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The Seaforth News, 1934-01-25, Page 7Cl' ( T!HUiRSDAY JANUARY 25, 1934. ss • THE SEAFORTH NEWS:' •' f Ire PAGE SEVEN • pasbisid0atter1..an-us..ru"-ua-a eau 1 1 ■ The Seaforth News ■ Phone 84 fiat, Beate p M nthl A y t rnents eta e We can save you money on Bill and Charge Forms, standard sizes to fit ledgers, white or colors., It will pay you to see our samples. Also best quality Metal Hinged Sec- tional Post Binders -and Index. 1 1 I Q n�ait�as�aa�■a�■■�u�■a�ntl�uu.�ue�a p 0 A DOLLAR'S WORTH Clip this coupon and mail it with $1 for a six weeks' trial subscription to THE CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR Published by THE CHRISTIAN SCIENCE PUBLISHING SOCIETY Boston, . Massachusetts, II. 8. A. In 08you w111 find the dally good. news of the world from its 800 special writers, fnanos, as education, departments etc d. You will Ibe gladlito 0veic interests, sports, so fearless an advocate of peace and prohibition. And don't miss snubs. Our Dog, and the Sundial -and the other features. THE CHRISTIAN SoundE �MONITOA, HBCk H&vv Station, Boston, MGBB. Please send mea six weeks'trial aubserlptlon. I. enclose one dollar (01). 40 ii....6.. o4▪ 0 • C0 (Town) "t;,..yn ...-.. (Nome, please print)' (Address) (state) Here and There Twenty-nine - men and seven women who pioneered Alberta trails died is the present year. All of them saw the west when it was young, the west that exist- ed before 1895. The current year marks the half century since the Canadian Pacific came to Calgary. Sailing for New York Decem- ber 14, the 42,500 -ton white -hulled Empress of Britain left on a Christmas and New Year's holi- day cruise for the West Indies, December 22, returning to New York January 3 and sailing again January 4 for a 414 -month cruise around the world. Among the "Believe It or Not" facts wellknown to the generality of newspaper readers, may be added the statement of S. G. Hib- ben, of the Westinghouse Light Company, made recently in an address at the Royal York Hotel, Toronto that "today there are some 10,000 different kinds of ar- tificial light sources." Approximately 78,000 people own the Canadian Pacific Rail- way through their ownership of 'the company's common stock. df these, 36,000 live in Canada. Of the ,balance, 21,000 live in other parts of the British Empire, most- ly in England, with 16,000 in the United States and 5,400 in other countries, mostly continental Eur- ope. For the first time in western Canada, an impressive ceremony, 'the age-old investitureof the Knights of St. John was held re- cently at the Hotel Vancouver, Vancouver when six British Co- lumbians were admitted by King George, sovereign head of the order, to high honors. Old world costumes' and strange rites added to the dignity and color of the proceedings. Railways and their important functions in the economic exis- tence of the State were stressed by G. G. Ommanney, development commissioner of the Canadian Pacific Railway at the annual banquet of the Traffic Club- of Hamilton recently. They had, he said, contributed materially to de- velopment of natural resources. building up of industries and in promoting. land settlement and agriculture. Railway and motor truck trans- portation are both essential to the economic wellbeing of Canada and neither should be antagonis tic to the other, stated Hon. R. J. Manion," minister of railways and canals, at a national' conference on transportation held at Ottawa recently. But, he added, while railways are subject to strict reg- ulation and control,, motor truck service hasnot as yet been brought under any, comparable: control or regulation, Conserve moisture against a period of drought at seeding time. Use the best seed procurable. Keep the soil in good tilth and, most important of all, sow winter wheat during the fly -free period as advised by local farm advisers or experiment stations. Work in co-operation with your aeighbor in fighting this pest, as community action is essential to in- sure complete success, Late sowing is recommended, but ' not too late sowing, as the latter is as disastrous in its ultimate results as is too early sowing. Uncle Sam's grain -disease' doctors say that the Ie date in a time of normal rain - 11 usually coincides, in any one ality, with the preferable time for sowing to bring maximum yield. For example, grain growers in northern Michigan and Ontario are advised -to sow after September 1, while the producers of southern Michigan and northern Ohio will escape fly infesta- tion if they plant their grain about September 20,-1.1. S. Weekly News Letter. Silo Almost as Useful as Barn. The silo is rapidly becoming recog- nized as a necessary part or the farmer's equipment. A farm without a silo, at least in the corn area, is ,no longer up to date. The rapid adoption of the silo is accounted for by recognition of its advantages. If corn is cut at the proper stage and .put into a good silo, the whole corn plant Is eaten. Silage in More convenient to feed than is any other rough feed com- monly used on the farm. Silage is both palatable and sue - content. The addition of a succulent feed to a ration increases the digestibility of the dl'y feed' eaten. With a silo It is possible to save corn that might otherwise, owing to immaturity, be largely wasted, • The silo got only. provides excel- lent feel In winter time, but furn- ishes a rosins of keeping more for earl uP.t use feed of high quality, August Mum Wing. As the grains are harvested the land which is not seeded should, when practicable, be cultivated on the surface so 'as to germinate the scattered seeds, Hold the moisture, and'betterii:t the land for ploughing in the autumn. Sod land calculated for winter wheat should be ploughed early-dn the month and harrowed every ween( or ten days In preparation. When picking wild flowers do not take the whole plant. Remember leaves and roots are needed to 'groat again next year, I We hear -much these days about planting shrubbery and dowers and establishing good fruit and vegetable gardens on the faro. They all pay in money value as well as added comfort. ARE THE LESSONS OF THE MAR LOST ALREADY? • glisters, is without rementtbered les- sons; yet co8l'ilr011 opinlion array still be changed. It noay he changed for the .worse; but its mutability, with a chance of better' luck nest tithe, re - urines, T don't 'know abb'out America, but in Europe a too conspicuous num- ber of young men, wlto were infants when the tArtnistite ,caste over the ,battlegrounds as a !belated arrival of 'sanity, have develodeveloped an acute int - t I(Iavnanation of The brain, ,which they regard as a doctrine, and ithey allay the Fever .with inertial exercises while wearing colored shirts in uniformity. They think, in the their present condii'tion, that common sense should re clubbed as a vice; should the ques- tioning face of reason confront ;them, they emash it; t'lney are sure that the only useful argument is a. gun. 'With that as an argument, the 'other fellow is certain to allow you to take what You want. They •kn!ow that Liberty and government by Parliament are "entre- ,tying corpses." 'Tire inspired counsel- ors to whom these young men give •chief heed are those who assure them that ruthlessness with a gun is a sign 'of 'bo'th divine 'favor and purpose. To them this is More -Obvious than it is to lis, for their god is a natio'nal god, un- knowable by unsympathetic aliens, IDoes that sound loony? Well, a Chair of War has been founded in a 'German university, maybe because of the fact that War is 'with'out any chairs worth mentioning. In a text=book •an this subject, for boys over twelve, a 'Gerinan professor, who admits all the 'horrors of war, advocates the poison- ing of wells and the use 91 plague rats and the virus of typhus as legit- imate instruments 10 war and proofs of the 'willingness of divine aid. And it is possible these evils are not worse than ,phosgene or shrapnel, except that civilians are bound to he casual- ties. Anyhow, 'German children get this stuff today before the midday rush for the ice cream cones. They are to grow up .wearing steel helmets. It was recently announced in Ber- lin, 'by,a ,Government official, that the Germain nation has made ''the first re- volt in history against the intellectual outlook which followed the fall of the Bastille." Clearly he is right. A'lt'oge- ther, there is evidence to show that a form 01 lunacy possesses mankind for the moment, As the symptoms exist, even. Wren of pence must carefully note them, +Hlowever, they could hardly fail to notice then, 'for here is a anntal phenomenon, bearing 'fine names ac- cording to taste, which .is manifest from Tokio round :the globe. !It is not only to be seen in Germany. The sign's of it are general. We are aware that legions of mar- mots, under an :inscrutable impulse, sometimes wi!l march and march, with unshakable courage and resolu- non, till they march into the sea and drown. There appears to be no reason for this indomitable marnrotisiv, and it does the poor things 180 good. And now ,we observe in hosts of men Elks women everywhere a grow- ing impatience with treason, a dismis- sal of justice as a weakness of•the -head and an ugly abuse of the finer virtue; and value's because these are subver- sive of national aims and unpatriotic. Are ,filings obstinate—do they stilt refuse to go our way? 'Break then; ups Because the use of force has proved, somehow, to have the very (!evil .in it—try another method? No. Use more force. 'W'hatever may oc- casion the impulse Which drives to self-destruction the armies of resolute marmots, there is 'plainly a reason for the fears and follies which have arisen u1 mankind to the enormity of a gen- eral mania. The world is in a desper- ate plight; and a plight, if we may judge �froil the pronouncements of statesmen and experts, wh'i'ch is inex- pl'ica'ble and very likely is not to be solved.:De'spair, when it notes the calmness of law and reason, is likely to go into a destructive frenzy. (What are we going to do about it? I think we had better sit .quiet. It is no more useful than it ever was to answer a fool according to his 'felly. 'We had 'better wait. Hysteria and ec- stasy exhaust the invalids, if given a fair length of time; and hysteria is a s3snnp,tomn of national invalidism and is not likely to ,last quite so long as the inevitable b'ankru'ptcy which 111(1 follow, The frenzy may' Pass the sootier of not aggravated. When we resist evil violently we'merely shod' Ice -al .infected by:it: The evil is pro- longed, Should all rt'he world go crazy together, peace will become n'o easier to lunch anew thee • a dodo. ,Whoever needs reinind.ing today that another general war ,Would fist the factories and werlahope of the white:race with cr'b-webs more • (ltir, able Chani ;the present prahlem of un-: 0nnnlov'rsnit nlat'st be a Rip Van Winkle not awlke' yet."'We :nay, ohound our opinions and doings make that war'-inevitebl'e—and a universal war it very certainly would be—re- sign ourselves to ,contemplating the vi'ctorio'us vine b'i'nidina the wree'ked nrrieelier of the last airplane, alit hats -not an11y in the ,b,ei'fries but hang ing to the pulpits and undistunbed by ': nary• machine is well prepared 7 fa the engine shed,; and the s3i vivors of our race, unaided by hospitals, free to be free again, !1 'they feel -lure it, and if they earl, A probty p.itcure. 'We had 'better regard it. We may have it, if we„in- sist tipgit ,it. Pori it remains necessary to remind some people that a state of. war is a state of 'luna'cy and filth. It arises fraln ignorance and stupidity, the grounds of fear, and .continues until .it is too weary to convert more cornfields and communities into •bones and corruption, The outcome of any human activity necessarily be- trays' What good or evil was in the motive, and :for that reason the battle grounds .of the ,great war despite all. fervid rhetoric and the gonglike ap- peals of great statesmen who were got there, dopres•se(l an observer with the conviction that this planet was dead, and was turning to the sky the ulcerations o'f the fool •disease which had ratted it, Sprawled everywhere an that livid wilderness, and melting into it with the rain, were the anony- mous forms of those "whose names shall live forever.” That was fifteen years ago. What good came out of millions of sfain and the destruction of an amount of material wealth which is incalculable? Everybody kuo'ws 110 ill,* what good came out of it—not enough to cover with butter the bread of one workless man's child. ,Only ruin and brief 00110 mut of it; we can do no more now .than console ourselves with the mem- ory of a few friends lvlio died in that affair, whose character and talents were nobly superior to the whole vast tide :of popular passion because of which they are i''ost to the world. On- ly fools .say that war brings out the best in •a nation; war selects most of the active nten with the finer motives and the better intelligence—to des- troy them. The rest live on and breed their kind. • Still, we shall not check the pres- ent drive toward war by enlarging on the horrors of a battleground, That won't do, So many people enjoy a re- lation of what is horrible. Nor would it be right ot evoke deterrent fear with a relation of the ruinous out - 'conte of the war. There is enough fear already, ;It is fear• which is the cause of war. Ale the pomp and cir- cumstance of -glorious war spring from a secret pallor in the bowels of a ,people. They are afraid that some- thing, which is never strictly defin- able, will happen to their great dis- advantage, and therefore seek what they call "security." The general and the admiral, in the last analysis, the -only the deceptive decoration of what is craven in the multitude. These "disarmament conferences" are necessarily wrecked because each delegate plods for th security of his own people. There is a common fear, and so a general cry for "security." Let us once and for all own' up that human life cannot have security. Why it is so we cannot learn, but so desirable a state was evidently omit- ted from the plan of creation. We had hatter forget it. We shall be happier, and so more secure, if we do not baste thought, energy and health in trying to be invulnerable against fate and chance. 'We ought to remember, too, that when pleading for our secur- ity at a conference which aims at es- tablishing a system of international equilibrium through justice, and our argument wins at1(1 WC thus obtain what we want, then it follows that our neighbor Hurst abandon his secur- ity. If we are secure, he cannot be. The "security" of only two nations in arms is .incompatible with .logic. If me is secure then the other is not. :Balt militarists are never strong in lo- gic. They are always romantic, in- ti 0ctive and emotional, whatever their show of s'tatis'tics and the ex- treme technicality of their arguments. \;Ir. Stanley ;Baldwin, in a minute or two of remarkable candor, told the 13ritish House of 'Commons recently that it was impossible to defend Lon- don from the air. That had been de- monstrated; and indeed, every intelli- gent citizen is aware today that his family is open to poison and flames from the skies, and that there can be 10 recompense except by destroying the women and infants of the invad- ers. Yet twelve generals have signed a protest against ;\!St. Baldw'in's "de- featist" speech. We should do well to give a moment's consideration to the probable quality of the pooled intel-. ligeace of those twelve great soldiers. When yott Ile ye pictured what it may he like„ remember that that is just the kind ' of brain stuff upon which we Must rely s'houl'd 010pred1ctable dil- emmas come' upon us through the ire- lease by war of those forces which science has made, available.` Tlhere is not a general ruor an ad- miral alive who is 'more than vaguely aware of what w"ill face loin -o 01-168 the potentialities of the machines and the electrical, ecoitonile, cam'nninistic grid okbor powers: are loosed. lHe does out know, and then is nobody to 111 'lint, Nor do we:,tHe knows'ne ni'orc 1boart it than corer experts know 00 he niys'teries of modern fiinaioce. Al e can be sure albout is that his. mild someth'ing resembling the Iasi great -War. !But the hazar'ds in events. shaped by forces now only surmis- able will inevitably pre'sent- hi'fu with a situation entirely too late 'for any .thingbcneficfal to done with it. The extraordinary 'behaviour of of- ficial Japan, the couitnuous uproar in .China while she is d'e'ciding whether or not a Western philosophy is better than her own tradition, the fervid ,pe- culiarities exhibited by the present German leaders are but symptoms of a common invalidsm. The patients must have .time. The world is sick. dt is true that in their desepetate ,paroxysms the patients may deo themselves injury, yet as any deliberated interference of ours could do no noore .than increase the confus- ion and prolong it, we had better try our neglected code at last, and see whether the soft answer and the gol- den rale will work, They have never 'been extensively red. And now they appear to be about the last chance we have, 'Quiet reasoning and .a show of good wilt, especially when our own state inclines us to be irritable and petulant, are not easy; yet theeffort must be nnacle if Nye are to save our own doorsteps; always a sound rea- son for a show of amiability. Whet is there we can do? There is a great deal we should do. Unless the fears that are represented by great fleets and 'national jealousies are dispelled, then we may look in vain for substantial national recover- ies in America, Asia, and Eiu•o'pe.:Un- lnckily, each nation is showing the ti- midity and exclusiveness of a neuras- thenic woman who trembles at the sight of a strange bowler hat. As men of peace, who desire the recovery of our own and other countries, our opinions must be definitely some- thing more than pious. We must keep in mind the fact that our rulers will do what we want them to do if they see they will be unlucky should they ignore us, :-At present they at- tend with far greater interest to peo- ple who want to be surrounded by guns. They can even be persuaded, though short of money, that it is right to spear it on warships, -because that provides employment. So does Crime provide employment, for that hatter. tAs if crime should be en- 'couraged, 'because it keeps in employ- ment judges, attorneys, police, hand- cuff manufacturers and, builders of prisons! We are forced to admit that the other side, the sinister and secretive people whose major •concern is the ex- tension of armaments, are cleverer arid 'more pertinacious than men of peace, Any administration therefore attends to them with unavoidable re- spect, T.hesc interests are rarely very noticeable; but they :have great pow- er, which is backed by all the fears of the community. Their representa- tives haunt the administration of each great state dike spectres confident in their chain -rattling and groans. Is the story of the immunity of the rich iron fields of the Briey- Basin front bontbardtnent during the great war known 'in America? )Both French and German "interests" were involv- ed. Until the end of 19111 that area was not subject to explosives, though it supplied the metal which destroy- ed French armies. When this became so notorious that it could not be ig- nored by the politicians, the French airmen raided it trolls time to time, Yet they did little harm, The officer in charge of bombing operations was formerly an employee of the Comite des !Forges, And this in war -tine itself! And now, tvhile we have peace, when each nation is withdrawing it- self into a starvation self-sufficiency it is the ' armament manufacturers themselves, whose agents and public- ists do so much to (seep nationalism twittering like a child in the dark, who alone 'lave achieved profitable internationalism. 'Frontiers mean less to them than to idealistic humanitar- ians. Money alone is superior to fron- tiers and 'patriotism. The armament firms are now prosperous because they are establishing in other coun- tries the means by iv Inch their own nationals some day may fall in glor- ious defeat. The plain word for that is treason. These people are more deadly enemies to society than an avowed enemy could possibly be. Services We Can Render In -the time of need PRO'ECTION • is your best 'friend. Life Insurance —To ;protect your LOVED 'ONES. Auto Insurance -- To protect yousagainst L1ABII'MTY to P1IJd3LIC and their PROPERTY. Fire Insurance— To "`protect your HOME and its CONTENTS. Sickness and Accident n. T surance— To protect your INCOME Any of the above lines we can give you in strong and reliable companies, if interested, call or write, EE AI E. G. CHACiS 12L N INSURANCE AGENCY Phone 334 Seaforth, Ont. D, D, Mollifies Chiropractor Electro Therapist — Massage Office — Commercial .Hotel Hours—Mon. and /Thurs. after- noons and by appointment FOOT CORRECTION by manipulation—Sun-ray treat- ment Phone 227. 1 noaseasc desire, as though this were the eight- eenth 'century, then we shall wreck our planet. I, for one( don't believe it will conte to that; but salvation means an effort of will. DESTROYING LILISTAZI How to Get Rid of a Very Un. welcome Weed. iron Sulphate Will Give Satisfaction —Clean Cultivation Will Eradi- cate Bladder Campion or Cow Bell — Fitting the Horse Collar an Art. (Contributed by Gntarlo Department of Agriculture, Toronto.) Following is a continuation of last week's diseusston on the best meth- ods of destroying certain w?eede• affecting Ontario farms: Spraying With Iron Sulphate to Pre. vent Mustard Froin Seeding In Cereal Crops. Iron sulphate or copperas can be successfully used to destroy mustard in standing grain without Injury to the crop. Preparation of Solution. A 20 per cent. solution should be applied. This can be prepared by • dissolving 80 pounds of iron sulphate in forty gallons of water. Iron sul- phate is dissolved, quite readily in cold water, The solution should be strained through a cheese cloth, as it 1s put into the spray pump tank, This will remove dirt and small par- ticles that are apt to clog the nozzles. Time to Apply. Apply on a calm clear day just as soon as the first few plants in the fields show flowers. It is very im- portant to spray early. I1 the plants are left too long the treatment is not nearly so effective. If a heavy' rain collies within twenty-four hours after the solution is applied, it will be necessary to spray again. How to Apply tine Solution. An ordinary hand pump barrel sprayer, such as is employed to spray fruit trees may be used, or a potato sprayer can be rigged up to do this work. Many of the up-to-date spray- ers have a special broadeaa` attach- ment for spraying weeds. Thaw are excellent for large areas, as they cov- er a wide strip at each round. Care must be taken to see that ev.lry Mustard plant is covered with tae solution in the form of a fine spray. The results of the ten years' co- operative experiments show that Mustard may be prevented from'seed- Ing in oats, wheat or barley by spray- ing with a twenty per cent. solution. ot iron sulphate without any ser- iota injury to the standing crop or to the fresh seedings of clover.—J. E. Howitt, 0. A. College, Guelph. Method of Ctiltivation For the Bradt,- cation of bladder Campion or Cow Belt, Badly infested fields should be ploughed deeply in the fall and. then cultivated and cross -cultivated with a broad -shared cultivator to order to break up and weaken the under root• stocks. In the spring this cultivation should be repeated frequently enough to prevent the plant making any growth above ground until it is time to put in a hoed crop, which must be kept thoroughly clean in order to be effective. A well -care,''- for cors: crop I suggest, for one thing, that now planted in bills so that it can be cultivated .both ways has been found is the time when the manufacturer of to give excellent restate. Special arms should be under the control of attadtiou must begirvetl to hoeing out an international body, and that in ev- 'any' bladder 'oamplon plants nvhich ery country there- slourhl be interne- may appear in the corn crop and which are not destroyed by cul- tfaim l supervision' of disarmament. tivation. One fall and one spring's This last is a French demand: And thorough cultivation, followed by a 11 nnnst mule to that unless general ruinshould cone, first. Man, is 1.110 0111y animal, as we have heen told, who engages in the organ- ized destruction of lois own species: And can we excuse ourselves for that Miller's Worm Ponders were devis- by calling ourselves the sons of God? ed to promptly relieve children who There is in the didenunas of the world suffer from the ravages of worms. I':today much that. no 'man, however is a simple preparation warranted. to learnedand 'w iso he may be, would, destroy stantachic and intestinal dare to pronounce upon :except in .a f worms without shock Cr injury.,to the . modest and .tentative wa .But about.' most sensitive system. • They act y I war we need net hesitate. Science has 1 thoroughly and painlessly, and though unified the globe. hf the old and for some cases they may cause vomit vid nationalisms continue in their ac -k t0 an indiEation of their Critics uncontrolled by anything ibuti.eo11•erful action and not any nauseat- ing property. well cared for toad crop, has been: found to destroy practically •all the bladder campion ie a field, except in exceptionally wet seasons.—J. E. Oho yttSit-