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SEAFORTH, Friday, November 9
Remembrance Dap
On the eve of Remembrance Day
it is well to recall the meaning of the
day and the place it should hold in
the minds and hearts of all Cana-
dians.
Too frequently it is considered as
just another holiday. No thought is
given to the more than one hundred
thousand Canadians who gave their
lives in two world wars in order that
their fellow Canadians could con-
tinue to enjoy that way of life so
dear to all.
Remembrance Day is an occasion
provided for the paying of humble
tribute to those who made the
supreme sacrifice in the cause of
freedom. To take advantage of the
occasion in a spirit of grateful
thanksgiving is the first duty of
every Canadian.
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Is Winter on the Wap?
It is hard to remember, after the
early winter weather we have had
during the past week, that October
this year gave us some of the most
enjoyable days of the year. It was
on the whole a month of sunshine
and gentle winds—a perfect condi-
tion for raking leaves, for fall plan-
ning and for doing all those other
tasksthat must be done in ofder to
prepare for winter.
But almost overnight, Fall was
ended and Winter came. Perhaps
not to stay, but in any event in suf-
ficient force to remind us of the
months ahead. All of which brings
us to a statement by a director of
the American Geographical Society,
Dr. George H. T. Kimble, who says
that winters are growing milder in
this part of the world.
Perhaps he is right. Perhaps we
don't get the snow or the sustained
below -zero days, of which our grand-
parents are anxious to remind us.
On the other hand, perhaps it just
seems to us that the winters are less
severe. After all, our grandparents
.didn't travel in heated automobiles
over plowed highways. They lived
in houses which depended for their
heat on firewood, not on automatic
oil furnaces.
It may be true that the weather on
the average is milder, but it still
takes only one late frost to kill ten-
der corn. We rather imagine the
average farmer will hesitate to ac-
cept the word of the scientists to the
point where he will consider plant-
ing many warm weather crops_
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Tractor Accidents
There are too many tractor acci-
dents. Hardly a week passes with-
out a farmer being injured when the
tractor he was driving tilted over.
Frequently the accidents are fatal.
Sometimes, but not often, a person
is accidentally runover by a tractor,
but the most common cause of the in-
jury or death is the turning over of
the tractor on a slope.
Perhaps drivers are inclined to be
too familiar with the machine they
operate. They know its capacity to
pull a heavy load on the level or on
hills, and come to believe that little
or no care, on their part, is needed to
prevent accidents. Experience has
shown that this is not so. Tractors
have a high centre of gravity, and
under certain conditions tilt easily.
One answer, of course, is more
care on the part of operators. But
kyr ops ' the manufacturers, too,
could be of assistance in studying
tr-actor designs to the end that the
stability of the machine is improved.
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Mechanization on the Farm
Most people realize in a general'
way the extent to which mechaniza-
tion has come to the farm and the
resulting increase in productivity.
These know there are fewer horses
and more tractors. Electric motors
now pump water and grind grain.
But to fully appreciate the extent
of the changes, which have taken
place in 'Canadian agriculture, one. -
must study comparative figures. In
its monthly review, the Bank of Nova
Scotia discusses the "New Ways in
Canadian Agriculture" and sets out
the figures which tell the story of
progress.
One of the most obvious changes
which has taken place on the farm is
the replacement of animal power by
machine power. This is demonstrat-
ed in the increase in the sale of farm
machines and equipment. In 1940
there were a little over 21,444, trac-
tors sold. Ten years later, almost
61,000 tractors were sold. The same
trend is present in figures for all oth-
er types of machines. Sales of com-
bine harvesters in 1950 had increas-
ed 156 per cent over 1940; power un-
its were up 256 per cent, pointing up
the great increase in rural electri-
fication.
No one, of course, would deny that
agriculture today is still hard de-
manding work, but at the same time
it must be admitted the farmer to-
day is producing more than ever be-
fore with a lot less drudgery. One
reason is that land formerly needed
to produce fodder crops for draught
animals, may now be used to grow
food foy humans.
Canada must at all times have a
strong progressive agricultural in-
dustry. In addition to supplying an
ever-increasing domestic demand,
the industry provides a great deal of
the country's export surpluses.
What Other Papers Say:
More Truth Than Poetry
(Lethbridge Herald)
Many a true word is spoken in jest.
That's an old saw. "Whizz", Winni-
peg Rotary Club's weekly letter, has
this one:
The reason a dollar won't do as
much for people as it once did is be-
cause people won't do as much for a
dollar as they once did.
That's a crisp way of putting -all
this talk about inflation and the high
cost of living. But there's more truth
than poetry in the statement.
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No Need To Hurry
(Ridgetown Dominion)
We don't quite see the point of all
the rush. We have read that experi-
ments have proven that (within rea-
son of course) the more slowly driv-
en car will cover the same over-all
distance in practically the same time
,as the road burner. We tried it on a
trip to Chatham a few days ago. Go-
ing over the needle was kept at the
fifty mark as much as possible, and
there was Iittle traffic. We made our
destination in thirty-five minutes.
Coming back the speedometer hand
was "frozen" at thirty-eight and nev-
er touched forty. The time? You
guessed it—thirty-five minutes!
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Name For a House
(Peterborough Examiner)
Names give individuality to hous-
es, and a house cannot have too much
individuality.
Nobody likes to think that his
home—his castle—is exactly like
somebody else's; be it ever so hum-
ble, he wants it to be like no other
place on earth. He does not plant
his garden with exactly the same
flowers and shrubs as his neighbor;
his wife takes pains to make her cur-
tains and her furnishings a reflec-
tion of her own taste.
This is all admirable and as it
should be in a dexnocracy, where it
is everybody's right to possess indi-
viduality. Why not a name for the
house, then?
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NOVEMBER 9, 1901
CROSSROADS
(By James Scott)
"THE HIGH COST OF LIVING"
On the Main Street the other day
I overheard two housewives talk-
ing. In the town they are consid-
ered—and rightly—good housekeep-
ers. They are good cooks, thrifty,
hard-working and you'd never go
into their houses and find things
in a meas.
One said to the other, ''No, I
didn't do down any berries this
year. They cost so much I didn't
think it was worth it."
Of coursfl, she was talking about
what everybody these days calls
"the high cost of living."
Every month when Ottawa re-
leases the figures for the cost -of -
living index it is front page news.
And almost every month the index
seems to jurnp another point or so.
Then everybody shakes fila head
and says, "I don't know what
things are coming to."
Well, neither do I, and it dues
seem like a lot of money when
you have to pay almost twenty
cents for a quart of milk. I ,;er-
tainly do not enjoy it.
You know, fifteen years doesn't
seem such a long way back, but
then some of us have short mem-
ories. Until I started thinking
about the high cost of living I had
almost forgotten what it was like
around 1935.
Then I remembered.
I remembered those hopeless -ey-
ed men who used to come around
to the back door and ask for a
hand-out. Some of them would of-
fer to do any odd jobs in payment
for a ham sandwich and a cup of
coffee. Others were so badly beat-
en, had lost so much confidence
and self-respect, that they could do
nothing but stand, mutely appeal-
ing, in their dirty, cast-off clothes
and broken down shoes.
For many, many of these men
the cost of keeping alive meant the
breaking up of the family, the loss
of human dignity, the discomfort
of living on the open road anti
sleeping in jails, and above all liv-
ing with fear—fear that tomorrorw
there might be no hand-out, no
shelter, that tomorrow they migiht
be dying of cold or starvation, or
both.
Compared to twenty cents a
quart for milk, their cost of living
seems a great deal higher.
Nowadays a lot of these me*
have jobs and tidy little houses and
wives and children around them.
But some of the are dead.
The dead ones were mostly
young, in the thirties. When Hit-
ler marched into. Poland in 1939
they were the first to join up. And
I have even heard so-called re•
spectable citizens say that the
First Canadian Division was made
up of riffraff!
These men and their comrades
who joined up later found out
something of the high cost of liv-
iiig too. Some of them found out
that to keep alive meant the loss.
of a leg or an arm or even both.
Some of them •found the price of
existence was a shattered face so
horrible that a whole village in
England had to be educated to
treat them as if they were ;still
recognizable humans. Soine of
them lost their reason. Aud souse
of them gave their lives.
The high cost of living!
Today, on every street corner,
there are those who complain bit-
terly because the price of essen-
tials is almost' three-quarters as
much again as it was before the
war. But I don't see our highways
and freight yards filled with hope-
less and homeless men. To avoid
that doesn't seem suc:i an enor-
mous price.
And even with war clouds hov-
ering over us, the fact is that it
hasn't come yet—and if we would
only clean the garbage of hate
frdm our own backyards, it might
still be avoided,
No, I look at today and think
back and compare it with yester-
day and somehow the prospect of
not having any strawberry jam for
breakfast -this winter doesn't seem
a very high price to pay.
To The Editor
Toronto, Ont., Nov. 3, 1951.
Editor, The Huron Expositor:
Dear Sir: That table in your
leading editorial, "In Terms Of
Work," showing the amount of
foodstuffs the average worker in
Canada could purchase "with one
hour of work" in the years 1939,
1950 and 1951, was most revealing.
I was especially interested in the
fact that the hour of work in 1939
could buy 7.3 pounds of bread; it
would buy 9.9 pounds at June, 1951.
Against the above background, it
may be interesting to the general
reader (particularly in town and
city) to learn that the above im-
provement has been attained de-
spite the fact that the 1939 price
of a bushel of wheat (No. 1 North-
ern at the Lakehead) was $0.761,
to be contrasted with today's in-
itial payment (No. 1 Northern at
the Lakehead) by the Canadian
Wheat Board is $1.40. Doubtless
the quick retort o'f many an urban
consumer would be to 'the effect
that "beef" was conspicuous in the
above table by its absence? Never-
theless, I notice that "one hour of
work" along the pavements iwi:l
buy more bacon and more eggs at
June, 1951, than to October, 1939.
All in all, I think the above edi-
torial, with its illuminating figures,
hit very much on the target. I
desire to express one reader's
thanks for this timely service.
So far as the horsemeat enthusi-
asts are concerned in the food sit-
uation, I think that the following
figures from a recent agricultural
review (New Ways in Canadian
Agriculture) by one of the Cana-
dian banks, deserve to be studied.
They cover the number of horses
on the Canadian Prairies: 1926,
2.2 million; 1936, 1.8 million; 1946,
1.2 million, and at June 1, 1951, this
number had declined to 796,000.
"AGRICOLA"
Seen in the County Papers
Barn Moved
The barn which was once a very
useful part of St. Boniface's parish
equipment has recently been pur-
chased by Mr. Harvey C]ausius and
by the' Allan moving equipment of
Hensall was moved onto Mr. Claus-
isus' little farm a mile north of
town It will be a great conveni-
ence to Mr. Clausius.—Zurich Her-
ald.
Injured When Pole Snaps
Hugh .Davis, linesman for the
H. E. P. C., sustained shock and
bruises when a pole on which he
was working, snapped at the base
and fell. The incident happened
Wednesday afternoon as the hydro
crew was repairing a line at the
corner of Wellington and Main Sts.
Hugh was working on the wires at
the top of the pole when it snap-
ped. Fortunately, the pole fell
away from him and he was able
to roll away as it struck the
ground. Mr. Davis was taken to
London in an ambulance for exam-
ination.—Exeter Times -Advocate.
Buys 125 'Head Of Cattle
T.be Aberdeen Angus fraternity
last week welcomed Cecil John -t
ston, R.R. 7, Lucknow, to the ranks
of breeders of Doddies. He took de-
livery of 125 cows and calves from
Cecil Tom, of Owen Sound, having
been specializing in steers the last
few years. The purchase of this
lot is doubtless one of the larger
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cattle deals in Western Ontario
this year. 'Cecil Johnston farms
ancestral "Johnston acres" in Ash-
field Township, Huron County,
where he was born. His grand-
father, Henry Johnston, settled on
the original fifty acres in 1860. This
has been enlarged at various times
until he now owns' and operates
some 400 acres in the township,
Goderich Signal -Star.
Never tell Junior
bogeymen
Or fearsome things
will get him when
He greets bedtime
with angry tears
Such threats develop
lasting fears.
Dept of National Health and W'ettare
Years Agone
Interesting Items Picked From
The Huron Expositor of Twen-
ty-five and Fifty Years Ago
The following were ticketed to
distant points this week by Wm.
Sbmerville: Miss Grace Conners,
Chiselhurst, to Boston, Mass.; Mel-
vin Scott. to Bowmanville; Chas.
H. i3roadfoot and Robert Carmich-
ael to Chicago.
Mrs. John Scott, Hensall, had the
misfortune a week ago when en-
gaged.in milkin a cow, to have it
turn suddenly around, causing her
to fall, and before she could recov-
er from her position the animal
had stepped on her, inflicting:
painful bruises and injuries.
Wesley Whitesides and George
Ellwood left Hensall this week for -
Sault Ste. Marie, where they in-
tend working.
Mrs. A. Reichert, of Hensall, had:
the misfortune on Monday after-
noon to slip off the high platform,
of the kitchen part of their dwel-
ling and received painful and ser-
ious injuries about her shoulder,.
side and ankle.
From The 'Huron Expositor
November 19, 1926
Mrs. Fergus Bullard, Winthrop,
underwent an operation in Sea -
forth Hospital by having her ap-
pendix and tonsils removed.
Mr. Wm. Tolmie, of Rodney, Es-
sex Co., has been in Brucetie'.d
during the week •buying up a quan-
tity of beans. He has purchased
5,000 bushels, paying as high as
$2.50.
Mrs. G. E. Henderson and Mrs.
L. T. DeLacey left this week for
Toronto, where they will spend the
winter. Mr. and Mrs. 12. H. Sproat
have leased their home on John St.
Mr. Jas. Allen, Tuckersmith, has
leased the residence of Mr. Wal-
lace in Egmondville.
• Mr. Sam Gill, Chiselhurst, has
moved his family and effects from
the Latta farm to the farm he has
rented from Mr. Robt. Stewart.
Mr. Henry Bennewies, Sr., Man-
ley, has resigned his position as
linesman on the McKillop, Logan
& Hibbert Telephone Co., and Mr.
Thos. Purcell has taken the posi-
tion.
Albert Siemon and W. Rapien,
of Manley, left Wednesday for Kit-
chener, where they have secured
positions for the winter.
Mr. Wm. Ross, Brucefield, held
a .successful sale of stock on Wed-
nesday of last week. Mr. Geo. H.
Elliott, the auctioneer, disposed of
over $1,600 worth of stock in less
than an hour.
The fowl supper held in the
church shed of Zurich Lutheran
Church on Wednesday evening, net-
ted nearly $425. The weather was
unfavorable as a blizzard prevail-
ed during the evening.
Zurich Band held their annual
meeting the other evening and re-
organized for the year. Mr. Geo.
Hess was elected president; H.
Eckmeir, leader, and A. G. Hess,
treasurer.
Mrs. Richard Pollock, of Hen-
sall, left this week to make her
home in the State of Michigan.
Mr. Louis Clark, who lives near
Hensall, has had Delco lights in-
stalled in his dwelling and barn.
A member of the medical staff
of Galt Hospital when attending
the World's Medical Congress in
Cleveland last week, was delight-
ed to find one of. the graduate nurs-
es of the Galt Hospital, Miss Janet
Chesney, holding an important pos-
ition at Cleveland Maternity Hos-
pital. Miss Chesney is a daughter
of Mr. and Mrs, P. M. Chesney,
Tuckersmith,
Music Festival Attracts 300
Three hundred entries will com-
pete in the first South Huron mus-
ic festival which well be held Mon-
day, Tuesday and Wednesday. Cli-
max of the festival will be a con-
cert by contest winners in the pub-
lic school Wednesday night. Music
scholarships and Special merchants
awards will •be presented to the
winners. Competitions will be held
on Monday and Tuesday in the high
school auditorium. On Tuesday af-
ternoon it is expected that 400 chil-
dren will take part in the choral
singing classes. Dr. G. 11. Fen-
wick, supervisor of music for the
Ontario Department of Education,
will be • the adjudicator and the
public is invited to attend the ses-
sions. Three music scholarships
will be donated by the Huron Male
Chorus, one for piano and one for
both the highest boy and girl in
the vocal classes. Special awards
donated by merchants in town will
be awarded to winners in other
classes.—Exeter Times -Advocate.
How To Use Plenty of Inferior
Seed
The prospects are for an abun-
dant livestock feed supply in Can-
ada, although of inferior quality,
following poor weather conditions
at harvest time. The same is true
in the United States where more
hay per hay -eating animal unit will
be available than ever .before. Of
feed concentrates, specialists in
Washington report a supply six to
ten per cent Less per animal than
during the Last three years, but
about that much more than the av-
erage before the War.
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The problem will be to make
the most efficient use of the feed
on hand, whatever the quality,
Sound wheat and coarse grain
make exceleln.t feed. But what of
unsound grains, smutted grains or
rusted roughages? Do they consti-
tute a danger to livestock? What
is their nutritive value?
According to a release issued by
the Experimental Station at Swift
Current, Sask., smutted grains or
rusted roughages are not injurious,
to livestock. Ergoty grain, on the
other hand, is harmful and should
not be fed if the ergot bodies make
up one-tenth of one per cent of
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From The Huron Expositor
November 8, 1901
Mr. Jas. Petrie, Tuckersmith, has
sold the old McGeoch farm, east
of Egmondville, to his neighbor,
Mr. Thos. Gemmell. He purchased
it for $5,700. There are 100 acres
in the farm.
Mr. S. Reid's sale on his farm
on the Mill Road, was a very sat-
isfactory one. A two-year-old filly
was purchased by Robt. McKinley,
McKillop, for $125.50; a 2 -year-old
gelding by Mr. Peter McGregor, of
Brucefield. •
Mr. Chas. Soole, so long in the
employ of the' late firm of Johnson
Bros., Seaforth, has taken a• posi-
tion with S. Mullett & Co.
Mr. Joshua Dennison has sold
his farm on the 14th concession of
McKillop to Mr. Joseph Love for
$5,100.
Mr. Alexander McBeath, the well
known contractor of Stanley, last
week shipped about 120,000 feet of
hardwood lumber to the Massey -
Harris Co., Toronto.
Mr. Jas. G. McMichael, Hullett,
recently purchased a sow which
weighed 760 pounds. It is of the
Yorkshire breed and is three years
old, and was raised by Simon Me -
Kenzie of Tuckersmith.
'15he funeral of the late John Mc-
Millan took .place from his late
residence in Hullett on Saturday
afternoon.
You Are a V. I. P.
• Yes—in your community you are a Very
Important Person ! By your buying, your
building and your borrowing—whether cash
or credit—you become a- very, important
person in your town.
Things you buy for cash or credit today
are the same our forefathers produced or
bartered to obtain. Your dependence on cash
or credit for daily needs requires planned
spending and wise management.
You probably plan your savings—but-do
you plan your spending? To assist you to
save by spending wisely, the booklet entitled
"Money Management, Your Budget" is
available at your nearest branch office or by
writing our Consumer Education Depart-
ment, 80 Richmond Street West, • Toronto,
Ontario.
UM -MO FINANCE
Corpoe'ai NGn oa Canada
the grain.
Sprouted grain is a good feed,
entirely without danger to live-
stock. Its feeding value being low-
er than that of similar unsprouted
grain, it is necessary to increase
the amount fed to obtain good re-
sults.
•Considerable rougibage will be of
Inferior quality. Hay that has been
in the field during a series of rains
totalling two inches or more may
lose up to 25 per cent of its dhy
matter containing ,ss high as60
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WH E rl you consider the men, women and
money needed to operate 3,700 branches —
you see what is involved in looking after
the greatly increased demands made by busy
Canadians upon their chartered banks.
In ten years ... with bigger staffs and
higher wages, payrolls have jumped
from $40 million a year to $102 million
... taxes, federal, provincial and
municipal, have risen from $9.5 million
to $20.7 million a year
.:.interest paid to depositors has increased
from $22 million to $57.8 million a year.
And these are only three of many expense
items. Yes, today more than ever, it costs
money to run a bank.
One of a series
by your bank
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