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The Huron Expositor, 1920-07-16, Page 1er TLY 9, 1920. - Illeween _--MAGT►VIS can Millinery • a Department o offers Ss attractive a 4 PRIDES. e pay chare mailor express - on resp ---on e goods 'oaf - you buy here. e • i% very t9` D SHOPPING BY 1AIL? so few years, the tele - has reached the stage I- ( indirect method just to the store. For rder in to us, you are y 'iomeone who will lis - d then fill your order , ire and precision as if rn And the same applies - tter of fact, many of yr rarely come to the save considerable time X 40. her is 22 0-3 n 40. ,OVESir n Always a Perfect �' Fit 4 [i h as $2.25 a pair . I" Silk Gloves double I Xtra serviceable. Both shades. Price $2.25. A handy, inexpensive times, especially for � wear. No tying, no 3c to 50c. 40. 1-3 Display of and Silks you the new things .1 real toyou exc .- 1 p as ep )ing and see them. Wash Materials For Your New Dress Suit or Coat 35e to $2.00 a yard. ESS GOODS r Voiles for warm ceiveci. You certainly V es made from them. UR BLACK SILKS yard wide. $1.35 to n VISH 04- th H MACTAV ISH FIFTY-FOURTH YEAR } ,WHOLE NUMBER. 2744 SEAFORTH, FRIDAY, JULY 16, 1920. usito McLean Bros., Publishers - $150 a Year ..,* Advance There's a Raincoat Here for You at SALE PRICE if you come in before the Special Sale on these goods ends. This means that you may save Three to Five Dollars on your purchase. Our Stock of Coats for men and women is un- usually large, and we have determined to sell every Coat if reduction in price will do it. $10.00 buys a splendid waterproof and motoring coat. $15.00 buys one of the choicest coats on the mark- et to -day. SERVICEABLE, DRESSY and GUARANTEED FINE SUMMER FURNISHINGS SILK SHIRT --Pure white, raw silk and fancy striped silks - $4.50 to ;$9.00 CAMBRIA and GINGHAM SHIRTS .. $2.00 to $3.00 OUTING SHIRTS and TROUSERS .. $2.00 to $4.00 PANAMA and SPLIT =STRAW HATE ... .$2 to $6 BATHING SUITS -for Men and Boys...$1 'to$7.00 BOYS' COTTON KHAKI KNICKERS, also strip- ed $1.50 to $2.25 MEN'S SUMMER SUITS..... • ... $18.00 to $30.00 The Greig Clothing Co. THE STRANGER IN OUR MIDST As a teacher I have lived in a number of foreign settlements in the Canadian West and I know these strange people as only one can who has actually lived with them. *What follows is an unvarnished account of some of the things that I have observ- ed, told because I believe that the Canadianizing of the alien is one of the biggest problems that Canada faces and that it can be properly ap- proached only when Canadians as a whole know more of the alien, his ways, hisweaknesses and his worth. First I want to• tell something more about the religious sect among whom I was sent with the results detailed in my first article. They make a very interesting story. The family life of the Sect I write about, might be termed "intensive." The Elder governs all; of parental control there is none whatever. Of- fences of the little ones are cured by a "wop". of the hand or a broomstick, by whoever happens to be near by, but breaking a communal law is dealt with by the "Uncle," or Elder alone. Boys and girls up to the age of nine- teen years are whipped by him, and lapses of any particular kind, (such as communicating• with other people, which means being friendly with out- siders), these things being heinous offences, are brought up in Meeting or church service time. Punishment is then and there dealt out -as a de- terrent to others -and public confes- sion of the offence must always be made. In• this way one can under- stand the air of subervience of these people. The consequence, of course, is thatthe children 'lie magnificently. They have abnormal appetites. The food is cooked, and served, publicly in a large building. Great vats of cement are 'wink in huge ranges (of an obsolete pattern and resembling those found 'at Pompeii, the -dead city), and in these, soups, meats, vegetables, etc., are cooked. Some dozen of the women are' cooks in turn. Bread is baked in huge ovens every second day. It is excellent. Otherwise the cooking is odd; "sour. soup," 'for instance, is a concoction in which buttermilk is added, with grease. It is not palat- able. "Sweet" soups too are made; and a dish which' replaces potatoes! This appears to be `flour and water mixed and then fried in grease. Im- agine a substitute for potatoes on a farm! Their coffee is largely chicory; I have heard the housewife order "A pound of 'goffee and a pound off gicggory," so I know. The buying is done wholesale; twice a year the Elder and his wife' go to town and - a = week later great boxes- arrive by rail, whereupon an excitement beyond 'compare is shown. house comes out of the (all live under one roof), men, women and children; the boxes are counted,, touch- ed, thumped, thrown off the rig, sur- rounded by the entire (feminine) swarm; an unmusical Babel of tongees discussing the matter; the children climbing up , on the boxes,- parents oxes;parents swatting them off. But when Aunt Karina-the Elder's wife and the real Boss -appears in the distance, all scatter in several directions. Aunt Karina is late arriving but her word counts: she at once apprises the col- lection of boxes, waddling around them Special Sal 10 days only for cash. Ready Roofing 3 -ply B. Asphalt Roofing, per roll 2 -ply B. -Asphalt Roofing, per roll 2 -ply Leatheroid Roofing, per roll i -ply Leatheroid Roofing, per roll Tteg. $5.75 $4.00 $4.00 $3.75 Special $5.25 $3.50 $3.50 p$3.25 3,000 Square Ft. Beaver Board, per square foot - 6.I4c 3 -Burner Perfection oil stoves $31.00 4 -Burner Perfection oil stoves $40.00 - Simmons' Famous Blue En • amel 3 -burner oil stove $34.00 Oil stove ovens, New Perfection $9.25 51ac $27.00 $35.00 $29.00 $.8.50 agent for Frost Fence, Sole Martin0 p er cent. Pure ' Paint, Senour 10 p Gold Medal Twine The Big Hardware H. EDGE be left to themselves, to family feuds, brought about that in- six weeks we. e C unclean habits, lousy heads and. the could all do "Sir Roger" very well -_ �: '` = • a .= six different dialects belonging to the indeed; and we were so very busy six different countries they represent- about doing it there was no time for- = "bitchvork" work among neighboring i .- _ ed. cows. Flimsy pretexts for absence from school offered- n all' sides • but "de- There were red letter days that �+ terminedly dug out, the reason always summer. Flag Raising Day in par alt. Jame' Church, •Se�.f orth . = was "Se-ek on de headt-se-ek on ticular when at nine a.m., dressed in = = _ = MONDAY TUESDAY AND WEDNESDAY � mudttress - se-ek on de belliess; our Sunday best (which meant wash- sass"; any old excuse to avoid = "truancy" and a monthly report had - 19th 21-s = to be furnished the department show - t _ ins cause why, etc, d I arranged that 20th the delinquent parents should te- 11 - "� ;; ceive registered documents warning = that, UNLESS Yohan attends schools Tr1 uum ; regularly the School Act will be en- forced immediately!" Now the School "Yaw; iss heir! Coot. Wass zigarrea (She sniffs tobacco). Kon- nen sie!" she says, shaking her head, then, roaring "Rebecca! Ich muss sie so bald wie.. moglich haben!" Aunt Karina is a goddess to be placated, and I think in another reincarnation the dear kind heart will return a Mountain. The day the boxes are opened- beats St. Patrick's Day in Montreal, an Orange procession in Winnipeg and a fire in New York, completely. It is all these terrifying things combined with a "Sale -Day" at a departmental store; for the giving out of the half - year's supplies, food and clothing, commences at dawn. By the way, all days begin by the ringing of a bell, which wakens everybody. This particular day all are awake at the first "clang," and an outpouring of male and, female begins. The open- ed boxes are set up on a wide veranda on the Elder's house, - and here the entire colony swarms. Webs of cloth -snarls of yarns -bundles of mitts -- packets of hats, caps and handker- chiefs -tins, pins, . tools, -threads, pans, pots, etc. - As everybody is free to dig and pick and choose and quarrel and pull and haul, and gen- erally make a noise, the scene baffles description. The Elder is there, calm, smiling, oily. He says little but what he says ,has effect -that is, until Aunt Karina arrives, a trifle late, her head - kerchief slightly awry, her fat body rolling along at an unusual gait, her wheezy cry, `Ach! wie ist es so heiss?" She mops her large and not unhand- some countenance, coming up as the crowd stand, back in awe; adding: "Zweihundert, vierhundert, zweitaus- end! So!" Aunt Karina has counted the contents with the tail of her ac- tive eye, and given the seal, so to say, of her approval. "Is Sergeant O'Toole here? Then let th' battle be- gin!" -you understand. So far all has gone well. Now for distribution: The Elder (having wis- dom) retires from the scene; madam, the Elderess, selects her aides and the 'giving out of supplies commences. Let us draw a veil over the scene which follows. I can only liken it to a cyclone, a prairie blizzard, a tidal wave anduamomentarriving and g t pivotal point atone ting busy there. After the distribution . a strange silence follows. • There is no grouping of chattering wives -no visiting at doors -no leaning over the 'garden palings -no whispering. All is calm; a terrible calmness, broken only by '' MORNING MASSES -5.30 a.m. and 9 a.m. MONDAY=7.45 p.m. -BEADS - Sermon on "Indestructibility of the Church," by Rev. Father Nagle; B.A., Benediction of ri the Blessed Sacrament. = hair marcelied-the recipient, under L' = the impression it "wass der baberss TUESDAY -7.45 ,p.m. -BEADS - for der landss, yens," would hie off three miles to have T'ch'r read the, outside to make a bit of ready money, Sermon on "The Sacrifice of the Mass, Centre - "ledderss." • But upon learning its It was certainly dangerous for pada- = h E. nature the recipients, would exclaim of Religious Worship in the Catholic Chure _ "Ole! Oie!" expectorate a dark and strians as the police seemed to be by Rev. M. D. O'Neil. deadly wop of tobacco juice on the powerless to control speeders and schoolhouse floor, grunt "No good" there were so many bright children. .., WEDNESDAY -10.30 a:m. a and go away frowning. killed that the evening Telegram, �' The School Act failing, I tried an- which is'always ready for anything, a Grand Solemn. High Mass Coram Episeopo = other and a quite efficaciousngAct, that ara'se to remark that if Herod had` __P.McCabe,a former pastor. _been given a few of these_ machines Celebrant -Rev.= of a weekly distribution of hot ginger- he would have found the slaughter' Deacon -=Rev. Captain F. P. White. Sub- bread! This Gingerbread Act (as I of the innocents an easy task. = T. P. _ beg to be permitted to call it) was Some -notable men have visited deacon -Rev. CaptainHussey. = certain, but belonged to no particular the city recently, among. the number . day or date; it was, indeed, like Easter being Rev. Daniel 14iannis, the Cath- JUBILEE SERMON by Rev. F. J. Brennan, S.T.L. _ a movable feast, But just as sure as olio Archbishop, of Melbourne, Aus- = the 'attendance was small, that day tralia. Another, who harangues on of St. Peter's Seminary. : , = gingerbread distribution took place• the street corners half the nights in. Thus, after a while the Attendance the week is Nepli Jansen, a leading '. A most cordial Invitation is hereby extended to the Report was marked "Excellent." I 1VIorman from Utah. He has a great public regardless na•a dless of denomination to attend one or c recommend gingerbread, with plenty gift of speech but declares there is = = of raisins inside, to all and sundry all of these services duringthe Jubilee. -no bad place in the hereafter and that = foreign schools: IT will bring a boy all the preachers who have said so FATHER GOETZ. when the School Act won't. are liars and money grabbers, but he oor little foreign children! Child- has not a word to say about spiritual ho lasts only until they are "men" wifery or any of the other abomina- a •e "womanss"-able to work in the tions to which his people are !addict- s -, in the wood and to drive the ed. plow. This age is popularly supposed I will not say much about the greed to begin at seven years! Up to this and hoggishness of the members of ponderous time they enjoy the same the House of Commons tin connection freedom as the dog and cat; sharing with the salary grab as I presume the bare floor as a bed and the pot- your readers have heard all about it atoes from the iron pot with them, or and will not soon forget, but I may (the family being opulent) enjoying be permitted to say a word about the (undressed) a share of the family new Prime Minister. As his family "bedt" in a corner, with from six to lived in the school section adjoining �ld ten other members of the household. that in which I grew up in Blanshard,. In consequence there is a terrible as far as I knew they were orderly "wisdom" in the child mind, which is and industrious people of Irish an - of as much consequence to foreign- vestry, Presbyterians and Conserve - born rferents as that of the cat: Lives, and I think, Mr. Editor, you. They are underclad, underfed, the will agree with me that the Irish survival of the fittest only. Birth Canadians are about as good a class and death are both lookedupo a sis as there is going. They are clan- n - F sunrise and sunset, belonging to nish and are usually generous and things that "happen"; and, as. for hospitable, doctors and nurses and hospitals, they are inventions of the devil, mainly I believe that in a former letter I promised to say something about the used to "Tchargess der monies. foreign element in the city, and a Therefore they are not recognized as promise is, or at least should bei a necessary. sacred thing. To begin, the Chinese The family feuds proved a great are the most civil and amiable and trial at school, for grievances of par - law -abiding, and are often imposed' ents belonging to aetiops of five lion- ,on and; ill treated on that account,- . dred years ago seemed to come up, like They are never mixed up in strikes bulbs, in springtime; they were cult'- or rough -house behavior and are free voted, coaxed, fed - and watered.Ybh from crime. Next to these come the national hatreds. ow to deal Jews. Those of them who had .heir birth in the old.land are somewhat mean and selfish, but orderly and free from crime, but the young Jews born in this country are bright and attrac- ' tive, good students and take a delight in speaking the language of the' country prettily. I believe these 'will - become will -become excellent citizens in time. I said to a little Jewess eye twelve. years, who was preparing en- trance n_ 0 trance to high school: "Pearl, will you go back to Palestine?" "Nei,. indeed, I will not," said she. "We always near that they are starving over there and I have always had something to eat here. "But," said aid I, "what will you do if they take ou there?" "Oh!" said she, "that is easy. I will get an 'airship and, drop- down in Queen's Park or the Allan Gardens." In regard to the Italians' who do more than their share of the heavy work here, I had an impression that when they got their dander up they would stick a knife into anyone who looked at them. But at our rooming house I have met a number, of them and found them gentle and' amiable, fond of a game of cards and a musical instrument, . but they do_ not waste time over these things. Like the Chinese and Jews they aro frugal and live cheaply. Those from Russia and the Balkans have 'among" them a large percentage of outlaws, robbers and murderers. They are dangerous rascals to have anything to do with. I have met a few from Belgium and Sweden who seem to be nice persons, of a melancholy cast, which would appeal to one's sym- pathy. I would not think of calling the French or Germans foreigners, although -=some do, I learned in the old log schoolhouse .on the Kirkton Line. the only school I ever attended, that a Frenchman discovered Canada, If it were not for that the Lord knows where we would be now, and it is said that one-third of the population are of French origin. And in regard Ito the Germans, if history is reliable, . the kings and queens of England for centuries have been more German than anything else, and 'in mixed com- munities the British Canadian. and the German Canadians are marrying each other right along. Whatever may have been thought of their mode of warfare in Europe, they are not by any means foreigners here. Some people here are great for nicknames. 1 The Russian is callel Bore, the Italian, Dago; the Chinese' Chinks;. the Jews, Sheeniest and the British born, newly arrived, are called Bronehos.--J. J. I. Act (like the Acts of the Apostles) was quite a mystery to the foreigner; it was in short, very inconsequential, - very dry, very annoying, indeed! This warning letter being registered and bearing a gay red seal and marked IMPORTANT -not to mention being preparedby a pretty stenog. with her Continued on page 4 FROM AN OLD CORRESPONDENT' Dear Expositor: -Here I am again. Everything. is lively here, with nice - showers frequently, and I keep hop- ing that Huron and Perth are getting a share, of the rain, and that there - will be more and cheaper potatoes, etc., this coming season; as famine prices are burdensome to the majority of people. The city is growing rapidly. Hun- dreds undreds of new houses are going up in both the east and west, as well as the. northern sections. The street car - strike lasted four days and. during that -time the city' was crowded with autos and jitney's and that sort of thing, many having come in from the Psalm -singing at evening service; guttural are shouted to roof -lifting that and the "swatting" bf other peo- heights, and ,it is quite edifying to see ple's children, which breaks the calm entire families from limping sires to in terrible uproar. After such a babes inarms being taken to the distribution - last autumn I heard 'many "church," where long prayers are family secrets not intended for "out- sounding. - side" ears! Aunt Karina, I heard, As far as reading goes nobody in anythingbut inread for instance, "had alreaty person- the colony I lived lichen vierzig! (forty frocks) Ooi! the Bible, but some of the older men Ooil" It took all of a month to dis- subscribed for a German newspaper place hostilities. which came from m a' place called A very pretty sight in harvest time "Berlin" 'in the United States. Ther 'am is the setting forth, at four . each was no reading of any kind done -n , _day, of the workers. This means books, save the German school book v ed. O f course e everybody above the age of seven and in use when I arrived. under sixty-five. Piled . into big these were replaced by English text - wagons, the men and women go forth books at once. That the growing to labor in the field, and I have seen boys and girls are hungry for mental them return at eleven ¢t night -sing- food was shown by the- arrival of a ing! Oh, how these Germans work! set of knowledge books, =especially And, let us give them their due- prepared for the young. The pupils they do their work with German settled upon those books exactly like efficiency and skill. Within the colony- a swarm of flies! The books were il- they hire no outside labor save under lustrated=were sent for the use of stress of circumstance. They have the pupils -and the thought was an their own blacksmith, carpenter, inspiration of a wonderful Inspector baker, shoe -maker, tanner; butcher, whose work amongst these queer peo- tailor, tinker, and a smart broom pie deserves much of his country. factory provides wares for the close Once they opened the pages they went by market, - wild for further reading, which I gave When they do business in town the• in unstinted measure, for I could see Elder takes him his assistant and one they were like long thirsting animals or two Wise men for consultation. and the draught to them, seemed Largely the town comes to them, for divine. I have counted five real estate cars "Long, T'ch'r!" a boy with sparki- at the• door of the Elder's house, and ing eyes would say, bringing me the I have heard three combatants in a open book. "Der schnellzug!" I -n - farm machinery sales -fight, as I have stantly he was buried in the mechan- known ' va engine. The railway g ofY makea known grave and dignified Senators ical discuss with Herr Elder certain "Vic- girls were quieter about their "find," tory Loan" proposals. In short, Can- but they would ask to be allowed to adieus, who otherwise object to the take the book home with them; and, entry of these peculiar people, gladly seeing ,in it the hope of prying open run after their patronage. - Note how long -locked minds, I gave freely, even "Teacher" settled down amongst fully. I believe that small 'gift t to the them, though unwanted, unhonored school will be the best pry possible and unsung. to open the dull German mind. All One good point of this sect is that honor to these wonderful men of the they stick together. They are loyal Education Department of the West. to each other and to their religion, if They are doing a splendid work to - not always in consistent action. Once day. on -a fine Sunday, seeing a number of In marriage, the women of this sect the • sect cutting and hauling wood have little to say. The Elder decides for fuel, I asked the brother of the this point largely. The men are, Elder: physically speaking, magnificent. The "Do your people not regard the women arelong limbed, large bosom - Sabbath as holy?" ed creatures, and, uncorseted they re - For a monent he seemed nonpluss- tarn the figure God gave them. They ed. The haulers were there in full E walk badly but that is owing to the view, with the loaded wagons, so- heugly heavy shoes they wear. They had to answer. � have the thick voices of the - German "It iss not a sin alwayss to do so," and the heavy look as well. They sing he said, • but his eye did- not meet wonderfully well and two sisters of mine. "We neet the woot!" he said my school, I found with voices as full blandly. of promise as any a de Reske could A really excellent thing is the way ask; one a sweet soprano, nt, the other a they treat the aged and infirm. After beautiful natural sixty-five years of age no man. or Decker, self -elected guardian to the woman is expected to labor. The King's picture, it was who had the aged are taken 'good care of. Sons sweet soprano voice. How very, very and daughters show great feelings of much I would like to see pretty Susie filial affection, and even the mother- Decker get a chance in life! in-law is accepted. I Another school charge that fell to Each night I was edified at hearing- my lot was in a section where the the heavy -burdened mothers Rif the population were exclusively foreign, sprouting "Elders" of a Lure day of Polish and German extraction. The repeat, in concert with the children, names of the school -children were al - the evening prayer. It sounded most unpronounceable. Ninety-nine strangely to English ears, being a • per cent. of the parents were foreign - strangely to Englisa eass, being a 'born, had come to Canada sone twenty sort of chant sing -song litany, "heilig" years before, but could not as yet, in sound but fearfully monotonous.: speak any English at all. How did I have since regaled friends by •a + they buy and sell? How do business performanace of this diurnal act (as i with Canadians? Why the Canadian - caught by my ear, which, I may say, ' born shop -keeper had learned to speak lacks guttural taste) and am told it ! some half-dozen foreign dialects in would make a vaudeville turn; all of ' order to do business with the which is very bad taste, perhaps. But foreigner! when you hear a line of sacred sing- The first day school opened a song, broken in upon by a screeching baker's dozen of unkempt, ragged lit - order to somebody, down stairs, tie tykes presented themselves for "Schenken sie mfr ern glas wasser registration, with apologetic, fright- ein, Sam!" returning again to the ened air; fear showing in their watch- gazenbuch, 'while- exercising ` a slipper ;ful and�� suspi cious. eyes. Neither on kinder, why it' is funny. sghoolss nor T ch r were wanted Meetings for prayer are held every by parents in this unkempt garden in night -in German. Hymns in the }the wilds; these farm -folk wanted to these fights which occurred on the highway coming and going to- and from school, was the question. Bloody noses and bruised shins cried out daily for "justice!" This would be the cry! "Pl'ss, T'ch'r, Yacog steek my fia'rer's goer mit der bitschvorks, yass, and der plood, Oie, Ole, der ploods!" oods.r" "No, TTchx rTc � lin he wass m ec my far'er's horrsess go badt on der foots, So! (illustrated) and his mo'r'r sa-ay zhe 'go for keels my far'rer's gowss, yass!": Out of the tangle of tongues it appeared that somebody's cow had been- stuck with a pitchfork -some- body's cow was made to "ploods" (bleed), the belligerents talking in six different tongues about six dif- ferent feuds,, all centering on a single encounter that day. Why nothing but a Roman Judge (with a grand jury) could settle the matter! In these child tangles, parents would appear to denounce, to threaten, to thrash. The mothers took a hand in it too; whopping somebody's girl,' or taunting somebody's boy. One wild-eyed woman arrived one day to demand the exte rmination of a neigh- bor; his wife, his ox, his ass, and everything that was his! Another - day a weeping woman came imploring me to "wride ledders,' Vinnipegss!" As I often performed this office for those benighted souls, I quite serious- ly prepared,lpen, ink and paper, only to find it was an order to "Bolicernanss Vinnipegss, coom und- make Missis Shwalksi go for gaolss. She sa-ay me no m-arriess mit my manss!" Adding with great vehemence, "Zhe liarss!" It was alright if parents wanted to quarrel but how to get the children away from these feuds was the ques- tion. One restless night I had an in- spiration. I set the old gramophone (left by my predecessor) going at recess with a gay ta-ra.-to-ra-ta-ra, and, gathering the girls together (the boys were shy) I gave a first dancing lesson! One may be a Pole, a Ger- man, a Roumanian, a Galician or a Turk, separate, divisible and apart in gramophone set all things else; but, a a -going with "When Johnny Comes to Town" turned on in four-four measure, and you'll see national boundaries scatter and disappear,as the nations pas seul, and ° go prancing down the floor with flying feet! In the dance the little children, boys as well as girls, joining hands in the gay rout, forgot everything but the music! So much fun and friendly joy was