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'SEAFORT$, Friday, September 2
Water From Lake Huron
While Seaforth , has . a good supply
of water, nevertheless' there is inter-
est 'here in the proposal to supply
water from Lake Huron to Western
Ontario municipalities. Seaforth wa-
ter, comes from wells and the prob-
lem facing many centres is that the
water table is receding . to a point
where many wells no longer are pro-
' ducing requirements..
The possibility of Lake Huron wa-
ter serving inland municipalities has
excited broad interest throughout
the Province. Typical of the press
comment is that contained in the
Windsor Star, which says:
"Prospect that water from Lake
Huron, Georgian Bay and Lake Erie
will be piped' through Southwestern
Ontario by 1962 has amazing poten-
tials. It can prove a tremendous
. asset to both urban and rural corn-
munities.
"Southwestern Ontario is one of
the world's best agricultural areas. It
,an grow almost anything. Unforz
tunately, the hot summer weather 'of-
ten curtails yields for below the nor-
mal. None knows just how much
the normal can be increased with
ample water for irrigation. Enough °
experimentation has been made ° on
certain farms to show, however, ,it
will be a great deal.
"The scheme will have advantages
for many urban communities also.
Some run short of water for ordin,=
ary purposes' during the hot,dry
weather. Industrial development is
impaired, as many modern industries
require a great amount of water and
won't, locate where there isn't an as-
sured supply."
Farming Doesn't Produce
Fat
"There are," observes the Wind-
sor
indsor Star, "few fat farmers: Many
are husky, but seldom do they carry
excess weight. Their work isn't con-
ducive to putting on much fat."
And the Ottawa Journal nods its
agreement and goes on to observe:
"That never had occurred to us be-
fore, but it is true. Bring to mind
the farmers one has. known. Look
over the farmers at By Ward mar-
ket or at an agricultural fair or any
other gathering of the men of the
soil. There are tall farmers ' and
medium farmers and short farmers.
There are lean farmers and stocky
farmers. They come in varied sizes
and weights. But seldom does one
encounter a farmer who. properly
could be described as fat. Their
chins are sharp and hard and they
think of a spare tire not as a human
abdominal appendage, but as an it-
em in transport facilities."
The Journal thinks that a farmer's
leannes is a natural result of
the farmer's way of life. For months
every year he spends hours every day
in the open air. Even in this age of
machines he has an active and vigor-
ous routine:—His diet is wholesome
and generous and in the peace and
quiet of a rural setting he sleeps the
, sleep of the tired and the just. It
is not a regimen that runs to
avoirdupois.
WHAT OTHER PAPERS SAY:
Children As Drivers
(Toronto Telegram)
It is now a violation of the Traf-
'fic Act (Section 52) for anyone under
16 to drive a farm tractor on a high-
"; but the news does not seem to
O got around. A reader reports
g a boy of about nine driving a
ert ss .a , ditch • toa highway,
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the tractor hauling a platform truck
piled with baled hay. Violations of
the law ought, of course, to be sub-
ect of prosecution. It is unlikely,
however, that the' Legislature will
seek to govern what farmers do on
their own land.
Now a Bread -Winner
(Toronto Daily Star)
According to a writer, the "cake -
eater" of the early thirties has been
replaced by the present-day "Bebop -
per." You marches on, and the early
thirties "cake -eater" is probably by
now just a. solid old bread -winner.
Best in Safety
(Port Arthur News -Chronicle)
In addition to safety belts which
are to be made available with motor
cars, it is' planned also to provide col-
lapsible steering wheels, against
which drivers are, sometimes crushed
in accidents. All these things are
good but are merely incidental. The
careful driver is still the best guar-
antee.
Those Car Colors a, .
(Cincinnati Enquirer)
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Don't thing the new automobiles
`aren't causing the police trouble, be-
cause they are.
In the old days, the police radio
could crackle ut a crisp description
such as; "F ur men and three
blondes in a b e Essex."
Now they have o say: "Four men
and three blondes in a baby blue Suf-
feromobbile, the upper part of which
is chartreuse and the Iower part of
which is pea green, with white side
wall tires and sort of a russet tone to
the rims, which may be caused , by
rust, but we forget to tell you that
'the middle part of the car is sunburst
yellow," a - . - ,' --
Vanishing Windmills
(Sherbrooke Record)
One sees very few windmills
through the country these days. And
ona great many- farms the old halad
pump has disappeared except, per-
haps, as a little used auxiliary source
of water.
Many farms -have electrically -op-
erated pumps and, in a great many
cases,, their water system is practic-
ally equal to that of the city or town
home. Not only are the homes thus
served, but the water generally is
,pumped throughout the stables, ev-
en into hen houses in many cases.
In fact, there are those farms
where these Iatter buildjngs have
running water while the house does
not. •
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SEEN IN THE -COUNTY. PAPERS
Zurich Wedding
The Evangelical Church, Zurich,
lfeautifully decorated with gladioli,
was the setting for. the double -ring,.
wedding ceremong uniting insular
riage Betty Anne Gascho, eldest
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Edwin
Geseho, and Douglas George
O'Brien; son of Mrs. tennis
O'Brien, all of Zurich. — Zurich
Herald.
Canadian Bacon
(The Financial Post)
r'or several years the quality of
Canadian hogs ' has been declining,'
according to the current annual re-
port of Canada Packers. Since 1950
the drop has been particularly sharp.
Until then the proportion of "A"
hogs in total Canadian marketings
had been running well over 30 per
cent. Today it is down almost to 25
per- cent.
"A" quality hogs are those which'
produce the lean type bacon for
which both the export and domestic
market have long paid a premium
price. It was this quality which
built up an enviable international re-
putation for, Canadian bacon and it
is the only kind we can ever hope to
sell in competition with Denmark or •
Holland on the British market.
It is true that we are not selling to
:Great Britain just now. Unfortun-
ately we have.priced ourselves out of
the market. All our current bacon
export is going to the United States.
The average American hog is fed
on corn and is bigger and fatter than •
the best type of Canadian. The bacon
from these bigger and fatter Ameri-
can animals fries away to almost
nothing when put in the pan. If we
follow the U.S. pattern we are only
going to get the average U.S. price, .
Iess duty and higher freight. On the
other hand, if we give the American
consumers lean high quality bacon,
we ge . . emium price which will
permit u compete on the Ameri-
can market even with duty and high-
er freight.
It took Canadian farmers 25-50
years to develop and produce in voI-
ume the long- lean type of hogs which
produceotbe highest quality of bacon.
We would be shortsighted if we let
that foundation work crumble.
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New Colborne School
Preliminary land -levelling work
will commence in the near future
as a start on a modern two -room
school for Colborne Township. The
main work of building, however,
will not be done until next spring
and the new school will be ready
for occupancy for the commence-
ment of the school term in Septem-
ber, 1956.—Goderich Signal -Star.
Town Sheriff
Wingham's Frontier Days cele-
bration received an added fillip
this week when Sheriff Johnny
Brent organized a Pony Express
between Wingham and Exeter as
a means of publicizing the celebra-
tion. The stunt is expected to
bring wide publicity to the cele-
bration and will be covered by the
newspapers as well as television
stations in London and Kitchener.
—Wizigham Advance -Times.
Crowd At Frolic
Ideal weather helped bring a
record crowd of over 1,000 to the
second annual frolic of Dashwood
Men's Club on Wednesday, Aug.
17. President William Haugh said
proceeds from the event will be
used for community welfare work.
The club helP§ sponsor hockey and
baseball teams and is planning to
build some type of community cen-
tre in the near future. — Exeter
Times -Advocate.
4-H Clubs Picnic
One hundred and twenty-five
members of the five Clubs in the
Bayfield and Clinton areas met at
the site of Stewart Middleton's
farm pond on Monday night for a
pot -luck supper and joint meeting.
Bob Taylor, of Blyth, was guest
speaker, and during the evening
classes of beef and dairy cattle
and swine were judged by the
club members,—Clinton News -Re-
cord.
Brussel Fair Plans
At the August meeting of ' the -
East Huron Agricultural Society,
final plans were made for the
Brussels Fall Fair; Which will be
held this year on Sept. 29 and 30.
All the features which made the
fair an outstanding success last
year will be continued or extend-
ed. The pure bred cattle and light
and heavy horse shows, which at-
tracted over 600 entries, will again -
highlight the fair. 'Prize money
being increased in the feeder cal.
t1e section and it is doped' that
this will become an important fea-
ture.—Brussels Post.
Sewers For Exeter -.
The Ontario Department of
Health will recommend that Exe-
ter install a sewage system and
treatment plant soon, Dr. 'A. E.
Berry, head of the sanitary en-
gineering division, told the Times -
Advocate Wednesday. The recom-
mendation follows inspection of
contamination in the Ausable Riv-
er which is reported to have pois-
oned a cattle beast in Stephen
Township this summer. — Exeter
Times -Advocate.
Blyth Water Polluted
Mr. John Barr, Provincial De-
partment of Health, Toronto, re-
gional engineer, was in Blyth and
Exeter on Wednesday, Thursday
and Friday of last week, investi-
gating the causes of pollution in
the Blyth Creek. Samples taken
from the Blyth Creek on July 29,
showed the stream to be heavily
polluted,` with causes apparently
resulting from refuse being dump-
ed in the stream from within the
corporation of Blyth, where the
pollution was the heaviest.—Blyth
Standard.
Trade Fair Successful
'Goderich second annual Trade
Fair staged last week by•the Kins-
men Club of Goderich was' finan-
cially successful and indications
are that receipts are well ahead of
last year when the club just "broke
even." Max Cutt, one of the co-
chairmen of the' fair, said that the
co-operation of the other service
clubs with the Kinsmen did a great
deal ,to help make the fair a suc-
cess, The Lions CIub and the
Jaycees looked after a number of
games on the grounds.—Goderich
Signal -Star.
Pirie Misses Mark
Although he wasn't trying fol. a
two-mile record, British runner
Gordon Pirie was only four sec-
onds from setting a new Canadian
mark for that distance here Wed-
ptesday. Pirie was clocked at 9:26
for the two miles while he was
running his three�mile race. The
Canadian record is 9:22 set by
Rich Ferguson, of Toronto, at the
British Empire Games last year.
Officials said the 24 -year-old ath-
lete would have beaten the Cana-
dian time easily if he had been
running that distance and spurted
the last lap. On the three-mile
run, Pirie was more than a min-
ute off the mark he was gunning
for. He finished in 15:26:6. The
record is 13:23:6.—Exeter Times -
Advocate.
THE ' COMMONS
(By Norman Ward, in the, Winnipeg Free Press)
Visitors to the House of Com- '
mons nowadays 'will wait a long
time before they see the Prime ,
Minister, when suffering 'from a '
bad cold, sitting at the front bench
with his throat well wrapped in a
bright red scarf. But Sir John A.
Macdonald, unless most, of the
press gallery men of his day were
liars, thought nothing of it.
It is probable that if any mem-
ber of,,the House today were to
appear sporting an accessory of
clothing, that attracted undue, no-
tice, the Speaker would voice eb-
jections. (Female M.P.'s oddly
enough, could probably get away
with murder in this regard, per-
haps because lady. politicians are
rare enough to be conspicuous any-
way no matter what they wear).
Ottawa can be unbearably hot in
summer, but M.P.'s cannot debate
in their shirt sleeves. I have seen
a member, though faultlessly at-
tired, unable to proceed with a
speech because other M.P.'s were
loudly calling the House's atten-
tion to the fact that he was loung-
ing comfortably against his desk
and did not have both feet on the
floor. When he stood upright, the
Emily Posts of the Commons let
him go on.
The House's view of what is de-
corous and what is not appears to
find expression in an obscure set
of rules that is nowhere written
down and ' which change's slowly'
but considerably over time. You
never see' a hat on a member's
head in the Commons today, for
instance, but hats were seen in
large numbers for years after Con-
fe'ration.
A few members were famous
for their hats, and one of the few
human touches I have come across
concering that cold Grit, Edward
Blake, depends on an old slouch
hat he wore in the House. He us-
ed -the hat to express his interest
in House proceedings, apparently,
and attracted a .good deal of un-
friendly interest because on the
night when his chieftain, Alexan-
der Mackenzie, movingly announc-
ed his resignation from the party
leadership,' Blake sat slumped in.
his chair, his hat over his eyes.'
Members still slump, but not
wearing hats. For some reason,
hats are no longer worn, having
gone the way of Prime Ministers'
mufflers. Our parliamentary cus-
toms have altered in many other
ways too. Late night sittings, one
or two of which in the past led
members to bring pillows and
blankets into the chamber, have
disappeared with the adoption of
an, eleven,o'clock adjournment.
Many inteesting words - which
members used to hurl at each
other across the floor have 'been
put on an Indian list and cannot
be allowed in.
In the last ten minutes of the
session of 1878, Sir Charles Tup-
per uttered amid many interrup-
tions exactly fourteen words, nine
of which. were "coward." The last
recorded sentence of that session
is a statement of Sir John A, Mac-
donald's: , "That fellow Smith is
YEARS' AGONP
Interesting Rem picked
Iron* The Huron.. Expositor of
58, 50. and 75 'Vear9 Ago:
From The Huron Expositor
September 5, 1930
The Winthrop Young People who
presented the play, "Wanted, a
Wife," held a wiener roast at
Dodds' hills. last Wednesday eve-
ning, after which a few hours were
spent in dancing. in Winthrop Hall.
Miss Emily Downey and her cou-
sin, Master Dick Cassidy, have re-,
turned to _Detroit after spending a
few week's vacation at the home
of the former's parents, Mr. and
Mrs. Michael Downey, St. Colum -
ban.
Miss Marie Flannery, St. Colum -
ban organist, entertained t h e
members of the choir to a sumptu-
ous supper and social evening at
her home on Thursday evening of
last week.
A pleasant afternoon was spent
at the home of Mrs. Cecil Oke,
Seaforth, on Saturday, when some
36 ,friends of Miss Ida Medd gath-
ered at a shower in honor of the
bride-to-be. A mock wedding, was
staged and Miss Carrie Oke acted
as bride, Viola Clark as groom,
Miss H'attie Armstrong and Miss
Verna Storey, as the attendants,
and Miss Ruth Gordon as minister.
Dr. Aubrey Crich and Miss Ger-
trude Crich, of Toronto, were
weekend visitors •fat their home in
Seaforth.
Miss Mary Bruxer, of Chicago,
and Mrs. John 'Bruxer, of Dublin,
visited with Seaforth friends this
week.
Mrs. Russell H. Sproat has re-
turned to Seaforth after visiting
friends in London and Detroit.
Mr. Glen Smith and Mr. and
Mrs. P. Hunter, of Toronto, spent
Labor Day at the home" of their
parents, Mr. and Mrs. John Smith.
the biggest liar I ever met." 'As
a measure of how mulch we have
changed since 1878 there is this:
a couple of sessions ago a mem-
ber said that J. G. Gardiner was
a ,smart -politician with a capital
P, and he had to retract it in its
entirety, even though it was true.
It wasn't Mr. Gardiner who asked
for the' retraction, but the presid-
ing officer.
There is less dancing and sing-
ing in the ' House than, there used
to- be. The current crop of M.P.'s
can give a deeply stirring per-
formance of God Save the Queen,
but they never attempt to enter-
tain themselves or their friends
with snatches of song. The Com-
mons of Macdonald's day held at
leasttwo musical evenings, in one
of which the House broke up into
rival groups trying to drown each
other out with different selections.
Apart from music, it was for years
customary for the House to express
disapproval of a member or an
issue with a great variety of nois-
es that included braying, crowing,
barking, mewing, and kazoo -play-
ing. ;
Hansircl reveals remarkably lit-
tle of this, for the best stenograph-
er in the world cannot capture all
the sounds that can proceed from
the human throat, but the news-
papers of the period contain count-
less references to what one of
them once called the Bear Garden
on the Hill.
Strangely enough, in the days
when the House was by our stan-
dards extremely indecorous, it oc-
cupied a far Iarger place in the
scheme of things than it does to-
day when it has to coppete with
so many other attractions. It would
never do to 'conclude that the
House is less important today be-
cause it is better behaved.
Yet it is thought-provoking that
we have now reached the place
where a member can drone
through the worst speech in the
world so long as he is properly
attired, while a fiery orator who
began a brilliant speech without
his necktie would probably not be
able to continue.
An actress came off the stage
aft r a successful first night and
was surprised when the manager
handed her an expensive bouquet
and a packet of pansy seeds.
"The flowers are from a gentle,
man in the stalls, and the packet
of seeds from a Scotsman in the
gallery," he explained.
The newly married couple went
to visit the young husband's par-
ents. Soon the young man said:
"Mother, do you have a pie in the
hoose?"
"Why, yes," replied his mother.
"There are seven on the shelf in
the pantry: Go and get yourself
a good helping.
"Oh, no, mother!" replied the
young husband, "I don't want to
-eat one. I just wanted to look at
nut"
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From The Huron Expositor
September I, 1905
Peace between Russia and
Japan, according to the latest de-
spatches, was practically conclud-
ed at the Peace Conference at
Portsmouth,, .
Mr. Walter Baird, medical stu-
dent of McGill University, Mont-
treal, visited his old friends while
at his home in Brucefield last
week.
Rev. and Mrs. McNab have re-
turned to Walton from a month's
camping at Pine River.
Owing to the illness of R. S. Bak-
er at Wyoming, he will be unable
to attend to his pastrol duties in
Walton on the Sabbath next, bat
regular services will be conducted
throughout the circuit by Mr.
Young, of Seaforth.
The program for the public fes-
tival on September 4th from 2 to
5 p.m., and 7 p.m.. is still:in pro-
cess of elaboration in St. Colurnban.
The grounds are capable.of accom-
modating. 2,000 people and seats
will be served for the first thou-
sand people passing through the
turnstiles at Rose Hall. There will
be. 40 musicians, spring chicken
and fireworks, all for 40 cents.
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TO THE EDITOR:
868 Manning Ave.,
Toronto, August 8, 1955.
Editor, The Huron Expositor:
Dear Sir: In memory of my
dear wife, Marion Sproat MacGre-
gor, I would like you to print. all
or some of the following items:
She was born near your town on
the 10th concession of Tucker -
smith, where she went to a coun-
try school and enjoyed all the so-
cial events that go with a young
life in the community.
We were married in 1900, at
the end of the Boer War. After
many ups and downs, by God's
grace we overcame and were able
to enjoy a few years of. prosperity
to round off our fifty-five years to-
gether.
My wife was\ well -liked by her
neighbors here in Toronto. Our
home welcomed all callers. Her
death has cast a gloom over the
immediate vicinity. Cbildree knew
of her candy dish—ever full , for
them.
My son, his family, and I wish to.
thank Bonthron & Son, undertak-
ers at Hensall, for the kind and:
affectionate maw they showed
in our sorrow. Our thanks also.
goes to the relatives land neigh-
bors of our younger days. I was-
pleased
aspleased that my wife was laid to,
rest where both our parents lie'
awaiting the resurrection. I liked)
the minister's reference in his dis-
course to the fact that, though.
long away, she came home to her
final resting place.
Now, Mr. Editor, I thank youu
for space in The Expositor. Your,
subscribers would like to know of
my good wife's passing. Thank:
you very sincerely. -
Yours truly,
JOHN F. W. PATERSON
AUSTRALIAN JOURNEY
WEEKLY EDITOR ESCAPES
DEADLINES "DOWN' UNDER"
About 1:30 o'clock Saturday
morning it was learned that there
was a fire in the large barn be-
longing to Mr. George Turnbull,
on the old Coleman farm near
Seaforth. Before the firemen got
on the ground, the entire building
was a mass of flames, and all the
firemen did was to lay their hose
and rest in readiness ,to extinguish
any burning embers that alighted
on a neighboring building.
On Sunday morning as Rev.
Birks, pastor of the Seaforth Meth-
odist Church, was^about the middle,
of his sermon, he happened to look
out of the window and noticed' that
the summer kitchen attached to
the parsonage was on fire. He
halted in his discourse and quietly
asked two of the brethren to: put
out the fire and then proceeded
with his sermon as if' nothing out
of the usual was happening.
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By JOHN FREEMAN
,.(The impressions of C.W.N.A.
editorial representative, John Free-
man, of The Lakeshore News,
Pointe Claire (Que.), who one day
found himself talking back to the
customers and decided it was time
for a break away from deadlines
and worries about rising costs. He
left all these, plus two future week-
ly newpaper editors, Jimmy and
Peter, 6 and 4 years respectively,
with his wife Helen—a daughter
of the late Walter R. Legge of
Granby, who was a former presi-
dent of the C.W.N.A. `What is
more, his wife promised to get the
paper out every Thursday and ev-
en make money doing it!)
I think that the first words I
said as Canadian Pacific Railway
"Dominion" pulled, out of Windsor
Station, Montreal, one day early in
July were: "What do you know—
I made it!"
Although this trip, which was,
to take me half way 'round the
world to `my birthplace in Mel-
bourne, Australia, had been book-
ed for some months, I had stead-
fastly refused to believe it would
take place until I was actually on
the train.
Trip§ like this don't happen to
weekly editors. They just go on
publishing fifty-two papers .a, year
until they go broke; or some ex -
daily newspaper man buys the
sheet in the mistaken idea that he
will be able to catch up on his fish-
ing; or else, they •dig! '
Aussie by birth but Canadian by
adoption, I suggested to Canadian
Pacific Airlines that a series of
observations on the trip would find
interest among weekly editors and
their readers. The idea was ac-
cepted and I found myself booked
to fly out of Vancouver aboard the
"Empress of Amsterdam" on the
last half of its flight which begins
in Amsterdam and 'finishes half a
world 'away in Sydney, Australia,
From The Huron Expositor
September 3, 1880
A Bayfield correspondent re-
marks, respecting the proposed
Bayfield and Clinton railways, as
follows: "With reference to this
branch line of railway, so much
required by _ this section of the
country, it may not be out of place
to say that the prospect of the
completion, at no distant day,
looks exceedingly favorable at the
present. As far as the popular
feeling of the surrounding town-
ships can be ascertained, the in-
habitants generally are quite fav-
orable of its construction, and by
a united effort on the part of Bay-
field, Clinton and two neighboring
townships, the work of building
the road, with the assistance guar-
anteed by the Grand Trunk, can
easily be accomplished without ex-
posing a tax that will be felt to
any appreciable extent by rate-
payers of the township."
Mr. J. H. Pearen leaves Hensell
for Manitoba on Monday next. He
takes with him a them of horses,
several Durham cows, well-bred
sheep and some very fine pigs.
Mr. Pearen is an industrious, en-
terprising man and is just the
kind to push along.
The -Messrs.. Modeland, a few
days ago, on the farm of William
Robb, 3rd concession, Tuckersmith,
with their steam thresher, put
through over 700 bushels of fall
ivheat in less than 10 hours. In
one hour and 10 minutes they
threshed 100 bushels.
St. James' ' congregation, Sea -
forth, have completed the 'per -
Chase of Mr. Thos. Coventry's resi-
dence for the sum of $2,600.
Tramps and hen -hawks are very
numerous at present and scarcely
a day passes without one of the
former paying a visit to the neigh-
borhood.
thing these days—this truth I dis-
covered just east of Calgary, Alta.,
when I was stopped dead in my'
tracks by a voice uttering the well-
worn phrase, "What are you doing.
here?" The voice belonged to Mr.
Keiller, a Lakeshore News reader
from Pointe Claire who, accom-
panied by his wife, was on a visit.
to their son in Calgary.
I was able to get .some excel-
lent photographs from within the
dome car, although at times I hung
out the top. part of the door
(against regulations) in attempts
to get better pictures.
I later discovered that those tak-
en through the window were - al (
most as good..as the others! As a"
rough measure it is best to addr
one more stop when taking pictures.
through the windows of a train or
through the scenic dome. For in-
stance, if "11" is the opening you_
woulduse outdoors on a sunny'
day, then `opening "8" would be
the right opening from inside the
train.
Indian Carvers
During my stay in Vancouver I:
was taken on a car trip around.
the famed Stanley Park and was
shown totem poles -being carved by
Indian Ellen Neal, I couldn't re-
sist telling my host that the best
known Indian "carvers" of Mon-
treal were members of the Iro-
quois tribe who crossed the St.
Lawrence Rivtr one night around::
1680 and killed about two hundred.
citizens of New France in what.
was known as the Lachine Mas--
sacre.
Two From Souris, Man.
As usual on a trip of this nature,
coincidences occur and the first
two strangers I met-. on the train
both came from the town of Souris,
Manitoba, and were readers of
editor G. A. McMourin's "Souris
Plaindealer". They were Mr. R.
A. Lovett, a farmer, and the for-
mer Ada Sharman, now Mrs.
Wooton, of Ottawa.
Other interesting folk I enjoy-
ed meeting on the train trip were
Mr. and Mrs. W. L. Pearson, of
Vernon, B.C., both avid readers
of Frank Harris' "Verdun News,"
who were returning from an "Old -
Timers' Reunion" at Swift Cur-
rent, Sask.
Curling Topics
Curlers the country over will be
interested in a chat I had with Mr.
W. J. Finch, of Regina, Sask., who
knows the four Campbell brothers,
winners of this y'ear's Bried Tafrk-
ard, emblematic of Dominion -wide
curling superiority.
He gave an idea of what the
Campbells' "secret weapon" could
be when he told a gs up of us how
every year the four famous broth-
ers convert a barn on their 8,000 -
acre farm property into their own.
private curling rink!
On this same subjejct, ,which
must be familiar to most weekly
newspaper readers, I put in a call
while in Vancouver to another curl-
ing great and former Brier win-
ners, "Frenchy" d'Armour of
Trail, B.G. I wanted. to talk over
the subject of "spot curling" of
which `Frenchy" was reported to
be an exponent.
Before going any further I must
explain that what is generally
nown as "spot curling" is the
iethodewhereby the rock thrower
is'hot actually looking at the 'broom
while in the act of delivering the
rock, (what heresy is this?) but
rather aims his rock at a spot on
the ice in direct line with the
broom and close to the "near"
house.
"I've always 'kept my eye on the
broom at all times," said Frenchy
(his Christian name is Theophile).
He denied the imputation that he
was ever a spot curler, "although
it may have litoked like it," con-
tinued the '48 Brier winner. "We
got down awful low .on the ice at
ti,mes."
His advice tor all prospective
Brier champions is• "Keep your
eye on the target object and hit-
ting it becomes automatic!'
So at last I've been able to clear
that point up.
It was a senior Montreal curler
with a top reputation, particularly
in the older Iron game, who had
accused "Frenchy" of being a spot
curler.
leader and Editor Meet
You can't get away with illy -
Off To the Antipodes
Flight 301 left Vancouver air-
port for Sydney, Australia, at 2:00'x.
p.m. Sunday. Flight "301" is Can-
adian Pacific Airlines' new Polar
Route which •connects the new'
world to Amsterdam, the gate--
way
ate-way to Europe, via the shortest..
route and in the quickest time.
From "Down Under" to -Europe-`
the service picks up passengers -
at Sydney, Auckland, Fiji, Hawaii.
and Vancouver.
The planes presently in use are'
the well -proved 53 -ton DC 6's. Be-
ing a newspaperman, I am inter-
ested in figures, as long as there
are not too many of them, and the'
following facts point up the man-
ner in' which it is possible to hurtle
around the globe in a speed and
comfort which would have left.
Phileas Fogg of Jules Verne's.
"Around the World in 80 Days,"'
speechless with admiration.
The "Empress of Amsterdam"'
cost a million and a quarter dol-
lars and cruises above the wea-
ther around 300 miles per hour.
Passenger comfort is assured by
cabin pressurization and air -con-.•
ditioning, and excellent meals and'
refreshments are all included in.,
the fare tariff.
The longest leg of the Pacific'
flight, is some 3,000 miles from
Hawaii to Fiji—but this is well'
within the plane's maximum range
capabilities of 4,500 miles.
Adventure is always in the' air-'
at an airport and Vancouver's Sea:
Island terminal is no exception.
I stepped happily aboard C.P.A.'s.
"Empress of Amsterdam" which
was to take me half way around'
the wprld—from summer to win-
ter—to that. "Down Under" hemi-
sphere where even the stars in
the heavens are different to those
seen in Canada.
You may start a trip such as
this alone, but you seldom finish
that way. Before even stepping
aboard the aircraft I met a trav-
elling companion who, like me,
was going, all the way to Austra-
lia..
His name was Ron Marsh, and.
he was returning from a three -
months' technical research trip on
behalf of Associated, Pulp and
Paper Co., )Melbourne.
Leaving behind the mountainous
terrain of British Columbia, our
plane gained altitude over Vancou-
ver Island and set course for
Hawaii over the -vast Pacific Oc-
ean—a sea so big that it covers
one-third of the earth's surface.
A tidal wave at the equator only
raises the water about a foot at
Hawaii—no wonder, it has a mean
depth of some 2,000 fathoms!
It's at moments like these one
realizes the wonder 'of man's in-
genuity which makes it possible to
travel in pressurized and air-con-
ditioned comfort at any height de-
cided by weather and pilot.
With three airlines operating
competition is keen on the Pacific
run, and C.P.A.'s plan for over-
ght and day stops at the Royal
IiMalian Hotel on the Beach at
Waikiki—all included in the tariff
--is the highspot of the trip.
(To be continued)
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