HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1946-10-10, Page 7C ` ONICLES of
GINGER FARM
By Gwendolinc P. Clarke
Strange how one can sometimes
be in the world but not of it; how
there can be shortages of this and
that and one not be aware of it---
not
t—not until one requires something
that cannot be bought for love or
money.
Here was I canning everything
that could be canned -- with or
without sugar — afterwards seek-
Ing a few words of commendation
from my menfolk for my indus-,
trious frugality. For which they
did, manage to give out a few
grunts, which might, with imagi-
nation, be interpreted as verbal
signs of appreciation but which
were followed by Partner asking
—"What about peaches? Haven't
you done any?"
"A few jars," I replied. "There
are also some in the locker." A
little later 'Bob looked over the
"fruit" of my labour and said, "Is
that all the peaches you've got?"
Reluctantly I admitted it was—
at the same time I felt something
should be done about it or I would
be forever after disgraced,
* * *
So the next day I bought ano-
ther basket of peaches — singe a
bountiful ratioh board had allow-
ed us extra sugar — but when it
comes to sealers, that was some-
thing else again. Sure there were
a few empty jars on my shelves
but there was a chip out of this
one and a nick out of that which
reduced the number of usable seal-
ers to exactly two. It was then
I found sealers in stores simply
didn't exist. And why? Because
the manufacture of glass had been
practically stopped for lack of a
chemical compound used in its
snanufacture. This chemical is no
longer procurable because the one
and only plant througl.out the
length and breadth of Canada
which produces it, is out on strike
— and has-been for nearly three
atronths.
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So it looks as if you and 1 and
Mrs. John Public cannot fool our-
selves into thinking that industrial
strikes are no concern of ours.
They are definitely the concern of
everyone — but what we can do
to help this deplorable state of
affairs, dear only knows.
However, no situation is entirely
bad. We learn something good
even from strikes. We find out the
hard way what goes into the mak-
ing of many everyday articles, The
connection between the textile
strike and shortage of certain nec-
essary garments is obvious but
how many of us stopped to consi-
der what went into the staking of
glass? But we learn in a hurry
when fruit spoils for lack of seal-
ers; or when milk isn't delivered
unless an empty milk bottle is
left on the stet,-
* * . *
We find then that necessity is
not only the mother of invention,
it is also the foster -mother of en-
forced economy. When sealers
cannot be bought we forage
through out-of-the-way shelves
and cupboards and bring forth
many forgotten jars used for
something other than their real
purpose. Yes, it is surprising
what we can do without
when, we have to — or when we
get mad enough. Honestly, the
price of some things makes me so
mad I just see red. For instance
the other day I noticed a small
tea -kettle in a store — the kind
which. before the war, we thought
indispensable for quick boiling and
which used to sell for about a
quarter. This one was more than
three times that amount and was
as thin as paper.
I put it back on the shelf and
said, "Boiling water in an open
kettle is still good enough for tie."
But even at that I wouldn't have
minded the price so much if the
tin and the workmanship had been
of good quality. I feel like wear-
ing old clothes until they drop off
nay back for the same reason.
* * *
We were just as well off when
wages were lower and goods
cheaper. As for a 40 -hour week —
what are people going to do with
their time? Of course higher
wagea are needed when there is
more leisure time — it takes mon- ,
•y to pay for amusements to .fill
the gap.The simple pleasures of
home life are not commonly appre-
ciated these days.
* * *
I like to hear Partner hold forth
on farming versus Industry, The
other day two young fellows drove
in and wanted to buy the farm!
They had been working in some
kind of a plant, thought things
over and decided that the govern -
stent just about gave everything
to the farmers on a silver platter.
In which case I wonder why the
rmera ottt West are out on a de -
It
veryy strike and why all this agi-
tation for continuance of the milk
subsidy. This week should bring
interesting developments.
GEARED TO EARS
Fine precision -machined parts, ori-
ginally used in bomb sights and
other military devices, have been
made into jewelery. Buffed down
and gold-plated, brass sprocket
chains become chokers and brace-
lets, as do aluminum and bronze
bushings. Earrings are made from
fine coiled springs, gear wheels and
bushings. ,At top, ,Ellen .Brooks
models earrings made of aluminum
sector gears, shown in close-up
below.
Farm Incomes
Greatly Exceed
Operating Col..,%s
The latest figures issued by the
Dominion Bureau of Statistics I ro
vide a rough measurement betwe'i
the present income of Canadian
farmers and their costs of ul.i ra-
tion, reports the Winnipeg Free -
Press, The new statistics refleri
the large gains of Canadian areri•
culture since the beginning of the
war — gains in price which far es.
teed increased operating costs
The average cost of operatuw
on the Canadian farm, as estimated
by the Bureau of Statistics is :38.0
per cent higher now than it was on
the average between 1035 and 1930.
These costs take into consideration
farm implements, building mater-
ials; gasoline, oil and grease, feed,
fertilizer, binder twine, seed, hard-
ware, tax rates, interest rates and
farm wages.
As against an. increased operat-
ing cost of 38,6 per cent, the in-
crease in the price of farm pro-
ducts on the average throughout
Canada is reckoned at 82.7 per
cent.
'Planes Fly Almost
As Fast As Sound
Only 40 years ago the speed perry
mitted motor cars on the streets
of cities, towns and villages in On-
tario was 10 miles per hour — 15
miles in the country. But vehicles
were already travelling at high
speed in special trials, says The
Toronto Star. A railway train had
made a short distance record of
120 miles an hour in 1901, and a
motor car was to attain the same
speed during a trial in 1088,
But men took to the >.u• and
flew at speeds hitherto unknown. A
Gloster Meteor has just established
a world record of 617 miles an
hour. That is better than 10 miles
a minute. It is better than 900
feet per second, and sound (in air)
travels only 1,000 feet per second.
Man is traveling in the air al-
most as fast as sound does, and
no one can tell what further speed
the future holds.
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Beware Dangers
Of Hunting Season
Approach of the fall hunting
season leads ue once more to the
melancholy expectation of seeing
deity stories in the papers headed
Killed in Hunting Accident"
comments the Chatham News.
Every fall the story is the same;
of the men who go blithely out to
get a little recreation in field and
woodland, a certain number will
die because of their own or
other's carelessness.
Probably there is not much.
that can be done to remedy mat-
ters. The nunting grounds avail-
able to ordinary city folks are
usually so crowded that accidents
are, as you might say, fairly beg-
ging to happen. The high inci-
dence of carelessness among hu-
man beings makes it pretty cer-
tain that the accidents will in due
course materialize.
The best that can be done is to
remind each hunter that he carries
a lethal weapon which a moment's
heedlessness can turn into an in-
strument of tragedy.
WIN APPROVAL by serv-
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House ... the coffee that
is "Radiant -Roasted".
This special process Cap-
tures every atom of good-
ness in the supremely fine
Maxwell House blend.
Prewar White Bread
Looms For Britons
The first step toward a return to
prewar white bread for the people
of Great Britain was taken recently
when the Ministry of Food an-
nounced a reduction in the extrac-
tion rate of flour from 90 per cent.
to 88 per cent, it was learned.
The result of this easing of re-
strictions, believed in authoritative
circles to be a preliminary to the
end of Britain's two -month-old
bread • rationing, will be felt almost
immediately in baker shops
throughout the country, where the
loaf has become darker since the
end of the war.
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