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The Seaforth News, 1949-11-03, Page 2Goin' My 'Way?—This jeep owned by a medical supply firm almost carne to the parting of the ways. The right wheel Wanted to turn right, the left wheel wanted to go left, and the chassis leaned just a little left of center, Before dashing madly off in all directions the driver had the broken tie rod repaired and disappeared down a one-wav street. spi ti11t)MTC ;l iC Ilt the immortal words of Captain Gubbins, let a plain statement suf- fice. For various reasons it is neces- sary for- this column to be written some clays in advance. Furthermore, while the conductor of same is not a resident of Toronto, that fair city might be roughly known as his spiritual home. (And if the printer spells that "spirituous" there'll be trouble.) * * * To get on with our tale of woe, this particular column was started immed ately after the following un- toward happenings in the realm of sport; * * * l l) The Toronto Maple Leafs Baseball Oub had been knocked out of the International League playoff series' by—of all people—the Montreal Royals. * * * (2) The Toronto Argonaut Foot- ball Club had taken, not just a beat- ing but a real shellacking, at the hands—and feet --of the hated Ot- tawa Rough Riders. 'B • * * (3) The Toronto Balmy Beach Football Club had raised a vast lack of enthusiasm in the bosoms of their most ardent supporters by failing 10 score even once while the Wind- sor Rockets were tallying a jolly 35 points. 5 k (4) The best thing of the season —"just like oil in the can„ or money front hone"—was a filly named ""Flying Alice," favorite in the Grey Stakes at dear old Wood- bine Park, known to all horse -lovers as the place where they really run to form. Breezing homeward well in front the young lady suddenly got the idea that her name was "Swimming Alice," headed for Lake Ontario. and pulled up a lovely last. * * * So it is sincerely hoped that the customers will understand why, to- day, this column is of necessity brief and tinged with glooni. Some genius once said that one picture is worth a thousand words — so here's the picture. The one thing wrong is that the artist got the name on that tomb- stone spelled wrong. It should be "DOUGH" not "DOE." EAT UP One who has lived with a garden all .summer conies now to the time when a sense of inunedracy begins to close in. Days shorten. Growth slackens, The garden is still full and overflowing with plenty, but one knot's that it may be the last frill crop. The season grows late. At planting time the season stretched ahead almost Without limit. The first fru'ts were precious, garner from the fertile soil. Mid- summer brought bounty. 'Then so much Paine at once that there was a surfeit, But now, with an end in sight when the frost shall come creeping up the valleys. the garden is precious aga'.t). Corn is at its peak, but will site Iate corn have time to mature its ears? Early lettuce bolted in the heat; will the late lettuce, now be- ginning to head, snake its way to the salad bowl? R'lI the scattered blossoms on the lianas snake pods, or is this present crop to be the Last? And what of the string beans slid the summer squash? \Vhat of the cauliflower—will it, or the frost, win out? One picks the pods and the ears, pulls the carrots and appraises the beets. One watches the winter squash, and looks for signs of blight on the tomato plants, wondering which of the green tomatoes will ripen. And the flavor, once the gar den conies to the table, is almost as good as it was when the first steal( peas were eaten. The season that was going to last forever be- gins to fele; [lays lie ahead when there will be neither pod nor ponce in the garden but only dry stalks and frosty ground. Eat up! The.end is in s,ght, with early fall upon us. HIS ERROR A- bombastic man met Ms hen- pecked friend, whose face suggested a resent accident. "flow did that happen" Itis friend asked. "My wife . "Your wife? Ah, evidently you have not acquired the secret of maried bliss. I never have a row with my wife, I have no secrets from her," "Neither have I!" the other sighed. "That's the trouble, I only thought I hall" ONCE BITTEN A lawyer was walking along- the street when he met a friend to whom he had recently given some simple legal advice and to whom he had sent his usual sizeable hill, "Nice day, isn't it?" remarked the friend, and- then added hastily( "But I'm not asking you; I'm tell- ing you." I air' — By Harold Arnett 77E Rt'v.X FOR 3711Yre4 ERE'S A SIMPLE RACK MADE OF CARDBOARD, WHICH WILL ANSWER THE PROBLEM OF WRINKLED TIES IN SUITCASES. THE NUMBER OF SLOTS YOU CUT •IN THE STIFF CARDBOARD WILL, OF COURSE DEPEND ON THE NUMBER OF TIES YOU WISH TO CARRY. YOU CAN MAKE THE RACK OUT \ OF PLASTIC OR PLYWOOD IF YOU WANT SOMETHING MORE PERMANENT; IF YOU WANT TO STEAM 1 THE WALLPAPER OFF A i WALL WITHOUT RENTING A STEAMER TO DO 50, i JUST USE A HOUSEHOLD i4L IRON. 'DAMPEN A CLOTH AND FOLD IT INTO A PAD, THEN HOW THE IRON AGAINST THE PAD '7'O STEAM THE PAPER LOOSE, KEEP DAMPENING THE PAA ISIMAgotawcaralf They Believe The Earth Is Flat Four -and -one-half centuries ego three tiny ships under the command of Ohrlstopher Columbus set sail from Spain to. prove that the world le 'round. A few months ago two Ameriean`planes flew over -a care- fully charted route of 3,000miles to prove that Columbus ,was wrong. The airborne expedition did not come back with some fantastic statement that instead of being.. round the earth is as flat as' a pan- cake. Yet it did provide mathe- matical proof that it' is nob round in bite sense that we assume a tennis ball to be round. Instead, they declared, the earth is "a very rough sphere, Sflattened at both ends;" They added that due to the odd and irregular surface of the earth, no instrtim,ent yet de- vised can measure accurately the distance between cities and coun tries. But there are thousands of in. tclligent - peoplewlto still believe that the world is flat, and that it bears no resemblance to a sphere 0' a ball. An American, Wilbur Glenn Voliva, has even offered Live thous and dollars to anyone who can prove without doubt that the world is 0 sphere, tinning in space, turn- ing on its own axis, revolving round the sun and moving with the sun through a universe. Nor has anyone absolutely dig• proved the belief that the sun, in stead of being a comparatively vast ball of fire more than ninety mil• lion miles away, is really an in- significant affair, perhaps only 27 to 30 miles in diameter and about three thousand miles above the earth, The three commonest proofs that the earth is a sphere are these. First, the disappearance of a ship as it sails over the horizon, the hull vanishing first and the roasts last Second, the curving shape of the earth's shadow on the noon during tut eclipse, Third, the changing aspects of the heavens in different latitudes, some stars disappearing and others apeparing. "'There is not an atom of truth in any of them," retorts Voliva, "And yet you will find that every geog- raphy book rsepcats then( like a pa rrot." The flat earth theorists maintain that the disappearance of a ship over the horizon hull first is an optical illusion of perspective, no dilfercnt from the apparent merg- ing of railway tracks in the distance. A man at the foot of a tree a couple of miles across a plain may be in- visible. while the tree itself stands - up against the sky and is visible for mile*. Earth curvature of eight itches to the mile is not sufficient to explain the invisibility of the n,: n. As for the second point, they say th-re is no proof that the curving s;,ad,rty 01 an eclipse is the shadow 0. the earth, They maintain that there have been several eclipses within historical times in which both sun and (noon were visible at the same time, so that the eclipse could not have been due to the earth's shadow. In answer to the third point, they say the stars are set in a hemispher- ical dome so low and close to the et,rth that not all stars can be visible from any one point. Unless a future space traveller some day anchors his rocket -ship a few thousand miles out in space and makes a film of a spherical world turning on its axis, that five thous- and dollar prize hasn't much chance of being collected, He Poisoned Them Wholesale Thomas Neill Cream was almost ideally equipped for the enterprise of murder. He was a qualified medi- cal man and he was mentally un- stable, his instability manifesting itself in the taking of drugs and a distinctly sadistic tendency in mat- ters of sex. He was tried for the murder of four women, but it is probable that he had murdered many others; for he confined his attentions entirely to women of loose morals, whose furtive mode of life lends itself peculiarly totheir discreet elimina- tion. The Crown based their case on the murder of one Matilda Clover, and the circumstances which were elicited during the trial were as follows: Cream had just landed in England from Canada, being about forty years of age at the time; and while looking'for lodgings he met two women, with one of whom he stayed the night. A few days later one of these women received a let- ter from Cream saying that he would come and see her about five o'clock. He told her not to destroy the letter, but to give it to him when she saw him, This Woman and her friend sat in the window of the former lady's house in a drab street in Lambeth; and being on the look -out for their patron they were not unnaturally interested to see him following an- other lady of their calling, who was plainly not averse to his attentions. This rival was Matilda Clover. They left the house and followed, saw the couple enter Miss Clover's house stud, having waited half an hour with no result, went home About ten days later Miss Clover brought a t9tian home to her house late at night. They were admitted blr the servant, who was able to give a speaking likeness of Cream CLASSIFIED ADVERTISING. AGENTS WANTED OILS, GREASES, TIRES Ineecnoldes, Electric Fence- Controller0, Hones and Barn Paint. Roof. Coatings, oto. Denlere are wanted. - Write Waron Grasse , 6 Oil Limited. Toronto. DYEING AND (MAIMING. 1 A E YOU anything needs dyeing or Clean' Ing? Write' to tie Inc information. W! are glad to answer r0hr queatiooe. Department $, Parker's Dye Works Limited. 181 Yong. Street, Tornnto, Ontario Fon 'SALE... 12,000 PULLETS - 5000, 12 Weeks $1,20 each; 7000, 8 Weeks .500 delivered to Ontario for ardent of 100 or more, New Hamp, Wyandotte -New Ramp, 'Barred- Rock -New' Ramp are available of Fleher Bros, Ayton strain. . Phone 027W2 Dundas or write Ray Connell, R,11, 2 Dundee. ALUMINUM ROOFING & SIDING Oroou-tlrunuea Uoreugateb and ribbed nylon. 6 to 10 rt lengths Immediate delivery from emelt Write for samples and 001171atee Steel DlarrIbutors Limited.. 600 Cherry. St Tnr0n10 OATPI tubs, rollers, washbasins, minis, Pur' nacos. boners. water pressure systems mull, also Installed' Catvrnleed pipe, i 1001` 165 ft„ 41 Inch .180 ft, Article. sent ove•ytvllore, (Vette for prices Philia Verhoydeo, Aylmer, Jnt. 6IAMST'ERS: wonder onlu,als from Syria. Pets or labs PAW 86. Send money order. PnOle, 68 Atom St Thomas, Ontario, HAY PRESSES F.MUUS Moody "Steel Queen' Presses avail - aide for prompt delivery. mounted on rub. her urea, also butnto diggers, 'Write for free circulars MATTHEW MOODY 0 -SONS, Com. only, Torr donne, Quebec (Established 18411 �A1CLETRAC Diesel Crawle Used 80 heus on lfarm, Cheap for cash.5a1wheel tractor 1 Earl Daley, Selk irk .Ontaie 52000.. 00 ACRES 0 room house, largo burn,. raspberry pnl'h good garden land. Trenton nitre miles. 54000, 60 ACRES, 0 room 'house, good burn, hen houses, Hydro throughout. Franitford 6 miles. Nell Nelson. Real Sietnte Broker, Wooler, Phone 11. Arthur Scott (Salesman) 80 Spring Street, Trenton,. Phone 11$4)5. GERMAN ehetlherdo: Males and females, 4 months, by "Champlon Steel of Rtu•rimorer' ex 'Visa of Sondurea" by"Champion Noy of Ruthland" ex "Champion Tole. of Sandorea." Prlcee from $80, Mrs. C. P. IS, French:, The Two-Rnr Ranch, Routledge, Manitoba. 100 ACRES hard wood timber, evaporator. 660 Palls and equipment. Track type Tractor. Power Saw, Four-wheel drive truck, 6 -ton equipped for loggIng. APPIy box 68, Port Perry, Ont. FORD and Ferguson Tractor Owners—when you require a loader you want the beet. Horn hydraulic loaders and attachments mode by the world's largest ptanufneturer of loaders offer you the latest improvements. Write un far literature. H L. Turner Co., Ltd., Blen- heim, Ontario, PIRG SALE 00 ACRES LAND, 16 acme cleared, rest' standing timber,, Inwing, creek, 5touso and Inrso henhouse, N0, 7A Highway. App1Y. Frank Henry, ILE, 1, Oavan, DON'T MISS THESE OPI'oIGTDNPPrEie $16,000, 01100111111' ST01000,, cooled mean.,. foreign fruits, lee cream, soft drinks, eta. Dwelling 0. rooms and bath, hot and coal water. Turnover npproxlmatoly $20,000 yearly, All st001s 05d equipment inoluded, Legation In good large town. Elderly ample wishes to $19,000, GENERAL ST0111 ` In village. Very large. store with a room dwelling. Apnroxt- rnately, .136,000 yearly turnover, Groceries, meats, dryeooda,. hardware, eon drinlre, 10, oream, etc. A real bargain, - A, M. Colville broker. Phone -'16171-2, New:earl:et, SHALLOW 1VELL LUII'l'S 800 GALLONS per hour- capacity, comillete, with 00 gallon pressure ta011, presstll•e gauge and mountings.. Either 26 or 00 oxalo nrntor0. Made • in Canada for the past 10 yeore, Reg- ularly Indeed at':$119,50 now for only 020.00. J. F. cetOWLEY (.1315TED: Dund ts; 011 toric, SUFFOL1i RAMS for sale, Good atr0ng breed - ere 'Pelee rensonabie. Ern -tick: Powell, Clinton, Ontario, REGISTERED pure lima 1 a,'It:Mires. seven weeks. Females 510. Write \V110i'h Taylor, 1220 Grolde Cote, nnsemsre, Ouehce. SAM'S GARDEN TRACTOR A NEW MODEL, definitely superior and at very much ralncrti mires. Colne to Searhe76, Stop 23, Kingston Rd., and hays a proper demonstration or send for 0nt0hngu0 before You buy any tractor. Less then 0160 with tools. Budget pnymenla If required. 001LD'10N POWER '1110LS LTD (VEST HILL, ONT. ASBESTOS SHINGLES & SIDING EMT. . .SECONDS' Shingles. Siding and Roof- ing Papers. Send for our price Ilet0 David filo 1 l . 0. n Horne Ave n IV Armstrong.tY Vs H r 19 TRACTORS -2. Mammy. RECONDITIONED 1 Muria "101 $til ern" on rubber: 1 61 H Pacemoker nn steel, 1 10-20 international on rubber: 1 need 10-20 on steel; also 1 alightly tined 0 H.P. Empire Garden 'Praetor with im- plements Priced to 0611. See these at 07 Yonge Street. Richmond 110111 Harold W Morison. Massey -Harris Dealer Telephone 03. PLANTS rail SALE RESERVE now for meal Allmon 510011051 Chinese Elm Hodge -12 Mellen to 20 Inches high when ohfnned—will grow 2 feet the and year -26 planta for 02.10—euMelenl for 26 feet. Giant Exhibition Flowering Pneontee In colours rad. whiteor pink — 3 for 01 58 Brookdnle-lrhngewny Nurseries. Bnwmonvlllo Ontarle HOMESPUN YARN Mads of selected long virgin wool—very strong, extra long wearing, suitable for socke, mveatere and other woollen garments, 2-3-4. P19, white, grey, 2-8 ply royal blue, paddy green, servlet. maroon, yellow. brown, heather, binclt, fawn, nil suitable. for Slwash sweaters. 01.03 Ib. —10 lbs. or over 01,80 lb, de1'd, Northland inventor pattern. 50n each, Adults—deer, bear, Indian deelgn. Child's --deer, bear, deg and squirrel, dancer. Mary Maxim. Silton. ;fent- FOR SALE _ FOR SALE, garnso and oh0pphlg mi11: feed mixing business, (110001 p0wer mut good high- waY, goo± tlistriot, Apply' ,Box; GB,' Port Petry, HARNESS: Boy direct Irons factory and gave. We eon now eine hammed and parte inlinI- dtately, Write forour new ' complete 1840 catalogue. North (Vest Mall Order Company Limited, 170 McDermot Ave.. leek, wlnn 1pet, Manitoba. HELP ' WANTED RI0G1STEIiED NURSES. and Certified- Nurses' 'Assistantsrequired for Indy 611nto Floe Pital. Chn glen u.- 0011010 40010 sr mein tendent1 1'UifiBdilila/l'II NURSES ONE STAFF NU11SE wattled immediatelyon the Oxford County. t: Ingersoll ,0001017 Unit. Main ()Mee, Court 510000,-W'nodetoclr,. Working oonaitlet). good, For further Infmimulnn amity Margaret Orleve Nursing SunIvisor, Court House, Woodstock, Ontario, medical Director Or..O. C. Powers. - TORONTO (an111yneeds Sled a 'c Help. Nice 'homo, Ro60±01, district, Pour Children -2 of -school -age, Gaoi weg0a. Mrs. Cri111o, 210 Gleli, pond, Toronto,. 1111111'35 CIi013. RI:SUi.T9 i. vriy suffers room- Rhea- 1,1110' Paine of Nnur.il it should. try. D1xon'e Remedy 01unr0's Dime 'Pere 026 Elgin Ottawa Poripnid $1.00' - 1101' 1.11'1 '1'311E C,63 k Ln Tonle 1'ttbl060 -102 low vitahty, 1111.70116 and nenornl , debility 60e and 31,00 at artistlets. 'env ITI EverY suffers' 01 Rheum:ale Pains or Neuritle should Iry Dixon's- Remedy: Munro's Drug afore 330 Main 1111„wn Prim Paid $-1.00• PA 101215 g'1uT14!GUSTO NOt A UGH s i'mmlj,iny Patent Sn11M1 re lrsl,hllsh n 1800 060 Hay Street, I'm nnl H II I..I ,1' innoli,: 11 in rnilUetlL nl'I liItTlta11':71' 110, nno 111161EN BE A., HAIRDRESSER J0110 t1ANADA F I.IOAI"INO '17.11101 Grral" ,innrnunit) . L,'ore. Hnl Melamine Pies ant dignified pro remain 000a wages tboueandO • eueeeosful. Mone trailn tea, 4 mewl re )erente,t ,90100, Moot re ted ma* rogue free writ, er Call NAnvpl. HA In On PISSING S('H0I(11,5 16) slow St w eara0lo Branches- 44 ulna St Hamilton & 72 Rider, Street Ottawa EARN MONEY AT110$11—Snare or full-time money -making. Learn 10 make candy at Inns; earn while learning. Free equipment furnished. Correspondence -course. National Institute of Confectionery Reg'd„ Delnrtmler P.O.. Box 102, Montreal, Que, WANTED GENERAL or retail utore wanted, town or village, with modern living qu01'ter0 FuD roartieulars. 1w. E. Brown, 20 Columbine Ave., Toronto. ISSUE 39 — 1949 New and Useful Too AVOID SHORT CIRCUITS "Battery Circuit Breaker" pro- tects your car against short circuits. Unit is attached between the bat- tery and ground to break the cur- rent, thus preventing short circuit in wiring system. Is' controlled by push and pull switch from instru- ment panel. Easy to install, will not harm motor, battery or wiring sys- tem, maker states. Said to give more wear from battery which ordinarily has battery seepage through old wiring.. Eliminates embarrassment when horn button gets shortened. * * Y AIR CONDITIONER Portable air conditioner which works on evaporation principle has two faits with water in bottom of unit. Regular fan drives perforatted fan; chain on perforated blade which revolves in ,rater, picking up par- ticles of water. Fan blows through these particles causing evaporation, which in turn brings about a cooling effect, CHERRY PITTER A light -weight plastic mechani- cal cherry pitter for the home is designed to take, cherry pitting out of the heavy -handling equipment class. its precision parts include a feeding trough and a smooth cylin- der trimmed with round sockets to catch the cherries and discharge the pits as fast as the crank is turned — at rate of one quart of cherries a minute, maker claims. Said to be easy to wash, light %weight to handle, may be clamped to counter or table, PLASTIC BINDING Colorful plastic binding being manufacturetd by Toronto firm can be slipped off for withdrawal or insertion of pages as necessary. Designed for use as a binder for business lettters, catalogues, school notes, price lists and many other items, FOOLISH QUESTION A high-school graduate was filing out an application for employment. The personnel director, noticing that the young fellow seemed puzzled, went over to help him, The first entry that caught his eye was the answer to the • question "Salary desired?" Beside it the youth had written this answer: „Yes." • "You have a splendiff job rr„ Cear, if you can get die 1 w tlr; Cute Cutter—A car seat suspended from a homemade support gives little Christine Paul a chance to make daddy's snowing task lighter. Walter Paul finds the babe's company pleasant, and Christine, age one year, thinks cutting the grass is more fun than a merry-go-round, • And Gnashing Of Teeth—Say your favorite quiz program is interrupted with a special bulletin: "And now we bring you as a public service the gnashing o5 a baby alligator's teeth." The chances are the station is testing a new type condenser microphone, a model of which is seen on the piano al right, along: ids a conventional mike. The nein mike has a range 20..ti, 15,000 vibrations per second, far greater than types. now in llo,e. Orchestra' leader Racy Hackett, above, checks for him- self the mike's ability to pick up an alligator's tooth -gnashing.