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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1920-11-26, Page 1• BER •19, 192a. 4tr• ° via , ISH`S [erchandise complete. -. te. :ig his icy breath t. do any material .who take advant-. pit themselves oft A Well clothed per- k Frost. His on lghter- eyes, rosier good appetite, :RS. ---Nature pr'o- :r S which 'humans' nfort and ad ort- ra in the transfer , for the service Ie Mus and Neck while as sortnleuts LANK ETS.--Jack rt take ?'e fuge be - you retire. We :14:11 makes at many tte Blankets we re- S2.50. e- f, 2.5 each. You You must see and their real worth -EATEla COATS. 3 be an almost ab- 'arge suck of dif- t:I.IEIII and ` ;the tin- 2.rou. The color kl that could be de- i zur Un i e}rwear is that it is right. >or en t, non-irrl- stinted. in our lines tanlield's, Zenith, instance our prices ESS COORS. r t o> Winter wear? ou. Exclusive Suit L ..IleeS, Staple Wool Silks, Velvets, Lin- tz -• ou certainly will u1tings ' l d Dress any kind of a coat .l 0ro e, Lome here is may he ' Ound and kicc are quoted. L-; ,r? k% -:;u up the as - and Y right 1�I siJe.ti';'t range w ond,_xfully t h -ci vt 1` kY day that rr , skirt. .,ct�1. .,. T you. sr u can al- a f.: -L n€l ,_, ,. t one that f i LE nom.; • FIFTY-FOURTH YEAR l WHOLE NUMBER 2763f Down Go Prices on all Clothing and Furs For the quickest possible clearance of all Heavy Goods in Clothing and Firs. we have marked the prices away •bei9w 'actual manufacturer's cost. The Best Bargains. in our Closing -Up -Business Sale are On Sale Right Now, We have only 4mall space here and can only men- tion a few, but remember the whole of our immense stock has been re -marked still lower in price. You can save many dollars by trading at this store for Christmas buying. 25 wonderfully fine Coats for- women. Your choice, sale price 50 Men's Fine Overcoats 40 Boys' Overcoats, all sizes 335 Young Men's Overcoats 90 Pairs Men's Heavy Tweed Pants 40 Boys' Mackinaws and Hundreds of other equallyg g ood bargain. • All sizes. $18.48 $24.98 $9.48 $19.98 $4.98 $11.48 Special Notice After thirty years of contitred mercantile business in the Town of Seaforth, during which -period we have conducted mangy big sales, we have positively decided to retire from mercantile business, and in so doing this Last Grand Final Sale shall eclipse all former effofts in every respect—greater volume of goods offered, as most of our new Fall Goods have been passed into stock as we could not cancel Fall orders. - Prices are slashed as never before. We have terminated the lease of our store and all goods must be sold.Y The Greig Clothing Co. ecia1 otic TWe are in -a position to accept orders for Hot Air and Hot Water Heating Pim.p s and Piping Ea ye Troughing Metal Work - Ready o ad Roofing g Bathroom Plumbing, including Pressure Systems. Leave your orders at once.cheerfully given. Estimates I have had over 30 years'. experience in all kinds of building which enables me to plan your proposed bath- room and furnace work, etc . The Big Hardware H. EDGE Y-- SEAFORTH, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 1920. A REPLY TO "DOES PROTECTION PROTECT" Varna, November 20, 1920. Editor, Huron'Expositor. Dear Sir: Being a reader of your most valu- able paper,per 1 chanced to observe ve an article in your edition of October 29th entitled "Does- Protection Protect.''' It is requested in the editorial note that all replies be kept strictly to the subject matter of the article. It ap- pears to me that - there is very -little or no subject matter in the article. It is simply a mass 'of heterogeneous incongruity of accusations, unsub- stantiated by any proof or •reason either in the form of statistics or generally accredited opinions. The writer's first prominent state- ment, if it may be called such, is, af- ter forty years of practice the benefit to the country in general is question- able and to the manufacturers in par- ticular a "howling success. He gives no proof of that whatever, and wit- ness ness his, inconsistency of language when discussing the;. Canadian Manu- facturer's Association advertisement which asks Canadians to purchase in Canada. In the face of having said that protection has been a "howling success" to the manufacturer, he has the audacity to call that "add" 'a piti- able admission that protection does not protect.' Row in -the name of all that is logical can' those two state- ments be possibly assimilated? Can- adian manufaoturing companies are not 'back number's,' as the writer says, for. Canadian, methods and Canadian quality command respect in every foreign market. According to the writer himself, Canadians are as in- telligent, as inventive and -. as re- sourceful as any one. Must`the Can- adian manufacturer be excluded from that qualification? Again in accusing the Canadian manufacturer of unduly enriching himself at the consumer's expense—a most ra-sh and unqualified statement—the writer entirely over- looks the fact that the American man- ufacturer factu er has Iess initial cost in plac- ing his product upon the Canadian market than the Canadian. To stabi- lize his .business, the American has a home market of over 100,000,000, protected and secured to :him . by tariffs ranging from 45 to 75- per cent, upon dutiable goods. He has the smallest national -debt tor which to bear pernicious direct taxation. He can command: cheaper coal, with no duty to - pay: on it. His currency is at a premium with that of his rival. His larger market enables him to in- crease. the' 'scale - of his product and keep down costs. He has a specializ- ed labor market --the American pro- duction par man is "from two to three times as great as is e.g.. British pro- duction." (Gray and Turner). - He has ready access to the world's money market, New York, and hence may secure at reasonable rates the capital needed to extend his market to hold hist, investments when the market is "flooded." To be sure there is a tariff of from 25 per cent, to 35 per cent. upon his products entering Can-' ada, but such a high duty is on un - necessaries which -the Canadian people have absolutely no business buying emigrants to develop U. S. A. and ether "creditors." - When England re- ceived' -Free Trade the ratio of the agricultural population to the total population was 49.8 ge r cent. (statistics), `by 1913 it was reduced to 21.9 per . cent. Yet Farmer Pree Traders wax loud and .eloquent in their condemnation.' of the depopula- tion of the farm. Between 1870 and 1905, 3,000,000 acres of British land ceased producingcorn; the - same is true of wheat lands. These and many 'more facts could ire given concerning England's condi- tion. under Free Trade. But English- men are slowly and surely awakening to a recognition of their financial peril. The Asquith Government (Liberal s up P ortes of �e e Trade appointed four committees ofexperts to investigate `the textile trades, the electrical trades, the engineering trades and the iron and- steel in-' dustry, The independent - reports - of these committees on one of which was John Hodge, a. - Labor leader, were almost unanimous in deprecating the deplorable condition of. Britain's basic industries, and in- recommending the crejtion of a "system of protective duties." . Hon. Austin Chamberlain, Chancellor of the British Exchequer, has brought down a budget providing for the collection of one billion and a half in tariff taxes. Free Trade is naught but a mirage of political and economic thought which, when tested, proves to be empty of beneficial results and fraught with the gravest conse- quences to the national life of the nation. The - best that may be said of it is, that it is a beautiful ideal but abort unattainable so long as the sun casts its productive rays upon each zone of - the earth at a -different time, creating the changing seasons and climates; and so - long as there are political and natural boundaries. G; B. W, A LETTER FROM DULUTH Dear Expositor:—Recently we have e been favored by very mildweather, Or, November •8th, six inches" of snow fell and was 'of a very wet variety. The writer had to walk a considerable distance while it was falling and felt it somewhat unpleasant. In days gone by he would have considered it but play; but Old Father Time is relentless and reverses the order of things. This snow,.fall was followed by a cold wave which registered as low as 5 above, then has come much milder weather, but to -day snow is . again falling. This mild winter up to date is easy on the coal and wood bills, but does not suit the _coal ,and ; wood barops and theeeesel _ :g henteet clothin and other- o ` : s . -g o g oils . �o winteae wear. However, the consumer smiles and is pleased. The weather prog- nosticator is out with his proofs that this is going to be an open season. He cites the facts that the weasel is still wearing his old brown coat, that the squirrel has been very negligent in. laying up a supply of winter food; that the .beaver has chopped down the trees but has since gone to sleep on e job. I hope his cheerful fore- casts are correct. I remember the in U. S. A. On such requirementsmonth of January, 1912. During its as agricultural implements, we find 31 days the thermometer did not show that the duty on eight at least is up above zero and registered as low lower . than it would have been under as 37 below. The hardy saucy spar - Reciprocity, e.g. the duty on binders, row succumbed by the hundreds to mowers arid reapers is 121/2 per cent., the intense continued cold. I remem- wheat, wheat flour and the products her another spell of three .weeks in of wheat, gasoline, rough lumber, one of the winter of the late 90's., partly dressed lumber, farm tractors when the thermometer registered as up to $1,400, nets, net twines and low as 36 below zero and got no fishermen's equipment are on the free warmer than 17 below the zero mark. list. Now time does not permit a Yet this would be considered mild detailed discussion of the protection weather in some parts 'of this troubl- pr.inciple. Unbiased study and calm ed world in winter `season. reflection will surely aid the writer An important event occurred in this of that article to reach sane con- city last week which was the resigna- elusions for himself. He has attack- tion of John Murphy, Chief of Police. ed "Protection" ostensibly for the Before the federal court, in company benefit of nothing less than "Free with several others, he had two trials Trade." Let me submit for his con on different courts for conspiracy in - transporting liquor from sideration some facts regarding sons Canada in- called "Free 'Trade" England, which to the United States. A verdict of has been held up by Canadian Free "not guilty" was brought in by the Traders as the happy culmination of jury in both trials. Murphy, who, all their sublime, grandiose, logic and in .the meantime had ternporali y re doctrine—a veritable "Utopia" of in- signed, again requested Commissioner dustrial and economic conditions. Murnian to reinstate him. Duluth's Before and at the year 1850 Eng- .law-abiding citizens did not approve of Iand• had a very favorable balance this and strong protests were made. of trade. In 1852 every vestige of It ended in John Murphy tendering his protection was swept away, swept complete resignation, which was away not by the urban laborer or by quickly accepted. He was not guilty the rural tiller of the soil, but by in the eyes of the law, but the good: the British manufacturer. (Peel, him- self was the a son of a wealthy mane- facturer). After -1850 England, on an average, had an atinual adverse balance of - nearly £150,000,000 and this year's trade returns will disclose an adverse balance of £680,000,000. All this in "Free Trade" England, whereas protected' 11. S. A. has not had an `adverse balance since 1893 and now has a favorable balance of $4,000,000,000 annually. Only an in- come of £520,000,000 from foreign in vestments in Canada, U. S. A. and other lands, from England's great Mercantile Marine and from banks and insurance earnings has enabled Great Britain to remain solvent. The - difference between this income and their adverse trade balance constitutes the primary reason for the discount of the pound sterling upon American and Canadian Exchanges. Sir Wil- 1im Booth, a prominent English in- vestigator, states that there are over 13, ,000 of Britain's population Be- lo _ the poverty line and he blames un mployment for it. John Barnes, th English Labor Leader, says the result of these unfavorable balances under the Free Trade Fiscal Policy is "a sea of workless workers surg- ing around their ddors." What is the logical conclusion? Certainly, i not very creditable to "Free Trade." Further, between 1850 and 1908, there ' left the- hornes of Britain 12,000,000 people of this city did nottake kindly to the verdict and hence the result. = The newly appointed Chief of Police selected from the ranks of the force, as it should be, has the title of Major .=. - _Warren E. Pugh. He is a bright young man and the selection gives general satisfaction. He was born in Superior, Wis., February 19th, 1898, joing the Duluth police force in 1916. When the United States entered the World War he was granted a leave One Week Phonograph Special This ,splendid big phonograph' in ma- hogany or fumed oak cases, fitted with double doors, record -shelves. -and cas- tors. Universal tone arm enabling you to play all makes -of records, Height 46 inches, width 20 inches, depth 21 inches. With 40 Records For $168 We can only ask you to hear this in- strument in our - demonstrating room to be convinced of the value we offer. HEAR IT THIS WEEK. E. Umb ach, PhmB. "The Rexall Store" PHONE 28 SEAFORTH of absence during its continuation. He did not manage to get overseas, but he had a metorie career, and his promotions were rapid. He will, ap- parently, prove .a strict disciplarian and -that is needed. Owing - to the high cost of living police salaries were not adequate and good men left the force for -more lucrative posi- tfans and its -morale, and.. discipline suffered, but means have been taken to check these conditions; salaries have- been advanced and with a clean- cut chief the former order of things will be restored. The deer hunting season commenc- ed November 15th and ends December 5th. Thousands of hunting licenses X111111111111 f' ii1111l1l11►,� . 15.74#‘ =� �c(9//)%A2 i1�j �' r - GiftsThat =-: — .....: . _ _. Last.WM! BIM 1.1- - We overheard the remark in mu- = our store the other day— IMO • "Why, this is the cheapest • place in town to buy Xmas. r NM m▪ u▪ l E Gifts." While we knew the60. • remark was quite true, we • were surprised to know Xmas was so near. - And, so we pass the sug- - gestion on to you that the E E. Xmas Gift season is fast ap- = et proaching and the other = thought as well, that you = will save • money by ; buying = "Gifts that Last" at this Store. • Fred S. Savauge Jeweler, and Optician - - SEAFORTH = Phone 194. Evenings 10. Issuer Marriage Licenses. OMR OMNI INN ti11III1fi 1I11IIIIII 11it11lIp111111111I111i111if: GIRLS 1 In All Departments Experience Not Necessary BEST WAGES -BOARD ARRANGED FOR Write or Call AVON HOSIERY LIMITED STRATFORD, ONT. tet 1 $2.04 A Year in Advance McLean Bros., Publishers have been issued and the woods are swarming with more hrinters - than deer. A hunter is allowed to kill but one deer or else but one bull moose. If he kills a, deer, then he cannot kill a bull moose, and the Game War- dens ardens are supposed to see to it that the lawis enf r o ced.m So e hunters have already been shot and some kilt- ed. At times the bullets are singing in all directions. ° There are hundreds of careless hunters; some will fire if they see an object or the bushes move regardless of consequences, taking it for granted it was a deer. 1remem- ber a ;3 bst Duluth doctor- several years ago went deer hunting with horse, rig and companion. Tieing the horse to a tree the two hunters separated. After a time the doctor's companion spied the horse, took it for a deer, fired with fatal results, he had to square the loss with money. On --another occasion father ' and son were out hunting. The son shot a deer, was stooping down to eut its throat in order to bleed it. The father hove in sight, took his son for a bear eating a deer, fired with fatal results, Stricken with uncontrollable grief when hg saw what he had done, he covered his dead son with leaves, hastened and .gave himself up to the authorities. He was. exonerated. Another case—a number of Iowa hunters were hunting deer in North- ern Minnesota, where they had temp- orary quarters. A crazy hunter was located nearby. In the gloaming of one evening while hunting, he saw a moving object in the bushes. Ine did not really know whether it was a man or deer, but thought it the lat- ter. He fired just the same and as - good luck would' have it, he killed a deer. Shortly afterwards he met the Iowa hunters and related to them the incident as already given. iehe latter moved camp immediately and would not -take chances in the same locality - with such an idiotic hunter as that nearby neighbor. I think at this time - a hunter was allowed to shoot more than one neer. Another time a woods- man it, r he early dawn y of morn, Was walking along the railroad track with a pack on his back. ,An early morn- ing nimrod saw him, took him for a deer and fired, a charge of buekshot ` which lodged in the pack sack and " did not injure the'man. Ha apologiz- ed to the woodsman by saying he mis- took him for a deer.. A friend of mine told nee his -experience sacci while hunting. One of a couple of boy brother hunters mistook him for a deer and =deliberately fired at close range, and he says the remembrance of ' the singing noise made by the bullet as it passed within a few inches of his head, still unnerves hien. It was. fired frons .a high-powered rifle, He shouted ared then managed to cover the boys with his own rifle, - made them throw down theirs and get down on their knees and beg for mercy. Then he gave them a lecture in inspiring terms, which - they will never forget, and both in sobbing ac- cents promised never to shoot again until they were certain they were not firing at a human being. Their father afterwards . inet him and thanked him for the scathing lecture given his sons. These ' are - only a few samples of what has occurred_ in the deer hunting season. There are many who, otherwise, would •go hunt- ing but the' danger of being hit by bullets is too much in evidence. Many also will not - make auto trips on country roads alongside of timbered districts until the deer hunting season is over.. A bullet from a high-power- ed rifle will travel a long way unless intercepted by striking an object. ROBERT McNAUGHTON. Duluth, Nov. 21, 1920. FROM AN OLD McIILLOP CORRESPONDENT Toronto, Noveinber 15, 120. Dear Expositor: - A half inch of snow fell here a day or two ago, this with half an inch on- the first of October is all the snow we have had so far. A"somewhat remarkable man ,pass- ed away. here a short time ago. This was Michael Basso, who had been court interpreter for the Italian peo- ple here for forty years. Something unusual for an Italian was the fact that he was a member of the Orange Order and of the Methodist church. The remains were . taken from his home on University avenue to Elm. street Methodist church, where ser- vice was hehl, and the sorrowing groups outside the church door testi- fied to the -esteem in which he was held by the Italian people. Not hav- ing awing any near relatives he left the greater part of his money to the General Hospital Board, to be ex- pended in medical treatment for the poor of his native country who re- side here: The contest in north east Toronto became bitter towards the close. I attended a Liberal meeting on the Thursday evening before the 'election, when one of the speakers went back to the Pacific scandal and told of the social and moral misconduct of Sir J. A. McDonald, both In public and private life, Qn the following evening I attended a Conservative meeting and one of the orators, who had K. C. L. L. D. after his name, went back to the time of the Ross Government and dished up Cap. Sul-` liven, the burning of ballots and the cruise of the Minnie M., etc. Both the old parties appeared to look upon the Drury Government with contempt and gave Higgins, the Labor candi- date, the - cold shoulder. Armistice day was observed at the City Hall from ten to twelve o'clock as a memorial to the men who did not come back. A pedestal had been erected on which was inscribed, "Lest weForget Fo get our glorious dead, who gave their lives for Liberty." It was nearly covered with floral wreaths, which were also banked up, around its base. Mayor Church spoke efi = brx y, prayers were offered, a couple of sacred melodies and the Nations" Anthem were sung and the Salvation Army band furnished musie of a solemn 'and pathetic order. The crowd numbered from 10,00€1 upwards, composed of men, woven and ehil- dren, - The Eaton store people made a` pretence last . Saturday that the - mystical old chap, Santa Claus, had come to town. There was a long pro- cession with all kinds of capers and led by a brass band. I may be per- ' /flitted. to mention .some of the non- - sense. There was a big shoe in which the woman and all her kids. were supposed to live, little Jack Horner and his pie, the cat and the fiddle, etc., Old Mother Hubbard and' her dog, the Tinkers come to Town, etc., and old Santa Claus going - through all kinds of twists. There were great crowds among the Eaton buildings, and children held up by parents and friends fairly screamed with delight. The circus _ men, P. T. Barnum on being asked for the secret of his succiess replied that it was because people liked to be hunibugged.-J. J. I. A FEEDING TEST WITH SUNFLOWERS Mr. Thomas Noble, who farms ice Central Alberta, with dairy cows as one of his main sources of revenue, is now an enthusiastic advocate of 'sun- flowers for silage. A year ago last spring he seeded several acres with , sunflowers, planting and cultivating- very ultivatingvery much . as he would corn. The sunflowers were put in the silo first, and then the silo filled with green oats,which wasth form of ensilage that had been made in previous years. Mr. Noble tells of his feeding experi- ence in "Agricultural~ Alberta" as follows: - "As we finished filling the silo. with oats we had an opportunity to note the change in - the milking and general condition of the cows when the change in feed was trade. The cows were given 40 pounds of oat silage daily, with wheat straw at noon, as we had no other rougge. For grain they received a gallon of oat chop daily. The change froth feeding oat to sunflower silage was necessarily sudden,as sunflower sil- age is- very heavy,- the bulk f the ration was decreased to such an ex- tent that I thought;,the cows would surely starve on the "little dab" of feed they were given. The weather was about the same at the time of the change. so we could attribute the difference in milk flow to no other factor than the sunflowers. This dif- ference in milk averaged two pounds per day more per cow within 48 hours after the change. "The biggest surprise, however, came in the form of a jolt on our pocketbook. When the sunflower sil- age - was finished we had good oat bundles and bright oat straw. The cows were given 30 pounds of cut oat bundles, oat straw at noon, and two gallons of chop instead of one. The cost of the ration was in excess of the silage rationbut as we had a number of cows just freshing, we de- sired to keep up the flow. The week- ly cheque had been running in the neighborhood of $50, but within ten days, on the new ration, it dropped to less than 320 per week, and some of the cows went entirely dry, They lost that smooth look of a healthy cow, and we had to watch them care- fully for impaction cm account Of the long continued dry feed. "When spring finally opened we were thankfN I we had lost no cows, but, owing to the good start they had got from sunflower ensilage, most of them were milking. This may not be anything like an ekperi.- ment station test . but it is enough to convince us that, as a succulent winter ration in Central Alberta, the sunflower has not as yet been equal- led." CROMARTY Notes.—Mrs. Duncan McKellar is confined to her bed with an attack of appendicitis. --Mr. George Russell, of Avonton, spent a few days last week with his sister, Mrs. E. H. Gra- ham.—Mrs. F. H. Tufford has gone to London hospital to have a eritica operation performed on her throat and nose.—Mrs. D. N. McKellar had the misfortune to fall -of the verandah severely sprairing her knee.—It Is our sad duty this week to reporrt the sudden death of Mrs. John Currie. She was taken ill on Friday nigkt last with bronchial pneumonia. and - passed away atamearly hour on Sun- day morning. Deceased was one of the early settlers of this township, having moved here from Lanark county over fifty years ago with her husband,, the late John Currie, who predeceased her twenty-one years ago last July. - She was a staunch sup- porter and n ember of Cromarty Presbyterian nhurch. Mrs. Currie is survived by four sons. Neil and- Archie, of the Wood Specialty Co., $t. Marys; Dr, John, of Rome, N.Y., and Hugh on the homestead, two miles east of C`onlarty. The remains were laid to rest beide her husband in Cromarty eemetery on Tuesday* afternoon.—Mr. John Scott, sr., who went West on the harvest excursion, . has returned home. • •