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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Clinton News Record, 1935-12-26, Page 6I1 CLINTON "ERrS-I,tECORI, C rnely Information for the Busy Farmer (Furnighe P Furnished bythe Department of :Agriculture ).. Breeds for Crate Feeding The best breeds of poultry for crate feeding. are the general purpose types such as Plymouth Rocks and Wyondottes, or the heavy types such as Jersey Giants. attract from 75,000 to 100,000 people, and the Cornwall Board gave its un- animous endorsement to the scheme. J. W. McRae Lochiel and J. J. Tierney, ,Brockville, vice-president and director respectively of the On- tario • Ploughmen's Association, stat- ed that a survey had been made and, suitable lands found in the immediate vicinity of Cornwall. They had also received assurance that 135 to 150 teams of horess could be obtained forr the match. With these factors set- tled, they were in a position to state that the match would be held near Cornwall, 'providing they could be as- sured of Civic and Counties Councils and the citizens in general. Corn Borer Increase There has been a striking come- back of the corn borer in Ontario this year. The Provincial Entomol- ogist reports. an average increase of between two and three -fold over last year. The increase was brought a- bout chiefly by the very favorable weather for the insect'last June and July. In counties where there was no clean-up last spring the insect multiplied much more than where the clean-up was made. This outbreak has shown that the borer is still a real menace to corn growing. TI his first lessons should be to learn erd'NNWA•'•WL1•h'•'•'•'Rr"OO •�•IVAPA'%YV' 1"'"Y••■•NWAY:: � !p that the stop sign means stop, and : T nothing else: Tillsonburg News. wnm�_ In our boyhood we used to hear the older' folks talk about the won- derful opportunities, and .future of our country. ' It seems to us that many people' to -day have sublime faith in the abil- ity of Canada to make, .,everybody rich. But what literally was true in, 1800's is no longer true. The Government, was giving away public lands to practically all comers in those days, but it wasn't giving a- way "money. It was merely giving people now is neither wealth nor op - Which is, of course, the product of labor applied to natural 'resources and nothing else. What the Government is giving .to people now is neither wealth nor op- portunity. It is merely money, and money which represents no wealth that has yet been createdbut which is being borrowed against the future, must be made good by the labor of future generations. .-Winghatn Advance -Times. Anemia in Pigs Reports are often received of the large mortality among little pigs prior to the age of weaning. The little . pigs which have usually been doing well and putting on weight suddenly become unthrifty. They lose weight, the hair becomes rough and the pigs appear listless. Diar- hoea is a common symptom. If ex- amined they are found to be very pale and anemic which is most apparent in the white of the eyes and in their bloodless ears, and by the absense of. a healthy pink colour from the skin Deaths due to anemia are frequent. This condition is due to deficiency of iron in the blood and is particu- larly serious in larger piggeries, where the pigs are on a carefully bal- anced ration. The treatment used at the Kapus- kasing Experimental Station • has proved very satisfactory and consists of a powdered "reduced iron" which can be purchased at any drug store. Absolute accuracy of aosage is not important, and for practical purposes the quantity can be roughly measur- ed as the amount which can be piled up on a small Canadian one cent piece. Each pig is caught, the iron placed on the back of the tongue, the pig marked and put back in the pen; this is repeated every other day, starting when the pigs are 4 to 5 clays old until they are three weeks old or rather as soon as they start to eat from a small trough. Some Hints. on Honey Granulated honey e a n bebrought back to its liquid form by standing the container in water and heating it to 150 degrees Fahrenheit. A high- er temperature than that is likely to darken the colour of the honey and drive off aroma and, flavours. As soon as the honey has become liquid, .cool it as rapidly as possible, but do not put into the refrigerator. Honey absorbs moisture from . the air and loses aroma and flavour rap- idiy;. therefore, itshould not be kept uncovered any longer than is neces- sary. Keep extracted honey in a cool dry place, but honey in the comb should be stored where it is warm and dry. Cornwall Ploughing Meet Athough official announcement will not be made until the annual meeting of the Ontario Ploughmen's Association at Toronto in February, ,members of Cornwall Board of Trade have been 'given assurance that the International Ploughing Match and Farm Machinery Demonstration will be held at Cornwall in October, 1936. The four-day event is expected to YOUR WOfLD - AND MINE by JOHN C. KIRKWOOD (Oopyright) i; de"M.Yd.W.•.Yr.Y:.r•.•.•.•.Y.'"r•.W.W■Y.Y.iY.•:W.Yf.M1,Y�•.V'.' which Santa had brought was a rub- ber ball—for our small children. On This is Christmas week, and so it may be .permitted me to make a lit- tle story about past Christmases. One Christmas we had a `friend visit us— an old bachelor who professes not to .like Christmas. Not that he is a grouch, but just that he has liv- ed his seventy and more years al- most homeless. He has no living kindred, and now he lives in a cabin on a hillside in a North Carolina hamlet -all by himself. He says that he can subsist on $2 a week, and buy tobacco also. Perhaps he looks upon tobacco as food! On the Christmas day when this friend visited us, he took home—or rather,he should have taken home— a parcel of goodies—quite a large parcel -enough,, we thought, to re- gale him for a week. He lived about 100 miles from us, and on the way home he ate all the contents of the parcel! And he had had a big Christ- mas dinner a few hours before! IN STAID OLD ST. MARYS Quite a number of St. Marys citi- zens became quite agitated on Tues- day when a new racket was disclos- ed. Several ' days before, two well- dressed young men came to St. Marys and canvassed the citizens os- tensibly for some photograph firm. They _offered the public exceptionally cheap photographs for Christmas and let it be known that the pictures would be taken at the Windsor Ho- tel on Tuesday. They demanded a deposit of 50c to clinch the deal and all the ladies who signed up imme- diately went to their hair dressers to get fussed -up for the big occasion, while the men took the old Sunday suit to the cleaners to get the crea- ses erased. Tuesday came, and along came tate happy deposit -payers, but as the hours rolled by and the pho. tographers failed to put in an ap- pearance it suddenly dawned on someone that the thing might be an- other racket. The telephone kept ringing all afternoon and the desk clerk at the Hotel was a busy man for a while making explanations. Ap- parently the lads who had carried out the canvass had done their job right well and had earned a lucra- tive reward from the credulous peo- ple of the Stone Town. —St. Marys Journal -Argus. WHAT OTHER NEWSPAPERS ARE SAYING ITS THE UNIFORM There just .isn't any adequate com- ment on the dinner of sauerkraut and pigs' knuckles, served to the members of the Scots Fusiliers in Kitchener. All we can say is that a Scottish uniform will make a soldier out of anyone, no matter what he eats.—Goderich Signal. NO UNPOPULAR MEMBER When King George speaks on the empire program on Christmas Day, it may be that his young granddaugh- ter, Princess Elizabeth, will also say a few wads to the people of the far- flung commonwealth. It is hard to say which of the two will be listened to with the most attention. There is one thing about our royal family— there are no members who are unpop- ular.—Hanover Post. the ball was a picture Af Puss -in - Boots. The words below the picture were in German, and we asked our visitor to translate them. He said, "Oh what do you call him?—Tomcat in boots!" This visitor brought with him a package of magic lantern slides, and, for a joke we ` enclosed' them in a codliver oil carton which had en- closed the bottle from which our chil- dren were fed daily.- When this pac- ket was removed from its tissue -pa• per wrapper, there was complete dis- gust, and the gift was tossed aside, without further examination - much to our enjoyment. :RM suggested that we should have one or two of them at Christmas, my wife felt that she would prefer to have as guest someone from Canada. So I was instructed to go to Canada House and to Ontario House in a purpose to find some Canadian vis- itor unlikely to spend his, or her Christmas in a private home. I quite failed, to find anyone; every visiting Canadian had apparently gone, away from London or had ac- cepted an invitation from someone else. But I did see a young man in Canada House reading a newspaper. I went up to him and began talking -just to explore his situation. I did not tell him my name or errand. The young man told me that he had been in England and on the Continent for six months and that he was staying. at The Mayfair Hotel. Now the May- fair Hotel is one of London's swank- iest hotels—very expensive; and so I concluded .that any one able to stay at the Mayfair would not want to go to a humble home like ours. So ' I ended the conversation rather abrupt- ly, without any explanation of my action in beginning a conversation with a total stranger. Another Christmas visitor was a Jugo-Slavian. He had lived in the same boarding house as we did. We liked him very much, and he was pathetically appreciative of any kind- ness shown him. One of the gifts to finish, and that "stool pigeons" of the force "deliberately lied" to send .,men to jail. Asked if this was done because they were working men, Evans said he thought it was. Commenting on such testimony, the Durham Chronicle says: What an outloolc on life a man like Evans must have. Can't trust any- body. the police are crooked, the courts of the land are crooked. Ev- erything is crooked. We wonder if there are any crooks in Mr. Evans? We are afraid Mr. Evans has the wrong slant on what Canadian liber- ty means. To him, no doubt, it means the liberty to do as he likes, and when he and his confederates are interfered with by the police for causing a disturbance, then comes the howl. It is a lucky thing for Can ada that Mr .Evans does not repre- sent the real working ,nen of the country, than whoin there are no better citizens. With conditions as they have been for the past four or five years, the general run of work- ing men in the country deserve great credit for their equanimity in tidies of stress, although there are a few who seem t o get out o f bounds and, with poor leadership, only succeed in making conditions harder for ev- erybody." The New Outlook, the official organ of The United Church of Canada. Mr. Eedy comes of journalistic and news- paper stock, itis father being one of. the outstanding writers of Ontario. Mr. Eedy is himself a man endowed with a good news sense and forceful style. He knows church work from A to Z. He knows the issues of the day. When there is no obvious issue he has the creative knack of making an issue. Mr. Eedy has all the char- acteristics of the Editor The United Church has been seeking. -Exeter Times -Advocate. J. T. CLARK OF THE TORONTO STAR WOULD SAY: "THAT'S THE WAY FLESHERTON LADS WOULD ACT IN ANY AGE." WRITE A LETTER This incident makes me recall, that one Christmas we gave our small daughter a pair of moccasins. When she unwrapped them, she just threw them to one side, saying "At last!" When our small son was asked what he wanted for Christmas, he said very quietly and gravely, "All the things I'm going to get"—which was a very satisfactory reply. WE WONDER Three separate newspaper items published within the past week have made us wonder, a little, if the black depression and extremely hard times that have existed for the past five years, and through which the aver- age taxpayer has been striving des- perately to keep his head above wat- er, have finally lifted their wings and flown away. Whether unemployment and unem- ployment relief have become things of the past. Things forgotten. From an American paper we learn that twenty thousand people paid $128,000 to see a prize fight in New York last Friday night. We wonder if there were any un- employed among that twenty thou- sand, or any relief money in that $128,000. theatreland, in order to give the. children some diversion, We had in- tended going to a music hall—or va riety show, but when we got to the- Hippodrome, there was no room for- us; so we scurried away to a near -by theatre without knowing- what was.. on. And we fell on our feet, The: play was Barrie's "Peter Pan"—then. new. Nothing better for children and even for parents—can be imagin- ed than "Peter Pan". We were ec- static. Truly it is an ill wind that: blows no good to someone. Our first English ' Christmas, in 1906, was memorable—we had no Christmas dinner! The way of it was this, our children, aged 9 and 11, had wakened about 6, and so we had to see what Santa Claus had brought them. Then we returned to our beds to sleep, and when we had breakfast it was 11 o'clock. We had planned to go to a hotel for our Christmas dinner, but because break- fast was so late, we forgot all about dinner until about three o'clock, when it was quite too late to go to any hotel. So we skipped dinner al- together. When evening came I thought that I would go to some theatre, and on the bus—a horse bus in those days. I said something to the bus driver about going to a theatie. He was scandalized, and told me that Christmas resembled Sunday in 'England and that all places of entertainment were closed. I was so rebuked that I returned home, with my head hanging in shame. Just after the war we had as a Christmas visitor—we were living then in England—a young German. He had been visiting in England, and had met with a misadventure,—a broken leg, and he had to go to a hospital. My daughter, who spoke German fluently, and who had an in- terest in university students living in London to pursue their studies, met this youth in the hospital, and invited him to spend his Christmas with us. I recall that this young student—about 20 — was eager to speak English, but his ability to do so was almost nil. It amused us to see him try to express himself in English—always in the presence oi' my daughter, and how he looked at her always for help and encourage - Often we encounter some citizen who has original ideas in regard to many community matters but who rarely expresses them. Only when he chances to get into discussion with a neighbor, do his thoughts find ex- pression. And that is as far as they go. If all of such ideas could be brought to the light of day, something worth while could be developed through the discussion that would fol- low. The Journal -Argus offers from week to week an opportunity for all readers to discuss matters of com- munity interest through these col- umns. Why let the edtior do it all? His opinions are no better than yours. We welcome at all times let- ters for publication on profitable subjects.—St. Marys Journal -Argus. Two Flesherton lads, aged eleven and twelve, lost in a large swamp in Artemesia township, displayed the self-confidence and self-reliance ex- pected of our modern youth in. an emergency. Realizing that they were lost and with night coming on, they did not get' panicky. They simply built themselves a comfortable shel- ter, according to the best Scout speci- fications, and settled down for the night. When a search party located thein, some hours later, they were on- ly half -pleased at having to break camp and go home.—Goderich Signal. IS THIS SNEAKY? Our Dominion Government propos- es taking over the imposition and the • collection of those new income taxes. The new or the increased revenues from this source will be applied to relief. The joke seems to be that probably sooner or, later relief upon its present basis may almost disap- pear. Probably the new tax won't. —Listowel Standard. �1ND HE COULD DO Perth- Presbytery has nominated r� borne Eedy, of the St. urnal=Argus for the WHAT STOP MEANS Coming nearer home, we learn that sixteen thousand people attended a hockey match in the Maple Leaf Gar- dnes in Toronto on Saturday night. We wonder if there was any relief money spent to see that hockey game. And coming still nearer home, we learn that the town council received a cheque for $251.00 last week, as its share of the beer profits for. the past year. We wonder if there was any relief money, any tax money, in that cheque. There might be other instances, but just those three are enough to make the average taxpayers think, and wonder a little, too, —Seaforth 'Expositor. ment. In those post-war years there vis- ited us every Sunday two -three-four Continental students—this because of my daughter's connection with stu- dent Movement House—the London centre for Continental University students taking post -graduate work in London. Interesting as were these students, they rather wearied us by the effort which we had to make to understand them and be understood; and though my daughter In saying this, the Durham paper hits the nail on the head, Commun- ists are so often men of a one-track mind who have gotten off the track. They are out to turn things upside down, and they seem to think the police should be on their side, as they are in Russia, where it may truly be said that nearly all the po- lice are "stool pigeons" who "Manu- facture" evidence that is often "a tissue of lies" and which sends farm- ers, merchants, laborers, not to peni- tentiaries but to the firing squad. They seem to' think that the Cana- dian police are working solely in the interests of the capitalists, and are unable to comprehend that the police are really seeking to uphold law and order, and are as fair to the real workingmen of the country as they are to any other class. This is as it should be. There is no room in Can- ada for the setting of one class a- gainst another. We allow commun- ists a good deal of freedom in Can- ada—they may "spout" to ,their hearts content, be elected to munici- pal, provincial or Federal -office -- but but they should play the game ac- cording to the rules prevailing in Canada. This they appear unable to do, and in their warped mentality they 'see the courts, the police, every- thing, opposed to their peculiar idea of what should be done. Yet they do not want to go to Russia, where they could "enjoy" the heaven -on - earth which they so loudly proclaim. —Hanover Post. Just one more Christmas reminis- cence.—Christmas 1919. I was back in London, without my family. I Ilv. ed with a family which went off the. day before Christmas to Yorkshire. Food was left for me, including a cold roast chicken—much too small! Christmas day was damp and cold„ and I was not feeling very cheerful, alone in a rather cold .house. But. that morning there arrived for me a letter from my family and a Christ- mas gift, so my day was brightened. In the evening I went to a hotel and - had' a proper meal, and again on Boxing Day; and in the evening I went to a theatre and saw "Daddy Long Legs"—a• very delightful play, Only once before had I spent Christ- mas away from my family and kin- dred. In 1900, when I was in Phila- delphia. But I had my Christmas. dinner in a private home—the guest. of a business associate. But the day following — Boxing Day—we had ' a royal dinner. That very morning there arrived from my sisters in Canada a huge box con- taining a roast turkey, a roast chic- ken, Christmas cake and Christmas pudding, and other choice fare; also, a variety of Christmas gifts, our abstinence the previous day gave us good appetites . on Boxing Day. That afternoon • we set out for from the city. These memories of bygone Christ - masses are of course of no impor- tance to you, my readers; yet I am hoping that the tale of them has giv- en you some small entertainment. Yorkton, Sask., is waging war on big dogs and their manner of wag- ing it may be effectual. The license for keeping a big dog will in future be $35 instead of the common one of $2. Big dogs mean great Danes, Russian wolf hounds, police dogs, etc., and the idea is to banish them "Stop!" says the sign. You see it everywhere at the junction„ of side streets with main thoroughfares. It does not mean to sound your horn and barge ahead as though the horn could blow oncoming traffic out of your way. And it does not say "Go on, if you think best." It means exactly what it says—Stop! The de- finition of stop is "to cease from any .motion or action." Too many drivers do not believe in signs. A railroad engineer . who most mo the 0 omotive way ' es a lc drives persons drive an automobile would lose his job so quickly he would not know what hit him. Yet the railroad engineer has a comparatively open right of way, whereas the motorist has to meet a hundred different crises which do not confront the en- gineer. When a motorist exercises ' right ding stop editorship IT • M Marys Jo of COMMUNISTS AND THE POLICE A perusal of the news reports con- cerning the inquiry into the riots which occurred at Regina when re- lief -camp trekkers were halted while en route to Ottawa indicates that there is little love' lost between the communists and the police, especial- ly the Royal Canadian Mounted Po- lice The trek itself seems to have been organized by communists, more to stir up trouble for the govern- ments' than to secure better Condi- tions' in relief camps, and it is not surprising to find one witness after denouncing another getting up and g the police force. Cross-examination of the witnesses generally results in an admission that the..., are now or once were members of a communist group. Arthur Evans, for instance, declar- ed in his testimony that the R.C.M. P. were used to "smash the working class," and that much of the evidence that sent "working men to the peni- MICE ROB PANTRY Seth Trafford, of the Vickers sec- tion in Bentinck, stopped us on the street ;one day recently and told us he had read in' a newspaper a story about deer nice taking raisins from the top of a radio- and storing then, in a pair of shoes belonging to the head of the house. Mr. Strafford says something of the same nature occurred at his home in Bentinck township a couple of weeks ago, only this time it was rice found on 'e had for and walnuts the mice a shelf in the pantry. They had them stored away, apparently for winter use, and so far as' he knew they were at it yet. The foodstuffs were stored in various places about the home. It is thought the proximity of corn to the house had attracted the mise, and when the cold weather came they of private judgment regarding left the corn field and came into the signs he is endangering the lives of tentiaries was "manufactured" evi- house to fraternize with the family. , ' others as well as his own. One of dense, a "tissue of lies" from start —Hanover Post. 4 Somebody to see you! IF EVERYBODY with something to interest you should come and ring your bell, what a nuisance it would be! Think of the swarming, jostling crowd, the stamping of feet on your porch and carpets! Every week we know of callers who come to see you. They never jangle the bell—they don't take up your whole day trying to get your attention. instead they do it in a way that is most considerate of your privacy and your convenience. They advertise in your newspaper! In this way you have only to listen to those you know at a glance have something that interests you. They make it short, too, so you can gather quickly just what you want to know. You can receive and hear them all without noise or confusion in a very few minutes. In fairness to yourself look over all the adver- tisements. _ The smallest and the largest—you never can be sure which one will tell something you really want to know. The Cli-iltoll News-Reoord A FINE MEDIUM FOR ADVERTISING—READ ADS IN THIS ISSUE. PHONE 4 ,d,14atim9-s�' _