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.oosqr-o--o-o-o-o-o-o--o-o-o-o-o9 0:. o-o-o-roar-o-o-.--"-""." v ot-trar-o-r-trr-o-o-o-o-o-o""-""'"'""' tif . .rooa-o-ro-o--o--""""-" Results Aeerue-- I notice by the papers that the fruit growers in the St. Catharines district have fallen in with my idea of taking a survey of the various kinds of commercial fruits that are grown, or should be grown, in the best interests of the industry. At a largely attended meeting of prominent Jruit growers, at St. Catharines, the fruit situa- tion was very earnestly discussed, a short time ago, and a committee was appointed to look into the very matter that I have been discussing in various issues of The Independent, for the past two months-the doing away with the growing of useless varieties of peaches, plums and other fruits. Fruit Growers Still to Blame- I used to think that "farmers"'were the hard- estynen in the world to bring to a state of may; y’ they' would tal'e hold of. a new subject; JOWR’fEflle and am firmly' convinced that the “fnuit farmers" have the "farmers" skinned a thousand miles for "going to the mill with a stone in one end of the bag and a bushel ot wheat in the other." TWO They seem to be following out the maxim of "what was good enough for father is good enough for me"-and if "tathert' made a few dollars, one year, out of a useless, good for nothing lot of early plums, then "I" must naturally continue growing those useless, good tor nothing early plums. No man could condemn the growing of the useless, early plums and peaches that are being grown to an enormous extent in the Niagara Peninsula, more than I have coudemnel this practice; and not only condemned it but repeat- ed my condemnation over and over, in the hope that the idea would penetrate into somebody's brain who would "start something." Lots of fruit growers have said to me, "You are absolutely right; you are on “the right track"--- but yet none of these fruit growers DID any- thing. I am glad, therefore, to see that the St. Catharines district fruit growers have made a move in the right direction. . And They Continue--- I am sorry, however, to hear reports which I have heard lately, to, the effect that the Niagara Peninsula Growers Limited has great difficulty with its members in the eastern part of the County-inasmuch as those members refuse to follow out instructions and make their pack of fruit as good as they should do. There is nobody to blame, in the world, for the condition of the fruit market this year, but the fruit growers ,themselves;-if the fruit grow- ers had kept the useless varieties of plums and peaches off the market in the early part of the season, and ,then followed that up by keeping the good for nothing Number Three peaches at home in the pig pen, they would have obtained for their standard peaches from twice as much to three times as much as they did obtain, and with about one-halt the labor and expense. I went, one time, to’an auction sale and sold two cows for Three Hundred Dollars, and I did it in about five minutes. , The next day I went to another auction sale and sold seven cows for a total of less than Three Hundred Dollars and it took me over an hour to do that. The chances are that the owner of the two cows made more money out of them, as dairy cows, on much less feed, than the other man did put of his seven cows and a great deal more feeding' cost. v So it is with the fruit business-if the fruit business had reached a point where the growers had courage enough to cut out the useless varie- ties ,and then had also reached the point when Issued every Wednesday from the Office of Publishers, Main and Oak Streets, Grimsby, Ontario Members Canadian Weekly Newspapers Association. Member Selected Town Weeklies of Ontario. Member Grimsby Chamber of Commerce TELEPHONES---. Business Office, 36; Editorial Office, 23 Established 1885 JAS. A. LIVINGSTON & SONS, Owners and Publishers THE INDEPENDENT FANCIES THE PEOPLE'S PAPER JAS. A. LIVINGSTON, General Manager . ORLON LIVINGSTON, . A. M. LIVINGSTON, FACTS Frank Fairborn Business Manager AND Editor .“020 0-9:. they had courage enough to throw the Number Threes away and forget them; then they would make twice the money out of a light crop of Number Ones and Twos as they now make out of a heavy crop ot Ones ,Twos and Threes or culls. The growers in the Grimsby district decided, this year, to bring a lot of their peaches to a central packing house. Selfishness Prevalent--- The object of this decision was to secure a more uniform and better class pack and one that would establish a record and reputation for the Company, and the growers, in the markets. Now, I would naturally suppose, and any man with brains would naturally suppose, that the growers in the Grimsby district who brought their fruit to that central packing house would eliminate, before leaving their orchards, as much of the rubbish as possible so as not to clutter up the packing house with a lot of in- ferior peaches. ' But what do we find?--'-] find this: that I was informed by a person who worked in that pack- ing house that there were as many as seven hundred and eight hundred baskets of Number Three peaches packed there in one day. Now, when fruit growers, who are members of the Niagara Peninsula ' Growers, Limited, will stand around the street corners and around the Post Office stebs, and tell of the crimes that the Company is doing by selling their peaches and plums at a low price, they should at least be men enough to leave the plums on the trees un- til they ripen, and leave the little peaches at home altogether. l If a thousand men started out with a firm determination and resolve to destroy the '. fruit markets willfully, they could not do so any more, effectively than our own fruit growers have done this year-and yet these men who have done this will stand on the street corners and con- demn the Company tor not getting them big prices for their fruit. V Nay it Grow'. I hope that the movement started at St. Cath- arines, lately, with the object of getting rid of the good tor' nothing varieties, will spread all over the Peninsula and will grow until the time comes when the fruit growing part of the coun- try will be free from the rubbish that has cursed it for so long. If this reaches the eyes of any fruit growers before they are done cutting their grapes, I would advise them to "hold" just as long as Grapes and Théir 1rarhets- possipJ»: " The grape market has held up wonderfully well in an exceedingly unfortunate year, which is entirely due to the excellent management N of the Niagara District Grape Growers, Limited. This company has made wonderful efforts for a wide distribution of a big crop, and by holding the crop back as much as possible and by distributing over a tremendously big terri- tory, it has passed through the crucial stage; and if the growers will now hold back their crops, even for a few days, all danger of a slump will be passed. The Niagara District Grape Growers Limited has had'the most difficult situation to contend with this year that has ever presented itself since the formation of this company-that is, insofar as its export trade is concerned. Had conditions in the United States been normal this year, the grape growers of Canada would have received One Hundred Dollars per ton for their entire crop; but conditions have existed in the United States that the grape growers in Canada have been entirely ignorant of, except those few who have been in close touch with the working of their company. In the first place, there was a difference of from Twelve to Sixteen Dollars per ton, in the exchange between the two copntries so that Eighty-tive Dollars per ton, in 1920 in the United States, was edual to One Hundred Dollars per ton in Canada-that condition has disappeared. In the next place, the crop in Michigan and Newiork stitepis year was heavy, heavier than in previous years by far; so that it was not possible to secure the prices in the United States, this year, that were secured in former years. In the third place, before the Canadian grapes were ready to place on the market, the United States railway companies, in many cases, put an embargo on fruit, that is, they would not supply cars for fruit transportation, nor haul fruit over their lines; on the plea that all the cars and transportation facilities were required for the handling of the stern necessities of lite-coal, steel and other commercial commodities. Fortunately the railways to certain points in the United States were free from the embargo, and the management of the Niagara District Grape Growers Limited, succeeded in making contracts and considerable sales at these points. The result of this later phase ot the situation was that only a few points in the United States were open to Canadiah grapes, because it was only a few railways that they could be shipped. _ Only on Friday of last week one of these points was shut off to Canadian grapes, by a fresh embargo on a railway, thus increasing the difficulty of selling grapes in that country. In spite of these facts, however, a lot of Cana- dian grapes will cross the border this year, and at good prices. THE INDEPENDENT.§SR-IMSBY, ONTAEIQ Strange that people neveii,arink of that cracked grate in the furnace until u day they want to light the fire. Queer, too, 'llirt they should never have noticed the hole iNthe stovepipe big enough to throw a cat thrd“h until it was time toToPerate t.he heating plantar _ A A The reason that I airvisiit't'ilraiye growers to, hold their crop back as miililiras possible is that in another week or ten diall buyers all over Canada will be making/i/tii., to secure grapes to fill contracts that shdiraba've been filled in the past ten dayss:--but triiitlll buyers held back because they expected the ij'tll e"to slump. It's not time to put15 a itiwrm‘if'; windows and doors yet, so don't worry'a them. You know there are two or three paijth') of glass that will have to be replaced, but niali, mind, there's apt to be a few days or so of wii"alli'is,veathier, and there will be plenty of time to 'ii:t4iiii' broken windows when you decide to put ttiiallillibn. And you remeniber that ' frcoat' last winter. You were going to wear it fittle longer, but it must go to the tailor shop) Itbe lined and fixed up a bit, Well, Wait until if ' first cold day and then rush down when eveallt)trrson else is urg- ing the tailor to save a lifeé; H1aving the winter coat in shape. _r,f kr' . You haven't much coal, ’y'f’f'you have not or- dered any wood yet to heWMlri'.tiut. The weath- er has been favorable, and), 11rwe just let the thing slide. ‘ at l Meantime the old gardeh1 Those" cracks and warps as it hangs on the bird l Of the apple tree in the backyard, and the (allli,i(tl mower is just where you left it ten days}; .__. The rake, the spade and the hoe are---aielalR don't know, but we won't need them un'tiL‘rg‘e spring, so why worry about them no,w? (i] tl. The Arabjyo desert 15 thti,ii.tsttvictim of "the age of machinery," the sttk'i, :3011er that crushes romance whenever it invade ts). Hold your grapes, boyséli there will be slump. ' ', (le ' _ From the land of the carilEljs, comes a printed circular, announcing that mpr-busses now are running regularly between r and Aleppo. The route is 560 miles, the ((lirtrs five days, along the historic Euphrates vallewlj‘, T Desert bandits, who raid 6'1“,“‘e1 caravans? The shrewd general manager oriflyt' motor line has taken care of them. Tht1.iiiitidipg shieks have been bought off. In cotyi4tija.tiii1 of "a lump sum down," they. guaranteehiijio,t to molest the gasoline caravans. A . r U Who wants to..take a trip 'through the desert under such conditions, no Chime of danger no thrills? "r"'.' V , Ti-i/ur-ist to the Philippine si.s1a..nds writes that he penetrated the jungles of Mindanao to see the head-hunters in their natyarstate', _ Alas and alack, he found thihead-hunters sell- ing picture postcards of their. trophies. The young bucks have stopped carrymg their enemies' heads on poles. The old men sit in the council house and, observing the change,' lament that the world is going to the dog? ‘_ Even Stefansson, invading.tlje land of perpet- ual ice, found that one of hity)rreatest problems was agreeing on the wage to be paid his two Its- kimo guidesg. l . C ./ T It is not an mam, =FENeN-.s il.ncte romance and ad- lb D “UL so many years venture a-plenty awaited only a few hundred feet' forest clearing. ' j, Something is lacking ii, ife now, and that something IS the tPturafilb"tting for romance. Industry has at- W li' ".v-. ular craving for departed toma ttt rooac "" _,iiikeri1l'ytfdr?-lrel/',otdf. enal sale of such books as "Outline of History," "The Story of Mankind" and "Outline of Science." The readers are after embalmed thrills rather than knowledge. When you go back to the old home town, af- ter being away many years, one of the most start- ling discoveries is the change wrought by time 1n fellows you once knew as town drunkards, loaf- ers or bullies. A fellow who in his early twenties was a no- good---"nevtr be worth his sa)t"--teps up brisk- ly and wrings your hand. YOU learn that he is in business for himself now and "doin' ?itle." He is restless. You guess that he is anxious to confide. Then the great and important secret comes out. He met "the only girl" and mar- ried her. Proudly he opens the back of his watch, shows you her picture-also the things that are running around the house besides the fence. She put him to work. . A little farther down the street you meet the fellqw ypu once knew as the town bully. There is a sad, reminiscent vacancy in his eyes such as Napoleon must have had at St. Helena The system has caught him. He is industrious obviously, but in such a timid way that you won- der if he went in for preaching. Then his great secret comes out. He also met "the only girl," and married her. He dosen't tell you, but you surmise that she has him well tamed. Another familiar face looms up. You can- not place him until you realize that it is because his red nose, bleary eyes and finger tremblehave disappeared, _ The town drunkard! You wring his hand, comment how well he is looking. Then you ask him what he's doing to get "the stuff" these days. V "Oh," he boasts, puffing up like a fresh blister, "I never touch the old hardware any more. Haven't had a drink for so long I suppose three fingers of it would make me sick. I quit when I met the only girl. We're married now. I voted dry." 7 r The good influence of good women is about the finest thing in life. Poverty is a sad handi- cap. So is ill-health. So are thousands of other forms of misfortune. --/ But, when all is said and done the worst kind of bad luck that can happen to man is in not meeting "the only girl"---" in meeting her and not getting her. Washing dishes softens the hands, but any bride will tell you that too much of it has a ten- dency to harden the heart. In a small town the people never need an opera $215511 unless distant neighbors have a sleeping c . _ I V The husband. of a famous woman probably knows what an appendix thinks about the scheme of things. "The avarage .woman has a vocabulary of only 800 words. It IS a small stock, but think ot the turnover. _ . The tariff on castor oil may keep it out, but it will be just as difficult to keep it down. It is rather surprising that nations do not trust one another, but it would be more surpris- ing if they should. ' M--" Uncle Josh Says:-- GOOD-BYE, ROMANCE! GOOD MANAGERS THE ONLY GIRL ipce roman many years in averag 11ty awaited md his C undred feet b hluu g. is lacking in life now, the natural/j, tting fo: V‘t- "me. ular alt 00a y _,giki,1,es1sa, I .nce romance and ad- in average Canadian lyn4 his cabin 1n the w, and that for romance. [at craving for s th't"tihenom- wig: 4's .0-)-()-()-()-()-()-0-0-l)-(l-O-0.()¢0-()-()-0-0-0.0-0-l)-0.0-(.:. .zQI-()-()-()"U-0-0-0-0-(l-0C.‘)-0-0-0.0.l)-()-()-l_0-0-0-0-D4 - )- q The following account of the re- sult of socialistic experiments in Australia taken chiefly from an article by F. O. Maber, secretary- treasurer of the Northwestern Life Assurance company, is fully corrobor- ated by the experience of close friends ot the writer who have had abundant opportunities for studying the situa- tion in Australia itself. Australia is a land of almost il- liinitable resources. Practically every kind of mineral in the world is found . there and it has enormous tracts of fertile land available for the production of wheat and other grains, also millions ot sheep and cattle are raised on the hills and rich pasture lands. It is a selt-eontained continent and anyone _ willing to work can make a living. ' In consequence of these conditions Australia has been the working man’s paradise; a land ot milk and honey, furnishing the necessities ot life with the minimum of toil. But the re- sult of this has been to stifle initiative nd originality, and as the population has increased and the easier resource es of the country have been used up, the rank and file of the people have sought to maintain their case by for e through unionism, strikes, and Sgte ‘~contr.oll“ Labor in Aus- tralia has gone a long way towards killing the goose which lays the gold- en eggs; for instance: Gold mining was once exceedingly prosperous, but now in consequence ot the extraordinary' demands of the workers only the very richest mines can continue to produce. The export of coal has practically ceased, and the steel works upon which millions of! pounds have been spent are prac- tically closed down. A number ot condensed milk factories have also had to close down and the shipyards must soon cease work, as it is impos- sible to go on building ships, which when finished are not worth half of their cost of production. The govern- ment interferes in everything and is a large employer of labor, one out of every seven adult workers being in the government service. The government is doing all kinds of merchandising. It is in the Copra business and the canning and selling of fruit, and controls the sugar in- dustry. Generally the government's operations are conducted at a loss, but what does that matter? It is so easy to get the _money from the pub- lie treasury. 6)ver one fruit canning factory alone the government losses run to nearly a million dollars. Ot eleven E class steamers constructed by the government, seven have been lying in Australian harbors for more than two years, never having done any service. On the government mail steamers the wages are about double those of private companies, besides which there are holidays and over time, so that each boat costs about $75,000 per month more to run than boats not government owned. The railroads are also government Owned and unsatisfactory in many ways.' Each state has a different gauge, and it is generally necessary to change trains at the border lines. The cars are not heated, and in the winter the traveller suffers intensely from the cold, so that all experienced travellers carry blankets with them. To buy a railroad ticket is a most aggravating experience for the gov- ernment officials in Australia don't seem to care a hoot whether you travel or not, and-in the eyes of most of the so-called public servants the traveller is but an inferhal nuisance, butting into their ease and tranquil- lity. NOTES AND COMMENTS ON CURRENT EVENTS BY PETER PWERKIN To s,um up: Australia needs popula- tion badly; she needs workers on the land to help develop its tremepdous resources, and she also. needs unlim- ited capital to further her great en- terprises, but she is not likely to get either one or the other except very slowly. Because a man of ambition and initiative would always be striv- ing against fearful odds, and capital invested in manufacturing or indus- trials would always be subject to tremendous risks warranting great profits, and the latter the government would certainly' never permit. Tak- ing it all in all, therefore Australia; though a wonderful country, is cer- tainly a place to be left alone 'at present by the enterprisiing and am- btious man. "Peter followed afar off."* Jesus Christ was going to trial and Peter didn't see any need of it. Peter would have fought it our right there in the garden; but this yielding, this being led away to be falsely accused, this lowliness and meekness--all this was too much for Peter. Oh, yes, he was follow- ing; the heart-strings of the Master had caught him and they were compelling him to follow, but uncomprehendingly, afar off. _ Jesus is always going to trial in this world, and many disciples are following afar off. If God would only make a demonstration in force, lots of His disciples would be brave who now do not lander- stand Him. This being converted and becoming like little children, this being meek and lowly in heart, this submission without retalia- tion--it's altogether too much to expect of human nature, and so human nature follows afar off. Yes, it is too much to expect of hu- man nature. So God offers us His divine nature in which to follow Jesulsdin rejection by this world; for, "As He was, so are we in this mor .' watt (iijui gaps O brother, we who were by nature afar off have been made nigh by the cross of Calvary. Let us therefore follow closely in the foot- steps of our Lord-willing to have them lead right where Paul said they did in his case; for he said, "I am crucified with Christ." For remember the man who follows afar off will get into more trouble just as surely as Peter did. *Luke aguut- BEING "APAR OFF” 22-54 Judge Choquette of Quebec, a member of the Canadian Sen-te, said something worth while when he pro- posed to the Child Welfare . Confer- ence that no man under the age of twenty-five should be made to enter a penintentiary. In supporting this seemingly revolutionary proposition the judge declared that most of the habitual criminals in Canada had be- come so because they had been sen- tenced to a term in a penintentiary before they had reached the age of twenty-five and while still quite young had been thrown into associa- tion with the worst types of hardened criminals in existence and this had, resulted in their falling before the contagion of evil associates, had em? bittered their outlook on life and in the large majority of cases had led to their following a life of crime on completing their penitentiary term. As a remedy the judge proposed the establishment of penal farms, some- thing after the pattern of the muni- cipal jail farms, but a great improve- ment on these in that those sent to them would be kept there for two years at least, the minimum penin- tentiary term. By serving a term of two years or more amidst healthful and cheerful surroundings the young man under twenty-five who had com- mitted his first serious offence, would haveafirst class chance for 'recrsamr:- tion to good citizenship. He would. be in the company of young men who had not 'as yet entered ‘upon a long career of crime and who would be still young enough in life to realiz' that it was not too late to turn over a new leaf and become a worth while Canadian citizen. One curious paradox abdut Ireland is that she welcomes a fight to a tin'- ish, but pot a finish to a fight. One great difficulty about maintaining a high standard of civilization is that so few people really like it. V By far the most efficient Co-educa- tional institution in the world in tional institution in the world is matrimony. Madge-'Nrould you marry a man to reform him?" ' Mabe1---"I suppose I shall have to---- there isn't one of them that suits me the way he is now." Dear Editor.--- By Gosh, I hear me' all about them there cabaret affairs down in that New York city place. They tried to tell me that is where you have to go to see them there Bohemian ladies what wears trousers and acts masculine-like and even smoke cigarettes in public. Well they couldn't tell me that was true cause I knew better than to believe it, you see I aint no hayseed just because T happen to live over the mountain and have a little clay on my heels. But, say Mr. Editor I aint so sure but per- haps they do do them, there things over there in New York cause the other day when me and my Great uncle Albert came'in to-town with a load of hay, we was waiting for Jack Gibson to come down from where he lives to where he sells coal and weighs hay so he says to me let's go to the restraunt and eat something. so I says yes, just as soonas he says that he will pay for the vitua?s, and we went to where they, have them box stalls to eat in. Say gosh we aint no more than got set down to eat then in waltzes two females, one short and plump, the other tall, not so heavy and they _sat down, too. Say gosh they aint got set in their seats that they was setting in when they started to smoke cigarettes. Gosh I was surprised but it didn’t affect Uncle none cause he used to live in Stoney Creek and often wept to Hamilton and was used to the ways of the big city: But say Mr. Editor, ain't it a caution the way the country has progressed since the farmer government? . Yours most sincerely, Hy. H. Heatherdust. Two workmen had a violent quar- rel and were taken before the mag- istrate. The letter asked the cause. It seemed that one had .accused the other of stealing his coat, "And I can prove it, top," he said. "How?" asked the magigtrate. " always keep my e rd in the pocket." On searching the garment nothing THE COUNTRY’S PROGRESS Copyright 1921-J. A Barrister, Solicitor, Notary Public " Federal Life Building Hamiltqclllf UR. D. CLARK / Dentist , 1otr1ct---corner, Main and Mountain Streets, over Canadian Bank of Commerce . , Uffice hours-A) to 12, 1.30 to 5.30 Hume 127 Grimsby, ont'"?, 1mm .51". COR. MAPLE, AVE. Nelles Road W. M. WILSON Architect 15 Queen Street. Telephone 2418w. . St. Catharines. tf HAW . Miss Louise Dell, A.T.C.M., teacheg; of piano and theory; pupils prepare for examinations, special attention to beginners. Class Opens Sept. ir. General delivery, Grimsby, Ont. tf Miss Tones' Private School for girls and boys, top of Mountain street, Grims- by, will open on September 5th. Morning and afternoon classes. Classes for very young children mornings only; all the usual subjects taught, in- cluding French. Music by Mrs. Mr. E. Johnson, at the school and practice hours at school can be arranged. For further particulars, apply to Miss Jones, phone 375, Grimsby. N tlt lawman DR. VANCE R. FARRELL G. B. 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