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THURSDAY, OCTOBER 21st, 1943
They’re Wide Awake, Too
As we talk about plans for what we’ll do
for other nations in the way of feeding them and
otherwise, should the war have an issue favor
able to us, we’ll do well to remember that other
nations are exercising their gray matter. These
nations will not trade with us simply because
they love us but because, largely, it is their busi
ness advantage to do so. Moreover*, these na
tions have been running their own affairs for
quite a spell and have a way of carrying on in
a fashion that meets their requirements. While
we would not have Canada run into a blind alley
of isolationism, we would have her attend care
fully to the duties and the work that are ob
viously her own. In this connection we remind
our readers what England has done in the way
of meeting her own food needs. She will con
tinue to do this very thing. We will do well to
remember that farming has changed very great
ly in the last tew years. As her farm production
has changed so, too, has changed her require
ments in the way of farm machinery and in her
equipment. This in turn, means a great change
in factory equipment. Much to be congratulated
is the farmer or other business man who notes
the change in the trend of the times and who
adapts himself thereto. We wonder if the ne*<
educational curriculum will lead in the way of
more attention to chemistry as applicable to
the farm?
Russia Speaks Out
At the aproaching conference between rep
resentatives of Britain, the United States and
Russia, Russia does not intend to spend much
time in tryng to ascertain how many diplomatic
points may dance on the point of a needle. She
is not at all likely to spend much time discuss
ing potentialities and possibilities. She will not
seek to sieve out the niceties of the tithing of
the mint, anise and cummin of the meticulosities
of international piccadiloes. She does not pro
pose to traffic in the chips in the porridge. She
sees clearly that the war mess must be cleared
up and well cleared up. Not even the photo
graph of the causes that led to this present
war must be left to pollute the international
atmosphere. Germany must be thrashed and
completely thrashed at that. She believes that
if the allies have the intelligence to clean up
on the axis that they’ll have skill to adjust what
is left after the battle has been won. She sees
clearly that things do not stay put these days.
Situations change over night and men simply
cannot hinder the coming of those changes.
Further, they cannot predict what these changes
will be. Russia sees that a great many of the
wars that have cursed .this world have been due
to trying to keep things solid when it is their
nature to be fluid. Hence Russia’s determination
■to get done the thing that must be done now.
She sees that treaties take nations but a little
way, while good will and upright conduct of*
permanent value and never fail when practiced,
to keep peace between man and man and nation
and nation.
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Those Peace Terms
Some well meaning people are talking about
the terms on which the present war should cease.
What have we to offer Germany for her sur
render, they ask. We put forward another ques
tion. In view of what Germany has done in
declaring war, in view, too, of the manner in
which Germany has prosecuted the war, what
has she the right to ask? In view of whajf she ri
this moment doing in the way of utterly ex
terminating town and villages; in view, more
over, of hei* treatment of the Jews, on what
basis of justice or by what law, human or divine,
has she the right to ask for anything but her
own annihilation? What plea can her most subtle
advocate put forward at the bar of humanity or
before the judgement seat of Him to whom all
hearts are open and from whom no secrets are
hid. Not since the first buzzard rent with beak
and claw, has the earth witnessed such insensate,
ferocity as Germany has poured forth upon the
world. As the terrible days of the last world
war drew to a close we said “Anything but the
continuance of the slaughter.” The present world
shambles is the result of our not pressing the
terrible arbitrament by the sword to a complete
conclusion. But, some urge, the Germans have
been taught that if they surrender they'll all
be killed. Our reply is that the German people
and their tyrants know the utter fasehood of such
a plea. Their cousins in South Africa under the
heroic and informed General Smuts know the
British way. If they have not the intelligence
to profit by the lessons of history since the days
of Magna Charta, they are dullj indeed. The
simple truth is that Germany is doing hex* ut
most to hoodwink and bedevil the opponents
whom they cannot defeat on the field of buttle.
The cost of continuing the wax* in blood, swert
and tears and treasure is beyond all telling. To
heed the whimpering of German tricksters is
to take the speedy way to the sending of free
dom to the Gehenna fires of utter destruction,
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Welcomed and Used
Farmers welcomed the fine long spell of high
grade weathex* that came to them in the last
weeks of September and the first weeks of Octo
ber. The Canadian beaver had nothing on the
Canadian farmer in the way of industry as the
good weather held. Everything’ the farm pro
duced was harvested in prime condition. The
rain gave every promise of softening the ground
for the fall plowing and for conditioning the
land for next year’s crop. All in all, the farmers
are looking forward hopefully to good crop con
ditions for next year. Meanwhile the. dairy herds
and the young farm stock are in prime condition
for going into winter quarters.
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They’re Doing While We Have Looked On.
Over there in the U.S. they are doing things
that we have said should be done. Those thrifty
Yankees have been able to appreciate a bright
idea when it popped in front of their noses.
For years we wondered what could be done with
oui* surplus wheat. Again and again these col
umns have insisted that our universities and
schools of practical science should show us the
way to manufacturing the. wheat into a thousand
things good fox* both the inside and the outside
of men. But these worthy folk simply went to
sleep
“ ’Twas the voice of the sluggard, I heard
him complain,
You have waked me too soon, I must slum
ber again.”
Well, the Yankees have got busy on a far
less fruitful article than the wheat, viz., upon
the lowly potato. Dr. Carver showed an aston
ished world the resources of the peanut and the
sweet potato. His fellow scientists have given
time, just lately, to showing the resources of
the Irish potato. These wide-awake men jn
Idaho, who know their job have shown that the
potato is rich in a thousand possibilities for food
and implements that folk hitherto, never dream
ed of. Every countryside every season has
wasted almost inestimable wealth through not
picking this crop clean and through wasting mis
shapen tubers. Food of high value has beet;
made from potatoes that hitherto have been al
lowed to rot in the field. Science has shown
that everything from the needle to an anchor
may be made from this crop that has been toler
ated on many a farm, but which has not been
pushed in growth or manufacture. We wonder
what the Ontario Minister of Agriculture is go
ing to do about this crop. Perhaps the local
dehydrating plant will come fo the rescue of
this part of the province in this particular. .Tn
any case, boys in their teens m‘ay depend upon
it that before they are middle-aged men they will
see farming in this fine country a very different
occupation from what it is this hour. The de
hydrating and the waxing of turnips is but one
step in a very long journey that leads to the
city of a larger prosperity.
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A New String
The local dehydrating plant has given the
local farmers a new string to their bow. As
one looked at the platform of the factory piled
high with as fine turnips as he ever saw, he
could not but think of the significance of the
sight. These turnips were on their way to the
battlefields of the world. Nor is that all. These
same turnjps were on the -way to mining and
logging camps and fishing villages and to towns
and cities that hitherto have enjoyed turnips
only as something of a rarity. But turnips were
not the only vegetables being taken care of at
the factory, for potatoes were to be prepared
along with carrots and other vegetables and
everything else that field and garden can pro
duce. Shipping difficulties are being overcome.
The cost of housing vegetables is being reduced.
But that s not all. The farmer is given a series
of new cash crops that fit in admirably with
his general farming. Turnip waxing has proven
a huge success. The dehydration process will
carry this sort of activity one step farther. Far
mers are revising their way of the field care
of turnips, but that is another story. Meanwhile
some alert producers are receiving a fine lot
of money from sources they did not think of ’
ten years ago.
A Good Suggestion
We note that some municipalities arc dis
carding Halloween parties for the duration.
They are not expedient in times like these.
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Note and Comment
It would be to everyone’s interest foi* bi
cyclists to be required firmly but kindly to leave
the .sidewalks of this village to pedestrians.
sp ip Mi
As we read of the allies* victories, let us
not forget the cost in treasure, in tears, in lone
liness and pray with all our hearts for the com
ing of peace and good will among men.
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Sensible people resent those coal strikes just
as winter is coming on. Has unionism forgotten
its true function, oi‘ is it returning to the old
principle “Let him get who has the power, and
let him keep who cun” ?»
Yes, there is a change in the way business
is being carried on but that is no reason for
fleeing from the ills we know to those we know
nothing about. The Canadian emblem is the )
beaver and not the grasshopper,
15 YEARS AGO |
Dawson, the young son of Mr.
and Mrs. w. r. Gouiding. is ill in *
Dr, Fletcher’s hospital suffering'
from bronchitis. j
Mr. Eugene Howey, who is at-,
tending Toronto University, won.
second place in the one mile race ‘
of the Intercollegiate intermediate,
track meet held at Guelph on Tues-1
day. I
Miss Dorothy Snell, of St. Thomas,■
is spending a week’s vacation at j
her home here,
Mr. and Mrs. Walter Dearing, of
London, spent Sunday with Mrs. T,
Creech. I
Representatives from an overall-
manufacturing company were in Exeter recently interviewing Mr. S, j
M. Sanders and looking over the]
plant of the S. M. Sanders Manufact
uring Co., with a view to locating
here. The men were favorably im
pressed with the situation and con
ditions here and it is to be hoped
that Exeter may secure this new
industry. Mr. Sanders, who has not]
been enjoying the best of health of’
late, intends closing down the plant
in the very near future. j
Armistice Day this year comes on, Sunday, November the 11th and the j
veterans are planning a special I
celebration for the tenth anniversary j
of the signing of peace.
25 YEARS AGO
The Exeter Canning Co. has just
added a new Ford tractor to their
farming equipment.
The- Jackson manufacturing Co.
is busy this week moving to their
new premises in the old James
Pickard Block.
Owing to the epidemic of influen
za the dental office of Dr. Roulston
will be closed until further notice.
An epidemic of influenza is having
a large toll throughout the country.
A pretty wedding was solemnized
at the home pf Mr. and Mrs. Godfried
Wein, of Stephen, last Monday, when
Elda May became the bride of Mr.
Sylvester A. Wuerth, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Fred Wuerth, of Crediton.
50 YEARS AGO
Beechnuts are plentiful this fall,
and we would like to know what
that has to do with the kind of
weather we are going to have next
winter.
Mr. Sam Fanson brought two
sprigs broken from a raspberry
bush, into the Advocate office last Saturday which contained about two ’
dozen berries.
HENRY THIEL, ZURICH
DIES AFTER BRIEF ILLNESS
Henry Thiel, one of Zurich’s
oldest residents, died at his home
Tuesday, Oct. 12th, after an illnes
of one day. He was in his S8th year.
Mr. Thiel was born in Kitchener,
but in infancy, with his parents,
moved to this vicinty where he lived
ever since. Surviving are his widow,
two sons, Julius, of Zurich and Fred,
of London; three daughters, Mrs.
A. F. Hess, Mrs. John Gallman, Mrs.
H. Block, all of Zurich. Also eleven
grandchildren. A public funeral
service was held at the home on
Friday afternoon with Rev. E. Heim-
rich, officiating. Interment was
made at St. Peter’s Lutheran ceme
tery.
TORONTO ASSOCIATION PARTY
The Huron County Junior As
sociation of Toronto extends to all|
Huron Old Boys and their friends,
an invitation to a Bowing Party on
the evening of Saturday, 'October
23rd at 8.15 p.m. at the Central
Bowling and Recreation Club, 22
Sheppard Street, Toronto. Following
lunch, a short business meeting will
he held to elect the officers^ for the |
coming year. Because of the short-;
age of Alley boys, the Executive;
members urge everyone to be ready)
to bowl at 8,30 at the latest. ;
CHILD SCALDED |
NEAR GRANTON J
Little Betty Ann Hardy, three-1
year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. |
Kenneth Hardy, of Granton, suffer-]
ed severe burns when she backed)
into a pail of hot water. The child
was attended by Dr. F. S. Kipp and
is reported to be making some re
covery.
Smiles . . . .
Mary; "So you bought a new fUT
coat aftex* all. I thought you said
your husband could not afford it I
this year.1" {
Jean: “So I did, but we had al
stroke of luck. My husband broke!
his leg and the insurance company
paid him $300,” •
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A nervous girl was chatting to the
vicar about fishing, on which she
was keen. “Did you manage to get'
any fishing while you were away?”)
enquired the vicar. ' !
“Oh, yes,” replied the girl, “quite,
a -lot“~mostly perch and chug, I
though they’re not particularly nice*
to eat. Which do you prefer? vicar,”'
she added, “cherch of pub?” i
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fine indeed.- -
.. us into
bloody nop-np
must at
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hopes of driving
the sea with a
on the beaches
. have been high-
times D-a Tift Hwse Contnwn*’
Churchill bcfprf the
Winston
It’s thiss
The war isn’t won yet. Disaster may stare us in the
face again, just as-it did at Salerno.
Victory will be ours — but it won’t be a walk-over.
Let us all make this our motto: “No letting up until
the last shot is fired.” For if we do let up, others
will pay for it . . . with their lives.
SPEED THE VICTORY
MORE BONDS
J. F. ROLFE,
Manager.
thb wav
WHEN JOE SAIDi
"f'r THE LAND'S
SAKE WHY BUY
ANOTHER BOND?"
I SAID:"f‘R THE
LAND'S SAKE./
ESTABLISHED
FOR
SALE
BY
HAY COUNCIL
The regular monthly meeting of
the Council of the Township of Hay
was held in the town hall, Zurich,
on Monday, October 4tli, with ail
members present. After disposing
of the communications the follow
ing resolutions were passed.
That By-law for additional estim
ates for $1000' for bridge construc
tion and $5 00 for maintenance be
passed and approval of same be ap
plied for to the Department of High
ways.
That Haberer Drain By-law be
read third time and finally passed
except that Conrad Siemon be not
allowed $60.00 for severence as pro
vided for in said by-law.
That Rosalie Street Drain By-law
be read third time and finally passed
and that tenders be advertised for to
do the work.
That assessments covering Masse
Drain be levied in accordance with
original By-law until amount expend
ed in 1943 for repairs be provided
for.
That authority be given for the
construction of telephone cable to
take care of the services in the north
west portion of the village of Zur
ich.
That accounts covering payments
on Township Roads, Hay Telephone
System, Relief and general accounts
| be passed as per vouchers:
Roads—DOm. Road Mchy. Co., re
pairs $121.70; M. Corriveau cement
work 24.60; T. Welsh 1040 yds. gra
vel 83.20; M. G. Deitz .grading, etc.
44.50; Bonthron & Drysdale account
43.75; T. Welsh, lumber 16.50; W.
Allen ersh’g, trk’g 535.04; New belt
39.93; T. W'elsli, lumber, bridge,
96.17; Pay list labor, 103.62.
Hay Telephone — Bell Co. tolls
696.81; Stromberg Carlson Co. 58,G9
H. G. Hess, salary 225.77; do extras
140.25; E. R. Guenther caftage 1.70;
Docon Telo. Ltd, supplies 21.30; A.
F. Hess part saalry 87.5 0; T. H.
Hoffman salary 2 25.43; do extras
51.85.
General and Relief—-Munic. Wld.
statutes $2; Times-Advocate adv.
2.7Q; A. Hendrick fence Viewer $2;
C. H. Blackwell do $2; H. W. Bro-
ltenshire assistance 24.SO; Morris
Denomme, relief $20; J. McBride,
weed inspector 171.20; A. F. Hess
part salary $90; A. Pfaff fence view
er $2; H. Lawrence, Masse Drain
1224.00; J. Suplat, relief 22.10.
The 'Council adjourned to meet
again on Monday, November 1st, at
I. 30 in the afternoon.
A. F. Hess, Clerk.
Tell it well and it will sell. For
Exeter and district the telling is
best done through the Times-Advo
cate.
Varnishes * Paints
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