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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1943-01-29, Page 21A43: F 51 ii 10 �1 McLean, •4 i ' . at Seaforth, Ontario, ev- y afternoon by McLean ption rates, $1.50 a year in grew' $2.50 a year. Single cents each. i. Advertising rates on application. SiAFORTII, Friday, January 29th Electing A Warden For some reason : or other, the manner of choosing a ° Warden or presiding officer over the various County Councils of the Province seems to have been under much more general discussion and received more weekly newspaper comment than in many years past. The method, of selection varies with the counties, but there seem to be: some three different, procedures which have ,been followed through the years. In Huron,,as is well known, the Warden is elected by a caucus ' of Conservatives one year, and by the Liberals the next. Objection has of- ten been made by other counties and some times in Huron itself, because some people think it introduced poli- tics into "county business. • On the other 'hand, this method was adopt- ed in our county many years ago to avoid that very thing, and with very" rare' exceptions it has succeeded ad- mirably in dqing so. It does, how- ever, draw the political line and each member must declare upon which side of the line he stands. And, pos- sibly; the objections raised against it s:. have arisen from ,members who were - loath or disinclined,to make such . a declaration of their political views. In Bruce the County Council fol- lows a different system. In that county the number of towns and vil- lages equals the number of town- ships, so the Wardenship goes one ' year to a town or village and the next to a township reeve..' That would appear' to be a very fair divi- silbn,.. but, unfortunately, very few counties in the Province are so equal- ly -divided as to tirban and rural re- presentation. In Wellington County, however, the Wardenship goes only to the man who gets a majority. That usually means that it goes to a' man who has -been after' it for: two "'or three' years and has worked hard and pulled . ev- ery wire at his command to get it. Judging by this year's experience in Wellington the election of a War- den ar den is also a long drawn out proceed- - g. In fact, it took twenty-five bal- rots before' a Warden was declared; and at that the final ballot was a tie. One municipality being unrepresent- ed, that vote was given to another to give the casting vote. It is,also reported that the voting started at two o'clock and continued until six before a choice was made. It looks pretty much, therefore, that Wellington County Councillors view the -election of a ,Warden as one, if not the most important, ' orders of business of'the January .session. - This latter method of selection .al- so gives rise to a complaint we have noticed from several counties °that a man's chances of election' to the.War- denship depend more on his ,ability to be a good promisor 'and a good mixer and a provider of good enter- tainment than on his business ability and knowledge of procedure. It has.been said that the. average .°county council does not want a good business administrator as its head. That it doe's not want new in- • noyations introduced, no matter how "advalntageous they might prove to the county or its finances. The pop - War warden is the man who leaves things as they were. On the whole, there seems ,to be a gto'wing dissatisfaction with the methods of the selection of a War - (len and more particularly with that the, open vote. Huron and Bruce -not have a perfect system, but rit least' One .tl�atpasses the hon- xt More equally so that. both '‘urban municipalities each j,.aa,;, rt rat reeves. .n'th6 t diiii aiajdrity 6 t1e prise to a rural reeve, or to one of a very Mall village, w 11.1 e li practically amounts, to the same thing. At, least that is a complaint from WellirOph County, where in .they past twenty- -.. five .years ,the ;number of, urban war- dens elected is said to have been two or three. However, the election of a Warden is. each county's • individual. business_ and, no doubt, if the dissatisfied coun- ties would dig inyl the matter they would find a solution. • Why Butter Is Rationed Since recent figures' have been re- leased, it is quite easy to see why butter had to be rationed. From Ottawa alone comes some very re- vealing news. In that city, two' hundred and thirty-three consumers reported excess stocks of ' butter totaling five thousand, four hundred,. and four pounds, which is an average of twenty-four pounds for each per- son reporting. In Manitoba, seven hundred and eleven consumers ,had an. average of twenty-three pounds ' each, and in Halifax fifty-six families had an av- erage of twelve pounds. Multiply that butter poundage"by thousands in other cities and towns, and by many more thousands who have not yet declared, and have no intention of declaring their supplies of butter ' on hand—in other plain words the hoarders—and: any fair- minded person will agree that the Government had no other recourse open to it + but to place an embargo on its sale, - There is not an actual shortage of butter in Canada, but hoarding, ev- en on a small scale,. when indulged in by thousands of Canadians, com- pletely upsets any attempt to make the distribution of it possible on a fair and equal basis. That is the reason, and the only reason, why we have been put on .a butter ration of a third of a pound per week per person, and that is the' reason too, why other foods have been • rationed, and others still will come under rationing orders. These panic buyers and those other, buyers who come under a less' char- italxle= name, apparently, still have to learn that Canada ,is at war. • The "Last Ounce" ne •Phil. Ince, } ,o>i�pl4ked The EVej(°Vi OO ° Aft/ and twexity. ' j% 'AM From The 'Huron Expositor February 1, 1918 Pte. -Harvey Arland,. formerly Of Clinton, has ben awarded the Mill- tary Cross for bravery in the fighting along the Y'preS; Rout. The hockey, bays f added another scalp to their line ,of victories on Tuesday when they (beat �C4oderich 8-0. The local line-up was: Goal, George Stewart; defence, J. Edmunds and J. Hulley; forwards, Reg. Reid, Reg. Kerslake and Gordon Hays. •OWer • - (By Harry J. 0;3)0).• 0. d FOO" gam •,> Sea Ca e�' 1t stgrmed.. in our township last week • place 'on Tuesday to give them their to beat the very old dickens. All -the mad. The , mailman couldn't .. get It is announced grandfathers sitting beside the stoves' through Monday or Tuesday= •and on our Concession, 'Stiffed; on their walked into the village•.and gat' the ei pipes and after squinting out throL1gi mna�il'�,fbr several of the �; igh,p9 a• the frosted windows said that this is dropRted in to tbee SinYit11d j ve,glith! the worst winter they have ever seen. theirs. He let his stock out durigge After a period- they invariably say, 'ajanuary n, .190 9u. 4. .too. wa^ t i � however, "There was One winter trough. One of the eo*s di t coin worse than this one. That was , in back In and -'the storm was so (Dad. the year so-and-so!" The strange that they couldn't'find•,hee. They' look - part of it all is that they never agree ed and looked and gave it up for a on the same winter. bad job. When the storm was over Grandfather Jenkins told me on they found her frozen stiff. They put' 'Monday that 1902 had the worst storm her on the stone boat and drew her he could ever remember. One farmer into the driving shad. It got warm lost part of his stock because it was and two days later she thawed out storming so bad that he couldn't get and walked back into the stable and out. to the 11arn to feed them. Even started eating. He tells the story so the trees were smothered, in the cold. well that you can't help but wonder if and he remembers that for days the it isn't true. snow was up to the eaves of the Grandfather Perdue is still certain house. They had to shovel their way that the winter of 1920 was the worst down to the barn in the morning to in the history of the country. It snow - do the chores. They used to take ed so bad that the river was covered their lunch with them and sta�'y�'_..all_, er entirely and the bridge was lost day in the stable and then tsh•ovel to sight. People drove over a path their way back to the house at sup- thinking that they were driving over per -time. the bridge. After a month or so the Grandfather Higgins told me that sun came out strong and melted all the winter of 1906 was the wobst one the snow away. People found out he 'ever remembered. It seems that that they had been ' driving over` -the he was on his way home from town snow 100 feet away from --the bridge.'' when the storm blew in over the And so it goes. Memory plays township. He was iiriving-the horse tricks on us. Ask anybody what they and cutter and he drove on and' 011 think of the winter and they'll tell you for hours: Finally at ..four o'clock the that back in eighteen something -or - next day the horse dropped dead from other they remember a winter that exhaustion and he found himself in was far' worse that the present one. the !Main, Street of a town fifty miles It has become alma-st •an indoor past - away. Of course he adds a few miles time for the grandfathers•in our town - every time he tells the story. ship to remember the bad winter of Grandfather Smyth is one of the so-and-so and you knot'' they're so most interesting story tellers• that yon good at it that it's almost fun to lis - could possibly find: I was in to their ten to them. that+'the $ea ,Qadets) of-I,ou+lon,.district have :reques ted, be9n granted use of the feeilitles of '9041) 01,A01104 on the 04d. .0,fx ,t.ai e, Hi Qo>1,: soith of (lbditrigh;, fol one mgn:ta1 dugiiog the noming sumreef it ib undb'stead ?that, a prOOI, of th t, plan must be oil►taln+dfrdm` the 1 partmeat. et National Defence.--Oode- hcli Signal -Stat• Recent Bide is Made' Presentation Mrs. Pearson Young, a recent bride, Wale honored Wednesday afternoon by the pupils of the Sebringville school of which she was a former principal.. Mrs. Young was made the recipient of many lovely gifts in honor of the event. Prior to • her marTiage she was Mise Edna Mae Davison, of Brus- sels. The recipient of the gifts ex- pressed her grateful appreciation for the thoughtful, remembrance. — Brus- sels Post. Four cars of, coal arrived in town on Friday evening' and were immedi- ately' distributed, and as the situation was serious coal was delivered on Sunday. Miss Edith Govenlock,'of Winthrop, has accepted a position' in the Civil Service at Ottawa. Roy McDonald, of Chiseihurst, had quite an experience on Saturday night. While returning from Exeter the cut- ter struck a bad pitch hole, throwing him out., The horse being a spirited one, bolted' and was not seen again until Monday. A sleighload of young people spent a pleasant evening at the 'home of Mr. J. G. Crich, Tuckersmith, on Fri- day evening last. Miss Hillman, of Newbury, has been engaged as teacher of No. 6 (Broad - foot's) School in Tuckersmith. Mr. John McNay, of Tuckersmith, has disposed of his fine •farm on the 2nd concession, 1% miles south of Seaforth, to Mr. Robert Boyce, Stan- ley Township. This property has been used as a dairy farm for the past 15 years and is one of -the best farms in the township with modeen build- ings. An enjoyable evening was spent at the home of -Mr. John Nicholson, Mill Road, on 'Monday when a number of relatives, friends . and'neighbors gath- ered in a surprise party to Mr, and Mrs. 'Arthur Nicholson. Mr. Harry Grieve read •an. appropriate address and they were, made the recipients of a handsome china cabinet. Cpl. Clarence Scott, who is home on furlough, Was visiting relatives in town this week. Mr. James, Kerr, who has sold his farm in McKillop, intends corning to Seaforth to reside. Lieut. -.E. C. Blanshard, of the R.A.F. and a former Seaforth boy, spent the week -end at the home of his uncle, Mr. Henry Cash, in McKillop. He has (been in Texas for some time, but is on his last leavebefore going, over- seas. A euchre-snlolter was held in the Town Hall.,. on Friday evening when the captains were Messrs. George A. Sills and Adam Hays, Mayor H. Stew- art was the official referee. Propaganda Minister Goebbels' recent, call in 'Germany for the "last ,ounce" Of effort on the home front is already bearing fruit, reports from Switzerland gave out last week. These reports state" that women, as well as school boys and girls,' are being mobolized in Germany as the country's last reserves in the battle to produce both arms,and food. In view of . the fact that over six million foreign workers have been p'essed to work in 'German factories, the mobolization of women and chil- • dren would seem to clearly indicate that every industrial plant in Ger- many hays already been thoroughly combed in order to send, the last fit - man, or even partly, fit,.. to the front lines on the Russian front. • One Film We Would Like To See We are not an enthusiastice movie - fan—at least our family says so, and sometimes at some length --but there isone film that is to be shown in Lon- don, England, in the near future that we wouldn't have to•. be prodded out at night to see. Last summer when General Field Marshal Erwin Rommel's army was stopped almost at the gates of Alex- andria, lexandria, one ,German went on ad- vancing, capturing Cairo and the Suez Canala, and then flung what was left of the British army into the Red Sea. That German was Dr. Joseph Goebbels, propaganda minister in chief to the German nation. He made a film of the whole campaign and had it shown over all Occupied Europe. Later the film was withdrawn hur- riedly, but one copy was captured in North Africa' and captured by the Allies. It's to be ;shown in London soon, with a commentary explaining going be why the Germans seemed to g g east el the time when they roealty went, West. . - That is the show we would like to s.... see, and will too if it ever reaches `eatern Ontario. • :JUST A SMILE OR TWO: Recuperating - ,Mr. Harry Snell returned home - from St. Joseph's Hospital, London, on Friday ,after undergoing treat- ment for an eye injury and is re- cuperating at the home of Mr. and. Mrs. Russell Snell.—Exeter Times- • Advocate. Severe Storm Visits District The worst storm of the season vis- ited this section Tuesday,and all traf fie is tied up. The storm reached its • worst proportions Tuesday night when the thermometer registered .below - zero and a stiff wind was blowing, Wednesday there was a let -tin, in the atorm and snowplows were out bat- tling with the drifts and it is expect- ed the highways will be opened up - soon. There is no train through as we go to press. The snowplows are out on the main lines and there has been no effort to clear the London to.. •Clinton run as yet. The tie-up is not expected to last long if there, is no more storm.—Exeter Times -Advocate. An Irishman presented himself at Earnest New Student: "Excuse p..., police court, and. addressing the me, coltld you tell me the way to the magistrate, said: lecture hall?" "Your Honor, the water pipe's ,burst- Old Hand: "Frail I can't; I'm a ec' in, my cellar and drowned all the student myself!" " cocks and hens. What'll I do?" • The magistrate replied that he was ."Now, Billy, what' did I tell you last sorry, end suggested that the appli- time about birds?" • cant should. see the water company. "Surely you ain't forgotten already, "Sure, your Honor, I've been," re- Teacher?" F plied Pat, "and they said I was a fool • to keep cocks and hens—I ought to Vicar: "I (think I shall pray for have kept ducks." fine weather today." • Verger: "Just as you like, sir --but "Did Johnny -take his medicine like the forecast definitely says 'wet'." a man?" "Yee, he made an awful fuss." "I see that an explorer in the Con- e go has discovered a new trible, the Foreman; "Everything here is run men of which beat the- ground with by electricity." .. sticks . New Hand: "Yes, , even the Wages "Dea"r, dear! Fancy golf spreading give you a shock!" to Central Africa!" From The Huron Expositor , February 3, 1893 The Mechanics Institute will hold a public' debate in .their roonis un Fri- day evening when the speakers for the affirmative will, be A: S. Dickson, J. Killoran and James • Wat`son, and for the negative, A. S. 'McLean, W. Prendergast and Alex Bethune. On Saturday night the timber on the, roof of Scott's block do Main, St., which was put up to stop snowslides, gave way under the weight of snow lodged against it and the timber and snow and all fell to the ground. • Mr. George Murray has erected a laege ice house and ,is having it .fill- ed with ice 'or the benefit of his cum- tomers in summer time. On Wednesday ,evening last the teachers and friends of the Sabhath School, Varna, waited upon 'Mr. John McAsh and presented him with an ad- dress and handsome ease' chair. Miss 'Lizzie Wanless: -Varna, is vis- iting in Stratford. •On Friday evening last about fifty uninvited guests assembled assembled at the spacious residence of Mr. •Geo. Knox, 12th concession, Hallett, and spent an enjoyable , 'evening i the "merry mazes of: the dance." sic was supplied on the violins by Mea rs. Watt, Taylor, McGregor 'and Miss R. E. Cochrane. • The fine brick residence, erected during the past summer by Mr. Jas. McIntosh on his farm an the 3rd con- cession, McKillop, was the scene of a house warming recently. About 70 guests were invited and a very pleas- ant bine was spent in dancing the light fantastic. Mr. John Maxwell, of Hillsgreen, has constructed 'a minature steam en- gine, about 6x4 inches.. He is taking steps to leave it patented, and also in- tends exhibiting it at the World's Fair, TI•VI military ball, under the armpit -- es of the 33rd Battalion, held in Card - no's Hall on Friday evening last, was a very successful and brilliant affair. The hall was brilliantly lighted "•and beautifully decorated, and looked like a fairyland. The music was furnish- ed by the London Harpe`is. " On friday night or,rather Saturday morning last, a party of ladies and gentlemen from Clinton, who were at- tending the military ball here, met with an unfortunate •mishap. Near Stapleton 11.111, their vehicle upset and the party were dunlpett into the &nice'`, d, :. Great Britain and the United States RADIO ADDRESS OVER WBEN, ` BUFFALO ak h December 9, 16, 23, 30, 1942, and January -6, 1943 •, By WILFRED BRENTON KERR • Associate , Professor of History, ..University of Buffalo, N.Y. • (Continued from last week). Part ll GREAT . BRITAIN ,AND THE WAR • Tonight I shall give first place to Theodore Dreiser, the novelist, who has said that Great Britain has done nothing in the war except to bor- row money, planes and men from the United States. To begin with; Drei- ser 'is not even - right about the bor- rowing, as , British Empire cash pur- chases in the U.S. since September, 1939,.are a great deal more than to- tal U.S. lend -liaise deliveries to the Empire so farlEnd of course most of British equipment comes from British factories. In 1941 Great Britain made and sent abroad four times the num- er of planes and fifteen times the number of tanks it received from the U.S. and 'other sources; and so we may dismiss the charge of borrowing, ands torn to the question, what has Great Britain done in the war? First, let us consider the Royal Navy.. It has contnedi the Germaus and Italians to North' Africa and Eur- ope, with assistance from the army and the air force; and had it not been for the navy and the R.A.F. the Axis would have overrun the world in 1940. The Allies have sunk or seized six million tons of Axis shipping, . 80 bat- tieships, cruisers and destroyers and almost 600 subamin.es; and 90 per cent. of the Work was dor.e by the Royal Navy except in the case of s'ub- marinee for which statistics are not available, and even herer'"'the Royal Navy did by far the great number of sinkings. , The navy has also done a deal of convoe work and lost has than one ship in 200 from its con- voys; it has done the major share of the convoy to Murmansk, the tough- est run in the world. Many alines British sailors have sacrificed them- selves like , Captain Fogarty Fagan who deliberately went to destruction that the cargo ships in his con.vo" ' might escape.The navy has lived up to Its reputation and done much 'the greater parr of the work for the Al- lies on sea since 1939. Receive Commissions' Two Exeter boys with the R,C.A.F. are due for congratulations. Bartle Metz, who has been oderseas for some time, was recently promoted from a Pilot 'Officer to a Flying Officer. Al- lan Penhale, son of Mr. and Mrs. Asa J. Penhale, who was recently posted to Debert, N.S.,-has• been commission- ed as a Pilot Officer. Pilot Officer Penhale, wireless air gunner, headed his class at the Guelph Wireless - School and received a silver cup. At 'Mossbank, Sask., lte again headed his class and was awarded his wings.— Exeter ings—Exeter Times -Advocate. - Celebrate 55th Wedding Anniversary by efaced the British 'Is+les and also the civilized world from being over- run before they could get, their de- fences in order. I shall not take time to describe its. service, in bombing Germany and elsewhere but may pause a minute over Malta. By Octo- ber 13th last the defenders of Malta, airmen and anti-aircraftmen, had shot down 1,000 enemy planes. In the course of five days of attack by the Axis in October, Malta's- defenders. shot down 98 Axis aircraft "`anti dam- aged 150 more at a cost to the R.A.F. of only 16, fighters destroyed and an unkown number damaged.: That is. the R.A.F. destroyed five of the en emy to overyone they lost, just as in the battle of Britain. In all the . R. A.F. has downed more than 10,000 planes. Of the crews in the combat planes, 67 per cent. in the British Isles and 83 per cent. in other places were from 'the British Isles; that is, more than two-thirds were native Bri- tons and not from the dominilius and elsewhere. Certainly th, work of the R.A.F. has been •brilliant from the start and never have the men of any nation made a• better record than these airmen of the British Empire. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Simmons, con- cession A. Hovyick, on Monday cele- brated the 55th anniversary of their wedding. • We•= extend congratulations on behalf of the citizens of this dis- trict.—Wingham Advance:Times. Passed Registered Nurse Exams One behalf of the people of this Community we extend congratulations to Miss ' Jean Cruikshanks, of the- Wingham hospital staff, who has suc- cessfully passed the examinations for nurse registration. — Wingham Ad- vance -Times. the lttirseii Bening 4rtre':frtatte 40r- boa- • ,Por its part in the Wary the Royal forth, leaving the sleepy group In the Alf x'orce has achieved a fame snow. A second ailty� .cam' 'along through atho world4 .In 19'040 it beet off , p from Clinton ' ,fid cot vey�eii� the*'eai'eu ti7te German attack on lafrfl' t, ly to Cllttton, odds of four or (jive to one, alld -here, Explains Why Good ..Friday is Late Good Friday this year falls on April 23rd, which, according • to Dr. H. R. Kingston,' head of the department of mathematics 'and astronomy at the - University of Western . Ontario, is within a day of the latest date on whicil, it can come on th'e pres•ent cal- endar. Easter Sunday, by which the Good Friday date is calculated, ex- plained 'Dr. Kingston, is" the first Sun- day after the first full moon following the vernal equinox. The vernal equin- ox (tbe day when the sun crosses the equator, marking the first day of spring) may occur on either March 21st or 22nd. When spring begins on the latter date, the fi'rs't full moon following may occur as• late as April 20th. . Should this date come on a Monday, then 'six days. must elapse until Easter Sunday. Good Friday would then fall on April 24ti —Clin- ton News -Record. Fgrmer Mitchell Pastor Transferred --- Rev. George Kersey, minister of* Main Street United Church, .Mitchell, for some time before going to Kincar- • dine, where he bas served for the past' six years, concludes his pastoni- ate in that town in June and will go to i-Iespeler, exchanging with Rev. D. E. Foster, who was, minister of Park- view United Church, Stratford, and Clinton United Church during recent years.—Mitchell Advocate. These facts are so well known that they do not need comment, and in- deed people who complain that Great 'Britain isn't doing much in the war are thinking chiefly about the army. It must be said that the record, of the army until last November consisted largely of retreats and evacuations with such variations as the conquests of Ethiopia from the Italians and of Syria and .'Madagascar from the Vichy French. We should, however, men- tion the defence of Egypt, and this is, very important as it has kept Ger- mans and Italians from joinin,g/bands with the Japs. If the • Axis states could meet -in Southern Asia, they would be well on the way to winning the war; but by keeping them apart the Imperial Force in Egypt has made it possible for the United Nations to win the war. . But holding positions does not seem like getting on with the war, and peo- ple May reasonably ask, Why has not the > rltisjh:' ai iy Otte soniethin Mete p8sttive? The army tette the last of the three` servide'e'fo` irecel''eJ aftentiot i 1617 ontintteG eft ?tigo 8) -Clinton' Red Cross Officers President, Mrs. W. A. Oakes; 1st vice-president; Mrs. G. FI, Jefferson; 2nd vice-president, Mrs. B. J. Gib- bings; corresponding sec., Mrs. G. A. Millers recording sec., Mrs. J. P. Man- ning; treasurer; Mrs. F. .Axon; con- veners, Mrs. Cantelon, Mrs. Addisone wool com., Miss Stifiling, Miss Shaw; sewing com., Mrs. Cree Copk, Mra. Percy Livermore; buying com., Mrs.`J. M. Elliott, Mrs. H. A. McIntyre; cut- ting com. (to be revised), Mrs. W. H. Robinson, Mrs. A. 5, Rumball, Mrs. H. Cameron, Mrs. C. 13raper,,,Mrs. M. llatkin, 'Mrs.- W., Wallis, Mre, Prem' lin, Mrs. Crich;peeking and shipping, 11/41re, A. Reddy, Mee 111` bha'mt 'Mrs. C'. L. Paisley; Mrs. G.(,A. Mittel', tura. y1° ,Flynn, Mrs. It Waters.- -- into'ir- Newe4Record, e (I 4 fv { J 4•� 1, 9, 4,