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The Huron Expositor, 1941-03-21, Page 2vj eve It .Established io' McPhail McLean, Editor, 'shed at Seaforth, Ontario, ev turseday afternoon by McLean jFORTH, Friday, March 21st resident Roosevelt's Speech To all who heard or have read the ,speech of President Roosevelt deliv- ered at the annual banquet of the Washington newspaper correspond- ents on Saturday evening, there must have come not only a feeling of re- lief e- 1 ief but of great cheer. There can be now no possible doubt in the minds of Hitler and Mussolini as to where the United States stands ii this war. All the aid and all the .;:support that country can .give will be given to Britain, Greece and China and the other threatened and, hard - Ir essed democratic countries. And it is to be immediate and unqualified help. Another encouraging feature of the President's address was the en- thusiasm with which it was received by an audience composed of every phase of political thought in Amer- ica. There were no frowns, no hes- • itancy, just wild enthusiasm. Even in the face of the fall of France there has been no panic, no fear of conquest in the minds of the people throughout the whole British Empire. Belief in the ..ultimate vic- tory of Britain has always filled those minds, but the . all out aid of the United States will, we know, greatly hasten that day. v Ontario's Budget " Premier Hepburn, on Friday last, announced a surplus of over twelve and -a .half million dollars for the year which ends the 3Ist of March. And that might be'called a record surplus for Ontario. There are, of course, surpluses and surpluses. There is the bookkeep- ing kind which most Governments are only too familiar with, and then there . is the actual, 'which has not been . so common in recent years. The Ontario surplus, however, would appear to be fairly genuine, and would indicate that Ontario has enjoyed, perhaps, a little more than her share of war prosperity, as it af- fects the large cities and manufac- turing centres. With the country districts it is an- other matter.. In fact agriculture, which has been trying, none too suc- cessfully, to find its way out from -under the cloud of depression which. has enveloped it for the past ten. - years, has again been hit by the war which 'has closed, all but one ofthe world markets to it. Forthat'reason most people in the country feel that ,twelve and . a half million • dollars is a considerably larger surplus than Ontario needed to collect, and that it should be 're- turned in some measure to the peo- ple in the country. It is true that Premier Hepburn is going to bonus hogs and cheese and give a one 'mill bonus to municipali- ties, but that amount, will fall a long way short of eating up the surplus. Why not go a little further? Why not reduce Ontario taxes down.. to the point where taxes collected would just nicely cover the necessary ex- penses of Ontario's government? That would materially assist '•" the people of Ontario and particularly the country people, to meet the 'bur- den of taxation which the war has imposed and will continue to impose as the'months go 'by. War expen i - tures have to be made and new t x methods will have to be found to meet those expenditures. The needs of the Dominion Gov- ernment overnment are urgent and great, while those of the Ontario Government, in large measure, are not. Every tax which Ontario removes or reduces will: lighten the burden of taxation Resting on the shoulders of the On- tario people and enable them `rhe bet- ter to fulfill, their obligations' to Can= ada as a whole, by going all out in war efforts.' ret` an omen In British erteaii born wo. ,itottse: of COM., beihi,,;e' Grx e C'le'ugh Rathbpne, who, WAS elected to the Rodman str t, ] n - den. seat, on Murch nth, The other American -born weber is the Vis- ceuntess .Asttor. 11 s, Rathbone takes the' seat of her late husband, Flight Lieut. John Rankin Rathbone, who was elected to the Commons in 1935, and was killed last December on his first flight over Germany. Born in Boston, Mrs. Rathbone be- came the fourteenth woman member of the Commons and will serve as a Conservative like her husband. She is the mother of two children, now in the United States. • Changing Berlin's View An American correspondent, re- cently returned from Berlin, Ger- many, is responsible for the state- ment that no matter how slight the damage caused by British bombers in any one particular city, the net effect throughout all Germany has been sobering and instructive. Germans, the correspondent says, have always thought of civilian dam- age from war assomething that hap- pened to other people, but never to them. This was what gave them their peculiar willingness for war and is also the foundation for their belief that some how they were a master people, enjoying 'special im- munity from things' that could, hap- pen to what they look upon as "lesser peoples." If the British, bombers continue to hammerhome this lesson hard en- ough and often enough, the Germans may decide that war is not a profit- able or • desirable • trade as they thought it was and that there is nothing more sacred or invincible about German flesh than there is about Polish, Czech or British flesh. And, if receht despatches from England are true, that is just what British bombers are going to do, and do it in an all-out manner. • Cheer For Old People This is the day of vitamins. We can not live without them. But now. vitamins have been found or invent- ed which should bring a large mea- sure of cheer to us old people. This new vitamin which has been discovered by Dr. J. G. Martin, War- ner Institute for Therapeutic Re- search, New York City, and Dr. S. Ansbacher, Squibb Institute for Med- ical Research, New Brunswick, N.J;, arl,d is called P—aminobenzoic acid, and is a vitamin of the "B" company. And what does it do? Why it turns white hair black in twoweeks, and makes a permanent job of it too. We are quite willing to part with our white hair—we mean the color, of course—although it has been with us for many Years, and no• . doubt there are many others like us, both old and young. But we don't like the "sound of that word "acid," nor like the thought of taking it either. If it can in some indistinguishable way be introduced into our bread or eggs, well and good. We'll try it. Because we never had black hair and we always fancied it. Ours was rather a pronounced shade of red, and by red, we -mean red, which we gladly changed for white. But we are willing to change again, provided -it grows that way itself. A crop of jet black hair might even get us into the air force. • This Month Of March March has the reputation of being the meanest month of the -year, and over the week -end March ran true to form. We thought when March came in like a lamb it would, of course, go out like a lion. But March is unpre- dictable. This year it chose the very middle of the month to show its meanness. The highways and concession roads were open and motor traffic was on the move everywhere. We thought winter was over. It was a foolish thought, for right in the middleof this month of March we suffered the worst wind and snow storm we have had all winter. From Sunday afternoon—Until Tue,' day night,.there was no such thing as vis- ibility. Of-ghwa>ys, Bounty and caneession are cads .. i. e to the top; again and rhee:l ease to a standstill. Even. L.• ' - rs kk cine Interelltiiilg Items P eked FroUn Tho HMroltWExprieltor of Fifty and Twenty live Years Ago. Prom The Huron Expositor March 24, 1910 Miss J. Seott''s' class of boys in First Presbyterian Church Sunday school are doing their bit towards sending boxes of socks, tobacco, etc., to the soldiers, Miss, Gilchrist Liv- ingstone, wishing to help, gave four boxes of Oxo; Scott Clgff sold papers and gave six plugs oftobacco, six chocolate bars and cigarettes, and Janet Cluff paid • the postage. The boys in the class are Cecil Smith, Reg. Kerslake, Gordon Hays, Jack Scott, Harold McNab, Claude Patterson and Reg. Brown, 'Miss Babe Sproat has taken a posi- tion in Stewart Bros' store. The Ladles' Aid of Burns' Church, Harloek, held a very successful box social in the school house last Fri- day evening. Mr. J. D. Melville was the auctioneer. The boxes were sold for $38.00. Mr John Cameron, of Tuckersmith, has sold his farm on the Mill. Road to Mr. John Murray, of Egmondroille, and his son-in-law, Mr. Elliott Waiters. The following were ticketed to dis- tant points during the past week at Mr. Wm. Somerville's railway and steamship agency:. James Clark to Killarney, Man.; Harry Grieve to Mc- Laughlin, South Dakota; David Me - Cloy, to Seattle; James Finlayson of Tuckersmith to Moose Jaw; Mr. and Mrs. W. McQueen to Lawson, Sask.; Percy Monk to Moose. Jaw; R. E. Cresswell and the Misses Cresswell to Jacksonville, Florida; Ford Atche- son to Rosetown, Sask., and; W. D. McTaggart to Plenty, Sask. The following have been added to, the honor roil in Seaforth: William A. Bolton, F. G. G. Taylor, W. R. Col- burn, Charles Brunner, R. H. Carpen- ter, John Earle, Sydney Deem, Louis Atkinson, Kenneth McKay, Thomas Beattie and W. H. H. Kent. Word was received• here by Mr. and Mrs. Jas. Sproat that their son, Jake, who is with the Princess Pats at the war fron;t,'liad been wounded and was • now in the Canadian hospital at Nor- wich. • The children of School Section No. 11, Hay, during the month of Febru- ary, pieced a quilt wahich was- sold by tickets and brought $9.30 to the Red Cross Society. Mrs. E. Schade was the winner: Two very interesting letters were published in this issue of The Huron Expositor, one from Scott Hays, son of Mr. Thos. E. Hays, and the other from Mr. 3: E. Van • Egmond; son of Mrs. C. R. Van Egmond. •' From The Huron Expositor March 20, 1891 Mr. Wm. Biernes has disposed of his hotel in Walton to a man from North Easthope, who •• paid the good figure of $$,800 for it. ' One of the best, of the many good teams of horses which have left this county for years, was shipped from Seaforth station; on Tuesday last They were sold by, Mr. Henry Mason to Mr. Samuel Hannah, •of Griswold, Manitoba. They were solid for •$425. On Tuesday evening last, a numlber of young people. met at the home of Nfiss, Ann E Crich, of aTnckersmith, when Miss Sarah Turner presented her ' with a handsome silver sugar bowl and an address by Mrs. W. C. Laudsborough. A large number of people left this vicinity for Manitoba on Tuesday last. When the train passed Seaforth there were two passenger cars well filled and about five cars of stock and set- tlers' effects. The following 'parties went from Tuckersmith and Stanley: George, Albert and William Plewes, Alex Forsythe, Jr., John Chesney, Wm_ • Dayntan, Henry • Dayman, John Elgie, James and Don MacTavish, Those'. from Stanley: Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Mustard, Jas: Aikenhead and'` son, D. Wilson and John Robson with 'their families, James Little, Thomas Little and wife and Miss M. Little, J. Morden, Peter Dodds and John Craig, McKillop. Mr. John Keefe, of Dublin, purchas- ed a •number of cattle from 'farmers in Hibbert to be delivered. in Seaforth on Monday last. On the previous Fri- day he mailed cards to the parties asking them not to take the cattle in. As' the result of a storm the mail was not delivered and consequently 'the men 'took the.. cattle into town. On hearing of the'i'r disappointment he called on them all, paid them for their expense and trouble and had then/ delivered in Seaforth on Thurs- day of that week. Mr. Geo. Heaman, contractor of Exe- ter, has recived this week the con- tract of putting up a,large brick resi- dence for Mr. Jas. Ramsay, near the Presbyterian Church, in Exeter, and has also received the contract for putting up a fine brick residence for Mr. Wm. Mitchell, of Usborne, in Hensall this spring. The football club of the Seaforth Collegiate is .officered for the coming season as follows: Hon. pres'., G. A. Dewar; pres,, John Smith; ..vice-pres., J. J. Clennan; sec.-treas., Geo. Beth- une; captain, H. J. Crawford; com- mittee, C: Willis, J. Shortreed, J. Oughton. A musical and literary entertain- ment was givens in the basement of First Presbyterian Ohureh by the Christian Endeavor Society on Mon- day evening lases The program' in- cluded readings by Mrs. Ferguson, Misses Cavan and Sloan and •Messrs. Crawford and Johnsbrit`• Mrs. R. Laidlaw and Miss J. Scott - fa'vored with a duet; an i'nstrlAental by Miss Ewing and an instrumental diet • by the Misses Wilson was enjoyed, Mr. A. K. Chittenden read a very enter- taining, instructive and wellprepamed .paper on "Christ, Our Righte'ousnese." Miss •Thompson, the president, was to the chair. the trains stopped running. It is better now, but that is no -guarantee that March will not still go out like a lion. You never can' tell about March. tli Ali o +rf Z.IdZY ea lows •• vAv "TEA LEAVES" As usual,' A. R. K., the editorial commentator, has come along to re- fute'a statement by 'so-called learned men, They have been experimenting for some time on the theory that tea leaves can be used over again, by rea- son of a certain process which they have devised after many years 'of work. A. R. K. says folks have been doing that for years in the country. Goodness gracious, but the folks in this township and for that matter in practically all the other communities like this one, have been using tea leaves over again for years. it's' a saving I suppose, and besides that they get to like tea that has been brewed. Offer one of them tea .made from fresh leaves and they would more or less not enjoy it, but give thein tea that has been brewed a few times by reason of a good boiling and they'll really appreciate it. Some places they didn't have tea for breakfast, but in our home they always figured a warming cup of tea gave you a good start in the day. If there were fresh leaves used in the morning, the tea was generally weak. After breakfast the tea pot would be pushed back on the warming part of the stove. Along about ten o'clock Paw would go up to the house for something, and by the time the boys drifted up on various, excuses, we would find him sitting at the back of the stove with, a'Muffin or a biscuit drinking a cup of tea. The tea not was bubbling on the stove. and as you,took a cup of tea it was •expect- ed of you that you replace a like amount of water. At dinner time Mother would sprinkle a little fresh tea on the leaves, depending on, how much us age the leaves had gotten in the morning. About four o'clock in the afternoon, if you wclre -working near the house it was perfectly all right to drop in for a, cup of tea and bite of something to eat. - Usually in the winter:tinge some of the neighbors w'puld call and the old teapot would be "bided" up for a epot of tea. It usually took a good boiling at supper -time to bring the tea up to standard. It had a bitter, erby taste that you got to like. We had an aunt tram the city who used to always wrinkle up her nose at it and say: "Was this tea seasoned with caustic soda or something?" Knowing that we all liked: the stronger tea, Ma took to having a little teapot for the visitor and while she sipped at the pale looking liquid, we gulped down the black, strong concoction that somehow selimed to chase all the chill of a winter evening out of your bones. After supper Ma always filled' the teapot with water and set it up on the warming closet. It was the gen- eral custom in the winter time to warm the teapot before going to bed. In the summer -time the cold tea was as good as any of the_ soft drinks marketed now. Many's the time I've had my, ears cuffed for drinking out of the spout. Paw used 'to de the same thing, but when Ma .caught him at it, she'd just go "Tck . . . Tck Pa! How do you expect me to teach the children good manners if you're going to do that?" Paw would just sort of grin io a funny way and wipe his moustache off and head up the stair's for bed. • - In the morning Ma would dump the tea leaves out'after draining them. At various times she used to keep them. In the Spring and Fall they were us- ed for sprinkling on the carpets -as they were supposed to keep the dust down in sweeping. At one time they were supposed to be good for sprink- ling around ' the henhouse . . . but the hens 'continued to scratch them- selves just the same, so the idea was given up. So many of these people who are trying to find new ways of saving could learn so much if they would just spend a few weeks in a typical farm community. :JUST A SMILE. OR TWOo. One time a British naval man, 'was walking down one of New York's bus- iest streets, when he was stopped by a crowd of American naval cadets. ' One of them said to the Britisher: "You think you have a powerful fleet. Well, we could have your 'fleet bottled up in New York harbor in 24 hours." The Englishman looked amused and said: "You might have, but it would take a better man than Coluatibus to find America the next day." • A very raw recruit had just had a very good dressing-down Froin the young lieutenant... The next day Ire passed the officer without saluting. He was stopped. "Why didn't you salute me?" de- manded the lieutenant, "W -well, sir," said the .'rookie, ''t thought you were still cross with me." The big touring car slowed to a crawl to pass a primitive ox wagon, driven by an ancient gray -beard. ook at Rip Van Winkle!" ex- claimed the 'smart aleck' of the par- ty, "Say, Grandpa, did you ever ride in an automobile?" "Sure, I did! It was a dandy auto- mobile, too --a five -wheeled one." ' "Good for you! ° But why ,the fifth, wheel?" "To steer with, smarty. Giddap, Buck." • American Tourist (to Canadian In- dian) : "White man glad to see red man. White man hopes big Chief is feeling tip top this, morning." Indian (calling) : "Hey, Jake, come here and listen to this bozo; he's great!" :canadaAppoits New: :Minister .to United States • (The Montreal Standard) • Wartime , pressure has at last drawn. Leighton McCarthy back into public life. He has agreed to serve as Canada's; Minister to the United States 'and goesdown to Washington immediately to fill the pont left vac- ant by the ill health of LoringeChris- tie. Only the country's emergency could bring "The Simcoe Boy" back from the political retirement he chose in 1938. However now that he has tak- en the ,plunge,, he is thoroughly en- joying himself, in spite of the terrific pace. Mr. McCarthy took his bap - tiara of wartime .service up 'in Ottawa this week, put in three 'days --and half the nights, •toounder the steam roller of official pressure. Interviews, conferences, talks, formal and infor- mal, some of theme labelled lunch or dinner, leave the men "honored' by big appointments pretty well "through the wringer" by the time midnight comes and they retire to their hotel to digest it all in their sleep. Few Canadians have been happier in public life than Leighton ,McCar- thy. He would never have had the sense to leave it, he says, had it not been for his father, who persuaded him after ten years in the House to abandon the political arena, and thus saved him from getting worn out in harness. Today when the -services of men of his experience ate so badly needed by Canada, he comes back fresh and vigorous. Irish and Scotch in extraction, the -McCarthys have polities in their blood and ,gilded tones in their heads. Dalton McCarthy, uncle of the new Minister, preceded 'ham in the House of Commons, was a brilliant independ- ent Conservative and a close friend of 'Sir John A. Macdonald`. Leighton first came into theHouse as an in- dependent, n dependent, too, but swung round to the Liberal fold as a warm friend and adaiiirer of Sir Wilfrid .Laurier. He sat behind the great French Cana- dian statesman for 10 years. "The Siescoe Boy," as he was often called in those, (lays, was actually born in Bruce County, Ontario, as his father, a country doctor, was'prairtis- g in n 'iiCTatkerton at that time. HOW - ever,' his parente loon. took. Shim .to Barrie, and there he had his early schoofiivg ire ;Simcoe County with *kWh . the Medar'thya have been Iden- tified for more than a hundred years. Self Made Leighton McCarthy has made his own way in the world, privileged only in inheriting a stiff Scottish, back - 'lame and an Irish gift of wit and charm in speech. Though he .matri- culated for the University of Toron- to in 1887, instead of spending four years or so in.academic training, he entered the firm of McCarthy, Pepler and McCarthy of Barrie to read law, was admitted to -'the Ontario Bar in 1892. It has taken him; he says, 54 years to get a college degree. This week the University of Toronto, for which he matriculated so long ago, and on whose Board of Governors he has long sat, is conferring upon him an honorary LL.D. Whether he would have fared better in the world had he begun this career with its letters be- hind his name he isn't prepared to say, but admits- t'hat'years of univers- ity ,atmosphere may damages one's "wits and instinct." His own wit and instinct have certainly remained. in tact. He fought his own way, acquir- ed both education and mellow back- ground as he went along. McCarthy first entered the House of Commons in December, 1898, when be contested North •Simcge in a bye - election. He was re-elected at the general election of 1900 and again in 1904. Men about Ottawa today who remember the Parliaments of his day recall Leighton ]McCarthy as one of the. most gifted men the Liberals had, considered definitely of Cabinet cali- bre had'he remained ective in politics. After he turned his back on public life in. 1908, McCarthy devoted him, Self to a business and legal career in which he has made an outstanding. success. He is one of the biggest bus- iness men in Canada today. His law firm, McCarthy and McCarthy were then, as they are today; soli•c.iters for Canada Life Assurance Company. McCarthy's special taste is for gen- eral administrative work, and in each of the .companies he has list Contact- ed through the legal end, he has soon developed a 'Wider -interest. He, was soon made ,a lir' cfot of Clanadka, life Assurance ;Cif. -,After' Senator ctojj died andtinher't 0..06k preen ne lPr, �,• Meat of the tthi Mc al'thyr took Att inereasinnglilard quartin the' af1aire. 'Huron History Luc.an, Out., March 15, 1941. The Editor, The Huron Expositor: Dear Editor: For the past several years 1 have been collecting and pre- serving Western Ontario publications, including municipal histories, books by IO -cal writers, special newspaper • editions, etc. Personally,. I believe thi6' to be a very worthwhile hobby and I trust the collection will ,be of• more interest and have greater refer- ence, value as time goes on- Unfor- tunately, many people often careless- ly discard or destroy material of this kind and this sometimes makes it dif- ficult for the collector to obtain de- sired items. However, any collection. ' i3 fairly complete, especially the Por- tion of it pertaining to this district, and I can assure you it has taken much effort to make it so. I have pa - eluded some good historical publica- tions from Huron County. Recently, I have been trying to pur- chase copies of the old Huron County Atlas (1879) and "In the Days of The - Canada Company," by the Misses Liz - ars, but so far I have not been. suc- ceasful. Perhaps some one of your many readers could help me out in this matter and would have copies of these publications that they would be willing to dispose of. Maybe some- one of them would also have a copy of The Huron Expositor of August. 30, 1940. Wishing you continded success, I remain, Yours sincerely, S. GARRETT. Box 2, Lucan, Ont. Seen in the County Papers An Industrious Knitter One of the most industrious knitters in Goderich is Mrs. David Sproul, who since the outbreak of war has, made over one hundred) Pairs of socks for nvembers of Canada's armed fore- -es. This averages better than one pair per week and is an admirable re- cord. Mrs, Sproul contributes through the Red Shield of the Salvation Arany. ='Goderich Signal -Sitar. Back To Work Mr. M.- W. Telfer, manager of the Canadian Bank of -Commerce at --Cred- iton, a former member' of the staff here, who has been off duty for some time following an operation, resumed his duties last week. His friends here will be happy to know that he made a good recovery. — Wingham Advance - Times. Turnberry Group Do Quilting , The Sixth Line group of the Turn berry Red Cross met last week gat the home of Mrs. Matt. Elliott. During the afternoon a quilt was quilted. Sew- ing was given • out • as the ladies are making layettes this ,month, Mrs. Mc- Dermid invited the ladies to her home fors their next meeting! Tea was serv- ed by Mrs.. Elliott.— Wingham Ad- vance -Times. Successful in Exams' Misses Helen and Phyllis Herman, pupils of Prof. A. W. Anderton, were successful in passing the grade two theory -"examinations at the Toronto Conservatory of Music; Each obtain- ed first class honors.—Clinton News - Record. Purchases Grocery Mr. W. L. Johnson ;has purchased the grocery store from Mr. Morley Jordan, and is busy getting ready for business. We wish him success in his new venture.—Clinton Newts-, Record. Local Business Sold Mrs. E. J. McTavish sold- her gen- eral 'store business this week to Mr. M. Wi'neberg of Oakville. Mr. Mc- Tavish came to Brussels in 1931 when; he took over the general store for- merly run by F. A. Hunter. Mrs, Mc- Tavish has carried on with the busi- ness since the death of her ;husband in -November, 1939.—Brussels Post. Wins High Honor Miss Dorothy Green has received wdrd that she was successful in: passing her higher local examina- tions in elocution of the London: Trinity College of Elocution. She was awarded 94 per cent. end was pres ented with a handsome book from the college in recognition of having ob- tained; the thigheststanding of any pupil in Ontario. The examinations were tried in Toronto last December, —Exeter Times -Advocate, Airplane Collision Costs -Seven Lives Two planes from the Port Albert Navigation School collided Thursday afternoon wihile flying near the village of Bond Head, about forty Indies northjv'est Of 'Toronto, and as o result sevens mgr, were kilted and twill der- iouslyr ihjtf'red. Iinanedlatel • after l6he 'antigen one plane, said to be a bom.- het dzi?d Catotia'g •a.nrew poi`, f•ft. Men, '00 1n ilio Page $i: ''- ti 4