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EAFORTH, Friday, August 27th -
4 Five -Dap .14/e1c-
It is becoming apparent that a
Ave -day working week is qUite with-
in the bounds of possibility for the
towns and villages of Ontario with-
out waiting for the fulfilment of C.
OF. promises. In fact, it is neither
a political nor a labor movement, but
a situation that is arising entirely
from the curtailment of non-essential
production of goods as a War mea-
sure.
Production has already been whit-
tled to the point where in many lines
of food and other products there is
now only enough available tri provide
a very thin layer to cover the needs
of all, and then only if it is rationed.
Merchants in every town- and vil-
lage are finding it increasingly dif-
ficult to secure enough goods to sup-
ply the needs, and far from enough
to supply the wants of their regular
customers. Consequently, if they do
mot curtail on their selling hours,
of business. Something that many
they are going 'to sell themselves out
Nave come, perilously near doing al-
ready.
That is, apparently, the situation
that has arisen in one town not so
far away from Seaforth. Kincardine
is going to have a five-day business
week. Either the stores in that town
will be closed all day Monday, or else
there will be a whole, instead of a
half day holiday each Wednesday.
'That is, we believe, only a begin-
ning of a similar movement that will
be followed by most of the towns. and
villages in Western Ontario. Even
the shelves of the largest and long-
' est established places of business: are
becoming, barer -and with further
curtailment instead of replacement,
many merchants have already come
to the very justifiable conclusion
that if they want to continue in busi-
ness after the war, they will have to
parcel out very meagrely almost ev-
ery article . of goods they already
have, or can hope to receive as long
as the war lasts, and, possibly, for
quite some time thereafter.
Kincardine merchants have also
come to another wise decision. On
and after September ist, all places
of business will be closed at ten
o'clock on Saturday nights. That
will decidedly curtail the Saturday
night buying- spree, which so recent-
ly became a habit in the country, and
make more lines available for regu-
lar customers in the other days of
the week, and in reasonable shopping
hours.
Midnight shopping that continues
on into Sunday morning is only a
habit and only one that has been ac-
quired in recent years. There is
neither need nor justification for it,
'aid its cure remains wholly in the
hands of the merchants of the towns
and villages. Atany rate, the action
of the town of Kincardine will be
followed with interest by other
towns in Western 'Ontario.
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"Coing'West?
Much discussion has been.heard in
this office over the Harvesters' Ex-
cursions to the West, which are in-
tended to supply labor for harvest-
ing the crops in the Prairie Pro-
vinces.
And all of it has contained much
adverse criticism too. While it is
pointed out that Western men .came
east n• some numbers to help in the --
Ontario harvest, it is also pointed out
there......were only twelve such
Men located, in iluron County. If,
therefore,'Huron returns the compli-
• ent ta* letting twelve men g� West
tO' assist with their harvest, things
1 be abOut even,
parently, however, far too many
and tight in this locality, too,
bei strjelieu with the Western
'hey gebit the Harvesters'
16iikOhatee to see the coniti-
L.
try with all expenses paid, and, pos-
sibly, a little Money nrade beside's.
They. re going Nest regardless.
It i true that our grain crops
have been harvested, but there is still
the corn, a very heavy. and very nec-
essary- feeding crop this year. And
there are still other crops. With a
labor situation already desperately
_ acute in this district, a further drain
of farm labor to the West might
easily, and no doubt will, create a
situation most detrimental to food
production and the war effort.
When faced with this argument,
we are told that th% usual reply of
these men is: "Sure it will affect the
harvest of the corn and other crops,
but it isn't our corn." Quite true,
but—the war .is 'their war, and they
have no right to shirk any responsi-
bility in the successful carrying out
of the country's war program—and
food production at home is . just as
essential a war measure as food pro-
duction elsewhere.
There iS another important angle
to this situation, which, possibly -
these young men have forgotten, and
most, if not all, are young men.
Young men have been granted
deferred military service for the sole
. purpose of working on their farms.
If they can spend two or three
months of the year away from their
farms, the farm, in their case, is not
a whole -time job. Consequently
there is no valid, reason why their
deferment should not, be cancelled.
And, if they have not already
thought of that, we have an idea
that the military authorities will, as
soon as their attention is drawn to it.
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Good News—But
Engineers of the Illinois Institute
of Technology have harnessed sun
rays to reduce fuel costs in several
of Chicago's suburban homes by at
least Dne-third of the normal esti-
mated heating outlay.
These experiments brought out
that the rays of the sun, filtering
through multiple -glazed windows,
which included a dehydrated air
space between two panes to form a
new type of glass called thermopane,
supplied enough heat even in sub-
zero weather to make auxiliary heat-
ing
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unnecessary through the day-
time.
'Good news, undoubtedly, but we
are still worrying about where next
winter's coal supply is goirig to come
from. The day when people will live
in glass houses; coqk in glass stoves;
run water through glass pipes; bathe -
in glass bath tubs, and sit in living
rooms heated by sun rays passing
through windows that serve as glass
radiators instead of steam ones, is
no doubt on the way, but that is not
going to do us much good or benefit
us at all 'pext winter.
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4 Better Weapon
Dr. Joseph Goebbels, Hitler's pro-
' poganda chief, promised the German
people on Friday last a new secret
weapon may soon give them relief
from Allied air raids.
"The new weapon against aerial
war imposed upon us by the enemy
is under construction," he wrote in
his weekly article in the peopoganda
paper Das Reich. "Day and night
innumerable busy hands are engag-
ed in its completion."
As Goebbels says, a new "secret
weapon" may be in the offing, but a
far safer and better weapon for the
German people to employ would be
to get away from all bombed, or like-
ly. to be bombed areas, or get out of
the country altogether.
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• Falls Over
• An American paper said last week
that the secrets of slide rules and
bedrock footings are known to John
Lucien Savage, designer of the colos-
sal Grand Coulee Dam in- the United
States, but it took a British Prime
Minister of dry wit to tell what
really makes a dam work, anyway.
Taking a stance in front of Niag-
ara Falls, which he was viewing for
the severalth time since 1900, Win-
ston' Churchill the other day put it
briefly, almost in an X plus T equals
so many kilowatt hours:
. the prineiple •remains the
same d. . the water,still keeps fall-
ing iwer , `,/'•
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The, PARRattOr of fifty and
tr;:glArtfre"Yeakis
ago.
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From The Huron Expositor
August 30, 1918
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Mr. John Jamieson, son of Mr. Wm.
Jamieson, of Coastarice, is reported
wounded in the head and wrist and
is now in a hospital in .England.
Mr. John McMurtrie, 2nd concession
of Stanley, met with a severe acci-
dent. Along with MS brother, Hugh,
he waseengaged in drawing in grain
a,nd as the Riad was a high one, Mr.
McMurtrie was in the act of taking
off the first bundle with the -slings
when the mile slipped, allowing him
to fall full force on the barn floor,
which resulted in breaking his collar
bone and three ribs.
Miss Elva Bolton, of Hensall, and
Miss Hester Godkin, of Walton, were
the guests of Miss Grace Ross, Bruce -
field, during the past two weeks.
Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Adams, Seaforth,
received word on Thurs%ley that their
son, Pte. Jack Adams, had been
wounded in France. Pte. Adams en-
listed and went overseas with the
161st Hurons.
Mr. Whitmore has sold his farm
on the Mill Road, near Brucefield, to
Mr. Alex Souter.
Messrs. A. Bead, Bruce -field, and
Robert and John Beattie, of Seaforth,
motored to London last week.
Mr. James Laing received a cable-
gram saying that his son, Pte. Thos.
Laing, was, seriously ill in a hospital
in. Liverpool..
Miss C. B. McKinley*, of town, has
sold her residence on Jarvis St. to
Mr. Thomas Daly, and left on MondaY
for Edmonton where she has accept-
, ed a position on- the staff of one of
the Collegiates in that city.
• Miss C. Doble left Seaforth on Mon-
day for Lethbridge, ?vita. • to assume
her duties as directress 0' the Cou-
servatory. of Music in that city. •
The gold watch donatedebY Miss
Lukes, in aid of the Sailors' Fund, was
won by .Mr. Garnet Habkirk, of Mc-
Killop. The proceeds realized by the
sale were $118.00.
Misses Madge Stewart and Clara
Pinkney, Seaforth, attended the mil-
linery openings in Toronto this week.
Mrs. George Weir has returned to
town after spending two weeks in
Hayfield. ...
Seaforth's allotment of coal for the
coming winter has beenannounced as
4,171 tons.
The weatherman spoiled to a cer-
tain extent a bowling tournament
that would have been the best in the
history of the bowling club •on Wed-
nesday. At 3 o'clock, however, the
sun came out and play started, and
in the evening they drew for prizes
rather than play all • night, with the
following results: , ist, Mr. Sawyer
and Dr. Burritt, Mitchell; 2nd, Hunt
and Humber, Goderich; 3rd, Heffern-
an and McDougall, London; 4th, Mar-
tyn and Pendleton, Mitchell. '
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A follow -in this township accused 3 -fretted a lot aboirt the wedding a9 To Take Covirsc, in Pletetice
me one time of. •being sentimental. threshings and bees. He never said.
He likes to think of himself as being very. much. Then all of a sedden she
hardheaded . . or practical as he. went away and he seemed to get'
says himself. In fact that fellow has more chilly tlian ever .. . and I seero•
been practising at being hard-headed .ed to see lines of unhappiness around
all his life. He started it. back when' -his eyes.
we were in school.
We were growing boys and girls.
The boys all liked to fancy that they
were just on the verge of being men.
They were always careful to never let
themselves be caught in anything that
might make them appear to he sis-
sies. Just the same there werenimes
when we had to let go.. The. teacher
was old and kind-hearted and one
day she sat down at. her d'ask and
didn't get up again. She passed on
just the way she always wanted to
. . . busy at her work. Most of us
dropped a few tears that day but, my
friend didn't. He -said in a cold sort
of way, "Well, she was pretty . old.
I'd never went „to live. that long." ,. Later on he was hurt when the
He didn't appear to be ruffled: at .team ran away one day and Mrs.
his father's funeral. People said that Phil and I decided to go and see him
he was cold-blooded about it. I didn't. at the hospitaL We were driving
think so. That young man was al- along the road and as we were•going
ways battling with Ms feelings. He past his farm where he lives alone
was maybe afraid that somebody now, she commented on the way -his
would laugh at him. I've often won- mother used to have such a profusion
tiered , if maybe somebody was cruel of flowers and asked me to stop. She
enough to laugh at Ms feelings when. gt out and clipped a bouquet of ros-
he was very small. • ee off a wild rambler out beside the
He started going with a girl. She front gate. I reughed at the thought
was a gay, happy girl from over on of him appreciating flowers. I was
the next Con.cesSion. The kind of a •vrong, however., When we got there
girl who always seemed to be. emil- he took a look at' those flowers . .
ing and laughing at something. She and he started to cry. I guess he
enjoyed life . . . every minute of it. was lonesome for the sight and smell
They went together for a long time. of his farm' . . and maybe they re-
It. was a strange contrast when: you minded .him of, his mother and her
saw him cool and reserved and some- dowers. Anyhow he couldn't clever up
how looking a little fearful about ev- his feelings that time and somehow I
erything in general . . . and the girl. came away liking him a lot more
who was so .happy. He used to get. than I ever did before. .
Hewas over here one day this
spring to •borrow the m.amle speead-
er. It was drizzling rain a little that
day and I was smoking my pipe just
ene..de the driving -shod door. He sat
down and the ,ecouyersatioti:' drifted
around to these articles. He gave me
tnnite 'a lecture on being sentimental
about silly things like rail fences aad
swimming holes. • He seemed to think
that it would be better to talk about
the value of a new barn or a new
way •of cultivating the ground. He
didn't like my style. In fact he
couldn't see much beauty around ''s
farm anyhow.
„ Miss Isabel Park, who graduated
from the University of Toronto with
a scholarship this year, left on Mon-
day for Toronto where she will enter
Western Hospital for dietetic train,
ing.—Mitchell Advocate.
Moved To Exeter
•
Arthiir Willed, of Stephen
Township, who is employed with the
-
Guenther Transport, has moved to
Exeter -North into what was formerly
known as the Walker property, re-
cently purchased by Mr. Earl Guen-
ther.—Exeter Times -Advocate.
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From The Huron Exposit,or
September 1, 1893
John Malone, of McKillop, has com-
pleted a large barn with stone stab-
ling 'underneath, and James Smith, of
the' same township, has a handsome
frame house in the course of erec-
tion.
While Mr. Hugh McGregor, Stanley,
was threshing seme,few days ago, a
spark from the engine lit among the
shingles of the roof and set them On
fire. However, it was extinguished be-
fore it gained headway.
Mr. Robert Charters, of the Mill
Road, who is noted as a successful
breeder of Leicester sheep, has re-
cently sold five head to Mr. James
Snell, of Huliet. They are to be ex-
hibited at the World's Fair.
Mr. James McMichael and Mr. John
Weir, two of Seaforth's respected gen-
tlemen of leisure, have been devoting
most, of their time for the past two
weeks' in levelling and improving the
ground for the new bowling' green.
There were over 100 carriages in
the funeral procession of the late
Miss Hogg, McKillop, on- Saturday
last. •
Messrs. Ed: Hinchley and Sam Ben-
nett, of town, intend leaving on Sat-
urday for Chicago.
Master Willie Campbell, son of Dr.
Campbell, has taken a position as as-
sistant at Fear's Drug Store in town.
Last week repairs to the Evangeli-
cal church at Zurich were completed
and it is now the finest church inside
for miles around. A new Bailey re-
flector lamp has been put in.
Hon. •3. C. Patterson, and Private
Secretary Jervis, who have been so-
journing at Point Farm, near Gode-
rich arrived in Clinton by private
vehicle on Thursday afternoqn. Fri-
day Morning Mr. 'Pattrson and a
number of prominent citizens, made a
trip throfigh the southern part of
Goderich Township, calling among
other places at a threshing bee, at
John Shepherd's, Hayfield, tine, where
about 25 farmers 'were gathered to
assist. They also visited Hayfield har-
bor. °
A Meeting of the Ladies' Aid was
held at Mr. Wm. Dennisons at Walton
on Wednesday. In the liening a large
craved gathered and a good program
was rendered, Which inclUded the fol-
lowing persons,: J. C. 1V1orria0n, Mrs.
Neel, Mr. Homey, 1111sSes Enna and
Sehnla, Forbes, Mrs, T. 3,6Atsen, Mise
niattte Sibb'etts, 1ss Mine Heftier
MiSs Annie Gardiner. The, pre-
ceeds amounted O WM.
Just Smile or Two :
Wife: "My husband has no bad
habits Whatsoever. He never drinks,
and spends all his evenings at home.
Why he doesn't even belong to a
club."
Friends: "Does he smoke?"
Wife: '"Only in moderatiori. He
likes a cigar after he has had a good
dinner. but I don't suppose he smokes
two cigars a month."
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When Mose was told .that poor Ras-
tus had been shot. dead by Judge
Hicks while- he was stealing 'the
judge's chickens he merely replied:
"Oh, well, it might have been worse?"
"How could it have been worse?"
Arm Fractured
Mrs, G. S. Howard had the misfor-
tune to fall on the verandah at her
homeon Monday, August 9th, fractur-
ing her left arm. Mrs. Howard has
been rather unfoetunate as this is not
the first time the army has been brok-
en. The fracture was reduced by Dr.
Dunlop.—Exeter Times-Advoeate.
indignantly asked the informant:
"Poor Rastas is dead! De judge just
nachually blow the head right off
off him. What could be worse dan
that?"
"It might have been worse'," re-
peated Mose. "If the jedge fire off de
gun de night before he might have
blow de head off me."
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The mistress asked the new cook
how she liked the electric range and
heater.
"Oh! They're wonderful, mum. It's
three weeks since they were put 'la
and neither of them has gone out
since," she relied.
Huron Federation Of:
Agriculture--FarmNews:
RESTOCKING OF FARMS
IN EUROPE STUDIED
Canada, in -common with the rest
of the Dominions and the United
States, is to have a hand in restock-
ing Europe's farms when the time of
reconstruction a n d rehabilitation
comes.
The demand will be for "utility"
cattle, that IS cattle 'capable of yield-
ing milk while performing farm haul-
age tasks. Nearly 1,000,000 Of them
will be needed by Europe in the first
two years after the war, aecording tg
a report of the inter -allied postwar
requirements committee.
Transportation of these cattle from
the United States, the Dominions and
Argentina, will necessitate the con-
version of from 21)0 to 400 vessels
into cattle boats.
As yet the British Government hae
not disclosed ant detailed post -war -
policy for. British agriculture and one
of the main reasons for this is said
to be the uncertainty • as to the real
food and farming position in occupied
Europe and the enemy countries.
That is a situation that is ever
changing. Even during the past few
weeks new information in regard to
the size of this year's European har-
vest has become available and it now
is estimated that the peasant popula-
tion of some of the Occupied- countries
are assured of better supplies of their
own. home -produced food for this. Win-
ter than they were last.
Also latest information shows that
the capacity and cunning of the
FrenCh small farmer and the Balkan
peasant in hoarding food may not
have been fully appreciated. They
are doing fairly well for themseltes,
all things cohaidered. .
The rehabilitation scheme for Eur-
ope falls into two 'sections. The first
would aim at restoring the agricul-
ture of the occupied countries to its
rre-war level and would begin at the
moment a country is freed of the en-
emy. _The full task, says the plan-
ners, will need at least six years.
Reliable estimates and figures sub-
mitted by German occupied or dom-
inated countries show that since the
start ef the war they have lest,
through German reqldifiltione and
Plague, 11,000;000 cattle, 3,000,000
horSes, 12,000,000 pigs, 11,000,000
sheep and -that three-qUartera of the
potiltry stocks have gone.
Restoration First Task
The first task Will be to rester° the
lost animal pOpAtlatitni, nd ttritish
Accepts Principalship At Gore Bay
J. G. Griffith, B.A., Paed., who re-
ceived his specialist's standing irt
mathematics and physics this year
at the University of Western Ontario,
has been appointed principal of the
high school at Gore Bay, Manitoulin
Island, where his parents reside and
where he spent his boyhood.. The
good wishes of their friends go with
them in their new place of residence
to which they go early' in September.
—Mitchell Advocate._
farmers, it is anticipated, will be ask-
ed to provide -500 pedigree bulls to
help the breeding stock. 42,
Second phase of the plate is to pro-
vide long-term assistance to the peas-
ant countries of Europe where there
has always been poverty and inse-
curity on the lane, and a low. stan-d-
ard of living.
No • country, probably, is better
equipped to 'help in this regard than
Britain, for in Britain there has been
a tremendous wartime advance la ag-
i Farmers" have new scien•
tific knowledge of mixed and small
scale farming and skill in:reclamation
and village organization which has
proven' such a great part of the Bri-
tish war effort and re-established on
-a sound basis an industry that be-
fore the war was 'decidedly jaded.
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FEED OUTLOOK FOR 1943-1944
By F. W. Presant
Feeds Administrator
There can be no doubt left in the
minds of any- well -tin -formed person'
that today the part to be played by
agriculture throughout the duration
of the war and for a long time after-
ward, is to be one of greatest import-
ance.
• A few weeks dgo, 1 listened to an
address given by Dr. 11, Barton, the
Deputy Minister of Agriculture of the
Federal Department. Dr. Barton has
recently returned from the United
Nations Food Conference. He was
the leader of the Canadian delegation
to this conference -at which 44 Allied
Nations were represented.
Significant in his statements were
the ,following remarks. "Never be-
fore had ,food and ,agriculture receiv-
ed such recognition. Never before
had it been so clearly and Widely es-
tabliihed that better diets and im-
proved agrieulture were so fundamen-
tal to the well-being of all people and
never before had the problems of
World distribution of f ood been intet,,
nationally explored so eritleally and
with such scope." . . .
Canadian • agriculture to date has
done a wonderful job in its food pro-
duction program. It will undoubtet1.
ly continue to do so right to thelimit
of its ability.
Up to and including 1942 the Pro -
&idiom of livestock and liVestock pro
-
dads had shown steady and. eonsist-
mit Increase. The ditettion Which
thle produdtibti took Wei that 'dictat-
ed largely by retittillimenta for
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Sugar Taken By Thief
Mrs. W. Seddon, Lower Wingbant,
has ten pounds less sugar than she.
should have as a thief last week broke.
open the door of her home while she
was out for the afternoon, and made -
off with a bag of *sugar that was on
the sideboard. The police have been;
notified and are investigating. Mrs..
Seddon was.counting on this sugar to
do some canning for the winter and
her disappointment is great.—Wing-
ham Advance -Times.
"Ga a Match?
Among the many things that Gode-
rich stores are "fresh out ,of" are
matches and ketchup. The -partial
match famine is now about three -
weeks •old, many places of business
having ordered from two or three
firms, without success. It seems that
matches, like many other things, are
now rationed by the mannfacturer,
wholesalers -being given a monthly,'
quota. Many abandoned -cigarette and
cigar lighters have been brought out
of hiding and pressed into service.—
Goderich Signal -Star.
Makes Safe Landing
On Wednesday about noon, a stu-
dent flier from Sky Harbor madea.
forced landing in Victor Young's t eld
on the 7th concession of Colborne
township not far from where Mon-
day's fatality occurred. The engine
of his plane had stopped, but the
young Mei skilfully manoeuvred thee
machine into a safe landing with no
injury to himself and very little dame
age to the plane. Sky Harbor was
notified and a couple of hours later
the plane was got away under its own.
power.—Goderich Signal -Star.
Foils Robbery Attempt
Constable Elliott Drennan, who is -
pinch -hitting for Sergt. E"enmersort
Overholt, on holidays, came close to
becoming an instantaneous success as
a police officer on his first night, Sun-
day. He didn't get his man, but he
did prevent a robbery in progress and
recovered some of the stolen loot.
Constable Drennan was winding a
clock in the 'alley at the rear of
Wong's cafe nearing midnight when
he noticed two men coming out of
the rear door of a store. They were
carrying merchandise, which they
dropped at the sight of the brass but-
tons, jumped in their truck and drove
off. The constable picked up an. °ter -
coat and a bell and took them to the
police station. Monday morning Mose
Robins identified the overcoat as •his,
qwh. It was removed, hangar and all,
from just inside the back screen door"
which bad been 'punctured and the
hook lifted. But for the timely ar-
rival of 'Constable Drennan it is hard
to say just how much of Mr. Robins'
merchandise might now be on the
black market.—Goderich •Kgnal-Star.
1 E. Hill in Charge
The Selective Servicepice has
crossed the street and is now estab-
lished in the Masonic Temple, ground'
floor, just west of the Signal -Star .of -
flee. Mr. E. H. Hill is in charge, suc-
ceeding Mr. Harold Williams, who had
had charge of the office since it wan
first established here. Miss Doroth3r
'Westbrook is' the chief' clerk.—Gode-
rich Signal -Star.
Wine Field Crop Camrieeition
Mr. W. I. Dougall; of Hensall, with
a score of 86 points, was the winner
of the Cartier oats field crop competi-
tion sponsored by the Exeter Agricul-
tural 'Society. Thete Were sixteen
entrants. Mr. J. C. Shearer, Huron
Coanty agelcultdral representative.
Was the judge. Daher winners were
as followa: Man Wainer, Parkhill,
Si; Benediet Dietrich, Dashatood, 80
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