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The Huron Expositor, 1951-10-12, Page 2i? THE HURON EXPOSITOR 9 OCTOBER WI THE IRON EXPOSITOR Established 1860 A. Y. McLean, Editor Published at Seaforth, Ontario, ev- ery very Thursday afternoon by McLean Bros. Member of Canadian Weekly Newspapers Association. Subscription rates, $2.50 a year in advance; foreign $3.00 a year. Single copies, 5 cents each. Advertising rates on application. PHONE 41 Authorir,ed as Second Claes Mail Post Office Department, Ottawa SEAFORTH, Friday, October 12 Ontario to Vote The uncertainty which has existed for some months concerning the pos- sibility of an election in Ontario is ended. Premier Frost has announc- ed that an election will be held on Thursday, November 22. While the Government did not have to call an election until at least 1953, the Premier, in announcing the date, pointed out that the action had been taken in order that his leadership could be given personal endorsation. Mr. Frost, it.will be recalled, became Premier in 1949 when Hon. George Drew, who headed the party in the election year of 1948, moved to the federal field. With less than six weeks remain- ing before election day, it can be an- ticipated there will be a short but hot campaign. The new Liberal leader, Walter Thomson, has conducted a vigorous campaign across the Prov- ince since his selection as leader, and ian be anticipated that the spade work he has done w'.l! be r entQtec in the activity shown in the campaign.. + e-tttsss><g he election in lade No- �- psi �+ "veinber, Mr. Frost and t ted6 Who aa - vise hurt, undoubtedly feel that the chances of the Progressive Conserv- atives being returned to office are better than if the decision had been delayed until next spring or later. They feel that the advantages more than offset the disadvantages repres- ented. by the Government going to the people two years earlier than was necessary. • On Contributing Churches, like everybody else, have brought home to them every week in the year that it costs more now to maintain buildings or provide the same services than it did ten years ago. Yet, it seems that those who support them fail to realize the fact with the result contributions fail to maintain their proper ratio to cost of operation. The Printed word, after reviewing the problem facing the churches, pro- duces a novel suggestion when it says contributions should be geared to the cost of living in the same manner as are wages in certain industries. The Printed Word says: "Church wardens, stewards, boards of finance and other bodies responsible for keeping churches .solvent have a dif- ficult task at any time, but perhaps their difficulty is greater ` in good times than in bad. This is because 'good' times, in the material sense, are times when prices are rising. It costs more to heat the church, to pay the sexton, to feed and clothe the parson and his family. "Loyal members of churches too often have a blind spot when they look at their givings. They may not decrease the regular amounts they have agreed to put into their duplex envelopes, but when they look at the rising monthly bilis for all their other expenses; they may reasonably decide that this is no time to be giv- ing more to a church. "Naturally, when times are bad, church members decide that they cannot increase their church givings, because their own incomes are on the downgrade. This is not quite so bad for the church, as long as givings are not actually decreased, because maintenance costs go down too. "Fiscal guardians of the churches might well take a lead from the labor unaeneer's and endeavor to get their members to gear their contributions to the crest of livi ig- , If families gen- '041% ineteased' ;their; 'givings in the. Mme. proportion as, the cost .of living. li index has risen, most church collec- tions would be ,quiet instead of jing- ling. ingling. Zealous church financiers may favor a Rand formula for contribu- tions, on .the same principle, that church adherents benefit from the churches' works, whether they attend church or not. The difficulty about the Rand formula for churches is one of enforcement. Practical difficulties also preclude the institution of a compulsory check -off system for church dues. Nevertheless, if church- goers would voluntarily agree to contribute as much to a church of their choice as they do to their union or to a club, some of the financial problems of the wardens might ap- proach a solution." • Fire Prevention Week This is the week when Canadians pay particular attention to the dan- gers which may exist in their homes and places of business as a result of permitting conditions to exist which may contribute to fire. Fire Prevention Week which ends Saturday night, is designed to arouse ' the public from its apathy about fire and to demonstrate that good house- keeping and careful living habits are one of the most effectivA means of fire prevention. Everyone can help in reducing the great loss of money and lives which fire causes every year. A few sug- gestions include: 1. Inspecting and cleaning the chimney at least once a year. 2. Keeping heating apparatus clean and replacing worn or defective parts promptly. 3. Repairing electrical equipment by qualified electricians at the first sign of trouble. Replace frayed cords on appliances. Don't overload cir- cuits.- 4. Being careful with cigarettes and matches. Keep matches out of the reach of children. 5. Cleaning combustible rubbish out of closets, the attic and basement. Turn in rags and magazines for sal- vage. 6. 73eing careful with flammable Iiquids. Never take gasoline into the home for any purpose. Use a non- explosive and non -burning fluid such as carbon tetrachchloride for remov- ing spots from clothing. What Other Papers Say: (Kitchener -Waterloo Record) It's Really Worth It The hope of all newly married couples is to own their own home, a place where they can lavish care on it as they wish and make changes t� suit their fancy. Of course the big thing about a home is the price and usually this puts the purchaser in a financial cor- ner in which he must move carefully for some time to keep solvent. After he buys a home the new owner runs into a string of expenses that are a bit disheartening. No one expense is particularly large, but added to- gether they run into a fair sum of money, especially when one has stretched the purse pretty far in the original purchase. These things in- clurdde landscaping, erecting wash posh and lines, purchase of garden tools, lawn mower and hose. The new home owner would be well advised not to get too dejected over all this. The veteran will tell him that he'll still be puttering about his lawn 20 years from now, that the day will never come when his wife will never cease asking him to build her a new set of shelves in one obscure corner, or a built-in book case beside the fireplace, and to "fix" a hundred things. Owner of your own house means work and plenty of it, and a steady outlay of money. But it also means independence, the freedotn, within reason, to do as you wish without fear of the landlord's wrath. All in all, if you own your own place you are a lucky fellow. If you don't think so just ask any one of the thousands who must go on renting. CROSSROADS (By James Scott) "SMOKED OUT" Since this is a story of young and tender love I suppose it should happen in the spring. That's what the poets say, and I am not one to quarrel with a poet when it comes to affairs of the heart. Indeed 11 can attest from my own dim youth that "in the spring a young man's fancy lightly turns to thoughts of love." That's true enough. But Tennyson should have gone fur- ther; he should have said that a young man's fancy turns to thoughts of love in the summer, and in the winter and in the fall, too. In fact, a young man's fancy is turning in amorous directions al- most all the time. The time I am recalling was the autumn—the "season of mists and mellow fruitfulness," the season when people say, "I do like to smell the burning maple Iea.ves." the time when the fellows and the girls go back to school after ,having been away to camp or on summer jobs, to discover that the girl next door has suddenly grown up to be a rav- ishing beauty. You'd be surprised how many romances start every, year the week after Labor Day. A few years ago, I saw one of these great passions develop right under my nose. The girl next the house where I was then living was a very nice looking girl and there was a young fellow at her school who thought so too. Well.,he must have for he was hanging around the house next door all the time. (You must not smile or grow im- patient with this for you must re- alize that at the age of seventeen it is not enough to contemplate your lady -love all day in the class, room; you .must walk home with her; you must linger on the door- step till supper time; and, if you can get out, you must be back right after supper to linger some more. That is the recognized code and no young man of honor would break it. You wouldn't want that, would you?) Well, that's the way it was next door. At that time of day I would usually ;be out raking the leaves and every time I would straighten up to take a kink out of my back there these two would be, standing on the doorstep, talking, talking, ughing, laughing, kicking the grass with their toes, fidgeting and squirming. Oh, they had it bad all right— you couldn't mistake all these symptoms. Isn't that nice, I'd think to my-* self. Or sometimes—if my back wasn't getting any kinks in it—I'd think, by golly, wouldn't it be great to be seventeen again! But I'm not seventeen, and l nev- er will be again, and what happen- ed a few days later proves it be- yond all question- By that time 1 had enough leaves raked to make a very respectable fire on the drive- way. I lit it; up she blazed and soon great belches of maple -leaf smoke wore filling the air: I did the same thing the next day and the day after that, and never once did I bother to notice the direction of the wind. Not till the third day when through the thick smoke I heard a terrible coughing and hocking and dimly perceived the retreating form of the young lad sliding down the street to escape the smoke. Then I heard my neighbor's front door slam and I realized what I had done --that I had broken up the romantic tete- a-tete on the front stoop. Probably bad been doing just that ever since I started burning leaves. And do you know that that boy never came back? After that 1 was careful to make sure that the wind would not blow my smoke over the young lovers, but the next day it was another lad, a complete stranger to me, and that's the way it has been ever since. That first young fellow never returned. I had smoked him out—but good. 'You think I exaggerate? You think the smoke had nothing to do with it? I'll never believe it. At the tender age of seventeen you'd be 'surprised how little it takes to destroy romance, and I know my- self yself that I wouldn't think much of courting a girt whose doorstep was covered with choking smoke every time •I walked her bene from school. And I know this, too. I'm get- ting old and insensitive not/to have remembered that before I put the match to my bonfire. From now on I'm being mighty careful; I can't have a string -of broken hearts on my conscience, To The Editor Toronto, Oct. 6, 1951. Editor, The Huron Expositor: Dear Sir: That was a thoughtful and graceful story iby a farm boy— R. J. Deachman—today, "a well- known economist," "a son of Hur- on county" and one who "thoughts frequently turn to the rural areas he knew as a youth-" .• The following points in the above verbal scene made me wonder whe- ther I was listening to a nostalgic example of the poet's plea "make me a boy again, just for tonight," or to merely a backward -thrusting city mind, shorn of its 'economic' moorings: (1) "The machine age ban' brought many new things, but there is a scarcity of farm labor . " (2) "The hired men cost too much . ". (3) "The farms now lack the polish they had in the old aye --when will it return?" and (4) "If the farms can be worked with shorter hours and a bit more leisure, it would be a happy event." Frankly, it seems to this rural Canadian—closer to the groundline than your guest writer—that the nostalgia (•almost inescapable in the above "Back to the Old Farm" survey) took complete possession of the Ottawa economist who has. lo these many seasons, been going s. places and doing things "along the pavements gray?" No. 1 and No. 2, of course, are opposite sides of the same labor coin and pretty well cancel each other out. On the other hand, 1 find it interesting to ponder what the position would be. today, but for the massive expenditure of $1,250,000,000 on steel -and -iron mus- cles, iby our farmers. since the close of the war? These are ob- viously, speedier days; but not nes essarily any sounder, in terms of what our neighbors describe as "the pursuit of happiness." More- over, the reference to lack of "pol- ish" is a generalization which might mean various things to as many readers. I am of the opin- ion, though, that the 100,000 Cana- dian farms which Kaye received the blessing of electric light and power since May 8, 1945, enjoy shaI1 I say a• smoother technique of living, than in the 'good old i'day.s' to which R. J. D. points? Ob, yes, indeed; I would be deelighted (as T- R. would say) "with shorter hours and a bit more leisure"—but alas, what would the eight-hour day, and yes, the urban five-day week, do to -production, the price struc- ture, the milk cows, and the end- less cali of our city cousins for cheap food? ' ANOTHER FARM BOY -8_ Crop Report For Huron Unseasonable very fine weather during the last four days of last week has greatly helped in speed- ing up the harvesting of tho white bean crop, ripening of the soybean crop and considerable progress has. been made with silo filling opera- tion§ and also in the combining of clover seed. Wheat seeding has been com- pleted and with excellent moisture and warmth, sprouting of the crop is quite rapid. Harvesting of sugar beets has commenced in some see - tions of the south end of the coun- ty and are reported as being about an average crop. Pastures and new seedings are in splendid condition. Red Clover in the Corn Field The idea of planting red Clover in growing corn is a new one to many farmers of Ontario, but the benefits make the practice worth- while, accordieg to W. W. Snow,, the Field Husbandry Specialist at the Western Ontario Experimental' Farm at Ridgetown. Red clover is quite easy to sow with a hand -seeder and if planted soon after the corn le cultivated for the last time, there will be a good growth for plowing down ill the fall. Mr. Snow points out corn is a crop that, by the way it is hand- led, becomes destructive to the soil structure. It has to be cultivated quite often to controi the weeds. While this cultivation destroys weeds, it also allows air into the lower depths of soli. The frequent aeration and stirring of the soil hastens the destruction of organic 1. matter, thus leaving the soil in worse physical shape after corn, than after almost any other crop. This raises the problem of re- storing the fibre removed and de- stroyed by growing corn. Many people still depend upon the clover sown on the grain fields to cover up the trouble caused by other crops. However, ,Mr. Snow feels more is needed and the problem can be met if a green manure crop is sown riglzt in the corn. At the Western Ontario Experi- mental Farm, he says it hag been the practice to sow red clover in corn and as yet there have been no failures to catch. Many differ- ent crops, including rye and other grasses, as well as many clovers have been .tried, but so far, red clover has been the most satisfac- tory for general tire. It has many advantages fdr Ontario conditions, Where sweet clover can be grown, the results have been eq- ually good, but, on the whole, red clbver Is suited to a much larger number of farms. Matny of the tithher legumes do}- net catdh as eas- ily as either red or sweet and some do not produce enough growth by fall. The grasses do not have the same ability to fix expensive nitro- gen from the air for the use of other crops and usually do ` not not leave .as much root growth in the soil for fibre, Mr. Snow says it isn't necessary to sow more than Six or eight (founds' of red clover per acre. At a cost of $3.0'0 or $4.00 an acre up- wards of two or three tons of fibre Can be edited to improve the physi. dal condition of the soil. (Continued' on; Page 7) 1., Interesting Items Picked From The Huron Expositor of Twen- ty-five - and Fifty Years Apo. From The Huron Expositor October 15, 1928 Mr, J. Tewaley, who has been assisting at the Zurich branch of the Bank of Montreal, has bees transferred to t h e Courtland branch. An interesting event took place at the river at Bayfield Tuesday af- ternoon when quite a number of citizens gathered to witness the launching of Louis McLeod's new boat. Decorated with large Rags, and on her bows purple heather and plaid ribbons of the McLeod tartan, with due ceremony the new boat was christened "Helen McLeod the Second," by Dr. A. Newton -Brady, as he broke the bottle of wine on her bow. The board of trustees and staff of Seaforth Memorial Hospital wish to acknowledge with thanks the donation ,of a beautiful instrument cabinet by Mr. C, 11. Broadfoot, of Moose Jaw. Miss Margaretleary, Reg.N., left this week for Rochester, N.Y , where she has accepted a position in one of bhe hospitals there. Mr. and Mrs. J. G. Mullen enter- tained the Sunday'school teachers of First Presbyterian Church on Wednesday evening. Postmaster C. P. Sills has been requested by the Employment Ser - vire of ,Canada to act as their re- presentative in Seaforth. The ser- vice is a government one and is free. Mr. J. B. Henderson, of Sea - forth, brought into the post office a potato grown in his garden that is a real curiosity. It con- sists of one large central poiate, from which were growing three other potatoes of average size, arid from them again had grown twer,': others. really making sixteen pots: toes in one. The Paramount Quartette filled a concert engagement in Listowel Monday evening, and on Sunday will sing in one of the churches in. Wallaceburg. • From The Huron Expositor October 11, 1901 Mr, Stewart MgMordie left Kip - lien on Monday for Niagara Palls in reslonse to a telegram sent by a firm of railroad contractors with whom he has a good situation. The manse in connection with St. Andrew's Church, Kippen, Is re- ceiving a general repairing. Mr. M. Williams, of Dublin, who has carried on a successful busi- ness there for a number of years, has disposed of his property and _tock to Mr. J. Canning, of Sea - forth. Mr. Williams will remain in 1)ubliu and carry on the uuJeitak• ing and post office. As a result of a severe thunder- storm Tuesday night; 'Mr. James Fisher, of Tuckers•mith, met with a heavy toss in the destruction of one of his barns by fire. The following were ticketed this week at W. Somerville's ticket ag- ency: To Buffalo, Jas. Hinchley, David MilIson, Mrs. John Grainger of Hullett; George Beattie, George Baldwin, Miss Fitzgerald, M:, and Mrs. W. E. Pearce, Seaforth; Mrs. J. C. Morrison, McKillop; Rev. Neil Shaw, Egmondville; Mr. and Mrs- Wm. Ament and Mr. and Mrs, P. Ament, Brussels; Mrs. Larkin to Chatham; Mics, W. Payne to Wind- sor; Misses E. M. and• J. G. Dick- son to attend University in Toron- to, and the following to Toronto: Mrs. 11. Edge, Mrs. R. S. Hays, Miss E. J. Hays, Mrs. 0, Neil, Miss Ida Dickson, Mrs- ,•W. R. Counter, Mr. and Mrs. E. McFaul, Miss Knox, Harry Beattie, Mr. and Mrs. J, Rankin, Mr. 'and Mrs. W. D. Bright,. Mrs:'G. E. Henderson. Miss Gladys Henderson, A. Stobie, Mr, and Mrs, F. Gutteridge, F. C. G. Minty, Mrs. Jas. Beattie, Mr. and Mrs. Jas. Cowan, Mrs. Secord, Mrs. A. Forbes and the Misses Ria and H. Brine. Sells Property Mr. Fred Thiel disposed of his fine red brick business and dwel- ling attached block and tract of land adjoining it, Mr. Chas. Thiel being the purchaser. We wish Charles a lot of success with it; we know he will use it to the best advantage.—Zurich Herald. Were Legion Delegates M. J. Schoenhals, Percy M. Brown and George Rumball repre- sented Clinton Branch No, 140 at a one -day convention of District C, Canadian Legion, in Owen Sound Sunday. More than 400 attended, from. Tobermory on the north to Kitchener on the south. — Clinton News -Record. Suffers Severe Burns William Robert Kerr, sen of Mr. and Mrs- J. John Kerr of Diagonal Road, Wingham, suffered severe burns to both hands, particularly the right one, when an electrical current passed through him Tues- day of last week while he was working on a rural power lino. 1-:e is employed by the Rural Hydro. —Wingham Advance -Times, New Well in Operation Clinton's new artesian well is now in operation. The well was put into high gear last Monday. The new unit is a 12 -inch salt 360 feet deep. The Windthroath pump, which is driven by a 60 H.P. motor, delivers 620 gallons per minute: The new water source takes the place of No. 2 well which has been shut down temporarily so that it can be converted to 60 cycle.—•C1•n- ton Citizens' News. Crediton Buys Fire Equipment Stephen council has agreed to help Crediton finance a new fire- fighting trailer to replace the old hand -pumping machine now in use in the police village. The new trail- er will, be able to pump 450 gallons of water a minute and carries mod- ern firefighting equipment. The township council agreed to finance the project with a loan which will `e paid off with interest by the notice village.—Exeter Times -Advo- cate. Breaks Elbow At School Meet Judith Baker, 8, daughter of Mr, - and Mrs. Jack Baker, of town, hadt the misfortune to break her elbow at the public school on field day, She is now in the hospital and will) undergo treatment for a few days - at least: Wingham Advance -Times,. Purchased Carload of Cattle Messrs, Thomas 'Kelly and James Coultes attended the cattle sale? held at Little Current, Manitoulin Island, on Sept. 27, Mr. Kelly pur- chased a fine carload of Hereford steers, averaging about 870 pounds in weight, He intends to feed them, this winter,' Mr. Kelly informed us that there were 92 carloadsof cat- tle sold to buyers from Ontario and the United States, some going: as far away as Pennsylvania, Oth- ers attending from this community were Messrs. Aubrey Toll, Walter. McGowan and Albert Walsh—Blyt i Standard. Fatally Injured By Truck One of the first fatal accidents"- on a Goderioh street in many years occurred at about 4:30 p.m. Tues- day when Brant Sallows, 20 -months- old son of Mr. and Mrs. William. Sallows, Blake Street, was run ov- er by a panel truck driven by Ray- mond Wasson of Goderich. Police said the driver of the truck had pulled up parallel With the side- walk behind a parked car on Blake Street in front of the Sallows home to which he was delivering a par- cel. Both cars were facing west on the south side of the street.. After relivering his parcel the driv- er of the truck pulled from behind;. the parked car and was proceeding. west when the Sallows child ran its front of the parked car and thew darted out farther on the road into, the path of the approaching truck. Provincial Constable W. 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