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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1946-04-12, Page 2taa • ositor furs ean, Editor. at SeatQntari%, ev- ay a € 1 W1 by NIcLean Subseription rates,: $ JO a year in advance, fcreign,$2.0O a year. Single copies •4 cults `each. A,dvertising-'rates on application Authorized- as Second Class Mail, Post Office Department, Ottawa. • SEAFOBTH, Friday, April 12, 1946 Will Give The Consumer aBreak The average consumer has little love for Government orders.-in-coun- cilbecause of the things they have been known to do to him when he goes on the market. But we believe every last consumer willbe highly in favor of the one recently issued in Ottawa. By it, peach growers in future will have to display their wares as Nature made them—in the raw. No longer will it be permissible to cover a basket of peaches with the seduc- tive but very deceiving pink veil, so familiar on the market for r so many, years. . _.. It was last year that peach grow- ers went just one step too far, and thereby killed" the goose that laid the ' - golden eggs. It was a year when the peach crop was practically a failure. But truckers tried to cash in on the failure by persuading growers to put on the market peaches that rot- ted long before they ripened, and covering up the sin by a pink veil over the basket. Of course it had been done before, but the deception was never so ap- parent when the veil was ripped from the basket, and the whole peach .industry suffered a bad black eye as 'a" result. Consequently the change will be as beneficial for the grower as -for the buyer. One can not .fool. all the public all the time, sel there' Will not be any permanent profit in continuallytrying to de- ceive the buying public., If things are not really . what they should ,be, or seem to be, that fact will soon be discovered despite a pink netting. Even yet it is possible that buyers May find the top layer of peaches in a basket no actual pre- diction of *hatis below, but at Least" they will be ` able to examine that much at least. • Don't Be'In A Hurry For some months past ,we have been .scanning with interest the flood of come-on letters that have passed through this office on their way to the waste basket. They tell us there are so many ways of making a living without doing any work, particular- ly in the fields of mining. Well, perhaps, there are. But be- ing in the weekly newspaper busi= ness, we haven't any money to buy milling stocks, even penny ones. But there are a'"lot of others. who have, particularly returned men. And many of them and many others, we learn, are on the. market. We have no objection t� mining -' stocks. On, -the contrary, there are a lot of mining stocks that. we would like to own or be able to buy, but we fancy we would do our buying on the advice of a reliable stockbroker or - our banker, instead of on the advice, of some high-pressure- salesman, whom we had never seen, before. There are not many men who would draw out their savings to bet on a horse race, play poker, or shoot craps. Drawing out savings is some- thing that takes a lot of thought'and a lot bf decision. But many other- wise ' careful' men and v»omen too, have invested their savings after listening. toa soft spoken promoter., who professes to having not only sec- ond sight but a couple of genie lamps as :well. The 'men who with no pain or labor -and in no time will - make them rich. —And- they will, stay -in a trance, -, these stackers, until a hard slap in the purse restores them to reason. But that is a little toil -late, uifortti.nate- A . a matter of fact, horses, poker But .:craps, as a" sound investment, 3G are o sillier th 'th*se presen day get- 'eh -quick se einesof the igh- pressure sales Jaen., it should hep to remember, .however, that if these._:' supe salesmen . held the secret of quick v aitta they wt u<ldn't be sell- ing embossed sheets of paper to make a -rather poor and, questionable 11Ylnng.__ - Ind as Amos 'Melted., . From. p*sttor. sf !Fifty and ,Trity4tvo Years Alio. • Dirty Streets Why is it that -nest of the streets inn our large Ontario cities, towns and villages, are so dirty compared with most European cities and towns?' That is something that has been mentioned time and time again by Old Country visitors and by our returned men of the various. ser- vices.- Why er- vices.Why we residents of Ontario, who devote so much time and money to personal cleanliness and boast so.., much about our modern 'plumbing,, should be conspicuous, for the sloven- ' ly way we look after our. streets, might be termed a small national mystery. No English child, after seldom see- ing a piece of wrapping paper dur-` ing the five years of the war, is- at all likely to 'drop • a piece in the street, as the average Ontario child, as well as the average child's par- ents are continually doing every day. ' Possibly, over here, it is because we have so much food, so much paper, so much of everything, we scatter them about and waste them without thinking. At any rate, we can not escape the fact that we do, it. • A Boon To Farmers Will wonders never cease? F. 0. Masten, whoMwns a 16,000 -acre farm near Sudan,Texas, has developed a tractor that will operate without, a driver. This machine is causing un- usual interest among the farmers in his State. And well it might. ' • The feat is accomplished through the use of a specially designed trac- tor guide to keep the machine in the furrow. Mr. ,Mastensimply sets the. tractor to plowing in one of his large fields, and then except for servicing it with fuel and repairs, he ean pret- ty nearly forget all about int. With one machine he has plowed 25 acres in 24 hours, and the labor costs, he says, can be readily appreci- ated: And with farm labor what it is today, it is not hard to see his Ipoint. .__ A picture illustrating the tractor in operation' seems to fully bear out his contention. The plowed furrows are there, and the tractor, raising a small cloud of dust, is being watch- ed and followed by a large crowd 'of spectators. But just how and when • such a tractor will be operating in our much smaller Ontario farm fields is some- thing else again. However, when we remember that our pioneer fathers cultivated their fields with oxen, and then look at the number of farm tractors in use today, there . is every hope for future improvements, Ev- en a driverless tractor. Delusion The Lincoln,.. Nebraska State Jour- nal said: "The dinner started with cream _ of tomato soup. The main course was a ,giant rib roast, with mashed potatoes and broccoli. ,Soft rolls of white flour were served, with two patties of butter to a plate. Des- sert was apple pie with ice cream. There was coffee with cream and sugar: The speaker cleared his throat. 'We are a bankrupt nation .. ' -he began--" How often have ..you heard that theory expressed under very similar conditions in Canada, in Ontario, in Huron County, in Seaforth? • The Time Of' Year Pretty soon nowmyye will be coming to the time of year when a fellow no sooner gets to rummaging in 'the closet, or the attic, for his fishing tackle, or .his golf shoes, than . he hears. a voice sweetly asking if he doesn't think the window screens.. ought to be painted, or the sterol windows taken off i, • Ram' The Huron, Expositor ••• . April 22, 1921 Whfle working at a stave cutting machine in Ament .Broad .roe factory in Seaforth last Saturday, Win. Thomp- son, 'Cargill, ,hid the misfortune to have •tlid first Muth of 'three fingers on his left hand taJten.off. The Seaforth Lawn B:owliofg Club opened the season with a euchre in the Town Hall on Tuesday evening: The winners were; Points, 'Mr; W. R. Smith; lone 'hands, L. T. DeLacey; consolation, D. F. Buck. The sleet and snowstorms On Sat- urday and Sunday did considerable damage to some oP the rural telephone lines. There was good .sleighing on Main' Street .Monday morning. Miss Hazel Thompson ••was In To- ronto on Monday and Tuesday, ' at- -tending the summer millinery open- ings. millinery Douglas Beattie and Harry iiinchl ley. are home from' the Guelph Agri- cultural College for the summer holi- days. Mr. Beattie,. who fractured his ankle about six weeks ago, is able to be out, aitheugh stili :same: Mr--• and Mrs. Dewberry, who spent the•past year, with their daughter and ronin -law, Mr. and Mrs. Jas. Scott, Roxboro, have left for -_their home iu England. • At the women's euchre held in the ,,C,{,W.V. A. rooms on Tuesday evening. the winners were: Points, Miss B. Stephens; lode hands, .Miss Hughes; consolation, Miss Mae McGeoch. There was a good attendance, at the baseball meeting held'in theQ•W,V.A. rooms on Friday night of last week, when the following ,officers, were el- ected: Hon. pres., Dr. C. Mackay; •pres., Kenneth Ament; treas., Thos. A. 'Smith; executive committee: Al- lan Reid, Ralph Weiland, Frank Cud - more, Earl Smith; manager F. L:' Downey. . • Donald Murray, of Bayfield, has op- ened a° garage on the Square next to the Albion Hotel barn. He~has° had, Ave years of experience and .should be able to take care of all the work. Seaforth . was in darkness on Sat- urday night and most of Sunday ow- ing to the severe storm. Weather conditions being Perfect, a large vote was polled on Monday for the Referendum, the women voters being •especially prominent 'in every ward. ,:The result in Seaforth was a majority of 32.1, against the importa- tion. of' liquor into the province. • Tha concert on Friday evening in Bayfield was a great success. Among those on the program were Mrs. F. McEwan, A. Peck, Miss L. Peck, A. E. Erw coy, Jean Woods. Rev. '.R. Cr Pitts, Jas ; Rouatt; Wm. Metcalf, Proceeds amounted. to •$107. It was a perfect spring morning when the nip of night's ' chilly -veil VOW slowly being wafted away by the warnutli of the slowly creeping MM. I stood ity.th.e midst •of a scene of obvious confusion, and yet as I Watched the place took shape and or- der and if was one of the most wont derful places I have ever been in. ' It was the city market . . . ,a col- lection of old-fashioned buildings that stand 1ilc,e the ghosts of another era iu the late afternoon, and then blos- som Mrth . at night .ifirttl they reach full bloom when the sun comes up. All night long these buildings are, the magnets that .draw the great4 thun- =Bering express trains and the trucks that skim along the roads and high- ways like bugs., The streets here are rouge;., and ;worn. In some places they are cob- blestones, and- in other places the bricks have been jarred and pounded into -ridges. The hose' swishes across the whole by night and has left pud- dles „as if a •sudden spring shower moved in t.o take away the debris of a day's trading. A sodden mass of leaves and stalks . and... bits of boards from packing cases are caked up in the gutter alongside the street. The trucks are backed up to great open.,loading platforms and men shout a strange jargon as the work goes' "Twenty of cukes . . . twenty- four limes ... sixty melons ... eighty bunches . . ." this is a' good place of warm, earthy smells. You get it from the truck .loaded with crates of: slim celery with bright.green tops and the roots still clinging to some rich, R cif DOgenal d. no* • black earth as if reluctant to leave its own sustenance behind. There are cabbages and potatoes and cauliflower and these things have aomey` stifell. In contrast, there is the almost ex- otic,touch of the pineapples and the oranges, lemons and grapefruit. These ;things have a tartness but also, ,a, touch of the romance of a. warm, . sun- ny climate and even the crates have a particular smell. There a.ee s,jkariing colors'such as chose given off in • contrast by the radishes . . . little, red jewels with flaring green leafage and . the slim.. golden bodies of the carrots looking like dancing ' ladies with skirts bil- low'ng high above their heads. You see the regal. rich colors of red cab- bages and the subdued green of met - ens. The good smells of food mix And mingle with the smells of burnt Baso; line and Qi.l and tarpaulins. still damp 'With the dew of night. 'there's a sn ell, tbo, :of burning tobacco and the strange, tarry smell of ropes and the odor of fish as ,a great truck- starts disgorging boxes and barrels labelled with nameg-'like Halifax, Digby, Lun- enburg and Charlottetown. . • All these • things kept running through my mind as I stood, waiting for my friend who wa's unloading his 'truck. Then • 1 saw ..a ragged, little urchin dart is between two trucks and then dash away with three oranges. it was a sobering thought; How many 'children in Europe ' would like to stand there, as I was doing, watch- ing and drinking in' the smell of a vast 'quantity of food? • From The Huron Expositor April 10, 1896 Miss Nellie King and Miss Grace Cameron, of Bayfield, left ,on Thurs- day to spend the summer in Detroit. Wm• Osmond, of Ha'y'field, .h nr - successful plowing bee on Tuesday at PoIlock's Corner. Seven ..teams were 4•r • the field and about 20 acres were plowed, The violin class, under the tuition of Miss M. A. Bennoch. closed the winter term by a musical recital in the hall of the Young Men's Christian Association on Wednesday. The pupils veers assisted by Miss Jessie Oldham, Mr,- Muflen, Mrs. Cheswright; Miss Daly, Mr• ,J. A. Wilson and others. miss Johnson presided at the piano. Misses Jennie and Isabella Barr, who spent the .Easter holidays here, left on Monday lei -their fields of la- bor at Grimsby and Orillia. Miss Flossie Weir, daughter of Mr, ,James Weir, has gone to Hellmuth Ladies' College, London, where she will take a course in music and other branches of study. .Ma Robert Charters, Mill ./load, is carrying his arm in a sling. He was carrying, boiling sail when he alippe,d and fell. It scalded his hand and arm very severely, and also same spots on his face. Mr, Harry Jeffrey has gone to Stratford where •he. has . secured a position in 'a gents' furnishing estab- lishment. Mr. Harry Cresswell, son of Mr G. E. Cresswell, of: Tuekersmith, left on Thursday for South Dakota, where he will be employed with his unclle in the branching business. Mr. Adain Bays is having a founda- tion placed under the house on Gode- rich St., owned by him, and occupied by Mr. Robert Jones. Miss Mary .Munro, an employee at, VanEgmond's Woollen Mills, met with a, painful accident on Tuesday morn- ing. She was working at a loom "when her right hand got caught and a por- tion of the second finger was taken off. Miss Jennie Brine has returned to town from a two weeks' visit with friends in Brussels. "Woinen can't 'vote" was the deci- slon arrived at at the open debate' of the Literary. and Debating 'C1ub in Seaforth Town Hall On Wednesday. evening. The affirmative was cap- tained by Mr. D. Trackseii, assisted by Messrs. B. B. c4unn, Sas. Watson and Jas: Leatherland. The negative• side was championed by R. J. Me- Donald, with Tar, Dewar and Messrs, McGlaudfiln and D.- L. Schmidt. Mr. Alex Gordon, 4th con., Tacker - smith, informs •tis that he planted pot- atoes of Moii'ddy', April '1.5tle If he ltee'ps. Jack Feast away he 'May have totattres for I omillttitt Day. JUST A, SMILE OR TWO.. •. • "Look here," said the worried householder to the new maids. "why did 'you tell your mistress what time I came home last night when I ask- ed you not to?" "I didn't," replied the maid. "She asked me what time you got in, and I told her I was too•" busy preparing breakfast to look at the clock." s He was so satisfied with the res- taurant that he l decided' to patronize it again the next day. But this time they served him a much -smaller steak than the day previous. He complain.- ed omplain=ed to the manager. "Why, I was in here yesterday and you 'gave me a steak twice this size for the same money!" ; "Ah," beamed the manager, "but yesterday you had a seat right in front of the window!" I�p:r$' First Ship* of Winter' Fleet Clear The first ship of the winter feel try, leave Goderich was the Algonquin' which cleared' here early Tuesday morning for Thorold to 1404 paper for Ghi go, gaptaW. C.ar ,g9', ,iFff;, in charge.. The AIggraiil q ta,rfid (lit pedi- ately after, with Capt James Beattie, and headed for' Toledo to. load- real. The forward crews, of ,ail of the Pat- • terson Steamship Line ships are ex- pected by Friday,evening;of thIs week and . will', complete the . out tiling of their ships, which arescheduled to de- part early next ..week, weather per- mitting. Goderich.fiahernten has ben laying their nets near Bayfield this season, with varying reBults, The MacKay Brothers had the biggest haul of the season on Monday when, they caught 5,0000 pounds of perch in their nets. However, very fevy hauls have been anywhere nearly as uarge,--Orod- erich Signal -Star. Modern Pied Piper A father was showing his small son through the zoo. After the tour hada ended at the monkey's cage, he be-. gan t6 question- the ,.lad on what he -hat learned. "What do lions do?" "Lions roar." "What •do tigers do?" - "Tiger -s snarl." "Right again, and what do monkeys do?" "Monkeys!" hesitated the child, glancing about at the specimens on exhibit. 'Then, wrinkling his nose, he came through with the • triumph- ant answer: "Monkeys stink." • • Professor: "What was the Tower of Babel?" • Student:; "Probably the place where Solomon kept: his 800. wives." Mr. Percy Willie,. in Pleasant Val- ley; ,might well be Called the Pied Piper of Wingham. Recently he has been bothered with rats and after several uhsuccessful attempts to catch them, attached a good size piece of pork rind to a trap., On Sunday he was amply repaid for his efforts when be found four small rats caught in the one trap. - Wingham Advance - Times. An Unknown. Well What might have caused a serious accident to Master Kenneth S.chilbe, son "OT Mr: and Mrs, Ervin Schilbe, hen Kenneth with lits"little wagon was going on the sidewalk that leads . to his grandpareiit's' home. The one side on the 'hind wheel sank into an opening and the' little fellow notified hits grandfather, and upon 'investigat- ing, 'found. the earth' giving away, His daddy was called and discoverea •a deep well over 45 feet in depth•, of years gone by had caved in.and only a few inches of sod had covered the top. Only the protecting care of Prov- idence that no one stepped•on - that spot, to drop to the depth,.•,h.elow,— Zurich Herald. • Celebrates'li6th Birthday • Huron Federation Of Agriculture--FarmNews Juniors To Hold Annual Meeting .l An tmporfan-t."" gar ermg- ttf Juinor Farmer delegates from all over .:On- tario will- assemble at the Ontario Agricultural College, Guelph, on April 25th and 26th for the second annual meeting, and general conference of the Ontario Junior Farmer Associa- tion. With the movement showing phenomenal growth in the last two years since the provincial organiza- tion was formed, it is expected that about 300 delegates, representing 41 counties of the. Provincevill be pre- sent. A committee of junior farmers has prepared an excellent program, based on three themes, Leadership and Co-operation; Unification and Co- ordination of the Junior Farmer Movement, and Farm and Home Im- provement. Committee Named in Barley Contest John D. McLeod, Director of the Ontario Crops,- Seeds and Weeds Branch, announces that a committee, has been appointed to take charge of the Ontario ,Section of the National Malting Barley Competition, in which fifteen Ontario counties are eligible to take part, and in which a sum of $6,150 is available for prise money for Ontario and Quebec The committee which has been appointed is compos- ed of the following:' • " Chairman, John D. McLeod; Secre- tary, H. •.R. Shaver, --Canada Malting Company; W. J. Lennox, Plant Pro- ducts Division, Ottawa; Dr. G. P. Mc- Rostie, O.A.C., Guelph; Prof. J. Laugh- land, O,A.C., Guelph; R. Sibbitt, Plant Products Division, Ottawa; R. E. Goodin., Crops, Seeds and ^Weeds. Branch, Toronto; A. H. Marti -n, As- sihtant Director of Agricultural Re- presentatives, Toronto; J. L. Percy, Ontario Brewers' Association; M. Cowan Cereal .Division, Dominion' De- partment of Agriculture; Peter Stew- art, Canada Malting Company, and J. W. MacKay, Plant .Products Division, Ottawa. , Urgent Calls For. Boys and GirlsFor Early Camps .- The first of the Farm Service camps to be operated this year by the On- tarioa Farm Service Force will be op- ened on April 12th and 15th, and a call has been issued by Alex MacLa-- en,-rector. of the Farm Servlee Force, for boys and girls to fill 'up these .camps as soon as they.'are' op- ened. `.Camps for girls' are o be ^ op- ened at Beamsville, Winona' and Vineland, while there will be boll camps in operation by April' 15th at Burlington, _.Harrow and Leamington. The boys and girls are needed at once for greenhouse work, andtransplant- ing of early vegetables. Owing to the fact that high school boys and girls cannot be released from school _.for farm service until May 23rd this. year, it wiil be neces- sary'to fill up these early camps from other sources and any boys and girls *ho.can be m'a�ie,-available from April 12th on 'are urgently requested to register at once, as Mr. 'Maclaren is anxious to have the damps opened with a full quota of workers in the areas where. they -are greatly needed. The camps will be operated under the supervision of the' "1-.W.C.A., which will also be responsible For the feed- ing of the boys.and girls. Good rates of pay wily be paid by the farmers, and -with help so scarce this year, the boys and girls who go to camp should be able to earn and save substantial amounts of money. • Mr. Maclaren also reports a tre- ' mentdous demand for help for individ- ual farmers and boys anal young men Who are desirous of being placed on farms for the whole season are also asked to register. , Volunteers for this essential fans service work are asked to register with.. the Ontario Farm Service Force, 112 College Street, Toronto, either by mail or by personal call,- or to tele- phone to 14tr. Maclaren at Adelaide 0931, Bacon Price increase The Meat Board announced on March 29th an increase in the price to be paid for export bacon and is sued a revised 'schedule of prices .which* will be paid for Wiltshire sides and export cuts effective on the pro- duct from all hogs slaughtered on and after April 1st. This increase in price for export bacon implements the announcement made by Agricultural "Minister Gardi- ner on March 26th to the effect that at agreement. had been concluded with the United Kingdom for an in- crease of $2.50 per 100 pounds "A'" grade Wiltshires for the remaindef of1946 and 1947. The reduction In Meat Board prem- iums on .the two top grades of hogs =-$2'.instea.d of -10 for Grade A and $1 instead of $2 for Grade B l—will go into effect on hogs • slailghtered' on and after Monday, April 1st, said the Board, Mr. Gardiner explained an March 26th that "this will provide 'a, net in. s . ' (Continued from Page 8), A very 'pleasant evening was spent at the home of Mr. and Mrs. George Thiel, Jr., on Tuesday, when the mem- ' hers of their family gathered in honor . of the former's father, Mr. Andrew Thiel's 86th birthday, who is in resi- dence there. The `evening was enjoy- ed, in social chats and a tasty lunch-... eon was served and all wishing Grand-, lta. Thiel many .Wore- hietltdays - Mr_ Thiel is enjoying good health and i able to be out in the open air every. dayand one can hardly realize 'his age. His many friends join with his family for his continued gno,i health. —Zurich Herald. • County Home Committee Meets The County Home Committee of tis f couarty c ort 2mee1a-at -CCnfon wed= resday afternoon to discuss various matters 'pertaining to the Cou ty- Home. The committee awarded t t contract for r•e-wiring the east w•lr c Of the home, to Frank Kling 'of' Sea forth, Tenders were let for bread, to- bacco and groceries. A report from' the Otis -Henson elevator company with regard to the installation of '"an elevator in the home was received. , raid left in abeyance until the receipts of plans and further information frour. the .company.. It was' decided to con- tact other elevator companies as well c%inty Clerk Miller was.' authorizer.). to' contact A', J. Sweitzer, of Exeter. for the specifications and costs of re pairing ' the back verandah on the Home and also the cost of building a. new structure if such is decided upon. The Clerkis to contact Irvin Jacob., manager of the Home,,, and authorize him to obtain: the• specifications and costs for additions tothe barn at 111" establishment.--G•oderich Signal -Star'. Wild' •>Geese Prove New. -Type. of Pet Something, newin the w'ay of PO:- are et`are five Canada geese just received by Wilfred Glazier, R,I2: 4, Clinton. from the Jack Miner Bird Sanctuary near Kingsville. They are within a wired -out poultry farm on . Ifins's Highway 8, three miles southeast of Clinton, and have been "winged," sa that they cannot fly away. The five birds—consisting 'of two ganders and three' geese—were wounded last fall, but their wounds are all healed. They were shipped here from Kingsville last week,—Clinton News -Record., A • Hold Benefit Dance A• benefit dance was held in the , parish hall, Dungannon, in 'aid of Harry Wilkins, concession 5,. Ashfield, i who had three of his'fingers atiaputat- ed while buzzsawing wood near Bel- d fast, During the luncl' hour ,th.e•young man was presented with a well-filled purse of money.- Clinton News-Re" cord. Miraculously Escapes Being Drowned A miraculous escape from a horrible death tools place in Exeter Tuesday afternoon and emphasizes the fact, that a sewer system is' badly needed. A little girl about three years of age r'`r fell'Into a cesspool up to her neck at the rear of the business places on Main Street. -Hanging • on for dear life to the side 'of the noel, she was able to ,keep her head above and the scream*' of the child attracted the. . - (Oontinued oil Page 8) " r