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rubbood, -Prea0. arttiteil,
West Street, .431oderieh, 011t0t0
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At/erasing Bates on reqtteat. .• • Telephone 71.
'THUBSIXAY, JUL.Y, 5'th, 1945
ppoxi rounos.
• Since .„the Rederal., eleetien: Opposi.
" tion, organ4' dos, liot likelt to he Said,
• that the 'Ceneervative party la osee,.
tiortal. party,' "confined inaialy to,. On-
tario, While they 'perslet in, the esiser-
tion- Mat. the '1.11beral perty i plied
by Quebee. What 'are the..•facte anti
the !figures? deueervativeS elected to
the House a copapongs nuraher- 6,6, of
Whom 47 are from. Ontario, leaving
nieeteen tip the other eight Provinces.
Liberals eleeted nniubder 118, or, connt-
leeten indepehdents from Quebec., 1,28.
Of these 05 are front Quebec, and 73
" from the other Previnces: • •
If 55 menihers dominate a party
a. 128; what an be said 'of a party
of Od of whom alt but nineteee aro
. from. one Province?
, There wduld be no good pupae in
• direCting. attention to, this .situation
were itnpt for the assumption- implied
in references to., the sister Province
that Quebec., electors and their repre-
sentatives are not to be counted as
good Canadians. -Mr. Bracken, how-
ever, made Strenuous efforts, to have
Quebec elect a large number cif Sup-
Parters from _that Province, and .Mr.
Drew in 'his preelection forecast was
happy. itt the thought that Mr. King
would, have only a :score of members
front Quebec. It weuld be just as * * e
•-well for all* parties - to recognize that Strong hopes for future peace are
--, Quebec is a . part—and an, finportant founded on the San Francisco charter,
Part -e -of- Canada and that the repre, but :as .President Truman, says .it, it
Sentatiies of that Province have exact- only an instrument mad its usefulness
ly the same standing, man for man, Will. depend upon the manner in,Which
as the representatives of any other it is employed. Goodwill among the
part of 1e D.eminionnations cannot be guaranteed by signa-
After all, the Government supporters tures upon a pieee of paper. The
from Quebec 'include such Men • as signatures represent the desire for
„(on 1r Abbottand on Mr,. Claxton Petite but responsibilrtY for giving
' of Montreal, also: several gallant ser- effect to this desire • will rest upon the
vicemeri of this war—and whershall men who will in Years to come direct
say that Hen. C. G. Pewei, who headed the wills and actions of their -peoples.
the Air 'Foree Department through five The .experiences Of the last ten' years
strenuous years, is not as good. a Can- alone should We enough Pa assure Peace
adia.r, as anyhedy else? One o1 the for a generation,oe two •On One hand
•
members-elent i LieUt. Leo Langlois I can be seen • the folly of appeasement,
of Gaspe, Whose brave exploit per and on the other the terrible fate that
formed ie November, 1943, has j ust has come upon Germany from its war
,
been, made public. A, wooden jetty insanity. The insistent Problem Seerai
in the harbor • of Quebec, where' his to be that of destroying the canker of
naval patrol ship was moored, caught Naziism and re-educating German
fire, The flames spread toward the yoath ;so that future generations of
boat, which . was leaded with depth Germans will be eager to 'co-operate
. charges and had just taken on fuel oil. 'with other nations in the pursuits of
Sorae of the 'crew leaped into the, Peace. .
water to escape the intense heat; but..
Langlois made his -way to the flaming
, jetty and cast oft the mooring ropes.
' His face, hands and legs badly burned,
he jumped aboard his, little ship, which
.had hy this arne caught fire. With
a 'Llaechanic he heat .out the fire and
took the craft to safety. 'As a result
he was in _hospital-, for a couple of
weeks.. is now one of 'the' Qnebee
members of :Parliament of whom some
smartie Who th.ink6 be can "'get 4waY
With
e
The Polish dispute has _its reper.
pussions 'even in Canada,: Wind.sor
reports a,lbst-fight over 'the reSpective
1aunsof the parties ,seeiring the top
plate in Poland.
Now- that ()dean" shipping is being
r'eleased fel! 'other than -war purposes,
It should he possible to transport
large ,quantities of . Caiadian. grain to
Europe to keep the people, there from
starving. A Baena cenfined to cereal
produets -might not be Very, exciting,
hut bread made from good Canadian
wheat would be a vest improvernent
on the ersatz' stuff on which iIlhlons
'have been existing.
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The 'monarch, business Is on the
decline. The last War finished the
Kaiser and the Czar, and now Me'
peoPle of Belgium seem to be beit
en getting rid of their king. Britain
seems to get .along with royalty in
happy fashion—so long as royalty
recognizes its lintitations. It is only
a few years since a -British king was
ousted a.:nd another put in his place,
and today the royal family is one of
the most popular institutions of the
T:Tnited Kingdom.
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CANADA -KNOWS
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• Trt74 SIGN
nrelt TO' liumwst
The letter .0f T L Danrey, KO.,
dated -February 2irtht 1946t read 'at" St
Nee* nt meeting,.egi.. the Tont -0(taell
daring a diSeaSaitni'at the qUestiOn of
the'-dispoSitiOn. of MacKay Mil, W*ati
as follows:
RE
MackAY HAL'L
10- answerto, yOur. request to Iooli
into the title to this property, 1 beg
to advise that., it is in 4 'very; com-
plicated conditiOn. In the. first place,
the 23rd of DeeeMber, 1852, the
Canada :Company cereveyed to William
Storey•tlaiS preMPY, and on the .31st
of januarY, „ MN, Wallace Storey
deeded -it to on TemPoranCe.'Qit
the 2pth, of •October,.1861,'the Sons 2f
Teuiperance conveyed it to the'Huron
Library Association and Mechanics'
Institute, and on: the SOW of Novenaber„
1870, the Meelmaics' Institute conveyed
it to the, Towh Off(40derich. On the
13th of june, 1873, the Town of Gode.
rich Conveyed to the. Sons ,a Temper-
ance ancl o,,the same date a declar-
ation of trust was lila& by the trustees lewS: `*To inVestsaid net residue in
for the Temperance bodies and the safe haterest-bearing securities, and, to
trustees were Stephen. Yates, °James pay „ over annually One-fourth of the
Gordon; Tama Thompson, George net income to the Board of TraStees
Sivalason, George Cox and the Rey. or Management of • MacKay Hall,
Charles Fletcher; all a the toren of, Go.derich,'• anti 'ou will °User:Ito that,
Goderith, and these trustees are all there is' nothing said either on, the
dead. On the 3rd of April,: 1876, an corner stone or in Ids will with "refer -
application was nide .to the Crown ence to any temperance- organization,
authorities, alleging that this property so from the 8th day, of October, 1926,
had escheated to the Crowe, and a the title to the lands passed to the
patent waS issued to the same trustees Corporation for the inhabitants of the
for this property,*- which, brings it Town, which would mean to .the Cox -
down to April 3rd, 1876, and nothing poration of the Town ef God.erich for
further has been registered in the the inhabitants, and the only .autherity
Registry Office since that date. to appeint a board of trustees woajd,
A building had been constructed on of ceurse, be.the Corporation -and there
this property which was used ' for is apparently no authority ,,to appoint
school purposes arCuntilthe year, 1874, any person except by the Corporation
wheu the Tdwit purchased a property and it could include on the board of
upon- which it constructed the Col- trustees any ember of people' it
legiate Institute and the -pupils from wished, but from an examination, Of
tbe school on this proberty were moved the minutes of the Council it appears
down to the new Collegiate Institute, that three members of the Council
and from that thiaeon the building were appointed on the Board, but
was used by numerous authorities, but course this would not interferein any
no conveyance was made to it, and in way with the title to the property, so
the, year 1926 this building was torn from the date of the laying of the
down and the present structure started, coiner stone. the property ivelit info
and on the 8th day of October, 1026, possession of the Town and it has been
the corner stone was laid and in- in possession' ever three andhas ac-
scribed- on .this -corner stone were the quired a good title, in my opinion,
following 'words: "Presented to the by• possession. • .
people of Goderiah by Robert MacKay,, You will also oliserve that no taxes
1920." Under the; provision of Mr. were ever collected on this property
MacK.ay's will, he gave •the residue from the. time the building was con-,
's estate to the National Trust stuctd, wliiob is another evidenee.
57.;. of ..Torente..--to-..,be:*-.admin-• tilde the Town waS the 'ewner, and it
1,Satcl Compaov. is fol has- collectedno electric 'light rates
f,f QM the time, of the ,c,enstrection• of-
MaCKay 'Hall, and supplied it _with
fuel,,
The title, of course, is in a chaotic
Condition . and the only Way it can be
remedied is for .the CorporatiOg . to
mak:e an. application under the Quiet-
ing Titles ,Act and it will investigate
the title and grant a Certificate of
'title to whoever turns out to be the
real' Omer, and if you wish this done,
kindly advise in.
- Yours truly,
(SignedY LOFTUS E. DANCEy.
OTTAWA NEWS LETTER
arema., July :;. ranadtea tO0c1 abroad Canada's wheat Vxporta of that
program during the past live 'Yeozi bag year. In 1944, however, 4 line eon.
satisfied civilian needs, ,benetited the
farmer, and amazed, the world. It is
not, too much to s,ay that without
Canada's -striking • food- -contribution
the niiiitary pace of the •United Nations
could not have been - as rapid as it
actually was, and lacking such. speed
V -Day itt .Europe could easilz have
been delayed. ,
• TheGovernment's 6f -seeing PoUcY
and the Admirable coe.operation of the
Canadian faraterb, who faced a•nd licked
nianY handieeps, 'combined to make a
gloWieg chapter in Canada's War
record, • , • "
The statis tice Of 'export of certain
farm products iv thfs period are only
„Coldly impressive. , But translating
these stataaties,luto pictures produces
a., striking effect.
Graphic, Comparisons
For instance, * 1939 it would have
taken only. 48$ cargo ships to carry
FED- OF LAZY MEADOWS
Harry .T. Boutt,
THE DARK . • k
i• strange feeling at night
nik along with a lantern,
oon . . i•and particular -
tailing. No wader these
irrite mystery stories al-
e scenes taking place on
lits when it's dark.
going dowii. to the barn
at the stock before going
might came to rue. The
ipping off the eaies and
lied on the wet. gravel of
to 'the barnyard.
';,e-teralls slapped to -
00 that I simply can't
ich any farmer will
e collie clog tripped
44,. The light spread out
Lib:S and outside this pale.
'41,•Was just perfect dark-..
:eine front the neighbbes.
*IA I carried a lantern.
0e"1e,' atlet of ra in lately, or
0)1 tited,' and I. was no
14 feet wet. Going
iti3VArop road I -had- afinekst
r.1.. • You begin to wonder
Ibellind that dark mess
P5.
spate' and spatter on
the lantern. A. .dog
g, in the elistance. An
kind'itits ie. the wet
.ileek bubbles and gurgles
(Boston Traveler) •
gethej.
Canada is a, land flOwing with meat recoghlZ
In contrast to our 'denuded markets, i-d"Ch!:4.
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and butter. How do they do it? . almig
in Mutt),
One 'difference "difference between our two -
of lie
countries :,0 - that Canada has a far
'gtritiller:p,opiilation than - we
a larger percentalge.ortbod producers.
toe Orb
But that -advantage shoul# be largely TheiVS•:,1
people in this Pro-T/1nm seem to-. be
" off -set by our location, which -gives us 1166,6,,
fearful- • - • khetter climate for growing things and -
This anti-QUebecisiti is Peanliarir capableof-more 'Varied -crops, rh-ieoriegh.t.,
. .
Terostrebred obsession, - ctiltivated by Canada is not a land of plenty be -
such journals- as The Telegram .and it is keePitig its food at home. .;..„-`7,-rL'
The ailo6 and -Mail. It hasExportsits in: Exports have increased enormously, f"ot.74
,
the- lieltl"
abnarinalt OT;
grass. Tin -it...,vere the only really
p, • . g. • e tt o e ...crea.
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.fluence in the ,Toronto district,: which
elected at lease 'one-fourth of the
entire Conservative representation in
the, -House,' and •Litiv degree- else
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where in Ontario, _Ontsitie. of this
with beef exports up po per cent and
Perk exports up .139 per cent. since.
the ,xar started. Britain is looking at,
eur food situation with apprehensive-
_eyeS; learfail ' for • Iend-lease,....litit she
•t•leets-:•-CanadWith' toafide '
Ciliada:latis no Meat rationing:
Tra
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' thin -11 1 f
0•11.hke the :Torontcehred idea Seems: • No :one as- yet' Vas. _explained -w •
to -be a handicap rather 'than a* help
-to the party, which east of Ontario
elected only half -a -dozen members and
west of Ontario a bare dozen.' '
It is unfortunate to the last deghe
that Canadian politiCS--rperhaps we
should say politics in Ontailo— should
• he shot through With the racial
anixnOsity wItich was stirred up in the
recent election ' If Mr.
Bracken is well advised `will separ-
ate himself sharply from the. element
in his party which raises the racial
cry and .endeavor to Bed other issues
upoir which to -bring his party to the
.fprefront. -TO do so would be both
good canadianism` and good politiea.
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there are more cattle on the American itter oii;.,the---planks of the creek
range and less , meat in the kitchen i• ,
Et$ITO1q.AL ',TOTS
Att.kt all the.. eleetioa exeitement,
•
what a, etimeleg silenee I
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The man who makes, hay while the
sun shities hes to work fast theeedaye,
Pity the 'bope IaPS. They haven't a
Ilitler,to tell -them they arp winning
the war.
This is the day Great Britain vdtes
' la 'its first general election since 1635.
The'results will not, he known for two
'or three 'Weeks, as ,:it will take tithe
to record th'e Soldier Vote.
• .• * • *
A eteititree, greatest Atisete •ere
"ehildren, and the Dentin/Oft Dar 441JOrts
" gave evideuce that ,Goderielt has a
1Venerous supply of them --and ilno
° ealtpleee keen, sturdy and pod -
natured.
* qt.
ront thOUnild'.hrtgA of Inuit .for
.0verliteetel Men Wet; damaged br itdre
eti the malt bXprobablr beeauaq
inune pera4n who didn't know or didn't
eare for the rules **OA sonetkhy
indunesohte. There Is always score
range right low than ever in. .our ••4.,
Ooti heea
history. Such statements as the re-
cent one that we are faeing the great-
est meat shortage since 1935 are an
insult to our intelligence. What dif-
ficulty, except the financial . one did
anyone have in imiying. meat in 1935?.
The truth seeras to. be that we are
facing the worst meat shortage in .oUr
modem history and strictly a man-
•macle ene. •
' raight be a good idea to send some
of our•chaSteried"-exPeri's up to Ottasea,
to ask some questions, , The Canadians
seem •iti, know the answers:
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• SOMERODY PAYS .
-(Lohden Free Press) -
The delegates attending' the Western
Counties Telephone Association 'con-
itention.rn I.,ondon are discovering that
their costs, as result of the neW-
soCial E.Mr.laber legislation, aremotintie
lig and that they will have. to increase
their eharges. • 1VI.Oney is. not fetind on
trees., Governments have no. seeret
way of making nieney whereby they
can.go 'on increasing kinds of ser-
vices -wjthout sorriebedy paying for it,
and the soniehody is Xohn. Q Public
There' was a tithe when all. parties
advocated eeonontY GOvernment ex-
penditttreS. AdraittIStrations Were at-.
tacked for their,' extravagariee and
every Opposition 'told how they would
reduce costs of goVernitent, • Bet times
have changed and pediticianS today ap-
parently feel that the way to be eleeted
is to promise pie le the sky.. Vaeli
party 1n the last 'election -vied -with
each, other promising` mere and better
•
We are eot opposed to all these
SOcial services, but. what we do warn
4the publie about Is' that we are going
to Ineve":to pay for them. ohr.e
s tl tele-
Pheee delegate*.are ,diseoveririg. • If
we want stielLterviees then we will
have . - flea the Wile. 'We cannot
have our eake and eat it.
"WON'T DO IT 4.0AIN",.
(Chathuin . News)
It wilt not be Sufficient to make the
Germane arid Ieps realize they have
tog -the wer. will also ha.ve to
cettvifiee them that they will IMO again
they start another
X.,(1
g tIs ethere's 11 a gh.t
in. tegartu house: Even ifit isn't cold
the Var12ries4 gives you a chilly feeling.
The IVA seems to be seeping into your
bon.4.1•`:Ylott're alon1 . and man usually
doesn't' like to be alone. ' ParticulaTly.
underi.eirerStances like that,
The rtifir,--fteSs of. night is a strange
thing.' - ;IA ,t too many- people •let 'other
People • igeake jokes -totheir children
.y, oari4g the children ot " to
about it.tinetlynes thbey offend them-
selves; lis
1 bed Mider,ithe, pretext that .some fear-
ful "b0g0-Inan" 'win' get then if
they're not! good. .
eurselvee'd. e the darkness. Th,e light
• , All of ilii have a certain fear ieside
of dAyt,i'lli''8,0ch a coinforting thing.
Some t 0. ieheir you ean't sleep 'just
liStent t ' oises of a house, '-.The
creaks d ° r,f,OILYIS of , boards '!ancl
branel !eraping , and the rattle of
. da. lime you never Mil of
„wind() „ 1., re all rather weird. : Yet
intheii
thestfthin s, It's my guess that' ost
PetiPl'inre' brave' by daylight but J tist
a Jill ';'fearful ,Whea the black cloak
of (.1 Itioess comes settling down over
the *OA
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vpy of 875 such sliipa wee needed. In
the convoy of 1939,.,only four and a -half
ships would have been needed to tarry
Catualian-cheese overseas; but in the
convoy of 1944 six and a -half ships.
were needed for this purpooe,. .Six
and one-half ships packed full of
cheese is a 'lot of cheese! • 4)
If all the eggs laid by Canedian
hens hi 1939 and exported Were *aced
end end, they ,weeld have readied'
:from Halifax to 'Vancouver and. then
demi to San Francisco. In 1944,,heee
ever, 'the eggs laid by Canadian, hens
for ceeport if placed end -end to, end Woald.
hive reached that .far,' and there:would
have *been enough: left over to make
a len-strand girdle pf eggs wend the
earth's stomach,: - •
If all ' theba.eon exported in 1939
had been loaded, on ten -ton trucks,
those trucks would have made a
bumper -to -bumper convoy only thirty-
seven miles, long. The bA0n exported
in 1944, on hand, would have
required a bumper-to-biunper convoy
'of trucks 138 miles long. • "-•
, If the cattle raised by farmers in
1939 and exported, as beef walked past
a reviewing stand in single file, you
would have needed to steed there
twenty days to see them pass. But
if the cattle shipped overseas as beef
in 1914 had to -vntlk past reviewing
stand, you would have stood there one
year and seven months to emit them!
These contrasts are striking, and
graphically indicate the contribution of
Canadian farmers to Canada's war
effert during the past five years. 4,1
Meat "Rationing .
All this •ceniment -about food makes
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one think: about the ruiners of meat
rationing in Canada. There le much
easeip on thejiubjeet in the 'capital,
bet the odds are that meat rationing
Will not be reiritrOduCed by the Govern -
Meet, °Whig to the belief 0114 it would;
not refult in less meat b(cing consumed
in vanada. hforeever, ratioeing would
proie an additional a'dministrative
headache. • •
The Bureau of Statistics shows 'that
civilian eonsumption of fresh 'meat in
the Dominion,..11). 1944 was .148
per person, while in the United States
the . comparable. dgure was 1•47 lbs.
The meat supply prohleiniin the U.S.
at the moment is out otkilter.
There ' are Several reesertS for the
severe shortage of meat'in the United
State a at the moment, and no apparent
leek of „meat in Canada. While it is
•tet1W4,•that • Canada has '4 larger Per,•,.
*Pent:a.m. of •rural population, and his'
net had comparable wartinie, shifts ha
population which complicate, distribu-
tion, the real reason for thei,..taierably
good eueldY of meat in Canada, is that
the Government maintains better con-
trol of ,,the situation than is the case
in the "anitedt,StateS.' • - '
- Canada, has only one agency cou-
trolling supply, distribution and
rationing, that is the 'Wartime Prices
and Trade Board, In the 'triiited
States the Office of Price Adrainistra-,
tion controls rationing and the War.
Foods Administration controls 'dis-
tribution and supply; and their Oh-
jectives frequently conflict. -
Protecting • the Veteran
• A
The sudden departure last week of
Veterans'. Affairii, Minister Iae Mac-
Kenzie and several of his high-ra.nking
aides for the United Kingdom, to
examine at first' hand veterans' prob-
lems before those problems reach
Canada and grow into almost insur-
imminnemmirmoo41%
Stobbirk"Cases •
-Of :001iiitiPa#01
• These Who keep mli$0 Ot
Impurity pout up. ni their bodiefe.
day -after •day, -instead of hexing
removed as nature inteaded, at.leasa
enPo ill every twt. -four home, In
variably flagon - coI1tipttti0.
Iltausa of ch nosh purgettlieg
will never get you any Wberteaa they,
only 'ftikgraiate: the trouble and b$4,
jure the dalloata roncotuAlini-og of Oat
bowala, and ars logy liable to caw
..Pilec
•If senitipatad Valco r.I.6113anors
14**al4or P111, and haTil * natural" *,
' ,iinvonent of th. bovrils. frbor.d.
ast f_x*, *oaken and. nicloak
*ay ,latatives, do.
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moentable dilficulties, has vcreated
good in3preSsion in the
The Government's declared PelleY
regarding 'the re-establishment of 'the
arine.d 'forces in civilien life ,has 'beex.
set forth `several tithee in .sPeeches
from 'the Throne, and there is already
°lithe statate hooks the most extensive
0-establishramit legislation • in exist,
'epee among the United Nations. .4
But declarations of intentionS and '
laws are not enough, AV:Ise and vigor,
ous action, seizing every opportunity
not only to . promote the weifare of
veterans but to promote that welfare
lir such a .way that the total welfare
of 'the nation is inaproved, is far more
acceptable thaa lengthily debated bills
in Parliament.
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MD -6, LIPTON, LIMITED
BEA
Millions, of -People Liberated.
Europe—LOOK TO ONTARIO FOR FOOD!
NEVER in our history has the need
. for food been so desperate as it is today.
We need :.tood to feed our fighting men
. . to feed our Allies who 'burned their
fields to halt the enemy ... toifeed yOu
• and us here at home. Short of help ...
- short of machinery the Ontario farrn.er
needs every available hand he Can :get!
° So tilan now -to devote -Whatever •
tirrie you canto helping on the farms this
surnrrier. 'Every possible man-hour
MUST be put.in join the thousands of
young men -and women who, though .
regularly engaged in other Work offer their r
spare time to helping local fartners.with
.the haying; hoding, and harvesting.'
If, possible; make your -own
- arrangements with relatives or friends
who might have a -farm of their own, to ,
help 'out during peak seasons. Those
Who has.ce' no farmerrelatives or friends ,
- should ccintact their -Idoal Farm Com-
mando Brigadeor write direct to the
Ontario 'Farm Service Force, Parliament
Building, Toronto. '
Standard wages are paid to all
Farin,Cornrnandos.
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‘If interested
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