its inventor claims wW transform deadly carbon monoxide fumes into harmless gas was announc- ed here laet week by John Forbes, Winnipeg garaeeman. The "gadget" consists of a small can of solidified chemical. It is at- tached to the engine coil and connect- ed with the intake manifold to coun- teract the ,generation of monoxide and transform it into earF"n dioxide. The attachment Mr. Forbes, says, is the result of two .years of experi- ments. He believes it will solve the problem that has baffled automotive engineers since introduction of the combustion engine. In tests conducted by the young in- ventor, crows and sparrows were plac- ed in closed cars with the engine run_ ning. Without the attachment the cars were backed ino a garage and the birds were dead within a minute. With the <,,ttach•reet {', rat af- ected. Further tests were conducted with dogs and canaries. The car, with the attachment, was left running for 25 minutes, When the door was opened, Mr, Forbes said, the canaries came out chirping. and the dogs wagging their tails. The short stocky mechanic claims to have tried the "gadget" out on himself to prove lits theory. He claims to have some cut cf the ordeal suffering- no ill-effects. Reported Slain' Tom Devens, graduate of the Toronto Bible College who was 'reported` murdered by Ethiopian bandits when he tried to escape from his station at Terga Alem. He has been on the mission field as a representatihe of the Sudan Interior Mission, for three years. His fiance, Miss Gertrude Pogue of Lindsay, is in Addis Ababa, Mission authorities report. Holding the North Bach This "Gosh -awful" view of the North is holding back the "Gosh - awful" Dominion. Give the North a square deal -good roads—decent radio—civil government—and the North will give in return—mines— employment—business—wealth. If some of these "Gosh -awful" people from the South would only come North—North beyond the quin- tuplets—they would see that this is no "Gosh -awful" country. Viewing this week,• for instance, the wonder- ful exhibits of flowers and vegethles —yes, and fruits—at the eTicnmins Horticultural Society's 12th annual exhibition, how could they call this a "Gosh -awful" country. This is no wilderness (another word used by the Toronto newspaper) but a land of modern cities like Sudbury, Kirkland Lake, Timmins— of attractive, towns, like Haileybury, New Liskeard, Iroquois Falls, South Porcupine, Schumacher, Cochrane, Kapuskasing—of homes, of farms, of contentment, of prosperity. This is no "Gosh -awful" North. But sometimes it does seen like a "Gosh -awful" world.—Timmins Ad- vance. What Did You Do? Did you give him a lift? He's a brother of scan And bearing about all the burden he can, 'Did you give him a smile? He was downcast and blue, And the smile would have helped him to battle it through. Did you give him your hand? He was slipping down hill, And the world, so he fancied, was using him ill, Did you give him a word? Did you show hint the roa41, Or did you just let him go on with his load? Do you know what it means, just a clasp of the hand, When a man has been bearing just all he can stand? Did you stop when he asked you to give him a lift? Or were you so busy you left hien to drift? Oh, I know what you mean! what you say may be true, But the test of your manhood is: What did you do? Did you reach out your hand? Did you find him the road? Or did ,you°just lot him ,go by with his load? J. A, Murry. Mothers. Piraile achelor Joker f17:"Baby Sta. e Charles Vance Millar, Eccentric Lawyer-Sportsrnan, a Fine plan To Put Up 1-Ia1f Million For Most Children In Ten Years, Expectant Winners Say. Toronto — Contenders in the $500,- 000 500,000 Millar will baby race agree on few subjects except. having babies but they are unanimous in their pra- ise of Charles Vance Millar, the ec- centric Toronto lawyer -sportsman who drew the bizarre will, Critics of the document which left the money to the Toronto mother having the most children in the 10 years ending Oetobei 31 next, have called it fantastic and obscene but the contestants think it the gracious work of a kindly man who loved big families. Millar was a bachelor who loved a joke. From Mrs. Martin Kenny, who claims the leas: in the stork mara- thon with 12 children and another expected down to the last mother on the list of contestants who hasn't a chance of winning, they say he .was. a "wonderfr::man" and the will a "grand idea." It has been said the will was writ- ten as a joke at ,a party and was never meant to stand but these mothers believe the humorous and slightly eccentric man -about -town meant every word of it and that the unusual document was written be- cause he wanted to help some mother bring up a large family. In this they have the support of a ±ootnote to the will. Millar wrote: "This will is necessarily uncommon and capricious because I have no near relatives and no duty rests on me to leave property at my death, and what I do leave is proof of my folly in gathering and retaining more than I required in my lifetime." MATERNAL AMBITIONS To 34=year-old Mrs. Kenny the will, joke or no joke, isan excellent one. "It was a generous act to help the poor," she says. -"He knew the mon- ey would go somewhere it was badly needed." If she wins, het first'.act will be to visit his grave and. take all the family. "Just think, no one ever bothers to go and visit his grave." Mrs. Grace Bagnato', who has nine children for her entry and expects another, feels much the sae way: "It was his money asaine he could do what he wanted with it," she said. "If hemwanted it to go to some poor fancily that had many mouths to feed, that's his business." If she won she 'wouldn't works ' hard Mrs. Bagnato added. ,She, is j police court interpreter and her. huge band is a customs clerk. They would like the money to lead an "easy life." But she was quick to add that she and her husband had not gone into the race because 'of the money. She was the mother of 13 children be - fore the will was made public, Mrs. Arthur Tiinleck said in her quiet way that she .thought the will a "good" one. If she had any plans about what she would do if. her 10 children won her the money, she wasn't talking about them. "Wait until I win," she said smilingly. liars, John Nagle, another mother with 10 born in 10 years, isn't worry- ing orrying about what she will do with the Money. All she is thinking of now is her latest baby, only a few weeks old, She said: "I am certainly not going to stop having babies in Oc- tober. I love babies and so does ray husband so -we are just going to keep on having thein. If I win the money it will be very nice. If 1 don't, it doesn't matter much." A fruit farm is Mrs, Gus Grazi- ano's ambition if her nine children win her a share. Mrs. Stephen Dar- rigo hasn't much chance with •eight. children but her share -would go to buy a fruit and vegetable store which she would help her husband run. CHILDREN ALL LIVING Mrs. Ambrose Harrison, the only mother whose children are all ing, says they are fortune enough for her but the $500,000 would "conic in pretty useful around the house." She had 14 children in all, eight of whom are eligible for the derby. Her husband, a street car motor- man on a night shift, has ideas about what he would do with the money. "I'll quit night week," he vows. The money may be used for a divorce if Mrs. 'X,' discovered re- cently by the Canadian Press as a "dark horse" in the baby derby wins. She has been separated from her husband for several years and says she would have married an- other man if she could have obtained the money fora divorce. Financially the Harrisons, Tiiiilecks- and Bagnatos are the best off. Tim- leck- is employed steadily. Both Mr. and Mrs. Bagnato work. Nagle, a carpentev, works part time as does Martini Kenny. The Grazianos and Darrigos have had a hard struggle and have been on relief most of the time in the past few years. Fish can drown and have actu- ally done so in a lalee near Walling- ford, Connecticut. A correspondent in the journal, Science, reports that water_. plants absorbed Most of the oxygen from the water so that 'the many kinds of fish living there- in died in gasping agony. "Doubt is the necessary prelude or all research." — T, B. S, Haldane. VETERAN AND RECRUIT Candidates for the Montreal Big Pour Indians are out in all sizes and weights. The inexperienGgd youths mingle with the hardy vet- erans, and here we view one of each; Bert Adams (left), veteran of a dozen seasons with the Montreal squad and Bruce Burl hart, rookie halfback, a stranger in a ktrange football land. He is of the Toronto Burkhart stock and son of, "Babe" Burkhart, famous footballer with Argonauts back around 1920. BRITONS BOUND FOIA" NEW ZEALAND 31 British delegates and their wives, bound for the conference in Wellington Nati., of the Federation of Chalnbers of Co emeree of t`).9 British Empire, are shown above as they were photographer at the Windsor Ration in Montreal. water they will go to Termite a"hd then the ,Pacific Coast. DUCE MAKES READY Not one to wait for outbreak of hostilities before preparing, Premier Mussolini personally supervised Ialian war games near Na- - pies as war clouds gather over Europe. Bersaglieri troops in dis- tinctive garb go through machine gun maneuver 'neath Italian Tri - Color. 0 && n �_ 4 le9 BY R. hi. HARRISON (Windsar Daily Star) Canada's National Employment Commission, according to an Ottawa correspondent, will not only register all the unemployed but will exam_1s their circumstances. Possibly the commissioners may encounter several chaps such as the New Yorker, who, with a wife and children is out of work and determined to stay out of work. A manufacturer offered him a job the other day, but he sniffed "two dollars a week more than I'm getting on relief ain't enough," he said. "And I can show you how I'd stand to lose money if i took the jab." "I go to the movies seven times a week. While I'm out of work I can go in the afternoon when the admission is fifteen cents. If I took a job I'd have to go at night when it's 40 cents. That is 25 cents more every day, or 61.75 a week, Now in addition to that $1.75 I'd have to pay 60 cents a week sub- way fare and that makes it $2.85. So you see I'd be 35 cents in the bola ev- ery -week if I went to world" et, Which reminds us of the sad tale that came from Coney Island last win- ter when a man obtained a job with the WPA snow shovelers. Full of wil- ling spirit he reported to his boss, but through the first day he wasn' able to get a shovel as there weren't en- ough to go around. All he did that day was to watch the others work. On the Second day the same thing happened, and finally on the third the laborer, an honest individual, spoke of it to the boss, who remarked: "What do you care? You're getting paid aren't you? There are a lot of men who would give their eye teeth to get paid for standing around doing nothing." "Yeah, I know," replied the worker,'' but all the other guys on this job have something to lean on." New Field Secretary Col. Walter Peacock, who has been transferred from Montreal to Toronto and assumes the post of field secretary of the Salvation Army in Canada. 214 Days and 214 Eggs AUGUSTA, Me.—State and national egg laying records were scratched off the books by a Rhode Island iced hen which laid 214 eggs in 214 con- secutive days at the State Experiment- al xperimental Station in Monmouth. She is owned by Philip Steele & Son of Biddeford, Me. The previous national record was set by a Rhode Island hen in the 1933-34 contest when she laid 200 eggs. Fire damage in Great Britain and Ireland this year is averaging nearly $5,000,000 a month. EX -LONDON COP BACK HOME William Jordan (right) shown as he was greeted by Sir ,lances Parr (in top hat), present High Commissioner for New Zealand, in London, as Mr. Jordan arrived at Waterloo Station on ]iia trip to take up his appointment 'r High Coreinissioner• for Now Zealand to succeed Sir James. Mr, Jordan migrated to New Zealand after he had been sueeessively a coach painter, post office employe and Lon- don Policeman. B-3