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SEAFORTH, Friday, September 14
It Is Here Again
Starting Monday, meat rationing
as here. again. Of course it was not
unexpected as we • had full warning,
but, nevertheless, that does not make
make it ally more welcome. In fact,
we• are pre � peeved about it.. In
anticipation,lown people hoarded as
much meat as possible, and country
people went the limit in complaint
and protest.
As a matter of fact, however,
neither town nor country will suffer
to any extent because of meat
rationing. The people in the towns
will easily be able to procure, if not
as much meat as they think they
would like, at least as much as they
have heretofore been getting, or is
good for them. At the same time,
the people in the country can sell all
the meat they can produce, and at a
good price, if they hold their heads
and do not start crowding the mar-
ket for fear of a drop in price.
Canada and -the United States are
the only two countries in the world
that have an abundance, in fact a
surplus of meat. And Canada and
the United States, if they have any
humanity in their systems, will see
thatother nations, some on the verge
of starvation, will share of their
abundance.
Canadian farmers have been
pointing to glutted markets with the
consequent fall in price which ac-
company them. It is true such cir-
cumstances have arisen, and in re-
cent weeks, but in every case they
have been seasonable and lasted only
for a short time. And, after all,
what makes a glutted market?
Nothing but a stampede of country
producers to get in at the top. '
Britain and other European coun-
tries have a positive need now fox all
the beef, pork and other meat pro-
ducts that we, in this country, can
possibly supply them with, and that
market ' will be open and eager for
several ' years to come. But until
transportation is completely reor-
ganized on a peace basis, there will
be periodical gluts and shortages on
the Canadian market. A .prompt
recognition of this fact will save
many farmers headaches.
On' the other side of the line it is
the same transportation problem,
and not a shortage of beef, that
have caused the meatless days we
hear so much about over here. The
States ` has now, and ,has had all
through the war,, more cattle than
she ever had. The shortage comes
entirely through the lack of distri-
bution. Taking off the export em-
bargo on Canadian cattle so as to
allow them to be shipped over the
line, would not improve the situa-
tion over there, nor would it improve
the market price over here.
The Canadian producer of meat
products for some years, as well as
now, has done extremely well and
will continue to do so if he keeps on
producing': all he can. Because of
that, if nothing more, he should re-
member that there is a race with
death and starvation going on in
Europe that can only be won with
his help. If meat rationing Will help
to win that race—and we believe it
will—why by all means let us have
meat rationing.
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Labor Unrest
Recent developments in some of
the larger cities across Canada clear-
ly reveal the tremendous problem
that has to be solved in the conver-
ion of Canadian industry into peace
tithe pursuits. In both the east and
the: test; airplane and shipyard
oAters' are being laid off in thou -
ds by the cancellation of war
o tract . •
ny of, these workers are now
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big that the Government of !
sheta4:d, not ufi: s .p °l them
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'One wages. As a matter of• fact,
there is no government, nor any
system of society, that could make
that possible, and the labor .unions,
whose memberships have been dou-
bled. since the start of the war, or i at
least their leaders, know it. Labor
unions face just as grave responsi-
bility in reconversion times as do
governments, but in far too many
cases it looks very much as if they
were not going to face these re-
sponsibilities.
Canada, as well as Britain and the
States, will make a greater effort
than they ever have in the past to
see that all who want employment
are employed in these post-war days,
but none of them can accomplish the
impossible. Dislocations in indus-
try are inevitable, and therefore
there should not be too much im-
patience on the part of workers,
particularly wartime ones.
Actually a great deal of the labor
unrest, caused by the.cancellation of
war contracts, lies at the door of
the workers themselves. Thousands
of them have been working all
through the war at wages they only
dreamed of before. They did a capi-
tal job too, but every one of them
knew that it was work and wages
that would cease with the war. Even
with that knowledge in the back-
ground, very, very few of them sav-
ed a cent of money.
Even if the war . did•• come to a
sudden and unexpected end, they can
hardly demand that,the government
keep on spending millions of dollars
on war production when the war is
over, or spend equal millions in pro-
viding them with the kind of jobs
they want, where they want them,
and at the wages they want. It
looks very much, however, as if
nothing less would satisfy them, and
the labor leaders seem to be backing
them up, instead of pointing out
that there is unlimited employment
offering of some other kind, • or at
some other place.
And there are some of our public
as well as labor organizations who
would benefit by the counsels of
Prime Minister Attlee in his first
speech in the British House of Com-
mons, when he referred to the sud-
den ending of the war:
"Temporary unemployment," said
the Prime Minister, "is inevitable,
particularly where factories can not
be quickly reconverted from war-
time uses to peacetime production."
And Mr. Attlee estimated that iri
the next eight weeks, over 1,000,000
will be released in Britain, from
niuntions.
In Canada it is concisely and . cor-
, rectly put by Bruce Hutchison, an
associate editor of 'the Winnipeg
Free Press, when he said.: "We do
not believe that the working people
of Canada generally are stupid en-
ough to believe that. they can have
jobs wherever they choose and at
the wages they choose at all times.
They will certainly and : quite pro-
perly seek the jobs they prefer in
the places they like. But, in the
end, whatever form of government
we maintain in Canada, however far
. the state reaches into the control of
our lives, people will have to go
where jobs are, where work is to be
done, where materials are to be ex-
tracted from the earth and manu-
factured.
"In 'the end also they will have to
accept the wages—whether they are
disguised by higher prices or not—
which our economy by its nature, by
the cost of making goods, can pro-
duce and no more."
"There is no way around this, and
never has been in any country at
any time under any social system.
The income and the living standard
of the worker—already higher in
Canada than in any country but the
United States—will rise only as pro-
duction rises and the cost of produc-
tion 'decreases through improved ef-
ficiency."
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THE PUBLIC •PAYROLL
. (From the Ottawa Journal)
The overburdened taxpayer who complains
that too many people 'are ."working for the •gov-
ernment" at his expense May ffn.d some solace
through looking across theboundary at civil
service conditions in the 'United States.
Over there Senator Byrd,- ohairf nan of the
Joint Committee on Reduction of Nonessential
Federal Expenditures, has just rerrealed that
8,000;000 persona are on the federal go`v'ernment
pa re]l, exehlaive of the armed serricelt, aid
that there are another 50'0,000 c1V tan govern'
trent employees abroad,,? Cohliare to 'Mid' SUOntI-
Mental Signets, the Pltbffe .Serbide of dinadie ivltii
it mere 150,000 ditplegeb' ---oi+ th�r"daetiotlt0
Woad seeua do be almost a iuod61 <iii'i ,loot` 0t
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From. The Huron Expositor
September 17, 1920
Moffatt, of Stanley, has par-
a new Gray -Dort Special, and
John
chased
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to
Thomas Campbell, a Chevrolet.
Mr. Lisle Norris, of Brucefield, bas
gone to Hamilton, where he has ac-
cepted a. position in a drug, store.
Mr. Thos. Kyle's two boys met
with painful accidents at their home
at Kippen. Willie kyle, while attend,.
ing a threshing, jumped off a gang-
way and fell, breaking one arm
and spraining the other, and his bro-
ther, Emmerson, while cranking a car
also fractured his arm.
On Monday evening the choir of
First Presbyterian Church held a•sur-
prise party at the home of Mr. and
.Mrs. M. McKellar • in honor of Mr. and
Mrs. A. T. Craig, who are shortly to
take their departure. They presented
them with a leather club bag.
Mr. Wellington Fee, of town, had
the misfortune to break some bones
in his right hand. He was leading a
colt when the animal crushed him
against a wall.
Messrs. J. M. Best, G. D. Haigh,
John Beattie and Dr. Mackay were in
Guelph on Wednesday taking part in
a bowling tournament in that city.
Aubrey Crich, Garnet K. Chapman,
Russel Bristow, Everett , Rivers and
Harvey Burrows left on Monday for
Toronto to attend the Dental School.
Mr. Harry Livens has been appoint-
ed organist of St. Thomas' Church,
Seaforth.
Master Joe Manley, of Manley, re-
ceived a bad cut on his chin by fall-
ing on the ear of a sugar kettle, but
is improving nicely under the doctor's
care.
The alcove which has been erected
at the west end of •Egmondville
Church is now completed on the out-
side, and plasterers 'are busy finish-
ing 'the inside.
Mr. Earl Bell left for a
trip to the coast last week.
Mr. and Mrs. Henry Ivison, of Kip -
pen, and Mr. R. Brownlee, of Kippen,
are on a business and pleasure trip
to the "State of Oregon.
Mr. Harvey Moore, of the 4th con-
cession of Tuckersmith, delivered at
the Kipper grain house, 25 bags of
wheat, ,for which he received a
cheque for $146.
Hugh Ross, of Brucefield, had an-
other operation performed in Clinton
Hospital, when he had his leg ampu-
tated above the knee. This is the
third operation he has had.
"4-7F.,7" '. r i. •.."l.,0,. B 7 Efarrr7 ,1 1$oib
It rained one day last week so I
started plowing. Of course I've man-
aged to get a bit in before this, but
last Thursday's seemed to be the first
.enal fall plowing of the season. There
seems to be something special about
fall plowing. It's something a fellow
can't quite describe and yet it's very
much different from any other occu-
pation around the farm.
We had a warm rain, but after the
moisture had stopped falling from the
'heavens the breeze turned just a
trifle cool. A person hates to admit
during the first of September that
winter is around the corner, but that
wind with the edge to it kept cut-
ting through my smock and that's
the kind of evidence you just don't
dispute. The trees were hanging
their leaves in a sort of subdued way.
Wi in the not too distant future,
Jack Frost will air -brush them into
various colors.
business
From The `Huron Expositor
September 20, 1895
Mr. Andrew Johnston, of Willow
'Hall, Farm, near Hensall, left on Sat-
urday for a trip to England.
A very handsome granite monu-
ment, ,,after the latest designs, was
erected in Egmondville cemetery last
week to the memory of the late Alex-
ander Charlesss orth, son' of Mr. ,A.
Charleswprth, of that village.
The. Beaver lacrosse team, the offi-
cers of the club and .some friends
were entertained at a supper in the
'Royal Hotel, Seaforth, on Tuesday ev-
ening by the worthy proprietor, Mr.
James Weir. Dr. Campbell was in
the chair, and addresses were given
by G. E. Jackson, Drs. Bethune and
Mackay and Mr. R. C. •Cheswright.
A. Cardno, W. H. Willis, W. Briefly
and J. Bell sang songs, while P. Mul-
cahy and George Cardno entertained
the boys with step dancing.
Mr. Frank Woods, of Chiselhurst,.
hae been engaged to teach in S.S. No.
7 for the coming year.
On the Sauble Line in Robert Tay-
lor's grove, a family of Indians from
Owen Sound had camped for some
time, and on Tuesday night, during,
the heavy storm, a tree fell on a man
and his wife, killing them and injur-
ing one of their children. •
The barn of Mr. Gilbert McDonald,
on the 2nd concession of. Stanley,
near Kippen, was struck by lightning
during the storm on Wednesday morn-
ing and the building with its contents
was completely destroyed.
The barns and outbuildings of Mr.
Wm. Fotheringham, on the 4th con-
cession of Tuckersmith; with ailetheir
contents, were burned to the ground
on Wednesday morning. He had in-
surance of $1,600 in the Hay Mutual,
but this will not do more than cover
the loss of the contents.
Mr. Alfred Erwin, of Bayfield, is a
juryman at the fall assizes in Gods -
rich.
Mr. Rorey McLeod, who has car-
ried on a barbering business in Bay-
field during the summer, left for Sea -
forth and soon will leave for Color-
ado,
Mr. Paul M4dge, of tTabdrne Town-
ehip, the windmj11 king, has sold 25
windmills during the past two weeks
in that section.
Mr.'S. Diehsdii, postmaster, has
Seated itis 20 .ye fatiii neat. Brus-
sels to a
gentile* it
9refe for five
yearsat ant,lafE tau o
-$450, •It
icopte; 4ia:tliehiortatitto
Walking back and forth from end
to end of the field, a man gets a long
time to think about many things. The
grey sky and cool air makes you won-
der about a lot of things. A fellow
once told me that the thing he wor-
ried most about in this se -called
modern world of ours is the fact that
people don't get time to think. If
you work in an office in the city, you
rush out after work to a cocktail par-
ty or a tea, and then dinner; and
after that a show, and when you get
home you're so tired you go to sleep
and usually sleep late the next morn,
ing. You have to dash for the office
and start on the same old round.
'He said the people who stayed
home were just as bad off. The radio
goes all day long and the women lis-
ten to. the dreary doings of some soap
opera or other, and at nightthey lis-
ten to comedians and they never have
the peace and quiet which a pereon
must have for thinking. He kept
telling me about his grandfather •and
his father who used to sit and smoke
and just ruminate. They were Im-
proving their ability to think things
out.
I suppose a tractor has taken away
a lot of the farmer's ability to think
things out. The noise and the rat-
tling and the roughness is enough to
destroy anybody's ability to think.
Last week I plodded back and forth
with the team. It • was slow but
rather enjoyable for all of that.
What does a man think about?
Well, I started remembering the dif-
ference from the days when my father
was on the farm. We've had some
progress, but there seems to be such
a long way to go. We have a better
house. The old log one that my
grandfather built just couldn't stand
the test of modern ways. We have a
radio ands a telephone, and mail that
comes each -day. We have water in
the stables, a recent improvement. In
the style of the times we have a
mortgage and I'm forced to admit
that there has been more whittled off
it in the past four years than we
managed in the fifteen years prior to
'that.
I guess the subject of my thinking
was an attempt to • find out why it
took a war, with all its dreadful price,
to give us a boost with our mortgage,
when we struggled for existence
during the so-called years of peace.
I. didn't reach much of a satisfactory
conclusion, but I got in an awful lot
of thinking.
JUST A• SMILE OR TWO
The teacher had written 92.7 on the
blackboard and, to show the effect of
multipliny by ten, rubbed out the
decimal point. She then turned to
the class and asked: "N0',v Alfred,
where is the decimal point?"
"On the eraser," replied Alfred
without hesitation.
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A job was advertised and one of the
applicants described himself as "the
best salesman in the world." So the
firm decided to engage him, and they
sent him out to sell a very special
line. ..
He tried his very hardest, but fail-
ed to book a single order. At the
end of the week,, he went in 'to re-
port.
"I've come to apologize," he said
frankly. "I told you I was the best
salesman in the world. Well, I'm on-
ly the second best. The best one is
the fellow who sold you those goods
I've been trying to get rid of."
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Several members of a woman's
working party were chatting to a
little daughter of their" hostess. "I
suppose you are a great help to your
mamma," said one.
"Ob, yes," replied the child, "and
so is Ethel; -but today it's myturn to
count the spoons after you have
gone!"
Huron Federation Of
Agriculture- FarmNews
Co-operative Cattle Sale
The co-operative auction sale of
cattle originated at LittleCurrent,
Ont., by the Beef Cattle Producers of
Manitoulin Island last fall, will be
repeated again this fall, on Sept. 27.
The sale lastyear was the first • of
its kind to be held in that district,
and was organized by the producers,
with the co-operation of the federal
and Ontario Departments of Agricul-
ture, who will assist again this year.
The co-operative sale last year ••hand-
led some 1700 head of beef cattle,
sold at prices which netted the farm-
ers about $30,000 more than they
would have received had they sold
through the ordinary channels
through which they had been accus-
tomed to selling their market cattle
prior to the co-operative project. The
producers concerned last year incor-
porated in their own do -operative as-
sociation to handle this and other
business.
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Price Control and Cost of Lumber .
Cbmplaints have reached the Can-
adian Federation of Agriculture re-
cently over the fact that the War-
time Prices Board, in connection with
the cancellation of the federal gov-
ernment's sales tax on lumber, has
made no provision for a correspond-
ing reduction in the present ceiling
price on lumber.
Dealing • with these complaints,
prices board` officials point to the
statement issued some months ago
.by Donald Gordon, chairman df the
board, clarifying the board's position
in the matter of cancellation or re-
duction of sales tax on some com-
modities. The sales tax, it was
pointed out, was Initiated prior to
pride control, and became incorpor-
ated in the established prices for the
commodities concerned, before price
control Axed ceiling prices. For that
reason, stated Mr. Gordon, there was
no obligation on the board to reduce
ceiling prices in eases where the
sales tax had been cancelled or re-
duced. The ,board's obligation was
to' preserve the basic period price
level, and since the sales tax was al-
ready part• Of the basic price in 1941,
the board does not intend to change
the ceiling price' an :these corflie iF
Lief/. i •'
fn this connection . it is interesting
to note that in the ease of another
thereiiae been a aubstrliitial f cita�ailq
CountyPapers
The Blind Musician
Fred Carter, •blind accordionist,
known as "The Happy Wanderer,"
has paid a visit to Goderich after an.
absence of eight years. He makes his
home in St. John, N.B., but travels
from coast to coast, playing the mus-
ic enjoyed by young and old alike.
Before meeting with an accident
which left him blind, he was a horti-
culturist, having been trained in the
Royal Gardens, Kew, England. He
was accompanied by his wife, who is
a veteran of the first Great War,
having served in France with the
British 'nursing service. Next year
he hopes to make a longer visit.—
Goderich Signal -Star.
Threshers Believed Poisoned by Food
Food poisoning of about 50 rest, --
dents of a section near Dungannon,.
who were present at three threshings
is being probed by health. authorities.
About 15 of those affected were so
seriously ill as to require attention
of a physician and at least two were
violently ill for 24 hours. All are
now reported recovered. Those who
suddenly became i11 were. attendants
at threshings at the farms of Thos.
Wiggins, a mile north of Dungannon
in Ashfield Township, of John Cur-
ran, 6th concession, Ashfield, and of
John Finnegan, concession 1, West
Wawanosh. Illness in each instance
developed from one to four • hours af-
ter eating meals provided for the
threshers.—Wingham Advance -Times.
Fractured Hip
We regret to report that Mrs. V. R.
VanNorman fell while visiting at To-
ronto and fractured her hip. The ac-
cident happend on MondayY'rright last
week and Mrs. VanNorman was rush-
ed to the Toronto General Hoepital
where the injured leg was later plass-
ed
laned in a cast. About 13 years age
Mrs. VanNorman had the misfortune
to fracture the same hip. Her daugh-
ter, Mrs. (Dr.) Ross left for Toronto
on Tuesday. Friends 'here hope for
her speedy -recovery: Wingham Ad-
vance-Times
Appointed Employment Officer
The Unemployment Insurance Com-
mission has appointed Mr. T. Rosa,
Pennington, of Goderich, ae employ-
ment and claims officer at the Gode-
rich office. Mr. 'Pennington assumed
his new duties on Sept. lst. Foliow-
ing the armoire -cod custom, this ap-
pointment has been Made from the
ranks of returned soldiers with over-
seas service.—Goderich Signal -Star.
iu the cost since the basic period of
price control, in September -October,
1941. Figures published a year ago
by 'the ' Dominion Bureau of Statis-
tic's, dealing with costs of goods and
services for farmers, show that the
index' figure for cost of building ma-
terials, a large part of which is lum-
ber, rose substantially. from August,
1941, to April, 1944. In August; 1941,
the index figure for cost of building
materials stood at 137.2, based on a
parity of 100 for the period 1935-39.
By April of 1944 this index figure had
risen to 172.8, an increase ofd 26 per
cent over August, 1941.
Prices Board officials state ty be-
lieve that when materials -become
more plentiful he`'price situaxion.will
take care of itself, so far as reduc-
tions are concerned.
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Farmers Marketing Cattle Earlier
Officials of the Dominion Depart-
ment of Agriculture have called at-
tention to the fact that the inspect-
ed slaughtering of cattle 'at plants
throughout Canada, iti the week end-
ing August 13, totalled 37,000 head,
or 10,000 head more than in the pre-
vious week. Preliminary reports for
the week ending August 30 indicate
that the total kill would be nearly
40,000, a record achieved onlyy once
before, in the congested week of De-
cember 9, 1944. Department officials
express satisfaction over this heavy
movement of cattle to market at this
time of the year, looking upon it' as
an encouraging response to their re-
cent' appeal to cattle producers to
market their stock of the lower
grades earlier in the year than they
had been accustomed to doing. They
feel that this ability of the plants to
step up killings at this time, is
clear evidence of the wisdpfn of early
and orderly marketing of certain
grades of cattle. The Department
some time ago bad warned producers
to avoid the repetition of last year's
congestion •by earlier • marketing of
their 'bulls, heifers, dry cows and un-
promising
npromising stock. They express the
hope that producers Will continue
throughout September the marketing
of this type of stook as they have.
done in the letter part
a '4 • t of August,
and thus avoid a congestion late on'
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in the aft which. would be enSienai -e
to farm r hose Cattle'
is g �ocy yhad to be
held overlie att O la't'Qs;'thf"rotltli
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Navy Man Has Arm Severed'
Wilbert Potter, Andrew St., Exe-
ter, recently discharged from the
Canadian Navy, had his left arm sev-
ered while working on the construc-
tion of an elevator shaft in Simpson's
building, London. He was taken to
Victoria Hospital, where -several
blood transfusions were given.—Exe-
ter Times -Advocate.
Returns From Overseas
Lorne Brown, who has served for
several years in the B.C.1V.V.R., has
received his discharge and has re-
turned to his home in Clinton. As is
their custom, the members of the.
"Silent ,Service" do not wish for
publicity and "Brownie" arrived
home without revealing the time of
his arrival to friends, and so missed
the happy welcome Clinton likes to
extend to her returning servicemen..
—Clinton News -Record.
Returns To Cancer Researchi
Dr. Hugh Creech, Mrs. Creech and
two children, who have been holiday-
ing at Grand Bend, are spending a
few days with the forme -'s parents,
Mr. and Mrs. r R. N. Creech. Dr.
Creech returns to Maryland Univers-
ity, Washington, for two weeks fol-
lowing which he has accepted a posi-
tion With the Lankenau Hospital of
Research 'Institute at Philadelphia,
where he will again return to cancer
research. They will visit in Burford
for a few d•h.ys before returning to
Washington.—Exeter Times -Advocate.
Purchases Hay Press
Mr. William Brown has purchased
the hay ,pressing equipment from
Mr. William Johnston. The business
is not new to Mr. Brown, who has
operated the machine for Mr. John-
ston during the past nine years. Mr.
Johnston has been in the business for
the past 30 years.—Blyth Standard.
New Caretaker For Cemetery
Mr. Albert Ostend, who for the
past tour and half years has been
stationed at the Clinton Radio
School,) has accepted the Poeitics*
as caretaker a
of the Exeter came -
'tern, suot;eeding the late K. G.
Clarke. Prior to his enifetnient Mr.
n�
bst1,' tl+ s gardener at the old
,,�, garde r
Or Adam ,Peek Ea* in London owl;
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