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Ai McLean, 'Editor.
• Seaforth, Ontario, ev-
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§flay aftprno`on by McLean
OBTII, Friday, Oetober 12th
$iiPri7i8iOfl Needed Here Too
t the August meeting of the Till-
• oliburg town council, that body had
under discussion the advisability of
appointing some one to supervise
the care of the trees growing on the
• town's streets.
b speaking of the tree situation
in Tillsonburg, and the council's ac-
• tion thereon, the News of that town
• recently said: "There has been much
cutting down of trees and very little
replanting. The pioneers planted
the trees on Tillsonburg's streets,
and today our .town is more beauti-
ful because of their foresight. With
the present cutting down of the
trees and the damage caused by
winds, there will be few trees on our
streets within a few years.
• "It would be a splendid improve-
• ment for the town to introduce a
tree -supervision program. Naturally
the man chosen to do the work
should be one who understands tree
work. In some places, no doubt,
• there are too many trees, a condition
which could 'be bettered by remov-
ing one -or -more: Many trees are in
need of pruning, both for the im-
provement of the trees and to per-
mit more light to get into houses.
Other trees, as we have mentioned,
are in urgent requirement of an in-
spection to remove decayed and
cracked limbs.
"A tree supervisor should have a
source of supply for obtaining young
trees for replanting purposes. With
the building campaign that is in
progress in Tillsonburg, there will
be new streets to be beautified with
trees, And when an old tree is cut
or is blown down, a young tree
should 'be planted in its place."
And what applies to Tillsonburg,
applies equally well to some other
Ontario towns, Seaforth among
them. There is no other town in
Western Ontario where the streets
make a more pleasing impression
• upon a stranger when entering the
town from any direction, than. those
of Seaforth. And that impi'ession
is due in no small measure to the
avenues of trees that line its streets.
We owe that natural beauty en-
• tirely to the foresight' of our town
pioneers who •planted those trees
well over a half century ago. But
trees, will not last forever. As in
Tillsonburg, the beautiful .maples
that line our streets are in too many
cases already past their prime. Some
are dead, some are dying, and many
others have been disfigured in some,
degree by wind and weather.
Within less than ten years, unless
our council is foresighted.enough to
copy the example of Tillsonburg, the
legacy our pioneers left us in the
form of our avenues of trees, will
have faded and disappeared. We can
plant new ones, of course, but how
long will we have to wait until they
gain even a part of the» beauty that
they hold today?
It is not too late now. But it will
be even three or four years from
now. -
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Asking Too Much
The people of Toronto have never
been noted for their backwardness
in either asking or taking, favors at
the expense of the people of the rest
of the Province. Possibly that is
why it has received the nickname by
.which it is so often designated.
Its latest request was recently
made by its Mayor at a meeting of
the Board of Control in that city,
when the question of transportation
of war Workers back to their homes
was under consideration.
At this meeting Mayor Saunders
is rePPrtecI as saying: "A man who
enlidtg is taken back to his place of
enlistment. Thousands came here
• from many places and great dis-
• 406% We Should say to Ottawa,
:Jbf is, your responsibility.' in many
es there are vacancies. Thou -
t Kirkland Lakelland may -
,happy to totOno and
4-1e tc 1a so beea se of
Io hepr
It seeMs to US that is a Lit -
tie too much, To start w why
siodd the Government at Ottawa,
either And housing for the pedple of
Toronto or transport its overplus
back to where they came? When the
war started -Toronto ' industries
combed the country for,workers, and
got them simply because they could
outbid the farmers and smaller in-
dustries in' the country in the mat-
ter of wages.
It is an old story retold. In boom
times Toronto and other cities of its
size rob the country of its labor and
keep it there until the boom is over.
Then it turns the key in the door
and asks government help to sup-
port its overplus or transport it
back to the country, for country
people to provide their living until
the city needs the labor again.
And considering the fact that
labor received during the five years
of the war, wages far in excess of
anything labor had ever before
dreamed of in Canada, why should
the government pay other people's
money to get them out of Toronto?
If these ex -war workers lack the
finances to return to their former
homes, where did their wages go?
There is • only one answer to that
question, and that is that the City
of Toronto got them in some form
or other. They may have been fool-
ishly spent, or even squandered. But
that does not alter the fact that they
were spent. in Toronto, and the peo-
ple of that city received the full
benefit of them.
Under the circumstances it would
appear to the rest of the people of
Ontario, particularly to those in. the
country, that Toronto, having alone
benefitted by the war wage boom,
should /flow provide the wherewithal
to either house its oversurplus of
labor, or pay their transportation
elsewhere. And, in asking the Ot-
twa government, or any other gov-
ernment to assume its obligations,
it is asking entirely too much.
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The Right Recipe
Just at this time when all the
people of Canada, as well as those
of other Allied'countries, are trying,
or should be trying, to make a new
and better world, the words of a
New York newspaperwriter—a wo-
man—should be read and passed on.
She says you make •a world the
same as you make a pie—with the
right ingredients. For what comes
out of the oven can never be better
than the things that go into it. Ev-
en if the smallest part of the mix,-
ture is wrong—like Munich, Ethio-
pia Or Japan—the pie will be spoil-
ed. You have to put in what you
want to come out.
These are her words: "Is it hap-
piness you want? Then start by
making certain of the happiness of
two billion other souls on this planet.
And prosperity? Then mix in pros-
perity for every other human being
alive. Lasting peace? And a life'of
the spirit for yourself and children?
Is that what you want? Then add
to those the same things for two bil-
lion others, of every kind and creed.
And, finally, add this too—add the
Sermon on the Mount as the rule of
life. And add your voice and your
means and your strength until there
is mercy and justice for the humb-
lest man on earth."
Have we, or any of us, got the
right recipe?
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Getting Back To Normal
The war is over, but to date there
is neither an end nor 'a decline in
violent deaths. According to the. Na-
tional Safety Council in the United
States, accidents caused death to one
citizen of that country, every five
and a half minutes during the twen-
ty-four hours of every day last year.
In addition, injuries through the
same cause averaged one every three
seconds.
With gas available again this year
and the use 'of motor cars doubling
in consequence, the rate of destruc-
tion will soon be back to it normal
count—one fatal accident every fif-
teen minutes, day and night.
Between the time the United
States entered the war following
Pearl Harbor and the last casualty
list issued by the 'governtnent, Amer=
ican -sasualties were 1,070,819; With
51,000, dead. rot the smile period,
at accidents, accounted for 885,000
death's and iiluries to wootoop,
Ito' ' ig tile 00 4te*
From' The Huron Expositor
Octsber 22, 1923
Mr, William Archibald. •of Tinnier -
smith, met Awith a serious accident
on Tuesday .afternoon while Putting
corn with g gasoline (impala on his
farm. He happened to trip and was
caught -in the belt and was flung in-
to the air. He was unconscious for
over 'an hour, but sustained no ser-
lous injurY.,
Mr. John nankin has been appoint-
ed deputy game warden for the Pro-
vince of Ontario.
Mr. Charles Finkbeiner met with
a serious accident while working at
Ament's mill. He was jointing staves
when his hand came in contact with
the knives with the result that the
end was taken off the thumb of his
right hand:
Messrs. 'Dalton and Reg Reid, of
'Port Colborne, spent Thanksgiving at
their home in town.
The large window in J. MacTav-
sh's store has, at present, a very
beautiful and timely •background set-
ting for the merchandise display, in-
asmuch as 1920 in the tercentenary
celebration of the landing of the Pil-
grim Fathers and the first Thanks-
giving Day.
Miss Sarah Gemmell, of Egmond-
rille, Tarts arrived,hozne after a two
years' sojourn in the Western Pro-
vinces.
There was a movement, toward3
having a hospital in town and tIds
opinion was chystalized at a pub.h.
meeting held in Carnegie Library
Hall on Wednesday evening. A com-
mittee composed of J. J. Merner,
M.P., James Cowan, A. D. Sutherland,
F. G. Neelin, M. Broderick and R. G.
Parke was appointed to ascertain the
total cost of maintaining it.
Mr. and Mrs. Thos. Workman, of
Kippen, vriiile returning from Sea:
forth, met with an unpleasant ex-
perience when they were run into by
an auto. No one was injured, but
the buggy was badly smashed.
Mr. Wm. Dorsey, of Dublin, has just
completed the work of taking out a
large crop of sugar beets from 12
acres of land. He shipped five car-
loads, 70 loads of two and a half tons
in each.
Mr. Robert Penhale, of Hayfield, is
busy getting three car loads of ap-
rles packed' to ship to the West.
'Mr. Joseph Evans, of Dublin, has
purchased the Dominion Hotel from
Mr. C. McDaid and intends taking
possession on November 2nd.
From The Huron Expositor
ctober 18, 1895
Miss A 1 *•'Sage was waited upon
by Rev. , r. Griffin and members .of
St. Geprge's Church, Walton, recent-
ly and presented with a well-filled
purse as a small acknowledgment of
her services as organist.
Mr. J. S. Wren, of Chiselhurst, left
on Monday last for Toronto to enter
his second year at the University.
On Friday last Mr. Thomas Goven-
lock, McKillop, found a partridge ly-
ing dead beside a wire fence. It had
been flying with considerable velocity
close to the ground and coming in
contact with - the fence, broke its
neck.
'Mr., Wm. Coln) has received the
contract for supplying and planting
100 fruit trees for Dr. Scott.
Mr. Wm. Doig, -of Tuckersmith, has
been re-engaged as principal of the
Harriston public school for the en-
suing year. •
On Thursday evening of last week
about six o'clock, the barns of Mr.
Wililam Berry, who resides on the
Woodley farm on the London Road
near Brucefield, were discovered to
be on fire. They only had time to
get the live stock out.
Mr. R. P. Bell, Mr. David Cooper
and Mr. Wm. Dirstein, of Kippen, left
on Friday last for Algoma.
Last week -Messrs. McKay and
Kennedy, of, Tuckersmith, moved a
house from the east of Chiselhurst to
Hensall, a distance of five miles in
5% days. The moving was done with
a capsul and the manner in which
the work was done proves that these
gentlemen are masters of their busi-
ness.
Mr. Rory McLeod left town on
Monday for Colorado, where he goes
in the interest of his health. He will
join Mr. R. McCosh, who went there
a couple of years ago and who has
been greatly benefitted.
Mr. S. Sanders, of Stephen Town-
ship, near Exeter, dug from his field
a few days ago, a potato which
weighed four pounds. This is the
champion so far.
times says that the combin-
ed death total for the two
world wars, in which that
country was engaged for
-about five years, was 376,-
500. But •in the last five
years accidents took 485,000
lives at home..
The National Safety
Council says that while a
speaker is making a ten-
minute •address, two per-
sons will be killed and 200
injured, and - the material
loss will run up to $93,000,
It doesn't filer4t1 vvortb while
•ittAe $ at that
IlttP
We had our local fair the other
day. lxi the morning it looked a bit
PIie rsin, but it cleared up by the
middle of -the day. It was a good
day ter it, .with the sun fairly warm
but still the air had a bite to it. I
always imagine that niPPiaess does a
fair good. It keeps people moving
around in order to keep warm, and
when a crowd moves it's usually a
happier oj'e than' if it stagnates in
one plaee. The smell of hot-dogs and
frying onions on nippy air also seems
much better. On a warm day all you
can smell is the grease.
We had a good fair this year. The
exhibits were better than usual. A
few of our pure bred cattle breeders,
with an eye, I suppose, on the fact
that a few young veterans will be
starting up farming, had substantial
exhibits of their best stock. Young
Peter Thomson had a pair of steers
he has trained, and everybody stood
around and watched him show them
off. Their mode of operation is a
pretty slow one.
The implement dealers were out in
force with fairly good displays. Of
course everybody's anxious to get
new implements and most of the men
folks stood around and talked prices
with the dealers. I'm just afraid
some of us, with more cash than us.
of
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By Karry J. BaYla
nal in our pockets, will go hog -wild
and buy up everything in sight. I
noticed another touch too. A lot of
the stock was hauled to the fair in
army trucks that farmers have been
buying at these sales held around the
country by the Canadian Federation
of Agriculture. • One fellow „wale
plenty embarrassed when after blow-
ing about his wonderful truck, he
Varied the four wheels in a sandhole
on the edge of the fairground.
One of our local fellows had a
model farm kitchen fixed up. Mrs.
Phil is still talking about it. She
managed to get me in there too, and
I must say it was quite something.
There were gadgets to do just about
everything you wanted or might want
around a kitchen. A do -dad ground
up the garbage and another one
washed the dishes, and there were
shiny taps and white sinks, and pret-
ty cupboards- and chairs, and tables
with shiny metal legs . . and it cer-
tainly gave Mrs. Phil a gleam in her
eye.
I was kind of fascinated myself by
an exhibit that showed just how much
easier the work could be done around
the farm with Hydro. It got me to
thinking, and Mrs. Phil is thinking
about her kitchen . . and, well Some-
thing may happen yet to brighten up
the surroundings at Lazy Meadows.
JUST A SMILE OR TWO
•
Man (employed by an Aberdonian):
'"I have been here 10 years, s•sir, do-
ing three men's work fo one man's
money, and now I want 'A raise."
Employer: "I canna gie •ye that,
but if ye'll tell'me the names of the
ither twa men, I'll sack 'em."
•
An American visitor, Unaware that
it was4 a meatless day, dropped into
a Toronto restaurant for lunch.
"We have creamed Restigouche
salmon," the waitress told him, "or
you can hav,e stewed •mussels."
"Well," remarked the guest, as he
placed his order for salmon, "there's
one thing .about you Canadians—
you're frank about your wartime
meats. I've been in joints where the
cut -ups masticated like they'd been
cut off of rodeo steers; but before I
hit this town, I never heard of any
restaurant that was honest enough to
call them stewed muscles."
Two cyclists pulled up for the
night at a hotel.
"Well, I think," said the host, "that
you'll have a comfortable night. It's
a feather bed."
At two o'clock in the morning one
of the cyclists roused his companion.
"Change places with me, Dick," he
groaned, "it's my turn to lie on the
feather."
•
"I'll never be .able to rent those
summer cottages," mourned the crest
fallen owner. "I've just been up
there. The woods are full of skunks."
"That's easy," the resourceful com-
mission agent assured him. "We'll tell
the whole truth and then there won't
be any come -back. We'll put it this
way: Two cottages at Barbary Point
—ideal bathing, and a perfume from
the scented pine woods that will lin-
ger long among your most treasured
possessions."
Huron Federation Of :
Agriculture-FarmNews•
}fog producers in every County of
Ontario will have an opportunity,
during the month of November, to
vote by,ballot on whether or not they
wish the adoption of a province -wide
nog Marketing Scheme under the
Farm Products Control Act to go, in-
to effect, it is announced by Hon.
Thomas L. Kennedy, Ontario Minis-
ter ' of Agriculture. The proposed
hog marketing scheme, which would
be by far the largest yet developed
under the Farm Products Control
Act, has been submitted to the Farm
Products Control Board by the On-
tario Hog Producers' Association, and
in accoi:darice with the terms of the
Act, the Board ham made the neces-
sary arrangements to take a vote of
the producers in order to ascertain
their wishes in the matter.
On account of the widespread na-
ture of the hog producing industry
and the large numbers involved, one
estimate being 100;000 in the Pro-
vince, the taking of the ballot be-
comes a project of major dimensions,
and the Farm Prodffets Control Board
has called in the assistance of the
agricultural representatives in each
of the 42 counties in old Ontario. For
the purpose of the vote, a register of
all rhog producers in each county will
be compiled, and all farmer a ,in that
category are required to register with
their county agricultural representa-
tive, either by sending in by mail
their names, addresses and town-
ships, or by calling at the agricul-
tural representative's office. Only
those whose names appear on the
official register for each county will
be eligible to vote, and the onus
rests on the producers to see that
their names are on the lists.
In order to have the scheme thor-
oughly explained, an' an opportunity
prOvided for registering and voting,
public meetings will be held in every
county of the Province during the
week of November 12th. These meet-
ings will be open to all hog produc-
ers and ample opportunity will be
provided for a free expression of
views on the proposed scheme, which
will be explained in detail by a re-
presentative of the Hog Producers'
Association. Registrations will be
accepted at the meeting, and at the
close balloting will be made possible
for all who.wish to vote at that time.
Ballots may also be sent in to the
office of the Agricultural Represent-
ative at any time during the voting
period.
So that every hog producer Will
have ample opportunity of expressing
Me views on the Proposed scheme,
registrations will be secePteci by 'the
agriculthral representatileS‘ in each
County tip to ten days after the Pttb-
lie laeetitig, tVerY PrO Aobi willb reg.
were will receive a bi DeV%,,etta
aignettbflO i1i biteeet6dto. the
Agricultural Representative up to
and including Saturday, December 8,
1945. After that date, no further bal-
lot a will be accepted.
In the counties of Kent, Middlesex,
Lambton, Huron, Perth, Bruce, Grey,
Wellington, Sinicoe and Renfrew, two
public meetings will be 'held, and in
all other counties there will be one
meeting. The place and date of each
meeting Will be arranged by the agri-
cultural' representative, and will be
announced by advertisements in rthe
daily and weekly press. Where there
is a County Agricultural Committee,
the chairman of that committee will
act as chairman at the meeting, and
where none has yet been organized,
those present at the meeting will
elect their own chairman.
The vote by ballot is being taken
under the jurisdiction of the Farm
Products Control Board, of which G.
F. Perkin, Ontario Commissioner of
Marketing is chairman.
50,000 More Men Wanted In Woods
Owing to the extra demands for
forest products, special emphasis has
been placed on the appeal of the
Minister of Labour .for 50,000 addi-
tional men to reinforce those now
engaged in operations in the woods.
Every man on the farms who can be
spared after the harvest has been
finished is required, and men in the
cities are to be canvassed. This year
the woods operations are of more
national importance than ever. With
an adequate force of workers in the
woods alr over Canada, home build-
ing in the Dominion will be helped
next year to a large extent by. the
cut of saw logs in the woods daring
the coming winter.
The pulp and paper industry, which
fulfils the very important function, of
producing paper for Canada's great
export trade and also for home
consumption, will require a heavy cut
of pulpwood, while the reconstruc-
ion of Britain and Continental Eur-
ope will call for huge quantities of
lumber, and Canada is expected to
meet a large part of these demands.
* * *
How Milk is Used
Approximately 50 per cent of the
total milk *production in Canada goes
into butter, 20 per Cent to fluid milk
sales, 10 per cent to cheese; 3% per
cent to concentrated milk products,
1% per cent to ice ere= and 15 per
cent is fed and used on farms.
Mflk productiOil hasincreased in
Canada from 15.8 billion pounds in
1939, to 17.6 billion pounds in 1944,
an increase Of 11.3 per Cent.
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Point To Brit To inspect Bacon
When i» Georg e villier; bacon
APecialiif4 • riaPnttinerit,
4tfietiltutei makes anal* Of his
(Oblititdied 011 Piger•g)'
Seen• w the
County'Papers
• Moving To Exeter
Mr. Albert Mitchell, Who last week
held anjauction sale of his farm stock
and implements in Debora°, vrithr
Mrs. Mitchell and Cliffordb.b.ave mov-
ed to Exeter into the apartment over
R. E. Russell's store. Leeland and
Mrs. Jory and family have moved in-
to a residence on Albert Street. Mr.
and Mrs. Walter McNichol have dnov-
ed into Mr. W. F. Abhott's residence
on Wellington St.—Exeter Times -Ad-
vocate.
Killed in Accident
Ernest Haskett, aged 17, of Exeter,
had the misfortune to run down a
child in London on September 12th
and the child died later in hospital.
Police stated that the boy darted out
from the curb on Queen's Avenue and
was thrown for fifteen feet when
struck by the left fender. His case
comes uti in police court in London
on October 10th.—Exeter Times -Advo-
cate.
Hold Miscellaneous Shower
On Thursday evening of last week
a miscellaneous shower for Miss Jean'
Sheere, bride -elect of, this week, was
held at the home of Mrs. C. L. Rob-
ertson. The occasion was a com-
plete surprise for the guest of honor
who received a lovely basket of Glads
in which were concealed numerous
notes which told of presents hiddea
in various places. Miss Sheere ex-
pressed her sincere thanks. • A social*
bour was enjoyed and lunch was serv-
ed.—Exeter Times -Advocate.
Surprise Party
On Monday evening a number of
neighbors and friends paid a surprise
visit to the home of Mr. and Mrs.
Earl Parsons, the occasions being
Mrs. Parsons' birthday. A pleasant'
evening was spent at cards, followed
by refreshments.—Exeter Times -Ad-
vocate.
Getting Bigger
Mrs. McD. Willis, Britannia Road,
called at this office this week with
a Hubbard squash weighing 28
pounds. It was grown from the seed
of a Squash which tipped the scales
at 20 pounds last year. — Goclerich
Signal -Star.
To Replace Colored Lights
The colored lights around Court'
House Park are to be re -installed as
soon as possible, the Public Utilities
Commission having received at Tues-
day night's meeting a request front
the town council that this be done.
It was left to the 'superintendent to
procure iron poles for supporting the
wires, instead of attaching them to
trees, as was formerly done.--2Gode-
rich Signal -Star.
Knitting Firm Changes Hands
One of Clinton's largest industries.
—Clinton Knitting Company, Limit-
ed—changed hands again this week
for the second time within two weeks,
H. H. Harris, Toronto, who purchas-
ed the business at that time, has dis-
posed of it to Albert Gould, Toronto,
and associates. Mr. .GOuld has been
in Clinton during the past few days..
—Clinton News -Record.
Blind Man Fights Fire Singlehanded
Fire broke out at the home 'of
Joseph Beechie, Bayfield, on Satur-
day between four and five o'clock in
the afternoon when the ceiling caught
fire from an overheated stovepipe..
0. Beechie, Toronto, who was visit-
ing his brother and who is blind, as.
in the house at the time. In 'endeav-
oring to fight the fire alone, he re-.
ceived burns to his hands. His first
calls for help were not heard,
when neighbors saw smoke pouring
out of the building, they rushed to
the scene and turned in the fire-
alarm.—Clinton -News-Record.
Purchased Roderus Building
, Mr. David Crompton, local jeweller,
has purchased the Roderus building,
on the corner of Main and Patrick.
Streets. He will remodel this store
and after Christmas will move his..
jewellery business to that location,
Grace Chapel has occupied this build-
ing for some ,time, but is closing here.
after 14 years of service.—Wingham.
Advance -Times. '
Presented With Chair
On' Wednesday evening last week,
Mrs. Robert Rae and Mrs. George
Galbraith, of Brussels, entertained
the PHAM Club girls at a dinner, -par-
ty in honor of one of their members,
lilise Hilda. Brown. The table was
attractively decorated with pink and
white mums and streamers of the
setae color. Miss Brown was pres-
ented with a lovely occasional chair.
—Wingham Advance -Times.
Not Exactly a Doukhobor Parade
At the Lions Club meeting Thurs-
,day night last, held at the Maitland
Golf ClUb, Lion W. A. Hay address-
ed the club, giving a fine report up-
on the Lions convention at Quebec
which he attended this suMmer. Lion
A. 11. Erskine talked of plans for the
future, which-. include the proVision
Of a supervised playground for chil-
dren. ThiS was the .subject o eon-
eiderable dis011saloit, A delieiOuS4 din-
ner WAS tierVed by the ladle of the,
C'eontlirdial frein 1?age 3)
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