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The Huron Expositor, 1918-04-05, Page 1r oirsaismaisamsalsamoriotaislassairamaailaw a Expert Milliners will ;ht you. They will e just the hat you t at a price lower than would get elsewhere. v ry tIL ogge� ,ment ,Care particular about correct who want their Easter ating taste and excel- will find at this store fever critical they ma. elied upon to give sin-- ng the selection of the THIS SUIT~' SPECI VALE AT MOO :as4 Suits pwards sses' Coats pwards ise t and Trimmings Departmen: Popularity; to their host f speeial w busy we are, your order Will and to your satisfaction. • 5 Ee all directions. t when Spring Teeny sett in ere hereabouts and be the Most resod woman's sprue o '0"" we are perfectly sure that our obtain. elsewhere. It is yon to see all the new Coax ,avish NWT -SECOND. TEAR. OLE NUMBER 2625 Greig ClothiHg C " Second to .Atone TAILORED CLOTHES. 0UR Suit Stock is very- strong on Styles .f or Youna Men. All the latest Novelties, not only in style of garments, but in ishade and pattern of cloth. .Betted Suits with .Patch Pockets .; _Disappearing Belt Suitt umth the Stash Pockets ; `Double Breast- ed Belted Coats. -In- Blue, Green, Purple, Brown. PRICE $20 $25 .S30 $35 Fancy Spring Overcoats to Match $25 to X35 NEW HATS Are selling fast. 'You'll not feel the full benefit of the Spring sea- qon 'until you have selected the new hal. Our stock is the largest in Seaforth. i . PRICE r- $2.5fl, X3.50 to $5 GreigiClothing Co SE AFORTH 0 4 0 0 4 0 4 0 0 4 0 4 0 0 0 4 4 v 4 O 4 0 4 4 0 0 4 0 t 0 0 4 0 0 4 0 4 0 4 0 4 0 0 4 f 0 4 The Big HardwareStore. • ECI Friday and Saturday. April 5th and 6t RIDGULAR ' Peerless Washing Machines x$8.00 Dowswell 'Washing Machines 8.00 Snowball Washing Machines ' 12.00 Patriot Motor, High Speed 16.00 Crest Wringer 6.00 No. 1 Galvanized Wash Tubs •a... 1.85 No. 2 Galvanized Wash Tubs - 2.00 No. 3 Galvanized Wash Tubs 2.25 Cedar Wash Tubs 1.50 Galvanized Stable Pails s 1.00 J, Water Pails .50 Strainer Pails - ,1.95 Water Pails (Anti Rust) - t, 1.15' Clothes Horses , 2.00 Carpet Sweepers 3.75 Perfection Oil Stove Wicks .30 Clothes Baskets 1.50 O'Cedar Mops 1.60 O'Cedar Oil and Liquid Veneer .,....-.. .50 do do .25 1 gallon O11 Cans r .85 2 gallon Oil Cans 1.25 3 gallon Oil Cans 1.60 5 gallon Oil Cans 2.00 Three Burner Oil Stove and Oven 27.00 SPECIAL $7.25 7.25 1L.00 . 14.50 5.50 1.65 . 1.85 2.00 1.80 .85 .40 1.80 1.00 1.75 3.50 .27 1.25 1.35 .45 .20 .75 1.15 1.45 1.85 24.00 The Big Haraware Store �. Edge = Seaforth 1 Isaammummimummommimiammowp e SEA RT:H4 s FRIDAY, APRIL WHAT -AN EASTERN FARMER ,so low a price fnrYtheir labor? 1918 THINKS OF THE FOOD SHORTAGE To answer the Mast question 'first. �., ie ..� (The outlook). They are able to .live by being econ- THE WORLD'S BIGGEST MOTION No reform or progress in farm con- omical. They cannot sterid that which . ., - PICTURE. ditions in this country can be brought they have not, and they learn to get til we know and recognize along accordingly, The laborer in A S� INO about o a gn town has a grove roan coming to his ' thetroubles � difficulties what lou es ane c es are; door every day,. and in many cases and usually we must know the cause 'THE of any trouble before we can apply twice or more and his family remedies. dress much betters they spend in some An article published in The Outlook eases as much forz°ear rides and amuse `solution meats as the farm family spend for recently advocated for the of tthe.shortege of food, as the result food and clothing. " The farmer gets of inadequate -production, the applica- tion his rent on the farm, and he gets his tion of the factory system to farming, food and fuel front the farm at whole - That. looks goon, to people who live sale prices. He l es largely out of in the city, who know that the sys- the- flour barrel, bbud nearly • always tem works we in the mill. or shop or under less expens1 e conditions, that who are so far awayfrom the farm the city worker, . his you..can con- thrills and educates the young ante that they do not s e any reason why firm by the thousands of country boys it should not work las well if applied and girls whohave left the farm the old. to farm production. , girls who live in the cit. , and again, by the cityIt is e supreme offering of litre- To To comparethe two: The factory. 'have- b some. queer turn dom a v"• ' in earn to lava The "Whip" has six stars --not one. It has scores of thrills -not a few. It has . everything that pleases; of fate, b in the conn •^ the country `as': along with, and re competes for its labor in the labor een market with other. factories and with farms. It Pays -4 certain rate for its ordinary help, say thirty cents an hour for nine hours a day, and pro- portionately� more for; skilled workers. The factory, has, besides, overhead charges and charges for raw material. These e©st i items, an allowance for depreciation, another for sailing costs, and another for profit, are,added to- gether to determine the selling price. If the pnanu�faeturer cannot get a price that' Covers' these items, all of them, he either Shuts up shop or goes into insolvency. In • other words, the pub- lic must pay the cost` and the profit. Labor. in these lines is sure of its pay, whatever it is -the law of the work- man's lien 'guarantees it. The farrier has . his plant -land, buildings, tools and stock -with, cer- tain r-rharg. of interest, taxes, and such raw $iiateria1 charges as those for fertilizers, insecticides, seeds, and upkeep of j plant. He, acid in many cases' members of his family, plant, care for, and harvest the crops: Tei nearly all Cases they work, not eight or nine hours a -day, but twelve, four- teen or si*teen. At the end of the season, or . when the market seems most 'favorable, the farmer' sells his crops for what he can get. Not until then does he get any pay for his -work,- nor 'even, know what he will receive, per hour -for his labor, In the avers age season I affirm that he is fortuna ate indeed; if he finds .that he has re-' ceived ten scents an hour. for his labor, while` he could have sold his services at' the mill or the factory at thirty or fifty cents. per hour. Once in 'a while with :favorable conditions, and when crops are riot too big, he'will get well paid for his work =receiving perhaps nearly or quite as much as it he.had worked in a factory; but in few cam does he get his pay every week, or know what it' will be until' he' does get; it. r Now, then, I 'assert that this is the condition, end I ask you to admit this? for the sae of seeing how it works out as a feet. Suppose our farmer, under pressure of the needs of the country,, the appeals of our Premier, or ambition, does hire labor in com- petition with the factory, paying for ,the same the minimum price of, say, • thirty cents per hour. We will assume that the -.farmer has two sons, each representing nearly,a man power, and actually worth more to him than the hired heap. If the farmer and . his sons, each work three hundred days of fourteen hours, and sixty-five days of four hours. and their hired man works three hundred days of nine hours, at, thirty cents per hour - though, as I have asserted, the farm help would really make only about ten cents an hour under favorable conditions -the labor of these four men will amount to $1,608. But from this amount the Hired man must have been paid every week, and it is found that the hired man has taken out from this sum $8.0, leaving for the other three men, ;who have worked much longer.hours and have done the necessary work on Sundays and holi- days, only $798, or just a little less than the hired man secured. This gives the farmer and his boys only 5.09 cents per hour They would have received a larger amount, ten cents. per hour, if they had not hired' the extra man. - These figures make it look as if the farmer and his boys worked one-third of their tune for the hired man, And, further, if the farmer had not had the help of the boys he would not have been able, with the help of the hired man to earn enough money to pay -the man, if he took nothing out for him- self. Now, I assert that the .above is a fair example of farm conditions; that the figures' given are not harder than the usual facts, except that the aver- age farmer does not hire his help be- low the going wage of the city factory if 'he hires at all. I assert that the average Eastern farmer does actually and in fact work for his !hired men if he has any. Last spring, at planting time, four of the seven farm teams' in my neigh- borhood, worked out for contractors, mills, and on the highway the greater part of the time, when they should have been at work on the land. putting in the -crops. ,Why ? B;ecatis'e the re.. muneration' was better.' It did not pay the men to Work the land when they could work their teams for days' wages. Does not the foregoing indicate why the occupation of farming in the East is at such - a lr w ebb, why there is' a shortage of tiroduction? The Eastern farms are not worked to one-quarter capacity • because it does not pay to work them. No ordin- ary man -can continue to do =business at a loss, the farmers are no exception. That is why more hired help is not employed and more produce raised in the Eastern States. Perhaps ypu ask: If this is all true, why or how do they farm at all? Why can anti one -be found to farm' How are they able to live if they receive ey usually have in allowance to get -how to live that : These firm pea& are of as high in towns and citiiiike and ti,re entitled to as -good liveiefg' it tonditions: What hers brought titooft their pinched con- ditions ead what :„ eerie them there ? There, are man* thines . that :have contributed, but the: latgekit single fac- tor in keeping thene there; and through these conditions -producing the present wasteful and. ineffiCient system ; of dis- tribution. Accordiage to figures .ap- proved byethe Nevi York Department of Foods and Mark" of the average dollar paid by thettaimate consumer the farmer receivira thirty-five cents and the distribution esystene sexty-ene cents. ii. The reader has Only to look around him and follow a feW examples back to the farm to verify *hese figues so that he will believe theta; • . , I will not claim liere.that the aver- age individual in the eystem of distri- butitin gets tom big'. pay for his labor. But ell along the ne from the farm it:n to the consumer thi are unnecessary expenses. There i$ ecessary trans- portation, with i gh charges. The goods go through art unnecessary. num- ber of hands before they get to the retailer. The retail; storesiare unnec- essarily duplicated, i Thesegtores 'dup.- Heath delivery routea They dupli- cate stockseof food)n every neighbor- hood, aneinstead,ef competition to keep the price doom there is collusion so that the buyingi.price may be low enough and th.e Se rig price high ep- ough . to enable all &Oka -Mg avow that three eould.- easila do .and' should sweep over the Sountry sections that 40- I. believe that the distribution. of they would be the places where the provisions in My neighborhood could good :things in life would go -instead be easily and.. efficiently a,nd setisfac- of to se large an extent being mereltr ,thrily effected at one-third the present the places where the good thiims conie expense, and perhaps less. ' from. • Now, then, all these wmeeessar-y I have Called your attention. to the' people in the system of distTibution, way in, which the factory system works all these unnecessary stores., are par- in the mill and shop. If we now re, asites on the farmer. He has to sup- to apply it to farming on a. large scale poht them -not the worker in the and with conditions as they are at town. The latter nearly always gets present, one of the first things the wages enough to live well and have Management -would do, would be to some money for a.musementeiand per- arrange a selling system. It would haps to save. The farmer makes up have to devise -ways. to ',"get by" the the balance by getting along on what present western of distribution, tO get its Products to the ultimate consumer is left for him. , There seems to be several possible cheaper than " is now done, before ways to remedy this conditien, and it it could even pay expenses. Those certainly must be remedied if food is who' have made a success in the ap- to be produced in. abundance. The plication of the factore system to ag- Government, which Is supposed to be ricultare have done so, not by cheap - by the people and for the people but ening production to ' any extent,. but often seams to be for the Big litter- by the price reeeived. They have been. ests instead, can and ought to re= able to do this by se ding a large proe organize this system and make a duct to market, and ep. passing their goods over the. hea S. of a lot of men, better and more efficient one. in the system who help themselves The working people in the country the ordinary farmer as he paeses his -the farmers -and the working peo- ple in the city, the factory and cora- prodIf ugse aire70;ms• herein. Suggested nereial Workers, on ' their part scan were carried out, there would, be no unite to organize a system. of distri- shortage of food. Our Premier bution for themselves that will be would not have to call on farmers. to efficient and economical. If this is produce more. The surmlies .would done (and I do not believe that the come along at a greatly increased rate farmers alone can do it or that the and there would be a large reserve town workers alone can do it), then. on hand, carried on the farms. Un - the balanee between labor in the towns of this is the rule. resent conditions the reverse will be struck, and the farmer can em-. der the e ploy laborers .on his farms, and can Our Premier and the Food Admin - usually get ..back the money he pays istration - not seem to realize that them, although this can never be eer- tain, for weather conditions, rain or drought or frost at both ends of the as a business propositien if at all. They -call upon him to dolt regardless season, mai, interfere at -times to spoil the results of the best laid and exee of hie, conditions and the call has gone out to the farmer to be patriotic, to meted plans, Also, an overprodaction of perishable crops, always tends -tote speed up, to olant more, to hire help, reduce returns, so often the best years for Grope are the pdorest years of re- muneration for farm labor. % Again, the present system of dis- tribution is largely to blame for this condition, for it uses the fact of sur- plus. production to hold down the price to the praducers, but takes good care that the consumer loes not get ad- vantage of the lotver price. It care- fully avoids sti ulating consumption of the product The cry is of otherwise that t leave the couotry are so low and help are so poor. if it were. eome hing that employers in the country were to blame for, and as if these employer% could remedy this if they onlY w'ould. But is is a. fund- amental principle of business that it must pay. The farmers can get along, and do get along, on what they get put of their work, very much as a one legged man in the city can get through the streets in a way. But if the far- mer is to run a farm business, hire help, work his farm up to capacity; it must be done en business ptinciples. That Is, the hired help must produce enough ;so that its product will sell for Sufficien.t to pay the 'w'ages and DO O NOT FAIL TO SEE IT. Th WHIP :will be shown in aid of the Red Cross ,Ftidar and Saturday -APRIL 19 I AND 20 Afternoon Matinees 4 p.m. Evenings 8.15 p.m. PRICES: Matinees 2,5,and 35c Evenings 50c Plan open at Aberhart's Drugstore FRIDAY, APRIL I2th ganiied and made' so efficient that of the consumer's dollar' sixty-five cents _will/go to the farmer and only thir- ty-five cents be taken by the seistem, then, the farmer can compete With the Pass 345: Fred Jackson. 485. "ialielyne officiated. Mr. and Mrs. Mitchell left feetory in the labor market, and an Jahnston 462, Eileen Toward 455, Carl for a short visit in Toronto, Hamilton army of parasites maintained by the Aberhart 428, Marjoeie Bickell 424, and Niagara a"lid the best wishes of really productive werk. The existing 401, Annie I3rodie 392, Grace Pethick wkth the 68th Battery in a few days host of frientts. Mr. Mitchell leaven . present eystem would be liberated for Bessie Marshall 420, 'Beatrice Frost- a farm plants could Multiply their pro- -392, Georgina Reeves 378, Arthur A- f" i'verseas- . duction from four to ten Ernes the ment 366, Fred Crieh 365, Keith To- a-Ptes;Frank Galbraith. and Harold present ,,outputt , Priees of farni pro- mont 365, Arthur Burrows 345, Peer' Hinscliffe, of Wingham, ' and Pte. perty, from being iii a: condition in Wright 338, Keith Stogdill 337, Eve- Woodhouse of Whitechurcia areired which many of the farms can be lyn Peterson 387, *Wilfrid Srnith 333, home from overseas on Monday 43V - bought today from one half to one- eilna raeiton 31.Q, Mary= Webster ',303,' ening ion the London train. They were fourth the amount it would requike to *Elva Grimoldby 265, *Vincent Pat- met at the sta.tion by a large number replace the buildings, might be raised terson 219.-M. W. Macitay- • of citizen& Headed by the Citizen's so that new land would be taken up ROOK III e . . ,. Band a procession was formed and and new buildings built. The Eastern . Armor Third--Tatal 5'78, homing 43 - t the returned soldiers were escorhedeto States would I believe under the en- ei th tit *hla l ' fore his death the township clerk of Ashfield township. Mr. Stothers is a graduate of the Ontario Agriculture College,. and besides his practical ex- perience on the home farm. he has spent somet time in Western Canada. He has also acted as assistant dis- trict repTesehtative in Midlesex and Lambton eounties. His headquarters in his new position will. be at Clin- ton ,and he has already commenced work. He made his first official ap- pearance before the county council at its special ineetirig at Clinton on McLHAN BROS. Publishers• ' $1.30 a 'Year In Advance ers, Alma Taylor, Margaret MeNay, Sadie Hart, Nelson Cardno, Ceeil White, Tom Efully, Alvin Reight, Dor- othy Wiltse, Willie Brewer.-Amia Woods. Those 'marked with asterisks have missed examinations. - HURON NOTES. -At a meeting of the ladies of St.. Andrew's Prefshyteriati church, Wing- harn, held recently, a Ladies' Aid So- ciety was organized with the follow- ing officers: President, Mrs. L. Ken- nedy Vice President Mrs Joseph Pugh; Secreary, Mrs. J. C. Hanna; SEAFORTH PUBLIC SCHOOL .lectors were appointed to canvas the I Treasurer, Mrs* (Dr.) Handely, Col - EXAMINATIONS lady members of the congregation end they have met with 'excellent success. -Last week John Mitchell, of Grey township, bought the fine farm of William Buttrey, 11th concession, pay-. ing 46000. Mr. and Mrs. Buttrey are old and well hION17/1. residents and 'wine likely locate nearby, perhaps ineMonle- ton. Mr.. Mitchell will move tea' the place at once so as -to get ready for the erring work. -Walton beef ring, with a Inn quota of members, will start at the seation's work the first Friday of April 'and' paons -will get their Meat Friday evennig. J. R. Bell will attend to. the killing and dividing the meat. He is slake 365, -Scott Claff 33 , Abbie .Spip right at home at the job as he hille 14 313, Hilda Goldhawk 298, Margaret for Leadbury, 8th line Morris, as` well Chittenden 2.89, Etta Smith 234, Allen gts Walton. Beeves are e,xpeeted, to Reid 258, Wilma Seip 254, Lloyd Wil- , dress as near' 450 lbs. as possible and liams 171.-A. A. Naylor, Principal, !the exchange will he calculated at 16c ROOM IL I a pound. -An early morning wedding was solemnized in St. Pamrs . Anglican, ing at six o'cloek when. ,Ailice, daugh- ter of Mr. a,41 Mrs. Richard Mann, was united i marriage to Mr. B. Lindsay Mitchell, or Hamilton, and formerly of the: Bank of Handlton. stair, Wingham. Rev. W. H. Snell ROOM I. Sr. Fourth -Total 650; honors 488; Pass 390. Mary Laing 540, Hilda Gib- bons 501, Gladys McPhee 479, Arnold Turnbull 473, Mary Bell 471, Kenneth Ardent 457, Janet Grieve 451, Mary Stewart 449, Harvey Bristow 447, F. Rankin 445, Willie James 436, Gwen- dolyn Snoviden- 434, Ether Daley 433, Tom Smith 421, Margaret Grieve 404, Leslie Brietow 365, Edwin' Beattie 333, Robert Charters 250. Junior Fourth A. -Total 500'; hon- ors 375; Pass 300: Wi lie Marriott 386,.Kathlyn. Rankin 377, Donald Ker - „junior Fourth B. -Total 575; hen - ors 432; Pass, 345:, Lulu Marriott 492, Donald Mackay 459, Frances Crich 431, Gilchrist Livingstone 423, Florence Chesney' 420, Jennie Reeves 419, Mee Steweat 414, Ronald Mac- kay 361, Harold Peterson, 360, Harry Dill 355, Myrtle Trott 333. Senior Third -Total 575i honors 432, h Pass 347: Myrtle Sharkey 444, Dais e wn . Councillor R.. A. Cur- couragement of a Spain 443, Arthur Beattie 429, Walteyr lie' as prOrPr system of SCOtt 410, 'Agnes Smith 3'78, Edgax c .irinan of the Council Rame ception Committee acted as chairman these unnecessary distribution, feed themselves. Tene- t° Jive on the. molts for farm laboters would be • built On all the larger fame, popula- there are fif- tion in the country would Multiply,' -doing, the work , and such a .wave of proseprity 'wou t is in over .supply. n fieard in print and e reason the laborers is because the wages iving conditions for And this it said as Beattie 842, *Hector Hays 340, Violet were given bt" Pestnlaster Musgrove Brownlee 36e, jean Lowery a50, jiamei and atmroPriate addresses of welcome taYtOM 32G; Alei. "Piiviheil 311, 'jean .-On WednesdaY, the ;ikon train of this zoneramity, who was seriously ney Pullman 277, Ione Wiltse 244i• wounded at .Paschendaele, Franees *Stanley 'Nicholls 204. Oitober 27th last, He has been at Whitby hospital since arrived in Can - Senior &mind -Total 500, honors 375, Pass 300: Margaret Gxieye 430, "a a few weeks ago; Although atilt Margaret Case 408, Janet cinff 399, on crutches he is imprOving and We hope will ere long be able tee throw the Kenneth Carnochan 393, 12011 Hart 349; *Frank Cook 848, Margaret lime- :sstipienlies. aRtdve- islItte Wiledes17't wsonasiotip virlii.S. Intosh 346, *Cecil Knight 321, and Mrs. William Thuell, of the 6th Stewart 321, Irene Paterson 304, *Ev- , Russell Consitt 247, line, Morris, and was the iirst tee 16Ist Huron Battalion aml has proven enlist in Brussels Company of OP *Stella Ashton 192, Verde, Baker (ab - ROOM IV. honors "338, Pass 270: Robert Willis ,township on ,Sunday morning last., -There passed away at her re81- ,Second Book Claes' ite-Total 450; denee on the Bluevale Road, Morris 424, Helen Marshall 400, Nellie Cook dime Taylor, beloved wife ef Mr. W. 398, Leslie Hogg 390, Anna Suther- J.. ' Henderson. About two weeks land 389, Alvin Sille.ry 385, Jim Weir 382, Daisy Hamilton 381, Maybelle aa5.3 taken ill.with erysipelas Rands 378, Clifton Toward 872, Mur- gshrIclua-aisl3r grew woree until death relieved her of her suffering. . Deceas- ton 353e Gordon Goldhakw 336,' Fienlor ed was a daughter cf. the late Mr. and Mrs.. Robert Tayier and was born. Peterson.. 270, Lorena Williams 2 2, . oi le Ittl.eti, township °lax 42 years -.8" bhe was ..a very higiay respected lady Harry Pethick 202, ***Veen 'Br ie with a emdly dispasitioa and was be - 143.. loved ty all with whom she was assoc.- , Class B.-Tierl Anent 407, Dorothy iated. She was a true Christhm, and Kerslake 403, Eleanor Hareies 365, a member of St. Andrew's Presby- ,. Dorerthy Robinson 358, Gerald &war- doii. 348, Elva Jefferson 345e /jack iterian chureh, and a former member of the choir. Besides 'her sorrowing. Crich 332, Billie Sutherland 330, John Dennison 329, Jack McGee 318, Vera husband she is survived 1:1Y tvic' little ulley 310, Elsie Lowery 302, John owell 286, Margaret Thompson 257, Russ ll McQuaig, 223, Russell Borrett er 206, Myrtle -Reeves 191, Will Edgar Oarence McClure, of Gocierich, on Wednesday, was xmited in wedlock to Mr. Jean 219, Stevenson- 218, March 27th, their daughter. Miss Mary Muiee211, Violet Piper 207, Jack Walk - Gillespie. Galbraith; of Tara, in the presenee of immediate relatives. The inat.rimionial 154, Clentence Thiel 130. -Lynne E. ROOM V. knot was tied by Rev. J. H. Osterhout. The bride was dressed in nigger brown Senior First -Total 435, honors 326, taffeta silk earryhig a bouquet of bed- . Pass 261: Billy Baxber 382, Margaret Stewart 371, Jean Cluff 345, Dorothy al res.E.'s' The fiewer girls' -were her two meees Laurette and Donna Mc - Frost 335, Lila Mershall 333, Margaret . ' - Clure, one in pink and one in white, and earying pink and white carnations. The wedding march was played by Miss Alige Sheppard, another niece of the 'bride. The groom's gift to the bride and organist was a beautiful bar pin 'each. - The brideis 'than suit was a brown serge with hat match. The hapin, couple left on Thursday morning on, their weddin-g toure after -which they will return to their home in. Tara. -A quiet but pretty wedding was . solemnized at "the home of Mr. Jas. Harris, Farquhar, on March 27th at five °clock, when. their daughter Agnes Mary Young, was married to Mr. Thomas 3. Fanson, of Ftdlarton. Only the immediate relatives were present, and the ceremony was -performed by Rev. G. A. Barnard of Elimville. The bride entored the parlor leaning- -on the arm of her step -father to the strains of Lohengrinis weddinsg march, played by Ernest Harris, brother of the bride. The bride was beeomingly attired in pale lehle flowered silk crepe, carried a bouquet of roses, and wore the gift of the groom, a pearl necklace. The presents were nunterous and -cost- ly, among them being a handsome. piano, from the 'de's parents, Mr. bnle a short trip ito Lo on, the bride trav- elling in a suit of navy blue golfer. dine with picture bat On their return they will reside on the groom's farna near Munro. himself a soldier, indeed. , boys, George aged three, and 'Thomas, aged six. -At the home of Mr. and Mrs, Jas. to increase production. Then', after ' Thomson 281, Leona Pearson , 272, he has made his plans to comply fully -as possible with these call.s, thaes i *Evelyn Iliusser 161, *Ida Hiusser 154. Word goes ont, "Everybody plant a 1 J ior First -Total 415, honors 311, garden! plow up the lawne! plant po- Pass 249: Bertha grieve 352, Arthur C ochan 329, Mary Jackson 327, tatoes in the flower beds!" -in short, Laura Mola 323, Andrew McLean 320, "scab" the farmer's job in every way loss, if not ruin. i Junior First B. -Total 400, honors mildred Johnston 292, poesible. And after the crops. are har- , Jack Frist 295, , Gordon R,olph 286, Edward Rankin 281, vested, the Food Administratesetsteps ' Elroy Brownlee 270, Earl Peterson in and sce regulates things that in 1253, Jeanette Archibald 187, Margaret many cases the farmers suffer ,serious 'Daley 182, Glen. Smith 182. If the rood Administration would . 300, `pass 240: Litiien Longworth 322, cut out the parasites in. the systeni of Leonard Brown 299, Mildred Turnbull distribuijon, make -plat effi_cient and 296, George Stiles 158, Annie Haney economical, :the farmers would not feel 133, Rosabel Cluff 124, *Charlotte so bad if their profits were occasion - Powell 110, *Mary Hays 106, Josephine Edge 92, Ifora,c• Gibbons 86, Frank Lamont 66, George Charters 66, Willie Williams 5:R.-la:AR. Hartryy R0.031 _ ally small. But it makes the farmer feel like "laying down" to receive half wages or less, while at the same time he sees an army of duplicated_ workers who do no reel social service, living off the pnoducts of his labor, and in most cases living so muds better than the farmer himself. No syetem for increasing farm pro - Senior Primary -Ruby Storey, Clar- ence Trott; Beatrice Carnechen, Alvin Adams, L. Bateman equal; P. Willis, F. Huisser; Nora Stewart, Margaret duets can be a suceess without an Rolph, C. Naylor, equal; H. Cum- prove/nee:It in the system ef distribu- inings, Marriott equal; R. Holmes, tion. That is a big job; but tide is a N. Jefferson, equal; G. Muir, Jack time for beginning big jobs. Ifichibald, equal.; M. Beattie, Alathae Carter,' C. Riley, equal; Ena Holmes, -The Provincial Department of Margaret Cudmore, Harry Workman, Agriculture has appointed as agri- Joseph Hart, Jack Cndmore, Bessie other expenses and show a profit. Ua- cultural representative for Huron Clair, Louis Jackson, ClarenceSteph- der the present conditions, this can be County, Mr. Stephen B. Statham, a enson, Bernice Joynt, Mary Oughton, 'done only in a few exceptional cases, 'former Ashfield boy, a son of Mrs. Junior Primary Class A., -Opal jast enough to prove the Tule. If the William Stothers of that townsbip. Wright, H. Taylor, equal; C. Steph.- eystem of distribution can be reor- , His fatijer wae for some years be- enson, Edith' Bateman, Audrey Som-