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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1946-07-12, Page 2• 3. '0 (gham *Shed 1860 AUMcLean, Editor. at Seaforth, Ontario, ev- �rsday afternoon by McLean Subscription rates, $1.50 a year in vvance;.,foreign $2,00 a. year. Single copies; ' 4 cents. each. Advertising rates on application. Authorized as Second Class Mail, 'Post Office Department, Ottawa. SEAFORTH, Friday, July 12, 1946, Hap Weather It's the weather that makes or breaks the hay crop. A. cold, back- ward spring retards the growth. Too much moisture brings it along too soon. Night frosts cut it down: It won't grow in a dry spring. Hot winds are against it. This spring we had a sample' of all those kinds of weather and weather. conditions,' and for quite a long time there, wasn't much said about the hay crop, and what there was sound- ed rather discouraging. But times. have surely changed. Hay is being cut, and even the most pronounced pessimist can't 'say the crop is a failure. The fact really is that it is good. Very good. ' Again the weather is the deciding factor in a good or bad hay crop. Haying requires hot, but not muggy weather: Lots of bright sun, but a fresh breeze with it. Even a shower now and then doesn't hurt much: And right now we doubt very mkt' if the farmers themselves" could improve on the kind of weather we are having for haying. , But hay is only one product of the farm, although 'an important one. The grain is turning, the beans are well along and the corn is waving, and this haying weather agrees with them all. All of which is to the good. The farmer needs the returns, and there is even a greater need throughout the whole world for the ,products he grows. No harvest can be too pro- lific. • Farmers Are Fair It is rather unusual thatthere has been far less complaint among the farmers - themselves than among somemembers' of the House_of_Com- mons ouse_ofCom- mons against- the 1214 per cent. in- crease in the s retail price of farm implements. - One can understand that Members of Parliament, of course, are prone to seize every opportunity of making political capital out of anything to their own or their party's advant- age. •But the comparative silence on the part of the farmers is unmistak- able ' evidence that while they, want ifair 'treatment for themselves, they are fair and reasonable men who know and recognize that when wages go up, the price of, the product must go up too. ' Soon . after the announcement of the increase in farm implements was made in the House, R. Y. Deachman, a former Member of Parliament for Huron North, and now a consulting economist in Ottawa, made out a table showing by index figures the relative price increase from'1939 to 1945 in farm implements, manufac- tured goods, wage rates in the farm implement industry and the price of farm:'pl.oducts. In each case the index figure in 1939 -is 100. By the year 1945 the index figures stood as follows: Farm implement prices, 108.9; . manufac- tured goods and other commodities,. 124.7;, wage rates in the farm imple- ment industries, 154.1, and prices of farm - products, 164.0. Every ' citizen, farmers 'included, objects to ' any- raise in the price of anything he has to buy. But as we say, the farmer is.fair. Even while objcting, he recognized the fairness of ,the rise in implement prices and accepted it without the customary lobby . flood .of 7,040260m and depu- coin. to some other in - 0 i!.• ltei�kibers of P ax sire improved their -000 if they had Warnp1e. , 9 misters And ill:asters stersr The Printed Word is • a pol4ical Magazine, published in Ontario,' with it° would seem,. the almost exeiusive ' object .of pointing out and dwelling upon the sins of -omission and com- mission of the Ottawa government. But once in a while, as it did in its July issue, it forgets its political bias and produces something that is, if nota inspiring, at least a message Worthy of consideration and com- ment: "Many..ministers of the gospel are exasperating. Except, of • course, one's favorite minister. "One's favorite minister rarely,, if ever, strays from the Gospel. He is a teacher. He explains things of doctrinal obscurity. He tells his con- gregation of the happiness in being., a Follower of the One who is suppos- ed to be the Master, of . professing Christians. At the • end of his ser- mons, members of the "flock feel a desire to do better; they can be . sin- cere in their intention t� lead a bet- ter life. They are not asked tp look down on, much less utterly to con- demn, others. "The. exasperating preachers are those who pray to parliament rather than to God. They instruct God. They point to man's failures and. see remedies only in the hands of the- , he.- , police. They are willing to' write the laws; detail the remedies, for the evils they see—evils which exist not because of an economic system or a method of government, but because man .is yet selfish and prone to sin. "These parsons should not exasper ate. They should, rather, sadden' observers. For their proposals for making people good by decree are a confession that the . preachers have failed in promoting goodness by the methods which ministers of the Gos- pel are supposed to have been fol- lowing for more.'than 1,900,.years. "Christianity is riot. Socialism. It is not Capitalism. It is not Commun- ism. It is Christianity, and nothing less ° than that. If all preachers would cease • to make Christianity less than it is and Christianity, were made to wore, it would not matter what: system ' of government or eco- nomics one lived under. In a world freed of selfishness, any system would work." • What Inflation Does A week . or two ago. the United States Government ; removed the price ceiling restrictions that have. been .in force ,during the war years. No doubt the move was made under the heavy pressure of those who, have things to sell, as well as by those who have money to spend on co.mmodThies''' of -almost- -eVery kind - that have been off the' market for so long. The early rejoicings at the move, however, are beginning to die down, because the upward spiral of prices is giving the every -day man on the street cause to think- And what he is beginning to think is, where will ., it stop? In spite of that there is a long and loud demand on the part of, some • Canadians to' have our government follow the lead of our, neighbor. to the south! Fortunately for Canada, the Canadian Premier, in the House of Comni.ons last week, proclaimed clearly and forcibly, that price ceil- ings -would remain in Canada for the present and, possibly, for yet some time to come. And that was that. It is too early yet to form any ac- curate' judgment as to where the up- ward spiral of ,prices will lead the United States people, but if one wants to see inflation at its best—or its worst—all one has to ado is to study the example set by Hungary, one ofthe war=torn Nations of Eur- ope. The ' Hungarian government has just made ail issue of paper money worth 1,000,000,000,000 pen- goes. It is a gigantic sum of money, but it could all be carried in one pocket. But even at that, it is hardly worth carrying.. Before the war if a Hungarian citizen had 1,000,000,- 000,000 pengoes, he ,would have been worth $200,000,000;000, which would just, about wipe out the national debt of the United Stags. Today, with all that money, 'that Hungarian citizen would be worth exactly 35 cents. ' In other words, if a Man had been a inillionaire in Hun- gary before the war, he would now be a beggar: ,That is they final stage ' oi" the - prole s .kno wn as infiation, Would Canadian' like to try it/ e #1 el'egfiln& iten►s picked" from ' • The E,Rttasitolr of hfty aid., tweysty,TiVe years ago. , From The Huron Expositor.. July 15, 1921 Balmy, breezy Bayfield gave a right royal reception to the Royal Orange Lodges, which to the number of 20 assembled there ou Tuesday to cele- brateli the 231st anniversary of ..the Battleof the Boyne. David Beacom, of Clinton, was the oldest man pres- ent, being 94 years of age, and Thos. Stephens, Seaforth, was also on the platform. He is 81 years of age. • On Friday evening last lightning struck the residence of Mr. Joseph Nagle, Dublin, and demolished one of the chimneys. A large hole was torn in the roof and the gable moved about four inches. Miss Gretta Lammie, of Hensall, has very successfully ,passed her ex- aminations at the Toronto University in pianoand also ,her associate vio- lin gxamination.. Messrs. Herbert and Lymafn Taman, of Toronto, spent.. the past week with friends ir, town. •,-Miss Marie Hughes, who has been attending the Hewitt Business Col•- lege in Stratford, for the past Ave. mouths. has obtained her diploma, taking honors. Mr. -Walter Watts, manager of the Dominion Bank, Chatham, called on friends in town this week. Mr. and Mrs. Watts are spending the summer at Bayfield. ' Mr. J. C. 'Greig has moved into -the Cooper Block to the store recently vacated by Mr. G. A. Sills. During the progress of the electric storm_ which visited Tuckersmith about noon , on Saturday last, the barns on the farm of Mr. James Dal- Ias,- on the 2nd concession, were struck by lightning and ..burned. Both were completely destroyed, together with six pigs, 12 loads of hay, some implements and a number of tither articles. Geo. A. Sills S,. Son's, have moved their .hardware stock into -the block ,opposite the Town Hall on Main St..; which they purchased from the Kidd estate. It has been entirely remod- elled and fitted for their own use. Kinburn and Woodstock met on the recreation grounds he a -on Mon- day Night in the frst hone -and -home games 'in the semi-finals f, of the W: FA., before thelargest crowd of the season. The score was '2-1 for Wood- stock." .Mr. Thomas :McMillan, the well- knoRn farmer and stockman: of Hul- lett; left Seaforth on Wednesday for the Old +Country, taking with him 82 head of prime export cattle, for the British market.Some of the ship- ment belonged 'to W. J..•Devereaux. At the sports events held at Car- ling Heights, London, during the "week' the Cadets were in camp, the follow- ing won honors: The 100 yard dash by William Greig, .Seaforth, and W. Landeborough, Tuckersmith;• Hector. Hays was second in"the 220 -yard race; R. Edmunds was. second in the broad jump, while `W. Farnham . won the high jump. • • Miss Annie 'Archibald:, of Clarkson, is spending the holidays et the home of her parents, nfrg and Mrs. Andrew Archibald. • From The Huron, Expositor July 17, 1896" • About 9 o'clock Tuesday . morning, 'the citizens of. Zurich village were startled by the cry of ,fire, which proved to beein Johnson Bros.' wool- le'w' mrii:-•-The -employees—were- ell --at. work' and before any of them were aware the pi6ker•• was in flames.. In 15 minutes the whole building was a mass of flames. Mr. Geo. E. McTaggart, of Rodger- ville cheese• factory;: