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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1941-07-18, Page 2JULY 18, 1,941. positor Established 1860 ' Keith McPhail McLean, Editor. Published at Seaforth, Ontario, ev- ery Thursday afternoon by McLean .Bros. Subscription rates, $1.50 a year in advance ; foreign, $2.00 a year. Single copies, 4 cents each. Advertising rates on application. SEAFORTH, Friday, July 18, 1941 The Glorious Twelfth Seaforth had the honor of welcom- ing some eighty. odd -Loyal Orange Lodges at the celebration of the Glorious Twelfth on Saturday last. It was, indeed, a momentous occa- sion for this town, and as a celebra- tion, exceeded anything in our ' his- tory. At a. conservative estimate, there were fifteen thousand people in town, and if there had been many more we would have been put to it to, provide accommodation. But it was a happy, orderly crowd and the Fraternity at large, and the officials who organized and carried out the programme of the celebra- tion are, certainly, to be congratulat- , ed. Likewise, thanks are due the wea- therman for providing a perfect day which permitted the crowds to re- ' main, in undiminished numbers, far into the nigh Seaforth did its best for them, but when the , invasion numbered so - many thousands, it is possible a few did not get quite enough to eat, and a few others, perhaps, got a little too much to drink, but after all we doubt 'if any celebration ever achieved a cleaner• record, and Seaforth will welcome the Orangemen again at any time. • The Question Of Conscription There are a great many people in Canada, a minority, it is true, but still a very vocal minority, who seem bent on forcing a conscription issue in this country. And among. the most vocal voices of -this minority is that of the Toronto Globe and Mail, which in s'eason and out of season, and of- ten without much consistency, has been trying to whip up the people against the no -conscription policy of the King Government: - ' The, Globe and Mail, and some other people too, apparently fail to remember, or to wilfully disregard the fact that the King Government was elected only fifteen months ago in a campaign in which all parties pledges' themselves against conscrip- tion in Canada. Ttie decision of the people at that time does not neces- _sarily mean that conscription must 'never, or may never, 'become an is- sue in Canada. But it does mean, without question of doubt, that con- scription in Canada involves an ap- peal to the people through the med- ium of a general election_ To the , Globe and Mail, however, an election at this time is "unthink- able." All that Mr. King has to 'do, in the opinion of that paper, is to go back on his pledge to the people; in- - conscription and by so doing he will gain the support and co-oper- ation of all other parties in brie House, regardless of the fact that all' these other parties would have to go back on their pledges to their sup- porters as well. We have an idea that the reason that an election at this time is "un- thinkable -in the .eyes of the Toron- to paper is because that paper knows, as every other paper in close touch with the people knows, would result in, a very decisive defeat of the conssription issue. This does not lean that the people of Canada are isloyal,. because they are not, never ia''e,, or never will ;be. But it does c:. that i.i"t this countrythere is a m r that �a�o Its`, 'belief t s,t yids a! freedom Can ,much better i-y't,., 'ig .1'lfX`a jI,UW�� C'anada' v IMIta. bash either,e the Gbe like arse P. disloyal nation in the,. British Em- pire. As a matter of fact, only!neat Britahi, in the whole Empre, has imposed conscription on its- people for all purposes. New Zealand has considered the matter, but no deci- sion has been arrived at, while in Australia and South Africa the is- sue never even has arisen and the loyalty of these countries has never for,; one moment been imputed. Dur- ing the last war conscription in Aus- tralia was the subject of a referen- dum, which was defeated and drop- ped, and has never since been an is- sue. Even conscription in Northern Ireland was dropped because, as Mr. Churchill expressed it in the British House of Commons recently, "it would be more trouble than it is worth to enforce such a policy." In theory, the case for conscrip- tion is, perhaps, unanswerable, (utf we do not live in a world of theory, but in a very practical one, where the best policy to adopt by any Gov- ernment is the one which works best and not the one that works best on paper. That the voluntary system of re- cruiting in Canada has been success- ful there can be no dispute. In May last the Government asked for thir- ty-two thousand volunteers. That number has been reached and pass- ed, and reached in spite of every in- nuendo that a good many, daily pa- pers could suggest against the Gov- ernment, and the heads of Canada's war effort. • Leave It To The Women ne I>Frotaitd'InpttitiPll Picked from Th. H4li"4'ls ppsiter of Fifty and ftp Years Ago. In peace time or in war, when it comes to a question of quick think- ing or quick action, the matter can generally be left quite safely in the hands of the women. Fortunately, however, for man- kind, women's aim is not always as. accurate . as in the story told by the Associated Press in a despatch from ,London. - The crew of an "invading" tank halted in an English village during army maneuvers, was surprised when the wife of an air raid warden edged up and suddenly hurled a rock into the open turret. "You're out of action," cried the woman. "That was -a bomb." "Madam," replied the commanding officer in an icy voice, "I'm not fight- ing women." "Well, .I'm fighting invaders!" was the retort. . An umpire, summoned, ruled that the tank had .been'"destroyed." We haven't a doubt either, that if the invasion of England ever comes, that episode will be repeated count- less times by the women of Britain. • Campbell's Soup Campbell -Soup is too well known a household commodity to need any introduction from us. And, anyway, we don't believe in free advertising, although 'our disbelief and dislike -has never yet ---succeeded in keeping the columns of this paper free from such advertising. The wiles of a few men and many women 'have al- ways proved too strong for us. Anyway, this is not a story of Campbell Soup, but a story about John T. Dorrance, Jr., who receives a twenty thousand dollar a month allowanceas an heir to the Camp- bell Soup millions, and John is en- titled to a little free advertising, or any, other comforts that may come his future way. Because John can no longer pro- ceed to enjoy himself on his twenty thousand dollar a month income for the reason that Uncle Sam only pays her soldiers twenty-one dollars a month, and.John has been drafted as a buck private in the United States army,. On July 12th the Princeton Uni- versity graduate, in company with one hundred and fifty other young men, took the oath of enlistment— then bedded down for the night in- a two-storey pine barracks after a dih- ner of liver and onions. By the time John's term of enlist- ,anent expires, we,.venture to say that he will appbe;Y ate Campbell! b ll Soup just about as much as he formerly appreciated' the ,income nehe de vel rut t ando We're, little tore4! From The' 1-luron Expositor , 4ialy 21, 1916 The schali;tx'sbip for the entrance examinations goes to Mr. Wm. Laing, who obtained the remarkably high to- tal of ¢05, unirks, Miss Ida Hogg stood first in the country with 533 marks • to her ,;credit. Miss Irene Douglas, of -.Stanley, who has been teaching for the past two years at S, S. No. 5, Stanley, and who is severing her connection with that school, was made the recipient of a presentation and an address expres- sive of the appreciation of her ser- vices' as a teacher. Mr. Ed. He1llett, -Seaforth, left on Tuesday for Collingwood, to attend the convention of the Poster Adver- tising Association. Corp. Lorne; Pethick, a former Sea- forth eo-forth boy, now training in England, was selected as one of the Royal Guard of Honor when His Majesty King George presented the Canadian troops with colors. - Mr. E. J. Box has purchased a Ford car from Mr. J. F. Daly. This makes the seventeenth car Mr. Daly has dis- posed of this, year. Messrs. J Beattie, J. Rankin, F. S. Savange and John MacTavish were in Grand Bend this week on a fishing expedition. Dr_ H. H. Ross has pgrchassed a Chevrolet car from Mr. G. D. Haigh, the Iocal agent. H. Chesney, L. Fleurscheutz and II. Weiland, of Egmondviille, have recent ly had - Hydro -Electric lights installed in their residences. The work was done by Messrs. E. Mole and L. C. Jackson. Mr. Wm. Pybns, of Chiselhurst, had. a successful barn raising last week. Mang' from the Chiselhurst district attended the dirt bee and dance held on the faun of John Bell in Usborne last week. Mrs. Fred. Beattie and two children of Edmonton, • Alta., are visiti!g at the parental home of Mr. and Mrs, S. T. Holmes. Seaforth public school made a re- cord showing at the recent entrance examinations, when twenty-one pupils wrete and twenty-one passed, 15 of this: number taking honors. Th'e twenty-second annual tourna- ment of the Seaforth Lawn Bowling Club was held, on their greens here on Wednesday. It is expected that the !Innis In the trophy and consola- tion events will be reached on Thurs- day evening and the doubles on Fri- day. Miss Anna Hess, of Zurich, had a veru arronw escape froth losing her eyesight one day last week. She was opening a can of chloride of lisle when it exploded and. the conteuts flew into her face, severely burning her. + Mrs. J. B Thompson was called home on Thursday from New York -owing to the ,death of her father, the tate James Noble. • From The Hixon Expositor July 24, 1891 From figures given us by Mr. Blai of Tuckersmith, the ,popular collecto of the Forest Home Egg Van, w learn that from the 15th of April u to now she has collected eggs to th value -of $4,060. Mr. C. ' sinelair. Simpson has re turned from the Old Country and re sumed his former position in th Bank of Commerce in Seafotth. Mr. William McDonald, son of . Rev A. D. McDonald, leaves here 'nex i'.eek for Winnipeg to take a situation in that city. He was one of the lead ing members of the" Huron Footbal ('lub and will be missed in athletic and social circles. The families Mr. T. O. Kemp and Mr. M. Y. McL, hn went, to- Bayfield this week where they will live and rusticate for a month. Miss Grace McFaul has returned home from ber.astud"nes at the Toron- to College of Music and was most successful in her examinations. A very serious- accident occurred en ;the rams , pf.J r, John Reid, Bay- field road, Stanley Township, on Wed- nesday. last. Mr. Reid was working in a field with a team of young hors- es and one of hie sons was cutting weeds with a scythe when the horses became frightened and. ran away. The lad tried to stop them but was run over and badly 'cut and bruised. At the last regular meeting of Lady Saunderson True Blue Lodge, Wal- ton, a committee of Orangemen com- posed of the following 'brethren, H. Hamilton; M. Morrison,' It. H. Fergu- son and John S. Welch, of Loyal O,r- ange Lodge No. 252, visited the lodge and presented the members with a well -stied purse in recognition of their services 'rendered so freely in making their new banner. Mr:' James D. Dickson, of the Brock- ville Collegiate Institute, its spending his holidays at hiss father's resideacrs in McKillop. Mr. Wm. Pinkney has miss h' ndsorne Bonner colt in training for tine Colt races at Brantford, which takes plaaee next month. Mr. Robert Jamierxni; of the 'Golden Lion Store, Seaforth, left on: 'kesdiaiy� on his semi-nnnual trip to the old Country to look up bengaline and at, tractions for 'his -numerous eastern ers. .t Mr. Alex Stewart is desin olleiting an, other of the olds Huron tract' land- marks. He is pulling-idown the house and shoe shddTpp of Mr. David Nle(uI- loch in Harpdrhey; It Is over forty' ars since it was a,s erected• and the y e !Anthers and sheeting` are gal as sound a;nd"nohd as the day they were pita art. Mr. W. Chtdtnore, of ' IKip. � en left C]in>ton ,on Friday for -the Old �Coun- try' taking a , roneigaiment kof cattle with,' .itim. - "'il owin ''Gtr it M 'iia. rein:. o< g 'Si" eiistly+i ollii Glint'our, ,Ir,,,t of Stan e' gtunlb- "led over' £Iib diI' enit, th tnpoi bt filch t w t�lot a ed bio ha � �, ti , li � ai - a volts .001'wi i' �w d� f r r e p e e "Couple of months ago he was just another office boy around here!" -Phil Qsifer of •• t Lazy Meadows ;