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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1941-05-30, Page 27471"4',. 77.74tgAlrtA, sitor I McLean, Nditor, eaforth, Ontario, ev- y, afternoon by McLean and completed under ideal condi- tiona,, but then things 'came to a standstill. • There was no rain andonsequent- 13r no growth to speak of. Good crops of timothy and other feeds are going to be scarce this, year unless, there is a „y,ery immediate change in weather" conditions. Alfalfa, , it is claimed, has been killed in many sec- tions, and ordinary pasture every- where is anything but good. The recent rains have helped ev- erything including the spring grains, but we needa lot more help of that kind. Of course, it is not yet too late, but why prolong the anxiety. Please act, Mr. Weatherman. • We Can Take It The British battleship Hood was sunk by a German naval force off the coast of Greenland on Saturday last.. The Hood was the largest, battle- ship,afloat and carried a complement of thirteen hundred men. What she was doing off the coast of Greenland and how many of her crew went down with her has not yet been dis- closed. But Britain still has fifteen capital ships to Germany's two, and one of these, and possibly two, were in that engagement on •Saturda*,which means that they are several thousand miles away from their home port, and much may happen before they can get back. The loss is a severe blow to 13ri=' tain, but at the same time the loss of a single ship, even the Hood, does not mean the loss of Britain's naval supremacy of the seas, and still the British answer is, "We can take it." ubsjption rates, $1.50 a year in Irange;' foreign, $2.00 a year. Single 00PleS,, 4 cents each.' SEAFORTH, Friday, May 30, 1941. • What War Is Costing Canada In the Canadian House of Com- mons a short time ago, Hon. Mr. • Ilsley told the sitting members that forty-four cents out of every dollar that_ the average Canadian earns, • will this year be used to buy war goods that can not be worn, eaten • or used in any other way. And Mr: Ilsley also told the House. how this forty-four cents would be • spent.' This expenditure takes many forms, too many in fact, to be en- umerated here, but just a few Of them will tell a pretty complete story - of what war is costing Canada and will continue to cost in increasing volume' as time goes on. For instance, before an infantry soldier goes on parade, his equip- ment has cost the Canadian taxpay- • er one hundred and fourteen dollars' and eighty-two cents. As long as that soldier remains in Canada his daily • maintenance cost is five dollars and fprty-six cents. When the soldier goes overseas his daily maintenance cost is seven dol- lars and eleven cents, but when that soldier gets into action, no one can estimate what his cost will be, but during the last war it cost six dol- lars and fifty-eight cents per day to keep the Canadian soldier in am- auniti on, In this war, however, it is the wea- pons and not the man that eats up the money, and makes the expendi- ture on all previous wars look like the height of economy. In the last war it cost eight thou- sand dollars for a fighting plane. In this war it costs twenty-five thousand dollars to build a Spitfire, double that amount for a Hurricane, and one •kindred and fifty thousand dollars -0 build a Bolingbroke bomber. Put • in an understandable way this means that if a Canadian Saved his maxi- - • .mum of War Savings Certificates at the rate of four hundred and eighty • -dollars per year, it would take three centuries to pay for the loss of one of those bombers. This is a mechanized war, where the ordinary infantry soldier tray - els on wheels, and it takes three thou- sand, five • hiundred and twenty- five vehicles for a division. When a tank brigade is added to Canada's present army corps in Britain it will est sixty million dollars. ..But it is .when these mechanized units get into real action that they. really begin to burn money. One five hundred pound bomb costs any- where from one to two hundred dol- lars, Antiifdraft guns cost twelve thousand dollars, and. in a single hour's firing such a gun will spend, more than forty thousand dollars. Mr. Ilsley also gave a summary of his needs. He wants six hundred and sixty-six and a half million dol- lrs for the army ' this, year; a hun- dred and sixty-nine and a half for • the navy; three hundred and eighty - ix and a half million for the Air Force, and one hundred and eighty and a half million dollars for muni- • tions. And that is not by any means the whole story of war costs, but surely • IL explains why the Canadian Gov- • ernment is asking next month for a War loan from the Canadian people. • We Need More Rain The long awaited rain came last week, and it was more than welcome. ut to date there has not been in this liarticular section, nearly enough to soak the sil, which had become " kty thoroughly dried ' out. ere was enough, however, to re- in large measure, and conditions will be greatly ° And improvement was hole this sprinewhile it asant Vfe has also been • early with was Started vout*Exr4jOr IVI intereilting. itetni Flaked From The Huwon 'kxpositor of Flfty and Twentrfive Years Ago. if 4. • Do You Remember? This fifty -year-old item in a recent issue of the Stratford Beacon -Her- ald will bring back many fond mem- ories to most people of middle -age and over: • "The fine weather of the .24th brought out the firecracker fiends in great numbers. Drivers had to keep tight rein on their horses, and pedes- trians had difficulty preventing holes being burned in their clothes." .No doubt those things did happen, but what did a few burns on. face or fingers, or a few burned holes in clothes mean to a boy of fifty years ago? Or what did that boy care about •the driver of horses either? The higher a horse could jump, the more enjoyment there was for the boy and his friends. But that was fifty years ago, when the Twenty-fourth of May was the Queen's Birthday, the holiday of holidays, not even second to Christy ms. To -day the 24th does not mean a thing to the average boy. And this year it was even worse than that, because it fell on a Saturday. But many of you will know what we mean, and all of you will sympa- thize with our present-day boy. He nay, as we believe, possess- many • things, and too much of most of them, but one thing he can not pos- sess, andlacking that, is poor indeed. And that is the real spirit of the old Twenty-fourth of May. , You re- member, don't you.? • A Good Idea Along With a hundred or more On- tario weekly newspapers, The Ex- positor is this week sponsoring a page of advertising featuring a "Home -Coming Week" for former residents now living in the United States. • The idea is a good one—in fact, a very necessary and important one— if erroneous and harmful beliefs in the minds of some of our neighbors across the line are to be counteract- ed. It is a well known fact that stories have been spread, whether • with malicious intention or not—and be- lieved—that Americans cannot enter or leave Canada without passports; that they are liable to interninent here; that thir personal effets, camera, and what not, are subject to • confiscation; that gasoline is strictly rationed or. - unobtainable ; that nod is por, scares and dear, and that Canada dOes not want visi- tors while she is at at. eVery Canadiankriows, nothing From The Huron EXpesitur June 2, 1916 , The farewell given to the boys of the 3.614 will long'be remembered by the boys and also by the citizens of Cliaten aid sur9endading country, who assembled to tile number of 2,000 for the London catnip ou Tuesday morn• - ing. While assist:bag in the erection of a shanty on Mr. Casper Walper's 100 - acre swamp land on the Town Line, Stanley, on Tuesday, Mr. Jacob Deite, rich had the ruiseortune to sustain a compound dislocation of the ankle. Mrs. k. H. Larkin left on Monday for Gueneh and Galt and Miss Helen Larkin left the same day for New York, where she will take a course of training in a 'New York Hospital. In the draw for the quilt at the red Cross meeting on Thursday last, Miss Erie•Stewart won the lucky prize and Mrs. W. 0. Reid won the tray. At the annual meeting of the Ladies' Aid of the Walton Methodist Church -the following officers were elected: President, Mrs. Hugh Ful- ton; viegepresident, MPS,. J. N. Camp- bell; treasurer, Miss R. Barrows. Mr. Norman Park, of Cromarty, has moved back into his home, a Crom- arty landmark, whioh has been trans- formed into an imposing two-storey resdence. Sgt. James Gillespie, of Cromarty, was home on sick leave, having sus- tained a broken finger whale engaged in, physical drill. Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Geary, of Seaforth, met with a serious accident on Friday afternoon jast They were driving down Main Street and . he turned on to Mill Street until a train would pull out, when a sudden ex: plosion from, the exhaust frightened the animal and it plunged into the ditch, throwing both occupants out. Mr. John Rankin, of Seaforth, has sold the Howard 'property on Victoria St., recently occupied by Yin C. Con- signey, to Mr. Thomas Daly. Mr. James Watson has purchased the McCallum property on Goderieh Street, recently vacated by Mr. John Dodds. l'Ilessr. Cook Bros., of Hensell, re ceived two carloads of automobile last week and recently sold the fol lowing Studebaker cars: C. Zink Blake; Milton Russel, of Exeter, an this week sold to J. W. Ortwein, o Hensall; William Hay and M. Vol land, of Zurich, and William Sproat of Seaforth. • From The Huron Expositor May 29, 1891 The Woodham hotel near Exete has been rented by Thomas Father ing-ham, who has taken possession and Wallace Brown, the late landlord has secured a position as manager o the Frazer Honse, Port Stanley. Early on Sunday morning last the citizens of Blyth were aroused by the cry of fire. eltexas found to be the salt vet:Mts.' "nM.. first noticed the stave factoren was all an flames. The derrick and all the machinery and contents were destroyed. The insur mace amounted to $2;000. A team of the Huron football club Seaforth, visited Detroit 011 Saturday last to play a match with the club of that city and the Seaforth club nobly suatained the reputation, of the Can ucks by beating thesubjects of Uncle Sam by a score of three to two. The men who went to Detroit were: W 13. Sloan, goal; W. Willis and D. Mc- Donald, backs; J. Livingstone, R. Jackson, and T. Stephens, half backs; G. A. Dewar and J. Killoran, right wing; W. McDonald, centre; II. J. Crawford and J. Smith, left wing; George Hammill was umpire for the Hurens. Mrs. Kirkman, was appointed by the public school board as their repres entative on the board of examiners for entrance to the High School at Sea forth. While Working a circular saw in Broadfoot's planing mill on Tuesday last, Mr. Murdock Campbell had the misfortune to have the first finger on his left hand cut off. We understand that Mefirs. Ogilvie of the Seaforth Mills. intend erecting 4arge addition to their present grain storehouse here. Mr. Robert Logan, Seaforth, and Mr. Hugh Grieve have exchanged reit-, idenees, Mr. Logan giving his resi- dence on Goderich St. and $2,400 to Mr. Grieve for his new brick rest - Once on North Main St. Mr. James C. Laidlaw was at Brant- ford last week attending the Grove Lodge meeting of the Royal Arcanium as a delegate from the Seaforth Court. Messrs. George Anderson, George Hammill and William Govenlock have returned home from Toronto for the summer vacation. could be further from the truth. What better way could we adopt to kill these stories than by playing host to our American cousins this summer? If every On- tario citizen were to write to some friend or relative in the States extending an in- vitation for a visit this sum- mr, both we and they would benefit immeasurably. The first week in July has been chosen for Home -Com- ing Week, because Canada's national holiday falls on the first, and America's nation- al holiday on the fourth, both in the same wek, and in the litter ease on a F4 - day. And it is also the time when Ontario, i. at its best from the stir/4°11A of out dot, reoration, can't do a thing with him—It's spring, sir!" Phil Osifer of Lazy .Nleadows tny Harry J. Boyko • • • • • 'Grandfather always enjoyed storms.' He would sit calmly on the veranda and watch the black clouds rolling up. Over the horizon, and -as I look back on it now, it seems that he was hap- piest on such an occasion. 'It seem- ed on our road that Storms always blew up from the west. There would be those first puffs of wind that swirl- ed dust up from the laneway and sent the curtains and blinds flaping.in ev- ery room in the house. Mother would go 'scurrying through the old' house slamming: down windows and pulling out the window screens. Grandfather would remain 111 his rocker on the front veranda. The smoke from his pipe would be curling upward through the place where the shingles had rot - fed on the veranda roof'. But the time that mother had. fthe windows down, the first few splattering drops of rain would be coining d,oWn. * I used to like sittingbeside grand- father on those days. Generally, the storm followed a hot .spell and As- the firstrain came down you could hear the ground drinking up.the water with a sucking, little noise. The air felt almost misty as the cool rain mingled with the hot earth and the air around us. Grandfather would take his pipe. out of his mouth and lean forward so as to get a better viewof the sky. After clue examination he would use his pipe stem for a po,inter•and say; "I figure- she'll break about there." Sure enough; a black cloud would be- gin to foram and conae rolMng 'up in, the direction, to which he had point- ed. Mother would stand inside the screen door and scold us forstaying out on the veranda. Every so often she' would peer out at the fields be- hind the barn to see if father had started ehe horses for the barn. When he finally did she would breathe a sigh of relief and say, "I can't for the life of me, figure out why men -want to take such -chances with a storm." * '0 * About the time father reached the stable doors there would be a sudden Clap of thunder and the • rain would sluice down. Invariably he would get the benefit of the first downpour. Tle. storm would .break ail around us, it seemed. Great thunder blasta would rattle the windows and the sharp; cracking of theolightning seemed, like a circus ring master's whip , . . the black clouds like 'sulky lions in a cir- cus cage. The storrn wa8 on! Mther's voice was sharp and not to be trifled with as she ordered finally-, "Both you get in here." Grandfather would pick up his cushion and -brush the rain drops from his hair anti finally do as she asked. A. storm disclosed the coward in Aunt 'Hilly. She always ar- ranged. her chair so as . to be as far away as possible from the chimney, the doors and the Windows. There she would sit plucking at her hands andfussing all the time the storm was on. Sometimes she went to her room, and Grandfather always main- tained that ohe hid under the bed. About the time that, the din. of the storm wa,s at its pitch, grandfather would start telling stories about the bad storms he had known; It would make your skin creep to hear him tell his yarns about times when he saw great balls of fire burst out of stoves and chimneys and chase people around a roman 0 * His masterpiece was about the time that a ball of lightning came down the chiimndy and as he delighted in saying, "It just zoomed around the room twice and landed in a .corner . • . . just something like the corner that Milly is sitting in." About that time Aunt Milly would gasp and squeal and grandfather would abide his time until an extremely loud 'roll of thun- der came along to say, "Well,sh, the lightning ball just seemed to explode and -it blew the corner out of the recur" • As an afterthought he would say, 'Phey never found that -renw again .. The one sitting hi the corner." Grandfather certainly enjoy- ed storraa . . . but then you see Aunt Milly was on the other side of the family and Grandfather never did have much use for her. :JUST A SMILE OR TWO: "I woind like to meet you again" "" The angler had just landed a catch - he murmured, as they glided thrOugh when the inquisitive woman chanced the waltz. "What about letting me to be passing. have your telephone number?" "Oh," she exclaimed, "that poor lit- tle fish! The angler replied: "Well, madam, if he'd kept his mouth shut he would not have got into trouble!" "It's in the book," she told him. "Good! What's your name?" "You'll find that in the book also," she said. WhereThe Money • • :Comes From • (R. J. -Deachman) • Perhaps the editorials of The Huron Expositor were the first I ever read. Father took the paper when I was a youngster wearing copper -toed boots, before my legs were big en- ough to wear the long boots which required a bootjack to pull them off. I still continue to read your editor lats. Last week there was one entitled, "Where Will the Money Come From?" If we both went at that problem, am quite sure we could solve it. If there were one hutdrecl people living on an island, starting without tools eto begin the development of their owtn civilization, they would go to work, first producing the bare es- sentials of food, clothing, shelter, then expanding into the production of tools and machines which would enable them to lessen the strain of effort and produce more products than they oth- erwise would. The only question on that island *would be: How can we get the labor erformed? Money woUld not be es- sential. The whole problem would be one of labor. So far as capital is con cerned, it would be the product of their own effort) We do not alter that situatioro, eXcept in detail, when we take a' country the size of Canada. The ;Ideation Is not: "Where, will the navel, tome frem?"; the querstion is: "Whre *ill the labor eome frornr The limitatidn of Canadian production Is labor, net motley Medley la only a convenience and a great aralveill' ends at that. It Is Simply a wham O ettelinge„ tit 102, the, itatiOnal indottle of Cn adtt Was $030 MillioM by i99 It had t'fii tosonleWhere aretlird $4,rnjt- ilon. This year it may approach $6,- 400 million. The latter figure is not exact because certain factors are still unknown. However, assuming it to be $6,000 million, you will have this situation. We could spend in Canada $1,370 million more than we spent in 1938 on, our own needs and still have left $2 billion with which to canal' on the war. I tetould only be necessary to divert this $2 billion, by means of taxes, from the Pockets of the people into the coffers of the gotrernment. It would then go ahead—let contracts, ezteployemen, produce goon for war. There is this peculiar characteris- tic of an expanding economy, such as has developed since the war — the government could not have imposed bite femendous taxes of the last bud get at the opening of the war. The burden would have been too heavy. It would have stifled progress and dis- couraged the people. We start in War by sUbstantial expenditures—this in- creases employment. When We em- ployment increases, taxes are increas ed and thus, we provide the way for further ependiturs, further Increase of employment. If there is re lesson in, this little story it is thies, that the first furectiore of govrnment, indutry, finance and basic production should be full em- Ployment. When a nation reacb.es full erapIoyment then it has raised the standard of living Of the people to the highest osalbIeIjjt, If thie oc. tura itt #eae Vita)? Vie statilard of living MO. If it-bearits 10rtheil Prbtnietlea Of witf, routOrlitts will be tallied 'Lb the lirait of Capatty' — feed atid elothe otirale-11 Olde ,f0f3 Witte , .$ • a . Aeroplane Crashes Near Brussels • A military Plane from Camp Bor. den crashed ou the farm of R. Sell - ling, 4th eonceesion. of Grey Township, about 11 o'clock on Tuesday morning. The pilot escaped) serious injury. In. making a scheduled flight from, Camp, Borden to Lucknow, Brantford and back to Camp Borden the fuel supply from one tank was exhausted when passing ever the district. When the pilot turned, on the supply from •the second tank it failed to work,proper- ly and he was forced, to attempt a landing.—Brussels Post. Banker's Son Joins Airforce „Robert H. Prost, son of Mr. and Mrs. T. Prest, of Brussels, has poin-. ed the R.C.A, and is stationed at Manning Depot in Toronto. Bob, who has been with the Canadian, Bank of Commerce for three years, was at the time of his enlistment at Auburn. One brother has been on active service With the R.C.A. overseas for some months.—Brussels Post. Received Credit Cards During the winter months Miss Barbara Snell conducted a series of nutrition lectures, sponsored by the Red Cross Society. The aim of these lessons, was to teach Canadian house- wives to conserve food in wartinae..... The classes proved to be 'profitable as well as enjoyable and were handled in a very efficient manner. The fol- lowing Clinton, ladies who attended ekn.. 8 to 100 per cent of the classes re- cently received their credit cards:—., Mrs. J. Stevenson, Mrs. R. H. John- son Miss D. Shaw, Mrs. W. Plumsteel, Mrs. 13. J. Gibbins, Mrs. J, Zapfe, MiSs A. Stirling, Mrs. M. Counter, • Mrs. M. Pollock, Mrs. J. Shannahan, Jr., Mrs. A. E. Fremlin, Mrs. (Dr.) F. G. Thompson, Mrs. P. Fingland, Mrs. J. D. Thorndike, Mrs. H. M. Monteith, Mrs. J. Radford, Mrs. P. 0. Ford and Miss E. Proctor. — Clinton News -Re- cord." Presentation To Departing Couple At a very pleasant social evening held in the Sacred Heart parish hall last week, Mr. and Mrs. Barney Ben- ninger were honored by church as- sociates and friends. They have tak- en up residence in Dungannon .where Mr. Benninger has secured a position. The evening was spent in cards, 'ten tables being present. Rev. Father Pa- quette and Mrs. Keiswater were the winner, and atter the play at cards a presentation of a beautiful floor lamp was made Ic- members of the parish, the presentation and addrcss being made by Ed. Rich a -ad Mrs. William Forgie.• Mr. and Mrs. Bennin- ger were also the recipients of a table.This presentation was made by Mrs. W. T. Cruickshank and Mrs, H. ganapbell maid the address. Songs by Mary Louise and Jimmie Benninger were enjoyed. — Wingham Advance Times. A Six -Year -Old Lad as a Barber Shave an -si a hair -cut 10 cents" is an old saying, but Jimmie Henderson put that one in the shade when he undertook to give a hair trim to two his pals, Teddy Kress and Wain Jimmie is six years old but he felt after watching his father wield the clippers and scissors that he also. could do -a good job. He cut quite a: swath across the heads of his chums before he was Convinced that he need- ed more practice before he could fol- low- in his .Dad's (Barber Bill);, foot- stps. The hair-dohe performed, we would: not recommend after a close inspection, butone cannot say that Jim did not try. Jimmie is somewhat disgusted and says he does hot think he will be, a barber when he grows up.—Wingha.m Advance -Times. Birthday Party For Robert Johnston Mr. and Mrs. Robert Johnston en- tertained the family to a birthday party on Tuesday everting. The occa- sion marked the 75th birthday of Mr. Johnston and ihis. twin sister Mrs. Eilaekborough of California. Mrs. Blackborough was not present. Mem- bers of the family present were Mrs. Archie Radford, MT. and- Mrs. Uslie• Johnston, Mr: and Mrs. Geo. John- ston and Mr. and lVfrs. Stanley John- son, Mts. Clarence Clark of Listowel• :was unable to attend. Mr. and Mrs. Will JohnstOn, and Mrs. Nathaniel Johnston' alo' attended ;the • cerebra- tion.—Blyth -Standard. • House Burns On Saturday afternoon the large stone house of Mr, Elgin McKinley, ofthe Goshen Line, three mlies north - of Zurich, took fire from the roof and before it was extinguished, it got al- most beyond control. The terrific. Wind blowing at the time made it al- most inapossible to extinguish the flames at they were fanned by the' wind. The Zurich •fire brigade with its equipeuent went up and did good work in getting it undet control. Practical- ly all the upper storey of the house is gutted by the fire, while much of the lower storey is being oared. We join in - the many friends of Mr. and Mrs. MoKinleY and family in extend- ing our sympathy in their hour , of great loss.—Zurich Herald,. Ladies Organize Por Bowling Season,' Piens were made for the openng' night of the Ford Memorial Lwn, Bowling Club when the ladies' divi- sion met on Monday evening, a date not being chosen) as rain is essential' to have the greens in fit condition, for Playing. The following officers were eIeeted for the current year; Honor- ary president, Mrs. John Ford; presi- dent, Mrs. IL G. Berry; 1st vice-presi- dent, Mrs. F. E. Ruston; secretary treasurer Miss Bernice Ruston; mem- bership convener, 1 Mrs. Nell Riggs; games convener, Mrs. Wilbur Elliott; soeial, WS. H. Allan, and buying com- mittee, Mrs. P. E. Ruston end Mrs. W. Elliott—Mitchell Advocate, With Ordnance Corps Q/1 June lst Lietrt. W. F. Elliott, who has been in command of tile' Mit- Chen platoon, Perth Regiment (Mo- tors) RF. leaves for Kingston to take a course of \ inetruction prior to tak- lng command Of the 65th Light Md DetachMente Ordnance Corps. 13111 is one o. ,10clials popular residents When Will e altlleatid in Many of the to-win-tied:kitbg; but the good wish, es of Alt Will go With hint as he takes 11,14 itinlietrY thities.—MItelaell Ade Cate& ' !.' ) •