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The Huron Expositor, 1944-09-15, Page 2ean, it orth,Ontario,it- e a riven by McLean, AL,F0 iday Septeirnber15 • Back Again , Ron. Winston Churchill, Prime '4er of Great Britain, is hack in nain. And back again with is Mr.. Roosevelt, President of tie 'United States,. For the second time in the space_ of little over a year, • ' these heads of two of the greatest and most powerful nations of the '• world have met in Canada to further • • pians, and, perhaps, complete them, • foi the absolute defeat of Hitler and Japan, and all they stand for. That Canada should be chosen a • second time for such a meeting is a • signal honor conferred upon us, and • shows in a most unmistakable way the position Canada holds in the eyes of the great Allied Nations, and the • confident trust their leaders impose in us. •That Canada welcomes these great • world leaders goes without saying. That Canada will do everything in its power to facilitate their delibera- tions and provide true hospitality, is • just as well -understood by them as • by the world at large. tut not be- cause Mr. Churchill is a great lead- er, or a leader of a greater nation, - but rather because he has seemed, in •. -ever greater measure, during these war years, to have become a part of • us and a symbolpf victory, his com- ing to Canada brings with it a feel- •• ing of confidence and trust that pos- sibly no other man. has ever inspired • in the Canadian, people. Mr. Churchill's response to the people who gave him such a whole- hearted welcome on his arrival on • Sunday, was characteristic of him • and warmed the hearts and lighten- ed the war clouds hanging, not over the people who gathered to welcome him, but made the world brighter for the people of Canada, from coast to •- coast. "It was very kind of yeti," he said, "to give my wife and myself such a • splendid welcome. . . It is not the first time we have been here, but • never have we been here when the • skies were brighter or when the in- vincible march of our forces has been more swiftly and inevitably directed towards its. goal." - • • Just P romises ? • Just a little over a year ago Col. George Drew, as the leader of his • political party, was elected Premier of the. Province of Ontario. At that time the contributing factors that raised him to that high post were many, but possibly his platform of "22 points," or, in other words, his "22 promises," contributed as much • as anything else to his election. Were those "22 points" just prom- • ises? After an examination of a few of them, and 'after waiting a • year during which there was a ses- sion of the Legislature, which, under his direction, failed to redeem many of them, what other name will the people of Ontario apply to that "22- • paint" platform?, • Far instance, take the daddy of them all, the one that probably gave •- • Col. Dre-w the premiership: "There •• will be a sweeping revision of our -.whole system of real estate taxation so that the owning and improvement of homes and farm land, which are the very foundation of our society, • will not be discouraged by excessive taxation. As an initial step in that direction the Provincial Government ' ...will assume at least 50 per cent: of the school taxes, now charged agaiiist real estate." • 1What did CoL"Dreiv do to make thar5Foinise good? Note that his "initial" step was to be "at least' a •tedUction of 50 per cent. in school taxeS, Mite too, that instead of that, , his initial step has been a reduction -ofone'Angle' mill in our tax bill. In thiS bewii.,:the assessment for schoOl is solhething over nine he giternrtent had absorb - t that taxi as Col. our tax bin ted bion ad 'Other • , w�rk at all times operation rnment ink:establish 1)40 security." Dic • cent radio,'broadeast soup., Olietat "t. And , again, .committees of •out- ' standing farmers were to be formed in every county in. the province "who will be given authority,, to plan pro- duction, and relate the processing and distribution of their output. Cheese boards, creameries, milk dis- tributors, central produce markets, and other marketing organizations will be under the supervision of out- standing farmers in each line of pro- duction." What happened? An act was passed making possible the es- tablishment of agricultural commit- tees and giving them power to make recommendations. But—no author- ity whatever has been conferred up- • on these committees, and farmers theinselves know the whole scheme •• is unworkable. And still again: The stockyards were to be taken over 'and operated as a publicly owned enterprise, so that speculation and manipulation may be stopped and fair prices as- sured." The stockyards have been taken over, but ask any farmer how much beef and pork prices have gone up since the take-over, or ask any consumer how much cheaper his meat is. • • Will It Come To This ? Poison gas, one of the most ter- rible and inhuman weapons in the • last -war, first introduced by the Ger- mans against the Canadians, and in turn used with terrible effect by the Allies against the enemy, has so far had no place in the present struggle. But will it? That is a question yet to be ans- swered. But if, as Hitler says, he will • wreck civilization before he meets • defeat, there is no guarantee it will not be used by the Germans even be- fore they are driven behind the bar- riers of their own country to make the their last stand. Two weeks ago, Time correspond- ent, John Scott, radiocast from Stockholm a report that Germans were sending poison gas cylinders to the English Channel coast. The correspondent said an Allied plane had bombed a heavily gparded train, en route from Germany through Holland to the coast, and that poison gas had escaped from, cylinders it was carrying, kiliting5 several of the guards and thro*ing • a nearby Dutch town into panic. He • also said that many trains, heavily guarded such as this one, have pass- • ed through Belgium and Holland re- cently towards the channel coast. If that is true, the intention of the. • Germans is quite clear. Instead of • bombs sent over England in robot ° machines, the Germans will send poison gas cylinders. It is a horrible thought, but still a possibility. • Fortunately, there is now little of the channel coast on the continent left in the hands ,of the Germans. But if Hitler has already made pre- parations to use poison gas on the coast, he has long ago determined to use it against the Allied forces, both • in the occupied countries; ,or what is left of them to him, and in Germany • as well. It is quite possible it may come to this. It is equally possible, and more than' probable, that the Allies know it, and have already prepared a ter- rible retribution if the Germans s1or �t , eloari ago. • From The Huron Pcoonitor •' September lfk. 1919 • Litet':'9'ri4ay evening ire of ua.- known origin destroyed Oa One ham of Ws., ''VV;; Coleman, east of. Zurich, together 'with the season's 9r0p, four horses and other live stock and int, plemeats., • The fennel opening of the new church shed at Egmbndville took place on Tuesday and Iran moat sue- cesatul. •• A bazaar was held in the afternoon and in the evening the Maple Leaf quartette gave an excel- lent program to a very large audie- ence. Miss H. I. Grattam has been aro cepted as a candidate for the London. 'a duck to Water and the first thing we knew he published' a song ot his own. Nothing was heard of him after that for a year or so, because he went to Europe. When he came back he had another song published. • It became quite popular and most all the local people enjoyed a game of trying to figure out how much money he was making: His • picture in a newspaper, or • magazine would send the figures soaring. • Then his father died and he came home for the •funeral,:looking quite prosperous but tired. He went away after the funeral and reappeared a month later and gradually the news went around that Jimmy Macdonald t PIIIL LAZ . " "FAME" Alter • ladt: 1:6:4 1t t sIbehii d[5,t1 ,xr 1.8: en the lleXt ioncoaalo JmWy cape Over te say, gned-ble to .tts because he's planniag ou taking a trip out to Vancouver this fall and hell" Probab- ly stay there nail next IsPr"ng. I Should explain,, Is some- thing ,in-' the wayl of a celebrity in this township. He's getting along in years because as a boy I can welt re- member him as beipg almbst a leg7 endary fignre, In his boyhood he was a clever, singer and his father sent hire, to the eity to take lessons, and also to further his. academie studies. Jimmy took to learning like Free press campaign. _ The success - p1 contestants are to be given a•free trip to the battlefields of Europe. Messrs: H. R. Hinckley and Doug- las' Beattie left „this week to attend the 'Agricultural- College in Guelph. Messrs. Harvey Burrows, L. Col- bert, Eferatt Ritte0,1I-K-79hipmaii -and Russell Bristow left this week for Toronto to attend the Ontario Col- lege for Dental Surgeons. Misses Ross, of Stanley, and Emma McDonald and Margaret Ross; Bruce - field, •Ieit on Monday for London to attend the Normal School. John A. McEwan, of Stanley, threshed sweet clover off n acres last week. The seed is very expensive„ was going to stay on the farm. Few being from $10 to $12 per Oushel. . of the folks would even believe it Among the successful exhibitorsot until they say .hircf in overalls and the Walton school fair were: Flora straw hat. working around the farm. Harris„ Alvin Crawford, Willie Den- Later on he started singing 'at local nis, Howard Oster, Norman Hoover, affairs . . . church suppers, concerts John Munn, Della McNabb, David and such like. He was a grand sing- Niarray, Gordon McGavin, Ethel Dav- er and a great -Mimic ah' d my genera-, idson,. Harvey Johnston; Lawrence tion • grew up. to think of him as be - Ryan, Marjorie Reid, Evelyn Cunning- ham, Vera Gardiner, Hattie McCall, Bert Johnston, Lindsay Stewart, Mary McDonald, Ethel Denniti,• Florence Bennett, Winnifred • Drager, Charlie Davidson and Albert F'arquharson. Mr. H. C. Soldan, of the London Road, adjoining the ,village of Hen - sail, made ' a remarkable showing at the. great Toronto ,Exhibition this year with his string of Percheron horses. Mr. Andrew Seett , purchased the McMichael_ estate on Goderich Street for . $2,180. Mr: Sam Carnochan has sold the. homestead farm, 2nd concession of Tuckersmith, to Mr. Robert Aberhart, of Egthondville. • From The Huron Expositor September 14, 1894 make the first move. • • Not Recorded We have gone so far beyond the horse -and -buggy • clays during the past twenty years, as far as, speed in travel is eoncerned, that countries seem to have no. boundaries and space seems to have been eliminated. People fly from the Atlantic to the Pacific and back in the space of a few hours. It i easily' possible to have dinner in, Canada and breakfast in England, or the continent. • Last week a large passenger plane flew non-stop from London, England, to °Ottawa in fifteen hours, ,and the news did not cause a ripple of excite- ment or any measure of wonder in • - the minds of the Canadian people. Perhaps the situation is more clearly explained by an incident which occurred in Hamilton, N.Y., on Wednesday of last week: Reporting ten Minutes late as a new student at Colgate University, Joe Wilson, Jr,, arman Second Class, of Valen- raska, was retninded by ,• , ftig OneiZ the Oreateat TO.04,:.11), the In th waT'Y'ltenf QaildierpeOQpIlkeB, 471;t0f1..°1:4amP; had suddenly Well UP the •Wer4:11,T lite for the cOw4F lifeTheYna turally wondered Why'ife gayan tbe lunneY and the feele4-1)4'4in* never ' talked, Ife- farmed •end- noir and again appeared 'in the city for a concert, but :the majoritymot tie time he spent back on the far One thing I always noticed was that • Jimwas happy . and, he' was a, Pretty good farmer too. Last night when he was at the house Jimmy was running his .fingers • over the .piano keys and he started to sing, As he did, I could just_see •myself back at that (first garden par- ty mi the lawn at the church. • Jim- my is a lot older now, but he hasn't hist his old skill. it made Me young again. When he finialied, he turned and said:, "I •suppose you wonder, like everybody else, why I came back here." The questfewetopeed me, and so I didn't say anything; Then' he went on: "I discovered a long time ago that fame is a fleeting thing. For a little time 41 was conceited and swelled up with my own importance. I found out, •however,' that the people who gave me the most attention were the ones who were there simply because of the bit of fame I had; There were too many artificial people in that world, and. I came 'home. I haven't regretted it a bit. I have to go away now because •ef my health. Don't ever let anybody tell you that fame is worth it. It isn't. I've had a,good full life' here on the farm and like to feel that I've added a bit to this community." - ' On Sunday night lightning struck the dwelling house of Mr. John Har- ris, on the 2nd concession of Usbonte, a half milCoorth of the Thames Rbad, knocking the gable ehd • out of the Mn. Wm. McDougall, Sr.,, of Eg- mondville, left on Monday for Oxford and East Middlesex, to superintend .the packing of a,. large quantity of apples for Mr. George Turnbull. • The other. evening, while. Mrs. Gre- gor McGregor, of Stanley, was tying in the cows, one of them. backed ap and crushed her against the wall, breaking her right arm above the wrist. The trustees •Cif Harlock School, Section No. 6, have secured the ser- viees of Miss Monteith for another year's work as teacher. This is he third year in this school. A very pleasant evening was spent at the residence of Mn. John W. Walker, Mill Road, on. ••Wednesday evening.' They. were celebpling. the 25th anniversary bf their marriage and to warm their new home.. The Staffa football' club journeyed to lylitchell, last Tuesday to' • 'play Beechwood. They played 40 minutes when a dispute arose, with the re- sult that the Staffa boys left the •field. Mr. T. Murdock's..trotting 'stallion, "King Staunton," won first money at the races heid in Lucan last week, against a large number of good hors- es'. Mr. Jacob Weber, of Egmondville, has purchased a dandy driving :horse which will make a record for itself at the forthcoming. fall shows. Mr. Richard. Robinson has sold his farm, lot 12, con. 5, H.R.S., Tucker - smith, to Mr. Henry McGavin, who • has occupied it for some time. The Pwas $06,e.00 0, and the farni Is a, veryrca good one. Miss Lizzie Deichert, of Zurich, who. has been at Cavalier, ,N.D., for .over ayeart'retfirned home a few days. ago, Dr. Buchanan, of -Zurich,' has Wilt an addition to his drug store, which gives him added teem. • Mr. George taylOr, of Kippen, re- ceived one first and one second prize in the horse ring at Toronto. Mr. John 'MeMurtrie, of Kippen, is - spending a few days with Mr. Henry Hollingshead, c;f Dawn Mills, Miss Jennie Allis, of Egmondellie, arriVed• hoilie on. Saturday, last Froin a pleasant visit of three Weeks in Strathroy, Delaware, BYren and other places in that distriet. Miss Houghton, 'ef Vitinghato, was 'this .Week the guest 4 the Misses Bonthron in llensait'„,' APP9,410199t.,F0,'Peorg#''MOral oetwo9 __MANOLO 1144; l'eee4;' ed. throSigal4eVaterie '90yernnke the positleri..Uf lo4eetOr for •the vino0,1 .001,0210044er of Laanisft Coi1zijie fHotOii "and,,Brnee; 14, ietain, his resideitoe, in,Myth. 1(tr, Xcf, lvaik t913, reeve of PIM tor eiglit- Years andis w01 1C11001.34 04.4 ty. He is a veteran of two wars. He.,: served Oros* the find Oreat Well- and was awarded the Military In. -the `pievient war he served over two years, returning from oyerseas in January 'last, after attaining the rank of company sergeant -major. -- Gode-• rich, Signal -Star. ., Lions Hold Street Dance' • LISTA shng..OR Aunt Hetty: "Sakes alive! 1 don't believe no woman could ever be so fat." , • • Uncle Hiram: ' "What y' readin' now, Hetty?" Aunt Hetty: "Why this paper tells about an English woman that lost two thousand pounds." n • • A business man thought his staff rather lazy and indifferent, so he pin- ned up the following notice: "Bread is the staff of life, but that is no reason why the life of our staff should be one continual loaf!" • After the chirstening the vicar com- plimented the parents on the fact • that their baby did not. cry during the ceremony. "Well, you see," •explained the proud mother, "we've been getting him used to it with a watering can." Lieut. Arthur the necessity of thoght right well,"' son saidi in $friye• stE What the not recotd lVooney, of. intnetuality. 4' iettya a"PH4,0‘ YV:1),'14: *teeter of the OOPS, 'Seeds end Wgedg :440' ijiv, trio .P013xtPtAt, • Agildijigre.:, ,;;,....t14.4 (tent. the':0'eeda, • 4*6.••0416414(o*tttflh1d on Page 3 • . , ' ter aint etteart Two men, strangers to each other, happened to be wandering farther and farther down,a-the darkening cor- riderS of an neient picture gallery. OneOf them, shivering slightly, said: "Rather spooky, iSn't it?" "Do you believe in ghost?" asked the other. , "No," said the first speaker, "do you.?" "Yes," said the other—and vanish- ed. • The street dance held by the Lions Club on Friday night in aid of the British Child War Victims' Fund at- tracted a large crowd. The music was, prcivided by Mnrdock's orchestra of Homan. Part of the -roadway- en the, west side .of the Square was fencedoff, off, and new and old-time dances were - enjoyed by old and Young.--Goderich Signal -Star. Veteran Bnsinesstinarl Retires • A concert was being held in the village school room, and it became Sandy's turn to give his bagpipe solo. When he had finished and the ap- plause had died down, a voice •from the back shouted:' • "Give us Annie La,urie, Sandy!" "What?" asked Sandy surprised and flattered. "Again?" : Huron Federation Of Agriculture-FarmNews Manitoulin Island To Hold Stocker • and Feeder Sale , The farmers --on -the Island of Mani- toulin have for a nurober' of years been supplying feeder cattle to farm- ers in "Old Ontario!' The farniers on the island, in an attempt to facilitate the marketing of their cattle, have organized the "Manitoulin Live Stock Co-operative" and they have decided to hold a stocker and feeder sale at Little 'Current- on Sept. 27th, 1944. It was felt that this 'would be a real service to buyers under present times in the way. of 'saving One and travel. The farmers of Manitoulin- Island are doing everything to make this sale a real success. A great deal of work is being done in the constrUe- tion of pens and the installing of all necessary equipment. • This has al- ready been arranged for and will be ready Per sale time. • In this sale 'sOme 1:600 head made up of yearlings and two -year-olds, will be sold by public auction in car lots. These cattle are well bred and are Mostly Hereford and Shorthorn. The island has been T.B. teSted for many years and the cattle from there can move into any county, in Ontario. The cattle will be weighed and sot - ed on 'September 25th and 26th and sold on the 27th. :Arrangements are being made to have a suffleient num- ber of stock cars epfhand so that immediate shipment can be made. Freight from Little Current to Toron- to is 29c; this alone maks it pos- sible to' ship at/ a reasonable cost. The Manitoulin farmers are doing everything in ,their power to have good •cattle t to be -sold in a well-or- ganfz.ed and well-conducted sale: They Solicit the :support of , feeders from Old Ontario. The Ontario DepartmentAgrimilture, in an effort to nasist, will pay to every purchased of a car- load of cattle: er Mote .one-half of their return railway or boat fate, it is announced by L. B. „O'Neill, Direc- tor Of the Live Stock Branch. * * Save clover Fields For Seed • '-'Every .�f 'alfalfa, red clever and alsike whidh we oat produce dur, hdd dote ing the t44- two ybat b� ned- .A Mr. Joseph Senior, photographer,. who has been longer in business than . any other person in Exeter, is giving up his studio at the end of this month. Mr. Senior' is widely, known and has served the municipality in many ways. He will ,have the best - wishes of many' friends in retirement. —Exeter Times -Advocate. Fortieth Anniversary Mr. and Mrs: George Jaques on F'ri- day last observed the 40th annivers- ary of their. wedding. Mrs. Jaques entertained a few of the neighbors to, afternoon tea in honor of the event. Over the week -end they *lied with Mr, and Mrs. James 'Francis, of Tavi- stock, and also with relatives at Rock- wood.—Exeter Times -Advocate. q7 Go West From Huron County Mr. Bruce 'Matheson, Huron 'County agricultural ' representative, has ,ar- ranged for transportation from. Gode- rich for 87 men as harvest help in the Canadian West. Of this number, 63 are going to Edmonton and 24 tot, Wadena, Sask. They include men. from Clinton, Exeter, Bayfield, Gode- rich, Seaferth, Wingham and Blyth. areas. Western men who assisted in, • farm operations in Huron, where har- vesting is much earlier than. in, the, West, numbered 30.—Blyth Standard: all farmers to save their'best-looking fields for seed." deciding whether or not an av- erage &Id of red clover is worth keeping for seed, the folloWing old rule may he followed. Count, the nuin- ber of ripe seeds per head of cloVer. If the nuniber is ten, the probable yield will be one bushel per acre. If thirty seeds are found -the approxi- mate yield will be three bushels per acre. The value of hand pulling all weeds from the seed crop cannot be emphasized too strongly; cut for seed when the heads are well browned •and thresh when the straw is ilry en- ough to break 1p like chaff. - Any grower of alsike, red clover, alfalfa and alsike'-white clover mix- ture is free to bargain With his seed buyer on the basis of the real value of his seed in respect to' condition, purity and viability. * Approves Bean Marketing Scheme ' The Farm Products Control Board has recommended the approval of the proposed bean marketing scheme to the Ontario Minister Of Agriculture, the Hon; T. L. Kennedy; and Col. Ken- nedy's recommendation was accepted by Cabinet in an 00er-1i:140am:telt passed Sept. 5th, the Ontarib Depart- ment of 'Agriculture has' announced. The scheme provides fer the market- ing of the Ontario 1,250,000 bushel whit •bean ,crop, valued at approx0 mately .03,600,000.00 and produced largely in the five sonthwestern tout: - ties of Kent, Huron, Elgin, Middlesex and Lambton. The plan establithes a • Negotiating Committee of equal mina - hers of growers and dealers Which is empowered • ,to negotiate- naininnim prices, forms of contract, conditions of sale, picking and storage charges and all other matters relating to the priniary sale of white beans froth the grower to all priinary purchasers. Provision is made for arbitration if the Negotiating Cointnittee Pails to reach agreertient on any rciatter: ApproVal :of the' ,scheme by the Farm, Products Control 'Board fellal. ed 5 vote :by ballot taken of the growers peliderried Which was favor- able to' its adoption by a large Ansi. hanlo 41e jority. 1.401one -soma also,r andeti- ed by the thabbors of the -OntstiO Bean AesitIt.'ot the ,grower* bailiot40.'the, Setuiittee wits at: falOg..-TOtat'ittittfr: bcf gtelVeital". 59l t6ta Uhtiv Travelled To Vancoever by T;C. A.. A most - thniiling experience by aeroplane is reported by Mr. A. T. Cooper, one of our local merchants. On Thursday, August 23rd, he board- ed a Trans -Canada aeroplane at To-, route, leaving there shortly after midnight and arrived in Vancouver, -at one o'clock noon, after about 14 hours flying. A yisit with friends, followed and on •,August 30th he re- turned by plane, leaving Vancouver at 8 a.m., Toronto time, and arrived in Toronto- at 11 p.m. the same eve- ning. The altitude of the plane was about '8,600 -feet, except over ths Rockies when they reached 11,000' feet, Some idea of the extent of the B.C. Rockies can- be imagined 'when, as Mr. CoOper says, it Wok 21/2 hours going at over 200 miles per hour to fly over the Rockies. Meals werS served on the plane and no discoin- fort was felt by' any of the passen- gers., Stops were made at North ' Bay, Winnipeg, Regina and Leth- bridge, and Passengers got out for• little change. Some idea of the popu- iarity of this route may be seen from the fact that Mr. Cooper had to .bOok his •passage sotne six weeks in ad- vance.—Clinton News -Record. On Trip to Northern Ontario Mr. John. W. Hanna, M.P.P., left Sunday night. for' Northern Ontario with a party headed bY the Hon. T. L. Kennedy, Minister of, Agriculture. They will study agrieulture condi- ticins throughout the northland, ' ing all the important centres. They will return in time for an Ontario Progressive Conservative cauput int Toronto on Sept. lith.—Wingham Ad- yance-Times.. ' Lightning Fires Barn A large bank barn owned by Mrs.. James Manton, 17th concession of Elrtia, was struck by lightning on. Sunday night around 7.30 p.m. and - blamed to the grepnd, despite efforts. Of, neighbors who arrived on thy scene. The entire season's crop from: 100 •acres of hay, and grain which was to have. been' threshed on Friday. were lest, also 11 pigs and one calf. brolight out of the field. There was. Three hotses were led out and for - partial insurance.—Mitchell Advocate... tintately the cows had not been Invalided Home. •" • Mrs. Vetnia Lee, of Thorndale,; •and Pte. and Mrs. Clarence Lee and tWe Children, of London, Spent the‘ weekend with the fornaer's father", Mr. George Easterbr0ok, and Miss: Phoebe Easterbrook. Pte. Lee, who. was wounded in a motoreydle dccl- deitt in France, Was invalided home several weeke' ago and 15 getting along as well as Oh be eXpeetect 0IS Welfifilks Are healing and althotzgft Wd itria ia a east, he Cff *tch the tad.: a 0400 OW 110066' 4�nie 4ittib/4' tiiit:.66 "hit. W,61i!, ' „'•,., 41 • '' • • A 4, e • •s„, 4 14