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The Huron Expositor, 1943-03-19, Page 2,? seee,..!A • onto"' tabliSbe4 1860 cPbail 1'c4ean Editor. Shed at Seaforth, Ontario, ev- hUrsday afternoon by McLean • granted, the ceiling' would be com- pletely .destroyed. Across the border the sits is much worse. In fact the situation has become so acute that the Netv Republic, a. strong labor supporter, recentlyanade use of some very plain language: • "The farm bloc wants higher pric- es for feed because wages have gone up. Labor wants higher wages be- cause the cost of food has gone up. It must be clear even to a simpleton, that simultaneous granting of both demands would lead only to their re- petition. This is the perfect formula for blowing up the balloon of prices until it bursts with a loud bang in the faces of all concerned. And while prices were rising, the farmers would not get any more industrial products for their increased money, nor would labor get any more food. "This is really a dispute concern- ing the division of an amount of goods available for civilian consump- tion which can not be increased, and may decrease. Neither party to the dispute can win so long as both en- force their present formulas, and both will- lose in the end. The rest of the consumers lose as long as the dispute goes on." The words of those paragraphs are just as applicable to the people of Canada as they are to the people of the United States. The inflation of markets to secure a benefit for any particular class a people or any par- ticular locality, is a myth ,that has been disproven more than once, But whether the people of Canada heed the warning or not, is something else again. Human nature is the same •here as elsewhere and self plays a large part in it. Just Stories !see. 0'1.4 sman44.4•44.4`.41,44• bSeription rates, $1.50 a year in ance; foreign $2.50 a year. Single copies, 4 cents each. SiAFORTII, Friday, March 19, 1943 Wartime Profits Reading Hansard one can not get away from the continual harping of the CCF. and its speakers on the subject of war contracts and the im- ' mense profits that companies and in- dividuals are making therefrom. The fact has been proven again and again that war contracts: in this war, do not, and never have, paid exces- • sive profits to any concern or indi- vidual. On the contrary, any one who has dealt in these contracts, knows, by experience, that the returns are so near cost ,price that neither indi- viduals nor company shareholders iWffl ever be able to live on the divi- dends. The C.C.F. knows this, of course, but looks upon the claim as such a good political vote -getter, • that it fully, intends to continue its mis- statements, regardless of the fact that by doing so they are creating distrust in Canada's war unity and effort. Or, perhaps, because of it. - And the C.C.F. is not alone in this • unsavory business. We have heard it over and over, right here at home where first hand information and facts are available for the aViMg, if one is as much interested in facts as in politics. • Further, we think it worth while to quote here what Mr. Ilsley, Domin- ion Minister of Finance, had to say on this matter in his reeent budget • speech-: •"WIpt, 'broadly 8peaking, have •been the changes in ineomes during the war? Corporations and other • liusinesses have experienced large in - Creases in profits which have • been reduced by -taxation and compulsory saving to a level not higher than 70 per cent. of pre-war standard pro- • fits.. • "This is the Most severe and rigid • ceiling in force in this country. • "Personal incomes of the middle • and higher income groups have borne the brunt of wartime taxation to the point Where. very definite re- , ductions in customary standards of living have been forced. "Receipts front the sale of farm products are reported to have. readh- ed a higher level in 1942 than -in any • year in the past two decades. Re- ceipts from the sale of farm products are not equivalent to farm income. Farm costs- have also risen, but there is every evidence that farm incomes • are at more remunerative levels than • in any but the record years. "Average weekly earnings of em- ployed persons are at higher levels than they have been since the infla- tion boom following the war of 1914 - IS. • "Thus there has. been a far reach- ing and important change in the dis- • tribution of income in the country. On the whole, the directions of the change have been desirable and the Goverznnent has welcomed and facil- itated it. The increases, by and large, • . have gone to those who needed them most." 11 • Raising The Ceiling We are hearing with increasing frequency that the only , way that •farm production may be increased or even partly maintained in this dis- -triet is for the Government to raise the ceiling price on farm products. •In the House of Commons and in city papers we hear with equal equeney that not only must the • mans pnee on farm products be bttt that the ceiling on labor innst go up with it IVIanufac- ,retailers are 'talking along .eoprsp,, s#ggests that abe re °;' b *A7Vgithr 11 1 ;Fe It' Pickett From patter ef Fifty and 's 'Years Aliso. 1° We are sorry to delusionize you, but the recent reports that the Royal Family is finding time to don over-, alis and smocks and turn out war material for the nation, are just a myth. Just something that some one started, and some one else repeated. A week ago it was reported that King George had become a parttime worker in a war factory, helping make precision parts for a Ro§al Air Force gun. An investigation showed the story was started when he visit- ed a factory and tinkered about. - The latest report on the subject had the King, Queen Elizabeth and Princess Elizabeth fashioning cam- ouflage nets for six -pound breech - locks in the Windsor Castle work- shop. The truth is, says the Buckingham Palace press officer as cabled by the. • C.P.: "They are just somebody's bright idea. The Royal Family is too busy with official duties to engage in such activities." All of which' sounds very reason- able too. Eighty Below:: Ninety Above The Associated Press is responsible for the statement, which it seemed to view as some kind of record that temperatures as low as 80 below zero have been produced in a climatic re- search laboratory established by the Quartermaster Corps at Lawrence, Massachusetts. The low tempera- tures are used in testing food„cloth- ing and military equipment for sub- zero weather. The laboratory is also equipped with a "hot room" to stimulate desert conditions. We can not say that those temper- atures impress us very much as re- cords. There have been many times this winter when the temperature felt. like 80 below, and after a long acquaintance with our Canadian summers, we have come through • quite a few when 90 above was look- ed upon as a balmy day. , • The Side We Want , Scientists tell us that they have proven beyond doubt that the Planet Mercury does not have night and day. One side is constantly turned to the sun. If that is true, 'it seems to, us that we have been living on the other side of Aforettry for the. pat four months, where *there hu .and.'sno* and old, ,ant mere night than: eldyi; ' **nay,' * feitha, We d6,,- 061a tkplits Si 6 eaSt a Froneerf te eHertitti Expositor. March 22, 1918 The solo.*Mr.. Wm. Knechtel, of Leadbury„, *#4,19 welt attended and prices Ifiv*.,,, !sigb. Mr. Tis. Brown, of Seafoitk Was the auctioneer. . Mr. Roben.,. McLaren, of' Mensal!, has Peret4-Ser.1 a epiendid thorough- bred drivetthich" he intends exhibit- ing at the. a 'eing show, Mr. Mal Murray, son of Mr,- John, Murray, ou Tuckeremaitfi, who enlist- ed with a Siiikatchewan Battalion and who has bPOP. 'in France for some time, has li'een granted a lieutenant's commisslon„An the Canadian Army. ' Messrs. j.iteattie, C. Aberhart and C. A. Barber weze in Toronto this week .ou lansineas. Mr. Martin Murray, of Manley, has purchased the old 50 -acre homestead of the late, .Thomas Murray at the sale last Monday, the price being $2,210. Mr. Jas» Robertson, 3rd concession of TuckersMith, has sold his 150 -acre farm to Mth Green, of Hay, the price being, $11;500. Messrs.; Turnbull & McIntosh are disposing of, their livery,.businese and fixtures, baying leased their block on Main Street, to the Auto Sales Com- pany of 'Canada, who have purchased the garage business of Mr. James H. Wright. •• Mr. G. T' Tutiabioll has returned from a business trip to the West. Miss Allen, of the Collegiate staff, was called tb Winnipeg owing to the serious .illtiess of :her brother. Miss Leila Best is supplying in her Place. Miss Hallman, of Zurich, owing to ill health, has, resigned her school on the Bronson 'Lino and has returned to her home in Elmwood. Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Thiel, !Zurich, have moved to the farm which they Purchased- from Mr. S. Zimmerman on the Bronson Line. Mr. J. Hooper, of town, has taken a position in Mr. J. P. Daly's store. The funeral of the late Rev. •P. Coe coran, held in St. James' Ohurch on Fridayemorningelast, was one of the most largely attended ever held in Seaforth. Right Rev. Bishop M. P. Fallon, of London, assisted by fifteen priests, officiated at the service. dr.' John Rowcliffe, of the London. Road, recently, -sold 21 pigs! to Mr. ,Sanauel Horton, Hensall, for which he received tbe neat sum of $758.00. I . Messrs. Frank Horton, Jr., and R. Kinsman, of Ohiselhurst, shipped a carload of horses' to. the West on Sat- urday last. From The Huron Expositor ! March 24, 1893 • We understand that . Tar. Henry Jackson and Mr. A. Charlesworth are Making arrangements for the erection of n three-storey brick warehouse. It • willbe used as a wholesale tea and liquor warehouse. , '. Mr. A. Cardno intends erecting a couple of nice residences on his pro- perty on John Street. - Mr. Alex Wilson is the champion curler of the Seaforth, Club for this year. He has. won and is now the happy holder of the two club tank- ard, the first' being tor- the Sink com- petition and the other, for • the three pairs of stones contest • Mr. D. B. Steckle, of Blake, has pur- chased the farm of his neighbor, Mr. Abraham Snider, on the 13th comma- slonof Stanley. With this purchase Mr. Steckle has 500 acres "In that vi- cinity. 4 1 Last Friday afternoon Mr.' Jamey Scott, Jr., of Cromarty, had a wood -bee at which 30 cordsof woods were eut. In the evening there was the usual termination—a party and a "very enjoyable time was spent by all. On Friday of last week a large num- ber of relatives and friends met at the home of Mr. Ames Alltenhead, of Stanley, to complimenthim ou his new - and Commodious dwelling. ' Mr. David Hill, the well known stock breeder 9f tlae 8th concession of 'Hibbert, recently purchased from Mr. T. Douglas & Son, Stinley, one Of the finest young bulls that has ever come into that vicinity.", ,. . . Mr. Abner Cousins, of Tuckersmith, has secured a pdeition in Throats) and will remove his family to that city. outMofr.thed. ry D: DaiWilson, Seaforth, is going business and will sell off his stock of cows in order to make stable mon for a larger num- ber of thoroughbred Shorthorns which he has imported from Scotland. Mr...,,Wm. Colwell, of Hensall, has sold and deeded over the neat dye', ling he recently -erected on Queen St. to Mrs. G. Moir, of Ustiorne. A wood bee wis 'held on the prem- ises of Mr. James Forrest, Parr Line, on Friday last. • Mr. Thomas Hagan lett on Thurs- day for St. Thomas, N.D., after spend- ing a pleasant winter with friends in the vicinity of Zurich. The monthly Meeting of the Ladies',. Aid Society in connectioe with the Methodist Church, Walton, was held at the residence of Mr. John terry, McKillop. The following program was gtven: fleettation, lohn McGav- In; trio, Wm. x ItleGsfain, Miss Me- GaVin and Hattie Iterr; el°, lirtilliam Pollard;* recitation, ''.1 MISS ' Barrow -SI sole, Miss Williatation; recitation, 4iMitia Berry; lustre/Mental, Mine IL Pollardil,„ read10.0.64 silyaqinOt IOW ottet. Josh 'NAM* Inatrinneirtni, 4166 Itinheip; eltitiftliteal;S Oxidises, W.! dike Brk,ratteiS'•:Wbieittoit ratAts, thei0iin(34iti dttitIA&r Yeah, POteec 11�V" aittri#, Phil Osifer of • • • • .• • Lazy Meadows • (By Harry J. .toyle) •.Another St. Patrick's Day rolls around and we find ourselves think- ing about the Auld Sod and all that. No matter how we may disagree with some of the Irish, I still find myself quite impeeseed bYthe heritage 9f be- ing of Irish blood. . 1 still think of my, grandfather -on very' St. Patrick's Day. Fiery -and rebellious in his way . . stubborn and determined not to give in . . . always getting involved in silly argu- ments . . and yet he had something that was almost charming iri its own way. Re could, at seventy, still dance a little jig every time that someone whistled a tune. He could take a jack-knife and whittle out the most engaging figures from a piece of ord- inary wood He could tell the great- est stories. ,His stories'. were something out of world. Many times ' I've sat hunched up in front of the flickering fire in the oldkitchen stove while the wind whistled and howled and shivered around the eaves, and just listened to the fantastic 'and most en- gaging stories that you could ever im- agine. With the least effort iraagin able -he- could dip into his recollec- tions- and bring Up the most engaging people :pessible, . One minute it -would be a warm but quite :bare kitchen with a plain, scrubbed' floor. • The next minute it would be a Most araazing castle on an Irish estate. There would be great mea and *omen in the crowd and small talk and much laughter. Start- ing fnom.that he would ' weave in a shekherd and possibly an, Irish col-, leen. Mere. would be great adventure and of Wiese the Plain fellow and the girl always , managed to become the heroic figures in the story. Filled with his own prejudice about Ide peo- ple and all he used them to empha- size just how heroic his -plain, ordin- ary people were. .. The greatest stories of all concern- ed the pixies.. The most^ amazing lit- tle people in the world used to come hopping and skipping out of nowhere to star in his epic.stories: Little dan- dies dressed in , weird clothes, they were the ones who made life interest- ing in Ireland. There were bad ones and good ones and they alt lived so realistically that you couldn't help but thrill to the story. Grandfather ,for all his faults had a warm heart. He was always bring- ing stray people home with .him. A man down on his luck . . . or a child that needed a little care. for'that matter, anyone who „needed a helping hand. He was always Careful to nev- er let it appear that it was his own good' nature that - made -him bring them home. Grandfather was intensely loyal t� everything Irish. I Must confess that his own family, farther removed from the influence of the Emerald Isle, us- ed to try him' sorely sometimes wish their attitmle, which !seemed. to smack of sacrilege to him. On these occa- eions wrath would ciente over him and his tongue would thickets with a na- tural brogue and he would ."lay the broad of his!: longue" on them. But somehow we've all • inherited some a his Irish. I 'guam we all think often of his little people and his grand ladies and the poor !shepherd lad who won the day. • Colored and exagger- ated as his stories .were, they were welcome • relief from. the -matter-of- fact days that went by. He gave uis a heritage of imagination? A COUNTRY EDITOR • SEES WRITTEN SPECIALLY FOR THE WEEKLY NEWSPAPERS OF CANADA bvJIMGREENBLAT, Editor of the SUN SWIFT CURRENT SPOIKATCRIEVERIN , The Economic Outlook "Price ceiling, eque,eze, control." That all sounded brackish and puzzling to me. Most likely it does to you. So I talked 'with Economist Kenneth W. 'Naylor, secretary of the Wartime Prices and Trade Board, seated in his ordinary looking office„ and me gazieg directly out at the Peace Tower on Parliament Hill. (Since this article was firet written, Mr. Taylor has been appointed Foods Administrator as successor to Hon. J. G. Taggart). I had learned the day IbeftSfe about the necessity of a check on strong in- fiationary forcea which are IneVitable in wartime; that from August 1, 1939, to April 1, 1941, • our cost of living index had risen from ido to 107.7, due to, deprecia- tion of the Cana- dian dollar, high- er taxation, In- , crease in hither- to low farm pric- es; that Canada had pat a ceiling pride ort goods age5$ 1i It. W. TAVLOR W Leg e.„ increiniei aa lite.redthoott :the eoet o thing bontita; ands that, eis a!reseli,t.erfreel get .4,:,O41ete ov ib4t, our the x 041, ItiOiJO:0.8 DOWV e - of war materials the Canadian index hopped up 20.1 points. Out of a maze of information I give you anerely flute few meaty -figures because I, too; hate statistics; they sometimes frighten the ordinary mate Price Control in Brief e "What can I tell .,.thein in a nut shell, Mr.. Taylor?" 1 asked', and he replied, "in our first year we main- tained stability of irrices with a mini- muin of evashan and interference With normal functioning of industry and trade . . , . ,but, remember, the bat- tle against inflation isn't won yet. The supply of civilian goods, will became •shorter, operating costs will rise as trained manpower for civilian indus- try becomes !seareer and turnover ,of goods lower... This is all, of course, a direct indication of 'our countrre war effort." Much simpler to under- stand, isn't it?' So gather around ,;in back of the drug store orr out In the' barn and hear a little more. . Mr. Taylor explained' that as Manu- facturers' and other costs creep up aloNtrly, laibor became restlese and other inaladiustraente slipped in, civ- ilian Productitat had to be aiteeanalln- ed to cavo metals!, time, etc. Then the 'emphasis shifted to Problems ot. supply. as 'Singapore ands the Mitch test ladies fell And, the hobinaritie wattUre, het -warned, 'will bp serious-, -hr ,reflected ite then stipplY 4 ownion Accidents To Clinton Wpmen • Ta,..; .• Mies Wan fingered St! bioirea EkrinouSatitrds-Y eierring had Peen in the hosPital ter two wag ablet,te return banal; en Men0y, evening and! is now under the Caiefof he; Meter, Mas:„. Edgar Areestrengs WEIS genatedY, sVille, is ettPerlatendfigt of the local telephone bffice, wia bo- laldtniide from active work for a er, weeks. Mrs. J. J. Japfe had the nits - fortune to stumble when, descending! the stairs to the basement of then tionie on Sunday and suffered a brok- en nose.' She -received hospital tre.t.; ment and is now convalescing at her home on Rattea'bury Street.—Clinton News -Record. Epidemic Closes Schools Public ischool pupils are having an enforced holiday from school bhis week owing to the prevalence of chickenpox end scabies and as far as can be ascertained, there has been little complaint ' registered by 'the young folks. Having to keep away from the rink, the theatre and other public places, is not as much to their liking however. Sunday schools were also closed due to this. epidemic.— Mitchell Advocate. • Hold Pancake Supper • The annual pancake supper held in St. John's Church under the auspices of the Ladies Guild on Shrove Tuft - day was a splendid success. Delic- ious pancakes, also sandwiches, pie and pickles were served ,from five3 to eight o'clock. The gratifying sum of $43 was realized—Bruesels Post., ,Missionaries Back From China Mr. W. H. French was in Toronto, the end of•last week to meet his bro- ther-inea* and sister, Mr, and Mrs. Glen La Rue, who have recently re- turned from the misetioes fields o1 South West China. He had hoped that they would return for the week -end here but the storm and other compli- cations made this impossible. Mrs. La Rue will enter a hospital inHamilton at once to undergo an operation and her friends here wish her a speedy recovery.—Wingharn. Advance -Times. Took Part i,n Raids , Clinton residents were interested in reading newspaper reports of the re- cent bombing of the port of Hamburg, Germany, in which Sergeant -Observe er Jelin ar.)., Hawkins, younger son of Mr. and Mrs. W. T. -Hawkins, of town, took, an active and -very effective' 4* part, retureing. safely, to' the homer landing base. This is the 96th hain- mering on the giant submarine cen- tre at Herabing. The newspapers quot- ed John as saying he saw the Craft's', 4,000 pound botab hit and !blow up a big building. • §gt. Hawkins has a bro- ther and a sister in the armed forces- .11tigh Hawkins is an instrue- tor in the Canadian Atray Trades School at Hamilton, and LAW. Mad- eleine. Hawkins is with 'the R.c.4.r. (W.D.); at Toronto. —Clintost News - Record: Cattle Shipments , . Owing to the almost impassable con- dition of the roads, shipments of fat settle from Goderich to Toronto have been negligible in recent weeks. Some local. butchers have,even found it dife limit to get delivery to Goderich and have been importing beef from Tor- onto packing houses. As. soon as the, township roads are cleared up heavy shipments are expected from Huron County. William Young and Reg.. McGee of Colborne already have ship- , ped carloads by rail, all beautifut stock, some weighing 1400, pounds.— Godericla SignaleSbar. • Appointed Postmaster Mr. William A. Siebert has receiv- ed word from Ottawa that he has been officially • appointed as Post- master for Zurich. Mr. Siebert, who is Considered a very efficient man at the work, has been practically' running the localSpost office for their Past eleven years, and previously he, eerved about 'four years on the -Cana- dian Mail Departanents, distributing mails on the railway: trains. We are •pleased to announce that Mr. Siebert _ has been permitted t5 continue on in. the Zurich post ,office. --Zurich Her- ald., Hell Diver Came Toe Soon Birds that migrate soinetimes, nuke a mistake in forecasting the weather and this happened' to a Grebe, °coil- • menly called a Hell Diver, which Was picked up on Highway No. 4 onaten- day afternoon by L. G Bryce as he came into to -n. He foetid it on the highway, in , front of the Nicol farm, two bailee, north of -town, and it: was nearly froeen.. He brought it to town and We have it eeib at this Officet • ManY'leolsed af,the. fowl but to one ceeld taint, It kor itrer ,Finary W. /S. Had— principal og the .ftigh school, examined the bird 'arid after. consulting his boots informed.ne that it Is a Grebe or gen phrer. The .diebe is deseribed la deheiribeci ii—WateA bli40 'These feet axe mit *ebbed, birt whose toes are bordered with a wide meinbrane. t comes tri this, Section of the Country about April l,st as a eile,elint. the rate mentioned in 'this article e'kdeitlY oot the signals tolx- ed find arriyed 1 Old weather. geed0,, Or -the MennteV,,, Of 1941-, fere ufqt 41:4:0; vf'b* 1.3.5 lila .gto, t . , NAM, In utp jt sitiAied 9'l its Ad Wlin Whit bal# biiitaf & tit the *Oa,' • t &lifts det6ti vigil!' it as brew* into itoo, Owe t rOf'iinppep0 ;bet as it got rtVg0 lipttleftriziztotf'd, Yak Vaiiial MaWditith4 em 4itli ha! lilt VOlegimili Ad- veitoolritoom • . l''!'"i',,,;!),'"t!'1`,!!';',Is;•,s...!•;.!!!"t,„"•.!'est..",.t.p,,.,,,,,s,. 4 1;