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Established 1860
eith McPhail .McLean, cii:tor.
Published at Seaforth, Ontario, ev-
ry Thursday afternoon by McLean
ros.
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Weekly Newspapers
Association.
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SEAFORTH, Friday, June 13, 1947 •
Salute To Agriculture
For the second year in succession,
the Federation of, Agriculture in
agreement with the Canadian Week-
ly Press Association, will join in a
"Salute To Agriculture," during the
week of June 16.
There is no profession or industry
more worthy of recognition , than
_
that of agriculture. To it, outside
the armed forces, we owe the win-
ning of the war. .A..nd it is to agri-
culture that the world looks to
win the peace.
There can be no permanent peace
in a hungry world, and the world is
hungry. Last winter was the worst
winter Great Britain has experienc-
ed in centuries. Record cold and
snow were followed by record floods.
Thousands of acres of crop were
completely destroyed, thousands of
heads of cattle and sheep were de-
stroyed.
Rut the people of Great Britain
will have to be fed, and they are de-
pending largely on Canada to make
up the food losses suffered in' the
calamitous losses suffered during
the winter and early spring. Added •
to that will be the millions of hungry
people of , Eutrope. Will Canada
measure up to the test?
Undoubtedlyit will. The agricul-
tural' part of - it in particular.,:. In•
--peace,- ...as .:in- ...war, .-_the. gill. -:play La.-
leading.
a leading part, ,and that is why this,,
paper :Joins in a Salute to, .Agricul
tore:
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Another Danger Threatens
One would think that we already
had enough fatal accidents resulting
every year -from drowning, motor
and other accidents, without adding
a new threat.
But during the past couple of
weeks the newspapers have carried
two particular instances of. very nar-
row escapes, from injury or death
due to the careless `.firing, of rifles.
A short -time ago -a minister from
London, travelling in a C.N.R. pas-
senger coach from Toronto to Lon-
don1, had a bullet come crashing
through the window beside which he
was sitting, and graze his face. For-
tunately he was not seriously injur-
ed, but he 'required the services of
the other passengers,and later a
doctor. .
Still later, on the St. Lawrence
River, the excursion steamer Nor.-
orlic, was fired upon with a rifle,
when a bullet passed between a man
and his wife standing on the deck.
- Of course we do not claim these
were . deliberate attempts at murder,
but they might easily have been at-
tended by fatal- results.. They were,
towever,caused by the careless and
indiscriminate firing of rifles in the
hands of irresponsible persons.
Those two instances can be multi-
plied, some of them in our own lis-'
trict. We have never blamed a boy
for wanting to own or use firearms.
To us it seems a natural boyish in-
stinct. But boys' are prone to care-
lessness, and sometimes to taking a
dare wen several are gathered . to-
gether, And even a small caliber
rifle, like a modern .22, can prove a
murderous instrument when hand-
led with carelessness.
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.But whetherthis new threat is
caused by boys' or men, it would be
much better for bothto voluntarily
practise care in the use . of firearms,
rather than have the lesson brought
to --the -ilii-_t ie-prliee .eQnrt af-
ter a fatal shooting accident.
Same Here
°The editor of the Kincardine News
last week said: "The-suggesti;.on was
offered, after the appearance of last
:.F
Week's -paper, `go out and see what
effeet your editorial about traffic
,-conditions has had.' Acting on the
su e$$ion,, we `discovered two huge
941,636 should have been pro-
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'ceeding in,� opposite directions, par •'
edin the middle of the road, • the
drivers standing engaged in earne t
conversation, which, we doubt, ha
to do with traffic.
"Behind each was a long line of
irate and impatient motorists, some
of then visitors here for the holi-
day week -end. Their impression of
Kincardine traffic conditions would
be no more favorable than that of
,people who are confronted almost
continually with that condition
.here.
"It may be that Kincardine is no
worse than many other centres in
this respect, but it is certain that
there are many communities far bet-
ter."
'The Kincardine editor shouldn't
take this matter, or any other,too
much to heart. There may he some
other towns- where traffic conditions
erre better than in rliis own. But if so
we haven't seen them. Nor should
he be at all dotihearted by the lack
of fruit produced through his editor-
ial efforts. Mast of the editors of
weekly newspapers in Western On-
tario Have been harping on. trafpie
r conditions in their towns, but Iike the
grain crops this year, most of their
efforts seem to have been washed
out.
There are some people, most in
fact, who seem to have arrived at
the conclusion that the chief 'aim and
joy of weekly newspaper editors is
to complain about town conditions,.
instead of looking on the brighter
`--e side. Nothing could be further from
the truth.
For some reason a weekly news-
paper office is' the complaint head-
quarters in every town. Into it
come the wrathy citizens who have
been caught in a Main Street traffic
jam; whose cellar is flooded; whose
garden has been ruined by stray
dogs; whose lights went out, or for
a hundred other causes.
He wants the editor to write about
it, and be very positive in his writing
not__ex gess
himself infitting or . moderate en-
ough language, . and anyway, he
doesn't want to get in 'wrong with
his neighbors or the town authori-
ties.
And the editor listens patiently to
all the complaints, and sorts them
out. And sometimes he writes about
them too. But there would be
brighter side to the editor's, life if
all the complainers would stand on
their own feet and•take full responsi-
bility for the things they say, or
would like to have said, instead of
asking the newspaper to do it for
them.
Likewise, towns would improve
and go places faster if this were on-•
ly done.
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Whip Men Fish
A ' short time ago, Ex -President
Hoover,, of the United States, .in
speaking- of the hard Iife a President
was forced to live, "by the pneumatic
hammering of demands" upon them, ,
said: '
"There are only two occasions
when Americans respect privacy, es-
pecially in Presidents. Those are
'prayer and fishing, so that some
have taken to fishing."
Mr. Hoover also further commend -_.
ed fishing because it is "discipline in
the equality of men -for all men are
equal before fish," -
It 4s to be noted too, that the ex
President spoke of prayer as well as
fishing as a means by which a man
can get away and be alone by way
of re laxation. Centuries ago a group
of, fishermen 'by that means were
transformed into "fishers ofmen,"
and it was those men who changed
the whole religious- thought in this
world.
Mr, Hoover might also have add-
ed that praarer offers the advantage,
of leading one beside the still waters
without taking one put of their home
or place of business. w
We recon'imend both to our Cana,
dian citizen&
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Worse and 'letter
. - -.. --(-Man ester Guardian.
Nothing but time can allay the passions and
suspicions left by the war, and it is the task of
diplomacy to create an atmbsph(ere of mutual
understanding in which the politics of the World
can be rescued from their arbitrary power. • It
is a difficult task demanding candor, •patience;
good temper, and 'tolerance. ti every respect
but one we are worse off than we were ine1919.
r The material plight of the world wits then less
desperate; the clash of ideolegles .,Was ,Zeas
direct; the demoralization due to the spectacle
of •sucoese'ful lawlessness 'les's' widespread; poT1tl
cal cob.fusion was less general:. On 'the-' other
, band, the sense of d'ange'r is tnueh More alive,
and we understand today,, es we' did not then,
the kind of eatastrryphe that must follow failure.
Agone
beeeesting its picked iron
The Papositor of :volts► and
• a"twet4t by , years &We
From The Karen Expositor
• t June 9, 1922
—thee a lerence Welsh, of Hensall,
was one of the gut .soloists in First
Presbyterian Church on Friday even-
ing last.
The oral compositions given by the
pupas of the Seaforth public school
have been very successful this year.
The winners of the medals were Ruth
Jareott and Gerald, ,S;tc wden.
The ,foll+nwing graduates of the Sea -
'forth ,Collegiate Institute have 'suc-
cessfully passed their examinations
at .the different university. examina-
tions; 'School of Practical Science,
Harold Coates (hon,), Alvin Oke,
Howard Kerr, S. W. Aa.chiballd; first
year Medicine, Wm. Aberhart, Har-
old Edwards; .Arts, Miss Kathleen
Burrows, specialist ane (B.A.; Miss'
Marion Larkin led her class in third
year household economies.; Dentistry,
Harvey Burrows; Aubrey Crich, Ev-
erett Rivers; Russell Bristow, Garnet
Chapman and Edward Teenier. -
Reeves Parke of Seaforth, Me -
Naughton of Puekersmith, McQuaid
of 'McKillop, and Armstrong of 'gil-
led are in Goderich this week •at-
tending the June session of the coun-
ty council.
Mr. Sam Walker motored to Buffa-
lo
uffaFlo this week, from where he will' sail
with a party for a two weeks' trip to
Duluth.
Mr, Kenneth Amen teller in the
Bank of Commerce, is spending his
(holidays with friends in. Bad Axe,
Michigan.
Miss Penrlea Ball attended the
graduation exercises of ' loderich hos-
pital last Friday. Her sister, Miss
Ida Ball, was one of -.the graduatiirg
nurses.
Mr. E. •Urbach, Seaforth, has open-
ed his drug store in Bayfield. It will
again 'be' in charge of Russell Bris-
t'aw.
Members who entertained at the
Se,aforth Golf and Country Club. on
Thursday were Mrs. Muriess Jones,
Mrs. Earl Bell 'and Miss, Anna Bell,
when four tables of bridge were play-
ed. Mrs. (De) Jones and Miss Car-
olyn Holmes were guests of 'honor,
Mr, James Love, of Egmondville,
left Monday to attend the aneeting
of the General Assembly 'being held,
at Winnipeg as a, delegate from the
Huron Presbytery.
The first inter -club golf match took
place• on the Seaford" course on, Wed-
needay,''when Gede i h sent down a
_team 'of ten players, Seaforth jIam
era were ' R. M.. Jones, W. E. (South-
gate, J, C, Greig, W. W. Robinson, H.
R, Sharp, G. D., McTaggart,
Israel, 0. Neil, T. Dodds and J. G.
Multen. The score was 6% to 3% for
•Seafarth.
Work on the 'pnmphouse in connec-
tion with the new waterworks' sys-
tem to be installed in Seaford',,. was
,commenced this week. ' Mr. Joe Eck-
ert and hie Men are" now excavating
for the re rvoir.
Miss )fi Willis and" Miss Bech-
ely left en Veneer to visit friends in
Detroit.
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From The Huron Expositor
June 11, 1897
.The following sti dents„from this
county have 'successfully passed their
examinations at•Toronto University:
Fourth year and B.A. degree, G. E.
Buchanan, Zurich; J. A. Jackson, Eg-
mondvilie;. • .there 'year, W. J. Elder,
Hensall J. M. McKinley, Egmond-
ville, and Wm. M.' Martin, Exeter;
second year, J. 'L. Hogg, McKillop;
T. A. Russell, EJsborne; S. P. McMor-
die, Kippenr Mr. C. barrow, of Gode-
rieh, ' has taken. third, 'elas:s bemoan
and' passed his L.L.B. Degree.
•'Mr. J, L, 'Killoran, barrister of Sea -
forth, ' has been appointed, a notary
public.
Messrs. M. liePhee and P. Mulcahy
have returned from a trip to the Ovid
Oountry. •
The many friends of Miss Jean Mc-
Derzuid, daughter of ,Mr.. Angus lc-
Dermid, of the Huron Road, will be
i pleased, to learn that she has recent-
ly graduated from the Farrand Train -
ing
raining School, Harper Hospital, Detroit,
having passed a very creditable ex-
amination, graduating• with honors.
$$,At the barn raising of Mr. William
Fisher, of the $ril concession of Us -
borne, -on Friday last, two very pain-
ful accidents concurred. A large
stick of 'lumber fell - en Mr. 'Wiliam
Kernick and broke a small bone in
his 'leg, while M. John Perkins was
struck on the hand by a falling scant-
ling, making a painful wound.
-One night last week .some one was
mean enough to lock a -•rove of sheep
in the school yard at Londeraboro, and,
they caused 'great damage' to the
flower beds,
Mr, David Follick, of Hensall, while
operating the edging s"aw in 'Mr. it.
Bell's Sawmill on Friday last, had the
misfortune to. get his hand severely
cue necessitating the putting 'in of a
number of stitches.
Mr. T: 0...Kemp, of town, has teas-
ed the Irwin Elevator in ;Clinton and
has .e grain buyer purchasing for the
Seaforth mill. ,
• Miss Lizzie Bennocb,,' ki dergarten
teacher here two years ago. bee been
left a legacy of $5,001)..
Miss, Nettie Ewing is fzome froth
New York ort a visit.
Mr. and Mrs, James Beattie and
Miss Ada attended the Wedding oebr.
E. T. Kellam in Dunnville pa Wed-
nesday.
'Messrs, A. McTaggart„J' Ester and
D. Mahison, or BlhKe;-wlieeted• ta,Sea-
forth, on Saturday, returning in the
wee small hours:
The .new granolithic rpa'venlent on
Mala Street is. Row in use.
Miss Gray, daughter of Mr, Maul
Gray, of Dakota, is viditing at the
residence` oft her uncle, Mr. Roderick
Gray, McKillop, and ilnteeda spending
the summer here, ”,
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F'i5'st SBP bier "what is that bump
on your ead7'r
Second "Spook: "l was coming la
+the keyhole as usual when eome ;ass
put the key in," e
PHIL Qs Es cif.
lL ,
LAZY mg4pows
BY cleanly J. Boyiq
When you get grey, grim weather clothes she was astounded, to 'say the
such as we !rave been naming this, ,least. I (Lad made one ;bad mistake,
past few weeks, just about everything (however. Having !been in the driving
'seems, to go wrong. You read in the shed- and working on the mower, nay
newspapers that unless the. weeth.er hand had aceum'tilated a certain
clears .'by a certain day, there Will be ,a'mount of at and grease. There
so much of a fantastic crop lose ,for were generous deposits gf.;this along
earmers. Then ybu listen to the' wea= with siivere from the woodpile, decor-
ther probabilities on the radio and ating the wash.
the weatherman adds the final 'touch ('While •Mrs. Phil went to Work do -
to your gloom. ing the washing over•. again, I attempt -
;Monday morning looked not bad. ed to lie the clothesline. The pulley
Although it shed peppered rain all clay had pulled the screw 'Mut "a the post.
Sunday, Monday morning did have a I fitted 'a Wooden plug in; put ,the
touch of sun. Mrs, Phil put her Men- serew back into the "past and reset
day wash out on the line. I putteredthe pulley., Then the efen started,
around the driving 'sited trying to Unsnarling a clothesline is a bazar -
make myself believe that I was doing dons task: Twice I , almost cut my,
something useful, A bit of a breeze head off. My fiends were cut and
started .blowing. That was promising screeched' from • ,broken strands of
because it would help to dry the land wire. I lost my temper on many (c -
out, - easions . , .• too numerous as a mat -
T went up to teahouse and was just ter of fact to be counted,
going in the back Woodshed door 1 would just get the 'clothesline up
when the clothesline ,broke, Down and .taut and would start to join the
oame the 'whole line full of 'dean ends when it would `slip out of my
clothes, and eight over the woodpile hand and go coiling and uncoiling
it s'ppawled. This • consisted for the across the yard like some fantastic
most part of a • pile of buzz wood snake. .A'fter'at least athour°af this
which I had never gotten around .to I finally' managed to join .the two
pzlzn'g ends ands tighten up the ;line, Mrs.
The next fifteen minutes were hec- Phil! brought the washing out. It was
tic ones. I decided ••to gather up. 'the rewashed with no signs' of .the -suis
clothes myself and at least spare my hap. She hung it out and went back
wife the sight of them 'in such sur- into the house. I went down to the
roundings., When I appeared at the driving shed, again.
back door with the basket full of Then it started raining again!
Huron Federation Of
:Agricultute FarrnNews
Corn For 'drain • ington: Canada No. 275' and No. 355.
The continued wet weather of the For the counties bordering -on Lake
past few weeks has delayed seeding Erie and Lake Ontario, including Ox -
in many areas throughout Ontario, ford, Brant and the southern portions
and many farmers are now confront- of Huron, Perth, Waterloo, welling
ed with the problem of producing suf- ton, Halton, Peel and York: Canada
ficient grain J'or• their own require- No. 355 and No. 531,
rnents. Hybrid corn oilers a partial 'For the remainder of Southern On -
Solution to'this problem, as early 'ma- tarl'o, including the Counties of Bruce,
;tering varieties have made it possible Grey, Sfmcoe and Dufferin and the
to produce grain of •this, erop over a northern portions .of Huron, Perth,
wide area. Yields comparable to Waterloo, Halton, Wellington, Peet
oats • and . 'barley may be expected, and York: Canada No. 275 and No.
says John D. MacLeod, Director of, 355.
the Crops, Seeds. and Weeds Branch, The. canditioes .mesa favorable to
Ontario Department of Agriculture, corn growing are high ,temperatures
and greater yields are possible as the and a long growing season. The crop
season advances and it may become responds to favorable moisture eon-
teo•`Iate to'sbw oats and barley. -teen editions and prefers a fertile, deep,
sidering_the greater xieight.-perebush=--loate-soil-'---Cor-n -foregr-ai-a-•-shou.ld--1)
el, lower fiber content and total di- planted as early as possible to take
gestibie nutrients,- this „grain is woe-.. advantage of the full growing season,
thy of much conaid,er'ation, , 'Farmers requiring seed should con
Those who plan on planting hybrid tact vocal Seed dealers, agricultural
corn should make sure that the var- representatives or the Crops, Seeds
iety, they use will mature in their dieand Weeds`Branch, Parliament Build-
trict. Early maturing varieties of ings, Toronto.
hybrid corn whigh nature in 80 to 90 •
days are recommended for late seed-
ing, including the following:- Lime in Kettles
For Eastern Ontario,. ineluding Lime deposits in any cooking uten-
Frontenac and all counties east: .?ii can be removed by boiling strong
Canada No. 275, No. 279 and No. 355. vinegar water in it, or water to
For the ,tQuinte District, including which cream of tartar has been adn-
'Ontario County to Lennox and Add- ed—one teaspoon per quart of water.
Takes Positirlo, At, .Fluke Shop
• Mr. Donald 'Gowan has taken a POI.'
tion at Vodllen's Bake Shop. Donal
learned the" trade with Mr,' Vociden„
and 'last September 'took a position, at
Eartliff'a bake shop in Clinton. Ara
other Blyth boy, Earl Harm,.' is. exp:
pleyed with Bartliff'a., We ere ,glad
to have'• Donald •back i,n town. Blytle
Standard.
Successful in Exams
A list et' Toronto Uniyeaeiity abu-
dente' who were 'success'fu'l' in theta'
exams, appeared in Wednesday's
dailies. Included in the list -was Ivy
Hilborn, of "'Blyth, who passed hied '
second year in civil engineering with
honors. Ivan has been :attending the.
Ajax Divistert, Congratulations.
Blyth Standard. •
Bride -Elect Entertained
Miss Jeenne Speiran was h'ostees
Saturday afternoon, when she enter-
taieed in honor of Miss Idella B'ry
ane, bride -elect of Saturday, June 7.
The prettily' wrapped gifts were pres.
ented to the guest' of honor ip a
daintily decorated basket with the'
good wishes of her friends. Brusselo
Post.'
Lawyer Receives Decoration
Major R. e. 'Hetherington, K.C„
received the M.,B,E. from Viscount
Alexander of Tunis at an investiture
held during his visit to Kitchener on
Saturday, Major Hetherington, who
resides in Wingham, maintains a law
'practice in Brussels.—Brussels Post.
Wins County Scholarship At• O.A.C.
• J. Allison. "Morgan; first year stu-
dent at_ the O.A.C., Guelph', and Ross
S. Proctor, R.R. 5, Brussels, were
winrf4;rs of the Huron County Schol-
arships. J. E, McLachlan, R.R. 2,
Parkhill, won one of the college schol-
arships and William S. Kilmer, Ret.
1, Clandeboye, was winner Of, one of
the Middlesex scholarships. In the
first year degree course Allison Mor-
gan 'secured 64 per cent and W. E.
Hocking, of 'Cromarty, 57 •per cent.
In the second year degree course, V. '
E. ''Hodgins, Ciandeboye, secure,( 72
per cent and Winston C. Shapton, of
•Stephen, 69 per 'cent,—Exeter Times- '
Advocate.
Sells•Farm Near Exeter
Mr. Murray Scott has sold his farm
two and a' half miles east of Exeter
'on•the St. Marys road, to his neigh-
bor, Mr. Verne Pincombe. Mr, Scott
'retains the house which he intends
moving to Exeter, He will hold an
'auction sale, of his farm stock and
implements Friday afitern_oon:—Exe-
ter Times -Advocate.
Little Girl Drowned in W. Wawanosli •
"Two-year-o1d Dorothy Hunt, •deugei-
ter of Mr, and Mrs. Leo„ Bunt, was
drowned wlien sfe`leffefeaddrfirs't"Tete
a post hole on the West Wawan
township• farm owned be W, J; J
Lucknow, on Saturday. Her
operate the farm. When, th
girl was 'missed, member of
Ily, now under quarantine
fever; organized a sea
found...her head -down
There was not m
hole, but sufficien
The little girl
brothers and s »• ers,
Parents. The t . oral .t
the St. Augustine cemetery,-Oode-
rich 'S.ignal-Star.
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T!Z AMAZING
100 YEARS AGO, two good men
with a cradle and rake could cut
and bind three acres of grain in a
day. Then there still remained the
laborious task of threshing the
grain with a flail on the barn floor.
Today one man with a Massey.
Harris self-propelled combine can
cut and thresh up to 50 acres in
a day.
Just think Of the tedious, back-
breaking labor in cultivating,
seeding, harvesting and`thrershing
which the farmer of today escapes
' 'through the use of modern farm
machinery. ,
The development of labor:
saving farm machinery in which
Massey -Harris has played a lead-
ing part since 1847 has had an
`important bearing on our daily
lives. Before 1830 the farmer pro-
duted mostly for himself and his
family, today he raises crops chiefly
to sell. The huge increase in farm
production brought about by farm
machinery during the last century
has been an inipor'tant factor be-
hind the 'lapid climb in the
standard of living both on the
farm and in the city.
Today at the beginning of the
second century: of its history, this
company looks forward to a con:
tinuance of its, service in helping
the farmer to produce more and
betEter crops, easier, quicker and
at lower cost.
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