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Home My WebLink AboutThe Huron Expositor, 1939-07-21, Page 2it 't4 rl, ' Expositor 'fished 1860 Ibai McLean, Editor. ed at Seaforth, Ontario, ev- la ay afternoon by McLean scription rates, $1.50 a year in e; foreign, $2.00 a year. Single es, 4 cents each. Advertising rates on application. SE FORTH, Friday, July 21, 1939 'L: . Interesting Newspaper History In a recent issue the Toronto• Globe and Mail .mid: "Interesting vents of the present ° month have been the Observance by Ontario weekly newspapers of anniversaries marking long years of publication; The Mount Forest Confederate en- ters its seventy-third year; The Ac- ton. Free Press its sixty-fifth year, and the Wiarton Canadian Echo is in its sixty-first year." In the newspaper world and in the communties which they serve, these weekly newspapers have gain- ed, through the years, a commanding position, but one that was attained -only through ceaseless, and at times, discouraging labor in the interests of their communities and an honesty of purpose that never wavered in the face of opposition or discourage- ment. The history of their slow but steady progress would make intense- ly interesting reading if it could be set out in print. And there are many other Ontario weeklies that have eq- ually interesting histories, among them The Expositor. Perhaps no Ontario weekly has connected with it more prominent names in the newspaper and political field than 'has The Expositor. This paper was started in Seaforth as "The Huron Expositor," by W. F. Luxton, who left this town to found `The Winnipeg Free Press," now the largest and most widely known daily between the Great Lakes and the Pacific Ocean. ;And Mr. Luxton's partner in The Karon Expositor at Seaforth, was ��. W. Ross, afterwards Sir George Boss, Premier of Ontario. In the late sixties or early seventies, the paper was purchased from Ross & Luxton by the late M. Y. McLean, and The Expositor has been publish- ed by the same family for well over sixty-five years. There are those who claim that the weekly newspaper has had its day and that its influence and usefulness are on the wane. But that is very far. from the truth. As a matter of fact, ;r. there never was a day when a well edited, honestly and impartially con- ducted on- ductednweekly held the indispensable place that they hold in the eommun- ity to -day. They are the life blood of their comity and at no time in the his- tory of the weekly newspaper, has this been more clearly recognized and acknowledged than it is to -day. tj • The Public Sets the Price Alarm over the small attendance at the New York World's Fair has induced the management to reduce the admission fee, as well as the car parking fees. When all is said and done, it really is the public that sets the price of ad- mission for any form of entertain- ment. If the public thinks the cost is too steep, the public will not attend. Consequently the next move is, up to the management, and as in the case of the World's Fair, the management either sees a new light on thead- mission business, or goes out of busi-' mesa, The principal works the same way In otherthings besides world fairs and in other countries besides the United . States, We had a recent instance of that truth in Ontario. At the last session of the Legislature, the Government raised the gas tax to eight cents, be- usei itt,cis it needed the money, the .gas tax was one of "afs. ways oir` abstract - in the motoring public.' mot ►rii g publle.. has de- s"Motoring; w`hi*h •:0,, and, ss taxa date the money collected under the new rate of eight cents is consider- ably less than collected last year in the same length of time, when the gas tax was six cents.. - And the Government just does not know what to do about it. • ' Two Sides To It ., The Toronto Star says: "Hon. R. J. Manion is quoted as saying that the country owes no man a living, but it does owe • man the opportunity of earning a living. It is also true that if the country can not provide the opportunity, it must provide a living. The man who can not get work can not be left to starve." Both Dr. Manion and The . Star are absolutely correct, but yet the fact remains that in this question, as in most others, there are two sides to the matter. Unfortunately for the Canadian taxpayer this country is being asked to provide a living, and is doing it too; to thousands of risen, not be-" 4cause the country can not and does • not provide an opportunity for work, but because there are these and other thousands of men in this country who are of the firm and declared be- lief that Canada does owe them a living—whether they work or not for, it. • Why an Extra Session Ontario, according to the Premier, is to have an extra session of the Legislature for the purpose of re- drafting the Succession Duties Act. A few years ago there was an ex- tra session of the Legislature called for the same purpose, but apparent- ly the redrafting of the same act, at that time, left much to be desired, at least from the viewpoint of the courts. r. ? Some cases under this Act are now awaiting the decision of the courts, but awaiting court decision is a ted- ious business, and the Premier is not overly noted for patience. But why all the hurry? I`' the Province has been, or is being rob- bed of succession duties, the papers and documents concerning susipect- ed estates are all available to the Government at any time, and the courts . will see that the Government will get its rightful share. In the minds of many, however, the Government wants to be ' the Courts as' well . as the Government, and is impatientiof ways and means that might keep it from that desir- ed end. Hence an extra session of the Leg- islature. But an extra session will cost considerable money. Consider- ably more, in fact, than the occasion would appear to warrant. First , it was to be called immediately; now it is being delayed, we see by an an- nouncement of the Premier, for six weeks or more. Why not postpone it to a still later date. In fact, what is the matter with leaving the reconstruction of the Act until the meeting of the Leg- islature next year? The Ontario Premier has been so loud in his condemnation of the Fed- eral ,Government for bribing the electors with their own money, that one would think he would hesitate to call a special session at this time, for fear the country might think he was offering a reward to his follow- ers in the Legislathre, also at the country's expense. • How Would It Work? During the past few weeks, .war and war newts have filled the first pages of every daily newspaper, to the exclusion of almost everything else. And yet we can not see from a careful reading, that war is any nearer than it was six months or more ago. But the tension is, worse; much worse. Nerves ' • are frayed, and there is fear in the mind. And all because we hear too much and read too much about the differences be- tween the European nations. How would it work if Governments banned war news from the front pages of every newspaper? We had an instance of that only a few short weeks ago, although it was a volun- tary one on the part of the news- papers themselves. During the visit of the Ding and Queen t� Canada conditions in Elir- ope were the saitne as- they' are to- day, yet tar and war rumors; never Years Agone Interesting/ Items Ricked From Tho Huron Expositor of Fifty and Twenty -l•0 Years Ago. From The Huron Expositor July 24, 1914 . Walton C.P.R. station received first prize for the tidiest and best kept railway yard in the district award, a.s made by the cgmpany. Mir'e's Prances Qivlan, of Beechwood, has' been engaged to teach School !Section No. 8, Manley, for the next ,team,. Mr. Robert Dalrymple, of Kippen, who recently raised; this barn, enter- tained, •about 256 of his friends on Tuesday evening of Last week by giving an old-time dance. Mr. G_ A. Miler, who has been Principal of the Beafor•Ch Collegiate for the past year, has resigned to take a position on the staff of the Ottawa Normal School. Tihe G.T.R. ticket and Telegraph office and the Canadian Express Co. will move to separate locations• on Monday next. Mr. McKellar, express agent, win move into the office re- cently vacated by Mr. E. L. Box and Mr. Somerville Will move into the of- fice formerly occupied; by him in the Commercial bnilding- Miss HtazeI I. Elcoat has been en - ,gaged as com1mern al specialist for the Ontario Ladies' College, Whitby. Out of a class of ten who wrote on the Entrance examinations from School Section No. 3, as taught by Mr. ,Henry Horton; nine passed with creditable marks. James Hart has completed the cement work on Mr. Con Eckart's drive shed in McKillop. A large ad- appeared on the front page of The Huron Expositor calling attention to the attractions prepared for the Old Boys' and Old Girls' Re- union. Alex Hume, aged 13 years, son of Principal Hume of the Goderich Col- legiate Institute, has the credit of heading the list 'of successful en- trance candidates in Huron County with the handsome total of 590 points and 'is thus the winner of the gold medal, offered by Mr. W. E. Parks, of Chatham, for that achieve- ment. • From The Huron Expositor July 26, 1889 A young man named Kennedy, while working at Mr. Sproat's barn, Tuckensmith, got this leg broken a few days ago. He was standing on a sleeper when it turned and he was ,thrown into the cellar, breaking his leg and receiving other injuries. Tenders were awarded last week for additions and improvements' to the county buildings at Godericlt Ed- ward Sbarrmran is to build the addi- tions andi repairs to the• registry of- fice at $1,245 and Saunders & Son to put in the water at the Court House for $115. So much interest was taken in the championship lacrosse match played there between Stratford and Seaforth on Friday last that places of busi- ness and factories were shut down from 4 to 6 p.m_ . It took ,eight or ,nine special constables to hold the crow'de back off the field. The fol- lowing egmposed the Seaforth team: Freeman, gdal; Smith, point; Aird, cover point; Neil, and defence field; McDougall, 2nd defence ' fieltd; Mc - Cosh, tat 'defence fieid; M. Mackay, centre; Jackson, 1st home , field, Whitelaw, 2nd home field; Dowling, 3rtrl home field; C. Mackay, outside home; Meredith, inside tonne. The game was lost by Seaforth- liir- Jahn Dickson and Mr. David Dorrantce, of Roxboro, McKillop, each cut a field of fall wheat on Wednes- day last. Mr. R. Dal/ y nrpie, of Ohiselhurst, was badly hurt the other day by a scantling falling on him whale work- ing in the barn. Miss Rachel Jamieson, of Bruce - field, bas gone to Granton, having taken a position in a drug store there. •Mr. E. J. Hill, M.A., Science Mas- ter in the Clinton; Collegiate Insti- tute, has res.igoed his situation there shaving accepted a similar position in Guelph. Dr. Sloan, of Blyth, one of the old- est ldest medical practitioners in the coun- ty, has beed selected as the repres- entative of the Huron Medical Assoc- iation at the annual meeting of the Canadian Medical Association, which wall be held at Banff, N.W.T., in August. Mr. Colin McArthur, of Morris, veteran cattle dealer, has sold his herd of 25 cattle, for whit% he realiz- ed; the sum of 81,500 - Mayor Wilson, of Seaforth, bas purchased the large driving barn from the Murphy estate and is hav- ing it filled with hay... made a newspaper appear- ance. And were, we all not the better for it? Decided- Iy so. Utter lack of newspaper publicity has a very deter- ring effect upon the minds and ambitions of most men, and it might work that way withdictators too. In the _., lastatnaly-sis we have to leave our affairs in the hands of our leaders and they are in a position to know what is what, with- out the newspapers telling them. In 'the Meantime, . why Walk in constant fear and trembling caused by noth- ing but the constant day by day things we see in the newspapers? . Phil Osifer of Lazy Meadows • (By Harry J. Boyle) • "HIRED fv E.N" I've been an interested spectator tram the sidelines as the discussion has raged of hired men. Some city editors know as much about a hired Haan as I know about Wall Street— whiee is nothing - Here at Lazy Meadows we have at the present time a typical hired, man. That's his profession, and at fifty I believe that he can• look back without misgivings on his Lite, He's devoting his lifetime to being useful and help- ing others and, he's rated as top man in these parts. Joe Martin started working at the age of twelve for my father. He was hoeing turnips and milking cows in harvest time for the magnificent sum of one dollar and a half a week plus board. Along about that time his mother died, leaving Joe an ,orphan. We didn't really need a 'man that winter, but mother and father gave hive his board and bought his clothes in exchange for doing chores. Next spring he hired at the Higgins place for' three dollars a month, and thus he started on his life as a hired man. Since then he has worked practical- ly all the time in the neighborhood, with the exception of several •har- vester• excursions out West and a summer or two spent in the tobacco fields. On July the first I hired Joe• at thirty dollars a month for six months. It may be good wages for farm con- ditions as they are at present, but he's worth that. Tonight for instance when I slipped up early to write this weekly letter Joe went on about do- ,ing the chores, and after supper if it looks the least bit like rain he'll be the one to suggest that we bring in a jag or two mane of hay. You may wonder just why a man stays at such work. Well, Joe Mar- tin was destined to be a hired man. He never married - , . he's a quiet fellow . . . •and rhe can always be depended upori for a good sane idea for any problems that may come up in every day farming. I was just watching him last night as he sat in the rocking Chair on the veranda. He was smoking with the comfort of stocking -feet and enjoying the cool breeze that came as a wee • come relief after a day of heat. Dark with the tan ,of spring weather and summer stun . one hand gently stroking the eat, Tabby . . who was purring contentedly in hiss lap. I wondtered -then of all the things he knew in the community. Every hir- ed man becomes the confidante of his emplpoy:er on, a farm. To him he pours out his woes and gladness— his moments of triumph and his mo- ments when despair cheeps. in, But Joe never tells. He has, the knack of being "a good conversationalist without talking about his neighbors. He doesn't tell you that so and so is a sloppy ,housekeeper . . . and that such and such a man is nearly bankrupt . . . that the Biby's flight in fact when he talks about them it's always about some pleas- ant thing 'they've drone for him: And• no 'matter how much, the human ear can lust for gossip you have to ad- mire him for his 'silence, Joe goes to the village with us 'fee Saturday night. He buys tobacco, far himself . . maybe a new smock or a pair of sox . . . and sometimes he'll bring home a box of chocolates which be leaves down in the kittchen as common property. If there's any entertainment locally in the way of a dance or a play 'he's glad to at- tend. Should lairs. Phil and I go away at any time he thinks nothing of fixing his own meal. He'll mend a fence . fix the broken spout on the tea kettle . . . dotter a sick cow . , . or help wash the dishes and he makes himself to home like a member of the family. Joe Martin is typical of the hired man of a past twenty years. There are others like him. But, the present set are different. They drive cars and draw their pay in advance and they hike away on week -ends to the city. They keep trying to find a job in the city and complaining about the farm. Many have no pride in their work and feel that they are slaves to the farmers wee ane mak- ing all the money. They think that people like Joe Martin are foolish, but somehow I think Joe is better rewarded in doing his work well and knowing that he's a valuable and trusted man wherever he may be working. JUST A SMILE OR TWO A bus stopped and the conductor looked up the 'steps expectantly, but no one descended and at length, he ran up the steps impatiently! "Here you!" the said to a man on top of the bus. "Don't you want the Hooses of Parliament?" "Yes," was the reply. "Weld," retorted the conductor, "come down for them,. I can't bring them up to you!" • "Are you getting a commission in the. army?" "No. Straight salary." • • Little Agnes from the city was va- cationing on her grandfather's farm. One day she came upon him as he was .cleaning some harness. On reaching the house sire skipped over to her grandmother ande'said: "Guess what Grandpa's doing? He's washing the horses' supporters!" Customer: "Usther, take me to the center door or aisle," • Usher: "Or you'll what?" • Fish Dealer: "Lobseers, lady. Fine lobsters. See, they're all alive." Bride: "Yes, of course. But are they fresh?" Whene'er a then lays eggs, with each She is impeLled to make a speech; Tthe selfsame urge stirs human bones Whenever men lay cor•nerstoness- • "You look dfegruntled," said the shoe man, "Yes," snapped the hatter'. Had a little rusth just now, end a couple of prospective customers walked out without being waited on." "They seldom get away from me," said the shoe man. "I take off their shoes as soon as they come in." Toward the Well-being of Mankind (Condensed from The Forum in Reader's Digest) • • On the same day two items came to the desk of the treasurer of the Rockefeller Foundation, One was a cheque for $74,000 to be signed, in part payment of a million dollars promised to Japan for the founding of an Institute of Public Health in Tokyo. The other was a news item that Nankai University, a Chinese in- stitution to which the Foundation halo given $200,000, had been com- pletely destroyed by Japanese bombs. Iw Munich is the great Psychiatric. Laboratory for which the Foundation gave $380,000. In it scientists of all creedls labored objectively to find out more about the thuman braid. That was before Hitler. Now the Jewish scientists are .in concentration camps end the laboratory is busy trying to protee the German -Aryan brain pre- eminent. Such reports make sad reading for men whose purpose is "to• promote the well-being of .mankind throughout the world." Toward that purpose, since it was endowed by John D. Rockefeller in 1913, the Rockefeller Foundation has spend $320,00,0,000 in 88 countries. To Egpehd that much money wisely takes a combination of ardent evangelist and harceboiled business executive with an international point of view-- wtlalch is a good descniption of Ray- mond B. Fosdick, pnesident of the Foundation. Todtay the Foundation has repre- sentatives in all parts of the globe. They are in the Fiji Islands, teaching waive snedlical practitioners. They are behind; the lines in China, work- ing for rural neconstructioni, in a West African jungle laboratory a Foundation doctor is dissecting a mosquito, In an Arctic whaling sta- tion another is dissecting the pitui- taryt gland of a whale. They are fighting yellow fever iw erazii, mala- ria in Albania, tuberculosis in Ja- maica, tropical anemia in Puerto Rico, influenza in New York. In these wars the defensive fron- tiers of the United Sttatea may be anywhere in the world. Take, for example, a battle that is now being fought 5,000miles away. , Malaria, is one of the worst scourg- es of mankind. But, notil recently, the worst malaria was tianfined• ebief- ly fax Africa! where .the most effective. canter of the diseaga the Attlopheles ealiablae Mop:Mite, is prevalent. The Atlantic Ocean seemed adequate pro- tection for us. Then mien began to fly the South Atlantic. At ,Natal, where Brazil juts out close to Africa, a Foundation scien- tist on the lookout for a dreaded yellow -fever -bearing mosquito o n e day driscovered in a small pool near the anohorage for planes an unmis- takable specimen of Anopheles game biae larvae. It was undoubtedly a stowaway from Africa. Within a short time Natal had the worst out- break of malaria ever known in South America. The Brazilian government spread oil, destroyed the larvae. But the gamble proved to be a tough breed. If she 'has to, she can fly three miles to find water. She began to push in- land from the comparatively dry coast, leaving behind her a devastat- ed area where one out of ten was dread of malaria, the rest too ill to plant crops or carry on other Went, If gambia remixes the ' - wa -r- ed valleys, 500 .miles, inla, ,, she wi be almost impossible stop. She will spread to the greater part of South and Central Ameiloa, perhaps iu'to North America. The Brazili9.n government has called on the Foun- dation for help. The Foundation is sending trained 'men Who will utilize knowledge won o the African front. Already gamble has treyelled 250 of the 500 miles, but Foiindaation men will try to set new barriers to stop her furthler advance. • Fot a generation the Foundation has •had a •lead1a'g part in/ the his- toric struggle against yellow fever, At Lagos, a steamiog.hot, unhealthy town in Nigeria, two of the Founda- tion doctors, Stokes and Batter, were doing dangerous work with yellow fever virus. A mere touch of it on the skin wase likely to ixtfeet. They believed a certain breed of monkey was susceptible to the fever, but to prove it they would have to infect the monkeyys, tram) a typical attack in mans, preferably by .tire bits of infect- ed mosquitoes. • One night Stokes fell suddenly i11. It was yellow fever. Excltedly he and Bauer fixed a screened box a- round his foot and ankle, introd'uc'ed into it a cloud of mos.quittaes. 'Stokes watched while 40 of them 'bit hint. It Way, ern, entirl el'y succeltefutl exeeri. (enntinued on Page 2) 1 •.Jl.i •F, URBAN GROWTH IN OTHER 1 COUNTRIES --VII The enormous growth of urban population is not peculiar to the Western world. The same causes which have 'Lad to its growth there have else produced a growth of urb- an population wherever the same ec- onomic systems has been accepted. Thue in Japan, which was first open- ed up to the white man's influence in 1858 and: which overthrew the old mediaeval sry'stem of government, about 1870, there dsas been a whole- hearted acceptance of the capitalis- tic system of industry and of the use . of madhinery in Iproductton. The re- sult has' been an enormous growth in tee •citie's, particularly in, •Tokyo and Clseka. While In 1879 there were 250,000 households in Tokyo with a total population of . 825,000, ,the na- tional Census of October 4, 1930a showed 414,000 households with a. population of 2,071,000. Tlhis, • - how- ever, is far from representing the full growth of the Japanese metropolis_ 'Ola October 1, 1932, eighty-two sub- urban towns and villages were ab- sorbed into the new city of 'Greater Tokyo,' thereby giving it a total pop- ulation of 4,971,000 as et the nation- al Census of 1930; it is now consid- erably over 5,000,000, so that Tokyw is well established! as one of the greatest cities of the world in spits of its devastation by earthquake and conflagrations in 1923. The introduction of Western indus- trial methods in India has produced! •sonuew'h'at the same results) as it has in Japan- In recent years the factory system of industry has to a consider- able extent replaced the old Indian trades with the result that urban/ population, though as yet a •coimpare- tively small part of the total, has in- creased in recent decades proportion- ately much more rapidly than ther rural. In 1931 the aggregate urban. population was 38,985,000 or 11 per cent. of the total population as com- pared with 10.2 per cent. in 1921 and 9.4 per cent. in 1911. This increase of urban population springs from the increasing diversification of functions which is most desirable in a great country like India where the popula- tion 'has in the. past been ton exclu- sively agricultural and therefore sub- ject to great privations whenever the rainfall was deficient. Theexperience of certain countries in the development of urban growths glees us a background in oonsidering the Canadian problem of urban growth, The urban population of the - Dominion between 1901 and 1931 grew by 177 per cent., while the rur- al in the sane thirty years grew by only 43 per cent- At the present time - it is widely believed that, for a coun- try whose general population dehsity is only three to the square mile, Can- ada has too large an urban popula- tion, approximately 28 per cent, of nearly two -sevenths' of its 1931 poptt- lation, residing in the seven leading cities, anclnlding suburbs. There is much to be said' in support of the con- tention that, in view of, our• vast al- most !empty spaces, we are over -ur- banized, but it should also be re- membered that the history of civiliz- ation is very largely the history of great cities and that new and distinct types of culture and new nationali- ties are developed wbere the more origi,n'al minds of a country are able to meet and exchange ideas. Seen in the County Papers Chief Postelethwaite Stricken The heat of Thursday last was toe - much for Chief Postelethwaite, and he 'collapsed and was taken to the thospital. He is around again but is, not yet on dirty. The Chief has been on Goderrich'a police force for thirty- three yearst for the last twenty-nine years being chief. The statement of a London paper that he had entered ore his fifty-fifth• year ofpolice duty' was hleghtlty le. xnggerat1ed'.—Goderiebx Signal -Star. To Fly with R.A.F. in England Lynton Davis, eldest son of Mr- and' Mrs. T. E. Davie, Port Colborne; aer sailing from Montreal on July 14th. for London, England. He has joined the Royal Air Force and will be - abroad for four -years. The young an's mother is the former Beatrice arrison, who is well remembered in/ .denlcht—Oodterigh Signal -Star. Fractured Ankle Mr. E. M. Snell had the misfortune last week to get hit on, the ankle by a running shot at the howling green_ An aerary was taken and showed a bone fracture- .Tthe foot is now in a 'Cast, and it will be some time before, he hap the full use of it again.— Wi:nghiam Adwaoc'e-Tures. Teacher Resigns Miss Grave Vennter, who !has heels , ohne of the assistant teachers at the Ripley Continuation. School for the past • two years, has, tendlered her re- signation to the Board of t5ducation. Following a Short vacation at her home here, Miss Venner went ter To- ronto where she is engaged in mark- ing /examination papers, — Clinton News -Record. Had Leg Amputated About a month and a thtalf.xgo John Hopper noticed a callous on, the big toe of his left foot, and on removing it, d'eveloped a sore that would not heal. It- did not bother Wm much un- ,tiI ab'6ut two weeks ago when gan- grene set in and rapidly, gained head- way, it was folium.' necessary to aimpu- • , (Ocnt,1ltued or Log's 8) ( Y':'•liy S ' aa,r