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TIIIIRSDAT, AUGUST
80th, 1045
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EDITORIAL iNTOTEP
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'The daps don's like 'A7,uer lea it Jaz;
WP are told, We'd vote to send to'
apAll,. as ' punishiu nt. far the trouble
her ole have • caused, all• the Jazzes
d:•" crooners to be found on this con -
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i tent—alnd forbid their ever returning
America.: r.
National , registration„ is ane, con;
iof war . which we' believe
' ec�kn ..tant
should 'be slated for early abandon-
)rent. People of the British tradition
do iiot. like the idea of being card -
indexed for the convenience 'of the
Government or the police er. anybody
else. It is said that re,gistration is a
1 help to the•, police in .preventing crime
waves.. Right atthe present moment
We have a crime wave in Ontario, and
registration hasn't stopped it.,--
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In -U.n article, "Russia Rebuilds,"
by Anna Louise .Strong; in the Atlantic
Monthly, it is stated that
The federal government devotes
attention to large-scale enterprises
but expects local authorities to
rebuild houses and municipal
utilities, and to produce consumers'
goods, for which, of course, they
get government credits and some
materials. Public sentiment takes
pride in doing the maximum of re-
construction with the minimum of
federal help. •
The last sentence throws a bright
light on the Russian characteristic
-"which has enabled their people to make
such astonishing" advancement in the
last quarter-century, Local commun-
ities "take pride in doing the maximum
of reconstruction with the minimum
of federal, help." Canadians who turn
to their "gobernmen,ts on every possible
occasion should take note.
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° The best news thathas come from
the war .area, for some time is that
Russia has agreed to act with. ' the
Chinese Government instead of, as was
feared, taking advantage of the ex-
istence of a Communist army in China
to divide the people of that country and
=: .-retain control of ,the territory from
which Russian forces 'had. expelled the
Japanese. Without this agreement
there might have been civil war in
China, with anindefinite continuance
if the distressful conditions that have
prevailed there since Japan unleashed
• her armies upon the•unhappy country.
Chiang Kai-Shek ' and his associates
can now go ahead with their plans
for the restoration of their ravaged
Iand. With a, subdued Japan on one
side and a friendly Russia on the other,
China should 'be a happier country
than it has been for these many years.
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The -•-Owen .Sound -Sun-Times, dis-
cussing the question.: of p . Canadian
national :hymn, objects to "0 Canada"-
because,
anada"because, it-. says, when a group of
people is asked to sing it three or four
different sets of words are used. We
haven't .noticed tilts in Goderich, per-
haps
erhaps because of the • influence of the
Lions Club, which sings the first verse`
at each meeting. - As for, the second
or any other verse ---how many could
-sing the second verse of "God Save:
the King" if asked to, do so?. And ' if
you listen" in almost any . con any' you
,: can hear some person chant " pd 'Save
our King," instead of "Gpd `Save Tt3E
.Sing" , a matter of fact, without
any, Pariiameiatary or Governmental
decree, "0 Canada," is rapidly-iiecoming
,recognized as Canada's national hymn
--whieh doesn'tprevent the singing oft
"God Save the King" 'on the . same
occasion.
abandoned and the double cal amity o.
'inflation and , lefiation invited. •
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sAT,VA'ION ARM'''S
go= FRONT APPEAL,
Calls upon. the Salvation Army for
help In the solution of soldier 'rehabl1it
' ation problems have increased steadily
;since the end of the war .in Europe
andare still growing, .according to
Lieut. -Colonel William Dray;' Worohto,
head of The Salvation Army Rehabilit-
ation Department. • •
The Department, helps solve the
problems of, 'veterans and of veterans'
family gp
rou s. To carry on this work
and also the work of nearly fifty other
social service and welfare activities,
the Salvation Army's national home
front appeal for $1,500,000 starts In
September.
"We have now iu Canada seven key
rehabilitation centres and in them life
never his ,gt dull. 'tabinent withgill the
problems, many of them urgent, that
come to us,"' said Colonel Dray. . "We
started our woi1: of, helping in the
assimilation of war brides by.estabiish-
ing in England Canadian Wives' Clubs
•where lectures and demonstrations on`
life in Canada are given.
"Nearly 40,000 war wives and almost
as many children are 'being brougit to
Canada in the. movement now ;under
way. Large numbers of these ' new
families have nothing like a- comfort-
aille home.tolook forward to, so' not all
the-eomings to this new land are happy:
New 'in-laws' . are not invariably well
disposed. The Salvation Army across
Canada is daily grappling with the
problems presented by, these new
families. - t • -
"
Individual soldiers Who returned
and are to return unattached ;also have
problems outside of 'the scope o f . Fed-
eral; ' 'Provincial and municipal re-
habilitation schemes, excellent asrthese
schemes' are, and the Salvation 'Army
18 helping- in' tliesolution of their
problems:" •
The quota for: the Goderich district
in this drive is set at $1,500, including
$900 expected from citizens of 'this
town.
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IVIARKDALE LAWYER HAS
ORCHARD' flF DWARF TREES
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Donald . Gordon, chairman .of the
Wartime Prices ' Board, has again ad=
dressed .the, Canadian people explain-
ing the necessity of continued controls
and. rationing with respect to certaini
articles. (In- the last eighteen months,
`die stated, the number or production
restrictions had been reduced' from'
three hundred to sixty-four.) • He
pointed out quite. rightly, as anyone
who remembers conditions after the
}first Great War• can testify -that, it
was in the ° period fallowing, that wear .. •
that inflation . in Canada was at its Those Interested Advised to Take
Euriy .. b .
height, .,Then •- Action !came' the - collapse of ,
1.021,,' with the heavy losses and- dis F. 'K. B. ,Stewart, representative in.
tress that accompany defation. Huron of the Department of Agricul�
The success' we have Haus` far tare, reports the reeeipt of a statement,
had in, dfightln iodation ' (said through J`. 1�`. Francis, associate,. pro -
Mr. G'ordon4 has been the direct tensor of poultry at the 0 A.C., Guelph,
result' of the individual actions of that the reserve stock of brooder coal,
Canadian eitizena, ace consumers,, atb • according to the Federal ' Coal • Con=,
workers,, aa, •farmers: and aa ' btisiy , troller,..&s 1ovn r than ever before, awing
neesmen, Theft- loyal :adbeptance , to transportation and labor problems.
of looking regulations, their re- It Is advised that all those: interested in
fusel to deal in:the black market, having a supply of brooder coal for
their :self-restraint in limiting the 1946' season should make •applica*
• `their purchases to their needs` .ice tion, to thein lotyal coal dealer In the
condition is of short ,Supply, and, near future.
'their overplay observance, ,df :price Also from, 'the office of the county'
ceiling -these are the•toundations representative cemos the statement'
Of Canada's toictessful anti -in., that fertilizer, companies are having'
, ilation Iitograin.. Without their difheiilty'.in keeping supplies on hand
individual support in the .days and they fear that when sowing df i
ahead, we feet. disaster.. wheat .becomes general they will not
Mr. Gordon does` well td address the, be equipped to handle the orders, and
Canadian people In this Manner. It
that early ordering will helps fliers to
.. b y the unintelligent, wl1[o: no note
renders much .getter service.
knu$ and the u ntieri n1ous,whtty, . '''The Boss (vita bas Duet` dropped: int
knowing,wou take advantage of:the to watch :th baseball game); "SO that
is your uncle's ,}uranins, Itolr?'' '(),files•
1 Flt"ill dist_, who would whsh'' that, 110(wlith great 'presence of mind)ill at ilixtrulAtely u : , lid it, sir. Ile', , the umpire."
Thousand Trees in' Little • More than
Half an Acre
11 A.RKDALE, Aug. 18. --Isaac Brock
Lucas, jr., a lawyer, has developed a
1,000 -tree - frit orchard in his owls
back yard of slightly 'more than half
an acre. Apples, pears, 'cherries, plums
and peaches are represented in the
tiny •fruit -bearing trees Lucas began
to cultivate seriously fu 1932. • , -
Like other, orchards; his' dwarfs were
hardhit by weather and the fruit yield
has been cut to only a fraction of
recent years. However, the owner
cl ims the dwarf tree yield has definite
advantages in quality, size and savor"
over fruit grown on normal-sized trees.
So no matter how small your garden,
aslong as the sun can reach it, you
.may have a fruit -bearing tree, it would
seem from. Mr. Lucas' experiments.
His greatest success has ' been in
dwarfing apple trees. "I -can keep
them down to almost any size from
tfiree feet.up and quite definitely hold•
the tree at three feet," he said; `3bu1
my utility dwarf tree grows from about
sic to nine feet. This is accomplished
by `repressive pruning: Ile depresses-
the ' tips of vigorous branches,.„ and ties
them down to ether branhes. He also
cenfines the roots in the initial stages.
Repressive root limning comes. later.
•"I don't like faddy ideas and I
want developments in dwprf trees, to
be of practical use," he said. .
Dwarf trees are • not produced from
seedlings. They begin with a nine -inch
root of a growing tree, secured from a
nursery. Some varieties of dwarf
trees will bear fruit in their third
growing season, but Mr.. Lucas uiges
discouragement -of too early bearing.
Quick bearing varieties should prefer-
ably bear their (first sample in the
fourth year.
In every way Mr. Lucas insists the.
dwarf is better than the standard for
the 'home' garden. In no department
.of fruit, growing.. is . the .advice for
dwarfs identical with that of stand;
ards. Dwarfs 'have extended the
northerly limits of fruits far beyond
anything hitherto thought ' possible..
"It has, been 40 below zero in my
garden, yet peach trees thrive in it,"
he said. To squeeze the unusual num-
ber of trees into his confined garden
space Mr. Lucas has arranged some
trees in a single cordon, 'planted ohe
and a half feet apart along fences.
Mks. I. B. .Lucas, Jr., is the former
Miss Adelaide Hays' of Goderich,
S1 ORTAGES IN BROODER
' .COAL AND FERTILIZER
TEN MONALOTAR
PHIL. OSIPEO OF LAZY :MEADOWS
T1 .10 inulia
It.
rained -one -1W -Ina -week -so ° I
started plowing. Of course I've man-
aged to get a bit in before this, but last
Thursday's seemed :to. be the first 'real.
fall plowing of the season. rhea's
seems to be something special about
fall plowing, It's something a fellow
Can't quite ° describe, and yet it's very
nmuch different from any other oeeppa*
tiouu around the farm,'
We hada warm rain, but after the
moisture had stopped' falling from the.
heavens the breeze turned just a trifle
coo.' A person. hates to admit about
tiie Iast,part, of August that winter is
around the corner, but that wind With
the edgeto it kept cutting through .my
smock and that's the., kind of evidence
you just don't dispute. The trees were
hanging their leaves In a sort 0f
subdued way. N"ithiri the not too dis-
tant future Jack Frbst will airbrush
them into various colors.'
Walking back and forth from end to
end, of the field,: a man gets a long
time to think about many things,. The
grey, sky and coca air makes you
wonder about a lot of things. A fellow
once told ire that the thing he Worried
about most in. this so-called modern
world of `ours i5 the fact that people
don't get time to think: If you work'
in an office in the city, you rush out
after work to a cocktail party or a tea
and then dinner and after that a,show,
add when you get home you're so tired
you go to sleep and usually sleep late
the next morning. Y'od have to dash
for the office and start on the same old'
round.
He said the people who stayed home
were .just as bad off. The radio goes
all day long, and' the women listen to
the dreary doings of some soap opera
or other and at night they listen to
comedians and they never have ' the
peace and quiet which a person must
have for thinking. He kept telling me
about his, grandfather and, Ilia father,
who larped to sit and, smoke and jug,
ruminate., Titerwe�r4 improving ' their,
ability too think things out.•
I suppose a tractor has taken away
lot of the farmer's ability to think
things out. The noise and' the rattling
and the xoug-hiies €k euouglii, o destroy
anybody's ability to think. Last week
X plodded back and forth with, the
team. It was ,slow but rather enjoy-
able for all of 'that. '•
What does nit man think about?
W ell, I started }remembering the dif;'
ference from, the°days when my father
was ,On. the farm. We've had sense
progress, but there seems to be" such a
long Way to go. We have a better
house. The°old leg one that my grand-
father hailt just, !ouldn;t stand the test
of 'modern ways, We have a radio
And a telephone and ' mail, that comes,
each. day.. We , have water in. the
stables, a recent improvement. In the
style of the" times we have a mortgage.
and I'm forced to admit that there has
been morewhittled off it in the last
four. years "than we managed Ins the
fifteen years pr"ior to that.
I guess the subject of my thinking
wns an,. attempt to find out why it
took a war, with all its dreadful price,
to ° give us a boost with our mortgage,
When We Struggled for existence during
the so-called years of peace. I.didn',t
reach muchof a satisfactory', con-
clusion, but I got in an awful lot of
thinking.
CAMERON . RILLORAN. OPENING
.LAW OFFICE
Friends ' here .are interested in the
announcement that Cameront1-
loran, son of Judge and Mrs. J. L.
Killoran of Stratford, has opened an
office in Stratford for the practice of
law. Cameron was born in Goderich
when} his father was practising law
:in this town . and has kept up his.
acquaintance with the town by numer-
^ons visits. He went overseas in'July,
1943, .and in September, 1944, received
wounds in Italy which necessitated
his spending sonie time in hospital,
CLIPP1N$
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QUNKIA FR NDMArt
(]Brussels Post)
ere--ha.-veTbeen4many,odd ..-friend,
ship formed *among hostile members
of the animal and bird kingdoms, but
at the Walter Rose poultry farm you.
may see, any day, what, at least to.
us, is a. strange sight --a party -grown
white Leghorn rooster►. which : has
chosen ?dor •his. friends seven kittens
whobelong on the farina. The rooster
has entirely forsaken the otherfQwl..
He lives, eats and sleeps With the
kittens. It Must be rather disconcert-
ing to Call .,"kitty, .1itty,, kitty'," and
have. a rooster, ..the first one', to.come
running hi answer the hes kittens' meal-
time
time call --for that is •3vhat'appe,
h. .ils
Strangely the kittens do ,not seem to
• resexct in the least their feathered
friend,
LET SHEEP. CLEAN ROADSIDES,
(IY, C. iiason :in. London Free Press)
Here's p. suggestion, picked upfrom
a letter in one of the farm papers:
Let sheep clean up the roadsides. •
"Our township councils have made a
Meagre attempt to keep down the
weeds by hiring men to cut them. A
halfwdozep sheep would have put them
to shame, and at no cost," this . farmer
writes. "Oti our concession, in recent
years, there has been enough grass
wasted to feed hundreds of sheep."'
He would allow free pasttire'-on town-
ship roadsides during daylight hours
to anyone who chose to run sheep there.
I' don't know how that would work
out, present day fences being what they
are; but 'I have, often 'thought some
of -our big old-style farm lawns which
we no longer have the labor to keep
trimmed would be the better for a :few
sheep.
U.S.' VISITORS WANT ,SOAP ,-•
(Exeter Times -Advocate)
With the influx of American tourists
there has been an exodus of Canadian.,
41mina s,
soapand' soapafiakes. Practically a11.14i•ercUanta for several week$ have' been
American visitors are taking back with reporting an' active demand for .t [er-
them soap some some soap=flakes, ent lines of merchandise by our visitors,
1? an d
one American car passing • through. 'loin the south,
towns stopped ed and the occupants got - ' .
la "And wife Sultans" -
oiit' and each :went to .a different store how is Your good ,
and returned with soap -flakes and "Oh, size's all right, but the other.
then drove off; We were interested forty-nine • are more fun." ' . •
one day this week' in seeing an Axe
eriean car parked opposite the office Bergen: "Why did ,you leave your
and -the occupants coming from differ- lastposition,-Charlie?'>
ent directions and storingawayLuis' "
back. .. Chas, tCy .Cl?" . The iso t
and Riiiso 'in the compartment. got sick.,of me."—Magazine Digest,
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Had Another Bad :jg?
CuIdntYOu Get Any.Rest?
To those who toss, night after night on sleepless
sleepeds. To those who sleep in a `kind of a way, but
whose rest is broken by bad dreams and nightmare.
To those whe wake up in the morning ae tired as when
they went to bed, we offer in Milburn's Health and
.. 'Nerve Pills a tomo remedy to help soothe and strengthen the nerves.
When this is done there should be no more restless nights due to bad "
dreams and nightmares. , •
Price 50e, a box, 65 pills, at all drug counters. +1
Look for our registered trade mark a "Red Heart" op the package.
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URING the war, so . happily ;ended, the Canadian National
Railways, as -;'Canada's greatest transportation . system, ' had . a
gigantic task to do.
Our 'ability to fulfill this duty to the' credit and satisfaction of the Nation
is due, not only to the skill, devotion and zeal of those who are our workers,
but in large measure to ' the' Canadian ; Public' who, by their generous
responses to, appeals for help and their uncomplaining acceptances of
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restxi.ctions and controls,: lightened our burden..
We wish to thank the Canadian Public sincarely for their hes the mill ions;' . _
of passengers who used our trains and steamships, the shippers of freight
and express, the, guests in our hotels, the patronsof our telegraph and'other
services, and the unnumbered citizens who refrained . from travelling
needlessly,. as their contribution to the common cause.
The surrender of the last enemy has ended the fighting but it has not ended
the war job of. the Canadian National Railways. The men and women in the
Services have to be brought home without delay and for that purpose we
shall continue to employ all our available passenger. equipment. Millions of
tong -Of materials must be transported for industrial reconversion.
So in saying "Thank You""'we express the hope that in3carrying out these,
and other extensions of our warjob, we may continue to. enjoy the under .
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