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Ito 'MO ITURON EXPOSITOR
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EStablished 1800
• Keith McPhail MCIean, Editor.
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NOVEMBER 7, 1,941 '
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$EAFORTH, Friday, November 7
The Real Reason
In a leading -editorial reference to
the Dominion Parliament, now in ses-
sion at Ottawa, the Globe and Mail
last week made a bitter attack upon
the Canadian Prime Minister, over
the proposed length of the then ap-
proaching session.
The opinion, generally expressed
over the Dominion, was that the ses-
sion for many obvious reasons,
would be a very short one, possibly
not extending over a week. To this
opinion the Toronto paper took'
violent exception. In its opinion, such
a session as was anticipated; would
/la only have a calamitOtis effect up-
on Canada's war effort, but would be
a direct slap and insult to the mem-
bers of Parliament administered by
the hand of the Prime Minister.
A short session, that paper went
on to say, would prove conclusively
that Mr. King wasshowing his true
colors, those of an absolute dictator,
a- one-man ruler of . Canada, riding
rough shod over the rights and priv-
ileges of the elected representatives
of the people. But in spite of the
Globe and Mail's lengthy explanation
of what Mr. King Was doing and how
he proposed doing it, it will have to
produce some much more logical rea-
43- ns than it has yet advanced, be-
fore the people of Canada will come
to its way of thinking.
For one thing, Parliament is the
government of Canada and not Mr.
King. It lies in the hands of the
Members of Parliament and the
•' members alone, to say.whether a ses-
sion shall be long or 'short. Mr. King
may differ in his opinion, but he can
not force his opinion upon Parlia-
ment against its will, for the simple
reason that at the first session or
• any other session, the Members , of
Parliament can vote Mr. King out of
office and replace him with some one
else, more amenable to their views,
- That being a well known fact, we
10 not believe for a minute that the
members of parliament have .the
• slightest fear of Mr. King becoming
a dictator, of depriving them of their
rights and privileges, and insulting
them in the process.
One of the reasons, we believe, if
not the real reason why the present
session will •be a short one, aside
from the fact that there is ncr legis-
lation for parliament to pass upon,
is the fact that the full sessional in-
• demnity was paid the members when
they adjourned the session in June
• last.'' They are not being paid for the
present session, and even members
of parliament are not expected to
live on . wind and water, and those
are about the only free things there
are in Ottawa.
Not that members are grasping.
They are not. They may, in the opin-
ion of many, be well paid, but they
earn every cent of their pay. If there
are any doubters we would suggest
they try living in Ottawa for six
months of the year on the pay of a
member. Contrary to a widely held
opinion among the uninitiated, we
would say that one session, particuL.
larly a war session, would cure the
Mist ardent ,doubter.
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Mr.'Roosevelt Must Have Been
•Heard
President Roostvelt's recent Navy
• Day address was, of course, heard
• across Canada, where it created, pos-
• sibly, just as great an interest as it
di1 in the United States.
lila his voice went far beyond that.
British Broadcasting Company
adideasts in thirty-nine languages,
• itd or One of them Went into, ae-
' rOTaY te, Roosevelt s chat -
act the 1U3
.fee. that thdpeto,
'drive atid the
world at large know what the Presi-
dent said.
A full version of the speech was al-
so given on the .Pacific service pro-
gram Which goes out to Australia
and New Zealand; on the Eastern
service which is beamed toward the
Middle East, India, Malaya and
Hong Kong, and on the African ser-
vice. In each case, thirteen and a
half minutes were devoted to Mr.
Roosevelt's speech.
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One Of The Disadvantages
One of the disadvantages, from the
• financial angle, which the distribu-
tion of hand bills has as a medium of
advertising, was amply illustrated
last week in an Iowa town.
When his customers began bring-
ing in hand bills quoting last win-
ter's prices, an embarrassed grocer
'in that town began an investigation.
And what the investigation prov-
ed was that fifteen hundred hand
bills he had paid two boys to distri-
bute, had been left by the said boys in
the basement of an occupied house.
But just how they came to be in cir-
culation a year later was not disclos-
ed by the investigation.
It was a very embarrassing posi-
tion for the merchant to be in, and
one which caused him a lot of trou-
ble and bad friends, because there
was nothing he could do but to de-
cline to recognize now, last winter's
"bargains." They were just a little
outdated for the present wholesale
prices.
We bet that merchant has seen
the light. That he will do net time
what he should have done' last year
—advertise in his local paper.
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Interesting Home Picked From
The Huron Expoeltor of Fifty and
Twentrftve Years Ago. ;
Seizes His Own Fences
The British Ministry of Supply,
the head of which is Lord Beaver-
brook, the Canadian born Peer, has
for some time been scouring that
country for scrap metal with which
to roll out tanks, On Wednesday of
last week the Ministry issued the
following communique: n.
"Lord Beaverbrook's • fences and
railings at Cherkley, his country
home, have been Seized by the Min-
istry of Supply."
No doubt there are many things
that Lord Beaverbrook would prefer
to do than to seize his own fences to
put them into the melting pot, but he
has, at least, been set one good exam-
ple, and that by no less a person than
King George himself, who gave up
the great iron gates and fences
around Buckingham Palace, that
they might help to produce more
tanks for Britain.
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.Hear! Hear !
We saw a quotation from some
American paper sometime ago which
read:
"We are heartily in favor of con-
serving electric power for defence—
and for self defence—when it's a
neighbor's radio after 10 p.m."
To which we say: Hear ! Hear !
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'Nice To Be In That Armp
The American Army's marketing
specialist for poultry has announced
that there will be one million, five
hundred thousand poun,ds of dressed
turkey served at the American
Army's Thanksgiving dinner on the
last Thursday of this month?.
It would be nice to be in that army,
for one day anyway!
WHAT OTHER PAPERS5AY:
Why the U. S. Aids Russia
(New York Herald Tribune)
The argument for 'American aid to Russia rests
upon the plain truth that Hitleristn, backed by
•Gerinan efficiency and the resources of a looted
continent, is the greatest peril to civilization to-
day, a peril that directly threatens the safety and
welfare of the United States, This argument
does not imply any condonation of or trust in the
,present regime In Russia; it does not require
that the government of Josef Stalin be presented
in any better light than the lasts warrant; it
does not demand any relaxation of laglianee to-
ward this eountry's domestic Communista.. Tt is,
frankly, a choice between two evils, and to, put
It in any Ather form is to insult the intelligenee
thO Aborgat osoole of to cost doubt itoot the
sifwesrity Of their govettwobt.:
From The Huron Expositor
November 3, 1910
The soldiers from Hensall arrived
safely at Halifax and from there will
sail for overseas soon.
Mr, Arthur Routledge, of Egmond-
vine, the popular 'butcher, has In
course of erection a large barn with
cement foundation.
Miss Lulu Doherty has beeii ap-
pointed organist in the Methodist
Church. •
While* picking apples on the farm
of Mr. D. Shanahan on Satarday, Mr.
George Bell had the misfortune to fall
from a tree and fracture his right arm
at the wrist.
There were fifty-two new members
joined Firs, Presbyterian Church at
the Communion service on Sunday
morning last. Of these thirty were
from the Sunday School.
The ladies of the Trench and Over-
seas Committee packed .about 170
boxes for the Seaforth men who are
overseas. Each box weighed seven
pounds and was valued at $4.00.
• Mrs. John Stewart, Seaforth, was
in Kitchener last week attending the
Sunday school convention as a dele-
gate from First Presbyterian Church.
Mrs. Mullen is in Toronto where
she will meet her husband from Bri-
tish Columbia who is returning ,to his
position as manager of the Battk of
Commerce hem.,
Mr. Adam Dickson, of McKillop,
ceived a cable on Wednesday stating
that his son, Archie Dickson, had
landed safely in England.
Mr. E. A. Neelin, •son of Mr. P. G.
Neelin, Canadian 'Customs, who has
been acting as teller for the past six
months in the Dominion Bank here,
has been transferred to the Queen St.
(branch, Toronto.
Mr. John Robb has purchased a new
Ford car from Mr. J. F. Daly.
Mr. Milo Snell, of Exeter, has sold
McLaughlin cars to Mr. Zwicker, of
Crediton, and Mr. J. L. Burwill, of
Exeter.
Miss Etta Jarrott and Miss Agnes
Sproat, of Kippen, were ).n London
this week.
Miss Nettie Chea.Thy, graduate
nurse of Galt Hospital, who intended
spending some weeks here with her
parents, Mr. and Mrs. P. M. Chesney,
was called on Monday to nurse a for-
mer patient there who bad suddeuly
taken
The annual meeting of the Seaforth
Horticultural Society was held in the
Carnegie Library on Friday evening
with President A. F. Craft in the chair,
The officers for were elected as
follows: President, William Hartry;
Vice-president, J. Grieve; sec.-treas.,
A. D. Sutherland;. Directors, A. F.
Cluff, Henry Edge, W. D. Hoag, R. F.
.Jones, Chas. Stewart, Wm. Smithers,
Jas. H. Wright; auditors„ Dr. Charles
Mackay, R. M Jones.
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From The Huron Expositor
November 6, 1891
A lively and sociable time was spent
at an oyster supper held in Farquhar
on Friday evening last. The occasion.
was a matcli between two chosen
sides of men to collect the largest
number of sparrows 'inside the • town-
ship. Messrs. Wm. McLachlan and
Thos. Hunkinwere captains, each side
having twenty, After several days'
search they succeeded in capturing
6,277 birds, Mr. McLachlan' winning by
over 500- more birds, and so the other
side had to pay for the slipper.
About six o'clOck Tuesday morning
fire broke out in the engine room of
the sawmill owned' and operated by
L. C. Dicks in Fordwich. The saw
mill and door and sash factory were
in flames almost immediately. The
machinery was partially insured. The
total loss is $3500, with insurance of
$1,500..
Messrs. J. McTaggart and R. Camp-
bell, of Walton left on Monday for
Michigan where they have secured
work in the lumber woods.
Messrs. Henry Eilber and William
Banes, of Crediton, and two gentle-
men from Dashwood, left on Friday
morning last for Muskoka where they
will indulge in deer hunting for two
or three weekS.
On account of the large number of
barns which have been burned on a
certain section of the Winthrop,nine
within the last few years, the people
naturally think there is a firebug
somewhere.
David (Hannah, son of John Hannah,
of the 6th Line of Morris, whil in
search of sparrow nests, fell from the
top "beam in the barn to the floor, a
distance °of over twenty feet, bruis-
ing his Leg, arm and shoulder sev-
erely.
Mr. McLean, treasurer of the South
Huron Agricultural Society, was in
Exeter on Monday paying out prizes
awarded at the late show. He dis-
tributed about $600.
Mr. R. Chapman, of Chiselrairst, re-
turned to California on Monday ac-
companied by Mrs. T. Nicholls and
John Tremeer.
Mr. J. Fitzgerald, of Chiselhurst,
made his last trip to the Seaforth
creamery on Friday last. He has trav-
elled 2,108 miles during the season.
The sawmill belonging to Mr. John
Bennewies, Reeve of McKillop, which
was located at Brodhagen, was de-
stroyed by fire on Friday evening
last.
Mr, Thomas Daly, who has carried
on a very successful grocery business
in town for several years, has dispos-
ed, of his stock and business to
Messrs. 11, Beattie & Co., who recent-
ly sold to Mr, John IVIeGinnis,
The Mitchell Recorder of last week
makes the follo4ring complimentary
reference to Mr. Walter Willis of this
town: "Mr. Willis was an agreeable
surprise. He hail a grand voice, a
pleasing manner and, trite captivated
the andience."
Mr, Alexander Porsythe, of Tucker -
smith, and Mills :Janet Mustard, who
have been *trending, a oeuple, of
Months with" telittilteti in the OId
Country, fetlirne4 holm on 'lltireday.
Mr.tollit a 04fgf, of Wafts, Itiolo.
sou 14,6141 fst oresoot 11ting Moods
saci tdattor4litPrekethig, .
"Never mind -what the
Saturdays when I shop!"
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colonel will say, McGinnis—I need you
Phil Osifer •of
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Lazy Meadows :
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"GOAT TACTICS"
(Ay Harry J. Bikyiel •
.
Buttinsky, a venerable old goat who
has been the source of more argu-
ments at Lazy Meadows than any
other single thing during the Past
three years, is about to go. He came
in an uncertainyvay. A hired man
who was somewhat addicted to tak-
ing snake -bite .0,11 on every pretense
- . . even when there were no snakes
around, won him playing cards in the
village. My honest opinion is that
the hired man had oiled himself as
a precaution against the snakes just
a trifle too well . . . with the result
that the goat was pawned off on him.
Still suffering froni his binge he
went so far as to bring the goat in
the house with him. 1 awakene,d'ear-
ly in the morning to hear a series
of weird noises on the stairs. It
seemed as if the hired man -was bring-
ing some fellow -sufferer up the steps
and was repeatedly telling him in a
buzz -saw like thoarseness . . . to be
Quiet. My curiosity grew to the point
where I edged the ,bedroom. •door op-
en just ever se slightly. It was a
distinct shock to see two faces Peer-
ing up over the top step. •
One of the faces was that of the
hired man, ,His hat pushed 'clOwn ov-
er' a distorted face he was laboring
with his task of trying to drag his
companion up the steps, In the dim
light Lcould hardly tell what or who
was with him. And then the ghostly
face appeared . . a sallow complex-
ioned gentleman with a beard .
a set of horns! I bad heard of men
associating with the devil but I nev-
er imagined that the hired man would
go so far as to bring the devil home
with him.
He tried t6 step up on the top
step . . . wavered for a few minutes
and then both of them went spraWl-
Dig down the front steps. The hired
man's ft•iend bad a rather strange
voice . . —.more on the nature of a
bleating than anything, From Ivihere
I was in the bedroom he seemed to
be hammering at the front door in
an effort to get out. When we got
down the hired man was lying peace-
fully with his feet on the stairs and
his head on the floor . and his.
friend proved to be a goat who sent
Mes`. Phil and me scrambling up the
steps out of butting range.
The hired man asked for his time
next day, ,fdrs. Phil was very quiet
about the affair. The goat grazed out
in the orchard. Before leaving,,the
hired man asked her if she would
mind if he left the goat at Lazy Mea-
dows until he got another place to
stay. Hei• lips pressed tightly into a
thin white line, she said it would be
all right.
Buttinsky stayed on at Lazy Mea-
dows. For some time he was very
quiet and other than to indulge in a
certain amount of butting practise
against the Side of the barn he left
us -Strictly alone. The hired man,
through some oversight, didn't bother
coming back to see us. Buttinsky
evidently sensing that we had forgot-
ten about the incident when he ar-
rived started warming up. If you
turned your back on him in the barn-
yard he would step back a few steps
and "Wham!"
Needless to say he grew rather un-
popular. Suchansuch, our Collie pup,
worried over the matter for months.
Finally be found a vulnerable spot OY1
the goat and when Buttinsky found
that there was a chink in his armor
he gave up trying to worry the dog.
Somebody once told us that the
goat looked like a spry old gentle-
man with a beard. Dapper ,dandy
that ,Iadis, he has enough animal in-
telligence. to leave Mrs. Phil alone.
Perhaps he realized that she would
exile him at the first Sign of his get-
ting careless ,wIth his butting ability,
Yesterday I was in the horse stable
looking at' the sow rand litter of pigs
in the end. stall. Three planks nail-
ed across from the, stall forms the
pen for the pigs. Carelessly I left
the stable door open, forgetting that
Buttinsky was in the barnyard.
Wham'? I was picked up with the
force of ' a rocket and thrown clear
into the pen. Disgruntled, te Berk-
shire looked up surprised to find me
sprawling in with the little pigs. She
grunted and I . . . well, I looked up
to see the ivilaiskera of that ithpudent
goat draped over the edge of the
planks as he looked over his damage.
Buttinsky Is leaving in the morn-
ing!
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• Canada At War
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No. 1 --THE MOTOR INDUSTRY
PLAYS IT PART
First of a series of six articles
by C. Earle Rice, formerly of the
Springfield Times; Lac Du Bonnet,
Manitoba):,
In this series of articles on "Canada
At War," I propose to deal with phas-
es of the war effort, little ,known to
the general pablic. Most people have
an idea of the work being done by
our Army, Air Force, and Navy, but
few people have a real conception of
the magnitude of our 'industrial en-
deavor.
Had it, not been for the production
of motorized units in Canada uring
the last year and a half, on a scale
unsurpassed anywhere in the British
Empire, General Wavell would not
have accomplished the victories of
the Army of the Nile in Libya, last
year. Universal carriers, heavy four-
wheel drive trucks, light trucks; trac-
tors, ambulances, reconnaissance cars
and many Iither types of motorized
equipment are rolling off the assem-
bly lines of the automotive plants in
Canada at the rate of more than 600
a day.
Besides the .1milding 01 motorized
equipment, the atttoMlotive industry
operiting armament plants, build-
ing potent to beused to lower the
balloons In the barrages otter Britain
and tontribilting it 'Many other WaYs
to the tirttr effort
Vast Plant
The first plant,I visited stands on
a 200 -acre site, and over 50 acres are
under roof. It generates its own elec-
tricity, and 3120 tons Of coal are burn-
ed daily to produce 65,000 horsepow-
er. A total of 13,000 men are work-
ing here now, where prior to the war
7,000 were employed at the peak of
production. Today, almost one hun-
dred per cent. of the output is for war
purposes.
In the foundry, 100 tons of steel,
and 100 tons of pig iron are produced
daily. The articles produeed in the
foundry are sent to the machine shop,
a hundred yards distant, by rnean's of
an underground conveyor system.
We now enter the miichine shop,
where there are 4,300 different ma-
chines, running at full blast, to turn
out 2,250 complete motors a week.
Let .us look for a minute at two of
these machines. First, a multiple
trimming mwebine, trims twelve en-
gine blocks at both ends, in one oper-
ation, to a uniformity of within one
one -thousandth of an inch. The blocks
are fastened to a "Inge rev -:living
drum, and the cutting edges trim
each block as it revolves. The sec-
ond machine is the Multiple boring
Machine, `whicll bores the 84 holes in
an engine Monk in one operation, in
Six or seven seconds.
Whan the OogInes are totn,pleted,,
they are transferred by a eoltveyor
systeM, to the plant holieing the ve.'
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Barge Cut Adrift
The higih wind and waves on Lake
-
Huron Thursday last proved too' much,
for the tug Ione Ross and its tow
barge, ,the 'old, terry 'City 0)f Port
Huron," which left here on Wednes-
day for Tobermory. The barge had
to be cut loose from the tug and it
rifted ashore near Inverhuron beach.
The tug managed, to"put safely inta,
port at Kincardine. Thi3" tug is the
Property of the Ross Construction Co.
of Kincardine. Capt. John. Tigert is
the skipper.—Goderich Signal -Star,
. Instructor Barr Under Operation
Kenneth Barr, Sky Harbor instruc-
tor, who was seriously injured when
his plane crashed at Kitchener -Water-
loo airpOnt on ,September 16th last,
underiVent an operation in Kitchener -
hospital Wednesday and his condi-
tion is reported as favorable, Manager
a, R. Douglas of Sky Harbor reports.
Instruetor Barr lost a leg and sus-
tained other injuries in the accident
in whioh his student, Melville Hart, of
Toronto, lost his life.—Goderich Sig-
ral-Star.
Change in Hardware Business
The hardware business on West, St,
which has been conducted by Mr.
Hugh D. Palser has been purchased
by 'Mr. James E. Naftel, of town, who
took possession on Tuesday. Mr. Naf-
tel has been well and favorably
known in connection with Hunt's
hardware. Mr. Pals'er's plans for the
future are indefinite, but the family
will continue to reside in Goderich
for the coming winter at least.—God-
erich Signa, -Star.
Receive Their Wings
• LAC. William (Blondie) Cook of the
ri.C.A.F., at Dauphin, Man., received
his wings at a ceremony there last
Friday. Blondie is• well known ta
hockey and baseball fans of the Clin-
ton juveniles and is the third boy
from Clinton to earn his wings as a.
Sergeant Pilot. Sgt. Pilot Cook is
now enjoying a short leave before re-
porting for duty overseas: Another
boy from this district to 'receive his
wings last week was LAHC. Lloyd.
Stock, sou of Mr. and Mrs. M. Stock,
of Hohnesville. Sgt. Pilot Stock re-
ceived ,his wings 'att Brandon, Man.,
and is now enjoying a short leave at
his home.—Clinton News -Record.
Breaks Leg in Fall Down Steps
Mrs'. Lawrencenomme met with
a painful accident on Saturday while.
attending a wedding at the home of
a friend in Drysdale. In the course
of the Wedding preparations she had
occasion to go outside and on the
third step from the ,bottorn twisted
her ankle, making ,her fall the rest of
the way, and sustaining a compound
fracture • of the right .leg below the
knee. She was taken to the Clinton
hospital for setting of the broken
bonesand is now resting at home.—
Clinton News -Record.
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Presentation For Grey Couple
Friends and neighbors of Mr. and
Mrs. Fergus Connelly gathered at
their home on Friday of last week
to spend a social evening with..them
before their departure from the com-
munity. The time was delightfully
spent in games and dancing. During
the course'lof the evening Mr. and
Mrs. Connelly- were presented with a
dining room table and an address, ex-
ptesSing that they were leaving the
com.munity. The address was read
by George Evans. Mr. and Mrs. Con-
nelly both thanked those gathered
for the gift and the kind thoughts ex-
pressed. Lunch was served add danc-
ing enjoyed, until the early hours of
the morning.—Brussels Post.
Local Lady Makes Donation
Miss Lena Livingstone recently do-
nated, an oil painting to the Bayfield
Agricultural Society and the Red
Cross Society of ,Bayfield. Ticket's
were sold on the painting and the
proceeds amounted to $21.00. The
winner was Marion Makirts, The Red
Cross was using their share to fur-
ther the Red Cross Comfort Fund.—
Blyth Standard.
Herd of Deer Seen
Mr. George Cowan reports that he
aaw a herd of six deer crossing his
farm last Sunday morning. In the
herd was a doe and six younger deer,
all parading in single file. Mr. Cowan
remarked that it was quite a sight.
They Were just about forty rods from.,
Mr. Cavan's barn.—Blyth Standard.
Taken to Hospital
Frielidi of Mr. W. H. Howe will
regret to learn that through ill health
he has had to give up his home on
Dinsley Street, and will become a
patient in Parkwood Illospital, Lon-
don.—Blyth Standard.
Injured in Collision
,Hurled -from a light delivery, truck
in which he was a Passenger, Gerald
Lewis, 25, a Ail8a Craig, suffered on-
ly a wrenched knee after the vehicle
was in collision With' a gravel track
at the intersection of the .second con-
aes.sion of McGillivray and the Mc-
Gillivray township road, two miles.
Weht Of 0Isodeboye, about noon, Slat-
lirday. Pollee =were told that the
gravel 'Ulla, driven by Haywood
told oaketio.„.toludiedliVitli,,,t1#6 teat.