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The Huron Expositor, 1942-07-10, Page 2lir rt: a4y Nt itr OO iail McLean, Editor,. at Seaf orth, Ontario, ev- sday' afternoon by McLean Advertising rates on application. Subscription rates, $1.50 a .year in , Vance; foreign, $2.50 a year, Single pies, 4 cents each. SEAF'ORTH, Friday, July 10, 1942 1: Fire Losses On Farms ' Fire of unknown origin destroyed a fine bank barn and strawshed, to- gether with .implements, live Stock and hay on a farm in Logan Town- ship last Saturday night. 'This should draw to the attention of all farmers the absolute necessity of exercising the utmost care and supervision of all farm operations at this season of the year and for some months to come, because this is the most dangerous season on the farm r as fire risks are concerned. There are some fire risks that the `finer has to run, Lightning, for instance, is no respector of' persons, and no farmer can completely guard against having his barns burned by :being --struck by lightning. But at the same time he can protect himself to a certain extent and some times a hundred . per cent. by having his buildings properly rodded. • Lightning, however; is not the cause of all the farm fires, or even a very small proportion of them. Boil- ed down, the loss of. farm building at this, or any other time of the year, can usually be traced to some act of carelessness. The use of matches about the buildings; the ' careless placingof a lantern or defective elec- tric wiring, or, it may be lack of pro- per supervision during threshing op- erations. At all times, the loss of farm build- ings by fire is not only a severe loss to the owner, but a distinct loss to the -district in which he lives. Re- placement is not the simple matter it once was. No longer can a farmer, go to his back fifty and draw out en- ough timber to replace -the buildings burned. Timber on the farm and ev- en wood lots are practically a thing of the past. More and more the steel barn has 'been replacing the timber building and in ordinary times. they -proved a very satisfactory substitute. But. these are not ordinary times or any- thing like them. There is more than a probability that every barn de- stroyed by fire during the war will not be. replaced. Certainly, there will be no steel available for barns, and even the timber and lumber for build- ing purposes will soon be restricted to the minimum. - Under the circumstances, there- fore,-it here-fore,: it will not be hard to see what, a collosal loss the country will suffer should an epidemic of farm fires oc- cur, as has often occurred in the past. No farmer can operate without buildings. And now, and for some years to come, when this country, Great Britain and the _..... Allies need the crops of every acre that can be' possibly cultivated, the situation, to say the least;' would be a very dan- gerous one for all concerned.. Well'aware of thisfact, the Mutual Fire Underwriters' Association did a very wise as well as a . very neces- sary and patriotic act when at its re- cent annual convention, it instituted a campaign for a twenty-five per cent, loss reduction in farm fires in. 'Ontario for 1942. Such a reduction, and even more, is quite possible if • a proper and sys- tematic educational schemer' is inaug orated by the insurance companies, and -in " particu'lar, the 'Mutual, Fire frisuranee 'Companies, which carry the bulk of the insurance placed on faun buildings, to gain the co -opera- tion of the fanners throughout On- tario. Already two : Mutual Companies in this county have seen the light and by an advertising campaign in the Cti'uhty papers 'nave already stirred up , anActive interest. But this very foU , it ation ' demandar a very Interest than that of Of u'ron. Every,.MVlutual the • .Pr -Office :should Mined effort to, cow aper 7r';r��►3r�hrs farts neves a y for replacement is not only patriotic but a double con- tribution to our war effort in this time of desperate nee& • Well, It Has Some Alierican paper said the other day that no one ever thought _.. that the time would come in America when the profession of dump picking would be elevated to the rank of the most highly patriotic calling. Well, it has, and we have ample evidence of it in our own Seaforth and District Salvage Committee, which has already raised several thousand dollars for Red Cross and other war and patriotic purposes in the short time it has been in exist- ence, and it will continue the work for the duration. This resultdid not just happen. It took organization and co-operation —and work, Collecting and sorting salvage is not one of the spectacular war efforts that advertise one to the town, the district or the nation. There are no parades .connected with it; no bands; no flag waving; no cheering, no speeches to lighten the load. Just work, But it is work that has to beperformed to supply the des- ..perately needed materials for war purposes. Materials that gather in every house and store and on every farm and have to be hunted out by the householder, the merchant and the farmers themselves because it would'`be an impossible job for the authorities to undertake because of the cost. But it is patriotic work, a'lad the Chairman, who organized the work and superintends it; the members of the. committee ; the townspeople down to, the smallest boy who an- swered the appeal for help, are ful- filling a patriotic' -call as high and,, honored as any in the service. Cattle Are Worth Real Money Every one knows, and particularly the consumer, that cattle are worth money at the present time. But we never realized until recently how much real money a few cattle can really represent. And Holsteins at that. Farming, it has always seemed to us—and we have spent a life time very clo:se to it—was a rather laborous game that accumulated small profits and paid smaller divi- dends., But,, apparently, there are excep- tions, and very noticeable ones too. Only last week we noted that the Mont Victoria Farm's world famous herd of Holstein Friesian cattle, whose breeding was directed by the late T. B. Macaulay, was sold at Hud- son Heights, Quebec, for a total of $130,950, an average of $1,927 for the sixty-eight listed animals and two baby calves. -- Of course, Mr. Macaulay was much better known—internationally known, in fact—as a financier and money baron than he was as a farm- er. And, possibly, as very often hap- pens, when such men turn to farm- ing he put in as much money or more than his estate realized from his in= vestment or hobby, or whatever he called it. • .,But any way you look at it, $130,950 is a lot of money to see on the hoof on any one farm, and far more than we ever say up here in Huron. • Quite. True The war restrictions on gas and tires have, to a certain extent, slow- ed the pace of life for a great many individ>hals. But at the same time countless motorists seem to be going on the theory that something is bound to turn up before they burn all their gas or wear out all their tires. Conseque. tIy they are just doing that, convinced that (shortages are ,a myth, and even if it were not so, that the powers -that -be could not be so heartless as to deprive them; even for the duration, of the use of their cars. It is true that a substitute for gas and a substitute for rubber to make tires may be found, but to date, and even for the duration, we are very much inclined to the opinion of. the Boston Herald; 'which say' s: "There h .. i , s een lot , a a ot, f talk to �e� r but � s ll,Y e, bu 'o o tillable ll Most e1 �le .a �, y��� ,,substitute for tire, lis' far, ,t6"be. Wit 3 ..,- ... the sole' of a±314 on "Tutet osittasg items picked frons bhp ,,F,xpositor of fifty and twenty-five years ago. From The Huron Expositor . July 13, 1907 The fallowing from Seaforth have passed successfully at the Normal ex- aminations at Stratford: Annie Archi- bald, M.vgaret Walsh and Agnes Mc- Kay. Jack Scott, son of Mr. and Mrs. T. G. Scott, of town, had the misfortune to .fall and fracture his arm while attending. the Sunday school picnic on Wednesday. Mrs, 5. Neely, of Seaforth, receiv- ed word -from the war otlfce on Wed- nesday that her eldest son, Arthur, had been killed in action in France ion June 26th. • We congratulate Mrs. P. Eckert, of Manley, on carrying off ' the Red Cross quilt donated by the Roxboro ladies towards the Red Cross. The barn on the place occupied by Mr. H. .Aldrich, Usborne, and owned by Mr. Frank 'Clarke, of London, was burned to the ground, with the eon - tents on Wednesday night. Mr. Charles Riley, of Tuckersmith, received word this week that his son, was in hospital in France suffering from gun shot wounds in, ,the thigh. M. G. Ransford, a prominent stock raiser andfarmer near Clinton, was attacked one day last week by his Jersey bull and had a very narrow escape from being killed by the en-• raged animal. .Mr.-Ransford suffered nothing' more serious than some broken bones and . bruises. Mr. R. Grieve, of McKillop, is at present busy brushing up the streets of Manley with the road grader. Mr. J. F. Daly received a letter on Thursday from the Chief of Police at Penetanguiehene in which he stated that 'twlo men had been found drowned at that place on July 8th; and as a watchcase bearing Mr. Daly's name was found on one of the bodies, be was forwarding the same with the hope of learning the identity of the owner. Mr. W. Somerville, G.T.R. agent, sold 230 tickets at Seaforth for Strat- ford on Thursday morning for the 12th of July celebration held in that city. Mrs. Arthur George and farm of Seaforth, left for '.Bayfield, whey h have taken a cottage for th sum- mer. Mrs. Woods and 'daughters, of God- erich Street, left on Saturday for Bayfield„ to spend their holidays at the lake. A heavy storm passed over Us - borne Township on Monday evening. Quite an amount of hail fell of fairly large size, but no damage was done. m From The Huron Expositor July 15, 1892 Mrs. Thuell, of Blyth, has a gob- bler that has hatched out 11 chickens this year. Mr. and 'Mrs. Robert Turnbull, of -- the 1st . concession, McKillop, are away on a three months' visit to Scotland, - There was quite a large crowd at the recreation grounds on Wednesday_ night to hear the music by the band and view the bicycle race. Quite ' a number started, but only Fred Beat- tie and George Good stood out to the end, the former winning the prize. While playing 'cricket at Brussels last week, Mr. R. S. Hays, barrister; got struck with a ball in the knee and was so severely injured that he has been 'laid up since. Mr. William Kyle, of Kippen, who has carried on for several years a successful carriage making business, has purchased the oldhomestead farm and will devote his time to agri- culture. The 12th of July was quiet in Brua sels except in the early morning and late evening, when the Orangemen and followers were leaving and re- turning. Something over- 500 left Brussels for Kincardine and a goodly number for Listowel. The Seaforth Cricket Club is mak- ing a good record for themselves this. season. Following their victory at Woodstock on Dominion Day, they scored another triumph at Brussels on the 7th. Mr. James .Cummings, who intends retiring from :farming .in the fall, has purchased the house arid lot on West Main St., formerly owned IV Mr. Dav- id Sproat. - Mr. George IL Jackson, Seaforth, left for „Manitoba on a trip of busi- ness and pleaeure. Mr. Simon •Monter, of Tuckersmith, has returned from Manitoba. He lilies the country ;and intends going back again. .M We have been shown a geranium plant belonging• to 'Mr's. E. E. Hal- lett, 'of Seafprth, .which presents a peculiar freak of nature on one of its stems. In plt,cd of the ordinary num- ber of leave& and 'blossbms, it shows fo'iir leaves find„iWo flowers growing from the top of one, steno. The member's of the Loyal Orange Lodge- No. 818; 1VIcKillop, celebrated the anniversary of the Battle of .the Boyne in the town •af Kincardine on Tuesday last, ,*here they succeeded in carrying home the first` prize off $15,' avgarded to the, best dressed lodge in the prBceHsian• Messrs.. Du & S;te*art, of Blue - vale, atatted 'Gem- nle'lI's bridge,) :'Zahe atone have commenced operations• • orifi ittt l , ,foundation, of the pelttiyteli'1lifti'h, 6orrle, mid , is . 8xpeetsa t'hsiti.,.''the church . • j111 'Oen tob A}laced► ca, ,.)airy J. Z i They say that .time ehangea all things. As a fellow gets older he be- gins to see the wisdom of that thought. You don't just realize it all of a sudden, It comes. over you gra- dually that possibly some of the ideas you have in regard to •people may be just a bit cockeyed. Take for instance the case of the fellows in the village who operate the stores at which we do the bigge4 part of our dealings. As a lad, going, to town in the buggy with my, par- ents I had a great fear of these men. To me they represented "big busi- ness." In the days long before we had an automobile they were driving up and down the concessionh on Sun- day afternoons with snorting mon- sters o1! machinery. It was almost terrifying to see them. On Sunday's we saw them sitting in the front ranks of the church flock. They had the front pews. , and, they were decked out in finery while our mothers and' fathers wore the same old clothes year after year. When father met the banker on the street he caned the banker Mr. Vans' Snort, while the banker in a more or less patronizing way called father by his' first name. Sometimes father would grumble on the way home about the high rates of interest at the bank, and the merciless way in which so and so had been turned off his farm. Tim Murphy who ran the big store in the village was almost a legendary character to foe. He had a great, bushy beard and drooping eye -brows that gave him almost a shaggy ap- pearance. He was a big man with a' big voiced and they ~used d.o say that when he bellowed at a political meet- ing at the village hall the fire bell used to ring up in the hall tower just because of the vibration. I can still see mother spending the egg -money* at the counter, while father sat around the -big stove at the back of the store tang to the drayaian and two or three loafers. who always sat around the stove in the winter time and en the front verandah in the summer time. ,Big Thin. would come out and sla to my mother in a gpleasant peway:k Thep. he would lean over to see if she had a tion$, list of groceries to buy. If it -was a .good supply he would reach into the candy case and bestow one of those big striped bulls- eye candies on me. Yes, I think Tim Murphy was my favorite of those dressed -up cigar -smoking village'bust nessmen. - ,Last week we were tied up with haying. Of course our last hired man went 'to the air -force just after seed- ing and the prospect of ever getting the hay all in seemed like a very re- mote one. Wednesday afternoon a car drove in just as I was hitching; up to the wagon to go out and draw in alfalfa. It was the banker and Tim Murphy's son who carries on at the big Murphy Emporium. They had come out to give me a hand with the haying. I discovered a lot last Wednesday. Those two fellows are real men. They blistered their hands and sun -burned their arms . . . but they never said a word . . except in a joking way. They came down in the cellar and had two of three swigs of 'cider— and they enjoyed a meal country -style , and went away ,without tak- ing a cent of money. They told me to give their wages to the Red Cross. They came out on both Thursday and Friday afternoons about three o'clock and worked until late . . . just to help me with the haying. . They're regular felf°ows, both of them! JtJST A ST A SMILEOICT "Hello, old man. for some time.” "I've been in bed "That's too bad. 111111111101MAT.K.A.U.S......<4.0.0211111. I haven't seen you Maid to Master: "The man who is singing carols in the street wants to know if you can help him, sir." , Master: "Impossible, I can't sing a note.” for seven weeks." Flu, 'I .suppose?" ." yes, and crashed." • "The lady said she'd but there was a cord First Tramp: give me a meal, attached." Second "You First: "No, I of wood!" , mean mean • a string." a cord—a cord : Small ,Boy (in haberdashery) : want a collar for father's 'Chris present." Assistant: "One like mine?" Small. Boy: "No, a clean one.' "1 turas. • "Waiting for a trolley car, buddy;' "Yes, I am." "Well, I'd be the last jean to inter- fere with anybody's fun, but this trol- ley line stopped running in. 1929." -. • "I sometimes wonder, Mr, High- browi is f th th' , ere any ing than you authors about the You write." "There is, Madam—our effor sell thein." vainer things ts• to Heat Conditioned (By John Anthony) e 'The role played by chemistry in the replacement of vital materials' where shortages threaten our war produc- tion schedules is generally known and appreciated by now. Plashes for metals, nylon for silk, neoprene for natural 'rubber,, "Lucite" for glass— the list is endless and in most cases the replacement materials are more versatile and quite often superior eto those they replace. There is ,another replacement ma- terial provided by chemistry, howev- er, that is .as important as any of these, for it has to do with the hu- man rather than the mechanical side of production. One of our main prob- lems during the next few months will be to guard war workers from hot :weather troubles -which stem from the depletion of chlorides in the blood. Chemistry comesto the aid and replaces this loss not -with a new material but with one of the oldest and most precious substances known —common salt. The importance of this replacement material in the fight against summer heat and possible prostration cannot be Ove;estimated. Canada, this sum- mer, is working harder than, ever be- fore, not only because more people are working but also because every- body is putting extra energy into his or her work. Thousands of men and women are about to ,spend their first summer in factories where air-condi- tioning systems cannot be provided and where cool draughts of air are rare, Hundreds of thousands of more seasoned workers will be toiling with energy exceeding all their past ef- forts. In spite of summer heat every worker must be kept at the .highest pitch of efficiency and health if pro- duction of planes, tanks, guns and aminunition is to be maintained and increased. We cannot change the weather, nevertheless we can do something about it in the sense that we can minimize its effect on the health of our workers. The ill effects of summer heat are caused by the prodigious loss of salt. from our systems during the summer months, This loss comes about in the following manner. The human body has a heat -conditioning system Which regulates the temperature of the blood and 'in this systcni• sweat glands "Clay a major role. By their exulat'fons they prevent violent chang- es in the temperature ,_of the atmos- phere Froin causing siinitar variations in. the temperature of the body, where e' -en sinal) variations could have a 'le'feteiriotis" effect: S 'eat, hof 'eve,, cat'rles Mit With, it -large 411antities , of Now Registered Nurses Misses Edna kiieanor 0olenian, Ruth Isabel Daer and Grace D. 4ligaer Math, o8 Goderioh, have passed' .the examination for 'registration as uu:m es in''the Province of 'Ontario.—Gode, rich signal -Star, • Fitting Up New Restaurant Workmen are now engaged -„fn, tatting up the interior of -413.e build- ing occupied by Mr, V. Wrighit,- for- merly ochupied by Mr. O. Tarlton. Mr. Wright is .opening up a new restaur' ant. -=Exeter Times -Advocate, Arrives Overseas Word has been received in Exeter that Capt. D. C. Hill, Chaplain with the Canadian Army, (has Just arrived safely overseas. Capt. Hill was the former minister at Caen Presbyter- ian Church. He has many friends here whose best wishes will 'foll'ow' him.—Exeter Times*Advocate. in England Major J.,H. Ziegler, of Guelph,, was on a convoy that arrived in England last week. The Major is the' husband of the former Billie Gibson of "town, and is a member of the Ordnance Corps.—Wingham Advance -Times - Passed Registered Nurse Exams Miss Helen Bateson, Victoria Hos- jlital, London, has received word from the Department of Health that she has successfully passed her register- ed nurse exaniinatioes. — Wingham Advance -Times. Culross Farmer Fatally Injured George Buckel, 33 -year-old Culross Township farmer, died as a result • of injuries received when the team he was driving on a mowing machine, ran away. There were no witnesses to the accident. Dr, M. H. Gillies, of scene, reported internal injuries whi Teeswater, who was called to the scene, reported internal injuries which proved fatal. The deceased who was unmarried, was•. the son of Mr. and Mrs, Joseph Buckel, of the sixth concession of Cuirass Township. Besides his parents, he is survived by four brothers, Albert and Edward, in the United States: Joseph, of Oiil- •ross Township, and Wilfred, of Tees - water, and one sister, Dorothy, at home.—Wingham Advance -Times. Choir Honors Member The members of the United Church choir met on Thursday evening 'for their weekly practice, and took the- opportunity heopportunity to present one of their members, Miss Helen Baeker, bride- to-be, with a Pyrex kettle. Miss Car- rie Hingston, leader of the choir, read the address and Thomas Strach- an made .the presentation. Miss Bae- ker made a very suitable reply, thank- ing the choir members for their love- ly gift,. Miss Baeker has been a faith- ful metnber o.f. the choir for a .num- ber of years, and will be greatly miss- ed as she took a very -active part in Church work. Lunch was served and a social time enjoyed. — Brussels Post. Bride -Elect Showered About thirty friends of Miss Marg- aret Jenkins, bride -elect, assembled at the bride's home Wednesday even- ing to honor h,er prior to her )mar- riage, During the evening 'Miss Jen- kins was the recipient of a miscel- laneous shower, and received many useful and lovely gifts.. Nurses from the Clinton and Wingham hospitals presented Miss Je'nkins with a bride's book suitably inscribed. During the evening Mrs. Ben Taylor rendered two much appreciated mouth organ selections. --Blyth Standard. • Receives Award Word has just been received front. the General Board of Religious Edu- cation in Toronto that Trihity Angli- can Sunday school 'is entitled to one award -from the Religious Tract So- ciety of London, England. The pupil entitled to receive this award is Myr- tle J. White, who, in the recent G.B. R.E. examinations, obtained 93 per cent. Congratulations!—Blyth Stand- ard. Sunday School Honors Mrs. Page At James Street Sunday School or' Sunday morning last the Superintend- ent, Mr. J. H, Jones, paid a fine tri- buteto the faithful service rendered the school by Mrs. Page during the seven years she has been in Exeter. Mrs. Page was called to the front and the secretary., Mr, S. B. Taylor. on behalf of the school, presented her with a beautiful . cake 'plate, Mrs. Page stated that on :her first Sunday in James Street she had stood before the school and told a story. She had missed very 'few Sundays as ;a'•teach- er and she realized that the boys and girls were the hope of th"d world and the church. She thanked the school for their .expression • of good-will.-- Exeter ood-will.—Exeter Times -Advocate. Local Girl Laboratory Assistant Miss Marjorie Carroll ,has been engaged as laboratory' assistant. at the Sick 'Children's Hospital, Toron- to, and commenced her duties there this week.—Mitchell Advocate,, Goes To Ottawa Lieutenant J. W. Callander, who has beeit with the Canadian. Provost Corps at London, has b'eei postedlt.to No. 33 Company at Ottawa. --Mitchell. Advocate. vital chlorides, without which the tis- sues of the body cannot maintain their normal liquid' content and the body's heat -conditioning system can- not function properly. The consump- tion of water alone to replace abnor- 'mal loss of body fluids leads to the condition commonly referred to by miners and furnace workers' as "wa- ter poisoning," This is nothing more than heat cramp or heatexhaustion and is caused not by the over -con- sumption of water, as has been gen- erally thought, but rather by the ser- ious, depletion of chlorides in the body. The remedy is simple and direct. It is to make certain that the salt lost in perspiration is restored to the body whenever a person 'quenches his thirst. Close observation by many in-, dustrial physicians , indicates that harmful results from exertion in+,hot weather need not be expected in an'i otherwise healthy) mazy if there is rough approximation between loss of saline'from the blood through perspir- ation and its replacement through the use of salt, • While office workers 'can make up their depletion of chlorides with the salt normally consumed at mealtime, workers in factories peed extra amounts of salt and the practice ,is now widespread of supplying indus- trial workers with salt tablets in handy dispensers placed near every drinking fountain. These little tab- lets are .easily washed down (with `a fnouthful 'of water and their location near drinking fountains serves as a reminder that a thirsty man needs salt as well as water. There are ap- proximately 5,000 of these dispensers in use throughout Canadian factories and it is estimated that an additional 1;000 will be installed this year for the relief of workers in our new war industries. Each dispenser holds 1,- 500 tablets and the tablets which will be consumed in the next few ninth's in the fight against summer heat can be•tneaeured in tons.. • It is important to remember that while we are aided as never before in our industrial activities by highly de- veloped machinery, 'machinery supple - mi• is rather than replaces the labor o men, • ,ever we find^•ourselves un• derestimating the amount of sheer physical exertiion neces's'ary in our war effort, we would do livefl to re member GliurChill s words, in, the spring of 19.00. ' When he promised "blond; sweat- and Watt' • he did .irat. use tlxe word "sweat" in a •metaphori,,' eaa acinic auj^ ',')lore 't Olt; io Atottitt that Unita would 'bleed' `` ehtjpa Wald weep. Churchill knew well that it is the human element, that turns the scale In any war and he knew- that It was only by the sweat of our brow,. Iiterally, on a national state, that the could iivcreas.e ,procluction_tq the point where victory, would be possible. And e'o, while Cahada may waren up to her prodnctien schedules' this sum- mer, there -la no need for even the ;dog daye to cramp the styleher of M"ar' workers ,For need fhy ey staffer tn31 111 efte'eti from "turning on th:e twat.eb' R. .ziirhiS.