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AFORTH, Friday, June 26, 1942
Not Pleasant Reading
The war news over the week -end
makes anything -but pleasant read-
• ing. In fact, we are having the truth
brought home to us that we have
been doing a lot of wishful thinking,
when the truth is, and has been so
far in this war, the Allied Nations
have not even been able to hold Hit-
ler. That they have not been. able to
Match him in war equipment, in dar-
ing or in strategy.
• Tobruk has fallen and with it went
thousands of British -prisoners and a
Countless amount of war 'material
• and supplies. Its fall has possibly
opened the way to Egypt and oil and
many other things that hearten the
• Hun. On the heels of that disaster
has .come the news that Sevastopol
is all but lost, and if the Allies have
to suffer the two, the situation in the
Near East will be something that
the enemy can view' with glee, while
we must view it with an element of
despair.
• Even the home new is anything
but cheering. On Saturday • night
Japanese subniarines bombed points
on 'Vancouver Island and further
along the American Pacific Coast.
These things, of course, seem real to
us, but their importance to the war
• 'sittiation is nil, compared to the far
• reaching consequences of the loss of
Tobruk and the fall of Sevastopol.
Consequently,,we have got to make
upour minds now to the fact that all
the sweat has not yet run; that all
- the blood has not yet been spilled,
nor have all the tears yet been shed.
• It is net pleasant to contemplate, but
we have got to face it, and to hope
and pray that it is not yet too late
•for time and concerted effort to bring
a change in our favor.
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• An Example To Follow
• Mr. Harold D. ,Smith, Budget• ,
Director of the • Unk*cl States, said
• last week that an annual saving of
seven million, five hundred thousand
pounds of paper worth a million and
a quarter dollars, was the first re-
' suit of a campaign to cut out red
• tape- and excessive use of paper
throughout the Government. ,
Mi. Smith said that four hundred
and twenty-three publications or
• types of paper ,uses had been elimin-
ated altogether, including in • some
eases voluminous printed volumes
which most Federal agencies issue
as animal reports.
That is what Mr. Smith says, and
any newspaper man who takes even
a casual glance over the inatetial in
his wastepaper basket, day after
day, will say ,-he was setting an ex-
cellent example to our own Provin-`
dal and Federal Governments to fol-
low. '
A Long Lease
Most people in Ontario are fam-
.• iliar with the buildings of the Uni-
• versity of Toronto and the Ontario
Parliament Buildings, set in the
midst of the beautiful gardens. and
spacious lawn of Queen's PaikkTo-
ronto.
What may not be so familiar to
• imiany Ontario people, ho-wever, is
the fact that their Parliament Build-
ings are built on land leased from the
University.
• In the year 1859 the University of
Toronto granted a large tract of
- -elkoice land to the city en a nine hun-
dred and ninety-nine year lease
be used as the home of the
•roVincial Government Buildings,
he rental to be five ,shillings annual -
y, an added clause stating that the
niversity could collect this five
•shillings i it wished,
SOne thirtyyear atter, the insti-
-I' of the lease, an action was:be-
' have itdeelared null and livid.
'on
wa ftnfly reached in
' ,s° whiehleft the leas6. *141, •
.0.
144, it is teb-day; A4 -the
• •agreeMent the PrOvince was to en-
cloW tWO1afr 111 the 'University.
With Ontario now one of the most
ilnportant ming.areas in the world,
was it a coinctdence that in that far
away day one of the chairs agreed
upon was Mining and Geology, while
the other waS English Literature?
At any rate, the original lease still
stands, with nine 1;rundred and six-
teen years yet to go, so that Premier
Hepburn° is assured of the use of the
Buildings for his term of office, at
least.
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In 4 Changing World
A few weeks ago we spoke Of the
opportunities which war was pre-
senting to the small town to put it
back once again on the map as the
real social and business centre of its
district.
We are not alone in that belief, ap-
parently-, for we noticed last week
that W. H. Howard, Executive Vice -
President of the R. .II, Macy & Co.,
one of the world's largest depart-
ment stores, when addressing the
National Federation of Sales Execu-
tives in New York, spoke along:very
similar lines, as well as having some-
thing to say about the local news-
paper.
• T,he newspaper, said the New York
Executive, will assume a position of
growing importance in meeting a
needed change in advertising" and
ds'
selling methoto fit them into a
world vastly altered by war timel,
He continued that changes in daily
living would affect a wide variety of
articles and •predicted that a year
'from now people would be doing
without things "that we never
dreamed we would have to do with-
out."
. And still further, he said the local
newspaper will assume growing im-
portance in the scheme of things,
because people Will confine their pur-
chases to their own towns. Conse-
quently he predicted greater read -
•wing of newspapers and more interest
in home .decorations.
We firmly believe • that in this
changing world the same conditions
will arise in Canada and that they
will reach us even aheadof the peo-
ple of the United States. -
After The War
By the time this war is over
it is possible that you will have
forgotten what it feels like to drive
a car, or ride in one either. But no
doubt your interest will be all the
keener and your imagination will be
working on the new model you are
going to invest in.
If so, a preview of the first car you
will buy after- the war is given by a
' United States patent which has just
been -issued toa man in California,
and. this is the description:' •
It is 'an ultra streamlined affair,
modelled as 'nearly as possible upon
the design of a highly successful air-
ship, with 'wheels withdrawn entire-
ly within the body outline and a high
fin • aft on either side to improve
aerodynamic properties.
The engine and the tire and lug-
gage, compartment have exchanged
places. The engine is aft of the rear
seat, placed transversely, as many
bus engines now are. The storage
place is in the round, porpoise -like"
nose, over the front -axle; it is also
expected to afford some collision pro-
tection. Springs are vertical coils,
with accordioned dust protectors
around their "guiding spindles. The
bottom of the car is kept as flat as
• possible, without the many drag -
creating bumps and projections that
spoil that usually unnoticed part of
to -day's efforts at streamlined , ve-
hicles.
Well, that is the car you will ket
after the war, if you want it. As for
us we are going to stick to our pres-
ent one, because the inventor has as-
signed his rights in the new model to
• the Packard Motor Car Company,
and we don't drive a• Packard; never
have, and as far as we can see into
the future—never will.
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After This War
(London Free Press)
Nat being educationistS we are a little dint
on school curricula but suggest that What a
boy should know after this war 'Would be—how
to read, write, do matheniaties, Make things, sell
, tillage, speak three langttages, fly ft plane, knOW
• What to eat, What thta h1sitians, how tO
raise seven to ten ebildren (and pay fer them),
'Where MI the takes gi9, What ttn rIVt.P. is for, the
art of Selfhelp ands be darned itid'enendent eX-
COO at a •04-00# itatilbert'
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Igtereiting lleitte picked ftena
The gxpositer of fifty and
twenty-five years ago.
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From The Huron Expositor
June 29, 1917
Lieut. E. Holtzman, who was injur-
ed when his horse was shot from un-
der him (Wring the battle of Vitoy
Ridge, arrived in Zurich on furlough
last week. .
The congregation in St. -Colurnban
wept on Sunday morning when their
much beloved pastor, Rev. Father
White, announced to them his inten-
tion of going overseas as chaplain at
an early date. On -Sunday evening
• the parishioners met Father. White at
his home and presented him with a
well-filled purse.
Some time during the early mon-
ng hours of Tuesday during a heavy
thanderstorm, the hardware and furn-
iture stores of Bonthron & Drysdale,
Hensall, were entered by thieves who
stole a quantity of silverware, razors,
knives .ancl, forks.
Mr. R. H. Carpenter, nephew of Mr.
Geo. A. Sills, Seaforth; •who enlisted
and went overseas with the Hurons,
has been promoted to the rank of
Sergeant.
Mr. Robert McIntosh has purchased
a seven -passenger Studebaker car,
which he will use in the livery busi-
ness.
Messrs. James Reid and Arthur
Powell, of the Ogilvie Milling staff
here, have gone to Montreal Where
they will be employed in the com-
pany's mill there during the time of
the siantdown here.
Mr. Alex McKellar, of Cromarty,
went to Torontothis week as a dele-
gate from the Sons of Scotland.
We are pleased to learn that Miss
Belle Campbell, of Cromarty, 'who has
been suffering from a severe attack
of tonsilitis, is no* recOvering.
•',Stanley 'Hays, Robert Laird and
Nelson Govelnock, of the aviation
corps, Camp Borden, spent Sunday at
their homes here.
Mr. and Mrs. John G. Grieve and
Mrs. J. M. Govenlock, of Winthrop,
left on Tuesday on pm extended trip
throughout : the •Wisegtern Provinces,
going as far as Edmonton.
Mr. F. Faulkner, of the Dominion
Bank staff, is holidaying 'in, Toronto
this week.
At a meeting of the '1V1cKillop
Branch of the Seaforth Auxiliary of
First Presbyterian Church herd at
the home of IVIrs. J. R. Scott on Thurs-
day, the presentation of a life mem-
bership was glade to Mrs. James Dor-
i
ranee,. n recognition of her long and
efficient services in connection • with
the work of the church. The addresS
was read by Mrs. Thomas Dickson,
and the preeentation made by Mrs.
lames Aitchrki4
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From The Huron Expositor
July 1, 1892
At the regular meeting of the In-
dependent Order of Foresters, the fol-
lOWing officerwere elected for
coming year: Court Deputy, John A.
Wilson; •Pbysician, Dr. W. B. Smith;
Chief Ranger, Win. Somerville; Vice -
Chief Ranger, Win. Scott; recording
secretary, John W. Livingstone; fin-
ancial secretary, John Robb r; treasur-
er, Joho. Robertson; chaplain, F:
Kestle; senior warden,. Wm. Lloyd;
junior warden, A. Winters; Senior
Beadle, Dr.• Belden; Junior Beldle, H.
J. Crawford.
Ope of the -largest barns in the
county was raised last, week on the
home farm of Mr. John McMillan,
lVf.P., Hullett.
There were 87 candidates writing
for entrance to the Collegiate Insti-
tute here this Week. Of these, 35
were from the Seaforth public school.
Messrs. W. O. Reid, R. Wilson, W.
R. Counter, Geo. Whitely, J. F. Cole-
man, R. Roche land G. E. Henderson
attended the Wingham races on Tues-
day,,.
Mr. Andrew Archibald, of the 5th
concession of Tuckersnaitli, has erect-
ed a large new 'bank barn virith' stone
stabling underneath. „,
Miss Annie Simpson, of McKillop,
and Miss Gertie Crich, Seaforth, have
successfully passed their examina-
tions at the Toronto Normal School
both being graduates of the Seaforth
Collegiate.
. Mr. Alexander Ross, of near Lend
bury, had a large. frame barn 'raised
on Thursday last It is an excellent
.frame and stands on a substantial
stone wall. 't'he mason work was per-
formed bi Nlesers. Somers and Staf-
ford and the woodwork .by Mr. Geo.
McGonigle and his assistants. Mr.
Albert Dundas was thrown off the
beam by the end of the Main plate
striking him, falling about tWenty-live
feet, but was not seriously injured.
Mr. Isaac Longstrotn, Seafortb,
seems to be the champion strawberry
grower for this season. He showed
us a single perry W'hic'h measured 6
inehes one way and 4 inches the other
ft)
oCheer up, pal
things could be worse. You ain't been tor-
pedoed yet!"
Phil Osifer of
Lazy Meadows
" (By Harry J. Boyle)
"DOLLS"
It's a strange thing butt a doll has
to -acquire a sort of 14, worn look b#4,
fore Patricia Ann approves of it. Na-
turally, 'hy'the time that she has ac-
quired a definite love for then, Mrs'.
Phil begins to complain of their ra-
ther tattered and bedraggled appear-
ance. It creates sort of a problem
here at Lazy Meadows.
I didn't think much about it until
the other evening. Mrs. Phil was ov-
er visiting Mrs. Higgins and I was
left to see that Patricia Ann went off
to her trundle -bed at the proper time.
First of all there was so much to be
read in the newspaper that the time
ticked off and . I completely forget
about my obligations to,put the wee
lady in bed. She made the very best
of the opportunity _and brought out
her full supply of dolls to litter the
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parlor floor with.
There came the time however when
the subject of going to bed hadto
be introduced in a 'firm way. It was
long •past 'the time when the golden
curly -head should have been resting
peacefully on. the pillow of her tiny
bed. She -protested in a sleepy way
at first, but allowed herself to be
made ready ..oiid then came,' tbe
moment. Mrs. Phil after a few tights,
of being away, only to come home and
find Patricia Ann in bed surrounded
by 'dolls of all descriptions •made - a
ruling that only one doll was to 'be
allowed. One wou•ld• have to be all.
Patricia, Ann stood in the centre of
the parlorfloor and .looked over ;the
array of dolls. There was tb1at -gor-
geous, llfe-like one which a kind aunt
bestow-edon. her. There vfs the bigi
black and white . panda which I
bought at an extravagant figure in
town one da.y . . . a pert' Red Cross
uniformed doll, a dainty little lady
which the hired man bought for her
..ittheri he was leaving to join the Air
Force . and so many others that
she would most certainly pick..
She looked them all over. She
would pick up ,one and watch me un-
til I made a motion to take her into
bed . . and then quickly put it
down. When I realized that she was.
neatly stalling for time she stood for
a moment in childish concentration
and then picked 'up an old rag doll
which her grandoiother made for her
one tinle. She picked it above all th
others. She Wantedit for her co
panion . . . and the rest of the f
cy Ones would have to get along by
themselves.
One day when she was out in the
yard she left her dolls, lying around.
After dark 1 gathered them up and
overlookell it. Thee,. was a ram
that night. We fel•got about the doll
but next day she demanded to know
where "Nanny" was. We couldn't
find it but two days later the pup
brought it up on the veranda . . .
torn and dirty and quite disreputable.
Patricia Ann immediately ad -opted it
again and put it back in with All the
-fancy ones. •
Mrs. Phil threatens to burn it. 'She
says ihat, it is a disgrace and that it
should he destroyed. And yet, when
you take the wee lady back for a
walk when .you go for the ,cows . . .
she will' invariably pick up "Nanny"
as she calls. it. She would rather
have that queer, looking 'bundle of
rags .with the shoe -button eyes .and
the sewed -On patch .Mouth than all
the other fancy. ones.
:Ba3rfield,Onee.Mainittez:s'.:
:.Refuge„.Scene of Many:
By W. E. Phillips, in London Free at
Press
:wreck
Several settings of the 3,500 pheas-.
ant eggs suPplied by the Department
of Game and Fisheries, this year to -
the Mixon County Fish and Game -
Protective Association were allotted
to Cluderieh sportsmen. Judge Cos-
telle was one and,a, pant= hen has
just liatened eight pheasant chicks
out of a setting of ten. The "banty"
might have hatched all ten, but by'
the time-llie eighth had broken th -
shell and peeped, if pheasant chick
peep, the tiny hen,was either too tir-
ed or disgusted to stay .on the job•
any longer and left the nest cold.
Tho pheasants wilr be released "sone -
where in Huron County" in about five.
weeks. The "somewhere" is the
Jude's secret.—Goderich Signal -Star -
Taking Down Church Steeple
Instead of repairing this steeple of
their church, damaged by lightning a
few week S ago, the officials of Vie-
toria Street United. Church have de-
cided to take it down, and men, -,are
now engaged in the task.--Goderich.
Signal -Star.
Air Force Choir Tp Visit Goderich
The station choir of No. 31 Radio,
School, R.A.F., Clinton, • under the
,leaderetip of Right Lieutenant Rev.
Charles Murray, reisident chaplain of
the camp, will be _beard in Victoria
Street United ChurCh on Sunday. The
choir, upwards of 40 voices, all for-
mer choir member and trained sing-
ers, together with their organist, for-
merly of Winnipeg, will lead In the
service of praise. y Rim Mr. Murray
will give the address. This is an op-
porttinify for the people* of ,Goderich
to hear this choir, which Is compos-
ed of men from all detominations and
is highly spoken of by all who have
heard it.—Goderich Signal -Star..
Called As Farmerettes •
Misses, Shirley Wall re and Dorothy
White left this. week 1\4r Camp Virgil
in the Niagara Penins 'la-, where they
will serve as farrneretes during the
summer months in t.*.• Niagara fruit
district.—Blyth Stand I.
Sec s School
Congratul ions are (lite Miss
Wats, • on securing a school.jiss
Wats has just Completed her Nor -
course. Her school . is located
four miles from Kitchener cin the Galt
highway.—Blyth Standard.
Plane Towed Horne
A plane Which ran short on gas
and landed in""i'hay field near Wing -
ham, passed.througla town: on Monday
morning on its way back to Camp,'
Borden. It" had been partly dismant-
led and was (being towed' 'behind a
truck. It was the object of consider-
able inspection, when they stopped
in Blyth for a short time. — Blyth
Standard.
' Graduated At Brockville
. Lieut. A. D. MacWililam,. who on,
Friday. graduated from the Officer's
Training School at Brock -Ville, spent
the weekend with Mrs. M.acWilliam
and Sally Lu. He ia now at Barrie -
field attending an army service corps
c ours e.—Wi ghain Afyon c e -Times.
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• Fractured Leg Overseas
Word has been received that Pte.
Alvin Potter,... of Lower Wingham, a
member of the Perth Regiment, Ov-
erseas, had fractured his leg. It ap-
pears that Alvin .and some Of the
other men in his but ere practicing
some of the 'Conima.ndo-tiicks they'
had ,recently learned. when the acci-
dent occurred: According tolast re -
'Ports the injury is not nending as
quickly, as it was hoped' It 41,4rOuld.t—
' Wingham Advance -Times. '
Appointments By County 'Council:
Councillor Fred Davidson was re-
appointed to the board of Wingham
General Hospital, and Rev. E, 0. Gal-
lagher' was appointed a member of
the Wingham high School hoard at a
meeting of the county council • last.
week.—Wingham AdVanceTimes..
Missionary On Furlough'.
The Clinton-Holmesville 'friends of
Dr- Rhoda C. Edineston who has beell
for the past fifteen years. principal of
a,Bible School. for native and Spanish
girls in Bueonos Aires, South Ameri-
ca, 114111 be interested to know that
she is paying a flying :visit teller Old:,
home in Blyth and friends in Clinton..
Miss Edmeston, along with other mis-
sionary friends', was on her wayhome
from South America 'at the time of
the Pearl Harbor incident and the
boat she -was om had to sail most of
the way at night• under lblack-Out or-
ders.. She has been studying the
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Italian la.nguage and,„other subjects in
New York ever Since her arrival',
there on December` 15. Incidentally
Miss Ecimeston is a former graduate
of Clinton High .and Model Schools.—
Clinton News -Record:
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Plane Landed On Adair Farm
A young Southern Carolina filer'
named .Mills, who is training with the.
R. P., at Camp Borden, success -
y landed his Yale plane in a ha'T
field on Roy Addir's farm just north.
of town. The pilot was on an aero-
hatie flight when he got off
course. With only a eouPle. of gal-•
lens of gasoline It the tank he made,
a'foreed landing which- timed out to
be a perfeet oie. NO deittage
montinned�n Page to 1 •, (Gentinited..0n-rege t,
The Port of Barfield .was the only ed 'in 1858 to W,illiam E. Grace, of
harbor of refuge for the schoonefs Goderich. After eeveral seasons she
the 85 miles of coastline between again fell into the hands of tire sher-
Goderich and Sarnia. Due to circum- iff being sold te Thomas Cavers, of
stances it has never become one of Owen Sound. He in turn sold her to
the great ports. On the lake 'but in Mrs. Margaret Mchiab -and her Jets-
tbe schooner days it had its quota of band James Alexander McNah sailed
vessels. As one of the old.,..lake skip- her until 1868 'when' she .was. sold to
Pers used to say. "It is always down- D. 'M. Smiley, of Little Current. She
hfll to.S, harbor; that is the great continued in operation until the turn
advantage. Of shippipg by boat:"' This of the 'century' .when 'she' was 'Minoan -
was particularly true of.Bayfield; the tied as unfit for service.
grain warehouses were down -on the The present harbor is"nearly always.
flats below the south bank. The grain the. objective of upbound and down -
was hauled by horsed and .wagons bound yachtsmen and affords excel -
from the 'surrounding country to the lent protection atid,a most hearty- iti.o.=
bro'W of the hill, down which a small come. . When James Thonipson had
narrow • gauge railway tan With g his dam and' grist. mill above the
handporered truck. From the term- bridge the river did not silt ,up the
inns of this diminutive railway, the harbor as fast as it does now and the
grain was dumped into" the tops of 1$50,000 that was spent by the DbMin-
the'bins, which were two stories high, ion GovernMent in 1875-78 and the
The lower bin. had no windows and $10,000 subscribed thY'the Township of
when it Was necessary to Sweep" the Stanley did "return a good dividend
bins down,' small boys crawled down for many years, even though an atlas
the chute and swept them by handle- of 1886.was very scornful of the value
way. light for 15 cents. The Schooners that of the expenditures.
•-""t he long looked . for Government took the grain down to Kingston need- While many vessels made the har-
dredge has at last arrived in Goderich ed a return Cargo, so bricks from•the bor, there were some that did not.
harbor and has settled down to *Work, kilns at Kingston were carried back Older residents reeall the •terrible
It is expected to throw out 1,000 yards and used to ,build many of the sub- night of November 24, ism when the
a day to the depth of 16 tcr•18 feet. stantial buildings that, stand in Bay- schooner "Malta" *-8.8 last a Short dis-
iv/legate. Brown and Menzies, of Sea- field ',today. tance south of the harbor mouth. On
forth, have sold over Whiteman The port is not without its, claims that day, Capt., Henry Buckley, with
pea harvesters' for this a on. .4 to shipbuilding. In. 1854 Thomas his, son as mate; was .beating up the
Mr. David Campbell; of near Wet- Baird built the schooner "Stanley" for lake front from Sarnia, against • a
ton, returned from a two Menthe Alei 'McDonald, of Kincardine. After nor'Wetit gale. The 1Vialta Was" light,
it to Scotland on Wedneeditie and in three Yeats she Was sold to William tipbounctto (Udell& fbr• Salt,. and as
all his travels be thinks HI,Arett is MWallace, a Carpenter a Goderich bill the' afternoon Were on, the gale i.
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fine as ,any place he has sib. • ' after several tialisectiOna that .silta- creased and silo* and sleet ,began tO
Het. Mr. Casson. and itinaliY left On coier she Was sold to .0harles.13urniat. tb,11.. The ,vieibility was Peer • and,
Wednesday for HorriSton, their ne,wa
, ker. He evidently got into trouble Whn eat night the lookout gliin/Ssed
hOnat. • '! • : •with her. for' at Sheriff's Sale IS record
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