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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Clinton News Record, 1943-07-22, Page 6PAGE 6 THE CLIN'TON NENVEMEODREI MAINLY ABOUT MOUSTACHES (Frons The English Digest) ROBERT LYND ray Many Turkish officials are report- ed recently to "have shaved off their moustaches at a Mnt from their Pres- ident that men look better without them," It has long been one . of the most difficult questions for human beings to decide whether men look better — or worse -with moustaches or with- out them. When as a young man I first grew a. moustache I thought I looked worse; but when I shaved it off T thought I looked worse still, At the same time, I never reverted to the moustache. I felt that once; a man begins to shave he may as well make li thorough job if it. Either a beard and: moustache or nothing. This is one of the few mat- ters on which I have been an extrem- ist. ,. Possibly, if I had been a man of warlike tendencies, I should have thought differently, for in many coun- tries moustaches have been regard- ed as symbols of martial ardour. Even in tolerant England an Army regu- lation for officers used to run: "The chin and under lip will be shaved, but not the upper. lip:" During the last war the discipline of the moustache was relaxed, but af- ter the war, we were told on good authority that "officers of the old school, and in particular Guardsmen consider that the moustache adds to the martial bearing of a soldier." From other parts of the world in recent years came evidence that the moustache was reviving as a mark of militant, manhood. In Hungary, not long before the present war, mounted policeman were ordered to grow 'Kai- ser' moustaches or to leave the foice. This was followed by a decree from Dr. Ferenczy, police chief of Buda- pest, ordering all policemen to "culti- vate the sweeping Hungarian mou- stache," Even the poets of Hungary joined in the idealisation of the hairy upper lip. "Thanks," we were told at the time "to such poets as Franz Kazinczy, who has sung the praise in verse of the Hungarian maiden who refused to kiss a clean-shaven German, and Johann Arany, who described how a patriotic village rejected a magistrate because of his beardless face, this movement 'for the revival of the moustache is gaining ground." When the Nazi movement began in Austria, all young Nazis were order. ed to grow Hitler—or Charlie Chap. lin—moustaches. They were forbidden by law to wear distinctive uniforms: but the moustache took the place of a uniform as an affirmation of their principles. -The Axis countries may, I think, be distinguished from the Allied count - awaiting cremation," wrote a Tokio correspondent at the time, "his son conforming to the wishes of the dead veteran's friends, has cut off these famous white moustaches, and a spe- cial memorial service for them has been held. Following this the mons- taches are to be interred in a mound specially prepared by the late gener- al's family and comrades." In Republican Madrid, on the other hand, we were informed—rightly or wrongly -some years ago, moustach- es were discountenanced on the ground that they were a Fascist emblem; and even from peaceful Canada, about Mu- nich time, came the story that the Huron County Council, at Goderich, Ontario, had unanimously passed a resolution that anyone seen wearing a moustache resembling' that of Hit- ler would be. arrested. Perhaps it was only with the in- creasing inroads of civilization that men began to realise what an impor- tant matter it was to grow or not to. grow a moustache. For a long time the English were vehemently on the side of the No -Moustache Party. They tolerated them in the Army, probably believing thata. Colonel with a brist- ling moustache looked doubly a Col- onel. But the moustache -wearing civ- ilian was looked on with detestion till some time after Kneen Victoria came to the throne., "As late as 1850" according to a writer in the Manchester Guardian, "Albert Smith was told that his mous- tache might debar him from election to the Garrick Club, and Mr.. George Muntz, M. P., offended many of his Birmingham constituents by refusing, to shave his upper lip." On the same authority we • learn that the late G. W. E. Russell once stated that he had never met a doctor with a moustache before the year 1877. Russell added that his daring pioneer "had his hirsute appendage condemned as highly unprofessional and when he found his way to a luna- tic asylum, neighbouring doctors of the older school said they were not surprised." From all this you will realise why it is that human beings have never founded the prefect social and inter- national order of which dreamers have. dreamed. They were too busy think- ing of other things—such things as moustaches, the lowest waistcoat but- ton, turned -up, trousers, and whether it is right or not to eat rice pudding with a spoon. Facts About Weeds Besides being responsible for re- duced returns or increased costs, weeds frequently interfere • in more involved ways with production pro- grams. Weeds are often subject to the diseases of related cultivated plants, and, being overlooked, serve as centres of pollution, for exalnple, white rust on wild members of the mustard family may infect those in cultivation. Even unrelated plants may be : alternate hosts, as when common barberry and European buck- thorn, formerly much planted, sup- port respectively the stem rust of wheat and other grains and crown rust of oats. They are now outlawed. Isolated or hedge plantings of these shrubs may commonly be seen as the centres of much heavier infection of the crops in the vicinity than at a great distance. Chokecherry is also reported to be the alternate host with peach for what has come to be known as X- disease of peach. Wild cherries and plums have been shown to over -winter insects which, returning to an alternate host, serve to spread its disease. Plant lice mi- grating from potato to these hedge- row trees and back again on the re- turn of another crop, Spread virus diseases wherever they meet it and proceed in their feeding; and leaf- hoppers moving from wild plum to peach arecedited with doing about the same for peach yellows. Whether herbs, shrubs or trees, such alternate hosts are weeds to be eradicated where the situation warrants. An example of somewhat different pollution is afforded by the presence of wild carrot in areas where seed of cultivated carrot is to be pro- duced. Cross pollination of the crop by the weed would quickly nullify the gains of centuries of breeding and selection.. Where infestation is light, eradication may be possible, but in Canada it is probably easier to find places for carrot seed produc- tion already free of wild carrot than to make them so. Weed surveys of the Dominion Division of Botany, Ottawa, have shown that between the worst infested territory in Southern Ontario and in Nova Scotia infesta- tion is light where oceuring at all. Also in British Columbia, the home of many seed growing ventures, the situation while not everywhere clean, should not be beyond righting with organized effort. Information thus obtained is now being put to use in establishing seed growing centres, as well as in locating disease-free areas for production of foundation stocks. ries by the seriousness with which County Servicemen they have reverenced the moustache. Japan, I think, is the only great mod- Another' Slty harbor "oriaina]" ern country in which a memorial service fora moustache has been held. This took place a few years' ago when General Nagaoka, the pioneer of Ja- panese aviation, died General Nag- aoka, whose moustaches were the longest in Japan, measuring 19-7 in- ches from tip to tip. "'While the general's body is still Harry C. Babb, received his wings at Centralia last Friday and thus realized a boyhood ambition. He got the idea he wanted to be a pilot five years ago when Cass Hough, was making his week end visits to Goderich, coming down on Fleming's cow pasture, now the aerdrome of No. 12 E.F.T.S. Harry O NOTICE TO LANDLORDS Whenever you make a new lease, or reneW a lease, whether in writing or an oral agree- ment, involving a change of tenant, a change in rental, or a'change in the services or accommodation to be supplied, You are required, at the same time, by Order No. 108 of The Wartime Prices and Trade Board, to give the tenant a signed statement, using a printed form (R.C. 40. supplied by the Wartime Prices and Trade Board. This statement must show the max- imum rental for the accommodation con- cerned, and other information prescribed. You are also required, within ten days, to forward a signed copy of this statement to the nearest Regional Rentals Administra- tion Office. Penalties ore provided for failure to comply With this Order. - These forms are available at all offices of The Wartime Prices and Trade Board. Rentals Administration THE WARTIME PRI;CES A -ND TRADE -BO f RD joined then C.A.F. in April 1042, took his initial training at Toronto, did guard duty at Angus, outpost of Camp Borden, and received all of his flying training in Huron County, at Sky Harbor and Centralia, fields which he helped to survey as a rod -man for the Department of Transport. Mr. and Mrs. 'Gordon Bannister, Mr, and Mrs, F. Heard and others from Goderich friends of Sgt. Babb, were guests at Friday's ceremony Group Captain Ful lurton made the presentations. Another Iiuron County boy to grad- uate at Centralia last Friday was Sgt. Allan Gescho, of uZrich, well known in Clinton where he attended school. Co. Sgt. -Major Jack Mckinnon of "C" Co,, Middlesex -Hurons, has gone active. He reported to London on Tuesday morning and, it is understood, was assigned to a basic training cen- tre as an instructor. Sgt. McKinnon has a fine reputation as a soldier who loves his work and has studiedhard to get where he has. His place here will be hard to fill, Ray Dean, another Sky Harbor "or- iginal" 'promotor of, Goderich's first air show in 1938, received his degree in aeronautical engineering at Ann Arbor, Michigan, last month, and is now located at Ottawa in the Govern- ment service. Ray, holding a private pilot's. license tried several times to join the R.C.A.F., but was turned down on account of defective. eyesight Barred from military service, he took. up airplane engine designing, which he has studied for over 3 years. He is said to be one of very few Canadians to hold the degree which he has jus been awarded. V Factor Fire Quickly Extinguished A fire alarm on Thursday at noon hour, • caused a real stir as villagers learned the blaze was at the Maple Leaf Aircraft Corporation plant, Locknow's.leading industry. The fire which broke out on the THURS., t UL'fy 22, 1943''. Constructive Proposals In Public interest . $peakingover the C.E.C. network Friday night July 36111Leslie M. Frost, M.P.P. for V'ictorra and Haliburton, one of the outstanding Progressive Conservative mem- bers in the Ontario Legislature, emphasised the fact that the 22 -point program recently enunciated by George Drew, Leader of the Progressive Conservative Party, was the. product of extended consultation- with his followers; and that it was unanimously adopted at a largely attended meeting of party candidates and officials from all over Ontario .held at the Royal York Hotel on Saturday, July 3rd. Not only this, said Mr. Frost, the plat- form given out after that meeting was the natural sequence and outcome of construc- tive proposals made in the legislature by - - Mr. Drew and his associates. Ever since the war began the Opposition, led by Mr. Drew, hart at each session put forward a aerie° of resolutions conceived in the public interest. These proposals, added the ember for Victoria and Haliburton, have been either voted down at the instance of the Liberal Government or declared out of order by a Liberal Speaker. On February 15111, 1941, the Opposition, submitted a resolution, calling upon the Government to move for a conference of representatives of the Dominion and of all the provinces for the following purposes: To adopt ouch measure by inter-provmcint co-operation as may be necessary. (a) To assure the greatest war and pc at - war efforts. (b) To meet emergencies created by the War. (c) To assure adequate prices for agricultural products. (d) To protect the established rights of labor. Andto devise plans for the rehabilita- tion of the members of our armed forces and for the re-employment of civilians who :pay be thrown out of work by postwar industrial readjuat- ment; and to consider such other questions relating to the welfare and security of the people as may be deemed advisable. Voted down by the Liberals including Mr. Nixon. . TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING The advisability of planning beforehand for postwar recovery was again pressed upon the Souse by the Opposition in a resolution which read: That the proposed St. Lawrence development and other public under- takings throughout the province, in the opinion of this Legislature, call for the immediate creation of an Ontario Town and Country Planning Commission with authority to recommend and supervise plans for the reconstruction reclamation, and development of rural and urban areas. This and similar Opposition proposals were voted down by the Liberals, including Mr. Nixon. • ECONOMY' URGED In the same session the Opposition, im- pressed bythe need for economy m the administration of the province, brought in e resolution: -- That the estimates forthe current year be refened back to the executive council with instructions to decrease the total amount of supply by $25,000,000. This was turned down by the Liberals,. including hfr. Nixon. FOREST RESOURCES Later on Mr. Drew's followers offered a resolution demanding that the administra- tion and eontrol of the provincial forest resources be placed wader the direction of a public body to be known aa the Ontario Forest Resource. Comniiesion, after the manner of the Ontario Hydro halachic Power Commission, Rejected by the Liberate, including Mr. Nixon, RECONSTRUCTION PLANS In the late session of the Legislature (1943) the Opposition kept .up the pressure for action by submitting this. resolution:— IN. House regrets that the Liberal Government has introduced no legisla- tion to provide for the re-establishment in civilian occupations of the members of our forces. for after war reconstruc- tion, and for work, wages, and social security for our people. The Liberals, including Mr. Nixon, voted thidown. Still on the same drive for action the Opposition proposed; That the Government should undertake (with special reference to the constitu- tional relationships between the Domin- ion and Provincial Governments) a sur- vey of existing social schemes here and elsewhere; and with due regard to the probable course of events after the war, make recommendations for a unified workable plan which will assure a proper standard of work, wages, health, education, and living standards, for all our people -with special refer - ranee to the re-establishment r f the men The Press Endorses Progressive Conservative Platform DREW PLANS A DYNAMIC ONTARIO (Essex County Reporter, Kingsville, Ont) Social security, full employment, and economic planning are prominent topics of the day. George Drew's approachto the discussions forms a stimulating contribution • Ontario's planning problem, according to George Drew, is not a static one, but is dynamic in character, designed to develop to the utmosuourNature-given potentialities • his view at first may sound like old-line thinking, but one must admit that his ap- proach is more than an echo of Laurier and Macdonald. He adds something new ... our planning for the future must be dynamic. DREW APPEALS. TO THE BEST IN ONTARIO (Ottawa Journal) Por the Progressive Conservative Programme offered the people of Ontario by George Drew, one thing must be said at the outset. It is that here at least is a pronouncement by a public man who reveals understanding of the gravity, and the faith and hope, of our times ... He (Mr. Drew) offers us a pro- gramme within the framework of freedom; a programme that must appeal to Ontario's tradition of individual independence and self-reliance. He would have government control and, superintendence for the citizen; he would not subject men to the deadening handof bureaucracy, nor plan us all into puppets under drill sergeants of the state. That he leaves as it should be left to the Socialists of the C.C.F.... No Ontario leader in years bas advanced a more progressive, a more humane, or a more hopeful programme. DREW'S GREAT SOCIAL DOCUMENT (Toronto Globe and Mail) Progressive Conservative Leader, George Drew has raised the present campaign far above the picayune things of the little poli- tician. By it all the carping, all the sneers, the inuendo and the petty, slander of his critics were swept aside. In that address George Drew has given `?(he people of On- tario a great document, the finest social document in Ontario's history; one which should be read, studied and thought upon by every citizen ... Point by point it is a massive thing. Even in the skeletonized form .. it is a dynamic and constructive programme. Almost every point offers a practical approach to fundamental problems.. , It is essentially' a programme of work, a series of well in- tegrated steps calling for the creative use of all our resources and all our skill ... George Drew is publicly pledged to these 22 points. What is more, he is pledged to implement them with the guidance and assistance of the chosen representatives of each group directly concerned.... 11 some concrete evidence of the genuineness of the Party were needed, there is the record. Many of the records of the points Mr. Drew itemized in his address are not new. He has offered them to the Legislature of the Proviace and as Opposition Leader offered to assist the Government in carrying them out. TO THE RESCUE OF REAL ESTATE (Windsor Star) Mr. Drew proposes that the Ontario Govern- ment, if he is called upon to form it, will assume at least fifty percent of the school taxes now charged against real estate . . That ... would prove a relief to all taxpayers. and women in ourfighting forcesand the war industries, The Liberals, including Mr. Nixon, killed this resolution. HELP FOR AGRICULTURE The Opposition renewed the attack with this further resolution: The member. of this legislature express. their regret that the Government has failed to meet the critical needs of our agricultural producers; and they insist that the Government immediately take whatever' steps are necessary to assure stability of prices, and an adequate supply of manpower and machinery for the rapidly increasing demands of war production. This was a move on behalf of the farmers of Ontario which the Liberals were afraid to veto directly. The Liberal Government members, including Mr. Nixon, got around this difficulty by adopting a resolution praising the Government for the admirable work done by the province in assuring manpower, ones and machinery .for the agricultural industry. UNIFORM RATE FOR HYDRO The next' resolution submitted by the Opposition asserted that the Hydro Electric resources of the Province belonged to all the people; and that it is therefore desirable that the Hydro Electric Power Commission Aot be amended immediately to equalise rates for electric energy and remove the present service charge in rural arena. TO MEET FUEL SHORTAGE An Opposition resolution dealing with the current fuel shortage read: In the opinion of this House a fuel com- mittee should be appointed to inquire into 'dm fuel situation and to recom- mend to the government meaouree to assure the greatest possible supply of fuel for the coming winter. Despite the sufferings of last winter and the prospective sufferings of the cimi ng winter on the part of the Government of the day, including Mr. Nixon, unanimously voted down this resolution. FINANCIAL PROTECTION FOR SOLDIERS The next Resolution, introduced by the Opposition at the -recent session of the House, proposed that all member. of the Canadian .Armed Forces from Ontario should be given effective legal protection against the normal economic consequence° of their service; and that an those whose ability to meet their financial obligations has been materially reduced by such service' should be sheltered against the forfeiture of instalment contract.. cancellation of life insurance policies up to $10,000.00, and. judgments or other legal proceedings for debts incurred before entering military service. The resolution stated that this protection should be extended on the express condition that those able to pay should not be: encouraged to evade their obligations. The deferment rather than the cancellation of obligations was suggested so that justice might be. assured, Instead of votingdown this resolution the Liberal Attorney -General stated thst this proposal had been taken up with the Federal Government. But up to the present time no action has ensued. OLD AGE PENSIONS A further resolution introduced by the Opposition read;— ReonlVed that in the opinion of this House the Government should take immediate steps to adjust the old -sae pension payment in accordance with the present cost of living. In supporting this resolution Mr. Drew and others contended that old age pension payments should be raisedimmediately by at least $5.00 a month and that the practice should be abandoned of compelling old people with little homes to give up these homes beforethey can collect their scanty pensions. This reasonable proposal of the Opposition was ruled out of order by the Speaker, Mr. James Clarke who ow favors union of Canada with the united States. On another occasion in the late session the Speaker ruled out of order a proposal for the celebration of Empire Day, Mr. Nixon is not on record as protesting against the Liberal Speaker's rulings. LABOUR AND "TEAM -PLAY" As far back as 1941 George Drew placed before the Legislature a proposal calling upon the Minister of Labour to arrange a conference to be known as the Ontario Industrial Production Conference to he attended by representatives of Labour Unions, Employers' and the public. The purpose of the Conference was to be the assurance of maximum industrialproduc- tion with. effective protection for the wordters. The Liberal Government, including Mr. Nixon, have taken no action up to the present time, in regard to this proposal, In keeping with its record in the Legis- lature, on the public platform and in the press, ever since 1939 the Progressive Conservative Party, as already indicated is. pledged to carry out the program outlined in the 22-pointsof its platform. The only means of making sure that these forward looking committments will be put into forthright practice is to vote George Drew and the Progressive Conservative Party into Office on August 4th. The issue is in the hands of the electors. who are under a patriotic and moral obliga- tionto do three things: (1) Sero that your name Is onthe voters' lis1, 2 Gel out and work for the Progressive Conservative Party and as platformnd a greater and more prosperous Ontario. (3)Talk to your friends and acquaintances and got Them to the polls on the right stole. Make Ontario Strong. Work and Votc for the Progressive Conservative Candidate. VOTE AUGUST 4 FO THE Pui.lti,hod by Progressiva Conservative Party of Ontario outside of the fuel shed, adjoining the plant, was discovered early, but was making rapid headway by the time a stream of water was turned on, to quickly squelch the flames. —Luck - now Sentinel V Seaforth Tax Rate a , is 43 Mills The July meeting of the town coun- cil was held on Monday evening. Mem- bers present were Mayor Cluff, Reeve Reid, Councillors Sills, Parke, Smith, Keating and MacKenzie. Lettere of thanks for identification disks were read from Cpl. D'Orleon Sills of King- ston and from Sigmn. Pete E. Bannon now in England. Estimates for tax rate. for 1943 were presented by Treasurer D. If. Wilson and council passed the bylaw setting. the tax rate at 43 mills, as follows: County rate 4.8, library 1.3, relief .2, collegiate 7, public school 11, separate school 9.5, general purpose 18.7 (re- duced ,from re-duced'from 19.7 by provincial, sub- sidy). Total assessment is $935,799.— Seaforth News. V., Golden Wedding of " E. •Wawanosh Couple On Tuesday,July.Gth, M1•. and Mrs. Jno, W. Mason, celebrated their gold- en wedding anniversary. It was held mg at Crumlin, he was commission- s few days earlier in order that two ed a Pilot Officer,-- Wingham Ad - of their grandsons could attend the vance Times. V celebration. On July ,120, 1893, John W. Mason and Margaret E. Nicol were united in marriage at the manse of Melville Presbyterian church in Brus- sels. Rev. John Ross was the offic- iating minister. Their bridesmaids, Mrs. Jno. G. Hill, of High Bluff, Mani- toba, and their groomsman, ,Alex Ma- son of- Seaforth are still living but were unable to attend the golden wed- ding.—Seaforth ed- ding: Seaforth News. V Former Principal is Aircrew Navigator Among those who graduated as Aircrew. Navigators at Crumlin on Friday last week was William Colin' Crozier who was principal of the Pub- lic School here for the term of 1941.- 42. 941-42. Mr. Crozier although only a year here had a large circle' of friends on. whose behalf we extend congratula- tions. He reported for duty with the. Airforce at, the close of the term a year ago reporting to Manning Depot Toronto. He took his initial training at Toronto and then reported to Crum- lin. In recognition of his splendid show Centralia Air School Pipers Give Brief Demonstration Five members of the Centralia Air Port Pipe Band, took in the Twelfth of July Celebration in Wingham on Monday. The boys had the afternoon off, and so grabbed their Pipes and hitch -hiked to Wingham, where they put on a bit of a show for the large crowd. They were stranded in Blyth for a brief spell on their way home, and were kind enough to play a few selections while waiting for a ride on to Centralia. One of the group was a well known Clinton young man, Bill "Weary" Match of Clinton. The Cen- tralia Pipe ;Band is one of the out- standing Bands of the R.C.A.F. They now have 17 Pipers, with`accompany- ing drummers. They were one of the feature attractions, at the Lions Frolie. in Seaforth this Wednesday night. -- Blyth Standard. as V. Exeter Boy Weds Airforce Lady At . the R.C.A.F. station in Tren- ton . the marriage of • AW2 Muriel Margaret Hicks, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Clarence C. Hicks, of Tim. mins, and LAC. Thomas Alfred Wal- ter son of H. S. Walter and the late Mrs. Walter, Exeter, was solemnized. The ceremony was performed by the station chaplain, Flt. Lt. S. M, In- man, in the Y.W.C.A. Hostess House, —Exeter Times Advocate. V Grand Bend Man Badly Burned. Eighty-year-old Peter Defore, his clothing aflame after a coal oll stove exploded, pushed his way out of a. burning cabin at Grand Bend on Sun day, and put out the flames that were searing his body with his hands and, by rolling in the grass. Seriously burned about the face, . shoulders hands and arms, Defore was treated by Dr, R. H. Taylor of Dashwood, then taken in a 'Hoffman ambulance to St. Joseph's Hospital, London, where attendants reported' his condition as "serious." It was not immediately learned whether Defore was lighting the stove when the explosion ocdurred dm whether the accident occurred by some other means. The cabin which was completely destroyed by flames, was Defore's home where he had lived; alone for some years. All the aged. man's belongings were also lost, - Exeter Times Advocate.