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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1934-05-31, Page 7THE EXETER TIMES-ADVOCATE THURSDAY, MAY 31st, 1931 GRANTON MAN WAS FIRST TO SUGGEST SENDING SUPPLIES TO WEST J. Morley .Mass Made History Mak­ ing Suggestion (St. Marys Journal-Argus) On a Sunday morning in the early talj o£ 1930 the editor of this paper sat in a laymen’s church conference in the auditorium of Alma College, St. Tlioma®, and heard an earnest­ faced farmer make a history-making suggestion. The crops in a large area of Saskatchewan had been dried out and there was great need. Grain and livestock prices had dropped to a lowel level and the farmers of the east had little money. But they had abundant crops. And the farmer proposed that out of its abundance Ontario should sent fruit, vegetables and clothing to the stricken West. The speaker had had the matter very much on his mind and heart. It had kept him awake the previous night and he read from a memoranda hook, a statement of his proposal which he had written out between three and four o'clock in the morn­ ing. The large meeting was very much impressed with the appeal, particularly so- the chairman, Rev. Dr. Peter Bryce, of Toronto. Later Dr. Byrce together with the Modera­ tor of the United Church took the matter up with Premier Bennett and the railway heads. The result was .the beginning of a flow of hundreds of cars of supplies) to stricken areas of the West, a procession which is still going aftei" four years, and in which Ontario' folk of various de­ nominations have had a part. He Set Ball Arolling But the motion which set the ball arolling was made at that early Sun­ day morning meeting in Alma Col­ lege. And the man who made it was ■the subject of this, sketch. Morley Wass of Granton. We attended a similiar conference gathering at Stratford last year when Rev. Dr. Bryce was present and he recalled the incident at Alma College when a thoughtful and .earnest farmer started a history-making movement which has been one of the finest things that has. happened in Canada during the present generation. A Practical Visionary No one who knows (Mr. Wass would be surprised that such a sug­ gestion should come from him. He has been a life-long zealous church­ man with an eye to the welfare, of his fellowman. Apd on the other hand he is a practical man of affairs. For instance Mr. Wa'ss was one of the first farmers' to be seized with the value of red clover crops.. He went into red clovei* on a large scale him­ self, induced, his neighbors to do likewise and developed a wide mar­ ket for red clover seed throughout Western Ontario. For some years he supplied seed for a large co-opera­ tive farmers’ organization in Lamb­ ton County. He has also liked horses, likes to train them and to break an outlaw. As a result he has handled many of them and for years would have from twenty to sixty ■on hand at one time. He has gone in 'for general farming heavily in various lines. During the years, of depression on the farm he has set rather tight but has retained two farms north and south of Granton as well as his one hundred and thirty acre farm adjoining the village.- Working .on a large scale has appeal­ ed to him and he has shown a gift ■for trading as well. Active Church Worker Ever since his early teensi, Morley Wass has taught on and off in the Sunday School and has1 been a mem­ ber of the Granton United, formerly Methodist Church choir. He served for a number of years, on the1 Board. At the present time he is the leader of a large and flourishing Young Men’s Bi'ble Class. Mr. Wass believes in the educative value of travel As a youth he spent his first money on a trip to Niagara Falls and the Pan-American Exposi­ tion in 1901. He was there the day President McKinley was assisinated and saw the stricken president lying in his coffin. He has visited most of- the centres, in his native province. He had gone through the Maritime® to the Atlantic and has bathed in the Pacific at Vancouver, B.'C. Morley Wass was born on Ccn. l»0 10, Blan-shard, being a son of the late Noah Wa.ss and his wife, Mary Wic­ kett. When he Was a year old the family removed to the farm in Gran­ ton village where Morley has lived ever since. He attended Granton Public School and later took short courses in Agriculture at the O. A. C. Guelph. In 1908 he was married to Bertha Taylor, daughter of the late Robert and Mrs. Taylor. Zion, Us- foorne Tonship. Their family consists of their son, MerVin wa'ss, B.A., who is completing his course at O. lA. C. this month, and daughters, Loraine, who is teaching at her mothers old school, Zion, Usborne, and Marion aged 9.^ Mr. Wass is- a member and past master of Wildey Lodge, I.O.O.F. of Granton. He served twelve years as School Trustee and it was, during his term that fifth, classes were started in the school. CWlDREH'SJfrHSTlPOl Ended / Mrs. IT. T. Rowsome, Athens, Ont., writes, "My baby boy was troubled with constipation. Igavo him Baby’s Own Tablets as direct­ ed ... Before I had given half the box the constipation was righted.” By relieving constipation, Baby's Own Tablets prevent more serious ailments developing. Much easier to take than nauseating laxatives and perfectly safe, for all little folk from the wee babe to children of school ago. 25o package. Here’s hoping for a warm, showery June, ******** There’s, no impudence like the impudence of wealth, iSo far the growth of farm, crops lias ,been very slow, ******** So the forest fires are raging once more!* * * * * * * * And how good the gravel roads are this summer.* * ***** * •Some wideawake folk look for a shortage of feed next winter. Ik#***#*# Here’s hoping that the folks in authority may keep the grass­ hoppers well in hand. ****♦*♦*, The students have had prime weather for reviewing for the ap­ proaching examinations.******** How fine the tulip® are looking and what a display we have of jonquils! How welcome) the dwarf iris!******** The Eligible Maidens .are quite sure that the poet knew his business, when he wrote "What is. so rare as a day in June!”'******** We’re quite sure it would have been good business for the Union Stock yards people to have excluded all cigarette users from their employee®.******** We met a brave little fisherman on the 24th trudging home at 3 p.m. (Asked about his catch he reported, "I didn’t geit none.” And he had missed hisi dinner, We know how he felt.******** If all that those tories say of the grits is true and if alii the grits say of the tories can be 'proven neither one of the parties is ifit to govern this province. However, Old Man Ontario is not easily mislead by political trumpery.******** Nobody is quite satisfied with the way things are going with the present election campaign. One party is shouting that everything is all right while the other party is declaring that the oth-elr fellows are not fit to live with. Nobody quite believes either olf them.******** JUST TOO BAD After saving his pennies for line and books and then to have the 24th s.0 cold and unpropitious for angling, many a small boy met with serious disappointment. Then there are those who tell you that childhood is just one round of joy!******** WISE We have just heard of a ’farmer who refuses to use his car this summer, He found that it needed repairs and decided that the farm prospects, did not warrant the financial outlay involved in fixing up the car. This farmer is out of debt, by the way. There’s, a relation between cause and effect.********* Missionaries report that in the vast region of South China with its population of hundreds of millions that the governments and municipalities have not expended one cent in relief money except when relief was required in cases of flood o.r famine. These same people are carrying on immense public works- without one cent, of ■bonded debt. Oh, the poor benighted heathen.******** The Exeter groundhog paid us his first Official visit this week. He reports that the clover is a light crop. He is not satisfied with the growth of the peas., He finds, the dandelions doing fairly w-eill. However, he is so thin that he finds it necessary to use last year’s whistle. His family is so thin that is tying knots in their tails tolkleep them from slipping back into their burrows.******** HAY A SHORT CROP The past winter proved a killer for a great many fields seeded to hay. Nearly every farm has its- fields, that have been plowed up because the seeds quite failed to withstand last autumn's drouth and the co^ld and dryness of this- spring. A good many farmers are doing all that they -can to compensate for the lack of hay by sowing cereal crops, that may partially take the place if the hay., Their do­ ing so involves lossof both time and seed, while there is no really satisfactory substitute for the hay -crop.******** THEY’RE SELECTING We lis>belned in on an address given by a wideawake and' ex­ perienced man the other day who was speaking >of conditions- in southern -China. (Said he, .‘‘Those 'Chinese leaders -are s-tudying world1 conditions. • They have sent abroad their keenest sons with ■definite instructions to mark well the way® and means that are working well in every civilized country of the world. These meth­ ods. are reported to the rulers in China and from all the methods re­ ported the Chinese rulers- and leaders in business., agriculture, gov­ ernment and every other walk in-life, are selecting the very best and applying these methods- with characteristic Chinese intelligence and diligence and patience. By so doing the 'Chinese are getting results that soon will) astonish the (world. The last ten years have marked a change .in 'Southern 'China that passes all beli-etving to the person who has not witnessed 'the transformation. Within a very short time in the lifetime 'of a nation, those peoples bid fair to outdo us ■in the very things we have taught them. It is high time that Western nations w-elre walking up.******** TWO WEEKS LATE ■Men who have a way of avoiding extremes in their1 remarks about the condition of the country, tell us that crops are about two weeks behind their regular stage of development. This comes as. a real disappointment, as folk were quite sure that the severe winter would be followed, by a spring -of rapid growth. For instance, we recall seasons- when the first crop of alfalfa was in the barn in the first week in June. This season this .crop will not 'be harvested till the last of the month. While it is a little early to say what the -consequence® of the lateness 'of the season will be, a great many practical farmers as­ sert that the season that usually gives the best harvest is the.season in which the growth of the farm crops is early and' continuous. Hence the dash of -seriousness-that one meets as he talks about the harvest of 1934. One does not hear the word "abundant” used at all frequently. When to this is- added the fact/ that farmer® have this spring spent a good deal for feed it is not, hard to understand the anxiety that is. abroad in the farming community.******** JUST TOO BAD We read with a good deal of horror that a public man was kept waiting a whole eight minutes as. he was wandering about one of our big cities. It is stated that he was .peeved. Now isn’t that too bad? We mean his being kept waiting, though we ourselves have been kept waiting longer than that even -when we had some important work to carry on. We .resented) being kept waiting for every man has a right to be punctual with his appointments. But there are greater things than punctuality a In the case oE the public men .referred to there was the matter of his 'being .con­ siderate. No discourtesy was mant by keeping him waiting. This he knew very well. The important thing on the occasion was for him to-remember that his impatience was. very likely to- have far- reaching consequences, that is was likely to sever "bonds lighter than air yet stronger than iron.” Public nerves, he knows and all of us IklnoW, ar-ei jumpy these times and a little lack of consider­ ation on the part of an official may start something that will be difficult to control. However, Canadians, are a sensible lot. who have a way of taking a little impatience as an incident of little conse­ quences, Most of us are too busy to pay much attention to the millinery of public life. IT’S ARROGANCE These ar-ei the days, -of strikes. It must be- remembered that strikers since a .few years back are learning how to m'ake their re­ sistance -effective.Now worker® do not lay diown their tool® simply for the sake of making a holiday. -Still less do they lay down their tools' to make it harder for their employers, For the most part they strike out of sheer necessity. They fear and' realize that their .employer®, in a great) many instances', are eager to get the last bit -of work possible out of them for the least possible dole of cash. More than that, they believe that their employers are doing their level 'best to get back ail that the employer has. spent in the last few years' in the way of relief. Meanwhile the employee wonders' why a little more consideration is not given labour to compensate him for the loss labour has taken during those same lean years. iLabour in many instances simply is not satisfied with the way Iris employer is treat­ ing him. Hence Iris- use of the only weapon available; the strike. -Labour feels, that power is on the side of men they regard as their oppressor® and they are resentful accordingly. Unless the- church and the voter step lively these trying days, trouble is- sure to come. fliv aft bw WHallaaUJra Outstanding Quality PRESENTATION TO PASTOR Thirty young people of Greenway gathered at the home of Rev. S. J. and Mrs. Mathers to hold their clos­ ing meeting of the 1933-34 season when, following a program, Doro­ thy Belling gave the year's report. The president, Manuel Curts led a farewell service for Rev. and Mrs. Mather®. He gave an outline >of the work carried on by Mr. and Mrs. Mathers during the last four years, and at the close of his address Ed­ die Hartle read an address and Olive English presented )Mr, and Mrs; Ma­ thes with a floor lamp. ONTARIO BEEKEEPERS SUFFER HEAVY LOSS Ontario beekeepers suffered heavy losses in the last winter due to the extreme cold, according to the hon­ ey crop report issued 'by the Ontario Depatment of Agriculture. ‘The re­ port estimates that 15 per cent, of the total number of colonies was winter-killed or approximately 30,- 000 hives. The damage for the districts, ac­ cording to the report was: Southern Ontario 15.8 per cent; Western On­ tario 13 per cent.; Central Ontario 17.3 per cent.; Eastern Ontario 13.4 per cent. Losses; were the largest in the experience of many beekeep­ ers. Field prospect® are not very favorable due to damage dione al­ falfa and clover fields. T E «Ai MRS. W. J. NOTT There passed away at her home in Egmondville, Lorena A. Williams beloved wife of Mr. W. J. Nott, ag­ ed 67 years. Mrs.Nott had1 'been in failing health for a number of years and had suffered a paralytic stroke two days previous from which she did not rally. She is survived by her husband, one son and one daugh­ ter. SCHOLARSHIP ESTABLISHED AT UNIVERSITY IN HONOR, of memory of sm Arthur The establisment of an annual scholarship provided by a group of London citizens in honour of the memory of the late Sir Arthur Cur­ rie is announced by the board! of governors of the University of West­ ern Ontario. The scholarship valued at $800 tuition at the university will be awarded to students in the sec­ ondary sicho'ols of Western Ontario who have the necessary scholaristic and1 athletic qualifications. The award will be given to the scholar attaining the highest average on six subjects in lowed or upper school examinations provided the student has participated in WOSSA athletic competitions for at least two years of his course. It was deemed fitting that Canada's greatest 'soldier and educationalist Should be remembered for Sir Arthur was one of Western Ontario’s most distinguished sons. He was born near Strathtroy. ONTARIO 707 Fresh from the Gardens ZURICH Mrs. Jas. Laidlaw, of Detroit, is visiting at the home of her brother, Mr. Chas. Welber and other relatives. Mr, Wm- F. Dumart, of Kitchen­ er. was a visitor at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Hy. Yungfolut, the forepart of the week. Mr. and Mrs. J. J. Schwartz and daughter Eunice, of Detroit, were recent visitors with Mrs. Amelia Fuss. .Mr. and Mrs. Lee O’Brien and Mrs. W. H. Hoffman were .Sunday visitors in Stratford. Mr. and Mrs. Merner Either and two sons, of Detroit, wee week-end visitors with Ms. Eilber’s parents Dr. and IM»rs. Jos. Routledge. Prof. Herbert Kalbfleisch, Western University, was a week-end visitor with his parents Mr. .and Mrs. Louis Kalbfleisch. Prof. Kalbfleisch in­ tends taking a trip to Europe this summer. Mr. Emery Ruby, of Kitchener, was a recent visitor with his. parents Mr. and Mrs. Wm. S. Ruby. Mrs. Menno Steokle Jr., of the Bronson Line, who. has been ill with rheumatic fever is recovery nicely. (Mr. and Mrs. Charboneau, of De­ troit also Messrs. Alex and Wilfred Denomme spent Sunday with their parents Mr. and Mrs. Ed. Denomme. •Misses Lylyan Rader and Martha Heideman are spending a few days in Detroit. DEPARTMENT OF HIGHWAYS MOTOR VEHICLES BRANCH AN OPEN LETTER TO PEDESTRIANS: Are motorists right when they say you are more than half to blame? While figures cannot be depended upon to tell the whole truth, last year’s accident records leave no room for doubt that there are reckless walkers as well as -reckless drivers. Last year 2,821 pedestrians were killed or injured in Ontario in automotive accidents. Many of these persons came to grief while violating a simple rule of safety . . . crossing a street between inter­ sections . . . crossing diagonally at intersections . . , crossing against traffic signals . . . “hitching” ... or coming from behind parked vehicles. Of the total number, 1,107 were children playing in the street. Records show that in many of these cases the driver never had a chance. Accidents happened while he was doing his best to drive safely! This department is more deeply interested in making the streets and highways of Ontario safe, especially for children, than in any other public duty. The conscientious motorist has been appealed to in many ways; several of his privileges have been restricted in an effort to make life safe in traffic for all. I know that this appeal to the pedestrian will find ready response among those who walk more often than they drive, and especially’in the hearts of fathers and mothers of little children. Willnow co-operate? Will you help to stem the tide of needless bereavement and suffering by observing the simple rules of safe walk­ ing that make all the difference between safety and the jeopardy of life and limb? And you parents— will you not give your children a chance by teaching them the need of care for their own safety? Toronto, May 7th, 1934.