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The Huron Expositor, 1941-11-21, Page 2iron xpositor ftablished 1860 Phail McLean, Editor. Pnb,%shed at Seaforth, Ontario, ev- ery Thursday afternoon by McLean Bros. Advertising rates on application. SEAFORTH, Friday, November 21 Courtesy In Driving -From observation we would say that the average car driver has a lot to learn about courtesy as applied to driving. And further, that the av- erage truck driver has still a great deal more to learn about the same subject. We speak particularly about the `-courtesy of dimming car lights when. meeting another car at night. In daylight the average driver is pretty well able to protect himself under any ordinary circumstances, but at night, even the most competent and skilful driver is all but helpless un- der the full glare from the lights of an approaching car. When we hear a motorist give as the cause of a collision or the ditch- ing of his car—too bright lights— out of our experience, we believe him, because out of seven trucks met within a short distance on No. 8 Highway one night not long ago, one—and one only—had the decency to dim their lights. And to dispute the right of way of a truck on the highway, night or day, is foolishness indeed. The cars were a little better, but not a great deal at that. It is such a simple matter that one wonders at the lack of courtesy shown. The cause may be ignorance, boorishness, or just plain meanness, but the cause is there to such an extent that Ili gg ht after night serious and fatal ac` i- dents are attributable t6 glaring lights. There is only one way of avoiding accident in such eases, and that is to slow to a walk or stop altogether, and the wise driver .does just that. At the same time no driver should be placed under such inconvenience or delay, or be exposed to such real personal 'danger by any car or truck that. travels the highways. A. few nights careful patrolling on the part of the provincial police and county officials, followed by a few stiff fines, or cancelling of permits, would do much . to straighten out matters, particularly at this time of year, when nights -are dark and wea- ther conditions are rarely of the best. • Would Be Of Help. Here Too • In his speech in the . British House of Commons last week, Prime Min- ister Churchill lightly suggested that it would be a great help to him if some of the armchair generalsand other amateur, but very vocal, com- plainers of his war policy, and his way of conducting it, would follow one of the customs of ancient'China. "There was a custom in ancient China that any one who wished to criticize the Government could mem- orialize the Emperor, and, provided he followed it up by committing sui- cide, very great respect was paid to his word and no ulterior motive was assigned." That might be of help in Canada, and America too. • Public Health Service Pubric health service is sometimes looked upon in this country as a fad, and a very expensive fad at that. Our fathers and grandfathers got along very nicely without it, and why shouldn't we? The British Ministry of Health, however, looks upon it from another standpoint, and it has inaugurated an educational campaign against common colds. Such a campaign has been found a necessity in the interests of the Bri- tish war effort, because as the Min- istry of Health points out, the com- mon cold in England costs twenty million working days a year. Put in another way, these lost days repres- ent three' thousand, five hundred tanks, a thousand bombers) and a Million rifles. If a t erl!nan bomber floating over and some night could destroy . arsenal of war material, n't the German pies and radio vet it to'. a log, long ;time? • THE RUTRON EXPOSIT The 'British do not miss many i tricks, and, apparently, they fully re- - alize that to neglect public health is playing into the enemy's hand4, so they are going to insist on a thorough public health service. Canada might profit by the example too. • One Can Always Learn One can always learn. We were born and have spent a life -time with- in forty rods of a farm, , and we thought wg were fairly familiar not only with the farmer and his life work, but with the implements he worked with and the livestock he raised, their appearance and the end they serve on the farm. But it remained for a ten -year-old British boy to put us right on the subject of cows. This boy, evacuated to the country from the east end of London, after first hand observation and deep thought, wrote an essay on the subject that was so informa- tive that Mr. Ernest Brown, Minis- ter of Health for Britain, gave it to the British papers for publication, and they in turn cabled it to this country. . "The cow," said the boy from the East End of London, "is a mammal. It has six sides right and left, and, upper and below. At the back it has a tail on which hangs a brush. With this he sends flies away so they don't 'fall into the milk. The head is for. the purpose of growing horns, and so his mouth can be somewhere. The horns are to butt with and the mouth. to moo with. "Under the cow hangs milk. It is arranged for milking. When people milk, milk comes and there never is an end to the supply. How the cow does it I have not yet realized, but it makes more and more. The cow has a fine sense of smell and one can smell it far away. This is the rea- son for fresh air 'in the country. "A man cow is called an ox. The cow does not eat much, but what.. it eats it eats, twice, so that it gets en- ough. When it is hungry, it moos, and when it says nothing at all it is because its insides are full up with grass." According to the boy, British cows differ from ours in at least one par- ticular. They are much more con- siderate in their use of that brush that hangs on the end of their tails. • Indians Set Example People in this country do not, as a rule, give very much credit to the In- dian for his methods of living, his .thriftiness or anything else. But there is ;one, band of Indians living north of the Arctic Circle, that has set an example in giving that should be noted by Canadians at large. This band of -Crow Indians has sent to Hon. Thomas,A. Crerar, Do- minion Resources Minister, four hundred and thirty-two dollars for the relief of bombed -out children in -the United Kingdom, and ` dollars come very hard to these Indians, liv- ing in the Arctic Circle. This summer they took their fur catch of last winter to a trader in Alaska and were paid in American money. Then their Chief, who had been told of the bombings in London, took up a collection. He headed the list with one hundred dollars, andthe twenty-four other members of the band made up the balance. The Chief tied the bills in a red cotton handkerchief and handed it over to the Royal Canadian Mount- ed Police at Old Crow Station. The Mounties sent the money down to Dawson, where it 'was deposited in a bank and a cheque forwarded to Ottawa. That was pretty good for twenty- five Indians. In fact twenty-five other average Canadian citizens couldn't have done much better. • The "Hot Dog " Has It Last week four hundred boys and girls, invited to a rescue mission Thanksgiving dinner at Syracuse, New York, were asked to express their preferences on the menu. And here are the answers: For turkey—ten per cent. For spaghetti—eleven per cent. Various other; food—four per cent. For. "hot d-cgs"—seventy-five per cent. If the boys and girls are satisfied, why of course we are too. But there are a whole let of other edible's that we think seventy -dive per .cent. more of than we do of "hot doge' rn R • Years Agone lnt.r sting, Eons Picked From The. Huron Expositor of Fifty sing) Twistydtflve Year. Ago. Front The Huron Expositor November 24, 1918 The Goderich Organ Co. has receiv- ed an order for 30,000 shell boxes, of the type known as the "Bethlehem." Work has already commenced on the order and the delivery will be made January 1, 1917. Dr. Rogers. of Brucefleld, has tak- en a position 4n Markham, near To- ronto, and Dr. Glanfield is to take his place. Mrs. A. McLean, Goderich St., re- ceived. word from the War Office on Friday last, stating that her son, A. F. McLean, who went overseas with the 46th Regina Battalion, had receiv- ed a gunshot in the face. Seaforth loses this week in the de- parture from town of Mr. Morson, a popular and esteemed member of the community. 'Mr. Morson was enter- tained at whist on Monday evening prior to his leaving for Toronto. As a result of terrible injuries sus- tained on Saturday when he had his arm caught in the wheels of a grain crusher, P. E. James, of Hibbert, died .at his home on Wednesday. Mr. James was oiling his crusher while it was in motion and the glove of his right,; hand became caught in the cogs of the machine. Mr. William Rinn, of Hvllett, and one of the best farmers and horse breeders in the township, bids fair to add new laurel to his name and here- after will be known as. the 'sheep king.' He recently disposed of a load of lambs which averaged 115 pounds each and for which he received` $10.25 from the well known buyer, Mr. Peter O'Sullivan,' of McKillop. On Saturday the .little daughter of Mr. Wes. Nott, of Tuckersmith, while playing iii a buggy, fell out and broke her armat the wrist. Mr. T. R. Thompson, of Seaforth, shipped a carload of dressed poultry on (Monday last. At the last meeting of the council of Stanley Twp., a grant of $1000 was made to the British Red Cross Fund. This was a most generous gift and the cause is a very worthy one. Mr. J. F. Daly has purchased the Large store from the Buck Estate, Brantford, on Main St., which he has been occupying for some- time ae a jewellry store and garage. The choir of the Seaforth Methodist Church. presented Mrs. W. E. Glenny, the organist, with a handsome Irish linen table cloth before her marriage as a token of esteem. Master Carl Joheeton, of Varna, had his arm broke : while cranking the car on Saturday. The Hawaiian Islands, their beauty and strangely interesting people, were very graphically described by Mies Tillotson in her lecture in First Pres- byterian Church ;on Wednesday eve- ning. The program consisted of an organ solo by Mrs. J. D. O'Connell; vocal solos by Miss Helson and Mr. Tames S'leeth, and selections from the Seaforth male quartette. Mr. John Elder, of Hensall, who is a successful Shorthorn breeder, re- cently purchased a very choice, six- teen -months -old Shorthorn bull at the big sale held recently in London. • From The Huron Expositor November 20, 1891 Mr. Richard Robinson has rented his farm in Tuckersmith, south of Eg- mondville, to Mr. Henry McGavin, of Stanley, for a term of five years, at an annual rental of $300. Miss Kelly, who has had charge of the 'second department of Egmondville sc.hooi for the past two years, has re- signed and'°accepted a situation in the Blyth school for the coming year: Miss CcClarty, of Stratford, will suc- ceed her in Egmondville. Mr. Bert .Talrnson, of The Expositor office. has invented and is having patented in Canada, England, France, Germany and the United, States, a very simple and -effective apparatus for locking up type forms . It is•-esaid that Mr. Wm. Campbell, of Harpuhey, who is now in Muskoka shooting, has bagged ' a deer which weighed 225 pounds. A large number; of the townspeople have had new furnaces placed in their residences this season. Among these are W. D. Bright, C. Clarkson, W. D. Van Egmond and James Carnochan, of Tuckersmith. The auction sale of Mr. Andrew Govenlock on Wednesday was well attended considering the very unfav- orable weather and bad state of roads. There was a good demand for cattle; lumber was in good demand, and bid- ding was brisk. The whole sale amounted to .$1,100, and Mr. W. G. Duff, Seaforth, wielded the hammer. Mr, Wm. Chapman, of near Bruce - field, has purchased' the farm of 'Mr. Alex McGill on the 5th concession of Stanley. Mr. Chapman now owns 350 acres of as good land as there is in Canada. Mr, Jas. Cooper, of Kippen, recent- ly sold eight. ewes out of his prize flock of Shropshires at a handsome figure, Mr. Chas. Avery was -the pur- chaser. A few people from Leadbury at- tended a tea meeting given by the Lady True Blues and Orangemen on the 9th line of McKillop. Mr. W. J. Shannon was chairman and the speakers were Rev. Hodgins of Sea - forth and Rev. Ottowell of Walton. The Seaforth•Methddist church choir rendered several numbers. Mr. Thos. Yellow, of the Huron Rd., Tuckersmith, has ,purchased from Mr. Wm. Bowden, a 200 -acre farm adjoin- ing the .village of Exeter. Mr. Wm. Hamilton, • who has been engaged in the boot and shoe busi- ness in town for a couple of years in company with Mr. Donald McInnis, has disposed of his interest In the business to Mr. Thos. Richardson. - Mr. Daniel Hagan, of Varna, has •p rchasped. Mr. Watson's farm at Grand Bend for $4,200. On Tuesday evening last a large number of the members and friends of St. John's Church, Varna, spent a very sociable and enjoyable evening et the English Church parsonage, Day'fieid. . The object of their •~wait was to present the Rev. Mr. Newton 'with a fur coat, while the ladles pn ea� enter '~Ara Ne`tvton with a batlditomo stet Wit' eta* bait dCllllt a :Phil Osif o • • : k .®ii-ik�lm• • • • (by'DHarry J. Boyle/ "TURNIPS" 404, Bach - fall we have a number of ex- ceptionally fine days. The sun shines warmly and the earth is• not too mud-• dy . . . Mrs. Phil gently insists each morning that "this would be a perfect day to take up those turnips." As a rule we agree on that point. However, the taking up of turnips as not exactly the most pleasant task on the farm. The alibis start flowing briskly. It's remarkable the number of reasons i person can scrape together for not taking up turnips. The usual one is to say that the turnips need a good frost. Somebody suggests that the cattle would never know the differ- ence. The counter -argument to that is the fact that turnips that have been nipped by frost have a much better flavor when cooked and, "if they're better for cooking with a nip of frost they must be better for the cattle as well°" The days wear on! The leaves are falling and the trees look startling in their nakednesS.Gtee sound of thresh- ing and silo -fillip has long ceased in the neighborhood. Piles of apples covered with straw remain in sortie orchards and on practically all ver- andahs in the township you can see' boxes of apples, curing as it were with the light touches of frost we have been having. • 'We plan on taking up the turnips on a certain day only to discover that there is an auction sale that day. We attend the auction . . and later go to a sale of purebred cattle where the only thing we can do is gape because the prices are far beyond our limit. We encdurage Mrs. Phil on another day to take a trip into town to do some shopping. It is a fine, pleasant day but conscience has a way of pricking you. Along the road it seems as if every farmer in the county has picked the warm, sunny day to take up his turnips. Mrs. Phil notes it all but refrains from comment. When we arrive home, she announces with a degree of finality that you learn to res,�pec, "Tomorrow you take in the turns s." Sunny today . . : and rainy to- morrow! A cold mist of rain devel- ops in the morning and by noon we have a full-fledged snowstorm. Not one of those pleasant, down -soft falls of snow that come in the winter time. This is a "turnip -day" special . • a particular brand of snow that sifts in around the collar of your coat and sticks to your neck until it starts to melt and then the drops of moisture play a game of trying to see which one can go the farthest in the short- est space of time. Snow . . .. mud . . . and turn- ips! Gloyes are of little avail; your fingers grown numb after a certain length of time apyhow. The mud clogs up on your boots until you 'fest as if you were walking on stilts. Great lumps of clay stick to your overalls and every time you put your hand near your face . . , there is another lump of dirt sticking to our eyebrows or your beard. Clump . . . clump . . . clump and then you drive to the barn where the turnips all have to be thrown into the root cellar. How maddeningly slow the cellar seems to -fill up. Each time you drive back to the field you de- termine' during the coming year either to stop ,growing turnips altogether or else have them grow in the field be- side the barn. The wagon tracks seem to go deeper and deeper into the ground. Each turnip has become a white mound against a black muddy background. • If we had only picked a fine day! There can't be anything to this story, that frost improves a turnip, any- how. Neighbor Higgins takes his We-, nips in early and his stock always seem to enjoy them. Next year we'll take them in just as soon as we pos- sibly can. Why does it always have to snow on the day we pick to bring in the turnips? The rainy snow is be- ginning to soak through and all the clothes. on your back seem to be stiff and wet and cold. Finally, however, they are all pick- ed. I3 is the last load and the hazy blanket of late fall 'is closing in on the farm.. We won't bother unloading this load tonight . just drive it in on the barn floor It's warm in the stable and, the cattle • look up and bawl. Those turnips are certainly go- ing to make great feeding this winter, :JUST A SMILE OR TWO: The young salesman was •looking very depdessed on his second, day- in his new job.• "Come, come!" said the sales man- ager. "Don't look so down in the mouth. I know it's difficult at first, but you'll soon get into it. When you've had a little more experience you'll get along all right." "It isn't that," said the young than. "When I got home last night I prac- tised that sales talk on my wife and now I've got to buy her a new casuum cleaner." . First Golfer: terrible. I have ly 'before." Second Golfer: played before?" • "This is absolutely never played so poor - "Oh, then you have • An elderly couple were charged with creating a breach of the peace in their own home. "How did you come to cause this disturbance at your own fireside?" asked the magis- trate. "Well, 'It' was like this," replied' the old woman. "John and I were sitting at the fire. John was reading his newspaper aril I Sivas thinking. Then I'turned to him and said, 'John, sheep are nwfu' stupid, aren't they?' And John said, 'Yes, my lamb.'" • Wife: "Wake up, John! There'3 A burglar going th.rough your pants pockets," Husband (tuning over) : "Oh,, you two just fight it out between your- seives." • A little boy was saying his go -to - bed prayers in a very low voice. "I can't bear you, dear;" his mother whispered, "Wasn't talking to you," the small one answered firmly. • "Yes, said the great man, "I woke up one 'morning and found myself famous," "It was slightly different with me," sighed the other, "I found myself famous—and then I woke up!" • "Is the mini:§ter of agriculture in?" "Not just, now, madam. What do you want him for?" ' "Well, I have a geranium that isn't doing so well!" •• Canada At War • 0 No. 3—"DOMINION'S GROWING SHELL PRODUCTION" By C. Earl Rice, formerly of the Springfield Times, Lac Du Bonnet, Manitoba). The Dominion Arsenal In Quebec Province are many plants where ammunition and shells are be- ing produced. The mother of them all, 'however, is the Dominion Arsenal. Situated in the heart of Old Can- ada is a fine olds, stone building, dat- ing back to the . eighteenth century. The walls are five feet thick, and from this building, the defenders of New France took their stand against the enemy. For the past 30 years or more this same building has been us- ed in the defence of Canada, but in- stead of being the shelter from which guns are fired', it has' become 011 cen- ter in, which ammunition for the Can- adian Army is made. "^ During the last war this arsenal - employed five to six hundred men and women. Today, it is producing in 24 hours, more ammunition than in a whole month during the last war. More than a score of large buildings comprise the bh.ree main plants. One of these is situated in the country fifteen. miles from the city, and a special train makes a round trip three times a day carrying 1,500 men and women to work on their respective shifts•. - The Dominion Arsenal is consider ed the finest plant of its', type on the North American continent. Not only is it equipped with the very latest in machines and tools, but the safety de- v1cea, apse) working COlditiOlia are the; best posse rle. Cartridge cases and bullets are pro- duced from the raw material. The men attending the great crucibles have to wear shoes with wooden soles an inch thick to protect their feet from the heat. The metal for shell cases is poured into moulds, and when cooled is drawn out until it is just the traction of an inch in thickness, and nearly forty feet in length. The long spring-like coil of brass is then fed into, a punching machine, from which thimble -like cups are punched out. These are the beginning of cart- ridge cases.. They pass through forty operations until the completed cases are produced'. After the cartridge cases are com- pleted, they are passed on to another plant, where the propellant is put in, the cap fitted and the metal bullets clamped into place. his plant where the high explosives are (handled, is one—of extraordinary quietness and -cleanliness. There is no hnatle or bustle here. Everybody wears special rubber shoes, and when walking abaft the building, every now and again, one touches a metal plate set in the wall to ground himself so that there may be no static generated. Situated close to this plant. -is the proving ground. Dere It is that guns made in Canada, using shells the size of a half inch and aver, are proved. Not only are Canadian -made guns proved !here, but guns Prom the 'Am- erican arsenals asp well. The proving ground is operated jointly by the United Kingdom and (Canadian Gov- ernments. A certain number of, shells from each batch made are also test- ed diuring tlae proving of the Ig'n Shells of all types, es. and' libelee yr (Cont( ti ' ojt 1'age $);' NOVENIREt 21, 1941 Airport To Be Enlarged The Signal -Star has it on excellent authority that Sky Harbor airport is to -be doubled in size forthwith. The report is that the work of construc- tion will proceed throughout the win- ter. Sky Harbor is t0 be one of five of the twenty-three elementary flying training schools of the Commonwealth Plan to be enlarged—a signal honor, indeed.—Goderich Signal -Star. A Second Season Matthew Shackleton, R. R. 1, Dun- ginnnon, reports that white sweet clover is in bloom on. his farm. The 8-uts are about 21/2 feet in height. Many people in town report having picked ripe raspberries lately.--Gode- rich Signal -Star. Honored By Badminton Club Warren May was the guest at a send-off party held in the gymnas- ium last Friday evening by the Bad- minton Club. Warren, who has been teller at the Canadian Bank of Com- merce left Monday for Manning Pool, Toronto, having joined the air Urce. For several years he has been a prom- inent member of the club and will t(-4 greatly missed. After' a few sets of badminton, the members gathered in: a group and 'a` tasty lunch was serv- ed by the ladies in which all partici- pated heartily, Lloyd Stephens, the president, made an appropriate ad- dress and presented Warren with a fine pipe. A fitting reply was made by the departing member. Grafton Coch- rane extended a vote of thanks to the - ladies for preparing a delightful lunch. —Exeter Times -Advocate. • 'Property Changes Mr. W. Herman Hodgson, of the 2nd concession of Stephen township, has purchased the dwelling of the Misses Huston on Andrew St. Possession will' be given December 1St. The Misses Huston have reined one of the new apartments of Mr. Sandy- Elliott. Exe- ter will welcome, Mr. and Mrs. Hodg- son. Mr. Hodgson has disposed of his farm in Stephen to. Mr. Reg. Hodgson. --Exeter Times -Advocate. Newly -Weds Honored On Friday even'zg S. S. No. 6, Mor- ris, was"a community centre for a so- cial gathering. Mr. and Mrs. Jack Wheeler, who were recently married, were the honol'ed guests. Norman Gowing read the, address and Jack Yuill presented the newly-weds with a purse of money. Mr. Wheeler thanked them all for their kindness. A pleasant time was spent in danc- ing. Lunch was • sel•ved. — Brussels Post.• Now Bombing Pilot Congratulations to Richard . Joseph Irwin, son of Mr. and Mrs. J. Herson Irwin, on his graduation from No. T6 Service Flying Training School, H.C. 'at ,Hagersville, Dick received{ his wings on Thursday, a member of the first class to graduate from this school. He also received .his commis- sion as PilotOfficer and will leave on Wednesday for Vancouver Island to continue his training. Richard spent the week -end at his home • here.— Wingham• Advance -Times. Legion Poppy Fund Fair taggers were busy on Satur- day raising funds for the Canadian Legion annual Poppy Day, the pro ceeds of which amounted to about $180, to be used for the relief' of war veterans only.—Mitchell Advocate. Sixpence in Family 106 Years School children have often been in- structed to use their imaginations suf- ficiently to write the story of a penny or some other piece of money that could have a very interesting history, according to their abilities to conjure up experiences that could happen. ;o a coin. But none would be more fas- cinating than the story of a sixpence that had its origin away back in 1819, exactly 122 years ago.—Mitchell Ad- vocate. Eighty-third Birthday Mrs. Mary Ridge of Fullerton quiet- ly celebrated her 83rd birthday on Friday at the home of her niece, Mrs. E. J. Hingst, town. Congr'atula-, tions to .this estimable resident' of Fullerton village. 'Mitchell Advocate. Presentation To Mr. and Mrs. C. B1p11 On, Thursday evening, Ott. 30th, about 100 friends and neighbors of Mr. and Mrs. ClarencesBall gathered in S'ummeriill hall to honor them) on their recent marriage and to also wel- come Mrs. Bait 'to the community. The first part of the evening was spent in progressive euchre, the 'Win- ners being: Ladies, first, Mrs. George' Armstrong' gents, first, Bari Blake; .adies' consolation, Miss Evelyn Plat- ze'r; men's (consolation, Eph. Snell. At. 11.30 Mr. and Mrs. Ball were called to the front - and an address was read by Mr. N. Forbes and Messrs. Harry Watkins and Norman Wright present- ed them with a set of black and white granitewware. Clarence, on behalf of Mrs. Ball, gave a very fitting reply and "For They Are Jolly Good Fel- ows" was sung. Lunch was served end the remainder of the. evening was 8ppent,•in dancing. The music was fur- nished by. Mrs,. Harry Stewart and Mr. Gobrge Artgstrong, with 112x. At Crich is $: ,or m ># ger-- 1ttan N'e'w •1 e- cord. 7 J.