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^^mmmmi^ • V â- â-  m ^ I ' â- ^â- â- ^ ^ mp -i ^'^ , r 1* â- m It • 4 « J? » 4 Car Washing At Home Made Easy â€" A aew, easy-to-apply car washing device now marlteted in Canada means motorists can do a professional wash job on their car for only a few cents. The instrument used is a simple, mop-like pouch containing a special detergent that cuts road film, dust and car grease all in one operation. Attached to a long aluminum handle, with coupling for a garden hose, 'it cati be used without danger of spoiling clothes. Actual washing action is simple and quick. Water runs through the mophead, dissolving the detergent and washing the car. When the detergent is exhausted the flow of clean water both rinses and polishes the car's finish. Other uses for the E-ZEE washer are numerous ; windows, walls, cellars, ceilings, boats, porches, garge floors and many other places can be washed easily and inexpensively with this new money and time saving device. THEFABM FB«NT This has been such a peculiar season that I don't really know if the- following advice, in regard to pre-harvest spraying of apples, is going to reach you in time to be any good. However, here it is for what it's worth: * * * To anyone whose apple crop is really important, the experts say, pre-haJTvest sprays should proy« .highly "valuable. It has been proved that such treatment prevents a large percentage" of premature dropping of the fruit before it has reached proper maturity and coloring. * * • To put it another way, pre- harvest spraying reduces the num- ber of windfalls, and lengthens your picking seajgon by holding the apples on the trees until they can be handled properly. « ♦* » Down in New Brunswick the Do- , minion Government Experimental Station made a test, using a naph- thalene acetic-acid preparation called parmone, on Mcintosh ap- ples and other varieties. The details regarding the test are rather in- teresting. * « ' » First of all, 12 Mcintosh trees ^ were selected â€" all the same height and size. Six of them were treated. The other half dozen were left un- -treated. Then, beginning the day after treatment and continuing for another 25 days, the windfalls were picked up and counted from under both the treated and untreated trees. * » * Figured on a basis of the per- centage of the total crop that fell off, it became clear to the experi- menters that the spraying began to exert a rjal influence on the fifth day after treatment and remained effective up to and including the 18th dav. * * * (That was the over-all picture, as tiie rapidity with which the ma- terial became effective varied con- tiderably, ranging front two to eight days, and the length of time it re- mained effective also varied â€" from 14 to 25 days, depending on the individual tree. I imagine that over in Russia they have apple trees that always behave eactly alike, but over here they haven't yet reached such perfection. Maybe we should start reading Karl Marx to them.) « « * To get on with my apple-knock- ing, these pre-harvest sprays have also been used successfully on such varieties as Crimson Beauty, Melba, Keetosh and Linton. Applied as soon as a few apples began to fall, it definitely reduced the number of windfalls, thereby improving the size, color and quality of the crop. The effect was so pronounced on some very early varieties that some of the apples became over-mature and cracked open instead of falling. » * • Trees of tihe early kind that have been sprayed should be picked be- for* the apples reach the "crack- open" stage â€" and one application ^ the spray appears to be sufficient. With the Mcintosh, whijh is con- siderably more uncertain, the ex- perts think there mislvt be a benefit from a;>plying twi> sprays, one week •part There are a number of different products available for this purpose and their use should reduce some of the worry connected with the harvesting of a high-grade crop of fruit. But don't forget this: No mat- ter what product you use, be sure to follow the manufacturers' direc- tions closely, and doa't try anjr guesswork. * * * Which sihould be about enough for one session â€" except for this: The best "drought" story we've heard is the one about the chap who stood with a bunch of friends, all ot whom were bemoaning what the dry spell was doing to them. After listening to them for a little while, he said, "Heck, you guys don't know anything. If we don't get rain soon, every weed in my garden is going to be ruined." Postman's Loss â€" Rose Marie Couch, who short weeks ago was an unnoticed mail girl at Universal-International Studios in Hollywood, has forsaken the mails to please the males. Rose Marie may soon, be opening fan letters of her own for her first screen performance in "The Kid From Texas." Dirccily a'ove the letter >lol« in the H:isLii-.;; . Neb., post office are placards witli: "Have you mailed your wife's lettw?" T^fe^Hl^t^ piHoiiT5fei?y Smiling Loser By Richard HiU Wilkinaoa Kirby found the girl seated on an upturned bo.x behind the station crying. He hesitated, feeling awk- ward, then said: "Hello. Anything wrong?" She looked up quickly, apprais- ingly. "No, please go away." Instead, Kirby squatted on his heels. "You must have lost some money o{x that last race. Black Fox fooled every one by not coming in. I lost too." "I suppose I'm a baby to cry, but I couldn't help it. Iâ€" we â€" father and I staked everything on Black Fox. Then that terrible I'm- a-Runnin.' who nobody thought had a chance, had to win." She â-  hestitated, dabbing at her eyes. He seemed like a nice young man. And she did so want com- pany and to talk . . . He discovered her name was Polly Hayden. The next day he called at her house and met her father, a jolly faced old gentleman with white walrus moustaches. « "We really shouldn't feel so badly Polly told her father after the introductions were over. "Kirb lost a, lot more than we and he isn't conmplaining at all." That night Polly and Kirby had dinner at a little Inn out on the Tamiami trail. He knew she was wondering when and how he was going to pay his racing debts, and where he was going to get the money to establish himself in the law business. You just can't hang o&t a shingle in Miami and expect business at once. But he didn't offer the informa- tion. The next day he hired an office on Flagler street, then called up Col. Stratton and asked that racing enthusiast to meet him at Hialeah. "Colonel," he said over a sand- wich and coffee an hour later. "I'm. going to take you up on the offer . you made me for I'm-a-Runnin*. The colonel stared. "Now wait a minute, Kirby. Has the horse died or broken a leg or something?" "Nothing of the sort," IQrby laughed. "I'm quittinj^-jjcing £or_^ good. It's no business ^^5" aiT ener-"^ getic young lawyer to "be wasting his time at I hired an office this morning." They went out to the stables and looked at I'm-a-Runnin'. The col- onel couldn't understand it, but he wrote his check for $50,000 and the papers were passed. Conscious of a queer seiisatioa in the pit of his stomach, Kirby headed back for the stables for a last facewell. Outside I'm-a-Runnin's stall he stopped dead still at sight of Polly Hayden talking with his stable bq*.' Her eyes blazed at him. "Sol The good loser. The man who can lose everything, who will have to spend the rest of his life paying One View Of Britain's Problem Britain's present grave economic emergency is providing a brilliantly clear X-ray picture of what's wrong not only with Socialism, but what's wrong with so much of today's thinking abom the how of curing the world's ills, savs The Financial Po'st. " â-  This is not to imply that Britain's malignancy would have been avoid- ed or cured overnight had some- thing other than a Socialist govern- ment been in power. What we are n«w seeing in Britain are the fruits of a half century of missii>nizi4ig for a flal)by utopianism aJid a political pandering of votes, for which all parties must sh^re ^oine responsi- bility. .\s an illustration, Canaiiiaus need remember no further back than our own elections of last month. In that election. Liberals promised the ' adoption or extensiprt of many pol- icies which were fathered and moth- ered by SociaUst gospels and prac- tice, and the Conservatives prom- ised chiefly to give us more of these measures than the Liberals. Britain's fundamental difficulty today is, in its simplest, starkest form, the unwillingness of her people to work hard enough. The Socialists find they have been un- able to repeal the laws of human nature. As Whaley-Eaton, of Wash- ington, says: "It is . . . Socialism that has broken down, with Britain as the prim* example, and only American money until now hM pre- vented recognltKMt of the fact." his racing debts and still smile t Oh, what a fool I've been!" "Wait a minute! Listen!" He caught at her arm but she jerked away. He followed her out to her •car, "You've got to listen," he said desperately, getting in beside her. "I only did it because I thought it would make you {eel better. .\nd it worked. 1 meant it when I said I was through with racing, I've sold I'm-a-Runnin' to Colonel Strat- ton. Look!" He held out tlie bill of sale and the check. She stared at him round-eyed, frightened. "Oh, you shouldn't havel Kirby, you shouldn't You'll never be able â€" I mean, you love horses. Any one can see that. You loved I'm-a-Runnin'." Not half as much as I love you." he told her soberly. He put his arm around her. "You believe that, don't you? You must believe it." "Darling, oir course I do. And â€" I am glad that you're going to be a respectable lawyer, only â€" only â€" " "Only what?" "Well, sometime, after we've been respectable for a good long while, we'll buy another horse, won't we? A horse as great as I'm-a-Runnin'? Because â€" we both love horses, don't we?" "We do," Kirby agreed joyfully Down On The Farm â€" While the man he accused of helping hia supply government secrets to Russia waited for the jury s verdict in New York, W'hittaker Chambers relaxed in his Westminster Md., home. "I've played my part, now it's up to the jury. Chambers said when asked about the Alger Hiss trial. Th« BLACK HORSE "Do Y«u Know" Advisory Panel no REEVI w«ll-knDwit tportf wrMsr LOUIS BOURDON yroiglnwit radio linQW and Mttntsf Or ovmnontM W4HARD PENNINGTON Univwilty Librarian, McGIII Univ«reity MEGORY CLARK cHtHngutthMl ooluinntit The pofNlatiti tf Newfswitf aid, Hnth provinm in the Dominion of Canada, is 321,171. Do You Know . . . that Newfoundland was dis- covered by John Cabot on June 24, 1497, and was formally occupied on behalf of Great Britain in August, 1583, by Sir Humphrey Gilbert? Do You Know . . . that approximately one-third of its area of 42,734 square miles is covered by water . . . the capital of Newfoundland is St. John's, a city of 56,709 inhabitants . . . over 940 sow mills are in operation . . . 206 factories pack salmon with a total pack of some 6,600 cases, and 220 factories pock lobster with a total pack of some 6,300 cases . . . seal fishery, codfish packing, whale fishery art also engaged In . . . large beds of iron ore are being developed and exten- sive deposits of zinc and lead ore are being cultivated ... in 1947 a total of 396,998 tons of standard newsprint was exported . . . there ore 16 hydro-electric plants with 237,471 horsepower developed in 1948. Do YOM Knew any Intoresting and unusual facts? Our "Advisory Panel" will pay $25 for any authenticated readers' submissions If they are usable. All letters become our property. Write Black Horse Brewery, Station U Montreal, P.Q. c 1?