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The Huron Expositor, 1939-06-02, Page 2hSl ti MON SEX os R • 1(,x,1' ,1/UNE a,. 1939. y St,k: Rr -r; n positor ablished 1860 hail McLean, Editor, ed at Seaforth, Ontario, ev- urslay afternoon by McLean 'A.FORTH, Friday, June 2, 1939. e Leaders Do Not Agree There is a vice difference of opin- ion between the two leaders of the ederal Conservative party 011. Can-. ada's railway problem. Hon. Arthur Meighen, Conservative leader of the Senate, is for amalgamation, while .-r Ron. Dr. Manion, the party leader in the House of Commons, is for co- operation. And both are very decid- ed in their views. On Friday last Mr. Meigheli's mo- tion declaring that the amalgama- tion of the publicly owned Canadian ' National Railway System and,the privately owned Canadian Pacific Railway System was the, only solu- tion of the Dominion railway prob- lem was passed by a vote of twenty- five to twenty-one in the Senate. Al- most at the same time, in the House of Common's, Dr. Manion was con- demning in unmeasured terms any policy of amalgamation between these two great transcontinental railway lines. Any diversity of opinion between Conservative leaders on matters of public policy is something rare, even entirely new, in' the history- of that, political party, but diversity of opin- ion there certainly now is, and the difference between them is as wide apart as the poles. That the railway situation in Can- ada is a serious problem, perhaps the most serious 'problem that the country has facing it to -day, is read- ily admitted by all. But that the ,amalgamation of these two compan- ..les would solve this problem is not so self-evident to a great majority of people across Canada. That Canada's railway mileage is far beyond the needs of the present day, or, perhaps, beyond the need of any future day, is also readily admit- ted. But this .country, because of distance and climatic conditions, will 'always have to depend to a great ex- tent upon railways for transporta- tion and freight haulage, regardless of the improvement in motor trans- port and the increasing mileage of public highways to carry it. That the privately owned company would be willing, even anxious to purchase the publicly owned railway system of Canada, is quite evident. But, the question"' is: What would this purchase include. Would it in- clude the liabilities of the C.N.R. as .welt as the assets of that company? The trouble of the whole question is that we all know it would not. The Canadian National Railway system in itself does not constitute this great national problem. The system is a great and going concern and one of the finest in the world. It has made money and in all probability would be quite able to hold its- own until such times as world conditions changed for the better, when it would again make money for its owners. Otherwise, no private own- ed .company would be willing, even anxious, to' invest the necessary money for its purchase. The problem of the C.N.R. is not, as we say, the C.N.R. itself. The great problem is the collosal public debt that was created by its purchase in the first place, and what was add- ed to it by developing the system to its present standing. And private companies do not take over public debts. That is a point that support- ers of amalgamation should, and no 'I doubt, will remember, unless they are financially interested themselves. Even with the C.N.R. off their hands, the taxpayers of . Canada would still be responsible for the C. N. R. debt. That, apparently, is the angle from which Dr: Manion views the situation; and there are many thriusands of Canadians who view it from that angle too. • Times Rgq,e Changed !The Hamilton Spectator, in its &&Ural of forty years ago, printed i ,'item,. dated May 25, 1899: "John y wept 'td, St. Caharines in his 421 horseless carriage yesterday. The machine stood in front of the Wel- land House most of the day and was admired by hundreds of citizens," How times, have changed! The horseless carriage,4t'hat marvel of 40 years ago, has became the auto of to -day. So common a product that if some Mr: Moody had even driven one from the ends of the earth, in- stead of the short distance from Hamilton to St. Catharines, in all probability, it would be permitted to stand out in front of any public building for any length of time with- out attracting the attention of any citizen—sunless it be a policeman. But let some Mr. Moody, or any one else, drive up 'to the Welland House some day with a spanking team of roadsters, hitched to a pneu- 'uratic tired buggy, and we venture to say that outfit would attract the' attention of as many citizens in half an hour, as Mr. Moody's horseless carriage did in the greater part of that day, forty years ago. Yes, times have changed indeed. And here is another instance of that change taken from the Kingston Whig -Standard: "A Whig -Standard reporter dis- covered during a tour of several of the special trains which brought children into Kingston to see the Ring and .Queen, that some of the ten and twelve ..year old children had never before been on a train. He was not, however, able to find a child of this same age who had never had' a ride in an automobile." In pioneer days, of course, there were hundreds of people who grew from birth to fourscore years of age, and all the way between, who never saw a railway train, and very -many more who never rode on one. But forty years ago there were very, very few children, who at the age of twelve; had not had, at least, one ride in a railway coach. But forty years ago the child, and the grown-ups too, who had never been on a railway train, had never travelled at all. Had never been fur- ther than ten miles from home per- haps. Railway trains, however, do not spell travel as. they once did. In all probability, some, or even the major- ity of those children at. Kingston, who had never been on a train be-. fore, had travelled over all or the greater part of their section of On- tario, and a considerable part of other Provinces, as well as the Unit- ed States. As another evidence of the change: of the 'times, we further venture to say that, a majority of the children under twelve years of age on those trains at Kingston, who were village, town or city bred, had never had a buggy or a "cutter ride. Wherein they have missed, by far, the great- est thrill of all travel rides. No Drought In The North Country According to figures taken from the Ontario Liquor Control Commis- sion, as published in the Sault Ste. Marie Star, there is no apparent drought in that northern part of On- tario. • These figures quote Timmins as having twenty standard hotel auth- orities, and one club, while in the Sault },here are fourteen hotels', five club and two military mess authori- ties. Sudbury has fourteen hotels, two club and two military mess authorities, while in Fort William there are ten hotels and six clubs; North Bay, five hotels; Port Arthur, twelve hotels and three clubs, and Teck Township, twelve hotels and one club. We do not know either the size or the population of Teck Township, but we would say it must be some place. In fact, `we would say that the hotel accommodation, or perhaps we had better say the thirst accom- modation, in the hotels of the 'north country, has us beaten by an easy mile. • But circumstances in Huron are really different. Or are they? The Law Courts say we are under the ganada Temperance Mt, but the Government says we, are not. And, as far as hotel licenses go we are not, for the Canada . Temperance Act does not permit the sale of even beer, and beer is being sold. But only in a few' places, not eteetetteetereer Y ms Agone interestlnp • Items Picked From Tho Huila Expositor of Fifty and Twenty-five Years Aga From The Huron Expositor Juno 5, 1914 Unchecked steed 1n, a Dog cost 957 lives on Friday . morning when the Collier Storsdadt sank the Canadian Pacific Liner, Empress of Ireland, in :the St. Lawren<e River near 1Limou- ski. About 400 were staved from the whole ships company of 1,387, crew and passengers, The Detroit New of May 26th has the following: "The Huron an.i Bruce 01d; Boys' and Girls' Associa- tion have decided to attend the re- union at Seaforth August 1st to 5th. F. G. Neelin and M. Broderick ad- dressed the meeting here last night. A committee consisting of R. Dawson, John 'Robb, Dr. Atkinson, A. J. Wil- son Dr. G. M. McMann and George Kidd was appointed to make arrange- ments. The Government Steamer Lambton has arrived at Goderich for the pur- pose of making a searcth for sunken vvneoks lost in the lakes disaster of November 9th. Mrs. Henry Truemner, of Zuricai, meet with an unfortunate and painful accident on Sunday. Wlhen she was going down the steps from the ver- andah she slipped and fell, breaking a number of ribs and dislocating her right arm at the elbow., Misses Bess Grieve, Norma I. Har - try and, Marion Watson and Messrs. John M. Hinckley, W. Archibald and T. S. Melady, all graduates of the Seaforth Collegiate Institute, have successfully passed the recent exam- inations at the Faculty of Education, Toronto. Mr. Frank L. Eberhart, son of Mr. and Mrs. C. Eberhart, of Seaforth, leas passed his fifth year examination at Toronto University, taking first class Honors. The cornerstone of the new contin- uation school building in Dublin will be formally laid on Sunday, June 14. The first meeting of the Seaforth women's Missionary Auxiliary of the Presbyterian Church in Canada was held on Wednesday evening. Mrs. Keith McLean presided for the election of officers for the new or- gan4zation welch was es follows: Hon. pres., Mrs. James Cowan; pres., Mrs. F. H. Larkin; let vice-pres., Mrs. K. M. McLean; 2nd vice-pres., Mrs. Jai. Archibald; 3rd vice-pres., Mrs. John Kerr; secretary, Mrs. Charles Aber - hart; treasurer, Mrs. H. Jeffrey; sec- retaries for supplies, Mrs. J. D. Hinich- ley and 'Mrs. John Beattie; Home Helpers, Mrs. Allan McLean; stran- gers, Mrs. Oscar Neil. • From The Huron Expositor ii 1 •;d,, ?,tl, M£k�-.a`.av {S,c,':x4'rurty-7k = Phil Osifer of Lazy Meadows • (By Harry J. Boyle) "RAIN REMINISCENCES" I drove to the village yesterday in the old top buggy.' Possibly, I appear- ed to be slightly cracked to my neigh - bars, for idling along the road with the rain coming drown in a veritable downpour. Perhaps they remarked that I was so stingy I didn't want to gelt the car wet. At any rate 1 en - Reed the moist, earthy smell of the rain and the way Annabelle, the or- iginal old grey mare, sloughed along. Silva was really having the time of her life. I never will forget that time my city cousin Helaimer came down to give we country folks the thrill of our lives. He had a car, one of those ear- ly demons of the road that whizzed. along, when they worked, at about tem miles an hour. That was consid- ered quite g thrill. We sat, in the back, while Herkimer with his girl, sat bundled up in the front, like some spook in a long linen duster and goggles. What a thrilling ride that was! Part of the time we spent fixing a fiat tire. The rest of the time we spent being jerked along, while the embarrassed Herkimer complained of tthe poor quality of the gasoline. Then the thunder clouds rolled up in the west, and Herkimer fairly whizzed along at eleven miles an hour in an endeavour to beat the storm. '1'h.en came those first big, warning drops of rain. The car came to a shudder- ing stop, and we tried to raise the patented cover., We pulled and fuss- ed with gadgets and levers and straps we cussed under our breath . . we yanked and we tugged and at last managed to sort of put it up enough so that the girls could sit in theback under, the roof, while we hardy souls endured the rain in the front seat and coaxed the wheezing and asthmatic engine along the read towards home. How that rain' came down! My ten dollar and fifty cent Suit was drawing up and getting skin-tight every step of the way home. What a tragic thing the train was for poo? Herkiwer that day. The rain Made me think of •t'be time that it rained for our church social. Thus all the festivities had to be held in the church shed. I was a gangling, awkward lad of sixteen then and holding the role of a corpse in the "great thriller, "The Mystery of Wel- lington Adhdr's Death." Mer duly getting Trilled in the fi'topic mo- mewas nts of the play, per- fectly motionless in the chair while the great detective Sherlock Winston gathered all the suspects in the room and by the Nick Carter method of de- duction found the killer. Ali went well and I was sitting and behaving myself like a good corpse wheat the rain started, to come clown. Unfortunately, that was the year they didn't have enough money to &tingle the church end it leaked rather bad- ly over the stage. The actors had to be careful they didn't upset the pans sett to collect the water. Then came the tease moment when Sherlock Winston was questioning the suspects. Well, sir, I certainly became inter- ested in that play. Robin Jones, play- ing the part of the detective, was thundering out his questions. About that time a leak developed in the\Poof immediately over my head. It setae tered tat- tered down on my ear. Next time :t ran drown my neck and I shivered . and as• Robin thundered . . . "Look at that corpse" . . . a great spot of rain hit my nose and I absent-mind- edly reached up and brushed it off. The crowd roared ..and they con'vul•sed themselves in laughter, and for five solid minutes I bad to sit there and endure their guffaws. The whole thing demoralized the cast of the play. That wined my career at an actor. For months I winced when- ever henever anyone 'mentioned the word 'corpse.' And these were the thoughts that rambled through my mind, ae Anna- belle plodded her way into the village and the rain splashed and splattered on the top of the old buggy. June 7, 1889 Last Sunday evening Mr. Eli Sim- mons, of Goderich, captured' a mon- strous onstrous sturgeon while spearing in the river opposite %the village of Saltford. It measured six feet from tail to head an weighed over 100 pounds. The following official appointments have been made in connection with Bethel, C,huroh, Walton, Methodist circuit: Wm. Hackwell, class leader; J. J. Irvine, representative to Quar- terly Board; Samuel Stilt, Chairman of Trustee Board, and John Dundas, Steward. , Miss Della Livens, daughter of Mr. H. Livens, of this town, recently passed a highly creditable examina- tion at Alma College, St. Thomas. Mr. Biernes, hotelkeeper of Wal- ton, a short time ago found a. wild duck's nest containing 8 eggs. He has now eiget young wild ducks which have been hatched by a hen and follow her as their mother. Messrs. Williams and Mitchell, of Cranbrook, "hold the fort" for people are coming far and nearby for a peep into the r'carriage works. A buggy shaving body wine color, b,5x dark, sil- ver hubs with gold leaf finish, leather cushion and lined top was recently completed for Joseph Vance, Esq., Us - borne. Mr. John Gibson, -of the 2nd conces- sion of Stanley, had the misfortune to lose by death a very superior Clydesdale mare on Saturday last. The animal was worth $200. A friendly game of football will be• played in Brucefield on Friday, June 14th, between the Clippers of Clinton and the Invaders of Brucefield. The Brucefield team will be competed of: Goal, William Sloan; backs, William Harvey and ,Tames Jabnston; half- backs, William Johnson, R_ Thomp- son and R. Smillie; forwards, right were, J. P. Doherty and W. Harrison; left ing, James McDonald and C. Henderson; centre forward,' Ed. Jar- vis. Mr. George Pi•ewes, of the end con- cession of Tuckersmith, L.R.S., and Mr. Donald Grassick, of Stanley, left on Tuesday last on a trip to Mani- toba. Mr. Tames, Chapman, also of the 2nd ooneeesion, starts for the Northwest next Tuesday. On -Saturday morning last the Maple Leaf Hottel of Gerrie, owned and occupiled by Mr. John Haskett, was destroyed by fire. Marshall Hughes, of the 7th con- cession, Morris, and the family of W. P. Scott, of the 8th concession, left on Tuesday of last week for Manito- ls. Mr. James Braithwaite bavhg re- signed the clerkship of elullebt, Mr. James' Oatng%bal'1 has been appointed in his place. A stone was lately found on the farm of Mr. etharle§ Williams, near Hobeesville, which is supposed to be the petrified fact of a human being. eihe shape is quite natural. 6d,•1\li• A Fact A Week About Canada (From the Dominion Bureau of st#istics) URBAN GROWTH IN -OTHER" COU NT.RI ES—I 1 While there had been World con- tants and a considerable degree of world consciousness in Graeco-Roman civilization, the society which suc- ceeded' it heti a very' narrow' outlook, and this continued' in mediaeval Eur- ope so far as the mass'tea were con- cerned The great bulk of the people laved in manorial villages and were ",tied to the soil." The average Eng- lish manurial village had perhaps 250 to 300 inhabitants. It was a self -sue Ecient economic unit, exporting and importing little from any other com- munity, and seldom interested in -what was going on outside its own boundaries, except when its lord went away to war and had to be support- ed from home, or when the Pope de- manded Peter's Pence, or when the - village, if on or near the sea -coast, was sacked by the French. Life would ' continue as usual in one's own vil- lage even wheal a neighboring village was. destroyed. The towns which existed in Eng- land in the reign of William the Con- queror are shown by Domesrday Book to have been merely enlarged man- orial villages which had grown be- cause of some favouring circumstance —location on a good harbor, or at the intersection of two main high- ways, or at a ford or bridge, the names of Oxford' and Cambridge be- ing -significant in this connection. The larger towns, which in many cases were royal manors, succeeded in pur- chasing from their lords charters granting their imhab•itants relief from the ordinary feudal services, and thus becale what were called "free".cities, while their original inhabitants, . or those who could trace their descent from the original inhabitants, became "freeniem"—a tenor. which is still ixi use and confers certain valuable rights in various British and Contin- ental European cities. When the House of Commons was constituted in the reign of Edward I, these free, towns became "boroughs," each of ,,item sending two ,representatives to the House of Commons, which from. the historical point of view is more correctly called "House .of Communi- ties." At the time of the Domesday Book, toward the end of the eleventh cen- tury, the total population in some t;0 recorded towns, together • with the population of London, which was not included in Domesday Book as it comes' down to us, was about 150,000 or probably about one -twelfth of the estimated population of England at that date. It is probable that from of the urban population of England to the total population has been fair- ly steadyily ion the increase as trans- portation facilities improved and law arid order became more firmly estab- lis'hed, except for the interruptions at the time of the `"Black Death, about 1349 and 'the plague and the great fire of London of 1666. Of course, there was no census taken in Eng- land until 1801 and no division of the population into rural and urban until 1851, though there are estimates of tele population of London at various dates. The urban population of England and Wales has increased from 9,155,- 964 in 1851 to 20,895,504 in 1891 and to 31,948,166 in 1931, or from 51 per cent of the total population in 1851' t 72 per cent in 1891 and -80 per cent in 1931. In the same two forty -year periods 'the rural population has de- clined from 8,771,645 or 49 per cent of the total ih 1851 to 8,107,021, or JUST A SMILE OR TWO A low type of humanity, Is that undependable she Who told the secret that I told her To the chap who told it to me! • Dale Beronius, staff artist on the Kansas City Star, recalls with a smile two of his most difficult assignments. There was the time when one of the editors asked Beronious to do a sketch of a motors• car roaring over the top of a hill, "Make the car going 80 miles an hour," said the editor. "No, wait a minute: Better just make it going '70." Next most difficult task was the assignment to draw a study of a man singling lustily. "Have brim singing in a deep, bass voice," Beronius was ordered. • Amateur Actor: "I play the role of a married man." Friend: "Why don't 'you hold out for a speaking part?" • Suburban Resident: "It's simply grand to wake up in the morning and hear the leaves whispering outside your window." - City Man "It's all right to beer the leaves whisper, but I never could stand he''aring the grass moan." • "I'll be everlastingly indebted to you if you lend me five dollars." "That's just the trouble." promiscuously as it is being sold in the north country. However, it is pretty hard to gauge with any accuracy the trend of modern times, br modern governments, We may evert have Teck Town- ships in Huron yet. iii_,: •:yl ; lr "So that cornet you bought pro- vides you now with a weekly. income? Do you play in a band?" "Oh, no! Dad gives me 50 cents a Week not to play it." • One of the world's renowned so- pranos was asked to sing at a benefit gathering, and before she began, sthe apologized to those present that her voice wasn't in the best of condition. Then she started: "I'11 Shang my harp our a willow tree -e -'e -ahem! On a willow tree-e-e- o'bt" Her voice broke on the high note each time. Site tried twice more. Then a voice came from back of the hall:. "Why not try -hanging it on a lower bratuoh, lady!" •• Geordie had a visitor from London and they were talking about coal mine work. "Is it very low where yon work?" asked the visitor. "how! Aa'll say it is. Wey mean, just bhe other day Aa catched two mdse anti they were both bowlegged." • A new pupil arrived at a riding school for some riding lessons. After he mounted the `horse, the animal be- gan to kick up while the groom field onto the horse's head. if The rider yelled: "Say, let go : 28 per cent in 1891 and to 7,999,765 cant you see you are holding' down or 20 per cent in 1931. Thus there the wrong end?" I has been not only a relative but also an absolute decline in the rural popu- Apple Business In Huron o Was one ' time Big Business Apples are apples, whether adher- ing to branches or when packed in barrel's, says J. MacTaviab, writing in the London Free Press; whether rosy-cheeked Northern Spies or pale - faced, shrivelled -up, 'no -account seed- lings. And trees that bear them, at least, In Huron and in Perth, certainly do not produce in reasonable quantity anything approaching what was ob- tained back in the '80's'. The reason to us, at least, appears to be quite obvious. Take a drive occasionally during t h e summer months, say from Seaforth to Gale - rich, and along the Bluewater High- way, or from Seafo•rth to Mitchell, then to Exeter by way of the T'1ixmes Road, or go zigzag in different direc- tions across the country, and''"on, al- mrost every farm -site yu will see an ordha.rd, In the majority of instances the orohgrde have served their day and are relics of by -gone years, Many rorchards have bong since pass- ed the 50 -year mark, but are still bearing fruit. Here and there °le trees have been replaced by younger ones, but young orchard's are few and far between. It may truthfully be said that no worthy places on farms have receiv- ed, during many yearn, less careful thought and attention than have the orchards. Of course, there are some outstarnd- ing exceptions where orchards are maintained and apples sold on a pro- fitable basis, but they only loom up at rare intervals and make the truth of the statement more apparent. It is seldom that we see or learn about an, orchard that has been pro- perly pruned or cared for, while plow- ing or fertilizing the ground seem- ingly is an uwthonghlt•of thing. In seeking le:formation anent ap- ples, .we,• Ihave gleaned from what should be reliable seetces, certain de- tails, that carry interest. 'In the apple kingdlom there are more than 2,00 • varieties, and front this vast nufmber it is believed that in Ontario there are grown as thin s•kinme'd and as fine -flavored fruit as is found anywhere, when trees re- ceive the attention they require. Back in the '80's, trees bone high- grade apples in abundance, even if orchards were neglected and when spraying came in' few gave it consid- eration. It was not necessary to use some insect destroying solution then, because the present-day apple mag- got was not playing havoc with the crop. In Huron County there were buyers in every town.- To name some, there were John Skinner, Mitchell; Cardno & Son, Seaforth; David Cantelon, Clinton; R. Elliott, Goderich. There were others perhaps just as deeply concerned.. These men, we have been informed, bought and sold more tihan 200,000 'barrels of apples in one sea- son, whereas now, as nearly as fig- ures available show, the annual &ele- ment from Hunan is from 1,000 to 2,000 barrels. Candmo one fall shipped 16,000 bar- rens from Seaforth alone. During another autumn they bandied more 'Chan 35,000 barrel, procured. `Moog the lake shore road, or along what Is now named the Blue Water High'ay, or in that locality. lutonnation is likewise to the effect that Cantelon abi'pped more than 100,000' • barrels during autumn months. Each barrel was made to hold ap- proximately 11 pecks of applies and the price paid was usually about $1 a barrel. The season for shipping started in September and Smashed in. November. It was divided into three sections, namely, early fall, late fall and win- ter a,ppaes- Durinlg picking time boys from the villages and elsewhere were often hieeh tro caste in the work and were usniailly paid 25 cents a day and part "found," whiah"4nteantt dinner and sup- peti. And at 'times these boys hand- led apples when the wind was raw aitd snow was oat tibio" ground.. ria p'k•irre' lation, implying enormous migrations from the nountry districts to the ur- ban communities during the eighty - year period. Seen in the County Papers Visiting Europe Mr. and Mrs'. Wesley Simmons shave received a cablegram from their daughter, Annie, Reg. N., stating that she had arrived .safely at Southamp- ton, England, on Monday. Miss Sim- mons in company ' with Miss Eva Copeland, Reg. N., and another lady companion, left recently from Albany. N. Y., for a trip to Europe.—Exeter Advocate -Times. Accident An auto accident took place a mile south of Exeter Tuesday afternoon. when Ed. Willard' and a Mr. Archer, C.N.R. engineers of .London, took to the ditch in a. large Buick • sedan, the car turning ever. The driver sniffer - ed injuries to his eye. He had dozed causing the accident. The two mens bad been on a fishing .trip. The car was badly da.miaged.--Exeter Advo- cate-Timtes. Successful Student • Mr. George E. Cowan bas been successful in obtaining his teacbrer's certificate on the merit of his year's work at Stratford Normal School. 'Mr. Cowan was successful in all his fif- teen subjects and cong'r-atttlations are due him on his succesg'..--Blyth Stan- dard. 4 Truck Overturns At Wharf's Edge In a most iinnisual accident at the harbor Tuesday evening about 7.30 o'clock, ttw'o Wingham men, Tian Car - beet and Ken Mowbray, narrowly es- caped drowning and the great part of a ten tow load of oats was spired into the harbor es, the nailer -truck In whiclh'ltbie two mew were riding, (•Continued on Page 8) r. ��K Jt;1iS�k