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the tribune stouffville ont thursday september 30 194s the stouffville tribune established 1888 member of the canadian weekly newspaper association and ontario quebec newspapers association member of the audit bureau of circulations issued every thursday at stouffville ontario n canada 200 in usa s25c a v nolan son publishers notes and comments farming the woodlot the farmers adovcate property owners as a rule are quite unconscious of the value of their woodlots there is wealth in the farm woodlot but that portion of the farm is very often treated as a piece of waste land r s stewart president of the ontario federation of agriculture said at a meeting in eastern ontario that farm woodlot owners fall into two groups those who slash the woodlot and those who do nothing about it when properly managed and wisely cropped the farm woodlot will yield a satisfactory revenue and generation after generation may continue to share in the returns year in and year out in fair weather and in foul the farm wood- lot goes on producing pulpwood posts timber or fuel wood at the rate of a cord to a cord and a half per acre it does not have to be broken up and reseeded the lack of marketing machinery for products of the farm woodlots is one reason why this valuable property is subjected to such despicable treatment woodlot owners generally speaking dont know the worth of logs standing or piled at the edge of the bush valuable stands are often sacrificed as fuel wood and often the choicest timber that would command a high price in the right market ends up in an ordinary sawmill manufacturers and processors are not keenly interested in two or three logs but they are intensely interested in truckloads and carloads mill men are anxious regarding future supplies which here as in other countries must come from these small wooded areas that dot the country side in new york state they already have cooperatives organized to collect and market farm woodlot products that service is badly needed right here in ontario where good bushes are often sold at much below their true value and where valuable timber is dying falling down and rotting because the owners dont know where to sell logs posts veneer timber or pulpwood when crops are taken from farm woodlots and sold at market value then and no till then will property owners be woodlot conscious and proceed to give the wooded portions of their farms the attention and management they deserve 20 day digging potatoes potato diggers in new brunswick are said to be getting 20 per day digging the lowly spuds that sounds like big money and costly potatoes next winter however machinery for digging has speeded up the work so fast that many acres per day are moved with less labor than digging with the old fork and picking up- by hand while the work is done far faster today high wages and costly machinery prevent it from being done more cheaply than in the day when lads worked at it for 25c a clay that was the initial pay received by the writer when he hired out to a farmer in scott township at leaskdale cars have too much styling we are heartily in accord with an editorial appearing in the gait reporter critical of the present day advances in automobile styles attention has been called also to a meeting in new york recently when the american automo bile association voiced a complaint that will be of interest to many motorists briefly summarized the complaint was that styling has taken the place of automotive engineering the result is the association found that cars are more beautiful but there are also more accidents and more expense to motorists time was when a driver could see where he was going the montreal star recalls he could see the road right ahead of him and knew where his right front wheel was running not so today long hoods behind which the comparatively tiny motorist crouches in spacious grandeur combined with low seats from which he has to crane his neck to see out the windshield reduce vision high fenders make it impossible to see the right side of the road and every time one motorist passes another two men drive in fear that the right front wheel is too near the ditch the bumper used to stand out from the car to provide a cushion between it and shock now it is solidly attached to the frame itself and the frame takes any shock and the extension of the hood and the installation of expensive grill work has made salesmen work overtime trying to get the motorist to buy extra gadgets to protect the grill the properly protected car often looks like some new weapon of an armoured brigade this doesnt exhaust the list of the auto associations complaints a slight accident to a bumper too often involves replacement of the whole and where fenders are built into the body and of a piece with it fender repairs become a major operation and almost as costly much of the burden of the associations complaint is about the high cost of repairs the prewar job of fender repair that cost 5 ten years ago now costs 25 and there are too many gadgets to break and pay for many will agree with the suggestion that this is one field in which the utilitarian should be placed ahead of the merely beautiful the qld home town by stanley rm wfyii orderbon this 15 it brother jj hot besf juice cat bunyoj dicv4t expect eeaimeat for forty x cents diorou t um3uesa the men behind pc convention m rfe ill bbtfegs ggs3e93 fk as whos to blame m grattan oleary don ii morrow mla frederick g gardiner kc george c nowlan kc news announcers and even the mayor of toronto speaking on the radio with a plan for saving hydro current all state they do not wish to discuss the issue as to who is to maine for the current shortage of power xo doubt the immediate blame can be placed on the weather man who caused the dry weather over the past six months that brought about a lowering of the waters in the northern chain of lake from which we get a grea deal of our power however it is only a short period to think back to the time that mitchell hepburn came into power proclaiming that there was plenty of power without numerous contracts just signed for new projects by the henri government hepburn cancelled the contracts and the people backed him thinking they were saving something they took the advice of the hepburn adminis tration and lost out today so perhaps the answer is that e are all to blame hence it is he duty of every houesholder to do what he or she can to save cur rent these days until the situa tion improves again inherits s3000000 fortune clarence v charters a group of the key men who are busy organizing the progressive conservative national convention which will be held for three days starting september 30 in ottawas coliseum to choose a new leader for the party in succession to hon john bracken mp and to restate the partys platform top left is m grattan oleary associate editor of the ottawa journal chairman of the ottawa local arrangements committee and temporary convention chairman who will deliver the keynote speech at the opening session on thursday morning top right is donald h morrow mla for carleton county secretary of the ottawa local arrangements committee center left is frederick g gardiner kc toronto chairman of the important resolutions and policies committee whose 193 mem bers will meet in ottawa two days prior to the convention to consider the hundreds of resolutions submitted center right is george c nowlan kc of wolfville ns chairman of the organization and public relations committee which will review publicity and general organizational matters lower left is g russell boucher mp for carleton chairman of the transportation committee which is making arrangements to transport to and from the convention 1313 delegates 765 alternates and a large number of other guests lower right is clarence v charters public relations director for the progressive conservative party who is handling much of the organizational details and publicity for the convention and serving as liaison between the local committees and national headquarters peed county hit by storm striking the south end of peol county early sunday morning a severe electrical storm the worst this year left a trail of burning and wrecked buildings broken and snarled hydro and telephone lines though scores of homes and bains were hit by lightning bolts during a fourhour storm which started at midnight not a person was seri ously injured extending from no 27 highway westward the storm area covered nearly a 20mile stretch damage was estimated at 8500000 as cellars were flooded and homes and barns blasted as if hit by bombs trees and poles were uprooted and thrown about like matchwood proceeds or the sale of waverley the estate of tha late mrs eleanor e b morgaa of london ont will go to 14- yearold ridley college student john smallman canadis richest boy inherits the bulk of his greataunts 3000000 fortune the romantic land of the arabian nights the middle east has the worlds biggest oil reserves the polygamists in short creek arizona find their efforts to liyfl eommunistically frustrated by soma members of the colony too lazy to work see your favorite picture first at the stanley theatre friday and saturday oct 1 1 fabulous texan wm elliott big town scandal phillip reed wages at new high for farm workers canadian farm workers are in clover practically up to their necks in it according to figures issued by the dominion bureau of statistics theyre making more money than ever before in their lives on top of that many of them dont have to worry about the higher food prices which urban consumers have to pay for the average farm hand is being provid ed with board in august the latest month for which figures are available the average daily wage on farms was s110 with board in the same month last year the pay was 113 when board was not provided by the employer the average farm wag was 541 compared with 517 the average monthly wage with board was 8679 compared with ss275 in august 1917 without board the comparative figures were 11007 and 10903 the highest average wage was for british columbia where when board was provided farm hands received 9393 new brunswick came next with 9307 the lowest wages were in prince edward island where farm hands averaged c0 a month with board or ss310 a month without board a former usa bomber pilot who renounced his country to b- come a citizen of the world and whose visa had expired in france found sanctuary in the paiais do chaillot newly opened un assembly spot in paris considered international territory catch two big lunge the largest fish of the season to be hauled from balsam lake was caught near coboconk last week by howard russell of coboconk and steve crowley of 9 roncesvalles ave toronto the catch was a 28pound mus- kellunge measuring 48 inches in length the big fish put up a 45- minute battle before it was finally landed and carted away to be photographed with its proud cap tors w wvsv to aa t es oct tastet patade fret jjtalbe 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