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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1955-03-24, Page 3OLKEN THUMB Gordon C[natln We Can Plan Anyway No matter what the ther- mometer may say, or the weatherman may warn, the calendar and seed catalogues say that spring is just around the corner. Even if we cannot actually get out and dig for a few weeks yet, at least we can sit by the fire and plan the gar- den we are going to have this year. And a little planning will prove useful as well as pleasant. In this, a Canadian seed cata- logue will be most useful These are packed with all sorts of vital information such as the heights of flowers and the color and the time of bloom. In vege- tables, we learn whether they are hardy or tender, how much room they require in the row, what sort of special soil and sun preferences they have. With such information we can plan a continuous show of bloom in the flower garden and we can get the utmost out of vegetables front even a tiny plot of ground. Not a Feast or Famine The modern garden is rio longer a feast and famine propo- sition, with more peas, beans or, corn than we could eat for a week and then none at all, or with a great showing of bloom in July but not a single flower in August. With planning, there is no reason why either flower or vegetable garden should not be yielding something every day. from the first blooms and greens in the spring until long after the ground is frozen hard next fall. Very conveniently, most flow- ers and vegetables arrange themselves into three main planting groups so far as the Canadian climate is concerned. In the seed catalogue the usual description is hardy, semi -hardy and tender. The first of these can go in just as soon as the soil is ready. These things love the cool wet weather and thrive best and longest when planted early. In this class are the sweet peas, cosmos, alyssum, and other flowers which normally seed themselves. ' In the vegetables: lettuce, radish, spinach and gar- den peas are all hardy. All these will stand quite a bit of frost. The semi -hardy group will usually survive a touch of frost 'but they don't like it and it will certainly set them back. These include beets, carrots, beans and corn in the vegetable line and petunias, asters, balsam and so en among the flowers. Then there is the really tender group, the plants like cucumbers, melons, dahlias, geraniums and such, that will kill almost in- stantly if the mercury falls be- low 32 degrees. There is no use risking any of these outdoors before both the air and soil are really warm and all danger of frost is over, A Few Cents, But Vital Nothing is so vital as the right kind of seed. Suitable seed is more than just high duality. It is seed of varieties especially selected and for Canadian con- ditions. In vegetables it also means that the variety has been approved and tested officially for Canada. As seed is the only factor in, gardening over which one has absolute control, and the cost is negligible, nothing but the best should be considered. My mother used to say that a hearing of Bach's Chaconne ,a1 - ways reminded her of the Ser- mon on the Mount, and that the introduction of the major varia- tions represented the Beati- tudes. ----Albert Spalding. They Warbled Their Way To Top By DIOL KLEINER NEA Staff. Correspondent New York (NEA). -- It is very simple to become a rich, famous and beloved girl singer. Just follow these tested rules, as practiced by the richest, most f anions and most beloved thrushes of the day; 1, Start out to be an actress, as Dinah Shore did. 2. Start out to be an artist, as Patti Page did. 3. Start out to be a dancer, as Joni James did. 4. Flip a coin, as Rosemary Clooney did. And if these are too compli- cated, just keep singing, as they all did. For there is no simple path to thrushdom, and these girls -the top stars -all achieved fame in different ways. Dinah Shore and Joni James, for example, are perfect con- trasts, Miss James is celebrated as record's "Cinderella Girl," and not because of a glass slip- per. It took her just one record, the smash hit, "Why Don't You JONI JAMES: A thrush without a sound is nowhere at all. Believe Me," to establish her as a big star. _ a m But Dinah Shore didn't have it so easy. Her first record .is' now a collector's item. It feta- tured Xavier Cugat 'and his band on a tune called "Thrill of a New Romance," In small print it said, "Vocal by Dinah Shaw." She was just a scared kid then •--too scared to do anything about correcting the misspelling of her name. She was scared for several years. Dinah never particularly wanted to be a singer. As a starry-eyed teen-ager, she fixed her starry eyes on a career as an actress. in fact, at Hume - Fogg High School, in Nashville, she was the leading lady in the dramatic society. (Leading man, incidentally, was Delbert Mann, now a top television director with the Philco-Goodyear TV Playhouse.) She always sang, but just for fun. She was going to be an- other Helen Hayes, and Helen Hayes was no thrush. So, after high school, she decided to storm New York. Her mother had died when she was 15, and her father was set against the little girl going to the wicked city. But Dinah went,, Her father wouldn't help her financially, so she sold her camera and en- larger (photography is her hobby) and lit out for Broad- way with a bankroll of $232. She was lucky, Inside of three months, she was embarked on her career -but as a singer, not an actress. She switchedfor the best of reasons: got a job sing- ing. It was a spot on a local New York radio station. At first, there was no pay. But it leci to occasional band .dates, comnilete with money. And there weea two-week engagement ' at the Strand Theatre at $70 a week. Then an NBC executive heard her and soon she had her th n 15 -minute show. e "During niy first five years," Dinah recalls, "I was always nervous. I never sang well at all. I don't know why anybody liked me. My father used ''to write me letters saying. Snitre. your money -you can't sing Irce Gracie Fields'." • DINAH SHORE AND MELISSA: It was a long road, but a record called "Yes, My Darling Daughter" helped on the way up. But, despite this modest self-* appraisal, Dinah gradually grew in popularity. She achieved her first real fame on a great radio show, "The Chamber Music So- ciety of Lower Basin Street." And she went nation-wide on the Eddie Cantor show. A re- cord, "Yes My Darling Daugh- ter," helped, too. It was a long pull for Dinah Shore. It was quicker and easier for Joni James. But stardom is never a pushover. Joni is a tiny Chicago girl, who'd been studying dancing since she was 12. Ballet was her dream. She lived it, slept it, studied it. She worked as a baby-sitter to pay the $1.50 -a - week tuition for ballet classes at Chicago's Children's Civic Drama Group. Later, she worked in a bakery, icing cakes. Still later she modelled --- underthings. She's a dark- haired beauty, with a model's figure. A tiny model's figure, since'Joni is barely five feet tall. All her earnings went for danc- ing lessons, She -like Dina sang for the fun of it, but there was never a thought of a singing career. e She had a brief fiing as a dancer, on a Canadian tour, then was laid up by an appendicitis attack. While recuperating she sang. And -this is real life, too -somebody heard her, offered her a record contract, and her first record was the biggest hit. of the year. While their backgrounds dif-, fer, both Dinah. Shore and Joni James have one thing in com- mon. And this item is what makes them singing stars -their voices are distinctive. You can't mistake them. You can always tell Dinah's creamy voice and Joni's tear -spattered sound. And, in the opinion of many top students of the field, it is im- possible to achieve fame in pop singing unless you have a voice that is quickly recognizable. There are many great singers around who've never made it, simply because their voices lack any distinguishing sound. A. thrush without a sound is nowhere. Ghost Still Walks The little 'Royalty Theatre in Dean Sleet, Soho, famous as the place where Gilbert and Sullivan scored their first sue - cess, "Trial by Jury," is to be demolished at last. It • attracted Londoners and visitors for al- most a century until it be- came a Blitz casualty. The Royalty is one of the playhouses in London that is, by repute, haunted. The story goes that 114 years. ago, when the theatre was being built on the site of an ancient dwelling -house, workmen came across the body of a girl walled up in one of the rooms. She was the sweetheart of a fiddler; and when passion died he slew her and concealed her body in the wall of the death - chamber. She is, however, un- able to rest' in peace; and at certain seasons wanders about the theatre. PHILOSOPHY AND THE SEARCH FOR WISDOM To be a. philsospher is not merely to have subtle thoughts, nor even to found a school, hut so to love wisdom as to live according to its dictates, a life of simplicity, independence, magnanimity, and trust, -Thoreau. 12 Affirmative 88. Pull hard CR SWORD PUZZLE AC7tOSS fi4. unit 1. Nearly 8. Transmit 7. Fare 8. Regale 7. Night before 8. Liquefy 9. Schemer, 10, Raul 11. Raw metal 18. Afore sting}' L4. Velvet 15. Placid 18. Puneral ora- ttons L7. Comparative ending 18 River embank rnent 20 Nixe ot shot 21 0111 musics! inefrument 34. matnity 20. Tiff 40. [Nave debts 42. Pester 34. (tin's name 32. Will to do 89. Gone by 40. Male sheep 41. Biscuit 42, Tidings 44 hare -shelled fruit 40 ['rebore stones 49. what 81, Angry 88. Near 84. 'wood luck cetera 88, �g1ait 81.0111; OR, Plloanrar:t Arkealt er d$ Protioked 84 Say akafn nOW14 1. eiuropentt biaricbiei> 8,'Wery 8, twee* 19. Least 43. Lure 22. Revolving lin rt 45. Kind of drum 23. Sheep 47. Legendary 25. Cooking eity of 151 utensil Dorado 37. Author of "'r lie 48. Commence 50. Stockings 52. TJef$ 04. Cleaning implement W. hantirel$ 50, huge wave 57. Spread loosely 59. Doze fin, Pr",n,cd Ago of Reason" 28-. 1r'u013 29. 1,44 ht. brown 32. Blunder 88. tale talk 30. Slant i11rd 39. Self 31. Vole 0ir e1,1010 re e Much interest is being shown in the recent development' of antibiotic products, such as streptomycin, and their possible use in combating bacterial dis:, eases of agriculture crops. Of these diseases, fire blight is very severe on apples and pears. It is at times particularly des- tructive on the widely planted Bartlett pear. Outbreaks of the disease are feared by growers because disease development is sudden and rapid and the toll is heavy in loss of branches, lilnbs or entire trees. Further- more fire blight is a most diffi- cult disease to control, and to remove all of the numerous cankers requires hours of care- ful pruning. It is encouraging to learn that results of orchard trials show that streptomycin applied as a spray reduces the incidence of the disease, It may well be that in the future this antibiotic product will provide growers with a helpful aid in the control program for fie blight. * r• 1vIuch remains to be learned about the desirable dosage rate, time of application, number of applications and the effect of environmental conditions. Pres- ent suggested dosage rates vary from 50 to 100 parts pet million (p.p.in.), time of application from early bloom to early cover sprays, and the number of ap- plications from 2 to '7, Environ- mental conditions, such as tem• perature, rainfall, age of trees, and vigour of growth, and the danger from fire blight in the area must be considered in de- termining how the antibiotic rani be used to the best advantage.. Antibiotic sprays are likely to be expensive and for this reason their use may be limited. Tem- perature is important and• the disease is slot likely to be troublesome in the bloom period it !the temperature ranges be- low 60 to '65 degrees F. Above these temperatures, the changes of infection increase, but de- pend, of Bourse, ort thtl presence of active blight or on ovrrwiti, tering Bankers within the on. ehard Or vicinity, i* 1, 4 Further investigation 311d ex- perience on the use of strepto- mycin will no doubt yield data and information to permit mare specific directions for commer- cial use. Milk production in Canada has increased 7-4 per cent dur- ing the past fifteen years, most of the increase taking place in the last two or three years when conditions favoured such • in- crease, D. M. Beattie, Associate Chief, Dairy Products Grading and Inspection Services, stated at the annual convention of the Saskatchewan Dairy Associa- tion. Use of fluid milk as such in- creased 11.4 per cent in the fifteen -year period, said Mr. Beattie, due to increases in population and continued edu- cation and publicity on the food value of milk. Over the same 15 -year period milk utilized for manufacture cf butter decreased by 7.0 per cent. In the years 1935-39 over 53 per cent of Canada's total milk supply was made into but- ter, in 1953 only 46 per cent. Butter contienues to be the larg- est single nutlet with fluid milk next at 30 per cent. * * Milli for cheese has followed a similar trend to butter, In the . 1935-39 period 9 per cent of the milk went into cheese, In 1953 only 5 per cent was so utilized. There is a trend toward larger and fewer factories, many 01 them equipped to manufacture other dairy products as well as cheese, depending on market conditions. * :9 Consuinptiou of c Meese by Canadians is disappointing, There has been a slight increase in per capita ccn sureption the past few years, mainly attri- buted to improved packaging and a iepuiee desire by marry retailers to sell cheese :of bet- ter quality. Canadians do not yet, seem to consider cheese as the main dish of a meal, but rather a sandwich proposition or the snail partner of solve varieties of pie, says* Mr. Beattie. Practically all Canada's :cheddar cheese is graded by Federal graders, and the results for 1954 'show over 94 per cent to be of Canada First Grade quality. * * 39 Concentrated milks and ice cream required considerably more milk by 1953 and their combined requirements of milk increased by 51/2 per cent. "Pock " Flan Brilliant pianist Moiseiwitsch, who will be sixty-five on Febru- ary 22nd, owns a silent, dummy piano in the shape of long suit- case which has travelled all over the world with him. He uses it daily for exercising his fingers and frequently "plays" it just before a public performance. Alter he had performed in Holland some years ago, cus- toms officials were puzzled by the dummy piano and asked what it was. Moiseiwitsch ex- plained its purpose and invited an official to play on it. When no sound was produced, the cus- toins Hien looked even more mystified. Then another official ex- clained: "I remember seeing one of these things before. A fellow named Moiseiwitsch has one." And no further trouble followed. During an Australian tour in }(MY CllOOL LESSON By tev. R. 8larcia;l Warren B.D. ri The Christian and the Social Order Matthew 5:13-16; Romans 11.3:0- 10; Peter 4:12-16. Memory Selection - .Be riot overcome of evil, but overcomes evil with good. Romans 12:21. In the dark ages there was da tendency for Christians to with- draw from society in order to keep pure. Today the line of distinction between the Christian and the world is very ill-defined. There is a happy medium be- tween these two extremes. The Christian is to be the salt of the earth and the light of the world. He must not lose his savour nor hide his light. In the dark ages the Christian tended to hide his, light; today he is more likely tar ,lose his savour. Either is bad. Paul says, "Owe no man any thing, but to love one another." The debt of love to each other can never be fully paid. Many other debts are being paid these days by the returning of the purchased article. The wave ot credit buying may stimulate business but it finally proves very trying on the nerves of those who yield to the temptation of overbuying. The frustrations will be remembered when the pleasure of the temporary pos- session will be forgotten. Par- ticularly is this true when the article was decidedly a luxury and not a necessity, We bring some trials on our- seles. Others come for which we can find no apparent cause. How- ever there can always be a pro- fitable result. The sufferer can learn to glorify God by suffering as a Christian should suffer, He may even rejoice as he considers himself a partaker of Christ's sufferings. Not all achieve this point of victory but those wee do are a marvel to their fellow- men. Their lives inspire. Let us not suffer as an evildoer or as a busybody. If we suffer because we have taken our stand for Christ there is no occasion for shame. We may glorify God in. suffering. 1923, the pianist was beguiling the time playing a piano in the train's drawing -room when it chanced to stop right in the middle of the huge desert divid- ing West from South Australia, Moiseiwitsch stopped playing, looked . out of the window and. was surprised to see dozens of scantily -clad aborigines clustered round the window staring open- mouthed. Moiseiweitsch wore a velvet suit with a lace collar when he made his London debut as a pianist in 1909. A native of Odessa, he became a British citizen in 1937. He loves London more than any other city in the world. The true medicine of the mind is philosophy, ---Cicero, Slpsidedown to Prevent Peeking JUST FOR KICKS -When George Murphy, left, visited Jimmy Cagney at MGM's studio in Culver City, the two former vqucle- viliians go to reminiscing about the "good old days' and went into a vaudeville hoofing routine. Jimmy his seen only „five of his 50 pictures because "that guy up there on the screen makes me nervous." In his 51st picture he'll costar with Doris Day its "Love Mt or Leave MO."