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The Huron Expositor, 1938-09-09, Page 2't? 416 ositor ed 1860 .l McLean, Editor. isbed. at Seaforth, Ontario, ev- rsday afternoon by McLean aubsea iption rates, $1.50 a year in advance; foreign, $2.00 a year. Single copies, 4 cents each. Advertising rates on application. . S.+EAFORTH,Friday, September 9th New Minister of Labor Hon. Norman D. Hipel, Speaker of the Ontario Legislature, and Provin- cial member for Waterloo South, has teen taken into the Cabinet of Pre- mier Hepburn, to fill the vacancy caused by the death of the late Hon. M. M. McBride. Hon. Mr. Hipel has been . a mem- ber. of the Legislature since 1910', and has been Speaker since 1934 when the present government. was elected to 'power. His. elevation to the Cabinet will necessitate a bye -election in South Waterloo, the date of which has been announced as October 5th. It is be- lieved;., however, that the new Cab- inet Minister will be returned to the Legislature by acclamation. • The First Frost The first frost of the season fell in this district on Thursday • night last. Fortunately .it was very light and no harm to garden or farm has been re- ported. For this we should be duly thank- ful as at this time of year there• are so many things still out that are so susceptible to frost. Weather conditions this week have been more favorable and if they will only continue that way for another week or two at most, the danger point will have been passed. This has been an exceptional year -on .the farm. Weather conditions, from early spring until now, have been about as near perfect as one could reasonably expect, and as a consequence there has been a bum- per harvest in quantity, and the qual- ity a little better than average, One thing there will be no short- age of feed on the farm this winter and if prices move up a little there will be a little prosperity experienc- ed as well. Anyway, it might be a good deal worse. • Something For Men To Think About Man is a queer animal. He looks up to himself and down at the other sex. He thinks that the wisdom that is not centered in his fellows is centered in himself. He thinks that he is an authority on all things, and that without'him this would still be a pre -historic world. He points with pride to our pres- ent civilization as an accomplish- ment he has dictated. He thinks that without him the world would still be chaos and without him the world would soon return to chaos again. - Man is a domineering animal too. He thinks he dominates the home the city, the town, the village, or the n township in which he lives. The governments of • the Province and the Dominion are his. What bosh! As a matter of fact, man never did anything that a wo- man didn't tell him to. It has been that way since the far off day of -, and it is that way stili. And it is that way because man is ieh a vain animal. He likes to hear his own voice. He talks while a wo- man reason:S. He commands and a (len disobeys. but it is not that way because man not been warned. Adam had .:War ing,. bid like all his it.he *as too vain to take and overtucus by its. whirligig'power 'the once rational, gentlemanly and safe mode of getting along, on a jour- ney. Talk of LADIES on board a steamboat or in a railroad car! There are none. To restore herself to her caste, let a lady. move in select company at five miles axi hour." In other words, the place for wo- men was, in the home, or in the home's immediate vicinity. 0 f course, the men of the sixties, when that advice was given, believed in that theory too. They just let the women outmanouvre them. And man is being' outmanouvred by wo- men a little more in every genera- tion. So much so, is that the case, that pretty soon man is going . to find himself occupying the same position as his fellowmen in Zanzibar Island, an official report of which we read a few days ago. And this is what the ofcial report which was issued in London, Eng- land, said: "The man's hand rocks the .cradle in Zanzibar Island. Do- mestic service is performed by males, a few women being employed as nursemaids, although the service is usually performed by males. The ex- tent to which the female labor is em- ployed is best conveyed in the expres- sion that "even the washerwomen are men." We don't know anything about the women of Zanzibar, but. we do know that the result irf streamlined clothes has been to make our own women pretty fast on their feet, and as their mental equipment was always streamlined, we can just about see the handwriting onthe wall. And it serves us right, too. e OneHundred and Twentp-seven Bushels Per Acre Whatever Mr. Aberhart has done to the Province of Alberta—and there are more than a few who will admit that it has been plenty—it is quite certain that his policy has not affected the fertility of the soil. At least not yet. It was reported from Calgary last week that a twenty-nine acre field. on the farm of Mr. Robert Simpson, near Tilley, in that district, had yielded -3,000 bushels of Victory oats. Eight of the twenty-nine acres yielded 127 bushels to the acre. And the average was more than 100 bush- els. Mr. Simpson's land lies in the irrigation district and he used irri- gation water twice during the sea-' son. But amazing as this yield was, it is still far short of the record oat • yield for the West, which is held by a.tarmer in the Peace River district. This record was made in 1934, when the Peace River farmer thresh- ed 172 bushels per acre. This, how- ever, was on a comparatively small area. We, in Ontario, are rather inclin- ed to look upon the Western Prov- inces, particularly in the past few years, as an insect infested, drought ridden and soil blown land, but most of us would be willing to suffer from any complaint that would make our fields produce at the rate of 127 bushels per acre. WHAT OTHER PAPERS SAY: Find Country Life ,a Relief (Family Herald and Weekly Star) Earl Baldwin, former Prime Minister, is now in retirement on his Worcestershire farm. Ad- dressing a gathering at a flower shop recently he expressed the hope . that nations will cease to make larger guns and instead will compete in growing the biggest onions. He is not the first statesman who has found country life a relief from worries of international politics. • Second hi -Gold (Fredericton Gleaner) Canada once more is in second place in world gold production. South Africa. alone surpasses. For a time iproduction in the (Salted States was stimulated by the high price offered so that the output surpassed Canada's and Soviet Russia made claims to tinge p'roductiont Lately the Unit- ed States production, fell off considerably and the Russian claims of output now are conceded to be on the "fourtfiushing" basis. • • Ignore Rumors . (Ottawas, Journal) ; •. in. ally -event, it might be well if -.mora of us paid less, tettelit en to war reports and' ramor i eii'ita`nati ng from .nowhere in ,particular. If there bs probatiillity of in outbroalt in Burope the great Stowe agencies of t;Iie grobld iib Assoeie.ted Press, the Milted Weed( too, the Canadian Presses -will Iii about itna : early oto Onybeidy and report, it as ,early; a'l't $0 their mote ; Tieker tape gOsin >i ,io more m'a'y..be disregarded ender Years Agorae Interesting Items Picked From The Huron Expositor Of Fifty and Twenty-five Years Ago. From The Huron Expositor September 12, 1913 Owing to the new mail routes which have sprang up into existence within the last twelve months, . the Thames Road post office in Usborne Township is now closed for mail mat- ter. One day Iast week one of the larg- est shipments ever received in Gode- rich was delivered by the Canadian Express Company to the Western Flour Mills Company. It was a new cylinder for the engine disabled some weeks • ago, the weight being 27,001) pounds, and the express charges be- ing $530. The shipment was made from Providence, Rhode Island. A disastrous fire took place on Tuesday afternoon of Iast week in Colborne Township in the vicinity; of McGaw station on the C.P.R., from some burning' rubbish which ignited the straw sta k and then the harp of Mr. Warner Walter, which was com- rleiely destroyed•. Mr. S. Moore has started the gov- ernment contract on the pier at Bay- field. The expenditure will be $2,000 for repair work. There are a number from Kippen attending the Seaforth Collegiate. Those we hear of are James Jarrott, Murray Fischer, and brother and the Misses Irison and Hazel Hay. The schools opened at Zurich with the following staff: Mr. Archibald, Principal: Miss Freda 'Hess and Miss Woods, of Bayfield, as assistants. Two good Tuckersmith farms have been sold during the past week. Mr. Tames Martia sold his farm west of Egr:hondville to his neighbor, Mr. For- rest, and Mr. William Oke also sold his farm south of Egmondville to Mr. Jet n • McGee. The new Carnegie Public Library it Seaforth was formally opened on Saturday evening last when there as a large attendance. Short peeches were made by Mr. William Haitry and F .0. Neelin. The cost of preparing the plans and superin- tending the work, amounting to r bout $500, was donated by Mr. John Finlayson. Mr. Andrew Scott has been appoint ed teacher of the new school in Tuck- ersmith, west of Egmondville. Mr. W. W. Reid, who has been in the grocery business here for some tame, has disposed of his stock and business to Mr. R. H. Sproat. Mr. E. H. Close has leased the va- cant store in Cardno's block and in- tends fitting it np for a barber shop. Miss White, of Barrie, is acting as bead milliner for the E. McFaul Co. Mia Nellie Hughes, of Ingersoll, has also returned. Miss Mary Modeland, svh'r has been in the West for some time, has taken a position in Miss M, Johrston's millinery store. Stewart Bros. are paying 15 cents a pound for chickens, 10 cents a pound for hens, and 9i cents a pound fpr ducks. Millinery openings were the big ev- ent of the fall season. • From The Huron Expositor September 14, 1888 Seaforth marksmen made for them- selves an excellent record at the On- tario and Dominion. Rifle Matches held at Toronto and Ottawa last week. Major Charles Wilson, Lieut. J. S. Roberts, • Lieut John A. Wilson and Staff SergeanteAlex. Wilson car- ried off over $300 in' prizes, besides the Caron Cup, valued at $2.50. • Mr. A. M. Campbell, of Stanley, leaves on Tuesday for Toronto where he acts as judge ,of light horses at the Toronto Exhibition. Mr_ R. H. Knox, of the sawmill at Harlock, in Hullett, is nursing a very sore arm. When, turning a tap in the steam boiler the tap blew out, al- lowing the hot steam to scald his arm very badly. Mr. Thomas J. McMichael, of Hul- lett, is sending two Canadian bred draught stallions to the Industrial Ex- hibition at Toronto. Mr. D. D. Wil- son is also sending his Clear Grit car- riage stallion, and Mr. George Mur - die is sending his carriage colt. Mr. Ralph Long, who has been with Duncan & Duncan, in charge of the gent's furnishing department in Sea - forth, for a `number of years, has severed his connection with the firm and left here for Toronto on Wed- nesday last. On Tuesday last as Mr. Williatn Reidy and daughter, of McKillop, were driving to Seaforth with a horse and buggy, they met with a very un- pleasant accident. When opposite Mr. W. J. Shannon's residence they met a load of empty apple barrels. The horse took fright and Wade a sudden i, bolt and threw both of them out. Neither were seriously hurt. Quite a number of boys on the 16th concession, McKillop, congregated one night recently at Mr. George Elliott's and gave assistance by binding and setting up about eight acres of oats. This work was follo'tded by a sumptu- ous repast in the house afterwards. The rate of taxation in `Blyth • this year is 17 mills on the dollars. Rev. Father McGee, of Corunna, has succeeded Rev. Father West in the Wawanosh appointment. Mr. George Godbolt, Sr., of Win- ehelsea, Usborne Township, Intends starting for California to visit his two sons, Fred and John, who went there last winter. The Blyth town council has decid- ed ecided to purchase a steam fire engine and all necessary appliances, if the people will • vote+the money, At the Caledonian games in Albany dast week, A. Scott, .formerly of•'J3rus- selsf, took first prize for standing high jump; , fir xt for 200 yard .hurdle race, and first for tossing the Caber. Mr. Fames McConnell, Vim resides on the lath coneesSion of Mullett, met Witil a had ttCCidtelf recently while Wuibadiiig grafin tire barb. He lialvened.JO takeoff off .guy fond, landing diz dile cont nboui4ero on the bnidi-110al, aid *se • renderer thecae "SHAVING"' "I wish I could stop' growing whis- kers!" That's the usual complaint from men, who have grown quite tir- ed of :plying a razor over their be - soaped faces and removing therefrom all the foliage. It's a far cry back then to when they, were young. I well remember the firat day I be- came aware of anything sprouting ou my face. It was a silky down that I hadn't paid much attention to, until somebody asked me h*Kv my whiskers were growing, 1 made a foray into the washroom and examined the sit- uation in a critical way. Yes, they were actually growing. I was well on the way to being a man. I went to bed that night full believing that I would find myself with a full-grown• . beard in the morning. I woke next morning and sallied alt of bed in the early dawn to take a look . in the -cracked mirror that served as decoration in my attic bed- room. Confound it! I couldn't...see a bit of difference in -the state of the whiskers at all. And for the nett two weeks I suffered agonies of torment because the facial decor=ations were not growing. A chance remark from my Dad one day that sour cream and axle grease would make them sprout sent me into a lather of activity in the cultivating work. The odor of axle grease and soul -cream was naus- eating, proved a boon to all the .flies in the neighborhood and had no vis- ible effect or the growth of whiskers, Then at last after anxiously waiting the whiskers became long and I in- vested in a razor. Sneaking my father's kit out to the barn I crawled up into the haymow and after experi- menting for a while I shaved. How easy they came off . . , and oh, how refreshed (?) I felt after a shave. During the next week I shaved or at least I thought I shaved, every day. And at long last I was able to brave the ordeal of shaving in the wash- room: My father and older brothers ribbed me and my y . younger brother watched in rapt attention and then musing on it, seemed to finger his face. Shaving is a real pleasure during the first two or three years, for the simple reason. that it doesn't matter very pouch whether you shave or not. But gradually the process becomes tedious. A person gets tired of hav- ing- to shave. The time comes very seen when you have to have a good shave. Your razor .is dull and the whiskers seem to grow harder to cut. You get sick and tired of the proce- dure. You try a straight razor and it's too hard to keep honed and the strap keeps getting mislaid. You switch to a safety razor and the blades break and you can't seem to get good shave. You try a patented razor used by the King of Siam or somebody and sold to you by a smart drug store clerk, 'You experiment with shaving soap, toilet soap; shaving powder and shaving cream and then switch back to a cake o•f old-fashioned soap in a mug and go through the same proce= dure. You try leaving your whiskers en and the wife complains and she. threatens to go brick to her mother if you don't stop. Then you ,compro- mise and grow a little cookie -duster under your nose, and: at last shave if off because it tickles your nose and snakes you explode with ; the most violent spells of sneezing every so of- ten. You shave it off and go'•back 19 the process of shaving clean again. You decide to leave your whiskers On for a week at a time and sure as shooting when .you have a five days' growth, some of ,your best relatives show up, or the clergyman, or a friend, and you feel that they will go back convinced after seeing you that man has descended from apes. It'sabsolutely no use. A man can't escape from the whiskers on his face. They are sent as a means of torture to man and one of our best means of complaining comes by reason of them. But you know deep down in a per - eon's heart you sort of lute whiskers. Tihere's a clean and pleasant feeling conies over a Person after they have had a good shave. You run your hand over your face and chin . . . and it's smooth and clean and slip on a clean shirt and feel like a million dol- lars. There's a good deal to say for and "aginst." JUST A SMILE OR TWO 7, "You're a dear sweet girl, Anna." "But my name is Sue!" "You're a dear sweet girt, ants- love you with all my heart." • "Am I rightly informed that you are offering a reward for the dog you lost?" ' "Good gracious, have you found my Fifi ?" "No, but I intead looking for it and tame to ask for a little advance." A lady who had employed a China- man as cook asked him his name. "Me nate San Toy Lee," he said. "Ah, your name is too long," the lady replied. "I will call you John." "All light," responded Jahn. "What's your name?" "Mrs. Charlotte Anne Hemingway," she told him. "Your name too long," remarked John. "I call you Cholly." The. Romance of Rubber The resilience of rubber was one of the first things that struck Christo- pher Columbus when he went to South America, says Oscar E. Millard in The Passing Show. in Europe, a ball as a source of amusement was not unknown. But a ball that °bounced. And the hard black lump Christopher saw the natives playing football with did bounce—and how! When it re- bounded from a tree and hit a man in the chest it bowled him out, He was still more amazed by the fact that on wet days the natives turned out in rubber boots and ,rubber shirts. But although some of the Spanish soldiers who followed him in late years found it convenient in wet weather and when tramping through the slushy undergrowth to borrow the na- tives' galoshes and rubber shirts, do attempt was made by the Spaniards to introdue this ggmmy product of the forest into Europe. It was left to the French, 240 years after Colum- bus, to send home the first samples of rubber, with directions for use. In 1736. Charles de la Condamine, an adventurous• member of an expedi- tion sent to Sotbth America by the Frenoh Academy of Science to mea- sure the arc of meridian, was intrig- ued by the diversity of uses to which the natives put some strange, black substance, which- they obtained in liquid form from tree trunks. He watched them make incisions with small„ primitive axes in the bark of these trees, and catch the milky fluid that oozes front the cuts in crude cups held in position against the trunk by forked sticks. Meanwhile, other natives built a fire of palm nut s•helis, which give off a dense cloud of smoke as they burn, and prepared crude clay moulds of various shapes. These moulds were dipped in the "milk" and held in the smoke until a thin, film of rubber had caogulated on them. The process was repeated until the desired thickness .,was ob- tained. Some of the natives did not trou- ble• about moulds for the waterproof ,boots which particularly attracted him as he trudged through the marshes and quagmires. They simply dipped their feet repeatedly into the "milk" aired dried them, over the smokey fire. 4"iondamine tried those boots for him- self and found them the most com- fortable and hest fitting boots be had ever worn.. Besides, they let in no 'water. Het although, he collected specimens of this wonderful new substante, which he baptized. "Caautohoua" after the natives name, and • sent them to Eia'ope, little use was made of rubber swept for some surgical apparatus iu Prance and for rubbing out pencil marker in England. It was one Phomas Hancock who, early in the nineteenth century, start- ed the domestic reign of rubber.jf' l;l'e Mit the 'rubitrei "biscuit" iuto sEtips :dud tock out a .pateftt 'Mating to such articles, as gloves, 'brac'esy• stoelchigs', •�esfrde4tteis #414441, 'o<• make, ot,t1t' edi'ap, Ile b [t small ma, chine consikting of a cylinder stud ded with teeth and in which a spiked roller could be revolved. This little machine, which he called the 'pickle' is the prototype of the modern mills and masticators. • About the same time Mr. Macintosh of Glasgow turned, his attention to the use of naphtha as a rubber sol- vent, and by 1823 ,h•e had patented a preparation for rubber proofed fabrics which won immediate success They were not, however, remarkable either for their elegance or their reliability and, when Hancock acquired Macin- tosh's patent solvent in 1825 Macin- tosh found it advisable to have him as a partner rather than as a com- petitor. One important process remained to be discovered—vulcanisation—without which neither solid or pneumatic tires would ever' have been possible. The independent discovery by Hancock in England and Goodyear in America, in 1843, that raw rubber treated with sulphur, with the application of heat, would produce a stable substance un- affected by heat or cold, marked the real foundation of the rubber indus- try. Between 1830 and 1850 the im- ports rose from 23 to 381 tons. With- in the next twenty years they had become 7,606 tons. This phenomenal increase in the demand for raw rub- ber had the inevitable effect. The "wood .thhat weeps" had become the most precious timber in, the world. Though Hancock had long ago sug, gested laying down plantations. in our own Eastern possessions, the Brazil- ians stili held the monopoly, and -re- fused to allow ,the precious ,needs of the tree to be taken from the, coun- try. It was left to the resource of Sir Henry Wickham to go through with it after the good old Elizabethath tradi- tions. Chartering a steamer; Sir Hen- ry succeeded in smuggling 70,000 seeds out of the country and ---no easy matter—in delivering them in good condition to Kew. There a sufficient number was germinated and the plants sent out to India, Ceylon and Malay. The total cost of that expedition was $7,500. Out of it have grown 600,000,000 trees producing nearly 80,- 000 tons of rubber annually, and an industry which, with its vast ramifi- cation; has become worth untold, mil- lion&. It was on the back wheels of 'a boy's tricycle. that the pneumatic tire made its successful debut„ In 1844, R. W. Thompson, took out a patent for an "elastic bearing" as an improvement for carriage wheels, but the invention was Crude, altlhough the idea -was alg+ht. Itt 1887 John Boyd Dunlop dis- covered that a wooden disc fitted with a tire of his own, invention rolled twice Ars far as one fitted with a solid rubber tire, and that,. it actually re- bounded when it hit something•. He fitted the rear wheels of young John np lattelop's tricycle with a pair of these tires, and this ultra -silent, super Pa rting tricycle met dufth the tdotitiniled en Ptio, $ Appreciates Kindnesses tHensali, Sept. 5, 1938 - The Editor, The Huron Expositor: Dear Sir: Asa reader of your good paper for over fifty years and a sub-, scriber for nearly forty-seven years, I hope you, may find space in your very valuable paper for the following. About the middle of July a few lines appeared •in, ,this paper saying thow John Elder had happened with an accid t while putting a roof on Robert cLarenls dwelling on No. 4 Highway, north of Hensail, and how he had a hip and, wrist fractured. Yes, that part was all right, but he also had his left shoulder injured. But when one considers 'how long Mr. Elder has been at the rooting busi- ness and also the great numbers of roofs he has put on the last nineteen. years that he tlaas been making roof- ing a specialty and working so much with Doig's for so many years pre- vious to that, and this being the first accident he has happened with dur- ing all that period, certainly says he has been lucky. Sure he slid off a couple and *ent...down through one, but went up again about as fast as hp went down, and at it again. Judg- ing by theeallers from alt directions. far and near since returning from Clinton Hospital, shows the work he has dome over the country has .been appreciated. He learned from experience the first ten days after arriving home from the hospital that it is possible to -have too many callers for one's own good, but to all those • I say: Thank you. But to' a number who showed a little generosity by brine= ing in bouquets of flowers and nice magazines and .ot,her nice things, as follows:: Mrs. Chas. McDonell, on be- half of the United Church, a nice box of fruit; C. Jayne' Mrs. Ballantyne, Mr. and Mrs. H. Pfile, Mr. and Mrs. T. Sherritt, Mr. and Mrs. H. Arnold. William Fee and sisters, Robert Jack- son and his mother, Mr. and Mrs. John Tapp, Miss Alice Kyle, Miss Mary McIIurdie, London; Mr. and Mrs. N. Cook, Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Elder, Mr. and Mrs. Lyle Statham,. Kingsville; Mr. and Mrs: Fred Howe. Drummondville, Que., and Dr. Steer and others, I again say 'thank you. I may say that on going under the X-ray at Clinton Hospital I was in- formed that I world be in the lhospi- tal for ten days, but on talking with the Superintendent a few days after admittance she found out to her sat- isfaction that I did not use tobacco in any shape or form and had never drank a glass of whiskey in my life. I was put under the X-ray on the sixth. day and was informed I was in shape, to go home if I so wished. I have been going about on crutohes for sev- eral weeks and will have to do so for several weeks yet, but expect to be roofing next year again. JOHN ELDI3R Seen in the County Papers Surprised By Her Good Luck Miss Kathleen Fox, of Lucan, win- ner of the new Ford V-8 car in thee Lions Club draw ,at the carnival on. Friday night, was unable to realize ler good fortune when informed by A. H. Erskine try telephone on Satur- day morning. Miss Fox thought it was a practical joke at first, and re- ceived the news without excitement, hut two minutes after Mr. Erskine, had hung up the phone Miss Fox call- ed back. "Was that on the level about the car?" she asked; and when Mr. Erskine assured her it was she cried, "I'll send a man, right up to, get it." The young lady, who did not own a car. nor a •license to drive, bought only one ticket arid then for- got about it. In fact, she told Mr. Erskine she didn't think She could find it. She has a car now, anyway- -Goderich Signal -Star. Promotion For Goderich Boy This morning's Globe and Mail has a picture of E. G. Pridham, son of Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Pridham of God- erich, who has been appointed assist- ant manager of the Toronto Bar St. agency of the Mutual Life of Canada. Mr. Pridham has been branch secre- tary of the Company's King Street agency for the last six years, and ,has served also at Winnipeg and ?Vlontrea.I and at the 'head office at Waterloo- - Ont., since be joined the Company's" staff in 1920.—Goderich Signal -Star.. Mrs. Reynolds Resigns A pending change in the Court House staff is made public this week. •'- Mrs. J. B. ,Reynolds, who for many Yeast has been court stenographer and deputy court clerk, is resigning, but in order to allow time for the training of her successor the resigna- tion will not take effect until Decem- ber 31st. It is understood a succes- sor has been chosen, but no announce- ment as to this is being made at present. Mrs. Reynolds has been a most capable official and her long ac- quaintance with the work of' the courts has enabled her to give invalu- able service. Provincial Inspector Denison in his announcement of the resignation bears testimony to her "long and praiseworthy record."-- Goderich Signal -Star. Four Injured in Auto Accident Mr. Wan. • F. Newell, traveller, was injured in an automobile accident ,on Tuesday afternoon and was brought to his home here Suffering from head injuries and possible fractured ribs. T,he accident took place on No. 23 1Iighway • near P,► oapeot • F1t1.1, when th talc driven, liy M'r, •Hewell collided 'ti<itl �`a ear driven by Wiltiam ,Flolman, aged: G8, of West Monktok Mr. Rol - Mau differed a ft'actureci e�iZ7a11, hiss (tlanittrned on '"a73) of