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Streamliner Locomotive Nearing Completion at GM Plant—It weighs nearly 125 tons, but this'
nearly finished FP7A (freight -passenger) locomotive is hoisted and moved easily by one of the
giant cranes at the multi-million dollar plant of General Motors Diesel, Limited, at London,
Ont., which was officially opened on August 11. The big, modern plant is geared to manufacture
one locomotive per day. Sixt types, ranging from 600 to 1,500 horsepower, will be,built.
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Along about the end of Septem-
ber—and already the entire sports
world is fairly agog with apathy—
the lads are threatening to stage a
meeting between a fat- flabby old
man and a character who would
find it quite a chore to punch his
way out of a bread -wrapper. What
,is more, they are going to bili this
Battle of the Stencilery as being for
the Heavyweight Championship of
the World.
We refer, of course to. the pro-
posed foot -race between Joe Louis
and Ezzard Charles, which will de-
cide whether Mr Charles can back-
pcdal around a rope -girt square of
canvas for fifteen rounds faster than
Mr Louis can go forward.
Personally, we can hardly wait—
wait, that is, to filed out if the sharp
ballyhoo boys will be able to smoke
up this sorry -appearing affair into
a money -malting enterprise. And
with all due respect to the genius
of the modern publicity expert, we
:have our doubts that. thy can.D+;�
—�.. ,,Purrs abllars area t
- as plentiful, and don't glide so
smoothly out of clutching palms,
as they did a year or so ago. And
sinless the brawl over Korea -way
is settled by fight-time—which
looks improbable at this writing—
the fans will have something more
serious to think about than a Louis -
Charles affair.
When we describe Joe Louis as
fat, flabby and old, we are naturally
speaking of him from a pugilistic
standpoint. And Ezzard Charles,
despite our slurs, may be a very
estimable gentleman; and his punch,
JOE LOUIS ..
which we refer to in such a dcruga-
tory manner, isn't one that we
would choose to view from the re-
ceiving end. But for all that, the
:match entirely fails to rouse either
enthusiasm or expectation in even
The veriest sucker's breast; and if it
*is true that Louis is only going
through with it because he is in
Lock to Uncle Whiskers, all we
ran do is paraphrase a famous crack
and say, "OH, Income Taxos,
what crimes are committed in thy
name ! !"
In conclusion, it is our sincere
hope that after this one is over Joe
Louis --for whom we have always
had the highest admiration both as
a fighter and as a man won't pub-
licly promise his Mother, or any-
body else', than this is his final fight,
:Unwelcome Guest—Ginger, a homeless dog being sheltered by,
the Animal Rescue League, barks at a new guest, a 30 -inch -long
alligator abandoned by a small boy. Officials are hoping that
the alligator will be claimed by its owner soon as its diet
consists of hard -to -get items and it makes the other animals,
like Ginger, nervous. _
He's pulled that one too often for "Scottish -ebony," but it's either
it to be touching any more. So blaekwood from West Africa or ,
often, in fact, that we are reminded cocuswood from West Indies.--Tbe
of the very ancient one
from
— �.vx -tFnti Ylr0T9f t back to a
clothing merchant a suit purchased
a couple of days before.
"One little sprinkle of rain, and
the pants shrink right up to above
my knees," said the angry customer.
"Didn't you give me your solemn
word that this suit was guaranteed
one hundred per cent all -wool when
I bought it?"
"Sure thing 'I did," replied the
merchant calmly, "But I didn't say
"POSITIVELY" did I?"
So, for the sake of his millions of
fans and followers, when this one
is over Joe .Louis won't forget to
say "POSITIVELY," we trust.
Now They're Saying
Bagpipes Not Scottish
Over the hills from Braemar
comes the skirl of the pipes for
Scotlands annual Highland Gaines,
and a sales boom begins in a minor
British industry that thrives all
the year round. It's a bagpipes
boom 1
Down Renfrew Street, Glasgow,
and off the High Street of Lon-
don's Camden Town, the sporran
and pipe workshops are putting
on a spurt to keep pace with ex-
port orders. Britain -has already
sold so many set to the U.S., Can-
ada, South Africa and Australia
that you'll find more bagpipes there
than in Scotland.
Hoots, in fact, the bagpipes are
no longer Scottish . and they
never were, Oven the sheepskin
bags are English or imported Aus-
tralian. The hard black wood of
blowpipe and drones may be called
IN
- jthe Congo, the imitation ivory are
mainly Welsh 1
Even the sills clan ribbon comes
from France. And though the tar-
tan that covers the bag may be
Scottish, it's usually backed with
Yorkshire flannelettell 1
So what, Scots? Ever since Rus-
sian seal became fashionable for
sporrans historians have been dis-
persing a little more of the great
Scottish legend. A drone -pipe with
reed complete has been found in
an ancient mummy -case. The Per-
sians and ancient Greeks had pipes,
and the Romans introduced them
into southern England before they
spread to Ireland and Caledonia.
Traditional models crop up in
France, Germany, Italy, Spain and
the Balkans, not to mention Mala-
ya. Chaucer's merry miller led the
Canterbury Pilgrims with the bag-
pipes, though maybe he didn't play
a Pibroch. Shakespeare mentions,
the pipes and they were English
then.
But scholars say they're in the
Bible and that they were Baby-
lonian, Even the famous Scots
Guards are playing English -made
pipes today. It's shocking to Scots-
men, everywhere, but it's truel
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ISSUE 35 — 1950
THE FAR N FRONT
o
From far and near, the world
around, comes the' cry for more,
better, and cheaper fertilizers. In
order to feed the rapidly soaring
world population the need for fer-
tilizers necessary for increased food
production has risen by some sixty
per cent since 1939.
Yet—largely, because of whole-
sale destruction of fertilizer plants
in Europe and elsewhere during
World War 11—it has been esti-
mated that today only around
eighty per cent of the pre -wear
amount is being produced
The ironical thing is that all the
fertilizer we need is contained in
the atmosphere—if only it could be
persuaded to work. This element is
nitrogen, a million tons of which
press down on every seven acres of
land and sea over the whole surface
of the earth.
Nitrogen is esesential to life.
Four-fiths of the air we breathe
consists of it. And no hatter how
many other elements a plan may
consume through eating and drinks
ing, if his diet, does not contain
nitrogen he will surely die.
Although the supply of nitrogen
in the air is pracfically - unlimited,
in the ' form. in which it exists it. is
useless to living creatures. It must
be made available in the form of
'compounds, and we can produce
these compounds only with great
difficulty and at great expense.
Nature, however, performs the
feat with her usual efficiency, Plants
like the clover, peva, or bean, in
partnership with tiny nitrogen -fix-
ing bacteria in the soil, are able to
take nitrogen from the air for her
own use and to leave part of it
stored tip in the soil for plants
of another season.
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Other plants have to take their
nitrogen from the soil in the form
of salts called nitrates. The bacteria
that help the clover, peas and beans
to produce this nitrate form little
nodules on the roofs, and these
modules swarm with the useful bac-
teria. They can be seen on the roofs
of the red clover.
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To provide, his soil with part of
the "fixed" nitrogen needed for his
crops, the farmer has only to
plough in his peas, clover or beans.
this, unfortunately, does not
' '`,- > n -do-.. o,,a.e„g1,...-n:k..ogo., . t.a .-P—
with the intensive farming of
modern times.
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There is no doubt that when ni-
trogen is forced to work for its
living it almost achieves miracles,
An official comparison between two
equal areas of grassland' one with
nitrogenous fertilizer and the other
without, showed that the yield of
the first exceeded the second by
75 per cent
But what the, world badly, needs
is some permanent device for trans-
forming the nitrogen in the •atmos-
phere into material crop fertilizer.
When that is done on a big enough
scale, many of our food problems
are likely to be solved.
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So here's a chance for some
reader of this column to will hini-
self—or herself—fame and fortune
in wholesale quantities. Just invent
some cheap and practical gadget
that will reach up into the atmos-
phere and pull down that essential
element for free. How to go about
it? Well, you'd better ask somebody
else regarding that, for if I knew
—do you think I'd be putting to-
gether columns like this for a
living?
Lord, grant that I may always
desire more than I can accomplish.
-Michelangelo.
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BAIfY QH1040
DAY-OLD chicks, broiler chicks, pullets
1Q weeks to laying,. Tweddle Chick
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BUSINESS OPPaRTUNITIES
NOTICE Home and Store Owners, Adver-
tiling Agents. You can now purchase
quality wooden cabinets at manufacturers'
prices. Custom and quantity production.
For information write A, C, McGarvey,
Wood Products, Orrville, Ontario.
I.IY.EING AND CLEANING
HAVE You anything needs dyeing or clean-
ing? Write to us for information. We
are glad to answer your questions, De-
partment H, Parker's Dye Works Limited,
791 Yonge Street, Toronto, Ontario.
FARAIS FOR SALE
$15,000,00, LOVELY 100dcre Farm in
Durham County, between Port hope and
Rico Lake. Brick house, large `barns,
chicken house, all 'in perfect condition.
Hydro throughout, plus water pumped into
all buildings from deep well. All build-
ings rodded and new metal roofs on Out-
buildings. Some bush and' small stream.
A clean, prosperous farm for immediate
possession. Terms, Write for fall details.
LONG BROS.
REALTORS PORT HOPE
140 -ACRE, sandy loam farm, .1 mile west
of Dunnville, on No. 8 highway. 105
aorci cultivated land, 35 acres bush: 11 -
room frame house, new, double garage,
361x801, hip barn, henhouse, drive, shed.
woodshed, all in good condition; 2 water
wells, 1 gids well, 50 trees in orchard,
electricity and gas in house. Good site for.
cabins, store, ate. Apply Steve Kuchta,
R.R. 5, Dunnville.
200-ACitE farm for sale: 170 cultivated,
balance pasture, sugar bush. Heavy clay
loam. House, buildings, stock, furniture,
equipment. Write: M. McNulty, Bonfield,
Ontario,
97 -ACRE Market Garden Farm, good
buildings and hot house, water and
hydro in all buildings, 6 -room house, 3
miles from Oshawa, $8,500, half cash.
W. C. MCAULEY, REALTOR
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TOR SALE
ALUAIINUDI ROOFING — Immediate ship-
ment—,018" thick in 6, 7, 8, 9 and IQ -
foot lengths. Price to apply .019" at $9.40
per square, .010" at $8,25 per square de-
livered Ontario points. For estimates,
samples, literature, etc„ write: A. C.
LESLIE & Co., LIMITED, 130 Commis-
sioners St., Toronto 2, Ontario.
CIRCULAR SAW MILL. Good condition.
Automatic saw filing machine for hand
caws and circular saws. Also large eireu-
lar saws, saw bits and holders. W. D.
Williams, Gatineau, Quebec.
MOTORCYCLES, Harley Davidson, New
and used, bought, sold, exchanged. Large
stock of guaranteed used motorcycles. Re-
pairs by factory -trained mechanics. Bi-
cycles, and complete line of wheel goods,
also Guns, Boats and Johnson Outboard
Motors. Open evenings until nine except
Wednesday. Strand Cycle & Sports, King
at Sanford, Hamilton.
BEAUTIFUL colored plastics. Sturdy gold-
plated Points, Smooth writing. guar-
anteed one Year. Matching- Penile 500.
We repair all makes of fountain pens—
send yours for estirpate. The Pen Shop,
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FOR SALE—1 Leroi Centaur Tractor,
fully equipped, with hydraulic lift and 2
furrow plow. New. $200 below list. Going
out of business. Dealer. Lloyd McEwing,
Drayton, Ont,
NEW TIRES
SPECIAL DEAL FOR DEe]LERS ONLY
HEALERS required to distribute first line
Gutta Percha Tires backed by Gutta
Perella lifetime guarantee. Large stock
of passenger and truck tires in popular
sizes available. Exceptional discounts for
duration of sale. Enqulrles will be promptly
looked after. Write now for details of
this once -In -a -lifetime offer. Tire DePart-
ment, Hercules Sales Limited, 8336 Dundas
Street West, Toronto, Ontario.
FALL SOWN GRAIN REALLY PAYS
Every eastern farmer should grow one
field of Bishop's selected. hardy Winter
TWO or Wheat. Write today for descriptive
price list of No. I seed. Bishop Seeds Ltd,
Belleville, Ont.
MUS ICAL INSTRUMENT REPAIRS
STRINGED Musical Instruments repah•ed
and refinished. ll'or information, write
A. C. McGarvey, Wood Products, Orrvilie,
Ontario.
TULIP BULBS
Bishop's Rainbow Mixture, 10 beautiful
colours, top size bulbs. 20 postpaid for
$1,00. 100 postpaid for $4,50 . Des-
criptivobooklet included. Write for our
illustrated catalogue today. Bishop Seeds
Limited. Belleville, Ontario.
NEW ROOFING
ALUMINUM CORRUGATED
Price—$7.00 per Erb
ALUAIINUAI RIBBED
Price—$8.00 per
square.
Orders shipped immediately.
BERCHNOOD MACIUNERY LTD.
10 Beechwood Ave.
4-8527 Ottawa, Ont.
HARNESS & COLLARS
Farmers Attention — Consult
your nearest Harness Shop about
Staco Harness Supplies. We sell,
our goods only through your
local Staco Leather Goods dealer,
The goods are right, and so are
our prices. We manufacture in
our factories - Harness. Horse
Collars, Sweat Pads, Horse Blan•
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Goods. Insist on Staco Brand
Trade Marked Goods, and you
get satisfaction. Made only by
SAMUEL TREES CO., LITD.
42 Wellington St, E., Toronto
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AtEDIGAL
Proven Remedy--Evety sufferer of
Rheumatic Pains or Neuritis should
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MUNRO'S DRUG STORE
335 Elgin Ottawa.
$1.25 Express Prepaid
SouooL PENS 0.,06
CRESS Corn salve—for sure relief, You.
Druggist sells Cress.
UNWANTED HAIR
Eradicated from any part of the bodr,
with Baca -Polo, a remarkable discovery
of the age. Snea-Iclo contains no harms
ful ingredient, and will destroy the hair
root.
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PROTOORAPHY
PHOTO -FINISHING Enlarged Prints, care-
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TEACHERS WANTED
TWO Qualified Teachers wanted for S.S.
No. 6 village ochool ,at Quadevllle, and
No. 6, Bruceton Co.. Renfrew. Duties to
commence Sept. 5, 1950. State salary,
expected when applying to M. Kennelly,;
Sea,-Treas., Quadevllle, Ont.
QUALIFIED Roman Catholic, Engglishl,
speaking teachers for ordinary or spe-
cial subjects for next September, Fot
salary schedule apply to the Secretary
Treasurer, Aima Arvisals, Ottawa Separ-
ate School Board, 159 Murray Street;
Ottawa.
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