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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1941-11-07, Page 2.4, 7,11,17,7: YIN Ito 'MO ITURON EXPOSITOR on Expositor EStablished 1800 • Keith McPhail MCIean, Editor. .`PlAhlished at Seaforth, Ontario, ev- sday afternoon by McLean res,ww,„, SUbscription rates, UN a year in advance; foreign, $2.00 a year. Single copies, 4 cents each. NOVEMBER 7, 1,941 ' Advertising rates on application. $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. • 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. • 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. • 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. • .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 ! • '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. • 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!" •• • %•• .•79 444,4' rt,L, .3, • , colonel will say, McGinnis—I need you Phil Osifer •of • • • Lazy Meadows : • "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! 4•1111111111111111111111111111111MIIMINImmml • • Canada At War • 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.' 4) , • 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. • 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.