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The Wingham Advance-Times, 1955-03-30, Page 4The Wingham Advance-Times, Wednesday, March 30, 1955 EDITORIALS Reminiscing By Bob Carbert THE FIRST OF MANY? The crying need for better rural-urban relations in this community has been expressed on several occasions in our editorial column. It was, therefore, with intense interest that we attended the meeting of the bions Club on Friday evening, when farmer friends of the club mem­ bers were the guests. The complete success of the gather­ ing and the cheering spirit of good will which permeated the get-together were an intense gratification.. Bert Daynard, the speaker of the evening, pointed repeatedly to the tremendous value of such rural-urban meetings, where farmers and townsmen are enabled to meet socially, rather than just to do business, The guest speaker is a man who admirably exempli­ fies the importance of town and country co-operation, for in addition to his duties as minister of three churches, he is Perth County’s fieldman for the Federation of Agri­ culture and handles a hundred acre farm as well. His keen understanding of the farmer’s problems is thoroughly mixed with his knowledge of townsmen and his deep re­ spect for the spiritual values which must predominate in the lives of both. Before the meeting concluded the speaker voiced the hope that it would not be long before farm groups would invite speakers from the ranks of the town and business folk to address their gatherings upon occasion. The presi­ dent of the bions Club, in turn, said that there would be more “Farmers’ Nights” in Wingham. May both predic­ tions prove true, for nothing but sound benefit will be the result. SIXTY YEARS AGO The material is being laid on the ground for Mr. Alex Ross's new resi­ dence on John Street, While working at the elevator in Messrs. Carr & Sons flour mill on Wednesday last, Mr. John Linklater had the misfortune to have his right hand badly crushed. The present winter has been more prolific in storms which have block­ aded highways and railways than any other* in the history of the country. What might have been a serious accident happened on the CPR track near Wingham, on Wednesday after­ noon last, The train coming from Teeswater due here at 1 o’clock, struck a load of saw logs on the B line crossing. The crossing was bare and in trying to cross it the horses got stuck. The engine was pretty badly smashed up and two freight cars loaded with lumber were derailed. The auxiliary train and a gang of men from Orangeville arrived on the scene about 7 o’clock and it took from that time until about 10.30 before the track was clear. The damage to the cars and engine would be in the neighbourhood of $300. No one hurt. was the held *$ NO PLACE LIKE HOME Anyone addicted to travel but short on the financial wherewithal can obtain vicarious travel thrills at the ex­ pense of only a few postage stamps. By filling out coupons in the various travel and outdoor magazines you can get .a whole library of brochures about holidaying everywhere from Honolulu to Scandinavia. A brief survey of the field from the printer’s stand­ point would seem to indicate that, while the tourist bureau boys are long on the necessary imagination for their pam­ phlets, they are often a bit short on printing know-how. Many otherwise excellent travel pamphlets suffer from poor printing and reproduction in a place where the best possible printing job is desirable. As Canadians, however, we were pleased to note that the little booklet put out by the Dominion Government is equal to any we have seen, both from content and general quality. In fact it inspired us to see more of a country which most Canadians seem to take for granted. * * lacrosse en- the council evening last, H1 IT WON’T BE POPULAR Washington forecasts an States and China “before A recent news story from atomic war between the United fall”, and suggests that the conflagration will be touched off by a Chinese assault on the offshore islands of Quemoy and Matsu. According to the story Washington is willing to risk a world war which might involve the use of even, the hydrogen, bomb for the sake of a couple of islands off the China coast, which are considered by everybody to be Chinese property in the first place. The British Government has said that it doesn’t feel bound to defend the islands. Even Canada, which usually goes along with American policy, has decided, if possible, to sit this one out. So far no other U.S. allies have shown much enthusiasm for such a war. Perhaps the forecast is a little on the pessimistic side; perhaps it has been circulated as a deterrent to the Chinese to cease and desist in their plans for capturing the islands. Whatevei" the truth in the story, one thing is prob­ able. A general war and the resulting risk of obliterating civilization, will not be too popular with the world at large, just for the sake of two obscure Chinese islands. * * WHO CAN TELL? Bruce Hutchison, writing in the Financial Post, says that our affairs are being revolutionized but few of us know where we are going. He asks: (<How many politicians . . . have ever sat down quietly and tried to figure out what kind of a society they are aiming at as they take it more and more under their management? How many businessmen . . . have figured out their future place in a society which has given government a massive, increasing and permanent control over business? How many labor leaders have seen that the same retreat under the state’s expanding umbrella can menace labor as much as business? Flow many profes­ sional socialists have seen the end of their theory and the prospect of a very dead end? How many Social Creditors know what credit is?” The answer, of course, is very few. And those who did stop to ponder the question probably wouldn’t come to any ultimate conclusion, anyhow. , No one can foretell the consequences of his own actions, or the shape of things to come. The wisest men mankind has ever produced are singularly inept as sooth-* sayers, even as you or I. 0-0-0 FORTY YEARS AGO An organization meeting of Wingham Automobile Club was in the Firemen’s room on Friday evening last with a good attendance of automobile owners. Officers for the year were elected as follows: Honor­ ary president, A. H. Musgrove, M.P.P.; president, George Mason; vice-presi­ dent, J. A. Mills; secretary-treas­ urer, Dr. J. P. Kennedy. Execu­ tive and road committees were ap­ pointed and a special committee was apppointed to interview the town council with a view to having certain streets in the town put in good shape for an auto course. A large number of thusiasts gathered in chambers on Thursday when the lacrosse club was re-organ­ ized for the coming season. Mr. Peter Dean was elected chairman for the evening, The team this season will be known as the Huron Oaks. Figures of the population of the county of Huron have been compiled by Mr. W, Lane, county clerk. The only municipalities in the county that have held their own in fifteen years are Goderich and Wingham. It is to be hoped that, having done her full share in peopling the West, Huron will now begin to recover her popula­ tion and that in future years the fig­ ures will show an upwards tendency. 0-0-0 TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO Those engaged in making maple syrup in this district report a good run of sap this .season. A Durham calf with two full-grown heads, one body and two tails was born on the farm of William McFad­ den, 16th concession of Grey Town­ ship on Sunday. The freak was alive at birth but only lived a short time. The clerk of Wingham has received notices this week that on Wednesday March 12th, the Province took over the county road from Clinton through Wingham and Teeswater to connect with the provincial highway (Durham Road) north of Teeswater. Thus Wingham is at last situated on a Provincial Highway. The County en­ gineer has notified all patrolmen on this road to discontinue all work as all work in connection with this High­ way will hereafter be under the sup­ ervision of a Provincial Engineer with headquarters at Stratford. At a special meeting of the commit­ tee of the Turnberry Agricultural Society on Friday evening, they dis­ cussed the idea of levelling the grounds, enlarging the race track so that races may be staged, and possibly lay out a baseball diamond. 0-0-0 FIFTEEN YEARS AGO The work of installing the heating equipment at the Armouries has been completed and on Monday a test was made that was satisfactory. The steam is supplied from the boiler at the Town Hall. Messrs. W. H. French and J. H. Quality or Quantity On any farm hog production is an important means of income. Most farmers raise hogs in varying degrees, some might market 25 hogs a year, others 250. But somewhere in be­ tween, you’ll find the average hog pro­ ducer, who either raises his own wean- ers, and raises up to market weight, or the man who heads foi’ either his neighbors, or a Community sale, buys his weaners or chunks, and proceeds to feed them off to market. In most businesses there are some shortcuts or methods that will make or lose you money, and the hog business is no exception, The hog producer can take advantage of plenty of ideas, while he is working away, combating disease, fluctuating prices and other such obstacles. Perhaps there isn’t much he can do personally, about the establishing of a profitable price, but there is one thing that every hog pro­ ducer can control, and that is quality. Huron County is the second highest hog producing county in Ontario, and the figures from the marketing ser­ vice show us that Huron County far­ mers sold 129,378 hogs in 1954. The only county to market more was their neighbour to the east, Perth County, where they marketed in excess of 162,000. Volume is one thing, but quality is another. We seem to be concentrating on volume, but forget­ ting about quality, for during 1954, the percentage of Grade A hogs In this county dropped 3%. The past year was the first time since they started to rail grade hogs, that Huron County farmers marketed less than 30% A Grades. Our 1!954 figures show that only 28.6% of Huron’s hogs were A Grades. Now, I know that hundreds of far­ mers who read this will immediately say, “What’s this guy talking about? I can market a B Grade hog and get as much for it as an A.” Can you? On a long term basis, I doubt it. In the first place, you are passing up the bonus for A Grades. In the second place, most of the B Grade hogs are such, because they are overweight. If they had been marketed a week or two earlier, they would have graded A’s. They eat more feed those last two weeks, than any other two week period in their life, and you could have saved that. Further, you could have had a little more per pound. In addition, those extra pounds of pork have simply added to the pork sur­ plus, helped to fill warehouses, helped to depress lard prices and lowered de­ mand. They occupied your pens for two weeks, when you could have been utilizing the space for something else. Most Ontario farmers laugh about the lard type hogs that are produced in the States, the corn fed hogs that are laughingly referred to, by Steve Stothers, secretary of the Canadian Swine Breeders, as satchels full of lard, But ua not forget that W American friends have discovered, why it is that pur bacon is preferred, or has been preferred on the world market^, and on their own tables, Thpy are converting quickly, and at the Chicago Fair last Fall I noticed hundreds of beautiful bacon type hogs being shown by American corn belt produceds. Markets, and consum­ er demand are two more reasons why Ontario, and particularly Huron Coun­ ty Hog Producers want to watch closely. There personal pride in .. . , .....__w._, and their farms. I don’t hear Huron CCounty Farmers boasting about their hog grades, for they haven’t any thing to be proud of. A little care, a little more pride in the raising and marketing of hogs, would not be amiss. It has been said that the farm­ er is the only man who has to ask the price, whether he is buying or sell­ ing. Unfortunately this is true, to date at least, but if the hog quality were better, perhaps the price would be a little better. Packers are asking for better hogs, and there must be a reason. is another reason. That is pride. Most farmers take a their stock, their buildings,* square foot for each lot, notwithstand­ ing that the selling price is actually less than that amount Approve Regulations Under Cemetery Act Owners of all cemeteries in Ontario will be required to set aside at least 35 per cent of the sales price of plots an,d graves for perpetual care as a result of regulations under The Ceme­ teries Act passed by Order-in-Council at the Provincial Parliament Buildings today and scheduled to come into force April 1st. The regulations are designed to before April 1, 1955; cemeteries owned implement recommendations of the Select Legislative Committee on Cemeteries and are complementary to enabling legislation passed at the 1954 session of the Ontario Legisla­ ture. A number of recommendations of the Committee were incorporated in the Act by way of amendment at that time, including provisions relat­ ing to the creation,, custody and super­ vision of perpetual care funds. According to the regulations, $1 per square foot is deemed to be the mini­ mum sales price for each lot for the purpose of computation of perpetual care, and accordingly the owner is re­ quired to compute perpetual care on In respect to the custody of perpet­ ual care funds, the Act requires all cemetery owners to place perpetual care- funds in the custody of a trust; company or the Fublic Trustee. How­ ever, the Regulations exempt from this provision municipal cemeteries: cemeteries incorporated by a special Act of the Legislature with respect to j perpetual care funds collected by them by religious organizations where the 'religious organization owns and oper- I ates three or more cemeteries; and 1 the Toronto General Burying Grounds cemeteries. OAR KILLS DEER IN ROAD LEAP Deputy Reeve Ralph Westgate, of Strathroy surprised—or was surprised —by a fat doe deer which leapt in front of, his car on old Highway 22. 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The season of Easter is usually of a spring-like nature but this year was surely an exception. One of the worst storms to hit this district this winter took place on Good Friday and the Easter week-end. In this district traf­ fic was maintained with great diffi­ culty and highway No. 4 south of here was a bane to the motoring public. After this week-end of snow we are of the opinion that the most important accessory for a car in winter time is a shovel. Most people in town realized there was a bad storm in progress but one had to be in the open country to know what the full fury of the storm was. The Liberal party under the leader­ ship of W. L. 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