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The Huron Expositor, 1941-11-28, Page 2a41 • THE V.h' E+ 1ITy. !. 1 TOVEMBE 28, 1941 X S t* Up'bshed 1860 Keith MCF,ail McLean, Editor. Published at Seaforth, Ontario, ev- 'ery Thursday afternoon by McLean Bros. • Advertising rates on application. Subscription `rates, $1.50 a year in advance; foreign, $2.00 a year. Single copies,, 4 cents each. SEAFORTH, Friday, November 28 A Wise Thing To Do At the fa 'session of the Huron County Council, held in Goderich last week, a resolution was present- ed from the Grey Township Federa- tion of Agriculture, asking the coun- ty council to suspend winter snow- plowing for the duration of the war. Instead Grey Township would set up a reserve fund with the money thus saved and use it on a public works project to provide work for return- ed men after the war. On -:this resolution, no action was taken by the council, and that, we think, was a wise thing to do. In fact, it is rather surprising that a Federation, supposedly organized to help farmers and advance agricul- tural interests, would 'choose a back- ward step as a first endeavor along these lines. Modern changes have brought. about a situation that decrees trans- portation, both in winter and sum- mer, to be carried on rubber tires, which means that roads and high- ways in' winter, as well as summer, must be .kept open and available for these tires to run on. Consequently, the failure to plough out the 'snow roads in Grey or any other township; would not save the farmer any money, but would, on the contrary, place the whole people of such a township in a decidedly disadvantag- eous position, by isolating them, from their markets and the world at large. - Nor Can we see much merit .in the latter part of the Grey resolution, that the money supposedly saved by having impassable roads in winter, be used on a public works project to provide work for returned men after the war. For one thing; the estab- lishment of a sinking fund for; any such purpose would almost certainly fall short of realization, and. even if it did materialize, the sum ear mark ed for ,it would be so indefinite, and at best so small, that no real project of any kind could be financed from it. The answer to the question of em- ployment after the war lies entirely upon the fact of whether it will be- come possible then for a free move- ment of goods from one country to another. If the farmer can produce and trade without undue obstruction from tariffs, after the war, there will be work for every one. But if the Allied countries have not learned the lesson from the last war, if they con- tinue to `live behind tariffwalls that can not be scaled, in an endeavor to live in a world of self sufficiency, the world will see . a day of unemploy- ment worse than anything that has ever been experienced. • Few Municipal Elections There was only a small scattering of municipalities to hold nominations in Western Ontario on Friday last, as in most municipalities it was only the half -way mark in the two-year term for municipal officers. In this county, Goderich was the only centre to hold nominations, and there was only a handful of voters in attendance, and very little enthus- iasm shown at the meeting. Mayo .gown, Reeve Turner and Deput Reeve Baker were all returned by acclamation, ' but there will be an election for the council and Board of Education. On the whole, the two-year term :Or Municipal officials has worked Out most satisfactorily. In Seaforth and' other towns in the county we have been told 'that the municipali- i'ltd' 'e ah been the gainers ; that 0 has expense been spared, as the longer term has resulted �atNWuYwi{LLV° .1i in more careful and impartial con- sideration of municipal affairs, and that there has been more stability and permanency in the legislation enacted. And that, we believe, is very true. • A Seat For Mr. Meighen Hon, Arthur Meighen has again been chosen to lead the Conservative party in Canada, and has accepted the leadership. As, yet, however, he has no seat in the Canadian Parlia- ment. And, unless there is some fast work on the part of his followers, there is little chance of his obtaining election to the House in time for the reopening of Parliament on January 21st next. At the time of the• recent Conserv- ative gathering which chose Mr. Meighen as leader, it was freely in- timated that several safe seats would be offered him, and several such were named. To date, however, none of these seats have been opened, nor have any others. That Mr. Meighen ?will secure a seat, and a safe one, goes ' without saying, -but as we have already inti- mated, prying a sitting member out of a safe seat, whether that member be a Conservative or a Liberal, is not the easiest job in the world, and it becomes much harder when that member's party is not the party in power. Electoral machinery is very slow moving. First the Speaker of the 'House has to secure a member's resignation before he can declare a member's seat vacant. Even then, eight weeks must elapse before the issue of the writ of election and poll- ing day, and if the Government saw no cause for hurry they have six months in which to issue a writ for a bye -election. Such Government delay, however, is not at all anticipa'teda, and should a suitable vacancy for Mr. Meighen -occur soon, and should he obtain an acclamation, which he possibly may; 'it might be possible for himto be elected a member in January, in which case he would be in the House for the...major part of the session. - But first there has to be a resigna- tion, and although the Speaker, J. A. GIen, has returned to his home in Manitoba; it is announced from Ot- tawa no resignation of a Conserva- tive member of the House of Com- mons to make way for Mr. Meighen has yet reached him. On The Farms District .farmers tell us that the fall wheat is very good, which we are` very glad to learn, because we were afraid it was beginning to look rather patchy'' in places. A blanket of snow may not be an essential for a bumper wheat crop, but at the same time rather mild days and frosty nights never pro- duced a really good one. • But these things, of course, are entirely in the weather man's hands. All we can do is hope for the best. We do not believe, however, that the weatherman had really much to do with the climbing price of eggs for some weeks past, and their sud- den .drop last week.. In fact, eggs fell so far and so fast it is a wonder they were not all scrambled. • It Was Nice Of The Officials When Port Albert Air Navigation; School went on daylight saving time over the week -end, the situation cre- ated was so serious that it backfired. With daylight saving it meant that the airmen on their nightly leave, would have to get back to camp one hour earlier. And considering where the camp is=situ,ted, one hour means a lot, when the time available to spend with- the girl friend was al- ready too short. But the , officials were very nice about it. Within twenty-four hours they had remedied the situation by marking leaves eastern standard time, instead of daylight saving time, and all was well again with the air- men. It means the loss of an hour's sleep, of course, but What does an hour's sleep count in love's young dream. earS Aon Interesting Items Picked From The Haven Expositor of Fifty and Twenty-five Years Ago. From The Huron Expositor December 1, 1916 Muss .Edith Scott, daughter of Mr. J. R. Scott, McKillop, has been gain- ing distinction for herself at the Uni- versity College, Toronto. Foe an es- say written by her, she stood first in a class of 70, taking 99 marks out of a possible 1410. Word has been received that Jake Sproat, who was in the battle of the Somme, came through safely. Mrs. Carmichael and daughter, Miss Mae, ,have moved to their home which they purchased on High Street from Mr. Walter Smith. A bee was held recently for the purpose of gravelling Bethel church shed. It was much needed and now the sheds are in good order. Alex McLeod, son of Roderick Mc- Leod, of Walton, who went overseas with the 33rd Battalion, has been awarded the military medal for con- spicuous bravery on the field: He was only ie years old on October 30th Iasi, Mr. Henry Thornton has purchased an acre of land from J. J. Irvine, Mc- Ki'Ilop, and intends moving his black- smith shop to the new „premises in the spring. Mrs. J. D. Hinchley, of town, re- ceived a .number of interesting snap- shots from Salonika, Greece. They were sent by her niece, Miss Minnie Best, a former Seaforth girl. . They give a fine idea of the appearance of that eastern city, the hospitals with their equipment and th wounded sol- diers who occupy it.e showed a large hole through the nurses mess tent, caused by a bomb dropped dur- ing a zepplin raid. Arthur Stewart and Wilfrid McLar- en, of Cromarty, who spent the past few months in Saskatchewan, the former near Moose Jaw, and the lat- ter near Colonsay, returned home last week. Mr. Owen Geiger, of Hensel], is putting in a new boiler in his flax mill and Will soon .have it ready for operation. The Commercial Hotel at Hensall had a narrow escape from what threatened to be a very serious fire a few days ago owing to a match or stub of a cigar falling into a, box in which there was some waste mater- ial. A traveller, who was in one of the sample rooms at an early hoar, discovered, it. • The annual meeting of the men's branch of the Red Cross of Crom- arty was held last Saturday night. Almost $300 had, been handed over to the ladies' branch. The officers for the ensuing year are as follows:— President, , Oswald Walker; vice-presi- dent, Alex Stewart; .sec.-treas., Dun- can McKellar. Mrs. Allen Mclean, Seaforth, re- ceived word that her' son, Ellice, who 'was recently wounded, was in a hos- pital in Brighton, England. • From The Huron Expositor November 27, 1891 A new winter sport will be intro- duced in Brussels this season lmown as hockey. It is played on ice, the contestants being on skates and arm- ed with sticks, something after the oldefash:oned game of "shinny." Mr. Andrew Scott has been re-en- gaged for next year as teacher of the Brucefield school it a salary of $500. Mr. William McKay, teacher in S. S.. No. 1, Osborne, has been engaged for the year 1892. Mr. Richard Delbridge, who -resides, near Winchelsea in the Township of Usborne, has been very successful again this year as an exhibitor of Berkshire pigs. During the past show season he won 46 first and second prizes. which is a record he may well be proud of. The Presbyterian congregations of Bayfield read and Blake having ex- tended an unanimous call to Rev. J. A. McDonald, Toronto, be their pas- tor, has accepted the call and his in- duction takes place on '`Tuesday even- ing next. The football club of the 7th conces- sion of Hibbert played a friendly game with the Staffa club on Saturday, re- sulting in a tie. These clubs have now had three mktche's. In the first neither club succeeded in scoring; in the second, Staffa got one goal, and in the third, each scored' one. Mr. T: G. ,Acllen, M.A., who has for the past two years been science mas- ter in the Se'aforth Collegiate Insti- tute. has resigned his position for the purpose of resuming his medical course in Toronto. Mr. F. J. Pope, .M.A., has been secured to take his • place. It is said that winter never comes to stay until the swamps are filled with water. If this -is the case, win- ter can come at any time, as the sev- erest rain storm experienced here for years commeeced on Saturday and continued to Monday with few inter- vals. The water was so high on Mon day night at the waterworks that the engines had, to be stopped. Mr. Andrew McCaa, of Egmondville, who is on a visit to his brothers here, met with a most unfortunate accident while returning from church on Sun- day evening. When near the house he fell on the sidewalk and broke his leg just above the ankle. The thermometer registered e5 de- grees below zero on Sunday night at Carberry, Manitoba. Master Will Fair - ley, formerly a Seaferth boy, started to church without having this ears covered, and when be arrived his ears were frozen, and in a day or two were about five times their size. Messrs. D. McIntosh and Wm- Kais- er, of 13eucefield, have gone to Vir- ginia for a few days. Mr, Geo. Hart has purchased Mr, Wm. Kaiser's farm on the London', Road near Brucefield. When Mr. Wm. Doig, of Ohiselhurst was returning home from school on Tuesday evening, a ger rain , in •.under the sulky and frightened the colt he was driving. The animal began to kick and soon liberated itself fropa.the rig and ran about a mile. lith. iboig escaped with only a few bruises: ' Two cars 'of Cheese wore shipped east of Brtiatelet StatiolZ one dad+ iaot • *, • • • • (by . Harry J. Boyle) • "CREAM AND EGG MONEY" I wonder what we would do on the farm without the cream and egg mon- ey. Those very words have a famil- iar ring for a great many city people. That is, providing they have ever liv- ed on a farm . . , because to far- mers the cream and egg money has been the foundation of their business for as long as the majority of us care to remember. About this time of year Mrs. Phil begins to get frugal with the money from the farm produce. She takes care ^to always meet the cream -man and demand the cream cheque before I can filch, a quarter for tobacco. She takthe s�vw eggs to town herself these days and asks for the money in place of leaving the surplus 'as she often does when buying groceries, in order that the "diue bill" will take care of what we need during the leaner days when the hens are not in the mood for laying:and the cream cheque has dwindled to a mere shadow of its former size. I often come in from choring after. supper and she will have the old cracked tea-pot on the table with neat little piles ,of silver and a few bills spread out on the oil -cloth. She is figuring with a stub of a pencil on the back of an old envelope . . . and her band hovers over the mail-order catalogue. She buys very little from it, but it is la sure guide for prices and a constant source of entertain- ment for the whole family. Mrs. Phil is figuring for Christmas. She has her Christmas gifts neatly listed on the back of an old envelope and her supply of money stacked on the table. Her forerhea'd wrinkles and unwrinkles with the problem of it. "I expect to sell some hogs before Christmas and 1'11 give you some money out of that," I suggest, but she shakes her head' at such a pro- fane thought. She is going to finance the Christmas season on the "cream and egg" money just as she has fin- anced'all- the others since we were first married. has saved this household'. d have never known how much it contained because the money is generally .stuff- ed stuned in among coupons and old bilis and receipts., Yet on every occasion the treasure -chest hail managed to yield enough to fill the emergency. 'rax -time comes and I dig down in my overalls for stray quarters and re- member a orse dollar bill in, a watch pocket of my good trousers and gent- ly ask Neighbor Higgins for the $6 he owes me . . . and still am eight dollars and forty cents short of the total. Mrs. Phil doesn't say any- thing, the money and chaff from the various pockets is •piled up on the table ... and when the amount need- ed is reduced to $7.23, she reaches for the tea-pot. I have always paid it back . . . because experience has taught that it is one bank which de- mands that each loan bet' paid back before another will be made. A great many farmers with success- ful places should be ashamed of .them selves when they start .boasting of their ability to finance. • The major- ity of them merely relied on, the abil- ity of their wives to pull them through the hard times with "cream and egg money" reserves. They have always known that no matter what came along in the way of extra ex- pense they could depend on the old cream jug or the cracked tea-pot to give up enough money to tide them over difficult places. No matter- what you want it for, the old tea-pot always seems to have the money. Perhaps its •a new pair of shoes for Patricia •Ann or a new pair of overalls for yourself . . . or Mfr. Phil may want a new bat. Dip- ping down into the old tea-pot she manages to .scrape up enough to buy what she needs. Each week when she sells the eggs and the cream -man comes along with the cheque from the previous week . . . she replenishes the supply, doling it out from week to week. I wonder what a credit company would say if I gave my financial backing as being the cracked tea-pot How many times that old teapot on the bureau shelf. :JUST A SMILE OR TWO: "Hello, John," said the genial vic- ar, "out for a stroll?" "Aye. Ye can do with a mouthful of fresh air eater bein' cooped • oop in a fifty -acre field arl day long." • The bootshop manager looked very gloomy as he checked over the books. "Business is ,pretty quiet," he told his assistant. "I think We'd better - have some sos't of a sale." "Ml right; sir," agreed the sales - mans, "what sort of sale shall it be?" "Well, just put that line of thirty - shilling shoes in the window and mar shilling shoes in the window and mark them down from £3 to £2.10c. • Mr. Blow, the new millionaire, had arranged . a costly' picnic for his fam- ily 'and friends. As the party tamp- ed into the woods in search of an op- en space where they could rest and eat, a niece touched Mr. Blow on the arm. "Uncle," she whispered, "mho is that awfully villianous fellow -helping to carry the lunch basket?" "Oh," replied Blow, "that chap is the Cleverest • safe-breaker outside prison at the moment," "Good gracious," gasped his niece in •horror... "What did you bring him along for?" "I spare no expense," sniffed the rich one. "It'll,..be his job to open the sardines." • A young man was turned down by his fiancee because his "eyesight was so bad:. Thinking to convince her otherwise, he stuck a pin in an oak tree in 4i1e's meadow and invited his .girl for a' walk. Half -way. across the meadow he said, "I can see a' pin in that tree." She said: "Wonderful; - let's go and see." • Proceeding towards the tree, he tripped up and fell over a cow lying down! Ails Flying Over the 'Atlantis • On A Magic Carpet 'Ellis is the second of a series of articles about conditions in Great Britain and others countries YJsjted during six weeks spent in Europe. It is written specially for the Canadian Weekly News- papers by the editor of the Fer- gus News -Record, Flying across the Atlantic is pure magic. There is no other way to describe it. No modern novelist has ever told the story. It is necessaiy to go away back to the Arabian Nights with its magic carpets, to Icarus .with his wax wings and his unsuccessful attempt to fly over a much narrower body of Water, or to Pegasus with his. broad pinions. Clipper trips are more mod- ern ahan our literature. A writer in one popular American magazine, recently tried to tell i about the flight from New York to Lisbon, but he depended heavily on photo- graphs. He did say, though, that those wbo had crossed .the Atlantic by Clipper belonged to the most exclu- sive club, in the world. The member- ship fee was $1,000 for less than a week and one requires "pull" besides to become initiated into this society. (Officially, the term is not "pull" but ,•priorities,") Perhaps there is some truth to that, but it does seem a- prosaic way to speak of magic. In many ways, modern scienc'le im- Proves on ancient fairy stories. I al- ways had some doubts about the de- sira'hility of travelling by carpet high above the earth. The carpet was sure to be draughty. If one .moved too near the edge, there was always a danger of falling off. And after all, the lady of the Arabian Nights and the Other an&ient story tellers kneyr nothing of the actual loveliAess of the world: far above the cloud.e and particularly at #1131064 Ur 4W'tt Yinldaeh' of d 't(btlarder storm, or when a rainbow spread. !f- eel' into a ful4'. Circle in front of the plane.'', Nothing they ever imagined could equal the beauty of that world and it is almost impossible to describe it to earthbound readers. Meeting the Other Editors At New York I met five of the other editors who were to make the trip to England. Three were from Ontario • and two 'front Montreal: 13. K. Sandwell and Bishop R. J. Renison, of Toronto; Grattan. O'Leary of Ot- tawa; Oswald Mayrand and Lionel Shapiro of Montreal. The .last named lives much of the time in Washing- ton and knows New York, which was fortunate, forwe learned that a Por- tllgese visa ;as necessary before we boarded the Clipper, and this required much running around and the pay- ment of eight precious American dol- lars each to .tthe Portugese Embassy before we embarked. (Later we learn- ed just how much travellers through Portugal have to pay toward the up- keep of Dictator Salazar's govern- ment). The new Airways Terminal, oppos- ite the Grand Central Station in New York, is surely one of the most beau- tiful and appropriate buildings In the world. The entrance is a semi -circle of inch -thick doors of plate glass or one of the new plastics. Inside the doors, the passenger ascends by a moving stairway .into a great blue dome studded wltih stars. Circling across the dome are the 'signs of the zodiac and a bronze man with wings, on, his back. Not until 'the traveller reaches the top of the stairs does he see the offices of the various airways companies almost hidden around the horizon. When the tithe comes to go, large motor buses rise trhroughthe floor at the rear of the building, com3ing up from deep cellars, and the trans.tt 1 tfitueti' on Page y') Seen in the Conty fapers. Newly -Weds Honored Last Thursday evening the .aames- town hall was the scene of a social gathering in the form 'of a miscel- laneous shower, which was held in honor of Mr. and MTs. Carl Jacklin (nee Rita Kitchen), wtho were recent- ly Married. Dancing was enjoyed:— Brussels Post. Express Discontinued The C, N. R. express service for Blyth was discontinued on Monday of this week. The discontinuance was due to the inability of the company to secure an agent. Since the C.N.R. railway .line through here was dis- continued, express and mail have been delivered from Clinton to Wingham by truck. • Jamie Sims and R. H. Rob- inson have been express agents here - during that time. Henceforth any ex- press will have to come C.P.R.—Blyth. Standard. Moved To Brampton With the removal of the J. H. PhiI- lips family to Brampton on Monday, Blyth sustains a di•s'tinct loss. The family filled a large part in both church and social life in the village, and it is hoped that with the conclu- sion of the war work in which Mr. Phillips is engaged, that the family will again take up residence in Blyth_ --Blyth Standard. , Found in Cistern The lifeless body of Mrs. Gordon, Irwin, 43, wife of a West Wawan- osh Township farmer, was found Sat- urday in six feet of water in a cistern. Police said that Mrs, Irwin, who had not been in good health for some time had left the house some time during the night, unknown to anyone. When this was discovered in the morning, a search was instituted. The family had held an auction sale the day pre- vious and was preparing to move to, Mitchell. Her husband and three children survive. Mrs. Irwin was form- erly Miss L Gibson and attended high school 'here. — Wingham Advance Times. • Hunters Got Their Deer Deer season in Bruce ended on. Tuesday and for the time it was on, a little over a week, hunters swarmed about. Some of the successful ones here were Neil Carr, Omar Hasel- grove, Lloyd Peterson, Frank Caskin- ette, Joe Clark, Jack McCormick, Bill Currie. There may be others, but up to the close of the shoot that was the total reported to this office.—Wing- ham Advance -Times. Christening Gown 100 Years Old On Sunday at the United Church - among the .babies that were christen-, ed Was Sandra Wlinnifred, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George Taylor. This little tpt wore a gown that is over 100 years old and has been used as a christening gown for four genera- tions.—Wingham Advance -Times. -, Accepts Montreal Position Miss Alberta MacIearen; Reg. N., left on 'Saturday for Montreal where she has accepted a position on the staff of the Royal Victoria Hospital. —Winghant Advance -Times. Five Grand Lodges Represented '"The meeting of Clinton Lodge A.F: and A.M. No, 84, when a member of the Canadian active service force was initiated, was featured, by a circum- stance that would occur very rarely in subordinate lodge meeting: Five Grand Lodge jurisdictions were represented in the attendance. They were the Grand Lodges of England, Scotland, Alberta, California and Ontario. The initiated member was Staff Sergeant George Knights, of the C.A.S.F. Medi -- cal Corps, London,—Clinton News -Re- cord. M. C. C. Officers The 'Menesetung Canoe Club has elected officers as follows for the com- ing year: President, Peter Bisset; vice-pres., T. R. Patterson; sec., N. R. MacKay; treas., Howard McNee; commodore, W. J. Baker; vice -com- modore, G. L. Parsons; chaplain, Rev. D. J. Lane; additional members of executive committee, E. C. Beacom and E. J. Pridham; auditors, D. D. Mooney and Geo. G. MacEwan. The club is looking forward to an active winter season. The weekly "500's" have already been commenced.—Ged- erich Signal -Star. • Chief Instructor At Flying School Sqd. Ldr. N. S. A. Anderson, for- merly stationed at Summerside, P. E. I., has arrived at No. 8 Service Fly- ing Training School to take over the duties of chief instructor. The pres- ent chief instructor at the school, Sqd. Ldr. K. L. B. Hodson, is to leave shortly.—Moncton Tran seri pt. S'gri. Ldr'. Anderson is a son of Dr. D. A. and 'Mrs. Anderson, of tomb.—Exeter Times -Advocate. ' Brothers in Air Force The Montreal Gazette of recent date has pictures of two brothers, Pilot Officer H. F. Kerrigan and Pilot Of- ficer G. M. Kerrigan, sons of Mrs. Harold Kerrigan, 387 Roslyn Ave., West mount, who are both serving in the Empire's air" forces. The young men are grandsons of Mr. anti Mrs. O. E" Fleming' of town. P.O. Ti. F. Kerilgan i'ecelvod his wings 'and coin— ' (Continued on Page to ..,.