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The Huron Expositor, 1939-08-25, Page 2'd . 4 • s , - ' • • : ; , TFM 11E1714 • • i •• „:, 4 dk„ XPOSITOR • 4 On Expositor Nailed 1860 hail McLean, Editor.. at Seaferth, Ontario, +w- ay afternoon by McLean ORTH, Friday, August 25 A Wise Move ... At the last meeting of the Seaforth town council notice of motion wat 'ven by Councilor Keating that at the next meeting of council he would introduee a by-law amending the present traffic by-laws. .The change contemplated in the traffic by-laws would be to prohibit the present practise of making 'U' rt: turns at the corner of Main and tee• Goderich Streets... And that would !I•k,' be a very wiee move. • Goderich Street is on a main pav- d highway that ca.rries'heavy traf- lice at this time of year. Ordinarily the Main Strtet traffic crossing this highway does not appreciably enter - fere or hold np through traffic, but there are two exceptions. These oc- cur on every Saturday and Sunday night during the summer months.. On Saturday nights Main Street is not only solidly lined with. parked cars, but there is a continuous stream of cars driving north, the majority of which make a 'U' turn out on the highway and then drive down the street again. On Sunday nights, after the band concert, the congestion of cars is al- most as great, while the number of cars moving up and down the street is even greater, practically every one of them making the turn at the et -corner. As a result of this practise, several times during each of these nights, through traffic on the highway is blocked and cars pile up at the cor- ner. That creates a very dangerous situation. So much so that it is ow- ing to Providence, rather than to the ingenuity and forbearance of man, that we have not had a series of accidents every Saturday and Sunday night this su-mmer. No doubt, humannature being what it is, motorists- will grureble, complain and even raise a fuss, but motor traffic has become so dense that public safety has to be guarded, even against the seeming wishes of the driving public, and the council is perfectly justified and should be en- couraged in its drive for public safe- ty, • A Good Mang of Us Are That Wap Too Calvin Richards, with only eight dollars in his jeans, thumbed his way two thousan.d miles to see the San Francisco Exposition. Then when he got to the Exhibi- tion, he decided he wouldn't go in because he thought it would pinch his pennies too hard. So he hitch- hiked the two thousand miles home again. Just four thousand miles for— nothing! But there are quite a lot of use like Calvin right here in our own home eOunty. We travel unlim- ited miles at unlimited speed and we don't see anything on the way, and we don't see anything when we get there, nor on the way back. We just go, and keep going, and always farther afield. The unfor- tunate part about it is, however, none of us seem to be able to make these trips as cheaply as Calvin did. And still more unfortunately, none of us seem to try. - • A Real Thrill In this fast age of ours we are rather inclined to wonder h o w former generatts could find means of recreation an entertainment for themselves, lacking as they did, our marvelldus means of transportation and communication. We wonder if they ever had a thrill, or what there was to make a *Weill out of in those by -gone days. t we don't need to pity that form - =generation for their lack of beeattse they fated very well , hut line. In fact, the :daft agewitteigs- i•504 4 ,0,.!;, t , will not be witnessed in our day and generation. It was just eighty years, ago last Saturday that a Frenchman by the name of Emile Blondin, walked across a tight rope stretched 1,100 feet from the 'American to the Cana- dian -shore, and 160 feet above the mighty chasm at Niagara Falls. That feat, in itself, would provide thrill enough for the average spec- tator, but even that was not half the story. Not only did Blondin walk the tight rope, but he carried a man named Colcord in a chair strapped to his back, when he did it. And there is still more to it. When Blondin, with Colcord on his back, was half way across the gorge, the guy ropes parted, and the rope sway- ed as you ican imagine how a thou- sand foot long rope would sway,' if suspended one hundred and sixty feet in the air. But Blondin kept his balance, and although his passenger was forced to descend three times from the chair on his back to allow him to stretch his tired muscles, he brought himself arid his partner safely to the Canadian shore. No, .this generation will never get a thrill like that! But, after all, who Would want it? • • Governments Cost Money It costs real money to govern a country, and the United States is, apparently, no exception, as we learn that Congress, before the close of its recent session, appropriated $22,- 632,771 to finance the legislative es- tablishment. Besides salaries, maintenance and similar expenses, t h e legislative costs include such items as $123,000 for reporting Senate and Congress debates; $970 for packing boxes for Senators; $8,000 for maintenance of the Vice -President's and Speaker's automobiles, including chauffeurs' salaries; $19,000 for folding Sena- tors' speeches for mailing; $2,000 for the Senate's tiny subway train, and $4,587,430 for printing and bind- ing the Congressional Record and the thousandof bills introduced. But the United States is not the only country that it takes real money to keep running, and Canada, in proportion to its population, prob- ably spends as much, and perhaps a little more. And like - our neighbor, Canada spends it on very similar things. We have our Senators, and even if we don't provide them with packing box- es, we provide them with many other queer and expensive things. Our Hansard corresponds to the American Congressional Record, and while it may not cost us over four and a half million dollars a year, there is no question but that it costs us just a half too much. It makes a nice present for our Members of Parliament to send to their constitu- ents after they have made a long speech or a long series of speeches, but it runs into a lot of money. In fact, if it was not for Hansard, and no doubt the Congressional Re- cord too, the cost of government in this country and across the line as eeelje would be a good deal less than it is. And the length of the sessions of the House of Commons and Con- gress would be a good deal shorter too. • There Is No Substitute The Commerce Department at Washington tells us that Germany is making eggs. At least, it says that country, has developed a sub- stitute for eggs from fish and milk, in an endeavor to curtail its egg im- ports. From fish meat, we are told, a pro- tein substance has been extracted which can be used instead of eggs in baking, candy, mayonnaise, i c e cream and many other products. And another egg substitute, also being produced commercially, is • a dried milk albumen which can be beaten into a firm, snow foam that looks like the beaten white of an egg. That may be all right for cakes, candy, ice cream and other unessen- tial and unnecessary food, but when it comes down to ham and — and other Iife savers and body builders, there is no substitute 'for the real, hen fruit. There never has, and there never Will be! 1 Years Agone , Interesting Its Picked From The Huron Facpostitor of Fifty and Twenty-1Iva Years Ago. Iwaa....1011003/41softgirimal.O.0.004.•"1.04•1~.014koss.se.....0 From The Huron Expositor, August 28, 1914 The volunteets from the 33rd Hur- on Regiment arrived in Vaicartier, Quebec, on Saturday, August 24th, safe and sound. There are 12,000 un- der canvas at this place. The health of the campahes been, excellent with no sickness of 'any consequence being reported. There are four duly qualified lady .phyeicians in Huron -County as fol- lows: Dr. Mrs. Macklin, Goderich; Dr. Mary MeDonell, Remelt; Dr. Sarah Govenlock, Seaforth, and Dr. M. C. Calder, Whigha,m. In response to an emergency call to the "Women of Seaforth, a meeting wae held in the Town Hall an Tues- 4ay evening at which a Red Cross, So- ciety was formed 'with the following officers: Hon. president, Mrs. Alex Wilson; president, Mrs. A. E. Colson; vice-president, Mrs. Harry Speare; 'treasurer, Mrs. Oscar Neil; secretary, Mrs. L. T. DeLacey. Mr. A. G. Sarrillie, of Tuckersmith, has leased the residence of the late John G. Ament, on North Main St. The following are attending the millinery openings in Toronto ethis week: Misses Madge Stewart, M. Jchneten, Mary MceleIand, Rena Tvviss, and Cassie Everett. Mr. H. Geib, of Seaforth, picked from the raspberry patch in his gar- dena branch on which were quite a member of beautiful ripe, berries. Three rinks of bowlers -were in Goderich this week teeing in the S.00toh Doubles tournament there. The rinks were composed of J. Tam- an and W. G. Willis; John Shine and J. M. Best, and W. Hays and R. E. Bright. Mr. Palmer Whitely is with P. W. Matthews Co. in Toronto, learning the newest ideas in undertaking. Mr. Jas. Gillespie, of Cromarty, is to be congrattllated upon hie success in his Huron matriculation exams. He passed with second class honors in Moderns and first class honors in all other subjects, winning the Ed- ward Blake Seholarship in Mathema- tics and Science, Miss Lizzie Hamilton, of Cromarty, spent a few dayaawith friends here prior to her departure for Ottawa, where she bag secured a positien. Judge Jackson and family, of Leth- bridge, Alta., who have :been visiting. in this vicinity forseveral weeks, have returned to their home al the West. Mr. Harry Stewart underwent an operation or an infection of the nose in Stratford General Hospital. The Steamer Marin Mullen, of the Pioneer Line, arrived in Goderich on Friday with 235,000 bushels of wheat of which 170,000 bushels will be un- loaded at the Western Canada Flour Mills Company's elevator. In Phil Osifer of Lazy Meadows (By Harry J. Boyle) 4110 "DOCTOR JIM" Tbe shingle outside bis thouse with the weatherbeaten letters on it reads: James Wallington Henry, M.D. but the folksall call him Doctor Jim. I was bis last patient -yesterday af- ternoon and after dressing my foot where I slivered it with the tine of the bay fork we sat balking. • "I was up to the city yesterday, Mil," he smiled as he refilled the old briar that's g,enerally in his mouth. "And I've just 'been thinking how lucky I was not to stay at that hos- pital where they offered me a job af- ter graduation." Strange thoughts came into my Mind then. Doctor Jimtoday is just 'another country. doctor. His hair is turning quite gray, sloop lines have seared .1,1113 face as a result of sleep- less nights and hard work and wor- ry. }Bs cloths are rumpled and baggy and anything but stylish. He has little or no money and his pat- ients; forget about him after . he has cured tam. People get a little fran- tic when he takes hie time. in check- ing the ccurse of their ailments, and they go over his head and call an a city specialist. They pay the city mare's fees, and forget about Doctor Sires His car is just -as shabby as tie clothes and yet a man wh,o, owes him, three hundred dollars in doctor tbills just bought a new car last week. "No, I'm not crazy, he laugh- ed at tee sight of nay apparent won- der, and tilted back further in the old swivel caair ae he swung around from the old rattop desk to face me, "The doctor who took that job has a Park Ae enue practice now," he re - collector'. "I calledon him y,ester- dey. He wears suits that coat as much, as will keep me in clothes for a Year. He has three cars and a ohauffeur and a wife who has just di- vorced him. He hasa swanky set of offices and a lot of chronic imbeciles for patients who think they're sick 'arud Pay fcr his show. But Plaits hes not luappy. He started out to be a great surgeon, at that hospital and today's hes wasting his talents for money. See those hands?" I saw two capable hands, and a • From The Huron Expositor August 30, 1889 Sunday of last week a large bear was seen crossing the Hayfield Road, in front of Parson's farm, five miles south 01 Goderic,a,._ Rev. Joseph McCoy preached his farewell sermon to his congregation in, Egrearadville on Sabbath last. Mr. Robert Scott, of Harpurttey, has a sunflower the stalk of which mea- sures 10 feet 5 ler:Ares, and on which are 60 heads. Professor Vogt, of the Toronto 'Con- servatore of Masice who Was the guest of Mr. D. Johnsen, Seaforth, presided at the organ during the ser- vices in the Methodist Olaurob last Sabbath evening. Mr. John Lyon, of Seaforth, has been awarded the contract for the er- ection of a new town hall in Wing - ham. The young people of Cromarty and vicinity intend having a garden party at the residence of Mr. George Wil- son on Sept. 6th. The road at a distance of four feet from the sidewalk on 'Main St., Exe- ter, in front of the business ,places, is being paved with cedar blocks. Mr. Robt. Acheson, of 'Goderieh Tp., took 20 tons of hay off seven acres of land. Mr. James Orr, ?of Goderioh Town- ship,' threshed 300 bushels of fall wheat, the product of eight acres. aVe understand that large numbers of boys and young men are in the habit of congregating at McQuade's corner on the and concession every Sunday afternoon and engage in ball Playing, dancing and howling, carry- ing their orgies well on into the night A lacrosse match was played on the recreation grounds in Seaforth on Tuesday afternoon between the Tus- cara. Indians and the Beavers of Sea - forth. The Indians are a flue, stal- wart athletic.. looking lot of fellows and most of them are young men. The match resulted 'In a tie. Messrs. Charles and Alex Wilson, J. S. Robents and M. Munro repres- ent Seaforth at the Ontario Rifle As- sociation shooting Match in Toronto this week. They go to Ottawa next week to compete in the Dominion As- aociation matches and where they will be joined by Mr. J. A. Wilson, of the Wariableton team, who arrived home on Wednesday night from the Old Country. Mr. F. Rennie, of Hensall, has re- cently imtpreved the appearance of his brick black Iby having the front tastefully painted. Mr. J. Steacy, of Batmen did the work_ 0 A Boston woman asked; James Rus- sell Lowell to Write in her autograph album eand the poet, complying, wrote the line: "What le so rare as a day in A few days lltter, teavvelt, returning to this wocmal's .hause, was Idly' thumbing through the album when he came to his pin ptjl gneetion. El ea s WO, in Childish scrawl he f4nn4 the answer tie these words: "It tikes* with whisittorm." ' • • , , "atetera,e'..istestte voriorirm, a's at:tar "ss • • ?'":"'40;eil'',14S411.:',..rni " ot*Itr2$,1990 , great 4etI m.ore. In that moment I glamps d something that I had never thought of before. Doctor Jim cares little for money. He gets enough to keep he and his wife in decent com- fort. But Doctor Jim's reward comes from building healthy, strong bodies. Be walked five miles in a raging bliz- zard to save the life of a man who today appears slated for One of the greatest honors his country oan give him. He worked all night back in the nineties to save the life of a boy who is today a great surgeon. He operated on a little Irish girl who has skies borne ten sturdy children . . . ten of the town'ship's finest people. Yes, Doctor Jim worked with a coal - oil lamp and his operating table was a storm door on two saw -horses . . . but he pulled her through. "I haven't the hands of a great sur- geon," he said softly, "I've had to crank a oar too often on a freezing night. I've harnessed a horse too of- ten far that. But they have been pret- ty fair as average doctors hands. They helped, bring you into the world and a great many. mone like you. I've tried to make the best use possible of theme It seems that as the rest of me stiffens with age they still keep supple." ,"Have you,eeer watched the way a child grows? One year it's a little pink, bundle and soon it'swalking and then ft's going to school and after a while it's grown-up and then it gets married. I've watched a good many of them, Phil. And all during the time from the cradle until, they leave thiS world they have their spells when they have to be .repaired and put back into active seryice. I've been the repairman. My office may be old-fashioned, but it's cconfortable. My clothes may be in poor taste but they cover me, and Phil . . . I'm happy here. If I were in that swanky Office that my friend heel don't be lieve I would be. Thank God 1 came to the country." And the telephone rang and he an- swered it and started reaching for his hat and his little black bag . . . and what more ca,n I say about a man like' Doctor Jan? JUST A SMILE OR TWO A waggish philosopher once said, in time of drought, that a long dry spell is a good omen, indeed an in- falable one. Said he: "It always rains immediately after a long dry spell." Lady: "You have forgotten that I gave you a large plate of soup yester- ,dey." Tramp: "Madam, I have not for- gotten, but I have forgiven." • The farmer was in an unusually pensive mood, and his wife offered him a penny for .his thoughts. "I was wondering, my dear," he said, "what epitaph I should put on your tomb- stone." As his wife was in excellent health she naturally resented the undue thoughtfulness. "Oh, that's easy," she replied. "Simply put 'Wife of the Above'." A poultry farmer had been losing chickens from his coops, and) diSplay- ed the following notice: "Anyone found near my ohicken house at night will be found there 'next morning." , No more chickens have been miss- ed. A Fact A Week About Canada (From theaPerelplon Bureau of ,//Statistics) THE WONDERLAND OF BOTANY • We are going ato try this year 'to present our readers with some spe- cial information of a botanical nature —statistics is just • another word ,for information. It will be appropriate, therefore, to present to your a ,very beautiful little story on the "Wonder- land of Botany," written by E. W. Hart, of the Division of Botany and Plant Pathology, of the Department ef Agriculture. Mr. lart writes: In the wonderland of botany there is an enchantment with the quality of a die= that seems' to lure us on in - la the very heart of beauty and ad- venture. To be lured thus is the wish of most of us—a wish attainable by' all. One of the 'botanical wonders of the world is surely the supreme beauty of our Canadian woodland in June; as we roam through the trunk-ealirmn- ed aisles and transepts of our aselov- ed maples. Each leafy glade bealomes. to us a vast arboreseent, at:tittered abbey, Where the shadows spreadi deep pools of quietness and where silence is coraplete, cool and' fragrant, but for the wistfully soft voices c1 the choir of rustling leaves and the, whispers of weirdly -sweet Aeoliart. harmtonies of the woodland organ,. swelling and sinking with an almost supernatural cadence as a . gentle wind harps mystic pastorales upoit. the twigs. The very sunlight enter- ing our abbee—.fragrant and peacefut. as the inside of a flower—is of a peculiar quality, at once soothing and cheerful, as it strikes through; the lush, green, latticeci depths of the. foliage—clerestory and bough•groinect ceiling. , Of all midsummer's, that of Canada. is to us the most lovely, when the, sun and sky combine Weenier te chant one harmonious song of the - joy of life; when the hay fills the air -with a drowsy fragrance of soporific and most alluring sweetness, and. from wood and copse, from every tree and hedgerow the birds are car- olling in blithe chorus. Flowers are all racing one another - in their mad rush to bloom and to, enjoy their full share of sunlight. The - very ox -eye daisies seem to ogle the - sun with their yellow eyes. When. Midsummer Eve is fragrant with the langurous scent of Wild flowers, and all over the countryside there reigns a solemn bush of deep. pregnant and magical silence e -e like to turn our thdugbts to simpler times. when people believed that it was on Midsummer's Eve that fairies dancest in the meadows and wrote message.. to us mortals upon the grass with flowers; and that those who stood under an elder tree would see the king of those mischievous sprits— the elves. People who are familiar - with Shakespeare's "A Midsummer - Night's Dream" will of course remem- ber the playful malice of "Puck." ,Our wonderland of'botany as seen with the eye, the magnifying Blase and the imagination extends through the whole world, embracing earth, air and water. There is no limit te where we may wander in search 0L new wonders. It is our purpose to meander lath er and thither in quest of adventure., often found in themost unlikely places and when we least expect it. We may venture into the land of the miscroacope where undreamed -or wonders await us; we may travel' abroad and gasp in the humidity of tropical forests; enjoy the mystic scents of Araby; circle the globe te the Antipodes; wander over arid des- erts and rest in the shade of shelter- ing palms; and sometimes even peep into the folk -lore, legend and super- stition in which botany is steeped.. probably for all time. In the course of our travels in that. • Father: "Here, here! Why is my darling daughter crying?" Daughter: "Oh, I picked out in the latallion magazine the dress for the party ball to wear when I get rich —and new Marie says she's going to have one just like it when she gets ri ch!" • "At 20 you left the country and came to the city. And for twenty-five years you've been working very hard. What for?" ."ro 'get money to live in the coun- try." ,Can Japan Hold On ? The question is being asked In ac- cents of varying hopefulness all over the world today e 'How long can Ja- pan stand the wan strain? It is wide- ly assumed that, since Japan is a poor country and warfare is expensive the Island Empire must sooner or later come to the end of its resourc- es. It is on this belief that China's war strategy of prolonged resistance in the interior, supplemented by guer- rilla activity in Japanese -occupied re- gions, is largely based. Few intelli- gent Chinese anti.apate sweeping vic- tories over fiber Japanese forces in the open field,. What they hope for is that China will prove to possess more stamina and ,staying power in a war of attrition. The agitation for sanctions or economic discriminations against Japan also has .a bearing, since it is believedthat the economy of the Island Empire !night not long endure the double strain of war ef- fort and outside economic' pressure. Now, of course, it would be a very much overaimplified view of the sit- uation to conceive that Japan has a certain amount of money with which to run the war and that it must quit when this sum fis exhausted. Ever since the wars of antiquity, when wo- men in besieged cities gave their their to be used as bowstrings,. war bas been the generator of sacrifice, of substitution., of elasticity. When a (*teary gees to war it throws into the balance not only itsarmed forces, not only its financial reserves in the shape of gold and internationally vat id currencies, but all Its manpower, all the resources of its, citizens', whe- ther measured in labor or in. capital. Japan's war bill can be footed ap wibh a fair degree of accuracy. It is in the ne'igh'borhood of 10,000,000 yen (approximately $2,800,000) per day. But Whenone begins to add. up Japan's, means of meeting thisbill one has W take into caleUlation Many elastic and imponderable factors: the efficiency with, which the state can mobilize industrial resources, tor in- etance, the extent to which the poo - traria cam endure ;deprivation without suffering a loss in productivity, the succes,s or failure of Japan in ex- tracting from Chine Ode or that im- portant Mineral or agricultural pro- duct. Japan is passing on part of the cost of the war to the future and is meet- img another part through economies and deprivations which are imposed on the population. More than. 90 per cent of the cost of the war is being fitaineed out of neweisetree of state Wads. This does Thot, hoover, S....fee:4a exempt the people from the pinch of war. For, with a view to keeping its balance of international, payments in order, Japan /has placed its foreign trade under severe state control. War orders receive priority, orders f rom firms which are engaged in ex- wonderland we will not always meet port trade are in a secondary prefer- with such lovely things as our Cana ential position. Luxuries, simple com• dian. June; for there is an ugly aa forts, many things which in America well as a beautiful side to Nature would be regarded as necessities. are Nature is a stern dictatrix. She can barred out. When the people buy new textiles they find that staple fiber is heavily mixed with cotton or wool. Every month taxicabs become a little scarcer and buses more crowd- ed because of the policy of conserv- ing gasoline. The figures on the re- duction of imports of matey import- ant raw materials, are eloquent. Im- ports ef cotton and rubber in 1938 were half of the 1937 figures. Wool was cut down by 69 per cent., pulp by 63 per cent., timber by 57 per cent. Japan Is feeling the war not in any big crisis of undernourishment or breakdown of transportation, but in a dozen little ways. If something goes amiss with the radiator in, a steambeated house the chances are that the particular gadget which is needed to repair it is not obtainable. No new schools are being built; no new telephones arebeinginstalled. Nonmilitary constructions' requiring the use of steel and other valuable metals has been almost completely suspended. Coal in a biting .Japanese winter is more expensive and harder to get. Japan's ability to weather the war strain depends very largely on its success or failure in solving the two outstanding economic problem's which the American. -regards the dollar, as "real money." More serious', perhaps, than the problem of internal inflation' is the question of how Japan is to continue to finance imports of war materials from abroad. Japan's economy is normally basted on large imports of raw materialswallah are mostly work- ed up and exported in. the farm of cheap manufactured geode. Receipts from shipping (irt which Japan is the third nation in the world) and from tourist expenditures ,help to keep the balance .of payments in order. At the present time Japan still has a, sum of 501,000,000 yen worth of gold which is earmarked as a re- serve for the cturency. There is lit- tle other Visible gold at the desposi- am of the Government, although newly mined gold is expected to re- alize about 200,000,000 yen a year. If (001171Ined On Page' 6) be cruel and rutblese demanding, obedience of all on penalty of death, or what is even worse—in disease or affliction. Yes, indeed tbere is a great strug- gle, far existence *in the plant king - dem where, as with us, the victory is - to the strong. Seen in the County Papers Mixed Bowling Tournament Fourteen nines, including one from Winghlam, took part In a mixe'd lawn bowling tournament on the Picton St. greens on Thursday night last. The winning rinkee were: lat. M. J. Ains- lie, Miss M. M.aeVicans Nelson Hill, Miele Margaret Evans (3 wins plus. 11); anuci, Geo. Badley, Mrs. Ainslie,. Earl All -lege Mrs. C. Cutt (2 wiles plus 14); and', Jas.. Cutt, Miss M. .Garapbelt, Mrs. L. C. Chapman, A_ Kittens (2 wins plus 13).—Godericie Signal -Star. Going to Scotland Early in Septeraber Jimmy Colqu- houn, son of Mrs. Colquhoun and the late Mr. James Colquhoun, leaves for Edinburgh, Scotland, where he will play hockey this winter, return- ing after some twenty-eight weeks. His many friends here hope that his sojourn in the land of the heather will be most enjoya,ble.—Mitchell Ad- vocate. Birthday Party The home of Mrs.. James Hamilton, Newgate Street, 'was' the scene of a pleasant gathering on Tuesday after- noon, wilern Mrs. Hamilton's daugh- ters), Mrs, George Morrison, of Kincaa dine, and Mrs. Fred' Larkin, of Wind- star, entertaltede a number f their (Continued. on Page 3) • • 4 •0 ..? •,• sr" es. • • „ • 1:kr, „ 113