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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1922-03-31, Page 1Orr !OIL TEAR QL IN JMBER 2883 •'r ;d Stewart . Bras. New Spring Featuring p g Styles For Women The Very Last Word In Millinery. That the Spring Hats nev- er were prettier is the con - census of opinion of the hun- dreds of women who attend- ed our Opel'iing Display. It is our determination to maintain throughout the season this high standard. If you would know what is new and correct; if you would be becomingly hatted at a very reasonable price —come here.` New Spring Dresses Wonderfully - Beautiful and . Stylish are these de- lightful new garments, styles that are so clever; materials and colors that are so charming; prices that are so temptingly reason- able, that you will see at a glance the unquestionable advantage of buying one of these Superior Dresses, and the decided price benefit of buying it at Stewart's. PRICES 4.50 to $40 Rugs, Linoleums, Curtains Back to Reasonable Prices No, need to wait longer to buy the New Rug or Linoleum or Cur- tains. Our prices on the New Spring Goods are a most agreeable im- provement on the prices of recent years. And, furthermore, the quali- ties of the new goods compare very favorably indeed with pre-war mer- chandise. Housecleaning time is fast approaching, and we are excel- lently prepared to meet your every requirement. Women's Coats Attractive We feel quite justified in being insistent that you see Our Coats before you make your Spring purchase. The decided change of styles in this year's coats makes it necessary that you see these wonderfully at- tractive new garments. . We invite you with mod- est pride and confidence to see. bull New Coats, feeling sure you will discover in stantly that the reputation this store already enjoys for Superior Women's Coats !ice beef indisputably main- `tamed: PRICES $15 to $65 Women's Suits Beautiful In view of the emphatic sanction Dame Fashion has placed upon the Suit as a Spring garment, we have made more than usual pre- paration. We have dili- gently searched the markets for the newest and prettiest suits obtainable at reason- able prices. And now we )rlvite you to come and see. Come and learn what is new. Acquaint yourself with the unparalleled beauty t o symetrical grace, the per- fection of fit, the rich lining. and every detail that spell: satisf action. PRICES 19.95to$5d AT THE >i,,EGlf;IiATURE - a Torolto, March 25th Just waiting/ ePpeare to be .416 policy of 'WeIlmgten iRay, leader of the Liberals in -the Legislature, at the $resent time. 33Qvvs,loug the party 'will stand for it is pother matter, . The Mail and F Wre has praised the Liberal.Leader'for showing cun- ning and strategy iit'trying to sooth the Farmers' Party back into the fold but it is not well to put too much faith in this• smiling approval of the Mail. Trust not smooth swords in the mouth of an enemy. And already there is restlessness shown in the Liberal ranks in the Legislature. H. Hartley Dewart, with sharp tongue and quick wit, waits not for his leader's voice, but hurls his taunts across the floor;to where Premier . Drury and his cohorts to, and when Hartley..ds in good trim there is always fun for the galleries. Then the other day Major MacLang intimated to Mr. Speaker that his seat didn't just suit him. It was in, the Liberal ranks alright, but he was moved over to the benches of the de- serters from the government, Messrs. M. M. 'McBride, of 'Brantford, and George Halcrow, of Hamilton. Its still in the Liberal fold, but not quite as close to Mr. Hay as formerly. Apart from his speech on the Ad- dress, Hon. Mr. Hay has scarcely lift- ed his v lice in the House a dozen times this session. If he is playing the waiting game, he certainly has good patience. He wears a satisfied air, has broken into the movies, (Huron ought to see him some of these days shown coming out of the Parliament Buildings); keeps his pearl gray hat pulled over his eyes in .the House and wears a pink carna- tion in his buttonhole constantly. Hartley Dewart, G. Howard Fergu- son, M. M. McBride, Forbes Godfrey and one or two other lesser lights, are the naughty boys who disturb the dreams of th farmer legislators at the present trine, especially those of Mr. Drury and .Mr. Raney. They are terribly rough on these gentle- men. Just the other day Mr. Dewart sug- gested 'that the premier's promises were like pie crust, made to be brok- en. Of course Premier Drury asked fora withdrawal. Put as the ques- Stewart Bros:, Seaforth Well, you ought to have heard •thoosta Conservatives pound their ¢esiia ion, Peter Smith, Provincial Tres .surer has brought hi his report. He eays''he has a surplus of somewhere• around $600,000, but W. E. N. Sin- clair, who- knows something about finances and speaks on them for the Liberals, says that if the U, F. O. Government had not' • brought in a bookkeeping system all their own, the government surplus would vanish in- to a deficit of about $2,000,000.— L H. F.. PARLIAMENTARY LETTER Ottawa, March 24th, 1922,s -All things must come to end sometimes. That maxim 'applies to debates in the House of Commons as well as to other things and to the Debate on the Address in 'particular. After dragging along more or less inter- mittently for the past week, and hav- ing got down into the doldrums sey- eral times, the first big talk of the session is over• most of the members have let off their accumulated sur- plus of steam, and consequently the House can go on to things which are of more importance to the country. Oonside i g the great mass of new material i�the House this year the debate was not unduly long,"and also it was generally of a high quality. The honor of making the worst speech of the session, and probably the worst maiden speech heard in years, went to Tommy Church, of Toronto, who talked for several hours, apparently with an eye chief- ly to -the fact that the goyernment should not forget the existence of Tommy's bailiwick, even though there were no members from there on the right of Mr. Speaker. The great number of new men sitting behind Mr. Orerar, on the other hand, have demonstrated that they are capable speakers. Their wants are clearly specified and they are sincere in their demands, and on all' sides there are heard expressions of surprise at the excellence of their speeches. . The advent of many of the present' members of the Progressive Party has been a distinct gain to the 'House. They want the return of the Wheat Beard, wider markets, a lowering of the tariff on agricultural implements, lower freight rates for their grain and similar legislation to improve the MAO: Warks. Btibiekk iO,o1ui lira r + to aar the member .for: et 0, and down in the` eonet of ; Vaudreu'i1-Rodau ,: r'egdeyed cant by the elevation of,P.mstare Royer to the Senate, a !Libor* laas keen.' chosen .by acclamation. Vials means that 7irith : by-elections out of . g&sip the way, the government is able to , VOA give its full attention to the..: mere td's' -important items of public linnitinees The lol>rlty needing attention and also thattbere .towards the,i is not, at the ippre��sent •time, eny. see- 19271. upWleerIS f tion of the j0ominion without its ed do ROW money.' voice in the making of laws. '`eider that. pities are usltai1l. * r + we 55e- that One of the striking things of the some eneaui'agement. nix •this•Wdy present session, and •a good sign in Some times the criticism is made itself; is the activity about the lob- : thatthe fair is no good es suo ono' bids of the House of Commons thiscan make any.money at the'<far. We ' session. There has been more oath,- • wish to point out that it is net de-. ity there in the past two weeks than sired that any pupil should -.become during the two preceding sessions, la Millionaire by:becoming 'an ex`hRt4- If that can be taken to indicate any- tor. We also wish to paint out that. thing at all, it is that the people are • taking more interest in the work of the government now than for years ; and also. that the people know they; can get a chance to place their prob- lems before the men at the head of affairs. Doormen and pages are kept busy 'looking for members who are being sought by one or another of their constituents with something toy put forward, and •it would appear 1 that the policy has been to hear as many of them as passible. Many of the) requests made to the Govern- ment have been refused, however, and probably ninety per cent. of the pro- fessional lobbyists have gone away heapi5ointed in that they did not get what they wanted, but She very fact that they can once more get a sympathetic hearing is having a good effect on the confidence of the public. ve tion under discussion had been with- condition of the farmers throughout drawn, Mr. Dewart didn't' see how , the country, all of which the Liberals he could withdraw his statement un- I are working for. True, some of their til he had an opportunity to justify it. .Eventually he did take it back, upon the request of Speaker Parlia- ment, but it is liable to break out again. There is no doubt about it Hartley •Dewart has a cutting tongue and wit, knowledge of parliamentary business without equal in the present legislature. Someone taunted hint the other day with having lost his job as leader of the Liberals. In double quick time he told them that he could have had it y, t if he had wanted it. Andy Hicks, of South Huron, had all his flock of government' members in their seats when the division bells ceased ringing for the first time this session. And they all voted accord- ing to government lights, too, not one of .them made a false step after Mr. Raney had shown the way. Members of the other groups ex- ercised their individuality somewhat, demands are in the line of class de- mands, in their beliefs that the farmer in the past few years has not been given a square deal, and they also believe that with their help, the present government is willing to give him at least an even break. One thing which is very evident in all of the speeches from the Pro- gressive group, is that the farmers realize how badly they were duped by the hypocritical campaign of flag- waving in 1971, when the reciprocity pact was defeated. The Prime Minister; who was call- ed to Denver through the death of his brother, has not yet returned to the Capital. He will be here, how- ever, to -night or to -morrow and will be back in his place in the Commons next week. During his absence the leadership of the government is be- ing carried on by that veteran Nova Scotia Legislator, Hon. W. S. Field- but the farmers went over the hurd- ung, who, at the close of this debate, les in fine style for a bill W. A. is bringing in the estimates and leav- Crockett, of Hamilton, brought in, ing'the members of the House some - to amend the Health Aet, making thing to mull over during the week cities provide water and sewage end. The estimates have not been plants for adjoining municipalities. made public at the time of writing, `Tis said that the crack of the so a discussion of them is impossible, party whip sounds loudly in the ears but it can be said that there has of the government members. Any- been a distinct paring of expendi- way the vote stood 56 to 26, or there- abouts. There is one subject around the legislature that fascinates the mem- bers. They talk about it outside and in the 'House' and some of them must dream about it. It is that "last aw- ful night party," at the close of the 1921 session, which is said to have taken place in the office of one of the ministers of the crown. However, the government is not to be moved by the appeal for an in- vestigation in the press and from public bodies. It is quite sufficient that- the liquor laws are enforced to the limit on men and women, some of the latter with babies, being sent to jail. Why, therefore, should any- thing be done to inquire into the antics of the colleagues of brothers Raney and, Drury on that last awful night? Jahn Joynt, who represents North Huron, and who sits well to the left of Mr. Speaker, aroused himself the other day to give an expression of what he thought of Mr. T. A. Crerar, Progressive Leader, as a statesman, especially when he was a Unionist statesman, serving as Dominion Min- ister of Agriculture. Incidentally Mr. Joynt based his remarks on a misquotation of an ad- dress by himself in the Farmers' Sun. Mr. Joynt had made a short speech at the Agriculture Committee in which he took to teak the former Minister of Agriculture. But the "Sun" .had failed to say which Mini- ster and for fear there should be any I reflection upon the then Provincial Minister, Hon. G. S. Henry, South York, or upon the present one, Hon. Manning Doherty, the member from Huron hastened to inform the House that he had meant 'Crerar the Farmers' hired man, as J. K. Munro called him. So Mr. Joynt hurried on. "If we of their constituents are pressing for had .had a live wire at Ottawa in 1917 but which the members themselves end 1918 when the boys were over- are not sure. *of. seas, we might have had the cattle I _ embargo lifted. He is a big man, but complete. House representation sen aging, (Minister not a statesman." tures for ♦ * * So far as the session has progress- ed, the government has no cause to feel other than satisfaction. Good progress has been made and it is ap- parent that the attempts to drive a wedge between Liberals and Progres- sives have thus far failed. The west- ern members are not falling into the arrils of the government, but at the same time they are holding them- selves free to help along anything they consider in the public good, and the majority of them are friendly to the government and determined to give it a fair chance of making good before they criticize. the ensuing year with a consequently saving to everyman an woman in the Dominion. Provisions i will promptly remove such persons have also been made for co-ordina- i at their own expense. Mr. McMillan tion of much of the work being car- will also have the co-operation of Mr. ried on, so that it will be possible to - Garraw in his work at Ottawa and I donot know of any more trust worthy men in South 'Huron. Thanking you, Mr. Editor, I am, Yours very truly, LEWIS THOMSON. Executive Liberal for South Huron. where' frail fairs have "fallen down"' it is often .because the fair has her come ' commercialized. se'hool foirst aimto educate and enco}rrage the chd through . competition in varioum ways as evidenced by the parade, sports, 'and otherjeatures, $s' intro- duced yet the fair.. Preparations are now being made- for the fairs of 1922. We are anxious; that previous years' records be ex- ceeded. Eventually we want to see - every pupil in the County exhibiting at some school fait. Each fair Alas: prospered wnthot;t your support, pos sibly, and each year is bringing ns. closer to that ideal, It will be the - better of your support. Will ,yoit, assist your teacher and the pupils ts•' make -Huron County School Fairs in. 192a the success they deserve to be. S. B. STOTHERS, HAYFIELD HARBOR Bayfield, March 27, 1922. Dear Expositor: In reply to the article in your paper headed -the "Voice of the People," in. regards to repairs to the Bayfield harbor, written by Mr. James Wat- son, I may say that as Mr. Watson is an absolute stranger to me the article appears more like a "hold up" than anything else I can imagine. If Mr. Watson taken the trouble to ex- amine the records, he will find that the Government has nothing to do with the Bayfield harbor, and that I hold Government deeds for the said harbor front start to finish. I may also say that Mr. Thomas McMillan is the proper man to make any sug- gestion in connection with the Hay- field harbor, as I understand he is the only Government official in South Huron. He is already commissioned to go to Ottawa, and is also privileg- ed to select his own delegation, and I trust it will not be the composition of Toryism that Mr. Watson is in- clined to introduce. I may say, however, that the Gov- ernment has mads repairs on ',the Bayfield harbor in the past, but not without trespassing on private prop- erty and anyone doing so in future, without acknowledging my claims, is in serious danger of hearing from Mr. Agricultural Representative. PERTH BREEDERS ORGANIZE' Wednesday afternoon in the ,town. hall, Mitchell, a representative gath- ering of Shorthorn breeders from all parts of the county met to discuss the advisability of forming a county or- ganiaation and enjoy an address giv- en by Professor Geo. E. Day, secre- tary of the Dominion Shorthorn Breeders' Association. . The officers elected are: Hun. 'Pres., Prof. C. E. Day, Guelph; President, - John Bry- done, Milverton; let Vice, Jas. More,. Kirkton; 2nd Vice, Jas. Norris, Mit- chell; 3rd Vice, James Hill, StaSa- . Secretary -Treasurer, M. C. McPhail, Stratford. Township. directors, Wal- lace, Alvin Kennedy, Listowel; Elms, ' Amos Smith, Listowel; Mornington, W. B. Struthers, Milverton; Ellice,. John Scl3ellenberger, Stratford; . Lo-' gan, Henry Lawrence, Mitchell; Werth Easthope, Jas. McGillowee, Shake- speare; South Easthope, Donald An- derson, Stratford; Downie, Wm. Wal - die, Stratford; Fullerton, Mac Norris, Munro; Hibbert, John. Hamilton, Staffa; Blanchard, Roy 1Nethereott, Science Hill. d 1 Charles Garrow, of 'Goderich, who make savings during the year in other places than the Militia Depart- ment. The government will need to bring down an interim supply bill and ask for the passing of a vote of one-sixth of the total of the estimates. This is necessary because of the fact that March Slat is not very far away, and unless provision were made in this way, the government would find it- self without funds to carry on until the main estimates got through. This •bill, however, will only be in- troduced it is understood, after the other sections of the House have been invited to step into a confer- ence and agree to its gloing through. 1' With the Debate on the Address out of the way and the estimates placed before the House, it will only be a matter of days until the com- mittees are named and ready to hold their organization meetings ready for starting work. The striking com- mittee's report will conte down at, once and the standing and select committees of the House will then be able to start work. There are many important problems to come before the committees this year, in- cluding the question of the Wheat Board, which is to be placed in the hands of the Agriculture Committee for a thorough investigation and re- port. The Banking and Commerce 'Committee also will probably have before it something in connection with the Merchants Hank failure and many of the western men will want a dis- cussion at least on the question of Nationalization of banks, which some _ THE COLD EPIDEMIC - In nearly every/erne in town and' surrounding coy some of the members of the ily, and in many instances whole families, are pros- trated with the prevalent disease, known as "a bad cold, grippe or flu," and the services of our doctors are in c3nstant demand both night and day. In Toronto and other large cen- tres of population, the disease ap- pears to have almost reached the epidemic stage in severity. In a re- cent issue of MacLean's Magazine, Miss Edith F. Neelin on the, staff of that journal and well known here, writes a tianely article on the pre- vention of the malady, from which the following extract is taken: "So-called Influenza is due to the presence of certain infectious organ- isms found upon the mucous mem- brane of the air passages, particular- ly of the nese and throat and every reasonable means should be employed to prevent the transmission of these germs from one person to another. It is very important at this time par- ticularly that the managers of the various departments see that their offices, etc., are properly ventilated. it is essential to the enable SCHOOL FAIRS Previous to the opening of the local office of the Department of Agricul- ture, in 1918, some two or three school fairs had been organized in the County. These were so success - Fresh a tenanee of health at all times. Proper care of the teeth and mouth - should be taken, and the spraying of the throat and nose with an an- tiseptic solution several times a day might be helpful. - Avoid undue exposure to cold, immediately, 1 that id' telt' on the opening i den climatic changes, improper dress, several sections for .more school h fairs. This demand has grown until in 1921, school fairs were held at the Walton,following places in Huron County:— Fordwich, Wroxeter, Ethel, Walton, Blyth, Belgrave, St. Helens, Ashfield, Colborne, Porters Hill, Clinton, Mo- Killop, Zurich, Dashwood, Grand Bend, Crediton, Winchelsea, Wingham, ; best chances, but you also remove a Bluevale, Cranbrook, Hurondale and; least one source of danger of infec+ Belmore. This gives Huron County ing others." of the office a demand was made by wet or damp feet` or clot ung, and drafts. Keep the organs for the elimination of effete or waste matter from the body performing their nor- mal functions. If you contract the disease, go to bed promptly and consult your doc- tor. By giving up and going to bed early you not only give yourself the Dont Miss One Cent Sale At Umbach's Drug Store THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY This Week. Two Articles for the Price of One, plus lc. y}k e7 �n t�♦�