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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1940-10-11, Page 2Axl -stablished .1860:.._ ; ;tMcPhail McLean, Editor. blished at Seaforth, Ontario, ev- T'huxsday afternoon by McLean Subscription rates, $1.50 a year in advance; foreign, $2.00 a year. -Single copies, 4 cents each. . Advertising rates on application. SEAFORTH, Friday, October 11th doubt .'about that fact, ,,But ;first, We unlit wan the "war, flowevex, there. is no question about that either. Will There Be A Change ? One notices, with increasing fre- quency, since the air bombardment of London and other large .centres, a belief is being expressed that this war has pronounced the doom on the concentration of hundreds of thousands and even millions of peo- ple in single 'communities That -after the war there will be neo more condensed populations as there are now in the cities of New York, Paris-orLondon. That this war has shown the futility and the' danger of people in any, nation put- ting all their eggs in one basket. And there, might be a good deal in it too. Aside altogether from the danger involved, there is a growing belief that much, if not most of the slums, the poverty, disease and crime invariably large cities breed, would be averted and a new day dawn. And there is a good deal in that contention. Likewise, large financial and industrial corporations, which for, years past have believed that the -centralization of industry was necessary, to provide dividends, are findink;. out that the convenience .of centralization has been overcome by eft~ High corporation and government taxes and. ars ever increasing wage scale made necessary by the high cost of living in large centres, plus a slowing up of production caused by Malnutrition and bad housing conditions, are not producing the ex- pected dividends that cenftralization a believed would produce. transportation, too, has a good deal to do with this new trend of thought. When railroad transpor— tation was the only means adailable,. concentration of industry, *as al- most a necessity, But that day has -passed. Except fol long haulage, the railway plays but a small part in the transportation- of to -day. Modern . 'highways, whidh are ever expanding. and improving, take care of . most of our transportation, -and after the war, air freight will be a contending - factor. In soiine countries, of course, the taking of industry out into th .:coun- try is an impossibility, 'because of the fact there is no country to go to. Dense population covers the whole Qf their area. But Canada s not one of those' countries, In fact, Canada has more' wide op- en spaces than any other nation in the world,to,day, and fewer people to occupf them. Further, Canada is the mecca of all eyes to -day. After the war we believe that Canada -will see a rush of immigration that it never dreamed of before, and that largely from the British Isles or British possessions. . In the past year, since the present war began, there have been hundreds of influential British public and busi- ness men that have visited Canada for the first time, and not one of them but has .,expressed astonish- ment at the - size of our country and the opportunity it presents.:. There Lave been hundreds of other British- __ ears whom • war has deprived of their snaresin' thin a; in Japan and other E b�� , and eastern countries, Wtg also visited Canada for the tit gine. - Like their brothers, all of these ave expressed a similar astonish Stili `better, a majority of sitter have expressed a de - On .to start a new home Airy and that country will - eking ••es� many and, eYs ciaxtga when ' the war xs st 1s• not ,a guestion •of • Far From War Out in .the country these autumn days it is pretty hard to think of war, or even to realize that war could be waged anywhere. . Fall has come With its cooler wea- ther and the landscape is a blend of reds and yellows and greens „that provide one of the most brilliant scenes seen anywhere in the world. But frost and- cold, we are told, has little to do with this brilliant change in the trees." Shorter days and longer nights bring less sunlight with the result that yellow pigments, always present in leaves, finally ov- ercome the green, so research men say. And red, we are told, is a result of sugar manufactured in the Ieaves and prevented from flowing into the rest of the tree by the lower temper- ature. What ever it is, or what ever the cause, the result is one magnificent sight,-' and one that never fails to please' the eye and quiet the jangled nerves. • Mr. Hepburn Is Right Mr. Hepburn has • come out flat footed with the statement that there will; he no ° Provincial election this year. ' And Mr. Hepburn is right. There have- been many and per- sistent rumors to the contrary, but Mr. Hepburn's statement has clear- ed the air. And why should there be an election? The Government's term of office has still nearly two years to run. There is ho public issue at stake and neither the Government nor business would benefit by an elec- tion at this time. Being a politician, and a good one, Mr. Hepburn knows that. In fact if he has kept his ear anywhere near the ground, Mr. Hepburn , must be well aware of the fact that the next appeal to the people of Ontario i5 not going ,to be a Hepburn landslide, like the two former appeals. It is going to be an election. - The result of that election, we con- fidently believe, will be the return of the ,present Government, but with a vastly reduced majority, There are a good many of Mr., Hepburn's sup- porters in the 'present Legislative, particularly in the country, and some of them with .former majori- ties approaching the -thousand mark, who are goilag to find themselves left on the side lines to view affairs from afar, That much iswell known now, and lacking a political issue, very much to his liking, for another election, more of Mr. Hepburn's followers are sure to fall by the wayside. But Mr. Hepburn being Mr. Hepburn, and the only one in existence, the question of a political issue may be safely left in his capable political hands. vary ,.-1 1p. a • Will It Ever Settle ? Pardon us for again speaking about the weather, but did you ever see anything like it? From the beginning of harvest it has been that way, and there are still no signs of a settlement. As soon as the wheat was scut it started to rain. It cleared long enough to cut the barley, and then it rained again. Another clearance to cut' the oats, and more rain. The result 4was that there was wheat, barley and oats, hundreds of acres of each all standing out in the fields at once. And mighty soggy fields at that. After a long time the weatherman relented a little, and most of the wheat, barley and oats disappeared into the barns or into the bins. It even stayed fair enough to pull the beans. And then it rained again, and over the week -end it didn't ,do' anything else. And now the bulk of the beans are out and rain and wet fields and mud have never yet improved a pulled bean rop, which, this year, is none' too° -good at .its bee. And still it' rains, and still worse, the Weather shows no signs of settling.. ne. IntereatIg Items Picked From ,bite Htlirtin,Expositor of .Fifty and TWe t*':five Years, Ago. From The Huron Expositor Ogtisber 15, 1915i Mien II/ferry McCully, 'who( for many years wash-in assistant in the post olive deloartmlent in the Old Country before comi•. to Hensall} has hem very ably' ass ting in that post affioe during the past week. Last Thursday afternoon, the mean - ben, of • Mia,, • Brodie's Sunday school class met at der home bemrt on doing their `b'i't.. They went to the bush and filled -several baskets with earth anal carnet Maack and ,planted Califor- nia Acacia, ferns and sold them, and in a Short time had $6.70. These en- teepriaimg boys and girls were Arthur Anr'ent, Wilfred Smith, Fred Scott, Stanley Nichol; Frank Cook, Agnes MeOloy and Annie Brodie.' The citizene turned out en. massa on Monday afternoon last to bid fare- well to Oat ,Alex Wilson, Commander of the 33rd Battalion, and who leaves for the front in a few Bayo. The Citizens' Band and an escort of school childven and the S.C.I. cadets went with, him to -the stardom Rev: F. H. Larkin' • and Reeve Steward made shoat addresses. Privates Muir and Purcell were also accorded a send-off the same day before leaving for overseas. Master 'Ross Ireland, of Egmond- vi'rle. fell cut of a tree and broke his arm. Messrs. W. R. and A. G. Sm•L]iie returned this week from an extend- ed trip through the Western Provinc- es to the Coast. 11 Miss Frances Winter and Miss Davina Anderson spent the holiday with friends in Goderich..,. Mr. 11 Shearer, who has• been ac- cou'ntaot and teller in the Sterling Bank, Goderich, 'for some time; left last week to take charge of the Bay- field and Varna branches of the Ster- ling Bank as manager, ". A serious accident occurred •to Geo. Feagatt, son of John Feagan, Colborne Township, on Wednesday The young man was assisting in cutting corn for a silo Whreii- he -got hast• brand' caugrht im the knives, severing his' hand at the wrist. On Saturday at roan whale Mr. and Mrs. William Lawson, of Hu'll'ett, were sitting in their buggy, at the bank, corner in Clinton with the top up, ready to start for home and their son, Tony Lawson was placing a 'sewing machine in the rig, the, bons* took fright and stated with a juirt and turning upset the buggy, No .ser- ious damage was done, ,however. Richard Ord, who hose been town electrician for Mitchell for a number of years, will go to the front as -an electrical engineer. • Everything is on . the move at the dock at Goderich these days. Almost daily some large boat arrives with a cargo of _grain for tine elevator or wheat for nisei ,'"rig mill," •and the yard engines are also kept steadily on the move. Thousands of bushels of grain and, barrels of flour' are leav- ing these places' of industry. • From The Huron Expositor si erg of • Lazy Meadows • ows ,• • (By Harry J. Boyia) • AGRICULTURAL REPRESENTATIVE ',Phe Agricultural Representative, called at, Lazy Meadows today. I was engaged in the good old fasihiron- apart of telling our belligerent •.e_ any ,.gernenal_.impreasion' of sows that wander lobo a cabbage 'patch nn the Fall season- At about the most imtensive part of the address i heard a chuckle and looked around to find a well-dressed looking man leaning over the Lane . fence with a smnile from ear to ear and a wiep of hay between his, teeth. -"That's, about the best description of a Berkshire I've heard," he said, "since our old sow back home upset a barrel of my Dad'a cured cider." TakiYng advantage of the opportun,• sty the,a.bsurd, bog wandered down, to slither around in the mud puddle be- side the' : horse trough while I went out to talk 4o the visitor. "I'm the Agricultural Representa- tive," he., said, extending his hand, "and I've been, reading about Lazy Meadows and dropped in to look it over ,if you don't mind." It developed iu ,tthe ererversation that he was of the impressiion that this farm must be the show -place of the township. .I know he expected to find a cindered and gravel'l'ed lane - way nn place le a rutted roadway with a fringe of thistle and dande- 1•ion5 clown, the centre. For a while I waarather embarrassed at my own misrepresentation, but, after talking to hiin for a while, all embarrassment vanished. • I discovered something, about the Agricultural Repreeentaatiye also. He was a farmer by birth and training, who had gone to Agricultural College and had then turned to this -branch of the eervic,e. He liked farming and he didn't have any wild ideas that I naturally associated -with his calling. I found' for instance that he didn't ex- pect to find the cattle groomed as :f they Were going to ••the Westein Fair or for that matter, :he wasn't ex- pecting to find thehorses clipped and with bobbed tail's and beribbon- ed manes, Grandfather was of the opinion that el Agricultural Representatives, were orazye He was thoroughly convinced that rich men's .sons, who were slight- ly addle -payed' amana:ged to finagle their way through ani Agricul- tural College, bought their way into jobs of ,that nature. Father bad a sightly 'different opin- ion. He believed that the Positions was ,held by patronage.,Having ex- pressed an opindbn at one tiine tih,at I thought e+eri'nusly of going into that deid, he mumbled something about the wrong party being in power for me to ever think et [it.. He added, "Besides. you knowsomething about practical farming. If you want to be an Agricultural Representative you have to get your knowledge of farm- ing from a book 1 " T,htas it wept from year to year• When in town, I would often hi'nk of going in to the Agrieultural Office to enquire about this ,or that, but the past would rise up to keep me back. Hemp I was tacking- to one. He didn't appear to be such a bad kind of a fellow. From his talk it was easy to see that he' had slept on straw ticks in his day and pranced around on a freezing cold floor in his bare feet, while trying to gain en- trance to:, a pair of cold, stiff over- alls many'a m,or-ning.• He knew what it was like to sit up all night with a sick beast and spray raw linseed oil all over yourself . . . and craws into bed as •the first streaks of dawn came tinging the Sky. . . . satisfied a that your night -long vigil had saved a valuable farm animal. I'pa going to call in and see that fellow- the next time I'm In town. There are a number of problems I'd like to get straightened up. On the other hand :he's going to benefit be- caus'e he can".always point me out as a horrible examine to other farmers who believed. that Agricultural Re- presentatives were "book farmers' Only. :JUPT SMILEORi�. A� Mike: "I've got my doubts about this liquor. Ike: "Let's try it on Joe. He's sick anyway." • "What kind of girl is•Betty?" "Well, she's just a bit tomboy- . strous." • A speaker at a meeting the other evening is reported to haveclimaxed his remarks with the following: "In other words, my friends, 7. strongly object to the whitewashing of this storm in a teacup;" " October .17, 1890 Mr. Robert Sami'esten, of the Golden Lion Store, Seaforth, presented each member cif the . Huron football team with a fine white, china silk han'dker- chief, henrstitcbed , and having the Initials of each recipient.,, worked in raised lettere; ' • . Nfr. Sofia gfat`ford, of ' 1VIciinllon; brought into this office the champion cauliflower, which weighed 15 pounds w illi the leaves; on. Mr. Alex Scott, Jr-, .got the ' tops taken "'ell' the ,two first fingers of his right ,harts on Wednesday. He was attending a planer is Broadfoot's' fac- tory and allowed his hand to come too close to the knives. A stone foundation is being placed under. Kennedy's. Hotel in town and the building is being. otherwise re-, novated. Messrs. Alex Camino, Scott and E. Henderson are all busily, engaged buying, picking and shipping apples The new ' Pr'esby terian, church on the 1•th conc'essien of Hu1(ett wii3 be formally .opened on Sunday next, when Rev. Professor Mcliea.n, of To- ronto, will preach at 11 a.w. and 6.30 A few evenings ago the young peo- ple of the Bible Class met at Mr. Archi bald's home on the 6th, conces- sion. of Tuckersanitb and presented their. teacher, Mr. Landaborough, with a we11-warded address and a Bible. Mr. Landsbarough intends studying for the ministry: The trustees have engaged as '.his, succeeder Mr. Smil- lie, rnillie, who comes well recomumen,ded. Mr. R.• Cook, of Daslhwood., is on .a v isfit to Parry Schmid. He intends to 7,uirc'hras'e a timber limit, 'which is situated near the large steam •s'aw= mill which he bens be that district. Miss E. of Seaforbh, and Miss L. Wandese, of Varna, have op- ened a, dress, and Mantle making es- tablishment at .the residence Of Mr. John Wanlesrs', Varna. A court of the Canadian Order of Foresters was organised in 'Varna on Wednesday, threr 1st inst., when the' following officers,.: were duly elected and installed by Twos. C'la'yton, of Listowel, and McEwtan, of Heasall: Jdhan Torrance C,1.; S. A, Moffett. V.C.R.; J. R. Altdrailie R.S.; V, M. Diehl, Chap.; W. Allister, F.S,; Jos,. Foster, Treas.; D, • McNaughton,'S W.; Jlahn Marten, J.W.; D. • McNaughton, S.B.; A: Rieb ttsO1s, J -.B. Mrs. C. Sage, of Walton, and her daugbtem, Miss .Anivae Sage,,., the tal- ented musiciathe and musicalglass •performed�1 are Vow oil a professional el tour through, the United States. The anneal a:l fall felt at j Starffa was held on T,uesrda.y. traid-Wedieddlity and it was a grand eintee'ssa. Fifty del:lats snore Was taken in at the gate than any oilier y'ea'r. The trustees' of Saban' Section No. 8, ,Grey, .have engaged Jobst Stewart, as tetehet', In . their school for /891 at a Of $3'90.110, Movie Fain: " "And so you wrote the scenario to that wonderful pic- ture?" Author (whoa plot has beet, sb al- tered that it is hardly recognizable) : "No, I only wrote the knock on, the door in the opening seen:" • Political Candidate: "How did you like my speech on the farm prob- lem?" Farmer: "Not bad, but a good day's; .rain would' have done more goad." eDeachman Handles Munitions Branch :. ® (From The Financial Post) • • • :-R.- J. Deachman, former Liberal M.P. for North Huron, has joined the Department of Muntione and Supply on a "special publicity" assignment. Mr. Dea,chman is 62 . years of age, a native of Huron County but, in' fact, • R. J. DEACHMAN a westerner. He . graduated from Guelph with a B.S.A. degree, but so far as [his friends, ,are aware, journal- ism, not agriculture, has been his one and only love. • As a publicity want—Munitions and Supply—Mr. Deaahman will do splen did work on the "ecom'omirc5",;' of aro war purchasing.. He 10 not a "public- sty" man in the ordinary .sense of the term; never. was `g,u1C1 mevei will be. w 1 * The 'Deachm'aw record is colorful. He matured) in Calgary in. the paaimy days when the "Eye Opener" was in its full 'glory. He can still quote pages from 'Me redoubtlable - weekly: The pity of it is ,that Mr., Sennett should, bade banished once of the. most original Of all Canada's' pnbbeationre (rein the Library of Parliament: He Naas.:,: been a life-leng par oi* ''i..• w.• Broekiugtoia, E.C:, iidw also' at .0t - taws. Bally are ,ranters of t)he wise crack and cartel in the naked pltreee. Cou Papers Red Shield Auxiliary The Red. S'1tleltt Woanaenra Auaailiary of the Cid'ntoa caePts Of the Salvation Army bald their . weekly meeting on Tuesday, Oct. 1st, alt • the home of Mts. Norman, Miller, Tyrer were 14 the members presetut, and the ill- lowing knitted garments w e r et. brought forward.: 11 pair of woollen sox, 4 ipair of rifle mitt, 1 sweater. 1 muffler. The meeting next week win 'bee lneld•on: Tuesday at 2 p.m.. at the biome of Mrs. Peter (}lazier, Al- bert Street,—Clinton, News -Record, Remodelling Dr, L H. Cowan ds remodelling the. building he recently purchased ov Main Street, north of the Hydro of- fice and ins having it 'fixed up for his; dental ,parlors. The interior and front of the building .have already been: torn out 'and, the excavation for: an addition made to the north of the building.—Exeter Times, -Advocate. Left For Halifax Bill Racey with forty -slat others left Lomd•our Tuesday morning for Halifax .and expect toapick up about 1700 before they reach Halifax to. finish ,their training far the Navy= Mitchell Advocate. • Promoted to Lieutenant-Colonel He is a true Liberal, sip chock full of individualism that he '.finds it dif- ficult to ea -operate witia others,. • He is a Free Trader, unrepentant andel undismayed ;by + the billowing tide of autarchy and regimentation. He thrives on controversy and writes .of- ten• with a pen dipped in bitter, burn- ing acid. Yet to meet • him ,he is charming, • • His mind has the sheer directness of a rapier. He is a gay Companion, witty and with a delici- ous, if mordant, `sense of humor-. Mr. Deacbanaw -came to Ottawa in the late twenties and appeared on behalf of 'consumers before W, H. Moore's Advisory Tariff Brand. Over a period of time • he undoubtedly but- tressed the•.,low tariff case. He in- furiated manufacturers both by „Pita lests 1•ampeoning and by oa%r••Lght argument.. One recalls • the occasion when' a distingui•sdred, group of mem- bers of a : Board of Trade :appeared in' support of an 'application , for higher duties. Mr. Deaehtnan got off Bernardi Shaw's crack that -if the world ' was mad. 'thein surely Boards of • Trade 'were the padded. culls'. „Later on he :got out a• monthly- statistical onbadystatistrical aervi'ce and worked bard cm low tariff publicity for the Liberal party. * * At last Ire got into • Parliament. He was net a good politician Ilea sense he was a -gorgeous parrot in a Par- liament of rcielisaea, phrase tree used to describe Disraeli•. He drew • ohuefiy for inspiration upon a long-standing., antagonism to Mr. Bennett. Poem the early days, Calgary on^Nard, 'Mr. Bealnaebt stimne late& tine :to ever greater efforts, of Criticism, satire and outright dre- nun,ciationt Perhaps no one 'has been able to manila the former Conseu•var tive treader as' weld , as Mr. Deacbmran., ln.d'eed the Deachirna'n rendition of the aspeeclb "R.B." would have made .at Runnymede lea theistic. When Mr. Bennett retired, the sun dipped and twilight • came. "Prof." t)eachelen has ne'v'er MAW fountdr\an- other Perfect focus for him talent. ... Ile was amu sable and vutua'ble• nem. ler of • 'Pa[itl3aiia'en,�t, bnt't ovens - pendent to be a keel party man. He server but ,one fet?tlij-193045. Friends in: this ,community will be interested to learn of the promotion of Major the -Reverend T. J. McCar- thy, seniot Roman Caatholis chaplain: in Military District No. 1 during the earlier part of the • w'ar, to the Jane of Lieutenant-Colonel. He is now on service as ohaplaina•genera'l with the First Canadian Divirsiom,. — Mitchell Advocate. Enlists With Navy . Jim Smith, eldest son of Mr. and Ivirs. James G. Smith, Wellinagton St., has enlisted with the Royal Canadian Navy as. a . first-class, . stoker, corres- ponding to the • rank of a non-com- missioned officer in the, army. Sim •left on Monday afternoon fr Halifax where he will go into barracks for a :short while. He has" diad. consider- able experience in boiler work'•at the Western Canada Flour Mills,, w[hc•: s he winked• for the last two years, and this is expected to .stand .him in good stead in Ate engineering department of ,the .navy, Jin [has, made many friends in,' Mown,, particularly among the young people,; in the short time he [has lived bene.—Goderich' Signral- Star. Wins ..Scholarship Miss Driver, Bruce Street, has, re-', c[eivcii. woad that her-ani..ece, Miss Patricia Quinn of Blind, River, Ont., has been awarded the Victoria College (Torcnto) Moses Henry Aikins schoi- ars.hip for general proficiency. The award is of the value of $1.50 With free tuition for four years and a to- tal possible value of $750.—G-ode'rich Signal -Star. Scholarship Awarded On Thursday last the University' of Toronto announced the ,,awarding of the Hugh Innis Strang Memorial scholarship of $125 -ire cash and an -allowance_ of the same .amount on the' - fees each year fore four•years to *Miss Anetta Stewart, a"• pupil of , Form V in 'Goderich.. Collegiate . last year.- Gaderioh Signal -Star. Fell 68 Feet Off Ladder When the Ladder on which he was working gave way, Lloyd Dark, an employee of Elmer Wilkinson was tossed 68- feet to ,the ground. Lloyd was painting at St. Andrew's Presby- terian Church and was top an exten- sion ladder -which was against the front of the church, near the peak. The accident happened at the noon hour„ Friday. •Lloyd was about to des- cpnd the ladder w[benn it toppled .and hn was thrown into the busrhes below. Dr. W. A. Crawford was called and he was remotned`to Winghata General Hospital.. Later X-rays revealed a broken. back and on Monday he was placed in a oast.—Wdngham Advance - Times. • Caught Partridge in Back Yard Tows .Clerk W.. A. Galbraith had .a novel experience on Thursday noon, when; he captured a parr•tridge in tho backyard at his home Mrs. Galbraith noticed, the bird attempting to get through the wire fence at the back of the yardelnd called Mr. Galbraith, who, after chasing the bird along the - fence ,succeeded in catching it with. his [hands. He then todk the. bird out. to a bush enthe`B' Line and mime - ed it.—Winigha'n Advance -Times. . Lions Are Hosts To District Clubs Clinton Liens were host to office -ie. and members .of dubs of the same. organization from Goderi,ch,II Mitchell, Icifivertoh, St. Marys, Seafbi ,,h, Exe- ter and Wingitam: The dining room of the McKext ie Houset,was, taxed to capacity to "seat the coinbtned groups for the banquet. The guest speaker for the after -tinnier program was Thoairm s P•ryci+e{ e rvr•'eee to [af Exeter, a Great Was; veteran who delivered a p'atriotle atldresb o'n avi'ationa a sub- ject in which he isr well versed, hair - been a. me'his me in the air force des. they last weir. The world , owes. mush, slatdr the speaker, to . the meti who brought atriibtl;htt Out of the eam- (,n'ued:On Page 3)