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The Huron Expositor, 1953-04-24, Page 2•I' v� JI A'. I 1 All il� addition, at least 100,000 persons n4:1011#d �ents, sandSoiiie x000 �re: are i jured severely enough m� be;keptf rop►]their regular activities for one day or longer. A wide variety of ,factors are re- sponsible for injuries sustained in the home, So that there is no simple or easy solution to the problem. Many of the ,accidents may be at- tributed to environmental hazards; such as faulty design or construction of the house, poor housekeeping, or inadequate maintenance of applianc- es and other equipment. Too often a major role is played by poor judgment, ignorance of the ,haz- ards involved in certain actions, and even fatigue. Probably, however, a great many of the accidents arise from pure care- lessness. forth, Ontario, ev- '- ,a;±oon by McLean A Y. McLean, Editor pption rates, $2.50 a year in `' =ice; foreign $3.50 a year. Single 5 cents each. Waft* of Canadian y Newspapers Association. Advertising rates on application. PHONE 41 Authorized as Second Class Mail Post Office Department, Ottawa SEAFORTH, Friday, April 24, 1953 Y ' Coronation Planting District papers these days recount *tails of programs being arranged throughout the area to mark the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth. Like other towns, Seaforth has anade preliminary arrangements for u program being sponsored jointly, y the Fire Brigade and the High- landers Band, and the Council has established a committee charged with the responsibility of seeing that the town is properly decorated for the occasion. A difference, however, in the ar- rangements here and those in other towns which we hace noted, is that a number of towns, in addition to various programs, propose to com- memorate the day by means of a permanent memorial. And in most cases the means chosen has been the planting of Coronation trees. We think that is a pretty good idea «--one that as the Tears pass will have increasing significance. No matter how full a program has been arrang- ed, it ig not, too late to provide a few moments on Coronation Day during which a ceremony could take place, when perhaps some maplesor oaks could be planted at an appropriate • The Cost of War The cost of war in terms of the things a nation must deny itself was indicated by President Eisenhower in a recent speech when he discuss- ed world disarmament. The President put it this way: "The cost of one modern heavy bomber is this: Two electric power plants, each serving a town of 60,000 population. Two fine, fully equipped hospitals. Some 50 miles of concrete highway. "We pay for a single fighter plane with 500,000 bushels of wheat. "We pay" for a single destroyer with new homes that could have housed more than 8,000 people." • Rights, of Others Mr. Paul Jones is a road safety ex- pert from the United States, and re- cently he was addressing a meeting in Hamilton. There is so much common sense and shrewd judgment in his remarks on modern traffic . that we quote them: "The modern traffic problem is nothing more than a mass demon- stration in gutter manners. "The marvel is not that so many people are•killed and maimed in traf- fic, but that so many manage to sur- vive. "Actually this boarish traffic be- havior goes deeper than mere lack of manners. It reflects some of the at- tributes of greed, -selfishness and dis- regard for the rights of others that bring about black marketing, brib- ery, corruption, and the current slump in old-fashioned morality that is bothering us so much in the States right now." Isn't it the truth ? • Accidents At Horne N'e are rernind-ed by a bultetin Is- U. by one of the life insurance co1`npaties that accidents in and .'bb'u.t the home constitute a major dr :eat to the life and limb of the y°s ')duff people. ' year such mishaps kill ap- r .2$,000 people in the tes, ,about 6,000 of them at vb i ig age'sof life, In place --possibly the Lions Park. • Doing Our Part Speaking at Montreal not long-, ago, . Hon. Stuart Garson, Federal Minister of Justice, made reference to Canada's assistance to European and Far Eastern countries. As the Winnipeg Free Press points out, all too frequently the people to the south feel that they are carrying ex- cessive burdens. They are, it is quite true, carrying very heavy burdens in foreign aid. But Canada, as the only other so-called arsenal country in the free world, is also playing her part. "Mr. Garson showed," the Free Press continued,, "that Canada this fiscal year will spend $360,000 on mutual aid under NATO and the Colombo plan. Mutual aid means giving goods or weapons to NATO countries. The Colombo plan , is a plan entered into by the Common- wealth countries to help the far eastern members — chiefly India, Pakistan and Ceylon. "A fair basis of comparison with the United States would be -a ratio of $19 to $1. That is the ratio of the gross production in the two coun- tries. On this basis the -United States equivalent to our $360,000,000 would be $6,840,000,000. The actual amount being given by the United States this year is $6,100,000,000. "A comparison of the post-war years is equally revealing. From mid -1945 to March 31, 1952, the'Unit- ed States gave foreign aid, in grants and credits, of $34 billions. The Can- adian equivalent is $2.3 billions. The Canadian total is comprised of a loan of $1,185,000,000 to the United King- dom; of $500,000,000 to other coun- tries; $325,000,000 to NATO coun- tries; Colombo plan $50 millions; , wheat for Greece $855,000 and so on. On the basis of the national product of the two countries this would be equivalent to $41.4 billions in the United States. The actual figure as stated is $34 billions." What Other Papers Say : Fable of the Gullible Gulls (Barnett National Bank) In the friendly city of St. Augus- tine, Fla., great flocks of seagulls are starving amid plenty. Fishing is still good, but the gulls don't know how to fish. For generations .they have depended on the shrimp fleet to toss them scraps from the nets. Now the fleet has moved to Key West. The shrimpers had created a Wel- fareState for the St. Augustine sea- gulls. The big birds never bothered to learn how to fish for themselves and they never taught their children to fish. Instead they led their little ones to the shrimp" nets. Now the seagulls; the fine birds that almost symbolize liberty itself, are starving to death because they gave in to the "something for noth- ing" lure! They sacrificed their in- dependence for a hand-out. A lot of people are like that, too. They see nothing wroYig in picking delectable scraps from the tax nets o the government's "shrimp fleet." But what will happen when the gov- ernment runs out of goods? What about our children of .generations' to come? Let's not be gullible gulls. We must preserve our talents of self-suffici- ency, our genius for creating things for ourselves, our sense of thrift and cut true • lore' of independence. ' Soffit& !AVM M lniul(•y Winston Sha gieatti<Pere f, a.;pain- fui injury to Blit artih' %last 'Wank day when en emery 6'1Njbeei disinte- grated) andema, pieee struck him.— Neeter AdVOG&te .,imes: PURCHASES PROPERTY Mrs-. James Crawford has pur- chased the former Thomas Noble property in /Myth, and takes pos- session May 7. The property is at present occupied by Mr. and Mrs. Sarto Healy and family. — Blyth Standard. Engage P. S. Teacher Miss Frances Taylor, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Taylor, who at present is teaching in London, has been engaged to teach in the Exeter public school commencing September 1.—Exeter Times -Advo- cate. Presents Organ A portable reed organ for Kin- tail Presbyterian Camp was pre- sented by Mrs. •K. D. Taylor;; of Burlington, on behalf of 'the• Mc- Kay family, on 'Tuesday during a session of the Hai'nilton-London Presbyterian Synod, as a memorial to their mother, the late Mrs. 'Eliz- abeth Scott McKay, of Cromarty, whose husband ministered -there for some yeats.-9titchell Advocate. Makes Presentation To Camp - A symbolic scroll containing ,all the names of Young -People So- cieties who contributed gifts to Kintain Presbyterian Camp was presented to the camp board at Tuesday night's session of the Presbyterian Synod of Hamilton and London in Knox Presbyterian Church. The' scroll wasepresented by .Miss Mary Anne Erskine, of Goderich, fellowship director of the synod's Y.P.S. Harry McCreath, a member of the board, accepted the scroll. Mrs. K. D. Taylor, of Bur- lington, presented a portable organ to the camp on behalf of her broth- er and herself in memory of their mother.--Goderich Signal -Star. Match Causes Pinery Blaze? A carelessly tossed cigarette or match was believed responsible for a four-hour grass fire which de- stroyed the undergrowth of about 300 acres of the Pinery Wednes- day. A burned patch about a foot wide spread from the Bluewater Highway to the forest. This was believed to be the origin of the fire. It was about one mile••aoorth of the Port Franks cut. Soldiers of the Royal Canadian Regiment, training at Ipperwash, got the fire under control about four o'clock. About 100 met fought the blaze with shovels and water pumps. Fanned by the wind, the fire mov- ed west toward the lake, then cut north to the old river bed. Few trees were seriously injured by the blaze. The area is part of the 4,066 acres which it is proposed to acquire for . a public park. — Exe= ter Times -Advocate. Youth Escapes Injury Donald Schultz, 17 -year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Reg. Schultz, East lir awanosh, came %ti `dent en Saturday ilgterndi !u `Me' scathes, end in .so dotng considers himself :ra • •Mighty lucky ;boy ' Den- ald was, drawing stones) with" the tractor and Wean,: And was takllig, a load iiitendiiig- to• -dtemp itelehlee he started down a incline. He ap- plied the •brakes but the greasy condition of the ground eeirrni~tiead, the loaded -wagon to skid the wheels of the tractor, ands sent it out of control over an embank- ment. The tractor turned a one-half flip on top of .the previously' 1luni'p- ed stones, coming to rest upside down, and suffering extensive dam- age. The wagon remained upright, although the tongue- seas broken, and the stones thrown helter-skel- ter so that the wagon box was emp- ty. And what abopt Donald? Well, he hardly knows himself. He did wind up clear of the wreckage, and unmarked. He presumes he jumped clear of the careening ve- hicle instinctively. This should serve as a good reminder, to all those who are busy with imple- ments at this time of the year, nev- er be too busy to Observe all the rules of safety. In spite of this, accidents such as the above will happen, but Many unnecessary ones can be avoided with proper care.—Blyth Standard. Presbyterians. Elect Moderator Rev. James K. West, of St. Thomas, was elected moderator of the Presbyterian 'Synod of London and Hamiiten at opening sessions of the Synod held' 11¢ond'ay in: Gode- rich at the new (Knox Presbyterian Church. Mr. West succeeds Rev. W. B. Mitchell, of Kincardine. The St. Thomas minister has been clerk of the synod for several years and is the first from that city to have been elected to the post in 2.8 years. More than 115 ministers and dele- gates from various parts of West- ern Ontario were present at the opening, representing the presby- teries' of Bruce,. Chatham, Huron - Maitland, London, Niagara Falls, Paris, Sarnia and Stratford. Many of the delegates and ministers saw the new Knox 'Church here for the first time since it was .built. The ;Synod has not met in Goderich since- 1931. Rev. J. R. Waldie, of Hamilton Road Church, London, continues as synod treasurer. He was moderator in 1948. Those nom= inated as moderator, besides Mr. West, were: Rev. R. G. MacMil- lan, Knox Church, Goderich; Rev. James Fleming, Knox Church, Wal- laceburg; Rev. J. S. Wright, St. Paul's Church, Simcoe. Speakers for a ministers' institute were Rev. Allan MacKenzie, Erskine Church, Hamilton; Rev, W. Graham Smith, Knox Church, Dundas. Public wor- ship was conducted by Mr. Mit- chell, assisted by Mr. 1MacMillan and Rev. D. G. Campbell, .Seaforth; moderator of Huron -Maitland .Pres- bytery. Greetings were extended to the synod by Mayor d. E. Huckins from the Town of Goderich, and by Rev. H. A. Dickinson, vice-presi- dent of the Goderich Ministerial As- sociation. Rev. D. J. Lane. Clinton, was in charge of the committee meeting.—,Goderich Signal -Star. - Huron County Farm News Seeding, which had become quite general in the County, wee .brought - to a standstill with a light snow- fall, accompanied by rain, the mid- dle of last week. Quite a•tiem.bea' of farmers, particularly- in the south end of the county, report that they have, finished seeding of the spring ,cereal grains. There is still quite a demand, particularly in the north end of the county, for registered and commercial cereal grain'seett. It is pleasing to note that the lowered' price of grains and clover• seeds has interested many more county farmers in seed- ing more hay pasture and long-term pasture mixtures. The warble fly campaign, which is being carried on in all 16 town- ships of the county again this year, is now well under way and it would appear that each year this program is operating muck ..more efficiently and effectively. There is an increased interest and enrolment in 4-H Club work in the county, particularly in Beef and Dairy Calf Clubs. The climax of the Junior Farm- ers/ -program, the annual At -Home, held in the county last week, was well attended and well arranged, Procedures Recommended To Combat Potato Scab At the request of the Potato Growers of Ontario a committee was appointed in 1948 to investi- gate all phases of potato scab. This committee includes members' of departments of various'institu- tions who could contribute to the project. This co-ordinated- research has revealed and confirmed certain facts about potato scab, although at the present time the commlttee cannot suggest any general control measures. However, under certain conditions the following reconlmen-. dations will help to reduce the dis- ease: 1. Do not grow potatoes after pote'tees: Experiments _-have ..preee ed that this practice increases .the disease. 2. It is not advisable tense man- ure for potatoes. Apply it to the previous crop. 3. Avoid liming soils that are to be used for potato production. Lime increases soil alkalinity. This ere- etes conditioner fat'orable for the deie'lopmetit of scab producing or- gaffl fn's. 4. Where scab Is very severe d resistant tatiety such as the On- 1 tario should be sown. This variety requires a long growing period and should be planted early. Secondary growth late in the season frequent- ly causes many off -type tubers, The timely application of a vine -killer will control this secondary growth. 5. When scab is severe in local- ized areas in a field, the. addition of sulphur has' proved beneficial. Sulphur increases soil acidity. This creates conditions unfavorable for the development of scab producing organisms. Before applying sul- phur, consult the Soils Debartment at the Ontario Agricultdral College for recom•nfendations. 6. A crop of soybeans preceding potatoes has reduced the amount of scab. Where soil and weather con- ditions. are suitable, growers might consider soybeans' as a good crap. The straw must be returned to the soil. 7. Recommended seed treatments destroy the scab 'producing organ- isms on the tubers and prevent the introduction of the disease to the soil. However, seed treatment will not protect the crop grown on scab infested soil. Wild Mustard Is An Insidious Crop Robber One of the most common and certainly one of this most insidious weeds to combat the efforts of the Ontario farmer is' Wild Mustard (Brassica Arvensis), sometimes known. as Kerick or Charlock, says the Crops, Seeds and Weeds Branch of the Ontario Department of Agriculture. It is one weed that is largely responsible for reduced yields by competing with the cer- eals for plant food and water. According to the Crops Branch, the 'Wild)' Mustard robs the soil Of fertility and moisture. with the ire eiritable result that the yield is greatly reduced in all crops' ill which it is found. Experiments shave shown •that water taken froth the .soil hy a drop ormustard would be sufficient -tit-produce-atl.eastlQ_,more ihtishek of grain per acre. Nitrogetl and pho'sgherus taken by the same rob- ber'wottldi increase the yield! by,dou- ble' the amount. One of the chief difficulties fie that mustard, seed remains in the soil for years, germinating later when brought near. the surface by cultivation. Some idea of the dam- age that can be wrought by AMA weed- Is evident, froi'tI the fact tihat 0011db:t ed on rage 6) I;. ti • Regular brushing, timed just right, Will keep your teeth both clean and bright. The time to do it, dentists feel Is immediately after every meal. Dept. of National Health and Welfare Years Agone interesting Items Picked From The Huron Expositor of' Twen- ty-five fTwen- tyfive and Fifty Years Ago From The Huron Expositor April 27, 1928 Mr. William Charters, Tucker smith, met with a serious accident at his farm on the Mill Road en Friday. He was at the barn. when he slipped on the gangway and fell, fracturing his leg below the knee. It is only a few weeks ago that Mrs. Charters fell and fractured her arm. Mr. 'Arthur Anderson, of near Kippen, has treated .himself to a fine new car. Mrd.,' M. C. Milliken, Zurich, has left for London, where she will join Mr. Milliken, `who has secured a position in the city as a motor salesman. Mr. James Rivers, Seaforth, has purchased the farm on the 6th con- cession of McKillop, known as the McGregor farm. The old Forbes livery barn .pro- perty on Main St. has been pur- chased by the Massey -Harris Com- pany, who are preparing to erect a one -storey modern implement warehouse on it for their local ag- ents, Gallop & McAlpine. The Sup- ertes:t "Company which some time ago purchased the D. D. 'Wilson Egg Emporium and had the build= ings removed, have had the ground levelled and staked out, prepara- tory to erecting a service station on the Goderich and Main St. cor- ner. .Miss Jean Stewart, of town, un- derwent an operation for appen- dicitis on Monday morning in the hospital. Mr. and Mrs. George MeTaggart and Miss Annie, who have been re- siding in 'Seaforth for several years will remove shortly to Walton. The Golf Club has purchased 60 spruce trees, which will be set out on the links this spring. Mr. Wm. E. Foster, Zurich, has sold his fine 100 -acre farm, lot 7, con. 6, Babylon Line, to his neigh- bor, Mr. Charles Stephenson.' Mr. A. Precious, •Goderich, has opened the third barber shop in the Dominion House, Zurich, Word has been received that the annual inepecfion of the cadet corps will take place on the Col- legiate campus, on Tuesday, May 15. They will parade two platoons. • • Prom The, Huron Expositor April 24, 1903 The bank barn on the farm of John Ratz, Stephen, was destroyed by fire one night recently. The ori- gin of the fire is a mystery as no one had been near the place for some hours before. Mr. James Snell, the well-known cattleman of Hullett, has gone to Utah with a load of thoroughbred stock. Mr. H. Smith, Hay P.O., furnished nine; H. Crich, Tucker - smith, six; two from Mr. Broadfoot and one from Mr. Elcoat, Tucker - smith. As Mrs. William Hall, of near Chiselhurst, woes boiling sap in the woods on their farm, she was.. ac- companied' by her four -year -old -eon. He slipped away and was not no- ticed by his mother, and it was four hours before he was found. He had wandered onto a neighboring farm. The Winthrop Cheese and But- ter Company,will commence opera- tions for tbis season's make of butter on May 4, Mr. Andrew Cal- der has secured the services of a Mitchell man who comes highly recommended as a first-class' but- terma ker. At a meeting of the board of managers ' of Duff's Church, Wal- ton, it was decided to erect a ver- andah at the manse, put down a cement walk and otherwise im- prove the appearance of the pro- perty. Miss 'Mary Liillespie, Seaforth, is,; the author of a nice little story en- titled., "How Tom Stopped a Burg-', lar,' in the Pres'by'terian of teVo 'Weeks ago. .Miss 'Gillespie,,.who dTh- plays• literary ability, is a daughter` of Mr. J5inesl Gillespie. Messrs.,Henderson and IDeLacey, are having the Commercial Hotel fredhened up with' painting and pao`r Me . L. !Smith and J. IP. McLaren were ticketed to Winni- peg this week. ,Mr. .Smith makes the trap in the interests of Ms: health, Mr. A. H. Borman, who has cons fleeted an • extenleive .business in Dublin for a kuezber of years, has di'islposed of ,his lumber business And .hay barn to Mr, pleorge lock, Mitchell, and one of hfg hay ress- es:t'o Mr, 'Thos. Cdnnolig, Hibbert, A Fein By JOHNBLACK Columns and Typewriters o .. The tlrst column I wrote as a regular feature,, and the first time I spat down to write it, I'sjunaped in th 4vhair with my heels on the typewriter car;,] ale for a good hour. I hadn't even heard of thelkipe, let alone managed to tag it. At that tim,the editor of the campus newspaper had informed me that, lump it or like it, I was the new comment character on the music and drama beat. So, as miserable freshman in Journalism, I was liking it in a lumpy way with nothingfto say. So I sat and stared and smoked. The second time I started a comment column,. a few years later when I was doing part-time writing for a weekly newspaper, I managed to. start after only a quarter hour of gazing at space and courting the muse whor.,or which, I had by now managed to meeton arguing terms. .But -I spent half an hour fiddling with the typewriter ribbon before I started thattime. Finally got the ribbon moving and the column too. But time passed and "eventually the column did too. Whatever use that history may be is shrug - able. (Some dictionary may contain that word. `shruga'ble', but I haven't, found it yet -the drew „ tionary I mean). Matter at the moment is that this is the third movement to my reportoire of. comment chants and that this first no& was sounded after a minimum of moppis'h musing.. And if the above paragraphs sound like it,, it's no fault of the typewriter. Problems with Pronouns . . Columns are a lot of fun. The way it often. works is this way: if it's fun for the writer in. writing, it's no fun for the 'reader in reading; if it's fun for the reader in reading, it's no fun for the writer in writing. You can see that some- body is going to have fun no matter which way you sing that last sentence. A few yearsago somebody told me that the, handy editorial "we" referred to the editor, or- -writer, and his pen. Of course in this age of mechanical delights it would be the editor and his - typewriter. (To my knowledge a mechanical editor has not yet been devised). Sometime later I heard that the weighty "we" identifies the edi- torial board, . or pronounizes the publication personality at large. Now that sounds reasonable. But the difficulty in using the editorial "we in a column devoted to opinion, observation, com- ment and narration where the writer is one per son and he is identified, as is the cage with this column, is this: "we'a as a constant reference to _. one person, tends to become silly sounding and irritates the reader as seeming false modesty. Again, the writer gets into narrative hot water - like this: ". . . we found a seat, at the back of the theater, with two, rather large women sitting on either side. The formidable proportions of the ladies, crowding us on our left side and on our right side, prevented us from enjoying the box of popcorn we had purchased for ourselves to eat during the newsreel . . " You see what I mean. Conversely, as "we" may incline to false - modesty, use of "I" throughout may invoke an'air' of egoism, or even egotism. I Anyway, one or the other has to be used. "I" has become acceptable and often preferred with readers of both weekly- and eekly-and daily comment columns. I prefer "I". Alright, so water is wet; somebody is going - to have fun. • About a Few Words . , . All the foregoing chatter may be curiously unnecessary. I wouldn't doubt it a bit. But by way of introduction or similar foolishness I fig- ured there ought, to be some reference or other of this kind in this first column. Of course all due respect to- the discarded `other',, but space allows for only about 800 or 900 words here. If you'll glance up the j age about 16 inches or so you'll note the title, "A Few WORDS in Pass- ing". There's no special reason for my choice in that heading. Words, written words anyway, are the virtual material agent in my means of livelihood. `Without being an etymologist, a, semantologist;° a grammarian, or' even a good. writer, I get a kick out of words, especially when- they can mean ideas. _ _ nd not ._ only_ ideas. Words- are--thee-oils -forr:'-- - the writer's descriptive canvas. Words are his positive print of sensory experience and the in- verted negative of his emotional and intellectual processes beneath those experiences. Words are the graph lines of his understanding, changing through the age -phases of his life.. Words the, graphic expressions of his personality. So in passing—a few words. rl