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The Huron Expositor, 1938-10-14, Page 2a it n Expositor stabti b.ed 1860 .. cPhail McLean, Editor. Wed atl Seaforth, Ontario,, ev- ..'sday afternoon by McLean seription rates, $1.50 a year in ace; foreign; $2.00 a year. Single °pies, 4 cents each. $EAFORTH, Friday, October 14th King and Queen to .Visit Canada -Announcement was made over 'the week -end that King George VI and Queen Elizabeth, would visit Canada in the early summer months of next year and spend three weeks in this country. That is news that will please eTr- ery Canadian, and their Majesties will be assured of a -loyal and en- thusiastic nthusia'stic welcome. King George, as Prince, has• al- ready , visited Canada, but this will be Queen Elizabeth's first visit. This is the first time that Canada has been honored key a visit from the Reigning Sovereign and the occasion will be made even more momentous by the presence of the Queen. e .Thanksgiving For well over sixty years there has been one day of each year that Canada called Thanksgiving Day. It was not always on, the same date, nor always in the same month, but always at the same season of the year—after harvest. The observance of Thanksgiving is not a world wide, but rather an American custom. And, by and large, the people on the North American continent, and particular- ly the Canadian part of it, would be a queer people if they failed to give thanks, at least once a year, to the Creator of all 'things, for the favors and bounties He has showered ;down upon the country and the Canadian people_ • On Monday last we observed our Thanksgiving for this year, and no .day could have beci re fitting to recall to our min l That a favored., people we are, and to whom we owe ¢,hose favors. No painter could paint, no archi- tect could plan and no builder could build a world as beautiful as was the world that day — our National Thanksgiving Day. Sometimes this part of this world of ours seems hard to us; sometimes it seems that there is nothing but hardness in it. But we know that is not true because we only have to look such a little distance beyond to see much harder spots. We are not all favored alike. Some seem to have so much of this world's goods, so many things to be thank- ful for; some seem to have so little. But it has been very noticeable down through time that the most thankful people are not those who have the most, but rathel" those who have the least. Right in this part of our country we are neither rich • nor poor. We are all pretty much alike. For that alone we should be thankful_ We have had a good seed time, a good growing time, a bounteous harvest. There is food in plenty for man and beast. For that we should be thank- ful too. It is not that way all over Canada, but it so much worse in so many places beyond, our boundaries. But' no . matter 'what our status in life; no matter how hard our lot may have appeared to us, there is one cause for thankfulness that has come to us in the past few weeks, and that we all have common—we have escaped war. • Farming Fiftp Years Ago We were talking to a farmer the other day and we were a little sur- prised to -hear hirci say that" farm conditions and farming fifty years ago were much more preferable and l much better paying proposition an ;they are to -day. we pointed out that life on tears -'ago was rather an ego (e gad laborious exr. lace with .life' bn a farm telejihoxie had ri nm. brought his farthest neighbors , and friends next door to him; that the j daily paper and the radio had brought the outside world to his home; that the automobile had abol- ished distance and enabled hen to travel and that modern machinery and hydro had wonderfully lighten- ed farm work. But, he claimed, the telephone, the radio, the auto and all the rest had' really taken more out of the farm- er's life than they had brought to him. That, in a measure, these things had robbed him of his iniative and his independence. Neighbor did not mean what neighbor .used to mean. Seeing the outside world, at first hand, had taught him discon- tent and even covetousness. The automobile had. taken him every- where but over his own farm. And his own farm was beginning to pine away from loneliness and from the need of a strong and friendly guid- ing hand. And, looking over the country and over the number of cars on the con- cession roads, and the country cars in the towns and cities, there might be something in that farmer's con- tention. A car should be of more use to a farmer thany any one else,, unless it be a doctor. The use of a car has never hurt a farm or a farmer.- But the abuse of the car has hurts. far too many of both. When a rainy summer day, or a rainy day In the spring or fall,, brings the choice of the use of a hoe or a car, the car wins out every time. At least that is the situation as this farmer sees it. And, what about the money end of the farm. Or is there such a thing as money end to farming to -day? This farmer said not. And he 'quot- ed prices, and to make sure we look- ed them up in the files of The Expos- itor of fifty years ago. • And this was what we found_ Wheat was selling then at $1.18 a bushel; oats at 35c; barley at 73c, and hay at $15 per ton. That was pretty good. And what was still bet- ter, the farmer claims, there was a market in that day for all these things. When a farmer needed some ready money all he had to do was to go to -- the barn, load up a, wagon or sleigh with wheat, oats, barley, or hay, and take that load into town, where half a dozen buyers were waiting to wel- come hire- with the cash. The situ4tion is different to -day. A farmer wo ld have to wait some time in any town before a , buyer ap- proached him who was willing to buy a load of any of these things. In fact a farmer would not know where to look for such a buyer. There were many more things that this farmer told us about the difference between fifty years ago and to -day, and one of these was about credit. And he was honest about it too. He said the farmer and no one else was responsible for the lack of farm credit to -day. - Fifty years ago a farmer's note was as good as cash, even an auc- tion `sale note. A farmer never bought anything for himself, his family or his farm that he did not intend to pay for, if at the time he did not have the cash to make tl purchase. Buying always meant an obligation to pay. Now, we were told, there are ° farmers, hundreds of them who will buy anything, anywhere, from any one who will trust 'them, without having the remotest intention of ev- er paying for their purchases. That, he claims, is where the farmer's credit has gone, and until there is a change of heart and a return to the rugged honesty of pioneer farming , days, he does not see much financial hope for the farmer. It is not ,a very pleasant picture for •this so ' called enlightened day, nor is it one of cur painting, but at that it might be worth a little study and attention. - WHAT OTHER PAPERS SAY: Wrong Chace (Fergus News -Record) The Japanese have finally admitted that they bit off more thane they could ohew, and' that they can't carry on both the Olynmlp c garrets and the war In Cana. Faced with the necessity of Mak- ing ei choice, they have deeded to let the games So t'o SOMO Otiherr country and- carry on the war. Maybe they glieStedt wring, Ott that TRE xl X RAC EiPOSITOR IP Years Arne Interesting - Items Picked From The Huron Expositor of Fifty and Twenty-five Years Ago. • Frgm The Huron Expositor ' October 17, 1913 Miss Jean \Gilmour, of the Crow - stand Indian Mission, Saskatchewan, is visiting at the `home of her mother, Ars. John Gilmour, Stanley Township. A new and date skating and curling rink is being erected in Clin- ton. The building will be 180 feet long with a width of 90 feet. • Wellington Crawford, of Farquhar, has -purchased the fine farm of Mr. James Rivers. • 1 he Dell Telephone Co. have taken down their unsightly poles from around the Square in Goderich and have placed the wires underground. Mr. Alonzo Hodgins has been ap- pointed collector of taxes by the Stephen council. The members of the Seaforth Curl- ing Club held their annual 'meeting in the Commercial Hotel on Thurs- day evening last. There was a large attendance of enthusiastic "soopers." The following officers were elected for the current season: President, Wm. McDougall; vice-president, Dr. C. Mackay; secretary -treasurer, W. E. Kerslake; umpire, Col. AIex. Wilson. A hearty vote of thanks was tendered Mr. John Beattie, the retiring secre- tary, for bis efficient services. A mo- tion Was passed expressive of regret of the deaths of Messrs. James Mc- Michael, Frank Kling and G. F. Coi- ling, and -the removal of Messrs. Geo. Patterson. and G. F. Rogers. °The Ladies' Aid of First Presby- terian Church met at the home of Mrs. Ellen Murray, Goderich St., on Wednesday evening and presented Mrs. Hugh Stephenson with a pearl pin and. enjoyed a cup of- tea with her prior to her leaving for 'the West. Deep regret was expressed by many people in McKillop in the death of Robert G. 'Ross, who died in Chicago. Ile was the son of the late Allan Ross. Mr. John- Dodds has disposed of his pop business and property in town to Mr. Frank Arnold, of Guelph. His plant is one of the best and most com- plete in this part of the province. Mr. William Charlesworth and W. G. Holman, of Egmondville, are hav- ing electric lights installed in their homes- • Mr. James R. Scott has, purchased the farm of Mr. Thomas Jarman, al- most adjoining the town. Mr. Scott intends building a comfortable house on the place and will occupy it. Mr. Robert Winter, Huron veteran cattle king, 'shipped a carload of picked cattle to Buffalo as an experi- ment shipgrent. Miss Ruppeli, who has been in Mr. H. R. Scott's store, has had blood poisoning in her eye and is in the Stratford Hospital., • From The Huron Expositor October 19, 1888 Mr. W. -H. McCracken, `Reeve of Brussels, has taken in all 108 prizes at the shows this fall. While working at Mr. Malcolm Mc- Ewan's in Stanley Iast week.. Messrs. Ross and Cameron, with their steam thresher, ran through 410 bushels of barley in one hour and 40 minutes. The new Presbyterian Church at Cranbrbok will soon be completed. The annual meeting of the Seaforth Curling Club was held on Monday ev- ening to elect officers for the coming season. The following are the officers: President, D. D. Wilson; vice-presi- dent, George Patterson; secretary - treasurer, John Weir; patron, John Mc'Millan, M.Y.; chaplain, Rev. A. D. McDonald; lbonorary members: G. W. Castles and R. L. Sharp, Toronto; Sheriff Gibbons, Goderich; He, W. C. Meyer, Wingham; Henry Cameron, Winnipeg, and M R. Counter, Sea - forth. Mr. John Robb, Mrs. Kirkman and Miss Anderson represent the Seaforth Presbyterian Church Sabbath school at the .provincial convention being held this week in Kingston. Mr. W. J. Tough, of Stanley, has been engaged to teaoh the school in 'Section No. 1, Morris, for the coming year. Mr. A_ 'Cardno, of Seaforth, has al- ready stripped from Seaforth and Brucefield stations, nineteen carloads of apples, being about '3,500 barrels. The barn and outbuildings belong - g to Mr. Walter Harris in Hullett ere burned on Friday evening about ven o' lock. The upsetting of a lanternused the fire. At the special examination in He- brew held at the 'beginning of the present session of Knox College, To- ronto, D. "IVT-Stichanan, of Usborne, won the Bayne Scholarship of $50. Mr. Robert Martin has sold his fine farm on the London Road to Mr. E. Welsh, of Blyth, for the sum of $7,508.r Mr. Frank Goodwin, formerly of Stanley, has been in the Qu'Appelle district, Northwest Territory, for sev- eral years and has'' hardly ever bad a good crop. The 'gophers and the drought did not leave him a thing this year. On Friday night last the young peo- ple of the Methodist Church held an oyster social and at-home in the baae- mei t of the church. Mr. Howell, pas- tor of the church., acted as chairman. The Hollowing are some of the larg- est amounts won in prize money at the South Huron Fall Show, recently held at Seaforth: q. E. Cresswell, Tuckersmith, $38.75; Eleoat Bros., Tuckersmith, $20; H. Snell & Sons, Mullett, $25.50; John McMillan, Mul- lett, $25.75; H. and. W. D. Smith, Hay, $28; John Brunsden, Londesboro, $12; William Carnochan, Tuckersmith, $9, and many others. • "Can you let me bare a book, please?" asked the woman of the lib- rary assistant.. • "Certainly," was the reply. "Do y 'u want something light?" • "It doesn't Matter a bit,"'RAI, customer 'heipfu"tiy. '1 ..hate :.:car With °me:" �{ "`Il '.�. r•ty. Phil OSifer of Lazy Meadows o, (By Harry J Boyle) o. • "TREE ROOSTING" Science has • made great improve- ments in giving hens and chickens scientific surroundings, but the chick- en is a pe;t;verse creature, who per- sists in patronizing the great out- doors. No matter how attractive- you make a chicken house, they seem to enjoy causing no end of trouble and worry. Biddy, our little red hen, is the most persistent offender. Eacai year sheraises a brood of chickens and for some time is faithful in her du- ties of having them within the con- fines of the coop. Then, as the sea- son progresses, and it comes closer. to. Fall, she begins to yearn once more for a roost in one of the apple trees in the orchard. I suppose at that time she delivers an impassioned speech on the benefits of outdoor sleeping and one night w -ben we go out, it's to find that all are roosting blissfully in the apple trees. This goes on for some time, and little attention is paid to it. Then the warning goes around that one of the Lazy Meadows family has seen a weasel or some other destructive an- imal with 'a sweet tooth for a chick- en, and the Missus declares on a par- ticularly cold and bitter Fall evening "Phil, either you go out and gather those chickens in off that 'roost, or you'll pay me for every one that gets lost." Bitterly complaining, boots are pull- ed on, a sack is found and the lantern lighted. Then to sally forth in search of the erring •fowl. You approach the orchard with gentle footsteps and muflled bitterness as you trip on a piece of wire or a half -hidden fallen. limb. And there in drowsy complac- ency are the chickens, completely un- aware of the trouble they are start- ing and seemingly enjoying the great outdoors. The stickler is that they always seem to be too far from the ground to reach to with your hand. A chick- en coop is dragged up, and' so the contortions start. You may well im- agine the results when a person trys to balance on a coop that's slippery with dew, while balancing a lantern, a sack and trying valiantly to hang onto a small swaying limb. Just as you have bagged the first chieken the others blink drowsily at you, and then come to life in a start- led way. They squawk in, their loud- est style, the back of your hand comes in contact with the hot top of the lantern; your foot slips on the coop and you drop everything.in a desper- ate effort to hold your stance. It's one of -the most harrowing ex- periences known, this gathering of truant chickens. Just about the time you have bagged. six or seven, you have to drop the bag and several slip out of the bag, to squat in the grass in a game of hide and seek. After you have them all . . . at least you're sure that's all . . . locked up in the coop, the Miasus appears to ask how many you have. Sure as Fate, you have missed one. Thus the great chicken hunt is on. By the flickering rays of the lantern you try and discern a form that looks like a straying crhicken, but the search is hopeless. You cover the or- chard- with a fine tooth comb and then at last when you almost give up in " eseration•, the chicken is found o higher branch of the same tree where the others were. At last they are all safely tucked into the coop and securely locked up. You go to bed for a troubled night's sleep, during which an enormous chicken is running •you down and chases you around so much that you flare worn out the next morning. At dinnertime' the Missus relates how the neighbors had chickens killed last night. You look like a cherubim as you exclaim.: "I had a great. idea when I brought those chickens in last night!" And you wonder why your wife looks at you so strangely! ® JUST A SMILE OR TWO The old-fashioned farmer was hard to convince. "No," declared he. "I11 have no such contraption in my house. Pianers are bad things." "Oh, father," protested his daugh- ter, "this is an upright piano." • "How did you enjoy your horseback ride?" ."I never • thought anything filled with hay could be so hard!" • Smith: "It says here in the paper that they are now making shingles out of concrete." Jones: "Then I take back wthat I just said about wishing I were a boy again." Press Agent: "Say, there's a bunch of people outside waiting to -see you. Among them is a bishop who says he married you some years ago." Film Star: "Gee, I'm practically certain I never married a bishop." • Critic: "Napolean retreating from Moscow on a bicycle? But there were no bicycles in those days!" Artist: "I know—but I simply can- not paint horses." m, • "Waiting for a trolley car, baddy?" "Yes. 1 am," "Well, I'd be the last man to inter- fere with anybody's fun, but this trol- ley line stopped running in 1929." We Have no Right to Peace ® (By B. K. Sandwell in Saturday Night) 9 For the greater -part of the twenty years whl?h have elapsed since 1918, the English-speaking democracies all over the world have been deluding themselves with the belief that war was no longer a thing that bad to be taken into consideration. If they had at the same time been conducting their policies, both internal and exter- nal, upon lines which were calculated to remove the causes of war, this de- lusion' would have been less danger- ous. But as we all know, they—ir;, eluding Canada — have been doing nothing of the kind, They have from time to time, it is true, entered' into certain pacts for the purpose of pro- tecting one another's existing bound- aries, as if that were all that is nec- essary for the preservation of peace; and even while entering into theQse pacts, they have tacitly, and somhe- times openly, attached reservations to them which made them valueless. But they have also maintained extreme nationalistic policies in regard to trade and immigration, thus closing the natural safety -valve which per- mits of the adjustment of the vary- ing pressures of poplulation upon dif- ferent parts of the earth's surface. When these policies led, to a world- wide depression they redoubled their nationalistic efforts in the hope of throwing as much as possible of the consequences of that depression upon one another and upon outside nations. If it is permissible, without irrever- ence to speculate concerning the judg- ments of the Almighty, we may sure- ly conclude that at this moment the English speaking' democracies are in His eyes no more ntitld to th biasing His eyes no more entitled to the blessings of peace than the immoral and aggressive autocracies *hose growth has been largely the result of their own actions. At any rate they can no longer count upon those bless- ings with any assurance. Chastening the Nation The necessity of facing the possi- bility of •war is on -e of the most chas- tening influences that can be brought to bear upon the life of a nation. The refusal to face that necessity is bound' to lead to grave moral weaknesses. In Canada there is already percept- ible a'distinct strengthening of moral fibre as; a result of the perilous posi- tion id -which the whole world has found itself during recent weeks. And in this country, the pressure of im- minent peril is almost negligible com- pared with what it is in England, whose people must face, the, practical certainty of devastating" air raids' ov- er the Moet • sensitive parts of their territory., But in 'both countrieso,,tJie process of moral regeneration has a long way yet to go. We in Canada have been reading for ' a week past the demands of politicians and of newspapers, op *,sed to the presient -Orate rntlnent of the I minion for a etatenieitt of :Malloy froth that Govern- •4 t ment, which if it were granted too soon might easily divide rather than unify the efforts, of the country. But we have not yet read any demands for the organization of the country for the purpose of achieving those sacrifices which would tend to make it more effective whenever it does have to go to war to carry out its policy and to defend the common in- terests of all the democracies. The British in this respect are far ahead of us, and even they are not far advanced enough. The crucial element in the belligerent situation of Great Britain is that which relates to defence against air raids. This is an element which cannot be left to a navy, however great and powerful, nor to a small professional army. The problem of air raid 'precautions, as The Round Table expresses it this month, "puts democracy on trial." Nothing can be done about it without the organized, loyal and intelligent co-operation of the great masses of the population. It .is only within the last few months that there has been e"en a faint hope of securing in Great Britain have dared to tell the people the unpalatable truth concerning their real position and to call upon them for the sacrifices that are needed. To- day the truths are being told and there is fair reason to believe that the co-operation will be forthcoming; hut it is clear that even yet Great Brit in's state of defence is far from satisfactory, and as a result small na- tions in many parts of the world, hieh have been compelled into. dev- ious policies to keep themselves from being crushed by one or other of the great autocracies, can do no' more than look a year or so into the future and hope that by that time democracy as a political system will not be too' apathetic to n survive in a world of strife. • War Not Abolished It is true that modern war is. a terrible thing, . It may be true that it could be abelished, but we have not yet found out how. The Communists claim that Communism would abolish it, if Communism could be made uni- verlial, and they are, certainly striv- ing hard enough - to make Communism universal; but they have already be- gun to split into different seets over the question of what sort of Com- munism should be made universal. The late President Wilson believed that war could be abolished by a League of Nations: and "possibly if a Leagae of Nations could have been made universal it might have been abolis-hed,, but President Wilson could sot get even his own nation lnto the •l aague. The Americans who refused to, follow their,- President into the League thought that, War could be abolished by getting nations to sign a form of words disapproving of 'it; with the axle .result that nations., now make war withsout admitting' that it Thanks Friends Seaforth, October 10, 1938. Editor, The Huron Expositor: Dear 'Sbr: Leaves have their time to fall, And flowers to wither at the north wind's breath, ` And stars -to set -but all, Thou hast all seasons for thine own, 0 Death! My dear sister wanted me to re- member all those friends who helped: her in her last agony, such as' nurses, doctor and neighbors, with special mention of cher pastor, Rev. H. V. Workman, of the United Church, who strengthened 'her • during her brief struggle. "Alone, but not alone." The nurses, Miss Margaret Case and Mre. Edna Macklam, tenderly watched over her and soothed her sorrow. Dr. J. D. Colquhoun, of the Seaforth Clinic, attended her day and night, but the spark of life had fled. Dr. F. J. Burrows called as a familiar friend. Mr. W. H. Golding, M.P., us- ed his car and phone freely and drove to Brussels cemetery and arranged pallbearers before the funeral. We wer sorry her dear friend, alts. R. S. gays, was away from home. Sisl ter missed her. Bishop Manasseh Hallman, wife and son Jacob, from Ma .°:, Beim, near Kitchener — good friends—were present. Bishop Hall- man read the Scripture lesson. Also Milton Weber, Mr. Fred Kraatz and family, Hilda, Marie, Nelda and Owen from Kitchener, attended. Cousins' from Toronto were 'unable to come through sickness. The old friends, Geo. A. Sills, F. G. Neelin, John Walker, John McLellan, showed their Sympathy. The ladies gave special help. The neighbors, Mrs. Henry Hoggarth, Mrs. Golding, Mrs. Ament, Mrs. Christie, Miss Jean Ferguson, Miss Jessie Bethune, and others. The funeral was largely attended. 'Many were not notified in time to come from a distance. Rev. H. V'. - Workman, her pastor, from the Unit- ed Church, conducted the funeral. Two beautiful hymns, familiar to the de- ceased, were suig by a quartette com- posed of Mr. 'and Mrs. Jas. A. Stew- art, Miss Ruth Cluff and Mr. E. C. Chamberlain, "Safe in the Arms of Jesus" and "Abide With Me." The remains were laid away in the family plot, Brussels cemetery. At rest, Miss Robertson's thoughts, dreams and work this summer clearly pointed 'o the fact she would go "Home" soon. Her sickness began Friday night, Sept. 30th, and died Wednesday morn- ing, Oct. 5th. I hear thee speak of the better land; Thou call'st its children a happy band, Sister! Oh where is that radiant shore? Shall we not seek it, and weep no more? • Is it where the flowers• of the orange blows? And the fireflies glance through the myrtle boughs? Not there, not there, my child! Is it far away, in some region old, There the rivers wander o'er sands old? Whereof gthe turnings rays of the ruby s'h i ne, And the dyamond lights up the secret mine, ° And the pearl gleams forth from the coral strand? Is it there, sweet sister, that better land? Not there, not there, my child! Eye hath not seen it, my gentle boy; Ear hath not beard its deep songs of joy— Dreams cannot picture a world so fair, Sorrow and death may not enter there; Time doth not breathe on its fadeless bloom; Far ,beyond the clouds, and beyond the tomb— It is there, it is there, my child! J. M. ROBERTSON. Seen in the County Pipers Badly Burned At Powerhouse Mr. James Strachan was severely burned at the powerhouse Tate Thurs- day afternoon when 'he fell among some live Hydro wires. How he es- caped with his life is a mystery. As it was, hie arms and shoulders are badly burned and he will be laid off work for weeks. Lights and electrical appliances all over town were cut off temporarily by the accident.—Gode- rich Signal -Star. Sentenced For Drug Store Robbery Two Toronto men, James Oliver and Clinton Attridge, pleaded guilty before Magiettate J. A. Makins on Thursday (Continued on Page 3) is war, that they are making. It may be that when human beings are more perfect than they are today —when they deserve to 'be -allowed to live in a state of perpetual peace— war will cease to be a necessity. In' a wOrd, the human race may be able to purchase relief from war, but only at the price of giving up on a very large aeale most of its other sins and selfishness: Until that time comes, we have no right to expect that our own nation, whatever be its geogra- phical advantage, shall be eternally exempt front the common sedurge of humanity; and.. particularly we have no right to seek tbat exemption at the price of •a cowardly abandonment Of 'those who hare aided •us in ' the pant.. aa,d• who have relied upon us . for the Mitre. 1