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'THE CLINTON NEWS -RECORD
THURS., NOV, 9, 1939
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Hon. Mr. Gardiner Tells How
Canadian Farmer Can Best
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Farmers th Canada can best serve. long story short, hogs were Tower
• the Dominion and best serve the EM- on October 12th, in Montreal than
. pre awl' the Allies( during the war than they have been, on an average
by doing the . things' best that they throughout the whole year in any
• ave been ,doing shed they started yearsince 1913, excepting the years
farming, said Hon. Janaes G. Gard- 1931-32 and 1933, when the market
bier, Dominion 1Einiater a Agrieun for 'every farm product was at the
• tun, when he spoke at the banquet bottom.
• at Bret's-vine, Ontario, on October 13, "I state these fads to indicate
at the conclusion of the International that no fanner in Canada is asking
Plowing Match. He emphasized, that to be placed in the profiteering class
• while he thought that the farmer when he is suggesting a better price
should get a price that would advance for farm prodnete than he is ob-
production the felt 'sure that in tablihig. at peesent,
time of war price is not the first "Why are farm products so low in
coneideration, but supply. Price? The reasons which are gen-
Continuieg Mr. Gardiner said: orally applicable are two in number-.
"AvIerage production is assured, by (1) European, countries which
good' farming in an area where the were our natural 'market for food
seasons' and rainfall are reasonably products ten. years and more ago
constant. The individual can, in such have been preparing for the corn -
areas, be assured of certain return ing death struggle by giving
which will depend upon the nature or every encouragement possible to
his soil, provided he farm* well. the production of food at home.
"If -such areas are fully occupied (2) In order to compel that pro.
is only possible to increase pro- duction, those countries have
duction by improving farming incited- ,placed every possible obstruction
ing fertilizing ,methods. Good plow- ,in the way of the importation of
ing which you are encouraging tends food products.
toward that end. "Added to these general causes
"A year ago 1 addressed a number some farm products, such as wheat,
of plowing matches and. thought , it are in storage in greater volume, now
my duty 4 explain the law returns than ever before while countries at
we were receiving for farm products great distances from the European
by the fact that there was fear of markets are fearful that the trade
war. / advised the best farming and routes may be closed and are rush -
an increase in production on the I ing their commodities to those mar -
ground that if confidence were re- kets.
stored through the establishment of Britain cur Natural Market
peace the European markets would "Britain is the natural market for
again be thrown open to us and much of our surplus food. Britain
Europe would go back to 'producing has changed her whole attitude toe
what 'she is best suited to produce ward trade in food products in the
• and trade her surplus for ours. I last eight years. Down to eight years
also stated that if the other alterna- ago there were no bonuses on pre-
tty° followed and war came Europe duction in Britain, no obstructions to
would require all we would produce free importation of food into Britain,
during the conflict to feed the Allies no checks -in the form of quotas, no
and their armies while fighting made boards to control the production, dis-
production in those lands only pos- tribution, and use of food products.
sible in a limited way. To -day the British market is as high-
ly bonused, quota -ed and Boarded as
any market in the world.
"I hoped we would be met by the "The food products entering Brit -
first alternative. It so happens that
we are confronted by the latter -
war.
"We, in Canada, have joined forces
with Britain and France in what may
turn out to be the greatest death
struggle of all time. We are offer-
ing our services in men on sea, on
land, and in the air, and we are so "Canada, along with Australia,
blessed by Providence that we can New Zealand, South Africa and In -
gine greater services by providing dia, is entitled to and will receive a
supplies than any other country in preferred place in that market pro -
the world. Among the most necessary vided, the quantity and quality of pros
Of the supplies is food which we plow duct required. The decision to stand
the fields and scatter the seed to shoulder to shoulder with Britain and
provide.
"We are meeting with some dif-
ficulties at present because of the
fact that we have what is most es-
sential at the beginning of a war
-bountiful supplies and well stored.
Those conditions are made the source
of greater immediate difficulty be-
cause others have bountiful supplies
not so well stored, or even if well
stored at greater distances from the
place where the need exists.
May Be Death Struggle
ain to -day are or will be purchased
through an organization set up under
a Pood Department. No matter what
we may think, thereds only one door
by which we can be assured of get-
ting any product into Britain and
that is by way of some Board under
the control of that Department.
"Four lines of farm commodity are
expected from Canada in great vol-
ume because Canada has been one
of the important sources of supply
in the past. They are cereals, meat
and meat fats, dairy products, and
fruit in certain:processed forms with
fresh fruit demands limited. While
poultry and eggs are not in the same
class because of past performance,
suppliee could no doubt be disposed
of in considerable volume if available.
. "Of the four lines expected in von
-time, two are of particular interest
to the Province of Ontario. They are
dairy product e and meats, particular-
ly bacon and hams.
"When war started cheese was sell-
ing 'at about ten to eleven cents and
butter at from 20 to 22 cents. With
costs of production what they are a
farmer cannot Continue to accept
such low prices for these products.
Fortunately butter rose to 28 cents
and cheese to 14 cents.
"These prices are only what the
farmer as getting for dairy pro-
dercts in the low price summer season
of 1938. It was only during the war
scare of the late summer' of 1938
• that dairy product fell to low levOs.
The prices remained low until after
war was deelared and even now are
'only back to about the yearly aver-
ages for 1937 and 1938.
No Species of Profiteering
'"It is, therefore, rather difficult
lat anyone acquainted with agricul-
ture to understand suggestions made
from time to time that increases in
butter or cheese price since the de-
• claration, of the war might be looked
upon as a spedes of profiteering.
"As a matter of fact, the average
yearly butter jobbing price from 1922
to 1929, when there was no war, ran
from 85 to 39 cents a pound at Mont-
real and cheese averaged from 17 to
21 cents a pound on the some mar-
ket during the same period.
"I think it important that we place
these facts, on record now so that
we may not be making comparisons
with unreasonably low prices for
farm products eaused by war fear
when speaking ef profiteering
through rise in price.
'Tet us look at hogs. To make a
1
France guarantees that place. Canada
has an advantage over all others in
that the shortest, safest route from
any great food producing country to
Britain is across the North Atlantic
from Canada.
"We can hold that place by --
keeping up and improving the quality
of our product; increasing the vol-
ume of the essential products as
necessity arises; pushing our supplies
constantly across the ocean when the
route is open and losses of cargoes
are light against the day when the
routes may be hard to navigate,
"While I think we should get a
price which induces production I do
not think price is your first cone
sideration. Personally, I am pre-
pared to trust Bnitain to the, extent
of pushing the food forward, knowing
that, when the way becomes harder,
if it does, and she cannot draw uppn
the stores of the outside world, she
will be prepared to give us the re-
tard which our service to the Em-
pire deadens.
"You are going to take your place
as farmers in the great struggle be-
fore you. To do so you will organize
to produce well and much and to
store and deliver.
"To make 'it possible for you to
do this it becomes the duty of the
British and Canadian Governments to
relieve you from great financial wor-
ries while the task is being perform-
ed. You will not require of govern-
ments great profits provided they
de not permit them to others, but
you will work to better advantage
if you are free from the worries
which lack of reasonable returns
brings."
THREE GENERATIONS IN SAME
BUSINESS
In the village of Lucan they have
a rather remarkable family in as
much as they have followed the one
profession for three generations, and
the three generations are still actively
practicing that profession. The elder
member of the group is Charles, E.
Haskett. Mr. Haskett is the oldest
practicing undertaker in Ontario,
having aver sixty yearn of service
behind him. He started in Thedford
and worked there for three years and
has recently completed his fifty--
seventh year of service in Inman 1 -lis
son, W. Charles Haskett is also an
undertaker, and, the grandson of Mr.
Haskett Sr., Arthur Charles Hackett
is in charge of an undertaking bud-
ness at Grantor. Quite some record.
These gentlemen should change the
first letter of their name from "II"
C. P. R. Promotion
The promotion of H. C. Jame,
assistant general passenger agent,
Canadian Pacific Railway. Com-
pany, Montrearto the similar post
in charge of the Ontario District,
with headquarters at Toronto, has
been announced by George E.
Carter, general passenger agent
of the company. Mr. James suc-
ceeds the late C. B. Andrews and
takes over his new duties Novem-
ber 1st. Mr. James in his 25 yearn'
experience with the Canadian Pa-
cific Railway has covered a wide
field in Canada and the United
States, embracing positions of
ever increasing importance and
responsibility,
FORMER MAYOR OF
WINGHAM DIES
.William Henry Willis, farmer
mayor of Wingtham, and a prominent
businessman in that town, died in
hospital in London an Friday after
two years' ill2lOSS.
For 31 years Mr. Willis had cam
&eked a retail shoe business in Wing -
ham and in addition, for the past 15
years, operated a small factory manu-
facturing leather goods to tia own
patents. Prior to going to Wingharn
n 1908 he had a retail shoe Ade in
Seaforth.
Mr. Willis served for a number of
years on the Wing/ram Town Council
and held the mayor's chair for two
terms. He was a member of the
United Ohurch. For the past 12 years
he had been organist af St. Andrew's
Presbyterian Church. Surviving is his
wife. A son predeceased him by aix
years.
THE FRENCH RIVER
A. Hunter's Inlyerie
Beside the river's edge the hunter
rests. The morning's chase has been
an arduous one and Lady Luck hat
been fickle. Far, while his two, com-
panions halm bagged their deer, a
careless step upon a dry branch that
snapped like a pistol Shot had fright-
ened off his quarry just as he was
getting in position for a shot. TWO
graceful leaps and the deer had dis-
appeared into the safety of the bush.
And the hunter realizes that long
years spent behind a desk have sap-
ped his vitality and deadened his
senses; that no longer is he the tire-
less youth who, in earlier years, spent
so much of his time along the river.
And so he rests and thinks of the
pleasant days he has spent here in
years gone by. Of his first deer hunt
when he was hardly big enough to
carry a rifle, and of the excitement
and thrill of the chase, although that
time he did not • get his deer. Of the
many summers spent in the company
of his boyhood chum exploaing, in
a canoe, the intrieate pattern of the
river, and of its tributary lakeand
streams. And of the day wirsair a
storm came up on Lake Nipissing and
he and his companions were forced
to seek shelter on an island through-
out the night.
The cool fall wind chills his over-
heated body and he rises and walks
slowly along the river's edge and
gazes reflectively into the dark Van
waters. The wind whips the fallen
leaves into a cluster and sends them
whirling along the ground at his feet
exposing the mass of granite rock
below. Behind bin stand the skele-
ton hardWoods, stripped of all their
covering, with here and there a great
pine towering majestically above its
fellow trees. Bleak and lonely it ap-
pears, but the hunter is thinking of
it as it is in the summer when the
river sparkles, in the bright sunlight
and the trees, garbed in new splendor,
cast their shadows along its, edg•e.
When the twitter of the birds and
the scurrying of the small denizens
of the forest breaks the stillness of
the wilds. When it is a great north, -
ern playground and the, fisherman
casts his line into the waters for the
fighting base and giant muskies that
havie made the river world famous.
A halloo *breaks upon his reverie.
He starts., answers the call, and
strides away to rejoin his compan-
ions. At the edge of the bush he
stops and looks back longingly at
the river -hie river -The French. A
moment's pause and than he disap-
pears into, the forest, A squirrel
scampers, along the ground and up a
tree. The gentle nipple of the waters
alone breaks the silence of the,wild-
eeness.
The hand that reeks the cradle
Je mow stained with ticotine,
And the foot upon the rocker
Like° to step on gasoline.
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As emphasised by Canada's Prime
Minister, in a recent address to the
radio audience, the final victory of
the Allied cause May, well be the
mighty air force which Canada is now
building, he co-operation with other
Empire Governments.
In view of this important pro-
normeement, interest centres in a
special broadcast planned by the CBC
in connection with its series, "A Day
in the Life of a Recruit", which was
inaugurated Fridey, October 27, over
the National Network. The second in
the series arranged by the OBC feat-
ures department, with the approval
of the Department of National De-
fence, will present sound pictures of
"A Day With the Air Force", Friday,
November 17, at 9.00 pan. EST, from
'somewhere in canadn'•
Actual scenes at a Royal Canadian
Air Force centre, giving intimlate
glimpses of Canada's air pilots and
technicians during study, daily rout-
ine and recreational activities, will be
presented. The whole authentic re-
cord'wlil be supplemented by musical
sequences, supplied by regimental
bands. The feature will be produced
by J. Frank Willis and will be heard
over the coast-to-coast network of
the .OBC. I
L H. 11:111, of Indiarmapolis, an in-
ternational figure in the world of co-
opexation, will be the first epeaker
to be heard in a new. series al inter-
•riews opening on C B C's Ontario
Farm Broadcast, Thursday, Novem-
ber 23rd at 12.30 pan. EST. Mr.
Hill, who will be interviewed by Don
Fairburn, is General Manager of the
Indiana Farm Bureau, and President
of National Co-operatives, a federa-
tion of regional ,co' -operatives cover-
ing 28 states. Following his appear'
ante on the Ontario Farm Broadcast,
at CBC's Toronto studios, Mr. Hull
will address the annual convention of
the United Farmers of Ontario.
Percy Faith' most successful Music, -
al presentation, "Music By Faith", is
back on the air with the young
maestro conducting and writing spec-
ial modern arrangements. Louise
King and Dave Deeves are the pop -
Wee vocalists and there is a modern
mixed chorus to assist in the inter-
pretation of Faith's sophisticated
scoring,.
Another CBC vocal itartlet who ar-
rived in Toronto via the chimney pots
in 1920, is being featured this season.
Frances Creamer is the songstress
with "The Tunesmiths", who will be
heard next on Saturday, November
18, at 8.00 pan. EST, with William
Isbister at the piano rind Leonard
Smith, directing his novelty group in
a programme of popular arrange-
ments, Miss Cramer made her 0 B
debut as a member of the Fashion:
aires when she was 17. She has the
entertainment world in her blood, for
she is a grand -daughter of the fam-
ous Seconds, w h a .ba.rn-stoemed
through Ontario a happy half century
ago.
CBC is presently featuring one of
its "discoveries": Women on the air
are no novelty. Successful woman
commentators in any language are
few and far between, according, to
esmerte. But there is a young lady
who talks about "Sot4able Sports"
(sprits that the greenhorns can enc
joy if they go about it in the right
way), and listeners who tune in Tues-
days at 4.15 p.m. EST, will hear a
pleasing voice, plus personality. Els-
peth Chisholm is the commentator;
she writes the scripts she delivers.
Miss Chisholm is librarian at Trinity
College, Toronto. Incidentally, Miss
Chisholm makes it clear that the
novice does not need a million dollar
wardrobe to engage in the invigorat-
ing sports that she recommends.
Her Majesty The Queen To
Broadcast To The_ Empire
The British Broadcasting Corpora-
tion announces a special Rememb-
rance Day broadcast by Her Majesty
the Queen, addressed especially to the
women of the Empire.
This will be the first broadcast by
Her Majesty since the farewell greet-
ing to Canada from Halifax on June
15 last, and again on this occasion
the Canadian Broadcasting Corpora-
tion will relay the speech, throughout
the Dominion, beginning at 3.00 p.m
EST (8.00 pare GMT) on Saturday,
November llth.
A recording of Her Majesty's ad-
dress will be made and broadcast in
subsequent Empire transmissions
(4.45 p.m., 7.30 pan. and 11.00 pan.
EST). The CBC will also make a
recording of the speech, to be re-
broadcast aver the 0 B C National
Network during the evening hours,
exact time to be announced,
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WEEKLY PROGRAM HIGHLIGHTS
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 10th:
11.15 ear:. Bing Crosby
11.45 a.m. "Victoria Regina!'
12.46 pan. The Bell Boys
'7.00 p.m. Jean Ellington.
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 11ths
8.30 am. Breakfast Club
9.30 a.m. Kiddies' Party
'7.00 p.m. Was. McKnight
7.45 pen. Barn Dance.
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 12th:
11.00 ani.. Rev. J. F. Anderson
1.00 pan. Guy Lombardo, Orch.
1.30 p.sn. Melody Time
6.16 pan. Freddie Martin.
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 13th:
11.45 a.m. "Victoria Regina"
12.45 p.m. The Bell Boys
6.30 pan. "Heart '1;lu•obs"
7.10 pan. Landt Trio
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 14th:
11.30 a.m. "Peter MacGregor"
6.45 pm. Sunset Skyriders
7.00 pan. Hildegarde.
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 15th:
11.46 aan. "P. T. Barnum"
12.45 pm. The Bell Boys
7.00 pan. Jean Ellington
8.00 p.m. CKNX Little Band
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 16th:
11.45 a.m. Lawrence Welk
6.30 pan. "Heart Throbs"
7.00 p.m. Novatomes.
PARCEL POST TO REICH
STOPPED
Parcel post seevjee from the United
States to Germa.ny--which designee
tion includes Danzig and Czechoslo-
vakia -was suspended by the Post
Office Department because of the
lack of adequate transport facilities.
Parcel post to the area which form-
erly was Poland had been suspended
some 10 days previously.
Parcel post to all other countries
continues, though subject to delays
caused by wartime disruption of
transport. •
It appeared that the question of
sending contraband through the mails
did not figure in the decision, for
packages containing food which the
British consider to be conditional
contraband, and money which is ab-
solute contraband on the British
have been going through to Germany
since the outbreak of war. The Post
Office sought by rerouting its paresis
through Italian ports to avoid search
by the British Navy, 'which occurred
in a few isolated cases
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WEDNESDAYS 42 P.M.
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GEESE CONFUSED BY LIGHTS
This being the season when wilds
geese are winging their way front
Nerthern Canada to the sunny climes
of the Southern Staten operators at
the Hanover hydro plant have again
found that the geese are confused by
the Well -lighted grounds, a eonditims
masks more noticeable this year by -
the fact that powerful search lights
hams beeninstalled in ceder to help s
guardthe plesit against sabotage. The
other night, a flock of about a
hundred geese, flying over the town.
was so confused by the lights that
they came down and were flying in •
and out among the lights and sqawk-
ing loudler until the guar& and op-
erators saw their plight and turned
off the lights, whereupon the geese
recovered their bearings, went up to
a much higher altitude and continued '
their migratieh to the Southern •
States, This has happened on seY-,
eral occasions this year, as well as
hr former years, and there have been
large flocks of wild geese pass over
Hanover. Unlike human beings, tha.
geese seem unable to adjust them-
selve to artificial light, and instead
of ignoring them on their flights,
they have come down to, investikatr•
and have become confused by the,
glaxe.-1/anover Post.
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How Illch Would You
Pay For A
Dollar Bill?
1 his is a True Story
IT STARTED WITH A HALF -SERIOUS WAGER,
AND IT TEACHES A LESSON
Two business men were visiting a famous resort. One
offered to bet the other that he couldn't sell real dollar
bills for 50c apiece. The other accepted the challenge and
went to werk,
"How do you do," he said to a passing stranger. "Will
you give me 50c for this dollar bill?" The stranger paid
no attention,
The salesman tried again, and again. But nobody
bought -- and finally he had to admit that he'd lost his
bet
All of which suggests that people like to knave who the
seller is before they buy. You can trust the merchants
who advertise their products in this newspasse" The ad-
vertisements offer useful, dependable information about
thinge you teed and want. Read and heed the advertises
muds carefully and you will reap savings and satisfaction.
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