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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1921-05-27, Page 1el77 'eem L/ ieereiter4e4,11 Med L'• ••••':•••• L,c, • „,• IS /I e 'MAR WHOLE NUMBER 2789. •‘• Clothing CO. has led the way to Cheaper. clothing. ' Our proressive policy of Lower Prices and biC, selling has saved very many hundreds of dollars,tO _the people of this section of country. This is a fact' which no one will attempt to deny -and we arehot through yet with ,price reductions. A customer coming; to our store now will find prices even lower " than during the last 'four weeks. Look at »these prices: Pure Wool Medium weight Sox 25c Pure Wool Black Cashmere. Sox 50c Fine Lisle Fancy Colored Sox 25c Men's. Fine Dress Shirts $1.50 . Men's Work Shirts, stripes and solid cok$s 90c to $1.15 • Men's Fine Caps $1.25 Boys' Fine Caps 50c to 90c Men's Bib Overalls, blue stripe or black.......$1.75 Men's ready-made Suits... . $12.00, $15.00 to $25.00 Boys' Ready-made Suits (wool) ....$5.00 to $10.00 Men's made -to -measure Suits in pure wool Tweeds and Serges $22.00 to $45.00 Men's Raincoats, the best in Canada $10.00 Women's Fine Dress Coats, velour, serge and Tweeds $12.00 to $25.00• Young Girls' Coats in velour, serges and Tweeds $7.00 to $12.00 All other lines of wearing apparel equally low. FOOTBALL UNIFORMS SUPPLIED. The Greig Clothing Co. EAST SIDE OF MAIN STREET. Our store's buyer cleared a Woodenware Fac- tory in St. Thomas at a ridiculously low price. Seaforth's portion of $200.00 will not last long. A partial list here. Sale starts Thursday. 3 Wheel Scooter, $3,00 for. Hay Racks, $1.25, for Sir Bartons $4.00 for Baby Joy Rockers, $3 for Toddlers' Horses, $1.25 for Toddlers' Cats, $1.25 for. Toddlers' Ducks, $1.25 for Hobby Horses, $7.00 for Hobby Horses, $1.00 for Doll Beds, $1.20 for Rush a Wheel, 75c., for Sand Cars, $1.00 for $1.50 65c $1.95 $1.10 68c 68c 68c $3.75 50c 60c 40c 50c $1.00 $3.75 $1.50 $1.00 80c 2 Wheel Scooters, $2.00 for Coast -a -wagon, $7.00 for Box Wagon, $3.00 for Slat Wagons; $2.00 for Large Doll Beds, $1.75 for NOTICE TO FARMERS We will sell 24 only Bag Trucks, the handiest littlearticle on the farm, regular $2.50 Rush Price $1.25 KEEPING JOHN ON THE FARM. Volumes have been written about keeping the boy upon the 'farm and oTher volumes about keeping the "old man" op the farm The assumption is, of eoursa,' that, life In the city offers enperior advantages and thakt someji, spial device must be inventeft to k either the boy or the old man onthe farm. real truth is that -in ,,the vast Majority of-'ebses bothkb.,Vboy pad the :old man -in going to'town have hkel the best of reason& but it is also true that as often as not in both cases it was a push rather than, a pull that effected the change. But it is neither the old man nor the boy in wliom we, are primarily interested. The old man has done his work and 'he is leaving the farm either because he or his wife has broken down, or else in order to give the bey a chance. Be has earned the right M do as he pleases. As to the boy we are chiefly interested in knowing where he will be when he himself becomes a man. In other words, the problem of restocking the farms is the problem of the young man. It may as well be assumed 'at the outset that the'stock which will oc- cupy our lands and work them will be for the most 'part the stock that is bornupon the farm; and this will be more and more true as the coon - 't grows older. The problem of the country is the problem of its young people, and it presents two phases to the student of rural affairs: First, "how to raise the boy so that he will enjoy the life of the country"; second, "how to provide 'him with a farm when he is grown up in orde,r that he may be able to realize the comforts and the advantages of country life." We have as yet done neither of these jabs very well except in isolated in- stances, and it might almost be said that if it were the national purpose to drive our young men off the land we could hardly have devised more adequate machinery for doing it. This statement will probably draw criticism. What great things have we done in recent years for agricul- ture? And how can the inference stand that we have done little or nothing to hold this boy upon the farm? Have we not put agriculture' in the schools, • "mid do tee not have boys' and girls' clubs? Yes, Ave..have. done all thesaahings, but, so far as they affect the young man, these advantages are centered in Own. They have not yet reached the farm except When the boy cuts loose and goes to town, even to study agriculture. So it 'is that we are thrown back upon the resources of the farm if we are to devise ade- quate means of holding the young man in the country, and, as before remarked, this problem divides it- self into two distinctly different ques- tions. One is "how to raise the boy so he will like country life when he gets to be a man," and the other is, "how to help him to a farm when he arrives at man's estate." The latter question is the more difficult. The present article concerns itself solely with the question of how to meet the boy and the young man half way and utilize the facilities of the farm in educating him for country life. Of course some boys will never love the country, and these aught not to remain upon the farm; but atten- tion is invited to the condition of the country -minded 'boy ten to fourteen years of age and living upon the aver- age American farm -the boy who ought to grow naturally into a farm- er. • This boy wants three things: - First, a dog to boss and to respond to his whims and fancies. This de- sire can be easily gratified. Second, though neither he nor his father realizes what is the matter with him, this country -Minded boy with a touch of the wild in him really wants to live, for a little while now and then, the life of the savage. He wants to live in tents or caves and to trail his game or his imaginary enemy. This is all to the good. The writer still has the same desires. Every country boy should know how to pack, how to tie the diamond hitch, how to build a fire in the rain and how to pick out a trail that the tenderfoot would not suspect. All this he cannot do in most cases, but the instinct can be gratified with a pup, tent, a half holi- day or week -end now and then, and a membership in the Boy Scouts, which is one of the best organizations ever devised for boys. The thimmi thing the boy wants is money. Here is where the country father needs to be wise in knowing the difference between the conditions that confront the farm boy and those surrounding his cousin in town. The old apprentice system is gone. The town boy now spends his early boyhood in schocit and is, in the vast majority of cases, free to earn small amounts, especially during vacation. The result is that the city boy is earn- ing his nickels and dimes at a com- paratively tender age, and by the time he is fifteen or sixteen he talks about tny job." Of course his money is often wasted or worse than wasted, but that is not the present point. The point is that a natural instinct is be- ing gratified, and whether wisely or unwisely, the. fact ,rernains that ,it,..is gratified. On the farm the conditions are en- tirely different, at lewd in the Vast majority of cases, . There the old citig: tont still, bolds that the boy and ht labor ‘*,e1Ofig" to the father until the age of twenty-one, when the young man is legally his own boas. While SEAFORTR,' AY, Mt 27, 1921. Grand Empie Concert Will be' belt KING'S BI*TIIDAY, FOAY, JUNE 3rd In St. ;Andrew% KiPPen- 4. COTLAI Speaker - - - - - Rev. Mr. McIntosh, EA. Soloist - Miss Etta McKay Elocotionist Muse Ellis Chorus - --- -- - - Choir ENGLAND Rev. Mr. Garrett, B.A Miss Nellie Petty - Miss Iva Harris Choir Speaker Elocutionist Soloist Chorus Speaker - Soloist - Elocutionist Chorus Speaker - Elocutionist Singer Chorus IRELAND ---- - - - - Rev. Dr. Larkin ----- - - - Miss Ella Cook Miss Cook Choir CANADA - - - - Rev, Mr. Foster, B.A. - 'Miss Shaddock - John McArthur Choir ALL WELCOME. ADMISSSION 25e & 35c Concert at 8 p.m. the city boy at fifteen is earning good money and perhaps easy inoney, his country cousin will be plowing his father's corn for half _a dozen years yet. New it is important le know what this boy is probably 'thinking a- bout as he travels the corn rows up and down. It. is important, too, that the farmer should think about these two boys as well as about his pigs and cattle, his sheep • and his horses. This boy ought to stay on his fath- er's farm until he it twenty-one, for his own 'good, because it"will take all that time to learn to be a good farm- er; but if he is to do that and keep the iron out of his soul the father must meet him half way and gratify those few boyish instincts, especially the one for earning money. It will not answer taesayr "Oh, go ahead, John. Plow corn and be a good boy, and I will give you money when you need it." It will not do to point out the advantages of a good home or what it sista In raise a boy. The boy has forgotten how he nearly died with fever and what a bill the doctor ran up. He remembers only the headaches and the Aeli•ghtful free- dom of convalescence afterward. He is dimly conschate of course, that he owes iouch to his parents, but he is acutely aware that hi' k earning money every day 'for his fath- er. Besides, has he n: suddenly dis- covered that Mary is exceedingly fair to look ullimel? lie has needs for money that he does not rare to discuss with anybody, having reached the secretive age with problems of his own, Besides, he dosteet want to he "given" anything. All he wants is a man's chance, and in nil too many cases he will either take it before he is twenty-one or will stay dissatisfied, If the case has ever reached this stage, as it. has in thousands of in- stances, the father has lost a great opportunity for making a man out of a boy. That early desire for a little money can be gratified upon the farm as nowhere else and at the same time be utilized for teachiny one of the hardest lessons possible to geteunder the skin of a boy, namely, respon- sibility. The boy feeds the 1,:gs evesn' day along with other eheres. Whose pigs are they? Dad's, of course. Why of course?" The buy will get some of the proceeds of the pigpen anyway, as of the rest of the farm. Why not let him take some of time responsibility as well? Why not weigh up the pigs, or one pen of them at least. then weigh up the corn and divide the profits of the enterprise in feeding te,ent off?. "Oh, the boy is inexperienced." Well, my good Mister Father, if he is expert enced enough to feed pigs for you, then he is experienced enough to • 'feed pigs for himself. "Can't afford it." Can't afford it? Why? You are responsible for this boy and for landing him a man in the world, not a tramp, and you env,' the best of all machinery for doing it. Let the boy plow corn and mow hay. Let him feed pigs and help to milk, but in the name of justice, of expediency and of common sense, di- vide something with him as soon as he'begins to feel the need of things of his own and can be made to assume responsibility about some- thing that will bring Irina some money in a natural way. The city .boy often gets money without the slightest reference to values. He runs a little errand and, a Man tosses him a quarter, perhaps a dollar, and if the next one gives him what it is really worth -ten cents -then and there 'he begins to develop his 'grouch against society. This pen of pigs will be fed off and told in the open market, and the money that is the boy's afterward ,will be half the difference between the market value of the hogs and that of the corn which wag fed. In -•••••••414'1 !,. and if the "father 41„,:exerelin totct 'enough to use this, intereatjrop- italine it to aerate eIctent ,f0e .'1408. lug of a, Ilttle'snoneY; he, I there, by. hold lila boy 'arat 'at 'the' seine tame teach 'him some valuable les- sons (. in thrift and in the names job of carrying n0sPonsibility. , Ail this is good for the 'boy!, aid that way he gets experience. in real values and learns to pocket small as well as -good profits -even losses, perhaps, when things 'go badly. Again, the city boy gets his money at once upon earning it, at the end Of the day or the week. Not so the boy with his pigs. He feeds them day after day, week after week, estimates and re -estimates what he will get out of them, 'and has abundant time to make deliberate plans as to what he will do with the money. All this is good for the boy because it teaches him not only industry as a means' of getting money, but also responsibility as an enterpriser.. in the holding of anarlcetable property, and a somewhat deliberate invest- ment of the proceeds -all this for a part interest in a pen of pigs. It may be pigs, or it may be pop corn; it may be sheep, or it may be small fruits. In any case the prin- ciple is the same. On the farm the boy lives with living things, both plant and animal, and that of itself interesting to most boys. Besides that, there is machinery enough to add variety. By any count, life on the land is interesting to the country minded, ICE CREAM We are again serving the people of Seaforth with the best Ice cream it is possible to get -that is "Neil - sons." Ice Cream Brick$ it is the Way to start b Vita. about the problem as be nears', the estate -of yap*. nasinho*11' This what tries theritather. , • • - • Therd is no satilifattorY Way 'ether than tailing bins froaddr intO 10110- nership insoisab'brandif Of •the bSoi- ness at, wswenteen, or .eighteen; ac- cording to -rireurnstances. • . This has been done in many, 'many instances; and ethicist • always with success. 'Some fathers are Wrivilling to "turn over" their business, to -Any- one, and others fear that should it be. done the .boy would at ,once lose interest in .the farm as a whole. There need be no fear on this point and what happens generally as that the farmer has experienced a real addition of interest and managerial skill and not a loss of any portion of his business. But the inevitable day is coming 'when John is jio longer a boy. Be has been growing every year, and Mary has developed into an exceed- ingly attu active young lady. A new and independent family must 'be set op, for the process is to be repeat- ed. Now what shall the father do? Shall he begin now to Mmedacehis own business by cleaving off to John a section of the farm, 'himseli retir- ing entirely as the last boy is set up in business, or what shall he dot If the father continues to be wise he and his boys can get on together indefinitely. First of all, he 'will have to use his credit in grUbstaking them one after another, The wrench will come in turning over the old homestead finally to the last of the boys, ,and if there but one or two, this wrench will come earlier, while yet the father is in his early fifties perhaps. In any event, the families must domicile separately, for the old ad- age that "no house is big enough for two families" is sociologically sound. In this way has arisen a large fraction of the vast masa of retired farmers, and the way is natural and right, except that the father but rarely takes .root successfully in the new environment in town. The net expense of building a second house on the farm is less than that of buy- ing or even of renting a residence in town. The retired farmer's heart is where his life has so long been, and in the vast majority of cases it were better far to separate the families hut keoe the business together and all live amid the familiar scenes, But every man will do well to retire in favor of the younger gen- eration in the sense of handling over to them the bulk of the responsibil- ity, retaining such features of the business as best satisfy the older man. Quite aside from the welfare of the young and the, problem of keep - ire them attached to the land, one of the achievements of success is to know when to give it over into the hands of others; and the writer com- mends this problem to the earnest and thoughtful consideration of th'e thousands of fathers with the thou- sands of young men who ought to be well staked dovni before the father is carried over into the Great Be- yond. If the father insists in holding on to everything until the undertaker gets him, the boys by that time have become established in homes of their own, most probably in town, and the old farm will have become not a business to be conducted, but a run- down property to be inherited and therefore div bled. Wherefore, thoughtful fathers, ohwhile yet in the vigor of manhood, elm. em li take measures to hold their sons by taking then, into actual partnership as they coine along, even if in the end it means the turn- ing ever to others the bulk of the business. There is another problem in rela• tion to the boy whose father hoe, neither Nem nor money with which to buy one, but that, is e different; question and one for the public to help determine. What is here dis- cussed is the attitude of father and 5,•11 toward each ether, toward the fancily business and toward the final inheritance. From now on we will have a full assortment of ice cream bricks on hand. Special bricks for weddings, receptions and parties may be had by ordering in advance. Our Ice Create Parlor is equipped with "Voutex"-the pure white sani- tary service, and we use nothing but the best pure fruits obtainable. We make a specialty of keeping our Ice Cream in good condition for verrying home. Give us a try. SATURDAY CANDY SPECIAL Watch our window for a "Real Candy Special." W. A. Crich Attention !-- We are putting all our Sundae dishes at pre:will' prices. -10C Sundaes and up. SPECIAL SALE OF ICE CREAM FOR SATURDAY ONLY. Regular 50 cents a quart for 45c Pint All our home-made Taffies, reg. 40e lb for 25c .30c COME! DON'T MISS THIS OP- PORTUNITY FOR THE ICE CREAM- REMEMBER THIS IS A BIG BARGAIN. Per Quart 45e Olympia Restaurant and Ice Cream Parlor. 0ent: ,0*(8,4 0010V• erts- and If nce S *•-• .14f, dnring in 2',801b00'. at 0 4.00o,00Nookire,7, Year, 8,18fli1138 pounds 0.f gr8d4 -tr," the ' "cd,miiperative 01, .-aserribusinoi•:&" veloyed greatly, sopeciillY Prairie Provinces, Whew th Of 'cideinei.Y bilker 114 a decade from ,6,478 26 856,711 pounds. Publications issued do bY the Publications Broinellvp,_ Department wilts 2,400,000, 41101441.* 200,000 anaiitet reports. A vaa4 **,a iety of information is given, in ioka departmental repert,_,WInch detai,lii in, a comprehensive, Weil diRestect the opeiation during the year' or 411k, the experimental farms and stations, and all the branches.' and dinisions. THE RED CROSS - • Wibat is the Red Cso5e3blivet parently it is a fumbecoileOting ex- pedition with the .Red Cross Head•Tm quarters as its starting point. Itta personnel is composed of those 54(40 work for a represented' ' laudabig, purpose and those who Weeld, heti you believe -they work. Its ulterior object is the promotion of health. particulary ainongst the. school chil- dren. Its immediate object is the gathering of money to be split half' GM local organization and half to the headquarters. This Red Cross Drive was not the result of ballot by the' various delegates but eminated ly from Headquarters to whom, re- member, fifty per cent, of the pro-. ceeds return. Now if the health of Seaforth, tele(' public health of any locality...requires attention why send fifty per cent. of any collection to any Headquarters? If the school children are to be safe- guarded bodily, surely "the trustees can appeal for a doctor's aPpoint- • ment and the assessment will be levied not on the few but on the whble number, with no fifty per cent'. to Headquarters. If our good wo- men are to be employed in the Red Crtiss in this health drive, cannot their entire efforts be conserved for Seaforth' and vicinity to the end that 'Headquarters staff, now that the war is over, will seek other work in life as the soldier was forma to do.' We appreciate the vrork the Red Cross has done but we entertain a rather nervous -feeling', When 'told -ffifromilmlallectian-and'atitef drive "of the people, by the people, and for the people" is admirable and to be commended and supported, but a drive by some people, at the peo- ple, for some people. reeks "to Heaven of a rotteness that not eyen the good efforts of Red Cross willing. workers, or. the suave and subtile endeavors of those lacking the cour- age to say no. can remove from the nostrils of individuals who would and have supported every charity, If our children must be protected, hire a decter- not an advisory nurse. If our money is to be spent let it he on our children, never mind Head- quarters, and if serplus monies ac- cumulate God knows the poor are always with us. RATEPAYER. . A GLIMPSE AT CANADA'S AGRICULTURAL WEALTH. A table given in the Report of the Dominion Minister of Agriculture for the year ending March 31, 1920, plates the value of all the field crops in that year' at $1,812,915,000, and the value of dairy 'products at $247,531,352. The number of horses in the country is given as 3,6617,369, the nuiniber of mulch cows as :1,548,437, other cattle as 6,536,574, sheep as 3,421,958 and, swine as 3,940,070. Except in swine these numbers are slightly in advance of those given in the previous year, and swine are quoted as more num- erous than in 1915. 1910 and 1917. A noteworthy statement is that in three years of the war the Imperial War Office was supplied under the supervision of the Dairy branch of time Department with, hay, -pats and flour to the value of $98041,568, ye - presenting 481,250 tons Of 'bay* 70,- 495 221 litishelgaf oats mut 484,782,-. METHODIST DISTRICT MEETING_ The meeting- of Goderich district of Methodist church was held in Blyth m May 17th and 18th. The district comerises fifteen town and rural cherees. The meeting was com- posed of the ministers and one lay- man from each circuit. The work and studies of the students for the mitte istry took up part of ,he session. There are two of them this ..year, Mr. Button, of Walton, end Mr. Riv- ers, of tim,derich. A lengthy and in- tore,ring discussion on the "Follow - my" part of the national Foreeard' Movement brought out such points as the necessity of making the church a real community centre, and of int- • proving the church plants as far as pos,eble tei as ti make them cons- fortable and attractive. On the evening of the 17th a public meet - ire!. wns held nt which Mr. McComas excellent paper on "'Various interpretatious of Evangelism." The enertette and the choir plees- ed everyone with•excellent music. Ott the 18th the resorts of the fin - ere,: or the district, were read, and in most ea,ies Wen(' MOS'i. satisfactory. A long disenssion on the problem of eert sin areas where depopulation, had greatly weakened the congregations did not result in any definite recom- mom-Intim-Is for, at least, this year. Rev. D. N. McCamois was elected representative to the stationing corn - mit tee, while delegates were appoint- ed also the other committees of the conference. The officers of the district are: Rev. S. Anderson, chair- man; Rev. T. E. Sawyer, financial secretary; Rev. H. Royle and Mr. W. Hellyer, secretaries. The London. Conference will meet in Askin street church, London, beginning June 2nd.. 4,1 )hi 1i! CIIISELHURST Notes .-Mr. and Mrs. T. Hodgerts, of Teronto, spent the holiday at the home of his brother, Mr. G. tlitatylryanweprlee.=-begt. Mrlid..,. Ilitg. It'toer.,avcuherrmotor- The farmers are well advanced with their work. The rain following that storm ed to Kitchener on Monday ,last,m-- storm on Sunday night primed iltf .;,.. great benefit to, the , spring, • ,_ lest of.. rt.... several hot days' We . 080 *nude of flour, for, lebleh em- a - I • 5 •. • „ IAA; m„t'IML•4:44':tI ism,‘„, Ntm,A MOAN MN •• ; '*•14 -dir't,;;•