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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1943-06-04, Page 2A!. if 4' IF, TEM (�1 u;< 4^, til tr it :u "fin i.t r st blished 1860 jth McPhail McLean,, Editor. fished at Seaforth, Ontario, ev- hursday afternoon, by McLean os, , SEAFORTH, Friday, June 4, 1943 Welcome !. Seaforth will have as its guests on Monday next, June 7th, the `members of the Huron Federation of Agricul- ture, and hundreds of others from the farming districts of the county, when they meet at the Lions Park to hold the Federation's first annual field day and picnic. We know that the citizens of Sea - forth and every organization in the town, including the Mayor and Council, will welcome these visitors and extend a helping hand to make this first annual event of the Federa- tion an unqualified success. Remember that the strangers who - will be within our gates will not come empty handed. Their program will afford us many excellent (educational opportunities, and we should show our appreciation by heartily co-oper- ating in the carrying .out of their plans, • .ridiculous In The Extreme If there is such a thing, on this earth as making one's self ridiculous in the sight of men, we would say that Col. George A. ' Drew, Leader of the Ontario Opposition party, and the Globe and Mail have attained that status in an eminent degree. Col. Drew's published statement in which he said that M.r. Nixon's rise to the Premiership of Ontario was made possible only through a politi- cal deal by which Mr. Conant was persuaded to relinquish the office in return for a seat on the bench, is not only ridiculous in the extreme, but as false' and malicious as any that has been laid at the door of any political leader of any political party in the history • of Ontario, . . 'I'he follow-up editorial., of the Globe and Mail on the . same subject and along the same lines, is inpre- cisely the same class and shows not only to what lengths that paper is willing, to go when • thwarted in its would-be role of king maker and leader and director of public opinion, but its absolute loss of touch with the opinions held by the people of this province, insofar,, at least, as rural Ontario is concerned. The facts are (and no one is more completely conversant with them than Col. Drew and the Toronto pa- per) that when°Mr. Nixon was chos- en Leader of the Ontario Liberal party, at the recent Liberal conven- tion, by what was to all extent and purposes a unanimous vote, it was the full intent of the party in the province that he would also imlfi.edi- ately assume the Premiership. 0)) It is true that at the time Mr. Con- ant was Premier, but it was a posi- tion he was occupying without the consent of either the party at large, the Cabinet or the Legislature. No one more fully understood this than Mr. Conant himself. It is equally true, if he had felt disposed to do so, he could have retained the Premier- - ship for a time. But, only for a time, and a very short time at that. Lacking the sup- port, of his Cabinet Ministers, party followersin the Legislature, and the rank and file of the party, his posi- tion would immediately have become untenable. Any man possessing ev- en a medium amount of common sense would recognize the impossi- bility of such a position and Mr. Conant is not only a man of great common sense, but great ability. Mr. Conant, resigned, To say, therefore, that Mr. Niton vas under the necessity, in any way, shape or form, of buying off Mr. chant before he cotild assume the' eex ership, • is - the extreme • of djet lclrtsl ess. It is: more_ than that. an insult to the intelligence and city of. 1V1}ir. Coitariti to say, that hcilding a po itiolt of great.. M Wo ld etoop "t las trs'ial gar" t! lam/ 1 q1 y� y� lir t ,4� `''I+41 11i/ tis h t1.4%'�.{tb -y c�. l � l�. office in the gift of the Ontario peo- ple, who would stoop to political bribery to obtain that office. • Meat Rationing Meat rationing is now in effect, and it really hasn't hurt us very much. Neither has there been much complaint, because Canadians are reasonable people, and no person who understands the situation, would' complain about meat ration- ing. Meat production in Canada is not less, but greater than it"ever was be- fore. At the same time, however, it should be pointed out that the do- mestic consumption is also greater than it ever was before, and there are greater war demands. To fill the old, new and special war demands now takes half the meat produced in Canada, consequently there is only the other half left for home consumption. Without ration- ing there would be a mad scramble for this half and panic buying would inevitably result. •The man with the money would get the meat, and too many people would get no meatat all. Rationing putsall on the same basis and treats all alike. The man with much money gets no more than the man with little. Under the cir- cumstances, that is the proper way and the only way to do it. No one wants to cut down the meat supply of our three armed forc- es, ,or• any one of them. No one would think ' of cutting down the canned meat supplies now going to Canadian prisoners of war, who sorely need all they are getting now. No one would want to send less meat to Allied countries, who have and will continue to suffer far more in this war than we have or will. After all, rationing .will only .re- duce by fifteen or twenty per cent. the average household consumption, which from a health standpoint, might be beneficial to us. At any rate it is not a serious matter to us as Canadians, and we should take it cheerfully and with a 'smile. • Tod Much Silk . An American schoolboy wrote the other day that the United States does not raise silk- worms now .be- cause it gets its silk from the rayon, which is a larger animal and gives more silk. Well,. perhaps. But you tell that to the average woman today, and she will take one look at the wrinkles round her .sister's ankles and the fit of herstockings elsewhere, and tell you that the rayon produces alto- gether too much silk these days. • On Bombing Germanp Tass News Agency reporting from Moscow last week, stated that a let- ter taken from a German : prisoner said, that oft -bombed Essen "looks like Stalingrad." "You write that it is not so bad in Essen, said another captured .letter written by a German girl to her sol- dier husband, "you don't know what you are talking about. We sit in the c.ellar and wait for death." Another letter; Tass said, reported that Essen had been "converted into a pile of ruins." And that is the country a ld, the people' who were ,told by their Nazi leaders that no British or Allied bomb would ever drop on Germany. 'EVOSITOR ea oue t intgresttfl °>Ita(rie Plcked From The Huron Ejpot ,tor of Fifty and d• Twenty+.five Years Ago= From The • Mkron Expositor June 9, 1893 Over 500 people visited Trivittt Memorial Church in Exeter an the Queens birthday. A gang of 'drainers are busy get- ting the timbers in shape for the er- ection of a large barn for McEwan & Geiger on the Sax mill premises in - Hensel'. The building will be 60 by 100 feet. Mr. Thos. Govenlock, McKillop, has shown us what is a real curiosity. If looks like brown leather and is 'smooth, and tough. It is the sub- stance ~that he skinned from the top of a' barrel of cider vinegar which had accumulated during the winter. Mr. James :Scott, lin, of Roxboro, is leaving a handsome new brick resi- dence erected on his farm across the. river, Mr. J. C. Greig has been appointed Lieutenant provisionally in the Sea - forth Volunteer Company, and will go to London on June 20th M. that .ca- pacity. Alexander Kerr, of Winthrop, for two weeks from seven cows, sent an average of 40 pounds of milk to the factory there. This beats the cows at Chicago. Mr. John Consitt, Jr., has the barn and 'stable removed from the Rich- ardson farm near Hillsgreen, to the -farm on which ;he resides. Miss Lizzie Dickson and Mrs. Gil- bert ,McMichael, daughters of Mr. Charles Dickson, of McKillop, are on a vieit to thee sister, Mrs. Kibler, in Ohio. • • Time -Wasting Questions (Ottawa Journal) People often ask why Parliament seems so slow, eo cumbersome and futile. One answer is , in this question,appearing on the Order Paper, in the name of Mr. L. E. Cardiff, Progressive Conservative member for North Huron, asking for: "The name, rank, salary, allowances and emoluments of every ;Person employed at Air Force Headquarters; their educational qualiftca-' tions, experience and salaries at the time; of ap- pointment; what examinations and testa each was given; a 'detailed' statement of -the duties of each;, experience each has had in aircraft opera- tion; their military status, details as td their uni- forms, and the names and allowances of each of their wives and children." Roughly, there are 4,300 at Air,, Force Head - quiff -en -P. Can any one Imagine the time it would take, the number of .nian-hours, to discover and compile the "detailed duties" of each one of thein, the details of their- uniforms, the edurcational teueliflcatient -arid .salaries they had at the time Of their' appointment, the tests that were given the, tt•`tife'n'izine'ii and allowances: of "each of ,their • lateles,a tdbLhilih ll?." And *hen all of \itis data„was gathered, eti'l- leete inti a Mtge file and.dunilled one thetable te'r what good *Mild Of the Reneeb�' som �e; niniiaat g . `e7 • wii'o; Infailld'Wide Vitale( It, or, give a tl'i er'a tint • fiii• whatever Was fottndw''b the tilt* " t cl Ayr: vokdo through itt Mr? D. McKay, of the 10th conces- fioe of Tuckersmith, has a pure bred Berkshire eow which ,lately farrowed; a, litter of 20 pigs, 18 of which are living. Mr. Joseph Fisher, of the 10th con- cession of McKillop, hoe just return- ed from Toronto, where he received as a' gift from this father, Mr. Michael Fisher, of the Township of Vaughan, in the County of York, a deed of 100 acres of land in that township. va- lued at $100 per acre. The local bicycle club gave a very interesting series of races at the 'driv- ing park on Friday evening last. In the ;handicap; the limit man was Fred Cardno, with two minutes; then came Messrs. A. Coultes, A. McLean and N. McTavish, with a minute and .a half; W. D. McLean and George Good with -a minute and' 4, quarter, while, J. W. Livingstone, J: 'Abell and' Alex N62: - ter were on the scratch. - Messrs. John Commas, and W. Kin- ney, of McKillop, are busily engaged in Tuckersmith putting up hay forks for Messrs. Brown and Menzies, of Seaforth. • r. il Osifer, of Lazy Meadows I" 1 (By Harry J. Boyle) 0 We had a young English airman at our place for Sunday and were en- joying a little pre -rationing bacon when he posed a question that set me off on a rather interesting excur- sion into .fancy. He said, "Where does this. bacon come from?" Now that seems like a rather easy question to answer but you just think about it. Imagine sitting up on`'some cold winter night when a brood sow delivers nine or ten little pigs. Just imagine the different stages of the development of those pigs. They have. to be weaned and then fed in the proper way so as to get the best de- velopment. They have `to have min- erals. There can't be any guess work these days as to when the pigs are ready for market. We have to have Bacon of the proper quality if we're going to maintain our position in the post-war bacon trade. The hogs go off to market. The packing plant takes over and trans- forms the pigs into meat and the long lean sides are cured and packaged in- to jute sacks for their trip across the ocean. An English housewife takes her edupons down to the butcher :and gets.a weekly allowance of four ounc- es of bacon per person per week. Down each Wiltshire side there• ie a ribbon of lettering which says 'Can- ada:- The English housewife must certainly thank the Canadian farm- ers for that good lean; •baceal.,. every time she buys it. - Scan 'dimes I think that farmers aren't given enough credit for the part they play in this ,war. It's ra- ther hard to see a bunch of pigs root- ing around in a field and then picture' the importance of the meat they are From The Huron Expositor' June 7, 1918 • A little son of Mr. Thos. Workman, Kippen, met with a bad accident last week. He was playing . in his• bare feet and came .in contact with a broken "bottle and received a nasty cut, which required" some etches to bind it. The Auto Sales Company have mov- ed into their new preniiises on Main Street, Seaforth, formerly occupied by Turnbull & McIntosh.. Mr. John Edmunds, son Of Mr. and Mrs. Wm. G. Edmunds, has . enlisted with a Toronto .Battery. Mr. William Swan, .:of Brucefield, left last week for overseas. He will join the Navy as a doctor. On Wednesday evening of last week a most enjoyable time was spent,. at the home of Mr. and Mrs. A. Dun- das in McKillop, when a large num- beer of friends gathered to wish their son, Willis, God speed before his de- parture for overseas. He was pres- ented with an address and a gift. Reeves Harburn of Seaferth, 'Gov- enlockof McKiltop, Crich of Tucker-, smith and Armstrong of Hullett, (re in Goderich this' week attending the meeting of Huron county council. The casserole "donated by Mrs. A. P. Joynt to the Women's War Aux- iliary was drawn for on Friday last and the lucky winner was Mrs.' Her- bert Fowler, TWenty-six - dollars and fifty-five cents was raised from the sale of tickets. Mr. Lawrence ';Forrest, of Bruce - field, has purchased the farm of Mr. William Henry in Stanley Township for the sum of $6,300. 'Mr. Jatnee Boyce, of Brucefie1d, is recovering from his )•ecent operatiop, for appendicitis. Mr. Robert Metaren, of "Ivanhoe Farm," Hensall, Who recently sold his show mare, "Juliet McKinney" to a Mr. Hastings, states that she has tak- en two firsts in the races at TJ`xbridge. Dr. Mary Johnson, of Kippen, is spending a well-rnedholiday with her parents, _ Mri aliii Mrs. ' W. H. Johnson, of the `:village. She has been taking a coursein medicine. Mr. J. Fenn, of the Wilsons flank staff, Hensall, has the aviation branch of the service, and left this week. The lightning on Saturday of last week killed a fine Horse° irf 'Mr. aobt: Sinery of U•sbo a '. it alsostruck the o'himile� ' ' ' "`iiioiite' tli:'lt�d blew of h o* n and ve both doors on the 6�to t pe r at the ' same time ttook at tsouroe,�doa>n. theeleti;n el f acid SOU t Usedt t the building for the United Nations. When you hear a plane zooming across the blue sky with some young airman in it, you are rather inclined to think wistfully' of the thrill he must get an dropping bombs op. Germany.- Then you begin imagining how dull your oy(n work is in comparison with that the airman is doing. If we could -just use a little more imagination. . Possibly we could then see the ships streaming across the ocean in convoys," carrying the food that we produce. Maybe we could', see the stevedores unloading it and then imagine that we see those ship- loads of food • streaming out in car and truck ioads across Britain. We would see our own soldiers eating it after a hard day of training for the "big push." We might see the war - working men of the United Kingdom coming home after a 'difficult day in the munition plants,'si'tting down to a meal made up of our meat and cheese supplies. We might even see him sitting in his pub discussing the'tood that we send overseas. • I'm going to remember those 'things this Year as I plod along behind the seed drill, hoping that Mother Na- ture won't be any more cantankerous in the future than she has been so far about seeding weather'. Every time I see the milk truck coining long the concession at daylight I'll hink of an English farmer stopping in the middle of harvest for a snack of bread and cheese . . Canadian cheese , . . and, maybe watching English and Canadian and American planes dog -fighting with Nazis over the Channel. Farmers are mighty important at any time, ,but especially so in wartime. dust a ' Smile or Two - "I know that soldier is the man for Sergeant: "Did you give the pris- oner the third ,degree?" 'Policeman: a "Yes, we browbeat him, badgered him and asked,him ev- ery question we could think of. He merely dozed off and said, 'Yes, dear, .you are perfectly right'." • • Young Man: "I think two can live es cheaply as one." Future Father-in-law: "You can't edge into my -family on that theory, young man: I'm willing to keep sup- porting my daughter, but you'll have to pay board." • "What do you call it when one wo- man is talking?" "A monologue." "And when two women "A cat-alogue." ' me, mother. Every time he takes me in his arms I can , hear, his heart pounding." "Better be careful, daughter! Your pa fooled me that way for almost a year with a dollar watch!" • "At any rate," said the auctioneer, "nine is a business that a woman can't take up." "Nousende," put in the strang-mind- ed lady. "A woman would slake quite as good an auctioneer as any mann • "Would she?" retorted the other. "Well, you try and imagine an unmar- ried lady standing up before a crowd and saying, 'Now, gentlemen, all., I want is- an offer'." , talk?" Huron Federation Of: Agriculture --Farm N ews RELATIVE VALUES OF CROPS SOWN LATEIN THE SEASON FOR GRAIN With the late season which we 'have experienced this year, the question now is, what is the best crop to sow fordthe production of,grain for our livestock? ' The following table gives the yields' of grain of our two .major crops, barley and oats,, and two sub- stitute crops, millet and buckwheat. As the Statistics Branch of the De- partment of Agriculture. for Ontario does not give the yields of millet, the following yields for the long-time per- iod are from crops grown at the Field Husbandry Department, Ontario Agri- cultural College. In this table we have recorded the average yields of Mandscheuri barley and ,Banner oats over a period of 52 years, and Siberian Millet and Silver Hull Buckwheat for a period of 25 years.. The barley and oat yields in this table were from the crops that were sown as early as possible in the spring. It will be noted that the yields of grain and total..digestible protein of pats and barley are very much greater than that from the millet and buckwheat. Crops % Dig. Protein `.Yc 'Dotal Protein 1 t` ,o n Wim, • a W �& d a F ii Mandacheuri Barley ... 9,3 .11.8 2.0 5.7 2789 259 Banner Oats .. 9.4 12.0 4.7 10.6 0 254 Siberian ,Millet. 8.6 12.1 4.1 8.6 2h 183 Silver Hull Buck- wheat ....... 8.9 11.9 2.4 10.3 1224 109 Experiments on •dates of seeding barley and oats were conducted for six years, with an average first date of seeding of April 18th, and succeed- ing• seedings at weekly intervals. It was found that barley sown five weeks after the first date of seeding gave an average yield of only 40 per "cent. of that train the early seeding, late oats about 50e per- cent., and early oats approximately 70 per cent. It is fair to assume that barley or oats sown at this late date, which is now five weeks later than the aver- age first date, would .give a similar percentage of the yield as those re- corded in our dates of seeding. For the farnler who has not his Usual ac- roageo caarse gainsown,and 0 has the land ready, it 1poks ° as if :ear - 1 . [f1,te, such, as Alaska er Cartier, sdivi i t *dad gide,.: the grexte t UM@ 4, 194$ e n tie - ounty Pa er. ssi ' ; Plane Lands In River , Residents of Benmiller and neigh- borhood got a thrill about 7.30 Tuee-.' day evening when a Tiger Moth trainer from Sky Harbor, with a some-. student at the controls, crashed int? the Maitland River, just above the bridge. The student had climbed oupl of the cockpit and waded ashore ix three feet of water, uninjured, before the first eyewitness had reached the river's 'bank. The plane; almost com- pletely wrecked, was soon hauled back to its base on a lorry.—Gode- rich Signal -Star. Office in Goderich Miss Sara MacLean, inspector for old age pensions and mothers' allow- ances for the County of Huron, has established an office in Goderich, ad- joining the Cnild'ren's Aid office on Hamilton St., and will reside here.— Goderich Signal -Star. Celebrates 100th Birthday Mr. Holmes, of Toronto, father of Mr. H. V. Holmes, of Gorrie, celebrat- ed .his 100th birthday on Saturday,. May 29th, at leis home in Toronto. Mr. Holmes is a veteran of the Fen- ian raid: He is enjoying good health for a man of his, year and has full use- of all his faculties. - Winghana• Advance -Times. Serious' •Fire Loss Mr. Robert Douglas, who farms on Brussels road, had a serious fire loss when from • some unknown cause hips, barn was completely destroyed on Thursday 'last. Mr: Douglas went in- to the barn to put down hay when he noticed dames coming frenand part of the' -barn formerly used as a hen house where he had not been in for - several days. Neighbors gathered and succeeded in removing all anim-• als, 160 hens were destroyed with most of his implements, hay• and grain. Aeroplanes which.happened 'to be in the district circld the fire' drawing attention of many in the dis- trict who gave assistance. We have not learned whether Mr. Douglas in- tends rebuilding or not. — Wingham Advance -Times. Purchase Business Property 'rile - Elliott Insurance Agency .--has purchased the building formerly oc- cupied by Mr. Earl willows an a drug store and will move their insurance equipment there shortly. Mr. S. W. Sibthorpe, of` Wingham, formerly of Blyth, will return to the village early next month and occupy the stand now used by Elliott Insurance Agency, as a barber shop.—Blyth Standard. Honor Teacher and Bride Around two hendred friendsand relatives met in the parish hall, Dun- gannon, Wednesday night, in honor of - Mr, and•"Mrs, George E. Cowan, who were recently married. Dancing and' a social time was enjoyed and after' lunch Miss Millie Anderson, junior teacher of Dungannon echool, where Mr. Cowan is principal, read an ni- dress and Dorain Rutledge presented the Couple withea handsome purse of' money. 'Miss Alton presented Mrr. Cowan -with a lovely bouquet of car- nations. and snapdragons. Mr. Cows= replied suitably on behalf of his bride. —Blyth Standard. Recovering From Poisoning Miss Shirley.Ulens, of London, for- merly of. Grand Bend. and Corbett, was one of a number of women who -. were taken seriously ill after eating' at a London restaurant -during the early part of last week. Shirley was, - one of 18 girls working on war work who had supper at the restaurant, five• of whom became ill.. Her condition 'became serious and she was taken to• St. Joseph's .Hospital.—Exeter Times - Ad vocate. imesAdvocate. I yield, while barley and late oats would give much lower yields, On the average farm in Ontario where livestock is kept, and ' corn constitutes an important bulk .crop, the necessity of 'getting work under way for the preparation of this crop faces the farmer. After the corn is planted, •thea the substitute crops could be sown. Millets ' are particu- larly good producers of grain, espec- ially the Siberian variety, as will be noted from the following table, and if seeding conditions are favourable during early June millet would -prob- ably peoduce as much feed fon live- stock and straw for bedding as 'early oats sown • at this time, -while buck- wheat, which produces a much lower yield, could be sown later.,, No. of , Yield per Acr days ire (Ave. 4 yna.) reaching Straw .Grai Varieties of Millet maturity (Sons) (lbs. e i Siberian 99 White Siberian Proso /d8 Crown (Proso) 89 Hungarian ......... , 99 Japanese Barnyard 103 Empire 110 3.18 2.39 2.15 3.19 3.30 4.92 2093 1747 1728 1651 1'622 1474 The 'Department of Animal Hus- bandry, Ontario Agricultural College, states that it is safe to feed 25% of the grain ration of ground millet to f.nishinn hogs, and 20% to dairy-tat- tle. airyeat- tle. * at. FOOD, A WEAPON OF WAR Of world-wide significance is a Unit- ed Nations conference on food at Hot Springs, Virginia. Problems relating "to consumption, production and dis- tribution of food in the post-war per- lod are being discussed, and Canada is being represented by a delegation of agricultural experts. The food question will be a pressing one after victory is- won, for relief will be need- ed for Europe's hungry millions. Can- ada's huge productive capacity will be an important aspect in any consid- eration of the problems. The conference will not make any commitments or agreements, But will be technical and exploratory in scope with any recommendations directed to the governments concerned. It is ex- pected to continue three weeks. Several developments during April emphasized Canada's position, as a', produeer of grain. Stocks of its five rnci ill al grain it p g a n crops at March 31•: 1948 1,389,611,867 bushels(wheat • —798,000,000 bushels). C*it111u cit an P..4.0 8) . 4,4 ai Verne Harness in Hospital Mrs. Laverne Harness received word "from Ottawa last week stating that her hilsband, Pte. Laverne Har- ness, o•f the Royal Canadian Motor Transport, was seriously i11. Pte. Harness is in the 14th General Hos- pital in England. He was among the first to go overseas from Exeter. His many friends here wt11 wish for hie speedy recovery. — Exeter Times -Ad- vocate Completes Course Cpl, S. Grant Sanders, son of Mr-, S. M. Sanders, of town', recently com- pleted an advanced course as a radie - nlechanic at the Boca Raton Field, Florida. He took a • preliminary course at Sioux Falls Field, S. D. At the latter place a very elaborate book-, let was_ printed, showing the activi- ties of the training class together, witb pictures of all member of 'the' class, including Cpl, Sanders. It is a, fine piece of work. Cpl. Sanders is being posted this week but his des- tination was not revealed. We con- gratulate him on the arrival of a young son, born in New York City.— Exeter Times -Advocate. Two Cars In Headon Collision After midnight on Wednesday -last two caxp collided on highway No. 2l about two miles north of Mitchell - Herb Berry, Mitchell, travelling south when the accident -occurred and a Curtin, R.R. 2, Monkton, were t car heading north apd driven by Pe involved. Joseph Longeway, R.R. Z, Monkton, ire the Curtin car, sustain- ed a lacerated and bruised; face, but the ethers were unhurt. About $150 damage Was dope to the Berry car and the Curtin "car 'was also badly smashed. Provincial Traffic officer George Gooier, Mitchell, investigated. —Mitchell; Advocate, 1. 0 4 i