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Phail McLean, Editor.j
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SEAFORTH, Friday, May 29, -1942
A Quiet Week End
The long holiday week -end, includ-
ing May 24th, was the quietest in the
history of our modern highways.
Perhaps the weather . had something
to do with it, but even on the holiday
when there was no rain falling, the
highways for the most part were
just white ribbons, with only an oc-
casional car to make - a black spot of
color .on them.
The gas rationed and tire rationed
public either stayed close to the home
fires or patronized the railways and
bus lines, the former running extra
trains and coaches to accommodate
the crowds of holiday travellers.
And that was only a beginning.
During. the summer months and be'-'
yond that, the trend of traffic will
follow the Victoria Day precedent.
Already people are learning to stay
at home or patronize the railways,
and somehow . railway travel always
seems expensive compared to car
travel, although figures could be pro-
duced to show this- was a delusion, at
least as far, as the car owner is con-
cerned. -
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Gettirig Nearer Every Day
Day by day the war is being
brought a little nearer to us. Not
actual warfare, perhaps, although
enemy submarines in the, St. Lawr-
ence river is a good nearer than the
average Canadian thought itat all
possible, but rather . by the restric-
tions which • war imposes on the peo-
ple of a country engaged in war, as
we are. -
We have had restriction of speech
and action; trade restrictions and
price ceilings; gas and rubber con-
trol, and the latest to be laid down is
the restriction .of . oil as a fuel.
The -latter -has brought—the war --
very,
_very,. very near home to thousands of
people who, in recent years, have
been heating their homes by means
of oil ,furnaces.. That system of heat-,
nig is not any cheaper; if as cheap as '
coal, but it is such a handy way of „
getting out of work. No furnace to
stoke, no ashes to remove. Just set
a thermostat at what ever tempera-
ture you desire in .your home _and
that temperature. is maintained from
fall to spring; regardless of the wea-
ther.
There are not, of course, a great
many in the smaller towns and Coun-
try who use that system of heating,
but there are more than a few, and
the ban on oil burning will fall just
as heavily on those few as it will on
the thousandsof city dwellers.-
Perhaps
wellers.-Perhaps a little heavier, because
the oil burning furnaces installed in
the 'Country are practically new. To
be forced to discard them and pur-
chase a coal burning furnace is an
expense that few. here can well af-
ford, or, in fact, afford at all. Even
those who have had oilburners in-
stalled incoal furnaces are, in many
cases, going to be put to as much or
more expense than they can afford,
to change them .back to coal burners
again.
But that is war, and until such
time as coal burning is restricted or
banned, the problem, and' it is a real
problem to many, of heating our.
homes during our winters, will not
be an insurmountable one. Anyway,
things , are likely to be mach worse
%'e they ate any better, so why
=pain until we really have some-
thirig to complain, about. And win -
is ,a,.,liong way Off fret.
a anew.In fluron
ire.b s�
xf told ore than on
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e
Cdfirninent hai no right ,t6
aloe front
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a d `' 4 •
them' . tinsi
wants anything to da with the • Jap -
1 ut the Government has to move
the Japanese on the Pacific coast be-
cause of the fact that there it is pos-
sible that they might interfere very
seriously with national security if
they were allowed to remain in their
former homes.
Consequently the 'Japanese prob=
ler is not a local but a national one,
based on the country's security in a
time of war. And another object of
the Government is to avoid confining
these people in internment camps
and to make use, if possible, of their
manpower in useful agricultural
work where help is badly needed.
It is well to remember, too, that
Japan has hundreds of Canadian
prisoners in her hands, whose treat-
ment may be larger influenced by
the manner in which these Japanese
are treated in Canada.
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Accidents Will HaAPen
PRAcikteg
Accidents are as common on the
farm as they are in the cities and in-
dustrial centres, if not more so. Up
until a few years ago, however, the
larger percentage of accidents re-
sulted from the kick of a. horse or
cow, from a runaway or from the
handling of farm animals.
There was, too, the occasional ac-
cident encountered in the handling
of farm machinery, ,when an occa-
sional finger was nipped in a cutting
box or a hand or arm crushed in a
separator. Many of these were ser-
ious, of course, but the damage was.
. suffered by the individual and not by
the machinery or property.
When. a serious property accident
occurred, such as the destruction of
farm buildings by fire, such an acci-
dent was almost invariably caused
by °the careless placing of a lantern
in some spot where it could be knock-
ed over by somehorse or cow, or ev-
en by the dog. Farm machinery it-
self was not looked upon as a fire
risk with the possible exception of
threshing outfits.
But now on a great many farms
the tractor plays a,much more prom-
inent part in farming' than the horse
and the tractor is, or can be, a great-
er risk than anything else with the
possible exception of lightning, and
lightning, of course, is only a season-
able risk.
This was amply demonstrated on
Saturday—of =-last week, when -a-
strange tractor accident occurred on
the farm of a man' named March-
wont, near Tillsonburg This farmer
was pulling a wagon load of hay into
the barn with- a tractor and when he
'reached the barn floor the tractor
leaped forward, crashed through a
wall and dropped twenty feet to the
ground.
The overturned tractor set fire to
the hay and ignited the barn. In no
time at all a tobacco barn, implement -
shed and dairy barn had gone up in
smol e, and the driver of the tractor
was in the hospital with a broken
shoulder and other serious injuries.
Even that was riot all. All the farm
implements, including a new grain
combine machine that had never been
operated, and a team of horses were
included in the loss, which totalled
over twelve thousand dollars.
Apparently tractors can be seized
with fright and made to bolt the
same as a leam of horses.
•
On The Wrong Side
The Santa Fe Magazine says that
the reason for Hitler's sour look is
'because he wakes * up on the wrong
side of the Channel every morning.
There might be a good deal in that
statement, but at the same time Herr
Hitler should consider himself very
lucky to be allowed to wakenat all,
or any place, ;because' if he ever does
reach the British side of the • Chan-
, net there will be no dawning of an-
other 'day
nother'day for him.
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Declined • With Thanks -
(From the Vaestmanlands Laene Tidning, a
Swedish Newspaper)
while beets daily trample on the brother
country iiithe west, those responsible for the
termor tell us repeatedly hreW poor we are who do
not participate in the great "common" crusade in
the EWA to _gave leurepe and EurePeaiu cultereir•.
vow ottittu t#o they' offer aa •a 'soba titutee ,
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it. the centers and which, in of 'and: Czedhe-Slti-
From The Huron Expositor
Julie 1, 1917
Mr. Thomas Stephens, Seaforth, has
had the front of the Campbell . block,
which he recently purchased, painted,
which adds greatly to its appearance.
Mr. John Cameron has purchased
the old Elliott property in Egngoud-
ville from Miss. H. Ward, and will oc-
cupy it shortly.
Au electric iron left, burning in the
work doom of Miss Johnstone's mil -
parlors, caused • a small 'fire
out 1 o'clock Wednesday evening.
.Miss Harrriet Wilson, daughter of
Lt. -Cel. Wilson, who has had charge
of the operating room in the 'Presby-
terian Hospital, New York, has just
received a 'cable from the authorities
of the American Women's Hospital at
Paynton, England, offering her an ap-
pointment in that institution which
she hhs accepted, and expects to sail
from New York within a few days.
In a private letter •received this
week from a Seaforth boy at the front
the writer has the following to say
about Cpl. Troyer, son of Mrs. James
Troyer: "He was wounded in the ad
vance on the first day, but carried on
until ordered back. His platoon com
minder wanted me to tell you what
splendid work he did that day, so
that you can let his mother know
about it
Miss Edith Neelin sent a letter
home telling of how, when she wen
into the hospital supplies depar-tmen
she found a parcel' of pyjamas on
which was attached the cotton label
"The Canadian Red. Cross Society o
Seaforth." Miss Neelin had the labe
sent to Miss Case, president of til
Seaforth Red Cross. '
Mr. J. K. Richardson, of St. Marys
seas here last week attending the fun
eraI of the -late John MoNab.
Mr. George Love, . of Toronto, wa
here attending the funeralof the lat
J. S. Porter. -
Sub. -Lieut. J. Frank Docherty, son
of Mr. and 'Nits.' J. G. Docherty, o
Egmondville, who is serving in th
capacity as junior medical doctor in
the Royal Nayal' Hospital, Hasler,
England, had the distinguished ,hono
of being.. presented to H.R.H. Queen
Mary and Princess Mary at the open
ing of the voluntary aid-detachmen
:_building which was presented to th
British people, by the Canadian wo
Wien.
Lieut. D. S. Scott, of the Hurons,
who was .,recently invalided hon
from England, .underwent a success
Sul operation in the military hospita
in London on Saturday and his many
friends will be pleased to learn of hi
satisfactory progress.
. Messrs. T. McMichael and son, of
Hullett, have purchased a new .entir
horse, GeloneI Bowes, to replace In
ternational, which died a week ago.
Miss Hattie' Turner, of Tuckersmith
has finished the course at the Schoo
of Faculty and has returned home.
Messrs. Henry Rapiet and S. J.
Bell, Leadbury, are going the round
in, their new touring cars. Hackwel
Bros., S. Forbes and T. Young hav
also purchased cars,
From The Huron Expositor
June 3, 1892
The Seaforth Band went to Mitchell
on the 24th to furnish music for thei
celebration and, .the Mitchell Recor
makes a very fine comment concern-
ing their conduct on that day.
Mr Wm. McQueen, of Bruceeeld, a
graduate of Seaforth. Collegiate Inst' -
tui'@, has gone to Beamsville to teat
school in place of the principal unti
the holidays.: - .
Mr. Wm. Chesney, of Tuckersmith,"
has. shown us a stalk of fall wheat,
plucked from his field, which 'measur
ed three feet six inches.
Mr. AIbert Tiffin, of Hillsgreen,
preached to a large,con'gregation in
the Methodist Church lase Sunday ev
ening.
The Hicks Company is working day
and night at the swamp drain, near
Zurich, and is, making good progress
The Zurich wool market is now op-
en and the Messrs. Johnson of the
Woollen Mill are buying all tha
coines along.
. J• A few days ago as Mr. Henry
Weseloh, Sr., was leading a colt the
b ute commenced to rtin, throwing
lvr. Weseloh down and dragging him
a considerable distance.
Mr. Wm. 'Graham, of the 2nd con
cession of Stanley,` started for Glas
gow, Scotland, last Monday with sa
carload of cattle.
"Confidentially—How do you keep 'em so clean, Sir?"
Phil Osifer of
Lazy Meadows
(By Harry J. Boyle)
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Before the grass 'became too long
we decided that the orchard should
be cleaned up. - In fact we have de-
cided to do that same thing -each year
during the past number of years
without a great deal of success. There
always seems to be sogie convenient
excuse for relaying the work until
the grass grows too long . . . or else
we get. too busy with the haying • to
be bothered with the orchard.
.Mrs. Phil looks. out-ac'friee "the wil-
derness or orchard with :its thigh -deep(
conglomeration of weeds and grass
and burdock stalks during each sum-
mer and says with a certain amount
of scorn, "I can't for the life of me
figure out why it is that other people
can get their orchards cleaned up and
you have to leave ours in that condi-
tion." I get sorry and plan on clean-
ing it up for sure the next year.
During the middle Qf the summer
we .manage to get the mower out and
attempt to cut the grass lin the orch-
ard. Broken limbs and old wheels'
and piles of rubbish snarl the mower
up. Barrel hoops left lying around by
visiting summer bolidayers annoy the
horses- when they* come flipping up
from nowhere. The chicken coops
with t'h'eirlittle patches of trampled
grass and cheeping chickens 'seem
like viiagls,ges iii -T e ngie.--Brooding-
hens start up like 'frightened gape
ifirds and we discover nests of either
partly hatched or hatched
'What a host of amazing things we
have found this year in, going through
the orchard. It seems that a former.
hired man with a liking for the 'juice
of the grape must have deposited all
Tenders for the erection of the
Aux Sauble bridge on • the county
boundary line iietween Huron and
Middlesex, were opened at. London on
Wednesday of, last week. The con
tract was awarded to Mr. S. Hardy
,of Exeter, fol',.$760.
The choir of St. James' Catholic
church spent a very enjoyable even
ing this week at the yesidence of Mrs.
Thomas Downey, of town. They pre
sented Iser with a beautiful •Wedge
wood china salad 'bowl ae a mark of
esteem and at the same time express
ing their regret at her resignation.
Rev. Father. Cook was present and
°poke on behalf ,of the recipient.
Dr. J. G. • Scat, and Dr. Smith are
in Toronto this week attending the
annual meeting of the Ontario Medi-
cal Association. s
The +Seaforth Hand tv311 hold a
phonograph concert in Cardno's Halt
on Friday evening:
Mr. John Ward ' has purchased the
harness business and stock of Mr.
George E. Henderson, .and will •here-
after carry on business in Mr. Hen-
derson's store.
Mr. Wm. Male- of Seaforth, has
been awarded the contraet for carry.
ing the mails between Seaforth and
Bayfield for four years.
The address 'erateetly presented to
Dr. A.
IJ.lUIcl>dnald ; b3' iii
, • s c<ffia.gf`gg'a-
tion, has been orfgi'deaed and iiit Xtle
a'ted by Mr. L., Mel'ritill, who kiiifily
consented to do' tho.'*(k. _ As n._ap e,,
valla has deface pearls' all exprelefletls. Of their • tuners• of neat ,alibi artistic pe'nman-
ot natitlnai Bfa wit ch h+4 agg '. til'wa, a; '$ 101 0, 11. otiudls the..�resir ` lti have �tl'eI
thinks •
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Bridge Girder Snapped
Traff4e of trucks and other vehicles:'•
with heavy loads on the Saltford•
bridge was stopped last night and to-
day after it was discovered that a
supporting steel girder had been snap-
ped, reportedly by a protruding log,
one of a truck -trailer load of the •God-
erich Manufacturing Co. The acci-
dent happened about eight o'clock at
night and when it Was reported Traf-
fic Officer Culp immediately put a ,
guard on duty with instructions to
detour heavy loads. Repairs were
commenced this morning. The truck
driver told the traffic officer that ha
did not feel the impact, and knew
nothing of the accident at the time,.
Two eye -witnesses,, standing nearby,
heard the noise of the collision and
felt the vibration and reported to the
police.--Goderich Signal -Star.
Inspector Beacom To Go To Stratforcf
Mr. E. C. Beacom, public school in-
spector for South Huron, has been
notified by the Department of Edu-
cation of his transfer to Stratford,
where he will be on the staff of the
Normal School in charge of the de-
partment of science and agriculture.
The transfer will not take effect until
next September and it is understood
will be for one year only, after which
Mr. •Beacom will return to his duties
here. For the year the South Huron
inspectorate will be in charge of Mr.
E. H. McKone, of the London Normal
School staff.—Goderich Signal -Star.
Cpl. Wells Arrives in England
his .empties at the one spot in a cor-
ner of the orchard. When the, sal-
vage collectors decide they want to
help the glass. shortage, they• should
come up here to Lazy Meadows.
Two years ago in an industrious
mood I cut clown all the burdock
stalks around the front of the farm.
Evidently the scythe was hung over
the corner postof the orchard fence
and it slipped down in the corner and
lay there ever since. I looked high
and low Por' that scythe last year and
couldn't end it.
Mr. Howe will be interested to
know that we found a rubber tire. It,
was one of those tires considered un-
safe in the days when tires were easy
to purchase' but a real treasure in
view of the present shortage of rub-
ber. ; The children from the city who
were out hereto visit us last year evi-
dently were playing with it and they
ran it. off in a corner of the orchard
and there it remained up until this
year's historic cleaning -up campaign.
Old Biddy was; discovered with her
nest . in the bottom of that old hol-
low Red Astrakan tree. She was in-
dignastly removed to the hprsestable
and'reinstated at her hatching opera-
tions under a bushel measure. Biddy
has a habit of hatching for about two-
-thirds of the required time 'on a nest
and then just at the important time
she decides to move on some place
else.
However, the orchard is cleaned up
and everybody is much happier now
at Lazy Meadows as they look. out at
the. clean expanse of lawn and apple
trees. '
Mr. and Mrs. Fred Wells. have re-
ceived a cablegram from ,-England,
stating that their son, Corporal Ern-
est Wells, has arrived safely in Eng-
land. Corporal Wells was with the
First Hussafs.—Exeter Times-Aavo-
cate.
Blood Poison in Index Finger
The many friends of Mrs. (Rev.) .
D. C. Hill, who is now living ,at 423
St. Clements Ave., Toronto, will .re-
gret to know that she has been suf-
feringg from blood oison in the right.
hand. Six weel ago she got a
streptococcus germin the index 'finger
of the right hand and . blood poisoning
developed, She was in hospital for
over three weeks and is still suffer-
ing' from the effects. Her friends will
hope for her' speedy' recovery.—Exe-
ter Times -Advocate.
Pass With First Class Honors
. Three former students of the Exe-1
ter High School who have been at-
tending Normal School in London,.
have been successful in passing their .
examinations with first class honors. -
They are 'Misses Grace Beckley, Ann
Morgan and Greta Webber. With the
scarcity of teachers, the young ladies
should have no difficulty in securing.
positions.—Exeter Times -Advocate.
Brussels Boy Wins -Commissions. •
Pilot Officer Bowman Galbraith has
been granted a commission in Air-
drome Control Branch of the R.C.A..
F. He is stationed at Manning Pools
ro onto, where he is tekingssa-spebLi
Canadian Soldier Most
Vital Cog In Military :.
:Fighting Machine
(By Hal Miller)
Whether he's in the ranks, an N.
C.O. or a commissioned officer, the
Canadian soldier is the most import-
ant cog in the whole military fighting
machine.
He is the man who is going to take
and hold the ground that will be cap-
tured when the full „plight of the Al-
lied military and productive facilities
have the Axis forces on the run.
Up to this time, the Canadian sol-
dier has played a far less glamorous
rble than his brothers in the Royal
Canadian Navy and tie Royal Cana-
dian Air Force, but he has just'as im-
portant ties as they to .perform. And
hie time for doing tbem is fast ale
proacbipg-du=
The Canadian people have acquired
a greater appreciation of the private
soldier. There is evidence of this on
every hand. The step-up in recruit-
ing, the growing interest in the Can-
adian Army, in the development of
the Reserve Force and the guerilla
troops.
Honor the Soldier
It is because the importance of his
t[iart in the Canadian ,fighting machine
that Defence Minister Ralston has de-
cided that the Canadian soldier will
be honored throughout Canada during
Avory Week, from June 29 to July 6
next.
Young Canadians from the office,
the plow and the factory, seemed
strangely tetnote from warfare When
the call to . arms came .in, Septembers
1939, When. deinocraoy was imperil -
Ind, they • saw, like their fathers be-
fore them, the path of duty. and' they
did not hesitate. •
Thus thatiaands ofother
young C,;
bdiane, semi f' pian- deseen'dettts ol`
Idtnii t ntai it, otli:drs +the: second l*hr;
er'atieii liorlx found, 'ri t i'e lank '6t,
their. atTte"r'�e adtrptibn, ,aofieth
a+brthg�lttitr Ptir�
• ,l; �idd%af&: olds t a >z
ry,1 n 014
physical hardihood', good .humour and
common sense. Ahead of him he sees
a task to be 'carried out and he is
ready to - put his • shoulder to the
wheel. He has only one objective and
that is summed up in the word 'Vic-
tory'
He may find much of army life irk-
some. He May feel like that lone
Highlander who in the long ago heard
that there was some fighting to do.
"He would get his claymore and horse
and be away to the war."
These noble lads who, today are
wearing khaki battle dress are the
modern Crusaders. ' They know that
they have fn their keeping the fine
traditions tlf" the Canadian Corps. To
them°the future is only the past
through another door. If they are
French they will glory in the tradi-
tions of Dollard at the Long Sault. If
they are descended Prom the . sturdy
people of the British Isles they will
think of Wolfe at Quebec or Nelson
at Trafalgar or perhaps of the Eng-
lish bowmen at Crecy.. The call. to
duty will sound imperious, and insist-
ent. Books ."gill be laidaside at col-
lege, ledgers will, be forsaken., and
the mine and the mill will be forsak-
en.
Must Back' Up Men
Stay -at -home -Canadians should think
of .these lads full of eager youth, mist-
ing everything aside with a merry
quip, to take part in the deadliest war
in all history. It 10 the duty of' all
to back up the teener, the signaller,
the sapper, the Wester slid the infan-
tr5litian. .
Notting ihi,. ttiis present .war has
nide aiiyse sribtts k'ttfderit of 'tWaefare
think teat threateriy issebsolete••and• d
`baoh �t rte*, + i y` it tlw, win Wet
that Set i i i
e 1 iF"rj! • dlr..3r:
soh e'V+tid.,.by a c6>:
;ordin 'ttoit,.o _...srGhe tiime'e ; e kes xn
:ail i 4'rib
Bourse: Bowman is a graduate of To-
ronto University.—Brussels Post.
Appointed To the Local S. A. Staff
Lieut. Violet E. Larder, a recent
graduate of the Salvation Army Train-
ing •School at Toronto, arrived -. in
town on Thursday to 'take over her
duties with the Salvation. Army here.
Lieut. Larder is the daughter of Mrs.
A. Larder, of Goderidh. On behalf
of the citizens of this community, we
extend a hearty. welcome.—Wingham.
Advance -Times.
Chainway Manager Tranaferrecf
Mr. Vern Abram, who has ibeerf
traria/ger of the Chainway Store here.
since last October, has been transfer-
red as manager of the Orill'ia Store.
Vern has made many friends since
coming here .who wish him the best
of luck. Miss Jessie Pearson, who
has been on the Chainway staff here
for some time, will take charge of
the store.—Wingham Advance -Times. -
Graduates :From College of Pharmacy:
Among this year's graduates of the'
College of Pharmacy, University of:
Toronto, is .Mary E. Asquith,' daugh-
ter eof
augh-ter'of Mr. and Mrs. Charles E. As-
quith, of Auburn. Mary attended
Auburn public and 'fifth form •schoola:,
and is a graduate of the Goderich:
Collegiate Institute. She commenced
her pharmacy apprenticeship with R.
D. Philp; of Blyth, but the major por-
tion of it was with w. F. Matthew's,•
of Fergus. Mary ha's one sister, Bet-
ty•,Jane, who has just graduated from.
the Stratford Normal School, and two'
brothers, A. R: Asquith, B.Sc., of
Kingston, and LAC. C. H.. Asquith,
who is a radio technician attach -ed
to R.A.F. in England. He has been
there 'since December, 1941. — Blytla.
Standard.
Receives New Pont
Norrhan Sinclair, of the
completed a special course at Ottawa
on i+',riday of last week •and was pro-
moted Id the rank of Sergeant, He
is now posted at Headctuarters, Ot-
tawa, and will be engaged in re-
searcrh and educational work_for the
k:C.A.F.—Blyth Standard, "
Bob Wenger 4oes To Newfoundland
Mia•; Herniari Doerr and son, George
Doerr,were guests on Sunday of Mrs,
Robert Wenger and sons, Barry and
Bob, in Exeter. The latter, who com-
pleted a course in. Hamilton sortie
tune ago and: lihs,'been In London for
the •pest weeks with the Bell Tele-
p'llone CO., leaves shortly for N'e'w-
fouitdland, One cif tweet -thre
Y e young ..
*ei .atiectedi-by the--coittpany to- tent
tablet° In•a 560 -mile roleet undo". a'
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