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SEAFORTH, Friday, February 21st
Parliament In Session
The Dominion Parliament met in
Ottawa on Monday last after an ad-
journment of several months.How
long this session will last and what
it will bring forth, is scarcely pre-
dictableat this early date, but it is
hoped the country over, that it will
be a business session and not a talk
fest.
There are some who loudly express
the belief that Parliament should be
in continuous session ,as long as the
war lasts. There are other people
in Canada who not only see no need
for a continuous session, but see lit -
de advantage accruing to the coun-
try through a long drawn out ses-
sion.
But there should be a happy Med-
ium. That Canada should have a
yearly session of Parliament 'which
will enable the Government to pres-
ent an accurate picture of the coun-
try's business before the members,
all are agreed. The trouble is, how-
ever, to define what an accurate pic-
ture is.
The people of Canada should know
what the Government is doing with
the money they are collecting in tax -
• Particularly so when the people'
are going to be taxed as they have
never been taxed before, and never
even imagined they would be taxed.
War is a bitterly -expensive business,
and while the people of Canada are
willing to dig down deep and do it
cheerfully, they will want to know if
the billions of dollars they are con-
tributing is being spent solely in the
prosecution of the war, or is being
expended in the interests of a few at
the expense of the many.
We firmly believe the Govenunent
appreciate this fact and that it will
make every fact available to the
members, that without risk to the,
country and Britain;-- can be made
public. When these facts have been
made available, we believe too, that
the Gavernment Will give ample op -
port -Unity to the members of ap-
proving or of criticising them. '
When that has been done, however,
we see no advantage to either -the
-people or the country in prolonging
the session. This is..no time to play
politics in any shape or form. In
fact, we believe the country will not
tolerate such a. thing at the hands of
either the Government or the 'Op-
position.'
•
No Uncertaintp About It
A German spokesman in Berlin
last 'week declared that Wendell
Wilkie's answers to the United States
Foreign Relations Committee ques-
tion s about the Aid To Britain Bill
now before the United States Senate,
were "uncertain and hesitant."
Here are two of Mr. Wilkie's an-
swers at this investigation: (I)
"Britain still needs more destroyers.
We should provide her with from
five to ten destroyers a month"; (2)
"My belief is that Germany can not
successfully invade Britain."
Was there anything "hesitant and
u ncertain" about those answers?
And there were hundreds of other
answers -made by Mr. Wilkie before
the Foreign Relations Committee
that left no uncertainty in the minds=
of those who heard them.
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Does Not insure Health
Which has- been heard recently in
uiada about eompulaory sleekness
insurance and G ernnnt hospital -
of the or ganiz-
Idaot he MAW
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Athorkitt,. eilos‘
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PuLica7 sntom.
In fact the report allows that mak
-
i &eters of the Government and
p.utthg new taxes on workers and
employers to pay doetor's bills, does
not by any means ensure health.
It is further pointed out that if it
did; Germany, which has had conipul-
sory sickness insurance since 1883,
would show as good a health record
as the United States and. Canada,
which has never had the system, But
published figures show that childhood
and motherhood are substantially
safer in the States and Canada than
they have ever been in Germany, ev-
en in peace time.
Evidently then compulsory savings
to pay for compulsory medical care
is no insurance of health.
•
Altejng The Landscape
Well informed people returning
from England are responsible for the
statement that England's defence
measures have changed the land-
scape more than has the German as-
sault.
The course of rivers has been
changed to fool enemy fliers, and
many small lakes have been drained.
In southern and southeastern Eng-
land, many ancient oak forests are
being felled to give gunners a clear -
field of action.
In addition, some tank -trap ditch-
es extend entirely across the country
and concrete block traps six feet
square dot old estates.
In fact it is claimed that England's
defence measures have made their
own country strange to Englishmen
themselves.
•
Lengthening Out
"The days are getting longer."
How often have you heard that state-
„ment in the past two weeks?
Well, often enough to draw your
attention to that fact. The_ days are
getting longer. So much so that it
is no longer dark at six o'clock in
the evening. ,
And they will continue to lengthen
out, day by day. And more power to
them. Of course, we are not entire-
ly
out of the woods yet, so we don't
like to blow too much. Half of Feb-
ruray and all of March are still
ahead of us, and what these two
months can produce in the way of
weather is too well known to need
coMment.
But the days are getting longer
and the sun is getting hotter, and we
hope mightily that this year will not
be` like the last. That there will be
a feeling of Spring in the air before
June. ,
Hard On The Familp
Governments are greedy. Last
August a man named Charles Steele,
a partner of J. P. Morgan & Co.,
died in NeW York, leaving an estate
the net value of which was $29,497,-
373.00.
That sounds like 'something pretty
nice for his family. But ' then the
Government stepped in, and out of
that net estate it took U8,729,273.91.
That _doesn't sound quite so good
for the family, But after all, hard
and all as it was on the family, we
imagine they will be able to get along
nicely on the ten million or so that
was left.
If not, we could name quite a few
other families that would.
WHAT OTHER PAPERS SAY:
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A Grim Decision
(London Sunday Dispatch)
It is time for us toniake an ugly decision: The
raids on our shipping by submarine, by bomber,
and by aurface raider are intended, coldly and re-
morselessly, to starve U. 'Yet still we do not
bring the full weight of our power against them.
For what happens when, at last, painetakingla
and by perilous means, we round up and' chal-
lenge one of these surface, raiders or any German
merchantman? Its crew smugly packs 'suitcases,
launches the boats; scuttles the ship, and waits
to be picked up by the ddecornfited victors. Yet
'we could make good use of those ships'. We need
_every ship on which we can lay our hands. Why
not then, when we coiner them, demand their
a-erre:Inlet'? Surrender ean be secured, although
the method win not appeal tous. WU us. this. Let
the Ad,miralty state that, while we shall continue
to rescue all seamen cif any,nationality who are
iii distreee by no eatteing of their 'nen, we shall
net pick up splcMes. Tell theee Weald -be world
rulers that it they ebonite to Scuttle their ships
they mutt find their eiWn way to safety. ' The idea
Will not be, attractite to the greet hearts Of Mit
safl�r tut all of.us—naltal men dIfl4 Oltenia:ea.
--taniat:yleW the way as a Whole. sttor tat a
OreW taal arlalgalite 1410141d doWn Then the'itt-
--„iiteettAtommA-010201,./Vtii.J„,„.telI„,i4,,ttet tot '.vIttiAtittogitincft-ttot_whiourait
waitag Adam mein% lyr pJ. ..ig,ura 'or ft war - dragged IWO the tirehard and left
eaIr,.gone
interesti4 itiktot Picked From
The Huron Expositor of Fifty and
Twenty-five Years ago.
From The Huron Expositor
February 25, 1916
Mns. R. S. Ray, Mr. and Mrs. T.
C. Greig, Miss Evelyn Greig and Miss
Passmore were among those who at-
tended the military dance .in, Clinton
Tuesda3r night.
These are the additions to Sea-
forth'si honor roll: Pte. Charles Ricle
chard Clark, Arthur Neeley, William
Smith, William Bright; J. H. Taman,
John Leatherland, rFank Oluff, Jas.
Gillespie, W. T. Elliott, George E.
Heist, John E. Bullard, Fred C. G.
Taylor, William Freeman, an,d, Hen-
derson Troyer. Following a call to
fin the ranks of the 33rd Overseas
Battalion, six men stepped; forward
and offered, their services: R. E.
Cook, C. W. Ruffel, Chas. Consigney,
C. F. Neely, Win, Smith and George
Duncan.
Owing to ill health, Mr. Jas. Moodie,
of Brucefield, has disposed of his fine
farm, just south of the village, to Mr.
E. Boyce, of the Bronson Line.
, The Glenn Trophry which was won
in St. Thomas recently by the Beat-
tie 'rink, journeyed back to 'that city
on Tuesday when the representatives
of that club. came up and defeated
the local rink by five shots. The Sea -
forth rink was composed of George
Bethune, W. E. Kerslake, W. Bethune
and John Beattie.
Messrs. James Eirang and J. • G.
Grieve were in Toronto this week on.
business in' connection with the Mc-
Kinop Mutual Fire Ineurance Co.
Mr. R. H. Govenlock and sisters
have leased Miss H. Campbell's house
on North Main, Street and expect to.
move itt from McKillop about March
let.
The following from Zurich are at-
tending the, millinery openings in
London: Misses L. Weber, M. Thiel,
Lottie Geiser and Vera Seibert.
Miss F. Lane, of Dashwood, passed
the recent conservatory, of music ex:,
aminations, obtaining honors. She is
a pupil of Mrs. A. E. Geiger.
On Monday evening Town Clerk
Knox, of Goderich, discovered that...a
roll of hills, containing about $75.00,
had slipped through -his pocket some-
where on the street. He ,got out
"Lost" notices and was greatly 'plea.a.
ed next morning 'when Miss Lois
Challenger returned the roll to him.
Needless to Way Mr. labox was gener-
ous in his reward'.
A very successful knitting and quilt-
ing tea was held at Mrs. Jae. John-
sen's in, Hibbert on Thursday. of last
week in aid of the Dublin Women's
Patriotic Society. The house was fill-
ed with ladies from McKillop, Logan,
Hibbert, Mitchell and Dublin. Three
quilts and a large quantity of sewing
and knitting was finished and set
aside for the next shipment. Tea was
served and about 85 persons sat down
to well-filled tables. A collection of
$22.50 was redelVed.
•
From The Huron Expositor
February 20, 1891
The Roman Catholics of Clinton
have completed the purchelse of the
old Presbyterian Church property in
tbat town, lately occupied by' Mr. Ed.
Hayvvard, and are making arrange -
Monts to have it fitted up for church
purposes,
Dr. John McFaul, son of L. L. Me
Faul, .has commenced the practise of
his profession Seaferth.
110. *V6 D. Van Egmtortd, of the Sea -
forth Woollen Mills, has just return-
ed from: a tusinese. trip to Toronto
and Montreal, during -which he receiv
a& Over $15;000 worth of orders.
Mr. John Rinn and Mr. James 'Ma -
Michael left on Tuesday ,with a car
load of horses for Denver, 'Colorado.
Mr. Wm. Box, of the Broadfpot &
Box Manufacturing Co., Seaforth, left
here recently for Chicago, Grand, Rap-
ids, Rockford and Detroit, to select.
new 'designs for the furniture trade
'for the. conang 'season.
A very enjoyable time' was spent at
the residence of Mr. Jobe 'Hinchley,
Jr., of aiullett. on Thursday evening
last by the young folks to the emu-
ber of sixty. Dancing was elijoned
witlemusic by Best and Staples Broul.
All retureed. home with many thanks
to Mr. ta Martin and sisterst to Thorn
'they were indebted for their plea-
sure.
The friends of Bethel Clitereh, Staf-
fa ciacuit, held a tee* meeting on the
evening of LFebruary 19th. A debate
took place-. n. the caiestion as to whe-
ther a man oc. woman has had the
most enfluence for good in the world.
A large crowd was at the rink at
13ayteld last Saturday night. The next
carnival and race will be on the 23iel
when the following are entered for
the races: James McLeod, Goderich;
Chris. Dresser and Wes. •Erwin, Bay-
field; George W. Baldwin, Seaforth,
and M. McPherson, Henson. •
• Mr. .Tn,o. Elgie, of the 3rd) conces-
sion, L.R.S., Tuckeramith, has sold the
old homestead farm to Mr. Wne 'El-
der far the sum of $5,500.
Reference was made a few Weeks
ago' to a large load of loge &awn by
Smith', Malcom and GibsonAe team Of
Wroxeter, to the sawmill whith ap-
pears to have 'stirred up the team-
sters In the vicinity. The hest effort
was made at Wingltam where between
4,500 and 4,600 feet of pine was stat-
ed
t6 have been, drawn in, at one load.
All such pity attempts have been
.eclipsed by the Meister load brought
in on Saturday last by Smitin*Walcom
and Gibson's; big team, .consisting of
10 pine logs, containing 'Idly 5,000
feet of lumber. '
As Ma Thos. Wheatley, of Con-
stance, was driving along :the 13th
one day last Welke he got too, near
the edge of 4 bridge and over went
•the horse lute the creek.
One etrenitig bait :week *bile Mr,
Jabal, Barr was driving eking the side-
ireati ,betweelt Leta 5.. and Ilshiarnei,
the mole of his iluggY.-brOktt thrOWing
'Aim (nit and',catising 'the terse to
run a,way. It rah into the barnyard
Of Mr. 3ohlt eat at Outdo -IA cob,
*bleb; WAS net; Of their "erOattng. • ;. wtis&‘,
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"Don't forget to let OUR cook get a couple of easy ones!"
Phil Osifer
•
Liazy Meadows
• Harry J. RoYia) •
"LABOR TROUBLES',
•
For some time past I have' been
hearing the neighbors talking about
how scarce labor was going to be this
summer. Quite confident that my own
hired man would remain, I sat back
unmindful of the fact that so 'many
farmers will have to work harder this
year than they ffaVe for many years
in order to plant and harvest their
crop.
' Joe .seemed content with every-
thing. This week he had been chor-
ing and fixing up the maple syrup pan
and cleaning out' the buckets and pol-
iehing the spiles and doing other
February work. Now and again he
used to express a wish to get in the
army, and later confessed that he had
been already, turned dawn by the
medical officer.
Night before last he didn't saY
much. At supper -time he just sort of
grunted to everything that 'was said.
After supper he smoked for a while
and went to bed, but long after we
retired;' you could hear him walking
back- and forth over the squeaky bed-
room floor.
Yesterday morning he talked very
little. He tried to milk the red cow
twice and be fed the wheat to the
hogs In place of the bens. He upset
two pails of milk in feeding tfie
'calves. He spilled two .pails of chop
. . . and I le‘gan, to get worried ov-
er him. . •
After dinner I was sitting en an old
par seat jut inside the driving shed
door when he went back to the barn.
He walkedpast the driving shed and
then half turned back. •
!`Joe," I said, "come on over and
sit down a while.”
Usually he's too busy in the day-
time to even sit downe.fpr a minute.
Yesterday he sat down witheut 'argu-
ment. When I asked him what was
wrong, he just "blurted out, "I've got
a ehance for a better job, Phil. I
hate to leave now, after you've been
so good to me all winter. I just
don't know what to do!"
A Fact .04
About Canada
t nom tbs.Domtion Bureau
of Statuit0C8
The whole story came 6ut then. He
hada chance to go and work with his
brother in a factory in the city. The
wages would be twice as much as I
could pay even in the suramer months
—ITa wonder he was fussing around. -
Th.e long and short of the story is
that he's gotta I took him to the sta-
tion this•mortaing. Joe was a mighty
fine kind of a young man. He's al-
ways wanted to get a farm of his own
and he's been saving up for that pur-
pose for several years now. There's
a girl in the question too, and Joe
told me one day that they had made
up their minds to wait until he was
settled, on the farm before they were
married.
Welle Joe will' be 'getting a good
deal More money. But he's going to
find out that he has board tb pay ev-
ery week . . and maybe carfare
to work . . . and he'll have to have
better clothes . . . and a, fellow
just can't sit around every night at
home. He'll be going to shows and
maybe the boys will have a few par-
ties. 'His ,gial friend still lives in this
community and he'll have to oome
back here- and; see her now and' a-
gain. Like as not he'll get tired pay-
ing train fare and so he may buy a
car, and it takes Money, to run one
of those contraptions', as I can heart-
ily testifY. When the war is over
Joe will be still working in the fac-
tory and he may/ be let out. He'll
look for other work at 'good wages,
and.his on capital wilt be useclaup
trying to find it. Thee' he'll think
about the farm again, and I have a
strange hunch that he'll have to start
over again working out.
Of course, I didn't tell Joe that. He
may be a very successful man and
get ae.good permanent job for him-
self. ,Experience is the only thibg
that will teach Joe. I hope the road
is not too hard' . . . and I hope
'that the girl back here in' this town-
ship waits for him and they' have all
the good fortune in the world. Right
now, however, I wish I Could find an-
other hired man!
:British Na.vy Smashed
•
• IleDtice'sprearns (By "Taffrail")•
„immizio
When Italy declared war upon Bri- to take over the French colonies of
tain and France ea June 10, 1940, we Algeria and Tueisia; to exert his in -
already had a considerable fleet at fluence over Greece, . Turkey arid the
Alexandria under the command, of Ad- Middle East; to 'transform the Medi-
rairal Sir Andrew 'Cunningham. terranean into an Italian lake. If
The Commander -in -Chiefs main eb- Hitler -had spread himself .over most
ject, , of course, was to engage and of Europe, where else could lqueso-
destroy the Italian fleet wherever he ilii come in?,
Might fted it. He had also to protect
out the paralyzing 'effectS of British
The Italian despot reckoned with-
hEagrypasts and itlinveaditugeeart aato oavninidg asea power. The British control of
long the coast road from -Libya. He Gibraltar, the Suez Canal and the
must guard the oil supplies from Iraq Aegean cut off all the sources of sup-
wbich reach the Mediterranean at
mechanized armies and ludestriee: HiS
ply of fresh oil for his aircraft, ships, -
Haifa;
Portant line of communication with Britain and Germany, was seriously
thhaelfAa;egmeaanint; Lind' tinhteerArulipl
tedItatriyadsleimin. coal, which normally came from
the oil wells of Roulivande, and Russia dirnInished
passing out of the Dardanelles and
Main Theatre of War
through' tbe Aegean. Libya, too, was more of a respensa
To a man of Sir Andrew Cunning- hility than an asset, since the large.
'
ham's ,determinetlep and mettle, it Italian army there had to be supplied
mattered little that the pa per and reinforced from the home 'cOue-
strength of the Italian fleet was en- try, with vulnerable lines of coanimun-
perior to his own. He knew his Ships
end of
In theoffen-
ication; by sea. Abyssinia Eritrea
and the temper of his men, and was and Somaliland were at the
always 6, -firm believer what someone called a'British drain -
sive. Moreover, through Fong derlriee pipe, and wOuld have, collequlally, to
there, he knew the Mediterranean live on their own fat. Mussolini
like the palm, of his head. Wiihin a could crow as much as he pleased
'short time of Raly's unproVoked stab about the liritishwi:iitlidharawtt, from back aa vereritieel tline, aoreaulana; but it w
theiMediferranean titiet was at Sea. • hilly for us to pass troops' into that
III t y
Beeatise the sttreender of Prance colony to hold it. Events have prov-
wag ininkinenti Mutittogni MOP have ea that tve were we not to &mot.
thought the Brittsh likapire would be Pate oitr Strength in sideelieW; but
Unable t� fight on alone. -.Ro ,detibt to concentrate itt the Mae theatre Of
the Ittlian.caletater wished to OiirtitiO war against ItalY — the Metitterran-
' .
6,61thiti of got* Nod the -S:466 t,httil ,ihtty:boi OftWohse to preddet, Btit • It
ha the eptine et tP3 Goktoelt .eopititlifeet to;11.. .
' - -t lotlhitit tighttoig-..,-to:-Apoildree:--4the.,enkt4i-tuit-yet-tu -eighti- ani$. -it
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HOLLYWOQD OF CANADA
Most Canadians think 01 the mlovie
industry in terms of Hollywood. But
any Canadian who wishes to step be-
hind the screen and peer into the
mysteries of aim production may do
so right in his own country. For
Cimada has a permanent company
which produces pictures year after
year.
Little more than twenty years old,
the Associated Screen News, with its
headquarters in Montreal, has become
the centre of Canada's 'movie indus-
try. As its name implies, the com-
pany started as a news -gathering or-
ganisation. From this small begin-
ning it has developed to a producer
of theatrical and commercial pictures
and is Canada's foremost exponent of
the documentary feria techakfue. As-
sociated Screen Pictures are shown
all over the United States', Britain
and the Dominions and in as far-
away places as Burma, Siam, Sara-
wak, China and Bonueo.
Nearly half a million dollars is
in-
vested in the studios and laboratories
of this all -Canadian company. In it
are to be found most of the depart-
ments of a Hollywood organization.
An Art Department specializes in
Main and Credit titiSit'' Animation is
handled by artists trained in its drif-
ficult technique. A Scenario Depart-
ment provides original ideas, detailed'
scenarios and "shooting"- continuities.
In a Sound Studio, equipped for the
finest reproduction sound is recorded.
under the direction of skilled engin-
eers. The Editing Rooms are a cur-
ious_ mixture of noise and silence as
sound is matched or individual scenes
put into -proper sequence.
Most outaiders are fascinated by
the Production Studios. There, in an
ordered profusion of paraphernalia„,
make-believe becomes , reality on cel-
luloid. There, studio. cameras and
soued-booths share space with bat-
teries of lights, with exterior and in-
terior sets and many varied) proper-
ties, often including the kitchen
stove. Entirely apart from enable.
tion activities are the Laboratories.
Here, negative, sent from American
and British producing companies, is -
developed and printed for distribu-
tion throughout Canada. More than
eighty per cent. Of the film shown in
the Dominion has been processed in
this laboratory.
So, from a small start back in the -
nineteen -twenties, this Canadian mov-
ie company has grown into a thriving
industry, into the "'Hollywood" of
Canada.
' •
Seen in the
County Papers
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Morris Township Has New Clerk
t the regulax session of Morris
Township council, held on . Tuesday,
George 'Martin, 5th. Line Morris, was
chosen as Township Clerk, to succeed
Mr. Algia MacEwen, who is retiring.
Mr, Martin was one of 'eighteen appli-
caets. His, home is right near the
townsihip hall.—Blyth Standard.
$63.50 To, War Victims' Fun&
Sixty-three dollars and fifty cents;
was sent to The Telegram's War Vic-
tim) Fund, as a result of the recent
tea and home -baking sale sponsored'
by the local branch of the Women's
Institute. The tea was -held express-
ly to aid the fund..—Blyth Standard..
(njured Skiing
Miss Irene Ellacott had her teflon
der injured while skiing. As she was.
going down a hill one of her poles
caught in some underbrush and badly
wrenched her shoulder. — Win'gham.
Advance -Times.
Death Ends Career of Public Saralee
After an Illness of six weeks with
a stretptococcus infection,' Ebon Rin-
aldo Wigle, Phin.B., passed awarear-
ly Sunday morning in Victoria' Hos-
pital, London. The stricken man put
up a valiant fight for life and for ai
time 'there was gaoa 'hope of his re-
covery, but the end came suddenly -
in the early hours of Sunday. whoa
the, seribuisnes,s of his condition vyas
realized he was removed on January
lath to the hospital at London He
was 62 years of age. A native of
Wiartone the son of Dr. and Mrs. Mr-,
(Contituued on Page 3) !
seems not unlikely that Italy will ev-
entually lose Libya and. Eritrea, Som
attend and AbYaginta as
. Mussolini's dreams of himself as a
second Caesar; of an Italian Mediter-
ranean; and of .a vast Italian Empire
stretching from the Meditertnnean,
through Egypt and the Sudan, to the
Red Sea and Indian, Ocean, have *en-
tailed into the thinnest of stoke. The
amateur strategist who is ,Iitier's
weaker .partner ;appears coinoletetir to
have ignored his own many :weakness-
es, and the overwhelming and far-
reach/fig effect of British Sea power,
Wielded an it • alWaYe has been
throughoijt. the whole -of -our -10v hia* '
tory