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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Times, 1916-12-14, Page 6Page 6 THE WINGHAM TIMES 411•11111••••••0 11111111111111111 Do not be talked into accepting a substitute. Imitations disappoint. ILLUSTRATION STATIONS IN CANADA. The Department of Agriculture of the Dominion Government is carrying on IllustratiOh work in crop production and cultural methods with farmers in the provinces of Quebec, Alberta and Saskatchewan. Farmers owning or operating land favourably situated for the carrying on of such work co-operate with the Department. The farmer puts under the direction of an officer of the Dominion Experi- mental Farms System. a part of hie farm 'having a good wide frontage on a well travelled highway, each field having the same frontage along the same highway, so that the crone and cultivation are unavoidably in evidence • to the cascual traveller and easily in- spectea by the interested visitor. The Department. for the first year at least, furnishes the seed necessary to sow such of the fields as it is de- cided to put under crop that year. In subsequent years the farmer saves enough of the best of the crop grown on these fields to do the necessary seeding. This, of course, provided the grain produced is satisfactory as to purity and germinate power. All cultural and harvesting operations in connection with these fields, i. e., the ploughing, harrowing, etc., of the fields and the sowing, harvesting and threshing of the grain therefrom are done by the farms. All work indicated above is done in exactly such ways and at exactly such times as directed by the Illustration Station Division of the ThrniQDEXperinlental Farm System. The farmer keeps a record of the mount of time taken to perform the different oPerations on each field and threshes the grain harvested separately g6 that it will be known how much is harvested from each field. The records jilet mentioned of the work and crops resulting, together with brief totes made each Yieek, are duly entered on blank forms provided for that purpose. The work of making such tinted and enteting up the Work done on each field does not entail more than one hour's work each month. Each' week the ferniet maile to the Central Lixperimental Farm, Ottawa, a for fined out with fell particulars as to the work done, general Weather con- ditions Ana crop progress on the different Acids. The farther permits to be placed in front of each field aMO iStating briefly the method or preparing the land for the crop growing thereon, Pain is a blessing in disguise. It is Nature's danger signal to warn you that there is something wrong in the system. While headache may result from a variety of causes, it most frequently de- notes a starved condition of the nerves. The brain is the headquarters er "central" of the nervous system. Here nerve force is consumed at an enormous. , rate. If there is any lack of rich, red -blood from which to form new nervous energy the brain is first to feel it and the head aches. Headaches may be stopped by powerful drugs, but that is like breaking the semaphore which warns the engineer of danger. The only wise way is to increase the amount of rich, red blood in the human body by using Dr. Chase's Nerve Food, and thereby feed the starved nerves back to health and vigor. Not only will the headaches disappear, but you will sleep well, feel well ad gradually re- gain strength and confidence. •The Nerve Food will sharpen the appetite, improve digestion and build up the whole system. In this way the headache will prove a bless- ing. It has warned you of approaching nerv- ous collapse while yet there is a foundation on which to build good health. Dr. Chase's Nerve Food, 50 cents a box, 6 for $2.50, all dealers, or Edmanson, Bates & Co., Limited, Toronto. 529 or the treatment given the plot that year. On all these farms whether located in the Province of Quebec, or in Saskatchewan or Alberta, systematic rotations of crops suitable to the district served as well as the best cultural methods and most 'suitable varieties of crops are being demonstrated. NEGLECT OF FEEBLE-MINDED --- Serious neglect of feeble-minded in the province, with grave attendant re- sults, is the charge again renewed against the government this time at a meeting of the Academy of Medicine in Toronto, Conditions in Toronto and other centres were described by Dr. C. K. Clark, retiring superintendent of the Toronto General Hospital and President of the Toronto Branch of the Provincial Association for the care of the Feeble- minded, and Dr, C. M. Hincks of the Psychiatric Clinic, as "revolting" "awful," "ghastly," and„ "Nauseat- ing." When the facts are disclosed, said Dr. Hincks "they should make your blood boil at the government's indifference." It isn't as if this was the first time the question had been brought before the attention of the , government. It is one of the many eases where the government has deliberately ignored warnings and compliments and are now reaping thh harvest of open discontent. At a meeting of the Legislation Com- mittee of the City of Hamilton in March of this year, Alderman Wright, Cons- ervative, censured the government for neglecting to deal with quotations relat- ing to the feeble-minded. In April of this year Dr. Clark placed the matter I cannot find words to speak our grat- strongly before the government at the itude for his cure." - annual meeting of the Ontario Educat- iotal Association. On the 19th of April the Liberals in the Legislature present- Charles Cese, an actor, accidently resolution asking the government shot himself in the heart in his hotel ed a I room at New York on Monday while cleaning a reveler. He died shortly after. DISGRACE OF LEISURE AN OVERSEAS MINISTER NEW OFFICE HAS BEEN CHEAT- ED IN DOMINION CABINET. Sir George Perley Will Undertake the Task of Looking After Can- ada's Interest in Great Britain and Will oek Also After Effi- ciency and Welfare of the Ex- peditionary Forces. SIR GEORGE PERLEY bas been appointed Minister or the Canadian Overseas Forces in Great Britain, and will preside over a sub -militia council which it is intended to establish there. The requisite order -in - Council was passed last week. The situation leading up to the new system is outlined in the following memorandum issued by Sir Robert Borden: "During his recent visit to Great Britain the Minister of Militia gave very careful consideration to more effective arrangements in connec- tion with the overseas forces, and reached the conclusion that a com- mittee or sub -militia council ought to be established. In view of the unexpected length of the war and the unprecedented efforts which are being exerted by Canada, in common with the rest of the Empire, for Its defence and for the common welfare, careful attention was necessarily given to the situation which has de- veloped. "The forces already despatched by Canada for overseas service in Europe number about 258,000. The expenditure involved in the organ- ization, maintenance, equipment, and direction overseas of these forces is very great, and every available effort must be made to assure not only the highest degree of efficiency, but the most thorough and prompt co-opera- tion of the overseas forces wita those of the Mother Country and of the other dominions, as well as the most economical and careful admin- istration of the means which are ap- propriated for that purpose. Having regard to all these considerations, it has been thought desirable that, in connection with the proposal to es- tablish such a committee or coun- cil, there should be a member of the Government resident in London and charged with important duties and responsibilities in connection with the overseas forces. The Min- ister of Militia. can visit Great Brit- ain only occasionally, while a resi- dent Minister would be continually in touch with the British Govern- ment, as well as with all questions touching the efficiency and welfare of the Canadian Expeditionary Force. "The necessary orders -in -Colman for the purpose have been passed, and Sir George Perley, who for two years has been resident in London, discharging the duties of High com- missioner, has been selected by the Prime Minister to undertake the duties and responsibilities of Min- ister of the Overseas Forces. He will bring to the important respon- sibilities which he has undertaken qualities and experience which will enable him to give splendid service to the country in the discharge of his duties." Lady Scott, widow of the great ex- plorer, writing in the Daily Mail, says: "Exemption can be had only from one's own conscience; and where the need is so urgent I do not see who can be exempt except for some higher skilled utility. At such a time as this no able- bodied citizen has the right to leis- ure. Ease and comfort for one can enly be bought by strain, overwork, or death itself for someone else. "I would say this also. Parents have no more right to keep back their girls from the factory than their boys from the ranks. The moral advantage of ser- vice far outweighs the moral danger of changed conditions of life. Indeed, to suggest that girls cannot come and go about the business of real work unharm- ed seems to me an insult to our civiliza- tion and our race. "But, above all, you will escape the maments which come to any self-respect- ing girl or woman when she asks herself whether it is right or fair or decent that she should be having a good time while our men -folk are facing and suf- fering what we hear of—and much, too. that we do not. It is no small moral comfort in these to feel yourself clear of the disgrace of leisure. Good Results Already Seen. The first results from the work- ing of the Ontario Temperance Act will be found in the cities, and al- ready these results are becoming known. Lieut. -Colonel Grassett, Chief Constable of Toronto, in a statement covering the six weeks fol- lowing the sixteenth of September, comments on the marked change in conditions. For the period from September 15 to October 15, 1915, there were in Toronto 1,059 arrests for drunkennelis, and for the same period this year, which is concur- rent with the operation of the new law, there were only 214. "Evidence of satisfaction with this era of prohibition is being given constantly by men who were never known to be temperance advocates," says Colonel Grassett, and he cites several cases where individuals have been benefitted by the Aet, and one hotelkeeper who acknowledges that the bar was an abomination and he was glad to see it go. The/economic advantage, which is principally bat was in the minds of the Government when the law was proposed, is equally significant. There is a marked absence of loiter- ing around hotels now, and many former habituates are now seen in the company of their families and the necessities of life are taking the place of the whiskey glass. It would seem that the Ontario Temperance Act, given the same reasonable en- Uperat ion Tor Appendicitis forcement in the future that it hal Mrs. J. A. Ballantyne, Sturgeon received so far, is going to prove Falls, Ont. writes:—"My husband was popular, and will at the same time treated for appendicitis and the doctors meet every reasonable demand that ordered an operation. But he would exists for restricting the sale of in - not consent to an operation and began toxicating liquors. the use of Dr. Chase's Kidney -Liver Pills. Since doing so he has had no Canada's First Farmer. need of an operation er even of a doctor The first farmer settler in Canada as the trouble has completely left him. who lived on the produce of the soil was Louis Hebert, an apothecary from Paris, who landed in Quebec in 1617 with his wife and children, and at once started to clear and cul- tivate the soil on what is now the site of the Cathedral of Quebec, the Seminary, and part of the Upper 'Pown. With a spade as his only tool he worked and re -worked the soil until it was ready to receive seed. Ile threw in seed from France, plant- ed apple and rose trees, and at last saw waving in the breeze the golden grain, the flowers, and fruits from his motherland. The third centenall of the landing of Louis Hebert will be commemorated in Quebec in 1917, and a citizens' committee has been formed to erect a monument to the first fanner Of the Dominion. December t4, t916 Before 131,13ri be sure to hear the COLUMBIA GRAFONOLA Don't let the high cost of living deter you from getting a Although costs of material and labor have increased, Columbia prices are lower in many instances than they were a year ago, because of the tremendously increased demand—and they are the best value in musical instruments obtainable. Grafonolas $20 to $475. Records 85c. up. i asw machbail • 11. B. ELLIOTT Sole Agent WINGHAM - ONTARIO A TERRIBLE INDICTMENT. To the Editor:— Hon. N. E. Kendall, of Iowa, in the House of Representatives in urging the House to !pass the Webb -Interstate - Liquor -Shipping -Bill over the President' s veto spoke as follows:— "It is significant, Mr. Speaker, that in all the perfervid oratory which has been indulged, in all the insidious liter- ature which has been circulated, in all the voluminous advertisements which has been negotiated, nobody has vena tured to extenuate the saloon except as an agency of evil, toc formidable to be overthrown. This circumstance is not remarkable. As a national institution it is all liability and no asset. As a local enterprise it is all burden and no benefit. The American dram shop can- not be defended upon any principle which appeals to the normal sensibility or the business intelligence of the com- munity. It is a rebel against good government. It dictates nominations, purchases elections, corrupts the ballot, and falsifies the returns. It smirches the legislature, soils the executive and and stains the judiciary. It is a foe of organized society. It over -awes the pulpit, under mines the platform, and subsidizes the press. It discredits the constitution, despises the statues, denounces the congress and derides the courts. It is the destroyer of domestic happiness, It buetalizes the husband, desolates the wife, debauches the son, betrays ,the daughter. It is without concern for truth, without regard for honor, without reverence for virtue. It has no tolerance for church, no inter- ests in schools, no consideration for home, on expectation of Heaven, no apprehension of Hell. The patience of America is exhausted, and we shall temporize with the infamy no longer. All the manifold forced of sobriety, of decency, of respect for order, of loyalty to law, of love or mankind, are mar- shalling in invincible phalanx to pulver- ize the rum power. And they will eventually triumph, because their righteous warfare is sustained b# the fervent hopes of all gond men and sanctified by the holy prayers of all good women. I regret exceedingly to disagree with the president in the con- cluding hour of hid administration. Upon all political' issues I am disposed to ackontyledge allegiance to the leader of my party; but upcn a moral question such as this I refuse to surrender my convictions to him or to any other man." (Appaulse). H. Arnett, M. B., M. O. P. S. to submit adequate plans to meet the serious conditions disclosed in the report of the Inspector of Feeble-minded. The government, following their ordin- ary custom of ignoring such reforms, voted down the resolution. The problem of the feehleeminded is of the utmost importance and seri- ousness, and against the government there is a serious indictment. *•••.••• riga taSbEa COI h sent Klett to the di,eozei parte. by the remewed Btetvek., 1.1eatei the uteet9, Cl:8 the nir 1Yeb1ageq, ttopq drop. pin pin the throat ara.1 permanent. F! rol ICAtIrrii and Bay Fever. Me. ;ibex Plewa tre. Accept no non, and chemistry will find a way to qulAttoto. All draiN4e1or EdrolinsON • nete$ a 0., meted, Toronto. stop this deeey of the tissues. Lady barbers are a failure in Wales, A. Cada hairdresser who had the nerve to tty them said it took them an hour to mow h chin. ile asked ex- emption from military service for his men. According to Dr. Harvey W. Wiley, of pure food law fame, chemistry will Solve the problem of old age by finding a way to prevent people from growing olcl. Old age, says Dr. Willey, is merely a matter of chemical decomposi- 4. A Wonderful Record. 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