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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1943-02-19, Page 2tj .r v 9" rf FEBIWAR 043 fQ xpositor fished 1860 bFhil McLean, Editor. ed; at Seaforth, Ontario, ev- °day afternoon by McLean P - rlption rates, $1.50 a year in xtce;. foreign $2.50 k year. Single capper, 4 cents each. Advertising rates on application. AFORTH, Friday, February 19 Absentee Leadership At the opening of Parliament when Mr. King was speaking on Mr. Bracken's election as leader of the Conservative party, he expressed the hope that Mr. Bracken would at once find a seat in the House of Com- mons as he did not think it wise that the leader of one of the parties should not be in his place in the Com- mons. ' In answer, Mr. Graydon, the act- ing leader of the Conservative party in the House, ' rather twitted Mr. King by observing that the Premier himself had once been in the same Position in which Mr. • Bracken was at .the present time That is quite true. In fact - that occurred on two occasions. - When Mr. King was elected leader of the Liberal party -in August, 1919, Parliament was about to meet for its second session for that year, and Mr. King did not take his place until October 23rd, when he was elected to a seat in Prince Edward Island, made vacant - by the resignation of the former Liberal member. - In the general elections. of Octo- ber, Mr. King was defeated and when the House met the first week in January of the following year, he was not a member. But by Febru- ary he was back in the House, hav- ing been elected for Prince Albert, a position again created by the resig- nation of the sitting member. It will .be noted, therefore, that never a t- any time could Mr, Sing be referred to as an absentee leader of his party. On the other hand, ..it is reliably reported that Mr. Bracken does not intenitto seek a seat in Par - !lament until after the, close of the present session, and while there . are many undeniable advantages in the course he is said to have chosen, it it is equally well known that many of bis followers in' the House are not too enthusiastic about it for reasons that are also obvious. In wartime, particularly, it is -a most unusual procedure for a leader of a political party to avoid the House of Commons for a whole ses- sion, but as we say, -it may have ' its advantages ti from . a purely party standpoint By doing so, Mr. Brack- en will avoid being involved in pub- lic controversy. In the House ' he would be on the spot and would have to meet the discussions and is- sues as they arose from day to day. But by being an outsider, he would miss all the embarrassing issues and all the embarrassing tumult. Another very profitable advantage from the party standpoint would arise from Mr. Bracken being free and with time on his hands to get aboutthe country and become ac- quainted with the rank and file of bis party followers and infuse some real enthusiasm into' an organization w • ch, for some years, has been dor- mant, if not dead. But against these advantages there weigh many defects. For one thing, the 'apparent : refusal of Mr. Bracken to enter Parliament is prov- ' ing more than embarrassing to the Conservative House members, whose loyalty to a leader is not being strengthened by his refusal to lead them at the present time, and, ap- parently, for some time to come. Many feel that as no other political leader is avoiding that responsibility, ,:why should theirs? . - Conservative members also re- member these words of Mr. Bracken in his speech, of acceptance at the Winnipeg convention: "I depreciate the ,departure from Parliamentary pi ocedure which .has taken place during the past three years at Ot- to "' . Argy Unnecessary contempt uisegard of Parliament as an in- io'.0 :ought to give concern to . adian whbiv'esthou:•: "ht.to n, The .fact is that tltutions burr young men dug to defend ate being stultified before our eyes, To some 4e fee. that may he necessary, but it- is the duty; of every Canadian to see tbt the supremacy :of Parliament:;; is notdeniedand that it be re-estab- lished and proteeted at the earliest possible time: What,.. Conservati e•, members in Parliament are inclined to think is: What greater disregard for . Parlia- ment arliaa lent + airt1fere be tlfan fc r' a leader�— and their• own at that --to :chose not to- enter -it, and what is, that leader doing to protect the supremacy of Parliament? • An Old Time Main Street On Saturday afternoon last, Sea - forth Main Street more nearly re- sembled a busy afternoon some twen- ty-five or thirty years ago, than any- thing we have seen in the interven- ing years. From early afternoon to evening . there was a continuous procession of teams and ~sleighs, single horses, and cutters. More horses than have been seen in many a day—including fair days. The reason, of course, traces back to the " previous week -end storm, which blocked all the roads and high- ways. , The highways were plowed out by the middle of the week, but on the county and most of the con- cession roads, motor transport was entirely out of the question. But the country people who had been practically sealed up for a week had to get their produce out and get their supplies. Consequently, the horse came back to its own again, and Tor one day at least, he was king of transportation. Where they all came - from, we don't know, and where the harness, sleighs and cutters were resurrected from is even a bigger speculation, but they were all there, including the sleigh bells. And, considering the number of people who are not 'buying car lic- enses this year, and the new gasoline regulations _that will very strictly regulate the mileage of those who will `operate cars, we may reasonably expect that the appearance of last Saturday's main street will be dupli- cated, a good many times during the months to come. The question is: Where are we go- ing to punt the horses up when they come to town? • And that is a ques- tion the country people are asking with increasing insistence these days. • Keeping An Army Supplied Some idea of the enormous job of keeping the British Eighth Army supplied during its, pursuit of Rom- mel's forces in North Africa, can be gathered from the following figures released last week by- the British In- formation. Services: The road from Cairo to Tripoli is' fourteen hundred miles long. Over five thousand tons of water were needed by the Eighth Army every day, and most of the supply had to - come from the Nile River along a pipe line to Tobruk, and the rest of the ever -lengthening way by road. More than three million gallons of gasoline were delivered at the front, and about eight thousand tons of ammunition. During the artillery preparations for attack on El Alamein, the field guns alone fired one million pounds weight of shellsin an hour. -- Water, food, gasoline, ammunition —all these have followed, and kept pace with an army which has trav- elled thirteen hundred miles in nine- ty-one days. • Obviously Referring to his visit to Tripoli, Prime Minister Winston Churchill, in the British House of Commons last week, recalled the directions which he ' gave General Sir Harold Alexander last August and said he now had received the following re- ply: . "Sir, the orders you gave hie on August 15, 1942, have been fulfilled. The enemy, together with their im- pediments have been completely eliminated from Egypt, , Cirenaica, Libya and Tripolitana: I now await your further instructions." s "Obviously," Mr. Churchill com- inented amid .the' laughter of the House, We Will have to think of something else," one 1, Igtar*>� t• iii iers8a• Picked From w, Tiro.HU(..i:ar of Fifty and TW? •11Riiara Aga, • Front. ,The,, Huron 'Exposltor 'February 22,. 1918.. On Thursday evening of last week a •number& of the members of the W. 'MS, and. ...#Ricers anal teachers of the Brucefield church met at ;the home of Mr. B. R. Higgins. During the even- ing an addresa was read by Mrs. Jas. 'McQueen, after'which Mrs. A. T. Scott presented Mrs. Higgins with a .beauti- ful leather-bound Bible. Miss Jessie Gemmell read an address and Miss Alice Swan . presented Mr. Higgins with a handsome club bag. Mr. Hig- gins and family expect to leave for Clinton in a short time. Mr. Thos. Simpson, Hensall, an old and respected resident, had the mis- fortune to fall. and break one of his ribs. -' Mr. R. F. Jones, who has been con- ducting a seed and feed store in the Beattie Block for some years, under the firm name of Sproat & Co., has disposed of the !business to Mr: John McNay, who recently sold his farm near Egmondville. A rink of Seaforth curlers, compos- ed of C. Barber, W., E. Kerslake, Jno. Beattie and Wm. Ament, skip, went to St. Thomas on 'Monday and succeed- ed in lifting the Just Wright Chal- lenge Trophy- from that club by one shot. ' Mr. John penis, of Leadbury, has rented a 100 -acre, farm from J. J. • Ir- vine for grazing purposes. Mr. John Reeder, .of Dashwood, who has been working with a bean harves- ter in Stephen and McGillivray, fet with a serious accident on Thursday. Ire was engaged in threshing beans for Mr. Leo Dietrich, near Dashwood, when his hand- got caught in the thresher, hie thumb and ,first two fin gers and part of 'the third being sev- ered. - Mr. Mcintgomery Davis, of Tucker - smith, has disposed of his farm, lot 2, on the 6th concession, to Mr. John Hudson. The new owner takes pos- session on April 1st. Mr. M. McKellar, the local Canadian express agent, handle 4% tons of Eaton's spring catalogues at Seaforth station on Saturday last. Miss Mary''Modeland left on Friday for Palmerston, prior to going to To-' ronto to attend ,the millinery open- ings. • • (By R. J. • Deachnio,n). q l� ^-v�im..� ',. m...re- "•mi^3R0x,, np➢(i '`H✓+,,Y• tPtiarp� 'Said the Peterborough Examiner a few days ago: "A prominent Canadian who died recently left an estate of nine .million dollars, of which five >llill}OA hiye gone in succession duties. His heirs will watch eag- erly to see what will be done with this handsome sum --to see" if it lessens the tax burden at any point. But will it? Don't be ridiculous! The idea that the system of snatching from the rich lessens the burden on the poor is a romantic one, exploded long ago." Of' course, it won't affect the tax rate! Forty years ago it would, but We are now too late for that to hap- pen. • In 1941, total expenditure of the Provincial. Government of Ontario was over $110 million—in 1901 it was 4 million—quite a difference! If that five million windfall had happened in 1901 the debt would have been reduced by the net 'sum received or the Province of Ontario could have been free from taies for one year — carried forward also a surplus of close to a million. This one single item would have been more than the total expenditure at that time—now it's not even five per cent. -. The _Province of Ontario was almost debtless at•the beginning of the cen- tury. In 1941 its outstanding promis- es to 'pay totalled $629 million. What's five million dollars to a province with such generous 'spending capacity? Chicken feed—that's all! - Of course, we .have something to show for it. The highways are better —we move faster on them. More money is spent on health—it's pro- ducing results—our forefathers died young. The rural graveyards of On- tario tell that story. Education is more costly. Whether we get, better value out of it is a moot question! In . the old days most boys worked their way through college—now it's up to the fathers—they do the work— but son's on the. hockey team! Sometimes I am tempted to think that there was more sound discussion on a straw stack during a threshing in the old days than you would be like- ly -'to find in any similar, group meet- ing today; there may have been, also Mr. G. T. Turnbull, of town, left Wednesday morning on a business trip to the West. He took a carload of horses with him and intends going as far as Wilkie, Sask. Mr. Daniel Steiss, Walton, had the misfortune, to; �havh three of his fin- gers smashed one day this week. The Hillagreen Red Cross Society shipped 30 trench shirts and 42 'pairs of socks to headquarters at Hensall during the past week. • amore smut. It isn't because youth hasn't the ability; the 'mind is there, !but it's too busy with other things,. We suffer today because we can go 04 tar its 80 minutes, hear too much Whfli wq. a•1 e. trYil. gw., 8,41ld,109,t.,,VItil : —the result, much horny, less thought ae this, rapid ,advan9.e in ` t} ,$t aandi -p4.11Pgm th6ia 'e �i1R l%4? of an era? 'Mr.' ealdwell now pre; poetleer,, .,e q�ae iturei for �two..years.of: $2, i.0000)0,Q ,ua 4rear,: The House of Commons did not 1,h,' at *qP it erloµgiy It .yn y •,. v 4o.,, or it ' some day—even make the vote larger: Now all these things bring one fur- iously to think. I read a statement a few days ago by a college professor suggesting that the price level, after the war, would be at least 25 per cent. higher than it is now. I think he's right. The object of a higher price level would be to make it easier for debtors to meet their obligations. We cannot• continue,; indefinitely, the pol- icy of making a land fit for debtors to enjoy! If debts ale to expand more rapidly than capacity to pay we must develop, in a democracy, the demand for a higher°price level—that means inflation, or speaking economically, a short spurt of prosperity --then a long pull up the hill from the bottom. Thought runs in waves. In the last war "lease -lend" was unthinkable—, now we thank of little, else. It,was. suggested recently' that one means of retaining full employment after the war, was to keep on shipping products regardless of the. receipt of goods in exchange. Full employment was to come from turning industry and agri- culture into a Santa Claus—and mak- ing Christmas the only day in the year. Still it's "a hopeful age. The idea that we may get rich by . doing noth- ing—the national dividend idea of Premier Alberhart, prosper by giving things away, is far different from the normal idea of "get and keep"—but it may mean, in- the end, the disap- pearance,,,of the millionaire—at least of the old type, the man who kept what he got.Still, we may see the coming of -the new' sera which, after past wars, always blossomed but . nev- er yet bore fruit. Delightful, isn't it, to recall that hope always springs eternal—that is, in reality the elixir , of life. From The Huron Expositor February 24, 1893 ' Mr. Albert Wise, of Goderich Teem - ship, is the first on' record to have young Iambs this season. " + A social gathering of the youth and beauty of part of Hullett and McKil- lop took place Friday evening at "Poplar Grove," the beautiful and• commodious residence of Mr. Robert Armstrong. At 11 o'clock a most ex- quisite oyster supper was served, and dancing was then enjoyed. Miss Grace McFaul left town on Wednesday for New York, where she intends pursuing ber musical studies. Mr. Peter Morrison's Wood bee at Blake on Friday was well attended and he had about 40 cords of wood cut. They held a large dancing party in the evening. Mr. Peter Lamont, Blake, has gone to Zurich to engage in the butchering business.- - Mr. Geo. Logan, of Brucef eld, met with an accident on Wednesday while geeting out timber, by inflicting severe gash in .his foot. The Rovers of Brucefield held their annual meeting on Saturday. The fol- lowing officers were elected: Hon. pres., Dr. Elliott; 'pres., Alex Mus- tard; 1st vice-pres., Peter McGregor; 2nd 'vice -ores., David McIntosh; sec - treas., Andrew Scott; captain, John Snider; executive com: D. Dallas, Geo. Simpson, A. Scott; field com., R. Mc- Cartney, W. Simpson, W. Ross. Mr. Ross, blacksmith, formerly of Egmondville, has commenced business In Leadbury in the shop vacated by; Mr. Hart. Mr. Edmund Troyer, Hillsgreen, re- cently split on the premises of his father, Mr. John Troyer, 10 cords of woods in four hours. At 10 p.m. Saturday the alarm of fire was sounded in Brussels and It was discovered that Nightingale's shop was on fire. The flames got a good start, but were' bonfined to one building. Mr. Joseph Foster, Hillitgreen, has been engaged the past week in draw- ing brick,) for the foundation of his barn. The Forresters of Walton held their annual supper on ,Tuesday evening. Following this a program was given with the following people on the pro - grata: Misses Sage, Humphries, E. Williamson, Mrs, Neal, Mise M. 'Mor- rison, and Messrs. P, McPaggart, 'Al- v°in Fisher, Mr. i ea3tiey, Soseph Mc- Kim, W. Winters' and: 'Willie Neal. Mr. Wilson Cook, .of -Varna, sold a fine Berkshire pig ter 1Vtr. !i, lei, :Hayti, Mel 1llop, for a if A140ome figure, and he also' disposed Of his thealitil+ghiii'ed »uxhi 111 bull to tterran & iitnith; of Clinton. , 6 Opt Of. HORMitfli.: Eight-year-01gt M ` . 31Qiel(7!An4,�, danffhter o[1V1 and ram ;Neil MMc;� Donald, whoy was. injured when strati tp tRE + gampp:1e aft, ale cgossed fr 8, A„whilst, ng e scheol on Wednese ay of last 'wee A has. been ,#*ischarogpf4,trom ttoepital is little t40 worge fofi ;hertue$Pe: ten.e although, ai a had a very ,narrow capev Thea rpy revealed , that thg 4 1' sku • had not • been fractured anti there were no broken bones.—Gode- rich Signal -Star. A COUNTRY EDITO SEES WRITTEN SPECIALLY FOR THE WEEKLY NEWSPAPERS OF CANADA. "9 JIM $REENBLAT, Editor of the SUIT SWIFT CURRENT SASKATCHEWAN. The author of this series, Jim Greenblat, is the Editor of The Sun, -thriving weekly newspaper published in,Swift Current, Sask. He is a native of Winkler, Man., and attended public and high schools in Winni- peg. He moved to Swift Current 33 years ago, -and studied law until the outbreak of the First Great War. He then served in the Canadian Army from 1915 to 1919, and was wounded in France. He has been in the weekly newspaper business since 1923, and is a' past president of the Saskatchewan division of the Canadian Weekly Newspapers Association. At home, he writes a sprightly column for the Sun, called "Swift Current Through the Looking Glass," in which he has developed the high- ly' readable and inimitable style that he brings to this series from Ot- tawa. Before leaving Ottawa, he left one postscript on a brief bit of biogra- phy. It read: • "P -S.: Don't like Toronto!" Fire Checked The local firemen made a prompt response when the alarm summoned them to the home of James McCrack- en on Saturday morning where pipes and chimney were on fire. The fire was -soon brought under Control by the use of cheilnlcals. There was some damage done by smoke and wa- ter.--Brussers Post. —Editor's Note. LOOKING INSIDE THE ENGINE Call me lucky or not, but I'm just the train, having the odd finger -bowl an ordinary weekly newspaper editor who was invited to -come down to Ot- tawa, that daffy but pulsating, throh- bing with energy warheart of a na- tion which is such .a staunch and en- ergetic partner of the battling .United Nations. I was asked to write a ser- ies of articles for home' consumption -that is, for the, plain, honest -to -God folk in the towns ,:and on, the farms who constitute the readers of Cana- dian weekly newspapers. - I didn't get any salary for coming down here, but they did pay my ex- penses. I felt somewhat like your own member of Parliament, .satin' on Promoted To Staff -Sergeant Mrs.• George McNall received a let- terfrom her husband stating that he had been promoted from the rank of Staff -Sergeant to that of Sergeant Major.– Many friends here will join with us in • extending congratulations. —Blyth Standard. • Fire At Wildman Home . When an electric heating pad short-circuited, in a bedroom owl- ,- by ccu- 'by an airforce couple at the Mme•'ef Mr. F. Wildpian on Monday evening it set fire to the bedding and the fire alarm was sounded. Some of the first .arrivals on the scene car- ried arried the burning bedding to the bal- cony and threw it out into the open. When the ftre engine arrived the blaze was under control. — Exeter Times -Advocate. and pretending I was- used to it and having the bell hops "sir" me to death. You know, as well as I do, that week- ly paper editors at home are merely suffered. But with the, finish of these articles, like R. B. Bennett used to say before they stuck him in the Brit- ish hall of fame, "He had his day and ceased to be." I came to have a personal, unham- pered, uneajoled, unpoliticked look at the Wartime Prices and Trade Board and its mechanism; what makes the wheels go 'round. How It affects the daily life, the routine and economies (Continued on Page 3) : Great Britain and the United States : • • RADIO ADDRESS OVER WBEN, BUFFALO • • December 9, 16, 23, 30, 1942, and January 6, 1943 1111 By WILFRED BRENTON KERR • Associate Professor of History, U niVeralty of Buffalo, N.Y. • Part if GREAT BRITAIN' AND SOME . BROBLEMS OF. THE PEACE. Tonight we discuss ,Great Britain and some Problems of the coming peace; assuming that the war will end as we hope. We shall not try to ,set- tle any details of the peace, but shall merely 'examine some ' recent ideas about making and keeping it. A; few people are anxious • for a statement of war aims and" ask what we are fight- ing for. Others think the Atlantic charter answers this question and want to see greater freedom for small nationalities and in particular to take ,the white man out of Asia. They hope for a better world in this way and some of them want to b51p the good cause, along by disarmament, . We ell see little prospect of abolishing war altogether, ,hut are Wilkes to limit It as niuoh as possible; and •these are the ideas about which • we would like Ito taik :tonight. ,'Wo begin With the *Stier of 'War •aims; for t'hougih • the ate f )Ming. chiefly to save our skins, some good people would like .anadditional incen- tive. 'Unfortunately there is no as- surance that we, the U.S: and Great Britain, will make the peace, and in- deed we may have less to say about it than in 1919. For Russia has done nine -tenths , of the work of beating the Axis on landand may want nine - tenths ,of the say at a peace table. Stalin has not published his ideas of a proper peace, and until he does, President Roosevelt and Prime Min- ister''Churchill would be foolish to commit themselves in' public on any aim other than 'beating Germany, on which all three are agreed. There is the same difficulty about the Atlantic charter; we could •do nothing about it, Accordingly the 'less said about ;the charter', -the better, and we can promise absolutely' nothing' that liar not Russia's Signature; We are fight- ing for our neons and that le all 've nail tray at present, Now 'We iioue• to,,examine the prof- • ii tined on .Page :it) Local Airmen, Prompted Mr. and Mrs. Charles Anderson have received a cablegram from over- seas"' stating that their son, Pilot Offi- der J. F. Anderson, has been promot- ed to the rank of Flying Officer. We, extend congratulations. Mrs. L. F. Howey has received word that her son, Pilot Officer Lorne Howey, who has been overseas for some time, has been promoted to the rank of Flying Officer. Congratulations are in or der.—Exeter Times -Advocate. Exeter Boys Receive Wings •Sgt. Orville„ P.. Lawson, son of Mr. and Mrs. G. W. Lawson, of Exe- ter,- at a- wings' presentation. care- mony at Chatham, N.B., on Friday lass' received his wings as .an observer. 'He has been posted to 'Summerside, P•E.I., where he will take an advanc- ed course in navigation in general re- connaissance. The course lasts from six to . eight weeks. Orville was "' a former member of the Canadian Bank of Commerce staff in 'Exeter and was with the Orillia branch when be en- listed.—Exeter Times -Advocate_ Taking Metereoiogist's Course Airwoman Helen Coveney,• .who has been at Rockcliffe since '.he New Year, was home during the' week -end visiting her mother, Mrs. Georg.. Coveney, town. Having graduated from Rockcliffe,' 'she was .one, of fif- teen of her class selected to take a metereologist's course 'at -"`Toronto University and went to that city of Sunday—Mitchell Advocate. Occupies Knox , Pulpit Sunday morning Capt. the . Rea. Norman Mackay occupied the pulpit. 'of .Knox Presbyterian Church. Unfor-• •tunately the weather was most dis agreeable, but the congregation in, eluded worshippers from the various churches of the town.—Mitchel Ad- vocate. Picture Won By S. Beatty The beautiful picture painted and donated to the Canadian Aid to Rus- sia Fund by 'Mrs. Ada Torrance on which tickets have been sold, was won by Mr. S. Beatty, •principal of the Wingham• Public School. The pro- ceeds from the sale of tickets amount- ed to $64.60, which was very gratify- ing to Mrs. Torrance• The majority of the money raised on this activity was by the members of the C.G.I.T.. groups and their • leaders. 'King's Store.and the Hydro Shop also assist ed splendidly -with the sale of tickets.. —Wingham Advance -Times. Letter Returned From Far East , The, efficiency of the mail ser- vice and the effort made to locate the boys of our fighting forces• was dcmonatrated_ last week when Miss Shirley Penhale received from over- seas a small parcel .that she had mailed early for Christmas delivery - to - the late Sgt. Pilot Harold Elliot.. The • parcel was tent " air mail and' when returned almost every available' spot on either side had been stamped' with foreign postmarks. Florid•a and Bombay we plainly stamped.—Exe- ter tamped. Exe- ter ' •Times-Acvocate. Untying Horses in Church Sheds Complaint has been received from local church authorities that several boys have lately been in the habit of visiting the church • •sheds and unfastening 'the tie straps' or noises with which horses' have been tied. pi some Instances horses as a result Attire made their way out altd. gone home wilhbut brei. tiwner'k • • Wt.* 8pilaterteyi'tt'bee lade are. naught at tti>leithis itt+L`aiaathe1 tohilfe`` yAthdievm ltii• , 11 I , • . a