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HURON COUNTY'S 1!,OREMOST WEEKLY
Published by 'Signal-Sl#1.,, Limiter
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'I31I'URSDAY; MAi3.Ct i 22nd, 19u
EDITORIAL NOTES'
Murch i,s still herself. Unpre-
dietable><,
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We were going to tell`rthis week
of some crocuses that .were showing
color in . a Yict'o,�ria strut garden ;
but, know the lioo'n• little things are
covered With inches of snow, The
early b1 em. is liable to get It chill,
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Learned peQPte describe' 'as non-
' sense the stories about new types
of germs and -poisons so powerful,
'that ' with so little as' an ounb'e
' •ani enemy' .c•ould kill millions . of
peaple. That's all very well,;, but
o-wha't about setting loose a horde
of heavy-duty "flu" germs?
It is unfeetunate that appeals
-dor ,two particularly .worthy causes
are being put. before the •public -.at
, the same time --the Red Cross, and
the fund for crippled children., Both
deserve generous support and both
might fare better -if prese>jted' -at
• different' times.
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The Country Mouse at the ,'V. useumAgain
Dear ,Little rice, ifgure was a' clam -gatherer. They
1 wonderif any of 'yotn remember use ' s. anya clams for food„ An=
the last letter>r' wrote about the er one was•`¶nd painting
t. They
Museum. 1t is one of the most a design on a cedar a
interesting places 1 know of. And: 'used the cedar cl e is for stpring
mind you, i, nearly 'always' see things :and also -for looking. They
'children there too. There • seemed 1ere waterproof, so the Indians
t ¶e soma in. .every gallery 1r,'s`'!'�' i ,,,gut food and water in them
e --- ' just e few ,and then cook by dropping in ve'ry
visited. this week not j s hot stones.
children, but whole classes, They
rhe first things r now 14 . the
all had little eatnpstooita to sit -on uext gallery were dozens, paint -
all at 'the- 'Museum ins of
talked about the things they satin, i to Kane—who
PROVINCES WANT MORE Then „they a picked.. up the stools
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of
Indans. 'They• were done
:lery there was ease after ,ease 4f
'beautifully' decorated Indian pet;
ted. "
,One' of the most exciting looking
groups was the case showing Part
'Of the Indian snake. dance. It was
a��pray..er or raiw.,doae .bac the Hopi
Itrdians. ' At. the back,of the grOiip
was a.. little shelter or branches.
I think It •was supposed to covert
'the • entrance. to. the, underworld.
Thd"re was a-•piece.eef 'plank at the
door of the shelter. four men were
standing along' the back. They
.rade -the. 'music for the dancers
by ehstnting •some prayers and shak-
ing rattles.. The noise of the rattles
py a . Canadian—Paul n irritated the Sound of falling rain..
livedhere in Toronto .about 100 i; There were white zig-lag streaks
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years ago. e got tired of city painted on their bodies like light -
life and went away to the wilds Hing. One of the dancers was called
with his paints.. i1 a spent years the Carrier. •IHe ,carried,. a snake
aid years' painting the Indians all around in- his mouth --a rattlesnake,
over 'Canada. There were pictures mind y.On. He went four tines
of Indians doing just about every-. around the,:cirele and stumped on
thing Indians ever did. „ • • the plank' -by thee door each time
'rhe.' next big case had a fitmil"y" to /tell the. _gods• a ceremony was
Of ''Iiupa Indians of California: They going on; The Sustainer came be-.
lived mostly en acorns. (Do you hind the Carrier. '[Ie;+had some
remember how Winnie the Pooh's eagle feathers -in `.his hand to divert
friend, little, Piglet, used to call the" attention, of . th'a snakeii After
them liaycorns 1) One Indian' wo- the' Carrier finished with one snake
man was grinding : the acorns to he would let it down to the ground
make flour. • A man was making a and then the Collector would pick
fire by Adrilling with a stick in an- it up again.. •While tser men were
other dry.stick. They had baskets dancing,' the woinen stood in a
of 'all shapes and sizes, with, very. ' circle scattering meal •o.a them. I
pretty geometrical designs in light think these Indions wore woven
and"•dark Shades on them. • .•If you, clothing. • Some of 'their sashes had•
do not :know what that big word most •beautiful designs in them• .'The
hair ..women wore their in
!Whert •over their -ears to represent
the squash blossoms, but ;the 'mar.
ried women had their hair in braids.
This snake dance used to be .per-
formed every August • in Arizona.
'he IIopi . Indians thought the
snakes-`were-•si'tcred and would not
kill them.
Editor The Signal.Star. •
Dear' pair; Another hand Is being
poised and readied to dip into the
taxpayer's loeket. OttwW'a is now
proposing to Change the B.N.A. Act
to • allow. Provineiai Governments
to 'levy a hidden, indirect taX •on
retail , sales, a tax that can result
only, in lees,; money beinespent on
groceries andmore-on government: stock and barrel," One of -the cases
Ottawa suggests that the turn= had business "cards of early On -
over tax be limited to 3 per.cent., t:srio .gunsmiths and a map show -
'but some Provinces are already ou ing where they had worked. ow-
r'ate. as favoring a higher tag wat Egmondville and another
rate. Even • a 8 -per cent. tax on wale in Goderich. • 'He was "J'ohn
..retail, sales would" mean, that .this 11IeIntoph manufacturer and dealer,
year "Canadian "taxpayers would guns, rifles and pistols,., Church
have an additional,�$270,•000,000 re-'
oppositea the Market." • Au -
moved from • . lieid • meets, Since street,
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woad- ch
ar ed
..the' -ter nl g
storekeeper's • tot i turnover, Can-
adians living away from the larger
cities' in places where transporta-
tion charges. must' lie added to ,any
item's selling price would pay more
tax than. those 'living close to the
manufacturing centres. But ' prices
'would be' increased everywhere in,
'Canada, and sinee the tax would
be hidden the storekeeper ' and
manufacturer would be blamed,
rather -than the tax collector.
Canadians, who already pay their
Federal . Government , more .by ,in=
direct.' taxation than by' direct tax
($1,850, millions by indirect taxes
in., 1949 • as „compared with $1,544
millions, by direct taxes) , will hard-
ly approve of ' another tax collector
getting his hand into their pockets
When they • are not looking. They
will do :well to let their .private
members and the Government 'know
their opinions "before the. •'B,N.A.
Act _a•imehdiuerit and,. ;tile turnover
tax become law.
' IC. .T. HARRIS, Secretary,
The Canadian Unity ',Council.
Toronto, March 13.
THEY MADE THEIR OWN FUN
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'• Young people of today ask,' "What
did the boys, and girls of forty-five
years ago do to amuse themselves?"
There was no swimming ' po'oi, , no
artificial ice. • There were no Scouts
• or •Cobs. „There were no churches
feeling obliged to take care of child-
ren f rbm cradle roll to church mezri-
bership. There ;was no service club
spending $,0,00 a, year, or more on
ybut1ii activities, -besides 'time dons
and went on somewhere 'else. One
class was sitting in: front of some
cases of armor and the attendant
.ells telling them about different
kinds of armor ' and, why ,armor
changed ' so much.. One of the
latest displays i'i: the Armor Gallery
is a' 'Mall' collection of early Can-
adian "firearms. .It wasn't i3aticul-
ally interesting to .ztn,e, because I
do' not like guns, but . X~•,did learn
where we got the expression "leek,
The Ontario Governnnent is mov-
P ig wisely in reorganizing the Mflk
Boardand giving'censumers repre-
r senftationn it. It seemed unjust
that when .producers and •distribu-
tors were `represented on th'e Beard'"
the, people, who, paid 'the „price
• • should have nothing whatever to
'say as to what the ..price should
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The Orillia . Packet an d Times,
an influential weekly, hile not
condemning. the 'deeper' St.. Law-
rence _ sett'way scheme, is disturbed
seeing, that the chief . reason
'tor U.S. • support of the 'project '15
that tile, steel mills. of Pennsylvania:
. and _Ohio want Labrador iron. ' "It
will be nothing short -of a national
Calan 4ty,'" - says the • Ori liar paper,
' ';if' the. only,',or 'chief, b nefiit that
q Canada 'gets from', heir iron', ore
deposits is the mining oh
them for
shipment tit the United States, to
„ be refined and converted into steel
in that country."
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other gunsmith came • to' Canada
froze Irel "'nd aiid °w+oi`ked 3"n •7'o, mets' last ask ,your teacher. May-
a be she will show you how, to make
onto • about 1832. •His' name was geometrical designs like those the
Indians made. There was even a
little,Indian baby in a•basket. cradle
on iss mother's back. The ° Hupu
Indians wore 'clothing of.' 'skins,
although they. didn't need so. much
clothing as. some .of the tribes.
-• The Indians in the third gallery
were the Indians -.of the Plains.
I suppose that would • mean the
Prairie provinces and part of the
States nearby. ' They .wore skin
garments 'with some beautiful
beaded' designs on - them. Their
tepees were made of skin too. Their
food was mostly meat. There Were
t;umo chunks of,. meat drying on
James Ashfield..,. 1llaybe he had
something to do' with the name
of Ashfield township.. You. -know,
when I went to public school, we
had to memorize the names of all
the townships of Huron county.
It wasn't much fun, but , we knew
their -names and *here they were:
Of course, We didn't learn .all the
interesting things you learn about
other countries. rind we didn't have
the beautiful pictures to -look at
that you have now.
• However, 1 . didn't go, to the
Museum to look at -either. armor
or firearms. I 'went to see some-
Fergushad a public debate one
evening _.recently ;ori ,,the question
whether parents should spank or
not spank their offspring. •• There
vas;consideraible'variety of opinion.
• Several speakers • said that the
modern parent : Was' afraid to ad-
° minister pro'per' discipline, and. an-
other disagreed. "T think they just
wear us out," he said. Doubtless
• the person • most interested was the
mischief -making, small boy waiting
at gnome until :his parents -returned
• and he learned what was rn''store
for him. •So •'far as the newspaper
report indicates, no 'conclusion was
' reached.
thing in the basement, and if •.you racks ' One Indian was pounding
have ever been there you Willi; time of the dried .Meat with
stone hammer and mixing fat, is it
to 'make pemmican. A man was
•teaching..a boy to use a bow and'
arrow. One woman was kneeling
on the ground. on a .buffalo skin.
She. was ,scraping the skin and
rubbing it with the brains of ,the
animal to make it soft, •
The next case had 'a group of
Cliff Dwellers, showing how they
lived before the coming ofthe
white' men. One of them was mak-
ing beads .out 'of, turquoise, and:
and worship and—well, just about they werevery pretty .heads .too.
know what' it was. Xes, INDIANS,
Not ' real live Indians. There :,are,,
not many . live • things in.a Museum.•'
But ,life-size figures of Indians do-
ing' the' things Indians used'•to do.
and dressed, as Indians used, to
dress. They are in big glass cases
le the middle of the rooms and
you can walk all- ar'ou'nd them
ans ' 'sc every thing about them.
Besides 'the big cases, there are
n•n ra11 ones ' with all • the things
Indians used• to snake and • wear,
everything Indians 'ever -had. Those Ano•teel, era's ni:aking.• a' clay bowl
were the thingg I went . to :see , and or• ja,r. They did not have potter's.
'wheels.. They jest took strips or
rolls of wet, clay ,and coiled them
in plave until the jar wa's the right
them ---were made by Indians -• of•
' size and shape—the way., yo'u use
.British -,Columbia. Usually they tell plasticine. Then they, smoothed it
the ' history ,of the chief or 'the, all over with more wet clay. After -
tribe by means of - caryin•gs on .the: the jars were properly 'baked,• they
aced to the same cause: Public- Pole. Some :of the, figures ft re real, were decorated very carefully. The
,school teachers'didu't give up their but saiiio of then ;are supernatural. decorations .were usually a prayer
1 want to , tell you. about them,.
First of • all, I saw two big totem
pole`s.• ° Totem poles—hundreds of
The .last big group of Indiana
Were Mohawks. They were in,front
of , a lodge of elm bark. I. They 'Were'
faritxers until the white men.• came.'
One of the Indians in 'the group _ �r
and shell' strung .together.
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was making a sap trough. He had
burned the centre of it .first and was
taking out' the .pieces of charcoal.
Then he would smooth it with a
stone 'adze. There was a brig rack
with .ears 'of corn drying -ton , it.
A woman was pounding corn into
flour in a' hollow stump. Another
was making a basket of split' wood
just as some of the Indians. hi the
reserves ' here in Ontario still do.
One man was making an arrow.
It was wood and then . he would
put a .flint tip on it. The Mohawks
made fire• -by drilling in dry wood
too., They used skins for clothing.
and cradles for the babies. Usually
the people 'wore skirts, shirts, leg-
gings' and inoce�asins of deerskin.
of
Several them had heads of stones
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A. report. from Hong Kong is
that. five Canadian nuns in charge
of at orphanage in. Communist
controlled; territory have been ar-
rested - and eonfMed' in a dirty
prison on charges of 'causifig the
deaths of more than 2;000 •Chinese,
prpliazis who were under their care.
The accusation,' of course, is a
piece of . 'tru ivied=tip • Communist..
' propaganda, and a gross insult '6
the nuns • who' have been ,devoting
• themselves to the care of < Chinese
-Orphans. 'C`he 'incident reveals the
degradation ' to which the people
• af' .Chime --*a.. nation •normaflyr of.. de- • '
cent, izioffensive people—have stink
under their • Communist masters.:'
'The editor of The Chesley Enter-
prise says it does not gild to his,
peace of mind, when lie sits down
to a 'steak or roast beef dinner, ;to
.ww iu.
time after' 4 o'clock to. coach/r�g or iin.iginary. Most of • the. poles for•rain. They must have had very,
There were no cars to' trans' >or t
teams to other towns.' There was
no radio. no television, no, moving
lncture show, no. bowling alley, no
ice big enough to play hockey • on.
A friend supplies the answer "We
made- our own fun nnd,, we had
good tines,'' maybe better times
than they have now. He had our
parties, we anowshoed, we .knew
the country„we depended on our
own resources."
Lawn ower
Service
Sharpen mower 2$1.00.
Sharpen, ,ap,and adjust..
$1.50
Leave at' residence• .of J..
V. Thomas, e64 Elgin Ave.:
This' service formerly ,op-
erated by ' R. G. -Groves.
Phone D. Harnian,.,,,82OW,_
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were carved between 1820 and 1890, e,dry weather' in their part .of Am--
the ,must being done in the years 'eriL•a..' 'Part of°'theirr case looked'
around ,1865. The big totem.. pole l. like Thanksgiving time. There, was
at the Museum is called. the Pole: a lovely, 'large turkey gobbler, but
of the Mountain Chief. It is .,30; it was for some religious purpose,
feet 8' inches' tall. .The bottom ofd not for food. (However, they grew
it is on the. ,floor of .the basement •'corn ; Yen—know fn nuen j' -countries
of the Museum • and the tori is at • the. people still Call ,corn Indian
corn. They ground the,. cornand
other seeds between two stones to
make flour. 10ther things they grew
were , ptunpkins, squash, • peppers,
'and tobacco.' The nree' wore skin
clothes and the women had skirts
of some sort of rope. In that gai-
the roof above the third floor. The
stairs circle around it all the /nay
up. It has. an, eagle at the top of
the pole and • all the other things
are the beings the tribe had seen
in their travels ages ago. The other
pole is"much smaller It is 'only 37
feet high. It is called the Shaking
Pole, because the grizzly bears were
supposed to have shakezi it when
they -climbed -it. Just -..inside--the
first. gallery there ere 'many
strange -looking , ceremonial .masks'
that, the • Indians Used to wear
'They made me, think of a movie" I,
saw :a year `or• two ago. It was
called "The Loon's Necklace." It
was • lite .Indian • story of how the
loon got the band around his -neck.
All the actors wore .real Indian
masks to act out the story.
• '• The 'first big erise had a family
-of Ilafda Indians: ;They* .were, one
of the tribt's that -lived in British
•Columbia. They •were fishermen—
suppose ,because they lived pear,
the lakes or. ocean out there.. They
wore clothing ,,woven :from cedar
bark,,One of the. women in the
group was..shhsyn..•pounding the hard
bark to make it soft and supple
so It could be, woven. Another
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Veterinary 'Medical •AsSeciatien that
uiore' •than forty ,million pounds of
'unfit meat went 'to public markets
• daring ' the past year. fp,, a recent
• a.ddressj ° a Chesley veterinary re
"commended that' meat offered' for
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jSubl'le coxiSumptlon `should --;first 1>e
•• liassedby :tt— , and it
• seems that tlie, reedrmnbeiiillitibir hs
aroused eonsidera'ble • interest , in
grizee &maty:, Here in Gt derieh
meat iiralreetibn thy - a yeterii tiry
iiirgeo i has (been) In effect, for, some
years, at the expense of the tax-
payers of Goderich. When the
{ . ,Unron' County' Iletpth 4toa'rd was
, estafblished,. it 'wits reasonably plat
posed 'that the test of meat in.
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this,
town,
or
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• oher manie;ip>aii~ty in' the county,
ebott1d be assumed by the l3oard.
What body, however,' declined, ,stat -
g that until meat i>mspeetl6ne was
"made general tl retighorrt the Pro-
ylhree-a4tieriCli would 11.4XVO 'to foot
011e oxpetiee by ,.i,{eetf..,T114 God
'lett has done, and proposes to oix-
tititto to do. If Brtiee . 0txty', fake '
. eiz Stand in the matter, the move-
ment nioy« opr@ad througho`ut tile'
i*rovinee, and utilit mat 'be Nato,
Skied front the tables,
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Sonne. of the other things I saw
were two Ojibwa bark canoes from
Northern Onttirio, ,many cases of
flints and, stone tools. and cere-
monFal,_ rattles, masks, coats and
'cher. .."-There were • necklaces of
beads and :teeth and ever ,so many
beautifUully beaded garments. There
were wooden/ dippers', and the cedar
chests I Mentioned before, r all
carved :and painted. There were.
two 'Indian dolls. One Was dressed'
like an Indian, child and orae like, a
wbite'child. There were big strdfg
fishhooks .made of` two pieces of
bone fastened together with" fine
pieces of roots. I could go on and
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on telling you about these interest-
ing Indian things, but those are just
some more of. the things you will
have to see for yourselves when
you .eonee to Toronto. I knew one
littl boy.,,,•who wanted" to ' spend
most of his summer holiday roam-
ing •around the Museum. Some
other time I' shall tell you about
some of the other things he saw
there. ' •
Be good children, . andhave a
happy Easter vacation--andwho
knows? Maybe I shall take some
of you to the Museum 'some day.
Sincerely; - , ,
' THE COUNTRY 'MOUSE,,
Toronto,
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make one cup.
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