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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1942-11-20, Page 21- 1860 ean, Editor. eaforth, Ontario, ev- . afternoon by McLean er Oing rates on application. bscription rates, $1.50 a year in diance'' foreign $2.50 a year. Single Copies, 4cents each. 4‘..FORTH, Friday, November 20 • The Church Bells • Canadians were reminded on Sun- day Iast that while our nation is at war, we are, as yet, merely on the fringes of it. •Never at any time in the past three years has our freedom been restricted or our ordinary ways Of life been much -changed. It has been different in Britain. - There the war has been brought so nearly home to them that their living and ways of living have been com- pletely changed. For that reason we can Scarcely appreciate the feelings and expres- sions of joy and the spirit of thank- fulness experienced by the people of the old land, when on Sunday last• they heard again the peal of church bells which have been silent across therland since Dunkerque. British children, who never before had heard a church bell ring—be- cause their ringing would have been the signal of invasion by the enemy —heard not only the bells of the great city churches and cathedrals, but the bells in all the towns and vil- lages from the top of Scotland to the, tip of England ring out in celebra- tion of the United .Nations victory in Egypt. It was a sedate, sober Sunday of rejoicing and •thanksgiving during which people crowded into the great • churches and cathedrals and into the smallest parish churches. We_have since .heard...the wonder expressed here how we would react if our church bells suddenly ceased to ring and would remain silent for three years or more. Would we miss them? Would we rejoice, as Britain • did, when they rang out again? There Is only, one answ-er-to that question. We would! -But we take, • our church bells along with uncount- able other blessings so much as a matter of course, that perhaps, if we were deprived of some of them for a • time, a spirit of thankfulness might • be reborn in us and make us more • appreciative. • • Municipal Elections Although many' municipalities in Huron will hold municipal elections • the end of this month,, and the bal- ance the first of, the year, for the first time in two years, we have nev- - •- Or heard as little comment on mun- icipal affairs' as has been heard in re- cent weeks. •, • We understand that a number of township Reeves are retiring at the end of the term and that there will • be many .new faces when the County Council assembles in January., That may be true, but to date there has been little; if any, indication of such a change. ' In Seaforth there has not been a hint of change, and we might say, with good reason. Our, town council for the past two. years has been as. able and businesslike a borix. of leg- . islators as this town has ever had. ere has been co -Operation among • the members to an unusual degree, which permitsof much business be- , fug accomplished and accomplished •ekpeditionsly. ---Vre -know that sametcouneil mem- •. bers WOUld,like to,retire after years honntable public service. flut 8411a117 well that not one of ill shirk responsibility, , if Ana& to feettheir continued e t el3oard is in the town's 't"'34,4• • „tt the' adjoining ' ch , the garde, . it fok „,. flacon As a producer of bacon, Canaria stands, in the front rank. At the end of last week this country had •pro- duced the six hundred million pounds of bacon called for under the terms of the 1941-2 agreement with Great Britain. • • This week will mark the beginning of the new 1942-3 contract for six hundred and seventy-five million pounds to be shipped to England. Under present farm labor condi- tions, it looks like a colossal task for the Canadian farmer, but watch him do it. • The Answer Won't Be Quite As Easy One day last week Police Sergeant Reeder, of Columbus, Ohio, received a telephone call 'from a parking lot attendant, who said: "A man just drove on the lot with a horse and buggy .and wants to park it. Is there any law against it?" 'The sergeant replied that' as far as • he knew there wasn't. And that was • the right answer and,an easy one. • But there are other questions to which the answer is not so easy. For instance, when winter sets in—and we really have winter with all its trimmings in this part of the country —quite a few people in this town, are going to receive,telephone calls from the country asking: "Where can I park my horse and cutter, or where • carr.Vpark my team and sleigh in ythr t Own ?" WI -tat will the answer to that one be? To date we have no parking • lots 'of any kind in town, so the an- swer won't be quite as easy as it would be if we had. • • Scotland's Women • Scotland's women have come into the limelight recently. ?So much so that they have been the subject of considerable discussion hi Parlia- ment, newspaper comment and ,plat- form, argument. The war, of course, is at the bpt- tom of it all. Since war began, thou-. sand of Scotland's ,girls and women have been transferred from their na- tive soil to English war factories. Now Scotland's men, in Parlia- ment and out °fit, are, agitating new , government factories be established - • in Scotland and that Scottish girls,. who are mobile workers and who have been compuls,orily transferred to England, should be given the op- portunity to return to Scotland where these new factories would provide work for them. One newspaper writer said: "Scot- • land is being drained of its young womanhood. If Scotland is to sur- vive as a home of Scottish people, we - cannot view without anxiety the mass migrations of our young wo- mem" But the women of Scotland,, like those of every other country, are not in entire agreement with the men. To them the mass migration is an ad- venture, and a very pleasant one at Besides to them there is another pleasant adventure from the wo- • men's point of view. And this is how the same newpaper man puts it: • "Every one knows that in the matter of falling in love, it is the man .on the spot who counts—and the English- • man is a good wooer." All in all, it places the dour Scot at a decided disadvantage: He has always been a better head of the house than a wooer, and Scottish wi1lgs. are hard to 13end. • Being Brave There are more than a few people, some not SQ very far away froin here, who will say With the 1VIllwau- kee Journal :• ."We shall be brave, ' even if it ,means coming home from a frozen job at a frozen salary, to 65 degrees in the living room.' And those and.others will be bra,ve even if they have to wear old. clothes instead of new tvell 1 day -have to stay. at home instead of avelling, ,1,10`thalt; ad.d ;- ears one into thig- ;Reale, Picked From The i4ron Expositor of Fifty and ' r Twenty6Eve Years Ago. „From The, Huron Expositor November 23, 1.917 , The Women's Adult Bible Mass met at the home of Mrs. Henry Colclough on Tuesday afternoon last week. The main object of the meeting was to. present their teacher, Mrs. R. B. Rog- erson with a beautiful Bible. in recog- nition of her faithful and efficient service. The Bible was presented by Mrs. Colclough and the address read by Mrs. Farnham. On Friday last Mr. E. T. Roberts, an English buyer, shipped from Sea - forth station 84 head of horses, for which he paid to the farmers of the vicinity $21,600. Mr. John A. Bain, who has been teller in the Bank of Commerce here for some time, has been moved to' To- ronto, his Dlace here being filled by afir. Joe Brown, an old Seaforth boy from the Manville branch of the bank. Miss Loretto Faulkner spent the week -end with' her sister in Bramp- ton. Mr: Hugh McDonald, 'of Chiselhurst, had the misfortune a few days ago to lose a horse through it being acci- dentally drowned in a well on his farm. . The following gentlemen were in Goderich as jurors at the fall assizes held recently:- Albert Godkin, Thos. Leeming, Sr., and Samuel Forbes. :14 xi, of • ' t4, ett * PI Novi 0, 111,00) I got a card in the mail today to tell me that this is Farm Implement Cheek -up Week in. Ontario. Jack Car- roll, who is the mainaguide for the International Plod -ring Match each year, is boosting•this effort'along with the help of the Department of Agri- culture., and farm organizatimis in all parts of the Province of Ontario. I didn't think much about the, card at the time, but later picked it up and 'thought about the difference the war is making on our. lives. Time was, not so long ago, when you pulled the implement into the driving shed and forgot about it until the next year. Then for a few hurried 'days you bustled around and telephoned the implement agent and had him bring out the parts you needed. That doesn't apply any more. Most of us got so careless that we didn't bother to ever fix up any im- plements. You just got a binder and used it until such time a.s a smart im- plement agent came along and 'sold you a new oue.v. That has been chang- ed also. New implements are going to be as scarce as can be from now on. In fact, new implements are ra- tioned now and that will be something to consider. Something about the card appealed to me. After chores I peeked into the driving shed. Sure enough the mower was stacked up against the tongue of the graie drill. That will mean that next spring the tongue will be swaybacked and the drill will look like a camel on a jaunt through the desert The binder knife and the Misses. B. 'McClure and A. Allison, of Seaforth, visited friends in Dublin on Sunday.' On Thursday rooming last about 9 o'clock Mr. James Delaney's home, a mile and a quarter north of Dublin, was destroyed by fire. It is not knowfl the cause of the fire; but it is sup- posed a defective chimney was, the cause. The coal,shortage still continues to perplex the public. Very few have much on, hand. Mr. W. atioon, tax collector of Lon- desboro, is making his rounds these days. Miss Greta Thompson is in London this week attending a meeting of the Librarian's Association as delegate from the Carnegie Library. Mr. C. Aberhart has had an exhi- bition in his window for some time of some magnificent specimens of chrysanthemums grown by Jno. Finch. Mr. Milton Chesney has returned from Muskoka where he was spending, his holidays. Miss Clara Mason has been confin- ed to her home during the past week with an attack of pneumonia. Mr. and Mrs. John Govenlock, of McKillop, have moved into their new home in Egmondville. Mr. Hugh Currie, of Cromarty, had the misfortune_ to sprain his ankle last week. • • Mr. Gordon McDonald, of Brussels, shipped a carload of potatoes which he purchased in the vicinity. canvas .•and the mower knife peeked out at me help the buggy. Part of a ball of binder -twine was unravelled and it trailed out • of the,. cutter. Oh, yes, and the wagon was stand-, ing .tiantelY in the Centre the piemeats still waiting for • a grease job. V.: was It karvest-time that I made up raY Mind, to grease it . . and. never did get around to doing -it. When you get critical you cau cer- tainly find a, lot of things iindone. The feetilizer'drill was theme . . . and, it had never...been well cleaned out since the seeding time. A bolt off here and. there . . . a cracked frame . . . dirt and dust and mud. It's so easy to put off to another day, what you intend doing •. . and then never get around to finishing up. A set of single harness and a set of double harness sprawled over the top of a pile of grain bags. Those bags are precious thingsand should have been piled up neatly and the torn ones patched. That harness would be perfectly good with a little bit of repairing. Before this war is over there'll be a lot of patched and repaired things in use. War is a terrible thing, but most farmers will agree before it's over that it 'taught them to take bet- ter care of a lot 'of things. I think that Farm Implement Check-up Week is a good idea. The only thing re- maining now is to get up enough am- bition to clean up that driving shed . , those impleiiients fixed. up. Mrs. Phil doesn't say any- thing about it . . . just''smiles. • From The Huron Expositor .• November 25, 1892 . Mr. John Cuthill, of Grey, left last week for Glasgow, ,Scotland.a, He ex- pects to'spend several months in the old land. Mr. and Mrs. D., P. Wilson, of town, attended the marriage of the eldest daughter of Hon. John Dryden, Mini- ster of Agriculture, 'last week at Whit- by. Those' who like to listen to a- good debate should attend at Kidds' Hall 'Friday night. The subject of "Free Trade With Great Britain" will be dis- cussed by Messrs. 'John McMillan and D. D. Wilson on the affirmative, and Messrs. Geo. E. Jackson • and Dr. .Bethune on the negative. Mr. S. J .Latta, of Zurich, has eery - ed with his skilful hands two sets of large 'wooden letters. Mr. Isaac Moore, of Chiselhurst, who has been some time in Dakota, returned h�me last week. While Master Willie Vanhorn, of Chiselhurst, was returning home from church on Sunday evening he had the misfortune to be struck senseless, by an approaching rig. He was picked up by the driver and ,carried home. Harry Beale, son of Dr. Beale, of Dublin, while attending a colt 'belong- ing to Thomas Hoggarth, had the Els-. fortune to get kicked, which render- ed. him unconscious for • a time. Mr. Josiah White tendered an oys- ter supper at Mr. John White's, of Tuckersmith, on, Tuesday of last week,- in honor of Mr. Wm. Towns- end, who left for the Canadian Soo the latter part of the •week. Mr. George Watters, of Tuckersmith happened with a painful accident the other day. •He was in an elevated position putting up stovepipes and fell backwards, his back coming in forcible contact with the back of a chair. Mr. Otto 'Graff, of Zurich, has been engaged in teach in Mr. Hog- garth's place in Hannah's schoolhouse for the first six Months! .of this year while Mr. Hoggarth i attending the Normal School. Mr:. Robert Logan, primarfetor of Liman's banking house, Ieft on Wed- nesday on a business trip to Mani- toba. On Wednesday and Thursday the streets were filled With', sleighs and cutters and the merry bells resounded, In-all-quorterer.but the.sieighiflg 1s not very good yet. Messrs. Hugh Grieve and Frank Beattie shipped another- carload of geese to the United; 'States this Week. Over thirty persons haire given in • their names as raerabere' of the sing- ing °las In Kippeni. MO:•Rnise, of Ex-• eter, will be on hand on Friday to ,•give iiistriiotloii.. ' Mr. Elliott, of tension ToWnelit,the gentlettiau wise bail *Chia -red .001Mid- arable notoriety thrtingh the bh11- tag of Cattle alid,101044611teented. • • No Gas After 7 ,paia Saturday Nights. HoW did you find the gas tank on. the ear last Sunday _morning? If It. 'vfaeat't Murdn' Yod 'Were' The, ruling that conutry gaeeline statioas could remain ope4„auitil*-104. on Sat- urdays was suddenly witidaWz and many people were disapPohltSd when they drove up for, gas ou Saterday night. Tate conVenience was a great service, pa,rticularlY to the fanners - throughout the sunainer nipathe.‘init. apparently during the.winter meaths. the government has decided to cancel the Saturday night openings. So in future, get "tanked up" early and avoid disappointunenta-Blyth Stand- " ard. „ - Just a Smiles or Twor 1 Wife: "Mrs,. Green has another! Bully: "You're a low down, spine - beautiful spring hat." less jellyfish. ..D'ye know what I'm Artful Hubby: "So? It's a pity t going to do to you?" she's not as independent of such aids to appearance as you are, my dear." • • Mullingham Was not great ae- a sportsman, .and he was out one day deer stalking in Scotland. He made a series of inexplicable misses, and, after failure at a very easy mark, he said to an attendant: while we're on our honeymoon, sup - "Now, Donald, who's fault was it posin' you said 'Yea' -if I asked you to that time?" marry me." Donald: "Well, the stag wasn't More than a hundred yards, and it's 'The new officeboywas anxious to not my fault you missed him!" please. The boss ordered him to file • a bundle of letter -s. The lad came .• "Here, that wasn't the back in a few minutes- with the let - Gentlemen: "What?" Bully: "Break every bone in your body." Mabel: "What's worrying.iyou, Dav- id?" Farmer's Son: "I was just won- derin' if Dad would see to the milkin' Report of Lions Frolic The following is a complete report tot the finances „ of the recent Lions Club frolic: Sale of tickets, $1,149.75; admission tickets, $359.70; receipts from games, 42,352.53; total, $3,861.98. Expenditures were as follows: Ex- penses, $812.37; prizes, $360; surplus, $2,689.61. Donations were received as follows: W. J. Smith, $1; Mrs. Fred Kerr, $2; Win. J. Melville, $10—Exe- ter Times -Advocate. too 'Wanted' pulled out." Den ist: "Calm yourself; I'm com- ing to it.- Driver Charged in Crash Ferdinand Carlon, Menzie .venue, Guelph, was arrested on Monday by Provincial Constable Seibert on a charge of motor manslaughter and, dangerous driving.. The charges arose out of an accident near Hespeler on Saturday night when Tom Lepping- ton, of Clinton, lost his life. LePPing- ton, who was employed at Galt, was a assenger in the Carton car when it left the road and rolled over sev- eral times. Carlou was taken to th6 'Waterloo county jail at Kitchener. The unfortunate young man was a son of Mr. and Mrs.. Thos. Lepping-- ton, of Clinton.-aBlyth Standard. - Arrives Overseas ' Mr. and Mrs. J. H. R. Elliott have' received a cablegram from their son, Pilot -Officer H. B. Elliott,•informing . them of his safe arrival overseas.— Myth Standard. Ninety -Year -Old Subscriber - The • Post wap pleased to receiee- a renewal subscription from Mrs. E. Griffith,' of Winnipeg. `Mrs. Griffith was ninety years old last May 26th, and is enjoying good •healtb. 113r ,iet- ter said that. it was Mille cold there' but they had no snow . on November 2nd when the letter was written. Good luck ,to you, • Mrs. Griffith, and may you long have good,health' and enjoy reading your copy of the Post.—Bres- ters and respectfully stiggested: eels Post. "Oh, I sdy, sir, ,would it not be eas- ier to trim them with scissors?" - • At the Waterfront Arms and theMaple Leaf • 7) Memories of Canada sCorps 1918 • • By WILFRED BRENTON KERR • Associate Professor of History, University of Buffalo , • (Continued from last week) Chapter V THE TIDE OF CANADIANISM Those day S of the long rest of 1918' witnessed a great surge of Canadian feeling which remains memorable in the hearts of those who wore,, the Maple Leaf, perhaps above any other experiences of that years. By way of introductionto this topic, I may re- call that most of the original mem- bers of the lith, as of other units •of the First Division, had been natives of the British Isles who' were- resident in Canada in 1914. The recruits of 1915, for the most part, had alpo ,been born and brought up hi the United Kingdom. Not until 1916 did the na- tive sons of 'Canada arrive at the front in large numbers, and from 1917 they supplied" the greater part , of the reinforcements. The 11th Battery of 1917 had been onlyn.partly Canadian, for the N.C.O.'S were generally Eng- lish, Scots or Irishmen, promoted' in that or previous years. These O's naturally felt their identity with their relatives of the United Kingdom and regarded the Canadian divisions only as units of the British army. Of- ten they had had training in the regu- lar army and they sought to continue its practises; The native Canadian with Some reserve, fell in line and ac- cepted the prevalent views of their position. By mid -1918, •however, the calual- ties of the., previous year had, produc- ed their full effect. Sons of Canada, or at least men brought up in Canada, formed the majority of the rank and file and occupied most of the non- commissioned officerships, and the dominant influence was now Canadian. The slaughter of Passchendaele and the reverses of .1Vrarch and April, 1918, hatl destroyed the prestige of the mil- itary system and respect for the lead- ership and ideas of the regular offi- cers. The way was clear for the as- .cendency of Canadian ideas and stand- ards,, and these did not fail to find it. The first change was in the rela- tionships between the N.C.O.'s and' the rank and file. Our former N.C.O.'s, direct or indirect products of the mg: ular army, or at least persons famil- iar with a well -graded society, were often given to parading their author- ity and trythig to put the gunner in ,his place. -Quite a few Scotsmen, Ir- -liftmen an. even Yorkshire and Lan- cashire men, knew better than this, •btit they were in the ;Minority Of the N.C.O.'s. The type was too often the Cockney whose idea of authority was that of the master over the servant. But the Canadian N.C.O. instinctively adopted a different attitilde. Ile look- ed • On his signallers' or gun crew, or 'dtiVers-, as friends, requiring to be Managed, and 'Without realizing it, Made Use 'of tact andpersuasion you go on battery phone ta: 1' gUess it's yoUr turn ,tor 0;?. . "Virmild Yott.11.1 e to go W the LOrtikia, ited.11,1# fatl4;titAtiO ' 011,tials 1111437" Ue lindera 60d the 6 6,,;• ' . trOPet title dr. atithOrity, tO Beetlre the -accomplishment of certain, work, and recoiled from the idea of "showing off" his rank. Glad enough of promo- tion, he did not set too much store by his stripes, and in a dilemma would resign them rather than submit to treatment which he thought unjuat: He managed his men and did not at- tempt to drive there,- and thereby he secured their co-operation. • There ,were, of course, loafers and born-tireds in our unit, as in others, in' the army as in civilian life—men who would make really extraordinary exertions to avoid work ,of any kind. From the trouble with these men ov- er duty, shirked and broken promis- es, the ex-N.C.O. often remembers them more vividly than the others whoaditi-their best,yet with a little thought headmits that these individ- uals were in a small minority, con- d,emned by miblic opinion for their worthlessness. Though the N.C.O. complained that he got tittle but kicks from officers and 'men alike, yet .in • practise he secured the confidence of both to. a remarkable degree. Since I was not an N.C.°. myself, I am free • to state my belief that the Canadian N.C.O. of 1918 was of a distincly good type and that in selecting the serg- ant to represent the student in arms, the decorators of University College Junior Common Room did well. There might indeed be a difference of dpinibn betWeen the N.C.O. and a grinner over the most effective ways of carrying out an instruction, and in thesa cases, a discussion followed. with reasons. If no agreement could be reached, it was understood that the N.C.O. would have his way until time should show him to be right or •wrong, the gunner remarking in con- clusion, "Well, George, do it, ,but I think it's foolish." Another source of friction was tbe useless work some- times ordered by officers simply to keep the men busy when out of the lines. 'rhea honest and it dustrious men accounted it no part of +heir du- ty to do work whieh insulted their intelligence, and resorted to evaalon, dawdling or downright refusal, while the -distressed sergeant struggled to keep some control and wished heart- ily for closing time. Fortunately, these occasions were few. There were always a few N.C.O.'s inclined to exceSsive estimates of their iniportance, but they had ne aea, 4'"•1?•••.. Two grain 'cargoes have been clis- -fg`gfi'll tifearGfireffedi ereallar this week. On Sunday the Soodoc had 175,000 bushels oats, 69,000 of barley and 269,000 of rye. Thursd"ay the Superior discharged 33,000 bushels of oats, 7,700- of barley and 46,000 of wheat. Monday, November 9th, was the twenty-ninth anniversary of a day that will long be remembered in God-- erich, the day of the great storm, No-- vember 9, 1913.—Goderich Signal -Star. Bakery Sold A business deal of some interest was transacted the latten. part of last week, , when Mr. Walter Eckel, pro- prietor of Eckel's Barkery,, purchased the bakery business together with the. building and equipment of Willard's , bakery, • from Mr., •Leeland Willert. Possession was given Monday morn-- ing, and the WillardBakery is dos- ed. Mr. Mr. and Mrs. Willard will remain.. in•their living quarters, while Mr. Willard is -employed as baker in ' Eckel's bakery. This will consolidate• the Zurich, bakery under one head, and. will greatly eliminate the extra. expenses of overlapping. — Zurich: Herald. Wounded Before Being•Captureci Mrs. Fred McCool, of Londesboro, has', received news ef her nephew, Sapper Thomas•O'Connell, of the Riiyal, Can- adian Engineere, from a hospital in Oermany. Sapper O'Connell took part in the Dieppe raid and was wounded. in both his legs before being captur- ed. He wrote- that he was being treat- ed well in the German hospital and was. recovering satisfactorily from his wounds. Toni is well known in Clin- ton, where he lived with his grand -- father, William Jago, and attended the Clinton public school. Later he WoriK- ed for the Canada Packers Company but when he enlisted in the spring of 1941 he was employed on a farm near Guelph. He trained at Guelph, Lon- don ADA Petawawa and went overseas. five weeks. before 'Christmas, 1941.— Clinton News -Record. Prould 5=4. Her Grandson's Shooting, Mrs. R. J. Tindall, of town, is just- ly Proud of her 19 -year-old grandson, George E. (Bud) Moffat, who is train- ing with the United States Air Force at Sheppard's Field, Texas. In a re- cent test in firing with sub-machine- guns, Bud scored 977 hits and 23 bull's eyes out of 1,000 rounds • to top his squadron. Bid had visited here Often and his friends here wish, him luck. Jerry or the Saps will, have to keep their heads down when he starts pep- pering at them—Wiiighant Advance - Times. _ easy time in 1918. A recruit, awed Funeral Rites For Capt. MacDonald by strange" circumstances and the army theory of Shorncliffe, might per mit himself to be bullied by some in- temperate 6.M.S. or corporal, but the 'more experienced and capable a man became, the less be took in the way of abuse frein anyone. The N.C.O. )3 ad the legal right to bring a mac "to office" for Senile adverse remark, but dbe eommandiag officer was not at all pleased at the appearatice-obhis cap- able the before hitt for such teitSottS aid was likely te, repribaand both 'of that and dismiss the Cale. Indeed, ('tiontinned on Page a) • The funeral service for Captain Walter J. MacDonald, who went down with his ship when It was -torpedoed in a Newfoundland harbor, 'Wok •place on Tuesday aftereeon at Ilreithey's funeral chapel. There was a large gathering of friends and sy3npath12- ere, the 'death of the gallant Young Captain 'being an eapedial.N cause of sorrow in this town where he Ncra hem and •grew up to anaithOod. The &Whet Was Sdirolifided Wth• beautiful flowers, tiffany Of lhenti'''61biliets corn - on Pigo