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The Huron Expositor, 1940-09-13, Page 2iL r• u 'oo xpositor Established 1860 Keith. McPhail McLean, Editor. Published at Seaford', Ontario, ev- -ery Thursday afternoon. by McLean Bros.' SEAFORTH, Friday, September 13 Going All Out Germany is, apparently, at last, going all out in itsefforts to fulfill Hitler's promise to blast England in- to dust. On Saturday and Sunday last England, and particularly the city of London, underwent the sev- erest bomb strafing that any city or any -country ever experienced, or that any city or country even believ- ed could be carried out. The strafing was indiscriminate. Women, children, ' hospitals a n d crowded tenements suffered even ` to a greater extent than did manufac- turing plants y munition works, docks and airdromes. Hundreds of people were killed, thousands of others were injured, while, the material loss will run into millions of pounds. And the end is not yet. It is believed that Hitler's invasion of England is imminent, and the next few weeks will be anxious ones for Britain, her Allies and her friends. But what of it? Britain has not been blasted into dust,nor is it like- ly to be. There will be more slaugh- ter, more destruction, but the peo- ple have already lived through slaughter and destruction—and they are not 'afraid, only more determin- ed. Through it all they still, maintain the will to suffer and the will to win. Their navy, their air force and de- fence force are still intact, in fact,. stronger than they ever were. Their airdromes, munition and manufac- turing plants have scarcely been touched, ships are loading and un- loading along docks at every port, and there has been no curtailment of supplies of any kind. As long as those conditions con- tinue and British military and gov- ernment officials have expressed ev- ery confidence that they will, Britain will never be beaten into the dust,. however much Mr. Hitler may wish or work to accomplish it. There is, however, no' use of beat- ing about the bush. Britain has al- ready suffered; and during this month of September and even later, will suffer more intensely. But it is, also well to remember that Germany, German cities and German -people have and will suffer in proportion- ate, if not greater measure, Getting Anxious The farmers in. this -district are getting anxious about the weather. -And with some cause too. Owing to continued rain and lack of sunshine, much" grain that was cut, in some instances, - weeks ago, is still stand- ing in the fields. More heavy rains over the week- end did not improve matters. In fact both the grain and the ground are now so soddenthat it will take days of sunshine and favorable wind to dry things to the place where thresh- ing will be possible. Of course there are some farmers who either draw all their grain to the barn and thresh it there, or stack it. But in recent years stookothresh- ing has become a very general prac- tise. It saves time and labor, and labor is none too abundant on the farm these days. Another reason given for -the ex- tent of stook threshing this year is that barns are full of hay, and only part of the grain could be accom- modated at best. Some claim, how- - ever, that that is more of an excuse that- a reason. And there may be some truth in that. There is no doubt but that stook threshing is progressive, being both a time and money saver. 'But, unfortunately, stook threshing, to be either of ,*.hose things requires •'a special kind of weather, and that is not at all the kind, of weather we have been having for quite some time. Still ,worse, it is not the kind of weather that there seems to . be any rrosseot of getting •� forsome tinri.e to emus, and, these things are not les- si . tliz farmer's anxiety any. The rtritiai who has followed the old but • TEE RUM! sure method and has his grain in the barn or in the stack, is sitting pret- ty and with a smile this year, but the case of the stook farmer is some- thing else again. 1ST EXPOSITOR SEPTEIPER 13, 1940 • Where Motoring -Is Not A Joy A subscriber writing to The Ex- positor from London, England, says: "In your issue of July 19th, I noted your editorial on motor travel, and being a motorist myself, I was much interested. "Lam allowed seven gallons each month, which limits my motoring to , approximately one hundred and forty miles." And here are the conditions under which that month's motoring may be made: "When one leaves- his ear he must immobilize it in such a way that it cannot be used. The ignition key must be removed and the doors locked or some of the mechanism of the car removed'. Failure to do so .may mean the pumping up of a tire, deflated by the police, and also an- swering a summons." And this about night driving: "Lights on one's car, are restricted and only parking lights dimmed with two layers of newspaper can be us- ed along with one headlight fitted with a special shield. The speed lim- it is twenty miles per hour:" How would you like that, you fel- low Canadians, who say a lot of bard things about our roads\ and highways when your speed_ is forced down be- . low sixty, night or day, and where a little pleasure jaunt on week days or Sundays runs anywhere from two hundred to four hundred 'miles? But the Britons do not complain, so why should we? At least until. our turn comes, which it assuredly will,at least in some measure. At present we can not even conceive such a thing as the rationing of gas for motoring, or the rationing of butter, bacon or anything else on our menu, but we might, at least, commence to think about it. _ Just one short year or so ago the " people of Britain did not know much about such things either. But they know all about them now, and a year. from now the possibility is ,that we will know something about them too, at -least about the rationing of gasoline. And when that day comes, we hope we will prove as good sol- diers as the people. of the British Isles" have proved themselves to be under similar circumstances. • War Costs Money. It •takesmoney to run a war. More money, in fact, than the average in- tellect could count or even visualize. Since Great Britain declared war, just a year .ago, her bill of goods or= dered from the United States amounted to two billion dollars, and purchasing agents who gave this figure, estimate that another bill of two billion dollars will be the cost of the American orders for the coming year. These orders include almost ev- erything from needles to airplanes, the latter accounting for . a billion, two hundred million of the first year's bill. Only part of these air- planes, however, have yet been man- ufactured, but just how many is known only. to Britain, and • she is . not telling.' Estimates from other reliable sources, however, estimate that Bri- tain is now getting ten new military planes a day off America assembly lines. And by --next spring the num- ber will be seventy a day, or upwards of two hundred planes a month:. To pay the cash required by the United States Neutrality Law for their purchases, the British have been sending gold to the' States at the rate of one hundred million dol- lars per week. This gold comes fresh from the mines of South Africa and Australia, from the bank vaults of London, but mostly , from. Canada, where much was either stored before the war" or landed by . ships after. Likewise, it takes a staff of men to transact such a purchasing busi- ness. At present the British have a staff of over a thousand, and it is growingevery day, and most of these are situated in New York. ' The bulk of this staff are Canadians or other British subjects, but Many are Americans, some of whom occu- py high positions: It eosts money to run a war all right. Year's 4 gone Interesting Items Picked From The Huron Expositor of Fifty and Twenty-five Years Ago. From Tire Huron Expositor September 17, 1915 Those attending the Presbytery and the annual Presby:teijal meeting at Seaforth from H,ensalt on Tuesday weite: Rev. and Mrs. S=mith, Mr. and Mrs. William Dougall, Mr. and Mrs. Charles McAllister, Mrs. Jast Carlisle, Mrs. IL Paterson, Jr., Mrs. C. A. Mc- Don'ell, Misses Jessie Sproule and Miss Hattie Suthterlamdt. • A most. promising aoholar was Frederick Lorne Hutchinson, pupil of the Seaforth Collegiate Insttitute, sin of Mr. and Mrs. F. D. Hutchison, of Staffa. Master Lorne was only 16 and had never tailed an examination and in 1915 passed his junior matric- •rlation scholarship, taking the Six4 i - leeward Blake Sohalarstbip. Two more Seaforth boys have join- ed the colors: Mr. Elis McLean join- ed at Regina and Arthur S. 'McLean, after completing his course at the of - Deers' training camp at Loudon, join- ed the 33rd Battalion In London. Messrs. R. and F. Devereaux,. of town', have installed some new and up-to-date machinery in 'their black- smith and carriage works, and are now otherwise improving, their pre- mises. ' Dr. Thomas Wilson, son of Mr. D. D. Wilson, is 'n teen visiting friends. Dr. Wilson has ;teen ...aa resident of Mhow, Central India, for 16, years. Mr. and Mrs. Jchn MacTavisth re- turned this weee nom their honey- moon• trip to Prima .Rupert, B. C. Mr. Jobe Habigrk has purchased a team and again int('rds engaging in the draping and cartage business in town. The James - Ross , farm on the Lou- den Rd., south of Brucefield, sold re- cently by auction, was .purchased by Mr. James Swan, of Brucefield, for $6,200. Mrs. John Dallas, of ibrncefield, en- tertained the girl faiende of Miss Mar- ian Wilson last week when the bride- to-be was • presented with , ee miscel- laneous shower .. Pte. Lorne R. Gled,hal, of Benmil- ler, has been granted a distinguished conduct medal by the British authori- ties for bravery ie action at-tthe front. Miss Irene Douglas, of Zurich, has .resumed her duties in School Sec- tion No. 5, Stanley. Miss 'Elliott, of Goderich Township, is teaehinrg in No. 13, Stanley, and Miss Rita Keys in Beemiller. Mr: Clayton Hoffman and Miss Min- nie Merrier, of Zurich, are attending high school in Exeter. Tjhe grair: crop in this county has hew been housed after •much .diffi- culty and several disappointnieg:ts. There has been a good deal of waste on accoun of lodged' grain and shell'- ing. Over to: ty jars of fruit have lately been shipped from the station at Brucefield for tine soldiers' hospital in' France. They were sent by fihe wo- men of the second concession'of Stan- • From The Huron Expositor September 19, 1890 On Thursday of last week a four - months -old child of Robert Kerslake, of Usborne, was given ' a dose of Iaudanum in mistake .for a dose of extract of wild 'strawberry. Howev- er, the doctor was called and the •child's lifd was saved. Mr. C. E. Merlon, of Brucefield, has returned from the Old Country and has brought out with him two very .fine Clydesdale 'stall -kali. Mr. James Graves has- painted a very attractive advertisement on the agricultural grounds, fence for ' Mr. Robert Willis. The following following students, lately of the Seaforth Collegiate Institute, are attending the Model School at Clin- ton: T. Forsythe, G. Glass, W. A. Kerr, E. Downey, E. Cash, M. L. Les, lie, J. Bethune; at Goderioh, R. J. Mel -drew; at Mitchell, J. Lerner and' A. Glass. 1Vfessrs, A. J. Bright and Alf. Stark returned from their trip to Manitoba on Saturday. Mr. Paul Madge, the celebrated honsefork man 'of Usborne, was in Seaforth, this week.' Mr. Madge has sold and put up over two hundred of his forks this season. Mr. George E. Henderson, Deputy Reeve, is a judge on horses at the Southern Counties Show at St. Thomas this week; . Mr. R. McLaren', Sr., of the town- ship sof Tuckersmirtth, and Mr. John Scott, of Hensall, have returned home from the 'Old Country where they spent• the summer :months. Mr. Neil Morrison, of Chis'elhurs't, brio- to lis depantnre for the far West, treated the young people to a select dancing party on Friday even- ing last. Mr. John A. Wren' was fid= Tiler and the shouting was; done by.' Messrs. Brinttnell and Bell. Fancy step dancing was done by D. Brint-• nell and M. McLachlan - On Friday eventing, Sept. 5th, a ladies' True Blue Lodge was organiz- ed in • Walton by Mrs. Farley, W.M-, and Mrs•. Gralham, R.S., of Lady Erne Loyal True Blue Lodge No. 5, Tonin - to, and Mr. Wallace, D.D.G.M. The name of the new lodge is Lady San-• dierson, Ladies' True Blue, No. 16, Walton!, and starter with, 22 members. The following were elected officers : Mrs, R. H. Ferguson, W.M.; Mlle • H. Hamilton, D.M.; Mfrs, W. Neal, chap- lain; Miss Bessie Kelly, R.S.; Miss Maggie Hamilton, financial sec.; Miss Jane Kelly, treasurer; 'Miss 'Jennie O'Bryan, director of ceremonies; com- mittee: Mrs. J. Grieve,' Miss Ann Kel- ly, Miss Bella Oakley, Miss Eliza Wil- liamson, Miss' Maggie Morrison, The Moonlight Buffers of Tucker- smnith played the return match with. the Mill Road Club on Wedn'es'day ev- ening, resulting stn three gnats tf► none in favor of the Mill Road Club. Mr. G. McIntosh act' as referee to the general satisfaction O"f all. Mr Wm. Bet.rnes, old Walton, has leased this hotel there to Mr. Thomas Jones, of Blyth, who le ,now int poo. SeseiOre- :Phil Osifer o • • Ii . = Meadows (By Harry J. Boyle) • "CORN ON THE COB" In order to enjoy corn on the cob you simply have to forget that there are other people in the room. It's the one time when a person has to' be an indtliiduaiist. Take for instance today'.. I saw Mrs. Phil casually walk over to the core patch this morning and then casually disappear in among the waving, green stalks. From where I was working the rustle of leaves and the tearing of tile husks- cold• plainly be heard as' she inspected them to see their condition. Presently s'he re- apnpeared• with her apron tucked up to make a bulging basket for the ears of corn- _I orn._I was en One for dinner today . as ,was the hired man,! Corn: is ade- ceptive thing It gives off no flavor- some odor in cooking and all that will reward you in peering into the bub- bling kettle is a burst 'of, steam in the face. No time must be lost 'in transfer- ring the corn from the pot •to the. table. The flavor is et its peak' just as you drain the water from it. There i.t . . . . stacked in a steaming pile like a skidway of tiny, golden yellow, logs. Fingers burn as they grasp each cob . . and from then on discretion must be thrown to the wind. With a jittery left hand you jounce the ear around while with the right 'hand you smear the butter on an•d, sprinkle it with salt . . . and pepper, if 'Your tastes run in that di- rection. . Then gasping at kraly with the forefingers propped- agrainst the white centre of the cob you stgrt bookwise to eat . . '. from left to right. Steam- ing hot . . . dripping butter . crunchy corn kernels . . : picking a stray hard kernel that mei:aages' to plug a• cavity in a hollow teeth . . . wthat can .compare .with corn on the. cob? T'here',s• a fresh, free taste about corn this. way . . . that no canner has ever been able to really place inside a tin . . and for that mat- ter it is the one thing that eludes the skill of the !housewife. - Frankly speaking, a person is not a pretty ipdciure while eating corn on the cob. The conversation is limited to a grunting and . grinding process. Melted butter streams down over a glistening chin . , . and, if you hap- pen to be wearing a beard it's a cinch that the facial adornment will look sornething like the .sleek hide of a seal. Now and again a,he steam heated cobs become too hot . . slipping from the griasip and leaving a buttered trail down the vest or ov- erall bib into the lap. Outside of these natural handicaps there is lit- tle to prevent you from.enjoying corn, I have no sympathy for these peo- ple who do not put butter on their corn because they are• afl•aid of the looks of it. There they sit , . wait- ing until the corn has been chilled and then picking it up gently and nibbling at one' corner like mice at dried corns cobs in a crib. They mur- mur something about it being so nice to eat. corn on the cob, and usually set the coli down half' finished. As a boy one of the thrills of a meal of corn was to see how many empty cobs would bestacked beside the plate after the meal. Father seemed to expend less• effort than anyone but the stack of ragged cobs Would- pile' up ie a great mound. We struggled vainly on the last cob . . sneaking the -occasional one from Mother's stack, which never went ov- er four, and decl'ering finally by' this. sort of skulldruggery that we had eaten the most of anyone. Corn on the cab brings back mem- ories of Fall nights... . . dewy grass .and a great blackened kettle over a flickering fire , . now and again a furtive squeeze of a fair companion's hand . , . and everybody waiting for the corn to be done . . . at the annual corn roast on the back of Hig- gin's farm! I hereby nominate "corn • on the cob:', as Canada's most distinctive 'delicacy. :JUST A SMILE OR TWO There was an •old man .of Nantucket' Who kept all lea cash in a bucket, But his daughter named Nan, . Ran away with- a man, And as for the bucket—Nantucket.. •' Smith: "i'm just going to have a tooth out." Smart: "Well, take my advice and don't have gas. ,They'll, never , be able to tell when you're unconscious." • "While be never actually struck me," explained Mrs. Sarah Sanders, suing Edward ; Sanders for divorce, "he would go around, slamming his I flet against doors and saying: 'I wish it was you!'" Travelling Teacher: "What a quaint village. Truly, oneihalf of the world ist igndrant of how the other half lives." Native: "Not in this village, ma' Me: Not in this village!" • "What did you have fo "Three guesses." "No wonder' you are s Secretary; lunch?" Bookkeeper Secretary: h-ungry," • r• 0 Landlady: "You'll have to pay your bill or leave!" Ledger: "Thanks awfully, My last landlady made me do, -both." . Agglarzemazia :New York's Mayor Has Big Defence Board Job • . (By Gerald Clank in the Montreal Standard • • fi• "This is not a pleasure trip, not a joy ride. This is ,serious business. And anyway, that type of pose has been -d)one to death!" It was the dynamic 58 -year-old May- or' of NOV York City talking. In• his own bright style he e -as telling a score of cameramen that" he would not wave phis hand for a picture shot: He stuck cut his square j,aw and thundered through, Union station, in- to the Chateau Lau'rietp r Fiorello H. LaGuardia had' areived. And the" Dominion's capital prepared itself for -whirlwind activity. There was no time to lose. He had a job to do in the way of Can rdian- American defence. The responsibility rested on his broad, heavy -shoulders of.cdbrdinating the work of urs five military colleagues from the TTnid States. Luncheon took less, than an ihour. At three., o,'clock the joint Defense Board was in session and the Mayor. announced curtly and proudly: "I don't believe there has been any in- ternational board that got down to business in lee's time than we did this afternoon." .. Porn of a fiery people, Mayor La- Guardia inherited his zest for speed, then developed it later as a bombing plane pilot in the First Greta War: Since then he has been a swiftly - geared one-man political machine. As Mayor of.• New York he has earned the gratitude of 7,000,000 for cleaning up the city. At -the same time he has earned the wrath of Tamlmanyites whale 'organization fie smasthed after 16 years of unbroken rule, and of the Nazis whose Fuehrer he proposed to include in a World's Fair "aham.ber of horrors." .T -.lis interests are widely varied. Re- cently the attended a meeting of fash- ion experts. He talked bluntly about women's clothes, and picked so vig- orously on the' chapeau of one guest near 'him that she was forced to re- move it in self-defence. "And if you try to bring back the wasp waist," he concluded, "I'll have the (health department after you" A stylist interrupted: "He has some nerve talking about hats. Look at the one he wears." The Mayor chides under a wide -brim $10 Stetson. Most cif tbe year he Wears a black one. In Ottawa 11 was° a light -grey one khat attracted attention. Born in New Yorks the received this early schooling In military posts in South Dakota and Arizona, where his fathereeerved as an army bandmas- ter. He wanted tp be a jockey, but musically -minded Papa LaGuardia de- cided he would learn to play the coro- net instead.. Fioreilo didn't go in for races or for symphonies. Ile entered' the di- plomatic corps as a member of the American consulate in Budapest. In 1904 he was appointed American con- sul at Fiume, Italy, his mother's birth- place. In those early years,. he learned something of Italian, German, French, Slav and Croatian'. To these he add- ed .Yiddish when be started in New York city politics. Restless in 1906 he returned to the United . States. and studied law at New York University. Ten years lat- er he was a deputy attorney general of New York State. Ambitious, he looked keenly toward Washington. It 'didn't Make Jong, and LaGuaiellia was a Congressman for New York's east side. In 1917, when the United States declared war, he volunteered for' the air force and was sent to Italy. Ile emerged with a major's .comxn'ission, a wound stripe and three medals. After this first taste of ,politics he was eager 'for a return engagement in the election ring. He was chosen Republican president of the Teni- m'any-controlled beard of aldermentof New York. That gave him the op- portunity to learn plenty of, the vul- nerable points of the powerful group, In 1922 he'was swept back into Con- gress, and. remained there- for the next' ten, years. Still foremost in his mind was the desire for the high swivel -bask chair in the .mayor's office, He campaign- ed for office ire '1929, 'but mateabout- town, James J. Walker sounlly beat him. . Three pears, later lie was nominat- ed on a Fusion -Republican ticket. This •time the "little flower" fan against classic -quoting John P. O'Brien who had succeeded Walker, and •he won the title of Mayor of New York. From then on it was easy Manoeuvr- ing and he came back in alan(1slide election in 1937, completely wiping out the Tammany regime. Before be had a chanes even to change the btotthr on his desk waren he took over from O'Brien, LaGuardia was hit by municipal troubles, a taxi (Continued on Page 3) Seen in the County Papers Grandson Instantly Killed Mr. Joseph Senior and Miss Blanch, •also Mr. M. Senior, of Torgnto, who was visiting with his father here for the holiday, were called to Toronto Monday owing to the sudden death of the ibrmer'si grandson, Lieut. Thomas Harris Senior, aged 22, only son of Mrs: Senior and the late Elmore Hea- de Senior, of Wychwood Park, To- ronto. Lieut. Senior was a member of the Highland Light Infantry of Canada and was stationed at Werth. Barracks at Stratford. For the past week he had been .stationed at Long Branch taking musketry course with his unit at the ranges.—Exeter Times- - Advocate. Property Transfer Tee Exeter -Hensel' Branch of the Canadian Legion axe. soon to move into ipermenent quarters and will be located in the building they have pur- -chased from Mr. William J. Smith, Main Street. The building was for- merjy ilsed as a printing office and was purchased and remodelled by Mr, Smith. The Legion will make • fur- ther improvements to the second storey and bath floors will be used as a club room and for the holding of bingo which has been so popular with the Legion;—Exeter Times -Ad- vocate. Now Major D. R. Nairn. Rapid and well-deserved promotion has come-pro•mptl,- to Captain D, R. Nairn, of the Elgin Regiment, C.A.S. F., who has just been promoted to the rank of major., Citizens 'of Gode- rich will learn vvith gratification that the ability of their Town Solicitor -on leave -of -absence has been speedily re- oognized. • Major Nairn joined the Huron Regiment in 192.3 , as a signal- ler. He received his ommission as lieutenant in 1927 and was promoted to captain in 1937. CM ,June 1st last lie joined the Elgin ' Regiment, as ac- tive service unite, .as commander of 'D' Company. On September 1st he received hiss majority. And "now it is Major Douglas R. Nairn, Congratu, lation!s--Go•derih Signal -Star. The Flag Flies Again The county flagpole in Court Idnese Square, which met disaster. in the windstorm of April 3rd, is again in . use w•it'h e, new 39 -foot cedar top, making a total height of about 76'' feet..m County Officer George James flew the flag again on September 3rd, just five months after the pole was put out of camlmdssion.—Gode- - rich Signal -Star. Fine String String of Bass' Messrs. Jim Sims, Bert Gray and Company returned 'home after a suc- cessful fishing jaunt on Monday morning with the finest'string of ,bass you ever saw.• There were fifteen all together, ranging in size from per- haps a half foot to around fifteen inches. The fishermen, along with: the fish, had their picture snapped in front of Cbellew'-s during the morn- ing; The query as to where the fish were caught bnought the rattler elu- sive, reply "somev here •betw'een here . anti Relgrave."-Blytih Standard. Fire Chief Louttit Accident Victim When- his car left the road near Porter's corner, Highway No. 4, north of town, Saturday evening • Fire Chief Albeit E. Louttit was very seriously• injured. He Was badly wounded about thehead, hie. chest was crpethed, sev- eral ribs being fractured. He was rushed to V ingh'am General Hospital in an unconscious condition and at non time fully regained consciousness up to the time he passed on, 5.30 :Tues- day afternoons. There was hope 01 his recovery until pneurrironia develop- ed on Tuesday morning.—Wingteam Advance -Times. ' Car Turned Over When Mr. J. O. Habkirk's, car was hit' in the rear when he was crossing an intersection in Toronto Monday - evening the oar -turned over. There were .six in the car at • the time but no one was. injured. Those in the car were Mr. 'and Mrs. Habkirk, Mac and lsabei, Mists. B. Bennett, Darrell Biggs. At the tire•of'the accident they were taking Miss' Isabel 'back tri the General Hospital where is in training. The car was not badly dam- aged as. he drove it back to Wingliam. —Win.gham Advance -Times. Wounded in England ' Word has reached relatives in Lon- don of slight wounds received by Pte. .. Robert Emelt Smith, 'B" Company, R. C,R., who at the .time of his enlist- ment was employed in the Richmond_ Hosiery Mill 'here. He went overseas•, , in January. He was' still abbe to re-. main on duty despite his injuries. Pte. Srhitl>, enlisted last December,. A brother, Pte. Louis' Smith, is with•the Ordnance Corps in England'.—Miteheli Advocate. • , War Guests Arrive The Bret children from Great Bri- tain to arrive ,in Huron °relates under t'be Brifisl>, evacuation 'plan reached Goderic:h late Saturday afternoon un- der the 'care of Mrs. Mary Chaffee, social service worker of Hugon Coun- ty Children's Aid Society. The two girl.sa, Agnes MaeArtibur•, aged foul-- Month/nod on Pae 3-) 0 q a 4. ' �s