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Zurich Herald, 1946-10-10, Page 3GI By of Gwendoline P. Clarke J Last week, you remember, I ad- mitted how mad 1 got at the high price of so many things we have to buy. Now I suppose that feeling will be pretty general became of the big jump in the price of milk. It is a big jump and will undoubt- edly hit many families like a hard blow. But then it was bound to come. As long as the government continued the milk subsidy the price paid to farmers was all right, but removal of the subsidy brought the price of milk to a below cost basis, so something just had to be done. But don't let anyone get the Idea that farmers are getting six- teen cents a quart for their milk or anything like if. If we were we would be rolling in wealth. No, be- tween the price paid to the farmer and the price paid by the consumer there is a wide spread which is us- ed np in cost of distribution and so on, including the profits paid to the shareholders of big dairies. .However it is all too complicated for this column. The only thing I can suggest is for those who have the facilities to try keeping a cow in their backyard. But then the $100 or $150 you would have to pay for a cow would buy milk for a good many months even at six- teen cents a quart! And of course the cow m'ght blow up and die. Cows have a way of doing that. They can get indigestion quicker than anything I ever knew. After all one stomach is hard enough to keep in order at times — so just think of the poor cow with three! Well, here we are back to stand- ard time again. For over a week I have been thinking how nice it was going to be 10 have that extra hour in bed for just one Sunday morning. But habit was too strong. We all woke up—and got up — only a little later than usual. The cows of course recognized no other time than that governed by the ris- ing sun and were waiting at the barn as usual; the chickens were clambering at the chicken pen doors to get out in the open; Mit- chie was mewing plaintively at the kitchen window and so the day be- gan. Now it is four o'clock and all the livestock are looking for their supper. 1n an hour oe two it will be dark and after dark we won't know the difference between fast time and standard. And thus will end another day. Surely the weatherman must hive been in league with the pow- ers that were responsible for Day- light Saving Time. At any rate the end of summer weather coincided with the termination of summer- time. Yesterday the sun was ter- rific—eighty degrees in the shade. Today it is cold, wet and windy. We knew all about the heat yes- terday because that was the day of our local fair. I was so sorry for the livestock, particularly the race horses. The cattle didn't seem to mind it so much except for one poor Bossie who decided to give birth to a calf right on the fair grounds. One naturally wonders why her owner was showing her at such a time, Taking quite a chance one would think. * * * As we struggled through the crowds in the amain hall Partner and 1 wondered whether exhibits would ever stake a come -back. Nowadays there is so little baking, not very much fruit or dressed poultry and a limited display of fancywork. As far as the latter is concerned that is no more than can be expected since war work for several years has taken the place of fancywork and women have not yet got back to their stride. There was a display of antiques which was very interesting with two ladies dressed as Grandma us- ed to dress in the heyday of her youth, There was also a beautiful hand - embroidered Christening robe. We wondered how such fine embroidery was ever done in the days of candles and coaloil lamps. I also wondered what brand of soap chips were used to keep the gown so snowy white! As usual there were wonderful exhibits by the various branches of the Women's Institute. Where , would the Fairs be without the Women's Institute to back them up? I wonder There was a grand display of aluminum kitchen ware. And that reminds me: A couple who were married quite recently received Borne lovely wedding presents and among thein were SIX pressure cookers! rr Radar Indispensable The United States Navy said that a weather reconnaisance cruise in Arctic waters has demonstrated the indispensability of radar to Arctic mariner; ui doe!:in;; irr bergs. The navy said it was not uuconm1oil for as many as 30 "tar- gets" to show up on the radar screen. RADIOACTIVE ANIMALS TO PROVIDE VITAL MEDICAL DATA Vital information on diagnosis and early treatment of radiation sickness is expected to be obtained from a cargo of 2500 goats, pigs and rats, recently landed from the USS Burleson at Washington Navy Yard. The animals, survivors of the 5000 used in the Bikini Atoll atom bomb tests, will be studied by scientists at the Naval Medical Research Center, Bethesda, Md., for possible effects of radioactivity on humans. Some of the animals developed an anemic condition after being exposed to the bomb's rays and were given blood transfusions to keep up their blood count, like "Goat No. 23;' pictured above. • Exposure to radioactive rays is thought to produce sterility, but the rat pictured above apparently escaped this fate. She is shown with her two -day-old litter of young ones. c`A 1t 1 Answer to Previous nozzle MARGARH❑ALSEY' 2 11111 10 11 aii �r�jMI U. S. Naval Air Unit 6`VARI A 1eA •iBAREi 2° gligwi El E D aaA"1'x' O leap 1 :. HA,/1" ! RE: - RA; ERS [ORIZONTAL 50 Rectify Depicted is 52 Goes insigne of stealthily oa T PA A A 1 m E S<' s< "- - AEI MARGARET IIALSEY '"/ %f -'T A L E ° F I G S T o o ir,C A P T Scouting 53 Harmony R ;r': 1 D .. 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The unofficial elapsed time was 55 hours and 18 minutes. Australia's Government Returned Australia's Labor government won approval of its wartime record and postwar policy of social secur- ity in the general elections last week and will enter the 18th parlia- ment with probably a slight reduc- tion in strength. Angora goat, victim of radioactivity, is hoisted from the Burleson's hold. POP—In Rare Spirits Glass Produced Without Saida Ash Necessity Is Indeed Mother of Invention, Comments the Financial Post Writing of his early manhood as a Mississippi river pilot, Mark Twain relates his experience with the closed shop. River boat pilots formed a union, which became so strong and well disciplined that pilot fees reached fabulous heights. The union be- came the real dictator of river traffic. Finally the union seemed to have all its battles won, to have the • situation completely in hand. A cer- tain and rich livelihood with uto- pian working conditions seemed fi- nally inally assured for all members. Then the blow fell. Railroads lured away passenger traffic. To beat excessive pilot costs and to meet growing competition, single tugs towing a dozen great barges were introduced and, says Mark Twain "behold, in the twinkling of ' an eye, as it were, the (pilots') as- sociation and the noble science of piloting were things of the dead and pathetic past." There is an obvious link be- tween that record of the past and last week's report that a Cana- dian firm bas hit upon a way to produce window glass without soda ash. Strikes have choked off the soda ash supply completely. Necessity is indeed the mother of invention, hence the new process. We wonder if people who call strikes and make unrealistic wage and other demands ever think what they may be doing to abolish or to speed the disappearance of their jobs. They remind us of a boxer with a lightning left uppercut. 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