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The Huron Expositor, 1948-10-15, Page 2TIM ELTIION EXPOSITOR • POSIIOR stablished 1860 X. IV[cLean, Editor. Published at Seaforth, Ontario, ev- Thursday afternoon by McLean 15 Members of Canadian Weekly Newspapers Association. Subscription rates, $2.00 a year in advance; foreign $2.50 a year. Single copies, 5 cents each. Advertising rates on application. Authorized as Second Class Mail Post Office Department, Ottawa SEAFORTH, Friday, October 15th The Hospital Campaign The campaign to raise a building fund to make possible further altera- tions and improvements to Scott Memorial Hospital, which was an- nounced some weeks ago by the Board of the Hospital, gets under way on Monday. The campaign pro- vides an opportunity for the citizens of the district t� indicate in a prac- tical manner the place which they feel the hospital occupies in the com- munity. While the amount sought—$25,000 —looks large, it can easily be within the capacity of the people of this dis- trict to subscribe when the number of families served by the hospital is taken into consideration. Hospitals never make money. All any board can do is to establish such policies and to follow such business practises as will keep to a mini- mum the operating deficit of the in- stitution. In view of this, when maj- or alterations and improvements are found to be necessary, the board must seek outside financial assist- ance. That is the situation with which the boa -rd is faced today. When the ,hoard was advised by the Depart- ment of Health in the early stages of its construction program of 1947, that alterations must be made to the main hospital building at the earliest possible date, it informed the Depart- ment that while it agreed that the ° proposed alterations were desirable, and in fact necessary, it could not proceed until financing had been ar- ranged. The campaign which com- mences Monday is designed to make possible in part the funds necessary to proceed with the program Iaid out by the Department. The extent to which the hospital serves the community is often not appreciated by those fortunate en- ough not to have required its facili- ties. Yet there are hundreds upon hundreds of individuals in the area it serves who know from their ex- periences how valuable an asset it has been. During 1947, for instance, a total of 881 patients were admit- ted. During the same time 191 babies were born within its walls. It is to these people and to the hundreds upon hundreds of others Scott Mems. orial Hospital will serve during fu- ture years that -consideration must be given when we determine the ex- tent of our contributions to the building fund. Fish Tale Fishermen frequently take as much liberties with the truth when they'inform you of the age of the fisthey caught as when they de- scribe scribe its size. This tendency to ex- aggerate xaggerate has bothered the Ontario' Department of Lands and Forest and their experts •have come up with a guaranteed cure. All the fisher- men shermen need carry with him to accur- ately determine the age of his catch is a microscope. Experts of the department say the age of a fish is determined by the number of "rings" shown on a fish scale when placed under a micro- scope. Each year of a fish's life is indelibly recorded in the rings, just as therings of a tree show its his- tory. They say there is no known meth - of of telling the age of a fish with the naked eye. Beware when one of the boys tells you he caught a 50 - year -old fish. Unless he carries a miscroscope, he probably is boast- ing. • Thanksgiving As if . to make the Thanksgiving season complete, a steady rain, which has been badly needed for many weeks, has been falling since Sun- ' day. It will be worth thousands up- on thousands of dollars to farmers of the district, who have had to haul - water, as wells dried up, or who have been unable to get on with fall plow - ng because of the baked ground. The first Canadian Thanksgiving Day was observed in what was then the English portion of Lower Can- ada on January 10, 1799, in recogni- tion of Britain's victory over France +on the Napoleonic wars. Canadians celebrated April 6th, 1815, as a thanksgiving for the end nor .With the United States and sstora'tioli. of the blessings of peace e the War of 1811 a o. thanks "vin were held eccas ons over the rear then ,until 1019. ornment -decided 1 Same Father! At this time of this year when the air waves are frequently loaded with the utterings, of United States candidates for various offices, it is interesting to learn that the symbols of both the leading political parties were conceived by the same man. According to the current issue of the monthly, Freedom and Union, the invention of the symbols of the donkey for the Democratic party and of the elephant for the Republican party was the work of one man— Thomas Nast, the father of the political cartoon on this continent. As an agreeable exercise in derision, Nast, who was a Republican, drew the figure of the donkey, represent- ing the Democrats, for Harpers' Weekly of January 20, 1870. The elephant, as a party symbol, appear- ed on November 7, 1874, in a draw- ing by Nast in the New York Her- ald. Both symbols at once caught the popular fancy and have held it. Nast was born in Germany in 1840. WHAT OTHER PAPERS SAY: Years AgQrte Interesting Items Picked Front The Huron EXPoeltor of Twen, ty-five and Fifty. Years A90. From The Huron Expositor October 19, 1923: , The (Seaforth Lawn Bowling Club closed the most successful season. in its history on Tuesday last with a smoker and euchre in the Town Hall, The prize winnern ' were; 1st, Ross J. Sproat; 2nd•, Montgom- ery Davis; lone hands, Jas. Dick; consolation, Adam McKay, The Brumfield Choral Society gave a splendid concert on Mon- day night as the culmination of several months' practice conducted by Prof. A. W. Anderton, of Lon- don- Among those taking part were Iva Piewes, of Clinton; Mrs. Oakley; Goderieh; W. 0. Goodwin, Ola Cook, Edrye Tye, Goderich, and Jack Ross. • Rev. W. D. McDonald gave a sketch of the origin of the Choral Society from its beginning. Mrs. J. G. Mulien and Miss H. I. Graham motored to London on Wednesday afternoon to hear Dame Clara Butt, the celebrated English contralto. Mrs. William Hopper; North Main Street, gave a shower Mon- day evening last in I oriox of Miss Henrietta Cash, prior to her mar- riage to Mr. W. D. Bright, Jr, Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Crich, Mr. and Mrs. T. G. Scott, M. J. Ran- kin and Mrs. William Smithery motored to. Brantford, on Sunday and spent the day with friends. The Secretary of the Ontario Curling Association made the an- nouncement from Toronto on Pei - day last that the Gold Medal in the Association's Point Competi- tion had been won bY Mr. Thomas Johnstone,' Seaforth„ with a scure of 47 points. The euchre held in the G,W. T.A. club rooms Wednesday evening was exceptionally well attended. There were 34 tables of cards, and after lunch the floor was cleared and dancing commenced- A Scotch reel completed the evening's en- tertainment. Mr. Abe Forsyth as- sisted, by several of the ladies, sup- plied everything that was neces- sary in the way of music. Mr. George Dundas and Mr. Charles Boyd, of Walton, returned from Western Canada a week. ago. CONUNDRUM (From The Montreal Star) Party spokesmen have been say- ing for 15 years now that there is no clash of interest between the city worker and the farmer. Both, if C.C.F. literature is to be believed, are groaning under the heel of what- ever oppression forms the catchword of the day. At the moment it is "monopoly capitalism," a phrase which happens to be the catchword of Mr. Joe Stalin too, though C.C.F. leaders have not been astute enough to realize the effect this has on the public mind. But clash or no clash, it remains true that when the farmer gets more for his beef and cattle and milk, the city worker pays more for them. It remains .true that when the city worker gets a hike in wages, the farm pays more for its implements, supplies and clothing. C.C.F. econ- omists may argue themselves black in the face to prove that this does not mean a clash of interest. But the farmer who gets up at 5 a.m. to milk his cows can hardly be ,blamed if he spends a certain amount of time turning over the city five-day, 40 -hour weeks in his mord. At the same time the mechanic's' wife, pay- ing out more for milk and bread than she ever did in her life, spends a similar amount of time brooding ov- er the rapacity of the farm. • y Hairry ,i 1 9;y1a. are t,Pdd days . the storm dDwan beCa a@ ,a r wife kind of bigbsunny weather that i5 in a fury. The ladder is.owet gives you a tingle and the fire in and you slip and fumble xt tuid the kitehen range "i'eeIs couafort and are in danger 'pi' death `at ev- able -in the avenins. We are get- ery moment: The ,spring episode •ting'ready, for winter and watch- Is, however, only a minor incident ing for .that first frost which may compared to the fall one. be Iethal. - Somehow or other circuinstane, I met Higgins ox} the atreet to- es always conspire so that during day. He was in town to get his the fine weather 1 never seem, to. radio .battery charged in prepara- be aibie ' to get around to looking tion for the fall,programs that are after this important work. At sup - coming back now: Joe Miller came per one night my. wife fixes her along from the hardware store, he 'eye on meand says "Tomorrow, getting putty to fix up the storm you put up the storm windows!" windows. I was carrying-It'roll of The time has come when I can no tar -paper, to fix up the side door longer put the task off. on the back woodshed. Next morning there's a cold Storm windows are really dan- wind. There's also snow. This gerous things. When you get them snow drives around the house in out and start putting them up, you such a way that no matter how get a strange feeling that some, you try, you simply can't avoid, how or other you are right back that snow. Do I need to tell you where you started in the spring. of the absolute misery and horror One writer said, "Putting up the that there is in putting on storm screens every year is just one more windows on a day when the snow proof that life is a. squirrel cage is coming down? TVs dreadful! from which, alas! there is no es- The ladder gets wet and; the cape." storm 'windows get wet and they Why, can't somebody devise a won't fit. Then you find that dur- means of having storm windows ing the summer some soul has add - without having to put them on and ed numbers to the elaborate sys- take them •off? In this modern tem of numbering which you had age, it should' 'be fairly simple to hopefully put on them, so as to have a thingamajig that would know which window each one .be - automatically flip the storm win- longed to. Your fingers get numb do'ws aside without causing any and the hammer slips and breaks a trouble. window. The screw -nails are gone The trouible with taking storm from two windows, and you re - windows off is caused principally member taking them out in order to fix the binges on the kitchen amts. Lilco his fader, he WAS 04e of R1yth'P leading hortledittlxletki 43 gardens were, aLwa3wH Gtxe- sVa tniration of m,apy Ittl'r uEprpY served op, slyth'.sc$l ibpalfd, for spore years, and at t o,00: Of his poaassrdngofwmasaxlaaa gs nab net"h o e jt se, tee board of the United, Ohurcb. p tev. W. J. litogers wIw ted< pri,. vete iunerai services cQfrom; his resi- denee 911 Oct. 2, ' at *WeS r. •SibthorPe. accompanied • ,Stanley UP TO DOMESTIC USERS (Listowel Banner) If the domestic users do not do their utmost to reduce the power load it will be absolutely impossible for Listowel to keep within its quota and the result will. be that switches will .be pull- ed and the whole town will .suffer. Industry and business have dobe their share fully and eat - not be expected to do more. The factories ands btiaiiness places are closing down for a fullday etiery Week. The 2?itblic Utilities iomniission has redixced the street fighting forty per cent. Dottlea- *list deo their 'share, If ;the power la eitt off anti further dtoii.Pages of work are &steed irltttstty The Wage edrnerla Will stiffer and al. tiO+et ,helmeti •Jt'li.1d offset? Lt. • From The Huron Expositor October 21, 1898 Mr. George Sills had the misfor- tune to cut an artery on his left hand with a chisel he was using in Beil's furniture factory in Wing- ham the other day. The building used• by Jones &- Hall, Winchelsea, for drying ap- ples, caught fire on Monday night of last week and together with the blacksmith shop of Richardson & Easson, was destroyed. A great flow of water was struck on the farm of Alex McCall, 7th Line, Morris Township, last week. Mr. Peterson, af Kincardine, did the drilling, and the well measures 70 feet from top to bottom. 'There is 23 feet of water in the well, and they tried with a steam eng'ne to pump it dry and, could not do so. The auction sale on the Gold Medal Farm of Mr. Robert Arm- strong, near Constance, on Wed- nesday of last week, was a splen- did success. There was a large crowd and Mr. Thomas Brown wielded the auctioneer's hammer. William Eberhart, Jr., of Eg- mondwille, had the misfortune to break his leg while picking apples recently. Mr. William Murray, who has been sojourning with his sons and other friends in this vicinity for some months„ left for Port Finlay, Algoma, on Monday, Mr. John G. ill !