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The Brussels Post, 1948-2-4, Page 3TEEN -TOWN TOPICS By BARRY MURKAR= We might call this column, "Down On The Farm", because that is what it is about. What is wrong down on the f a r m any- way? Why is ft that m o r e and more young People are turn- ing from the land, to try their luck in the big, noisy city? When you ask chi+ question, you get a lot of answers. Some men sa it's the money angle, others say it's the work, and others will _say there's is no prestige carried with today's farming — at least as far as the young men of today are con- cerned. Many of the boys whom I went to school with were quite content with helping on their father's farms after school and on holidays, But did they stay to help the old man when they got to the age where they could be of some real help to him? They did not. Farms Paid Off Some of the farmers I know are struggling on alone today; their sons have left them and gone to 11:z city to work. They don't like the old mar's farm, his stinking old barn yard nor the seemingly measly pay they get; they don't like get- ting up early and wearing smelly, dirty old clothes and they hate be- ing called, "Ya Farmer" and "Ya hick". What these young men seem to forget when they stampede for the tall buildings is, that the farm paid off enough to give them a comfort- able home. good food, healthy liv- ing, lots of good fun and sent many of them through university. bike the city fellow says: "There is 00 money in fanning" Well, if there is no money in farming. I would like someone, anyone at all, to tell me why it is that most farm homes today (at least around here) are as modern as city homes, have all the city conveniences? How can most of the farmers drive nice look- ing cars, get enough time off to take pleasure trips, be their own boss and, in general, enjoy life to the utmost? Brother, the farmer can complain alt he likes (and he likes it) but the most of them are doing alright. So you ask me,.why are the young fellows heading for the city to make $35.00 a week, live in two rooms and pay $40 a month for them, pay car expenses and nine hundred other things? Once again, Mr., you have me stumped. I think the young fellows of today are headstrong. They leap before they look. Push -Button Farming — Later There is no reason why any young man r n't do well on the farm. ITe always puts up the argu- ment that there is too much over- head to get started. Yet he knows there is plenty of overhead in' get- ling started in any real sound busi- ness — and that's what farming is. A friend of mine,, many years my senior and a man with a great deal between his ears, tells me that the farmer is the only person who is almost self-sustaining. If the worst comes to worst, the farmer can al- ways keep going. That is of cour;:e unless his City cousins atart to live all around him; make it a residen- tial area; put in water works and send his taxes so high he goes broke. But generally speaking a good farmer has as much, and a Launches U.N. Drive—Movie producer Mary Pickford, opening advance appeal of the Canadian Council for Reconstruction through the UN Educational, Social and Cultural Organization to raise $20,000,000, shakes hands with the Governor-General at Ottawa premiere of "Sleep My Love". Behind her are Lady Alexander and Prime Minister King. little more, security than most people. As the city man at his work di= rects the controls of his industry, so does the farmer. Machines make nearly all his jobs easier. In fact in time, all he'll have to do to farm is to pull a lever and then walk over, lean on the top rail and watch the crops rotate, Worse Places Than Farm I personally feel that many of the young men who go to the city will realize too late that it would have been much better to have stayed home on the farm. However, as we said. a few lines back, many of us young men today are head- strong. We think we have all the answers and that the old man is getting tangled up in his beard. Well, maybe fathers don't move as fast as they used too and maybe they like to try a new idea out be- fore putting it into practice, but that doesn't mean they are finished — not by a iongshot. So in closing, we would suggest to the young fellows on the farm today, — look into the situation a little closer before making any rash decisions. There are a goal many places that you could be working that are a lot worse than down on the farm. Think it over, boys. Britain Lays Plan For Future Farming Great Britain's five-year plan alms at increasing agricultural output by 50 per cent over pre-war. Emphasis will be on greatly increased produc- tion, rodc- tion, by 1952, of milk, eggs, beef and veal. Production of mutton and lamb will not be increased. Wheat production will be allowed to de- cline from the peal: nor year 1943- 44, but will be maintained at about half as much again as pre-war. Bar- ley production will be increased one - and -a -half above pre-war production and oats half as much again. About one-quarter more potatoes and sugar beets are planned for 1952 than in pre-war years. The object is to make the country more self-sufficient in the nutritionally protective foods such as milk, eggs and meat, and produce more of the feeds—barley and oats—to make this possible. 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Here is an economy hint for those who are interested — and you probably will be if there are any in your family who are hard on stockings, have cold feet, or for any other reason are in the habit of wearing footlets. In which case why not make them yourself? That is what have just been doing. To make them cut a paper pattern from a "store" pair — it is really quite simple. Cut all in one piece with a mitred scan over the toes and a curved seam at the heel. Cut your footlets from the garter top of old stockings or front under- wear, Machine the seams, then turn down a single narrow hem all around the top, thread through it a strand of round elastic — and there you are, a pair of footlets for about five cents — or the price of the elastic. And by the way, the elastic can be used again after the original footlets are worn out. These footlets are particularly good for children — saves wear and tear on the stockings and keeps. little feet warm. They can be worn either under or over regular stockings. Well, there's my good deed for the day, and I hope it will be of use to those of you who are anxious to save the odd quarter. * * * Hasn't this .been a bleak, cold week? The farthest I have been is down the lane to the mail -box, And that, believe me, is often far enough, Sometimes I think the four winds of . heaven gather momentum for miles around and then let it loose in a sudden burst of fury when they strike our farm. And of course Card Fortunes Fun And Easy To Learn How to be entertaining when you haven't a sparkling line of chatter? Easy—let the cards talk for you! They're bursting with tips on ro- mance and riches, which you can quickly learn to read. Let's start with Pin's fortune. Shuffle the deck and have him cut it twice, Lay the cards out in rows of nine: Locate Jim's name card— it's the King of Spades for a dark man—and pick up every ninth card from the King. Now you're ready to weave a tale. "Ah, I see a glamorous blonde,' you mysteriously begin as you study the Queen of Diamonds, I wonder if she's the old romance that Ten of hearts says is conning back into your life. And see this Six of Clubs? Looks as though that business deal is going through, after all!" So it goes! It's thrilling and loads of fun to tell fortunes --and so easy ;with our Reader Service booklet No, 65, Includes nine ways of tel- ling fortunes by cards; also horo- scopes, crystal ball, tea leaves, dice dominoes. Send THIRTY CENTS (in coins) for "Let Me Tell Your For• tune" to the Reader Service, room 421, 73 Adelaide St. West, Toronto. Print NAME, ADDRESS, BOOKLET TITLE and NO. 65, 10?5e@tATCUIN&� �� Relieve Itch in a Jiffy,, athlete'stool—nodorlminor Ile!; troubleA pimples, cooling , 1 nkd D D. D Proscription (Minn y strength or axlr, strength), eresse 1 inlnlas Sootos 111(1 Nom } aft avte tit1n'kia,s.atattlegr(es tomD.4241aot YMr d when the lane is- full of snow and walking difficult that adds to the fun. At such times I often have to turn about face to get my breath. But still it could be a lot worse. Bob's big, heavy truck with its dual wheels does help to keep the lane open and leaves a nice wide track to walk in — although that same track can disappear in an aws ful hurry when the snow starts a -drifting. For extra protection against the wind I often take an umbrella and that really does the trick. You see I learnt my lesson a good many years ago when I got badly wind- ed. It was on a day when the lane was almost knee-deep in snow, a ' wind was blowing and it was cold- er than I realized. As usual I set out for the mail and because I wanted to get back to the warmth of the house I dict a very foolish thing. I hurried! Going down to the road the wind was on my back so I could hurry fairly easily, even though I did have to plunge through the snow. But coming back I was winded before I had scarcely turn' ed around. To this day I hardly know how I got back home. I know my great fear was collapsing and that no one would know about it, When I did get to the house I dropped on the first chair I came to, literally fighting to get my breath, which was coming in short, sharp gasps. It was such a dread- ful feeling I shall never forget it ... hence the umbrella. * * * Out West one soon learns what one can and cannot do in a storm. So often if Partner and I were driving home across the open prairie he would be watching me and if I showed the least sigh of being sleepy he would snake me get out and run behind the sleigh until the blood was circulating and I was properly awake again — and quite possibly mad as well! The drowsy feeling one gets is like going under an anaesthetic — and really rather pleasant — just a nice comfortable drifting away into space. * * * Often I think of those days out west and wonder if cars are run- ning and roads kept open on the old prairie trail from Chaplin, in Saskatchewan, to our half -section farm at a point nine miles north of the village. In those days I don't think there was even a tar running at all in the winter. Sleighs and cutters were the order of he clay -- anal in then- we would get around and have a very good time. Driving hone from a party on a cold, crisp night. with the Northern Lights crackling and changing colour and. shape every few seconds was awe- inspiring — and something to re- menrbcr. But the woman who was driven twenty-five miles to the nearest hospital for a Caesarca•I operation — she, too, had some- thing to remember. Mother and baby both survived the ordeal. Those Winter Bells Do You Remember? If trucks and cars could wear belis it would not be so bad. A generation ago the sound of hells was alt integral part of the cold months. There were, of course the year-round balls. Many farrns had a bell on a cedar post in the yard or hanging from a framework in the ell or woodshed, At noon the Innes carried far over the fields, to summon men folk to dinner. Thu village bell tolled the hours through the year, In Sum- mer cowbells tinkled from the pas- tures, relates the New York Time., The Winter bells were different. The work tears had clear -toned, wrought steel bells, fastened to their collar.. The sound was sweet and musical, compared with the clanking, nasal monotone of the flat -sided cowbells. When teams went by with a loud of logs to the sawmill, or to the village for a load of ureal and middlings, one could distinguish his neighbors by the tones of the hells. Countrymen took pride in the bells of their sleighs and pungs. Most of the strings of music mak- ers were fastened to the shafts. There were Harmonized Swiss Shaft Chimes, Mikado Chimes, Nickel Plated Guaranteed Wrought Steel Cup Chines and Graduated Band Chines, For $2,09 one could get the Swiss Pole Chime. `High- est grade manufactured, of pure Swiss bell metal, beautifully pol- ished and nickel plated. Nine har- monized bells of graduated sizes and will please those who desire Are best' Some preferred the long body straps to fasten around the Mor- gans. These had thirty or more bells. When a snappy roader, whisked the pung to town on Sat- urday evening for the family to do the trading, the music of the bells was sweet in the frosty air. And for the man who was really part' icular and wished to make his own string, the catalogue offered loose bells in diameters front one inch to three and three-quarters. Rarely does one hear the bells today. But sometimes when the countryman stands on an open ridge and looks at the beauty of distant white hills, he thinks he hears the bells still sounding along the valley road. Massive sea walls protect Gal- veston, Texas, from a recurrence of the 1900 hurricane's tidal wave. Bran Brown Bread! and Baked Beans It just seems that baked beans and Bran Brown Bread are a team of foods that go together. Especially, it is a good filling combination for a winter supper, when the children plan to have their friends stay to eat with the family. This is a good basic menu, plus a big salad and a hot vegetable, and a fruit dessert,—if there is any room left! Bran Brown Bread has high nutritional value, because it contains bran, raisins and molasses, all excellent sources of iron so necessary for building good, rich blood. Steam Bran Brown Bread 1 cup All -Bran cup raisins % cup buttermilk or sour milk 5' cup light molasses 1 cup sifted flour 1 teaspoon soda teaspoon salt Combine bran, raisins, butter- milk and . rolasses. Sift flour with soda and salt; add to first mixture, stirring only until flour disap- p ars. Fill greased cans two-thirds full; cover tightly and steam for three hours. Yield: 2 loaves (454 inch cans, 23/4 inches in diameter,). The system of apprenticing a young man to a craftsman for sev- eral years until he becomes a crafts- man himself, can he traced to the 13th century. UP FRESNrbidA WA E� OFllcE ' pBllliPS� 1 - yNr OF MAGNESIA ...no need to keep it in the ice box! Keeps in the cupboard for weeks! Always right there when you need it! It's New Fleischmann's Royal Fast Rising Dry Yeast—the modern baking discovery that gives you delicious breads and rolls in quick baking time. No dashing off to the store at the last minute—just keep a supply of New Fleischmann's Royal Fast Rising Dry Yeast handy in the cupboard. Use it as you need it. IF YOU BAKE AT HOME—get Fleischmann's Royal Fast Rising Dry Yeast today; .At your grocer's. J1'l'i'Elt DON'T txc MO. TWO RED HOTS NO MUSTARD ! KEEp THE ciry CLEAN