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¥ VANE INS HEE AES £5 1% 5 fa Fi 8K "Milking" Clouds May Stir Up Big : Argument in West Experiments in artificial rain- making -- "milking the clouds" is what some call it -- have attracted much attention in many parts of the 'world, especially in dry and semi-de@ert areas. Now a rancher out in the :izte 6f Nevida has actu- ally "filed ¢ claim on the moisture above his ranch, with the idea of seeding the clouds with dry ice or silver iodide, for the purpose of filling his reservoirs with precious water. . This claim -- which at first was greeted with laughter and taken as a joke -- actually may he the means of starting a big controversy; for water is so valuable in some sec tions of the west that any hold on its possession is hotly defended. While in the Eastern States no one has a claim to ownership of the water that flows through the land, out west it is just the opposite, and a man who can establish a claim as the "first beneficial user" is allowed : to make use of al' the flowing. water \ his ¢laim calls for, even though a neighibor just below him thereby goes entirely. dry. Much of the moisture which falls on interior \ stern states comes from the Pacific Ocean, Should people on the western side of the Pacific slop: decide to go in for "milking" the clouds before they pass across the mountain ranges it might have a 'ecided effect on the entire econo y of the interior areas. Whatever the final result, it would seem as if both lawyers and engi- neers will have many problems to solve before the matter is definitely settled. Back row: Nancy Gates, Jean Rutherford and N Bachelor and Hockey: Bobby Soxers--Marlboros' Johnny Mc Cormack, leading scorer in the OHA senior race, has other worries besides: bagging his quota of goals for Joe 'Primecau's team. They're obviously pleasant worries, however, as you might discover' from this picture of Johnny instructing his St.'Mike's (U of T) hockey team. Left to right (front row)1 Vicky Boechler, Ann Malcolm, Betty Markle, the coach, Fran cis Conlin, Rita Bauer (sister of Bobby, e¢x-Boston Bruin), Helen Martel, Babe Coughlin and Barbara Smith. fan ie Flynn, STUFF AND THINGS By FRANK MANN HARRIS 'Sports -- And One Thing or Another One of our femin'ne readers--we might say that the lady is a violent supporter of the Montreal Canadiens and not feeling any too good about the state of the world at present -- writes "regarding a certain well- known member of th¢ Toronto Maple Leafs. "I understand that many years ago there used to be a song entitled AND: BIG BAD BILL: IS "SWEET WILLIAM NOW. 1 wonder if you could get a copy of it, and send it with my compliments to 'Bad Man' Ezinirki. Ever since one of our boys gave him a mild going- over in Montreal 'Big Bad Bill' seems to have lost a fot of that much adver- _ tised fight of his--just another of the kind that loves to dish it out, but cat't take it!" * x x "Look who dropped in, on his way to the happy haunting ground!" Magazine "F acts" Need a Recheck -. In a recent issue FORTUNE -- the magazine that sells for a dollar a copy and seldom mentions any- body low.r cown in the social scale then a mijllionaire published sotncthi g of a "blast" at Canada, The: article, among other things, said that "in an cven race Kansas wheat grower: might put Canadian growers out" of business" the reason being that our farm research was so greatly behind that in "God's ¢ untry". - Canadians who pay any attention to this kind of thing are having a quiet smile to themselves over such nonsense. According to the C.P.R. "Agricultural and Industrial Pro- gress in Canada" the world's wheat "championship -- decided annually at the Chicago International Grain Personally, we have no particular fecling either way regarding Mr. -Ezinicki -- or any other professional athlete, for that matter. There was a day when we could follow, with intense and even passionate interest, the progress--or lack of it--of some pro. team. But that day is in the dim and distant past. It goes back to the time when a great Canadian Sports Editor--Francis Nelson, by name--gave us a little advice which 'really opened our cyes. * NE RE ME We had been bewailing to Mr. Nelson the fact that "Our" team-- if memory serves aright it was the old Tecumseh's Lacrosse Team--was getting the worst of it from some hated rival, and appeared to be in Show -- has been won by Cana- : : its last ) ; . great danger of losing its las diang just 29 tines out of 33 shows haace for the Championship. held since 1911. More thay that, all cn i Si Pr D four of the wins by non-Canadians were on. wheat from Montana -- which lies along the Canadian bor- der; and the prize-winning grains were all varieties either originated in this country, or from a dscendant of Canadian strains. It would séem ag if FORTUNE might do a little checking on its much - publicized "fact - checking" staff, - . "Don't tworry about it too much," advised Mr. Nelson. "Just remem: ber this--if you were lo go into those dressing-rooms, right now at half- time, and switch the uniforms on those Huo teams, they'd protably be battling one another just as hard when they came on the field again?' kil Jari SEN, Then he added someiliing we have * always remembered, and frequently Cup for Top ScoreenCup donated by the Guernsey Cattle Breeders' Association of Ontario for highest standing in Ont- ario calf club projects is presented to Lloyd Balsdon, RR2, Sharon, by Bruce Hodgins, field secretary of the association. With them is George H, King of Oakville, past president, a ("A Sixbit Critic") quoted. "IWhen you look at any pro- fessional- sport, if vou see a good game you've had voiir money's worth. If i's a poor-gawme, even the fact that it might be for the champion-' ship' of the world doesn't make it any different. Amateur athletes, playing strictly for the fun of it, have no obligation to think too much about the spectaiors but it's differ ent with professionals, who if they put on a tame exhibition are cheat- ing those who make their living possible." ' . * x x Here, we seem to have got slightly off the trail of Bill Ezinicki -- and whether or not he's lost some of. the battling' spirit that has characterized him for the past couple of scasons. Our personal feeling, is just the same as it has always been--that Ezinicki is a colorful and potentially-great hockey player who was being exploit- 'ed, mostly by irresponsible sports writers, to his own great disadvan- tage. : x * % Billing Ezinicki as a "killer" and all that sort of tripe might-help swell the box-office tally, and draw extra customers who canie only to Toller "Get Ezinicki" every time he stepped of the ice. That's very fine, especial- ly for the type of "sports" promoter whose idea of the greatest game of the season is the one which broke the last attendance record. x kk But just suppose that Ezinicki--- spurred to more intensive efforts by those hostile shouts, he being that type of athlete--should by some mis- chance injure an opponent really seriously, perhaps even fatally. In less time than it takes for you "to read this, he finds himself suspend: ed, maybe banished for life. x xk Inside a month all we writers who hammered out so many greatly- needed columns from his doings ~~ to say nothing of fhe promoters who cashed in, on his drawing-powers -- would have practically forgotten him complefely, or almost so. If Mr. Czinicki has pulled in his horns a trifle--is. no longer letting himself be made the sacrificial goat for an. entire club, we think he has been very well advised. Coaches and managers who stress the "fighting qualities" of their teams have a-lot to answer for. If the penalties fell as heavily o them as on those they incite to suc prowess, maybe they too would "cool out" a trifle. * x * A week or 50 ago we wrote some- thing in praise of the British Boxing Association for its action in curbing the broadcasting and » televising of fights in future. John Lardner-- son of the great and only Ring W. and' himself a smart and thoughtful sports observer -- a couple of days ~Modern medical mel ence has overcome\all- PIL ments formérly thought {mpossible. Piles were considered one of them. That's nonsense today. The new Pyltone treatment has proven It 'self In thousands of the mést stud. born cases. [It gets' results because it goes direct to the Internal cause, Your first bottlé (a liquid taken by mouth) shows you the difference, or that price refunded at once. All modern Drugsists. ' I later wrote along the same line, and speaks about how the increasing popularity of television threatens the very life of sport, not only in Britain, but on this Continent as well. x x % "It appears' he says, "that the British fight fan.is getting his enters I tainment practically everywhere but at the place where fighters are fight- ing and ticket sellers selling tickets. The boys might be fighting at the bottom of the Suez Canal for all they" are drawing at the gate. The big shows are playing to peanuts, and the small shows folding up." * x % Well, we can picture it as a very sweet thing indeed--to sit by your . home television sgreen and, in a single Saturday afternoon, tune in and see a few innings of World Series Base- ball, 'some .scraps of American and . Canadian football, the finish of some of the most important horse .races of the my Britain Streamlined Ski Lighter and Faster has tw s tried out secretly on the Jungfrau glacier durifig the sum- mer by James Palmer Thompkin- son, team fog the Olympic games. News of the invention is begin- ning to lcak out among the other teams in Switzerland--and one of "captain of the British ski new skis has disappeared steriously 'in the night. A Bright Idea Fond Mamma: "Wouldn't. you like to give your hoop to that poor little boy who has no father?" Tommy: "Couldn't we give him father, instead?" the day, and various other items of the sort--all without the slightest. exertion. If you have the only tele- vision set in your vicinity and" can charge the ncighbors a small ad--. mission fee, it will be even sweeter. But after a few years of it -- just where the athletes are coming from, to keep things going, is somcthing | we haven't yet been able to figure out. . Ld wv HY BE. ENVIOUS of other peoples' coffee when you can serve Maxwell House?' It's the world's leading brand and it con. fains choice Latin-Ameri- can coffees for extra fiavor, One Too Many - A lad watching a house painter at work, said, "How many coats. do you give it?" "Two", said the painter. "Then", said the lad, "if you would give it three coats, would the third one be an overcoat?" "No, sonny", said. the painter, CHECKED nalJiffy «or Money Back TC rellef from | hehe I BC PRERRITION. "Crs fm Sed io for D.D.D. PRESCRIPTION. + "that would be a waste coat." * ISSUE 6--1948 ROLL YOUR OWN BETTER CIGARETTES WA . J Y rf Bas ACB ISTLr RIE 240 #1) ir (edd produced a new, streamlined ski, said to be lighter and 10 per cent faster than any other. . The new ski, likely to prove the surprise of the 1948 Olympic win- ter games, is made of steel, plastic and wood, and may later be made unbreakable. Classified Advertising BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES AN OFFER to every Inventor--List of lpven- tions and full information sent (ree [Ibe Ramsay (Co. Registered Patent Altorueye 7) Bank Street, Ottawa = Se TERE BABY CHICK Monkton Poultry Chicks -- You buy baby chicks tor one reason. . To receive divi dends ofi your Investment, you tnust be cer talu where your money ls invested We offer you baby chicks from 4 Poultry Farm with every breeder pulloegfm lested an! government banded: Take advantage of our early diy count + Write for our 194% calalogue and vrice tlwt. Monkton Poultry Farms: Monkton Ontario Four-Week-Old Pullets- Two, "three, four week and older pullets February hatched. Start with early hatched chicks and get the high prices for eggs next Summer and early Fall. Large Type White Leghorns and seven other popular breeds: Send- for price list, Management Gulde and catalogue and book your order now $ Lakeview Poultry Farm eter Ontario ORDER 1048 CHICKS NOW Be sure and receive our .special price list on our chicks, the progeny of Registered and Pedigreed blood-tested Breeders. Mixed chicks 13¢ amd up, pullets 25c and up. Write today Goddard Chick Hatcherles, Chatham, Ontarlo, or Branch at UBrtiannla Helghts, (Ottawa), Ontario. Grow quality birds that live and lay. If you are really interested In high quality poultry you will not hésitate to get some of our 'chicks this year. Now, more than ever before, quality will play a very important part in the pouliry business, The uly sensible thing to do fs put the best quality chicks that money can buy 'this year. You'll begin to notice the differ- ence in about five months when your layers begin to produce, Remember just a few more ckus from your flocks during the time of high prices will return the added profits that make .the difference bewteen the average and highly successful investment, Bend to-day for catalogue and pricelist. Tweddle Chick Hatcheries Limited, Fergus, Ontario, CHICKS THAT ARE BTRONGLE, FASIER to raise, and lay better, froma 4.000 high production breeders, Leghorns, Rocks and Hybrids, Miller Poultry Farin, Clarkson, Ontario. = z i} 12V4¢ Hurandale Chicks 12Vic All Dreedera blood tested, banded, and In- spected and backed by high pedigreed found- atfon stock, Sussex x New Hamp., Rock x New- Hamp, Barred Rocks, New Hampas 'mixed "12%c, pullets 26c. Eight Sussex Mix- ed 1c, pullets 27c. Large type Leghorns mixed 12%e, pullets 26c. All heavy breed cockerels 4c,' Median breed 2c. $1.00 per 100 down balance "C.0.D. Order from and enclose this ad. Hurondale Chick Hatchery London Ontario BEEF) and pork are still high. Moreover all indications point towards continued prem- fum on all types of meat, The alert poultry- man who wisely invests fn a flock of fast. growing chicks that wil mature into broilers and roasters in a few short weeks stands to make an extremely handsome profit this year. No matter whether you are cafalng chickens for the eggs they will produce or to sell as broilers or roasters you can make more money if your chicks are fom qulek- maturing, heavy-laying ancestiy. Ite sure to huy the kind of chicks that will live, grow rapldly, feather out early ani put on lots of welght, They will veturn greater profit on your invistment In leds time. Ton Notch chicks will do the above. 1'ree cata- logue and pricelist. Top Notch Click Sales, Guelph, Ontario. ARGO 0 3 RING THE BILL. with Schummer's Quality Chicka. Covern- ment approved, ITO. P, Sired. Maka no mis- take. Catalogue Free. Schummet's Hatchery, Linwood, Ont. . : 100° CHICKS FREE With every, order of 100 pullet chicks we give 100 free heavy breed chicks. Barred Rock Pullets' $26.95, White Rock Pullets $28.95, White Leghorn Pullets $26.95. Brown Leghorn Pullets $28.95, Rted-Rock Pulleta $25.95, Leg- horn-Rock Pullets $26.95. New: Hamgahire Pullets $28.95. All chicks cold are from blood tested stock, backed by high pedlareed stock. Also get our special pricca on Mixed chicks and Cockerels. $1.00 books your order. Balance C.0.D. Guaranteed delivery. Kent Hatchery, Chatham, Ontario, Brown Leghorns, Island Reds. All froved which means Government inspect our brood flocks and hatchery which assures you high quality chicks. for prices. Cochranc's Poultry Frum, town, Ontario A. "Oxford" Approved Chicks live, lay and pay. They are the 'results of twenty-tw of careful selection and breeding in They have to Le good, because' we want the very best kind of chicks for our own flocks --Nig, vigorous and early maturing, 'We stress egg size and uniformity. Barred Rocks --\White Leglhorns--Hamp, x Rock Crossbreds --Mamp x Leghorn Crossbreds--Rock x Leg- horn Cvo:sbreds, \Write-for free folder, The Oxford Farmers' Co-Operative Produce Com- pany, Limited, 424 Malin Street, Woodstock, Ontario: - i AGAIN, a good poultry year for Canadian producers. Jarly chicks are in production for the best markets. We can give prompt shipment of dayolds or started If .you've the equipment. Or we suggest you get pricelist and pluce your order now before the later rush, If you prefer later delivery. Contact nearest Hatchery, agent ar Bray [Iatchery, 130 John N., Hamilton, Ont. Lakeview Chicks for 1948 front a real laying and breeding plant, over 10,000 breeders inspected, banded and blood tested, Many customers have hid years of continuous success with Lakeview: Chicks. This year it may be even more linportant to buy the best, Mr. and Mrs. Norman Mollard of Parkhill, Ontario, have had 10 consecu- tive years of continuous success with lLake- view Chicks. Why can't you too? Start your chicks early, There will be a shortage of eggs next Fall and prices are bound to be higher. Hend for large Illustrated catalogue and Poultry Management Guide with big early order discounts, . Lakeview Poultry I'arm Wein Bros. DYEING AND CLEANING HAVE YOU anything needs dyeing or clean: (ng? Write to ua for Information We are glad to answer your questions Department H. Parker's Dye Works Limited* 731 Yonge Street, Toronto, Ontarlo FOR BALE HARLEY DAVIDSON MOTORCYCLES Parts and Hervico. Bert B Kennedy & 8on/' 419 College 8¢ Torontd IHGISTERED Wire Fox Terrier Puppies, Also brood matrons, Westniont-Nova Kennels, Reg'd, Berwick, Nova Scotia, 3 three sources Barred Rocks, Government ap- inspectors and Write Ridge Danish Ithods into your flocks. ixeter, Ont. | "Tannenwald FOR BALE GARDEN TRACTORS nd ROTARY TILLERS 1% to ® borsepower,, Gardea Plows, Discs Cultivators, Bickle Mowers, ete. Write: UNIVERSAL TRACTORS LIMITED Manufacturers --_ Buppliers. ____ Bartoaville (Hamlitos), Ontario, IR 5 LBS. FINE QUILT PCS. $1.8 Colorful assortment, Prettiest designs. Guaranteed washable cottons, prints, broad cloth, stunning silk quilting patches, assorted slzes, making attractive quilts. Preferced chlection, $1.60 (20 Iba. $6.20), FREHK: 18 quilt dealgns: 'Needles; Thread, . Remiitance with order, Dellvery extra. 12 YDS. REMNANT. PIECES $1.69 Washable Cotton Prints, Broadcloth, Plques, etc. About 10" to 30" width, Lineal mea~ surements. - Postake 30c, MONTREAL REMNANTS Station H. Dept, ¢, Montreal. FOR SALE, one Automatic Oliver Wire" Pickup Baler. Used one season. Coleman, R.R. 4, Bleahelm, Ont, CHINCHILLA Ontario Chinchilla Ranchers, affiliated with Fur Farms, Ine, California, have an opening for- an aggressive man to start a Chinchilla ranch, with an opportunity on our sales staff. Be your own boss.' Ralse Chinchilla end work with one of the world's largest Chinchilla organizations. If you have the capital and can measure up to our require ments, your future Is assured. Write W. H. Frihance, 96 Delaware Ave, Hamlltom, ont. te een, stn tn RE-NU-IT AUTO PAINT FACTORY-LKE JOB FOR ONLY Just wipe It on with a powder puff, ing new enamel goes on emoothly, permanent, glossy finish to your. car of truck. Guaranteed two years, not to peel, chip or fade. Nine beautiful colours: maroom, : bright red, dark blue, evergreen, desert tam, gunmetal gray, ocean green, golden yellow, black. One quart paints your car. Hem check or money order for $4.95 to McGrana Corporation, Thorold, Ont Broad-Breasted Bronze - Turkey ei Poults Reserve your order for 1948, We turned down orders for 60,000 Poults last season. Poults all hatched in brand new special tur key incubators, all turkeys (no chicks). We expect there will be more money In turkeys in 1948 than 1947 as it [a likely feed prices - wili ba clieaper next summer when the new crop comes along. Send for turkey manage. (IR 1 Amas- giving ie A ST ne ment guide and price list and book order for 1048, Lakeview Turkey Ranch [xeter Ontario Fol SALE, shoe repair equipment and aled aint spraying machine, complete, Inquire 3 ! ont. Cor Ser wh MMe chard hit Bd Bt at hb LDATTERY-OPERATED Radio Set for sale. Deforest Croasley Corona model, 8 tubes, specially equipped with Romaco Eliminator for us with either storage battery or dry vells. New coat over $300. Make offer. A fine and lasting gift. Box 151, 73 Adelalde W., Toronto, CHOICE light amber honey, case -of mix 8 Ih. pails, $13.20 F.O.B. Barrie, If flag oh station, Include freight charges to prepay is shinment. Stanley R. King, Bayview Lodge Apiaries, Barrie, Ont. ly GERMAN shepherd puns, registered, bred from champions, beautifully marked. Write J. Skeater, 230 Campbell St, Winat ; peg. Man, i . DARK ¢orniah Cockerels and pullets $5.00 to $10.00 each. Geo. Fraser, R. 1, ham, Ont, z CHERRY LOGS Bought for cash. Write Box 83, Fergus, Ont. Doberman Pupples--Sired by Champion Goe- the von Mannerhelm., Show prospects for approved homens Particulate on request. Keonels, ~ 69 Yorkville Ave., Toronlo, Midway 3297. F i aa 3 TG ' I'AX1 BUSINESS For sale In Sudbury, Ontarfo. One ot Bud- .bury"s (leading and most prosperous taxi business with eight new cars and all modera equipment Best location tn city with a large garage and service atation. $30,000 cash or payments can be arranged. 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