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Home My WebLink AboutThe Huron Expositor, 1951-09-14, Page 2THE HURON EXPOSITOR • it Established 1a0 A. Y.1VIcLean, Editor Published at Seaforth, Ontario, ev- ery Thursday afternoon by McLean ros. Member of Canadian Weekly Newspapers Association. Subscription rates, $2.50 a year in advance; foreign $3.00 a year. Single copies, 5 cents each. Advertising rates on application. PHONE 41 Authorized as Second Class Mail Post Office Department, Ottawa SEAFORTH, Friday, September 14 A Job in the City No matter how much machinery he may have, the average farmer knows he cannot successfully oper- ate his farm working but forty hours er less a week. Yet, he points out, Ie people he employs insist on such hours, and many refuse to work on the farm regardless of the hours or the pay. The result is that the biggest prob- lem facing the farmer at the moment is the lack of adequate help. There is a good crop, and prices of farm products were never better. Yet, despite such benefits, the farmer can't forget the farm labor. situation and naturally attempts to seek its cause. In most cases he places the blame on the desire on the part of labor for the good pay and easy hours which labbr believes is being offered in the city. Perhaps he is right about some city jobs. On the other hand, there are many in the cities who are work - 4g long hours and with less to show fob-12�.ir work than the average farm laborer. But that the attractions of a job jn the city are as suggested by the farmers is certainly true in some cities if an advertisement carried re- cently by a British Columbia Ser- vice Corporation can be': taken as a criterion. This help wanted ad said: "You'll get more free time. In a four-week working period you get .three con- secutive days off, one day off, four consecutive days off. Where else can you get an interestiing, perman- ent job with such attractive time off ? And your daily hours, which change every i,wo weeks, give you lots of leisure time for swimming, shopping, shows or your favorite hobby. Often you'll have full mornings and even- ings free to switch hours with others." • money left to buy things that,, had they ever existed, would have been considered luxuries fifty years back. The obvious inference to be drawn from the survey is that, despite the argument about income and the cost of living and which has outstripped which, the average American—and also the average Canadian—enjoys a better and more varied living stan- dard than did his father and his grandfather. remn.00metMeee rmmeo What Other Papers Say: How the Dollar Is Spent A comparison of the manner in which an American consumer spends his income now and how he spent it at various times in the past fifty years, is contained in an interesting survey based on the United States Bureau of Labor Statistics. The study, which is applicable to conditions in Canada as well as in the States, discloses one very defin- ite and significant trend: Necessi- ties, like food and clothing, are ab- sorbing an appreciably smaller per- centage of the moderate -income fam- ily's dollar than they once `did, while at the same time a steadily increas- ing share of the dollar is being spent on optional or "other" items, such as recreation, cars and house furnish- ings. A breakdown of how the consum- er_spent his dollar is given for four Separate periods (in each case the "fuel" figure includes gas and elec- tricity) 1901 1918-19 1934-36 Mar., 1951 The Reason For Increases (The Palmerston Observer) In a July 1st mass movement, the Orangeville Banner, the Shelburne Free Press and Economist, the Grand Valley Star and Vidette and the Dundalk Herald all increased their subscription rates to $3.00. All blame the seeming out -of -proportion cost rises of all necessary publica- tion materials. Newsprint and labor costs have multiplied by three. Type metal, bought at one time for 11c a pound, is now 22c. The little brass moulds that form the letters in the typesetting machine have to be re- newed frequently. They cost at one time 9c, and are now 23c. The fact that most weekly newspapers have increased from $2.00 in "normal" years, to only $2.50 today, is remark- able. It is an indication that weekly editors, closer to their public than those in charge of larger publica- tions, maintain their low prices at a personal loss, rather than add to a friend's expenses. Finally dire econ- omic necessity makes an increase im- perative, and they reluctantly move up the subscription rate. Food 45c 38c 34c 35c Clothing 14c 17c 11c 13c Rent 14c 14c 17c 11c Fuel . 6c 5c 7c 3c "Other" 21c 26c 31c 38c - The survey shows that over the Baine ppriod of years real wages tt,ve risen and thus, a higher stand - 4 Of' lM.ng has been realized. NO one will argue that the aver- age North American is not eating better today than he was half a ceti- ago, a certainly has a better co He has ogre varied clothes to n top o£ these necessi- ,a lag± s• to have more • Carrier Of Ice Was, Planned For Aircraft Use (From the New York Times) The latest now -it -can -be -told story of the war is out. It deals with Habakkuk, an unsinkable aircraft carrier that was to have been made out of reinforced ice. Sir Charles Goodeve, F.R.S., tells the story in the London Evening Standard. Even some respectable engineers, admirals and generals thought there was something in the icy Habakkuk. Lord Mountbatten passed along the proposal to the chiefs of staff, who sent it to the war cabinet, which was how Winston Churchill became in- terested. Incredible as it may seem, Sir Charles declares that Churchill wrote: "Let us cut a large chunk of ice from the Arctic ice cap and tow it down past Cornwall, fly on our aircraft and tow ,it up to the point • of attack." A lake in the Canadian Rockies was actually chosen to test an exper- imental model. Spring came and with it the startling discovery that ice melts. A 40,000 -ton ship with' a hull of ice would need elaborate re- frigerating machines to keep it in- tact. It was also discovered that if paper pulp was added to water and the whole frozen a block was formed that had remarkable properties. A bullet fired through this "pyker- ete," as it was appropriately called, made a hole that healed spontaneous- ly. So the bomb -proof and torpedo - proof ship of ice was announced. A team armed with revolvers turned up at the Quebec Conference, demon- strated the properties of pykrete and made such an impression that the construction of a Habakkuk under the supervision of the Anglo -Ameri- can -Canadian committee of naval experts was recommended. The committee never met. A little calculation showed that a Habakkuk could never make more than six knots and that the tremen- dous quantities of steel required for pipes for the circulation of four pow- er plants and auxiliary machinery could be put to better use in a con- ventional 26 -knot aircraft carrier. Still it was a good story. The choice of the name Habakkuk was happy. Wasn't Habakkuk the prophet who said: "I will work a work in your days which ye will not believe, though it be told you"? CROSSROADS (By James Scott) FOOTPRINTS IN CONCRETE You could hardly call it a pit- weeds and coarse grasses have grimage and it was certainly no encroached until you can hardly morbid urge to be in the atmos- recognize the sidewalk at all. But phere of the dead. No, it was there are still stretches of ten or a dozen feet where the sidewalk is as good as ever, cleancut and still proudly useful. I decided I'd try to find the foot- prints anyway, and when I hit the sidewalk I moved slowly, head down, carefully scanning every foot, afraid I might miss them. Any one seeing me walking away from the cemetery like that would have said, "Poor fellow, what a terrible burden of grief he must be bearing." And all 4 was doing was looking for the evidence of a boyish prank which had been talked about in my family for as long as I can remem- ber. emember. And sure enough I found' them. First e. pair which belonged to a lad of about six or seven; then +another set which belonged .to a boy of nine or ten. I stopped and looked at them in the fading light. Without having to stretch site im- agination too far, it was possible to see again those two little devils with their brown and calloused bare feet sticking out of their rag- ged jeans. I could see them, just about at the same time of night when no one would be likely to see them, slipping across the road to the newly -laid sidewalk. I could stuck at all kinds of crazy angles hear the "I dare you." I could eee in the ground. Among them were again the dancing ,mischievous newer and more imposing shafts eyes, the foot quickly, slipped and and b;ocks of marble and granite. pressed into the cool and slowly hardening cement. The little fel- low did it first, then the more sober older brother did it too. And there they are to this day. Both those little pranksters grew up, were successful and died. They probably curiosity touched a little by sentimentality which took me to the "old" cemetery. Well, it is an old cemetery at that. In fact it is all that remains cf an auld kirk and its church- yard. It stands, dike a boundary marker, between the town and the country. The town proper is about a mile away. Gradually, as you walk out towards the cemetery the houses stand farther apart; you see more chicken coops and the odd cow or so in small barns mehind the stables, and, once in a while, an old sow rooting around underneath an apple tree. A con- crete sidewalk—in bad repair— struggles along for a while, gives up, and then you walk a little far- ther and there's the graveyard. Beyond that it's real country. The "old" cemetery is not very large:; it's almost full and not many more people will find their final resting place there. I moved through it, stopping by the grave; of bots of my ancestors„ some - Unite pausing to rub off that cur- ious blue-green fungus that grows on tombstones to note a date or check a name. Most of the stones were those old-fashioned. thin white slabs with rounded tops It was twilight and there didn't seem to be much more to be done there. My casual rendezvous with the past was completed. Heading back to the town I was vaguely troubled. I have been in many cemeteries—big city ones have a granite memorial. One of and old churchyard ones like the ' them left most of his money tc make sure that deserving young- sters might get a chance to go to college. But, somehow, it seems to me that the best memorial of al are those footprints in the con- crete. They speak a language of warm humanity, of very human impulsiveness. That's the way it is. The notch you cut in the old school desk, the prank you played one Hallowe'en (still remembered by your aging cronies), these are the very hu- man things which hold in them the very meaning of life. The marble slab is all right„ I guess, but it will never, never, no matter bow long it lasts, carry the life and vitality of the footprints one I had just left—and they all affect me the same way. They seem so futile. No matter how big and impressive and polished the stone, all one gets is a sense of some one dead, not a memory of some one once beautifully alive Ind vital. And in this mood of depression I remembered the footprints. I was not at all sure I could find them on that old broken-down side- walk which leads halfway out to the cemetery. In some places there is no walk left. Assaulted by the feet of countless pedestrians, heav- ed up by the frost coming up from the earth in the spring, the con- crete has 'disintegrated completely in some places. In others, the in concrete. Historical Reviews (Prepared by the Seaforth Wdttl en's Iiistit.ufe. This is in a st'ies1 THE MCKA ( FARM To the present generation, Lot 8, Concession 6, Huron Road Survey of Tuckersmith Township, is known s the McKay Farm; to the pre- ious one it was the Peter McKay- 1 :arm, :but to an earlier generation Mill it was the John Campbell 'arm. John Campbell was born in Fife - shire, Scotland, in 1760, and died n Tuckersmith one hundred years Iter. He roust have been an old man when he decided to leave his native Scotland and come to Can- ada with his wite and' four chil- 'ren: John. William, Ettie and Margaret. It was in the early 1840's when he took over his one hundred acres from the Canada Company. The farm was cleared by oxen, but like many far-seeing Scots -I :nen, he left a few acres of bush to supply fuel and maple syrup !'or those who were to come after him. Galt was John Campbell's :hopping centre. One can imagine the long journey to Galt for flour, su:,. r, tea; the only staples pur- chased in those early days. When John Campbell died in 1860, a nephew, Matthew Scott, (who was later to do Seaforth the great service of leaving a large sum of money to found the Scott Memorial Hospital) came to the farm and worked there for eighteen years. It was said by the neigh- bors that Matthew Scott fenced the Campbell farm during his noon hour. He would put his team in the stable to feed, eat his own din- ner, and then go out and put up a short stretch of fence. Truly may it be said that nothing can take the place of persistence. John Campbell of Fifeshire was of a saving nature. He must have:been secretive too. In the early the 26th Junior has receptive ears And W family feuds he hears, The atmosphere of frequent strife May influence his adult life. 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 September 10, 1926 Mr. John Young, who has con- ducted the New Commercial Hotel in Hensall, has sold it to Mr. John Eccleston, of Mitchell, who takes possession at once. Mrs. James Cowan, of town, has leased her residence to R. N. Bis- sonnette, and will spend the win- ter with her daughter in Stratford. Jas. M. Scott and Adam Dodds, of McKillop, attended the Exhibi- tion in Toronto this week. Fred Crich and Jas. A. Stewart are on a motor trip to New York. On Friday evening, Sept. 3, the induction of Rev. W. A. Bremner, of Cobourg, took place in Bruce - field United Church. Miss Isabel Souter, Brucefield, left last week for Sioux Lookout, to be assistant principal of the continuation school. Mr. John Murray, Egmondville, has a squash vine growing in his garden that measures 38 feet long. To see how much it would grow in a week, he placed a stake in the ground at the tip of the vine, and found that it had grown 5 feet 2 inches during the week. Hugh Benninger, aged 16, of Dub- lin, was riding his bicycle Wednes- day night of last week about 9 p.m. on the highway when he was hit by a car with one light: travelling in the opposite direction. He es- caped with a broken knee. The car stopped and had the boy removed to Dr. Traynor's office, where he was treated. Harvey Dantzer, McKillop, was injured in a stable when he hit a horse with a gad which resented correction. Dr. Ross was summon- ed and had him removed to Sea - forth Memorial Hospital, W. C. Bennett. E. Haist, N. Mont- gomery, L., Bolton and A. Crozier of Winthrop motored to Toronto and took in the Exhibition over the holiday. Fire broke out in the basement of R. J. Pearson's general store in Ethel, which did considerable damage to stock and contents. ll; SEPTEMBER 14, 1951 Seen in the County Papers Took Part in Toronto Games week. The job represents a lot of Mrd. C. W. Lloyd and Mrs. A. work, for the concrete must be R. DuVal took part in the Globe Puddled down through the refrig- & Mail doubles in Toronto last crating pipes of the artificial icy Thursday. They won their first 'Plant The mixer has been set up at the rear of the building and the Ad - game but were eliminated in the i second round.—Wingham Advance- mix is wheeled in barrows: to the - forward end of the building, where the pour was started. Work will go on without interruption until, the job is finished.—Wingham Ad- vance -Times. Times. Wins At Exhibition "Dillon Lady," two-year-old own- ed by Currie & Tervit, Wingham, took first prize in the futurity class at the Canadian National Ex- hibition and was 'also second in the standard bred class. S)was named junior reserve champion at the big show.—Wingham Advance- Timest To Widen Street On Councillor Robinson's sug- gestion and after an inspection re the same, council unanimously de- cided to move back the pavement from the bandstand corner to Que- bec Street, a distance of four feet, to give added width to the con- gested roadway, the same to be done now while such work is uuder way. ,Mitchell Advocate. Host To Staff At Bayfield days he had put a considerable sum of money in the Post Office savings department at Goderich. John Campbell died and the money ay there. One by one John Camp- bell's children passed on, and still the money lay at Goderich accumu- lating interest. Finally the money was advertised, and Mrs. William Allan, John CampbeIl's only re- maining relative—a sister—inher- ited a substantial sum. The house was built about 1869 and like many of the old houses was built to last. It stands on high ground, well drained, and eighty years later there is hardly a crack in the plaster. T timbers used in its construction are similar to those used for barns at the present time. None of John Campbell's chil- dren married, and when John, Jr., died in 1897 the farm was sold at auction in October of that year. Peter McKay, of Zorra, was the buyer, and the land had, fallen in- to the best of hands. Peter Mc- Kay was married to Apnie Clark, who was born on the Clark farm, later known as Sandy Sinclair's. They had five children: Anna, Dan, John, Robert and Bessie. Peter McKay was a born cattle- man. He was among the first to register his cattle, and he bought his first registered cow from Tom Russell. father of T. Aa,„Russell, of the Massey -Harris Corhpany. She had the rather high-sounding name of "Duohess." Eventually, twenty registered cows were kept on this farm. Peter McKay brought some notable bulls into Tuckersmith. He always bought from well-known breeds: Biggins of Clinton, George Armstrong of Teeswater, Jim Hill of Staffa, Pettit of Freeman. It (Continued on Page 7) Sustains Fractured Wrists Watson Garbutt, 77, of R.R. 2,. St. Pauls, sustained two fractured wrists, and with this mishap, un- known to himself, drove from his farm to the Cromarty blacksmithsshop on Wednesday afternoon, where he complained of pain is the injured arms. When a doctor arrived he was immediately re- moved to Stratford Hospital tor treatment. The accident occurred when the harneas of his team) broke as a wagon was being drawn up the gangway of the barn,. upsetting the vehicle, which went backwards down the incline.--'lilt- chell Advocate. Service Station Robbed Last week Chris Cheoros was host to his entire staff of the Cosy Grill and their friends at his summer cottage at Bayfield. T'bey had a wonderful time bathing and enjoying rides on Mr. Cheoros' boat. And of course, the big sup- per was heartily enjoyed after an afternoon in the out -of -doors. --Mit- chell Advocate. Having Enjoyable Trip Mr, and Mrs. Ward Fritz are en- joying their Western trip, having received a card from them when they crossed the Great Divide in the Rockies and going on through a snow storm. The elevation being very high gave them anxious mom- ents. They visited Seattle, Van- couver and back to Banff. They in- tended to attend the car : dealers' convention on Sept. 13 before re- turning home. Zurich Herald. ,• On Sunday night thieves broke- into rokeinto the service station of William. Currey on the Huron Road and stole cigarettes worth about $100L The crashing of 'glass was heard by a neighbor, I. Oke, who tele- phoned police, bringing them on the scene very shortly after the• theft occurred, but too late, nev- ertheless, to patch the thieves. Mr. Currey states this Is the fourth: time This station has been broken - into during the past ten years. 1Ie- has a watchdog on hand for giving: alarms, 'but the dog did not show up for about two hours after the break-in and was in a dozed con- dition, as if he might have inea beaten by the thieves;--Godericla Signal -Star. To Pave Street As the outcome of a conference Wednesday between the Town Council and Department of High- ways representatives, agreement was reached whereby the paving of the Bayfield road is to be com- pleted within the town limits up to Britannia Road on a 50-50 basis. The cost, including necessary ex- cavation and drainage, is estimat- ed at $13,400, and the Council pass- ed a resolution assuming a share of the cost up to $6,700.—Goderich Signal -Star. Pouring Cement At Arena Appoint Two New Coroners% The Ontario Government has appointed two new coroners for the County of Huron: Dr. James G. Dunlop, Exeter, and Dr. W. A - Crawford, Wingham. A native of Calgary, Alta., Dr. Crawford is a son of the late Dr. Daniel Craw- ford and Mrs. Crawford. He gradu- ated from the University of To- ronto in medicine and practised foe eight and a half years in Cadillac;. Mich., before going to Wingham 1G years ago. Dr. Dunlop, a graduate• of the University of Westdrn On- tario, in 1927, has practised medi- cine in Exeter since his gradua-- tion and internship. He was horn in Wallaceburg, a son of the late James and Mary Dunlop. Dr. Dun- lop interned at Victoria Hospital' and St. Joseph's Hospital at Lon - The pouring of concrete for the don and was on the 'staff of the, new floor in the Wingham arena medical school at Western for a, commenced on Wednesday of this year—Clinton News -Record. -• From the "BLUE BOOK" of Famous Trains From The Huron Expositor September 13, 1901 President McKinley, of the Unit- ed States was shot by an anarchist at the Pan-American held in Buf- falo. At the Toronto Industrial Show held for the 23rd time, Bawden & McDonell, Exeter, received first, prize for heavy draft colt foaled in 1901, and third for filly in the same class. David McIntosh, V.S., of Brucefield, and Alex Innes, of Stanley, were judges of express horses and of hunters and saddle horses. Edward Bright and Walter Pick- ard have returned from a trip to the Old Country. Bright Bros., clothiers of town, received an order this week from a gentleman in a town in South Dakota for 4o90 worth of clothing for his own wear. James Stewart, of the .Seaforth Milling Co., has disposed of his share in. the mill to his brother' and has purchased Henry Col- bert's farm in Egmondville and in- tends to farm again. At a meeting held in the Sea - forth Collegiate on Thursday, the football team reorganized for the coming season. The following offi- cers were elected: Hon. pies., J. L. Killoran; pres., G. F. Rogers; vice-pres., H. W. Brown; manager, G. F. Coiling; sec.-treas., Fred Broadfoot; captain, L. McDonald; committee, T. Miller, G. F. Hamil- ton, A. Woodley and C. P. Sills. The annual meeting of the W.C. T.U. was held at the home of Mrs. W. D. Bright when the following officers were elected: Pres, Mrs. J. A. Stewart; lit 'vice-pres., Mrs; 13. B. Gunn; 2nd vice-pres., Mrs. F. H. 'Larkin; 8rd vice-pres., Mrs. T. O. Kemp; corresponding sec.;, Mrs. W. D. Bright; recording sec., Mrs. Wm. Pickard. The following were ticketed to distant points by Wim. Somerville: Miss Donovan and Mrs. McPhail to Saginaw, Micah,; Mr. and 'Mrs. 13. B. Gunn to the Pan-American, Buffalo; Mrs. Dunham and sister, Miss Edmunds, to Duluth; Rev, Father Flannery and niece; Miss Clark, of St. Columban, to Queens- town, Ireland; E. Dawson, Sr., to Gleneaifn. Ontario's Fall Sown Cereals Winter wheat and winter rye are the main fall -sown cereals in Ontario, says A. G. O. Whiteside, of the Central Experimental Farm, Ottawa. Average acreage of winter wheat during 1946 to 1950 was 769,980 and the average yield was 29.6 bushels an acre. For winter rye during the same period, the- fig- ures were 91,960 acres with an av- erage yield of 21.1 bushels, Fall -sown cereals may follow sod, summer fallow, Intertill crops, peas or spring grain, say Mr. Whiteside, but land which i poorly drained and Is likely to long covered with ice or er should be avoided. Sod should be plowed do at least 81» days before seed4 the crop and the land should be gone over at least. four times with• Y'. ti.11arge machine to reduce competi- tion from grasses and clovers and to Put it In •best condition. If the hod was mainly grasses, manure may be applied before the sod le turned &nen. On land which has been manur- ed, or has grown legumes, 150 pounds' to the acre of superphos- phate applied with the seed often Is beneficial. Winter wheat responds well to fertility and where fertility is likely to be low, use of commer- _alal fertilizers at the rate of 150 pounds to the acre of 2-12-6 seed- ed with the wheat will give paying returns. In most areas, winter wheat should be seeded before the mid; dle of September and preferably during the first week. Where,falLs are open .in the southern areas, (Cautioned on Page) ff 6 • The standard of living in Can- ada has gone up by 59% overt the Past ten years; in the 'tLS. the in- crease has been less than one- third. You'll appreciate and under- stand the beauty of Canada better when you see it from. Canadian National's famous: Continental Limited. Every day' between Montreal, Toronto and Vancouver this famous train. speeds across the continent. On it you'll travel in style inv colorful, up-to-the-minute equipment --- inviting bedrooms,. standard and tourist sleeping cars, lounge cars and the latest air-conditioned coaches. 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