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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1947-10-31, Page 2TnIniQN rowiris :.'.. OTOR 3J bei ail 1LQLeaXI, Editor. lishad 4 Seaforth, Ontario, ev- ' gars ,y afternoon. by McLean SlibsalPtion rates, $1.50 a year in Vance; foreign$2.00year. Single p e, a 4 re?I.ta, each. Advertising rates on application. ,Autherizatl as Second Class Mail Post Office Department, Ottawa SEAFORTH, Friday, October 31st New. Liquor Legislation At .the special session of the On- tario Legislature which convened in Toronto last week, the Attorney - General introduced new legislation whereby the Province will cease to enforce the `Ontario Liquor Control laws in the Counties of Huron and Perth, which are under the Canada Temperance Act, 'a Federal measure. The move is not an: unexpected one. The Federal law has been found by the Privy Council to supersede the Liquor Control Act, yet in these two counties the courts have con- tinued for some months past to con- vict under both laws. The situation was an impossible one, and sooner or later, some one with money enough to fight for his rights, would bring his case into court, and the Province would lose out. It is possible that the. fear of such an eventuality has led the Ontario Government to withdraw from the enforcement field in Huron - and Perth and leave the Federal Govern- ment to enforce the measures of the Canada Temperance Act, under which 'the people of these. counties voted themselves, and whose Act it is. f• Displaced Persons Recently the Caii'adian Govern- ment announced that it had agreed to accept the entry of 20,000. displac- ed persons from Britain and the camps .of Europe. • Since then the Minister of Agri- culture has stated that 60,000 or 70,- 000people would be brought from the Disposed Persons camps next year to go on the. land in Canada, because, he' said, these people would make good farmers. There is no doubt about that. It has already been proven,not only on • the land, but in industry as well. ,.Canadian farms and homes can ab- sorb many thousands of these dis- placed men and women now in the camps of Germany and Austria, and ,Canada ' w'ould benefit ' greatlby their immigration. There would, of course, be opppsi- tion from some 1 bor unions, but neither unions no ,' union members . would, suffer thr u h this immigra- tion, and their opposition should be over -ruled. Most of those in the ► ,camps of Europe are homeless re-' fugees from totalitarian tyranny and are more than eager to come to a free country like Canada, where they will be free to carve out a new life and way of living for themselves and their dependents,. No orie would approve an, indis- criminate horde of Europeans being allowed to iminigrate to this country, but we have room for and badly need many thousands of selected men and women from those countries and too, Canada has a moral oblikation as a member of the United Niations to consider the welfare of the people of those devastated war countries. • How Dishes Should Be Dried We are well aware that dishwash- ing and wiping are, in theory, sup- posed to be under women's domain. But as a Matter of fact, in recent years, at least, man has entered very - much into the picture. ' All this came . about at first, at Mast,-. through , a dearth of help in the home. Out of the kindness of their hearts, men volunteered to help out their wives by drying the supper dishes. But not thoroughly understanding the ways of women, even,„,their wives, they soon learned -that what started out as a favor, soon' became a perm anent 'job. At Feast their wives understood it that way, and when a wife makes up her -own Mind on any given subject, she . Ito .bakes: • up her husband's mind he Sante te. W lir here is something for these. dish -drying rying husbands that looks like a raof hope in a dark home world, And it comes from high authority too.- From no less than' Sir Walter Savage, British bacteriological dis- ease expert, who has stated dishes should be left to stand in the air to dry after washing, Enlarging on the British expert's Claim, the Deputy Medical Officer of Health in Toronto ' says : "Toronto husbands now have a justifiable point on which. to argue when their wives order them to dry the supper dishes. Wiping dishes with the orthodox towel aids in the spread of communi- cable disease germs." And these two health authorities not only know the common microbes, hut the rare ones too; quite well enough to call them by their first names. Hire "are the facts ,as given by the experts: "The matter of allowing dishes to" stand and dry came to our attention some time ago. We are in complete agreement with the prac- tise of allowing dishes to dry of their own accord after washing: In many cases where dishes are dried with a towel, the fibres and threads of the towel become clogged with bacteria and vegetable matter, making them a menace to health. Accumulation of such " matter in the fibres of the cloth used to wipe dishes become u breeding ground for bacteria. No, matter -how careful wives may be to insure dishes be thoroughly washed, they could never be washed' com- pletely free of microscopic ,animal and vegetable matter." "Husbands should ' instruct their wives to immerse dishes in clear, warm, soap -free water, after' wash- ing to ensure quick evaporation from the- air." All that sounds very sim- ple, but instructing wives and having. those instructions carried out are two very different things as all hus- bands know. o 'But there you have it, men. Here- after husbands are supposed to re- lax in their easy chairs, with even-' ing papers or favorite :book's. The doctors have prescribed it. A Record October r. If the warnith, sunshine and beau- ty of this October continues for four more days, it will break the record of a century. For 27 days now its mean temper- ature has been 7.5 above normal. That is half a degree higher than the October of 1900, which was the warmest up to the present time. There have been 20 days above the line, one on the line, and four below. The normal sunshine for October.. is 151 hours, but this October has far. outstripped that with well over 200 up to Monday night. Only one thing has this month fallen down on, and that is in dthe amount of rainfall, which la only been 0.15 of an inch. Natui.e seems to have a way of evening up her favors. We had too ° much snow- last winter, and didn't like it. " De didn't have any spring to speak of, and no summer until ' August, and we complained bitterly about that. 'But when we get a glorious Octo- ber, a record for a huhdred years, we just take it as'a matter of course, and ' don't say much about it. After giv- ing the matter a little thought, we have just about come to the conclu- sion that weather on the whole is a little better and ° warmer than the average human disposition. • Days of Nicholas Nickleby (From the Manthester Guardian) Nickleby, wanders through. the world; he takes a situation' as assisant to a Yorkshire schoolmas- ter; he sees an act of tyranny, of which he strongly disapproves. .He cries out `Stop!' in a voice that makes the rafters ring; he thrashes the schoolmaster within an inch of his Life; he throws the schoolmaster away like an old cigar and be goes away. The modern intellect is posi- tively prostrated and flattened by this rapid and romantic way of righting wrongs. If a modern philanthropist came to Dotheboys Hall he would petition -the Government to appoint a Royal Commission Co inquire into Mr. Squeers. . The Royal Commission would report about three years ,afterwards and would say that many things had happened which were certainly most regrettable; that Mr. Squeers was the victim of a bad system; that Mrs. Squeers was also the victifn of a bad system; but that the man who sold Squeer's cane had ready acted with great indiscretion and ought to be spoken to kindly. Very different were the methods of "our fathers" :— No doubt they were often narrow and often visionary. No doubt they often looked at a politi- Cal formula when they should have looked at an elemental fact: No doubt, in short, they were ell very wrong; and no doubt we are the people and wisdom shall die with' us. But when they saw .something which in their eyes really Violat- ed their Morality, such as it was, then they did not cry "Investigate." They did not cry, "Edst- cate." They did riot cry "improve." Like N1'01 - oras Nickleby they cried "Stop!'"' And 'it did stop. . .r 47 . Yeats, ► o ane r, f:ntorestlap..ftents Picked From Tho HUMP Etposftor ef Fifty and :Twasi4 yo Years Ago. Frena The Huren ExpOSltor Noyeeeber 3, 1922 On Friday, last while the children were at play 'at school, fohn, the young son of Mr. and Mrs. R. Taylor, had the misfortune to have his leg broken... s First Presbyterian -Church was fill- ed on Friday evening last when the South' Huron Choral Soeiety„ under the direction of Prof. Anderton, gave the sacred cantata, "The .iVIessiah.” The society consists of 86 voices and they -gave great „pleasure for three hours. The solo parts were taken by W. O. Goodwin and M: R. Rennie. Mrs. Rennie assisted• at the organ. Mr. Robert, Bell returned Friday evening from .a business trip to the Western Provinces and the •eoast. The Misses Cresswell left on Fri- day afternoon for Denver- -They win spend the winter in California. Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Routledge have returned from a very pleasant summer spent in the Western Prov- inces and 'North bakota. Messrs. J. M. Best and G. D. Haigh, left Wednesday on a hunting, trip to the north country. Mr. James Cowan has leased for the winter the rooms recently vacat- ed by Jr.. E, Willis, Main St. Messrs. Thos. Dick, of Calgary, and -.Toe ° Dick, 'of Oshawa, were called home this week owing to the serious illness of their mother, Mrs. James Dick. 'Mr. and Mrs. F. J. Kerslake, o@ Staffa, have moved into the residence on West Street they recently - pur- chased from Mr., . James Cowan. Miss Olive Taman is visiting her parents at Cochrane. Mr. Thomas Daly last week dispos ed of his grocery 'business •to Mr. J. McLeod, who for some three years has been manager of the U.F.O. store here. The U.F.O. this week disposed of their entire stock to Mr. James J. Cleary, who has been in the store for two years. Shortly after five o'clock- on Mon- day morning the stable of Andrew Calder, on Church St., was discover- ed to be on fire, and although the firemen were on hand promptly they .were unable to save the •building. -Messrs. J. Wesley Beattie, of town, and W. H. Jamieson, Huren Road West, attended the Western Ontario consignment sale company's , 16th semi-annual .sale of Shorthorns In Londpn on . Tuesday. Mr. Jamieson. purchased the imported bull, "Ba1- carin Laddie," - and Mr. Beattie bid in a Waterloo Princess cow, for which $1,300 was paid at a sale in 1917. Mr. A. A. McLennan met with an unfortunate accident Tuesday even- ing. Ste was stepping out of his car when he slipped and fractured his ankle.. Mr.. E. A. McIntosh. returned on Monday from Cartagena, ;South Am- erica, where he agent the past -year doing construction work for the Im- perial Oil Co. While the experience was a profitable one, Mr. McIntosh says he would not.like to make South America his permanent home. • • • From The Huron Expositor November 5, 1897 - A. pleasant family gathering took place at the residence of Mr. Wm. Chesney, 5th Concession; Tucker - smith, on Monday evening. The occa- sion was to celebrate the eighteenth birthday of his daughter. The Daly. orchestra, of Egmondville, was pres- ent and delighted all with their mus- ic. Mr. Thos. Murdoch, of Hensall, being among the guests, delighted the gathering with selections on the, organ and violin. Mr. H. Talbot, of Drysdale, met with a painful accident while peddling tinware for Mr. Fields, of Bayfield, with whom he is employed. He was on his way home when his horse bolt- ed, upsetting the rig into the ditch. He became entangled in the lines and was dragged about half a mile. He dislocated his hip and had three ribs broken. ,The -Mitchell Advocate office is now lighted by acetylene gas. Mrs. John Reinke, of the South Road, met with a painful accident re- cently while gathering a few apples, She was standing on a ladder wben: it turned, throwing herheavily to the ground. She received a severe shak- ing up. . The reopening services on Sunday and •Monday in connection with Sea - forth Methodist Church were a suc- cess. Mr. Geo. Brown's new brick resi- dence near Constance is nearing com- pletion. ' Mr, Robert Munn has started black- smithing about three miles east of Leadlbury. Mr, John Thirsk, of Blake, is doing a rushing business with his cider mill. Mr. A. McAllister has sold his 100 - acre farm, on the 9th concession of Grey to Thomas and Harry Clark, for $4,500. The McKillop Insurance Co. has f- fered a reward of $50' for the appr� hension and convic•tio .eLsthd person or persons who se. fire to the agri- cultural hall in September last. The first snow of the season fell Saturday morning last. Miss May Kemp returned home on Saturday from- a visit to friends in Montreal and Toronto. Miss Ida • Dickson returned on Fri- day from a three weeks' visit in To- ronto. Mr. J. C. Laidlaw, one of Seaforth's oldest business men, intends opening A tea and grocery store in the premis- es occupied by Mr. D. McIntyre, near the Dominion Bank. Mr. D. Donovan and Mr. William Crrdmore shipped a car of very fine horses from here on Wednesday to the Old Country. They were all heavy draughts but one, and it was a driver, pure white in color. • Lieutent Knight: "How did yen happen to oversleep ,this morning?" Private:, "There were seven of us In the barracks. and the alarm clock Was set for six." Mrs. Phil was' going to the Women's Institute last Wednesday. I was sort of grumping around the house, having a sore back. and also very little desire for work. It was decided, without a great deal of conversation on my part tat Michael should stay at:home with me. Michael 18 now at that year and a half period when you earnestly wonder where all the inspiration for mischief and energy' to carry it out, could possibly come trona.. �. Mapping out the afternoon in my own mind' it didn't appear to be so bad. Mrs. Phil put him to bed tor. a nap at one -fifteen and sher left ,one - thirty, telling me that he would sleep until at least three -thirty, and she would be back by for. I settled down on,jhe sofa with a book, a. magazine, the morning news- paper, my pipe, tobacco and matches, and after diligently going through all the soapy stories on the radio found' a station with music on it. I then relaxed for a pleasant time. WOWW! 'WAAAAAWWWW! It almost seemed as if that boy had been peeking out the window until his mother was safely down the road. Then he decided to give his old man a workout. 1 turned the radio off and tried tp'wait him out: Maybe he would go back to sleep. He cried for about three 'minutes and then stopped. I relaxed again and scratched a match. Not hearing my footsteps on the stairs, I strongly suspected he turn- ed up his volume control .and started B. Moe, i.i44.'ke off in a, higher and more urgent key. You ean't hold, out long in the faeW of crying like that. When I, ,dot to the top of the stairway and looked in, he was smiling. I then endeavored to fluff up his pillow and straighten out his. crib .. . in the hope of enticing him hack to sleep. . It was a foolish thought. He wanted to go downstairs. First of all he' wanted. to walk down himself. He,slipped and went down about six steps before I caught him. Ile cried again and I settled that by bribing him with a part of a choco- late bar which his sister had parked on the clock shelf. Then he wanted the radio -on. Fol- lowing this he wanted to' go outside. We strolled around for a half hour or so. Then he wanted to. go in and pointed to the pantry, and I had "to get" him something' to eat. Then he was good for about five minutes and I went back to the couch. I got a hard rubber ball on the side of the head . . . he wanted to play. After that he cried on .general principles and I had to give him a ride on my foot. Then he grew quiet and pleasant and he was smiles from ear to ear by the time his mother came home. I made a remark about his being so, cross all afternoon, and she smiled sweetly and said, "You shouldn't have paid any attention to, him when he got up. He would have gone .on play- ing by himself." I fled to the safety and security of the barn. di rieis In October Mr. E. Pym, of Uaborne, has beet' enjoying some, ripe -.blackberries, grow- ing in his garden. On Tuesday he brought into the office'two stems that were well laden with berries, some - of them ripe and others Just about to ripen. The berries are even better ,Man they were in the spring. He al- so brought in a winter pear that tips. the scales Just over the pound.. They are On exhibition in the Tunes -Advo - Cate window. On October 12 Mr. W''- ' F. Abbott -picked a ,ripe strawberry. On the 16th he picked four and the following day three more. f-- Exeter Times -Advocate. Hydro Turned On The farmers on the' Goshen Line North were very happy. last Friday •when the Hydro power which they had installed, had been turned on. This creates a new area in their life- time, and is a credit to every one who took advantage of the same. The bright lights shown from their houses, barns and yards ,fights up the. countryside, and will prove a great convenience. Zurich Herald, Has Purchased Farm Mr. George Ducharme, who has been occupying his father's' farm Just south of town, has purchased a very fine farm west of Dublin and expects to get possession next spring. His brother, Gilbert, and wife of Detroit, have moved onto the home farm here which they • have ,purchased.—Zurich Herald. For the car driver who must get through -- lit. F. Goodrich Mud -Snow Silvertowns are the tires for your car. They're designed to pull like a mule in soft going, and on pave- •ment the continuous bars assure you of- -smooth, safe driving. • \ The B. F. Goodrich LD Silvertown is com- pletely new and different. Its design, con- struction, and performance, place it far above other tires. You buy longer mileage ... lower costs per mile ... when you buy B. F. Goodrich Tires. MUD AND SNOW LD S,ILVERTOWN ON YOUR OLD' WARTIME TIRES Rich, Clear Toned B. F. 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