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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1954-07-16, Page 2apP il'1y rvH+WWE (WARN EXPOSITOR Established 1860 ;ed at Seaforth, Ontario, ev- ilea Thursday rsday afternoon by McLean SIM . Y. McLean, Editor eitsception rates, $2.50 a year in i vane; foreign $3.50 a year. Single copies, 5 Bents each. limber of Canadian Weekly Newspapers Association. Advertising rates on application. PHONE 41 Authorized as Second Class Mail Post Office Department, Ottawa SEAFORTH, Friday, July 16, 1954 SOME RAIN WOULD HELP Lack of rain is becoming increas- ingly serious in many parts of On- tario. Crops, that a few weeks ago promised to be above average, are beginning to show the effects of pro- longed dryness. As far as most of Huron is con- cerned, the picture is not too serious. Hay is above average, both in quan- tity and quality, and grains are rip- ening nicely. Beans and corn need rain, however, and need it soon. The drought, which at the moment appears to be a feature of the weath- er in so much of the district, is not limited to Ontario. New York is in the midst of a historic drought. fall since the first of the year s at a record low; precipitation is about one-third below normal. 4-H CLUBS AND RURAL YOUTH The place which the 4-H Club Movement has in the community and the extent to which it contributes to iinany aspects of the life of the com- munity and its citizens, is emphasiz- ed in a recent letter produced by the Royal Bank, in which is discussed rural youth and the future. In areas such as Huron, where there is general knowledge of and association with the work of 4-H Clubs, it may not be necessary to recall the fundamentals of the organ- ization. At the same time, it can do no harm to remind ourselves of the effect the program has on the think- ing, not only of those who are mem- bers, but also on those with whom they are in contact. The story of 4-H is a big one,- It is an answer to the need of rural boys and girls for encouragement and help in attaining better life satisfaction, and developing richer personalities. These 4-H Clubs put into the hands of youth tools whereby to make time and effort more productive of happi- ness. They try to help rural people to solve their problems, to strength- en family solidarity, and to build in- terest in the responsibilities of citi- zenship. • The 4 -Hs stand for Head, Heart, ,Hands and Health. The objectives are to train the head to think, to plan and to restore; the heart to be kind, true and sympathetic; the hands to be useful, helpful and skilful; and to promote health in order to resist dis- ease, to enjoy life and to make for efficiency. There is no yardstick by which to measure the contributions made by 4-H to Canadian rural life, but many evidences of achievement might be a cited. High school teachers say that boys and girls hhcome better students after they -have taken up 4-H work; :directors of agricultural societies re- port that 4-H has revived the local fair and in many places has returned it to the farmer; there are thousands of instances where 4-H has helped to discover talent and keep on the farm boys and girls whose interest naturally lies there: in addition to the practical service given by 4-H to young people, to the *immunity and to the nation, there Is a further value of great impor- tance incorporated in the principles and ideals. The "we" feeling, so greatly need - :d in today's world, and necessary to onplete one's personality, is largely The consequence of membership in oua groups and institutions. It state of ,participating in, union O. a Sharing of, and adjustment he Conon life of one's environ., Ic ;34'FL8r77 i0 viiifU cfey y THE HURON EXPOSITOR JULY 16, 194 Along with this broadened person- ality feeling, 4-H Club work widens a youth's horizons and builds his self-confidence. He learns to work with others, but not to lean on them. He develops self-control both in rela- tion to his work and to other people with whom he is in competition. He educates himself to give proper con- sideration and weight to the three factors most intensely involved in secular life: persons, actions and ob- jectives. BOATING SENSE This is the season of the year when old and young seek the rest and re- laxation which the lake or the river provide. And many refuse to think their holiday complete unless they have a boat ride. That boating, properly controlled, and with proper equipment, is a fine sport cannot be denied, but we are reminded by the Brockville Record- er and Times of what happens when control and common sense are lack- ing. In the London area six persons, including a baby and a young child, narrowly escaped drowning when their outboard motorboat capsized, and this more by good luck than by good management, the Recorder and Times says. The boat in which the near -tragedy took place was described as "a small home-made craft" carrying a 25 - horsepower motor. And here we have a classic example of the combination of factors design- ed to produce tragedy on the water —an undersized boat, overloaded and vastly overpowered. It is doubtful if anyone could purposely contrive a more hazardous conveyance for the use of six persons on the water. The amateur boat builder who is qualified to build a boat which can safely and properly accommodate a 25 -horsepower motor is the rare ex- ception, the article continues. Aside from racing motors, a 25 -horsepower motor is one of the most powerful standard outboard motors made, and the construction of boats suitable for such motors should be left to men who are professional boat builders. Few people would even dream of building a car body and chassis them- selves with the purpose of installing in it a powerful car motor bought and selected separately. Yet all too often people, who know little about water craft, buy an ex- pensive and powerful motor and try to accommodate it to a boat bought or built "on the cheap". Persons do- ing this may save a few dollars, but they do so at the risk of their lives and the lives of their families. "Every summer weekend produces its quota of tragedies or near trage- dies resulting primarily from dan- gerous combinations of boats and motors," the Recorder and Times concludes. And we might add to the combination a third element that makes trouble, and that is the smart alex who sometimes operates the boat. What Other Papers Say: Value of Trees (Wall Street Journal) We 'know all about shade trees. But we didn't know that they are as valuable as a recent - article in Bar- ron's reported. Americans spend $250 million annually with some 2,000 firms engaged in trimming, spraying, repairing, removing and pruning trees, and much of this work has to do with shade trees. But the tree surgeons think that people don't fully realize the value of the backyard oak, so they have de- vised a formula: a tree .with a six- inch diameter is worth $56; one 12 inches across, $226, and one four feet, $3,620. Thus Greenwich, Con- necticut, for example, has 60,000 trees worth $12 million. Some may differ with this rather arbitrary valuation, for nobody is going to pay that much for your tree in case you're thinking of selling it. The idea is that trees improve prop- erty, and that it would cost that much to put them in if they weren't already there. • SEEN IN THE *COUNTY PAPERS Passes With Honors Miss Lois Grasby has received word that she has successfully passed the A.R.C.T. piano teachers' written examination with honors.— Brussels Post. Service At - Cemetery The annual decoration day ser- vice was held in. Brandon cemetery on Sunday evening. Rev. Charles D. Cox conducted the service, and Rev. W. E. Bramwell gave the ad- dress. Mrs, C. D. Cox sang a solo, accompanied by the organist, Mrs. George Michie.—Brussels Post. Slaughter ,Heifer in Field An 800,pound heifer was slaught- ered in a field in Stephen Town- ship last week, O.P.P. Constable Elmer Zimmerman reported. All that remained of the beast was his head, hide and innards. It was estimated the kill was made about Friday, July 2. A discovery of the remains was made until several days after. — Exeter Times -Advo- cate. Students Do Excellent Work Mr. and Mrs. Fred Dipple, town, have received word that their son, Ralph, studying for the Lutheran ministry, has passed his first year at Concordia Seminary, St, Louis, Mo., with grade 'A' standing in all subjects. His sister, Anna Dipple, who has completed her first year at Waterloo College, was one of the 112 undergraduates (first, sec- ond and third -year students) affili- ated with the University of West- ern Ontario, who received 'A' aver- age standing throughout the past year.—Mitchell Advocate. Attended Convention Rev. and Mrs. Glenn Beach and children, Rhea and Robert, accom- panied by Russell Cook, Donald Talbot, Joy Montgomery and Sam Bolton, spent a week in Anderson, Indiana, attending the Internation- al Convention of the Church of God. The last Sunday there were between 25,000 and 30,000 present at the service. During the past week Rev. and Mrs. Beach and chil- dren, Robert, Lavonne and Ruth, attended the Provincial Camp of the Church of God, held in West London. A number of others from the local congregation drove in to spend the day of to stay for a few days.—Blyth Standard. Cars Total Wreck in Collision Fergus McKay, Clinton, late Fri- day night was charged with drunk driving as the result of a two -car collision which occurred two miles north of Clinton on Highway 4, in which F. D. Taylor, Toronto, was injured and sent to hospital with a broken knee cap. According to Provincial Constable John Parkin- son, of the Goderich detachment of the Ontario Provincial Police, both McKay's and Taylor's cars were completely wrecked. McKay was later released on bail by police af- ter he was charged.—Clinton News - Record. Church Celebrates 100 Years Parish members and visiting clergy celebrated -the centennial of St. Peter's Church at St. Joseph's, Blue Water Highway, over the weekend. Centenary Mass was cele- brated by the moat Rev. John C. Cody, Bishop of London, who was assisted by the Rev. J. J. McCor- mick. (Bishop Cody was the princi- pal speaker at -the centenary ban- quet. He addressed the gathering in English and French. Fred 'Duch- arme, a direct descendant of one of the early families, gave an out - eine of the parish's history. The celebrations were concluded Sun- day with several Masses, fireworks and a dance in the evening.—Clin- ton News -Record. Leaving Zurich Notice has been received by Mr. Peter Cundy, of the Bank of Mont- real staff, of his transfer to the bank's branch at Alvinston, which the people of Zurich and vicinity regret very much to learn, as Mr. Cundy was intensely interested in sports, being not alone a good man- ager and executive, but he was also an excellent player in baseball and hockey, always clean and fair, and liked to see the best team win. We will indeed miss the, Cundy very much in Zurich, but are happy to see them progress upwards in their daily occupation in life. We wish them much success. Mr. Grant Male is taking the place of Mr. Cundy in the bank.—Zurich Herald. Presentation Given Mrs. Daer Friday night neighbors and friends numbering about 60, gath- ered at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Bert Daer and presented Mrs. Sam Daer with parting gifts in view of the fact that she has moved to Au- burn, Mr. and ,Mrs. Daer had re- sided on the farm for the past 48 years. Mr. Daer passed away last October 3. The evening was enjoy- ably spent playing games. Mrs. Myrtle Youngblut read an address and the gifts, a table lamp and bedroom lamp, were presented by Mrs. Sid McClinchey and Mrs. Wil- fred Plunkett, Following is a copy of the address: Dear Mrs. Daer: We, your friends and.neighbors, are here tonight, not to say farewell, for you, we are glad to say, will still be one of us. However, we do want you to know that weevill miss you from our immediate neighbor- hood. Your kindness and willing- ness to (help at all times has been greatly appreciated by us. We now ask you to accept this gift with our good wishes for happiness in your new home, and May God's richest blessing be with you al- ways: On behalf of your friends and neighbors. Mrs. Daer thanked all those assembled and invited them to see her at her new home, the former Anderson residence, at Auburn.—Blyth Standard. CROSSROADS (By James Scott) PEELING BACK THE PAST It was in Mr. Forget's raspberry 'fred Jury, the Curator of the Uni patch, about half way up a hill on the shores of one of the inlets of Georgian Bay. The expert held his hand to his eyes and looked it ov- er. "I think," he said, "we might start about there." Some twenty - odd eager etcavators: well armed with shovels and trowels, asked no questions but 'set to work with a will. Anybody who didn't know any better would have said that this crew of diggers was just about the slowest and the laziest he had 'ever seen in his life. When these people started to .dig they did not drive the shovel down to the haft with one good thrust of the foot. They handled the top soil as if they were looking for gold nugget -s. 'alley gingerly peeled off the layer of grass for an area of about ten square feet, and then they dropped their shovels and squatted down and started to work with their trowels. Slowly, and with great care, they sifted every grain of the sandy soil through their fingers, peering at it intent- ly. About half a day later, one of the diggers called out, "Take a look at this!" Everybody crowded around; the leader, a stocky, middleaged chap, called Wilf Jury, elbowed his way through the crowd and took a quick glance at the bared patch of earth. "That's it!" he said. "See if you can find another about two feet in either direction from this. Atnd try over there about twelve feet from here." With renewed enthusiasm every- body got to work again and in no time at all, groups were calling to Jury from all parts of the field. A girl, with a map drawn to legate, started making marks at various places on her sketch. Another crew, with black and white banded stakes, began driving them into the ground. In less than two days, either on the map or by the stakes, you could see the outline of what had once been the Long House of a Huron Indian encampment. It Canada has been for years, and began to take on life and mean- should continue to be, a producer ing. It was no longer Mr. Forget's of surplus livestock products. Home berry patch, but the site of an In- consumption is steadily increasing dean village. Here it was not hard due to general prosperity and to imagine the Indian women with growing population, but our econ- their mortars and pestles of wood, omy requires that we continue to grinding the corn into meal. You produce a surplus of beef and pork, could see the braves coming In states H. J. Maybee, Marketing from the hunt with, perhaps, the Service, Canada Department of carcass of a beaver or a fox. You Agriculture, Ottawa. could catch in your anind's eye the Over a period of years about 20 old men of the village propped per cent of the livestock and meat with their backs to the Long House, products produced in Canada have placidly smoking their pipes, and been exported. In 1958 the export - you could almost smell the aroma ed about 22,000 beef cattle and the of frying itsh , as the squaws made equivalent of 68,000 more as beef, the evening meal. and, 40,000 decry cattle or about 10 You think .this is all a wild piece per bent of the total markotings. of daydreaming? Live hog ex -ports Were nearly 20. Let me telt you, my friends, that when a hard-headed man like Wil- versify- of Western Ontario's Indian Museum, is on a "dig", nothing is left to the imagination. The Long House was • exactly where he said it was, because I saw with my own eyes the outlines of the post moulds which these careful diggers dug up. I examin- ed the things they brought back in their paper bags, which were fl'ed with bits and pieces they had cull- ed from the soil as they let it run through their fingers, .I saw them take out the skull of a fox from the dump. I saw them Iift out, a charred little cob of corn from a pit of ashes where there once had been the community fire. I saw the fish scales (which last a long time and do not rot), which were found around this fire which had blazed away perhaps as long ago as five hundred years! And I saw the broken pieces of clay pottery and the stems and bowls of primi- tive pipes which had been pulled out of the ground. It is almost impossible to believe how a few men and women, know- ing what they are doing, could take a shovel and a trowel and lay bare a page of history long buried in the sands of Georgian Bay. But it was done. Experienced archaeologists can do it all the time, and until you have seen it for yourself and handle the things which no man has touched since the Indians hundreds of years ago, you will never fully realize that all this is not a history book tale, but a flesh and blood drama, involving men and women, wtho.laughed and cried, and got hungry, and rested in the sun, even as you and L Some call it history; some call it archaeology, but I'd rather call it just plain living. Marketing and Merchandising Meat (Oontinned on Page 6) Years Agone interesting Items Picked From Tho Huron Expositor of Twon- tyllivs and Fifty Years, Ago From The Huron Expositor July 19, 1929 Mr. and Mrs. Herman Foster have taken up their residence in Mr. Pulleybank's house in Winchel- sea. Mrs. Lorne Eller had her tonsils removed on Monday by Doctors O'Dwyer and MacKinnon, of Zur- ich. Mr. Jim Dalrymple, Moose Jaw, is spending a few days at the home of his sister, Mrs. J. McLean. Mr. and Mrs. Peter Eckert, their daughter, Sister Stephen Mary, and Rev. J. M. Eckert, have returned from Chatham, where they called on friends over the weekend. Mr. J. B. Mustard and Mr. Jas. Swan and his daughter, Mamie, of Brucefield, have gone on a trip to Vancouver. "Keeper of the Trees" " (By MRS. M. C. DOIG) (Continued. from last week) "Cosier!" thought Colin with sat- isfaction. No butler breathing deference down the back of his neck and filling his glass with sherry when he would rather have good old water. He did not con- sider himself lacking in courage, either moral or physical, but Colin had never been able to say to that bland faced autonlaton, "I don't want that stuff; bring me, a glass of water. WATER!" Marion would have been humiliated in front of her friends, and he would not have intentionally hurt Marion's feelings for anything. It was just that she had lived for .such a long time in an atmosphere of butlers and maids and wines in the cellar andon the sideboard, and not having butter for dinner if that wasn't crazy, he would like to know what was! ) that she had really forgotten how many steps ninety-nine per cent of the women of the world had to Mrs. William Berry is taking a , take before the simplest meal was trip to Winnipeg and Saskatoon and other points. Mr. Charles Ratlhwell and Mr. Will Dowson left last week by motor for Manitoba. Mr. Russel Taylor and bride have returned to their home in Indian- apolis, having spent the past week with the former's parents. An important business change took place on Tuesday, when Mr. O. A. Elliott, Ford dealer, Exeter, purchased the garage business con- ducted by Mr. Fred Fairbairn, since spring. Mr. Elliott has also leased the premises from Mr; A. G. Edighoffer and has put Mr. E. E. Wuerth in charge. He is also se- curing the services of an effcient mechanic. Miss Ida Brill, who recently sold her property to Miss H. Sreenan, has moved into a portion of the house occupied by Mrs. E. Truem- ner. Mrs. Crawford, Misses Mary and Dorothy and Jim, of Toronto, spent the weekend with Mr. and Mrs. Hugh Flynn, Dublin. - T. Beattie, C. Neely, J, Cardno, J. Wright, F. Kling, R. Allen, H. McLeod, K. Pinkney, L. Pinkney, A. Calder and E. Gillespie returned fast Saturday from military camp at Carling Heights, London. The many' friends of Master Bill Moult will be pleasedto learn that he is the winner of the gold medal for the Owen Sound Public School, having taken the highest marks on the recent entrance examinations. Bill is 13 years old, and was a pupil of Seaforth Public School for two years, previous to moving to Owen Sound three years" ago. The Misses Helanda Ewald and Helen Kellar, of Detroit, are spend- ing a few weeks with the former's relatives in this vicinity. ready for serving. He had the same feeling about smoking. Why should he feel apologetic because he didn't smoke! Why should he smoke just because everyone else in the room was smoking? They didn't refrain from smoking just to make HIM feel at home! All the concessions bad to be on his part. He didn't make himself disagreeable trying to get Marion's and Bob's friends to re- frain from smoking. They could smoke twenty pack' a day for all he cared, But if he dared to sit for five minutes without something clamped between his teeth they were sure he was having a slow time. IV "Nets, my boy," said Colin, "they say the real test of character comes when there is nothing to do. Somehow I never planned for an evening when I didn't feel sleepy. Did you? Last night we had the Armstrongs; tonight we have only ourselves." "I'd like to read about Kim again," saids Nels, plunging a hand into his haversack and bringing out the tattered book, "I'd like to read about the time he carried the pedigree of the white stallion to Umballa, I'd never be as smart as Nels sighed. "Not in a mil- lion years." "Perhaps you would' be if you had been brought up in the streets of a great Atlantic city, We'll read about the white stallion's pedigree first and then for your old grandad's edification we will read the Iast chapter where Teshoo Lama found this River of the Ar- row. You lament that you are not as smart as Kim, so I'll lament that I am not as good as the Lama." • Colin hunted through the book until he came to the chapter where Kim received the white stailion's pedigree from Mahbub Ali; they thrilled anew as the Delhi ,man searched Mahbub's belongings, and Y drew a breath of relief as KIM and the Lama started out in the early - I dawn for Benares. is From The Huron Expositor July 15, 1904 Peter McNeil, of Clinton, had a narrow escape one day recentl from a serious injury. As it was a scar Will likely remain. but the epi sode will evidently put him on hi guard in the future. He was exam ening a cow's hoof at a farmers and had the animal, as he thought secure by a rope, but the begs could move and move freely, espec Tally with her hind foot, and Pete caught the force of a backender across his nose, making a deep cut and narrowly escaping injury to his eye. W. H. Green has sold his coal and wood business in Wingham to J. A. McLean. Mr, John Pedlar recently sold his farm at Sharon, in the Town- ship of Stephen, to Tobias Fahner, for the sum of $7,000. The farm is a good one, as the price indicates. Miss Ella Patterson, who has been leader of the Auburn Choral Society- for some time, was recently presented with $37.50 in gold by the members of the society. While taking a .32 'calibre rifle from another boy the other day, George Dennison, of Clinton, was shot in the foot. The trigger of the rifle caught in the sleeve of the other boy and the gun was dis- charged. The wound is not serious. A. painful accident happened to the infant son of Dr. McCallum, of Clinton, Sunday afternoon. While its nurse was carrying it about the yard she tripped on a croquet hoop and fell, with the child beneath her. A severe fracture of one of its legs was the result. Frank Tuffin, Staffa, met with a painful accident last week. While assisting George Oliver to saw wood, this hand got caught in the saw, which severed the middle fin- ger and split the thumb. The frame work on the large frame barn on the farm of Mr. Charlie Case was raised on Thurs- day afternoon of last week, and when finished will be one of the finest barns in the community. Mr. R. Cummings has disposed of his house and lot in Walton to Mr. David McLaughlin. W. G. Paton has sold his ma- chine business in Wingham to Jno. McDonald, of Goderich, a former Winghamite. A Smile or Two Officer (to man pacing the sidewalk at 2 o'clock In the morn- ing): orn-ing): "What are you doing here?" Man: "I forgot my key, officer, and I'm waiting for my children to come home and let me in." • Visiting Minister: "Alt, my dear unfortunate friend, this world is full of trials." Hardiboiled Harry: "It ain't the trials that worry me, sir, it's tea verdicts." • Lawyer: "But you can't 'marry againt 'Your husband's will said; that in that ease the estate 'goes to his youngest ;brother." Viddow: "Yes; Went the broth-. er I'm. marrying;" They had thrown open the fur- nace doors and Colin was reading by the flickering light of the fire. Nels was not given to character analysis as depicted in faces, but he liked to look at his grandfather as he read; the firelight flickering on his glasses, the high forehead with the hair receding well back from the temples, Unlike Kim's Lama, Colin had surprisingly few wrinkles, and Nels thought loyally. "I'll bet he's just as good as Teshoo Lama." At the end of the chapter Colin held out the book." "That light is a little hard on old eyes, Nels. Perhaps you will read me the last one where he found his River." The last chapter had always been a little over Nels' head. He thought that if it had depicted Kim handing over the papers of the spies in triumph to Creighton Sahib it would have been a more suitable ending. But if Colin wanted to hear about the Lama and the Great Soul, that was all right with him. As Nels moved more closely to the furnace doors «so the light would fall upon his book, Colin moved back into the shadows. As the old boy read, Colin could al- most have imagined that he, too, like the old Lama, had passed be- yond the illusion of Time, and Spase, and Things. Perhaps those fellows down in that, college some- where, those psychiatrists experi- menting on the REACH OF THE MIND with their cards and blocks, were simply following the same path as the old Lama, only in mode ern fashion. The Lama travelled in the palanquin age and the psychiatrists were jet-propelled. But their destination was about the same. And Colin would put his money on the Lama if he had to make a choice. Perhaps all that research into the human mind and its trans- cending 'possibilities shade the re- searchers kinder, but Colin doubt- ed it. Jung and Freud were lead- ers in that field and it was ques- tionable whether the German peo- ple had been uplifted by it. Prob, ably no German Jew would have thought so, It Iooked to Colin as if the only way Time and Things would ever be transcended was by individual effort. Mass uplift was out. The voice of Nels came more slowly as he neared the end of the chaptel: "And I meditated a thousand, thousand years, passion- less, well aware of the Causes of Things. Then a voice cried: 'What shall come of the boy if thou art dead?' and I was shaken back and forth in myself with pity for thee; and I said: 'I will return to my Chola lest he miss the Way.' Up- on this my soul, which le the soul of Teshoo Lama"—,but We was too much for Nels. His eyes el his head dropped almost to his knees, and the book slipped from hie hand. For the time being, Col- in and Nets had reversed the peel- time of Kim and Lama. It wes Colla who axed Nele up for the night. The storm outside was savage. The wind blew against the steel smoke stack until once or twice Colin thought the guy wires would give way and send the chimney hurtling to the ground. He could hear the great maples near the shanty straining and groanfng as the wind pressed against them. Once he looked out Just as the moon broke through a mass of rate. ing rain clouds, and he had to smile to himself at Marion's and Janet's thoughts if they had known that he, was spending such a night in s 'syrup shanty in the heart of is bush. "Dad, you'll simply have to come and live with us. The things yoY do are too utterly fantastic!!" What people did not know could not worry them. And he would cer- tainly never attain to much knowl- edge of the Causes of Things in that apartment of Marion's. He stood a better chance in Sigmund's Iittle store in Brig End Mills. If this kept up, the river would be swollen to twice its size by morning, but that did not matter, so much as the fact that all the driftwood would .be soaking wet. If they wanted a warm dinner to- morrow they would have to strike a farm house at the noon hour. And a farm house at mealtime meant chores. 3 -le was euro that Nele, thought he had done enough'. chores now to last the week. They were both stiff and sore from bend- t- ing ing over and washing buckets. What if the farmer they met up. with introduced them to a box stalk that had housed six yearlings all,_ winter. Colin sighed and looked in his - billfold. He would wait. and see- what eewhat the day brought forth. No - use letting oneself 'be so tied down by self-imposed rules and regular tions that all the joy was takes-. out of life. '1'he trucks were roaring into the'. field beside the bush before Nel, and Colin had finished breakfast. Mrs. Allen was there too, with her team and her faded coveralls and her battered hat, but with such sure hand on the reins that she vrad.. a pleasure to watch, "My word!" marvelled Colin, al' ter watching her halt the team within an inch of where she want, ed them to go. "If you had mar- ried a jockey, Mrs. .Allen, theses boys of yours would all have been race horses!'' . Nels was fascinated as he watch -- ed the horses tighten slowly into' their collars and dig in their hoover. - as the big logs went rolling up the' • skids to go plop into the truck; the chains flew and the skid', bounced. "Did you ever pull one right ov— er?" Colin asked Mrs. Allen, as she, swung the team around. "Not lately," was the answer, witch an expressive grimace, "But E' have done it when I was younger - and greener. It makes you careful. It can easily happen with a team that is young and keen, and if the - driver is young and keen too, • v: a-1.1-" She was interrupted by a surpris- ed excalamation from one of the. truckers. "lei there, young Nels' What, areyou doing out here at this time - of day? I was in the store only yesterday and your mother told mete that you were visiting your grand- father over on the tenth conces- sion." 'So I am with my grandfather,' said, Nels. "Only we arent' on the tenth concession. D'you truckers think you are the only guys whoa should move around?" "Certainly not. I was surprised, that's all, Your mother seemed so - positive that she knew exactly where you were, and—well, here' you are!" "Yes, and don't you go blabbing at home that you saw us or P12 let the air out of your tires some night when you aren't expecting it, Mr. Bill Sayres. Tattletales always get themselves a pack of trouble!" "Who's a tattletale?" demanded Sayres in an. injured tone of voice: "Who said I was going to tell that. I saw you miles from home when you're supposed to be somewhere else? 1 don't care if I'd seen you on top of a church steeple. I don't care if I'd seen you in jail. I don't cure if I'd seen you in—why, you young whipper -snapper, for two. pins I'd—" "Okay! Okay! Don't get sore. Grandad and I have taken a little trip for a few days, and if Mother knew about it she'd be running af- ter us with our rubbers and extra socks and an umbrella, I'll bet." "Consider yourselves forgotten," declared Sayres •emphatically. He was.e choleric man and was begin- ning to get thoroughly aroused. "You two dim bulbs can travell• from here to Timbuctoo for all I care. As • far as I'm concerned, you don't exist; you never did ex- ist, and you never will exist. Satis- fled?" Come on, Bill," snapped Carrie Allen, whose patience's was ex- hausted. aha.usted. "Snap out of`it and grab bhat chain or you won't exist in a minute, Think I'm going to waif. -erg all day?" v "Sigmund, I'm worried." "Worried? What about?" 'I've tried half a dozen times to get Dad or Nets on the telephone and .I can't get any answer. I can hear the ring going in, so there isn't' anything wrong with their' telephone. They just don't answer. I'm going to telephone that neigh- bor of his, Jake Hallett, and see if he knows' anything about them." "They probably won't 'thank you for your solicitude. There are two kinds of persona' who bate 'being fuss over, — the old and. the Young. They both think you are trying to make them feel their age and they resent it." 4 "I don't care. I'm going to rand o'at,wbat's going on over there." Ten minutes later Janet was back in the store, her face flushed, her whole person seething with 'nag' nation, (Continued Next Wetmk), ,t. a 4 O J • 4 r •