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The Huron Expositor, 1939-05-12, Page 2r` '•1 • 4; ptr• • er'.• '#•;• 4*), oe • n xiblosiitor stablished 1860 fltcPhaiI McLean, Editor. Oiled at Seaforth, Ontario, ev- ursday afternoon by McLean , AFORTH, Friday, May 12, 1939. When Should This Session Of Parliament End? Quite a general discussion has arisen and is finding expression through the Canadian papers, as to the advisability, or non -advisability, of the present Dominion session of Parliament concluding its labors be- fore the King starts out on his Can- adian tour. There are those who claim that with little extra exertion the mem- bers could easily wind up the busi- ness, fold up their tents and depart to their respective homes before this expected event, without causing any monetary loss to the country at large. On the other hand, there are those who claim that the country's busi- ness is much more important than the visit of the King and Queen or anything else, and that the country's business and the welfare of the Can- adian public would suffer severely by the closing of Parliament now. Undoubtedly, there is still a good deal of important legislation still to consider. But the point stands out hat political bickering and long - drawn out discussion does not add to the good or evil of the legislation, nor to the dignity and welfare of the nation. If there is still time to give proper consideration to the impending leg- islation in committee, it makes very little difference to the welfare of the country and its people, how much time is given to it on the floor of the House.. Time given to important questions on the floor of the House is import- ant, of course. Particularly so when there is Hansard to record and broadcast it. But if the time wasted on the floor of the House ,during the past few months had been devoted to the proper consideration of legis- lation instead of to politics, the la- bors of Parlint W9uld already be for this session. ' TierhAp it ig not good business to rush through measures in the closing hours of a session, but it has always been done, and undoubtedly it will continue that way. As a matter of fact, however, we doubt very much if it will make a single particle of difference to anyone across broad Canada whether the present session of Parliament ends now or two months from now. Professional pol- iticians excepted, of course. • Eventually, Whp Not Now ? Last Saturday evening, following the first really warm day we have had this spring, was almost a perfect evening from the weather point of view. As a consequence, town people, and more particularly, country peo- ple, took full advantage of it to come into town to do their week's shop- ping, to see the show, or just to see what others were doing. So many came in, in fact, that the congestion of traffic on Main Street made driving not only slow, but in a great many instances actually dan- gerous. And that was the first Sat- urday night of a long series of Sat- urday nights that will follow through the summer when traffic congestion will increase with the warm weather and holiday season. That situation is not peculiar to Seaforth. Every town in the county has experienced it in the past few years, and every town will continue to experience it in increasing volume until some action is taken to remedy this dangerous congestion. Eventually, every town council will have to grapple with the question and arrive at some solution, or make some attempt, at least, to do it. Why not now? We know it is a ticklish question, but putting it off is not going to help matters any. Rather will delay force a day of reckoning and perhaps a very expensive day for the town, or a very tragic or regrettable day for Acme citizens of the town or county. ' Altman nature is pretty much alike. And pretty Waal, in its vidual similiarity.Every pe son wants to park their ear Where and when they please, and stay parked as long as it suits their convenience. But every person does not for a moment acknowledge the right of ev- ery other person to claim the same privilege. The present policy is— First come, first served, and the dev- il take the hindermost. Well, the devil will. It is nothing short of a miracle that he has not done it long ago. It is this touchiness of human na- ture that has, in all probability, kept municipal councils from dealing with Main Street parking on Saturday nights long before this. They hesi- tate to offend. They are afraid that people who are unable to get their own way in their town will go to some other town. And perhaps they wilL But it is not good for people to get their own way all the time. In fact, no person ever has. They would not in this case either if all the town councils, even those in this county, would adopt identical regulations governing Saturday night parking. In which case the 'discontents would very soon find that they were treated just as well in their own town as in any other, and would, undoubtedly, decide to stay at home. It is becoming more apparent ev- ery year that all towns will soon have to place a time limit on all park- ing privileges on their Main -Streets on Saturday nights during the sum- mer months, and in order to do this it will be necessary for all towns to provide a,mple public parking space, and provide also ample attendants to supervise and ensure safety, All town authorities realize not only the danger to the public, but the loss business is sustaining under the present situation, but likewise all town councils realize the unpopular- ity and possible still further loss of business which would result by be- ing the first to introduce parking regulations to cover present day needs. As we say, all town councils are riding in the same boat. Therefore we can not see why some effort could not' be put forth to arrange a get- together. Eventually it has to be done. Why not do it right now? The Watch Did Not Always Have A Pocket You keep your watch in a watch pocket, of course. But do you know that the watch did not always have a pocket of its own? Or that watch- es used to be worn hanging from a chain, sometimes two of them, one hanging on either side of the wearer.. There were other places where watches used to be worn too. One of these places was on a coat, like buttons. Away back in 1781, a French Duke is described as wearing watch- es as fastenings for his coat, and the same idea was adopted by a French Count, who travelled from Lyons to some other place in France in an op- en carriage wearing six watches as buttons to his overcoat And watches used to be worn in rings. And there is one in an Ameri- can collection to -day that was so small that it was worn as a shirt stud. It was the Puritans in England who put the watch as well as so many other things and persons, in its pro- per place. To them we owe the hab- it of keeping a watch in a pocket. The Puritans didn't like display, and this dislike induced them first of all to conceal their watches from the public gaze. The Puritan put his in a "fubbe," an old German name which meant a small pocket and which came to be known as a watch pocket, and from that same old Ger- man name we have the word "fob," which is now a part of the English language. As far as the watch is concerned, most of us are Puritans now. There was a time when women used to wear them round their necks or pinned on like -a medal, and they are starting to wear them that way again too. There is nothing a woman will not do for style. Soldiers, doctors, druggists and bankers, unlike the, old time Puritan exterminators, very often wear their watches on their wrists, but most men, like ourself, are out and out Puritans. When our watches are not in hock, we wear them in a "fubbe." , '• •. • • . • ., *1 Osifer of Lazy Meadows • • • InteraatInn Items Picked From The Huron Expositor of Fifty and Twenty-five Years Ago. • (By Harry J. BoYle) From The Huron Expositor May 15, 1914 /Fire in the sawmill yard at Fiord- wich early Sunday morning did con- eiderable damage. It was started in the saw dust pile. The loss is a heavy one. Mrs. J. G. Mallen, of Phoenix, B. C., is here visiting her parents, Mr- and Mrs. L. gMcFaul. Mrs. F. H. Larkin, Mrs. A. Wilson, Mrs. A. Young, :Mrs. M. Y. McLean, Mrs. Carswell, Miss Govenlock and Miss Graham are in Toronto this week attending the annual meeting of the Women's Foreign & Home issionary Societiea. A epeeist meeting of the Ttic.ker- smith township ,couneil was held in the cormen chamber in Seaforth on Saturday last with all the members present On motion of Thomas Cole- man and James Cameron, the follow- ing were appointed pormdkeepere and fenceviewers: Walter Rogerson, Leo- pold VanEganond, Fred Nott, Sam Carnoenen, Ed. Pappte, Henry For sythe. Thomas Kylis, David McOIoy and Peter Cleary; fenceviewers, WR. - Senellie, Pearson Chesney, James: B. McLean, David McCloy, Henry Pea- cock, Alex Broadfoot, John' Oldfield and Alex Buchanan. Seaforth has engaged the 48th High - Zanders Band of Toronto to play Isere for the Old Boys' Reunion. Mr. Willeiam niturdie, son of Mr. M. ndurdie, Clerk of MeKillop, has com- pleted his course at the School, of Practical Science in Toronto and is now an engineer and land surveyor. Mr. Arthur Forbes has started the summer campaignwith his ditching machine and he informs us that he has a full summer's work ahead of him. Mr:a W. Mackay, of Halifax, Nova Scotia, was here visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. John Dodda. Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Free have tak- en up their residence in the comfort- able and, cosy cottage of Mr. Richard Wright on Sperling St. Mr. Peter O'Sullivan shipped a car load of mixed cattle to Montreal on Saturday'. Mr. Hawk:Thaw, of Lucan, is Mr. DeLacey's successor as manager of Ogilvies Mills. Mr. James Dunsford, who has had charge of Mr. Box's furniture store here foe some time, has purchased a business itt Clinton. Miss Dorsey, who for several years, has been stenographer and bookkeep- • er in the office of Ogilvie Mills here, has resigned her position. The vintagers of Bengali are look- ing forward with much interest to Saturday of this week when the vote is to be taken for the building of a new town ball on the fine site on Main St. • "SPRING FIRES" • .That is there about Spring that makes a woman want to start a bon- fire? Is it some throwback from prim - Alive days, when the caveman ventur- ed forth and while the animate had a glossy hide, stew one, skinned, it and brought it home to make a new Spring outfit for Mr. and Mrs:. Caveman. Then I suppose they had a bonfire, feeling that it was safer to :burn the old hides, than to venture sending them out to a local cleaning and neessing emporium. • It was at dinnertime today that I foresaw what was coming. Mrs. Phil, usually one who takes time with her meals, was hurrying through. I was still on meat and potatoes when, she drained the last of her tea, and then win], a hurried excuse went out in the backnatel. An errant Spring breeze supplied the answer to whatever cur- iosity I may have shad, by sending in a huge cloud of smoke. When I finished my meal it was to find Mrs. Phil raking all the chips in sight into tile bonfire. Now that's all right! I like to see everything tidied up for Spring, but what 1 hate is when she starts looking for material :for that fire in the house. Sure enough, when I was halfway through a pipeful of tobacco, she came out with the first armful of stuff . . . and the battle was on . . "Look at that good hat, why are you burning it?" "Because it's no pos- sible use to you, and besides you haven't worn it for two years." For fully ten minutes the argument raged about the het. True enough the hat is too small for me, and it does look sort of faded, but my contention was that it was too good to throw away. Books, magazines, papers, an old overcoat. She was the prosecution and I was the defense lawyer. My strongest argument was that the stuff was too good to throw away. The papers . . . well. I saved thorn to read a certain article. The fire waxed stronger, and the From The Huron Expositor May 17, 1889 Mr. John Kerr, of McKillop, near Winthrop, met with a serious accident one day last week by falling from a hay loft. Mr. CeC.a ter, who was injured a few weeks ago his (horse running away at Fulton's otel, north of Sea - forth, has entire1 recovered. Out of some sixty candidates for the second intermediate examination :iheld before the Law Society at To- : • : canto last week, thirty-eight ,passed. Among the successful, W. C. Mackay, who le studenag with Mr. Holmsted of this town, passed very creditably. While liaise Ida Ferris, of Oarlock, daughter of R. Ferris, was coming down stairs, she fell and broke one arm and disjointed the other. The barn of Mr. R. Meters, of Chis- elhurst, was strucle by lightning dur- ing the recent stone_ A young girl, daughter of Mr. Jos. Stamen, of Leadbury, wasseverely bitten on both her arms and' legs. by a dog. During the progress of the thunder storm on Friday morning lightning struck the barn and stable of Mr. Ed- ward McNamara, botelkeeper of Lead/Any, and both were :consumed. Ae Mr. Witham Treble, of Exeter, was engaged raising a frame cottage on the second concession, of Biddiulph, a serious accident occurred. A young man named Robert Faull, whose par- ents live in that towmship, was assist- ing and was under the building when the support gave way and he was frightfully crushed. A bans about fire miles west of Ex- eter, belonging to Mr. Joseph Harvey, of Exeter, wan also struck by light- ning and burned; to the ground with about 44 bushels of grain. Mr. Al- fred Allen, who was about ten rods from Handford's thouse, was knocked down) but not hurt seriously. Aa an evidence of the extensive business being done at the Broadfoot & Box Furniture Oompay iii this town, we may state that they now have on their 'books orders ahead for over_ten carloads of furniture. A meeting of the Township of Tuck- ersmith Sohool Booed was held in Eg- mendvilfle on Wednesday last. The Board concludied not to build, the wood shed anti water closet addition to the new :schoolhouse. The tender from Thomas McKenzie for $782 was ac- cepted en condition that the townahip council do not fail to raise funds Mr. James McGill', who lives near Kitt:burn, lest a valuable Clydesdale mare last week from inflammation. At a meeting of the Seeforth coun- cil held on Wednesday evening, the appointment of Mr. Jasl. R. Wright as chief of the fire brigade was; confirm- ed. The tender of L. McDonald & Co. of Walton, was accepted elm $9 and ceder $11 per thousand. A new school sectioii has been form - :ed• in McKillop with Roxboro as, its centre. A meeting was held last week for the purpose of organizing, and the officers are as follows: Trustees', Messes, Thos. E. Heys, Jas. McDow- ell and John McMIIIan, Jr. The new. school: will be built on, Mr. Jas. Scott's farm and will likely be oPposite Jno. Ai tcheson's. pile of stuff that I had retrieved grew -bigger around me. Thee- came the umbrella. About three yearego, I was walking home from the village when I saw this umbrella lying in the dump, down by the first swale. I picked It. up and because tt looked not too bad I brought it home with me. Mrs. Phil scoffed at the idea that it could be any 000d, because the cloth all came off the ribs when I put the thing up, but I maintained that an umbrella frame was better than no- thing. Each year we have a row over whether that umbrella should be kept or noL Teed year we came danger- ously close to a real row. Well, sir, that umbrella showed 'up today and there was really fireworks. In desperation at ray arguments to keep 'the umbrella, ehe walked into the house and told me to do 'Wleatever I wanted with the whole mess (If junk —as she termed it. had time with cooler reason to examine the whole thing in detail. Im- partially I examined the whole af- fair, and somehow there didn't seem to be much reason for keeping a lot of it. So I weeded it out. An old pair of shoes 'without soles . . . the old torn coat . . . the old hat . . . the old papers because I couldn't think of what there was in them that I want- ed to see . . . the old" magazines because some of them were musty— and: before I realized it I was back down to the umbrella. Now to throw all of it in the fire would be conceding defeat. So I slip- ped into the back woodehed and hung the umbrella frame up in there. I Made a mental note to cover it with cloth before 'next year, but I have a suspicion that it will bob up next year when the spring fire tseason, comes: around. A person does gather up a lot of stuff in the year, and I guess if Mrs. Phil didn't take it in her head, to have a fire in, the Spring, I'd have to rent another house to store the stuff in. Anyway I still have the umbrella frame: .It wasn't all defeat! : JUST A SMILE OR TWO: He: "The doctor told me a year ago that I must give up smoking or 'I should become feebleminded." She: '"Why didn't you, then?" • Lady: "I wish to exchange this dinner gong for something else," Seletegirl: "'Cann you use it?" Lady: "No; my husband and sons are at the table before I have a ehamee to Strike it." • Miss Durcum: "I'm sorry to hear of your motor accident" Miss Dumimer: "Oh, thanks; it's nothing. I expect Jto nye through many more." Miss Dumm: "Oh, I hope not." Pat worked at a factory where the staff was encouraged to think of ideas for the smoother running of the business. One morninghe was shown into the chairman's office and announced that he had thought of a way of insuring that ne one would be late in future. "That soundsgood," said the ohair- man. "How do you propose to do it?" "Sure, that's aisy, ir," said Pat. "the last man in blows the whistle." • - She: "Did you ever kiss a girl un- der the mistletoe?" He: "No, I never bothered with their feet at all." • Personal Paragraphs • • • Bernard Shaw Bernard Shaw's name first became familiar to the general public as the result of scurrilous attacks:, disguised as interviews, made upon him by a seotion of the London evening prese The interviewer would force his way into Shaw's modest apartment, appar- ently for no other purpose than: to bully and insult Lim. Many people maintained that Shaw must be an imaginary personage. Why did he ,stand it? Why didn't he kick t he interviewer downstairs? Failing that, why didn't he call in the police? It seemed difficult to belieVe in the existence of a being so Ohristian as this poor persecuted, Shaw appeared to be. Everyone talked about him. As a matter of fact, the interviews were written by Shaw himself—Jer- ome K. Jerome, My Life and Times (Harper). 'Mark Twain People, who claim to know say that smoke the worst cigars in the world. But observe what superstition, assist- ed by a man's reputation, will do. One night I was to have, 12 friends to ;sup- per, one of them as notorious for cost- ly cigars as I was for cheap and dev- ilish ones. I called at his house and when no one was looking borrowed a double handful of his very choicest eigars which cost him 40 cents apiece and bore red -and -gold labels in sign of their nobility. I removed the lab- els and put the cigars in the box of my favorite brand—a brand which those people all knew, and which cowed them completely. At the end of supper, when cigars were offered, they took them, lit them and struggled with them in dreary sil- ence for a short tiine. Thea they made .excuses and filed out, treading on one smother's, heeis with indecent 'eagerness. In the morning I found all the cigars between the door and the front gate, except one—which lay ie the plate of the man frorn whom I had cabbaged the lot. He told me afterward that some day I would: get shot- for giving people that kind of cJiga.r to smoke. ---Samuel Clemens, What is Man? (Harper). Georges Clemenceau One day in a little village in the East Indies, I noticed a little statu- ette, and said to the dealer, "I like your statuette. How much is it?" "Because it's yOu," he answered, "75 rupees." "Because it's I," I answared, "I of - ler you .45 rupees for it." He raised this hands to heaven. "Forty-five rupees! You're making fun, of me. What if anyone happened to hear of it?" "Forty-five rupees," I said - Then he made a fine gesture of in- dignation. "Impossible. ;I'd rather ,give it to You." "Agreed!" I took the statuette, stuffed it into my pocket, and said, "You are extraordinarily, kind, and I thank you. But it is quite evident that ,this, gift Can only corne from a '•• A Fact tel About Cctizado, (From, the Dopelen Bureau of Salk:tics) CANADA AND FRENCH AFRICA The French colonial empire in, South Africa 1 extensive. It includes Tunisia, Algeria, the Federation of French West Africa, French Equator- ial Africa, French East Africa, Mada- gascar and its dependencies. The area is almost equal to that of the Do- minion of Canada and the population is over 32,000,000 souls, more than 1,000,000 being of European, origin:. Of France's African colonies, per- haps the masa prominent in ,the pub- lic mind is Tunisia. Tape history of Tunisia begins with the establishment of the Phoenician colonies. The Panic settlers semitized th,e coast, but after the Romans entered into the 'heritage of the Carthaginiane, the Punic speech. and civilization gave way to Latin. Tunisia formed part of the territory wthich the Romans celled Carthage. After that there were -Arab. and Ber- ber dnnastiee. Tunis, the capital, was a flourishing eity, particularly in: the manufacture of fine clotla The conquest of Algiers by the Turks gave a dangerous western neighbor to Tunisia, culminating in a Turkish conquest, followed by a Span- ish, occupation, anel again a Turkish conquest. Under the Deys and: Beys (Turkish rulers) Tunisia was essen- tially a pirate etate. The release'- of all Christian slaves was not effected' until after the historic bombardment of Algiers and may be dated from the •collective note of the Europe -ant pow- ers in 1819. The French began to regard the do- minions of the Bey as a natural adjunct to Algeria, but after the Crim- ean War Turkish rights over the reg- ency were revived. After the Franco- German War the embarrassed Bey turned to Great Britain for advice, and a British diplomatic agent was at the, court of Tunis until 1879. Just before that the British government agreed: to allow France a "free handl" in Tunisia in return for Frendhacquiescence in the British lease of Cyprus. In 1881 the country was brought completely under French protectorate. The year before that, the Itelia.rus had purchass ed the British railway from Tunis' to Goletta. As France has no surplus population most of the immigrants to French Africa are Italians. Centuries before, the country was settled: by Jews who moved to this part of the world when it was still a Turkish pos- session, where they had a better chance to survive than under Ohris- tian rule. They still form, a large part of the population. Tunisia extends southward to the Sahara. It has an area of 45,000 square miles, nearly as large as: Nova Scotia and New Brunswick combined. There are 2% million inhabitants, of whom 91,500 are French civilians and 91,200 Italians. Tunis itself alas a pop- ulation of 203,000. The valleys of the northern region support large flocks and herds and contain rich agricultural areas, grow- ing Wheat, barley and oats. The vine and olive are extensively cultivated_ The principal exports are phosphates, olive oil, wheat and esparto grass_ Eighty per cent. of Tunisia's trade is with France and Algeria. Last year Canada's imports, Dora French Africa amounted to $56,500 and exports to that' country were valuedl at $150,000. We obtained iron ore, Oriental carpets, olives, olive oil:, a vast quantity of canary seed, much: salt, wines, furs, etc. friend to a friend. Consequently you won't take it amiss if I in turn make you a gift." "Naturally not." "Well, there are 45 rupees to use in good works." He took them, and we parted, en- chanted with each other. ,— Georges Clemenceau, by Jean Mattet (Long- mans, Green). Samuel Goldwyn Samuel Goldwyn and his ace direc- or, William Wyler, cannot get along either with, or without, each other. Twice Wyler has walked out on Gold- wyn in the middle of a picture, and twice Goldwyn has called him back Now, when the two fiery personalities ()outer over important problems, each deposits on the desk b'efore them a $100 bill. The one who, raises his voice first forfeits the mtmey. It works.—Fnskine Johnson. Dwight Whitney Morrow The late Dwight Morrow, who was very absent-minded, was once reading earnestly on a train when the conduc- tor asked for his ticket. Frantically Mr. Morrow searched for it. "Never mind, Mr. Morrow," the conductor said. "Wben you find it, mail it to the company. I'm certain you have it." "I know IN have it," exploded Mr. Morrow. "But what I want to know is, where in -the world am 1 going?" William Lyon Phelps Having to speak at a public dinner in Chicago, I found my place at that pi I tory of torment, the speakers' table; and there, seeing a magnificent man in evening dress, I gave him my name and grasped his hand with wihnt cordiality I could command. "I'm the headwaiter, sir," he re- plied. "nhake hands again, old man," I cried. "You don't know how I envy you!"—Autobiograph.y (Oxford Uni- versity Press) Ignace Jan Padereweki I shall alway-s believe that Cockey Roberts, a parrot who used to come regularly to my room when I was practicing, was really interested it my playing. If I had closed the door. he would knock sharply with his beak. I would: keep very quiet and he would knock again, a little harder. "Who is there?" I would call out. An angry Voice would answer, "Cockey Rob- erts." "Who?" I would say, pretend - tug not, to understand, and that angry shrill little voice, would come again: "Cockey Roberts! Cockey Roberts!" Of course I bad to let him in after that, and he would walk straight to the piano and ,perch on my foot for hours; the pedaling—and mY pedaling is very strenuous—did not seem to disturb him in the least. He would sit on top of my foot, and from time to time he would say in a very loving amid scratchy voice, "Oh, Lord, how beautiful! How beau ti fu I Ah, it was touching.. Ignace Jain Paderewskr and Mary Lawton, The Padereweki Memoirs (Scribnen). Seen in the County Papers Closing Linwood -Listowel Line Approximately 31 years of C. P. R. service •between Linwood and Lis- towel will end on Saturday, May 13th, it was reliably repooted. Rumors of abandoning the line had been preva- lent for some time. Amy hope of con- tinuing it was dispelled a few weeks ago when the board of transport com- missioners approved its closing. Now' word has been, received from C. P. R_ headquarters that the line will be dis- continued on May 13th.—Blyth tau- dard. Theatre For Mitchell Announcement has been made at Mitchell that that town is to have as motiOn picture theatre as an addition to the Sutherlaind chain that now serves Goderich, Clinton, Sea -forth and St. Marys. A property has already been, purchased and construction work on the new theatre building will com- mence at once.—Goderich Signal -Star, Goderich Girls Graduate Miss Mary Acheson, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. R J. Acheson and Miss Alma O'Brien, daughter of Mr. awn Mrs. D. M. O'Brien, were members of this year's class of nurses graduating at St. Josephn Hospital, London. The graduation exercises on Tuesday eve - fling were, attended by Mr. and Mrs. Acheson, Mr. and Mrs. O'Brien, Dr_ ;and Mrs. J. M. Graham and Misses Irene Fellow, Mary Baecbler, Audrey Dowiker and Marjorie Calder.—Gode- rich Signal -Star. • Little Daughter Dies 'The youngest child of. Mr, and) MrS, Percy Hewitt, Lorena Gertrude, aged three years, two months and 21 days, passed' away Wednesday of last week, pneumonia being the eal.10(3. The child had been 111 about a week and a half- -Exeter Times -Advocate. 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