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the georgetown herald wednesday may 17 1944 the george cown herald news of gbokgetown noit l ol willi ams llmellouset stehahttown amigkovl bllinaftd hornby terra cott acton brampton milton slesripton rates uted s atcs ara o se- 52 00 a year single copies 6c advertising rates will be quoted on application telllhunt na s palter uicu u oarixeld l mc 1j 1vai1y u bjsls eakot j boley noei ut the canadian w eekly newspaper association and um ontarioquebec division of the o wnjl the editors corner f georgetown over the top welldone georgetown and district we re proud to be able to congratulate the peo ple who have supported the sixth victory loan so splendidly and the hard working local war finance committee for going 47 000 over the top of our ob jective of 370000 as our boys in the services read this glad news we know their hearts vail be lightened and they will pitch into the business of fighting this war with renewed strength and courage secure in the knowledge that the men and women at home are right behind them giving them every possible support for this loan there was an executive committee of forty men from the community and their meetings held periodically were very enthusiastic and well attended they spared neither time nor effort to put the loan over the top their work has been crowned with success a total of 41 7250 was subscribed in george town and district which sets an all time record for victory loan drives here were on the air we ve been asked to speak for a few minutes on a radio program next thursday night at 9 30 from station cfrb called ontario panorama there s a spot on it each week for a weekly editor and this time yours truly is going to be on the air when gordon sinclair called us from toronto last week to ask if we would take part he simply said this is gordon sinclair of course there are a lot of sinclairs in this district and thinking it was one of this worthy family wishing to insert a classified ad or something we reached for our copy pad and casually replied oh yes it took a few minutes to adjust ourselves when he asked us to speak on his radio pro- grain but we were game to try so said we would although our being editor is no novelty now to our subscribers we suppose the circumstances under which we took over the job do hold a certain amount of human interest for others so we hope you good folk of georgetown and district will bear with us if we carry out gordon sinclair s request to talk a bit from that angle we re not like some of the other weekly editors who have appeared on the program who have had pr r experience q frankly it will be the nrst tune we have ever been inside a broadcasting sta bon and although our knees quake a bit at the thought of speaking we re more thrilled than otherwise a wave of destruction not being a psychologist we never have been able to figure out what it is in human nature thai gives to young boys especially the desire to destroy or mu jate property currently the public school board is finding that the number of windows being deliberately broken at the school by young boys is becoming a serious and expensive matter even the signs put up warning them of the- consequences of such action were torn down then there are other instances in teftfei where the des truction has been little short of a crime the old barbei residence on mam st south has been ruined by such deliberate destructiveness even the arena was in bad shape due to such actions when the town took over and it isn t long before any building in town begins to receive destructive treatment if it is vacant for long also a number of street lights have been smashed re cently no were not a psychologist but we do know that the people who can influence these boys most are not their teachers or the chief of police but their parents it is up to them to try to instil m their sons respect for the other man s property and for public property in which every ratepayer m the community has attmterest definite signs as we write this editorial it s a big temptation to keep from trying to wax poetical about spring the ky is beautiful and the warm rams throughout the week ciimntcd by bright sunshine seem to have ssuhm the trees with green almost overnight tbe tulip and forsythia are in bloom we just uinliesiil m neighbour saying he was going to take his taaasif oat to binghams bush to pick wildflowers oh duality some up the street we can hear a lawn mower hmar whirring we took a guilty look at our own grass however did it get that long then look ing p from our back yard garden we could see as we seelh by j a strang the word erosion has beoome quite familiar during the last few years the dictionary gives lta meaning as the wearing away of soil or rook by the influence of water and ice especially in the form of gla clfers moat of us think of erosion as of the running off of the top soil dur- lng heavy rains and with the j nt of- nawthereia little- hope for tomorrow huge furrows or water runways down the grades in the plowed fields erosion seems to be more common here is our province than it would be on the pral rie here we have land that is more j rolling and naturally the water runs off the higher ground however the prairie has its troubles along practically the same lines although the cause is some what different out there it is the high winds that cause their particular kind of erosion here in ontario the emedy suggested for erosion is plowing round and round the hills instead of straight down them another remedy la tree planting we had a letter the other day from a friend in the moose jaw district in sas and he was telling us the way he was counteracting this erosion trouble on his farm out there we thought his explanation interesting and the thought occurred to us that probably sometf our readers might be uttt th vanced that a central plant be built to heat the stores this idea sounds like 8alcte to ubs oowsuwsm week of may 22 throughout cana da will be designated rs- consumer week to pay tribute to the women of the country for the part they are play ing in the dominions economic sta- toittgatlon program announced byrne sanders director of the price boards consumer branch at a recent meeting in toronto referring to inflation as number one battle on the bomefront miss sanders emphasized that unless the people of canada can defeat inflation during the week of may 22 canada will say thank you in a salute to the women on the homefront to the women who are cooperating with their merehants under price control to the women who help with the dlstrl button of goods m short supply by living within the spirit or tne ration and buying only what they really need the women who realise that wage control is as essential as price control and that you can t have the benefit of- controlled prices without controlled wages to the women who budget care fully so that wartime tax payments can be met and victory bonds pur chased by handling these ttve phases of her home responsibilities well mrs oonsuener is practising for the na interested also the following is quoted from his letter we got a new one way tiller last year it has big discs over twice as big as disk harrow discs and it has a seed box we use it for the stub ble or second crop funny thing about it it leaves the stubble and straw on top works alright even after alt th straw is spread by the combine in the heaviest crop you can imagine what a fine mulch we have and i often think what a boon it would be for ontario to help stop the erosion there it is rains here it is wind we have the blowing pretty well overcome now some people still burn their stubble and of course suffer plowing summer fallow will do it too unless plowed verj early for 12 ears or more now we have never touched our summer fallow after august 1st all growth after that being left for cover it looks pretty bad sometimes but is better than a bare fallow not many are fallows now and any bare fields this spring mere blowing in good style i was thinking one day when driving the uuer what a change from my boyhood days when they plowed the land with a gang plow harrowed it sowed it and harrowed it again rolled it maybe and don t forget the stone picking business while i was sitting on the tractor leading the toier round and round the held yes and that is another one most of the field work is done going around the field the last time over the fallow is with a big step in advance it would do away with so many individual heating equip ments and would also do away with a good many fire hazards do you sup pose the time will ever come when all buildings will be heated from a central heating plant the heat would be dis tributed by pipes somewhat after the same idea as water and gas this ar rangetnent would do away with the ne cesstty of cellars and would certainly mean much cheaper construction costs for new houses another idea mtinn- ed was a chapel for the cemetery many towns now have a neat chapel and they do look nice one especially nice one that we have in mind at the moment is the one at qora another idea is the construction of a public rest boom this is a necessity in al most any town especially with highway traffic running through it if you have ever taken a long motor trip you may perhaps recall that your opinion of the towns that you passed through was of ten influenced by the rest rooms in that particular town if they were easi ly found and were kept in a sanitary condition you immediately pronounced that town up todate on the other hand it they weren t to your liking you would have a quite different opinion of that particular town we have often mentioned that we took a motor trip to vancouver a few years ago and when thinking over many towns ana the cultivator going across the field i cities that we passed througn we still angle ways from north east to south particular west the furrows or ridges help to stop i l tt kcmc jtr 7 i towns very often by the condiuon of the blowing then in the spring we go round and round the field crossing these angle ridges all the time appa rently those western men are up-to- date with their new id of c uon we noticed an article in one of the exchanges recently in which that particular town was string a little thought to the post war question and the idea was suggested that they should undertake some preparatloi for the employment of the returned inenroin their public rest rooms so many com munlties seemed to go to extra trouble to make the tourists visit as enjoyable as possible the city of seattle even had a free movie for the tourlsti in their tourist camp we didnt attend it but it was there for us to enjoy had we wanted to on doubt there are a good many projects that can be undertaken after the war that will give employ ment to a great many and may be the means of filling in those years of re adjustment where roost people had theirs planted too and staked at the end of each row were the seed envelopes with their colourful pictures hope springs eternal and many of them materialized last year too for georgetown had some very fine victory gardens and so we think spring is here for real this time and isn t just teasing us the ever recurrent mi racle of the earth coming to life again is a thrill which more than compensates for our long cold winters lost and found cleanup having the herald office window dressed for the victory loan window display contest precipitated our usual spring clean up of the herald lost and found department itiis dept as you all doubtless know is merely that corner of the herald window which looks as if itwere part of a window display for a rum mage sale most of the time we had our usual accumulation this year only more of it so many old cars on the road affected this department for not infrequently we d have large greasy engine parts displayed there they d be picked up off the road and were invariably claimed but the biggest puzzler is how so many people can lose a galosh rub ber glove or ratt and apparently never think of looking in our lost and found for them what an accumula tion we have as a result then for a while last year we had a rather amusing problem to contend with the children love to bring in found articles and see them put in the window they d bring in everything and anything we got down to accepting quite a few un recognizable hankies but when one little girl brought in a hairpin that was when we called a halt but we must put in a good word or the children too because they have been the most frequent returners of cash found on the street we keep it for them a certain length of time and if no one chums it at the ter mination we return it to the finder people are sometimes very grateful to the dept because of having found some valued article through it and not the least of these retrieved valued articles this year have been ration books uon the virtues which she has prac tised for bsr borne miss sanders said nbkd ov babies comb first especially food and c3lothing through the consumers branch the women across canada have kept a steady flow of reports going to the wpt3 on shortages or difficult supply situations especially food and fiftoyttjg for children airmny the steps taken by the board to protect bableswas an order prohibiting the use of corn syrup for commercial pur posea this allowed a greater and more regular supply to be available for in fants some children are on a formula of evaporated milk for this reason sales of evaporated milk have been restrict ed to the general public in the centres where fresh milk is readily obtainable so that the youngsters may have an adequate supply of canned variety in regard to baby foods at no ume were supplies est below- imi in fact y were instead allowed 135 per cent of the 1041 output sad m octo ber ims this was increased ta200 per as textile supplies became mors difficult to obtain for omuans due to war needs and shipping ufficaltiea the board was faced with a problem with regard to children s clofcolnc spedal directives- were lamed to un- derwear manufacturers and as a re- suit production increased steadily a in one month rose to 81647 dozen gst- ments which to believed to be an all- time record for canadian production card op thanks i wish to thank my kind friends and neighbours for the kindness shown- me while in hospital in ouelph sad for all their lovely reniembrancea sucb as fruit flowers cards mrs george ismond social directory 1 f r watson dda 1ldb georgetown office hours 9 to b except thursday afternoons dr x burns mttjffi dental surgeon x rat georgetown phone so dr clifford rod lxjjdixb dentist phone 410 main street oeorgetown elmer c thosopson dfstjbance buvioe firs anto nndstorm o p railway and allied phone llftw or georgetown monuments pollock ingham uur dtepoot oar irafc ta oiiwhui larajr m sjusl kc ra kenoetti m uuigaon barrwer beae netery rsmo first mortg atones to loan oflkw orsgory theatre hjdg c n r timetable dayugbt saving time oomo bast 7j01 am passenger 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