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FACE TWO
THE HURON EXPOSITOR
Established 1860
A. Y. McLean, Editor
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, SEAFORTH, Friday, November 16
A Federal Matter
Apparently in an effort to confuse
voters as to the Government re-
sponsible for the introduction of uni-
versal old age security, the Minister
of Public Welfare of Ontario has sent
out to 90,000 pensioners in Ontario a
printed message which bears his sig-
nature. The first sentence of the mes-
sage reads as follows:
"This will remind you that the Pro-
vince of Ontario has completed all ar-
rangements to have your present Old
Age pension cheque replaced by an
Old Age Security cheque for $40,
commencing January, 1952."
In order that the record might be
set straight, Hon. Paul Martin, Min-
ister of National Health and Wel-
fare, last week after referring to the
action which had been taken by the
Ontario Government, went on to say:
"This is one of repeated examples
in which, I regret to say, during the
present election campaign the Pro-
vincial Government of Ontario has
deliberately attempted to mislead the
old age pensioners and the general
public into thinking that the pro-
vince, rather than the federal gov-
ernment, is responsible for the new
universal pension program. The po-
litical advertisements which have re-
cently appeared in the daily press of
this province, the two notices which
the Ontario authorities have sent to
pensioners, the numerous press re-
leases issued by the Provincial Min-
ister of Welfare, Mr. Goodfellow, and
the frequent references to the old age
pensions plan in political speeches re-
cently given by Mr. Frost and Mr.
Goodfellow—all form part of a pat-
tern which 1 can only describe as an
attempt to deceive the public as to
the government which is really re-
sponsible for this new old age pen-
sions program.
"I am sure that the public of On-
tario will not be deceived by such
misleading statements. They know,
as do the people of Canada generally,
that it is thefe,deral government and
the Parliament of Canada which has
conceived and brought into being
this new pension program: that the
federal government will be exclusive-
ly responsible for the administration
and the financing of this new uni-
versal pension program for persons
over 70: and that the Province of
Ontario has made no contribution
• whatsoever to the development of
this new program, except to agree to
the constitutional amendment which
gave the federal government the nec-
essary powers to proceed with it.
"In any event, I do not believe that
many persons in this province, even
in the heat of the provincial election,
will pay much attention to such mis-
leading propaganda."
•
A Few Easy Words
Thousands upon thousands of
words have been written in describ-
ing the economic plight in which the
British people find themselves. Hun-
dreds of reasons have been advanced
and other hundreds of cures suggest-
ed.
It remained, however, for Mr.
Churchill to explain in a few easy
words that anybody can understand
the great financial crisis:
"Fifty million people are now
crowded in our small -island which
produced food for only three-fifths of
theta and We have to earn the rest
..e g mainly mans
4 4A'
04 tor Which we must, first, im-
tat the rat materials.
, pun*, enjoying such a
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high level of civilization has ever
been so economically precariously
poised and with an ever larger and
more formidable world growing up
around us."
•
Horse and Buggy Days
Reading almost every day of an
automobile accident in which a life
was lost, we forget that no matter
what the means of locomotion, man
has always been involved in acci-
dents. It is only forty years ago that
4,000 persons lost their lives in horse
and buggy accidents in North Amer-
ica in a single year.
The Canadian Good Roads Assoc-
iation was given this bit of history
at its annual meeting. The speaker
said: "We have become so accus-
tomed to associating the motor car
with Lraffic accidents that we over-
look the fact that mankind has al-
ways shown an amazing ability to
get into trouble no matter what his
method of locomotion."
A newspaper clipping of 1891 re-
ported "the deadly horse -and -buggy"
catastrophes have piled up several
serious cases during the past week.
Meanwhile, a whole family was hurl-
ed to destruction bya runaway team
of oxen."
Serious as were the accidents of
1891, the first recorded automobile
accident in 1899 was an omen of
worse to come.
What Other Papers Say:
Lifetime Job
(Vancouver Sun)
It is excellent news that Viscount
Alexander is to remain in Canada as
Governor General until late in 1952.
As far as we are concerned, he can
stay here as Governor General just
as long as he likes, and we be
delighted to have him among us. He's
the best one Canada ever had, we are
lucky to have him, and we couldn't
do any better.
•
Pie In the Sky
• (Kingston Whig -Standard)
"There is no magic in Government
finance. A dollar paid out to one per-
son must first of all be taken away
from another.. Unfortunately, the
logic of this simple proposition has
never been successfully refuted."
We share Mr: Abbott's regret. It
would be too pleasant for words if
the Government were in a position to
give Canadians everything they
wanted that their elected Govern-
ment thought good for them—at no
cost to Canadians. That would in-,
deed be pie in the sky, served with%
both cheese and ice cream on a cel-
estial gravy train. But it isn't that
way and it cannot be that way. You
pay for the ride and for what you
eat; if you do not, other Canadians
1)ay for it.
•
To Find Security
St. John's (Nfld.) News
A family owning its own home,
„growing a large part of its food
needs in its own garden, cutting its
fuel at only the cost of labor, .and
owning a cow, some sheep, and per-
haps poultry, is basically secure.
These things alone will not make for
lavish living. They do ensure com-
fortable living to be supplemented by
cash earnings at various kinds of
seasonal work and by additional
clothing and other comforts for the
children through the family allow-
ances.
• We are aiming now, and quite pro-
perly, at a more industrialized and
diversified economy. But we should
never forget the attributes of rural
life in Newfoundland which have
their own fundamental values that
ought not to be lost.
Increased cash earnings will bring
into the home more varieties and
quantities of canned foods, nylon
stockings and a host of other semi -
luxuries or perhaps, relatively speak-
ing, real luxuries. But real independ-
ence comes from home ownership and
wise utilization of the resources that
are close at hand and to be harvested
only by •the expenditure of labor.
40 THE HURON EXPOSITOR
CROSSROADS
(By James Scott)
"OF PEOPLE AND EATING"
The train, that is a local train
which leads from the city to the
end of the line, is a great place
to get to know people. In a way
it is the real crossroads these days
—the place where the city folk and
the country folk meet. Sometimes
it's a little late (not often more
than an hour) and sometimes the
coaches are not as young and slick
as they used to be, but give me the
train every time when it comes to
making friends. A car is all right,
I suppose, but you're not likely to
meet many new people whizzing
along the highway at fifty miles, an
hour or more. But the train, that's
different. es
Every week I meet' old friends
and new on the train. There's the
very old retired railway man who
gets on the train down the line ev-
ery morning at seven o'clock, rides
in to the nearest city and vanshes.
He's far too old to have a job, but
he still never misses a day. I of-
ten wonder what he does.: or is it
that he still likes to ride on the
train?
A little farther along there's the
small furniture manufacturer who
is, his own travelling salesman. He
goes into the city every Thursday -
to see his customers. He has a
granddaughter the same age as
Katie Scott, and we usually talk
about how smart our own favorite
little girls are. Either that, or
fancy poultry. I know nothing
about them, but my friend raises
them and he's going to take a lot
of blue ribbons at the Royal Winter
Fair. I know, because he told me
so himself.
Then there's the advertising ex-
ecutive whose nerves got all shot
until he bought a dairy farm. He's
all right now, and goes into his
office every morning right after
he's helped milk forty cows. And
the Soc'al,st who gets on at Weston
and. tells, me every time that I've
sold my soul to the capitalists and
am grinding my heel on the neck
of the working man.
I wouldn't miss one of these fel-
'owe for a hundred dollars, and I
wouldn't miss the new acquaint-
ances I make almost every week
either.
Take a couple of weeks ago: Sit-
ting in the snooker (that's the best
place for making friends) was' a
distinguished looking gentleman.
Te told me he was a doctor from
New York. I discovered later that
he is a very femme one. He was
returning to the part of the coun-
try where he had been raised for a
short visit. We got talking about
health and the best way to live to
be a hundred, and he had the an-
swer.
Well now, I have known or heard
about a lot of people who think
they know the secret of long life.
Many of them—and this doctor said
so too—believes It's all a matter
of eating. Maybe they are right.
• I have met Gayelord Hausser, the
man who started hundreds of thou-
sands of people (including the
Duchess. of Windsor) eating wheat
germ, crude molasses and, yogurt
cheese. I know all about Bernard
Shaw who said that meat was pois-
on, stuck to a vegetarian diet and
took liver injections on the sly. In
my time I've heard a lot of theor
ies—all contradicting each other—
about thd right wary to eat.
But Che New York doctor had a
new one. One meal a day, he said,
was the true answer. Eat anything
you like and asmuch of it as you
like, but only once a day, prefer-
ably in the evening when your work
is done. That way, he said, you
don't overwork your stomach and
you'll live practically forever if
your stomach is in good shape.
When I asked him what lie did the
rest of the day, he said he drank
black coffee and smoked cigars.
Well, there you are. Every tithe
you take the train you learn some-
thing new. To date I've heard you
ought to eat a lot of meat, meat is
poison, tobacco is ruinous, tobacco
never did anybody any harm, never
eat a heavy meal but a lot of small
ones, only eat one meal a day, etc.,
etc.
I don't know. A fellow can't fol-
low all the advice, but I sure would
like to live to a hundred and meet
all the characters you find on the
train.
The Grackle and the Sparrow
(R. J. Deachman)
I am personally interested in our
friend, the common sparrow. He's
a jolly good fellow, and I Can prove
it. He has a sense of humor, a
quality of great value in a man, a
woman, or a sparrow.
It was, 9 a.m. Sunday morning.
That's early in the Capital City! It
was hot. I was out on the leen
under a tree read'ng a book. Not
many feet away was a bird — big,
black, smooth, well dressed, proud
of himself. Suddenly he moved ov-
er a few feet, looked intently at a
small spot of gruss—then went at
it savagely and' pulled out a slug
of Some kind. I wasn't close en-
ough to see what it was.
At that, moment a sparrow dart-
ed out, picked up the slug under
the beak of the bird which must
have been eight times the size of
the sparrow. The grackle—that's
the name of the bird—looked sur-
prised, but made no attempt to re-
gain his property, It moved across
the lawn, the sparrow followed. -
Discouraged by the presence of tne
sparrow the grackle took flight. the
sparrow went with him on his jour-
ney.
About 7 p.m. of the same day I
was again on the lawn. Suddenly I
caw my sparrow. He had just re-
turned to his own stamping ground.
With him was the grackle. Now I
am convinced that the sparrow anti
his mate followed the grackle all
day—the grackle provided the food,
the sparrows consumed it. The
mate of the sparrow got her share.
Partners in love share the fruit of
their adventures.
I have a drinking dish for the
sparrows which play around on
the fiat roof at the reae-of my of-
fice. In fact I have two drinking
dishes, one Is an ink bottle—some
sparrows like it. It is amusing to
see them drink from it; they al-
most stand on their heads to reach
the water. The other is a flat dish
that holds about 2% inches of wa-
ter. When I filled it three spar-
rows took a drink. Then along
came another, cool and insouciant
as an Englishman taking his morn
ing bath, be hopped eight into it,
roiled over, then hopped out, pick-
ed out the sunniest spot on the
roof. shook himself and proceeded
to dry out. Meanwhile chirping
away in a tone which_ suggested
that life's pretty gay when you
know what to do with it.
I live in an apartment building.
It faces east. Like most buildings
of its kind there's a recessed walk
running 'from the street to the en-
trance door. Along the wall on
the left hand side someone, years
ago, planted a Boston Ivy. It grows
best where, there is partial sihade
It has eigeeaves, and forms a heavy
mat which obscures the wall. There
three families .of sparrows bu•It
their nests. Not one of them was
visible. The play wan put on be-
hind the curtain.. When the new
families grew up, *e could see the
leaves shake as they hopped from
place to plade. In time they be-
gan to fly from one wall to the
Other. When they got tired they
set on the window ledges They
were a happy group.
Then early one morning I heard
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Crop Report For Huron
All outside work has been
brought to a standstill with the re-
cent snowfall which amounted to
some six to eight inches, Turnip
growers are keeping a high per-
centage of their turnips for feed-
ing purposes as. they are not satis-
fied, with the prices being offered
for this. crop, and there is still a
fair acreage of the crop to be har-
vested.
* * *
It Pays To Cull Poultry
Every poultry .producer should
make culling a constant practice if
he expects to get maximum returne
from his flock, according to J. F.
Fraser, Poultry Division, Keptville
Agricultural School.
The habit of culling helps the
owner in several ways. It helps
to prevent the spread of disease in
the flock, gives some return from
birds that otherwise become a to-
tal lose and decreases the feed bill
by eliminating the "boarders."
He states that birds. which are
lower in vitality than the majority
of the flock, usually become victims
of eeultry disease through lack of
vigor, Inferior specimens, 11 they
live. often serve as carriers and
spreaders of disease. It is reason-
able to suppose that a flock always
made up of normal and vigorceis
birch; has a fair chance of remain-
ing healthy.
Eseh year hirea that are ender -
sized or weak become a total loss
to the Operate.. They gradually de,
teriorate until they die or muse be
destroyed. However, if culled out
while in good flesh and free from
disease, many of these could be
marketed. This is a stop -lose pro-
position followed by all good pro-
ducers.
He feels that most poultrymen
find their feed billslarge enough
without feeding "boarders." Failure
to remove the poor producers
means so much feed and labor ex-
pended for nothing.
Mr. Fraser .points out that cull-
ing is or should be a continuous
process starting with the chicks
and carried on throughout the year,
The younger the culls are when re-
moved, the greater the saving. He
advises that particular care should
be exercised when the pullets are
placed in the laying house. Each
tint should be examined, and ev-
ery bird rejected that Is thin,
small or in any way inferior to
the rest of the flock.
Once the birds are in the laying
house culling should be carried on
throughout the laying year. Each
bird in the flock should be checked
each week or two. This, can be
done easily when the birds, are on
the roost. Disposing of the non -
layers helps to Maintain the egg
production percentage. This is
particularly true during the late
summer as the birds tend to go
into a resting or moulting period,
the poor layers moult first.
In conclusion, Mr. Fraser states:
"Culling poultry pays Well—de it
often."
muiaurs OLIO
FIGSBY WON'T WEAR RUBBERS
EVEN WHEN THERE'S
RAIN AND SLEET,
50 HIS COUGHS AND COLDS
AND SNIFFLES
ARE THE SEQUEL
TO WET FEET.
Dept of National Health and Welfare
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Years Agone
Interesting Items Picked From
The Huron Expositor of Twen-
ty-five and Fifty Years Ago
From The Huron Expositor
November 26, 1926
Mr. Michael J. Benninger, Dublin,
was a lucky rrize winner at the
Royal Winter Fair, Toronto, which
was held last week, securing a
prize for silver medium black fox-
es.
The annual meeting of the Sea•
forth Curling Club was held in the
council chamber with an enthusi-
astic attendance of curlers present.
This was the ffteleth anniversary
of the club and it is the intention
to hold, a jubilee bonspiel to mark
the event. The following officers
were elected; President, George
Bethune; vice-president, Robert
Boyd; secretary -treasurer, R. J.
Winter; executive: W. J. Duncan,
Chas. Stewart, C. P. Sills, R. IL
Sproat; official referee, G. A, Sills.
On Monday evening the bowlers
held, a smoker -euchre in the GW
V.A. club rooms when overm80 of
the best card players in the vicin-
ity sat down to three hours, of real
snappy cards. The victors of the
games were: First prize, Dan Shan-
ahan and William Reid; 2nd, Dr.
J. Grieve and T. G. Scott; lone
hand prize, Robert Boyd.
Mr. William Kruse, Egmondville,
received a fine deer this week,
which was shot by his son, Harry,
in Parry Sound District.
D. L. Reid and M. R. Rennie
were in Brussels on Monday even-
ing taking part in the anniversary
program at the United Church.
'On Wednesday evening in the
council chamber, the lawn bowlers
held their annual meeting when
about thirty members were pres-
ent. The officers are as follows:
President, R. H. Sproat; vice-presi-
dent, Harry Stewart; secretary, R.
.1. Sproat; treasurer, W. J. Duncan;
executive committee: J. J, Cluff,
Robert Boyd, J. M. elcMillem, Robe
Devereaux, Joint Beattie: chaplain,
Rev. T. H. Brown; auditor, It. M.
Jones; assistant toureament secre•
tary, Chas. Stewart; referees, W.
Ament, Thos. Johnstone. A pleas-
ing feature of the evening was the
allowing of local moving pictures
of "the local bowlers in action.
Mr. Charles' Finkbeiner has pur-
chased, the residence of Mr. John
Gemmell in Egmondville and will
move his family there before
Christmas.
•
From The Huron Expositor
November 15, 1901
Mrs Secord, of Varna, has sold
her property in that village which
faces Main St., to Mr. Thos. Mc -
Ash, on which he will build a resi-
dence.
Mr. Robert Hanna, of Tucker -
smith, sold to a neighbor recently
a. number of bags of oats for seed,
which averaged three bushels per
bag. He threshed over 600 bushels
from a field of 12 acres.
• Mr. Arnold Case ,has sold his
farm on the Huron Road, a mile
east of town, to Mr, John Keefe,
Dublin, for $5,000.
On Tuesday evening of last week
Dr. Marion Oliver, formerly of
Kippen, who is at present home from
India on furlough, gave an. inter-
esting address in St, Andrew's
Church.r
T.
Eyre, of near Chiselhurst,
has sold his 50 -acre farm to W. J.
Miller, carriagemaker of Hensall,
who thas in turn disposed of it. to
Henry Jacobi, harnessmaker, who
intends engaging in farming.
On Monday afternoon Albert
Reichert, Henry Bullard, Mr Mero
and Edward 'Peart left Hensell for
the Sault, where they intenden-
gaging in work.
On Monday evening as Mr. Wm.
Larnmie's horse was being driven
over the crossing near the Presi-
byterian Church, Hensall, it step-
ped on a live electric 'wire, and the
shock knocked the animal down.
Mr. Chesney, veterinary surgeon,
drove to the electric light station
and had the power turned off.
Mr. B. B. Gunn is doing a big
business these days in Seaforth,
buying and selling chicken,
The following were ticketed to
distant points. by Wm. Somerville:
Edward Papple to Harrisburg; Mise.
Minnie McDonald, Walton, to To-
ronto; D. J. Aitcheson to West
Superior, Wisconsin; W. H. Willis
to Montreal; Mrs. W. Devereaux to
Chicago.
Mr. Joseph Sproat returned home
from New Ontario this week, where
he has been most of the surntner.
He suYis that lumbering and min-
ing are booming, and districts
which a few years ago were et bar-
ren wilderness, are now hives of
indUetrY, where thoUsende of Work-
men of variou• kin& are moored.
NOVEMBER 16, 1951
Seen in the County Papers
Banker Goes To St. Marys
Mr. William O'Brien, Jr., of Zur-
ich, who has been on, the Bank of
Montreal staff in Zurich for a few
yews, has received notice from
heetiquarters of his transfer to the
St. Marys branch of the same bank.
We will indeed Luise Bill, as we
knew him to be very pleasant and
efficient at his work, and on the
field of sports he wileefilso be miss.
ed very much, both in hockey and
baseball. We wish Bill continued
saceess wherever he goes.—Zurich
Iltrald.
, Receives Banff Call
Rev. Donald Sinclair, who for
several years has been the minis-
ter at Caven Presbyterian Chu -on,
and who at present is moderator of
the Huron -Maitland Presbytery, has
recsivea a call to become the min-
ist, r at St. Paul's Church, Banff.
The call will be considered when
the Presbytery meets the latter
pert of this month. Rev. William
b. Mitchell, of Kincardine, has been
asked by the Calgary Presbytery
to be its representative when the
Presbytery meets.—Exeter Times -
Advocate.
Returns From Western ,Trip
Frank Gibbs has returned to his
Inane in Clinton after a trip to
Western Canada of several weeks'
dutation, He travelled both ways
by the C.N.R.'s crack ‘Genenental
Limited." While away he visited
his niece, Mrs. Edna Gibbs, Moose
Jaw, Sask., and this sister, Mrs, B.
Shortland, Briercrest, Sask, Mr.
Gibbs reported suow on the ground
since the middle of October and the
main lying in swathes on the
ground. If harvested, the crop
would have been the best ever, but
only half had. been harvested when
he left.—Clinton News -Record.
Lodge Holds Fine Banquet
The Huronic Rebekah Lodge
held a sumptuous banquet prior to
their regular meeting Monday eve-
ning, in Wesley -Willis banquet
room. The W.A. of the church cat-
ered. A large number of members
were present from Clinton, Varna
and Brucefield. Mrs, Martha Wil-
son, Noble Grand, thanked the W.
A. for providing such a delicious
meal and Mrs. Fred Hanley, re- Brussels Post.
sponded on behalf of the W.A. At.
the meeting which followed in the
lodge rooms the members decided
to purchase a folding wheel chair
which may be borrowed by the peo-
ple of Clinton and surrounding
community without charge. Five
dollars was voted also to thee
Christmas fund for the I.O.O.F.
home at Barrie.—Clinton News -Re-
cord.
Wins $100 Jackpot
Another successful bingo was
held Thursday, Nov. 1, at Roundel`
Terrace, R.C.A.F. Station, Clinton.
The large attendance of Airforce
personnel and their many friends+
from Clinton and surrounding dis-
trict was an indication of the popu-
larity these bingos have attained_
Many cash prizes were won by the
participants and, Mrs,. W. Burton,
15 Toronto Blvd., Adastral Park,
was the lucky winner of the $100
jackpot,- F/O. Osborne made the
presentation to Mr. Burton. LAC.
Don Farnum, of the Station, vvate
the winner of "Share the Wealth,"
and AC.2 Hewton won the "mys-
tery prize," which was a beautiful
table rad'o. It ie intended to hold
a giant bingo in the very near 1u-
ture.—Clinton Citizens' News,
Choir Treated To Turkey Supper
Tee choir of Melville Presbyter-
ian Church was treated to a delic-
ious turkey supper on Friday night.
in the community hall, Belgrave,
by the members of Knox Church,
Belgeave. This was a tangible ex
pression of their gratitude for the*
services of the choir for special'
services in their church, At thee
close of the supper Rev. William H.
T. Fulton presided for a short per-
iod of speeches., during which Wm.
Seeir, president of the choir, ex-
pressed their appreciation for their'
kind gesture, Mr. L. D. Thompson,
organist and choir leader, secoed-:
ed Mr. Speir's comments. Men-
tioning that it was a pleasure to'
each member to visit the church
and assist in the musical service,
the program was handed, over tcv•
Mrs. Murray McDowell and Miss
H. Bradburn, who conducted com.
naunity singing and, musical games,
concluding with an interesting les-
son in dancing the Virginia Reel. -
HYDRO RURAL FAMILY
MORE THAN DOUBLED
SINCE THE WAR
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HYDRO now serves 313,285 rural customers—
more than double the 156,000 served at the
end of the war—bringing electricity and a better
way of living to an additional 157,285 Ontario,
farm, hamlet and village customers.
At the end of the war there were 21,569 miles of*
rural lines bringing electricity to the rural areas of
Ontario. By September, 1951 the miles of line had
increased to 37,239. During this period the horse-
power demand in the rural areas showed a remark-
able increase. The demand at war's end was
132,551 horsepower. By 1950 it had more than
doubled to a total of 314,681 horsepower.
On the farm, Hydro poWer is a low-cost hired man,
helping to produce more at a reduced cost. In the
home it makes possible the use of modern elec-
trical appliances which lighten work, save time
and make life easier for all. Yes, the coming of
Hydro to the farni provides a better way of life for
thousands of people in the rural areas of
the Province.
Let Us All Remember Hydro Is Ours ..
We Should Use It Wisely
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