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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance-Times, 1948-01-28, Page 2Ingham AdvanLe-Times Published at WINGHAM 'ONTARIO B, McCool, Editor and Publisher Subscription. Rate -4- Otte Year $2.00 Six Months $1,00 in advance To IJ.S.A, 2.80 per year Foreign Rate $300 per year ' ,Advertising rates on application Authorized as Seoorid Class Mail Post Office Department Vol. 7.5 •-- No, 22 FIRST CLASS Watch Repairs For the Present, Watches Only. George Williams John Street Wingham Next to Masonic Hall MEALS LUNCHES SHERBONDY'S COFFEE SHOP FOUNTAIN SERVICE Delicious Ice Cream Sodas, and Sundaes Bricks always available Next to Lyceum Theatre WINGHAM • ,,:4018/411111imi& LEON CIANTELON Reprosenting the Crown Life Insurance Co., of Toronto "Guaranteed Protection for Your. Every Need" SUBSCRIPTIONS Taken for ALL Publications 'Phone 160 Box 297 WINGHAM - ONT. HAMILTON OPTICAL CO. W. R. Hamilton, R. 0. Optometrist for Over 25 Years. Telephone 37 for Appointment. butter prices at the lowest possible lev- el. This is a farming country in Wes- ter rrtario and Wingliant is support- ed by the surrounding farming district. People in town are close enough to the farm to know that it is not the farmer who is overpaid 'by the higher butter prices,- Certainly he is not overpaid for the time and labor he puts into pro- ducing the milk and cream, or butter- fat, necessary to make the butter, and the high cost of "winter feed" necessi- tates higher butter prices in winter, PLAY SAFE, , , -tto .,142• q'g4fir YOUR CAR WITH B. F. Goodrich Silvertown Tires The new B. F. Goodrich tire has a wider, flatter tread that puts more rubber on the road. More rubber there means more grip... more safety from skidding better stopping. More rubber also means more to share the wear ... less wear at any one point ... better mileage ...greater safety. Markley Motors HUDSON SALES and SERVICE TELEPHONE 84 WINGHAM B.F.Croodrich FIRST IN RUBBER WINTER Fry's COCOA 1/2 lb. 23c 1 lb. 39c Spready,, Malted and Pimento Ingersoll CHEESE 1/2 lb. pkg. 26c Plain or Pimento Ingetscoll SNAPPY 4 oz. pkg. _ —19c Crown or Karo CORN SYRUP 2 lb. tin 30c 5 lb. 69c Lased CLEANSER, 2 . 13c Snowflake AMMONIA, 2 . 11c Pearl BARLEY, 2 lbs. 19c Per Delicious Desserts Canada Starch, 2 - 29c Tomato or Vegetable 10 oz. Aylmer Soups, 2 - 19c StOkely's 13 oz, bot. CATSUP Aylmer Fancy 28 or. tin PUMPKIN _ _ .15c Harvest Brand 20 oz. titt Black. Cherries , .31c Oxford Inn 15 oz. tin Beef Dinner . 2 - 29c Aylmer Cooked 16 oz. jar SPAGHETTI, 2- 27c Batons 20 Or. tirt Asparagus Cuttings 29 Stokely's Fancy Quality Honey Pod PEAS 20 c•z, tin — —19c mommilsiiW All Brands Choke 20 or. TOMATOES ....23c 'Otialter 48 or. .pkg. OATS _ _ .29c Magic—Contains No Alum 16 oz. tin Baking Powder —28c atimore S lb. bag Wheat 13etries - ..37c COFFEE lb. .51c Richmello BREAD .. 2 . 23c The Peak of Perfection Yellow Split PEAS, 2 lbs. 25c Cardinal Green or Wax 20 oz BEANS, tin ......10c Values effective to closing time, Saturday, Jar man/ 31st berotiNietr ttORtS tiMirtb * C4.7if ages 4124ist it *11* ; C44 1. '?88,s ye 4104 !c1724 t 31c , rtots ed Bad s Ca YvItot ' II 2114 ,.., 8' eoz * 4 4 ' * a /6 C:e.th. ,,,t444•e . p,,§, Take A Good Look At Your, Rooms! If you're planning to redecor- ate or otherwise fix tip your kit-, then and bathroom—be sure to tomeIn and look over our stocks of beautiful Tileboards We have this easy to apply, Simple to clean Wallboard in the plain, or scored typel Pick yours from a-variety of attritetke colors! BEAVER LUMBER N. A. McLeod, Manager WINGHAM ONT. Closed Sat. ,afternos rWO THE WINGHAM ADVANCE-TIMES " Wednesday, January 28, 1947 SOIL CONSERVATION AND IMMIGRATION NEEDED Ruial conditions pertaining in Wes- tern „Ontario are duplicated in greater Aar lesser extent in all parts of Canada, Many once-fertile, highly productive farms• are now untenanted, weedy, run- down, impoverished and poorly worked as less important parts of larger farms, or they are only used as grass or pas- ture farms for stock—a use for which only submarginal land should be used. • Every one of these good farms should be tenanted by a family of farmers who will make every acre highly productive and who will once more help build up the social life of the rural communit- ies on a par with urban life. Canada's arable land is not unlimited. Our farm land which is suitable for growing food is very small compared to the country as a whole. Canada does stretch for .roughly 4,000 miles from the tlantic to the Pacific Ocean and .approximately 2,000 miles from the International 13oundary to the Arctic ocean, only a small percentage of that vast acreage is suitable for intensive farming, If all our occupied farm land could bi . evened out into a straight belt just north of tlit Interational Boundary, it would be about 65 miles wide; and if we considered only improved farm lands, the narrow strip would only be 35 miles wide, That means that. Can- ada's arable lands suitable for growing food are definitely very limited indeed. Canada ranks as an important agri- cultural country in international trade because our population is only a little over 12 million; and if all of the people in Canada were to move on to our pre- sent occupied farm land, there would only be 45 people per square mile, In some European countries, such as the United ingdom and Belgium, the popu- lation is as least 12 times this number For Your BUILDING, CARPENTERING Repair Work Built-in CUPBOARDS S E E — Bennett & Casemora 'Phone 447 Wingham per square mile, and in countries like China and India, even denser still. So in spite of the fact that only about 7 per cent of the area of Canada con- sists of occupied farms, and only about 4 per cent is improved farm land, we are still able to produce much more food than we need for ourselves, Thus we see that the actual propor- tion of cultivated crop lands in Canada is very smallpand it is the area which must bear the burden of supplying the greater part of the food needed for our- selves and for the needy people of oth- er countries. This export trade is vital to our economic life and we need more export trade,To make' the best possible use of our valuable arable land soil con- servation is vitally important and we must have better care of the soil to pre- serve it from blowing or washing away, and losing its strength or fertility through careless cropping. Canada needs a larger population to grow more food for export and to con- sume more food here at home, Canada needs a larger rural population to grow more food by more intensive farming and she needs a larger urban popula- tion to provide a larger home market and to manufacture other commodities for export. Immigration should be speeded up, especially immigrants who will bolster our rural life by intensive- ly farming the farms which are now vacant, or being used as grass farms, Good arable farm lands, in every other country on earth, support a far denser population than Canada's, and every good farm in Canada should be the home and livelihood of a family. The vacant farm houses and unoccuv- ied farms all over Canda, are a re- proach. There will always be a move- ment of surplus young people froin rural to urban areas, so Canada should bring in immigrants who are eager and willing to occupy and properly farm all our available farm land. Re-settle families on all our now- vacant farms; guarantee them a decent living and reasonable working hours by fixing equitable ceiling and cellar pric- es on all farm commodities, andthe social and economic life of the nation will be assured. A prosperous rural economy will always support a large urban population; and the larger the population, the lower the tax rate should be in a country like Canada, which already has established the road, rail and other services necessary for a much larger population. At present our 12% million people are bearing the brunt of this heavy taxation that should be borne by 25 million. Canada needs soil conservation to save and protect our limited arable land, and selected immigration to intensively work all our farms. * * * BUTTER PRICES HIGH Butter prices arc high and there has been much complaining by consumers all over Canada. They want to know why fall butter is being sold at winter prices by middlemen and why Canada bans the cheaper substitute, margarine, which is on the market in most, if not in all other countries. For the past 26 years the butter industry in this coun- try has succeeded in banning the .sale of margarine, which only costs about half the price of butter and is only slightly inferior in food value. Con- sumers feel that they have valid grounds 'for complaint and insist that either margarine should be available in Can- ada or the dairy industry should keep The farmer rightly receives some benefit from the seasonal rise in but- ter prices, but it is the middleman's excessive profits that boost that price higher than it should go, Only about 65 per cent .of the butter being sold now was produced in winter, The. other 45. per cent is autumn butter pro- duce(' at lower costs, The farmer did- n't receive any extra pay for the ant-, umn butter held in storage until prices went up, so it is to middlemen that consumers are paying unearned profits. That's the rub in the butter situation,. The farmers are entitled to all, they are • getting, but the middleman's profits are too large, As long as the farmer has to bay machinery and other goods in a market that is protected by tariffs, he is en- titled to some protection from the competition of lower priced margarine, but the butter industry has a duty to the public to see that undue profits of the middleman are banned also. By all means pay the producer a fait: price for his product, but there should be no unearned, unnecessary price factor, like. excessive middleman's profits, to make the, consumer pay winter prices for fall. butter. The dairy industry, will be advised to see that it keeps* its production costs and profits at a reasonable minimurn;, and to make certain that its operations are as efficient as possible. It is the middleman's cut that is forcing butter prices so high..The•consumer wants to see the farmer get a fair price, but pub- lic opinion is aroused against profiteer- ing by the middlemen. It is the butter industry itself that is weakening the reasons for banning margarine in Can- ada. * * * ELASTIC DOLLAR The term dollar is purely relative, It is like a rubber band, which no one would be allowed to use in making measurements; and yet people compare the amount of Canada's exports and imports, or bank clearings, or the price of butter in 1939 .and 1948 and express the difference in dollars. Actually, from year to year, month to month and even day to day, the value of the dollar var- ies. Production costs of every product and service vary in different places and so, in no two places does a dollar mean the same thing nor on no two consecu- tive days. Labor, distance, weather, and many other factors influence the buying power of the dollar, and make it a very unreliable measurement of actual values. Governments make very strict laws and. regulations regarding some stand- ards of measure. They send inspectors around to see that scales tell the truth about weight, A yard is a fixed stand- ard based on the length of a rod kept underground in Washington to ensure a constant temperature and measured through a telescove from the other side of the room lest the heat from a human body should increase its length infin- itesimally, Air pressure is taken into account when calibrating master ther- mometers because water freezes or bolis at different temperatures at the bottom of a bill than at the top of i. The cubic inches in a gallon arc worked ou to the. fourth decimal place, but when it comes to the dollar it doesn't mean the same thing at two different places at the same time. Value is a thing that always varies from place to place, It is never constant be- cause the factors governing the value. • •••,..„, TONI SELLS FOR EIGHT MILLION Gillette Safety Razor Blade Company paid eight million in cash far all stock of Toni Company, according to an announcement from Chicago by .J, P, Spang Jr., Presilent of the Gillette Company. Toni, manufacturers of Home Permanent Wave Kits and new entry in the Cream Shampoo field, sold over $20,000,000 of its pro. ducts last year. Oue to jmport restrictions Mere is a temporary sAortage. get yours Toni Home Permanent (Plastic Curlers) . . $2.50 Toni Home Permanents (Paper Curlers) .. . $1.50 Toni REFILLS $1.25 I D.A. Specials 'Thur., Fri., Sat. EPSOM SALTS TOOTH BRUSHES I.D.A. Brand "Lustrar Brand. 16 oz. can, reg. 15c Nylon Bristle 11c Reg. 25c 19c • HOT WATER MILK OF BOTTLE MAGNESIA 1 year guarantee I.D.A., reg. 33c, 55c Reg. 89c 63c 27c and 43c COCOANUT OIL SHAMPOO, reg. 25c, 39c 19c, 33c COLD CREAM, 1-lb. jar, reg. 69c 54c KLEEN-OR TOOTH POWDER, reg, 29c 22c PENETRATING LINIMENT, reg.•45c 33c° SENNA LEAVES, 1 and 4 oz., reg. 10c, 25c 8c, 18c CAMPHORATED OIL, 3 oz., reg. 30c 23c SYRUP WHITE PINE and TAR, reg. 25c 19c Cough & Cold Remedies GROVE'S COLD TABLETS - 29c, 49c THERMOGENE MEDICATED WOOL , ..... ...___,..- 49c, 98c VICKS VAPORUB or VA-TRO-NOL 43c VICKS INHALER 39c PINEX COUGH SYRUP COMPOUND 49c BAYER ASPIRIN TABLETS • 18c, 29c, 79c FROSST'S 217 TABLETS _35c, 75c, $1.50 BRONCHIDA COUGH SYRUP, 8 oz. bottle , 50c Complete selection of COUGH DROPS For Cold Resistance HALIBUT OIL CAPSULES, 50s and 100s 69c, $1.19 INFANTOL (Horner) „.....^. „.... „ „, .............. 90; $3.00 OSTOCO DROPS (Frosst $1,25, $3.75 HEAD'S ALEUM PERCOMORPHUM „,»...,,.,,..,.^., ,„..85c, $3.40 NEO CHEMICAL FOOD Liquid .and apsule form J. .0. Prices as advertised in the daily newspaper, are also, CUP ,Drices KERR'S DRUG STORE Minimum Prices I.D.A. Courteous Service PHONE 18 WINGHAM H of things at different places are always different so the dollar is only a com- paratively poor measurement of the real value of the thing it buys. It is the same with the pound sterling, the franc or any other monetary unit. In fact the Italians are the only people who have an appropriate tame for their unit of currency. 'They call it the lire. * r * KNOW WINGHAIVI Early Nirtory of Wingltatn, con'td. ((An extract from the Historical Atlas of the County of Huron, Ont., publish- ed in 1879.) The -tregories above mentioned were the original builders of the mills now owned and carried on by Roekey Sons, which, by the way, are among the very best hi the country, driven by four of the most approved pattern of Lef fel wheels ' containing the newest and most labor-saving and graitt-sa/- lug machinery, seven run of stones, and a fall and volume of water which make it in every way one of the finest Miff properities lit Canada. The capa- city of the mill is 280 barrels per diem. (Continued next week.) * * WEEItLY THOUGHT 'The world is full of men and women with brains and talent who need only to shed their -worries 'to achieve out- standing success. The tragedy is that so few of them ever do. You can rid yourself of worry by learning and ap- plying the following rules of mental hygiene (Mental hygiene, by the way, means simply meeting lifes problems In such a way that you're strengthened not weakened, emotionally, by the ex- perience,) Live wisely, have a goal in life, 'accept conditions as they are, de- velop a sense of values, learn to laugh, make tip your mind, live lit the Ypres» eat, relax, have fun, and cultivate the action habit do something. Ilsfr. Joe trophy spent Sunday with Mrs. Brophy at Queen Alexandra San- itorium, London. We are glad to report Mrs. Wilt Carter is improving from a heart attack which she had on Tuesday last, Visitors with Mr. and Mrs. Wm. McVittie on Sunday were Mr. and Mrs. Roy McVittie of Clinton and Mr. and Mrs. Ted East of Auburn Line. Miss Phyllis Cook has secured a pos- ition in Goderielt. 11111•111111111111111111111111111111111111111111131111111111111 11191 WESTFIELD niia,aawoombi Miss Eileen 'was a Goderieli visitor on Thursday. Mr. Warren Eatnford of Preston, spent the week-end at his borne at Wettflead.