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Seventy-second Year
;Whole Numlber 3301
THOMAS McMILLAN, M.P., SOUTH HURON,' DELIVERS
STRONG SPEECH IN HOUSE.
POINTS TO URGENT NEED OF NEW ,MARKETS.
MR. BENNETT'S TRIP TO THE
IMPERIAL CONFERENCE,.
It is now some months since the ex-
piry of the recent short session of
the House, and much has taken place
during the interval. With many
thingswhich have happened, the
Prime Minister has become the pos-
essor of additional letters to his
name, and we are all pleased to ad-
dress him as the Right Honorable the
Prime Minister of Canada, but he is
still the Arch Minister of promises
unredeemed. It is true he was instru-
mental in calling the recent emerg-
ency session primarily for the purpose
of ending unemployment in Canada
by federal means, but in about as lit-
tle time as it takes to tell it, his gov-
ernment scrapped the theory of fed-
eral responsibility to end unemploy-
ment and announced a scheme where-
by over four-fifths of the burden was
Saddled upon the municipalities and
provinces.
Tt is also true that his government
has enacted some of the most diaboli-
cal legislation ever forced through the
parliament of any country, legislation
whereby the people of Canada have
been driven away back 'behind the
days of the Magna Charta, the day of
the signing of the great charter of
English liberty for thd protection of
the rights of the people.
But, at the moment, what I wish
more particularly to draw to the at-
tention of this House and the country
is, that one of the most solemn prom-
ises the Prime Minister has given was
his pledge to Canadian agriculture,
when, after his expression at Calgary,
"That the basic industry of Canada is
agriculture," and at Ormstoun, Que.,
"That agriculture stood first in Can-
adian development." He said at Wood-
stock, N.B., "I shall regard it as my
great responsibility if elected on July
28, 1930, to see that the collective
weight and power of the Dominion of
Canada is placed behind agriculture.
I would be lacking in qualifications
entitling me to head a Canadian gov-
ernment if I failed to do so." There
is his pledge ter Canadian agriculture
given in the clearest and most un-
equivocable terms. What has he and
his Government done to implement
that pledge? He knows that the first
requirement of the Canadian farmer
is to secure wider, wider and better
markets for his surplus agricultual
products. He knows that if the Can-
adian farmer could only secure entry
into the American market on favor-
able terms, it is the world's best mar-
ket, and although the present Ameri-
can government still remains obdur-
ate, there is no doubt a rapidly grow-
ing favorable feeling among the
American people as a whole.
He knows also that during the five
years between 1915 and 1920, when
the then American government did op-
en that market to the free entry of
finished live stock, fresh meats, dairy
produce, wheat flour and potatoes, it
was a boon to Canadian farmers, but
never once during that• time did the
then Canadian Tory government ever
lift its hand to reciprocate or show its
appreciation -'in any way. It is no
wonder that under such treatment the
American government soon withdrew
the privilege. But now when the
Hawley -Smoot tariff has shut the
American market, our only other
available market is that of the
Motherland which has always main-
tained the free open door to Canadian
agricultural products. More than
that, if the Right Honorable gentle-
man knows anything about the ele-
mentary laws of trade and economics,
he knows that goods sold must be paid
by the acceptance of goods in ex-
change, so that if we would sell our
wheat or other products in Britain,
we must be prepared to accept Brit-
ish goods in return payment. And
knowing, according to his own words
that "the primary concern of Canada
is to sell its wheat." What did the
Right Honorable Gentleman do? His
first proposal was "to provide as far
as reasonably possible the require-
ments of the 10,000,000 Canadian peo-
ple shall be produced at home" show-
ing at *nee that his government did
not wish to encourage trade. His next
act was, to jack up the tariff on Brit-
ish goods to the prohibitive point, thus
ejecting British goods at the toe of
the boot from Canadian markets which
they had enjoyed for a century. Then
in big stick fashion, he goes off to
Britain to blast his way into the Brit-
ish market! How does he do it? By
peremptorily demanding that the Brit-
ish Government must impose a tax on
foreign foodstuffs, thus identifying
the once honored and respected name
of Canada, in the minds of millions
of Britishers, with the odious and
much feared policy of taxing the food
of the British people, and then he be-
came wildly uproarious because the
British Minister (Mr. Thomas) mildly
designated the whole p>;oeeeding as
"humbug." His designation was mild,
indeed. He gave fact and figure,
chapter and verse in corroboration.
He showed that while Germany, Ar-
gentine, the U. S. and the Nether-
lands allowed British coal in free of
duty, Canada charged it 1s. 7Act per
ton; British railway rails, Australia
charged 2 's'hillings 4 pence per cwt.,
and Canada charged $4.50 per ton,
while Argentine and the Netherlands
admits it free.
British sewing machines, Canada
charges 20 '; Australia charges 15%;
Germany charges 9%.
British cranes and hoists: Aus-
tralia charges 56%; 'Canada charges
15%; France charges 10%; Germany
charges 6%; Argentine andNether-
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British cotton goods: Canada
charges 21%; Netherlands charges
8%.
British woollen goods, average
duty: Australia, 45%; Cando, 37%;
Germany, 22%; France12%.
And mark you, coal, iron and steel,
eaten and woollen goods are among
the key manufacturing industries of
Great Britain.
The Dominions did not disguise
from us that• their policy was Canada
first. Australia first and South Afri-
ca first. When the British govern-
ment saw their disposition, was it to
be' condemned for saying: Well, in
that case our policy must be Great
Britain first, when last year Britain
bought from the Dominions $150,-
000,000 worth more goods than the
Dominions bought from Britain.
No wonder the Bennett proposal
was so unceremoniously turned down.
The truth is, his proposition was no
preference at all. The very idea of
any government, or I should rather
say, any one man, because this is a
one man government, so meek and
submissive and lifeless during the last
session that you would almost think-
a condition of hibernation had taken
possession of the most of them.
The very idea of any Leader ex-
pecting to get a market for Canadian
wheat or any other commodity by such
treatment of the motherland is beyond
the comprehension of any reasonable
man. No set of reasonable men could
be expected for a moment to enter-
tain any such proposition, presented,
in such a manner. Former Canadian
prime ministers• who have represent-
ed Canada at previous Imperial Con-
ferences in Old Lodon have always
manifested a high degree of sagacity
and wisdom, especially when dealing
with matters pertaining to British
home government. But, sir, of the
attitude of the present Prime Minis-
ter, what shall we say? His whole
attitude while in the old land shows
unmistakably that there are bees in
the honorable gentleman's bonnet. Ho
must have become possessed of a
most exaggerted opinion of his own
importance. 'Is it any wonder that
the unofficial organ of the British gov-
ernment described the Bennett pro-
posal as "the very bankruptcy of
statesmanship and as demonstrably
and intently foolish and useless."
To my mind there is only one ex-
planation of such a strange proceed-
ing. I entirely absolve the honorable
gentleman of any intentional wrong-
doing. But the fact remains that af-
ter having sniffed the salt air at some
point in the Atlantic,he must have
become so mentally abberrated that
when he reached Great Britain, he at
once began roaring around seeking
whom he might attack. dile first stir-
red up the British Cabinet by his
peremptory demand for the taxation
of British foodstuffs. Then followed
his charge that the Northampton boot
and 'shoe makers were employing
cheap labor, and dumping their goods
into the Canadian market, and when
the British boot and shoemakers de-
nied and resented his assertion and
sought an interview on the matter, ac-
cording to press reports, he refuses
them. He next fell foul of the Lan-
cashire cotton manufacturers, accus-
ing them in the same way. These are
but some of the incidents of his blast-
ing process. I may say that I follow-
ed a searfaring life more or less fo:
aver twenty years, and there are
such cases of serious mental affection.
On one occasion I met a neighbor as
he landed on the docks in Glasgow.
When his captain insisted that he be
handed to the health authorities for
careful mental supervision, I pleaded
to be allowed to convey him to his
friends in Edinburgh, which was done,
where he was placed under the most
careful medical supervision for over
six weeks, but with no improvement,
when he was allowed to•return home,
and upon his return, he told me that
when he reached a certain zone in
the Atlantic, where he had become
mentally indisposed, his usually good,
sane condition returned at once. If
this is really what happened, the hon-
orable gentleman has my sincere sym-
pathy.
But, sir, if cur honored leader was
to talk and make such a mess of his
business while representing Canada
in the old land, we would challenge
him at once. However, it is only
right tc1 know and we have the right
to ask what gentlemen opposite think
and intend doing regarding the action
of a leader in trampling the good'
name of Canada, and so abusing the
trust which has been placed in his
keeping.
The people of Canada are demand-
ing to know what is and what will be
the attitude of the right honorable
gentleman's own supporters in this
matter of burning significance to the
good name of Canada. . Scores of good
citizens have said to mg that this gov-
ernment would never last its term
out. But my reply has been: Yes, it
will; it will last its term out, unless
this government's own supporters in
this House rise in protest and rebel-
lion against this kind of thing, and
when I would relate how this govern-
ment's own followers sat dumb as
oysters and swallowed the whole pro-
ceedings and high-handed legislation
of the reedit session, they marvelled
at their simplicity, and when I in-
stanced how the power and authority
of their leader over his followers was
so absolute, that when for instance,
the honorable member for Algoma
East (Mr. Nicholson)) arose on one
occasion to address 'the House, with-
out ever arising from his seat, his
SEAFORTH, FRIDAY;' MARCH 20, 1931.
leader simply turned his head and
commanded him to sit down, that mat-
ter eould be discussed again, they
were amazed that any member would
cringe in submissiveness and remain
silent under such a rebuke.
But, what else can you expect un-
der the direction of a small coterie
of millionaire manipulators, who have
amply demonstrated that they care
not a straw for the hard -worn farm-
ers and wealth -producers of this coun-
try? I feel there :must be many hon-
orable members of this House sitting
behind this government who, in their
hearts, do not approve of this gov-
ernment's record, and the sooner they
arise in the majesty of their manhood,
break through such party chains and
assert what they believe to be for the
best interests of this country, the bet-
ter it will be for themselves and the
country as a whole.
Compare the record of the present
prime minister at the Imperial Con-
ference, with that of his predecessors
in office and consider also the sub-
stance of the Dunning budget and the
trend of thought which inspired it.
The leader of this government by his
declarations at the Imperial Economic
Conference has identified himself with
the protectionist element of the Con-
servative party in Britain, and has
become embroilled in the party strife
in the old land. This is in marked
eontrast with the restraint shown by
the representatives of Canada at prev-
ious Imperial Conferences. Consider
the wise words of Laurier on a simi-
r occasion:
`We Canadians would not accept
the idea that the British 'public should
force upon us their own fiscal views,
and no more would they tolerate the
idea that we would force upon them
our own fiscal views, and therefore
the only way in which the British Em-
pire can be maintained upon its pres-
ent foundation is by allowing every
nation composing it the measure of
liberty that it has, and also the free
choice of the fiscal policy; it is to
maintain." Surely these are words of
courtesy and common sense. Con-
sider also the expression of Sir Robt.
Borden on a similar occasion: "We
Canadians hold ourselves free to work
out the problem of preference accord-
ing to Canadian needs and conditions.
For the same reason Canada must
avoid any attempt at interference
with the domestic pplicy of Great Bri •
tain." Words equally courteous and
sensible. The 'same may be said of
Mackenzie King who as the result of
his wise and circumspect action, bears
with him the respect and admiration
of all the great leaders in British pub-
lic life, and we are glad to know that
he enjoys the proud distinction of be-
ing at least the peer of any statesman
in the British realm.
Consider also the substance of the
Dunning budget, and, as I say, the
trend tof thought which inspired it.
In presenting his budget with such
substantiala it'
fid tonalp referent
es to
British goods, with 589 items on the
free list out of 1,188 items in all, Mr.
Dunning said:
"These tariff favors to those who
favor our products are not the result
of any bargain with eery other coun-
try but of an attitude in international
relations which we believe to be mutu-
ally beneficial. In other words, we
do not intend to meet the other coun-
tries of the British commonwealth of
nations in any spirit of petty bar-
gaining, but rather in the broad spir-
it of willingness to become in ever in-
creasing measure good customers to
those who meet us in like manner.
This is the spirit in which we desire
to meet all nations, but we believe
that within the British commonwealth
of nations lies the greatest opportun-
ity for mutual development of trade
because of a common heritage, kin-
dred institutions and a common pat-
riotism.
That budget with its accompanying
remarks, had the effect of almost el-
ectrifying the great bodp of the Brit-
ish people as well as all the great
leaders in British public life. Most
favorable comments appeared in the
public press. The Manchester Guard-
ian (Liberal) described the Canadian
budget as a rich gesture, the gener-
osity of which every Britisher must
appreciate. The Conservative press
said:
The Dunning budget constitutes the
greatest advance in imperial relations
that has been seen since the war."
J. L. Garvin, The Observer (Ind.);
"The Canadian budget is one of those
rare strokes of policy, which, like the
Laurier British Preference, illumin-
ate the realities of Empire."
Canada's last budget declared Ram-
say MacDonald is an example, of how
the Dominions can and will help. But,
Mr. Speaker, the Dominions can and
will 'help only when the reins of
power are in the hands of the right
minded party. Unfortunately, for the
good of all that is not the case in
Canada to -day. Unfortunately, very
unfortunately for Canada and the
whole empire, these glowing expecta-
tions were not to be realized during
the past year, but in its place what
benefits has Canada received to date?
The reply cannot be given in more ap-
propriate words than those of General
Smutts to his followers, when he said:
"What night have been the most
brilliant and successful of all Imperial
C'onferencRs, has ended in disillusion-
ment and disappointment for every
part of the Commonwealth of Na-
tions. If the final settlement of
Dominion status had gone hand in
hand with a great justice of friend-
ship and comradeship, and with the
holding out and grasping of helpful
hands 'all around in this common hour
of trial, what a landmark would this
Conference not have been in the his-
tory of the Empire. "I cannot help
but feel that every time the Prime
Minister thinks of how lamentabl$i he
Missed the mark, it must make him
heart sick, "The former Premier of
South Africa sees in the Conference
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a severing of old bonds, without any-
thing accomplished to replace them.'
A dangerous void has-been left and in
language more in sorrow than in an-
ger he exclaims: `9I am sure the
spirit is there but it is a thousand
pities it found no expression at the
Imperial Conference."
The Conference took action to set-
tle the status question, declaring on
paper for a Dominion independence
which already existed in full suffici-
ency. Then the various units tried to
bargain on lines of selfish interest
This is what General '.Smuts deplores,
and instead of which he would have
a "new spirit of co-operation and
helpfulness in our mutual relations."
If there had been present at that
Conference a Laurier, a Sir Robert
Borden, a General Smuts or a Mac-
kenzie King and Lapointe, there would
have been accomplishments so sub-
stantial, of which every Empire citi-
zen might well be proud. But as it
was there is nothing beneficial, but
rather a condition very much the re-
verse.
If the opposition in this house had
adopted a critical attitude towards
the Prime Minister in his proceedings
leading up to the conference, it might
have been said that if we had left
matters alone the result might have
been different. Now, however, it must
be evident to everyone that he has had
every opportunity to show what he
could do, but instead of bettering
conditions, his policies has only serv-
ed to make them immeasurably worse.
Meanwhile I very much fear that on
the continent of Europe as well as in
the Motherland his blatant avowal of
"Canada first" will involve a policy of
"Canada last" with the nations thus
penalized, when it comes to buying
foqdstuffs.
Canadians had been hopin for fur-
ther markets for Canadian agricul-
turalF roducts but the chill w 'c suc-
ceeded
uc-
ceeded thea m h t
w x t of en husiasln lead-
ing tip to the conference is too mani-
fest to need any comment. Muc:i
greater trade with Britain is impera-
tive to restore our usual prosperity.
As Ramsay MacDonald said; "'We are
going out for a program of mutual
help. Preference is not our formula.
Ours is a program of greater inter-
change of trade." And with a policy
of practical free trade, how could they
give more preference to Canadian
goods? The Labor Government's
trade and tariff policy was written
boldly and frequently long before the
Conference was summoned. No Do-
minion delegation had any reason for
assuming that it would be changed.
They had no right to demand or ex-
pect any change. That prerogative
belongs to the British electors. It
was the first duty of the overseas dele-
gates to recognize the fiscal policy of
Great Britain as it stands. That has
always been the policy, recognized as
I have said, by all previous Prime
Ministers of Canada. Mackenzie King
and his colleagues always refused to
throw Canada on the side of any po-
litical party in Great Britain. Until
the proceedings of the recent confer-
ence, this position was accepted as
wise, sound and courteous by the
statesmen of both political parties in
Canada. Now, however, we have a so-
called statesman at the head of affairs
who has changed all this kind of
thing. One who, whenever he sniffed
the salt water, according to press re
pert,;, became ao brutally frank, he
began roaring around seeking all
whom he might attack, with the re-
sult that Canada is now made to ap-
pear hostile to two of the great po•
Utica! parties in Britain, which at
' the last election' polled 13,676,614'
votes out of a total vote of twenty-
two and one-half millions, the Tory
party on that occasion polling less
than 8,700,000, thousands, if not mil-
lions of whom were opposed to any
system of protection. This was not
,only an unwarranted interference
with the domestic affairs of Great
Britain, but a grave injustice to the
people of Canada, who, in the last
election voted for no such a policy,
and have no desire to see the present
government of Great Britain replaced
by a protectionist administration, and
the present Prime Minister of Can-
ada, while in Britain had no right to
place them in that false position.
More than that, Mr. Speaker, by his
;attitude at that Conference he has
forfeited his high position as the re-
' presentative of the Canadian people,
in throwing the good name of Canada
right into the cauldron of British
home politics, and demanding as a
condition of Empire preference that
Great Britain must necessarily es-
tablish a system of protection against
foreign importations—a system which
'all parties in Great Britain had dis-
carded for well nigh a century.
To all such mischievous propaganda
the British Chancellor did well to re-
ply in an important speech in which
"no protection" was the keynote. The
following is the associated press re-
port:
"Protection would lead Great Bri-
I tain into interminable industrial
strife and chaos."
An unfounded rumor has appeared
in the press that the government is
considering an all round ten per cent.
import duty for revenue purposes. No
government in which I am in charge
of the national finances will ever give
serious consideration to such a pro-
posal.
osal.
"If we alone were suffering, and all
protectionist countries were prosper-
ous, there would be a prima facie
case for enquiring whether it was our
fiscal policy which was responsible
for our depression.
"The world crisis is temporary. It
is driving many people to a state of
panic. Before we have a change, it
must be proved beyond all dispute
that the policy we have pursued for
the last century, is not the best policy
for this country.
"Introduction of a tariff system in-
to this country would strike at the
purity of the political life of this na-
tion. Parliament would become a
sink of corruption. Members of par-
liament would go there not to repre-
sent the national interests, but pledg-
ed to support the selfish interests of
particular industries.
"Once begin a policy of protection
and you are on a slippery slope that
leads to a bottomless pit." I com-
mend these words to every would-be
protectionist, because it is the most
scathing challenge to the operation of
such a policy that I have ever read.
Mr. Snowdon declared that the Im-
perial preference, vigorously debated
in Britain since the opening of the
Imperial 'Conference, could only be
carried out by a tax on food. The
Dominion's Premiers had made their
policy clear. They asked Britain to
change her fiscal policy so that pre-
ferential rates could be given to pro-
duce they sent to Britain.
When the proceedings of the Con-
ference were aftewards discussed in
the British House of Commons, Mr.
Snowdon again took a hand in the
discussion and used language which
should be intensely interesting to
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T 1O SEAFORTH
On Saturday, March Z.4tb, a .happy
party was held at the .hone of Mr
William Elgie, West William,. Streak,
the occasion: being the celebration of,
the 80th birthday of Mr. Elgie and:
Mr. William Wilson, two well known.
and greatly respected residents of.
Seaforth.
All Mr. and Mrs
Elgie's family
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were present for the occasion, there
being two sons and two daughters,
and their husbands, Mr. and Mfrs.
John Forrest, 'Mr. and Mrs. John Mc-
Laughlin, Mr. and Mrs. John T. El-
gie and 'Mr. and Mrs. Robert J. Elgie,
all of Tuekersmith.
A birthday dinner was served at 12
o'clock, when the other guests pres-
ent were Mr. Wilson's sister, Mrs.
Stewart; Mr. Elgie's brother, Mir.
Robert Elgie, of Kippen; Mrs. Elgie
owing to an accident was unable to
attend; Mrs. til'gie's !brother and
nephew, Mr. John Traquair and Mr.
Donald Ross and Mr. Joseph Atkin-
son, of Egmondville, who is in his
87th year and • had been a neighbor of
tdwai$liil
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but came wltl
smith totwnis'hi0"! he
and iii
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nine years ago, had rrccontiw
dent of -that township,. F a
'hen'he came -to Tuckersm'rth ti
were no graded roads to the to
ship, and very few in Huron Con
and the average farm consisted'
to 30 acres of cleared land The
ante was all bush.
Both Mr. Elgie and Mr. Wilson have -'
seen many and great changes in the
country, the people and the • customs
since that far away' time, When they.
both saw the light_of day for the first
time, but both are still hale, hearty
and active, and a host of friends will
join The Expositor in congratulations
and best wishes for many happy re-
turns of March 14th.
every Canadian. The only opportun-
ity the British'' Government had 'miss-
ed, he said, had been one to tax the
food of the people. He described Mr.
Bennett's proposal as follows:
"The only proposal put before the
Conference by the Dominions was Mr.
Bennett's whose offer was: "I am
not going to reduce the tariff against
the United Kingdom, but I will raise
the tariff against the foreigner by 10.
per cent. of the present rate." This
meant that a duty of 30 per cent.
would be raised to 33 per cent. against
the foreigner. 1,
The Canadian Prime Minister had
made arrangements for this Confer-
ence. He had been returned to power
a few weeks before its opening, and
for a fortnight before he left Canada,
he was engaged in preparing for the
Conference by making large additions
to Canadian duties on British pro-
ducts. Then Mr. Bennett came here
and said: "If you will tax foreign
wheat I will give you not reciprocity,
but I will keep the tariff against this
country as it was. That tariff (said
the Chancellor) was a prohibitive
tariff. Both Mr. Bennett and a Mr.
Scullin, the Australian Prime Minis-
ter, were perfectly honest when they
said their policy was to give prefer-
ence to British imports where they
must import these goods, but where
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British goods competed with Canad-
ian or Australian goods, then they
would impose a duty as protection for
their own goods.
the Dominions, continued Mr.
Snowdon, are putting up a tariff wall
such as to compel us to dismantel our
mills here, as was done a few weeks
ago in the case of a Yorkshire mill
whose machinery was sent to Canada.
Such was the essence of the Can-
adian proposal, which was . the only
proposal before the Conference, put
in definite form. Mr. Snowdon sug-
gested the Conservatives in Britain
would now appeal to the country on
behalf of Irhperial Unity to enable
the Dominions to keep out British
goods and to increase unemployment
in Britain. The Conservative pro-
gram also said: "We ask you to tax
yourselves for the benefit of the Do-
minions, and we want the British peo-
ple to pay the Dominions for raising
tariffs which will keep out British
goods.
Who will say that this is not an
accurate analysis of the Prime Minis-
ters proposal? Certainly none of his
supporters can consistently repudiate
this version. And further, I say that
the Prime Minister and his Govern-
ment had no mandate whatever from
the Canadian people to make any such
proposition on their behalf. No such
proposition ever was discussed be?ore
the Canadian electorate, and if he
would ask for a verdict on any such
measure, he would not have a leg to
stand on. Both he and his Govern-
ment would be *hipped to a finish.
What other decision could you ex-
pect from British statesmen to a pro-
posal which, if accepted, would at
once hamstring British trade. It is a
proposal which does not merit a mom-
ent's favorable consideration at the
hands of intelligent Canadians. If
the members of this House Would only
free themselves from all party bias,
they would at once arise in their
might and consign any government.
which would entertain any such a pro-
position, to that political oblivion
from whence it should never have em-
erged and I call upon them, one and
all, to do so now.
TUCKERSMITH
Mrs. James Chesney, of Toronto,
came to attend the funeral of her bro-
ther. the late Mr. Henry Forsyth, and
is remaining to visit with relatives
here.
Mr. and Mrs. Sam Laidlaw, who
have spent the past two months with
friends here, returned to their home
in Climax, Sask., on Monday.
Mr. James Finlayson is improving
after his recent illness.
(Mr. and Mrs. Jack Forsyth and
daughter, Maxine, of Detroit, are
spending a few days with his parents,
Mr. and Mrs. Abe Forsyth.
Death of Henry Forsyth.—•In the
death of Mr. Henry Forsyth, which
occurred at his home on the ninth
concession on 'Saturday, March 14th,
Tuckerssnith township, has lost not
only one of its oldest and most wide-
ly known residents, but one who by
his standard of living, his personifica-
tion of truth; his business integrity;
his social activities and musical abil-
ity, had gained the respect and confi-
dence of all who knew him—and they
were many. After suffering from
gangrene for some time, Mr. Forsyth
entered the Seaforth Hospital in the
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fall of 1929, where an operaltion'sa;
performed for the removal of part. of
his leg. Two months after he was
able to return to his home, and for a
year continued to improve. Then he
suffered a reoccurrence of the trouble
and gradually sank until death came
as aelease. During his illness he
suffered intensely, but at no time did
he ever show impatience or utter a
word of complaint. The deceased was
born on the Mill Road in the year
1857, being a son of the late Ebenezer
Forsyth. As a young man he follow-
ed his trade of framer for a number
of years, and then purchased the farm
on the Kippen road, at present owned
by Mr. Thomas'Hodgert, where he re-
sided until twelve years ago, when he
moved to Lot 9 on the ninth conces-
sion, which 'continued to be his home
until his death. He was a violinist of
note and for many years his playing
furnished • the programme of enter-
tainment in the soci'al'life of his com-
munity and beyond. 'In 1890 Mr. For-
syth was united in marriage to Miss,
Elizabeth Hulliston, eldest daughter
of the late Robert Hulliston, and she,
with a family of one son„ Mr. Ivan
Forsyth, of Hibbert township, and one
daughter, Miss Vera Forsyth, at home
are left to mourn the loss
of a n ever considerate a n d
loving husband and father. He is al-
so survived by four sisters and three
brothers, Mrs. McLean, of Montana;.
Mrs. Chesney, of Toronto; Mrs. Thos..
Consitt and Miss Elizabeth Forsythe
of Stanley; Alexander, of British
Columbia, and Messrs. Abe and T. N.
Forsyth, of Tuckersmith. The fun-
eral was held from his late home on
Monday afternoon, when the services
wereo u
c rad cted by Rev. Charles Mal-
colm, of Egmondville United Church,
of which church Mr. Fprsyth had been
a life-long member, assisted by Rev.
R. R. Conner, of Kippen. Interment
was made in Egrnandville cemetery,
the pallbearers being Messrs. Thomas
Consitt, James Cameron, Roland Ken-
nedy, George Strong, Harry Chesney
and Thomas Neilands.
STANLEY
Rev. A. E. Poulter, of Varna, was
able to take his work again on Sun-
day after his recent illness.
Mrs. Elgin McKinley and family
spent a few days with friends in Clin-
ton.
Miss Annie McTaggart spent the
week end at her home at Walton.
Mr. John A. Armstrong visited his
mother, Mrs. Robert Armstrong, of
Clinton. on Saturday.
The annual meeting of the subscrib-
ers of the Tuckersmith Telephone Sys-
tem twill be held in Brucefield on Fri-
day, March 20th.
CONSTANCE
The union meeting of the W.M.S.
and Ladies' Aid was held on Thurs-
day last at the home of Mrs. Peter
Lindsay, and it was a success in every ,,
respect. The meeting opened with
the second vice -.president, Mrs. B. B.
Stephenson, in the chair. Hymn 347
was sung and prayer offered by Mrs.
Robert Lawson. A few minutes of
silent prayer for a member who had
suffered berearvement, followed by the
Lord's Prayer in unison. The minutes
of last meeting were read and adopt-
ed, followed by a discussion of busi-
ness. Mrs. R. Clark read the devo-
tional leaflet. Mrs. Ed. Britton gave
a missionary scripture reading and a
paper entitled, "Your Duty to Mis-
sions," which was enjoyed by all.
Miss Mildred Britton sang a solo,
"The Unsearchable Riches of Christ."
Mrs. Millar Adams gave a splendid
talk on "Temperance," taken from the
text of "The Good Samaritan." Mrs.
Leo Stephenson gave the study book
on Japan. Mrs. W. Britton read a
leaflet preparatory to our Easter of-
fering. The meeting closed with
prayer by Mrs. Lindsay. Mrs. Roy
Lawson, president of the Ladies' Aid,
held a short meeting. The minutes of
the previous meeting were read and
adopted. Business was called for and
Mrs. Wheatley read a splendid road-
ing, commenting on the 37th psalm.
The meeting closed with Hymn 91 and
prayer by the president. There were
35 present. Tea was served.
Mr. William Dale, of Toronto, is
holidaying at the home of his ,pat-
ents, Mr. and Mrs. James Dale.
Mrs. Leo Stephenson spent a few
days with Mr. and Mrs. Logan, of
Blyth. '
'Mrs. Ed. Britton visited her par-
ents, Mr. and Mrs. J. Lofie, in 'Walton,
on Thursday of this week.
Miss Jean Lawson, ,of' Pintos
spent a dalr with liar parent ,' M.
M. Robert Dorsal.
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