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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1939-6-14, Page 7--ewe (e. THE BRUSSELS PQ$T `.I wonder if Jim will call tonight?" Do you daydream in the evenings? When somebody like Jim is in a distant town and seems ten times, as far away es he really is? And then the telephone bell rings— and there's Jim: "Hello Jim, I was hoping you'd call!" Is there evera time when a cheery voice from far away is not welcome? When the telephone bell announces it you feel grateful that there are atilt people who think about you —and prove it by Long Distance. And Jim says: "Only 650" • People who use Long Distance aervire are always surprised how little it really costs. Ranking with smaller budget ienis like movies, cigarettes, laundry and shoe repairs, Long Distance telephone calls don't touch your •pocketbook seriously—hut do always Attach your heart LONG DISTANCE costs so little! Jim's call.cost only 65c and it travelled more than 200 miles. By using ,low Night Rates applying, as 'well, all day Sun- day—and .placing "Anyone" calls you can talk m long, long way—for just a verylittle, Pure Scotch ,Scotch whiskey, said one who ought to know, is a blend of plain Bu thsir 'slpirits, manufactured from .Argentine grain 'in 'German patent still punt into a Belgian bottle with a label made from Swedish pulp- wood and printed. in London., sealed with s capsule made 'dao eV/he/field and a emelt from Spain, It Is then enclosed in a straw envelope im- poiited from. Canadia, put hu a case of wood from Penland! and sold by an. Iriddrrman, in a Glasgow pub. WALKER'S. FUNERAL :HOME. William Street, Brussels, Ontario PERSONAL ATTENDANCE 'Phone ,ee Day or Night Calle MOTOR HEARS B Q, WALKER Embalmer and Funeral Director, imasomenmsmummonsuma EDITORIALS THE COUNTY EQUALIZATION The ptloyle c1 Goaerioh far years bore without undue complaint rte burden of an Minuet 'payment o1 $7,500 on account of the defunct Ontario Weet Shore Railway, and before they Are '6tlitirely Clear of that Obligation they VIVO Ere Pros peat of an addition of $8,009 a Year annually to their County taxes bb- d:use cif khe new equell ,tion adci:'te I by the County Council lest week. This will, of course, be an appeal :against this equalization; but whether the appeal is successful or not there will remain with bhe tex- psyers of Godoriole the sense of an Injustice on, Me part of those res- ponsible for the mew impost, Perhaps it was too much, to expect that the County Council haat made the bargain with Messrs, Mogg and Quinlan for an egvalizatlont report alt the extravagant price of $7,000 would reject the report and so ad- mit ebaat they bind made a bad bar- gain; but members could reasonably have claimed that the uuation in lest year's Council for a mew equali- zn,tdon was railroaded through without due opportunity for consid- eration, acrd that statements• made had not been fulfilled, notably that with regard to the lemgbh of time tett would be required for the work the valuators were supposed •0 do. As it was, the dtvislon on the adoption of the report was pretty much on the line of benefit or in- jury from the new equalization, In vain representatives of God'ericll. Clinton and ether anundcipalittes pointed( out that on the face of 1t brie report was a farce, making the valuation of bhe County ten millions greeter in a time of depression than in the prosperous decade od the pre- vious equalization, Even if the valu- ators, were able to make good their claim that they applied the same yardstick over the whole county— and: thea has yet to be proved— there is no aubhomity in the Assess - menu Act for an assessment that Is more than one hundred 'per cent. of the real value of a property, and there is instance after instance in the Godeeich schedule of properte placed a•t a ridiculous valuation. The $7,000 experts may know something abodt the valuation of city property but men of knowledge who have ex- alndned, their valuation of Goderlch proentles consider it somewhat of a Joke. However, the motet'. is for a tribunal to decide, and ,in the meantime the equalization is dilly entered as a by-law of the County of Huron,. It is understood bhat the Legisla- ture is to ask a statute regulating* mehters of county equalization in anon a way that the experience ne Huron County will not ge teoeated in crhr,: counties of the Province. T' obably even without such legisla- thee the C'ourr'y Council of Huron w:hld met again. fail into such a trap. Previous eauIlikn•tdcmms, made by mien who were residents of the Celli -Ay and were familiar with its conditions, crest only a fraction of the amaurit for which the County hes node itsellf liable to Messrs. 1lfogg and Quinlan, Experience Is a great thing,'o but it sometimes costs' plenty. AS IT WAS ON THE TENTH A farmer was in the office yester- day and said• he didn't know 1f he was going to be ahead by putting in his turnip seed early, It had been too dry, On the tenth Concession turnips were genearlly in by this time of yeslr or something serious had gone wrong. It always did seem there woe nothing grown on Lot 4 With which/we came more frequently he contact than turnips, They were good. for mare or beast and they generally neekled a deal of abtentioh. There were`a few jobs around the piece whielh no person ever cared, for— thinning turnips, weed- ing onions and picking potato buge, Perhaps thy have better 'means for damning turnips than they had on the Tenth for admittedly there was a good deal rf adasthing done, They never took them in untll i tete lie the fall and it nv.ae generally cold wet weather, and. If one wore 1 ttteme• they got snaked. There were sonne late years when. 'the budkwlheat was sot tar ahead of tete turnips. 'There were few a.inneved' storage places for turnips then, Most farms pent iltent in a pit or e root house lout root ivolises were few and there Was nose on Lot 4, Grandita•ther al- ways snpervlsed the bundling of the pit and saw to It that two tiles were placed on lite top for veniela. Meat Cutter ,Recently Acquired At Red Rand Store lion or s'enteeting or other. When the supply of turnips which had been stored In •the harm ran out the pit had to be Opened and anter some turnips had been extracted It had to be closed. There were no n"we",driven, pnlpdng machines In the barns on thy. Tenth, but there was an. old chopper atrial, kept diose company with the fanning mill, There was a handle to turn and on, the wheel there were knives, Grandfather was fusee about the way the turnips. were put eteouglu the old chopper or silver. One couldn't very well put duds hand in too close and there was a Stick to keepthe turnip up against the knives and often enough the turnip would have a liberal slice taken cif, and there were two cows which mode a habit or always getting some of those slices down' pretty much whole after which they 'would Proceed to choke. When a huiman being starts to choke people can slap him on the back or make him raise hie arms, but you can't do that to a cow. lit wars then that the hired man was always able to ieliiow hie superiority, He'd ram lois arm down into the cavernous depths of the choking cow so far you'd think he was, going to tie a Imot in the tail. That of course would he talked about in the house and for several days •grandfabher exercised ipersonal saupervisrlon when the turnips were being cut A turnip with a little bit of salt was always considered good eating around tube barn, or when they were fairly young and tender in the field.i Then they served them in the house and' any one who com- plaints, about good mashed turnips has poor judgment. But it did sewn that turnips ran through the entire year. In the sewing there was, the seeding, then a thinning and .the hoeing, the nasty weather when, they were topped and lifted; and the business of pitting and dragging tleelm out again; then the work of cutting titefm as grandfather knew they should be cut, the choking of the crabs nlow and then and the turnips on the dimer .table, At least thaat's, the way it was on t'he Tentu and we never did seem to get far away from turnips at any time of the year. THE ONE MAN WHO KNEW Five persons were in a boat off Kettle Point, Lake Huron, when a sudden and severe storm came up. Two ladies and one "''int were drowned and two men escaped dearth There was a party of four and, bhey took with them a guide on a fishing expedition. Water in that district is shallow some distance fromu shore, and on that account high winds term it into a rough area in short time. Lt is reported that when the sky started showing signs of storm clouds, the guide advised, that the fishing be abandoned and the near. itnbp started a:t on'ee„ but the men of the party decided othenwtse. They would "stick it out' 'according to tbelr own wording founded on their lack of knowledge. Tilley did i Sstiok it out" and the 'boat was pitched about ,like a cork and Meetly overburned, The man who wbs acting as guide has been living at Kettle Point for a long time, and he has seen: a good 111..I1y rough 'Veils come and gin, Lils any otluer out-d0oi' man he would be able to read (the slot and inter preit therm; he world know heel rapidly a etotau can carie no and how severe et eon be, ands lie wotlld be weld awlal•e, of the .difficulty of ma,kting 'a sale landing. The one morn in tine boat who know all these things offered his adryice, but those who knew little or nothing of the situation refused to eecept 1t, We tiro not believe it :s' utrfair or wrong Lo say that had Line guide who nndletateod 11te situation toad his way that party et four would have been able to have re- turned to their homes after the sitorm, instead of their beteg but the one tonne survivor. NOTE AND COMMENT June is iantoW1 for green, onions, lerbtace, peonies, lilacs and brides, In the days when the ladies used. to wear corsets they were at least able to pu11 themselves together now and then, W1?1OlpJiiS17.AX, aUN 0 14th, 1959 eteeeementemeasset Or 11%"'"'."'"'iOt l'61 _........_.. uir�acbr" "'"'�"'u�►1CiiOM','""""t9✓>rM0 JWE,HAE IT A mother .complains she can't0 do anything with her daughter. It 0 might be well for such a girl to get 11 married, D 21snm house et Alliston was strudk by lightning and badly (teenaged wheu all the people were 1 out working In the barn, The R point seems to be that nettling 11 ll p 0 should be allowed to interrere with the chores, All the titre young people who are going forth armed with diplomas Met now well ,meet a world wbicll is perhaps a trifle skeptical of their ability to conquer tt. A crowd in. Belfast marked the release of 50 political prisoners by 0rl stoning the police. Being a police- man there must beone of those C occupations where a man expects to grow knobs on bis head. A bachelor termer at Shallow Lake Seek., lost his home by fire and the only thing saved was one kitchen chair. Well, anis bachelor man ran, at least sit down when it comes to thdnilaing it. over an dmak- ung pians for the wars. Dental manses have been having a Convention in Toronto, and one of the topics discussed was on how to tuns on the radio loud just at the moment when the dentist gives a final heave ho. NIP and pass the word on to yoUt that we now have installed as .... . Alernite Greasing System ... malting 'it possible for mechanics: to give you a .. , . 010 Perfect Lubrication Job Adapters For All +Fittings Oils & Greases inserted under pressure. ALL parts of ALL makes of cars Perfectly Lubricated Elliott's Garage 'phone 82 Brussels app N 0 i.. O a 0 0 11 0=0. -01 =O- 0 0) 40=0112111 One fammer neer the edge of the crowd at Wastage waved at His Majesty and, called out, "Hi-ya King," and lids greeting was attend- ed to by the smiling response: "I'm fine, how are you?" So His Majesty Is learning rapidly to talk and un- derstand the lingo of the senior Dominion. • Hamiltons nuan v leased by a poldoeman for ,half a mile over fences an& through balk yardls and. finally he turned around and fought Ohs officer, Seeing that he landed to the cells a sports editor recordis the fugitive wars beaten in track and hurdle events and took the count 4n the ring, THEM:M TOHAT ASEM -W.,..� ••:e`er A harvest of 321 million bushels of wheat, to say nothing of the increased volume of coarse grains, and all of it brought in and threshed in 1938 without the assistance of the erstwhile army of tens of thousands of harvest help from the East in the years not so long gone by. Thus does the mode of our lives and the methods of our callings change, keeping pace with the progress being made in the scientific engineering and industrial realms. The evolution of the Combine to the small, compact model now made available has revolutionized harvesting, making it an easily undertaken task for the regular help of the farm. Its production at a cost to the fanner of but one-third the price of the earlier, bigger models, is an evidence of the contribution made by the implement maker to help the farmer meet the problems with which he is con- fronted. The lower operating costs of this machine; and the reduction it enables to be made in the cost of harvesting, saving as it does up to 15c a bushel for complete harvesting, has meant, in a great many instances, a profit instead of a loss to the farmer. Power of course is the basis of the great mechanistic progress of agriculture and the record of attainment is making more efficient, less costly, and lower operating cost models available is an achieve- ment that cannot be beaten by any other industry. To -day's modern streamlined, high efficiency tractors make earlier models look like pre -historic monstrosities and sell for about one-half the price, costing less than half to operate. Massey -Harris is pleased to have taken a leading part in develop- ing machines which are destined to play so important apart in making agriculture profitable, The advent of the combine and now the greater popularity of the small combine has meant a striking decrease in the output of binders which records show reached the height of their volume in the years lost previous to the war, both in Canada and the 1?nited States: production in the latter country dropping from 2150386 in 1914 to 151,259 in 1937, thus losing the benefits of mass production pained in the years when the volume kept mounting. Apart from the tremendously improved product offered in the binder of to -day, which accounts in no small way for its relatively increased price over prewar years, the fact of the greatly decreased. volume now manufactured snakes the binder cense to be the criterion 01 values offered by the implement industry. MASSEY-HARRIS COMPANY LIMITED BUILDERS OF IMPLEMENTS THAT MAKE FARMING MORE' PROFITABLE Agent J. Fischer, Brussels