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The Exeter Times-Advocate, 1942-04-02, Page 7planning to fieldlivestock, of farmers co-operating, age of farm operators, size of farm, 129 acres. for military training in of farmers hiring help of hired men, enlisted in of farmers with a hired 1941, 1941, 1941, grown The World’s Finest Anthracite * successful new and old time “PLAY Slogans are almost sure A. J. CLATWORTHY' planning to in hay and planning to in hay and 5,006. grown 1942, re- his and four Mrs. Mrs. Wil- any this daily under the eye of God without whose sparrow falls?CROMARTY Junior Red Cross Meets hugh McGregor dies AT HOME IN BRUCEFIELD Hugh McGregor, well-known sident of Brucefield, died at home on Sunday. He was in his 89th * > < ■# -s w. B He * Labour of farmers* sons enlisted is Trade Marked Blue. Order Blue Coal and we have it, also Large Lump Alberta Coal HAMCO Dustless Coke Prices are Right I THE EXETER TIME5-ADVOCATE •w Thursday, April 2, 1942 Farm Survey Stephen Township If Statistics (As supplied by the County Clerk) Assessed acreage, 56,945. Total assessment valuation, Hr 238, 254, Population, 2,576, p’oreivord The Farm Survey was conducted by the Stephen Township Federa­ tion of Agriculture. Each school section director was responsible for canvassing the farmers of his sec­ tion. The completed lists were sent to the office of the Ontario De­ partment of Agriculture, Clinton, for tabulation. The objective of the Survey was to find out the actual farm condi­ tions relating to labour, machinery and equipment, crops, and other important farm phases, so that assistance could be given for the production of food­ stuffs so necesary for the Canadian war effort, Results of Survey Number 316. Average 47 years. Average Number in Active Force, 18. Number of farmers* sons enlisted in Reserve Force, 15, Number of farmer’s sons liable to be called 1942, 51. Number 102.' Number 1941, 13. Number man at present, 43. Number of farmers with adequate help for 1942, T23. _ Number of farm women helping with farm work in 1941, 199. Women helping on farms more now than in peace time, 129., Farmers who could exchange more labour with neighbors to advantage in 1942 than in. 1941, 39. Number of farmers who have suf­ ficient help in prospect to main­ tain the 1941 production, 182. . | Livestock ’ mangels grown in .1941, 345; plans for 1942, 358. Number of acres cash crops grown in 1941, 3,402; plans for 1942, 3,065. Number of acres of bush, 2,055. Number of farmers having land suitable for reforestation, 42- Number of farmers -desiring an application form for free forest trees sent them through the mail, 53. Number of farmers leave more land down pasture in 1942, 102. Number of farmers leave more land down pasture in 1943, 83. , Number of farmers produce as miich of the following products required by Great Britain in 1942 as in 1941: Bacon, 278; milk, 257; Eggs, 280, » Tonnage of commercial fertilizer used in 1941, 686. Usual rate per acre, 125 lbs. Farm Machinery and Equipment Number of tractors, 102: Steel, 62; rubber, 40. Numbei’ of ‘tractors that did cus­ tom work for neighbors in 1941, 36. Number of tractors that will be available in 1942 for custom work, 40. Amount of tractor machinery of following items on hand; Plows, 93: cultivators, 76; discs, 59; one-way discs, 5; row-crop machinery, 16; combines, 6; grain separators, 14. Number of fertilizer drills, 162. Number, of drills with fertilizer attachment, 14. Number of milking machines, 0. Number of grain grinders, 62. Number of cream separators, 276. Numbei; of farmers requiring new machinery in 1942, 84. - Number of work horses in 1,156; plans for 1942, 1,173. Number of dairy cows in 1,124; plans for 1942, 1,167. Number of brood sows in -604; plans for 1942,. .650. Number of bacon hogs marketed •6,466; plans for 1942, 7,143. Number of milking beef cows, 1,054; plans for 1942, 1,077. Number of steers and heifers marketed in 1941, 2,07’0; plans for 1942, 1,961. Number of ewes in 1941, 228; plans for 19 42, 247. Number of laying hens in 1941, 27,120; plans for 1942, 32,551. Number of .baby chicks purchas­ ed in 1941, 40,3 6-0; plans for 19 42, 46,515. Number of farmers expecting to purchase more feed in 1942 than in 1941, 107. Field Crops Miscellaneous Number” of farmers with hydro at present, 99. Number of farmers who would in­ stall hydro if available, 68. Number of farmers with suffic­ ient seed grain for 1942, 214. Number of radios, 210. Radio stations that are listened ,to for farm information: CKNX, Wingham, 10.3 per cent; -CBL, To- [ ronto, 21.3 . per cent; CFRB, To­ ronto, 13.2 per cent; CFCO, Chat­ ham, 5.4 per cent. Number of farmers taking a daily paper, 170; weekly paper, 252; farm magazine, 254; number of phones, 224; number of cars, 263; number of trucks, ,10. Number of farmers who think that farm prices should be based on cost of production plus a reason­ able profit, 277. Number of farmers who would be willing to keep a record of the cost of producing some farm product in 1942, 172. -Number of acres winter wheat grown in 1941, 2/831; sown for 1942, 4,267. Number of acres spring grains grown in 1941, 9,936; (plans for 1942, 10,321; Number of acres of hay grown .in 1941, 5,164; plans for 1942, Number of acres of pasture in 1941, 11,768,- plans for 11,506. Number of acres of corn in 1941, 405; plans for 1942, 487. Number of acres of turnips and Phone 12 Grantor We Deliver year. His wife predeceased him several years. He was a member of the Carmel Presbyterian church, Hensall. Surviving are two sons, Hugh McGregor, of Detroit, Frank McGregor, at home, and daughters, Mrs. McCowan and George Baird, both of Stanley; Dutot, of Brucefield, and Mrs. liain A the Rev. interment cemetery. Dietz, of Kippen. private funeral was held from, residence at 2 p.m. Tuesday, William Weir officiated, and was made in Baird’s z A dance, sponsored by the Junior Red Cross, of S.S. No. 6, Hibbert, was held at Staff a Hall, on March 25 th. During the - evening a lucky ticket on a fancy butterfly quilt was drawn by Shirley Harper, one of the pup­ ils, The winner was Herbert Ma* haffy, of Cromarty. Wardell Wm. Kay, assisted by Harry Norris and. Frahlt Bruce, conducted the draw. War Savings Stamps were given as a prize to Ross MacDonald, the pupil who sold the most tickets, and to Dorothy Norris, the pupil who sold the lucky ticket. The proceeds of the quilt and the evening amount­ ed to $85.00. Another Bad light? Oouin’t You Bet Any Best ? To those who toss, night afternight. on sleepless beds, To those who sleep id a kina or a way, but whoso rest is broken by bad dreams and nightmare. To those who wake up in’the morning as tired as. when they went to bed, we offer in Milburn’s Health and Nerve Pills a tonic remedy to help soothe and strengthen the nerves. When this ia dono there should bo no more restless nights due to bad dreams and nightmares. Price 60c a box, 65 pills, at all drug counters. look for our registered trade mark a “Red Heart” on the package. Th® T. Milburn Oo„ -Limited, Toronto, Ont, The British Navy j Just long on tradition, on “every man doing me toest on “the country expects every man to do his duty/* on plans and eloquent broadcasts and on appointments, but a bit short on vic­ tories. When John Plainman suspects that the war is going badly despite his liberal gifts of money, of kind, and of his family, he first becomes uneasy, then angry, and then he is liable to take the bit in his teeth. IRRITATING .Word has been sent abroad to the folk of this Dominion to save every ounce of gasoline, to hoard every ‘used postage stamp, to put by every old bone, to walk on his toes to save rubber, to preserve tea leaves for future use, and to waste no burnt ends of rye straw, all in the interests of winning the war. And citizens have responded. And now the word i.s whispered that the savings are not being sat­ isfactorily disposed of. * * ■ * * » V * » “WATCH THE BUNG AS WELL AS THE SPIGOT” Wor*d leaks out from time to time that in matters having to dp with the war, there is a frightful waste of time and materials. Say, a bit of construction work is well begun, only to be followed by orders that the plans have been changed or something like that, and that the whole thing will have to be done all over again. The waste of time and materials is not considered, Rumors persist that there is a waste of food that fills the taxpaying public with dismay. Just now we are drawing attention to these disturbing rumors. We are not locating the blame. We simply wait for the assurance that while people of this country are investing up to the limit in treasure and in blood in order that the war may be won, that the big handlers of materials and food are not wasting at the bung while the people are saving at the spigot.«*«**««» Away back in 1932 when the Canadian government was busy doing all it could to encourage tobacco producers, the Russian gov­ ernment saw that rubber was to be a necessity of the early future. Immediately she set herself to providing against that necessity, not by entering into trade 'agreements with ’’nations separated from -her by thousands of miles of ocean, but by providing her own supply of rubber within her own borders. This she did by cultivating the dandelion, the plant our own Canadian government has taught us to be a useless, obnoxious weed. From the dandelion, Russia is now securing a substance that is giving her a supply of material that keeps her wheels moving. We question if Joseph Stalin will allow ‘interest” to come between his country and the development of industry so full of promise in this crisis in the world’s history. Those of us who believe that there is a Divinity that shapes ends welcome the discovery of the usefulness of this plant so We scorned the dandelion. Now it is likely the fortunes of a mighty now as it was two thousand years ago, that is nigh thee.” ******* our hardy and so abundant. to go a considerable way towards saving Empire. It is as true “the word of the Lord * COLONEL BLIMP Many inquiries have been made regarding Colonel Blimp. This person is the incarnation of cunning power directing the hand of the mighty. Generally he wears a brass hat. When he is thus de­ corated he talks of “When I was with Wellington in the peninsula” or “when I was with Roberts in South Africa,” or “when I was .in attendance at such and such a military academy.” Generally he winds up his pompous verbiage with “I tell you, sir, the war will be won thus and so.” All this he says though he never carried a knapsack or smelled powder. For the most part Col. Blimp is a woman who has secured influence one way or another and who con­ trols the letting of contracts by governments and who sees to it that things go her way in parliament, for does she not control the strong­ box of the party machine? Sometimes this wonderful party wears a judge’s robe when appointed to conduct a government investiga­ tion into something that the people are noisy about and likely to make interesting at an election right there in the offing. Sometimes he wears a surplice that prevents a well deserved promotion.' Some­ times he pulls the wires at this or that conference or council. Al­ ways -he counts the ballots or turns the switch and unfailingly he is present where the money is. He cost France North America.,He all but lost the war in Flanders, He is reputed to have stifled many a fine idea ahd to have shelved many an invention of untold value. Just now lie is busier than ever somewhere. Just now he seems to' be the nigger in the allies rubber situation. He threatens to cost the allies the war. Of all influences subversive to Anglo-Saxon wel­ fare, Colonel Blimp is the most Satanic and deadly. • * * •* * » * * THOSE YOUNG PEOPLE We have come to see the value of our young men and. women. During the easy years of peace we had a good deal of advice to give the youth of that day. Sometimes we were inclined to think -them rather a sorry lot. We did not take too much pains to se'e that they took the right hand road. If the young person did not fit into our scheme of things, we assured him that the road was pretty long and that he was welcome to take it, while we Said, “If he doesn’t suit we’ll get one who will.” This minute all that has changed. The state has discovered that these young people are needed, either to produce food and clothing or to make or to use war materials. Hence our intense interest that these Canadians-to-be shall be trained intensively for “essential industries”. And youth is re­ sponding magnificently, though they look back to the old farm, or to the shop or to the store with a moistened eye that they bravely keep bright and shining. But what of the boys and girls under military age? We look their way with a new-interest. Here is a new earnestness as we ask how they are faring at school or workshop. In a little bit they’ll be doing the world’s work, whatever that work may be, and we’re anxious that they be prepared therefor. Hence our insistence upon a sound training in self-respect, in self-knowledge and self-control. They are in school six -hours a day five days a week. What is going on there to train th&m in accuracy and dependability? And the church and Sunday School to which they go-r-wliat cry is there made for them to keep their honor bright and what assurance is given them that they walk knowledge not even a THE GAME” to lose their value. They become mere catchwords, inducing yawning and sleep. “Play the game” is one of these. We recall a day on the old Association football field. The boys had beep trained to kick the ball now to this player and , now to that other player. Everything was as genteel as possible. We were playing the game, but we were not getting any goals. Fin­ ally one boy could stand it no longer. When an opening came, he kicked a goal. Our team came off victorious. We won by goals, the things we fought for. Now life is not a nice, genteel affair. If one is to win he needs to forget all this thing about “playing the game.” He must scratch and kick goals. We used to hear a great deal about a youngster's practising the piano so many units per day. At last wide-awake dads came on the musical scene and roared. “Yer gittin’ nowhares. Where’s the toons?” Teacher hnd pupil woke up. It was accomplishment that counted. There is the game of salesmanship. No matter what the rules, unless the dotted line has a good name on it, the gamester will soon be seeking another job. “It isn't done,” polite society warns the mod­ ern Lochinvar, but it is the gallant who has some vim in his court­ ship Who makes Off with the girl. In politics a Combination of “play the game” -and “it isn’t done” results in a milk and water mixture that leads the party to the husks of the wilderness. Some­ thing like this is wrong with Canadian political -and church and commercial life, We are wallowing about politely and with most becoming observance of rules in the morass of mediocrity. The same applies to the United States and to Great Britain. Meanwhile, with a few exceptions, we’re lame ducking where wh should be leap­ ing and running. Our fighters are as bravo and efficient as ever they were. Our people are ready to give their blood and treasure, nice words about “sacrifice”. If a man should dare to do an out­ standing thing he’s practically warned that that sort of thing “isn’t done.” The life is choked out of willing, generous people by a long series of “second best” rules and thinumbobberies. We’ll never win till the hero is given his place. Public opinion needs new slo­ gans and new ways of getting at our appalling job of winning vic* tories. Beak and claw and’ the lion heart must replace the lace fan and Nmily Postism, 1 The following oration on the Bri­ tish Navy was given by Miss Lepore N-ormington, prise winner in a pub­ lic speaking contest in the School 'Fairs competitions. Miss Norming- ton delivered this address before the Huron County Council and recently she spoke at the- Exeter Lions Club. Owing to crowded space we have held it for a time but we believe it will be read with interest by many. Mi\ President, Ladies and Gentlemen: I was asked to speak tonight on the topic which I used in our School Fair Competition last fall. “Our Heroes of the Sea” was the subject I had chosen about that time because most boys and. girls are thrilled by stories of adventure at sea and never in the history of man tales true ery over We think first of the British Navy when we hear .of some new en­ counter on the ocean, and we do well • to think of our Navy, for’ without its protection we might long before now have lost even the right to think. The ships of the British fleets have been everywhere in the Atlantic and Pacific and Mediter­ ranean. They have ‘battled with warships, submarines and dive bomb­ ers, and have even coastal positions, in this struggle .nearly everything ed much to our credit, certainly take the Army and the Air Force for winning this war, but until that time comes, it is the Navy which will keep the Empire alive. Last September President Roose­ velt, when speaking to his people said, “It must be explained again and again to people who like to think of the United States Navy as an invincible protection, that this can be true ouly if the British navy survives. This friend of our coun­ try did ■ not hesitate to (people the truth, which perhaps did not realize. The navy is composed of many classes. The largest are the dreadnoughts or capital ships, besides which there are cruisers, destroyers, submarines, corvettes, minesweepers and torpedo bonts, as .well as many other craft which have been converted into naval ves­ sels. The men on all these ships live in constant danger, but ever or however an enemy up, he finds that the British is a fearless and daring foe. Some glorious victories been won by our warships and some sad losses suffered. war the Ajax, the Exeter rounded up self-destruction, the er, the Graf Spee. wards the British sack, which has since been lost, overtook and) fearlessly boarded the prison ship Altmark, releasing over 3 00 British seamen who had been captured from vessels which had been sunk by such pirate ships as the Graf Spee and the Deutsch­ land. The gallant Raoul Pindi, when it was attacked by a raider, fought it out to the end, and went down with flags at full mast and all hands on board. Our Navy has suffered heavy blows in the loss of several of her capital ships, including the Ark Royal and the Prince of Wales, both of which played an important part in the defeat est battleship, have there been known such of courage and daring as these stories which come to us w -day in our newspapers and our radios. bombared strong In fact, so far they have done that has count- It will most Adjoining Atlas Br. Doni. No. 2 Well, One of Largest Producers in North Turner Valley WE OFFER, WHILE AVAILABLE— NORTH CLONMEL NO. 1 WELL NET PREFERRED ROYALTIES An Original Offering Price $4,375.00 per 1 per cent* $109.37 per HO of 1 per cent. Full Details and Booklet, “Valley of Wonders” Sent on Request E. A. Siegrist & Ltd, New Bank of Toronto Building, London Ontario ft ing. By their act of supreme heroism the men of the Jervis Bay allowed over 30 ships to reach safe har-; j the James St. United Church to dis- other heroes of the j cuss the organization of a Chamber and of Commerce. __ __„„ ... .. .. but} Mr. and Mrs. Ged1. Jaques, of who have little share in glory. These i Winchelsea, have moved to ’Exeter are the men of the fishing fleets, i into the residence of Mr. P, Hern the tanker, the trawler and the | on William Street. merchant marine. These ships go Mrs. Manson has disposed of her about their business through waters \ residence on Andrew street to Mi'S, strewn with mines and infested with 1 D. Witmer, of Zurich, and -Jias pur­submarines. and under skies dark-1 ened by threatening wings. The seamen on these vessels have a job to do and it seems to be the British way to go ahead and do the job, whatever else may happen. Many of these men have been on torped­ oed ships three times and more. When rescued from a raft or life­ boat their one desire is to get an­ other ship and go on with their work of feeding or supplying the Empire. On one memorable occasion all, these ships we have mentioned, to­ gether with hundreds of other tiny craft belonging to and manned by store clerks -and bank| managers and garbage collectors sculled off together across the English -Chan­ nel and fought and toiled for three desperate, sleepless days and nights, achieving what seemed to be impossible, and bringing home from the blazing sands of Dunkirk the very heart of the British Army. Perhaps no other one feat -has meant so much to the courage and | determination of ajl free people and every man or boy who had a part in it was a hero many times over. In everything that happens on the sea, whether it is of triumph or of loss, one thing stands out above all others, and t-hat is that British sailors are gentlemen, that they know and keep the traditions of the sea and that no upstart navy can u-pset these traditions Simply by ig­ noring them. No British ship has ever been' scuttled, no British gun has ever been fired on helpless people in the water or in lifeboats, and never has - a British sailor turned his back on a cry for help from friend or foe. Indeed ’the whole world knows - that for chivalry ■ valour, there are ■ with our “Heroes I thank you. 15 YEARS AGO The Exeter business’ men met in bour.. There are sea who nun risks just as great face danger just as fearlessly, tell his even we of ships when- shows sailor have Early in the three small British cruisers, Achilles and the and forced to dangerous raid- Not long after­ destroyer Cos- chased a home in London south. At a recent meeting of the Huron County Council it was decided that towns and villages will have their assessment lowered 50 per cent of the increase made by the valuators. Exeter’s reduction amounts to $185,000. Cudmore—Parker — In Hensall United church on Thursday, March only Par- Cud- Cud- 24 th, Miss Muriel Parker, daughter of Mr. and Mrs, E. ker, of Tuckersmith, to Edgar more, eldest son of Mrs. Alice more, of Usborne, by Rev. A. Sin­ clair. 25 YEARS AGO’ Mrs. Wm. Penrice, of Usborne, who recently sold her farm stock and implements has moved to town occupying the dwelling owned, by Mr. A. Cottle, on the corner of William and Ann streets. Mr. C. Baskerville sold a fifteen- montlis-old calf to W. Snell on Tuesday which weighed 1,200 lbs. and for which he received $144.00 and still the high cost of living goes on with beef at that price. Mr. H. E. Pauli, accountant and acting manager bank in -Clinton Exeter, has been Alvinston, taking R. B. Samuel, formerly of Exeter. * A calf, donated to the Kirkton Patriotic Society, by Alfred Raul, was put up for auction at a sale on the farm of Ira Marshall and netted $161. Tickets to the amount of $77.00 were sold and the win­ ners in turn put it up for auction until it netted the society $16.1. of the Molson’s and formerly of made manager at the place of Mr. and decency and none to compare of the Sea”. WILLIAM L. FORREST SUCCUMBS AT CLINTON 50 YEARS AGO o Two thousand more imigrants have gone into Manitoba the first 3 months this year than in the same period last year. It is b.elieved that eggs ’will be bought this year in Western Ontario by weight as they are virtually sold that way in the English markets. Workman have been busily en­ gaged excavating a cellar for Mr. Al­ bert Fuke’ are likely days. A visit packing establishment will repay anyone the trouble. Within the walls are large quantities of meat undergoing the different prepara­ tions of curing and making ready for sale. William L. Forrest died Saturday at his home in Clinton in his 81st year, after an illness of seven weeks of heart condition. He was a son of the late George Forrest and Mary Henderson Forrest, and was born in Stanley Township, fifth concession, July 5, 1861. On the 19th of May, 1887, he married Magdalena Wolfe, and they farmed in Stanley. He was predeceased by his wife in 1927, and for two years afterwards he resid­ ed in Hensall. In 1929 he and his daughter, Beth, moved to Clinton,, where they have since resided. There survive one son, Lawrence, in Lon­ don, and one daughter, Beth.'1 A brother, George, in Toronto and sis­ ter, Mrs. Christina Mustard, Ches- ley, • also survive. William Forrest was a Liberal in -politics and was. an elder of the Presbyterian Church, Clinton. The funeral, from the residence, was held on Monday conducted by Rev. Hugh Jack, Seaforth. Inter­ ment took place in Baird’s ceme­ tery, Stanley Township. and building operations to commence in a few to Snell brothers pork- i of Germany’s great- the Bismarck. Jervis Bay hundreds of stories The Exeter There are which we shall never know, but we should not forget to mention the Jervis Bay, to which credit is given for saving the greater part of a con­ voy of 39 ships. Even though he knew he had never a chance, her Irish captain deliberately drew the fire of the raider which had at­ tacked the convoy, and fought it out. to the end, and Went down with flags still flying and guns still fir- UAW ♦ISO ►Homs A FINISH FOR EVERY SURFACE sale H. S. WALTER BY Exeter A. SPENCER & SON Hensall