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The Wingham Advance-Times, 1942-07-30, Page 7FORMER BLUEVALE - TURNBERRY MAN TELLS LIFE STORY :lad Many Experiences In His 85 Years Of Living In Many Parts Of Canada (By P. J.. Cantelon) :(FroM the Goderich Signal-Star) My friend the editor of The Signal- Star having requested be, on the oc- casion of my eighty-fifth birthday re- cently, to write a sketch ,of my life, I am Making the attempt, My grandparents were Irish. My grandfather on my father's side was - Peter Cantelon, a native of the County Limerick, He belonged to the con- stabulary of his county. On account of the famine in Ireland about that time, which resulted from the rotting of the potatoes, which formed a large Part of their diet, a great many people emigrated to America. Amongst them were my forefathers. My grandfather B.C. FLIERS AWARDED D.F.C. • Thousands of patriots have been ,flung into crowded prisons upon the flimsiest pretexts. Hundreds are suf- feting in the notorious German con- centration camps. The liberty of the press and of association has been sup- pressed. Broadcasting has been taken over by the Nazis. All political parties with the exception of the numerically negligible National Socialist party, have been disbanded. HOW ENSILAGE FUNCTIONS IN SILO In order to understand why certain precautions are necessary in ensiling legumes, it is useful to know just how the ensilage process functions. When green crops are placed in an air-tight silo under ideal conditions for ensil- ing, the plants continue to live for a certain length of time. They con- tinue to breathe or-respire. This re- sults in the generation of heat and uses tip some of the oxygen which is left in the silo mass. Later, while there is still some air left, the activi- ties of the lower forms of life such as moulds, yeasts and bacteria in- crease. In good silage, moulds and yeasts function only for a few hours because the okygen supply is soon ex- hausted. In very dry crops, more air is present and moulds develop to a greater extent, Bacteria play an important part in the ensilage process. The desirable types which are found in good silage are capable of living in a limited sup- ply of air. They act on the sugars found in crops and convert them into organic acids such as lactic acid and acetic acid, As these acids develop in sufficient quantity, they in turn des- troy the bacteria which produce them or set up conditions in which the bac- teria cannot' develop. A state of , equilibrium is thus reached and tide' silage will keep in this pickled or pre- , served state for a considerable length of time. Corn is an ideal medium for the development of the ensilage pt.- vim COUN1TgCIAECK''SOOKS 12,14:4„stri pAk.Etklmourrs Styles for ,:evaiy.' business. J. Varioncii1;o4s4nd .designs SampleashgneStIoris and wi:thout. obligations. The Advance-Times Phone 34. Thursday, July 30th„ 1942 WINCRANI ADVANCE-VMS erheads We' print attention - compelling compelling Booklets, Catalogues, Blotters, Tickets, ' - And anything in direct sales material Flight Lieutenant A. J. Bradley, LEFT, and Squadron Leader Homer Cochrane, both of Vernon, B.C., have been awarded the D.F.C. for dar- ing exploits in air action. Both flidrs paid their own way to England shortly before the outbreak of war to join the R.A.F. NAMINSIMPEZINIVAIBMIMEMPIADI RCCWINEIBMION 0 Who is your printer? 'xi' Does he create for you the kind of printing that makes every sale a clos- ed sale? Manufacturers, merch- ants and buyers of print- ing who realize the im- portance of this co-oper- ation by their printer come to us for results. Let us work with-you on your next printed piece and help you make it a profitable sales-getting investment. 24.y first school teacher was Thomas Farrow, who afterwards represented East Huron in the House of Commons at Ottawa for several terms during the premiership of Sir John A, Mac- donald. As I was boric shortly after the close, of the Crimean War, times were very hard. For instance, tea was $2 a pound, and other things in proportion—a good training for one in lessons of economy. I knew about work in helping my father as soon as I was able to drive the oxen among the stumps, This also was good training, as I realized later when I settled on the prairie, Joins Exodus to the. West When I was sixteen yews of age my dear mother passed on to her re- ward, leaving six young children to battle with a hard and unfriendly world, with the advantage, however, of having been brought up mound the family altar—a good start for . any child, For nine years I made my- own living between Ontario and Michigan, and on March 15th, 1882, I embarked with the great exodus from the coun- ties of Huron and Bruce to the great lone land of the West, We landed at Winnipeg on the 21st of the month. anti I thought I would end my days there, "IVfan proposes but God dis- poses," At the end of eight years, during the terrible influenza scourge of 1919) Thy wife was taken, to a better place whette no death ever enters, and having no housekeeper (my girls he- ing married or about to be married),. I deeded my ranch to King George and he deeded it to a returned soldier. Soon after my wife's death. I was at- tacked by appendicitis and spent seven weeks in the hospital in Chilliwack, and while convalescing I was advised by my doctor to have a change. I decided to visit Ontario, where I had an only brother in business at Wing- ham, near the place of my birth, Two and a half years later I met the pres- ent Mrs. Cantelon in Goderich and. I have now resided here for twenty-one. years; I might add that I served for thirty- five years as a local preacher in con- nection with the former Methodist Church. Now, though well stricken in years, I still can sing "All the way my Saviour leads me, What have I to ask beside? can I doubt His tender mercies Who through life has been' my guide? Heavenly peace, divinest comfort, Here by faith in Him I dwell, For I know, whate'er befalls me, Jesus doeth all things well." CANADIANS GREAT TELEPHONE USERS Canada has more than five times as many telephones for every 100 people as the Axis powers. There are more telephones in the Dominion to serve 11. million people than the entire Jap- anese Empire has for its teeming mil- lions. These comparisons come from a sur- vey ,of the latest available world tele- phone statistics recently completed by the American Telephone and Tele- graph Company. The three Axis powers and their pre-war dominions, this survey shows, average only 2.34 telephones whereas on January 1, 1941 this country had 12,78 telephones for every 100 people. There is an av- erage of two telephones per 100 pop- ulation in the world. Using estimates in the case of those countries for which no recent official data are available •due to the war, a world total of 44,190,000 telephones is indicated as of "January 1, 1941. At the present time it is likely that over 46 million telephones are in service, with well over.one-half of the world's telephonei being on this continent and about one-third in Europe. Telephones operated by private companies account for more than 60% of the world's total. 'Close to 58% of all the telephones in the world are now operated from automatic central offices, including some 767,000 dial telephones in Canada. Canada had a total of 1,461,000 telephones on Jan- uary 1, 1941. • Only three,,countries have more tele- phones for every 100 of the population than Canada; the United States 16.56, Sweden 14.26 and New Zealand 13.96 top Canada's 12.78 telephones. While no comparison of the num- ber of telephone conversations carried on in the respective countries is shown, it is reasonably safe to assume that Canadians continue to be the world's greatest telephone talkers. The previous statistics issued by the A. T. & T. showed that Canadians led the world with 246.3 telephone calls per capita in 1989 followed by the United States with 231.5 conversations, Den- mark with 189.5, Sweden with 189,0 and Norway With 96.1. According to figures issued recently by the 'Dom- inion Bureau of Statistics the average number of telephone calls per capita in Canada increased to 255 in 1940. Toronto has more residence tele- phones per hundred families than any other of the big cities of the continent —that is those of more than 750,000 population. With 74.9 home telephon- es per hundred families on January 1, 1941, Toronto had a wide margin over Chicago which was in second place with 61,6 telephones. Montreal is the seventh largest city on the continent and with 50,8 telephones for each 100 families stands seventh also in its resi- dence telephone development among the cities having more than three quarters of a million people, HOLLAND UNDER THE NAZI YOKE Threats and Promises Fail to Win Support for Germany. By Professor P, S. Gerbrandy, (President of the Netherlands Council of Ministers) Economically, politically and social- ly the Netherlands people have to bear the full weight of the ignominious Nazi yoke. After barely fifteen month's of occupation they have been reduced front a very high standard of living to the brink df starvation. The famous ports, once throbbing with life, appear dead. The wheels of industry have stopped, and only those factories which fit into the 1''a21 i The Advance-Times PHONE 34 • WINGHAM bo's coming over on a sailing boat and landed in 'Goderich. In those clays there was no bank communication and my grandfather carried his all, $5,000 in gold, in a cotton bag and never left it out of his sight on the long journey over. On his arrival in Goderich he bought land .from the Canada Com- pany in Goderich township, on the 7th concession. My father, Peter Cantelon, soon after he was married moved up to the little village of Bluevale and helped the Leach brothers to establish 'them- selves in the lumber and flour bus- iness. It was there I first saw the light of day on June 28th, 1857. ..Nty father then bought a bush farm in the t.awnship of Turnberry, which was then a virgin forest. To show the crudeness of fconditions, the settlers in blazing a trail out to the settlement were guided by a woman blowing a horn to keep them in the right direc- tion.' ...*•••••••., er n Winnipeg at that time had a popula- • tion,of ten thousand, and the place was • thronged, mostly with young men looking for a home, We were follow,• ing the advice of Sir John A., who N quoted Horace Greeley; "Go west, young man, and grow up 'with the country." It was good advice, as 111 thousands of young men proved to • their advantage. 1111 After being delayed in Winnipeg a • • week by storm. We proceeded west and • were snowed in again at Portage la n Prairie for a night, finally arriving at I. Brandon at 4 o'clock in the morning. Eighteen cars of immigrants were turned out with nothing but a box car for a station. It was 20° below out- side, and the fastest runners got in- side the station, 'standing there until day-light. Brandon at that time was just nine months old, a little wooden village. Striking out for the Turtle Mountain country fifty miles south, we took up land on section 16, east half, township 3, range 19. In the summer I made some "improvements" to hold the claim and walked back to Brandon, and secured work on the C.P.A., which was then under con- struction and offered the only oppor- tunity for work. I remained in the 'West until the fol- lowing winter set in, spent the winter in Ontario, and then returned to the West. My.outfit consisted of a yoke of oxen, a cow, and a few implements. When I paid for my half-car I had not a dollar left to start housekeeping with my young sister, who took charge of my 12 by 14-foot cabin. However, I borrowed enough money from a friend to buy a stove and was glad to have a little home of my own, I had some of my schoolmates as neighbors. Also among our neighbors were three mid- dle-aged men well known to the older citizens of Goderich: William Robin- son, with his good wife' and two dau- and his family of nine children left ghters, Sadie and Maggie; Samuel Oke Ireland in 1841, were seven weeks and family, and R. W. McKenzie. These left their footprints on the sands of time and passed on to their reward years ago. In British Columbia I farmed in that community for twenty-eight years. In 1884 I married Miss Bessie Musgrove, a native of my own township of Turnberry. We had nine children horn to us, seven of whom are living—five of them in the Canadian West, one in British Colum- bia, and one in Burbank, California. After selling my farm I moved with my wife and family in 1909 to Van- couver. I discovered, however, I had made a mistake—like Lot, nephew of, Abraham, who pitched his tent toward Sodom. I bad three boys of school age and finding that the city. was not the best place to fit them for after life I bought a small farm in the Chilli- wack Valley, where I could provide them with.-.something to do. It was a fruit and dairy farm of twenty acres, a fine home with city conveniences, Bathing Beausoleil Islan ,Georgian Bay Is ands, National Park, Ontario, Canada machine can survive. These fishing trawlers and coastal vessels which could not escape to England lie idle, or have to work for the Nazis, endang- ering the lives of our seamen in the service of the foe. Agriculture suffers from the severe shortage of labour, fuel and fertilizers; dairy-farmers see their best cows slaughtered to feed the occupying army, or exported to the Third Reich. The Germans descended upon the fer- tile lowlands like a cloud of locusts; shops have been emptied by the huge purchases made by German soldiers and officials; trainloads of agricult- ural produce have disaiipeared into the German maw. A large army of occup- ation has to be fed, clothed and hous- ed. As a result the National Debt is in- creasing at a rate of ten times greater than that reached in the Great War. The Treasury is selling astronomical amounfs of government paper and there is plenty of paper money in cir- culation despite huge semi-forced loans. But goods are scarce, prices are rising in spite of attempts at control, and the standard of living has rapidly declined. Almost everything is rationed, but the rations are so small that in some cases labourers-feel too weak to con-, tinue work after four o'clock in the af- ternoon. Such is the economic condition to which our people have been condemn- ed. All asses are suffering: and com- plaining alike. Industrialists have been reduced to mere tools in the hands of the Nazis; farmers work hard and earn, little; almost 150,000 labourers have .been blaakmailed into toiling in German factories and shipyards. But there are things worse than merciless looting, the dread of inflat- ion, the shortage of food, clothing and fuel. The political and cultural tyran- ny of the Nazi overlords strikes at the very root of the people's character; the love of their liberties won in cen- tury-long struggles. The despised ag- ents of the Gestapo lurk in every cafe. vonimr••=milmrsaarsgesarromameassok A group of R.A.F. lads who have won their Wings In Canada have been given a quick glimpse of other Darts of the Dominion. In the course of their travels R.Q.F. FLIERS VISIT GOVERNMENT HOUSE IN OTTAWA they visited Government House at Ottawa where they, were greeted, ABOVE, by Her Royal Highness Prinsl cess Alice, wife of the governor general, cess because it contains relatively' large amounts of sugar for the form- ation of organic acids. This is why corn has become such a popular silage' crop. It can be made into good silage with ordinary care. But although legumes and young grass are more difficult to ensile be- cause they contain relatively little sugar and are comparatively high in, protein, good silage can be made of these crops without the use of pre- servatives. This fact is particularly important in view of the present possibility of obtaining molasses on acoCunt of the war, and just how this can be done is fully explained in the Special Wartime Series. Pamphlet, No. 66, "Making Grass and Legume Silage Without Preservatives". A. copy of the pamphlet may be obtained- by writing to the Publicity and Ex- tension Division, Dominion Depart- ment of Agriculture, Ottawa. -1-'"""0•11 CANADIANS MANNING SPITFIRES IN ENGLAND A group of fighter pilots serving with the 1.1.0,A.P. In tnglatid are shown in front of a Spitfire. Front row, Ltrit to wont Flight4ergeant .1. L. 1Vritehell, Toronto, Orit.i E. G. Lapp, IVIedicine tat, Alta.; Sgt. V. D.1Vfare, Toronto, Ont.; Sgt. 3. M. Reid, Win. 11450g. 'Mara se, 3..A. Taylor, Piclunont, Que..; Sgt. 0, Cr., Seitpig, Toronto, Ont. lack, row, Pilet,Officet J. D. MeParlane, Calais, Iffaine; Plight-Lout. X, O. Calvert (M.O.), Toronto,,Ont.; Pilot-Officer IL Long, Saint John, N.13.; light-Lieut. it. C. Weston, Saint John, t1.14.; /t, A, Boorner, OtthWa, OA; Pilot-Officer P. /t, takings, ViitinedoSa, 1Viah4 Pilot-Officer W. F. Ash, Texas,