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SEAFORTH, Friday, October 31st
The. Dominion Parliament
The Dominion Parliament will
meet in session at Ottawa on Mon-
day next: It is not. expected, how-
ever, that the session will be a long
one, as there appears to be no special
legislation in sight.
The session, on the other hand,
should prove a most interesting one.
Both Premier King and Mr. Hanson,
House Leader of the Conservative
party, which is the official opposi-
tion, have recently returned from
Britain, where they spent some
weeks gaining first hand information
on Britain's ` war efforts, and the
place Canada is expected to fill as a
nation of the Commonwealth.
It is expected that the Prime Min-
ister will ask the unanimous consent
of the House to make a report on the
"state of the nation and will then
give a review of the general situa-
tion, with particular reference to, the
war and Canada's part in it, which
will be followed by a general debate
in which all parties will participate.
Twominor party leaders, how-
ever, will be missing when the debate
takes place as Mr. 'Coldwell, acting
C.C.F. House Leader, and Mr. Black-
more, former Social Credit, and now
New Democracy leader, are now in
the Old Country, and if their stay is
to be of sufficient length to be of any
practical benefit to themselves, their
parties or the House, they are not
likely to see much of the November
session.
When the members meet they will
be in possession of full details of the
wages and price stabilization plan,
and Labor Minister McLarty will
have a pronouncement -to make on
the prohibiting of wage increases,
the extending' of the principles of
the cost _of living bonuses, and the
price ceiling features of the plan:
Perhaps, as we,say, the 'session will
not -be a long one, but it should,be
one of intense interest to the people
of Canada. -
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The British Columbia Elections
The results of the British Colum-
bia provincial elections on Tuesday
of last week were a distinct surprise
to the people of the other Provinces,
and must have been a distinct disap-
pointment to Premier Pattulo and
his Government.
In the last Legislature the Liberal
Government controlled , thirty-one
seats out of a House of fifty. Con-
sequently, as there Were no provin-
cial election issues at stake, it was
generally expected that Premier Pat-
tulo
attulo would be returned with a simi-
lar or even greater following.
However, Sir John A. Macdonald's
old statement that there was nothing
more uncertain than the result of a
horse' race or an election, has once
again proven very true, for while
the Premier and all but two of his
cabinet were returned, he lost ten
seats in the House, and with them a
majority- with which to carry on his
government.
The present standing in the Legis-
lature iS twenty-one Liberals, four-
teen C.C.F., twelve Conservatives,
and one Laborite, all of which means
that none of the parties has a suffici-
ent majority to form a government
without the support of one or other
of the other parties.
Consequently, there will have to be
a Union Government of all three par-
ties, a Coalition Government of two
of them, or anew election. The pos-
sibility of the latter, in war time, is
not anticipated, and as the C.C.F.
loader has already rejected the pro-
posai• of a Union Government, that
leaves but one solution, and that is
formation of a. Coalition Govern -
de. tt; r of tiberals and Con-
,iid that, it is confidently
li be, the path chosen,
x41 t e meets otifle-
m
The reasons given for Premier
Pattu;lo's • failure to either hold or in-
crease his former majority, are
many and varied, but the most out-
standing as given by British Colum-
bia papers, is his conduct at Ottawa
last'January, when he, with Premier
Hepburn of Ontario, and Premier
Aberhart, of Alberta, deliberately
wrecked the Provincial Conference
before deliberations had well been
started.
If that is true, and the contention
seems extremely well founded, what
is going to happen in Ontario when
the Hepburn Government's lease of
life runs out next year? One thing
is certain: the result of the British
Columbia election must have been al-
most as great a disappointment' to
the Ontario Premier as it was to the
British Columbia one. Perhaps that
is why we are hearing so many and
so persistent Tumors of a coalition
government of Liberals and Con-
servatives for this province.
It is true that Premier Hepburn
has denied the possibility of any
such move, but Mr. Hepburn, astute
politician that he is, must, know now,
if he -did not guess it before, that the
next Ontario provincial election is
going to be a real fight, and not a
walk -away, as the two previous ones
have been.
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Whp We Need Censors
The war -time censor can be very,
very provoking. You know how it
is, when you get a letter that has
been censored. The part that has
been cut out by the censor immedi-
ately becomes the most important
part of the letter. You puzzle your
brains to imagine what those sen-
tences may have been, and your. cur-
iosity starts working and never
stops.
It• is a nasty kind of business,. but
the curiosity, the babbling and the
'many other frailties of human na-
ture have made it an absolutely nec-
essary business in time of war.
That point was brought out last
week in a despatch --from Sydney,
New South Wales, which stated that
the amazing carelessness of letter
writers in Australia in penning valu-
able information to the enemy, had
just been disclosed there. .
In less than three weeks in New
South Wales alone, references in
private letters to troop ships, con-
voys and -defence matters,'had to be
removed from ten thousand, one hun-
dred and twenty-eight letters by :the
censors:
Of these,, ten thousand and over
letters, no less 'than five thousand
four hundred and nineteen had „been
written to members of the fighting
services abroad, and were, therefore,
running a special risk of falling in-
to enemy hands. And one of the
startling facts was that fifty pee
cent. of these offending letters were
written by business houses, and not
people writing to relatives or
friends.
Concerning these letters a military
spokesman said that they mentioned
all sorts of prohibited details, includ-
ing shipping in Australian waters,
movement of troops, sizes of convoys
and the datesdof their sailing.
In fact, there was a startling
amount of information, any one part
of which would have been of direct
and utmost value to the 'Germans.
That was in Australia, but how much
better are we in Canada?
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Getting The Higher Ups
Troops on m tnouvers in the Eng-
lish
re
Midland last week were order-
ed in their feigned warfare to en-
gage in acts of sabotage, 'however
small.
One private, after rummaging
-about in a staff car of the rival forc-
es, reported to his officer that he
had blunted 'the edge of the "enemy"
general's razor.
The general was later captured,
and the officer who saw him use the
razor said: "It was a good piece of
sabotage. Besides hacking his face,
the general was so furious he could
scarcely have thought clearly for the
rest of the day."
That kind of an order would loom
pretty large in the life of an ordin- d
ary Tommy, but we pause to won-
der just what would happen if a
Canadian private, acting on �a saby
stage order, rummaged' through a.
General'sstair ear, -.
Years -Agorae
HITLER GOES INTO RUBBISH CAN
Interelltino Items Picked From
Thi Huron Exposltor of Fifty and
Twenty-fly/0 Yeers Ago.,
From The Huron Expositor
November 3, 1916
Mr. William McCauley, janitor at
the Seaforth Collegiate; received a
telegram from the war office on Wed-
nesday stating that his brother, Pte.
Frederick McCauley tract been wound-
ed by a gunshot wound and had been
admitted to No. 2 Australian Hospi-
tal.
At Toronto University at the recent
scholarship examination, J. Clifford
Bell was awarded the fourth Edward
Blake Scholarship and also the First
Carter Scholarship to the total value
of $305, While his standing in ail de-
partments was very creditable, )ie
was first in chemistry in the Prov,
ince of Ontario.
On Friday last Mr. f., D,-Hiuehley,
representative for the London Life
Assurance Co., delivered a cheque to
Mrs. J. M. Govenlock for $2,1100, be-
ing a policy carried by her son, the
late Thomas E. Govenlock.
The 161st Battalion left Camp Bor-
den for the east on Friday last.
Mr. Milton Chesney, who has been
in the Dominion Bank, Orillia, has
been transferred to the Seaforth
branch as teller,
Mr. R. G. Murdie has moved his..
family to' Stratford, where he has a
position as miller in one of the flour
mills an that city.
Mr, Ernest .Chittenden left for the
West with a carload of horses for Mr.
Sparks.
Mr. Thomas Consitt, of HilIsgreen,
:has sold his splendid farm of 150 ac-
res to Mr. E. Broderick, of Dashwood,
for .the., sum of $11,100.
Mr. and Mrs. William Tapp, of Ex-
eter, whose sou Thomas has been at
the front for a year and a half as me-
chanical driver, has received word
that he is on his way home on fur-
lough,
C. T. Brooks, of Exeter, who has
had the express. business there for
the past sixteen years, has resigned
and Mr. Thomas Creech took aver the
business on Nov, 1st.
Mr. and Mrs- John Horan, Seaforth,
received word that their son, James,
who enlisted with the 94th Battalion
at Kenora, had been killed in action
in France.
Mis's Isabel and Master Jack Close,
of Egmon(dville, gave a masquerade
partyto a number of their friends on
Tuesday evening.
Mrs- Margaret Mulligan, of Grand
Forks, N.D., has a ten !visiting her
aunt in Blyth and r tier friends.
Mr. Hicknell, of 11"- -tillop, has near-
ly finished. the Barron Drain.
Mr. Alei Davidson, one of the old-
est and most ,,prominent residents of
Seaforth, entered upon his, 86th year
on Wednesday and' he walks down
town every 'day. It is 42 years since
he came to Seaforth and there, are
only four of tlln business men of that
day still to the fore. They are Thoe.
Stephens, James Beattie; Sam Dick-
son and Alex Stewart.
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Froin The Huron Expositor
October 30, 1891
Scott -Ross -At the residence of the
bridets parents, on the 28th inst., by.
the Rev. A. D. McDonald, assisted by
Rev. :P. Musgrave, Mr. Archibald D.
Scott, of Thornton Hall„ McKillop, to
Miss Annie Elizabeth, youngest daugh-
ter of Finlay Ross,, Esq., of Seaforth.
There was a slight flurry of snow- in
Clintoa on Thursday of last week.
This was the,first of the season.
E. W. -Hagarty, B.A., formerly of
the Seaforth Collegiate Institute, and
latterly headmaster of the Mount For-
est High School, has just received the
appointment of classical master in
'the new Harbord St. 'Collegiate Insti-
tute in Toronto, at a salary of $1500.
Messrs. W. Gi Willis and H. J. Craw-
ford took part in an entertainment in
aid of Knox Churoh, Mitchell, on
Tuesday evening,
Mr. D. D. 'Wilson is having a large
addition made to his barn and stables
on the Adams' farm, adjoining town.
His new stabling will afford( addition-
al accommodation for about 40' cows.
Messrs. S. .Barton, . & Son, of •town,
have finished another neat covered
carriage for the Seaforth and- Gorrie
stage line.
In a football match Wednesday,. ev-
ening between the "Oaks"• and "Maple
Leafs," in competition for the Craw-
ford Cup, the Maple Leafs ,came out
victorious by one goal, to 0.
• Mr. John Gill, assisted by J. T.
Westcott, of Exeter, the 'agent for
Stone & Wellington Nursery, 'of To-
ronto, delivered over $600 worth of
trees at Exeter on Monday and Tues-
day last.
The"""barns and .outbuildings of Mr.
William Armstrong, on the 9th conces-
sion of McKillop, were destroyed by
fire on Wednesday evening Fast. Only
the animals were' saved, so quickly
did' the flames spread.
Mr. James Martin's sale on the 1itill.
Road on Tuesday last was largely at-
tended and proved a splendid success.
Mr. W. G. Duff, of Seaforth, wielded
the auctioneer's hammer.
My. 3. H. Pyper, for many years a
respected resident of Seaforth, bas
gone to Stratford where he has pur-
chased -,the dry goods business of
Messrs. MacNair, Hamilton & Co.
'Dhe directors of the public hall at
Kippen intend to open the new hall
with a grand concert on Friday eve-
ning, Nov. ]3.- Among those who will
take part will be Meseta. J. McMil-
lan, A. Bishop, M. Y. McLean, Sea -
forth; George E, Jackson, Egmon•rl-
ville, and Dr. Rollins, Exeter.
The Methodist congregation of
Grand Bend is busily engaged in
building a new shed and. .intend hold-
ing a tea meeting' In the same about
Mavetlnber 11th.
Eager - 'iarywrlg'ht: "I wish Y.could
tralnla uta a big, strongs1tttaitiotl that
will& oil the laudi'enee **Ai ieark."
. Th ,tire Manager: : "I'na looking for,
one that will the tiers With attar.
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Two students of the British ComMonwealth Air Train Plan demon •
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strate what's going to happen to Hitler when they and their fellows ...
have completed their job. Prankster going into the can is Frank
"Knobby" Clark of England and student applying the lid is Michael
Lebas of the Argentine, The act was performed at Uplands aidport
at Ottawa.
• Phil Osifer of• I.tazy Meadows
Clay Harry J. Beyb),
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"FURNACE FIRING"
At Lazy Meadows we have always
depended on a range to heat the kit-
chen and the back two bedrooms, and
a heater in the front parlor sends up
sufficient heat for the dining room,
the living room and the' two front
bedrooms. Maple and beech 'blocks
stoked into those two stoves have
always seemed to us to 'be the per,-,
feet answer to any heating problem
we may have.
I must admit at times, however,
that the thought of installing a fur-
nace seemed to be pretty bright. Sit-
ting in one of the homes in the vil-
lage basking in the warm air whioh
seemed to come in a never-ending
stream from the furnace registers
seemed like a winter variety' of heav-
en. My idea, however, was that all
you had to. db- with a furnace was
throw coal on the fire and fiddle a
bit with the drafts. How sadly mis-
taken I was on that score!
Last Thursday I dropped in to see
my cousin in the village. It was a
chilly day ,and I found her snuffled
in clothes trying to Warm herself ov-
er a small electric plate. She -asked
me rather plaintively if I knew any-
thing about a furnace. I confessed
my ignorance of furnacefiring but
backed by considerable experience in
keeping stoves going I offered to try.
Everything went lovely. First of
all the bottom of that furnace was
filled with half -burned coal and ash-
es. :There was nothing around to put
the ashes in and so, finding a number
of those small fruit baskets, we
started filling them with ashes. By
the time the bottom part of the fur-
nace had been cleaned out the cellar
floor Iooked like a minir'ture of the
Sahara desert with the ashes taking
the part of sand dunes.
Finally the furnace was cleaned'
out. My Sunday/ suit was liberally
speckled with gray ashes and dust.
Kindling? There just didn't seem to
be any kindling. Some of the ashes
had to be dumped and the baskets
broken up to give the fire the proper.
start. Paper . . . no paper to be
seen. This required a trip. upstairs,
during which I forgot that the smoke
pipe dipped low in the furnace room
and I gave myself a resounding blow
do the top of the head. I reeled up-
stairs to get the paper.
The fire was set. A neat pile of
smashed basket rested on top of a
mound of paper. A flickering finger
of flame caught at the corner of the
paper and it started with a dull roar.
Everything seemed to be going nicely
until the cellar began to fill up with
smoke. When I bumped my head I
had evidently knocked the smoke
pipe out „of the' chimney.
Replacing the .pipe in the chimney
required crawling in over the top of
the coal in the bin. There was just
space to wriggle through and I felt
like a,boat with its hull scraping on
rocks. The pipe was just about in
when an avalanche' of coal decided to
roll 'back . , , me with it. I skin-
ned ••my elbows ,and dipped my face
right down into the coal. And all the
while the smoke grew thicker. The
pipe was at last put back in the hole.
By this time the baskets were
warm, ashes. That. required building
the fire over again and. dumping out
siome ashes. The flames were /going
nicely and I shot in a dose of coal
expected to see it burst up into
flames. Nothing happened! I wait-
ed for some time. Still no flame!
The coal evidently put out the fire
altogether.
Have you ever scraped coal out of
a furnace . . , bashing your knuckles
and trying to make.; the grates turn
over? If there ever was a lob in-
tended to make you' forget all the
good resolutions of your life it is that
one.
I fussed and fumed and fumbled
and managed at last. to get a small
bit of ooal in' the centre of the fur-
nace going strong. I turned dampers
and pulled wires until the furnace
seemed to shake every time it saw
nae walking close to it.
At last the fire started. Thena for
some reason or other it stopped mak-
ing a noise. I sat and watched it
carefully, wondering what the next
move, would be. Curious to know just
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what was going on I opened ,the door
rather cautiously , , , and then
"boom" . . . the grates rattled and
coal dust and flames shot out the
door.
I was certain that the furnace
would go out then, but strangely en-
ough it started to (burn merrily with
no interference, The `furnace was go-
ing. I was covered with dust and
dirt and completely disgusted with
life in general.
Stoves may be old-fashioned, but
they are certainly not as tempera-
mental as furnaces. '
• Our Food Supply •
• (By John Atkins, Farm'er-Jonrn;la,lisi) •
No. 2—EVERYON'S PROBLEM
Every Canadian has a. farm prob-
lem, "My farm problem?" the town
Canadian asks. "Yes, your farm
problem." You may not know farm-
ing. You may not know how to milk
a cow or harness a horse. You may
think that a doubletree is a lawn
shrub, But you have a farm problem
nevertheless.
You and your family need food.
Your armed forces need food. Your
British kin need food, The .world
needs food. Food will buy and keep
the peace in the end: Your farm
problem is the need! for food,
How can town people deal with the
farm problem? They can deal with
it by understanding it ---by aiding all
those who area working toward the
solution of it.
There was a time in Canada when
there was no economic farm problem
like that of today. Before the first
(creat War there was a good balance
between Urban nand rural life in Can-
ada, It Was a time of eaMyi under-
standing 'and good understanding,
itiee
and towns tore relatively
mall. Every OOty li r ItheW.044
derstood urban life and farm life.
It was a time when people chose
to live on farms or in towns because
of their personal tastes. The same
amount of moneyy and equal industry
and skill would produce similar re-
turns in the towns and on the .farms.
It was not a. time when city peo-
ple got two or three times as much
for their work and for their capital
as they do in "cities today, While the
ten-hour day has changed to thei"8-
•hour day, 'and the sixty -hour week
Chas shortened to the forty-eight or
the forty or the thirty -six -hour week
in cities, the twelve to 'sixteen -hour
day and the seven-day week have re-
mained in full effect on the farm the
year round.
Then why do people stay on farms?
The answer is' that they don't and
they won't when work ie available in
the cities' as it in now. The young
people leave the farms When they can.
lead an easier, better -paid life In the
city. A food euppiy: prapiem that has
been abate SIaoe early' Suninier is the
laackof`` eat'M help. );very day, ap-
peals *me e scatted for more holly to
, ' t i'dt thittaii on taiely
Player liable To Cross Border
Harry McEwan was unable to pro-
ceed to Hershey, Pa., hockey training
camp last week for the reason that
he lacked sufficient indentillcation
papers. It was thought though that
when all necessary papers were pro-
cured he would be allowed over the
line, but he received a telegram from
Manager "Cooney" Weiland statiag:
"Owing to conditions beyond my con-
trol, it will be impossible for you to
cross the "U.S. border• this year."—
Clinton News -Records
An Address on China
Mrs. Gordon Struthers on furlough
from Honan, China, was the guest
speaker at the thankoffering meeting
of the Women's Missionary Society of
Wesley -Willis Churcch on Friday ev-
ening. Mrs. Sruthers was formerly
Miss Edna Cooper, of Clinton, and is
a very interesting speaker. A social
time followed the program.—Clinton
News -Record. •
Quick Work Saves Wawanosh Home
On Thursday at noon the fine house
on the farm of Daniel McGowan, con-
cession 3, East Wawanosh, was dis-
covered to be on fire, presumably
from a spark dropping on the roof
from the furnace chimney. A thresh-
ing was in progress at a neighboring
farm and it was a very short time
until a large number of men were on
from Blyth, the fire was under con -
the scene. With plenty of water out
trol before the house was badly dam-
aged.—Wlingham Advance -Times.
Transferred To Parkhill
Mr. Melvin Phippen, who has been"
on the staff of the Canadian Bank of
Commerce here for some, time, left
on Tuesday for Parkhill as he has,
been transferred to that branch.—
taingbam Advance -Times,
Attended Funeral Association Meeting
Mr. A. J. Walker attended the an-
nual banquet and convention of the
London District Funeral Directors'
Association held in. London last week.
Mr. Walker is treasurer of the On-
tario Funeral Directors'. Association. a-
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Wingham Advance -Times.
Landed Safc'y in England
Monday night announcement was
made in London of the safe arrival of
another contingent of ,Canadian
'troops. The P ertb regiment was
among those in the convoy. Wing -
ham (members of this battalion which
is now a part of the armoured divi-
sion are Alvin Potter, Jack T. Brooks,
3. Willis Hall,Charles W. Krohn,
Lloyd C. Casemore, Arthur Stokes.
There are several . others from this
district members.—W(ingham Advance -
Times.
Recruits For R. C. A. F.
Among recruits recently received at
the London recruiting centre for the
R.C.A.F. are Charles Ronald Penning-
ton, Goderich; Charles Edward Cud -
more, • Clinton; Trueman Lloyd Cran-
dell, Port Albert; Ronald MacDonald,
Clinton, and George -Taylor Currie,
Wingham.--Goc;enich Signal -Star.
Now Lieut. Murray MacDonald
Lieut. T. M. MacDonald, of Code -
rich, has received his certificate as a
Canadian army officer at a training
school in England. it was announced
by cable this week. Lieut. MacDon-
ald, who was formerly with the R.C.
,R.'s at London, Ont., and went over-
seas early in the war, is the, son; of
Mr. and Mrs, Allan MacDonald, Brock,
Street,—Goderich Signal -Star.
Moving To Clifford'
Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Lyon are mov-
ing to Clifford this Thursday,, It is
with regret that we learn ofitiheir de-
parture, Mr. Lyon is a member of
the village council, having been elect-
ed last year. Wien the C.N.R, line
was dispensed with, he was 'appointed
station agent at Clifford and has been
travelling back and forth each day
by motor. Mr. and Mrs. R. D. Philp
will move into the .Lyon dwelling on
Dinsley Street next week, and Mr.
and Mrs. J. A. Gray will occupy the
dwelling being vacated by Mr. and
Mrs. Philp —Blyth Standard.
Moved To Exeter
Mr. C. Kennedy, who has been em-
ployed at the Centralia Creamery,
has been, transferred to the Exeter
branch of Canada Packers. He and
Mrs. Kennedy have moved to town
into a residence on Gidley Street. We
welcome them`to our midst.. — Exeter
Times -Advocate.
Wins First At Peterboro Match•
At the International Plowing Match
at Peterborough this week, Norman
Dow, of Cromarty, captured, first place
in the jointer plow class, Congratu-
lations!—Mltchell Advocate.
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Fatal Explosion At Clinton Friday
Joseph Bland, aroad Construction
'than with a Toronto firm, died in Vic-
toria Hospital, London, on Friday
night last, a few' hours after he had
'been severely burned in the explo-
sion of a car of road tarvia- at Clin-
ton. The blast occurred at 6,30 p.m.
In the Clinton, railway yards, So great
Was the fiirce of the elptosion that
it was leant' 'for utiles, The Toronto,
(Conti wart. ,oil . Pogo 6)
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