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ETERS SRR A wr---- Jd _ the ultra-fast film. " possible. . voiced calls, Thefallen gull was dead . appeal i ER rR ten ch gts Sox Spr pe Sv Death at Dawn- Svanp Dan «| ; ' By A. B. G. in the Winnipeg Free Press : 4 Bars of silver moopgleam stood out between the dark ranks of march grass at Grant's Lake, To the east the first.slit of red dawn gave a half- hearted promise of rain. Overhead to the north, south and west, dark clouds hurriedly slithered northwest- ward before the dawn breeze. It was cold, damp and awesome. The night was filled with all the strange eerie noises of a Manitoba prairie slough when the birds are courting their mates. Ducks of many species gabbled companionably. Gay-colored drakes quacked rash vows of constancy, which neither they nor their drab, spell-bound females believed. Coots gave vent to unearthly shriekings and heart-wrenching coughs, grunts and moans. From time to time the million geese, secure behind the swamp grass, raised their voices as one. They bay- ed. like a pack of distant hounds, then abruptly changed to that wild, high-pitched note that has its human counterpart in the curious savage half-moan, half-defiant yell that rises from mobs when police charge down with swinging batons, When the geese dropped silent, the horde of Franklin gulls cackled out a derisive Bronx cheer, like street gamins hooting after a top hat. Prone on a squelchy little island two camermen shivered as they lay in wait for the morning flight, Time dragged slowly around the illumin- ated dials of the wrist watches, It was only three-fifteen. Hours later, the watches declared that it was but three-thirty. Light improved. The light meter said there was nearly but not quite, enough to use the high speed lenses, The babel of the slough rose and fell as the birds grew impatient for the_sun, Suddenly, - with hissing wings, a flock of ducks flung themselves out of the slough and set out for feed- ing. grounds, The gulls gave over teasing the: geese. and leisurely, gracefully, with many a light-hearted aerial acrobatic display, began to hunt their breakfast on nearby plow- ed land. The light meter now said silhou- ette pictures against the sky. were The movie cameras came out of their protective cases, lenses were opened to the widest, and shut- ter speeds slowed dowa. So well hidden were the camera hunters that gulls and ducks wing- ing over almost struck heads caut- iously peeking over to watch where the geese were hidden. Time moved faster as the swamp sprang to life. Then came the geese, a few at first, then more and more and more, winging right over the blind. The movie cameras chortled with delight -as intermittent claws pulled the exposed film over purling sprockets. Dawn clouds made a perfect back- drop, for the geese flocks moving in long lines toward the bursting glory of the rising sun. Geese and ducks had landed on feeding grounds. Gulls were yarning on -a flooded ditch bank and shouting ribald remarks to their companions still on the wing overhead. There was a lull in the first rush for food, but no letup in the gulls' chattering. Without warning, pandemonium ceased abrutly. The swamp and all its occupants watched a lone actor, a Franklin gull whose rosy white breast gleamed in the fresh sunlight. Never a guli flew as this gull flew: It mounted in spirals. It wav- 'ered, seemed to stumble in the air, recovered itself, staggered dizzily. All was silent save the ories of the one bird. It was perhaps a high when the long, tipved wings crumpled. Dropping in ever-increasing speed, the bird sent up a tiny splash as it hit water-covered grass. As if waiting for the signal, the] gu 13 hovered over the spot with low- hundred feet white, black- wish the camermen reached it. A splotch of ruby red on- the rosy feathers showed where a lead pellet had struck, probably the day before. Thus died at dawn a gull of the race of gulls to whom the Mormons have erected a marble shaft in grate- ful remembrance of the days when the birds saved the Salt Lake colony. from annihiliation by the grasshopper plague. Lloyd George : Starts Up Shop CHURT, Surrey -- David Lloyd George, remarkably successful as a model farmer, announced recently he would enter the retail business. The Wartime Prime Minister said he was having a roadside shop built near his estate here, which will stock fresh fruit, vegetables, flowers, eggs honey and jam, Tt is hoped tho produce will especially to the passing Green tea with a flavour and a delicacy beyond compare GREEN TEA _---------- HOLLYWOOD, Calif.,--This year's "ideal beauty' -in Hollywood is two inches taller; several inches thicker, and her traditional blonde locks have changed to "midnight blue." "There have been too many blondes for too long." So said Leroy Prinz as he explain- ed yhy he picked Miss Anne Mopil (she's Martha Merrill back home in Fort Wayne, Ind.) as the "ideal type" out of 200 dancers. Miss Meril is five feet five, weighs 116 pounds, and has a walst measurement of 26..inches, an eight inch ankle --- and "midnight blue" hair. Prinz, a director, said the American movie public decided on the changed style in beauty and helped him select Miss Meril. "Ideas of what constitutes a beau: tiful girl change as do standards in clothing,", he explained. : "I'm not the one to say why, in el: ther case. But from the reaction I and other directors get in fan mail from audiences who sce the dancers, it's perfectly apparent people are now tired of blondes. Miss Meril is a.good two inches tal- ler than what Hollywood regarded as the ideal stature last year. Audien- ces saw to that, too. "We began getting better comment on the looks of our choruses when, more by accident, than anything else; we tried, using taller girls," Prinz sald. "Apparently what the vast bulk of people want -- those who are inter- ested in a girl's looks, that is -- is a taller type. Maybe it's because the race is getting bigger. "From a technical standpoint, at any rate, it is rare that we find real beauty without stature. A girl who stands around five feet or five-two, may be pretty, but it's physically im- possible for her to have much digni- ty or queenliness, "She's cute, but she isn't impres: sive." - LJ Growing Old Writes: the Sarnia . Canadian-Ob- server: The psychologist who said the other day that old age and death is a mere matter of psychology, seems to be skipping about the edge of sophistry. To claim full credit for modern knowledge which has length- ened human life five years in two generations is one thing, but to reach from that for a logical con- clusion that life may be prolonged indefinitely by mere psychological ef- fort is. something different. This would be comforting to those who de- sire to live to be 200 years old, but before -mefi "reach that age other knowledge than merely how to wish for prolonged existence will be neces- sary. oe : To fix an arithmetical program by which human life is to be lengthened according to the ratio of the first modern steps is to invite disappoint- ment. Some time, possibly, men' may live to be much older than in this generation, but when that time ar- rives human beings will be found liv- ing as well as thinking in a manner far from the habits of 1936. Physical death and old age is something more than a simple matter of psychology, at least in man's present state of knowledge. Issue No. 25 -- '36 Ed 40 'Midnight Blues' Replacing Filmdom's Blonde Beauties Amateur Writers May Be Discouraged ~NEW YORK--Mary Roberts Rhine- hart, the author who is "unhappy when I'm writing, but utterly miser- able when I'm not," polished off her latest novel recently and than sat back to figure out how many of them she's written. She counted 60. "It seems incredible," she said, putting aside the manlscript for a new short story. When that's out of the way, she'll start novel No. b1, she said. A slow writer, Mrs. Rhinehart said she pours 500,000 words into the first draught of a story (she makes three), then cuts the final job down to 160,000 words. On some of her books she has worked from two to three years. : Last week Earnest R. ("Pop") Has- elwood looked like a 'good bet against the field. "Bus Transportation," Mec- Gaw-Hill trade journal was tabulating returns in its contest, not to be de- cided until late this year, to discover who is the safest bus driver in the U.S. Owen Meredith of Enid, Okla, drove 976,800 -miles without -seratch- ing a fender. Ancel Mistler of Sedalia, Mo., turned up with a no- accident record of 950,000 miles. But "Pop" Haselwood, of Chappel, Neb., in 20 years had driven 1,772,661 miles without a = "chargeable" accident. Driver Haselwood's formula: "Drive like the other guy is crazy". _ , "Pop" Haselwood, 44, started out as a Northwest farmer and lumber- jack, bought a Ford in 1916, put it in tip-top shape, ran a one-man, one-car buslire. After two years he sold out, drove for a half-dozen bus companies. Since 1929 he has driven for Omaha's Interstate Transit Lines, now makes the 219-mile run between = North Platte. Neh.. and Chevenne, Wyo., one way or the other, six days a week. When passing on oncoming he sights the road edge over the radiator cap, gets his rightliand tires on, the brink of the paving. Three times automo- biles or trucks have bumped him. In every case his bus was standing stock- still. , "Pop" is not so called because of his age but because that is a favor- ite. nickname for a stolid driver. There are five other "Pops" in his division. Most Interstate drivers look like wrestlers because the company's minimum weight limit is 160 1b. Haselwood is just over the line with 164. He is married, childless, makes $225 per month. The one time he ever drove "like hell" was when a woman in his bus bore a baby.--From Time. M4 Britain Reports Fewer Jobless LONDON -- Unemployed in Great 'Britain on May 25th totalled 1,706;- 042, a decrease of 126,188 in one month, it was announced officially this month. ; stream of motorists. That's why you'll particularly enjoy Christie's light, crisp, flaky Soda Wafers. 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Adelaide St., Crops grown in tanks of water, ra- ther. than in the .time-honored fields ed in the now issue of,a trade journal. "Food Industries." Tomatoes yielding at the rate of 217 tons per acre of tank surfdce, as compared with the outdoor field yield of about five tons per acre, potataes at 2,466 bushels "tank acre""'fis against 11 bushels per field acre, tobacco plants 22 feet high with. leaf-quality under full con- trol -- these are among the results claimed for the new method. In basic principle, the procedure is sald to be nothing new. For many years;,"we are told, scientists have been growing plants with their roots in jars of water, to which nutrient minerals have been added in varying amounts for the purpose of laboratory tests. 2 The reader can do it himself, - with no more equipment than a few radish seeds and a tumbler -of water with a piece of mosquito netting tied loose- ly over the top, so that its centre sags and gets wet. But the idea of doing it on a com- mercial scale with the hope of actual- ly making it-pay for itself, awaited the ploneering of Dr. Gericke of the University of California, He uses .a number of great tanks of concrete or redwood planks, it is explained, Over the tops are wire nettifigs, on which the seeds are planted in beds of peat moss, excelsior or straw, Their roots grow down into the water, which con- tains fertilizer in solution and which is kept electrically heated to the tem- perature: best suited for rapid plant growth, It is even claimed to be possible to dispense with sun as well as soil, or at least to supplement the sunlight with electric illumination, for plants can use this second-hand sunlight as well as the original article, for pur- poses of food manufacture and also growth, -- The Quebec Chronicle-Tel- egraph- : -- Place of Execution Writes the Brantford: Expositor-- There seems to be considerable ap- proval of the idea that th. time has arrived when the death penalty should be inflicted, not in the com- munity where the murder occurred, but at some central place in the provinces, or at the penitentiaries. TLere is a good deal to be said for this view. Uf, after murderers are tried and condemned, they were transferred immediately to, the peni- tentiary there to await the time of execution, which could be carried out with as little publicity as pogsible, it would save a lot of turmoil and curi- osity that invariably accompany I :.ngings in small communities. Canadians * are quite generally agreed that the death penalty for murder is necessary for the protec- tion of society and, if this is so, then it should be imposed: in a manner that will disturb the public as little as possible, of soll, are a decided [novelty describ-| Splendid Results Are Claimed tay . For Crops Grown in Water Tan Ontario Barley Situation That Barley is assuming a more important place in Canadian Agri- culture and Canadian industry is evidenced by the fact that a National Barley Committee has been set up and was in session in Toronto recent- ly. With these facts in view, . the following brief paragraphs from "The Ontario Agricultural Outlook for 1936" should be of special interest and value to Ontario farmers who are just now laying their plans for this year's crop production. "The 1936 barley crop in Ontario was the largest since 1930 and is estimated at 16,841,000 bushels, In 1934 the production was 14,741,700 bushels. The acreage was increased from 484,900 acres to 623,000 and the yield per acre at 82.2 bushels was 3 bushels higher than in the previous year, The Canadian crop -of 83,975,000 bushels is much higher, showing a gain of 20,233,000 bushels or 31.7 per cent. over 1934. From the 1936 Canadian crop about 9,260,000 bushels were export- ed to the United States, whereas in the years 1930-835 inclusive the ex- port to this market was negligible. --The average price being paid for the 1935 barley crop is 40 cents per bushel. A What is a Farmer A farmer is: A capitalist that labors. A patriot who is asked to produce at a loss. T A man who works eight hours a day twice a day. A man who has every element of nature to combat every day in the yeer. A man who is.a biologist and econ- omist and a lot more ists. Who gives more and asks less than any other human being. ; - Who takes unto: himself for his own substance and. that of his family, ple will not utilize. the big cities to infuse red blood into society. that is constantly decadént, and whose only salvation is the viri- Who is taxed more and has less re- presentation. than any other citizen. Who sells his products 'for what the other fellow cares to them and who buys the other fellow's products at what the other fellow charges for them. . Who is caricatured on the stage and in the. daily papers but who can ness and making it go than any other man alive and in captivity. That's what a farmer is. Tr The Army's se cent iD Please send cheqiies to: THE SALVATION ARMY Fresh Air Camp, Jackson's Point (LAKE SIMCOE) ta For fourteen ye ra hoves have een realized and health restored by BUTE SUNSHINE Your donation to The.S "Army Frosh Air Fund will purchase joy and Benith 1. ran Ar : dren. | Albert St.,, Toronto : | of the alfalfa, alsike, sweet clover those of his products that other peo-|, Who gives his boys and. girls to, lity that it draws from rural sections. | pay for| come nearér taking hold of any: busi- | --8t. Petersburg Times: Clover and Grass Seeds Reports from Central Ontario in- dicate that most of these seeds have mover from growers -to the trade, largely to the local retail trade. Most of the timothy seed in the St. Lawrence counties has been sold. TheYe still remains however, some 360,000 pounds. A fair quantity of timothy is still available in the low- er Ottawa Valley. Growers in south- 'western Ontario still hold about one- half of the red clover and timothy crops, or 760,000 pounds and 2,000,000 pounds respectively. Buying by the wholesale trade has declined owing to large stocks secured already. Most and Canadian blue grass has been sold to the trade, It is expected that much of the timothy seed and per- haps some red clover wil be carried over by growers to next season. Reports from north-western Ont- ario indicate that there are at least 10,000 pounds of red clover and 16,- 000 pounds of alsike still in growers' hands as well as about 76 per cent. of the timothy or approximately 200, 000 pounds. : . Prices being paid growers, per pound, basis No, 1 grades, are: for red clover in Eastern Ontario, 12 to 18c; in south-western Ontario, 11 to 16¢; for alfalfa 12 to 16¢c; and alsike, 16 to 18c; sweet clover, 3 to bc; and Canadian blue grass, 8% to 4c. Keep Young and Beautiful Is a ~~ Woman's Slogan TORONTO -- Let depression do its worst, Toronto women have apparent- ly decided their first duty is to remain young and beautiful, W. P. Smith said recently. . He is a Toronto druggist attending the Ontario Retail Drug- gists' Association convention here.. While sales of virtually every other drug store commodity have fallen off in the years of depression, sale of cosnietics has increased steadily since 1929, said Mr. Smith. "Women might economize on other things but never on cosmetics," he said, "and not only are they buying more "cosmetics but they insist on the Earth Girdled By Sandwich Of "+ Frigid And Fier timothy, 8 to 6c; timothy, 8 to 6%,]. y Layers (From the Australian Press Bureau) A startling series of disgoveries, following ingenious radio signal ex. periments by Drs, D, F, Martyn and 0. O. Pulley at Sydney University, Australia, may revolutionize scien tists' views of the condition of tha earth's upper atmosphere. Dr. Martyn has invented a new method of probing the upper aie by radio signals. His method gives a measure of the amount of -elec- trification, the amount of ozone, and the temperature throughout the whole thickness of the upper air, from 22 miles up to 120 miles. A new type of apparatus has been devised which, unattended, will probe the atmosphere. This robot sends out signals, catches the echoes, varies the wave-length, and plots all the infor- mation on a tiny chart. ' Dr. Martyn's first: remarkable dis- covery was that of another cold layer lying above the cold strato- sphere, recently reached by Picard and other ballonists, Between the two a warm layer is sandwiched. Dr. Martyn's records show a sec- ond stratosphere above the warm ozone layer. Here the temperatures again dip, reaching a minimum at 50 miles. From there temperatures rise, to end in a torrid zone at 150 miles. In this zone Martyn's radio re- sults directly contradict Prof Ap- 'pleten, who had the idea that this zone was hot only in Summer, Martyn's experiments show that the seasonal drop is from 1,300 to 1,000 degrees; that is, that the earth is girdled perpetually by a fiery ring of inconceivably rarefied air. Measuremens of - the upper zone show fluctuations exactly correspond- ing to barometric measures on the ground, but ante-dating them. In other words, a:weather forecast can be made from these radio probes of the sky. Australian authorities are so ime pressed that~ modern ozone meas« urers are being installed at the Com monwealth Weather Bureau, the So« lar Observatory at Camberra, and the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research. | "The peace of 'the world would .. be more secure if governments could gel their appropriation bills through without pointing the finger of alarm best" - at their neighbors. : i Zg rmsd, le Ceono my LACEY EZ PH COOL MILD TOBACCO Here Is Why We Believe Br DAR 'A MOST ATTRACTIVE SPECULATION FROM THE NORTHERN MINER : OF Tons Milled JUNE 4th Production '......... Aver. per ton..... Daily Tonnage =p Decided] eviously much "Darwin Grade Good . better results are notable at this new roducer, following access to underground ore. ' 1st Quar. 4th Quar. All 1 1936 - 1986 2,108 2,103 $17,760 $17,760 $8.44 $8.44 Sresesss 7 sees son dump rock had been handled. definitely marks an u Write for our new BAIN BLDG, 304 : AD, Gentlemen: Name : A later telegram from Mine Manager M. H, Krohberg tells of progress onthe new vein at the sixth level. This vein, according to preliminary assays, averages $69.60 over. a three-foot section. On June 4, 82 feet of high grade had been opened up on this vein. This, we believe, H. R. BAIN & COMPANY LTD. BAY ST. PLEASE SEND me your new Survey on Darwin, pswing in Darwin's prospects. Analysis on Darwin, . TORONTO, ONT. 4271 4 5 Address RANA PEPE PPE TY esnsas EE Commissioner John McMillan, 20 = : en v 3