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•W'; H. B.OBERTSQN GEO, L. ELLIS
TLIUILSPAY, JULY 12th, 1941
PRINCESS IS CQMIING
The annoU n en tent that the
Princess Elizabeth • and Prince
. Philip' are „ tc visit, Canada ill
.October has" been the signal for
requests Froin a number of cities
.that the tour be so arranged asf., to include tthese. 't:ities.. 11 is, no
doubt, well understood by •,biose'
who arrange the itinerary -4. the
Princess -and her consort that .these
invitations ,arp issued, not out of
any • superior' loyalty, put with a
,view to, advance, the prestige of
those who issue them; All Canada'
welcomes the royal pair and hopes
they will enjoy thein visit to this
country no matter what particular
parts of it they see or do net see.
- If 'suggestions are—in order, we
would point out that royalty has
never visited the, epunty of ]Huron,
and we feel bible copying the sign
we used to see along highWUT No,
•8 somewhere between Seaforth and
,Stratford, ":You've seen the rest—
• nos see the best:" In ,thin county
the viSitbrr would see, one of the
finest farming districts in Canada:
They • would be delighted, as thous-,
ands of people' have been, with a
• drive through beautiful Benmiller,
garbs& 'in ,its autumn 'splendor of
searlet. and gold;and confining on to
Goderich•,they would see `the pret-
-tde'st town, in ••Canada" ,,and If .Na-
ture were.. co-operative might feast
their eyes upon one°bf those Lake
Huron sunsets 'that rival the best
_that' the _Mediterranean can pro-
duce. •
Indeed, it eight. be au agreeable
change for the -Princess and • her
Prince if they were _allowed to see
something • other titan city after
city., They ‘haveseencities before,
and. they have seed larger crowds
than 'they will see at "any plaice in
Canada. 'Why not, give thein a
• chance to beheld the give,,
of
Canada that lies' ou de the cities
and the sig,. towus. They will uut
be long enough' in 'this. cbtkutry to
Seeeverything. worth while between
the Atlantic and the .Pacific—why
not show them something besides
brick and mortar. and concrete?
:'he CountrgMous(PolloWs, the Explorers
Dear . • people everywhere. The streets we
I am beginning this on Tuesday saw woe _ vpry narrow fund the
LLpvening.. I sharp probably write -My, highway °made many tuns. Uow
letters for -the iieXk few' creeks more ever, there is ai' new road Under
like a.. diary than • anything; else. construction ,,whi.eh looks as 41 it
Then' 'things will be fresh WY y wi fill byjp 'ass the city. `We passed
mind and I. hope they Will be More -through which has' a good
testing; to your too. We left lluron county 0, -sound, Farther
rth Bay fairly , early 111;onday, along I noticed roadside tableS
orning and had a ,,beaut, ful drive. perched' on a rock: overlooking .fulls
It L•s; >a." `fig sunny day; the on the - Kennebec. River. Solite.
sky was such a• •lean blue that the where along there, I noticed wally
water looked like pictures I have tamarack trees. They always look
.seen of-Great,,,Bear Lake, which so delicate. Near Blind River,' the
is supposed to bq about the bluest'
bo' uds Ls coating in October,, accord-
,ing to 'announcement from Ottawa.
Don't spend '• all your money .3n
your .holidays. Save stitue for iu-
vest nteut,
4 4.
For countsris that had nothing
to do with, the lighting iu North
Korea --so • they said --Russia and
China are very Noisy with the peace
negotiations. . -
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An announcement that the group
of naval training ships ou the
Great Lakes is • to •make three calls
at the port of Goderich'_withln the
next few weeks is of muclh interest,
'especially from the fact that' the
flotilla is in "charge of a Goderich
township man,. Commander F. R. K.
Naftel. According to the announce-
ment from Ottawa, the first of these
ealls is to be• made at the conning
week -end,
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Mr. C. H. Hale '-announces his
re'tireitient from .editorial directattn
of The Orilli t. Packet and Times.
With his withdrawal the ' Hale
family tradition in connection with
Or-illia j $urnalism comes-..to;.a con-
clusion. For many tyeut,s we have
from week to week sought .uttt •The
Packet (later The Pitcket and
Times) from , amongst • the pile 'Of
weekly "exchanges" for a perusal
of its editorial. page, for.,although
its viewpoint, was 'sometimes quite
different from ours we have 'recog-
nized the intelligence, the.ability and
the sincerity • drat were always, evi-
dent in the writings of its editor.
Mr. Bale's retirement is a distinct
lfAs to Canadian journalism; and
we' can only hope that Bovie --t Via-
;asure of his in,fiuence' will still: re-
Mabi with the •paper. 'with which;
he .hagc been so long'connected. -
• s ,, : 4i•I
in the „woad. .Sturgeon Fads was
the -first town''"''tvo" went Owen lL
It is on the, Sturgeon River and is
'about the size of Goderich. Appar-
etitly it is a.luinber town. 'There
'were • boonir ' of logs in the river,
and ,1 ?noticed a little bulldozer and unpainted. I found out. afker-
puashing a pile of sawdust, chips wards that thele is an. Indian re -
or something around. .11i that, serve along the'ie, so .1 suppose that
for miles and utiles,' the road was is the reason,, ,-
quite straight and passed through . Our destination . that' bight was
very flat country. 1 wonder if it St. Josephs Island., The• ferny
was smile of •the muskeg country I there is owned and operhted by the
that was .such an obstacle to the Provincial government. It is a
railway builders in`the early days. tstrauge arraugetitent; using a cable
It must have been a gigantic under- l wllich winds.on a drum and cannot
taking. for those .-people ,to cross- be Steered. It just goes where it
such an enormous' country, almost is pulled. • The drive from the ferry
1 to the village of Richaird's Landing
was" lovely,'-and,over a fine gravelroad. There ai•about 1500 people
ou the island, which IS fifteen miles
by twenty-five. I think it was
They ba'd a ` little church •wlr' teh
they called the Chapel of" the Inter,
cession• , • , .. . .
There are some rather intereSting-
„firsts" which•-"woe'e'urrod on St.
Joseph's, Island, They have a rcozn
munity medical • scheme wlakch ;;.Tuns
brought about bya special set of
the ,Provincial Parliament! Com-
plete medical .service;and some
surgery, is provided for the huge
annual sum of approximately $2.00:
There IS a small,. Red Cross : out-
j)ost hospital at Richard's. • Landing"
which was the gift of one oaf the
sumtner residents. They have a
special children's librtary Which was
another first, and another :gift. I
found it a Sexy interesting place
saw a. sign .post point ng o. to visit, one worth a visit floor
North Channel Channel of . Lake H,urou. one, because, of its historic interest
were a few °stray logs in beauty. We were very
There. w +,
the .-and its e Y
the river' there. For miles,' • kindly entertained by the Reeve
toad was right beside the Missis-
satgi Ricer —au beautiful .delve. `The and his wife, 'lir'., and Mrs. Stanley
houses along the way were small Tranter, Who are the owiners sof
the St. Joe " Island Creamery. ' The
creamery is in that used to be an
hotel near the government wharf.
,after leaving the island,.. We con-
tinued ozi' our way to the "Soo."
We passed through Echo Bay,
which sounded °vaguely familiar.: It
was a dull day and by the time
we Were through the customs it
had begun to rain,/� y the way,
] never heard ' pf' an one , getting
through the customs as quickly
as we did today.' We sometimes
read' of the brusque manners of the
customs officers, liut• we certainly
found none -of it. We .drove Along
No. 2 Highway to St. Ignace eh
the Straits of Mackinac. Since
leaving North Bay, we' halve fol-
lowed pretty closely the route of
• the early explorers and fur traders.
Not ,fat from. where I am' sitting
now is Marquette Park and the
burial. place .of Father Marquette,
who with Joliet explored so• much
of this N
part, of the -New odal.
And just a few miles across the,,
-strait is Mackinaw Island, the eld
fort with that big, name which used
to be sucli .a. worry in, school, Fort
Michilimackinac., The drive through
this part 'of • Michigan was rather'
-monotonous, not- the rugged ,scenery
we had been locking at for the, past'
three, days, and then we saw it
"darkly;' through' the- heaviest
downpour of rain I have• .driven
through in years. Our hostess., at
this cabin. 1s of French-Canadian
background, - and • I would say .by
her looks that there •is .a little of
the earlier natives of Canadlt' •too.
However, she has been most kind
and we are as comfortable as can
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uninhabited, wild, and covered with
forests, mountains and muskegs,
and hundreds a rivers and lakes
to bridge or ,ge, around. It would
be ifll ' tdlt even 'now with 'all the
difficult
"THE 'BALANCE OF TRADE"'
big mticlunery they have. There named by the early. French • ex -
were clearings for a 'short distance- plorets_. The old, Fort of St. Joe,
on each aide of the road and just as the people,..ya'ther 'affectionately
behind- the little fields, ridges of call it, was very iumortaint in the
reek., The rivers and lakes were War of 181.2.'' The , flotilla as -
so pretty with •the blue, blue water ,se'nbled -there, and made that light -
and patches of yellow -water lilies,.
There 'were roadside •tables every
few' miles, many of then" beside
's and having stone fireplaces
„Official trade statistics show, .that
Canada • for ,some pionths has been
importing ,wore, than 'she has ex
•.ported, and various 'papers at1e
..pointing with xlarur at ww'hat` they
call a "dcit. •
'They 'should wait a while. A
large prolx}rtiott of the •iiulxort's niay
:be raw' .-mait.erials or partly' manu-
factured goods' which will" ,be used
in. Canadian,: f etbries ,by 4.,anadian
workmen . to ' produce , 'completed
artieles for • export. This , will be
better than that we should ha ve a
surplus of .exports over imports•
through. the' export 'trf enorulous
quantitie of our' natural reeou,rees.
' Asa matter of fact, a..great deal
of nonsense .1..s talked about • the
• "favorable" or `:unfaw"oral)1e" bal-
artce "bf trade, henry George ore
believe it was `who had a good
illustration :On this point, Sup-
' pose 'the owner of ,a vessel takes
en a . cargo and' saris' away to -
foreign lands '(as was the ciustotu
in former, times) and sells or trades
his cargo,' • taking on goods , tor
wblcii he knows there is a. demand
• in his own • country. Returning to
° his home port, 'selling . his cargo
and casting up' his aecouints, be
tfinds that., after counting up, -the
• •• coIst of his original cargo, the
• wages of his crew and other ex-
penses of his voyage, he has: made
a eonsidera'ble profit and he is well
atatisified. If'. somebody should tell
•.•-sine that- - .11 g e
home Should , have•, been , worth less
than the cargo be took away, so
'"that there might be a surplus- of
• exports and a "favoraible balance
of trade," he would that
person he was :crazy.
Britain. in her days of prosiierity
• regularly had an •exeess of imports
—that that ' is, . her imports were of
:greatet value than her erports,.
.4telrause she did most of the trading
On -the—seven seas - and ,found it
profitable.
International business is, , of
course, more complex than it, was
to lortfner times and a glance at.
the trade returns does riot • reveal
whether the :balance between im-
ports and exporfs .t faxOrable or'
unfa 'orttble, Yt •regtllres a detailed
study 'of:the the ttftttir'eof exports and
Imports to determine that. .fust
toibtract one set afy ,figures from
' ,the other and Mal the result either
•;a; pmt .or ti lofts IA trade and
utxbitellit�ltt..'
wing •attack on Miehilimackinnc
which ,kept the Western Indians' on
our side. There were '300 • boats
springs . i in the fleet, but that included litany
for cooking. ' There , were many Indian. canoes. Many of the farms
birch trees in the bush. ¶hey • ttlpng the shore were surveyed from
seem to grow in Little .cluster's of I the, water, in the dabs 'when the
three or four trees together. .They 'river and lake formed tlie. blghW aY.
must be frielidly 'trees! Can you I One part • of the island is known}, as"
picture them, beside the ,blue Wan- the: Sailors' Encampment, because
apetic River, green 'grass. along the '-in the old. days the 'boats used to
shelter there and ya lit. -to go on up
banks and brown mountains in thea.
.background. Before long we hail the river te, the "'Soo." Neebish
reached that bare bleak country Island, which. is American, is not
around Sudbury and Capper Cliff. much more than a Stone's throw
The smokestacks there are :an enor- ! across• the channel. I ,understand
mous height --500; feet, I was 1•,old—. there used to be some funny hap -
and still the poisonous. fumes • kill' penings• around there in the days
everythingfor miles around. There • of the rumrunners not so long ago.
is. simply not a sprig of green on There are many summer homes on
.the rocks,. . Sudbury was the btisi- the island. At one time six
est place I• ever saw at .10 o'clock bishops of the American', Episcopal
Monday morning. . There were Church had cottages bn the island.
'Stalin's health ' is said t� be de-
clining and there is a- suggestion
(,for. •what it is, worth) that; a hot
struggle • is going ttit' for the , s14c-.
cession . to his -place at the .head
of the Soviets. • It May all. be true,
and• a change in. 'personnel, at the
Kremlin might mean a change in
Russian 'policy,' but • ,the Western
powers. need not look -for anytl`ing
that would ,be to their. advantage.
A weaker, --man than' Stalin might,
indeed, «in order to strengthen. his
position, employ even more oppres-
sive ' and aggressive „Methods t
Stalin has considered it 'nc 'essaiay
to use. No gre; t change need ,,be
expected • om Russia until.. the
iron curtail,' i; broken down and
'the Russini )cultic ha4•e'.tu oppor-
tunity to 1 a:ri' ww,hat has been gluing
oil outsic the itoundnrit:s t,f their
+p.
.co('iilry n, the last cluiarter-c•entill•r.
A L -DESERVED
TR :° E
Editor The Signal -tet fir.
Dear . Sir, ---I- noticed with pro-
fuun(1regret ` That my 41)(rd friend.
lli�s
Wiggins has pas. ed Away.
Ilers:Was a. full life, rich
vice to humanity. Her daily work
was .always • first -with bey, .but' in
atlditionot:othat, she seemed to find'
or make time, to ,'got in .a great
deal ' of • :dist-class 'practical .Chris-
tian work in Connection' with old
.Knox. Church. Truly 'she has left
a memorial in her work in that
congregation that will always be ,a
source of pride both to her family
and to her large circle of friends.
With her. passing, the last player
has 'left the stage wind 'the, curtain
has Ovally gone down on one oc
in the -,drains of 'education in Crade-
rich. I • refer to the era of ward
school education. There were three
ladies wbo . wielded .. an influence
over the generation at the .'turn of
this, century and onwards. .. Kate
Watson in St. Andrew's, Ada Bur
ritt in St. Patrick's and Edith Wig-
gins. In St., David's were totally dif-
-1 erei t. 41 ` nzr---svitysY atirc�=,t,
were the s€ime ' bnsieally. They all
displayed a truly pious Christian
nature.' They 'all loved their re-
spective churches and they, were all
patriotic Canadian citizens. They
have all left an influence for good
and their names are still held &-
most. in reverence.
, And ntiW the old Central Sehool.,
is notniore as ,such. I am glad.that
the histbric-• pile was not razed
and happy at the vise to whieh 'it
has been put. There is still. one
tieleft ,t'v tit the alumni
who passed through her hands, I
aim safe in hoping that Isabel Shar-
man will, like the brook • made
famous in the poem she used to
read to !as so eicpressively, go en •
for ever. I have always hoped
that -she wottld ha;ve compiled. a•
.history. of the old school, for 1
tflgurieshe is the only one • that'
'could do thjat subject 'Justice. .
iWith the ;approaching nir►re of
the 'C3:C.I. the' change in matters
educational in (oderich will be
complete: I may lutve more to say
about this at a . later date. The
two old waxiins, "'role marches
on,' and "Tempos fugit,w, are
bein,t• illustrated 'very Clearly.
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