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ee F armer's Boom Year? Canadian farmers won't have any marketing worries next year if pre- dictions made at Ottawa's federal- provincial farm conference recently comes true, © . ; Chief economist, J. F, Booth, {federal agricultural department; be- - lieves that world economic acti- vity: will remain "at .very high "levels", Other experts predicted heavy de- mand for most, farm products and firm prices' for wheat, beef, eggs, "milk and other dairy products, Milk production during 1952 is "expected to fall below- demand. No great 'slump in beef prices is fore- cast but hog prices may come down _ as a result of increased production. Egg production is expected to in- crease. but demand will %ontinue strong. Butter production may be down with pices remaining firm, Strong world demand for wheat is. |. predicted, *. C. V. Parker, director of the ag- ricultural division; bureau of statis- tics, says that farmers' cash income "will rise, but so will farm operating _ costs, plies are expected to crop up in - the coming year. Certain types of fertilizers and pesticides may be limited because of increased defence production, Prices m#y be slightly higher. Canada's export quota of 233,- 000,000 bushels of wheat under the International wheat agreement is expected to be taken up. Additional quantities may be sold outside of the agreement, Most officials believe that des- pite large sales of wheat this crop year, Canada will end the season with a larger carryovér than at July 31, 1951. Total. disposable supplies this year are estimated at 748 million bushels. That includes an estimated - crop yield of 562,000,000 bushels and a July 31 carryover of 186,000, a id Ld Fair Warning Ld To 'Poisoners 5 roa i Arsenic has been a prime favorite with murderers for more than- 300 years, - : : Now, a new discovery by a French specialist has eliminated at least one of the factors that. have, helped poisoners so greatly in the past. / Popular Weapon Three peculiarities of arsenic have contribfited fowards its popularity * among murderers. Firstly, there is the fact that deaths from this poison often give the appearance of death from natural causes. Short of a post-mortem it is al- most impossible to state whether or not the victim was poisoned. Secondly, -the way that the body stores arsenic makes it difficult to fix the time that the poison first entered the system. i In cases where the time factor must be proved beyond doubt this has often proved an insuperable obstacle to the police. Thirdly, arsenic is sometinies pre- Seems gweseribed as a tonic. Although it is t - ' exposed it, a millimetre at a time, / harmless, and even beneficial in small quantities, an overdose of arsenic may easily cause death, Arsenic-takers find the effect of the poison exhilarating, but, as with narcotics, to start eating arsenic means that the victim must go on * taking larger and larger doses. : He may be perfectly healthy while he is taking the poison, but once he stops he is certain to suffer symptoms of acute arsenic-poison- ing, and may die a most painful death, These str ange properties of arsenic have confounded the police in a good many trials, Early this year a French specialist - decided to tackle the time problem, He knew that when a pérson takes arsenic the body tries to repel it, and stores it away in the skin, finger-nails and hair. If he could find traces of arsenic in the hair of the victim, he decided, he might be able to fix the time and thus furnish the prof that the police needed. His first step was to take the hai of a known arsenic Victim to the French atomic pile at Chatillon. For eight days he experimented with the hair to make it radioactive. Then he shielded it with lead and to a Geiger counter, the 'machine that measures degrees of radioactiv- ity. Soon he came to a place in a strand of hair that emitted rays from more arsenic than a healthy person should have in his system. Here was the clue he had been looking for. > No Uncertainty Knowing that human hair grows it the rate of half an inch a month, he was able to pinpoint the time en the victim had been poisoned. "This system will now be a set * procedure in cases of arsenic poison- g, and will eliminate that element of uncertainty . that has 'helped murderers in the past. : talid 4 ' 30 i In a hirry to get to the station, the passenger asked the taxi driver MH he couldn't go a little faster. ire I can," said the driver, "but Pm not allowed to leave, the cab." ¥ r AL BT SORTER IS AY BLD A AON CER aN A TA \ No great shortages of farm sup- E -| Plastic Poker Chips ' ! SSE rs ay, AMA RAR PVA LER RR Fle SAY EN oe ha? $ TEBE REAR LIU SE eS NEHA SUI SR LIC RNAS TREN BENS MJ Shea { New and Useful ..Too.. ---- Almost. Everything This will solve "many problems. Weighing only five ounces, 'the eight-in-long gadget "opens tdrked bottles, scales fish, punctures cans, opens soft drinks, squeezes lemons, cracks nuts, dispenses ice-cubes, opens screw tops, shells fish claws, pries opén .vacuum tops, and acts as a corn-thong, It can also be used as a wrench, hammer, or screw driver. 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Unit is highly sensitive to light- ning- or other electrical disturb- ances. :: * * * Plastic Syphon Cup oe Quart-size Polyethylene bottle now designed to replhice stainless steel and plastic-lined containers as syphon cups in' sanitizing spray equipment. used in dairy and food industries. : PIE! tgs Fol) N-ETRERET - 134 Req Se x RY Dreaming Of A Non-White New Year--In snow-weary Toronto, Dick Rieger tries to dig his car from . under a new fall of snow that blanketed the city. Bh RE Here are some real words of cheer for those who have been taking a gloomy outlook on modern day hockey and its future, Here are three quotations from three real experts--men who should know what they are talking about--whose names we shall possibly divulge later on in this screed. QUOTATION NUMBER ONE. "The N.H.L. right now is faster than it has been at any time during the past 10 years. Some of the players of 20 yeafs ago couldn't stay with these kids today.--Hustle, hustle, hustle! That's all hockey is. Give the fans the youngsters and they'll forget all about the 'gopd old days' and live in the present. -- They said there never would be another player like Howie Morenz. But Rocket Richard and he's better than Morenz, And, great as Richard is today, Boom Boom Geoffrion may some day be better." . * * * QUOTATION NUMBER TWO. "Players today are much better than when I broke in.-- Hockey today is better than ever before. -- And the Detroit-Toronto games of today are every bit as good and sometimes better than the old Bruins ; Rangers contests. -- The Boston Bruins, in a very short time, are going to be the best team in hockey." . * * * QUOTATION NUMBER THREE, "The players today are just as good and some of them are better than in the old days. Gordie Howe, of the Detroit Red Wings, is the greatest." * * * So, dearly beloved, with all that optimism floating around, how can anyone dare to criticize hockey as it is- currently played, or suggest that there is possible room for im- provement? Of course, there is the old adage which runs "The shoe- . maker always says there's" nothing to beat leather." And it may be of passing interest to note that all three of those quoted are 'in a somewhat similar position to that of the cobbler. * * * That is to say they have a direct financial interest in: present day hockey; in fact they derive their living from the game. For the author of Quotation No. 1--thé one who boosts Rocket Richard and Boom Boom Geoffrion so highly-- in-naae other than Dick Irvin of the . Montreal Canadiens. Quote No, 2 is from the lips of Lynn Patxick, coach of the Boston Bruins, the: team whose future he regards in such a rosy 'light. And Quote No. 3 is came along ~ J Killing The Hours--Two United Nations prisoners-of-war play chess with erudely-cut pleces in a Communist camp in North Korea, The photo was received from Eastfoto, a Communist source, -]. Marked Goods dnd 'you ge satisfac by Ebbie Goodfellow: who guides the destinies of the Chicago Black Hawks. * * * Well, let's give Ebenezer credit for at least one thing. He didn't say that any of his Black Hawks compared with--or topped--Morenz and other old-time greats. * * * Ebbie Goodfellow, did more than that. He pointed out what may be one of the main reasons for the decline in hockey attendance at " Chicago, New York ;Boston and Detroit in recent years. "It doesn't seem that we have the 'name' players today we had in the past. Squads are larger today and there is less emphasis on the individual. When I broke in we played a 44- game schedule. Now it's 70 regular season games plus exhibitions and the playoffs, if you make them. I think the players are spacing themselves over the season because of it," 33 . * 0 x There, in that final senteive, Mr. Goodfellow-said a full 6-foot shelf- full. "I think the players are spac- ing themselves over the season--." That is exactly what severest critics have been trying to say. When you play 70 games in order to eliminate only two of 6 teams from the playoffs--and when the players know that a team can lead the leagite from start to finish and still get knocked out of Stanley Cup contention in the very first round--you really cannot ex- pect the athletes to give their ut- most in every game. For example let your memory travel back over the past two or three campaigns, and mentally compare the perfor- mance of certain teams--we needn't mention any names -- during_the regular season and in the playoffs, - and we think you'll get what. we mean. "Forechecking in the other team's zone is effective in winning games but is spoiling the show for the fans," says Walter Brown, new owner of the Boston Bruins. "Are 'we giving the customers what they want?" fae * + ox : With which very pertinent ques- tion we'll leave the matter for the time being. OIL FIRES In tests recently conducted by an oil company, a tank containing 100,- 000 gallons of flaming kerosene was extinguished .in five seconds. An- other tank full of blazing crude oil was under control in forty-five seconds and extinguished by foam in five minutes. The new method is the invention of J. L. Risinger. A 'small amount of air at low pressure is blown into the lower areas of the tank to agitate the 6il. Cooler oil is thus brought from the lower areas to the surface in waves that spread "over the burning area and cut down the vapors on which the flames are feeding. : Father: "I'm busy. Be short." Son: "I will, IT am, on cash." Why are horses usually mounted from the left side? 3 It's "only a tradition now, but long ago there was a good reason for it. When knighthood flourished, a fellow had to be on the qul vive lest an already-mounted enemy cleave: him to the brisket while he himself was still in the process of clambering aboard his steed. So he wanted to have his good right arm free at all times, ready for sword play if necessary, and the only way he could do .this was to mount from the left side. And to- day, for most horses the left side still is the "right" side for mount- ing because they're trained that way traditionally, ) * x # Why do insects have three pairs of legs? According "to a well known zoo- logist, six legs give insects their most efficient balance while walk- ing. Man does all right on two legs, 'of course, and other mam- mals get along on four, but these are large anmials and have a much longer time in which to maintain their balance when taking a step. The insect, however, doesn't have so much time. He walks by form- ing firsEa tripod of two legs on one side and the middle leg on the other side. 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It's just a hangover from the long, long ago when man or his ancestors walked on all fours and had to use all his limbs for loco- motion, CANADA'S CIGARETTE FINEST homes and a zoo in Britain because of its bad language and now faces eviction from the Glasgow, Scot- land, Calder Park. : J.6¢J. TAYLOR LIMITED 145 Front St, E., Toronto Established 1835 i The sportsmen, . ative neophyte. "It isn't there {or a fourth game." stopped. "No." he said, have anyone push Him ' those very attributes, ne Calvert by Elmer Ferguson ® THIS IS THE FIRST of a series of columns dedicated to sport, sportsmen, and sportsmanship. We mean the sort of sportsmen who don't cheat, who keep within the bounds of true sportsmanship. We mean the fishermen who would scorn to take an ounce of fish over the legal limit, no matter how well the fish were biting. Or the hunter who would never think to shoot a bird, or a deer, or anything else out of season. The golfer who would rather add than |- . subtract a stroke from his score in case of doubt. The good losers. These gome in all divisions of sport, amateur and professional, in-all games. And one of the finest displays of courage and sporting spirit was given two years ago by Bill Durnan, rated by many the reatest net-minder of all time, when just after he had completed bis sixth Vezina Trophy victory in seven seasons, he stepped aside, in the midst of the 1950 Stanley Cup series, to 'be replaced by a comparative rookie, because he was convinced his 'continued stay in the nets was unfair to his own club. : Never before have we known,~in a long association with hockey, of 'a top-ranking player, rated the world's best in his posix tion, suddenly deciding that. he wasn't good enough to carry ou, feeling that some greatness, some reflex, has suddenly failed him, and voluntarily stepping down, fo hand over the job to a compar- It's an epic ofefine sporting spirit, of team loyalty. And some: one of more gifted pen, who can analyse and describe such mental torments and conflicts could find here the material for a compelling story of conflicting emotions, of the hours of troubled thought Durnan must have given to his own problem, .a problem he had to solve himself with no outside help. Because, to a man at the top of his profession, a man with intense pride of craft, it represents 'tremendous athletic and moral sacrifice that suddenly he must say to the world: "I think. I'm through, I can't carry on..I want a younger man to take my place." ". Dutnay 'told coach Dick Irvin: "I'm not playing up to the mark, Dick. My vision hasn't been really "good since that accident in Chicago. Something has happened to my reflexes, to my nerves: - air to the boys that I should carry on. We've lost three straight, and 1 don't fecl that my nerves are capable of going in Irvin was amazéd. He told Durnan to sleep on: itysthink it over. But the next morning, as the players went out for a light skate, prior to the game thatinight, Durnan didn't attempt to dress. =: © + = Bo Irvin sat down; told young Gerry McNeil exactly what had 'happened. McNeil li fengd, Foss, stated to dréss, 'Then he "I can't do this. Bill ist n out right in heres (Yih ; * Byt Durnan rose to th's problem too. he sold his own job to McNeil, settled his own problem, ~~ What problem? sohieone might enquire, That somecne wouldn't 'of course be very close to the sports picture, nor. would that. some- : one understand 'what pride of craft, what team i those who achieve the higher brackets, in part because théy possess 3 Fin Your comments and suggestions for this column will be welcomed :by Elmer Ferguson, ¢/o. Calvert House, 431 Yonge St., Toronto, | Calvert DIS ih LERS : LIMITE - AMHERSTBURG, ONTARIO SPORTS COLUMN ant fine a guy to §. I won't do it." reachin> team loyalty, loyalty means to TORONTO SAFE WORKS