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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1948-01-30, Page 2P CAU R cOo 998' st bushed 19 'hat. McLean, Editor ped a Seaforth, Ontario, ev- rsday afternoon by McLean, Members of Canadian Weekly Newspapers Association. Subscription rates, $2.00 a year in advance; foreign $2.50 a year. Single copies, 5 cents each. Advertising rates on application. Authorized as Second Clain.; Mail Post Office Department, Ottawa SEAFORTH, Friday, January 30th Monet- Not Indispensable Most of our conversation today centres around money. Or perhaps, more correctly speaking, the lack of/ it. It is true that we lack American .•dollars for the time being. But be- cause of that fact there is .no Iack of food, work or wages, although to read the newspapers or listen on the air one might conclude that a great many people were giving up the ghost, through lack of American cars, cosmetics, fruit and other lux- uries that have in recent years be- come necessities to too many Cana- dian people. We forget that back in pioneer days and for a good many years af- ter, perhaps the majority of people in Canada did not do business with each other with money, but by means of barter and trade. The goods they made and the produce they grew were traded for goods of some other description, which they required. In fact, there are a good many men living today, and who do not yet con- sider themselves old, who can re- member When. they received more or less of their wages in kind. A good many merchants can remember that too. Over in Europe, and especially in Germany, where currency is not much more than a name, the trading system is largely carried on and ev- en sometimes with official sanction. Here is an interesting example that occurred a short time .ago in the City of Stuttgart, which is in the United States zone: The Mayor ' was granted permis- sion to import cigarettes from the' French zone. •But instead of paying money for .them the. Germans sent wines. The wines were sent to the Rhur district for coal, and the coal is to be used to produce cement which is what the Germans wanted in the first place. It would seem that money is not such an indispensable commodity af- ter all. • Service Costs Monep There is more than a little com, plaint these days about the high cost of living, but there is no complete agreement as to where the blame should be laid. The consumer blames the farmer and the farmer blames the middleman. Perhaps it would be nearer the mark to place the blame on the ser- vice demands of the people. Ontario people, and perhaps the rest of the people of Canada, have become ser- vice crazy. When people leave an order, they want and expect that the goods will be delivered where and when they are wanted. In recent years that applies to the farmer as well. They want their bread, their cakes, their feed and other supplies delivered at the house or barn at the same cost as that in town. That is not their fault. Mid- dlemen have played up the service end of their business, until people have demanded service that is not only unreasonable, but often prepos- terous. The middlemen are not living off either the manufacturer or the far- mer. Their business is a legitimate one. It'does not matter what means the middleman adopts to bring the goods from factory or farm- to the door of the consumer, the collecting grid distribution is going to cost something. Consequently farmer can only expect to get a .part of the censtxmers' dollar, because the cost of distribution has to come out of it too. .' The only way their .:can expect to get .greater. perce stage of the doliar is to cut . distribution costs -- d . aId ;service to the bone. Service at cost would help to reme- dy the trouble, because when the peo- ple (1% nd extra and unreasonable ae ,'viCe are made to pay the extra price, they night go back to the old way of doing §Orme things for them- selves. We 'have too much service. Farmers And Income Taxes It may come somewhatas- a sur- prise to the people of Ontario that in 1945-46 the latest available tax re- turns—that the farmers of the Prov- ince of Saskatchewan contributed $2,587,000 in farm income tax to a Dominion total of $7,114,000. -The Province of Manitoba occupied sec- ond place with $1,866,000, and the farmers of Alberta contributed $1,- 114,000. It might even surprise the people of Ontario still more to learn that our boasted banner province, with three times the number of farms as' Manitoba, contributed only $1,086,- 000 by way of income taxes. We learn too, that the taxation division of the Department of Na- tional Revenue, is sending out to the farmers of .Western Canada, a new book of simplified instructions with the object of helping them fill out their income tax returns. The simpler, the better. Possibly in time the same department will succeed in compiling a book of in- structions that can be followed by our Ontario farmers. At the same time, we would say the department should launch an educational drive in the Province of Quebec. Our notice has been drawn to this because' the records show that in 1945-46, 6,689 farmers out of 154,689 filed income tax returns, and 280 paid income tax. The total from that Province collected in income taxes by the Department was less than $60,000. s Theorp Runs Into Fact Mr. Coldwell, Leader of the C.C.F. party, has been very vocal in the past couple of months, both in parliament and over the air, on the theory that wages throughout Canada should be generously increased, and that under a Socialist government, such a wage increase would not raise prices. This theory has already been test- ed out in a . practical way under a Socialist government, and in a So- cialist industry, but Mr. Coldwell does not seem to be aware of this fact, or if he is, he has totally disregarded the results of the experiment. Recently the government of Great Britain socialized the coal industry, and since then the price of coal to the British people has been increas- ed at the mines by sixteen per cent. This increase became unavoidable because the government increased the miners' wages. Possibly the miners were duefor higher wages, but the fact remains that to get more men into the mines; higher wages were needed. But high- er wages inevitably led to increased prices for coal to the consumer. At the same time the Government, in- stead of hiding the increase under a subsidy, or some other disguise, came out honestly and admitted the cause of the increase. If the Socialist Government of Bri- tain has found it impossible to raise wages without raising prices to the consumer, simply through the magic of Socalism, what weight will Mr. Coldwell's promises have with the people of Canada? Mr. Coldwell, however, never dis- cusses increases that have arisen out of the British experiment; he very much prefers to deal with theories and extravagant promises. e The Use Of Words (St. Thomas Times -Journal) In an address on the use of words which he gave before a service club in Montreal, Robert J C. Stead, an Ottawa newspaperman, instanced Mr. Churchill's "Give us the tools and we will finish the job," as an example of fine use `af the English language. Another speaker, Mr, Stead said,'might have put it this way: "Give us the equipment and we will master the undertaking." But Prime Minister Mackenzie King would have expressed the thougfht something like this; "We appeal to our neighbors, the mighty United States, with whom we have lived side by side in Perfect amity for more than a century, to -furnish us with the midgets of their vast industrial sys- tete which is the envy and the ad:nii'ratiOn of all inan)tind, and we Will apply them to the gigantic task of overcoming the •pewerfvi, ruthleoe and unsci tptllcIns fees Vella are endeavoring to iiiipose then' iir'le Olt the Ilreltd, free democratic natiene bf the 'wblEle' ears gone iMel.!iltlfEl ;Aline! 11414 From :11140Huron Ili poaltor of ,lrlfty and ;il'w•tllrily! Year# Ago. From The Huron Expositor February 2, 19?$ 11iK.re, QV.. J. Bennett .(nee Jean Bar- rows), and daughter are in Walton on a visit with relatives, ,and friends, from Dinsmore, Sask. The Ladies' Aid of the Methodist Church, Hensall, enjoyed a sleigh ride to the home of Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Pearce on Wednesday 'afternoon. A quilting bee was held, after which supper was served. Mr. and Mrs, M. R. Rennie were royally entertained in Carmel Church, Hensall, at a banquet and were pre- kented with an electric reading lamp and stand in appreciation of their services as choir director and organ- ist of that. church. Mr. Rennie thank- ed the choir members most sincerely. Seaforth Collegr to Lnstitute hockey team defeated Mitchell High School by a score of 2-1 in a fast. game play- ed on the local rink Tuesday even- ing. Seaforth line-up was: Goal, W. Hart; rel., C. Munn; 1.d., W. Broken- sliire; r.w., A. Meakins; 1.w., Fred Crich; centre, S. Nicholls; sub., 0. Aberhart and J. Archibald. At a progressive euchre in the I.O. O.F. Hall on Thursday evening last, at which Rev. T. H. Brown, acted as chairman, prizes were won by. Lad- ies, Mrs. L. T. DeLacey; lone hands, Miss Olive Taman; gentlemen, C. A. Barber, lone hands, Mrs. Harry Stew- art; .conzolation, Leslie McKay. A rink of Seaforth curlers, compos- ed of T. S. Smith, W. E. Southgate, K. M McLean and J. .Beattie, skip, were in London on Tuesday repres- enting ot,e of the Western ()Marie clubs drawn to play against the Scotch curlers now touring Canada. They lost by one shot, 10-9. An early morning fire in Clinton caused about $5,000 worth of damage to the Town Hall and officers of the corporation on Wednesday. The fire was caused by an overheated chim- ney. • The thermometer registered 10 be- low zero on Tuesday morning, but the weather has moderated a great deal since then. Mr. and Mrs. J. M. McMillan return- ed Monday evening from their honey- moon trip to New York. The Prince George Citizen, of Prince George, in its report of a hockey game between that city and Vanderhof, says: "Ken McKay play- ed a strong game and registered sev- en of the eleven goals scored on Sat- urday night." Two other Seaforth boys were also on the line-up, Tom Smithers and M. C. McKay. Mrs. L. T. DeLacey will attend the' annual meeting of the Provincial Red Cross Society to be held in Toronto next week. Mr. Peter McKay, Tuckersmith; re- rentiy sold two good calves from his herd of pure .lured Shorthorns. Mr. Patrick Feeney, of Dublin, and Mr. Allen, of Brucefield, were the pur- chasers. The Scotch concert held in the Town Hall, Hensall, on Thursday last, was a great succes. The play was "Cotter's Saturday Night," and the principal actors were J. Birnie, Mrs. Hugh McDonald, Miss Helen Elder, Mary Hemphill, W. E. Brown, Rae Paterson. • Books are often a bit of a luxury Here at Lazy Meadows, but some kind soul at Lengmans-Green, in Toronto, sent me along a copy of a new one ley, I enneth Cragg. I've been seeing his name in the morning ,paper for a long time now, and lt'e mostly been over the top of stories about politics and things that are happening in Ot- tawa. This' hook is called, "Father On the Farm," and it concerns Mr. Cragg's father and the events that transpired on their farm near Drayton, in Wel- lington County. In places this is one of the best reading,books that I've come upon in a long time. It hasn't the polish and the background that the late Peter McArthur put into his writing, but it does have some won- derful touches. There was one spot that tickled my •fancy. Cragg was writing about a hired man who was called Uncle Pete who had the habit of drying his socks On the oven door. This charac- ter was just one of those people who stayed for spells, being a distant rel- ative of his mother. Cragg says that his mother used to explain this family relationship with a little laugh saying that her grand- father and a, great uncle of Pete's .had 'one time . traded roosters in the backyard. Cragg goes on to saY. "Even this family connection had no mollifying effect on her when Uncle Pete put his socks on the hot oven door. .As is widely known, socks that have spent a whole day in rubber boots with tightly laced leather tops, have lost some of their freshness, a fact not unnoticed by mother when they were warmed up by oven heat. "Each time a clatter of angry words From The Huron 'Expositor February 4,1898 Mr. Wm. Scott, Brucefield, has re- ceived a carload of fresh corn for distribution among the farmers. Mr. W. J. Millar, of Hensall, who is an applicant for the position of Precentor in Carmel Presbyterian Church made vacant by the resign - tion of Mr. James Crawford, con- ducted the service of song on Sunday morning and evening last. Mr. Thos. G. Wren, who resides. near Chiselhurst, met with a very ser- ious accident one day last week. It seems that he had bought in a num- ber of strang steers and when work- ing around one ;of them the animal kicked with both feet, striking Mr. Wren on the side, breaking his ribs. Robert Bruce and Duncan McDou- gall, cDougall, of Cromarty left last week to at- tend Normal School. Early Tuesday morning fire com- pletely destroyed the Doherty Organ factory in Clinton, together with the stable and residence of Mr. Doherty. The total loss will reach $100,000. Our poultry fanciers made an ex- cellent showing at the poultry show in Goderich last week, securing ' a number of prizes. Out of 15 birds shown, Mr. John Ward secured 13 prizes; Harold Johnson, 8 out of 9 entries; Frank Willis, 4 out of 7; Josiah Tyerman, 5 out of 9; James Dick, 1 out of 3; W. Carter, near Londesboro, 33 out of 34; Dr. Scott took prizes on all the birds he ex- hibited, and W. Irwin secured $200 in prize money. A splendid new furnace is being placed in Egmondville Church base- ment, the old one being burnt out af- ter 20 years' of year. Messrs. William and George Hills and Miss M. E. MeLarty and Miss Maria Hills went to Strathroy on Tuesday to attend the wedding of a cousin. The Sunday School teachers of First Presbyterian 'Church, Seaforth, held their annual meeting Monday evening. The officers elected are as follows: Superintendent, D. D. Wil- son; assistants, Messrs. Lumsdeitand J. Ross; 'secretary, J. Rankin; assist- ant, Miss A. McDonald; treasurer, Miss Elder;, assistant, Miss 3. Thomp- son; superintendent of home Depart- nlent, Mise Simpson; librarian, Jas. Rabb; assistants, W, W. Hoffman, M. Patterson, J. MacTavish and 3. Croz- ier. Mr. Robt. Dunlop, 8th line, Hullett, has sold to his neighbor, Mr, 'Wiliam Lowry, a 10-yeateold gelding'receiv- ing the sum of $12.5c Constance Butter and Cheese Man- ufacttiriu.g Co. held a meeting en. PA - day 'ant. .The chair; teas eecttpiad: by 3ehtt Tritton. Mr, Watson, latticefTeld, has 1fissitalt". ed a. wreath whietle • ;ori h% ohoPting Will which 'eau. '6e J itrd far anile, . s Hlj ]IJnxry J. Boy11 would beat a. suiUncle.. Pete's head, and unless he was fast, mother would have the woodshed door open and the socks wodtid• go flying out to land us- ually where snow sifted, on a west wind, through a crack in the siding. Mother was not a squeamish woman, but she never put a hand to Uncle Pete's socks, except to wash them. She always made a point of lifting them from the oven door with a mop handle," You can tell by the titles of the chapters that there's some good ma- terial in this book. Here are a few of them: "He Used Salve Like Wo- men Use Lotion" .. , or, "He Liked Paint For Any Purpose" ... and "He Always Worked For His Hired Man." The only fault I could find was that he seems ' to have crowded his book a bit. Maybe that comes froze city living. If he had time to be mere contemplative it would have been a little smoother. • All in all, I lilted the book, "Father on the Farm." • The.manager of a business firm, who was a, widower, had noticed that his son seemed rather interested in his pretty secretary. The young man had only recently entered the firm, and the boy's father did not care for the prospect of au early engagement. He determined to speak tq,tbe young girl, who entered his office and announced that the sor, had proposed and that she had ac- cepted him. "Well, I th'nk you might have seen me first," said the 'p'arent, • rather tersely. "I did," she replied, "but I prefer- red your s.en!" Appointed Pe•tmaater r Lest week Kenneth Cameron receiv ed notice cif hie, appointment' to the position of Poetmaater In leve now.. Mr. Cameron for the past few months had been employed with the 'gathers Beverages of town.-Winghain Ad-- vance-'Maes, Enterains Choir and S. 8. Teachera The board of managers of St. An draw's Presbyterian Church, with the assistance of the Ladies' Aid, Played host on Thursday evening when they' entertained the members of the. choir - and teachers and -officers of the Sun- day unday • School to a chicken dinner. Ire. addition the husbands and wives were also; present, in all about 60 enjoyed the hoard's hospitality. Following the dinner a abort program was enjoyed,. which was followed by choir practice. —Wingham Advance -Times. Named President of Bayfield Fair The annual meeting of Bayfield ag- ricultural society was held in the ToWn Hall, Bayfield, on Friday even- ing; Jan_ 16, with a fair attendance.. This: meeting had been scheduled to, be held on Wednesday, San, 14, but owing to the death of George Greens- lade, one of the society's former pio- neer members, who had acted as sec- retary for a number of years, the meting was postponed. Russell Grain- ger, one of the directors of the so- ciety, was appointed chairman•for the - annual meeting and very ably conduct- ed the business of this meeting.— Clinton News -Record. Sells Mare To American E. W. Fawni has sold his brown mare, First Lady, to Charles Munn, of Jackson, Mich. She was trans- ported to the latter's stables there Wednesday.—Mitchell. Advocate. 6 THISIS AN MERGENCY ...let's treat it as such (CANADA is heavily "in the red" in present trading with the U.S. dollar area. In our total trade with the world we are in a good position but not in that part which is done with' U.S. dollar countries. Other countries with whom we do business cannot pay us in full, either in cash or in goods, for the things they buy from us. This situation is made more serious than ever before because so many countries, our regular customers, have not recovered from the war. It may be some time yet -before they get on their feet sufficiently to help put things right. Meantime, we must find ways and meahs of balancing our own books and reducing our U.S. dollar deficit. There are two things we can do at the moment ...cut down unnecessary purchases from the U.S.. dollar area and increase our production of goods that can be sold to those countries to balance accounts. It's an emergency and should be treated as such. TO KEEP OUR INDUSTRIES HUMMING...OUR LIVING STANDARD HIGH, WE NEED PETROLEUM,,, COAL, COTTON, STEEL AND SIMILAR ESSENTIAL THINGS WE CAN PAY FOR THESE THINGS IF WE CURTAIL OUR SPENDING ON IMPORTED NON -ESSENTIALS OR TRIMMINGS . . AT LEAST FOR AWHILE 'YOU AS A CANADIAN CAN HELP 1. Do not order goods by mail From other countries ... do not buy goods to bring home when you travel outside Canada. See also Item 2. 2. If you feel some purchase is absolutely essential, see your Collector of Customs and Excise beforehand, to learn virhethor the item is prohibited. 3. Look for alternatives or substitutes for the items which are temporarily prohibited. 4. If certain goods seem M be in short supply, do not overlook the poss.bility that it is seasonal, or merely a local condition, or perhaps brought about by entirely unnecessary buying. 5. Be sure to obtain the Tariff Item Number from your Collector of Customs and Excise before pursuing any inquiry. Quote this number in all correspondence. • 6. IF WE TACKLE THIS PROBLEM IN THE SAME SPIRIT OF CO-OPERATION DEMONSTRATED DURING THE WAR YEARS IT CAN BE SOLVED WITH LONG-TERM BENEFIT TO EVERY CANADIAN. EMERGENCY IMPORT CONTROL DIVISION DEPARTMENT OF FINANCE Oficmto