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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Clinton News Record, 1943-09-02, Page 4PAGE 4 THE 'CLINTON. NEWS -RECORD ifi♦♦Ni'1�,�-,Y-'�lr. �."� i7:"�L,i'«!?, t� +Hf � , , ,,+. e,"'. .:"± :.«' d"+`Ne.A`.+ , .M`: i_e' < �«_,z�,�.: �_'+ n' SCHOOLS RE -OPEN' Tuesday, September 7th. WE IIAVE. A LARGE ,STOCK OF School Text Books and School Supplies Ask for one of our large shopping bags, which are Free, but don't ask for Credit — — OUR TERMS ARE CASH A. T. COOPER, STORE OPEN PHONES 36W 363• EVENINGS 6 TO 8 HOBBERLIN MADE TO MEASURE SUITS AND OVERCOATS FALL SAMPLES ARE NOW IN SUITS FROM $27.50 to $55.00 OVERCOATS $25.00 and UP FIT AND WORKMANSHIP GUARANTEED 3.: +14 s' DAVIS HERMAN Vitt' CUSTOM TAILORS — Be Measured by a Tailor. Y.:1:!+::wN:!+'�7.�+: i w a i :�+; * :� f•J1f } f 1'? f'i.',"w ��+iM`�+f :'�. i'+4 }''':�:'i�1«'f"4"`."i1'i1�: i� Your duty to Yourself Is to keep yourself physically fit for the duration at least. Build up your resistance to colds, and a run down condition. by using Certified Hali• but Capsules THEY ARE RICH IN VITAMINS A and D 100 CAPSULES $1.25 W. S. 11. H OLMONEST CLINTON, . PHM. B, e8� ..^'- ,Maty PHONE 51 BOAT CUSHIONS $1.25 PHOTOPACK $2.25 BOZ 0 130Z FLOATS $1.25 and UP DON'T FORGET OUR RENTAL :SERVICE BICYCLES_- GOLF CLUpS — FISHING TACI{LE EPPS SPORT SHOP Headquarters For All Sporting Goods IEEE E'Et. •1 i g.3"..1i3 , i fMtdt:t W "4.4-i 4 few»:»a-ice +Cl. i iH HHMi4ii 1».K 4 Clinton Monument Works WILL IN THE FUTURE BE OPERATED BY CUNNINGHAM & PRYDE IN CONJUNCTION WITH THEIR b '3. x t Mr. J. J. Zapfe will be pleased to receive any inquiries 4, Exeter Business Consider. Newsprint 10; ounces; wire, one square foot; Anyone making his first visit to a newspaper plant is amazed at all the work and process involved inconver- ging all the news so that it will form the mirror of world and local events. Most :of us realize that the free press is one of the keystones of de- mocracy. But comparatively few of us appreciate what enters into the manufacture of a paper. For example consider the paper on which the news is printed. It isn't just a ease of grinding snail soft woods as spruce and poplar into pulp and then -roll- ing the "mash" into thin' sheets. It isn't as simple as all that. The fol- lowing list shows the major items and the quantity of each used in matting a on of newsprint paper, Wood 176 cubic feet; sulphur 70, pounds; lime 90 pounds; alum 6q Soldiers of the Canadian Army are pounds; color, one ounce; coal 1,270 ,encouraged to submit now ideas for pounds wool, five ounces; cotton training or improvement of weapons. lubricants. five pints; and water. 150,000 gallons. These requirements, some of which are essential .tothe war effort, afford an explanation in. part .why it has been necessary to ration newsprint. V Conservatives Name Ontario Chairman John Bracken, National Progressive Conservative'. leader, announced, Fri- day night that Harry A. Willis, 39, of Brampton, Ont., has been appoin- ted- federal chairman for Ontario of the Progressive Conservative party, Mr. Willis will take charge of the national party isi Ontario until the next general election. V Red Shield 'The ,R>S.W.A. held their regular, meeting in the S.A. Barracks on Tues- day, August 31st,• with the president Mrs. J. Cook presiding. There were 21 members present and collection am - punted to $2.05, 'Articles brought in, 2d quilt blocks, 8 pair socks; 1 scarf, 2 pair pyjamas. We acknowledge with thanks the following donations, $10. from Mr. M. Crich and refugee clothing from Mrs, Fred Johnson. The next meeting will be the re- gular, pot luck supper, Tuesday 'Sep- tember 7th , • BAYFIELD • Mr. McDonagh and daughter, Mis. Scott of London are spending a few- days this week at their cottage in Lakeside Park. Mrs. V. A. Burt of London is spen- ding this week with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. F. W. Baker. Rev. J. Graham was in London for a few days this week attending the meeting of the Alumni of Huron Col- lege. Mr. and Mrs. F. Pye of Hyde Park, spent Sunday in the village. Hon. Justice MoTague returned to Ottawa on Monday!, after having visited at "Llandudno" for a week. Mrs. Thornton Mustard returned to' her Home in Toronto on Monday after having spent a month at her cottage. Mr. and Mrs. David Dewar and Ma- ster George of Toronto are visiting the former's parents, Mr. and Mi. David Dewar. Mrs. H. M. Langford, Mrs. R, Bric- ker and daughter, Susan, motored to Gull Lake, last week. On their re; turn they were accompanied by David Bricker,' who spent the summer at a boy's camp in that locality. Rev. H. M. Langford returnnd to Sb. Mary's rectory, Walkerviile, on Tuesday after having spent a month at his cottage. AC. 2 Frecl Weston spent several days leave last week with bis wife and little daughter, at their homo in the village. He returned to Man- ning Pool, Toronto, on Friday, Mrs. L. Bernstein and two boys, who have occupied "Suni-R-Inn" for the season left on Tuesday for London en route to Florida. Misses Rubio Fisher and Barbara Pollock of Iiitchener spent the week end with the forner's aunt Mrs. F. 'A. Edwards. Miss M. Galbraith and Mrs. J. W. •Reid returned to Soaforth on Friday last after having visited their bro- ther, D. C. Galbraith for a week. Mrs. E. N. Tremblay and ,son re- turned to Goderich last week after having occupied Mrs. Adam Boyd's Cottage on Keith Crescent during July and August: Miss M.. Twitchell and Master Rog- er Lenny who have been occupying "Cleverly" cottage returned to To- ronto on Wednesday. Squadron Leader C. Butt, R.C.A.F. spent the week end with his wife's Parents, Mr. and Mrs. R. T. Orr at their summer home in the village Mrs. Adelaide McLeod and Miss Ce- cil McLeod were called. to Goderich last week owing to the serious ill- ness and subsequentdeath of the for-. mer's son-in-law, Thomas Isneeshaw. Master Irvine Pease, who has been visiting Mr. and Mrs. C. Berry re- turned to his home in London on Fri- day. He was accompanied by Master Glen Brandon, who is his guest this week. A. S. 0. Margaret Ferguson re- turned to'R.C.A.F, School at Guelph on Monday after spendinga leave with her parents,' Mr, and Mrs. Writ. L. Ferguson, Group Captain, W. Wa- kies, Manning Depot, Toronto 'was her guest over the week end. Potatoes have it .seems, a way of walking in Bayfield. 'If they'd only learn to talk, too, those people wlio t.have worked so hard to raise them would more easily learn of their des- tination and save the police consider- able trouble. Old Bayfield Business Closed With the closing of Edwards Store on Saturday. rnight a ohapter in the history of. business in Bayfield was finished. It began in 1887, when Henry F. L-dtvarcls of Strathroy, who found it necessary to leave that place for the benefit of the health of Ms wife and son, Frank A. Edwards, chose to locate 'here rather than in Port Al- bert. He neve} regretted his decision and this village benefitted much from it. He commenced a general store in the building previously vacated by William Morrison, which he purchased .in1887. Henry F. Edwards died De- cember 1906 but the business had pre- viously been taken over by his son, who had married Miss Florence Eng- land in 1896. Since the death of Frank A. Edwards, Sept 1, 1938, Mrs, Ed- wards has carried on the business. Sbj disposed of the stoelc to H. H. Damm of Walkerton, who transferred ib on Monday night to Kippen where he has lately located. Edwards store had be- come a Iand nark in Bayfield, serving the public continuously' for fifty-six years, and it will be greatly missed as a high class stock of goods was carried. Business methods and the type of stock have changed with the years. Half a century ago one had to be a good "taster" and "smeller" to do a sucessful business as a great deal was done by trade of home-made but- ter, lard and eggs. The creamery and egg candling station have changed all' this. For a time the- dry and fancy goods of the village stores were over- looked for the display in larger cen- tres. But war conditions have made this line a very important factor in the village store again. And apart from the friendly and reliable contact of Edward's store it is in this line that it will be most missed, V. Late Mr. Justice Godfrey Educated in Clinton John Milton Godfrey, 72, retired Ontario Iligh Court justice and one- time Ontario securities commissioner, died at his suburban Port Credit home last Saturday night. Appointed a Supreme Cuurt jus- tice in 1938, he retired from the bench last year. Mr. Godfrey -vas born in Hastings, Ont., and was educated in Owen Sound, Collegiate, l;li.tton Col- legiate and University of Toronto. lie was called to the bar in 189A. In 1928 University of Ottawa con- ferred on him the honorary degree c•f Doctor of Laws in recognition of his "bonne entente" aotiv't es be- tween Ontario and Quehre He served as Ontario securities commissioner from 1931 to 1938, v-- Lucknow Man on Guests at the Little Inn include Miss V. Bridgman,. London, Mr. and Mrs. It. H. Gilmore, Sarnia; Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Macaulay, Mr and Mrs. J 181. Puller, Miss Marjorie Puller, Dr. and Mrs A. L. Chapman, 3/a. William Young, Detroit. Mr. E. A. Westlake and his assis- tants issued eight_ hundred and fifty- six ration books on Thursday and Fri. day of last week. The work was well- organized and went without a hitch under Mr. Westlake's capable super- vision. Those assisting were Misses Marnie Galbraith, J, E: Stirling and Mesdames David Prentice, R. L. Bas 'sett, James Ferguson, E. A, -Westlake Malcolm Touts, and Mr. Wm. L. Fer- guson. i\fiss Gloria Westlakereturned home. on Monday after having visited 1.s;; aunt, Mrs. Milton Pollock; Goshen line, fora week, Miss Joan Cotton of,'Washington D. C.; is spending a vacation with her mother at their cottage "The War, ren." Mr. and Mrs. Norval Genteinherdt and daughters Doris, Ilelen and June of Saginaw Mich., are visiting Mrs. F. Genteinhardt, this week. Miss Ada Bingley left for Detroit this -week after spending the summer 'n Bayfield.' She was accompanied by Miss Margaret Stephenson, who will spend a week in Detroit. • Mrs. 3. Wilton of Brussels is spend- ing a few days with Mrs. Blyth :Stepp- enson, "Lady Nelson" Charles McQuillan of the R.C.A.M. 0., who is attached to the Canadian hospital ship "Lady Nelson," -has been spending the week with his sister and brother, Beatrice and William Mc- Quillin of ,St. Helens, Since assigned to • the "Lady Nelson" Charles has been seeing the world. They arrived in Halifax a few days ago from Al- giers in Nortlt. Africa, mating the journey •via England. English, Canadian and United Stat- es soldiers, wounded in the Mediter-' ranean area of operations, composed. the "Lady Nelson's" passenger list. She sailed from Algiers to England to discharge the Old Country wounded and to pick up Canadian bound sick and wounded men, The movements of the "Lady Nel- son" are no secret. She sails at night with lights ablaze and every four hours her position is made known by wireless. She .is a gleaming white vessel, . has a broad green band and illuminated Red Crosses and brilliant flood lights in accordance with the provisions of the Geneva Conten- tion, Her "cargo" is ,(solely sick and Wounded, many of whom have paid clearly in health and limb for the defence of our freedom. Charles mar- yelled at the cheerfulness of these wounded' men. --many M them maimed for life by loss of limbs. He anention- ed an English .soldier who had lost both his arms, and 'vas practically totally blind. Others hacl been burned so badly you would wonder how they survived, he. said.: Lucknow Sentinel .. V "Italy is paying a terrible penalty fo, rallowing itself to be misled by. 'also and criminal guides. How much easier it is to join bad companions than to shake them!" Winston Churchill; THURS., SEPT. 2, 1943 Erosion Threatens Life and Happiness of Mankind (The London Free Press) Erosion of the soil already threat- ens the farther in Western Ontario. Unless checked --with the expenditure of large suns and much manpower after the war -erosion will eventually spell the end of farming in our fer- tile 14 counties. Erosion is also a world, problem of the first magnitude. Western Ontario "conservationists" will be interested in the following warning printed lit London Calling', by the Earl of Portsmouth, hereditary Bailiff or Burley, in. the New Forest England, one of England's foremost conservatidnists, To many of you erosion of the soil needs no explanation; but to those who may not have come across it in the sensein which I write it means the eating away of the earth's crust by the action of the wind and water. It is the top six inches of the eanth which count when it conies to feeduig and clothing ourselves. We cannot liv without it, Once the soil is bared sharp sand takes its place. Not oral does next to nothing grow on it, bu when it can be blown by the wind i buries fertile land, sometimes ratan miles away, under the sand, so that r too, becomes desert. Rain ceases •t falld., and - the whole climate is al ere Everywhere, since time began ero- sion has been going on. For the most part Nature, when left to herself, re- pairs the damage; what is washed away by water is repaired by plant roots and leaves of trees. This keeps the subsoil moist and spreads the rain fall over the year. But when' Man gets careless and greedy, and takes a hand, then the damage outstrips the repair. There are very few places in the world today where man is not taking a hand. Even in England we suffer from coastal erosion by the sea; although this is the sea's doing, it is up to us to defend the land from the sea. Otherwise, in our climate, our farming operations cause little or no irreparable damage. Now, I believe erosion is the great- est problem mankindhas to face. Man the knowing ono has not been so wise after all. Troops who have fought so gallantly through the dust storms of Libya have had to face those condi- tions merely because 1,800 years ago Romans were careless and greedy, and ruined what was then the African granary of Route. They overcropped that land to feed the idle parasites in the greatest city of the Wester World, and so they made the Sahara to us would be a half or quarter ra- tion, If we are going to feeds the world'properly I believe that we shall need extra food for the equivalent 'of 500,000,000 mouths. If that is so, then every acre in every part of the world is precious, Now this is only one side of the story. The other is that by our own ingenuinty we have managed not only to increase the power to produce food, .hilt to increase the power to destroy the soil. Modern machinery and some crops, such as cotton, and even maize and wheat, mean a great- ly increased exposure of the soil to the action 'of water and wind. The main things which can stop erosion are: • (1) The t covering of he earth's surface with- more grass • r trees for io shelter and the preservation of moi- sture. a (28) Humus in the ground which l grans concerning agriculture and his e binds the soil .together. This requiresduties take him across the continent. , a certain amount of stock to make it. v y (3) Making ridges, terraces and t dans to stop the fast run-off of wat- Navy 'Airmen at t er tearing away the soil during vie - y lent storms. Sky Harbour t o Use Big Machinery As format by The Signal Star last t I believe that the shall have to use week, fifty students pilots of the our big machinery just as much for Fleet Air Arm of the Royal Navy, repairing damage es for growing just 'out from England, reported at food. I am not exaggerating this Sky Harbor at the week end for train- ing. They were in charge of Lieut. Commander B. G. Wiel, R.N., who will remain with the group during their training period in an adminis- ,. trative capacity. Manager- J. R. Doug- las said that this'ro ing a series of scarred ravines. Again g up was the first I can remember travelling through of the Fleet Air arm to take elemen- tte flatter lands of North America tary training under the Common - where there were miles of farms and wealth Plan, although others had ta- homesteads growing grain. Now there , ken special courses. The flying train - is nothing there but dust, ling is the same as for the R.C.A.F,, !but the ground training is different. Now the dificulty about erosion i—Godericlt Signal Star. is that once started it takes infinite V everywhere,. with an eye to • shelter from wind and rain and the collecting of moisture under the earth's :surface. Then we have got to start winning back the land we have lost and that means engineering; dams in the val- leys, contact and terraces on the hills and so on. If the world sets to workto do this, there won't be anyone out of a job— and there may be peace. Anyway, if we want to feed the world's popula- tion, as our British Delegation to the Wld's ferri Springs,orVirgiFoodnia,Oonsaysenco we shouatld *loot, Wo 1ntlst 3•eiiltze that erosion is the worlds eoininol ehe]iiy. This enemy is not dictator or proletariat, not Liberal, or National, or Conservative; he is just plain death to hymen life. V WELL KNOWN RADIO ANNOUNCER Harry J. Boyle, former well-known radio announcer and news reporter of Winghain and Stratford, now a farm commentator with C.B.C. was a visitor in Goderich on Sunday af- ternoon. His present work has chief; ly to do with the preparation of pro - story of erosion. I have seen huge gulches in North America started by the overflowof irrigating ditches. I have seen hillsides which were un - expense and labor to stop. To reclaim deserts is not a matter of years but of generations. Once started, even to 1943 Agricultural Fairs check the advance takes years of The following list of Agricultural costly effort, and after that constant Societies' Fairs and Exhibitions for vigilance. The only really big. anti- 1943 have been announced, but they erosion works which have been un, are subject to change. - Of interest dertaken are those in America in in this district are: President Roosevelt's time. - Tavistock • Sept. 10, 11 I believe that we shall probably Blyth Sept, 14, 15 need half as many millions of 'money, Exeter Sent. 15, 16 to moilizc against the defeat or oro -'Kincardine Sept 16, 17 shin as we need for this war; but and New Hamburg Sept 17, 18 this is the point, if we are successful Clifford Sept. 21, 22 Luchno„ we shall receive a 'dividend which will eaforth forth Sept.S22, 23 SSept. 23, 24 Stratford Sept. 20 - 23 1 Bayfield Sept, 21. 22 Dungannon Sept, 30, Oct. 1 GerrieSe Oct. 1, 2 Mitchell Sept. 28, 29 pt. 27, 28 Oct. 6, 7 Oct. 5, 6 n show itself in better human life. The • land which often stands best against erosion is the small far'mer's self- sufficient mixed. farm. This means - hones on the lands rather than great inhuman food -producing *.fac- . terms; and it means good neighbors Tara The Adriatic As if that was not sufficient les son, the same thing has been going on in the Mediterranean ever since One of the most striking instances is on the east coast of the Adriatic That is the part which Italy is hay ing such difficulty in the controlling now against Serb patriots. About 700 years ago, an army of Crusaders went off to recover 'the Holy Land. They got as far as Venice, where they were held up by a very powerful old President of the Venetian Republic called Doge Handelo. Because he held between theses homes, for what each Teeswater pian does as a 'farmer will affect his - neighbor too. And so it will be be- tween nations and continents. We have got to learn to farm our soil so that we can hand it on richer in humus and fertility to our child- ren; to eut our forests so that no damage is done, and to plant trees all the trump cards, he persuaded the Crusaders that it would be more lucrative to sack Constantinople, which was Christian, thantorecover the Holy Land, which although con- trolled by the Infidel was compara- tively poor from the point of view of loot. In order to go on this adventure a very large fleet was necessary. The Venetians controlled most of tate Ad- riatic coast, and the forests were cub to build the ships. Since then, wherever they were cut, the moun- tains have risen like barren rocks from the sea, and' the people have liv- ed in poverty so great that they prac- tically have to become slaves in order to live at all. Nearly every desert we know except for those in Australl is-,ltas been made by the folly of man. You may say of course that this has been going on for thousands of years and we have survived it all right; that not so very long ago there .was so much food in the world that coffee was being burned in .Brazil; and wheat used for fuel In railway engines in North America;' that with modern methods of farming we can produce.'all we need and more so why worry about erosion now. Well, if we go on thinking that, we are walking 19 a nice smooth ;highway to a fool's paradise,. We know to our shame that before the war in many parts Of Europe, and even in the New World, there were millions of people out of work: mil - ions more underpaid and undernour- ished.•But what of the mil'l'ions` in the East? For centuries there have been not millions but hundreds of millions f persons who have survived on what • V "From the darkest days of the war the Canadian Army has played an in- dispensible part in guarding our Bri- tish homeland from invasion. Now it is fighting with distinction in wider and widening fields."—Winston Chur- chill, British FamilyAddsToNation's Food Supply George Caseley, a British farmer of 50 Devon acres, has increased his milk production dorm gthe war as well ns ploughing up a quarter of his total land for the first time. This valu- able contribution to the nation's food resources had been achieved by Case- 1y ,himself with the help of his and twin' daughters, Sylvia and Joan, Picture shows: George Casely and his daughter malting silage, one of 1 the hardest jobs on a farm.