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Zurich Herald, 1952-05-15, Page 7This Was World's First. Postage Stamp Prior to 1840 the carriage of letters for private persons and firms was an expensive. matter --- :rates having been based upon dis- tance and weight -and most mail , took the forme of folded sheets of letter -paper with a wax seal on the back. Agitation for. Universal Penny Postage was successful in 1840, and, within six days after the act providing for a reduced and uni- form rate of postage in Great Britain was set up, an advertise- ment seeking a "stamp" design appeared in the London Times. Designs submitted were not con- sidered satisfactory, and Sir Row- land Hill -appointed to the Trea- sury to assist in preparations to put penny postage into effect - went to a firm named Perkins, Bacon and Fetch. This firm pre- pared an engraved die of a head of 'Queen Victoria, facing left, as taken from the "Guildhall" medal by William Wyon. The drawing for the head was done by Henry Cor- bould and the engraving of the :stamp die was the work of either •Charles Heath or his son, Fred- erick. The first die proving unsatis- factory, a second one was made, and the various process leading up to the accepted stamp design went on apace. Black was selected as the color for the Id (one penny) value accounting for its familiar name of "Penny Black,'and blue was selected fo rthe companion 2d de- nomination .. . The one great problem facing postal clerks was that the stamps did not have perforations or a means of separating there cleanly and easily. Scissors, knives and any form of straight -edged tool were used, many times with unfortunate effect, and it was not long before a perforating device, proposed by Henry Archer was adopted. In a sense, this "Penny Black" affected all future British stamp issues. Being the world's first post- age stamp, and a British invention, it did not occur to the authorities to put the name of he country on it. To his day British stamps do not have the name of the country of origin -although naturally .the British Colonial issues do.. , Other countries, also aware of the need of such a means of denoting the prepayment of postage, were quickly to follow the innovation of the British In all some ninety countries, colonies or other govern- mental units had followed Britain's lead by issuing postage stamps in the first twenty years -1840 to 1860. Officially th'e United States was seventh on the list, with its re- gular 5 -cent and 10 -cent stamps of 1847; but unofficially it was second, for there was a private letter post operated in New York by Alex- ander M. Grieg and Henry Thomas Windsor. This was known as the City Despatch Post and commenc- ed operations Jan. 1, 1842, with its own stamps. The practical use of these first stamps, and other private and semi- official stamps which followed, was a motivating factor in persuading Congress to authorize the issuance of regular stamps - From "Fell's Profitable Stamp Guide," by Franklin R. Bruns, Jr-. Aluminum Ships At Wallsend -on -Tyne, England, the yards are building aluminum ships. A 60 -foot launch made of aluminum for the Pakistan Govern- ment weighs about one-quarter as much as a similar vessel built of the usual materials and use only half the horsepower for the same speed. Many barges have been built of aluminum for service in the tropics. They carry more cargo than would ordinarily be possible in shallow waterways. Give your eggs a soft ride to town if you want top dollars for them. That's the advice handed out by a famous expert. * * * Here's what happened when three different lots of cased eggs were hauled over the same four 'miles of rough roads: * * * Those in a sedan came through without damage. ✓ * * Those hauled in the front of a truck showed that a dozen per case (30 dozen) had developed tremulous air cells. * * * But those hauled in the back of the truck! Half a dozen per case were broken; eight per case were cracked; and 76 -or more than six dozen -suffered tremulous air cells. One out of every four eggs was -damaged in one way or another! * * If you're stripping 'hatching eggs and getting docked for low hatch- ability, some research by scientists gets right down to your pocket- book level. * * * They've been trying to find out whether you can candle eggs and find out what their chances of hatching are. • * * They've discovered eiglit "ab- normalities" that can cut your hatch 'way down. These are cracks; •poor shells (either thin or rough shells, and all over or just ill spots); blood spots; misplaced air cells; loose air cells; oversize (2,3 ounces or larger); undersize (1.6 ounces or smaller). The scientists set .1,400 eggs that had one or another of these defects (only one defect per egg) and got a 45% hatch, against a 72%e hatch for normal eggs. * * * Most common defects were cracks, misplaced air cells, and oversize. But undersize eggs were the worst offenders. Less than half of them (only 39%) were fertile to begin with, v: * * Plenty of eggs .. . on a small amount of feed . plus a good market carcass. Frank Moses has a White Leghorn -Barred Rock cross that isgiving him all that. * Moses mated White Leghorn roosters to Barred Rock hens to make his cross. He got both breeds from flocks bred for high produc- tion. SALLY'S SALLIES SILENCE '.,r ,v.l KinAi,�• J 'Our flexible mike, Senator, is especially designed for states- men." BY • HARM!) ARNETT READING ING W,11 -100T' YOUR of A$S S N AN EMM GENCY CAN BE ACCOMPLISHED SY CROOKING "THE PINGGR AS SI-r(Wni, MD .READING 1H UGH "ME 01- , WI=IICI-1 MAGNIr'1 s 'ThE PRINT, Self -Help Gadget -Mrs. Pearl McMullen, suffering with rheumatoid arthritis, delightedly demonstrates usefulness of long -handled comb. With this self-help gadget, patients whose hands, arms and shoulders are stiffened can look after their own hair where formerly they were dependent on others. Many other self-help devices of this nature are being demonstrated by the Canadian Arthritis and Rheumatism Society, to help rehabilitate patients and restore morale. Society is campaigning this month for funds to carry on its work. lie's been getting 85 to 90 eggs a day per 100 birds since they hit their stride. They eat 28/ pounds of feed per 100 birds per day - about 10 pounds' a day less than heavier birds would eat. •* * * When he culls his hens, they weigh 5 to 5/ pounds - a weight that brings top fowl prices. * * * The birds lay tinted That's no handicap where sells his eggs, although it be in other places. t: * * "Just like peas in a pod." Folks like a lot of things that way - no difference from,,one to another, or from week to week. * * * Walter A. Moore, who runs the Hollywood Poultry Farm aims to give his customers' eggs just like that. But some eggs come dirty. Clean 'en and they look shiny. And everybody knows a fresh eggs has a dull finish to its shell. * * * eggs. Moses might Well - not quite everybody. Moore shines all his eggs to get that "peas -in -a -pod" look to then. Result: his customers won't take anything else. So far as they're concerned, the shinier the egg, the fresher it is. Great Act Bobby Clark, one of the greatest comedians of our time, would like to revive the lion act he did in burlesque with his old partner Mc- Cullough. It is a project that should be encouraged, if necessary, by a special grant front Congress. The manager of a side-show offered Clark a dollar to wrestle with a lion. 'When Clark demurred the manager assured bier, "Our real lion has escaped. This fellow (McCullough) will wear a lion skin and the suckers will never know the difference." Clark, of course, perk- ed up at once when he heard this. And the real lion, of course, walk- ed into the cage behind his back while he told the audience what he was going to do to the "Icing of beasts." The next ten minutes provided more belly laughs than any other act of its Lind. Clark whacked the lion with his cane, kicked it in the rump, played leap frog with it, and waved a flashlight in its eyes. When the lion roared, he would cry, "That's great! You sure are fooling the audience." Occasionally he'd sniff and declare, "What a performance! You even smell like a lion." For the pay-off, the lion would start chasing Clark around the cage. The manager yelled, "Hey, I've been trying to tell youl That's the real lion in there with you!" Clark's final speech was, "This. is a hell of a time to tell mei" HELPFUL Ilka Chase tells of the day she was taken to Long Island by Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt, wife of th'e late General. The General had been briefed to meet the ladies at the Syosset station, but just before they reached it, they discovered the train was not scheduled to stop there. They proved equal to the emergency. As the train tootled by the station, they tossed a has- tily scribbled note to the startled General. He ran out on the track to retrieve it. It was most help- ful. It read, "This train does not stop at Syosset." ADHESIVE A new British adhesive can be used as a cold solder for aluminum and other metals and to join china, ,glass, enamel -ware, leather, plas- tics, tiles and wood together. The new adhesive is transparent, water- proof, acid -proof and heat -proof. It can be smoothed down with sandpaper, filed, chiselled or plan- ed. EN v�« e.1t J~ t JkE"r. Gard.or.. srattk. Where Space Short Where space is limited one does not go in for big, bushy vegetables like potatoes, or for sprawly pump- kins which cover so much room. It is best to concentrate on those things which grow quickly and yield heavily in family meals and take up a minimum of space. In this cate- gory come lettuce, onions, radish, beets, carrots, beans, staked toma- toes, one or two bills of cucumbers and, mostly because you can't hope to buy them really fresh, a few rows of small type garden peas. One can get a little extra production by alternating rows of late and early . kinds of vegetables, by planting thr• staked tomatoes around the edge of the garden. Practically all vegetables like fine, rich soil, frequent cultivation, a little commercial fertilizer to push growth and also watering when the weather is dry. To permit uniform develop- ment they should be thinned. The real secret of tender vegetables is to keep them growing quickly, to use just when they hit their best. For most of then the season can be extended substantially by making a succession of sowings at two week intervals. Commonest Mistakes The two commonest mistakes of gardening are too thick and too deep in sowing flower and vegetable seed. One should remember that all these things require room, even tiny things like alyssum or radish or onions. With big things like peas, beans, etc., it is not hard to space as we plant, but with tiny seeds it is more difficult and after the plants come up they should Le thinned. To spread very small seed more evenly some experts mix with a little sand or fine soil and sow the mixture. The general rule for depth is three times the diameter. Now that does not mean getting out a ruler or calipers. It simply suggests that fine seed such as that of onion, poppy, portulaca and carrots should be merely pressed into the soil, large seed like beans and peas or corn covered about an inch, still larger such as potatoes and gladioli, three to six inches. If planted too deep, the tiny seed especially may not germinate at all. A Few Early Rows . For the main plantings of vege- tables it is not advisable to start too soon. With tender things little is to be gained by planting until both the soil and air have started to turn wane and spring has really arrived. But this advice, of course, does not apply to very hardy flowers and vegetables nor to most nursery stock, grass seed, etc. And it dote not apply rigidly to a few extra early rows of almost anything in the vegetable linea If these come along and escape the frost one gets a good deal of satisfaction in boasting to the neigh. bors. If they don't come, well one is out only a few cents worth of seed and in an hour's healthy exer- cise. xeccise. Just as soon as the ground, is fit to work, one can take a chance on a few feet of lettuce, some radish, carrots, onions. spinach, and such things. Even a few hills of potatoes may be planted. Main plantings, however, of vegetables and flowers should wait until practically all danger of frost has passed. UNDAY SCIIOOL JJSSON By Rev. R. B Warren, B.A., B.D. Conserving The Family Heritage Exodus 20:12, Mar 7:9-13; John 19:25-27. Memory Selection: Honor thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee. Exodus 20:12. At the convention of the Ontario Educational Association held in Toronto during the Easter holidays repeated reference was made to the fact that parents are failing to teach their children obedience. This increases the problems of the teaclte•-s. The child who doesn't honor his parents may readily come to resent his teacher's requirement of obedience. In some cases it goes farther and the grown child goes out to defy the nation's laws. Then it is called "juvenile delin- quency" but it would be more pro- perly called "parental delinquency." The command of the memory verse is to the children. But par- ents have a responsibility in living so as to merit that honour. If the child wakes up to see his mother carried in in a drunken stupor while the baby-sitter prepares to leave, -well, it will be harder for him to honor his mother. The national tragedy of divorce is but a sympton of a greater na- tional tragedy -the increasing dis- integration and disorganization of family life. The broken family is not the result of divorce; divorce is the result of the broken family. A report from a midwestern city in the U.S showed that in the last 8000 divorces cases tried there, the spouses had already been separated an average of well over two years before coming into court to get their divorces. Jesus set us an example of obe- dience and of consideration for his mother. While on the cross he arranged for his beloved John to care for his mother. ONTARIO FISHING REGULATIONS FOR 1952 FISH OPEN SEASON LIMIT MIN. LENGTH AREA BLACK BASS 1. Jul 1 -Oct. 15 6per day10 July 2. June 25 -Dec. 15 6 per day 3. July 1 -Dec, 15 6 per day inches 10 inches 10 inches 1. All province, except as listed under 2 and 3. 2. River St. Clair, Lake St. Clair and Detroit River. Part of Area A on map. 3. Lake Erie and Niagara River above falls. Part of Area A on map. MASKINONGE 1, July 1 -Oct. 1 14 per season 2 per day 2. June 25 -Dec. 15 2 per day 14 per season 3. July 1 -Dec. 15 2 per clay 14 per season 4. June 20 -Oct. 1 2 per day 14 per season 30 inches 30 inches 30 inches 30 inches 1. All province, except as listed under 2, 3 and4. 2. River St. Clair, Lake St. Clair and Detroit River. Part of Area A on map. 3. Lake Erie and Niagara River above falls. Part of Area A on map. 4. North and westofFrench nand omMattawa Rivers and Nipissing. SPECKLED TROUT 1. May 1 -Sept. 15 15 per day or 10 lbs. 2. May 1 -Sept, 15 10 per day or 5 lbs. 7 inches 7 inches 1. All province except 2. 2. Norfolk County. RAINBOW, BROWN, AURORA and KAMLOOPS TROUT 1. May 1 -Sept. 15 5 per day 7 inches 1. All province. .--.- 1. Great Lakes except Bay of Quinte. Area B on map. 2. South of French and Mattawa Rivers and Lake Nipissing (all inclusive). Area C on map. and Mattawa Rivers and 3. North and West A' t reUnchh1rmap, Area L4. St.ake sLawrence River. 5. Lake St. Frances. YELLOW PICKEREL 1. All year 6 per day 2. May 15 -Dec. 31 6 per day 3. May 15 -Apr. 14 6 per day 4. May 1 -March 1 6 per day 5. May 15 -Nov. 15 6 per clay 13 inches 13 inches 13 inches 13 inches 13 inches 1. Great Lakes and north and west of French and Mattawa Rivers, and Lake Nipissing. Argas B and D on map. 2. South ctf French and Mattawa Rivers, and lake Nipissing (all inclusive). Area C on map. 3. 56 Lawrence River. 4. Lake St. Francis. PIKE 1. All year 6 per day 2. May 12 -Mar. 31 6 per day 3. April 28 -Mar. 1 6 per day 4. May 12 -Nov. 15 6 per day none none none none LAKE TROUT 1. All year 5 per day 2. Nov. 6 -Oct 5 5 per day 3, May 1 ._ Oct. 5 5 pot day 4. All year 5 per day nope none none none 1. Great Lakes and St. Lawrence River. Area 5 on map. 2. South of French and Mattawa Rivers and Lake Nipissing. Area C on map. Except 3, 3. County of Haliburton and that portion of country of Hastings north and including townships of Cashel, Limerick and Wollaston. 4. North of listing 2. Area 0 on map.