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THE TIMES: GAZETTE OSHAWA WHITBY THE OSHAWA TIMES (Established 1871) THE WHITBY GAZETTE AND CHRONICLE (Established 1863) An independent newspaper published every Tuesdsy, Thursday ant Saturday by The Times Publishing Company of Oshawa, Limited, Arthur R. Alloway, President and Managipg Director. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: Delivered by 2arrier in Osha"a, Whitby, Brooklin, Port Perry Ajax or Pickering, 24c for two weeks. $6.24 per year if paid in advance. By mail outside carrier delivery area anywhere in Canada acd Eng- land $4.00 per year. United States subscriptions $5.00 ner year, Authorized as Second Class Mail, Post Office Department, Ottawa. Net Paid Circulation Average per Issue 1 0,0 #2 3 FOR JUNE THURSDAY, JULY 25, 1946 Summer Hazards It's our first peacetime summer---let's make the most of it, advises Jean Lambert in an article in the forthcoming summer issue of Health, official journal of the Health League of Canada. Miss Lambert warns against excessive sunburn, poison ivy, undue fatigue, tells about the dangers of drinking un- tested water and unpasteurized milk, and advises vacationists to learn to "swim before you paddle your own canoe." In regard to suntan, it is advisable to take a full two weeks to suntan safely. First exposure should not exceed 10 minutes in the morning and 10 in the afternoon. "Unless we realize that sunburn is a real burn--just as real as though.we placed a hand on a sizzling hot stove-- we're in for trouble," writes Miss Lambert, as she advises that, while many of the suntan lotions on the market help to prevent 'excessive burning, they are not a cure for burns. Poison ivy looks like Virginia Creeper, but has three leaves instead of five. It is very ingratiating--growing 'meekly in waste places, equally at home in rich woodlands or near bathing beaches. All parts of the plant--leaves, flower, fruit, bark or roots--are equally. poisonous. This plant's poison can be carried by clothes which have come in contact with the plant, particularly if the 'clothes are damp at the time of contact. Animals walking through the plants also will carry it, If you'do become involved with poision ivy, don't scratch, and remember that your greatest friend is cheap laundry soap, which gets down to business with the oily poison, Use soap generously ; scrub well with soap and water. Do this under running water several times. Take heed also of drinking water which appears clean but possibly could be contaminated. Water is a notorious vehicsz for the transmission of serious diseases, but can be made safe by boiling or chlorinating. Also, the common dipper should be avoided. Water piped in from a municipality which tests and treats its water is safe, but if that water is put into a cooler it must be purified in the same way as well water or spring water, Home chlorinating outfits or information are avail- able at most provincial departments of health. Vacationists are advised against use of unpasteurized milk, and it is suggested that home pasteurization methods be used if milk which has been pasteurized commercially is not available, These methods can be obtained by writing to the health department. The use of milk in its raw state involves unnecessary risk because while milk is one of the best foods available, it unfortunately is easily contaminated by disease- dealing bacteria. This applies even to milk produced under the most sanitary conditions. Yes, even clean milk is not necessarily safe, Vacationists and others, too, are advised to use addition- al salt in the summer diet. There is a salt level in the blood which must be held, and in order to maintain it during summer heat, extra salt is needed to make up for what is lost in perspiration. ~ Distinguished Pioneer Even when the telephone was born it was a foregone conclusion that some day the world would not only talk but See over a wire. As early as 1884 Paul Nipkow invented a method of mechanically scanning an object such as a face and thus laid a foundation for his successors. By the early 1920's enough information was gathered for at least eight empirical inventors to proceed. It rested with young John Baird, son of a Scottish minister, to make what deserves to be regarded as the first practical television apparatus. The feat was all the more remarkable because Baird was a poverty-stricken, garret inventor utterly unknown. He dem- onstrated his first system in 1925. At the time it was re- ported that he used nothing but some string, sealing wax, some lenses and Nipkow's disc. His first television scanner, now an exhibit in the South Kensington Museum, testifies otherwise. 'Crude as it is, any mechanic would accept it as a workmanlike model. John Baird died just recently in London, England, not exactly a disappointed man, inasmuch as his rare gifts had been recognized from the very first demonstration of his television set, but certainly-a man who knew that he had hit on something that was beyond his power to exploit even though the necessary capital was at his disposal. Something better than a perforated disc Was needed, and only a physicist who knew his electronics could devise it. So it happened that the television set of today, which relies on an inertialess beam of electrons for scanning, soon displaced Baird's method. The model in the South Kensington Museum is as far removed from what we call television as the steam horseless carriage from the gasoline-driven automobile. Yet John Baird goes down with\ Fulton, Morse, McCor- mick, and a hundred others as a distinguished pioneer who worked in the whittler tradition. It is not likely that many" more of the type will succeed him. The problems of technol- ogy demand today far more scientific and mathematical knowledge than he possessed. But his romantic career proves again that despite our huge, well-organized corporation laboratories there is still room for a lone garret inventor with magnificent ideas and the pertinacity to carry them out 8 May This Harmony Continue | TR | IPR 1) --Ray in the Kansas City Star From Cork comes word that an Irish .officer, Thomas Byrnes, has been awarded a medal by the South African Government for "helping the Boers to capture Win- ston Churchill" when the latter was a war correspondent, Historians through 46 years have failed to mention an "assist" Byrnes, Mr, Churchill's biograph- | ers--Guedalla, Coulter, Kraus and | Hawthorne--relate the incident in unconflicting terms. The young correspondent of the Morning Post went out toward Colenso on an ar- mored train, November 15, 1899. The train was attacked and partly derailed. Churchill rallied the lo- comotive crew and got some of the troops hauled safely away, dropped off to rejoin the rearguard only to find it had been overpower=- ed. In "A Roving Commission" the rest of the story is told in his own words. "I determined to make ada: for the river, Suddenly on the other side of the railway I saw a 'horseman galloping furious- ly--a tall, dark figure holding his rifle in his right hand. He pulled up his horse and shout- ed a loud command. We were 40 yards apart. I put my hands to my belt, but my pistol was not there, The Boer continued then | Helped Capture Churchill (In South African Episode) to look along his sights, I could see no chance of escape. I held up my hands." Some years later, in London, | Churchill met the "tall, dark fig. ure," this time in a white shirt and frock coat. He happened to relate the incident of his capture, and a listener said: "I. was that man." | It was Louis Botha, first Premier of the Transvaal, and thereafter a firm friend of Churchill and of Bri- tain, who was chiefly responsible for South Africa's participation in the war of 1914-19. Botha became a colleague of Churchill as member of the King's privy Council, Churchill, when he was Home Secretary, saw that the engine crew of 1899 received an award for gallantry, Recognition of Byrnes' part, whatever it may have been, has waited nearly a half-century. Four shots were fired at the future Prime Minister of Great Britain when he was run. 2ing along that railway cutting, and possibly Byrnes was one of those potting at the war corres- pondent. The belated award under- lines the importance which the Boers attached to the capture, though actually the prisoner es- caped in a few weeks, and within the year was lecturing in Canada and the United States on his - ex- periences in South Africa. ® Other Editors PUBLIC OPINION HAS FORCE (Ottawa Journal) Public opinion freely expressed still can force the hands of govern- ment agencies, There is no doult it was criticism from members of Parliament and in the newspapers which induced the C.B.C. to cancel a trivial program which was cost- ing nearly $6,000 a week. IF ALL WERE KIND (Chatham News) tivation of this spirit of kindness in all departments of personal, nation. al and international relations. Only in this way will real peace be re- stored, and contentment and pros- perity- assured for all mankind. If everyone were kind, no one would be unhappy. COIN-IN.SLOT RADIOS ("Marketing", Toronto) Two hours of radio for 25 cents for hotel guests is offered by a re- ceivihg set being manufactured by a leading radio maker. The coin operated sets are being: speciglly made for use in hotel rooms where they are being installed as rapidly as production permits, When peak production is reached, over 8,000 receivers a month will be built, The sets are similar in appearance to late-model table radio receivers, the major difference being a coin me- chanism on the top where the 25- cent pieces are inserted. ,The guest can turn the radio off and on until he gets his full two hours' worth of entertainment. HE Just RAN AWAY (Peterborough Examiner) We wonder if all this talk about "broken marriages" isn't overdone. A century ago, when divorce was seldom invoked, a man simply ran away from his wife when he couldn't stand her any longer, and as communications were poor, he didn't have to run very far. Wo- men, too, frequently vanished by the light of the moon. We really don't believe that people are any worse at marriage now than they were then, But they are more busi. ness-like about their methods of separation, DIP YOUR HEADLIGHTS (Guelph Mercury) In the United States, automobile clubs have been engaged in a most praiseworthy campaign to impress upon motorists the value of court- esy in "dipping their lights," with very satisfactory results, Here in Canada it is a courtesy that is sel dom extended. This is not required by law, but is believed that if the appeal is properly presented to Canadian motorists, it will not re- quire a law to make it a general practice. If motorists would only realize that, they would be contributing to their own safety and pleasure by making the practice a general one, there should be no trouble in se-- curing the co-operation of the mo- toring public in bringing about this reform. 5 Londcn--(CP)--With a helght of What this world needs is the cul- | 21 Fellowships Given By Unrra Prague--Twenty-one fellowships have been awarded. to Czechoslova« kian technical experts to provide | them with an opportunity to study | modern developments in their own fields of werk, it was announced on | June 26 by the UNRRA Mission here. Eighteen of the fellows have elected to study in the United | States, while three will study in | England. UNRRA has provided these fel. lowships tc ald Czechoslovakia in | carrying on a program of relief | and rehabilitation after the Admin- istration ceases to function. The experts receive their travel ex- penses, a monthly living allotment while studying, a clothing allowanse, a small fund for books and essen- tial equipment, Each has agreed to spend at least three years in reha- bilitation work dn Czechoslovakia after completion of the foreign study. Included in the many subjects the experts will study in the U.S. and England are penicillin production, construction, labor exchange, reha- bilitation of disabled persons and war veterans, the U.S, social secur- ity system, public health, psychia- try, pharmacy, biology, nutrition, agricultural rehabilitation, animal husbandry, mining, electrification of railways,.the lumber industry and international trade. Seek Tourists For Fall Months Toronto, July 24.--(CP)--Ontario Travel Minister Arthur Welch this week announced plans to stimulate tourist trade during September and October. : "There is no reason why Septem- ber and October should not be big tourist months," he said. "We have the weather and we have the facilities; many of our best camps remain open until after the hunt- ing season and could look after general vacationists in the interim." 'The Travel Department will con- duct an intensive advertising cam- paign to try to maintain the great ot tourist season in Ontario his- ory. SELECT GENEVA FOR SESSION Washington--The fifth session of the Council of the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Adminis- stration will be held in Geneva, Switzerland, starting August 5, Di- rector Gereral P. R. LaGuardia has announcéd. The choice was made following an invitation from the Government of Switzerland and from the United Nations, which has offered to make all of its facilities available, ® A Bible Thought Not somehow, but triumphantly-- six feet, eight inches, Constable Donald Jack Stevens claims to be | London's tallest policeman. | "Thanks be unto God, which always causeth us to triumph in Christ." (I Cor. 2:14) ' KINGSTON FORTS HAD BIG ROLE INEARLY CANADA Military History of City Is €olorful Background For Centennial ' Kingston, July 25 -- (CP) -- Fort Frontenac, which forms a part of the military , backdrop for King- ston's centennial celebrations this year, was first built in 1673 at a cost of 10,000 francs, 15 guns and 25 overcoats. For the next 200 years, it continued as one of the most strategic fortified points in Canada's history. . It was from Fort Frontenac that La Salle made his preparations for his voyage of discovery to the Mis- sissippl, and it was from the same fort that Canada's defenders made continuous sorties against the.en- emy throughout the country's whole war history. When Fort Frontenac fell to the English in 1758, the cap- ture of all Canada was merely a matter of months, Built for the three-fold purpose of holding back the Iroquois, check- ing English expansion, and serving as a base for the endless search for a route to China, Fort Frontenac became the ceatre of the struggle when inevitable expansion of both French and English colonies made conflicting interests a certainty. Oswego was built by the English as a counter defence and the two fortifications were the chief ob- jectives of the respective enemies in.| the war in 1758, The Fort at Kingston was taken by General Bradstreet assisted by 3,000 men and a fleet of whale boats and batteaux. When the whole continent was then in the hands of one aeountry the ruins of Fort Frontenac were left as ruins for the next 25 years, It was the United Empire Loyal- ists . who were responsible for the next phase in the development of present day Kingston, They had come here during the War of In- dependence, when the British gov- ernment found it advisable to re- build the fortifications and in keep- ing with their loyalty to the British Crown they first named the place Kingstown. Shipyard Protected Military activity was renewed again when the war of 1812 was in the air. By the opening of the war the biggest shipyard in Canada was operating at Navy Bay, and Fort Frontenac on the west, and what now is Fort Henry on the east, were fully manned to protect the yards with effective cross-fire should the occasion arise. The city was never attacked, however, but it was the starting point for many attacks on Ameri- can points, As a city, it benefited considerably from the war activity. By 1814 the community had 2,250 people, 450 dwellings of substantial construction, three churches, a gov- ernment building, a theatre, a news- paper and a public library. During periodic war-scares, addi- tional barracks were built at Fort Frontenac, the major defence 'scheme centred about Fort Henry was undertaken, and the Rideau Canal was put under construction to give the city access to Montreal should travel by the St. Lawrence become too hazardous. The canal was finished in 1832. As the western part of the con- tinent opened up, Kingston lost much of her strategic importance, but her forts continued to play large parts in wartime. Fort Fron- tenac has been a military head- quarters during war and peace, Fort 'raised Tomato Juice Is Appreciated "Dear Members of Ontario Divi- sion" writes Agnes B. Ballantyne matron of St. Leonard's Nursery, Edinburgh Scotland, "Please accept our warmest thanks for your latest generous gift, that of tomato juice for the Nursery School children, The children loved. it. It is a great pleasure to see their happy faces when the juice is served and to know how much good it is doing them. "You, our Canadian friends, have been so constant in your friendship and so active in your help that we can never forget what we owe you. There was always the strongest bond between our countries and it is stronger now because of your kindness in these trying and dietet- ically dull times." Because it was impossible to ob- tain sugar for jam last year, funds in Ontario Red COrdss Branches for this purpose, were used to purchase infants' food and concentrated orange juice for Brit- ish children. During the war years the Red Cross Women's Institute Jam for Britain project furnished 1,285.024 pounds of jam and honey for Canadian servicemen in hos- pitals and children in British nurs- eries, SAYS GANADIANS UNSUNG HEROES Book Reviewer Lauds Do- minion's Force In War NEW YORK, July %.--(CP)-- "The Canadians were unsung her- oes of the war," Gladwin Hill com= ments in a recent book review sec- tion of the New York Times in a review of Ross Munro's book, "Gauntlet to Overlord," published in Canada earlier this year. Hill said in part: "Although, like the deeds of the Canadian Army which he chroni- cles, Ross Munro is not well enough known to the average American, he was among the top half-dozen of the thousands of correspondents who reported the war in Europe. "As the Canadian Press leading frontier correspondent throughout the war, he saw more fighting than possibly any other correspondent... . "His book is one of the finest first-hand accounts of war that have appeared." Recounting briefly the operations of Canadian troops from the First Canadian Division which arrived overseas four months after Hitler invaded Poland to the end of the war in Europe, Hill adds: "These European-Mediterranean campaigns Munro recounts--most of them first hand--in detail that makes his book virtually an official history . . . "This puts the book on an en- tirely different plane from the hell for-leather memoirs of the "I" cor- respondents, "Munro ._. . eschews synthetic coloring, yet manages to convey in cold factual terms a better picture of war, death and courage, and how a good correspendent works, than most of the ers." The call of a cricket can be heard | for one mile, Henry has served as an internment camp and the third defence fort of Point Frederick has become a part of the Royal Hiilitary College. adjective-heav- | AUTO EXPORT TRADE NEEDED Willys Head Says World Hungry For Cars TOLEDO, Ohio -- Curtailed pur- chasing power, exchange difficulties and nationalism are factors retard- ing the realization of an enormous export business by the American automobile industry, according to James D. Mooney, president of Willys-Overland Motors, Inc, Authority on Export Mooney, who spent many years in the industry's overseas operations, is recognized as an authority on ex- port. y He is an ardent advocate of the fullest development of the car in- dustry's foreign business, because, he sald in an interview here, manu- facturing for export will help im- measurably in levelling off the peaks and valleys of production at home, and thereby provide steady employment, Mooney sees nothing complex about the export problem. Starved For Cars "The world," he sald, "is literally starved for road transportation. . . passenger cars, trucks and buses. People abroad, like those of us of home, want to ride instead of walk and they want to take the load off their backs. But outside the United States the world cannot supply its own needs. That's where we, a na- tion that is at once the most waste- ful and yet the most productive come in, "In Europe, especially, production and distribution facilities have been paralyszd or destroyed by war or politics . . . perhaps more by poli- tics than by bombing. "It is a simple fact that we can- not hope to sell overseas to people who aren't producing anything : sell us, and we cannot meet overseas demand unless we sharp! increase our own output." Mooney said he believed that when the American people "get over the 'holiday' spirit that seems to have followed the war," production at home will begin to move upward. 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