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By
• Gwendoline P. Clarke
of GINGER FARM • • • •
Here is a little bit of infor-
mation that may interest farmers
who are wondering where help is
coming from to take off this year's
crop. An employee of a city plant
told us that men and boys who
previously owned or lived on farms
are now being laid off right and
left, and of course selective service
la sending them back to the farms.
Some of them are glad enough of
an opportunity to get back to the
land—others are not so happy. It
remains to be seen horn many will
really settle down again.
* * *
How often that age-old problem
presents itself — how to keep the
young folk on the farm .,, how to
make farm life sufficiently attract-
ive so they will want to stay. Per-
sonally, I don't think the answer
lies so much in the farm as in the
young people themselves. Some of
them want to farm — others do
not. Proof of that can be found in
any average farm family. Naturally
hoarse conditions are the same for
Bill as for John, yet John develops
an unrest which only a job away
from home seems to satisfy, while
Bill is quite content to till the land.
He takes an interest in Dad's pure
bred cattle; he asks nothing better
than to be given the responsibility
of driving and caring for the trae'
tor; and as he ploughs up and
down the ficld his thoughts leap
ahead to the time when he will be
farming on his own, Conditions on
the farm may not be quite as he
would like then at present, but he
has vision and he looks forward
and figures out ways and means of
snaking improvements — shorter
hours, more conveniences.
* * *
John, on the other hand. gets a
job that pays big money. But it
Isn't long before he finds that the
money isn't so big as he thought
it was. There are so many deduc-
tions from his pay ... it costs an
awful lot of board , .. and when a
fellow eats out eveh an odd 'Snack
costs a quarter .. not Like at home
where the cookie jar was always
kind of handy. And of course a
fellow has to have some fun. He
kids himself along by thinking
what a dull time Bill is having —
the dope and how little he gets
for all his hard work, And then one
week -end at home there was Bill
telling him ;about the Victory
Bonds he has put away.
"You've got Victory Bonds,
Bill?"
"Sure — come in mighty handy
after the war, But you have some
too, John . , , I remember you say-
ing so."
"Yes," said John slowly, "I did
have but I cashed them in ... had
to . that smash with my car .
had to have a new engine. It cost
me plenty."
Poor John .. , he had to learn the
'hard way. It may be that after he
has savoured city life for a few
more years hs, too, may realise
that there is more than hard work
to be found on a farm. There is 4
freedom that is'found nowhere
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else on earth. And it provides
greater opportunity for initiative
than many a city job. On the other
hand, although the going may be
tough, John may eventually find
iris niche in the business or pro-
fessional world — he may never re-
turn to the farm for more than a
visit. But that will not be the fault
of the farm or farming,conditions
— it will just be the natural order
of things. Farming is Bill's way
of making a living — John's choice
is sonethii °tentirelly different.
What road every Bill and John will
follow can only be determined by
giving each one a chance to shift
for himself, And in so doing we,
need have no fear for the future of
agriculture.
Love of the land is too deep-
rooted in the soul of man or it
ever to die out to any great ex-
tent, As long as the human race
survives there will be farmers —
successful farmers, Who till the
land from choice — not by com-
pulsion. I have no figures to prove
my theory but it is my opinion that
among the unsuccessful farmers of
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this, or any country, we shall find
men, who in their youth were vic-
tims of overbearing parential
authority and made to stay on the
farm against their will, ploughing
the laird while they were eating
their heart out to be a nnechanic ..
coiling hay while longing to join
c navy . milkiu o
c t ..
the g ws and wish-
ing for wings to fly.
* * *
Youth is a time of unrest .., and
alter a war, when men have seen
so mucin that they wish to forget,
is also a time of unrest, That is
something we should alt do well to
remember. Rehabilitation is some-
thing in which we all can help —
by buying Victory Bonds and by a
sympathetic understanding of all
returned men. '
Modern Etiquette
'I3y Roberta Lee
1, When a bride is writing notes
of thanks for gifts to friends who
do not know her husband, should
the notes be signed with bath
names?
2. in whatway should a woman
present a fetter of introduction?
3. Should a -girl precede or fol-
low her escort into a restaurant?
4. VVhera a girl is standing talk-
ing with a man,,and drops some ar-
ticle site is holding, shouldn't she
make an attempt to pick it up?
5, When playing golf and there
is a foursome just ahead of you,
how long should you wait before
driving?
6. Is it proper to serge 'cream
with dem'otasse?
ANSWERS
3. The signature may be her
name. only, but the note should
say, "Howard and 1 deeply appre-
ciate, etc." 2... She should always
mail a letter of, introduction, whe-
ther it is addressed to a man or to
a 'woman. 3. The girl should go
first. 4. No; she should wait for
the man to pick it up. 5. Wait un-
til
aflfoet•-
cla
of the players ahead of
you are too far away for your
drive to interfere. 6. No.
IT SHOULD KNOCK
People often ,fail to recognize
opportunity because it looks so
much like hard work.
— Peterborough Examiner.
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A "soap" which i no soap at all
f P.
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it is a detergent or wetting agent,
It looks Like soap ,and.., cleanses like
soap, but it has new merits. It
works as well in hard 'or salt wat-
er as in soft and ` no ring is left ,
around the bathtub because tho
salts found in hard water, gener-
ally' lime, do not react with tiva
"soap" W form an insoluble. curd,
A molecule is built up of an oily
part (coconut oil) which will dis-
solve grease and a salty part that
dissolves in water. The oily, end
of these detergent molecules' doe('
not react with 'tine salts found lei
hard water td make a curd.
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