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Tab HURON IiiPOSITOR 0
Established 1860
A. Y. McLean, Editor
Published at Seaforth, Ontario, ev-
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SEAFORTH, Friday, July 13, 1951
X111 Can Enjop the Carnival
It probably isn't necessary to do
more than remind our readers that
the sixteenth annual Seaforth Lions
Club summer carnival is being held
at the Lions Park this week. The
three-day carnival concludes on Fri-
day night.
For more than twenty-five years
the people of this district—and many
more from other districts—have
learned to know and appreciate the
work of the Seaforth Lions Club.
And they have become accustomed to
showing their appreciation in a prac-
tical manner by their support of the
Lions summer carnival.
By their attendance at the carni-
val they become, in fact, partners
with the members of the club in their
work, on behalf of not only the boys
and girls, but all the people of the
community. Additionally of course
those that attend the carnival will
enjoy an outstanding program and
be enabled to take part in the many
games and amusements that will be
in operation.
Probably- the most widely known
feature of the Lions Club work i.5
the park and swimming pool. Here
each year thousands upon thousands
of -people, within a radius of fifty
miles of Seaforth, look forward t6
picnics at the park, or attendance at
the ball games, or a swim in the pool.
The work of providing services and
improving the facilities at the park
in order that those who use it may
better enjoy themselves, is never fin-
ished. This year, for instance, an
area to the north of the park is be-
ing developed and shortly will be
available for the use of picnic groups.
Each year sees the picnic facili-
ties of the park in increasing de-
mand. This year groups from Kin-
cardine to St. Marys, and from Gode-
rich to Kitchener, have either held
picnics or have reserved dates.
The Seaway
The economic development of Can-
ada is dependent to a great extent
on an early start being made on the
St. Lawrence seaway. Canada has
indicated its willingness to get the
project under way, but United States
participation is being blocked by cer-
tain interests in that country.
Canadian speakers take advantage
of every opportunity to recommend
the seaway, and one of the best bits
of promotion work done in some
time was 'a recent speech by Prime
Minister St. Laurent in his address
at Northwestern University. The
University is at Evanston, Illinois,
just outside of Chicago.
Mr. St. Laurent drew upon the be-
ginnings of white settlement in the
Illinois country to make his point.
"It was some three hundred years
ago," he said, "that a Canadian mis-
sionary, Father Marquette, becatlle
the first white marl to sojourn on
this site,' and was it not a Canadian
trader, James Kinzie, born in the
City of Quebec, my home for over
forty years, who is reputed to be the
father of Chicago? These early Can-
adian connections with Chicago have
never been lost; in fact we in Canada
are doing all we can to make them
deeper by pressing for the improv-
ing of the water route between Que-
bec and Chicago."
- Other Lions Club projects which
are well known throughout the dis-
trict include Christmas activities,
when Santa visits those families who
through no fault of their own, might
otherwise have had a barren festive
season. Assistance is given regular-
ly to other worthy projects, such as
the Canadian National Institute for
the Blind and juvenile activities, in -
,eluding Boy Scouts and Girl Guide
Another Lions service—but one
that
that operates quietly—is the club's
crippled children's work. For obvious
reasons the club doesn't broadcast
details of the crippled children that
,Brough the years have benefitted
from Lions Club assistance. But that
doesn't alter the fact that many chil-
dren who might otherwise have been
condemned to a life of inactivity
have, as a result of the work of the
Seaforth Lions Club, been restored
to a point where they have been en-
abled to take their proper place in
the community.
You can have a personal share in
the work of the Lions Club by
patronizing the carnival, and by buy-
ing as generously as possible carnival
tickets.
•
As Others See It
Women for many years have prob-
ably been thinking it, but it remain-
ed for a plump -Little grandmother
from Ackworth, Iowa, to put it in
words.
While pleading for international
understanding at the annual meeting
of the Federation of Women's Insti-
W'es in; London, England, Mrs. Ray -
mo did Sayre said : "Women are not
' ter tBali?amen, they couldn't be."
4k �
What Other Papers Say:
Storm Cellars Needed
(Hamilton Spectator)
Loss of Iran's oil may bring ration-
ing of gas in North America, which
could mean fewer cars sold, which
would slow down assembly lines.
These are the unforseen factors
which show why economic storm -
cellars are needed, however fair the
skies.
Alberta's New Giant
(By W. H. M., in Winnipeg Free Freak)
In Alberta, as in the other' eut on outside 'materials., will be
Prairie Provinces, it has been the the nickel refinery of Sherritt
custom for years to consider this
part of Canada as the area which
makes other parts rich. By toil
and struggle our primary, produc-
ers have wrung their products
from the soil and the forest, ex -
Ported them to other parts of Can-
ada or abroad where they were
Processed by secondary industries
at a good profit.
Now, however, you do not hear
nearly so much of this hewers -o -
wood, drawers -of -water kind of
talk in Alberta.— particularly in
this part of Alberta (Edmonton).
For Alberta, wealthy almost be-
yond measure in the resources for
primary production, is on its way
to becoming an intermediate pro-
ducer on a big scale, combining
with its own basic products those
Gordon Mines. ,It will also be in
the Edmonton area. Like the cel-
lulose plant, its cost will be much
greater than the cost of the com-
pany's primary producing and pro-
cess n g facilities. It will cost
about $17.5 millions as against
Sherritt Gordon's proposed expen-
ditures of about $9 millions on its
copper -nickel mine development,
plant and townsite at Lynn Lake
in northern Manitoba and its Lau-
rie river power development.
The company plans to have both
the Manitoba and Alberta ends of
the project in operation by the last
quarter of 1953. Its copper con-
centrate
oncentrate will be custom smelted at
the Hudson Bay Mining and Smelt-
ing plant at Flin Flon, but the nick-
el concentrate which will form the
greatest part of Lynn Lake's pro -
from other provinces. ,
It is indicative of this develop -duction, will be brouhht to the AI -
I berta refinery, which will employ
ment that the two biggest indivi- I
dual industrial projects slated for! the company's new ammonia leach -
Alberta in the next year or so will mg process of smelting.
The Alberta project, in addition
be processors of primary mater -I to the refinery, will include an
ials from British Columbia and
ammonia plant which will supply
Manitoba. The first of these .s . the ammonia for the refining pro -
the huge cellulose plant of the,! cess. There will also be an im-
Canadian Chemical company, a portant by-product plant which
subsidiary. of Celanese corporati in will turn out 70,0.00 tons a year of
of America. It is to be built Just' ammonia sulphate fertilizer.
east of Edmonton, on the south'
In both these great develop-
ments, the magnet which has
drawn them to Alberta is the
province's resources of oil and
petroleum gas. The gas, besides
supplying power, also is the source
of many chemicals vital to the cel-
lulose or nickel refining industries.
Just as in Texas where the petro
chemical industry became a multi-
million dollar outgrowth of gas and
petroleum production, so tdo is it
becoming in Alberta. The prov-
ince will soon become an import-
ant producer of sulphur, of which
there isa world • shortage and
which is essential to the produc-
shore of the North Saskatchewan
river,
Work has already started clear-
ing the ground preparatory to con-
struction and the plant is expect-
ed to be built and ready for opera-
tion early in 1953. Its cost was
originally estimated at $41 millions
gut a more recent estimate places
t at about $50 millions.
This plant will produce acetic
icid and industrial alcohols from
the by-products of natural gas. The
acetic acid will be combined with
wood pulp from the new $27 mil-
lion dissolving pulp plant of Col-
umbia Cellulose Co. Ltd. (another tion of newsprint, rayon and a
Celanese subsidiary) near 'Prince host of other industrial products.
Rupert, B.C., to make cellulose I It is to beifierived mainly from the
wet gas of the fields in southern
Alberta but there are tremendous
untapped reserves in the oil sands
of the north.
Albertans for years have never
been reticent in calling the world's
attention to their province's wealth
and possibilities. Now, some of the
wildest, most fantastic predictions
have come true and the end is no-
where in sight.
J.LIS1111_,„.1/ 111113A114111.1.
acetate. This is the raw material
for a wide range of plastics and
for rayon and will be shipped from
Edmouton for final manufacture to
factories in many parts of the con-
tinent.
As many as 1,500 workers will
be employed in the construction
job and the plant will have a per-
manent staff of 700.
The second big project, depend-
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Work Between High School and
College
(From the T'3r oto Star)
loii. 'Milton Gregg, Minister of
Labor, gave sound advice to parents
and youths recently on the subject of
preparing for a career. He said a 16
or 17 -year-old high school graduate
should try to choose his future car-
eer and then go out and work for
about two years at what he can get
in that general field. Then, if he still
has the urge, he should go back and
start at a university.
Many parents do their children a
disservice by sending them directly
from high school to university. Teen-
agers often have only vague or un-
tested ideas of what they want to do.
Lacking a definite goal, they tend to
fritter away their time at university,
gaining little either of practical in-
formation or of the intellectual and
cultural enrichment available there.
There are, of course, many excep-
tions—students who achieve correct
orientation at an early age and need
continuity of study for maximum
benefit. But it is probably true that
a majority of university. , students
should not be there at the time they
are there, and some should never go
at all. -
A few years of work between high
school and college can be helpful in
several ways. It convinces most
young people of the advantages of
further "book learning." It teaches
others, those whose aptitudes are -es-
sentially practical, that university
would be a mistake.
It tends to confirm or convert pre-
vious ideas as to the right occupa-
tion, so that the individual who de-
cides to go to university makes good
use of the opportunity. A year or
two of experience in earning a living
may mean that it is an adult instead
of an adolescent who enters the col-
lege classroom.
Mr. Gregg speaks from experience
in this matter. For three years prior
to his entering the government in
1947, he was the popular president
of the University of New Brunswick.
There, as in universities across the
land, war veterans studying on D.V.
A. grants showed the scholastic way
to the students fresh out of high
school.
Many veterans had been away
from the books so long that they
were academically "rusty," but the
handicap was more than offset in
most cases by their . mature outlook
and assuredsense of direction.
'The Real Optimists Are
The Auction Fans
Grandpa Henry was inspired,
To plan for hobbies
ere he retired
Now, although he's
old and grey,
He's healthily busy
every day.
Dept. of National Health and Welfare
Years Agone
Interesting Items Picked From
The Huron Expositor of Twen-
ty-five and Fifty Years Ago.
From The Huron Expositor
July 16, 1926
Entrance Pupils All Pass I Raises $295 For Red Cross
Pupils of Grade 8, Blyth Public A. J. McMurray has, announced
School, were all successful in at -,that Brucefieid has raised $295.75
taining examinations. The follow- in its campaign for the Red Cross,
ing students comprised the class: I Brucefield was not able to con,
Marlene Walsh, Joan Beninger, duct its campaign at the same-
Glenyce Bainton, Joanne Hodgins, I time as the other communities,
Beth Powell, Jim Chalmers, Dennis I hence the lateness in getting their
Weymouth, Douglas McNeil, Wen- i figures. Brucefleldi is included! in,
dell Grant, Bob Galbraith and the Clinton area and this brings,
the total raised by Clinton and dis-
trict to $2,308.34. It is interesting
to note that Clinton's. total far ex-
ceeds the other municipalities' in
this area, as well as quite a nein-
her of centres in other areas.
Clinton News -Record.
Retires As C.N.R. Agent
Mr. and Mrs'. Wm. Lyon, Thorn -
dale, spent over the week -end with -
relatives in Londesboro, also calt-
ing on friends in Blyth. Mr. Lyon
retired as C.N.R. agent at Thorn -
dale on May 29, and has purchas-
ed a residence there. His retire-
ment comes after 47 years faithful.
service with the railway. He com-
menced' in 1904 .as an assistant at
Clinton, being a Londesboro na-
tive. Later he was stationed at
Burgeseville, Whitechurch, Lon
desboro, and came to Blyth in 1924,
leaving here for Clifford in 1941'
when the line was discontinued.
Mrs Leith is never idle. She is i
an expert with knitting needles
and chochet hook and beautiful
lace and crocheted novelties are
among her handiwork. —• Clinton
New sa'Record.
Award Winners At Public School
Lynn Morrison.—Blyth Standard,
Injured During Haying
Injured during haying opera-
tions, a Blyth farmer, William
Bromley, was admitted to Wing -
ham General Hospital. He suffer-
ed a fractured left leg when his•
team ran away at his farm.
Thrown off the wagon, he fell un-
der
nder the vehicle and it passed over
his leg. Dr. R. Farquharson at-
tended the injured man.—Clinton
News -Record.
Has 91st. Birthday
Mrs. Augusta Leith, Blyth, cele-
brated her 91st birthday Sunday,
July 1, in Clinton Public Hospital,
where she has been a patient for
the past fouf,„ years, having frac-
tured her hip In a fall at her home
in Blyth in May, 1947. Despite her
years and inability to get about,
During the electrical storm. on
Friday last, Mr. Joseph Krauskopf,
near Dublin, had his barn struck
by lightning. Of a large bunch of
hogs, four were killed.
Mrs. R. J. Naylor, Mrs. William
Hackwell, Miss Lois Naylor and
Miss Vera Gardiner are enjoying
an outing at Hotel Sunset, Gode-
rich.
Miss Livingstone, McKillop, has
been engaged as teacher for S.S.
No. 2, Tuckersmith, to succeed
Miss Mellis, who recently resign-
ed.
Mr. S. L. Peppier, of the Bank
of Montreal staff, Hensall, has
treated himself to a fine coupe.
Miss Alice Daly was successful
in passing the recent Toronto Con-
servatory of Music piano examina-
tion and has obtained the degree
of A.T.C.M. from the Toronto Con-
servatory of Music.
Mr. Adam McKay, Seaforth, un-
derwent a serious operation in Sea -
forth Memorial Hospital on Satur-
day.
Miss Isabel Lowery, who recent-
ly received her first-class certifi-
cate at the Stratford Normal
School, has secured a position just
out of God'enich for the coming
year.
Mrs. W. E. Kerslake, of town,
had the misfortune to fall on the
Steps of her home on Saturday and
fracture two ribs.
Dr. and Mrs. Chas. Campbell, of
New 'York City, were guests at the
home of Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Stew-
art. Dr. Campbell was the Seaforth
Old Boy who brought the Highland
Pipers Band from that city to play
at the Old Boys' Reunion, .and
which was one of the best attrac-
tions they had',
A pleasant gathering of Re-
bekahs was held at the home of
Mr. and Mrs. M. McKellar Tues-
day evening in honor of Mrs. Ger-
trude Henderson, who leaves on
,.Thursday for Buffalo, where she
will be married to Mr. Jas. Keane.
She was presented with a beauti-
ful tray by Miss Evelyn Cardno,
and the address was read by Miss
Belle Campbell.
(From the Hamilton Spectator)
SOne (iersriiis' haunt auction Next are the seekers of hidden
sales. They attend them all, be treasure. They are there jus( to
the offering junk or genuine an- ,rake a chance. Wheezy, broken-
tiques. "You never know—" they down organs, mysterious -looking
,ay with vague hopefulness. chests and outmoded square pianos
One might pick up a rare vase, are their preferences. They'll set -
cracked or chipped perhaps, but dom offer more than two or three
,L real piece of Ming. Some one dollars, reasoning that the -wood is
Ise is interested only in silver' at least worth that much. But
date, or it may be two shield- their chief motive springs from the
hacked Sheraton chairs to corn-, hope that they will find a cache of
piste that dining -room suite being
collected. There is the taciturn
fellow with an eye for pictures
who is confident that some day he
will come upon an Old Master—
int] then the fatted ease he yearns
for.
Another person may go in for
faded and! dog-eared books, re-
membering the bidder who obtain-
ers a first edition of Hawthorne's
The Scarlet Letter for a few cents
and discovered it was worth $1,-
500. Then there is the bustling,
energetic woman who bids on ev-
erything from clocks that won't
run to antediluvian, marble -topped
washstands. Her house is cram-
med from cellar to attic and might
easily be turned into another Old
Curiosity Shop, but she keeps on
buying.
money long since forgotten.
They should have been at the
sale in Windermere, England, the
other day. It wasn't much as auc-
tions go. Just an assortment of
battered and worn-out household
goods which would hardly justify
the carter's- charge for removal.
The auctioneer was discouraged.
He couldn't get so much as a
shilling bid for a tattered mattress.
Nobody wanted it.
A porter was carrying it to the
discard pile in bbe yard. The mat-
tress burst open and a copious
shower of treasure fell to the
ground—$8,400 in bank notes and
jingling gold sovereigns, and nary
a bid on it.
-Thus does the red flag of the
auctioneer draw them wherever it
flaunts its challenge to the curious.
He went to Thorndale in 1942.--
Blyth Standard.
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Relinquishes. Duties As Chief
Bertram Croome, chief of police
and night watchman here for the
past seven years, has accepted a
A medal is being dionated year- Position as security guardat Wes.
ly from the estate of the late Mrs. minister Hospital, London, and re-
Mrs. linquished his duties here on Sat-
McPhailing (neeMcPhMarion Gonglis), urday. Bert, as he was known to•
-sformer
(nee Inglis), was all, was a good friend to many on
•.L former teacher at the Wingham :his round of duties, doing the un-
expected kindly act on numerous'
known as the Marion Inglis Med-
al. It was won this year by Dor-
een Machan. The Wingham Lions
Club annually gives a scholarship
in Grade VIII of the Public School.
Douglas Murray was chosen from ents to various choirs on special
occasions. While in Mitchell he
the 1950-51 class to receive this mads his home with the Harvey
scholarship. It has a value of Robinsons.—Mitchell Advocate_
$25.—Wingham Advance -Times.
occasions. His flower beds around.
the library were his pride and joy
and throughout his years of resi-
dence here he lent his singing tal-
Now On Sixty Cycle
;lost Office Gets Overhauling'
Early Tuesday morning the vii- Workmen have been busy on the•
lage was invaded with the red interior of the Wingham post office
trucks and were seen stopping at since the middle of last week. The
houses and places of business— I partitions separating the space us -
everything works on schedule. On; ed by the general public and the'
actual office space behind the
"wickets" were removed and are
now rebuilt. The office retains the
same general appearance, with an
ell at the south side. However,
the ell now contains the boxes and.
drawers and the counters for gen-
eral delivery, money order sales,.
etc., are in a straight line facing
the west, or in the position form
erly occupied by the boxes. Pur-
pose of the move is to make less -
footwork for the post office staff:
in the handling of mails and busi-
ness transactions.—Wingham Ad-
vance -Times.
1
Some beef cattle have been mar- averaged 331 bushels per acre in
keted during the past week and 34 -inch rows, 386 bushels in 17 -inch
considerable numbers are still be- rows and 383 in 11 1/3 -inch rows.
ing fed on pasture, according to In another experiment in upstate
the weekly crop report for Huron New York with the variety Sebago
County. I yields of No. 1 size potatoes from
Haying operations have been 34 -inch rows averaged 473 bushels
rather difficult during the week be- to the acre, from 11 and 1/3-inoh
cause of frequent showers. While rows 529 bushels.
considerable hay has been spoiled, i During the past year weeds were
at the week -end haying operations controlled with one pre -emergence
were in full swing again. Spring spray of Sinox General plus diesel
grain is well headed out and indi- oil and the rows were spaced 17
inches apart. In all cases a the
yields were larger than those from
plots under normal cultivation.
As a result of these experiments
it can be concluded that growers
can use closer row spacing when
weeds are controlled with chemi-
cals. Further studies showed that
with irrigation and heavier fertil-
izer application still higher yields
can be !had.
cations are for a good crop. Sugar
beets, field beans and soybeans
look exceptionally good for this
time of year. Canning peas are be-
ing harvested.
Higher Potato Yields
Control of weeds in potatoes' by
means of chemicals is one of the
most interesting phases of potato
production today. The potentiali-
ties of the procedure are tremen-
dous,ithas promiseof being
dour, and g
the biggest labor saver since the
advent of mechanized. potato grow-
ing. Weeds take a heavy annual
toll in potato fields, although much
time and expense is involved in
cultural practices devoted to their
control.
Results of experiments in con-
trolling weeds among potatoes
which chemicals prove it to be suc-
cessful. Not only this, but narrow-
er spacing of rows is possible, and
with it a heavy yield of tubers,
because there is less need for the
cultivators to be used.
In one experiment weeds were
controlled with Sinox General plus
diesel oil in the place of 2-4-D. Ir-
rigated plots of Green Mountain.
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Tuesday 67 domestics were cut-
over and on Wednesday 68, on
commercial 20 and 33 respective-
ly. The local water system was
probably the biggest undertaking,
but no one was without water, as
regardless to the difficulties usual-
ly encountered, the pumps were
soon brought into action. While
we cannot say we are so much
better served—as Hydro always
does give that service—we feel we
now have the universal 60 -cycle
hydro in Zurich, and people are
asked to use it as before.—Zurich
Herald,
From The Huron Expositor
July 19, 1901
Mr. W. W. Taman, of Blyth, has
purchased a clothing business in
Exeter.
Mr. and Mrs. M. Zeller, Zurich,
last week passed the 50th anni-
versary of their marriage, nearly
the whole of which time they have
lived in Hay Township. They were
among the first settlers in the dis-
trict and have seen the country
changed from swamp land to what
it is today.
Mr. George Murdie, McKillop,
sold 51 three-year-old heifers to
Mr. Jas. Hamilton, of Wroxeter,
for the snug sum of $3,344. These
cattle were shipped from Seaforth
station on Wednesday and were ad-
mitted to be amongst the best and
evenest lot ever sent from this sta-
tion.
On Friday last as Mr. Roy Scott
was riding on Main Street on his
bicycle he was talking to some one
on the sidewalk and ran into a
buggy full tilt. He had his lip cut,
his teeth beat and received a gen-
eral shaking up.
On' Wednesday forenoon a horse
belonging to Hugh McMillan, of
Tuckersmith, attached to a cover-
ed buggy, was tied at Devereaux's
blacksmith shop, and breaking
loose ran away. On reaching Main
St. it mounted the sidewalk in
front of Beattie's restaurant, when
it fell and was captured.
The annual bowling tournament
of the Seaforth Bowling Club was
held on the green on Tuesday and
Wednesday under most favorable
circumstances. The lawn was ex-
cellently lighted with electricity,
and music was furnished by the
Band, while solos were rendered
by W. Spalding, Clinton, W. Hays
and Frank Willis, Seaforth, and
the cake walk by W. Jackson, of
Clinton, and Sheriff Reynolds, of
Goderich, which was the feature
of the evening.
The cottages in Jowett's Grove,
Bayfield, are all occupied, also Mr.
Mark's cottages on the hill over-
looking the harbor.
The following were ticketed this
week by Wm. Somerville: Mr. and
Mrs. F. C. G. Minty, to Haney Har-
bor, Muskoka; Win. Elliott, town
clerk, to Owen Sound; Miss Jen-
nie McKay and 'Miss Llbble Free-
man, to Port Huron; Mrs. Thomas
Grieve, McKillop, to Brockville.
Ontario's Food Supply
"Ontario is rich by any country's
world standards," said Hon. T. L.
Kennedy, Minister of Agriculture
for the Province, in addressing the
Ontario Beef Producers' Associa-
tion, "and. when people are rich
they will pay premium for quality.
People in Ontario are buying qual-
ity and paying top prices for it.
"People have a lot of money. In
the next five years, quality produce
will sell at a price never before
known in the province."
But in spite of thisair of optim-
ism, Col. Kennedy struck a note of
surprise when he noted that:
"For the first time I am afraid
(Continued on Page 9)
To The Editor
Toronto, July 7, 1951. County Council in voting for pre}
The Editor, cedure leading towards the repeal
of the Canada Temperance Act in
The Huron Expositor: the County, filled the minds of
Dear Sir: As a steady reader of„ many electors with consternation,
your "Farm News" feature column, Some have felt a compelling urge
I desire to record one man's ap- to speak out. Let us not be fool-
preciation of the various construe- � ed. It is not those who wish to
tive leads to be found there. The decrease the consumption of in
following few lines in your July 6 toxicating beverages in Huron
issue doubtless will win the atten- County who have sponsored this.
tion they merit, especially from move. We salute the courage of
rural Canadians, although the folk the eleven councillors who oppos.
up in the city are hardly less con- ed any change.
corned: "The four-year average I Let the electors mark well the
yield per acre of corn on the con- names of' their representatives to
tour was 8.96 tons compared with County Council and how they vot-
6.97 tons up and down the slope. I ed Let the electors remember
Comparative yields of oats were that the repeal of the Canada Tem -
43.4 bushels per acre in the four- peranco Act in Huron County was4
year rotation on the contour and not an issue in the election which.
36.8 bushels per acre in the identi- gave these men their seats. De-
cal rotation up and down the serving of censure in the strong=
slope," according to experiments
at the Central Experimental Farm,.
Ottawa.
In the global battle against hu-
man hunger it seems to me that
"higher yields" will have to be re-
lied on for victory, even more than
the opening up of new lands—al-
though probably for the short-term
anethe smoothest road to the tar-
get of a better -fed ,human family,
the latter process wins most of the
spotlight in the over -urbanized
world.
est .possible terms is the action of
men who attempt. to usurp an;
authoritynot justly theirs. Let
elected representhtives remember
that the freedoms of democracy
purchased and' held at great cost
cannot be' treated as trifles with
impunity. Who is there who can
truthfully say that the vote regis-
tered represented the will of the
electors of Huron County? A vote
of the' people made the Canada
Temperance Act' a law in Huron
County. A vote of the people is
On the other hand, the following required to remove it.
picture (drawn around the general
theme of the intrinsic fertility in
the soil) in one of your farm con-
temporaries south. of the line, is
thought-provoking: Dr. William
A. Albrecht (University of Mis-
souri) undertook in 1942 to esti-
mate, at pre-war fertilizer prices,
our annual U.S.A. soil deficit as to
the major elements, due to crop-
ping alone. As, an approach, he
figures in terms of a 200 -acre Mis-
souri farm, with five 40 -acre fields,
level, not subject to erosion, and
farmed under a good rotation of
corn, oats, wheat, grass,, but .with
all crops sold as such, not fed to
livestock. He found that to re-
place, artificially, theminerals re-
moved by such cropping, the fer-
tilizer bill would come to $8.15 a
year. In other words, on this 200 -
acre farm, "the fertility equivalent
of $1,630 is taken out of the soil
annually." To return some of the
fertility by feeding liastock would
help; but even then more than $500
a year in mineral nutrients, A1-
brecht figured, would walk off the
place to market, or be trucked off
as Milk and livestock. Without
livestock, the farm in question, al-
though secure against erosion, will
be "sold out of its fertility in 200
years."
RURALITE
•
Wingham, Ont., July 28, 1951.
The Editor,
The Huron Expositor:
Dear Sir: The recent actlon o0
nineteen members of the Huron
I am of the: strongest opinion
that a number of County Council
votes cast in, favor of the repeal
resolution were cast without due
consideration of what the vote im-
plied. A lack of awareness of the
possible consequences is evident.
My .br}siness takes me from one
end of theiProvince to the other
several times each' year, and 1 have
ample opportunity to see the con-
ditions' prevailing under the Liquor
Control Act. I have heard on many
occasions, in a large variety of
places, outstanding businessmen
condemn these conditions in the
strongest possible terms. It is -
common criticism from men, often
not teetotalers themselves, that
bootlegging is rampant under the.
Liquor Control Act, and further.
that the curse of the beverage.
room is only exceeded by those'
rooms of greater infamy where mix-
ed drinking, is permitted.
Leththose who decry the Canada
Temperance Act because—of cer-
tain abuses which prevail under It,.
remember that our courts, high
and. low, from one end of the Prov-
ince to the other, have the unceas-
ing task of dealing with lawbreak-
ers and infractions of all kinds of
laws. The Canada Temperance'
Act, in spite of those who for their
own reasons would upset it, gives
us conditions in Huron County
very much to be preferred over'
those prevailing under the Liquor;.
Control. Act.
Yours truly,
ld, S. Copeland