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The Exeter Times-Advocate, 1938-01-27, Page 7THE PROOF OF THE PUDDING! To be able to see what goes into the pud­ ding is proof that it will be good—without proper lighting the cook is severely handi­ capped — give her a chance to do her best. THESE POINTS • Have a light placed over all working surfaces. • Light up the sink, and the stove. • Provide a central kitchen fixture for general illumin­ ation. will go a long way toward solv­ ing your' lighting problems. • It is wise economy to keep spare lamps on hand so that Our Lighting Service Department will gladly check your lighting and advise how and where improvements can be made. There is no obligation. Phone............................ . • Use bulbs of the proper watt­ age to give plenty of light. • Phone for a carton today. Exeter Public Utilities MAKE EVERY ROOM A gwwu'&tmi AT NIGHT! ( 1 FARMERS - - ATTENTION WE REMOVE DEAD HORSES AND CATTLE . Call us for prompt service. Our Men Will Shoot old and Disabled Animals ONTARIO TALLOW CO. EXETER, TELEPHONE COLLECT--EXETER 235 ONTARIO FORMER BRUOEiFIELD BOY AGAIN HONOURED Thornton Mustard, well-known to many in this community, has re­ cently .been 'commissioned by the Minister of Education to re-organize the work in Grades VII and VIII of the Public and Separate Schools. Mr* Mustard was in charge last year of preparing the new program for the Grades I to VI 'Which went into use last 'September. It is a mark of high esteem in which Mr. (Mustard’s professional ability is iheld, that 'he is thus entrusted with the responsi­ bility of planning the education of all the boy and girls of the Province. His old friends here offer congratu-, lations on the honour given (him and Wish 'him continued success in his important work.—Clinton Nows^Re- eord* Bronchitis May Prove Dangerous Do Not Neglect The Cough Get Rid Of It At Onte Dr. Norway Pint Syrup Will Help A T. MILBURN CO., IM, PRODUCT Bring Relief Winter Brooding of Chicks The poultryman with proper equip­ ment can handle .chicks in mid-win­ ter with as little mortality as with A'pril .chicks. He may not get as 'high percentage hatch as later on, but even the .hatchability of eggs is being controlled by the feed. Janu­ ary chicks will cost more as eggs are higher (priced to start with. Then it will take more fuel than with spring brooding. But there is more time for looking after the chicks; there may be less disease and .mortality; broilers will catch a high market, and pullets should be laying early in the fall or even in late summer when egg prices are at their peak. Of -course, if many started hatching all their chicks in January the high­ er prices for broilers and eggs would be wiped out, and chicks .hatched at some other season would find the best market. Brooder houses un­ suited for prolonged zero weather and the higher prices for chicks will limit the number .going in for Janu­ ary chicks. Nevertheless there should be good returns for the few who do, add they can prolong the use of their equipment, as those who have January chicks usually have an­ other batch in the spring so as to have ipullets coming into production at different seasons. January chicks! will g?o on to range early in the' season, or they may be raised indoors | until ready for the laying pen. ■THE EXETER TIMES-ADVOCATE County Council And now for the (St. Valentine jollity. * * * * * * * * JSfever count your chickens till they are hatched. *****<«** Having food and ramient, therewith be content. We have learned of a grayhound that ran 600 yards in 34 seconds, Ill fares the land when its youth fails to participate in winter sports.* ■ ■ u t , 4 , 4, „ Bought wit is the best wit, provided you do not pay too much . for it. ***.«*♦* January has presented us with a good brand of old fashioned Winter. ,******** Feeding hogs in Huron is more profitable than building castles in Spain. The winter of 1937-38 has put a. strain on the woodpile and the coal bin. It looks as if the untrained maid and the unskilled labourer were soon be on the shelf, , The days are getting longer. We do not need an almanac to sustain that statement. ******** In the 17th century English geese were shorn for their feathers as we shear sheep for their wool. ******** Some townships have purchased their own snowplows .It looks as if their doing so were a real investment. ******** And now the statistic seekers tell us that more accidents occur in gymnasiums than in any other part of our school .buildings. ’* * * * AV Th * * Astronomers tell us that they discovered two exploding stars during 1937. >So far we have not heard from (Hollywood in this regard. Forestry people tell us that in well-managed forests pine trees grow three times as fast as they grow when unaided by the skilful methods of modern forestry. * The youth of eighteen who cannot stand up to a hard month’s work and provide the world with a readily marketable product, had better put his brains in steep. ******** The Great Lake freighters as they thread their way through the Detroit River regions are alleged to require more scientific aids to navigation than the sailors of any other waters. ******** ANCIENTS TO THE RESCUE An adaption of a method of flood 'control used on the banks of the Tigris 2,500 years before the white man saw the Father of Waters is now employed by U. <S. engineers to prevent erosion and floods on the banks of the Mississippi. He’s a wise man who ap­ preciates the sound practice of the ancients. ******** Little by little the world is getting over its pipe dreams. The Japanese army in Manchukuo is abandoning its efforts at state socialism and is seeking a credit in the United States of $5'0',000,000 to be spent in machinery. ****** *« THE PROBLEM It’s one thing to build a tall chimney. It’s quite another thing to keep that chimney warm with smoke that tells of profitable industry. It’s one thing to have one’s barns filled with stock but quite a different thing to have this stock returning a steady profit. Yet that is the very situation that -confronts the United States this hour. When we ask the cause ithe answer is not far to seek. Com­ petition has driven manufacturers to such desperation that they can manufacture enough shoes and cars and stockings and all such commodities in three months of the year to supply the demand for the whole year. Cold chimneys and idle hands are the inevitable result. Business competition has come to business war. * * * * * * ♦ ♦ IT DEPENDS Ralph Waldo Emerson is credited with saying in one of his journals: “If a man .has good corn or wood or boards or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles or church or­ gans than anybody else, you will find a broad, well-beaten road to his house, though' it be in the woods.’’ That depends upon whether anyone wants any of those fine things. Footwarmers, -however good, do not sell well in equatorial Africa. However beautiful to the eye, a skunk is not popular -at a Sunday .School picnic. (Sermons advocating the non-use of spirit­ uous liquors are said to lack popularity in Highland -congregations. The vendor of fighting ’bulldogs has a slow market with refined ladies whose -taste runs to canaries. For many a day wheat holders in Canada found the market heavy. Again and again owners of t-he best of potatoes have fo-und it impossible to sell their product. This hour 10,000,000 folk in the United States with labour to sell cannot get a satisfactory offer. 'Further, there are a whole lot of people with good things for a demanding market who keep the price out of reach, while -others fail to advertise. 'The world is full of a number of things. A good fiddle has more than one string and a good band -has more than one instrument. ******** We learn to do by doing. We learn to play the harp by learn­ ing to play the harp. We learn to 'live by living. Mr. Matthew Arnold said that life is three parts conduct. He was mistaken—- conduct is the w-h-ole of life. Why, then, should Ontario youth spend the first 18 years of life busy with a great many things that it will never do later on in the terribly serious business of making a living? We have to catch our rabbit before we cook it. We require to .have an income before we can divide it. |A. nation must be pos­ sessed of values before wealth can be distributed. And let us never forget that wealth is produced and that the great producer is work, old-fashioned work. (Should 'the -hours of work be reduced, arbitrarily, will this mean the increasing of machinery and will the increase of machines mean that there will be less work? Will price fixing result in less 'production? If a few people do the economic thinking of a commonwealth will the results be as satisfactory as when all the people driven by their wants, do their own thinking? Is experience the best school of the race or would it be better for all of us to depend upon somebody else to get us jobs and show us how to do them? Is it just as bad for the race for the brains to get into the heads of a few as for the wealth of the nation to get into the hands of a few? A little real hunger gives the answer to -a good many of these questions. Are those folk who domineer in the thinking of the race as rank public enemies as the robber barons of long ago7 Has feudalism taken on this new, subtler and menacing form? ******** HASH AND SPINACH Junior is supposed to have a keen dislike for Spinach even if Popeye the iSailor man had a way of ascribing his phenominal strength to that dish. Then, again, dad has a long history of look­ ing with grave suspicion upon hash. Junior is -supposed to follow dad’s propensities in.this regard. This state of affairs caused some good people in New York to send out a questionaire regard­ ing food preferences among youngsters with- the following astonish­ ing results according to the New York Times: “Hash and spinach would .be about right if you wanted to en­ tertain at dinner any of the 22,416 boys and girls who filled out a questionaire submitted by the Boys’ Athletic League to find out what children between the ages of six and sixteen prefer in foods, education, Sports and entertainment. To those who like caviar or thick lamb chops the inclination toward hash may seem a bit surprising. Turkey came first oh the lists of both boys and girls, but boys put hash second, and the girls put it third with chicken in second place. , The boys put spinach first and the girls put it in almost tie place with corn. Ice cream was the favorite dessert of .both groups with pie in second place on the boys’ list and in fourth place on the girls. Bananas were in first place with both- boys and girls, the boys naming apples as second choice and the girls oranges. All of which is most respectfully, submitted to hotel chefs in such hostelrfes as The Royal Vork -and the- Chateau Laurier, to say nothing of buffet lunch providers at wedding and the providers of ■church suppers. ('Continued from previous page.) (Allowing for variation in loads it is safe to say that the cost averaged less than 4.5 cents. “The dump truck operated at slightly over .05c. per yard mile. Oui’ contract work was done at .06 and 07c. per yard mile, but it is ex­ pected that next year such work will all be done at 6c. or less. “1928 a (traffic officer was ap­ pointed in response to requests from villages for supervision over the traf­ fic, (Since, that time conditions have changed; a considerable mile­ age of main roads were taken over by the province and the traffic thro’ most villages policed by the provin­ cial traffic officers, Now the chief oc­ cupation of the traffic officer is the investigation of accidents, most of which occur on provincial highways and township roads in which the County Road System has no concern, and no pant of the cost of which should be borne by the county road funds. The province now takes a large part of the fines collected, and I do not feel that the County Roads Department is any longer justified in employing traffic officers and I believe that the money is much more urgently needed on the roads. More­ over, the investigation of these ac­ cidents is a provincial requirement and it is reasonable that they be in­ vestigated by the officers of the pro­ vince, which would save the county money. “Since the province has assumed many of our main roads, and is add­ ing to the list of traffic officers, I recommend that the Provincial Gov­ ernment be petitioned to employ Mr. Lever, who has been our traffic of- ficr during the past few years, “If he decided to continue his em­ ployment, I recommend that he be removed from the charge of t'he County Road Department. In the event of his employment being dis­ continued by the county, and if the province fails to employ him, I re­ commend that he be given a sub­ stantial retiring allowance. “Pursuant to the recommendations made last year that our main reads be provided with a bituminous sur­ face 'before embarking upon any ex­ tensive improvements to roads of lighter traffic, the following' pro­ gram is offered for consideration: 1938—Complete Seaforth-Brussels road, 5 miles; Bayfield-ISeaforth road, 7 miles; Lucknow-Nile road, surface treatment, 11 miles; Dunlop east to Carlow, 4 miles. 193 9—'Complete, Bayfield-ISeaforth road 7 miles; Carlow-.Bly th road 12 miles; Carlow-Nile road, 2 miles. 1946—ISt. Marys road, 5 miles; Crediton road, 10 miles; Brussels north, 5 miles. 1941—Kippen road 9 miles; ,St. Marys road, 5 miles; Brussels-Bel­ more road 12 B miles. Grading Needed To carry out this work, six miles of grading and gravelling will be needed on the Crediton road, and 5 miles on the Kippen road, as well as improvements to the igrade on all the roads. The drains will be needed on sections of the roads, and the grading and draining should be done well in advance of the surface work. .In most of our newer roads, small construction jobs will be necessary to make the roads safe, and the other roads cannot be neglected and must be maintained to a good stan­ dard, while it is expected that some bridges must be replaced. “No doubt it will 'be found that such a program must be varied to suit conditions which may change from time to time, but it is submit­ ted as a possible guide for the fu­ ture. “Tony Meahan, who has been em­ ployed by the county as power grad­ er operator and on other work for about seventeen years, has been in Byron Hospital, London, for over two months with illness, resulting from war service. Mr. Meahan 'has been receiving a small pension, but quite inadequate, considering the nature of his injuries. He has had a great deal of expense on account of illness *“in his family, and I re­ commend that the Pensions Board at Ottawa be petitioned to deal fair­ ly with Mr. Meahan in regard pen­ sion. I further recommend that, pending the decision of the Pension Board, Mr, Meahan be granted a lib­ eral allowance by the county. Has Surveyed Tonfb “I may say that I have made a survey of the late Dr. Dunlop’s pro­ perty and prepared a contour plan which I have submitted to H. J. Moore of the Department of High­ ways, who has agreed to lay out the planting, and it is expected that it will be completed before Spring. I interviewed officials of the C. P, R. and it was Intimated that approval would be forthcoming for the in­ clusion of their adjacent, unused property in the area to be beautified I have had some brush cut and piles of rubbish burned. “I recommend that a committee be designated at this meeting to report on the proposed improvements and to supervise the work.’ Grants Arc Allowed The usual grants will be given to THV»S1,AX, JAXUAKY 27tli, 1038 Nourishing Food for Hungry Appetites PURITy FLOUR Best for Qllyour Baking PJF537 all libraries within the county. The clerk, treasurer and caretak­ er were granted two weeks holidays. Deputy-Reeve Brown of Goderich at the morning session, inquired if an exception could not be made to a recipient of -Mothers’ Allowance not to. have the amount deducted for a son who had reached 16 years of age. “How can the boy get em­ ployment, and how is the mother to keep him? The government has set a plan for youth training but the minimum age is 18. Positions used to be wanting for boys; now it is different. Have we a cold storage plant for them for those two years?’ He appealed strongly that if the government has acknowledged the responsibility to keep boys to that age, the allowance should have been made to take care of them between the ages of 16 and 1'8. Reeve Cardiff—“The Mothers’ Al­ lowance is justified in cutting them off at that age. The municipality should take care of them.’’ J. M. Govenlock, inspector of the County Home, reported 93 inmates at the present time. The receipts and expenditures showed a balance of $2,252.84 in the bank. There were 12 deaths with an average of 72 years. Motions Eckert-Davidson: That 3 00 copies of Standing Rules and Regulations as amended be printed under con­ tract.—Executive. •Davidson-Eckert: That the grants for Fall F’airs and Spring Fairs in Huron County be the same as last year.—.Executive. Davidson-Livermore: That a grant of $80 0 each be paid this year to the Alexandra Marine and General Hos­ pital, Goderich, Wingham General Hospital, the Scott Memorial Hospit­ al, iSeafort'h and the Clinton Public Hospital.—Executive. Davidson-Grain: That Wilfred H. French, of Wingham, be appointed to the Wingham High School Board for a term of one year. 'Carried. 'Cardiff-Wilson: That this^county assume temporarily the opening of the roads in the county taken ovex; by the province, and the cost billed to the province by the county.—Good Roads committee. Livermore-Watson; That Col. H. B. Coombe be appointed a member of the Clinton Collegiate Board for 1938-9-40. 'Carried. Livermore - Armstrong: That a grant of $80 each be made to Sea­ forth, Clinton and Hensail Spring Stock Shows, and $35 to Hensall Seed Show for 1938.—Executive. KeysjEckert; That the Executive committee consider the salaries of the treasurer, clerk, engineer and caretaker.—Executive. J. H. Scott-B'ryans: That the sym­ pathy of this council be extended to Reeve Grain, of Turnberry, in the irreparable loss of his mother since our November session.—.Carried. Kerr-MacKay: That a grant of $15'0 be made to the Salvation Army for rescue work foi' 1938. Executive. Named. Trustee MacKay-J. H. Scott: That Dr. E. A McMaster be appointed a trustee of the Seaforth Collegiate Institute for two years. 'Carried. Leiper-Passmore —— That Robert Turner, Goderich, be appointed to the Board of Alexandra Marine and General Hospital fpr 1938—'Carried. Brown-Mawhinney; That a grant of $20 be made for planting and upkeep of flower beds around Court House for 1938.—Executive. Grain-Cardiff: That the wardens of 1937 and 193'8 be delegated to attend the delegation to Ottawa in connecion with harbor improvements at Goderich.—Executive. Turner-Kerr: That a grant of $200 be made to the Canadian National Institute to the Blind. Executive. Mawhinney-Armstrong: That a grant of $25 be given to the South Huron Women’s Institute. —(Execu­ tive. Mawhinney-Lamport; That the usual grant of $5 0 be given the Cen­ tral Agricultural Council, Toronto, and that P. W. Scott be sent as a delegate.—’Executive. Watson-JShaddick: That this Coun­ ty of Huron petition the legislature to amend the Hospitalization Act so that a patient cannot be admitted to hospital as an indigent without the signature of the reeve of the muni­ cipality in w'hjch the patient resides". —-Legislative. 'Cardiff-Passmore; That this coun­ cil grant to each of the Plowmen’s Associations the same grant as last year.—Executive For 9-Month Tenn- Wilson Lamport: This this coun­ cil ask the Department of Highways to give consideration to having mo­ tor licenses issued for a nine-month period from April 1 of each year ’to December 31, as we do not consider it.’fair to rural residents: to> make them pay a full year’s fee when they are unable in many caces to.take?ad­ vantage of the roads.-—/Legislative.- Grain-Scott; That we grant $25 to the East Huron Women’s Instit­ ute.—Executive. MacKay-Kerr; That the Egmond- ville bridge be inspected by the Road committee.—'Good Roads. • Eckert-Keys: That F. L. Davidson be re-appointed to t'he Wingham General Hospital for one year.—Car. <P. W. Scott-Livermore: That a grant of $500 be paid to the Agri­ cultural Representative’s office; $200 to the Junior Extension Fund and $15 to each school fair within the county.—Executive. ■Bryans-Toner: That the Good Rds. Commission be asked to look 'over 14 and 15 cncession of Ho wick as a connecting link between county road 38 with county road 39. — Good Roads ■ Safety For Valuables carelessness^ for a rental of a will think of other valuables, JLhere are many “small things of large value” which should have the protection of a safety deposit box. Following is a par­ tial list of "valuables” which can be kept safe from fire, theft and cent or two a day. Probably you which we have omitted* Agreements Army and Navy Papers Autographs Bonds Certificates —Birth —Baptismal —Marriage Charters Contracts Court Decrees CurioS Deeds Designs Diaries Diplomas Documents Gems Heirlooms Important Letters Insurance Policies — Automobile —Casualty —Bite —Life, etc. Jewellery Leases Lodge Records Mementos 4 Mortgages Naturalization Papers Old Coins Old LaCes Patents Payment Records Photographs Plans Promissory Notes Stamp Collections Souvenirs » Wills BANK OF MONTREAL ESTABLISHED 1817 Modern, Experienced Banking Service.,.., the Outcome of 120 Yfrtjy’ Successful Operation “a lank inhere small account! art welcome11 46