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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1923-11-30, Page 3Atilt% \ .1,., , tric,r5.11,1i;gGtalit:240.M.eadakigibaglig&qiiligaraall./11.6rattibis.FeikerWriihi' ,,*. nw,sil,WYW " "rgr;90; ,',11'111;arro' trr;krr - 14.."' ,P.' T 9 . ,t ; 5 , ' ; • i 1ph, ,.,;si kii " 14.,*.t; 7.ife* 4 ,..,, 4.13Eop Cfl, ' -, ..,,. ,,;,-,,,,,,k,7,.,,- SAPETT" BRIGS' . 8 , ,'',...1' '''' ''' '1.r.. ,,'• i ' '" 1 ''';'" '' ' ' , Manager. IDUADD THE DAIW• A AG 1N$T ,COLDS To guard the haby against colds 'nothing can equal Baby's Own Tab - Pets. The Tablets are a mild laxative that will keep the little mi0 stomach 4nd bowels working regularly. Kis a recognized fact 'that where the stom- ach and bowels are in good order Diet geoids will not exist; that the health .of the little one will be good and that ate will thrive and be hapPy. The 'Tablets are sold by medicine dealers air by mail at 25 cents a box from 'The Dr. Williams' 'Medicine Co., Brockville, Ont. THE PREACHER'S' HARD LOT .A.' preacher has a hard time. If xis hair is white, he'is too old. If he is a young man, he hasn't any ex- perience. If he has ten children he liras too many. If he has noae, he should have and isn't showing a good ^slunk. If his, wife sings in the choir, she is presuming. If she .dosen't, she dislikes her husband's --work. If a preacher reads his notes tie is a bore, if he speaks extempor- Aneously, he isn't deep enough. If ire ,atays at home in his study, he sdosdn't mix with the people; if he is zseen around on the streets, he oughr to be at home getting up a good ser- a -non. If he calls on a poor family, Is is playing to the grandstand. If walls at the homes of the rich he is inn aristocrat. Whatever he does, someone could have told him how to do it better. He has a time living off ,of donations which never come in. 'Next to being an editor it is an awful life.—Exchauge. /LAW OF SALVAGE IS DESPER- ATE CODE When one comes first in contact, And in dramatic circumstances, with the sea law of salvage, he probably -feels, as Arnold Prince felt, that it is -one of the most cold-blooded of codes. Mr. Prince's contact with salvage was in the case of the wrecked vessel, the Canadian Impor itga, in the Pacific, .as he tells in the l'York Tribune. :Be was aboard the Guggenheim ship, 'Cordova, Captain Carl V. Westerlund, .returning from Hawaii, and some 800 Smiles off the Pacific coast, when one asf the officers spied a speck about ffifteen miles distant which appeared to be acting in rather an eccentric snanner. After considerable study the -Captain came to the conclusion that it was a vessel in distress and the 'Cordova changed hen course 'and dreaded for the distant speck. A rain :squall came and it appeared .doubtful if the ship would ever be &righted, when suddenly she appeared A couple of hundred yards distant, and those 6n deck could make out her amine. The Importer was flying distress Aignals from masthead and rigging. 'One of them was the Canadian en- sign upside down, and two others car- ried the initials "N. 8.," which mean ••'We need immediate assistance." She - was wallowing very low in the water -and every time she rolled the gun- wales Oen her waist went under. She was heavily'loaded with !anther, and to the inexperienced eyes of the passengers on the Cordova it appear - ted that at any moment she was like- ly to go under. Through the glasses the expression on the faces of the .crew could be plainly read. They Avere like those of men condemned to ..death who had suddenly been repriev- -,ed. Presently a man appeared on the Isridge and some signals *ere ex - .changed, and then a boat was launch- ed from the Importer and headed for the rescuer. In the boat, sitting up- right, was Captain Bassett, clad in a _Royal Navy Reserve uniform. He lseld the stump of a cigar between ins teeth, a youngish man, smooth shaven. The small boat came alongside and a sea ladder was let down, up which eclimbed the Captain, while the sail- wrs remained in the little boat. The passengers on deck shouted encour- agement to them, and they seemed to need it, for they had been through a terrthle experience. They said that the ship had sprang a leak two -weeks before,, that two of her holds and an engine room. were flooded to a depth of twenty feet, that the -wireless was out of commission and that the vessel had a list of 30 de- srees. Loaded with lumber at Van- couver, she was bound for New Zea- land, and since spring a leak had leen out of control and because of the derangement elf ler wireless had been unable to let her position ba known to any other vessel. Some time before eleven members of . the crew, which numbered forty-four in all, had put of/ in a smell boat for land 800 miles away to bring help for the Importer. It may be noted here that this small boat made land -after Undergoing many hardships, eotnes three ,weelia later, and a gevk hours„after the Tiniairteir herself been found. - Captain Beset 'erallted silently • through the kinks of the Cordova passengers and entered the cabin of the eaptain. A ;short time later With the cigar butt still in bis mouth, he came on -deck again, went 'down the ladder and was rowed away. There followed a clang og a bell and the Cordova was on her course. There was a sensation among the passengers. Rushing to the captain they demanded to know why the Importer was being aban- loned. The captain quietly explain ed• that Captain Bessett has refused his tow, that he had merely asked 'or the use of ,the wireless to com- municate his position ashore, and then had gone back to risk his own life and the lives of his men on the battered Importer. It was explained that -if he had. accepted a tow, his •hip would have been salvage, that' ship and contents were, worth $2„- 000,000 and that, ' by the law of the sea, the vessel that rescued them would be entitled to some ten per tent. of the total value. That was 'ea law. The captain of the Cor- dova might have offered to do the 3b for less, but sea law forbade, and rather than call upon his owners to pay this sum Bessett elected to risk his own life and the lives of his men. There was a happy ending to the ad- venture, because after a three weeks' search the Importer was found by vessels sent in search of her, and no doubt her captain was handsomely rewarded or at least let off with a mild rebuke for having permitted his ship to spring a leak. Unusual? Not at all. This goes es all the time"on all waters, and i the case of vessels leaving all ports, says Mr. Prince. Not long before the Importer was disabled, another Canadian ship, the Princess Sophia, was her name, went on the rocks in Alaskan waters. She was a passeng- er carrier and had several hundred persons on board. The skipper °re- fused help thinking the tide the next day would float his vessel off the sprung up, and every human being on board the Sophia, as well as the ves- sel itself, was lost. Then, of course, there was the Exporter, sister ship of fhb Importer. She refused aid for the same reason as did the Importer, and was pounded to pieces. I said in the beginning that the of- ficers of the Weaterlund displayed a certain amount of excitement when the Importer was sighted, and I inti- mated that this was caused by something in addition to their natural desire to be of assistance. This is true. No greater windfall can come to the officers of a merchantman than to rescue a rich prize at sea. • TREES AND MICE The young tree plantation and older orchard have two serious ene- mies among our redents. These are rabbits and mice. 'Each require sep- erate means of combatting. A fence of two inch mesh poultry netting is admirable to keep rabbits from gird- ling the tree trunks, but the smaller rodents, to be foiled of tree -bark fodder, must meet further obstacles. Many methods have been advocat- ed and tried with total or partial suc- cess. Among these are the raising of a small mound of earth from eight to twelve inches about the base of the trunk; the tramping. of snow full* about the trees; the use of tar paper; the use of sulphite white building paper; the use of wire pro- tectors, mesquite netting, or galvan- ized wire cloth; the use of wooden veneer protectors; poison, with one part of arsenic and three parts, by weight, of;corn meal. . Probably the cheapest safe. pro- tection is secured by wrapping each individual tree trunk with white building paper in late October or No- vember and then lacing a slight mound of earth around the bottom of the Wrapping. This treatment has not failed in seven years trial. The sulphite used in the making of the paper acts as a repellant to the mice. Tar paper may be used but there are instances where this paper has caused injury to the trees. A durable protection is made from galvanized wire cloth. This is pur- chased by the roll and should be twice as wide as the protection is to be in height. The roll is eut in two and then into strips, twelve to eighteen incites long to fit aroma) each tree trunk. These protectors are rolled around an iron rod to give them n spring, then placed about the tree trunk and pressed downward a couple of inches into the soil. Such pro- tector, will last several years. Mes- quite 'wire netting is fairly satisfac- tory ad 'temporary protection. Sta- tion e protectors most in farm. are At/ the Morden ExPerimental mde from galvanized Perfect `Metal lath. They are similar to those made item wire cloth except for difference Internal and Externa ains are promrly relieved by De THOMAS ' EC ECTRIC OIL THAT IT HAlk BEEN SOLI Foil HEARIN' F1 YgA A is TO -DAT` A MEAT Ft ',ELL Tit Is 11E42 mamwatliawivettilwil • SiN, vnitoltat45.**intfi,da fl1to •pf' 0060 heAtlantic 66' cattleqett 'the 'hoer Winnifrediatt, sap a 40 004 11111s-meilifid of ob4sxing a free bePasiteMeMie erntilet9t *picIpIt :d7te°110 tonne hard :work and to forego the at home eeillfette for while. PThe cattlemen's' fo'c'etle is gener- ally helps/ that of the sailors', and is' furniebed,With doable tiers of bunks round the bulkheads and a table. Be- ing near the water line, the port- holes; ean only be opened in fine wea- ther, so, that the air is often none too pure. The food is generally,fasmd and plentiful, but not too "nicely' served. The cattle are. housed in pens on •the Main deck, and, sometimes, on both twe,enIclecks also. There are two rows of pens on each side of the deck with a narrow passage between them, alai the animals are tied by the head so as to face this Passage, four or five being in each pen. The work starts at daybreak. First dotal', the pens are washed out with the hose, a comparatively easy job on the main deck, but not too enviable down in the aween- decks, where it has to be done in semi -darkness, with hardly enough room to turn round, and in the foulest of air. When thedecks are fairly clean the cattle are fed andwatered. Big bales of alfalfa grass are hoisted out of the -hold, split with the bare hands snd shredded out, and distributed a- mong the pens. Water is then car- ried in iron buckets. Generally, there is one man for every twenty-five head of cattle, and in fine weather the work is not so hard. But when one of the famous Atlantic gales sets in, the cattleman begins earning his passage with a vengeance. He now has to work among the roars of frightened beasts and the thunder of seas, on a rolling, slip- pery deck. If he has to fight against seasickness as well, he is, indeed, to be pitied. A false step and he may be pitched into one of the pens, an - der the hoofs of a maddened steer. He is then lucky if he comes out with only a few broken ribs. Then there is the foreman to be considered, generally an old -tinier, hard as nails, and none too gentle with beasts or men. He will over- look unskilfulness on the part of an "amateur" provided he shows will- ingness, but he will certainly not tol- erate seasickness, or any such minor ailment, as an excuse of laying up. The average cattle boat takes ten days to cross the Atlantic, and by the end of that time the temporary cat- tleman has, on the whole, well earn- ed his free passage. ARMY OF NEGROES MOVE NORTH Seven hundred thousand negroes, born in the South, have migrated to the North, East and West within the last six years. Two hundred and fifty 'thousand of these went to their new homes during the world war, in response to a call for labor in the manufacture of munitions of war, and 450,000 since 1921. These figures are agreed upon by the United States federal and state authorities, who "have made a study of the subject. The States of Georgia, Florida and Mississippi sustained the greatest losses, and Ohio, Pennsylvania and Michigan made the greatest gains. Georgia lost approximately 225,000 of its negro population within the last eighteen months, Florida 100,000 and Mississippi 95,000. It is estimated that 175,000 of these migrants went Ur Ohio, 105,000 to Pennsylvania and 50,250 to Michigan. At first the people of Florida and Georgia were glad to see -the surplus negroes go, but later when lumber- man and representatives of smaller enterprises commenced to complain of a shortage of labor, steps were taken to prevent outside agents from soliciting men. The very cream of the negro labor was being tapped by the big railroads. City after city pdssed ordinances prohibiting the wholesale procuring of workmen. That was the beginning of the first negro labor exodus, and it continued until hostilities in France ceased. During the "deflation" period, after peace was restored, many negroes who went north and west to supply the war time demand were let out of their jobs. There was a slowing down of the wheels of industry, and the first to suffer were southern ne- groes who enlisted for the emergency. Many returned to the south to work there, but about 250,000 remained in their adopted states, and in some places brought about ,flifficult situa- tions. At Cleveland, Ohio, the cham- ber of commerce considered means of getting rid of those who remained there. A plan to ship them back to the south was contemplated, for the temporary demand for their services over Many of them were making trouble. But when new prosperity dawned and business commenced to improve the negroes were put to work and as the demand was greater than the supply, another call was made on the south. That resulted in the pres- ent exodus. "The centre of negro population in the United States has been changed 9.4 miles farther east, and 19 miles farther north on accgant of this movement. This is the first time this centre has assumed a north- easterly trend in the history of the country." This is expert testimony, given aft- er investigation and reflection. The south is beginning to realize that it is in danger of losing its cot- ton/ producers. Its monopoly on that stapld cannot continue indefinitely if the negro laborer deserts its planta- tions. In the present movement, good States, like good emaloyers, have not suffered as heavily as States and employers whose treatment Of the negro Wad not so considerate. . 0 "0 L ries fx04 „ce Imo l ir to the,flo,O.t e ray ,andinia emplor:r to, eir tieneee eIt in 90 ter _debt; , Kil' arnall iiert* K int glan and *gee., inetnnee a teirt , W 9Whith peOpie". iiyorn, down .ae; hatkageOreed.2:'• ....' rbegett 47,7 and•re oced;tinante*PeonnOe;"•Ula OOP. WS .at"A;•4 - „ti0,-Akr, white eitisene, but allowed to te. go holding the • . hiJOge" grO. 41001 henees and negro bikes, that :bee been :pp Att; Cannot be said of i! :majority brow when„the .prgt'd , of ;the 01444 On, ,,, „ , and Invernwis eountieS, , _Pape ptef0)3 "The boll weevil boa, crippled many publicly stead that the MrrItory,cov. leading farmer's analut`thent in a ered by this lease contained oni bad position, and they are unable to three million Cards of pulpwood, wbi stand by their negro; tenants and in the . report of the Conservation employees. Cominission," it is stated that thie "From the cotton field at 65 to 'is lease contains twelve million cord,. cents a day the negro farmer is going This estimate of twelve million cords, to the n.rth, wait and -west, where be which was later combrated bj some of the best for,esters and lumbermen geta almost that much, per hour. and more widespread".,FaerMnouwinew, "This movement grows stronger howafiwasInadperobbaYbr`thlaeternicl. , neted, capable, highly educated and truined forester of bis day. As it was also stated by this same witheSii that there was n bndwo thi Chasing c.tt:e. A little mousy placed In fencing ray save soree'sick cattle. Stan; mu- le die every year from going through eak spots in the ez,r,1 1.0.d fence Lrt,ortii.JI:irNirviilii,11 'f):L.,11, 1:, iollreail haless rvhere they sac° t.3 trot rchee, One Our of chasing cattle is ;larder on the lege and the temper 'hi half a 'lay of hard work 1, Lilt) ::,,a. Let the sow and PI " t"c7s2 111 of the time to a I• CAUSES OF BACKACHES Every muscle in the body needs a supply of rich, red blood in proportion to the work it does. The muscles of the back are under a heavy strain and have but little mat. When the blood is thin they lack nourishment and rebel. The result is a sensation of pain in these muscles. Many people are frightened into believing that backaches are due to kidney trouble, but the best medical authorities agree that backache is very seldom due to kidney trouble. In fact not more than one backache in a hundred has anything to do with the kidneys. The Whole trouble is due to thin or impure blood, and those who are troubled with pains in the back or loins, either frequent or occasional. should look to the condition of the blood. It will be found in most cases that Dr. Pink Pills by build- ing up the blood and feeding the starved nerves and muscles will ban- ish the pains and make you feel bet- ter in every other way. How much better it is to try Dr. Williams' Pink Pills for your blood than to give way to unreasonable alarm about your kidneys. If you reakly suspect your kidneys any doctor can make a test in ten minutes, that will set your fears at rest, or tell you the worst. All dealers• in medicine sell Dr. Williams' Pink Pills, or you can get them by mail at 50 cents a box from The Dr. Williams' Medicine Co., Brockville, Ont. PULPWOOD EXPORT I am very glad of the oppottunity that is from time to time afforded Inc by some correspondent, who has little knowledge of what he writes, to further emphasise the alarming situation that is facing Canada with regard to its rapidly diminishing wood supply. Ellwood Wilson, one of Canada's foremost foresters, says that this is not only the most import- ant pending question before the Do- minion to -day, but is one for Canada alone to solve. The figures pertaining to the a- mount of pulpwood were standing in Canada, as quoted by a correspondent in a recent issue of a Canada news- paper, are, to say the least, very wide of the facts. The makers of these figures frankly state that they are a mere guess at best. In any event, we in the East are only concerned with the stand of spruce and fir pulpwood in the four provinces of Ontario, Que- bec, New Brunswick and Nova Scotia In this connection, I will quote from this. same Dominion Forestry Branch document, referred to by this corres- pondent, which states that these Eastern Provinces contain 552,210,- 000 cords of all kinds of softwood, but es only two-thirds of this amount would be merchantable puljswood,this would be reduced to 368,000,000 cords deducting 30,000,000 cords for inac- cessibility, we get 288,000,000 cords of accessible pulpwood in these prov- inces. Accepting these figures, which I shall challenge later on, and allow- ing for an annual cut of 5,000n00 cords and a far greater depletion caused by insects, fungi,ffire and wind the situation is critical indeed. In support of this I need refer only to what has happened along just one line of 'railway in Canada; the Trans- continental between LaTuque ' and Cochrane, where, by an actual cruise, it was found that 20,000,000 cords of standing wood were destroyed by fire while the railroad records for the same period show that only 1,000,000 cords of all kinds of wood products were shipped, showing a loss of 200,- 000,000 cords by the spruce budveorm in these same Eastern Prorrinces, will enable the people to understand how rapidly we are losing our wooded areas. The reason I challenge some of the figures that have been published in Government and ConserVation Com mission reports, which, as T,stafed be- fore, even the makers say are largely mere guesses, is became some of these, by an actual cut, have proved to be over -optimistic as to the supply The exhaustive aerial 'Survey made a year ago by the Ontario Govern- ment over the James BSY,Watershed is a case in point, VAS; iterirhas 9 rin on s tract, and that only a matter of one hundred and fifty thousand cords had been cut since this estimate was made, it shows clearly that the a- mount called for in this report fell short just seventy-five per cent. and this is only one instance of -heveial of the same nature that have recently been brought to my attention, pro'v- lug conclusively that the estimates in this small growth are almost in- variably too' high. In their frantic endeavour to fool the Canadian people, some of these American representatives, with their large figures, totally ignore the fact that we have lost two hundred million cords of pulpwood throilgh the rav- ages of the'budworm alone, while our forest fire loss is increasing from year to year, the present season hav- ing shown the greatest loss 'from this cause in Quebec and .New Brunswick •that has been experienced in the his- toty of these provinces. There is not a water power or water shed in the Dominion that is not already suffer- ing from a lack of 1.;. -est cover, many rivers having been lower the present season than ever before, and many wells and springs having failed for the first time. This drying up of the earth's ,surface is accountable for the alarming increase in our forest fires, and this is a phase of the situation that our puny politicians at Ottawa will he forced to recognize. Judging from the "testimony" giv- en by some American pulpwood deal - err at these "hearings," one might be led to believe that with the advent of an embargo at least one-fifth of all the newspapers in the United States would go out of business,—while as a matter of fact, the only change that will be brought about will be the erection of at least sufficient new pulp mills in Canada to make good the deficiency in the unmanufactured wood that is now being exported. In order to provide a market for what actual farmers Or settlers wood is now leaving the country, not more than six mills of a hundred ton's ca- pacity each would have to be built. No other solution would be open to the American newspapers whose 141,lilytaerojoire, ,:i;'::63e wan7114P1:11:xei.pt 01:7401ft or'awt'ebe tAkeWel;ifIL° AI\ •pa • rlf.this bile Pr; yy 2erir:r, can pulpwood -*oar ler the AMP* ers' and ,settlere' este te yore boo- kum. The fanner and eettler /rill he, vemberyargeo/Treeaslabbelywninefiotte9.dnirbarwl ample home competition for his woad through the advent of, I am afraidf too many new mills, but he will Wive a home market for his farm produce and labor for himself and family as well. The -Government of Ontario has al- ready received applications for loca- tions for ten new pulp mills, which causes the efficient Minister of Lands and Forests, the Hon. James Lyons, to remark that if all of these re- quests are granted, he does not knoW what will become of the pulpwood. supply of the province. Several new pulp mills are projected in the prov- inces of Quebec, New Brunswick and Nova Scotia. If the mere agitation for an embargo has already .prodtic- ed such substantial results, I will leave the people to judge what the announcement of the actual embargo would accomplish for the welfare of Gamed& As Boon as the, embargo goes into force, it will then become immediately necessary to take up the question of a reduction in the cut, better fire protective measures and a real forest conservation programme. With reference to the embargo, it is with much pleasure that I quote what Sir John Willison, as President of the Canadian Reconstruction As- sociation says, as follows: "We must either manufacture the raw materials of Canada within the country.—thus employing labor, rear- ing new communities, providing lo- cal markets for merchants and pro- ducers, strengthening the national structure, reeking the back of Can- ada strong to bear its accumulating bwrdens—or the sons of Canada will follow these raw materials out of the country, establish themselves ins foreign industrial centres, and, more and more from year to year, the na- tional burden /will become heavier and the issue of the great political experiment in which we are engaged become more difficult -and uncertain: Every sound economic and natural reason, therefore, demands that the raw materials of Canada shall be manufactured in Canada, and the Canadian people protected in the pos- session and control of their natural inheritanqe." The opinion and corroboration of such outstanding loyal Canadians and high authorities as those whose - cillother says Ma' , POW* 0„ •alesthyn g AtO If the-Geire not pogisess ate Vac priety la.now1aap* big the wo$e *hp uw the peowes.31/4), wood ComMmeittneell the of this commission. outs should hand in their realigna: decline to any ksngr too ticipating in that* •fareiril lugs. , ,gb FRANK 3. D. IAA Montreal, key. Satli 1923. Stop! • Look! CREAM WOMB We are not only a flreain for you. but we are also Dairy Industry in your comrnufl We respectfully soliM4 yoor Cram. Our Motto: Guaranteed Accurate Weights' miff Testa. Courteous and Prompt Service. Highest Market Values. CreamGrading.• A difference of 8 cents -Ter potmd Butter Fat paid between No. 1 and No. 2 Grade Cream. , • Cash For Cream. 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