Loading...
The Huron Expositor, 1920-04-23, Page 16, 1920. Special Offer Designer'e. and Woman's Magazine for 1 Year and a Quarterly Fashion Book only. 95c ses kirts n this store est pleasure by far the lent of high- other store ;0 considera- only way you ourself. `. thown 4-eSS ]C� Exquisite Style and elegance are redorninating characteristics about them. yT.::ues are excellent throughout, You will be deeply inter eeted. See ", il4 there soon. l` 9 FIFTY-FOURTR YEAR WHOLE NUMBER 2732 • SEAFORTH, FRIDAY, APRIL 23, 1920. McLean Bros., Publishers $I50 a Year in Advance A Coat Every Man should have • We have just receiv- ed large new shipments - of these dressy and very useful Coats in grey and brown mix- tures in good qualities. This coat will stand more weather beating than any coat manufac- tured to -day. The prices are mod- erate coming at Buy your Overalls and Work Cloth- es before the big advance in price is established. Our prices now - $2.50, $3.00 to $3.50. All Women's Spring Coats at Bargain Prices Dressy fawn and grey and rose colors, also blue, brown and black in the pure wool cloths. $1.5.00, 520.00 to $40.00 The G Co. SPECI Cash Sale of Wooden - ware Friday & Sat , April 23&24 150 zinc Washboards, Sale regu- ularrice 49c price 65c. p 50 •glass Washboards, regu- ular price 75c. Sale price 59c Step Ladders 8 ft, reg. rice 2.75 sale price 1.89 7ft", `6 i1 3.25 " . " 2.89 6ft,, ``ii 2.75 " 2.59 6' ft., 66 66 2.50 66 662.29 ' - 0 66 66 1.79 5 ft., 66 66 2.0 l,J 4 ft., 66 66 1.65 66 66 1.49 Egg ggg crates, reg. 75c, sale price 69c p Extension Ladders reg.price$10,sale 8 ft., p8.99 30 ft., reg. price 10.75 sale p. 9.79 32 ft., reg. price 11.50 sale p. 10,59 H. EDGE THE BIG HARDWARE, SEAFORTH I Union Government, like all things mortal, is .born to trouble as the sparks fly upward. For instance there. are the bye -elections. - One by one they raise their horrid heads. They will go on raising their horrid heads for some time to come and always with the same results. East Elgin will raise its horrid head some- where in June that being the six months limit for yaeancies fixed by the new law. East Elgin will elect a farmer of course. The) horrid head will bear a U. F. O. countenance, Bait neither it 'nor any otherhorrid head will Union Government look in . the face. It expects to tire all the horrid heads out. T,hetwo latest horrid heads are St. James, -Montreal and Temiskaming =the one an unregenerate Laurier Liberal, the other a Labor -Socialist- -the latter perhaps the more startling. Macdonald of Temiskaming will be the . first. honest -to -God Workingman., -with a capital W -who has ever graced the House of Commons. Par- liament has seen labor leaders before, indeed has one or two of them now, but these were fellows who worked with their mouths, and if any of their muscles stood out like iron bands it was Muscles of the jaws which wagged double shifts and never asked for off - time. ff - time. Macdonald is not that sort. He is the real thing in horny -handed sons of tail and he never had a bossing jot; 'in his life. He has been a day - wage man all his -life end he has done the roughest'kind of work. For many years he was a ,miner, still is in fact, but he has given up underground work and is employed now only in surface operations, building frames and the like. He is a genuine soldier of labor and the hardships have had their effect even on his rugged health. There is little reason to believe that a life of the hardest sort of toil has softened Macdonald's opinions which are, perhaps, more advanced in the direction of communism than anything the, House of Commons has yet heard of. It may be that Ottawa will give him milder lights, that he will shade down, say, to the socialization ,of national resources, which is Gould of Assinboia's point of view, but there is room for doubt. It will take more than • two or three sessions at Ottawa to ease Macdonald's convic- tions. Meanwhile he is a new and somewhat alarming phenomenon -a sort of hawk among the parrots. A great deal of anxious talk centers around the election of an old- time Laurier Liberal, Fernand Renfret in St. James division, Montreal. As one jubilant French Senator said to me "So long as we have the solid Quebec, we don't give a damn what else happens." Evidently he accept- ed the St,. James election as a proof that the. Solid Quebec is a lasting entity. It is no secret that the Con- servatives are looliing forward to the time when Laurier's Memory will have lost its magic and Quebec will go about fifty-fifty as it did in Sir John Macdonald's day, or perhaps sixty - forty. as might be expected from a province which becomes more and more a manufacturing community. The St. James election seems to in- dicate that the consummation so de- voutly wished by the Unionists, and their prospective successors the high - tariff Liberal -Conservative party is 'till some distance off, SOME MORE HORRID HEADS It Will Not Down. ' Another horrid head that refuses to be bashed in is the Returned Sol- dier. The gratuity is not the sorest point -the Government has again re- fused to distribute money that it can't get short of confiscating• our bank accounts -but the fact that the Returned Soldier threatens to become a solid political block. Sir George Foster -perhaps rightly -declines to shake hands' with Private Harry Flynn but the movement Flynn repre- sents grows in political strength, if not in financial prospects. This movement has advanced from an, attempted raid by about ten per cent. of the Canadian Expeditionary Force ee the Dominion Treasury to something much more menacing -a get-together campaign by all the re- turned soldiers to form. & political party. The G. W. V. A. has opened its doors to all the soldiers who care to join and there is every reason to believe that this enlargement of boundaries will soon show result's. At any rate Unio Government views it with increasing lalarm and is dis- posed to belive that it has an external stimulus from some of the big " but disgruntled brains in the old Con- servative party. The soldiers, they apprehend, did not do this thing them- selves.' There is an old , hand. in it that they recognize, a clever organiz- ing head with all the old tricks and a few new ones, whetted by an earnest desire for vengeance. I can- not mention names but I will look straight at . him. One of his most trusted aides is Colonel John Currie, M. P. Enough said, This massing movement which is to bring a united soldiers' vote directly to bear on the issues of the day is good strategy. It is strategy which is 'strangely familiar to the members of Union Government and it does not lessen their alarm that it is now being used against them by the same man who once played it on their aide. The soldiers may not 'get their gratuity -at least not while Union Governent bolds office -but they stand o win something a great deal better, a predominating influence in public life. I don't know just what percentage of the total vote five hundred thousand is, but it is enough to use as a big club on uneasy pol- iticians. The gratuity may be an GRAND BOY SCOtT CONGER TUESDAY EVENING April 27th, 1920 FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH, SEAFORTH 1. Organ 2. Reading . Wha 3. Chorus 4. Flag Drill 5. Reading 6. Solo 7. Duet 8. Presentation of 9. Reading 10. Solo 11. Chorus 12. Reading 13. -Solo 14., Chorus 15. First Aid Drill 16. Song 17. Recitation • PROGRAMME Selected t`' It Means to be Cub Selected Signalling by the Selected _ Selected Selected Badges Selected _Selected Selected Selected Selected Selected by by the Scouts Selected Selected Mr. Craig Master Jack Oughton By the Cubs Scouts Mr, Dalton Reid Mr. and Mrs. Mullen Master Gordon Carnochan Mr. John Beattie By the Cubs Mrs. J. C. 'Greig Mr. George Israel The Girl Guides Master James Stewart Mr. Arthur .Beattie Short talks by local citizens interested in the Boy Scout Move- ment. Proceeds in aid of. repairing basement and Scout Movement. BE A}GOOD SCOUT AND COME OUT ADMISSION CHILDREN OF S. SCHOOL AGE, 10c; ADULTS, 25c. L. T. DELACEY DR. F. H. LARKIN F. G. MULLEN Secretary. Chairman Treasurer. unreasonable demand but it will al- the law -of gravitation, that of supply ways have something to hang an,and demand. The wealth of the argument on so long as waste, extrav-world and the money of the world agance, and pull prevail in the Militia would have to be redistributed in Department. The pay roll is clutter- such manner as to restore the purk- ed up with hangers-on wbo should chasing polder of the countries most have been demobolized • long ago. ; in need of commodities and to make They, are mostly of the officer Blass our own dollar buy one hundred -cents' Some of them have not fifteen reinutes worth of groceries or of clothing. We of real work to do in a day. Soft should have to replace the coal that snaps are still plentifulP--snaps that has been taken from our mines and became soft and should have been , to grow new forests of spruce and discontinued as soon as the war poplar on the mountain sides which - ceased -other soft snaps that have the lumberman's ax has stripped clean been made for pets since the. armistice , to the rock. And not only should we was signed -a multitude of soft have to re-establish the wages and Snaps in fact and no effort made by working conditions of a decade agp the Government to cut them off. No but also the mental attitude of cam - such reluctance was shown in stop- tal and labor. • ping the pay of the rank and file. ; Dismissing, therefore, all thought Private Flynn and, his crowd may of a return to the low price levels well ask: "Where is this discrimina- that ruled in the paper market before tion going to end," and find a cer- the war, it may be not unprofitable tain sympathy among the taxpayers to look the future fair in the face and at large. The war having , ended a to adjust our mental processes to the year and a half ago it would seem changed conditions. Fluctuations up about time to end the cushy jobs at and down will occur in the prices of Ottawa which help to make de- paper as in the prices of all other mobolization the biggest bill we still commodities, but until a general have to face. equilibrium in world affairs is re - If the Government will show the established the long curve will con - same courage in pruning these hang- overs from the war establishments as Mr. Ballantyne . did in lopping off the navy all may yet be forgiven,. But it shows a . curious reluctance to do so. Sooner than "hurt anybody" it would have recourse to a counter - organization of war veterans mostly officers, who would reason with the miners have not brought down the gratuity hunters and teach them the price of coal, and it takes a ton of tinue upward. Labor does not show any disposition to discontinue its efforts to bring down the high cost of living by chasing the costs of 'production up the ever- lasting spiral: The recent attempts to adjust the differences between owners of the coal mines and the error of their ways. This counter organizations is said to be already afoot and it behooves Mr. Flynn and his army to beware of flank attacks. The war spirit, which was so use- ful six years ago, and which was in- voked again in 1917 to win the elec- tion for Union Government, is new much deplored. Only a few enthus- iasts keep it up in the House. The Government would like to forget it. Even Mr. Rowell agrees that the war has ended and that the dead past coal to make a ton of paper. Wood in. the forests is of no avail for pulp unless there be lumberjacks to trans- port it. One of our own principal mills stands in a valley surrounded by hills that are covered with pulp wood and underlay the rich veins of coal. A few years ago this wood and this coal were the raw materials for this mill. Now, the wages paid to conimon labor in the neighboring industrial cities and the ought to bury its dead. There is " allurements of urban life are so great that men can not be secured to cut nothing in- the war now for Union Government except trouble and it is quite willing to consider it over 'if, the soldiers will only consent, This ebbing of the war spirit has a good effect on the Franchise Act, which promises to be not so hard on active resisters of the Military Service Act, as was apprehended, -H. F. G. WHEN WILL PAPER PRICES GO BACK TO NORMAL? What do you mean by normal? The prewar basis? If this is what you have in mind it is reasonably safe to affirm that the prices of paper will never again come to 'a normal level. Never again will the social, economic and political conditions of this country or of the world return to the status they occupied prior to the German invasion. To produce and sell paper at the prices that prevailed up, to 1914; we should first have to restore all theme devasted areas of Europe, to call Mack to life and to work the uncokttnted dead whose removal from the productive occupations has impair- ed the wealth -making power of the nations; to undo the work of political goose. reconstruction, within nations and Then came the war. The markets between nations; to transmute all the of the world turned to the United Iguns, the bombs and' the instruments ; States and Canada for tonnage previ- of destruction into machinery and] ously secured f7ommi. European sources. cars, into locomotives and steamships. And after the war there began the We should ,have to set aside the law present era of 'advertising and a that in economics is as immutable as domestic demand never before experi- this timber, and the mill is now de- pendent for its wood upon forests more than a thousand miles' distant. Month after month during the past year, with the tipple of a mine less than eighteen miles from the mill, this operation has been dependent for its coal upon mines that lie' on the other slope of the mountain range. Manifestly these conditions must be reflected in the price of the product of this mill. Prior to the war the returns on capital invested in the paper indus- try, with some notable exceptions, were not sufficient to attract large investments either into extensions of existing paper mills or into the con- struction of new plants. In the news print industry particularly, the low rate of net earnings actually drove away new capital. The big putelishers, in their zeal to still fur- ther bear down the price of print paper, invoked the aid of Govern- ment agencies and for a time en- joy the carnival of unlimited supply at a merely nominal profit. In so doing they killed their own. enced. The print mills, many- of them sadly run down, were not able to meet these increased demands. With the Government pounding them on one side and the publishers ham- mereing at them on another side, the° news print manufacturers are in a position to demand and to get a rea- sonable profit for their product, nor= do they hold out any promises of increased tonnage or lower prices without conditioning them Upon such protection in the future ae shall be a reasonable guaranty. of a liberal return for further investments. The book paper mills to -day are generally committed for all tonnage they can make in from two to , five months. For the past five years there have been few important additions to tire machine capacity of these mills. During that time the normal increase in domestic needs has doubtless'been somewhere from twenty-five to fifty per cent. It is generally estimated at ten per cent, per annum. Abso- lutely no provision has been made to supply this enormous tonnage. Nor can such provision be made overnight. Paper machines are not carried in stock or in cold storage. They must be made to order, and it is commonly understood that such an order placed to -day will be for delivery in not less Q , than two years and at the machine - maker's price at date of = delivery. There may be some consolation in th%s for the roan who demurs at placing his order for a. ton of book paper for delivery within two or three months at price prevailing then. It is estimated that the heavy castings used in the manufacture of a modern paper machine at to -day's market will cost approximately $50,000 more than the same castings before the war. Under such conditions, there is no, matinee crowd of papermakers lined up before the doors -of the machine shop with their money in their hands. Meanwhile, the Government con- tinues to place a premium upon, ex- travagance and inefficiency, to reward.: those financiers who have saturated their stocks with water and to penalize economy and good management, tough a system of taxation that is bath thriftless and un-American, Not only the dividends taken out of pro- ductive industry, but 'the capital in- vested and the profits left in it, are taken as the basis on which excess profit 'axes are figured. The manu- facturer shifts the actual burden of this taxation to the distributor by adding enough to the price of his product to assure him of a 'rate of net income not less than that which be enjoyed before this tax was laid. The distributor in his turn gives a7- other twist to the screw of prices, passing the total burden of taxation on to the consuming.ublic. The p business man or corporation, realizing that there will be a tax upon every economy, has small incentive to ac- cumulate a sinking fund out of which to finance needed extensions, .to build new mills, or otherwise to make pro- -vision . out of the prosperity of the present to supply the absolute neces- sities of the future --Inland Printer. OLD McKILLOP BOY WRITES`- FROM DULUTH Duluth, .Minn., April 15, 1920. Dear Expositor: -It is over the half century mark since I first commenced to read your columns. I am eti11 reading thein to -day and .must say they are pure and wholesome reading. The Toronto Globe and Huron Ex- positor were two weekly newspapers which came to my childhood and boy- hood home in the days of "Auld Lang Syne;' and situated on the never -to - McKillop Oh how I yearn for those days again. pigeons which' flow nerth over Huron County and other parts of the -fair Dominion in the early spring of long ago. From sunrise to sunset for a few days in countless flocks, they swiftly swept the heavens in their north and northwestern flight, as far as the eye could see. To -day they are considered to be extinct, probably swept off the face of the earth by. some disease and man's greed and rapacious destruction. Ohl how the birds used to warble and sing in the -early April morn, rejoicing at the advent of spring. How beautiful the blossoms and sweet-smelling that be- decked the apple tree, the plum, tame and wild, hawthorne, cherry and other trees. In memory's imagination I reeall� this beautiful nature's scenery. How the lambkins skipped and played, the roosters crowed, and the barn- yard hen cackled proudly over a new laid egg. Yes, oh yes. I hear her yet. Where, oh where are my school- mates now ? Many, many sleep their long sleep in the _geld and silent tomb; others scattered far and wide! others stili living on the dear homestead, .where they were born; others still living, and oh where are they and how have they succeeded in life? I still see the familiar faces of those undaunted pioneers and neigh- bors, men and women, who came to McKillop and other parts of Huron County, when it was a dense wooden forest. Hailing chiefly from the Bri- tish Isles, from dauntless England, from Bonnie Scotland, the land of heather and thistle, from Ireland, the beautiful Emerald - Isle, With brave arid` intrepid hearts, trusting in God,. the Holy Bible, the bulwark of British liberty in their homes. With muscles of iron and grim determination, and nature's rosy bloom upon their cheeks; they went to work. Up went -their log shanties or houses, often the €over chinked with wood and plaster- ed with clay; long hollowed basswood troughs laid for the roof with others reversed on top to keep out the rain anti snow;.iedsteads, seats, doors and floors often.anade by the pioneer's axe end other tools out of near -by trees. Sometimes when the youngster arrive ed upon the scene in eases -a little later, a basswood trough has been substituted for its sleeping and rest- ing couch when both the pioneer parents were. working in the foist made clearings. Often, the veice of a husky boy or girl -would resound through the woods from a basswood trough cradle. As the years swept by these indomitable pioneers converted the virgin forests into fields of waving grain, hay or pasture fields. The oxen, Bill and Bright, or other familiar names, had to step aside for the swifter- moving horse, The wagon usurped the place of the cart; the buggy supplanted the wagon in going to church and often times to village and town and other places and the cutter in the winter season often took the place of the sleigh in quick and light expeditions. The shanties gave place to frame, brick, stone, con- crete and other buildings. The log barns to substantial frame ones, of- ten f-ten with stone foundations for the accommodation of Horses, eattie and other stock, and vegetables; log stables to others of -.substantial form. In the early pioneer days up went the log schoolhouse, so the children could get an education. Well do I remember the first No. 6 log school- house which was' erected en our homestead, also the second one, a frame one, but which later was moved onto the northeast corner of the farm at that time owned by William Snaith. My first teacher was Dr. Scott, now of Seaforth, but he did not have that be -forgotten -by -me 8th concession of prefix to his name at that time. Under until death causes oblivion. him I studied a year and a half. Next h came Richard Adams, wha fraught one With a sorts of pleasurable melon- year followed by John Murdie, better choly interest I recall them as if 1 known as Johnnie Murdie, who taught - was trying to live them o'er again. two years. 1 learned under him with Again in sad imaginary remembrance almost lightnin speed. He was I see those splendid bands of pioneers certainly a strut disciplinarian as who came in the forties and fifties of the 19th century to settle upon the virgin forests of McKillop, Huron County and other parts of the "Land of the Maple Leaf," to hew for them- selves homes in the wooden wilder- ness, where grew the beautiful maple, majestic oak, stately elm, beech, shady hemlock and other trees; their beauti- ful foliage glistening and waving in the breezes of the spring, summer and autumn time, and when wander- ing Indians, bears, wolves and deer roamed unmolested by the pale face, The crow cawed, the owl hooted, the hawk circled on high or rested on the branches of some of these beauti- ful trees. The festive squirrel, the humble chipmunk were every where in evidence. Our noble friend, robin redbreast, uttered his plaintive and friendly notes and all bird life re- joiced. The wolf sneaked around and the fox sauntered hunting for some- thing juicy to eat, and many an in- nocent forest dweller's life was sacri- ficed and blotted oat by these two blood -thirsty marauders. When the spring season was being ushered dur- ing the balmy April days how the frogs from every pond and surface water place joined in one concert of joyous thanksgiving melody at their release from torpor during the winter season when frost and snow held: sway. Day and night for a time their joyous chorus rang over the land, ex opt for two or three slight snowfalls or wintery spells of short duration. When these traispired the pioneer said: "Spring is here for ..the Once again I would like to hear the spring time melody of the descendants of those ancient and famous 8th and 9th concession, McKillop, frogs. It would be as melancholy music to my ears recalling the days of long ago., Where oh where are the descendants of those countless millions of carrier many of my former schoolmates and myself knew at times to our physical discomfort, but he was impartial to all. But the grim reaper, death, cut him down in manhood's early prime. He was followed by John C. d'orri son, who held say over No. 6 for four years. He was a one-armed • peda- gogue, but oh, it was a powerful arm as many of us pupi'l's at that time found out by bitter experience. But he now sleeps with the Sit majority. Next came the late Medd Stoddart, of Eginondville. He was a kind and splendid teacher, and a Christian of the finest huii nan. mold. Not long after resigning as teacher of No. 6 he was called to his heaveo1y home in the mansion of the shift The good old pioneers believed in God, in the Holy Bible and in going to their respective churches, When - no church of their denomination was near or conveyance handy, I have - heard of them walking eight miles to Egmondville' to hear that humble Christian, the late Rev. Wm. Grafi,. preach and after the services were over walking that same distance back. Another time a pioneer and his wife, not realizing it was the Sabbath da , went about their usual duties in to winter time, the husband chopper down trees. They both wondered why they did not hear the echo of any other pioneer's axe.' Towards even- ing they found out it was the Lord's Day. True to their God and religious belief they observed the following Monday sacred as the Sabbath day. Scarcely a pioneer of those days survive. Peaceably and silently they sleep in the cold and silent tomb, the gravestone and monument generally e recording the name of the slit occi,�- n pant, who rests there awaiting tits dawn of "The he 1?,.esurreetion ! Morn." Yours truly, Robert McNaughton.