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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1938-09-01, Page 2PAGE TWO HURON NEWS Marks 91st Birthday-- On irthday-On Monday,August 22nd,Mrs. Thomas !Johnson .of Zurich celebrat- ed at her home her ninety-first .birth- day, Mrs. Johnson has the distinction' of being the oldest person in tZuricli. She has been a resident of the village for over sixty years and has seen the village grow from infancy to where it is to -,day. Mrs. Johnson, we are pleased to say, enjoys good health and takes her daily walk. She has four daughters, Mrs, E. W. Stoskopf :of Kitchener, Misses Matilda, Alice and Susie ;Johnson at home. During the day she received congratulations, greetings. and many ibeaatiful 'bou- quets of ,flowers from her friends far and near. ---Zurich Herald. Married At ,Grand Bend - an enjoyable event for the aged cou- pie and :all present: Continued good health and 'happiness was the wish of everyone for the honored ,guests of the day.-Goderich Signal Star, The wedding took place at the home of Mr. and Mrs. 'James Patter- son at Grand Bend, of their daugh- ter, Mary Isabelle, and Ervin Henry Rader, second son of M•r, and Mrs. L. H. Rader of the ltlth con., Hay Township. The •bridesmaid was Miss May Patterson, sister of the bride, of Grand Bend, and the groomsman Elgin Rader, Dashwood. Res'. C. Beacon officiated. Mr. and Mrs. Rader will reside in Dashwood. • Romeos and Juliets Park In Walkerton Cemetery While the youth of the early Vic- torian era would detour a mile to. escape passing through a cemetery at night, so specbral and spooky was the average burial ground considered, yet in this amaterialistic day and age, many disillusioned gallants are spoon- ing to their swleeties within the sha- dow of the tomb -stones by the light of the silvery moon. Although the cemetery gates are shut at night, not for the purpose of keeping those. within from getting out as with a view to preventing those without from ,getting in, yet love so laughs at locksmiths that the gates are most of the time ajar admitting wooing 'cou- ples who believe the silence of the lethal sanctuary is moth proof against. interruptions from the scoffer.,s,. snoopers and sleuths of the town. A local gene, who parked his ,bike near the gate inside the cemetery .early in the evening of a recent Sunday, night, and who missed it from its moorings when he tater went to retrieve it, found that he was interrupting so many petting parties in his quest of the wheel that he gave up the search to avoid being construed as an in- quisitive intruder in this local lovers' bower, -Walkerton Herald -Times. School Closed By Lack of Pupils— With- all the pupils in the school passing their entrance exacts, Mid- dlesex county's smallest school—in point of numbers—has been closed until such time as sufficient number of the younger children in the district become of school age and warrant re- opening of the building. The school, S. S. No. 7, McGillivray Township, had only •three pupils last term, all in the entrance class. Of the three, all passed their tests, the exact results showed. The teacher has secured a school at Clandeboye. Engagement— The engagement is announced of Myrtle Emily, younger daughter of Mrs. and the late Robert Armstrong, e to Larne Robert McBride, Windsor. son of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Mc- Bride, Zurich. The marriage to take place in September. Open Clinton Hotel— After several week, of cleaning, repairing and redecorating the Mc- Kenzie House is ready for business. To celebrate the opening Mrs, Mc- Kenzie has issued an invitation to the public to inspect the premises in order that they may see for them- selves the changes that have ,been made and the splendid accommoda- tion offered to the travelling public. It has been no small task getting the place into shape. — Clint sitNews- Record. Poles Removed At Clinton— Clinton nesle sosgt is now clear of the old n t,dcn poles and presents a much cleaner appearance. The Bell Telephone Company con- struction Brand rents ed the last of the pole, on Tues:1:•: t , complete work started last ,se— when the hydro wires were ye.: underground and the poses removed.. Daring the past two weeks the workmen have 'been .busy taking lane! µfires and in- atalling the service at the rear of ,husines, piase,. The c'7ansts has been accomplished with little., any. in- convenience. Load of Flax Upsets— An enormous load of flax, on the truck of G, Schmidt. of Monkton, glassed along Mitchel!', main street late Friday afternoon enroute to the al:Mee a t F H. Rob' n i .a ut>on's. When n front of McCallum', paint ship, a very short distance from the scales, the entire load slipped from the truck, ;ending on the sidewalk and block- ing a portion of the highway. Fort- unately no one was injured, but sev- eral hours' hard labor were expended re -building the load, Turner Reunion— THE SEAFORTH NEWS 11111MOMMIIIMINIIMMINPME, NMI 51 Engel-Alcock— The marriage is announced of Jessie Alcock, Brussels, elder daugh- ter of the late Mr. and Mrs. Henry Alcock, Brussels. to Archie M. Engel, eldest son of ,Mrs. A. Engel, Brussels, and the date Mr. C. Engel. The ceremony was performed by Res-, J. Graham, of Brussels, last Thursday. '\1r, and Mrs. W l'm, Engel of Stratford were the attendants. The happy couple left immediately for a motor trip, Horse Leaps From Truck— A horse, owned by Fred Thomp- son, Teeswater, .became excited while being driven in a transport, leaping over a seven -foot rack onto the cab of the truck as the machine was go- ing down hill. The horse then slid ontothe hood. The horse was not injured, Elmer Parker was driving the transport.—Winghant Advance - Times. May Revive Lucknow Games- Lucknow may soon hear the skirl- ing pipes at revived Caledonian games. following a twenty -five-year period in which the games have been dormant, 'Known all over the world at one time for its Scottish games and the quality of the entertainment, they -trove to 'bring tile best Scotch pipers and athletes to the games. Sante of those tvho were prevent at early games were: Donald Dinnie, leading S c uteli athlete; the champion piper of Scotland: William 215Lenean, and in 151(1 one •tf the attractions teas Piper Joseph Hendry, formerly of the 78th Highlanders. and the sound of whose pipes were the first assurance the be- sie_..d in f.uckn.nw- dIndia) had of the nearness of the trno;1, sent for their relief at the time of the mutiny. The first Ca!edenian day game was hell in September, 1875. with a prize list of S3(1). This prize list w•as increased 'it Sit, a year as the attendance grew. In 1$d2 there were 1;3,001) pro - ids present and in 1884 the prize list SS a: for SI,3(10, Special trains were operated by the railway companies. Just as in former days, if the games are revived, the main -attractions will be the game 'Prizes will be given for to ') performer former ort the ba r- t the best e >, t pipe to the hest dancer and the beat dressed in Highland cositmtc. Feats or .tren,ttth at good old Scottish gauzes trill :he another attraction. in- cluding archery- and quolting tourna- ments. It is not known whether the famous tug-of-war .between the Scotch of Huron and Bruce Counties will be rewired or not. George Smith. of Luc -know.. a former official `of the original Caledonian games, is the leading spirit in the movement to have the games revived. Engagement— Mr. and Mrs. George of McKillop wish to announce the engagement of their daughter Irene «., to Mr. Gordon W. 'Eisler, son of \]r. and Mrs. Wm. Eisler of Logan. the marriage taking Place August 31. DOMINANT KEYNOTE Botanical Note Despite the lure of 'fun and frolic, ,for September (Experimental Farms Note) The arrival of September suggests to many people •the end of summer consequently a season of dirge and la- mentation; others would sing ,paeans to the relief of cooler nights of sweet repose wleidh the turn of the year brings with that soft gauzy wistful- ness of the •coun'tryside, so redolent of the evanescent enchantment of spring. The •fall of dew -spangled gossamer is .one of the many charms of sweet September. lNnunbenless threads of the ,very finest silk, made by tiny spiders; supposed in simpler times to supply the looms with which fairies wove the material for their dainty little dresses, Then :there is the m'y'stic fascination of the huge, orange harvest moon by night, while by day the September sun touches the ,blushing trees gently, as with a 'benison, Towards the end of the month many of these trees will turn into a blaze of glory. The sumacs are among the first to change; not only their beautiful fern- like leaves shade into pimple, crimson andorange, but the erect, tight, vel- vety clusters of fruit become red, and persist after the leaves ' have fallen. The berries are clothed with a hairy stickiness that is pleasantly acid. These trees and shrubs are often found growing on hot, dry hillsides, when their fruit—it is said --offers a grateful refreshment to the thirsty traveller, whether sucked in the mouth until bared of their acid coat- ing, or steeped in water to serve as a woodland lemonade. Another contribution to Septem- ber's splendour is the ideal colour combination of gold and royal ,purple made by the goldenrods and Michael- mas -daisies, At this time the goldenrods flood theworld with gold. In their over eighty different kinds of all shapes and sizes they may be seen .growing everywhere front ,the tops of moun- tains to the seaside. There are also those which live in the woods and others which prefer to dwell in the swamps. All the Canadian goldenrods have yellow flowers except one, and that' is known as Silver -rod (Solidago bicol- or); because its flowers are cream - white. Only an expert can name most of the species; there are, however, some outsatding kinds which are rec- ognizable by the average 'botanist; such as the Blue -stemmed or Wreath Goldenrod •(S. caesia), whose un - branched stem is studded, for nearly its entire length, with pale yellow clusters of flowers in the axils of its feather -veined leaves. It favours moist woods add thickets. Another wood- land species is the Zig-zag (S flexi- caul's), so-called on account of its prolonged .angled stent adorned with small clusters of flowers, in much the sante manner as S, caesia, but its saw - edged leaves are oval. In the swamps and peat bogs the Bog Goldenrod (S. eliginnsa) sends up two to four feet high a densely flowered oblong termi- nal spire of flower- its short branches are so appressed that it has a wand- like effect. The leaves are long and narrow; the lowest often measuring nine inches long, But perhaps the best known of all are the Canada Goldenrod (S. canadensis) and the Tall Goldenrod (S. altissinta) Which transform whole acres into lakes of old with their waving plumes of py- ramid -shaped clusters of flowers. Ons much resembles the •other, but the "!'all Goldenrod k taller and hi; larger flowerheads. while Canada Goldenrod has nearly the smallest flowerheads of there all. The Asterso :Michaelmas Daisies r (so-called because the feast of St. Mi: Iliad falls on September 29th) form another large and complicated ,group of plants, and are. in many cases shard to tell apart. But a few can be anted at fight: such as the Large -leaved As- ter (Aster macrophyllus), so-called because of its t hree or four conspicu- ous leaves on long stems in a clump near the ground, It grows in shady 'lace, as does the heart -leaved Aster (A. cordifolius) with its masses of pale -lavender flowerheads. But the best of then' all is the New England Aster, (A. novae-angliae) with its huge branching clusters of large violet or magenta -purple flowerheads, And AO dressed in .gold and royal purple, September, as with a fanfare If trumpets, hails the harvest, It is all very wonderful this .march of Flora's year; which starts with the primitive catkin -bearing •families and ends triumphantly with the 'newest and most complex—the composite—to which the goldenrods and asters 'be- long,—E. W. Hart, Division of Botany end Plant Pathology, Science Service, Ottawa, Canada, Mr. and Mrs. Robert IA'. Turner, formerly y of Stanleytownship, were the guests of honor at a family re's union held on Sunday last at the home of their son-in-law and daugh- ter, Mr. and Mrs. Gilbert Nickleton, Port Elgin, with whom they reside. Those attending were Mr. and Mrs. William Turner and nephew, Angus •McKenzie, of Windsor; Mr. and Mrs. John, Turner, Mr. and Mrs. George Campbell and daughter, Miss Mary Campbell, .all •af Stanley township; 'air. and Mrs. Fred Turner and son Grant, Mr. and Mrs. Rdbt. E. Turn- er and sons, Harold and Roy; Mr. and Mrs. Jahn Newcombe and son Billie, Mr. and Mrs. 'Harold New- combe and Mrs, Martha Newcombe, Mr: and Mrs. Charles Bissett, all ;of Goderich. Mr. and Mrs. Turner con- tinue to enjoy good health at their respective ages of eighty-seven and eighty-five. As yet there has 'been no break in the .family circle of four sons and two daughters. The day proved) Want and' For Sale Ads, 3 the 'Canadian agricultural fair has re- mained typically Canadian. 'Earnest- ness is its dominating nate. This fine Canadian quality dates from the days of the ,pioneers in whom earnestness 'became a second statute in their n1n- b•roken resolve to conquer the many. difficulties surrounding thein. Even in the matter of relaxation, earnestness prevailed, for to attend the early ag- ricultural fair, the hazards of travel were often enough to make the 'stout- est !heart quail. But the fairs ,were held nevertheless, spreading west- ward from Lower Canada, through Nova Scotia to Upper Canada aard onwards by Manitdb'a to the Pacific Coast, Faun there may be at the Agricul- tural .fair, but it is relegated to a sec- ondary place in the ,work which has to he done. Wonk, and ,good work at that, is 'predominant, Thus, slowly but surely, this ,Canadian trait • of earnestness has .forged a• link in ,the chain towards the solidarity of the Dominion and •the agricultural fair may serve as an' example for the welding of the many parts of Canada into one whole. H. 'Leottltardt Prospective Freshman—"Isn't there some course I can take and complete without giving such a 'long time as four years to it?" College Professor—"That depends, my ,lad, an what you wish to make of yourself. When nature wants to make an oak she works away at it for a good many years. But if site only wants to make a squash she can do it in a few short 'months." 5 refs, 5,04 It was when youth came into the field that this movement was more readily discernible. Withthe, inherit- ed earnestness from the older ,gener- ation, Canadian youth, as principally represented in an organized way ,,),3! the 'Canadian Council on Boys' and Girls' Club Work, .prepared itself ser- iously to fashion the complete far- mer. From the home localities, the movement spread to provincial im- portance, and from provincial import- ance to interprovittciait recognition, from which it swept to Dominion - wide prominetcce with the now fam- ous contests at •the Royal Winter Fair at Toronto, where provincial differences are submerged and the honour of Canadian agriculture as a whole is ,the primary consideration. The present-day fine results of ag- gricultural endeavour on the part of both old and young at the agricul- tural fairs and exhibitions throughout Canada are a far cry to the days when Intendant Talon in 16712 boast- ed that he had Canadian fabrics wherewith to clothe himself from head to foot or From the earlier .clays when the agricultural fairs at Ta- doussac, 1(where the first horse was introduced into Canada in 1647) at Three Rivers, .Montreal, and Quebec were considered tremendous with their barter of peas, hemp, fresh -and dried cod, .salted salmon, eels, seal and porpoise oil, clapboards and planks, drugget, bolting cloth, cloth made from nettles and serge, leather and furs. This year, 1938, the Windsor Fair, Nova Scotia, celebrates its •1173rd an- niversary, while Pictou Fair in the sante ,province will 'be 111 years old. One hundred and forty-six years ago, in Upper Canada the first agricul- tural society, with accompanying fair, to be recorded was the Niagara Ag- ricultural Society, Later many agri- cultural societies were established in Upper Canada, and when Lord Elgin, whose hobby was the establishment of . agricultural associations, visited 'Upper Canada, he found a people af- ter his own heart. Lord Elgin was Governor General of Canada from 9847 to 8854 and never ceased em- phasizing the value of agricultural associations for the purpose of study- ing scientific methods of husbandry. Before coming to Canada, he was Governor of 'Jamaica where he found- ed numerous agricultural associations as the best means of developing the resources of the land.—Issued by the Dept, of Agriculture, Ottawa. THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER, 1, 1938, THE EXCITERS In 1191018 my father, together with other sturdy yeomen o.f, his genera- tion, characterized the .automdbile as an impractical "food contraption." Where is the money coming from to develop it?" they asked. "There may be a sale :for two or ,three thousand but that is a11l." Such skepticism and downright op position have met the :introduction of practically every time- and labor -saw- ing invention we have. The develop- meiat of new products rarely springs from ,pop'ula'r demand. 'On the ,con- trary, it takes .persistent ,persuasion to bring human beings to :accept a high- er standard of living. And cantankerous opposition does. not come solely .from the ignorant masses. Patent Office officials once derided a man who haunted their cor- ridors. They called 'him "the fool who would ride on air".'because he had an .idea for a pneumatic tire. When Sant F. B..Marse offered his telegraph •in- str'a•ment to the government, .the Post Office Department reported that the idea was impractical. In 1(885 an East- ern newspaper said, 'Well-informed people know that it is itnpossible to transmit the human voice aver wires and that, ware it possible to do so, 'the thing. would be of no value." Forty- two years ago a'New York paper ri- diculed a man who had the "crazy no- tion" that .he could suppd'ant gas lights with. •electricity, Im London, When. a Parliamentary . oommittee re- ported on a plan for using arc lights Oil the streets, they were asked. if they had consulted the 'views of IM'r. Thomas Edison, of America. The re- ply is there for all to read: No be- cause Mr, Edison has scientific stand- ing,' The newtywe•ds had just got off their train. 'Bride—"John, dear, !just try to 'take the people think we've been married a long time." Groote—"All right, .droney. ;;You carry the suitcases." Parliament, reflecting popular preju- dice, once passed a law forbidding the Laying of track for Stephenson's loco- motive. Stephenson had his surveying instruments smashed so often that he hired a prize fighter to carry then'. Ministers declared the locomotive "in direct opposition both to tate law of God and to the most enduring inter- ests of society." Medical societies de- clared that "the air would be poisoned and birds would die of suffocation." That was only 109 years ago, and the same opposition, in different form and degree, today meets pioneering in- dustry which has something new to offer tete public. The need for new things is impera- tive. What is a higher standard o living? Nothing but new things for more people. Last year 40. percent o the sales of one of our largest corpor- ations came from things developed within the last b0 years. More than a million new inventions have found their way into retail stores during the. past 50 years. "Found their way?' Hardly. Someone with sleepless en- ergy fouttd a way for them. And 18 of them developed into industries so great that they now. provide employ- ment for 914 million people, a fourth of all those painfully employed, If we study any of these develop- ments, we find their success was in- variably due to certain "exciters"— trail blazer who prodded us out of our inertia. who maintained constant .pres- sure upon us to accept the higher liv- ing standards that we resisted. \i, -ho are the "exciters" who sus - stain this pressure for progress? They are a snail graup, but, endowed with the vision of the prophet and the ar- dent persistence of the evangelist, they have a distinct ability to stimu- late 'nen ,to an increased exchange of their labor for the goods and services of others. In the language of the street, we call it "selling." And in recent years we have tended to decry it. We recognize ,peculiar ability in other fields—in art, music, science— hat we. have come to feel that the pe- culiar ability of the stimulators of ma- terial progress is something to be ashamed of. Yet the simple fact is that the Uni- ted States is kept a going concern through the indestructible spirit of these ambassadors of the more abund- ant life. Who is it that speeds obso- lescence, abhors stagnation, acceler- ates turnover, prevents frozen assets? Who create: and conserves employ- ment, profits and dividends? None other than the stimulator of trade. Suppose all the brisk evangels of "selling" called it a clay and quit— there you would have deflation with a vengeance. The famed American stan- dard of living would collapse like the purely artificial thing it is, That hoary old fraud "demand" would fade out with the completeness of an eclipse of the sun, The "exciters," and no one else, are responsible for every wealth -produc- ing enterprise that makes far contimt- atis employment. They are responsi- ble for those telephone wires, that ra- dio aerial, that airplane, that automo- bile. that power plant, ,the 'ban'k, the insurance company, the water works under the .city, In fact, everything in tate industrial field came from a sinal' group of enthusiasts who would not let go of a "fool" idea, and who con- stitute the only agency possible to NEW WAR PERIL • Action of the iJapanese in forcing down and machine-gunning a Chin- ese passenger airplane has ,constituted a new type of "incident," which ap- pears likely to lead to international complications. New problem, arise not only from the fact that the plane, subsequently sunk )between Canton and Macao, was owned jointly by Chinese and American interests. But the situation is made rnore complex by Japanese intimation that passen- ger airplanes night continue to ,be attacked, while operating in the part of China which japan has designated as the "war zone," A Japanese admiral denied any sug- gestion that the attack, as had been reported, was ,prompted by an effort to kill Dr. Suet Fo, head of China's legislature, who has been in Russia. Dr, Sun was understood to have booked passage on the plane,. 'but later .proceeded from Hong 'Kong to the temporary capital at Hankow by another mute. Any general .practice of , attacking passenger airplanes would almost cer- tainly provoke a serious incident ulti- mately since ,the ambassadors and other high 'diplomatic representatives. of foreign powers often .use this node of transportation. 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And Set us make sure that we do not deny them their share' of praise and recog- nition and profit when the oil well comes in.