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The Clinton News Record, 1934-06-14, Page 3Tl-IURirS;, JUNE 14, 1934 THE CiaLNToN Nile -R ;eche A cattle dealer went to a faun - house at night to buy a bunch'o cattle. Darkness was an obstacle to a proper. inspection, but he took the farmer in his or out to the field turned the 'headlights • on each ani- mal in turn' and concluded the bar- gain. The beauty of this is that it did not happen in Canada or the United States. It happened in the old country where people are slow and behind the tunes. Having failed to nationalize or in- ternationalize the manufacture of armament at the start the League of Nations right as well have • disband,- ed then. If it had succeeded, each member nation could + have been held down to known commitments.. Nothing of that sort can he done when private firms with internation- al affiliations control. the ' manufaeJ ture. If itcould not be done then it . cannot be done now, with Germany and Japan out of the League. I Britain paid over two billion do - f lars of her debt to the United States and now owes more than she did as the start, so' she tells the U. S. that she cannot continue ;payments with, out pressing her own debtors and that would cause world chaos. There are millions ofpeople in the republic who see the point and always did, but those are others who will now realize that the debts have to be re, vised. As a preventive of war the moral eonseience of the world is not a sue - cess. It would not allow the British navy to nip in the bud the exe ais- er's navy which had no object but to menace Britain's control of the seas. At that time Britain could have done what Nelson did at Copenhagen but the whole world, including half of the then British Ministry, would have denounced it as a ruthless act of ag- gression. To -day, Hitler is training a new generation for•another war a- gainst France, and France knows it but cannot afford to affront the mor- al conscience sof the world by taking the steps necessary to nip this men- ace in the bud. She Is doing the on- ly thing she tan do—building defen. sive walls along the frontier which will make her safe from assault, ex- cept from the air. Clever women are always unhappy --'Eeinrach Mann. Girls never 'were just what they seemed We thought them bright and gay and snappy. Until just now we never dreamed Our lady friends were all unhappy. It is not of much consequence whether Canadian currency is print - red in both languages, but the aggres- siveness of those who insist upon it is likely to antagonize those who do not care. De Valera declares that Ireland Wants a republic but will not fight for it, That's not the Ireland we, know. .A: bill has been introduced in ,the Louisiana Legislature to prohibit any- one milking a cow without the con- sent of the earner. We understand there is a clause ,in it which makes an exception of the .hired man who is allowed to milk provided he gets the 'consent of the cow. ?i9< War is not an investment. It is destruction and nothing else. Even the winners are losers; they may win the "cause" but they pay the shot. Prussia made its wars against Den-. mark, and , Austria and France pay, only to lose all, or nearly all, in the late war. It's successes then bred the ambitious policy that collapsed in 1918, 'War does not pay even where the victor wins territory, reparations and indemnities. Any nation financ- ing belligerent nations in the future Will not expect to be repaid. Default may not prevent wars, but it will make them of shorter duration be-, cause the warring nations will have to finance their foreign purchases with spot cash. It will . be hard to raise clamor a- bout titles so Iong as the selection of persons thus honored by. the King is as free from criticism as the last list is. So long as the recommendations do not include men whose only title to titles is the possession of wealth so long will there be no great opposition to titles except in the abstract. With public approval, we think we can promise a .baronetcy to the Can- adian who discovers a cure for can- cer, and knighthood to the Canadian who identifies, segregates and slaugh- ters the germ of the common cold, We also promise with public approval some titles of honor and distinction td the men who can provide moisture where needed and kill grasshoppers by the billion. ah :k ah. We have said already and now re- peat that we would give special con- sideration to the case of nen who have wealth alone to offer in return. A special list could ble created for them, with titles awarded according to the amounts they are willing to pay toward the reduction of our na- tional debt. For a hundred million we would make him a Knight of the Golden Fleece; for seventy-five mil- lion, a Chevalier of the .First water, and so on down the scale. When ev- erybody knows the reasons for which such titles are bestowed, no objections can be raised, Men will say "So -and - So is now Sir .So -and -So. He relieved bur financial burden to. the tune of—" quoting the amount as it appears in the annual report of the Treasurys This is at Ieast preferable to the granting of titles in return for cash contributions to the party in power; which was at one time the practice in England. Since the attitude of the Council re- garding this matter was not known,. it has not been possible to formulate definite recommendations regarding the work for the season. If it is desired to raise no more money than last year, by transferring certain costs to the eonstruction account, the cost will be: General and mainten- ance, $61,000; subsidy, $30,500; pos- sible relief expenditure, $66,000; sub- sidy $46,000, total $127,000, subsidy, $76,500, leaving $51;000 payable by the County, or about 1.2 mills as the rate was last year. If the total of the amount approved is absorbed, the cost to the county will be approcimately as follows: Or- dinary general and maintenance, $610 000, subsidy, $30,500; relief expendi- ture, $200,000, sulisidy, $170,500,1 leaving ,$89;500 payable by the Court. ty, approximately 2 mills. Naturally, all of these figures are more or less indefinite, due to the uncertain proportion that the, labor cost will be. These were computed on the basis of 60 per cent.' labor and 40 per eent, other oosts, which would' apply on grading and other similar construction jobs, ,but there would be many items on which this proportion would not apply.' No calcium chloride has been pur- chased for the County roads this year, and if it is not the intention to approve of such expenditures, 'emit' commission would appreciate a . rule ,ing, as many requests for dustlaerer have been received. One ileo truck has been turned in on the purchase of an International' Model A4 truck, which purchase was made through the Department of Highways. The, motorcycle of the traffic of- ficer has been exchanged for a new one, the County paying $200 extra. Regarding the designation of the Zurich road as a Provincial. Highway; JUNE MEETING OF COUNTY ,COUNCIL (continued from page 2) county constable appointed and re+ commended that : Joseph Gravelie be given the position, wbioh was ens. dorsed. Ex -Reeve Henderson of Morris 'Township was asked to address the Council. He said he was pleased to meet old friends and glad to come to the meeting, which he always enjoy- ed. He had been appointed to the Wingham- High School Board. ': He was not in favor of reductions in teachers' salaries. In Wingham the Principal's salary had been reduced. from $3,600 to $3,000. Only a few days elapsed when he got a better sehool ata higher salary. "It is not fair to the children in Huron when we have to cut salaries to the point where we can only procure second or third -:rate teachers," he said, Ex -Warden MicKibbbn of Wing - ham also spoke, and congratulated Chairman Bowman on the order he was maintaining,, Mr. H. Cox of L"olberne and J. J. Hayes also briefly addressed the 'Connell. The report of the Good Roads Com- mission was adopted, as foilows: "Eight meetings of the commission have been held this year, and the total of the committee paysheets is $208.60. One meeting was held in Toronto at the time of the Good Road's carmen - tion, and •trucks were examined, since it was planned to make a purchase. -Sessions of the convention were at- tended, and many interesting addres, ,ses were heard. _ An application under the Relief Measure was made for work, totalling "$$50,000, and approval was secured ;foran amount of :$200,000, of which $120,000 was 'estimated as labor cost, it is felt that there are many other Count roads carrying County o t a zymg more through traffic, but since the application has been made by the Township of Hay, if the province is going to pay 90 or 100 per cent.of the cost, no rea- son to object to the assumption of, this road can be Seen." Motions Cardiff—Gamble--That this Conn- ty Council ask Crown Attorney Hol, mos to have Thomas Gundry's duties dispensed with as County Constable —Piled, Davidson--McNall--That the. mile, age in the County of Huron for eon - stable fees be adjusted to levy the same as Ontario governmental sys- tem, instead of the present system of fifteen cents per mile ,and the salve fees for serving summons as pro Virtu, system.- iFiled. Eckert—Scott—That the clerk get the information as to how many coun. ty constables, where their residence is, and report at next session.—Car- ried. Saunders--,Goldthorpe-e That thit Council continue the use of •calcium chloride on all county roads, where it affects the residents, as it not only prevents the menace and danger of dust, but preserves the surface of roads: .Good Roads Committee. Thursday Morning The county rate was fixed at 0 mills at the Thursday mdrtting ses- sion, made up as fellows: general county rate, 4.2 mills; county road rate, 1,2 mills, and for provincial highways, 6 mills. The rate is the same as last year. . A. R.. G. Smith, weed inspector of Ontario, was introduced by Ian Mac. Leod, Agricultural Representative for Huron. ' He said that at the present moment more .consideration is being given to land problems than at any time in the history of Ontario. He asked cooperation of the members in backing up the local weed inspectors.. In many localitiesg a marked change have been accomplished. Weeds pre- valent in some counties are junitnowr in 'others, and information regardine these might be passed on. In Water- loo County a number of deaths . in cattle were foend to be due to swamps infested with water hemlock, which is poisonous. The rag weed is native of Ontario but all ethers have been Ma ported. •Mr. Smith warned against the dodder weed, a small vine -like Weed, with white flower, which winds itself around clover and lives on it, and affects trade with England par tieularly. Essex, Kent, Elgin and Lanebton counties- have put on spe- cial, campaigns to combat this weed, and 250,000 school children of the province have been asked to use their little eyes to search out this weed. 'Reeve Eckert informed the speak- er that he had found the weed on his farm and noticed patches like oil around it. He was treating it with atlascide and intended ploughing it up. fifr, Smith read a departmental de- sciiption of the dodder 'weed, the English names forwhich are love vine, lesser or thyme dodder. The clover' infested with it should be mown down with a scythe, destroy- ed and the field ploughed. Warden Elliott thanked Mr. Smith for his address, and the members. enthusiastically applauded. Crops Not Promising Ian MacLeod, Agricultural Repre- sentative, in an informative address told council the grope in Huron are not as promising looking as in past years. "We have been credited in this county with high acreage in fruit aid vegetables, largely apples." Frost has done considerable damage and 80 per cent of thefruit crop has been'in- jured, particularly Baldwins, green - lugs, pippins and spies. It is a se, onimmoirmarearroommer vere blow to orchard men, who. have n large percentage of baldwins. impossible to tell what' damage e ha s been dont but the tress' damaged at vCIlow in leaf and stated n feletge. The dry weather is i eking z,air + the trees. The teach and ns1-x el chards are all gone. There is a change in the county this year in that several farmers are planning more hay crops, and this is providing pasturage. Many are planting corn and will have two or three times the acreage of corn this year. This will require eldoe watch- ing for corn ,borer. ,Increased acre- age means greater attention in com- bating this pest. . Live -stock meetings have been held inClinton and -a county association. formed.. It is purposed to hold . a meeting for -cattle dealers 1n 'Clinton on June 27. They have never got to- gether to. discuss beef • cattle. Junior work was being successful- ly .carried on. Mr: MacLeod also received an ova- tion when he concluded his address. Si. T. Edwards, superintendent of the Children's Aid Society, addressed Council after the report of the Chil- dren's Shelter committee • had been read. There are at present nine children in the shelter, three girls and six boys, ranging in age from one year to fifteen years.' "You have been talking about cat- tle and roads, but this is human life," said Mr. Edwards. He deplor- ed the increase in illegitimacy in the eounty. The only chance to decrease this is for mothers to educate their girls in the secrets of l.re. Mothers should spend more time teaching children and 'not so much on cards and gossip," declared this efficient official. Asked if public' donee halls are having an effect on this matter, he was not prepared to say, but re- peated his declaration that the re - PAGE 3 s onsi iht1 rests with the mothers. Reeve Eckert: "Dances were in the homes years ago, now they are in public dance halls." Another reeve declared some picture shows are demoralizing, and Reeve Matheson expressed the opinion that the Bible was a .closed book today, and anoth- er member asserted "Tho churches are passing into playhouses," while: another said "Mother was once asked permission by her daughter. Now it is `Mother, I am going.'" The financial statement submitted by .the treasurer was adopted on mo- tion of Reeves Ballantyne and Demer-• ling. It read as follows: Receipts and expenditures, gener- al account, Jan. 1 to May 81. Re- ceipts: Taxes collected $2,833.89; li- censes, $368.51; registry office, $317.- $7; Old Age pensions, $2,500.00; ad- ministration of justice, $2,520.15; loans, 525,000.00; 'redemption lands, 5349.29; division courts, $75.57; mia- cellaaeous, $13.22; municipalities; hospital accounts, $869,17; .nagis- trates' fines, $42.00; total, $34,89446, Expenditures: Mothers' Allowance; $4,735.00; Children's Shelter, $1,008.- 19; administration of justice, $6,35?.. 67; taxes returned to townships, $2,, 818.89; Old Age pensions, $4,628.021 grants, $1,265.00; municipal govern- ment, $2,580.40`; schools, $1,830;87; registry office; $228.00; jail, $1,853.- 90; printing, postage, etc., $729.48; redemption lands, $349.28; D. L. in- terest, $1,20.7.80; county property, $387.68; insurance, heat, light, ,etc.. 51,236.86; hospitals, $7,948.22; trans- fers to county home, 54,000.00; mis- cellaneous, $44.45; total, - $'43,209.72. County highways -Receipts, Sun- dry revenue, $739.61; rebate gas tax, 51,616.76; department highways 1985 subsidy, $45,525.67; bank loans, $5,- 000.00; total, $52,822.04. s ulsemen s: aymen vouchers, 58,455.84; pay lists, $180.60; D. L. (continued on page 6) interest, 5738.89; loans, retired, 545,- 00-0 00; 45,-000.00; total, 554,355.33. In answer to . Ree-ve Eelcert's in- quiry, Clerk QRoberts said there aro, 81 constables in Huron County of whom 15 are active, Reeve McNabb asked regarding tin: duties of the Cemetery Commission, Ile declared it would be in ,order to - send a request to the Provincial Gov- ernment to see what could be done regarding neglected cemeteries. Reeve Bowman: "The act gives authority to clean up the .cemeteries. A Cemetery Board has the 'right to' take over 'long neglected lots, It is up to Cemetery Boards to elean up-• their own:" Reeve . McNabb: "Pioneer's plots should he attended to." Other reeves' speaking on the question were Messrs: Jones, Davidson, Hanley, Wright and' Turner. The duties of the Finance Commit- tee were *ought . in by Reeve Me, Nabb for the Committee appointed` at a previous session. ,He said; he had no, report to offer except the rule which he read. After some discus- sion .it was moved and carried that Section 276 be amended so that the word "disputed" be inserted'before, "accounts." County Cleric Roberts gave a de- tailed report of the work of his oat Bo. He gave detailed and elear- descriptions of new methods instal.. led, and was. heartily applauded. Too Many Schools At the request of the Council,A.. T. Cooper, of Clinton, who represent ed the Huron County branch of Asso- ciated ssociated High School Boards, gave- an, appreciated address on "Secondary School Education;" As the result of a circular letter sent out to one. hundred business men and mechanics to find out what they thought of the present school curriculum, it was re. �YO to b OU HAVE READ OF RUSSIA. You -know what farming in the land of the Soviet bas become. State collectivization with industrialization the supreme goal, has made the farmer little better than the beasts of the field, the bewer of wood and the drawer of water to the more favored classes, those to whom communism looks for the ultimate success of its state industrialization experi- ment. FARMERS MUST BE FREE Ontario wants no "swing to the left". Its farmers must be left free. The men who, in 1932, produced $226,446,000 of this province's wealth, cannqt be made the stepping stone for some radical experiment in state industrialization, Farmer though he is, Ontario's Liberal leader is prepared to sacrifice his own friends, to betray his fellow workers in the 5elds 10 a frantic bid for control of Ontario's vast natural wealth. By his own confession he "swings welt to the left", towards the land where the communists, the socialists and the radicals dwell. HIS OWN WORDS ' Accept his own words to the electors of Vest York en May 14, 1932, 1 swing well to the left where some Grits do not tread,", Or take his speech to St. Thomas voters oh February 11, 1933. Then the CC.F., its ideals not yet analyzed, its impossible -to -be -achieved dreams still unexploded, had seized briefly on a part of the public' imagination. Mr. Hepburn saw in it another opportunity for a bid for power at the expense of the solid, producing classes of the province. So seizing his opportunity, reeking nothing of what such a pro- gramme would mean, he said, in all the enthusiasm of his inexperience: "The C.C.F. is an example of this realignment of ' political thought. It is the latest move in Radicalism, I sympathizempwithh the people who make up the ranks of the C. They are trying, 'at least, to find a way out." STAGNATION AND MORTIFICATION But this is only a small part of what the Ontario Marketing Ontario's Liberal leader would cut the cost of government fifty per cent. A tail order, but quite possible if Mr. Hepburn and bis party are prepared to sacrifice progress and give the: people of Ontario stagnation and mortification. To cut his expenditures Ontario's Liberal leader, among other "economies" would wipe out tite Ontario Department of Agriculture. He has placed himself on record to effect this. The Toronto Globe, in reporting his speech at a banquet in Toronto on December 15, 1932, says: "The departments of Gents and Fisheries, AGRICUL- TURF, Labour, and Mines, the Motion. Picture Bureau, J esearch Work and Colonization were a few which Mr, Hepburn cited as instances where curtailment or ABANDON- MENT of one service courd be effected without hurting administration. WHAT OF THE FARMER? Possibly administration would not suffer. But what would happen to the farmer? Where would he, be with his overseas selling agent gone merely to set up a record for low spending? Would it be true economy to wipe out, at one enthusiastic gesture, the agricultural research which makes available to every farmer, without money and without price, all the resources of science, skill, knowledge and experience for the enlarging of output and the improvement of quality at lower operating costs? WOULD THESE HELP?' Would it help the farmer to wipe out the department which held, for farmers and farm women, in 1933, a total of 93 courses in agriculture and home economics at as many centres throughout the province? Would the monetary saving justify the elimination in every county of the trained agricultural representative, the man to whom the farmers look for advice in cases, of plant or stock disease? Through abandonment of the Ontario Department of Agriculture, Ontario's Liberal leader would abandon the Ontario Marketing Board. Can the Ontario farmer afford to be without this board, or would its abandonment be another of the Costly Economies which Mr. Hepburn proposes. The Ontario Marketing Board knew that fruit produced in Ontario was good fruity but it knew also that it was not reaching outside markets in a way which made potential buyers aware of its goodness. Through co-operation with fruit growers, cooling places and a grading system were estab- lished. In 1929, the year this policy was decided on, Ontario sold 65 carloads of apples beyond its own boundaries. In 1933, after ten cooling places bad been established, sales in Great Britain Mane totalled 450,000 barrels, vale reed at $1,080,000, In addition to this, there were correspoedingly large sales on the continent of Europe and in the Canadian West. In the ssa�mme five years the, export of pears and plums grew from pract#ca1ly nothing to more than. 100,000 packages. This is one tervice rendered by the Henry Government which the Ontario Liberal Party would wipe out in its effort to make good on the rash "economy" promise of its leader. oard, product of the progressive Conservative administnt- tion, bas done for the farmer. PRICES WENT UP In 1932 it saw another opportunity and this year saw Ontario Brewers who had abandoned Ontario barley using 1,000,000 bushels of the Ontario product at a price $1.50,000 above the current market quotation. The board turned to the problems of the turnip grower. As a result of its first season's work the board obtained one contract for 1932 for 40,000 bushels and the price obtained now by the farmers is between 50 and 100 per cent. better than before the board became,interested in the situation. Export sales of cattle. in 1933 for 'the whole of Canada totalled 50,317 head, valued at $3,189,194. Aggressive sales methods of the Ontario Marketing Board were responsible for TWO-THIRDS OF THIS TOTAL -31,783 HEAD, VALUED AT $2,014,471 -GOING FROM ONTARIO. What the Ontario Department of Agriculture and its sub- sidiary, the Ontario. Marketing Board -the Department which Liberal Leader Idepburn would wipe out—has done for the bacon industry needs no comment. The figures speak for themselves., BACON SALES JUMPED In 1932 Ontario sold thirty million pounds of Bacon in the British Market. In 1933 the figure has grown to 40,000,000 pounds: AND THE FIRST FIVE MONTHS of 1934 HAVE BROUGHT INCREASED BACON RETURNS OF MORE THAN $15,000,000 TO THE FARMERS OF THIS PROVINCE. Export of dressed poultry has grown front a negligible figure to a total, 15 1933, of $1,226,098. To improve live stock herds of the province it agreed to, pay twenty per cent, of the cost of pure bred sires. In 1932 alone there were 430 applications and $37,000 was paid. In. ,the, five years 442 approved herd sires were sent into Northern Ontario. On these the Ontario Government paid 30 per cent. of the cost, plus the freight. Efforts, of the department and co-operation of dairymen. have improved the quality of the 86,000,000 pound annual production of Cheddar cheese from 89 per cent. first quality in 1924. to 96 per cent. first quality in 1932 and Ontario Cheddar Cheese now brings a premium of from two to three cents over cheese from other countries. Ontario is the only province which loans money tofarmers on the securityof their lands and chattels. In 1933 it loaned in round figures, 56,700,000 to 3,415 applicants. PLEDGED TO ELIMINATION This is the department which Mitchell Hepburn, leader of Ontario's Liberal Party, has pledged himself to elimi- nate. In one fell swoop be would wipe outa department which bas done more than anything else in the Dominion of Canada to see the farmers of this Province through the period of agricultural depreasion. Ontario cannot afford the loss of its Department of Agriculture, Ontario must have construction under the progressive Henry Administration. Destruction under Liberal leader Hepburn evhuld mean ruin. ' Signed: THE LIBERAL -CONSERVATIVE ASSOCIATION OF ONTARIO.