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The Huron Expositor, 1942-06-05, Page 2itor rushed 1. e hail McLean; Editor. Cd at Seaforth, Ontarigr--ev- slay afternoon by McLean tertising rates on application, ascription rates,. $L50 a year in ance;foreign, $2.50 a year. Single copies, 4 cents each. SEAFORTH; Friday, June 5, 1942 In The Long Ago In its column, "Thirty-five Years Ago," and under date of May 27th, 1907, the Winnipeg Free Press said:. "One of Winnipeg's largest funeral corteges attended the funeral of W. F. Luxton, Winnipeg old-timer • of 1871, who had taught Winnipeg's first public school, founded the Win- nipeg Free Press, and been elected to early Manitoba legislatures; pall- bearers, Premier R. P. Roblin, Hon. Robert. Rogers, Hon. William Hes- peler, Sheriff Inkster, James Fisher, Principal McDermid." W. F. Luxton was also the founder of The Huron Expositor, from whom it was purchased, before his removal tb Winnipeg, by the late M. Y. Mc- Lean. At that time Mr. Luxton's partner in Seaforth was G. W. Ross, later a Minister for many years in Sir Oliver Mowat's Government, and who later became Sir George Ross, Premier of Ontario. • The Small' Town's Opportunity The Expositor is, apparently, not the only country weekly paper that sees a new -and brighter future for the small town, , not only during the restricted -period of . the. war years, but after—if these towns measure up to their opportunities. An eastern Ontario weekly, the Bowmanville Statesman, makes this reference to the situation: "The war has affected us in all our walks of life, but in no way perhaps ,as much as in the change it has made in our buying habits, .a change that cannot be -other than beneficial to the -small town. For the past several, decades—in fact since the arrival of the automobile the general tend- ency across the country has been for people to see the large centres in which to buy. Thus the crossroad, village was passed by for the adjac- ent town ofthree or four thousand, and as time went on the town was passed by for the city' of ten or twen- -. ty .thousand, with an ever increasing tendency to make frequent trips to the large cities for shopping there. "But the warhaschanged all that. Mr, and Mrs. Canada have, now found that they must stay close to home in order to save gasoline and rubber. And so - the home towns of Canada are now sitting in the driver's seat. People who have been in the habit of going out of 'town for their home needs are going to think twice about those extra miles with tires so scarce. Local stores will be looked over intently, and if they earn the right to this business they will get it. This is the small town's opportunity. to reach those people who from habit have strayed, to bring then) back and educate them into new habits for the future. - "To -day is the small town's oppor- tunity to revivify itself. The manner in which it performs its wartime duty to • the people of the surround- ing. district will be the yardstick by, which its future will be measured in the post war years." Those words are as true as any that were ever written. This is the day of the small town's oppor- tunity, and if the merchants of those _tows earn the right to this business which war conditions are bringing to th air doors—they will get it. tit this new business is not going to reilrain.long in a town unless the lakes a concerted and united oft to hold it after it does come, nd,nlesa the merchants of these awakeir to this positive fact, tan see n r.bii.gnes's ttitnre for ,p ticnlar' town. generale`admitted that r n t f ; : y,r0, t e e t business On. Si *ern-C1n at E tat 8eaf'o th has • replying public services, if it is not to get the go-by fro fronl the w husi ness which war restrictions and con- ditions are beginning to turn its way. For a long, long time this paper has been agitating., for a commodious and well-appointed rest room for the accommodation of the people from the country, . who do business in this town, but up to the present there has been a singular lack of interest displayed by Main Street in a public service such: as that. There seems to be little knowledge of or interest in the fact that the people who have heretofore been do- ing their buying' out of town have become so accustomed to public ser- vices of this band that they no longer look upon these things as luxurious conveniences, but as necessities, and they are going to demand them in any town where they propose to do their future business. Again, there: is more than a possi- bility that by next winter farm teams and sleighs will equal if not outnumber the cars on our Main Street. Where are we going to put them? At present we have no stab- ling available of any kind. If we• do not supply a centrally Located, warm_ and commodious building for horse accommodation—even if we have to build , one—we are going to waken up some morning and find •that our country business has largely depart- ed to other towns in the county. These are just two things, but we believe they have a more immediate bearing on the town's future busi- ness success than, perhaps,, any pub- lid'ervice that.. the town could pro- vide. And now is the time to provide them. Legal But Unfair A week ago last Monday the Win- nipeg Free Press carried on its edi- torial page an article, under- the above head, written by W. 3. Fulton, about the reduction in the represen- tation in Parliament of Manitoba d• - an'\Saskatchewan arising from the 1941 census, which said in part: "The law, however, through Sec- tion 5, of the B.N.A. Act of 1867, says that Manitoba's membership in the Hoose of Comm_ ons.- shall be re- duced from 17 to 14-a -quota' of 51,603 for every member, and that Saskatchewan's .membership . shall -be reduced from 21 to 17—a quota of $52,220 for each number. The other provinces, whose quota falls below that of Quebec (13. C. 4 the one ex ception) are protected% by various saving clauses, only Manitoba and Saskatchewan being subject to the discipline of the law." We can 'not speak for Manitoba, but we would say most positively that if each Saskatchewan member has a quota of $52,220, as the -article plainly stated, that Saskatchewan should againbe submitted to the dis- cipline of the law, and very severely too. In 'fact, the whole thing looks to us as both illegal and unfair. No wonder the people refer to Jimmie Gardiner as a politician. WHAT OTHER PAPERS SAY: Adventurous, Die in Bed (St. Thomas Times -Journal) Generals are customarily reputed to die in bed, but that ,has been less true in this war than in any other for a long time. Nevertheless; it is true that most men who live adventurous lives, which usually means living da> gerous1y, do not .die while carrying out some risky adventure. William Hill, who died at Niagara Falls recently, died from natural cause, yet he had carried out exploits in • the Niagafa River and the Niagara Rapids, which made his name known far and wide. Be the law of averages he ought to have (lost his life by drowning Iong ago. In addition• tb' that he went through the First World War and was wounded at Viiny Ridge. Bobby Leach, the first man to go over the Falls In a barrel, was killed as the result of slipping on a,banan•a skin on the sidewalk. Blondin, the tight -rope walker, crossed the falls from shore to shore several times, performing stunts on the way, and died in bed about 40 years later. We believe, too, that there is an Ontario man alit alive who performed the same feat. Considering the number of wild animal acts, very few "lion tamers" are' killed in the cages, although almost all are scratched or mauled from time to time. This is the more remarkable because the "tamers" go through their perform- ances at least twice a day, sometimes` oftener, four about eight • mouths of the year. 'Clyde Beat- ty, who mixes, 40 lions and tigers together, says the sedret at his im,iuuiilty' 'ia that although 'he thinks it is possible he may be killed one day, he ne ser enters the c age WIt h ontt Saying tng to him'- golf. st's not 5dilig .to b teat" Pd 1iapg that' „is - why men bs r1 Ori a den, tnf" .fit the Joy of t-?tidg ,dangerously, iCtlfWi#Ycd tli alder t1.11Mt t1i:ey. are shit.-gOin;g to 110 ett itii :torrent adro`0titu'itt, ' From The. Huron Expositor June 0, 1917 Mrs, Apthur Kerslake, of Usborne, had the miefortuize to step on a rusty nail last week and penetrating her shoe, it entered her -foot 'a consider- able leriggth. The wound is au ugly one and now threatens blood poison- ing. 'Mr- Julius Thiel, Zurich, left for Kitchener last week, where he has accepted a position - A party of 100 convalescent return- ed soldiers arrived in E,xetee on a motor trip from London on Wednes- day. They were entertained to sup- per in the Town Hall by the Exeter ladies. Miss Barbara Sproat returned to Detroit, on Saturday to resume her duties at the Herman Kieffer Hos- pital after spending two months' va- cation at her home here. Mr. Jae.Robb is, in Lucknow this week Iaying hardwood Hoare in some residences there. Mr. Jas. Davis, Seaforth, has pur- chased Mr. Robert Smith's Maxwell car. Mr. J. -B, .'Thompson, Seaforlh has purchased the residence of Mr. J. T. Fell ' on Church St., and will occupy it shortly. • Mr.' Clyde Rankin, of the Canadian Bank of Commerce staff, has been moved to the Dundee branch of that bank and left on Thursday to take 'up, his new duties. The news of the death An action of Gunner Albert C. Michell, Dublin, was received by his parents, Dr. and Mrs. A. V. Michell. He was killed on May 24th. Miss' Lizzie Hoggarth, of Oromarty, ,was called .to Goderich last week ow- ing to the illness of her niece there. Mr. W. E. Hincihle-y' was en a busi- ness trip to 'Thessalon this week. ' Word was,. received this week that Capt: Schaefer' had been killed in ac- tion in France. He was a 'brother of Mrs. H. H. Ross. Many friends will .regret to learn of the serious loss sustained 'by Dr. R. E. H.artry in the. destruction by fire of his house and office in' Wiarton, to- gether with ail the contents, Mr. Thos. Pullman met with a ser- ious accident on Monday last. He was pumping air into the tank of a gasoline torch in the tin shop in con- nection with Mr. H. B. Edge's hard- ware store, when the cap blew off, al- lowing ,the gasoline to run over his face and chest, and if it had not been for the prompt action of Mr. Charles Brodie, who isucceeded In smothering the flames, the accident would have proved fatal... This, however, was not the case, but he received many pain- ful burns - - TARGET MK Mt, • From The Huron Expositor • June 10; 1892 ; Mr. James McIntosh, of the2nd concession of McKiIlop, is having a handsome new brick 'residence erect- ed this -summer, with Mr. F. Gutter- idge and Mr. Jas. Sleeth, Seaforth, doing the 'eontraeting. Messrs. William and George Sproat leave Seaforth for their 'homes near Virden, Man., this week. They intend taking back a 'carload of horses. Mr. J. S. Mudrew left -this week for Red Deer, •Alta., where he takes an appointment as a missionary for a year. Mr. John G. Troyer, Hillsgreen, has sold his 50 -acre farm which is situat- ed on the town line east of that place, to Mr. Thos, Coleman. Mr. Andrew Kipfer has started up _ the cheese factory about one mile south of Blake and is now running it full blast. James Bell, Leadbury, has men en- gaged moving the barn which he pur- chased from Wm. tenger. He has a considerable distance to bring it; and• it is a tedious job. " One day last week as Mr. J. J. Irvine was driving a ,spirited young horse attached to a top buggy, he Hid down the lines to raise the top, which frightened the animal and it sprung off the road, causing the rig to collide with the fence with such force as to knock the seat off. Mr. Irvine was wedged between the wheel and box for some time. One :of his feet becoming fast .in the connections underneath, he was dragged along' some distance. The buggy finally struck a fence post with such force as to leave the hind wheels, behind wb en Mr. Irvine 'became ,resci%ed from his perilous ,position. Mr. Wm. Bubolz, Tuckersmith, has purchased from Mr: John McGregor, of Hellet, a thoroughbreds Holstein Fresian bull two, years old•. This hand- some 'animal will weigh nearly 1600 pounds. Me. John Hess, 'Zurich, has built a kitchen to his house, besides Making other improvements. - Mr. Henry Betuerm'ann, of the 8th concession;- Mega-ilep -has a curiosity in the shape of a monster hen egg. This egg measured 7% inches one way and 6% inches the other way. Mr. S.• Copp, son of Mr. William Copp, Goderioh ;St. West, was so un- fortunate as to hate , the thnimib of his left hand brokeeti, a few days, ago and It was found.:ecessazy to ainpi-. tate it. ' '. Mr. Wm, is• buildlii . a fine Lam`i ile g sfef nneae rpoiun opderttyh.,e He rs North Par - Mr. James Atieltribald, Seaferih, is Ini41$1 engaged, 4et.,1 u i311g Nolte* fox' the Flet C'riitiitti al . "Could you show me how to mend these?" • Phil' Osif er - of • Lazy. Meadows • (iSy Harry J. Boy)•) • • • "FIXING UP" They say you can't teach an old dog new tricks, but I seriously take exception to the statement. Just wait until his family grown up, and then watch the change that comes over the most dyed,•in-the-wool person. He would probably be 'the last man in the world to admit that he has chang- ed in any way: . . but you just watch the change some time. Peter Harkness lives 'back a us on the 'Sixth 'Concession. You see we live on the Fourth and hie farm butts up •againstethe back of ours. Peter bah always been one of those men who felt that there was 'nothing in the world like snaking money and put- ting.- none of it iback into the place from which he made the money. Money to Peter is something you wring from' yeur crops and then store away in' a bank some place. The en- jetnnent comes from watching the "naught'•" mount up on the balance in the bank. Peter's wife was a neat and tidy little woman who surprised the whole neighborhood by marrying him. She started by trying to fix up the place, but the work of rearing a big family came to be too much for her and she evidently gave up her hopes of hate, ing a, neat, well -painted house in which to live. Peter's oldest daughter was a bright, intelligent sort of girl who showed an aptitude for school. She was endowed with her mother's .neat -- nese neat=ness and her father's stubbornness. In fact she had an even greater amount of stwbborness than Peter. The re= suit was that she managed! to go po high school and later to business col- lege. The first thing we knew she was working in the city and had a good position. Last year she came home for the first time in about fifteen months. On a visit here she confided to Mrs. Phil that she was having a battle with her father over the matter of having the house painted. I was down the Sixth the next week and was pleased and surprised to find that the painters had started painting the house white with an attractive trimming of green. It looked very good and taking pains to tell Peter that I was surprised to find him quite pleased about the appear- ance of the place. However, Peter didn't bother to cut the weeds and grass around the house and that took away from the general effect. Mrs. Phil was over visiting Mrs. Peter last week and Mary was home. • Peter had the children out in the front yard andrthey were raking up the sticks and dead grass and he actually 'bought a second-hand lawn mower from Tim Murphe's store in the village. I was over there today and found Peter placing a binder -wheel in a flower - bed which Mary had him dig in the front lawn. He took" me out to show me a :bed of, transplanted pansies. When I had dutifully ad- mired that he said, in a way so un- like the old Peter I knew so well, that the was having two carpenters start work next week on , building a verandah on the back kitchen. As he said he wanted to make the kit- chen more comfortable for his `wife in the summer -time, You most certainly can teach an old dog new tricks! App lited Jail Turnkey 11dx, a`&.JackSon Jerry :99ho .'dee 'k9 n - acting turnkey. of Huron County Jail &.ince the deatih of the. tete Kerwood white, has recetved Qf?ctal notice of hip permaaent appointment to the peettiiMs --; oderieli, Signal—Star, N'ew' & Slidiing At County Home The Huron, Lumber Co,, of Exeter;, 'hasleeu awar led the co -affect to con - stilt& a Ir`uildhig'a't' the County' Home, Clinton, to shouse the new milk pas- teueiai.tion Plant. The price is '$8,22`,:50. The contract was awarded, ata meet- ing of the County Home Committee • of county council last Friday.—Gode- rich Signal -Star. To Graduate At Woodstock Three nurses from Alexandra Hos- pital who have 'been completing their training at Woodstock General Hos- pital since the training school here was discontinued will naduate at Woodstock on June 3. They are Misses Grace •D. MiacNla and Merle J. Sheardown, of Goderich, and Edna. E. Coleman, of Abbey, Sack.--Gode- rich Signal -Star. Graduated As Sgt. -Observer In the list of those who graduated' at the Royal Canadian Air Force Bombing andseGunnery School as Sgt. Observers 'at Paulson, .Manitoba, is•• the name of J. C. B. Russell, of town._ Jim, is the son of Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Russell and Mrs. (Dr.) W. A. Mc- Kibben is a sister, The' wings cere- mony took place on Saturday.—Wing am Advance -Times: Presentation To Mrs. Forbes On Thursday evening a number of Mrs. A. M. Forbes friends presented. her with a bedroom chair and a dres- ser set. Mr. and Mrs. Forbes • and family are moving to London the lat- ter part of this week, Mr. Forbes hav- ing been appointed Legion adjust- ment officer for Western, _ Ontario' with headquarters in ' that oity.— Wingham Advance -Times. Won $25 War .Savings Certificate In the recent draw sponsored .be( the Ontario Police Association, for the. !benefit of' the Chinese Relief Fund;: Lloyd Peterson was the lucky holde. of a ticket that won 'him a $25.00 Waw Savings Certificate. — Wingham - Ad- vancelTimes. Retiring After 42 Years ,Blacksmithing= Mr. Thomas Kelly, the venerable village "Smithy" is really on the•• home stretch of hie career as a black- smith. We vi»ited the genial gentle- man in .:his blacksmith shop on Tues- day afternoon, and found him reclin- ing in a rocking chair, probably just wondering what he was going to d•o- when this week was out, for after that be will be 'commencing a well- earned rest, having sold' his !busines8 to Mr. Harold Phillips., who takes possession on Monday.—Blyth Stand-- ard. ,• Cranbrook Boy Reported 'Missing Sgt. Maldwyn Williams, R.C.A.F., elder seri of Rev. W. A. and Mrs. Williams, of Valetta, who has been on active service 'overseas, has beers reported missing Rev. W, A. Williams; was a former minister of the Pres- byterian churches of Cranbrook and Ethel. Their younger son.„;,lvor, is- al- so 'in the R.C.A.F. Sgt Williams, who had gone into the ministry,•- is well' known throughout this. district.— .Bruss.els" Post. , Received His Wings Sgt. -Pilot Clarence R. Ford, son of • Mr. and' Mrs. Harry Ford, of Elim, villa, arrived home Tuesday evening on a two weeks' leave. Mr. Pord re- ceived his wings on Friday at Leth- bridge, Alta, Following his -leave he will report at Rivers, Mate—Exeter. Times -Advocate. - - Recuperating Mr. C. W. Christie, accompanied by Mrs. Christie, returned to his home Saturday after• being i11 in Victoria Hospital; London.. Mr. Christie is re- cuperating nicely from a very seritiue illness. His condition was such that at one time 'the members of his fam- ily were summoned to his bedside.— Exeter Times -Advocate. Will Demonstrate New .Organ A new Mtiishall• electro organ will be used to lead the service ser song in Caven Presbyterian Church next Sunday. On Monday evening a short organ recital -bill be held; when, Mr. Ewart George, of Loudon, will pre- side at the console. The public Is in- vited. The organ, is being demon- strated as Caven Church is in need • of such an instrument. — Exeter Times -Advocate. is Lucky Winner O. R. Sawyer, of Science Hill, was the lucky winner of the quilt on which tickets were sold by. the Cor- ner Circle; comprising some 14 ladies in the vicinity of Elliott's service - station at, the end of Blanshard St; Mrs. Tos. 7111tcheleon, one of their number, donated the quilt from which $19,00 was realized—Mitchell _ Ad'vo- c,ate, Vertebra In Back !s Fractured Irwin Leake, son of ')lir. and Mrs. Thenear Leake, " Legati -tonaiiahiP; la getting along very well in Stratford General Hospital where he, was, taken. last Thursday after sustaining a frac- tured, vertebra In his back. The young man was 'found hi the middle of the afternoon in a semi-conscious state in the upper part of the driving stied after Members' of 'the faniil.y bad in- stituted a search when he .did not appear for ,hill dinner. He Was en- able to explain, how he had been hti•:F't,1 ut it is'expected he must -have fainted, fa11tng against . something ahieh . eaused the injury. -- MiteheU` Black Market Trading. By Selfish Rich People EnragesEverydayFolks (By Margaret Butcher) Reading, England. --No, it Isn't easy to writs just now. One is to afraid, si ihehow, of swaying too much one way or the other: of being thought gl,iomy or -- worse still — foolishly cheerful. So how about being quite natural and letting it -rein-'on as it comes? And that's- just what I'm, go- ing to do. The news, naturally, hurts and mad- dens us—just as it does you, I guess. Who and what is to blame? ,And all the while The Pattern goes on work- ing out, and in spite of everything that is happening, I hope, a pattern of a better and more sensible world. Plenty of us can see that the «world has been a bit of a mess for e, long while; personally, I think it's been rather a,.,mess for centuries', Perhaps this drastic and terrible spring-clean- ing will do what snqthing else has been able to do. For pity's sake, let's make it do :so! For my part, I am convinced that all -the' trouble started (and always has started) from that shocking habit of refusing to believe unpleas- ant things. All Over the world folks have done it; it seems to be lose)); arable from what we call• 'eiyiliza- tion:' If you're comfortable yourself, and don't want to notice—or think about — something uncomfortable -- well, simply pretend that &t isn't there. So muchmore snug than disk turbing yourself! If somebody Celle you the Other Fellow is going to 'do a disagreeable act before you can 'turn round, you Reek shock and ssur'e our inf _ ed a y or- mant that .he ,has base ideas, and that the Other Pelle* * fe a, "die lent' sort o' el}al?, no doubt. wlio evdr Bard you think --Of f do body going tc, a ar- ty With a Idtiteki&duster Ili ,i tf 1r et? -Well, : I may be wrong, but if there are going to be suspected toughs at that party, it wouldn't seem to me to be a bad notion. . But then, perhaps I have a naughty mind. All, the same, -I know, there might not be any occasion to whip out your hand and land somebody one. The party might -turn out quite all right - as long 'as nobody grabbed more than his share of the cake. Black Market Business We are 'bopping mad about our own particular spot of cake -grabbing that is going on—this Black Market busi- ness. Something ' will have to be done about that. Last night I made a man I know promise faithfully that he would write to his Member of Parliament, and get a wad of signa- tures to his letter. If everybody would do that the stir would be enough to work the miracle. After all, what else can the ordinary, law-abiding citizen do? .Here We are, making our rations do their work, trying to save — and these yoracioue, money - grabbing brutes go on pandering to the folk wii•o just won't play ball; What's the use of punishing the small man? It's the Big Boys at the top Who've got to catch It. No, you've simply, no ideaehoty angry we are. I wonder how they would react to the promise of a firing squad? Anyhow, if this sort of thing should start en your side, don't you stand any non- sense—from the word 'Go.' if there is food it should be availatbie to • all, and at a reasonable price. And these folk who have always gorged theta seLGes r twa or three Mimesa dray should team), that Sear—no matter who wird whatWei ey nx°e---meaiis seslittaz~y tightening of the belt, Oh, we laid* a good bit. of wb ' goes on, beliebe ('0onithn'iied• on Page 86 Adroeate, .