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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1946-08-30, Page 2• ronExpositor Est4bliSlied: 1860 Keith McPhail McLean, Editor.1 T.Pubiished at Seaforth, Ontario, ev- ery Thursday afternoon by McLean •Thos.• Subscription rates, $1.50 a year in • advance; foreign $2.00 a year. Single. • copies, 4 cents each. Advertising rates on application. Authorized as Second Class Mail, Post Office Department, Ottawa. SEAI?ORTH, Friday, August 30th All Are Losers • In. Ottawa -a short time ago, Mr. Humphrey • Mitchell, Minister of Labor in the King Government, stressed two grave facts.. The steel worker's, he said, have already lost in unpaid wages a great deal More than they can possibly hope to gain ° from the strike. in the future. For example, Mr. Mitchell says that if the strikers accept an increase of 121/2 cents ,an hour, they will have to work for two years, ten and a half months to make up for the wages they lost in the strike. And should the strike continue to the end of August, they would have to work four years to make up their losses. .Even f they were given -an in- crease of 151/2 cents, a figure that the • Government is afraid would smash -7---pritte ceilings, they would not be-everr-7- until they had worked a year and • four months. • From the national standpoint the greatest 'loss is in the steel itself, be- cause the shortage. of steel involves almost every manufacturing indus- • try. This, of course, will postpone the day when wemay expect maxi- • mum production of consumer goods and will only prolong the danger to- t our price ceilings. Consequently it is quite'clear that • the strike is not only threatening the price 'ceiling directly, through wage • increases which have to be followed by price increases, but indirectly by increasing the danger of inflation because' we are unable to get an abundant supply of goods.• • Tlie first, loss a the Strike, is, of course, to the strikerg, through their months of. idleness. But „there is a larger lossto our Canadian economy • in consumer goods, and in continu-,., • in g and aggravating our inflation danger much longer than should be, or is necessary. When strikes were daily on the in- crease across the line a. very few months, ago, we, in Canada, were very optimistic in congratulating ourselves that we were quite free in Canada. That optimism has now given _ way to pessimism, and with - some just cause. It looks very much as if these labor strikes which are supposedly called to enforce wage increases, are • really caused by labor leaders who have an altogether • different object in view. A better liv- ing for the working man, is only the pretext that keeps their followers in line. Their maiw-object- is, obviously, aimed at the key industries that can • • - do most to cripple the recovery of Canada; following the war, when we expected prosperity would come, and • should have come. It is true that we should notbe pessimistic, but when one looks over" the names of these labor union lead- ers, both in Canada and the States, one can not help but think of Com- munism. Even the few Anglo-Saxon names among them have more than • possibly been acquired quite recent- ly, and have a very different look and sound to that they acquired after birth_ • • Wanted --A Reason• • Lastweek Ontario's Premier Drew • cancelled a speaking engagement at a- Conservative pfcMe in Windsor, ,• because, he said, he had learned that • r a number of hotelkeepers in the city • and. district had contributed money . for a programme of sports to be run off on the day- of the picnic: • _ intimated further that he wild introduce legislation a,k. the • *ext session 4g the Legislature that • Would Make it 'illegal to accept; •*Ono frotwbotelkeepers to be used tiveifltIea1:pienick ()cm- . - • fAtilatf,O.the 'proposed gather- •- , ing at Windsor. • Premier Drew's reasonsfor can, ening his spealdng date at Windsor 4y be perfectly justified in his own - sight. But it makes a good many other people in Ontario. wonder why hotelkeeper's money should be look- ed upon as tainted money when vol- Untarily contributed for picnic priz- • es, while- on the other hand, he con- siders that same money perfectly -honest money when extracted from the hotelkeepers by way of license. Still further, to be perfectly logi- • cal, if Premier Drew is going to pass legislation forbidding people or or- ganizations accepting hotelkeepers' money for picnic or other sports prizes why should he not include in the same legislation a, clause forbid- - ding schools, churches or patriotic societies from accepting it as well. And even go on down the line and , • include merchants as Well. Because hotelkeepers are liberal contributors, or have been up to now, to all these causes. - We believe that if Premier Drew would, stop charging nineteen cents an ounce for the soft water he puts in the whiskey he sells to, the people of Ontario, he would meet with greater acelaim at the hands of the general public, than he has done by hinting that the money of his own hotelkeepers is tainted. • But then, as one of the ardent stip- • •porters of his political party told us the other day: PremierDrew-is like that. •— On Loafing - Governments everywhere, includ- ing our own, seem in recent years to have bent their main endeavors to • legislate us into a single mould. Our . health, our wealth; our morals, our education, our recreation have all been looked over, and pretty. ron there will be no more natural 'cussed= ness left for us to indulge in. Perhaps no man in this so-called progressive world, should complain too much about that. But great cau- tion: and much vigilance should be used to see man is not made such a model of perfection; that all would be alike, and consequently, insuffer- ably dull arid tedious. Even Britain, that land of indi- viduals, is following our government plan. Last spring there were only 807 tramps in the whole of Britain. - But even these idle poor as distin- guished from idle rich, are to be tak- - en in hand and made into useful - members of society. Why? A real tramp has Teemed and practises one of the most difficult arts in the world, of today, or any other .day — simplydoing nothing. • And there are no pleasures. in the • world that compare with doing noth- ing, if one knows how to do nothing. That is why we think those 807 real tramps still left in Britain should ,be allowed to continue on as tramps in a happy state of freedom. It would be a great mistake to trans- fer or transform them to the pattern of the rest of us. Because these tramps are the only people left in the world still able to, loaf and be - perfectly useless, without • going through the motions of doing some- thing useful. In fact, they are the only people left to keep the great art of loafing alive. If our government succeeds in banishing all tramps from the land - and regimenting our lives frOrn the , womb to the tomb, society will have reached a peak that we; for one, 'won't want to have any part of it. And we know a couple of others who will be willing to go on the tramp to keep individuality alive in the world. • • • Back To School • We would remind those below 'teen age 'boys and girls, and some older ones too, who have- reaehed that end of August "what -to-do" stage, that school will open next week, and they will be happy again. New books, new rooms, and new teachers are exciting and fill the Wants for a while. Of course it will be something else later on, Like too ,long a holiday, these things will pall.. But school • days are happy days.. The best in life. You boys anti girls will learn that after a. while. At• J ••le, '," ' • enteiteeeree ting iteMS picked from The *Spositor df fit' and tweett,y-ave years ago. ...•••••(•••••••:' ••••••••^•~1•••••.••••••*•• • From The Huron Expositor -September 2, 1921 Han. W. L. Mackenzie King and his able cellea.gue, Hon. Dr. Henri, pelan'e, M.P. for Beauce. Quebec, attended and spoke at the greatest Liberal rally }Wren Gounty hae eveeseen at Seaforth last. Wednesday. M. T, G Shillinglaw, of Tucker - smith, has sold- his farm on the 6th concession to Mr. Dolg; recently out from Scotland, and a cousin of :Mr. Robert Doig. 'Mr. Shillinglaw has since purchased the farm of Mr. John McCaa, on the Kippen Road. Snell Bros., of Hullett, threshed 375 bushels of fall Wheat from seven acres, Miss .Rtfiay Erratt, of Stanley, suc- cessfully passed her third grade piano examination, taking honors, and her secend grade theory,- taking class honors. This clever young student is a pupil of 'Miss Elizabeth Rennie, of Zurich, and both pupil and teacher are to be congratulated on the splen- did showing. Robert Smith and George Cook, of The Bell Engine Works, left Monday for Reginawhere they will spend some time at the western office of the company. Mr. Jas. Gillespie has returned from New Ontario, where he spent the. slimmer. He leaves for Pembroke next week, where he will be engaged in. survey work. Miss Gertie Crich and her brother, Jack, returned on Saturday from a trip to the *est, Miss Criela left on Wednesday to take her new school at Port Dalhousie. Mr. 'Douglas Beattie, whoespeet the summer -in -Nova- Scotia, nee _returne to his home here. On Wednesday evening the Huron Medical Association and the Seaforth branch of . the Great War Veterans' Association tendered a banquet to Hon. Dr. llenri Beland on the occa- sion of his visit to Seaforth with Hon. W. L. Mackenzie King. About 75 members of the medical profession from Huron and Perth sat down to the beautifully decorated tables at the Olympia Restaurant, after which Dr. Beland told the story of the three years he spent as a Gerken prisoner. in Berlin. Arthur Deena and Olivet Elliott are • attending Toronto Exhibition this week, Miss Beatrice Larkin, a recent gra- duate of McGill Uftiversity, Montreal, leaves next week for Prince Albert, where she has accepted a position on the staff of St. Alban's Ladies' Col- lege. Mien Mabel, Turnbull sang a well rendered solo in First Presbyterian Church on Sunday evening. From The Huron Expositor • September 4, 1896 On Tuesday evening last a, number of lacrosse enthusiasts and friends of Mr. R. E. Jackson, Egmondville, as- sembled at the Commercial Hotel and made him the recipient of a gold chain and charm. This was a slight token of their appreciation of Mr. Jackson's •valuable services in connection with the lacrosse club. Mr. Ralph Cresawell, of Pueblo, Colorado, is visiting his father, Mr, G.' E. Creswell, and sisters in Tuck- ersiia itn - • • , • Mr. Charlie Stewart, son of Mr. James Stewart, left on Thursday for Brooklyn, N.Y. While Mr. Joseph Wam-bold, of •Zur, ich, was .working in the hat mitt re- cently,. -he had his hand badly injur- e. He was working at a pulley when his' hand became caught and was dra ween Abe -pulley and a post. Mr. Thn Hinehley, - of Constance, has ta en up to the present time, over 4,000 pounds of honey. The bees are attendedby Mr. Hinchley, who is over 73 years of age. • Mr. Christopher Dale has hada new windmill erected at his, barns for pumping water and ertishing•grain. It was purchased from Mr. S. Hiuchley, implement agent, Seafartin Miss Lizzie Davis, of, Staffa, who Was successful in -her -examinations; has gone to attend the Model School. in Mitchell. • • A barn belonging to Mt!' Shipley, on the, farm east of Mr. ValtEgmend's, Huron Road, was "awned' on Monday night last, together with • its entire eonieetii. The blaze was distinctly Visihle in town between 10 and 11 welock. • Mr. Wm. Dawson and wife, of De- troit, and fornierly of town, are-. visit- ing friends here at present. - Miss Maggie McDougall, of Eg- Itirodville, is attending tne Torontq milimery openings and buying hate Oiler to beginning the new fell term at Piekard's store. Mr. SeCuditere, Of Kippen, now bas three hay presges' .in full swing in Lambtan County, pressing large quan- tities of hay.' n: • Out Of 105 pupileltom the Seaforth Collegiate who'venefe. at the different departmental examinations at 'm1d summer, gI wete .stiectiginuL This is nearly 77 per cent,- and is acreditable showing. Mr. A. T. Chninbere,....who has been in the employ, cit lie•Mtallett & C., Sea - forth, for several years past, has se- ctited a good position ,as traveller for a Montreal firm. Several of the Hayfield fignerMen have set nets .at Xettle'POitit for fail fishing. • . riVlies Lulu Davidgnin has returned • en fretil ati 'Wen. deft tlitieta_GrandAtain Michigan:. , • ' • • Along about this time of year -when clouds darken the sun so often and the eletiles line squeaks in the pulley as the wind pushes the clothes back and forth, a fellow stares thinking about Fall. One of the pleasant things te 'think about concerns itself with the fall fairs, exhibitions and plowing matches that come along. Here at Lazy Meadows we always manage to take in a few of these events. After a bard season of work I think it's a good thing to get away for' awhtle from it all. Going to the fall fair is, of course, an event that few fent families miss. For the sake of your family you just have to 'go. It's also a thing a man gets quite a kick out of, - This year in Huron County they're going to have an International Plow- ing Match. This will be the first -one since about the' ilrst year of the war, I guess. During the three or four years before the war l'ye always man- aged to get to them. It became al - West our annual •• holiday. Country folks, can't take much time off during the busy season of harvest and yet along about the second week of Octo- ber I think it does a fellow good to get away. There's something about a plowing 'meta that remains typical of the 1 ~ country. While a lot of our fall fairs have developed into very little more than carnivals, with race, tracks, at- tached, the backbone. of a plowing match is .spenething with which every -farmer can identify himself. Course now, for those that want other attractions, you can find them at an 'International Plowing Match. One of the things I have always lik- ed abont the International is the fact that they've kept the gypsters and racketeers away from it: They keep a firm hand on that sort of thing. • like to go 'to the big plowing match early in 'the morning. About that time in October the air, early in the morning, has enough crispiness in it that your blood has, ta get up t� a brisk pace to keep you warm. You can smell the fines of gasoline as the big tractors ;Warm up, and then head towards the fields. You • can, hear the trace chains slapping on the harness as the teams are driven to- wards tbe fields. • • ' There's a smell of fond as the con-. cessionaires start getting meals ready and you wander down the lines of exhibits and examine the new machin- ery -before the big crowd starts mill- ing around. .- It's a satisfying experience, and I'm going to Huron this fall for the big International Plowing Match. :JUST A SMILE OR TWO: Two small boys were puzzling their brains tie invent a new game. At last one of them said eagerly: "I know, Billy; let's see who can make the ugliest fine.' "Aw, go on," was the reply. "Look what a start you've got!" , • A Lancashire .soldier end his lass had spent the day together, and on their return the girl's mother asked how she had enjoyed herself. "Aw reet," said Jane, "but I think Joe's a bit mean. He nobbut spent sixpence on me all day. "Well, if I "were thee I'd tek his sixpence back and mek•him ashamed of himself," said her mother, ' 'Late that night Jane_ knocked on • Joe's door. • ' ' "'Ere," she said. "Tek tha six- pence back. I' doubt if tha-can afford it " " 'Ere," said' Jae, "that shouldn't a' bothered to-neet. It would a' done In thiaornine" "What sort of dog is he?" "An entomologfist." ' "But an entomologist is a collector of insects." "Well, he does thar-a±right:" • Betty was hesitating' between two young men, and at last it struck her' that she might get some, help from her father,- „ - "Which do you think I should take, Daddy?" she -asked. "Joe is awfully handsome, but Sam is a nice, steady chap."' Father did not hesitate. , • "My dear," he replied, .'if you want a geed husband,. take, Sam. He really loves you." Betty looked interested, nHow do you know?"- she asked. Father milled. "I've been borrowing money- tram him for the last six months," he said, "and he still comes to see you twice a week." •• e :Huron Federation Of : :Agriculture-FarinNews Pay Higher Prices For Export Beef The Meat Board announced on Aug- ust 11 inereases in the buying price of better qualities "of beef for export to .the United Kingdom. This action has been taken to restore the rela- tionship of export priceS to domestic ceiling prices for beef which existed prior to the increase in the domestic ceilings autheriZed by the. Wartime Prices and Trade Board on July 26. The increase in export prices vaties accotdineto 'quality in the different, price zones throughout 'Canada. The ne* export prices' provitle an increase of $1 per 100 pounds in Al- berta and Saskatchewan, $1.50 per 100 pounds in Alberta and Saskatche- wan, $1.50 per 100 pounds in Winni- peg and Montreal, and $2 .per 100 pounds in Ontario for choiee and good steer and heifer beef. Theseeincreas- es-will preside a finer for -these quale ties of beef of 25 cents below domes- tic ceilings. • Commercial quelity steer and heifer beef. has been increased by .'50 cents Per • 100 pounds in Winnipeg and Montreal, and $1 in Ontario, With 'no changenn the price paid for this qual- ity 'in Alberta and Saskatchewan. 'These increases will provide a floor for commercial quality at $1.25 per 100 pounds ,below domestic ceiling at all points throughout Canada. Heretofore the export price for good and choice cow,beef was 75 cents per 100 pounds below domestic ceilings. Tlie price for good ,and choice cow beef has been raised' 50 cents per 100 pounds in all price zones which will provide a floor price of 25 cents be- low domestic 'ceilings similar to the floor price on goodand choice steer and heifer beef. The new export prices are appli- cable on all beef produced from cat- tle elaughtered on and afteinMandaY, August 19: * * Pyrethrum, Nab Rotenone, Return Although DDT ---has proved' such a powerfill agent in, the control of flies and insects, pyrethrum and rotenone, the two well-known sub8tan6es used in agricultural and domestic sprays, have by no means been supplanted. They were practically munitions of Wan and were in short supply for civilian use during hdstilities. Sup- plies are new on .the way to regain, their normal position' in the trade. Pyrethrum, variously known as Persian Pellitoey •and Inalmatiah flower a according to their Place Of origin, came originally from Dalmatia, in Yugoslavia, but after -the Pirat World, War the 'trade Was metope - liked .by the. japintiese: Later a high ntiality ileWer Wee developed in the - , •-• British Kenya Colony ' in Africa, and during the ' Second World War -a source of supply wan developed n South America. At the present time, Kenya supplies are coming forward .and, with the anticipation of a good crop this year, it is•expected that the position will, soon be about normal. Rotenone, which is derived f roma derris, sometimes called •tuba, orig- inates in the East Indies. It is 'also obtainable from cube a.ndtinabo which grew in, Selene America.' Now that the war is over, 'East Indian supplies are once more obtainable, but they are -going mostly to the British Isles. The South: American supplies are more or less-eonfined to the -American continent, and, now that government control has been lifted, are once more in the. bands- 6f the trade. Rotenone isea powerful ingredient in -sprays against lilting and sucking flies and ether insects,' and is p'articularly effective against warble grubs, from which warble flies emerge. , ••• -Wartime Subsidies Help Production Subsidies paid, out of public funds • by governments. to provide individualg or corporations, in lieu of or in addi- tion to returns obtained in regular market channels, are not a . new economic technique, state Frank' Shefrin and Marjorie R. Cameren, Economics Division, Dominion , De- partment, of 'Agriculture, in an intro- duction to a brochure on the wartime subsidy program 'of the Department. Food subsidies employed to hold retail food prices at lower levels than would 'otherwise .preyail,are, how- ever, they say, a war phenomenon. 'Production subsidies ,to keep farm costs down have been used before in one farm or another. - ,An increase in the price of any important product under wartime con- ditions puts into op'etation a trait' of consequences which' moves irresist- ibly to further increases in prices and general inflation. -A rise in the price of a farm product which con- stitetes an important cost of produc- tion -of other farm commodities could have serious repercussions, Forn'ene ample, if feed -nprinne 'were raided, prices of meats, :poultry and dairy products Would have to be increased to ensure adequate production. The general principle of the . sign' sidy program as applied to agricul- ture inay- be summarized as follows: (1) Subsidies .were paid for the pur- pose of keeping diawn the best of Itv They were Paid to farmers fot thepuepoee of enabling them to' dein Witte, Iitddileing• eaten:UM ties and af, theiiage f,ini liojd dor*- • 10enthnred Oi. ttagit Large Panto In the past few weeks therehave been different stories about the height Of Scotch thistles in the district. Noe it seem, People are trying to see who can grow the largest notate iu the district 'During the last two weeks, the News -Record has had reports about people having large potatoes, Mrs. Milton Wiltse reported that tney had had one" pn their farm which weighed 13 pounds and was taken by Mr. Wiltse's brother,'Horace, to Detroit. Later Mrs. Wiltse came back with another potato and this one - weighs one pound nvvelve ounces. Has anyone a potatothat can beat it?— Clinton News -Record-. Returns' From Ovetseas Thomas Booth, a former R.A.F. set:, viceman, returned to his home in Clinton last week, he hexing come back aboard the Aquita.ni,a. While in Canada he was a member of the"tele- phone staff at Clinton No. 5 Radio. School, Clinton, for three years. Since leaving here two and a half years ago, he has' served in India with the Air Sea Rescue crew. Mr. Booth re- ceived a hearty welcome .on his ar- rival here. His wife was formerly' Miss Donna Pickett, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. -William Pickett. — Clinton News -Record. Fractures Hip in Fail! Mrs. Charles Blaekhall, Winghann suffered. a fractured hip in.a fall on. 'the street on Tuesday, She was re- ' moved 'to Wingham Geaeral Hospital where 'a cast was applied. Mrs. Black- hall is over"60 years Of age and last ranuary fractured an, arm. Her hus- bandepassed. away-elniee-past-searinge-------e Wingham Advance -Times. ' • • Receives PosthumoOls Award Mr. and Mrs.' Harold Victor Pine last week received the Posthumous Aviard of Opecatienai Wings given by the British Government to their son, WO. 2 William H. Pym, who was at- tachea-to the R.A.F. and- waa'tne only Canadian' member of the crew when he lost his .life on•July 4, 1943. The citation read: "Warrant -Officer Claes. 2 W,',H..,Pym, posthumously awarded the operational wings for the in recognition of gallant Service against the enemy.".—Wingham Ad- vance -Times. , New ,Hardware Business A' new hardware business is to bee established- here.. Mac Oldfield, of Dundalk, who recently received his dircharge from the R.C.A.F.,. where he served; as. a radio engineer, ex- pects to wen a hardware store, Va- cated in the old Bank of -Commerce: buildings, . just north of the F. R. Smith drug store. It will be known as • nThe Brussels Hardware."7-Hrus- sets Post, •• New' Seed Gleaninge.' Plant ,• A 4 1. • • Cann's Mill are in the process of installing a new seed cleaning plant. The new equipment, which is the racist modern obtainable, is being 'glee, up in the north side of the mill. With this installation dann's -will now have a seed cleaning plant in both Exeter and Whalen 'mills.—Exeter Tiraes-Ad- neerate. ' • , Thirtieth' Anniversary Mr. and Mrs, August Gregus ,were pleasantly surprised on -Sunday by their, children, •friende and relatiVeS, the occasiOn, being, their 30tli wedding anniversary. The rooms Were decor- ated with gladioli and the table cen- tered with a three -tired cake. After a sumptuous dinner they were pres- ented with many- useful gifts. . 'War Bride Arrives. MrienDoreen Mary Ileyw,00d-, who came to Qapada on the Lady Nelson, arrived in London Wednesday at noon -- where she was' met by 'her husband, Calvin Heywood, and -other raembers of the. family. Mrs. Heywood Mines from South Norwood, London, Eng- land. We welcome her to, Exeter.— Exeter Times -Advocate. ' Eight Lumber Kilns For Walton Mill, Floyd Kyte, of Tillsoriburg, Whore- cently purebased the sawmill from William: Palmer,. Walton, intends to remodel the -building, putting in eight kilns, each with a capacity of about. 10,000 feet. C. W. Mclntee has been engaged as chief eiagineen. Standard. Sells, Peeing Mares, enlenry has eel& hie pacing mare, "May Grattan," to Gus Dinnin, of Strathroy, Mr. Dinning raced .Gin- ger Grattan and. Tony Evans. Mait also sold Goldie Grattan Royal to Lloyd Hill,- St. Catharines, Mi, Hill bought Goldie for a showmare. She is a beautiful trotter. Her dam is by Grattan Bars,' 1.5814.—Blyth Stand- ard. Fire At Coal Yard hLireat which broke out in the coat s thn F'red Seabrook coal yards early Saturday morning, caused dam - do estimated at $3,000, which is par- tially 'covered by insurance-. The fire started, it is believed, from epontan- eousg combustion in a pile of Alberta -- coal, and after breaking out spread rapidly until the whole building was iui Ilistae% Xenneth Stowe employed arat noticed the Are abinnt2111111. and turn- (Contlkiiled ofl rage 0) • .• " • 7 • .