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The Huron Expositor, 1933-07-07, Page 6ns' MON FROM PRISONERS (Condensed tfronn "tForcel. Mbar int1 a United +Slbatfes: ° by Walter Wilson in Reader's Digest) itie June" , 1932, Arthur Maillefert, a yeung New Jersey boy at the San-. 1bea n Prison Camp in 'Florida, was' stripped naked and encased in a 45 - Telenet barrel with only his head and legs .protruding. Leather straps and heavy cleats of wood loeleed him in His :portable prison. Driven to des- peration by the stings of myriad mos- quitoes from neighboring swamps, he gnawed his way out of the barrel and escaped. Bloodhounds soon picked op his trail and he was recaptured, brought° back and beaten unmerci- fully with a rubber hose in the hands of a 200 -pound guard. Finally de- sisting from sheer exhaustion, the guard entotmlbed the youth in a `sweat box,' fastening a heavy ehain about Ibis neck. The `sweat box.' one of the worst of all prison tortures, is a coffin -like cell just large enough to euepend a man upright. It is made Of wood or tin, and a dollar sized hole lets in the cnly atr. Under the scorching tropic sun it becomes an inferno. In the m'ornring they took that 19-year-old••boy's dead body from its ingenious gallows. The hideous' torture had been more than . hunian flesh could endure. •WThfe such inhuman murders, con- stantly occurring .. on the Southern chain gangs, have made this system notoriously .ther most brutal type of forced labor in the United States, few people realize that throughout the country, several hundred thousand prisoners (not to mention boys and :girls in reformatories) are likewise being cruelly exploited for profit—for the profit of private business men, of the state, and indirectly of politic- ians. • Thi commodities these prisoners make are being sold in the general market. broth at home and abroad, furnishing cut-throat competition with "free" labor in a time of ece- nomic .crisis when 16,000,009 `free" workers are jobless. The conditions under which the goods are produced are horrible: we find women hung up 'on pegs like hams of meat; men con- fined in the stocks, in dungeon:, in disease -infested holes on 'bread and water; men whipped, e&.ot Or kicked to death. These tortures are admin- '-istered for not doing enough work. Many of • the prisoners'thus victimi.- ed and murdered are guilty of "crinnlets" of ' hunger and uneitnploy- ment; others are victims of the third degree] and the frame-up; still others are imprisotred for labor -activities. Many children are doing bong sent- ences at hard lobar in state institu- tions. Julian Leavitt, a well known student of the prison labor problem, some years ago reported that in the Greendale House of Reform in Ken- tucky, '200 children under 15 were leased out at`3 cents an hour to the Kentucky Furniture 'Co. A Tennes- see legislative investigating commit- tee in 1931 found that children from boys' and girls' reformatories were contracted out to private establish- ments. Salatit' & Salan't Mfg. Co., shirt makers of New York, *ere using most of the prisoners in the State Agricultural and Training School for Boys at Nashville. Cotton raised on the Kilby prison farym, Alabama, is ginned, woven and made into shirts by' prisoners for the Reliance Mfg. Co, of Chicago. The NNationat Federation of Women's Clubs estimated in 1926 that 41 per cent. of all work shirts and 35 per cent. of all work pants were convict made. A single prison contracting firm in 1923 produced in its se'oente•en prisun factories about 16.000,000 shirts. According to one of the fore; most authorities on the subject, A. F. t Allison. of the International Associa- tion of Garrn•ent Manufacturers, pris- on competition in 'the work clothing line has ,grown steadily since 1923.- Commodities prodthced in' federal and state institutions in 1930 -had an estimated ,market value of '$100,000,- 000. But there are also city and coun- ty jails. According to Dr. Hastings • H. Hart. prison authority. 1,600,000 prisoners were committed to these institutions from January to June. 1030. Jobs done by such prisoners • include not only .road and", bridge I wort; . but 'ranu€r:cturin•g, • especially of furniture and clothing. In Massa- chusetts, for instance, eight of the local jails and houses of :correction work their convicts in chair, shoe and shirt making. Although there has never been any estimate of the total value of work done and goods pro- duced by inmates of these city and county institutions, it must amount to tens of millions of dollars. liMiany ingenious devices have been .developed for getting rid of this en- ormous volume of prison made goods. It is a matter of record that prisons have supplied large mail-or- der houses, ehain stores and depart - Ment stores with great volumes of prisonrmade shoes, stoves:, brooirnis, furniture, house dresses, overalls and aprons which have been sold under false labels. In 1927, the Federal Trade 'Commission was• forced to in- vestigate 'practices of,this sort. One case reported was tht of the Com- monwealth Mfg. Co of Chicago. This company's only facilities for "manu- facturing" were a 15 ? 20 foot of- fice and a single desk: Yet itad- vertised far and wide the prison - made shoes, clothing and binder twine that it claimed to have manu- factured. 'The most cunning of all tricks, however. is that of using patriotic labels, such as "George Washington Stove" and "Liberty Stove," both of which are 'made in the Nashville peni- tentiary. Similarly, convict -made brands of work clothes are called the Uncle Sam," the "American Eagle," the "Big Yank," the "Army," etc. j Convict made goods are produced Funder several different systems, Un- der the "contract" systems, a private frrrrr contracts for the use of a cer- tain number of. convicts. The con- tractor then sets up machinery in the prison, provides raw ,material and ' setts his slaves to manufacturing ,son -e commn!odity. Julian Leavitt :some years ago described a contract in the New Haven County Jail: "For the sum of 8 cents a day the New England Chair Co. has been getting the labor of an able-bodied man to- , gether with food, clothing and shel- 1 ter .for the man; together with a fac- The_ BEST TIRE to Buy is The GUTTA PERCHA TIRE �ONCER:SAFER: CQNSTRUCTION GUM CUSHIONS An Extra Value GrrrA PERCHA Tires have Cushions of pure gum rubber moulded in be- tween the plies of cord fabric, making a "bearing" that reduces friction and weat at tbese.points as effectively as ball bearings da in machinery. - 'Gt'rra PERCHA Tire Treads are carefully designed'to give the maximum grip of the road surface, thus giving extra traction and braking power. GUTTA PERCTIA Tires are re- inforced at the side walls and have Gum Crnshions at these points to give extra • pro- tection and strength. r .14 GOLDEN JUBILEE 50 years ago, in 1893, this Company commenced the manufacture of rubber goods in Toronto. 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Un - ter it a co;!yir'i'ct is hired out entirely in the ctuetody of the contractor, who has comlplette- authority to guard, feed, discipline and exploit him as he sees fith Conditions under this sys- tenll 'have been more horrible' than under any other penal system in the 'mlodern world. In spite of the fact that the lease is illegal in seiveral !states' it is still used to some extent and is legal for certain types of con- victs in North Carolina, South Caro- lina, Arkansas, Louisiana., Florida, and Kentucky. Florida legislated a- gainst the lease system!—dor almost all of its prisoners—in 1923, follow- ing the whipping to death of a young, boy on a chain gang. • Alabama abolished the lease in 1928, following the death of a convict who was de- liberately scalded to death in a lawn dry vat --because he could not per- form the amount of work required! From 75 per cent. to 90 per cent. of all prison punishments are given for not ,dicing enough work. Under the notoriotiis task system each' pris- oner must do a fixedamount of work, usiially determined by skilled pace setters—regardless of prior experi- ence at the work or physical fitness, The warden of Nashville prison ad- mitted to the investigating commit- tee in 1931 that he frequently order- ed 'nae, given as high as 30 to 40 blows with a heavy strap "for not pulling task. After an extensive ivrison-ln9bor survey in 1926, Kat(.] Richard's O'Hare reported: "If the wonien convicts failed to crake task, and ell of them did fail more or less, they' were punished with fiendish cruelty beaten, starved, strung up by the wrists with handcuffs." A part of the Tennessee investigating com- mittee's report in 1931 declared: "In the Nashville . penitentiary women are required to work in a hosiery mill. and certain tasks are assigned to them. We found women handcuffed and hung up on pugs. The inmates state that this was done for failure to perform task." ' At the Wichita. Kansas, Prison. Camp, failure to performforced la- bor because of sickness, weakness or ary other cause is punished by bread and water rations and a 50 per cent. reduction of the credit 'given for working out fines. One prisoner who had been kept on bread and water for 35 days eves recent),,- taken into th'e potato field to work. Too weak to hoe; he started for the shade. A guard attacked .him with a blackjack and scalped a long piece of skin from, his head: And it is not only adult pris- oners who are subject to such abus- es. Governor Charles . W. Tobey of New Hampshire in .July, 1930, charg- ed that young girls working in the State Industrial School at MancheS- ter were given.'the "whipping cure" of over 100 lashes apiece.• on their naked 'bodies.' Some of the girls were also confined in hoes covered • with .chicken Wire. • . One would surppose that, if the idea r.•f r•ehalelitution entered at all into the country's prison program. pris- cr'er.: would •get some reward. pos- ii^.ly wages, for their hard work. But 10 states pad• nothing at all; a f,w• give a small hones for doing more than the allotted 'task. In other »tater a small wage is paid, which in 65 per cent. of the, cases is below 25 mite a day and is frequently less than 5 colt= a day. In her study, e CT's 11e in 'Welfare o,r Prison Fant, Kentucky. Ruth,..$, ••Blopdga6d showed that the most the family of a pris- oner might expect to receive from a prisoner regularly em ploeed during the entire year was $2:340. and out of 82 'familk studied, only seven re- ceived that much. On this point the \t"ickersha'r Commission rents ted: • Existing wage payments have hen made still more nettligihl?- 'by a, system of fini•n.g prisoners for violation of prison rules. These are cases on recnrd in the State of New York in which prisoners who earned ].r.�c a day were fined. 35 ati a time. ,But prisoners receive other "re- wards." For doing their work well, the most efiicient workmen are de- nied their paroles when due! The speedy workers are valuable both as producers and pace setters, and the Contractors see to it that the parole anlrlicatioms of these men are reject- ed, even when the prisoner is tligible for parole. Thus, as Howard B. Gill, superin- ten•d•ent of the State Prison. Colony in Norfolk,, 'Massachusetts, recently adrr,'itted: ''During 150 years prison administrators in America have beep more concerned with developing a profita'hle system than in directing it toward the refornvation of the indi- vidual." The "vocational" training given prisoners is often worthless. Garment 'making, for instance, is the largest prison industry. Tine types of garments made in prison are prac- tically all made on the outsi•die by wo- nven. So a' man many make shirts in prison for 20 years and yet not learn a thing that will help him. earn a living when' he gets out. But if one of the most important factors determining penal methods all over the United States is the de- sirre to onn.ake profit out of convicts, this profit motive reaches its most horrible climax . in the Soethern chain gang—a super -exploitation on labor from which states and private contractors profit richly. The state of Georgia alone_ made a profit of $3,270,000 on the operation of chain gange in four 'years. 'Hli:sttorically speaking the chain gang has been larrge'lyan intistrument with which to terrorize- and exploit Negroes. During the past few years, however, 'the number of white .pris- onersi on, chaing angs has grown con- sirterably. This miay be attributed' largely to the economic crisis, re- sulting in impoverishment of white as well as Negro "workers. and fano- erg, and an increase in petty prop- erty lame violations. Men toil on• tlhese gange from 10 to 16 hours a d'ay, according to season, crushing .reek, digging ditches, building levees', 'and roads. 'Brntial guards' with whips and guns watch to see that the .con- triots work continuously. '(s'ou'sing condMOM are the worst imaginable, One forte.' of house is t1 cage -like call, mounted on wheels so 'that it can the Moved as the candp follows the jobs. It is about 13 feet long, 8 feet high and. I feet wide, and looks more like a cage for fero- cious animals than anything else in the world. •Into this. "home" about 20 men dhiring the hot swnnmer nights are packed like sardines. 'A long chain is run thraugih the short chai'n's riveted around the prisoners' legs. Thus every man is fastened to every other .ratan, and can't get out even to go to the toilet --a m!ole in the floor of the cage—witllo'ut waking all the men on the chain. In 'several cases of fire, men have been. burned' to death ,before they could the unlocked from, the long chain! Food for the 'chain gang victims is usually worse than in other types of prisoners. At best it consists of corn bread, grease gravy, beans, black coffee for one meal, occasional- ly salt pork. One Alabama eoun'ty recently •boasted that it was cheaper t6 feed its convicts than its mules— it costs 55c a day for a mule and only 14t/ac for ,a convict! The men •in charge of the gangs are brutal and ignorant. Often white convicts are made .trusties and used to guard other convicts, especially Negroes. Newcomers are encourag- ed to •escape by trusties who hope to get a reward or a pardon for re- capturing or shooting them. I:t Mis- sissippi trusty guards shot so 'many prisoners "trying to escape" :that the rewards had to be stopped. The most notorious trusty guard was Cecil Houston, ,an Alabama cone •vict serving 'a life term for murder. An investigation in that state in 1926 revealed that this killer. together with others'li'ke him, was used to en- force the •speed up by the state and by private coal companies which had leased the prisoners. It was proved that Houston killed 'several fellow prisoners and had 'brL'loen both arms of at least seven others. Houston was given a special bonus for all coal ;produced, amnd.by driving the ,ten he was able to support his family in :Style on the outside. - • ,Recently a :committee of women in- vestigating an Alnaberna prison camp compelled. guards to break open a sweat ben. A man was suspended i, it by the wrists. He riles uncon- scious. Lime had been placed' in the bottom of 'the box and' had eaten into his feet, 'whish were swollen to twice ''their natural size. 'When released, he pitched for•warti on his face. An unemployed war veteran 'was whip- ped to death on a Tennessee gang in 10:l.2. The cause of his .death was re- ported as "a blocked artery," but the und.rtaker discovered evidence of a terrible flogging. In the same year another wan veteran,' James C. Kir- by, was severely beaten with a heavy leather whip on an 'Alabama 'prison: gang. His crime was failure to 'work hard enough because of having been gassed in the war. He had been fined i25 for trespassing, but when court costs were' added he owed the coun- try a total of $85! To pay the fine 'and costs he had to serve 101 clays at hard labor. After an investiga- tion. Governor B. A. Miller declared that "neither the law nor prison reg- e1a,tibns had been violated in whip- ping Kirby" for not working hard enough. ' On the big prison fatans, punish- ments for failure to "do task" close- ly resemble those .of the chain gang. in May, 1931. 'Mrs. W. A. Montgome ry. head of Mississippi's prison trus- tee board, reported .that an , entire tang of convicts, picking cotton. were :ash•ed because they complained to visiting trustees that they were not gctting water enough while working, ah: reported also that a new prison - :s a bookkeeper in civil life, and, • 1�itr front a chronic, 'linens, waa :seed to pick cotton until he died in 'he field with a cotton sack about his neck. The reported cause of his death was that common chain. gang iline.ss, "blocked artery." In 1920, \Wel' Zeigler, a' white redhead ' worker, was -whipped and •t1!esea to dcat'1 h;, a inounted guard on the prison farm near Ilrius- ten• Texas. The ,writer saw £43.iglcr', hotly in the morgue. His back was criss-crossed with long,, deep, bloody tees. On his neck were many tiny holes made- by the rowel of the eseard's spurs. 111 and unused to farm work, Zeigler had failed to keep up while hoeing cotton under the 'T'.et Texas sun. The Handbook of American Pris- nn; ami Reformatories for 1929 stat- ed of Misaissippi: "The prison farms appear to be operated almost exclusively for . financial, profits" Put there ,is another group, • aside from states and business men, which ;profits from convict labor. Sheriffs, judges, clerks and others sere as em- ployment agents to keep the gangs well stocked with workers. • 1lnder the fee system, officials are paid a ccaemission on the number of convic- t•Tors they secure. 'Several sheriffs; in Mississippi in 1930 earned over $20,- 000 each. The average for 82 coun- ties was only slightly less than $6,- 04)0. The same individuals in -civil life would probably earn $100 a month if they • were so fortunate' as to find a job. 'For too long, now, huge profits have been made out of convict fore.; ed labor. 'Convicts should work, yes; but for their own ,salvation primarily and not to make money for anyone else. The rate 'must cease exploiting its prison Narrates for profit and it must cease conniving with private business men to exploit thein, The present .profit-making attitude is re- sponsible for the failure of the mnany campaigns in the past to end chain - gang conditions. 'Stitch campaigns, no matter what the motive, will con- tinue to fail until prison profit is abolished. GOLDEN DAYS FOR ' GOLD (Condensed from Fortune in Reader's Digest.) In the spring a ICanadiian's faitey lightly turns to thoughts of gold. Since meet of Canada's known gold is up in Northern Ontario, it is only in the summer months that .prospect- ing lean he carried on and new mines op!etred up. This year a miraculous possibility lo`omns ahead. All good gold tmliners in North Ainterica have long prayed every night for just one thing: that the "Congress of the United States will some day decree that 12 grains of gold shall consti- tute one dollar. 'Since this is one- half 'of the present gold , content of the dollar, such a law immediately doubles the income of every gold° mane in Canada. It' is true that with devialuatipn commodity prices and wages (and with them mining costs) also rise. But the rise in gold is in- stantaneous, the rise in commodities gradual, and 'the mining companies make a pretty penny out of the eco- nomic 'la'g. As all 'Canadians and few Ameri- cans know, Canada passed the U. S. in gold :production -three years ago, and is now second only to South Af- rica as a gold -producing nation. Of the $63,000,000 worth of gold pro- duced by 'Canada in 1932,- $157,000,000 came from one ,provinoe:. Ontario. And all of this with the exception of some $2,000,000 came from, two great gold -ruining districts set like 'Inch jewels in the barren' Wilderness. For two decades "Kii'klrand Lake" and Porcupine" have been names glam- orolis with gold. What with the tap- ping of rich new veins, they are more glamorous to -day than ever. The subject of gold 'must be slplit into two parts: mining and prospect- ing. The focal, points of Canadian gold mining—which is as much an in- dustry as coal mining—are the great catnaps at Porcupine and. Kirkland Lake. To get t3 this industrialized geld region you can take a train that leavers Toronto at 9.30 every ev- ening and arrives in Timinmins, metro- polis of the Porcupine district, at 5.30 the next afternoon. Or you can fly there in a 425 miles beeline from Toronto in less than four hours. You fly over no mountains and' few •riv.. ers. Ontario is a great table, so flat that water is without ambition and lies where it falls, in thousands of lakes.• As you fly over your first gold mine, you will see a group of stark, galvanized iron buildings, with shacks h,ddclled around a structure which looks like a, distorted grain el- evator. 'Ontario's geld is found in veins of white quartz which dip deeply .into the ground. No one knows how far down some of them- go—several have been followed a mile straight 'down. A4, "vein" is a flat plane rather than a tube. Tilt a layer cake on an angle and cut it in half and you will have a rough diagram of a gold mine. The filling, is a vein embedded in the bar- ren waste of dough. The bright white quartz stands out sharply a- gainst the darker rock. You may or enav not see gold in it. If you do, it will usually be .In tiny, pinhead !lakes which have a dull, rich, greasy glitter, and which an experienced eye can easily- tell from yellow iron pyrite crystals (fool's gold). Once a vein •has been discovered and its richness, dip, and direction established, deep gold mining is a Simple engineering problem. The big Ontario mines usually have their' work blocked out three' to five years in advance and' can therefore make investments in heavy machinery. If the vein .is lost and the engineers cannot find it again - and several thousand feet underground it is a 1;1ind hunt—the mine is done for. But ninny of the big mines are getting stronger than ever after decades of production. Of course, every gold mine cones to an end sooner er lat- er: For the farther down you go, the hotter it gets, the more artificial ventilation ,is needed, the more dan- gerous becomes the pressure of rock anti, as a result of all these, the more it cpsts to get the ore to the surface. 'But h'afore gold can be mined it must be found, and prospecting is still just as insanely erratic a specu- lation as it was in the days when bearded sourdoughs blackened the stream bed's of the Yukon. Ontario's active Department of Mines makes• every effort to increase the number of prospectors; it recently estimated that 2,000 prospectors, were actively at work in Ontario alone, and last year 5,000 gold claims were staked out in the province. The ideal Tres - ;sector, according to the Department, is (1) an expert woodsman, (2) a competent 'geologist, and (3) a con- firmed optimist. Certain mining com- panies send out prospectors year af- ter year, 'but they do not always find gold. One company hes spent $500,- 000 on prospecting to date, and has found nothing. During .•the winter the prospector makes his arrangements for the sum- mer. The standard deal is 'for. h'is backer to .pay him $150 to $2150 a month for the seven summer month's, supply his. grubstake, and transport him to the starting point of his trek. He also gets a 10 per cent. to 25 per cent, interest in any claim: he stakes. He pays '$5 for a license from the province and a set of tin pegs with his license number on them. The prospector may set out from the railhead with a light canoe slung on his back or he maty., be dropped on a wilderness lake by an airplane which hes a date to pick him up a- gain in the fall. Each prospector may stake three claims for himself end six more by Proxy. He is allow- ed 40 'acres to a claim, aiWI after staking it with his tin pegs, he Must trek all the way back to the nearest mining recorder and, not mlorte than 20 days after staking, record his deism Within three months he must do 30 days' work on the claim. Af- ter 40 days' work a year for five years,, ora, total of 200 days in the period, the claim is e'li'gible for pat-. ent at $3 'an "aere. - •A m'illin'g camp comms into being somewhat in this manner. The pra'e- peetor comes back to record This claim. His backers send hint out s. - gain with ten ,or twenty men and She Was Never. So Grateful In Her Life St. John,N. 13.—"It's lV t s almost umber lieu ole—• -I can't myself realise It— but Sargon ended my stOz naeh trou- ble that, had been pulling me 'down for eight years," recently declared Mrs. May Kelley, 94' Protection :street. "Why, I lived almost entirely on milli and crackers for a long time, but now I can eat anything I want without a sign of trouble. Trrve also been entirely, freed of oonstitpa. tion by Sargon P111s. They didn't have thud!gest rg piing etfget " C, ASIDIi,H1A RM d' ,. !� �., i •k.?A 5 r>� :.'a: �. 'hy. ',t#�t. a'�IU,d„t r 1,7 HOTEL WIVE'RLET TORONTO A QUIET MODERN HOTEL OO EIMPEVERYTHING TANG . ATTRACTIVE ROOMS AND SUITES—GOOD FOOD. UNEVICE , XCELLED FOR FOLDER. GARAGE ONLY ONE MINUTE WALK LATS OF NRB FKING SPACEE. RATES 01.50 UP some dynamite to blast out some of the veins. If these results are good, diamond -drill equipment is sent out and test holes are drilled. All these steps are maneuvered 1Sy airplane. If the test drillings are encouraging, a permanent camp is set tsp. The heavy equipment—hoisting and milling maa- c'hinery—is loaded on barges, towed up lakes, and hauled by rope across portages. Mteanwhile, a road is be- ing built. Newts of the original strike. has caused other claims to 'be staked around it, and soon a 'boom town -has materialized. Shopkeepers, prosti- tutes and liquor all come in by plane. But although the new camp is in the Forty-niner tradition it is much more• orderly. The •policing is done, and well, by Staff Sergeant Turnbull, who stands six feet four and Who' is the or* policeman in the whole region. He covers his beat, which is hundreds of 'miles 'square, in the planes oper- ated by General Airways, Ltd., of Toronto. !It.would 'be only a slight exagger- ation to• say that the current gold rush in Northern 'Ontario would be- ierpossible without General Airways, which is just about the Most reck- less and the safest airway company in the world. Last winter it lost just three flying days, which means that its pilots, as they gr•in'ningly admit, flew many a day with . zero ceiling_ But in its more than five years of flying existence General Airways has never.•lost a plane or caused an in- jury to any, ;passenger or 'pilot. The 'company was foundjrd by A. Roy Brower, one of Canada's premier aces and 'Tie' Man Who Wes. `credite-d -With- :shooting t ith .:shooting down Richthofen. The North Country is ideal airplane country, dotted 'with innumerable lakes which make landing fields , unnecessary. Planes land on pontoons in the sum- mer, skis in the winter. The country is devoid of prominent landmarks and so widely mineralized that . com- passes do not work. It drives for- eign pilots out of their minds, but the General Airways skipper finds his way around by following high ten- sion lines, the railroad, the -shape of the. lakes. A century hence General Airways' chief pilot may well be a legendary figure in the North Country. He figures in all the contemporary lore of the region. dire is an -easy-going, carnal, inarticulate youth,. in his mid- dle twenties. His name is Wilson Clarke, but even the Indians know him as Clarkie. • He knows eoery hu- ri;an'-•'being in the North Country, spends his nights drinking with them and his days • flying them. From his casual conversation one learns of his adventures: searching for a missing prospector, landing on a twe-by-four lake to get him, 'massing the tree tops by inches in taking off again. In one 1-0ai] Clarkie carried twa Indians dy- ing and Sergeant m of tuberculosis ae bg Turnbull with two New York trollops he had arrested for being drunk and. disorderly. Many of . Clarkie's flights are mercy calls, with no prospect of reward this side of heaven. His only regulation: winter passengers must be clreseed, warmly enough to be able to Walk- home without freezing.. But no one has had to walk as yet. Wide Cost Range Shown in Cheese Manufacture. According to Dr. J. F. ' Booth of Ottawa, the cost of making cheese in 115 Ontario factories ranges fron $1.85 per hundred ,pouncls }where the production amounts to 393.000 grounds to 'as 'high as $3.21 per hundred pounds where only 47,000 pounds are produced. Cull Deity Cows in Denmark Go to Happy Hunting Ground. The slaughtering and 'burning. of cull dairy cows is proceeding rapidly in Denmark. This has been 'cited as one practical method of reducing ov- er-pre:deletion and lowering produc- tion costs of milk. Also, it has been indicated, far too marry Canadian dairy cones; having outlived their milk predating usefulness, are chipped 'to market, instead of being consigned to the soil from whence they came. Half of Canada's Berry Crop is Sup- plied By This Province. :Canada's eomlm'ercial production of strawberries for 1932 aniounted to approximately 20,609,000 quarto On- tario's contri'bu'tion to this total was estimated at 10,184,000 quarts, or close•'to 'fifty per cent. • The commercial production of raspberries, for the same year, was established at '7,250,000 quarts. On-' tario again supply about half this to- tal or approxim'a'tely .3,317,000: FLY PADS \WILL KILL MOPE FLIES THAN �SEVERAL DOLLARS' WORTH OFANY OTHER FYKII ER/ 1 OC WHY Best of all fly killers. Clean, quick, care, PAY •�cheap. Ask your Drng- •gtoreGroeer or General MORE CALT,YTOuM ONON 11' YY A ;twa ;ra ar•