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The Huron Expositor, 1939-08-25, Page 6got f. !r, 3, sr; • • ' `',•-r•• • , Seiteettetese ,•,..• TviE ttuttoisT ixroSuroR • By Victor Gots° in Saturday Night) travelled the' length and ofthie vast and versatile :let= met in no city, town or heraating a restaurant have I ,een able to purchase a slice of goose- Iste. Of oourae yea remember! tGispeeberry pie? It is made from ,gteaSeberries. 'Tilley used to grow in Teen' gran.dimother's backyard, just idett9dele the fence. About this time et -yea.r they would be ripe. Abotit thiek time .of year you would be in- -Sorting your fork into the flaky geld- ed). 'crust, •and eating gooseberry pie. Here I started (reminiscent drops ef saliva? Are yule putting on your hat with a faraway look in your eyes and heading for your favorite cafe? It won't do any good. Cafe managers tram Vancouver to Halifax have all told me that there is no such thing. It's no use asking the waitress. She will stare at you ‘,suspiciously -men- tally concluding that you are a acrewball, a wise guy, or a hick- slaitt her gum and rattle off in a bor- ed tone, "I'm sorry eir there is no gooseberry pie on the menu; you can have blueberry, strawberry; raspber- ry, lemon and lime, blackberry, cher- ry, plum, aprioot, apple, raisin, date, mincemeant, peach, ice cream or pud- ding." And as I said before, don't ask the manager. Be will plek ele teeth, ab- sentmindeder, and polite -1Y amall aga- te/ley tell you that thereis 'bluebells try, strawberry, raspberry, lemon The Oriental cafe proprietor follows the SWIM plan .af evasion, somewhat in this fashion: "No. Appa, pie, lais- i ie, bluebelly pie, Tema pie, day pie, punka pie; blosson Gleam pie, !pudding." This matter of gooseberry pie, or not 'having it rather, is merely an- other of those touchy subjects that Canadian cafee keep away from. Like butter- There is an almost 'reveren- tial ritu-al connected with the serving of butter in Canadian cafes. It is brought -a delicate and holy looking square with a drop of water clinging to it -on its individual microscopic platter. No amount of wheedling, ca- jolery, force, or the outright offer of hard cash will entice any more than that one portion of butter at any one serving. You must dispose of it por- tion by portion, with waits in be- tween while the attendant notifies the shereholders, gives the 'counter- sign, signs the butter book, sneaks down the aisle past the dietitian, and deposits your next slice like a smug- gler evading the customs. This is all probably designed to frustrate any attempt oa the part of the customer % ---"11.1111111111111111111, Take an Enjoyable Holiday at Western Ontario's Exhibition PRIZE LIST - $32,000 Speed Events Daily -Night Horse Show --Photography Salon Dog Show -Superb Grandstand Spectacle -Hobby Fair Carnival Nadway-lihmdzerls of Exhibits W. D. JACKSON, Secretary 239 SST E *AIR --''fla'*Pmqt•ttt.7117-..**tiL NDON S 16 FRT. I 46 "TAR' Ct c bo commit suicide by an overdo ee of ealoriis, which would give the prem- ises a black eye. Lest anyone reaspect that the gen- e'roeity of the rafangement is in ques- tion, we (hasten, to point out the mat- ter of gastronomic •equipment. A pap- ules cafe on my street serves the soup in a small bowl wheel rests in a largerelsowt, To waitress pours the soup Aram the smaller bowl into -the lasgere thereby subtly hinting to the diner that the management does not dare zet snap of the littera when it comes be giving rvice and dirty- ing dishes. The same restaurant alao serves its steaks on a platter which rests upon a larger pkttter. The steak is put before the customer, and then trans- ferred from the smaller itatter to the larger. This innevation is meeting with wide acclaim, the steak •being thus worn down from so many suc- cessive handlings the ideaer is able to masticate it with greater ease. Great strides have been made in the matter of the speedy evacuation of the 'public from lunch counters since their advent. Next time you dine at the "counter," take notice of the following facts: The stool you climb on to is just high enough so that your feet do not touch the floor if you are of average height, or is just low enough so that your knees are painfully jammed against the coeditor if you are a tall person. Diligent research was .'neces- sary by lunch counter manufacturers before the equipment was first per- fected. Measurements had to be cor- rect to the thousandth part of an inch. To gain relief by crossing the limbs is an impossibility. No matter whether they are short, long, limber, ,02* doubleetented, you can't do it. It has been figured out with mathemati- cal and scientific precision. The plac- ing of counter and stool is a triumph of modern engineering. This all provides for the speedy handling of traffic. By the time the dessert has been served, the custom- er has lost all inclination to dawdle. The pain in his back and legs won't let hire One thing featured in common by cafes run by Orientals is the intrigu- ing fashion in which the menus are typed out. Typical examples run like this: Braise ribs ofbeef Calls liver fry onions x? Hammand eggs)) (Porkand beans. -Chickensalad. Eggsalad. )veal (shop porkcho‘p lambahop( Spareribs ofbeef-stew. Tags Sale Bills Envelopes Statements Letterheads Order Forms Invoice Forms Gummed Tape Counter Check Books Duplicate Ledger Sheets s • 4. The Huron Expositor, since 1860, has been saving the people of Sea - forth and district money on their printing requirements. Let us sub- mit samples; ask us for prices, and we will show you how you, too, may save money and still not sacrifice quality. • THE HURON - EXPOSITOR McLean Bras., Publishers SEAFORTH - ONTARIO Can Japan Holxl (Continued from Page 2) one were to take the rigid view that the perfouneances of past years are an infallible guide for the future, Ja- pan waled seem to be threatened with a 'serious cries of exhaustion of gold reserves by elm end of this year, iar 'at least by 1940. Broadly speaking, there are • three tyeee iati war which , Japan (may be compelled to fight, If the situation remains more or less as at present, with Japan holding main arteries of communication, but 'Chinese guerrillas) active in !the (hinterland, so that ef- feotive economic exploitation is held up, I •should expect Japan to feel the eoonornic piece of war prettly severe- ly within another two years. If, as the Japanese hope, 'Chinese resist- ance crumbles and subsides to a point where Japan can begin to help itself to Chinese natural resources, thereby 'replacing 'to 'some extent some of the present foreign imports, its ability to stand the strain of a war welch would taper off more and more into mere police operations would be extended indefinitely. There remains a third possibility, that Japan would become involved in a land war with the Soviet elision or in a naval war with some other pow- er. In, the eventuality of such big wars, Japan would have to win quick- ly, within, a year or two at the most, or .would face defeat as a result of attrition and exhaustion of resources. 4 , . IJiteeteelert 4,rV4xX,0461,,m •-•,,c•11, i,r'''rlgVAeo)•',l••,•trn:.•••rk,;(ors SPECIAL. Tbone steak, with strin- bean, coffee, tea oninilk. Please inform the management of any discourtesy on the part of the employes. We are not responsible for last art- icles. We welcome suggestions from our patrons. Yeah? Well how about gooseberry pie? THE SENSE OF TASTE - ettikff• detiertesteseceite 0 • kr, 4 tnees etle rr, ettesseetereetee eiteleleeterriesSiit•• Set see • • urt•et.,,r.,•,!...,,,,rt-•••,",. " Failure of Plice Control (Hy P. M. Ricbarde en Saturday Night) Since the very beginning of its re- covery program, the U. S. government has persistently sought to raise pric- es, particularly farm prices. It has employed financial measures designed to 'raise prices in general and control 'devices intended to raise prices of individual commodities. In koth fields it has been unsuccessful. tatistics !show that neither the g.enra1 com- modity price leveller the retive lev- el of farm prices ;has made any ap- preciable gain, in the last five yearie In view of the persistence of popu- lar 'belief in the effectiveness of rnene- tary manipulation to raise and main- tain prices, it is of interest to note that after several years of experi- mentation with banking and monetary devices under the broad powers con- ferred upon it by Oongress, the board of governors of the Federal Reserve System recently published a state - meat setting forth its conclusion,s. Its first conclusion is that "prices can- not be controlled by changes in the amount and east of rolonfeiy." The sec- ond is that control of the amount of money by centralbanking authorities "is not complete and caeitnet be made 'complete." The board accordingly opposes any legislation based on the assumption that the Feder/vile Reserve System or any other agency of government "can control the volume of money and credit and thereby raise the pi -ice level to a prescribed point and m'ain- tale it there." Man tastes with (his tongue while some animals, for example fishes, taste with the whole body. An infant tastes with the middle part of his tongue and an adult tieterrrenes with the sides of 'his tongue whether food is pleasing or not. Food is tasted by means of the taste buds of which the cow has about 15.000, the antelope 50,000, and man about 3,000. The whale has very few taste bed's and gulps its food so quickly that it does not bother about the taete. Among horned cattle, taste is impertant, and they scrupulously select the grasses they like. We know four distinct tastes: sweet, salty, bitter and sour. The sweet taste is perceived on the ton-ue the quickest, because the taste buds for sweets are located at the tip of the tongue; then comes salty and sour taste. Bitter things are tasted at the back of the tongue. Taste can be regulated. Warm cot - fee requires less sugar than cold, be- cause warmth is a stimulant to the taste buds. No matter bow much su- gar is added to ice cream it will not seem too sweet, beeause when cooled the taste buds scarcely function_ If the tongue is rubbed with ice, one fails to perceive different tastes, a good method in taking bitter drugs. 'Paste is a fine sense. It can be train- ed. Tea tasters are able to tell the place of origin of a tea after a single tasting. Wine tasters can tell from where a certain variety of wine came and also whether the grapes from which it was made grew in a sunny or a shady field. SHARING THE WEALTH (By P. M. Richer -de in Saturday Night) When the average investor looks back at the unsatisfactory profits made by industry ie the last ten years, he is apt to console himself with 1,\,thought that little more could rea natty be expected in a de- cade of more or less continuous de- pression, and that profits should be satisfactory when business volume in- crea,ses. But that this is far from being an accurate s-umming up of the situation is shown very clearly in a study of the relation' of earnings/ to volume of business made ley Standard Statistics Company. In many cases the volume of business has risen sub- stantially without any corresponding betterment in earniegs and it is made apparent that factors other than vol- urae of business are involved and must be taken into account in any attempt to estimate the future earn- ings posed b li ties. For example, examination of the U. S. electric light and. power industry showed that kilowatt hour sales in 1938 were some 24 per cent. higher than in 1929, but that profits of a re- presentative group of light and power companies were at ]east 3(1 per cent. lower than in 1929. Rigid regulation, lower unit selling prices and mount- ing taxes were found to be promin- ent among the factors which have adversely affected the ration ce pro- fits to sales and plant investment Business Up, Profits Down ' Another gloomy industry from the current profits standpoint is oil. Gas- oline consumption in the U. S. last year ran more than 30 per cent. ahead of the prosperity year 1929, but this did not flow through to In- vestors in the form of earnings or dividends. In fact, profits of 28 oil companies were only half as large as in 1929. Obviously, something besides lack of volume is wrong with this giant. dedustry. A tremendous) tax burden has been imposed on oil and its products, but there are the further profits 'deterrents) of wasteful produes tton poorly related to consumption and pricee, adverse trends from an inesstment standpeint are to be de- tected in the figures of the steel, shoe. cigarette an.d meat packing indus- tries- The lase goad Year for the steel iniciustry was 1937 when ingot proclnc- tics], come to 5000,000 ton e Or With - directions are no more feasible than arbitrary Wee advances in others. When costs have been raised and "frozen" at certain levels, by legisla- tion or othierwise, It is useless to ex- Pect that the selling prices dependent on those costs can be !reduced or that markets for the finished !products can be restored. Price Relationship Even more important in. their bear- ing on the relation of prices to re- covery are the other two conclusdons 'reached by the board, namely "that a steady average ce prices does not nec- essarily result in lasting prosperity" and that "a steady level of average prices is not nearly as important to the people a.s a fair relationseip be- tween the prices of the commodities which they produce and those which they must buy." In this last statement, the board strikes at the root of the price prob- lem. To a business concern, the vital question is the relation between sell- ing prices and caste; and the selling prices of one concern are the costs of another. It is not the general price level, but the relations among individual prices, that are really im- portant from the standpoint of recov- ery and prosperity. These views were supported by the evidence of_ Graham Towers, Governor of the Bank of Canada, before the Banking and Com- merce Committee at Ottawa. It is unquestionably true that in both Canada - and 'the United States efforts to promote business expansion have been handicapped by overmuch attention to the •establiehment and maintenance of price levels. Meas- ures designed to raise prices to pre- determined points by artificial means have interfered with the natural re- adjustments by Which markets might have been restored and the volume of activity increased. Fortunately, however, this fact is beginning to be recognized!. Lately we have seen attention being called to the need for lower prices in cer- tain; fields as a stimulant to demand. But arbitrary price reductions in seme in 11 per emit. of th•e 1929 level. Pro- fits of 28 steel manufacturers how- ever, were 44 per cent. under the 1929 total. More shoes were produced in 1938 than in 1929, yet nine leading shoe manufacturers earned approximately 70 per cent. less last year than in the boom ten years ago., • Cigarette consumption increased 37 per cent. 'between 1929 and 1938, but earnings of the five largest cigarette producers dropped 14 per cent. Meat consumption is running es high as in 1929 or higher, but seven meat packing firms operated at an aggregate loss in 1938 and in. 1937 earned only 62 per cent. of what they did in 1929. If the general economic decline is not the sole explanation of the poor showing ef 'corporate earnings in the past decade, what is? The answer, Standard Statistics shows, is to be fount in the tremendous s•ocial-polite cal -economic upheaval in recent years. Satter No Manipulation Few unbiased students of this eub- ject will be disposed to quarrel with the conclusion reached by the Guar- anty Trust Company of New York in, a recent review that both the general price level and the statistical posi- tion of farm products, to say nothing of domestic and foreign trade as a whole, might well be more satis- factory today if attempts at price manipulation (had been avoided entire- ly and attention given to the single problem of providing a favorable en- vironanent for normal business recov- ery. Higher commodity prices were ad- mittedly desirable, since these prrices at their depressdon levels were out of balance with the debts and other fix- ed charges of individuals and busi- ness concerns. Sirdilarly, farm pric- ee in recent years were unquestion- ably far too low in relation to other prices. But the effort to correct these analaejustments by price manip- ulation bave failed to produce the hoped-for business recovery. and have played a .large part in causing the vaelous complications and difficulties that bave led to such awkward and une!conionee expediente as barter. Thus far, the results of attempts, to 'raise farm prices as well as other prices suggest that the cart of pur- chasing power is being put before the horse of recovery. And the evidence is that future policy, instead of aim - Mg at an impossible price central, would be more effective if directed toward the removal of artificial ob- stacles to recovery. In the Old Days In the old days, when a business decline was under way, all elements in the national economy contributed to 'belt and reverse it. Business had to take a/nailer profits, taxes, declin- ed with earnings, un -needed warlters were let out and wages were cut to a level which would' make profitable operations possible. The decreased incomes of industrial waekers had the effect of forcing down the prices of agricultural produets. Eventually, costs and prices were realigned and the business decline was reversed. There is no denying that the process involved widespread suffering, but so has the depression of the past ten years, in spite of all the unemployment relief, the farm benefits, employment stimulation and ether "enlightened" petioles of the government and,of business. Age,in, in the old days, when the business trend was u'pward, employ- ment, wage rates, farm ,income, gov- ernment tax receipts and business volume and profits all went up to- gether. The increase in 'busines's pro- fits was seared with the consumer, in the forrnl of lower prices oe better quality or both, and with labor in the form of higher wages and shorter hours. The 'difference in recent years, Standard Statistics shows, is that government, labor and the 'consumer have demanded and received' a larger share of the profits; of business with- out any increase in the profits'. which businfess can divkle. The result has heels to tak money away from levee - tore to paye'higher taxes and higher wage rates while .at the same time reducing 'prices. It has made "risk" inventimett unattrective, whieh fact is a Majar cause of our recent 111(1U:strial stagnation and our continuing uttern- 440Y111013,t'- • ,t4reet let,„ Canyon Mules Go To School • • • .4 • ATIGPS1r7;q„,• 14,MR.1 SWEET CAPORfilm, CIGARETT pv formi• wILI t..••• coo IsurvIked" 0 : ' not hear one another apeak. Horses, even weletrainee snes, would have scattered in terror and plunged tee into the bottum of 0. ravine, thousand of feet below. But the only notice those mules gave the strange biz.* and strange noise was to flick a few ears. Incidentally, when a guest registerie for a anuleback trip into the canyon. the mole he draws is not just a mat- ter of chance. 'Dile clerk sizes hint up -or herl-and sets down myster- ious notations opposite .the name. These maeks are for the guide, indi- cate the clerk's estimate of the - guest's weight, probable experience and excitability. The guide assigns his mules accordingly. It Isn't The Heat, It's The Phrasology Much merriment seems to have been aroused throughout the country by a recent dispatch to the effect that a ',summer 'school" for mules was be- ing conducted on precipitous trails leading down, tato the world's deep- est and most picturesque gorge, the Grand Canyon. There is nothing funny about it to canyon guides and' to "Shorty," a Texas cowhand, who might be .called principal of the school. To them it's an old story, this training of mules to carry etourielet safely along ledges too 'narrow for two lizards to travel abreast, so nearly straight up and down that to a newcomer it appears a fly might have to pet glue on its feet in order to stick. The company which, owns tee• ho- tels there and the concession to use the 'celebrated Bright Angel Trail, keeps 125 mules in its corrals for the use of "dudes" who wish to make the long, tiresome, but thrilling. jour- ney down! to the Colorado, a roaring and tossing torrent just visible from the rim on clear days. Mules aver- age four or five trips a week, and in a rush season they work every day. No one has bothered to calculate how many such trips have been made but the nrthnber runs into the hun- dreds of thousands. Yet there never {has been a mishap attributable to the. skittisthness, fright or carelessness 01 a annle. Educated Mules This record did' not just ha,ppeia. The modes are selected., and edecat- ed. They have 'been to a college of which the so -caned summer school is scarcely more than the graduating ex- ercise. Guides say every one of them is entitled to the degree of "JD. D." -Doctor of Dudes. (To them ev- ery sightseer is a due, even if he is a native Arizonan.) Each fall a shipment of mules Is received at the 'training ranch. "Shor- ty" and his helpers put the "fresh- men" through their "class work" in a manner deceptively lee!eurely. Any maenad thad has physical defects ov- erlooked by the buyer is weeded out at once. Next to go are 'those teat show too much for the disposition of either 'parent A mule -Cannot be too much 'horse or too Much donkey, but must be just the proper blend of both. Too much borse means nervousness and unreliability under Grand 'Can - yen conditions. Too 'mueh donkey etans an excess of stubbornness. Those -that pass the !ps.eliminary ex- andiettion are broken td ride, taught to obey the redn-up to a certain point. Instructors mount from the wrong side, slide off over the rump, do a lot of other things no experienc- ed rider would de, because their pu- pils ainutt be taught not to get excit- ed at any tenderfoot antic. Training Completed In the spring or summer the par- tially trained novices are brought toi the canyon. Bearing saddles and packs, they are led down into the 'canyo'n and back again for many days. At first they are slow and excessive- ly careful but seldom -do they exhibit an fear. Principal thing they must learn is to "brake" with bind legs. This means developing a new set of muscles. "Every conceivable condition is in- vented ta bring out defects that may prove dangerous to guests," reports H. G. Prantse, an old-timer at the canyon. "Mules are made familiar with anything they're likely to meet fon the trails that might cause them to bolt. But the 'mule is not easily stampeded. He may he short on, im- agination but he's long on determina- tion." Flick of an Ear \t_ Mr. Frame recalls that -an avlatj with an exhibitiOnist complex once made a power dive down into the Can - pan, 'eight over a etaing of With a ratty of guests. The'nlcitor. toptle rnttel s near the riderenyi eterereadeint gatelvoN • le The weather man le going to break down and •tell people what it's alt about. James Osmuu, the Governmeues night meteorologist at New York, confessed coyly he and fellow 'beams pocusers have suspected all elope their pronounfeements -were baffling, many people and they've resolved to' reform. They've spent six months investi- gating "strained" reletions between the weather man and John Citizen, and concluded it's not the humidity, but the terminology - words that mean one thing to the weather man and ,something else to the man le the street. "For instance," he said, "we may predict: "Porriorrow: Fair and war- mer' and we'll be right, because thi; temperature will rise, but the aver- age person will feel cooler bee -mese other factors change." The layman's weather ie made ttp of three elements, Mr. Osraun said---' temperature, humidity and lair tee - tion -and these have to be interpret- ed in terms of the individual locality -with the same set of conditions. statistically, y011 might feel warm in New York, but cold in Deuver. People complain a lot about humid ity, but the researchers discovered incidentally high 'humidity usually goes with a low death rate. They don't `know why. They also found the best day - when you feel cheerful and peppy and your mental and physical processes are at their best -is a warm day, not hot, with a high relative humidity and a eight wind. They call that the "optimum day' -reverting slightly to old habits. Fairs and Exhibitions, 1939 August Lambed/ Aug. 30 Sarnia Aug. 16-18 Tilkomiburg Aug. 29-31 Weiodatirrok Aug. 22-21 September 1-9 Sept. 74 Sept, 1, 2 & 4 ...Sept. 8, 9 Sept. 7, g Sept. 7-9 Sept- 8, 9 September 11-16 Anter Sept. 15, 16 Birth Sept. 15, 16 London (Western Fain) -Sept. 11-16 Midland Sept. 14-16 Milverton Sept. 14, 15 New Hamburg Sept. 15, 16 Orangeville Sept 14-16 Wlarton Sept. 14, 15 September 113-23 Acton Sept. 19, 20' Ailsa Craig Sept. 21, 22 A lb ston Sept. 21, 22 Atwood Sept_ 22, 23 Citified Sept. 22, 23. Dresden Sept. 19-21 Eeeter Sept. 20, 21 Galt Sept. 21-23 Hanover Sept. 19, 23' Kincardine Sept. 21, 22 Listowel Sept. 20, 21 /vleaford Sept. 21, 32 Mildmay Sept 19, 20 Mount Forrest Sept. 21, 22 Norwich Sept. 19, 20 Paris Sept. 19, 20 Seaforth Sept. 21, 22 Shelburne Sept. 19, 20 Stratford Sept. 18-20 September 25-30 Arthur Sept. 27, 28 Aylmer Sept. 26-27 .Se•pt. 27, 26 Brussels Sept. 29, 30 Chesley, Sept. 25, 26 Drumbo Sept. 26, 27 Embro Sept. 25 Georgetown Sept. 27, 28 Grand Valley Sept. 29, 20 Merton Sept. 27 Ingersoll Sept. 28, 29 Kirkton Sept. 28, 2 Lucknow Sept. 28, 29 Mitchell Sept. 26, 27 Owen Sound Sept 30, Oct. 2 & a Paisley Sept. 26, 27 Palmerston Sept. 26, 27 Parkhill Sept. 29 Strathroy • Sept. 28-30 Tlaedford Sept. 26, 27 Winghant Sept. 27, 26 October 2-7 Dungannon Oct. 5, Gorrieoct. 6, "7 St. Marys Oct. 5, 6 Teeswater Oct. 3, 4 Tiverton Oct- 2, it October 9-17 Forest Oct- 10, 111 N.B.-Dates of Fairs Listed are sub - Jett to change. International Miring Match and Farm Machinery Demonstration, Ontario Respite! Farm, Brockville, Ont., United Counties of Leeds and Grenville Oct. 10, 11, 12, 19, Ottawa Wintery Fair.. ..... Nov'. 14-17i lioyel Winter Pair, Toronto NOY. 21-2* 0461011 Winter Fear Dee. S-7; Durham Elmira Flergu.s Godorich Napanee Tavistock ete!' ate etteteoe • ,4