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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1944-01-21, Page 24S, • • • ot, aasSiA-Sa c4'.744?g,! --argot; ea�$b, Ontario, ev- ay ftenoou by McLean BEAFORTII, Friday, January 21st .The Forgotten Man Itused to be said, with a good deal of truth, that the farmer was the forgotten man. That when Govern- ments went on a spending spree, it was always business and labor that reeeived the presents. But times have changed. This war has brought into existence a new forgotten man. JIe is the small town or village citizen who owns a business of his own. Most of their standards of liv- ing have fallen steadily, because to a very large extent wartime regula- tions have done their best to regulate him out of business. His shelves are very bare, and there is no place he can go to stock them again. De- -mand has been so great that his re- serve stock has been disposed of. But •competition and a demand market have not made him any money. His selling price is set by regulation. On the other hand, they have had • to pay crippling increases in taxes - and wages have gone up, and bonus- es have been added, to them. Never • have their -opportunities to do busi- ness been as great, but they can not • sell because they can not buy. And• , they are laboring under an increas- • ed overhead all the time. They are not as numerous a • class as the farmers, who, at the present time are doing very well indeed. And they are far from being as large as organized labor, which is pulling down the highest wages in hiatory, and demanding—and sometimes get- ting—more. Yet in the face of all his harassing., difficulties, this forgotten man has done, or hied to do, his duty to his country. They, have worked in ev- ery war cause and every Victory Loan campaign has been supported by them.-- They are to be honored. But they should not be forgotten. And ((every post-war reconstruction plan should have a place for them, because on the whole they have been the backbone, of Canadian business and a world without them will nev- er be truly prosperous. • Want Standard Tune Back The Bruce County -Council this week passed a resolution asking that standard time be restored in , the •. country again. The possibilit3r is that other county councils in session this week will make a similar re- quest And some will even go as -far as making a demand. The avera'ge town citizen has long ago forgotten that there is any dif- ference between daylight saving and standard time. He has become ac- _ custdlned to the new order and the •'• change vakes no difference to him. Iliitthe people in the country and on the, farms , have not forgotten, nor can they fOrget. Daylight saving, was never a help to the -farmer. He has to work with the sun and any other time gauge is a labor waster and a financial loss to him. He is fortunate indeed, if he is able to secure help, but having to pay top wages for help that starts at nine or ten in the morning and quits when there is still three hours of daylight, in the summer time, is jiot money-making'proposition,, and we often wonder how industry, wOidd acCunder a similar handicap. • Even during the winter-, months the situation is little better. Owing • to the scarcity of help on -the farm, both boys and girls have got to help a,great deal more than they used to, - and doing the chores by lantern light is not as simple as it sounds. It is nOt eiren daylight when school time conies, aratif childgen have some dis- ..tange-Ja go, and What Child in–the 4400sLzes not, it is a dark and mghap-easily be a dangerous trip rk uporrotry morning. .'don'tillame.rtaral county 0 1 '46 'the totnitty re - time when- :it aa A aj - ' • 11.11 611111141' PrOVOPaticillbutQVIR au have "Offugh of even a ,good. •tbingv And the farmer feels—with ded deal of: j),.atification—that he 40,0 enough ef Daylight Saving Time. ' • • X,' Oa„ •-- Vetting On An Air Route The application of the Gray Coach Lines for perznission to establish helicopter routes_to replace their present bus lineS in Ontario, has caused a mild excitement in every town through which these passenger '-busses now operate. Each • town wants to be on'an air ratite and have a landing stage established in their midst. The financial standing of the Gray Coach Lines would seem to indicate that their. proposed helicopter air service was a future passibility rather than a bit of clever advertis- ing to boost the company's name and activities, but the helicopter, by all its pictures, is still rather a crude looking machine and its development after the war—there is no •time to spend on it now—will have to be • greatly increased, before it succeeds the present imposing- •streamlined vehicles that now so comfortably carry its thousands of passengers. In the , •application of the Gray Coach Lines it is stated the intention is to install- one round trip schedule each day on each of the eleven routes at present covered by its busses, and the application names the places where landing ports are propoied.- . As far as we can learn, these towns are centres where 'different routes converge. For instance, on the Stratford-Goderich route, the names of Stratford, Clinton and Goderich are named, and if the helicopter is • coming our way, landings would necL. essarily have to be made at these plaees, Goderich and Stratford being • terminal points, and Clinton a con- necting link for the • north -south route to meet the east and' west routes. But whether other stops would be made along the route is, .apparently, being left to the future to decide. If speed, however, is the consideration in undertaking the air bus lines, it is hard to see how much would be gained if the, helicopter has to drop down every few miles to let off and take on, passengers, unless it travels on -tree-top height. And that, we believe, is not proposed or would be permitted. • .1loweer, there is nothing like get- ting in on the ground floor, and the interest displayed by the citizens of the towns who desire to get on an air route shows they -are community minded and a live to post-war devel- opments and possibilities. • Not At This End - On January 12th last two Lancas- ters carrying mail for Canadian troops overseas set a record for the flight from Montreal to Great Bri- tain One of the planes, it was announc- ed, completed the journey- in eleven hours and fourteen minutes, and the other landed in Britain two minutes later. The previous mark of eleven hours and thirty-five minutes was made in November in a Liberator. • We often hear coMplaints—some of them, rather loud ones—about the slowness of our mails in reaching our boys overseas, but evidently the delay is °not at this end. • Change in British Farming • (A.P. Correspondence From London) It takes no great probing to find that under the surface a profound change has taken place in the • British farmer. Arch -conservative species of a naturally eon'servative family, in the daat friar years the has gone through the wringer, and the average farmer is willing to concede it may have done him some good. But the food which British agricultiire has pros • duced has been raised at' great effort and high! coat It Is the geivernment's substantial: aubsidys to the consumer that has made this high -coat food available to the worker at low prices. Whether the government 'will' use the money now spent on subsidies to Maintata_the- present - intensive level of British agriculture after the; War d question for debate. Many Who have *studied at Situation ea,y 11 will not.-, The dentin - 1008, VertCh once suppl4ed a large share Of 'Eng, iarid'S • cid, may have a voice. .OnO point n which all eeeni agreed is that the ,big hurdle has been Jamed in the deVelopeapnt iree Of land Mr eati0eal that the Oat- .; tern df controlled nsage itt Otesiatiert aerie Pities 'tire .bread Otitible Of ealit-War ritral •eery,• Clididert tit'enas settled that tbe SiittatfOrt 110trayeettr Where 400 fertile acres tart 'be Ont. 'Of anitiVatieft Mnattitatalitted air a kW to otttotoy alsomem ie pSetier Ond ,faie 44,0itiotto?pt *kaput ',„. ; 1904 e•P.4.4i From The . Huron Expositor .January 24, 1919 Mr. Wesley Tohne, f iJsborne, last week sold a hanatsome Shorthorn, biall Weighing 200 pounds to Mr. R. Wheaton, of ff'horndale, for the splen- did sum of $500. • . Mr. E. Appel; of Zurich, hap' di$Pals- ,eri of his gents'-furniehing stock to Messrs. Isadore & Oman ,I)ennonae, af Dashwood, • • The following in Zurich have had phones Metalled lately:: Mrs. Wm. Stelek, Ateaszse Stage & Weldo, A. P. Hese, J. A. ant Charles Bedard, Wm. O'Brien and Mrs. O. Fuse, ' Mee. Ray Holmes and W. Pinkney were welcomed home on Saturday morning last. 'Both had been Wound- ed and had 'been in English hospi- tals. OnMenday Ptes. Leo Joynt, 1V/anlei Wapukel and Norman Boyce and on Wednesday Frank Smith, ar- rived hoyae. Mr, J.;' B. Thompson' discovered some Illace bads on the bushes in his garden on Tuesday. Mr. Stewart McIntosh has purchas- ed the dairy business of Mr. J. R. Archibald, Sliver Creek, and took pos- session on Monday. Mr. A;•Vs----Craig, of Toronto, will have charge of the organ in First Presbyterian Church on Sunday. Louie Kirk, who is engaged with Mrs. Samuel Cudmore,--in-Usborne, mot 'with an unfortunate accident on the farm -of- Mr. Robt. Bell where they werescriatting wood. His mitt getting caught in the clutch of the en- gine this right hand was drawn into the machine and•the wrist was 'badly broken. What might have been arafatal acci- dent Occurred last Tuesday when 'Mr. Joseph Eckert, of Manley,. was oper- ating a circular saw on the .farm of Mr. Jd M. Eckert. In some messier the drive hell/ became entangled in the clutch pulley, lifting the machine and, throwing it up against the wagon onWhich the engine was sitting, pin ning Mr. Eckert in between the,svagen, and the machine. • The annual meeting of the Seaforth Agricultural Society was belt in Car- negie Hall' and the following officers Were elected: President, George Mc- Kee; let vice-president, James Ev- ans; 2nd eise-president, T. Living- stone; Directors; Dr. Grieve, Dr. liar - burn, J. A. Stewart, R. Dorrance, J. S'cott, G. D. OEliani, A. Wright, Jno, Dale, Robt. Broatlfoot, W. Rion. Frorri The Huron Expositor January 26 1894 The work an the new piers for God: erich harbor has been started, Mr. Kirkbridge has, we understand the contract for the iron work. The °°neis to be broughtfronr near Port Albert. Mr. Ted Peters fell through the ice at Egmontiville dam the other day and Was carried under, but by his own and his companions' strenuous efforts he was rescued. Geo. Good, of town, was ap- pointed a member of the Collegiate Board by the county eatincii. Miss Campbell, who has be-eu chief dressmaker in the Coldest Line Store for some time, has retired from busi- ness and her place will be taken by Miss Brine.. On Tuesday evetting e company of bhe young members of the Presbyter' • Iancongregators of_ Constance waited on Rev. P. Musgrove at the Manse and presented tail with an address and a purge ;cid-staining a80,00, as a slight recognition of his services at that piace• A party of young .People from Crom- arty drove to the residence of Mr. jot& Scott, 12th toneession, *fibre they were Pleasantly entertained on Friday' evening Amt. The click of that useful contriv- ance, the bay press, is still heard in: our land. Wm. Catneron, Henry Me Intosh and Wm. Murdie who run the press for Messrs. Cowan and Goven- lock, turned out 105 bales one after- noon last week on the farm of Mr. John Irvine, MeRillop. The blowing of the fire alarm on Tuesday evening :shoat • 10 o'clock broke op two church meetings and brought crowds from every directitila, Mr. C. A. Strang had changed his coat and left 'the dietarded garment on this office chair and in the pockets were some matches, The little dog norst , have pulled the coat too near the stove and it caught - The back of the chair was burned, but rto serious damage was {Imre. Scott Bros., musical instranneat dealer 'of Seaforth. last Week Shipped a, Very fine organ to Manitoba to be treed in an English thereli at Wheat- land; 0r RlVbr RAH& , Mr, Robert Grieve; of Dakota, it at present visiting relatiteS here, Mt Sae, Czech, Tuelteristnith, is ting the Material on: 416 ,grontal for' 'the inaPtovement of the :11ottife ott the Parbet 'farm °in battle of tefignes aaratasat 4brelte held, her , t'"t;041'40t Sh4ase ' 444k, ocHki,* Tos. 1hU was away ter a eoUple Of 'days last week. It was kind Of quiet and lonesome around the house and I 'spent mate a 'bit of My time tbe stable doing chores and Odd Jobe -of work. Then, reading the newspaper one morning I saw an item about fellow, Who h -as. a radio in his barn. It seems this fellow used the' radio to keep 'his barnyard folks in good -trim. I figured it would be :a good te move rai radio down to the stable just to try the scheme out. Our radio ds a mantel model,' so it wasn't much trouble te Move the redier"nto a good, snot On top of the chop bin in the middle passage. When / turned the radio on somebOdy was giving out the newe. An old rooster Who„bad slipped irt the cow stable delor when the ;cows came in front being watered, looked up in surprise. In fact he looked quite delighted and seemed to stand there frozen like a statue listening to the report on the terrific bombing of Berlin. The rest of the •stable folks didn't pay much attention to the radio. I could see that a. new topic of talk would be rinteoduced into the henhouse at the first oppestunitY. As' soon as the news stopped ar. orchestra started up with some old- time tunes. Old Barney started stamping around his stall and 'Nell in the next horse stall seemed to do a two-step in perfect temPo with the music. I've never seen suelisa change come -ever e, place in my life before. Before I laroUghtathearadio -in, the stable was gloomy with inid-wiriter, darkness. The animals all seemed to be ,ilisgaSt-od.---Witli . but as soon as that music had time to work it magic spell :the place became cheerful. The cows began chewing their cuds in time with the tune. The. old .billy - goat stood it as loneasapossible in „;iffed slieneeath e,' andera" he Start- rt.bOtiiiffssEgd bui1dg against the era ..aat • the stalL'' Theape/See frisked fr011eiteld and flona sa,Witi-Vff 1 could hear the old sow ginAtingout the bass 31,0t,e$::fctr the !yr-nip/Or:my of appreciation trOni the Wash -Mali, The programa changed and a Vien- neSsewalte Caine en. The news SWAY - ed back and forth quite gracefully and the calves just stood eaad Raton - ed. I suppose they didn't 'approve of anything as old-fashioned as a waltz. I got a terrific stiivriSe when I went ti throw some feed into Sir Timothy, our sire. He had his eyes closed and was actually a-rying to bring his bulk around in a graceful movement which he must have believed was a waltz. I was having first hand results of this experiment with radios in stables. • / went over to the driving shed and coming back I sensed' that a change had come over the stable. there was a definite aid:distinct difference. A voice was dripping out of the loud- speaker about having been deserted . • and 'a baby was crying and the cows were . standing there with/ ex- pressions 'that were definitely pained. It fact,' tears were running down their , cheeks and they• had stopped chewing their euds. -Evidently they were listening 'to "The. Lost: Love' Of Lumpy Lew.''' The bull was Sitting down in the corner of his stall look- ing unhappy and the calves were standing around looking bewildeted. -The' herses-sterted--whinnying and it looked for a minute -or. two -as if_the soap opera would interfere.. with all atheastableslife. I had to strove the radio out, con- scious that if radio was going to be introduced into the stable and morale was .goingto be kept high -then the programs would have •to' be scanned pretty clesely. :MO 4swugicorwo:.. Firt Giri: "What aspearectla e. quisite hat, dear." Second Girl: "I am glad you like it.". First Giri: "It is perfectly lovely. I Used to wear a hat like that myself wherj it was in fashion." Mrs. Duff: "I always feel lots bet- ter after a good cry." Mrs. Lawrence: "So do I. It sort of gets things out of my system." Mrs. Duff: "No, it doesn't get things outof my system, but it does, get things out of my husband." • ' She: "Do you love me for myself 'abarte2"' • He: "Yes, and when we're married don't want any of the family thrown in." Said the vicats wife: 9 heat that You Won a vacuum cleaner in the raffle, Mrs. Potts." . • . "Yes,: ma'am," replied Mrs. 'Potts, "but iVeildne'e tta'mea I ain't got a 'vacuum." • • Far -mer: • "Do youguarantee this • clover seed?" ; • Merchant: "I should say se! If this seed ,doesn't come up, you bring it back and we will refund your money."' • Relish Maker: "I have picked Wal- la Walla for our new factory sitea! Friend; ',But why Walla Walla?" Relish Maker: "Weil it sounds like a good place to make chow chow." Huron Federation Of: Agriculture-4lannNews; The recommendation made by 'the Ontario Agricultural Commission, of Inquiry- for an increase of 15 'cents a bushel in ceiling price of Ontario winter wheat by the payment of a federal subsidy of this amount has been rejected by the Wartime Prices and Trade Board. A letter to this ef- fect' harbeen 'received 'by- the Ontario Minister of Agiliquiture, Hon. T. L. Kennedy, who conveyed to Donald Gordon, ehairman of the Board, the recommendation of the Cohamission. Tbe recoramendatian •• 'of the Com- m ission was. based on the . present shortage in supplies of Ontario whiter wheat and of feed grain generally, it being pointed out that farmers were feeding their winter wheat to hive - stock instead of marketing it to ,the millers -for millingint O pastry _flour. it was pointed out that the .differenee in price between teed wheat from Western 'Canada and Ontario winter wheat was not sufficient to induce farmers to melte an exchange of their winter wheal for *feed wheat, so as to release large macients for milling. The seem:emendation was, two -fold, 'first, that there be an increasein he drawback paid by the federal govern- ment on feed Wheat frota the. West and second, that the ceiling, on win- ter wheat be: increased, the idint ef- fect of the ,two proposals being to in- erease the differential betrifeen feed wheat and Winter* wheat by 82 cents bushel. The Wartime rices 'and Trade Board increased the feed wheat drawback, by 17 tents' a 'Imsbela 80 the Inquiry Comitiesion, throligh the Minister cf Aarienitnre, -ireqUetted flTh'Itb' -itteresse n-theltIter Wheat telling, to he preeided by silhaltly,, bo 15 cents bushel Th lafoinnieg the Ontario Minister 01 Agrintiltitre that the Wartfife-Pile. eS Apittr'reade 'Board toUld At, redeem-, inend,41ila ittereiiie 46. the oottiiiv. 'aa petiOd 'OPt•41144:1,)-:llntkri'eWititti OrfOig • lation to other wheat's and gtains. Recent increases in spring wheat prices have put spring wheat at lev- els that are no more than in normal relationship to winter Nrheat judged by their traditional relationships over the past 20 years. In' our judgment the recently announced increase in tha ,0413,414y...preaWeetern feed_ wheat moved into Eastern Cara-clainaitee it reasonably 'attractive to :Onterio far- mers to maTe tbe exchange and we feel that the busidess interests 'of the milling companies, will lead them to encourage and facilitate even- ex- change. "On receiving your letter I have had the whole matter re-examined, but we have come to the conclusion that our earlier •decision was the pro - pea one." Agricultural Inquiry Group Plans Meeting The Livestock Committee of the Ontario Agridulturail Commission of Inquiry Will be the first committee of that body to hold meeting's with far- merS in various parts, of the Province. Plans haVeabeenamade for 'this coni- rnittee to visit Western Ontario from 'January 26th, to 29th and to hold meetings,as folloWs: • . January 27—Clinton January 28—Chatham ' '*eery 29—LOndon , The meetinge 'in each case will be reld 1u the office of the ConirtsnAgri' cultural Representative,. atartiitg 9;30 east. in eaeh tsase. The Agrielde tur'nt RePreSentatiVet of the Westetra eonailles adjacent to the& poiete haVe beep asked to Malteaar- rafigements foe rearetetitatieei oi all lanai erganizationa to hares an beside - trinity to: PreSent thelt' ,T•Viarrs and the tinti Mikaried Otferkttei Brate Ithroft',14aiiiliten Perth, :11H4rfol4, 1'ffilitild ton* • a • , Passes, Third Year ,.. - We are happy to announce the res eeipt of informati, 'from the Uni- versity of Toronto; 'that Mr. Fred W. Hess, of Zurich, .and son of Mr. end/ Mrs, Andrew F. Hess, having parsed his third year's work at the Medieal School.—Zuricla Herald. Arrives Overseas Mr. and Mrs. William Thuell have received word from their son, Seton Lieutenant Ross Thuell, stating that he had arrived safely overseas. -- Blyth Standard. Killed in Action in Italy Mrs. Jas. Crawford received word on Tuesday that her nephew, George •Burling,' SOP of Mr. 44 Mrs. wunaz Burling, of London, was killed' in O.c. tion in Italy on New Year' S Day. He was attached to the Eighth Army, and further details have not yet, been rep. ceived.—Blyth Standard. Farm Machinery Sohoola Deland places for ,the farm Inas „._ chinery "schools" in , Huron are an- nounced as follows: Rintail, Janu- ary 18-19; Dungannon, January. 20.21; , Parish ,hall; Myth, January • 25-26, Memorial Hall; Walton, January 27- 28,- Community Hall; -Wroxeter, Feb- ruary 1-2, Township Hall; Clinton, February 3-4, Agricultural Board Room; Hensall, February 8-9, Town - Hall; Ehimvills, February 10-11, Town- ship Hall; Hall; Grand Bend, February 15- 16; Ethel, February 17-18, Township Hall—Goderich Signal -Star. Easy Winter on Snowplows Snowplows were out Wednesday:, morning for the first time this year, a blizzard blowing up during the night and blocking some of the north and softie roads. Most of the metoriete who struck out for Blyth, LtickneW and Kincardine turned back a few miles ou,t, So fax an snowplowing is concerned, however, ;this winter has been an easy one on the county and provincial treasuries. On the Blue Water,. for instance, only the stretch from Ambetley to • Kincardine has re- quired special attention.;The pave- ment from Goderich • to Poet Albert has beenvery icy and at the week- end the entire :dis-tance was sanded,. for the first -:time, •Superintendent J. J. Robertson etatesal-GoderichSigeal- Stsr. Celebrates 90th Birthdar • Mrs. C. A, Wells, of town, who' cere- brated -her 901,b, birthday on Friday lest' at the home of her daughter, Miss Jenhie -Wells,' London, spent the day in the beat of health. She i-eceiv- ed many cards, ffaiswers and other gifts. besides Acores', of ;messages. • Het - daughters, Mts. H.' c. Cuff and Miss Wells, entertained for' her at the lat. ter's hOme, where friends dropped during the„,,efternoon and evening tc; congratulate her. Mrs. Wells retaine her faculties in remarkable degree - and ia\truq‘ a ;wonderful old lady. She Much time knitting, 'sewing andaeadinga and can tell Many in- lereSting things of her early life in Canada. Her friends join in wishing her many more years of health and.: corn f o rt.—Goderich Signal -Star. • Loses Cattle Struck By Freight The west -bound C.P.R. freight train was responsible for the 'killing of two of Mr. George Johnston's fine herd of cowsciiw on Tuesday Mr. Johnston had turned his cattle out, and unfdrtutrately, the gate to hie, private railway crossing was left op- en. The eMttle-• being in a PlaYinn mood, •streak down the track to the' railroad. Mr. Johnston heard the freight coming and tried his best to• head the cattle off, but to no avail. - They went across the track, sieglee file, and some had crossed the track in safety ...before the train. struck. The "cow -catcher" on be engine Caught squarely one of Mr. Johnstone find three-year.old heifers, carrying- her do -n the trick until the trainstop- Ped. She was instantly killed. An- other fine cow, just about suede the 'crossing ,in safety, but not quite, the • engine caught her- hindquarter, swing- ing her around, and so badly injuring her that she had to be killed. There Were eight cattle in the herd; and the next ediv to clpse the track was' just barely Ole to come to a ,halt before' she struck the train. The ,atekleat is mast unfortunate, and a costly ole for Mr. lohnstone-:-Blyth Standard, Eighty -Nine Years of Age • Wednesday Mrs. Charles Hae was 89 yearS. old, It has heeh the custom for Some Years for neighbors to tali and • ettend ,'congratulatinns and' it is expeeted that she Willaagaili Welteettle ilfeitC-Iti her kindly toil cheerful &an- ti:et% An ardea read*, Wire. -tate' hake, :great deal 'as well, so her Monientis re, sehloin fdIe.Pr-lends die hietteet,fliat AO at. &jiving slibh:Oi: ,ceifeht health iat het attratteed, AO. 640* IthiJ*131to, 104. IteP to,',ii„,.,„SatLiet 4 X,tivt,c!• t,