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SEAFORTH, Friday, April 15, 1955
Canada's Budget
There will be general agreement
with the manner in which the new
Minister of Finance, Mr. Walter E.
Harris, dealt with Canada's financial
and economic problems in his first
budget which he brought down last
week- ti
While for the first time since the
war the budget records a deficit, this
was early foreseen. As a matter of
fact, the possibility was suggeated in
the budget of 1954, when it was indi-
cated that the small surplus for
which the budget provided, was pre-
dicated on a continued increase in
the gross natural product. When
loss of much of the Western wheat
crop produced a lowered total pro-
ductivity, a deficit resulted.
The budget provided for a lowered
income tax and this reflected the
continuing economy that has been
practised by the government in its
overall operations. The reduction in
-tax, while relatively small, does re-
sult in an increase in take-home pay,
and thus produces more purchasing
power -
In one instance, the tariff was rais-
ed—for the first time in a number of
Wears. But this was by no means an
admission that increases in duties
would provide the means of improv-
ing the industrial economy. The in-
crease is the imposition of a 71/, per
ont duty on polyethylene resins, now
being produced by Canada's rapidly
growing plastics industry,
The difficulties with which some
industries are faced can not be elim-
inated by protection, it was indicat-
ed, when pleas of the textile people,
particularly, for higher tariffs, were
turned down_ Mr. Barris feels that
the problems of this industry are too
complex to be solved by a simple tar-
iff increase. He warns secondary in-
dustries in general that loss of
ground in export and domestic: mar-
°' kets to competitors cannot be ' cor-
rected by Government action, but
must depend on "resourceful efforts
by management and labor to meet
that competition by reduction in real
costs and improvement of quality
and efficiency."
While in only one instance was a
tariff raised. a wide range of articles
will now have less protection or none
at all. Of particular - interest to
Farmers is the removal of the tariff
on a number of poultry' products.
The removal, too, of taxes on tires
will be of genera' assistance, as also
does the reduction in automobile
taxes.
As has been indicated in several
press reviews, it is not a spectacular
budget. But at the same time it is
a realistic budget that recognizes the
future that is that of Canada, and
which goes a ut, in a workmanlike
way, to mak possible Canada's for-
ward march.
Canada in 25 Years
What is, the Canada of 1980 to be
like? To what extent will action tak-
en now, or in the iltl nediate future,
affect the actual situation as it will
be twenty-five years from now?
These 'and other economic ques-
tions of concern to every Caladian
should be answered by the Royal
Commission on Canada's economic
prospects. It was indicated by Mr.
iris, in his recent budget speech,
that it was the intention of the Gov-
ernment to establish stleh a commis-
sion.
Some of the matters with which
Commission will deal are sug-
by the Toronto Star, when it
+Ome of the major ,.problems
or and business, today
trial roe•.
about this condition which produces
severe seasonal unemployment. No
one can change the climate. But are
there economic measures that could
be taken to reduce or eliminate these
wasteful seasonal fluctuations? That
is one avenue the commission will
doubtless explore.
Then there is the prospect that in
25 years Canada will have around
235,000,000 American customers on
its southern doorstep instead of 160,-
000,000 as at present. This will cre-
ate a terrific demand on Canada's
natural resources. The United States
will want a great deal more news-
print, copper, nickel and other com-
modities from Canada. In view of
this, should plans be made to supply
the U.S. market with goods in more
highly manufactured form than at
present? No doubt the commission
will "thoughtfully speculate" (Mr.
Harris' words) on the implication of
this development.
When it comes to exports, the
probable trend of events and mar-
kets in Europe and Mia will have to
be considered_ Is Canada to be shut
out of the Asiatic market by the
spread of communism in that area?,
What's likely to happen in Europe
that will affect the sale of Canadian
goods on the continent and in Gi at
Britain? If these things and their
• probable effect on exports can be
figured out in advance, the -govern-
ment will know better duhatf(o do
about them.
Then there is the probability that
the Dominion's own population will
reach 25,000,000 or 30,000,000 within
the next three decades. How will
the additional people be, spread re-
gionally? Will there be only bigger
Torontos and Hamiltons, or can the
extra population be spread out more
evenly, not only among. the various
provinces, but in the industrial east
as well? In 1980 how many Cana-
dians will be teen-agers, how many
producers and how many older citi-
zens in complete retirement? These,
and many other pertinent matters
affecting Canada's progress the com-
mission will endeavor to find out.
WHAT OTHER PAPERS SAY:
THE HURON EXPOSITOR
SEEN IN THE COUNTY PAPERS
New Sank Teller Arrives
Mr. Jack Huck, from Walker-
ton, is the newly appointed teller
at the Zurich branch of the Bank
of Montreal, and we welcome him
to the village and community. Mr.
Huck replaces Mr. Melvin Barclay
who has been on the Zurich staff
for some time and has left for
West Lorne, where he will be a
member of that bank staff.—Zur-
ich Herald.
Teachers Hired By Board
Three new teachers have been
hired by the Exeter Public School
Board for the coming term. They
are Gar Baker, Seaforth, who was
goaltender for Exeter Mohawks
this winter; Mrs. Clifford Jory, of
R.R. 1, Kirkton, and Miss yelma
Ballagh, of Teeswater. They will
replace Miss Helen Anthony, Mrs.
Howard Pym and Mrs. William
Mickle, who, have resigned from
the staff. At its meeting Monday
night the board decided to consult
a landscape specialist on the im-
provement of the school grounds.
—Exeter Times -Advocate.
Spring is Here To Stay
What a change the weatherman
can do in less than a week's ' time!
During the last weekend in March
we saw one of the worst blizzards
—snow and cold—witnessed for
some years, and today the spring
season has really set in, not too
warm, but quite seasonable. .Far-
mers are very busy getting in
their spring seeding, and they say
the land works up lovely, and
, with the mechanical equipment it
don't take long, and some of the
more aggressive farmers will
have their seeding' all in. Owing
to the wet fall we experienced,
there will be a lot of extra work,
such as plowing, as last fall it was
out of the question to get into the
fields. Here's hoping for a boun-
teous harvest with good weather
to harvest the same.—Zurich Her-
ald.
In, Hospital After Two Crashes
An Ambiguous. Title For Debate
(Meaford -Express)
Sullivan Township Farm Forum
debated: "Resolved that informed
farmers are more necessary to a pub-
lic relations program than advertis-
ing."
we do not know what the
members of the Forum were debat-
ing about_
Informed farmers are necessary.
Advertising is necessary. Public re-
lations, one place where the farming
community falls down badly, is nec-
essary.
But how debaters can see where
there is a choice between informed
farmer's and advertising to better
public relations is a little beyond us.
If farmers have something worth-
while to contribute they must adver-
tise to convince their intended mar-
ket of their wares. They must be
well informed to be able to do this.
Subject of the debate would indi-
cate that one of the reasons farmers
have such a poor public relations
setup is because they do not know
what it is.
Pedestrians First; Cyclists Second
(St. Marys Journal -Argus)
In this town we have a by-law
which prohibits the riding of bicycles
on the sidewalks. In the past sev-
eral decades this by-law has been
generally overlooked since most
bicycle riders are young boys and
girls and it is seemingly safer for
them to be riding on the sidewalks
than on the roadways. Most of the
time the overlooking of this law has
not meant very much, but we some-
times wonder if the young bicycle
riders should not be reminded at
times concerning the rights of pedes-
trians. The other day we heard a
young cyclist calling out to a pedes-
trian to "get out of the way." In
other words, this young lad felt com-
pletely secure in the belief that it
was his first privilege to use the side-
walks and he, not the pedestrian,
was in the right.
Perhaps the by-law could be put to
use if it were amended to allow
' bicycles to use the sidewalks if they
were dear of pedestrians. One cer-
tainlynot allowed to cycle frees
on e . sidewalks in metropolitan
centres nd there..is no reason Why
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Grit
lion parts of water, which is con-
sidered the ideal percentage to
help revent dental decay. This per-
centage places the supply of wa-
der pumped by the Clinton P.U.C.
for use in town and on R.C.A.F.
Station, Clinton, on a par with that
of
ter
whe
into
since
tratford, where condition is
ed ideal, and with Brantford,
o fluorine has eben introduced
he water in proper amounts
1948. Presence in drinking
er 'of fluorine to the amount of
one part per million parts of -wa-
ter, has been found distinctly bene-
ficial to youngsters during the first
ten years of life. Councillor Dr.
H. A. McIntyre, Clinton dentist,
stakes that it is very important
that babies receive the fluoridat-
ed water right from the start, and
that it is beneficial that mothers
drink fluoridated water during the
year before their baby is born. --
Clinton News -Record.
A wild ride along No. 8 Highway
climaxing at Holmesville sent a
Toronto man to Alexandra Marine
and General Hospital on Monday
afternoon after his car ended up
against a tree. Constable Robert
Sims, of the Ontario Provincial
Police Goderich detachment, said
that charges are pending against
Harry Rose, 61, of, Toronto. Ac-
cording to police, Rose collided
with a road grader near Seaforth
early in the afternoon. A short
while later, while Provincial Con-
stable Snell was sounding an
alarm to stop the Rose car, Chief
Constable Joe Ferrand at Clinton
saw the vehicle almost hit two
women at the' traffic lights in
Clinton- Then, police had a re-
port that the Rose car had at-
tempted to pass another grader
near Holmesville and became
wrapped around a tree. Rose was
unconscious when taken by Stiles
ambulance to hospital, where he
was treated by Dr. N. C. Jackson
for head and shoulder injuries.--
Goderich
njuries.=
Goderich Signal -Star.
Clinton Wells Test Ideal
There is no need for Clinton resi-
dents to worry about lack of fluor-
ine in their drinking water. The
three wells in town all test 1.2, 1.1
and 1.4 parts of fluorine per mil -
About Bayfield Fishermen
The fishermeir: are trying to esti-
mate their losses. Ed. Siddel, who
had 90 nets out during the storm,
recovered 30. He estimates that
he will have a 60 per cent loss. He
hopes to recover more nets and
salvarge corks and leads but the
nets are in a hopeless condition.
John MacLeod found one buoy to
which only one net and the anchor
were attached. Ed. and Byrd Stur-
geon, setting from the "Maymac",
have 43 nets out in the lake — all
their winter's work gone. T. and
T. Castle recovered ten of their
nets but still have about 70 out.
)L. L MacMillen got his 45 nets
hut they are worthless except for
the corks and leads- In the storm
they got mixed up with 51 new
nets set by Hank Green, Grand
Bend. They are wound together
tightly like a rope. The fishermen
suffer not only the cost of their
nets but the lack of equipment.
Ev,•en if some of the nets which
they hope to salvage can be used
again, they are out of production
for this season. Nets average. in
cost about $25.00 each. — Clinton
News -Record -
Little Girl Injurtd
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YEARS AGONE
Interesting litems picked
from The Huron Expositor of
25 and 50 Years Ago.
From The Huron Expositor
April 18, 1930
Mr. and Mrs.'J. Schumner, of
Detroit, were weekend visitors at
the home of Mr. and Mrs. J. Mc-
Grath, Dublin.
Mr. R. Beneteau, of Listowel,
has purchased the Dominion Ho-
tel,. Dublin, which has been closed
since October, and in a short time
expects to be open to the public.
Mrs. Cronin, of Dublin, spent a
few days with friends in Toronto.
Mr. and Mrs. George Cla' ke,
Mr. Bill Clarke and Mr. E i est
Epps, of Varna, spent Sunday with
Mr. and Mrs. Melvin E. C arke,
Winthrop.
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Ho and
son, Kenneth, and Mr. a Mrs.
Weber, of Goderich, spen Sunday
with Mr: and Mrs. J s :eph Dol -
mage, Winthrop.
Mr. and Mrs. Da id Crawford,
of near Walton, - s - t Sunday with
Mr. and Mrs. eorge Pryce.
Mrs. Nelson ovenlock and chil-
dren, Lois an Joan, spent the
weekend with r. and Mrs. W. M.
Sproat, Tucker mith.
Janie Baker, six-year-old daugh-
ter of Mr. and Mrs.•Kenneth Bak-
er, Wingham, was seriously injur-
ed on Monday night when she was
strack by a truck near her home
on Diagonal Road. The truck was
a light pick-up, owned by the Coun-
ty of Huron, and driven by Bower
Farrish, , of Gorrie. According to
eyewitnesses reports. of the acci-
dent, the little girl ran across the
road to some friends on the other
side. The children saw the"i truck
approaching and shouted a warn-
ing, but the little girl was in the
path of the eastbound truck and
the driver was unable to stop in
time to avoid an accident.. An-
other motorist, Arnold Lillow, of
Bluevale, who was coming into
town from the east, saw the acci-
dent and took the girl to Wingham
General Hospital. Hospital author-
ities reported that she suffered a
fractured skull, fractured right hip
and multiple brush burns to the
face and heads. The accident oc-
curred about six o'clock on Mon-
day evening. Later in the evening
she was taken to Victoria Hospi-
tal, London, where her condition
was described on Tuesday as still
serious. — Wingham Advance -
Times.
CROSSROADS
(By JAMES SCOTT)
A LA HURON
Not so long ago 1 had the dub -
mus pleasure of making my own
lunch. Actually 'this is something
which I enjoy just so long as I
don't have to do it. Like many
another fellow, I have a submerg-
ed conviction that, left'alone, I am
just as good a cook as they, come.
This doesn't mean. mind you, that
I want to be cooking all the time.
Just let things come to the place
where there is nobody else to do
the cooking and I'll holler as loud
as the next man, but if I take the
notion I don't mind rustling up a
bit of grub for myself, and what's
more, I like what I make.
This opinion is not shared by
my family. My daughter, for ex-
ample, thinks I don't know any-
thing about cooking, simply be-
cause, on one occasion, I ruined
the sausages. What she doesn't
understand is that it was a nice
day and I saw something out the
window I wanted to get closer to
and, naturally, a fellow may forget
what he's got simmering on the
stove. Matter of fact, I don't know
what she had to complain about
anyway. I ate the sausages. They
might have been a little overdone
a little crispon
for some tastes, tt e
one side—well, all right, I'ad-
mit they were burned black—but
those things can happen to any-
body—to the best of cooks, no
doubt.
Anyway, this day I was busy
making my own lunch, and wlren
it came to dessert I was stumped.
In my time, I have eaten some
mighty fancy desserts. There's a
creation called Baked Alaska,
which many a gourmet finds very
tasty, but somehow that day I
didn't quite feel up to making one.
In fact, I've never made one.
Then there's Peach Melba, but
that means a lot of work and I
wasn't in the mood. There are
simpler things like raisin pie—
but I have very definite views
about that—or maybe just plain
ice cream. However, it was a cold
day and I wasn't for anything
frozen.
Whenjou are in a dilemma like
this, the thing to do is not to
look for a cook book, but to forage
in the ice box and the pantry. If
the lady of the house is worth her
salt, you can be sure that some-
where there will be something you
can eat with no trouble to your-
self at all.
I made a little foraging expedi-
tion and I came up with what
consider to be just about the pe.?
feet dessert
In. the bread box there
Mite ''trash tiiltitf(ins.. A little,
Mrs. R. Pec t , of Seaforth, is
spending a few days!with her bro-
ther, Mr. J. Ri;hardson.
Mr. and Mrs i Roy Lawson, of
Constance, accompanied by Mrs.
Stewart and Mr. Wilson, of Sea -
forth, motored to Ashfield last
week -
Mr. and Mrs. P. Ravelle, Zur-
ich, moved their household effects
to Grand Bend on Tuesday where
Mr. Rovelle is taking possession
of the property he recently pur-
chased from Mr. Wm. Gossman.
Mrs. J. P. Rau, Zurich, is visit-
ing relatives in Detroit this week:,
Mr. Ronald McKenzie, Bruce -
field, left for Chicago last week,
where he has secured a situation
on a boat for the summer. ;
Mrs. McDonald, . of Washington
State, who has spent the winter
with relatives in Tuckersmith, re-
turned home last week.
Mr. and Mrs. James Hay, Tuck-
ersmith, motored to Niagara Falls
and spent the weekend with their
daughter and son-in-law, Mr. and
Mrs. Lorne Pepper. Mrs. Pepper
returned home with them.
Mr. Kenneth -Jackson, of Guelph
College, has returned to his home
in Tuckersmith.
Miss Annie Consitt, of Hensall,
spent a few days with her brother,
and sister-in-law, Mr. and Mrs.
Thomas Consitt, Hillsgreen.
Mr: and Mrs. Clarence Shepherd
of Paisley, and Mr. and Mrs. J.
Wren, of Toronto, were visitors
last week end at the home of Mr.
and Mrs. John Shepherd, Chisel -
burst.
Syrup making is ended around
Hensall and the farmers are busy
seeding and find the land in good
shape.
Miss Routledge, who recently
visited friends in Londesboro, has
returned to her home in Auburn.
Miss Emma McBride, of Blake,
spent Sunday with her friend, Miss
Cooper, Kippen.
Mrs. H. Ivrson's many friends,
of Kippen, are glad to see her out
again after her recent illness.
APRIL 15, 1955
TO THE EDITOR:
Toronto, April 6, 1955.
Editor, The Huron Expositor'
Dear Sir:' I felt like saying that
for at least two reasons this reader
carefully note—and clipped for re-
ference at some suitable moment—
the following paragraph in your
editorial columns, from an article
in the American Bankers' Mag-
azine, some time last fall: ` A
stranger picking up a newspaper
should be able to. tell what busi-
ness is represented in a town .
The life of a town depends on the
live; wide-awake and liberal ad-
vertising business men-"
In my opinion the above is right
on the target, because (1) a pro-
gressive community is usually a
pretty accurate reflection of both
its individuals and its newspaper;
and (2) because the industrial ex-
ecutive, on the hunt for a new lo-
cation for a branch plant, posts
ther along I found a chunk of
nice, rich nippy Canadian cheddar
cheese. On the pantry shelf I
found a new gallon jug of fresh -
made maple syrup, not long from
one of the finest maple bushes in
Huron County.
I sat down and I must admit I
gorged myself. It's been a long,
long time since I enjoyed anything
quite so much- 'Maple syrup,
cheese and muffins. You can keep
your Baked Alaskas and yodr
Peach Melbas—and your raisin pie
too, for that matter. From now
on I am strictly a maple syrup,
muffins and cheese man.
When I think about it I don't
know which part of the idea 1 like
best. . Sure I like the taste of all
these things—you can't beat them
for sheer delight. But another
thing I like is the idea that all
these things are products of our
own -county. All the major ingredi-
ents of that dessert can be pro-
duced within, a radius of a few
miles from my house.
It's when you eat something like
that, and enjoy it to the full, that
you begin to realize just how
aret here. You
blessed werr
right
can go to all the exotic places of
the world and' not find anything
better than Huron County maple
syrup and cheese and home -baked
muffins-
Imaynotbemuchofacook,but
nobody could go wrong as long as
he sticks to the local products.
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From The Huron Expositor
April 14, 1905
John Cardiff, of Grey Township,
has purchased the Creighton house
near ?russets station, paying $1200
for it.
Mr. W. Moser, of Blyth, was in
Clinton Thursday attending a
meeting of the hardware merch-
ants, to' arrange about coming to
an agreement on,;•prices on certain
lines of goods.
Mr. Alex McMichael, of west
boundary, McKillop, has wrested
the laurels for his goose eggs from
Mrs. Coates. Up to last week Mrs.
Coates was in the lead, but this
week Mr. McMichael has one to
report which meastrres 91/2 by 121/2
inches. Now who can beat this
one?
D. Somers, of Blyth, on Tuesday
installed a gas generator and the
light is very much superior to the
electric, being much more power-
ul nd a great deal cheaper.
iss Gertrude Hicknell and her
b other, Master "Peter, of Beech-
wood, visited with Mr. Joseph.
Matthews' this week.
Mr. John Zeigler has bought a
horse from Mr. Con Eckert. Con
always keel:* good horses.
Walton is to have a telephone
system. The Bell Company will
likely extend their line from either
Brussels or Blyth. •
Gordon McDonald, of Walton,
brought up a car of cattle from
Toronto last week. He sold a part
of his load in Seaforth.
Master Frank Dixon, of Seaforth
is on a visit to his sister, Mrs. J.
Ryan, Walton.
Mr. Robert field, of near Wal-
ton, intends enlarging and improv-
ing his barns. He will do most of
the frame work himself, and as he
is a skilled mechanic, a first -clasp
job may be expected.
Work on the C.P.R. railroad,
near Walton is still confined to
Blair's hill, but it is expected that
in the course of a week or two
work will. become general all along
the line.
Mr. and Mrs. Clifton, who have
been residents of Hensall during
the past year, have returned to
London.
Mr. Leslie Colwill is visiting at
his home in Hensall this week.
Mr. Richard Blatchford, one of
the respected pioneer businessmen
intends returning to Hensall from
Dakota this summer and making
his home here again.
Thu geese are this year certain-
ly doing their best, and big eggs
are the order , of the day. But
Tuckersmith is not going to be
outdone by its ambitious neighbor,
,�i�citillop, and this week Mr. Thos.
Coleman is to hand with a goose
egg which measures 9% by 11%
inches. It will keep the McKillop
hustling -to eat c
g ose„this, re,ord.
Miss Mar. MCKaY, of Man e
t� le � s .rec
himself on- the vitality of a certain
town in what he deems a strategic
trading 'area, well ahead of dis-
closing his plans. In terms of
transportation, he turns to his
map, but such men are experts
in taking the pulse of a commun-
ity, and estimating its social and
economic vigor from its news-
paper.
Maybe I should add , my definite
impression that one of the reas-
ons why, in the greatest and most
essential industry of all (agricul-
ture), farmers find it pretty tough
work to win their proper share of
the nation's income, can be traced
to the age-old silence of these tire-
less—but also unorganized—work-
ers. Fortunately, signs are not
wanting to indicate that we are
beginning to take a few leaves
from the vocal books of our alert
cousins along the pavements.
RURAL BUSINESSMAN
SLEEPING PORCH JOINS
HAMMOCK IN OBLIVION
(From the New York Times)
Morbid connoisseurs of the de-
cline of some of the simple plea-
sures have from time to time un-
easily noted that the hammock
has all but jollied the snows of
yesteryear, as has the wide front
porch.
There is another porch that is
departing, too, another porch
whose absence cannot but take
away from the pleasures of the
Summer. This is the sleeping
porch, that small upstairs porch
which in a happier day gave to
the weary and the resting all the
good 'sensations of camping out,
while retaining the equally sound
features of not leaving home.
Free on three sides to the Sum-
nler's soft air and screened
against the night's small life that
flies, this porch had a peace that
could not be found indoors. The
porch seemed detached from the
house while yet a part of it, a
distant, adventurous place, yet
home.
It fulfilled in its simple way the
general need and urge for travel,
for getting away occasionally from
prosaic, everyday things. To step
out upon it in the evening was to
get away from the reading light,
the telephone, the familiar wall-
paper of the bedroom, the fam-
iliar furniture. It was a trip out
of town.
While lying awake at night on
the sleeping porch one could hear
'numerous sounds seeming more
suitable to the Adirondacks than
to the darkness surrounding the
sleeping porch.
Vague rustlings whose origin
could not be determined would be
heard not far away, and, what
those moving things might be de-
pended entirely on the strength of
the imagination. Prosaic, phelgm-
atic sleepers on the porch could
set down the sound as that of
wandering rabbits, ever on a noc-
turnal search for unfenced in, ten-
der lettuce.
Such sleepers rolled over and
returned to the deep slumber
which is the penalty of knowing
a rabbit as a rabbit and not be-
lieving it a panther, a boa con-
strictor or a lynx. Owls, too, could
Farm News of Huron
Land dried off so rapidly dur-
ing the week of March .128 -April 2,
that seeding started in the south
end of the county Tuesday, April
5. However, rain and light snow-
falls later in the week delayed
this program somewhat. Many
farmers have been caught unpre-
pared and have as yet to secure
their seed and fertilizer require-
ments.
To date,approximately four
hundred 4-1 Club members have
signed up in thirty 4-H Agricul-
turalb the coup New
Clu s in county.
dribs this year include' three 4-11
Ft white bean
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be heard carrying on what to
them was lunch-time conversation,
and from the occasional chirp of a
bird awakening from a bad dream
conclusions were possible that
hawks or eagles were about, look-
ing for easy prey.
Cat fights sounded from the
sleeping porch like a cage of tig-
ers dumped suddenly into a larger
one filled with hungry lions. And
then there were other sounds,
those suggesting safety and com-
fort rather than those inviting ac-
tivity by the too turbulent imag-
ination of the night.
Real pleasure could be found in
such simple things as listening to
the efforts of moths and other in-
sects as they sought a crack.
through the screening of the porch
with fireflies seemingly as their
searchlights. Imagination could
picture the violent temper of mos-
quitos as they flew against the
screen, so near and yet so far
away from their intended victims.
Another sound that was com-
forting 'was the even beat of a
steady rain, falling throughout the
night. The sound was comforting
because soothing, and its even
rhythm could send immediately to
Sleep even that imagination which
heard panthers rather than rab-
bits.
The sleeping porch also served
purposes other than being merely
an outdoor bedroom for the night-”
It was a place to which children
could be retired during those hum-
id afternoons of Summer, when
the . tempers of parents and chil-
dren alike bend and then finally
snap. It was a cool afternoon
room where sewing could be ac-
complished without interruption.
And, finally, it was the sleep-
ing porch which became, by a
tradition growing with the speed
of light, the place where the head
of the house took his Sunday af-
ternoon nap. To lie there while
the dinner slowly digested and the
breeze slowly stirred the trees
was to know complete peace.
It has been largely lost now,
and to have traded in the slee4-
ing porch for the picture window
was not too smart an architec-
tural bargain.
PORK - CHOOSE CAREFULLY, COOK
CAREFULLY, DEPT. OF AGR. WARNS °
With pork in plentiful supply
and so attractively priced, now is
the time to choose pork roasts for
family dinners and for those spe-
cial meals when company is com-
ing: A roast pork tenderloin stuff-
ed with a savoury bread dressing
is a good choice for a really fes-
tive occasion. Then for family
meals a o,o•ul buy is part of a
fresh pork shoulder, either a
shoulder butt or a picnic shoulder.
These roasts have a fair amount
of bone which may be removed to
make a pocket for stuffing 'and
this makes the roast much easier
to carve.
Probably the most familiar of
the other cuts of fresh pork is the
loin which may be divided into
three parts — the ham end, the
centre and the rib end. With
these roasts be s re to have the
back bone cut t ough so that
they can be easily c led by slic-
ing between the bones.
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The leg of pork or fresh ham as
this cut is sometimes called, is
divided into the shank end and
the butt end, both of which may
be roasted. One or two sareslicb
sometimes cut off the shank end
and these can be either baked or
braised as fresh pork steaks.
The home . economists of the
Consumer Section, Canada Depart-
ment of Agriculture, tell us that
when buying pork choose meat
that is firm, fine textured and light
greyish pink in color. The lean
which will be a deeper rose color
in more mature animals should be
well marbled with flecks of fat.
There should also be a firm layer
of snowy white fat on the outside
surface of the roasts and the bones
should be porous and slightly pink
in color.
Like other fresh meats, pork
should be taken out of its wrap-
ping and wiped thoroughly with a
damp cloth. Then it should be
wrapped loosely in waxed paper
and stored in the coldest part of
the refrigerator.
Everyone probably knows how
important it is to cook pork thor-
oughly but it cannot be repeated
too often. The secret of the best
cooked pork, regardless of the cut,
is a moderaely low oven tempera-
ture and a long enough time to
assure you that the meat is well
done in the centre. During the
long slow cooking the rich pork
avor is
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well. Fresh pork should always
be well done with no tinge of pink
remaining, even in the centre.
To roast pork, the home econ-
omists of the Consumer Section,
give the following simple direc-
tions: Place the roast on a rack
in an uncovered pan with the fat
side up—no water should be add-
ed. Cook in a moderately slow
oven 325 deg. F. and if using a
meat thermometer, take pork
from the oven when the thermom-
eter. registers 185 deg. F. Butt
and picnic shoulder roasts weigh-
ing between two and four pounds
will take from 55 to 65 minutes a
pound, while ones from five pounds
up will take less time—from 40 to
45 minutes a pound. Loin roasts
weighing from three to seven
pounds require. 35 to 45 minutes a
pound, while the leg, either shank
or butt, from five to eight pounds,
will take 40 to 50 minutes a pound.
Granted, the tenderloin is one
of the highest priced of the tender
pork cuts.. However, considering
that it is all meat .with no bone
and no waste and thatit can be
extended with a bread dressing,
it is well worth the money.
Pork tenderloin is a long taper-
ing piece of lean meat from the
underside of the loin section. Ten-
derloins vary in length from sev-
en to 10 inches and weigh from
one-half to three-quarters of a
pound each. To prepare tender-
loins for roasting, split two of
them lengthwise and spread them
open. Then put about three-quar-
ters of a cup of bread stuffing on
one tenderloin, place the second
tenderloin on top and fasten with
skewers or tie with cord. Since
apples go so well with pork, a
little chopped tart apple may be
added to the dressing. A strip or
two of bacon may be put over the
top of the tenderloins to prevent
the meat dryin gout while roast-
ing. Roast uncovered in a mod-
erately slow 325 deg. F. oven for
55 to 60 minutes a pound, or unit'
the meat is tender and all traces
of pink color have disappeared.
Two men were leaving a movie.
Evidently one was much more im-
pressed with the picture they had
lust seen than was the other.
"Isn't it wonderful," said the
first, "what progress the pictures
haveafew
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made, iris
all wit
years,?"
"Amazing," said the second
Man, "first they . moved, then they
talked, and. new this. one. strtelist"