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PACE TWELVE THE DAILY TIMES-GAZETTE Old Buttons Packed With Military Lore I have always thought collecting anything was a magnie instinct. To a collector, the value of a dog- eared book or a coin, or a colored postage stamp, is in its scarcity, and the man who gloats, say, over his first edition of Tupper with the misspelled "freindship" on page 6 finds his pleasure evaporate if he jearns that his rarity suddenly has been found in abundance. Yet, in spite of my disapproval of what seemed a dog-in-the-manger hob- by, I became a collector. It began rather by accident during the war, writes Francis Russell in The Christian Science Monitor. At that time I had spent a num- ber of boring months in Corunna mess at Aldershot. Aldershot is England's permanent barrack city, its miles of bare Victorian brick buildings looking + as four-square and solid as if they had been de- signed personally by Albert the Good 'Some Old Buttons' There are probably more military outfitters and tailors between the Wellington Lines and the Alder- shot railway station than any- where else in the world. One rainy afternoon as I was coming out of a tailor's shop at the head of the road opposite the old cavalry bar- racks, I noticed a packing case be- side the counter. z "Some old buttons," said the little tailor as he saw me glance down at them. "Look "em over if ou fancy any." y I hin up a handful and sorted them out on the counter. The box held brass buttons for the most part, with a scattering of black, silver and gilt ones. As anyone who has happened to notice knows, each regiment and corps of the British Army has its distinctive buttons, with the Eng- lish crown plus various heraldic de- vices on them. The Scotch regi- mental buttons carry the cross of St. Andrew, the Irish the harp and crown, the Welsh the griffin, while the Welsh Guards bear a leek. A three-turreted castle signifies the past defense of Gibraltar, a sphinx that the regiment was en- gaged in the Egyptian campaign against Napoleon. The elephant and the lion are for campaigns in India, the dragon for China. As I poked about in the box, at first idly, then with interest notic- ing how many varieties were tnere, I became at that point a collector. By the end of that rainy afternoon I had a nucleus of more than 100 buttons, including some very old ones of the numbered regiments before 1881, disbanded Irish units like the Royal Dublin Fusiliers, such relics of the more recent past as the Army Cyclist Corps, the Machine Gun Corps, the Royal Flying Corps. Well-Established Hobby Some buttons had the flattened erown of Victoria's day instead of the present arched imperial ¢rown, and among other tokens I found a Grenadier Guards button with the twined Victorian cipher on it. "How much for all these?" I asked, pointing to the pile in front of me. "Would three bob 'be all right? You can come back and look them over again any time." From then on, I collected mili- tary buttons indiscriminately, in England, Europe, America. Later I discovered that military button col- lecting was a well-established hobby, although I have never yet met a fellow collector. The original collector was a Captain Emilio of the United States Army, who began his search for buttons after the American & > » Seeks New Deal --Central Press Canadian. Premier Smallwood of Newfound- land, seen on his arrival in Ottawa, said that he was carrying to the federal cabinet his province's fight for a new deal in railway freight rates. At the same time he said he was confident the controversial freight rates issue will never sever thé bonds of Confederation between the island province and the rest of Canada. Mr. Smallwood said he would "appeal to the governor-gen- eral-in-council against the Feb. 20 award of the board of transport commissioners," The award ruled against the province in its applica- tion for an order scrapping New- foundland's rate structure and re- placing it by rates in effect in the maritimes. Civil War. His collection, the lar- gest in the world--although it does not go beyond the 19th century-- is now in the Essex ' Institute at Salem, Mass. After the war I visited it, but I never took my hobby too seriously, and a few of my buttons I have not yet been able to identify. | One time, in a masquerade shop in New York, I found several Con- | federate Navy buttons, and in an- other place a heavy gilt Confeder- ate Army officer's button, such as General Lee wore. Curiously enough, these Confederate buttons were all made in England and run through the Union blockade by ships like the Alabama. From simi- lar shops I gradually assembled a fairly complete set of United States Army buttons from the War of 1812 down to the present. In the Civil War days, there were patterns and designs for every branch of the service, as well as for the various state volunteer militia regiments, Of all that for- mer variety, only the Engineer of- ficer's button remains distinct from the rest of the army today. United States Navy buttons re- mained essentially unchanged from the Civil War until 1942. In that year Secretary Frank Knox dis- covered the heraldic solecism of the eagle's facing right. By his or- der, the dies were changed, the eagle faced left, and a million new buttons were distributed to the fleet with several hundred miles of black cotton thread. Winnipeg Rifles Insignia The largest and handsomest but- tons in the United States at pres- ent are those of the United States Marine Corps, the latest are the respective gold and silver ones of the United States Air Force. My | own most incongruous buttons are Cant think of anything bur ' 3 Jr Jane Ashley's Write Jane Ashley, The Canada Starch Company Limited, P. O. Box 129, Montreal, P. Q. « Crown Brand Recipes FREE English -- those of the Catering | Corps (a simmering cauldron under a crown), the Education Corps (an open book}, and the Corps of Mili- tary Staff Clerks. Most amusing is a black but- ton of a capering devil with a pitchfork, the insignia of the Winnipeg Rifles -- the Little Black Devils from Winnipeg. Simplest are the Swiss and the German, the Swiss merely a cross indented in metal. While I was in Germany with the Army of Occupation, an ex- Wehrmacht soldier gave me several Russian buttons he had brought' back, with the hammer and sickle superposed on the Soviet star, and one small one of the Russian Far-Eastern Army showing the hammer and sickle against a rising sun, My most fortunate find was on the field of Waterloo in the winter of 1944. I had come up from Grave, Holland, for 24 hours' leave in Brussels, decided to spend my one afterngpn exploring the old battle- ground. As I trudged over the soggy fields between Hougoumont and La Haye Sainte, the dun cloud rack broke for a moment and a wan ray of sunshine filtered across the Bel- gian mound until ominous clouds swept it away again. Bending to a sudden furious gust of wind a few feet to nly right was what looked like a small coin or a flattened bul- let. When I picked it up, however, I saw at once by the shank that it was an old tunic button, After I had carefully scraped away enough of the encrusting grime of 130 years with my knife, I could make 'out from the simple number that it was of Wellington's 7th Foot. Of all my 500-odd but- tons, it is the prize of my collection. SPRING FLOOD Long Branch, Ont., Mar. 9--(CP) --The Etobicoke River overflowed in this suburban Toronto town Tuesday night forcing many resi- Greece's Leftist - = Party Lead Cut : Pasture Response | pr -- 4 |'To Fertilizer of increasing the pasture land .in livestock areas is one which has been extensively studied by the Division of Illustration Stations. says Ross Cairns. Since 1926 this Division of the Department of Agriculture has conducted pasture fertilizer studies on widely scattered stations farms in Prince Edward Island, Nova Scotia, New Bruns- wick, Quebec, Ontario and British Columbia. Four hundred and eighteen yield records have been obtained from a standarized formu- la study in which there is a com- parison of the relative value of 1,000 1b. per acre application of 0-12-0 and 0-12-6 every three years, The problem productivity of {acre. The addition of 100 lb. of am- | monium sulphate annually as a supplement to the 0-12-6 has further increased the yield by 0.96 itons of green herbage per acre The effect of these various treat- |ments on the per cent clover | arasses and weeds is also recorded | The highest per cent clover was | found on the areas treated with 0-12-6, where it makes up 41 per cent of the herbage produced. On the unfertilized area clover con- tributed only 23 per cent of the nerbage. In addition to the fertilizer formula comparisons, plots have been included for a study pf the effect of annual applications in com- parison with the application of fertilizer every three years. One plot received 333.3 lb. 0-12-6 plus 100 lb. ammonium sulphate annu- ally, while another received 1,000 Ib. 2-12-6 annually, and still another received 1,000 1b. 0-12-6 every three phate annuclly. 1IURSDAY, MAL. CH 9, 1950 | The plot which | received the application of minerals every three years with nitrogen yearly has yielded 10.11 tons per | acre on the average of 418 t 3. The one treated with the light x plication annually yielded only 9.62 tons and that which received the heavy annual application produced 11.15 tons er acre. There has been general yield res- fonse to the application of fertilizer elements to permanent pasture awards. The largest and most wide- spread yield increase has been ob- tained from superphosphate, while the highest per cent clover has been recorded on those areas treat- ed with a 0-12-6 formula. ROAD TO ALASKA The Alaska Highway, rigidly known as the Alcon Highway, now stretches 1,600 miles from Edmon- ton to Dawson Creek, B.C. then through the Yukon Territory to CONSTANTIN TSALDARIS An early leftist lead in Greek elections was cut sharply when the soldier Returns from five per cent of the 140,000 soldiers eligible to vote gave Constantin Tsaldaris' Populists--a | right-wing party--about a 3-to-1 advantage over Gen, Nicholas Plastiras' ed on the unfertilized check ; leftist National Progressive Union. Political observers said if the trend When potash was added as i vote 'began pouring into. Athens. continued Tsaldaris' party could win, and 0-12-6 every three years plus 100 1b. ammonium sulphate annu- ally in stiraulating pasture growth. years plus 100 lb. ammonium sul- Fairbanks, Alaska. On 'the average of all yields NICHOLAS PLASTIRAS recorded, phosphorus when used alone (0-12-0) has been the most effective nutrient, giving a yield in- crease of 3.03 tons of green herbage per acre over the 5.55 tons obtain- --Central Press Canadian. | the yield increase twas 0.57 tons per | dents to leave their homes and iso- lating others. No injuries were re- ported. The water spilled over the river bank when heavy ice caused a jam. Dynamite has been used unsuccessfully in an effort to cut a channel. BOY DROWNED? Hamilton, March 9--(CP)--Six~ year-old Bruce Benner is believed to have been drowned in the swol- len waters of a creek Wednesday. Police said his tricycle was found near the river. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. W. O. Benner, MEALTIME FAVORITE- with young orold... THE 24th ANNUAL QUINTE DISTRICT SEED SALE March 16-17-18 IN THE ARMOURY, LINDSAY, ONTARIO Featuring SEED SHOW -- BACON CARCASS COMPETITION -- SPECIAL SPEAKERS -- EDUCATIONAL DISPLAYS -- JUNIOR FARMER SEED JUDGING COMPETITION -- FARM MACHINERY DISPLAY and SEED SALE Programme Thursday Afternoon--Swine Carcass Demonstration Address by Dr. G. P. McRostie, O.A.C., Guelph Address by Dr. J. R. Weir, 0.A.C., Guelph Friday Afternoon--Swine Carcass Demonstration Address by Dr. J. D. MacLachlan, O.A.C., Guelph Addsess by Mr. W. T. Ewen, Soils Specialist Saturday Afternoon--PUBLIC AUCTION -- SALE OF SEED WITH FINE FOODS KRAFT--PLAIN CHEESE PINK SEAL Pink SALM BRUNSWICK--CANADIAN SARDINES RICHMELLO--CANADIAN--COLOURED OLD CHEESE - 47: RICHMELLO--CANADIAN--COLOURED MILD CHEESE - 39 CLOVER VALLEY--JUNIOR ROLL CHEESE =: 45: VELVEETA := 26 FROM DOMINION WINTER CAUGHT WHITEFISH CLEANED AND SCALED bh 25¢ = Ia Ay// ry oF -- Sel >= = ARE. . Roe Ra = Legend has it that cheese was discovered accidentally by an Arab herdsman who found that when + rennet was added to milk it caused the milk to separate into curds and whey. By tasting the curds he discovered cheese. Cheese-making 1s the oldest knowa form of dairy processing. Made ia many countries, by various methods, :here' are more than 400 varieties of cheese available: today, among them Gruyere from Switzerland, Roquefort from Frarce, Edam from Holland, Gor. gonzola from Italy, Canadian Cheddar, I'n Oka, Quebec, Trappist monks make Oka Cheese, for which Canada is be- coming famous. More than 65% of the cheese sold in Canada today 1s pasteurized, processed cheese, a combination of aew and old Cheddar. Because a poand of cheese contains the protein and fat of one gallon of milk and is rich in vitamins, iron, calcium and phosphorus, it is one of man's most essential foods. FRESH PCRK LOINS 41. SCHNEIDER'S SMOKED Tenderized CHOICE SOLE FILLETS Ib. 45 Whole or Half HAMS PEAMEALED COTTAGE ROLLS = 57: 9 Oz 1's TIN dle Jor ON 4 23 53 uw 25 Va's Tins FLORIDA NO. 1 STRINGLESS NEW BUNCH LARGE SIZE each 29. FRESH GREEN BEANS CALIFORNIA NO. 1 SNOW WHITE CAULIFLOWER IMPORTED NO. 1 FRESH GREEN TOP Fruito & Vegetables 519: Large Hosd $F CARROTS 2 « 19 92a: 23 wir 18 CALIFORNIA NO. 1 FIRM, CRISP ICEBERG LETTUCE MEXICAN NO. 1 FIRM, RED RIPE TOMATOES FRESH CUBAN NO. 1 JUMBO PINEAPPLE Size 60's PRACTICALLY SEEDLESS Size 216's doz; 44. FRESH OYSTERS 59 SWEET AND JUICY -- NEW CROP FLORIDA ORANGES MAPLE LEAF RINDLESS SIDE BAGON 4 Pkgs. 37 "Outstanding Week of Canned Food Values" NATURE'S BEST--CIHOICT QUALITY TOMATO JUICE = 18: CULVERHOUSE--CHOICE--CREAM STILE Golden CORN 2: 27 PRIDE © GREEN PEAS 3 CULVERHOUSE--QUALITY--SIZE NO. 4 THOICE PEAS 2 LONE STAR--STD. CYALITY TOMATOES LYNN VAL WAX BEANS == 10 ATLAS--STD. QUALITY--CLT GREEN BEANS 2 VD VALLDY-=STD.--UNTRAZTD wer BB ir Y £ 23 28 Oz. Tins V--STD. QUALITY. ~ZCLELN CUT nor DY CATS & VEGETABLES & OMATO SAUCE CANDY FEATUREI--BASSETT'S--ENGLISH QUALITY LICORICE ALLSORTS OGILVIE GINGERBREAD MIX VALUES EFFECTIVE IN OUR OSHAWA STORE 16 Ox. Pkg. THURSDAY, FRIDAY, SATURDAY, MARCH 9h - 10th "lit C826 a5: no 28 12 Oz. Botte HEINZ CHILI SAUCE ::: 32 ROMAN MEAL JACKSON'S uo. 33¢ APPLE JUICE i: 27:19 = DELICIOUS CANNED FRUITS -: FALL'S VIEW--STD. QUALITY--DESSERT SLICED PEARS LYNN VALLEY--S5TD. GUALITY--IN SYRUP Halves PEACHES FRUIT SALAD "26 SLICED APPLES =: 20 BIRDSEYE FROZEN FOODS ORANGE JUICE 34: STRAWBERRIES "= 43 DOMINION STORES LIMITED 15 Oz. Tins 25 i7- 15 Oz, Tin 15 Oz. Tin 6 Oz. Tin 16 Oz. Pkg.