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The Exeter Times-Advocate, 1949-03-10, Page 2THE TIMES-ADVOCATE, EXETER, ONTARIO, THURSDAY MORNING, MARCH 10, 1949 Bfje (Bxeter <ta£hgfobocate Times Established 1873 Anuiigamated November 1924 Advocate Established 1881 Published Each Thursday Morning at Exeter, Ontario An Independent Newspaper Devoted to the Interests of the Village of Exeter anti pistrlct Authorized as Second Class Mail, Post Office Department, Ottawa Member of the Canadian Weekly Newspaper Association Member of the Ontario-Quebec Division of the CWNA Member of the Audit ppreau of Circulation Paid-In-Advance Circulation As Of September 30, 1948 2,276 SUBSCRIPTION RATES Canada, in advance, $2.50 a year United States, in advance, $3.00 Single Copies 6 Cents Each J. Melvin Southcott - Publishers Robert Southcott THURSDAY MORNING, MARCH 10, 1949 The Four Corner Stones An acute observer of New England’s splendid business and professional men and farmers was asked what he regarded as the causes that led to her prosperity and general well being, He. unhesitatingly re­ plied: “Eat it up, Eat what is set before you and clean the platter. Eat moderately but let the food be good. “Second, wear it out. Get out of a gar­ ment .or a quilt or a business all there is in it. “Third, make it do. Be not the first to take up a new fashion. Make the tool or the article do till you are sure that a change will pay a real dividend. Fourth, go without. Be content with necessary things.” Simple rules, it must be admitted, but they go down deep and bring up rich treasure. ss # sc * What Is To Be The Europe Of The Future? At the present she is badly divided. •One part of her population stands for lib­ erty, the other portion is the friend of op- pression, One part is on the side of Alfred ' the Great and Cromwell and Hugo and Giether and Tolstoi and Dante. While the other portion is on the side of the slave block and the whip and the prison. Both sides are capable of great exploits, the one for the school and the factor}' the conquest of disease, the furtherance of art and liter­ ature and the development of the means whereby life is made fine and happy. The ideals of the other portion are in the main cruel, selfish and unworthy of man when his face is towards better things. This divi­ sion cannot continue without trouble for all within the borders of that continent and of the world. Europe has the generations of training that should constitute her the lighthouse of the world. Everyone who comes within her influence should be the best friend of the race because of this ex­ perience. From her shores should come our best artisans and engineers and surgeons and statesmen and philosophers. Her manu­ factured articles should be the world’s masterpieces. Her laws should set the stan­ dard for every court of justice. Her dis­ coveries in the workings of the human mind may mark and advance on anything hither­ to discovered. Her political and business achievements should be an everexpanding revelation of the possibilities of the human spirit. Instead of all this and a thousand other characteristics of our human lives, Europe is placing a greatly disproprotion- ate emphasis on the old and evil game of grab and get and hold for one’s own ap­ parent advantage. This division cannot con­ tinue without Europe’s own recession to barbarism and her leading the rest of the race into a pitchy darkness and misery R’bere no ray of light ever can be found. And The Ctife? In the days when the Roman Empire was threatened with division, as Europe is now threatened, Constantine, the emperor, saw that the religion of Jesus of Nazareth alone could save the day. He saw no power but that of religion was equal to a crisis so dreadful. He used his imperial in­ fluence to have that religion become the religion of the empire. The day was saved. East and West were united and Europe blessed the world for fifteen centuries and more. The church again has the opportun­ ity of saving the world. She need but re­ new her faith and give herself to save the ’day. She may again, under God, prove her­ self like the ark we read about in the Book of Genesis. -Ji 4* Not A “Sugar Daddy” When President Truman in his inaugu­ ral told the world that the United States w ready to help the backward nations of the world to get on their feet economically, all sorts of dreams' commenced dancing in the heads of some people, long on fancies but short on discernment. Some nations had the idea that Uncle Sam was standing by to scoopshovel Yankee dollars into their gaping treasuries. Events have shown Un­ cle Sam willing to loan money only in such cases as give assurance that the loan will returned one day with satisfactory in­ terest. The situation has in it a further ele­ ment j Unde Sam conditions his loan in the same assurance that the party borrowing shall us his borrowings for the promotion «of' good business of some variety or an­ other. That is to say, that Uncle Sands head still is hard and his ability to drive a fair bargain as vital as ever, This is as it should be, Uncle Sam looks askance at a plea fox* his money that is not good business. Will They Take The Next Step? Facts coming to light these days reveal the work done by the railways in develop­ ing this dominion. When the C.P.R. was being projected and in the early stages of its construction, that railway saw the im­ portance of an increased population in the Northwest provinces. It was seen that un­ less there was a large prosperous popula­ tion in the west, the railways soon would .be little more than streaks of dust. Indeed, the sparseness of population west of the great lakes was strongly urged as sufficient reason for not building the road. The pro­ jectors of the railroad were aware of the meagreness of the population and set on foot a vigorous campaign for getting more people into Manitoba and her sister por­ tions of the west. The result is well known. Those railroad men were wise enough to lay the emphasis upon villages and towns and cities and farms and mines. Let it not be forgotten that it was the railroads that took the leading part in populating the uninhabited provinces. Most perseveringly they worked through governments and every other agency they could influence to make the west attractive to the rest of the world. All Canada now reaps what these railroaders sowed*. In this part of the dominion we saw the growing influence of the trucking in­ dustry. In some parts of the province the truck has deprived the /railroads ,of the major share of their traffic. Along with the trucking goes the ever-increasing pas­ senger carrying of the private car. All re­ cognize the enormous amount of carrying done by the truck and the private car. People are asking and asking very reason­ ably, if the trucking industry and the priv­ ate car industry will do for Canada’s popu­ lation, work that corresponds to what was done by the railroad in those early days. These great machines, the truck and the car, have a duty in advancing the life of this country in some such way as the rail­ road made new the western provinces. Two problems present themselves. There is the matter of flood control for one thing and soil conservation for another. These prob­ lems are first cousins to the problems of the early railroaders. The mining and the steel and the manufacturing industries are on all fours with the truck and the,car in­ dustries in this respect. Unless the business life and the agricultural vitality of the dominion are supported, the trucking and car industries cannot long be kept going vigorously. We are looking to the truck and the car to do something for the coun­ try more than its fetching and carrying. **• *** The Secret Is Out All the world wondered why Vancou­ ver tile good should be having such frosts and snowfalls and avalanches and’ block­ ades and shortages of electric power. Could it be due to the thunders of St. Laurent and Drew in the solemn chambers in the House of Commons in Ottawa. Was it poss­ ible that old nature was troubled because some skater had challenged Barbara the in­ comparable to a comparison of skill in tlie arena? What was wrong, anyway, the Van­ couverites inquired in sore bewilderment? Now the secret is out. A hr aw piper was out on the streets Flawing as *ed Flaw his last and one of the citizens described his performance as a noise. There he was in bonnet and feathers and glittering gear charming the Waves of the mighty Pacific With his highly special strains, while kilt and plaidies and ribbons gave the coast people an exhibition of glory and colour never matched except on the bonny banks of Loch Lomond. And all this unmatchable panorama was called a noise and nuisance ! There are lewd fellows of the baser sort wllo argue that the mountains and the snowdrifts were stirred to wrath by such a performance on the Sabbath and hurled their fury upon this man who dared to ex­ press his exuberance of feeling in such strains as ne’er were heard since Dougald played his Lament outside of Eden. # sjt 4s $ It was timely, said the Padre on Sun­ day, A party with rooms to rent were look­ ing for a Christian couple to occupy them. Are you prepared to accept a Christian rent? asked the minister who was inter­ viewed. ‘MAY I HELP YOU. MADAM?” Vrij Nederland, Amsterdam (Independent). We Are Not Boasting '. . . when we say that SHUR-GAIN Chick Starter Mash is the best on the market today. People are( telling us this every day. You just can’t beat our quality when you talk Chick Startei' and here’s why: (1) (2)—............ ........................................ffiI As the--------- ^TIMES'* Go By jg. - 1 «■»<«■»».» - .. 50 YEARS AGO (The Exeter Advocate 1889) Mr. Nelson Prior left on Wed­ nesday for Grand Forks, North Dakota, where he intends tak­ ing a 'position. Mr. Ed. Bissett who has been conducting a butcher shop here .for some time, has disposed of his business to Messrs. Ford Brothers. We understand he in­ tends going to Dakota shortly. The Board 'Of Health have purchased an apparatus for the disinfection of houses after diptheria, scarlet fever, con­ sumption, etc. Miss Edith Sanders has taken a position as milliner,at Tilbury centre. Messrs. T. W. Hawkshaw and John Snell have purchased a trio of fast horses. They are fast in the true sense of the word. L. H. Dickson, barrister, spent Wednesday, in Goderich, on business. Mr. Thomas Russell, River­ side Farm, Usborne, and Mr. R. Smith, Hay, attended the annual Western Fair Association meet­ ing held in London, on Friday last. a v 25. YEARS AGO (The Exeter Times 1924) Mr. Bill Davis left Wednesday of this week, for London .Milit­ ary Barracks, to take a Serge­ ant’s Course in the Cavalry, for two weeks. Major J. A. Gregory, of North Battleford, Saskatchewan, was in .Stratford last week, to attend the funeral of his mother, Mrs. Thomas Gregory. On Wednesday evening of last week, a men’s meeting was held in the basement of James St. Church, with a splendid at­ tendance. A musical program of high order was given, followed by a debate on whether Abra­ ham Lincoln or Woodrow Wil­ son was the greater man. The affirmative was upheld by Alymer Christie, Clinton ’ Sweet and Silas Reed, while the negat­ ive was supported by George Hind, Will Gardener and Her­ man Gower. The judges were J. S. Harvey, W. D. Sanders and Richard Welsh, and their de­ cision was in favor of the af­ firmative. Rev. A. A. Trumper spent a few days last week, in Wingham, A number from town were pleasantly entertained at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Preston Dearing, of ‘Stephen, on Wednes­ day evening of last week. 1O YEARS AGO (The Times-Advocate 1939) Rev. Ed. Aidworth, of Saskat­ chewan, son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Aidworth, of Sexsmith, has accepted a call to the past­ orate of Staffa, to commence July 1, subject to the approval of Conference. The members of the James St. C.G.I.T. presented a play, “The old Peabody Pew’’ by Kate Douglas Wiggin, on Friday eve­ ning last. Those acting in the cast were; Norma Parsons, Jean Snell, May King, Florence Southcott, Shirley Moise, Marj­ orie May, Nola Perkins, Jean , Hagerman, Doris Elliott and Helen Rowe. Other numbers in­ cluded a piano instrumental by Lorraine Beavers, solo by Lois Clark, violin selection by Cath­ erine Armstrong and reading by Dorothy Green? One of the oldest and best known residents of this com­ munity died early Sunday morn­ ing in, the person of, James Dignan. Mr. Dignan came to Huron County, as a lad of three years, with his parents, and for seventy-five years he worked at his trade as a blacksmith. When he retired in 1933, he was the oldest active blacksmith in Can­ ada. Mr. Wray Sweitzer is sporting a new Essex car—Shipka news. Miss Carolyn Davis, of the Post Office staff has been indis­ posed through illness. Last week we reported on the Home Projects conducted by the students taking the, Agri­ cultural Course at the ‘Exeter District High School, together with the report of a couple of the students. This week we pub­ lish the report of Margaret Bray on the raising of pigs. I, Margaret Bray, age 15, a Grade X student of Exeter High School, choose the raising of pigs as a project. I was undecid­ ed whether to grow potatoes or raise pigs. After due consider­ ation, I decided that raising pigs would be less work, more profit­ able and more educational. I am glad I decided to raise pigs in­ stead. of growing potatoes, as the price of potatoes was low in contrast with the high price of pigs, last autumn. On May 28, I bought two 9 weeks old pigs from my father. I kept them in a small corner in the barn, made especially for them. They were fed on feed that was bought especially for them. I kept a record of t h e cost of feed, but no record Of their growth. I bought two Yorkshire pigs from my father at the age of 9 weeks. They were kept in a triangle shaped pen apart from the rest of the pigs. They were cleaned out every morning and bedded with a forkful of fresh straw. They were fed in a trough twice a day, a mixture of hog grower and water. At 9 weeks they got one-half a gallon of hog grower and one- half gallon of water twice a day. At 12 weeks their feed was increas­ ed t0 1 gallon of hog grower and 1 gallon of water.When the pigs were 17 yreeks old, they were getting 1 % gallons of hog grower and 1 % gallons of water i twice a day. At 20 weeks, they were getting 2 gallons of hog grower and 2 gallons of water. Three or four times a week they got alfalfa, clover or otlxex' green foods. They were sent to J, M. Schneider Slaughtering House, at Kitchener, on September, 15, 1948. Therefore, 1 cared for them for 14 weeks. One pig weighed 204 pounds alive, and the other pig weighed 209 pounds. The dresed weight of each pig was 154 pounds. As they were both in Grade A ciass which meant getting the govern­ ment premium, which was $3.00 per pig. The total amount I received for the pigs Ws $105. Cost Record Payments: 2 pigs, $25; 1000 pounds Pioneer Hog Grower, $32; total payments $57.00. Receipts: Sale of 2 pigs, $105. Profit: $48.00. The number of pounds of feed needed to raise one pound of dressed pork was approximat- I ely three pounds. The cost of feed to raise one pound of dressed pork was approximately ten cents. The total profit in feeding 2 pigs was ,>$48.00. Therefore, the total profit in feeding one pig Was $24.00. As these were just ordinary pigs, I think it is quite possible for anyone interested in raising pigs to make a fair profit, pro­ vided that he did not encounter too many diseases. I think I was well paid for the time I spent looking alter them and/ can recommend raising pigs as a profitable enterprise io anyone interested In it, We are at your service always with the WANT AD section, (3) (4) FRESH eat more and do better stored feed. HIGH T.D.N. — means test gas in your car ... T.D.N. in a chick and it grows faster. PUBLIC CONFIDENCE — One customer told us this week that although he has used our starter for eight years, it is bettex’ this yeax* than ever. He said his 5-week-old chicks have already reached the growth of 7-week-old birds. This is only one satisfied customer of many. Baby chicks can’t be fooled, that’s why more SHUR-GAIN Chick Starter is fed in Canada than any other brand. LOWER IN COST — because of local manu­ facture; there is no middleman ox* transportation cost. . Fresh feed is tastier and chicks will on fresh feed than on high energy. Put high it runs better. 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