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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1933-08-31, Page 3THURSDAY, AUGUST 31, 1933• Services We Can Render In the time of need PROTECI`ION is your best ,friehd, Life Insurance -To ,protect your LOVED ONES Auto Insurance- To,protect you against LIABQ'LIT}; to PUBLIC and their PROPERTY. ;Fire Insurance - To protect your HOME and its. CONTENTS. Sickness and Accident Insurance- To protect your INCOME Any of the above lines we can give you in strong and reliable companies. I, interested, cal or write, E. C. CHACIBERLAIN. INSURANCE AGENCY Phone 334 Seaforth Ont. FAIR' DATES Arthur .. , ..:Sept. 26, 27 Sept. 22, 23 Sept. 27, 28 Sept. 28; 29 Sept. 19, 20 Sept. 21, 22 Sept .12, 13 Sept. 1 4 Sept. 19, 20 Fergus ...... , . Sept. 15, 16 Forest Sept. 26, 27 Goderich ......, Sept. 19, 2Q Hanover .. Sept. 14, 15 I-Iarriston • Sept. 28, 29 Sept. 21, 22 Sept. 20, 21 Atwood Bayfield ' Brussels Chesley Drayton Durham Elmira Exeter Kincardine Listowel THE SEAFORTH NEWS. anxious that I should go to college ical service is free to any one in need at midnight, it would be 'hours later S'ENA'TOR GIDEON and ROBERTSON S DEAD sing S o Otis,wa,- Aug, 216, -iSepa'tor Gideon giro '.D Robertson, former Conservati`ve hear 'Minister of 'Labor, . died here : at his heir home late Friday afternoon, Senator She IRo'bertson suffer1d a paralytic stroke bills paid in a before `some ,'of them got hoiite than I was myself," she told us. "And of it I have had doctor II knew, if I were going at all, I load of hay or a dozen eggs or a piece church services the ;next' mor would want a course where I could of meat. So the people keep their self' were likely to be poorly attended use my hands as well as nay head, so respect through 'these' times whenlshe sent word that she' was ronin I decided an medicine. Then, practis- s'o'rn'e of them do not own a ibit ofls'ay a few words at the next p ing,Mmedicine didn't give me just what -money .for inionths ata tine," ,and a goodly crowd was there to I wanted and .the frontier appealed to When Dr. Strang came to' her'her• some of thein did not want t mo. I knew it meant hard work but I 'headquarters at -'Dixonyille in 'White :Saturday ''nights interfered with. was born to tliat, The summer I: gra- duated I went to Northern Ont'ar'io to do settlement work with the frontier college. There was, no school in the settlement, so I' taught the children in the afternoon and had night school. three nights' a week for the young people from the settlers' homes and the section men and men from the pulp .mills and the Flreneh=Camad+ian. lfirerangers, We had .a piano so we had music along with am English and history arra geography. The atxu- sic lessons S had had as a child help- ed ,me' here, In fact I found both here and in 'Peace River, that I could use every bit of training I got on' the farm at home." The more we heard of her work the more we appreciated this. ,She has played about every musical instrum- ent 'from a mouth organ .to a double (bags fiddle, so with even a little mat- erial to work with, she seems able to orga'nize an orchestra wherever she goes. People who have visited her in her log house, tell us that you don't. get better bread anywhere in Peace Lucknow • Sept:, 28, 29 River than is madeat the manse. And. Mildmay ... Sept. 49, 20 we happen 10 know that on one of Milverton Sept. 19, 20 her calls at a homestead she found Mitchell ..... , Sept. 26, 27 the Harmer worried over a horse that ' Mount Forest Sept. 20, 21 jihad suddenly gone lame. The doctor Neustadt . Sept. 30l'felt the animal's !tot and quivering Owen SoundSent. 28 - 30 shoulder and diagn'osed the troulble as lymphangitis: Q'H'ow do you know it's that?" the fhnmer asked. "Our horses at bonne used to, take it,". she said and told him what to do for it. 'In fact she has a section of her dispensary stocked with veterinary supplies, since there is nowhere else in the district where the settlers can get them. in nu.mbenless ways she transfer's her experiences on an Old Ontario farms to the new district of the,Peace. We especially appreciated what she meant when she said: "When I find myself at the end of a week filled with sick calls and Sun- day before me with two sermons to preach and 110 time to prepare them, throw thankful I am for the ,background of reading that I got at, home in the years when there was time for it." ;Part of the Peace River district, as everyone knows, is a well established farming country, with its own doc- tors,and churches, but of course the missi'on'ary, did' not stay there. Sire went through to White Mud Valley,, a new section where the Peace over- flows the 'banks every spring, nodd- ing the flats and sometimes delaying seeding until late, but always adding a rich alluvian.'de'posit to soil already fertile. Everyone agrees that the set- tle'ment has a hopeful future, but it is only three years old, and these three years of low farm prices have 'bee'n particularly hard on people making a start. Some of them are just taking Paisley Sept 26, 27 Palmerston Sept. 22, 23 Ripley .. Sept. 26, 27 Seaforth .... Sept. 21, 22 Stratford Sept. 18 20 Tara Oct. 3, 4 Teeswater ....... Oct. 3, 4 Tiverton Oct. 2,, 3 Wingham ...........Oct. 10, 11 Zurich Sept. 25, 26 International Plowing Match, Derby Tp. Owen Sound, Oct. 10, 11, 12 and 13. _Li(FOR+MER SEAFORTH GIRL IN PEACE RIVER DIISTRICT' The following story appeared in the ,August issue of "The Farrier" and refers to an Us'borne township girl 'who lived in Seaforth while attending school: I+f, success , means arriving at a place of easy living .and generous sal- ary, this is not a success story. J:,f success is achievement in service, then iDr. Margaret Strang -a few years ago a farm girl of HHensail, Ontario, now a medical.,missionary on the frontier of the 'Peace River country -is !having what might decidedly ' be called a "ca- reer." And she has scope for her talents, • all Of ahem, There e e Is no other doctor for forty miles to the 'north and 'fifty miles to the south, "What about the east and west?" we asked. :4nd she replied, "'I can go as far as II like and off their first crop this year and when I have no opposition," She has al- most the same freedom in the ;natter 01 religious services. Other .churches are so far' removed that alt the three preaching' points af herr circuit-she two services every 'Sunday, travelling twenty or thirty miles on ;horseback to reach them -she has !Anglicans, Presbyterians, United iChurch people, Lutherans and some less common varieties of the .Protest- ant denomination, as well as a few • 'Greek and Roman.Catholics. She her- self is a m'issiohiary of the Presbyter- ian Church. "But you ,cant preach de :nominationalism in a new country like this," she 'says. "The people :have n'o. patience with it. 'They want the straight gospel" 1So she gives them that and the same sound sort .of medical advice and care when they need it, Mut !now they must have stared when they' first met their missionary. rDr. Strang isstill young and possib- ly looks younger than she is -a boy- ish little ;figure with a wind blownbab and a tendency to run rather than, walk ih covering short distan'ces. She her 'travelling about her parish on. hor'seback and. in her riding 'breeches, cap and mac'kn"na!w she looks 'so much like a boy t'h'at the story. is (told that once, .when overtaken by. night, she snapped at a settler's home to ask for shelter, the woman who came. to the door said:» "My' husband is away so I can't keep • -you, but 'there's a bachelor on the next farm who'll take you dn."We vi'sited Dr. ,Strang when 'she was at home on 'furlough this summerback on the farm 'with the big. stone 'house that her grandfat'her'lbuilt and. the orchards that•are her fathers pride,a place which she loves like no 'other spot on earth. In the .fall of her 'third year at .university, when it was ,diff;cult for her farther to get help; she got leave from her ;Saturday `m'orning classes and picked the whole apple crop. And knotti'n'g her love for tine, farm: we asked how she came .to 'study medicine, "In the beginning, Dad was more wheat is fifty cents a bushel in 'Win- nipeg it is about thirty Cents at the Peace River district shipping dis- an'ce..:But taxes are light and there's no mortgage on a homestead. And they' are a Ifiue type of people in the valley -eighty per cent. Eng- lish-speaking, coming mostly. from the dried out southern prairies and the middle western states with„a few TJkran'ians and a .numlber. of Swedes Danes and Norwegians, excellent pio- neer farmers. They do mixed farm- ing, n0't only 'because they have hills Inc grazing' as well as fertile crop land, but because at such a distance from trading p'oinIs they must supply most of their own needs, "We're not on the gold standard," said, the doctor: "We're on the stan- dard of moose meat and pork chops'arid 'lard pails. )The farmers can raise all the food they need but with the sale for their produce what it has been the last two years, clothing is a prob- lem. And the need would be, serious if it were not for our missionary re- lief supplies. 'Last 'Winter agave out d11',600 worth of supplies :aver' an area of a thousand' square miles, and of course we' give to anyone'' in need, whether .they come to our cln'urch, or not. Women's Missioa'ary Societies Brave been 'particularly good about; sending. layettes, and we need them. I d'isltni,buted three dozen of them in the first five m'oniths .of.this year. "A little wool is produced in the'a district, a 'Ratthenn woman spins some yarn on a spindle made of two. sticks, and an fsgen'ious settler has, 'fitted up a spinning wheel on his wife's sewing Machine with a steel same rod'and soe' empty spools, but untilwe can sell our produce for money' to buy yarn • and cloth, we need spin wing• wheels and loons and someone to teach us how to use thein. "'In distributing relief supplies, we have quite a job, 'to'e, 'to''•hu'nt' out people who'need help and w'lro won't ask for :it. Our settlers are anxious to (pay in whatever way they can for any- thing that is done for them and ,we don't discouralge this. While our red- Mud Valley, she superintended, the/arrived about ten o'clock, probably building of her house, but the settlers danced afew sets with thorn for she did the work and did it ch eerful9y. `A isn't averse to dancing -considers the doctor was generally welcomed' in the 'old square dances a very healthful district even if scree didn't care about sort of recreation' in fact. Then the a missionary," she retmarlced, iIt is a !floor manager called for her speech log ,house of three rooms= -office, liv-'and she told thein just what she i'ag•-room and bedrooms and the wo- thought of the practice of dancing on men of a church in Edm'onton sent into Sunday morning, or even dancing upthe furnishings complete. Ion 'S'aturday night until they were !For a while she conducted church too tired to come to church the next services, in the school house. There' day, and how she felt abou't the in - Was little hope of building a church fluence of this on' the 'chil'dren' they 'for there was no money to buy hard -('brought with them. A few of thein ware and such essentials as the people didn't like it all, but the majority could not makefont themselves. Thenwere with her and the dances now from somewhere 'cane an offer of are held on ;Fridays. money for these: New St. James' And this she says of the general Church, of London, Ontario, pr.onnis- tone 0f the country, that in all her ex - ed the furnishings -pi -4h, conlnuun- patience in Peace River; she has seen ion table, baptis'mal font, carpet and no drunkennes's nor heard of any stove; and: the people themselves did roughness of any kind in their social idle resit, 'T'w'o ,Swede boys, bache'lor life. On the New ,Ye'ar's clay after the (h'o'mesteaders, went into the . w'ood'schurch waf built, - a young man came that winter, selected the logs and cut to her office, talkeda while then laid then; farlmegs 'brought their te'aans his liquor permit on the • table and and hauled them out before the snow ,said, I guess Tan Through with that. went, and as,"soon as the spring work You can take charge of it." was finished- the building began, It But it isn't work that the 'little d'oc- alas very much a community' enter- 'tor is dn.ing.There is the strain of prise. Men from all over the district, carrying the • whole 'burden of Cat'hol'ics as well as Protestants,. came Medical emergencies alone -there is and worked together. Women sent a hospital 'fifty miles south 'alt Peace 'provisions and the man ro'omof thelRiver .Crossing iwhere she can take manse was turned into a men's dining surgical cases if site gets them in 'time roan until the work was finished, but in the regular routine of medical ;It is a beautiful little church, the practice, she must de everything 'her - best built log building north of the 'self, even 'to (pulling teeth ,and 'she 'has (Peace, the doctor tells us. A l3kran-f 'a lot of th'at to do 'for there is no dent- ian 'Greek Catholic, a skilled axeman ist in the district to put in fillings. engaged to superintend putting 'up (Phare was the baby that died anti the11 wa s and the corners are as pret- ty as a piece of mosiae. But finer than any of this was the enthusiasm and harmony of the builders, a spirit that seems to Jest on in the life, ofs the had no one respon'sib'le for him so th church. 'O ay some had to be buried in an open field b cause there was no cemetery withi fifty miles. And the tvan!dering'India who went out in an attack of flu an two weeks ago, For two years his health had been in poor condition, causing his resignation in February, 1932, from the iBenne'tt Cabinet. The man who rose .from railway telegrapher to Cabinet Minister' and (Senator, put up a losing ,fight Inc this life in an effort to recover from. a stroke; From day. to day his condition would improve slightly, then recede. ;Last Wecinesday he was stricken again by a stroke from which he nev- er recovered. He died yesterday at ; 4:4'0 E»D;T. Two years ago, while. still Minis- ter of Labor, ;Senator Robertson had his first stroke, brought on by over- w�ork on unemployed relief projects. (Although forced to resign from the 11 (Government, he ',continued his life- work in labor circles by representing l Canada at Geneva',at the International p ILaibor Congress.' Again he was strick- en with a stroke and came home to j Canada a semi -invalid. His health had been poor until two weeks ago when his final illness came. d ;Senator 'Rblbertson was predeceased ID by his wife, formerly Mary Berry 't (Hay, Waterford, Ont., who died early t this year. He is survived by' three p sons and'two daughters. A son, Gavin to PAGE THREE' ,, �°m . DICTALrO'RSHIP IN C'U�BA, !Provisional President De Cespedess• has begun a nine -months dictatorial' rule in an effort 10 restore public or- der in Cuba. The President issued a decree wip- ing out all vestiges of.the ousted s1 chado regime,•dissolving Congress. acid callirng for new elections Feb i24. i'he elected ollicials will. he iu stalled the following May 20, All international. obligations are to he observed, :but other acts under th,t Machado regime since May 20, 10X29,,. are declared' unconstitutional: iU:IS. Ambassador Sumner Welles had maintained it was' necessary to continue constitutional forms,; Various groups which had' clamored. for what they: described as a'benevol- ent dictatorship' maintained that the virtual one-party congress established. by Machado and other officials ssho• are removed, was serving unconstitu- tionally. It was held Machado himself was legally only a private citizen since his first term expired on.May 2A,. �. It is believed this - action of the Der Cespedes administration will remove olitical agitation for patronage, and.; eve the various parties a definite ob.- ective in the 1934 election. IA consultation commission is teas fie' appofnted to carry out terms of the ecree. The recognized idealisms of tine e' Ceapedes and the functioning of. his commission, includ'ing represen-- atives from aI.1 political bodies, is es-• ected to .provide adequate gtraran es, 'Elliott, was !tilled in the''Great War. IA Labor man in a Labor portfolio IGide'on Decker Robertson carried with him an atmosphere of strength and geniality. It was, perhaps these qualities which were the chief factors ina very successful career as mediator in labor disputes, 'Senator Robertson was kindly, friendly, democratic, but he was al'w'ays big, strong and delet- ed mined. These characteristics made n him reliable in emergency and valu- d! able when labor troubles loomed on the horizon The career of Senator ;Robertson is a record of hard work and achieve- ment. Tie was born at ;Welland, Ont., in 1874. For 3,5 years, 1893 to ,190s he 'pursued the calling of a telegrapher. 'While working at his key Ire tiv e , rc n Inc opemng d doctorhad to make all arrangements Anglicans, good musicians, came some herself and notify the authorities af- distance to sing ,at the services: Dr. terwards. There are long rides MaclKay, of 'New ,St. James, London, (through all sorts of weather. On the wasthere to preach and to adininister coldest night last winter, a man whose baptism and holy communion ,and to wife was i11 'came for her with a ordain' elders for there are ' a few things the woman missionary cannot do, Dr. Strang is also active in the life of the community apart from the church. The ,first year she was in the lDixonville neighborhood she organiz- ed weekly "Commu'nity Nights" in the school room with dramatics and the usual literaryt society program and an orchestra. She has her 'cello with her, so if there is no piano at a meet- ing place she has an instrument that can be fairly easily transported. She has started five circulating libraries in the district, leaving the books at some settler's 'Nome, And she does not hesitate to speak her mind on anything that seems to interfere with the community welfare. At centre in the district .Saturday night 'd'ances .had become a commun- ity institution: The doctor had no oh- special urge toward some other work, jection to the people dancing on Sat- come back to use their gifts in the urday night, but if they did stop country. dumper -a box on the front of a bo aleigh-and they drove twenty-Ifiv s. b laying the foundation for .a career as e Canada's Minister of Labor, In 1'905 his fellow -employees on the Canadian !Pacific Railway elected :him as gener- al chairman of the Order of Tele- graphers. Six years later he was chos- en deputy president of the same org- anization and in It911'5 he became rice- president. 'IiIe has served continuous- ly in that office since ,119115. IDurin'g this period and subsequent- ly while the war dragged through its four years, Senator Rob steadily ahead. In the month af Janu ary, 1191117, Sir Robert Borden, the Prime Minister of Canada, appointed r hien to the Senate. The new senator; was only 43 years old, He had had noli previous parliamentary experience, St1 was an unique appointment. ,General -!a. ly the reward of a seat in the Senate; went to elderly me'm'bers or support-li ers of the party in power -not to young, active men with their careers' before them. miles wth the thermometer fifty de- grees belolw zero when they started and silty below when they arrived. It is not surprising that her furlough this summer is really sick leave, 'bu•t, she is going back this fall as enthus- iastic as ever. It seems pretty worth while living and while it is the experience of a medical miss'ion'ary, it is also a farm girl's story -not lived out on the farm it is true, but very close to it, and en- tirely in the service of farn'i people. It is foolish to expect every boy or girl who grows up on the farm to stay there. The profession of agriculture requires special talents just as do me- dicine and theology. But it's a fine thing for country life when young people who like the farm but feel a A SWEiA'TER FOR •BIL'LY ?During- 'the war a certain depart- ment epartment store conducted a large knitting: class daily. The women were learning' to 'knit Sweaters, caps and all sorts o#' apparel for the soldiers and sailors.. iOne day ,a recruit joined the class_. She was young, she was ,pretty, she was everything that a :woman should be, and she could knit well. After sev- eral 'lessons the other women beagans, to take an interest in what she was lenm "Yourtting, sweater must be for .a rather- small sailor," remarked one women,, gazing at the garment. "It's for little Billy," said the young woman 'with a smile. "Little IBillyl 'What a romantic. name for a sailor." "But-er_my dear," said ars order woman, you have four 'arms started." The young knitter smiled, "Two for his front legs and two for. - his hind legs-" Front 'legs! Hind 'legs! !The women all stopped knitting. 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