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EAahlisi4ed 1860
McPhail McLean, Editor.
Dished at Seaforth, Ontario, ev-
ursday afternoon by McLean
Subscription rates, $1.50 a year in
dvTanc'e; foreign, $2.00 a year. Single
copies, 4 cents each.
.SEAFORTH, Friday, March 14th
Little Vision And Lest Sense
Eighty-four years ago, sixteen
years after the formation of Huron
County, the County Council of that
day planned and built the county
court and legislative building.
1To-day, eighty-four years later,
that building still stands as a monu-
nient to the 'progressive spirit; the
vision; the clear thinking and the in-
dependence of the councillors of that
day.
The planning and erection of that'
county building must have been a
momentous . undertaking for so
young, so poor and so sparsely set-
tied a community as Huron County
then was. But the men of those days
were, apparently, men who were not
afraid to stand upon their own feet
and do ` their own thinking. Men
whose vision could not be dimmed,
' and whose faith in' future genera-
tions was entirely undeterred by
any would-be dictatorship, by any
false plea of economy, by any lobby
orby anything else.
And they builded well. That vision
and faith in the future - has been
amply _ justified, for to -day, after 84
years, the Huron County court house
is still outstanding among the coun-
. ty buildings of Ontario, because of
its classic simplicity, its beauty and
its. dignity.
Unfortunately in that daythere
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was -o such thing as distinctive
equipment far court and legislative,
halls. There was no choice but to fur-
nish the county building with plain
benches, chairs and tables: But even
they were good. At least those furn-
ishings are still in use, although now
sadly out of place in the setting of
to -day.
rPo revise that setting and to make
the interior of " the building more in
keeping with the dignity of the ex-
terior, the County Council held a
special .session last week to pass on
the report of the Property Commit-
tee which had been instructed at the
January session to -make the long ov-
erdue changes and improvements.
But a majority of the council voted
down that report. And so we will still •
have.. our spacious and lofty county
court` room and legislative -hall furn-
ished with its plain wooden benches,
on which spectators can neither sit
nor lie on with comfort, surrounded
by the stained, cracked and. patched
walls, and the floor of 'the house `will
still be furnished with the same
trestle tables, surrounded by their al-
most paintless kitchen chairs.
Why? Not because of , the war;
not because we can not afford it, or
because these changes are not need-
ed. For none of these things are true.
Huron is debenture free of debt;
has raised its war appropriation and
has more than enough cash on hand
to pay for any refurnishing of the
Court House without additional tax-
ation. And what is still to -the point,
legislative hall furnishings which in
this day would be a disgrace to the
smallest, poorest county in 'Canada,
are beneath the dignity and a double
disgrace to Huron, one of the largest
and wealthiest in the Province.
Apart from lack of faith, lack of
thought and lack of vision, the only
re»a,s'on that could be assigned for the
county council's action was that giv-
en by one of that body, who is re-
ported as saying: "We will be con-
demned up the concessions and
down the sideroad" which being in-
terpreted means, 'we would lose
votes?'
And votes are very important to a
county councillor. Sometimes even
more important than the advance -
Ment and welfare of the county.
t'Neeessarp ? .
ten of Premier
t�i
tSactu hacking in as-
have
his leant
Agricultural Colle . e to Ottawa for
war purposes, and•that the offer had
been accepted."
It is true that the offer has since
been modified, and we are .now told
that classes will be maintained in
some measure, although students
will now have to commute to and
from Guelph instead of remaining in
residence at the College.
Even at that, judging by newspa-
per comment, the people not only of
Ontario, but across Canada and be-
yond—for the Agricultural College
is an international institution—are
wondering if such a move was at all
necessary in the best interests of the
country, and very much doubting it.
If the use of the College is neces-
sary for the successful prosecution
of the war, no complaint will come
from any quarter, least of all from
the farmers. If not absolutely so,
however, the public and particular-
ly agriculture, will be vocal in its op-
position.
And rightly so, Agriculture is be-
ing called upon and is expected to
feed not only the people of Canada,
but to provide a large part of the
food products consumed by the peo-
ple of Britain and her Allies, even if
:that provision means a great finan-
cial sacrifice to the people engaged
on the' farm.
• But agriculture, as • every one
knows, orshould know, has suffered
great financial embarrassment dur-
ing the past -number of years, and
while agriculture is willing to do ev-
en more than its -share to help the
successful prosecution of the war,
placing it under any handicap is not
playing fair' to the farmer.
Agriculture has become( a highly
specialized profession and one of the
greatest aids to that profession in re-
cent years has been the Ontario
Agricultural College. To close that
institution now, or even do anything
that would disrupt the,College work
and place the students at a disad-
vantage by increasing their educa-
tional costs is not wise business.
Further, it would be a discrimina-
tion in our educational system. • Stu-
dents in all other professions would'
still have availa'ble their higher seats
of learning, while the farmer's sons
would be deprived of their only one,
or at best, would only have a partial
one, and that at increased expense to
themselves.:
By shifting the overhead expenses
to Ottawa, Ontario ,might save en-
ough to pay the bounty on hogs and
cheese, but that is not the point. If
the Agricultural College and build-
ings and plant are suitable and nec-
essary for our war effort, other col-
leges should be equally so. There
should° be no discrimination.
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Real Seamanship
The 5,702 ton freight. steamer,
Starstone, which according to the
. German radio, was sunk by a Nazi
bomber west of 'Ireland as long ago
as last October, arrived in New York
harbour on March ,3rd, from Glas-
gow. ,
That shows real seamanship on the
part of that freighter's officersand
crew, particularly so as the boat
made the trip' on top of the water in-
s'tead of along the bed of the ocean,
where the Nazi said they had left her.
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What's In A Name Anpwap ?
There is a town over in Maryland
that is having a heap of trouble and
• dispute over what it will call itself.
The residents claim that its name
is' Sandy Hill, •but the railroad insists
the town is named Hursley, and the
Posto'ffice Department will recognize
it only as Stockton.
So there they are. But what's in
a name anyway?
WHAT OTHER PAPERS SAY:
Fun With Our Teeth
(Saint -John Telegraph -Journal)
A new substance for artificial teeth has been
discovered. Among the advantages claiin!ed for it
is "that it can be given any, permanent color from
dazzling white through varied shades of Phil s•,
yellows, reds and blues to jet black." We might
have known that vara -colored nails wotild lead to
torsi for if once the fashion of tutted false teeth
takes on, the possessors of natural ones will. nevA
-er realer following suit. Just imagine the ekcite-
ment of ritiging the changes on "violet, indigo,
bine; green, yellow, orange add red, with alt the
shades as well! Th itk lroW they Will be able, to
beed, ; tteeeif g '°nihtit them $rs &ale off' ;the itte$
ee dee ,toe coitir tiiieatid1i# Pati y he* '�iiidstien
- i ,r , I..Jth .;illi'. 'teeth ttu U it tto
effected by �cdalb h � 'b
wlat it* pthttikoott thou 'tettWt
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er gone
interesti!g theme Picked From
The Huron tpositor of Fifty and
Twent$`ile Years Ago.
From The Huron Expositor
March 17, 1916
John H. Best, barrister, has passed
his . examrinatitjn for Lieutenant, and
Russell Zest, who has been attending
law school at Toronto, is now with
the 50th Queens University Battery
at Kingston.
The Seaforth Collegiate Institute is
indebted to Mr. Jes Collie for some
valuable mineral specimens. Mr. Cbl -
lie, who is a •` brother-in-law of Mr.
John Beattie, of town, is superintend-
ent of the mines at Lake Linden,
Michigan. •
Miss Lillian. Faulkner, who has
been with Mr. McKellar in the ex-
press office here for some time, has
been transferred to the Brampton of-
fice of the Canadian Express Co.
Nir. W. P. Thompson has disposed
of his coal business and warehouse
to Messrs: N. Cluff & Sons. '
Capt. Hodgins left on. Monday for
London, where he will take a course
in -musketry at the military! school.
His place here is being filled by
Lieut. McLean of Goderich. -
The Seaforth Military Aid Society
was formed on Monday evening and
the following° officers were elected :
Hon. president, Mr. R. S. Hays; presi-
dent, Mr. James Watson; vice-presi-
dent, Mrs. Laskin; secretary, Miss S.
L McLean; assistant secretary, Mrs.
W. G. Willis:; treasurer, 'Mist. John
Finlayson.
Mr. Harold Turner, of Tuckersmith,
left for Toronto on Tuesday where
he has enlisted with the Canadian
Engineers.
Dashwood •was en fete on Saturday
to honor the Exeter and Hensall com-
panies of the 101st Huron Battalion,
which under command • of Major W.
J. Heiman, marched into the village:
There were 90 of them and they were
royally entertained by the good wo-
men of the village and district: .
The following names for overseas
service have been added to Seaforhh's
honor roll: William Brine, 48th High-
landers; Russel Best, Queen's Uni-
versity Battery; Robert Smith, J. H.
Best, H. J. Trapnell and J. Glew,
161st Battalion.
Mr. Wm. McMillan, who recently
disposed of his farm on the London
Road, near Brucefield, intends coming
to Seaforth to reside.
The auction sale of the stock and
effects of the late Wimp. Foote, of
Varna, held on the Bayfield road pro-
perty, was a most successful one. Mr.
R. T. Luker was the auctioneer.
Mr. William Britton, of Constance,
has returned from delivering two Ayr-
shire bulls to parties in Quebec.
Mr. W. Jones, of the 3rd concession
of Stanley, has purchased the farm of
Mr. Webster Buchanan, on the town
line.
Mr. David Worit'maw and Mr. John
MeMurtrie, of Stanley, who propose
during the coming summer to remodel
their homes, ,are now getting mater-
ial ready for,the work.
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From T,he Huron Expositor
March 13, 1891
• • Messrs. W. H. Verity , & Sons, of
Exeter, shipped three car loads o f
plows to`the Northwest, last week.
Messrs. Doherty & Co., of Clinton,
shipped. from •Clinton station last
week two car loads of organs. ' The
organs were going to Liverpool.-
Tha following.gentleman acted as
deputy returning. officers at the dif-
ferent .polling places in the Lead'bur•
section of McKillop at the. late elec-
tion: wm. Dynes, J. J, Irvine, John
Scarlett and J. C. Morrison.
Miss M. E. McLean left here on
•. Monday for Walsenburg, Southern
Colorado, to visit' her brother,. Mr.
Allen McLean, who is seriously. i11.
. Miss. M. Lyon, daughter of Mr. Jno.
Lyon, left this week for Oswego, New
York, where she intends completing
her commercial education.
On Wednesday as Dr. Scott was
driving down Goderich Street, at a
smart rate in his road car, the axle
broke in two, allowing the doctor to
reach terra firma more suddenly than
he is accustomed to.
On Tuesday morning a lead bullet
was sent crashing through one of the
large panes of glass in front of The
Expositor office, making a nice little
;hole in the glass.
Ons Friday evening the pupils of
Miss. Mary Kerr's Sabbath school
class, McKillop, assembled at the'
(home of their teacher and presented
her with a beautiful plush -covered
easel album and an •address.
Mr..John Elgie and wife, Mr. Win.
Dayman, wife and family, Albert
Pleeves, John Chesney and wife, Elam
Butt; Jr., and wife intend leaving the
Township of Tuckersnuith on Tuesday
for the Northwest. •
The teachers and officers of the
Union" Church Sabbath •School, Bruce -
field, met at the residtnce of Mr. An-
drew Swan on Friday evening for the
purpose of saying farewell to Mrs.
James Thompson, Prior to her leav-
ing for the Northwest. She wet pres-
ented with a photograph of the class.
At Mrs. Win. Canning's sale last
week, Mr. Herbert Crich; of the 2iid
concession of Tuckersrmitrh, purchas-
ed the imported snare for $305. She
is nine years old and is in foal to im-
ported Studbook ,°Chief.
Mir. Alex Forsythe and family, of
Brucefield• leave for Manitoba next
week, he having sold his property to
Mrs. Templeton.
Mr. Archibald McGregor, of McKil-
lop, has rented his; farm on ,the 5th
concession. to Mr. Alex •McGregor, for
six years.. Mr. McGregor intends re-
moving to Ohio in the Spring where
he has rented a farm, near the town)
of Fin
Mr. Clay.. W. Past, of Seaforth, has
purchased the" re'sidenrce of Mr. b'.
Crleb and has rented it to rMr. Jos.
Atkinson.
Mr. J. A. Wilson, of Seaforth, left
on ThUrsdayl on a hasifiesa ti'te to`
Vanedilverr; l3, O.
Mgrs. M. J.- and Andrei4' Beat left
Seafortilt for Manitoba on, ie day!
1p:et .*belt, .fig '. *ttli theft a eM
''sola tit Stank
Phil Osifer of
• Lazy Meadows
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Fact a Weer
About Canada
From theDonlinion Bureau
of Statistics
PLATINUM
Canada p aoduced 281,304 ounces of
platinum and allied metals in 1939,
more° than half the estimated' world
output of 500,000 ounces for. the year.
AH but a small part of the entire Can-
adian output of platinum acetals `
comb from the nickel -copper ores of
the Sudbury area in Ontario. A. few
ounces are also obtained from the
clack sands of British Columba and
amal4 quantities are recovered as an.
mmpure residue in the refining of gold
at Trail, B. C. Since 1934 Canada.
has been the world's leading produc-
er of platinum metals, displacing
Rus&wta, which previously held first
place. Other principal producers are
Russia, South America (Colombia),
and South Africa. .
During the past fifteen years. the -
price of platinuni `has fallen constld'er-
ably, decreasing from about six times
the price of gods to approximately the
same value as gold. This reduction
in price together with research on
the possibilities of platinum as an in
dustrial metal has brought about a -
greater use and increased demand.
A considerable market for' "platin:
um and platinum, • metals. has beenn de-•
veloped in the armament industries,.
• where it is used for instruments, for
reflectors and lamps for searchlights,
and for contact points in airplane en-
gines.
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(By Harry J. Boyle) •
"MISCHIEF"
Last Sunday morning Mrs. Phil de-
cided to slip .over and see Mrs. Hig-
gins, who had been iii for some time:
She roused me out of the Sunday pa-
per and impressed upon me that I
would have to keep my' eye on Patri=
cia Ann, or else she would be into
mischief.
"Mischief," I said, in that madden-
ing • way, of all fathers., "why, she's
not big enough to get into mischief
Flet.,,
Mrs. Phil looked at me sort of
strangely, and gently but firmly took
the paper away and put Patricia Ann
on my knees. There we sat. The baby
was as quiet as a church mouse at
church time. For a little while she
fiddled with my watch ehainand then
clambered down and toddled over to
the, corner where cher toys were. - • I
watched until quite certain that she
was behaving all right and then bur-
ied my nose in the paper again.
It seemed suddenly that everything
was very quiet and so I lohdered the
paper. Sitting beside the kitchen cup-
board with the door open she was en-
gaged in eating sugar. I watched her.
fascinated. She would push her finger
down into the sugar bag and then
carefully lick it off and then push it
"back in again. On closer examina-
tion I found that she had pushed the
open paper bag on its; side 'and she
was busyheating the pile than spilled
out.
Smiling as if to say that she. had
had enough sugar anyway, she went
-back to playing with the dolls. After
a time I went back to my story. At
,the end of a -chapter I heard.. adull.
clang, and, looked up to watch as she
padded away from the kitchen door
and fished le Spoon from the table
which was set for dinner. Then back
to the- door and as quick as a flash
she slipped the spoon down the large
crack which I have been; intending to
fill for years. Investigation disclosed
that this was the third spoon gone,
U:.
and a quarterhour of fishing yielded
nothing..
Engaged in trying to make a hook
out of a piece of wire, I noticed her
playing with. a comb. That seemed
like a harmless sort of toy and I went
on with my fishing for the lost spoons.
Soon there seemed a strange odor
in the kitchen. It was a smell that
defied description -. . something
like a s"ugar shanty smells like when
you 'burn old tires in the stovee A
belch of ,smoke poured out 'of the ov-
en, and Patricia Ann yelled with glee.
Then came a burst of flames. The
comb was burning in the oven. Get-
ting her well back out of the road I
tried fishing it out with a broom) and
dust -pan. I got the burning comb alit
allright, but the broom burned down
to •a charred stub in the process.
That was too much for me. Patricia
Ann 'saw me coming and I guess there
must have been a glint, in my, eyes be-
cause she scudded around the table
as fast as two very dimpled fat legs
could take her. When I did catch her,
two chubby arms slid around mty neck
and she purred, "Dai, Da!" Now I ask.
you, could I be blamed -for not doing
anything about it? Besides, she didn't
know any better.
Everything cooled off then. Patricia
Was happy trying to pick the eyes out
Of, an Old doll, ,and the lure of the
story was too much. Atter a while
there was a strange silence. There
was no sign of the baby. The cellar
door was securely fastened, but the
pantry door was open and there she
was . sitting on the floor with
a .pound print of lard. The~lard pack-
age was open -and she • was covered
with it from head to foot.. It was, in
her hair : .on her dress . .
and' as- I came in she was polishing
the floor -With it.
' Mrs. Phil came home. then, jest as
I was, removing her from the pantry.
She didn't say much, just stopping on
the way to get the baby's bath pan,
to say, "Oh, no.. . . she's too 'small
to get into any mischief!"
In the electrical industry it is used
extensively for contact points, power
switches, thermostats, resistors for
high temperatures, electric control
apparatus and clocks, while the chem-
ical industries use platinum for lab-
oratory equipment, for anodes, and as
a catalyst in the production of sul-
phuric, acetic and nitric acids.
A new development occurred during
1939 in the 'rayon industry, where
platinum -rhodium, spinnerets have
taken the place of the older 'platinum
gold spinnerets. . The use of platinum:
continues to increase in. the glass
fibre industry, where it is employed'
for"extrusion 'dies and feeder appar-
atus. The conservation of gold by -
many countries is assisting the de-
mand for platinum ,metals, particu-
larly palladium, and the use of pal-•
Iadium as a substitute for gold alloys
for dental restorations, pens points-
and pewelleryarticles is making sub-
stantial headway.
Now I Am
Churches
For The
(Roger William Riis in Reader's •
Digest) ,
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Six months ago I scoffed at the and study churches—all kinds. I have
tried to discover what makes- the
leading churches vital in their com-
munities. -
And '1 state with assurance that the
critics of the churches today don't
know What they are talking about.
True, a minority of churches stilt of-
fer a dull, repellent foram of salvation,
some in ugly •buildings, some with
painful .music, soiree with humdrum
inisrtehs. But you don't have to go
to those churches, nor need you con,
demn all churches because some fail.
It is obvious that the assailants of
churches do not go to church. They
don't know what the churches are do-
ing these days. I suspect the critics
rationalize what is really laziness in-
to a superior intellectual attitude. At
any rate, that is what I used) to do.
Now i am -for the churches because
they have something for a me, and
something, for civilization.. lar. Ernest
Fremont Tittle, of Evanston, Illl., one
of the . clearest voices I have heard,
says: "Let God be thanked there is
on earth an institution that has a high
opinion of men, declaring that he is
in some sense a son of God who has
within himself divine possibilities
an institution that transcends race;
ii tion and class; `an institution, Which.
is loyally, uncl'ertaking,to embody the
spirit of Christ, and in his `name to
relieve huaiiaroi sttfferiwg,. promote hue
-.ii19,n Welfare and tarry onr a ministry
of recoiistliatiou amtong nuei1.""
T find, myself unable ani, longer to
answer, stb;at akin& of pietfnrrnl With
churches. Then one day-, on a sud-
den whim, I attended a service. Since
then I have been going steadily, first
out of curiosity- ito .sea what the much -
attacked churches are up to, lately
out of rising excitement. I have not
"got religion".; '.I always had that.
But I have found out that churches
today are dispensing something I
ner d, and that church and religion go
together.
One Sunday last May the alewspn•'
per offered me this: "Rotterdam is
ablaze. Shooting is heard in every
street." That was the morning I
happened into a church, for the first
time in 22 years. And what did the
church offer nae? A simple, reverent
service, featured by a serruon on
"Peter, The Rock," on the perman-
ence and beauty of the church.
I found that I was acutely interest-
ed in hearing about anything that
bad permanence, beauty and unselfish
endeavor. 1't`f`elI on my Ispirit like
water on a desert, and I went out
stirred and grateful.
A week later I took my ouriosity to
another church and heard the minis-
ter, in a singularly:/ lovely building,
talk simply and .:bea, tifully en "The
Ascending Life," Withonit a trade of
Sauetinonious heroics, he conversed
informally kbout the insistent deMand
of life to rise, to grow, to ,improve
ifeelf. It. was alt h, it Ms !aliitdtual;
andto nae, personally, it was helpful,
:Si1nee then, '?ia business and ilio,.
Oen travel 'tOO1t ! ne about the odun»
try, I hate toecte it a potent"to gtteiid
Seen in the
County Papers
Called To -Active Service
Dr. W. E. Weekes, of town, has,
been called to active service with
the Royal Canadian A•rmry, Medical
Corps. He is to report for duty. at
London on. March: 17th. Dr. Weekes
offered his services early in the
war and is just now being. called. He.
wall.' have the rank of Provisional:
Captain.—Exeter Times -Advocate.
Suffers Accident
John Batten, 13 -year-old son, of
Mr. Ralph Batten, had the mtisfortune-
trj fall on the ice at "the Winchelsea.
school, cutting his forehead', which
required several stitches to close. Dr.
W. E. Weekes; attended him.—Exeter
Times -Advocate.
Ligaments Torn
Mr. Edward Ward is around . on
crutches. While in London with the
Tuckel Transport Friday • last `^ ,he
jumped from a loading platform%
and., landing on .a small obstacle.
twisted his ankle, with the result'
that the ligaments were torn.—Exeter
Times -Advocate.
Sgt Merrill Baker Overseas
Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Baker received'
a cable on Tuesday advising them of
the safe arrival in England 'oaf their
son, Sgt. Walter Merrill Baker. Mer-
rill has been in training with the Roy-
al Canadian Asir Force for several
months as a wireless' operator air
gunner. On February 3rd he was
married• at Ottawa to 'Miss Eleanor
G. Baldwin, of Montreal, and the
young lady is at present visiting her
husband's parents here. — Goderich
Signal -Star.
Hold Pancake Supper
The annual Shrove Tuesday pan-
cake supper, sponsored by St:, John's
Ladles' -Guilt), Brussels, was fairly
well attended, despite unfavorable
Weather conditions. Mrs. deo. Davis
was general convener for the affair.—
Brussels Post. '
Shower Held
A very pleasant event took place
on Tuesday evening at the horse of
Mr. and! Mrs. William 'Winner, bridal
couple, when neighbors and friends
presented thein, with a miscellaneous
shower. The > address was read by
Mrs. , C. L. Smith and, the gifts were
presented by tti _. bride's twb cousins,
Mrs, 'MonteClarence
ti`w�,�:n,'+;i Mra� C °.ren.o
b?atars, who tarried la:lar a basket
fig uisif>Yl1y desoraiek; til 'Oink, sad
�rihlmte wr 0.11f I ecii 4$eftite'r;the-
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