The Huron Expositor, 1948-09-10, Page 2TJ
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EAFORTH, Friday, September 10
Watch For The Children
Children are back to school again.
That means the most dangerous, per-
haps the most deadly season for the
school children throughout Ontario.
Steadily increasing traffic on our
streets and highways makes this the
time of greatest danger.
The records show that in Septem-
ber of last year, more children were
killed and injured by motor cars in
Ontario than in any other month.
This is the time of year the number
of serious or fatal child accidents be-
gin to climb. But this is as needless
as most of the accidents that killed
132 children and injured 2,000 more
in Ontario last year were needless.
The Ontario Department of High -
Nays has been featuring a traffic
safety campaign which 'has been sup-
ported by the press, radio and many
other public agencies, and results
show clear evidence of great success
in reducing traffic accidents.
But when it comes to children,
teaching safety traffic rules and
proffering advice is not nearly en-
ough. All the safety measures and
laws that have been passed will nev-
er relieve motorists of responsibility.
There is no doubt that many, if not
most, of the motor accidents involv-
ing children are undoubtedly the
child's fault, but that does not free
the motorist of moral blame.
We believe the onus is always on
the motorist to keep a keen lookout
for children, because only the per.,
sonal caution of the motorist and his
care in' driving can lessen the acci-
dent and death toll.
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Tragedy Of Tree Destruction
Speaking of the tragedy of tree de-
struction on a number of Toronto
Streets, made necessary by the en-
forced widening, to relieve the trans-
portation problems, the London Free
Press said:
"To come closer to home, the glory
of London is undoubtedly its trees.
Let us carefully preserve our trees,
and particularly as long as possible
the downtown trees. For every tree
that has to be cut down, London
should plant two, and in the new
sections of the city there should be
an efficiently planned tree planting
undertaking."
That is sound advice that could be
takento heart by this and a great
many other towns.
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The Abundance Prob.'em
, The people of the United States
are up against the problem of abun-
dance. That country is harvesting
the biggest crop in its whole history.
The wheat crop will yield more than
1.2 billion bushels.
The corn harvest is also expected
to form a record of -3.5 billion bush-
els, while the former record created
in 1946 was 3.2 billion. It would ap-
pear as if Nature and man had co-
operated in a great achievement.
But the question is being asked:
What did the great abundance mean
to the nation? -What will it mean to
high prices? It is pointed out that if
the law of supply and demand had
been allowed to work, prices would
already be 'dropping to the extent
than some farmers would be facing
heavy .financial losses.
fever, ;no one over there, par-
ticularly the' government in an elec-
. ton year, wanted to see the farmer
kile too Muchmoney. So the law of
br and 'demand was shelved by
e , a whi h said that the govern-
aixld` guarantee that the
tai prices for hits
agger the erne
the bigger the goverxl,xnent subsidy
would have to be. In the Feat crops
just harvested, ithas been estimated,,.
that the government price support
program), will cost the taxpayers $1.5
billion dollars.
And as for high prices, as far as
anyone can,see, the consumer will
just have to go on paying them. This
is one year. that it pays to be a farm-
er, whether in the United States ..or
Canada.
•
Who Owns Big Business?
All too frequently we hear com-
plaints about big business and its
owners. That it should be taxed two
hundred per cent. That the income
tax should apply 100 per cent on the
incomes of big business owners. That
the poor are being robbed at the ex-
pense. And so on, and on.
All these complaints can be traced
indirectly to the professional poli-
ticians. They spent and pear hear
the same thing over and over so of-
ten that they take it fpr gospel truth
rather than go to the trouble of in-
vestigating themselves.
Well, who does own business? In
a recent survey of the 120 largest
United States manufacturing com-
panies, with total assets of 51 billion
dollars, it was found that there were
only four in which any individual
owned as much as 10 per cent. of the
voting stock.
The 120 companies were owned by
6,126, 713 shareholders, almost 40 per
cent. more than the total number of
employees -4,464,000. Of the 62 com-
panies which gave detailed informa-
tion in the survey, 24 reported that '
no individual held as much as one
per cent., and five out of six share-
holders owned 100 shares or less.
About nine per cent. of the share-
holders were institutions such as
schools, hospitals, cemeteries, invest-
ment and insurance companies, etc.,
and they, in turn, represent millions
of other individuals.
We believe that if a similar survey
of business was made in Canada
the result would be pretty much the
same. Today big business is not own-
ed by individual men who pocket all
the profits, but is largely owned by
the ordinary man and woman on the
street. It sounds very plausible and
nice when a politician promises you
he will relieve you of your taxes
by taking everything from the busi-
ness tycoons, but it doesn't mean a
thing.
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No Matter What The Cost
Britain is such a sports loving na-
tion that one would have thought
during the past few weeks in August
the press would have been full of the
final test match between that coun-
try and Australia. Or at the time,
one would have thought the Russian
crisis in Berlin might have had a
place on the first page.
But the British .press was full of
something that seemed to be much
more important to the nation — the
cigarette shortage. Apparently it
was no newspaper stunt either, be-
cause on Monday, August 17th, the
British Labor Government held a
special session of the cabinet to con-
sider the situation.
Thus it would seem°that in just 100
years the cigarette has grown from
a sissy habit to a national need. This
unique. position that tobacco has at-
tained in the world was demonstrat-
ed during the recent war when some-
times it seemed to have a priority
over munitions and only slightly be-
hind food.
In Europe the cigarette attained an
even much higher place. In fact in
defeated Nations it seemed to be-
come the basis of the entire economy
of more than one country.
Even in Britain, the cigarette
shortage was regarded so serious
that it required immediate and urg-
ent attention. No one could tell, it
was felt, what would happen to Bri-
tain if it was suddenly cut off from
its supply of cigarettes.
No doubt too, apponents of smok-
ing would claim that it would be bet-
' ter off for it. It would. But the poli-
ticians and the government regard
such an event as both impracticable
and impossible. So no matter what it
will cost in dollar -scarce Britain, the
government will continue to buy to-
baceo, and American Virginia tobac-
coat that, because Britons don't like
Egyptian tobacco' or the quer stuff
grown in the Balkan -States
LAZY Mi
"LOCAL. NANII P! ACKS"
I was reminded the :other day of
what a strange collection of names
there are in almost any communr
ity. People have a habit of dub-
bing a name on things and in the
country these names stick.
1 had a fellow 'here from the
city. He is interested in buying a
farm. Somebody suggested that
he come and see me. Tallt . about
green and you have him tabbed',
because he knows absolutely noth-
ing about farming. 'On the other
hand, he is working for an agency
of some kind -in the cityand has
been at this kind of work for
about twenty years. He says that
the high tension and the pace of
living which he has had to main-
tain has just about wrecked his
health. The doctor told him to
get a place in the country, and so
he came to me.
I took him over to see the old
Simpson place on the next Conces-
sion. It has always been a good
farm„ but it has run down badly
in the past ten years. The young-
er members of the family cropped
it and cropped it, and then headed
for the city when the land started
to show up as wearing out from
the strain. It seemed partly apt
that the farm might be sold to a
city fellow who would replace the
strength and fertility in it, that
had been extracted to send the two
lads on their way to the city.
On the way over I wag pointing
out the various landmarks. First
of all, there was the Irish Church
and; down the road another church
which had been closed because of
Union with another congregation.
It was Martyr Hollow, socalled by
a bitter member of the congrega-
By, Harry J. Boyiel.
tion. The corner has always been
Galled Steaks* Misery, so. Ear as I
know, and with no explanation that
I Can say.
On the county map you wil1see
the creek on the sideroad marked.
as Silver, Creek, but everybody
here .calls it Finnegans Creek,
This. came about because of a rats -
hap Jim Finnegan had one night
in coming back from a celebration
in the village. The horse had stop-
ped on the creek bridge and• Jnr
waking up 'had toppled from the
buggy into the water. He was fish-
ed out by another traveller on the
lonely road about two hours later:
After that„ it was logical to call the
place Finnegan's Creek.
There used to be a post office
at the corner of the Tenth and the
Sideroad. People forget what the
name of it was. Everyone calls it
Vinegar Hill, because a man once
started a vinegar factory there that
didn't last very long. Where the
store used to stand, about a quar-
ter of a mile down the road, is
called Desolation. You can still
see the ruins of the general store.
I was pointing this out to the
fellow, who laughed. When we got
in front of the Simpson place, he
took a long look at it. There's a
creek in the front field and big,
low stone house under some weep-
ing willows and in spite of the un -
kept look of the place, it is attrac-
tive. He looked at it and said„ "I
like this place. If I buy it, I sup-
pose you'll dedicate the creek to
my years in the agency and the
city and call it Ulcer Creek?" I
laughed then, but I'll bet you in-
side of a year that people call it
"Ulcer Creek:" It takes only a
saying, as the word goes, to put a
name on a place in the country.
"ar Ane
inters lti.ng terns Ricked Freie
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The Huron Expoaltor of wee-
tyfive and Fifty Years Apo.
® Just A Smile Or Two
A well meaning but particularly
prosing judge on one of his coun-
try circuits had to try a man for
stealing a quantity of copper. In
his charge he had frequent occa-
sion to mention the "copper" which
he uniformly called "lead" adding,
"I beg your pardon, gentlemen—
capper; but I can't get the lead
out of my head!"
.
"Stand up," shouted the evange-
list. "Stand up, if you want to
.go to heaven."
Everybody stood up but one old
man.
"Don't you want to go• to heav-
en?" asked the evangelist.
"Sure I do," replied the old man,
"but I ain't goin' with no excur-
sion."
•
"Your leisure hours must be
quite a problem?" a friend joshed
the busy executive.
"The only problem I have there,"
snapped the executive, "is how to
keep other people from wasting
it." -
When a public speaker asked the
chairman how long he .should speak
he was told to watch the audience's
reaction.
"If you haven't struck oil in five
minutes," the chairman said, ."quit
boring."
•
Polly: "Long hair makes a man
look intelligent."
Milly: "I saw a wife once pick
one off her husband's coat and he
looked foolish."
•
A doctor had an urgent phone
call from a gentleman saying his
small son had swallowed his foun-
tain pen.
"All right! I'II come at once,"
replied the doctor. "What are you
doing in the meantime?"
Whereto came theunexpected
answer, "Using a pencil."
.
Customer: "One mouse trap.
please. in a hurry—I have to catch,
a bus."
Clerk: "Sorry, sir, our traps
don't come that big."
From The Huron Expositor
September 14, 1923
On Friday evening last Mr. and.
Mrs, John McKinley, who recently
left Stanley Township to reside in
Clinton, were surprised at the
home of their son, Mr. Elgin Mc-'
lQinleY, and were presence with a*i
address and writing dewy their
neighbors and friends.
• Mr. W. F. Southgate, of Seaforth,
made the ninth hole in one stroke
on Wednesday at the Seaforth Golf
and Country Club. The distance
is 147 yards.
Mr. R. M. Jones, manager of the
Dominion Bank, with Mrs. Jones,
left ou Sunday on a motor trip to
Montreal and Quebec.
Miss Beatrice Larkin, who spent
the holidays at the Manse with her
parents, left on Monday for Toron-
to, where she has accepted a posi-
tion on the staff of Harvergil Lad
les' College.
Twb rinks of bowlers, composed
of H. Stewart and J. Beattie, and
E. H. Close and R. H. Sproat, were
in Guelph this week playing in the
Scotch doubles tournament in that
city.
Mr. and Mrs. Albert Whiteside,
of Hensall, left this week on a
motor trip to Chicago.
.
From The Huron Expositor
'September 2, 1898
The final match on the home
grounds in the Senior Champion-
ship Canadian Lacrosse Associa-
tion series, was played• on the re-
creation grounds here on Friday,
when the • Beavers defeated the
Dufferins of Orangeville by a score
of 5 to 2.
Mr. Thos. Fraser, of Stanley, has
been appointed the returning offi-
cer for the purpose of taking the
prohibition plebiscite vote in South
Huron.
Mr. Sohn McAdam, a resident of
Detroit for 40 years, was here vis-
iting his sisters„ Mrs. S. Barton
and Mrs. Hutton.
Miss Jennie Ballantyne left on
Wednesday for Beamsville, where
she has been engaged to teach
school.
Mr. Harry Speare goes to Hen-
sall to take charge of the'gents'
furnishing store for Greig & Mc-
Donald.
The Hamilton Times on Monday
says: "Miss Daly, of Seaforth,
sang "Ava Maria" by Mallard in
St. Mary's Cathedral last evening.
She was in excellent voice and her
rendition of the solo was very
pleasing."
Miss Jennie Barr left Thursday
to resume her duties in the Grims-
by High Sc,--ool.
Miss Annie Schoales. of Con-
stance, went to Detroit on the ex-
cursion last Saturday.
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(By R. J. Deachman)
M. S. S.
The cryptic letters at th, head
of this story stand for mirage,,
saskatoons and sunsets. Th"y are
highly important; follow t':em in
the order given.
I was standing on the shores of
the St. Lawrence at Metis Beach
watching the ships go by. The
river here is about fifty miles wide
and. quite an artery of commerce.
Three ships were in sight; the
smoke of two others was visible
far down the river. It was 2 p.m.
of a sunny afternoon. A few yards
from me a young lady was follow-
ing the ships through •binoculars.
Suddenly she smiled and handed
the glasses to me. "Look,' she
said, "and tell me what you see."
I looked; I had seen that ship two
minutes ago, every part of it was
visible, now it appeared as a barge
and on the barge was a freight car,
a very typical freight car, slightly
battered; you couldn't take it for
anything else.
"It's a mirage," I said; "it is due
to the bending of the rays of light
but I haven't the slightest idea
why they bend, nor do I know why.
If they bend„ they should present
the picture of a box car on a ship
when they might more readily
have presented• c picture of bhe sea-
shore, or a church, or possibly a
political convention, if they, are in-
terested in that sort of thing.
When I came home I looked up
the cause of mirages in my en-
cy—clopedia and this is what I
I read:
"A delusive appearance due to.
the rays of light being succesgsive-
ly °bent in their passage through
the air. This bending is occasion-
ed by layers of air at different ele-
vations having a varying density
on account of the heat from the
ground, which curves the light
rays so that the tangent to the
ray at the eye of the observer
comes from below, and therefore
the image seems as if it were be-
low the ground,"
So much for the explanation; it
didn't seem to us "below the
ground,"
We turned our attention to oth-
er ships sufficiently close to permit
observation. One seemed to be
moving sideways, another had a
twisted look in its whole upper
structure. Once,, a year ago, I saw
one which was perfectly normal if
I sat dawn, and was ,an entirely
different ship when I stood up.
Nice wasn't it, to put its beet foot
first when 1 Sat down.
Waal Somebody who knows Setae -
thing about mirages come 'to myl
relief, tell me Why that ship should
have turned into a barge rith ay
box cat' merelybecause the ray
Of light were bent?
A friend of mine, one who lived
for some time in the West, cane
down to Metis Beach for a week-
end and we spent the days ramb-
ling over the hills. Finally we
came out on a railway track and
turned right, heading towards a
highway which would take us back
to town. The highway was about
a mile and a half distant. We tock
an hour to make the journey. The
raspberries were at their best. We
did justice to the opportunity.
Then we turned down the road
and thirty-seven steps from the
railway my friend spotted a bush
of saskatoons.
Should I speak of the saskatoon
as a bush? They are commonly
about four or six feet high but
there was one in our backyard in
Calgary one time which was eleven
feet, Saskatoons grow best where
the ground is slightly damp; they
like to touch their toes in the wa-
ter. It is much like a blueberry in
appearance, though when ripe it
turns black instead of blue. They
are easy to grow, easy to pick,
pleasant to eat, and make good.
vies. There is no reason why ev-
ery garden and farm in Gaspe
should not have a spot for saska-
toons. The hotels • around the
Gaspe coast would provide a mar-
ket. I offer this •suggestion to the
Minister of Agriculture of the
Province of Quebec. Perhaps a
new berry may appear soon in the
dining rooms of Gaspe hotels.
The sunsets on the Gaspe coast
are gorgeous—no words could do
them justice. It had been foggy
that morning; the fag receded
slowly during the day. In the eve-
ning we could still .s'ee banks of
fog clinging to the far side of the
river.
A sunset is normally a somewhat
limited picture, but on this occa-
sion it reached three-quarters
around the horizon and upwards• to
the zenith. It painted on the clouds
on the. other side of the river tre-
mendous castles and gardens,
mountains and caverns, The col -
ora were beyond description—
pinks, blues„ mauves in varying
shades. We gathered along the
shore; the air was still. The sil-
ence could be felt. Only gasps of
awe Came from the Silent watch-
ers on the 'beach. Nothing 3 have
ever seen touched even remotely
the glory ce the scene. A heavy
dark cloud hung over the western
horizon, the sun descended: and
froin behind this baekkrotind paint-
ed the stay with unimaginable
tottcheS of glory', then faded stow'-
lin from our view. The picture re-
tailins—I shall never forget that
sunset at Metig ;Beach!
Iphild Swallows Sleek• Tabieta',
Carol, the slmall daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. James Howe, had a nar-
row escape on Friday morning
when she swallowed sleeping tab-
lets. Fortunately Norma •Cat`ther,
who was caring for her during her
parents absence found her with
est �uaumbers. 'Others from- $ear
forth. Bruce eld„ LU011now, Bet -
grave, Dungannon, Auburn, Clan-.
deboye, Port Albert, Dashwood,
Londesboro, Grand Pend, Brussels,
Crediton, NI/Ingham and E*bter/dls-.
tricts, Those from the Blyth Cis.
tract were Jas. Mason, Fred Mar -
the box in her 'hand before •she :had shall, Jas. Laidlaw, Jas. Watt, Don --
taken all the contents, and immedi-
ately telephoned a d;actor. J. M.
Stewart, a neighbor, rushed her to
Clinton -Public Hospital, where she
received treatment. Although it
was impossible to keep her awake
until they reached the hospital,
she was able to come home later
in the dray. --Clinton News -Record.
Farm Sold. To English Family
ald Fraser, Willie. Bromley and
Geo. Mason. Goderich Signal -Star. -
Sells Fine Farm..
Mr. J. B. Turnbull has disposed
of his fine farm on the 15th con-'
cession of Stephen Township, to•'
Mr. George Link, of Dashwood,for-
the handsome sum of $10,000.—
Zurich Herald.
Summer's Hotte&t Day
The official temperature in Gode-
rich last Friday, August 27, was •
94 degrees, setting the high mark
for this year. This was one degree
higher than the highest tempera-
ture recorded last year, when it
was 93 degrees for two successive
days, August 5 and 6. The drop to'
the low 70's this week, with a min-
imum temperature of 46 degrees
Thursday evening, is an example of
what our Ontario climate can do.—
Goderich Signal -Star.
Hensall Juveniles Beat Staffa
HensaIl Juveniles took the forst
game of a two -out -of -three Huron -
Perth juvenile final play-offs Tues-
day night when they nipped Staffa
11-7. Watson twirled the game for
the winners. Willow and Hocking
shared the loss. Mickle hit a home
run for the winners in the first
with two on bases to start a sev-
en -run spree. The losers never
caught up. — Exeter Times -Advo-
cate.
Staff Guests At Bayfield Home
Mr, and Mrs. Lloyd • Edighoffer
entertained the staff of G. Edighof-
fer & Son on Friday evening at
their summer home at Bayfield.
There was a wiener roast and a
dip in the lake, followed by games
in the house on the program for
the evening, all enjoying them to
the utmost.—Mitchell Advocate.
Honor Bride -and -Groom -To -Be
Mr. Jesse Wheeler, 5th conces-
sion of Morris Township, has sold
his farm to Mr. Langridge, who re-
cently arrived from England. Mr.
and Mrs. Langridge have. three
grown sons; two already in this
country. This makes.the fifth Eng-
lish family to locate in the Bel -
grave neighborhood since the war.
Mr. Wheeler is holding an auction
sale on Sept. 16.—Blyth Standard.
Had Leg Amputated
Mr, Eli Lawson„ of Stephen, is
ill in Victoria Hospital, London,
where on Friday of last week he
underwent an • operation for 'the
amputation of his leg between the
knee and the thigh. He had been
suffering from gangerene and at
present is getting along nicely,--
Exeter Times -Advocate.
Awarded Tuition Scholarship •
University of Western Ontario
announced last week that Elmer
Campbell, R.R. 1, Exeter, of Exe-
ter District High School, had been
awarded the school tuition scholar-
ship up to $125 a year for two years
for the County of Huron- The
scholarship is given to the pupil
with the highest standing in the
departmental examination for the
county. Elmer has registered in
the Junior Group 2 at the Univers-
ity and anticipates a course in busi-
ness administration. — Exeter
Times -Advocate.
Home From Hospital
Miss Emma Dinsmore, who had
been a patient at Clinton Public
Hospital with an injured hip, has
returned to the home of her bro-
ther and sister-in-law, Mr. and Mrs.
Thos. Dinsmore. We are pleased
to report that both Miss Dinsmore
and Mrs. J. Douglas are progress-
ing very favorably in the same
home.—Zurich Herald.
To Help With Western Harvest
A total of thirty-eight men left
Goderich this week for Winnipeg
to work at the Western harvest,
some of them leaving Tuesday and'
some Wednesday. They were de-
spatched through the Goderich
branch of the National Employ-
ment Office. The Goderich, Blyth
and Walton districts sent the larg-
The people of the Westfield com-
munity held a shower for 'Miss
Shirley Radford and Mr. Donald;
Snell on Monday night, at the
home of Mr. and Mrs. Norman'
Radford. Following the display of"
the gifts and trousseau, Mr. Nor-
man McDowell gave a verbal ad-
dress and Messrs. Walter Cook,
Gordon Carter, Eddie Taylor and
Billy Taylor presented the young
couple with many lovely gifts;.
which included an automatic feath-
er weight iron, a clothes hamper, a
chesterfield table, dish pan, dust.
mop and a lovely /picture. Don re-
plied, expressing the appreciation.
of Shirley and himself for the.
thoughtfulness and kindness - of
those present. Shirley and Don
passed the wedding cake and'
candy.—Blyth Standard.
The book
you
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end
To you, it tells the most interesting
story in the world—especially if•
you are the saving kind.
You can translate it into many purposes:
holidays to come; education for your children;:
things for the house; added security ..
But you never let even your intimate,
friends see the contents. The information •
in your passbook is strictly between you
and your bank. Your bank keeps it that way.,
S•PONSO14gts n YOUR RANR'