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- --- -- ne . that you thought up for him y a 3 Red OA Vin 4 ERE SENS ENOL SEE STA SR : EX BIL Aid ' Fd eh : 3 [ tata LL TT ESE J -- Obadiah By Richard H. Wilkinson ~ p - 4 ' Obadialy Nelo wis 4 oma of - unappreciated palit Io tho years he! had worked as clerk "in the scenario deparnoent of Ma nitcent Elms, | uid had thought up leas for pret iy wh i seen ACO WIICT Ss WHOLE Mito sonipts gqnad directors produ Clon neat tit "Lady Luck.™ Magurice most recent success, had netred the house something "over 1 million dollars. Noel Norbert, who wrote the script received S20000 and Oba- diah, who thought up the dea, col fected his $60 per week Ada Adams, who acoupied a desl: next to Obadiah's and who carned $30 a week readink stores, knew what was going on and told Oba diali in no uncegtain term< what she thought of hin "Barnum was right" he aid "How a man can be such a sucker and still live 1s beyond me" Obadiah blushed to the his Daj. "Why, shucks. | didnt do thing. It was just an idea | that I mentioned to Mr, "And. Mr. for i." A month later Magnificent began work on "Love's Appeal" Noel Norbert had turned in "the script after taking Obadiah to hunch, © week after that Aaa Adams came into the little restaurant on Sunset boulevard where. Obadiah ing lunch. "Well, how's Magniticent's $60 1 week sucker today?' she asked. "They tell me Mr. Norbert has turned in another box-office success raots of any had Norbert." Norbert collected 22000 was eat- asking $2500 for it' Obadialt's face went white. With had had out knowing it Miss Adams." aggravated a wound that she inflicted five weeks previous with her first scathing comment on Ary. Nelson's lack of what it takes to get ahead. : She was therefore. as- tonished when Obadiah suddenly rose without. a word and left her. Outside, his cheeks sti¥ rather pale, Obadiah was hastening to- ward the Magnificent studios. "Mr. Maurice," began firmly, "I want to know why it is that you pay $2000 to Noel Norbert for writing scenarios= that 1 think up. No, don't answer. I know why. It's because you think I'm a sucker withaut enough backbone to stand up for my rights. Well, let me tell you something. 1 mean, you can drive a horse to water but vou can't. make him willing I mean, drink. Or something. Anyway. I'm quitting. The Pacitic studios have offered me a thousand a4 week to work for them." Obadiah paused. breathing heav- ily, and mopped his brow. "Well" he said, "I guess thats all' "Is that so?" said Mr. Maurice, "Well, young man. vou're wrong. That .ain't hali of it." And he punched a bell button on his desk. Ada Adams 'was eating dinner in the same little restaurant on Sunset that evening when Obadiah came in. "Well," he said, "I've been raised from $60 a week to £1000." "So I heard," said Ada, "Congra- tulations. I'll bet vou could have got more, howgver. if you'd gone back to Pacific and told them. that ) Maurice was meeting their price." "I couldn't," said Obadiah, "he- . 'cause Pacific never offered anything in the first place: I - Ada stared in open- «modith won- der. "Well, well, well," she said. "And likewise, well." "4 "Even if they had," said Obadiah, "I- couldn't have thought up ideas for Pacific anyhow' "Why?" asked Ada. "Because you wouldn't have heen. there," said Obadiah. "All those ideas T thought up were about you and me. Just seeing you put them info my head. Without you I could- n't think of anything. In fact," he added, "sometimes I can't think of anything with you.' Ada' swallowed a gcallop whole, "For goodness sake!" she exclaim- ed. "Obadiah Nelson, I didn't think you had it in yon to. propose mar- riage.' - : "Propose?" said Obadiah. "Who's proposing? Dut it's fiot. a had idea at that." -- ------ - 4 A 12-year-old boy in Miami was astonished when he was notified that an old man he had knoWi#¥only casually had left him a thousand dollars. The man's will explained the boy had been kind to him. He's es Lee -------------- ie Obadi: oh "girl friends or coming this way to . take "and. L dor "Can also be a Point Where People Meet" the northwestern ' Ld 4% 5d * . $ 4, - Xi E ' ok Mo { A . EA IRE (AE ERE I PARTRAGVAR BOF ed dine ¥ ' . 5 - me ee ee ee eee ee fick spot of i me leat 5 ow to Look Daisy Fresh: Wear Ohne je So armed guards Labour laws interchange of nadians going jobs in cetther laws prevent cross-border prevent any broad Americans and Ca- back and' forth to ccountyy, Customs os any great amount of day-to-day shopping, although, during the meat shortage years ago. many American housewives used to go over to Ca- nada for the day's pork chops and bacon and, as long as they brought in small amounts, the customs men were lenient. But there is a lot of business .crossing back and forth Probably « lot ot you subjects eternally harpin a few operation. Still, the care way yesterday isn't -goit you safely over today; auc ; : another reminder won't on that ferry--salesmen fram both harm. counfries, "heavy trucks ladén with ila . «oe assorted freight f "anads N : a i Jl Jor nada and For there is no doubt crates o fadicimne, t d : > medsome, Satis, ae improperly cared-for electrical parts for America. Now : and then the ferry carries a load of sheep or cattle across for the Amer- ican market. All day long. particularly on the milk solids-get worke weekends, there is a large amount pores. of social visiting across the river . ' . --going over for lunch with Cana- dian friends or having Canadian relatives come over for dinner, for The butteriat causes t on both sides of the border there : I ao ant food for bacteria. In the pores vas been a lot of international J El Ia . of the rubber where they are out of marrving. And, until Coast Guard a es : . are reach of brushes and sterilizing regulations made it difficult, the : : Ail A rinses, these bacteria are able to ferry used to carry as pleasant a . + % . : S55 R multiply cnoriously. At "the next united nations. group -as- ever---tode - ~~: eo " : milking, as the liners are contract- from one land to another: house- . Pa. ed and relaxed with cach pulsation, wives from both sides used to take advantage of the offer, "Thirty-five cents round trip or as dong as you want to ride" and atop the | ferry all afternoon of a pleasant summer day, riding back and forth, trouble. not getting off, knitting and chat- + ' P ting in a sort of international ferry- klatschr Of a weekday evening the larger number of passengers are young peaple, mostly young men, to see their Canadian these bacteria are squegze washed away in the milk, sit teurization, and their pr Numerous methods of =F commended, says Dr. K. heading over Research, Ottawa. Drol their American -the American movies. : As the immigration officers pass girls "to : and most reliable, depends ing the assembly with a SN - De per cent) lye solution after first a hundred ferry passengers in five ou z : . . ) rinsing out the milk residue. Lye minutes, they seem casual and care- dissolves th cin and Joni " : dissolves the cas and saponifies less. To a stranger, little border ? as ! stations like these towns appear to be the best of all possible places 52 Co. : present sneaking mto either country . + bringing in contraband. The truth is that the officials know almost all the regular stroying most of the for milking ia best For long tube personally the lye solution yersonally "THEEARM FRONT Russell get sick and tired of writers on farm subject of proper milking- 'in crossing~a busy street or high- applies in this case too. So perhaps milking chines often add billions of bacteria to milk. Rubber, because ofits por- ous nature, i3 naturally hard to keep clean, and during milking, some of to soften and lose its shape, while the other milk solids provide abund- these bacteria ate not killed by pas- large numbers in the milk Division of Bacteriology and Dairy simplest, and certainly the cheapest the fag, while at the same time de- damrynien g on the machine you took ig to get I the same do any about it, ma- d into the * | he rubber d out and "Many of esence in inner surface. The Ive solution may be, prepared by making up a stock solution, dissolving one can of ve in 1 gallon of cold---prefarbly soft water, then difuting this to 1 gallon for use. spoonfuls of lye "stirring thoroughly to De. Johns cautions that not do the job properly. % . + The life of the liners can be great- ly extended by having two sets and ' After being should be 2 per cent lye solution using them alternately. used for a week, they boiled in a for 10-15 minutes. Directions for this procedure can he obtained from the Division of Bacteriology and Dairy Research, Science Department of Agric Al : * . Sone farmers are atvaid to [ye solution, having damages the rubber. true. This 13 especially when hot, of fat, rubber. It-is true that when liners are boiled in lye, they "give off an unpleasant odour, - decomposing hiding in the , R bacteria removing solids and boiled weekly, Dr. leads toa. | i caring for the teat cup assembly have been res C. Johns, hably the upon fill- | weak (0.5 bacteria machuies ised ina passengers. Let some stranger come and their casualness vanishes. The tries may get into their o strancer is detained a few more matic knots and make minutes and asked a few ouestions about the good or bad and that is usually all. But, as one Canadian-American relations. officer said, "These are the worst never troubles the peoplé™ sort of border places to get away along the border, They go with anvthing. A big station has forth, in full friendliness, as simply only: a few officers to check many as a man rides a ferry from Man- entries and all -in--a--short time. Iattan- to Hoboken, to show that Here there's just me, mister, and a border need not be a line where I'm in no hurry. Whenever I find people divide. It can also be a a stranger who scems suspicious, straight line that marks the point 1 can take all day. And 1 do." where people meet.--From .the The diplomats of the two coun- New York Times, wn diplo- speeches state of That who live back and] i TO RESET fo ae PICTURE: Ahi IN PLASTERED WALL, W NAIL IN NARI CLOTH,DIP IN GLUE RE cEIA) UHR ALLOW DAY OR TWO oF - 1] _ducers- they will never get into such a state, and they will retain their shape and last much longer 1 . Ll News of interest to honey and honey lovers--comes'in "Ome. Pro- a recent dispatch from Over ' * ' Heavily blitzed in a "when Liverpool suffered its great- est aire raids, a quantity of Canadian honey purchased in 1942 lias recent- lv. been marketed in England. Be- cause of more urgent re consteuBon jobs, the consignment remained for some time literally supporting the roof amd one wall of the badly damaged warehouse. The honey sur- vived both the explosion and the elements, and has shown no deteri- oration or loss of flavour during the fast cight years. + ' + . . - Dollar shortages have severely limited the quantity of - Canadian honey on the British macket in re- cent years. The blitzed honey was --sold-to-retatlers--and not to process- ors for blending with honey from elsewhere. In this way, many con- simmers were able to taste the Can- adian product in its original form and become re-acquainted with it against the time when it is freely _obtamable in Great Britain agim once PERHAPS IT WAS SNAILS The customer _had_waitéd half an hour for the fish he had ordered. At last the waiter appeared. "Your fish will be liere minutes," he said. id five Another quarter of an hour passed | and then the customer summoned the waiter. "Say," lie inquired, "what kind of bait are you using?" "A garden is a maddening thing, God wot; Snails, leather jackets, blight, and rot!" ants, slugs, --Anon. 4 ounces of An alterna- tive method is to add 2 heaping tea- to | gallon of water, dissolve it. unless the lye solution is up to strength, it will Service, ulture, Ottawa, Hye heard that it not Just the opposite 1s the case. Instead of harming it, Ive solution, extracts traces and prolongs the life of' the old may but -- this is simply because the--tye is milk the pores and crevices of the rubber. If Johns points out: warehouse = . singly or cand THUMB | 4, Govdon Suuth bas ample the treat hs modern I'he reason to be confused by prescribed for keepmg The technical terms fungicides, pardenct nents plants healthy. --insecticides, POSE Sprays wo dusts, ppt, 2 2, 4-D, etc.--are apt- myster- to trees eas a pres- written by Ins doctor. Yet See Tas ious docs cription they do have a definite relationship to the enemies that may mean ruin for a carefully planted garden . - * Fhe, sects that attic garden plants ate lumped nto two dvi sions: those that chew and cat the leaves oc plant parts, and those that <u k the puces frome side the plant or folie Chewers in clude caterpillars, grubs of beetles and the beetles themselves, wasps, ants and maggots, and worms such" a the cutworm and canker worm (not earth worm). Ia this divi ston also are "the borers, hike the corn borer and varions tice borers, which _begiin there on_the out side of the plants, generally as cat: erpillars or grubs or heetles . ' . --- All of these chrewie n-eots are controlled by chemicals that actu ally poison their food --the nsecti- cides that are known as stomach poisons. Lead arsenate, cryolite, dutox, pyrethram and totenone are only a tew of the many Lind: now on the market. They are used purchased as combina- tion sprays * . . To the mall steking group are aphids stages, leafhoppers, green fly, mealy bug, tarmshed plant bug. spittle bug and the lace bug that attacks azaleas and rhododen- drons. Since these pests penetrate the "surtace of the plant to draw out "the juices, surface or sttomach poisons are of little use. The chemicals that control them, called contact msecticides, act by smoth- ering, and are applied under pres- sure. A favorite 15 Black Leaf 40 (nicotine sulfate). Pyrethrnm and _ rotenone are used as contact insec- poisons, ctfe ticides as well as stomtch 3 In some DDT though not against aphids o. . cases tive, the dif - Almost microscopic i thrips and mites are the ficult to controt---Red--=spider-- red spider mite) spins a web on the underside of evergreen foliage and that of other plants. Protec fed by the web, the spider sucks the juices and turns the leaves a rust volor. Before the insect is reached, the web must be broken. Sulphur is_then applied as a dust; some Chew insecticides have been developed for better control. . *- * . size, most The cyclamen mite attacks del- phinium, African violet and De- gonias, stunting leaves and deform- ing buds. Sulphur dust or dimite gives control, bat DDI does not, In fact, DDT increases the red spider mite population, because it kills the insects that prey on this microscopic pest. DDT. will. con- trol thrips, however, which deform roses, asters, gladiolus and other flowers. : s {or all-pui ~~ Up part of \ ey State the 2 - Lawrence . ME sadled fungls SRE 1s the green aud ving z boun- v " 1. hime sulplind, div between" Canada 5A Unit-~ 4 ig: 4. 4 ~ A ture (a © mbinatiog fd State Here the two coulltiies 7 BY EDNA MILES i gOpher sultat and ime), fois Are more than womile apart. From F you'd like to kdep that fresh-as-a-daisy look despite the sweltering {rly pate and zorlaty acy he, stall, Asuericais village of Misr heat of summer days, try perking Jip your costume with newly-cut- waiong the common chemicals usgd mit Uo terry runs every how flowers, straight from your dwn garden; ° v Le the pueecticides, fungicides Across vo the AT vot ' N i y fy cor mm combination. Bra hy dea fe Ot Perhaps you've been nursing the idea that the only flowers that ) 'lL | i 3 | Se) hos akin tgwn per capfita in the "catire Bri may be worn are florists' corsages--preferably orchids, If so, avers tare Getore tha sutton me: ish Empire. The ferry is a trim come that notion, or you 11 be, Jniseing a beauty aid that may help woaafhin 3 very short perlod Bittle Sin aed fics both the Aimer you express your own personility i Yi Ch ceiical the Is can and Canadian tlaes. On both I . Professional corsages are thrilling tor special events, but for casual G helate sn ediately aftad ides of the rivel it uses the sim- occasions your own favorite yard or field flowers will work just as . wid daring moist weather plest ot At cach place cus- well. Wear one particular blossom all summer long, and it's likely toms and inmigration officers check to be regarded as your own personal trademark. It's a nice distinction h H N N Ch. . the passcugers. . to be thought of in connection with roses, pansies, verbena or what- 1 ey ave 0 ola The border between the United y ever. 3 Stites and Canada is, on the map, To make your noral arrangements appear hand-made rather than Lie still aaotier teld the S weahatl a thin dimes a change of printers' home-made, it's a good idea to avoid grabbing up a bunch of blooms "we tool Caey adn hom mk distinguishes one land from as. you dash through your front yard and sticking them to your collar ye waily adn thar pina ner the other. The border is unguarded with whatever pin you happen to find In your purse. ' evan do oh poh THOS tune all alana ats "thousands of miles. If you wear flowers, they're worth a bit of planning. Devote a (ew | | ra re ner rye here are hundreds of entry points minutes to choosing the handsomest blossoms your garden offers, then or ) ) : X py ong it, but at no one of them, take them inside for the couple of seconds it' n take to arrange them | ot Hee te Wiver por a e mcluding Brockville and Morris- artfully and attractively. | ca comsunted in the canntry Lg wn town, 1s there one single soldier > ) . foals we Lode aoa bull bases stationed. The traftic 'that crosses Bind their stems with cellophane tape to hold the flowers in their cb as wat TIT odie back and forth on the ferry at Mor- "This young woman carefully secures with cellophane tape the stems correct places. Then pin them with pride--and a long hat or Corsage cielo Toy thie ad } risfown. with never a passport to a of three perky daisies which she'll wear at her throat for & fresh pin--to the spot on your hat, suit or dress where they'll show ofl to Non He attimastivs Sader dete hundred passengers and none ask- and flowery look. best 'advantage. Towel or ab the tea ustiiess. lo cd, offers an even better example som Bering se The SRL i ~d oC of how the peaple of twoands can ee aT . . a | . nail "YTire SIRT ten fve--side= ty side mw conminEle-- ---solution rack; his I ust he il up od fh prohlen of dee Phe, Caavoritoe nt coninidas « "Hee with a minimum of red tape and Ho periectty tevel, and tire Ive sotut on he. GREE pects chenneals. the gardener ig NE day an must make contact with the entice inchned - to overtook the most mo | " portant factor of all an msect con | NE t trol thar of tumang Ie insedts | oie ~ : NE of Ate attached ar the period aw then | Boe atin . Te ny bie «vole when they aie most val aerabiv © good control ven ed ot : Co hl : ' ! * CYTURET FREI vor " whl "The (oan hovers ion wvainple < | ' ity : wil which dso attach dali and cos fon . wim 24 : mos, batch is tiny wortiis hom vin { i egus badd on the node side of tol | N MRT . : ape Mowvimg slowiv adong the 3 i PURE ITT stove dinie leat, the borers goal is the msde . i " . ' x of the talk. Wile on a outney, | : * . wis all they readily succumb to wdmost | an WC ie the 'have vat any dest on spans Bot once nse | . fre , i "e L the stall no spray cau reach then | RT of 4 o . . ' ' 0 Added to the importance of nm | Yor irre wept bee tor verede ine ol all ne is the fact that there are two be Fux aber deingti Sof dre contract - 3 to several generattons of some ago : Vern wii + : sects cwhiach doesn't hebten the i wif 5 : yt task ot the gardens County | ot peseral standacd Cato thicenth agents, agricultural schools or cole RT. | SET ; wild in i vt " leges and botanical notitations ae bd Chil . the docahity have antormation on ui wiih duh by . 1+ miestation dates LA "yz did wet wn i - * ' . Al a Faun His nes are aprinted hy hat ™s Sin " » wet ™ mlcroscapis spores hese ahieht on leaves lowers and=siems, then Rermin ate like geed and sepd fube Into the plant's int cri ¥he re the tube branches ard rebranches - "nA TWheections. Tie King Town and destroving the plant celle In its neat stage it produces more : spot es to setup te-mntecthan > RX : ! : When the County Sherift died The prnapal factor wi tive spread | Gy Calusa df the sottowqug jas or control of disease is wedther | ates of the co mty iad tontrihuied Moist, mua y conditions tog and 1a handsome funeral ow eath which continned wet weather are all fa- bora this inscription: "Lo our ha- vorable ro disease, and during sueh loved Sheri - from the prisoners? - Crade Robins--A blase city bjrd ignored a construction company's deadlines and built her nest right smack in the middle of scaffold- ing for an apartment house. Before anyone could say Jack Robinson, Mrs. Robin had laid four eggs. Fuming foremen wait- éd 24 hours, then 'moved the nest with its two baby robins and § two eggs to a safe place: Mama Robin followed along, deter- mined to let nothing interfere with her mgqternal duties. JITTER SpE By Arthur Pointer - -