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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1940-11-01, Page 6AN TAKE IT ! tinued from Wage 2) "Go where you like and eights!" ale Mo. t amazing tiring of all is t ,Irontdoners are taking the 'dna- . r, ':the inconvenience, the whole I}error of it, with a smile -=-even witn Si joke. :.. long ago I ices- on night duty a big public shelter. There were • •perrefees a hundred people there with :their bedding, their playing cards, 'their books and papers and thermos flasks and sandwiches, all smelt::;,• down quite thap•pily fur the right, It was, almost an hour siui'r the gime had roared. Everything w t= quiet. Then we heard once more the throb -throb of the Nazi plane. Everybody stopped talking to lis- ten as it came nearer, Some huddlercloser in their corners, others look- ed apprehensively up as though they expected to s•et the raider through the concrete and steel girders 'and Sandbags over their .heads. Suddenly a voice broke the waiting stiliress. "He's only , come bask 't photograph the damage," said one woman reassuringly, Just •at that moment came the- ttn- •n^istakable `" vhis•tie of a bomb—then fcnump—and leek- of a heavy building falling. ..A second voice broke in instantly. "Seems to have dropped his' blasted camera:" • Hang On To Teapot • It wa,s in that sante shelter that I talked to a ecung warden who told me his house had been . bombed two • .nights before. 'I was making •a cup of tea when •• ;tete:. whole piece came down on ire,' • he said. "I got a bit of a bump os the. head and when I came round the :;'ti rue they'd pulled me out from under. "the kitchen' dresser and I was still hanging on to the, teepee!!! I tried to sympatihlze with 4didst young pian who had neo home yet who gave up every night, to caring for the"saf'ety of others. What had he to say to fihe banal, inappropriate things 1 tried to say? Just_ "I never liked that house very much anyway-l'd wanted to move for a long time." One of the memories that will -be evith are always is of the first raid casualties I had to dear with. It Wes early one morning—a cold r: e.y dawn—and the sirens had just v. ruled the "All Clear," when they brought two children into the hoe- lime oslft:ti. Two little girls of six and ten, resit faces blackened and their hs,ir- grcy as an old woman's with thick +t:=t. they lay quietly, wide-eyed on tia stretchers-, With them came a woman, calm,. ua,'cmpaining, ready and anatoiis re help. She herself was unhurt .and w,. let her, stay in the ward to cone ii rt the children. Ou•ce they were safety tucked up in bed, sthe got "'up and walked quietly away. -May I telephone this afternoon k'row how they are?" she asked. "Perhaps by' then I shall have news -for them of their parents." .. That woman was not, as we had imagined', their mother, Until the nieht'whee a bomb, hit the house next door to her, she didn't eves. know' those children -'to speak to. It was only hours after rescue parties • had telct.n away the peg/We from the up- per part of that stretken house 'that etre 'heard a child crying and- went, uvt to investigate. There was no one to help her. The A.R.P. people had gone long ago,• lel eving they rad got ei'erybody out. That woman hjtd crawled cautiously down into the cellar, following the hall cries from below, and brought the two little girls out=£heti gene back to fetch' their teddy bears. Only when they were safely 'in our care in hcspitai did she leave them, ask - !ns. Illy- that sthe. be allowed to know that they were. recovering. It was late that afternoon 'schen we heard from her again. .. She rang up to tell us ;that she had toured every hospital in the • neighborhood 'arid had at last found the parents. They were still uncons'cicus but the doctors said that, like their children, they would ' live. And • when they awokeit would be to hear that their daughters were doing very well in- deed in another hospital—thanks to t':2 ttteless, unselfish work of a com- plete stranger whto -refused even to tell us her name. Walk Through Walls Even in the East End, the most cruelly battered. area of all, there .,is laughter among the heroism 'of ordinary people. . •• The -ether morning an East End polieerran had reluctantly to remon- strate with a' local publican. "Look at -tire tame, 'old roan,".he said, "Ten minute, past closing• time and all these reoiie still inside: Come on now." '• The • publican •.'stmii-ed unrepen'fant: ly. "What can I do?" he asked.. "If ! shat the' doers they only .walk in through the walls!;' ' And there is my daily woman who sleeps' with her whole .family in a West End undergr and station quite a long way trent her h•dme. I asked her why she chose that one. "It's so' handy, for Bert," she told _tree. ,_"H 1u L_Ke s-rrp• in --the -merning- and there . --i the first train in the platform waiting to take him to work: I doubt if Bert has• seen his home since it all began, but every nigrit lee fi.eds his wife and -children—and 'his supper -waiting for him • in their particular bit of number two plat form. Then there was the youngster w'ho ir:,istied Mat 'has riot leg was n„IF1 ch n/ ,_. • Besides the thousands of pilots to be turned out under the Commonwealth Air Training Plan, elf,-,. engreater numbers of other experts are tieing trained to make the Empire's air forces the world's most powerful. A class in aero -mechanics is shown here at study inone of the many schools spread across the Dominion. ' - broken, We lifted ;him gingerly onto a stretcher and carried him care- fully to the casualty station in the. ciar'kness while searchlfghts raked the sky and the plane droned endiesee- iye .overt a.d. We had nearly reached our, des- tination when a bomb crashed not a .couple of hundred yards away, scat- tering a slro'wer of debris alt around us. The stretcher --bounced in our hands --but not ,from the, blast of the explosion! Our patient •had leapt • to the ground! The last we saw of him he was : running like the wind for the nearest shelter! -tut theta -lad--was the exception. One of our hardest ;labs: 'Is to convince these people that they need atten- tion when they really are ',Injured. One night we took to searching everybody brought from a bombed buildings far traces of hidden injuries. We found several nasty burns•,• a sprained wrist and. a number of cuts —and every one of those patients lead declared staunchly that._, there was waiting witag. Even when the found out the truth, they said "Look after the people who are really hurt. Don't worry about me." That indeed ire- the true spirit of London today and of its dauntless; gallant ipeople: Their first thought is for the man. next . door—his house is really wrecked, his. wife may, be seriously hurt, those firemen could do with• a cup of tea. Quite early, one morning, just` after the "All Clear" bad sounded into the misty ,awn.. I came .upon a little restau t. T'hei whole of its kitchens bad been demolished during the night. There was no gas' for cooking.. But 'the proprietor and his wife were• busy in the small shop at the firont. On.e of ' them pumped, up the wheezy Pmmu'g etove and the other poured out endless cups of steaming tea "'and ]vended them to the A.R.P. people, the firemen and the ambul- ance drivers. - ThWi `eurstonneirs were trying val- iately to pay but tea that Morning was "on the house" — that couple" wouldn't take a penny. • • WIN MEDALS . AND FREE 'TRIP HAROLD PICKET An outstanding . feature at the International Plowing Match, held at St. 'ftolitas-•this year, was the event sponsored by Salado Tea Company. The big "Salads" Srecial'elass,eope r to all plowman who had qualified at hrtnelf.inalfhes.and to all winners of first prizes in the open Jointer classes at international Materiels from and including 1927, brought' together the top reels' ploweierf of the Province and attracted wide attention. The ,first and second pit is art gold "and' +si,er medals and an extensive trip to'Melude arc s of;:; icultural''interest. Twelve. cash prizes •ranto �'C?(J a' 'ore :also .awarded for. this event ranging from 2 ,Li Utter .. I event, '�' honours went to John Lister and 11 itold'lekcet, beth from Hamby, Ontario. . Hunting the - Pest -Killers (Condensed from. The Baltimore Sun- day Sun in Reader's Digest) Curtis Clausen is baldish, blue-eyed and mild' -mannered. He suggests a successful but slightly weary busi- nessman. Such- a casual appraisal, however, is hryp'eiessly misleading. For 23 years Clanisen' has travelled aitmost constantly; through Sumatra and Mandhuria, Kashamr, and 'remote South Sea islands. Purpose of these wanderings: .to find bugs which , will destroy bugs. We are probably the world's Most peat -ridden ocifentry. Of the 80,090 North American Insects so far classi- fied, at least 10,000 must be ranked ars destructive. Insatiable betties, weevii% flea 'hoppers, leaf anti ear worms/ di3 $2,000,000,000damage to our crops every year. C1ausaf's work for .,tih•e U. S. De- partmetit of Agrkxultiere's Bureau of Entomology has taken him all over the world because hundreds- of Am- erican agricultural crops came ordg- finally fdom other countries. Insects which 'prey re., these crops came along With their hosts', but parasites which attack the insects were often left be- hind. With nature's superb Illyetena of cheeks and balances, thus upset, de- struca`iro'e insects+ have no enemy to impede tihdie extravagant multiplica- tion. The Hessian fly came 'with ith. the troops wihich fought in the 1t.ei'olu- tioe. It destroys -17,000,000 bushels of wihteat a year. The boli weevil, oiifh. Ante a 111 Bram S ri a via exlco, costs the Cotton belt $120,000,000 a. year. There la nb'reliable estimate of the Herb'ag'e 'ftied ler the Ol''i:etit5l fru3 " worm that came with the lovely Jap- anese Cherry- trees- 'that "decorate Washington's Tidal; Basin:.• - Clausen's job=anti. the job of the eleven men under him --is to search out parasites which the insects left behind in' their native Countries•;;- to capture and colonizethem, and set them •to• work. This type 'of contrtll has been far more effective than 'the use oty poison sprays, and its first ccst is its last. The Division. of Foreign . Parasite Istrodtiction maintains a permanent station at Yokohama'. ' A second sta- tion . at St. Cloud,' outside' Paris, clos- ed because cf war, will probably be transferred to Uruguay. Pram these centers periodic bug -heating eit'ppedi= tions go out to remote corners. el the earth. There are something. like half a Million classified, j.ristects. Searching out from among this 'enormous pole elation the desired • parasite; - oft - times eo minute that it is ,barely vis- eblet •is a job demanding patience and keen detective work. Orie of Claus - en's expeditions will iliusttr ,t h6w 3t is done. ' He wa,s:: •in Japan in' 1920 when the order went out to' find a killer .-bug for the Japanese • beetle: This fear- fully •destructive pest had , slipped in- to 'Nfew Jersey with as stitpmnent of irises. Armed. with a hand lens and a few cotton -stoppered test tuber', Clausen started north into the orch- ard country. Here, he knee•' the betties' were present but offered no problem Some parasite held them in check. Near Sapporo, "'examining adult beetles, . he found, ,firmly attached •to the body of one of them., a nest of minute . white eggs. Clausen was thoroughly familiar with .this old par- asite trick; a means of provid'in'g food for... -t'h'e. young. When eggs hatched, larvae wriggled forth, bored: their way. 1r.'to the host's body and ate' it hol- low. But, to identify the parasite, he would,_have to watch the eggs ,hatch and allow the larvae to grow. He quickly set up a field laboratory and announced that he would pay 25 cerits for each 100 beetles carrying such egg , masses. Attracted by vis- ions of sudden wealth, 200 children collected 100,000 beetles in a single day. . Thee -;parasite itt turned one, -might easily be mistaken for et.he gammon housefly. In a week's time this pot- ent killer would destroy 90 per cent of the beetles in an orchard, Clausen dispatched shipments of his parasite to the United, States. But liere, for ?some reason.—perhaps climatic—the fly's ' life cycle no longer synchroniz- ed with the beetle's. The fly emeng- ed a month early- and its days were over before the beetle craweld out from hibernation. - Clausen set out again, this time with success. ,diefeun'd.-two mintute wasps which, seeking • put the beetle grubs und'ergrroun'd, stnng their prey into a state of paralysis, thew attach- ed eggs to their bodies. Hatched larvae ate tber 'grubs. These wasps are• now being colonized along the Atlantic seaboard with promising re- sults. One of Ciausoen's outstanding jobs was finding the parasite for the Cub- an black fly. This pipet was eating foliage, ^stunning freit and killing trees in Cuban orchards. The Unit- ed States Department of Agriculture feared it might jump to Florida and endanger the state's $2,000,000,000 citrus industry. 'Clausen took ship for Singapore .and started workdntg his way through the cltrus ordharde of the Malay Seattle. After months of labor the found a wasp, even Mote Minute than 'the 'gnat•elzed black fly. Thies Wasp Met - tared the body of the black fly and Inserted ther 'eggs. When the battl- ed att -ed larvae were threagh feeding, the black fly •wad e Ilvollow ehel:l. bi covering this harsh li'ttlte drama of n- tttlre was sill y a start. How ,get t the"'ivhort-liveti 'wahpg to Ceiba? Sete eral generations weeid4 eat, breed and die in the nine .requif,^ed fur the vi>y'- age. Claulsen. would have to prtovide black flies for • the parasites to eat, and, .in turn, something' .for the black flies themselves to eat. Clausen packed hundreds, of 'patted mango seedlings Sightly in a doien screened eases. He:stocked' each case heavily with black flies!--enonr.gh, , he hoped, to Outlast the wasps. -The ,;shipment got through—just.- All 'the flies were dead; but 40 parasites ax- rived!—enough, it moved, to populate the island, erase Cubes. Plague, ,anidi remove a threat to the United. States. Altogether, scattered through the world, there have been 25 examples of., insects •being brought under com- plete control 'Cb% parasites. 'The first ar_a gteates ,w'ae ithe. cottony cushion scale which late last century devast-, ated Calitornda citrus fruit. Orchards were. being abandoned and bankrup- tcy threatened Whole communities when Albert .Koebele, a self -trained entomologist, started on a' dralRnatic- ally 'successful expedition. The scale, - Koebele knew, was tak- ing a terrible toll. in - the orchards ,of N• ee• Ze nfli` But it .teras' rib loOb?e ti. in Australia, the source of New' Zea- land's nursery stock. Apparently the Parasite had been ' left "behind when trees and stare' were shipped to New Zealand and the search' ehouid begin in Au's'tralia. K.oebele sfailed in the fall of 1888. In an amazingly short time he found a small beetle which !raids its eggs on top of the egg masses of the cottony .etishion scale. Where, the beetle eggs' -hatched',, larvaje crawled mit to conisv:me the .scale egg's. • Koefbele managed to, get 129 of his parasites back to Oalifarnia, alive. In a year's tine millions of descendants hat] - comtpietely .controlled ,the ' pest, Subsequent- shipments , of the "parasite have erased the' plague' from. forty, countries. ' Two et our parasite' newcomers work well against the European corn borer in New England, and another against the satin moth en the Pacific Coast. :Why dkin't they work as well in other regions? No one knows. A fly which arrived on the first com- mercial trip of tehe- transatlantic clip- r.eyr appears to/ be highly efficient a- gainst the asparagus beetle.. And good reeulta are cawing free& a parasite• for the spruce sawfly--the insect -which;- in eoseareeent year., -destroyed. enough tr4e in Canada and New England .to keep pulp milts running for a quarter of a century. 'Ctomiplete extermination of any pest is generally judged an impossibility, yet even that has happened. When the Mediterranean fruit fly was dis- cov'ered in Orlando, Fla:, 'ie. April, 1929, a gigantic campaign began: At stake were the state's citrus and whi- ter vegetable industries. Millions were poulred into the process of de- struction • and rigid, quarantine which ultimately ended in cee:Vete victory. With little hope ofdeprecating this performance, most entomologists 'are, satisfied if they can keep insects in a 'state of .balanced eontrol at a con,• scant low level. . • New problerns, are. always arising. The white -fringed beetle, for exam- ple, appeared .in Florida three years ago, apparently from the. Argentine, and has spread, along the Gulf Ce'ast all the way 'to Louisiana, In four hours one man in a badly. infested area . collected 80;009i. As a grub liv- ing ,un'dierground it heats. roots sof plants, and as an adult it destroys whatever Vegetation is left on the surface. Another. omdnaus threat its the ,pink bollworm which sid'pped a- cross the Rib Grande i'r%to the cotton fields of Texas,• Search for 'parasites for both these pests ls• -under way, The work of elausen'is hand bf minters Chas been SeeJeded UP tremendously by the ad- vent of transoca1th 'Plane roerviee, Parasites whteih tartme'rly'required ted ions nuresernaiding and frequent Stop- overs can now be shdpiyed directly to receiving station - hi 1 aw Jeliseyr', Conilleetibuit, -Pennsylvania sylvanlia and Ore gen.. About a0-lvremnising ThO* lefties enter the 'United States ' ea h, y'ea'f'. Th ja Invented Their Own- . Business People wba find thenaseiavea strand. ed in. Los Angeles atter banking hours with a cheque ' ' theirp!o eket, but tin Cash, go to the P. E Buffet. There, fpr the '1tst ten years, Bowland Cole, from a cage in ,bias father's restaur- ent, has ,oas'hed more than $1,000,000 worth of cheques per month — mere business than is done by small banks. His Profit is In the ' small service Charge: for cheques up to $50, elea/en cents, and an extra five cents' for ev- ery additional $25. Since he averages 15,000 'cheques• a. mouth, it's a 'tidy business for a chapstill in 'his twen- ties, Deduet one-fourth oR one per cent for bad cheques (his average Loss)", and all expense including wages for two assistants—and Cole clears $14,000 a year.—Coronet, r • Beverai years ago Carl Seagren;,. a Brooklyn 'baker, began making "car- toon cakes," a novelty suggested by a sick child's request for a Mickey Mouse on a cake. Then one day he put a music box in the bottom of a cake and adjusted dt' so that when the cake was out the box played. In lees than a year Seagren sold more than 3,000' "mtusioakes"; .they have been sthipPed by air express as far as Bombay, • Buenos Aires . and Cape Te*n: Seagren is rxsow working en a "t'alleing cake": when it is cut, the donor's voice will be heard wishing the . of honor a happy birthday or other suitable greeting ' Frank Masterson, ' strolling around a bigChicago department store ob- served, Shat 'manly' people stopped to admire the expensive luggage dibplay- ed, but few' bouglift. It eoeurred. to hien that sauce luggage is 'used most- ly during holi'd'ays', vacationers might like -to rent smart luggage that they could' not afford to buy outright. He succeeded in' convincing' a number of travel, agenc'•ies that' if people could save money an luggage thetY would have, that Meath more to spend on fares, and offered them a .25 per cent oonimaission on all busines's they sent. him. Then he „stocked up- on-1•uggage bought wholesale.. Renting it at from $1.25 to $11 per piece for teeeweek Periods, with the privilege of apply- ing pplying the rental charge to the purchase price, he served 100 customers the first month.—Free Press 'Prairie Far- mer.. - One day in 1933, Will/tun Andrus, sat on a Philedelp<hisreeufbstom', .hie ea g possessions redju:ced to tine 'coin and a racing Motorcycle. Notic- ing same small boys delivering medi- cal supplies! on, bicycles,=.it_ ocued._ to hitt. that 'a anotox-aycl'e would 'im- prove such service, and he 'persuaded an optical supply aieiuse to become the first customer of Professional Mes- senger ,Service guaranteeing city de- livery, within the 'hour: News of his fast and efficient service spread; soon doctors sand dentists 'also em- Ployed him. Today the Service takes care of setae, 750 telephone calls daily and has 18 direct lines to medical houses; it employ's 34 Mee,, largely. recruited from relief ,roils; automobiles have re - Placed" motorcycles. Orders range from deiivery ef serum, frpm, Squibbs to the Lying -In Bostpitals•, and oxygen tents needed do haste, to glasses from the optician. to replace. broken ones, and iced vegetables and' fruit thrice daily to 200 diabetic patients,—Flor'- ence A. • Loebeil. . tr Climatic, nutritional and other condi- tions kill some elf. But bo date 7,0 - odd new species..have thrived in their new fhoese, „end are doing their part in •re -e tal?ils'hinig nature% balance which man upset. Many times over they have !laid the cost 'of maintain- ing the globe-trotting bug .hunters. .' vids- _Rest M' 4ni people never teem` to gota Iught'a teat. '`!'hey trim andtu.0-- is avaL6 an count sheep, Often they blame "it eflt "nerves" when it miry be eir kndlloy,., Healthy"' kidneys Ehret poison hone lets blood. "11E they us faulty and fail, peiaoss stay in the system read aleeploaaneu,. slache,eep bwaecll,ksggh.,trye'oDftenofa Kidollow.ney If , dd'idols--ifar half a century" the favorite remedy. iH Dodds Kidney Pile HOLIDAY SAFETY PLEA • The editorial staff Would greatly ap- preciate it if all citizens planning to take. a, few quick.; nerts of firewater before gettdtng tato the car to drive eta Grandma'e or the football game would first stop by the office and leave a few notes .ori their obituaries. This thoughtfulness will do away witis the necessity of our''having to chtase around hospitals and undertaking es- tablishments Thanksgiving night to find out who you were before yot'i tried to turn two curves where there was only one.—Texas Parade. MILES OF MEALS Passengers along the skyways of the world meastsre their meals by the mile. , Soaring above the Atlantic 'on the big Clipper planes, one's break- fast take's from 50 . to 75 miles; if "three-minute eggs" are ordered while th'e plane is two miles, above the etan, you can. 'add another 60 miles because of the extra' time required tb• boil water. • Luncheon and .dinner require about the. sane .mileage --75 to 100 miles for a full course meal, including one. cup of coffee; an extra cup adds 25 miles. It...takes 10 -to •15 'miles Par soup, 40 to 45 miles for the main course, 15 miles for salad and about 15 miles for dessert:--=Siherman E. Altick in• New York Sun'. RELIGIOUS TOLERANCE 17th CENTURY STYLE • In the' Year of • Our Lord 1682.. To 'Ye ----Aged and Beloved, Mr: J fhb _ Higgiats�an: There be now at sea a ship. called "Welo�e," which has an board 100 or -mere oaf the heretics and lnalig nants ,called Quakers, with W. Penn, , who is the chief scamp, at the head of them: The General Court has ac- cordingly given sacred orders to, 1Vlaster Malachi Huscott,' of the brig 'Perpbtse; -t aylay-the-ted:= "Wel- - come"s7`yly as neer the. Cape Of Cod as may he, and make captive the said'. tamn and his ungodly crew', 'so tlia `hhe `ioid inlay_ gjfQrified and not mocked ion. the soil of this new country with the .'heathen Worship of these .people., - Much spoil can be made of selling .the' whole lot to Barbadoes, 'Were slaves • fetch good prices in mum • and sugar, and we---- shall not only do the Lord 'great good by punishing the wicket!', but we' shall make great good -far_ • His Minis- ter and petiplet • Yoprs in the bowels. of Christ, - .Cotton Mather.. —Reprhirted by Pita. Robert Phil- lips in his American,.Government and . Its Problems. • Mrs. -.B.: "I wish I could think of something nice for a Birthday pres- ent, I dont care if it's expensive," Mrs. C.: "Frcnn you to your hus- band?" 1Vlir•s. B. "No, from my husband to me," •• "I hear your store was robbed last night. •Loso ,much?" "Some. But it would have "been 'worse if the burglars had got in irbei alight before. You see, yesterday .1 just finished marking clown every- thinb. 20 per cent." rt, Jack Tar :and Gob Fraternize • i TIile spirit Of .frreindgllip:and good -Will that has characterized the relatloiut betweein the British Eifnpire and the Dotted Stn#es here is drintli ticafl typified -hie the Atil'erlean ss6tln , one of many who bruu[ght sor>t►e' owes -age deetrray ers to Easton Canadian ports, .I and the Royal' Naval rating who baa some from hie own country. to help titan the ships during. thele voyage to the tii'nite(i i lrigdosn. They are ehetait ober,;, oft the eter'n of•p; U.S. de trroyer. 4.