HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1933-09-15, Page 6(Condensed from New 4 utblook in., Reader''s Digest)
wa recent college graduates :
Cetings! About to accept your re-
isponsilbilities to society, you are, un-
happily, as you will soon realize, for-
gotten men. You know, of course,
that "times are hard"; that less than
ten per cent. of the postegreduate
professional men . from last year's
class have found work; that allow-
ances from home have been cut, fam-
ilies have had grave -isfortunes,
homes have been lost. You know all
these things, but you can't realize
thern.fully at this moment. You will,
unfortunately, realize them only too
well when you yourselves try to find
a place. in the world. •
Yet I don't feel sorry for you, be-
cause you are young. If all of you
marched out this afternoon without
a nickel to your names, you would
at least have age on your side; few
of you have responsibilities. except to
yourselves; you hava not worked 20
years only to find yourselves forced
to start oyer again, as is the case
today with many talented men.
I don't' want to give you advice on
'there to find work. • The serious
problem that faces you is the very
way of working. You have, unfor-
tunately, inherited the illusion that
only in the city can you, find power.
opportunity, and glory. The men
who graduated in '2' '24. and '?i;
believed that. But lieten, to them
talk to -dray, What will you find?
Confusion and disillusionmeet. Not
because they are poorer tban they
were, or out of work, but because
they suddenly discos Bred that they
had no idea of whom they were. work -
foe, or why.
To -day, no matter how commodity
price.s improve, land values rise. or
men are 'put back to work, the fact
of the matter remains that the city
is over -manned. Ask your doctor's.
For every interne placed in a repu-
table -hospital there are hundreds
druneming their heels, trying to find
a position in the city. Harvard Law
Review men are trying to find work
as -20 •clerks. Beaux Arts prize
architects of reputation and standing
in their profession, play checkers in
their 'em'pty offices.
You, of course, believe the ,world
is your apple: that with courage and
ability you can do anything. That is
an asset. But it is -a foolish cred-
ential to -day in Detroit. Chicago, or
New York simply because those cit-
ies are over-marin•ed—not jut because
of the Depression, but because of
tie thousands of skilled men who
rushed to the citta' in those days
when the city seemed the only road
to. opportunity. And today in the
few urban centers, • for one of
you .'willing to start at scratch there
are other proved, able, even well
known, men, asking for the sauce
Chance.
Againeal send you to your own
campus veterans. 'Since the World
War all of them had been going to
the city. Concentration of power,
wheel within wheel., of control, 'was
just under way.
Tmallld-fan had
limited money; a+hem
ed and dull. So they Went to the
city, not just for money, but because
of the great urge; the same striving,
inexplicable urge that caused your
grandfathers to abandon their farms
and seek greater opportunities in the
West. The new super -corporation
era represented another gold rush.
Picked men were • recruited by the
hundreds to join gigantic organiza-
tions. They..became super -drummers.
touring the coutrtry for big business
in one capacity or another. Or they
became' a part of the great industrial
flywheel in the cities., One and all,
they were convinced that they were
going places! '
' Talk to them now. and you will
find, not so much confusion at unem-
ployment, but bewilderment that the
zest has gone out of the game. Be-
cause they really were not going
places. Because they weren't resting
on their own strength—they were
part of the most complex financial
concentration in the history of so-
ciety. The excitement had fooled
them.
It was their delusion, nmoreo'ver,
which robbed the country. particular-
ly the rural part of it. of the ser-
vices of young men arid turned it ov-
er to the old, the unfit, and the feeble.
And now the ccuritry is paying for
it through the nose'.
That is, the small town, the small
city, for ten years was deserted. And
I can think of no better place, or way
far you to start work than to go'
hom't. Go hone. Look at it. where -
ever it is. You will find it just as
your upper -clansmen left it: in the
hands of the old and incomrpetent.,
And I don -'t care ,what your ambi-
tion is. There is no 'part of home
town life whieh doesn't affer'oppor-
tunity: Your district attorney's of-
fice; the home town newspaper; your
hospitals: your builders; your mer-
chants. Wlhaft do you fetid?
Your courts and legislatures have
(been content to follow their national.
parties, obsequiously picking u'p
whatever crumbs the bosses tossed
them. Your hospitals-.-rGod k'now's
here is opportunity (as a govern-
ment commission on medical care can
well verify). Your newspaper is con-
tent to buy New York columnists and
to feature articles about ,Chicago-
gangsters. Your housing is fifty
years behind: the times, and your
-merch'an'ts have long ago given over
to the chain stores. Your fauns are
Ioaded with mortgages, your banks
are closed, and your state is groan-
ing with taxes, and, having lost its
identity and birthright. is feebly pe-
titioning for Federal aid.
And you, of course, feel that all
this is only an indication of how
,disgraceful going home must be, how
imperative it is for you to go to the
fbig city where they are doing big
things in a big way.ted, in a way,
I think you have been &heated There
isn't any new land for you to exploit
as carelessly and bumptiously as
rout •fattherea and there is na ,place
for you in t'he city. You can't start
tat scratch --you have to' start far
bele* actra'teh.
,At home you will find a pathetic
grip of peo'pie who are willing to
beetle to you. 'There are a great.
many people in your 'home who nev-
er thought an auton Obile, a radio
and a shower bath constituted:, a high
standard of living. There were serve
eral merchants who didn't know, or
agree to, the manner in which the
local power plant suddenly became a
pin in a great utility system'4 load
chart. There are a few lawyers who
would not object to a court which
wasnnt conducted like a musical com-
edy. Most important, you can•,.,find,
fighting in your own, back yard, a
substance whieh the veterans of the
cities have never found; you can find
what they thought they were follow-
ing: independence, free living., and
private enterprise.
Of course, there is only one sim-
ple answer to the question: how to
start to work when you do go home.
,You've got to staot by making your-
self a poet of it. It's a tedious, toil-
ing job to take control away from
the agencies of remote corporations,
from the sterile. and complacent un-
lit, but, after. all, it's yours, and you
are young. It's an 'old country. But
it nerds reclaiming. I'd go back and
take it over. And, gentlemen, I
wish you luck.
The Clarity Racketeers
•
Seed Cleaning Machines
Special machines are required for
the preparation of mangel,°sugar beet
and carrot seeds for the market.
From the two tirst=named crops all
pieces.,. of stalk must be removed.
This separation ie. nmacle with ma-
chines which. ¢take advatitage of the
tact that the seed is round whilst
the sticks are more or less flat and
will not roll. The machine consists
of a trav,e?{ing endless belt set, at an
incline upon which the seed to be
cleaned is fed. Carrot seed has email
spines which cause the individual
seetis' to cling together, so that, be-
fore th,e carrot seed can be cleaned
and graded, the spines must be re-
moved by rubbing.. There are several
types of machines for this purpose,
but plans of small -angel and car-
rot seed ening devices can be ob-
tained from the Division of Forage
Plants, Central Experimental Farm,
Ottawa.
Home Preserves .
In the successful hone preserva-
tion of fruits and vegetable?, the
matter of proper storage is import-
ant. A cool, dark place is ideal be-
cause heat favors the growth of bac-
teria; light causes fading, while
dampness furthers the inception" of
Moulds and may even cause rust on
the metal fastenings of jars. Can-
ned goods, says the Dominion De-
partment of Agriculture in its',latest
bulletin on preserving fruit in the
hone, should not be- allowed tq lie
about under uncertain conditions. The
jars should be labelled with '1ihie
name of the product and date when
canned. If dark storage is not avail-
able, the jars should be wrapped in
paper to exclude the light. Again, if
a damp atmosphere is positively un-
avoidable, the rubbers on the jars
should be examined from time to time
as mould may attack them,. maki g
possible, the admission of air and
bacteria to the contents of the jar.
(Condensed front ,Social 'Science by Aidolph E, Meyer, in Reader's Digest)
At least $510,000,000, it has :been
estimated, are collected every year
by charity swindlers, known to the
legitimate welfare workers as "gyp-
pers," 'r'ISharp ooters," or "charity
racketeers."
The lowest forth of _charity swind-
ling is barely different from simple
mendicancy. This type of ,racketeer
groes after has profits personally and
directly. Of such workers one of the
most successful was a New York wo-
man who garbed herself as a Catho-
lic nun and, appealed for funds for
the needy •Catholics of New York.
Another, a negress, who claimed a
legitimate right to wear the veil of
sisterhood on the ground that "the -
Reverend Moses of the Baptist
Church had made her a Mother of
the Church," carried a "charter"
signed 'by the Reverend Moses duly
authorizing "the bearer - to collect
funds." When examined by authori-
des, she explained that she had re-
linquished laundry 'work for welfare
work "because she was suffering
from high blood pressure." This
type of bogus .charity, made up main-
ly of the smaller fry, in most cases
mentally below par. holds the records
for arrests and convicjtions.
Higher in rank and ability are
those who employ agents to collect
for them. The.. so-called "products
companies" for a long time were a-
:pong the most common. A typical
products cem'pany does its' bit for the
down -trodden by sending 'out sales-
men with choice bargains in toilet
articles. :'No actual donations are,
sought," but a percentage of )t'h(e
proceeds of the sales, the customer is
assured, goes to a worthy charity.
One such company sold perfumery
for the benefit of an association for
the 'Jew isl-i blind, besides supporting
a mission for homeless persons. To
protect the public against unscrupu-
lous' collectors. it equipped its repre-
sentatives with an official shield.
That this shield was not unlike the
badges of the New York police was
assuredly not without its °psychelogi-
cal effect on many a reluctant'pros-
pect. Collettors received 50 per cent.
of the cash obtained. Another pro-
ducts company worked for "the bet-
ter comfort of the orphan and desti-
tute cildren" in a "Hebrew kinder-
garten and day nursery." Investi-
gation showed that the company
simply paid the day nursery a small
sum monthly for the use of its namle.
None the Mess, the company continued
for a long time to announce that
"with each purchase you contribute
to a worthy charity." -
With the watchdogs of the law
snapping at their heels, most 'of the
products company magnates have
been forced into more regular forms
of commerce. An exception, however,
was the' former president of a pro-
ducts company wh•o organized' a so-
ciety to alle'aiate the suffering of
needy tubercular patients. He broad-
cast some 60,000 letters, enclosing in
each a sheet of 50 special Christmas
seals. For one dollar one could keep
the seals and have one's name in-
scribed on the association's Roll of
Honor.. Every dollar helped "some
poor unfortunate afflicted with the
dreadful disease." The requests
went into the mails just one month
before the appearance of the regular
Christmas seals. Many people actu-
ally _bought them in the belief that
•
i1 Ii1Il IllllldlH 1 '
"Will we
take S250
for the red bull?"
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Young Tom Wilson had a string of
cattle at the fair. A buyer took a
fancy to the red bull, but Tom was
afraid to take the responsibility.
"Why not telephone your father?"
the buyer suggested, and in a few
moments Tom was speaking with
his father at the farm.
"Will we take $250? You bet!"
the old man decided,. and thanked
his stars again for the convenience
and value of the Long Distance tele-
phone.
For 30 cents,
you can telephone
about
100 miles
by making an "any-
one" call (station. -
to -station) after 8.30
p.m. See list of rates
in front of directory.
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they were gettingathe bona fide seals
to which, they were strikin4ly simi-
lar. Of the $350.0 brought in through
the sale of these seals only $1522$
had gone for actual relief work. The
bulk of the society's receipts had'
been, spent for the "purchase of real
and personal property."
rA "consumptive home, national
in scope," started its existence with
an intrepid backer and ten go-get-
ting solicitors. A shack somewhere
in the Catskills was purchased. Photo-
graphs of this, entitled, "Our Old
Home" were reproduced on "One col-
lar Coupons." Three of these cou-
pons entiitled the bearer to "receive
a membership receipt." On them
was also a picture of "the new build-
ing ewe will erect," (which, oddly en-
ou,gh, was an exact replica of the
Congressti'onal Library), an,', the
words: "Happiness is to be shared
with others if it is to be real. There-
fore we appeal to your known gen-
erolsity. • . \Do your share."
Every dollar coupon specifically gruar-
antseed that "everyo�li l' saves a
human life." The backers of this
home did a superb business.
A truckmlan purchased 1,200,000
handkerchiefs. Next he scanned the
telephone books for names and ad-
dresses. To these he sent ii}le hand-
kerchiefs with appeals "to aid the
little crippled children." Every pro-
spect was •asked to keep theee hand-
kerchiefs for one dollar, and was re-
minded that "all donations would be
gladly accepted." A printed for•pr
read as follows: "Please look into
the following case of a crippled child
which I undeestand is worthy and
financially unable to obtain proper
surgical attention." The schemre
went over in a grand way until the
law became suspicious. 'The society's
mail was intercepted 'through the
post office officials, opened and read.
Some 700 tlett.rs contained donations
of more .ithan $71.000. The truck -
man had `•`expected to clean up 5500,-
000 in three months, after which he
would go to Europe." ,Insteadl, he,was
sentenced to Atlanta fox' two and
one-half years.
World War ,veterans are another
bait often used by the charity rack-
eteer. Advertising .that "a 'nation
which forgets its disabled soldiers
shall peri's'h from the earth," a league
launched its campaign by writing let-
ters to nationally known men, stating
that it was organized for the benefit
of the ex -service man and asking
permission to use the recipient's
name as a menrber of the society's
advisory board.. In most cases this
request was quickly granted. Thus
equipped, it now undertook its drive
for money. Bundles of lead pencils
were sent out evith the ne•auest that
they 'be kept for two dollars, the
money collected to be used for disab-
led veterans. If the first request
failed, a second cut the price to one
&eller. 'To help in getting "more
members a "national.convention" was
supposedly held -in Atlantic City.
Wheal a photographer cameto take a
picture of the assembled members,
the officials rushtrd bo a nearby em-
lploennen't agency to _,hire "50 white
men to act as spectators at a con-
vention," The photographer recog-
nized some of the hired delegates,
and the news finally reached the ears
of the postal authorities. When the
facts were all put together, it was
revealed that mere than 5278,000
had been collected. ' For the welfare
of the disabled soldiers the organiza-
tion had spent only $3,000.
Unless the charity racketeers
transgn:ss against the laws of the
Federal Government, they are' in
most instances able to escape ,witli a
comparatively light punishment. In-
deed, in the city of New York, be-
cause of the difficulty of getting a
conviction, the authorities in most
cases prefer to drive these defraud-
ers out of their nefarious business
rather than to undertake a prosecu-
tion against -theme To prove wilful
fraud is never simple. !Hance to
curb the charity ra keteer laws alone
will not suffice. Pato'bably one of the
best ways of attacking the whole
problem is to awaken the public a-
gainst the s!harpshooter's maraud-
ings. The safest way to protect one-
self 'against the ,charity racketeer is
to make one's contributions only to
established and well known welfare
agencies.
Practical...Hog Raising
Following the recommendations of
the Live Stock Branch, Dominion De-
partment of Agriculture, .the follow-
ing practical results in hog raising
were obtained by Mr. A. Campbell,
Reston, Manitoba: Litter of twelve
pigs weighing 2,690 lbs. at $4 per
cwt. 5107.60; 12 selects at $1 each,
$12 ---value of litter $'I19.60. Costs
—charley 5,588 lbs. at 30c per 'bushel,
534.92; oats, 816 this, art 2(5e per bush-
el, $6; wheat 720 lbs. at 50c per
bushel, $6; milk, 14,400 lbs. at' 10c
per cwt. $14.40: Feed costs $61.32;
marketing 2,680 lbs. at 65c per cwt.,
$17.48;—Total cost $78.80. Profit on
12 hogs, $40.80; profit per hog, $3.40,
Fall Plowing Heavy Clay
,Discussing methods used in pro-
ducing crops in rotation with refer-
ence to corn,for silage, the bulletin
of the Dominion Department of Agri-
culture on "Crop Rotations and Soil
Management for Eastern Canada"
says loamy or sandy •soil may be
spring ploughed for corn but clay
land should be fall -ploughed. Where
land may be spring -ploughed, more
time is usually available in the
spring to do the work than is avail -
allele in the Fal. Manure which is
produced during the• winter may be
spread during the winter, or spring
and ploughed under, while, if fall -
ploughing is done, it is s•o'inetnnies a
little diffi'cul't to disc the manure in-
to the soil, especially if the manure
is strawy. Where corn is .grown on
sod, there is usually quite a growth
of material to plough, under, which
is of considerable advantage if the
'soil is lacking in organic anlattter. '
' Notwithstanding these adtvantages
in favor of spring -ploughing for corn
on light land adapted to sprirjg-
ploughing, fall -ploughing must be
done on heavy clay soil if maximum
yields are to be obtained.. Where
p'ossi'ble, corn should be grown on
fairly light soils, as such soils are
better adapted for the growing of
this crap than are the heavy soils.
If couch grass or other similar weeds
are present, all kinds of land should
be ploughed in the summer as soon
as the preceding crop has been har-
vested. The land should then be
cultivated frequently during the fall,
and again ploughed late in the fall.
Where the land is weedy, there is no.
substitute far frequent ploughing and
cultivating, but if weeds are not prelve
alent there is no advantage in its
favor aver one fall -ploughing.
FARM NOTES .
Pig Feeding Methods .
Although there are several -meth-
ods of preparing meal mixtures for
feeding pigs, t'he following rules are
re.comeranded as safe practices' in
producing hogs of the desired type:
(1) Grind all grain. Fine grinding
is recommended, especially for young
pigs. (2) Soak meal mixture be-
tween feeds; do not- use' too much
water but feed as • a fairly thick
slop. (3) Hand feeding is the hest
method for securing hogs ..of a de-
sirable type. (4) If necessary, -a
'self -feeder .mays be used', after pigs
have reached the growing stage of
development; • (•5) Keep p a i 1 s,
troughs and other feeding equipment
clean. Mouldy or decaying matter
will cause feeding troubles, and (6)
Supply clean drinking water.
Indigestible Poultry Feeds.
Of the slaughter house by-pro-
ducts for the feeding of poultry,
meat meals or meat scraps are by
far the moat commonly used and are
the standard animal .protein supple
merits to poultry rations. They vary
greatly in analysis according to the
amouttt of bone material thee- con-
tain but are usually purchased on' a
guaranteed -analysis. -The poorer
grades containing quantities of hoof
and horn should not be tolerated as
poultry feed as these products (hoof
and horn) are practically• indigest-
ible to `poultry. 'With a little experi-
ence,'' it is possible to tell at a glance
whether the brand is suitable: for
feed or net, but, if' in doubt, pour a
little boiling water an a sample, and
the smell arising should settle the
matter even withath'e inexperienced.
DO YOU KNOW O•DN1 TO . .
SELECT VEGETABLES FOR
THE COMING FALL FAIRS?
Department of Agriculture
Tells How You May Im-
prove Your Exhibits.
AH vegetables to be erhi'bited
should be perfectly fresh, clean, uni-
form: in size and colour, free from
:blesndsihes of any kind and correctly
named.
Beans. -.-(Pods of string beans should
be tender and brittle. Stringless var-
ieties are preferred. Shell - beads
Mast be mature and plump.
• Beets.—The flesh should be fine
grained, tender and of a dark red
color free from white ]fines. Tops
should be fine and compact and the
beets not over three. inches in diame-
ter.
,Cabbage.—Heads are best exhibit-
ed with a few outer leaves left on
and the stem cut short. They should.
be round, flat or pointed according to.
variety, firm and of good weight.
iOarrots.—Roots should' be free
from greening at the crown, 'straight,
smooth, free from side roots, medium
in size and of fine texture. The core
should! be small.
Catdiflower.—Heads must be pure
white in color, dense and free from
leaves or open spaces in the centre.
Celery.—aHead's must be large with
long, firm, thick stalks free from
sponginess or stringless.
ICucumlbers.—Fruits should be long,
straight, smooth, tender, dark green
in calor• witli little seed development.
IGorn:—Ears should be of medium
size, well filled out to the end, the
kernels 'well developed and in the
milk stage.
tOnions. 'Bulbs must 'be well mat-
tured, ,dry; firm inetexture, of good
weight and have a "Well ripened neck
with the top removed. They should
not be peeled but have the dry outer
skin left 'on.
Parsnips.--aRoots .sliould be ''broad
at the crown gradually tapering to
the tip. They, should be straight,
smooth, free from side roots and firm
in texture.
Potatoes—iTubers should have form
and 'color typical of the variety. A
medium sized tuber is 'preferred to a
large one. Freedpm from disease is
extremely important.
I 'Pumpkin. 'Fruit s'ho'uld lbe large,
clotsely' ribbed, s!mlooth, .heavy and
rplature. Sugar pumpkins are small
in size and best exhibited in a sep-
urate section.
!Winter Squash.—Fruit should be
large, heavy and firm in tea -tare with
thick, deep flesh.
Tomatoes—Fruit should be of med-
ium size, smooth, firm, evenly color
'e'd, free from cracks or other defects.
Stems .should be left on but cut
short.
(Swede Turnips.—Roots should be
typical of the variety and smooth. If
for export they should be from 4 to
5 inches in diameter' and for home
consumption from 5 to ,6 'inches.
Vegetalble Marrow.—Fr=uit should
he nvediurfx in size, oblong, fresh and
tender.. The rind should be soft en-
ough to admit the thumb nail with
slight pressure.
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Record Junior Entry at Central
• Canada 'Fair.
The Junior Agricultural Depart-
ment 'at the Central Canada Exhibi-
tion, Ottawa, is rapidlybecoming
one of the chief features of the en-
tire week. This department attracted
an entry list of well over 650 from
counties of eastern Ontario and
western Quebec. This is an increase
of slightly over 1000 entries above the
mark established last year. The pro-
gram includes, in addition to the reg-
ulation judging competitions in do-
mestic science, live stock, poultry,
seeds and vegetables, ,such other fea-
tures, as competitions in halter mak-
ing and .showmanship, and special
classes for individual entries and club
entries open only to memlbers of reg-
ularly organized Boys' Calf Clules in
that section of the two provinces.
It was these latter classes that
attracted and created the most in-
terest on the' ringside. Over 60 'calf
club members exhibited their calves.
Ringside comment was most apprec-
iative, not only of the high quality
of the calves, but also of the manner
in which they were turned out and
handled by their owners. The sec-
tion devoted to Hiols'teina attracted
entries from ten different clubs, with
thirty-nine -club inemsbers competing.
Lanark County had . ,the winning
group, wibh Dundas, Renfrew, Leeds,
Cael'etom and 'Russell following in(
the order named. In the Ayrshires,
Glengarry was first, with Stormont,
Grenville and Carleton following in
order. Dundas had the winning
group of Jerseys wird Renfrew scor-
ed', a double win with groups of
Shorthorns and Herefords. The: cham-
pionship ribbon for the best dairy
calf went to Donald Cumming, of
Glengarry County, and Jas. .;Mask,
of Renfrew, won a similar honour
-fox the best beef calf.
LIQUID -or PASTE
sir WI P01.151I
NOTICE
"I will not be
for anybody who has
tion, Elgar stomach, blow
constipation or sick keulaolkes
if they do not fairs Bali"
Soft Mass Pins and get rid
of these troubles. Everybody
ought to take them two or
three times a month if they
want to feel good. All good
druggists have them."
of the tested subjects were also given
to people with wthom they were ac-
quainted in private life, and recognie .
tion took place in all cases.
(We are, therefore, fully justified
in assuming that the. walk mi ex -
,press earnlething aa manls indi-
vidual character.
The ;subjects of the above experi-
ments, . when they were shown the
pictures of their own walking legs,
together with a number of other ;pic-
tures, unfailingly picked their own
correctly. But they '(were unable to
piek out the picture of `the legs of
their friend's subjected to the same
test together with them, under an-
alogus conditions and with exactly
the same footwear.
•A wife may give an excellent char-
acter description of her husband's
way of walking, but she will not re-
cognize it on the -screen. -
We all know how our friends, rela-
tives, family, walk, we have'wateeled
them do' it dozens of times, but we
have never seen ourselvles walk.
Therefore, if we put the question
whether we can recognize ourselves
by our walk, the reply ought to be
negative.
'Here the experimental method' has
a surprise in store for us. Subjects
filmed and then shown'bhe pictures• of
their walking legs, . invariably ree
cognize them.
What is it that makes a roan re-
cognize his 'own walk although he
has never seen it? It. is .his • own
specific "rhvthan" of which he is
mysteriously and unconsciously con-
scious.
Does the individual know himself
well enough to recognize all his media
of expression?
Of course, he constantly hears his
own voice and see his own hands. It
is, therefore, natural that he should
recognize them.
Here another surprise awaits us:
We never recognize our Own voice,
nor can we pick the photograph of
our band from among a number of
other photographed hands. Yet we
inilmediately recognize our walk,
something that we never saw befdre.
What does this mean if not that
the walk is the true expression 'of
our most intimate self, so intimate
that nobody but the individual him-
self is aware of it, while he knows
nothing of the intimate self even ' of
'his nearest kin and is, therefore, un-
able to identify hien by the picture of
his walk.
Here indeed is the place to say
that, the old adage. "Tell me with
whom you go and I will tell you who
you are" could more appropriately be
changed into "Tell me how you go
'and I will tell you who you are!"
Your Walk Reveals
Your... Character
(Condensed from Die Umschau,
Frankfurt, in Magazine Digest)
The character of an individual has
different media of expression, in the
first place his face and handwriting.
Also thevoice and lines of the hand
May reveal some essential features
of an individual's character to those'
wlhb concern themselves with the
problem of character -reading. -
Only one medium of character ex-
pression has been strangely neglect-
ed -until recently: the 'walk. It has
never formed the object of scientific
research, yet, unconsciously, we al-
ways associate an individual, even an
animal, with his specific manner of
walking. For example, the picture
of a kangaroo imrmediately makes us
think of its peculiar jumping; that
of a camel, of its heaving walk. The
picture of a horse is associated with
the idea of trotting. It is the same
with humans: when we think of a
soldier, we see him: marching, and
when we speak of a peasant we hear
his heavy gait.
Walking has its artists, too. Who
of us has not admired Charlie Chap-
litt'r specific gait, into which he puts
a truly philosophic meaning.
With Chaplin the walk is much more
than just tape expression of a given
character. In all silent films, the
walk was the most eloquent of all
movements, for it is in: bite individu-
al's walk," that bis specific "rhythm"
finds ite beet expression. The gait
may be light, heavy, winged, drag-
ging, uncertain. The •primitive peo-
ples dispose of elven a greater variety
of terms for the definition of the var-
ious ways of walking, because in
their imagination the walk of a man
is 'identi'fie'd with the scenery in which
it takes place. For examlple, they
have one term the meaning of which
is approximately the following: "To
walk hoppinlg through country rug-
ged and torn with heat. . ."
.The .walk is typical not only of to
individua'l's age and social position,
but also of his race. The German,
the Englishman, the Frenchman, the
oriental, all have their specific racial
wary of walking, apart from their in-
dividual gait.
What does the individual know of
his own manner of walking? Is he
conscious of it as of a medium of
expression of his character? Would
he recognize his fellow 'beings by
their walk?
It is d'iff'icult to answer these ques-
tions, because to test the prenomen-
on numeroue special experiments are
required, the execution of which is
rather intricate. However, the film
is a valuable aid in ,suclr tests', be-
cause it gives the possiblity>I of, fix-
ing an individtbal's Walk and then
showing him the rpictiire of the walk-
ing legs alone.
A few auch experitmints have been
cat'ried out and 'given / 4emlarkabfel
and in a way else surprri•sing results.
Oh'araeter deseri;ptioiit of t'he 'Walk
Nature's Nitrogen Store
CHlunuus, the vegetable .matter in
soil in the form of the semi -decom-
posed remains of past -.generations of
plant life, is nature's storehouse for
nitrogen. As th'e humus in a soil is
increased or decreased, so is the ni-
trogen increased or decreased. Humes
performs the useful purpose of so
favorably* affecting the physical con-
dition of both clays and sands that
it renders them suitable- for the sup- • --
port of crops. It furnishes• the ma-
terial upon which the micro-organ-
isms of the soil feed, thus fostering
a -valuable agency in the preparation
of plant food. And, again, it serves
in the maintenance of soil produc-
tivenes's by- • 000irstantly liberating in
its decomposition certain small
amounts of mineral matter in forms
peculiarly available for absorption by
the roots of plants.
Illegal Egg Trading
One of the most commion causes of
prosecutions under the egg regula-
tions of the Live Stock and Live
Stock Products Act, administered by
:the Live Stock Branch, Dominion De-
partment of Agriculture is the purr-
chase of eggs at a flat rate in viola-
tion of Clause 9, paragrapih 4 of
these regulations. It wouldr appear
that several' traders are not as fam-
iliar as•they should be with the term
of 'this -clause.
The clause reads: (4) The manip-
ulation of returns to equal a prev-
iously agreed upon price, or payment
of a guaranteed price, or a flat price,
or a uniforms price for ungraded.
eggs is hereby prohibited. No per-
rson shall make an advance payment
for ungraded eggs in cash, by cheque,
or other negotiable instrument, - in
merchandise, or on account, or in
any other mariner,, at or airibr to time
of delivery, or prlortto candling and
grading, in exces's of eighty per cent.
of the total valueof the eggs com-
puted at the price per dozen for the
grade "First" appearing on the state-
ment.
Except on written approval -of the
,Dominion Minister of Agriculture or
his representative, final settlement
shall be made within seven days of
date of delivery.
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