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The Huron Expositor, 1939-11-10, Page 2fc: 4:S • • moron Expositor r Established 1860 eith .1VIcPhail McLean, Editor. Published at Seaforth, Ontario, ev- ry. Thursday afternoon by McLean Bros. Subscription rates, $1.50 a yeah in advance; foreign, $2.00 a year. Single copies, 4 cents each. Advertising rates on application. BEAFORTH, Friday, November 1k About Patronage The bestowal of government fav- ors in the form of government patronage on government stalwarts • and followers, is a practise as old as the ages, hence it is not a practise that has been exclusively followed by any one pplitical party, either in Canada or elsewhere. The practise, old. as it is, however, has always been a trouble maker and a disturber of the peace, although each government, as it came into power, followed precisely the meth- ods adopted by its predecessor. It seems that when it comes to a ques- tion of patronage, the ins are al- ways sinners and the outs are al- ways saints. And the patronage question is causing a disturbance in political cir- cles right now. Last week Dr. Man- ion;t'Leader of the Conservative Op- position, in a public statement, ac- cused the King Government of polit- ical favoritism in awarding govern- ment contracts. According to letters received by him from his own politi- cal followers, no person or firm• with Conservative leanings, had been able to secure a government contract, be- cause no person or firm without the necessary Liberal leanings, was be- ing recognized. On the other hand, Premier King replied that he is being flooded daily with letters fro his own supporters complaining, and bitterly too,, that the government is not recognizing its, own followers in the matter of contracts, but is awarding them all to followers of the Conservative; party. We rather believe and certainly hope that the complaints of both these political partisans are justified. Because if they are it goes to show rather plainly that no powerful polit- ical favorites on either sides of the fence are dictating the spending pol- icy of the Government, but that the few contracts that have already been let by the Government depart- ments have been let on the merits of the contracts themselves and not through the powerful political pull of would- be contractors on either or both sides of politics. We hope, however, that Dr. Man- ion will continue his protests on the contract question, because Premier King has announced that he will give full investigation, on the floor of the House, of every specific f charge of patronage in the letting of Government contracts That is the, place, and the only place, where the people of the country can sit on the jury and render the verdict. Knowing these things, Premier King is not only 'too Ioyal a Cana- dian, but too astute a politician to let patronage in his own or any other government department, gain the upper hand, or to even grow careless in that respect. 1"heree.are- those, of course, you �• see in this patronage question a.n ex- cuse for a Union Government. But we are not one of those.. Nor do ,we , believe that any one who has stti`idied the patronage history of Union Gov- ernment during the last war tend to- that way of thinking either. In theory, Union Government is •a Utopia, but in practise it is Some- thing else again. And very much so. If Mr: Kings is wilIiing to accept the respan ibility 'of government at this time and Dr. Manion is ding to ac- cept the responsibility of leading a nstru t ire . sod ,loyal Opposition, Liana wand the Canadian people will a re deer( +r y tetter than either otild mei~i ate of government the eon set bu ial ,division - "(i?�'e'tvki • THE HURON EXPOSITOR ti on each side, and leaving the coin - mon people to settle the bill after the war was over. • Quite True The Peterboro Examiner says: "One man stole a dozen shirts which were displayed in front of a store in Tillsonburg. The proper way to sell +shirts is to keep them inside the store and use the local newspaper to tell folk about 'them." That is the truth, the whole truth, and nothing else but. But how few merchants believe it, o�r will try it out to test its truth. How many merchants will go to the trouble of carrying out goods to the front of their stores to make a display, and at the same time run the risk of having some or all .stolen, a happened the man in Tillsonburg. And how many more will spend a day or two a week in dressing a store,window to draw the attention of those passing by. That is busi- ness, of course, and real business too. But how many would spend a quarter of that time in writing a readable advertisement that would be seen by twenty-five for every one that actually passed the store win- dow, and studied by fifty to one who stopped to study the store window. And how many more would come into a town when invited by real ad- vertisements to do so, instead of leaving it to chance that some day some one will' see a store front or a store window. Of course all merchants are not 'of the Tillsonburg kind, but if you count them up, you will find there are quite a few. And there are quite a few more who are willing to let the other fellow do the advertising, and then wonder why the other fellow's store draws more people than theirs do. No merchant and no merchant's store is so well known that he can rely on window dressing alone. Eaton and Simpson are household words across Canada, still Eaton's and Simpson's do more advertising than all the country merchants put together. Why? Well, that is the way these firms became household names across Can- ada. The way .they built up their business, and the way they continue to draw the bulk of their customers from the country. In other words, because it pays to advertise. • ,inventions For Winter The Americans are an inventive people. There is no doubt about that. Still more, they are, appar- ently, seasonable inventors, as a list of patents issued from the Patent Office in Washington on November second confirms. And these are the inventions and the inventors whose minds have turned to the question of keeping warm: A bedclothes adjuster—a gadget which promises to keep them straight. It is the idea of Herman B. James, of Los Angeles. A coverlet with flaps—a device which makes kicking the covers off or losing them in the night impos- sible. It was thought up by Eugene R. Weisbender, of Manhattan, Kan- sas. An electric hotwater bottle heater —eliminating the middle of the,,night chill when " the hotwater bottle has lost its warmth—patented °by Riley Emery Larkey, of Kansas City, Mis- souri. We do not know if these patents are on the market yet and ready for winter use or not, but just in case, we would remind you that we have a Winter over here and a real one too. But heretofore we have followed a very general plan to ensure more or less warmth in the winter months acid there is not patent on it either. It consists of banking up the house ; putting on the double windows and doors; filling the coal bin full of coal or the woodshed full of wood, and then sitting back and waiting. It is never a long wait. Not near- ly as long as waiting for spring, but we always seem to survive somehow, and we guess we will again this win- ter, even if we don't have any of these .new American inventions for to help keep us warm. Years Agone Interesting Items Picked From The Huron Exglositor et Fifty and Twentyflvi Years Ago. From The Huron Expositor November 20, 1914 • Mr. William Snell; son of Mr. Jas. Snell, the well known stack man of Mullett, is work serving with the, first contingent of Canadian Volunteers in England. ,The cantata, "Olivet to Calvary," presented in First • Presbyterian Church on Monday last, was a spl u - did success_ Among those who assist- ed in the special parts were Miss B. Monson, Miss Isabel Scott and Messrs. H. Nixon, Percy King, G. White and W. T. Hays_ Mr. Irwin Halliard, K_C., who has been selected by the Conservatives of Dundas County as the successor in the representation of that county to Sir James Whitney, was in his young days a resident of Seaforth. Miss C'lar'a• B. McKinley has been appointed a member of the Listowel High School as a teacher of Moderns. 'Sunday School Class No. 10 in First Presbyterian Church, taught by Miss Janet Scott, responded to the call for help and comfort of the soldiers and donated 2 pairs of wristlets and a pair of sox. The class consists. of Harold McNeil), Gorden Hays, Jack Scott, Reggie Kerslake, C. Smith, Claude Patterson and Gordon Dick. Mr. Jerry Case is joining the sec- ond contingent of volunteers for ov- erseas, He left for Ottawa this week. On Friday evening last a very pleas- ant time was spent in Box's Restaur- ant by the mtemibers of the Young 1 Men's Class of the Methodist Churoh, who had gathered for the purpose cf giving Mr. Ernest Brooks, a Valued anembsr of the class, a farewell re- ception befar+e his departure to Eng- land. Mr. Brooke intends to spend the winder in England and he inay en- list while there. Mr. Henderson Troyer, of Magnet- awan, shot a fine deer which weighed over 200 pounds and sent it to his Mother, Mrs.. James Troyer. Mr. Roy Nelsen had it in his window on exhi- bition for a few days. Rev. J. W. Baird, of Mitchell, de- livered, his lecture on tthe Great War in the Methodist Church on Friday evening last. The lecture was illus- trated with limelight views and was very instructive- During the evening Rev. A. W. Barker},. Frank Cluff, Miss- es Lila Hammett, Gertrude Reid, H. French and Gertrude Reid a n d Messrs. Miller and Fright contributed patriotic songs. Tlie Seaforth com- pany of the 33rd Battalion attended and mtade a fine showing. Miss May Patterson, a Toronto, contributed the solo, "My Ain Folk," with pleasing effect at the concert held in First Presbyterian Church here last week •••, • From The Huron Expositor November 45,, 1889 On Friday of last week Mr. S. Htinchley threshed on the farm of Mr. John Hinchley, Sr_, in Hullett, fifteen acres of wheat and barley in two hours. Thr, feeding was done by Mr. John A. Staples and Mr. Jahn Brit- ton. Dr. Coleman is having the old foun- dry building on Main St., Seaforth, re- built and it is said a foundry will be started. therein'. The annual plowing match of the Hibbert Plowing Association was held) on tthe farm of Mr. Smale, near Staffs, on Wednesday. The prizes were awarded as follows: Extra class, Joselrh Connolly, Munroe, plow; 2rd., James Hoggarth, Munroe; first class men, Alex Miller, Munroe; Alex Stewart, .Mu.n•roe; first class boys with iron plows, James, F. Scott, Yen - dale plow; second class llbys in stub- ble, James Gardiner, Verity's Hills Patent plow-; Oswald Wacker, same plow; Thomas Scott, same plow. About a m•ontth ago a bright little boy three years of age, son of Mr. Henry SLel ck, who resides near Blake, was amusing himself driving a yearling colt with a whip. The colt kicked, inflicting a terrible Wound on the forehead. Subsequently lock jaw set in and then inflammation of the brain and he passed away on the 7th inst. The following is the result of the elections •at the Collegiate Institute last week: President, Miss M. 'Sloan, Red; vice-president, Miss M. Dever- eaux, Red; secretary, J. •Campbell, Red; editorial staff (Red), R. Reid and Miss .7. McDermid•; (Blue), C. Willis; committee (Red), T. Steph- ens, teppens, (Blue), Miss W. Killoran and Miss E. Downey. R, Reid has resign- ed iris position and in hrist stead J. Smith (Blue) has bees elected. Fin- al results: Reds 5, Blues 4. The new Methodist Churoh at Westfield was dedicated, on the 31st ult. 1t is said to be one of the fin- est country churches, being built of stone, brick audience 'room, floor us- ing backwards, alcove for the choir and organ, pews and wainscotting fin- ished in oil. The entire cost was about $2,500 and the whole is now paid for except $150. Mr. H. Zoel'ner, of the Lake Shore, Colborne, about two years ago picked up a bottle on the shore, and when Iris wife was putting tarp catsup she discovered a lump of ° paper which when opened found he inscription: "Drowned on July 6th in Lake Hur- on, John McKay." Mr. Robert Patterson tendered for the new town (hall and market house at Wingham 1otr $8,450, and was ac- cepted_ He is a splendid workanan. • "I knew what's 'passing in your Index'," etdd a girls for a nervous young man who bald: been 'payniug I afer Mark - ed atteoutk!cnn. •"I know wh you are calling here biighit Fent night, aptiv o- priating my tin tie to yourself and Iteerping other ylo+ing mems • arovay. Yon want hie to mart* Vett, dent yen?" "I—I do," the young marsh stammer - "1 thiedight dish. wry veil, 1Willirw . va NOVEMBER 10, 1939. Phil Osifer of • •r I • • Lazy Meadows • (By Harry J. Boyle) "BACK HOME" It was really news for the neigh- borhood wthen they 'heard that some- one had bought the old Tillman place. It's directly across, the road from our farm, and it's been idle ever since Tillman solid out and retired to the village. The new owners turned out to be a real estate firm, and evidently their client went back onthem, so that the farm has been idle for eight years ;now. Then during the summer we heard that the farm had been sold and on top of that came the announcement that Harvey Barton' had bought' it. Harvey was born and raised on this •concession, but he was one of those boys who received three years of high •schooling and after topping it off with a business course went to work in the city. We never heard much of. him after that except when we heard that he was married and later that he was the proud father of a baby boy. He moved on to the Tillman place this summer and it seemed that we never did have much of a ehance to realty get acquainted. Yesterday af- ternoon it was drizzling a Iittle rain, and I could see him working around the barn so I strolled over for a chat. He was busy making a storm door' for the house, but desisted in. his lab- ors to light up his pipe and sit down ashen I called. I noticed how well everything was looking, with new boards fitted into the places where th•e wind and weather had rigged the old ones off and new window panes in the stable . . . and all showing the hand Of a careful and conscien- tious farmer. With curiosity getting the better of me, I asked him, "Harvey, just why did you leave a good jab in the city to come back to hard work like this?" "You mean," he laughed, ".why didn't I leave it sooner?" He seemed to be taking in the sur- rounding as he relit his pipe, and said: "Phil, I worked in the city for about eight years. I made the aver- age wages and d worked averagely hard. It was a matter of getting to wsarlq in the morning and going back over the same old routine day after day. In the summer time it was too hot after work to sit out anywhere and enjoy fresh air, 'because the air was polluted with opal smoke and gas fumes anyhow. In the winter time I 'generally had to work after supper, by the time I came home I was too tired to have any enjoyment anyhow. When holidays came around I never did have enough money for a good -holiday anyhow. I worked' from day to day because you never knew when an employee was going to be let out. I'd wake up in the middle of the night in a cold sweat in the fear that perhaps I'd make a mistake on some figures, and 'if the supervisor found it —bank went my job. I traded that for this!" - He didn't have to tell me what he had traded for it, because 1 knew. A farm of this own with a mortgage to pay off, but by dint of work in an average way that could be paid. off. Never a great deal of money, but al- ways plenty of good, things to eat. A comfortable home and always fuel for a cosy fire' if he laid in a wood supply. No supervisor to pounce on his head for a mistake , . only himself to please, and the • .bility to make a mistake and correct it. Time to meet the neighbors and make friends and know that any time he is !hard put, they'll always be willing to help. The pleasure of watching good stock ,grow fat and grain growing on his own fields , . . and a boy of his growing .up to be a useful citizen and not the little "toughy" of the street. Here he has the chance to tthink for himself and work for him- self . do a little complaining when he feels like .' . , a little boast- ing when everything goes well , . - and, above all, the chance to be a good farmer. :JUST A SMILE OR TWO:! Big -Game Hunters "I shot it in Insdia. It was a case of me or the tiger." Friend: "Well, the tiger certainly makes, the better rug." • A little boy calledon this aunt, who Lived next door. "Hello, Aunt Sue," be greeted her, "nice, day." Then, after a minute's embarrassed pause, he came to the point, "Aunt Sue, I smell something that seems like pie with reriatiuss in it." "Yes, Billy, I have some mince pies, but they're for company." He pondered this and then suggest- ed ,hopefully, "I same to make a lit- tle bit of a visit myself," "Down wihere I live," said the Windsor roan, "we grew a pumpkin so big that when we cut it niy wife used one-half of 14 for a cradle," "Well," smiled the man. from To- ronto, "that's,. nothing. A few days ago, right here, two full-grown police- men were Hound asleep an one beet," • "I sexy," said young Johnny, "why is Mather singing, Daddy?" - "She's trying to get baby to sleep," was the reply. "Wti1i she stop when the baby's asleep?" Daddy nodded - "Then why doesn't baby pretend to be asleep?" • • The Memory of • Laurier (By R. J. Deachman, M.P., in The Toronto Daily Star) • • • Life must have offered one of its most thrilling moments to Rt, Hon. W. L. Mackenzie King as he listened to the news front the Quebec front on Wednesday evening- The provin- cial campaign carried with it endless possibilities of evil. The welding of two separate races into one homo- geneous nation is a task which tests the hearts and minds of the strong- est. There is much to keep them apart. There is th•e conflict between the old and the new. The old must be retained while the new ,is permit- ted to grow. No man should be ask- ed to forget the race from which he has sprung. These memorieia must be permitted to enrich the treasure houses of our lives. Yet retaining these we build the spirit of the new, the firer attachment to tie nation which is our very own. We of Angio - Saxon race 'shave something to con- tribute to our fellow Canadians of French extraction—but •we must not forget that they too have a contribu- tion, and we must make it ours, The association of the two races inthe cominuon task teaches us tolerance and magnanimity of mind and spirit, and where are these 'human qualities more grandly needed than in the world of today! The work of unity was the task of L wrier.. His memory was the brood - in spirit which spoke from one end of Quebec to the other on Wednes- day. The work has been carried on by Mr. King, with the brilliant assist- ance of his co-partners in the prov- ince of Quebec. The prime minister has been stinguiarly fortunate. Hein- herits from his grandfather the broad- est conceptions of political freedom. He has• taken a leading part in the political evolution of the nation. He worked under Laurier, the, greatest of Canadians, who moulded the lives of those with whom he came in'contact by .the beauty of his character and his lofty sincerity of purpose. No other ,English-speaking Canadian: ev- er senlsed more keenly than did Mr. King the •nuances of tone and shade and color wihioh give to our feilow Carradians of French extraction a slightly different approach to public questions. But Mr. King, like ,Laur- ier, recognizled the possibility of strength and unity in diversity. It is the way of nature. The shades of autumn can never be presented in one unvarying color, nor can a virile race of men be fashioned to a • single mould. Germany ha® attemptedi it. She cannot succeed -neither could Canada. Newer has a Canadian prime min- ister faced a greater task than that which presented itself to Mr. King during the last few years. He seem- ed Conscious, always, of the shadow of things^vto come. Others thought that the World could not gor mad— they hoped against hope that a ndr- aclee would happen, If Mr. King ev- er held dreams of a peaceful solu- tion, they passed quickly—from time to time the skies darkened. Often when other problems arose, he turn- ed to the thing which was uppermost in his mind and spoke of the possi- bility of all other issues being swept aside in the cataclysm of destructive war. But this is a peaceful nation. No one wanted war. Few, very few even wanted to prepare for war. We had missed through a depression. The skies brightened in 1937—we caught the vision of better days ahead. By 1938 the war of nerves was on—it slowed the tempo of recovery. Through all this period from 1935 to the outbreak of the war the policy of the government had been to strengthen the inner defences of the nation, to prepare for what actually came: It is easy to seek the solution of a problem by beating the drums of popular opinion and trying to justify conduct by references only to the vis- ible and external. We know that the technique of war has changed, but we fail to recognize that new meth- ods must be applied to the prepara- tion for war. This is a war of money —and anoney means economic power, and in .the end strength comes not from a display of arms, necessary as that may be, but from the capacity of the nation to produce and deliver. For that reason the task of the last few years has been one of economic rearmta.ment. The expansion of our trade, the extensic. of our banking facilities—these t. .gs do not sound like preparations for war, but they make for the enhancement of strik- ing power when the time came to use our facilities for war rather than peaoe. But through it all the nation began to re -arm. It was Mow at' first be cause military expenditures . during the depression had suck• almost to the levet of pre -1913. days.. An army thoroughly equipped cannot be built overnight by scattering a handful of dragon's teeth. The real tangibles for a major conflict were national unity and economic strength. There were'` the things which had to be strengthened. They are now a part of the heritage of the nation. They are things to which • every individual has contributed. But in this day of triumph, when we have strengthened greatly our capacity for future effort, we can affo`d to pay tribute to those who have .been permitted to render special service. The nation must sense its gratitude to the unifying in- fluence of the memory of Sir Wilfrid' Laurier, the statesmanship of 13t. Hon, W. L. Mackenzie King, and the sound common sense' which, on Wed-. nesday last, 'guided the decision of the people of the province of Quebec" Protests. Sacrilege Bruoefield, Ont., Nov. 6, 1939. The Editor, The Huron Expositor: t Dear Sir: At Baird's Cemetery, to the accompaniment of shot guns, rifles and 'howling hounds, on Sunday, November? 5th, the funeral of one of our most highly esteemed ladies of our neighborhood was held, and the, same sacrilege would be cold com- fort to another highly esteemed fam- ily who were bereaved a, few days earlier. I am not alone in this pro- test, so in future I will take the, names of these townsmen, if known, and the number of their cars and for- ward them to the police, not merely as a common informer, but from a sense of common decency. (Sgd.) GEORGE WILSON, Caretaker to Baird's Cemetery. • West Has Good Year Mountainside, Man„ Nov. 1, 19391' The Editor, The Huron Expositor: Dear Sir; A beautiful autumn day has drawn to a close and the woods are beginning to• change from their dark green to deep gold. In a short time these leaves will join "October's party" in a merry dance and scatter over the ground, leaving the trees in chilly nakedness, There is not the• variety of color in the autumn tints here as in Ontario, where the leaves, after changing color linger on the trees for weeks in gorgeous beauty. In comparing this Province, er the thirele 1Middlie West Provinces with: the East, one thing is very notice- able: the greater amount of sunshine- here. unshinehere. In fact we do not take, kindly to cloudy skies, and people soon be- gin to comtplain about the weather- man if the sun hides himself' for a few days. This has been what is called "a good year," this district being spec- ially favored. But in some parts of the province the returns from the crops have been very unsatisfactory, due to the uneven distribution of moisture, and hoppers which thrive, in dry areas. The wheat on summer fallow in Turtle Mt. yielded from 35 to 47 bush- els to the acre, and coarse grain crops were accordingly good. Thatcher wheat, vvthich is rust resistant, was mostly grown, and its milling quali- ties are excellent. A few years ago coyotes were so • numerous that poultry yards suffer- ed, but a campaign was waged •againstArese sneaking marauders, and n vtheir weird yapping howls are rarely heard. Jumping deer are quite numerous and it is no uncommon sight to see a group of them feeding in a field or see them hurrying along the road ands leaping gracefully over the fence as. a .motor car approaohes. Wild duck's, only a few years ago. were very abundant; now few are seen, and we miss their flight in the. evenings as they returned to rest ea the lakes and ponds. Various rea- sons are given for their increasing. scarcity. Ickes ' and smaller bodies - of water have become dry. The - sportsman's gun has decreased their numbers, and disease is supposed toy have come among the flocks. Hungarian partridge have been in- troduced and are very prolific, 15 tcx 18 frequently belonging to a family. They seem to be quite hardy, where- as the beautiful pheasants, also new- comers here, find it somewhat diffi- cult to withstand the rigors of our winters unless feed is put out for them. Last winter a dozen or more - prairie chickens came into our yard every day to pick up some grain scattered along the path, but even though they came right up to the door we found it impossible to get a snap- shot of them. as at the slightest sound they all scattered in flight. Ort, Saturday evening we were 1 Boissevain, and the many fine motor cars parked along the streets and: the crowds of peoplo parading tlee sidewalks, shopping in the stores, or coming to or from the .movie, indi- cated that a fair degree of prosperity had returned. But even with good crops and faire prices, it is a question if the money received will be used to lighten the- mortgages-on hemortgages-on many of the farms, for many farms are burdened and have - been since,the days of mistakerr easy credit. Even the high prices: for good crops at the end of the Work War did not in many cases help matters. Lt seemed easier to buy new motor cars and this tempta- tion is too strong to be resisted. Soy this tory repeats itself: Nowhere in Canada was greater en- thusiasm shown over the visit of our King and Queen, and their short vis- it in Brandon was a special delight to the many school children who had: gathered from far and near for the - occasion, and didn't they cheer! Again the West is responding too the call for King and Country, and'' young men of the best type physical• - ly and morally—young men who are needed here for upbuilding the coun- tryt--are applying for various branch• - es in the - army, And in the mean-. time we eagerly or anxiously watch•," for the latest news of the pretty, kettle of fish stirred up by Europe by the gangster ailies., Hitler and S'talin- J. W. R. Seen in the CountyPapera A Big Supper Last Thursday evening was the time of the big social event •of St. Peter's Lutheran Church, Zurich, when they held their big fowl supper. This congregation is ' noted for having their name up for good suppers and people cvthe for moles around to par- take of the big and liberal helping of 1ow1 and alt the other good things that go with .it. Regardless of the fact that Biucefield also held a sup- (Cbri!tintled on Page 3) • • c0L�t u. ,,.-,.� : 0, i>t