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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1938-07-01, Page 6- ;1� yv: eek Vit: Ottawa Wednesday, June .22 'Title extreme heat and a long see- Went is beginning to make its effect Cm the members. A couple of days ago one of the Ontario members had et weak poll as a result of the heat. relay Hon. Charles Dunning, who has been under a tremendous strain as a result of the load he is carrying, also had to leave the Chamber. Mr. Dunning is one of the busiest men in the Cabinet. In his position he is hardly ever absent from his tepee in the House. Ile is also one of the best informed men in the Cab- inet. He can discuss intelligently al- most any question that, arises. One often wonders how he finds the time to make such exhaustive studies in regard to all matters which are brought to the attention of the House. Today the discussion on the budget continued all day, but the whips are endeavoring to cut: the time on this eiscussion and the vote may be tak- en tomorrow. In the Senate Committee consider- ing the railway situation, Sir Edward Peelle was again the ohaef witness. One point emphasized today was the fear that if unification should occur, it will lead to monopoly and that if there is monopoly it will be under public ownership. It is thought that the public would not stand for any- thing less than that. Senator Meighen should confess a bit • of worry on that point. The cou- elusion of the inquiry by the Senate Committee does not mean its early solution. All the committees can do is to suggest what they consider the best thing to do. The inquiry has brought out a lot of illuminating in- formation. It has disclosed the ere ar:•cial position of the two roads. It has also disclosed the failure of en- deavors effectively to co-operate, al- though h in that line some progress has been made. Evidently at this stage, the idea of endorsing unification of the two sys- tems is out. The alternatives are to bring about coercive co-operation which the Canadian. National people suggest,' or to give ear and sanction the idea of the C.P.R. as suggested today by Mr. Beattie for a further in- quiry by expert engineers. The Civil Service Committee con- tinues to sit twice per day with the hope pf completing its task by the end of this week. I11GNWAY'S MINISTER URGES COURTESY FOR WEEK- END VISITORS * * * Thursday, June 24 The budget debate ended tonight with a near approach to the record for brevity. Three things contributed to this expedition -the lack of contro- versial content, the desire for early prorogation, and the indisposition of the Minister of Finance who will not likely be back in his place during the remainder of the session. Therewere, three divisions, the C. C. F. sub -amendment evidently design- ed to embarrass some Western Lib- erals. This sub -amendment was de- feated by 169 to 23, Mr. Taylor (Ind.) Mr. Neill (Ind.) and H. H. Stevens, Reconstruction, vetThe with the Gov- ernment. The Conservative amend- ment was defeated by 136 to 53, and finally the motion carried by 135 to 52. Harry Leader voted with the C.C.F. and Social Credit on their sub -amend- ment and voted against the Govern- ment on the main motion. Harry was formerly a Conservative, then a Progressive, and now calls hfimself a Liberal -Progressive- He alone on the Government side voted against the main motion. The principal utterances of the day were made''',by Mr. Cahan, who from the Conservative side gave voice to some definite 'warnings about trade treaties and their negotiations. Mr. Callan stressed the point that there was a profitable trade with the United Kingdom and it should not be sacri- ficed by reason of any emotional and hysterical appeals for the improve- ment of our political relations with Co-operation of Press . and Public Reducing Highway Accidents, Says Hon. T, B. McQuesten. YEAR'S PEAK LOA Confidence in the driving habits of Ontario's motoring •population was ex- pressed Tuesday night by Hon. T. B. McQueeten, Minister of Highways, in discussing the coming holiday week- end's heavy traffic. "Ouir national holiday and she Unit- ed States national holiday coming on the same long week -end marks the heaviest traffic loads in the year for our highways," the minister said, "and all officials of the highways' depart- ment are hopefully looking forward to a good da-iving record over the holi- day. "Our safety campaigns Carried on in the newspa1Yers, ooupled with the co-operation that has been given by editors and by the public,. do neem to be, having an effect in reducing the numiber and seriousness of accidents. Recent holiday week -ends have been marked by fewer accidents than in other years and we do feel that the educational safety campaign has •con- tributed greatly to a,n improvement in driving and walking habits, leading to fewer accidents." The minister appealed to motorists for special oonsiderati•on to visiting motorists over the holiday week-end- "CourteSy toward guests is always ex- pected,t' he pointed out, "and on this occasion the greatest courtesy we can extend visiting motorists is to give them 'all the breaks' while they are travelling on unfamiliar roads. It is no more than we would expect, and appreciate, when• we are 'visiting mo- toristsr across the border. "At the same time," he added, "On- tario expects reasonable co-operation from visitors and those who are not accustomed to our roads .have an ob- ligation to exercise special care in their driving to help prevent acci- dents." Nearly every public-spirited safety and industrial organization in the province is working with his depart- ment, Mr. McQuesten said, in promot- ing safety on the highways, and he felt the wholehearted co-operation coming from the press of Ontario was a definite factor in the general im- peovement of traffic conditions on the highway eene When and if the true story of the TVA is' told there will be a plethora of red Faces among the leaders of the New BeaI-, While such things have no bearing on Canada, our leaders Should take warning and not be led into following such new fangled ideas as spring from the minds of the Brain Trusters. When Uncle Sam wakes up he'll have an awful hang- over, but it will be too late then. our neighboring republic. Mr. Callan went into the matter rather exhaus- evely and proved to his Satisfaction, if not to the House, that it was not in Canada's best interest to throw away any advantage in the British market for what might not be stable in the 17n•ited States market. Gerry McGeer returned again to his pet theory of monetary reform, and talked his full forty minutes, telling word for word what she has repeatedly told in the House. Mr. -Motherwell attacked the banks for having closed a branch 'in his con- stituency. But what good a bank can do in an area where there is •no crop, and all on relief, he did not explain. With the budget cleared away, it is ern§dent the House is going to put on a drive to close by the early part of July. Pigs and Poultry. bring Cash to Mennonites (By Miriam Green Ellis in Family Herald and Weekly Star) Few Westeh farms are being oper- ated) in the same name in whiob the homesteads were filed. The striking exception to this is in the Mennonite districts of Manitoba where the farms hav carrieleee. into the third and fourth generation. Grandsons of those sturdy pioneers wtho came from the, Russian Steppes in 1874, '75 and '76 are now farming the original home- steadts and the fourth generation is at school and doing fa.rm chores night and morning betting ready to take over in their turn. It is estinlated that 96 per cent. of Mennonite sons have stayed on the farm, and that has not just happened. It has been by definite intent and training. Theother four per cent. are t You a captions.sax- u will find Mennd Menu to doctor in Golden British Columbia, an extension worker in Brandon, an in- terpreter in Winnipeg. a University professor in British Columbia and an- other at Oxford. The latter went ov- er in the first place as Rhodes schol- ar from Manitoba and remained to became head of the department of Romance languages: But Mennonite boys and girls are by tradition and training "of the soil" and the problem which worries the Mennonite fathers today is what is go- ing to happen when the surplus is forced away from the community. Un- doubtedly it will weaken the church, but it will also hasten their absorp- tion into Canadian life. Already they have outgrown their original holdings and )have spread out into other dis- tricts, usu'al'ly going in groups of fam- ilies. But it is no Monger possible to make general statements about Mennonites. When they first came sixty -odd years ago they settled in villages •with the farms spreading out in the background as they had in Russia, but now the villages are breaking up and the Men- itnite fanners are settling on their own farms. Always good mechanics, their farms are as well mechapized as any other. A few years ago a Men- nonite was allowed to have an engine to operate his pump but it was sinful to have an automobile. Today most Mennonite farms leave automobiles.. trucks and tractors. Some of the houses are electrified; many have hot water heating, a few having running eater. Noticing many new tractors, I said to one of the prominent young men of he community, "Do your people buy on credit like other Canadians," to which he replied, "it used to be a part of our religion to pay for every- thing as we bought, but I am afraid we don't live )up to that any more." The mature generation of the day, whether that day was in 1400 or 1938. always deplores the tendencies of the young generation. This applies to all races and creeds alike, and the Men- nonites are no exception. These young people, they say, do not plant trees "as we did." They do not like to work in the gardens. They go to town too much in their cars. They burn the stubble and the soil drifted. It is even suspected that the young folks go to dances. But generally speaking the Mennon- ite of today is as good as any other farmer. Personality enters here as everywhere else and there are grind farmers and bad farmers among them, but speaking generally again, their communities are a source of pride; their buildings better painted; their machinery cared for; and while the cid-timers complain that the_ young ones are not planting trees, a. drive through the settlements shows many new plantings, in fact nearly every farmstead has shelters around the buildings, and sometimesrows of trcce along the fields. There, is a good gar- den on every farm, well 'furnished cel- lars in the houses. From Wild Plums to Tame In the old days wild plums and choke cherries were included in their tree plantings. These were good but as the Mennonite settler progressed TH1SNUST ST 0 Don't drive when you can't see or be seen. You need two headlights correctly focussed, and a tail light if your car is to be visible to other drivers. You need clean headlights, delivering full illumi- nation if you are to see the roadway dearly at night. Have yyur lights checked frequently to be certain that you fulfill these minimum requirements for safety after dark. ONTARIO DEPARTMENT OF HIGHWAYS Motor Vehicles ,branch from Wihite Fite to Marqui* to Re- nown, he also progressed from wild plums to tame varieties; the demand for fruit trees for Mennonite gardens increases year by year. George Chipman was one of the first to recognize the possibilities of the Menaaonite melons and crossed one of the earliest with Milwaukee Market. The progeny he turned over to Dr. Yeager, who continued to select, and the best of his selections is named the Zephyr- whaah is now on the mar- ket. R. W. Wilson, horticulturisteel Indian Head, also has developed a commercial melon from Mennonite straitis. John Rempel, one of the '74's, , re- calls that they also brought the Kochia, or ;broomwed, from which coarse brooms were made. There was also the Prossste mallet, which was us- ed for thuman as well as stock feed. While some of these, particularly the sunflower, the melon, and -the 9ucum- •ber, have been a definite contribution to western agriculture, the Mennon- ites also have to take the blame for the-inhroduction of the Russian thistle and leafy spurge, two very bad pests. Mixed Farming Just wtby the Mennonites do not more naturally take to live stock is not apparent. They have always been known as "good to their horses," but as a class they have not been cattle men or breeders. Since the -depres- sion they have become more live stock conscious, and particularly since the appointment of agricultural repre- sentatives. In, the Steinbach area, they have quite definitely gone into mixed farming of late years, and this has meant better dairy cattle, flogs, poultry, bees, raspberries, and so forth. Carloads of raspberries are shipped from Steinbach each year. While the Western Reserve Men- nonites• have been chiefly grain farm- ers they have also grown a lot of pigs and poultry. Plum Coulee is one of the heaviest egg shipping points in the province and it is nothing unus- ual for Morden to have thirty to fifty cases of eggs piled on the railway platform. While the Leghorn are popular for their egg laying ability', the' Mennonite women are liable to have a few Black Langshans as well, or one of the theavy breeds for table use. The 'Mennonites are famous sausage makers, turning out a dozen different varieties; they cure their own halms and baoon. In earlier times hogkilling day was a festival with them, when the neighbors gath- ered round. They liked their hogs fat; four or five hundred pounds was not too big. They fried out the fat, saving every last ounce of lard, and the scrapple was a special treat. So it was rather a difficult lesson for them to appreciate a 200 -pound bog. Jack Crawford was the first ag- ricultural representative down in that part, and he must have had a way with him for they got in Yorkshire sires and proceeded to streamline their hogs almost against their better judgment, and now Walter Frazer buys them Yorkshire boars and they like it and give him money to buy more. Their improvement in hog raising is shown by the fact that in 1932 the Rhineland municipality was twenty-fifth for quality out' of thirty- two municipalities. In 1936 they stood fifth. Their percentage of selects is 20 to 21 as against a provincial'aver- rdge of 17 to 18 per cent., and this' is one of the heaviest shipping constitu- encies in the province. Some Men- nonite shipping points have registered as Thigh as 44 per cent. That inter- est in better cattle is improving, is indicated by the fact that there are 20 government ., bulls in the Rhine- land municipality, and the Steinbach area has gone definitely into mixed farming during depression years. Enter the Holstein,, The Neubergthal district has made real progress with Holstein cattle. This village .has used Holstein bulls, since 1922. Until this year these have always been government loaned bulle but now they have bought a real top sire as well as some pure bred heifer calves. Generally the Mennonites 'of the° Western Reserve favor Sthort- horns with a few) Ayrshires (here and there; the new co-operative cheese factory has increased the interest in milking types. As to horses, the Men- eonite takes naturally to Aeroherons. With the prize Money from the Community Progress competition Gretna district purchased a Peroher- on stallion in 1933, sold him in 1936, and purchased a son of Monarch, for which they did not 'hesitate to hand out $600. A group at Winkler als c purchased a horse and clubbed him in the community for the; past four years. But it would appear that Men- nonites are barely meeting their own horse requirements; even though new tractors are as common on Mennon- ite farms as on any others. On the light soil areas of the Rah.ine- land municipality, corn definitely, has found a home. In fact its use On the heavy soil is also increasing. Led by John Crawford and W. J. Blakey, there was a drive on corn planting a few years ago, and with the institu- tion of A. A. Meeker's corn diving plant at Winkler real progress has been made. Corn has taken the place of summer -fallow; it has been a good check on drifting, and the use of 'corn and sweet clover is encouraging the growing of more stock. Seven or eight years ago Mennon- ites of the Western Reserve found that things were going backward in- stead of forward with them, and 'de- cided' to do something about it. They organized an agricultural ssociety, which has been the .mlainspring for many community efforts. That first year they held a fair and it was an outstanding sucoest in spite of the fact that Mennonite custom did not permit of money prizes. But customs change with Mennonites as with oth- ers and today prize ,money 1's offered and 'accepted in fact demanded. "It 'was the agricultural society which sponsored. short courses and Does YOUR System Make Excess Acid? - Acid Indigestibn, Colds, Headaches, Bilious Attacks, • Constipation OFTEN START THIS WAY Some people are what are known as acid.'makers. They can't help it -and often they don't know it. The results of an excess of acid may seem just hke ordinary stomach trouble - but they can't be put right by ordinary'stomach remedies! Excess acid may by the reason why you wake up flat, sour, bleary-eyed, 'bilious - and the reason why fierce purgatives only leave you in the grip of a weakening habit and the same old symptoms. But there's -one thing that acid can't face. That's the neutralizing power -of Vange Salts, the alkaline remedy with the natural mineral spa action. A tea- spoonful in warm water surges through your system just like the medicinal spring water far away in England where Vange Salts come front. Excess acid is neutralized quickly, painlessly. Your blood is purified of poisons. Your sore stomach walls are soothed. And that mass of hard, poisonmee waste matter lying in your intestines " is softened gently, naturally, and passed out of your body. Then do you feel good! It's marvellous! But the most marvellous thing is that Vange Salts are only 60 cents a tin! At your -drug- gist now -but if you're wise, on your bathroom shelf tonight! this year the -course was extended to five months Both for boys and girls. The society also sponsored Junior Clubs, of which there are some forty in the Rhineland area, and the Gretna Grain 'Club,,•all Mennonite boys, won the Harrison shield last year as the best Grain Club in the province. Also two boys from this club won the trip to the Royal. • Just how . these modern conditions will affect the Mennonite is a prob- lem.,of much concern to their leaders today. GLAMOR LIES IN ABILITY TO BE ;YOURSELF To be glamorous, to be sought af- ter, tp be envied} -this is the ideal for personal, success which is dom- inating the ambitions of the young- sters growing up today. Too often we hear the suggestion that Joan or Nancy is attractive because she looks "more and more like Greta Garbo ev- ery day," Or that the young man just turned 21 -who lives down the street is a second Clark Gable. As a result, the elder generation oc!mplains of the shallowness of the new generation and exclaims that "all thes•e youngsters deess alike and think alike and look alike." It's an old algebraic formula that things which are equal to the same thing are equal to each other, and when children have been un•oonscious- ly steeped in the Hollywood ideal of beauty and deportment, then there's no wonder that the country is full of imperfect reflections of, Garbo, Joan Crawford, Katherine Hepburn and Ginger Rogers. Some parents have the understand- ing and sense of justice which de- velops true individuality in.their chil- dren. One approach that may do won- ders onders to build up the personality of a grown daugthter who find's it difficult to adjust herself to the competitive ideals of beauty is to talk the whole question out logically. She's not a beauty -competition win- ner. Her eyelashes are not long and sweeping, her nose isn't exquisitely chiselled. Men don't stare after her on the street. She envies a little wistfully the -mystery of that almost hurting love- liness she passes daily on magazine newsstands. She wonders if such picquant charm might be hers if she spent a few more hours each week at fh)e beauty specialists'. She blames heirself, or heeillg chosen the wrong "[hair & ;" or the wrong hat. A little clespema ely she wonders if she spends mime an she can afford on a new' dress or a new idiee. in millinery, that perhaps a miracle will happen and she wilt be transformed. But the type of hat w'b%ch looked devastating on the fteroine of last night's movie makes her realize, once she, .tries it onthat she is not a glamor girl, ac- cording to Ifellyw'ood standards. It can be wuggeeted to her that the hat didn't click becausg' she was men- tally building bemself up as somebody else when tstI a chose it. Sthe was for- getting that elle, Miss Intelligent 1938, is a personality in herself, one to be developed' and built up in her 'own right. Aetualdy she has a better chane of getting and giving drappi- neas than the owner of a "show face," Perhaps she never stopped to realize that it is for her, Miss 1938, that the glamor girls do their stuff. It is easy to envy them. But ask heir to stop again for a moment and remember those occasions in her col- lege or debutante years when life seemed finest and most exciting. It may have been a debutante party or a football tea. She sparkled. She was not oopying any other personal- ity. She was herself, magnificently enconscious of theatrical imitation. Actually in her heart sthe knew that sire 'had what it takes- She was too buey being herself to care how Garbo would have done it. But how to recapture those mom- ents when the world seemed .hers? How to bring them back through the early 20's when perhaps she' has set- tled down to humdrum office work? She can't because those are the mom- ents of youth which, like the frosting on the cake, do not stay fresh for ev- er. What she can do is to be her- eelf, leave off oopying other women's charms and build on the safe and cer- tain foundation of individuality. Tomato and Celery Blights Tomato and celery blights are caus- ed by parasitic fungi which, under favdua-able conditions, attacks the leaves and .sometimes the stems of the plants, killing various sized areas and fresquently resulting in severe de- foliation in the case of tomatoes, and a withering of tare older leaves of bel- ery. Severe attacks, particularly ear- ly in the season, stunt the growth of the plants Med reduce the marketable crop. Since these blights are panasitio they can usually be readily controlled by careful and adequate spray mea- sures, but similar recommendations are not applicable to both crops on account of a variation in their toler- ance to fungicides. While celery bene- fits from applications of copper fun- gicides; -even waren blights are not present, tomatoes should not be spray- ed except to control the diseases. The recommendations for the con- trol of celery blights are to apply a copper fungicide Bordeaux mixture 4-4-40 or Burgundy mixture 4-5-90 (cop- per sulphate and sal • soda and water) at least twice to the seedling plants and every seven to ten days in the field, preferably before rather than following rains. Rapidly growing plants require the more frequent ap- plications since it dp essential that the new growth be thoro'fighly cov- ered with the fungicide. These blights may also be controlled by a 20-8' dehydrated oeppei- sulphate plus lime rdust, provided they are treated when the air is still and the plants are wet with dew. In the case of tomatoes, when blights are present it is advisable to spray with Bordeaux 4-3-40 in, the seed bed as well as in the field. Since growth mag be retarded by the ap- plication of the fungicide, particular- ly if: applied close to the transplant- ing period, it is advisable, unless) the bljgbtseare causing severe damage, to HEADACHE AFTER HEADACHE Now She's Free From Them A woman wrdies:,--"I would like everyone who suffers from headaches to try Kruselllen Salta. Before taking Kruschen I was seldom free frons re. headache. - headache. But since I have been take; ing it regularly I have hardly, had a headache, for which I ami very tltank- fuL I have been taking a small dose of Kruschen• every, morning in a glass of warm water, before my breakfast, and I feel so well:,, -(Mrs-) How do you deal with headaches? Do you Just take something to deaden. the pain, without getting rid of the trouble, which causes the pain?. Headaches can ,generally be ttaeedi to a disordered stomach and to the unsuspected retention in the system of stagnating waste material which, poisons the blood. Remove these pois- oesrprevent them forming again - and you'll never have to worry any more -from the cause. And that is just how Knusehen Salts bring swift and ja:sting relief from headaches_ Kr schen aids Nature to cleanse your body completely of clogging waste matter. A town in Oklahoma recently offer- ed free movie tickets to children i8' they would dig tip dandelions- In two days 63,575 were dug up. Two large trucks were required to ta1,e the weeds to the local incinerator. LONDON and WINGHAM North A.M. Exeter 10.34 Hensall - 10.46 Kippen 10.52 Brucefield 11.00 Clinton 11.47 Londesboro 12.06 Blyth ... 12.16 Belgrave 12.27 Wingham 12.43 South! Wingham Belgrave Blyth Londesboro ' Clinton Brucefield Kippen Hensall Exeter PAVE 1.50 2.06 2.17 2.26 3.08 3.28 3.38 3.45 3.58 C.N.R. TIME TABLE East A.M. P.M. Goderich 6.35 2.30 Holmeseille 6.50 2.52 Clinton 6.58 3.00 Seaforth 7.11 3.16 St. Columban 7.17 3.22 Dublin 7.21 3.29 Mitchell 7.30 3.41 West Mitchell 11.06 9.28 Dublin 11.14 9.36 Seaforth 11.30 -• . 9.47 Clinton ..... , 11.45 10.00 Goderich 12.05 10.25 C.P.R. TIME TABLE Goderich Menset McGaw Auburn Blyth Walton McNaught Toronto West Toronto ....: .. • . . McNaught Walton Blyth Auburn withhold the spray for five to seven McGaw days before, and five to six weeks af- Menset ter transplanting. Goderich P.M. 4.20 4.24 4.33 4-42 4.52 5.05 5.15 9.00 A.M. 8.30 12.03 12.13 12.23 12.32 12.40 12.46 12.55 A QUARTETTE OF "BIG' LINERS" FOR STRATFORD RACES It Is not often that you will find four harness horses, in one man's ;stable, all at the same time, that combine breeding, looks, conformation, apeeeil and good headedness, such as possessed by the quartette of equine beauties In the above layout. They are all owned by that splendid sportsman, John S. Gordon, of Hamilton, and are eetered 'in the stakes to be' raced at Stratford, where The Grand Circuit Meeting of Clo- tario, will be held on July 23rd and 27th. Left to right, top, Grattan L ee, three-year-old pacing colt by Lee Harvester. Saint Peter, 2.14 trotting, by Peter G. Some Time, by Peter McKillop, who paced to a record , of 2.1eye last year as a three -year -cid, In the centre of the horseshoe is that crack three-year-old treader, Lee McElwyn 'by.t.ee Harvester, dant, Isla Welwyn by Mr. McElwyn 1 5914. 01. e jW,al Yv itP x4ti:r.;�i1 S .. ,T •'..t 1'tr r��� •Av Uni her Sur, rich S O east Phc Hui Fac leg( Ont Chi 11.03 Fag don MID Nig Vie Gra 1V and Ne Lyi face 27. dial tric tree trey of me Kyr ,pie Ho eac p.a for Su On teal and ole ap Jot seer 39 lira fn on fie 1.9 toe lit