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Port Perry Star (1907-), 12 Mar 1936, p. 6

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SEITE ans ry i ae od pr Boi Sep TN EH i ov a AR Ere Ji Sd eS ry ar: i Cage, wy Women Not Lazy At Th 0 a |C CANADA, Preparing Food ¢ Ulympics THE EMPIRE i . paring 3 " a Miss Agnes Macphail Takes The Canadian public must be Ea of the == ~ Exception to Remarks of Jaary of lie AFL of, thing thay hes , . i Dr. Currelly * |the detivities of Canada's hockeyists » at the Olympics, remarks the Ottawa THE WORLD } "AT LARGE PRESS CANADA Knew How Despatches told of a Toronto mag- istrate letting a man off because the | prisoner always read the magistrate's arvt'cles on trees and wild flowers. Another Toronto magistrate, the late Col. George T. Dennison, could al- ways be moved by any old spildier who, excusing too exuberant a cele- bration, pleaded a battle anniversary or .a reunion of old comrades. --idd- monton Journal. The Editorial Page IF'or a time, in some quarters, there rose a feeling that what the people desired most in ther newspapers was news, and the editorial page was a thing of minor importance, George Fort Newton, distinguished historian and ed'tor, told the American Poli- «tical Seience Association veeently, that this philosophy was passing and the editorial page was coming back into its own. "Today's edi- torials," he said, "explain, rather coerce. The editor undertakes tc re- ~Aate #n item to its general frame of] reference. He introduces an explan- ation and background, $0 that the reader, having informed himself, can make up his own mind as to what it is all about." --Halifax Chrenicle, t - . Motoring in Australia The cost of motoring in Australia is very much higher than in many other parts of the world, A car cost- ing approximately £170 in Canada, would be sold in Australia at about $400. The difference in cost is ac- counted for by customs dutg, prim- freight, exchange, and other charges. In .ddition, the price of petrol is much higher, being 1s 1d per imperial gallon. In 1911 the duty was one halfpenny per gallon for British and three-quarters of a pen- ny for foreign. Gradually this has been increased until now the duty is 714d per gallon.--Brandon Sun. - Pullman Porters How the railroads begun to em- ploy colored, gentlemen as porters seems "wrapt in mystery." There is no foundation for the belief that President Lincoln suggested it to George Pullman, mention of whose name may be the reason why port- ers are called "George," At any rates colored porters were First employed in the late seventies or early eight- ies. Six or seven years_ago when the railroads were really. prosperous the Pullman Company gave employ- ment to 11,000 porters, chefs and waters, but at the present time there are only about 7,000. The pay "varies according to the job on the trains, but the average is {00 a month.--St. Thomas Times Journal. ARE Germany" Arms It has beefl openly stated in I'rance that the German military strength is now three times that of I'rapce herself. That proportion is rapidly increasing in favor of Germany. She possesses an air army not only the --finest of its kind technically, but an air foree under control of men more thoroughly air-m'nded than any in the world. Like her opposite number in the Far East, Japan, Germany has expansionist aspirations; she has the means oto fulfil them, and she has "the will to apply those means. --Lon- don Sunday Dispatch. Tradition of. Service King "ldward 's certainly not a slave to tradition, but he adheres to the tradition of service that Mis f bears have handed down. The wot wishes him well, -SaultQlar. 9.85 Cents Per Day Major Trethewy who governs the Jail of Perth "County reports that Carne the last quarter of 1035 it cost 0.80 cents per day to feed apris- oner. That would be about G9 cents a week. So if yeu have a family of five yo. see the weekly bill fer food should be abouc $344. - The report , from Perth says the inmates of the. jail did well on the diet; in fact we believe it was stated they thrived.on it. ) Bread appear. to Lie one of the larze items, and 266 pounds © meat wag purchased. Other acticles used were wheat products, heans, barley, rice, sugar, potatoes, onions, rice, sugar, potatoes onions, raisins and dititian would say this was balaneed det; it leans toward eles and its carbohydrates con- tent would be high. A person work- ing at something where physical ex- ertion was needed - could probably burn up all the fuel provided, but one Sthying in. jail would be apt to put on a coating of soft fat, Ohe with 'a tendency toward d'abetes would go down quickly under such food, ' But against all such argument is the fact that the prisoners lived and did well on the 'diet, so until we have something stronger in the way of argument than we now posses we must conclude that it is possible to keep body and soul hitched together at a very modest outlay--9.85 cents per day.---Peterborough Examiner, Exemplary Act A Port Colborne man has paid back tc his municipal ty all he receiv- ed in relief, Having "got on his feet" again, he shows his apprecia- tion in this way. It is such cases which makes 'it casier to pay. taxes for relief purposes. --Chatham Mews, Sensible! There is good sense in the ruling of a Prince Edward Island county judge that a minor of bound by a contract he signed to buy a fox---a contract he aXempted to evade by pleading his legal infancy. "I am asked," said Judge Duffy, "to assist the defendant on the techn'eal plea of infancy. If 1 did so I woyld consider that I was helsing him to steal the fox from the plaintiff. This I refuse to-do." This is sensible. On the precedent set by Judge Duffy perhaps the, custom will be estallish- ed of deciding every such case on its merits. --Ottawa Journal. Save The Surface "Save the surface and you save all," they tell us. So when, we read that the co-eds of the Unjversity of Wisconsin use enough lipstick! each vear to ont four barns, all we can say is that perhaps it is the more important surtace that is receiving attention. Barns may be important to house horses and cattle and machinery and potatoes. But just think of adl the romance there pair of girl's lips. > And without that"Tomance there probably wouldn't be any use forthe cattle and the potatoes before long: Perhaps even the farmers vill agree to that. " By all means save both surfaces! -- Sault Ste. Marie Star, Delayed News tween all parts of the world is one of the proud boasts. of the present era, of the world. For instance, the news of the earthquake in China riported Mo have brought death to thousands in Szecliuan province, did not reach the world until a week after it oc- curred. --Kingston Whig-Standurd. Canada's Smoke : With women taking to the weed in more recent years, cigarette con- sumption has gone up materially. Last year nearly four and one-half billion cigarettes were smoked in Canada. Th's works out to an aver- age of 1,250 for every man and wo- man -of smoking age. Since there are still many of either sex who cannot bear the taste of tobacco or haven't formed the habit of puffing away at a "fag," some cigarette smokers must have greatly exceeded the 1,250 av- erage. -- Kitchener Record. ~-Ehronic Disease Injured Micliigan couple wants to sue reckless driver whose mind, his lawyer claims, has been a blank since the accident. Only since the acci- dent ?2--Guelph Mercury. A Job for Leacock If Stephen Leacock is serious (and we scarcely think he is)--about de- voting his remaining years - to the presidency of. the Anti-Mosquito As- sociation of East Simcoe, now that he has been chucked out of his job at McGill by its octogenarian gover- nors because he has reached the age of "65, we think that, in the. national inferest, he might do much worse than become the head of a Domin- jon-wide anti-mosquito 'organization or, speaking more locally, the head of an Upper St. Anti-Shad I'ly Association. We understand that the mosquito control efforts undertaken in the vi- cinity of Orillia, a community im- mortalized by Leacock, have been uniformly successful. He would con- fer benefit upon many another Sums- mer resort region, not excluding the Rideau lakes, if he would undertake a nation-wide tour in the interest of mosquito contr. --Brocks(ll Record- er. THE EMPIRE Reason for Royal Purple Many people .. have been asking themselves during these recent days, when go much purple has been min gled with the blagigs why purple, a color in itself so bright is a mourn- ing color. One has failed to find the origin of a custom go wide-spread. or ' 43 nineteen is is wrapped up in a The speed of communicat'ons be- | But. there are some regions | Without direel 'contact with the rest Lawrence Valley | ren pr t---- ' . . * . ~ . . : Members of the Canadian Winter Olympic team return a Nazi salute.as they pass the weviewing { stand in the parade opening the 1936 Winter Olympic Games ag Garmisch Pattenkirschen. | tT [always been a "Royal" color, King Edward VII, it. is stated, pointed out to the authorities that all draping should be carried out in purple rather than black at Queen 'Victoria's funeral, All shades of purple are being [widely worn at the moment, and will "continue to be much seen. Amethyst, "plum, and egg plant are three tones | suggésted by the British Color Coun- cil.--Edinburgh Scotsman. - World's Best Seller I predict that Kipling's fortune Lwill prove the greatest ever left by an author, : More than any man he had what "Arnold Bennett called un esfate in his books. They sold steadily all over the world for 45 years, and he never One can only learn that purple. has callowed his work to appear in cheap edit'ons. . In 1929 hi: fortune was estimated by those who should be in a posi- tion to know at about £750,000. His "Jungle Book" alone brought him' in over £10,000 a year. Nothing can be more erroncous than the idea that his poetry is no i longer read. In the United States alone the sale, of his various volumes of verse has averaged from 100,000 to 150,000 copies annually during the last quarter of a century.--Lon- don Evening Standard. Pictures Life ~-- Bit Fantastic Woman's Speaker-in Winni- pee Asks for Modern Gilbert WINNIPEG--A modern life as fantastic ag a comic opera and nearly as hilarieys' was pictured by Mrs. Valance Diyfriarche in an address lere. ii } Ly on "This Gilbert and Sullivan /World of Ours," she stated, "We 'sadly need a reincarnation of Gilbert and Sullivan--a genius. who would make this somewhat criminal world a source of innocent ment." After dealing with the fact that Gilbert . and Sullivan opera was modelled on the pure Greek comedy written five centuries ago, and was equally pungent and democratic, she outlined some phases of modern life. . Extraordinary changes have taken place .in domestic life--companionate marriage, alimony for men; children taken on visits to see what 'ther quarters of the pcople being support- ed, submitting, and thinking the 25 per cent. should be ashamed to have enough money to do the supporting. "We make it easy for young cou- to marry and have a family, bag _skelief, but very hard for the young people on small salaries; we build large sewers and large hospi- tals, but have no money to build homes; 'we live in a world where everyone sings, that, too, making it more -operatic," said the speaker. She suggested scenes and lyrics for an cpera dealing with tendencies of today, and finished by explaining that a writer of pure nonsense and _satric comedy would have a more difficult task now than in the time of Gilbert and Sullivan. Those writ- ers made sober realities appear fan- tastic and absurd; a modern satirist must make fantastic and absurd realities appear serious and matter of fact in order to show what they really are worth. "When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport; when the tig- ler wants to murder him he calls it ferocity," --George Bernard Shaw, merri- mothers and fathers are like; three-|. > o "with the co-operation of the Ontario Agricul | F ee Problems Conducted by Professor Henry G. Bell various departments of tural College, The business of farming is yearly becoming more and more. dependent upon facts that have been gathered regarding livestock and livestock management, crop production, soil management, disease and insect: cton- trol and business organization of the farming industry. Individual prob- lems involving one or more of these, and many other phases of agricul- ture, engage the attention of Ontario farmers from day to day. During the winter months there is a little more time for study of the most acute problems. Through this column farmers may- secure the latest information pertain- ing to their difficulties. To intro- duce this service Professor Bell has prepared the following typical prob- Jems to indicate the information which should be "given in order .that a satisfactory answer can be made. If, answer is des'red by letter en- close stamped and addressed envelope for reply. Address all inquiries to Professor Henry G. Bell, Room 421, 73 Adelaide St. W., Toronto, Ontario. J. H., Chatham, (1) Question:--We hear a good deal about Fertilizer containing extra plant food materials such as mag- nesia, lime, sulphur, ete. besides the usual nitrogen, phosphorus, and potash and I would like to know just how important these other plant food elements are in a Commercial Fertilizer. : Answer:--On certain soils, the extra or rarer plant_ nutrients may be of very great service, e.g. where sand-brown or premature yellow- ing of tobacco. ees, magnesitim salts havo been found to effect a cure. Magnesium is supplied in cal- cium-magnesium limestone (dolo- mite or in the form of sulphate of magnesium, Sand-brown occurs on very sandy soils. Sulphur has been found to be of great service -_ on onions grown on muck soils. It has also enabled' celery crops to withstand disease and make good growth. Borax on turnips--in ad- dit'en to manure or fertilizers has produced crops free of water core under certain conditions, while its use has not been effective in all cases. - (2) Question:--Some fertilizer sales- men tell us they have a lime filler in their fertil'zer instead of a sand filler and for this reason their fertilizer is worth more mon- ey. Please let me' know what you' think about this. - : Answer:--Dolomite limestone used as a filler in fertilizers will correct acidity of soil if used in sufficient quantity and- if the soils are not acid. Sand will not correct acidity. (3) Question:--Does fertilizer kept over from one-year to another lose any of its strength? Answer: --If fertilizers are stored in a dry place, they should not suf- fer any loss of plantfood if stored for a year. There may be some tendency for the fertilizers to get hard or set. Before attempting to sow fertilizers that have been stored over winter, they should be thoroughly sifted before they are taken to the field, so that they may drill evenly. (4) Question: --Which do you think would pay best on oats and bar- ley m'xed, ore bag per acre of fertilizer or two bags per agre? Answer:--Rates of fertilizers (2-12- in addition to suitable fertilizers, |- 1935 by the Ontario Agricultural College with the following results: Treatnient Yield per acre No fertilizer ....... 32.1-bus, 125 Ibs. per acre ... 39.4 bus. < 250 lbs. per acre ... 55.6 bus. Henry G. Bll, \ Dept. of Chemistry, 0.A.C. Mme, Stavisky, or Mme. Simone, derella in reverse. At one time the most envied woman in Paris she turns today to the chorus--appear- "ing in the Frencf Cizsino's revue in New York. Mme. Stavisky speaks English haltingly despite the fact that her early years were spent in an English school. Easy To Make! -smarter or -a prettier. blouse? Slip. it" over your head in a jiffy. Its soft collarless draped neck so completely comfortable under your suit, lends itself to inspira tions with handkerchief scarfs or modern clips, Fasy to make! Inexpensive! One glance at illustrated diagram reveals the secret, _ Style No. 2652 is designed for sizes 14, 17, 18 years, 36, 38 and 40-inches bust, (Size 16 requires 1% yards of 35%nch material, HOW TO ORDER PATTERNS Write your name "and address plainly, giving number and size of pattern wanted. Enclose 15¢ in stamps or coin (coin preferred); wrap it carefully and address your order to Wilson Pattern Service, 6) were tried on three farms in 73 West Adelaide Street, Toronto. Miss Agnes Macphail, the woman Journal, In the first place there was member of Parliament. from Grey- a lot that. smacked of. childishness. if: Bruce, is irate at the 'statement of nog hypocrisy, in the roar. set up by . Dr. C. T. Currelly. that "women are our representatives because England growing 'so lazy they won't make the was using two 'players recruited effort to cook the family meal." from' Canada. That, apparently ~-the The statement of the distinguish- practice of importing "amateurs* ed Toronto~archaeologist was sweep-' from other countries -- is a practice ing. "There is un. tendency to neglect' reserved for our "amateur" foothall the cooking of vegetables because of teams. Then there was the wholly vi- sheer laziness, Dv: Currelly said, add- diculous spectacle' of 'the manazeis ing women go to the _orner store td' of the Canadain team {aking part in buy prepared food and that the eat-in international contest wiile not ing of the "lazy" forms of foods in- "troubling to find out what the rules creased the danger of universal of the contest were, subsequently as she prefers to be called, is a Cin-| Could you possibly - choose a - aa : Silk or satin. crepe, cottons, 'linen, ete, are suitable smart mediums, ' dyspepsia, : "Dr Currelly sounds as if he was suffering from a bad attack of in- digestion himself," Miss Macphail responded. "Out our way most women cook two, three and gven four vari- eties of vegetables for the midday meal in the summertime. A large wailing loudly because they became victims of their own ignorance. The whole business, to say the least, is a bit humiliating. I'inally there was the rather un- pleasant picture of the spokesman for Canada--he seems to be a par-. ticularly talkative fellow -- 'elling salad is almost regulation menu for like a corner-lat urchin that Eng- supper. In the winter vegetables are | and had no not so numerous and come from the vegetable pit. As for women being ~business defeating Canada, the Canadian team being much better. It was all due, he saids lazy cooks! Well, I think-perhaps what we had better do'is to invite Currelly--who, I believe, cologist -- out to our part of country for a meal." " (Dr. Currelly made his accusation of laziness at a meeting last week of | the Ontario Vegetable Growers' As- sociation in. Toronto. However, he corrected the statemént by saying women worked just as hard now as they did in bygone days because they! had less help in modern t'mes). the Mennonites Wish to Come Back to Canada WINNIPEG -- Western Canad'ans sought a clie last week as to where 7,000 Mennonites from Mexico would seek new homes if they return to the Canadian west they abandoned in 1922, So far as could be learned, no con- tact has been made 'with Mennonite colonies in Manitoba and Sask- atchewan although some communie- ation may have been made with the Canadian Mennonite colonization board at Rosthern, Sask. : Disputes over education and wmili- tary service led to 5,000 Mennonites selling their Canadian holdings in Manitoba and Saskatchewan and «o- ing to the Dyrango Valley in Mexico' and anotQerd1,500 going to Paraguay in South Yica. : They quit Canada to escape the obstacles to their religion. | Reports from El Paso Tex., said they now want to leave Mexico 'and return to the Dominion because they were op- posed to the socialist'c educational program of the Mexican-government. Welcomes Return ~ Of Spelling Bee Commenting _on_the revival of the Old. Fashioned Spelling Bee, Stephen. Leacock, Professor of economics at McGill University in a letter to The Montreal Star: "I am glad that we are to have the Old Spelling Bee back in the lives of the plain people of Canada and the United States. Be- fore radio was and before moving pictures were, in the days of the 'Little Old Schoolhouse,' the Spelling | Bee had its honored place. It repre- sented that combination of amuse- ment and intellectuality dear to a progressive people. ' The people on this continent could always read and were proud of it! They carried their tattered Spelling Books to the Fron- tier cabins. The book moved west first, and the teacher - afterwards. 'True progress', as my epigramatic friend, Sir Andrew Macphail, would '| say, 'is best achieved by putting the cart before the horse.' "All our great men on this con- tinent, our Abraham our John A, Macdonalds, achieved their first triumphs in a Spelling Bee. As a matter of fact, I was pretty good at it myself, my supreme feat of spelling "harass," "arras" and "embarrass" at School (Section No. 3, Township of Georgia, A.D, 1878) put "a. laurel wreath on my | head which T am still prepared to defend, I congratulate. The Star on reviving this good old institution." "'Q0°s Ickie Mousie ~ Mousie Are You" Injures Infants , CHICAGO--Baby talk came in for some hard words recently. Parents who indulge in it, when talking to baby, drew = frown from Dr. Frederick W. Brown of Floral Park, N.Y., who told the American speech correction's annual convention that this means trouble, . "Poor comprehension in ch'ldren of the seventh. and eighth grades has been traced to the fact that they were baby talkers in infancy," he said, k 2 "To cneourace it, or indu'ge chil- dren in it, will retard and may im- pair his general learning," =~ re 'to England's . Dr. have always understood that a goal- is an pre | when sending - teams - to games -- providing we go on send- - ling them -- we should exercise some Lincolns and! goalkeeper, Well, we keeper was a pretty important part of a hockey team; that he Was the fellow who, for the most part, kept the goals out. Moreover, if this Eng- lish team was so inferior, how did it come to score two goals? What the whole business sug- gests, we think, in that in the future Olympic caution about those we send to man- age them. It might be a good idea, for-example, to send sportsmen --and gentlemen." Dramatic Coach Thinks Voice Mcst Distinctive Asset Pleasant Quality and _ Unaffected Speech Helps You Through Life Pd -- . 2 - "Soprano, mezzo or confralto -- you were born with your individual voice and to attempt to change its quality and natural timbre is a pmis- take indeed," says a dramatic coach. "You may injure your speaking ap- paratus disastrously and _ perman- ently. + "A good many girls think that the frule about speaking softly means to speak in low throaty tomes. 'It does not. A high soprano voice may be as soft and well modulated as a nor- mally low one. | "No woman should try to force her. voice below its natural pitch. She may think thisproduces an in- teresting - result, "but her listeners think only ~that she is hoarse and' that her vocal chords give out rasp- ing, grating tones whenever she opens her mouth, J "On the other hand, good, speech is entirely up to the individual, Even education is no guarantee of correct and pleasant diction, It is the per- sonal duty of every person to learn how to pronounce and_to realize that success often is With us. Tt used to play a great part more dependent upon. the pergonality ~~ = as revealed through * pleasant "voice quality and unaffected speech 'than on many things often considered paramount. * ) "For instance, every girl at "the party may have her hair fixed exact- ly like yours., A dozen girls may be i wearing white gowns very much like your own. There may be a marked similarity in cosmetic makeup. How- ever, one. thing no other women at the party-possibly can have is a voice just like yours. Our voices and our speech are our very own. -We should guard, improve and treasure them." There is a correct way and a wrong way to pronounce each word in the English language, Every wo- man who cares about the appearance she makes should learn the right way, d . Alberta Premier ~ Opposed to Married Women Teachers Wants Expectant Mothers To Be Dismissed from Their Positions EDMONTON.--Alberta's Preniier Aberhart is opposed to mflrried wo- men as school teachers, and his Social Credit Government is seeking ways and means of dismissing expectgat mothers from teaching positions. *- A delegation from the Alberta Cabinet recently discussed means of or - suspending them until after motherhood, The trustees explained that under the present system of contracts, they cannot force 'teachers [to Mave their positions, even tem. porarily,- by reason of approaching maternity. ' : . "There is no reason why married women should be employed as teach- ers anyway, with so many men and unmarried women seriously in need of positions," Mr. Aberhart told the delegates, : Te words correctly dismissing teachers expecting a child, «=, 2. o = * ; ¢ x - - 4 - ~~ « - "ww Na «€ i" & B/N " %.-- ~. L, = oy ] i {

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