The Huron Expositor, 1930-10-31, Page 1Seventy -First Year
Whole Number 3281
THOMAS McMILLAN, M.P.
SPEAKS AT HENSALL
The following is the real ettbstanlee
of the remarks of Mr. Thomas Mc-
Millan, M.P., at Herisal1, Tuesday,
October 21, 1930. .
Mr. President and Fellolw Liberals:
At the outset I desire to thank my
friends in South Huron for the splen-
did work they did and the noble fight
they put up against great oddsduring
the federal campaign, which closed
on the 28th day, of July last, because,
Sir, the times were against us. Un-
favorable world conditions had began
to effect the usually buoyant spirit
of Canadian productive and commer-
cial life, and on top of that every-
thing both fair and foul that it was
possible to do to defeat us in South
Buren was done, and then when they
found, after the elections that all their
work was of no avail, their candidate,
in thanking the electors said, he was
glad that •such a clean election had
been fought.
Now, when the main business of the
day has ,been finished, I know you will
be interested in hearing some first
ban information of our experience
during the recent short session called
primarily for the purpose of ending
unemployment in Canada. You may
well ask: Why do I say for the pur-
pose of ending unemployment? I do
so because, in the plainest possible
language during the campaign, Mr.
Bennett said: "Mr. King promises you
consideration of the problem of un-
emiployment. I promise to end un-
employment. Which plan do you like
best." And so the electors took him
at his word and elected him and his
party to power.
The electors of Canada looked to
Mr. Bennett to end unemployment in
the face of the fact that while the
British .Government, between August,
1929, and August, 1930, expended
some 600,000,000 of dollars to cure
unemployment in Great Britain, at
the end of that time the number of
unemployed in Britain had increased
by 989,879 ,people, and the depression
in Britain was then so great, and the
anxiety so acute, that the British pub-
lic mind, influenced by intensive pro-
paganda, had turned towards the
meeting of the imperial trade confer-
ence with a sort of desperate hope
that it might prove some form of re-
lief.
As I say, the people of Canada look-
ed to Mr. Bennett to carry out his
promise and end unemployment. So
the special session was called; 20,-
000,000 of dollars was voted for the
purpose, but in about as little time
as you could say so, he scrapped the
theory of federal responsibility to,end',
unemployment by federal means, and',
announced a scheme whereby three-
fourths of the burden is saddled upon
the municipalities and the province.
His Minister of Labor, the chief ex-
ecutive officer and spokesman of the
Government on that problem, came
right out boldly, and in a public tele-
gram to the Prime Minister of the
Province of Ontario, declared that no
promise had ever been made to end
unemployment by federal means.
This cleared the air, if not the Gov-
ernment, and the people of Canada
now know how slick they were fooled
by his spurious promise, but they also
know how it is to be done and man-
aged, and that is that the people
themselves through the medium of
their township and town councils must
plan the work and very largely dig
'town into their own pockets to pay
for it.
While the provision of twenty mil-
lions of dollars to end unemployment
and the manner in which it has to be
financed, is bad enough, it is not a
drop in the bucket, compared to what
will be the • certain effect of the pas-
sage of the other two bills which re-
ceived the assent of the House.
The first, the ohange in the Cus-
toms Act, is one of the most diaboli-
cal enactments ever forced through
the parliament of any country. Talk
about free representative government!
Talk about government of the people
by the representatives of the people;
but this legislation has taken , the.
right of taxation entirely out of the
hands of parliament and ilut it in the
power of one man, the Minister of.
National Revenue, to do as he likes,
and whenever he likes. To raise the
valuation of goods for duty purposes
as high as he likes, or place it as low
as he likes, and whenever he likes. If
that is not high protection gone crazy
and autocracy gone to seed, 1 would
like to know what you would call it.
It will destroy the stability of trade
to such a degree, that every prospec-
tive trader will be afraid to launch
out end do business, because he will
xev'er be sure of the valuation upon
which he will have to pay duty. If any
of you people were engaged in the
business of buying and importing
goods, would common sense not tell
you that the valuation of those goods
for duty purposes would be the price
you paid for them. That would be the
valuation upon which any reasonable
man would expect to pay duty. But
now we have a Government in power
which has passed a law nullifying that
common sense view, and puts it in
the power and at the whim and caprice
of one mien to place any arbitrary val-
uation he .may incline without any
reference to the price paid and at any
time he wishes to do . so.
This legislation has driven the peo-
ple of iOanada away back behind the
days of 'Magna Oharta, the day of the
signing of the great charter of Eng•
lish liberty (June 15, 12.15) whioh
Charter, among other things, Stipu-
lated that no •taxes shall be levied, in
the realm, without. the approval of
parliament, and that foreign merch-
ants shall have safe coiidunt to enter
England, and to leave it, to buy and
to sell without the obltruction of evil
$ells. •
What is all this, being dote for?
What is the real purpose of such dia-
bolical legislation? Simply because
the members of this government do
not want to encourage the importa-
tion of goods from other countries,. It
wants to teaeh the business' • filen of
Canada to rely upon government fav-
ors for success rather than upon the
ingenuity of their own resource. It
wishes to protect its manufacturing
and industrial friends and thus enable
them still farther to grind the very
life -blood out of the poorer people, the
real wealth -producers, the farmer, the
laboring classes, and the great body of
our consuming population, without
whose efforts this country would, never
amount to anything, and avho in this
way, will be prevented from getting
what they require at reasonable pric-
es.
''In my opinion, the real object of
this dastardly attempt at high pro-
tection is to still further help to pro-
duce fat on the bones of big business
so that it may be fried out later in
the shape of campaign funds to keep
this government in power. If the
great body of the Canadian people are
foolish enough to sten/defer this kind
of thing, then, Sir, Canada is due for
a repitition of the heart-rending ex-
perience through which this country
came between 1878 and 1896, when
we had in force a high -protective pol-
icy which was to keep Canadians at
home and build up a great and pros-
perous nation. Let us examine that
record in the light of our past history.
Did such a policy keep our Canadian
people of that day in Canada? Did
it enable us to hold our immigrants?
After twelve years' experience, the
census returns of 1891 revealed that
although in the ten-year period, 886,-
000 immigrants came into Canada,
only 40,887 of them remained. Over
and above that, 980,000 of our Canad-
ian born citizens had crossed the bor-
der into the United States, the census
only showing an increase of 11.76 per
cent., the smallest increase in our hiss -
tory. Between 1891 and 1896 `under
the same policy, about 100,000 immi-
grants came into Canada, but mostly
all of them also crossed to the TJnited
States. Indeed we could not keep our
`own people. The American census of
1900 showed over one million native-
born Canadians across the line.
As a consequence, at the first op-
portunity after the facts of the 1901
census became known, the electorate
of Canada consigned the government
and the high protective policy of that
day to that political oblivion from
whence it should never have emerged.
But what of the general develop-
ment of the country? That policy in-
augurated eighteen years of stagna-
tion in Canada with trade dead, debt
increasing, population at a standstill,
immigration reduced to a minimum,
and migration at full flood, the dreary
hopeless period of Canadian history.
During the 18 years in which that
policy strangled :Canadian develop-
ment, our total exports only increas-
ed from $79,154,678 to $116,314,543.
During the single month of July, 1927,
our exports totalled $80,770,925, and
in the month of July, 1928, the total
was $12'7,368,623. The increase of
July, 1928, over July, 1927, was more
than $9,000,000 greater than the en-
tire increase in exports during the
whole eighteen years of the national
policy. The paralysing influence of
those eighteen years of high protec-
tion in Canada should never have been
forgotten, and the protective policy of
that day was scarcely an approach to
the Bennett tariff.
I would like to knew one individual
who does not desire to get his re-
quirements at as reasonable a price
'as possible. In that respect every
citizen is alike. , It is a general char-
acteristic of human nature, and yet
we have a government in power, the
members of which, every one of
them from the Prime Minister down,
are endeavoring to use every device
which legislation will enable them to
use, to cud'dle and protect the manu-
facturing and industrial interests 'of
the country, at the expense and to the
detriment of agriculture and the
great body of our consuming popula-
tion, who, (without these special hand
outs) are already, in the ordinary and
general courise of trade, placed at a
decided disadvantage in the struggle
of life. I ask every citizen to realize
and grasp the full significance of the
fact that, in the general course of
business, those engaged in manufac-
turing, industrial mercantile, medi-
cinal and trading life are largely en-
abled to buys wholesale and sell re-
tail, thereby enabling them to secure
a decided advantage in the struggle
of life, whereas, agriculture and the
laboring masses are, largely compelled
to buy retail and sell wholesale, thus
suffering under the double handicap,
and the exceedingly high protective
policy now adopted will seriously ag-
gravate the trouble.
Do we not know that during the 18
years of Liberal rule, Canada was
more prosperous than ever !before -
more prosperous than any other coun-
try in the world?
This is no Mere guess; it is indis-
putable fact, the proofs are available.
Census figures show that while in
1922, the production of manufactured
goods amounted to $2,482,000,000, in
1929 the total had risen to nearly
$4,000,000,000. The increase in pro-
duction of manufactured goods be-
tween 1922 and 1929 was greater in
value than the entire production in
1914, the year of the outbreak of the
war,
In 1922 there were 474,430 persons
engaged in Canadian m'anufaeturing.
In 1929 the total so employed had
risen to 710,000. Mere was a greater
increase in the total number employ-
ed between 1922 and 1929 than in the
previous 32 years. The total .eon-
rsumption of manufactured goods in
Canada lucteaSed between 1922 and
1928 from $2^2,094,000 to $4,022,-
00000. Z'!rodulh`:tio'n had gene tip"
the oortisu'mptive power of the people
!'1
kl
had expanded, and the exports of
manufactured goods had increased by
$300,000,000 in seven years.
Canada now leads the world' in the
per capita export of m'aaufaetur'ed
aid semi -manufactured goods. In per
capita exports we lead Great Britain,
Germany, France and the United
States. No other nation of 10,000,000
people in any similar period of the
world's history had established a
greater record of progress.
Even in agriculture recent history
shows an amazing change. Produc-
tion increased from a 'value of $1,-
389,000,000 worth in 1922 to over
1,800,000,000 in 1928. The figures
were down for 1929 owing to the fail-
ure of the western grain crop, but the
movement over a period of years re-
veals the upward course of progress.
The increase in agricultural produc-
tion during these -years• was $4-11,-
000,000.
411,000„000. ' Exports during the same
time went up $280,000,000 from $378,-
000,000 in 1922 to $659,000,000 in
1928.
In agricultural products as in manu-
factured goods, the home market
which represented real consumptive
power expanded enormously between
1922 and .1928. Here we have the
best of all evidence of national pro-
gress -the consumptive capacity of
the people.
Surely a record such as this did not
show that Canada was suffering ser-
iously for a' change in fiscal policy.
Mr. Bennett was most profuse in his
words of sympathy for the struggling
masses of the people during the elec-
tion campaign. "Surely," he said at
Vancouver, June 18, 1930, "surely we
cannot close our ears to the cry of
the destitute and hungry -the cry of
the mothers and fathers and little
children, who call to us as Christians.
and Canadians to heal their pain."
Wlhat does he mean by such expres-
sion? He simply means that these
people need the purchasing power to
provide themselves with the means of
subsistence, to obtain food and cloth-
ing and a comfortable home, and yet,
Sir, under the shameful legislation
which he has enacted, his government
has done the very thing which will
tend to destroy the purchasing power
of the vast majority of our people -
the very thing which will tend to
make the rieh richer and the poor
poorer. What does the honorable
gentleman mean. by talking such
balderdash!. I am eminded of the ex-
pression that he might tell the truth
to the people, before he asserts that
they can appreciate nothing in argu-
ment but fallacies and nothing in
language but balderdash.
At Three Rivers, Mr. Bennett said:
"Do you believe in a fair deal, an ev-
en chance for Canadians?" At Oril-
lia he said: "My policy is to give Can-
adians a fair chance, an equal op-
portunity and fair competition, and
theme will 'be no exploitation of con-
sumers," but the only way in which
exploitation of consumers can be pre-
vented is to open the doors of inter-
national trade and after providing for
the revenue requirements of the coun-
try, .71low Canadians to buy in the
cheapest market and sell in the dear-
est, The present tariff enactments of
the Bennett government are simply
placing the Candian people helpless-
ly under the iron heel of special priv-
ilege -as witness the inorease which
was placed on glass, gasoline and
other commodities upon which the
tariff has already been raised.
Mm. Bennett may talk as he likes
about jacking up the tariff on com-
modities and at the same time pre-
vent the exploitation of consumers on
the price they have to pay, but so
long as he raises a high tariff wall
and thus prevents the importation of
foreign goods, he so effectually plac-
es the consumer at the mercy of home
producers that he not only cannot pre-
vent exploitation, but at the same
time will encourage a body of smug-
glers that will take a whole army of
o :ers to cope with them.
t Calgary Mr. Bennett said: "The
ba e. industry of Canada is agricul-
tu Agriculture has been the basis
of this .country's prosperity." At
Ormston he said:. "Agriculture stood
first in Canadian development." At
Woodstock, N.B., he said: "I shall
regard it as my great responsibility,
if elected on July 28, 1930, to see that
the collective weight and power of
the Dominion of Canada is placed •be-
hind agriculture. I would be lacking
in qualifications entitling me to head
a Canadian government if I failed to
do so." These are some of the prom-
ises of the honorable gentleman. This-
is
hinis what he was going to do for agri-
culture. What has he and his gov-
ernment done for agriculture? Agri-
culture is the one industry which en-
gages the energies of the largest num-
ber of our people and those people
from the very nature of their calling
must very largely buy retail and , sell
wholesale, but this government, not-
withstanding that serious handicap,
is using its whole strength and power
to put them in the position that they
will get nothing at reasonable prices,
while their purchasing power is, al-
most entirely destroyed. '
On the. other hand, Mr. Bennett
knows that the greatest need of the
Canadian farmer is the need of wider
and better markets in which to sell
his surplus products, and if he knows
anything about the first principles of
international trade political economy
he must know that in the world of
commerce goods bought are paid for
by goods which are sold. He also
knows that now since the American
markets have been closed to Canad-
ian produce, the British market is
largely our only remaining market
and yet the very first thing his Gov-
ernment did was to jack up Canadian
duties on the importation of British
goodss,,showing no desire to encourage
their importation, and then with a
big stick in his hand he went off to
England to blast his way into the
British !market. Former, Canadian
prime ministers who have represented
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Canada at Imperial Conferences in
Old London have always manifested
a high degree of sagacity and wisdom,
especially when dealing with matters
pertaining particularly to British
home government. But, Sir, of the
action of the present; leader of the
government, what. shale' I say? The
autocratic swagger with which the
Canadian prime minister invested him-
self while in the old land, shows un-
mistakably that there are bees in the
honorable gentleman's !bonnet. He
has become possessed of a most ex-
aggerated opinion of his own import-
ance. Is it any wonder that the or-
gan of the British government des-
cribes the Bennett project as "the
very bankruptcy of statesmanship"
and as "demonstrably and intently
false and useless."
As I have said, one of the first
things which this government did was
to take the power of taxation out of
the hands of parliament --a power
which had rested with the representa-
tives of the people, under the terms
of the British constitution, ever since
the days of King John, over 715 years
ago, and put that power into the
hands of one man, his minister cf na-
tional revenue, to place the valuation
upon imported goods for duty purpos-
es as high as be likes, and whenever
he likes, and without any reference
to the cost price whatever, and then
on top of that the tariff rate has been
jacked so high as to exclude goods
from other countries, and the Canad-
ian people are now at the mercy elf
specially favored interests who can
charge them almost anything they
like. The right honorable gentleman
knows that it is his dutytto put the
whole strength and power of his gov-
ernment behind agriculture that it
will be given a fair chance in the
struggle of life with that enjoyed in
manufacturing, industrial and profes-
sional lines, but what has he done?
What is his government now doing?
Or what does it intend to do to imple-
ment the solemn pledge he has giv-
en to agriculture? The fact is that
the present comparative situation of
agriculture is, that if you take two
young men alike in physique and men-
tal calibre, give them each an educa-
tion to fit them for the battle of life
and turn one towards the pursuit of
practical agriculture, and the other to
almost any line of professional or
industrial life, the agriculturist, no
matter how proficient he may be, will
fail to earn one-third the emolument
of his more fortunate neighbor. There
is that result, notwithstanding that in
the first place the successful agri-
culturist is of far greater importance
to the welfare of the country, and in
the second place the field of agri-
cultural science gives far greater
scope for the exercise and full de-
velopment of all the faculties of the
mind, and thus carries with it more
of everything which tends towards
the further betterment of the human
race. On these counts, Mr. Chair-
man, I claim that the action which
the present government has elready
taken to further penalize Canadian
agricultural life' and drive from it Mrs. MacLaren, B. H. McCreath, Mrs
the last vestige of outstanding natur- McCreath and Mrs, McCreath, Sr.
al ability is nothing less than a crime George E. and Mrs. Ferguson, Dr. H
against the body -politic, and tragic in J. and Mrs. Hodgins, W. A. Buchan -
the consequences which it will involve. an and Mrs. Buchanan, John and Mrs
FLOODY BROKE FAROIE
Didn't Wind the Clock -Nor Put Out
the Cat.
Huronites .at Name will recall that.
one Edward Floody, who originated in
Hallett township, published a news-
paper in Blyth, taught school in Eg-
mond1ville and elsewhere in the eoun
ty, and removed to Toronto and kept
the exiles of Huron from getting
lonesome, and helped considerably to
band them •together in what is the
banner old ,boy association of this
Queen City of the Lakes. Huronites
will recall, we say, he was given a
grandfather'is clock for pestering ev-
eryone about tickets-ggetting their
siller, too. To get even with him he
was pinched and sentenced to wind
that clock for the rest of his natural
life. He was parolled.
Never could- underetand why the
old girls were left out of the name,
"Huroin Old Boys' Association of To-
ronto." For the hand that rocks the
cradle has been known to rock the
windeWs when not given• her rights.
The preceding paragraph was put
in this article with malice afore-
thought.
Last Friday gathered together what
is known as the executive of the
Huron Old Boys' Association of To-
ronto. The place of meeting was 58
Close Avenue, Toronto, where Secre-
tary Floody lives when he is at home.
The hour was in the evening -at 8
o'clock.
The executive, the masculine por-
tion of it, got together in a cross -hall
between the living and dining rooms.
Doug. Wilson presided. The men
kept up machine-gun fire on one sub-
ject after another. Occasionally an
old girl would bring them down from
the clouds, sans parachute, with a
well -aimed shot.
Getting down to brass tacks, the
meeting decided to hold the annual
meeting of the association on the
newest. date to Friday, December 5th,
at which Hygeia Hall, Elm Street,
can be secured. They further decid-
ed that, the first of the autumn fes-
tivities be held the same night. The
election of officers and annual meet-
ing to get under way sharp at 8 p.m.
Before they got too far underway,
however, Secretary Floody, who was
sentenced for life to wind up a grand=
father's clock for .selling tickets, got
to the tickets, and loaded five on each
memlber of the executive, including
the old girls. Those tickets are mem-
bership tickets for 1931. They cost
but a dollar each and are worth a
Canadian dollar whioh at this minute
is above par in gold.
The little girl that the Lions' Club
of Seaforth is taking so much inter-
est in the Sick Children's Hospital,
was the subject of much warm-heart-
ed Huronite sympathy. Years have
come and gone since many of exiles
left the old county, but it is the
same old stock -warm hearts that
beat for others' woes. A suggestion
was made, and met with unanimous
approval, that this little girl, or other
little girls or boys or grown-ups
would not be lonesome in their hos-
pital cots if Huronites in Toronto
knew of them. You folks at home
just let us know. The secretary's ad-
dress is 58 Close Ave., Toronto.
Before the meeting got to the eats,
Justice MacLaren put Floody on the
carpet. Justice Duncan was not
present, but the other guy put it up
to Floody. Calling Mrs. Floody to
the box, he found that Floody had
wound' the clock but three times. Jus-
tice MacLaren was severe. But if
his lordship had learned that Floody
also failed to put out the cat, the
parolled would have had to do his but
cutting the lawn, carrying out ashes
and otherwise making himself useful.
d'hose present were: Mrs. Scott,
Mrs. Beck. Miss Patterson, Miss
Knox, Mrs. Thompson, Mrs. Prudhome
Mrs. Young, Miss Ferguson, Doug
and Mrs. Wilson, J. A. MacLaren and
IS. WEEK
Thursday--Friday--Saturday
One Cent Sale
The biggest chance of the
year to save money on purchases.
See Sale Bills
Phone orders will be held
Keating's Pharmacy
THE REXALL DRUG STORE
PHONE 28 - - - SEAFORTH
Moan, $ 'V.:and IYIrs.
and Mrs. P'rittgle, George . .
and Mrs. Newton, E Floody •4
and Miss Floody, and W. Po
SOUTH HURON
PLOWING MATCH,
Nearly 3,000 people abben'ded the
plowing match for South Huron 'bald
Thursday afternoon on the farm of
John Hodgert, adjoining the Thames
Road school, five and a.half miles east
of Exeter. The ground Was plialbl,e
and could be !brought to good tittle
There were 28 entrants in the six
classes and competition was keen.
The sweepstakes competition was
so 'close that the judge's had diffiealty
in selecting the winners. W. C.
Hodge, of Seience Bill; was the -Wile:
ner of the beautiful four -piece silter•
tea service donated by A. 3. Eskard.
This was open to men from Perth,
Middlesex, Lambton and Huron Coun-
ties.
The attendance was the highest On
record and the weather was ideal. The
success of the day was largely owing
to the aggressive work of Secretary
Ernest Pym, President Archie Mor-
gan, Treasurer W. Welsh and the
beard of directors.
About .14 acres of land of Meeks.
Hodgert and 'Stewart were well plow-
ed. The contest attracted competi-
tors from Wyoming, Hensall,
chell, Munro, Science Hill, Cromarty,
Kirkton, Dublin, St. Marys, Centralia,
Exeter and spectators from a 'wide
circle of places. Judge of plowing,
W. A. Diekieson of Rockwood, and
Judges Wright and Smith, of London.
for teams and equipment, gave every
satisfaction.
The awards were as fellows:
Class I -.Director, Charles Mon-
teith. Jointer plow in sod -1, W. C.
Hodge, of Science Hill; 2, R. J. Scott,
of Cromarty; 3, James Hoggarth, of
Cromarty; 4, Percy Passmore, of
Exeter. Sweepstakes far crown,
Hodge. Finish, Hoggarth.
'Class 2 -Director, Alfred Hornkin.
1, Gilbert Duncan, Kirkton; 2,
Ward Hern, of Woodham; 3, Free-
man Horn, of Woodham. Crown,
Ward Hern. Finish, Gilbert Duncan.
Boys, 17 and under -1, Frank Ham-
ilton, of Cromarty; 2, Norman Har-
burn, of Cromarty; 3, Harold Smith,
of Monroe; 4, Gordon Scott, of Crom-
arty. Crown, F. Hamilton. Finish,
G. Scott.
Class 4 -Director, Fletcher. Rid-
ing in sod -1, Joseph Harris, of Dub-
lin; 2, Earl Shapton, of Exeter; 3,
Leonard Switzer, of St. Marys; 4,
Wilfred Shapton, of Exeter. Crown,
and finish, Joseph Harris.
Class 5 -Director, Tom Allan. 1,
Ivan Stewart, of Hensall; 2, Tom
Allan, of Kirkton; 3, Roland Williams
of Exeter. Crown and finish, Ivan
Stewart.
Class 6 - Director, Tom Allan.
Tractors in sod, 10 -inch furrow -1,
Paul Armstrong, St. Marys; 2, Gor-
don McDonald, Centralia; 3, Kenneth
Johns, of Exeter. Crown and finish,
Paul Armstrong.
Percy Passmore won the T. Eaton'
Company prize of a motor rug for
best plowed land by South Huron
plowman.
Best team and equipment, prize
donated by Smallman & Ingram, was
NV on by R. J. Scott.
Best plow team, W. C. Hedge.
Youngest plowman -Gorden Scout,
of Cromarty.
- The ladies of Thames W. M. S.
served luncheon on the grounds to the
plowmen. There were $300 in prizes
and specials. This includes $100
donated by the County of Huron.
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POPPY • "E
Oh valiant Hearts, who to',g
Through dust of conflict ,and
battle flame,
Tranquil you he, your 'knightly virtue.:
proved,
Your memory hallowed in the laud yp;
loved.
This year's Poppy Day Campaign is.
being conducted throughout Canada by
the Canadian -Legion, and aline to
give to everyone an opportunity .to.
wear a poppy on Armistice Sunday,
November 9th, in remembrance of •the
sacrifices made during the Great 3a'.
The poppies are made by disabled
veterans' in the Vetcraft Sh'opa
throughout Canada, and the proceeds
from their sale aids these disabled: .,.
veterans and also, provides au.emerg-
ency relief fund in each locality for
the handicapped ex -service men an& •
their dependents.
On Saturday, November 8th, the
Seaforth Branch of the Canadian Leg-
ion will sell poppies in Seaforth and.
vicinity.
Be sure to get your poppy.
The public is again reminded that.
persons soliciting subscriptions o=
Belling articles, presumably for the
benefit of returned soldiers or their
organizations, should be referred to,
the local executive of the Canadian,
Legion for their endorsation.
All veterans of this locality will.
parade to the North Side UJnited.
Church for divine service at 11 sin_
Sunday, November 9th, and immedi-
ately following the service will par-
ade to the war memorial in Victoria
Park. At 2.30 the county church par-
ade of veterans will assemble in Gode-
rich.
Detailed announcement of these ac-
tivities will be made next week.
BANK ROBBERY AT
BRUSSELS
Armed with revolvers and a sawed-
off shotgun, two men, believed to be
Italians, entered the Bank of Nova
Scotia in Brussels at 3 o'clock wed-
nesday afternoon, and 15 minutes later
were speeding in a coupe car towards
London with $5,840.04 in cash, is aving
the bank manager and two employees
bound and gagged in, the vault.
The provincial police have flung a
net over the entire district in the hope
of catching the gunmen, but the rob-
bers had a half hour start before the
alarm was given. Very few clues
were left behind, and the only definite
fact established is that the men were
driving a dirty coupe which had been
seen in the town previous to the hold-
up"I was sitting in my office talking
to a client, A. A. Lamont, when me
office door was pushed lapen and a
man stepped in and pulled a gur, from
each of his side pockets," said F. A.
Wilmot, bank manager, in reeaunting
last night what had occurred.
CONSERVATIVES HOLD
SOUTH PERTH
Charles E. Richardson, St. Marys
Conservative standard-bearer, kept
the riding of South Perth within the
Conservative fold Wednesday, when.
he defeated his Liberal -Progressive
opponent, George S. Keith, of Blan-
shard, in a close contest. Richard-
son had a majority of 241. The
figures were: Keith, 3,813; Richard-
son, 4,054.
Results by municipalities were:
Keith. Richardson
1,303
559
453
385
138•
264
581
372'
4,054.
St. Marys 674
Mitchell 339
Blanshard 434
Downier 660
South Easthope 310
Hibbert 460
Logan .. . 511
Fullerton ...... 425
Totals 3,813
Majority, 241.
Four by-elections, in all were held
to fill vacancies in the Legislature_
Three of these, South Lanark, South
Perth and Nipissing remain as they
were, each returning a supporter of'
the Ontario Government.
f.. The fourth, South Waterloo, which
has returned a 'Conservative continu-
ously since 1896, was captured by the
Liberals.
Looked Desperate.
He said, "Stick -'em up," and chased
me out of the office ahead of him. On
the way down towards the front he
motioned with his gun to the .two em-
ployees to fall in line. I saw another
man standing just inside • the entrance
to the bank. He bad a sawed-off
shot gun in his hand, and looked as if
he wouldn't have hesitated to use it
if there was any resistance.
"The two of them tied us up and
gagged us, and we were then forced
to enter the vault. They closed the
grill and fire doors, but were unable
to shut the outer door. The thugs
scooped up all the silver and paper
money they could lay their hands on,
and beat it out of the bank."
Both Foreigners.
"They were desppertate customers
and there is no doubt In My mind that
this was not the first ro'bberry they
had perpetrated," said the manage'.
TUC]KER.SMITII
Notes. -Mr. and Mrs. Ross Broad -
foot and little daughter were Sunday
visitors at the home of Mrs. A. G.
Broadfoot.
Mrs. Henderson, Sr., is visiting at
the home of her son, Mr. J. Hender-
son, of Seaforth.
Miss Lillian Richardson was a guest.
at the home of Miss Gretta Broad -
foot one day recently.
DUBLIN
Don't Forget the big one cent sale at Keat-
ing's Pharmacy is on this week.
Notes. -Mr. William Stapleton un-
derwent an operation for appendicitis.
on Saturday in Seaforth Hospital.
Mr. and Mrs. John Evans and child-
ren, oaf Seaforth, Spent Sunday at the -
home of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Evans.
Mr. Louis Krauskopf and sister,.
Carrie, of Detroit, spent the week end
with their parents, Mr. and Mrs. Jas.
Krauskopf.
'Mr. and Mrs. L. Beale, of Stratford,.
spent Monday with Mrs. E. Beale,
The funeral of Mrs. Joseph Mc-
Grath was held on Friday morning at
St. Patrick's 'Church, wll!ere High Mass
was sung by Rev. Father J. McGrath,
of Toronto, cousin of deceased. The
'pallbearersurere 1Vlessrs. John Flana-
gan, William O'Rourke, Louis Looby',
Joseph Lerner, Edward ' O'lieatme
Frank Kenny. • haler n nut was made
in St. •Pata'iclt''s Cemetery. '`heat
from a distance who attended the fun-
Flahertth did
Ana . oonaw'• u
oral were Miss Cat
Chicago; Mies. II
Port Hurons Mran
ala,of Gait M.�',•
of Windsor; Mr. antd tea.
of Detroit; Mr. and
of Seaforth; Mlr and
and Mips. J.. Feeny, of Stri
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