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the georgetown herald wednesday evening march 26th 1941 keeping up with the irises the only national appeal this year for our men in uniform for die tttags that are not given to a fighting man with ma uniform thing that are not nut otitis military equipment things of the path canada fighting sons wh they may be rely on you the fioif innil provides them with uniforms rifles ammunition but for comforts recrcarioas and wholesome opportunity to make their precicw moeaeats of lejsare a genoloe boon they rely on you of coarse yoo help to boy airplanes guns ships tanks but for the things that express to the soldier the affection and thoughtful ness of the folks back home he relies on you six great national organizations labour unceasingly to provide him with those things they can do it only with your money your money started this workour money is needed to carry it ooj the need is urgent be generous let the volunteer helper who calls on yoo carry hack your pledge of sliest support for our fighting men the boys re1y on the folks back home if you have not been carivassedifron axe not canvassed send your contribution to your local committee or to hehaaal l joo toy st tm ilxappealsinone- tteeak 5 500000 tttet chairman for ontario conn smythe esq toronto dominion stores ltd i ra modernized sellservice stores has profitable year idea of the magnitude of the problems the annual report to shareholders veoobtiy released from the toronto heart office of dominion stores jjtd bows that the company had a very encouraging year m 1940 while sales tor the year were 9 tower an operating profit of 336000 was realised compared with an oper ating loss of sis6seoo in 1s3 im- pnmsxtbnt in results was primarily doe to the increased efficiency ox the operation as a whole 68 nonprofit able stores wiofjetctd in 1940 and 15 new stores opened avpecember 31st 1840 the company had in operation incident to the reconstruction of the companys business may be gained from the statement that during the years 1938 to 1940 it has been neces sary to dose 234 stores at the end of 1940 334 stores were in operation average wages have been increased for example a comparison of average weekly salaries paid to store employees as at december slat 1940 shows an increase over december 91st 1939 of 12 tn respect to store managers and of 20 in respect to store elects va cations with full pay were extended to cover all fulltime employees hours of labour have been the subject of con stant study and improvements have been instituted where practicable all employees taking temporary training in the canadian army reserve have been given special financial considera tion a total of 91 employees have already joined the permanent army navy and air forces the company is proud of these loyal canadians and also of its other employees many of whom with their families are volun tarily serving their country not only in the performance of their daily tasks but in special activities during their offduty hours the company is cooperating with the government in its plans for the pro motion of the sale of war savings certificates both to employees and to the company has continued its ef forts to cooperate in full measure with producers and suppliers of foodstuffs and with provincial and etomanlon governments present abnormal conditions increase the problems of distribution the company is doing its best and with gratifying results to assist all those engaged in the production and distri bution of food towards a better un derstanding of mutual problems so that satisfactory solutions may be found the year 1940 saw a decided im provement in the general attitude tow- 1 ards chain store organizations evi dence of this appeared in the lowering i of discriminatory taxation in the pro vince of quebec through the proper conduct of its affairs the company hopes to continue to merit the support of suppliers em ployees the buying public and govern ment bodies reeling it has a useful part to play in canadian business as public appreciation of that will depend on performance the entire effort of the management is being directed to seeing that the performance is a sound one this latest idea of paying the wes tern wheat grower four dollars per acre to not grow wheat looks like the last straw or perhaps we might best describe it as the bunfc we won- der where it will all end it may not be long until we are looking for so much for not doing our regular work you will recall that duitng chose seven years of plenty in pharoahs time that joseph stored the surplus against the seven years of famine that lay ahead we would think that a similar policy might be wise right now when this war is concluded that store of wheat might come in handy to feed the unnumbered millions who through no fault of their own are un dernourished and have not been al lowed to provide for themselvesr- a scarcity of wheat under those circum stances would likely mean famine prices and as usual the wheat grow er wouldnt be in a position to bene fit thereto another angle would be to findthe necessary four dollars per acre with which to pay those grain growers for not growing wheat most of us dig up the- extra taxes willingly as long as we think the gov ernment are getting full value for the money expended but when they start paying it out to grain growers for not growing wheat we lose that willing- neas to dig up the extra taxes we noticed an article in one of the exchanges recently that mentioned that england still exported snuff we used to live in the lumbering country tn northern ontario and we sold snuff to lumber jacks but we hadnt thought of it even for a long tune the article referred to above mentioned that during the last year of peace england had exported 662 tons qt snuff most or it is used in insect powder however 6 tons of it was used for human consumption it as the name would indicate is sniffed up the nose however much of it is now placed inside the mouth between the gums and the cheek most of the lumber jacks that we sold snuff to came from the scandinavian countries and the snuff itself came in small tin cans at one time snuff was quite fashionable and was carried on the person in jewelled boxes and was of fered to the other fellow much the same way that you might offer them a cigarette today in lost weeks column we mentioned that lor this week we would have something to say about gluten instead of another ingredient that we use in the making of bread perhaps you have at times taken a handful or wheat and placing it in your mouth have chewed it for a time and then found that you had a mouthful of a substance somewhat similar to that of chewing gum that gumlike sub stance was gluten and what actually happened was that your saliva sup plied both heat and moisture to the wheat the moisture had washed the starch out of the mass and having i swallowed the starch you had the i gluten left curiously enough no 1 other grain contains gluten it is the i protein of wheat and in the finished loaf of bread it is the gluten that pro vides the framework for the loaf and it also gives it shape gluten com prises 36 of hard wheat flour glut en varies both in quality and in quan tity in the same varieties of wheat from year to year and it also varies this way in the different kinds of wheat compared with one- another for instance ordinary fall wheat which by the way is used to make pas try flour has less gluten and it la also poorer in quality than is the gluten from hard spring wheat this is the reason that pastry flour makes more tender pde paste for instance than would spring wheat flour another variety of fall wheat known as durum wheat has a very stubborn gluten that makes flour made from that kind of wheat suitable ror the making of macaroni to illustrate that stub- bomess the gluten from durum wheat would take at least twelve hours to develop to its optimum whereas un der like conditions the gluten from hard spring wheat would develop in three hours gluten is grey in color not white like flour and it has a very peculiar reel to it unlike any other substance that we know of before another issue of the herald comes off the press we will be trying to memorise the new location of our favorite stations on the radio dial like many others we get in a rut with our radio favorites and listen to the same programs from day to day in stead of hunting up something new that might easily prove to much more interesting quisz programs seem to be as popular as ever with informa tion please getting the highest hon ors and perhaps the qulm kids would get thetecond nod up to date those youngsters education hadnt been neglected and the bonds that they receive each weekly program would en sure their future education as well one wonders what kind of a program win take the spotlight in popularity when the quiz variety has run its course at the tea dance the following day j af urn m i loma whose father is principal of wins tlanourc a norwood high school was presented 111 1 1 vhvui ol m be aetrole as levanas president she r a lovely bouquet of rosea and cr from the society after wards mends showered eoogratula- ons on her for her double honors lornas brother wilson breckon wbo was also in 4ns last year at queens taking the course in mining engineering has joined the navy and la as present tsddhf training at tor onto queens university let ana tohdcnt is omjid- dabobrb or a8hobot oootu bsothdt hmmvx aflat lenm ixejuuu dausjiter of isr ana un a 8 brednu of nor wood and randdaagbier of mr and vn hom wilson aantnm ha the deusettv iw leueuus of iwi chosen ijrisnrtmi at the lem soci ety at queen untversltr mt ibis society ta o ot an the tri stmsnts at queens m nw nars vat a son wojitn- th alm banquet and futiual m oh lttktutttyioii b was further h when she was presented with the tricolour in reoogamon of outstanding activities i other than snorts or college amdtoal9v j t this award is given awntsuy to ten i sunday times this weak and every of queens 1800 students pom snxs pretty women sptes nearly always get into taoutte so the nads are giv ing undtvoover jobs to unattractive women read in 13m american weekly wttn the march 90 tame of iba d tune jhowj homely houwwuev arrest by the brit ish revealed this redta5 t by h i hutt j in canadian horticulture fc home march 1841 i keeping up with the joneses may be j a heap of fun in the social world but it is nothing compared with the strug gles and thrills of keeping up with the aristocrats in glads irises and lilies in the world of floriculture and i must confess i have been in the game for nearly threequarters or a century i can well remember with what delight i ran to my mother with the first iris i ever saw and she cal led it a purple dag thirty or forty years later j set out to get together all i could of these wonderful flowers and what a delight ful time i had buying a few here and there and exchanging with friends in terested in the same hobby up void downs in a few years the collection had not only grown but multiplied and in cluded over 200 varieties i was begin ning to feel quite proud of a and al the more so because it had become the source of a nice little revenue from the sale of plants butprjde goeth before a fall and i had thewlnd taken out of my sousi when the american iris society was formed about twenty years ago their object was to encourage the growing of the best only and discourage the grcving of thousands that had been introduced and had been superseded by newer and better ones the for- mer were given high ratings and the latter were blacklisted i then began to realize i had far too many in the latter class and decided on a slaughter i called up a lot of my friends to come and get all they wanted gratis and they came with cars and trucks as a final clean up a wellknown seed house got two truck loads of them a new start before letting them all go however i had set out a new plantation with a few plants of about so to 60 varieties i liked best then began the race u try and keep up with the best as lis ted by the axs i got catalogs from the outstanding american grow- and began to add a couple of doz en new varieties every year the collection is now back to its old dimensions but oh what a difference in the quality that little purple flag of long ago is a puny pigmy alongside of its giant progeny in all the glorious combinations of colors of trie rainbow but one has to go some to keep up with our american cousins one of the leading american growers publish es in his catalog every year a list of the best 100 irises of the preceding year these are grouped in 17 clas ses giving the widest possible range of colors how best determined to give some idea of the methods used to determine what are the best varieties let us quote the secretary of i the american iris society cooper ating with societies in prance and england the work is now international in scope iris shows are sponsored in all parts of the country accredited judges are appointed annually men and women who know iris a system of awards has been wo out whereby new introductions of merit compete with each other for the high est honor or all the dykes medal the late henry dykes waa secretary of the royal h society of england whom we had the pleasure of meeting when visiting england in 1912 and to whom we were greatly in debted for letters of introduction which gave us a welcome to many of the finest estates and gardens of eng land hlsoo t a a the best that have been published and in bis will he left provision for the annual award of a medal bearing his name for the outstanding iris of the year every breeder or mtroducer covets the honor attached to an award of the american iris society scores or men and women from coast to coast who are known to have a thorough know ledge of what constitutes a good iris are sent ballots and rating blanks pri or to each flowering season after the irises have finished blooming the blanks having been filled out are mailed to a central chairman and the returns tabulated honorable mention is given to a restricted number of the moat outstanding sorts the next highest award award of merit can go only to those varieties which have previously received an honorable men tion and here again the number is restricted the greatest possible hon or for an iris the dykes medal must go to a flower which had previously won an award and which has been in commerce sufficiently long to have proven its reliability under many con ditions of weather soil and climate runner up for this award is a consid erable honor in itself in addition to all this voting many or the leading iris fans make a motor tour in the flowering season and visit as many as possible of the best iris gardens in the states- there will be a great gathering of them at nasi vine tennessee called the iris city of the world when they get together for the annual meeting of the ais some time in may to be up to date to keep right up to date with this list of 100 beet irises would cost a nice ittle sum of money for the out standing new varieties are usually pri ced from 10 to 8500 per plant but fortunately iris multiply so rapidly that in a few years any of these high- priced ones can be paircbased for as many cents for a couple of douara one may now get a dceen reel top- notch varieties from most any up-to- date grower a year or so ago i had the pleasure of meeting at miss boacklocks beau tiful garden at mewtowvale opt a d harkness both of them real in eothualastfl and he gave us a mm j his collection by saymg ha tad sohrelnerw 100 beat i felt ufce gnp tag his band and saying wen bro ther isnt it a great game this keeping up with the irises the jackal prom the london lqngl sunday orapruo the jackal crept from his cover for the smell of the blood was sweet the jackal crept from jhla cover on the pad of the panthers feet he heard the cry of the victim as it writhed in the last deaththroe and he loped to the scene of the kill- ing lightfoot as the jackals go he lifted his nose to windward and quickened his step to the feast he circled the prey to the westward he crept on it out of the east he knew that the killer would sconl him and leave him an open road he snatched one quivering mouthful and backed with his stolen load with flesh from his foul lips trailing he left for his desert lair in the whirling drift of the sandhflle he crouched with his ghastly share sudden his hackles lifted behind him menacing grim tawnymaned in the shadows lion stood watching him with a swift glance over his shoulder he turned to the west and fled he may tryst once more with the kil ler he may tug onccmore at the dead but pursued by the carrion birds and the sands that batter and blind he slinks today to his cover in- the way of the jackal kind win h oguvle sweet caporal ike rutut form ih which tdiacoocam ii mokio- jljtarcjej every wednesday night oddfellows hau brampton gibsonboyd obchbstb dancing 0 pjn to 1 am dj9t bbotjlar admission notice to creditoks and otkeb8 in the master of the estate of mat sykks late of the tawn f oearge- town in the county of widow deceased aix persons having claims the estatcofthc a n sykes deceased are required to fuftl particulars of ttie same to the undersigned executor of her test htu and testament on or before tbe t day of april 1841 verified by statn- tory declaration wttii an account of the s if any held ttoewwtfcn after asfid date the executor watt pro ceed to distribute the estate in n cordanoe with ttie win having regard only to such claims of which he tbem shall have notice dated the 4th day of march aj 1941 evbrabstt ooue geo ont exeoutor houaaa houjb temple hldg toronto hi solkdtom notice to creditors in the matter of the estate of bbufc- gakst jane stvawubt late of the township of rialla b ortfr notice is hsrbby given thai alt persons having any claim or de mands against the late margaret jane starret who died on or about tbe eighteenth day of february 1m1 at the townabk of eequesing in the county of niton and province of ontario are wquired to send by poet prepaid or to deliver to the uader- sdgned solicitors herein bodes tbe sole executor of the last ww and testament of margaret jiane starret widow deceased then nemef and addresses full parqculecn is writing of their claims and atatesneapi of their accounts and the nature of the securities if any held by them and take notict that after the nineteenth day of april 1941 tbe mm archie ecclee will proceed to dtabv bute the assets of tbe said itwiuaaul among the persons entitled there having regard only to tbe claim of which he shall then have tad not and that the said archie boole wb not be liable for tbe said assess or any part thereof to any person of whose claim he shell not then tavft received notice datj5d at oeorgetown ootert this 19th day of march aj3 uhl dajje and bshmstt solicitors for the said anbw ftarim t does that male ever jack your the young onver eased a negro utnle drlr- no sohwas the wplyr yet but 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