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The Seaforth News, 1931-01-01, Page 3The Measuring Stick George and. Elsie live next door to each other. They are in the same cease at school, and in the spelling lest they each missed two words out 0f ten, When George gave his spelling pas Per to his mother, ,she . exclaimed, "Aren't you ashamed of yourself! =,1 suppose you let Jim Martin go to the head of the tease again. if you would study as Jan does Mother wouldn't have to Leel bad about your spelling paper." "Spelling's -easy 2or Jim," George Protested, "he can :remember any- thing. ,.1 brought mine home last night and studied half an hour, but Iwas afraid I'd miss and so i ,did." George's mother thought she was using the best method to make her son study. .Dven slime George had starited to school she had tried to get him to do -better, This comparative idea was good, but she had always used the wrong measuring stick. She; had hold him up against another in- stead of against himself. The truth watt that her.ownpride was hurt. She didn't want Jim to succeed abbve her. nem son. The inference to. be drawn, then, by -George or ,anyone else is that if Jim had missed two words out of ten, then George's misspelled words' would not„have mattered. But what did Elsie's mother do about the: spelling record? Since both soothers, afterwards: told the teacher all that was said about it, another method of dealing with unsatisfactory school work is available. 'When do you have the next see'. iling test?" Elsie's mother asked asid when told that It was in two weeks, elle said, "Well, we'll just forget this paper and think about the fine one you'll have next time, -What, can you do that you didn't do this week, so as to win in a contest with your best record?" " ''1'11 reviewmy words for five min f:.,3m,`every day;' volunteered Elsie: 'this time 1 let my reviewing go un 111 the last day." There was not a word from Elsie's mother about what anyone else in the elass had clone. Her little daughter was encouraged to do her own best, not the best of some other pupil. Elsie was held responsible. She was made her own disciplinarian. She was not crushed by the recollection of her own lapse In spelling and by the vie- tory of a classmate. Rather was she inspired to press forward towards her own shining Merl Not all ehiel r c.).) be atthe bead of the clans o, t,r'"=r in the game or winner of a t.op-.y. But every child should covet advancement and enjoy mastery of hisindividual prob- lems. it is discouraging to hold up an ex- ample of excellence before a child which he can never hope to attain. He may not be either physically or mentally equipped to reach such a standard. But every child can step ahead of his own past record if he has any intelligent guidance at all. Aad the thrill of knowing that he ie better this week than last will bol- ster up his spirit and make him sur- prise himself. -Issued by the Nation- al Kindergarten Association; 8 West 40th Street, New York City. These articles are appealing weekly in our columns. Bank of Montreal Annual Meeting Sir Charles Gordon, President,Stresses Inherent Vigor,' and Soundnees of General Economic Structure in Canada. -Reaction in General Business Due Principally to Depressed Grain and Other Commodity Prices. '"n r` Maintenance by Sank of Traditionally strong ;Liquid Position, • W A.Bog d Jackson Dodds the General: Managers Draw Attention to Grass Plays Important Part in Earth Building Grasses play an important part in building up the very earth we live on, says Dr. A. S. Hitchcock. of the De- partment of Agriculture, an example of which is the case of beachgrass (Ammophilla aronaria) building bar- rier dunes along the north Atlantic Coast of the North American conti- nent. Beachgrass is found as far south as Maryland. Extensiveemnd flats and tidal estu- aries on the Atlantic Coast are occu- pied by species of grass named Spar - tine, which thrive in the soft mud sub- merged at high tide. Their stout un- derground stems form a dense lateral network, ever pushing outward, as- sisting in the formation of good dry land. Large-scale land building bas been brought about recently in England,. France and Holland, too, by a Spar - tine, the only plant found capable of gaining a foothold on those bottomless muds. Spaitina has been planted out- side the dikes of Holland and is build- ing up land at a rapid rate. Cash -Down Ancestors Mr. durich was showing a friend over his new mansion. The walls of the reception rooms were covered with paintings in heavily gilded frames. "This," said Mr. Nurich, stopping before a portrait of a knight of old in armor, "is one of my ancestors." His friend looped hard' at the por- trait. "Yes, he- was very nearly one of mine," he replied. 'What do you mean?" asked the owner of the mansion. "I bid up to $10,000 for that por- trait, but I didn't think it was worth any more.,' The annual 'general meeting of the Bank of Montreal was marked by a.,dititinot feeling -of 'otonfldence in the general •outlook in Canada. Sir Charles Gordon, the Presi- dent, in reviowing'.the principal de- velopments of ' the year, said in part:— 'I am sure it will' be very gratify- lug to the shareholders to learn that we have not suffered' any losses from depreciation in the securities which -the Bank holds as part of its assets. .From this you will un- derstand:that great care has been exercised in our investments. "The year under, review has been a most difficult one not only tor. banks but for practically all classes of business, and this has been re- • fleeted in our profits, but neverthe- less ample provision has been made tomtit- losses and prospective Tosses. "Examination of the figures of the• foreign trade of Canada shows how large a part the item ofwheat plays, No other single commodity approaches this cereal in volume and value; as a consequence, when crop failure occurs or prices fall below the line el profitable produc- don, the whole business of the eoun- tryis adversely affected. That has happened. The' wheat crop of 1929 wasshort in quantity; thecrop of 1930 faced low prices and a glutted market; and the foreign trade re- turns disclose the results of these unfavorable factors. To short crops and congested markets can be trac- ed much of the reaction in general business, the decline in railway traffic, the diminished earnings of carriers by land and water, nnenr- ployment of labor and, above all, diminished purchasing power of.. the agricultural class. 'In summing up .his' -conclusions, Sir Charles ',stated, that •"in, this ;virile country of Canada with its abounding resources there can be no permanent depression. My own view' ie •that when the turn conies leading Canada :will be found 1 e g the., procession in , the return to pros- perity," . General Managers' Address The address, of W. A. Bog and Jaekson Dodds, the General Man- agers, dealt more particularly With the report Of the Bank for the past fiscal year. The 'report said in pant:, "In times like the present it is inevitable .that 'losses 'suffered through the heavy fall in prices must affect Banks at least indirect- ly. It is a satisfaction to be able to assure yon that we have made. ample provision tor all losses and doubtful debts. 'You will note that the tradition- ally strong .liquid position of your Bank, has been maintained. • This was accousplishod without curtail- ing the credit requirements of our customers. "A notable increase during the year in the number of small ac- counts in specially gratifying, as we have consistently emphasized the fact that the Bank of Montreal welcomes .small accoants." Owl Laffs Unchanging Its' a New Year greeting, With a song of cheer. It will seem, on meeting, Like the same old year. Giant Peas The delightful flavor and tender- ness of small peas, together with the satisfying meatiness found in peas of large size, are the unusual qualities of giant peas now on the canned food market. Atthe time they are picked for Canning they are not fully matur- ed but are actually baby giants, being thus unusu9lly sweet In flavor. '1liongst the ehanges fleeting And the speech unfurled, Earth ' e.en Three illion i °thdays, If the average life of a human being be taken as one second of a new tirne scale the earth it just passing its first birthday and the human race has been in existence only a part t,f one day, but the universe of strsa has been It's a New Year greeting— Isoing on about as now. for at least To the same oid world. five thousand dears. So Professor George von Hevesy of the University No, 1931 is not leap year. But we expect the mortality anions bachelors to be just•as heavy as it usually is in leap year. If love won't find a way, the girls will. Another little thought for 1931:. Let's quit condemning in others what we practice ourselves. Little Thomas watched a telephone repairman climb a pole, connect a test set and try to obtain a connection with the switchboard. There ensued some difficulty. The youngster listen- ed a few minutes, and then rushed into the house, exclaiming: Little Thomas—"Mamma, come here quick. There's a man up on a tele- phone pole talking to Heaven." His Mother — "What makes you think be's talking to Heaven?' •Little Thomas—"'Cause he hollered 'Hello! Hello! Hoilo! . Good Lord, What's the natter up there, can't any- one hear'?" Diary of a College Graduate June 23, 1930—Graduated to -day. June 23, 1930—Looked for a $10,000 job. July 20, 1930—Looked for a job at $100 a week, Aug, 9, 1930—Looked for any kind of a job. September 2, 1930—Still looking. September 23, 1930—Went to work for my uncle for $75.00 a month. The. customer was busy sawing on the steak he had ordered, and he was having a difficult time. Waiter (solicitously)—"Is It tough?" The customer was exhausted. Ile turned to the waiter with defeat in his eyes and said: Customer—"When. I order beef and get horse, I don't care. But next time, take the harness off before you start serving. No matter how brave a man is, there's a woman somewhere he's afraid of, Those who have had experi- ence will testify that a woman may smile, and smile, and be unwilling still "She didnt' act that way the last time she was engaged."—Overheard remark. Most any wife gets suspiei- Ons df she sees her husband and his. mother talking together in whispers. She suspects they are talking about her. Some women can make 25 -cent coffee taste like 50 -cent coffee and some women can make 50 -cent coffee taste like 25 -cent coffee. You have to do your own climbing. Opportunity is a ladder, not an elevator. I met her in the garden, The night was still as death. I knew she knew'her onions, I could smell them on her breath. First Salesman -"1'm broke. Can't sell my book." Second Salesman — "What's • it called?" First Salesman -"The Art of Sales- manship." Infamous Infinities of To -day "Painless Dentists.'' "Busy 'Pay- ments: Customer — "But you guaranteed that this watch would Last mea life- time." "Jeweler—"I know -but you didn't look very healthy the day that you bought it," of Freiburg, Germany, concluded in his review • of ,resent knowledge of the age of the earth in the opening lec- ture of the Geo_ge.Fisher-Baker Lee -or EarlySymptoms watch sity, recently published by the New '^' Science. Cif COrieer — Then Act at Once Canada's Increasing Importance' Origin of Pipe Gold Mart of the •ord Organ Credited �n the Cao d � � }} g 1 T , To Chinese I I oUWCE, 23,000;00 d; zo,000,odo yeo- TREND OF WORLD GOLD PRODUCTION - 1905-1929 LL OTHEF1 CO NTRIES I •-i II lIII111p la��, 111111 II F illip` ! • 1905 tem WORLD OUTPUT (VALUE) 1905..$382,182,624 1929,.$417,394,88l SOUTH AFRICA ( ++ ) ,+ .e1o1,489,216 v ,$215,241,874 CANADA ( ++ ) ++ .r3 14,159,193 +, .$ 39,861,663 CONVERTED AT $20.671834 PER OUNCE Pew economic questions are being output of the world bad' fallen by near - more keenly discussed throughout the ly ,110 per cent.: in 1929 as contrasted world to -day than that of the supply with.1905. One point of special interest from the Canadian standpoint is the fact that, in the writings of almost all stu- dents of the gold situation, little or no importance has been attached to Can- ada's rising output. It is true that the Dominion's production has never Milked largely in the world's total out- put, but it has grown, and is continu- ing to 'grow, substantially. With gold being produced In larger quantities either from gold properties or from huge ore bodies, in which gold is as- sociated with other metals, it may well be that Canadian resources are destined to play a much more pro- minent part than has yet been fore- seen, in offsetting the expected de- pletion of the South African gold- fields and the threatened embarrass - gree by South Africa, The total gold ment of the world's monetary systems. of gold for monetary use... In this sub- ject Canada has a double interest her Interest as a-gold-praducing.coun- try and also as a trading nation vital- ly concerned with anything. and every- thing that is fundamental to world prosperity. While most of the discussion has centered upon the need for better dis- tribution and use of the existing stocks of gold, there has been also a note- of real anxiety over the possi- bility of an actual shortage of gold supplies. This anxiety arises from an anticipated early drop in South Afri- ca's output. As the accompanying dia- gram indicates, the burden of main- taining the level of world gold produc- tion during the last twenty-five years has been borne in ever-increasing de - turas in Chemistry at Cornell Tniver- First Instrument Used By Chinese Resembled Mod-` ern Saxophone The huge modern pipe organs used in churches and theatres probably owe their origin to a small Chinese mouth instrument in which bamboo tubes were used for pipes, and which sonic what' resembled in appearance the modern saxophone, in the opinion of Dr. Berthold Laufer,curator of an- thropology at Field Meseu:n of Nit - Examples History. Examples of•these instruments which first appeared in very ancient times, but are still used to a 'limited extent in China, were collected by Dr. Laufer while on an expedition in China, and are now on exhibition at the museum. They are rarely heard nowadays,' however, because of 3 cin . ons superstition that a skilful per- former becomes so wedded Lo his music that' he is forever playing, to the ex- clusion of all other activities. This, the Chinese apparently fear,` would prove inconvenient for the player and night become anno•'rg to his neig'r- bors. Another thing that has caused the popularity of the instrument to wane. in late years is the fact that because it is played largely by sucking the breath in, as veli as by blowing, it causes inflammation of the bronchial tubes and diseases of the -ungs and it is said that no habitual player ever lives lager than forty years, Dr. Laufer states. This is a serious mat- ter to the Chinese, to whom longevity is one mi .the fundamental ideals. The mouth pipe orwan, or "sheng" as the Chinese call it, consists of a bowl -shaped bone of lacquered wood at the end of a tube with a nroutn- piece, which givet ii a resemblance to a large meerschaum pipe as well es to a saxophone. Seve teen bamboo tubes of varying lengths are inserted in the top of the body, which provides the wind resu -nir. Thirteen of the tubes are fitted tvah Mee reeds simian- te those used in.tame] means today. each 0i the tubae him a small ao c jt,st above the : o rt n i1 •r t, it e:.ter the reservoir The harmonium t -r semi, or,;'rr with free reeds but n .hint pipes, s.t the first occide-rtat deee,•t'sns nt flvi,r Clasri C' I%',t0f V .11a1 1 1i I i' SI 1'rli45tiJ�Y, 1x11 "pe, nrlG, I lr'ee - AQd Btti Friendship Magazine 2le"I,1i, rll'w Yorlt. SP1' CAN fill] 1'L? -ANS' l3ooli; :publishocJ wits a anjnantuln delay. Enquirieo Promptly answered, Subsorlp- tiens placed for .0 Capadien.' iritlgh and American puh'lcat:onti et lowest prices, World's Subscription AFS.n3Y (Reg'd), 251 Queen St- IVAst, i'oroato, Canada, New Air Service Over Continent Passenger Routes include Flight Between Montreal and Miami New 'York,—Co-ordination of an -ex- tensive network' of airways, including passenger services from Montreal to Miama and -across the continent to Los Angeles, with stops at Dallas, Fort Worth and El Paso, will :be ef. fected under an agreement between the Eastern Air Transport . and two divisions of American Airways, opera- tion unit of Aviation Corporation, it became known here on Dee. 3. 1t pro: vides for co-ordination of schedules at Atlanta and Newark. Tbese new schedules will make it Possible for passenger's to travel by air port starts its daily passenger service from Atlanta to New York in .eight and a half hours when Eastern Ail' Trans - over that route. Passengers may then continue north to Boston by ah'plane, or after an overnight stop, to Albany or Montreal. When the Eastern Air Transport opens its Miami extension on Jan. 1. air traffic from Boston and Montreal, as well as from Atlanta and the south- west, will he co-ordinated with Pan- American Airways' 22,000 -mile all air system througb the West Indies and Central and South America. Simultaneously reports from Miami toid of the inauguration of a new mail and passenger air route from Cuba to Cristobad by Way of Kingston, Jamaica by the Pan-American Airways, The new service, which was said to in- volve the longest regularly scheduled over -water flight lu the history of aviation, was roar a:•Sted by a 22 -pas seneer flying boat which covered the 047 mite distance ir.nu Kingston to c •is:obal, entirely out of sight of land, in 5 home, and 50 minutes. The entire teip art u, a n;t difficulty, tie reports ! 1 re were only i =ht I 1a,..aiut.• , ,;;r ',mei' ule. a . ail• sa:rt- York City scientific periodical Science. this instrument, says Dr. Laufer. The Following many previous students of - princip.e of the free reed became wide. -1! I'rc',ic'S Prize I'seau:*y earth age, Professor Hevesy has cal- 1y known in 8 urope through -he ?n-! r^ ],f v culated from the slow disintegration his is Ont of a Weekly Series of Health Articles Prepared troduction of the :Chinese reed orga's Rewarded I'- 7 --`' of radioactive chemical elements the By the Canadian Social Hygiene Council- at the anti of the eighteenth century. — Lnoo,t lt, r -q; i mens of minerals contain>ng these time elapsed since individual spec]- Prof. C. G. Kratzenstein inlented th- bI� :tittiprunet's, Is the re:enine sill ; the elements were formed. Some such mineral specimens turn out to be well over a billion years old but the earth as a whole must be older still, elm* the planet's crust must have been in place 'and solid befeee these ',line - recording minerals `could have been deposited in it. Accordingly, Profes- sor Hevesy has extended these radio- active calculations to the whole ma- terial of the earth, obtaiping a figure of about three billion years for the time since' the planet existed as a ball of white-hot gas drawn out of the sun. Enormous as is this time by human standards, it is a'.it.a moment, he finds, in the age of tht known universe, for astronomical calculations indicate that the average star has been in existence for between five thousand billion and ten thousand aillion years. Artiet: Well, w iat do Sou think of the idea? Friend. It's not half as bad as it's painted. Inhale Minard's Liniment for Asthma. 3, Our,last article told you something treatment given within a month or harmonium after examining a . ,bens about cancer. To -day I propose to tell you how this disease can be fought. If every individual in Canada could receive and follow the simple advice which is contained in this article the number of cancer deaths would be re- duced by many thousands. In the first place let us frankly admit that doctors have not yet learned bow to prevent cancer h. the way they have learned how to prevent smallpox and typhoid and diphtheria. That, how- ever, should not be .too discouraging for they have learned how to treat early cases of cancer and how to treat conditions that look like cancer so that the former are cured and the can- serous Condition prevented. There- fore the moral connected with this ar- ticle is this: Watch for early symp- tome of cancer and act at once upon the slightest suspicion of having found any. First, in external cancer there is al- ways a warning to be seen with the eye or felt with the finger. These first -signs are moles or warts, little areas covered with a scab, a little lump or nodule beneath the shin or ,deeper,' an unhealed wound. As a rule these things do not lrurt, but that does not make it less dangerous, only a physician can state whether a wart or little lump is cancerous. In connection with cancer of the lin' and tongue there is always first on the lower Hp or tongue some abnormal de- fect. If this warning is heeded and • two the probabilities of a cure are al- most perfect. In this connection rag- ged teeth and unclean mouths are known to frequently produce cancer. Keep your mouth clean and go to the dentist frequently. It has been said that beautiful wo- men rarely have cancer of the skin because they keep their skins clean. Cancer of the uterus kills many wo- men. It would kill fewer if women would learn to visit their physicians immediately upon noticing any femin- ine irregularities. Cancer of the breast is not terribly dangerous if it is treated early. As soon as a little lump is noticed the physician should be made aware of it. If this is done early enough the possibilities of a cure are almost nine out of ten even should the lump prove to be a malig- nant form of cancer. In cancer of the breast every week's delay reduces the chance of recovery. After one receives an injury to a hone It should be x-rayed 11 the swell- ing and discomfort do not disappear in a few weeks. It is most difficult to recognize the signs of internal can- cer but persistent indigestion or a feeling of discomfort or a "new" feel- ing inside should be viewed with sus- picion and the doctor consulted. One of the best ways of protecting your- self against cancer and the fear of cancer is to visit the family physician once a year for a thorough physical examination, whether one is sick or well. Cheese Port Odd-looking .sleds piled high with balls of Dutch cheese ready for shipment at Alkmaar, Holland, to all Barts ,of world. Twenty million pounds of cheese are sold each year at Ailkmaar, one of most famous markets for cheese in world. t to his native city. The first in- strument of this type was the Pan's pipes of the ancient Greeks, wealth consisted of a set of pipes of different length bound together and made to sound by the player's breath. Aboot two centuries B.C. a device was in- vented for forcing air into the pipes by water power, and keys were added to open and close the pipes. the hy- draulic organ was cannon among the Greeks and Romaa". Centuries later. the bellows came into use, instead of water power, to furnish air, An organ built in the tenth century for Win- chester Cathedral in England had a bellows so powerful that 70 men were needed to pump it. In the organs of today the power that pumps the bel Icws would be equal to 50 ae even 100 horsepower. Yet so improved is the mechanism of the keyboard that the uch of a finger is all that is re- quired to open the pipe -valves. The greatest changes are due to the use of electricity. So much of the machin- ery is now operated by electricity that the inside of the organ :ooks like a telephone exchange. -The American Weekly. Flightless Planes To Usurp Small Golf Chicago—In the States, amusement Park owners, now that miniature golf is launched, are now planning to fea- ture flightless airplanes. When summer' comes again the would-be aviator niay be able to taste the thrills of taking the stick and put- ting himself through a few barrel rolls and nose dives, all without leaving the ground. One of the models looks for all the world exactly like a real airplane, with propeller, wings, rudder, landing gear, and evidently the only thing that keeps it from soaring into the sky is the pneumatic pedestal on which it is supported, "But get into the cockpit,' an at- tendant urges. "Flip a quarter into the coin release box. Get the rush of air from the whirling propeller, elec- trically driven. Grasp the stick, In- stantly the plane zooms, banks, turns or -dives, all as you handle the stick." Chief among them, however, is the Flight Tutor, which looks less like an airplane, but acts more like one, as it has more freedom of movement, ;actua- ly allowing a barrel roll. According to its makers, the Flight Tutor has been tested and adopted by the United States Army Air Corps as standard equipment for student pilots; and has been installed at government training fields and at Curtiss airports. Bands of invisible spirits touch the strings: of that mysterious instrument, the soul, and play the prelude of our fate.=Henry W. Longfellow. - fillnard's Linimentfor all Pain. Arctic. Andrew Brown, the tee levet and figure man of the meth emal this brown -eyed, browu•,I•!nue:i L,ri- mo girt from ::n enlr)• of 15'3' d sea in the 1i.st 0:0115' coMm t et ae!d inside the Aretin Circ From Bakke' Latta tette :reeling post on Cite-tr' _9 ! d lu''i j.._. a 1 1 urs - and mils Earth 'u "tried en w,:,:-il? --,, word of Eiiou"ia:i'.- tris:chili aim_ .'iny Star," her (write means ana ,i c ell•, for the Gist time in 0 -1 1 - a r&n survey r.+r priza-wtnni.;; l t'ttr:r, a. A mirror wits her 0105 '! .e ,r,",t -1:e had ever owned, You have probably t. alar 1 it e tills certain ]rills that all tobr,::- :n ,not wear meek,. TAXIDERMIST AND FURRIER SUPPLIES OLIVER SPANNER & CO., LTD., Dept, S 26 Elm se., Toronto, Our let Catalogue yr wti -al eyae. 1'tr it re =ill 0l1 v 1: t 7r.ieet •;ow read:, for In Winter Outdone wink ut' rise to sprains and from r Keep a bottle of Minara s r yea, 10 rub on the affected parts. READ OF A CASE LIKE NE t OW Decided to take Lydia Eo Pinkham's Vegetable Compound Moncton, New Brunswick—"Before my last baby was born I was very weak, ' nervous and die-: couragged 'raw an advertiseniket, bathe paper about a woman who had been like me so I bought a bottle of Lydia E. Pink - haul's Vegetable Compound, d teok three bottles and. it carried me safe- ly threngh that critical time. 1 have three children to care for and I rcel well and strong. I have told two other women about your medicine." 1VIns Gus: Anernam a 82.Albert b IVIono $ 'cis. et Now rtlnswvr n,