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SEAFORTH CLINIC
DR. E. A. IViiiMASTER,
Graduate of University of Toronto
PAUL L BRADY, M.D.
Graduate of University of Toronto
The Clinic i fully equipped with
complete and modern X-ray and other
up-to-date diagnostic and therapetitics
equipment.
Dr. F. J. R" Forster, Specialist in
dimities. of the ear, eye, nose and
throat, will be' at the Clinic the first
Tuesday in every month from 3 to 5
p.m.
Free Well -Baby. Clinic will be held
on the second and last Thursday in
everY, month from 1 to 2 p.m.
• JOHN A.. GORWILL, M.A., 13.D.
• 4,/iyalclan and Surgeon
IN DR: H. H. ROSSOFFICE
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id
Physician and Surgeon
Successor to Dr. W. C. Sproat
Phone 90-W Seaforth
DR. F. J. R. FORSTER
Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat
Graduate in Medicine, University of
Toronto.
Late assistant New York Opthal-
mei and Aural Institute, Moorefield's
Eye and Golden Square Throat Hos-
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NESDAY in each month, from 2 p.m.
HOTEL, SEAFORTH, THIRD WED -Ito 4.30 pen.; also Seaforth Clinic
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• CHAPTER 'I" • Ongh for. a mere icilte, but he was an
•e4t-convict. Given that and they
SYNOPSIS • reload laiM out, be wceald deserve.
, something worse than mere expulaiml.
"A man aloes mad things when he's
in love!" he thought. '
• But if troubled him. He tramped
,the streets, thinking of it, wretched
at heart. It was past midnight when
he went in search of Teddy Banks.
He wanted his own clothes. Besides,
it was part of the bargain to report
to the young scapegrace. He foiled
Banks alone and •sulky -his rooms, a
sbmacohkeelor's suite; thick with cigarette
"I won.," said Mark, beginning to
take off his coat.
Banks stared at him, biting his cig-
arette. •
"I know! Archie.'s been here, 'rip-
ping naad. What the deuce did you
do 'there, anyway?"
"Got asked to dinner. Did he pay
his wager?"
Teddy nodded. "He did, and swore
he'd like tonaurder me!" Come, what
happened? Tell me! Ire beastly to
be shut out of the fun and only, get
a ragging from a chucklehead."
"Nothing happened. I was well re-
ceived and. asked to dinner,"
"By the great lady herself? Teddy
slapped his knee, laughing uproarious-
ly. "What did, I say? •Any fellow
with a clean shirt!, 1 got my money
out of Archie."
He went over this again .and again,
giggling, at it. Mark, sick with dis-
gust, of him, soiled by the thought
that this boy 'had opened the door to
love for -him, 'changed back into his
men rough suit, flinging the borrowed s
raiment down. The violence of his t
action drew Teddy's eyes.
"Archie says you threw back five
hundred, doilars. Why'?"
"You'd better ask me why I took
it in the first place," Mark retorted
bltterly. "I think I was mad."t
Some remnant of conscience slit'-
red in young Banks.
"It was only for tonight!" he call- t
ed after him thickly. "Only for to-
night; that's flat, remember - you t
can't go back there, you know!"
Mark thought the boy had been 1
drinking again. He did not answer.
He shut the door on 'him and went
out to walk walk the streets nighlt.
There was even an exhilarating free-
dom M. doing it.
Presently a glow showed in he
eastern sky; against it the skyscrap-
ers were blocked. out in strange pyra-
midal shapes. The city lights went
out; the day dawned.
It was nine o'clock when Mark
Grant, sleepiest and breakfastless,
went back to Fosdick's office. Today
he would receive his aunt's legacy. It
would give him the mean's to go away.
He remembered his relief at that
thought yesterday; today it means'ex:
ile! •
Released from prison after Serv-
ing fifteen yeare .for a murder he '
didn't commit, Mark Grant goes
to the office of alawyer named
Fosdick to collect a legacy^. left
to him while he was in prison.
When Fosdick tells him he will
have to wait, Mark accepts an in-
vitation to a party to help a
Young man named Teddy Banks
win a $1,000 . bet with his friend,
Archie 'Landon. Mark is to get
half, $500, and new clothes. Ar-
chie introduces him to his hos-
tess, Mrs. Lynn, as "Stewart By -
ram." Mark meets and falls in.
love with Pamela Rodney. Jealous
of Mark's attentions to Pamela, •
Archie calls . him an.' imposter and
Mark returns the money but re-
mains at the party. He learns
that Burleson, the man who sent
him to prison, is at the party, but,
Burleson does not recognize him,
and all is well matt Mrs: Lynn
suddenly asks him if, by any
chance, he was at Stella Byram's
wedding.
Mark lifted his head. "No, I wasn't
there by any chance. I don't knowher, Mrs. Lynn."
His hostess looked perplexed. "But
she should be your cousin; there are
so few Byrams. You must come in on
the Tom Byrom side?"
• Mark caught the gleeful malice in
Landon's eyes.
"No," he replied. flatly, "not on any
side. You're mistaken, Mrs. Lynn.
I'm not related to the litica Byrams.".
• She was a little taken "aback. But,
a woman of' the world • passes such
things over lightly; she turned the
conversation swiftly, though her eyes
flatbed one keen question at Landon.
He reddened and moved uneasily in
his chair. • It was Pam who spoke
softly to Mark,
"I'm so .glad! ' Those Utica Byrams
are so stodgy. I didn't see hoe- you
could belong!"
Waterloo Street, South, Stratford, "I might be a hop out of kin, you
know," he .answered quickly, and then
in an undertone: "Suppose I'm not a
Byrant at all; what then?"
"Oh, but it's your name!" she laugh-
ed, as if at a huge joke.
"But if it wasn't my nanie?"
She lifted her shining eyes, mischief
in them, "Wh,at was it Juliet said?
'A rose by an other name?'"
"Do you remember about, that?" he
asked her daringly.
"The play?" She laughed eutriglat; •
"of -course I do!"
"With Romeo it was love at first -
sight," said Mark.
Again the flame that played in his
eyes held hers: She drew -a. quick
breath, smiling, clinging desperately
to the conventions. She did not know
that prison had made a pagan of him,
like a pagan he was Wooing her, and
he knew he. had no right to do it:
The dinner elided too soon for 'him.
He outstayed the other guests. There
was music and a little dancing again.
AUCTIONEERS
HAROLD JACKSON
Brlecialist in Farm and Household
Bales.
Licensed, in Huron and Perth Coun-
ties. Prices xeasonable; satisfaction
guananteed. •
For information, ete., write or phone
Harold Jackson, 14, on 661, Seaforth;
R.R. 4, Seaforth.
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EDWARD W. ELLIOTT
Licensed Auctioneeh For Huron
' Correspondence promptly ansWered.
Immediate arrangements can be made
4 for Sales Date at The Huton Exposi-
tor; Seaforth, or by calling Phone 203,
Clinton. Charges moderate and satis-
faction guaranteed.
LONDON and CLINTON
NORTH
A:M.
Exeter ' 10.34
Hensall 10.46
KIPPen . 10.52
Brucefield 11.00
Clinton,• 11.47
• SOUTH
P.M.
Clinton•• 3.08
Brucefield 3.28
Kippen, . , . : 3.38
Hensall • 3.45
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Exeter 3.58
C.N.R. TIME TABLE
EAST
A.M. P.M.
Goderich 6.15 2.30.
Holmesville . & 6.31 2.48
Clinton . 6.43 3.00
Seaforth 6.59 3.22
St: Colaraban 7.05 3.23
Dublin 7.12 3.29
Mitchell „,
7.24 3.41
WEST •
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Mitchell• . 11.06 10.01
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Dublin ..... ,11.14 10.09
Seaforth11.30 10.21
Clinton 11.45 10.3
Goderich 12.05 11.00
C.P.R. TIME TABLE
EAST
P.M.
Goderieh 4.35
Meneset 4.40
4.49
Auburn 4.58
5.09
5.21
MoNaught- . -4.,... 5.32
Toronto 9.46
Blyth ..
Walton
WEST
A.M.
Toronto . 8.20
P.M.
MoNaught 12.04
Bretton 12.16
,Blyth •' 1223
Auburn 12,39
McCaw .•1147
Meneset . , AO
Goderieh 1.00
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Ispear.,Mg7#1.0,
life, *r.'-F9SdiPlEt ,
get eed .blood glet,--9w fieing
fight for I:oy life." •• .
Feedlek 'Inked b --.over thought
fully., For theorot o he seeme
to realize the man who had cern
back. There was power in the' figur
and the face; Mark stood upright, un
ashamed. In spite of himself the lit
tle lawyer was 'impressed. But he fin
.gered the papers on his desk lmpat
iently; he was not One to admit 'he
,had beed touohed by anything.
"Better gowestand live it down,'
he advised dryly; "n� easy thing to
dig up evidence after fifteen years. It
would take your 'twenty thousand all
right. I suppose -When you find the
evidente--" .he grinued--"you'll set
up your claim to -the Barton fortune,'
"Yes," • said Mark elowly-"then
mighte-but not until then. Good
day, Mr. Fosdick."•
The lawyer nodded curtly, but he
turned in his chair and followed.the
young man with' his eyes. For the
first time a doubt had stirred in him.
Plenty of inutinent, .people suffered -
but, pshaw! This boy had been fair-
ly tried. It was a plain murder for
money. He was hard up at the time,
and he was his uncle's heir. Fosdick
pursed his lips. He had not tried to
claim the fortune yet; it was rolling
up; but he would -of course he would.
He nodded to 'himself ,and went back
to his work. He had.alWays.belieVed
Mark guilty.
Mark had set his face westward. It
seemed the natural destiny of men
uch as he. Perhaps that 'vague coun-
ry whieh used to be termed "out
West," by easterners, was no longer
vague and no longer offered as great -
opportunities fcir rehabilitatione a
man could scarcely'expect in these
days, to get out , of touch with the,
hings he left behind him, and there
were no more great fortunes within
asy reach of pick',and -shovel; but.
here would be a greater space • to
b
reathe, to look around,' to live down
he past. '
He went steadily about it; he. had
ong ago half shaped ,his probable
course. Now he looked .tip localities,
recalled the advice that kit friend, the
warden, had given him,' Mid even went
so far as to inquire the price of rail-
way fares. Yet he did not go. Days
had passed and he had held to his res-
olution. He had never returned to
the Burleson house. Bettea-that Pam
should think him uncouth, uncivilized,
than that he shOuld transgress again.
The thought of his reckless entrance
there, his violation of all the ameni-
ties of sodial life, made his cheeks
burn. He loved the girl; it was no
romance of a day; and because it was
real, because it was a thing ,alb-ove and
apart from the rest of his life, he
would see her no more. The suffer-
ing was his. The surprise and an-
noyance might be hers, but she would
soon fdrget! He would not: go there,
but he could not go away:Each day
he said to 'himself: "Tomorrow!" To-
morrow he stayed. Night after night
he walked around'the square on which
the Burleson, house stood; day after
day he put off his journey. It was
folly -it was idleness -but the spell
held him. Pam's eyes, her voice,, the
touch of her small hand, hatinted
To go away from tire city where she
dwelt would be exile. There was al-
ways a chance here df a glimpse of
her, himself unseen. Once he 1:4,id so
see her. She was going out with Mrs.
Lynn, in the Burleson car. He gib:lap-
sed her face, a little pale, framed in
a great hat, the furs muffling her;
he saw her pass and the day was
changed for him. After that, he did
not plan to go for three days. Once
he saw Landon going to the house,
and hated the boy for it_ "He has no
right there -after what he did!" Mark
thought hotly, and grew hotter when
he realized the part the, him;elf, had
played. Once he saw Pam on horse-
back in the park. Screened by the
trees he watched her in the sunshine
and thought her the most beautiful
thing in the world! That 'day he
nearly broke his resolution. It seem-
ed as if he must speak to her. That
night he • summoned himself to the
bar of his own judgment and con-
demned himself. No honest man
would have gone into another' S haute
under a false name and made love to
an innecent girl. He would go West
in the morning.
(Continued Next Week)
"&la t,g4 for-lif4
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Fosdick, coming in to find him
there, waiting, was no more cardial
than on the previous day. But he
took •thd matter up; it was apparent
that his idea was to get done with it
and with Mark.
"You'll have some papers to .sign,"
"With Romeo it was tove^at first sight."
Burleson took off a few to the opera.
Pam taught Mark some dancing steps
in the deserted ballroom. Landon
had been carried off against his will,
by Burleson. Mrs. Lynn was in the,
drawing room.
,"I can't see where you could have
been!" 'Pam laughed. "Why, you
know steps I never heard of -and riot
one I know!"
"Nomanslaiel has only one - the
locksteip"-Mark replied recklessly.
He might have stayed too late but
for Mrs. Lynn's entrance. She sent
him away, still graciously. If he was
not, a Utica Byram he was something
of a man. She was woman enough
under her worldliness to be a little
thrilled by that. Before she knew
what she was doing she had told him
her days at Thome,
"But, of course, Archie will bring
you," she ended, suddenly cooling.
Pam said nothing. She had told
him all these things already, and 'an-
other -she was in the habit of riding
her pet horse in the park, mornings.
This was something Archie Landon
did not know; she did not want Lan-
don and Banks there! 'It was after
he left the house that Mark had his
bad quarter of an hour. He had gone
there as aft Impostor, on the wager
of tWo Vearthlese boys, under an as-
sumed name. It Would be black ene
he said bluntly. "Come over to the
courthouse; there are •formalities." -
Fosdick showed scant courtesy, but
the money was intact -thanks to the
little: lawyer's scrupulous care.,
"I wouldn't have let her leave it to
you if I'd had my way," he saki blunt-
ly', as they closed the business up.
Mark reddened, in spite of himself.
"Mt. Fosdick, do you remember Her-
bert Burleson.?"
.,The lawyer shot another look at
him. "Sure, I do! -He's the great
Burleson, now. Why d'you ask?"
, "I saw him yesterday."
' Fosdick started, and then he re-
membered that it might have been
the merest chance. He nodded. "Very
likely. Ile's got a kind Of. palace
here."
Mark, folding some papers in his.
pocket, assented thoughtfully. "He
was with my uncle that last day; he
knew there. was no quarrel between
UB. He could have testified) for me."
Fosdick drummed on hit desk: "It's
late to think of that," he said cold-
ly.
"1 tried to bring it out; no one be-
lieved tee."
Fosdick ,shrugged. "Are you try-
ing to Imagine Burleson; will clear
you new?"
Mark tete. He had areircey in his
pocket; he feel* grimly td,p*n° at the
BeerShortage
Tempol'ary hours of sale, from three
in the afternoon until 10 in the eve -
ring, have been established by Gode-
rich hotelkeepers for their beverage
rooms. These h.ourti prevail, of course
providing the supply of beer Is suf-
ficient to meet the demand, which so
far has not been the case, necessitat-,
Ing earlier closing. The rationing of
beer has been aggravated by trans-
Dortation difficulties brought about by
stormbound reads. So far the supplys
has fallen far short of meeting the
deniand and beer -drinkers leave had
to keep their ears close to the ground
to keep in touch with the When and
Where aspects, of a neve altuation,
With. the result that there has been
considerable tusking abut In "peak
hoitru,"--Godesieh Signal -Star,'
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1,.4 truth •tif thie rePlOyVe „
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travelling in Beleata tooy..
: In 1ili1esea (14145‘ Of 1340, hole Of",
tSn' wad there the thought that God
must have forsaken us, yet even in.
'Mote darkest bours Miracles were be-
ing Performed.
It'aeas a miracle that the Germans
did not invade England 'immediately
after Duakirk; it was a miracle that
Hitler attacked Russia, instead or
Eegland; the defence of the Battle of
Britain was miraculous.
Probably the gr test miracle //of
them all was the rescue of the army
of nearly four hundred thousand from
Dunkirk. Few people realize the mir-
acle that made this rescue possible.
When the editors visited Maidenhead
ithe day, they saw a number of small
boats that matie• mane.. trips across
the Channel to bring back that army.
Similar boats were shown in the film
"Mrs. Miniver" when that epic was
portrayed.
• Those little boats could not possib-
ly have lived in a rougk sea, and the
English Channel is seldom eniooth. In
fact it is famous e,s one of the most
turbulent streches . of water in the
word'' 'Yet when these little boats
Made those,trips to Dunkirk and back
the•water was „smooth. We were told
that men who have lived all their
live& beside the Conannel Say that they
never saw it as smooth as it was then.
Surely that was a miracle to equal
the passage of the Israelites through
the Red -Sea. .„
It is 'frequently remarked •that the
way in -which St. Paul's Cathedral in
Utuddil escaped total destruction is a
Miracle. There is no doubt that the
Germans tried hard to destroy it. The
bomb damage around this cathedral
includes some of the worst in Eng-
land. It is one of the first places vis-
ited by strangers looking for badly
damaged areas. EVerything is denaol-
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'shed for many blocks all around. The
cathedral now towers up in plain view
from all angles, whereas it formerly
'was closely surrouncTed. by buildings.
The climb up to the gallery outside
the dome is about 650 steps but the
effort is well worth while. From this
elevation there is the most compre-
hensive view of the widespread dam-
age in that -part • of London. It im-
presses one more and more with the
comeiction that the way 'in which St.
Paul's has escaped destruction is real-
ly a miracle'.
It did not escape entirely however.
Two bombs actually struck the build-
ing and ,another was removed from
the grounds just' outside before it ex.;
PlOded. The' first bomb struck just
over the High Altar and brought down
blocks of masonry weighing from one
to two tons. These entirely destroy-
ed the altar and the pavement.
. The second bomb fell in the, north
transept and went, right through the
roof and the floor into the crypt; but
again the damage was comparatively
small, although the walls of the north
-transept are now four inches out of
plumb, and. beams have been placed
to prevent further movement.
When the area around the cathedral
is studied, ,and the bombs which fell
on it taken info consideration, it is
no wonder that everyone remarks that
it is a miracle that Paul's is. still
standing. •
Viscount Halifax has 'taid, speaking
of St. Paul's: "Two years ago it was
hemmed in by Offices, shops and, com-
mercial buildings of every kind. All
these have now crumbled into dust
and ashes under Nazi bombs, and to-
day St. Paul's stands, as it should
stand, clear, majestic, its great cross
of gold above the city, sharp cut
against the sky. Surely there is some-
thing symbolip in that. The confused
mass of buildings has gone, the rub-
bish has gone, but what really mat-
ters remains." "
The vicious raids on the peaceful
city of Bath where there were no war
industries or anything of military va-
lue will never be forgotten. These
raids which took place in April, 1942,
destroyed many fine and • historic
buildings. Yet during those raids 92
bombs fell in gardens or. open spaces
where they did little data:age. We
were told this while looking over the
city from Beechen Cliff, and it did
not seem possible that 92 projectiles
could have found open spaces. Sure-
ly this. was another miracle.
At Bristol as in many other cities,
there are numbers of miracles to • be
seen. Bristol Cathedral stands prac-
tieally unscathed, although buildings
all around have been' damaged. Our
hotel, next door to it, lost 100 rooms.
• St. Mary Redcliffe church, of which
Queen Elizabeth in 1574 said, "The
fairest, goodliest, and most famous
parish church tn England," has also
had a miraculoue: escape from serious
damage while building's all around it
have been battered beyond. recogni-
tion.
A famous landmark in Bristol was
the Leaning Tower of ,the Temple
Church, Which was built in 1145, and
which was four feet out of perpendic-
ular. ,The church and all the build-
ings around it have been destroyed,
34A, the Leaning Tower stands up in
the midst of the debris, and is still
four feet out of plumb.
There have been large numbers of
ohurches totally destroyed, but thee
is a very' remarkable thing about
them. In, most cases the steeple or
toWer is still standing. From the out-
side of the' dome of St. Paul's cath-
edral Can be seen at least ten church-
es itt the vicinity that have been de-
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stroyed, including St., Mary (Bow
Church) Cheapside, Christ • Church
Newgate, (formerly the Gray Friars),
' St. Nichcvlas Cole Abbey, on Victoria
St.; St. Mary Somerset, on Upper
Thames St.; St. John Garlick Hythe;
St. Vedas, in Foster Lane; St. Lawr-
ence Jewry; St. Giles Cripplegate; St.
Brides, and many other, and in ear-
ly every case the towers or steeples
are still etandieg. The same. -thing'
can be seen in Bristol (where twenty-
eight churches have been destroyed)
and in Bath, „Portsmouth and several
other- cities which we visited.
The towers of all these ruined
churches still standing has caused peo-
ple to remember an old saying, that
the steeples carry the prayers of the.
people up toheaven.
These 'steeples and towers are vis-
ible symbols of the Prayer that free
people may be given the _strength to
remain, steadfast, and thee they may
receive Divine aid to overcome the
barbarians who. would destroy the
temples of God.
The miracles ,deecribed are only a
very few of those that are to be seen
all parts of Britain today.
Fibre Flax
In the selection of the proper place
in the farm rotation, in which to grow
fibreeflax particular care it adeisable.
An approved fibre variety of fibre flax
seed" certified No: 1 seed should be
selected. It is important to remem-
ber that If the germinating percent-
age of the seed is lower than say 95
per cent, a corresponding adjustment
on the seed drill is necessary so that
a larger quantity of a lower germinat-
ing seed should be put on the land to
make up the difference lost by ..the
lower germinating percentage of the
seed sown. -Seed -with a germinating
percentage of 80. or under is not -re-
commended.
Early sown flax gives, in the main,
the best restate. The retiltt".0:4*,
periments carried out at 40:VP11,4'44,
Experimental Farm Ottawal. 044'jj.,,
rte4
14;,:nlarZ,°;n.cifealetta7er4t;:4:11417*diatoulk,
[follow ,op, land that has been fail,.,,
plowed out of pasture, clover ,Or'i,ftink.
othy sod. However, this does net
maeatea,tniontMeatnnoothtebrePusedilaees.asin' wethile.
the spring special attention
should be given, to -01P. NV3:04.!* 40WP
Of the land preelonsfy f.li plowed. °•
Diseing with the fu. rrows :Slimily" be 2'
followed by a . crossdiscing :;the
field: Mem a thorough cultivation •
given to work the land into a fine 'cote' -
dition 'and to level depressions in the -
field. The' land shthild be cleared
stones, Toots; branches of trees, or' '
anything that would give trouble at
pulling time, harrowed -in both'diree-
tions, and if the broadcasting method
of sowing is to be used i it is a good ,
plan to roll .the ground! before sowing
tohristQwpaayeka'wlfinthe liarm"siebel);174iser.cre-4
seed. The land is again harrowed: afe
ter the seed has been sown and an
extra rolling or passing of the culti-
packer over the land is often beipful.
One inch to one and one-half inch
has proven to be the ideal depth for
sowing flax. If it is sown'too shallow •
and poorly covered an uneven germ-
ination results; but' on the, other hand
if the seed is sown too deeply a large
portion of the seed often fails to
germinate and this causes an uneven
stand of straw.
4eThe rate of seeding may vary ac-
cording to mill requirement, but in
the main 70 to 84 Rounds teethe acre
has proved to be Most generally us;
ed. If sowing for seed prodnetton;
alone, from 'one-half a bushel to a
bushel of seed per acre may be plant-
ed, The importauce of an early naa-
turinge-even stand of flax iseinapoit-
ant for all the subsequent steps of,
the operations in the preparation of
&VC fibre.
citieSNAPSI-10T GUI -IDI
PHOTOGRAPHIC CONSERVATION
• This is the time for plestographic conservation. Don't waste film; handle
your photographic equipment with 'care.
l'AHIS is a time for conservation of
film, cameras, and all of the other
equipinent of photography. But the
thought of conservation is still so
new to photographers that many
people are asking -"What can I do?"
Well, there are a number of things,
but by far the most impqrtent• are
to make the wisest possible use of
film end 'materials, and take the
very best care of present equipment.
In picture taking, of course, you'll
have to judge for yourself where
waste begins and conservation sets
in. One of the first rules, however,
might be -don't shoot promiscuous-
ly. But, as far as equipment' of any
sort is concerned, the rules for keep-
ing it in good shape can be stated
in one short sentence. That is: keep
equipment clean, and handle it wit,h
all due care.
Cleanliness is important because
duet is the primary enemy of all
good photography. For eXample,
dust may settle on film during de-
velopment and leave "pluholes'l and
little spots. liebrare of dust in your
darkroom, on your "camera lens9 hi
cainera beltows,, in your en4
larger or printer. Usually it's iuffi- •••
cleat to clean your equipment each
time before Using it, but many pro-
fessional photographers find that
cleaning after use is also beneficial.
Do it any way you wish, but what-
ever you do make cleanlineek a
habit first, last, and always.
In addition, try to be reasonable
when it comes to handling your
equipment. For example, don't allow
your camera to be exposed for a
long period to either heat, cold, or
excessive moisture. When not in
use equipment should be kept in its
case to protect it from accidental
bard knocks. Finally, all equiptitent
should be treated gently -never try -
to force anything. If you can't get
your camera to operate properly,
take it te a reliable repair man.
Don't try to fix it yourself.
Photographic cOnSerVatioil, you'll
find, isn't difficult Drill-eine:11Y n,
matter of pee Common Sena*); •and
if we all apply a little tif that *OR
be deing our part foigard 664*tr*.•
photography threngla thio war period, •
8- John Van " '
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