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SEAF'ORTH, Friday, March 9, 1951
New Citizens Are Welcome
Recent arrival in Western Ontario
of a party of Hollanders, first of a
group which has decided to make
this part of Canada their home,
.serves to remind us of the manner in
which those from Holland who in
the past few years have settled here,
have already been adapted to the
ways of their new country.
In Huron County there are many
Dutch families, who in the short
space of two or three years have
learned the language and customs of
their adopted land. They have prov-
ed themselves to be industrious and
thrifty, embued with an apprecia-
tion'of democracy and the democra-
tic ways of life similar to that of
native born Canadians. Skilled agri-
cultural workers, they are quick to
take advantage of the excellent farm-
ing conditions that exist in this dis-
trict. They are good citizens, and
we welcome them.
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A Cow in the Garage
Pointing out that periodically a
wave of juvenile crime sweeps cities
and towns, the High River (Alberta)
Times comes up with a novel sugges-
tion, designed to eradicate the cause.
"Our proposals is a cow in every
garage," the Times says. "A family
cow can keep a boy out of more trou-
ble than any other curative measure
so far suggested. If Butch has the
responsibility of milking her, doing
chambermaid duty, catering to her
simple but insistent wants, he finds
very little time for loafing. In fact,
be has to move fast to get to hockey
practice, or the ball diamond on
time."
There is a lot of sense in what the
Times suggests. There are many
garages housing cars which might
better provide accommodation for a
cow, or a pig, or chickens. lent only
would the elimination of the car re-
move an ever-present temptation
from the young lad, but the substitu-
tion of some livestock, for which he
was made responsible, might well re-
sult in his being taught in a practi-
cal way the value of doing a job regu-
larly and well. He would achieve a
pride in ownership, a sense of re-
sponsibility not otherwise easily ac-
quired.
Whp Uniform Signs
With the thought that similarity
of Ontario highway signs with those
in use in the United States would re-
sult in safer driving, a plan has been
announced in Toronto that highway
signs here will be changed gradually
to the American pattern. It is sug-
gested that with standardized signs,
driving will be safer for the stranger
in Ontario, as well as for those of us
who may drive south of the border.
'The plan finds no favor with the
Ottawa Journal, who is of the opinion
it will be time enough to do some-
thing like this when the 48 States
themselves have come to uniform
practice in highway signs, and when
the ten provinces agree among them-
selves on what to say and how to say
It that he who drives swiftly may
read it and note. There is no uni-
formity, now among the States on the
one hand or the provinces on the
other.
It is the Journal's opinion that in
general Ontario should seek to 'em-
phasize the respects in which our
protices differ from the practices in
the" neighboring states. We should
*fit aim at a grim and deadly uni-
Ci-ity'd We should not assume that
ale American, land- to this country
r the Canaan touring in New
York for Vermont gives three rous-
ing cheers when it dawns upon him
that things are so like he, might as
well have stayed at home.
"We should accentuate our differ-
ences," the Journal says. "For many
years the Ontario license plates for
motor vehicles carried at the top a
representation of a crown. It was
the only marker in North America
so distinguished, but we mustn't be
different and so this year the mark-
ers are deprived of the crown on the
unconvincing excuse that there
wasn't room for it.
"Our main Ontario roads have
numbers, of course, but carry also
the general term 'The King's High-
way.' Should that fine name be
abolished because there are no King's
Highways in Minnesota? Should
route numbers be simplified by elim-
inating the crown which still dares
to surmount the posts that carry
these metal figures ?"
What Other Papers Say:
Scaring Crows
(Indianapolis Star)
You can have any of several thou-
sands inventions that mechanical
geniuses turn out every year. We'll
take the scarecrow just perfected by
a London, England, fireworks firm.
The scarecrow is set to flap its arms
every 20 minutes, and a fuse rope
which burns for eight hours sets off
fireworks, whereupon the scarecrow
hisses, pops, bangs and waves the
crows out of the field.
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Homemade Bread
Q's' (Charlottetown Patriot)
The trouble now is the women have
forgotten how to bake bread and
they are at the mercy of the bakers.
Instead of a Dramtic School, how
about a Bread -making School? Flour
has not gone up. The women in the
country can still make bread. Of
course, people cannot become artists
and painters or dramatists and main-
tain the "art" of baking bread and
ride around in automobiles the rest
of the time.
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Fads in Food
(Toronto Telegram)
Eating and sleeping are man's old-
est and most persistent habits, but
we never hear of fads in sleeping.
That state of temporary insensibility
into which we fall is no different
from that of Neanderthal man in his
-°"cave in the Stone Age. It's different
with eating.
It would be almost impossible to
make a list of all the new food pre-
parations that have come on the mar-
ket in the span of one lifetime. Some
have required a firmness of will to
gulp down.
A Toronto nutritionist, Dr. E. W.
McHenry, has spoken rather dispar-
agingly of fads in food and says that
equal values can be obtained more
pleasantly from meat, milk and, eggs.
They are the old standbys not likely
to be displaced. But if our neigh-
bors think the newer dishes are more
healthy they are welcome to them.
The yogurt fan can have his yogurt.
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The Careful Horse
(Windsor Star)
A boy near Peterborough is dead
from injuries received when stepped
upon by a horse. The rarity of such
fatal hurts emphasizes the average
horse will not step on a human if he
can avoid it.
Horses have big feet. If a steed
be a big Clydesdale or, Percheron, it
hurts to have one step on a toe. And,
if the horse is unaware of what has
occurred, sometimes it is difficult to
get him to move off in a hurry.
When a horse does tread on a hu-
man, it usually is quite accidental.
Either he does not know the person
is there, or is frightened into doing
something he otherwise wouldn't do.
We recall seeing a small toddler
trip and fall in a narrow lane through
which a group of horses were run-
ning at full gallop. Each and every
one of them jumped over the little
lad, so he got nothing but a scare.
There are some horses which will
kick, bite or trample. But these mean
brutes were few, even in days When
there were more equines than now.
And they probably were made so by
being faultily trained in the first
place.
SOLVING THE GOOD NEIGHBOUR PROBLEM
New Freedom In Home
Decoration
No survey of the accomplish-
ments of the twentieth century iu
mid -channel can quite ignore the
transformation in our homes. From
cellar to garret (and how little
sense such a phrase makes to mil-
lions of Americans!), from kitchen
to "playroom," our houses have
changed. And the change is un-
believable. Just look over some
flashlight photographs, in the fam-
ily album, of a wedding party tak-
en in an American "front parlor"
in 1905!
The walls likely are hung with
a figured paper covered with dark
oil paintings in heavy frames, hung
next to or over water colors by
Aunt Isabel in hand -carved ebony,
or crayon "enlargements" of family
tintypes. There may be heavy cur-
tains under lambrequins, and
starched Nottingham lace glass cur-
tains. There may be bead and bam-
boo portieres.
The floor is probably covered
with flowered ingrain or Brussels
carpet. And there could be a "cozy
corner," all draped with dust -catch-
ing fabric and dimly Iit by a ceil-
ing lantern (perhaps enclosing a
gas jet), set in garnet or vari-
colored glass. The curtains may
have to be held back by twisted
papier-mache scimitars.
If there were people of the ro-
mantic age in the house there is
(By Neil Martin, in Tho
Christian Science Monitor)
surely a dangling Cupid. And there
is a tall brass coffee -cum -chocolate
pot, never used, on a low Turkish
inlaid taboret.
Of course, if the family was not
too well-to-do at the turn of the
century and couldn't afford all of
these "novelties," the house may
have maintained some of the sim-
plicity and charm of a period when
taste was better and the family
more prosperous. There would be
some good pieces of mahogany not
replaced with golden oak or carved
black walnut. The walls would
have stayed dull .but plain. And
good worn Oriental rugs would give
some warmth to the scene.
What we have achieved in the
intervening years in freedom in
other departments of our experi-
ence is reflected in our present in-
teriors. Uninteresting as some of
them may be, they are not usually
cluttered with unessentials. There
is everywhere a nearer approach to
the basic principles of all good
domestic art—from architecture to
decoration—utility, simplicity and
appropriateness.
We have seen in the last thirty
years almost completely changed
living 'arrangements in our homes.
The formal parlor or drawing room
has been replaced by a living room
used by family and friends on all
(Continued on Page 6)
To The Editor
Toronto, March 4. 1951.
Editor, The Huron Expositor:
Dear Sir: There was one point
in your report of the Cromarty
Farm Forum which made a home -
run with this 'city' reader, who has
long been interested in the quality
of the 'precious stuff' from the
farms, and remembering the wise
saying: "We are what we eat."
That point was this: The group
agreed they should sell low -quality
products at a lower rate. Poor
quality vegetables should be fed to
stock or thrown away, rather than
marketed to spoil the high grade
prices . . imported meat, should
be properly identified in the but-
cher shops, to let the public know
co-operative marketing was
seen necessary to eliminate mid-
dlemen."
It seems to me that the three
primary essentials in the aim to-
ward quality vegetables are: Good
seed, the same kind of soil, .and
ample water supply. I imagine that
it would be just that much more
difficult to raise (op quality live-
stock on a given amount of 'poor
quality vegetables'—although even
here, the livestock teed - trough
could do a better job than if the
'poor quality' products get 'thrown
away.' In these times, when myr-
iads of human beings are accurate-
ly describable as 'being perpetually
hungry: I suggest that literally no
food should be thrown away. You
can imagine what our hungry
brethren in India would think of
us. in their present extremity, if
they knew that (according to the
experts) every seventh plate of
food in the United States—after be-
ing grown, handled, transported,
processed, and finally delivered to
the consumer at the retail level—
ends up in the garbage can!
As one of the food experts said
recently, dealing with the fact that
'health is the first wealth': "The
lack of a plant nutrient in soil may
be made up by applying manure,
adding commercial fertilizer, and
using farm management. Because
the deficiency may 'communicate it-
self to every one of us,�through our
daily meals. these three features
of farming become of pressing im-
portance to people in every busi-
ness and in every part of Canada.
A rundown soil grows rundown
food.. Every crop takes away part
of every mineral in the soil, and
every bank customer knows only
too Weil the budget difficulty he
gets into when he withdraws con,
tinually without putting equal
amounts or more into his account.
Finally, I think the Cromarty
folk are on the right track in aim-
ing at co-operative marketing and
"quality products."
FINAL CONSUMER
(By Gordon M. Greig,
Secretary-Fieldman)
The February directors' meeting
of Huron County Federation of
Agriculture held In Clinton on
February 27, placed the Federation
of Agriculture in Huron County be-
hind the municipalities in the north
end of the county that are opposing
the proposed change in service on
the Canadian National Railway line
from Palmerston to Kincardine.
A resolution opposing the discon-
tinuing of passenger and express
service on the Palmerston -Kincar-
dine Iine and substitution of bus
and transport service was received•
from. Turrberry Township and
spoken to by the reeve of Morris
Township. The opinion of our
directors was that the railway
should Improve the service instead
of substituting bus and transport
service. The discontinuing of pas-
senger and express will eventually
lead to the closing down of the line
entirely, was the opinion express-
ed by many directors. Land values
up to the present time have been
closely connected with transporta-
tion ;service. The curtailment of
service on the Palmerston to Kin-
cardine line could mean lower prop-
erty value in that area.
- Any deficit incurred by the Cana-
dian National Railway is met out of
taxpayers' money. This line does
not lose the C.N.R. any more money
than many other lines being oper-
ated by the C.N.R. If their plan
succeeds we will be paying toward
a deficit on the railway that does
not serve us.
We aak for improved service,
for it has been the lack of compe-
tant service on this particular line
that has caused people to ewiteb
to other lines of transportation.
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The 1961 Huron County Field
Day will be held in the Town of
Exeter on Wednesday, June 13. + A
committee has been selected to di-
rect the planning for this big ev-
ent.
vent. We assure you that it will be
a gala. event. The Huron Connty
Year Book will be published as lis,
ual to inform yott of all the dis-
plays and events that will be there.
When making up the
children's lunch
Ma Fimble adds dried fruits
to munch,
As source of iron in daily
food,
A requisite for good red
blood.
Dept. of National Health and Welfare
Years Agone
Interesting Items Picked From
The Huron Expositor o{' Twen-
ty-five and Fifty Yeare Ago.
From The Huron Expositor
March 12, 1926
The daily papers on Wednesday
contained she following despatch
from Woodstock: "Rev. W. P,
Lane, of Knox United Church, Em-
bro, has announced his resignation
from that charge and has received
and accepted a call to become min-
ister of Northside United Church,
Seaforth."
Shortly after 7 o'clock Friday
evening, fire was discovered in the
home of Mr. C. Cheoros, Goderich
St. West, The fire originated from
overheated furnace pipes.
On Tuesday afternoon some boys
playing with matches set fire to
the truck owned by the Geo. D. Fer-
guson hardware store, in the frame
garage adjoining the old Royal
Hotel barn.
The thermometer registered 18
degrees below zero on Thursday
night of last week.
Dr. Garnet K. Chapman, Bridge -
burg. is here spending a week with
his parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. E.
Chapman.
A few friends of Mr. John Scott
spent a pleasant evening at his
home in Roxboro on Monday,
among the number being Thos. E.
Hals, now in this 88th year, who is
still young enough to sing a song.
Mr. Hays sang "The British Bull-
dog," which was one of the best
songs of the evening.
The sale of farm stock and im-
plements belonging to Wm. Elder,
Chiselhurst, was well attended and
some good prices were realized. Mr.
Elder is giving up farming owing
to an accident he sustained Last
October.
A real estate deal of more thafi
usual importance was put through
in Zurich on Tuesday, whereby Mr.
Alex Voisin, of the Goshen Line
South, will take over) the hotel in
Zurich, known as the Walper
House.
The Zurich hockey boys are the
winners in the league games of the
fine silver trophy donated by Jno.
E. McDowell, the manager of Chev-
rolet Car Co., of the village, and
very naturally are quite proud of
it.
A young son of James Flannigan
of town, while playing near Davis'
blacksmith shop, fell and broke this
leg.
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From The Huron Expositor
March 15, 1901
Mr. Thos. Cameron, of Farquhar,
the well-known auctioneer and in-
surance manager, has rented .his
fine farm on the Thames Road to
Mr. James Gardiner, for a term of
years.
Rev. S. Acheson, of Kippen, left
on Tuesday on a trip to Dakota,
where he goes to spend a few
weeks,
Miss Flora Case will give read-
ings in Egmondville church Tues-
day evening of next week.
The rinks which represented the
Seaforth Curling Club at the bon -
spiel at Preston last week were
composed of the following: W: O.
Reid, W—. Bethune, Wm. McDougall,
A. Coleman, skip, and Thos. Steph-
ens, J. C. Steele, W. D. Bright and
Wm. Ament, skip.
Mr. George Turner, Brucefield,
shipped two carloads of cattle from
here and one from Brucefield to
the Old Country on Monday. Mr.
Turner went with the cattle.
A fierce blizzard prevailed on
Wednesday and the country roads
are now blocked worse than ever
before.
The following were ticketed out
to distant points this week by Wm.
Somerville: Hugh McKinnon, Tuck-
ersmith, to Desbarats; Wm. Brodie,
Seaforth, to Brandon; Willie Tux -
ell, Egmondville, to Newburgh, N.
Y.; Joseph O'Loughlin and Edward
Conway, Beechwood, and Sohn
Keating, Tuckersmith, to Eureka,
California; Mrs. Ross, Tuckersmith,
to Lowell, Mich.
On ,Friday as Rev. Father Mc-
Cabe, pastor of St. James' Chureh,
was walking along the sidewalk op-
posite the Dominion Bank, he step-
ped on a slippery spot and fell
backwards, spraining Ms ankle
and receiving ether bruises. Al-
though painful, his injuries were
not serious..
Mr. Richardson, of Bayfield, has
disposed of the property .he lately
purchased from the Routledge es-
tate to Thomas Stinson, of the Bau-
ble Line.
Chas. Stewart and Wm. Cum-
ming, of Blyth, left on Tuesday
with a carload of settlers' effects
for Neepawa, Manitoba. Mr. John
Denholm left on the same train
with it ear Of' heavy horses for the
seine place.
ARC
1. Seen in the County Payers
Purchases Farm
Carman Hinz dies purchased the
Peter Connolly farm at 101 18, con-
cession 10, Logan Township, locat-
ed
ocaled across the road from his •Pres-
ent home.—Mitchell Advocate.
Home From Florida
"Mr. and Mrs. Wilfred Klopp and
Son, of London, have returned
after a pleasant trip 'to Flor-
ed for sale at various intervals=,.
as 'in this day of motor travel ands
open winter roads, and tractor -
drawn vehicles, such buildings aye:
not as essential for stabling shelter
as they once were. — Blyth Stan-
dard.
No River Flooding At Bayfield/
The fishermen aren't looking for.
any flooding at the river this year
i,., Where they enjoyed the sunny as there is a channel of open wa
breezes for a few weeks. They ter about twenty feet wide out to
visited at •the home of his sister, the lake. There was a small ice
Mr. and Mrs. Earl Yungblut, and jam above the new bridge on Mon-
with
onwith other relatives over the week day but it broke and went out
end.—Zurich Herald, quietly. Tom Bros. were the only
ones who were fortunate enough
to harvest a supply of ice. It was
of excellent duality, between 13 'and
14 inches thick. They finished on
February 17, just before the mild
spell put a stop to cutting opera-
tions.—Clinton News -Record.
Choose Queen
Candidates for Queen of the Ball
have been nominated and Barbara
Hunter and Colleen Gill will repre-
sent Grade 13. Dorothy Pooley and
Betty McDougall are the candidates
from Grade 12, while June Walters
and Mabel Selves represent special
commercial. Voting will take place
Wednesday and the Queen will be
announced at the At -Home dance
on Friday night. — Exeter Times -
Advocate.
Big Contract For Air Station
The Federal Government is
launching some large defence pro-
jects and one of them, as announc anent residence here. An unmarried
ed from Ottawa this week, is a
$387,800 construction job to be un- daughter resides in Kitchener. Dur
dertaken at the Clinton F. Mg the past ten days, Constable
Station. The contract for thhee work Jas. A. Thompson has been ill in
at Clinton, to include 'a modern bed ' with the flu, and in the pinch,
barracks block, has been awarded local police duties have been to Johnson Brothers Co., Ltd., of ed after by Robert Freeman and
look -
Brantford. It is expected that work Harry Corey. Thomas Twyford left
on the job will be commenced two weeks ago, after the appoint-
shortly.—Goderich Signal -Star., ment of Chief Ferrand. — Clinton
News -Record.
Pleased With Musical Show
variety
of
There was abundance of
a farewell party was held for Mrs. and interest in the gce l show,
K. Humphry, who is leaving for "Going Places," presented at the
Belleville. On behalf of the choir, Pavilion on Thursday and Friday
Carlton Worsen made a presents-. evenings under the auspices of the
tion to Mrs, Humphry and express-
ed regret for her departure. Lunch
was served by the social convener,
Mary Lou Matheson~ and her as-
sistants. Joyce Wilkinson and Mar-
ilyn Turner. — Goderich Signal -
Star.
New Police Chief
Joseph Ferrand took over his
new duties as Chief of Police of
Clinton. A former constable in
Liverpool, Eng., Mr. Ferrand has
been a guard at the Ontario Re-
formatory, Guelph, since last May,
and has had wide experience in
police work. Mr. and Mrs. Ferrand
and son, Donald, 15, arrived in town
Saturday and are taking up perm -
Departing Chorister Presented
Following choir practice last
week at North St. United Church,
Loses Fingers in Accident
Goderich Kinsmen Club and under
the direction of Miss Mindy Scott,
of Kansas City. The well publiciz-
ed event attracted. capacity audi-
ences on both nights, The story
was unfolded from a diary kept
by the stationmaster, "Uncle Billy
Watson," whose kindliness had won
all hearts during his fifty years of
Jimmy Carter, eight-year-old son service. The part was splendidly
of William Carter, concession 3, impersonated by John Mariott, who
East Wawanosh, and the late Mrs. throughout the performance was
never out of characted as he pre
Carter, had his left hand badly in-
jured Saturday afternoon when it sented persons who had passed his:
way. The scene of the production
came in contact with a circular was the "depot" of "Hometown,"
saw, which was being used to cut Canada, and the curtain rose on
wood on his father's farm. The boYthe arrival of a group of girls cos -
was rushed to Clinton Public Hos-
pital,
turned in yellow and white, and
where it was found necessary
to amputate the first three fingers.
at the second joint.—Clinton News -
Record.
others as bellboys smart in red
caps and tunics, who sang some -
lively songs.—Goderich Signal -Star.
W. I. Sponsora Card Party
Bornholm women's Institute were A
somewhat disappointed with the
patronage accorded their card par -
Smile
Or Two,
ty last Wednesday night in Born- "You are positively the slowest'
holm Hall, but an enjoyable time man I know. Isn't there anything
was spent by those in attendance. you are quick at?"
High scorers were Mrs. Laverne i "I get tired awful f t "
Rolph and M, J. Connolly, and low.
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Mrs. Joseph Regan and Irwin
Scherbarth. Refreshments were Hoping to inspire his workers
were served. Convening the event with promptness and efficiency, the
were Mrs. Martin Dietz, Mrs. Thos. businessman hung a number of
Cully and Mrs, Laverne Roiph.—: signs reading: "Do it now!" around
Mitchell Advocate. ' his factory and office.
Shed Roof Collapses Asked some weeks later how the
reaction was, he shook his head
A portion of the roof at St. An- sadly.
drew's Presbyterian Church shed "I don't even want to talk about
collapsed under the heavy weight
of wet snow on Tuesday night of
last week. The shed is not exten-
sively used, but it is perhaps for-
tunate that the incident occurred at
night, The building has been offer -
it." he said. "The bead bookkeep-
er eloped with the best secretary
f ever had;- three typists asked for
a raise; the factory hands decided
to go on strike, and the office boy
joined the navy."
BOXWORD PUZZLE
By Jimmy Rae
World Copyright Reserved
ii.11.1r1961.11 ■.■1.1'1
ACROSS
I—Deluge
4—Russian intoxicant
7—Entirely
8—East Indian coin
10—Banish
11—Ill smell
15—Single unit
16—Subterranean
Cavern
19—Milk product
22—Card game
23—Mirth
25—Tracheal infection
26—Dispute
27 Dipper
30—Automobile
31—Peril
34 --Wire mesh
37—Animal's atomaoh
38—Kind of metallic
iron
410 --'Coronet
41—Profit
42—Fly rapidly
45—Severity
46—Act of spying
49—Wrest from
illegally
52—Bleat as sheep
53—Dainty
56—Kind of firearm
57—Shelter
58—Little devil
59—Belgian colony
(C. Africa)
60—Superl, of bad
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1—Sheep's coat
2—Yellowish-green
3—Sediment
4—Sleeveless garment
5—Female deer
G—Curve
7—A:mid
9—In favor of
12 --Tumble down
SOLUTION ON PAGE 7
13—Nude
14—Multitude
17—Fall away
18—A prickle
20—Funeral carriage
21—..Enthusiast%
24—Lawful
28—Fleet of armed
ships
29—Let down
32—Stag's horn.
33—Seize
36—Red wine
36—Make, as a law
38—Fragment
39—King of birds
43 --Notwithstanding
44—Hoboi
47—Scatter --
48—Derive
50-- Wood (comb.
form)
51 --Queer
54—Mythfcal bird+
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