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Large numbers of evacuees from Europe are passing through Niagâ€" ara Falls. It is estimated that sixâ€" ty paused â€" momentarily in the border city last week, bound for various points in Canada. Among the European visitors who have passed through Niagara Falls lateâ€" ly, was a group of 15 Finnish war volunteers who are now returning to their homes in * Ontario after serving with the Finnish army. Evacuees V isit Border City Following is a list of fairs where Junior activities will be conducted: Canadian National Exhibition, Torâ€" onto; Peterborough, â€" Richmond, London, Brampton, Belleville, Renâ€" frew, Barrie, Stratford, Galt and Simcoe. The girls of the Homemaking Clubs will conduct their judging and demonstration programs and exhibit their work under the direcâ€" tion of Miss Florence Eadie, Woâ€" men‘s Institute Branch, Ontario Department of Agriculture, and the Homemaking Club coaches, while the Boys‘ club work will be under the supervision of R. S. Dunâ€" can, Director of Agricultural Repâ€" resentatives, his Assistant A. H. Martin, Toronto, and the various Agricultural Representatives. While several of the larger exâ€" hibitions including the Western Fair at London and the Central Canada exhibition at Ottawa, are not functioning this year owing to the fact that their grounds and buildings have been loaned to the Department of Militia, the Departâ€" ment of Agriculture has decided to carry on with their Junior Farmer work where possible so that these farm boys of today may become the trained agriculturalists of toâ€" morrow. The Junior competitions that ordinarily are held at the Central Canada Exhibition will take place iat the Richmond Fair, August 23 and 24. The boys will have their usual camp and calf club competitions and demonstraâ€" tions. The London: Competitions will be held.â€"early in October. an increase over last year, Ontario Department of Agriculture offiâ€" cials state. Over 2,500 rural boys and girls will take part in Junior competiâ€" tions at fall fairs this year. This is Rural Boys, Girls, Prepare For Fairs Junior Competitions To Be Held At Eleven Exhibitions This Fall â€" Over 2500 Enâ€" tries Expected. Thursday, August 22nd, 1940 "The Shade That Rivals Nature" The Canada Haircloth Co., Ltd. T he use of RAYGLO TARLETON (basket netâ€" ting ) will add attraction to your shipments and assist in securing higher prices for your fruit. RAYGLO TARLETON is being supplied in a larger size than formerly to facilitate covering of baskets and save time in packing. For your protection RAYGLO TARLETON is identified as follows :â€" PEACH GROWERS (1) (2) (3) All authorized dealers are displaying the RAYGLO sign. Each unit of 100 covers is tied with a printed tape. Each package carries a label with the trade mark shown above. ST. CATHARINES, ONTARIO Give us to awake with smiles; give us to labour smiling: as the sun lightens the world, so may our loving kindness make bright this house of our habitation. â€" R. L. Stevenson. Young women interested in these courses should make application to the Ontario Agricultural College at Guelph. Ambulance dGdriving courses for women held at the Ontario Agriâ€" cultural College have proved most popular and helpful. On the urâ€" gent request of many young woâ€" men throughout the province, the College has decided to hold two adâ€" ditional courses during the period. August 26th to September 6th. September 9 to September 20. * During these courses the .stuâ€" dents will receive instruction in the care and handling of gas enâ€" gines, ambulance service and other related work. It is expected that students will become familiar with the driving of ambulances, trucks, and, when possible, small tractors. In addition, the College has been able to give some physical training and military drill. An added course which has been of unusual interest is that of rifle shooting. Short Course For Ambulance Drivers A gun crew of the Royal Canadian Artillery in the process of loading an 18â€"pounder field gun at the Petawawa Training Camp in Ontario. Product of port that straw is three times as plentiful as last year and that they must put a much greater volume through their threshing machine in order to end the day with the norâ€" mal quantity of threshed grain. The amount of work required is out of proportion to the yield, growers say. This condition adds to the worries of the farmer who is alâ€" ready seriously concerned about. the shortage of farm help. The harvesting season for grain is proâ€" longed by the heavy straw, and other work, which should be done, must wait because of the difficulty in getting farm hands. The best source of wealth is economy.â€"Cicero. According to the latest report from the Ontario Department of Agriculture on crop conditions in Lincoln, "the harvesting of fall wheat and spring grains has been, with most farmers, a tremendous task this summer. The yield per acre, especially of oats, is nearly double that of 1939." Agricultural Representative E. F. Neff states that the wet growing season this year caused stalks of grain to grow abundantly. The straw this year is much longer and larger. Howâ€" ever, the yield of grain itself is better than last year. Farmers reâ€" Grain Harvesting Is Heavy Task THE GERIMSBYX. INDEPENDE N T Extravagance Exposed I do not know how far Governâ€" ment departments are influenced by criticism in the newspaper : but I imagine that one of them must have become more economical when its extravagance â€"after an appeal for fieldâ€"glassesâ€"was exâ€" posed in a newspaper by a corresâ€" pondent who ‘had received for his glasses two or three times what they were worth. Similarly, it was a newspaper that related how Take another matter that the Press is just now doing good by discussing â€" the question of the proper treatment of friendly aliens from enemy countries. The present Government policy is one of wholeâ€" sale internment. Is this right either from the point of view of justice to good men who have come to England as to a sanctuary or from the point of view of English interâ€" ests? Those whose motto is "Safety first‘" say: "Intern the lot, as there may be some spies among them." Others reply that many of the internees are absolutely above suspicion. The Problem of The Alien The problem is obviously both a difficult and a serious one. Diffiâ€" cult, not only because a spy may be disguised as a friendly alien, but because, if an epidemic of spyâ€" mania were to break out, the friendly alien might be safer in an internment camp than free. Seriâ€" ous, not only ‘because it is wasteful to make no use of the brains and muscles of friendly aliens, but beâ€" cause it is foolish to alienate people who long as ardently for the overâ€" throw of Hitlerism as any of us. This, it seems to me, is one of the many problems in solving which the Government may be greatly helped by a free Press and a free Parliament. a brilliant journalist some time ago offered his motorâ€"bicycle as a gift and had his offer refused on the ground ‘that the equipment of motorâ€"cycles was already sufficient and how later an appeal for motorâ€" cycles was issued and he was paid (I think) £64 for a machine that he would have given for nothing. There are countless muddles and mistakes of a comparable kind that a free Press does an immense serâ€" vice in exposing. Muddles are even commoner in warâ€"time than in peaceâ€"time; and it is only . when they are exposed that they are likely to be rectified. (Continued from page 4) exposure of the folly of putting a purchase tax on books. Would these criticisms have been perâ€" mitted in an official newspaper? I doubt it. Again, there have been various things that called for criâ€" ticism in the organization of the L.D.V., in the failure to collect useâ€" ful waste material, in the neglect to make full use of agricultural land. » The chief argument for preservâ€" ing the newspapers in their present character, however, is that demoâ€" cratic Governments tend to become slack except when they are subâ€" jected to eternal vigilance on the part of the nation. Good Governâ€" ments even ‘become strengthened by storms of criticism if they surâ€" vive them. A oneâ€"newspaper Govâ€" ernment might be strong, but it would have become Nazified in the process. And that is what this country is fighting against. There is everything to ‘be said by free men and women against oneâ€"newsâ€" paper Government. Newspapers In W arâ€"Time The "dryâ€"cleaning method has proven the most effective in conâ€" trolling weeds with creeping rootâ€" stocks. Included in this group are four well known perennials; Field Bindweed, Perennial Sow Thistle, Twitch Grass and Canada Thistle. The disc plow has proven an effecâ€" tive implement in the control of these weeds. Deep plowing is needâ€" ed for Sow Thistle, Canada Thistle and Bindweed, and shallow plowing for Twitch Grass. The field should be left in this rough state as long as dry weather prevails followed by frequent thorough cultivation. It should be plowed late in the fall and left in the rough state or ridgâ€" ed up for the winter. The use of the disc harrow is not recommended for the control of perennial weeds. (1) Practise a green summer fallow when controlling annualsâ€" permit seeds to germinate and desâ€" troy later by cultivation. (2) Practise w ‘black summer fallow when fighting winter anâ€" nuals, biennials and perennials. Keep the ground absolutely ‘black until frosts will make further culâ€" tivation impossible. Afterâ€"harvest cultivation will control weeds and will mean a larger succeeding crop and greater returns. Our grand business undoubtedly is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearâ€" ly at hand. Courage, brother. Get honest, and times will mend. â€" Carlyle, An abundance of moisture will prove favourable for the control of annual weeds but will upset all plans for the control of perennials, particularly those with underâ€" ground rootstocks. Two objectives should be kept in mind when planâ€" ning afterâ€"harvest cultivation. For the control of perennial weeds having deep tap roots, such as Bladder Campion and Chicory, deep plowing is recommended as soon as the crop has been removed, followed by cultivation, using wide, sharp shares which overlap. Thorâ€" ough, frequent cultivation ‘both ways is essential in order to cut roots and bring them to the surâ€" face where the sun will assist in destroying them. Afterâ€"harvest cultivation is one of the most practical and most efâ€" fective methods of controlling weeds, states John D. Macleod, Crops, Seeds and Weeds Branch, Ontario Department of Agriculture. Plants draw heavily on the food stored in the roots in order to proâ€" duce flower and seed and they are at their weakest stage immediately after the crop has been removed. For the control of annual and winter annual weeds, shallow, thorâ€" ough cultivation is recommended by using the plow, oneâ€"way disc, cultivator or disc harrow. Seeds are brought near the surface by this plan where they germinate and may be killed by subsequent cultiâ€" vation. An abundance of moisture plus the method s outlined above, will destroy millions of seedling plants of such weeds as Wild Musâ€" tard, Stinkweed, Ragweed, Foxtail, False Flax, Pigweed, Lambs Quarâ€" ters, Shepherds Purse, etc. Weed Control After Harvest After Harvest Cultivation Is Practical And Effective States Dept. of Agriculture. MAIN STREET, EAST IMPERIAL AND THREE STAR GASOLENES A FULL LINE OF AUTOMOBILE ACCESSORIES We Are Exclusive Grimsby Agents For Passenger Cars â€" Station Waggons â€" Halfâ€"Ton Trucks C. TERRYBERRY WILLY S * * x MARVELUBE & PE MOBILOIL prooucts OILS Hours 9 â€"5 â€" Saturdays 9 â€" 12.30 Harold B. Matchett AUCTIONEER and VALUATOR BEAMSVILLE will conduct your Auction Sale, large or small at very reasonable rates; also a commissmsoner for takâ€" Ing affidavits. «Phone J. W. Kenâ€" nedy, 56 Beamsville, or Grimsby Independent, Phone 36 for informaâ€" tion. Large Increase In Children Adopted A heavy increase in adoption of children, as a result of the war and national registration, has been reâ€" ported by Superintendent H. Fongâ€" er, of the St. Catharines and Linâ€" coln County Children‘s Aid Society. To date this year, 22 youngsters have been legally adopted in St. Catharines and the county, and 10 more adoptions are pending, said Mr. Fonger. This is far ahead of other years, and compares favorâ€" ably with the record of 20 adopâ€" tions set up last year. Reason for the sudden increase, believed Superintendent Fonger, is in‘ clearing up the status of chilâ€" dren who have been taken into a home and have been adopted in every way except from the legal point of view. Many families were caring for youngsters of relatives or friends, and although they lookâ€" The demands of the national registration pressed home the quesâ€" tion and an unusually large numâ€" ber of children have now been legally adopted. Superintendent Fonger Attriâ€" butes Increase To National Registration. ed upon them as adopted children within their own family, they had never taken out the papers. Business Directory BARRISTER, SOLICITOR, ETC. Vernon Tuck OPTOMETRIST Complete Eyesight Service Phone 326 GRIMSBY J. W. Kennedy 6 JAMES ST. SOUTH HAMILTONâ€"CANADA G. E. F. SMITH AND COMPANY CHARTERED ACCOUNTANTS 25 Main Street, West GRIMSBY OPTOMETRIST AUCTIONEER TELEPHONE 134 LEGAL SEVEN