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CU 3e. 1939
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eHuron Expositor
Established .1860
eith McPhail 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.
Advertising rates on application.
SEAFORTH, Friday,' March 3, 1939
Still Going Strong
(The Leadership League is still pi-
ing
o-ing strong. Although we have not
heard quite as much about it in the
last few days,it is said to have at-
tained a membership of more than a
hundred thousand in the past two
weeks.
As there is no initiation fee and it
price of admission, no doubt the
League will continue to grow in
membership, perhaps for some time
to come. But there are so many bids
•. for public attention these days, one
can never tell about that with any
certainty. ,
We have no intention of disparag-
ing
is'paraging the Lague, its aims or its ob-
jects. We can not see where it will
'do any harm, even if it does not ac-
complish much good:
But, if the chief object of its pro-
moters, as has been stated, "is to
get the people to interest themselves
in their own business," we might be
forgiven for expressing a doubt as
to whether the public interest will be
sustained long enough for t h e
League to accomplish its end. •
As long as human nature continues
to run as it always has run, men and
women, perhaps, to an even greater
extent, will think it far more import-
' ant, and find a great deal more plea-
sure in interesting themselves in
other people's business than they will
in interesting themselves in their
owti.
Trying to put a spoke in some one
else's wheel has come down through
history, as the most popular sport of
mankind, and this age is no different
to any other. That thought or in-
tent, we believe, forms the motive
power behind the sending of half
the League coupons, with which
Members of Parliament are being
-swamped. And the other half, we
would say, reached Ottawa because
of the entire lack of thinking on the
part of the senders, or simply as a
harmless joke.
•
That Would "Be A Start
One of Premier Hepburn's first
sitatements after his return to the
Parliament building at Toronto from
his holiday trip to Australia, was a
proposal to reduce the number of On-
tario constituencies from ninety-two,
as at present, to .seventy-two.
We all know that government is
costing us far, far too much money
at the present time;' and any move
on the Premier's part will be apprec-
iated by the taxpayers. Reducing
the number of members, of course,
would be a start in the right direc-
tion, but it is open to question whe-
ther Premier Hepburn has chosen
the right place to make a start.
A reduction of eighteen members
would effect a saving of thirty-six
thousand dollars a year in members'
indemnities. But would that sum
reach the treasury intact, or would
it reach the treasury at all?
Reducingthe number of members
means increasing the size of the con-
stituencies. It would mean more
than that. It would mean that many
constituencies in, the country would
be so Iarge, that the constit'uenty
would be without personal knowledge
of their member and would be with-
out the personal touch that now
marks the relationship of the two.
It might even mean that some
country constituencies would be so
large that few local men could afford
to contest elections) in them. That
would leave the field exclusively for
nen of wealth, or moderate wealth,
And ''there, ,are `few of either elass in
'country, or professional politi-
':.in. the ttploy of monied inter -
'e e
nter -'e+ nee may not have taught
abtit it has at least pohitd
ir5 11:r iH�r�Y%^7lPJtt:weittiekmant, t •. _
expensive government. When a lo-
cal member is personally known to
every constituent, he has a pretty ac-
curate knowledge of public opinion.
He can play favorites and do ques-
tionable things, of course, but he can
only do it once. If he is a wise man,
and most of them are, he watches
his step and watches it very care-
fully too.
That is why country constituencies
have had little to do in creating the
rising cost of government. There
are few government positions in the
counties, and those few are both im-
portant and responsible ones, but
the cost of maintaining them has not
risen with the years.
Can as much be said of the city
constituencies, or can as much be
said' of the Parliament Buildings
themselves!? As a matter of fact if
Premier Hepburn wants to get down
to 'brass tacks in the matter of econ-
omy in government spending, there
is a every general opinion that the
place to start is in the Parliament
buildings.
There would be no sense of em-
' playing a fine tooth comb in the
cleaning out process. Such an imple-
ment would get stuck fast in the door
-of the first office. What is required
° is some dynamite and a flock of big
power shovels.
•
Sports Top Money Maker
There is a pile of money being
made out of sport these days, as well
as a pile of money being put into it.
We, who are the spectators, are the
ones who put in the money, and
those keen men of business, the sport
promoters, are the ones who take
the money out.
But keen men of business as they
are, the sport promoters do not get
away with all of it. They have to
pay the players more or .less depend-
ing on the kind of sport. 'Profes-
sional hockey players are brittle
and expensive. Professional baseball
players are, perhaps, less brittle, but
still more expensive, while profes-
sional—and most amateur—players
in football, lacrosse, tennis and other
lines of sport, all have their price
tags.
But the top of them all, the high-
est paid athlete, male or female, in
the whole world to -day, is the charm-
ing little Norwegian ice-skating star,
Miss Sonja Henie, who thus far this
year has been acclaimed by three-
quarters of a million people who
have seen her on the ice. -
Starting a tour in Hollywood last
November, which took her across the
American continent, she skated be-
fore fifty-eight audiences in twelve
cities before she reached New York.
For each of these performances
Sonja received five thousand dollars.
In Chicago and New ' York, where
twenty thousand people saw her
several nights in a row, she received
a good deal more than that.
That is doing pretty well• for z
diminutive little lady, but it is not all
by any means. There are royalties
of one kind and another. Royalties
from Sonja Henie sweaters, skates,
ski suits and various other 'things,
not forgetting Sonja dolls, which re-
tail at from three dollars and a half
to twenty-five dollars, and sell in
thousands.
Great as the income from these re-
sources is, Sonja Henie is not de-
pendent on it alone. She has still
other string to her bow, and very
strong strings they are too. She
plays in two motion pictures every
year and for each one she is paid
some two hundred thousand dollars.
All together her annual income run
to seven hundred and fifty thousand
dollars, or more. And that is real
money, even for sport's top money
maker.
But Sonja does not get all the
money. The sports promoters got a
little too. The attendance at each of
the fifty-eight performances between
Hollywood and New York ranged
from six to twenty thousand, and
the price i. of admission ranged from
a dollar and ten cents to four dol-
lars and forty cents.
In Madman Square 'Gardens New
York, the gate receipts for six per-
formance's were two hundred and
twenty-five thousand dollars, and
across the continent the same re-
cepts reached the pleasant totalof
one Millions six hundred thousand
,dollars.
Years A one
Interesting( atoms Picked From
Tho Huron. Expositor of Fifty end
Twenty -Ave Years `Ago.
From The Huron Expositor
March- 6, 1914
The annual -seed show of the South
Huron Agricultural Society was held
in Hensall for the first time on Wed-
.nesdray last and was the most suc-
cessful of the many conducted) by the
society. Among the names, of those
winning prizes were: Appleton El -
coat, Owen Geiger, A. G. Smillie, Jno.
Elder, John McEwan, Alex. Rennie,
Andrew Buchanan, P. Mclughton,
James Smillie, A. Reichert, Oscar
Kl'opp and F. Smallacombe.
One day last week an engine and
snowplow left Teeswater in advance
of the morning express. • Wdien enter-
ing the yard at Fordwich the end blew
out of the boiler. The engineer and
fireman went out through, the cab win-
dow' and strange to say escaped in-
jury -
Mr. James Manu sof McKillop has,
sold his fine farm on the llth con-
cession to Mr. Earl Habkirk for $6,-
500.
The veteran Mr. Oakley informs us
that he has not missed a trip cal the
daily stage Line from Brussels to Sea -
forth awrfl. 'return this winter, and says
that he dlrove a stage on the same
route nearly 50 years ago.
The new pipe organ for Carmel
Chhifrch, H)ensall, arrived in parts- On
Monday morning workmen were en-
gaged in putting it in position.
The first carnival of the season was
beta,, in the Palace Rink on Friday
evening last. The costumes were un-
usually good and the prize winners
were as follows: Ladies' character,
Miss E. S'trausser, Mexican Huntress;
Miss) I. McOloy, Miss Columbia; gent's
character, Dawson Reid, Knight Tem-
plar; B. Duffy, Spanish Cavalier; lad-
ies' comic, Misses Martha Reid and
Ethel Grieve, Topsies; gents' comic,
.T. Broderick and C. Crioh; ' girls un-
der 15, emote, E. Stewart, . Mother
Hubbard; Olive Rankin, Mrs. Hooli-
gan; g'i'rls' under 15, dharacter, Jean
Hays, Miss Canada. Ina Hart, Dutch
Cleanser; boys under 15, comic, G.
Hays, Clown; Gordon Dick, Tramp;
boys under 15, character, Cyril Mar-
vin, Leopard; A. Hays, George Wash-
ington'.
Mr. E. R. Forrester has sold his
farm on the Huron Road east to Mr.
Louis Devereaux for the sum of $6,-
500.
Mayor Ament and Councillor H.
Stewart are in London this week re-
presenting Seaforth at the great Hy-
dro -Electric convention which opened
in that city on Thursday.
Mrs. Warwick received word from
het daughter, 'Mrs. W. G. Mathers, on'
Friday last, stating that their resi-
r!rcce, bakery and restaurant in Bow
Island, Alta., had been completely .de-
stroyed by fire.
A number of friends and neighbors
gathered at the home of Mrs. David
Mirl,on on Friday evening last and
presented her daughter, Miss Char-
lotte, with a miscellaneous sthower on
the eve of her marriage to Mr. Peter
Lindsay.
Mr. James Scott, who has been in
the Grande Prairie dis'trict for two
years, has returned 'home for the win-
ter.
Phil Osifer of Lazy Meadows
(Ry Hurry J. Uoyls) 0
STABLE OBSERVATIONS
When I finished the chores busy
I sat down on the bag of Chop at the
end of the centre passageway fur a
smoke. It's contrary to orders to
smoke in the barn, but there was a
pail of water at my, feet and I felt
only partly guilty.
Suchansuch, the Collie• pup, sat
down and watched with his headcock-
ed one side as I lit thte pipe. He wait-
ed for a moment or two, got up and
turned around a couple of times,
yawned and then lay down with• his
(muzzle sitting in between his fore-
paws . , . partly asleep, but with
one eye ready to flick open at the
least sound.
Tabby, our veteran mouser and
kitten -raiser, sneaked in over the top
of the chop -box and began rubbing
en • my sleeve. After' seeing that I
didn't intend to pet her up, she sat
back disgusted and began) to diligent-
ly wash her face. It's one of the
most fascinating experiences in the
world, to watch a cat licking her
paws and then smoothing downs her
face and as' it seems . , - removing
her breakfast egg from a silken chin.
Fastidious , : , she's as particular
as a spinster who has lived alone for
fifty years.
The afternoon is always scratching
time in the Lazy Meadows stable.
The cattle all look grateful for the
rough cedar posts and wooden par-
titions Those snags came in handy
where there's• a hard spot to get at.
Yes, I believe they would vote unani-
mously against the installation of
steel fixtures. After all, who ever
heard of scratching ona smooth sur-
face.
And while the cattle are scratching
themselves, the hens' here at Lazy
Meadows are scratching up a little
extra feed for themselves and getting
in Condition for the long hatching
season that's coming soon. I like to
watch the little pyramids of chaff that
will come trickling down from a
clack in the barn floor, only to settle
en the stable floor or else land au
patient shrugs and resume their cud -
crewing or scratching..
Tire horses are quite content to
let the world go by, so long as they
are allowed to stand around and eat
their heads off. "Big Fellow," the sor-
rel, has been peering in at me be-
tween the board's . . . 40, fact he's
looking through a hole that he chew-
ed there himself. Big Fellow has
been around Lazy 'Meadows for a
long time: He's a patient, docile sort
of fellow who is 'always a friend
when the children want to take him
for a ride or to draw the big old-
fashioned cutter for a ride over to the
schoolhouse for a concert or dance.
He lumbers along, sort of slow com-
pared to the driver, but he's sure and
occasion'alLy if demanded he can break
'into a burst of speed fit to take your
breath away.
Buttineky, our Bolshevist goat, is
trying to get something stirred up as
usual. First of all, he tried to batter
the latch off the calf pen, so that
they could run havoc ambn•g the pas-
sageways. I chased him) out of. there,
and the first thing I know he was
taunting Redbeard, the boar who is
located at present in the cornerback
box stall. There's a sorb of perverse
nature in Buttinsky that just won't
let him leave well enough alone. No
-matter how well you treat him. he's
•always biding his time until he can,
slam you one froth the back. He tries
to incite the other members of the
Lazy Meadows stable staff to revolt.
Sometimes he succeeds, and when a
general insurrection comes along he
slips .blithely away from the scene
and tries , to get the ones not 'engag-
ed in the fray in the heat of it. He's
a born trouble maker, and I suppose
that's why we call him Buttinsky,.•our
Bolshevist goat.
The afternoon' wears on, and we
have to stop our drowsy conteanpla-
tion. Somehow, it always seems silly
to me when I hear people saying that
nothing ever happens on a farm.
There's more going on right under
your nose than you realize. But as
Pat said when he met the skunk, "It's
AiMel
Objections to Pasteurization
Toronto, Feb. 21, 1939.
The Editor, The Huron Expositor:
Dear Sir: I read with much inter-
est from: week to 'week the eaprele
cions ore various topics which appese
in, The Expositor card none the less
your views on pasteurization' of milk..
1 am not so much concerned with
the character of the legislation adopt-
ed last year by the Government on
this subject as I ass with 'the funda-
mental value of pasteurization in pre-
venting disease; The latter, it seems
to me, is the crux of the •prroblem.
You say that "the general opinion.
in the country ''districts seer ms to be
that the compulsory tuberculosis: test-
ing of cattle, and not pasteurization:
of milk, l's the answer to check the
spread of disease." If, and I am not
in a ;position to deny the statement,
this is rural opinion, it is time that
the holdiers of this opinioa should be
disillusioned. It is the duty of those
who are in a position to contradict
this view, to endeavour to do so. No
one can do this better than the edi-
tors of nerwepaPers if they are pose
seised of -the facts.
The testing of cattle against tuber-
culosis is a wise step in aiding the
prevention of bovine tuberculosis.. It
is not a. complete preventive even if
the Measure covered all the stock "ire
Ontario, for it is well known that
among the users of milk from accred-
ited ;tamals, bovine tuberculosis has
been known to occur. A farmer in
this province possessing an accredit-
ed herd and whose children were us-
ers of the milk from the do'mestie
supply', was horrified to find that four
out of his five eh'iI'dren bad acquired -
tuberculosis
Let us assume that the testing of
cattle will prevent more or less com-
pletely the incidence of bovine tuber-
culosis among: the users of milk. Such
a result would be of high value, but
it falls very short of the ideal. Bovine
tuberculosis is but one of the many
diseases carried by milk, Undulant
fever is another. To this might be
added a long list, ''including diphther-
ia, scarlet fever, typhoid, septic sore
throat and infantile diarrhoea.
Rural children are quite as suscep-
tible to these affections, indeed- more,
so, than the children of the large
towns and cities. Surely the children
of the countryside are just as deserv-
ing of protection against disease as
are their city cousins!
Cost need not be considered in the
solution of the problem. The cost of
pasteurization is not, as you suggest,
two or ,three cents (I presume you
mean per gallon) but no more than
from one-half to one cent per gallon_
In this connection I am in complete
agreement , with you in your view.
namely, that the producer should not
be called on to bear the added cost
of pasteurization. It should be borne
by the users of milk. Pasteurized
milk is worth the additional coat.
From a somewhat extended knowl-
edge of rural women, 1 am of the
opinion that they are just as jealous
of the rights of their children as wo-
nleoi elsewhere. 'What they will de-
sire to know- is, how their little ones.
nay be fortified) against milk -borne
preventible disease. They should he
taught, not to question the value •of a
pr -owed preventive measure, but how
that measure may be made available
to them.
The local housewife may pasteurize
)her own supply with a minimum of
cost and trouble: She should place
the household supply for her children
in a double boiler, heat the milk to
145 deg. F., keeping it at this) tempera-
ture for 30 ,minutes. The milk should
)then be cooled to a temperature of
40 to 50 dreg. F., and kept at this
temperature• until used. If the house-
wife will do this she may snap her
fingers at, not only bovine tuber-
culosis, but at all the other forme of
milk -borne disease, insofar as milk is
concerned.
Some will call this a great trouble.
It is a trouble added to the list of
household activities, but it is in>fln4te-
ly less of a trouble than the care of
a child afflicted with tuberculosis of
the hip or knee, or of one strickenr
with undulant , fever, -scarlet fever
diphtheria or s'umaner complaint. The
mothers know. Let us help them.
JOHN W. S. McCU'LLOUGAi,.
M..D., D.P.H.
the top of the cattle. They give int- all in the way you look at it!!
• JUST A SMILE OR TWO
"What do they call men who believe
the earth is flat?"
"Economists,"
•
"There's a story in this paper of a
woman who used a telephone for the
first time in 25 years."
"She must be on a party line.."
•
Editor (after - a surfeit of old
jokes) : ealmrnm, how I'd like to meet
a humorist who is not an exhunmer-
ist!"
•
Artist: "My, what a fine studio you
have for painting, Pierre. How much
a month do you owe for it?"
•
From The Huron Expositor '
March 8, 1889
In the stomach of a beef killed, by
Mr. May, of Clinton, was found an old
English York shilling.
A very painful accident happened
recently to Mr. William Finlayson, •of
the '4th concession, Tuckersmith. He
was feeding one of his 'horses when
it kicked him very severely in the
face, knocking out several of his teeth
and otherwise injuring him.
)Messrs. George Turnbull and' James
Holmes cut on the farm of the latter
one day last week ten cords of wood,
in seven hours.
The members of the W'his't Club fin
ished ep the season on Tuesday ev-
ening by holding a ball in Cardno's
Hall.
Mr. Robert Scott of Harpurhey has
been appointed general agent for the
Counties of Huron and Brace for the
Sun Life Insurance Company.
Messrs. William Forrest and W. R.
Henry, Tuckensmith, a few weeks ago
cut one cord of hardwood in twelve
minutes with a crosscut -saw. The
work was done on the farm of Mrs.
-McTavish, in Stanley.
' Mr. Thompson, of the Bayfield ltd.,
and Mt. McCartney, son of Mr. Robt.
McCartney, of the Mill Road, left for
Manitoba on Tuesday. They took
with them a number of horses and
other settler's effects.
Mr. E. McNamara, of Leadbury, the
popular hotelkeeper, is preparing ma-
terial with the intention of erecting
a large barn.
The semi-annual meetingof the
football club was held on Safurday
evening, the Znd inst., when the fol-
lowing officers were elected: Hon.
Oreg., Dr. Coleman); 1st hon. vice-pres.,
D. D. Wilson; and hon. vice-pres., D.
Johnson; -pres., R. Wilson; vice-pres„
Mr. Langford; captain, d. A. Dewar;
-sec.-treas., .T. 8. Muidrew; committee,
D. McDonald, James Killoran, J. Dick-
son, G. Anderson, A. McLean, W. Mc-
Donald, W. Nourse.
Messrs. Grieve and Stewart, Sea -
forth, this week received an order
from the Northwest, for'some of their
celebrated Mummy Peas.
Mr. John Gray, of Chiselhurst, 'has
a pony that stands 16 hand's high,,
girths over six feet and weighs 2,150
pounds,. Mr, Gray bought him in
Argylehire, Scotland:
Mr. George McCall, of the 8th of
Morris, IS laying down material for
, the erection of a. nice new house next
summer.
Some ti'ere'd years ago Mrs.' )(Polly,
d'augh'ter of Mr. James, Prendevi'ile,
Logan, went out to Dakota , and took
up a tract of land. She was obliged
to make cer1taln amrprovements and
break twentytllve 'acres. Sh'e also
built a lout in, which AO Iived, alone
during the three years., . Reden�tty' eche'
was handed at treed lith' the tom:
til
"But, my good man," said Mrs.
Smith, dubiously, to the tramp at (het•
door, "your story has such a hollow
ring."
"Yes, ma'am. That's the natural
result of speaking with an
stomach."
•
Betty: "Which would you
be, beautiful or rich?"
Jane: "1 should like to be rich as
well."
•
Customer: "This photograph makes
me look older than .l really am."
Photographer: "Well, that'll save
you the cost of getting one taken la'.•
er on."
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® Clara Barton : Crusader
His right arm mangled, a boy not Born on a futm near Oxford, Massa -
long out of school lay on a darken -1 chusetts, or a line of patriots and sol:
ire, Virginia battlefield, says Donald diers, she had the Puritan conscience,
Culrose Peeler- in The Digest. if ee f' e•e of the fanatic's belief that he 'c
had any hopes of survival, they were appointed to tell others what is right.
that the enemy stretcher-bearers She applied her conscience to her -
might find him; then, if he lived that self; others it was her dirty only to
long, be would meet. the surgeon's contrfort and sustain. Precocious, ale -
knife dripping bacterial filth. After di'ous, shyer of a great -audience than
that, if he escaped gangrene, he of shot and shell, she hard in'cit'e
would he transferred to a Confeder-
ate prison camp, there to battle ty-
phoid, typhus, pneumonia and tuber-
culosis. As he lay on, the field of
agony, the best he could -hope to see
was the old yellow 'hospital flag com-
ing, with its associations of quaran-
tine and death. For in 1862 no one
had yet looked upon the blood -bright
emblem of the Red Cross -
A woman's fece appeared above
him, a 'human angel with dark corn-
pasetonate eyes, tender mouth and
hands like his mother's. Save his
own mother there was no person in
the world •he would have been so glad
to see. For he recognized his old
teacher, Miss Barton, ClareBarton of
the low, sweet voice; who by sheer
cJomrad)esrhlr had conquered the h'ob-
bled'eh•oy toughs) taller than she. Clara
Barton, whom everyboely loved.
With a sob the boy flung his left
arm around her neck and buried 1} s
face in the cloak of She pitying wo-
man. "bo you know me?" be cried,
"I am Charley Hamilton, who used) to
carry your satchel home from school!
Charley's right arm, she saw, would
never carry a satchel again. At her
call, stretcher-bearers came for Char-
ley. Across the field a surgeon's lan-
tern wavered toward them.
So this little woman — she was
scarcely more than five feet tall, 40
years of age, slender, nervous), al-
most morbidly responsive to suffer-
ing—daily
uffer-
ing daily aid) hourly met the man-
made agonies of w-ar. In) Civil War
tunes no mere lady ever dreamed of
nursing at the front; husbandhunting
ninnies were turned back every day.
The army nurses seldom left' the base
hospitals, where only a small fraction
of the wounded) ever arrived.
Clara Barton, the future founder
of the American Red Cross, went out
on the field. She belonged to 1 or-
ganization, had no official stane ing,
and reached the desperately wounded
only by ba'ttiin'g for passes and against
the preoccupied resristanree of gener-
als, surgeons, the Sanitary Commis-
sion, quartermasters and supply -train
drivers. She was simply a compas-
sionate woman who, •sometimes. as -
sated by a few other women, some-
times hindered by her friends),fought
the pitched battle of Mercy against
Mars.
Clare, Barton was bern in 1821, on
Chaistm:as Day. To me 'It seems that
she Was one of -the few person's In
Vie h1etory of the human, race not
'miserably .unworthy 'of tine conipari-
whicfh' that ttnhivettsaly" inivites.
;) „ac
been brought up by her big brothers,
who taught her to ride any horse with
any saddle, to play ball, to stick to
her decisions. She bad admirers, bue
no su'tors whom elle took very ser-
iously. In sl>':te of her intense asinin-
ity she was no clinging -vine. Her
face was lit by knowing humor; she
had too much will and intellect for
most men.
From her father, an old India -fight-
er, she had eaier'sd an exceptional
mastery of military affairs. She knew
a major from a colonel, she remem-
bered regiments by their numbers,
listened Without a blush to the blue
swearing of ,_army muleteers beside
.her on th�agon trains. Unlike most
woman in wax -time, she never con-
sidered bersett an exception to mili-
tary orders.; she went where she was
told, and troubled to obtain the right
sort of passport. Military men quick-
ly came to perceive all this; regi-
ments recognized; her, and cheered
ther as she trudged past them in the
min, going up to the front with band-
ages, fruits, jellies, messages from
home.
In the early days of the Civil War,
Clara -Barton, then a clerk is the Pat-
ent Office 'at the capital, had etra,rted
to visit wounded men in the hospi-
tals, cheering them up, writing let-
ters for then, reading home town
newspapers to them. After the first
Batt'l'e of Buil Run, she began to re-
alize that every hour elapsing be-
tween a wound and arrival at a -base
hospital increases, in geometrical ra-
tio the likeld)bood of death. Men who
might have been saved if their forces
Iliad been rallied at the start were
hopeless cases before they reached
the operatiaug table. She eaw men
whol bad been waiting so ling in the
stretcher queues that their feet had
rotted off from gangrene- She decid-
ed her work of mercy was needed
most right on the battlegrounds where
the ,wounded lay neglected:
Behind her Clara Barton had at
first only two slim organizations—a
group of women in Worcester, and
another in Bordentown), N. J. (where
she had once started a school for neg-
lected guttersnipes), against the dis-
dainful opposition: of the select priv-
ate institutions). Before she, went in-
to the battlefields she journeyed
through New England,, :organizing, as-
suring herself of •supplies, She used
her own mloney without thought. For
herself, her life long, ahe spent prac-
tically nothing, l'ik'e a nun.
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Seen in the
County Papers
Won Prize in Ken Soble Contest
Nine year old Joyce Broderick,
daughter of Mr. and- Mrs. Russell
Broderick, Hensall, who broadcast-
ed from Ken Soble's "Tour For Tal-
ent" amateur contest from the Pa-
tricia Theatre, London, was advised'
by telephone that she had received'
second prize which is a parker foun-
tain pen and pencil, valued at $15.
The setaction) Joyce sang was "Yotr
Look Goodi To 'Me," followed by a
tap dance. She: received her prize
at the theatre Wednesday evening
of last week.—Exeter Advoeate-Times_.
Seriously
Mrs. William Hunter was taken ser-
iously ill Thursday of !est week and
was taken to St. Joseph's Hospital 1,1
Lenton for treat' n^.ht, Alt: Mugu
quite ill she 'is sornewaat en;,roi ed
according to tate reports. — Exeter
Advocate -Times.
Suffers Fattal Injuries
Residents of Cromarty and vicinity
were deeply grieved to hear of the
sudden death of the daughter of a
former minister, Rev. W. A. Cranston
Of Welland. It was in Cromarty
church that he began his withniaterial
work and, he stilt has many warm
friends in this community. It seed's
that f1ss Christine Cranston was re -
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