Loading...
The Huron Expositor, 1941-07-04, Page 30 t • 4 V ,1 LT 04*, 71' .se “41144.414.....4.414414.,' (Clantivnetll 004 Paw, 2) -large ereW Is needed on. the. grnantin The R.C.A.P. liets some 6$ trance:in- ns nuns. EXPerielleernten are nntn11 preferred, but inenteseleticen Men of -the right kind, Will be trained - Many aPplicentit to (bluff their way into the .positions they desire. There's nothing anew elm* that, of • course, but it's almost ipmessible in the R.O.A.F. All applicants for trades must pass the `trade teats" even be- fore the medical examination. Two corporals starts the questioning. It the man awes: them, ne gees to the Warrant. Officer. To save time, I slipped past the two corporals and went directly to Warrant Officer W. H. Day, faaniliaaly known as Sgt. Major Day. In years past, I knew more than one Sergeant Major. It was never the most popu- lar rank in the Army. But SO. Major Day was unlike any other of the rank that I :had met: For One thing, he had a sense of humor. Equally important, he seemed to have an uncanny know- ledge of the intricacies of all •the trades n the Air Force. I looked down the long list and pre- tended I wanted to be a motor mech- anic (I really wanted- to be a pilot, but I was a bit too ..old). I couldn't imagine myself being a Diesel oiler or a pigeon loftman or a masseur or an interpreter, but everybody knows how to drive a car, -so I would be a motor mechanic. "Suppose you were out driving with your girl on the way to Niagara Palle and you were on a back road some- where" (wItat that man knows) "and your car stopped, what would you db first?" asked tlie Sergeant Major. I said that I would look in the gas, teak, but it appeared I had plenty of gas., After covering several possibil- ities, it seemed I had trouble in the timing of the ignitton; and I was soon beyond my depth. The Warrant Offi- cer knew far more about it than I did. no I decided to be a pilot after all. That is typical of what every re- cruit goes through at first. t asked if some were not too nervous to answer. After all, a mait joining the Air Force was taking an important and decisive step. Sgt. Major Day agreed, but he said- that he soon put 'most recruits at ease and 1 believed him.1-If a few were still nervous, he sent them in to talk to die girls on the staff for a while. I didn't know whether to be. neve that or not. .Anyway, 1sskipped The attestation.paper which the re - emit must fill out contains the expect- ed questions, such as narae, age, plate of birth, and so on. There is apace enoughto :list the names of eight children, which should .be ample. There ' are also some less Obvious. euestionsi Have you ever been con - evicted of an indictable offence? Are you in debt? (If se, state particulars —and there is plenty of space for the particulars): Sports and hobbies? In addition,, there is a question about flying experience in hours, solo, dual or passenger. It is said that some of the applicants, particularly from the 17nited States,. have plenty of hourtn to their credit, but that doesn't always „guarantee that they will -be geed. pil- ots, in the fighting services. Definite man 'detailed instructions are given to each applicant when filling in the forms, yet 90 per emit ire said to make one stupid mistake: they don't write in the name of their. tome town. They don't forget their ;street address, but mast of them ap- plying. at that centre are from Toron- to and don't think at necessary to say so. The Medical Examinations The medical examination is thor- ough, partiCular attention, being paid to the eyes and hearing, as'might be expected. After passing the usual .eye tests, reading letters on the chart at a distance of 20 feet in a darkened, tunnel, and so on, the doctor hen1 up his fingers two feet ;in, front of my eyes and told me to watch it, as he sloWly pushed it ,nearer hiy face. Gradually I grew more and More .cross-eyed, which was quite xtroper. He asked me to try it with hint.' 'His eye' followed my finger to a cer- tain point, then one suddenly snapped back. 1 was surprieede but it's fairly aommon. Those candidates haven't perfect niuseular co-ordination, it seems, and can't judge distance ac- curately. They are the ones who might crash into another plane while land - Finally, there was the color blind- ness test I looked at colored circles, in a book, one to a page. Each one looked ati though It was a mosaic patterns and in each I 'amid trace with little 'afficulty usually, though not so easily' sometimes, a pair of figures -57, or 29, or a pattern. A man who was color btind would see -an entirely different number, one whieh didn't show up' 'Until pointed out by - Flying .Officer Kinsey, who was giving' me the tests. The ,scestem was devis- ed by a Japanese professor who had made a study of cdlor -blindness. For those who are seriously color blind, there is a light test with red and green lights. It ie said that five per ' cent. of the recruits are toter blind and so useless as members of an air crew. Last stage in the recruiting process was carried on in a basement eopm where a full set of my finger prints was taken. The fingere were stuck on a sheet of. glass coated With printerfs ink or something of the kind, then pressed one liy one in the Proper places on a card, than the four fingers of the left ihand together and the foUr of the right hand. "My guide enneyed One iinteettgelY but there eeeitted to be a liettain hnitess to it. as The ninitibete% of the '11..O.A.F. carry ,coodoe.o thee tidCithet itletttiftetts esessessannenintenestsin (Continned,frinin PO 2) • by a social hour and 'banquet. Apse - intim tb withdraw July and August meetings was .aopted. The 04144041 report presented by the ,iseeretaiy and adopted showed the lodge in a sound News -Record. Recelned Into Wilted Church 1,70110 -Wing several weeks of pre- paration. by their mlnister, Rev. H. 0, Vernon, fifty young people of Main Street United Church were received into church membership on Sunday evenng at a recepton service attended by well over four hundred people. 'Following the introduction to the con- gregation, the candidates were asked to take their places at the front Of the. church where the Minister ques- tioned them pertaining teethe instruc- tion they had received preparatory to this momentous step in life which they were .taking at this time. The con- gregation then rose to voice together their reception of these young`people into the communion, of the church, af- ter which the minister and A. E. Rob- inson, clerk of the session, ,extended to them the right hand of fellowship. —Mitchell Advocate. Presen4tion To Miss Richmond ' Parents and the students of the junior room of the Blythemblic school toOkadvantage of a short Space of thne, just prior tb thedismissal of school on Wednesday afternoon, to present miss Alberta Richmond, re- tiring teacher, with' an address and a gift, in recognition of her 'splendid services as assistant teacher during the course of We, last three years. Several of the . nnotlinis were present when Shirley Philips read an address to Miss Richmond, and Ronnie Philp made the presentation of a lovely sil- ver, cream and sugar set.—Blyth Stan- dard. 'Deer Seen :Near' Mitchell • On Friday morning Garnet Adams sighted two deer at the rear of his farm. When they sighted the horses the animals jumped the fence and swam across the river to take refuge in -the bush on the ,golf links. It would seem a most unreasonable time of year for these animalsele be roaming around as well as an unusual haunt.—Mitchell Advocate. CKNX — WINGHAM 920 Kcs. 326 Metres WEEKLY' PROGRAM HIGHLIGHTS Friday, July -4-8 a.m., Howard Bed- ford; 8.05, Breakfast Club; 7.15 p.m., "Eb & Zeb"; 8.30, Gulley -Jumpers. Saturday, July 5-9.30 a.m., Kiddies' Party; 11, Saturday, Frolic; 6.30 p.m., Teeswater Sport Interview; 8, Barn Dance. Sunday, July 6-11 a.m., United Chprch; 12.30 p.m., Howard Bedford; 1, Freddy Martin Orchestra; 7, Pres- byterian Church. Monday, July 7-10.30 a.m.; Munch of the Air; 5.30 p.m., Kiddies' Carni- val; 8, Songs by Sarah; 8.30; Ranch Boys. , Tuesday, July` n---7.45 a.m., Hymn Time; 11.15, "Cecil & Sally"; 8 pm., Captains of Industry"; 8.30, Piano Ramblings. Wednesday, July 9-12.30 p.m., War Savings Club; 6.45, Farm Broadcast; 8, Sewers Brothers; 8.30, Clark John- son. Thursday, July 10-7.45 a.m., Hymn Time; 10.80, Church of the'Air; 6.30 ip.m., Baseball Sceres. ' • • Story of .Trek Into Huron Area Was. Prize Essay hz 1856 By J. J. Talm,an in London Free Press Records of the local thistory of 'Ontario are to be found in unexspect- ed places. For example, a descrip- tion of the early history of Bruce County, written only Mx years after the first' settlement was negun, is printed in the journal and &suttee - tions of the -bawd of agriculture of Upper Canada printed in. 1856. This account is an esSay written by John Lynch, of Brampton, which won a prize of £15 for the author. According to the writer, the settle- ment of the county commenced , in 1849 when a few settlers were locat- ed near the lake shore in the Town- ships of Kincardine and Huron. Pre- vious to that year the only settle- ments, were an Indian village near the mouth of the Saugeen, another at the head of .Colpoy's„ Bay, and a few fish- ing and trading huts( in the neighbor- hood of the Saugeen and Pishhig Is- lands and at Cape Croker. The first settlers suffered greatly from the hick bf roads. The most convenient ap- proach to their settlements was by wat'er, but as no-hanbore had been de- veloped, few vessels approached their' shoree The land route into the :first set- tled townships of !niece Which tettplin tions with them wherever they go. After farewells to, Flight Lieut. Luirisden, 0.0. at thelnecaliting- Cen- tre, and Flight Lieut. Mlickell, I head- ed for the Manning Depot, the text Stage in the life of the recruit' sin the Relief Fetilvil all' WO witk Reefed frankness a woman cOrreeptindent w*itea:— "E nave suffered, from constipa- tion as long as I cannemembet, and taken all,ports of things—Wbich m seine cases seemed to do good itt first, hut . afterwards to have no effect. Then 4, thought wo.uldnry Kruschen in my tea, every Meaning, and 1 have dope so kr eyet a year. I am pleased to say after the first month I had no more trouble with constipation and I have felt very fit."—(Mrs.) G. M. S. Kruschen helps to maintain a condition of internal cleanliness. The several salts in Kruschen stimulate the organs of elimination to smooth, ge,ptie action. Your aystem is thus kept clear of dogging waste and poisonous imourities. ed the shortest -distance of new bush road was from Godenich along the lake shore. But this was e most out of the way route for persons coming from the extern parts of the .province. Their most direct wee', by :1•and was from the -Owen Send road across the Townships of Bentinck, Brant, Green= ock and the northern angle of Kin- loss. "But this led them a distance of 40 miles through an unbroken win dernees and across a great number of streams, mostly branches of the Sau- geen, ..eome of them large and rapid' and at times impassable." On one occasion, in the fall of 1849, a party of settlers were proceeding to their lands in Kintardin.e with wagons, cattle and other possessions. They left the Owen Sound road at Durham, intending to cross the country. Thee succeeded in working theer way across the Township of Bentinck and some distance into Brant when they came to a branch of the Saugeen which they could not cross. They were forced to retrace their steps to Dui - ham, then go up to Owen Sound. From there -they crossed over an In- dian portage to • Squthamphoh 'and worked their way down the shore to Kincardine. They had been compel- led to make a circuit of about 100 miles to accomplish 20. 'None but the youngest children of this party of immigrants can have ilv- ed to see the completion of provincial highways 4 and 9, which would have saved them all their trouble ,• but the next ,eummer, 1850, the Government commenced opening a road between Durham. and Kincardine, bridging the streams and icross-waSdng the swamps with corduroy. Itt 1851 the Elora and Saugeen road was projected' to run through the settled parts of the coun- try north and south. The settlement of Bruce was more rapid than most new settlements in the province. By census returns of 1850 the population was only 376; 262 in Kincardine and 114 in Huron Town- ship. By 4852 the population had in- creased to 2,807. By 1855 it was esti- mated that it stood at 12,000. The town plot of Southampton was laid out in the fall of 1850 and a crown lands agency was established there which speeded up the settlement. ' The writer of the prize essay which • gives the above information visited the site of Sopthampton in 1850 .be- fore the , townsite diad been surveyed. He has this to say of the location: "The whole space between the lake and the river was at that time cover- ed with a thick growth of small shrub- bery pines, with the exception of a very small spot at the mouth of the river, valeta there was a dwelling house occupied by a Mr. Kennedy and a number of 'coopers busy manufac- turing fish barrels preparatory to the fall fishing season at the Fishing Is- lands. This Mr. Kennedy Soon after left this locality, and was appointed to the'.cominand of one of the expedi- tions in search of the lamented Cap- tain Franklin." He had previously been in the service of the Hudson's Bay Company. From the stuated appearance of the timber at this place the writer con- cluded that it was second growth and that the original tini'ber had been cleared off ages before and the ground occupied by Indian eorn fields. He also thought that there probably, had been a trading post there during the French regime. In 1850-51 the town lots of South- ampton were sold by the !Crown Lands Departmett, subject to clearing and fencing Aar lot. The small nines were cut down and, formed into green - looking fences, whieh as soon as they had become sufficiently seasoned were used for fuel. The almost impene- trable thicket of 1850 had been con - veiled into an open common' of sev- eral hundred acres by 1855. At that time Southampton contain= ed about 60 houses with from three to four hundred inhabitants, three tav- erns, five or .six stores and a number of merchant shopn. All had more business than they could attend to. Several more buildings were ,going up and mere would have been had it not been for the leek lof lumber. A steam saw mill whieh had been built had burned down. The inns of the place were° crowded with travellers and, boarders and many persons who came to settle actually were leaving be- eause they could not find a place in which to live. Thus 90 years agon Bruce County was already beginning to show- prom- ise of a bright future. A good conscience is paradise.— Arininitts. Enemies carry a report la at quite different farm from the original. , • Pain addoth iest tlitto pleasure, and NEXT WDEK—The .Manning Depot.' teiteheth the Wan! of health. r 1111004 diptamatiA s40.0 laihtary eyes are fOgussed-intopftly .on a taUAxab, the man whn lies it in his power to leopardtze the EristiSh position Transjordsnia, Palesstlae and at the 'Suez Canala, 12 bego wills—Abdul Aziz ibn AbdUr italiman al-reisai al Seed, the ruler of Saadi .A.mbia. • ' 'Saudi Arabia las sfroutiers with Egypt, Traasjordanit, Iraq, 'Kuwait and the Trucial Arab states under British protection, The Arab popula- tions of these territortes, as well of Syria, and Palestine, look to naudi Arabia and its King for leadership. Saudi Arabia also ime coma lines on the Red Sea and the Persian -Gulf, Without exaggerating, it can be call- ed the strategic heart of the Middle East, Ibn Saud, the anctesyealsold power- fully built successful desert warrior, six 'feet four inches In height, has not only. a magnificent physique, though that counts with bus Ineeloutin subjects --he has also shrewd intelligence, .vi- sion and ,diplomatic skill. He is the outstanding figure not only in. the Arab world but in the. whole of Islam for he rules the holy cities of Medina and Mecca. A eel to followers of the Prophet might laanch, 200,000,000 of the Faithful on a jenan, or holy war, against any infidel nation designated by him. A convert to modern forms of warfare he has added planes, m- chanized transport and tanks. to his force of Bedoin horsemen and camel roops. •. Friend or Foe? • His importance can be gauged by the strong bid for Arab support to the British cause made by Foreign Secre- tary Anthony Eden in his recent ad- dress outlining the British war aims. The inclusion of that appeal in such a speech was an. official admission that as yet no rapprochement between the powerful ruler of .the greater part of the Arabian Peninsula and the British Governinent had been made. But Ibn Saud, as he Is usually call- ed, has not yet responded to Eden's promise of British support for a uni fied Arabia in return for active aid in the present crisis in the Middle East. If the British could know Whether he will be friend or foe, or remain neu- tral, the knowledge would be of in- calculable value. What will Ibn Saul decidedto do? Perhaps the answer can be read in his past life history which is truly an amazing tale. srs Unlike most modern dictators', Ibu Sautt comes of a race royal and was born in .the palace at Riad, capital city of Nejd in the heart of Arabia. Two hundred years ago anothersIbri Saud revolted against the Turks in an attempt to recreate an Independ- ent Arabia. The present Ibn Saud hopes to succeed where his great an- cestor failed. Youthful Soldier When Ibn Saud was still a lad, his father Abduri Rahman was driven out of Riad and for a number Of years he and his family were wanderers and exiles .from Nejd. As a boy of ten years Ibn Sand had to play a -soldier's part and in the next decade he be- came a master of desert warfare In 1901, at the age of 21 he recaptured Riad and In the following year he.*as proclaimed. Amir of 'Nejd and linen - of the Wahhabis, the strictest and most warlike sect of Islam: That was the beginning of his rise to greatness. Although the entire Arabian Penin- sula was nominally under the rule of the Sultan of Turkey, the power of the Porte was beginning to wane. A number of sheiks, had made treaties with the Government of India so that the cpastal states bonnerieta,on• the In- dian Ocean and Persian Gaff were vir- tually British Protectorates. At the outbreak of the Great War in 1914 overtures were made by the Govern- ment of India to llbn Sand and a year later he signed a treaty' of alliance with the British. At the same time the Foreign Of- fice acting* through the Illgh Commis- sioner to Egypt, Sir Remy Arthur McMahon had started negotiations with Sherif Husain, King of Hejaz, an Arab state on the Red Sea, and also the state in which Medina and Mec- ca were situated. Col. T. En Lawrence conducted much of the negotiations with ilusain's son Veinal. The Mc- Mahon letters, with their promises of Arab independence and suzerainty ov- er certain areas in the 1Vfiddle East, have been, a bone of contention ever since the war. And the Arabs still refuse to 'accept the British iaterpre- tation. That disagreement is a basic cause of the present difficulty bet- tween Arabs and British. Secret Treaty Another angle, overlooked at the time, was that there had been a here- ditary feud between the Husain and Ibn Saul families, .. Unfortunately, six Months after the McMahon ,Agreement was signed the British Made a secret treaty with the French, • the Sykes -Picot Treaty, in which some of the, territory already promised to the Arabs was to be div- ided 'between the Preach and , the British. To add to the diplorhatic trouble the 13alfout Declaration of December 2, 1917, offered Palestine as, a National Home for the Jewu. This pronouncement roused the Arabs, who had looked upon Palestine as theirs through the McMahan Agree- ment, to It'spitch of fury and almost broke up the Britlah-A.ritb alliance. nut matters we're sineotted over until the war was went. The post-tini settlenterd of linddle Eastern Claims of the Arabs Was a =ladle prem start to fitliah and the ultimate result waa, that e Oslittelide in the British Wag replaged 1) aile01,' Cion and distinct. Nor hag that .asttk, 'nide -changed dial)* the tw•'eatn treard / that have intervened. The feud between, nitatain ,and Sand broke oat with renewed violence immediately 'general liostilities cea ed and a private war between the two Was inaugurate d An +battle for the Kaurrna oasis, held by Iba •Saud but. Claimed by Husain, ,The British sup- ported Husain ibeinbet sin IbSaud butau:won. Tbis a v the British even then did not grasp the Point that llbn Saud was the coming main they planned a Confederacy of Arab States with Husain as the head; lbn Saud was completely ignored. "I Will Strike!" Ibn Sand's attitude towards Euro- peans in general. and the English in particular is best given in his own words spoken to Ameen Rahini, the American -Arab scholar: "I liken Eur- ope today to a great iron, door, but Wenn. in. Ant.fhlin. s 'YPe England is of Europe . . . and I am the friend of the Ingliz, their ally . . But I will walk with them only as far as my honor and my religion will permit . . . What we have done for the Ingliz during the war and after, no other Arab could do. And we will keep faith •with (hem, even through loss and injury, so long as they keep faith with us. Be assured the Ingliz are my debtors. But I make no claims and yet, see what they have done to me—to Ibn Saud their friend and ally. • They spin, and spin—spin nets for me. They have surrounded me with enemies—set up states which they are supporting against me . . . I am am- bitious—very amlbitious. Not for my own sake, but for the sake of all the Arabs. . Whet), the Ingliz want some- thing, they get it. When we want something we have to fight for it. well put my seal if Great Britain says 'You must.' But I will strike when I can. -Not in bertyal, Allah be my wit - 'ea1min. inntljnin, Oftnt Ptildd d 1:401111/nif,',, ,,Yant to bogden1;:s between the Pritiaix When in 190 _, PaUhbate nee*1e Os gm* ' cnunitnntinenter fltrocUle ed. iiisMaelf the maw OthPlz. T4s'w4fa. *sole* world was Axed w#1), 4g7:, nation. pbn Satin, seized 'thin gonias elVe4enit7 41141 attaniCedis.,Aej#, WO. Britiab. did not support, „Ktisain,.. • Sandk.kgrO/e out 14s tvaI and added thip Sacred State to his grotning Ar- ahlan emPiria The British became alarmed an -used pressure to force him to wfthdraw from the -corridor separating Transjordania and Iraq. Diplomatically Ibn Sand agreed but he did not forget. In 1927 he signed the Treaty of Jedda with the British by whichehe was formally recognized as King nof the Hejaz and of Najd and its De- pendencies. This Treaty was to be renewable every' seven years and was• renewed in 1934. In ilfritler Sand' added Asir to his possessions and four years later Jt couquered Yemen but did not annex it, contenting himself with binding .phe teem to himself by a treaty. Another treaty with Trans- jardania temporarily settled the feud between Emir And:sullen and :himself. Mo rn Ways The Greater 4rabia created by Ibn Saud was renamed Saudi Arabia in' 1932 in his honor. Within Its borders Bin Saud has unified the many differ- ent tribes to an amazing degree. He h'as conquered the opposition, of the religious teachers to his introduction of modern inventions such as the mo- tor car, the aeroplane, the railways radio, electric light and so forth. Many of his young men have been sent to Europe and America to bring back technical knowledge needed to com- pete with Occidental nations. But he has adhered firmly to Islam ani therein lies the secret of his great in- Out ,Urse :P411113' Innt- ;int the Into bae,hard the" 0040' with him! 'k At all events dbn. $mid: erned mn his. decision as allies Wholly by wilat be eii" von be of greatest aell'autiffe Arabia. Every wheel Inas Ms GYM every land its oWa eustomeneBottas guess proverb. How much of injustice and deprave, ity is sanctioned by canton! Ter' -• ewe. / WILSON FLY PADS.) WILL KILL MORE FLIES THA7 SEVERAL DOLLARS'WORTH ANYOTHERFLY KILLER 1 OC WHY PAY MORE Best of all fly killers. Clean, quick, sure, cheap. Ask your Drug- gist, Grocer or General Store. TH WILSON FLY PAD CO., HAMILTON, ONT. ADVERTISEMENTS Are A Gide • To Value a • Experts can roughly estimate the value of a product by looking at it. More accurately, by hand- ling and examining it. Its appearance, its texture, - the "feel" and the balance of it all means something to their trained eyes and fingers. • • But no One person can be an expert on steel, brass, -wood, leather, foodstuffs; fabrics, and all of the materials that make up a list of personal pur- chases. And even experts are fooled, sometimes, by concealed flaws and imperfections. • There is a surer index of value than the senses oCsight and touch . . . knowledge of the maker's name and for what it stands. Here is the most cer- tain method, except that of actual use, for judging the value of any manufactured goods. Here is the only guarantee against careless workmanship, or the use of shoddy materials. • This is one important reason why it pays to read advertisements and to buy advertised goods. The product that is advertised is worthy of your confidence. • MERCHANDISE MUST BE GOOD OR IT COULD NOT BE CONSISTENTLY ADVERTISED IWY ADVERTISED GOODS • The. Huron Expositor Established 1860 , MeLE AN BROS., Puhlishers, SEAFORTIa k