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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1943-02-19, Page 3,, „,. '.:','I'ii."•..•':''I.,i,".1I".','",'.."'"..'"•"•)",,,i'.."",".:S.:,,,,,i:..r"':"., ,,,, ' •i :',„'"•,•u,..:,:, ...,,s,.,"1". ;SS,: •..,...,,,":,)::,,;":::,.' ' .", • , , . ec• A ,...„ , v.4.1fr ountry, (oonunued, fretnn Page 2) of you 4114 L j dot o _'091i ! a e'4!anyone in bttaYirlac, a1ft o; don down, in. poll:004W ration Candi‘ SO I tool free to give. XelleVaTqw pression, unbiased; of this trell1M347 ously vital thing w13/0k le 43rdaring bur very lives, tying to lnsen a mile ab.ead of inflation. and thins prier -ant the evils of deflation after the wan. Carte Blanche—No Punches Pulled I wasn't asked to pull punohes. Thai Shows I don't look like a Politician. t was given carte blanche to briek ii- 1de the engine, tenask questions, to Interview the really 'big names who handle Canada's great wartime econ- omy, and that in itself was a thrill. And there, take my word for it, you'd be impressed like I was. From butter rationing to subsidies the men doing the jab are in my opinion sincere, patriotic, hard working and don't let anone \guff. you about politics and buteaucracy. It's all such a colossal but necessary thing. They admit mistakes have . been made. They also admit they are hu- man -even the experts •and economic advisers; but they're all aiming to- wards the, best deal for the greatest !number, to involve the least hardship for all of us a war which is bring- ing new and ever increasing, intricate problems affecting our very lives. Just remember when you shake your head wisely •at your neighbor and say isoittething about "them guys at ,Ot- tawa," that one time you left the barn door open, bossy wandered out into the blizzard and you lost yourself a hundred bucks or so. One Living Standards Involved Believe me, if you and I are to 'con- tinue eating the nutritive foods- nec- essary to our complex organisms, to fortify us for what may be a long and terrible war -pull (and after the war); if you and I. are going to, be able to. continue paying and. receiving wages adequate to a fairly decent continuing standard of living; if the producer and laborer is to reap in at least some worthy measure the efforts of his toil while this war lasts—without any too explosive disruptions—it will be be- cause this organization thinks, acts and continues in its (what appears to ,me to, be) sincerity of purpose, let the chips fall where they may. I propose this series 'of articles to be just a plain,unvarnished telling of what I saw in Ottawa, Montreal and Toronto. I would like to be ,able to tell you in . the same way, your own editor,, d,oenewhen he's on the beam about something. I want to tell what thinks the, head of the whole outfit, Chairmae, of the. Board, Donald Gor- don, that big, dark Scotsman who dyn- amically leads this organization and who, by the way, might look like the herdwareeman or- the blacksmith in your town. He talked to me as if I, myself, meant something. in this world. That, to me, was the clue why even stenographers keep the midnight oil burning in this organization — and I do mean to work. , Research Economist Phyllis Turner Then take Mrs. Phyllis G. Turner, administrator for Oils and Fats for Canada and a member of the United Nations Committee on these vital com- modities. She's a former .ehief 're- search economist of the Tariff 'Board; strikingly beautiful woman doing a tremendously big job in something you'll be intensely interested to hear about later if you stick with me long ;enough filals series. Then there's Kenneth W, Taylor who I talked with, 'Secretary of the Board, a 'McMaster man, an economist. • 'MY HAT' 9 OFF " TO YOUR BREAD Made in Canada WHAr Off r° ROYA1 , Brings you cornpiiments on sweet, tasty bread • ALWAYS DEPENDABLE WRAPPED AIRTIGHT TO ENSURE POTENCY h!, fit rip (KW 'Harry Al.oYle) . , are 'alf aware of the thinga tha baie changed• In the past Xluiniber ° years. At least we know 'of the big things:43;14 leave clia4ed but 1*nu der how niany of us bare ,Paid ttentiloix t' the 11e tinge. Chance are we 13aVen't. tioWe'ver,, we hav "ChSiged our thinking e, grist den 1 , t to go to' a ineetbs.g'atethe•hall f a nearby IOWA., When we were gain in Iniceticed 'Several 'gentlemen fortify ng themselves frbra a'bealthy look y ing .blaeln bottle, As I recall' it now S Probably ifTWSA nerve tonin to brace "3 themselves Against the ordeal of th l'crowd. The' hall was packed iIll and it was very warm and there vas a s great deal of chescring. n Our principal speekeretrode out on the 'floor, bowed and `with a grand wave of his whiskeris took his place. - The crowd went wild. He carefully ✓ crossed his legnepelisised his spec- tacles and waved to several people in • the crowd. They beamed back and - looked, around to make certain that - everybody knew the ones he was way- - ing at. When it came time for him to speak he carefully unfastened anen- ormous gold snatch from a chain and put it on the table. He must have for - ,00lion* .'"om lm of 4041w fOrAp4t 340. 'N144 edto Mat to, Oilr-,i10mPa teNeii;t natal barriefs and 't4friesidly xteigl3 /We for: (Mr nii.fetrcisOlitWing that tie harriers and the 33,0glabere kept Pee - g spite eneM,Ms at a dfance and a Pi- ' advantage. Hostile 4,933.1es needed to - March overland fintle navies to Sall , over stens to get at -ns. B1it. the neer air Petniret Imo altered e !this' atate' of thjngs,, :lft will Ibe fins Bible for any, aggressor: to equip small, forces and though nerha.Ps not in our time, whole expeditioas to , travel en- tirely by air. Such e4r-borne invad- ers can ignore motintains, seas and intervening countries .and proceed di- rectly to their target, and it will be possible for the Swiss to wage a war with Bolivia or China with Argentina. All wars will begin with Pearl Har- bors, with a, sudden. rain of bombs on cities or military equipment in its broadest sense, except that the invad- ing aircraft will not need arriers at sea as did the Japanese, but will use their'hozne lands as bases, at first at any rate. In respect of military dan ger, the world will be one, and what goes on in the mountains of Tibet may well be a matter of great import- ance to us on the North American continent. At the least sign of ag- gression: the 'whole world will be tense; war Will run like 'a forest fire, and we shall live in fear that some night a raiding force may fly down among us and lay our cities in ruins .�r settle' down to seize. some vital point for a war of conquest. Not that 104NIMOM4440,01, wt:%941141*,#.4,. t 100,0'1,44t ;Plut7,31*,,r,fo op, 444 • net Trit ggr 70g,14494,41.10, airA;eillerff • itUWt• trt*.e•:,Zi t. Wl warning t� them; We could schi eeresmaxelyTivethe 13ases fer in eagle Qt the worst, delay their PrOgreiga defence the• basein realieet already have or Will liaie good /binges in Great • Britginc France and Russia and if we need any more we can require the low erne tries or the Scandinavian• etatee to 7,Tprovide them. So long an •*e"nre quuniett,ed, and have the military equils- ment, we can keep the Germane But Japan is a different matter, be- ing as far away as possible from the centres of military strength of Great BrItaine'the United States and RUS- sia. We must have bases within easy reach of ,her; and, in fact, we have them in normal times, and all we need do is to keep them, that is our present military establishments in eastern Asia. It would be most un- wise for 'us to give up our 'vantage points there and specifically the`U.S, ought not to retire from •the pines, the Dutch from their islands, Great Britain from Honk Kong, Bur- ma and India. It is in this light that we may con- sider the prciposal advanced by Mr. Wilkie and seconded by some well- meaning people, that the Europeans should retire from Asia and its islands and hand the territories over to the natives; but I understand that he doe e not mean Russia and its colonial islands on the fringe of Siberia. We ignore this discrimination and exam - along many lines. I suppose thole Is progress, but there were some thing that added a good, deal to our lives i the way of thrills when we were young. A 'Member of Parliament was a re spected man in my day, no matte what your own political belief might happen to be. Elections were .bittei and fraught with physical disturbane es as Well aS verbal encounters. Ev eryone took that for granted. How ever, when armee. was elected and made that trip to Ottawa, he was looked iipon-vsith a great deal of per- sonal respect, especially by the young er members of the various families in our township. We hardly ever had the opportun- ity of seeing a Member of Parliament, but when he did come It was a day to be remembered. The church used to have a picnic down on slthe flats alongside the rtver. As a rule, the youngsters ate ice-cream and candy until they were at the point of being violently sick. For many of us our ineniories of these occasions seem to swim in a sheimmering.veil of hideous sick spells during the latter part of the evening. , At the same time I will never forget the sight of the local M.P. •stieding up to the admission wicket and throwing down a gve-dol- lar hill and with a grand flourishde- clinig 'any change. Being able to throw five -dollar hills around in such a way was in itself something to be admired from my youthful views, which were influenced to a certain ex- tent by the fact that my allowance was only twenty-five cents for such an occasion. In the heat of a political campaign when I was quite young, my father decided to bring me up in his finest political tradition, so he •bundled me • gotten apout it, because he talked on eadless*. But his words flowed out irt, a very dramatic way and tired as rgreiv-, I couldn't help but be thrilled. Members of Parliament don't ,seem like such romantic figures in these modern days. They drive in with an ordinary looking car and without the trappings and the beauty of a span of black trotters. They talk for awhile andsometimes ask for a vote and then go on their way. I wonder if the small boys of now will hold memor- ies of them in the same way as we hold memories of the bewhiskered, dramatic gentlemen who used to dom- inate our picnics with their -presence. The same' thing applied to doctors in the days when they drove horses. The doctor's team usually was a beau- tiful thing to see. Down the road they would come, necks arched, with a flashing of silv.er-buckled harness. If you were on your why home from school the usual thing to do was to stand on the side of the road and Wave. If the doctor waved back, you would stand and watch the horses and rig until it became merely a floating dust cloud down the road. That night• you would dream of the day when you could be in his place.' of standing, who certainly knows what T it's ail about. His type of person (like, the others) doesn't have to fiddle with politics. And women readers will surely he interested in what Byrne Hope ,Sanders told me. She's better known as Editor of Chatelaine and now heads Consumers branch di- vision, with its farflung chain of "watching" local committees. Behind her discerning, intelligent eyes you oeuld,,,yisual4e, hers as an yonnegennom in the 'kitchen slicing around the pie •dough. Information From Source Are you interested in hoarding, etc.- You'd be surprised what I learns ed from Fred A. McGregor, adminis- trator of the Enforcement division. You'd take him for your own church minister. He doesn't look like Him- mler and hates- anyone who, gets tough, but he's sure a firm guy. His division, understandably, has a big job and he's concerned mainly with the fellow who wants to gyp you and I. Then there's 'Dr. G. E. Britnell,' S-askatchewanuniversity man, eco- nomic adviser to the Foods Adminis- tration. Why that man's head is al- ways as full of butter, eggs, hogs, cheese, beef end 'milk as Canada's farms collectively' are. He sees the picture more than he doe's statistics. More about that later, to. Imagine rationing millions of peo- ple, cars and stuff. That wi5uld make your head swim it Montreal, and I'll try to explain later, logically, how L. B. Unwin, a C.P.R. Vice-President,..and his folks go about it. Andnwhat do you think is in the mind, of placid administrator H. H. Bloom at Toronto, who handles what you can get in farm machinery in this greatest of agricul- tural countries? There were many others. I've got a lot of stuff filed away in my raind, but it's got to be boiled down—all of it—to make not toe tir- ing reading that will give you an ap- preciation and understanding of what's :being done to YOUR way of life. On how you 'react to the poli- cies and regulations laid down may eventually depend that same way of. life. Bear with me through the fol- lowing few weeks and I'll do the best I can to explain why and how they're doing it. And re/member, we, the people, on- ly paid for my ham and eggs while I was away' from borne. I.didn't have fo pat anyone on the lack. I remain, like you, a small town guy or guyess, sTI stick around and tune in next week. QualityMaintained Last summer one of the main .com- plaints Mita farm housewives was that the quality Sif goods on the Cana- dian market was deteriorating. Many months ago the Wartime Prices and Trade Board issued strict orders that, aside from efforts at simplification, the quality of any goods placed on the market was •to`be maintained up to the standards of normal times as far as it was possible under, war con- ditions. , • Recently the Board has taken fur- ther Steps to nailed against any undue deterioration of qi ality in goods bv setting tfp a Standards Section of the supply division. It is expected that it will do much in, the way of setting up definite • measnreinents of quality schedules May; be • Wait • , ,,• Seen in the County Paper • (Continued from Page 2) Crows -Seen- Fridky -Lasts With this district in the grip of one of the winters 'Which old timers class as the kind we used to have, there are some signs that point toward spring despite the fact that the groundhog saw his shadow last week. Snakes have been reported on the snok; squirrels have been seen frisk- ing about, but the latest is that the crows have arrived. On Friday when coming, into town Gordon Elliott was surprised to hear and see some crows near town on the Lucknow road. He says that it is the earliest that he has ever seen these birds arrive. May- be spring is just around the corner.— Winghain Advance -Times. Roblin Library Elects Officers The inaugural meeting of the Clin- ton nubilelibrary board was held in the Town Hall board room Monday evening. Organization for the year 1943 was proceeded with and resulted as follows: Chairman, B. J. Gibbings (re-elected); secretary, Miss M. A. Stone; treasurer, M. T. Corleas; corn- mittees (first named being chair - Man) Finance, Miss Stone, W. S. R. Holmes, H. D. Cameron; property, Gibbings, Cameron, Holmes, Jeffer- son; books, Miss Edna Jamieson, Miss Stone, Mr. Jefferson, Miss Minnie Rudd is librarian. She has 'held the position uninterruptedly for the past 25 years, rendering a splendid public service.—Clinton News -Record. Another. Big Pig 'Mr. George McGowan, of East Wa- wan•osh, marketed a sow last week that is worthy of note in the paper. She weighed 760 pdunds live weight, and dressed out at 635 pounds. He sold her 'to Watson Bros., who paid him exactly S90.60 for the animal. It Will be remembered that Mr. McGow- an matketd a large rig over a year ago which weighed about 100 pounds heavier thlin the one we are record- ing this week, but he did, not realize as much in money on it due to lower prices at the time. Jack Watson claims that the two pigs mentioned above are first cousins.. It warn through him that we obtained ,the above inforreation.-131yth Standard. R. A. F. Truck in Crash Due to Ice Spun on to the wrong side of the road by a chunk of ice, an R.A.F. truck from Clinton was struck by an- other truck and received $150 damage on No. 7 highway, a half 'mile north of Mooresville last Wednesday. H.T.O. Harry Lemon, who investigated, said the northbound RAF: ' machine, 'driv- en by LAC. Harvey, pulled towards the shoulder of the road to give 'plen- ty of room to' an approaching truck, driven Is'Y J. H. Burrows, R. R. 1, Wil- ton Prober A lose piece of ice on the highway threw the air force truck into a skid which carried it directly Intel_ the path of the oncoming truck. No charges Were laid.—ClintOn News -Re - Cord. • ' . we shall *fear all this every moment of our livAs, but we certainly shall fear it at the slightest disturbance of the peace.. We may add that as long as human nature is human nature, there will 'be persons who will play with fire, and there will be no lack of persons with the will to set the world ablaze in the hope qf gaining power over their fellows by a sudden strokeat some ill -armed country. In face of such a prospect, no na- tion can afford to disarm and thus in- vite attack by an aggressor. We must maintain armed forces at a certain standard, provide air-raid shelters, teach the people air-raid precautions and.: guerilla warfare, disperse our munitions, industries over the coun- try and indeed spread out our cities so that not more than three or four buildings shell occupy a block. Abroad we shall watch with a jealous eye the bases from which attacks on us could be maintained, and we shall try to see that they are in friendly hands. We must recognize that an unarmed nation is a standing invitation to an aggressor and is in fact a source of danger to its neighbors and to all the world. We cannot therefore per- mit the existence of pouterIess states, and we must see to it that weak na- tions either maintain the best armed force they can, or permit the strong nations to garrison them and use bas- es on their territory. All of this means not more freedom for small nationalities but less, and there must be some control of weak nations by strong ones in the interest of world safety. We repeat: unarmed nations will be h_etanding temptation to an aggressor and the very existence of such possible prey .will of itself evoke an aggressor. . This is not apretty picture, but we Must face the facts, and, not delude ourselves. .Indeed ,one of the great faults of the treaty of Versailles was the setting up ,Of a number of new nationalities' to; weak to defend themselves., There were also old na- tionalities like the Scandinavian states which saw no heed to defend themselves, and it was not long. be- fore aggressors arose to devour both new and old weak states and to use their territory for world conquest. Hence in .the coming peace we ought. to create no -new nationalities unable to defend themselves or at least to get prompt and sufficient help from stronger neighbOrS.' Now we may consider the problem of peace with Germany and Japan, ignoring the Italians who `have no na- tural taste or ability for aggression and are not likely to cause Srouble again. We shall not think of exterm- inating the Germans and.Japaneseas the Romans did wlll Carthage; for there are many good Germans and Japanese and we do not want to pun- ish the innocent with the guilty. Be- sides we dislike massacres on pile, - cline. We could indeed try to hold them down with garrisons.,or put a limit on theirinclustries: and it is sug- gested that we might give them teach- ers to teach them better manners. Nething, however, excites the resent- ment ofhighly nationalist peoples mere than foreign garrisons, who would produce a continual high irri- tation in these proud countries. They would blacken us as violators of the rights of nations, work. 10concert with any other states in a bad temper with un and would keep the word in .fear and turmoil. Our aim is pacifi- cation and our occupation of Germany and Japan can b only temporary. Nor can welimit or forbid their heavy in- dustries; we must allow free scope for their .mechanical ingenuity and en- terprise', partly to keep them honestly innin. partly to avoid an accusation e' exercise-ig economic oppression. The suggestion about teachers is quite impracticable, for the German alid Japanese children • would merely hate the foreing inetructOrs and dis- believe every word they said. We minht require Germans .and Japanese to help repair the dainage they have done, but we must not *pose an in- demnity too heavy to be Paid within a few Pears. We must give these peoples to turn their tottaiderable abilities into .15Seful cthai1li1s And to me merely the general proposition he suggets: Now the populations of the colonial areas of Asia are generally passive and unwarlike, interested in. religion rather than in politics,with little industrial strength and yet en- joying great riches. Siam is rather typical of these peoples; it yielded to Japan without a struggle, much more easily, than British Burma or the Am- erican Philippines, although in both of these areas large elements of the population were indifferent -to the in- vaders. .These peoples could not in fact defend themselves and yet their property's a great prize. If the west- ern powers were to withdraw from them, .what an opportunity for a 'de- feated Japan to recover as Hitler's "TM PUREST FORM IN WHICH TOBACCO CAN BE SMOKED." krt0 4 00,41e, r J404q' '130tii'Vecii:4:rrit*,ta,nO4 warRat#4..•0,04,4" ?orr fInP grnatar '41140'01W hold, and We ligv# • w9,114, wax' Teark**3 itkcaOr, fo.411,4Ma,v ece.74th,tlie ilOW and let t4em leeP Ivat , hair°. If we dOn't'Waitt 0.3100.0.1014 war in, sin* W.der, we Cannot legYa these Again Ventilations to' therch- selves or rather to Japan,. but nentit retain some militau control. no mat- ter what self-goverranent we give them in other respects. That la, we must stay where we were in 1941, and no doubt we shall do it. Incidentally our retention. of bases, in, these areas will limit the natural sluggishness of great democratic nations in foreign. affairs an dcompel us tes remain. alert to danger end ready to do Something about it. In face of the uneasy new world created by„the• airfleets, what can we do to limit war? It has been said that we might depend on an interna- tional organization or axe internation- al force for our security. But what is everybody's business is nobody's business and the existence of such in- stitutions may well give us a false sense of safety, people thinking, that someone else is doing something aput the danger. In any case the great powers supply the steam behind such institutions andnthey could act more effectively if they did it direct- ly instead of, in a roundabout way. The nations who want to keep the Peace mustband closely together and be ready to use the might of the strong arm against aggressors. Most of .this might belongs to Ruezia, Great Britain• and the U.S., and peace de- pends:. on the willingnerni of these three to co-operate to keep it. They are in good circumstances to do so, for the U.S. and Great Britain are in- creasingly close together and Russia is far enough away to have few ins tereste conflict with ours. For the maintenance of peace by agreement among the great powers, Great Britain has some special assets. The world-wide British Empire pos- sesses numerous key points and bases and no aggressor can proceed far without colliding with it. At the same time these key points can serve to hold off an aggressor and furnish the facilities for stopping him before it is too late. Such has been- the fun - tion of Malta, Egypt, India and Aus- tralia in this war and they have been very useful to American forces. In feet this chain of kep points is what ••• • peedfiy,.:t9”‘ five s.ikenOin43*aq 41-' N.v4i4Y411g '2tP,?140411, of the T,(0 1'044 Ai neecla.as a WiirliehOW..:44404 andenource of 'tnipsalies- bombers a little trenble The countries are the JMitlir element eantr great ladustriale financial ailes, tary strengths can he the single tactor in limiting PArr, partnership of the "EnglielisaPe nations, therefore, lies ottr, '&0444 hope. M1 • A 1941 Apple Mr. and Mrs. Peter Deichert,'Of t138.' Blind Line, Hay Township, sent tO • the Herald office a sample of a 1241 crop of apples. The apple which, is - quite small, looks _quite well and healthy, and we are safe 10 Wing that we never saw an apple inst ,that • old, although the history of the apple ' dates back five thousand years ago 1a, the Garden of Eden, but in the na- tural term no one Lae any of those which were consumed .by Adam and ' Eve, We de not know just how Mr. and Mrs. Deichert kept this apple so long; we do not think it was kept in a frozen condition.—Zurich Herald. THIS YEAR. Start your chic kg t1 fEitY It's good business, this year, to start- your chicks earlier than ever. For good BRAY Chicks, see William Stapleton, Dublin, -- or -- Alvin W. Kerslake, Hensel! If we all cut out on non- essenti I call a day... y We HALF A MILLION would make way for nearly , ADDITIONAL WAR CALLS, War calls must come first . . which means that we should reduce our non-essential use of the telephone to the minimum. Present facilities cannot he increased; your co-operation is needed if war' calls are to go through promptly. 11. Please remember that the wasteful use of telephone time can hold up war business — and that every second you save counts. 0, ofeatie eitif Buy War Savings Stamps "and Certifkafes Regularly. . . 1/14is 14 P. O. WILSON, , ' liforager, 44 .10