HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1921-03-04, Page 1FIFTY-FIFTH YEAR
WHOLE NUMBER 2777
SEAFORTH,
Ozi.e Mon
Week
And many Thousands of Dollars worth of
Suits and Coats yet to be sold or practically
given away.
Come on in and help yourself to these
unprecedented Bargains; another week to
go and your opportunity to get Clothes at
Half their value or less, shall be gone.
We haven't space in this ad. to detail
prices. Anyway printed prices cannot con-
vey to the reader the BIGNESS of the Bar-
gains. Come in, we say, and see the actual
garments.
Men, Woolen, Boys and Girls may secure
the Spring outfit at this Closing -out Sale;
and the money saved is simply wonderful.
The crowds of buyers are increasing daily.
Come before the big jam of the last days.
The Greig Clothing Co.
HURON OLD BOYS' RE-IINIION
AT TORONTO
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$evdraJ hundred guests were in
abtehdanCe Thursday night of last
week at the 21st anniversary of the
Heron Old Boys' Association pf' To-
ronto at the O,idfellows' Temple229
College Street, end participated ltd a
very pleaeant..reunion of many old
members of the association. A
feature of the occasion was the pre-
sentation to the oldest member, Dr,
Wm. Sloan, who was treasurer when
the organization was first formed.
Among those on the platform were
the president, Mr, F. T. W. Hodgson;
the secretary, Mr. E. Floody; Mr. J.
Robertson, past president; Mr. J.
Joynt, M.P.P. for WestHuron; Mr.
Govenlock, M.P.Y. for Centre Huron;
Mr. Thos. Hayes, ea -warden of Huron
County; Mr. J. A. McLaren and Dr.
Sloan.
The guests were received by the
president, Mr. Hodgeon, and the vice-
president, Mrs. R. C. King. The
president spoke in appreciation of
the gratifying attendance and extend-
ed a welcome to the guests. Mr.
Joynt presented an interesting ad-
dress and referred to the memorial
which was being planned in honor of
the l6lst Battalion of Huron, in the
ereetien of a splendid hall, which was
to be opened in a few months' time
in the north riding of Huron. Letters
of congratulation were read from the
honorary president, Hon. William
Proudfeot, and Sir John S. Willi-
son, who, being out of the city, were
unable to attend the reunion. For the
same reason Mayor T. L. Church was
not able to attend, and a letter was
read from him containing best wishes
for the success of the entertainment
The president of the newly organized
Huron Old Boys' Association In Van-
couver also extendrli greetings for the
happy occasion. Dr. R. B. J. Stanbury
WAS then called upon tq present the
address to Dr: Sloan. He conveyed
the good wishes of the organization
to the pioneer member and spoke of
his life and work in the city, not
only in his medical profession. but
as elder in the Yaredale Presbyterian
church. At 89 he was still hale and
hearty. Mrs. W. H. Ferguson. who
made the presentation, a handsome
umbrella beautifully engraved, spoke
of Dr. Sloan'.s work in Iluron and
congratulated him upon his success
both in Huron County and in To-
ronto. Dr. Sloan replied in a few
fitting words.
A number of tine soloists kindly
offered their services, and an excel-
lent musical programme was con-
tributed by Miss Florence Finlayson,
contralto, who sang `WISE t'n lim-
ing" and "Lassie it' Mine; by Miss
E. Ferguson. soprano; by Mr. H. E.
Elliott, baritone. who sang "The
Death of Nelsen,- and by Mr. E. L.
Schiff, who gave some splendid solos.
An orchestra under the direction of
C. Gold provided delightful music for
the occasion. The coming -of -age an-
niversary was conceded by all to have
been one of the most interysting
)vents in the history of the associa-
tion. The following are the officers
for 1921: President. Mr. F. T. W.
Hodgson; Vice -President, Mrs. R. C.
King; Chaplain, Rev. J. A. Robinson;
Secretary, Mit. E. Floody; Financial
Secretary, Mies Grace Newton; Treas-
urer, Mr. W. Proudfoot, Jr.; Auditors,
Mr. John Rohertson•and Mr. R. S.
Sheppard. The honorary presidents
are Sir John Willison, Tion. William
Proudfoot and Mr. G. A. Newton.
Paying Pay g Another
Man's Expenses
Beginning March 7th, "The Garden Grocery"
will be run on a "Cash and Carry" basis, with
Quality and Service. Delivery and stationery
are big items, and the Consumer pays for them.
We can cut out overhead expenses very ma-
terially.
With Credit there are Losses, and there must
be a greater margin of profit to meet the same;
90 per cent. of credit is more a habit than neces-
sity and you pay big interest for the privilege.
Evidence is Better than Talk.
PAY CASH AND SAVE MONEY.
FARMERS'
TTENTIO
DO NOT M1SS,1'B1S (FREE—NO CHARGE)
An invitation is extended to You and Your Friends to be present
at a POWER FARMING EDUCATIONAL LECTURE TO BE DEM-
ONSTRATED WITII MOV).NG PICTURES—BRING THE BOYS—
TO BE HELD IN THE NEW ST -RAND THEATRE, SEAFORTH
ON MAW*- 18th, 1921, AT 2 P.M.
LECTURE TOPICS,—(a) Power farming possibilities in Ontario.
(b) Preparing Seed Bed.
(c) Application of the Tractor on the Ontario
Farm.
(d) Purchasing machinery for cash.
(e) Operating Tractor Implements.
MOVING PICTURES (a) Preparing for the Seed Bed.
(b) towing of the corn plant, (which shows
the actual development and growth in
a perfect and in an improperly prepar-
e1 seed bed).
(c) beeping the boy on the farm.
(d) _$vying a Tractor.
' This information will be of value to you as a successful farmer.
The lecturer, Mr. George A. ('lurk, is a Power Farming Exp , and
graduate of the Ontario Agricultural College, who has made( special
study of this Power Far Fe Week.
REMEMBER THE DATE—FRIDAY, MARCH 18th, at 2 p.m. sharp
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the nation.
But let us review the tariff 11, its
actual historic accomplishments. F.
W. has spoken of the crisis of "Corn
l,aw" times. Had the masers of
Great Britain and Ireland refused to
'isten to the (sophistries of scheming
politicians, or the bulldozing of pomp-
ous aristocrats and insisted upon their
rights to continue to live on the land
which had been theirs since the dawn
Of history, all those thousands would
have escaped starvation, and Corn
Laws, repealed or unrepesled, would
have meant nothing in their lives.
Again consider the American Civil
war, largely brought on by Northern
States representatives' insistence up-
on a tariff to keep British goods out
of the reach of the southeast planters.
Yankee workingmen got themselves
killed to protect their jobs Dien the
pauper lab'dr- 9t Europe. FifisirereM's
alter, these infant industries, Mat
had been wet nursed with so much
blood and suffering, are paying less
wages for operating looms and steel
mills than those of old England.
THE Q1UESTION
After looking over the issues (?)
of 130 odd years of wars and elec-
tions in U. S. .A., Henry Tichener,
the author and economist, dashed off
the following rhyme:
"There was a quack doctor lived
back in the hills, who 'used two
concoctions to cure human ills. One
was a physic --"the hest in creation"
--the other would "fix any old con-
stipation." One he called "Tweedle-
dum," one "Tweodledee," both made
of the bark of the sante bloomin'
tree. He skinned the hark upward to
make "Tweedledum," and to make
"Tweedledee" he skinned downward,
by gum. And the people, whenever
they got sick abed, swallowed which
ever the quack doctor said. For the
people are easy and grafters are
slick; and more suckers weer breeches
than swim in the creek. A quack
politician lives in the same hills where
the quack doctor lived with his
"Tweedledure" pills. He, too, had
two medicines every election, one
labelled Free Trade" and the other
"Protection." One skins up in front
when it's peelin' your hide, the other
skins down, and conies off the rear side.
They both skin you proper, and when
i'. is done, you never can swear by
which method you're skun. For the
people are easy. and grafters are
slick, and more suckers wear breeches
than swine in the creek."
In his recent article in The Ex-
positor, F. W., telling us how to be-
come a wealthy nation, says "the law
of increasing wealth,,so.far as a na-
tion is concerned, is foreign trade."
To illustrate his idea he cites a manu-
facturer and a workman, each with a
five -dollar bill; the workman wants
to buy something from the manu-
facturer. so the five dollars is brought
out and handed to the manufacturer.
Thus we have $10 in one pocket and
nothing in the other. The manufac-
turer then gives him a piece of goods
of retail selling value, $5. Does he
get. $5 worth? No! decidely not. He
gets in return for his good $5 bill
an article coating, say $3.00, the extra
$2.00 representing profit." Judging
by the tone of this, F. W. disapproves
of such a transaction on the part of
the individual manufacturer, ,How
then will he justify its application by
On the other hand, what of the
common people of the South, obliged
to sell their labor in competition with
the slaves, or scratch a living from
the slopes of the mountains—which
the planters found unprofitable .to
woek with slave help—and referred to
by the very slaves themselves 50
"poor white trash?" Can you con-
ceive of these benefiting? Neverthe-
less typical of 5 hundred other scenes
we find on a hill overlooking Scioto
Valley, a few miles west of Columbus, to drlapwl sreding in the
Ohio, a huge boulder, the only monu- principally
nient to 2.260 "hops in grey" No- spring. If an early start is not pus -
body knows their names, just so many sible the crop will not nurture before
lives laid down as a testimony to the I the cool damp weather of fall starts.
cheerful, tealthy prison life provided resulting in continued growth and
by their peotectivnist countrymen, a the furmatien of thidk necks rather
tragic libation to a camouflaged fraud than the development of bulbs. This
Consider the Declaration of Inde- may be overcome by an early start
pendence, a wonderful document, but which gives a well developed bulb
a camouflage, which a few months toward the latter part of August, at
after victory was attained, 0 :is taken which period a maturity in the bulb
to a secluded spot ate: quietly is hastened because of the hot and
chloroformed. A hand of smuggling usually dry weather. if the onion has
gentlemen had merely framed it up not reached a certain development at
to set in motion an othereise dis- this tint, vegetative growth will like -
interested mars of people, •n poor ly continue uninterrupted and good
to buy' the expensive import- or drink n'riturity is not likely to be obtained.
the historically famous tea. Seeding should he done as early as
Let us now examine tho circum- the ground is dry enough to work.
stances under which protection be- Thr Extra Early Flat Red is one
came an issue (?) in (Canadian col- of the earliest of red sorts; Yellow
itica. We tied its birth coincides Globe Danvers is also early mature
With the period of great r%,Ilway ex- ing but later than the above and
pension, with the huildine of the much more desirable for most mark -
C:. P. R. as the immediate problem. ets. The Prizetaker is too late for
This the people had scare them- seeding in the open and unless the
selves to build as a puble iy owned season is very favourable they will
line. Graft in conneete o with not mature. centralization is commenced the
charters and construetien . ' private- Any good garden soil will g1 v
1' had iI e t the onions The land is better if manured heater it will be for the rural dis-
and 1011Aw shallop' . etlljtlr•Merl..
t rt gboati the .: ashen previdlwg 'u
shrNow surfeits. covering pf 8n .ells
They should be thinned to about two
The 1%"'v' arieties •were grown et
the RStation, Keuteifls
ott a 1 Windy un from seed Sown
May MO: Early Flat Red *W-
ed 16.1$ tone, Globe 14.52 tons, and
Prisetaker 21.78 tons per CO.aarThe
latter were not as well aaatured aa
the other' two iorte-
The seed may be a in let
low boxes and tr I►mm
.tke results tabnlan(L be w the ad-
vantage of early seeding get well
developed planta for planting to the
open is obvious. The seed if of good
germination may be sown at the rate
of about ten to the square inch and
not be over thick and a box having
two feet of surface will give plenty
of plants for home use. Three inches
depth of soil is sufficient. After the
plants are nicely started keep in a
brjght window and not too warm.
The Prizetaker is the beat sort for
transplanting. Seed started March
22nd and transplanted May llth yield-
ed 27.06 tons of fully matured bulbs
per acre. These were planted three
inches apart in the row. Prizetaker
was thinly planted in flats February
7th and set to the open ground May
10th, three inches apart in the rows
and produced 53.09 tons. It should
be stated, however, that the latter
grew on soil in better fertility than
where the others were grown, the
soil having previously been in onions
for several years.
values alk created by labor hand or
brain.) I state this truth in connec-
tion with a report issued by the Bank
of Commerce. Estimates by this
bank placed wages and salary costs
in industry as L'IS per cent. In 1912,
and 18 per cent. in 1917. In other
words, eighteen cents out of every
dollar value ;:redo%eel goes to the pay
roll. The writer has not seen later
figures, but increased use of labor
displacing machinery, has undoubted-
ly continued to•reduce the percentage.
In order, therefore, to insure con-
tinued employment, it is necessary to.
have a steady market fur four-fifths
of our output outside our great con-
suming masses, las these draw money
sufficient only to absorb a decreasing
fifth). Inability to do so is what
causes over -production.
The financial condition of Europe
makes export there of manufactured
producie not only impossible, but
highly undesirable. Europe must pea•
duce for herself or go bankrupt.
Not in free trade nor protection,
but in the continued dropping of the
payroll percentage is found the rea-
son for frequent appearances of
:.lumps, or panics, which previous to
the war had been corning every five
e oars.
What is the solution? Well that is
outside the tariff question to which
the Editor confines the discussion.
FIFTY-FIFTY.
ONION CULTURE
Failure with this crop is due
HURON OLI) GIRLS AND BOYS
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p,ystery why farmers, who
seed business, do not take, interest in this fair.
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necssaRiy tosnccel.ful'
good sires and the Hsnsai!
could easily be made the
selection and purchase for tap'";
county. The seed "bowl we/ of the
finest, but there was not, enough of
it.
The.following is a fiat Of the suc-
cessful exhibitor's:
White oats—Robert McLaren, W-
R. Dougall, William Pepper.
Barley 6 'Rowed—W, R. Dougall.
Field Peas—W"tlliam Pepper.
Timothy Seed—William Consitt.
Red Clover Seed—William Consittr
Aleike—Wi1Ham Coneltt. -- :
Early Potatoes—James. )ll'enguugk,, .
Alex. Rennie.
Potatoes, general crop—W. R.
Dougall, Alex. Rennie, Jee. Bengough.
LONDE.SBORO
Notes—Rev. Mr. Anderson, pastor
of Ontario Street Methodist church.
Clinton, preached two very able ser-
mons in the Methodist church here
last Sunday.—Rev, Mr. Sawyers was
in Clinton last Sunday preaching in
the Ontario Street Methodist church.
d- who had the mis-
-Mr. Lours
fortune to have his shoulder bone
1217 broken last Thursday, is improving
February 17, 1921. nicely. --The council will meet this
Editor of The Huron Expositor. Friday in the council' hall.—Reeve
Seaforth. Armstrong was here last Friday.—
Sir:—Although we are a longMr. Bowcodk has taken the caretak-
DearK ing of the Methodist church again •
way faun Huron, there are stin many this year—Quite a number from here
loyal sons and daughters of the good took in the concert at Auburn on
old county who do not wish to lose •ruesday evening.—The Ladies'. Aid
connection with all Huron's history held their meeting at the home of
traditions and old friends. So we, in Mrs. Fingland on Tuesday.—Miss D.
Vancouver, have formed a Huron Old Braithwaite is at Westfield, spending
Boys' Association. We have had two a couple of weeks with her sister,
organization meetings and at the last Mrs. Tathorgill.—Mr. E. Adana in -
enthusiastic rally, the following of- tends building a new house this
fitters were elected for the year; spring on his farm.
President, D. T. -Kendall, (Brus-
sels); 1st Vic -Pres., Dr. Feare, (Sea -
forth); 2nd Vice -Pres., G. B. Gordon,
(Goderich i ; 3rd Vice -Pres., T. G.
Donaghy, (Fordwich); Rec. Secy., F.
J. Lawrence, (Seaforth); Cor. Secy.,
Miss Jean Cantelon, (Goderich);
'Teas., Mr. Edwards, (Fordwich);
Directors, Mrs. Shortreed, William
McQueen, Mks. Humphreys, W. H.
Corby, T. B. Hill, Mrs. Donaghy, Mr:
Day, A. Bowles, Mrs. Greig, .G. F.
Gibson.
There are a great many former
1{uronites in our fair city and we
are looking forward with great en-
thusiasm to a splendid organization,
which will be worthy of the banner
county we represent here.
As you see, I have been appointed
corresponding secretary and it will
be my duty and pleasure to write
hack to the county papers from time
to time such news of our Society
and its affairs, as we think the people
Lack home may like to hear about.
We wish to keep in closer contact
with all Huron's activities and we
would like to feel that the people of
Huron are interested in this assoria-
tien and in its activities. Will you
kindly insert this news of our new
u?sociation in your paper?
We wish you continued success in
yeur'publieation and we, of Vancou-
ver, send greetings hack to the old
"Hume County of Huron." I ani
Yours sincerely,
JEAN CANTELON.
CLINTON
Briefs.—Mr. A. T. Cooper, of town.
attended the annual Dominion Alli-
ance Temperance Convention in To-
ronto last week. Mr. Cooper will be
busy lining up the temperaneetdorcet •
pf {wren for ,the coming referendiam
next month.—li r. R, Roberton: i -'—
ing into the residence he purchased
recently in town and P. Ztoweliffe is
getting settled on the farm purchas-
ed from Mr. Roberton on the 2nd of
Stanley.—Mr. Wm. Taylor and family
of the 2nd of Stanley intend to move
tc their farm near St. Marys about
the middle of March. The best wish-
es of the whole community go with
them to their new home.—The many
friends of Dr. Axon, of town, who
has been seriously ill for the past
two weeks, hope for a speedy recov-
ery, A specialist from Toronto was
here in consultation with Dr. Gandier
early in the week.—The annual con-
gregation men's banquet will be held
in the Presbyterian church on Friday
evening, March llth. A special
speaker from Toronto will be here
fur the occasion. There will be music ,
by the choir and refreshments. The
ladies of the church are asked to
join with the men this year, and a
pleasant and profitable time is look-
ed forward to. --Mrs. (Dr.) Elliott, of
Lticknow, spent a short. time calling
on friends in town this week. Mrs.
(Cor. acsey.) Elliott was at Seaforth attending the
her aunt Mrs. Dr. ('.am
funeral of ( ) P -
THE EVILS OF CENTRALIZATION bell.,—The High School Inspector was
The assertion of a Torentn paper here this week paying his Medal
!hat the U.F.O. is likely to get con- visit to the Clinton collegiate. What-
trol of the stock market and force e1 et- benefit accrued front ofiteialdoin
the price of meat to any figure it of this nature in the past anyone,
wishes is made to create enmity even the must casual observer; etas-
; gainst the U.F.O. in Toronto. This not fail to see that under present
need worry no one since the pro- '''•editions when teachers for the dif-
wince of Ontario is not contained feeent grades in the Collegiate In -
within the limits of the City of To- stitutes are very hard to secure and
rento. It is time some community many schools in the province are
of interests was getting control of short of teachers. and it is no uncom-
sonmething at present manipulated non occurrence to have the very best
by city interests. The sooner de- teachers taken away and given posi-
tions of various kinds, all adding to
the far too expensive machinery. al-
ready in use. We were recently in-
fernted that an in-pe:'ter of inapec-
tees was to he anpointed. If there
it one thing that Canada es a young
cation is suffering from more than
any other it. is t hat of being toe much
governed. We have at the. presS$t
time the Ontario Government in ses-
sion for nine weeks, grinding shag
with occasional sparring and talk.
endless talk. and practically not one
item worth while accomplished and
in a few' weeks the members gett�g
weary, the whole business will be
rushed through regardless of conse-
quences. The same thing is going
on at Ottawa. It is surely amusing
to follow the discussion as printed
in the daily papers, but it is very
expensive amusement. However, we
sec tlhat all the members are to be
kept. steady on the job as it is thought -
that there might be a posel'bility of
the present government getting into
a tight plere if too many were off
or sick le:evr or private business,
whichever serves the purpose beet.
Thus the merry round goes on and
the long suffering public toile and
works until the thing becomes un-
bearable and the powers that be --
that in the words of the sage utter-
ed long ago are true: You may fool
some of the people all the time and
all the people part of the thine, but
you cannot fool all the people ail
the time.
h built Ines a ace e' o r in the fell, het well -cum orad manure
heavens. Money had hc, flowing p trios and the small towns. Many
like water, and a governs t, whose may be applied in the spring and olte-tints thrivingevillages ore to -day
leader had carelessly aline, .1 incrim- worked into the surface soil. Acid deserted because of the centraliza-
inating papers to become e dlic, had Phosphate at the rate of 600 pounds tion of industry. Thirty years ago
been forced to resign. per acre and nitrate of soda at the every district in the Province had
We said the people had -'tiled up- rate of 200 pounds per acre or a !its foundry where the stoves, most
on public ownership; not so certain mixed fertilizer at the rate of 800 of the farm implements and much
financiers. Exercising the diligence pounds per acre may be applied to I custom work was cant: every vil-
of men who saw the millions to be ;