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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1938-11-25, Page 2rr e:,rl Duron Expositor Established 1860 Keith'`McI1iail McLean, Editor. Published at Seaforth, Ontario, ev ery Thursday afternoon by McLean Bros. Subscription rates, $1.50 a year in advance; foreign, $2.00 a year. Single copies, 4 cents each. l 1AFORTH, Friday) November 25, The New Trade Agreements The new trade agreements with the United States which have been under preparation and discussion for the past year or more, were signed by both countries in Washington last week. As far as the lay mind can see, and judging too by the very general newspaper discussion they have been given, : the new treaty was well worth waiting for, as the terms, from the Canadian point of view, are even more favorable than had been anticipated. Of course, under a treaty whose tariff revision clauses are so numer- ous, some interests and industries are bound to be stepped on. But it would seem that the most people are to benefit most, so there can be no general disappointment. As far as the farming industry is concerned, and .it is the farming in- dustry that has suffered most sev-- erely in recent years, the new treaty is likely to prove the dawn of a new day. New and enlarged. markets will be opened up for every branch of live stock, grain, forest and field. We hope the new treaty fulfills its great expectations, because real prosperity for Canada has to come out of the soil. There is no other place from which it can come. When the farmer starts to prosper again, all Canada will be on the upswing, and if there is any industry in this country that has suffered as much, as long and as patiently as the farm- ing industry, we would like to know what it is The new trade agreements will likely be the first business before the House of Commons when it meets early in January. There will be a lot of discussion of course, but it is expected there will not be a great deal of real objection to them. When the different parties have made as much political capital as is possible to make out of them, the large Gov- ernment majority will bear down and the new treaty will come into force and operation. • Trouble In The Old Age Pension -hoard At the recent meeting of the Hur- on County Council, Mr. Robert Bow- man, the council's appointee on the Old Age Pension Board, resigned his position as , a protest against the manner in which the decisions of the County Board were being over -rul- ed- or disregarded altogether by the Government officials in Toronto. Mr. Bowman is an ex -Warden of Huron and one who is widely known as a marl of excellent business abil- ity and one possessing a wide and intimate knowledge of municipal and county affairs. In county coun- cil Mr. Bowman was not a frequent speaker, but when he did address the council, few men were ever listened to with keener attention and fewer still carried greater weight(. For that reason we rather incline to the belief that there was more than a little truth in Mr. Bowman's assertions of interference with the local Pension Board in the matter of granting Old Age Pensions in this county_ In fact, some few years ago, when the county council was so eager to shoulder the burden of expenditure on to the Ontario Government, The Expositor pointed out the possi"biI- .I:tr of this kind of interference :ch would surely arise by putting the Old Age Pension scheme into Hies. it must be admitted that there was some peddling and soliciting of old age lorth in the early days of its jtxi l f$tton., but on the whole the itered ' without re- oiti and pensions were On their merits by the on Board, as it was st ir 4. • THE AUTON EXPOSITOR • The new pension board, however, lacks the authority of the old. Auth- ority is centralized in Toronto, which may easily mean that the granting or witholding of an old age pension, in the Last analysis, is more apt to lie with the sitting members rather than with the Pension Board, if said members are at all interested, and when favors spell votes, most mem- bers are. The situation Mr. Bowman corn - plains of, however, is not peculiar to Huron. Comment, we have noticed, has been made in several other counties of Ontario. • Pasteurization Again In another column on this page we publish a letter from Dr. Gordon Bates, General Director of the Health League of Canada, with of- fices in Toronto. Dr. Bates' letter is a most convinc- ing one from his point of view, and we do not take exception to it, al- d though we believe, in several in- stances, his mode of presentation lacks much if he hopes to make many converts to his cause in the country districts. In the first place the letter was ad- dressed to Dr. Keith McPhail Mc- Lean, Editor of The Huron Exposi- tor, To us that name has always seemed a funny one, and if we had been left alone we are positive we would not have chosen the ,first two parts of it. But with all due defer- ence to the medical profession, we do not believe' it has been improved in any way by having Doctor added to it. One glance at that name is enough to,convince the average person that the owner of it must be a descend- ant of that nationality, which, it is proclaimed, possesses no sense of humor. Perhaps we are deficient in that excellent quality, but we are content as long as the humor verges on the plebeian type. Another inaccuracy we would like to point out is the statement of Dr. Bates which appeared 'in the cover- ing letter that accompanied his com- munication, and which read: "It may be as you say the large dairies are in favor of pasteurization." The Expositor did not say any such thing. It merely quoted a cor- respondent's opinion, and plainly printed it as a quotation in the edi- torial under discussion. As to the Ietter itself, we have no. - fault, whatever, to find. It possess- es a great deal of educational sense, although, as we say, the presenta- tion of some points might easily be open to 'argument. It may be quite' true, as Dr. Bates says, that the medical organizations of the Anglo- Saxon world endorse pasteurization of milk without qualification. But merfieal science doe's not stand still, a fact which we were made aware of recently when we were reading a book on the history of medicine. In that history there were more than a few instances,, and not so far in the distant past either, where the whole medical pprofession of the Anglo-Saxon world endorsed systems of treatment and modes of operation that would to -day disqual- ify any doctor who was foolish en- ough to try them. Is it beyond the bounds of possibility that pasteuriza- tion of milk will be as outdated in the not too distant future? Another statementin the letter which will not be received •too grac- iously in the country is that the peo- ple there who hold the opinion that selective areas of live stock might be preferabje to compulsory pas- teurization, "do not know what they are talking about." Perhaps they don't. But these same people have before them the history of generation after genera- tion of boys and girls in whom ro- bust health and strength was the rule and where exceptions were very few and far between. And it was a robust health and strength that owed its origin largely to raw milk which was without benefit of select- ed areas, 'pasteurization, orange juice, tomato juice or anything eIse. But Dr. Bates is on safe and solid ground when he says he trusts that The Huron Expositor will continue to do its part to bang the facts to public attention. The Expositor will do just that. In Fact it was the de- sire of this paper to express public - opinion on both sides of the pasteur- ears Agone interesting Items Picked From The Huron Expositor of Fifty and Twenty -.five Years Ago. From The Huron Expositor November 21, 1913- A very impreselve memorial service and one which was participated in by all denomination' in town, was held in Knox Church,' Goderdch, on Sunday afternoon bast when 1,800 people mourned for those lost In the storm on the Great Lakes on Sunday, Nov. 9th.: There were 1,200 turkeys on the Graham House premises in Clinton on Thursday morning of last week. They were purchatsod by Messrs. R. Gra- ham ands T. H. Cook, who paid. 16 to 17 cents per pound for them. Quite a number of young people at- tended the Ugofgko dance in Case's Hall on Monday evening last. Cortese Bross- supplied the music. Mr. Fred Gales•, of Goderidh.. St., has disposed of 4,500 eggs since the first oi' January, the product of an average of about 40 hew! Miss Winnie McIntosh has taken a position in Fell's Photograph Studio in Seaforth. Fireof unknown origin on Wed- nesday evening destroyed the offices and warehouses of Walker & Clegg furniture manufacturers, near the Grand Trunk station in Wingham. The doss] Is 1,000, which is insured. The Essery bridge in the Township of Stephen is now completed' and op- en for traffic. Mr. Charles F. Libby, who was for years asmociated with the Shaw Hos- iery Company at Rowell, Mass., has, taken over the management of the Clinton Knitting Mill. Edward Shoenhalts was unfortunate enough to lose four fingers off bis right hand while working in the Clin- ton flour mitt The Wingham Curling Club have organized for the winter campaign, with the following officers: Presi- dent, L. F. Binkiey; vice-president, H. B- Cochtrane; treasurer, A. E. Porter; secretary, A. M. Crawford. Mrs. Gillespie, Sr., and Miss J. Gil- lespie, of Cromarty, are in Stratford .at present where Mrs: Gillespie was having a cataract removed from her eye. The operation was successfully done by Dr. F. J. R. Forester. Mr. J. F. Daly has leased the store formerly occupied by Messrs. Ohes- rrey & Archibald, and intends having it fitted up for his growing business. The north side will be occupied as a jewellry store and the south thalf antd the rest of the building as an automobile and bicycle ware room. The storm did a great deal' of dam- age to the pier at Grand Bend and also tore down all the bathing and boat houses on the beach. Seaforbh's new post office was op- en for businese for the first time on Wednesday morning. • From The Huron Expositor November 30, 1888 William Coventry, of Westfield, had one of this• hands badly scalded late- ly by a valve in his engine bursting white cutting straw. During the season Mr. Robt. Lang :has shipped from Exeter station no less than 35 carload's of apples to different parts of the continent. The auction sale on the farm of Mr. Rolph Thompson, on the Huron Road on Wednesday fast, was a most successful one. There was an im- nrense crowd and Auctioneer J. P. Brine was kept busy from 11 o'clock until dark. Mr. Peter McEwari, of Leadbury; Mr. Alexander Ross, of Egmondvilie, and Mr. Wm. Campbell, of Harpurhey, who were deer hunting in Muskoka, returned home on Friday last with aa tna,tiy deer as the law altows. They were in the district of South River. Mr. Jahn Carroll has scold his hotel property and business in Seaforth to Mr. Joseph Bell, of Stai l•ey Township, for the sum of $6,000. The Seaforth Band, now that the cold weather has set in, will give a musical evening once every week in the Town Hall, instead of on the street as before. Mrs. Govier, of Hullett, who had a large tumor removed last week by Dr. Markid, of this town, is doing splendidly. A very enjoyable time was spent on Friday evening at the residence of Mr- Robert Elgie, Jr., Tuckersmith, which occasion was the warming of his handsome new residence. For- syth Bros., who have attained a rare eminence at wielding the bow, furn- ished excellent music far the occa- sion and everyone enjoyed themselves i mtn ensely- Oa Saturday evening last a horse belonging to Mr. Robt. Armetnong, pf the 4th of Morris, suddenly died. The animal died from pads green poison - The second debate of the season was held -in the school in School Sec- tion No. 1, Grey, on Monday last v len the subject, "Resolved that an- nexation would be more beneficial to Carlene, bban independence" was die cussed.. The affirmative was, upheld by John, Bain, assisted by Jas. Per - rile, Stanley Anderson and J. M. Rob- ertson; the negative by Wm. Perrie, assisted by Thos- Turnbull, Alex. Peale, D. Robertson and R. H. Bisb- op. The chairmen, Mestere. David Ritcble and Win. Knechbei, decided' in favor of a deadlock or tie. The sporting you/se folks have been 'having wonderful skating on the elv- er at Exeter and on Monday night there were about 200 people there. Mr. Sam Sweet was Pleating back-' wards and skated into Mists Susie Weeks. They both felt ands Miss Wee'ke hit her head on• his ,skate, which cut it opens Slue was moon. scicous for over as hour. ization question, and not opposition to the new Gov- ernment Act, which led to the publication of the edi- torial which . has received so much con anent, both pro and con.• t il�rVl4r� ti � s�' Phil Osifer of Lazy Meadows • (Ry Harry J. BoyN) PRE -WINTER SUBJECTS When the editor of the paper calls you up and says: "Have you got this week's column done?" and you Mere blankly into the telephone from' Which the noise came and you reaI- ize that you haven't stopped to Chink about it, there's kind of a dead empty feeling comes inside you. What will I write about? It was snowing last week! There was snow drifting down all day and covering up Lazy Meadows, and the cattle were steaming when we brought them into the stable. There's a oozy and comfortable feeling when cattle are in the stable and you can hear them chewing on their cudts quite contentedly. Upstairs in the bans, the hens are busy scratching for grain among the chaff on the barn floor, and little cascades of chaff come rippling down where the warp- ing planks have left gaping holes in the floor. Over in the corner stall a bunch of chunks are spouting loudly in the trough, waiting for more feed. I con- fess onfess that if you fed them twenty, times a day tholse pigs would still be looking for more. And Buttinsky, the be -whiskered goat, is chafing at having to be inside the stable these days. He's getting a little mad and trying out his butting ability on the end of the passage -way, Of all the ones in the stable, 1 be- lieve that our old grey mare is the most contented. Age has taught her that while there may be more fun in foraging in a pasture, there's going to be more attention lavished on her all winter. We've having quite a task to keep the turkeys from roosting on top of• the driving shed. Every night, no mp•tter what the weather may be like, they manage to find a ,roosting spat on top of the sbed, and believe you nue, it's no fun to get them down. But all in all, and even consider- ing the work that will have to be done, I like to see winter corps: It makes• me feel healthy and' no mat- ter how much you complain, you secsetly believe thezt winter le tato beat season of all. The telephone starts to be of more use now. When the women 'folks noun get out to town any more, they have to keep up- on the news by means of the telephone. It is mad - ening when you call up someone on tl.o telephone and there are about twenty listening in, on the wire. But then when you come home at night, and: the wife says: "Did you hear about Ed. Jenks getting into the lawsuit with Ab. Dean?" It is news to you, and you perk up and ,listen and she unfolds the story - and after she's through you ask: "where did you hear that?" ' She just shrugs her shoulders and smiles and y ou know where it came from . . - "The telephone." Another interesting subject at this time of year is "kindling wood." I brought up a cord of pedlar and piled it neatly inside the garden fence. It's been there for a month and I've been intending to bring it into the wood- shed for some time now. However, as things of such a nature go I never d td. The snow came and the lined- ling j d -ling was completely covered by the wet tstuff, and. . niow it's an or- deal to start the fire in the morning. Take some paper, Lace over the top of that some wet cedar - . . at least damp cedar . . . light a match and trust to Providence. The result is that Fate generally lets you down, mei the fire simmers and sputters and goes out. But I'm like so many other parents and am now passing the "buck" with an order decreeing that the young gentry at Lazy Meadows are responsible for seeing that the cedar is .properly roasted in the even the night before. • I would extend it and ask that they light the fire, but it's more trouble trying to get them out of bed than to light the •fire. : JUST A SMILE OR TWO Husband (angrily); "No money in the house, the gas bill not -paid, the butcher threatening us, no money for decent cigars, and you go and buy a fur coat M the middle of simmer just because it was c'heap!" She (white with passion) : "Par- don me, it was not a cheap one!" • Two Irish farmers, keen rivals, en- tered their horses in a steeplechase. One of thein engaged a crack jockey to ride. The two horses' were lead- ing at the last fence when both jock- eys were unseated!. The expert pock- ey quickly remounted and won the race. On returning to the paddock he found the farmer fuming with rage. "Why, what's up?" he asked, "I won, didn't I?" "Yes, you won all right," roared the farmer; "but on the wrong horse, you idiot!" • A long-winded lawyer defended a client unsuccessfully, and during the trial the judge received the follow- ing note: "The prisoner humbly prays that the time occupied by the plea of the counsel for the defense be counted in his sentence." The colored youth appealed to his father for an explanation of the working of the telephone, "Data, easy 'nuff, Rastas," said the old man. "Hit arm like dis. Ef there was a dawg big 'nuff so bis head could be put in Boston, an' his tail in New York, den if you tramp on his tail in New York, he'd: bark in Boston. Does you understate' that, Rastus?" "I does, pap) But how am de wire- less telegraph worked?" The old man smiled patiently. "Dat be jess prezaely de same, wid de one ezceptiof_ dat de dawg am ",maginery" • "You know, my dear," said Mrs. Ayres, "as I was passing under the scaffolding of a new building some paint fell on my fur coat, and my hus- band had to buy me a new one." Her friend (earrvestly): "In what street was that, Mrs. Ayres?" • Also, although we have seen no re- cent statistics tcj support our conten- tion, we ane inclined to believe that there mush heave been a tremendous increase in oil and' gasoline sales since the younger set took unanim- ousfy to truckle'. Summary of Canadian- • • U.S. Trade Agreements These are the two most important agreements thus far concluded under the T,p e Agreements Act of 1931. From the U. S. standpoint the agree meet with the U.ndted Kingdom covers not only trade with that country but also Grade with Newfoundland and a large and iw•plortant group of British Colonies, Australia, New Zealand, the Union of South Africa, Ireland, India, Berme., and Southern Rhodesia are not included ,tn the agreement with the United Kingdom. However, the trade of the areas which are includ- ed in these two agreements, with each other and with the rest of the world, accounts for ever one-third of the w orid'a total international trade. Moreover, the United States carries on about one-third of its own total foreign trade. with the areas covered in these two agreements! • In most years the United, Kingdom is the largest market for American expo: i ', and Canada the second, Al- though Canada occasionally has rang- ed first. Conversely, Canada is Ord - :leerily the largest source of imports late the United States, and the Unit- ed. Kingdom second or third. The United: Staten supplies well over half of Canada's imports and takes: about :two-fltth,s of Canada's exports; the United States is also one of the larg- est marrketa for exports from tl}e United Kingdom, and the innnited Kingdom imports more goods from the United States than from envy other country, whether within the British Empire or net. The tradke of the United: States with several of the overseas areas of the British Empire included within the agreement is very large. Twenty trade agreements (Includ- ing the first agreement with Canada which is replaced by the new agree- ment) shave now been signed under the Trade Agreements Act, covering countries with which about three- fifths of our foreleg trade is Carried oh. Amenlcan agriculture' and mntdusrtry should gain much from these two agreem'enit:s. Tire cotaeensions secur- ed nor our producers In each of them cover a great volume of trade, The United Kingdom Agreement fs pni ticulaarly Imiontamt from the stand- point of agriculture. That cotntdiy is by fax the largest foreign market Por Amemicani morn products, taking Vote mealy about one-third of the total ex- perts. Substantial concessions on farm products bevo been secured from the United Kintgelean, Agriculture will also gain from the concessions obtain- ed for industrial products: in all the countries covered by these agree- ments, since expansion of exports of factory products: adds to the buying power of American wage-earners for products of the soil. • The • reciprocal concessions: provid- ed in these two new agreements cov- er',rodects which altogether make up a very large share of the total trade between the United States and the areas covered' by the two agreements- T'tese agreements are, of course, not one-sided. Tbey should stimulate mutually profitable expansion of trade in both directions. While the two agreements are sep- arate instruments, they should be considered together, Taking the two agreements together, many important products appear in both import and export schedules., that is, the s,che- duies of concessions. which the Unit- ed States is granting and obtaining. Ia, such cases the full significance of these agreements cannot be judged w'thout considering them both toge- ther, and conlsdittering their full cov- erage, inaiudpg, in the caste of the agreement with the United' Kingdom, the concesed:onts relating to trade with Newfoundland and the British Ctolon- 101 Envpare. The two agreements are likewise important in relation to the system of British imperial preferences, which Las been long in existence, but was greatly expanded by the Ottawa Agreements of 1932. On many com- modities manly of the British coun- tni•ee apply to imparts fronii• other British countries lower import duties than on 11min:e to fro n the United States or other non -British countries; often the Pettish geode enter free. Various of the coneese:ons made by the United Kingdom and Canada in- volve modifications of these ,prefer- enioes. In the caste of the oolbmjes covered by the United' Kingdom Agreement the concessions pertain particularly to the extent of the pre- ferences! ' These agre'emventts are of great im. Portence not Only with restpeet to the tel9& directly benefitting from ( Mame: d on Page 6) • ffi 1t,k "{rl r" ;q. NOVEMBER 25, 1938 Pasteurization Toronto, Nov. 17, 1938. The Editor, The Huron Expositor: Dear Sir: A most unusual editorial appeakring, in The Huron Expositor on the subject of Pasteurized Milk has been called to my attention, It would' appear from reading this eidlitorial that because a mother in Windsor had had ddffirul'ty in bring- ing up her baby until she chranged its diet to Wilk procure from a dairy vvkhic'h supplied raw Milk, instead of pasteurized milk, there must be Some- thing the matte With past'eiurized, milk. You fail to stress the point that evefy,authority agrees that pas- teizi-isation in itself makes no essen- tial difference ie. the quality of milk. This good lady fails to realize that in switching from one dairy to another she bas also mater4ly altered her child's diet by providing liim with an entirely mew type of milk.. Obviously milk from one cow may be quite un- like milk from another cow. The quality of neither milk is altered by the process of .pasteurization except in so far as the dau'gerouls organisms• which May kill are removed from the milk which is • pasteur izeld. It seems to me that in discussing this question editorially there Is one fact which cannot be igniared. The great medical and health organiza- tions of the Anglo-Saxon world have all endorsed pasteurization of milk. The British Medical Association, the Canadian Medical AS's/Gelation, the American Medical Association, the American Public Health Association, the Canadian Publde Health. Associa- tion, the Health Section of the League of Nations, the Health Lupus of Can- adae-all enderse pasteurization of milk without qualification. These or- ganizations include all the health leaders in the Anglto-Saxon world. In spite of all precautions one can never be sure that raw milk is not impregnated w•i•th the germs of dis- ease. Pasteurized milk is always safe. I am surprised that the old "chest- nuts" about calcium and vitamins ' are again revived, after all of the state- ments which have been published by recognized authorities. Let me make it clear: Neither raw milk ear pas- teurized milk contain sufficient vita- mins for babies and orange juice or tomato juice must be given to all in- fants to supply Vitamin e and cod. liver oil to supply Vitamin D. If as you :state there .is a growing '.• opinion that t:he Government should have made the selective areas of live- stock compulsory in, order to avoid the necessity for a pasteurization law, these people who hold such an opin- ion do not know whet they are talk- ing about_ We are riot living in Utopia and there is no method where- by one can make milk stage short of compulsory pasteurization. People in the country should be more strangly io favor of a law of this type than people ins the City, be- cause city people.'already have great- er protbec.tion than people in the coun- try. Most of the milk in the cities - of our province is already pasteur- ized. I suppose that people will coat i n t to exprem3 nonsensical opinions about the questioa of pasteurization of mill. until all of the faots are made clear. I trust, 'how'ever, that The Huron Expositor will continue to do its part to bring the facts to public attention. Yours sdnperely, GORDON BATES, General Director. Seen in the County Papers Fatally Injured in Car Accident Mrs. Alex. Haddy succumbed to in- juries in Stratford hospital early Thursady morning as a result of nit accident. art. 'Sebringville at approai- mately 5.15 Wednesday night. Her companion and driver of the ear, Mrs.' (Dr.) W. A. Oakes, is in Stratford hospital with back and other injuries. Her young son. Harris, also a pas:sen- ger in the car, was not badly hurt and was brought to his home here. The accident is said to have occur- red When the car got out of control and sideswiped an oil truck. The driver of the truck, noticing the car in difficulties due to thle icy condi- tion of the road, bad brought his ve• hale to a stop, but Mra. Oakes was apparently unable to bring her car under control.—Clinton News -Record. ,Glazier Reunion A pleasant time was' spent at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Glaz- ier, Queen Street, on Saturday after- noon, when twenty-five persons, in- cluding twelve grandcbildreid, met for the reunion. Those present were Mr. and Mrs. Charles Young, Porter's 11111; Mr. and Mrs. Theodore Dale. Mr. and Mrs. George Glazier, Mr. and Mrs. Cliff Glazier, Mr. and Mrs. Al- bert Palmer. and their families,. Af- ter a sumptuous dinner served by the hostess, music, singing and tap dancing was enjoyed, „concluding with tin singing of "For They Are Jolly Good Fellows."—Clinton News -Record, Start Molting Wednesday During the past few weeks the Ad- vocate -Times have been making pre- p'aratiorts to move to their new loca- tion, formerly the Peacock Candy store, which we purchased from the Mills Estate. Wednesday the start will be made to move the heavy ma- chinery, The big press, which weighs sit: tons, wili be dismantled and mov- ed pitece by piece. Title folder and Oslo other presses that run off the math mot!dr well also be. moved due. Mg this week or early neat w'e'ek.— Wingha1n Advance -Times. ' ,Woattmued on Page 3)