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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1942-09-11, Page 213 uron Expositor Established 1860 elt'h McPhail McLean, Editor. Published at Seaforth, Ontario, ev- (ej `Thursday afternoon by McLean ros. Advertising rates on application. Subscription rates, $1.50 a year in advance; foreign $x.50 a year. Single copies; 4 cents each. SEAFORTH, Friday, September 11 Without Due Process of Law In its leading editorial, "Three Years, Under Party," the Toronto Globe and Mail on 'Saturday last, among other things said: "A partisan Government.. has chos- en to regiment the nation by Order - in -Council, which brook no opposi- tion, instead of preferring the spir- itual union to be obtained under co- operating political banners. We have union by compulsion, rather than by choice, and a multitude of ironclad regulations governing every civilian activity which none dares challenge." "A National Government could have got away with these things, possibly even with interments with- out due process of law." If these things which the Globe and Mail claimsare being perpetrat- ed upon the people of Canada by the. Government are so obnoxious when carried out under the law -and not even that paper • would claim they were 'illegal -what would they be in the sight.of the people of Canada and the rest of the world, if they were being perpetrated by a National Gov- ernment without due process of law? The Globe and Mail is, however, perfectly right awhen it says: "Lit=. tie is being heard these days about the need of a National Government, for reasons which have become'fair- ly obvious.". The Toronto paper has done its utmost to knife the present Government and with the assistance of some corporate and disgruntled political help from Toronto to estab- lish a so called National Government in its place. But for very obvious rea- sons the memory of the Union Gov- ernment and its history in the last war have been too much for it and its friends to put one over. The unsavory memory of National Government in Canada is still fresh in the minds of the people of Canada and will be for some generations yet to come. • The Reform Of Parliament Literally thousands of letters have appeared in the press this year con- demning parliament, sneering at the members,,suggesting that they waste time, do nothing to earn their money. Many of these letters come from intelligentpeople; they were clearly expressed, but they sought no ob- jective ; they were intangible, indefin- ite and void of real .purpose. Parliamentary institutions have been with us a long time, they will not dissolve in a day. We could, of course, ' abolish parliament -substi- tute a Canadian Hitler and try totalitarian methods. This is not the Anglo-Saxon way. From our point of view, we might as well do as Judas did, go out and hang ourselves. This would be unpleasant --- worse than that, it would -be an admission that we were incapable of solving our own problems, had to ask a puppet tyrant to help us. There is a better way, We have faith in the people of Canada and we have still over three clear months of 1942 ahead of us. Let the letter writ- ers, even redouble their efforts, Tut let them be more direct, more speci- fic. We seek an answer to this ques- tion: What have you to suggest as a means of making parliament more efficient, more capable of serving the country's needs? Canada has changed vastly since the beginning 'of the -century. - Par- liament remains the same. When na- tions change it is a con's'equence of tihinan" action human institutions Amid change with the country. One cannot ' (continue to stand still while -;otiick .inoVves. This is not a sub - j , or violent attack and facetious Onn rat,, it calls' for 'Intelligent h t'.said dd'sritission: -The�e I fn rata os of the Canadian vet' .i':.;..I... .e beeiuetplop. 6e reform. If torted ho:` aflxifr1 i$ of good , works they might prove? If the public, and press have noth- ing hopeful to offer then parliament. must be left to reform itself -a sin- gularly difficult task. Self criticism develops more slowly than any of the other arts of civilization. The people who elect the members of Parliament owe them something better than they have given them .an the last few years. They should at least be willing to give some thought to the problem -there is a marked difference be- tween vapid criticism and construc- tive. suggestion. • Perhaps Not Even Then It is a well known fact that since the present war commenced three years ago that more than once Hit- ler has sent out peace feelers. The first one came when Poland was ov- er -run. A second followed before America entered the war. And there have been others. Now we are told another feeler is about to be launched, but it, like all the others, will meet the same an- swer -from the Allied Nations - •nothing doing. Speaking in Britain ' last week on f" an acceptable , form for a Hitler peace, Herbert Morrison, the .British Home Secretary said: "It is said that before the end of this year Germany will deliver her peace ultimatum." "Rest assured that the United Na- tions would accept ' no peace offer from Hitler unless it took the form of a promise with guarantees of per- formance, of a collective suicide pact by the whole German leadership." We doubt if even that would be accepted as a basis of peace by the United Nations. o. Not Important? The British Government is hard boiled. It must be or it never would have told the British women that hats- were unimportant. And still worse, have called key milliners up for service. Not so very long ago for any one, even a Government to say that wo- men'shats were unimportant, would have been to utter fighting words, and even yet ,there are places that we wouldn't want to utter them. But ;to -day with thousands upon thousands of British women in uni- form, perhaps women's interest in head gear, of their own peculiar kind, is not what it used to be. Even at that, it is a pretty serious statement considering what hats have always been to the feminine mind, not to mention -"the national morale. Just think for a moment what spring would mean to a woman with- out a new hat. Why, she wouldn't be able to hear the birds si9g or to see the grass grow. And think of what man would have missed, particlxlarly in recent years, if there had been no new wo- men's hats. Thousands upon thou- sands of laughs would never have been laughed, and man might have lost his sense of humor. But the war effort must come first, and women, all men will agree, will gladly sacrifice even their fearfully and wonderfully made hats, if they have to, in the interests of the cause. To say that harts are unimportant, however, is another thing altogether. Women will never agree to that. Never ! WHAT OTHER PAPERS SAY; Still Friends (Winnipeg Free Press) The friendship between Mitchell Hepburn and 1Vbaurree Duplessis was some few years ago the wonder of the political world. The two premiers, belonging to opposing •Political parties, " staged mutual admiration exhibitions which interested if they did not particularly edify the public. With the disappearance of Duplessis into political ob- scurity in October, 1939, all occasion for these public manifestations of , singleness of purpose ceased. Today they are both engaged in speaking tours in their respective bailiwicks. Mr. Duplessis de- nounces the war 'policies of the Canadian Govern- ment; so does, Mr. Hepburn, Mr. Duplessis, It is true, attacks the Govern- ment for not contenting itself with a nice; gentle, corder"ate war; wire Mr. Hepburn a vatists his considerable,resotirces in,.flnvective ifr denouncing what he regarrle as the wholly inadequate war effort. - Does this mean a rift in the Matchless friend- ship between Mitch and 'Maurl'ce? )rot at all. I+'6r the bond that united Meat In the days gone by is still unbroken; a common detestation of Maekentie -Ding and 'a comnxori determination to 'Mitt ihini dove . and; deetet*bi.m , e abase Is of ,iii; Tin RURVN EX OS1 OR • B .0.VMER 119 1942 Years Agorae Interc3U items picked from The Ea 1toi!' et fatty and twenty -live years ago. From The Huron Expositor September 14, 1917 The following were ticketed to dis- tent points this week by Mr. Wm. Somerville: Mr. andi Mrs. Thomas Geary, to Calgary; Mrs. Boyce and son, Norman, to Moose Jaw; Miss Forest to Coopersville, Tenn., and Mrs. Wilfred Morrow and two chil- dren to Moose Jaw. Mr. Robert McKenzie, wiho.has been connected with the staff of Stewart Bros. store for the past 15 years, has accepted a position: as traveller with a Hamilton wholesale house. IV.irs. O. Neil, Mrs, W. G. Willis and Gordon and Mrs. Jas. Hays were visitors at the London Fair on. Tues- day. .• Mr. Thomas McMichael, of Shiflett, the well-known horseman, has been appointed Government judge to act at the Fall Fair in Essex on. Sept. 20, at Brigden Fair on Oct. 2, and also at Alvinston Fair on Oct. 9. The ladies of the Red Cross Circle at Chiselhurst despatched 14 boxes to the boys at the front. Besides eat- ables, they contained many useful articles which are sorely needed by those in the trenches. Mr. John Workman, of Kippen, has purchased the 25 -acre lot east of the village at present occupied by Mr. Harry Chesney, from Mr. Robert Dins - dale. On Friday, fternoon as Mrs. Whit- more and da hter, of Brucelfield, were .crossing at ation,in Sea - forth, a double -headed train was in and the horse (became unmanageable and threw both occupants out. • Mrs. Whitmore had her collar bone brok- en and the girl was thrown clear of the accident. ' The buggy was badly smashed. • Mrs. Joseph Hoggarth and Miss Jennie Camplbell are visiting with friends in London this week. Misses Maud and Olive Laidlaw have returned from a trip- up the lakes and Miss Olive returned; to Bos- ton on Thursday after spending her vacation with her mother, Mrs. J. C. Laidlaw. Mrs. Wm.' GovenIock, North Main St.; arrived home this week and her many friends are pleased to learn that she is •gaining rapidly„ after her recent operation for appendicitis. Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Beattie and family motored to London on Thurs- day. Mr. and M. James Archibald and Mrs. Wm. Smithers motored to Lon- don on Thursday. .Mr. Jos. McClymont, of Windsor, son of Mr. T. McClymont, London, was visiting in Kippen. It is 22 years since he left there and he sees many changes- • From The Huron Expositor September 16, 1892 Miss Annie Simpson; of Seaforth, has taken charge of the third depart- ment of the New Hamburg public school. Mr. Wm. McDonald, son or Rev. A. D. McDonald, left recently -for Detroit where he bas secured a good posi- tion. Miss Marion McMichael, Seaforth, has secured a good position in the mammoth Eaton .establishment in To- ronto. Mr.• Thos. Copp who has been as- sistant ineMr. J. S. Roberts' drug store for some years past, left for Toronto on Monday where he will at- tend the School of Pharmacy. On Saturday•iast eight of the young men employed. at Sproat's brick yard in Tuckersmith,° :plowed the "clay- out of, the bank and made and baked fif- teen thousand bricks in five and a half hours. Messrs. Geo. Hill, John Murdoch, R. G. Simpson and John Snider, of Brucefield, left on Tuesday to attend the Industrial Exhibition in Toronto. Charlie, second son of Mr. Charles Tuffin, of Staffa, had a bone in his arm cracked recently while wrestling with another boy. Among those who left Hensall this week to attend the Exhibition at To- ronto, we learned of the following: Wm. Elder, Jas. McArthur, J. Murray, W. Petty, Wm. Chapman and G. 'Moir. Mr. D. Weismulrer, bf Hensel), is this week )busily engaged in opening Up his new store, recently occupied by Messrs. Downs & Son. It is learned that Thomas' Bell and Benjamin Mason, of Londesboro, have leased the Commercial Hotel in Clin- ton and will sgon take possession of it, , Miss Birdie Stephens, daughter of Thos. Stephens, of the Queen's Hotel, Seaforth, is taking a term at the Ladies' •College at ;Whitby. Thos, Hills, of Egmondville, has erected a neat and substantial rail- ing around the Payne lot. Miss Kate Cowan returned from To- ronto last Friday and has resumed her position in the public school here. Mise Margaret Fleurscheutz, of•Eg- mondville, is spending a few weeks with her sister' Mrs. Wm. Powell. Mr. James Stewart, of Seaforth, has rented one of ;Beattie Bros.' new stores and will shortly moire .his restaurant there. 'Messrs. John .Copp and Wesley Beattie rave jpurehased a ' new hay press and intend engaging in the pressing and shipping business. There'were155,stu lents at the Sea - forth Collegiate Institute +on:,'Wednes" day tiorningL-et logs- and, 84 giriti, ;® P11,11 Os r r cif tey'Y H fry J; BOOttes Patricia Ann is now in another stage of her development. A jriend, with long experience in the matter of raising a family, told Mrs. Phil and I shortly after our wee lass was born that we would be able to watch her go through various stages. . Her ex- perience was right.. Patricia has page - ed through several highly interesting stages . . , the latest being that of dressing and undressing dolls. Having a number of aunts who at various times have been beguiled by' the warmth ofher smile' into buying dolls for her, she used to take great delight in strewing them all over the place. In the course of being drag- ged around, both indoors and out- doors, their clothes became rather dirty. Mrs. Phil with a natural hor- ror for dirt, suggested on many occa- sions that the clothes should be re- moved and washed. Patricia Ann lik- ed her dolls the way they were. She refused to let the clothes be taken off the dolls. She has ,changed however. In the past two weeks we have had nothing, but a campaign of doll undressing. Our living room remains cluttered with naked dolls no matter how often Mrs. Phil 'makes the rounds and gathers them, up. Little clothes are strewn down the hallway. Little cherubs of dolls and big "mammy" dolls all get, the same treatment. They are stripped of their clothes and then dumped on the nearest chair. Patricia meanwhile has discovered what fun there is in washing the clothes. She will gather up an arm- ful of the clothes and slip by her mother into the woodshed. Any pail or jar with water in it serves the purpose and soon she comes tiptoe- ing back in.. , . to deposit the drip- ping clothes on the living roam furni- ture. As a matter of fact, I wasl,ra- ther alarmed the other evening to find . several little dresses floating around on the top of the rain -barrel. Last night I was reading the news- paper in the living room, Mrs. Phil told- me to be careful to watch what- ever Patricia was doing. I glanced up flora time to absorbed and she seem- ed to be quite absorfbed in .her task of trying to put a midget doll's dress on the biggest doll which she owns, Soon I forgot about her in the fas- cination of reading a . particularly good account of the Dieppe raid, Horrors of horrors, when I looked up she had a basin of water on the sofa in the living room and was giv- ing one of the dolls a bath. Its hair was stringy and shredded , . . and the majority of ,the rosy complexion of the . cheeks had been ..washed off. There was a regular pool of water around the sofa. I tried, to get everything straight- ened up but without much success. Mrs. Phil came in from the garden in time to hold an investigation. How had Patricia managed to get a basin of soapy water? The horrible truth finally, dawned on me. When I wash- ed up before coming in to eat, I must have left the dirty, soapy water• on the back stoop in the basin. :JUST,A SMILE OR TWO: Among the courageous few who have ventured to -define ."marriage" was the witty Sydney Smith, who ef- fort, reads as follows: "Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in opposite directions; yet always punishing any one who comes between them," , • A man noticed a woman whom he disliked coming up his front steps. Taking refuge in his study, he left his wife to entertain the caller, Half an hour later he emerged from his retreat, listened carefully on the land- ing hearing nothing . ,below,' called down to his&wife, "Has that horrible old bore gone?" ' The objectionable woman was still in the drawing room, 'but his wife was equal to the occasion. "Yes dear," she called back, "she went long ago. 'Mrs. Parker is here now," The boss called one 'of his clerks into his private office, "I have noticed; Johnson," he be- gan, "that you of all my clerks, seem to put your whole life and soul into Your work. No detail is too small to escape your attention. No hours are too long fr you," Johnson glowed with pride and sat- isfaction. "Yes, sir?" he asked, waiting for what he thought was ..coming next. "And so, Johnson,';',his employer went on, "I ass forced, much against my will, to fire you. It is such chaps as you who go out .and start rival establishments," • Mistress: "Bridget, I saw a police- man in the park today kiss a baby. I hope you will remember my objec- tion to/%uch things," Bridget: "Sure, ma'am, no police- man would iver think iv kissin' yer baby whin•I'm around!" • • The Mind of the C.C.F. • (Special Ottawa Correspondence) • The mind of the C.C.F. is peculiar dustry, especially in -Wartime, are tre- mendous: One touch of fact is more important than endless reams of the- ory. We have, for our guidance, the reports of the Dominion -Provincial Relations Conference. The figures are td be found in Appendix 4 which covered the years 1926 to 1937. This was followed by a supplement bring- ing the facts down to 1940'- This re- port or another section of it was re would be more efficiently, managed' cognized by Mr. Coldwell who, appar- ently, deems it to be,.on the whole, an excellent document. It is probab- ly as accurate as -anything of this kindcould, be. Columns 1, 2, 3 and 4, show the distribution of the major portions of the national income in the years giv- en. The figures in column 5 are from the statement of corporate dividend payments •published by the' Financial Post. All figures in millions and frac- • tions of millions -add five ciphers. -it is different from the mind, of other political parties. As the mind differs, so also-- does the argument which comes from it. The C.C.F. ,in- sists on the nationalization of indus- try, believes in • taking in also the banks and financial institutions. Normally a party supporting that program would, try to prove that in- dustry, under government control, than it would .under private owner- ship. No leader of the party attempts to do so. If the rank and file take up the challenge it is done- in the most casual and ephemeral way, bas- ed generally upon, the assumption that production for use and not for profit will lower costs and give to the nation a higher standard of living. In support of this- theory, we are asked to believe that the profits of in - Year 1'$'36 1937 1938 1939 Average 1936-39 „ h940 Increase 1940.over 1936-39 Percentage Increase (1) Wages and Salaries $2,131.9 2,426.6 2,429.7 2,527,1 $2,378.8 2,875.1 (2) Invest- ment Income $429.0 485.5 487.8 486.1. (3) Agri- cul- ture $390.4 422.5 421,8 505/ (4) (5) Other Cor - Private porate Enterprises Dividends $324.3 $260.6 ' 34:5.6 323.7 357.6 325.9 366,8 302.0 $472.1 $435.i $349.6 ' $303.0 512.0 508.8 383:8 305.0 496.3 39.7 73.7 39.2 2.0 20.8 10.8 11.7 11,2 .7 If we add together the total increas- es, gains to investors, farmers and private enterprises, it reveals the fact that these three combined received, in 1940, $152.6 million • more than in the average of 'the 1936-39 period, Those who worked for wages and salaries, though certainly smaller in ngmbers, received $496.3 millions more in 1940, than in the average of the, 1936-39 period. Putting it another way, for every dollar of increase going to the workers, whether in salaries or wages the other three groups received 31c. In the table this is also stated in per- centages of increase. 'rhe answer to this -quid be, of course, that more mien were at work in 1940. More capital was also at work. More farmers and private en- terprises were at work -they got very little additional pays -there wasn't en- ough to go rounds' Mr. Cold -Well, the Leader, slid Mr. Douglas, Deputy, Leader of the party, diad' schedules ,premed showing dressed PrOdlin gteat iad'tatriai a 1, terprises. Almost anything can be proved by the man who is willing to reach a conclusion by using samples selected with .care from a great num- ber. The conclusion these gentlemen reached, does not however constitute a fair presentation of ,the case. Column 5 in the table above gives corporate dividend payments over the 1936.39period and in 1940. Corporate dividends show an increase of two million dollars against $496.3 million increase for wages andi salaries. In- dustry makes no protests. It employ ed these men, was glad that condi- tions permitted ,this to be done, does not like to be sneered at for doing it. The facts should be recognized, There never was a time in the (history of the world When the a "u.gation of profiteering carried with 'i, t such significant iriaplieations, Girds which Siting and sneer should Ibe. wised With Precision and discretion, ---never adopt• Sd against those who might,' it they' (tOdn tilil+ued on, .Page 3) .. Recalled To Duties Flying Officer Thomas Pryde, of London, • was on Vacation last week. and with Mrs. Pryde and two sons, Douglas and Bob and Douglas Flet- cher spent the week at- Grand Bend, Mr. Pryde was skated for two weeks'. vacation but owing to the pressure of duties was called back after one week. -Exeter Times -Advocate. Rushed To Hospital Mr. Luther Reynolds, of Usborne, was taken ill while in Exeter Satur- day evening and after consultation with a local doctor he was rushed to Victoria Hospital in London in Mr. E. R. Hopper's ambulance, He has since returned home and is confined to bed and under the doctor's care, His many friends will hope for his speedy recov- ery. -Exeter Times -Advocate. Takes Position in London Miss Isobel Turnbull, who for sev- eral years has been employed at Southcott Bros,', store, has resigned her position and left the forepart of the week. for London, where she has secured a position with Kingsmills. The best wishes of many friends wilt. go with her, -Exeter Times -Advocate. Horse Trampled Bluevale Drover On Saturday afternoon when Flem- ing Black, Bluevale, one of the dis- tricts most extensive drovers, was loading horses into a truck assisted by Fred Eliott and Stanley Darling, he was knocked down and badly trampled upon. He received injuries to his chest and shoulder, some brok-; en ribs also cuts about the head and face. He was X-rayed, at, Winghana GerieraI Hospital to ascertain the ex- tent of his injuries;;' returning home after treatment. His 'friends wish him a speedy recovery. - Wingham Advance -Times, , Garage Man Injured While adjusting the fan belt of ai car while the engine"was running, A. L. Strome, Teeswater garage proprie- tor, suffered a very painful accident. The index finger was broken and the flesh twisted from the ends of the next two fingers of the left hand. His hand was badly crushed and he wilt be laid up for some time: Wingham Advance -Times, Suffered From Exposure During Raid' Mrs. Marion Simpson, visiting with; her aunt, Miss Mary Beale in Dublin has received official word from Ot- tawa that her husband, 'Pte. Edward James Simpson, of the Royal Cana- dian Regiment, Toronto, was admit- ted to `hospital as a result of exposure following the Dieppe raid. Pte. Simp- son bas been in uniform almcet since war was declared, and before going to England was stationed in Iceland for several months. -Mitchell Advo tate, Transferred To Niagara Falls • Mr J. G. McLay, for the past five years accountant in the Royal Bank of "Canada here, has been advised of his transfer to the ' Niagara Falls centre branch of the bank and expects to take over his duties there on the 10th of September. His successor here will be Mr: A. E. Douglas of the Dur- bam branch. Mr.. and . Mrs. MpLay will be greatly missed here in social and 'church. circles as well as a com- munity welfare and war service ac- tivities, in which they have been un- tiring in service. Mrs. McLay will also be missed and long remembered as .an entertaining reader, id which. connection her services were in great demand and were generously and'im partially given. -Clinton News -Record - Reported . Killed At Dieppe Tommie Jago, aged 22, of the Can- adian Engineer Corps overseas, was reported Wednesday to hisrelatives here as. missing, presumalbly killed in action. Tommie is an adopted -son of Mr. W. Jago, Clinton. Tirecablegram was addressed to Mrs, Fred Mc'Coo1, of near Blyth, Mr, Jago's daughter with whom he is now living., Tommie enlisted in February, 1941, and went overseas in November,. There is hope that more encouraging news may reach his friends since there is an element of indefiniteness in the) re- port, -Clinton News -Record, Child Lost and Found The observant eyes of Chief Con- stable Ross were responsible for re- uniting a mother and her two -and -a - half -year• -old baby daughter after they had been ,parted -for nearly five hours on Sunday afternoon, The baby, whose home 'is on Newgate Street, had gone with other children to play in . Victoria Park, When she disap- peared the other children assumed she had gone home, as she, often had done. The mother, on the other hand, assumed her child was with the chil- dren in the park, -and thus no concern was felt for the child's safety until' nearing five o'clock in the afternoon. About three o'clock Mlrs. Marwick, of. Cobourg Street at the other end of town reported coming upon a little tot crying lustily but with no means of identification and too scared to tell her name,. Mrs. Marwick took' the baby into her Mime fed her, and put her ter bed. In a very few uromento she was sotlbd asleep. It was near- ing six o'clock when Chief Ross saw a young woman in the Victoria Park sedtion scanning the landscape and wearing a:wbrriedi loolii Re Inquired if she bad lost ,e child,. She 'had, It wns only a few inhittites after that ins thea, and babe tori re rstiinited,x trdertid11- iigl$t-$tg."ry • i • • • } 5