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The Huron Expositor, 1939-07-28, Page 2lj tri roll Expositor stablished 1860 McPhail McLean, Editor,. Medat Seaforth, Ontario, ev- ursday afternoon by McLean Sqbbcription rates, $1.50 a year in l Vance; foreign, $2.00 a year.Sing les, 4 cents each. EA.FORTH, Friday, July 28, 1939. Summer Storms -Severestorms are not as uncom- mon as we would like them to be •. ,aluring our Ontario summer months. This section had a taste . of one , a week or so ago, and one that did con- siderable damage in isolated parts of the district.' Over the week -end it was the County of York's .turn. There on _S'Iuiday afternoon last the people ex- perienced one of the worst electric mid hail storms in their experience. Roads were washed out; barns burn- ed and crops levelled. It is a very costly and discourag- ing experience at this season of the year to see a beautiful and bumper crop of grain transformed into a tangled, threshed -out and flattened mass, all in the space of a few min- utes. Western farmers can tell us far more about it, but we know quite enough as it is. However, if we can get through the next week, crops will be cut and stooked, and the main danger will be over. It is not at all comforting, either, to contemplate on 'what lightning has done and can do to a grain filled barn. But farmers are born gamb- lers and quite willing to take a chance on that as well as upon count- less other dangers, including the weather. Here's hoping they win out this year, not only because they need it, but because the world at large needs them even more. . • Is It Ang Wonder ? • Two men were in this office the other day complaining about the high cost of living; about the price ,of shoes, of clothing, of bread and tea and groceries, and everything else that enters the home for wear or consumption. Both these men compared the prices of to -day with those of yester- day and both were of the firm belief that the farm dollar did not go half as far to -day as it did yesterday. And, perhaps, both were right. There was no mention made, how- ever, by either of these men of the cost of service; no comparison made between what the public of yesterday considered was ample service and the cost of the kind of service the public demands to -day. And there is a difference—a vast difference between the two. Yester- day when people were in need of anything, they came into town and made their purchases, or they went without. There was no demand or even any thought then of house to house service. To -day we practically demand that our wants be supplied on our own doorsteps, both in town and country. Not only that, but we demand a very special service. Our bread must be wrapped; our buttter must be individual prints, and also wrap- ped; our milk must be in bottles, and everything else we buy must be done up in individual packages enclosed in oelophane and tied with a nice --pink bow. It is nice to get things that way, and as far as the edibles go, perhaps a much healthier w'ay, but if a third of the east goes into the wrappers, then we should only expect to get two-thirds df our dollar's worth in goods. But it is rather hard to •make us ttieet tit in that light. In fact, we rather believe that the aim to pjease pulley of the modern merchant has dry spoiled the buying public. It Wither• been overdone. If we fiyid some Saturday night 1te. that we require - ackage of 'pins Y �Z s' to A roast of Aid tel the • i^ S4 • THE HURON EXPOSITOR merchant to send it up. We don't even put it in the form of a special favor asked. It is just a plain demand and one that must be met within a few minutes, so that we will not be detained if we want to go out, or will not be kept up if we «want to go to bed. Of course, we are not all like that, but a good many of us are, aid the number is increasing every day. When one comes to study the ques- tion, is it any wonder that we find the cost of living is not on the down grade? • Ropal Entertainment Expensive The civic finance department of Montreal reports that that city spent seventy-five thousand dollars on decorations, receptions and other it- ems in connections with the visit of the King and Queen to the city. The possibility is that . every other city in Canada that entertained the King would spend a like amount in proportion to its size. All in all, Canada's entertainment bill would run into several millions of dollars: That is quite a bit of money, but we doubt if Montreal or any other Canadian city or town ever spent money more willingly or ever spent it to greater advantage. It was all spent in Canada and every Canadian citizen reaped some advantage from it,. • Picnicker's Fires Fires lit by touring picnickers are blamed by Mr. A. T. H. Gas- coyne for the fire which .swept two hundred acres of woodland and pas- ture, and did damage to the extent of ten thousand dollars to his farm property in Pickering township ov- er the week -end. That may be an exceptional case, but there are hundreds of farmers in the country living under the con- stant fear of the very same thing happening to them. At this season of the year, pic- nickers are everywhere along the concession roads, and touring pick- nickers, unfortunately, are not over- ly noted for either courtesy or care- fulness. Men, women and even children, who would never dream of trespass- ing on a city or town dweller's lawn or picking his fruit or flowers, seem to 'believe that they are co-owners with any farmer in everything he possesses. They will tramp his crops, pick his fruit and vegetables, and use his fences for firewood, and be highly 'insulted and indignant if the owner remonstrates. And what is still worse, too often t h e picnicker leaves all his rubbish and a fire burn- ing behind him. During a long dry spell, grass be- comes almost as 'inflammable as gas- oline and a careless match or a care- lessly left fire, can sweep a hundred acres in the space of a very short time. And once started, it is immed- iately out of control, because there are no fire fighting appliances in the country. For that reason, picnickers, and everyone else for that matter, should be particularly careful when light- ing a fire, and particularly careful to see that • it is completely ex- tinguished before they leave the Spot. • Too Manp Weddings More than four hundred dele- gates to the congress of the Jeun- esse Ouviere Catholique, u.n d e r whose auspices the mass wedding of one hundred and five couples was held in Montreal on Sunday, collap- sed in the baseball sttadium during the ceremony. A single wedding often raises en- ough hysteria, without •. multiplying it by one hundred, so it is very doubt- ful if these mass weddings will ever become popular in this country. Ap- parently there is too_much danger to the public health connected to such a spectacular affair. Warm weather and mass hysteria are, given as the cause of such an u'npiecedented public collapse. But then it might just have been sympa- thy on the part of the men for their fellow men, and envy on the part of the women for their more fo e to sisters. , Years Agone Interesting Items Picked From The Huron Expositor of Fifty and Twenty-ilve Years Ago. ' From The Huron Expositor July 31, 1914 The annual picnic in connection with Sincla:ir's school was held on Friday in Mr. W. B. O'Coninor's woods. A large number turned out to enjoy the outing and to honor their popular teacher, Miss Jeanette Peth- ack, whose resignation has caused much regret. She was presented with a complete set of 'Shakespeare's and Mrs. Browning's works, bound in pad- ded Morocco - The fine new residence of Mr. Jno. Dennis, of Leadbury, is ready for the plasterers and will be a very com- fortable home when completed. 'Mr. John Laing and family; Crom- arty, enjoyed a couple of , days at Grand Bend and were accompanied by James and Thomas Gillespie, Thos. Laingand Thos. Scott. Mr. A. Robertson, of Cnomarty, has improved the appearance of his pro- perty by the, erection. of a fine new fence All 'bars and 1iisuor stores in the County of Huron will be closed on and after August 1st. Mr. Thomas Elder has treated him- self to a handsome new Fond auto, which he purchased from Mr. S. F. Daly. Miss Christine Henderson, young- est daughter of -air. and Mrs. W. II. k,ome are tart , . , others spicy• Heider ion, now of Winona, Ont., for-' some snve •t . . . and then t•o add mealy of Seaforth, passed her en— trance examination, taking honors, blackberry bush. • and ranking third do the county. To be appreciated you must pick The services in First Presbyterian t:ie' berrir.> far yourself, This inorn- Church next Sabbath will be of a log I tramped into, the sugar camp, special nature in accordance with the and, fwd.': g an old sap bucket, filled Old Boys' celebration. The musical 't e'er to ethirds of the way up with services will be conducted by ani old- berries- 1.3Ythe time i accomplished time choir, with Professor George W. this it was dinner time. Like a pirate Cline, of Wingham, as leader, and et the Sri nish Main I took the booty Professor Yule, of Owen Sound, as to my fa:: one, and asked 'her to fill organist_ I nappies w :th the berries for dessert- 'Mrs. essert'Mrs. Kinder, who has filled the pos.' at the no::n meal, ition of organist and choir leader in Phil Osifer of Lazy Meadows 41 • (By Harry J. Boyle) 0 BERRIES While Joe Martin, the hired man, was cnttim'g wheat this morning 1. slipped across the back meadow and ramie out in what we call the slash. Three years ago I sold a stand of tim- ber then, with the purpose in mind of clearing another three acres, Mrs. Hail derided the idea, putting forth the contention that I didn't halt farm the other eighty some odd clear acres that go to make up the tillable soil at Lazy Meadows. Mrs. Phil, really wanted a berry patch as our odd one, atter many years of close picking, was becoming a shambles, When she diss'uad'ed me from elearlim,g up the smash, I knew just what $her was ,thinking. There on the neat round piles of brush, left by tihe titmiber-men, there would :grow up orderly rows of berry bushes. Once more berry -picking would be- came an orderly task in place of a job where a wire mask as, a protec- tion from barbs and nettles was an absolute necessity. This morning when I hit the slash ..it was to find straight, green bushes laden down with some of the finest berries I't e ever seen. One couldn't On,' an e: case to trarnrp through all t•be hushes trying to find the big ones. Thede we. e all of a prime size. There's really something fascinat- ing to packing berries'. Each berry has an i.rdividual taste and flavor. It's a real thrill of the farm bo be able to sprinkle just the right amount of sugar over your berries . . . then cover the disth with cream , . . rich, thick and so 'delicious',. Then, with fresh, .hom,e-rhade bread and butter, you have a dish that even a King's chef can't equal. One dishful is but :an entree for a second' helping, and, as was the., case today, a third disih- ful. We had •scarcely, 'commenced cut- ting and spooking again, in the .wheat field before I saw Mrs; Phil laden down with a milk pail and a small pail for picking in. As a protection from the sun She had one of those floppy, old-fasehtioned straw hats with a gingham ribbon. Then elhe disap- peared in the slash among the berry bushes. I did try to concentrate on that wheat field. Religiously 1 set myself to thinking in terns of yield, and what we would ;plant on 'the field in the years to cone, I computed, mentally, the dollars when. the wheat would be harvested. But it was no use. I had berries on the mind: I was getting confused between the berries and the wheat. Joe was, hailed to go on cutting, while I . took a turn at stooking. Then it -was easy to work over to that southwest corner of the field and sort of absentmindedly poke over to where• Mrs. Phil was literal- ly shaking the bushes into her pail. b +I1 ittV r,l S,i:.,11 )., u JULY 28, 1939., A Fact A Week Aleut Canada (From the 8 ton. Bureau of, a) First Presbyterian Church for seve.al years, bras resigned. At a meeting of the Board of Trus- tees of the 'Seaforth Collegiate Insti- tute on Monday evening, the follow- ing appointments were made to the staff to replace those who are retir- ing: Classics, Miss C: G. Gibson, B.A., Belleville; Moderns; Miss L. M. Murray, M.A., Brantford; Commercial, Miss Weatherill, Wyoming, and Prin- cipal D. A. MacKay, Peterboro. Miss Marian Watson and Miss Norma Hartry, who recently complet- ed their studies at the Faculty of Education, Toronto, have obtained schools, Miss Watson at Blenheim, Kent County, and Miss Hartry, at Beamsvil:le. Quite a gale of wind swept over Blyth on Friday morning, but the only damage it did was to blow drown the smokestack of the power house. As a remit the town 'was in darkness for several nights with the exception of coal oil lamps, From The Huron Expositor A by-law to raise $8,000 For the er- ection of a new town hall in Wing- ham inbham was carried' by 76 votes. Mr. A. Hartry, o•f Bluevale, has been engaged to teach the remainder of the year in School ,Section No. 5, Hullett, in the absence of J. H. Low- ery One day Last week as Mr. Young- blut, of Londesboro, was leading his stallion into the stable the animal turned on him and kicked, 'striking him a tremendous blow ou the. side of the head. It is a wonder he was not killed. The banns and stables belonging to Charles Disney, Goderich Twp., about four miles from Clinton, were struck by lightning on Saturday night and along with the contents, was consum- ed. The loss is about $2,000, with insurance of $506. On Saturday last the eldest idlaugh- ter of the Prince of Wales, Pnincess Louise Victoria Alexandria Dagmar, of Wales, was married to Alexander William George Duff, Earl of Fife, and Viscount MacDuff of Buckingham Palace, London The affair was one of great interest and splendour. Mr. John McLeod has been engag- ed to teach the school in Section 9, McKillop, for the remainder of the year. .Meser•a Joseph Rose, George Scott, H- Jackson and A. Charlesworth re- turned home on •Mondary from a visit to Sault Ste. Marie - Ma W. G. Duff bas opened an of- fice in Daly's' block in this town and will carry on the.business of account- ant, insurance, collecting and atony ioaning in all it branches. Ma. John A. Wilson, of this town, took second place la the grand ag- gregate of the Wimbledon team, The members , of Burne' Church, Huliett, intend building a new church on the site of the old one and have already got considerable subscribed for it. The Methodist Church at Walton has been, painted and otherwise im- proved; the stalls in the horse shed Ievelled and gravelled; a new fence has been buu,it and news, gates put OIL This week there are thirty-nine boarders at the lti+ier Hotel, Bayfield, from London, Clinton, Exeter, To- nonto and Seaforth. Mr. C. Greb, of "Lririnh, has the new addition. to the Huron Hotel nearly completed and it adds touch to the appearance of the Place. • Teacher: "How do you spell ipec- acuanba, Johnny?" Pupil: "With great difficulty, Miss." Fmstaiment Colleotter: "See here, what do you mean? Yoa ve 'never made a single 'payment tin your piano:" "Well, the coiitlpany edaeatbises; 'Pay as Mt play,'" "'VVibat Inas ;that got to do with It?" "1 dant play." CANADA AND PORTUGUESE AFRICA The Portuguese colonle.s in Africa, consist of Angola on ,the west coast, •• with an area of 476,000 square wiles and. a population of about 4,60O,0Q0;, Mozambique on the east coast (known also as Portuguese East Afri- ca) with a territory. of 298,000 square miles and oven, 4,000,000 inhabitantse Cape Verde Islands off tihe west coast, whose total area is 1,50 quare miles with a population of.• ore than 150,000; and Sao Thome and Principe Islands in the Gulf of Guinea, with a total population of 60,000. The Portuguese were the first Eur- opean explorers of the west coast ,or Africa. They were on their way to India and China, having very Little in- terest in Africa, but.fealing their way' along the coast they stumbled upon the Canary and Cape Verde Islands. In time they reached the equator, and. 'eventually in 1498 Vasco de Gama rounded the Cape of Good Hope ant definitely located the shortest route. from Europe to the Indies. The skit,-, pars of th,e 16th and 17 centuries o:t their way to the Orient called at the different island along the African; coast for fresh vegetables and water, but they gave the continent of Africa a wide berth. By that time other European trad- ers were penetratiu,g the continent to make deals, with the Arabs for slave;. Attracted by the lucrative trade, the Portuguese 4n, these early days join- ed'• their neighbors in raiding Africa:, villages for slaves. About that time' a Papal Bull had divided the whole world into two halves, one of which:. belonged to Spain and the other ea Portugal, and Africa happened to be in Portugal's half. This rade it im- possible for the Spaniards to visit the- -starve coast themselves so the actual slave transactions were left to the, Portuguese. Thus they soon built up a redoubtable colonial empire Africa. When in the course of time tlrx' power of the Portuguese was destroy • ed by the English and Dutch, slave - running became a Portuguese and; Spanish monopoly. They provided the world with •-'.frican shaves until: 1811 when the British Parliament. passed a bill making the traffic il- legal, although it was another halt century before all European and Am- erican nations tad abolished slavery' definitely. It is with what sow- remains of that vast empire of the Portuguese in4Af+rioa that Canada has a business connection., although all that we obi Iain from them is a little over 2,0011' cats. per year of sisal fibre. On the other hand our exports to Portu- guese Africa are of considerable vol- ume, amounting to almost two million: dollars in value yearly. Our most important exports are soda and com- pounds for agricultural purposes, lumber for building, along with Wheat, wheat flour, automobiles, rub- ber goods., canned salmion, silk stock i:nga, n'ewslpri•nt paper, farm inrple • ments and machinery, electrical ap panatus, tools and hardware. While I revelled in an orgy of ber- ries, the thought occurred to me of how puny man is after all. He works a.nd experiments, with all kinds of fertilizers and mixtures, and cross- breeds plants . - . and grafts and then produces a berry that he figures is' hard to beat. But Mother Nature goes on in the way that she's been doing for centur- ies and gives us berries that have a taste that's unparalleled: In case you didn't know it . r wild raspber- ries are a favorite of mine! JUST A SMILE OR TWO "Does your' wife attend church reg- ularly?" "Very. She hasn't missed an Eas- ter Sunday since we were married." • „An Aberdonian, whilst bathing, got into difficulties and a lifebuoy was at last thrown in to +him. He had al- ready been down twice and was about to sink for the third time when he shouted to the onlookers, "Is there any charge far• the use of this'?" • Lest lie be considered dogmatic or unduly stern, the parson had a way of qualifying his pulpit utterances. "My brethren," he said, reaching the climax of his morning discourse, "if you do net,, repent, so to speak, and believe the Word, as it were, you'll be lost, in a measure-" A collier's wife, wishing to appear in the fashion during a holiday by the sea, decided to buy something up- to-date. She entered a local shop, and the, young assistant who served her was astounded at the following request: "Aa waant a nighty wi' legs on." • Kind Lady: "Now, little one, what would you say if I were to give you these? Would you say 'These is good apples,' or 'These are good apples'?" Little Boy: "How can I tell till I eat 'ens?" • Suitor: "I've come to you, sir, to ask for your daughter's hand." Her Father: "Tell me,' when were you first struck by her?" Suitor: "But, Sir, we've not quar- reled." Airplanes, Unlimited • (Condensed from Scientific American is Reader's Digest) The flying machine, in an age when automobiles roll off the assembly like shelled peas into- a basket, is still handmade. In some stages of assem- bly it takes two men four hours to rivet a single foot of a metal plane's surface. For years our aviation ex- perts have been praying—more ferv- ently than ever, since Munich — for some method of producing planes as rapidly as automobiles. Their prayers seen about to be an- swered. A new plane -making tech- nique promises to make possible a practically unlimited supply of stout, cheap, fast airplanee. Using a lami- nated plastic, similar to the glossy table tops and decorative panels found in cafeterias and' night clubs, the new process has been developed primarily by Col. V. E. Clark, veter- an designer who was chief aviation engineer of the U. S. Army during the World War, and by Dr. Leo Hen- drik Baekelan'd, the father of modern plastics, with the co-operation of the Hasikelite Corporation of Grand Rap- idls, Mich_ For a year and a half a mystery ship has been haunting eastern air- ports from Florida to Quebec, under- going all sorts of endurance tests. Then, in the course of a Congression- al investigation early last winter, Dr. Baekeland's son, George W. Baeke- land, revealed the existence of a laminated plastics plane fuselage which he said could be molded and made ready for the as+sermbly line in two hours. This was the "Clark 46." Headlines flared briefly, but Colonel Clark squelched the sensation,. Only now, after months of grueling tests, does he feel that bus plane's perform- ance justifies a public report. This. re- port I am authorized, to make. The January revelation was no.. news to insiders, either here or a- broad. For several years they have known that Clark was working on the miass-epmoduckion problem. Few doubted his success. The time was ripe for fundamental advances in th•r( laggard art of ra,i•rplane fabrication and here was no "crank" inventor, but an able aeronautical • engineer' whose backers included some of the most prominent industrialists' and fin- anciers in the country. New, syn- thetic resins developed by the plan-' ties laboratories' had given aviation, as well as other crafts, novel ,mater- ials and new tools' with :which to solve the problem: The 2* -foot fuselage of the "Clark 46," which in time may relegate met- al planes to the s'helve's of history, is sleek, glass -smooth and rivetless. Its -perfect flank give n•o indication of the 1600 hours, it has spent in the air, deliberately exposed to every pos- sible flying strain, to every onslaught of rain, sleet and snow. Peer into the dark interior; notice the absence of the forest of structural supports found in the all -metal plane. All the space is free. There are no rivets; there is only a faint seam to show where the two 20 -foot half -shells that form the fuselage were joined toge- ther•- Cot- Clark calls the new material from which this fuselage is made "Duramold," Manufactured by a se- cret prooess employing phenolic res- ins discovered by Dr. Baekeiand, Dur- amold does not chip or co'r'rode, re- sists water, oil and acids and is stronger than metal. Says Col. Clark —"In the form of a simple thin-wall- ed cylinder of given weight under compression, Duramold is, roughly, 10.4 Limes as strong as stainless steel." Its basic ingredients are oheap and in part absurly common. Duramold can be given any desir- ed s'h'ape—and will keep that shape. This is all important. Experts in aer- odynamics know that bumps or de- pressions invisible to the naked eye measurably interfere with the flight of a plane. In metal planes such flaws are hard to avoid; stones thrown up by the wheels leave notice- able dents. In planes of Duramold, true to a few ten -thousandths of an inch, there need be no such imper- fections. Only the fuselage of the "Clark 46" is Duramold. The wings are of improved plywood ---used partly be- cause a plastic fuselage was suffici- ent for experimental purposes, and partly because Col. Clark wanted to compare the behavior of the two ma- terials,. Even laymen who have ex- amined the plane have remarked that while the Duradnol'd 'has• stood the tests of 20 m'on'ths, the plywood shows signs of deterioration and re- pair. Within a few, months we shall see a plane in which wings as well as fuselage are made of Duramold. Ev- en now, Duramold may be pressed in- to sections long .enough to give a wingspread of 85 feet, ample for most military purposes. Under gunfire Durarmold fuselages anti, wings will (Continued on Page 1) Seen in the County Papers Passes Her A. T. C. M. Miss Lenora Haberer has recently, - received the good news of havin,' been successful ins passing all theoret- ical and: practical examinations its the A.T.C1M. Grade with the Toronto Conservatory of Music. Miss Hab- erer studied theory for the Ossociate ship Grade wi'tih Mr, .Goulding, A.T- C•M., of. Exeter; Mr. Winterbottom,. Mus, Bait.,, of London.; and the planar witrh Mrs. S. H. McHardySmit.h, or London, teacher of advanced stu- dents,' We congratulate Miss Haber- er on her successful ac:hii'evenrent,— Zurich Herald: New Roof on C. P. R. Station A gang of CIPR, workmen have just finished putting a new roof on the stations -Blyth Standard. Bob Winters Going to Tillsonburg (air. Bob Winters, of the Bank or Commerce staff, leaves this week for Ti lsoniburg where he will continue in the bank's service, Bob, who ha' for the past two 'amid' a half years, filled his position' very capably, will be greatly missed by a host of young •frieriidls in the village .who will wish. him continued success in his new Rome. Hiss place will' be filled here by Mr. Jerry 'Bradley, of Chesley.-- Blyth Standard Nurses' Home Purchased The nurses' hiotme on Napier Street- acrohs'the road from Alexandria Hos- pitall, has been purchased -by the Hos- pital Boprdt Up to the present time it tidi been used on a rental basis. Fuddle for the purchase were made arvatiliable by the bequest of the late Jarvis Wiles.^Goderich, Signral-Star. Passed Examinations Results• of the recent piano 1, inations held in Lucknop' Donna Walker, Grade `JfI, ifhouors'; • Tommy Loekridge, Grade II. These are pupils of Miss B. M. Gordon, A.T.C.M.— Winegham Advance -Times. New Vestments For Grace 'Church The members of Grace Lutheran Ladies' Add held a short meeting af- oter the eveninig service last Sunday to consider the matter of purchasing nervy'. altar • vestments. Masi. Williarrr M'illlier, president of t'society, and chairman of the committee mii'ttee appoi.nt- ed to ,'entre inforanlatiion on the altar coverings, presented a full report to the 'society, Mentioning Prices on va.- (Conttnued on Page 8) ea" tj ti