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.w + -AYOR'TH, Friday, February 14th
Tragedp In The Air
The crash of a Trans -Canada air-
plane Iast..week in Northern Ontario
and the resultant loss of twelve lives
came with tragic shock to the people
of Canada.
It is the first fatality in the Trans-
Canada service. But, unfortunately,
it will not be the last. Even at that,
however, the passenger plane service
has proven itself a remarkably safe
means of transportation.
Perhaps it is so seldom that these
air tragedies occur that we notice
them so much, and are shocked so
much by them. It is the same with a
crash on the railways. They, too,
occur so seldom that we are startled
by them.
But when it comes to motor trans-
, port the result. to our feelings seem
so very different. We just see or
read and forget.. '
There is tragedy in them of
Course. Almost ,every community,
large or small, has felt that tragedy.
There is not a day in the year that
lives are not snuffed out in motor ac-
cidents some where across Canada.
In fact, that is the trouble. They
are so numerous that we look upon
them as happenings of necessity,
when they are anything but that.
But air travel. like motor travel, is,
here to stay, and it speaks more than
well for the care, engineering ability
and organization ;_demands of the
Trans -Canada Service tTiat it ' has
only suffered a single fatal crash.
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Another Counts Resolution
The following is a copy of a resolu-
tion passed by the Township of Stam-
ford and endorsed by the Huron'
County Council at the recent Janu-
ary' session, and by that body for-
warded to Mr. W. H. Golding, M.P.,
with the request that he take the
matter up with the Government:
"Whereas the cost of , .hospitaliza-
tion and medical care has become
such a burden, especially on the low
wage earners, that he is constantly
in fear of thedanger of sickness, and
many have lost their homes through
trying to pay doctor and hospital
bills; •
"The municipalities are, overbur-
dened with« cost of medical and hos-
pitalization of indigents;
"And whereas the people of Can-
ada must be relieved of worry and
fear if they are to become a free and
united, nation;
"Therefore, be it resolved that we
petition the Dominion Government to
inauguarate a plan (alolg the lines
`of the Old Land) for free, medical
and hospital care. at this time when
employment is increasing, the cost to
be borne by the Dominion Govern-
ment, and employers of labor."
The wording is, a little ambiguous,
perhaps, but the meaning is quite
clear. And, having gotten it, we
wonder how much thinking power
was exercised by the members of the
county council before they endorsed
this resolution.
Take, for instance, the statement:
"The municipalities are overburden-
ed with the cost of medical and hos-
pitalization of indigents," as it per-
tains to our own county. The total
cost to Huron Comity last year for
indigents Andhospital grants was
$11,744.65. With a population of 45,-
000, that figures ''out -to less than
twenty-five cents per capita. By any
stretch of the imagination, could
that be, called burd'ensenie?
Further investigation shows that
this a ount't r'fetscl ecist to the
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fifty
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alatisit back
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Cf� G'fi
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hdrcdollars
day orte hili d ed
4 Ua 's, and eleven were Under. the,
one hand ed Walt .Are ';the min,
icaMpa:tie. `overburdened with the
cost of ni icai and haaPtanzatiera of
indigents?" Or' is there much cause
for "worry and fear" on thepart of
any Huron municipality because they
have to meat. these charges? .,
'. Again considering the fact that
the Government has 'no independent
income of its own, but derives its en-
tire income from the people by way
of taxes, would it lighten the bur -
dei of the . municipalities . in -this-
county,
thiscounty, or anyother, if the Govern-
ment supplied "free medical and hos-
pital care" as demanded by this res-
olution?
Hardly, because it is an indisput-
able fact that the nearer government
is to the people, the cheaper it is.
Municipal governments areon the
ground. They have a first hand
knowledge of local requirements and,
the working machinery to deal with
them. On the other hand, the Gov-
ernmeat, in this case, would have to
set up machinery and an organiza-
tion-to
rganiza-tion-to run it. And Government ma-
chinery is very, very expensive.
Perhaps it does not do any par-
ticular harm for county councils to
endorse these half-baked resolutions,
if they would only let the matter .
rest there. But when they ask a
Member of Parliament to present
them to the Government. it is some-
thing else again.
The Member can not just hand
them in as they are handed to him.
He has to explain and vouch for
them. And there must be times—far
too many times—when a Member' is
placed in the embarrassing, if not
humiliating position, of having to ad-
mit that they originated in or were
endorsed by a body of his own con-
stituents.
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American Fliers
Speaking in London,. England, the
other day, Robert Hutchinson, Presi-
dent of the American Eagle Club, an
organization of Americon fliers fight-
ing' for Britain, said there were–be-
tween six thousand and eight thou-
sand men from the United States
fighting in the British forces.
That statement may come as a sur-
prise to most Canadians, but it is,
nevertheless, a yery pleasant one.
Six or eight thousand men will man.
six or eight thousand planes, and
what is more, . we learn that Ameri-
can fliers are real fliers, and Britain
can do with a Iot of that kind.
However, - as Prime Minister
Churchill said in his broadcast on
Sunday, Britain does not expect or
ask for . American fighting men.
What she has asked for and is get-
ting from the United States is planes
and war material of every kind.
"Just give us the tools, and . we'll fin-
ish the job," he said.
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No Complaints
We like to talkW about the weather
—when it is good. And the weather,
so far this year, leaves no complaints.
It was not so promising in early
December, and there may still be
much unpleasantness in store for us,
but by and large it has been a very
pleasant winter.
In fact, we have not had as pleas-
ant a one for many a year. Cold,
clear, frosty air; but plenty of sun-
shine which takes the bite out of it.
Plenty of snow over the week -end,
but no blocked roads, just on the
heavy side in spots for a day.
Now the roads and highways are
opened and good. And the days are
getting noticeably longer. No. .there
are not many complaints one can
make about this winter—yet! ,
WHAT OTHER PAPERS SAS
Money Plan A Dud - -
(St. Thomas Timers -Journal()
The score is 2 to 1. Mr., Hepburn hit the bnfr'a
eye with his noelectionunow edict and repeated
when he decided on a twd centsa.-pound! subs3; y
for cheese. But his new_toibnetary-p1,an didptt ev-
en grazer the rtarget-•-a dna b'gosh,
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Families Specialize
(Loudon Daftly Man)
.Boys :predominate Ca fairiilies at one end of pL
valley neer tthbi>;'ddia, r idle . •girls+ ,arc,`isa
the Illaje to at the other. A recent s 'vey reg
*WO that at the top ane one fatally had thirteen
old/ben—aft broe,, Eight lof those boo hrai a a.
ts�ikct ° tit �iilld�zr n 1 'bay's. Th . e are a'ls'o
'Moe graittiihildrell helm . At th+e opPOsite calci
tiqhitO i$' ehirllir'enrfil •gliMle. ... i..
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lntereetine *me Picked From
The Huron Expositor of Fifty and
Twenty-five Years Ago.
From tho Huron Expositor;
February 13, 1891.
Mrs.Duncan MoEwan of Stanley, left
last week for the Northwest to join:
her husband who has been near •Car-
berry, Manitoba, fora the past Year.
Mr.- Hugh -Gilmore, "Sr:, -Kipper, Heft
on Tuesday of last week for his home
near Moose Jaw.
A very exciting curling match came
off on Hensalt rink on Wednesday last
between rinks composed of the old
men of the club and the young men.
The youngsters won by 19 points.
The old men's team consisted of
Messrs. Dick, Rofbertson, Elder, and
Colwell, skip; and the young nnei. were
Messrs. Young, 'Harolds McArthur and
Coxworth, skip.
On Monday afternoon, the citizens
were startled on hearing the fire alarm.
It was found to .be in an old stable
!belonging to Mr. John: S. Porter, in the
rear of Mr. George Ewings' residence.
A fancy dress carnival was held in
the rink of this town on Friday last:
The band was in •attendance and the
following. were the prize winners:
Gent's character costume, 1st H- Cress
Veli, 2rnd, J. Ferguson; Ladies' char
actor costione, 1st, Miss Marie Kidd,
2rsd, Miss M. Haxby. A handsome
easy chair was offered as, a spectator's
prize and. was won by Miss Minnie
Watson,
Two rinks of the "green?' curlers
from Seaforth, tried conclusions with
two of the Stratford rinks of like com-
position, last Thursday, on the ice in
Stratford. Seaforth won by 19 shots.
The Seaforth players were: H. J. -Craw-
ford,
. -Craw -ford, Jdhn Livingstone, W. McDonald,
F. Twedklle, skip; Dr. Belden, G. A.
Dewar, A. Forbes, W. W. Meredith.
At the::...r'ecent examination of the
Law Society, at Toronto,, Mr. Archibald
Dickson', son -Of Mr. John Dickson of
Roxboro, 'McKillop, passed his first
intermediate exainination in a highly
creditable manner, coming second in
a large class.
Mr. W. G. Duff, of Roxboro, bag been
appointed -secretary of the Tucleer-
smith Branch Agricultural Society.
Mr. Thos. E. Hays, McKillop, Mr.
Whitely of Clinton, and Mr. Dickinson
of Wingh'am have been appointed Re-
turning Officers for the South, West
and. East ridings of Huron respective-
ly-
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NeNINVNANNNYNNtae
"What d'ya say let's try it outs—just once!"
Phil Osifer of ••
Lazy Meadows
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(13y Harry J. Boyle) •
"TOWNSHIP MEET114G"'`'
The farmers are going to organize.
That was the purpose of the meeting
in the township. hall tont night. I went
'because, like everybody else, I feel
that the farmers s+hould be organized.
If the Associated;, Fleacetchers' Union
of America can petition the govern-
meat to prevent the users of spray
guns from exterminating all the (fleas
and in so doing destroy their liveli-
h•ood, in the name ofgoodness grac-
ious., why can't we farmers have some
form of organization to point out a
few' of the evils of the present day.
With three-quarters of the farms
in our township •plastered with
mortgagee so that the only thing
father hands clown to son is a Mort-
-gage wrhieh co•ileete its --five gee -cent.
each year, it seems that there must
come a time when a man has to stop
taking a loss: We don't, stop to figure
up the loss; because just as I said
last week it's a lot easier, on a man's
get-up to have -the money for a load
of hogs in his pocket and pay a few
bills with it, than it is to figure up
that you've just lost three dollars on
each hog that you've sold and didn't
get anything for your work.
The 'township was pretty much all
at the meting. Looking around the
group that sat listening to the speak-
er it was bard not to pick out the
different ones. They were all listen-
ing, mhd you, but from past experi-
ri'nce with. them, it was sort of easy
to make a good guess at, what they
were thinking.
Ed,' sitting up in the front' seat, is
one of the "I'm agin it" type. He
made his money and retired right on
his. farm, living by the motley he
makes for grassing cattdh and dipping
ever so slightly into his interest
money. He doesn't want to see any
organization because be might have
to pay something to it.
Peter, over in that next row, he's
one of the "Let's -go-slow" group:
He'll argue all day about not jumping
From the Huron Expositor,'
February 18, 1916.
The main esimates ,tabled in the
House of Comm'one. on Thursday', in-
clude, $90,000 -for Goderich' Harbor im-
provements and $22,500 for Brussels'
public building; Exeter public build-
ing, $15,000. •
Hydro carried in Dashwood by a
majority of 99. The people of the
police village showed by their votes
that they were anxious -to be up-to-date
as there were 101 yotes for and 2 a-
gainst.
Last ,week R. E. Cardiff and A. C.
Dames: of Brussels went to Columbus,
Othio, and purchased a wooden lire
grinding machine. They purpose in-
stalling it on the east bank of the
Maitland nivel- at Brussels.
Mr. Garfield "McMichael of Hullett;
second concession, this week disposed
of his farm to Mr. John L. Heil of
Stratford, the consideration being in
the neighborhood of $7,000.
Gunner C. P. Sills of the 40th B'at-
tery, Guelph,' is home on leave for the
last time before going over -seas.
Mr. William Ament of Seaforth is
busy getting out logs and headings
from Mr. Kettle's swamp. Hehas
about 15 teams employed, also a large
garsg of cutters' are kept busy.
Messrs. James Rouatt and Wilfred
Tlromsa, of '13rucerfield, have ernli,sted
with the 161st 'Battalion.
Theannual'entertainment of the Sea -
forth Prestiyterian' Sunday School was
held on Monday everting. A *tipper
was aerv,,ecl at 43 p.m. after which Mr.
James Cowan presided over the follow-
ing. program. Iusstrumental duet,
Misses Winter and: Cousino; recita-
tion, Jearlf Frost; chorus, Mrs. G'i'bson's
elaast; entrumental, Edward Rankin;
recitation,' Margaret Stewart; recita-
tion, Sant Muff; gong, Wilfred; Sninth;
chorine primary clans; recitation, A.
Brodie; recitation, Dorothy Prost;
chorus, Orkt of primary class; mita-
von, V iee!tt Pstt4ee'dc6 i '61)orus, buys
of primary class; win, (lila Ellart;-'ire
sya�a[rerskxrorrtla•£,,y ; eoAtry Wilson; recital -
tin, Miss 74r ee;h t 1 , Torus, geoids of
Mtge Annie tiovefiteek ssf ht gifting
dawn Chorine by. MEL l redle's emd
Mrs, 1141,4ylgs 0100004 chart% gii4l
rrf.. MISsion Bland; di`rIi rna, MSS a l
Gregor's se9asssa.
A moat erl. tryame oventrig wag optfit
by the restiribera of Y ldelif $ Lodge of
OddfelloWsr, .OS Weetty eveolitg, it
user ''o r ltaf
being the a iii' Nil,
al an einbler'ndtle Wig da fitte
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following a't� 410'` ,
'Wf fir, the f.
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From 11+ anitoba
Mountainside, Maas,,,. Feb. 5,1841;-
The Editor, The Huron E4Positor:
Dear Sir: Such a lovely morning
with frost' stars glistening like diaim-
oinds in bush and tree! Al flock of
snow 'buntings has Just flown over
tiro house, .and chickadees have al-
ready '
l -ready' beealtfasted ori the- rat placed
in a tin for them by the leitchen win-
dow.
We have had a week of the most
glorious weather that can be found in
the Prairie Provinces, or for that Haat_
ter, in Ontario. The, bright sunshine,
day after day, with no -freezing until
nightfall, is exhilerating, and is the
more appreciated because of: the oeea-
sionat storm which comes.
Yesterday 1 took athree•-mile walk
to and ,from a neighbors, The way
led oval` a an+owy trail, partly through
a quarter -section of bush on our farm.
This is the second &eowth which has-
followed
asfollowed the original forest cut dowel
forty odd years ago. The poplar and'
•bahn are dying before their time, and
we don't knout just why. Perhaps be-
cause of severe drought several years
ago, and a consequent lowering of
the • water level: However, it makes
excellent firewood and is in much de-
mand by the prairie farmers and local
toviespeople. 'New owth springs up
quickly, and agaln a fine stand . of
trees will gladden the hearts of the'
future generation. At least we hope
this will, be the case, and- presenia
war -time conditions are not encour-
' aging to clear up more land for grow-
ing wheat. •_
• The Many„reservoirs created for
water conservation are proving a
great bl'eseing to• the country' and the
Government is to -be corainende .for
their. aid to farmers who would' other-
wise—in many cases—have found it
'difficult to dig waterholes without
the "drag line”. or dredge which wan
into apything too hasty. That's his
mainstay in life, as he consoles him,
self that a man always makes mis-
takes by jumping at conclusions. Of
course, it takes him so long to make
up hismind . that he never gets any-
thing done. In the Fall he figures
over • what amount of fall wheat he
should sow and the snow tames and
he's still figuring. In the, Spring he
does the same thing until the season
goes by and he gets only a half crop
inHe always has a field that he
wonders whether he'll 'sow • buck-
wheat, roots or corn in . . , until
it goes by too far and then he puz-
zles over the problem an Summer of,
whether he should cultivate it to kill
the' twitch grass. •
Joe, back in the next .row, .ire's a
"Let's=get-going-tonight" man. Joe --is
right for every • idea advanced'. Just
as soon 'ae the speaker got through,
Joe jumped up and he started talking
about the organization and ;he sailed
through that and he had' the organiza-
tion sitting• on the door steps of the
Department of Agriculture and then
he had bonuses for all farmers and
the first thing you knew we were all
living in plenty. He does the _.same
thing at home. Let 'him read in a
book about e new kind of• crop whe-
ther it be soy bean or hybrid corn
and He'll leen enough seed to .plant
the whole farm and get all worked up -
about it . . . and the idea just dies
down leaving him with a loss. •
Tom, back here, doesn't say much
in an open way but she aa?guesy with
everybody within five feet of him with
Leis "It-woe't-work" talk. First of all
it's just propaganda, and .then it s
been, started by the Government to
sidetb'ack • the farmers, and the, next
thing you know he has it headed by
the' packers. But just let somebody
suggest that he say something to `thee
crowd and he'll mutter• and swallow
his cud of tobacco and mumble that
he hasn't anything to say.
You see, it takes all kinds of peo-
ple to make a township meeting!
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:JUST A SMILE OR TWO
Fifty Nazi pilots knocked at'• -the
gates of Heaven and sought admit-
tance. St. Peter waved theme back.
"I'm sorry," he said, but only six
of You can come in."
"But there are fifty of us," the
Nazis protested.
"Maybe," replied St. Peter, ' "but
Field Marshal Goering's,communique
said that only six had,., been shot
down?",
•
Tommy: "Why are' you so bald,
dad?"
Dad;: • "Well, the reason is that my
mother used to pat me' on the head
so often for being a good boy." •
Travelling on a bus route strange
to her, the old lady was very anxious
:not to pass her destination. Sudden-
ly she leaned forward and poked the
conductor in the ribs with her urn-
brella. •
"Is that the. Bank of
good man?" she asked.
"No, ma'am;" replied
ter, coldly, "it's me!"
•
England, my
the
conduc-
Teacher: "If I lay three eggs it ere
and five eggs there, how many eggs
will. ,I have?"
Boy: "Teacher, .1. don't think you
can do it."
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(Blakeslburg, la:, Excelsior)
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Every Thitraday someone cracks
down with the atiggestion, "Now that
tho• potter is out you'll have-, nothing,
to deo until next Thursday." • 'k'his kind
of talk given its a pain., Bow 'delight-
ful it is that a country editor has
prget'ioally nothing to de • between
press day.' Blenness', in a printing 'o
tee, dins • automilleittly. When- the
Paper MU comes fixe, money falls oft~
the treor3- with. wlhleh to pay it. '
iStibserlbero viae With ' eeelt. 001er its
see V.dielain pay' the taitiit
a-
vino, • :d.dro�ei'tfeerry.l3eg•.iwnr adw'e�ie;,:
1 *toe, 'and tits viiay`;t a nevist hili(
g ,
A''
00 the edit'ay 3's 414 •p4easitxg...to .soar ,
teraptate. Niteu the (paper
editor simply goes to his desk, leans
back lir his easy 'chair andwaits an -
til next weeks press, day. The day
before, people line up at the office
door and ttle past, -the desk and tell
him all the !Dabs of t11 week, wildch
he writes irp 1fl fifteen. %lantern takes
hangs it on the hook. The
It haft and •..„ . .. the • y, ... .... ,
coxgpbsitof takes the ,Col's'',.. ahates' It
in. froitt of : tBoc linbtyp'e .marline with
a few. vnys'tits' donde, and 'it does..the
testy :The editor! g`oeti ;dcltrat tatvatl . to
:deposit spin idbn ., ' Unllirlig .a
newspaper Is the gre�ated sn* l fT'{£rile
'oa "logite, to d4 st'lre itoxottM
_+ ► awl )t *',ith iii;day*. tire-loy
'ci'auixt be 'tsbiiup'letaiy..: ''
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A Fact a Week
About Canada
Prom the Dominion; Bureau
of Statistics
NE-W;FOtllkiDt=iec{c1D'S OE,FENCES:
All of. Canada, indeed all of our
Commonwealth of Nations, has been
thrilled by the manner in' which New-
foundland, the oldest colony, has ris-
en to the support of Great. Britain iii
the defenee-'of-lfbeity. Here is some.:
thing very .;interesting about."'" 'et de-.
fences of the Island.
Newfoundland's defence prepara-
tions are being accelelated by the ex-
istence of surveys laid .clown by Can-
adian Government geodetic, engineers..
tinder a co-operative agreement 'be-
twen the Dominion Government and'
the Commission Government of. New-
foundland, a geodetic survey of the-
island colony was undertaken in 1935,
the Geodetic publishing the geodetic
data, and the Commission Govern-
ment (bearing all field expenses: Un-
dertaken as .a basic requirement in
connection with the development of
the natural resources of the island'
colony, these surveys have assumed'
increased importance in view of re-
crLt defence preparations.
An interesting feature, ,before the
work was commenced, . was the ex-
tension of- the Canadian triangulation
net to the Newfoundland Coast by
long sights across Cabot Strait from:
Cape Breton. The average sight dis-
tance was 92 miles and observations•
on light signals were made at night.
Geographical positions have been ad-'
curately .established through the geo-
detic surrey work and, withaltitudes
similarly secured, have been . invalit-
able in the• napping of various dis-
tricts containing natural resources.
In the Hunter River watershed, tri-
angulation data have .been efisployed
as a framework :-for'. plotting.- aerial
photography. Iin the Botwoodi dis-
trict mapping for .geological investiga
tions has been based on positions lo-
cated! through triangulation. The'large
airport at Gander Lake and the sea..
plane base a,,t Botwoocl have been sim-
ilarly Ideated. Hydrographic 'opera --
tions on the west coast of Newfound-
land have been facilitated by trian-
gulation data secured. Such data.
have been invaluable in the 'prepara-
tion' of charts now being made ,' of.
Newfoundland for defence purposes:
The triangulation net through New-
foundland is also an important link
In the triangulation cystoma around
the Gulf of St. Lawrence which is nee..
essary in fixing accurately .positions on
the .north shoreof the gulf, Where"ac=
curate mapping information ' has' . not
been available. Triangulation ..data
secured will . also eventually . be the •
basis of the dena'areation and srirvey
of the Cahada'Newfoundland bound-.
a17 jh. Labrador.
Field operations in. they ,15,Q season
Were restricted,becatise• ef: v('at ;candl-
t'ions, but included • the extend,* of
the amain net towards the Strairt of
Belle :late, at Which 'Paint a tie' nulll
be tali a with the eventual Canadian
laic Wor `.n'or o
t k along ' the iii shoreof P the
'Gihlf of St. Lawrence. Por the: past
six seasons the work'has pr'a , eeeiiedt--
<adtiefa orily and dei#Pite sorae dielaie
cat>s'ed •;b set,'bbser'ring eorrrii tn�,_
thel NookottO400 > 0'1010
Is 11tvwn' aleaklig t binpi+sttoa'. .
a