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0 J "first automobile When A Hoop Was Company The amazing thing about the Hula Hoop is that a man "in- vented" it, and manufactures it. It hadn't occurred to me that the opportunities for hoops had s0 completely evaporated as the years took their inexorable toll on the pleasures of my youth, 'The gay Hula Hoop, in the store, is no doubt the only thing a youngster could 'find today to roll. if he'd a mind to roll a hoop. This is sad, The hoops of my youth came from a number of sources of supply, the simplest being a bar- rel, or a bar'l, which contributed very . fine hoops, realize that the hoop had gone out of existence because the barrel has, pretty much, Some of the old hardwood barrels had really fine hoops on them, and they would stand up to be rolled again after you had batted them all around town many times. Since almost all products came , in barrels then, there were many kinds and grades of hoops, de- pending on what cask was dis- eected. But for a really high- class hoop, the best was the iron tire off a front buggy wheel. Buggy wheels, too, have passed. On reflection, I realize that the tires, 'which rolled rather well if you didn't lose them on a down grade, have passed, The old 30x3% went out with the development of balloon tires and oversize cords, and none of the improvements were hoop material. Joo heavy and cumbersome. . One of the best hoops I ever had was a bicycle wheel. I took off the tire and removed the spokes, thereafter replacing the tire and filling it with Neverleak. I had a pneumatic hoop, and when it hit a curbstone it would bounce 20 feet. - But most of the impulses and habits that made an old- time hoop an essential of boy- hood; are long gone. We never went anywhere but we rolled a hoop. Please, I can't tell you - exactly what the age group was --things kind of roll into ne along about there. There must have been an age when we stop- ped rdlling hoops and thought of something else. But I can, in my ° mind's ;éye,. see us calooping down tHe:sggne lickety-split, a whole charging caboodle. of small boys; &ch with a hoop. I can see Yioops on the grass ~ by Asa True's brook, and I can see them standing against the brick foundation of the school- house. I can see, too, my own hoop stabled for the night, put away like a horse, so it would be ready to go in the morning. I can see myself batting a hoop to the store for some item Mother needed for supper, and I can also hear her -- when she want- ed something that was consider- ed breakable -- calling, "Now don't take your hoop!" Putting the hoop away for the night was partly husbandry, but mostly it was a parental edict. Hoops wera dangerous. There was an uncle who made his home with us, and he discovered __one-morning that the litter in the henhouse had become ig- nited. It was smoldering, and to save the firemen a trip he ran for the rain barrel with a pail. He scooped out a pailful of water and was well on his way to the henhouse when he found my hoop on the grass where I had-left it to graze. The hoop clattered about 16 times on his heels and ankles before it leaped up and em- braced his knees, pail and all. Uncle went head over heels into the asparagus bed, lubricating. his passage with nice wet water, and ended in a heap with the hoop around his neck and a look of complete disbelief in his glaz- ed eyes. Then the firemen came and put out the fire, and I was in- structed in completely compre- and now I ° hensive terms that I was not to leave any hoops lying around. After that I stabled it well. When we could come by a front buggy tire, we really had something, These had a limber- ness to. them, so they'd spring 1p dawn as they went, You could alBo-fit'a wire loop around them, 'winding on a wooden handle, "and propel them by pushing on the wire. This was much better than whacking with a stick, although there was also - the technique of using the stick as a pusher, too. Another thing you could do was use the wire on ahead, so the hoop followed you instead of going on before. This some- times bothered if you made a sudden starboard tack, for the hoop would cross under. your heel and ride up on you. You could turn away all right, but i was tricky to turn in. I think a younger generation, which may possibly be hearing of this old-time hoop business for the first time, will think it all sounds silly. I'm inclined to think maybe it was. But a hoop was some kind of company, ahd you went high-tailing it off about your business with a cer- tain guarantee against being alone. If you decided to go down and see if the neighbor's pups had come, you_,picked up your hoop and rolled it along with you. There was even an absent- minded boy in my set who oc- casionally would come running up the street rolling a hoop he had forgotten to bring. He'd lope along, making thrusts with his right hand, steering, and there wasn't any hoop. There was a difference in hoops, too. When a boy show- ed up with a new kind of hoop, everybody teased to try it, and we'd feel it out on turns and decide if it was an improvement. One boy, whose father worked in a cotton mill, showed up ona time with a hoop made of spindles. He had shoved the small ends into the big ends, and by continuing this had com- pleted a circle about six feet across. The thing made a won- derful racket as it rolled, and * was well balanced. But some- times it would hit a rock and disintegrate, leaving the boy to pick up about a- bushel of spindles all over everything, while the rest of us sped on. Then we used to whittle hoop sticks -- some of them turning " out fancy. Nobody could ap- propriate one of these and get away with it, because the crafis- man's style identified it. When you leaned your hoop against stick on top, it would be there the school and put your fancy after classes. And so on, and thus it was. Now comes a man who "Invents" a hoop! -- By John Gould in The Christian Science Monitor. Annoying Noises What noise annoys you most in this age of noise? Scientists now making a special study of noiscs say that the worst are those of an aircraft taking off, a motor cycle exhaust and a woman's piercing scream, -------------- Recently there 'were plaints about the noise caused by the glant new American jet, the Boeing 707, when is landed at London Airport. . An acoustics engineer in New York says that the elimination or reduction of noise in offices and factories always results in increased efficiency staffs. In one office reduced noise led to 30 per cent fewer typing mistakes. A busy city restaurant was soundproofed after many complaints from diners. After- -wards the customers actually thought the place was cooler. 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Chopper Answer elsewhere on this page: com- among, Famous Lovers Still Remembered In the picturesque old Italian city of Verona the town council are putting up a marble plaque on the scene of the world's most celebrated 'love: affair, Where's that? Under the tra- ditional - balcony -where Romeo and Juliet fell in love. Else where-there will also be tablets to mark where these legendary lovers stayed and the tomb where they are sald to be buried. The question, however, is be- ing asked: Did Romeo and Juliet ever enact: the famous balcony scene in Verona? No, say most of the modern historians. They point out that Shake" speare probably borrowed the theme from a romance invented by an "earlier writer called Masuccio. . But this theory won't stop sentimental young women from continuing to drop love letters into the tomb of Romeo and Juliet or leave their sweethearts' photographs there, an Italian correspondent © tells me. One young man who was jilted by his girl five years ago goes to the tomb every day to meditate over her fickleness. The lovers' tomb is situated in an old disused monastery. For the benefit of sightseers it is uncovered by a guide from time to time. When the visitors re- mark that Romeo and Juliet cannot be seen inside it the guide says: "They are under- neath." Some scholars claim to have found historical evidence in fav- our of this statement, but nobody really knows. pai THE WINNER -- A tree that won a "beauty" contest, this tower- ing white spruce will grace Rockefeller- Center during the Christmas season. The 64-foot- tall tree, was selected as tha perfect spruce after a search of nearly six months. It will be 'decorated with 1,000 plastic globes and 3,000 bulbs for its appearance. Don't Invite Theft a Automobiles, for various rea- sons, are the form of property most favored by thieves In the United States. bers, about 300,000 are stolen each year. And the total has been increasing. Most of this is altogether unnecessary stolen each year. And the total has been increasing. Most of this is altogether unnecessary. The simplest way to reduce the number of automobile thefts is to make use 'of the ignition locks with which all cars are provided -- and have been since about 1906. The car owner who leaves his car on a public strect or- in his own garage with the keys in the lock may not be an accessory to the-crime of theft in the eyes of the law. He may not be guilty of contributory negligence in a technical sense. But the fact remains that he i3 inviting a thief to drive off in his car. In many jurisdictions, including Cincinnati, this has been recognized by the law and it has been made a legal of- fense to leave a car unlocked on a public street. It there was any doubt as to whether locking cars helps pre- vent thefts, Decatur, Ill, hoa supplied the proof. After a year of ticketing motorists who leave keys in their cars, Decatur po- lice cut automobile thefts by 80 per cent. --Cincinnati Enquirer. One thing about not planting tomatoes is that if it's a good year - your neighbor will give you some from his surplus, and it it's a bad year you wouldn't have any anway, In round num-' IN THE GROOVE -- Fifteen-year- old Helen Morrison surveys the field being Judged the best lady "plowman" in the North On- tarlo Plowmen's Association matches held" near Beaverton. THEFARM FRONT Two-thirds of Canada's popu- lation resided in urban lotali- tles in 1956 as compared with © 63.5% in 1951 (excluding New- foundland), and 37.1% in 1901, thus continuing . a sharp con- trast between rural and urban population growth which has characterized population move- ments in Canada since the turn of the Century, according to an analytical report based on 1956 Census returns released by DBS. The report shows that ur- banization has been gathering momentum in recent years. [J [J * Canada's total urban popula- tion at the 1901 national Cen- sus was less than 2,000,000 and by 1956 it had grown to more than five times that number. The accumulated addition to the urban population over the 553- year period exceeded 8,500,000, representing as much as 83% of the total growth for the nation as a whole, Over the same period the rural population increased by only 52% from about 3,400,- 000 in 1901 to 5,100,000 in 1956. LJ 1] * In 1956, 10,714,855 persons were reported as residents of --urban-areas, andthe remaining | 5,365,836 persons as residents of rural areas. Between 1951 and 1956 only 174,144 persons were added to the rural population and the rate of increase was 3.4%. Over the same period the gain In the urban population amounted to 1,897,218 persons, which accounted for almost 92% of the total growth in Canada's population. The rate of urban growth was as high as 21.5% in five years, or almost 4% per annum. Refiecting this remarkably rapid growth of the urban population, the proportion of the total population reported fn the urban areas rose from 62.9% in 1951 to 66.6% in 1936. * * L] Ontario was the most urban- fzed province in Canada in 1950 (as in 1951), with more than three-quarters of its population residing in the urban areas. Bri- tish Columbia and Quebec close- ly followed Ontario in the order given, each with more than 70% of its population classed as. ur- ban. In Prince Edward Island and Saskatchewan, on the other hand, the bulk of the population in 1956 still lived in the rurai areas, although in both pro- vinces the rural population ac- tually decreased between 1951 and 1956 -- by 6.7% in the former and 3.6% in the latter. * * * In the 1951-56 period the rate of urban growth was most pro- nounced in the three western provinces of Alberta, Britisn Columbia and Saskatchewan Particularly notable was the in- crease of more than 40%, duc largely to rapid growth in the Edmonton and Calgary areas, n Alberta's urban population. Ir Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and Manitoba, urbanization pro- ceeded much more slowly than in the rest of the country. The rates of urban growth for Que- bee and Newfoundland were also somewhat lower than the na- tional average. ] * The frend toward wurbaniza- tion in Canada is further demon- strated by the fact that in 1001 there were 324 incorporated cities, towns and villages ot 1,000 or more persons, with a com- bined population of 1,858,000, accounting for only 34.6% of the total residents in Canada. With- in 55 years, nearly 500 places joined this class to bring the total number of 1956 to 809, while the population in these places multiplied to more than IMPATIENT -- With Halloween Just around the corner, 3-year- old Allen White, seemed to be growing impatient for "carving day." The pumpkin on which he sits fips the scales at 66 pounds, almost twice Allen's weight. 8,700,000 or 4.7 times the popu- lation in 1901. Correspondingly, the proportion of the total population of Canada found in these places rose to 55.7%. N . . Particularly spectacular -has been the population increase in places of 100,000 population and over, In the 1901 Census, Mon- treal and Toronto were the only cities in this size group, and their combined population of 475,170 was less than 9% of Canada's, population. By 1921, Montreal' became the first city to exceed the 300,000 mark, and by 1951 it had more than 1,000,- 000 population. By 1956, 9 other cities had moved up into this size group, and together had al- most 1,900,000 inhabitants by 1956. The population of 11 cities reported in this size group in the 1956 Census thus accounted for 23.4% of the total popula- tion of the country and as much as 34.2% of the urban total. On Top This Season? Who will win the television 'popularity sweepstakes this sea- son? In the current issue of the trade magazine Television, James H. Cornell of N, W. Ayer & Co., who bases his study on such factors as past perform- ances, competition, and trends, predicts the rating prizes this season' will go to these shows: Danny Thomas, "Wagon Train", Perry Como, "Desilu Playhouse", "Gunsmoke", Garry Moore, 'Price Is Right", "This Is Your Life", Ann Sothern, "Wyatt Earp", "Restless Gun", "Mark of Zorro", and Phil Silvers. Carried Sun Dials To Tell Time Why is it, that the older we are the faster time seems {0 pass? Scientists are trying hard to find out. Exhaustive studies by a French expert show that, in one hour, a child lives physically and psychologically as much as a man or woman of 63 lives In five hours. That's why it's hard to hold a child's attention for more than a few minutes, he explains. To the child, 10 minutes take as long to pass as 50 minutes for the older man or woman. Many witty and profound things have been said about time. "The less one has to do, the less time one finds to do it in," sald Lord Chesterfield. Somebody else said that "everything comes to him who waits -- except the precious time lost waiting!" In olden times the most popu- lar sundial motto was "Tempus fuglt" -- "Time flies". In Eliza- bethan days men often carried pocket sundials to tell the time. How old is your watch? If it's an antique and has gone con- tinuously for 100 years it will have ticked 15,042,456,000 times. But be careful when you go into a garden. The scent of roses can stop a watch by penetrating the case and causing a change In the composition of the lubricating oll. The sun and moon are often bad timekeepers. Sometimes the sun loses 19 seconds and then goes on to gain 14. The moon is sometimes 30 seconds slow or 30 seconds fast. Strange tricks have been play- ed with time. To pass the Budget in 1937, which had to be ap- proved before the end of the year, the French Parliament de- liberately prolonged December 31st by 43 hours. An official solemnly stopped the Parliament clock until the Budget was ap- proved. At the Cape in 1892 18 minutes were "lost" after midnight one day so that a uniform time could be adopted .for South Africa. And Chile also lost 20 minutes in rearranging its calender at the end of 1902. An earlier gap .. meek, in time oc- By Rev. R. Barclay Warren B.A, BD. The Marks of a Christian Matthew 5:1-13 Memory Selection: Ye "wy the salt of the earth. ,.. Yo the nt of the world. Matthew 8: The world's recipe for happl- ness is something like this: Be confident in yourself; insist ona your rights; take care of your- self for this life; don't let any- one put it over you but get your full share and a little bit more, even if you have to fight for it; Keep up a good appear don't get caught in redoing, Be popular, How different is the way, of happiness as set forth by Jesus in His Sermon in the Mount. Here happiness is pronounced upon the humble in spirit, the those hungering after righteousness, the merciful, the pure in heart, the peacemakers and those persecuted for right- eousness' sake. The way of sin- ful man is not the way of the Christian. The sinner does not like the Christian way. "The carnal mind {is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be." Romans 8:7. There must be a change in the heart of man. The _ideals set forth in the Sermon on the Mount, including that of the Golden Rule, are too high for the sinner to achieve. His nature must be transformed. Provision for this is made through the death of Jesus Christ on Calvary. "While we were yet sinners, Christ died for us." Romans 5:8. If we confess our sins to God and forsake them and believe on Jesus Christ, we are made a new creation. "Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; be- hold, all things are become new." 2 Corinthians 5:17. Then by faith -we can walk before God In righteousness fulfilling the teachings of the Sermon on the Mount, The memory selection reminds us of our responsibility to others. When Christ has come Into our lives It not only that we may be saved but that we may help to save others. Men and women are lost until they find Jesus Christ. We must point the way to Him by our lives. Our hap- piness shall increase as others come to know Him, too. curred in England in 1752, when the old Julian Calendar (invent- _ ed by the Romans) was changed to the Gregorian Calendar, the one we use today, by the sacri- fice of 11 days. This loss of time was so great- ly resented that riots occurred in many parts of Britain. At Bristol several people 'were killed. "Give us back our 11 days!" was the cry of the people. Notice in a local restaurant: "In case of atomic bomb attack, keep calm! Pay check, then like mad." : Upsidedown to Prevent Peeking 1 FLOOD LANDS -- This Is an air view of a group of farm houses a few miles southwest of Matamoros, Mexico, which were inundated by the floodwaters of the Rio Grande River, Thou sands of residents were evacuated from just south of the river. FIERA ee eh Ao sy \ Py a honr a I ro | 3 re a . y cre oy LIPS, re 2 SS Ra A a nt oT. Vylitd orien NI Ea er, SRT