The Exeter Times-Advocate, 1943-11-25, Page 7IE
THE TIMES-ADVOCATE, EXETER ONTARIO, THURSDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 251!,, 1943
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Other legislation provides for the
payment of a subsidy to every per
son who produces sugar beets in
Ontario and contracts with a
son engaged in the business of
cessing sugar beets into sugar.
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CHAPTER VI
Leila talked, as she did every
thing else, incessantly and tensely.
Watching her that evening, Andy
wondered as he had before, wheth
er Kurt Hermann ever opened his
mouth on the long motoring trips
he and Leila took together. The
young German was not unrespon
sive, he obviously listened with cour
teous interest, but he contributed
almost nothing to the general con
versation. He had a delightful
smile and a slow, hesitant manner
that was rather engaging. Nope of
Leila’s friends quite knew what she
saw in him, but they would have
said that of any man whom she con
sistently dated,
Two other couples, in addition to
Kurt and Leila, had dropped in on
their way home from the movies.
They had thoughfully brought a
huge bag of prepared food—cheese
and hard rolls, beer, cold cuts, ham,
chicken, potato salad, pickles and
pretzels, the usual random selec
tion of man let loose in the garden
of the delicatessen. Coles Arnold
unabashedly confessed that it was
his ambition in life to run a de
luxe delicatessen shop.
Leila put together a double-deck-
Patty in-
a wooden
er sandwich foi’ Kurt,
slsted on hunting up
spoon for the salad,
“I saw Dick Mason
night.” Minnie Davis,
Patty maintained that military
training was primarily for defense.
“What would your skiing enthusi
asts and canoe trippers do, if the
enemy landed on our shores?”
Np one was surprised when Leila
stood up, “There wouldn’t be wars,
if the ordinary people used their
heads,” she said. “No one wants
war. How can I hate the Germans,
when I know Kurt?”
“So what?” Patty put down her
beer glass with a thud,
Leila flung up her head, her
hands gripped the table edge. “What
I’m trying to tell you dopes is that
everyone would get along peaceably
-—Germans, Italians, everybody-'—if
each one had enough,
shouldn’t be any very poor,
rich.’’
Minnie Davis, leaning
decided one morning a
To find Mrs.
she had agreed to
you. I go down-
that I won't know
There
or very
Wapt EnR-Tinie Game Warden
Cat
For
to 1,
Wed-
other
was
good-
never,
shook a shower of
air, as they stepped
lay heavily on the
thick and still. “I
all going down aft-
Waters
County; Dr. Taylor Would
Hydro Rates Again
By a recorded vote of 21
Huron County Council at the
nesday morning session ruled against
an open season for deer in Huron
county, rejecting a potion recom
mending to the Department of
Game and Fisheries that an open
season be declared in Huron county
for two days’ shooting, using shot
guns only, providing a full-time
game warden were appointed.
The council later passed a motion
requesting the department to
point a full-time game warden
Huron county.
Dr, R. Hobbs Taylor, M.P.P.
South Huron, was present at
afternoon session and was invited
by the warden to address the
council.
ap-
for
for
the
Suggests Further Hydro Cuts
the
who
more than half engaged to the
looking tall Halsey Kenneth
far from her,
nickles into a paper cup.
Coles said interestedly, “Is he
up on leave?”
At the stove where she was melt
ing cheese for Andy, who liked
gooey snacks, Candace turned. “Does
he know about the exemption for
men twenty-eight and over?”
“Leila’s ready for the usual
fight,” Patty Bailey said, licking her
fingers daintily.
Andy wished for a moment that
they would all go home and leave
this kitchen, with the blue gingham
check curtains, the silver and gray
and black fittings that Candace
loved, to his wife and to him. Then
the swift recollection that none of
these people was as happy as he
and Candace, urged him to be kind.
All of them were young, most of
them were poor and none of them,
with the exception of Leila, asked
enough of life.
“What about Dick Mason?” Can
dace prompted now. “What did he
say about the exemption talk, Min
nie?”
Dick had been in uniform, Min
nie answered. ‘‘He’s tickled pink,
of course. He was twenty-eight
last April."
“When’ll they release him?” Coles
Arnold put mustard on Swiss cheese.
In November, Minnie thought.
“But he says the officers are tell
ing the boys that they’ll be re
called. None of the regular Army
men like the ruling because they
lose fellows they’ve just got trained.
I’ll bet they won’t be called back—
that’s just to make them uneasy."
“They’ll be recalled all right.”
Andy began to open cans of beer.
“You're twenty-eight, aren’t you,
Halsey?”
Leila put down her cigarette to
accept her glass. “Gee, what luck,
Halsey! Here’s looking at you, An
dy—and I hope you’ll be twenty
eight before your number’s called."
Patty Bailey shrugged,
a plump, bustling and
buttoned tightly into a
that fitted her like the
sausage. “If I had a
be glad to see him off to training
camp,” she announced. “What’s
the matter with you guys, anyway?
A year in military camp would be
the making of every one Of you.”
“I don’t see why you think mili
tary training is all to the good.”
Leila always plunged into conver
sation as if into an army attack.
“If everyone lived in the country
and just went hunting and skiing
and raised dogs, no one would need
to be built up or made over. “Kurt
would like to live in the country.
In Germany his people live on a
large farm, an estate.”
Beside her Kurt smiled Into the
eyes that turned to him, but he did
not speak.
to have it. ‘‘To live in
to fish and swim and
make a lot of money—
life would please most
morning after morning,
.get a seat, will we?”
dug a sharp elbow into
a white-haired woman
a place on
bus lurched
felt herself
in the cen-
in ,a report at the January session.
J, c. Shearer, agricultural repre
sentative, reported that ten farm
machine courses were held. A seed
survey revealed that crops of oats
and barley are poor in Ontario, with
Huron no exception. A large quan
tity of seed grain has been lined
up. Turnips were the best crop in
Huron county, 79,000 bushels being
harvested this year. Some are de
hydrated for the armed forces, some
exported.
Hogs produced in Huron county
are of a high quality; 40£ per cent,
are graded “A” and 50 per cent, as
“Bl”, In 1938,
92,000; last year, 122,000; and the
prospects at the end of this year
will be 115,000, There was a
shortage of fall wheat in Huron
and ’farmers are faced with either
liquidating
in Western
Huron County Council amous for flavour since 1892 «
the ‘Salada’ name assures you
of a uniform blend of quality teas,
cai All A’
Huron marketed
their stock or bringing
grain.
No Trouble With “Conchies”
placed on farms,
the direction of
and are working I
receiving $25 a
against
Halsey as she smoked, said lazily
that Communist propaganda didn't
fool her. “You're like all the rest
of the fuss-buttons, Leila; you paint
a rosy picture of the world as
you’d like it to be. It doesn't fol
low that it is what I want. You
can’t even be sure that it’s the kind
of world Kurt wants.”
But if the majority of people
wanted it, Leila argued hotly, they
were entitled
the country,
not to try to
that kind of
people. What ails the world is that
the petty, selfish, .grubby ambitions
of the few are set up as something
to strive for. I don’t want to be
rich—ever."
They assured her that the danger
was remote, but Leila could nor
smile. She sat down
her furious smoking,
shoulder with Kurt.
“A hundred years
will all be the same,
Arnold, a little more
than usual because he had had two
cans of beer. “None of us little
yeasty specks matters in the scheme
of things. Why, do you know how
this feeble planet called earth com
pares with some of the really bril
liant heavenly bodies?”
Elbows on table, chin
Candace said serenely, “I
ery one of us
than any star.”
Kurt’s square
table and Leila
the blunt-tipped
“But we can’t do anything,
You can give your life to
something you want and if
the cards that you’re not to have
it—well, you’re just out of luck.”
“Yes, and then again you may
get it and die before you have a
chance to enjoy it." Coles peered
regretfully into the empty beer can.
“That’s why I hesitate about sav
ing up to buy my delicatessen."
he murmured.
Given a delicatessen shop he’d
die all right from overeating, Andy
informed him.
“Oh, but
important,
voice, her
an answer
Leila’s beseeching eyes,
for something really worth while,
won’t it
1 you?”
Leila
' whether
’ “Yes.
and resumed
shoulder to
from now it
said Coles
aggressively
is more
She was
bossy girl,
black frock
casing on a
brother, I’d
herself by
cross seat,
almost—al-
attitude of
Sud-
in hands,
think ev-
important
hand rested
picked up
fingers, let
of her veil,
where have
you suppose
time in the
on the
one of
it fall,
really,
getting
it’s in
you want must be
see.” Candace’s
soft words, were
what
yow
clear,
to the unhappiness In
If you ask
be worth whatever it costs
Candace
sofa bed for
still washed
Leila mur-
don’t really
asked tensely, “You mean
one gets it or not?”
You have to face the pos
sibility of losing, of course. But it
seems to me that if your pattern is
fine enough—or perhaps I mean if
you are—the chance of winning is
worth the risk of loss. You can
lose without being; defeated, you
know.”
When, an hour later
and Leila made Up the
Andy and Kurt who
dishes in the kitchen,
mured wistfully, “I
care whether we're rich or poor, I
just want to be married to Kurt”
She pulled a clean white case over
the plumpest pillow and dropped
it on the side she hoped Kurt would
choose. “I’m not unpatriotic. It's
merely that I’m intelligent enough
to know there is no difference in
any of the countries—nationalism
makes all the trouble between the
different races. You take the Eng
lish—don’t you honestly think they
have a lot of faults?”
“I think you’re in love^with a Ger
man,” Candace said.
Painful, Pus Filled Boils
the Cause of inch Misery
Xf you suffer from boils you know how sick and
miserable they made you feet
Boils are an . outward indication of impurities in
the system, and just When you. think you are rid of
one another crops up to take its place and prolong
ytmr misery* All the lancing and poulticing you can do
coining. a a 1
may not stop more
To help overcome, boils you should purify the blood, so why not give
that old, tenable blood medicine, Burdock Blood Bitters, a chance to show
what it will do in helping you get rid of them? Thousands have used it for
this purpose for the past 60 years. Why not you?
Tho T. Milburn Cd., Limited, Toronto, Ont,
Referring to the reduction of 5 0
per cent, in hydro rates to rural
users and the abolition of the ser
vice charge, Dr. Taylor declared it
was all right as far as it went but
it did not go far enough. He was
uot satisfied, he said, and took oc
casion to differ with the govern
ment which he supports. He
thought the small towns and vil
lages should have had some definite
consideration in the matter of a re
duction in the ^wholesale power
rate. This would tend to a much-
desired equalization of our popu
lation. Decentralization of industry
would mean healthier children and
do away with city slums, bringing
about better housing conditions.
This is still under consideration by
the Ontario Government, he de
clared.
The member also gave the assur
ance that the request for a Huron
county magistrate was being
consideration.
de-
for
the
Ask County Health Service
*
“I think it’s a good sign when
two people can he happy together
without having others around—don’t
you? Leila said.
There were times when she could
dispense with other people herself,
Candace
week or two later.
Waters then, dressed for the street
and obviously waiting for her in the
first-floor hall at eight-thirty of a
hot August morning was, Candace
felt, more than
endure, *
“I waited for
town so seldom
how to act when I do get in a store,”
said Emma Waters.
The morning
into the street,
city, a pressure
suppose they’re
er the same thing.” Mrs.
surveyed the milling group at the
bus corner gloomily. The size of
the waiting crowd puzzled Candace,
who had taken the eight-thirty bus
for five months .and usually saw the
same faces,
“We won't
Mrs. Waters
the ribs of
who was jockeying for
the curb.
The great, lumbering
to a .stop. Candace
hauled aboard, wedged
ter of a fighting, furious mob that
panted and struggled for a foothold
on the step, in the determination
to be the first to enter.
Candace, who could not hope to
reach a strap, steadied
grasping the back of a
There was something
most vindictive in the
these women, she decided,
denly and smoothly something she
had read in the paper the night
before slipped into place in Can
dace’s mind. She touched Mrs, Wa
ter’s arm. “Silk stockings!”1 she
whispered. “They must be going to
buy silk stockings."
Mrs. Waters’ faded eyes narrowed
behind the thick mesh
.“For heaven’s sake,
you been? What do
I’m doing out at this
morning? They say that in a couple
of weeks’ time you won’t be able
to get a pair of silk stockings for
love or money."
Toni Fitts, who had brought the
check down for the November rent,
curled up
couch and
fire. “I
will work
Unless her husband should be called
for training. It’s quite the thing
now for women to go to business up
to a week or so before
confined. It’s surprising
ployers stand for it,” she
“The way I feel about
it’s the worst possible time to bring
children into the world,” Toni stat
ed, applying fresh lipstick. “We’re
, on the verge of war and Mr. Wa-
; ters tells me that
. young fathers will
in the Service."
She stared into
specting her thin
. spite of the new foundation cream.
“What do you suppose people are
thinking of, to have children now?"
she demanded. “They can’t have
any consideration for the poor lit
tle mites, or any respect for them
selves. Mr. Waters says it’s much
worse than in the last world war.”
Sarah said, “Toni, do you have
to be a perfect fool? I don’t think
that a woman who will never have
a child is competent to pass judge
ment on expectant mothers. And
while I’m sounding off, let me say
that the criticism of young people
by men past military age quite fails
to impress me. It also strikes me
as being- in extremely poor taste."
After a moment Toni murmured
uncertainly, “Well, I’m sure—”
They didn’t see eye to eye, it
was foolish to bicker, Sarah inter
posed, “I thought you came down
to tell me about the parade. How
did it come off—or didn't it?”
There had been a parade, Toni
grimaced, She stretched her long,
slim legs add admired her ankles,
“My uniform looks swell'—-it ought
to, I paid forty dollars to have it
fitted. But the other women—-those
dopes!” No one kn'dw what it was
like, she complained fiercely, to try
to organize a delegation of women
to parade who had not the slightest
idea what was expected of them
Out of
appear,
“And
VhlS, if
Toni scowled,
for them to
cious creature from
came over and informed me that
we were scheduled to march in her
unit, ‘Just a minute,’ I said,
Toni Fitts and I’m heading my
unit—there’s the car with our
nor now?'
(To Be Continued)
'f
on Sarah Daffodil’s big
stared moodily into the
suppose Candace Thane
up to the last minute.
they
that
said,
it is
are
em-
that
most of these
find themselves
the mirror, in
face, sallow in
three hundred supposed to
thirty had turned up.
they
you
given
presi-Headed by W, L. Whyte,
dent of Huron County Federation
of Agriculture, a large delegation
was present to ask that a system
of health service be effected in
Huron County. In introducing the
representatives, Mr. Whyte stated
that they were here on behalf of
the children of Huron county. The
proposal is to start work gradual
ly with four or five full-time nurses
who would visit the schools regu
larly and do the necessary follow
up work. The system would re
quire an expenditure of $11,000.
The plan is approved by the Ontario j qjj jCgr
Government, which pays one-third
of the cost.
Dr. R. Hobbs Taylor, speaking
in support of the proposal, pointed
out that 48 per cent, of the young
men were turned down for the arm
ed forces because of some physical
defect, which might have been pre
vented if it had been detected in
childhood.
ate action be taken and not put ofl
until after the war. With the pres
ent set-up, the Medical Officers of
Health do not and cannot give ade
quate attention as many of
are overworked in their own
tices.
Mrs. Anderson, Wingham,
dent of the United Farm Women’s
Association, stressed the need of
the nursing
teacher's
Kinkead,
spoke of
schools.
Board of
operate in giving medical and den
tal care.
Other members of the delegation
who spoke were L. E. Cardiff, M.P.,
W. H. Golding, M.F., Mrs. Taylor,
J. W. Hanna, M.P.P., North Huron;
and Bert Lobb, farmer, and a trus
tee in Goderich township for 27
years,
system is “a good thing regardless
of cost.”
Will Report in January
turned up at inter
know what I meaft>”
“While I Was waiting
assemble, some offi-
another unit
'Fm
own
bail-
“Huron,
Miss Margaret Cooper,
grapher in the county
office, made application
crease in
Reeves
Dorrance,
Municipal
in Toronto, gave a synopsis of the
proceedings.
Reeve Dorrance expressed the
opinion that too much authority is
being centralized and said he felt
something should be done to change
it by county and municipal coun
cils. Reeve Turner advised u^ing
the association by sending all reso
lutions to it as a means of getting
action.
Reeve W. J. Baker suggested that
Christmas cheer be sent to the
crew of the minesweeper Goderich,
and later a motion to that effect
was referred to the warden’s com
mittee.
steno-
treasurer's
for an in
salary,
R. E, Turner
delegates to the Ontario
Association convention
and N. R.
will be a real benefit to rural con
sumers.
‘We appeal to you to give some
consideration to the towns and vill
ages, as we feel that the high rate
charged is prohibiting industries
from locating in the towns and
villages in Huron county,” the mo
tion recording tlm apreciation con
tinued. It was introduced by Reeves
R. J. Bowman of Brussels, and V,
D. Falconer of Clinton.
Endorsation was given to a mo
tion that the council urgently re
quest the government to subsidize
the farmer to an extent that it will
be profitable
hogs, in view
tract which
the British
Wilson and McCann sponsored this
motion.
for him to produce
of the new bacon con-
has been made with ‘
Government. Reeves
Grants Authorized
reso-
York
in answer to an inquiry, Mr.
Shearer stated that no difficulty
had been experienced with consci
entious objectors
They are under
Selective Service
under a permit,
month and board, the balance be
ing paid to the Canadian Red Cross
Society.
• Endorsation was given to a re
commendation of the agricultural
committee, that the council pass a
resolution requesting that the On
tario farmer be subsidized to a
gree where it will be profitable
him to raise hogs,
Approval was given also to
committee’s recommendations: that
the agricultural office and the pub
lic school inspectors organize ’ the
school children for the collection of
horse-hair, needed in war -industry,
and that farm machinery schools
be held this winter in Grand Bend,
Elimville, Hensail, Clinton, Gode
rich, Dungannon, Blyth, Ethel, Kin
tail, Wroxeter, and Walton,
surveys will be. continued.
Endorsation was given to a
lution from the county of
that the Wartime Prices and Trade
Board be petitioned to raise the
ceiling price on all farm products
to permit the farmer to secure
farm labor by paying wages con-;
sistent with those paid to employ
ees in industry; also to a resolution
from Waterloo county that the
Federal Minister of Agriculture be
asked to have shipments of West
ern coarse grains speeded up.
No action was taken on the reso
lution from Carleton county re
garding the raising of the price of
cheese, as it had already been sub
sidized.
Restrict County Police Badges
The police committee reported at
the morning session that Traffic
* Norman Lever had been
Howick School Boundary Dispute
A warning that there is an under
current of dissatisfaction in one of
the largest townships of Huron
county—Howick,-—coupled with the
suggestion that the feeling is strong
enough to lead to thoughts of se
cession unless more consideration is
shown by the county council, was
voiced at Thursday’s county council
session by Isaac Gamble, clerk of
Howick. His remarks were- made
in connection with the appearance
of delegations from two school ■sec
tions of the township who present
ed opposing sides of a boundary
dispute. Clerk Gamble said he was
not representing either side in the
dispute, but urged the advisability
of appointing arbrators to rule on
the question.
After delegations from two school
sections of Howick township had
ben heard regarding a boundary
dispute, and asking the council to
appoint a board of arbitrators, the
following were named on the recom
mendation of the education commit
tee: the county judge, the public
school inspector, and Reeve R. R.
Redmond, East Wawanosh.
The delegation from S. 8 .No. 17
Howick was headed by Gordon
Hargrave, Fordwich, a member of
the school board. The delegation
asked that nine lots be included in
Grants of $50 to the Western On
tario Dairymen’s Association; $100
to the Wingham Horse Show; and
an increase in the salary of Miss
Margaret Cooper to $65 a month
were authorized on the recommend
ation of the executive committee.
Warden B. W. Tuckey gave a
brief report of the proceeding of
the meeting of wardens in Toronto
called by Hon. T. L. Kennedy, Mini
ster of Agriculture.
Public School inspector J. H. Kin-
kead of North Huron introduced the
new inspector of public schools in
South Huron, R. O. Staples, after
a brief address.
Urges High School Education
He urged that immedi-
; „ \ their section to bring their totaltransferred from the roads com- , . ,aq number up to 31. There are two con-
| tinuation schools in the section, at
I Fordwich and Wroxeter.
mission to the police committee, as
recommended in June. In July
Officer Lever was placed on the ■viLiceL wab The other delegation, from S, S.
No. 5, felt no land should be taken
them |
prac-
presi-
the
H.
service from
viewpoint; and J.
inspector of public schools,
conditions in the county
In Ashfield township the
I-Iealth and the council co
lary at the same salary and allow
ance as the other county constables.
The motorcycle, which belonged to
the county, was sold to him for $1’0i0.
The committee recommended “the
collection of county badges -from
non-county constables as there has
been considerable complaint and
abuse of their use. In some cases
these badges were purchased by the
holders of the same and the com
mittee authorized purchase of these
badges in order to take them out
of circulation.
“We have examined and checked
the county constables’ reports for
two quarters since the June session
and find that these men are doin
a big job in an efficient manner.
The report was endorsed.
from their section, which comprises
40 lots.
Praise Drew for Hydro Cut
Huron County Council placed on
record the appreciation of its mem
bers to Premier George Drew and
the Hydro-Electric Power Commis
sioner of Ontario for the reduction
of hydro rates to the farmers, which
Mr. Staples spoke highly of the
work accomplished by his prede
cessors, E. C. Beacom and E. H. Mc-
Kone, He found it disturbing, he
said, to observe the large number
of pupils who leave school after they
had passed the high school en
trance. Close to 70 per cent, of the
boys and girls on Ontario farms
have only this standing. Some years
ago this was considered good but to
day it is expected that a boy, in or
der to be a modern, progressive
farmer and citizen, must have more
education; and a girl who will de
velop a farm home of beauty, Cul
ture, and fine living needs more
than entrance standing.
Two reasons, he said, are given by
parents for the lack of higher edu
cation—that the children are going
on the farm and won’t need it, or
that they cannot afford it.
The warden expressed thanks of
the council to the speakers, and
.council adjourned to meet Friday
morning at 10 o’clock. The members -
attended the meeting of the Federa
tion of Agriculture at Clinton in
the afternoon to hear Hon. T. L.
Kennedy, Minister of Agriculture.
The Want Ads are your depart
ment.—Use them.
who declared the proposed
Warden Tuckey assured the dele
gation that the council was happy
to have the Federation of Agricul
ture present the problem as it
exists in Huron county. He was
sure it would be given every con
sideration. Council endorsed a mo
tion that the warden’s committee
consider the proposition and bring
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Library Project Flourishing
That the Huron County Library
Association is proving a source of
great satisfaction to the reading
public of Huron county was the
opinion expressed by
Bowman of Brussels,
representative on that
teen libraries are now
by a circulating library.
R. J.
county
Four-
served
The rapid
progress made by the association
in the two years since it was form
ed is indicated by the fact that in
1941, 1,028 books were in circula
tion; in 1942 there were 5,074; and
in 1943 over 9,000 books were being
exchanged.
The association is anxious to give
library accommodation to every
library in the county, Mr. Bowman
said, urging that
avail them s elves
and pointing out
derived from the
Reeve
the
body,
being
all the townships
of the privilege,
the great benefit
small fee of $25.
95 Inmates at Home
George Feagan, county home in
spector, reported that ten deaths
had occurred Since January, There
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