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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1944-03-10, Page 2*positor Alt ea of $90.9: ?n r040 afternoon, b. lo,a`vw. cLean •'H;: Friday,,: ta•rch 10, 1944 A. Suggestion -If you have been one 'of those per- sons who ,have been wondering what to do with that extra• day's pay that Leap Year, has :-:dropped into your pocket; we suggest the Red Cross • offers the opportunity to place ' it where itwig do the most good, and where it is mostimmediately. needed. • Strong 'Protest Is Justi ffed Last 'week we 'received a letter from.. a Seaforth citizen containing a strong protest against the way sbme ear drivers make use "of 'our streets, particularly: when the weather is ' soft and 'the streets are covered with water and slush. As we say, it was a strong protest, butone, we believe, to have.. been , absolutely justified. The writer said: • "As a subscriber to your paper, 1 anis suggesting that it -would be very tiiriely to use a .por- tion of your editorial • page to bring to the minds of a few of our towns- people, who drive cars, what common decency and respect for other§ really means." - "The writer was walking west on John Street on Saturday :night (with - In a -few minutes of 9 p*m.)--I men= -• tion the timeso that the. Igndramus;' who was driving and plastered me with all the filth of the street --it was everywhere but- in my •mouth, may, if he or she is .a reader of :your paper,' _have the satisfaction :of knowing` - what dict .people '.think of such .. Filthy ,praetjee '?E , past, two winters the dtwa on: the streets of Seaforth Cave' not been kept open for pedes- triant use, which means that both children and adults alike, y have to make use cif' the roadways, whether. their like it or nota Under those con- ditions, onditions, , pedestrians have as equal a right towalk•-on all streets as the Meter et •has to. drive. • During the winter months the plan . . works out .adinirably, butas soon as the soft weather..eontes, the pedes- trians are at the absolute mercy of "the ni'otorists. Fortunately; the av- erage motorist is considerate of the person walking. But - there• is the odd one—perhaps too many Odd ones —who never slackens speed ...for a pool of water or a pile of slush, with the result that some one receives a ducking, or has his or her clothes ruined. bythe street dirt thrown over them: Such a driver is very accurate' described by the .writer of the pro test when he who was br ught C up inschoolthe person of ignorance, could do such a filthy, dam-hable 'trick. Certainly it is that it was not a lady or gentleman who was driving on Saturday night; neither was it a stranger from out - of. town. And were the 'dame person treated by .some one else to a similar dose, they . would shout to high -Heavens' :And, there is no room for' doubt there. The writer further suggests—and it is..a practical, and very reasonable suggestion—that the car drivers of • the town should be warned by signs, or, otherwise, that pedestrians -have the same rights to the streets as they have during the winter season, and to drive accordingly, or be made an example of. The complaint we have •' received is not an isolated case by any means. In fact, we hear so many of them every ;time there is a protracted ! '°, that the authorities should take t atter u. . There is' a provision p ovnsion e law for;that ,verrthin. g� . And orwo atiiff fines would -do much -:: t _ . :: culled; 1f not entirely , clear up +ery regrettable situation* It now would, be a very good Make the neoes .' . arrange - or 'Carrying out ` Teal The that fell over if,, in the eouroe of..a ' weed„err two, be Melt- tivC vgain:,be in #d e,t o Awls will have res. ,,=;• ,•- int ;• i.� �t�, , u e a �.n ponssfl 1y, woof Ullde�u t be }if pedestrians wo4161td eo 9pe "ate" with the town , authorities by k orting every lack of Courtesyar eonsiderataon . on the part of motorists, without respect of persons. - • .... We Are Still Paying.. Perhaps few people know or re- alize that • although it is now twenty- five years since the last war, that same war is still costing the Cana- dian people $100,000,000 a year. Estimates for the coming fiscal year, recently tabled in the House of .Commons, provide$37,000,000 for War. the First Great pensions, and $15,584,000• for the care of that war's returned soldiers. Wren there, is added to these fig- ures the interest at something over three per cent. on $1,500,000,000- of war `debt, which runs to $50,000,000, the total annual cost of the First Great- War, which we.• are paying a ing ... to day, is more than $100,000,000. What the future annual cost of the.. present war in which we' are engag- ed will be, it is not yet possible to estimate. That is something that will `depend on the size of the next, pension list, and .what it will cost for • other care for both, ex -service men and women, and upon the size of the new war debt. But there is not the `• slightest doubt but that the annual cost will be very heavy. Looking things over, does any 'Can- adian' .doubt the .absolute necessity, of starting and keeping in perman- ent operation some system of world security? ,.Or do we. Canadianswant :these colossal burdens to keep on pil- ing'up every twenty-five years? And the greatest cost and loss of all, is the loss of the lives of 'so . many thou- sands of the youth ,arid best of our country. W 110w Would You ? , There are 'a heap of complainers in this world. • Complainers about the taxes, the food, the shortage'of gas and tires, .. the Government rules and regulations, and the list goes on and on. °liven about' the weather, .so we • pass'along a lie thought from the Vancouver Proirince, which said: ."A } little hackneyed thought that it • doesn't do any harm to think: If, you don't like the weather here, how would you like to be fighting in it?" Well, how would you? n4 Iterm Picked. From Thix limn gxpo;Iter of Fiftr and Tier°rity'five ,Yeas Ago. From The Huron Expositor March 14, 1919 Mr. R. M. 'McKay, of Blyth, has pur- chased Mr. A. M; Knox's• • jewelry, store In Wingbam. Mr. John al. Mustard; of Brucefield, the enterprising saw miller, had all the teams he could procure• drawing logs to his mill this week, making use of the sleighing. A very pleasant -evening was spent at the home 'of Mr. Roland Kennedy, Tuckersmith, 'on Monday w'hen a large number of guests aesenbled. They indulged ie card playing and dancing, with music by Forsyth Bros, and Sandy McMillan on the piano. During the past week two . more from Hen.sall and community were welcomed home from overseas, name- ly Lieut.. Jas: A. Munn and • Nursing Sister Mabel Cudmore,., •-- As .a result of an accident sustain- ed while harvesting' ice at Roxboro, on Monday, 'Mr. W. A. Crich is suf- fering from a badly sprained ankle. Russell Iiiest, who has been over- seas,with one of, the Canadian artil- lery •'units for seeral yea's, returned home en Monday evening, and W: D. Bright, Jr,, who went overseas. with the 161st Hurons, returned ,on 'Wed- nesday. Mr. R. C. Clank, of town, has a very interesting collection of war trophies including'a German watch, drinking cup, spoons, medals, etc., which were sentr .home by his son, Charles Clark, whb•' is atilt in France. Mr. Misner, the new •bank manager in : Walton, and his wife have arrived in that village. `. Clarence Bennett, -•pne of the re- turned soldiers of Walton, has bought. from Mr. Ryau his store 'and busi- ness. We wish him abundant suc- cess- '- Mr. E. W. Murray, of the Public • Works Department, Regina, and Mr's. Murray and daughter, have returned La .their bonze„ in -,the West'•after vis= • itin'g in Seafoi th. Mr, Robert Bell, of town, returned this Week from a business•, .trip ,to the West. Mr, .J itt. Archibald, Silver Creek Farm; disposed of his Holstein herd at the Perth. Breeders' sale in Strat- ford on 'ttesday- .. Mr. A. D. Armstrong is. moving his family this week from Tuckersmith to the farm he recently purchased from Mr. Andrew ,Scott, on the . Hur- on Road 'Welt. They Really Pinch , Ever since the gas . regulations came into effect; we have been ,won- dering if they made the slightest dif- ference to the average motorist. We were basing our doubts, of course, on our -own town and the surround-, ing district. Even in winter one sees our streets crowded with cars every day in the week, with quite a few more added on Saturdays. Perhaps the average farmer has more gas than his town brother, or better ways of obtaining it when required, but at any rate there seems to have been plenty of gas to keep the wheels turning. ,' But the gas regulations took on a new meaning' for us over the week- end on a trip to Toronto. Although it was Saturday afternoon, the main highways' were practically free of traffic, with the exception of some motor busses, which even exceeded in number the trucks. Gas stations along the way that were open were without customers, and many form- er.,ones along the . highways were, apparently, closed for the duration. In fact, it was not until the outskirts ' of the city were reached that cars began to appear again. On Sunday afternoon it was a ilar story. Mile after mile on . he Queen Elizabeth Highway, not a • car appeared in sight, either ahead 'or behind, and butfew`passed on the • other lane. In previous years traffic on that highway, either into or ottt of the'eity on 'a Sunday was slowed down to a funeral pace, because of `the congestion- of cars, but ,the FIVIXII Road would boast as many cars - as were wheeling qn that great thor- oughfare last week -end. Moto ,a, ,lets may be.sav'ing their gas for home consumption-; or may..hav'e already used up their quota,- but ,' there is one certain thing, they are .. not using: the highways mon ..on hriginy 'sunny week -ends: , Cause - .t' . . (00, we have reached the condo, air latidh6' really do From The Huron Expositor - March 16, 1894 • The ,'other day • the• re was broug into Bayfield a large eagle, measurin seven feet from wing to wing. Th bird was- captured in a •trap by M lItcEwan. Mr. and Mrs. R. H. Ferguson; Walton, treated their friend's to • oyster supper, at their residence r centiy,. Profesdor Hawkins, was on of the favored guests. Jas. L. McTpggart, M.D., of D troit, and. W. 0. McTaggart, Toronto, were in Chiselhurst atten fug the funeral of their mother.' A debate will be held in the Youn Men's Christian Association rooms i town on Tuesday next under the au pices of the Mechanics Institute whe the following subject will be discus .ed' by the sides named, "Resolve that public -officials, such as sheriffs registrars, customs. collectors an postmasters .should be paid by salar instead of fees”; affirmative, William Prendergast, James Watson, Dr Bethune; negative, -George Jackson D. D. Wilson and Thomas' McMillan. Mr. Robert Charters, of the Mil Road, has had two teams at work plowing since Friday:.last, • Master Jim Tlroadfoot, whb sprain ed his thigh at the rink some time ago, was out on Monday. - Mr. F. W. Tweddel,- of towns, leaves today for Chicago, where he intends to take a special post -graduate coarse in dentistry. •George Dewar will look after his praetice•-during his. absence. Mr. Charles Bthadfoot, , of town, was thrown from •a horse in Harpur- hey on Monday morning and severe- ly shaken up. M`r. Michael ,Broderick,' son of Mr, John Broderick, of Mitchell, has rent- ed'. half of Mr. R. Grieve's store at the corner of pain- and john Streets, and will open out a harness shop. Wood bees are now the order of the 'day in the neighborhood of. Lead - bury, Dennis Bros. had a. very sun- cess•ful one on Wednesday last at which 30 or 35 cords of woods were sawed In short order. Ale., Frank Wiltsie and'•Mr. John:.McPhereon were the spe dal entertainers: Part of the iron casting 'from the roof of the Campbell, block, jua't above Bright Bros.' store, fell to the side- walk on Thursday at 'Aden, and luek- ,ily no one was under it. Mr, George McGenig'le, Who has been living on the David Sproat farm in Tuckersmith, • Quad hate nit to his own. Paris on the 4t7t--ctiricessiori, R,S,, recently vacated. ltd* the tenant, Mr. George Habkirk.• McKay Bros., !'tic ter' ith, have dfap'osed of a line yOlIng ;�(ltitrham bull a1f, 11 inontlis old, tb Reid °'Bros;, of Varna . ht g e r. of Z e - e e - of d- g n s - n s - d d y m 1 • • 'stint how will I 'len 6'W hien, t etitife to the flogs' 'ra stds t' 7' "Veil datirt' tinge t d f►laea. tt- )rhe otTj' p , ding et9iE t►i :P` A LEND A. HAND, BUDDY ? • PHIL OSIF°E LAZY MEADO I have travelled iiiucb lit th'e pres- ent sense of the word . . . which means to ramble all over the world'. Sometimes I read at night of the boys ,who are wandering in -far-off places and it makesmy heart a .little sad. I too, would like to go';with the Smythe boy to; -distant Ceylon 'and tread • in the halls .of ancient- Indian prince's , or wander along the cold shores of Iceland with little 'Billy prince who used • to hoe • turnips' for me in .the summer -time, The paper tells me that the bankers son. is on a special mission contactinga guerilla leader in:Yugoslavia and the daily paper had a picture of. the barber's lad taken in a palace in Italy. Yes, I would like .to go and see those distant places, and yet .there's, something to be said about travelling right here in our -L'ounty. • Going to the county town the other day on the train I was watching the'. people in the coach and most. of . them looked bored. Actually, they didn:t enjoy travelling. Another with a lit- tle' girl kept busy pulling the tykee's bloomers and socks and complaining to her 'neighbor about the high cost of living. A traveller was •' trotting back to the washroom about every ten minutes to., partake, no doubt, from a' bottle ot stimulant he was carrying' on his hip. Three soldiers were asleep and a fourth one was reading a magazine. A. girl aerosis the aisle Was. trying ,to get iiim into conversation, but he was more inter- ested in the girl in the story than he was in the real-life girl with the red. lips and rosy—too rosy—cheeks, -- There wasn't anybody, paying any attention to the changing scenes out- side the windows of the train:. The man sitting in the• Seat beside me,. roused himself from a sort of stupor and said, !Pretty dull travelling on •these „country trains, isn't. it?" That sort of roused ray ire, and I asked him to explain himself: He grabbed for words: like a drowning man grasp- ing wreckage and ended up; "Well, By Harry J. Boyle there's nothing to do." I .suggested Viet ;he try looking out the window, and he 'snorted with laughter. Then I started pointing things out to him: We weren't travelling very fast ani! so 1 pointed •out where the old lime -kiln • used to be and farther along- ,the way the old woollen milt and grist mill, and the three .houses that are all remaining of what was once a prosperous country 'village ,built around the river and its source of. power for small industries. We;had quite a chat about' the 'disappearance of country placels in favor of the city communities. Conversation, lagged again and we looked out the windows. . A boy. and girl 'with bright. caps were skating gracefully on a pond • of frozen ice. They • were literally skimming along, and we were 'close enough to -see .their, • happy faces. ' My companion started to recall 'his boyhood `in__the- country. and. with a ceitaiu, amount of, pride' confessed that he had won certain distinction as a figure skater . . . but he had started on a pond' behind the barn en his folks' farm. Somehow we found it was fun to watbh the changing scenes that flit- ted by our windows. Sometimes we skidded along through dark tunnels of Close -packed trees • and a • rabbit Started, out at us from a .thicket. Other times we burst' around a sharp corner and .streaked across a fiat val- ley with neat houses and barns pad- locked by winter. We had a strange feeling as the train sped along over a bridge that we couldn't see., Look- ing down at the frozen river with its narrow Channel of Bowing 'water in the centre that frost couldn't hold, it seemed as if the train had suddenly taken wings and was, flying from bank to bank. .Soon the trip was ov- er and we thanked each other for 'pleasant companionship and yet each of us knew that the time had passed because we had been interested in the changing landscape and the mem- ories and imagination it had stirred. Hur n Federation Of • Agriculturea-Farm News. •r► Control of Cattle Lice and Skin Diseases There are severs l•: dtinsdsaof lice and also of skin d'iseas'es that are a han- dicap to the comfort of cattle during the, winter. Most cattle are l'ou'sy, and if not controlled, a great deal of feed' is t wasted for when cattle do not rest comfortably, they cannot be ex- pected to make good use of their feed, states 'R. II:^='McDowell, Dominion Ex- iierimental Station, Kentville, N.S. In summer, lice are more or less controlled by the occasion wash by 'rains, • while the hair isthin, and if the Cattle have a geoid washing with • a two per cent. creolia solution.• in the spring, repeated in ten days, they will be fairly well cleaned up. In the fall and winter some commercial louse powder or derrls Toot can be used, •`says R. H. McDowell, Heat Herdsnnan, 'DOi inion illxperimental Station, KenteItle, N.S; When defile root is s"prinklled along the back and down as ;far as possible on the sides, -amend the tail and {town towards the udder, it. will Ile found to be 'very effective. • Care, however, ,must be taken, .net . to get any of the dean's root in the animal's eyes. It will not cause arey perinanent 1njugf but will >xii.. oke timid sore for�•a, ,few days. Skit diseases, suet •as ` ringworm itch et Mange, could be 'treated as seen as rtoticed, rot. ringworia, .poia't With- 5 pre, Hent: iodine, .an. ., elrery.. three or feiitr days' putOtt, sameAgteaee', to Mogen any'; ole. 'Por Mhttt.. o Sorel with :a etabby a p In ttid'e' use ,type potted e Snlphiir, whit i etas Neon isMed in i3ne iia1f "galttiit of 'raw' idtl- areti ori! A,ra thexi eiillj .ui#ttces of oil of tar added. Put this on sores whine it is h'.. Care must he taken while preparing not to let oil boil over and start a fire.' Care and Feeding Of Young Chicks As time goes on, researci, tends to indicate that the early weeks of the life of the, Chick are pf the utmost importance. in determining its effici- ency as a producing unit in adult life.• Feeding, sanitation and management during .this period should be consid- ered ' 'lth 'great care. For a longer or shorter period depending upon time of hatch, the -chick is unable to supplement its feed th'ro'ugh pasture in the sunshine a complete ration must be fed. Under moat ""circum- etances a ration suitable to fulfil these exacting requirements cannot life mixed on'the farm because of lack of availability of .essential Ingredients. and high cost of these when purchas- ed in awall lots, states H. G. Gutter- idge, Poultry Division, Central Ex- perimental Farn4,' ptta'wa. In addi- tion, seeing that the starter gnash which is fed during this period is consumed in relatively tim•ited• quan titles, s b , eC&Uh e Of mall size of the chinks, it des probably, poor eon! orgy to use 'other than a high .grade, comntdr'oial starter mash, during this crucial time when so much is at stake. At a later period during the lite of the chicks, that i„ ,after cit to eight weeks- ot..i ge, :the haeme t3 <. Mg of feeds targets, hdmp grotwi tnay' be Atte/tilted 3iytA c0 ti tfrtss . War'rant that is men g5o'dgrott:. 'fold," Gild s'of'tie'' w ri0,'jit tIos of oltxtfx t9�iilk oY° FROM o•V,EKSEAa� • Tie foliewing interesting dotter by' Cpl Iierb; .Whittaker, has heed sea, ce,ived by 1i's, wife, Airs. Seaferth,-'ilio husband has been flit x' years on aPtive• service Overseas: At last, after font years awl., two weeks, I can truthfully say that I have seen and visited the Brltielai Isles. For a lorig timer npw, I have wanted to uee,Irelargd, bat un'tii this - month month 1 never seemed ,to be able to get Ieave, ;have. -'Rinds ani .Qivilia2u. clothing all at the same time. ' I_1.eft ,camp for London on •the"Sun- day evening and stay there -until morning, when I caught the "Irish., Mail" train from Euston at. 15, Af- ter a long and tedious journey, Pune- . tutted -by many stops along the route,. I reached Holyhead in Wales, my port of . embarkation, around ;, 2 p.m.. 1 Queued at the pier while fellow -pas- sengers ahead of.' me doled slowly, through the Customs, the censors and the immigration offices. An official' finally checked our name against a list of undesirables marked down in. the "blackbook," and finding us with- out blemish, let us through. Lifebelts and sea fjesblights were issued to all passengers A immediately keyboarded the, boat and the tap - Tam addressed us on the P.A. •s•; stem. and warned us to keep them by our'. sides at all times. Around 5 p.m.,.the, ship steamed into 'the Irish Sea and my trip "across" had at Fast started: The boat was completely blacked -out and no smoking was allowed•on decks, Soon the tea room was opened follow- ed-•by.,the bar serving the smatter but more costlier drinks. As I had heard a• bout the violence of the waves on ore Crossings, I' contented ,myself with Lipton beverage, rather than eanpt fate with outer drinks. Sur, prisingly; . the trip was very smooth nd we ..bad reached the three-mile 'mit, the lights were turned on, and n the distance, ---Dublin copld easily e seen, ablaze with lights. It was lovely sight to . see after . all these ears of darkness and groping in un - 1• .streets. Before long we were ' longside the pier at Kingstown and nded around nine;.having made the oyage of 58' miles in something like record time. We lined up again for the cu'stbufs, they' were not -Leo' bothersome, , though they frowned upon die-. pound of tea and my Canadian cigar tee. Ppm Dam Laoghaire: Pier (Pro-- ttouneed. Lairey), I caught, '' the Dublin: kpress to the city where I had to ght my. way through the mob of en, womett and kids, offering ac-- modation , at prices ranging, from our shillings to a pound- I had' made rangements-in-advance and soon I as in my hotel, and being shown y room, after *!lith I• wait, asked If .: would care for something, to eat, d what would I like? I rather heli= ntly asked for eggs and bacon, and sure nay face beamed when the der was. taken and 'served to me thout- question:•• It was an occasion it has been a very long time since ch a satisfying meal had been eery - to me. Real old-fashioned• eggs, o, the kind our ancestors bad' to. reale th.e -shell on before frying. Fol - wed .real butter without a trace sof rgarine and quantities: of jam and rmalade. What a meal! Reluct- tly pushing myself away from the le, I strolled .around for ali'•'•lieur d then to bed. Nine o'clock found me back at the tion after a hearty meal of more on and eggs. 1 caught the train New Ross, County Wexford,' and s soon- en -route .to Southern Eire. e trains here are peer, in compari- to the excellent English trains, largely at this time to` -the small ntities og coal being ,imported. ey stop frequently and halted for g periods, but•this allowed a good ortunity for seeing the country. at I saw 'convinced me that the Inman . is not 'all !'Barney!.f"when speaks of home. , was met at the station 6y friends then escorted to the house re I was staying. New Ross has nd 5,000• popution, depending on . .surrounding farming country for business. It is built on rock land ,lar -to Sudbury, with the'"differ'- that the scenery here is not at bleak and cold looking, s •t `a 1 a 9 a la t al et E fl m co m f ar w r I an to I'm or w•i as S.4ed to b. lo ma ma an tab an sta bac to wa Th son due qua• Th lon opp -Wh Iris he I and whe .ai-ou the Its site! ence all y l'eav'e really started from this .°•Breakfast in bed every morn - (I objected„ but was ,.over•,ruled), around 'noon, take all the•gime ed for washing and shaving, and lunch before ever a slight pang, anger became apparent. The life RBdey and I loved it --.I kicked my - for not coming to this wonder-'• onntry years ago! th further travelling over,- I core d. myself with walks around tate tryside: and evenings -spent at* show et visiting friends of the y. There was plenty. of excite - one night when I went eta a local g match. It is' no wonder the have a reputation for scrapping, n the ring were youngsters no than 3 or 10,slugging g n their Cir g ly out y 1#litl opponents 'ta their s conte„t. Later in the eventing er d'lasses appeared, anti-' inter - g bouts- ended up the" 12 fight Irish Republican Army (I.R.A.) t0 ,b e seen, at • all times in this rat: ,eeuntry. 'The *ear a green , 'hemi-batttedresa dosignod-.part- to the. HMV* s1 tifor,'m; with :a erptitr.' eats thlrlywi 111,a 'Jley Milts e. tiiriuiber of lass: biitteiis time Ing arise need then of h cif self ful 6 Wi tente court the fainil ment boxiri Irish for 1 more equal pal heart :heavi estin card, The evil s Lieut ,;tinged 1y ]r it tei'v 4 Mabe .i 1' P