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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1941-04-04, Page 2111 stabJWU 1860 •CPIlaW *1- cLean, Editor, bed at Seaforth, OntarioAv- hUrstlay afternpon 1y McLean ubscription rates, $1.50 a year in • vance; foreign, -$2.00 a year. Single •?copies, 4 cents, each. Advertising rates on application. SEAFORTH, Friday, April 4, 1941 Sound Advice "Ontario municipalities should not reduce road expenditures, but should maintain them, and proceed with as much construction as possible to carry traffic which has been increas- ed by war.” :That is the. advice that was hand- ed out to road superintendents at their annual convention held in Kit- chener last week. And it is sound advice. Huron county and municipal roads are sec- ond to none' and equalled by few in the Province, but to put them in that conditiOn entailed a large expendi- ture. In different municipalities we have heard the opinion expressed that be- , cause of the war, road construction and maintenance should ease up, or go by the board altogether this year. War has and will continue to de- mand many economies, but skimping on our roads in war time, or any other time, is utter folly, because by one year's neglect we are bound to lose a large• part of our investment. For every year of neglect now we will have to pay two prices when road work is fullyresumed again. Why lose a large investment and then have to double it again? Road making and po,•-intenance takes money of course Y— But it is money spent in our own county, and besides good roads bring in tourists from both Ontario and abroad, and tourists bring in outside money. • Preserving ,ffistorical Sitee! Huron County -this year will cele- Inate its one hundredth birthday. ,During that celebration, no doubt, Many eyes will be cast back over the paths our forefathers and we have travelled, and many ears will be op- ened to hear what their part and ours • has been in transforming a forest wilderness into the agricultural gar- den.this county is to -day. No doubt our forefathers played • the harder -part, and, perhaps, play-, ed it better than we have played ours. For that reason their memory should not be forgotten, nor should the scenes of their endeavor be allowed to disappear into the limbo of for- gotten things. •Many of these pioneers played as brave and outstanding a part in the battle of life as any soldier or any General played in the battles of the tory of war. But for all that, their names are being forgotten, the scenes where they labored have been allowed to decay or disappear alto- gether, and even their graves lie un- marked and decayed. It should not be that way. And in this year of our centenniah our hon- or should demand that we rectify this neglect and carelessness of ours, and do it now before it is too late, so that ours and future' genera- tions shall have 'constantly before their eyes the memory of these men and their achievements. There are many ways to do this and one of them has been pointed out why R. Thomas Orr, the well known historian of Stratford, who in a letter to the London Free Press, •Suggests that the old Park House, • fOrTrierIy the headquarters of the • Canada Company, be restored. to its • OrighW condition ,and furnished with. articles Of the period, many of Which are Still in existepce in this !it is, a good suggestion be - Atte old:Park llonSe was the )44ot iidsettleMent vr ' ertalten in'.Canida OSt Instetie Mut- Orklooltits, , Oitb • bta•id," has Peen allowed to disap- pear/ and,only his ,• poorly marked geave remains to recoil not, onlyto Goderich, but the whole ,Huron 'Tract the life and work of one of its extra- ordinary and able citizens. He reminds us also that John Galt's house in Guelph was torn down some years ago with the intention erecting it in another site, but now it has been lost. The Park House is still there, and it and other historic places should be restored and main- tained as shrines in memory of those who achieved great things. And so it should be with our great pioneers. Men of every walk of life whose last resting places should be traced and fittingly marked, that they too may never be forgotten. • Where Some Of That Surplus Came From Word comes from Ottawa that the retail sales of gasoline in Canada during the first nine months of 1940 amounted to 660,105,000 gallons, which is some fifty-nine million gal- lons more than was retailed in 1939. • As the Province of Ontario con- sumes considerably more gasoline - than any other Province in Canada, and possibly as ,Tnuch' as several • others put together, and as the On- tario tax is 8 cents per gallon, per- haps that is where some ofMr. Hep - burn's unexpected surplus c a m e from. ' However, we are not looking for r. rebate in the gas tax this year, nor an expansion in the road building plan either. In fact the Minister of Highways has repeatedly reminded us that these are war times and we must go slow. • The theory of the gas tax is, of course, that it be applied to building and maintaining our highways, but, in practise it is usually earmarked for many other things: For that rea- son we doubt very much if any in- crease in the consumption of gas will bring about a reduction in the tax. At least while we can use the war as an excuse to keep it ,where it is, or even increase it. • What A Billion Means In these times, particularly in these war times, we speak of mil- lions and billions of dollars and let them roll off our tongues as if we fully comprehended what these sums represented. - But do we? Take for instance the lend-lease bill recently passed by the United States which calls for seven billion dollars. • • • • What this sum really represents is - explained by a writer in a New. York magazine, who says if a man, work- ing twelve hours a day, had begun counting dollar bills at the rate of one a second back in the days when • ' Columbus landed in America, he would be getting • pretty nearly -through by now. Or, putting it in another way, if any of us who are middle-aged, had °be- gun counting ten ten -dollar bills at the same rate the day we were born, We 'would still have about five hun- dred million dollars to count by our next birthday. So' it seems that seven billion dol- lars is quite a sum of money any way you look at it. • Some Of UsDo A photographer has discovered that most of us do not recognize our- selves. • To prove this, he takes an ordinary portrait 5f a sitter, and then makes two prints — one right and one wrong. In the latter, left becomes right and right becomes left. • When confronted with these two images of himself and asked which is the better likeness, the sitter in- variably picks out the wrong print. So says this photographer. And that, he says, is because we are so used to seeing ourselves in the mirror that we don't really know what we look like. Well, some of, us do,-beeause we have been told so often and so pithi- ly that tie don't eve/110616' 1$�k Mirror, •• •one g - . intereatin !Item!! Fickhd From Tho FluroEncriositor of Fifty and TWeitnlive Years Ago. • From The Huron Expositor Apiel 7, 1916 Mr, Nelsoczelleid, of Stanley, drew a couple of logs out to Brucefleld re- cently to thensa.wmill. The tree was felled by' his father and grandfather about sixty ytnars ago, the butt being used for docirsills and wineloin sills for the hoe*. they . now li-Ve in. Though the hags have been lying111 the bush theSe, sixty years, they *ere as eound as:htlie day they Were fell- ed. . te• Misses Grube Walker, Pearl Guhr and Hazel Morrow left on Tuesday morning for Rochester, where they will take a course in professional nursing in a hospital there. Mr. John Beattie, Seaforth, has. pur- chased a new Overland car. Mr. Clyde Rankin thas joined the staff of the Bank of Commeree here. A few days ago Mr. WiUiam Drover of Chiselhurst, had the misfortune while throwing hay from the mow to lose his footing and fall to the floor which caused him to receive a severe shaking up. Mrs. George Easterbrook, of Exeter, has a small lemon tree which pro- duced two very large lmciens' one measuring 12% by 104 inches. 'Messrs. Asa and Luther Penhale, of Hay Township, have purchased 175 acres of pasture in Hay Township from the Canada .Companyr. The drawing for the four beautiful metallic souvenirs madte from the products of Calumet and Hecla Mines presented to the Red Cross Society, was made on Thursday last and were awarded as :follows: Large copper silventrinaned flower, Arthur Powell; fancy popper silver -trimmed rose vase, Hazel Campbell; fancy copper aileentrimmedeviolet vase, John Ran kin, and silver smokers' set by Mre. Fred Welsh. Capt. HodginShreturned front Len - don on Saturday last where he has been taking a course in musketry at the military school there, ' Mr. Earl Palmer,.of Itensall, who has been in the bank in Clinton for some time, has responded to the call of his king and country and has been at his borne the past week training with the boys. Mr. John Eider, Hensall, has dispos- ed of his fine homestead farm to his eon, Ben, wtho will carry on farming while his parents and the family will move into FensSII. Mr. W. A. Barron, McKillop, has rented his farm on the 13th 'conces- sion to Mr. Robert Adams, of WaI ton, for a term of years and will have an auction sale of his effects at an early date. •-• The following were ticketed to dis- tant points this week at Mr. William Somerville's agency: Joseph Eckert to Gravelbourg, Sask.; Mrs. (Dr.) Campbell to Albany, Mo.; A. R. Caw- thorpe to Waterloo, Iowan Miss Doble to Clifton. Sprinns.• Mrs. John. Cole, of ITsborne, had a bad fall on same steps recently, in juring her back very badly. She will be confined to her home for some time, . • a On nirTdunesday burned,. • SaturdaY last We J. Dixon, liv ing one South of Walton, got his hand caught in the grain crunher, losing two Sneers and badly crushing House, Mitchell, were completely de stroyed by fire last Friday evening. One horse. with other articles, was The two large stables of the Hicks From The Huron Expositor April 3, 1891 about .2 o'clock the fire alarm was again soun(Ied. The 'cause of the alarm was found to be at the .residence of Mr. Farrow, Qoderich St. On investigation it was found that smoke was canning from a pipe on the stove Ilaa-. had been disconnect- ed. Mr. George •:Vlurrays old blind dray horse, which has been a familiar ob-; jeCt on the streets.. for many years, has gone the way of all fies•h. He was 26 years old and had been blind for 20 years. • Mr. Robert Leming, of Leadhury, started for British Columbia on Tues- day last. He intends -working in the timber -district. Mr. August Ehnes, Zurich, has sold his horse to Mr. T. 0. Kemp, of Sea - forth, for $115. At a meeting of the "Scots" La- crosse Club held. on Monday evening last, the following officers were ap- pointed for the present year: Presi- dent, W. W. Meredith; vice-president, P. Hammett; captain, J. Bell; secre- tary -treasurer, George Abell; honor- ary ,president, R. .MeCosli; honorary' vice-president, P. Freeman. The Maple Leaf Football Qub, cbarapione of the Junior League and. winners of the Crawford Cup last.fall, held a meeting in the Young Men's Christian Association rooms on Mon- day evening. The following officers were elected: Hon. pres., Dr. J. G. Scott; pres., Wm. McDonald; vice - prase George A. Dewar; captain, Jno. McLean; sec.-treas., John Fairley; corimittee, T. .Copp, H. ,Clarkson and Wm. Finlayson. On Friday evening last about ten o'clock the citizens were .aroused by the sounding of .1the fire allarm whis- tle. In a very short time a large number of citizens were on the streets but could not find out where- the fire was. It was discovered that some attempt" to burn the market evil -disposed jyerSon had ma,deb.ujiiidhinolgd They had made access to one .of the rooms and ,pcnned coal ell On the floor but before it caught oil the Wood it had burned itself, out, thus sating the building and a large number of other Mr: Thos. Roe, of Leadinunr, re- cently sold a 'span of Mame receiving for them the sum of $365.00. 'Mr. George E. Henderson, Of Sea - forth, is at present 'Mining potatoes in this vicinity for Shireoltelt to the .Untited States Mt. AIM Beattie has rented hits farm addolOiog thetOW-4,, of .Seaforth or .a„tehti of two yeara to 14 b D. two Flowed, vot Vovolowmoo; fit 44114141 664O 4-Oo�ft nip ottaido-Vote .„0!'' 4 • ,r•f‘ Phil Osifer of Lazy Meadows • • (kV Karry 80$0) "FARMING" Let me quote from a letter I have jest received from a man in, Toronto: "I have been reading your column each week now for about three years. enjoy reading dt, and have been in- tending to write youfor a long time. There is one thing 1 would •like to know. Are you as completely sold on farming as you make out to be. I don't know very 'much about farming, but it has always seemed to me that a farmer's life is sort of a drudgery. You make it appear as a sort of heav- enly existence to live on a farm." Well, ask any farmer what his life is like and at first he'll say it's ter- rible. He'll tell you about the poor price of hogs, and the .scanctity of men and the fact that the farmer is getting the raw end of the deal. Then, let you start' telling that same farm- er about what a predicament it must be to be on a farm, and see the dif- ference. He'll start telling you about the freedom he enjoys. He'll remem- berChen that there are no time clocks on a farm and no bosses. In all prob- ability he'll remember that he doeen't have to cater to anycnie, and that on' this farm there are none of the petty jealousies' of a shop or an office. Farming is not a heavenly exist - epee. Tell me any one rank in life that iv, and then ponvelt. -You'll find. that there are all sorts of ups and downs in every job. But if you look for the ups and forget about the downs, you'll ehncl that tithe nasses great deal more quickly and pleasant- ly. teday we went to the bush to see how the sugar camp stood the win: ter, Some nnischievious boys' shot several of the windows out • of the shanty with .22 rifles and the sugar pan had developed a leak over the winter. The hired man nathered'up the "pile of wood we had for boiling down this year and brought it up to the house for "buzzing," Nhhich means that we'll have to gather another sup- ply. ' ' You might call those•the'downs for the day. Let's see what compensa- tions there were. It was. a bright warm da Y and everything looked' well for the maple syrup season. In the sugar camp we discovered a dollar special watch that was overlooked lest Spring, and when we shook it and wound it, away it went with a happy tick -tick. The bush, seemed to be filled with merry sounds. Birds are beginningTocome back and, won- der of wonders, we saw a wild duc.k. Where he cine from We have no idea, but be was hale and hearty and made off through the clearing on the wing. On the way hack up to the barn, the conversation occupied itself on a debate whether that wild duck stayed all winter or elsegot his dates mix- ed and came back to this s,ection too early. Somehow, the sight of that wild duck made us. think that Spring was just peeping around the bend of the river. The river is starting to swell up and water is beginning to run over the ice. We spent some time in watching the river, d'etermined.net to mise the Spring break-up, Have' you ever seen a break-up In the spring? The ice just seems to erupt and the peaceful, locked river swells into a raging torrent. It's fascinat- ing to watch it. On a balmy Spring day ,as you do the chores, you can hear that roaring, moving sound. It more or less tells you that the shackles of winter have been brok- en_ We could have spent our time la- menting ahont, the sugar pan. with the hole and the windows that will have to be replaced and the leak in the shanty roof. But why worry about those things • 'when Sping is waiting to Ome. Soon -there'll' be warm' days . • : . and' the .Sap. will be running -and have happy, et: - cited grows of young 'neighbors wait- ing for an old 'sugaring -off and taffy pull.' Fanning is like etr- erything else The bright side is much more enjoyable than the dark side. • • lb AN1111111111111111111111emel Dynamic Leadership (Contributed) , "On the basis of actual and po- tential results, Canada now- has, dynamic leadership. Bow would, you measure leadership save by results?" From time to time, someone who knows nothing of the circumstances sends up a how -I for , dynnamic leader- ship in public affairs. What is dynamic leadership? If the one who calls were asked to in - terra -et the sound' of his own voice, he would answer honestly that he does not know what it means. or 'sug- gest instead, that a Churchill or a Roosevelt would pretty well 11 the bill. All this is nonsense, in its purest and most pristine ferna. These men appear upon a wider stage. They play before a world-wide audience. The methods of a Churchill or a Roose- velt, adopted on the Canadian scene, would be absurd. It is a casein: which the size of the stage gives life to the action. One does not present "Aida" on the 'platform o.t a town hall 1271 a small village in Saskatche- wan, nor expect "Ben Hut" to be ren- dered; in a rural schoolhouse in On- tario. Consider the situation for a mom- ent. Churchill was thrown forward when the Chamberlain government fumbled the Norwegian affair. He was chosen to bring Cosmos out of chaos at a 'critical moment of world history His experience in War, in politics, in life, in literature, Was, greater than that of any other Iden in the United KingdOgn. R Is tine that 'he lived: for this 'ent. It Is one Of thobe 0004. - Mena -in WV& the Matt 'fitted the time. It does not necessarily imply that-ithe bed beep. ohotenin,t1ilaet electien as President of the :United Statsig ke,'wo1id hit*madi hdd00,04 of WOO the 'snentateelan -erehta the Wed& oCear,,IVIMA' ft40,0034(11-Attft* Meets :the. JOU fitttng,the irgm, ' , • ' President Roosevelt had a strange- ly different task. The mind of the United States was.. isolationist. •The need for action ihadnot been realized. The United States had to be convert- ed by the force of circumstances,,by the logic of events. Roosevelt had the essential qualities. The sympa- thies of the common, people vv -ere with him. He won their support by the force of his 'character, by hie human sytnpathy, by the breadth of his un- derstanding. They believed that he had brought them closer to economic freedom. He brought them to the ac- ceptance' of his own views' on the world crisis by 'appealing to them for the defence of the larger freedom on the broader fieldof world affairs, The American people accepted his atti- tude because they believed in the man. The situation in Canada was differ- ent. The Canadian task was to co- operate with the leadership which came from the United Kingdom. There was nothing to be gained by attempts to steal the show, We 'could not go our way alone. Reinankable things have been done. It is true, they were not accomplished 1. sound- ing brass and tinkling tymb le, by flapping flags and appeals to patriot- ism—these things were not lieeded. The British less at Datikerq e was tremendous. Ihrepresentedtir great- est single loss of equipment a d stip- plies ever anAered: by the United Kingdom on the field a b le. It caused a change in the dire leo of the Canadian. War effort. Man things Whieh might have been obtain: d from Great 13ritain had tlOW to be robes - :ed Ir. the 'United States. It me t 'that the plans of war conceived at the be- ginning- had to bb tevainp di month§ gat& Ard'iathifliiipd, evr",f0 the- Mid tht1Olt'hdijm i#1; flIovt-'`faat'this effiMt Yet teal*. PelitgAit 1: t when Or 031 tentetsbt. Votillation t1 Nifor -• -•• , att a Wee• itit Oaziada 1 pram the CANADIAN CLAY Increased activity was noted in the Canadian clay industry' during 1939, with production ondomestic claps re- ported in every province except Prinee Edward Island. Sales of do- mestic clay and clay products during the year had a gross value of $6,151,- 236' as- compared with $4,036,03,4 in 4938. -Canadian clays are manullic- Wed into refractories, building brink,' structural tile, floor tile, roofing, tile, chain tile, sewer pipe and pottery'. Common clay's suitable for the pro- duction of building brick and tile are found in all the Provinces of Canada. The greatest producing area of stone- ware clays or semi-fireclays is In the vicinity of Eastend and Willows, Sas- katChewan, but the manuwacture of these clays into stoneware, sewer: pipe, and pottery is centred at Medi- cine Hat, Alberta, owing to the avail- ability of cheap natural gas fuel. Stoneware clays and moderately re- fractory fireclants oocur near Sbaben- acadie and Musqaodoboit, Nova Sco- tia, but apart from the use of some of the Musquodoboit clay in the pro- duction of pottery there has been no extensive exploitation of these clays for ceramic use: Stoneware clays, or low-grade firecla-ys, are also known to occur near Williams Lake and Chim- ney Creek Bridge, in British Colum- bia; in the Cypress Hills of Alberta, and near Swan River, Manitoba, but as yet there has been little or no de- velopment of these deposit's. Fireclay refractories are manufac- tured frOnl doMestic clay or two large and a few small plants in Canada, At one plant, near Vancouver, a high grade, moderately. plastic fireclay is obtained Mr underground mining from the clay beds in the Sumas Mountain, and is manufahtured into firebrick and other refractory materials. An- other -plant at Claybank, Saskatche- nen, uses the highly plastic, refrac- tory clays recovered by selective min- ing from the white mud belts of southern Saskatchewan. Small quan- tities of the most refractory clay in the deposits near Shubenacadie are mined for refractory use and the Musquodoboit clay is utilized to some extent for stove linin.gs. China, clay has been produced com- mercially, in Canada only from the vicinity of St. Remi d'Araherst, Pap - Mean county; Quebec. Important de- posits of high-grade plakice -white burning clays and buff -burning Clays occur on the Mattagami, Abitibi, and Missinaibi Rivers, in northern Ontar- io. Some of these Allay be classed as china clays, some as fireclays, andi. others as ball clays. These deposits have attracted considerable interest but have not as yet been developed cornmerciaiiy, owing to their distance from industrial centres. In British Colurabia, along the Fraser River, ' about 25 Miles above Prince George, is an extensive 'deposit of high-grade clay, parts of which yield a grade Of china clay comparing favorably with the best -found on the North Ameri- can continent, Ball clays of high bond strength occur in the white mud beds of southern Saskatchewan industries, know something of what has been done. Production does not begin on the • day the foundation is laid for the factory building. 1t takes time tOt coristroctioh. There were de- laya in acquiring the necessary ma- chine tools. They could not be ob- tained from Great Britain and thn united States was speeding up its own war effort. In a few months the situation has changed. The people are 'beginning to realize the nature of the things accomplishede •The Pen' pie are beginning to realize the nay ture ef tyre things accomplished. His- tory will record that no greater ef- fort has ever before been made by any nation of 11,000,0'00 in prepara- tion for conflict 3,000 miles or more from its own base. • .Dynamic •leadership! Dynamic lead- ership has to be measured by results and results* are conditioned by .cir- cumstancesc 'There are things which, call for spectacular action—there are things which call foe .constructive ac- tion. There is a time for cheering and a time for stern, hard, steady de- votion, to the tasks which are before us. War has a stimillating effect up- on the minds of men. It is well that this is so. 'Unfortunately, it stimu- lates not only those of great wisdom but those of little. Som'etimesthose, who have the least are the most 'roe calling for leadership which they could not define, insisting upon im- possible action, loft ineprobjeente tneyr, cannot comprehend. The effort in- creases and will .continue to increase• as time goes mi.' The graph which measures it curves •Upward with ac- celerated speed as new plants come into peoduction:. On the basis 'of an - teal -and' potential results, Canada now has dynamic leadership. Hoer would you meature leadership save by results? • "Is your daughter improving in her music ?" "No. But the next best thing is happening. She's getting tired of it!" • Two znen were arguing. "What's the meaning of tact, Jim?" asked one, JIm wrinkled his forehead. ,• • "It's—it's--" he 'began. "Veil, what is it?" "LoOk lire. I'll give yen an illus- tration. The other day1 Went to Menda pipe -in a ,hathreorn. ;When got tinaide 'datior'n,' ion in the Wotan' tub. ,gtoe one look, rats- od MY hat, and' said, Segi Do*" Sitt.' lined tad."