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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1938-07-15, Page 2• r i EXPOSITOR r;. is it xp=Qsitor Established 1860 xcPlail McLean, Editor. 1iShed at Seaforth, Ontario, ev= li*raday afternoon by, McLean As, ascription rates, $1.50 a year in dvanee; foreign, $2.00 a year. Single opiesr 4 cents each. Advertising rates on application. BEAFORTH,, Friday, July 15, 1938. Western Ontario Crops Suffer Severe damage to buildings, crops and trees was suffered over the week -end .by a series of week -end storms which swept over parts • of Western Ontario. ,Norfolk, Oxford and Elgin Coun- ties were the chief sufferers. In Nor- folk, fifteen hundred acres of tobac- co crop were ruined and in the others crops were flattened by rain and hail and trees and buildings demolished by wind. - Huron was one of the fortunate - counties to escape. In fact in some districts there is a general belief that we have escaped -too well.: We are quite willing to dispense with the wind and hail, but we could benefit by a lot of rain. Showers on Saturday and Sunday were most acceptable. They temper- ed the heat a little, even if they did not do more than lay the dust. But we are not suffering yet, at least not much. Rust on the wheat is really bothering us more than lack of rain. But then the weather nev- er was just right—t6 suit everybody. • The Now Conservative Leader The,National Conservative Con- vention, which convened " in . Ottawa last week, fulfilled' its purpose and chose a new party leader to wear the mantle dropped by their old chief- tain and former Prime Minister, Rt. Hon.. R. B. Bennett. And the new leader is Hon. R. J. Manion. But while Dr. Manion is new as a party lead, he is by no means new to politics or. to the ex- perience of cabinet duties and re- sponsibilities. In fact he has been in public Iife for over twenty years. He was, elect- ed Liberal member of Parliament for Fort William in 1915. Two years later he was re-elected as a Unionist member, and after the fall of the Union Government he joined the Conservative party ranks and sat as the Conservative member for Fort. William until the last Federal elec- tion, when he met defeat for the first time. During Dr. Manion's parliament- ary career he was chosen to be a member of. the Meighen Cabinet in 1921, and was again chosen as a Cabinet colleague by Mr. Bennett in 1930, and acted as Minister of Rail- ways until 1935, when the Bennett Government was defeated. The new Conservative leader is fifty-eight years of age; of Irish descent and in religion is a Roman Catholic. It is said of him that he does notpossess the ,debating ability of Mr. Meighen, nor the brilliant mind of 'Mr. Bennett, but on the other hand, that he is a very human tind approachable being, and one who. has' learned the, value and how to .. practise co-operation with the rank and file of his party -followers. He allwayys,. been pppular, in the 'use and possesses in considerable measure, not day' the confidence of .mernbe'rs, but of his p'oliti- onentl as well. • tier the appointment r party leader, did greater surprise of vpl Perms Mr. acPherson wasi a member of the Anderson Cabinet ixal, the only Conservative administration t hi e Province of Saskatchewan has eve had. • At the general election in hx Province • a month or so ago, his party was practically annihilated, and until his appearance at the Ot- tawa convention he was practically unknown, and,.. apparently, inn- thought unthought of. - In spite of these handicaps, how- ever; he was the real dark horse. He ran a very strong second to Dr. Man- ion for the leadership, drawing his support from every Province of the Dominion, with the possible excep- tion of Quebec. In fact, lacking the support of that Province, there is more than a possibility that Dr. Man- ion would not now be the leader of the Conservative party. The other surprise was the size of the convention. When one considers that there is not a Conservative Gov- ernment in power in any Province in the Dominion; that in several Prov- inces there 'is not a Conservative member in" the Legislature,- and in the others a merehandful altogether and that even in the House of Com- mons the party representation is ex- ceedingly small, one might very reas- onably have doubts as to the size and success of a Conservative convention at this time. However, it did not work out that way. The convention' was° the larg- est in the history of the Conservative party. Not only was every Province represented, but there was a full re- presentation from every Province. That in itself must be, the most en- couraging feature to all believers in the party. And that, in itself; should be looked upon with a large measure of approval by those who are outside that party as well. The two party system of Govern- ment may not be everything it should be, but at the sometime it has prov- en itself the safest, most practical government for this Dominion, and its continuance is to be devotedly hoped for. Since Confederation there have been but two leading political parties in Canada—Conservatives and Lib- erals. In very recent years the Con- servative party seems to have fallen upon very evil clays, and perhaps more by circumstances than faults. There seemed to be a possibility, ev- en a fear, that its days, as a party, were numbered. Fortunately for Canada, as a whole, the recent Conservative con- vention has proven those possibili- ties and fears.Troundless. -. The Con- servative party is still a live issue, and it is very reassuring to know that we are still to have it as a politi- cal foe, rather than the "isms" and "cure alts" its death would undoubt- edly have left us heir to. A Busp Premier Premier Maurice Duplessis, of the Province of Quebec, is already a busy man, and he is going to be ev- en busier from now on. For some time Mr. Duplessis has been Premier, Attorney -General and Minister of Lands and Forests for the Province. Now has announced that he has taken over the direction of the Pro- vincial Roads Department and that Francois J. Leduc has been relieved of the Roads Ministry.' We do not know whether Mr. Leduc did not approve of Mr. Duples- is' road policy, or whether Mr. Duplessis did not approve. of Mr. Leduc, but Mr. Leduc was asked to resign. Mr. Leduc did not approve of that either, At least -he did not send an an- , saver to the Premier's request --but he went just the same. Now ° Mr. Duplessis has four jobs in the Que- bec Government and that is quite a few, although some six or seven less than Mr. Mussolini holds iri the Ital- ian Government We do not know whether there is any connection either, but we notic- ed that Mr. Hepburn flew to Quebec on Saturday and held a long confer- ence with Mr. Duplessis. Does the Ontario Premier want ,to know hod+ the, Ott ee Pretriiet does itt And if Mr. Hepburn learns will he be t rig it opt -in lrar'onto, or } 'krill he u' t fl ba' ok to Otta*a and Years Acne • tntorestlna • Items 101 -eked From The Huron. Expositor of Fifty and j r" Twenty i(ve Years Ago. From The • Huron' Expositor July 18, 1913 - Tihe town scbolarehip in the En- trance examinations was awarded to Marguerite Stewart and the meaty one to Margaret Cuthill. Warren • Ament and Margaret Cut'hil'1 each 4wok 1:.00 per cent. in arithmetic. Miss Clara Sadder, of Staffa, who, has been teaching • in Brodihagen school for some years, has resigned and will take a ,position in Hamilton. About I1 otlock on Saturday night ......the evaporator building in Hensall, belonging to Mr, George.joynt, was discovered to be on. fire. There was a large crowd do Hen - sell on Saturday Iast when the Or- angemen of South Huron and their friends gathered there. The saw and planning mill of • Mr. Wm_ Sadler, in ,Straffa, was completely aestroyed by fire early Sunday morn- ing. Mr. Sadder's loss is estimated At $5,000 and 'he 'has insurance . of $2,500. Mr. William Jones, a clerk an Stew- art Bros. store, was bathing in the dam on Friday, Iast along with Robert McKenzie. and, Robert TIammett and in some way gat '-beyond his depth and was rescued by his colleagues as he was going down the second time. An unfortunate accident took place in the Dominion Bonk here on Wed- nesday night when Mr. A. Mertens, teller in the bank, came in and went to shut a •celIar door. Another of the bank employees `named Mr. Gil- lies hearing the noise came down and broright the revolver with him. He saw a man standing on the steps and as he didn't make himself known, Gillies fired and the shot lodged in Mertens breast. His condition was very critical. Mr. -Keith McLean, of the Expositor, and Mrs. McLean, are in Ottawa this week. Mr. H. Edge is erecting a new cem- ent stable for Mr. Dennison on the property he recently purchased from Mr. A. Stewart. The foil -awing fnom this vicinity have passed the musical examinations at the Conservatory of Music in con- nection with the Western University. Grade 4; piano, honors, I. Rennie; grade 3, piano, first class honors, L. Coates; honors, L. Brunedon; grade 1, piano, first class honors, R. Broad - foot, F. Francis; honors, Mr. March - .and; grade 3, harmony, first class honors, F. Hunter. The following passed their Normal Scheel exams: Agnes Bruxer, FAnna M. Bell, Mary Curtin, Ada Gardiner, Eva M. Love, Margaret Mellis, Jessie R. Scott, Grace E. Weer, Ethel Kerr. There were twelve solid columns of advertisements for school teachers in the Globe of Saturday last. We aa,ctice by the press of Battle - ford, Sask., , that Mr. Thos. Dark, for- merly of Sea.forth, has passed his final exami ktion• at Regina entitling him to full membership le the Saskatche- wan• Pharmaceutical Association. • ,From The Huron Expositor July 20, 1888 A wild cat was seen in Goderich Township by Mr. McBrien one day recently. The Seaforth Fire Brigade go to Berlin on Wednesday next to compete in the Firmen's Tournament to be held 112 that town. Improvements are the order of the day in Grey Township. Andrew Johnston and Thomas' Williamson are putting stone foundations underneath their barns. Several bears have been seen on the 14th concession, (of Grey. Mr. Alex. McBeath, well known builder and contractor for Stanley, has (had a busy season. He has mov- ed 18 buildings, erected eight now bank barns and has three houses to complete.a has built barns for the following panties Edward Fee, Gosh- en Line, Hay; Sam Thompson, Hay; Thoe. Boyce, London Read; L. Clark, Gosihen Line, Stanley; Peter Camer- on, 4th con., Stanley; W. Butts, Alex. Monteith and Wlin. McMillan, London Road, Tuckersmith. Last week a fire was noticed at the rear end of Mn C. Eilber's bak- ery, Zurich. The people turned in with pails of water a'1}d- in abort 10 minutes, the fire was drowned Mr. William Klopp, of the Bronson Line, Hay, has a sixteen -acre field of fall wheat which promises 35 bushels to the acre. Mr. James Stewarrt,.. of the 3rd con- cession of Tuckersmith, L.R.S., cut a large field of fall wrhea on Tuesday last and it will yield from 28 to 30 bushels per acre. - The telephone central office at Ex- eter is now at R. Hick's jewellry store. David Fisher, of Goderich, had his pocket picked of $224 at Detroit the ether night. James Addison, of Goderich, 'h:aul- ed uQ a pike weighing 10', pounds out of the Maitland River. Messrs. I. Bowman and Alex. Dow, of Usborne, left on a trip to Scotland last week. , A correspondent from Winnipeg states the foilotving about the West: "On a stretch of country lying 300 to 600 miles west from the River I should be 'inclined' to put the balance do favor of Northern Dakota and ;Montana." Dr. Smith, of 'Mitchell, has been ap- pointed medical (officer df the Town- ship of Logan. Mr.Janiela Janes, of Mitchell, has soul 38 bi lieu this season. We arotiee with ,pleasude that Mr. .Tames A. Roberti., of Seaforth, has; titssed a me8t"suc'eessfixt and credit= able examineatlon- oat t'tie College oE' Pikatmat y , 'itorontit 1Iq Ms awarded time geldmeat for gotrat proiicdefne in al brenfetes. Anitoig others wane graduated vVe tle$6d the taines of if, it, Pet :f. if. wttt'.rlien " +I ti 51t, a • • Phil Osifer of Lazy Meadows' go (By Harry J. 80y1e) "JUL'? JOTTINGS" - I was down in the laneway last night just after darkness had come drown, and it certainly was a picture that a man couldn't quite . forget in a !lorry". It had been warm all day with a breath of coolness coming up from the cedars drown around; the Lazy Meadows creek. New mown hay pro- vided about as fine an incense as you. could find anywhere. Twinkling stars in a black sky were like .jewels. Aad over at Neighbour Higgins' place . a light on the table made silhouettes on the screen door of the kitchen as someone was moving around. ,Music from a radio down the valley was.. somehow discordant with the rest of the scene. Jessy, the 'brindle cow, was munch- ing grass from her end and even she seemed to - be contented with the world. A bell tinkled on the ram down in the south 'meadow. There's sounds of life stirring here at Lazy Meadows, but over all there's a quiet sort of, contentment- T pull the old pipe out and after lighting it up just dawdle away several hours soaking the contentment into my bones. * * * Back and Wbetimes and remember- ing that I have a deadline staring me in the face. Sounds big to talk as if a person were a big newspaper• re- porter, and I'm able to know what it would be like to,have an editor tell you that you have just so Iong to turn in a story. There comes, a period of chewing my .pencil and looking around the room to find something to write about. There's Methuselah the white mouse Chewing pensively at his whis- kers in the cage in the corner. He's been caged ever since he scared two of my wife's maiden aunts out of ten years of growth. I did write one let- ter about him though! Well, there is that horsehair sofa. Time marche•g on, as they say, but that old sofa remains. It's a relic that always reminds me of a very uncom- fortable age. Just -try sitting on ogre of them on a hot day ie. the summer when the sweat makes your clothes stick to you. , - There's something - about one of those horsehair sofas. that pricks, you worse than a new union suit in the fall. I can remember when that sofa was new. It was proudly displayed in the front room and covered with lit- tle gew-gaws and fancy clothe to keep it from being worn. Time and wear, however, managed to take the shininess and smoothness from it. Soon It began shedding its hair and.. the. children always were co- operating by plucking as many hairs from it as possible. In fact I've even pulled them "myself just to see them curl up around my finger. Ornate with scrolls and folderols . . and still standing in ,the front room .the old sofa must know that its days are, numbered. Surely it knows that sooner or later it's going to be stored up with all that other old fur- niture over the driving shed, to some day be broken up into kindling wood. Courtin' was one of the most im- portant things in the old days before the advent -of the motor car. I'm afraid that the old sofa phis a high - board fence collar didn't -lend to the comfort of the occasion. Especially when a fellow was feeling like a fish out of water, and trying to get up enough nerve to ask the final ques- tion. Every time you squirmed you were certain to rub the horsehair the wrong way and get a "shock." • During week -days all the parlour furniture was covered with white dus- ters. Coming . ,home at night and squinting into the parlour with a coal oil lamp in your. hand you were liable to get the effect of a very superna- tural setting. When visitors ' were coming the dusters would- all be spit- ited away and they would be installed in the room, before the dustiness had ail settled. The old sofa sat like, an overstuffed toad in a small puddle! But here the letter is filled, the mailman's coming and I must say "So long" until next week. JUST A SMILE OR TWO. 7Sympathetic Lady: "And are ,Matt married, my good man?" Wanderer: "Certainly not, lady ! Do you think I'd be relying on stran- gers for support if I had a wife?" • "You certainly must know what a rivulet is. Look- what comes down out of the mountains, and goes on forever?" "Hill -billies. • Quiggle: "Don't you find it "hard to meet expenses these days?" Peewit: -- "Hard! I should say not. Why, man alive, I meet expenses at every turn." Mother wanted to spend Saturday afternoon shopping; and father — a statistician—reluctantly agreed to abandon his golf and spend the after- noon with the three small and ener- getic children. When mother returned, father handed her this: Dried, tears -9 times. Tied shoes -13 times. Toy balloons purchased -2 per child Average life of balloon -12 seconds. Cautioned children not to cross street -21 times. Children insisted on crossing street —21 times. Number of Saturdays father will do this again! --0. Ford's Little Country Plants - is (Condensed from Factory Management& Maintenance in Reader's Digest) - Henry Ford has frequently stated his belief that this country would• be better off if a larger fraction of its people- could work on fatms and gar- dens during the growing seasons, and draw factory wages when not . occu- pied by the land.,, Besides talking a- bout it, Ford has done something a- bout it. He has 16 small plap.ts spot- ted at strategic points,.eacli on a riv- er where water power runs the ma- chines. Eight more sites are ready, with buildings up and jobs determin- ed, waiting the signal to go ahead. Ford's idea of industrial deoejtrat= ization is not the establishment of branch assembly plants, nor the re- location of plants from North to South or frcm city to country to tap a low- er wage market. It is instead the re- moval of certain units from a main plant to small plants out in the coun- try. Here the full Ford wage scale is paid, and in several of the ,plants there are men drawing the highest 'hourly rates in the company. Anyone who is familiar with Henry Fond's working principles knows that the branch plants are not undertaken primarily as a form of social uplift. The point is that a small decentraliz- ed operation, through Its wholesome effect on the human factor, brings better work at lower cost. At Waterford, Michigan., is one of the smallest of 'the rural plants, and one of the most notable. Here 65 men make all the precision gauges used in Ford inspection. Their work calls for almost infinitesimal accur- acy. When these men used to make inspection gauges in their own tiny department of the huge Rouge plant, they were just so mady highly paid workmen'among 85,000. Their job was important, they knew, but it was ov- erwhelmed by_ the plant's total im- mensity. Out here the real importance of making top-quality precision instru- ments' has a chance to be felt. The men are not a sub -sub -department tucker!, off in a. corner and alinost for- gotten.. They are a separate little in- dustry. making tools: Without which precision production would be impos- sible and the modern motorcat non- existent. Talk With .any of the, men and you get a feeling of craft and personal pride which you thought had long sine banished from the factor- ies of the earth. "The anan working over yonder ? The best tapper 1n' the world, and ev err* man in the plant will fight if you. doubt it! ' "Instruments? Any thing we • need We get. Inspectors? Don't be silly! Where could yon find. anybody to in- spect us?' • Any mail who turns out a piece of work at' Waterford that isn't sieeut".ate to sO:citlesitioils doesn't need an lnsp'eetor. Ile beefs to go get a J¢ d wring a punaelt prase: We're the dol % departnieti't in,. the +hole. n, y�yi tltu i•doesn'.t M' a 9iiyw$iii otic; Cocky? Assuredly. Swell -headed? Not a bit. Each man is good but he knows that over at the next bench is a man just as good or even a little better. The spirit is one of pride in belonging to such an outfit. You nev- er find that kind of college spirit tucked away in• a big mass -production factory. • But Waterford is hardly a fair sam- ple of Henry Ford's idea of one foot in industry and one on the soil, be- cause gauge makers cannot afford to Farm with $10 time, and besides they have 50 weeks of work a year. But at Ypsilanti, where 1200 men and wo- men makel starters and generators, a large proportion of the employees are as much farmers as factory hands. Dozbns take leave of absence as soon as the soil can. be worked in the spring, returning to their jobs after harvest. Scores more take shorter layoffs to help with sowing and thresh- ing peaks. Rule One at all the small plants is that a man may leave any time to work on the farm-, may have his job back when he gets through farming. Many of the workers are over 60 years old. For all, men and women, the Ford wage of $6 a day is minimum. A mran laid off in an industrial city is condemned to idleness and Lost in- come unless he gets another job. In the country he always has enough postponed farm work to keep him profitably busy as long as he is off'— and if the shutdown should be long, he has his land to support him. The city employee m!ay not always be found- after layoff, but the farmer - worker has his roots down, is there when the shop reopens. As you go through Ypsilanti, you observe various operations different from anything you have ever seen. Your gtride= eeexi tains: "The boy on that job thought of it 'himself; so we turnedr the hunch over to a machine - tool company and they, worked it out." Or,, "It looked like a good idea when the winding -machine operator figured it out, •so we made up a few in our machine shop and they step- ped up our. ,production ff m,60 to 80 an 'hour.... -- I have never seen so many home- spun developments in any other shop of the same size. A number of •inidu- enC'es contribute to this. situation, First, the wage earner who comes to a.plant in an agricultural community is a higher average type, alas more background of thinking for himself, than.,,the average of the city streets, Second, the••'job mune a lot more to a farm boy or small tciwn, workman, for a town like Ypsilanti sifters no" overpius of $6 -a -day jobs. Third, if a workman gets .a good idea . it is not dwarfed be the ma.gnitn'die of his ktiY'- roundinga n id, never hearth of outMde- 'his department, Instead, follte ,point him +Slit at the ino`vileii „: •' • y 1yf �t{t�a,y,`no���,t,►•t;ayt�i•nyyg, tib yrs ;111Y Seen in the CQ r ; tunty - Pa ers To Teach At Holmes' School Miss Norma Coutts has accepted . the position as teacher at Holmes' school for the 'coming year, and is now attending the slrmaner course at Queen's University, Kingston,—Wing- ham Advance -Times. Honored Before Leaving Town A party was held at -the home of Mrs. Harry Towne last week in hon- or of Mrs- W. Connolly, prior to her departure for 'Stratford, where her husband has been transferred by the • Bell Telephone Cor—Wingham Ad- vance -Times. Killed Rattle Snake Rev. E. M. Loney and family, Mr. and' Mrs. 'C. W;., Lloyd and Donald. motored to Callender last•,week to seer the quints. •„,Qn their return they stop- ped at Stokes Bay on the Bruce Pen- insula. While there on Sunday, Mr_ Loney killed a 28 -inch rattle snake with a small stick. The rattler hadf nine pair of rattlers and was on view in our window for a day or so.— Wingham Advance -Times. 'Recovering Mr. -Milton Desch who recently hath`: his eye quite seriously injured when a rifle, backfired, and who was in the Owen 'Sound hospital with the same., returned to Zurich• early in the week. The condition of the eye is improv- ing nicely and will still take sorer weeks before Milt can do any work_ —Zuricili Herald. A Lady on the. Bench An interested visitor to the Court House on Tuesday morning was a modern Portia, a young lady from Ohio who is studying law in .her na- tive State. 'The visitor evinced keen. interest -in the proceedings of Cana- dian courts and prevailed upon Geo. ,lames, caretaker" and court crier, to demonstrate the formal.caurt opening for her. George entered into the spirit of the thing and loaned the vis- itor his gowairfwbereupon she mount- ed the judg 's rostrum and Georges opened an imaginary court with his usual flourishing "Oyez, oyez!" Tire charming °visitor, the daughter of an. Ohio judge, was,. favorably impressed and confided that one • fault she had to find with United States courts was their lack of dedorum. Before leav- ing the young lady had her picture taken on the bench, apparently in an- ticipation of the time in which sh•a- would occupy such a place in her owe right.—Goderich Signal -Star. Golfers At Seaforth At the fourth annual invitation golf tourney at the Seaforth Golf and Souu- try Club on Wednesday Vic Elliott. w•on the low grass, second nine prize. Other Goderich golfers playing were Judge, T. M. Costello, Terry Costello, Thomas pritohard and Charles Neftel_ —Goderich Signal -Star. Business Purchased The Times -Advance have 'taken Aver the Wickwire Press and in the course of a few months will amalg•,- mate the two plaees of business. .kt the present time the .both places ars being operated as formerly. With increased production and with the cutting down of overhead expenses. the Times -Advocate should be able to - give an equally goods service at a pos- sible reduction in costs. We hope to- befavored with time business formerly done by the Wickwire Press and we hope to merit tore confidenee of the-, pirblic.—Exeter Times -Advocate, Falls From Load On Tuesday morning while Mr_ David Bruce, of Cromarty, was assist- ing in unloading hay, the trip rope, broke and Mr. Bruce fell from the Load to, the barn floor landing on his head.' He was• rushed to Victoria. Hospital, London, in Mr. R. N. Rowe's ambulance. An X-ray revealed that. the ligaments of the neck ,had been. torn. As Mr. Bruce is in his seven- ties, his condition is critical.—Exeter Times -Advocate. Presentations To Teacher On the evening of June 29th; the schoolroom and grounds of S. 5. No. 2. North Easthope, was the scene of an enthusiastic community gather- ing, the,' purpose of which was tot honor Miss M. I. Tough, who had been teacher there for the past eight years and 'has now wevemed her con- nection with that seCe a•n. A program (Continued on Page 3) finished parts away is made up in lower supervisory costs. All that these people require is to be shown: how a job is done, and then an occa- sional visit to be sure they have not lost the knack. Beyond this, they ask nothing but that the boss go a- way and let them do it. They are self reliant, interested, proud of being an important part of this fine, high -pay- ing plant. Social benefits, Ford' asserts, are the by-products of efficient business management. But even as a by -pito-) duct it is important to give people ant opportunity for greater self -generat- ed security than the industrial cities; can provide. It' is ifiportant to let people live in the steady, sane at-• mosphere of the countryside, away frou the ills and isms of Congested areas. "It is the lack of income that drives people from the country to the• city," Ford say% "A city income ,n country surroundings is easily pos- sible --and that is what our small plants are intended, for one thing, to shown" , Beyond all room ftir argument, Ford has proved that the decentralization program is practical, that many kinds of work are' done better in small plants where everybody from manager to Sweeper can concentrate on the specialized problem free of the tur- n :ill insepa`nabie frorn large-s+:ale m'antifadture. I•f other inanitfaottirers learn ' thio lesson, in a few years. there will be ;tilindrede of village itt- - d i;stries- scattered, thr011ghoi t,. the i d9l lila ot. . A 4 • a • .:,