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The Huron Expositor, 1945-09-28, Page 2-7;75.7.575,t 417174,77F:7 .',777.7t 7'44 7777 .4r4.'ar`,71tA,7,1A°,ar 44,`r 4,4 abje4 860 . elan *Lean, Editor. led at Seaforth, Ontario, ev- .1/7" Thursday afternoon by McLean Subscription rates, $1.50 a year in advance; foreign $2.00 a year. Single copies, 4 cents each. , Advertising rates on application. SEAFORTH, Friday, September 28 Will You Do It? Aiross Canada from October 1st to the 20th, an appeal is being made for shoes, clothing, blankets, and anything else that will clothe the war devastated people of Europe and other Allied nations, who are facing winter absolutely destitute of cloth- ing to protect their bodies. We, in Canadh, are counting on those people, some 30,000,000 of them in Europe alone, to build and main- tain a lasting peace, following their hard-won victory. But our responsi- bility is as great as theirs, because Without our help this stumbling world will never reach the pinnacle • Of a lasting peace. Because Canada was untouched • by the war, it is hard for us to re- alize or visualize the appalling desti- tution of the European people alone. But when there is added to those the people of the Pacific, China and other Allied countries, our responsi- bilities towards them holds, or should hold first place in our think- ing and our giving. Can you imagine every Mari, wo- man and child in Seaforth absolute- ly without clothes, shoes and bed- ding, as we understand those terms? Try and picture that situation, then multiply our numbers by millions, and even then you have but a faint conception of the situation in Eur- ope. There are in the homes of Seaforth enough cast off clothes, shoes, blan- kets and other worn but serviceable and warm material to re -clothe ev- ery, person in the town and district. Why not hunt out these unneeded, but serviceable things, bundle them • up next week or the week after, and have them ready when the great National Clothing Collection is stag- ed in our town? That, is what the Lions Club ad local Red Crass Society are asking you to do.- Will, you do it? It is lit- tle enough to ask of a people "abso- lutely untouched by war, to da for the people over there. Many of them are sick and starving. Many of them are naked, and all of them are without sufficient clothing, shoes and bedding, the lack of which has already cost and still is costing un- numbered human lives. Those responsible for the clothing collection in Seaforth and district believe that you are willing to help, but they ask and believe you will double your intended givings. Have a thorough housecleaning — the goods are in your homes somewhere —and bundle up 'everything that you can spare, that they can wear. • Timely'Warning Perhaps it is but natural that the people of the United States are fac- mg a period of , real confusion and uncertainty during the reconversion of its industry from war to peace. And, after the experience of the years of depression, this fear seems natural enough. The most 'danger- ous thing about this whole situation, • however,would be a panic, because panic would only increase the diffi- culties which raised it. When Franklin Roosevelt became President of the United States in the darkest days of the depression, he 'said the people of his country had nothing to fear but fear itself, and 'if he were living now he would like- ly repeat that warning. • The New Republic, an influential, •Altericati pablication., recently had °to Say on the subject: "Already auniera with money in their pock - Wad Otherwise be seeking • O.Mdn machines„ radios tighten' g for them.BUsineSSYneUrParticUlarly smaller businessmen, 1049 have had plans for expansion, largely to be paid for out of profitable operations, are deciding to conserve their exist- ing sound investments and forego. risks. If this movement snowballs, there will be real reason for unem- ployment. "At the present time there is no good reason for it. Manufacturers are very far along the road to peace- time reconversion, further along than they ever cared to admit. They can make plenty of goods quickly and there is, even on a realistic evalu- ation of purchasing power, a tre- mendous backlogmf needs which can be filled. It makes not the least sense that 150,000 unemployed in New York, a city of seven million, is played up as a major calamity, par- ticularly when every orie4knows that part of these 150,000 who want to continue to work can replace unem- ployables and those who are holding down jobs in badly undermanned and incompetently staffed service in- dustries. We shall be in the middle of a synthetic depression, if for var- ied reasons, all parts of thepopula- tion go to town on the.current theme of panic." That is a most timely warning for Canada as well as the United States. Reconversion that is slowed down by fear will undoubtedly cause unem- ployment and our difficulties are al- ready heavy enough without exag- gerating any of them. But, unfor- tunately, there seems, in some quar- • ters, including the -House of Com- mons, to be a calculating effort to make our difficulties in these times, much greater than they are. Fear itself is one of the greatest things we have to fear.. • Labor's Demands Like a majority of the people of Canada, we have a husky respect for labor and a large sympathy for its wishes and demands. But since peace was declared, it seems to a great many people in this country, par- ticularly in the rural parts, -'where working hours and wages are far less favorable than in the larger in- dustrial centres, that labor, to say the least, is demanding a lot. Recently representatives' of a labor union interviewed the Govern- ment-at.Ottawa demanding, not ask- ing, that a wartime plant that had been vacant before the war and was being closed down because of the cancellation of war contracts, be kept in operation manufacturing useless equipment. Not only that, but the -Government was expected to turn out useless- equipment, and to pay wartime wages for its manufac- ture. It was pointed .out that on the morning this union deputation had been received, that an urgent tele- phone appeal had come to the Gov- ernment from the same city as the wartime industry was situated, to make available 1,000 employees for the paper industry there, at wages from 90 cents to $1.10 an hour. But the union workers didn't want to work for the paper industry. They wanted to continue on the job they had had for the past five years, and at the same wages. It -was further disclosed at this in- terview that the paper industry at this particular point was employing 6,000 war prisoners, which the gov- ernment could not send home, but were forced to keep and feed here, because of the great shortage of -em- ployees in Canadian industry. At other points in Canada labor unions have declared strikes, or are threatening to declare them, in cer- tain industries unless these indus- tries grant a 30 per cent. increase in wages so that employees would get the same wages for a 40 -hour peace- time week as they did for a 48-hour -wartime week. As wages can on1y. increase as a result of increased pro- duction in times of peace, it would seem reasonable for labor to con- tinue on a 48-hour week. But labor does not see it that way, or else it believes it is*strong enough to force any demands its leaders can think up upon Canadian industry. It may be right, but in the long run we very much fear it is going to find itself in wrong, and very wrong at that, in the minds of the Canadian people', who, after all, have to pay thE4ho:t of increased . wages in in- ei4asea, mica. rs gone 112tvie$549g-, Itth$ pkked riWn 1110 PPPoottor t Ittti twoorksre years ISM Fronra The Huron Expositor October 8, 1920 Mr. James' Nolan and family have movetaanto the fine farm he purchas- ed just ;south of town, known as the Stewart farm- The motor hikeplanned for Friday last by the Stratford Chamber of Commerce, which was to have accom- panied Hon. F. C. Biggs, Minister of Public Works for Ontario, Hon.. Peter Smith and R. Hume • Smith, on a tour of inspection of the road frame Stratford to Goderich, had to be can- celled on account of bad weather. Mr. H. W. Cresswell, who recently returned:, from England, was here on Wednesday visiting his sisters, the Misses Cresswell. • Mr. Earl Van Egmond acted as organist in First Presbyterian Manch on Sunday last. Mr. Peter McIver, of Hibbert, has completed his large bank barn and straw shed, one of the finest in the township, and also had it protected from lightning with large copper lightning rods. Tb.e...1vork was done by Mr. G. A. Reeves, Seaforth. The following names appear as Prize winners at Seaforth Fall Fair from S.S. No. 3, Tuckersmith: Wm. Souter, Carman Haugh, Jean Fother- ingham, Ina Scott, Hazel Haugh, Lyle. Chapman, Erma Broadloot, Alice Munroe, Harold Armstrong, Helen Davidson, Wilsou McCartney, George Munroe. Miss Etta Jarrett, teacher in S.S. No. 14, Hay, during the week ente.- tained her pupils to an afternoon's outing when they visited some points of interest in the section. Cars were provided by Misses. Eliza -Thorapeon and Greta Ivisen. Among the pqints of interest were the big hole on lot 10, con. 5, Hay; Trivitt Memorial Church, Exeter; Times printing offi- ce, Exeter; canning plant at Exeter, and the soldiers' memorial at S.S. No. 1, Usborne. Mr. Erastus Rennie, of Hensel', made an auto trip to Thedford to bring home peaches from that dis- trict where they abound. ' On Monday evening last a number of the girl friends of Miss Gertie Zuefle, Hensall, et at the home of Miss Gladys Petty and gave her' a miscellaneous shoWer, and spent a pleasant social evening on the eve of her approaching marriage. Mr. John Dougall, Hensall, who is learning telegraphy at Wyoming, home visiting his parents, Mr. an Mrs. Henry Dougall. Miss lalayme Swan, of Brucefield, spent a few days with 'Miss Florence Bonthron, in Hensall. There never was as much flax stor- ed at the 'Heiman fax mill as this fall. It is quite' a sight to" see and means a lot or employment. • From The Huron Expositor October 4, 1895 A wildcat • was recently killed on the 12th concession of Grey Twp. Mr. S. Forbes has purchased the Parr farm, near Leadbury. The price paid was $2,000. There was quite a bustle around jthe new Commercial Hothl, Seaforth, on Thursday. The carpets have arriv- ed and are. being laid by a large number of workers: Mr. Wm. Stogdill, who works for Wesley Beattie, had the misfortune the other day to get his foot caught in a hay press. It was caught just at the ankle, and it is a wonder his. foot was not taken off. Mr. Wm. Hills, son of Mr: Thomas Hills, left on Saturday for Toronto, to spend his first year at the Uni- versity. He intends taking a course in Arts. Mr. James Rankin met with an ac- cident in the Broadfoot & Box furni- ture faCitory recently. He was work- ing the joiner and had his hand cau ing the joiner and got his hand caught, with the result that the top of the third finger on his left hand was taken off. Mr. Wm. Fotheringham, of Tucker - smith, whose barn was destroyed by lightning a short time ago, is going to rebuild on an enlarged scale. The contract has been let Id Mr. A. Mc - Beath, of Stanley. On Monday last Mr. • E. Morrison, of Winthrop, let for Toronto where he will continue his studies in the School of Practical Science, where he is fitting himself to be an electrical and mechanical engineer. Mr. Samuel Thompson has return- ed to Kippen from bis westerntour, and is much improved in health. `During the thunderetorm on Wed- "nesday night, the barn of Mr. Wm. Hastings, of\ the 6th concession of Hibbert, wasstruck by lightning and with the entire contents destroyed. One flay last week while Mr. Julius Block, of Zurich, was drawing in peas he was standing on the rack when he fell off, and his leg becoming caught was broken just above the knee. John Sacksqn and Fred Bethune, of Seaforth, left on Tuesday for Toron- to, where they Will resume their stu- dies at the University. The concert given iui Cardno's Hall on Friday under the auspices of the Beaver Lacrosse Chib, Was a decided auccesa. The eel:laical „part of the Pro - grain was suppled by Wm. McLeod and P. MoInt0811, Stratford, Sang."The actlonepa,nimente Were played bY W. It woe, Rtiger Roberta end Mr. rot. tmtb, on the violin. Mr. ,14. R. Chtun • Prn§ided in the 'eltair. Something went wrong with the well pump the other day. You cquld puns n and pump like a. Dutch wind- mill in a high breeze and the pump would cough and wheeze like a horse with heaves And bring forth only a very small amount of water for all your effort. It Jams most discourag- ing and when it -rained the early part of last Wednesday 1 retired to the driving -shed with the pump. There's something about tinkering that seems to fascivate a farmer. Somebody once said that a farmer must be a, combination of veterinary, carpenter, plumber, lawyer, account- ant, poet and, 'just plain tinker. I'm inclined to think they were perfect- ly right. The tinkering is usually more attracti4ve" when a person has to take a bit of wire, the side of an old shoe, some bent nails that have to be straightened, the end of a to- mato can, and other articles of a similar nature in order to make the thing go. , I have a neighbor who is known far and wide as a mechanical genius. The trouble with that is the fact that he is still farming. If he had a small factory for manufacturing gadgets, or was working in an engineering plant, it would be fine. He continues farm- ing, and that's where the rub comes in. The farm looks like a junk -yard. Dismantled automobiles and old trac- tors are strewn all around in various stages of repair and disrepair. It looks a little like a graveyard of the WS 117 Barri at Hoyle mechanical age. The driving -shed has some of the queerest coatrap- tons around the.se parts, stored up or on the production line. Henry is •a great fellow. He'll build a trailer for a neighbor for practically nothing, except the excuse to do it. He has built wagons from old car frames aid a manure loader that's a gem when it works. The only trouble with this apparatus ls that it will work for about an hour and then stop. Henry will proceed to fix it and then dis- cover some improvement that could he made, ,and take the, next three days off to build the new device on it. We all hope that some one of these days Henry. will discover a new pat- ent that will compensate him and his family for what they have been through. Henry never gets his seed- ing in on time. That's because he has a new type of plow that seems to get out of working order about the middle of plowing time. His drill is always falling apart or clogging up, because of a.device he has on it for mixing fertilizer. He buys the various components and mixes them while sowing. He has a mower that beggars description, and his hay load- er practically goes. out to the field it- self, gathers up the hay and brings it in. The trouble is they s often go, wrong and are in a state of con- stant improvement I'm afraid somebody will steal Henry's ideas some day and he'll go on tinkering away without reward. .A SWFORTWO • • The xich uncle wrote to his nephew: "I am sending you $10 you reqaested, but must draw your at- tention to a spelling error in your last letter: 10 is writeen with one nought, not two." • Distrusting all mankind, and banks in particular, Ellen kept her savings in her room. But Cupid was too much for her at last, and she agreed to marry the local butcher. She asked her mis- trees: "What's the best way to put my money irI the bank?" "But I thought you didn't trust banks!" exclaimed her employer. "No more I do, mum. ,But it'll be safer in the bank than in the house with a strange man about!" A friend met a cheerful Irishman who had plainly suffered hard knocks. "Well, Pat, how are you getting on now?" he inquired. "Oh, Oi'm still hard up but Oi've a fine job in Honolulu, and fare paid. 01 sail tomorrow." "Sure, man, you'll never be able to work there. The temperature is a hundred in the shade." Pat had cheerfully endured too much to be discouraged. "Well," he replied, hopefully, "Oi'll not be workin' in the shade all the tonne." • Customer: "I don't want to buy your crackers. They tell me the mice are always running over them." Grocer: " 'Taint so. Why, the cat sleeps in the barrel every night!" :Huron Federation Of :Agriculture—FarmNews Curbing Rabbits in the Orchard During the war years the rabbit population has steadily increased,' particularly in Ontario where this animal is now a serious menace to fruit trees. If the snow fall is heavy in central Canada next winter fruit tree injury may be exterfaive unless stern control measures .are taken, says D. S Blair, Division of Horticul- ture, central • Experimental Farm, Ot- tawa. By far the most effective method of ridding orchards of rabbits is or- ganized hunts or drives. With the , war over such hunts should be re- vived in certain regions on a large scale. Wrapping young, trees with burlap is effective. Burlap bags are ripped open and joined together to make, large sheets which are wrapped around the top of the tree, envelop- ing the entire head. Narrow, strips of burlap are wrapped in a ,spiral fashion around the trunk to protect this area. Good results have been obtained in 'Ontario by painting fruit trees with a resin -alcohol solution. This repel- lent is easily prepared and is appar- ently not harmfill; to the tree even when the buds are covered. It is pre- pared by dissolving 12 apounds of lump resin, finely broken, in four gal- lons of cheap alcohol. The cheaper grades of denatured commercial ethyl alcohol are as satisfactory as higher grades. It is important to use the lump resin and not the powdered as the latter has other foreign material in it which will not dissolve. The lump resin should' be broken into small hits, pulverized and sifted through a fly screen so that it will dissolve quickly. The resin is added to the alcohol slowly and stirred un- til completely dissolved. It is a good plan to let the solution stand over night so that the resin is thoroughly dissolved. As alcohol evaporates readily the solution should be kept in an air -tight can. Because of the in- flammable nature of th'e material it must never be placed near a -fire. The solution is apillied with a paint brush and precautions must be taken to treat trees only when bark is dry. If applied to moist bark it will flake eff soon after application. Poison baits have proved a success- ful method of destruction. A good' bait for rabbits is prepared as fol- lows: Dissolve one ,ounce of strych- nine sulphate in Da gallons of boil- ing water in one dish and four table- spoonfuls of laundry starch in one- half pint of cold water in another dish and then add starch to the stryohnine solution and boil for a ,few minutes until the Starch is clear, .A little saccharine or corn syrup (when taIrallable) may be added if desired, but it is net eSsential. Polar.mr spray the solution of strychnine and starch Over Alfalfa bay or sweet clover, and allow it .to Saa,k is Well. Tie the hay int0' .Very aiid1l biitdias and &Ad- / bute throughout the orchard, tying a small bundle of poisoned hay to a branch of a tree about a foot or so above the snow level. * * * New Soils Department Established Recognition of the growing import- ance to tyre farmers of Ontario of a soil cons&vation and management and land use program is shown by the establishment of a separate and full scale Department of Soils at the Ontario Agricultural College. Up to the pregent time, all soils work has been carried on through the Soils Division of the Chemistry Depart- ment of the College, but it has, in recent years, grown to such a posi-, tion of importance in the agricultur- al progress of Ontario that it was some time ago decided that it was essential to have all soils work cert.: tred in a Department by itself, and divorced from the Chemistry Depart- ment. Incidentally, in making this deci- sion, the Government has put into effect one of the major recommenda- tions included in the Soil Conserva- tion report made to the Minister of Agriculture 'by the Agricultural Com- mission of Inquriy in March of this year. Professor G. N. Ruhnke, who has been bead of the chemistry depart- ment at the College and one of the outstanding authorities in soils work on the North American continent, has been appointed to be the head of the new department, in which there- will be much wider scope for carrying on, not only the fundamental research work and the instruction in this field but also to carry the results back to the farms of Ontario for the benefit of the farmers. In order to extend the facilities for this work, an addition is how being built to the Soils, Building, and it is expected that this will be ready for use by the time the fall term of the O.A.C. opens, With added facilities and a recognized status for soils work it is the expectation of the Minister of Agriculture that it will be possible to speed up the progress of soil sur- veys, and the „application of the, in- formation developed through thorn to practical agriculture throughout the counties of Ontario. * •* * Visitors From Three Countries In recent weeks Ontario has been visited by some interesting groups of agriculturists from other countries, and agricultural representatives have had the opportunity of showing them something of Ontario farming meth- ods. One of these was a deputation of representatives of the British Miais- try of Agriculture, consisting of W. P. Ward, a farrrier.'and Captain Alex Thorpe, architect of the /3a1tish istry. They had been sent to Canada to make a survey of farm buildings eqUipMent, and 'fatted many of (pentinalled on Page 3) r , rr.r;,14, rr, Count y aver* Tlo Be Permanent -Air School' Speculation has been rife ae to the - future of the Centralia Airport. There bave been many rumor e but the lat- est information is to the effedt that the Centralia Airport, Which was first (known as No. 9, S.F.T.S., IS being re- organized and is to bp known as No. 1 Flying Training School. With the - closing out of No. 9 as a Service MY- ing Training' School it became known as an. Air Crew_Conditioning School' where pilots took a commando course la preparation for the Pacific " the- atre. The latter school was closed • out on September 15th and a perman- ent school where elementary and Seta, vice flying training will be carried - out is now in the course of organiza- tion. This will be good news to the t. citizens of Meter and community as the airport has meant a great deal in many ways to this district. —Exeter Times -Advocate. • 4 a Auto Turns Turtle When an automobile turned turtle' on the Huron -Middlesex boundary line about 10.30 Tuesday evening, five young men escaped serious injury al- though some of them were cut and bruised, Glen Prout was driving and with him were Glen Hunter, Bill Ford, Melville Coward, and.Ewart Bal- lantyne. A flat tire and sat shoul- der on the road, which is being wici- ened, is reported as the cause of the. accident. The left top of the.car was dented and the windshield brok- en and the grill and fenders damag- ed. he driver 'received cuts to his lett cheek andear that required sev- eral stitches to close. Bill -Ford had a finger broken and Ewart Banana • tyne a slight scalp wound. -- Exetee ' • Times -Advocate. Clinton Paper Changes Hands The Clinton News -Record has been purchased by R. S. Atkey and H. L. Tomlinson, both of whom have had extensive experience in the weekly newspaper field with the Barrie Ex- aminer, the former as news editor, and the latter as assistant superina tendent—Clinton News -Record. a Leases Supertest Station Lorne J. Brown has 'taken over as: lessee the Supertest service station formerly leased by Basil Thrower. He will also act as local agent for, Chrys- 4 ler and Plymouth automobiles. Mr. Brown, a Clinton boy, formerly op- erated Brownie's Shell •service sta- tion on King'S:Highway 8, at the town limits, for eight years, until he sold. out and- joined the Royal Canadiaa: Navy in 1942. He has ben a signal- man on a minesweeper overseas. Dur- ing his 'absence his wife and you son have resided in. town. Now home - on leave, he expects to receive his. formal discharge within .a shwa time.. —Clinton News -Record. Fire Threatens Residence' Waking,: up and finding her house full of smoke about 6,45 a.m. Wed nesday morning, Mrs. Lambton, Dun lop St, notified Clinton fire brigade immediately: 'the volunteer firefight ters were soon on the scene, and found the rear of an automobile own ed by David' Kay, which had been parked in the garage attached to the rear of the house, on' fire. Fire Chief L. Cree .gave it as his opinion that the fire had been smouldering in the' back cushions of the.1 car all night. Application of chemicals soon extin- guished it.—Clinton News -Record. Suffers Unfortunate Accident Mrs. James Cardiff, who is in her 91st year, had the misfortune to be the victim of an accident in her home here. On Monday afternoon she slip- ped on a mat and fell, splintering a bone just below her hip. She was. removed to Clinton hospital. It is a bad break but Mrs. Cardiff, -who de- spite ber years, has beeu active, has made a remarkable recovery from the shock of her injury and is very cheerful about her mishap.—Brussels Post, Disastrous Fire Averted Smoldering fire in hay in a wooden silo in the barn on the farm of Hugh Hill, Colborne Township, causer] con- siderable concern 'on Monday night. The fire brigades of Goderich and Auburn responded to a call, and a great crowd of neighbors and other people gathered. Chemicals were ed by the Goderich firemen to exti:1 • guish the fire, while the Auburn ori gade used water hauled from Bee miller. The flames broke out only once and were quickly checked. The smoldering hay was rernove"cl from the silo and implements and some livestock were taken from the bar!. to a place of safety. The effort- averteda disastrous fire, as the barn is one of the largest in the distil(' and contained several thousand bush, els of grain and the season's hay crop. Mr. and km. Hill who were away from home, were reached at Guelph by telephone and arrived home shortly before midnight. The presence of fire had been noticed early in the evening, and it was four o'clock in the morning before the watchers could return to their homes. —Goderich Signal -Star. Fractures Arm Billie Taylor, son of Mr. and Mrs. William Taylor, north of town, had arm fractured while engaged wale a lattd 'Vier. His many friends are Pleased to hear that he is able to go abdut with his arm In a slizag.—Z0r- ith floral& a 0 .41