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TH(JRSDAY,MAY 20, 1948
THE SEAFORTH NEWS
Snowdon Bros„ Publishers
Walton Cornmun ty Fall
THE PLAY
"CIVIL SERVICE"
Presented by Egmoudville Y.P.U,
WED., MAY 26. 8.30 P.M.
DANCE AFTER PLAY
Auspices of
WALTON LIBRARY BOARD
Adlnissioil, 350and 20c
WALTON
The regular meeting of the W. M,
S. of Duf'f's Church, Walton, opened
by singing hymn 508 and 509 with
Mrs, N. Schade presiding. Prayer fol-
lowed, and the minutes, roll call and
treasurer's reports were read: 15
members answered the roll call with
a verse of scripture beginning with
the letter E. Letters of appreciation
for flowers were read from Harold
Sellars and Mrs. Barrows. Mrs, N.
Reid moved we entertain the Baby
Band at our June meeting. It was
seconded by Mrs, Coutts, SaudwIch-
es, cookies and lemonade was decld-
ed for lunch, We then sang hymn
412. Mrs, Jno, McDonald and Mrs.
Martin both gave splendid reports of
the Huron Presbyterial held at
Brussels recently, The 9th of Morris
group in charge of Mrs. Kirby
took the topic. Hymn 510 was then
sung. Mrs. Hazelwood read the Scrip.
ture, "Asleep or Awake to a New
Home Mission Task" was given with
Mrs, Kirkby, Mrs. Wilson. Mrs. E.
Watson, Mrs, J. Watson, Mrs, Bryans
and Elva Sholdine taking part, The
meeting closed with the use of hymn
382,
The W.A. held its regular meeting
with Mrs. McCall presiding. The
meeting opened by reading respon-
sively psalm 690 followed by the
Lord's prayer. The minutes and
treasurer's reports were then read,
It was moved by Mrs. Kirkby and
seconded by Mrs. Wilson that we
buy a victory bond. The meeting
closed by singing hymn 502 and re-
peating the Mizpah benediction.
Blyth, Londesboro and Walton
Young People's Unions met in Blyth
United Church on Monday night. A
missionary program with pictures of
Lester Burry's work in Labrador was
presented by Blyth Union.
Mrs. Thomas • Marshall has been
visiting her daughter, Mrs. Morritt
in Blyth.
Private Wm. Walsh of Ipperwash
spent the week end with his wife.
Mr. and Mrs. F. Rutledge of Blyth
spent Friday night in Walton.
Mr. and Mrs. Albert Travis were
in Palmerston on Sunday.
Word has been received by rela-
tives in Walton that Sgt. T. Wilfred
Telfer, a nephew of Mrs. W. David-
son, is reported missing after air
operations overseas. He is the
younger son of Thomas and Mrs.
Telfer of Grand Prairie, Alta., for-
merly of this locality, and has been
overseas since the spring of 1942
after graduating as a wireless air -
gunner. Sgt. Telfer has one brother
LAC Wm. M. Telfer, at Saskatoon,
Sask., and one sister, Lois in Grand
Prairie, Alta.
L.Cpl. S. M. Humphries and wife
are visiting at his home and relatives
for two weeks.
The Women's Guild and Woman's
Auxiliary of St. George's Church
held the May meeting at the rectory
in Brussels with Mrs. M. F. Oldham
as hostess, on. Wednesday evening,
May 12th with a good attendance of
members. Mrs. Wm. Humphries was
in charge and conducted the devo-
tional period. Miss Emma Sanderson
read the Scripture lesson. A. sale of
articles was held for the W.A. The
hostess served a. dainty lunch at the
close of the meeting.
Rev. C.• J. Draper, rector of Mil-
verton parish, officiated in St.
George's Church oft Sunday, May
ititlt and preached an inspiring ser
mon, llev, M., F. Oldham took Rev,
Draper's services at Millbank, Elma
and Milverton,
Mr, H. G. Meir of Seaforth will be
in charge of the service •in St.
'George's Church on Sunday, May 23
at 3 p.nt. The Sunday school will
meet at 2.15 p.m. Service on May 30
at 1.30 p.m.
KIPPEN
Miss Dorothy McLean of London
spent the week end with her sister
and .brother -in -late, Mr: and Mrs.
Allan Johnson,
Mrs. Watson and daughter of Lon-
desboro visited on Sunday with the
former's daughter and son-in-law,
Mr. and Mrs. John Sinclair.
Mrs. Archie Parsons and Harold
visited one day last week with the
former's parents, Mi. and Mrs. Jos-
eph Linden of Denfield.
Mrs, Cecil billing of London spent
the week end with her parents, Mr.
and Mrs. Wm, Alexander.
Mr. and Mrs. Arnold Gackstetter
of Guelph spent the week end with
Mr. and Mrs. Wm, Horsey, the lat-
ter remaining for a week.
Mr. and Mrs. 3. Wien and Miss L
Mollard and Mr. E. Finkbeiner of
Crediton visited on Sunday with Mr.
and Mrs, -I, Jones.
BORN
COOK — At Scott Memorial Hospital
on May 13, 1943, to Mr. and Mrs.
Ernest Cook, Seaforth, a son. (Died
on May 13th).
DTETZ — At Scott Memorial Hospi-
tal, on Friday, May 14th, to Mr. and
Mrs. Martin Dietz, Dublin, a son.
MORRIS — At Scott Memorial Hos-
pital, on Monday, May 17th, to Mr,
and Mrs. Thomas Morris, St. Col-
umban, a daughter..
MAKING SURE OF YOUR
MINERALS AND VITAMINS
Hello Homemakers! The Nutrition
campaign is under way. Once again
we discuss minerals and vitamins,
hy? First of all, because 85% of
the women at the last Red Cross
meeting we attended requested it,
and, secondly, because recent sur-
veys show that Canadians are not
getting sufficient: (1) Calcium; (2)
Vitamin B1; (3) Iron; (4) Vitamin
A; (5) Protein; (6) Vitamin C. This
happens largely through lack of
knowledge of food values — and
seldom through lack of money..Nutri-
tion experts have found that most
of us don't get enough vitamins and
minerals because we dont know how
to spend our food dollars.
Mineral foods build up bone and
assist the work of every cell in the
body. The "hard -to -get" minerals are
calcium and iron. Calcium is neces-
sary not only for building strong
bones and teeth but also for proper
functioning of the nervous system,
proper beating of the heart, control
of the muscles and enrichment of the
blood. You can make sure of your
calcium quota by including in your
diet one pint of milk per adult and
one quart of milk per child. Milk
products such as cottage cheese may
be used for part of your quota.
Iron makes red blood cells and
carries oxygen to the cells of every
organ and tissue, Minor disturbances
—even slight infections — cause loss
of iron. But in spite of its import-
ance, iron cannot be stored in the
body and the amounts obtained from
foods are very small. To make sure of
your iron ration, we cannot stress
too much the green leafy vegetables
— and luckily they are cheap — as
well as fruits, whole grain bread and
cereals.
Vitamin -rich foods build up resist-
ance to disease, promote growth and
keep the body functioning smoothly.
Vitamins cannot be hoarded in the
body so again we urge you to get
your vitamin -rich foods daily. Check
up esepecially on your Bitamine A,
B1 and C. Vitamin A is found abund-
antly in cod liver oil, butter, milk,
liver, eggs and the green and yellow
vegetables. For your Vitamin Bl, the
richest course is brewer's yeast while
chief food source is found in the
whole grain cereals. Other good
sources are fresh peas, fresh lima
beans, navy beans, spinach, carrots,
pork, eggs and milk. Vitamin C
(known as Ascorbic Acid) is found
especially in oranges, lemons and.
limes, as well as in tomato juice and
Public Meeting
A Public Meeting will be held on
Tuesday, May 25
At 8 P.M. in the Council Chambers
To discuss the, formation of a Committee of the Navy
League in Seaforth, and if so desired, to, elect Officers of
such Committee.
The public is urged to attend. Your presence will
show that you appreciate w'hatour sailors are doing every
day to maintain our freedom here in Ontario.
John J. Cluf f,
MAYOR
1 The Coal Situation
.The Fuel Controller at Ottawa bas
sent the following message to all
Retail 00111 Dealers in 'Ontario:
L No Alberta Coal will be available
in Ontario this year,
II. Very little Coke will. be available
for domestic use.
III; Anthracite Coal will not be as
Plentiful as last year.
IV. Bituminous Coal will have to be
used to supplement the supply,
The Government has just declared
the coal shortage in Canada to be a
National EmorgenoY,
Compared with this date last year,
supplies of Anthracite are decidedly
short.
Suppliers are accepting orders only
"subject to the ability OE the miners
to make shipmeut."
This means a continuance of short
supply and slow delivery,
Ultder such conditions it is imposs-
ible for us to guarantee tate delivery
of any. specified tonnage of anthrac-
ite coal, either stove or nut size, as
we have done in former years.
•
We are staying in the business,
however, and will secure as large a
tonnage of it as possible, during the
coming months, and will advise the
public of its selling price as and
when it arrives.
We have in our yard for immediate
delivery a car of "Vh•ginia" screened
and dust treated 3x2 Stove Coal, and
a oar of No. 1 "Pocahontas" Egg
Coal. We are offering the former at
$11,40 per ton haul your own, and
912.00 per ton delivered In town in
one ton lots or over.
And the latter at 912,40 and 913,00
par ton accordingly. And we will de-
liver this Coal by truck, it desired, In
3 ton lots or over, within ten miles of
Seaforth: "Virginia" 912.15 per ton,
"Pocahontas" 913,15 per ton.
This Coal is not as clean as anthra-
cite, decidedly not. But it will burn
in any heating equipment, and if pro-
perly handled, will keep a hone
comfortable at moderate cost. They
are low in water content, and will
110t slack if stored in dry bins for a
few months.
We have definite assurance also,
of the shipment of a few cars of
"Sunbeam" Pocahontas washed stove
coal. It will be stringing along during
the month of June.
It is the most convenient size and
the best quality of "Pocahontas" coal
available, Owing to' wage disputes
with the miners, the cost of this coal
has not been definitely determined.
But we will be offering It, direct
from car, as it arrives, reasonably
priced.
It is our firm belief -that if House-
holders do not secure, during the
summer months, a substantial ton-
nage of their fuel for next winter,
there will be a most calamitous
scramble for Coal, when the cold
weather approaches a few months
hence,
This is our opinion of the Coal
Situation, and we hope we are wrong.
We are staying on the job, how-
ever, and will advise the public at
appropriate times in these columns,
as to what we clan offer and supply,
in the line of the best Coal available,
in the months which lie ahead,
J. H. Scott J. Broome
Phone 336, Seaforth. Phone 136J
CHISELHURST
The May meeting of Chiselhurst
W.M.S. met at the home of Mrs. Jo-
seph Ferguson on Tuesday, May 11,
with a good attendance. The presid-
ent, Mrs. Ferguson was in the chair
and meeting opened by all singing
the national anthem. The Scripture
was taken from 14th chapter St.
John 1-10, followed by prayer. The
theme was Canada's youth in forces
and factories. A much enjoyed solo
was sung by Mrs. Thos. Brintnell
Mother's Prayer, with Mrs. Carl
Stoneman accompanying. Readings
by Mrs. Percy Harris and Mrs, Carl
Stoneman on the church in the city
streets. Hymn 405 was then sung.
Meeting closed by all repeating
verses 4 and 5 of hymn 382.
potatoes. Potatoes are a good source,
because of the amounts in which they
are eaten.
TAKE A TIP:
An Adequate Nutri -Thrift Menu
Breakfast: Applesauce, rolled oats
with whole milk, whole wheat toast
with butter, cocoa.
Dinner: Liver, boiled potatoes,
stewed tomatoes, whole wheat bread,
butter, orange custard. m
Supper: Vegetable soup, grated raw
beet salad with cheese, tea biscuits,
home canned fruit, milk.
SHALL THE SPELL BE BROKEN
From an address given at Aber-
deen University by Sir Stafford
Cripps in February, 1943.
As all great wars are in fact dyn-
amic movements of social and econ-
omic progression or retrogression,
and since they are characterized by
the exercise of force, they may truly
be regarded as revolutionary.
During these periods of revolu-
tionary struggle in the past we have
seen the urgent desire for change
emerging during the course of the
war, and we have witnessed what
has become of it after the war has
ceased.
Apparent agreement in the hour
of peril, when the whole manpower
and womanpower of a country 18 es-
sential for its very salvation, does
not at all necessarily imply that
there will be that same agreement
when the time of peril is past The
political reaction of peace has al-
most .always been marked by a re-
lapse from the idealism of common
effort, engendered by the sere s of
war, to a renewal of -the internal
struggle between progress on the
one hand and reaction on the other,
One of out' most brilliant British
authors has given us a name by
which to designate this breaking
down of the universal comradeship
of war into the struggle for section-
al advantage in the peace.' Winston
Churchill called it after the last war
"the broken spell,"
Let me summarize this danger in
the warning words of one of our
young war poets, .Tock Curie;
"And we would hope that something
should be altered
In the cruel careless fundamental
law,
But we must beware or the moment
will escape us;
Ithas done so before.
And we must see that out ` of the
practical slaughter
Rise no more vapory dreams,
But a world where the poor are fed,
the tyrants humbled,
And men know what life means."
The spell has been broken in the
past partly because the spell itself
was so potent. The very horrors of
war themselves create the need for
some compensating idealism, some
hopefulness to offset the bitter des-
truction of young life.
So it was that during the last
great war distinguished leaders add-
ed the weight of their advocacy to
the common feeling of the need for
fundamental change.
On November 25, 1918, at Wol-
verhampton, Prime Minister Lloyd
George drew this brilliant picture of
the dreamland:
"The country realizes in a way it
never did before how much it owes
to the citizens who dwell in its hum-
blest homes. . . What is our task?
To snake Britain a fit country for
heroes to live in. . , There .is no
time to lose. I want to take advan-
tage of the new spirit."
What Lloyd George failed to see
was that the opportunity had al-
ready passed and the new spirit of
common sacrifice was already at that
very moment being strangled by the
old forces of internal differences
which rapidly reared their heads
once the danger was past.
President Wilson in America was
stressing the same need for a fresh
start. In January 1918, he had al-
ready announced that "the day of
conquest and aggrandizement is
gone by." Later in the same year he.
made'his contribution to the spell,
speaking in London: "I believe that
men are beginning to see, not per-
haps the golden age, but an age
which at any rate is brightening
from decade to decade, and will lead
us some time to an elevation from
which we can see the things for
which the heart of mankind is long-
ing."'
These were not in any sense the
words of hypocrisy, but represented
a genuine idealism which failed to
appreciate the strength of those re-
actionary forces which had for a
time been stilled by the agonies of
war.
The old plea for peace and inac-
tion was heard again, "We have been
moved already beyond endurance
and need rest," wrote a distinguish-
ed Britisher. ' Tranquility was the
slogan with which Bonar Law won
the 1922 election and President
Harding echoed the same sentiment
in his presidential election cam-
paign on the other side of the At-
lantic: "America's present peed is
not heroics, but healing; not nost-
rums, but normalcy; not revolution,
but restoration."
Before many months, discontent
and disillusionment were rife and
we settled down once again to the
class struggle, to the wavering and
uncertain foreign policy which was
the external manifestation of our in-
ternal doubts and hesitations, until
at last we found ourselves swept,
unprepared, into a new and greater
world wan
We now approach once again'one
of those critical periods of hope
which occur in every great war, as
the prospect of ultimate victory be-
gins to loom on the horizon.
Many of those who cast the spell
in former times were absolutely sin-
cere in their hopes and desires, but
at the critical moment when they
sought to implement those.desires in
action,the opposing forces were too
strong. This, I believe, was for two
main reasons. The progressive forces
failed to strike while the iron was
hot, During the time of war, when
the feeling of co-operation is still
strong, is the moment to concert
common action for the period after
the war. To wait until, hostilities
have ceased, till the binding force of
the common danger •15 no longer pre-
sent, is to miss the chance- of com
mon agreement. And, second, they
underestimated the support they
would win from the people—the
common men and women of the
THEATRE
Seaforth
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and holidays), will start at 030.P,M. instead of 3 P.M.
More Hogs Needed!
ITIO FILL Canada's obligations to Britain,
a supply our armed forces, stock ships
docking at our ports and provide for domestic
consumption, Canadian farmers are asked to
produce eight million hogs in 1943—an increase
of 28%, or one -and -three-quarter million
more hogs!
If you need money to increase your hog
production, this Bank will be glad to consider
a loan, Can and discuss your plans.
'
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ESTABLISHED UM
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E. C. Boswell - - Manager
country—for a bold program of
change.
Since the last war, however, our
democracy has made great progress.
All classes have become more polit-
ically conscious and they are not
now so easily misled by empty slo-
gans. Education
lo-gans.Education is the great defense
of democracy and education has tak-
en great strides forward in recent
years.
But one factor: is liable to militate
against the countrol by the people of
the post-war development. This war
more than any other has drawn in
almost every man and woman in the
country. There has been no norm-
alcy, no rest for any. The whole
population will be vastly wearied
when the end comes, and it will be
harder than ever to stir the people
to a realization of how easily their
democratic power may be used for
what may ""seem plausible, but will.
turn out to be disastrous, purposes.
We as a people have chosen, and
chosen deliberately, the way of dem-
ocratic change,which has its draw-
backs and its delays but which we
believe, since we are democrats, can
be used to work the will of the
people. We approach now one of
those rare and great testing times of
the power of our democracy. Can
it prevent the spell from being bro-
ken, can it mobilize the longings,
the hopes, the desires of the mass of
the people to be effective against
the interests of reaction and the ap-
athy of war weariness?
Our needs are many; a closer knit
and more soundly planned co-opera-
tion between the United Nations; a
world economy based on scarcity and;
starvation, but upon plenty and hap-
piness, and a means of giving the
world a degree of effective security
in which we can exercise the arts of
peace rather than those of war,
I have pictured to you the difficul-
ties; I have pointed the prospect. I
throw you a challenge to your spirit
of adventure and patriotism;
The meaning of that challenge has
nowhere been better expressed than
by Eric Linklater, in one of his plays
puts into the mouth of Beethoven:
"Do not think peace to be a shal-
low or a placid thing. It is deep and
rich. It is full of movement and joy,
of work and laughter, and the reach-
ing out of your hands to God. That
is the peace 'of a living soul. Have
nothing to do with any thin or idle
peace, mere rest from toil and re-
lapse from war. That is the peace of
dying."
HARLOCK
It is rumored that wedding bells
will ring on Harlock line west this
week. The 12th to supply the groom.
Mrs. Wm. Bell had the misfortune
to have her wrist badly broken last
week while at the barn milking. Her
sister-in-law, Mrs. Allie Allen, has
been staying with her.
Mrs. Thomas Neilans donated a
wool comforter to the Ladies' Aid at
the April Ladies' Aid and W.M.S.
and Red Cross meeting which was
held recently at the home of Mr. and
Mrs. Peter Taylor. Tickets are being
sold, the proceeds to go to the Ladies
Aid Society.
Mr. and Mrs, Isaac Rapson spent
Sunday . evening at the home of Mr.
and Mrs. Thomas Neilans.
Mr. Gordon McGregor of Toronto
spent partof last week at the home
of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Frank
McGregor.
Mr, Audrey Knox has most of the
seeding done on the place which he
rented from Mr, Charles Parsons.
He still has the barley to put in We
wish Audrey good Net.
Mrs.' Simon McVittie ' and Miss
'Jean Hamilton are not gaining their
strength as their friends would wish„
We hope bright days and sunshine
will' improve their health,
Mr, and Mrs. Wesley Roe and
children spent Monday afternoon in
Seaforth, calling on Mrs. Roe's mo,
thee. The Roe children have been
laid up for some time with measles,
but are gradually „improving. .We
hope they will soon be strong again.
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