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kep lssued every Thursday from office uf publiâ€" ° y ~egt" C CT*% % protect himself zand stop depending on the Nflhmfl&m other fellow. * GRIISBSY INDEPENDENT PUBLISHING wâ€"uuvyurhcnndn and $2.50 per year in United Strtes, payable True independence is never afraid of appearâ€" ing dependent, and true dependence leads f But t/,~ damage is done throughout the Tbe Gflmby Independent country so {ar as markets are concerned. The "Lincoin County‘s Leading Weekly" buying public only have in their minds the Established 1885 story sent out hy the produceér himsel{ "the 1 d oo 0| mweee 0000 0_ ~ 0 . _ ". peachâ€"crop is frozeâ€"out". "THE PEACH CROP IS FROZE OUT*" For many, many years, ever since 1 was a kid, just barely able to remember, and that is miore than a month ago, the hue and cry has always gone up in this immediate Grimsâ€" by district, "the peach crop is froze out". Every January just as sure as January followod December, the first cold night that came, that registered anywheres near the beâ€" low zero mark, the cry would go out. George Smith would come into town from the west and Dr. Newton Cossitt would come in from the east. "The peach crop is froze out." When peach picking time came, with the odd year exception, the growers had a full crop, in a lot of cases more than a full crop, This year we had two cold nights. Once it dropped to 10 below zero, once to 14 beâ€" low, government registering thermometer reports. Result: "the peach crop is froze out." Scare headlines for the city dailies. Breaking of the consumer market by the grower himself, by such dizzy statements to the press. It is all grist to the newspaper mill. The newspapers are not operating peach orchards. Stories like this are features to than.bntminoutothemwerthstmkgu those statersents and has them appear in Personally, I do not ‘believe that the frosts of the winter reduced the actua‘ ~ickâ€" ing peach crop in the Grimsby district 10 per cent. Sure buds were killed, plenty of them, but what is the difference in letting the frost do the thinnihg for nothing or the grower doâ€" ing the thinning and paying big money to get it done, so long as the tree is not injured and to date we have heard nothing from the growers about the trees being winter killed. i talked to a peach grower the other night who has three different orchards in three different sections of the Grimsby disâ€" rict. He told me that he had a certain perâ€" centage of loss of buds on one orchard, a 1itâ€" tle less loss on the second orchard and a still smaller ic s on the third orchard. I consider this man one of the biggest prowers of peaches in the district. He provâ€" ed it last year. He says that it cost him $450 in wages for thinning his last year‘s crop. Nwhcnn“ifthelmlthndonethntthin- -in:fotmel'mtiekledwded:h. Even if 1 was only going to have a normal crop, instead of an abnormal one, like last year, I stili am tickled, because I still would ‘have had a very large wage account for thinning." 1mthhmu',mdthmm.\lot more like him, has the right idea. If the frost does your thinninm you have saved T o ond uon will hn.vest jfust as big a money and you will ha.vest just 95 DI¢ 2 aopdqnafltz’-?‘.. LJ No r. an alive today, ~ in the past, cou}d, or can tel., when the ‘rost hits the peach buds whether the crop is ruined or not. How did he know how small or how big the cror was going to be in the first place* Peath to do win it, so when a grower or group of growsre or even college‘ professors come out and announce "the peach erop is froze out", they are all just thlking about something they know nothing about. *# *# # *# Buds are starting to show thema®‘es now in great quantities and I have had A h,,“%mpmmwnndameflw "tfl mmlmwchcropilfme out." It never was "froze ou! of the buds do prove to hay then it is the best thing that the grower, because it saved 13848 JOMN W, GLENDINNING, President. WILERED M. LAYV"SON, Viceâ€"President J. ORLON LIVINGSTON, Secretary, Member Canadian Weekly Newspaper Association. Facts And Fancies ind Editor in advance. froze out" and if 50% e to have been frozen ring that ever happened it saved him thinnin . Jr. PROFIT ONLY SOURCE OF SOCIAL SECURITL Engulfed in the torrent of news and views about social security schemes for Briâ€" tain, United States and Canada, many people are l’a;::ting two basic facts, says the Finâ€" ancial t: First, none of these plans is going to be implemented in a week or even in a year. They are so far reaching and complex that they will require years to get into operation. Second, while most eyes are fixed on the benefits which these schemes will pay out, there is widespread blindn.eug.the fact that the only source of that money ‘is the pockets of Canadians. . %% Talk about "the employees‘ share, the employers‘ share and the government‘s share" obscures that fact. The government has no money of its own whatever. And the only way Canadians, whether managers or workers, will have the money to make social security contributions is the health of the business system. The costs of an overall social security plan like that outlined by Dr. Marsh are some 12% of a naticnal income which would be about twice as high as normal in prewar The only way a national income of that size can be maintained after the war is full employment. And the maintenance of full employment involves two basic things. | It involves the mass of Canadians being united on that goal just ag we are now united to achieve the goal of victory. Seqond.itiuvdvulettinztheindividnd mmumwmpefly. Some controls and regulations are essential, They protect business and society alike. But every impingement government makes in the field properly that of individual enterprise, weakâ€" ens the ability of the business system to meet the challenge of full employment. Th; most government should do is to create t*> ~limate favorable to the efficient operation of the busincss system. And the profit motive is the mainspring and engine of that system. It is only those businesses which make a profit that can stay in business and continue to employ Canâ€" adians ; that can grow and employ more Canâ€" adians as they will have to do to give Canada the full employment which will bring overall social security plans into the reaim of possiâ€" WHICH WAS BETTER? BUSINESS IN 1888. ‘Women wore hoop drawers. They did the cleaning, washing, ironing, raising of big families, went to ~hurch on Sundays and were too busy to be Men wore whiskers, plug hats, ascot ties, red flannel underwear, m wood, bathed once a week, drank 5¢ , be for a schooner of beer, rode bicycles and buggies, went in for politics, worked 12 hours a day and lve ic a ripe old age. Stores burned oil lamps, car i4 everyâ€" thing from a needle to a plow, tru: ted everyâ€" body, never took inventory, placed orders for goods a year in advance and always made AND NOW. Women wear silk (or no) stockings, no corsets, an ounce 0# underwear, bobbed hair, smoke paint, powder, drink sockâ€" tails, play bridge, drive cars, have pet dogs and go in for peiitics. Men have hig‘ }iood pressure, wear no hats, have little hair, shave their whiskers, pl.yguz'..bauletfleeadny.nevergotobd the sa ~. day they get up, are misunderstood at home, play the stock murket, ride in airâ€" planes, drink poison, work five hours a day, play ten, and die young. Stores have electric lights, cash regisâ€" ters, and elevators, but never have what the eustomer wants; trust nobody, take invenâ€" tory daily, never buy in sdvance, have overâ€" head, markups, markdowns, quote budget, “V%Mk control, annual and semiâ€" annual end of the month sales, anniâ€" versary sales, dollar days, founder‘s days, swles, economy days, and never THE â€"GRIMSBY INDEPENDENT frilled By a strange colncidence, the man who today is manager of the Bell Telephone Company in Grimsby, is Alexander Culver Pricé. The Culver and the Price mean nothing to this zâ€"r¢ed, but the Alexander Our jovial manager was brought into this world at Forrestville, in Norfolk county, by a doctor whose name was MciInâ€" e | <.~ i2 handle was Alexâ€" mfinplo-: Nprlon ta e was a oneâ€"way street. People outâ€" side points could call up Grimsby and leave mesâ€" sages but nobody in Grimsbyâ€"could call anybody at an outside point. â€" ‘This telephone was in Palmer‘s store, now the Hawke building and the Jate E. J. Palmer, father of Mrs. Mary Rosebrugh was the chief pooâ€"bah over the bells ‘When a call came in Mr. Palmer answerâ€" ed it and according Councilior "Bill" Mitchell, you could hear him all over town. In summer when the doors were all open ,the phone would ring and "E.J." would answer it. He yelled so loud that big, genial "Sam*" Mabey, the village hutcher, across the street (where St. John and Shaw row are) would come out nmfi,‘:zad‘nmhl-pm ‘"Hanky" and Jack VanDyke would come rumning out of the Lincoln House (Hotel Grimsby) wondering who was being murdered. Miss Bernice Mitten, was the first operator, she marâ€" ried Charlie Mills, who was working there at that $ C | : a 3 I e 4 ’ 4 & P : *ew~ > j c eP j Me. ; % 2 SUPPORT THE NAVY LEAGUE Naval Awards for C.N.S. Officers 3 l 11 a 3 .' I ‘.-'} ! éf; " p I l ' 3 3 "T¢ | i â€" "{ f 1 2 3 4 & § s 6 P \ D ' E / -' i J Hmfimmh- nwreived by tweive former ofhâ€" cerv of the Canadian National Steamâ€" ships now serving in the Royal Casadian Navy,. All of those so hrmored are professional a+zmen who entered active service wom their peacetime assignments through the Royal Canadian Naval Reserve. Five of them, commencing as aporentices, served their er.ire seaâ€"going career with the company. Of those who were accorded recognition in the Honors Lim, three were appointed to be uffivers of the Military Division of the Order of the British Empire, and one was »»ardcd the Distinguished Serâ€" viee Cross. Eight officers of the Royal Canaâ€" dian Navy whe had formerly served on the deck, in the enyine rooin ar d in the purser‘s:«department of the Canaâ€" dian Nacional Steammships received Away Order of the British Empire: 1, Lientenantâ€"Commander N. V. Clarke, R.C.N.R., whose home is in Malifax. Me wus formerly a first officer in the Canadian National service and had been with che comâ€" In 1890 a twoâ€"way system was established and A. C. PRICE ay Back When Frank Fuirbere, It. "Bill" Mitchell. Charlie Mils later beâ€" ity. It also is a long time ago since the first pany since 1923. 2. Lieutenant (Engineer) L. G. F. Despris, RC.N.BR. of Montmagny, Que., formerly a second enginer in the steamships. He joined the engine room forucs of the company in 1930. 3. Lieutenartâ€"Commander (Enginâ€" eer) A. B. Arniaen (Torpedo) of Nanâ€" couver, who prior to jeining *he Canadian Navy had 18 yeare service with the company‘s Pacifc Coast Pistinguished Service Cross: 4. MU? Commander D. C. Waiâ€" lave, R.C.A.R., a native of Pictou, N.6., whose home is in Halifax, and a former Chief Officer with the Canaâ€". dian National Steamships. He entered the service in 1921. Promoted to Commander: £, Commander O. C. Robertson advanced from Lieut, Commander. His home is in Montreal, He started his seaâ€"going career with the C.N.S. as an apprentice in 1924, and served with the company until he joined the Navy. He is now senior officer # PMC.S. Prince Robert, which the naval department statement terms "a renowned auxiliary cruiser which has figured is several major operations came Conservative MP.P,. for ‘They are both deceased. 1 As stated above the telephoneâ€"No. 1â€"was in stailed in the residence of Dr. Alexander, in <» house on Main street west, where Provincia; Con stable Hart (in oneâ€"balf} and Mrs, Mabe) McCar ney, now live. ‘This phone remainéd there for many _ mumm-mbmhup.-. McLay for his drug store, which at that time was where "Banty" Culp has his haberdashery store, 1: is now the phone number of "Cammy" Millyard. & you see it has never in all its 55 years of existence _ left the medical profession, in some way or other, â€" After "E. J." sold out his business in the spring of 1897 to A. F. Hawke, the telephone exchange «â€" mained there for some years and then was remove to the store now occupled by West, The Barber George Miller was conducting a jewellery store therâ€" then and he was the local manager. By this tim» the system had grown (about 1900) to a considerâ€" able size. In fact it was considered one of the best offices in the Bell system. It was about this time that the then "Belle of Grimsby", Katie Dowser, became chief operator ani a heart breaker to all who came in contact with her. _ She is now Mrs, Oscar Zyrd of Hespeler and ; Grandmsa. Many fine young women passed acros: ht_dthW-ndfi-m«m-c was moved a little bit down street, into a small a)â€" . cove store that was part of the building that is now f owned by Russell Terry and the old Bob Hillier 1 store.. To describe on paper how that store exâ€" _ isted is impossble, I would have to take you to the i building itself to describe it. Suffice to say there n.m“hhnhfloum { time, It only lasted as "long as "Grimsby Jim" _ wanted it too. A P This move was made about 1905 and Lovely Ketie was made manageress and a man named Padâ€" field was sent here as Construction Superintendent In 1911 The Hamilton Spectator conducted a trip to was theâ€"Grimsby representative and believe me bo, there was plenty of excitement in the Fruit Belt. She headed the poll and had a wonderful two months tour of Europe. ‘That is what the subscribers to the telephone thought about her and they think just the same today of our present crop of "Little Blue In the year 1908 the late John C. Farrell moved the frame cottage from next the Livingston Manor (Dr, Sinclair‘s) and the present brick block housing the Bell and Dymond‘s drug Store was erected. In the meantime Katie had taken unto herself a spouse und left the services of the company and Bert L. Baulch, a gangling legged youth came to Grimsby as manager. The exchange was moved into this new building and has been there ever cince. ‘There have been a heap of good managers and operators and construction men come and go since that time. But for further information you will have to contact Aiexander Culver Price. Tingleâ€"ling. Thurseday, April Ist, 1943 41 of this war." 6. A. K. Young, of Montreal, form er Chief Ofhcer in the C.N.S. service began as an apprentice in 1922. 12. W. J. Marsha». of Montres!, joined the staff orf the Canadian National Ruilways in 1930 «nd two years later 1â€"angferred to the porm="s stafl of Canadian National S.eo mahips To Licutenant Commander: 1.M. D. MacKay, of Halifas, began as an apprentice in 1930, =»« Third Officer in 1934, and Fesw Officer when he joined the navy. &. E. W F. Surtees ), «d Montreal, a former mw with the steamships, joined =. service in 1926, serving in varicus engine room capacities. To Paymeaster Licutenant Commander N.B., had been in t wst »20€ sir e June, 1936. 11. M. R. Nubrup, whose home is in Saint John, N.b., joined the offhce ol the company in 1931 and becarne purser‘s clerk in 1935, 9. C. R. Boggs, of Montreal, joined e C.N.S. in 1931. 16. A. 5. E. Sillett, Saint John, the company‘s Water Katie /A 1S