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Published at Seaforth, Ontario, ev-
ery Thursday afternoon by McLean
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SEAFORTH, Friday, May 15, 1942
• We Feel Better
• Like most people who listened to
Prime Minister Churchill's broad-
cast On Sunday last, we feel a little
better. Not because of Any great
(victories announced; not because of
any great promises made, but be-
cause Mr. Churchill has never spok-
en more encouragingly of the United'
Natioirs war effort, nor has his voice
ever contained the same ring of con-
fidence.
We know that the war is not ap-
proaching the end, nor is the end ev-
en in sight, but Mr. Ch-urchill im-
planted the feeling which his words
and tone carried. that Britain and
her Allies were fast reaching the
point where they would have the up-
per hand in every kind of war ma-
terial, and had already reached that
stage in.the air.
It is true that the success of Japan
has been disheartening to both the
,United 'States and Britain, but Ja-
pan's naval force received a bad
• mauling at the hands of the United
States navy last week, and bit by bit
it is being whittled down.
Italy's Empire has fallen the
• Allies,. and India, Africa, t,
Malta and Gibraltar are still in Al-
lied hands, and more than likely to
remain there.
• But greatest encouragement of all
conies from the Eastern front. There
• the German casualties have run into
the millions.; • the loss of war ma-
• terials has been stupendous, and with
the R.A.F. blasting German produc-
•_ tion plants in Germany and other
• European countries as she has been
blasting them for weeks, it is a ques-
tion if this war material will ever
again reach the peak where it was
• when Russia was invaded.
.And Russia is still advancing and
the great spring drive 'against her,
•which Hitler has promiSed his people
will annilihate the Russian army, is
still delayed because it can not be
put in motion.
fact, Russian communiques, and
they are usually reserved and reli-
able, seem to make, as one writer put
it, "Hitler's spring -offensive seems
very much like a pin: pointed one
way and headed another."
•
Getting_Busp
Following their remarkable- suc-
cess in the recent_Fecleral by-election
-Nort-11 Yerkl, Where. their_candi, _
• date succeeded m defeating the lead-
er of the Canadian Conservative,,
party, by a majority of several thou-
sands; in a traditionally Conserva-
tive riding, the C.C.F. announced
their intention of placing a , candi-
• date in every Ontario riding at the
next Provincial election.
The Legislative elections, however,
having been p,ostponed for at least a
year, the C.C.F. party is, apparently,
not prepared to wait that long to
nuke• its laid for representation in
the Ontario Legislature. It is going
to get busy now.
On Saturday last, F. • Andrew
Brewiri, chairman of the Ontario C.
• C. F. election committee, announced
that legislation will be undertaken
to force the Hepburn Government to
• hold by-elections for the six vacan-
• cies now existing in the Legislature.
On the same day, W. H._ Temple,
president of the C.C.F.-conStitirenty
council in Toronto, High Park, one
of the vacant constituencies, wrote
C. F. Bulmer, Clerk of the Crown in
Chancery at Queen's Park, requiring
him to issue a writ in that constitu-
eney, and the letter, in part, read:
"If you do not by May 18th issue this -
Writ, we shall have to conclude that
04 are not willing to carry out your
statutory duty, ;and I shall then ap-
pbrto the Supreme Court f. Ontario
Foider reqUiting'you to do so,"
This action Will be taken under • a
passed in 1904, 'after the then
mier Hon. G. W. 41ogs, had failed ,
in N'OftlfRttif reW,
• 11, 'ftioritliS. Mine
•that o gent-
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members of the preSent House, -would
dare do any such thing, the*C.C.F.' is
gang to take advantage of other
• means provided in the Act to force
the issue.
It will be interesting to watch the
proceedings, and still more interest-
ing', if the C.C.F. succeed in opening
these ridings, to follow the campaign
and note the result of these by-elec-
tions. It is not too long ago to, re-
member what happened in the North
Renfrew by-election during the Ross
regime, nor what happened to the
same government in a very short
time.
•It is still more easy to remember
what happened the Conservative
government when the U.F.O. stepped
into the political field in 1919.
In every one of the six vacant con-
stituencies which, beside High Park,
include Huron -Bruce, vacant since
March, 1940; Cochrane South, vacant
since May, 1940; Toronto -Bellwood,
vacant since March, 1940; Kingston,
March, 1940, and Lincoln, vacant
since August, 1941, there has been a
growing resentment not only against
their disenfranchisement, but a still
•more bitter feeling agai4Sthe high-
handed and autocratic( --response to
their appeals for representation, so
that there is more than a possibility
that a turnover will be recorded in
some, if not all, of these ridings
should the C,C.F.- succeed -in opening
them.
•
Fall Fairs
We have been told that because the• '
London Fair is a thing of the past,
andthe Canadian National is out for
the duration, that the local Fall
Fairs will soon follow suit.
But it is hard for us to follow that
reasoning. The Western Fair had to
be discontinued because the military
authorities took over their building
for the accommodation •of troops.
The same applies to Toronto, al-
though we doubt if that was the en-
tire reason. Much of the revenue of
the National is derived from dis-
plays made by manufacturers, ,and
manufacturers and merchandising
have been entirely changed by the
war, cdrisequently the' directors may
have felt that they would lose money
by continuing, in spite of the large
attendance which • that Exhibition ,
siraws. •
On the other hand, the small coun-
• try fair is not up against any subh
problems. Their • buildings a n d
grounds are too small for military
purposes, and they never have deriv-
ed any revenue from manufacturers'
displays.
The war might evenhelp the small
• fair by tieing in with the Airforce
and the Army, as many did last year,
getting a military display that made
it well worth while for the people to
attend -and -witness -these displays.
• Of course it is not possible for all
fairs to take advantage of these mil-
itary displays, but it is possible for
the director S of all of them to tie in
with their town, merchants, Cham-
bers of Commerce and Service Clubs
and in that way secure a new and
much needed change in their set-up.
Another thing is that because of
the gas and tire restrictions, people -
can no longer run hither and yon to
seek their entertainment. More and
• more they will have to take what is
at their door, and the Fall Fair was
• once, before cars and rubber tires
were ever heard of, one of the great-
est entertainments that country life
provided..
It can easily be that way again
with careful planning and organiza-
tion, plus co-operation.
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Who Laughs Last
There was a general scramble on
the part of motorists to 'get what
- they believed was an ample supply
of gasoline and the Oil Controller
was the cause of manyheartbuins.
• A good many motorists, to their
way of thinking, Were not allowed
nearly enough gas, and a great iany
more were allowed far too much.
.The former, envied and complained
about the latter, and the latter were
a little inclined -to laugh at the form-
er and the .011 Controller as well. .
But the Oil Controller has the last
say. He needs the gas and he is go-
ing to get it, even if he has to wait
until next January to get it. Maty
are laughing at that official now; hat
ext January' that gtiftkitia#1*111
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4iR'; RAID
From The, Huron Expositor,
May 18, 1917
Lieut. Win. McQueen, of London,
visited at his home in Brucelield, and
has takea a position in London on
the Labor Bureau. He has almost re-
covered from the woundB received in
the trenches.
James Gemmell, of Brneefield, has
purchased a new Flied car.
Mr: James Dorrance, McKillop, re-
ceived word that his son, Sergt. Har-
vey; Dore -mace, had been admitted to
the hospital at Calais suffering from
gunshot wounds in the left Arm:
Mr. James Sproat, Egmondville, re-
ceived word from Ottawa on Thurs-
day informing him that his son, Jake,
had been wounded while on duty on
April 27, e•
Mr. Leofiard Bolton, barber, has
purchased. the Watson cottage on
East William St
On Fridaunight last the, Victory
concert, under the direction of Mrs.
G..Mullen and Miss Stephens, with
Mrs. •O'Connell as pianist, was again
given in Cardno's Hall to a packed
house.
Mr. Patrick Ryan, Dnblin, has sold
his beautiful 150 -acre farm with of
Dublin, to Mr. William Dillon, the
consideration being $12,000.
Mr. Geo. male, a prosperous far-
mer of thetelthrioncession of Hibbert,
recently piKrchased a very handsome
Shorthorn bull calf eight months old
from Mr. James Hill, Staffa.
• The mutual meeting of the women's
•Institute Was held at the home of
Mre. Peter Douglas, at Blake, on May
8. The fellotaine g, -Officers were •elect
ed: President, Mrs. Wm. Douglas;
vice-pres., Airs. A. J. 'McDonald; sec.-
treas., PLO.' D. Tough; directors, Mrs.
II. 0. Zapfe, Mrs. L. Foster, Mrs. S.
Hey and Miss Alberta Finlay.
From The Huron Expositor
May 20, 1892°
•
!Misses Janet and Isabella . Barr,
daughters of the Rev. Matthew Harr,
Seaforth, have just returned from
Kingsten, where they spent the year
'at Queen's. They both epassed with
honors in French and German.
• Mr. •Wm. Pinkney, Seaforth, met
with a serious misfortune on 'Monday
last. When driving a spirited young
horse it 'teak iright.and, bolted to one
side very suddenly. He was thrown
out over the'front of the vehicle and
was considerably cut and bruised.
Mr. Jea.1,andeborough, student at
kiepee-Oelleavem4 eon of Mr. James
Landsborough, Tuckersmith, left this
week for Magnetawan to spend the
summer in missionary week.
Mr. Geo. Nett, of the London Road,
has let the contract of his new house
to Mr. T Mckenzie, of "Clinton, .who
expects toecomnaence operations at an
early date.
• The annual picnic will be held in
Mr. James Landsborough's grove, in
Tuckeismith, on the 24th. This one
promises to surpass anything yet pre-
pared. •'
Messrs. C. E. Mason and Peter Mc-
Gregor, of BruCefield, passed through
_here on Monday evening last with 16
very fine looking earriage horses for
the Old Country market.
A lady, a resident of Dublin,- is
authority for the following story:
Some time ago her trunk was check-
ed, at Toronto for Dublin: It did not
arrive in any reasonable length of
time, and upon an investigation being
made it was ascertained that the
trunk had gone to Dublin, Ireland2Af-
ter waiting about three months it
reached its proper destination, having
crossed the ocean twice.
DIS• DEEP ,7
Phil Osier of •
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Lazy- Meadovis :
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• • (By Harry BO yial ••
- "FARM STABLES"
- There is eno doubt about it .
farm conditions -have changed. a greet
deal in the past number of years.
Much of it has been for the .better.
However, there are some things
which in the opinion of a man born
and raised on a farm should be 'con-
sidered as sacred and above tae med-
dling hands of people who de not ap-
preciate sentiment.
• Take, for instance, the farm stable.
The Dominion .Department of Agricul-
ture has just announced about experi-
ments. which they are conducting for
the purpose •of making farm stables
less smelly. They want to install
some sort of gadget which would
ahatigethe.atmoaphere in our stables.
This machine Would blow out the
smelly. air and bring in fresh air -Ca'
take its place...Can you imagine that?
• Possibly we could go even further on
the line of scientific development and
• have "Attar of alfeses" or some such
perfume strewn fragrantly throughout
the stable. •
1 'shudder to thenkwhat-Sir-Time
othy, our red bull, would think if
some sweet perfume would 'come in
through a special deodorizing ..outilt
in the stable here at Lazy alead.nses.
Jessie,- our .brindle cow, would react
to it In a favorable way. However,
she is a fussy, feminine sort of ani-
mal anyhow and given to preen •at
the slightest chance. Grunter, our
discontented Berkshire, could be
counted 'Upon to be extremely unhap-
py in such an ,atreosphere.
An actien Of this nature would only
be the beginning. Next thing you
know there would be a law compelling
pen. Then those motorists
who think they have put one
over, as well -as those who
legitimately got a greater
supply of gasoline will find
that while their ration cou-
pons are designed to last un-
til the 31st of March, their
car 'licenses expire in Janu-
ary.
That means if they buy a
new license the number on
their license plates will not
correspond to the number
on their ration book, conse-
quently they will not be able
to buy a drop of gas.
Of course the Depart-
ment'of Highways can fore-
go -the collectiA of some
.millions df dollars that the
motorists -have been hand-
ing over to he Govercanent
treasury, but what Govern-
ment has ever been or ever
will be that human?
Next year the number of
motor licenses taken out will
be dedidedlp less than the
number taken -out this year.
And •the Cebverninent will
need it all, and will demand
it too. -
Consequentlyas things
are now, it looks pretty
imith as it the Oil Control-
ler would have a 'hundred
per dent p ntr I of the gaso-
line situation by the ei4'Of
1
us to have such equipment installed
in our stables and snooping 'inspec-
-tors would be around to sniff up the
air, and the least hint of natural at-
mosphere would mean a- fine or a
term in jail.
Have you ever noticed the atmos-
phere of a stable? City -dwellers axe
inclined to turn up their, noses at it
but on the whole -it is composed of
the most natural sort of odors. Take
for instance a crisp, frosty day in
winter. You stamp into the stable,
swinging the doors shut as quickly as
poseible. There is that musky, hay-
mow fragrance of dry hay as the hers -
es nuzzle into 'their bins. A hen
scratching above you sends _a pyra-
mid-hf dusty hay leaves spilling down
to tickle your nostrils into a sneeze.
Sir Timothy blasts out jets of steam-
ing breath at you as you pass.
I like a waneday in Spring when
you can leave the Op stable doors Op-
en. The air is soft and moist and it
seems to almost caress your cheek.
The cattle are warm and sweating
freely. Even. the turnips being ground
in gle,.1331.141.er have_ a eRecial; small of
their own. •_
Go into a stable on a day in, Sum-
mer when possibly the only stock in
there may be the calves, the occa-
sional hen with an urge to wander
may be poking along on the top of
the stalls and Sir Timothy. Possibly
a breachy cow may be doing punish-
ment. The place is quiet and almost
• dry and musty.
These are little items but precious
to t farmer. I do not intend to rob
my stable ef anything so precious by
installing one of those fancy ma-
chines for deodorizing the place . . .
act a Week
:�t Canada
• From the Dion Bureau
•of Statistics
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.TO SLAUGHTER BUFFALO
In order to prevent over -grazing;
and to maintain thee-bilfalo herd in
Elk Island Natienal Park -in, a healthy
state, 500 animals will be slaughter-
ed shortlY. The heed, in this feneed
park noie-mimbera- almost taop, of
which 255 Woro' been 4ueing-1941, and
further ,uneeleeClied increase would en-
cla,nger ,range condition's.
The ,elettightor will° be earned out
under the -mipervisiten of thepark
superintendent and strictly humane
• and up-to-date methods will be erne
ployed.. Notwithstanding the fact that
the buffalo in the park are In perfect
health, a rigid inspection of the meat
will be Made by an official of the De-
partment of Agriculture. The car-
casses will be prepared for market 1.13;
a modern abattoir -maintained itt the
park and the meat will be handled
under stringent sanitary conditions*.
and graded according to quality and.
age. Only, the choicest quality may
be offered to. the fresh meat trade,
and the balance is marketed in pro-
cessed form. Buffalo meat is consid-
ered dietetically to be equal. to the
best domestic cattle, and buffalo
steaks and roasts have always beell
popular on the Canadian market.
The p.eriodic reduction of the buf-
falo herd also, provides, high quality
skins suitable for the manufacture of
coats, motor robes, floor rugs and.
other articlee. Due to the' improved
fur-dreiding methods and the fact
that the animals are slaughtered Only
when the fur is mime, the , buffalo,'
products of 'today are held in high
regard.
. Canada's success .in saving the buf-
falo from threatened extinction is a
notebleeachtevementin wild Jife con-
servation. le addition to the itantille.
in Elk Island National Park, it is legi-
timated' that more than 12,000 buffalo.
roam at large in Wood Buffalo Na-
tional Park, •e vast game ,preserve.
which lies iiart in. Alberta and pert-
ly in the Northw t Territories. Smell.
exhibition herds . f buffalo are „also,
maintained in ,Banff, Prince Albert,,
and Riding lafountain National Patics..
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Portu ese Bullfight Is
Brtillia geantWithout
Arty BloodBeingSpilled
This is the 17th in the series
of stories about a trip to wartime
Britain and return, by' wee, of
Portugal. They are written for
the weekly,. newspapers of Can-
ada by Hugh Templin, editor of
the Fergus News -Record.
have already written something
�f Lisbon, the capital of Portugal.
This week, I add some more. Frankly,
what I write is colored •by my point
of view. Perhaps I do Lisbon an in-
justice.
An excellent guide book, published
by the Government of Portugal and
presented to me with the compli-
ments of the Minister of Propaganda
(for they call a spade a spade in Por-
tugal), says:
"Lisbon is enchanting. It is a city
at once ancient and modern, with
wide avenues bordered by magnificent
houses- and crowded with swift motor
carst There are streets of steep steps
in which houses of many -colored
fronts jostle one another confusedly,
while 'between them passes a motley
crowd in typical costumes--41shwives,
bare -legged but, wearing golden neck-
laces, women carrying jars of water
on their heads in clasalc pose."
True enough, no doubt, but nay
diary tette a different story. Up to
that time, it had, begia full and com-
plete, as readers may have guessed.
But for the week' in Portugal, it is
brief. It says:
"Saturday, October 10, to Friday,
October 16—The terrible week in Lis-
bon. Disliked Itfromthe Start. Saw
Ibialflight on Sunday, October 11. Siok
On Tuesday and stayed that way till
Mean:Mon sailed on Friday --and tor
four days More," .
And that. except for two pages of
notes tin the bullfight, is all. But
need -no notes to bring back memories
Of Lisbon, They keep doming back,
-even ^in MY sleep, and nearly altetwe
as nighttitatek.
All in the Point of WSW
Yet it Is 1i itt afti tOint'ef.
aptarentIy. To tWoUilatald' 0;1000.1),
bog Ilatirtletial#400 10*
"
Months before, was the symbol of
liberty and comparative safety. Some
of them gave up everything they had
except their lives, to reach the city.
Uncounted hundreds • probably lost
their lives trying to teach it. Lisbon
was the only point of contact with the
free world—with the United- States
and, to •some extent, with Great
Britain. During , the voyage across
the Atlantic to. New York, I was to
hear at first hand the stories of some
of these refugees. Not till then did
I learn what Nazi domination really
means. For those poor people, Lis-
bon was literally the doorwey out of
hell.
I, didn't look on Lisbon 4n that
way. To Me, it was Rant a port of
call on the way back- to the home I
was anxious to see as soon as pos-
sible. When, I learned 1 would have
to wait ten days for a plane across
the Atlantic, it was a shock. Wdth
•the seven other Canadian editorg, I
began to haunt the offices of Pan
American Airways, and later, 'those
of American Euport Lines. 1 stood
in line with other refugees and be-
came one of thein. Would I get out
of Portugal 'before the Germans ar-
rived? a wondered. Would tae United
States be, forced into the war whale
stayed on in Lisbon waiting for the
Clippers that were so slow *dig?
I had just eome by plate iron% Bri-
'tain. The trip had its dal:mere, but
they were of the eichilikating kind. A
few nights betel* „I had cantle un-
scathed through a bomb raid, and had
marvelled at the way free people
tdok those things. There had always
been danger in those days and
hights in ,England, but the -people
were of My 'own kind, and iClad
seemed a gond plade to be.
in, Portugal, the very air was dif-
ferent. I knew not a '&ord of the lan-
guage and itttle of the custom. An
UnUSUal 3iuiniver of pelletnalati. Were
to be seen everywheSe. One could
bur:10ithit &UM' On the streets,
fitit Odd be arregt6d. for
tiotex!, ."
• Seen in the
County Paper
94ow,-. Fires'
The Centralia Airport has a new
fire truck. It was around town on
• Monday in charge of some of the air-
force boys.—Exeter Times -Advocate.
Honored on Her 80th Birthday
On the occasion of her eightieth
birthday,.Mrs. Margaret .McLean_was
at home to ,a number of ter friends. ,
and neighbors at the tea hour on Sat-
urday. The tea table was lovely with
lace cloth, pink tapers and pink snap-
dragons in silver 'bowl. Tea was
Poured by Mrs. R. V. Brooks. Tea
room assistants were Mrs. N. J. Mc --
Lean and Misses Corinne and Donelda
McLean. Following the tea Mr. and
Mrs. N. D. McKenzie entertained at
a family dinner party in hamar of her _
mother. Guests were •present. frome
Belgrave, London, Toronto and Pres-
ton.—Wingliarn Advence-Times.
• New Rector Appointed -
Rev. -Oldham', now of Clarksburg,
has been appointed as rector of St.
John's Anglican Church, Brussels, and
St. George's Church, Walton. Rev.
F. G. Davis, of Atwood, who has had
charge of these parishes since Rev.
• P. Watts left for All Saints Church,
Windsor, is to go to Walkerville, and
this Sunday will be his final One here‘,
at Brussels. Rev. Oldham is expect- ,
ed .to arrive at St. John's rectory
about the first -rit June: --e Brussels
Post. ,
Appointed Superintendent of Hospital
The board of Alexandra Hospital
has appointed Miss Minnie Dickson
as superintendent of the hospital, to
succeed Miss Olive Waterman, re-
signed: Miss Dickson is a graduate
of Alexandra and a post -graduate in
obstetrics of the Womin's College
Hospital, Toronto For the last three
years she has been on the staff of
Alexandra Hospital as supervisor. She
is e native of Ashfield township.—
Goderieh Signal -Star.
Goes To Washington
Miss Dorothy Henderson, daughter
of Mrs. R. Henderson, Waterloo' St.,..
left Thursday for Washington, D. C.,
having receiver's' an appointment la
the Canadian consular service at the
capitai.—Goderielt Signal -Sten
Nurses Entertained
The Nurses' Alumnae entertained
the graduating, class Of Alexa,ndali
Marine. and General Hospital at a
banquet at the -British Exchange Ho-
tel last Wednesday evening. This
yeareieclaias is composed of the Miss-
es, -Eileen Feagan Edna Coleman,
Merle Sheardown and Grace MelViath.
Miss Olive Waterman, superintendegk,
addressed the gathering and
Chaffee, social service worker, spoke
on the value of nursing gervlem—
Goderich Signal. -Star.
Weather Instrument Picked Up
• Mr. Norman Pasemore on Sunday
afternoon picked up. on his farm a
balloon and instrument that ^had been
sent up by the U.S. Weather Bureau
from the Wayne County Airport at
Romulus, Michigan.' According to the
information on the side of the pack-
age the baleen bad been carried to
a height of about 12 miles. The bal-
loon buret and the instrahlent acted
as a radio broadeaster of the temper-
ature, 'pressure and Moisture of the
threttglr Which It passed. 'The bal-
loon was sent up at 11.4 aatt, Sun-
day,' May 3*-^attl: was found 4q, Mr.
,Patamore ab�ti five o'clock that same
Agtet!tmon. It had come hidroas Lake
ttoto. It vo'ao rottirtio0
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