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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1921-05-06, Page 2VALUES IN\ PROSPIESRIIf win./ PRO - , Lawn Mowers These machines are made of the highest grade steel, well finished, large wheels, 14 and 16 inch cut, roller and plain bearings, adjust- able to smooth or rovgh lawns. Examine the mowers • and the prices and you will tt agree they -' are B I G VALUES. $10.00, $12.00 & $15.00 each etA"�.J For Spring Step Ladders, 40 & 45c ft. Carpet Beaters .20 Scrub Brushes ..15c to 30c Horse Clipppers,$2.6Qto $4.50 Garden' Cultivatol<s $1.50 Window Screens .55c to $1 Garden Rakes..75c to $1.251Screen Doors,1plete 5to $5.50 yes.. Washing Machines...520.00 Mop Sticks .35c Alabastine, per pkg.....75c White Wash Brushes 70c to $1.80 Blast Out Your Stumps and Rocks We have special Stumping Powder in sticks that will do the work. Safe to handle. Not expensive. Call and get particulars. G. A: Sills, Seaforth THE McKILLOP MUTUAL FIRE INSURANCE CO'Y. HBAD OFFICE-SEAFORTH. ONT. OFFICERS J. Connolly, Goderich, President Jas. Evano,Beechwood, Vice -President eTrea T. E. Hays, Seaforth AGENTS Alex. Leitch, R. R. No. 1, Clinton; Ed. Binchley, Seaforth; John Murray, Guelph, arrive Brucefield, phone 6 on 137, Seaforth; J. W. Yeo, Goderich; R. G. Jar- Waltones aruti Brndhagen. Blit Anbnrd DIRECTORS Goderich William Bien, No. 2, Seaforth; John lennewies, Brodhagen; James Evans,,Connections at Gnelph Junction with Reechwood; M. McEwen, Clinton; Jas.Main Line for Galt, Woodstock, Lon don, Detroit, and Chicago, and all in termediate points. During the latter part of the year 182(1, Qtnada witnessed an unedify- ingtiitsn�t}1 spectacle. A group of three Oabiaet Ministers traversed the oouatry .front ocean to ocean. In the cd[try sad dominating group, was the Minister of Finance, urbane and in the main cheerful in spite of the burdens of a colossal national debt. On owe stde Sir Henry was buttressed by the Minister of Agriculture, and en the other by the Minister of Labor. They too were cheerful enough, when riot somnolent or palpably bored. But it is not the dauntless three whom we would describe as diaeunl. Rather it i% the procession, which, day after day, week after week, filed be- fore the commission, with its mono- tonous confession of incapacity to face the world, and its reiterated appeal for state aid. With very few excep- tions -there were delegates of the farmers, a few housewives and one or .twe labor representatives, the witnesses who offered themselves were of one mind. They argued that Canadian business could not survive foreign competition; that it must have Government support or perish. Per- haps the one exception among the business men was the representative of the Massey -Harris Company, who admitted that his firm was able to compete in world markets and that it could survive without protection, but who contended none the less for ,the retention of the tariff in the gen- eral interest. I Two kinds of factories were not represented in the procession of mendicants. They form a small, but distinct and significant group. In 1897, a year after the advent of the Laurier administration, cream separ- ators were placed on the free list, land there are now nearly a score of factories engaged, more or less, either in the manufacturing, or, what !sometimes passes in this country for manufacturing-, in the assembling of crearn separators. The following year hinder twine was placed on the free ;list, and there are now three factories engaged in the manufacture of bind er twine and rope, two of therm mann- ;taeturing in the one case mostly bind- er twine, arid in the other case almost entirely binder twine. The third is stronger on rope, which is dutiable. Since no representative of this group of free trade industries was heard by the tariff cummisssion,, and since their experience is quite pertinent to ;the inquiry, one may be pardoned for !allowing his curiosity to suggest an examination into how these firms were managing to walk without ankle sup- ports. For the present we shall confine ourselves to bne firm which receives no protection and still survives and thrives. The Brantford Cordage Company is situated in the city of - ;Brantford, Ontario. It has been - manufacturing binder twine for C. P. R. TIME TABLE GUELPH & GODERICH BRANCH TO TORONTO a.m. p.m. Goderich, leave 6.20 1.80 Blyth 8.68 2.07 Walton 7.12 2.20 Guelph 9.48 4.68 FROM TORONTO Toronto, leave 8.10 6.10 9.80 8.30 12.03 9.04 12.16 9.18 12.28 9.30 12.55 9.55 Connolly, Goderich; D. F. McGregor, R. R. No. 8} Seaforth; J. G. Grieve, No. 4, Walton; Robert Ferris, Oarlock; George McCartney, No. 3, Seafortis G. T. R. TIME TABLE Trains Leave Seaforth as follows: 11 a. m. - For Clinton, Gederich, Wingham and Kincardine. 1.68 p. m. - For Clinton. Wingham, and Kincardine. 11.08 p. m. - For Clinton, Goderich, 6.51 a. m. -For Stratford, Guelph, Toronto, Orillia, North Bay and points west, Belleville sad Peter- boro and points east. 1.12 p. m. -For Stratford, Toronto, Montreal and points east. LONDON, HURON AND BRUCE Going North a.m. p.m. London 9.06 4.45 Centralia 10.04 6.60 • Exeter 10.18 6.02 Halsall 10.33 6.14 gippen 1038 6.21 Brumfield 10.47 6.29 Clinton 11.03 6.45 Londeaboro 11.34 7.08 Blyth 11.43 7.10 Beagrave 11'.56 7.23 Wingham 12.11 7.40 Going South a.m. p.m. Wingham 7.30 8.20 Beigrave 7.44 8.36 Blyth 7.56 3.48 Londeaboro 8.04 8.56 Clinton 8.28 4.15 Brucetibld 8.40 4.32 Kippen 8.46 4.40 Hensall 8.68 4.50 Exeter 9.18 6.06 Centralia 927 6.16 London 10.40 8.16 HOW YOU CAN TELL GENU* ASPIRIN Only Tablets with "Bayer Cross" are Aspirin -No others! twenty years. Organized under for- eign competition with a very small plant, it has grown under foreign competition until to -day. it is said to be the,,largest binder twine factory in the.Bi,'itish Empire. It is a Can- adian company managed by a na- tive Canadian and financed by Can- adian capital. It stands and deser- ves to be recognized as an example of what Canadians can do when they choose to depend on themeselves rather than on government aid. It is now twenty-three years since binder twine was put on the free list. Sufficient time has elap- sed to pernsit a just appreciation of the experiment. Several factories have failed or ceased to operate. To some degree failure or discontinu- ance was the result of pressure from large and powerful companies, who were prepared to wage a price war in order to eliminate opposition, but There is only one Aspirin. that marked the element of weak management with the "Bayert'ross"--alt ot,ler tab- was also present. The outstanding lets are only acid imitations. facts are, first, that the Plymouth Genuine "Bayer Tablets of Aspirin" Cordage Company fifteen years ago, have been prescribed by physicians for thought it worth while to build a nineteen years and proved safe by mil- large factory at Welland, Ontario, lions for Pain. Headache, Neuralgia, which has been maintained and ex - Colds. Rheumatism, Lumbago. Neuritis. tended, although the company could Handy tin boxes of 12 tablets -also have shipped its twine into Canada Luger "Bayer" packages, can be had free of duty from its main factory at any drug store. Made in Canada. hat Plymouth, Massachusetts; and Aspirin is the trade mark (registeredsecondly, that the Brantfotd Cord - in Canada), of Bayer Manufacture of I rge Company in twenty years has Monoaceticacidester of Salicylicacid. I grown from a little factory with While it is well known that Aspirin sixty spindles to a great and pros - means Bayer manufacture, to assist the perous industry with seven hundred public against imitations, the Tablets of . spindles and an output of over 10, - Bayer Company, Ltd., will be stamped '000 tons of twine a year. The with their general trade mark, the -chi t , exement of the Plymouth coo= 'Bayer Cross.' Many is significant as an answer to the contention that American capi- tel would never come to Canada were it not for the tariff; that of � the Brantford Cordage Company as an answer to those whn lack faith in the capacity of Canadians to face American competition. Mrs C. L. Messecar, the Manager of the Brantford Cordage Company, was brought up on a Brant County farm. His education was completed by two' winter courses at the Ontario Agricultural College. At the age of twenty-four he was still a farmer. His early business training was se- cured on the farm and with the M,as- scy-Harris Company. Seventeen years ago he assumed his present position. If one were to ask him the secret of his success, and he could he induced to give an answer, he would probably attribute it to three things, the careful study of markets, emphasis on quality rather than pro- fits, and determination to depend on his ow'n efforts. The result is that to -day the home market is demand- ing more of his twine than he can supply, while he is faced with the necessity, if he would fill foreign orders, of again doubling the capa- city of his factory. It was an interesting experience to drop into a Canadian factory run- ning full force in times of aerie= unemployment, occupied on that par- ticular day in making twine to fill a Dublin order. Last year the for- cing' trade included shipments to the United States, to the Argentine, to almost all the countries of Eur- ope, to Tunis in North Africa,to South Africa and to Siberia. ere rove havb a Canadian factory en- gaged in the work of 'helping to reduce our foreign debt and to . im- prove exchange in the only way in 'blob the balande can be righted, MI$TR ICR PLUG R A SMOKING , - e B PLUG 0 oof0 � HE man who smokes A Master Mason KNOWS the flavor of good tobacco. He dernands the big Master Mason plug, because to the last pipeful it gives him the best for the feast money. u MISEPT OI1tL-�EALTU Three Yews of Suffering Quickly Relieved by "FRUIT-A-TIVES" M. GASPARD DUBORD 159 Avenue Pius IX, Montreal. "For three years, I was a terrible sufferer from Dyspepsia and my general health was very bad. I consulted a physician and took his medicine and faithfully carried outfits instructions; but I did not improve and finally the doctor told me 1 could not be cured At thitittme, a friend advised me to try Tait -a -tines' and I did eo. After taking two boxes of 'Fnut-a- tives, I was greatly relieved; and gradually this marvelous fruit medicine made me completely well. My digestion and general health are spleadid-all of which I owe to "Fruit -a -tires". GASPARD DUBORD. 50e.a box, 6 for $2.50, trial size, 25e. At all dealers or sent postpaid by Fruit-a-tivee Limited, Ottawa, Ont. way; Tre = rex joy Rye1Fmsa; titan, aggeer, 'W { rewatr; Captain, Wm. Tbomlpaon; Financial Committee, W` M. Sinclair, D. C. Ross, A. L Seeker; Ground 'Committee; Robert Downing, Wes. Armstrong, Noble Gerry. It vias decided to enter a team in the North Wellington Baseball League, and the following umpires were chos- en to etiolate at the games: Wesley Armstrong and Robert Downing. Prospects look exceedingly bright for the coming season and some good games may be expected. JAPANESE HUSBANDS. , Japanese husbands, strike the vis- iting foreigner, aa being bossy and cruel to their wives. It is embarrasa- ing for instance, for a Japanese hus- band to introduce his proud wife as "my stupid wife;" but this is due solely to the difference in the rules of etiquette. In Japhn it is considered rude, or a sign of ill -breeding, to show too much. affedtion. Unre- strained expressions of amorous sentiment in public are taboo in Ja- mie. Hence, in public places the re- lation of husband and wife appears unnaturally cool. But such is not the case in private life. A Japanese hus- band .hides a vast reservoir of tender emotion and love beneath the time- honored custom of assuming indif- ference toward his wife. The disposal of the husband's income is usually entrusted to the wife, who manages the financial affairs of the home and from whom the husband takes his monthly allowance.' by shipping goods abroad. When Canadian factories turn their atten- tion less to creating a private pre- serve at home, and more to culti- ating foreign markets, thus help- ing the farmer in the immense task of paying our national obligations in interest and principal, we shall have a better economic structure in Canada, and a better feeling between farmers and manufacturers. One striking feature of the manu- facture of binder twine is that, so far as materials are concerned, it is by no means a native industry. All the raw material used and most of the machinery used must be import- ed. The sisal fibre comes from Mex- ico and Java and West Africa, and manilla comes from the Philippine Islands. Both the raw material and the machinery are free from duty so long as they are employed in the production of a commodity which is duty-free. Consequently an enter- prising firm is at no appreciable dis- advantages as compared with Amer- ican firms and European firma which are under equal necessity of importing raw material. The dis- advantage from greater freight rates on raw materials is partially offset by the advantage of greater proxim- ity to the market for the finished product, for the greater part of the twine manufactured is still sold in Canada. No peculiar advantages are en- joyed by the Brantford Cordage Company. Other industries indeed, might be mentioned which are dis- tinctly more, native than the manu- facture of binder twine. For its la- bor it must compete with protected interests. In the home and foreign market it must compete with older and financially stronger organiza- tion. It had to perfect its methods of manufacture, and its selling sys- tem while subject -to strong competi- tion and' for three years to the destructive effects of a price war. Under those conditions it has grad- ually built up its business. finding sufficient profits to pay modest div- ,idends and extend its ,plant. To -day it stands on a .firm footing, with great opportunity for export as well as for home trade. It affords astim- ulating example ' of the response which a sturdy Canadian spirit makes when freed from the incubus of a short-sighted paternalism. A hive of industry iii a desert of unem- ployment, concretely it condemns the National Policy. -A very successful re -organization of Brussels Baseball Club was held in W.(;rewax's restaurant Monday night. James Ballantyne was voted to the chair and bhe minuites of the last meeting were read and adopted. The following officers were elected: Hon.esiden n. Vice Pr t, D. C. Ross HD President, G. H. Sams; President, W. M. Sinclair; Vice President, Walter Rose; Second Vice President, A. C. Baeker; Secretary, Oswald Heming- l� LEONARD EAR OIL RELIEVES DEAFNESS and STOPS HEABNOiSES. Simply Rub it Rack of the Ears and Insert in Nostrils. Proof of suc- eess win be glean by the drueg5t. MADE IN CANADA ARTHUR SALES CO., Soles Agents, Taranto 1. 0. Lenard, Ing,, lifts.,10 51h Aro., e. T. City For Sale by E. iIMBACH, Seaforth nht, tj` IF ay., f WHY DO WE USE THE EXPRES- SION "TO LAUGH UP ONE'S SLEEVE?" There are many expressions in English as we speak it to -day, which hark back to other days and other customs, particularly the customs of dress. To say that some achieve- ment is a "feather in one's cap" is a reference to the days when men's headgear was not as staid and digni- fied as it is at present, while "the shoe on the other foot" recalls the time when shoes were far more clumsy and ill-fitting than those of 'modern manufacture. So, to the phrase to "laugh up one's sleeve" brings up a picture of olden days when outer garments were made in long, flowing ilnes. Then if a person covered his face with his hand, there was a suspicion that he was hiding a smile, for the generous sleeves were of sufficient proportion to conceal more mater- ial things than an expression of ridicule. 11111111 • 11111111 I• 1111111 1 IIII 1 11111111 • INCORPORATED 1855 Capital and Reserve $9,000,000 Over 130 Branches he Molsons Bank The coat of living is falling, also the price ofrfood stuff. This necessitates increased production.+'Pro- duce more pnd deposit your surplus in The Molsons Bank where it will be ready for any call and yet be,eerning interest. BRANCHES IN THIS DISTRICT: Brucefield, St. Marys, Kirkton Exeter, Clinton, Hehaall, Zurich._ views the recent history of the coal trade and shows that, in the Dur- ham collieries, the wages cost of a to of coal in 1914. was 6s 4d. It has inereased last year to nearly 19s 8d. In the same period the average output per man had de- creased from 262 tons to 170 tons. In the former period the average wage was £83,2a,8d and in the lat- ter £167,10s. Moreover, in reckon- ing miners' wages it is to be re- membered that as a rude the men have free houses, or are given in ad- dition to their wages an allowance for rent. Their coal costs them nothing or next to nothing. In the past, England had the cheapest coal in the world. Now it costs from, between two and three times what American coal costs, and yet Ariterican wages are higher. The secret lies in the British under- production. This "ca' canny" policy which extends through most of the British trades threatens the' nation with ruin, the writer believes. He mentions the case of a returned BLAMES THE UNIONS FOR UNEMPLOYMENT. In an article contributed to Sperl- ing's Journal the time before it ap- peared certain that the English coal miners would strike, Mr. J. Ellis Barker makes some pungent remarks upon the miners and upon trade unions generally. In fact he heads his article, "The Tyranny of the Trade Unions," and he seeks to show how the original object of the unions has been changed and how a majority of trade unionists have become the mere political catspaws of a scheming and sinister minority: He says "The Bri- tish workers are frequently, and with full justification, praised for their sturdy common sense, for their spirit of independence, for their hatred of oppressing and injustice, and for their love of fairplay. These excellent qualities which are very noticeable in the British workers if taken individ- ually are curiously absent from their organization, from the trade minions, fsr these possess qualities which are absolutely repugnant to the individual Englishman." The writer argues that socialists, having failed to bring about a revolu- tion by independent action, have adopted a method of indirect ap- proach through the trade unions. It was the idea of the socialists that trade union funds should be used for political purposes, an idea that was stoutly opposed by many labor leaders when it was first suggested. In denunciation of the Labor Party and the policy it pursues, he quotes W. V. Osborne, at one time a secre- tary of the Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants. He says "The ob- ject of all this is to send to Parlia- ment a 'number of members -tied, paid and controlled by an outside body -whose very conditions of ser- vitude are the renouncing of Coun- try, constituency, conscience and manhood, and who are to act in ac- cordance with the dictation of their paymasters, securing in return salar- ies which are extracted by coercion from the pockets of their politieal opponents." The writer shows that Socialism is a foreign importation and that in the past few decades the char- acter of the British trade union has completely changed. The state has taken over much of the philanthropic work that was formerly carried on by unions for the benefit of their members. The State, in his opinion, by permitting peaceful picketing, by ,allowing them to virtually compel independent. workers to join the unions, and by sanctioning the use for politicalends of funds subscrib- ed for social and industrial purposes successive. Parliaments have placed the unions above the law. The grav- est abuse of this power has been per- haps the restriction of -output. The unions have been guided by the doc- trine thus laid down ins -the "Fabian Essays in Socialism." "The workers 1 have been taught by the practi- i cal economists of the trade unions, and have learned for themselves by bitter experience, that every time any of them, in a montent of ambition or goodwill, does one stroke of work not in .his bond, he is increasing the future unpaid labor not only of him- self but of his fellows,' From this doctrine Mr. Barker vehemently dissents, and he quotes authorities upon economics against it. He says, "widespread unem- ployment is due to the fact that the impoverished word finds British goods too dear. Their dearness is principally due to the policy of the trade unions, which have caused a universal scarcity of all the commo- dities produced by labor." Ile rd - : _. nyi"�. JI '�.'r �'�rN`9�:vTe4?�a,k.�r't�1Y�.:S^!>~k,ttr,s,;<?dAi+P.7a•5:.. dliil, soldier working for a motor car firm at -Birmingham, Who found that in turning cylinders he could do a job in forty-three minutes. He was warned by union officials that the proper time was seventy minutes. He ignored the warning: There followed a strike which lasted until this worker was removed. A. good American bricklayer lays 200 bricks an hour on straightfor- ward work by the ordinary methods, and up to 350 an hour when using - the Taylor-Gilbreth system. Fre- quently, the British bricklayer lays 150 bricks a day. Mr. Ellis shows a similar principle in many trades and says that it is this practise that makes living dear for the workers themselves. He concludes, "Mil- lions of workers vaguely feel that trade unionism is chiefly respon- sible for present unemployment. Before long we may see a wide- spread revolt against trade union- ism. Its downfall seems inevitable.. Organized labor has over reached itself." 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Because an international confer- ence of medical experts, realizing that voluntary organization was necessary as an aita to Governments in solving the- world's health prob- lems, decided that "no other or- ganization is so well prepared to undertake these great responsibili- ties as the Red Cre.•is," and that "no movement deserves more the hearty and: enthusiastic support of all people than does this." ONTARIO ENROLLMENT, MAY 22-28 Enroll with your local Red Cross Branch or Enrollment Committee, or, if there is none in your community, with the Ontario Provincial Division, 910 SHERBOURNE STREET, TORONTO. Canadian Iced Cross Society Ontario Division 1 5t� h ,.:'.„:1440%44,04: ...�•leiw.�`NbY.:dl,-1.x:1. ad , .s, . �, my