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The Seaforth News, 1950-08-31, Page 2...nsucaustaxx;etwatta•.m. Streamliner Locomotive Nearing Completion at GM Plant -It weighs nearly 125 tons, but this Isearly finished FP7A (freight -passenger) locomotive is hoisted and moved easily by one of the giant cranes at the multi-million dollar plant of General Motors Diesel, Limited, at London, Ont., which was officially opened on August -11,. The big, modern plant is geared to manufacture one locomotive per day. Sixt types,• ranging from 600 to 1,500 horsepiwer, will be built, 4Y /a SIXBLTC'l IC Along about the end of Septem- ber -and already the' entire sports world is fairly agog with apathy - the lads are threatening to stage a meeting between a fat. flabby old man and a character who would find it quite a chore to punch his way out of a bread -wrapper. What is more, they are going to bill this Battle of the Stenchery as being for the Heavyweight Championship of the World. * We refer, of course to the pro - pawl foot -race between Joe Louis and Ezzard Charles, which will de- cide whether Mr Clharies can back- pedal around a rope -girt square of canvas for fifteen rounds faster than Mr Louis can go forward. Personally, we can hardly wait - wait, that is, to find out if the sharp ballyhoo boys will be able to smoke up this sorry -appearing affair into a money -slaking enterprise. And with all due respect to the genius of the modern publicity expert, we have our doubts that they can put this one over. Sports dollars aren't as pientiful, and don't glide so smoothly out of clutching paints, as they did a year or so ago. And unless- the brawl over Korea -way is settled by fight -time -which looks improbable at this writing - the fans will have something more serious to think about than a Louis - Charles affair. * * :k When we describe Joe Louis as fat, flabby and old, we are naturally speaking of hint from a pugilistic standpoint. And Ezzard Charles, despite our slurs, may be a very estimable gentleman; and his punch, JOE LOUIS which we refer to in such a deroga- tory :tanner, isn't one that we would choose to view from the re- ceiving end. But for all that, the match entirely fails to rouse either enthusiasts or expectation in even The veriest sucker's breast; and if it is true that Louis is only going through with it because he is in hock to Uncle Whiskers, all we can do is paraphrase a famous crack and say, "0 Id, Income Taxes, what crimes are committed in thy name 11" k * k In conclusion, it is our sincere hope that after this one is over Joe Louis -for whom we have always had the highest admiration both as a fighter and as a man -won't pub - Hely promise his Mother' or any- body else, than this is his final fight, Unwelcome Guest -Ginger, a homeless dog being sheltered by the Animal Rescue League, barks at a new guest, a 30 -inch -long alligator abandoned by a small boy. Officials are hoping that the alligator will be claimed by its. owner soon as its diet consists of hard -to -get items and it slakes the other animals, like Ginger, nervous. He's pulled that one too often for it to be touching any more. So often, in fact, that we are reminded of the very ancient one about the customer who brought back to a clothing merchant a suit purchased a couple of days before. * * * "One little sprinkle of rain, and the pants shrink right up to above my knees," said the angry customer. "Didn't you give she your solemn word that this suit was guaranteed one hundred per cent all -wool when I bought it?" * * "Sure thing I did," replied the merchant saintly. "But I didn't say "POSITIVELY" did I?" k * So, for the sake of Itis millions of fans and followers, when this one is over Joe Louis won't forget to say "POSITIVELY," the trust, Now They're Saying Bagpipes Not Scottish Over the hills from Braemar comes the skirl of the pipes for Scotlands annual Highland Games, and a sales boom begins in a minor British industry that thrives all the year round. It's a bagpipes boom Down Renfrew Street, Glasgow, and off the High Street of Lon- don's Camden Town, the sporran and pipe workshops are putting on a spurt to keep pace with ex- port orders. Britain has already sold so many set to the U.S., Can- ada, South Africa and Australia that you'll find store bagpipes there than in Scotland. Hoots, in fact, the bagpipes are no longer Scottish . and they never were. Even the sheepskin bags are English or imported Aus- tralian. The hard black wood of blowpipe and drones may be called "Scottish -ebony'," but it's either blackwood front West Africa or cocuswood from West Indies, The real ivory mountings conte from the Congo, the imitation ivory are mainly Welsh! Even the silk clan ribbon conies from France. And though the tar- tan that covers the bag may be Scottish, it's usually backed with Yorkshire flannelettell 1 So what, Scots? Ever since Rus- sian seal became fashionable for sporrans historians have been dis- persing a little more of the great Scottish legend. A drone -pipe with reed complete has been found in an ancient mummy -case. The Per- sians and ancient Greeks had pipes, and the Roptans introduced them into southern England before they spread to Ireland and Caledonia. Traditional models crop up in Prance, Germany, Italy, Spain and the Balkans, not to mention Mala- ya. Chaucer's'merry miller led the Canterbury Pilgrims with the bag- pipes, though maybe he didn't play a Pibroch. Shakespeare mentions the pipes and they were English then. But scholars say they're in the Bible and that they were Baby- lonian, Even the famous Scots Guards are playing English -made pipes today. It's shocking to Scots- men, everywhere, but it's true! ISSUE 35 - 1950 E FAIN FRONT 69,usgen a -r.. v. From fee and near, the world around, eolues the cry for more, better, and cheaper fertilizers, In. order to feed the rapidly soaring world population the need for fer- tilizers necessary for increased food production has risen by some sixty per cent since 1939. * * . Yet -largely because of whole- sale destruction of fertilizer plants in Europe and dsewlhere during World War II -it has been esti- mated that today only around eighty per cent of the pre-war ' amount is being produced The ironical tiling i5 that all the_ fertilizer we need is contained in the atmosphere -if only it could be persuades] to work, This element is nitrogen, a million tons of which press down on every seven acres of land and sea over the whole surface of the earth. :k k * Nitrogen is esesential 'to life, Four-fiths of the air we breathe consists of it. And iso :natter how many other elements a man may consume through eating and drinlca Mg, if his diet does not contain nitrogen the will surely die, :k * * Although the supply of nitrogen in the air is practically unlimited, in the form in which it exists it is useless to living creatures. It must be made available in the form of compounds. and we can produce these compouhds only with great difficulty and at great expense. * * Nature, however, performs the feat with her usual efficiency, Plants like the clover, pea, or bean, in partnership with tiny nitrogen -fix- ing bacteria in the soil, are able to take nitrogen from the air for her own use and to leave part of it stored up in the soil for plants of another season. * * * Other plants have to take their nitrogen front the soil in the form of salts called nitrates. The bacteria that help the clover, peas and beans to produce this nitrate form little nodules on the roofs, and these nodules swarm with the useful bac- teria. They can be seen on the roofs of the red clover. =k * * To provide his soil with part of the "fixed" nitrogen needed for his crops, the farmer ]las only to plough in his peas, clover or beans. But this, unfortunately, does not provide enough nitrogen to cope with the intensive farming of modern tines, * * * There is no doubt that when ni- trogen is forced to work for its living it almost achieves miracles. An official comparison between two equal areas of grassland' one with nitrogenous fertilizer and the other without, showed that the yield of the first exceeded the second by 75 per cent * * * But what the world badly needs is some permanent device for trans- forming the nitrogen in the atmos- phere into material crop fertilizer. When that is done on a big enough scale, many of our food problems are likely to be solved. * * * So here's a chance for some reader of this column to win ]him- self -or herself -fame and fortune in wholesale quantities. Just invent some cheap and practical gadget that will reach up into the atmos- phere and pall down that essential element for free. Ilow to go about it? Well, you'd better ask somebody else regarding that, for if I knew -do you think I'd be putting to- gether columns like this for a living? Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish, -Michelangelo. F • Protect your 51001t8 and CASH from 1/111111 and THIEVES. We have a also and type of Safe, or Cabinet, for :MY purpo0O. VIeit us or write for melees, etc.. to Dent, W. Fl LIMITED TORONTO SAFE WORKS' 146 Front St, F.,, Toronto Established 18115 F, a Ihethlhoh*w, flotltieen „Classified Advertising.. AOoce,tvtING neele5IEEPIIS( A ACCOUNTXN'f' dEA(- i1GE, IrvingN. Shown, 77 Victoria Stu Toronto, AGENTS WANTED OILS, GREASES, TIRES, Batteries, Paints, Electric Motors, Stoves, Radios, Refrigerators, Irast lhrexees and Milli Coolers, 'hoof Coatings, Permanent Anti - Freese, ate. 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