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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1945-06-29, Page 277 • • -7 r., A L co 77 itOr 1$60 e ail cLean Editor. PlibliShed at Seaforth, Ontario, ev- ery Thursday afternoon by McLean Orbs. Subscription rates, $1,50 a year in advance; foreign $2.00 a year. Single -copies, 4 cents each. Advertising rates on application. SEAFORTH, Friday, June 29, 1945 The Challenge To Ontario In speaking of the recent severe criticism of United States securities officials of the high pressure mining stock salesmen in Toronto, the Mon- - treal Gazette -says: "The Drew government of Ontario faces an urgent challenge to set promptly and drastically to curb this flagrant, organized banditry. -Wain development and share pur- chases are at best highly speculative. But they should remainlegitimate, recognized speculation, and not al- . lowed to descend to sheer 'thievery under the sheltering laws of On- tario." The -situation certainly is a chal- lenge to Ontario, and unless Premier Drew changes his attitude, Ontario's good name is going to be badly black- ened in the financial markets of the United States. The Ontario Securities Act, passed a number of years ago, was consid- ered too restrictive by the mining in- dustry, and' under their pressure Premier Drew repealed it at the last session of the Legislature. •In its place the government drafted a new act, which, however, was not passed upon by the Legislature before it was dissolved. In the meantime, the On- tario _Attorney -General has been made the securities commis' sioner, and it is very apparent that under him there has been little enforce- ment of the securities laws since the „old act was -repealed. The shady practises which have so aroused the ire of United States of- ficials are confined to Ontario alone. In fact, other provinces in the Domin-- ion have frequently issued warnings to their people that some of the stock being ,promoted, by high pressure salesmen in Ontario was not author- ized for sale in their provinces. Con- sequently, it is up to Ontario to vig- orously investigate the situatio-n and drastically curb the iniquitous prac- tises of these unscrupulous, promot- ers. So far Premier Drew has viewed the situation in the light of a mare's !3t,: thought out and promoted by the Toronto Daily Star, solely for political purposes. But it is decided- ly much more than that or the lead- ing newspapers in Canada would not be adding their condemnation; nor would many of the Securities Com- missions in quite a number of Ameri- can States be making such bitter complaints. In the meantime, the protests of these Canadian papers and American officials should be ample warning,. to all investors that all mining stocks are not, by any means, all their pro- moters claim for them as good in- vestments, and to be particularly wary of anything that even resem- bles a high pressure salesman. • Very Good Advice In welcoming the election of Mr, John Bracken, the Progressive Con- - servative Leader, to the House of Commons, the Toronto Telegram, whose political leanings are too well known to require., any comment, Made these pithy remarks: ,‘ 'Mr. Bracken has not wanted for advice from people posing as politi- cal strategists and saviours, both of the eel -In -try and of the party. If Mr. Itradken Will use his own common tISO and good judgment and disre- self appoltted Warwielcs, doubt that both he and ieh he leads will be no ) ant is too tidal have a pretty fair idea that thPSe eMarks Were addreSeed to Mr, geerge MeCullagh, publisher of the Toronto Globe and Mail.Both over the air and in his newspaper, Mr. McCullagh tock the leading part in the Conservative election campaign for conscription. -Mr. Bracken, . the party leader, however, never at any time showed much enthusiasm for fighting the King Government on the compulsory service issue, even if the Globe and Mail would have no other. It was not, in fact, 'until this issue succeed- ed in defeating Gen. McNaughton early this year, that Mr. Bracken followed the lead of the Globe and Mail, even to the extent of de- manding compulsory service for the Japanese war. The result of this combined strate- gy on the part of Mr. Bracken and the Globe and Mail is history now, and Mr. Bracken knows, if the To- ronto paper does not, that all their combined efforts accomplished was to strengthen Mr. King's hold on Quebec without causing. him to lose much support in Ontario, where the Liberals polled only 51/2 per cent. less than the Conservatives. But it goes further than that. By bowing to the Globe and Mail con- trol, Mr. Bracken threw away the greatest chance his patty has had since 1917 of making any headway in Quebec, and threw it away for the next twenty or• twenty-five years at that. And 'did it without gaining any strength for itself in any other Province in the Dominion, except Ontario. 42 Considering all the political cir- cumstances, we think the Telegram should have gone a little further and included Col. Drew in its warning. Because if the Ontario Premier is left much longer to the tender mer- cies of the Globe and Mail, the Con- servative party in Ontario will fate no better at the next Provincial elec- tion than it did in the/recent Federal one—if as well. 11, Giving Away War Plants In the recentelection campaign, and even before and since then, Mr. Coldwell, the C.C.F., leader, has broadcast acrossCanada the state- ment that the Go-vernment is giving away for a song war plants on which a vast amount of the people's money has been spent. It is, however, of more than pass- ing interest to learn some of the prices which the' Government is ac- tually getting for these plants. • AC - cording to the Financial Post, the Dominion Magnesium Company Lim- ited, has paid $1,400,000 for a plant at Haley's Corners, Ontario. The same company also undertakes to spend an additional amount of $500,- 000 on improvements and additional equipment. • The Canadian General Electric Company has paid the Government $1,150,000 for the land and buildings built by the Government near the company's plant in Peterborough. •Canadian Westinghouse Company' paid $700,000 for the West Plant gun buildings, occupied by Hamilton Munitions, Ltd. The Nichols Chemi- cal Co. is paying the Government $700,000 for the Valleyfield Sulphuric Acid plant. Machine tools and equipment with which tr • Government provided the Ford . ,.any of Canada have been purchased by that company for $675,000, and Steinbergs Wholesale Groceterias Montreal have paid the 4l"Ore"e"esffee • Governmeni $500,000 for the land and buildings formerly occupied by Canadian Propellers Ltd. That is not, by any means„ a complete list, butk it is large enough to show the absurdity and untruthfulness of Mr. Coldwell's statements. Opinions niight easily differ, but on4r careful investigation of all the circumstances in each case could possibly.determine what a purchaser should pay for any particular property into which the Government put many millions of dollars of the people's money. This careful scrut- iny has been given by War Assets Limited, a Government company, • whoie directors inclucle ;tot only big men in the business and finaneial wokid of Canada, but representatives of Agrieultnre gmd Igbor As well, and it has been ppved beyorxd doubt that bi Board is certainly not eying ther oVerninelit plants or . , 'CU intereettug *ins Picked tr.014 *-0 Pl,xPoslter of. fifty and preatrtive years ago, From The Huron Expositor • July 9, 1920 An Unfortunate accident befell, Mr. Fred Preach, of Dashwood, who in some manner fell from 'the overlays his barn to the floor beneath, caus- ing injuries. He is in a criti- cal oondition. , The township hall at Staffa •was nicely' Ailed with friends and neigh- bors of Mr. and Mrs. T. M, Hamilton on Friday evening last, the -occasion being a farewell for them as they are leaving for Toronto this week. Mr. Hamilton was presented with a gold watch and Mrs. Hamilton with a casserole. Miss Etta Jarrett, Kippen, left this week for Toronto, where she will take a course of five weeks in com- mercial work. Seeforth was. visited by another serious fire early Saturday morning whew the gents' furnishing store of W. D. Bright & Son, in the Case .block, was considerably damagedby fire and water. The dire originated from an overheated electric iron. Whendiscovered it was white hot and had burned through the stand on Which it was sitting. A young son of Mr. and Mr. E. C. Case met with a nasty accident on Tuesday. While visiting at the home Of his grandparents in McKillop, he was kicked in the face by a horse receiving a badly cut lip and other Mr. Frank Freeman commenced this week the study of the drug busi ness with Mr. E. Smith. Messrs. J. M. Best, %v. E. South gate and Keith McLean were on a fishing trip to Eugenia Falls last week. They brought home a big catch. Mr. R. H. Best, son of Mr. and Mrs 3. M. Best, of town, who graduated from Osgoode Hall, Toronto, has op ened a law office in Timmins, New Ontario. Mr. G. F. Rogers, Collegiate Insti tute inspector and a former princi pal of Seaforth Collegiate, with Mrs Rogers'and family, were guests at The queen's for a few days. Mr. Wallace Parke, of Norwich England, arrived here recently to en ter the employment of Reid Bros. He ,was in the Flying Corps with Dave Reid in the late war. Miss Greta Lammie, Hensall, has successfully passed her examinations at the Brantford Institute, both for piano and violin, and that with hon ora. The erectionof a new Standard Balk As being contemplated- in the near future in Dublin. Haying is the order of the day. Mr. Wilfred O'Brien, of Staffer went to -Toronto to take aleix weeks' course in physical culture. • From The Huron Expositor July 5, 1895 Mr. Wm. Archibald, of Leadbury, had a very ,successful logging bee one day last week. • •• • Mr. Robert Morrison, of Leadbury, with the assistance of Mr. Jake Mc Gavin, is doing good work with his circular saw, they having cut forty cords of wood in nine hours. Joseph Prendergaet; M.D., of Chi- cago, a graduate of Seaforth Calleg iate, has been appointed lecturer and demonstrator of history and patholo- gy in Chicago College of Dental Sur- gery. The new Commercial Hotel is going up rapidly... The walls, which are of F. Gutteridge's pressed brick, are go- ing to make it the handsomest build ing in the county. Miss Elder treated the children of her department in the, public school to a picnic at Hayfield on Wednesday. The little folks had a grand time. The firemen tested the new hose on Wednesday evening and in so do- ing threw a stream of water. over tb,e flag staff of the Town Hall. Miss Minnie Dorsey left Monday •morning for Toronto; where she will take a course as nurse at St. Mich- ael's FlospitaL The annual lst of July picnic of S.S. No. 4, McKillop, was held on the farm of James Henderson. In the af- terntion genies were enjoyed and in the evening dancing in the barn was held with music by Messrs. Hogg, Mason and Berwick. " As had been' anticipated, Dominion Day 'was celebrated right royally in Seaforth. The weather was fine and the bright sunshine put everyone in good spirits. The Tecumseha of To- ronto and the eavers played lacrosse to a large audience, the Beavers win- ning 4 to 1,, About rfahe middle of the game part of the grandstand gave way when: it become too heavily lad- en. No one was seriously injured. Mr. Nelson Hay, son of Mr. T. D. Days, is home from Chicago' of holiday, Mr. James- Armstrong, clerk In Wm. Ple-lcard'cl store, Who has been laid up with a sore knee, Is now able to be sound with the aid" of a cane. The store ef J. 1 McKenna, at was entered on Sunday night and the two safes blown to fragments. 'The explogione was so along that it blew the 'doer of. one' safe clear throtigh a partition and down flltd the cellar t A! Watch Worth ,aout $12. was all that sus i'ohn?,A:. Inetabrt- find, Sdlin Ought- on played on the V(reatern Association I was reading in a newspaper the other day about an exhibition of post War farm homes. 'The fellow writing this article was eomplaining about the 'designs. It seems as it these city ohaps who were designing the hotiaes had overlooked one thing. While they concentrated. on sun houses, heated and lighted by the sun and a lot of other new ideas, they completely overlooked the cellar, I !agree with the, writer. A 'terra home just islet complete without a cellar. In this wondetful, new world that the advertisements tell us about WO may live by turning switFlies that regulate the tempera- ture and all that . . . but we must have cellars. A cellar is just about the most important thing in the world. On these hot days of summer, the acool sanctuary of a cellar is some- thing a, person can really live for. Go down the cellar steps and feel that dampish cool air and the clean, restful smell of the earth that seems to cling around a.cellar. When the sun gets a bit too much for you, there's nothing like an excuse to poke around and , tinker with zome- thing that needs repairing in the cellar. The cellar here at Lazy Meadows has always been a good place. The rows' of preserve jars with the fruit and pickles and jam are always worth looking at. In the other eoreer we have potatoes . . . either the ones to do for the early part of the winter that are supplemented by ones taken out -of the pit in very early spring . . . boxes of appleseand sand in a learry owle barrel with carrots towed ?may, Even the pile of beech and maple knots stored at one end of the cellar for use in the furnace seems to give a Certain' touch oe something to the plaee. It's another '•smell . , . that clean, -geed smell of seasoned wood. There's but in a crock; on the cellar goer and a can of creath wait- ing for the Cream truck driver . to come up ,and pick it up. We have nectar of the 'gods . . . a small 'bar- rel of apple cider that gets a nip. as the months go by. The walls are gleaming white, at the moment with a fresh coat of whitewash. That adds a clean look and a clean smell to the whole •place. Grandmother used to have a won- derful !cellar at her place. In a big crock under the cellar steps she had pickles'. . the kind with a nippy tang of vinegar and they had a brit- tleness about them that was really good. Grandpa was a great man for. experimentation with cider and v,ar- ious concoctions . made from dandd lions or ehoekcherries, and even rhu- barb. Some of it turned out to have about the wallop of, that high -gest gasoline they use in airplanes. Those were the good experiments and grandpa was always flying high when an experiment turned out well. A farmhouse cellar is a place of calm coolness in summertime. In wintertime when the winds are ,howl- ing outside, it's a good place to visit. The temperature is never too warm, but it gives you a comforting feeling to look •at the food and provisions stored around. Yes, we must not try to abolish farm cellars. 4, Jusr • A SMILE OR. Two A Scotsman ordered his lunch at the hotel cafeteria and asked for a "buttle o' milk." When he reached his table, he found that he had but- termilk. Grumbling, he turned to hie table companion, and said, "The trou- ble today is that the girls don't pay attention, for surely when I say a `truffle o' milk' it does na' sound like buttermilk. Mind ye, lad, I'm no' blamin' the girl, for the same thing has happened at other cafes." • Little Tommy's daddy was always being disappointed with his son's school report. At last he promised hire a quarter if he did something really clever. A few days later Tommy came home in great glee. "O -oh, daddy!" he exclaimed, "I can. do something, teacher can't!" "What's that?" asked the delight- ed father. "I can read my own writing." 'According to'. the law of supply and demand—" began her husband, who liked to explain things.. "No one demands anything at a store now, dear," she interrupted; "it's the law of supply and request." • She was pretty and ambitious and had studied the matrimonial problem to a nicety. • "Yes, I suppose I ehall marry ev- entually," she said, "but the only kind of masculine nuisance, that will suit me must be tall and dark with classical features. He must be brave, yet gentle. He must be strong — a lion among men, but a knight among women." That evening 'the yery opposite of the above described male rattled on. the back door and the girl knocked. four tumblers and a cutglass dish off the sideboard in her haste to let him; in. Huron Federation Of Agriculture-FarraNews • • Is the Farm Mower Ready For Haying? The saving point in haying opera- tions is the knowledge that the mow- er is in good working order, and that vexatious and possibly expensive delays will. not likely be caused by want of care in having kept the ma- chine in repair. Thereare a hun- dred and one items to be seen to; but when the alignment of the cutting mechanism is correct, a great deal has been done to speed .the work. The alignment of the cutter bar and pitman of a mower is the adjustment of mower pacts so that the driving mechanism of 'the knife moves in a straight line when the machine is in operation. Adjustments for alignment, howeve er, affect three related items, namely, the pitman alignment, the lead' of the cutter bar, .and the registration of the knife, making it necessary to consider all three factors when each adjustment is Ohanged. . Before at- tempting to adjust a mower for the alignment of the pitman, alignment of the cutter bar, or the 'registration. of the knife, the .poIe of the mower should be raised to ita working post-: tion. For horse-drawn mowers, the end of the pole should be raised to the height of 31 inches. The pitman of a.- mower should operate parallel to the face of the pitman wheel, and at a right angle to the pitman shaft. If 'the pitman does not operate in this manner, the pitman bearing slides endways on the pitman pin at each strike, causing excessive wear. With reference to the lead or alignment of the Cutter, bar, when in operation the outer end of the cutter bar of a mower tends to twist or lag back as the bar Is dragged over the surface of the ground. " To compensate for this lag; the cutter bar should be' given a slight lead, so that the outer end of ,the knife, the ball of the knife head, land the pitman ,bn oxing will operate i a straight line. 111 the Correct registration of the sections of the knife of a Ittetrh wad 'woe froth the ‘,tetitrd Of teethe!' Ware 111 Iffgereoll on nohday 6t+ against a uatit Mout virot6 ,•Mte11kt Plate to tie centre Of the League,The TOirChatirplayere Wen,,by, NI% etch ,dirOte ot ttvq $0414 ' 4" t110 eflothe• reHencle $ptiveeira / • _ Miss Edythe' pentley, of Galt, re* cently received a levelly parcel of souvenirs from he brother, Walter* wb.o is serving in Holland. — Blots Standard. Joins Clinton Teaching Staff ..Ats Wilma Watson, who has rbeeo teaching at Kippen, for the past two years, has aecepted' a position on the Clinton public school. teadhl4g ta —Blyth Standard. CKNX Staff Present Brides -To -Be The staff and management of radio station CKNX held a luncheon party at Sherbondy's Restaurant on Mon- day evening in honor of Misses Mary Julia Preston and Verne Walker, brides-to-be. An address on behalf of the station and staff was read by Miss Margaret Brophy and the girlie were each presented with a purse of money and linen tablecloth by Miss Jean Tervit and Mrs. Lillian Gorbutt. Mr. W. T. Cruickshank, manager of OKNX, expressed this regrets at los- ing the girls ,from the station, hut hope&. they would be very happy he their new venture. --Wingham Ad- vance -Times. Attend Violin Recital \VIr. and Mrs: George Grant, Mra. Angus Sinclair, Mr. Albert Ferguson,. Mrs. Walter Ferguson, Miss Margaret Ferguspe and Mrs. 0. V. Mounteer were in St. Marys Tuesday evening attending a violin recital given .fier Robert Grahanr,' Well known.. yOung Toronto violinist. His mother, the former 'Miss Aileen Fergusbn, 'daugh- ter of the late Dr. Alex Ferguson, who practised some years ago in Kirkton, Was his accompanist. The event was held in Knox Presbyterian Church of which Mrs. McDonald, for- mer Knox organist in Mitchell, is cw in. charge of the • music.—Mit- chell Advocate. Radio Beacon Being Constl'uted Workmen of the radio division of the Federal Department of Trans- port have commenced the construc- tion of a navigational radio beacon* or direction finder, at Goderich har- bor.. This additional to the port's 'equ'ipment foriAfety of lake naviga- tion is being coastrneted at an esti.- mated cost of about $25,000, and it is •• , hoped to have it completed by. late e summer. The beacon will 'be of pow- er sufficient to make its signals heard to a distance of '100 miles. An Ottawa dispatch says the Department . secured the material andequipmeat for the beacon from the Miieoni firma • and is itself doing the installaties and construction work on the project.- " The signal tower will be at the ex- treme outer end of the northpier, and' " between it and the present range light tower at the end of the pier a house will be constructed to accom- modate the keeper of the beacon.— Goderich Signal -Star. Has Leg Fractured; Mr. John Hockey, while attempt- ing t9 'Stop .a horse; was struck and tt 1, It a • • . k-nockeddown by a motor Car ' on knife causes clogging and heavy Main Street on Thursday evening of draught. Incorrect centering may be last week and had the misfortune to caused by a pitman which is not the have his left leg fractured in three .. correct length, by the wrong type of ' places. Several children were playing knife, worn. parts,,, or 4. incorrect ad- •dball on the street when the horse. i justments on the drag bar and push miming Mr. lfatter's milk wagon be- came frightened and started off from bar. These and many more factors the curb. Mr. Hockey darted out to are fully discussed with illustrations stop it when he was struck by a ear ' in the publication "Mower Repairs" driven_by Mr. Ed. Sillery and was by W. Kalbfleisch, Agricultural En- knocked to the pavement. He was gineei, Field Husbandry Division, taken to the office of Dr. Fletcher • Central Experimental Farm, Ottawa. and is being cared for. at the home A copy may be obtained by writing of Mrs. George HuntereelaneWednes- , to the Publicity and Extension Divi- day he was taken to Victoria Hospi- sion, Dominion Department of Agri- tal, London, for an X-ray.,---- Exeter' i culture, Ottawa_ r Times -Advocate. * * * , \ Electric Ligitt Bulb Startles Diners- -r! U.K. Egg Official To Meet PrOducers While a family gathering was bee' The men and women of Western ing held at the home of Mr. and Mrs.. ' and Central Canada whose poultry Bruce •Pringle, of Blanshard, on Skin-- flocks have made possible the ship- day, while sitting at the supper table', r ment overseas of a million cases of an electric' light bulb fell from the chandelier and landed in a pickle. `i eggs so far this year will soon have dish exploding like a bomb shell, to • an opportunity to learn how their startle the diners.—Exeter • Times - product is received by the British. Advocate. people. Beginning this month, John Wind Cracked Barn Uprights A. Peacock, Director of'Egg Supplies, tudornricluerspdraoypowrthilocnhs rme aacdhe- s, British Ministry of Food, 4111 address edTahlewind hu a series of egg producers' meetings a wreck of the barn at the Laidiaer q as the guest of the Dominion Fur Farm. The barn was not blown Government, down but was shifted on the founda-- a Invited to Canada by the Agricul- tion and the uprights were far the. tural Supplies Board, Mr. Peacock most part torn apart. The bare: Willi will tell what the resumptio‘of Can- have to be rebuilt, The storm did net do as much damage as one would 1, adian shell egg exports means to Bri- eurmise, many trees were blown over taro and will discuss Britoil:1'e 1945 - and some damage done to electrical 46 egg requirements with producers, and telephone installations.—Wing hateherymen, produce and feed deal- ham Advance -Times. ers. • Prooucers especially are inviten by Nursing Sister Horne From Overseas-, • After two and a half years' service the ttomiolon Department of Agricul- ture to attend the following rneiltings; in hospitals in England, France and 0, Belgium Alberta--Edmenton, July 3rd; Red 'Nursing SliffiEr Grace Masora' has arrived home and is with her Deer or Lacombe, 4th; Calgary, 5th. grandmother, Mrs. Jewell, Hayfield British Columbice—Nanaimo, July Road. • She was attached to No. 10 llth; Cloverdale, 12th; Chilliwack Canadian General Hospital, and While and Haney, 13th. in the service she made it a point to Ontario—Niagata Path's., July 18t11. &et itt touch with. any GoderiCh men duebec—Montreal, about July 20th. she heard were in ber vicinity, III .• this way! she met Bob lVfcMainis loth Poultrymen' in England and in France: Russell Veterinarian Named To Help Drennan, in _England, France an Belgium; and one day she was thrill - To meet, the poultry industries de, ed to run across "Bud" Sturdy and 4 mands for improved hatehery sanita, n. and tiniforin 1)111101°11ra testing, Asked 12 she IVO Bill Thomson together, In Belgiulle tio met many distin- the Dornittlee Department of Agriculrr, guished DeoOle, she replied she had tore has aPPointed OR14 of its Veter- ' met a ,IVAT, the Moat notable being iarians 1b the positioe $unervls- 'Lord and Lady'.Drentit. 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