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The Huron Expositor, 1937-12-03, Page 2rt, •itS 3kt. et, !rat. ''PM0 iUion positor • 4taislaed 1860 gnail McLean, Editor. ed at Seaforth, Ontario, ev- ursday afternoon by McLean 1 Advertising rates on application. MAFORTH, Friday, December 3rd_ Mtznidpal Politics Are Quiet judging by the results of the mun- • icipal nominations already held in the Province, there does not seem to be a great deal of interest manifest- ed in municipal politics this year.,,, And where there is any interest, it seems to be in the cities and towns. The townships have largely run to acclamations, whether of old coun- cils or of new. But the half has not been told yet. The greater number of townships and smaller towns ,and villages will not hold their elections until Janu- ary next. Municipal affairs may have warmed up by that time. It is the unexpected that happens most frequently in municipal politics. • Crime Coming to Rural Districts It is becoming increasingly evi- dent that rural districts are no long- er to remain comparatively free from the attention of the criminal world. The history of the country has al- ways been that there were a great many more doors than -keys. Even during protracted absence, few own- ers ever thought of thoroughlyilock- ing up their residences. No harm ever came to them. The ' country was too small potatoes to interest the criminal mind. Particularly the criminal mind from the cities and larger centres. That day would appear to be near • its close. Hereafter if country peo- ple are 'wise they will have to pay a good deal more attention to the se- • curity of their homes and barns, or suffer the consequences. The coming of the cars and high- ways has brought the country net door to the city and that change is not going to be all in favor of the country -reSidents. The residents of the cities and larger places can trav- el too. • And they are travelling. That would be all right if it was only the ,honest city dweller who travelled our way. Unfortunately, • the country is as available to the -criminal from the city as it is to the honest dweller therein. And still more unfortunately, the criminal mind has, apparently, grasped that situation. He is begin- ning Aii,o see a rich harvest to be gathfred from the country, and gathered with little effort and less risk to himself. The dwellers in cities have police protection fed• their property and their persons. The country dweller has none. It is true that there are local, county and provincial police in the country, and all of them have maintained a degree of law and or- der that is little short of remarkable for their numbers. But their numbers. That is the rub. Most of these, and particularly the provincial police, are doing two men's work now. The country areas are large, and no policeman can be in more than one place at once. More and more the 'mina e - coming to look upon e country as the most profitable fiel or his op- erations. He can strike d be a Imildred miles away before even an alarrn is raised or contact made with police officials. Those things happened in this • county over the week -end, when a train of burglaries was left from • Exeter to Clinton. Such things have occurred, in other parts of the coun- -vitithin recent date. They will liopen again in all probability. • The remedy, of course, lies in a greater police -force and -a more cen- tralized one. But it is a most ex- ' sive remedy, and we, in the co -un- , are bearing at as heavy a burden as we are capable of sup- bfuota tritbliesi s dittle; ntually,, we will '?"1 6iiiittst is no longer the'piaeoo 41 y we hive so long been accuitomed to. • Government Relief for $ingle Men Premier Ikt. F. Hepburn has an- nounced that this winter there will be no governmet4 aid given toi un- employed single men. The state - 'dent was a blunt one, as most of the Premier's are, and it has called forth some criticism from different parts of the Prqvince. It is the Premier's claim that no ngle man need be without employ- ment. The northern country is cry- ing for men. Men for the mills; men for the lumber woods, and men for the mines. There is a dearth of men in almost every part of the northern country. That contention is, apparently, very true. But the contention of the Premier's critics is that there are single men, now on relief, who are physically unfit for that class of 1a- bor. And that contention is also very true. On the whole, however, we believe that Mr. Hepburn is right. He is, at least, ninety or ninety-five per cent. correct. There are some unemploy- ed single men absolutely unfit for many kinds, of manual labor, who, even if they were willing, would not be given jobs. But that is a very small class. So small, in fact, that we do not believe Premier Hepburn was thinking of it when he made his pronouncement. So small that giving relief to it will not constitute a burden to either the Government or .the municipalities. That small class will not be allowed to either suffer or starve. It will be looked after, and it should be. With the other ninety or ninety- five per cent., it is a very different matter. If they prefer to suffer and starve rather than work, why, they should be allowed to suffer and starve without a helping harid being stretched out to them. In fact that is about the only system of treat- ment that they deserve. That will make them work. - The cold weather is bringing that class of the knights of the road around to, us again. We had two of that class in this town last week panhandling their way. Big, husky fellows, full of health and assurance, even inclined to bully a little. Besides, tthey were said to have been drunk. We don't know about that. Drunk is a fearsome`word, as well as a fearsome condition. And sometimes hard to prove. But we have a strong suspicion that one of them, at least, had been meddling with spirits—in liquid form. We don't believe it was either cold or hunger that caused his weaving, his eloquence and at other times his ut- ter inability to find the right words, or to be able to_pronounce them af- ter they had been' found. As we say, it is the winter that is bringing this class into the open again. They were remarkably scarce during the past summer when they could...live at ease off the land and no roof but the sky was needed over their heads at night. They could hide away from work quite easily. And they did hide. There was plenty of employment on the farms in this county for a small army of men during the past six months or more. Rarely has there been a sea - Son in Huron when farm work was more plentiful, and the laborers so few. And ,now it is the northern coun- try that is crying out for laborers, but this class of unemployed, as dur- ing the past season here, are giving that part of the Province a wide birth. Of course the two examples we have --quoted were sent to jail. But that is not enough. The people have to support them in jail the Same as if they handed out money or fed, them in their awn homes. This class of unemployed should be made to suppbrj •themselvei. And now would be a good time of year to , round them up. The country -should be cleared of them. And after they- • are rounded up they should be made work at something of a public or private character, that would not only inake theni self supporting, but would ttay the Government, the mun- icipalities or the private corpora - lions who are supplying the work„ a fair margin 6f profit as welt Aka' rs Ago ne intercet,Ing !temp Picked From Tho Huron Expositor pf Fifty and Twenty-five Years; Ago. iJ sifer of LazyMeadows (By FhtrIT j. 139)/10) -From The Huron Expositor December 6, 1912 On Saturday last the end of the cylinder in the big engine in Western Fot:itchy in Winghara was blown out. The works were stopped for several days and about 100 workmapv were idle. Gearge Clark, of Steiphen, near Crediton, picked two applies from, a tree inhie orchard, one of which weighed 19 ounces and the either 191/2, and each measured 14 inches around. A very suddea aid unexpected death occurred on November 2,3,ra when John Eissery„ one of the oldest an most respected residents of Exe- ter, passed away. He woes born in Hotherleigb,, Devonshire, England, in the year 1827. Zurich is to have a branch of the Jackson, clothing factory. The com- mittee was composed of Charles Fritz, F, Kalbfleisoh a n d John Preeter. Mr. Nelson Masse, of St Joseph, while cutting cabbage for sauerkraut, met with a very painful accident. The shaving knife caught the end of her thumb, taking a piece three facia - es long from his hand. The flesh was stripped from the bone in places. The fire alarm. was sounded •about eight o'clock Friday morning, when t was discovered to be in Mr. Suth- erb...'s house on High Street. Electric lights have been installed! in the curling and skating rink, re- placing the old gas lig,hts. Miss Annie May, of Toronto, has been engaged by the Seaforth Col- legiate Institute Board as successor to Miss Knight. Misses Annie and Belle McKellar, of Cromarty, have gone to Seaforth to take a course in dressmaking. The new steel bridge, known as the Clegg bridge, is now ,00mpleted on the 5th line of Morris Township. , Mr. Frank L. Eberhart, of Staffa, and a ,graduate of the Seaforth Col- legiate Inetitute, headed the honor list in the Toronto Medical Examina- tions: He took honors in the last four years. Mr. Wm. J. Dunean, of the Seaforth Legging Factory, finds it necessary to procure larger premises end he Purposes purchasing the old Grip Hotel property and fitting it up for a factory. " Mr. Hugh McKay, engineer at the furniture factory, Seaforth', had his hand and arm severely burned by a back draft from the furnace. Mr. W. R. Oole left Seaforth on Tuesday for Winnipeg to take charge of the Winnipeg office of The Bell Engine Company. The 'ladies who got up the Bachelors 'Ball last winter, had a surplus of $70 in the treasury. It has been somewhat of a problem what good use to put this surplus to. It was decided to donate $25 to the Sick Childrena, Home in Toronto, and $25 to the County. Children's .Aid As societies. and atilize the remaining $20 in aiding tie leas fortunate in town. From Tim Huron Expositor December 9, 1897 Mr. Henderson, of Whitechurch, suffered a loss on Saturday. A hogs- • head of syrup was being unloaded at his store when the head -burst and the syrup flowed over the road. It Was a sweet loss. • The officers recently installed in Varna Loyal., Orange Lodge for next year are: W.M., William, Rathwell; D.M., James Reid; -chaplain, James Caldwell; secretary, John Torrance; • financial secretary, Lancelot; secre- tary -treasurer, Charles Foster. Early Saturday morning the resi- dence of Mr. George Crossman, Mul- lett, was destroyed by fire. It orig- Snated frcien a furnace in the kitchen portion. • On Tuesday last Mr. Willie/1h Oke, Mullett, met with a very painfuracci- dent while attenting a grain crusher on the farm of George Mann. He got his arm caught between two cogs of the machine while is was in full motion, tearing off the flesh and breaking the bone. Mr. George Miller, of Cromarty, is busily employed fitting up his wood - shop for a store. Mr. A. Case, who formerly aught there, is to occupy it. 1Mr.James Leiper, of Harloek, has purchased a horsepower and grain crusher and is accommodating his t -- neighbors. Mr. W. Dinnen,, of Lumley, is erect- ing a large frame stable on his prem- ises on South St, Miss Anderson, who for several years has taught the second division of the Seaforth public school, has re- signed. • Mr. Datrid Dowling, of Seaforth, fell off a scaffold on Wednesday while 'as- sisting in the erection of a brick stable at the residence of Mr. F. Gut- teridge. Master William Govenlock, eldest so a of Mr. S. Go/mattock, of the Gravel Road, met with an accident On Tues- day evening. He was firing off a gun when thepowder flew back; in his Mee, injuring one eye so leverely that he will lose the, sight of tt. A number of very euperior horses were shipped from Seaforth on Tues- -tat One car was sent off by Messrs. McIVIatin and Dicken and another by a .rolontreal buyer. 4511 Saturday lag as Mr. George Rabid/tit, of McKfliiip; accorapanied by his daughter, 'Mae Gordon, Were returning from alanigheruter, he met with an unfortterate accident His horse frightened at a huge snowball made IV elindren, find making a stid- den bolt, threw theta. both out. Mr. Otividl MaeltaY, of the 12th con oession Of IVICKI1100, has done a large businetia in the well digging line this settee&• 11e has sunk 'WAS Zeiara. Ata, CaatOboll, Paget, tie, • taitgthlin, N",ger', Ciainenen, Theetatt balltleint did other& ' "TALL TALES' We heti a fall of ano, w downslere at. Lau Meadows; jgria GAO of those days when the snow comes drifting down ia a lazyalke way and starts to cover up all the dirt and desolation that the end of Fall leaves, It was a lazy kind of a day as well, and I found sitting in beside the fire in, the parlour with a nice blaze M the old box -stove jut about the finest kind of entertainment possible. Just to be certain that I wouldn't call down the disapproval of energetic ancestors,. I hung a newspaper over the picture of Grandpa Osifer . . • the one with the gilt frame. OM Peter Tart came over about three o'clock and he came in to sit and wait for his snpper, after borrow- ing a half plug of chewing tobacco and three pipefuls of my smoking. But I don't mind, that because old Pete isn't such a bad chap and he spine a real entertaining yarn. "Now you take the winters," old meter begins after the smoke is real- ly fogging around him. "The winters ain't nary like they used to be. I re- member back in '97 when we had that fellow working for us, that call- ed himself Injun Joe. Well, he used to sort of hang around with the In- dians quite a bit, and he learned a lot of the4 tricks. Paw the broke his harness, all to pieces, and the cost of getting the harness -maker to matte a new set was just above all creation. So we set around for a day or so, all hoping that he couldn't get any nee$ harness, and then this Injau • Joe he said about how he could make a new set out of buckskin. Now, the buck' skin we had in those days was real goods, and it would really last, so that Paw was aitinking till idea would be a good one. So he teild In - jun Joe to go ahead and Make a Peter stops then to ring a healthy quid of expectoration into the stove through where the mica has been broken out, sticks a. sliver into the fire and lights the old cob and then goes on with his yarning. "Of course, the harness wouldn't set much for show but we tried them out and they worked pretty good. We drew up tbe fall wood and got all the work done up and then after it snowed we set out to draw up a jag of potatoes from • the barn te the pit outside the house. It started to rain • a bit and vie got up into the lane'end then (struck a bare spot, l'H gol- clieged and clanged but them harness started to stretch and the first Ing Paw. knew th.e horses were about thirty feet up the lane and the sleigh was a-settiag back on the bare &pot, and the at of buckskin harness hadn't broken. Paw he justup and uehitch- ed aind hung ihe set of luasnees over the nearest post. We all went to bed marvelling at ouch etreichiness, and then during the night it turned cold. By golly, it was so cold cold that if you were sweating beside a fire in the house and stepped out 1 the cold you could feel the little beads of froz- en sweet tingling as they fell off. Any - ways, in the morning when, we went out to do the chores, one of the, cussedest things had happened that I ever did see. The cold had taken all the stretch out ,of that buckskin harness and the doggone sleigh was drawn right up to the post. Mind you it had shrunk and drew it right up about twenty-five feet . . Yes, sir, sure a3 I sit here." Of course, that's the way with Pet- er; he started out to tell about the add and then drifted of to another subject. Then he got really warmed up, and started to tell about the time that Injun Joe made him a pair 'of leggings out of buskskin, to go to a .dance. • It rained all the way, and wth,en he got there they were stretch- ed so much and his pants, were so tight from shrinking, that se took off his pants and buttoned, Ms suspen- ders onto the leggirvgs and used them for pants. Peter has never sailed the seven seas. He don't tell stories about sev- en league boots and shipwrecks with only a pound of biscuits and a gallon of . salt water. No, Peter takes the things right here at home and he spine an entertaining yarn about them. Of 'course, as the saying goes, there's only about one per cent. truth and ninety-nine of soft soap and sawdust, but they are .pleasant enough to listen to when Winter starts com- ing down around the eaves and there's a pleasant- fire in the front room stove. "No, I remember . . ." Peter starts but the .wife comes In to say that's she's willing to giye supper to two loafers and we go out to eat ahearty meal after a hard afternoon of smok- ing and yarning. JUST A SMILE OR TWO Malins: "I have discovered what it that destroys a man's, memory completely." Newton: "What is it? Alcohol or tobacco?" Maline: "Neither; it's doing him a favor!" Seaside Landlady; "Going home so soon; Mrs. Smith?" "Yes; I can't stay any longer." "Why, what is the matter?" "Every time I write to my husband for money, he sends it by return of Post!" e How the Japanese Live 'Mina Wages and Salaries Are Far Below the Scale Prevailing in the West The Japanele truthfully say that the amenities of civilization are pre- served much lower in the social scale in Japan bha-n in America or Europe, that vulgarity and coarseness are Comparatively unknown, that even poverty is accompanied by some dig- nity and politeness, that the badly - paid middle classes live in a kind of austere righteousness jwhich h a s many. cognpensations, a d that the families better off are silrrounded by conveniences, comfort% and 'opportun- ities which parallel those of the up- per classes everywhere, „says The Christian Science Monitor recently. Wages in Japan are admittedi low.' The average yearly income e• anong farming families, which consti- tute half the population, is about 3,000 yen or approximately $280 at the current rate of exchange some of which comes from outside activities, mainly the raising of silk Worms. Industrial wages are lower still. For a ten -tour day Japanese men earn about 50 cents, women about 25 cents and the children. under 16 cents. This scale of wages applies, to akilled la- bor as well as unskilled, including the craft e at whieh Japan excels, and probably affects at least 30 per cent. of the population. In 1930 the average income of civil officials was $23 a month', primary schoolteachers averaged $20.0a a month and middle school teachers $39. There is only a ,small solid bourgeoisie in Japan. .Art Inc oine of $100 a month is considered adequate to put a family in this cla'se. Every earner counts on and re- ceives a substantial bonus at New Year, usually equivalent to one or more month's salary. A young busi- ness man may work for $30 a month throughout the year and then at the end of the year, if this firm has been marhedly successful, receives , t he equiVelent of his whole year's salary as a bonus. . The 100 -yen -a -month ($28) ineorae is contsidered by. most japattee them- selves to be sufficient for the normal, rialpectable, unpretentious, Japanese family. This Would be spent by the average family of five or six as fol- lows: $5.50 for rent; $10 for food; $4 for Oothing, the same for houee- thold Incidental, au- $1 or so each for saiiings, amusementsand contra bution% •to the family 'responsibilities. The rent will be flor a Mall four - roomed house in a respectable but erowdedi district It Will betwo- sttiried, serai-detached, and might pos- sibly have a gaoled four feet stluare. It will have the regulation; hbatiene Outlintmes, very •stiperior itt typo and kept clean. In Japan ow tainiier, e public baths are clean, Viepider and inexpensiVe, death*, lAf, ceitte for Midis, 1 cent for uldidrilin: f • . The, monthly fotvds allO4Wance a 1212 for silt #eillOilk..a0tin*, tfd1citln0f*ts Ater*. lint. iS 41401iddla ii*. 26fil fiite.:! !,kt iferet'eat. that the ordinary Japanese family stuffs on rice, eats _no meat whatever, and never entertains elaborately. Good rice oosts only 21/z cents a pound, and the small portions of fish, vegetableseoe eggs and pickles, which help to make three or four bowls of rice go down three times a day, are also cheap. A giant radish the size of a big turnip, which is eaten at every Japanese meal, costs 2 cents fresh and 1 cent a pound pickled, while eggs, the most expensive item on the normal menu, cost 15 cents a dozen fbr the very best. rhe most important incidental ex- pertses are for heating and light— charcoal and electricity, both of which are used as meagerly as possible. America's per capita consumption of electricity is times the Japanese. Upkeep -is low in Japan because there is little furniture beyond blan- kets and cushions, and if they can, People. usually move before their houses need drastic attention. Clothing for the ordinary family can be very _inexpeneive. All the schoolboys, for example, wear winter uniforms of heavy black or Inhaki- colored cotton which cost about $1.00 apiece. Thin grayish blue cotton sum- mer uniforms' cost 60 cents. Shirts are dispensed with, stockings cost 7 cents each, and wooden clog a about the same. The bottom price for a womenS8 kimono is $1.20, and, at this price they are made of unattractive cotton. Lately the rayon manufac- turers have -begun producing beauti- ful and inexpensive materials, so that a splendid looking outfit may cost only $2. Men's kimonos are some- what cheaper. It is a, rare Japanese family that is not contributing something towards the support of needy relatives; public charity is non-existent. All make a practice of regular staving even at the cost of eating nothing but riee and pickles for months. Life insur- ance is universal among men and wo- men alike. Pleasures for the family of low moderate Income include a mottle once a: year; partizipation in the local fetes and temple aire, and cheap toys for the children. The whole family might go to therconntry to see cuerry blossioxls onpe leaves - at some famous spet, and spend the night there at a Japanese inn for 30 cents. They .bring their own rice. The family with an income of $100 a month has Attest reached. the lux- ury class. Such ,a faintly Will divide its innmile. in the feltoning *tits: $14 make0!tyPeWriter, showed: the ear - for rent, the 84nie for; rfeed; $16 for eat. footiture, method of paw hand- tleibes, $6 for it+iitaolugdr incidentals; lin# mei). Arlin to absinthe best re - *2 for anetiloiii $S tht tem* roitioet. :eat* $he topped at the dentonetrn $1� Ler teduatkiiiil and 0utur tl�n by -rat*Ing out 142 Wards int ei littlikot$64611antaalidi $5 eft6ht or eito.-, :16# elired ;tibiae with ito ortme.-- 144 otd add- "eoteiq ; oak; • 1: County Papers U. F. W. 0. President line 0. O. Anderson, of i3olgrave, was elected president of the United Farm Women of Ontario at the an- nual convention held at Toronto this week.—Goderlch Star. Women' r Candidate fer Council The ladies of Goderioh axe deter- mined to invade the inner sanctum of" he town council cliamber, and at a Meeting of the executive of the Local Council of Women on Monday, choser itirst Jean Hetherington as their re- ai'l-esentative to be placed before the Aecters at the nomination meeting Friday night. Mrs. Hetherington_ a1l1l represent several huntleed, Gode- ri h woman. who are members of the tev societies, affiliated with the L.C.W. They reportedly will be solidly be- hind their chosen representative. The coming municipal election seems to be as quiet as ny on record. The. ladies' choice isthe only known op- position to an all-round acclamation at present.—Godericla Star. • Kills Two Bear • • Thomas Colson, of Blyth, killed two. bears while waiting for deer. A third bear escaped. Mr. Colson was hunt- ing, at Pine' Lake with Thomas Ball. "I heard our dogs barking," he said. "Suddenly three bears broke out froui the edge of the swamp. I fired at the one in the leadl and it fell. Then I shot the cub. The one I shot at first was Standing upon its hind feet - as if to attack. I had only wounded it, so turned and fired a couple more shots, dropping it. While I was pay- ing attention to the first two the third one turned back into the swamp and although I followed its tracks until dark I was unable to catch up with it."—Goderieh Star. Ninety -Four and Still Active Dr. J. W. Browning celebrated his 94th birthday on Saturcliay. He was at his office all day and received many callers who dropped in to ex -- tend congratulations. The doctor was also presented with flowers and num- erous post cards. In spite of his ad- vanoed age he keeps remarkably well and is at his- 'offioe every day attend- ing to his medical duties. On Sun- day a celebration in his honor was held at the home of his daughter,. Ws: G. A. Hawkins, when Dr. and Mrs. J. H. Browning and Gale, of Lou- don, and Mr. and Mrs. 0. Becker and - family, of New Hamburg, were pres- ent—Exeter Times -Advocate, Band Gives .Concert The Exeter Band, under the leader- ship of Mr. Ted) Waiper, gave a con- cert Monday evening in Leavitt's 'The- atre following the church services. There was a fair attendance. 'The - band provided a splendid program, all new music being played. Gerald Skin- ner played a trombone solo.—Exeter Times -Advocate. Piano Presented to Caven Church Caven Presbyterian Church is the recipient of a fine piano. The pres- entation was made by Mr. William Blayney. -Tao piano was the proper- ty of the late Mrs. Blayney who was - a splendid musician, and took a great interest in the Cavell Sunday school orchestra.—Exeter TiMes-Advocate. • Curled at Galt A rink of local curlers, A. Wilson,. D. Fortune, J. Carr, A. M. Crawford, skip„took part in the Centennial Lionspiel. at Galt on Thursday. They won one game and lost. two.—Wing- ham Advance -Times. Newlyweds Honored At Blyth A most pleasant evening was spent in Memorial Hall, Blyth; on Friday, when neighbors and friends to the number of 250 tendered a reception to Mr. and Mrs. Archie Scott, con- cession. 8, Morris, who. were recently married. Mrs. Scott before her mar- riage was Miss Alexandra Margaret Hamilton, 'only daughter of Mrs. 1-lanilton, of Gorrie. During the ev- ening ani. -address was read by James Laidlaw, Jr., and the presentation, of a purse of money was made to the newlyweds by Miller Richmond. Three orehestra, Watt's, Jackson's and Kelly's, provided music for danc- - ing A delightful lunch was served bytheladies of the gathering.—Wing- ham Adaanee-Times. Thirty -Seven Years' Service .Fen,gland Mr ' John Walton start - Coming to Miton, 37 years ago from $ ed work for Mr. apd Mrs. W. Jackson, and to -day is still quietly working a- way with typical English, thorough- ness. He takes a, keen interest in his work and is a necessary part of the Jackson ihoweehold. Quite recently he suffered a great loss when his pet clog passed away in spite of the best vet- erinarian care.( He is a great lover of animals and birds and takes great pride in a number of pheasants which the has liaised. In spite of the num- ber of years which have elapsed, Mr. Walton still retains a ,deligh-tful Eng- lish brogue. This is (Mite a record' for long service and 'Mra. Jackson- is to be congratulated in retaining the services, of, such a trustworthy em- Ployee.—Olinton Neweancord. • Champion Typist On Monday afternoon the ninth - gree and commercial students' at .the Collegiate htItute were thrilled with a demorteitrabion of speed and rhythni typing by Miss Irma, Wright, flre- tirnes -Canadian speed champion. Miser •*right, demonstrating a well known L,1 •;) •S' Ft# t" es, ,