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The Huron Expositor, 1938-11-11, Page 2• THE HURON E Q R • • NV MRrw R 11, I.'938. {r s Expositor ed1860 _ Editor. _ 1VIc wa tt !1' it 4eaforth, Ontario, eta- afternoon by McLean tltbseription rates, $1.50 a year in 16 ; foreign, $2.00 a year. Single Sr..4 cents each. ZEAFORTH, Friday, November 11 Pasteurized Milk The recently enacted Ontario law making it compulsory to pasteurize all milk before offering it for sale in towns and cities has been in opera- tion since October first, and so far there has been little complaint and much commendation of the new law from the larger centres of popula- tion. The new pasteurizing law is, .we understand, however, only operating inits first phase. After the new year, or during the next year, we be- lieve it is the intention of the Gov- ernment ,to make it an offence to sell anything but'pasteurized milk in the country. and villages, as well as in the cites and towns. And that is something different again. Any new law that nearly af- fects the daily life of the people in the country is taken much more ser- iously than it is by the people of the larger centres, who are much more accustomed to living by fixed rules and regulations. For that reason the pasteurization law is looked upon by the people in the country as something of a per- sonal matter and one that has been under very (general discussion for tome time. And if we are to judge by the correspondence that has reached this office, there is Iittle to commend and much to condemn in the new law from the country point of view. In a letter received to -day, a cor- respondent of The Expositor says: "I noticed that you had an editorial recently on the pasteurization of milk. I have long felt that this is not a one-sided question and that pas- teurization has really been brought about to quite an extent as a result of propaganda by the large dairy com- panies. It seems to ine that; in' hair- ing milk pasteurized, the public are being deprived of i something that would contribute to their health and well being. I wonder if the true solution does not lie in having herds inspected and thus greater surety be- ing developed of the milk being pure in the first place," Something of a similar thought, only one that is enlarged and ex- tended, is expressed by a woman in a letter to the Windsor Star, which appeared in a recent issue of that paper. ° This woman said: "I have thir- teen children and two had rickets pretty badly. I had a baby weigh ten -pounds at birth and at seven months only weighed nine pounds. I had to wean this baby on account of goitre. My sister took this baby when she was six months old and gave her nature pure milk which a specialist ordered, and when she was eight months old she weighed 18 pounds. The pasteurized milk was keeping the rickets and the nature pure milk cured her. It was the same with another child of mine." "I don't see how they can fix milk so no cream comes to the top, and this milk is much thicker than ord- inary milk and to me does not taste the way milk ought to taste. I my- self drink a quart of milk every day and I don't get fat; and when I was in Detroit for goitre I gained six pounds in eleven days on nature' pure milk." "It stands to reason when milk is boiled to such a high degree that all the goodees out of it. Put some milk in a Pot and boil it and see all thelime stick to the sides. This is the • calcium which children and grown-ups need to give our bones and body strength. When a doctor or a baby specialist eciali�st orders p'asteuriz- d Milk, Why does he sayto use or- a ge juice and cod liver. oil?" There was quite a bit niore to the metra's letter, and some r k > v 7 1 i t. More bitter too. tint t11nlrrlalt°ies, which we expressed a; Very qp of'of-the eountry o pasteurization *kg ,opinion. {•t n, t e country too, that in enacting_., the- a asteuriznig law .the Govern- ment .was' putting then cart before the horse. That if they had made the selective. areas of live stock compul- sory first, there would not be the same, . if any, need for a' pasteuriza- tion law'.. Like every other question there are two sides to that opinion as well. A fact that the people in the country should bear inmind, however, is that organized propaganda is responsible for far more of the laws on our statute books than is public welfare, even if they are all catalogued under the latter head. • We Were In Error We are no authority on matters concerning 'the Conservative party, and never pretended to be. But we were rather under the impression that the choice of Hon. Dr. Manion, as leader of the Federal Conserva- tive party, was not only a shrewd and wise move, but a very popular choice as well. However, we stand corrected. And. our authority is none other than the Toronto Telegram. And if there is anything more Tory, or speaks with more_ authority on Tory matters than that paper, we have never seen or heard of it. And this is what the Telegram says: "As leader of the Conserva- tive party, Hon. Dr. Manion prom- ises to win . laurels as champion fence -sitter of the Dominion. His followers can only hope that when he gets again into Parliament, he will demonstrate, better than he has since election to leadership, his right. to the title "Fighting Bob." We wonder if it would have made any difference if Dr. Manion had been a Toronto native son! • A Real Il iglltva p Program The work that our Ontario High- ways Department accomplishes on our roads and highways in the course of a year runs into a lot of money and material. Every taxpayer knows that. But in spite of that knowledge, on the part of the taxpayer, if the Depart- ment followed the dictation, the prayers and the wishes of countless deputations; the yearly program .would be doubled ori trebled, and the cost—well hang the cost Of course we are proud of our highway system, and we ought to be. But judged by some other standards; the Ontario Highway Department is only a piker compared with some in other countries. Take England for instance. Or, rather, take London, just one city in England, and compare its highway program with ours. During the next six months' the London Department is going to re- surface over 1,350,000 square yards of roads; five' underground railway stations ve to be reconstructed, and five bridges are to be improved. No estimation of the cost of this work is given, which, perhaps, is just as well. Probably the Highway • Department of that city figures the people will find that out quite soon enough for themselves. And that is only the program for six months. 'We would advise our Highway Department to, take note of these things so that when their spending proclivities come under,fire in the next Legislature—as they surely will—it will be able to point out what a money -pinching depart- ment it really is, compared with the department of just one city, in some other places. WHAT OTHER PAPERS SAY: "Lucky Canada" (London Daily Herald) Mr. Roosevelt makes a seeeclh en Canadian soil. That speech becomes part of the history of the BrlUah Empire. For Mr. Roosevelt says that "if the domination of Canadian soil is threat- ened by any other empire, the people of tae United • States will not stand idly by." What does that mean? It means that the United States will treat an attack upon Canada aa she would an attack upon, herself. Lucky Canada. For she has the double protection of her membership of the British Commonwealth and of the strong shield of the Stars and Stripes. The American President gives that guarantee for two reasons•. One is strategical. Thevsecurity of the United States is bossed up with the independence of Canada from foreign domination. No longer Could` that 000 mile frontier be lett without a ',fort, Without a gunboat, without an an'tii.aircraft , if' Calrratda became a base for an alien shill- tarribmi. The other Is s'p'iritual. in the United States the democratie faith burns bright and' *Yong, attd� Canada belongs to the great demo- Critic brathinilasod. Years. Acne' Intares#ing Items 'Flaked From The Huron Expositor of Fifty and Twenty-five Years Ago. From, The Huron Expositor Novemlber 14, 1913 Washed ashore by the high waters of Lake Harron, the bodies of five sail- ors, encircled with iifebelts, were found on Monday morning on the beach five stales south of St. Joseph.' The 'gamesome discovery was made by Mr. Robert Turnbull. On Tuesday morngne eleven macre bodies' were found by Mr. Bruce Bossenberry and others near Gram t Bend. Miss Ultima Gais'er, of Cf editon, in- tends. opening a studio over Clark's shop, where she will teach all branch- es of music. . Mr. W. R. 1 roadfoot, of the 5th concession, of Morris, sold) on Satur- day last to Mr. Samuel Walker, three two-year-old Shorthonn steers which weighed 3,730 pounds and for which he received $270. This is the earliest sleighing in Kippers that any one can remember of . for many years. Mr. Arthur Balkwill, an olds Usborne boy, who is now in. Conquest, Sask., bad 200 acres of wheat this, year which averaged 371/2 bushels per acre and some of it graded No. 1 Hard and No. 1 Nortthern, Messrs. Johnson and Barber, of Woodstock, have purchased the elec- tric lcight building at the station and will have it fitted up for a creamery. Mrs. F. H. Larkin, Mrs. Archibald Scott, Mrs. J. M. Wilson and Mrs. Alex. Wilson and Misses H. I. Graham and Alva Graves were delegates at the annual meeting of the Huron Presbyterian Women's Foreign Mis- sion Society held in Exeter this week. Mr. George Dakin, who ihas . been head of Ube boiler department of The Bell Engine Works, has . severed his connection with them and returned to. his home in Galt this week. Mr. Mertens, .forinoriy of the Do- minion Bank staff here, and wtho was seriously injured in a shooting acci- dent, has completely recovered. A good number of ladies met in the assembly roomy of Carnegie Library ca Wednesday evening for the pur- pose of considering the propriety of organizing a Women's Canadian Club. The following officers were elected: President, Miss S. 1. McLean; vice - pees., Miss May; sec.-treas., Mrs. Jas. Watson; executive, Mrs. E. McFaul and the Misses Watson, Young, Gra- ham, Campbell and Dickson. The first blizzard of the season— and it area genuine—surprised the people on Sunday afternoon last and continued throughout the night. Mr. S. T. Holanes has purchased a hand's'ome new hearse for his under- taking business. Mr. F. G. Neelin 'has now got •com- fertiably settled in his new office in the public building. The last customs entry made in the old office was for Mr. William Sclater, a car load of coal, and the first in the new office was for the E. McFaul Co., for mer- chandise. er- chandise. • Phil Osifer of LazywMeadows (Ry Harry J. Boyle) 0 "LETTER FROM. HOME" Dear- Joe: I was gltadl to hear from you this your week, .and according to wishes I am going to try and describe for you just what is going n down at the village. Of course,, its much .the same as usual, except tha 'Si Abrams has a gas• punip at his, blacksmith shot, and he's changing ats. now in place of crooked horsesh es, Like all, the other fellewe in ga es:, in ser- vice stations, he declared he isn't making any money, blit e continues to do business': Tim Murphy'® store hs been re- decorated. I't's. mighty sell. looking, but in spite of all that t ere's some- thing lacking . . . tha old barrel rocker we used to have behind the stove and the cracker barrel has gone. Tim says it ain't sanitary to have soda biscuits in rrels any more, and they have to be wrapped in cellophane. About the only place eft in town for loitering is' the grist mill. They., still have a roam set asi a for farm- ers who like to swap yarns, but the old-tlmiers don't hang around like they used to when ..you and I were thawing grist from. the ill' regular- d e t fl 0 rag T h a w h t ba 1 a m regular- From The Huron Expositor November 16, 1888 Mr. S. S. Cooper, of Clinton, states while he was working at Mr. Pick- ard's, Holmesville, ire • with others went out to measure a soft elm true that stands on the farm, and it meas- ured 33 feet 6 latches at the butt. On Monday 'last Mr. Wm. Somer- ville, of the telegraph office, sent a cable message for Mr. A. Cardno to London, England. It was sent from here at 9 a.m. and a reply was re- ceived. at 1.0 minutes to one. Mr. D. D. Wilson -shipped to Vic- toria, British Columbia, this week a car load of eggs and butter, the freight charges on which amounted to over $600. Dr. Rose, of Londesboro, has sold his practice to Dr. Reeves, Jr., of Clinton, who resumes the practice at once. Dr. Rose goes, to Aurora, Ont. Mrs. Wm. Trewin, of Kinburn, met with a serious accident last week. As she and her husband were driving home from Londlesboro on the 5th inst., some one drove against their carriage in the dark, upsetting it and throwing Mrs. Trewin from the rig and breaking her leg at the ankle. The Literary Society at the Colleg- iate Institute was reorganized last week and it was decided to ballot for the offihials. Two parties were form- ed+, the Reds and the. Blues. Mr. Car- ruthers was returning officer, while Mr. Fred Clarkson was scrutineer for the Blue party and Mr. J. T. Dickson for the Reds. The election resulted as follows; President, E. T. Kellam (Blue); vice-pres.,• Miss - M. ' Sloan (Red) ; sec. -tress., D. McDonald (Blue); editorial staff (swept by the Reds), W. McQueen, W. Harwell, Miss M. Devereaux.; committee (srwept by the, Bl'ues), George McKinley, Mise Jessie 'Bethune, Mist W. Killoran. On Saturday last a very painful ac- cident befell one of Mr. Houetoir}} s horses in Tuckensmitle He was en- gaged in taking up his potatoes when his team took fright and ran away. They ram into a barbed wire fence, When one of them, whose neck came in contact ;with the wires, received a terrible gush in the throat. Mrs. .iolrn Smith and sons have leased the premises int town recently occupied by Mr. M. Pillman, lair] in- tend carrying on the carrii.ge and wagon -making business in all its breeches. Mr. Morris htas now one of his greenhuAises erected and stocked and is making preparations for the am- end. Mr. John Wright, a workman on Mr. Widsoril's farm, met with a painful accident on Wednesdlay, When un- hitc'hing a team of borrses front a plow one of the brutes kicked, strik- ing rtriking him in the face. No bones were broken, but a. dot gash was Made by the cork of the shoe at the earner of has eye. i L1 uglhter (fbbl wring reproof) ; '"Oh, Mo or, you are sto early Victorian! MID .la, 1t 38, riot 1937!" ly. Nowadays, it's 'handier to have a fellow pull his chopper into your place and chop the grain right there in the barn. Paddy Whelan still snores in church. About half way through the service his ihead nods,a little, and he blinks his eyes and shakes his head like a walrus coming but of a bath- tub. and sits up for a few minutes as straight as a ramrod. Then down will go the head again, and the first thing you know his chin will be cradled in the top folds of his• vest. Pretty soon the snoring will start and his wife, interested in her, reli- gion as she is, won't notice it. Then at last she pokes him in the midriff, he sits up and starts all over again to shake his head, and blink. The kids around the village still Steal the Levine sisters? front gate and hock id down to the barber shop. I was int town the - morning after Hallowe'en and the spinster Meters were suppressing fire and brimstone and carrying it home. Cyrus Jenks is still night watch- man and he still sleeps in the front of the fire hall. I believe you could steal everything tr the village and he would still sleep on. But nobody bothers 'him because they figure it's been there so long that nobody will ever steal anything anyhow. Deacon Edwards still pastures his cow on the street. It may be the divine right of Deacons to do that, but as long as I can remember, the village people have been going to do something about it, and never quite got around to telling him. He's still reputed to be as wealthy as Midas, and the still goes around with that same black "turned bottle -green" suit with the brown patches on it. About the only event of real im- portance so far this year, was when ;Abe Leremen decided to go to work. You remember how he was called the .laziest man in th_e county, and how he once said he hadn't worked for twenty years. About the time of this European crisis, there was a rumor in the village to the effect that all ur_employed men were going lb be conscripted. Abe waited as long as he could., and so he went .down to 'Pim Murphy's store and got a job de- livering around town. He ambled to part of a day, and then heard that Chamberlain had fixed things up with Hitler. He quit right then, acid Merit back to his roost on the hotel steps. What made Trim feel cheated was the fact ,that Dr, Brown told, )him after thate would•n't have been conscript- ed anyhow because he had tlat feet. Abe was mighty .put out about that, and said it all came about because he acted before he had time to think out all the angles of the case. So you see the village is quite slow and well, and hoping you are the same. Your old friend, Phil Osifer. ® JUST A SMILE OR TWO "When is the next train due?" "In abotit three hours." "And the train in the opposite di- rection?" "Tomorrow afternoon." "Fine, then I think it's now safe for me to cross the rails." • Early last week a gorgeously uni- formed colonel or major of ushers got into"an elevator in the Music Hall and greeted the operator with n austere "Good morning." The operator looked sulky. "You already said 'Good morning,' " he pointed out. "I know," said the other, "but this is official." • "My son wishes to became a cbauf- faur. What do you advise?" ,"Well, personally, I wouldn't stand in his way." Conditions in the West • Mountainside, iMan., Oct. 18. The Editor, The Huron Expositor: , Dear Sir: After the longest period of dry weather known toi the oldest: inhabitants of Southern Manitoba, we are now being steeped in moisture. Three days ago a fine shower came - to break the 60 ellays' draught. Then yesterdays brought fog, snow, rain, 'thunder and lightning, citral) and more rain and snow, which continued all night and well on ln, the forenoon, with the ground covered with three inches of snow, but melting into slush by night. The weather has turned colder—our first cold snap and our first snow. Though very unpleas- ant' and very freakish, this change in the weather is very welcome, as farmers can now "get on the land" which has been too dry for fall plow - On the whole we've Chad a remark- ably fine year, with a mild spring and pleasant summer, probably the best we've known in the West or else- where. September and the first half of this month were warm and sum- mer-like. At. present I have before me on the table a bouquet of sweet peas picked from our garden last week, and some of the trees still have their green leaves, though the past few weeke the woods have been very pretty in their autumn dress. Here in Turtle Mountain the crops were fairly good, Thatcher and Durum wheat aver-agin'g 26 bushels to the acre, with some running as high as 32, but on the prairie the yield was not so good owing to the lack of moisture in July. Since the rust "epidemic" of 1916, farmers have gradually gone over to' rust -resistant varieties. Feed is abundant; in fact sweet. 'clover appeared almost every- where and looks as though it may be- come a nuisance. Gardens were good, with vegetables and small fruits plentiful. Two orchards within a few miles of us had good( yields of apples, crab apples and plums, in addition too the small fruits which are so easily grown in Manitoba. Black walnuts and grapes were also grown in one of these orch- ards. The recent dry years in Western Canada have turned the thoughts of the farmers towards water conserva- tion. Dams and dugouts have been and are being made. Hundreds of these little projects dot the prairie of southwest Manitoba, and the rains of autumn and snows of winter will have them brim full again next spring. Rivers, too, which the drought has dried to mere puddles of water, will fill and ripple along their way. Last spring, under the prairie farm. .rehabilitation program the land was watered with 1,200 dugous, two re- inforced concrete dams on the Souris River, four rack filled crib dams and one hundred earth dams, and the good work continued this year will show next year many more ponds and miniature lakes on land which but a :'tort time ago seemed a "desert in the making." Of Saskatchewan we can say little. A year ago at this time 1 spent a rr^-•1 .. . a::.;atchew'an and Alberta, and though late in the sea- - sen, it was. evident that little or noth- ing had grown. Elevators stood emp- ty, where elevators should never have been, in southeastern Alberta which was at one time a splendid ranching country, but' spoiled by homesteader;: breaking the sod where buffalo grass grew and cured, supplying nutriment to stock in winter, but changed to drifting fields. made worse by the worn' drought known in the, history of the country ---1937. In Saskatchewan I saw fences drift- ed ,high with Russian thistle and sail • where fire homes had been built, when weather was favorable for growth in former years. This year, fro m reports of those who drove through Saskatchewan, came news of a magnificent crop and again hopes ran high, only to be dashed once mare. Rust and hoppers staid their work, and once more came discour- agement and failure to the splendid people of that province. It is 'heart - bet -salting to have stood up against so many trials during the past few years which have brought disaster in so many forms to their crops. Not so many years ago great crops of wheat were harvested on there plains, and this should be a reminder, that vast sums of money went to eastern manufacturers for farm ma- chinery to do the work on these west- ern farms. Not seldom do we hear the remark: "It is the West that made the East." As the ,venerable Negro passed un- der the window on his way home, the mistress intercepted hima. "You are not cutting now, are you, Uncle Henry?" "YacN nt. I's gwine home now." "But why? It isn't five o'clock yet, and you Gan easily finish the work this evening if you just go on and ao "Yarm. Yas'm, I knows dat. But what's de use ob hurry -in'? Dar's 'budder day ter -morrow what ain't natter been tetclied yit," . • - Economist: "Borrowing money is the same as borrowing trouble." Layman: "Except that you can still borrow trouble." • College student's note to room- mate, who had gone out for the evening: "If I'm studying when you „et back, wake me up." • • • Can Act Personally As King .of Canada (Explanation of New Function of George the Sixth by B, K, Sand- well, Editor of Toronto "Saturday Night"). The visit of King George to Canada next year will afford the first oppor- tunity that a British Sovereign has ever enjoyed of functioning directly and personally in 'his capacity as King of Canada, or of any other t'f his autonomous Dominions. We take it for granted that this opportunity will be made use of to the full, and that King George while in this Do- minion will exercise• the functions of Kingship, to the extent of supersed- ing the Governor-Gerieral and taking aver dile functions of that officer in connection with the Canadian Parlia- ment and, Cabinet. if in order to at- tain this end it is necessary for him to appoint himself this own Governor- General, so as to comply with the terms of the British North America Act, we take it that no objection would or could he raised by anybody. But such a devious method seems hardly likely to be necessary. The British North America Aot declares that the executive government of Canada its vested in the King, 'and that the provisions of the Act refer- ring to the Governor-General extend and apply to the individual possess- ing the title of Governor-General "or other chief executive officer or ad- ministrator for the time being carry- ing on the government of Canada on behalf and in the name of the King, by whatever title he is .designated." This surely leaves ample room for the King to function as "chief execu- tive officer" on Inds own behalf anal in his own tame. The command .of the armed fonces of the Dominion has al- ways been 'vested in the King, and was never transferred to the Gover- nor•General.. * * a The British North America Aot did not expressly contemplate exercise by the King of the powers vested in the Governor-General, for the very sim- ple reason that they were then sim- ply the powers of a delegated and in- structed officer of the British Goa ersumentt. If King Edward VII had visitedi Ca.niada while he was upon the throne, he could, not have taken the place of tihe Governor-General, for he could dot witthout British authorizer tion have functioned in oon'Tuection with the Parliament anxb Cabinet of the Doinindsbn. That Parliament and Cabinet required somebody to ftinc- ttiom with, them who was a .responsible tservamt of the Dr'itthali Gowermtnent, Sall* under' inatritictionsrim that tlti'reramea . 'Tot'fai all+tjtat•ili ehan* ed. - The actual preserve of King George in the Dominion of Canada, and his performance of all the duties and ex- encise of all the prerogatives attach-• intg 'to the Kingship of Canada, will bring this situation to light in a dra- matic manner to that it can scarce- ly continue to be misunderstood by even the most casual observer. It is an interesting question, however, whether the new situation having been once registered by the King's performance of the functions of Head of the State in this Dominion, we ought ever again to revert to the ma- chinery and terminology of the old systeml—a machinery and terminology which have been left unchanged al- though the whole conetitution'al posi- tion which they represent has been radically altered. It might well be assumed hence- forth that the natural and normal state of affairs in Canada its that the King is personally present in the Do- minion and exercises his Royal func- tions, thus reversing the present as- sumption, which is that a delegate normally nepresenhs him and leis ac- tual presence is exceptional. This would require an alteration of the text of the British North America. Aot. In the absence of the King the normal procedure, in these changed ciircu.mstances, would be to vest in a body of Commissioners these, of tite Crown's powers Which must be cap- able of being' continuously exercised at Ottawa, such ia.s the giving of as- sent to legislation. Thie is the de- vice employed M. Great Britain, and its use would• tend to establish more clearly than ever the complete paral- lelism between- the British ,and Cana- dian monarchies,. * * * It would then be possible for His Majesty to send out to Canada once or twice a year, for a brief visit and not for residence, a member of the Royal House or one of the great no- blemen of Britain to fu.nctie-n, not as a Governer -Genrera.l, which title would become extinct, but as a visiting Viceroy and personal representative of the Crown Many indiviiduals would be available for such temporary du- ties who could not possibly be secur- ed to serve as a • Governor-Clemeral 'tn residence. Such a, pieced:we would, slid Ito the dignity of government in (aanadha and strengthen the realiza- tion of Canada's allegiance to the Croatia, while removing,1he last ---and neW entirely misleading—vestiges of tdanit mated On Page 9). After returning from; a vis'i't to On- tario a few years ago, I was asked by .one wee had lived there many years ago, if 1 would like to go back there to live. As I had not thought particularly of this before, I hesitated for x moment before giving utterance to the thought which arose in my mind: "I tbink I like the spirit of the WeStem people bettel•." "Yes," said my elderly friend, "they are more used to the ups and downs." And, this is, indeed, a fact. Last fall many people came from Southern Saskatchewan to get feed for their stock and. some remainted, feeding t'h'eir stook through the win- ter. Others. came looking for work in harvest and threshing. Some have remained to work; a few have rented farms or bought fat-nis on crop pay- ments. In conversation with a rancher farmer from Wood Mountain, the .emrbject of Ontario was brought up, and speaking of Ns people who want- ed him to return to his native prov- It ee, he said.: "The Ontario people• don't know what, we've been going through; they couldn't eternal it, they'd go Huila'!" Still., be )had no desire to go back there. He lilted the West wiklil itsi greatopen! spaces, and pre- fanred Ida remelt fife and had faith ' that better tomes would came. • •Unforttrmtately, much land which was not settable for fattaleg was take to tlini ed• ea 'age 0) )t asSitl 41. 1•. A A A