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The Huron Expositor, 1941-11-14, Page 2c - 4'I AGE TWO The.Huron Expositor Established 1860 Keith- McPhail McLean, Editor. Published at Seaforth, Ontario, ev- ery Thursday afternoon by McLean Bros. , Subscription rates, $1.50 a year in advance; foreign, $2.00 a year. Single copies, 4 cents each. SEAFORTH, Friday, November 14 The Conservative Leader At a meeting held in Ottawa last week, representative members of the conservative party across Canada, chose Senator Arthur . Meighen as their House Leader and. party head. The choice is generally recognized as a wise selection, not only in the interests of the Conservative party, but in Canada's interest as well. Mr. Meighen is not new to the House of Commons, nor new to the position of leadership, as he was Sir Robert Bor- den's successor as leader of the Con- servative party, and was twice Pre- mier of the Dominion, although nev- er returned at a general election. He is recognized as one of Can- ada's most able men, and as a Par- liamentarian and debater has few, if any, superiors, a lack which has been felt by his party in the House for some years. If Mr. Meighen ac- cepts his party's nomination, of which' there is said to be no doubt, he will of course have to resign from the Senate and seek a constituency to represent in the House of Com- mons. About the latter there will be no difficulty, as it is understood several sure seats' will be at his disposal should there be a political contest, which in itself is doubtful, and he will be welcomed, we believe, by all par- ties. , How long Mr. Meighen will occupy his old. .position depends largely on circumstances, but it is fully antici- pated that he will lead his party dur- ing the duration, at least. He is sixty- seven years of age, and having occu- pied the highest positions in the gift of the Canadian people, his ambitions must have already been satisfied, But he is intensely loyal and consci- entious, and even at great personal sacrifice, he is likely to retain his post as long as he feels his party or his country need him, or he` -can be of advantage to either. It is rumored that •Mr. Meighen will not be the only one to supply new blood in Parliament. That sev- eral prominent young. Conservatives will be invited to offer their services to the • party, to accommodate whom a number of old and older. members now in the House, are willing to re- tire and make their constitutencies available for younger and more am- bitious go-getters. Regarding the latter situation, however, the country will have to 'wait for developments. Getting a member of parliament to resign from a sure seat, particularly when that member's party is in opposition, is .no easy task, because it is pretty hard for that member to hear the call of duty, or very easy understand the call if it is only faintly heard. From a party standpoint, however, the introduction of some energetic \ new blood might mean the saving of ---\ the life of • the great Conservative party, which has become sadly en- feebled in the past few years. For one thing, it would give a body of young men an opportunity of train- ing for political life under a leader who is a master of every art in pol- itics, and of developing under him in- to able Parliamentar}ans, so that when Mr. Meighen'did step out there would be some very able men in the party from which to choose a new leader. _. • Gas To Be Rationed The fully expected has come to pass. Our gasoline is going to be rationed ----so much a week, or so much a month. We are told that the closing of all gas stations between the hours of seven p.m. and seven a.m., and all day Sunday, while it effected a con- siderable saving, did not do what it was expected it might do. People wer'e', At ld ,;the other alternative, but adla ..eagle have never, had to in the matter of • IURON EXPOSITOR gas, or anything else, for that mat- ter. Now it will be different. And, after all, it is the fairest way. Many people conscientiously did cut out the pleasure trips, did cut down on the speed, and did try to conserve the gasoline supply, but the great ma- jority just carried on as usual, even complained long and volubly when they found the service stations were obeying the law. Now all will be on the same foot- ing, and one of the greatest surpris- es in the life of the average motorist will be the amount of gas he or she actually burned up, without any ac- tual necessity for it. We are told that the rationing will not be severe, but any stricture at all is going to touch the average motorist, and it is going to put them on their feet more often and for longer distances than they have been accustomed for the past ten or fifteen years. No doubt some exception will be made in the case of some commercial vehicles; cars used strictly for busi- ness purposes, and for doctors' cars and ambulances, but the general mo- toring public will have to turn over a w leaf and one much more lasting than the New Year's resolution kind. • Winter .Has Come Winter came to this district over the week -end. It was not an old- fashioned winter, but just a gentle reminder that it is only six weeks to Christmas. But there was no mistaking the fact -"that it was winter. The fields' lay under a white blanket of snow and the highways were covered with inches of slush which made motoring dangerous to the careless, as a num- ber of car and truck drivers found out in the space of a very few miles east of Seaforth Saturday morning. And it was cold. Not the sharp ' zero" cold that makes you hop and tingle all over when you get a move on, but the raw, windy kind that gets under your clothes and under your skin and makes you cold through and through, no matter how much you fight against it. • Even The Queen Over in England the purchase of clothing is rationed. Each personis given a book of couponsfrom which they are taken, as required, to pur- chase a• suit, a shirt, a dress, boots -or whatever one desires to buy. - But when that book of coupons is exhausted, the person's buying power , ceases until the next year, when a 'hew book is'issued. Consequently a person may be a millionaire and still not be able to purchase even a hand- kerchief, a pair of gloves, or any- thing else in the clothing line. The fall months at the close of the year are finding the average woman in England running very low on clothing purchase coupons, and one of those women is Queen Elizabeth. Last year at a clothing exhibition in London the Queen purchased twenty yards of hand woven tweed: Last week at the same exhibition she only had enough coupons to purchase .two scarves... Even the Queen! • Art Is Not Fast Enough There is a picture gallery in ti e Federal Parliament House, at Can- berra, Australia, where the portraits of all the Prime Ministers are hung. But at present this gallery is short three portraits, because Prime Min- isters have come and gone so rapidly in that Dominion during the past year or two that official portrait painters have been unable to keep up with politics. The. portrait of ex -Premier Men- zies, who went out of office in August, is only half completed. That of A. W. -Fadden, who was Prime Minister for September, has not ev- en been started, although an arist has been commissioned to do the work, but no one has yet been assign- ed, "to paint the new Prime Minister, John Curtin, who assumed office in October. But his, Labor supporters are optimistic.. They claim there is no need to worry, because John will be in office so long that the artists will have plenty of time in which to catch up. Perha s, although the political history' of� Australia would` sem to Wit s'olne doubt on the matter. NOVEMBER 14, 1941 Years Agone Int rating Items Picked Freon Th. Huron kxpoaltor of Fifty and Two►aty.`•fivs Years Ago. • From The Huron Expositor November 17, 1916 Owing to the demise of W. J. Mit- chell, editor and proprietor of the Clinton News -Record, the plant and good will was offered for pale • by the administrator. The purchaser is G. E. Hall, who has been foreman of the New Tyra for the past six years. Mr. Doty, of Goderich, bad his hand badly smashed in a machine at the Bell Engine Works on Monday. Mr. W. J. Walker has leased the residence of the Misses Cardin) on High St. Mrs. J. H. Broadfoot, Miss Mae and 1v11sS Helen, Young, of Seaforth; Mrs. Jas. Pringle, Sr., Miss Kate Broadfoot and Miss Ann Pringle, of Hamilton, left on Wednesday for Pasadena, Cal. where they will sp d the winter. Mr. Reg. Reid ha& taken a position in the Dominion Bank here. Capt. H. J. Hodgins has secured the services of Dr. F. J. Bec'hely, of. St. Thomas, to carry on his dental prac- tice in Seaforth while he is engaged in military duty at Hamilton. Word was received by cable on Sunday morning of the safe arrival in England of the Hurons. They are now stationed at Shorncliffe for fur- ther training. Mr. W. Chapman, of town, .receiv- ed word from Ottawa on Thursday last stating that his son; Pte. Herbert Chapman, was reported missing. Many in the vicinity of Winthrop will regret to learn of the death of Albert Bates, who was killed in ac- tion at the front on Oct. 21st. Ile liv- ed with Mr. and Mrs. T. McE1r y. Lieut. T. W. Penhale, of Esieter, has received a commission in the King's Royal Rifles, stationed at Queensborough on the Isle of Sheppy. Mrs. A. Neilands, Miss Sleets} and Mr. James Sleeth were in Sarnia this week attending the wedding of Mr. Douglas Sleeth. Miss Greta Thompson, librarian at the Carnegie Library, was in Strat- ford attending a library convention. Messrs. Frank Jackson, of Montreal, and H. M. Jackson, of Toronto, were at the parental home of Mr. George E, Jackson this week and are glad to report that Mr. Geo. A. Jackson, Jr., is improving from his recent ill- ness. Mr: C. A. Barber leaves on Friday for Woodstock where he will undergo an;..peration for appendicitis from :xhfAh he ,has suffered four attacks during the past year. The first snow of the season fell on the night of No': ember 12th. The people of Crn-narty are pleas- ed to see Mr. Jose -'.`i Spears out af- ter His severe accident two months ago. Mr. Hugh McLaughlin, of Cromarty, has disposed of his farm on the 11th eoncession to Mr, R. G. Hoggarth. The price paid ryas $2,500. The Cromarty Red Cross shipped. 26 Christmas -boxes overseas last week to their soldier boys in France and England. Mr. Dinsdale, of Stanley, recently purchased a new Chevrolet car from Messrs. J. and C. McConnell, of Hen - sail. Mr. L. D. Fulton, formerly of the boundary between Usborne and Hib- bert, but now of Stratford, has pur- chased the store and business of Mr. Samuel Lamporte at Farquhar and will take possession; in a week. From The Huron Expositor •November . , 1891 • Mr. Benjamin 'Sne '`, of Kinburn, who has been in „L• a,oba and the Northwest during the bast summer, has returned home. He travelled within 50 miles of the Rockies and is highly pleased with that codr3?try, Mr. John Broadfoot, eldest son of Mr. James Broadfoot, of the M'.11 Road, who graduated in medicine last tall, is now located at San Antonio, in Texas, and has a large practice. Wm. Strath, of the 16th concession of Grey Twp., •is building a new resi- dence. James McIntosh built the stone foundation and J. Smith, of Walton, is doing the carpenter work. Messrs, Robb Bros., Seaforth, tele- graphed to Winona, near Niagara, for a supply of grapes and the fruit ar- rived here at one o'clock the same day and the quick response is credit- ed to Mr. Wm. Somerville, the effici- ent and ever attentive telegraph ag- ent, One of Seaforth's a leading dry goods merchants says his sales last week were the largest of,any week for many years. Mr. E. Cash, the- old and reliable butter dealer of town,, has :had a very lively demand for iris choice family butter this fall and scarcely a day passes that be does not have to fill numerous orders by express. .Miss Brown, of Harpurhey, has been engaged as teacher of Roxboro school for next year at a salary of $250. Mr. A. G. Ault, Seaforth, is having his store painted and improved, pre- paratory to opening u 'again in his old stand. Mr. Robt, Garrow, whose farm ad- joins Harpurhey on the McKillep side, has edected a fine large new silo and has• it well filled with corn. Mr. James Grieve has undertaken the management of the Caarnochan farm on the 3rd concession of Tuck- ersmith and has gone there to reside. • Last week Mr. James Kyle, Strat- ford; -shipped from Seaforth a number of Shropshire sheep which he had purchased from Messrs. Dickson and Cooper, of Tuckersmith; McFarlane and Dunkin, of Stanley, and others. They were purchased for breeding purposes and' have been sent to Bri- tish Columbia.' Mr. Robert Robertson's new brick house on the 16th concession of Grey is completed and la quite a handsome edifice. Mr. John H. Gayler, of .Londesboro, ,had the misfortune to get two of his ribs broken one day last week. ' He will be laidup for some time. On Friday as Hugh Fulton, of Wal- ton, was closing the gate on the way home his horses ran away and one broke its leg. She had to be shot. On Saturday night while driving from the ROW Hotel #hed in that • village his tearlia h milt` e0Ok fright and . col- lided with a tree, smashing the tongue, Ode and =nfther parte of the Phil Osifer of •• • .,azy meadows' (By Harry ,,. Boyle) • "MATTRESSES" A reader sends along a note say- ing, "Why don't you writ a piece some day about !mattresses?" The letter serves to set a train of thought in motion . . . and sure enough the col- umn starts out about mattresses. Feather ticks were di parded at Lazy Meadows when I was a boy. Mother heard some place they were unhealthy and that literally billions of -germs used to bide in among the feathers of a tick. She persuaded Father to buy some new mattresses. He was firmly convinced that germs were all a lot of nonsense and so when he Dame back from town that evening he, had one mattress and a firm glint in his eye which ,and everyone to accept the one mattress without questioning. It was placed on the spare bed. In due time it was moved to father and mother's room and a new one purchased for the spare bedroom. Soon another one was purchased for the ,spare room . . . the spare one moved to our parents' room and we were given the ,old one. After being used to the billowing feather tick that used to roll and toss with us 011 the bed . . . it was a strange sensation to climb in on top of that new straw tick. I-, have never been able to figure out whether that hard straw mattress was comfortable or not. It was hard in places; and soft in. others. By rea- son of two small boys trying to bur- row down in the centre of it during the cold.winter spells it began to dish out at the sides and wear through at the middle. There was a round spot in the centre where the straw was all dished out and it was bulked up along the sides in a regular dyke -like sort of arrangement. Climbing into bedyou would start sleeping up on the sides and the first thing you, knew there would be a scrambleof boys in the middle. The tussle end pulling and tugging of small boys had a rather bad. effect on the mattress. 'Mother was sick at the time and our hired girl never used bother a great deal with sweeping. I can remember quite plainly how she used to push the little pile of straw back into the corner under the bed. Needless to say that after mother re- covered from her illness the hired girl was given a very short notice to pack her "duds and git." Grandmother used to have the soft- est feather beds in the district. It was always a treat to get spending a few days at her house. Climbing in- to bed , . it seemed as if you were scrambling up on top of a partly in- flated balloon the way -they used to iiiimommissemar- billow out around sou. Grandmother would come tiptoeing up the .etails softly with the lanaip in her hand. I can see her yet. Edging in the door quietly she would set the lamp down on the chair and tuck the quilts in under, the feather mattress. Then shoving the quilts up close around my shoulders she would stoop down and her lips' would give a quick "feather - touch" kiss on my forehead. Feather ticks were great lin the winter time. They were warm and pleasant to sleep in but during the summer time it was an entirely dif- ferent matter. On an -evening when the weather was sultry and hot the ticks were quite apt to make you feel as if you were roasting. Every time you turned the tick seemed to con- form to your shape and bury you a little deeper in its smothering dens- ity. The feathers had a way of com- ing through the ticking and it was not unusual to get up in the morning with feathers clustering to your skin where you had been sweating. Uncle Josh's 'daughter Milly is a school teacher. She has been living away off in the city for a long .time now and More or less away from .all our country customs. Last Christmas Josh was ire the village one day and the station agent told him that there was a large parcel for him down• at the station. Josh drove down 'with the sleigh and looked at the strange flat bundle. Josh always was a cur- ious sort of fellow and so he had to peek in at the contents of the par- cel. It turned out to • be a mattrese— one of those springy, soft kind which are designed to give you your full beauty sleep. Josh was pleased be- yond words and he drove away •off whistling to beat- the .band. I didn't see hini for same time but one day he name to Lazy Meadows and we chanced to -ask him about the mat- tress which it developed his daughter had sent him. "I have been, getting ups ;at 'five o'clock since I was a boy," he said. "Never missed one ,single morning un- til we got that new-fangled mattress. I slept in until eight o'clock the next day. Mrs. Josh took it off our bed and put it on the • spare one. She says that the old straw tick is good enough for us The truth of the mat- ter iiee the straw tick is so uncom- fortable that when you wake up in the morning there's nothing to do ex- cept get up or else get a pain in your back from Iying on it. When I quit farming and don't have to get up en the morning, I'm going to sleep on that fancy mattress for days andnev- er get up at all." :JUST ASMILE OR,TWO A friend called up a guest at a hotel, knocked and asked him 'to open the door, "Can't; door's locked," the voice ,within announced" "Well, unlock it!" "Can't; have no key." "Great Scott, man? What will you do if there's a fire?" "I can't' go!" • Mother: "Billy, why are you mak- ing your little brother cry?" Billy: "I'm not. He's dug a hole and he's crying because he can't bring it into the house.:' • Friends at the club avere compli- menting the•judge on his having been in a stooping posture at the time a missile whizzed over his head during an election riot. "You see," remarked the judge dry- ly, "had I been an upright judge it might have been serious." ruse "What is the comptometer opera- tor• doing with that tablecloth " "The boss brought it back from a luncheon confereriee. He wants her to add up the figures on it." • "I want to, buy a petticoat.. "Certainly, madam; fancy- dress ani period costumes on the third floor," • Mrs. Style: "I want a hat, but it must be in the latest style." Shopman: "Kindly ,take a chair, madam, ,rand wait a few minutes; the fashion is just changing: n. 'It was bedtit and Mrs, .Jones was overlooking the evening toilet of her small son. "Oh, Tommy!" she exclaimed, "look at your handl It's all scratched and bleeding: -How did that happen?" • "Weil, you see, mother, those were awfully sharp teeth Jimmy Johnson d to have." y, Canada At War • • • No. 2—"TOUR OF LARGEST AUTO- MATIC GUN PLANT IN ONTARIO" An automatic gun plant in Eastern Canada is now the largest single pro- ducer of machine guns in the British Empire today. In the spring of 1938 the Canadian Government decided to make Bren Guns for the Canadian Army. Now the plant consists of some 19 build- ings, covering more than a million square feet of floor space. At the out- breals�, of war, the working personnel consisted of slightly over 400 persons, Today, more than 4,500 are employed on war production, and in another nine or ten+ months, that number will be increased to around 9,000, Nearly 40 per cent of the employees are wo- men, and they can bindle the machine tools with all the dexterity of men. More women will be .used as men are called to other types of war work. The production of a Bren Gun is an intricate job, and requires literal- ly hundreds of operations. There rs a total of 161 different parts in each gun, requiring 3,000 separate opera- tions. In the plant, there are more than 4,000 machine tools, and over 17,- 000 gauges. 100 Per Cent Canadian When the Government let the con- trtiet for the chnstrttotion of these gtnnm, it stipulated that where iros- uibl(, only Canadian materia is were to be used. As• a result, these guns are one ,hundred per cent Canadian, with the exception of the walnut, im- ported from the United States, used for the gun stocks, Bren Guns are as nearly fool proof as it is possible to make them. They cannot be assembled incorrectly. If one part fits into another, that must be the correct way, otherwise they would not go together, They weigh just 22 pounds. Each gun is equipped with a spare barrel, and 24 magazines, each maga- zine holding thirty cartridges. It is a simple matter to slip one magazine off, and put another in place; the op- eration requiring only a few seconds. Details of the construction of any type of ordnance cannot he given. It is possible, however, to mention a few pertinent facts regarding certain parts of guns, which will give one some idea of the tremendous amount of --work involved in their production. The body of a Bren Gun starts along the machine line as a rough forging weighing 45•pounds. The body is the part of the gun which houses the fir- ing mechanism. This forging passes through 269 separate operations be- fore it is completed. As many of these operations require more than one handling, and must be gauged following each operation, it 'means that literally several hundred pet'sons have had a And in the 1r►dttiction o$ (OOnttnue4. on Fags '3) Airport is eirsay Spot Workmen are going strong at the Centralia airport this week. With the fine weather of the past couple of days additional nen are being ew. ployed. Mere must be between eev- en and eight hundred men on the job and the new buildings are fast taking shape. The wet weather of last week held up operations. There was plen- ty of mud to contend with. There is a big fleet of trucks drawing gravel from the Marley, pit. -Exeter Times• A dvocate. Wins Second Prize Cain's Mill is to be congratulated' on being awarded Second prize in a, province -wide contest for selling Shur -Gain laying mash and laying. concentrates, Winners of the first prize received 487 points and Cann's- Mill was second with only 15 points behind, viz: 4Z2 points. ' They have' been awarded a medal and a $10.00, cheque. --Exeter Times -Advocate. Former Residents... Honored Mr. and Mrs. Frank Johns, of To= ronto, formerly of Exeter, were treat- ed to a very pleasant surprise last Thursday evening, when about 150 friends gathered in Creber's Hall, St. Clair Avenue West,to extend con- gratulations for their silver wedding anniversary, and to present them with a silver service. Refreshments followed a varied program, Mrs,. Fred J. Hill, formerly of Exeter, was in charge of committee arrangements. —Exeter Times -Advocate. , To Give "'H.M.S.. Pinafore" At an executive meeting of the Goderich Music Club held this week, definite plans cera made for the pro- duction of the Gilbert and Sullivan operetta "H.M.S. Pinafore." The cast will be composed entirely of local tal- ent and the chorus will consist of club members. November 28th is the date announced for the vocal recital to be given by Mrs. Jean Haig Doney and Dr. Harvey Doney, of Toronto, under the Club's auspices,—iGoderich Signal -S tar. Paving On Road No. 21 Paving on the Blue Water High- way from Dunlop to Port Albert air- port has reached a point at the top of the hill at the north of the village of Port Albert, and "about two fine days will finish the. job to the 4th concession intersection, which marks the extreme northerly point of the Sterling Co.'s contract, The pacing of the road through Port Albert vil- lage' and the winding hills at the southerly and northerly approaches is takes to mean that the building- of a' bridge which would sidetrack the vil- lage has been shelved for some years, —Goderich Signal -Star. Doll Raffled A doll bought and dressed by Mrs. H. D. falser was presented by her as the prize in a draw conddeted by Mrs. Evans at her store on Saturday' tor the benefit of the Junior ;Red Cross, The tickets -were -son] by Bet- '- ty Passer and Irma Thomas, the pro- ceeds being $9.30. The winning tick- et, No. 27, was held by Mr. A. Situp- on, of the G.C.I. 'staff, and the doll was presented at the school assembly on Monday.—Goderich Signal -Star. Former Minister 'Preaches Large congregations attended the anniversary services of Knox Presby- terian Church on Sunday last. The• preacher of the day was Rev. R. C., McDermid, of Oakville, a former min- ster of Knox Church, w•ho, was heard with great interest' and pleasure.— Goderich Sighal-Star. Sign For Active Service Pte. Freeman Tunney, of Wollesley Barracks, London, is home for a few days' leave. Freeman signed up this week for active service with the R. C.A. Roy Bentley, son of Mr. and Mrs. .Russell Bentley, has also signed up for active service, entering the service at Wollesley Barracks, Lon- don, --(Blyth Standard. Another Large Potato Mr. Joe Shaddick presented us "with a large potato last week. It was a Weil -shaped potato, and tipped the eree scales at two lbs" three and • three- quarter ounces. It was just one of many that Mr. Shaddick'' grew this year,—$Lyth Standard. Dinner Was Success The dinner, sponsored by Trinity Church Ladies' Guild, and held in the Memorial Hall on Tuesday evening, was a decided success and was Weil patronized. Nearly 200 people sat down to a splendidly arranged four - course meal, at the conclusion of which moving pictures were shown. -- Blyth Standard. Former Student Appointed Chaplain Rev, R. Keith Love, B.A., B -D., pas- tor of Glenheim' United Church for the past two years, has received a call from the R.C.A.F. and has re- ported for duty at Manning Pool, To- ronto, Reg, M,r. Love will enter the R.C.A.F, as a chaplain. Ordained at bhe London Conference Hesston in Park Street Church, Chatham, ten yeatrt0age, Itar. Lo'VO Preached a year oittfittlietf GII ?go 3)-