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Little Help for Rural Ontario
Durinn recent Years the to nay many thousands of
extent to which,rural dollars to meet educational
Ontario shares in the costs. At the same time
nrovincial economy has little annears to he done
continued to decline. to encourane centres such
'While revenue in some as Seafprth and,Clinton
areas has increased,ris- and other county towns to
inn costs of the_th,inns a develon so that the,.nrad-
farmer must buy have more uates, which the educat-
than offset any najn he ion dollars nroduce, can
"could have exnected, find emnlovment to their
while much is beinn done
by Ottawa to create changes
that can offset the dif-
ferences in\the level of
return as between rural
and urban citizens much
more remains to be done.
It is essential for
rural Ontario to net fair
and'enual treatment, es-
sential to develon a sound
th .e
farm. There must be de-
likinn.
Instead it seems at
times that ontario is
termined to write ,off
man" counties such as Huron
as, far as develonme_pt is
concerned and that their
role is to be limited to
that of nrovidinn onen
snace for Sunday and
holiday visitors from the
c-itieS_.,_The.. various studies
veloned,too,onnorunitv ment which have been re-
commissioned by the novern-
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.for emnlovment to nrevent' leased during the east
the erosion of rural Youth Year confirm this view.
from the farms and sma.11
communities. ,ATheir mi-
oration to larcier urban
centres can only add to this week did nothinn to
the nroblems of the cities. reconinze 'the rural.nrob-
-These are nrovincial
resnonsibilities and this
is why the ontario ..novdrn-
ments obsession with cen-
tralization is disturbinn
to neonle maces such
as non. ur5ali Huron County.
Each HUron municinalitV,
for instance, cQntinues
MAY 8th, 1896..
George Crawford has rented the Cun-
ninghain farm in Hullett, and `H, H. Hill
has rented the Ball farm in that Town-
ship, south of E, Snell's.
Miss Bessie Ross, daughter of the.
late Rev. John Ross of Brucefield has
passed with first class 'honors in'philos-
ophy and also first class honors in
'general standing at McGill University.
Hay is now freely offered on the
Hensall market at $8 per ton, as the
Prospects for a large yield thig year
are good.
,, The saw mill owned by Henry W11-
lert of Dashwood, .was completely des-
troyed by fire.
John .11,IcCaa of 'Egmondville has pur-
chased from James Forsythe the lot on
West Main St. South of H. P. Kennedy
and is preparing to build a neat two .
story brick residence, —The brick work-
will be done' by Kruse Bros. and •Mr.
McCaa will do the' carpenter work -him-
self.
Henry Henderson, of McKillop, has
purchased Geo. Murray's mule' team
and Mr . Murray has sub-let to him
the contract for watering the streets
fpr the season.
Mr. Stott -of -Brucefield has had •men
busily engaged pulling, down the old Pres-
byterian Church.
Potatoes are so abundant in the Kippen
area that farmers are -offering them for
nothing in order to get them out of the
• way. •
Alex Monteith Jr. of Kippen, left with
two car loads of cattle from here des-
tined for the old country.
. The wagon maker at Kippen appears
to be the busiest man in the burg, having
to hum the lamp till a late hour.
MAY 13th., 1921 .
W. R., Reid, chief census enumerator
for the riding of South Huron has appointed
the following enumerators for the Seaforth,
McKillop and Tiickersmith Municipalities;
Ray Holmes, .Ben Johnston, Wm. Ballan-
tyne, Aubrey Crich; McKillop, Leo. Hol-
land, Beechwood, James Scott, Roxboro,
Charles Case and Robert Scarlett; TUck-
ersrnith, Gordon. 114CKay, ,James' Hays,
Harold Turner Ross McLean, Paul
Doig and one to be appointed.
A Serious accident occurred at No.
2 school, McKillop, when Earl Dickson,
-the young soil of Mr. and MrAi George
Dickson, fell and fractured his leg.
Mr. IL Higgins of IlenSall, has had the_
telephone installed in his dwelling in
Petty's block.
• The following graduates of the Seaforth
Collegiate. Institute have successfully
PasOittheir etatnitiationa at the,Schooi of
practical science; Tortifitti. H. ft. Kerr
'rd year year In Meehan/al Engineering with
WM%) jafrieg .talleSliftY0 4th year, civil
erighinetrAlitti hOrlhritil, C. Bell, 4th year,
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The small towns', the
farminn communities which •
make un rural ontario must
be-niven.due.nrioritY if
thev.are to make the con-
tribution to the nrovincial
economy ofewhich they are
canable.
applied' chemistry with tionors';, H. K. Mc
Lean, 4th year, electrical engineer and
Miss Beth Willis has successfully passed
her final examination in dental nursing
at the Royal College of Dental. Surger*Y.
Douglas Beattie, who recently succes-
sfully Passed his third year at the Guelph
Agricultural College, left for Truro, N.S.
where he will spend the winter,
The fine weather of the past week has
enabled the football boys to get in some
good practice.
MAY, 10th', 1946.
Jack Edmunds, Mitchell fireman, suf-
fered five broken ribs when he fell into
a garage grease pit, while fighting a fire.
He was taken to Stratford General Hos-
pital, for X-Ray examinations. Mr. Ed-
munds, is a brother of Mrs. Frank Kling
of Seaforth.
Jack Wright and Ralph (Farmer) Me-
Fadden landed the priie trout for this
season, in local waters. It was a beauti-
-Allay marked brown trout 23" long and
weighed 5 3/4 pounds when caught.
Overheated brooder stoves, it is, be-
lieved, .led to fires which destroyed
brooder houses and a number of chickens
owned by two Tuclersmith farmers. John
McLean and James McIntosh, both lost a
number of chickens.
The S. H. S. Cadets, sixty strong,
paraded to First Presbyterian Church;
RevR. H. Williams .welcomed the corps.
The Glee Club 'under the direction of
Mits Mabel Turnbull with Lois Whitney,
Doris Ferguson, Helen Currie, June Snell,
Edith Blanchard and Patricia Bechely
taking part.
In Duff's United Church, Walton, five
servicemen and women were banqueted.
They were LAW Anna Ennis, R.C.A.F,„
Barry Marshall, Lawrence Marks, Wm.
Coutts and G. Stone. •
Fire "of undetermined origin gutted
the Dublin Creamery and completely des-
tr.:bred the residence of Mrs: 'Johanna
Roach, The creamery will be rebuilt at
once. -
The quilting group of the Red Cross
Society completed their work and cele-
brated with a pot-luck supper. During
o five years of faithful service this group was
responsible for the shipping of 17'76 quilts
and blankets to headquarters.
D. IL Wilson and E. P. Chesney were
in London attending a school for municipal
officials.
John Oldfield of Tuckersmith has pur-
chased the Dillon farm on the Huron High-
way, east of Seaforth.
The Seaforth Golf Holding Corporat-
ion Ltd. held their annual meeting in
the !Town Hatt With J. F. Daly in -the
chair. The following directors were
*lidded; Dr. E. A. McMaster, J. E. Kea-
tin g, Sat. A. Stewart, F, S. Sills and.
A. Y. McLean. At a subsequent Meet-
, . ing Dr. McMasterw6S elected Presid-
ent and Mr. dieWart, vice president.
Last week I had a rare chance to do
something I've always wanted to do, and I
seized it with loth hands and my tongue.
I was speaking to the Vimy Branch,
Royal Canadian Legion, at its -nnual
observance of the battle for Vimy Ridge.
The Vimy branch is unique in that nearly
all its members are ex-officers of the
Canadian armed forces.
On the program for the banquet was
printed a list of the executive and the
_past presIdenta.__It contained a bounty of
Brigadiers, a confusion of Colonels, a
'mess of Majors, a wedge of Wing Com-
manders and a scattering of Squadron
Leaders. Senior officers. Sitting ducks.
• Ever since my days as a fledgling
fighter pilot, •I've enjoyed' a firm con-
viction that there is no possible way
anyone can pound anything into the head
of a senior officer.
Here was a golden opportunity to
prove my theory, and I sailed into it. with
gusto. I didn't use a phoney survey or
a lot of statistical ficts, but personal
experience, and I let them have it with
both barrels.
As a, flying student, I first ran into
the ' obtuseness of the senior officer.
This wing cOmmander, .the chief.flying
instructor, nearly- had a stroke beCause
I'd tried to land from one end of the
runway while another student was, trying
to land. from the other. " How Was I to
know the wind had cnanged 180 degreeS
since I'd taken off?,
Dpring advanced flying training in
England', a similar 'occurrence ,deepened
my convictlIn. I was corning in to land,
every sense alert and my mind dallying
with a 72-hour piss and a chubby Land
Army girl. Some fool down on the
runway started firing red flares.
I went around again, and again he did
it. I had checked the windsock carefully
this time, so knew it was his fault, not
mine. On my fourth approach, I did
the usual cockpit. check and no red flares
went up.
I rolled to a stop and the squadron
leader was 'standing in Ins jeep, his face
a sort of mulberry shade. And once again
the insensitivity of senior officers was
displayed. Not only did he call me a
In this day and age it is increasingly
difficult for people to believe that anyone
gives anything' away, free of charge,
without any strings attached. That was
proven to me most vividly last week
when the members of the National
Farmers' . Union around my hometown
conducted a peaceful demonstration dur-
ing whith they handed out free milk,
eggs; vegetables, etc.
The farmers had decided to use this
method to draw the consumers' atten-
tion to their - plight - loW prices. As
most of us are aware,- it IL-difficult
for most housewives In an urban centre
tO comprehend low prices. There just
are none at all when she goes marketing.
But the Farmers' Union was attempt-
ing to show via placards-and literature
that they are not to blame for the high
food costs today because the prices they
receive for their produce are much, much
lower than the consumer pays when the •
product *Dears on the grocer's' shelves.
I don't know how successful the farmers
Were in educating the public to their
problem. I do know they,managed to,give
away 600 dOzen eggs, a ton and a half of
milk, 30 bushels of turnips and a live
PIM •
But people were Suspicious. One lady
telephoned me to find out if It was really
and truly safe to accept these gifts. I
suppose she thought I should know about
such matters,' being a hodsewife • a mother , and a newspaper reporter.
"Is it really true that they are giVing
away food?" she asked.
I assured her it was a fact.
"But why?" she queried. I tried to
giver her an adequate answer.
"Are you sure the foOd is Safe?" •
she nodded me. "It isn't , spoiled or ,
to nted, is it, and they are just pawning
it off on people?"
Certainly not, I insisted. The milk •
is not pasteurized and the eggs are not
graded but they are fresh and whole-
some, I said.
"i don't know," she mused. 'r I really
don't 'think it is right for them to give
food away. rcan't pay tot It, I don't
want it. You just never know what will
come-of 'something like that."
stupid clot 'who should 1::e sent back to
Canada in a strait—jacket, but the dirty
dog cancelled my weekend pass. And
all because I'd forgotten one little item
on my first three approaches: putting
my wheels down.
Then there was my squadron com-
mander in France. I was his No. Two
`and we'd made • a dive-bombing attack,
firing our cannon as we dived, which was
our wont, not to hit anything, but to
-baiter our_nerves..--HeAshouted-some
thing silly like, "Hammer the Hun", so •
paid no attention, closed my eyes, as was
my wont, and squeezed the tit.
'When we landed, he was in a terrible
flap because I was the only one who had
dropped his bombs - on the wrong side
of the bomb line.
I thought it was damn poor navigation
on his part. I think what really bothered
him was .that I'd shot off a bit of his
wing on the way down. •
Then there was the ridiculous squadron
leader in flying 'control who made me
land with a hang-up. In those days a hang-
up was not sortie'-trivial emotional dis-
turbance.. It was a fused bomb, dangling
by its tail from your wing.
I tried to get rid of it over the sea.
Nothing worked. (''Hopefully, I suggested,
' "Shall I bail out?" His reply: "Don't
be silly. We need that aircraft". Pilots
',were cheap; aircraft expensive. •
One bounce - on landing and it would
be meat, me, all over the landscape. And
• I was always known as Two-Bounce
Smiley. Did you' ever see a mouse with
kid gloves on, walking on egg shells?
That's the way I landed. But what hurt was
that he wouldn't let me land on the metal
air-strip, as he didn't want it torn up
when I blew_ up. I had to land on the
bumpy verge beside the strip.
Just a few•of the 'examples I gave to
the senior offiders in my audiencetof,,the
bone-headedness of senior officers. They
took it well, because, of course, they
didn't understand. I offered to step into
the alley, afterwards, with any senior
officer. Provided he was over 80. Two
ancient bragadiers had to be forcibly
restrained.
I wasn't that proud. I went around
to the giveaway corner and stood in line
despite the drizzle.
All around me there was muttering and
whispering, frOm women who felt a little
ac'ut,ned, I suppose, to queue tip for a
handout. Few of them were fully at ease•
with the plan to give 'away diet staples
and all of them 'were Wondering, either
aloud or in secret; -just how this massive
giveaway would be financed.
As I stood there, one gal came for-
ward, puffing and panting like a steam
• engine.
"I just heard about it," she explained.
"I just heard you can get free milk and
. eggs here. Is that really true?"
I nodded, motioning her to the end
of the line.
'I've never heard of such a thing,"
she chattered on. ((There I was., working
• in my garden and someone 'shouted to
me that somebody was giving away eggs
and milk. I thought I'd better hurry so
.I came straight bilt ' of the garden. I
didn't even stop to wash my hands."
She stretched out herhands to show
the soil and grime as proof.
"Who's the nut who is paying for
this?" she questioned, re-positioning the
egg basket and the milk jug she had brought
in which to carry home her treasures:
Nobody paid much attention to her,
much less tried to answer her.
As the line moved forward, I watched
- as one very young housewife shyly held
out her quart bottle to be filled with milk.
"You don't have tO fill it," she said
quietly. understand if you just
give me part of a bottle."
The Young farmer smiled 'at her and
assured her she was welcome, to a full_
quart of milk.
"Would--you mind if I called my friend,"
the girl asked. q(iler husband is out of
work and I don't think she knOws about
this. I Wouldn't have believed it mytelf
if I hadn't seen so many People carrying
milk and eggs by my door."
And just as it was my turn at the
front, I heard one lady out on the street
pass a Comment.
gorou'd think they'd give. it to the
poor if they have so much. '
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