The Seaforth News, 1937-02-11, Page 3171YTU:RSDiA,Y, Ft'EIB'RUAIRY 11, 1937
THE SEAFOIRTH NEWS
The Making of Records
'Some comment has been occasion-
ed. by the 'fact that, although no re-
•onrds of the Duke of Windsor's
speech from Windsor Castle (broad-
cast over rhe CHC national network)
could he obtained in Britain, they
seemeelto have been selling in large
'mothers on this 'continent. In (Brit-
ain, the pusitinn so far as the staking
of gramopdt<te records is concerned
is governed ioy the Dramatic and lfu-
.sical Performers' Protection Act
011u25). w-Itieb prohibits the making of
ecords (for sale to the ,public without
the written 'consent of the -performer,
In the case of his former Majesty's
speech, ,the authorities concerned
specifically requested that no records
should he ntarle or issued, 1n the case
of foreign countries, however, the po-
sition as regards the making of re-
cords is governed by the law in each
country. 'Some of. the broadcasts
trade .by .Ring .George V were record-
ed by ;special permission, .an•cl the pro-
,ftts from the sales Of these records
were devoted to charity,
Mart Kenny to be Honoured
i\lart Kenny, whose orchestra is a
broadcast feature over the :CRC na-
tional netlyeirk from the 'Vancouver
studios, is to be honorreal on Feb-
ruary 26 when the British Columbia
Institute } _,. 1
t t to c f 11 n' nailixts elect him a
•full fledged member of the institute
and !present hint with a press -card
and suitable gift. Mart's "Western
'Gentlemen" were recently adjudged
seoon<I best dance 'band on Canadian
radio. 'I'Ite party is to be held in the
Spanish Grill of the I'Iotel 'Vancouver
and during the evening Mart and his
boys \sill introduce ,the newest dance
Braze, "'i;he Newhaw'k's Nudge."
"Night Shift" Scores
CBC seems fo be scoring a radio
:ball's -eye with its new '''Night Shift"
'broadcasts, judging from the way in
which listeners applauded the ,first
presentation from Sydney, N.S., last
week. Your correspondent, who broke
the news that the series was to 'be
staged, has been 'beseiged with tele-
phone calls and letters in whioh listen-
ers epeak in no uncertain terms of
their enthusiasm for the series. 'Bab
Bowman, Former staff commentator
of the BBC and now special events
man of the OBC, who is handling the
broadcasts, next :will be heard on Feb-
ruary 1111, at 9,30 p.m, ZEST, .from 'Ohe-
ibucto- (Head 'Lighthouse near !Halifax.
This is one of the most famous light-
houses .on the Atlantic coast and has
been serving shipping for years.
Special CRCV Broadcast
,Latest news regarding the opening
of the new transmitter and studios of
.OTO\!, Vancouver, on 'February t1,6,
suggests that .an exciting evening is
ahead for Canadian listeners. Two
and a hall hours broadcasting aver
the -nation -network will be devoted -to
programs of .felicitations from Cana -
1, .da, Uarited States, and England.
,OROV's own special program will be
in the nature of a delineation of B, C's
industries. such as fishing. cat ring,.
lumbering and mining.
Major Murray Returns
Major (Gladstone Murray, general
manager of the CRC, who 'has 'leen
engaged inan inspection tour of west-
ern. Canada in regard Jo radio prob-
lems, is
slated to .return to 'Ottawa.
headquarters .some time this week.
The IG,M. personally has been sizing
up the western situation with a view
to improving conditions and ironing
out program and reception .anomalies,
Sitting Bu11 Gets Tamed
d)on't forget to shirt your dial to the
CRC on ;February 20 for another in
the series of Mounted Police drama-
tizations being produced weekly in
the T01'01111, studios. -'file new series
is the latest in Canadian radio enter-
tainment and well worth the listening.
Scripts are by \1aj,nr 111arw•ood Steele,
noted author and authority on Cana-
channa, incl are based on authentic re-
cords of the (Force. 'Next broadcast is
"The Taming of !Sitting,lMull." 1 t will
be produced by Ittupert Lucas.
Random Jottings
Felix Green, New 'York rep'resent-
alive of the 13'3,C, and George 'fag -
ant and E. h. Batshnell of the CBC
program department, will be among
those attending the opening of (MCAT
February 1105. , .13ob (Bowman, the
CI3C's "''Night Shift" man, was ,pres-
ented with a silver cigarette case by
the press men of London before he
left England for Canada.. ,Same
Mr. Bowman is the author of a new
boost called "Rob 'Bowman. an the
Ice." 'Book was published in England
when the author was ,actively associa-
ted with ice hockey, a sport that has
taken the IOW 'Country by storm, ,
'Jacques Desbailets of •CIB'C- -\•font
real announcing staff is casting rest-
less eye; at the calendar, wishing that
the summer 'world •soon come He is
anxious to get 'back at sailing, his fav-
ourite summer sport. . ,Harriett \M,
Ball, who does the CBC's "'Guess
What!" program, is an ex -newspaper -
woman. :Miss Ball started newspaper
reporting et the age of 117 on the old
Toronto World and was later associa-
ted with the 'Toronto 'Telegram and
the -Maclean Publishing Company.
She is enthusiastic about air travel,
having, in i9119, been the first woman
assenger in 'Canada to make a night
ight,,,..
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FEATURES DAY BY DAY
((Ail Times Eastern Standard)
Tuesday, February 11111:
9.00 p:n1, "This -is Paris,"—Musical
variety. 'From Montreal,
9.30 p.m. "'Night Shift."—IR. T.
Bosman will 'visit and describe. the
Chebucto 1-Iead Lighthouse. 'From
Halifax.
Friday, February '00:
3,30 .p,nt "Acadian Serenade ".. Qr-
chestra with soloist. From Halifax.
9,391 p.m. "Pirouettes," Mn;ical Var.;
PAGE THREE.
icty. From -Montreal,
Saturday, .February 1:3:
8.00 'p.m: 'Cotte'rs' Saturday 'Night,"
—The !Aiken family -at home. :From
Sydney.
901 p.m. "The Northern. ,\l.essenger
Service" --,-Personal messages to the
far north. 'From Ottawa.
Sunday, IFe-bruary 111=4:
3 pan, New 'York (Philharmonic Or.
ehestra. 'Conducted by A. Rodzinslci.
From 'New York.
6:415 p. m. Dr, H. •L. Stewart Re-
views the ,News. Front Halifax.
7 :pm. !Prof, ,Quizz and his, 'Brain-
busters.—From :New 'YYork%
Pi p.m. ' d Ilantie tNa,cturne." Read-
ings by ;I. Frank Willis. From Hali-
fax.
Monday, February 1115:
r) p,111. "Melodic Strings,—,Orchestra
direction !Alexander Cluthaldiu. From
Toronto.
110:130 pan. !Gilbert IDarisse and his
Chateau 7Frontettac "Dance Orchestra:
From Quebec, -
Tuesday, .February 16:
9 'p,m. Official opening of new 5,000
watt 1r ('8 ilter and studios of
CR -CV, "The 'Voice of British Coluan-
hia." Two and a hall hours special
brocideasting over CSC national net-
work, - -
Wednesday, February •I7:
9 p.m, "Canadian Concert Hall of
the 'Air," From Montreal.
1141:311 pan, '"'Our National 'Parks -and
What They \1 -can to Canada." Talk
by thou. T. Crerar, minister of
alines and natural resources. ,From
Ottawa,
ST. VALENTINE
Lace paperlove is the rule for''Feb,'
114th, 111(837 years after a young Ro-
man priest was clubbed, stoned and
:beheaded at the city's lr'laati•inian state.
Writers are still arguing over why the
martyrdom of St. V'a'lentine should be
linked with the honeyed messages of
love and affeotiot exchanged with
gay frivolity .Iby any means of trans
mission at hand.
'Tile origin of the feast that makes
for sentimental verses, beriblboned
love notes and ,comic ca.rds has !been
traced to the old'Roman celebration
00 February 1114 of the Feast of 7reb-
rua'ta ,iron. LAtt the Fete, the .boys
would chose by lot the .girl's who were
to be their partners --!but they didn't
say "Sweetheart, will you be my Val-
entine?"
The -lame of St, 'Valentine came in-
to the picture—say at least sone of
those who delve for historical back-
ground for the feast—solve time after
the 'February afternoon in 1170
when young Valentine was put to
death alter telling a Roman prefect
the pagan gods were "full of ordure
and evil."
'Valentine is said to have done
much to ameliorate the sufferings of
Christians perseouted by the Emperor
Claudius 111'. His arnswer ving witness
for the Christian faith ultimately was
responsible for his death. '51 is wmit-
ten of him that he Ives condemned to
be beaten with elnlbs then to be stoned
and 'to be !beheaded outside the Flan-
ittian gate. For a time this gate was
known as the (Porto 'Vallentini but
now it is called Porto (Popo,lo,
Valentine's execution occurred on
the eve of the Feast of Luperca'lia, an
ancient pagan festival commemora-
ting an old -tithe rural god, 'Faunus,
toil it is believed the beheading' of the
at¢watf to the U6tU/
M. J. Habkirk,
Manager
There is rnagic in the telephone: in every item of the
vast assemblage of plant and equipment that stands
behind it to make modern telephone service possible.
Take the simple plug on the switchboard. A piece of
metal on the end of a cord; yet it bridges unheard-of
distances. The World is literally at its gleaming tip. It
can connect you with the office on the mixt floor, send
you winging across the continent or take you overseas.
It annihilates time.
This is but one aspect of the perfectly coordinated army
of miracle workers that has grown from Alexander
Graham Bell's initial experiments at Brantford.
Canada, the birthplace of the telephone, is today its
greatest user, leading the world with more calls per
capita than in any other country. It is telephone -minded,
not because of sentiment but because of the scope, effi-
ciency and low cost of service as pioneered and developed
through the years by the Bell Telephone Company.
Roman .priest thecante a part of the
wild celebrations. 'Faonns was the
god of .cattle and fertility in general
and according -to legend 'there was a
care sac•rerl to him on Palestine Hill,
Tills cave .was called the Lupercal.
In connection ;with the !Feast the
priests OF Lu'percus are said to have
sacrificed a goat. -The touching of
strips of ,skin from the slaughtered
animal was supposed to produce fer-
tility in woolen,
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The Seaforth News
SEAFORTH, ONTARIO,
l'a'ganisnt gave place to Christian -
Ry and it is thought the early fathers
saw it would .be impossible to abolish
the old customs including that of the
L nperca'lia.-Gradub-sly through Christ-
ian influence these old celebrations
became submerged in the Christian
festivaIin. -
Vl'Ihile 'the connection with the pre -
seat custom of exchanging Valen-
tines semis rather remote, it is ibe-
liered in some quantcrs the Luper-'
calia became the Feast -of 5t, Val -
entitle in 'honor of the saint who sof
fere( martyrdom at the time .of. the
'at(tn celebration in the year D7'0.
There are outer legends bath up
arnlan 1 the tile of Valentine em-phas-
izing his kindliness and lose for chikl-
ren While numerous writers declare
there is no connection between— .the
early Christian saint and the modern
Valentine spay customs, ,
FISH AN IMPORTANT FOOD
A Message from the Minister of Pub
lie Health for Nova Scotia
in this enlighteners a: a almost ev-
eryone .1:11, l WS (Ood is necessary :for
growth o the -body, .for the n,ainten-
ante of the various tissues entering
into The formation of the 'body, for the
parrpose of promoting proper body
temperattn'e and Inc.supplying the en-
ergy necessary to enable each 'person
to perform the worse assigned hint.
Naturally the cruant1ty of food requir-
ed to maintain different ind'ivid.uals in
O healthy state varies with the -age
and size avocation ,and other factors.
.:111 ,ordinary articles of cliet are
a,un3p0sed of -mixtures of sybstances
in varying amounts and all are made
'+p- of three of four basic constituents
'11 various groupings: These basic sn'b-
=tanres are fats, proteins, carbohy-
drates and salts, in addition there
"'t:1st be !Present .certain complex boel-
1 s to :which the general name of yita-
nifns :has been ,given. All 'foods then
"...foist of a mixture of One, iv, or.
rare of these basic elements with a
prover proportion of water.
Since all the energy required by the
body is derived front ,food. it is ces-
io*narZ to estimate the enemy alne
of various. ,foodsin terms cif heat un-
its—or ealories.
An Inc nortant factor in estimating
1•e «arability of any food article is it
0re-1r1Iiil1• since it is of little use to
the body unless it can ,he changed by
the digestive organs into substances
which may be absorbed and thereby
tali, their places in the essential w'or•k
of 11v body,
Occupying a leading place in the
list of important foods we find fish,
Iv nutritive qualities it differs little
from neat and can. al -ways .be .reco u-
nmended to 'replace the latter to a very
considerable extent, especially since
it is generally more digestible, Satt
water ,fish generally contain ,consid-
erable iodine and as such are 'consid-
ered a valuable preventative against
Goitre.
Generally speaking it may he said
that places, at or near the coast line
are comparatively free of [Goitre; and
the further one travels inland, the
mare numerous cases become, it is
believed by many that !Goitre is a de-
ficiency disease, 'due to lack of iodine.
I'1 is -known that the ocean contains
large quantities of iodine and it is em-
inently reasonable to suppose that sea
foods are valuable sources of supply.
A noted Boston surgeon stated a few
years ago that simple !Goitre -was not
nrCvalcnt in his community for the
reason there was always available a
gond supply of fish.
1n consuming more fish and less of
certain other foods we are riot only
promoting Netter health conditions,
tint we are doing something tangible
- in bringing a measure of prosperity to
Our shore fishernien, who have been,
alone, with others,, so sorely tried dur-
ing this period known as the "Econ-
omic Depression."
Miss M. R. Clark Passes—
Miss Mabel !Rebecca 'Clark, for the
past twenty years editor of the ,Clin-
ton News Record, -died suddenly
about midnight following a heart seiz-
ure. Miss 'Clark, who obtained 'her
first experience hi the field of journal-
ism on the staff of the Toronto 'Satur-
day 'right, eante to 'Clinton many
years ago, working under the late
James M'fitchell, then proprietor of the
News Record, When he died in - 1191115
she -continued as editress of the ,paper.
Born in Flesherton, Ontario, she was
o daughter of ?fr. and Mrs: William
Clark. Surviving are one brother and'
three sisters: Joseph ,Clark, 'T'oronbo;
Mrs, Ogle (Cooper. Toronto; MrS. J.
E. Cantclon, 3/intico; \'fns. ),l, Vfai--
oitis, Le!Proy. Ontario.
Mary—J'Please, madam, f' -'e knock-'
ed the marble clock` off the side-
board."
'\faclaci."!Good heavens, 'has it
stopped?"
ldary—z'No, nmadam, it's gone
straight through to the basemen!."