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"Biddy Basketball Great Thing | For Younger Generation ~~ Pe - @ It came into being only. three years ago, as winter's answer to Little League baseball, but today, Biddy Basketball has grown with glant strides as another de- velopment calculated to. interest the kids "of our nation in clean competitive sport, and thereby combat the inroads of juve- ° > ' - nile delinquency. +. Canada hasn't quite kept step with the United States, even comparatively, in the growth of Biddy Basketball, Nor, in fact, has the game grown in Canada to the same extent as Little League Baseball, But it is making rapid headway. For- there are about twenty-seven Canadian cities with Biddy Basketball fairly well organized, There are probably twelve to fifteen hundred participants whose ages according to regu- lations range from thirteen years down to nine. Most of these cities are in Quebec, Ontario and the Western Provinces, . Most of the Canadian Biddy Basketball Clubs are orga- nized and sponsored by Social Centres, Boys Associations and the odd Community project. The schools have not as yet taken it up in any official way. The physical welfare of the boy is taken; inte consideration and a careful check is made so that they do not strain themselves, either physically or emotionally. In the United States, the growth of the gamé has been almost fantastic. From the original 16 teams in one state it has spread, until now it has more than 10,000 small fry playing on 1200 teams in 44 states. And it is being played in 11 foreign countries. . i . The program is regulation basketball in miniature, de- signed specifically for the younger set. The rules are tailored to their measureménts and immature strength, such as lower- ing the hoops a foot and a half, shortening the foul line three feet, and using a smaller ball, The appeal of this youth movement is almost irresistable. And it "has received great impetus from Jay Archer, former State Teachers College star, who tours the country spreading the gospel of sport. Canada has gone along without such in- spirational help, carried on the wave of Little League baseball success, but as in baseball, Canadian teams will soon be ready: to compete in the national tournaments held annually across the line, just as did our champion Little Leaguers compete with distinction in the Little League bascball play-offs last autumn, = . ; These juvenile leagues are great things for the youngsters. _ They cut across race, creed, and other beliefs and social dis- tinctions in a fashion that is more truly democratic than pre- valls in anything outside sport. They start our kids off on truly democratic lines, something that only. sport, the great leveller, ean accomplish, ' How To Protect Your Woolens Joint research by the U.S. De- partment of Agriculture and the Army Quartermaster Corps has developed a process of using--| DDT that protects the Army's stored woolens from insect dam-< - age for as long as five years. DDT-treated uniform - cloth showed no evidence of damage even though hungry fabrics pests have been placed on 'the cloth each year during the past .flve years: Actually 50,000 carpet beetles and 25,000 clothes moths: were used in the.tests, which com- pared several wool - protecting methods. EIT Spraying with- a 5-per-cent DDT oil solution offers the home- maker an. easy, safe; 'and-low-- cost way of protecting stored woolens. Although not so thor- ough as the Ariny's DDT-impreg- nation method, sprays, neverthe- less, guarantee many years of otection from fabric pests for, ome-stored: woolens.: Wool clothes that are in use, and- rugs. and draperies thay are subject to wear, require deasonal treat- ment and retreatment after they have been dry-cleaned or washed. A simple procedure for the home-maker is to hang the wool- ens, on a clothesline and spray them' lightly but thoroughly. Af- ter the treated woolens are dry, they can be stored in closets, boxes, or chests. Spraying DDT on the interior wall, floor, and shelf surfaces of closets, and on both inside and outside surfaces of storage' containers, gives ad. ditional protection 'from the larvae of clothes moths and car- pet beetles. Wool carpets, rugs, and draperies can also be pro- tected from these fabtic pgsts the year round by being sprayed -- with DDT, A simple hand spray-"- er can be used for all these jobs. Applying the 5-per-cent DDT spray until the wool has become thoroughly moistened assures adequate protection. However, do not soak fabrics 'With. spray, because too much DDT may leave a white deposit on the cloth after the spray has dried. This is especially - true on dark-colored woolens. ° . _ Persons applying the spray - Should stand as far from it as . possible, and should not breathe the DDT-oil solution, They should wash their hands and faces with soap and warm water after spray- taken also to avoid getting the the spraying is done 'indoors, Experiments indicate that com- plete protection from carpet- beetle and clothes-moth larvae cloth with DDT. Rolls of fabric _only partially treated were da- maged to varying degrees. -- From "Woman's Day." ~ EXPLANATION Arthur Rubinstein, the great pianist, was such a social lion in Paris that he scarcely found time to. practise. In desperation he instructed his butler to tell all callers, regardless of their importance, that he was not at home, "The recognizéd leader of boulevard society phoned one morning while Rubinstein 'was playing one of his most iempes- tuous and difficult standy-bys. "The master is not in," said the butler dutifully.. "Poppycock,' snapped the great lady, "I hear him playing distinctly." "Ch, no, madam," the butler assured her. "That's just - me dusting the keys." , declared fhe winner in o calf _ youth subdued the animal at the Junior Grand "scramble. The h "National Livestock Exposition, spray on foods and utensils when. is gained only by treating all the ing is completed, Care should be + How "Silent Night" Came To Be Written Just east of St. Anton the Arl- berg-Orient express stops at a tiny, biscuit-yellow verasdahed , station with swinging flower bas- kets, stan "all by itself in ah _ immense' me landscape and serving mo" visible hinterland. The station is" markéd 'Oetztal,' - and it js in fact that point of 'de= parture for Tyrol's longest later- al vdlley. Though barely access- ible, the Oetz is one of thgse | parts of the world history fre. quently visits. From ithe north Mo one can enter it without the. knowledge of its . inhabjtants; from the south nathing without the natural endowmgnis of a chamois can enter it at all. , . . The southern end of the valley is sealed off by the ice and snow of the Oétztaler Alps, whose peaks range from eight to twelve thousand feet. : It was an organ-mender of the Oetz who picked up a simple little tune in Oberndor{, in dis- tant Salzburg, one winter day in the eighteenth century when he was repairing the organ in St. Nikolas' "church. He learned it while the parish priest and the choirmaster were trying it out on a guitar, and it haunted him as he walked home to the Oetz. Sitting down to rest on a rock at the head of the valley, he met a small girl, one of a family of four half-grown children whose voices were the pride of the fam- ous QOetztal Singing" Society. Listening to the tune he was humming, she promptly asked what it was, and learned it, mel- ody. and words, on the spot. The organ-mender went his way and forgot the song, but the girl and her brothers and sisters, when they. went. out the following Christmastime to sell gloves at the South German Christmas fairs, began to sing it when trade was slack in order to draw a crowd. The crowds they drew POR LS a Akh : EE were enormous. To one such the choirmaster of the court of Sax- ony was attracted. The song so struck him that he presented it, with the four singers, at a court concert before the King and Queen of Saxony. It was first arranged for orchestrajion, then for great choirs; and eventually the King of Prussia offered a prize for the discovery of _the 'author of what had become the most popular Christmas carol of the Western world. The author was Franz Gruber; the song, Silent Night. --From "All About Austria," by Virginia Creed. ™ This Bridge Club Has A Purpose . ay, "Don't forget your fifty cents, girls." That's the way the hostess of the Wednesday Bridge Club in Montreal reminds 'the eight members that they have an "adopted" daughter in Italy. « They found their little sad- eyed Maria through the Foster Parents' Plan for War Children a year ago. "We're old friends, and 'have - been playing bridge * together every Wednesday for five years. We wish we had thought of adopting one of these pathetic little children long ago. We're getting real pleasure out of feeling that we are doing some- thing useful besides enjoying ourselves," one of the members commented. Perhaps this 1s a trend of the ago thought that all leisure time should be devoted to purely social pleasures, have become so aware of the work being done by wom- en's auxiliaries in all community efforts that they have a feeling of guilt if their spare daytime hours 'are' not put to some good use. Womer's Clubs have been . largely instrumental in widening - the woman's point of view in the duty. she owes to the world out- side her family circle. One of the members of this particular club had heard a speak- er at a church auxiliary tell of the Foster Parents' Plan for War Children, and wrote to. the 'Can- "adian Director at Box 65, Station B, Montreal for details. She dis- covered that: by donating $15 monthly to the Plan, one partic- ular child is assigned to a group or individual, who then becomes , a foster parent, "Adoption" is, of course financial, not legal, but as letters fly back and forth be- tween "parent" and "child" the association becomes very close. The Bridge Club discovered ehat by: donating fifty cents each to the fund they raised the nec- essary $15. monthly and had a small surplus which enabled them to send birthday and Christmas gifts to Maria in Italy. a " Maria is typical of the. 70,000 little waifs who have been given aid by the Foster Parents' Plan, She was -an infant when her home was destroyed and both parents Killed in & bombardment on her native village near Cas- sina. Her carly years were spent in a cave with other refugees. She had known nothing but fear and insecurity in all the ten years of her life, and, until she found foster parents, had been a com- plete burden on the family, them- selves poverty-stricken, who had rescued her. But with the knowl- edge that she has friends, things are looking up for this neglected child. She is now portance, The Bridge Club is one of the 8,000 foster parents in the world to-day, 325 of them Canadians, who feel that these children, *un- lucky enough to be born while their countries were being de- stroyed by war, must be given a chance to become self-supporting citizens. Maria writes that she would like to be a dress-maker, 'and with friends in a happier country, she may realize her am- bition. With no education, and a feeling that all the world is "a nearing adolescence, are apt to - be swayed to lend support to any "ism' which promises them better things. Their plight is still des- perate. They are living in caves In Italy, in D.P. camps, in chil- dren's colonies and in hovels across war-ravaged Europe. against them,-thege children, now - Senorita Libertad -- Exactly like the Statue qf Liberty in New York Harbour, this junior-sized replica of "Miss Liberty" in Val- encia, Venezuela, -gets her an- nual spring ¢leaning.- Not a Dance The Encyclopedia Britannica describes "Dancing" as "the rhythmical movement of any or all parts of the body in accord- of in- action some scheme or concerted ance with dividual or ideas." According to this description the farm movement is certainly not "a dance- It is not a rhyth- mical movement, it is not in ac- cordance with some scheme; there is 10 concerted action and it is pretty bare of ideas. ' ; Ruffled Feelings It is distressing to see the con- fusion in the minds of the farm- ers concerning mafiters of im- portance to the business of ag- viculture, indeed, of the nation. A typical example of un- realistic thinking "is the vecent discussion _ in "a certain County Council, ®hich first passed a re- ~ solution urging a ban on the im- portation and sale of vegetable oils harmiul to the dairy. indus- try, and then started a debate on whether the inmates of the Home for the Aged should be given butter or margarine. The old people are still get ting butter, but emotions ran high and f{eclings were ruffled before the decision was made. "Old Oat Burners" One council member said he could not see any difference in taste between butter -and mar- garin¢ and that the Boavd. of Management could save $700 per year 'by buying margarine instead of butter. Another felt that it a product couldn't stand on its own feet in the face of competition, it was its own hard luck. Farmers should return to horse farming. If they went back to the "old "oat burners" they could buy the oate from amongst themselves and would not have fo give the money to the oil companies for gas. You also, Brutus? For most farmers margarine mend ERAN Plain Horse Sense.. by BOB ELLIS =. F which is expressive of emotions is only a target for shadow box- ing and a subject for rhetorical exercise. After they are through condemning it at their meetings, they go and pack in a pound or two with the groceries they buy operatives stock up on the stuff? The fact that they do, is proof enough that farmers have ac- "it themselves. Nothing for Something What then, in the name of the cow, is the use of talking about and against margarine. instead of trying to find new markets to make up for the lost ones. In ~the same council meeting it was said that butter is too dear. Maybe it is. But if it is why is it? : Milk consists of water, butter- fat and solids-non-fat,~ For--ali milk- the farmer ships for pro- cossing he gets -- after deduct- ] ing the trucking charges -- only the price of butterfat. The sol- any return. ids-non-fat do not bring him Out of the 39 cents the con- sumer has to pay al the store * powder, the producer does not receive anything for the vaw material; be gives it away. As a matter of fact, he would be bet- ter off, if he would seperate his milk, ship the cream "and feed the skim to: his pigs or calves or chickens, 1 iy If producers were to receive their fair share for solids-non- fat, the price of butter could come down, The Richest -- The Cheapest Dr. G. A. Richardson of {the dairy department of the Oregon 'vitamins contained in one quart of milk, cost 20 cents when bought in capsule form at the corner drug store, 'Milk powder is one of the richest . sources of animal' pro- on the way home. Why else would country stores, and even farmers co=-- cepted it and apparently want for one pound of dried skim milk | State "College claims that ihe" CLASSIFIED AUENTSE WANTED OILS, GREASES, TIRES PAINTS and varnishes, electric motgry, sleotrical" appliances. 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It is up to thé farmers and their organizations to do the job. In a world that is half starved of food "and which is trying to get by on a diet of carbohydrates, consisting mostly of fafinaceous --starches like those. of and rice, in a world which is in bitter need of every gram of animal protein it can save for human consumption, hundreds of cious stuff are wasted annually. Instead of asking governments to protect them by implementing laws prohibiting the manufac- ture of competing food prod- ucts, farm organizations should use their own resources, and also the government's if neces- sary, to do some research work. They. should investigate the price and merchandising sys- tems used in the manufacture --and distribetion---of food. prod- ucts, and explore the possibili- ties for new uses and new mar- kets for their ~ milk-golids-non- fat, To the -organization that first tackles this problem will go the fame of being the true represen- tative _of the farmers. 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