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The Exeter Times-Advocate, 1932-08-04, Page 6
n SJJ THURSDAY, AUGVST 4tli, 1932 THE EXETER TIMES-ADVOCATE AGRICUIJTURE MORE IMPORTANT THAN. INDUSTRY Le Droit, Ottawa (Independent) Wq can do /without automobiles, radios, trips to the beach and fash ion's. Qur bread comes to us nut from the forest, nor from pulp and paper nor the mine. No more does it come from manufacturing or trade. Qur values have been upset,- We have thought too much of pulp and paper and too little of our bread. We have attached to much Impor tance to industry and not ‘enough to agriculture. THE ONE OVERBOOKED ‘In BE CAREEVL Take no chances wnen swimming. Take no chances 'by being careless when on or in the water. The other day one of the greatest swimmers on this continent, Johnny Weissmuller, said this: I am a champion swimmer, yet I would no more ewim a half . mile from shore alpne without a boat in attendance that I would put a loaded gun to my head and pull the trigger. It is as dangerous as that. Don’t ■ show off, and just keep cramps in the balek of your mind when you are tempted to swim out of sight er aid of others. Are ordinary folk as careful Weissmuller? vtce of a champion'—s en to heart. rapidly by roots and the carried long distances by The stems are from 1 to height, with few leaves with a bitter, milky juice. ^HHE’WORID i as His advice—the ad- should be tak- The Potfeupine Advance says the estimate made' of the unemploy ed in Canada one class is too often overlooked, and that is the lad just leaving school. He has never had a regular position, and after days of MVST LOWER BARRIER searching for a position, and then* weeks of looking for a- job, the young man is likely to feel that there is no place for him. (Premier George Henry) We must realize that if Canada ____ __ ................. This is‘eis to sell to the other parts of the a bad thing for the young man and Empire, Canada must be prepared his people and an equally evil mat- to lower the barriers of protection, ter for the country. It is one of the " * many deplorable features of the de pression. It is anoithei* argument for the providing of employment rather than the giving of direct lief. WHERE CANADA LEADS among cornpu- jjlacing Canada’s high standard world nations is indicated in tations of a year or. so ago, the Dominion first in production of nickel, asbestos, cobalt, paper’ devel opment, farmers’ “co-operative organ ization, money exchange, newsprint production, and wheat exports. She was also first in railway mileage per capita, in hydro power per cap ita, in elevator capacity and in Wheat quality. She was second in coal reserves and resources, in total trade per capita, in wheat produc tion, autos, manufactures, and flour export, and third in production of gold, wood ports. To my mind, the first thought must be to find markets for our surplus agricultural products. Primarily we are an agricultural people and I he re- I lieve that even agriculture must be( prepared to face reasonable compe tition from within the Empire. Some of our manufacturers must allow themselves to come into com petition with goods from sister Do minions, for we- cannot expect others to buy from us unless we are pre pared to take from them what they have to sell. If the Conference at Ottawa proceeds on a basis of give and take, then it will a'ehieve re sults. It spreads seeds are the wind 5 feet in and filled The flowers- are bright yellow about 1 1-2 inches across and are found closed in bright sunlight. Hay fields known to be infested with Sow Thistle should be cut on the greenside and plowed immed iately after the hay has .been remov ed. If th© weather is hot and dry, allow the plowed land to dry out for two weeks then cultivate thor oughly as a Summer fallow and sow Fall Wheat, or plow again in the Fa'll and sow Barley or mixed gram the following Spring. Such crops as Sweet Clover and late sown Buckwheat are excellent for controlling this weed. A bare Summer fallow is also excellent for contolling all kinds of weeds. Early Sumer plowing and the baking or drying process in me hot dry weather after plowing destroys many of the roots and where this system is consistently followed in the rota tion, Sow Thistle can be kept under control Many farmers have found Early Oats to be preferable to late Oats for contolling Sow Thistle. Due to the spreading habits of Sow Thistle, noxious Control noxious be cut down and destroyed, Inspectors are vigorously enforcing the Weed Act as fai’ as Siow Thistle is concerned and are doing every- the clean °the f this weed is classified as under the Ontario Weed Act which sitates that all weeds under the Act must Weed thing possible to protect farm against the inroads world’s worst weed. of SOW THISTLE to 3,278 air. silver, paper, aluminum pulp, and in per capita and ex- Jas. S. Dignan, Ed. Dignan and son and daughter Howard and Helen Dignan and Miss Medd of Ex eter; also Mr. Bruce Dignan, of Tor onto, were guests at the home of Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Dignan Sunday.— (Lucan Sun) Sow thistle with its creeping root stalks and thousands of seeds equio- ped so that they are blown long dis tances by the winds is the world’s worst weed? Sow thistle is found in every County and District in On tario, in fact in almost very Town ship. This weed known as the Yel low Peril is a real menace to the Agricultural industry of Ontario. For many years farmers generally did not know the weed Sow Thistle, did not know its life history and ha bit of growth, and therefore, did not realize its importance until it had became well established. Sow Thistle is perennial in nature. 1 4,016 MOTOR VEHICLES COLLIDED IN 1931 83 deaths and injuries persons resulted from collisions be tween motor vehicles in Ontario last year. This information is furnished by J. P. Bickell, Registrar of- Motor Vehicles, Ontario Department of Highways. The figures, are there fore, official. And surely they are a sad commentary upon the driving habits of the men and women mo torists of the province. Occasionally, perhaps, th&re may be a legitimate excuse for the collid ing of two automobiles, but accord ing tq official information the gre'at majority of accidents odour in -broad? daylight, on straight roads and the carte good The Times-Advocate ESQ The Times-Advocate $2.00 per year Times-Advocate Times-Advocate Times-Advocate Times-Advocate Tmes-Advocate and The London Advertiser and The Toronto Globe ................... and The Toronto Mail and Empire and The Toronto Daily Star ........... and The London Free Press ............ Times-Advocate and The New Outlook The The '■•The The The The. Times-Advocate and The Farmers’ Advocate ................ The Times-Advocate and The Family Herald & Weekly Star The Times-Advo'cate and The Canadian Countrymen .......... The Times-Advocate and The Saturday Night ...................... The The Times-Advocate and The Canadian Homes and Gardens .. The Times-Advocate and McLean’s ‘Magazine ....................... The Times-Advocate & Montreal Witness, renewal $3.85; new The Times-Advocate and Youth’s Companion ....................... The Times-Advocate and The Toronto Star Weekly ............... CLUBBING RATES WITH OTHER PERIODICALS MAY BE ON APPLICATION HAD involved are almost always in mechanical condition. It may be, as some people claim, the average motorist has little-that or no regard for the rights of the other fellow. difficult for driver to see is hound to himself. Still, it should noit be the habitually careless t-hat sooner or later he be “the other fellow” i SASKATCHEWAN IS MAKING COMEBACK * Saskatchewan is on tne road back expecting to produce a crop of 2001,- 000,000 bushels of 'wheat, stated Premier J. katchewan recently. He discredit ed reports farmers in province would take active steps to defend their farms and homes against sales and evictions. “Conditions in Saskatchewan are not and will not be such as ,press reports of the Saskatoon convention of the United Farmers of would indicate,’’ said the who is in Toronto after a Ottawa for the opening of perial Conference. At the P. F. C. convention a resolution was passed favoring active opposition to any eviction proceedings. “The gvernment has taken every reasonable precaution to ‘ prevent evictions by creditors or rural and urban dwellers.” T'. M. Anderson of Sas- from Saskatchewan that some areas of the wheat Canada premier, visit to the Im- r Hundred Years Ago Magellan V4*aa Almost Three Years on His Trip Around th© World* Nowadays when aviators are flying round -the globe in a few days it is ‘nteresting to note how distances seem to have shrunk since the days when round-the-world trips first caught the imagination of the people Jiving on old Mother Earth. Round - the - world travel seems to have begun about 40Q years ago, when Fernando Magellan set sail from Seville in a tiny caravel, on his famous trip whose consummation he was destined never to see, for he was murdered by natives on a beach of the Philippines. Despite the recent voyage of Columbus many of the peo- pie of that day still thought that the earth was ( flat and was in luck when before sailing over the edge. Many thought Magellan crazy to attempt it, but his ship crossed the Atlantic, rounded Cape Horn by the straits which still bear the great circum navigators’ name, angled northward across the Pacific, coasted China and was back in. Spain after a voyage last ing 1,083 days. t Almost three years was surely* a slow voyage, but the distance was great, the- navigators were feeling their way, the ship with her clumsy hull and sails made poor speed against the wind and the voya- geurs lost much time one way and another. For more than three centuries sail ing ships .had a monopoly on round- the-world voyages, Then the steam ship slowly came into its own. In 1872 Jules Verne wrote his highly fictitious “Around the World in 80 Days,” in which the equally fictitious Phineas Fogg, on a wager, broke all previous records. Phineas Fogg’s imaginary record so inspired a- young woman of the newspaper profession that she beat Mr. Fogg’s record. She circumnavi gated the world from New York to New York in exactly 72 days, 6 hours and 11 minutes. And her name, com memorated on a Toronto Harbor Commission tug, was Nellie Bly. Subsequent globe trotters, more Interested in speed than sight seeing, clipped this record down by degrees until 1913, when John H. Mears, an American, girdled the globe in 35 days, 21 hours, 36 minutes, thus cut ting Nellie Bly’s time in less than half. But this great saving in time was not due so much to greater trav elling efficiency on the part of Mears as to the faster steamers and faster trains, and to the presence of trains where none had existed in Nellie’s time. Then came the post-war era and the opening of the age of air travel ■ushered in by the America-Azores- Spain crossing of the Atlantic by Am- ' erican army airmen in 1919, the due hop journey of the Englishmen Brown and Alcock immediately fol lowing, and the notable first voyage , of a dirigible across the Atlantic > when the British na-val airship flew from Edinburgh to New York in two days and a'half. In 1924 American army flyers circumnavigated th© globe in the actual flying time of 14 1 days, 15 hoars, though it took them i 175 days or nearly half a year to make the trip*. | UNUSUAL ANIMAL KILLED. Sea Otter Taken Off Vancouver Is land Was Thought to Be Extinct. The, only specimen of a sea otter killed oil the Pacific Dcean in mod ern times was brought'to th©' Legis lative Building at Victoria, B.O., by Bryan "Williams, provincial game commissioner, and will be stuffed for preservation by the * Government curator. - - The animal was killed by an Indian on the west coast of Vancouver Is land and confiscated because saa otters are strictly protected by gamo laws. Sif feet, bight Inches long, with hair ofa ’duh color aricU reroarkaBty silky texture, the pelt is unlike that of any other fur-bearing animal, ” It IS valued at’ $2,000. * ; ' - that Christopher he hit America THE ONTARIO SCENE Travel in Ontario will ayways re main a romantic adventure by rea son of the primeval nature of the scene. The European ‘philosopher, Count Keyserllng, when visiting this continent, was struck by the strong inclination on the part of American men an women alike to forsake the comfort of Jheir homes, at leapt • once a year, to seek in ,camps and along distant trails the 'simple, but qdventurous r,esources of the tent and tht canoe? He suggested that the annual migration of millions from the cities to far flung woods and waterways, was mass 'obedience to the call of Manitou. Whatever mystical significance this suggestion may contain, it would seem from the statistics of the last few years that numerical gains in th© apostleship of the out-of-doors are decidedly; with Ontario, implying rnat the spir-‘ it voice of Manitou goes out with compelling insistence from this prov ince. Nor is the call deceptive. No other section of America possesses such a series of striking recreational areas, all easy of access to holiday seekers. Nowhere else can be found inland waterways traversing pine-covered highlands that present scenes of natural grandeur extraor dinarily varied to the senses, tario is unique for the visitor, sportsman and the traveller. that "‘this conference must he ahQVQ parties and persqnalities . . , , . I have always sai4 it does not matter tuppence whether any of us individ ually gets any credit out of itt We have brought, out a frist-olass eleven We don’t care who makes the run as long, as the side scores well. That is the spirit in which our side in go ing in.” BRUTAL POLICE METHODS / DO THRESHERMEN SPREAD OR CONTROL WEEDS On- the Yes is the answer in both cases. The thresherman who is' inclined to be careless, always in a hurry, who I does not take time tb clean the weed screen in the shoe of the mill, who never has his mill adjusted quite right and who is not particular in cleaning his mill inside and out af ter finishing each job ■ certanly does assist in spreading weed seeds on the farm and from one farm to an other. The careful thresher on the other hand always has his mill properly adjusted foV the type of grain he zis threshing. He makes sure his mill is fed properly and that the weed screens are clean and doing the work i’Or which they were intended. He watches the grain'spout careful ly to make sure his mill is doing a clean job at all times. He cleans and sweeps his mill carefully before 1 moving tb the next farm, and there by represents a very important link in the chain of ‘weed cotrol activ ities. The thresherman while doing a job is in the employ of the farmer and is' largely influenced by his de sires. If he wants a rush job ‘the Tresherman often tries to oblige him by crowding, his mill and not taking time to keep it properly ad justed with the result that grain is often poorly cleaned, with consid erable loss from grain being blown out with the straw. Farmers and threshermen alike should be very careful that stock! threshing is done in such a manner that Sow Thistle and other wbeu seeds are prevented from blowing to neighbouring property. The carefud thresherman is truly a credit to his industry and is very largely responsible for preventing many weed seeds from spreading from one farm to another. CANADA’S IMPERIAL GUESTS / ' Delegates from the four corners ?of the British Commonwealth, of Nations are gathered at Ottawa as we write. Never has there bben a Dominion - Conference, says Stanley Baldwin, importance of this s on Empire’s Best ShipEmpire’s ! ' ’ ■ ..............................;---------------— .. .. . . VALUABLE NEWSPAPERS. Constantly Studied by PoHtfeJans » and Quoted In Speeches. The value of 'newspapers in pro viding fairly accurate and prompt in dications of public opinion was relat ed, to the members of the Lambton ; 0ounty> Council by J. T. SpiVule, ’ M.P. for East Lanibton. /Newspapers from all parts of the country, said | Mr. Sproule, are placed on file in the I reading rooms of the House, of Com mons, and are constantly used by the members of the House in the prepar ation of their speeches. It has been 1 estimated that forty per cent, 'of the speeches delivered on the floor of the ehamber are made up from excerpts from the newspapers of the nation. INVENTORS’ SECRET SOCIETIES. Members Sworn to Secrecy and Re- . main Members for Life. Several secret societies for the mu tual help of inventors are in exist ence in various parts of England. Working-class inventors who join one of the societies are given a guarantee that they will reap full benefit of their devices. , ■ , Everybody who becomes a* member must take the oath of secrecy and remain a member for life, A council decides whether an idea fdr a patent is worthy of being worked out, and if the decision is favorable, technical and other assistance is provided. British Government delegates to the, Imperial Economic Conference at Ottawa photographed aboard the Canadian Pacific liner “Empress of Britain” and Who held a Cabinet Council on the ship, an event unique in marine or government annals. Seated left to, right, they are; Rt. Hon. Walter Runciinan, M.Pq Rt. Hon. Neville Chamber- laid, Chancellor of the Exchequer; Rt. Hom Stan ley Baldwin, Lord President of the Council; Rt. Hon. J. H. Thomas, Dominions Secretary; standing, Ett. Hon. Sir Philip Cunliffe-Llster, Colonial Secre tary ;_Rt, Hon. Sir John Gilmour, Minister of Agrl-- ...... Secretary 357 culture; and Rt. Eton. Lord Hailsham, of State* for War. z THE SPRUCE TREE. Spruce is exceeded in Canada only by Douglas fir in amount of lumber produced, and provides, in addition to its uses in the manufacture of pulp and paper, rayon, hifplanes, musical instruments, food dontainer* and medicinal ■ preparations, a good Struck ral wood at low^ Cost. Baldness. Baldness is said to be more Com mon In towns than in the country and among' people who Work With their heads than manual worker*. says Mr. approaching the one. The eyes Of the world are upon Ottawa these days, and the press of many nations, has its keenest reporters and cam era men there. For the would interested^ because the world likely to be'affected to no small tent by- the agreements reached this concourse of British peoples. is is ex- by By Those accustomed to regard ' the policeman as a protector of persons and property and a chaappion of square dealing, rather than as mere hunter of criminals, find it difficult to understand the terrible b'i’Wtalii> ies so often charged against police officers'in ' the United States. The infamous “third degree” has called j forth world-wide condemnation. To- i' the credit of the United States be it said that nowhere Iras the inhuman treatment of prisoners been more severely condemned than in the American press. The New York American told recently of the tragic fate of a young man, Arthur Maille- pert, who was strangled to* death in a prison camp in Florida, “He was beaten, half-starved, forced to wear a fortyfive pound barrel for forty eight hours before his death, placed in stocks that drew blood from his ankles, strapped into a sweat-box. and chained by his throat to the roof.” When the twenty-two-year- Old lad slumped over exhausted the chain around his neck stranged him. Then the officer in charge of the prison road-camp tried to make it | out to be a case of .suicide, The story is not told by some reporter’ out of sensational copy. It is told by'County Detective W. H. Gasque, who ^yas appointed by the State’s Attorney to investigate the case. At the conclusion of his search for the truth he arrested the jailer and one of the guards and charged them , with second-degree '■'-murder, “I • firmly believe,” he declares, “that the boy was tortured to death.” The sweat-box seems to have been legal ized as a substitute for whipping convicts as late as 192'5. A prison is a place of-discipline, and the pro blem facing its officials is one of the most dfficult in the nation. But whilst- nobody expects a jail.- to be run along the same lines as a wo men’s missionary society, yet no one in these days expects it to be run on lines that suggets the horrors Of the dark-ages. • THE MAN AVHO SLAMS THE DOOR / Egotists we frown upon,, Dislike the talking bore; But we detest that noisy pest The man who slams the-door. Nightly we are sore distressed By loud nocturnal snore, But when he’s late, we simply hate The man who slams the door. Saxaphones and radios •We often must ignore, ‘ But we can’t stand the selfish brand The man who slams the door. Many kinds of raucous sounds We loathe and just abhor, But we can’t kill that imbecile, The man who slams the door. BUGHOUSE BUGS The flies and the beetles, The millers and moths, Each festively flutters And frolics and froths Around ev’ry light-ibulb, ' Like Clean-Crazy loons, In ^ime to some secret, Insanely wild tunes. They’re bughouses with music. And daft with the heat.. They rarely , alight, P’rthaps they’ve corns on their feet. Their wings ‘haven’t, bunions, Of that'l would swear; Sb wildly they gambol And frisk in the air. Canada’s eastern and westeirn gate-. And-when they get singed ways I the delegations have been con verging upon the ’capital. His Ma jesty’s ministers from the Mother lands, and from South Africa, South ern Rhodesia, Australia, New Zea land and India have been welcomed by Premier Bennett in the Domin ion’s name.. The varieties of race and creed, theories or government and philosophies of life or tne na tions which compose the British Commonwealth as represented by these delegates have both amazed and fascinated not only the press men of other lands but even our^ own people. No word or hint or what is going to be done has been allowed to reach the public at this date, much to the amazement of our American journalistic friends, that Mr. Baldwin w’ould say ■ ... I In their reckless, mad strife, !’Twould.seem that they babble: “Now, ain’t this the life?” /On a,, wet day a young man driv ing a sports car was forced to brake very suddenly, with the result t)iat the car got out of control for a mom ent and ended within an inch of a lamp-post on the other side of the road.' A policeman strolled up. say, sir,” he said, “you got a nice skid /there.” ‘Pardon me,” replied the young man haughtily, “this lady is my, wife,” "1‘ . All was Still most folks seem to be keep ing the wolf from the garage door. Her Children Were Troubled < With Diarrhoea Mrs. J. J. Bickart, M 1, Enderby, B.O, writes:— “Last Summer all my children were troubled with diarrhoea, and were so bad I did not know what to do. A friend told me to give them Dr. Fowler’s Extract of Wild'Strawberry, so I got a bottle, and after a couple of doses you should have seen’ the change, The children were soon well again, and I am very thankful to your Wonderful remedy. I find if the only one that relieves so easily and quickly?’ ! i