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h McPhail McLean, Editor.
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ut°sday' 'afternoon by McLean
SEAFORTH, Friday, February 13
-A Vote Of Confidence
If the Canadian Government need-
ed a vote of confidence of its admin-
istration of Canada's war effort, that
most ,certainly was givei3''it on Mon-
day last, as the result of the four bye -
elections held on that day. The result
of two of these elections returned to'
the House of Commons the Minister
of Justice, Hon. Louis St. Laurent,
and the Minister of Labor, Hon.
Humphrey Mitchell, recent additions
to the King Cabinet, and the third
was the return -of the Government
candidate, Mr. Fauteux, in the riding
of Montreal -St. Mary.
The result of the fourth bye -elec-
tion, that in York South, was, per-
haps, the biggest political surprise in
many years, and one of the greatest
political turnovers in Canadian poli- -
tics. Here the election was made nec-
essary by the resignation of the sit-
ting member, Major; Alan: Cockerain;'
to provide a seat for ex -Premier Hon.
Arthur. Meighen, who a few weeks
e ago was appointed Leader of the
Conservative party in Canada, -
Major Cockeram.'s sacrifice, .how-
ever, was in vain. York South, hith-
erto considered 'one of the safest
Conservative seats in the whole Do-
minion, and which at the general
election 'two years ago, returned the
Major by a plurality of several thou-
sand over his Liberal and C.C.F. op-
ponents, flatly turned down Mr.
Meighen in favor of 'his only oppon-
ent, a C.C.F. school teacher by a ma-
jority of over four thousand. •
There are, possibly, many reasons
for the upset,but the main issues
boil down to these: Mr. Meighen's
recent elevation to the leadership'of
the Conservative party did not come
from the Dominion Conservative
party as a whole, but was engineered
by -.a number of Conservative indus-
trialists in Toronto, who are des-
perately concerned over the faint that
there id/a war on, and they are not
g
rennin •' Canada's part in it, Men: who
have very pleasant . recollections of
war profits arising out of the last
war and would like very much t� get
their feet into the,. trough again, and
confidently figured that Mr. Meigh-
,ears' large connection with high fin-
ance, would; be a substantial aid. _
y unfor-�:
g
Also Mr. Mei hen•w'as� ver. -
tunate in the people and papers who
constituted themselves his backers.
Besides the Toronto partisans with -
their . high pressure methods and
highly financed publicity, there was
the committee of One :Hundred., The
Globe and. Mail, and last but by no
means least, the Hon. Mitchell Hep-
burn, Premier of 'Ontario, with his •
two lieutenants, the Attorney. Gen-
eral; and the Minister of Highways,
all three of whom campaigned to ..
their utmost against the return of
IV.lr. Mitchell in the Welland bye-elec-
tidn, and fox ,Mr. Meighen in "York
South. •
Of t11+ ..� a'_l, possibly Mr. Hepburn
did nir)r- to accomplish Mr. Meigh-
en's defeat in .Soluth York than all
others combined. It is equally true
that in. Welland the campaign of the
Premier and his lieutenants turned
a very critical situation for the Do-
minion Government into a handsome
majority for the new Minister of
Labor,.
While Mr. -King may well look up-
on the
p-onthe bye -elections as a vote :of con-
fidence in his government; it is very
hard to see much comfort for Mr.
Hepburn in the results. He has not
only lost prestige • but has lost
through his campaign Hon. Robert
Laurier, his French-Canadian Minis- '
"ter of Mines, while' Hon. Harry Nix-
on, his chief lieutenant in the cab-
inet, who has ,really been the saving_ •
face of his government for the past
two or three years, turned against
his leader in South York, and public-
ly opposed Mr. Meighen.
If nothing else, however, Monday's
bye -elections have clearly demon-
sieated that --the chief?_^hatred of . the
peoPle of Canada is against Hitler
id dot ,against King, as a small' but
y ;r'oe fera1ts 'rohloilty Was trying
' the world believe.
Uncalled POr
i htorial the""oronto
...
t ,. last
d� a
tie to 01-e
Ontario reniiibers of the . House of
Commons, with particular "preference
to the chairman of 'the -Ontario cau-
cus,. ])/fr. W, . H. Golding, member for
this riding of 'Huron, which also com-
prises two townships in the County
of Perth.
The Toronto paper says: ",The
Liberal members<at..Ottawa, annony-
mous except for their chairman, who
undertook, to read Premier Hepburn
out of the Liberal party in this Prov-
ince, must have had the thrill of
their lives in their momentous adven-
ture. Glancing through the debates.
of Hansard to see what else Mr. W.
H. 'Golding, M.P. for Huron-Perth,j,
has ever done to justify his ten year
at Ottawa, one is forced to the con-
clusion that presiding atthis meet--
ing and handing out a solemn politi-
cal death penalty, is the highlight of
his career."
Of course, . to the Globe and Mail,
a member of parliament who does
not come from Toronto or some of
the larger centres, or who at least,
does not subscribe to the political be-
liefs and opinions of, that city, and in
particular to political prejudices of
that paper itself, is a political non-
entity ---a,. rubber stamp back -bench -
But even at that -if the Toronto
paper took, as it said, a glance
through the debates of Hansard to
see Mr. Golding's political record, it
must have taken 'that glance in the
dark, or with closed eyes.
When Mr. Golding entered the
House of• Commons ten years, ago, on
a bye -election ' to fill the vacancy
caused by the lamentable death' of
the late Thomas McMillan,. an able
and widely known parliail'lentarian,
to join theranks of what was then a
small Liberal opposition; during the
Bennett regime, he was, it is true,
scarcely known outside of his own.
constituency. But during his first
session he made a very"favorable im-
pression on both sides of the House
by his fair, constructive criticism in"
debate and his wide knowledge of
public questions, of which he had'
made a life study.
Since that first session, in which
he carried a very full share of .his
party's responsibilities in the.,,House,
he has spoken on the floor of 'Parlia,
ment in each succeeding session, and
since the coming into office of the
King Government,- he has been a
member of some of: the most import-
ant parliamentary committees, and
two years ago he was chosen, both
because of his popularity and his
ability., chairman of the committee of
Ontario members. ' Is that the record
of a ' political nonentity, a back-
bencher ?
We would like to add, too, that 'Mr.
Golding's contributions to the de
bates on the floor of the House, or
hi committee, have never consisted in
the reading of some one else's com-
positions, and then taking, credit for
them himself, in Hansard: He does
his own thinking and speaks his own
thoughts, and .does it fluently, logic-
ally and constructively—and he al-
ways has.
In the same editorial the Globe and
Mail 'showed a lamentable lack of
political .facts, for a paper fthat
claims for itself the title of "Can-
ada's Leading' Newspaper," when it
nays of the Ontario members, and, in.
particular alludes to Mr. Golding, in
these words: "Somehow or other
they should be dug out.. of their over-
modest seclusion and be publicly re-
Warded- With senatorships or a larger
share of pltronage."
The Toronto paper, apparently,
does not' know what is common
knowledge to Western Ontario and
to every member of parliament; that'
there is no member in the House
who has sought patronage less than
Mr. Golding, nor one who would
scorn more to use it to buy his way
'or hold his position. '
The reading of a little political
history would show the Globe and
mail that since Confederation some
of the most noted parliamentarians
and statesmen of Canada have been
Liberal representatives from Huron,
and a little further reading of Han-
sard would showan unprejudiced --
mind that its present member is Well
maintaining. that political history.
Consequently we Would . say, a
this part of Western Ontario wiTh
thoroughly agreYe _ihat.,the Globe and
Mail's remarks were lion oi�T unvi�ar=
-ranted lender the circumstances men-
-tinted, or under an 'Circumstances,
e
�itir 1 e is f:' ar e1. � �v
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Yegoue
Iflterorlltlpl i Picked From
The Hnlr±n •Expgalitor of Fifty and
Tatrela#',y,:ftv• Years Ago..
From The Huron Expositor
February 16, 1917 --
Mr.
Mr. Charles Fritz, of Zurich, has
duTchas+ed the shoe business and,
stock of Mr. S. E. Faust, and has mov-
ed the stock to his *store -
W. H. Johnston; teacher in No. 14,
Stanley, accompanied by a sleigh load
of his larger `pupils„,went to Seaforth
-
oneSaturday recently to to.
the
"Better Farming Train,” sent out by
Government 'from the O.A.C.
The annual smoker and progressive
euchre of the Sestforth Fire Brigade
was held: in their club rooms on Fri-
day evening. The first prize, a table,
�.: was won by Chief J. P. Bell; the'sec-
`ond Prize, a pipe, by A. 11'. Box, and
the third, a pack of cards, by J. J.
Cluff.
Sergt. Robert Smith, formerly of
'Seaforth, who went oyers�eas with'the
Hurons, is now ate- Shoreham, Eng-
land, in -which there are 1,800 boys
under 19 . years of age. The follow-
ing Seaforth boys who were with the
161st Battalion have, been +traniferred
to the Army Medical Corps diand at
Weston Hanger: William Chapman,
Dawson Reid, *Harry ;Pierce, and
Thompson Seo>:t.
Mrs. Troyer received' word last
week that her son, Pte. Henderson
Troyer; is he France.
Mist Lillian Faulkner, of the Cana-
. dian Express office, Brampton; spent
Sunday at, the parental home here.
Miss Gladys Oousinsr :who tried 'her
junior history .and jundor theory ex-
aminations at the Conservatory of
Music, Toronto, has svrccessfully+ pass-
ed.
Messrs. J. Neilande; J. Stewart a.nd
H. Cresswell, who enlisted in the
257th Construction Battalion, lett here
on Monday with Lieut. F. C. Jackson,
and will immediately go overseas.
Councillor -Thomas' Coleman, Tuck-
ersmith, recentijl disposed of a very
superior' team to Mr. James Mero, of
.the Huron Road, near Clinton, for.
$400.
Mr. Walter McBeath, of Brucefield,
who' spent tlie summer in the West,
has returned •home.
Four rinks pf local curlers went
down to Mitchel/ on Monday after-
noon and played ,two friendly games.
The following were the Seaforth play-
ers: G. A. .Sills, R. E. Bright, G. E.
Henderson, •Jod H, Taman, J. Beat-
tie, F. Weiland, H. Jeffrey, N. Brown,
J. M. McMiillan, . W. E. Kerslake, Ad-
am Dodds, W. -McLennan, Elmer
Fowler,® J: Broderick,- George Israel
and Ross Sproat,
Rev, A.' W. McIntosh, pastor 'of SC''
Thomas' Presbyterian Church, Sas-
katoon, has accepted a call to Port
Arthur. Mr. McIntosh is an old Mc-
Killop boy, being a son of Mrs. Geo.
McIntosh.
The many friends of Mr. Chris.
Sparling, formerly of Seaforth, will be
sorry to 1 tte has ,hada severe
attack of • par. is and is ha •the West-
ern Hospital dn• Toronto. Dr. Fred
Clarkson is his physician....
Mr. E. Mole's youngest daughter
has been seriously ill for'several days.
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From The Huron Expositor _
February 12, 1892
Mr. William Clark, of Hallett, near
Cen:stanoe, ;has the material on the
ground for a new barn. Mr. Britton
also
also has material for a new barn.
Mr. James McMichael has exchang-
ed the old Copp residence and the
grounds on West •Goderich St. with
Mr. I ai'ah Holman for his re idedieed
in which he now resides.
' Messrs. T. Brown and W. Menzies,
of town, have ,been ppointed agents
for Mercer Bros. & o., of Alliston,
manufacturers of hp. esting machin-
ery: - , '
Mr. •John McIver, 7th oncession of
.U.sborne, is busy making preparations
for the e•rection•of a very.large barn,
76x50 feet, with stone stabling under-
neath.
About nine o'clock last Saturday
night a serious acoideiut took place in
Goderich. A party of young people
were coasting on the harbor della
When about half way down and going
at a terrific speed; the steering gear
broke.; The sleigh dashed against the
corner of the Ocean House and it was
found that. -.Richard Cottle, Alvin Wal-
_ lace and Miss Straiton, all from Gode-
rich, were more or less broken and
bruised:
Some. men who were working at
the Egmondville dam ' recently came
across three nectures which they cap-
tured alive: Mr. Jackson, of, Egmond-
vilde: Mr. J. Livingston and' Dr. Mac-
,kay each got one. It is a sort of
mongrel between a lizard and a hall
and it is said they grow to a size oP
'a°bout three feet in length.
The ice 'harvest has commenced and
Mr. D. D. Wilson's teams are.busily
engaged in drawing from the-gmond-
ville dam, ••--
Miss Welker, of Tnekersmith, has
rented her 50 -acre' pasture farm -on
•
til
the Mill Ro to Mr. James Mctntosb
for one year for $100. /r
On -Friday evening last a very uleas-
ant time was spenta; the residence
of Mr. F. Layton, when the young
people of the west end of Tucker-
sraith were treated to an oyster sup-
per. '
The. M•ease's. Elcoat 'Bros. of Tuck-'
ersmith, who have gained quite a re=
putation as breeders of thoroughbred
etoek, have recently disposed of- two
very fine young bulls, one tog Mr. Jlae.
Co; of Manitoba. the other was dis-
posed of •ta Mr. James Speirs, of Mor-
ris, near brussels, ^
There was aa large attendance at
the auction sale of Me'sars. John Mc-
Kay ^& Sons oh Tihuisday Mast, The
cattle averaged $78 each and the hors -
ea: went '•welt. The:auctioneer's ham -
Mee was wielded by Mt. W. O Duff,
o'f Seaforth.
Mr. 'John M-cMiUa . of HtuLlett, is
going, to build a Held,' barn, ut will
be $0x100 feet aiid 'Will '.be , of th•e-
flargest barns in the county, j.
"-John J.ra;mour altd A:.Co>z!wronth, of
^" Hensall, have de ided to ..go Gaut :� o
thePacific __Coast.Neal,_arpring_oprens
and will in all PrObabillitY Malin vic-
torla,
Petty Bros., of fentall, etre getting.
in .large llantittos Of 1t o tar
lr'orksbire Pkdkb* ?M01.14e.
THEIR $ACRlfie$ M•4ST-
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Phil Gs ier�of
Lazy Meadows
. 4 ,
• (By li^arry J,' Boyle) - •
"SUGAR RATIONS"
The storm 'struck.. just after dinner.
Mrs. Phil was washing tete d'ishea'and
I was reading the newspaper. There
was the headline about the rationing
of sugar. !It 'Seemed that just as the
headline came into sight everybody
on ;the party -line started to call -up
their neighbors, They all seemed dis-
turbed by .the announcement that tea
would have to go short on sweeten-
ing.
Our ring came in—"three longs and
two shorts"—and when the receiver
was lifted you could easily hear the
din in all parts of the room. Gradu-
ally order was restored on the line
wlien Mrs. Higgins, whose voice car-
ries especially well, cut ,khrough the
noise,. "Look, heree' came her voice,
"all.. the chattering and glibbering
isn't getting 'anybody any place. In
the first place I was using this tele:
phone and all the rest of you start-
ed ringing in on me." There was a
huffed) silence after that for • a few
seconds but the noise soon started up
again: •
Mrs. Ishii got on the line again and
I could hear occasional words such as
"What about baking?" . . . "Dearmel'.----'"You would, think the gov-
ernment would have 'laid in a supply°
of sugar" . , , "Maybe we could grow
sugar beets and, squeeze the sugar
out, of them,"
There was a worried look in Mrs.
Phil's eye as she came away from
the telephone. "Only that little bit
of sugar'. for each •person and Aunt
Phoebe coming to visit us next week.'
She puts in a cup of sugar for every
cup of •tea she drinks;' My sugges-
tion that she mix a little salt with
the sugar for Aunt Phoebe,;so as to
make it go farther and at the same
-time cure .her : tendencies towards
having so much sugar fell on deaf
ears. .S•he was lost in contemplation
of sugFless days.
The eonrniunications from the bat-
tle front came pouring in ati day.
Mrs. Higgins discovered that Mur-
phy's1 store was .sold' out of sugar.
Cousin Oscar, the man with' th'exaon-
ea on the Twelfth Sideroad, was ,seen
going home with a -bag in the buggy.
The bag was dill covered with a blan-
ket and everybody was convinced it
was sugar. Some had, a notion .,of
calling .the police.
The sugar -war was too ranch for a
mere man •to stand. I decided to go
out for a walk back to the bush. Our
year's supply of wood has not been
cut yet and it appears as if I am go-
ing to have to clean. up some fallen
trees and haul them up to the barn
and "buzz" their, for next winter's
fuel supply. It ie impossible to hire
'a Man to go into the bush and work
these days.
The snow crun.ohed under foot with.
the rasp' of ,the frost. The sun. had a'
February glint to it and a certain
warmth when you stood on the shady
side of a little knoll just east of the,
bush. A, rabbit scampered outand
went hippety-hopping across the snow.
A partridge :flattened into obscurity
as she heard the footsteps - on the
snow. It took several minutes, to dis-
.cover her outline against the partial-
ly rotten stump.
Then,-• I saw it. A bee tree that \'-as
marked ,nut last °Fall and then . for-
gotten! There it loomed' up as a po-
tential source of sugar supply. Black
and forbidding in appearance, that
tree, has untold wealt.,-
hin the way of
honey,
As happy as if I had diseoeered a
buried hoard. of gold I' went back to
the house.._ Mrs. Phil had a number
'of paper sacks on the "'table figuring
orrt j;he, amount of sugar on band. She
was lamenting at the same time the.
fact that during the previous week
she hadn't bought the hand•red-pound
sack of sugar as she had. intended,
She scarcely heard me When I •ask-
ed if 'honey was any.- good for bak-
ing. 'Then' it dawned on her and she
.looked up,.; adding,: "I know what
you're thinking about, but +honey :s
-too -clear to buy.' Besides we don't
want• to Ito' anything' that will be un -
1:71:
n
patriotic,"
However,' one 'of these nights I
think we'll cut down the bee -tree and
it will be a, patriotic 'act because it
will bfe p to conservethe sugar, sup-
ply.
Canadian -Troops• M e
Friends in England and
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Have Very Good Reco . .
This is the' ninth in the series
of articles written ,by Hugh Temp -
lin, of The Fergus News -Record,
exclusively for the weekly news-
, papers of Canada:. Mr. Templin
flew to Britain as a guest of the
British Council and was' given an
opportunity to see what is being
done in Britain in ' wartime.
It was natural that a Canadian on
a visit to Britain should, want to see
as• much.. as possible, of the Canadian
army overseas. Some of the Canadian
editors had tone or brothers In: the
Service. 'Every one had lists of ad-
dresses of boys from tome.
Actually, it wasn't so easy to find
any individual soldier. The Canadian
units are scattered over much of the
southern part of 'England, and while
I was there, they were taking part aa
large-scale manoeuvres, the bulk of
the Canadian. Corps moving arouard
London andi up towards the .e'ast to
meet a pretended invasion. It was in
teresting to see this large army on
the move, but bard to locate units or
individuals, •
A few daps after I articled in Lon-
don; a rather unpleasant incident oc-
curred. -
The first six editors reached: the
city late on Saturday night. We were
met by E. D. •O'Brien, of the British
Council, who steered us through the
blackout to the Savoy, got us' settled}
in our rooms and .,by teno'clock had
us sitting down to_.dinner at the table
reserved for us in the grill groom. We
had hardly 'begun, to eat before a re-
porter edged himself into the circle,
proc'e'eded to 'Eder blieself a meat ad
the expense of (,fur hosts, topped It.
off with a bottle Of Whiskey and pro-'
Aoeedecl to "interview" .arae because he
was: beside •me: . rf 7w70- a -e 6it3ian
of nerve .such as Y had" aelaloldqu,heelt.
susgeet ,oinrr :host, se'ethett4i 'ide,
lint did not want td. • Y att tthiiiig - hi
frame of '1Ido, gusto.. , As the, mottle• got
t
lower, I.wondered what the interview
was going to sound like:-
As
ike:-As it turned out, it Wasn't as bad
as it might 'have been, but my name
was spread over Britain as. the editor
of a great.. group of weekly papers,
stretching from coast "to code"t. .
That brought in what the r 4�1ao and.
movie people''would call "fan'mail,"
but which might more properly have
been called i'letters to the editor-"
One of them was a scurrilous post-
card, denouncing the conduct of°the
• Canadian .troops. in Britain. The writ-
er said be was coming to the Savoy
the next morning to tell me all about
them. I' made enquiries,, found that
the writer was an Australian In Lon-
don,
ondon, not too well thought of himself
and a bit of a crank.... The English
people resented what he' had done,
The man turned up next day, but I,
made sure l4was away at they time.
Troops Have Excellent Record
After that, I made It my Particular
business, wherever I• went, to ask
about the Canadiand5oys in Englaand.
I received answers from 'high and
low. I sapped away from the group,
and talked with the English people
in their garden$. 1 got offieial figures
from Canadian Army Headquarters.' I
talked with civilians and. English sol-
diers. 'Before. I left London, 1 had
satisfied •myself beyond any .doubt.
The record is not perfect, of course,
but there were few serious crimes or
misdemeanors. I learned little bad
and much goody the one definite epl-
apde in which a .group of eetthadian
soldiers took part rather a'in sed roue,
though. perhaps •i should have been
shocked. •
The 1Snitigh people cannot speak
too illteLTAtAIO_( &puadians. _Manyi_oi'
olid". teoIdter
iS /are ,'bill'eterl- In. private
:houses, e9pedi tUly'teat ,Of Lendens Ln
A i , nOte. 0 ; 10,Mes, ,.thesetioyo ve ;1400n lYtea.011000
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From Manitoba
- Mrountlinslde, Man., Jan. 15, 1942,
The motor, The Hfuron Expositor.Y
Dear Sir: This has been a perfect
d+ay. The rnoruing waa calm ,•and
bright N 1ir111m'pted me qutofdoors
on a two.mile walk 'across .the fields
to a neighbor's. -There is little snow,
'ard what there is left was crispy un-
`derfoot, but by rattern�oon the bright
Sunshine wap melting the' snow and
the bare ground was ratlror'.molat for
good wanking. On the prairie all the
snow is gone.
This is really wonderful weather for
mid-kanuary, and a great change from
what we.had a week age, when for e
few days the .mercury slid down to
about 38 below. Cars have run all
winter — so far —without hindrance
froz r. weather or bad roads. But we
may have snow and sleighing aplenty
before spring. Some are wishing "for
It
.,
Christmas found us at a neighbor's
eating roast goose with relatives and
friends. Similarly we started the
New Year. A spirit of good - cheer
prevailed, despite the fact that our
thoughts wandered overseas to t'he'ab-
sent ones.
Jan. 27: It seems that this letter
is being done on the instalment ,plan.
But. the weather holds good, very
Springlike. for the past thr°eeweek's--
no snow to speak of—the prairies are
quite bare. Cars are, running as in
summer. As we went to Boissevain
the other day, we saw' cattle out M.
the fields, and on the roadsides munch-
ing away at the dry, grass which grew
in abundance last year: "Never Saw
such a long spell' of fine weather is
Jauuary," say old-timers of 40 'years
in Manitoba, but they also said that
they had never experienced anything
like last summer. Spring was very
wei, which delayed seeding. Then a:,
hot spell in July harmed the crops,
and the wet weather in the fall made
it seem as if threshing would .never
be done. Lack of competent help—
and that high.. :priced—made the '•
threshing problem more difficult, as
the outfits could not be fully manned.
Then the prices...for-;.grain-_does not
raise the ,spirits of the Western far-
mer, and the grades were poor last
year. • But, fortunately, he does not
keep all his eggs in one basket,
though this is essentially a grain -
growing country.
Hired help presents. an ever -grow- �- •
ing problem, as more and more of our
young men enlist. In •fact, very fewer
of those eligible for the service are•
left, and those are badly needed on
the farm.
One of our neig_rbors has two sone.
The younger at 20 joined the ' ,artii-
ilery on the start of w:ti and Chas been k
overseas two years. The elder was
turned down on account of a minor
disqualification. Ten days ago, kith
another young chap; he went to Wiin- -
.nipeg and both returned on'S;aturday
in khaki—home for a dap, Hien back
to Winnipeg , on the bus Sunday eve-
ning. Imagine the l.oneliness' In the
houiiee. The young daughter is at high
school. The mother nursed soldiers'
in a Welsh hospital during the Great
War and knows something of the
horrors of war. The Scotch father is
bravely -facing the years of hard work;
single-handed. Such is the... -sacrifice
some parents are malting, . A few
weeks ago a friend in a phone con-
versation remarked, "Ann went down
to school feeling very downhearted
this morning; her brother is in Hong
Kong!" • At the new year Ana got -
another school, to be near her widow-
ed mother. Another orother is with
the troops in E_ngland, Five sons
one family are serving in different
'bra'nches of the army., Recently the
five were ,pictured iri' the' Deloraine
Times -fine looking chees'of Scotch
parentage.
'Sugar rationing, sprung so suddenly
upon us, i.s taken very lightly. No
one seems to think it a hardship to
do with a little less "sweetness."
- 'A friend in New Westminster wrote
to me telling of their first blackout,.
and the strangeness' of the 'experi-
ence. I am sure the British Calumb'.a:
coast pedpie, as weld as those all
down' the . Pacific coast must feel a
bit jittery, on account of large Jap-
anese population in. those parts. Fey,
of sabotage will be greater than. fear
of attack—most likely."
I was in 'Vancouver in 1907 when
'the .Japanese made some kind of a
riot, getting the Chinese tangled up
in it. Next day (Sunday) ...some. of
there were seen driving in carriages
a long the street at English Bay where•
crowds were bathing and sunning
themselves- The cockinessof these
little Orientals was very much in evi-
dence. They seecied to have unlim-
ited nerve, but .their suavity seems
to have deceived many, as we now
see. Lafcadio Hearn, journglist,
teacher and, author, fell completely
under the s•peli of Japan, and wrote
several books on the history and lore'
of his adopted countryr where he
spent the last fourteen years of his
life. Despite the fact that he adopt-
ed the Buddhist religion and became
a Japanese subject, he died disillus-
ioned. Who could trust a 'Jap?
Almost daily we see planes flying
overhead, sometimes several, As we
are only about,seven. miles from the
U.S. boundary, this is about their
limit tieing southward from Brandon
airport, As we see the plane lignt
far overhead at night Nye are remind-
ed of the sailor's hynsn, and wonder
if any one has yet composed a hymn
Inc the airman "In peril in the sky."
J. W. R.
Professor: "And just why wouldn't
you want to have your name inscrib-
ed in the Hall of Flame?" "•
Student: "Well, I'd sooner have
people asking why it isn't there than
asking Why it is:' .
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Valins: "It is very strange that no
.011e
4 ey .. en. �ablel to ndr Cap-
0ad etreasure.
Meati, ."Oh, well, Captain, Kidd Was
tr t�l'te tilt' Man i
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tatore9
ato 1 ; ;estate acct r co'tllilairt gat it.
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