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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1942-09-04, Page 2942 . r ► pcoat9r Established 1$60' NlcPh (McLean, Editor. h fished t;Seaforth, Ontario, ev- 'hi rsd . y afternoon by McLean Qs. SAFORTH, Friday, September 4th Sabotage - Sabotage becomes a common word tai war time and one with many meanings, but one dictionary defini- tion of the word is "Malicious dam- age to property." And that definition describes very aptly the case we have in mind. On Saturday evening last a car was parked in front of The Expositor office while its owner did his or her shopping. Among the purchases, ap- parently, was a brown, glass contain- , er holding perhaps, a gallon of coal oil. Evidently there was an accident when the owner attempted to place the container in the car, and it fell to the pavement and was smashed into countless pieces—that were left there. Any building along the street would have lent the owner a broom to sweep it up, or if the police had been notified, the dangerous pieces would, have been removed. The car owner, however, was more than a little self-centered. Heor she had suffered a monetary loss through. an accident and he or she was not at all interested in future accidents, which their carelessness might bring down upon the heads of others. If some person had stepped off the curb and slashed that car owners tires with a knife, we venture to say that owner would not have left town until he' had the town police, the county police, and in all probability, the provincial police, on the trail of the culprit, his indignation and re- sentment would have been so pro- found. But what he or she did do was to back out the car very carefully, and -knowing where the glass was, was able to avoid it. But others were not so fortunate. The color of the glass. in the container was almost the color of the pavement and almost indis- tinguishable even in the glare of the lights, and a good many cars must have gone over and through it. By Sunday morning the heavy pieces of broken glass had been scat- tered .ten feet out on the pavement and many more feet along the curb. Cars passing over it had pressed big jagged pieces into the asphalt where they stuck up like so many knife blades. Some one's tires suffered, but how many we -do not know. With automobile tires what they are today, that act was not a careless or thoughtless one --:-It vias 'sabotage. • What Government? A farmer came into this office last week to tell us that the government would have to do something about farm help if the farmers were to continue to produce. He went on to say that all farmers' sons should be exempt from the draft, and in addi- tion, that all from the farms now in - the service and in other warrk should immediately be returned to the farms. We mildly inquired, what Govern- ment? Because we know that no government, present or future, whe- ther Liberal, Conservative, C.C.F. or Farmer, could or would do all the things that farmer demanded as long as this war lasts. And the rea- son for that statement is very ap- parent. Canada is at war, fighting for her very existence. To prosecute that war -to a successful conclusion, she has to use her every resource—in- cluding men. She ' has to have men, not only, for home defence, but for service overseas, and she has to take those men where she can find them —+- in the country as well as in • the towns and villages. There is no other recourse. - We know full well. that the labor situation on the farm in many cases is desperate. But the farm is not the of 1y ,place that suffers from a labor Shortage• Every industry and busi- , ess in Canada, our own included, has boon stripped of most of .its key --en-,and Most able' vorkers. In fact strain, has begin so severe in many t zany-Iiav 'simply had to Ors and go out of bus''. ti . ,btr�srlte� ; 'Itis to close his doors, he can't make his future living off the premises. We know too that Ontario, or at least this part of it, leas had this year the greatest harvest in its history. In spite of the lack of labor, that har- vest, some how, some way, has been taken off, or very nearly so. Co-op- eration and the use of help, however feeble,, -was taken where and when it could be found and it did the trick this year. It can do it next year too. Farmers, as a' class, are not com- plainers, even about the labor situa- tion. We know'' hundreds who have taken it on the chin and bounded back again, and others who are still taking it and still fighting back. They have one of the hardest parts in the war to play, but they are play-. ing it quietly and uncomplainingly, and mighty well too. • Abandoned Farms We were talking to a city tourist the other day when he mentioned the large number of abandoned farms in this district. That was news to us because we didn't know of a single abandoned farm in the district, nor yet one in the whole county. And we think we were right. To many who have spent their whole lives in the city, farms are somewhat deceptive in appearance. Because farm buildings have been burned or allowed to become dilapidated, or ev- en allowed to fall down, that does not necessarily mean a deserted farm, although that seemed to be .the ear- mark 'of the city man's judgment. In fact, many of these farms are where Huron ,Cfounty's . prime beef cattle are pasturing, and there are no better cattle in the whole of Can- ada. Possibly the owner; because of advanced age, or ° ecause his boys have gone into t e rmy and his farm labor has gone o the munition plants to partici e in the much higher wages, has moved off his farm, but he has by no means aban- doned it. He or his neighbor is using it as a pasture farm and he is keeping himself and saving his in- vestment. 'That these grass farms will again be turned into production is, how- ever, rather doubtful, even though We have been warned time and again that Canada must produce more and still more to supply food, not only for ourselves, but for the people in the Allied "countries. There is a limit to the work that a man can do, and the - farmer is doing his utmost now and in not a few cases, more than it is wise for him to do. • Admit Damage Just -hoW devastating the British air raids over German cities and in- dustrial works is, of course, un- known, although the R.A.F. has claimed • that .enormous damage has been done. And usually you can count on British claims to be rather conservative, The British claims would appear to be well founded, judging by a re- port received from Germany by the Associated Press last Saturday. The report read: i The Germans indirectly admitted today that air raids on their indus- trial cities and to.wns ' have been slowing production. They announced installation of a new system . of air raid warning which permits the workers to con- tinue on • the job until a serious at- tack is apparent, "Thus the whole life of a town no longer will be brought to a standstill by a single enemy aircraft flying at enormous height and occasionally dropping a bomb." If a single plane can so, disrupt the life of a German town, we wonder what those five hundred plane raids have done to German cities and in- dustrial plants and their people. • Good Idea The Detroit News asks: "With no tires or fuel oil, who's for parking the sedan in the parlor for the win- ter, and turning the car heater on?" That isn't a bad idea, boys, "if you keep the car keys in your own hands. It would save: a lot of time stoking coal and a lot of work taking out the ashes. Then any night you had to stay -home yourself, you could take the evening 'paper, a book or two and `a blanket, and lock yourself in the car. ren `you Were tired, YOUu "Could gone Irteeis iter _ricked. from The Expositor of arty and twenty -ave years ago. • • OSIfer rt • From The Huron Expositor September 7, 1917 Among those from the vicinity of Kippen wipe attended the Toronto Ex- hibition were: Mr. and Ws. Fasken. Mrs. Isaac Jarrett, Mr. and Mrs. R. Brownlee, Mrs. Earl Sproat • and the Misses Margaret' and Jennie 'McLean. Miss Agnes McKay has accepted a position as teacher in the school at Auburn. 1VIiss Ethel Harn, of McKillop, has accepted. the position of teacher in the school at Ldndesboro- Lieut, Cyril Stewart, son: of Mr. and Mrs. s Andrew' Stewart, formerly of Seaforth, who is attached to the avia- tion 'school at Desoronto, was in town this week on his last leave be- fore going overseas. During the heavy storm last Sun- day morning lightning struck the barn on Mrs. Those Murray's farms on the 10th concession, McKillop. The struc- ture, together, with 20 acres of hay, was completely destroyed. The business places, residences and streets of Zurich are now lighted by Hydro, which was turned on last week. Mr. Wm- 'Daybus, of _the Babyloi Line, had the misfortune to- break his arm in two places last week. He was' cutting weeds on the roadside when he slipped and fell. George Brock, of Brucefleld, has sold his splendid farm near the vil- lage to Mr. Ronnie Armstrong for $8,000. Dr. Rodgers, formerly Brucefleld, has purchased the medical practice of Dr. Glanfielee and will shortly return to the village. Somerville, Seaforth, issued tickets to the following points re- cently: Archie Gordon to Milestone, Sask.; Joseph Dorsey to Edmonton; Mr. and Mrs. Wm.Clark, Hullett, to 'Killarney, Man.; Thos. Rands to Brandon, and Mrs. S. Dickson, to Ed- monton.. 'Miss Madge Stewart left here on Tuesday to resume her position in Wallaceburg. Messrs. J. T. Taman and R. 'E. Bright„are in Toronto this week tak- ing part in the Globe doubles tourna- ment being held in that city. Mr.. John MacTavish has returned. from a trip to the West. Jas. Snell & Son, of Hullett, well known stock men, had 13 sheep at Warsaw, N.Y., State Fair last week and, in the Leicesters took all • the first prizes, six in number, and the two flock .prizes. In the Lincolns they captured three ,first, one_ flock prize and two seconds.. • From . The Huron Expositor September 9, 1892 • Mr., Arch McCurdy, lot 15, con. 13, Usborne, met with a, painful accident on Saturday. While going to help a friend at a distance to thresh, he was offered a ride and no sooner had he entered the buggy than the horse be- gan to kick. When he attempted to catch the horse's head he was thrown to the ground and had to be carried home on a stretcher. Mr. Thomas Dickson left Seaforth on Wednesday for Utah, taking with him a carload of very superior sheep, which hewill sell to the natives of that State, A car containing horses owned by Mr. R.• Wilson and 'Mr: Thos. Lapslie, Seaforth; A. Crich, 'McKillop; P. Scott, Brussels; S. Smillie, Tucker - smith; and G. Taylor, Kippen, left here on Monday for the Industrial Exhibition at Toronto. One evening last week a number of the young folks front the neighbor- ing community were entertained at "Canary • Hall,” 6th concession, Hib- bert, by the hostess, Mrs. Matthews. Excellent music was supplied for the party by W. Burke on his violin. The floor manager was Mr. Gormley. The, clog was performed by Mr. W, Hast- ings. The Longs quartette was ex- ceptionally good and were encored several times. Mr. eTehn Landsborough has rented his farm .in Tuckersmith to Mr. John Rutledge for a term of years -at an unusual rental of $3.00. Mr. S. Rennie and wife, of Zurich, returned on Friday last from their trip to Ohio, and were well pleased with what they saw and heard. There have been about 1,500 tons of hard coal sold in town this season, for domestic use. This represents $10,500 in hard cash, and we presume that the wood bill of the town will reach three times this amount. • Mr. McDougall, of Walton, has sold the old Dennison farm in Morris, north of that village, to,a gentleman from Hullett foe $5,300. Mr. B. H. Higgins, of Brucefleld, had the misfortune of having a. good horse badly injured by becoming fast in a wire fence. Mr. Wm. B. McLean, Hensall, who for several years has been extensive- ly engaged, in the agricultural imple- ment business in, that village, has gone to the other side where he is" employed by a large manufacturing establishment at a salary, of $1,600 a year. The trustees of the Seaforth Col- legiate have engaged Mr. Munns, at present of the Kincardine high school, as science master for the school here. go to bed on the back seat, rolled up inQ iiaiiket - Almost . any one Would have enough gas for 'that. ='THRESHINGS Threshings are the order of the day on our Concession. We go to !bed at night with that steady "thuni- thumping" sound of the engine and get up in the moraing.with it. Inci- dentally, Joe West has started thresh- ing again with the steam engine. He has his big tractor working on an airport construction job . . . and any- how, he figures that gasoline may get shorter than it is now and sooner or later he would( have to go back to the steam engine anyhow. I,.don't mind a bit. In fact I think there's something, about a threshing machine which you simply, can't beat. When we were small boys the great- est event of the year was when the threshers came. There was some- thing doing, ,right from the time when the machine set the house to vibrat- ing as it came "pam-pam-pamming" up the laneway until it left .. . and the grain was all threshed and the straw blown into the big mow with the overflow piled up in the barn- yard. There was a difference at' our threshing this year. The older men were all back in harness, Neighbor Hig; ins came himself . . . because his eno gon boys . . . the ones who are big gh to go to a threshing have all away to war. His hired man enl•sted last week. It was the same s .. ry right down the line. Men who ave .b'een letting their "boys go to thrashings for years, now found that they had to pick up the fofk after an early choring session and go out and help their neighbors, What did ' we talk about? Well, as usual there wasn't much talk at the table.Men just turned in and ate with a vengeance because there was. a second table waiting to be fed. But afterwards as they sprawled_out on the lawn and smoked . . they talk- ed plenty. Of course . . . they talk- ed about yield and the fact that Joe had the steam engine back in service . and the Red Cross dance in the village on Friday night . . . and the new school -teacher who was hired to come and teach . . . only four pupils but the talk soon veered around - to Dieppe. - Dieppe! 1 saw Neighbor Higgins sort of shudder when the word was mentioned. His son Ed. is overseas somewhere in Britain. Higgins listened while the invasion talk rambled along with a lot of fantastic things said and a lot of common sense thrown in for that matter. Fin- ally he said, and I've never seen the big , joking Irishman so solemn . . , "Well, it's a job that, has to be done! It seems too bad that fellows like Ed. had to go, but they had to go. They just couldn't live with their con- science I guess thinking about some- body' else doing it for, them." That sort of stopped the talk. We all knew that Neighbor Higgins went to the last fracas over there when he was only 18. We, knew in a'sket- chy sort bf way that he won a medal and some ribbons . . . and that he went to Buckingham Palace ter get them. We knew that there was a hurt in his heart when he thought about' his son being away over there . . . but there was a proudness too. He knew .his son wouldn't let him drown. He wasn't built that way, and someday he will come 'back with med- als and ribbons. and he'll lock them away in a drawer and the episode will be considered closed as far as he is concerned. .- The whistle blew then and we went back• to the threshing! anima :JUST A SMILE OR TWO: Two Irish farmers, keen rivals, en tered their horses' in a steeplechase. One of them engaged a crack jockey. to ride. The twp. horses were lead- ing at the last fence when both jock- eys were unseated. The expert jock- ey quickly remounted and won the race. On returning to the paddock he found the farmer fuming with rage. "Why, what's up?" he asked. "I won, didn't I?" "Yes, you won all right," roared the farmer, "but on the wrong horse, you idiot!" • The colored youthappealed to his father for an explanation of the working of the telephone. "Dat's easy 'nuff, Rastus," said the old man. "Hit am like dis. Ef dere was a dawg big • 'nuff so his head could be put in Boston, an' his tail in New York, den if you tramp on his tail in s'New York he'd bark in Boston. Does you understan' that, Rastus?" "I does, pap. But how am de wire- less telegraph worked?" The old man smiled patiently. "Dat be jess prezacly de same, wid de one exception dat de dawg am 'maginery." • "Whom does Shakespeare call the greatest chicken -killer in his plays?" "Macbeth—because he did murder most foul!" • "I've got a new idea. Fortune in it." "What now?" "It's an alarm clock thatemits the delicious odors' of frying bacon and fragrant coffee." • "I know something that doesn't weigh half a pound but I'm: certain you can't hold it for ten minutes." "What's that?" "Your breath." Change In The Pacific (Winnipeg Free Press) • Continuous fighting in the southern Pacific, conducted 'by the United Na- tions against the Japanese in the Solomon Islands', has emerged from the seclusion of naval secrecy to the openness of a stage that may be tak- en as definite. - The situation today appears to be that the shore positions, taken by the navy and marines at the original land- ings on the morning' of August 7th have been held. In twelve days they have been held, they have been de- veloped and are now thought well established. The inference allowed by the United States 'navy is that these positions s•houid now be held Permanently by the United Nations. That, we believe,. is the first intima- tion of bases ter be retained for any offensive advance in the Pacific to be made by the United Nations eoutside of Australia. But satisfaction to be drawn from the report on progress will be marred if magnified. To read into it more than is in it would be to ignore en emy potentialities that may still take away gains made. The Japanese have been hit, but this does not mean they cannot recover. It does mean, hew - ever, that the enemy has again been hit in the Pacific. -It• is true,'on'each occasion this has happened in the last three or four months, the stroke, was limited. But within its local scope, each was. Allied achievement. The achievement 6f effecting land- ings against the Japanese in the Solo - mons today ‘must, be 'measured by the achievements being gained by the Ja- panese six to eight months ago. It is an achievement for the United Na- tions, who were .being`•.bundled out of the western Pacific, to be able to re- taliate to the extent of bungling the enemy's ,present plans by falling on him in the-Solomons., • Until two months ago the Japanese swept forward always to carry out plans laid down with masterly skill. They 'swept into the ,Coral Sea to ex- tend their holdings, but were routed and had to forsake for the time be- ing a° project they da not seem able to, take up again. The Japanese adrvanced to the inva- sion of Midway, only tobedecisively .thrust back and to lose fleet units Which (16W -ea- them --of the- protect ing li ra`E r• rriers Notably` niIssing rovhen the tthlto, Nations attacked the.; Solomons on Aug'ust7, The strain must be telling. The Ja- panese had thirteen fleet aircea,ft car, riers when they struck at Pearl Har- bor, and had a number of merchant vessels, made over as carriers. The toll taken of this effective unit in modern• naval warfare must badly hamper the Japanese in the very op- erations they must prosecute if they still -intend to invade Australia and conquer India as well as. the Indian Ocean. • It, may be foolish to imagine that the might of the Japanese strength is diminishing, bur it is reasonable to assume that the expanded orbit of their operations puts a strain on their power. Their outer perimeters in the Pacific are yielding when the United Nations' -cam establish positions in the Solomons and beyond ahold strongly in Ceylon and Madagascar. Japanese naval and mercantile craft- have been, punished to an extent that must add problems of transport to the uncer- tainties of where next to attack:. -In Siberia, in India, in Australia? The, passage of the last eight months has brought conquests to the Japanese, butit has also given a strength not before possessed• by the United Nations. This complicates the. problem of power in the Pacific. Eight months ago it overwhelmingly belonged to the Japanese. Does it to- day? Do not the local results in the Solomon Islands show that this pow- er, whittled from the Japanese, is being ,assumed by, the United Na- tions? The process that is slow now will accelerate. If the navies and air forces' and trobps of the United Nations main- tain permanent establishments in the ,Solomons, they have gained the of- fensive objective of working from the outer perimeter of Japanese defence through the interior that shields them within the western Pacific. But once one barrier of ocean defence for the enemy is crushed, it will be harder and harder for rhim to stand secure against the aggressive might accumu- lating in the United Nations. This might la (being unleashed. This is indicated by the offensive opera- tions against the •Solomons. Heavy as. are the oaisulties .ifi those opera- tiona, and brilliant as seems to have been fh 'lit"afk•11ark;they w'iii'.be welt- re),aidt 11 the J`aptiiiese • giv'e.. waq,,: Engineer Leaves Mr. William Nance, who has been the engineer in charge of construc- tion for the Russell Construction Co. at the Centralia ''Airport for the past year, and who has been a resident of Exeter during that time, left Satur- day for his home in Toronto. --Exeter TimeseAdrvocate. Arrives. Overseas Mrs. Margaret Harrington received a cable from her son, Pte. P. Herring; ton, who has• been training in Sussex, N.B., with the 15th Canadian Light Field Ambulance, telling 'of his safe arrival in Great Britain. We all join in 'wishing the boys of this unit a safe _return home again.—Blyth Stand- ard, Another Winghamite Overseas Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Lediet have re- ceived word that their son, Preston, arrived in Britain last week. Preston and his brother, William, were in the 'same unit, but Bill has not as yet gone overseas. — Wingham Advance - Times. Creamery Instructor is Feted Dan McMillan, creamery instructor for the Stratford district of the On- tario Creamery Association, with ter- ritory extending as far as Teeswater, was pair high tribute on Friday eve- ning when-seventy'five .people gather- ,. ed representative of creameries throughout the entire community' he Chas served with faithfulness and abil- ity for over thirty years. He has now retired from this work to a well-earn- ed rest. The Willow Grove Cream- ery was an ideal setting for the event, its spacious rooms providing ample- accommodation.—Mitchell Advocate. ' Injured At Grand Bend Mrs. William Jennison, 76, Grand Bend, was rushed to St. Joseph's,Hos- pital, London, last Thursday after- noon•with both legs broken and other injuries suffered when struck by a car while crossing a street in Grand Bend, Lorne Flater, of Forest, said to have been the driver of the car, was not held, nor was a charge laid after Constable G. Westlake and bf- frcer Finch inpestigated. Dr. H. R. Taylor, of Dashwood, who attended Mrs. Jennison, said she had suffered fractures of both legs below the knees, a' compound fracture of the left leg andinjuries to her face and shoulder. Her condition at the hos- pital was said favorable. — Zurich Herald. A Message From South Africa Major A. H. Jane is in receipt of a 'card ' from Miss Ia White, R.N., Goderich young lady serving as a nursein the military hospital at Dur- ban, South Africa: Major Jane was, in South Africa at the time 'of the' Boer War and Miss White sends a picture of the' Town Hall and Square at Durban and asks if he notices any changes. Major Jane, however, says he was never in Durban. Miss White says she is having. "a wonderful time."—Goderich Signal -Star. Goes To Winnipeg After six years in Ontario, Mr. Roy Hilton', with his wife and two chil- dren, is returning to his home town, Winnipeg, to engage'in the paper box manufacture withthis father, who has an established business there.. Mr. Hilton has been in Goderich three and a half years as a representative of the British American Oil Co. and has made many friends here. He was tendered' a' farewell dinner at the armories Thursday night by the mem- bers of "C" Co., Middlesex -Huron reg• ifnent.—Goderich. Signal -Star. "Waterspout" Seen at Goderich Quite a number of Goderich people had the good fortune to witness Sun day noon's twister or "waterspout" from positions on the piers and from the bathing house. It•ewes the first they had seen•, but not so with the .bewhiskered Dr. Zebra, a Port Huron dentist, a frequent visitor to Gode- rich who . was stormbouhd in harbor here at the time. A lifetime yachts- man and traveller, the Port Huron man looks the part of an "old salt" if ever there was one. Still on tee sun- ny side of sixty, his -athletic build and iron -grey whiskers make him a color- ful figure in a sailor's garb. He told a Signal -Star reporter that Sunday's "waterspout" was really a small one compared with others he had seen. The big funnel', he said, caused by a sudden clash of hoot and cold air cur- rents, began to form in a small way (Continued on. Page 3) and cannot hold the island's they now occupy in the Solomons, they will find themselves obliged to alter their plans of campaign. Fora time, they must attack here, there or some- where, to retain an initiative that at this moment threatens tQ be lost by them. Their calm assuranceis per- turbed. Bases they held are being held against them. Can there be a weakness in, their armor, or are their assumptions proving false? Thee were certain, sure, eight months age - They have lost little of what they conquered, but the Coral Sea, Mid- way, ,Ceylon,. -Madagascar, the S'olo- rnons---ain awakening offensiveness ll' the United Nations—must be alarm- ing, for r it was so nonexistent . eight. _-w molt s`. `ago. 1 T 1 R, • • i , �3 ,Aa ', • •