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W. EL ROBERTSON GEO. L. ELLIS
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° THURSDAY, JULY :26th, 1951
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THE MEANING OP KOREA tithe disagreement between the
The -Financial Poet has some
thing to say to critics of the
volley"td Kprea who -declare that
to , settle the war, at the 38th
parallel is to nave galueil nothing;
that on any /such basis the war
was a stalemate.
Following this line of argu-
ment isays The Financial Post)
„ then the Berlin airlift was a
stalemate. So also was the
war in Greece. But the fate
Ls the Russians were set back -
every time. 'While we. did. not
gai'n. overwhelming victories in
Attlee awl Bevan -factions in the
Leber Goyernmeut has• developed
into an open .' dispute, with
Churehill the probable winner. Mr:
Attleeis a determined and a re-
saureeful man, but one woeld think
lie aright be giud to be relieved
of the burden he has been carrying.
4 • s 4.
Nlarshal Petain, who won 21. hero's
fame in the first' World War, died
the other day stripped of his honors
and denied a hero's burial. In the
second great war he surrendered
to the Nazis and was eIlowed to
the field, we svon ssts several .
beeome the 'nominal governor of a
cOunts. .,Above all we stopped
portion of Frence in apparent col-
laboration with the conquering
iiitleriteS. When pled- on trial
after.: the, war he .contended that
his course was adopted to save
Preece • from a worse kite. •Per-
haps the beet that can be said
for him is that he was an old
man in 1940 and had , not • the,
strength and vigor required for
resistance- to the .invading Nazi'
hosts: He was ninety-five yeare of
age et his death. •
ARE WE HYPOCRITES?
(Port Elgin Times)
Whether it be 'Iran, china, India
oi.; any other Asian' country, the
majority of Easterners hate the
We,sterner.S-it bs more than dislike.
• talk ." about high idealS;-
democracy' and the freedoms e but
all the Asian „mints is -food, a
better standard of living and under-
standing, „ iWe. do. not . like, people
..of a, different eolor-We 'show it in
tier homes, schools, bueinesses and
even in our churches.
We spout idealism and then 'ex-
ploit .the Eastern countries, in
which we have a foothold; econom-
ically, militarily and. politically.
We have given them conimercial
rheCountry Mouse Enjois Some..
Western. Hospitality,
Prairie Reads
•
• The roads oh the prairies are
one mile apart. Some are Just
prairie trails -two tracks over the
prairie or prairie gumbo roads-:
Dear Friend.s,-
. Some months ago, I was. told
pereou who had never been' away
from the. East . Oita. there was no
such thing as "'Western hospital-
ity." Is am eeliing you, right now,
that that' statement is false,' and
this LS how I. know.
The Wide Spaces
Driving from: Winnipeg to. Port-
age la Prairie, I began to realize
the sense of vastpets.ollie gets 'of
the West. The - iserizen. le so fer
atelay,',,the sky looks..so 'big and,
clouds that would be .huge hUlke,
are a Mere wisp out here; I was
fascinated, by the. nioveineet and
reliance's of the etouds. We'ran into
one short but very heaVy •ram, and
after: .it wae
we could .See it".-yainiug• heavily'
miles , away. And °I really • weaa
miles way. I have aske.d tunny
people bow far one can see here
and the answers vary from three
te thirty Miles -farther if the air
is very clear. .I noticed heat waves
rising and then imagined I could
see a mirage. I -.didn't -know there
were such things here in Canada,
but there are. The ones -I-saw'
were. usually when le was looking
over . fallow. ground, rerely over
ereee grass Or grain.' There were
°.many vvindbreaks around the farm
buildings and a few lonely treee.'
The trees seemed to be . mostly
Manitoba maple, poplar tied' oak.
That part of Manitoba wife'deusely,
wooded-. when the settlers .came.
We had-otte 'first near accident that
day. A driver whizzed past' .us
and , cut in sud.denly, almost forc-
ing us into the _ditch. It was A
deep ditch toot The highway .fol-
lewed the general direction of the
Assinilenue River, I noticed. -gime
dikes along the banks, and from
the way that' river roams, at will
over tlie country sometimes, ,they
are needed. saw a -few eowa on
the farms, mostly Jerseys and Het-.
steins, *There was a lot of mustard
hi the fields, but uo- ex -eye deisies,
and have net seen any of thew
'since we left .Ontario. One thing
-which rather surprised me was tlie
eimount of ' good-lookieg larva ma-
chinery. which was sitting around
-outside .We began Seeing great
long 'freight trains.- after . we left
Wieurpeg, -too. Those. going,. east,
carried grail' and thoee going west
useally -had machinery; so We were
told„ . • .4
, •'
An Historic • Centre;
in Portage la Prairie, we viSited,
relatives of mine,, and. tneY took'
eeploitation 'and brotight, theue u Sights and .the ;old • historic Spots.
us all over the distriet to see- the'.
practise :in our • treatment .of themei cseeee it
Portage vvas given that name be -
was the place the 'Indians
form. of, Christianity -see do not
- further oppression; e won
moral vietory shy- metntainieg
the status 'quo. - The ene,my
• was not able to occupy Greece,"
West Berlin or gain South
Koreas., Our arms and other
resources lienlid these places•
lo the enemy. •The 114N. has
Shown itS willingness and
ability to fight for principles,
and'this Ras given: strength and
courage •to theo smaller nation's
the , path {)f the. Russian
steam 'roller. It will facilitate
General Eisenhower's taslc.
. short; .the action of the United
Nations in resisting aggreaston in
• Korea is • a warning to Russcla that
,
she must watch her- step.
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WHAT'S 'WRONG.* ITH A
SURPLUS?
TheeGlobe and .Mail Scolds Fin -
Alice -.3Iinister Abbott because Fed-
eral reveimes are greater than he
esdinated M laet budget. We
don't think the G. and M. Will get
very far with this .complaint. it
admits some Virtue in a surplus,
butonly the'31inister 'announced
that heswas budgeting for a surplus.
.E.xaCtly.what.differeuce this makes
...we clo...not, quite. see . and. the G.
and M. does not explainee When
the revendes• produce' 'a surplus,
thereby seeducing the. public debt
and the beidee of ,ieterest ou the
debt to be carried- by the taxpayer.,
it is perhaps a little more welcome
if it conies as a surprise rather
thaneas the restilt. of calculation.
.0 surplus„ !or the litsst few
inenths, of eh.e tiseal -yea does -not,
however,' .guarantee a surplus for
',the entire, year. 'Expenditures have
a habit of accumulhting towards
the end of the year, • end there
", may be •,a slackening . in. revenues.
If, instead', of remaiiiing bueyant,
business shoitid. fall' , off and the 111 1110•country and wits' the first
Government's receipts fall ..off COr- • , •
"Mete Man ni.einbers. of %the rt-ki
respondingly, with. the reSelt of a.
saw
i� Women's In sti t ute: from all tlw old grave rQ
deficit instead yr• surpliv, we prestait 'was.around built()et
can imagine how tlie M. Tyndall stone.and is .a 'very Inve'`1Y
[part's (4 Ithiterio visited. the theterie
• (..estimitt, the Fiume., min. fAkrieultural. 'elellege during , the building. We. sami 'all. through if,
ister.• P
and aresienpassable in Wet Weather.
Then. there are graded roads whieh,
•I are abont the same only
they have •been graded up a bit'
higher tlian the fields. Some of the
graded roads are, gravelled and
have quite .a hard eurfaee and are
quite passable even when wet.
few of the road's are paved. People
warned us of the terrible roads in
the West. We have been agreeably
surprised se ,., fr. Of course, You
A:Linnet drive ,as you would eon -a
.super-izighway, and tbey are dusty, -
but we cannot coniplain. Brandon
is beautifully sittiated on the banks
of, and in the "Valley of, the Assiiii-
boine River. Ve arrived there in
the midst of tbe Fair and ,were not
able to get a cabin. However, We
wel'e. very comfortable in a room
iu a private bome. The „ Pair is
just the "Ex" on a smell." scale,
but we did net go to it. It Ls one
of .several class' A. Fairs 'in the
West iwhich all seem to be held.
at this time of year),. There was
a large exhibit of tattle, a few
horses, . sheep and pigs, but "ne
poultry this year en aceOunt of
"NeWeastle disease, In the evening
we droVe.. twelve, miles out to. the.
BrandoneHills to see some people
whoge, name had0 been given es.
They • were the McPbersone. Mr.
IlePherson'e people lied wine to
The . Hiles in. 1879 from Pictou
county,' N. -S., Up the Assiniboine
River to where the *Little Souris
joins it. They chose that place Meat beautiful sight I- had ever
because they thought it looked like seen. The very ifirst glimpse a -the
the place they had left in Nova Valley was when we rounded a
Scotia. They held their first church turn in the road tied saw 'the great
services in the MePhersOn home, panorama of valley, and hills with
then. in the school. as soon as it aecloud shadow on the oppoelte side
•chureh eXactlY the -same as Durham et dark it was almost royale blue.
But I shalt tell yeti More of the
was, built, and then (hey built their
Church in Nova Scotia. :Mrs. -Me- Valley ° another time. We mast
Pherson's parents were Thomas liurry on teeFoaters'. s
Pentland from Nile and Annie Mc- The -,first Itiester „. !settle at
Vety,"- e teacher from Wingham, Abernethy carae from New GIs -
who • taught eomee mile away at gow, near, Montreal, to Breeden in
JuStice before marrying Mr. Pent= 1882, ,and 'to Abernethy in 1880.
land. The McPhersells Crath& Foster settled on the fence
and two sons) farm 2,200 acres- where we, were -entertained, and
1,200 cultivated and the rest in lived there until his death in 1935.
pasture and fullOw. 'They tobk US His eon, Bill, has the !fare). now.
for a little drive stip Into the hills, He has 940 acres Of gently rolling
and to a "high , place," where we prairie, medium heavy soil. The
seemed to see all the world spread- first, house on the . farm was a. log
at our feet. There hi a ,Goverement shanty, with a roof of polescsevered
meteorological stone-Sfit, the top of with, • hey and eods, and • a day
one a the From the same
hill, there is a signet to direct. the
gunfire froth Camp 'tidies
away. We saSv•• a thre,e-hundred-
aere farm a short distance away, -
di vided into three even strips, each
a mile long, one wheat, otie fallow
end one pasture. When -we tinned
heck" we were treated to the sight
of .a preirie -suisset behind.. the ,
-Brandon Hills, • It was almost as
good as one (her eLake Ifuron •
The Brandon Hills ar.e full of deer, liside and later- burned to make
but we SLIM only one running along plaster and Mortar. I am telling
that 'evening.' ,Iu the ear1S- eon' th!e sho,e• the name -
there
were many bemeer alai then stedders neelsesere. \\:11:1t, they
they ' disappeared 'BOW' 1911. .l•kiid Muni right where they settled, At•
Wheel ale•Y came back that year the tarn ofthe-century, the Fosters
they billit a dani on flie exact site,
a the ohlt one! Coon were 'e.eti
in the hills for 'the :first time a
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to. a pair ,Cit strangerS groin the
The -lady in whose Imine vir4
spent the nig4t, 14m. Coates, Was
Just as kind and, interested tit is.
have been, Impressed over and
over with the interest. all the people
take in our trip and' their hearty
wishes for our enjoyment of it,
.I Saskatehewa•Pe
We left Brandon .the nextemtrn-
hie.' atid again had a pleasant drive.
'We ate Per luneh'in the ehade gef
Orangeville school, built in -1882. I
think it, is in Saskatchewan. Any-
way, we crossed to -Seekatehewte.
that day and ag,aire We saw changee
In the landscape. There were dry
watercourses, sandy hills and in
some piecea. white dePusit In tlie
'dry ditchees 'Ihere was some waste
land with small willows, some email
rounded hills, and what I thought
were little marshy spots. ' They
dre . really sloughs, and each one
had its family of wild ducks. •I
have °seen snore crOWs Imre, too,
than at home. They are often on
Hi e road male they look very pompe
Ma 6-00t 2845 peunds,ve
person4U-deraon4tratioiCaf bow that
implement goes upand down the
11040) In. July,. he 'slimmer
lows the lands- with ,a heavy dtay
cultivator which- we OftW int Oper-
ation. It fact, 1 drove lt up the
field owe. It has e hydraulic con-
trol which raises and lowers. the
shoes of the implement so easilY..
Later,. he, takes off the back row
of shoes and Pats on a rod Vveeder-
aud goys over the field again, 'and
then the next epring it is ready
for planting with a very tittle work.
'Ail this is what I understand to
be trash cover euitivation. .41,11 the.
straw fremthe erulcy is,Worked into
the soil ins suck a way as to con-
servelSoll moisture and add organie
matter to the Soit without allow-
ing wind erosion. Weeds are
kilted, and „the mustard which sur-
vives, gets a dose of ,24D from a
,plane. Bill and L1 e1 --they made
u.s so welcome with a Inuff, hearty
greeting and warm smile, expansive
as the West, that we were all on
ens and selfamportant as they e • first name terms in a matter of
off to the side and thee. fis! away.
e ,- moments -showed us the place from
,We stopped at Geenfell tor eas
- top. to bottom and °told, us about
•and while there I 'phoned All -s. win. their farming methods ',They alsep
Fosters, at Abernethy to bring ., her showed is their dreani hoese which
greetings from 'friends in. the I.,ast,
-, hag collie true. A few years ago
As stion eis I told her who was they spent the winter, planning a
l'i.ouse which was to be built in
with them. We aceepted,. and had
-vistahetiongatovsperd thae nuligolsitt
the winter and the children attend
tieople.dakitilligein,
Abeivethy where they 'could speed
auother of. the mane Very ,. Due
ha-- the larger school. This is becoming
experiences of our Arise (We. turned .., witunen ,
practioe in the West.
;heir own • rural School le' on their
Datonlinindlioaun Eilixepaedriinaefutetraippitisagrimuft,atnhde
farm and is cailed Foster's School.
had our first driving tm an uns
,irl I' have never seen a more perfect
graded -dirt road. •Thele N
2--. ‘..em 11(-.7.- house 'anywhere, e, and it is exactly
to the horizon, with thick wind- -what they wanted. So- now they
breaks- of eree.s around the faim leave the farm ,and go to town for
'buildings,. bet nowhere else -jest the winter. One little Nvinter sport
'miles of theist's, without even -fences. meieb, Bin enjoys is shooting
The drive took US th.Migh the "'"
coyotes from it bombardier! We
Qu'Appelle Vall_es, and it was. the, think, the Fosters are typical o2.
the people the West' producee, bjg
and stiong and virile, in body ,and
miiid and outlook. I don't see how
a person could look over that wide,
sunny country for a lifetime ,with -
opt coining a great breadth__ of
vision- ef what - tiring sbould, be:
We also met Bill's older brother
and his •wife. .He was very Inter-
esting. in a quieter way and be gave`
1,1i3 the family nistory. file, told Us
of the • bid saying in the West
"that 'a great malty. people sktune
there from, Ontario but not nearly
as • many Ag :from •fluron and
Bruee!" - At another thee We were
talking' .about • Mechanized farming
and he said, "ICS' a good thing
horses, were- used before tractors;
not 'after _them, or you would_have
a hard time paying. for breed, let
alone meat.? And'I suspect he was
fight, when -you think of the dif-
•
Over -abundance has lost • us our
sense.• of moyati and ethical values
-we do, not understand Poverty,
'toil, sweat , ahd tears.'"'We haVe
too Much . comfort and vanity for
our OWn good and too little thought
for the underdog. The world is
rapidry being, , hito the
haves- and LuiVeau ss. • We must
either. being the less fortunate up
to our level or they muse (hilts us
and traders left the Assinthome
River to eross the prairie to Lake
Manitoba. A few miles out of the
city .there is a 'cairn marking the
site, of the 'old French ' Fort La
Reim -4:111(h was built by La Vero).-
drye .O'CtoLier,...4738. s It became
t he headquartere Or` litre-...explor-
a t tons north and west. There,[4.tes
a Hudson's Bey store nearby,. and
there is an old legend that Mere
down to theirs. We may be teo isas' an earlier French mission
soft, ..to -o compiac'ent and too in- there ton, but that hits never been
confirmed.. `4.4t. .Nlary's
different , recognize it before it definitely
Anglican Church in Portage in few years ago, Sind there lire mane.
ie too late. •
• the SeCond olde.steliarish West of beats We were told tbat the Gov -1
tioor.',The -sectind house was frame,
space hc.. ficulty in getting and keeping farm
with double walls, the help,
tweet/ Allied with Hew and staid. . •
You can see, from my enthusiasm
•The present house 'wee built of
esemey , bricks, 'which area light lxiade . a deep
that these three Western families
impressien on me,
color. The foundation is stone,
partly because. of their intelligence,
jure ' telt 'field .stones Which' were
and probably. More because of their
very COMMOn around there --,all but
kindness .to two -Easterners who
two blue stones which, Call* all.
appeared snddenly in their midst
the wey from Quebec . with the
and were taken In ao cordially, '
Foster possessions! The limestones Sincerely,
which were picked up were all put
,rirE 'COUNTRY MOUSF.I.
Somewhere •In the Prairies. '
None*
,goderich French
Dry Cleaners
*ln. be closed
for holidays
:
.iro
I 'during.the week o/July 29th
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F,\ARMERS HEAR TALKS
ON. CROP IMPROVEMENT
CLINTON,. July 24. --Some 250
members of Huron. County Crop
Improvement Association held a
tsiiIight meeting Monday evening
at the farm of William Turnbull,
R.R. 2, Brussels. Mr. Turnbull is
a • prominent breeder of Shorthorn
cattle and .Yorkshire hogs: •
Among Abe guest speakers were
Jack Kingsbury, of the Ontario
Agriceltural College, Guelph, dis-
trict weed and seed field man, who
gave a talk on weed eradication,
using chemical weed kittens; Prof.
.T. Melatuchlire of the field hus-
bandry department,. 0.A.O., who
iSpoke on varieties of grass • being
developed and also covered a topic
on hay and pasture; JaCkeKetche-
the Great .Lakes. first (*beech ernmetit is to electrify •All
INSTITUTE WEEK
•• .Er GUELPH' COLLEGE was built In- 1853 a feW tulles_ out
EDITORIAL DOTES
ellorseineat ie to be dis-
placing beef on!`dinner tables in
Some of the cities. Does the diner
say "flaw" ors"Gee"?
• • • s •
A year ago a Kentucky woman•
reiweighed' 555 pant's. Sh-e' began to
diet and now is a neat 154 peunds.
As the old copybooks uied to say,:
' "Where • there's a will there's a
• way." Bet having lost 40. pounds
. site ' be the shine women?
farm' homes ag :soon as .posesthle.
Power is generated on •the'Whinipeg
-Iti'vei.,• and t he t ra nsurissibw. . lines
a re all over the -Country.- I noticed
a peteiliariey et the Brandeis Hills
which is (elite comneen hp tbesWesr:
. Most hills ate wooderd on the north
week of July e=13 to peeticipate- in
, . . but the etorios about it are toosieng side but heve no trees on xi., south.
. .
the annual holiday of the Institute. o Near tne' Breeden Hills is a spur
t tell here. Our next visit was
Each daY of the holiday line of the. phi. Northern P:acifie
ope- flea !:101 rit7illiee trio t.r tif2111.1es4bee, u. iii,,nan izict?
i:1 i 1 __,.. s :tine whist ran from Minnealmlis
with devotional exercises ''In. the I have seen on the i'iralinries'-:
,, The to Brandon, and. is now part of
college's War .Menioritri-' Hall cone !Stand •at Portage -is in. what, we A
t OP ' C.N.11. system...All this inform -
ducted by Padre W. A. Young, Col- ation we got from the -3.14cPhersons,
might call an artificial Jake. It is
_the old bed of the river and is kept who were so, kind. and -hospitable
lege. chaplain. • Au organ and pia....„ao allied with waterto make all Island
* ,* *
, When Princess -Elizabeth comes
to Canada this autumn. -she Ls • to
see n a lacrosse game. That is
something a great many:Canadians
have never seen. What was once
edited -Canada's "national game"
has been abandoned in all hut a
coMmunities. The mime called
for littie in the way -of headwork
t
___as4 baseball hes' largelv taken its
Plate.
recital followed the tenth 'period,
and a welcome was eitended to
the visitere on behalf of the t2o1-
lege, the 1+1,4onien's Institute Branch,
and the Federated Women's Insti-
tutes of -Ontario. The day was
brought to e Close with the well -
attended showing by Miss Anna
Lewis, :director, Federated Women's
Institutes, Of .the colored photo -
'graphs taken- during her recent
tont- abroad and at home.
Each day of the week's holiday
had its own special designation.
Monday was "Know Your Celleges
Day," and featured conducted tours
Of Macdonald Destitute, the On-
tario Agricultural lOpliege, and the
Opted* Veterinary ,College. Tues-
day, "Meat and Pi:entry Day," was
devoted to tours, :lectures, and de-
monstrations by Professors Stiliwell
and Snyder of. the .OA. -C. staff. On
Wednesday,' "Horticulture Day,"
mere then 0,0 _wenien registered to
41eringd;Wr
John Weall of the -0.A.Ws depart-
men't of horticulture discuss "'Flor-
al Arrangement" and.' "Beautiful
Farm Bogies."
Macdonald Institute was featured
on .Thursday, With- a.- number 'of
.demonstrations and lectures •being
presented. on the subjects of , tex-
tiles, cooking, and bome,decoration.
The final day featured a "Cultural
Activities" thetne, witli the noted
Canadian Watercolor artist, Miss
Effie, ,Smith, dtecueeing Canadian
art With a demonstration of paints.
ing a flower print. On this last
day Professor Walter Carpenter of
the Department of English ad-
dressed the gropp,, on "Treaeures
Books," and Mr. Xing of .the
sable department sang such 'favor-
ites as "The Last Rage of Summer,"
"Missing, By," and "Who IS
SylViader '
*
- Some people in the United' States,
even some an official circles there.
• were under the. impression that
Canada was among the countries
receiving Marshall aid. Recently
a list Of guch countries was put
-out at Washington including Can-
ada. The Canadian authorities
went into tretion and the' 'U.S.
tilepvertunent has admitted lee Mots
. Canada is standing on ligr •oWit
feet,
'parksaud recreation grounde, There
is a 'wild game sanctuary, a golf
ceurse, the fair ,grounds- with a'
track With real Kentucky dirt, a
pair of very 'old'inillstones and, a
Thunder Bird totem pole made by
the students at, the nearby Indian
Schodl. 24 _few Miles divey we.'saw.
the • littre 'Salteux Iadian Church.
Some years' ago'. when the river
went on the. rampage the chatty
was carriedaway ti.nd' went , floating'
down the middle of the read
the bell ringing.. :While- I -am'-talk-
ing of church -es. I must .add thet-
I saw , the United ,Chttreh in Portage
where. tbe Klee _lied Queen wor-
shipped one' Sunday when they were
la Canada. They -left a 'Bible in
the-- church when they left. On
Monday • morning we drove out to
Delta; a stunnter ,resort Oa Lake
Manitoba. . Rather, we- were taken
there. , It , is a very beautiful spot,
withmyriads of email birds' (anti
I•al-Sessost eituseertiteuelseseelethielv there;
-Lea ilfb' sanctuary there too.
-A- SPortsman's Paradise -'•
• Near Delta, there are acres and
acresof swan*: it is the home of
thousands of, wild ducks and -other
water birds, add is ,a , sporteinan's
paradise in the fall. 'Oh, yes, I
dorgot .to tell, you that near tiee
site of old ,Fort La Reine , my
cousin pointed out .rselitit', she calls,
her swater towel', because- she
climbed to the -top of it and -Wrote
her name there.- • when The was it
,few .yearg - younger than she-iS tioue
Another eousite who Is the house-
keeper, made .tis very !nippy by et -
tending' to our creature -comforts,
atfileher. two sons, supplied the his-
toriCal information. Yiins May say
that isn't (Western hospitality, .it's
ittt entertaining relations, but .12
'AYll think It over eareftilly you tatty
realize that we. do not alwa.ys nxtike
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' The Saltford Sage waked out
Of a of :brooding and declared
It was tithe the weather. people
Ptit SOMe poetry .into their predic-
tions. `Tor instailt9e,4 he said, "OA
a day like. this, (it. was 'Wednesday),
It nii0at 10 like this: 'Old Sol to-
day. IS riding high; probabilitieS,
ibit and dry.''' Or' for ariost other
-days, We haven'tmade our. minds
.01) yet; looks like a dry day but
iriaay bo wet.'„"
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Oeve;kimont- litItritaitt Is ,ftilt
ttThflatf�t �n top of trouble in
Iran, tholibsettlea State of Korean -
affairs, annomee over the Mao,.
.tioxu a the • t„T:S. G� tat with
Iriltice '81)04 and any nuMber
of lets ifetIttlillf Mblkingt Pie long.
had twenty . to thirt.y4,-,11orses, and
often - used a elk- or eight -horse
team in the fields.' The 'got a
U'lletOr in 191 -but 11 NVati so 1.111-•
satisfaetery alai' they did not get
another 1930. -11heY used a
Steam thresher until 1940, but .since
then 'have "comb -Med" • the,.7rnin.
filetses are DOW' worth 11/2 cents
poinal at the abattoir; aS farming
is so- -completely mechauiZed in the
West.
Western Farming
Farming methods here chadged
hi other ways too. Bill never uses
a plow. itle goes •ovee his ,*land
with • a. disker - in the -fall - after
tbe grain hes been "coMbined" and
again 14 etirly spring. Then he
uses .a eelf-cleening harrow a bit
later • (and I *Ish you had 'seep
Many -other aspects of the prosisuell a thorough Job of entertaining
gram rotinded 'out the week's ac-
tivities. Miss BeVerly Bryan of
the Wometes Distitute Breech Staff
supervised swimming in the eolleg€
swimming pool, .Mrs. .Clarenee
Ileyegled many informal discus.
sions of Women's Institute prob-
lems, Miss rldith Itrietly
outlined the new, eo-operative pro-
grahi course on cultural aetivities,
and M1SSes Ortua 'Wainwright and
lteveriy, intsen led into -est ,groups
teXtile printing' and moccasin.
Making%
rAletnWrs Of the Wo1netes :during 1116 wilt, It was ittSt,
tate` frOni this Aioriet visited the Inach of sand Willett the Goveriw
AC In onsidrabie tentobers, oil mntnt oonverted Inbo. a military vtI
this oteasion. gage.
4
In the Bast.
:The drive from Portage to Aran -
don was one of the short 'ones we
took. The country around Portage
was very Bat and lebked very
fertile; -it LS known as the Portage
Pleffi sand has never hada coin-
plete cr,o0 failure. As we, got
nearer "nrandoes the toattntry
eatne more broken and hilly. It is
known as the Sand fltUs Distriet.
The distant bills looked very' blue.
'We paSsed the road ,to Carop
whleh we used to hear' of so often.
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YOU GET MORE FOR YOUR TELEPHONE DOLLAR
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sou, of the •field titisbandry `depart-
ment, O.A.0., who gave a talk on
soils and soil` managexnexit.
The chairman was Alvin Betties,
Baylield, president of the associa-
tion. Lundh was served, , and at
the close a trilight lamp was pre-
sented, to. Mr. and Mrs. Gordon -
Bennett. Mr. Bennett,. agricultural
•representatiVe for Huron county,
is secretary -treasurer of the as-
sociation. He is leaving the eounty
sheeny. ,Flarry Strang of Met:wall
read the address to Mr. Bennett
and Richard Breck of Hensall and
Harry Sturdy of Auburn made the
presentation. •
More than 100,000 acres of sugar
beets have, been planted in Canada
this year and a million -ton crop
is- ex-pected.-Quick Canadian Facts.
Anything tp,sell? A classified .
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ABBREVIATING certain, words in our
telephone directories can often reduce
-a listing frOm two lines to one. This' not.
only makes the directory thinner find
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In one of our bigger directories, for'
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This careful "attention to little things
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td' keep costs down, It's -one of the
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A new wire, ed strong
ttiat only half as minx jpoles
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Thin saving is iniporyint, at
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Long „Dlitcance .operafois
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dial local numbers. Tht• not,
only means faster, more
convenient service for you,
. but means Our operating
dollars go further. ,
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