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SN SAMUEL FARMER. Editor and Publisher, / EDITORIAL "Such is the patriot's boast, where'er we ream; His first, best country ever is at home: 'e = 9 - BEER OR BULLETS Sugar and gasoline' and tires nay, i rationed; 'ceilings may be placed on prices; wages may be Jimited; men may give up home and face bard: ship, and perhaps wounding and deathu-but beer and its profits must be continued. There's the revenue to be considered, we are told, - Tragedies like the/one at Dunnville don't count, apparently, in comparison with the benefits of the revenue, and the liberty to do' ay one pleases-- drunk or sober, Most of us are familiar with the products of too much - beer drinking--unpaid debts, wasted time, inefficiency in 'work, We might go on in- definitely about the disgusting tragedies of too much beer drinking; but what we are particular- ly anxious to say is--If sugar should be rationed, beer should be rationed, too. If gasoline and tires are to be limited in order to help win' the war, beer should be limited, too, We, as a people, could well afford to do with- out beverage rooms for women; or sit down drin- king places for men, If we must have beer; (and some people think it is essential); then, for goodness sake, let it be sold and rationed like any other necessity. The loss of revenue would be less than the loss of character, decency, and efficiency. We have made a fetish of this revenue, and quite - forget what revenue costs--particularly those who - pay the piper in money, health, ef- ficiency, and decent character. All honour to Toronto City Council for their crusade against the unnccessary beverage room. The suggestion has been made that the control of liquor sale be placed under the Department of Health, Great care is taken about pure water, pasteurized milk, control of contagious diseases. by the use of serums. It is too bad-to destroy much of this good work by allowing almost un- "restricted use of alcoholic beverages, so long as the revenue is paid. $$ & PRIVATE BUSINESS It is surprising to note the extent to which the general public endeavor to avoid paying even a legitimate profit for the service offered by the retail merchant and others engaged in private business. 'As P. M. Richards says in "Saturday Night"-- "Business--private non-war business--is kicked around to-day and otherwise treated with "scant consideration, but 'it still performs a vital function in supplying us with every-day neces- sities of life, as well as in paying and collecting "taxes and. supporting" Victory ~ Loans. = What would our war effort have amounted to without it? And, equally, chances "of reconstruction be without it? Yet we shall be without a good deal of it, if we regu- late and restrict it into the ground in wartime. War needs come first, of course; there's no ar- -gument on that point. But there are also the needs , of the pesdce to follow, and a wise government will not overlook that fact. Vigor in non-war industry will 'be necessary then as it is in war industry today. " back to the store ourselves. . store people, way. what would our post-war "AND HARD TO PLEASE' Dorothea Kahn "In Christian Science. Monitor We know we were spoiled. "Charge and send," we would say/gayly to the indulgent department store clerk, Whether the thing purchased was a package of pins or a piano. Never would a clerk reproach us with a look if it happened to be a tiny package. Never would she say, "Couldn't 8 you put it in your purse?" What's more, we in Chicago were accustomed to have the stores indulge us in our habit of re- turning things. Dresses, dishes, anything we'd buy and have sent home we could return capric- iously, just because we had changed our minds. But returning a thing didn't mean bringing it We'd just call "ad- justment" and ask to have the package picked up for credit, The coufteous store representative at the other end of the telephone would actually say "thank you." Imagine, thank you for re- turning' what you bought. And we just took this service for granted. It was something our men- folk couldn't understand--our willingness to be spoiled this way. Now suddenly all is changed. The stores would gladly have continued this policy, they say, if it weren't for the rubber shortage and appeals from national defense authorities to save the tives of delivery tr rucks. To be patriotic, they just have to ask us to carry all the packages we can and "make our own returns. It ish't a question of price. The stores held a conference and agreed that size and weight would be the determining factors--five pounds, and 10 inches by 10 by 10, or something like that. Same with returns. If the package was big enough to - be delivered, it would be big endugh to be called for, Other wise not. How have we spoiled children taken this new discipline? Surprisingly well, say the department - (They must have expected the worst.) Deliveries have beén cut about in half and returns have been reduced considerably. In- cidentally, the work of packing for truck delivery has been greatly reduced and much packing 'ma- terial saved. : Of course there have been little episodes. Clerks have been called upon to soothe aroused ladies, but generally a fair explanation of the reasons for the rule has sufliced, say the store people. The stores have not adhered too rigidly to the letter of their rule, cither, If a customer insists that she can't carry a package for some very good rea- son, the clerk appeals the case to the-floor man- ager, and, he, -- well, he "uses his judgment" which means that the lady will probably. have her But most women are both reasonable and patriotic, and therefore co-operative, say officers of both the State Street Council and the Cook County Retail Council, under whose auspices he rules were formulated." : - It would be nice to draw a moral from all this and say that.we women are learning. a lesson in - thrift, that never more will we be so demanding' about delivery and pick-up service, But the de- partment store people don't expect us to be re- formed. . They regard this as just a war measure, and expect to indulge us again, when tires are plentiful once more, The only conclusion I can draw is that, after all, it is really good business to spoil us. bn Su es pg oe St sn £4 SRIF ELA uk SAP IS EASA AST Wn i Thee $5 SM HeAmiNg FOS iim a 5 Eloi THE LAST ROUND? 'Cartoon from the London Daily Mirror. ene, TPS J. ¥ (Rationing '| wet now one shilling's worth of meat prunes; or dates. "| far too much under 'the counter busi- in England Letter to Mr. Denny from Overseas Dear Mr. Editor: This letter riilid from England to-day. . Thought it might be interesting to you.--J, D. 13 Buckland Lane, Maidstone, Kent, Eng. Feb. 10th, 1942 Dear Uncle: What a surprise: I had two letters from you in three days. One written" December 13th arrived January 26th and then on January 28th one you wroteon December 24th, I suppose one convoy took much lon- ger to get across, We have received some papers for Patricia and copies of my last letter published. Kenneth is home for fourteen days leave, He was at Dover for several weeks including Christmas and he was very glad to get away. He is now stationed at the same place he was at previously, so he is able now to go to Tunbridge Wells in his spare time. The, shelling at Dover was very bad at times whilst he was there, and often fell too close to be pleasant, Life over here has been very quiet lately, due no doubt to the weather. We have not had much snow in this part--just a sprinkling. The trouble has been it has hung about so long. It has started to thaw, then freeze, and then a little rain and fog .and then frost again. = It has been very treacherous to got about but never mind, spring will soon be here. Thank you very much for the Fa- mily Heralds. © We all enjoyed them very much. They have not arrived this year at all, But' we had si calen- dar which was very acceptable, the only one received. They are very scarce here due to the paper short- age. There was a picture of The Old Tithe Barn, Maidstone, in the Family Herald 24th December, 1941, and an interesting article of farming in olden times. * We are all keeping very fit and have managed to x through the winter without any Heavy colds, we think this is owing to the fact that we have been drinking lots of cocoa, any way it-has helped to keep the cold out. So you are rationed for sugar. 1 do hope you managed to have a. little extra' by you to help you later with your jam making. You get twelve ounces a head, that is what we were getting a little while ago, we get cight ounces cach at present. It is all rations and points now. Soap began this week. 1 expect it pleases the boys who don't like washing. We four weeks and includes houschold as well as toilet soaps and also flakes and powders. We shall manage all right ourselves but it is people who are alone who will' find it very dif- ficult . It is the same with every= thing that is rationed, they must find it very hard to make do. Take meat, for instance. We each and two ounces (2d) of corned beef. We have to take the latter, and how we hate it. Have just had our onion ration, Half a pound each and eggs are still one a fortnight, The points are twenty each for four weeks and out of them we can get any of the fol- lowing: any tinned meats or fish, rice, dried beans or peas, dried fruits such as sultanas, "currants, apricots, figs, _After February 23 it will include tinned fruits or toma- toes. We shall not trouble about them because TI still have some fruit and tomatoes left that I bottled last summer and it is quite as, much ase can do now to make the points get what we want, We are rationed with milk now. Adults get two pints each week and Lehildren (Patricia's age), get half "a pint daily, also adults get one tig each a month of American Evaporated. We can also buy powdered milk for cooking which reallygmakes nice rice puddings. So we manage. quite well, one way and .another, We were able to get a few of your Canadian apples. from the shops but 'afterwards they were hidden under the counter and you only got hold-of them if you were lucky. There is ness carried on in this country to-day. are each allowed four points every y Watch your label; it tells when your subscription expires 4 . . he $1.50 per year in advance. 6 cents a single copy. highly. esteemed citizen Patrick George Morrison. efficient business man, Perry Lions Club. Club of his presence; years in that district, vives him, in the sanctuary. tery. B. Lundy, Mr, Albert Morrison, and Mr. tended to Mrs, Morrison in Patrick George Morrison Death hag removed from this community a most in the person of the late that-he has been a-resident of Port Perry he has taken his place as a good and helpful citizen and reliable and His loyalty to his church was characteristic of those other loyalties "which the needs of the day required. Notable among these was his membership in the Port Only long sickness deprived the but such was the esteem of his fellow members that he was marked "present" at all meetings, for they knew he was present in spirit. Mr. Morrison was born in Durham, Grey County, the Son of William and Elizabeth Morrison. early years in that town, and taught school for some © Wishing to become "a druggist, College of Pharmacy, and obtained his diploma. a few years in Prescott, Ontario, he moved to the West, and came to Port Perry in 1919. In 1918 he married Margaret IX. Thomson, who sur- ' The funeral service was conducted at the Roman Catholic Church in Port Perry. of Toronto, sang the funeral mass. rison, Toronto, and Rev, I'ather Coffey, Oshawa, were Both Rev. Ray Morrison and Rev. Vincent Morrison are nephews of the deceased. _ Interment was made in Elora Roman Catholie-Ceme- "The pallbearers were--Mr. C. R. Stewart, Dr, J. H. R. Archer, latter gentlemen are also nephews of the deceased. The sincerest sympathy of the community is ex- In the twenty-two years He spent his he attended the After Rev. Ray Morrison, Rev. Vincent Mor- Dr. G. M. Rennie, Mr. Jos. Morrison, The two her bereavement.' Shopkeepers seem to forget that the war will-not go on forever and then they will want the people's: custom. With regard to clothes rationing, it is quite a business making things do, the way we twist and turn to make everything last as long as possible. For instance 1 have just made Patri- cin a pair of gloves from the legs of a pair of Charles' old socks. No mat- ter how careful we were in the past, we are doubly so now. We had sixty-six coupons for a year cach. It takes cighteen to get a coat, twenty-six for a suit, seven for men's shoes and the coupons gimply melt away. 1 do hope you are not bored with all this rationing talk. Dad is keeping well. 1 hope to see him on Thursday. I hope Aunt Mil- lie is better and children well, Have-you had much snow? Weare swarmed with hundreds of seagulls in screeching about all-the time It just shows it must be very rough at sca. We hope you are better, The war- mer weather will soon be here to help ou, : With love to you all, Your loving. niece, Peggy. Field Crop Competition At a meeting of the Directors of the Port Perry, Reach and Scugog Agricultural Sogiety, it was decided to sponsor a Field Crop Competition this year. Erban Oats were chosen .to be grown on a plot of not less than thee acres by each competitor, Details of the competition may be obtained from R. D. Woon, the secre- tary of the society. Interested parties are asked to act quickly as applica- tions must be in before April 1st. tinued - this year.. i cr Shad The Seed Fair at Uxbridge Ontario County. Crop Improvement Association should be congratulated upon the success of the Seed Fair held at Uxbridge on Thursday aftérnoon. The attendance was excellent. While exhibits were not as numerous ag in former years, the quality was good; and the interest taken in them showed the value set upon good seed by the farmers present. . Mr. F. H. Westney presided, and after a brief address, called for the Public Speaking Contest, in' which the following young men took part: Francis. Wilson, Morley Bain, Neil 'McCarrol, Lloyd Down, Rosas Law, Jack Pearson, and Mostyn McKnight. 'the several speakers. our gardens and they are.very noisy |e +The Boys" Grain Club will be con- | These names are given in the order in which prizes weré awarded. The. subject chosen was--"Labour saving devices onthe farm," The young men handled the subject excel- lently ,and the judging was difficult only because of the almost uniform good matter and good delivery. Electricity was chief among the labour saving devices listed.' It was enlightening to note the number of uses Lo which electricity may be put from grinding grain to washing dishes or pumping water for both barn and house... The tractor was next in order for commendation as a labour saving de- vice, It is a great means to-assist in high 'production with less labour. Three features were Sn) gized by . The need of labour saving devices in the house as well as in the barn and on the farm. . The necessity of caring for ma- chinery after it has been secured--a pail of oil should be kept handy to grease those parts exposed to. rust. 3. Proper arrangemeny/ of the barn, the equipment, and the farm in Ben- eral, Informative addresses were given by Messrs. N. M. Parks, of the On- tario Agricultural College; and Gar- net Rickard, of Bowmanville. Both spoke of the challenge to the farmers for high production, with stress upon good quality. Mr. Parks warned against planting too large an acreage in potatoes, as the market will be necessarily limited. Mr, Rickard told of some of his exper- iénces sin cleaning seed at his--seed cleaning outfit at Bowmanville. It is difficult to convince some of his cus- tomers that ten bushels of uncleancd grain will not produce ten bushels of cleaned seed. The Seed Fair Committee consisted of I. H. Westney, Pitstdent; Ij, Clay- ton, Vice-President; Messrs. E. W. Webber, Howard "Hdrper, Angus Grant, John Scott, F. M. Campbell, Agricultural Representative * at Ux- bridge, is Secretary-Treasirer. He will be pleased to give information re- garding cleaned &r registered seed. WINNERS AT SEED FAIR Class 1--OQats, late (registered) 1st--W, H. Westney, Pickering 2nd--F. H. Westney, Pickering. Class 2--OQats, early (registered) 1st--F. M, Chapman, Pickering Class 4---Barley, Smooth Awned (registered) 1--F. H. Westney, Pickering. Class 5--Fall' Wheat (unregistered) 1--Lorne -Bagshaw, Uxbridge 2--Lloyd Lee, Séagrave, Class 6--Late Oats 1--Heber Down, Brooklin- , 2=Qordon Rynard, Zephyr - 3~Norman Down, Oshawa 4--W. F. Batty, Brooklin. 6--=Thog, McCuaig, Gamebridge. Class 7--Early Oats "1--W. F. Batty, Brooklin 2--Francis Willson, Locust Hill 3--A, F. Percy, Pickering 4--Younie Windatt, Beaverton: John' Ross, Beaverton, Class 8--Barley, Rough Awned 1--Thos. McCuaig, Gamebridge. Class 9--Barley, Smooth Awned 1--F. H. Westney, Pickering 2-=W. H. Westney, Pickering d--Lloyd Lee, Scagrave. Class 11--Rye 1--Wilmot Bain, Zephyr Class 12--Soybeans 1---Morris Snodden, Pefferlaw Class ' 15--Red Clover 1--Wilmot Bain, Zephyr 2--J. 8. Miller, Sunderland. Class 17--Timothy 1---Bruce Shier, Sunderland Clnss 19--Lato Potatoes (not certified) 1--Harold Norton, Claremont 2--Dan Norton, Goodwood 3--Maustyn McKnight, Uxbridge 4--Wilmot Bain, Zephyr 5--Ross Law, Whitby Class 20--Early Potatoes (not certified) iD Norton, Goodwood 2--Wilmot Bain, Zephyr 3--Ross Law, Whitby A4---Harold Norton, Goodwood b6---Lorne Bagshaw, Uxbridge. Class 22--Late Potatoes (certified) 1--Harold Norton, Claremont 2--Dan Norton, Goodwood d-+Howard Harper, Goodwood Class 23--OQats (any variety) Juniors I --Edward Ball, Uxbridge 2--Francis Willson, Locust Hill 3--Rupert Lee, Seagrave {--David Windatt, Beaverton 5---Bruce Hackner, Uxbridge | Class 24--Seed Judging Competition 1---Morley Bain, Zephyr 2---Ross Law, Whitby 3--Jack Pearson, Uxbridge 4--Francis_ Willson, Locust Hill 5--Ronald "Marquis, Sunderland © 6--Ivan Norton, Goodwood T--Allen Smith, Uxbridge 8--FKd. Ball, Uxbridge. Tie for 9--Bert Pearson, Uxbridge and Ray Ewen, Uxbridge Class 25--1'ublic Speaking Contest 1--Francis Willson, Locust Hill 2--Morley Bain, Zephyr 3--Neil McCarl, Whitby 4--Lloyd Down, Oshawa 5--Ross Law, Whitby hee WM. NEWMAN SPEAKER AT PORT PERRY FARM BUREAU A very interesting--Farm Bureau meeting was held in the Port Perry High School Wednesday evening last. Mr. Wm. Newman, of the Farm Pro- ducts Control Board, gave an excellent address. He outlined the work of the Board in endeavouring to develop marketing schemes for the Growers and Producers of form commodities. He used for an example the Tomato Growers' scheme developed by the Board whereby three canners and three growers mot each year to bar- gain on a fair price for both the can- ner and the growers. If no definite price could be agreed upon an arbi- trator from the Marketing Board would be called upon to make the final decision, This move has meant a great deal to the Tomate Growers in the Province of Ontario. He mentioned a similar scheme for Asparagus Growers in the Niagara District and also the splendid wark done by the Ontario. Milk Producers. Mr. Newman stated that the time was long past due when the Cream Pro- ducers should be organized. . It was emphasized that farmers should _ support their own organiza- tions and that such organizations should be financed by farmers to handle the marketing problems of the producers, | About twenty-five to thirty farmers from Uxbridge and Reach Townships attended the meeting. The Farm Buredu has reached the ond of its second year, On the whole the meetings have been well attended, but there are many who are indiffer- ent about attending a farm meeting. Every 'farmer in Reach, Scugog and the surrounding Townghips would find these - Farm Bureau" meetings well worth the evening spent once a month. President Byron Hill and the Ex- ecutive have been doing excellent work in keeping the Form Bureau oper- ating, the Farm Bureau that they would co= operate .with the. Port Perry Agricul- tural Society in Field Crop Competl- tion work in 1042, It was derided at that meeting of a Sr Sowers fd, ni