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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1941-06-13, Page 2.rte+,.:q• g h�..j i "40- THE 111YR cot JIM 13, 1941„ Os wx ablished' I0 4.11 McLean, Editor' eafarth, Ontario,. ev wsday afternoon by McLean )�4Xr lief: sc; sit ii • • !Subscription rates, $1.50 a year in 441'vance.; foreign, $2.00 a year. Single copies, 4 cents each. Advertising rates on application. SEAFORTH, Friday, June 13, 1941 The Victory Loan The Victory Loan of six hundred million dollars to which the Domin- ion Government asked the Canadian people to subscribe, passed the hal f way mark over the week -end. In fact, all things considered, the response to this appeal for funds to carry on Canada's war effort has been remarkable. Like most other ,,r ountries, Canada .suffered severely in the depression years, if those years can really yet be said to have passed. Parts of this country were even rendered. destitute. But in spite of . that, and every= thing else, Canada is a wealthy coun- try, and although its population is very small compared to its size, that small population.has shown that it is intensely loyal, and that it intends to back the war effort to the limit of its resources. By Saturday night last, four days after the campaign started, Huron County had °subscribed its quota,, •be- ing the second county in the Province of Ontario „to do so, and before the campaign closes, Huron will have subscribed well over a million and a half dollars. It is a record to be proud of and every municipality in . the county played . its part. The returns from the townships are still very incom- plete, but of the towns and villages Goderich had reached its quota on. Friday night. Seaforth reached its objective two days after the cam- paign opened, and early this week-- -- had doubled its quota, as had Exeter and Brussels, while Clinton was one hundred and seventy-five per cent. o -er. Hensallhas gained . a niche in the Hall of Fame, all by itself. It was. the first .village in .Canada • to reach its objective, going. .over ..-the top the first day, and in less than, four days it tripled its quota. . And the end is not yet. Canvas- sers still report a ready response to their appeals to buy bonds, and by the time this reaches our readers we confidently believe:lthat Huron will have done its bit and done it glor- iously. And, as Huron goes, we also confi- dently believe, so will the other coun- ties and municipalities right across Canada. 6 Saving The Gas , On • Saturday of last week the Automotive` -Transport Association of Ontario issued a statement in which it urged the closing of service stations on Sundays. Such a move might ' seem a little dz astic to the average car operator in Ontario. Up to the present time we have had no inkling of a gasoline shortage in this Province, or the other Provinces in Canada. As a matter of • fact we,. in this Province, have never experienced a shortage of anything. We do not know what the rationing ' of food or clothes or fuel- of any kind, not to intention •gas, Means, or what a • ra- tioning card looks like. , And while we pray that we may never . be forced into a ,closer ac- quaintance with these things, that is ito guarantee that in 'the ;months or Tins to come, we may not have ch e our modeof life and deny e v even as the people in Pri- asked:, to deny , themselves, ieerfially and heroically ,r r, i a1I r�RVt r g4`est, 6 as eopre lted-our use of it cas t Spend there and we have ` never spared it, although there is more than a possi- bility that physically, mentally, mor- ally and atiancially we would have been a better people to -day if we had. But new if oecasiOn has arisen which demands one gasless day in the week, we do not know of a better choice that .could be made than that of Sunday. Nine -tenths of the gaso- line that is used on that day is used exclusively for pleasure, which we could dispense with, or turn it into other channels. It would not hurt us a bit to walk instead of ride, or better still, to con- fine us to our homes or their immed- iate vicinity. In fact, it would do us a whole lot of good to go back to the old time Sunday that our forefathers observed and profited so immeasur- ably by. • Why ? In speaking of the refusal of Pre- mier King to grant Mr. Hepburn's request for a second conference of the Dominion and all Provincial Premiers, the Globe and Mail in a leading editorial on Monday last said: "All` fair-minded people will agree that such a conference, ap- proached in the right spirit, could produce " commendable results. No- body can guarantee what ,stand Mr. Hepburn would take at such a con- ference, but, as the Toronto Star pointed. out, he might act in a less belligerent way at a conference call- ed at his . own suggestion." It is true that Mr. Hepburn might act in a less belligerent way, but `why? , Is the Ontario Premier the sole judge, or the most competent judge of Canada's government pol- icy at this time? Or why should a conference called by him be more ac- ceptable to the other eight Provinces than one called by the Dominion Pre- mier? - Nations are like business corpora- tions. To succeed they .must have a governing head 'and a head office. The head office • of Canada is at Ot- tawa—not Toronto—and the head of Canada's government is Mr. King— not Mr. Hepburn. • :) Thep Found Her A year .ago last September Ger- many announced the sinking of a British aircraft carrier; and follow- ing that announcement the German radio seemed to get a- huge amount :. . of enjoyment by urging the British people to ask and keep asking the British Admiralty, "Where is the Ark Royal?" That was the first announcement, but since then the Ark Royal, accord- ing to the German radio, has been sunk several times. But, most unfortunately for the Germans, the Ark Royal would not stay sunk. In fact, it was planes from her decks that fired the for-• pedoes that sank the great . German battleship Bismarck on her first cruise. Cons'! quently, it is fair to assume that if the Germans did not know where the Ark Royal was in ,hep- tember, 1939, they now know for a , certainty where she was on May 26;•' 1941. • .How Much Territory -One might ask the question: How much 'territory does'-' conqueror need? And one might also find the answer in our history books. Napoleon conquered an Empire, and it led him to St.. Helena, where all his needs were supplied by a few small -acres. Kaiser William II of Imperial Ger- many died Iast_week in Doorn in the Netherlands, where a few small acres supplied him with trees to chop, and a few friends and a few servants provided him with the back- ground for simple home services sty different from the uniforms and the pomp of the Court at Plitsdani. Hitler has conquered Prane"e, • Pel - gum, Holland, •oland and other { places in tirdi5 . Conquered—on the way to where? `oet .ich one]ops that answert t ohe iS tvirtitin xd 1 Years one interetltinO tat. M Picked From The HiUran Expoaltor of Fifty and Twenty live Years Ago. ;Phil us i ear o erom The ,Huron Expositor ,lune 1.6, 1916 Mr. A. Bicoat, of Tuckervemibh, has •purchased 50 acres of land known as the sparks' farm, which lie will use for pasture. Mr. J. F. Ross, Seaforth, is acting as presiding examiner' at Blyth this week;• Mr. A. N. Naylor is presiding at Brussels, and Mr. Geo. Holman, of Egmondville, at Wingham- The proposed Hydro -Electric car line from! Owen Sound to London is causing considerable interest in Crom- arty as the last survey, crossee diag- onally through the farms. -and passes on the west side of the cemetery. Mr. G. W. Holman, of Egmondville, has just received two interesting let- ters from hissons in France, telling of their meeting at the famous battle- ground near Ypres. The two brothers had not seen each other for five years. Miss Gibson, teacher on the Sea - forth Collegiate staff, has resigned. Mrs. James Graves. and Miss Verna and Mrs. Wm. Edmunds and son Jack, took in the Greyhound excursion to Detroit on Tuesday. Mr. J. C. Tait, of Detroit, spent a few days here this week. He is an old Seaforth boy and a former em- „•ployee of The Expositor, who left here 30 Years ago, and this is the first return for a visit.. The Toronto Telegram of Saturday last contained a good picture of Dr. O. J. S. -Little, "Little, an old McKillop boy, and son of Mr. Charles Little, of the 8th concession of McKillop. Capt. Little is a medical officer of the 220th York Rangers' Overseas Battalion and was born in Seaforth and graduated at Toronto University in 1914 with the degree of M.B. Mr. Nelson Stanlake, of Zurich, has disposed of his 100 -acre faun in the Township of Hay, situated on the Town Line, to Mr. Isaac Dunsford, of Stephen, Mr. Star}iake retaining all the btuiidings on the farm. During the past week the neighbors of Mrs. Dan McMillan; of the 10th concession of Tnckersmith, with some 33 teams, put in the crop on her farms- Everyone worked with a will and at sundown some 50 acres were seeded. While assisting to run a manure spreader out of the barn at Ed. Dap- pel's in Grey Township, John Totten had his right arm badly twisted and cut by getting it caught in the spokes of the revolving wheels. Saturday evening of last week about 9 o'clock there was a collision on Turnberry St., Brussels, when rigs driven by Walter Scott, of' that town, .and George Redman came into too close contact. The result was two damaged buggies and a pair of run- away horses. • From The Huron Expositor June 12,' 1891 W7hat might have ,proved a serious accident occurred on Thursday even- ting of; last week. As J. R. Govenlock of Winthrop, was driving along Con- cession 8 and 9, McKillop, he .lost control of one of the lines when •near- ing Mrs. "Murehie's store, and the horse dashing violently around the corner threw the occupants out of. the buggy , and ran for a short distance before it ' became entangled in ' the .harness. The occupants were not in- jured, - Last fall Mr. D. D. Wilson sunk a well near his barn on ;thy Adams farm. When a 'depth of 28 feet was reached a strong spring was struck and during the whole of this dry sea- son the well has been overflowing. The flow is sufficient strong to cart' the water into pipes into the barn- yard. The water is pure and cold, but has a strong taste of iron. Mr, -Thomas •Govenlock, of McKillop is the first to report new wheat for this season. All the public business places were closed on Wednesday afternoon last from 2 to 4 p.m. out of respect to the memory of the Premier, Sir John A. MacDonald. Theresults of the yearly examin- ations at Toronto University were published on Saturday, all •• the Sea - forth students being successful. Among them were George Hammell, W. Govenlock, W. McQueen and Geo. Anderson. It is the sad duty of Walton friends to chronicle the death of "Granny" Campbell, as she was familiarly known. She was 97 years of age and suffered a broken leg in March, and had been suffering ever since. Mr. Amond Modeland, of Tucker - smith, near Egmotidviile, arrived home from: Toronto on Tuesday and brought with him a very handsome thorofighbned Hereford calf, which tie purchased from Mr. Fleming, of To- ronto. Mr. Charles Shoemaker, Jr., has be- gun the stonework at the Lutheran parsonage in Zuridh. Mr. Henry Randall, of Zurich, has the contract to repaint the spire and outs4de of the Catholic church on the Sauble Line, On Tuesday morning last Mrs. Munn, Sr:, left Hensaltto visit rela- tivesand friends in Manitoba, Mrs. MoMordie, of Kilepen, and Miss Stark, of Hennall, left for 'Winnipeg and Griswold, Man., respeively. The Women's F$reign Missionary Auxiliary of Union Qhturchy • Bruce - field, had an open meeting last Wed= nesdaV afternoon ands though a heavy thuijderstorta visited it at that time there Was a goof { attendance. A pleasant feature of the program was the presentation, of a life membership certificate to Mrs. J: 1L Simpson, ex- preeld•ent,-.and.-to.Mrs..Geo. tiairdi, Jr., ex -secretary of the society. Mr. Thos. 'Wt. Cl4ilison,. of Wroxeter, left here Ttiesday for T'or'onto, where he. 4s about to take a iioaition in the Crown Lands Department of the Gov- eralrixlent. Mr. Jetts A. Wilson. left Seaforth oTuesday for a trip to the old" Covin' Un- T . Mitete . . 1l, a4 �t'etlsati, Mala attid elft' of I�noit College); Tnren o , t rZe- ,live t el tI.. e fG tet a of e•iioOtt " bt iFrPY 1 tt a ons e �ex'i�>a d"hlail* keen ttat�i,. rr = Wits itorilam' 4,003004 e lows Have you ever spent an eternity in a few seconds? I did so yesterday while balancing on a small mat which seemed determined to scoot all over a smooth, polished floor. The trou- ble in thls case was •. that I had a small basket of eggs• and a jar of maple syrup ire my hands. Every time I tried to move one foot from the mat it would scoot along at a tre- mendous speed. Finally making a dash for the safety • of a doorway the mat curled up under my toot . . . and I crashed' into a flower stand This incident came about because of kindness. Mrs. Phil braving an aunt in town who was feeling indisposed, decided that I should deliver a jar of maple syrup to her bedside. ' As. an added token, she placed two dozen fresh eggs in a basket, and with de- tailed instructions as to how I was to express my sorrow, at "Auntie's" illness I was sent off. The trip into town was without in- cident. A pretty, little -maid- met nee at the door, looked surprised that a man who hadn't shaved for two clays arta who wore overalls that were chop specked could be any relation to the folks who lived in such a fine, big house. ' I 'was left standing -at the doorway, while she consulted inside. Finally she admitted me.' " Travelling down the hallway wasn't too. bad. Then I was admitted into a large room and told to walk across it to a side room where Auntie was in bed. The floor was polished so higihly • that you could see your own reflection in its surface. There were little mats dotted here and there, like islands on a clear lake surface. 0 :r: " * I started out . . . zip .. . first one way . . , and then the other . lurching and. lunging . . . and recov- ering balance only to lose it again. The eggs were rolling and the maple syrup was slipping from my •hands. I let ,the hat go and managed to get. on a small mat , . It crumpled up and I slithered for the doorway -land- ing, up on top of ,e potted 'plant. Te make matters worse, Auntie be- gan to cry. The noise of Phil Osifer encountering a potted palm was 'too much for ber' delicate nerves and be- sides they had lots of eggs- She wouldn't eat any eggs except those • that were goverment -graded and she d'ldetn like maple syrup. I can understand why doctors have highly polished floors. It's just like taking an insurance policy to assure good, business. In a way, you might give the .,same reason for polished floors in (hospitals. On the other hand what possible good do they do dent- ists? After all, • the number of times that you land en your face in falling would not even return interest on the money invested by dentist in the slip- pery form of floors, Grandfathernever. did take much 'stock in floors. When he built the Osifer liomeetead •he used the rough boards for the flooring. According to him, floors should be covered with carpets and the knots won't show un- der a covering. That worked very well in his day and age, but by the time that mother took over the =place linoleum was beginning to come in. How mother used' to complain about those floors.! Mrs. Phil is just the same way: She carefully built up layer upon layer of newspapers on the front parlor floor. When she fig- ured that the knots and. slivers were covered' cup; spe lad the linoleum placed. For quite some time every- thing looked fine! Gradually howev- er, the newspapers began to wear down . , . and the knots began to peek up through the floor covering. Ridges began to form, caused by the gaps between the warped boards of the flooring. Mrs. Phil has been determined for some time to have a new floor in that front room. I listened to her, just as all men do, when their wives want something and murmured that I would do something about it the next time I was in town. This morning she has adopted new tactics. Knowing of my encounter with, the polished floor in town, she announced today that she is thinking of having a man from town put in a polished hardwood floor. The matter is now settled. In the front room of the house we are go- ing to^have a new flooring. However, it will be a smooth, unpolished floor covered by a rug . . i. not an expen- sive rug ... but one with enough fab- ric that there will be no chance of slipping. :JUST A SMILE OR TWO: While examining a class in gram- mar the inspector wrote a sentence on the blackboard and asked if any boy could .see anything peculiar about it. After a Tong pause one small boy put up his hand slowly. "Yes," said the inspector encouf- agingly,"what do you see remarkable about it?" "Please, sir, the bad writing; replied the youngster, • Governess: "Don't you like that poem, `Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star, how I wonder what you are'?" Little Waldo: ;'No. Why wonder about the elements of a star when a simple •spectrum analysis willsolve the question?" • Teacher (to Tommy, who has been• absent and missed history): "You have a Ion of work to make up. How long have you been off?" Tommy: "Since tate. French Revo- lution, sir." Old Darkey (to friend) : "I hear's you is going to pay me that dollar you owe me. Is you?" Friend: "Well, I ain't sayin' I. ain't," Old• Darkey (severely): "I ain't asking you is you ain't, I'm askin' you ain't you is?" • "What is the formula for water?" asked, the science master of a class of junior boys. He picked" out one of the boys to answer, "HIJKLMNO," spent out the boy in question. e "What's that?" cried.. the .master. • The boy looked up at him he ob bious surprise, then slowly repeated the letters, "HIJKLMNO." "What on earth are you driving at? Who gave you that funny idea?' asked his teacher. "You; sir-, was the boy's reply "You said -in lesson yesterday the . the formula: -'for water was H to 0 (H2O). •, Minute • • • • J Brief Backgrounds in the Careers Of • :•. M:iniatures Canada's Captains in War. • Soldier's soldier and born for the job is Major-General Bevei'1y Woon Browne, D.S.O., M.C., who is Adjutant - General: "Same Browne" the old sol- diers call bine from the Atlantic. to the Pacific, and he's one of their fav- orites. "If he tells you to go out on a job, well, you not only know it's all right, but• you feel you can do it," they say. ' As an Arany officer, he's a "natur- al." He Was born in Hayesviile, Major ' General Beverly Woon Browne, D.S.O„ ,M.C., Adjutant- • General. terloo County, -.Ontario, educated In what was then "Berlin," is now Kit- chener. At 17 he was commissioned a Second Lieutenant in the 29th; In- fantry, Militia, He went out' to' Van- couver in1908, thoroughly enjoyed a measu'rabie success as a *oitthful fin- ancier eontcerne I- with real estate and binding enterprasee. Parlor to the first World War, 'lie was a Ideate/mat iii! the 72nd Seaforth, ):fighiaifdi rrie and proceeded over eas itt tionu at 1914 r With �h� 1$t tete o v#, Otho 4ibai+d; life I ietortii gha#,i[ik'I0m tiejiingt 140.0 o *blit i dli l fbtir full years df war, sampling every sort of military" experience in France, with out a wound or a day's sickness. Out side of the "bad spots," the war was for him a "great show." Three men tions in dispatches, Military Cross and Distinguished Service Order are testimony of the sort of soldier he made, but even better evidence is the regard .in which he is held by the men who served under him. He rose to be A.A. &. Q.M.G. of the 1st Division in France, and after the armistice stayed behind to wind up the Division's affairs' in France and Belgium, only returning to Canada in October, 1919. By that time Beverly, Browne knew that his proper, niche in life was the army, and he settled down in the permanent force, going to Kingston as D.A.A. & Q.M.G. of Military District No. 3, He ..did two years with the Princess Pats in Victoria and then went to Toronto as D.A.A. and Q.M.G. Military District No. 2. From 1929 to 1931 he was Assistant Director of Organization, Ottawa. After that Lieut. Cott, Browne spent six and a half very happy years°9in Montreal where he enjoyed not only his work, but a great 'deal of good sport and the peculiar flavor that un- ique city has due to the admixture of French .Oanadian and English cultures and peoples. Six months in Military District No. 1. London, as A.A. & Q.M.G. District Commanding, Military District No. 10, Winnipeg, from May, 1939, to June, 1940. General Browne 'enjoys every form of sport that produces good competi- tion and good companionship with men, from Association Football to badeninton: golf and curling, But these diversions are merely ,pleas'ent memories today. The poet of Adjut- ant -General III Ottavra is one where hours are fantastic. " It bap been ell ray and every; day tilt midnight, Seattle daya• and Sundays Inc1tieled. r The Militant Getierare doh is a1 - ori the' personnel; side, 0#t ilrtfge lte, intObIlizationt and Wane flatioii of all, 4i s effinita o•eia rti o ' eteb les tphll this W ht 464610ib4 AY iiitl1, iiltteta kW 46iittOote4, tifo: l ttnild . p�i'g0esae# the„ i0i t soca Miler t`4r'`7 •„irks ti rf etU:::til box drnisb,. BEAVER COMING BACK The beaver, Canada's, best known- animal, nown-animal, is making a strong comeback on preserves in the James Bay area. ,E.stiinates place the. beaver Maga- tions of these sanctuaries in. excess of 8,000 compared with 230' in 1933, when, thefi . rst of the preserves was established'. Restoration of the beaver in the In- terests of the Indian population has- been made possible through the co- operation of ,the Hudson's Bay Com- pany, the Dominion Government, and. the Quebec and Ontario Governments'. Ttho first of these sanctuaries was es-= !tablis'hed In 1933 at Rupert's Hous"e, Quebec, where the Hudson's Bay Company leased. an area of 7,000 square miles for a fifteen -year period, A survey of this preserve in the aut- umn of 1933 showed a beaver popu- lation of only 162, but with the In- dians acting as game wardens rather than trappers the beaver resipoeded rapidly to the protection afforded them. By 1936 the number of beaver in the preserve had increased to 1,044 and by the autumn- of 1940 had reach- ed 6,454. Trapping of the beaver in this preserve was started in the 1939- 40 season, when 500 were taken, and it is planned to trap a similar number in 1940.41. Adjoining the Rupert's House Beav- er Preserve is an area of 13,000 square miles set aside in August, 1938, as a beaver preserve for the exclusive use of the Indians of the region, In it no trapping will be permitted until the beaver population -reaches 4,000, when only Indians will be permitted. to trap. This preserve is operated under the supervision of the Hudson's Bay Cone piny with the Indians acting as game wardens and .conducting censuses of the beaver. In tihree years of opera- tion the beaver population of this huge sanctuary has increased from 254 to 730. Two beaver preserves in the James Bay area are located nen Charlton Is- land and,Akimiski Island, both in the Northwest Territories. Charlton Is- land was established a beaver sanc- tuary in 1933 when 68 beaver were liberated on it. Under the watchful, eyes of an Indian resident guardian the beaver population of this sanctuary has increased to about 700 "animals, and trapping operations were begun in the 1939-40 season. Eight beaver were introduced to Akimiski. Island in 1935,, and a count made in 1939 in- dicated a beaver reputation of 250. This island sanctuary•has an area of 900 square miles and should eventual- ly support about 6,000 beaver. The important work of restoring° the beaver will be further extended next spring as a result of the estab- lishment of the Kapisko Beaver Pre- serve in Ontario, 'north of the, mouth of the Albany River on James, Bay.. Under an agreement between the On- tario...rGovernment- and the Hudson's Bay Compapy a Marge area has been set aside for five. years as ,a beaver sanctuary. The Dominion Govern- ment is co-operating by permitting the Hudson's Bay Company to stock this new sanctuary .with adult beaven from Charlton Island, The Company is to assume control of .the Kapisko Preserve and when the beaver..have increased sufficiently trapping priv- ileges will be'granted to Indians lily,. • Seen in the County Papers " . To Practice Law Mr. W. Grafton Cochrane, B -A., who, has been attending Osgoode Hall, . To- ronto, is tobe congratulated on (hav- ing successoully passed his -final law school examinations. He was home for several days and is at present at- tending an Officers' Training Camp at Niagara -on -the -Lake. Mi-. Cochrane will be called to the bar on June 19. We understand he is opening an of- fice in Exeter, having rented the of- fice recently vacated by Dr. Weekes. —Exeter Times -Advocate. Home After Three Years. At Sea "The spirit of the British people is all that it is claimed to be,". said Sr. Radio Officer Alex Strang, of the Bri- tish. --Merchant Navy, wiho has been visiting with bis parents', Mr. and' Mrs. Henry Strang, after ani absence of three years.—Exeter Times -Advo tate, Receives Degree Mr. Borden Sanders, a medical stu- dent at Western: University, has been successful do obtaining the honor course B.A. degree with first-class honors. 'Muss Ilene Lewis has secur- ed her B.A. degree in the general course with secbnd-class honors. Mr. Archie Hoggarvli, of Cromarty, also receives his degree with second-class honors, and, Miss Mary Hemphill, of Hensall, with third-class honors.—Ex- eter Times-Advoe. Fire Of Undetermined Origin ~ -- A frame building on the erty of R. Parker, Rattenbury Street,wasfound to be on fire last Thursday and although the firemen were quickly tummoned, the frame structure re, ceived considerable damage before the flames were extinguished.. It is thought that some children were play- ing' In the barn and had •matclyds or firecrackers.—Clinton, News -Record•.. Bride.To-Be Showered t�" Members of the Blyth Girls' Soft: hall testa and schootl churcia gathered at tthee, Tt'eine of Mr.' and Mrs, Harold1tiltr s cut�:r1cisy 'httfh'dr ne ylt er e. t aua tilt*. s +i• o rl Milo 1rn m r Ali �?tiii�a,-• a,:'b;Mte�fYi�•te .62 tett iiit itti4 'thne ,aYd*igvii r lt tilt• ( t iue4 ti`.'"oto $)' d 4 A e a • r A • 4-