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The Huron Expositor, 1938-06-03, Page 2!1( a•; tt. tttEs 4'. yin td, Po- . T ,m11A t.Q o ott • essel .1.1PE 3; 103VQ r kid rr lfi t,�a Vr„• Eipositor ;,dished 1860 hail McLean, Editor. ed at Seaforth, Ontario, ev- sday afternoon, by McLean taeription rates, $1.50 a yearin uanee a foreign, $2.00 a year. Single ;es, 4 cents each. " Advertising rates on application. ZEAFORTH, Friday, June 3, 1335_ The Government Is Getting Generous It would seem that the Ontario Government is becoming very gener- ous minded—along some lines. At any rate, it has offered Chorley Park, the million dollar Provincial - owned Government House, to the Board of Trustees of the Sick Chil- dren's Hospital, Toronto, as a gift without strings, even without money and without price. Following a Cabinet Council held on Saturday last, Mr. Hepburn is re- ported to have made the annoimce- ment of the gift in the following words: "The Hospital Board may use it for hospital purposes, sell the property, or raze the building and build a new structure, or rent it out to the people to raise funds for their work. We don't care what they do with it. They can have it if they want it." And a very generous gift it is, con- sidering what it has cost the Ontario taxpayers in addition to the million dollars it cost to build it. At the same time one can not help but won- der what these same Ontario tax- payers think about the whole situa- tion. The worth of the Sick Children's Hospital, as an institution, is beyond doubt or question. But a million dollars is also a million dollars. If the people of Ontario,+whose money built and maintained Chorley Park, had beep consulted in whole, instead of in part, would they have been as generous as Mr. Hepburn and his fellow ministers in the disposition of it?' or would the majority of dein have been of theopinion that the of- fice of Lieutent-Governor was too important an office to play horse with? Or that the maintenance of this office in a mannertting its im- portance and dignity' have been a question too far reaching and important to Ontario's standing in the Confederancy, to play horse with either? In this question, however, as well as in every other of Government policy, it is Mr. Hepburn who has the real say. And he has said it • It Might Be Said Of Canada The London, England, Daily Ex- press says: "In Catalonia, since the Spanish war began, 1,553 people have been killed and 2,007 injured in 215 air raids. On the roads of Bri- tain in the same period of time, 10,741 people have been killed and 360,326 injured. War is ceasing to be mankind's greatest peril." '...The same might be said of Canada, or, perhaps, more particularly of highway conditions in Ontario, -where the toll of death and injuries caused by motor accidents has been steadily mounting with the years One would think that with the pronounced improvements in motor engineering, and the still more pro- nounced improvement in road con- 'structiorr and surfacing, that the dangers of motor travel would by this time have reached almost the vanishing point. The realization of such, and in- deed, not by any means impos- sihle condition, however, seems I yen further away than it did in the crIy days of the motor car. In fact 'would seem that every improve - t t& car and highway has lrgtt in its wake an added toll of and destruction. e, neither the O,ntari&:t the Ontario people e wa Mali - by the peo,t_. such elaii either the Government or the people concerning the' road slaughter that has been witnessed on our provincial highways in recent years, and is still being witnessed •with increasing fre- quency to -day. And, it might be added, the Gov- ernment itself is powerless to 'rem- edy the situation. It *true that it can make laws and Iay down regula- tions and it can enforce them. But that, in itself, is not enough. With- out the co-operation of the travelling public, conditions vidll continue to be as they are, even continue to grow worse. The old country paper put it very concisely when- it. said: "War is ceasing to be mankind's greatest perils:” • We Hope Thep Will Grow Like Weeds We noticed in the papers the otlr day that there is a society in Toron- to called "The Men of Trees." Not only that, but that" this society has a plan to make that city's summers more comfortable by driving house- flies from residential .districts. It seems like a pretty large order, but to The Men of Trees, at least, the plan is quite simple and feasible too. It seems that houseflies do not like Yerba de la Pulga trees and shun the neighborhoods in which they are grown. The naturalists have secured several of the tree's seeds and they are distributing them to the members of the society for planting. The tree is a native of Brazil and has been grown in Gulport, Missis- sippi, the source of the seeds com- ing to Toronto. As it will kill two ``birds with one stone, that is a re- forestration scheme worth trying, as well as passing along. The information so far as we have seen does not say what these trees look like when they are grown, nor does it say how long it takes to grow them. Those are important things in a climate like we have in Ontario, which at times, might be a little more severe than that of Mississippi, or even Brazil. But we hope the Yerba de la Pulga tree is all that is claimed for it, ev- en if it is not as handsome as our - Ontario elms, oaks and maples. -In fact, we are hoping,, a lot of things about it_ We hope it will grow in the city, and we hope it will g'l'ow in the coun- try as fast and with the same amount of encouragement as the weeds we see in our garden and in the fields along the roads and highways. And we hope it will grow indoors as well as out. Our Ontario summers are pretty hard to beat as it is. If they were flyless they would be well nigh per- fect. 0 'Worse And Worse As a nuisance and a noise maker we thought that the battery -eating radios recently installed in motor cars would prove about the last straw that the backs of peace -loving people would be asked to bear. But we were wrong. Entirely wrolig. There is worse in store. Much worse. A French inventor is said to have perfected a wireless telephone permitting a -motorist to call any subscriber while driving within a given radius. And the in- ventor declares calls can be put through when the automobile is travelling at high speed. Between twisting the dial on the radio and answering the car tele- phone, when will a driver have any time to give to the steering wheel and to paying a little attention to traffic? Of course the telephone is not standard equipment yet, but it will come. Make no mistake about that. The radio was not in the car two or three years ago either, but you can't get away from it, in either town or country to -day. Thinking the matter over serious- ly, however, we have come to the conclusion that a telephone in a car, while it would have its drawbacks from the get away standpoint, would be the lesser of two great evils. For one thing you wouldn't need to answer ,• it, and -for another, it would be handy to piek up and 'tell the passing motorist, t or the one ahead or behind • you what yoit • thought of him for destroying the C• ss Years Agone Interesting Italie Pbksd"'Fra�e The Huron Expositor of :Fifty end TweAlyllve Veen Ago. Interesting Italie Pleked" From The Huron Expositor of •Fifty and Twenty-five Years Aga From The Huron Expositor June 6, 1913 The Ladies.' Aid Enmpir"e .entertain- ment in Duff's new church, Walton, on May 2314; was a unique suocess. Abort 400 people assembled. The ladies arrayed in old-time dresses, shaw-l=s and bonnets, presented "An Old -Fashioned Ladies' Aid Meeting." In addition, a musical program was given with the following artiste: Jen- nie ennfe Knechtel, Lizzie and Birdie Shan- non, John Arthur, Kate Ewan, Mrs. Walter •pavidson, Mrs. William Mc- Callum and Alfred Dennison and chor- uses by little girls. On Wednesday of last week a dog made its appearance in Brutefield which had all the symptoms of being afflicted by rabies. Mr. John Snider made short work of thin, Mr. • Miller, mathematics' master in the Collegiate Institute, has resigned and S. F. Ross has been engaged. The first game of the season in the Janitor series of the W.F.A-, was play- ed on the recreation grounds here on Monday evening. The game was rough; hist very fast. The game end- ed one all. The line-up was as fol- lows: Goal, Hinchley; backs, Bell and Reid; half backs, Hart, Kaiser and MeGeooh; forwards, Reid, Dick, McMillan and Forbes. Miss Belle Smith is in Toronto this 'reek as a delegate from the Seaforth Barbara. • Kirkman Mission Band to the annual meeting; Mrs. Keith Mc- Lean from the W.M.S-, and Mrs- Jas. Cowan from the Home Missionary So- ciety. The new street letter boxes to the number of twelve have arrived. Mr. J. E. willlis, one of Seaforth's enterprising shoe dealers, sold over $400 worth of shoes in one day. Mr. Peter Eckert, who recently purchased the Cowan farm north of Seefortdr, has traded it with his bro- ther, Mr. C. Eckert, for his farm at Manley. 'The following graduates of the Sea- fortth Collegiate successfully passed the recent examinations at the Uni- vi.-sty of Toronto: John Dickson, W. G. Butson; Violet Stephens, Ed- mund, 13. Titus and Mrs. F. G. Parker, A terribly sad' accident occurred at the Seaforth railway station on Tues- day morning last- Mr- Richard An- derson, of Hullett, near Constance, came in to deliver four pigs. He drove up just as the eight o'clock train came in and the horses seemed quiet enough, but when she backed up to the chute something startled, them and they sprang forward and finally threw him down and the wagon pass- ed over shim, almost instantly killing hire. Mr. Wm. Somerville, of Seaforth, was thrown from his bicycle by com- ing in contact with a dog On the :Meet, somewhat injuring his knee. • 4 -- From The uron• •'Expositor J wire 8, 1888 A sturgeon was caught near the Maitland bridge at Goderich on the 24th og May which weighed 74 pounds. The ducky fishermen were Patrick Dean and James Webb. A man named John McKenzie, of Ashfreld Townslhdp, shot a large black hear an Friday morn=ing last a short distance from 14ilntail- Last Saturday afternoons A. T. Mc- Donald's large barn at Auburn was raised. when Messrs. Nagle and Rob- inson were the captains, the former with his gritty men coming out ahead. The Monkton Cheese and Butter Company are making about 15 cheeses daily now and espeot to make 25 shortly, . Mr. A. C. Robertson has sold his residence in Seaforth to Mr. G. . A. Sills for $1,000 cash Mr. Robertson leaves for Orillia on Monday. Messrs. T. M. Higgins and W. Prendergast, two graduates of the Seaforth Collegiate Institute, have passed the fourth year examination at Toronto University and have had the degree of BA, conferred on them. On Friday last a football team from the Collegiate went to Berlin to play a match for the Hough Oup with the high school of that place and it was played that evening wthen Berlin won. The line-up for the Seaforth team was^ Buggin, J. Muldrew, D. Mc- Donald, J. Livingston, McCallum, W. McDonald, Govenlock, Dickson, Stev- ens, Dodds and Wood. The Young People of Fansville, near Hensall, take good care of their minister, Rev. Arch. Mustard. On Saturd'ary evening three of them, Jno. Wilson, Charles and James Redmond called in to 'see him and presented him with a fine new plug that. Mr- George Mardis, of the 3rd con-, 'McKillop, sold to Mr. Robert Winter, six of the finest steers that have been shipped from this county this season, One day last week as a car laden with salt was being taken over the tramway from Stapleton Salt Works to the railroad track, tife horse strangled, stumbling forward and was pushed by the advancing oar until the animal fell off where the bridge was highest, being badly injured. McLean Bros., of Goderiah, shipped a carload of good' cattle from Clinton station fast, week. They were pur- chased from time following parties: G. Raithby, Hallett; T. McKay, Tucker- snrith; Antos Fisher, Colborne- G. Lyon§, Hultettoieff. Monteith, Tucker - smith; and W. Sheppard, Base Line. Mir. Daniel Sararas and wife, of Zurich, left for Dakota last Tueoday to visit their Children. peace and quiet of the coun- tryside by roaring up and down with his blaring cir- cus calliope. t And couldn't you tell him off very nicer., too about the Way he drives, or looks, or parts his hairy or anything else? Well, couldn't y l�hil Osifer f Lazy Meadows (By Harry J. Boyle) • BLUE•MONDAY There should be a law passed about Blue Mondays! Government sits and ponders on matters that are nonsensi- cal but I (hereby propose that the member from this constituency move to do something about Blue Mondays, and that reminds me that we seem to be getting more of them this year than ever before. Sunday rolls by and leaves you with• a feeling of placid contentment. You go to bed on Sunday night, full.. determined to rest up aids sail out on the morn to come, full of vim and energy. Nothing can stop you. Then about six o'clock on Monday morning you wake to hear Ethiopia, the black rooster, crowing from atop the eetraw stack to officially 'proclaim: the working week opea. But there's something weak about the crow, sort as if he didn't get the right bow in h is neck, or maybe his foot -slipped on the first note. Then you 'rub the sleep out of your eyes, and look out the window. There's no sun! And if ever a man needs a sun to refresh him it's' on Monday morning. A person just sort of needs that sun to soak into his bones and, :make him alert and keep his spirits up. Then you think that perhaps the sun will come sup after" a little while, • and you get ;up. There's a raw dampness in the air . . . that seems to 'bring goose -pimples on your skin, and make your hair 'feel dry and. itchy . . . and your clothes seem like frozen sheets. It's not really so cold . . . but you feel that way be- cause it's a Blue Monday. You stop to pick up the milk pails and Suchansuch, the Collie pup, just sort of wags a feeble good morning to you, and then slinks' along behind you on the way to the barn. Then as soon as the stable•door is opened he sneaks in and lays on the straw. He's depressed.' as well . . . no romping on a Blue Monday. The cows just roll their • eyes around, as if they weren't fussy about anything to•eat . . . and they don't seem to even want to scratch them- selves, but seem. content to lean up against thre stall posts. When you sit down to milk, they show a little burst of • temperament and either do a war danee on their hind feet, or play a tattoo on the pail with their hoofs about .the time that you're half way through m'ilking. It's' a Blue Mon- day! And old Sir Timothy, the red gen- tleman entieman in the box stall, le really mad. He's fuming and snorting and wheel- ing around and pawing up the hoard's. When you toss in some hay, he looks at it rather • disdaififully and then paws it around for a while, as if he's t.ndecided about eating it. It's Blue Monday, and there isn't any sun! And your own temper keeps mak- ing things worse! About the time that you get to the milk -house door, with two paile of milk, the door slams shut. Then you set the pails down and discover that ` you forgot to put the bowl and disks on the machine, and when you bend over a forkful of chaff and• dirt slides off your hat in- to the cream : pail. You dump that out the dome and a sudden little breeze either blows it back in your face or else into" the milk pail. Then you get -the machine going, and, turn around to find one of the kittens tak- ing a bath in the last pail of milk. You cuss and rant an'd fume, and fin- ish up by barking your knuckles on the nide of the separator. When you start back out with the pail of cream you slip on the floor where you up- set the skim milk, trip over that lit- tle raise in the door and upset half the cream. s When you go to gather the eggs you find that they haven't laid any in the morning, and that old Biddy who hatched so faithfully in that nest un- der the stairway has walked off and left the eggs and now they're cold. When you start back up to the house it's probably started to rain.. . . a cold drizzling sort of rain. But what's the use • it's Blue Monday, and you spend the rest of the forenoon up at the house getting really work- ed up by reading over your tax no- tice. JUST A SMILE OR TWO Old Maid: "What kind of a hus- bind have you got?" Newlywed: "Oh, he will wash up when requested and dry up when or- dered." • The beadle had. been laying a new carpet in the pulpit, and left a num- ber of tacks on the floor. "What do you suppose would hap- pen if I stepped on one of these tacks in' the middle of my sermon'?" said the minister, — "Well, ' sir," replied the beadle, "that would be one point you would not linger on." Real Estate Agent: "But she says she is a great singer and studied under Patti!" Tenant: "Well, maybe that Irish- man could stand it, but she can't study under me!" • "Father," said the minister's son, "my teacher says that 'collect' and 'congregate' mean the same thing. Do they?" "Perhaps, my son; perhaps they do," said the clergyman. "But there ie a vast difference between a 'con- gregation' and a 'collection.'" • To Correspondents • Mir Hugh Templin, who writes "That Inside Page" in his Fergus News - Record each week, is widely known as a leading weekly editor. And his editorial page on numerous occasions has been singled out as being among the best appearing in any Canadian weekly. In a recent issue Mr. Templin gives some timely advice to bis correspond- ents, which is equally applicable to correspondents of any weekly. He says: A Request For Help Along with the account of a meet- ing sent in for publication a few weeks ago, there was a nate, which read, in part, as follows: "Some time I wish you •would write something en 'Thbat Inside Page on preps_correspond- ents.' WC: ':—their duties., elle. You know what you want and how it ought to bs done, and what mistakes to avoid." Sir ,e we read that note, we have been thinking over the suggestion, and jotting down a few notes, as they cane to mind, As might have been expected, the correspondent who ask- ed for this help was one of those who needed it least, for he invar- iably 'picks, out the interesting parts of any meeting and gives them prom- inence, paying less attention to the mere routine, which is little concern of outside readers. •We don't feel capable of telling the beginner how to write an interesting newspaper article, for much of that knowledge can be gained only by ex- perience, but perhaps we can give a few hints to those who are already writing and know something of their job. It .night be added, also, that what applies to one' newspaper does .:tot necessarily apply to another. For instance, all larger papers with many contributors, have their "style sheets" which deal with typographic fashions only. Certain rules' are laid down, to cover most emergencies, particularly those not definitely specified in the grammar books, or where public us- age differs from ancient rules. As ane example, the• Word "to -day" is be, intg spelt more and more without the hyphen., but it would not look well to have it "to -day" in one paragraph and "today" in the next (though that sometimes happens in :Our own payer, we admit). But those are things ov- er which the contributor need not worry. We only mention them to show why you may have dieseribed a "programme," 'ibnly to find it spell- ed "program" when it' appeared In print. What is News? The press correspondent need not worry, over. su'eh taif(ets, nor over the chance that ,she' may have °a mistake in gratnniar.° Such things *ill be eor- 'mated er tzlrnnsgedc The idea is to stand in the armee of wlh'rot happened. That Immediately bringe up attetheer qw liibivc "What, Ilerva•?"' Year briat (lawn :ea' dn1itte a the Via, though most of them refer to the daily press, not so much to the week- lies. "If a dog bites a man, that isn't news: if a man bites a dog, it is." That is a famous definition, which merely means that the unusual is. news. But the weekly papers, being slave , to the daily life of the people and recording the little incidents, find that it is news if' John Jones' dog bites him enough to send him to the hospital. If the dog belongs to an ene=my of Mr. Jones, it is more apt to be interesting. There's another definition of news which was passed on to res by a form- er editor just last week, and which we like better. "New's is something that the reader would be glad to pay $50 if he had been there to see it." We find no fault with such a defini- tion for any paper- Even the things the reader did see, particularly if be went a long way to see them, or paid an admission price, are news. In the case of the professional newspaper man, the fact that he finds a story interesting. is taken for granted that the public will also be- interested. It does not always work out, but it is sometimes surprising how far a sim- ple story will travel—far instanoe, the story of the Julius Miller famllly, which was in the News-Reoord two weeks ago. Just a Few Hints Press correspondents or anyohe else writing for' publication can de- pend on one simple rude—the idea be- hind any news item is to tell the reader, as quickly and easily as pos- sible, the news he or she may be in- terested in. By the word "easily," we mean that it should be made easy to read. That makes it harder to write. The writer may have to work over a sentence quite. a while to make it easy to read. The non- essentials must be dropped. In this way, the newspaper repenter should follow the lead of the novelist, who writes his story and then goes over and condenses or drops al that does not matter. Perhaps you noticed, in a fouthtain pea advertisement printed this month, that Kenneth Roberts wrote over 2,000,000 words in his rough drafts of the • story, "North,-' west Passage," and then cut the story delve to 3.00,000 word's, or less than one-sixth of the original adze. That is an extreme case, but if you read "Northwest Passage;" you probably noticed how smoothly it ran. The first part, the expedition of Rogers' Rang- ers against St. Francis, seemed to ns more like a piece of smooth news- paper reporting than it did like fic- tion. In dropping out the non•eeseetalals, here are a fete hints; 1. Dena bother nt tioning in the story of an• tusti.- ttrte, VG': M. Pe, lodge or satiate per- iodic gatherjng, that the miilr'ntes were reals avid confirmed. Ever yib ally While that fee ted. Tf the:: bait. gOanitiilat oa Page 6 ail ry is��+ Seen in the CountyPa ors Organist Appointed Mrs. J. A. Snider has been appoint= ed organist and choir director of Vic- toria Street United' Church.--Gode- rich Signal—Star. Grants IncludeJs Clinton and Bayfield Public works. •costing $863,400 will„ be conotructed by the Federal Gov- ernment, in Western •• Ontario, ac, cording to supplementary estimates brought down in the House last week. The expenditure.' is divided into $100,- 100 for buildings -and $763,000 for har- bor and river work; $50,000 will be spent at Goderich for dredging the 'harbor basin and. deepening the chan- nel, and at Baytfield $12,300 rod" a landing dock of steel and concrete, for fisting and pleasure boats.—Clin- ton News -Record.. Clever Scholar Graduates Mr. and Mrs: Louis Peacock and' Mr. .and Mrs. William Cook attended the graduation exercises at McMaster University on Monday when Mr. Roy C. Cook, son of the latter, received his degree. During Mr. Cook's uni Vereity career he was a winner of a scholarship in English, and in 1935 was gold- medalist orator of McMas- ter University.t—Clinton News -Record. Passed' With Honors Mr. Carman Hetheringtdn was suc- cessful in passing his second year at the Ontario Veterinary College, at Guelph, with honors. Hie is at pres- ent spending a few days with his aro- ther at Ridgetowin. —•• Wingham Ad- vance -Times. Goderioh Miller Injured Douglas Wilson, 35, miller, was painfully injured at the Western Can- ada Fleur Mills, Goderich. He was in the act of putting a belt on a fast - revolving pulley when his right arm. was drawn in between the wrist and the elbow. The bone was broken and ligaments and muscles torn and crushed. He is in the hospital. Ev- ery effort is being made to avoid am- putatio'n.—Wingham Advance -Times. A Cold 24th The weatherman- dished up a lot of cold and wet weather over the hol- iday, although it did not rain on Tuesday, yet It seemed wet as on Monday there was an all day rain, and then a lot of cold was let loose' up north which was on its way drown and arrived here in time for the holi- day. About the best place to cele- brate was beside a nice warm coal fire. In the past we can recollect a few very warm., in fast summer heat on this day. Then we recollect in 1924 when there was about four to, six inches of. snow. This, however,. soon melted away. However, we all observed the day one way or another and it was another milestone krs>ulem- ory of tele late Queen Victoria of Eng- land.—Zurich Herald. Purchased Chopping Mill Mr.. H. T. Thompson has purchased the chopping mill at the south end of Josephine Street from Mr. Russell Walker. He took possession last week—Wingham Advance -Times, Creamery Destroyed By Fire The Corbett 'Creamery in • McGil- livray Township, six miles north of . Parkhill, was destroyed by fire that broke out just before midnight on Monday night- In addition to tae loss of the frame building, much Or the machinery was destroyed and a heavy stock of butter is a total loss. Th,e fire is believed to have broken out in the boiler room and. gained considerable headway when first no- ticed. A call was put in for the Parkhill fire department at 11.45 p.m. By the time the firemen arriv- ed the entire front of the building was ablaze'—Exeter Times -Advocate. Finds Old Coin Mrs- J. Kleinfehlit while tuorking dyer flower bed at the front of her home one day last week, found an old'coin dated 1806. The coin was a Tittle larger Manse Canadian, cent, on one side was the word 'Britannia' and on the othen side 'Georgina III D. G_ Rex, 1806.' The amount of the coin was not stated, but we believe it to be a half -penny --Exeter Times -Advo - tate. Will Graduate Messrs. Grafton Cochrane a a d Rowe Dinney, fourth year students at Western University, who will gradafate this year with their B. A - degrees have returned home having completed their examinations the letter part of last week. Rowe has secured a position with the Royal Bank while Grafton plans to attend Oagoode Hall next fall. Borden Sanders, first year student, has also returned hbn e.—,Ex=eter Times -Advo- cate. Mrs. Charles Archer Deep regret was expressed here when it was Yearned that Mrs. Chas. Archer (Irene Jermtith) had passed away Wedeesday morning at the early age of 39 years. She had been i:n ailing Health for the past. year anti Vsince last October bad suffered from the illness which caused her demise. For the past ntontth: she had been con,•' fined to the Stratford General Hos- pital. Born in Logan Township she - was a daughter of Rudolph Jarmuth and the late Mrs. Janmuth of that ,town•sblp. 'For seine years' she was a milliner with tire' T. S. Ford.' Co., Mit- chell, and was well known and below-• ed by all who knew her. Sixteen, years ago on, Mae 23rd, she was, nerr- ried- to Charles Archer. and had since• resided' in Stratford. Left to mourn her pateali rg are her husband, tee cbildben,.. Allan and "''Elaine, and 'her father, Ratdolph Jarmutlr, and ora •' Iiribtfiier, Edi. Jarmiuth, o2' 1.0 ,n,. Ola liatta 4,42 VI ° �II •. a u�,436•%iil