The Seaforth News, 1934-02-08, Page 2PAGE TWO
HURON NEWS
Native of ;Hibbert.-A,i,ter a brief
illness of only four days' duration,
Andre* 'Bruce,, passed away ,at his
home on the 1,7th concession of 'Grey.
sou January 27th, in his'78th year.
The late Mr. Bruce was born in Hib-
bert Tntvri trip, the eldest son of the
date Mr, curd Mrs. Andrew Bruce. I -Ie
matted Miss Sarah FultonofFar-
quhar, 45 years ago, and moved to
their home on the 17th concession of
Grey. He leaves to mourn their loss,
his widow, ,l that .Andrew, his only son,
at home; Niro,. los, Bolger of Elrose,
Sask., and Mrs, W'nt. J. 1), Cardiff of
Grey Township, David Bruce of Cro-
mer -1y: 1'lt, utas of 'St. Marys; Wil-
liam, of 11 innipeg; Edward of Miami,
Man.; Dr, Robert of Ottaway, are the
surviving brothers.
Gibbons-Machan.—,A quiet wedding
was solemnized on January 29 at the.
home of the bride's parents, when
Ethel L., only daughter .'i Mr. and
Mrs, H. Meehan, of .r, '\Vawatinsh
was united in marriage to Harry A
Gibbons. of 13lvth. The Rev. C. \\r
Mills, pastor of Old S:, Andrew',
'Church, 'L yth, performed the sere-
tunny..
all the experience you can before
starting, and If its doubt write to ,the
Bee Division, Central Experimental
Farm, Ottawa, for information,
THE WORLD'S GREAT-
EST DAM
Where only a brief 'moment ago —
as time is measured in the life of a
river -the mighty Colorado roared
through I&lack Canyon and raced on
to .its destination, today an army of
sten toils day and night on the dry
river bed, building the world's great-
est dam, For years the 'Hoover Dant
project has been dreamed about, talk-
ed about, conferred about, and legis-
lated about, Now the massive struc-
ture itself is rising between 'the 1000 -
foot rust -red rocky cliffs that mark
Black Canyon,
This is the structure that will final-
ly tame the Colorado, whose terrific
goods in years past have caused ntit-
hons of dollars in damage and de
structioe, By ,means of the dam this
roaring river will be calmed down and
make to back up on itself for 111,5
miles, -forming a lake of that 'length
with an area of 207 square miles. It
will he the largest artificial reservoir
'n the world, containing 30,500,000
tae feet o footer. Att acre foot of
water is the aonuttn of water that will
cover one acre one foot deep.
.But the dam is not built for flood
control purposes alone. Or greater
importance, perhaps, is the fact that
Hoover ,Dant brings to Southern Cali-
fornia and other areas in the South -
nest, assurance of an adequate water
supply for domestic purposes and for
ranch lands for many years to carne.
lln the building of Hoover Dam tate
Colorado will also be 'made to work in
shops, mills and ,factories through its
capacity of 1,8315,000 horsepower at
electrical energy which will be gen-
erated at the power plant below the
dant. That is a lot of power, One
Niagara plant has a capacity of
452,000.
The water and power have been
allocated between the lower basin
states of Arizona, California and 'Nev-
ada.
Thirty-six per cent of the power
goes to the MIetrop'olitan Water Dis-
trict of !Southern California, an .organ-
izationof thirteen cities, including
Los Angeles, that will bring Colorado
River water to Southern California
through the world's largest aqueduct.
The only interest the District has in
'Hoover Dam power is to use it to
pump District water over the moun-
tains.
The City of Los Angeles alts been
allocated 1'3 per cent of the Hoover
Dam power..Aiready it ie building a
transmission lite that will bring the
power from the river to the city, a
line stretching 270 miles over desert
and mountains and costing $32,800,000,
It tyiil handle 275.000 volts over con-
ductors of hollow copper tubing,
about one and one-half inches in dia-
meter. It is expected that power will
he ready for delivery about Septem-
ber, '193'5,
The story of the building of Hoov-
er Dant, the keystone upon which the
plans and hopes of these.millions of
people rest, is an epic that must be
written t t superlatives. It is probably
the largest structure that man has
ever attempted. to build, and so all of
Hs activities nu the job are tuned to
the gigantic size of the task. There
nothing new in the problem of build-
ing large dams across big rivers, hitt
this thing overshadow, them all, not
only for size but for some of the con-
struction problems that had to be
solved.
They started ont with a mighty
riser roaring between cliffs that rose
sheer out of the swiftly moving
stream and towedered a thousand feet
to the sky. The canyon was 290 to
370 feet wide at low water level, near-
ly one thousand feet wide where the
top of the dant will come, and consid-
erably more than that at the top of
the cliffs,
!Giant cableways stretched from riot
to riot of the canyon proved to be the
backbone of the construction facilities.
SENATOR FORKE DEAD.
\ set -ions heart ailment caused • tate
death of Senator RrbertFnrkv, voter
au Canadian statesman,. at Winnipeg
on February 2. For more than a
month, he had !waged a stubbort
battle against death in a Winnipeg
hospital,
!From farm boy to statesman epito-
mize., the career of the ratan wito be
carate the ,,:tteranding leader in !crest-
ern .agrarian movements. As an emi-
grant youth he left his ;tante at Gs,r-
dott, Berwickshire, Sc t:an 1, is 1882
to seek his fortune ht Canada, Short-
ly after be arrived at •Cipestsme, where
he was to hake his home
'Public life scrota called him attd 'tr.
became a prominent figure in the
tie municipality- that adopted him. It
19131 he entered the •house of. Com,
mons,
- He wase given leadership of the
Progressive party in the Federa
House following the resignation o
Hon, T, A, Crerar. Independent sup
port was accorded Liberal policies
and in 1.924 one of the chief results
was maintenance of the Crow's Nes''
Pass rates. -
dn. the general election of 1925
Brandon again sent him .hack to the
Dominion House with an increased
majority. ITe was appointed minister
s:f immigration in 11+926 in the, cabine
:u Premier 'King. In the field of im-
migration he negotiated an agreenten
for extension of a reduced .Atlantic
rate agreement and accomplished im-
portant colonization work.
Mr. Forke resigned his portfolio it
1'930 and was appointed to the senate
In 11892 Ice married Miss Elva C
McGregor. Three daughter were bort
of the union, Ethel May, Marjorie Iso
bel and Mary Gertrude. All were a
the bedside when the end came.
HOW TO
START
KEEPING BEES
t;Experimeutal 1 arms Note)
1)ne t:, an increasing demand and
the good pricers received -for honey
many people are being attracted td
beekeeping as a means oI nuking a
livelihood or for supplementing a re-
duced income from ether sources,
Beekeeping, however, like all other
-rtesof endeavour requires experi-
ct:ce to make it a successful under-
takiiig, and many a beginner has fin -
ails given up in disgust joist for the
want of it. Details of management
cannot be given in an article such as
this but to gain experience in the
manipulation of bees the .beginner is
- -.;ell advised to spend at least one full
seasOn working with an experienced
heekceper before purchasing bees for
himself, Failing this the next best me-
th xl is to obtain one or two colonies
a good text book and to visit nearby
beskeepers as often as possible. A
beginner is often mislead into buying
his first lot of bees_ during the late
THE SEAFORTH NEWS.
'THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 1934
concrete nixing plants, all on it scale
never before attempted,—in fact, an
entire city housing about 5,000 people,
with all appurtenant stores and build-
ings was built by the govern et a cost
of $1,700,000—all had tohe built from
scratch—meaning in this case from a
'barren, mountainous desert cotuitry,
The Six Companies, which has the
contract for building the dam, power
plant and ,at ten den t !corks, spent
about $200/0,000 in which is consid-
ered work preliminary to building the
dam itself. For the clam and power
development, the cost will .be about
$1013,000,000,
The fabled gods themselves, it
seems, could not have wrought with
greater grandeur and in mightier pro-
portions than these armies of engin-
eers and artisans who are building
the dam. Carriers scream out over the
canyon on the cableways swinging
huge buckets of concrete that weigh
tons, pouring eight enbic yards di
concrete into the forums at a crack,
and making the round trip from the
cliff down into the canyon in three
minutes, The carrier on the govern-
ment cableway will lift a standard
freight car loaded with machinery,
swing it out over the canyon and let
it down to the power house nearly a
thousand feet below for installation.
The dam itself, Today yon can
walk through the slot left in the cen-
ter,- downstream lace to upstream face,
passing more than six hundred` feet
of solid concrete, Thatis longer than
a city block. At the base it is 050
feet thick, up and down stream, and
will be 45 feet thick at the top. It will
be 730 feet high from foundation rock,
and 111180 feet along the crest, The
dant, power plant and appurtenant
works, will, require. 4;400,000, cubic
yards of concrete. The contractors
have until April, 1938, to finish the
jdb, but at present are more than a
year ahead of the schedule. Concrete
pouring goes on day and night, work-
ing three shifts of eight hours.
Another interesting phase of fhe
building of the dam is the manufac-
ture and installation of the outlet and
penstock pipes, which will carry the
water to and from the power generat-
ing tnachitnerq. The contract price
for this is $10,908,000, The steel plates
and castings for this work will weigh
'1110,000,000 pounds,
The pipes themselves will range in
size from eight and one-half feet to
thirty feet in diameter, The thirty-
foot pipe will be the largest pipe ever
fabricated. The steel plates from
which it is made will be 2+ of an inch
thick, Such pipe is so large—a section
weighing 1150 tons—that it cannot be
shipped by railroad from the hone
factory. The company has erected its
fabricating plant near the clantsite,
where the construction of the pipe
is being carried on, How they are go-
ing to get a fabricated section down
into the river and into the tunnels and
install it, is another story in itself. A
special truck with sixteen wheels has
been constructed to haul the 'heaviest
summer or in the fall. This is a nils- \Vorkineu and equipment were car -
take and likely to cause a lot of trans red back and forth over the river,
suspension bridges were flung across.
The faces of the cliffs where the dans
w -as to go in were trimmed of all loose
or imperfect rock by terrific blasting
operations, which were carried on by
drillers ansi equipment who dangled
tins; the .faces of the cliffs by ropes
'et down from the top.
Four divcrsdott tunnels, each fifty
feet in diameter, one pair on :the Ari-
zona side anti the other on the Nev-
ada 'side, were blown through the
mountain of ,rode on each side of the
river, the total length of the four be -
about three smiles, .\ coffer dam,'
ottte a structure in itself,ivas built
the river, which was shunted
through the tunnels and around the.
dansi te.
On the Nevada side,' a 'roadbed to
t,l:e standard-guage railroad cars was
'clown out of the solid rock, half way
up the cliff. It is on this track tha'
machinery and concrete for the clam
,re brought in, lifted by the carriers
-in the cableways. andplaced where
wanted in the canyon.
Highways, f rock and gravel plants
bre and possible loss of the colonies.
The best time of the year to start
beekeeping is during the spring, for if
anything is wrong with the 'colonies
it can he rectified during 1111 summer
b11 not dt:r'ng the winter. Often bees
ere purclie .-1 by a beginner as a .bar-
gain when a little experience would
show that they would be expensive as
a gift. Never 'ray bees unless they are
in movable frame hives of not less
than ten franc size, and that they are
absolutely free from disease, Further-
more, he sure 'that each colony is
headed with a good queen, 'Do not buy
colonies from a nearby beekeeper and
move them during the active season,
for .if yott do, the field force of the
colony will return to their old itotne
and your colony will be 'left in a
weak condition. To preveet this 'the
colonies should be moved fn.r at least
two miles, A tiew swarm ..can be now
ed anywhere,,AH the way through the
active season there are problems o•
manipulation upon which almost
eryone is anxious to give the mcnin»e'
some advice, which if accepted more
*often than trot leans to trouble, Get
MR. GOLDINiG',S SPEECH
(From 'Hansard)
.lir, W. H. ;Golding, South Huron:'
Mr. !Speaker,- in rising to continue the'
debate on the address let me at the
outset extend my congratulations to
the mover, .1tfr, Gobeil, and the sec-
onder, Mr, Barber, of the address. I
tltinlc we all alittaeciato the fact that
the task assigned to -these two hon.
members was not an easy 'one. T think
we all agree that they endeavoured to
present the views of the government
in a clear, moderate attd forceful man-
ner and are •deserving ,of .congratula-
tion, While we appreciate the splendid
efforts put forth by these hon. mem-
bers, we feel that we cannot agree
with their views with regard to the
malty debatable points which they
have brought to the attention of the
house,
at is now nearly four years since
this government tools office in 1934;
this .is the fifth session and we have
had a fifth speech from the throne,
Personalty I have been keenly' inter-
ested in reading the speeches delivered
year, after year by His Excellency
since this government took office, I
have noticed particftlarly that upon
each occasion great care is taken to
ettnphasize the efforts being made by
'the government 0 restore 'confidence
and promote prosperity in ours coun-
try. I do not think that I ant in any
way exaggerating when I say that
great things were and still are ex-
pected from this government, and. for
that reason the eyes of the Canadian
people, from. the Atlantic to the Paci-
fic, have been turned with expectancy
and hope from year to year to the
contents of the speech from the
throne, That is particularly true this
year, because, after all, hope deferred
tttaketh the heart sick; and as far as
the hopesthat- have ,been raised by
previous speeches from the throne arc
concerned, I think the Canadian peo-
ple, and indeed the members of the
,government itself, must admit that
they are far from hawing been
realized.
The Prime Minister (Mr, Bennett)
has accused the Liberal party of try -
log, to capitalize the present unrest
and depression, ,I thin]: it was un-
fortunate that he should be the one to
make this charge, because I have a
very distinct recollection of the right
hon, gentleman himself, in 1930, go-
ing through the - country from one end
to the other making various speeches,
and if ever anyone endeavoured to
capitalize unrest it was the 'Prime
Minister himself, 'It did seen! to be
the policy, the planned policy ]11 should
say, of the Conservative party dining
the 11930 federal election to endeavour.
to saddle upon the shoulders of the
Liberal government all the responsib-
ility for the conditions that existed at
that time. It seemed to me that every
Conservative sneaker and every- Con-
servative candidate had 'keen schooled
to the fact that their duty was to at-
tribute all our woes and ills and griev-
ances to the government of that day.
The depression that existed at that
tints
in the expressed opinion of our
hon, friends opposite, was attributable
to one source and one source only and
that was, as tite .Prime Minister him-
self clesori'bed it. that band of mercen-
aries who had betrayed Canada for
their own personal gain. We all re-
member that famous statement, -Nine
years before the great betrayal; it did
not take Judas that long." That was
the language used towards those who
them ocetipied the treasury benches;
that was the chivalry shown towards
those who were hearing the respon-
sibility of government at that time.
Now, the only comment I wish to
make on that is this, that I sincerely
hope th e time will never come when
I shall have to use language such as
that with respect to our hon. friends
opposite or anyone else. I think we
ought to try to give those who do not
agree with us with regard to ottr eco-
nomic situation credit at any rate for
honesty of purpose. We were all anxi-
ous, T all, sure, to hear the speech
ftrotit the throne this year to fund out
!what new promises or what new hopes
would be contained therein. Before
going to previous speeches fr.;;n the
throne, I May say that during the
1930 campaign, While our hon, friends
did endeavour to belittle and ridicule
'+e government at that time, they also
set themselves nip as the ones who
were able to lead Canada and the
Canadians out of all their economic
difficulties, and in order to convince
tate people that they were capable re.
doing so, many promises were made
which have never been • fulfiller
but which t think hate created such
a ,burden for the government that it
now totters beneath its self-intpasec'
load,
ltt is a well known fact that this gov-
ernment took- .office with a tremendous.
burden of responsibility resting upon
it. A large part of that burden, eel..
taps, was not of their own making
but,1l •da think that the greater part
of the burden, was of their own mak*
'ng. owing to the many extrava,gan•'
promises, made; and while we knot+.
'hat these promises were aim's', b-
ar, unite, impossible of heirg car -
led out, nevertheless, the government
secured thousands upon thousands of
sections clown the road to the datn-
siae, and the govervnhtit's - giant
ea'hlct
vat willup
thus ��'
c t h
pickthe
heaviest sections needed on the Net•
;Al side, string. them out over the
canyon, and place them on specialty
constructed 'cars to let titetn into the
tunnels.
ROY BROTHERS DEAD.
Prominent in the business life of
Stratford and widely -known as a be-
loved sportsman throughout the prov-
ince, Roy Brothers passed away in the
'General' Hospital at Stratford Monday
morning, February 5, after a month's
illness. He had undergone a serious
operation a week previously.
In the passing of 1Roy Brothers
Stratford and the whole district lost
one the most popular citizens; one
who had been interested in the wel-
fare of the city and one who had tak-
en a keen interest In all sporting ac-
tivities in which Stratford teams par-
ticipated.
'Roy Brothers marked his 49th
birthday, November 3, of last year.
He was born near Listowel, and, came
to Stratford forty years ago, With
the exception of a few years spent in
the Canadian west where he trained
and .raced harness horses, the late .14r.
'Brothers had been a continuous resi-
dent of the city.
'Before entering the automobile bu-
siness Roy 'Brothers was well known
as a horse buyer and during the war
purchased horses for the army,
'Oat incident in the earlier days of
horse racing he always loved to re-
called was when his father's trotter,
Ora Wilkes, (12:112 1'-4), was entered
in a race at Seaforfh, and after con-
siderable coaxing his father agreed
to let 'his young son drive the mare,
provided that he was tied on the sul-
ky. This, naturally, irked the pride of
the youthful pilot, and after Hutch ar-
g'etnent he gained his point. I'Ie won
the race.
When' he grew to manhood his ser-
vices were kit constant demand , as
judge of light 'horses at the various
country fairs throughout, the province.
and of late years 'much of his time
was taken up with acting, as starte
at some of the largestharness horst
race meets on 'both sides of the in-
ternational border,
WHEN
you land that big order ...and
it's sure to mean more salary
ettra
■ ■ ■ and you 'snow ho
glad
th'..y'll be at home ■ ■
Tell them by Long Distance
... and let them hear the
good, news w.
® For good news or emergency, for friendly
visit or an S.O.S., you can't beat Long Dis-
tance as an easy, quick, personal messen-
ger. You can talk with somebody 100. miles
or so away for as little as 30 cents, See the
list of rates in the front of your directory.
votes by staking them, 'I quite realize.
that the picture that was presented to
the electorate during the 111930 cam-
paign in regard to the situation which
existed then, and Witich, I think to a
large extent no party was responsible
for, was that the Liberal party was to
blame for all these conditions. It is
certainly interesting to review the
statements made by the government
in their previous speeches from the
throne, If we go back to the ?first ses-
sion held under this administration,
which opened in September, ,1930, we
find in the speech from the throne the
following words
The necessity for dealing, with ex-
ceptional economic conditions; with
the resultant unemployment, has .in-
duced me to summon you at an earl-
ier
arier date than would otherwise be nec-
essary. Measures will be submitted for
your consideration, including amend-
ments to the Customs Act and the
Customs Tariff, which it is anticipated
will do much to meet the unusual.,con-
ditions which now prevail.
You will notice that they refer to
the Customs .Act and the Customs
Tarili and at govern-
,
session the
stent did introduce legislation le isl ion which
they believed would restore prosperity
to the country. Indeed, they were
simply carrying out their pre-election
Pledge to raise tariffs against all
countries including Great 'Britain it-
self, and that of course they certainly
did. Another important thing that was
done then was the voting of some
$30,000,004 for unemployment relief,
In all fairness to the government, I
ant perfectly satisfied that they did
believe that by putting into effect
this high tariff policy, and by the ac-
tion taken at that time, they would
restore prosperity to our country—by
using this V0,000,000' for the relief of
the unemployed and 'by increasing em-
ployment through their tariff legisla-
tion, as well as by an effort 'to raise
the prices of natural products. Indeed,
I think they believed that by putting
into effect their high tariff policy they
were going to usher in for Canada a
new and better day. After the close of
that session, and with these new poli-
cies in effect, the people began to loo]:
ct it'.t expectancy for the dawn of that
better duty, 'but to say that they were
disappointed would he putting tate
situation very ntildly.11'n a few months
another session roiled around, acid on
March dt2, 19311', th_'ro appeared these
words in the speech from the throne:
ft will be your privilege to consider
certain measures designed by any min-
isters to ameliorate existing condi-
tions, to provide further means by
which our people may go forward to
achieve a prosperity heretofore un-
attained and to furnish them with ali
]possible safeguards against a recur-
rence of the present :subordination, 1� I
world forces.
31 goes ons -to say:
1ty government :has explored the
origins of our dif'ficold es attd is Ifirm-
ly of the belief that imany of our prob-
lems rio not arise out of world wide
depression, Lbut_ are antecedent to it
and that domestic -factors have also
largely determined the degree of eeo-.
nonmic di -stress from which this coun-
try is sarffertng.
It that ,,'ite.t;ent was true 'then it
is equally true ,now, and we on this]
side have' endeavored repeatedly to
1 point out that domestic factors • -ye
largely determined the degree —
notnie distress from which this coun-
try has suffered during the past two
or three years.
The statement was made pnior to
the election of 11930; it was trade dur-
ing the campaign and it has been
made since, that the 'Liberal govern-
ment in 1930 were not making any ef-
fort to meet fhe change in conditions
which was taking place at that time.
At direct contradiction to that I say
that the then government fully recog-
nized the fact that changing condi-
tions abroad and existing conditions
at home were affecting business in
Canada, and to meet this .situation
they endeavoured to formulate a pol-
icy, one vastly different in spi"and
details front that which was
by our Icon, friends opposite rat the
tho"t session of that same year. The
Dunning budget was designed to cope
with existing conditions and had cer-
tain definite objects in view which
were made clear to the people by the
members
of the government at that
erns t a
time 'By this
an effort was made to
divert trade, an action which WAS
really forced upon the then govern-
ment, :1n effort was also made to
louver the cost to the consumer, to
lessen the cost of the .implements of
productirm to the basic producer and
to lower the cost of rate materials to
the manufacturer for export in order
that he might be better able to com-
pete in the markets of the world, 'An-
other vital point which
considered was the formulatinghidto be o1 a
policy which would at the same time
assist in raising revenue. All these
points were seriously considered by
the then government, and
all that has been said to the
contrary, in my opinion the 'Liberal
government did endeavour to formu-
late a policy which would cape with
existing conditions at biome and a-
broad. We all lends- that policy was
never put intro effect, and we on this
side of 'the house and many people
throughout the country 'feel that .Can-
ada was the loser by the change which
took place.
It wrill 'be noticed that in the 193i1.
speech from the throne very little was
said about world conditions; its fact
our ,hon..friends opposite were at that
time not talking about world coindi-
dktions; it •was the Liberal party
that was responsible for "every-
thing. The 'speech of that year,
after pointing out that the govern-
ment had explored the -origins of our
dtlticulties and were convinced that
many of our problems aid ,not arise,,
from world conditions, went on to say:
It was this belief which impelled my
mitt sters at the emergency session of
parliament ]meld in September last to
remove one of the root weaknesses in
our industrial system by effecting such
then possible changes in the tariF as
would, in their opinion, provide .sub-
stantial security, against harmful
world .com,pebrtion, ,Although in the
n'terval world conditions have c11Ft11
ed but, little for the better, this tariff
Legislation has resollted in a marked
improvement in 'the domestic sit-
uatio
Than,
t was part' of the contents of
he speech fr-rt the throne in 1,193.11,
n the third se sioa which opened on
February 4, 1932, we find the tone of