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j dVIcLean, Editor.
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EAFORTH, Friday, February 28th
Mr. Hanson Slipped
Hon. Mr. Hanson, official leader of
the Opposition in the House of Com-
mons, has on the whole,• proven him-.
self a very -able leader and Parlia-
mentarian - since he was chosen
blouse Leader of the Conservative
party two years ago.
But last week in the House of
Commons he slipped, arid slipped
badly, when he stated openely that
Australia was in the war and Can-
ada was not, and taunted the Prime
Minister about it in language that
was not too Parliamentary.
.,In fact, Mr. Hanson did more than,
slip ; he stated an untruth and one,
we believe, that he already sincerely
regrets. Canada is in the war just.
as much as Australia or New
Zealand. It is true that Australian
troops -have been fighting against the
Italian forces in Lybia And at other
points in the Eastern campaign
against Italy, and Canadian troops
have not. -
That situation, however, did not
arise from the fact that Canada has
no troops either equipped or trained
to fight in _ Africa or anywhere else,
which if Mr. I -Hanson did not say was
the case, he certainly implied it.
The absolute truth is that Canada
„not only has thoroughly trained and
equipped troops, but she has them
already in Britain where they have
been for some considerable time,
more than ready and willing to fight
Britain's battles in any, part of the
world.
More than that, it is nd secret now
that Canadian troops were on their
way to Norway when that country
fell under the German heel, and that
Canadian troops were actually in
Francewhen that '.country went the
way. of Norway. And that was many
months before Australian troops
were used against the Italians.
It is not because of super training
and equipment 't h a t Australian
troops are fighting in the East.. It is
Soley because of the • geographical
position of their country in reference
to that field . of . action. And for
that same reason Canada'stroops,
are now in England, where they are
being held for the. defence of that
country, when the German invasion
is made. - y
Mr. Hanson must know these
things, and because he knows them,
such statements as he made in the
House are not ,only misleading, but
dangerous, not only to the unity of
Canada, but to the unity of Britain
and her Allies .as well. This is no
time to play politics.
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A Useful Pamphlet
Dr. McRostie, of the Ontario Agri-
cultural: College, Guelph, has issued
a very timely and useful pamphlet on
directions for seed grain germina-
tion tests which every farmer can
carry out at home.
Owing to the very unfavorable
harvest conditions . last year, the
Agricultural College officials say,
has emphasized the need of testing
all seed before planting.
This is shown by the fact that in
'experiments at Guelph it has: been
shown that some plump seed of very
satisfactory color germinated very
poorly, while some that was badly
weathered germinated much better
than appearances would indicate.
The pamphlet coves seed tests for
oats, barley, wheat, Frye, buckwheat,
field corn,w peas, beans and soybeans.
Good seed grain is very important
at any time, but in war time it may
'Well, be doubly so. 3esides) the farm-
ers in this district for the most part
sped" a serious loss through poor
ig lase ar, 'and" Another failitre
;seed:.Would not help
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NO Qneur rlerstamds , the - Nays
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and UQ one eaR, because it is
Up redietable.
.short time ago Dr.. Goebbels, the
supposedly pastmaster of propagan-
da, issued a general invitation to the
people, of the United States to cable
at Germany's expense the American ,
opinion of Nazi short wave pro-
grams, what programs were favor-
ites, , and how the Nazi .radia direc-
tors might increase interest in them.
And thousands of American peo-
ple have accepted that invitation. In
-fact, cable offices have been swamped
with messages. And here is a typical
message cabled to Germany at Nazis
expense by one who thought the
Nazi programs could be made more
interesting if they would give "on-
the-scence broadcasts of Royal Air
Force bombings."
We wonder if these thousands of
barbed cables are what the Nazi ex-
pected from the American people ?
Perhaps not, but then the Nazis were
not only asking for it; they were
paying for it. And every cable sent
collect to Berlin takes two dollars
and nineteen cents of Hitler's war
chest.
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Then And Now
Last week we had a five-day storm
that piled up more snow than we
have seen in many a day. It is true
the highways were open at times,
but the country roads were full and
impassable.
Not so many years .ago it would -
have taken a week or more for traf-
fic to get on the move again, and ev-
en then progress would be very slow.
It would be a case of driving where
one could drive. That might be on
the road, along the fences or through
the odd field. And when the road
was finally opened, there would be
the •pitch holes.
But now it is different. Last Satur-
day the Kippen road was full. There
was not a car on it, or on many other
y roads. But Saturday night
e plows come out, and Monday
morning when we came over that.
Kippen road there was .a thirty-foot
wide roadway that was as smooth
and nice to travel on as any cement
pavement. .. �,.
Expensive, perhaps, but then, it.
must be remembered that • time is
money these days. Much more than
it used to be.
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Where Snow Does Not Fall
On February 9th of this year the
people of Jacksonville, Florida, wit-
,, nessed the tenth s'nowfall in -seventy
years.
But even at that, it could hardly
be called a snowfall. At least the
United States Weather Bureau re-
ported it as a "trace." All .other
snowfalls also w ere "traces of
flakes" except one in 1899, when one
inch of snow fell.
If the people of Jacksonville would
really like to see snow, there is not
a Main Street in Huron County that
could not fully fill that want, and
never miss it either.
WHAT OTHER PAPERS SAY:
Married Men in Single Men's Jobs
("From the Ottawa Journal) -
According to a return to Parliament there are
279 Married men in the Dominion Civil Service
on wages of $60 a month or less. No doubt,theie
are quarters where the announcement will be
greeted with remarks about "slave wages" _and
all that sort of thing. But such criticism misses
a point common to theexperiences of all large-
scale employers of labor.
Every such employer has at his disposal jobs
which are not worth more than $60 a month.
They are considered jobs where a young fellow
gets the training and experience which qualify
him for far more important and; better -paid jobs
with the same or another employer.
However, human nature being what It is,. some
'of these young chaps marry before they have
qualified for and found higher posts. And then
what do we find? They learn quickly that two
cannot live hs cheaply as one and the dream of
love in a cottage is translated into the reality of
rent bills, grocery bills, doctors' billtf,'and all the
rest of the familiar domestic economy. So the
employee goes to his boss and asks for more
money. Probably he doesn't get it, because after
all this is just a• 60 -dollar job not e>tpected to sup-
port a wife and family, and; then the employee
and all his relatives complain 'bitterly that the
Government df the private employer is working
itspeople at "starvation wages." if, on the other
hand, the employer tires . any lean in this, wage
class who takes a wife he iso charged? with ruth-
leesness, and he gets a hard name for interfer-
einde with the private dives of his workers.
it is a problem for n tieh there seems no easy
r lief, 'because optimistic you118 p'eo'.tile . will aeon':
to et Married of 'dot, a trtdfntth And nope
rue g � $,
t . o. not WeitV tl ere: at .all that
rade- the befit.. �t d. es s'ry
they pikes/ ;their'' ptia,plotyars in af;t enihixirdssitlg
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intercede Items Picked 'From
The HuronEispositor of Fifty and
Tw.er•'t.y.flye Years Ago.
From The Huron Expositor
• March 3, 1916
Mr. Arlington Atwood of larueefield,
who has driven the „stage to that vil-
lage for a long time, has gone to De-
troit to work hi a shell plant,
Miss Erma' Rennie, of Hensall; left
this week for -Detroit, wihere .she, will
take a nursing course. She will be
much anisged as; she was organist of
the Methodist -Church.
Horace Knight, son of Mr. and Mrs.
John 'Knight, of Seaforth, had the mis-
fortune to. have two fingers badly
smashed while working in the foun-
dry.
' Miss Margaret Case was the hos-
tess of an entertainment given at the
home of her .parents', Mr. and Mrs.
J. A. Case, on Friday, when $1.25 was
realized. A play by Margaret McIn-
tosh, Evelyn, Cudmore and Margaret
Case was given, and a solo' by little
Billie Cudniore.
Miss McDonald and Miss Harris
have taken positions on the McTav-
ish millinery staff, formerly filled by
Miss E. Bissett and Miss 11. Hughes.
Miss Mary Modelandhas taken a
position in Palmerston, and Miss
Madge Stewart has returned to, St.
Tb.omas as milliners.
The Hensall and Exeter members
of tate 161st Huron Battalion march-
ed here on Thursday of this week
and presented asplendid appearance,
with the battalion band from Clinton
in the lead playing rousing patriotic
music.
Mr. W. O. Goodwin, formerly man-
ager of the Jackson Manufacturing
Co., Hensall -has enlisted at Goderich
with the 161st Battalion. '
Mr. Thomas Smith shipped a very
fine load of -'heavy horses from Sea -
forth on Tuesday. They ran about
17110 pounds in weight and the aver-
age price paid was $200 each.
Mr. R. H. Sproat, of town, has sold
his "Seaforth • Belle" to Mr. Waunkel,
also of town.
In the recent big fire at Merlin,
Ont., Mr. Harold Appel's stock of
jewellry was "damaged through smoke
and water.'
Prov. Lieut. Thomas Penhale, son
of 1Vir. and. Mrs. Wan.. Penhale, Exe-
ter, who has been attending the
School of Practical Science in Toron-
to,. has enlisted •for overseas service
mad leaves shortly for England.
A' good literary entertainment was
given in the Methodist Church, Chis-
elhurst, last week in connection with
the Bible • Study Class. Among those
who assisted with the program were
Miss Gertie Mitchell, Misses Olive
and Edna Cann and Mrs. Miller. Mr.
Sam. McLean. was in the' chair.
One day recently as Ford Spriggs,
little 'son of F. J. Spriggs, of Chisei-
hurst, merchant, was playing outside,
he had the misfortune to slip and fall,
breaking his collar bone.
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"I'm sorry -but I ain't divulgin' my destination!"
From The' Huron. Expositor '
Febrdtary 27, 1891
The 'methodists of Kinburn have
made a move in the right direction
by purchasing a site for a new church;
They intend building sheds next win-
ter and • will build a new brick church
in the near future.
A meeting of tete Reformers was
held in the Town. Hall, Zurich, on
Tuesday evening last. There . was a
good attendance, despite the wet
weather, and the greatest enthusiam
prevailed. Mr. Fred Hess, 'reeve, oc-
cupied the chair, while ..'rousing
speeches were delivered by Mr. Cant-
eron, .of Goderich; Mr. Garrow, of
Goderich, and Mr. McMillan, of Mc-
Killop. '
Mr. C. L. Papat ,has removed his,
jewellry store to the. premises Gear
the Commercial Hotel, formerly occu-
pied by Mr. D. MclntYre.
The heavy rain and south wind) of
Tuesday have taken away most of
the snow and broken up the roads.
A large and; enthusiastic political
meeting was held in Walton on Mon-
day night last. The meeting was
called by Dr. \McDonald and in his
interests. Many had to stand and a
number went away being unable to
get even standing room. Mr. Arch.
Hyslop, of Grey, was voted into the
chair. Addresses were delivered by
Dr. McDonald 'and Messrs. D. D. Wil-
son and M... Y. McLean, of Seaforth,
and J. J. Hawkins, of Brantford.
On Sunday morning last as Mrs.
'Curtis was returning home from the
Presbyterian. Church, Blyth, she slip-
ped and fell, striking her head' on
the hard- ice.
Building operations are going to be,
very numerous in the village of Hen-
sall , during the coming' spring and
summer. Mr. Marshall is fitting up
the rooms above his 'store for living
quarters for Jacob Taylor, who opens
a grocery store and shoe store in a
short time. Mr. Wm. Mitchell, of
' 'uckersmith, has drawn brick 'pre-
paratory to building a residence.
Some time during 'ruesdaY night
some 'person or persons gained; an
entrance to the • store of Mr. Robert
Mellis, Kippen, by cutting a light of•
glass from a front window. -They
only obtained a few bills from the
post office till. '
While Mr. George Ruby, of Dash-
wood, was engaged in the sawmill of
Mr. Cook, he had the misfortune of
smashing his thumb very badly.
Alex Held and 'W'tilliam Hafting, of
Zurich, sawed, split and piled 5 cords
of hard'V'ood its' the Short time of 3
hours and 20 minutes:
'The nominations for South Huron
took place in the Town Hall, Sea -
forth. Mr. Thos'. -1 Hays, the return-
ing officer, presided. The following
candidates were legally nominated
and made the required deposits: Ino.
McMillan, Hutlett; John Reith, Hen-
sall, and D. weismtller, Kippeit.
A number of Seaforth boys attend-
ed the earnisral'. at Hayfield' ,ast Mon-
day night. Mr, George .1.3aldwin and
Mr. Wirt: Adaloa'e Showed great speed
and the latter; Would `1i'avo Won that
Mace had : net; Erwi+', of Hayfield,
claimed a. MIL -
Phil Osifer of
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Lazy Meadows ••
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(By Harry J. Boyle) •
"TELLING TIME"
Country people are never much to
go by clocks. In fact, I've found that
few clocks in farm homes• ever work,
and the majority of watches carried
by- 'farmers are the machinery ' type
that comes at a dollar and a quarter
delivered, and tell time in a general
sort cf way. It's quite an interesting
experiment to watch the, way folks in
the country tell time. -
Het•e at Lazy -Meadows our':kitchen
clock has been a "hit-and-miss"affair
for ages. Some days it runs fine, and
some days it stops and starts and
runs fast or slow, depending a good
deal on the way it feels. But Mrs.
Phil has long ceased to depend on
the clock for time.
In the morning she always. knows
when it's ten o'clock by the telephone.
Just as regular as can be the tele-
phone rings three longs and two
shorts as Tabitha Maby calls up Mrs.
Higgins for the gossip of the neigh-
borhood. Of course, that's the gen-
eral call for folks on • our line tv all
pick up the receivers and listen. It
makes you laugh to see the way they
always carefully place. one hand over
the mouthpiece `and then slip the re-
ceiver off the hook, so no one will
know they are listening. Yet, every-
body on the line knows that every-
body else listens.
That's only one example of the ways
to tell the time. In the summertime
it's gauged by the way the sunlight
comes in the windows: It's twelve
o'clock when it hits the •rug in front
of the stove . ' . and in the after-
noon it's five o'clock when .the sun
hits that bare, worn spot in front of
the sideboard. She has variations for
the time of year and on dull days you
can always depend on the mailman
. because he has prided himself
on being at our box at a quarter of
three every fine day for the past 13
years.
Have you ever watched a' man plow-
ing on a cold Fall day? .,He'll tramp
back and forth ' . . . back and
The Farmers' Case
Hensall, Oat., Feb, 14, 1941..
The Editor, The Huron Expositor:
The article "Dangerous Nonsense,"
quoted in January 31st Huron Exposi-
tor seems to indicate that the Winni-
peg Free Press fails to see the need
of immediate measures being taken
to solve the serious problems facing
agriculture, though many more of the
average Canadian citizens are becom
'ng concerned with them.
"Give us 1926-2.9 parity' prices or
count us out" is certainly not the
farmer's slogan. There is no more
patriotic industry in Canada than
Agriculture, but there is great dan-
ger that we will be forced out against
our wishes unless some degree of.
parity is achieved.
The Winnipeg Free Press apparent-
ly believes that anyone wanting help
cries for a Government bonus. This.
is a dangerous and expensive means
of relief, and should not be needed for
Agriculture. It simply means increas-
ed taxation. Already too many large•
businesses are operating with the. aid
of bonuses—.Canadian railwaY.s have -
been one example.
The very idea of subsidizing Agri
culture, Canada's largest basic indus-
try, at the expense of war production!
The farmer's income can be increas-
ed to some extent without Govern-
ment bonuses by removing the waste-
ful duplication of services to 'and from.
the farm. All these services employ
thousands of men, and eliminating
duplication would immediately make
available the labour that the Govern-
ment requires for war industries and
at the same time would reduce the
cost of what the farmer has to buy
and enable him to get more, for the
things he sells. The conference in
Landon suggested that part of the
ii*h cost of implements was due to
the cost of distribution and this is
a result of duplication of services.
As one more example: On one mile -
and a quarter where four farmers
live, four cream trucks' collect the
cream. In the city the duplication
of milk deliveries is an old story.
Similar wasteful duplications are in-
volved in' every product the farmer
sells andevery article l'e has to buy.
The Winnipeg Free Press points
out that corporation taxes, excess pro-
fit taxes, income and defence taxes
are being paid ahnoSt completely by
the urban population. True, but these
are taxes on actual income, while the
farmer pays property taxes on wealth
which, in too l.rge a proportion of
cases, he does not even own, when. -
the property 'is mortgaged. Of these
property taxes, in Huron' County,.
which is largely rural, '/i mill or
$27,000 is being paid for war purpos-
es. Besides . the direct taxes, . since
farmers are among the greatest con-
sumers, they. contribute substantially
to indirect taxes by paying' their
share of sales taxes.
forth . . . with his head bent to
escape the driving force of a cold
Fall rain . and then you'll see
him stop . . . at the end of a lur-
row' . . . pull out his watch whe-
ther it's going or not . . . look at
the horses. . . , . take his hat partly
off, and scratch his head, and then
make one or two mere furrows more
as the case may be, and unhitch.
He'll water the horses, feed them
. . . stop to wash in the back wood-
shed and be in the "house at the
stroke of twelve.
Telling time when you're doing
chores is largely from force of habit.
You usually get to the .,barn at the
same time each morning . . and
perform much, -the same work every
day. By the time you get through
pulping the turnips or putting own
the hay or feeding the hens, or 'some
other job, you know that the time
has rolled around to the point where
it's dinnertime. -
Telling the time is a combination
of what your inner man and the out-
er mean have. to say on the subject.
The inner man is clamoring for
"vitals" and the outer man watches
for the signs.
My grandfather .carried a watch' ev-
ery day of his life. He had a little
key in a pocket on the bib of his ov-
eralls and he used ta religiously wind
the watch every night when he- went
to bed. I've often seen someone stop
him and say, "What time is it?" He
would look at the sky, scratch the
side of his head, take the watch out
and squint at it for a long moment
and then he would tell" the time. I
never thought anything about it, un-
til . one day I noticed that when he
told the time there was five minutes
difference in what he said and what
the watch told. I asked him and he
laughed and said, "Heck, Phil, I nev-
er could . tell what a watch tells. I've
never been able to read time from' a
watch in my life! I can tell it with-
in five minutes, but people don't be-
lieve you unless they see' you look-
ing at a watch." '
Who Pays , F`or .'
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The War.
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Free Press) •
Ottawa: The poor man in. Canada
is going to pay for the war. He will
have to -pay for it, no matter how
the government arranges its taxation
system, because it is only the poor
man who has enough money to pay
for it.
In an age when it is popular and
'may be necessary to "soak the rich,"
it may seem paradoxical to argue
that the poor man has the money to
pay for the war. The actual figures,
however, show this to be true. Put-
ting it in simplest terms, the great-
est part of the nation's income goes
into the pockets of millions of little
men. The rich are few in number,
and while .they may (have plenty of
money individually, they do not have
collectively a large fraction of the na-
tion's income.
To pay for the war, the govern-
ment mutt ' get 'the money, by any
form of taxation, where the money
is. This year, hlie governrment is go-
ing to levy income 'taxes on a million
Canadianswho never paid h before.
These are all relatively poor people.
They must be taxed because together
they own Most Of the income of the
natidn. Instead of a quarter of a
million income taxpayers, as in the
past,. Canada will have a million and
a -quarter from now on.
NO one known precisely how the
nation's' total interne of around
,Mir. J'o'hn, 'tt"(o'ilfs; 4of I;1xeien, ahipped1 , illion do11 l' Will be .d3' - ed
.gee b a s e viol
Vila year between the icer and tiho
a ead, of•dpleddit;L •oattte du Moil
poor. It will depend on the level of
wages in various industries, on the
level of employment, on' the total out-
put of wealth. We do know, howev-
er, what happened to the nation's in-
come in the past.
The , last complete survey re-
leased by the government covers the
year 1938-39. While the figures have
changed since that time, the lessons
to be learned from them remain the
same, and the lesson is that only the
little man can pay for the war.
The little man, in fact, is better
able to pay for the war now than
in 1939 because his income, as a
class, has risen, whereas the income
of the rich has not risen much, and
the government is taking more and
More and more of the rich man's
money sthrough taxation. Thus if it
can be shown that most of the tax-
able income of the nation was oivn.-
ed by the little man in .1939 we can
be sure that even more of it Is own-
ed by the little man in 1941, when
war industry has increased wages.
To begin with, there were only
31,692 taxpayers in 1939 who hadin-
colrn•es over $6,000 a year. All the
rest of the 264,804 people 'w1io •paid)
income toaX
es had less , t ark 1r o
h $,00
Amongthe taxis ay'ere, the largest
pool of income Wall received by #.9,-
346 mem who had less than;_ $2,000, a
year: ' `lits'' :Oases ' ha,di- bb itta '$2 0,
O O,6'OO, and a large »art Of.oliateione,
(Ctittilig46 k 'Pager's>,,
Agriculture's plight1is usually laid
to over -production. The history of
the last .thousand years reveals that '
whenever an over -abundance of food
accumulated, •it rapidly disappeared,
and that nations have perished be-
cause of food shortage—not always
because the land failed them, but be-
cause those nations failed agriculture.
Already it is being doubted that we
can , supply the British quota of
cheese. Canada" will never be able•
t, i put forth her greatest war effort '
unless. Agric1 iture is able to do its
part.
The Winnipeg Free Press suggests;
that giving ' Agriculture increased.
prices (which even then may not cov-
er cost of production) will deprive
our fighting forces of necessary war,
equipment. But what if giving indus-
try profits (and even exec profits).
and labor its increased' ladies ren
ders agriculture unable/o supply the
food necessary for our ghting forces?'
What will be the result if in the next.
two years the British Empire faces as
shortage of farm products? Of what
use are other war materials if there:•
is insufficient food? Napoleon said
an army marches onits stomach, and
today's armies are no less dependent
on food. In the last war food short-
age was one of the prime reasons- for,.
Germany's failure, and better fed; sal-
diers were responsible for allied suc-
cess. It is suggested that present:
British successes in Africa are the re-
sult of well-fed soldiers fighting sol-
diers whose diet is inadequate.
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Newspapers hold a very important
place ill tete leadership of a nation.
An American- newspaper „correspond-
ent wrote°to his newspaper from Bor-
deaux during the fall of France:
"This `sattve qui peut' (everyone for
himself) has been one of the most.
fantastic in history, and those French-
men who have not been corrupted by
politics, alcohol and the cheap1 news-.
papers are ashamed: to the bottom of
their hearts." We do not 'believe our
news -papers are cheap, but we hope-
they
opethey recognize their responsibility,
g Farmers should nolonger depend' .
on others Sor leadersl'tip, but. support 5'
their own Canadian Fe4eratloai . "of
Agriculture. Counties which have not
already organized should do. so witli-
out delay, and give their organization
unity.
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,Tee short a view?' Ot the situation Is
tateu,. Tbeaewl}robleMS must 'be stu-
ai In the; lige qt 4ia4dry, applied
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