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SEAFORTH, Friday, July 20, 1951
Seaforth Tax Rate Up
Seaforth councillors at their meet-
ing Monday evening added up the
money which they expect to receive
this,year and also totalled the expen-
ditures which they propose to make
in order to operate the town or which
they are required by statute to pro-
vide. When they finished they found
the excess of expenditures over re-
ceipts to be some eighty odd thou-
sand dollars, and this amount must
be raised by taxes. Council accord-
ingly approved a rate of 59.8 mills
for Public School supporters, and
57.3 mills for Separate School sup-
porters. This compares to 45.4 mills
and 42.3 mills, respectively, last year.
Details of the estimated receipts and
expenditures, from which the tax
rate was arrived, appear on page one
of this issue.
While there will be some resent-
ment on the part of Seaforth rate-
payers as a result of being called on
to pay municipal taxes which are in-
creased by nearly a third, the aver-
age citizen will appreciate the taus-
}- a'na' to the increase. After all,
paying,
o�61'4� bmtaxes few
take the trouble to
relation taxedear to the SerViees
which are rendered.
There is little difference in the
estimated receipts from those shown
for 1950., with the exception of pro-
vincial grants. Because of increas-
ed street costs, the rebate from the
Province is estimated at $5,000, in-
stead of $2,500. The increased tax-
es which will be levied this year re-
sult from increased expenditures,
but a great deal of the expenditure
is something over which the council
has no control. The county rate is
up 2.8 mills; the district high school
is up 1.4 mills; the public library is
up .3 mills; the public school is up
2.4 mills, and the separate school, 2
mills These are all taxes which
council must collect, but concerning
the expenditure of which it has no
control. It will be seen that items
in this category account for almost
half the over-all increase.
The remainder of the increase
arises from the additional amounts
required in order to carry on ordin-
ary municipal services, such as street
repairs, including drainage a n d
snowplowing, and maintenance of
buildings, police protection, "fire pro-
tection, and street lighting. While
the increase in any particular de,
partment has not been large, the
over-all increase is "such as to re-
quire an added levy of 7.5 mills. In
analyzing the amounts it is interest-
ing to note that while the cost of
providing services to the citizens has
increased, there was a decrease in
the administration or overhead item.
Ratepayers generally appreciate
that the cost of everything going in-
to the operation of a municipality
has gone up, and that if the same
services are to be provided a tax in-
crease was inevitable.
If they can be satisfied that the
additional amounts they are called
on to pay in taxes are being proper-
ly spent, and that the Council in
carrying out its responsibilities is
adopting an ,objective approach to
the day-to-day problems which face
it, there will be little sincere com-
plaint. At the same time, the extent
of the tax rate increase this year
places an additional burden on coun-
cil in that it must examine with add-
ed care every commitment it may be
called on to make in the light of the
effect such a commitment may have
on future tax rates.
This is not to suggest that a "pen-
irly4 iSe, pet/id-foolish" policy is ac-
table. The carrying out of nee-
essary maintenance work and the
adoption of a program entailing
adoption of a program which gives
proper weight to the long term as-
pect of needed facilities, can well
save the ratepayers money.
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1,000 Dead A Year?
We have commented on many oc-
casions on the callous disregard
which some motorists exhibit to-
wards the value of a human life.
While the majority of motorists re-
spect the rules of the road, and in
their driving exercise an admirable
restraint, there are always the few
who drive in a manner which each
week day results in the needless loss
of life.
The seriousness of the situation
has been again brought to our at-
tention when we read that midway
through 1951, Ontario faces the om-
inous prospect that by the end of
the year more than 1,000 people may
have lost their lives in the year's
traffic accidents.
Already, in six months, street and
highway accidents in the Province
have killed at least 382 people, com-
pared with last year's six-month to-
tal of 278. Traffic volume is up
again from last year's record high,
with increases (for five months) of
14% in both number of vehicles and
gasoline consumption.
And the worst is yet to come. Safe-
ty officials warn that summer holi-
days and the early fall always have
larger -accident totals than any other
time of year. Already in the first
ten days of July at least 20 more
have died_
The only aspect of the traffic toll
which has to date resisted the up-
ward trend is the number of chil-
dren among the victims, which re-
mains unchanged at 61 dead (age 0-
14).
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Sound Advice
• .Iii 66M/tenting bii 11 Potently is-
sued "Jun1ot Farmer News," the
Kincardine N@v✓s offers some sound
advice when it says:
"Organizations with their own
publications—and they are legion—
are fortunate, for they have at their
disposal a means of communicating
with their entire membership, of tell-
ing the story at the proper time to
the people most concerned and most
interested.
"Individuals, too, have the same
opportunity, through their weekly
papers, of telling their story. Mer-
chants, for example, can better them-
selves, their customers and their
community through judicious use of
advertising space.
"Next time you have a story to
tell, do it through the medium of
your newspaper, the only means of
reaching your neighbors with that in
which they are interested and about
which they are concerned."
What Other Papers Say:
Everyone Spends Someone's Work
(The Rural Scene)
Except for the work that is back
of it and gives it value in available
goods and services, a dollar bill is
worth only the paper on which it is
printed.
Everybody who spends money
spends either his own or someone
else's work. If the spender has not
done enough work to give his dollar
bill a value of 100 cents, someone
else must have done enough work to
give it full value if the spender is to
get full value for it.
The present low real value of our
dollar is proof that Canadians have
failed to do enough work to give it
full value in goods and services. In
addition to producing the econbmic
waste of preparedness, we must pro-
duce enough civilian goods to main-
tain an honest dollar or cut down on
the supply and spending of dollars.
Nothing the government can do,
except collecting enough taxes to
keep the work done to produce civ-
ilian goods and the supply of dollars
in balance, can save us from the con-
sequences of trying to get too much
for too little. The work -week con-
sistent with health and maximum
production must be established in
every industry before the dollar can
be given its highest possible value in
present world conditions.
.1".I THE IWRQ . FIXI Q ITlS R •
Unsinkable Mr. Howe
(By Bruce Hutchison in the Ottawa Citizen)
A prairie newspaper refers to.r
the new Canadian Minister of De-
fence Production as "The Unsink-
able Mr. Howe." It is an apt
phrase. Mr. Howe is unsinkable.
He was unsinkable in mid-Atlantic
during the first days of the war,
when' he sat bolt upright and ser-
ene in a lifeboat and waited for
rescue or nightfall aid certain
death. He is• unsinkable in poli-
tics because he refuses to under-
stand them. While men who know
much mere have sunk on all sides
in a sea of argument, principle and
philosophy, Mr. Howe's head is al-
ways above water because he is
incapable of perceiving the ab-
stract and survives by doing the
day's work without worry about
the morrow.
In Mr. Howe—it is a fact which
few contemporary Canadians un-
derstand but which history will
observe easily enough—we have
one of the ablest public men in
the world and a figure quite un-
ique because, in the ordinary sense
he is not a public man at all.
He will rank in our history
among our largest national figures.
He will be seen in his true dimen-
sions with the Frontenacs, Carle -
tons, Baldwins, Macdonalds, Gaits,
Siftons and all the other wren of
action as distinguished from the
men of thought. He will be re-
membered as one of our supreme,
politicians, iu the best sense of
that term, but the mystery of the
man remains.
How comes it that the nation
gives into his hands, for the sec-
ond time, the management of its
entire economy when quite ob-i
viously he doesn't know and
.loesn't care a hoot about the phil-
osophy of government on which
the nation is based?
And why does the nation confi-
dently hand over to him unprece-
dented and practically unlimited
powers when he has constantly
committed egregious blunders and
never sought to excuse them?
Superficially the answer is that
Mr. Howe has become the handy-
man of Ottawa, the jack-of-all-
trades, that he happens to have the
complete trust of the Prime Minis-
ter, the government, a majority of
Parliament and most of the Liber-
al party, But one suspects that,
Mr. Howe has a deeper meaning
than that in Canadian history. He
is much more than the accident of
an American who happened to
move to Canada and grasp better
than most natives the opportuni-
1 ties and the a raw
9eW Country. ThOugli foreign -born
he is, one meftiires to conclude, a
deep portent of Canadian life, a
kind of microcosm of the Canadian
spirit, the essential Canadian in a
time of crisis. In short, if we had
no Howe we would have to invent
him.
Throughout our history it will
be seen that the Canadian has nev-
er been much of a man for princi-,
pies, theories, philosophies and in-
ward- doubts.
If he had been, bound by princi-
ples this nation could never have
been started in the first place; for
the whole constitutional structure
of the nation, from Durham's Re-
port onward, its place as an auton-
omous state within a queer Com-
monwealth has denied every
known principle of government.
If Canada had insisted on logic,
instead of national life, we would
be now a colony of Britain or
some ten states in the American
Union, as every squirming logician
of Britain in Durham's time confi-
dently predicted.
And if we had ever paused to
debate philosophies of politics—as
the French, for example, paused in
their Revolution and never quite
succeeded in making their consti-
tution march, as Carlyle said—
then we would never have built the
C.P.R. in the first place and built
with it a trans -continental state.
Canada is the product of ad hoc,
illogical, inconsistent, and often
crazy trials and errors. It was
built by men who seldom paused
to cousider what they were doing
or why. Thus in times of crisis
Canada throws up such improbable
men as Mr. Howe, the successor of
many others of the same fantastic
sort. As a person he is unique.
As a Canadian product he is .typi-
cal, inevitable, essentially Cana-
adian.
It is said that Mr. Mackenzie
King worked by a sure instinct of
politics and this is true. It is said
that Mr. Howe has no instinct for
politics and this apparently is true
also. Vet he is purely a man of
instinct, an instinct entirely dif-
ferent from that of Mr. King but
perhaps an instinct much more
Canadian.
Equally Canadian is the public
attitude toward Mr. Howe. Char-
acteristically, as they have always
underestimated all their leaders,
the Canadian people underestimate
Mr. Howe. That is part of our
deep and stubborn national infer-
iority complex. Because we are a
small people we have always as-
sumed that our leaders must be
smaller than those of larger na-
tions.
It has never occurred to us that
some of our statesmen have been
the equal or superior of the much
more famous men of other lands.
It is almost incredible to us today
that Mr. Howe may• be the ablest
executive in the hJnglish-speaking
world but observers in Washington
understand it readily enough. And
Mr. Howe, for his part, is quite un-
interested in any such current ver-
dict, or in the verdict of history.
By the final Canadian Compulsion
he does the job at hand and is on.
tent. Asked how he likes the job,
he said the other day: "I hate it."
That is clearly untrue and sO thor-
oughly Canadian.
Brooding Hint
To prevent growing chicks from
crowding at night, place a five -
watt light directly over the hover.
Tests at the Experimental Station,
Saanichton, B.C., have shown that
this will give a more even distri-
bution of chicks around the hover.
Binder Twine Inspection
Mechanization has not driven all
the binders off the land and binder
twine is still used on thousands of
Canadian farms.
Binder twine is one of the many
farm supplies whicli is subject to
inspection by officials of the De-
partment of Agriculture in the in-
terests of both the farmer and the
reputable supplier. The twine,
says A. C. Heise, assistant chief of
the Department's inspection servic-
es is made in four qualities, 500
feet, 550 feet, 600 feet and 650 feet
which designate the number of feet
of twine there are in a pound. The
600 feet quality is most generally
used.
Inspection includes checking to
see that the length in a pound of
twine contains the footage claim-
ed. Canadian made binder twine
has a high reputation, and in re-
cent years almost all samples have
been found satisfactory.
Barn Ventilation
A well ventilated barn }rs con-
ducive to healthy livestock.
A dairy cow breathes approxi-
mately two cubic feet of air every
minute. The oxygen in the air is
absorbed and warm moist air con-
taining carbon dioxide is exhaled.
The daily moisture from a dairy
cow is between 10 and 15 pounds,
while that from a hog may reach
as high as six pounds.
Under these conditions the air
in a barn would soon become foul
and the humidity would rise to an
unsuitable height unless replaced
by fresh air from outside.
Although two cubic feet of air a
minute is all that is required by a
cow for actual respiration, 60 cubic
feet of air a minute is normally
required to keep a barn reasonab-
ly free from objectionable odors.
Moreover, during relatively milds
weather as much as 150 cubic feet
of air per cow may be needed to
remove excessive mblsture from a
dairy barn.
Two methods for providing the
necessary air in a barn are In gen-
eral use; the natural draft or flue
method of ventilation, and the
mechanical or fan method. Both
of these methods are explained
fully along witii construction de-
tails in a new publication of the
Department of Agriculture, Ot-t
tawa, "Principles of Barn Con-
struction," by Wm. Kaibfleisch and
J. W. White, agriculture engineers
with the Experimental Farms Ser-
vice. The insulation of farm build-
ings is also explained in consider-
able detail. The bulletin may
be obtained from the Department
of Agriculture, Ottawa. Ask for
Publication No. 859.
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Virus Diseases For Insect Control
A powerful, recently -tested wea-
pon against forest insects—a virus
disease—has again been turned
loose experimentally on European
pine sawfly currently invading
Scotch pine plantations at Strath-
roy, Ont.
Use of the virus against pine saw
fly is part of a development plan
that may lead to large scale use
of diseasesin the biological con-
trol of insects.
Initial experiments in the new
program of germ warfare against
forest insects were carried out at
Strathroy last year with great suc-
cess.
Results reported on the basis of
a count of larvae last year showed
that the virus killed 2,472 of 2,887
in a test area.
Biological control has a great
advantage over chemical control,
in that it does not upset the bal-
ance of nature by indiscriminate
killing of friends and enemies.
Although they may give astound-
ing immediate results, chemical
'controls, such as the use of DDT,
are often too costly to use.
Chemical controls are most use-
ful in the protection of extremely
valuable trees -or of infected stands
that are to be cut in the near fu-
ture.
The experiments at Strathroy
are in charge of Dr. F. D. Bird and
are intended to wipe out the cur-
rent invasion of European pine
sawfly, which could spread to the
more commercially valuable red
pine.
First striking evidence of the va-
lue of insect control by means of
disease in Canada wasthe result
of an accidental importation. A
virus, observed In 1936, and appar-
ently introduced accidentally from
Europe, reduced an outbreak of
European sawfly to endemic levels
in about four years. Similar evi-
dence was sepplied through out-
breaks of the Hemlock Looper and
Black -headed Budhvorm in British
Columbia.
After preliminary investigations,
a formal program for the study of
insect diseases was started and a
special laboratory built for the
purpose at Sault Ste. Marie, Ont.,
which was completed in May, 1950.
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MBS LT1
When to help
young Joey tries,
Do not scold or
criticize
Praise the part
he does do well,
Arouse ambition
to excel.
Dept. of National Health and Welfare
Years Agone
Interesting Items Picked From
The Huron Expositor of Twen-
ty-five and Fifty Years Ago.
From The Huron Expositor
July 23, 1926
Miss Victoria Bolton, Hensall,
has been engaged to teach in S.S.
No. 7, Hibbert, for the coming
roar,-to`fll the vacancy caused by
the resignation of her sister, Miss
Elva, who has secured a school in
Kitchener.
We congratulate the pupils of S.
S. No. 3, Downie, who wrote the re-
cent entrance examinations held
in Stratford. Seven pupils wrote,
all being successful, with two ob-
taining honors. Miss Grace E.
Knechtel, Seaforth, was the worthy
teacher of these pupils.
Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Klopp, Zurich,
celebrated the fiftieth anniversary
of their wedding. The day was
spent on the fine farm of their son,
Oscar Klopp, on the 14th conces-
sion of Hay, where all the family
gathered to do them honor.
Zurich Band played at Grand
Bend on Wednesday evening.
Mr. Erastus Ronnie, of Hensall,
is shaving his dwelling painted. Mr.
Fred Kennings is doing the work.
Miss Mabel E. Turnbull left on
Wednesday for Huntsville, where
she will take pari, in the minstrel
show at Big Win Inn during Old
Home Week. She was accompan-
ied by her sister, Miss Mildred,
Turnbull,
lltastef .tack Campbell, of Dub-,
lin, Won honors again in Toronto
Conservatory intermediate violin
examinations, and honors in prim-
ary piano. .
Stewarts Harmony Orchestra of
Seaforth furnished splendid music
for a social evening given by the
Choral Society of Dublin.
Mr. Fergus Bullard, of Winthrop,
left for Arthur on Tuesday to dec-
orate for the Old Boys Reunion.
R. J. Sproat and R. E. Bright car-
ried off the first event at the Mil-
verton Scotch doubles tournament
held on Wednesday. The prizes
were two beautiful cedar chests.
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Flom The Huron Expositor
July 26, 1901
While drawing in hay on Monday
of last week, Mr. Joseph Holmes,
of Tuckersmith, was thrown from
the load as they were driving up to
the barn along with three others,
and falling upon a pile of stones he
sustained a fracture of the left leg
and a severely sprained arm.
Mr. James Smillie and daughter,
Miss Mary Smillie, left on Tues-
day morning on an extended visit
to friends in Manitoba and West-
ern Provinces.
The soholarsbips offered by the
trustees of the Seaforth Collegiate
Institute for the pupils from the
town and country who made the
highest number of narks at the
entrance examinations, have been
awarded to Master Randal Rose,
of Seaforth Public School, for the
town, and to Miss Mary Johns, of
S.S. No. 9, Tuckersmith, for the
country.
Mr. James Hudson, of Tucker -
smith, has the honor of being the
first to deliver wheat of this
year's growth in the market. This,
wheat was delivered at the Stew-
art Company's mill in Seaforth on
Monday, July 22.
Mr. Seymour Watson left town
oft °Tuesday to push his fortune in
British Columbia. He has been a
leading member in the 43rd Regi-
ment Band and his departure will
be a loss to that very efficient or-
ganization.
The Seaforth Fire Brigade hi -
tends sensing a team to the Pan-
American at Buffalo to compete in
a tournament there which is to be
held during the latter part of
August.
Miss Jennie Barr, B.A., daughter
of Rev. Matthew Barr, has been
appointed assistant ori the staff of
the Caledonia high school.
Mr. John Pepper of Tuckersmith,
has engaged with McConnell and
Cameron for the 'threshing season.
Dr. James . A. Bird, son of Mrs.
George Baird, Jr., of Brucefield,
who has been studying at the Col-
lege of Physicians and Surgeons,
Edinburgh, Scotland, has been suc-
cessful in getting bis L.R.C.P. and
L.R.C.S. of Glasgow, which com-
prises the triple degree.
.A span of spirited horses belong-
ing to Mr. Finlay McIntosh, of Mc-
Killop, got frightened while stand-
ing in front of Richardson & Mc-
Innis store Monday afternoon and
started to run away. Mr. McIn-
tosh caught one by the head and
hung on until they reached the
Queen's Hotel, where Major An-
derson caught them and brought
them to a standstill.
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JULY
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Seen in the County Rapers... 1:
Receive Beq est O1 $100
The Huron County Children's
Aid Society has received a cheque
for $100 from the estate of the late
M. W. Howell, Goderich, Mr. A. H.
Erskine, treasurer, announced on
Monday.—Goderich Signal -Star.
' Completes Year in Medicine
Patrick C. Crowley, son of Mr.
and Mrs. David M. Crowley, R.R.
2, Gadshill, has been successful in
completing his second year at the
medical school at the University
of Western Ontario.—Mitchell Ad-
vocate.
Victim Of Swimming Accident
Bobby Griese, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Griese, of Londesboro, was
the victim of a swimming accident
on Sunday while visiting with his
grandmother, Mrs. Agnes Griese,
of Seebach Hill. W'hile diving in a
stream' Bobby struck his head on
a rock, opening.up a cut that re-
quired four stitches. His parents
took him to Stratford Hospital for
medical attention.—Blyth Standard.
Farmer is Gored By Bull
An unfortunate accident took
place on his Colborne Township
farm, near Benmiller, Monday eve-
ning when Samuel McNall, 50, was
gored by a bull. He was leading
the animal when it charged. The
injured man was' removed to Alex-
andra Hospital, Goderich, suffering
from leg injuries and fractured
ribs, which had caved in. Dr. N.
C. Jackson, Goderich, attended
him.—Clinton News -Record.
Doubly Injured
Donald Carrick, 26, an employee
of the Goderich Organ Co., fell
ten feet off a pile of lumber on
Monday and suffered a cracked
wrist of bfs left hand, and facial
lacerations. Last Thursday he
caught the first finger of his right
Shand in an electric saw, and while
working on the lumber pile he
knocked the hand, causing dizzi-
ness which resulted in the fall. He
is convalescing at his home.—God-
erich Signal -Star.
Loses Valuable Cattle
Roy Scotchmer, Bayfield, suffer-
ed the Ioss of six valuable fat cat-
tle which were killed or were so
badly injured that they had to be
killed, in an accident en route to
the livestock market in Toronto
Saturday night. The truck, in
which the cattle were being trans-
ported, was forced off the highway
at Trafalgar, east of Waterdown,
and turned over. The driver, from
Seaforth, was injured. — Clinton
News -Record.
- New Potatoes
Ralph Seddon doesn't have to
travel down to the corner grocery
for new potatoes. He has them
right in his own garden, and he
says that some are• as big as his
fist. The spuds were planted ex-
actly seven weeks previous to the
day last week when he dug the
first of the new crop. They are
Irish Cobblers. Mr. Seddon says
that in 31 years of gardening here
this is the fastest-growing crop he
has prodn'ced.—Wingham Advance -
Times.
Girl Injured On Highway
Waltena Selewski, seven-year-old
daughter of a Polish - Canadian
farmer of Ashfield Township, suf-
fered head and body lacerations
and abrasions in an accident on
Highway 21 near Kingsbridge on
Friday. She was riding a bicycle
when she ran into the side of a
car driven by Geo. Baxter, of Gode-
rich. She was removed to Alexan-
dra Hospital, attended by Dr. J.
M. Graham. Provincial Constable
H. Stott, Goderich, investigated.--
Goderich Signal -Star.
Celebrates 84th Birthday
A very• pleasant evening was
spent at the home of Mr. and Mrs.
A. T. Lucas on Tuesday evening,
when Mr. Lucas celebrated Ilia-
' 84th birthday. To make the gath-
ering even more pleasant than us-
ual, Mr. Lucas' son, William, an&
his wife from Deville, Alta., were
'present for the occasion. Also,pre-
sent were Mr. Lucas' daughter,
Mrs. Stewart Taylor, Mr. Taylor
and Pauline, and Mr. and Mrs,
Earl Reynolds and Patricia.—Clip-
ton News -Record. -
Graphic Scenes At Town Hall'
Visitors to the Wingham Town -
Hall are being met by a startling
sight. Police. Chief J. W. Irwin
has had a bulletin board installed,
on which he is posting a series of
pictures, depicting the most grue-
some aspects of outstandingly bad
accidents. Purpose of the scheme,
of course, is to shock drivers into,
realization of what carelessness at
the wheel can mean. The pictures
are not a pleasant sight — and
they're not intended to be.—Wing-
ham Advance -Times.
No Action on School Addition
No further action in connection.
with the erection of an addition.
to Clinton District Collegiate In-
stitute was taken at the July Meet-
ing of the board last week. An in-
formal discussion took place with
regard to the matter, however, in
which the present status was dis-
cussed. Stanley and Hullett town-
ship councils still have to place
their mark of approval on the pro-
ject as it stands, although the
former has given conditional ap-
proval. It was decided to cancel
the August meeting of the board.—
Clinton News -Record,
Lions Swimming Pool Popular
Swimmers have already started
practising for tests this year at
the Lions Pool and the following
have earned the Mitchell Medallion
by swimming across the pool and
back: David Baggs, Gordon Slain.-
ton,
lain-ton, Dalton Fowler, Ted Fawm,
Patsy Morey, Sandra Stainton,
Beverley •Lithgow, Wilson Stain-
ton, Barbara Neil, Bob Cheoros,
Lila Snelling and Karen Osier. A
total of 135 season's tickets have,
been sold -22 adults and 113 chil-
dren. The attendance at the pool)
from June 30 to last Sunday hae
been 1,364. In the beginners' class
twenty-six have registered -twelve
juniors, nine intermediates and
seven seniors.—Mitchell Advocate.
Here From the West
Mr. and Mrs. Alva Melick, of
Edmonton, Alta., are here visiting
relatives, he being .a nephew of
Mr. Alf. Melick, of Zurich, and a
son of the late Mr. and Mrs. John
Melick, former residents of this:
district. It was 50 years ago when.
the famly Left these parts for the-
West, when Alva was seven years.
of age, and he likes this part of
Canada very much, and wonders.
why his parents had ever left it..
They were accompanied by Mr. and
Mrs. Joe Carrothers. Mr, Carroth-
er's parents moved west in the
days of the ox cart, and have seen
all the hardships of pioneer set-
tlers amongst the Indians in those.
early days.—Zurich Herald.
Accepts Glencoe Calf
Rev. H. J. Mahoney, who for the'
past four years has been pastor of
Main Street United Church, has
accepted a call to become the pas-
tor of Glencoe United Church, his;
duties to begin in September. A.
meeting of the pastoral relations
committee of Main Street Church
met with representatives of Pres-
bytery Tuesday evening to discuss
the situation and plans are being
made to secure a successor. Mr.
and Mrs. Mahoney and family are
at present holidaying at their sum-
mer cottage in the Algoma District.
Mr. Mahoney will conduct the un-
ion services of Main Street and'.
James Street Churches during the,
month of August.—Exeter Times --
Advocate.
The Common . Informer -
(From The London Times)
The common informer is an
agent of the judicial system whbm
there are none to love and very
few to praise. He is not perhaps
quite identical with the person we
learned to call, in the blunter
language of school, the sneak. The
difference is that the common in-
former sneaks for pay; but this
feature is not more endearing.
There are even said to be one
or two professions s in the dis-
agreeable trade, wh search the
statutes for forgotten or disre-
garded minutiae and make a living
by recovering penalties from 'those
who have transgressed them una-
wares.
Unpopular as he has become, the
common informer is the creature
of statute, and the Parliaments
that invoked his help did not do
so thoughtlessly or give him im-
moderate license. They did not
countenance anything like the
odious delatores of ancient Rome
(to cite no more recent examples
of the species), who during the
proscriptions of Marius and Sulla
were encouraged' to swear away
men's lives for political deviations
in the expectation of being reward-
ed out of their estates.
In England the cgmmon infor-
mer served a limited but useful
purpose in days before there was
a regular police force to bring
offenders into court as a matter
of routine, and before the Attorn-
ey General was assisted by the
permanent staff of the Director of
Xublic Prosecutions. That alone
would not account for reliance up-
on him in the half-dozen Victorian
Acts from which it is now propos-
ed to expunge his privileges; but
it may be argued that It is still,
his function to insist upon the en-
forcement of -old laws.
This argument is much relied on
by same diligent watchdogs of ptib-
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lic morality, notably in the domain
of Sunday observance. The essen-
tial right of these, however, wiln
not be curtailed. The immemorial)
duty of the subject to assist im
the guardanship of the King's;
peace will remain; and soy will his
right to set the law in motion, ini
suitable cases, on his own initia-
tive. Any financial forfeit by the
offender, however, will go not to
the informer but to the Crown or
the aggrieved party. Zealots for
the jots and titles of the law will
reflect that the change will make
even more conspicuous the purity
of motive on which they have al-
ways prided themselves.
A Smile Or Two
"Listen," said the cute young:
thing to her girl friend as she
spoke of a rival. "All a sweater'
does for her is make her itch!"
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"Did you hear about Joey? That
medicine wiped him out complete-
ly.,.
"No! ,You don't say! What hap-
pened?"
"Well, the medicine is guaran-
teed to make you 10 years young-
er, and Joey was only 9."
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Mrs. Newrich was very, patroniz-
ing. "Were any of your ancestors
men -of note, Mr. Billings?" she in-
quired.
"Oh, yea, indeed," nodded Mr.
Billings. "One of them was the
most famous admiral of phis day.
He commanded the allied forces of
the world."
"Is that poseible!" exclaimed'
Mrs. Newrich, much impressed..
"What wag his name?"
Said Mr. Billings: "His name -
was Noah."
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