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The Seaforth News, 1932-12-22, Page 7140"-111% VA; ' ser A PROFIT-SHARING OFFER. The Seaforth News takes pleasure in making this very special offer of 50c a year. Rather than spend large sums of money in other ways, such as premiums or contests, The Seaforth News is giving every subscriber who is a citizen of Huron or Perth, this cash advan- tage. This offer is good for the next few weeks only. SNOWDON BROS. Publishers. Nov. 5, 1932. THURSDAY, DECEMBER 22, 1932 THE SEAFORTH NEWS. PAGE SEVEN Freq Specs : l l f fer- New 01,400691 '°'#dltaLrA''A,.i`•a To Subscribers New or Old For the next few weeks the. subscription to The Seaforth News is 50c a year, new or renewal: No matter when your subscription expires, subscribers will save by re- newing now. 50c a Year GreN EY2 vsd Re,; w rJ: 1Y early Subscriptions The Seaforth News D1 H1 Mclnnes chiropractor Of Winghatii, will be at the Commercial Hotel, Seaforth Monday, Wednesday and Friday Afternoons Diseases of all kinds success- fully treated. Electricity .used. * * * * * * '* * * * * * NEWS AND INFORMATION * * FOR THE BUSY FARMER * * (Furnished by 'Ontario Depart- * * meat of Agriculture.) * y * * ;* * * * * * * * • Force !Rhubarb For Winter. ITo 'have 'fresh rhu'ba'rb 'foe the %winter, ;table all one 'ha's to do is Ito take a portion of a :crown from the garden in the late fall '(or dig it up during 'the winter , let it freeze solid- ly, then 'put it in 'the 'cellar where the temperature is !from 50 to 60 ;degrees Fahrenheit. INb e'art'h is required, the rhubarb 'crolwns or seobi'ons them - .selves 'c'ontainin'g enough stored en- engy to prod'uce the ed'i'ble stalks; and for 'the 'be's't colorthey should be .kept in 'almost total darkness. Metter. Marketing Methods Increase Sale of Turnips. Charles E. Stoughton, m'em'ber of the ;D'epartme'ntal staff, 'points to :the operations o'f 'the iBiiaekwater Turnip Growers' Association, as a striking ex- ample df the possibilities lor'produ'cers' increas'ing their markets, even in times of depressed :'trade. This co-o'pera'tive organizat'io'n has direct control of some 500 'acres of turnips,, and ,the choicest of these are being washed, 'branded and waxed. As a result Of this 'operation, an ex- cellent local market'hbs .been develop- ed and export possibilities for the fu- ture lo'ok most 'encouraging,. The assoc'iat'ion bas - erected a plant on 'a co-operative basis and this plant :includes 'facilities for storing, washing and grading, thereby placing this group of .growers in a position •to market a uniform product., Treaties Stimulate Market. The 'following excerpt from a-.state- mrnent' 'just issued by the Dominion !Live 'Stock Branch, is of 'special in- terest at the !present •time: "The pass- ing olf the 'Bill covering the United Kingdom -'Canada agreement as the outcome .of the Ineperial !Economic 'Conference, had a stimu'latin'g effect on the market .for :various classes of meats in Great Britain. As well, the ra'isin'g of the special 'duty on Free State ;cattle •from 20 per cent up to 40 per cent,' and the loss Of the d0 per cent 'preference by •the ,Irish ;Free State, 'have been 'bullish factors in the cattle market. This week at iBir- kenhead steers and' heifers were quick- ly, cleared at advances averaging ap- proximately £t3y'pet head •or, at the current rate of exchange, I$113i1 per head above last week's sales. ,There 'were no Canadian cattle on the mar- ket, o'wing to the narrow margin ex- isting as a result df .the very adverse condition elf exchange on sales in the .Beitislh market.' Christmas Market Display .Competi- tion For Farmers. The Department is snaking a grant to all regular 'weekly Producers'-IOon- surrners' 'Markets es part of a provinc- ial ;wide effort. to ;increase the de- mand for home-grown;lpr'oducts. Prize money will be awarded' for best dis- plays at Christmas ,market •or market 'first preceding .C'hristm'as. Exhibit's ]will be judged as 'follows: at Quality, 70 points; 2. ,Effective and 'attractive display ,(Ontario 'farm products only), 30 .points. The regu'lations are as fol- lows: 1. 'Open to any 'bona fide farm- er or gardener, No entry fee. 2, Dis- play must be ready for judging not later than 9 aam. 3. Only Ontario' products to be exhibited, (!Fruit, vege- tables, honey, maple' products, dairy product's, eggs, meat and poultry). 4. Any or all farm' products may con seti'tue an ex'hibi't. 5. One ex'hi'bit to each 'farmer. 6. Products must be raised or ,grown by farmer exhibiting. 7, Exhibit to be arranged or dressed by members of family oif 'farmer ex- hib'iting. The prize 'money' will be divided as follows: '1st, $10; 2nd, $5; 3rd, $3; teh, $2; ten prizes of $Il each, Each exhibitor is urged to be ready for judging before .9 a.m, and should any article be 's'old 'it is suggested 'that it be tagged with purchaser's name and 'arranged to hold until judg- ing is com'p'eted. Each local contest will be under direction o'f the district agricultural representative. th'a't the three Republican Aden nistrae tions of.the Twenties were the aecid Duffel in' 'Count ental result of the 'World Wv .:a d, Y reports " that 20 that the electi r'� !purebred rams have 'been ;'purc'hased by farmers there ,through the bonus encouragement offered by the Live Stock Seances. C'ommercia'l .price 'of potatoes in Dufferin remains around 50c, with frequent inquiry 'for 'them. Halton 'County reports seed ,growees d'oin'g work' on exlhibibs for iReginaand that a small clipper mitt installed in the local agricultural office l'as't year has been used extensively to sup- plement the work of commercial seed mills on show sa'mip!les when an ex- hibitor got down to small quantities. (Peel County alfalfa seed received more favorable publicity when Rolbt. 5. Sh'a'w, 20 -year-old farmer, won first and Reserve Championship with his sample Of Ontario 'Variegated !Alfalfa seed at the International Hay and Grain Show, Chicago. Peel also had the highest Ontario prize-winner in the Timothy class :by 'L'anesdeil Bros. I°. shipment of 60 head . of purebred Holsteins was ' made ;from Perth County to U. S. A. recently. H'ald!i- mand County live stock industry has suffered by reason of the dis'c'ontinu- ance of shipments by one 'o'f the (eld- est coimtpan'ie!s .conducting live stock drover business there. Average yield's df sugar beets in 'Kent County are high and will exceed th'ose ,of 103d. sugar beet growers of Kent •will receive upwards of a' mill'i'on 'dal- la'rs for their• 1032 crop. .A few of !bhe 'be's't fields of soy beans turned out around' 30. bushels per acre. The .pr'ice. ;of ba'okerheat in Victoria 'County is reported to be disappaintin'g to men who have used. it as a cash crop'. in the 'last two years. At the annual Na- panee Poultry Fair .approxim'atel'y 120 tons of dressed poultry was 'marketed. The Lennox and Addington pool did the largest volume ;of ` businnes and during the two days of the fair they received 1193)592 pounds of dressed .potilitry. Over 35 per cent of this tre- mendous turnover was graded "Milk - fed," as compared with only 1b per cent in '19.31. ROOSEVELT 'During the recent campaign it was eeenerally'said by Eastern Republicans 'that FranklinFranklinR'o'osev'e'lt •wase-t•he acci- dental beneficiary of a• temporary dis- content. They may have been right, Ent it is at least arguable that same - 'thing quite' difiie,re'n't was, taking place under our 'eves, It seems to Inc q,tete mn'ssible, that the historiansoriahistorianswill say Current Crop Report. welt marked a return .to the political alignments which existed 'u'p • to• the period of our e'ntan'glement in bhp 'World 'War. The ntare closely I .study the 'chara'cter of Franklin Roaseveit'is campaign and the popu'lar nespanse to it 'the more it takes on the aspect of a resumption of the p'oli'tical conflict 'which has been suspended' for some .eigthteen years. It may very web be: then that ,the 'dep'r'ession has not Only deflated prices to the 10113 price level and a lrage pant of the p'ast-'war capi- tal structure and the posit -'war prohi- bition, but has deflated partisan polit- ics to'the pre-war status as 'well. If this theory is correct, then .the forces which have raised Franklin Roosevelt to the presidency are essen'ti'ally the same as those which caused his fifth cousin to disrupt .the :Republ'ic'an party in 191112, and Franklin Roosevelt is not only in nameme hutin.,hisitoric fact a ,suc- cess'or in the line df Theodore Roose- velt. i III? we bake a tong view of American politics aver the last seventy' years we find that except for'brief periods the country has been governed by a party deriving its strength from au alliance between bhe manufacturing interests of the East cud the wheat, cornand interests of the West. The .un- ion df what Iowa and Kansas repre- sent with what' M'ass'ac'h'usetts and 'Pennsylvania represent, has made the Re'publi'can (Panty as we have known' it through s'e'venty' years. Now in'this union of the mamu•factuning East and 'the agricultural West, the dominantdominant'partner has been the manufacturing 'East, St has d'eterm'ined 'Repelblican policy on the fundamental ,principle of givinggivingtariff ,pro'teoti'on'tto manu- facture and' of maintaining free trade for 'a'gricu•Itune, Until the 'Nineties world conditionls were such that the 'agricultural West prospered ,reusauabdy well by skin- ning 'bhe new land and dumping ` its sunp'lus •abroadaklit 'towards the ":end of the Nineteenth 'C'en'tury' now lands stere .opened bo agriculture ID •ather parts of lthe world, the ,European na- tions ,be'ga'n to resort to protection for 'their fanrriers again's't •Am,Americane�iponts, and the West 'began to en- counter serious trouble, The wankingwankingalliance 'between protested Eastern manufacturing and 'Western free trade in 'farm peal:Wets was under- mined, and the ;Progressive movement Wes For ,American "progressiv- ism" is e'ssential'ly ani-. agrarian -drs- conteint with the'relatidn between un- protected agniculiture and carecarefullyprotected indu's'try. ,The 'discontent was• exploited first by'the 'Papuli'sts, and .then by Bryan, and toren by ' the elder' La Follette,Follette,e, and then thy Tlheodbre Roosevelt and 'Wdodrow Wilson. In ;the ;Presidential of 119'12 Theodor'e''Roo'sevelt split the two wings of ,bhe 'Republican Party and 'W'ilson was elected. The on of F ran R logical ;development after that 'would have 'beets a coalition ;between the agricultural West and th'e agricul- tural 'South, and as a ,m'atte'r ,of fact Wilson's victory in 110116' revealed just such an al'ignmen't df forces. 'In that contest ;the Democrats car'nied only one important manufacturing State, Ohio, and they dost only Was- conSin, ,Minnesota and Iowa am'on'g the agricultural states, 'But within a few months the Unit- ed ' States Was d'ra'in into the World War and the p'olitica'l evolution of parties ' was violently interrupted. Tillie Republicans 'returned to power in 11020 Making a •clean• 'sweep of ,the whole country outside of the ,Solid 5mu'th. ;B'u't in 1924 evidences of the old 'difficulty in the *Repub'li'can coali- tion reappeared When the elder La Follette ran as an irudependentcandi- d'ate. iIt is net generally real'ized that had ;there been one anti -administration candidate ;that year instead of two, Mr. 'Coolidge would Nave 'lost about thirteen states 'which he carried. The truth is that in 1924 La 'Follette and Davis ' divided bhe anti -Republican vote as 'in, 1912 R'o'osevelt and Taft had .d'ivid'ed 'bhe Republican vote. Mir, ICoolidge would almost certainly have been elected by a small margin had the coalition which Wilson' organiz- ed 'in 1911 been m'ainta'ined. I dwell upon these 'fa'cts as 'evidence Of the inherent tendency of the agricultural, (West to withdraw from its alliance with' the 'Republl'ican. East and to form a new a'llian'ce with the agricultural 'South. (The :nomination of Jbhnt W. ,Davis made this new alliance impossible in j1024 because to the West his econo- mic ;conservatism anad'e .'hun ,indistin- guishable from the ,Eastern ;Ropbibii - ants. The natitinabion Of 'G'overno'r 'Smith in 1928 was sven•mare unfavor- able to this realignment for the 'whole com'pl'ex df his :origin and' his affilia- tions made it incenioeavable that 'he could' become the !leader of ate es- sentially ageless tura% coalition. (But none the less, once the 'e'lection of 1928 was over, 'this' coalition reap- pearedi an 'Congress, and in Franklin .Roosevelt bhe 'IDemotrats found a .osndidste upon 'Wham the West and 'South could u'ni'te. 'Around h'im' there rallied the ,Republican, insurgent lead- ers of the West, Norris, Johnston, !La Fallete, and far all ,p'ractica'll pur- poses ,Borah, and the •alignment of forces wlt'ic't>IWitieoa ,estalb a'is'hedi 151116 and was resumed 'ia•n. 11932•. ITf this roughanalysis is correct, then, the election of 11932' marks; the liquidation of an abnormal post-war political 'condition. 'That the depress Sion has brought Roosevelt ;votes which he would' not otherwise have had is certainiy true, but .it is no''less true that the war and' the ,past -war inflation 'brou'ght ,vote's :'t'o 'Messrs.. Harding, 'Coo -Estee, and-;13ow'ver that under abnormal ,conditions 'would .not have conic ito thein,. My own guess is ..that in the real political; align- ment of the . country, based on sec- tional interests, the two ,panties are udw rather evenly 'balanced as they were in 491116, and that the long era of undisputed ?Republican : dotninati'on has come ito .an end;' 'But for 'the War it !would have ended in 1912, .nue tins .election, though it exagggerates tdi�e Democratic ,strength, is a truer' reflec- tion of our ,ipermaneirt political eon- dition than. ,the three election's of the post-war decade. 'What conclusions are there tohe drawn from this interpretation of events? 'Primarily, it seems to nue, that the national interest will he 'senv- ed best if the two parties remain iiather evenly balanced, 'Roth' ,parties in their deepest characteristics ,`repre- sent sectional ia'tenests and. neither is: fit to exercise undisputed power, The dic'tatorsh'ip of the manufacturing in- terests, arising From the swollen ma- jorities '•of Harding, .Coolidge and Hoover, committed ;'the nation to an exaggerated industrial develo'pmen't which was in, .the end self-destructive, A dictatorship of the agricu'ln'ral in- terest would 'produce no less disas- trous results. Sa'fe'ty lies in a balance sufficiently even to compel each par- ty to lcee.p constantly in mind the in' teres' which 'the other 'primarily rep- resents, so that party 'policy will be determined not by the .regular ,but by the more independent voters. For it either party has an assured -major- ity, the politicians in it will ru'thlessl'y serve the interests 'that dominalte that ' party. le the majority is small, if 'the next leleotian is not certain, the [Democrats will have be remember the manufacturing 'East and the 'Re- publicans the agricultural West and South. Supposing 'this analysis to be true, Franklin 'Roosevelt ,must count upon the •pro'babi'lity that his excessive and accidental majority, arising from the depression, will malt 'diming the ,next four years,,.anid that the parties 'will tend to :beoolme much more evenly !balanced. Therefore, his task is to seek a course 'of action which will unite some important .part .of .the Eastern maruu'faeturing 'inteers't 'with Western and 'Southern agricu'ltura'l in'teres't. IIt 'wall seem strange to some read- ers. that in discussing .these matters 4 have not used words like progressive and reactionary, liberal and conserve- tive. That :is intentional These are ,question'abegging epithets which be- long to the ;rhetoric rather than :bo• the reality of politics. The Western and Southern coalition which is the !foundation of the Democratic Party today rests on sectional interests, .not on noble sentiments about the des- tiny of mankind, and it is as confus- ing to accept these interests at the face value of the phrases in which they are advocated as it is to accept at face ,value 'the Republican Claims to a mon'opoly of patriotism and ec- onomic %wisdom. CHRISTMAS BELLS For %many, many centuries, probably almost from the 'rime that it first be- gan to be celebrated, the ringing (If 'bells has been a feature of the Christ- mas celebration It would seem that bells 'have nearly always Ibsen 'associat- ed with 'Ohttis'ttan' .worship, and their use in 'pme'iOhrisitian 'd'ay's is d'o'ubtful. 'We have records of belis being used as eaul'y at least as the seoonel'cen'tury and, thou•gih• 'we know they had other uses, it appears that .they were used Chiefly in 'connection with 'the churches and their service's. 'And their use at Christmas time .is' specially to ,noted because bells lend themselves s'pecially well to the uses of the Church, through the story Of the ether uses that they have served lin. the 'long history of Intro bhlaus'an'd' years is 'an intere'stin'g story indeed. Bells May be amid .have been used to express very nearly the whole range of human sentiment and feeling b'u't they can 'best 'b'e used to express jubi'latio'n and. overflowing joy, and far that reason. their ,use at Christmas time is so altogether 'appropriate. jThere rias a Cus'tonn•, co'mm'on in many planus of ;En'gland years ago, of tol'ling, far an hater belforie• 2nidnighit an Ohei'sltimas eine, What used to the called the 'Pas'sin'g Bell, the bell. that told of the 'passing away of some well known person: in ith'e oomnmluni'ty, and' then it became the 'custom to r'i'ng dur- ing the funeral servi'c'e. 'This' solemn hour of tolling came ta!fterward to be ca'll'ed 'Tolling the Devil's ,Knell," the thought being that with the birth df Christ 'the powers of darkness s!hoel'd be 'given notice that 'their time of rule and auth'arity`had''colme to amend. We may smile at the quaint old-w'o'rld no- tion and think that if •the ldevil .passed away on-Oh'ristmae 'eve he usually had a s'peed'y 'resurrection, hut, atter all there is enough truth in the 'oid`•idea to .justify ,the 'merry peal of the Christ- mas 'bells ,wiith• the i„dinwniaeg of the great Id'ay. For 'wha'te'ver theory we may have ;to'u'ching Jesus Ch'ris't, we 'nisi admit that Hie coming cihanged lite for all m'ank-ind'lan'd made .a new Soy` and ;happiness and satisfaction for the 'whole wo'rl'd, (Worms cauls' fretfulness and rob the infant of sleep, the great nourish- er. 'Mother 'Graves' Worm Extermin- ator will clear the stomach and•intes- tines and restore healeh;fulness. Send us the names of your visitors..