The Wingham Advance-Times, 1974-10-03, Page 18P
a book worth reading
T ** ilmiahed a book called
'Ten Loa Yekre. In my *Wan,
*11141111 be requimd reading every t underfor
fi
and pleasantly, if .
occasion-
allyhitter , for everyone
,'ty. The relit are too old to
me. and too late to save.
With another depreasion coin-
and remember, you read
it here, it .might serve u some
Settof survival chart for the
young people heading into the
neat depression, and a justifi-
cation for the older people, who
e
are so bymiaboutsuich things as
electric lights that aren't turned
off; food scraps that are thrown
out, and clothing that is perfectly
good, but ten years out of style.
It's impossible to tell young
people about your ,own experi-
ences in the Great Depression,
And it deserves the capital let-
ters.
When you try to tell the rising
generation about your own De
pression experiences, they mere-
ly groan, roll their eyes, and
think, "Yuk. Here goes Dad, or
Grandad, again, -whining about
what hard times are really like.
Copy ter Crossroads Classi-
fieds Aunt be ,received by 6 p.m.,
Wednesday of week prior to :pub-
ation.
Help Wanted
OPERATOR WANTED for ,six -
lane ibowling alley an► Uican-
Salary or percentage. Also Rof-
fee Pup restaurant in Lucan re-
quires .manager. Apartment
available. For full information
call. .227.14141 or write Rox 316,
Lucan, Ontario.
RECREATION
GLEALE MOBILE HOMES
and Travel Trailers for sale; also
large fully serviced and land-
scaped mobile home lots for rent.
First sited west of Stratford
on Highway 8, 1 mile north.
Crystal Lake Mobile Homes,
Court Ltd., RR 5, Stratford.
Phone 39,3x6121: tf
For :ale
7 CUBIC PT. chest freezer,
$185.04; Speed Queen spin dry
• washer, S22& Askett Appliance
Centre, Palmerston, phone 343-
3512. 3-10
What'll drag!"
That's why the yoiMg people
slid, read the book. They
annply can't realise, as they scoff
their two -bits worth of French
fries, that grown men worked ten
emirs a day for that same
two -hits, during the Depression.
They met realize, as they
shoot a quarter into the pop ma-
chine for a Coke (capital Cl to
wash down their French fries,
that if you took out a girl during
the Depression, and had a
quarter in your pocket, you were
rich.
According to the book, the
hardest hit areas were the
Prairie Provinces, the Maritimes
and Quebec. Onthrio and B.C.
were the only provinces in those
days which weren't in really des-
perate condition, and they were
bad enough.
This is a very credible book, to
anyone who lived through those
Ten Lost Years, The author went
out with a tape recorder and in-
terviewed hundreds of people
who went through them. The re-
sults are funny, tragic, and ex-
tremely Canadian. It could never
be misunderstood as a British or
American book, although these
countries suffered equally.
Canadians then, in their pawk-
ish, stubborn and often stupid
pride, would go to almost any
lengths to avoid "going on
relief". This was almost a sin,
and always a last resort. And
"relief" could be ten or twelve
dollars a month, fora family A .
nickel had to do the work of a
dollar.
After three years of drought
and .grasshoppers, many prairie
farmers just walked away and
left everything: house and ma-
chinery. The average cash
income from farmers in 1 the
Maritimes, including the wealthy
ones, was something like forty
dollars a year. What a modern
kid from a middle-class family
would spend in a month on
clothes and treats. People died,
not of starvation, but of malnutri-
don.
- Oh, I remember! I was only a
kid at the time, but I remember.
If, all happened sort of gradually.
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Crossroads
telecast host
in Herron Co.
David Mainse,.host of Canada's
only national Gospel Telecast,
"Crossroads", will be appearing .
- in person at Huron Centennial
School, Brucefield on October 5 at
8p.m: for a Crossroads TV Rally.
The Crossroads telecast is seen
on Channel 13 Sundays at 8:30
a.m.
The rally will provide a won-
derful opportunity for everyone
to meet this telecaster who pio-
neered the Crossroads program
over 11 years ago and led it
through a growth that went from
a 15 -minute program on a North-
ern Ontario station to a national
weekly half hour color program
now seen on over 100 Canadian
television outlets, as well as tele-
vision and cable stations in the
U.S.A.
Accompanying David Maine
for this rally will be the Cross-
roads director of music, Glen
Rutledge who will provide' an in-
spirational musical program.
Glen is seen regularly on the tele-
cast and his music is enjoyed by
thousands throughout the nation.
The rally,,is a real family inspi-
rational event. All seats are free
and a cordial invitation is ex-
tended to all, both young and old
alike. The rally is sponsored
locally by South Huron Youth for
Christ who will receive an offer-
ing at the event to be given to the
Crossroads ministry.
GARNET, GRETCH, FENDER,
HOHNER, OVATION instru-
ments and equipment, electric
pianos and organs, stereo compo-
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Durham 309►2456.
QUALITY, SELECTION,
PRICE A ADVICE.
TN
My father was a fairly prosper-
ous merchant, but he was too
kindly a man, bless him, to
crunch 'people who were hard up.
He gage them credit. He lost his
business. He had too much money
an the books, and not enough in
the till to meet the mortgage.
Stunned,1n his late forties, with
five kids, he sank into depression.
There were no jobs for anyone,
let alone middle-aged men. My
mother took over.
She took in boarders. n the
summer, we rented rooms to
tourists. A clean bed and a huge
breakfast for $L50. She sold
homemade baking. She was an
Avon lady. And we went inexo-
rably into debt : the butcher's, the
grocer's, the coal man. But there
was no way WE were going to go
on relief. It was shameful.
Somehow, we staggered
through. My older brother got a
job in the bank at six dollars a
week. My sister got a job in a
store at eight dollars a week.
They kicked most of it back to my
mum. That was the deal in those
days, everybody pulling together.
But it was mighty hard on the
young workers, who, today,
would be going to college on gov-
ernment grants.
We never went hungry. A lot of
hamburger, at three pounds for a
quarter. A lot of baloney. A big,
Across from the
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00, Commodore
Canada
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Floyd A. Allard
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"INFORMATION
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WITHOUT OBLIGATION"
perpetually simmering pot .oj
soup. If the porridge was 't
finished in the morning, it wit
into the soup pot.
And I remember the odd time
when we had something I've
never tasted since. This was
when the butcher would advallee
no more credit, and there wale(
a cent in the house. Potatodn.
hash.
I wouldn't mind a good feed 01
that tonight. You take sortie
baked potatoes and put thou
through the meat grinder. With
the colour of the potato skins.,it
comes out looking like meat and
potatoes. Fry it up in a pan with
some onions, dirt cheap, and you
had a pretty good dinner. Top it
off with home-made bread and
raspberry preserves, and you'd
had a gourmet dinner.
It beat hell out of the modern
frozen TV dinner, both for nour-
ishment and flavour and was
probably better for us than most
of the garbage modern kids eat.
No, we never went hungry, and
there was always a bowl of pea
soup and home-made bread for
the hoboes who arrived at the kit-
chen door, hall -frozen and half-
starved.
alfstarved.
But I never realized what mi-
racles my mother and father per-
formed in those days, and I wish I
had, sooner.
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SATURDAY, 11010 p, '".4WHOPS COMBO TO OONNOIrs
starring Wiser trsktilly" ' iliagesnear .,;
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with liberal -minded 'p n *eat* a .4 100411010140,01 -. 4o
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SUNDAY intontoor (12e10 m4*n, ®-MGIC DERSLEEVE ON SROAD-
WAY", with Harold Peary Lad Lillie Burke. Giflderb" u r a •da
himself involved with a tua.A.buntiAg wndow and a wwad-di,$ -
Iblond.
tA0440AY, 1204 ,p. i..... YID* FROZEN ,D*AD''r watt D °tdrewb
and Ansa Palk. An Aging, scientist ib an an
intrirste .per to thaw out a band of -dad elite who d ,a,teerett.
for deep freeze tbhe. war.
an Vora ' elr. ,COAIT0 starring Richard io Jae
TUESDAY, 1245p��•�+-•
d . The :WPM .ef a fishing boat is 1 ' hili
daughter 1s m trouble and finds dead under the influence
of drugs,
FRIDAY, 11:45p.m.r—NTHR HUNCHBACK OF minx 'DAiA8'",
starring Charles Litighten and Maureen 4' 'a. Victor Hu o's
medieval horror molodrama of a .gypsy girl saved from a Paris
mob by a hunchback. .
WEDNESDAY, 12:45 paiue-,--4 NVlTATI N TO A t U`NFIGHTRR."
starring Yul Brynner and .Janice Hule,
WEDNESDAY, 11:45 p.m.i—NROSINERY ROMAN STYLEstarring
Claudia' Mori and Adrian Celetatano, . Balk robbers ,pull .a
perfect holdup and escape in :a helicopter from the roof of the
bank.
Channel 13 Entertainmeflt
FRIDAY, 12:00 MIDNIGHT—'WYE, RYE BIRDIE4 starring Dick
Van Dyke. Ann Margret and Janet Leigh.
SATURDAY, 1:30 p.m. --,-"BACKTRACK" starring Neville Brand
aid Peter Brown.
SATURDAY, f .p.m. --"THE LAST PICTURE SHOWN, starring Cybill
Shepard, Ben Johnson and Cloris Leachman.
SATURDAY MIDNIGHT—"ASYLUM FOR A SPY", starring Robert
Stack and :Felicia Farr.
SUNDAY, 1:30 p.m.—"MY SWEET CHARLIE' with Patty Duke
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