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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1943-10-29, Page 2mama ,blished 18'60. ail McLean,. Editor, at Seaforth, Ontario, .ev achy afternoon by McLean e*elation rates, $1.50 a year in an 'e; foreign $2.00 a year. Single les, 4 cents each. Advertising. rates on application. SEAFORTH, Friday, October 29th Sundae' Work Two weeks ago the Chief of Police of York township laid charges against a number of market garden- ers and their helpers,who worked on Sunday. Over this action there has, been wide newspaper comment, ancL although the charges have since been 'withdrawn, discussion on this question of Sunday work is slow to die down. There seems to be a widespread opinion that the ,action of the polite was unnecessary and uncalled for. That, while the farmers freely admit they were working on Sunday, they were working only to save a very perishable crop, that was urgently needed both for home consumption and to furnish food for people in the Allied countries. And 'that opinion is reasonable. On the other' hand, the Chief of Police maintained that there is a law against a farmer working him- self, or causing others to work for him on Sunday, and that it is his business 'to see that this law is ob- served. And the Chief is right too. However, we can not see why the farmer should,, be picked upon to make a test case in the courts on the question of Sunday observance. We - would think that the' police could have found many more , applicable and reasonable cases in -any city; town or even village, in any part of Ontario. Just recently a letter, written by a farmer, on the subject of 'a politi- cal party holding a meeting in a To- ronto hotel on Sunday, appeared in the . Barrie ° Examiner.. 'One-- para- graph of this farmer's letter is a case in point. He said: .s "Another thing . (and -one which seems new in politics) is the holding of one of • their' .important business meetings on Sunday. About the on- ly reference I could . see to Satur- day business was a dinner where some 700 C.C.F. members took part. Choosing Sunday was utterly against, the Fourth Commandment. Such a choice, made to suit the con- venience of • the lawyers,..;: 'teachers, ex -teachers, professor, labor organ- izers, etc., who seem to be the -driv- ing force behind the C.C.F., .certain- ly does not appeal to the farmers,, Many times a year such an amount of time as, is set apart for Sunday would be immensely valuable to us, especially in uncertain weather at harvest, yet only few farmers would ever think of not keeping the Lord's Day." That is undoubtedly true; and it has • remained true of the farmer from pioneer days down to today. Perhaps in no walk of life is there as great a temptation, and with reason, to work on Sunday as that - which confronts the farmer, and particu- 1 ;rly in harvest time in a catchy r Buthowfew,throughx,11 the year. years, have given way to that temp- tation? emp-tation? And the reason, we believe, is that the farmer has learned by experi- ence a that no financial gain he has' made by working on Sunday, has, or will equal the ,loss he sustains by giving up his rest on the Seventh Day. ,O A Town's Location "Some`+ people,rs the Kincardine News says, "opine that Kincardine is an opt of the way place, far re- moved from neighboring municipali- ties and :even moredistant from ;41ttes. 'this, they believe, is an un,- ri�tnonnta'le handicap." th .t'h'at • opinion the News does agree, and we are . decidedly of .. pa►er's opinion: We are even a little further and say o'tee;s of a town's '10- er10&a1ities and par - 4 Ocularly from cities, is adistinct ad- vantage to that town's business, community outlook and social wel- fare. it is not ,hard to.. see why towns surrounded 'by larger municipalities retain their status of a town with difficulty. ,Business is divided among so many centres that the home town receives only a meagre share of it. The community thought and out- look, too, is sure to be different from a more isolated community. The in- terest and attention of the citizens-. of such a community are not so like- ly to be distracted by what others are doing and even saying. They have more time to devote to their own particular town. More time to think of what would benefit it, and more consideration for the opinions of its rural surroundings as to what' a town should be and should have to merit their business and support. On the other hand, when a town is surrounded by communities of simi- lar size or larger, the community outlook is almost sure to be divided: Some people will want a facility that one adjacent town has, and others will want those that are available in a second or a third. And, instead of advocating and working for similar facilities in their own town, these people just patronize the ' adjacent town of their choice. It is so much easier: Town people too easily forget that what is easy for them is just as easy of performance by the people in the surrounding country. Still they won- der why some country people fail to give all their business to their nearest town, and,.think and say many hard things abbut this outside buying, while they themselves, and that in- cludes business men, are doing the' very same thing. It is community 'spirit that makes a town. Rarely anything else will, and the history of rural Ontario bears this out. However, we would say that the town that is more or less isolated, has an advantage over another in a more thickly settled community, because the citizens from the start have been able to concentrate en and give their un- divided attention to their town, its facilities, its business, its education and its community spirit. They live more nearly to each other and they work better together. wow • One Fall Fair T( hat Is Alive At a meeting of the directors of: the Teeswater Fall Fair, held ,1 last week, the board decided to purchase $5,000 worth of Victory Bonds. In addition, $100 was voted to the Sal- vation Army Red Shield Fund, and the society will pay the cost of a Christmas box to be sent to every man :from Teeswater and Culross Township, now ..serving' ' overseas. The same' . meeting also agreed to sponsor and pay all cost of a concert to be staged in the near future in aid of the local branch of the Red Cross Society. - The receipts ,frond the Teeswater Fall Pair this year amounted to $5,000, and last year the entire pro- . ceeds were voted to various war charities. That is a proud record for any fall fair board in any town, or even city, to attain. But' when it is considered -that Teeswater is a -small village in a rather isolated situation in Bruce County, .and possessed of a popula- tion of less than 800 people, it is a record outstanding in Canada. And it is a record for every fall ; fair board in Canada to shoot at too. The success' of Teeswater Fair did . n not just happen. It was planned and worked for, but if one small village can attain to such heights in the Fall Fair business, co-operation, planning and working will do just as much for any other place, large or -Small. 'At the same time, it 'might be wise to point out, the'l'eeswater success was not realized in a year, but was - the culmination of -a number of years of .- thought 'and work on .the part of its Board of Directors. ' ' • - 1 ,* Where? A recent advertisement in an American newspaper said: "Let your New Fall hat be a War Bond," - And -where, we would like to, ask, could ,a wonial get a , tnodei yielding a greater rate of interest'? QA Fodor e i n Of 1ture-.F rr News The Huron Count*. Federation of Agriculture has completed arrange- ments to hold the`meeting regarding the possibility of setting up a system of school nurses in the county. The meeting will be 1teld in Clinton, either in. the Agricultural Office or the Town Hall, at 8 p.m., an Thursday, Nov. 4. The chief speaker will be Deputy Min- ister of Health for Ontario, who will outline the provincial policy of such a scheme. It is hoped to have Miss, Margaret Grieve, R.N., head nurse for the County of Oxford-, who will tell of •the work being done in that coun- ty wibh the school children. A gen- eral invitation is extended to anyone interested and a special invitation is being sent to county council members, Women's Institutes, Lions Clubs, school trustees, directors of f'ed'era- tion and members and Parliament *and Legislature. The Grey ToWnship annual meeting of Federation of Agriculture will, be, held in Ethel in the Township Hall on Wednesday, Nov. 3. The Hullett Unit of Federation meeting will be held/ in the Township Hall, Londes- boro, on Thursday, Nov. 4. Both un- its are planning interesting meetings and all farmers and families are in- vited to attend. The Agriculture Committee of En- quiry is scheduled to meet again in Committee . Room. No. 1, Parliament Building, Toronto, on Monday, Nov. 8. Many .sub-codimittees• are at work in preparing for the main meeting of the committee on Nov. 8th. Western Canada Crop Failure Quite Severe Canada's dust bowl has produced a crop failure this year. almost as big. as that in the worst crop years of the combined drought and depression 'period, Agriculture Minister J. G. Gardiner said Friday last. In Saskatchewan some 591 -town- ships are affected, running north from the United States -Canada border, 18 townships wide up to Battleford. Off- shoots of the: drought lands run east- ward 'beyond Regina -and to the north. The corresponding areas of South- eastern Alberta is not so large. Not yet has the condition been de- r•■ "fy1Y HATE Off To YOUR BR Made In Canada R Brings you. compliments on sweet, tasty bread ALWAYS DEPENDABLE WRAPPED AIRTIGHT TO ENSURE POTENCY Glared a state of emergency requir, ing direct application, but, said the Minister, it . is under consideration. In the meantime help is 'being given under the ternis of 'the Prairie Farm Assistance Act. In the belts hardest 'hit cereal crops yield is placed under four bushels per acre. Most og it is under eight and the average yield is placed by bhe Minister at around six. Mr. Gardiner's report was made during a press' conference announce- ment on the new United Kingdom bac- on agreements and carried ,with it the direct intimation that Canada's once huge reserve stocks of cereals will he cleaned in the next twelve months. In diseus'eiz g the ' sharply reduced hog gaota, the Minister assented that i'u the course if 1' mouths all the feed grain available will be required "even if the present high level of 'hog Production IS not maintained, in West- erir Canadal" Grainstocks in the West, as of Oct. 14, were, in millions, of bushels:— Wheat, 804.9; oa,ts, 8, and barley 23.8. The bulk wae, &cried in country ele- vators in the three Prairie Provinces and „the next greatest proportion in lakehead storage. 'Certainly_ that acreage increases will be urged in the 1944 crop year, at the forthcoming capital conference of Dominion -Provincial agriculturists, was indicated repeatedly by the Min- ister. "It would appear," he said at one point, "that grain production should assume,a more important place in our program of the future if a reasonable percentage of our production of live 'stock products is to be maintained." Linked with that is a further state- ment: "It would appear advisable to encourage a maintenance of hog .pro- BEl' 2e, i9 duction on 'e' ,,tern farmsif eatergi agriculture Ts to prosPer," By the foamier, It will be the ;polio to try to build a new reserve, to Gov- er possible crop failure, and to •In- crease cereal supply ready for the time when foods will be flooded Into now occupied Europe. when consid- ered, onsidered, with the latter statement, -,it is presumed the long-range policy `will be to "encourage the farm economy to swing.' back partially on old traditlou- al lines, grain in the West and live- stock in the East. Many Advantages From 8.O.P. Poultry The mere widespread the distribu- tion of chicks of good breeding, the more marked will be the increase in production and profit on the ordinary farm. To this end, the . •production standards of Canadian poultry have been raised to new levels, Mainly through the efforts of the R.O.P. (Re- cord of Performance) breeders. Ii4 most districts of Canada there is a poultry breeder who is spending sev` en days a week trapnesting and car- °(Conitinued on. Page 3) INFORMATION For Eastern -' Farmers who wish to Purchase Western Feed Grains GRAINS AVAILABLE: WHEAT • OATS • ARLEY HOW TO ORDER Place an order through your regular dealer. The dealer can order this gra4i, advise you on costs and handle all details of shipment to your station or Place an • order direct with a western farmer. Be sure to (1) specify., the kind and grade of grain wanted, (2) specify that the grain must not have more than- 3 per cent dockage and (3) be prepared to accept grain within one grade of your request. Purchase made by either of these methods gives the buyer the benefits of bonuses, freight assistance and other Dominion Government sub- sidies if his shipment complies with the regulations. . . . PRICE 'INFORMATION Oats and barley will be charged for by the bushel, at the ceiling price (or the cash price if this is lower), basis in store at Fort William or Port Arthur. Ceiling prices on Oats, 51%c per bu.; Barley, 64%c per bu. Freight, loading charges, com- mission, and War Risk Insurance must --be paid by the buyer. GOVERNMENTAL ASSISTANCE ON FEED GRAIN PURCHASES 1. Subsidy per bushel -1 Mc in?October 1,c* in November— Mc in December. 2. Feed wheat payment of 8c per bushel. 3. Freight assistance on feed grains from Fort William -Port Arthur to all points in Eastern Canada. ' 4. 3% dockage tolerance to allow more rapid shipping of grain. READ THESE FA Minimum grain order is a carload. Dockage of 3% is a1lo'ed on grain ' purchased. Difference in weight be- tween 1% and actual dockage isnot included in cost of grain to buyer. . After receipt of the grain, the blfyer should apply to,the Feeds Adminis- trator, Confederation Building, Ottawa, for the necessary firms for -CTS CARET LLV. refund .of freight and other Dominion Government subsidies. Preserve these documents: (1) The original invoice or a copy of same signed by the seller. (2) A receipted freight bill or `railway arrival notice. (3) The grade certificate of the grain 'showing that• it is of a grade established under the Canada rain Act and does not con- tain over 3% dockage. AGRICULTURAL SUPPLIES BOARD Dominion Department of Agriculture, Ottawa Honourable JAMES G. GARDINER; Minister 104E Amer• /r 771E MUM 2 . No., 22 , '4iai�C;$,+.;"•;%>;:,.":ti::i:,`.:`4'.';:\>:u:::::. •;3N•,4.:`.::i`k�,::` :s+a; <.`±;:�'•,'p,�+S • '�. NO FON SI/O,PP/NG.. NOT///MG /N T//€- sTnes's / .. , :,:;:•::, ?i:{:i. ♦ ...••...,•... i t �•1.• •\s nf/0 64(788/ /!�E" 7500 $'ACTED 9IAY. EAOK OMR/ iieW0$'! 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