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The Seaforth News, 1948-12-16, Page 7er,,,:, HRONICLES GINGER ARM as Nobody h grumbling, of course —but isn't this the, craziest. weather? Nere we are; just into the beginning of December and no sign of winter fret. Now for goodness sake don't he a spoilsport and say—"We'll pay up for it later ons" Maybe we shall, but we don't need to let it spoil our present enjoyment, do we? And It won't ifwe don't set out to meet trouble half -way. And no doubt you have heard that scientists are repeatedly telling us that our seasons are changing. If that is really so then we might just as well get ourselves accustom- ed to thinking of long open fall" and late springs. Time was if a former didn't 'sow his fall wheat by September IS he figured it was no good putting it in. Now wheat sown that early 'is in danger of having more top - than is good for it. I even noticed a farm advertised late+ is November which read —"Land ploughed for fall wheat!" That aeons to be expecting a little too much of Mother Nature, don't you think so? But maybe the agent was just doing •a little wishful think-, ling. * * 5 And speaking of wishful thinking -we hadbeen guilty of that too— bat along rather different lines. Our wishful thinking concerned taxes. Round about this time we generally look for our taxbill to arrive. Naturally we had ,!teen thinking about it and allowing for it on our expense sheet. And since every- thing else is up we thought the tax- es certainly would be. Oh brother! Were they up! In our own minds we allowed them a boost of around $20. When the bill came in, to our dismay they were $50 over and above what we paid last year. We haven't recovered yet! However, we sort of managed to dissect it, as it were, and we find that over one-third of the total is for education. Of course, we want to see all children given an opport- unity to 'get a good education. But what h a good education? Isn't education 'opposed to be a means. of training a child to adjust himself to life along with what knowledge he can absorb from the usual school curriculum? But is it good training when children are raised on a spoon- f d system of education? Is it kind b children to relieve them of any trouble or hardship in regard to getting to school? Adversity de- velops character; then what chance have present-day children to develop character—ormuscle, or physical endurance? How can they when '{ bus comes along, picks them up and 'drops them at their school door? - Do you know what? We are glad we haven't got any school age chil- dren now because, we would hate to have them grow up robbed of their hsdependen ce by having transporta- tion provided for them day after day. "They don't need to ride in • the bus," did you say? Oh come now, you know children , , . not one of them likes to be different from the seat. If one rides the rest must ride too. Our children walked one and a half miles to school in every kind of weather and I don't think they were ever any the worse for lti Oh well, let's talk about some- thing else—my-collar le getting a little 'warm. Maybe the Royal Winter Fair might be a safer topic. The'three of ce wentdown on the last Tuesday to the night performance. Last year we looked around at all the live- stock. This year we didn't go near them at all. It seems impossible to do everything in a few hours. We did enjoy the Musical Ride and the `horse jumping, also the showing of rite magnificent horses. There was one part of the programme I haven't seen mentioned in the papers . after the heavy six -horse teams had been in the ring the announcer said —"One team of horses was not ready when the others came in but they insist on coming in now—so There they arel" And with lots of fan -fare in came a miniature dray drawn by .six Shetland ponies which the announcer called "The Mighty Mites". My, how they raced around the ring = and we noticed the dray was fitted with a brake on one hack wheel - and I am sure the driver needed it. ' Of course we saw the Flower Show -and I never saw one liked better. There was a beautiful ex- hibit of roses put on by several nur- ysrles co-operating to make one Ng showing instead of individual etthibits. It seemed almost im- possible such perfect roses could be rent—and not the least bit wilted. Borrower David Ewen tells about the cont - poser who signed to do the complete aeore for a musical comedy in ten days. That will take a lot out of ," commented a well-wisher, of ' ont of me," 'countered the composer, but out of Teliaikr+,,ky, liralims, and Tine's" MP Pretty Swanky; Don't You Think?—A classic suit and match- ing coat fashioned, in this picture, from a worsted type gabar- dine made by blending nylon staple fibre with wool. Addition of the nylon is said to .impart greater strength and crease • resistance, IYTAaue Andews. If your children are like moat youngsters, there's probably nothing they enjoy more than gathering in the kitchen to make candy. This is especially so at this season, when there's a spirit of jollity in the air. Here are some recipes they might try—easy to make but really grand to eat,.I can assure you. Honey Crisp 1 cup shelled walnut meats 2 cups honey - Break or chop the nuts into small pieces and spread them in a med- ium-sized, well-oiled dripping pan. Put the honey into a saucepan, place over gentle heat and let it boil for five minutes after it reaches the boiling point, stirring occasionally. Pour over the -nuts, set aside to harden, then crack into pieces for serving. .Vanilla Caramels - 1 cup sugar 3f" cup corn syrup (light) - 134 cups cream small pinch of salt Put sugar, corn syrup and 3z cup of cream into saucepan. Stir until sugar dissolves, then boil to soft- ball stage, Add another half -cup of c...am and boil again to soft -ball stage, than add . remaining cream and boilto firm -ball stage. Do not beat, as candy may :become gran- ular. Pour into oiled pan, 8"x8"x2", to become cool, then cut into small squares mid wrap in waxed paper. Popcorn balls are, always popu- lar, especially at Christmas. Here is an old recipe, using molasses: Molasses Popcorn Balls 34 cup light molasses 344 -cup of sugar 34 cup of water 34 teaspoonful of vinegar. 34 teaspoonful of salt 14 .tablespoonfuls of butter 6 cups of popped corn - Combine molasses, sugar, water, vinegar and salt. Cook slowly; without stirring, to the point where a small quantity, dropped into cold water, separates into Heavy threads,' Remove from heat, add butter, stirring only enough to mix well. Pour mixture over popped corn, stirring constantly. Shape lightly and quickly into. balls, Peanut Bonet% Marbles 34 cup peanut butter 134 cups shredded cocoanut or crumbled cornflakes 1• teaspoon vanilla Mix ingredients thoroughly and mold into Antall. balls, Chill until firm and roll in powdered sugar. (Add more peanut butter if mixture seems too stiff.) And I know that some of you would like the recipe for this gen wine YORKSHIRE YULE SPICE CAKE Two-thirds cup lard 34 cup butter " 34 teaspoon grated nutmeg. Grated rind and juice of one lemon 14 cup butter 6 ounces currants 8 ounces sultanas •. 3 ounces candied shredded fruit peels 4/ cups sifted cake flour 3 teaspoons baking powder. 3 eggs T • scant cup milk: (1) Creatn.'shortening, sugar, nut- meg - lemon rind and juice until light and fluffy. (2) Dredge fruits with, some of the flour. Sift remaining flour with the baking powder. (3) Separate eggs. Beat yolks till thick and yellow, Add yolks to creamed mixture, (4) To the same mixture add blend of baking powder and flour a little at a time, alternating with milk. Fold in fruits. (5) Beat egg whites till they atand up' in peaks but are not dry. Fold them into the cake batter. (6) Pour the mixture into two bread tins, which have been greased and lined with paper. The paper should be greased, too. Bake one hour and a half to one hour and forty minutes in a slow oven (300 degrees F.). Note: Tops of loaves may be decorated with blanched almonds, maraschino cherries, pine- apple and so on. In this case, place sheet of paper over the loaves while they are baking, The Best System What is "justice" in an economic system? Is it the equalization of rewards regardless of the contribu- tion that anyone makes or fails to make to the social product? To many of us a system under which the talented and skilled and indust- atit recei rive no more .than the in- competent and shiftless and lazy, and which equalize rewards ir- respeetive of effort; would be not only unjust but, what is worse, un- productive. Most of us, if we thought that were the only alter- native, would prefer an enormously productive if not ideally just sys- tette to one which provided a per- fectly "just" distribution of scarcity and poyerty Fortunately, a free capitalists not only provides both more liberty and welfare than any other system, but more economic justice. Under it most of us, in spite of exceptions, get approximately the economic value that we ourselves contribute to the total social product. That is hose the system provides incentives, Keep improving it, certainly; but don't "reject" it.—ITenry Hazlitt. • Poor System The late Sain Harris once bought a play because he heard that excel- lent actor, Arnold Daly, reading it aloud to a group end found himself profoundly moved by it, It turned out to be one of the most dismal flops of his career. "This has been a great lesson to me," he said, "That's what I get ,for letting a $2,= 000 -a -week actor read a drama to me and getting a $100 -a -week actor to play it." With the Movie and Radio Folks By Grace Sharp A few weeks ago I wrote some- thing of what I had heard and read regarding the new Laurence Oliv- ier "Hamlet" film. Now, having seed it, 1 want to say that it's a - really • tremendous thing—which probably sounds like .a -raindrop sliding Mown a window -pane at Ni- agara, and 'saying that the Falls is a pretty considerable body of water - too. * * Anyway, when you get a chance, you owe it to yourself-to.try'and sec this version of Mr. Shakespeare's mighty' opus, as doing so is the sort of experience which doesn't often come to one.,Seeing Olivier as a blond Hamlet may be some- thing of a shock at first, as I've al- ways thought of the "gloomy Dane" as on the brunet side, but you soon get over it. * 5 * However; there's no suiting everyone. I've spoken 'sometimes about a certain Character—to whom I'm slightly related by marriage- and on the way out of the theatre, when I was doing a slight rave about Olivier's performance, he condescendingly remarks, "Shucks, you should have just seen Forbes Robertson." But that's how it goesl Whenever I say that hockey,players,such as., Teeder Kennedy or Roy Conacher are pretty smart, he always looks scornful and starts raving about Howie Morenz, Dutch Nighbor and the like. I suppose when Mother Eve used to remark how grand the Garden of Eden was. looking, Adam would take her down by ' telling her how much' lovelier it was be- fore she came along. * * * But I managed to get some of my own back. Of course everyman, deep down inside him, thinks that HE—if - he only had a -chance- wool,. hake the perfect "Hamlet". So: when we got home- from the show I -could hear the Character pacing up and down in another room, muttering to himself, "Tis not alone my inky cloak, good mother" over - and over again. So T just h..11ered out "That should be a re- minder for you to take your winter overcoat to the cleaners tomorrow- it's simply filthy." Hamlet's final speech fitted what followed perfect - 1y. It is, as you -probably remem- ber, "The rest is silence." * * * - So be sure and see the Olivier "Hamlet". It's honestly worth while—even though I must confess that, for steady fare, I'd prefer Red Skelton or Clark Gable. Whoever it was that first tagged The Prince of Denmark as "gloomy" was cer- tainly quite a word -Bainter. You could clock all the laughs in the e show with an hour -glass. * * * A week or so ago the papers were making quite a fuss over the "dis- appearance" of Bobby Breen, who a lot of you will remember as a "child singing star" twenty years or so ago.. He and the pilot of his consin, suddenly vanished and it plane, qff on a hunting trip in Wis- was feared that they had crashed. * * * Now it looks very much as though it was all a publicity stunt. Breen was discovered comfortably stowed away in a hotel, and the plane found undamaged not far away. "The whole thing smells" said the Captain of the State Patrol which had sent parties searching for the' missing pair in sub -freezing weather. a sometimes used to think —When little Bobby was starring— that a good spanking wouldn't do ham any harm. Now, maybe he'll Witelvilitur BACK Begins to REACH FOR BECAUSE -- Backache is often due to an upset kidney condi- tion; and for over half a century Dodd's Kidney Pills have helped bring relief front backache by treating the kidneys. Get Dodd's Kidney Pills today at any drug counter, Look for the blue box with the red band. You can depend on Dodd's, 155 get one. "If it was for publicity, it s going to take a whole lot of ex- plaining" says one angry official, Not long ago ane' of the big radio networks paid "Amos 'n' Andy"' something like two and a half million dollars for the hill lifetime rights to their show -and similar deals are' pending with Edgar Ber- gen and Jack Benny, the latter ;re- ported to be getting three million for his corporation stock. The reason for such deals is generally explained as the ,stars' trying to escape the very 'heavy "upper Bracket" income taxation. By forming themselves into corp- orations, they get off •mureh more lightly than when working for straight salaries. But there might possibly be something else behind it all—the threat of,te'levision, * * * Here in Canada we have little idea about the way television is going ahead south of the border; movie people are beginning to rea- Ilse that the "honeymoon is over" so far as those huge salaries are concerned,' Within a year there will be plenty of stars; both on the air and in filmland, working for only a fraction of what they receive now—so maybe Messrs. Bergen, Benny et al are just "getting out while the getting is, good." And although it's pretty late to be' telling any gags about the U." S. election, here's one you might like. Happening to say to the aforemen- tioned Character that I wondered how Dewey was feeling, he told of a man who ran for Reeve in an On- tario small town 'many years ago. Maybe McCarthy wasn't the name, but we'll call him that: - • McCarthy made an intensive per- eonal canvass, and on the eve of polling day was certain of winning. It turned out that he was very badly beaten—swamped, in fact. When the results were known, somebody asked the defeated can- didate how he felt. "There are more liars in Teeswater," said McCarthy sourly, "than there are in hell." So probably Mr. Dewey's feelings are greatly similar to that. So long for nowt Economic Regimentation Threat To Ail Canadians - 8 of M Heed FLEXIBLE INTEREST, MORE EQUITY CAPITAL ADVOCATED BY B. C. GARDNER AS STABILIZING FORCES General Manager, Gordon R. Ball, Reports. Record Deposits — Loans Levelling Off Montreal, Dec. 6.—B, C. Gardner, president of the Bank of Montreal, told shareholders at the 131st annual meeting that doctrinaire socialism was attacking the moral and economic foundations of the nation. No Canadian, he stressed, can hope "that it will be possible to establish in this country some form Of selective economic dictatorship that will apply to others but leave him unscathed. The experience of other countries makes it perfectly clear that once regimentation is established, no interest or class in the community can escape its toils." Such an attack, Mr. Gardner as- serted, was a challenge to all Cana- dians, but it placed a particular re- sponsibility on business men. "I hold no brief," he said, "for any con- cern that in this day and age oper- ates without regard to the public interest." Good business practice was the first essential, and, to achieve more effective public rela- tions, business had to tell its story more completely and in terns more readily understood by the man in the street, Weapons Against Inflation Chief corrective to the present "wide disparity between the supply of money and the things that money buys," Mr. Gardner ...stated, was in- creased productivity, which in turn depended ultimately upon more rap- id technical advance. There had been a boom in capital expenditure on new plant and equipment in Can- ada during the past two years. an encouraging development, but un- fortunately this expansion had not been matched by an offsetting in- crease in saving. The result was competing demand for capital and consumer goods and a strong impet- us to the upward spiral of prices and costs. After 'expressing his approval of the Government's policy of oper- ating at a substantial fiscal surplus, Mr. Gardner questioned whether sufficient attention was being paid to the control of expenditure. Gov- erning bodies might well be expect- ed "to give a lead in the elimination from the public budget of all but absolutely necessary outlays.' This point, the speaker continued, took on added significance in that existing levels of taxation had a direct and adverse effect on the sav- ing capacity of the public, particu- larly that portion of the commun- ity which might be regarded as a substantial source of venture capital. The president referred to the pos- sibility of using a flexible rate of interest both to stimulate saving and to retard 'the rate of capital outlay. The policy of easy money had been developed in a period of deflation and unemployment, and he felt that there would be a definite advantage ,in introducing a further element of flexibility into the interest rate Structure, Further, he said, it was highly desirable that an increased propor- tion of corporate financing should be done in equity form than through the issue of additional debt. General Manager's Address Gordon R. Ball, general manager. reported that the bank's assets stood at $1,991,000,000, total deposits at $1,877,000,000, both at the highest level hi the B of M's history. The volume of banking transactions had continued to expand. throughout the year; special services of the war and early post-war years had been re- placed by the larger volume of more normal banking business. The staff of the Bank of Montreal now numbered 9,300. Referring to journeys he had made across the continent, in the course of•which he visited 135 branches in Canada as well as the bank's offices in the United States, Mr. Ball said, "This was a most inspiring experience . , . I cannot speak too highly of the fine spirit of teamwork, enthusiasm and devotion of which 1 found evi- dence on all sides." The rapid increase of personnel in recent years had brought special problems of staff training. Schools for entrants were now operating in Montreal, Toronto, Winnipeg and Vancouver, and senior staff courses had been instituted at head office, while intermediate Courses were in contemplation for the coming year. Mr. Ball noted that the upwafd trend of commercial loans, which had reached a peak in November, 1947, was now levelling off, and he regarded this as a "constructive de- velopment". In view of rising prices and costs many customers were adopting a more cautious attitude in their commitments. Turning to other aspects of the bank's loan policy, he showed that advances to the grain trade, as well as loans to farmers and primary producers, had increased over the past year. The bank found great satisfaction in the fact that loans under the Farm 'Improvement Loans Act had risen almost 50 per cent. 99 of Every 100 B of M Loans Approved Locally In its general lending policy the B of M had been particularly anxi- ous to meet the requirements of small business concerns and individ- ual borrowers. "Despite this," said Mr, Ball, "it has been alleged from time to time that, because of a concentration of financial resources in the larger centres. Canadian business concerns, and small ones in particular, are at a disadvantage in dealing with branch banks in the smaller centres, the inference being that only relat- ively few have, access to credit. "With this view I emphatically disagree. The full facilities of the entire bank are placed at the cus- tomer's disposal at all of our branch- es and the number of borrowing accounts on our books is to us a clear indication that our customers' requirements are being w-operlv`ansi promptly met, "I may say that as at September 30th last, of the total number of loans on the books of this bank, over 99 per cent were made directly by and at the discretion of our branch managers and local superintend- ents. PENNY 9 -6 - WHO THE DEUCE LEFT l'H6 IGNITION SWITCH IN THE CAR TURNco oN? I DRIED PAY THE.BA-r'i'etgy is Sf0WE HAiR AT DEAD' iLL MISS AN 'THE CAR IMFcRTANT APPOINT - HEATER! MENTI DOES ITMATTER DOES IT SHE ASKS! MATTER pREADFI ty? By. Harry Haeiugsea • JUST [)ROP B RAT, THE CND Y IJ CA BAR FATHER, ANDRE CAN THE THE BIKE THE REST OF THEEVENINGI