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The Huron Expositor, 1943-04-16, Page 2ii Ri cit Estab1jse McL'haU Neiman NOW', bed .at Seaforth, Ohta o, ev ursday afternoon by McLean libScription rates, .$1.50 a year in e'.;ance; foreign $150 a year. Single Op es 4 cents each. Advertising rates on application. SEAFORTH, Friday, April 16, 1943 Extending Term Of The Legislature The life of Ontario's Legislature, which expired in 1942, was, as is well known, extended a year, at that time, by the unanimous consent of the 'members. Now the question is up again, and the Government is asking for another year's extension. This time, however, the Opposi- tion, led by Col. Drew, has come out flatfooted in opposition to another extensionof the term. And there are not a few members on 'the Govern- ment side, who hold a similar view and,, we think, with just cause. The reason advanced for prolong- ing the life of the Legislature is, of course, that we are at war, and, con- sequently, that this is no time to in- terrupt the war effort by bringing on a general election to divert the minds of the people and to spend ,money which could be used to advance the war effort. - There is, of course, much weight to these contentions. If the United Nations launch a big European of- fensive this year, and there is more than a possibility of such an event, our Canadian soldiers will be in the thick of it; will, in fact, be the spear - point of that attack. Under those circumstances, there is no one in On- tario who wants to be in the midst of a political election when the of- fensive is under way. On the other hand, an election. might easily come and go beforethe big European push starts. It might easily be, too, that the monetary cost of holding an election might be only a drop in the bucket compared to the cost of maintaining a Government at - Toronto that t:Toronto..that did not represent the will of the people of the Province. It is a well known -fact that the • Government elected in 1937 was a one-man .government. That a great many men were- returned as mem- bers •of their constituencies, simply because they were Hepburn, candi- dates, aside altogether from their mental or moral qualifications.' These men have never represent- ed their constituents. Have never represented any one but themselves, and with Mr. Hepburn out of the pic- ture, an election would result in plac- ing them on the sidelines too. That, possibly, has more than a little to do with the contention of many .Gov- ernment members that thepresent is. no time for holding a general elec- tion. Next year, or for the duration or ,ever a yearor two after, would be a more, propitious time. It should not be forgotten either, that there are seven vacancies in the Legislature, some of them, if not most, extending over a period of sev- eral years and all against the bitter' protest of the 'voters in those con- stituencies. These, at least, should be -filled and filled immediately. To do this would bring on a small gen- eral electionin itself, 'and while the Province is at it, it might just as well go the whole way. There is also the .question of the legality of making extensions to the life of the Legislature.( The British North America Act provides that the term of the Legislature shall be four years, and that clause in the Act has • lever been changed, or amended in any way. Previously the Henry Ooverriitent had extended the term to five years, but that has never been ,sanctioned by Westminster or the Canadian courts. , e0ier extending the terns to ars is, any different in the the lair than extending.. the peg is for the courts.to de- ecrou1d say that if an ex- t e , gls%dt n term, is r desirable, • it the part -of TM Oovernmegt to atscertan the ,ppfular will of the people of the Pro- vince, rather than a mere najprity of the, Members of the Legislature, who alone will benefit by ail exten- sion. • British Newspapers No newsprint has been -delivered in England .since last November, and none is expected until. next July. As a consequence, British newspa- pers now run four, six or eight pages where they' formerly averaged six- teen to twenty-four. The Times, of London, is •allowed to publish ten pages four' days a week and eight pages two days. • Not only are the news columns slim, but the number of papers print- ed has been drastically cut, and one daily, The Telegraph, has •lopped off two hundred and ten thousand sub- scribers, although the demand is al- ways on the increase. In fact, a person has to puts his name on a long waiting list oto apply for a home delivered paper, and when he finally gets one he is compelled to pass it along to his . neighbor after he reads it. ane Advertising space . is reduced to a minimum, and the cost is very high, but the papers can notfill the de- mand which is being ,continually in- creased. The cost of one-eighth of a front page—the largest advertise- ment permissable—is $1,320, and an- inside n_inside one-eighth page is $790. Class- ified rates are also very high. In spite of the meagre news and advertising the British newspapers carry, and the high cost of subscrip- tion and advertising rates, they can not begin to supply the demand. Ap- parently the British people are like a good many others, -they didn't miss the water until the well ran dry. .. Not Much Difference We thought that when the new A.A. gasoline ration books came into use on the first • of the month, that there would be a decided let-up in the use of cars, but as far as we can see there seems to be just as many cars on the streets and the highways as ever, particularly on Saturday nights. To us, the new ration book is a mighty slim edition, that won't even permit us to peddle our papers, but perhaps there are different kinds, or perhaps motorist have decided to make one big splurge and then along about the end . of August get out of their cars and learn to walk At any rate, to date we can not see that the A.A. ration boob has made much difference. Publishing A Newspaper The publishing of a newspaper, even in this protected land, is never accomplished without difficulties, and for quite some time past most coun- try editors will agree with us when. we say that publishing a newspaper is just what General Sherman called war. But when it -.comes to publishing a newspaper under difficulties, we have to take our hat off to •the Valetta Times of Valetta, on the British -owned island` of Malta in the Mediterranean. So far the Times has not missed a single day's publication in spite of 3,241 air-raid alarms so far in this war. Its building has been bombed twice and set on fire once. Follow- ing one..r.aid the paper was a bit late getting out—the linotype machines had to be cleaned because rock dust had blown allover them after a bomb had crashed through four stor- ies of 'the building. • So Do Wel The Chicago Daily News says "Recalling the dizzy 20g s, when large banks had "a vice-president in charge of vice-presidents, we expect any night to tune in on a commentator on war • commentators." So do we. In: fat, we have al- ready heard at good Way oomn len- tator's on "L .Gnett ' speaking." items plcked from fifitor of SAY and ty*ye years ago. From The Huron Expositor rll 19, 1918 Mr. John H. Quigley, of Hallett,' was completely surprised by friends and neighbors at, his home . one evening recently. He intends leaving soon to take up residence on a farm on •'the London Road. Mr. and Mrs. Monteith, Kippen, who have been spending the winter with friends in California, arrived, home this week. Mrs. Wm. Dougall, Sr., left Hensall on Wednesday for Iowa, being sum- moned there owing to the serious ill- ness of her sister, Mrs. Geo. Murray. The entertaininent given in Calder's Hall, Winthrop, on Friday, provided keen enjoyment to the large audience. The play entitled, "The Ladies' Aid of Mohawk ;Grossing," given by 25 of the ladies of the district, was most amusing. Those taking the main, parts were Miss Blanchard, Miss Ament, Mrs. J. M, Govenlock, Mrs. Harn, Mrs. J. G. Grieve, Mrs. Blanchard, Miss Smith, Mrs. Calder, Miss Beattie, Mrs. Eaton and Miss McCulla. Mr. Adam Hays, has sold his resi- dence on Goderich St. East, at pres- ent occupied by Harry Charters, to Mr.. James Barron. Word was received by his parents on Thursday morning •that Sydney Deem, who enlisted with the 101st Hurons, was in a hospital in England, suffering from gunshot wounds in the nose. The induction todk place on Thurs- day of Rev. S. M. McLean, of St. Marys, into the pastorate of the Eg- mondville Presbyterian Church, suc- ceeding Rev. Argo, who has retired. The annual meeting of the Seaforth Lawn Bowling Club was held in the council chamber Tuesday evening and the following officers were elected:— President, Wm. Ament; vice-pres., Dr. C. Mackay; sec.-treas., Col. Wilson; managing committee, J. M. Best, 3' G. Mullen, H. Stewart, C. A. Barber, W. G. Willis. - Mr; Arnold Habkirk, of the. Dunn- ville post office staff, spent Sunday at his home here. .Mr: W. Gormley, undertaker, has purchased a new Chevrolet car from the local agent, Mr. D. Shanahan. Miss Eva Holmes, Who has been vis- iting at the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. S. T. Holmes, returned to Boston on Wednesday to resume her duties in one of the 'hospitals there. The old-time•dance held in Cardno's Hall on Tuesday evening was a decid- ed success and the. "prize winners of the Collie collection were Gordon Thompson, W. Ament, A. Houston and Mayme Anderson. • From The Huron Expositor April 21, 1893 Mr. Robert Charters, of the Mill Rpad, Tuckersmith, has sold to Mr. George Chesney, of the Huron Road, west of Seaforth; his fine stock bull which took several prizes at Bruce - field show last week. Mr, John Landsbbrough, of Tucker - smith, had a very successful sale and there was a large crowd. Messrs. W. G. Duff 'and Geo. Kirkby made things fairly hum. -• The 'Beaver Lacrosse Club of .Sea - forth was organized for the coming year with the following staff of offi- cers: Hon. pres., G. E. Jackson; hon. vice-pres., R. Logan; 2nd vice-pres., H. J. Crawford; pres., Dr. Chas. Mackay;, vice-pres., R. Jackson; sec.-treas., W. Sutherland; captain, H; ,Jackson; com- mittee, W. McDougall, J. Smith, O. Neil, J. Bell; honorary members, J. O. Rose, W. O. Reid, T. Richardson, J. Aird, 'w. C. McKay and W. M. Mere- dith. The masons are now busily engag- ed at work on Mr. Cardno's new build- ing on John St: Mr. Jas. Gillespie has purchased the Cook lots on Main" St., Seaforth, and intends erecting thereon -a handsome brickresidence. Mr. Francis. Melady, St.-Columban, gave a large .party recently to all his surrounding friends, the music being furnished by Messrs. "P; Melady and W. Burke. The floor manager was Mr. Jas. Bergain. ' Mr. John Crozier, of Harlock has 10 ewes which have given birth to 20 lambs. Mr. Louis Sands, of Chiselhurst, has erected a nice frame 'barn on his lot. Mr. Jas. Patterson, of • Brucefield, "Maple Lawn Farm," has sold another very fine animal to Mr. Wm. Bubolz, of the Kippen Road, -near Egmond- ville. fp Mr. David Millson, of Kinburn, has purchased a very handsome organ for his daughter from Scott Bros., . Sea - forth. The auction sale of Mr. D. D. Wil- son's dairy stock was held on Ingle- side Farm, near Seaforth, ort, Tuesday last. The afternoon was pleasant and there was a large crowd present. Among the ptirehasers were W. Eber- hart, Tuckersmith; Wm. Reid, Hen - sail; Jos. Brown, Seaforth; Jas. Reid, Hullett; Robt. Winter, Seaforth; as. McIntosh, Tuckersinith; Jas. Carne- eban, Tuekersrlth; A. Buchanan, Tuckersmith; Rot. ilddings; )tullett; Chas. Little, Seaaerth, I& bt, Melt/tor- die, Eippen; 112 Dates,'Stanley; WM. Kinsman, Chiiseihtirat; i+�m, McCloy; '.puekerstnith; Ci btfr'_C?tieitifti3'', Sdafbrt'h. Mr, rhos. Gotetithelt co•'ixt'e to 01012, in his cutter on-Attordair .iitOriitifl 0 Lazy Meadows • (!!y Harry J. 111414) Patricia Ann went visiting one couldn't get the buckles done -up on night last' week. Mrs. Phil wanted to her shoes. She had her spring bon - take a run into town to do some ,shop- net on and she was carryl.ng a little ping and I wanted to plead my. point. suitcase. In the ' suitcase she had an - with -the n -with -the rationing board about 'a, new 'Other drt ss, her nightie, her bathrobes seed drill, which they are ,undecided •nnd her little •bunny sUp ierli,"''She was about giving me. My cousin wanted all set to go and stay witiCif.rs. Black. us to spend the day at her • Place I don't suppose that Mrs. Phil and • . our yearly town party. I ever seemed .so slow to'anyone in We didn't like the idea of having our 'lives as we did to Patricia Ann. Patricia Ann walk all over town after on that occasion. Sithe spent the whole us and then have to sit up for party. There just didn't seem to be any 'way out of it, so we decided not to go. Mrs. 'Black who lives on a little tract of land up the road a piece in a neat cottage, •suggested that Patricia go up and spend the afternoon and night with her. Now Mrs. Black, a grand- mother, is a grand old soul who likes children— the kind that wears an apron and always seems to have a few candies and cookies for you when you call. 1 mean, at ],east a child is never disappointed and you can see all the children on our Concession loiter on their way home from school, when they go by her place 'in the hopes that she'll hail them. We asked the wee lady. She was more -than than delighted and for the two days previous to the one when we were going to town, she talked of nothing else. At three and a half years of age, she even+uworried about whether she should wear thered dress or the blue one. At six o'clock in the morning she was banging the side of the crib and wanting to be morning in packing and repacking the suitcase and picking out the doll she wanted to take with her. Between times she was reminding her mother that we had seen better get going." According to her, darkness was liable to fall at noontime. She wanted to be on her way as soon as possible. Finally we were ready and she was dancing around in the back seat of the car in great glee. We pulled up to Mrs. Blacks, and she was the fl, st one out. I handed her out the suit- case . . . a tiny one, intended for the doll I might say . . . and she started running for the house. She thought of herself, came back and gave us a quick hug and kiss and re- peated solemnly that she would he a good girl and dashed into the waiting arms of the kind old lady. That visit was last Wednesday. Since then she has never stopped tell- ing us of the wonders of that •trip: She slept in" a big bed, just like ours. She was a good girl. She had some nioe candies and Mrs. • Black baked a let out. There was nothing else I little cakefor her and the dolly. She played with the pussy -cat and the dog and she saw some of the grandest lit- tle chickens it was possible to behold. could do but to let the side of the crib down when I went to the kitchen to light the stove. About ten mnutes later s h e I She has enquired if we are thinking walked out. She had her best dress of going to town again some day. on. True, the buttons were done up Staying with Mrs. Black- was a grand a little on the crooked side and her experience for Patricia Ann. Her first stockings weren't exactly neat and she visit away from home . . alone! :JUST A. SMILE OR TWO; Judge: "What have you to say for yourself?" Prisoner: "I wish I was in a place where there were no traffic cops." Judge: "Wish granted. Sixty days." • "Who has been monkeying with my private notepaper?" shouted the man- ager as he searched his desk. ' "I saw Mr. Jimson writing a letter," murmured the office boy. ' "And who's Mr. Jimson?"' "He's the man that cleans. the win- dows," replied the boy. The official swung round in his chair and glared. ,at his office boy. "Jimmy," he said, "we call men by their,. names in this office. No mis- tering is this place, and don't you forget it." A few minutes later the boy stuck his head i nat the door. "Gent to see you, George," e said. • "Young man, in picking my augh- ter for your wife, you must- have tak- en me for an old fool." "No sir,' you are entirely wrong. I didn't take you to be over middle aged." • "The hen must be a gloomy crea- ture." "Why?„ "Always broodin', you know." • Stranger (at party): "Dull, isn't it?" Other: , "Yes', very," Stranger: "Lets go home." Other: "I can't, I'm host." • • • • Conferences With . Cabinet Ministers (By Walter R. Legge) • gl As mentioned in an earlier article, it addition to the conference which e had with Britain's. Prime Minister, we had informal meetings with a num- ber of the Cabinet • Ministers. Naturally as editors we 'were par- ticularly interested in meeting the Minister of Information, the Hon. Brendan Bracken. Before his appoint: ment to this post in July, 1941, Mr. Bracken was Parliamentary Secretary to Prime' Minister Churchill. He has had practical publishing experience, having, been editor of "The Banker," chairman of the "Financial News," and managing director of "The Econ- omist." a- Mr. Bracken is the •-f-ourth man to have held the Ministry of Information post since the beginning of the war. Our conference with him was an inspiring one. He told us something about what England is doing. "The people of England," he said, "are working harder than any other people have in any war. A 'series of nothing but misfortunes has not dostrdyed our senses. The English people are all out in their war effort but they will still do more. Whatever happens, the English will never surrender. We will see this thing through to the abso- lute end. "Some people think that "after the war, England will give up" ber Empire and Imperialism. This is entirely wrong. We will not sell our heritage for a mess of potage. We have an immense contribution to pay to pos- terity, and no . government will ever agree to the dismemberment of the British Empire. "The British lion is not- a mangy dying animal, nor will he, be confined in an iron cage. Only in the years to come will the effort of England be really understood." Such was part of the message that the Hon. Brendan Bracken had for us. We fount the Ministry. of ,Informa- tion most co-olierative 'during our stay in l;ngland. The passes issued by that department Were 'so effective that the others whip had been b- etted to us were almost •superfluous•, We met the Doli. I;7i neat Bevan, Minister of Labour, it. his office and had a talk with hilri., i4r.. ewlyn was Witt ' t itt 484 Aim stapled oils career 'its - a truck driver, was general secretary of• the Transport Workers' Union, and, in 1940, became Minister of Labour , and • National Service. Some people think that he may some day be Prime Minister. His is one of the most important tasks today, for Britain is manning the world's greatest navy, maintaining armies in many parts of the world, supplying a steady stream of youths for. the R.A.F., keeping up home de- fences, fire fighting and A.R.P. ser- vices, and steadily Increasing produc- tion of war supplies. No wonder that he told us there was no such thing as. a saturation point in manpower. He has made a wonderful success of his task, but it must be remember- ed that this result could not have been attained without the enthusias- tic co-operation of the entire popula- tion. -• In answer to our question he said that there is very little wilful ehb- slenteeism. But when we asked him about labour troubles in certain plac- es, he impatiently replied that the newspapers had to make news, and "virtue has no news value." • He thinks that the war is teaching the United Kingdom a great deal about transportation which will have an effect after the war is over. We had an interesting conference with the Hon. L. S. Amery, who Is Secretary for India and Burma. He told us a great deal about the trou- blesome elements in India. Most of us went away with a new conception of the India problem. We also began to realize how little most people know about it. Mr. Amery has travelled in most parts of,, the world, and' as we left, he said: "I wish the war were over so that I could pay another • visit to Canada." The Inst conference we had was with Sir R. Stafford Cripps, who Is probably better known to Canadians than any other minister except • the Prime 1V1inister. He has been a very sfccessful legal counsellor, and is now Lord Privy Seal: He has a very attractive person:al- ity, .a keen mind, and Mlr whole im Preasion of hits was entirety favor (Csltiiiwe% Oil Page i) I ow WAYS AND MEANS Londesboro, Huron Co., April 12.. The Editor, The Huron Expositor: Dear Sir: By what ways and means!, can the farmers of Ontario and the Dominion of Canada as a whole in- 'crease production of food stuffs to los a benefit and help to win the war?, Last fall the Government lowered the price of tea, cgfje, oranges and milk, and that costs the Governaaeni $40,000,000 annually, besides 'giving a: lot of clerks a job. It might cost the Government $50,000,000 before it's.paitll and after that they said to the con- sumers of butter they were paying too' much for their butter, so' we will lower it 1% cents per pounds. Then they said to the farmers: You -are not getting enough for your butter fat; we were giving you a subsidy of ix cents for butter fat and we will give you a raise of 4 cents. That will bo 10 cents that you get for your butter fat. The week before that came in- to force we were getting at our door 44 cents for butter fat. The next week, when it came into force, we only got 46 cents. Where did the• other ,two black cents go to? That will take hundreds. of clerks more. Between that and the tea and coffee, it may cost,between 75 or 1,00 millions of dollars a year, and it will not help to produce any more foodstuffs to. help win the war that I can see. Then I saw in the papers that was a fine Christmas present for the peo- ple. That brought to my memory a young couple that got married just before Ghristmas. A day or two be- fore Christmas he went to town • and bought a $10.0 dollar Christmas box for Mary Dear, his wife, and when Christmas morning came he present- ed 'the 'fine Christmas present to his wife: She looked at it and she thought it was fine, but in a moment she asked 'him where he got the money to buy, this fine present. .Oh, Mary Dear, I taxed you; for it." She said to him, "You just take that back where you got it. It will not help us to make anything.` If every dollar of - that would help to make 3+4 are 5 dollars, it will be all right." I see Ontario is falling down in proficiency in the amount of foodstuffs. (Continued on Page 3) • 0 Seen in the oun'-.7► Pape Federation Head Resigns 3. C. Shearer, county agricultural re- presentative, told The Signal -Star last Friday that A. W. Morgan, president of Huron County Federation of Agri- culture, had resigned owing to in health. Mr. Morgan, who is Clerk of Usborne township, and also a first- class farmer, was taken. ill some months ago and while he is up and around, again, the nature 'of his illness is such as to forbid his continuing in the Federation presidency. His resig- nation was accepted. with regret. It also was announced that W. L. Whyte, of • Seaforth, bad resigned as vice- president, but that his resignation had not yet been dealt with by the. execu- tive. Mr. Whyte states that the farm labor situation is such that his farm will demand his entire time this sum- mer.—Goderi ch Signal=Star. Some Bad Roads ''°' Most of the country roads are 'all dried up, but the Zurich road west to St. Joseph, had some bad spots in it last week, and the patrolman, Mr. James Masse, was kept busy making repairs and filling in the bad places where the vehicles ..mired in. The - Dashwood road from Exeter north to- Port Blake, has suffered a lot of abuse - and was reported closed most of the way, owing to miring in and Dashwood traffic to Exeter went by way of Crediton.—Zurich Herald. Celebrates 95th, Birthday Our congratulations- are extended to. Mrs. Henry Richmond, who on Satur- day, April 3rd, attined her 95th"birth- day. Although impaired in some of her faculties, Mrs. Richmond enjoys a fair amount of health, and was 'able to be about her home to receive many good wishes from friends by tele- phone, letter and personal visits. So far as we know she bas the distinc- tion of being theoldest resident in the community, also of being the long- est in or around town, having lived In this community continuously for the past 86 years. We wish for her added years.. to her long life.—Blyth Standard. In Charge of Hospital Ship Dr. A. Harold Taylor, of Goderich, who has been in command of No. 11 Company, R.C.A.M.C., at district mili- tary headquarters, London, with the rank of major, has been promoted! to a lieutenant-colonelcy, it was announc- ed last week. Col. Taylor has noW been appointed to the command of a Canadian hospital ship. A completelr- egllipped operating room, a modern sterilizing room, an inspection roolf for minor dressings, a dispensary and a portable X-ray outfit forth part of. the ship's tquipinent. l+.l#.dh of the 12: OntitinriSd11 ii a , • i ..1 • 9 9.