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The Lucknow Sentinel, 1936-06-25, Page 9- “—’-.V — Green tea with a flavour and a delicacy beyond compare ' . . . ■ ■ *1 ....... Ml A V A Vt AH , ... ... . — — Laura Wheeler Crocheted Squares For Articles ' of Lasting Wear sS > 7 - Safety of Passengers More Important Than Speed ’ Q -----. - - - - - - - 1 ---------------------------- ------ It might sound like sour grapes to point out that spoed Is not everything now that the Queen Mary just failed 'to beat the trans-Atlantic record of the Normandie, but certain signals from the bridge to engine room of the ‘great liner prompt a comment, ob­ serves the Hamilton Spectator. -----------Evidently.-Sir Edgar Britten, cap- tain of the Queen Mary and commo­ dore of the White Star Cunard fleet, though he may hot. have been official­ ly trying to beat the Normandie on •the maiden, trip, would have liked to do so. He knew that1 the eyes of the world were ou his 'ship. He knew also thatifor a number of hodrs he ordered the rQuepn Maty to go half Speed and -*-y- ^th’eH.'blow;”" ’because . Tog .conditions- made'fast sailing dangerous. A corii- . paiison between the handling of. the Queen Mary and the. handling -of the Titanic springs to mind........ • The Titanic, man’s greatest marine 4 • achievement in 1912, raced across tlie ’ Atlantic, with bands playing. Inade­ quately • supplied with life boats, sup­ erbly appointed according to the more modest requirements of that day, she - defied the age-old laws of the sea, She . was the symbol iof man’s conquest of .the elements. She was unsinkaSlo, and throughout the story1,Of thi^ ship ’j-r-a story Wliich. mnve$ forward re­ lentlessly, and with gradually increas­ ing velocity — that ironic phrase oc- t ;curs— ‘‘The Titanic is unsinkable.** The fates, alnidst as if they.hrid ■. iplarinc-d a rebuke-to hu’jnan audacity ! were-against her. Had De he smashed 'head-on into the iceberg which caused i"the disaster," the TRfnrc ringhV/lToT have sunk. At least the concussion • would have delivered a sufficiently clear warning. Had she lessened her ‘-’^Bpwcd through the ice field, theWside- ’ Swipe” might .not have been fatal. In­ stead. an imperceptible shock, which hardly interrupted the festivities had brought her career to an end. Bells rang and the machinery whereby the passengers are- removed to.the boats was quietly; Almost casually set In motion. A band played on. Passengers strolled toward * 'tkei'r boat stations. Colonel Astor\ lit /a’ cigarette. Women wrapped their evening cloaks, around ; their shoulders. Something had hap: pened, but it hardly mattered. The Titanic was unsinkable. Then the deck rose up wards ap’d, men and women began to fight like savages, for the ’ boats. The side of the Titanic had noisdnssly been ripped away and she was striking. At 2.20 a.m. on April 15 she disappeared. J » The Queen Mary is no doubt infin­ itely more seaworthy than, the Titanic, was", but the lesson of that early dis­ aster has been learned. Prestige’ is important, aridi speed means prestige, but prestige is/not won by taking any chances. Whether the Queen, Mary cart beat the .Normandie or not re­ mains to bo seen, but at least we are assured that men ho longer take, the ..old; chances with huhian life for the /sake of a blue riband. 4. -ri-—-■ “Our cu-turc is superficial today- and our knowledge dangerous, - be­ cause we are rich, in nicchanisms and poor in purposes.”—Will Durant. Amateur Write r s May Be Discouraged NEW YORK—Mary Roberts Rhine­ hart, the author who is “unhappy when I’m writing, but utterly miser-, ablew4ienrmnot,”polished-offher latest novel recently and than sat back to figure out how many of them she’s written. She counted 50. “It seems incredible,” she said, ..putting aside the, manuscript for a new short story. When that’s out of the way, she’li Start novel No. 51,' -sbe^said. -....______________ A^slow., .writer, Mrs. Rhinehart said she pours. 500,000 words into- the first draught of a story, (she makes three)/then cuts, the final job down to 160,000 words.. On some of her books she has Worked from two to three years. ■•/..' “V : : . • • • ’ • . '' ' . i b ess buses , Ir ‘ ' Last week Earnest R. (“Pop”) Has- elwood looked like-a good bet against the field. “Bus Transportation,” Mc- Gaw-Hili trade journal was tabulating returns in its. contest, not to be de- cided until late this year, to discover who is the safest bus driver in__the -UrSf Owen Meredith of' Enid, Okia.» drove 976,800 miles without scratch­ ing a fender. Ancel Mistier of Sedaliaj Mq,, turned up with a no­ accident record of 950,000 miles. But “Pop” Haselwood, of Ghappel, Neb.-, in 20 years had driven 1,772,651 miles without a “chargeable” accident. Driver Haselwood’s formula: “Drive like the: other gUy is crazy”. “Pop” Haselwood, 44, started out as a Northwes^Jfeffmer and lumber­ jack, bought a'^Tordyifi 1916, put it in; tip-top shape, rrtn / one-man, one^-car buslinj*. After' two years he ^old out, drove for a half-dozen bus companies. Since 1929 he has driven fbr Omaha’s Interstate Transit Lines, now makes the 219-mfle run between North Platte. Neb., and Cheyenne? Wyo., one way or thd others six days a week. When passing on oncoming .he sights the road edge over the' radiator cap, gets his ridhthand tires on the brink of the paving. Three times automo­ biles or trucks have bumped him; In every case his bus was standing-stock­ still. “Pop” .is not so called because of his age but because that is a favor­ ite nickname for a stolid- driver. There are five other “Pops” in his division. 'Most Interstate dinvers look Tike wrestlers because the company’s minimum weight limit is 160 lb. Haselwood is just ovgr the line with 164. He jjis married, childless,. makeS $225 per month. The one time he ever drove “like hell” was when a woman in his bus bore a baby. From Time. ess /f. ^ner and lumber- > Mi Earth Girdled By Sandwich Of 3*1 CROCHETED MEDALLION PATTERN 1198 I.earn'to crochet this simple medallion, repeat it a number off Learn“to crochet this simple medallion, repeat it a number or #» times, then know the thrill of joining the squares to make a beautiful pillow cover, a stunning buffet or dresser scarf, or set of .lacy place * mats for your dinner table. Done, in string, their beauty and dura- __bility will repay you $a hundred-fold.. You can use one or three colors to make the square, as you choose. Pattern H98 contains dire^tiorts for making the square and joining it to make Various articles; illus­ trations of it and of all stitches needed; material requirements; color schemes Send 20 cents in .stamps’ or coin (coin, preferred) -for this pat­ ter to Needlecraft Dept.,’ Wilson Publishing Co., 73 W. Adelaide St., Toronto. Write plainly PATTERN NUMBER, your NAME and AD- ' dress., ./ pillow cover, a stunning buffet or dresser scarf, or set of lacy place * Splendid Results Are Claimed For Crops Grown in Water Tanks Crops ’grown in tanks of water, ra­ ther than in the time-honored fields of soil, are’a decided novelty describ­ ed in the new issue of a trade Journal. "Food Industries ’* Tomatoes yielding at the rate of 217 tons per acre of tank „ surface, as compared with the outdoor field yield of about five tons per acre, potatoes at 2,465; bushels "tank acre’’ as Against 11 1 bushels per field acre, tobacco plants 22 feet high wjth leaf-quality under /ull con­ trol — these are among the results Claimed for the new method. In basic principle, the procedure is said to be nothing pew. . For many years,, we are • told, scientists- have been growing plants with their roots iil jars of water, to -which nutrient minerals have been added in varying amounts for the purpose of laboratory /tests. ; The reader can do it himself, with no more equipment than a few radish seeds and a tumblfer Of water with a piece of mosquito‘netting tied loose­ ly over the top, so that its centre sags and gets wet. But the idea of doing it on a com­ mercial scale .with the hope of actual­ ly making it pay for itself,, awaited the pioneering of Dr.. Gericke of the University Of California. He uses a number of great tanks .of concrete or redwood planks, it is explained. Over the tops are wire nettings, on which the seeds^aro-planted in beds of'peat­ moss, excelsior or straw. Their roots grow doywi into the water, which con­ tains ferWizer in solution and which is kept electrically heated to the ,tem­ perature best suited for rapid plant growth. 4 ■ '. ' s • It is even claimed to be possible .to dispense with sun as well as soil; or at least to supplement the sunlight with electric'illumination, for plants can.use this second-hand sunlight as well as the original article, for'pur poses of food manufacture and also grow’th. — The Quebec -Chronicle-Tel­ egraph’. , O'... ■ ■—------------------------------------------------ '__________ _ ______ Ontario Barley Situation That; Barley is assuming a v more important place/ in. Canadian Agri­ culture and .Canadian’ industry .is evidenced by the fact t.hat a National Barley Committee Has bebri set up and was in session in Toronto recent­ ly. With these facts- in view, the following brief paragraphs from “The Ontario Agricultural Outlook’ for 1936” should be. of special interest and value to Ontario farmers who are- just now laying their plans for this year’s crop production. ' . “The 1935 barley crop in Ontario was the largest since 1930 arid , is. estimated at 16,841^000 bushels.., In 1934 the production Was 14,741,700 bushels,. The acreage was increased from 484,900 aefres to 523,000 and the yielci per acre at 3,2.2 bushels was % bushels higher than in thu previou year. . The Canadian crop of 83,975 bushels is much Ihigb ipwii . a gain of 20,233.000 bushels or 31.7 per cent, over 1934. From the 1935 Canadian crop about 9,250,000 bushels were export­ ed to the United States, whereas’ in the years 1930-35 inclusive the ex­ port to this .market was negligible. The average price being paid for the 1935 barley crop is 40 cents per bushel. /'bushel Place of Execution Earth Girdled By Sandwich Of Frigid A nhd F i e r y L a y e r s “Society is divided iiito two classes, - those who will not starve if they don’t work and those wbo will starve if they don't work/’-*-Sherwood Eddy. Britain Reports Fewer Jobless 4’ 4 •4 fl Biscuits ' 9 Christie ffiscuit fyr evetjf iaste'* i > That’s why you’ll particularly enjoy Christie’s light, crisp, flaky Soda Wafers. All Christie’s Biscuits are .famous for -their maintained purity and freshness. > ’ LONDON — Unemployed in Great Britain on May 25th totalled 1,705,- 042, a decrease of 126,188 in one month, it was announced officially this month.- , OF COURSE, i YOU LIKE YOUR BISCUITS FRESH Writes the Brantford Expositor— There sdems to be considerable ap­ proval of the idea that th. time has arrived when the death penalty should be inflicted, not in the com­ munity where the, murder occurred, but at some central place in the provinces, or at the., penitentiaries. There is a good deal to be said for this view. If, after fnurderers are tried and condemned, they were* transferred immediately to the peni­ tentiary there to await the time of execution, which could be carried out with as little publicity as possible, it would save a lot of turmoil arid curi­ osity that, invariably accompany 1 ngings in small com,munities. . Canadians are. quite generally agfeOd that the death penalty for murder, is necessary for the protec­ tion of society and, if this is so, then it should mC/ imposed • in a . manner that will disturb the public as little as possible. " Frigid AnX Fiery Layer« ---------:------------,---------------• -.- o •; ' . ■ (From the Australian Press Bureau) A/startling series of discoveries* following ingenious radio signal ex­ periments by Drs. D. F. Martyn and ,0. .0. Pulley at Sydney University/ Australia, may revolutionize scien­ tists’ views of the condition of the earth’s upper atmosphere. Dr. Martyn has invented a new method qf probing the upper air by radio signals. His method givps a® measure of- the amount, of. elec- , trification, the amount of. ozone, and . ■ ,~1~ ■^—ighoiit^the-’— whole thickness ' bf. the upper, air, from 22 jpiles up7EB*4$Q^lniies. A new type of-apparatus has been devised Srhich, unattended, will probe the atmosphere; .Jhis.robot sen.ds out signals, catches the echoes, varies the wave-length, and plots all the infor­ mation on a tiny 'hal t. ‘ • Dr. Martyn’s first remarkable dis-___■. “cbvery w-as that of another cold layer lying above the cold strato­ sphere, recently reached by Picard and other ballonists. Between the two a warm layer is sandwiched. Dr. Martyn’s records show a sec­ ond stratosjjliere above the warm ozone layer. H^re the temperatures again dip, reaching a minimum at 50 miles. From there temperatures rise, to end in a torrid Zone at 150 miles.’ In this zone Martyn’s radio re­ sults directly contradict Prof Ap­ pleton, whoq had the idea that this . zone was Rot only in Summer. Martyn’s experiments show that the seasonal drop is from 1,300 to 1,000 degrees; that is, that the earth is girdled perpetually-by a fiery ring of inconceivably rarefied air. Measuremens of the upper zone ’ show fluctuations exactly, correspond­ ing to barometric measures on the ground, but ante-dating them. In other words, a weather forecast can be made from these radio probes of ■ ’the, sky. . Australian authorities are so im­ pressed that modern ozone meas­ urers are being installed at the Com­ monwealth Weather Bureau, the So­ lar Observatory at Camberra, and the Coundil for Scientific and Industrial Research. v St. Clover and Grass Seeds Reports from Central Ontario in­ dicate. that moot of these seeds' have mover’ from growers to the trade, largely to the local retail trade. Most of the timothy seed in the Lawrence counties has been sold. There still remains however*, some 350,000 pounds. A fajr quantity of timothy js still available in the low­ er Ottawa Valley. Growers in south­ western Ontario still hold about one- vi„ivaviw„, m*ivu«v w. halfoftheTed^W crops, or 750,000 pounds and 2,000,000 pounds respectively. Buying by the wholesale trade has declined owing to large stocks secured already. Most of the alfalfa, alsike, sweet clover and Canadian blue grass has been sold to. the trade. It is expected that much of the timothy seed and per­ haps some red clover wH be carried over.. .by. growers. .to~ ..next-season-™— -Reports from imorth-western Ont­ ario indicate that there are at least 10,000 pounds of red clover and 15,- 000 pounds of alsike still in growers’ hands as well as abqu’t 75 per cent- of the timqthy or approximately 200,- 000, pounds. - Prices being paid growers, per pound, basis No. 1 grades, are: -for red clover in Eastern Ontario, 12 to 13c; in south-western Ontario, 11 to 15c; for alfalfa 12 to 16,c; and. alsike, 16 to 18c; sweet clover, 3 'to 5c; timothy, 3 to 5c; timothy, 3 to 6’2, and Canadian blue grass, to 4c. Keep Young and Beautiful Is a Woman's Slogan '' ' ‘ . ■ ... TORONTO - et depression do its w'prst/Tordnto-women ,haye apparent­ ly decided their first duty is to remain young and beautiful, W. P, Smith said <He is a Toronto druggist attending the Ontario Retail Drug­ gists’ Association convention here. While sales of virtually every other drug, store commodity have fallen off in the years of depression,. sale of Cosmetics has increased steadily since 1029, said Mr’ Smith. “Women, might economize on other things but never on cosmetics,” he said, “arid not only are they buying more “cosmetics but they insist on the best.” “ • ■ The peace of the wirld ’would. be • more secure if governments could get their appropriation bills through without pointing the finger of alarm . at their neighbors. farmer Is: capitalist that labors. patriot who is asked to. produce loss. man who works eight hours COOL MILD TOBACCO A A A at a . :A day twice a day. A man wlib has every element of nature to combat every day in the year. A man who is a biologist and econ­ omist and a lot more ists. . . Who gives more and asks less than any other human being. 'Wlto takes unto himself for his owm substance and that of his family, those of his products that other peo­ ple will not utilize. Who gives his boys and girls to the big cities to infuse red blood into society that, is constantly decadent, and whose-only salvation is the viri­ lity that it draws from rural sections. -Who is taxed more and has Iqss re­ presentation than any other citizen. Who sells his products for what the other fellow cares to pay for them and who buys the other fellow's products at what the other fellow charges fqr .them.- Who is caricatured on the stage and in the daily papers but who can come nearer taking hoM* of. any busi­ ness and making it go than’any other man klive-arid in captivity. That’s what a farmer is.. —St. Petersburg Tinies. ° ■ .1 ■ THE SALVATION ARMY oint -- jji a ' ■ ■ . |Fresh Air Camp/ Jacksor ■ ,'/ (LAKE SIMCOE) For fourteen years hope's have been Realized and health restored -by The Army’s service at this Camp. . \ . k < DISTRIBUTE SUNSHINE Your donation to The Salvation Array Fresh Air Fund'will purchase joy knd health for, Underprivileged children. Please send cheques to: ' II Commissioner John McMillan, 20 Albert St., Toronto I ■I I . $ 1 A MOST ATTRACTIVE SPECULATION FROM . THE 1 NORTHERN MINER OF JUNE 4th Darwin Grade Good 1st Quar. 4th Quar. 1936 3.977 $61.906- $15.5.6 ’’ 44„ Decidedly better results are notable at thisTiew producer, following access to underground ore. Previously much dump rock had been bandied.' Tons Milled ... . .. Production ........... Aver, per top...... Daily Tonnage 3 935 2.103 $17,750 $$.44 BLDG. 304 BAY ST. TORONTO, ONT. ' AD.42?.i Gentlemen-: PLEASE SEND me your new -Survey oft Darwin. . 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