The Seaforth News, 1943-05-13, Page 7Teit)RSDAYr MAY 13r 13
THE SEAAFORTT . NEWS
Three Dimes Buy Three Courses
IIALT1MI , an important tnceriuue
1 in the working day of stream-
i..•ed war plants, has been intelli-
,,ently' provided for at National Rail -
...eye Munitions Limited at Montreal,
.i•arated by the. Canadian National
e.ilways to manufacture naval guns
field artillery mounts. Encourag-
e. men and women employees to eat
nee itious food in accordance with the
onal campaign, a cafeteria has
•--• established offering meals plan -
g expert dietitians, at modest
M • urt her, a mobile canteen serves
I • ^ rents supplementing the work-
'.
l.o ,c fetich kits.
• eteieria. open twenty hours
daily, thirty cents provides soup, meat
or fish, two vegetables, dessert, bread
and butter and a choice of coffee, tea
or milk. Other meals cost a nickel and
a dime additional, according to the
meat course. Stews, hash and meat
pies feature the thirty cent type; for
the extra nickel Dinty Moore's corn
beef and cabbage enters; the forty
cent menu gives roast, steak or chop.
Beef pot roast is the favorite meat;
tomato; macaroni and vegetable top
the soup list, pie leads for dessert and
coffee is the popular beverage.
The mobile canteen, or lunchwag�on,
a vehicle of wood and steel with insu-
lated compartments, was planned and
built in National Railways biuret )04
plant. The canteen moves through h
plant during two eight-hour chi
that time its two-man crews sett 5u')
pints of milk, 200 half -(tints of choc"•
late milk, 400 soft drinks, 'Cana.,
chewin' gum, n'chocluts potai,
chips, doughnuts, cakes, cookies, arts
an occasional package of cough drop::e.
The popular combination, milk and
cake, accounts for half the canteen
sales.
The pictures show-Above:.Mutte
tion workers enjoy a full course dinner
in the cafeteria -Below: The mobile
canteen supplies customers right at
their machines in the big war plant.
BUYS FIRST VICTORY BOND IN ARMY DRIVE
• To the M.G.O. Branch of National Defence kleadgaartet3 went the distinction of selling the first Victory Bond
in the Army campaign: Private Audeey Benson, MAC.. had the honor' of making the first application for one of
the ne w,Fourth Victory Loan Bottle in the large, Ottawa, headqu.u•tet's branch of the Royal Canadian Ordnance
Corps, Pte, Benson, whose husband is paymaster of an RC A Regiment Overseas, is seen here receiving congrate
lations of Major-General dances V, Young, Master General of the Ordnance. Brigadier '1'. D. Switzer, centre, is look
ing on. Daughter of an At'iny medical officer, Pte, Benson'.e two brothers and brother-in-law are also in the Caned
tan Army. Lt.,Gete l Stuart, Chief of the General Stag, has appealedto all army personnel tosupport the Loan, .
English Newspapers
In Wartime
By Walter It. Legge.
Like everything else, the news-
papers in. England have been very
much changed, by the war. Imuagine
news stands which will not sell you
a newspaper, Imagine the•advertising
managers of newspapers being court-
ed by those who are trying to buy a
little of the space available.
One of our first experiences was at
the news stand iu our London hotel.
We had heard rumors of the Dieppe
raid which took Place just as we
were leaving Canada. but wehad not
read anything about it. We were
anxious TO see a newspaper. Epee
ever, the news stand could nut sell
us one unlessit was ordered iu ad-
vance.
Thus we abruptly learned to ap-
preciate a privilege which we do not
think about here, the privilege of be-
ing able to buy a newspaper at any
time,
People- over there are now glad to
have any paper at all. The privilege
of having a paper delivered every
day is a highly prized one. A house-
holder who goes away for a time
often finds on his return that some-
one else has taken the right to get
his daily paper', and it niay be a hard
task to get back in the good peaces
of the paper boy.
People travelling on a train will
nearly always pass their newspaper
around to the other people in the
compartment after they have read it.
Newsprint is severely rationed in
Eugland. Not only have the publish-
ers been forced to reduce the number
of pages to n fraction of the usual
volume, but the circulation has had
to be drastically curtailed. In Many
rases the size of the pages and the
width of the columns have been
reduced.
Our party was entertained at the
Daily Telegraph, the Daily Express,
The Times, and Reuters Agency. We
were shown through their plants and
given every courtesy.
At one of these newspapers, we,
found that the paper has been cut
down from au average issue of 28
pages to four pages. In addition, the
circulation has been cut from 920,000
daily average to 650,000, Several hun-
dred applications for subscriptions
each day have to be refused. This is
typical of the restrictions on all the
newspapers.
All,pf these plants have duplicate
plants deep in the ground, very com-
fortably and completely fitted up so
that the entire work of getting out
the paper can be carried on without
interruption during raids. Moreover,
several of these papers have com-
plete plants iu other cities where
some editions are printed every day.
For instance, the Daily Express,
which has a daily circulation of about
two and a half millions, is printed in
three places, London, Manchester and
Glasgow. They are so co-ordinated by
wire service that although they are
set up and made up in each city, they
ace exactly alike on most pages.
Advertising has been cut to almost
the same degree as the rest of the
paper. The Daily Telegraph, we were
told, refuses about thirty columns of
advertising every day. Display ad-
vertising usually has be booked sev-
eral weeks in advance, and even
then without any guarantee that it
will appear. In cases where legal ad-
vertising must app before a certain
date, care must be taken to advise
the client ,tf it cannot be printed, in
order that an effort may be made to
have it printed elsewhere,
Advertisements for beer and liquor
may still be carried in the English
papers, although they are now ban-
ned in Canada.
With so much difficulty in obtain-
ing advertising space in the news-
papers. it is not surprising to see a
new development. Large numbers of
notices, that ordinarily would be want
ads in the papers. are now displayed
on small cards in shop windows.
We saw a great many of such ad-
vertising cards. not printed. but writ-
ten by band, placed on display in the
shop windows in many of the cities
we visited. We do not know whether,
the shopkeeper makes a charge for',
all these notices (although we heard
that some shopkeepers charge 5
shillings), and we wondered if this
practice will eontinae- after the war
is over.
It is not surprising. with curtail -
men is in the size and number of
pages of the newspapers, that the
news is also condensed, There are a
great many very short items making
tip the news columns, but taking into
consideration the difficulties under
which they are operating, the British
'newspapers are very readable and
give a surprisingly good news cover-
age iu the space at their disposal,
News of Canada appears itt fairly
good volume and is well presented.
We found that the Canadian sold-
iers are quite worried because it 13
no longer• ilertnitted to send papers
over by mail, except actual subscrip-
tions, They are afraid that stibscrip-
Plant Chrysanthemums
.a• or Autumn Color
Here are a few of the 87 choice varieties of "Mums" listed in
McConnell's 1943 Catalogue
Double Indiet,lm "Mums"
3 for 60c.; doz., $2.00
Abundance. Salmon red, Early.
Aladdin. Bronzy -gold and apricot.
Early.
Autumn Lights, Coppery bronze.
Medium early.
Barbara Cummings. Orange -bronze..
Early.
Cydonia, Orange mahogany. Mid-
season,
Golden Charm. Deep yellow. Mid.season,
H. C. Anderson. Bronze. Early,
Herman Stensson, Rilt red. Early.
Jean Treadway. Sparkling pink.
Mid-season,
La Garonne. Rose and buff. Med.
early.
Muldoon. Purplish amaranth. Mid-
season.
Provence. Pink blended gold. Early
Ruth Hatton. White, alidseason.
Ruth Cummings. Reddish brown.
Midseason.
Single Korean "Mums"
Beautiful Midseason Varieties
3 for 60c.; doz., 32.00
Aphrodite. Soft pink and ivory
Autocrat. Orange Scarlet
Daphne. Daphne -pink
Diana, Cltatenaya•ose
Fortuna, Oxblood red
Hebe. Lavender -pink
Innocence. White to soft pink
Mars. Amaranth to wine red
Nancy Copeland. Spectrum red
Saturn. Orange told brown
Stelleris. Buttercup -yellow
Thalia. Orange
"Cushion Mums"
Each Plant a Flower Show in Itself
3 for 65c.; doz., 32,25
Bronze Cushion. Rich bronze
Pink Cushion. tAzaieanium).
Orchid pink
Pygmy Gold. Button -like flowers.
Golden yellow.
Red Cushion. Fiery red
White Cushion. Pure white
Yellow Cushion. Rich yellow
Douba"Mm
3 forle Kore65c; doz,n, 32.u25 s
Acacia. Sulphur yellow. Medium
early
Burgundy, Cerise crimson. Mid-
season
Caliph. Velvety -red. Midseason.
Gleam O'Gold• Primrose yellow.
Midseasou.
Indian Summer. Glowing ()range.
Mid-season
King Midas. Bronze -yellow, Early
Lavender Lady, True lavender.,
Medium early,
Romany. Carmine and gold. Mid
season
Delphinium
Giant Pacific Hybrids
Strong field grown.
3 for 90c; doz, 33.00
Black Knight, Deep Violet
Slue Jay. A true blue
Guinevere. Lavender pink
Hardy Asters
(Michaelmas Daisies)
Very showy autumn flowering
plants 3 to 4 feet high
3s ; . $2,00
Amethyst,for Purpl60ce-bldozue
Beechwood Beacon. Rosy carmine
Beechwood Challenger. Pure red
Beechwood Charm. Rosy -red
Chas, Wilson, Cerise pink
Climax. Lavender blue
Col. Durham. Dbl. purple blue
Little Boy Blue. Deep blue
Mt, Everest. Pure white
Queen Mary. Rich blue
Red Rover. A lovely red
Silver Sheen. Lavender -blue
Tritoma
dux„^.tioyal Standard
A choice new variety with con-
spic'uratts golden yellow base and
se:tt'iet. iup. Very showy. a" for 60c;
nR
Bleeding Heart
(Dicentra spectabilis)
An old garden favorite. Pink,
heart -shaped flowers
40c each; 3 for $1,00
Hardly Perennials
for the
Rock Garden
Three Doz.
Alyssum saxatile com-
pactunt .50 $1.75
Achillea tomeutosa,
Yellow .50 1.75
Arabis alpine, White.50 1.75
alpine plena. Dbl
white .. , , .75 2.50
Arabis alpine rosea,
Pink .50 1.75
Armenia Suttons Giant.
Rose .60 2.00
Asperula hexaphylla.
White .50 1.75
Aubretia Large Hybrids .60 2.00
Calamintha alpine.
Purple .. .60
Campanula carpatica.
Blue .50
Delphinium Chinensis,
Dwarf blue .60
Dianthus Rose Dawn.
Pink .75
Dianthus ceesius. Rose .50
Geum Mrs, Bradshaw.
Scarlet .60
Globularia trichosantha.
Lavender .50
Helianthemum matabile.
tRoce Rose) .60 2,00
Lyehnis viscaria splen -
dens, Pink .60 1.75
Myosotis palustris, Blue .50 1.75
Penstemon hirsutus.
Pink .. .50 1.75
Phlox subulata lilacina,
Light olue .50 1.75
Phlox subulata Leuchstern
Salmon pink .60 2.00
Phlox subulata rosea,
Pink .50 1.75
Saponaria ooyntoides.
Pink .50 1.75
Silene schafta. Rose.50 1.75
Veronica prostrate. Bright
blue .50 1.75
Veronica teucrium. Rich
blue ,. ..., .50 1.75
2.00 Dwarf Hardy Asters
Wonderful bloomers in autumn
1.75 growing one foot high, Fine for
rockery or border.
2.00 3 for 60c; doz., $2.00
Blue Bouquet. Violet blue.
2.50 Countess of Dudley. Pink, yellow
1.75 eye
Lady Maddocks. Pink
2.25 Niobe. White, yellow center
Ronald. Lilac pink
1.75 Snow Sprite. White
Victor. Lavender blue
Send for Free Catalogue of Ornamentals and Fruits
The McConnell Nursery Co.
Port Burwell, Ont.
tion copies may also be banned. They
appreciate the home paper now in a
way that they never did before they
left home, They ,read every word of
IL One officer remarked that he con-
sidered a boatload of papers front
home Is a boatload of morale.
One reason why this restriction
was placed on Canadian papers was
that some publishers had been bund-
ling up their over -runs, and sending
theta to be distributed. We were told
by one service workers that he had
seen at one time 600 bags of such.
Papers. and he simply did not know
what to to with them. There is no
doubt that the publishers who sent
them were anxious to help. They
thought it was a good thing to do,
but it acutally was a misguided ef-
fort.
It war a great pleasure to be able
to visit one of the leading weekly
newspapers, "The Banbury Guard-
ian" which was the paper on which
my father, the late George Legge,
served his apprenticeship. This is one
of the older weeklies of England and
has been owned by the same family
for a great many years,
It is interesting to compare pres-
ent-day training with that of seventy
years ago. In his memoirs, Mr.
George Legge said. "The training I
got in this establishment covered a
much wider range than the technical
schools of today, - sweeping floors,
building fires, washing rollers, sorting
pye, fetching in beer. glit, rum, and
snuff, varied by an occasional hour
spent on the old canal batik catching
Minnows for the foreman's nest fish-
ing trip."
Weekly papers have inrreast:d
their prole from two pence to three
pence per issue. advertising rates
have increased about fifty per cent
since the start of the war, and the
papers have decreased in size.
In England, the press is still free,
The newspapers are bale to choose
what they shall print, and free to
criticize anybody and anything. In
the Axis lands and in the countries
the Axis have overrun, those who
print the unbiased news. and offer
any criticism, do so under the con-
stant peril of death,
AVOID OVERDOSE IRON
TO YOUNG PIGS
In feeding chentiial iron to young
pig: as preventative against anaemia,
it is important to take care to give
the correct amount since an overdose
may cause illness and death. The
younger and smaller the pig the
greater the danger that an ovedose
will cause trouble, say Live Stock
Production officials of the Dontiniott
Department of Agriculture.
With spring here. it should soon
be ppssible to obtain sods or earth
from land which has not been used
as a pig -run or pasture. Placing a
sod or shovelful off this earth in the
pen daily or in a box or creep where
young pigs can get it without being
disturbed by the sow is an old
method of feeding iron to pige but it
is one which is still recommended.
This is probably simpler than feeding
each pig an individhal dose of chemi-
cal iron and has at least one other'
advantage as it helps to teach the
pigs to eat solid feed. Once they are
eating solid feed freely, there is lit-
tle if any treed for feeding additional
iron in any form,