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The Huron Expositor, 1954-04-02, Page 2it a�, t .,EXPOSITOR Established 1860 Published at Seaforth, Ontario, ev- Thursday afternoon by McLean Brea. A. Y. McLean, Editor Subscription rats $2.50 a year in advance; foreign $;,.-tt) a year. Single copies, 5 cents each. "Umber of Canadian Weekly Newspaper Association. Advertising rate, on application. Au'hot'iz • l ;t- n , ('Lips Mail Pest On'ire 1 ,. ; :u' nt O! tau a BEAT+ ORTH, Friday, April 2, 1954 WINTER IN SPRING Old Man Winter t- ok what every- one hopes will be his final fling for this season when a freakish storm dumped 'Soggy snow throughout the trict on Monday. What had been a springlike Iand- ascape was changed in a few hours to' a vast expanse of white, as more than five inches of snow fell. According to the weatherman, pol- ar air, developing from a complex weather system over the Mississippi Valley, pushed northeastward and extended from Windsor through To- r'onto' and on into Quebec. The same frigid air was swept northward from the Niagara Peninsula to the Porcu- pine district and covered all Quebec. The explanation, while interesting, did little to ease the tempers of those who slopped and slithered through the sticky white 'stuff. The fact that the , weather had been so mild, and that nearly everybody had decided springtime was at hand, seemed to Make the change in temperature ev a mor 'fl6c111t to hear. u"•- , snow will'dog 1120 EV* farmers say. The land is not wet and ran well stand additional moisture. Perhaps the snow is all for the best. • GENTLEMAN ONE MINUTE— CAD THE NEXT Speaking in the Legislature the Winer -day,' the Minister of Highways, lQi'!r. Doucett, said he can't understand how a man can be a gentleman in his living room and a cad when he gets behind the wheelof a,car. The Minister is close to the reason why there are so many otherwise un- explainable accidents It ,is the Dr. Jekell-Mr. Hyde type:) of mentality with which so many motorists are troubled that turns them into mot - ring egoists once they get their hands on a steering wheel—the kind of egoist who says, "I am just as good or' -better than any other man. My car can go faster. Nobody is going to pass me." And so he, who ordinarily is careful, quiet and con- scientious, suddenly becomes a men- ace on the highway. While already about 20,000 Ontario :drivers are taken off the highways for varying periods, the Department its about to begin a drive to remove even more offenders from the roads. With motor car accidents at the lev- el they have been during recent Mears, there will be universal approv- al of any program which will have the effect of reducing the toll in Iives and in dollars which highway acci- dents have been exacting. HAS HE LEARNED? The North Bay Nugget tells about a young boy who, it suggests, learn- ed a lesson "the hard way." As the Nugget tells the story, he was only a wee tyke, indulging in that dangerous game of hanging on to the rear bumpers of cars as they pulled away. He was clinging to the bumper of a big, shiny, powerful automobile. As big, powerful autos do, this one picked up speed very quickly. The ttle gaffer, suddenly realizing his 'peril, let go—but he picked the wrong place. The car was going through a big, deep, black, muddy puddle and when tits youngster released his grip on the bumper the momentum threw bim forward, face down, kerplunk, in he' puddle. Covered from head to foot with snuddy water, he went sobbing home. rt is a good story ' and the only ,tnplaint we have about it is that we �dofbt very ,, much whether the young n learned his tlesson Certainly, ,Iy M1 t'f if he is an average youth of an age that is interested in hanging on cars, then it.will take more than one fall, and more than one puddle, to teach him that he is playing a dangerous game. What Other Papers Say: Kitchen Engineers (Owen Sound Sun -Times) The old-fashioned cook who knew how many "pinches" of this and that to add to whatever she was making for best results, would be amazed if turned loose in a modern kitchen. Freezers, refrigerators, washer s, automatic stoves, electric food mix- ers, garbage disposal units and, in fact, the lowly faucet would send her into a state of at least slight, and probably major, confusion. Today's women are bright by whatever tests they are rated. But when an attempt is made to evaluate them as kitchen engineers, no mere male is competent to give them even preliminary tests. Where is the man who could enter a modern kitchen and monkey with the machinery without causing hein- ous damage? Dogs Have Nose For Publicity (Brantford Expositor) It might be difficult to get a mail- man to agree that the dog is man's best friend, but there is no question that the dog is a very good friend of the journalist. He first becomes aware of this when he is a bewilder- ed cub reporter trying to fathom the mystery of what is news. His sen- iors In the craft say, "That's easy, son,' and quote the old tag that when dog bites man that's sial news, but when man bites dog that is news. The asiduous use of this yardstick, even wen the animal involved is At elephant in the visiting circus, a bull in a china shop, or a skunk at large in the local firehouse, fixes indelibly in his Mind the idea that dogs make a lot of news, and they certainly do.' No other animal has the dog's ca- pacity for harvesting headlines with- out going to the length of savaging witnesses before a congressional in- quiry. The Chores That Kept Boys Fit (Cleveland Plain Dealer) Once upon a time a youngster was expected to help with the work around home. The farm boy had chores which left him too little time to play; even small town and city boys had jobs to do. There was kindling to be cut, ash- es to be carted out of the basement, lawns to be mown, windows to be washed, rugs to be beaten, gardens to be dug, ,dishes to be wiped, leaves to be raked, roofs to be painted, eaves to be cleaned. Muscles, -perforce, developed and backs grew strong, and if he manag- ed to have time enough to make a high school football team, such a kid expected to play the entire game. Times have changed. Rarely does an urban dweller cut wood. He buys it. Most kids don't know the differ- ence between a buck saw and a saw- buck! There are no ashes to be car- ried out of the basement, and even if there were pop would probably do it while junior watched TV. There is no need for a kid to worry about the lawn when a yardman cuts it, or the windows, when profession- al cleaners appear once a month. There is no need to use the legs for walking,. for transportation is pro- vided by parents or can be procured readily by standing on a korner and using the thumb. The fact of the matter is that our kids are growing soft in body be- cause we, their parents, are growing soft in the head. We don't start them out as little fellows, learning to like to work. We dont encourage them to play strenu- ously, to get proper sleep, to eat cor- rectly. We are weakening their bodies with misplaced kindness, taking them to school instead of making them walk, , doing jobs for them. which they should be doing them- selves. Jiimlaf s ` ai a, w s illa V}a.,b6, aS?iui lr? 106, kgf,ii 1. dk"ul> SEEN IN THE COUNTY PAPERS Leaving For Trinidad Bill Schaefer, well-known here, who has been with the Canadian flank of Commerce for several years. left March 29 for fort -of - Spain, Trinidad, where he prev- viously served his bank a few years ago. Ile and his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Lindsay Schafer, also of To- ronto, visited Mrs. R. McGill and other relatives during the weekend. -- Mitchell Advocate. injured in Accident Del Ewing, of Collingwood, a for - u tee resident of Wiugham, suffered concussion and other injuries as a result of an accideut near Barrie ou Monday night. He was taken to hospital in Barrie, where he was still unconscious ou Tuesday- morn- ing. 'rho accident happened when Mr. Ewing's ear skidded on a patch of ice on the highway and collided with a truck. Mr. Ewing is married to the former Betty Gannett, eldest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. R. G. Gannett, of town. They have three small children. — Wingham Ad- vance Times. Heads District Societies R. D. Etherington, of R.R. 1, Hen- sall, was re-elected director of Perth -Huron district of Ontario Agricultural Societies at a meeting in Londesboro Tuesday afternoon Clark Fisher, of Exeter, was elect- ed secretary -treasurer of the dis• trict. H. H. G. Strang, R. E. Pool ey, Clark Fisher, Mrs. Rufus Kestle and Mrs. Earl Mitchell, represent- ing the Exeter Agricultural Socie- ty. attended the meeting. An invi- tation was extended to hold the. next annual meeting in Exeter.—' Exeter Times -Advocate. Arena Ice :'Shaved" • It took a lot of barbering, but Goderich Memorial Arena's ice sur- face was given a smooth shave on Sunday. Like thick whiskers keep- ing a face warm, the ice was too thick and it was becoming increas- ingly more difficult to freeze it ov- er. So, workmen shaved the sur- face down a few inches with a machine and took an estimated 45 tons of ice shavings out of the building. The jab is an annual one to reduce the thickness of the ice that has been built up by several floodings during the winter months. —Godericlr Signal -Star. Cheque Given To Kinsmen gVnib@{e 9( the Kinette Ci' b of r-adericii were hos'tesees to Rills - men Club members on Monday eve- ning at a social gathering in the British Exchange Hotel. Luncheon ani entertainment were enjoyed. Tfighiighting the evon'ing was the presentation of a checlii9. for $3.00 by the Kindttes td the f filamen to go toward the erection of a build- ing at the Kinsmen playground. Presentation of a silver tray was made to Kin Lloyd Reiner and Kinette Elaine Reiner, who have moved from Goderich to take up residence in Brantford. Former Kinsmen President Cy Robihson and Mrs. Robinson were present for the event. — Goderich Signal - Star. H.S. Students Top Speakers Marion Crossman, grade 11, and Jim Carter, grade 10, S.H.D.H.S. students, were winners in the W.O. Regional speaking contest. at Thames Hall, U.W.O., on Saturday afternoon. Entered in the lyric verse speaking class, Marion Cross- man recited "The Magnificat" from St. Luke's gospel. Jimfgarter's win- ning selection was "Chicago" by Carl Sandburg, Prof. Earl San- born, of U.W.O., judged the candi- dates and the twelve Western On- tario winners will compete with the twelve best from Toronto and Eastern Ontario at the final contest on Easter Monday at the Royal On- tario Museum Theatre, Toronto. Principal H. L. Sturgis accompan- ied the local students to London.— Exeter Times.Advocate. Suffers Eye Injury Doug Riley, right-wingman of the Londesboro BA's, ,suffered a severe eye injury. Wednesday night in the first period of the second game of the Blyth Rural League hockey fin - cels between I.oudesboro and the 13th Con cession. He has been taken to London for observation and it is not known whether the injury will cause the loss of sight or not. The accident occurred in the first period and it is not known whether the injury was in- flicted by a stick or• a skate. The second game ended with the same score as the first, a 3-3 deadlock, which means that the winner of the next game will take the cham- pionship. Lovett, Carter and Lee scored for Londesboro. McClure with two goals and Bromley were the marksmen for the 13th conces- sion.—Clinton News -Record. Buys Drug Store Gerald C. Elliott, Phm.B., 26 -year- old son of Mr. and Mrs. J. M, El- liott, Victoria St., Clinton, has pur- chased a modern drug store busi- ness in Port Stanley. Jerry took ov- er the long-established drug busi- ness of W. C. Wheaton on March 1. Mr. Wheaton had run the store for 30 years. Mr. and Mrs. Elliott and •two children intend taking up residence in a new home in Port Stanley on April 1. Since graduat- ing from the School of Pharmacy, University of Toronto in 1949, Jer- ry apprenticed at Strong's drug store in London, and for the past three years had managed the Hans- ford dn•ug store, also in London. Previously, while attending C.D.C. I. here, the worked in the W. S. R. Holmes drug store; since taken ov- er by W. C. Newcombe. — Clinton NewesRecord. Celebrating 30 Years in Business Thirty years ago George Edighof- fer and his son, Lloyd, came to Mit Eheil from Dashw•ooj t0 ' alae over the touch -Schneider store here. And during those.intervening years the business has grown Until one. would not recognize it as it was in those days. Modernizing has ev- er Been the watchword of this pro- gressive firm, their first major step being 17 yearn ago when they ac- quired the former Thorne shoe store, which had moved one door east, At that time Meli'e Wear and grocery business were given a main street entrancefor the convenience of customers. Then last year the stock was sold to make way for a very modern ladies' wear store, the stock housed at the rear of the premises heretofore being multi- plied and taking on the "new look" in a new location, to give this dis- trict one of its most up-to-date stores. Hugh Edighoffer is now as- sociated with his father and George Edighoffer, the senior member of the original firm, is taking things easy.—,Mitchell" Advocate. Agriculture directly employs one- sixth of all working Canadians. CROSSROADS (By James Scott) STILL FRIENDS It 'won't be too long now until the last snow will, be gone and the skies will be blue and people will start to feel the pull of the open road. The magic phrase, "Oeer the hills and .far away," is still as powerful in this combustion -engine, jet-propelled age as it ever was. Here many of us will get itchy feet and start planning a holiday trip. Far away, other people will soon be planning a trip to our part of the country, 'and before you know it you will be remarking the large number of U.S. license plates you see on the Ontario highways. This is a good thing. It is tangible evidence of the good will and spirit of neighborliness which exists between the two great North American nations. Yet this happy state did not always exist, and ev- en after the War of 1812, a lot 61 Canadians resented the larger neighbor to the south.and they, on their part, sometimes talked wildly about making us the forty-ninth state of their union. The border may have been unde- fended, but over the years there were tariff walls which were just as unsurmountable as stockades to prevent really free flowing rela- tions. • As time moved on, we entered a pbase when we became envious of our rich cousin. Many of the sons and daughters were lured away by the promise of a richer future in the south. Brains and skill be- came one of our largest exports, and Huron County was one which was drained of many of its finest men and most promising women. To counteract this, we often waved the flag and boasted that even if we were not bigger, we were bet- ter. One large corporation used to use the slogan, "It's better because it's Canadian." But times have a habit of keep- ing right on changing. Today we have grown up. We no longer are very envious or jealous of our neighbor. We don't depend on her nearly so much for our develop- ment or prosperity. We are, for example, quite prepared to build our own St. Lawrence seaway if our neighbors don't rhake up their minds that they want to share in the prosect. In fact, right now you hear a lot of people say tl, at they are gad they 410 not live In a country like ,the U,:S.A., which now *Pt Parr •;,`•tet , d.J,d, rgr IIIIMMICI; MSH TEACHINGA CHILD TO SE TIDY AND NEAT SOMETIMES CAN BE QUITE A FEAT. COOPERATION 1S THE GLUE. ITS BETTER THAN FORCE FOR CHILD AND YOU. Dept of National Health and Welfare Years Agone Interesting Items Picked From The Huron Expositor of Twen- tyftve,,.' and Fifty Years AO' c•1 APRILacai!e�x APRIL 2, 1954 Age of Responsibility The following are excerpts from a speech delivered by the Secre- tary-General of the United Nations, Dag Hammarskjold, at the com- mencement exercises of the Uni- versity of Pennsylvania on Febru- ary 13, 1954. In modern publicity' we find a persistent tendency to present our times and the world in which we live in headline terms and emotion- al slogans. It is said that our time is the age of global wars. This is true in the sense that everybody, in one way or another. was a co -sufferer in the Second World War. 1t is also true in the sense that a new major conflict would undoubtedly, in the sante way, draw everybody into its orbit. It is also said that our time is the age of decisive fight between freedom and tyrenny. But this is basically not a struggle between political systems, and ideologies, but a struggle within and for the hearts of men, including our own. Another phrase which we often meet and which may flatter our minds is that cur time is the age of democracy. But even in a re- stricted political sense of the word democracy we are still far from the goal. On the other hand, even if we have a long way to go, it may justly be said that our time deserves to be called an age of democracy at feast in the sense From The Huron Expositor April 5, 1929 One day last week seven wild geese alighted on a pond on the farm of Mr. James Love, or. the 7th concesgion, Tuckersmith, and remained there all day. This is the first time we have heard of a flock remaining so long in the district. Miss Margaret Meyers has resign- ed her position as teacher of S.S. No. 5, Stanley, and Mrs. L. W. Hoff- man has been engaged to teach till midseason. Mr. Kuno Hartmon, Zurich, has purchased the fine 140 -acre farm on the Goshen Line, a few miles, south of Zurich which he had lease ed for a number of years from his father, Mr. John Hartman, who now resides in Seaforth. Mr. William Dougall, of Hensall, has returned to his home after un- dergoing a critical operation in the Elf jter ilOsPital, and is improving nicely. ' A. pleasant evening was spent at the home of Mrs. William Buchan- an, Hensall, Monday evening, when Miss Florence McDonald pleasantly entertained a number of old friends of Miss Marian M'c'Kay, who, with her parents, are leaving for their new home in Hagersville. She was presented with a handsome purse, Miss Lula Linderfield making the presentation. • Mr: W. A, Wright &las purchased the -Devereaux blacksmith and car- riage gitop on Goderich St. East from Mr. Robert Devereaux and will move -his garage into the block. Part of the building has been leas- ed by Mr. G. C. Bell, as a show- room for cars. The directors of the new canning factory in Dublin held a successful meeting Tuesday night. A build- ing, 65x75, of cement, will be er- ected at an early date. The direc- tors of the factory are E. B. Tyers, William Byrne, Norman Malcolm, Michael McCarthy and John Brux- er. The Easter Monday euchre and dance, under the auspices of the Seaforth Bowling Club, was a won- derful success. Music for the danc- ing was furnished by E. H. Close's orchestra. The prize wieners were as follows: ladies, first prize, Mrs. William Devereaux; gents, first prize, Mrs. Bottoms; lone hands, Lorne Dale. has got too rich and powerful that it has to shoulder the responsibil- ity for leading the entire free world. That's a mighty big job, and most of us are just as happy that somebody else has to do it, not us. This, however, does not stop us from giving our neighbors advice. With quite a patronizing air, the wiseacres -on the post office steps and in the farm forums, will ser- iously discuss what the U.S.A. ought to be doing and, with a long look down their noses, will point out all that great country's mis- takes. In some instances, I almost seem to hear overtones of real dis- like in Canadian comments on our good friends to the South. Its tthis quite fair? Any time a citizen of the U.S.A. has ever tried to tell us how to run our business we have jumped on 'him with both feet, and told him to keep his nose out of our affairs. Yet right now almost every daily paper in this country is busily telling the Ameri- can people what to do about trou- blemakera- like Senator Joe Mc- Carthy. How would we like it if all the U.B. papers started giving us editorial advice about handling fire- brands like Maurice Duplessis of Quebec, or Tommy Douglas of Sas- katchewan? We would be up in arms in a minute and would con- demn our neighbors for their in- terference. Now I don't like the 'Senator from Wisconsin either, but, by gol- ly, 1 have enough faith in the citi- zens of the U.S.A. to feel that they can look atter suck problem chil- dren without any help from me. All I do is create bad feeling by sticking mny long nose into a place where it definitely does not belong. If the Americans seem to be mak- ing mistakes, it's their business— not mine. •I guess I have plenty to attend to right here in my own tbacliyard without looking for trou- ble over the fence in my neighbor's garden. When those U.S. license plates start being seen all along our high- ways, I'm going to give every one of those visitors a big hello, but 3'm going to be very sure to but- ton my, .lip when it tomes to telling them how to run their own bust - nese. That way, we'll still be Mende. And all of us need as many Mende as we can get these days. • that at no previous stage in history has the ideal of democracy been so generally -recognized and such de- termined efforts made to translate the ideal into reality: It is sometimes said of our time that it is an age which marks the death of nationalism. Nationalism is very much what It always was, and the willingness to restrict na- tional sovereignty is hot very great even in spheres where the sacri- fices would seen to be small, But ours is a time of new internation- alism, which, perhaps, is not of our choice, but nevertheless must be recognized. as inescapable in our world of today with'its new means of communication, its uew -econ- omic interdependence and its new political relationships. The United Nations is an expression of this internationalism. However, the Or- ganization is not vested with any sovereign powers. The U.N., there- fore, must rely for the present mainly on the process of negotia- tions, persuasion and consent to accomplish its purpose. ,Frequently, we also hear our time called the atomic age. I- feel,. however, that the name "atomic age" would be more rightly applied to a time when the new power is used to improve the conditions of life for mankind than to a time which thas so far only added this power to the already frightful ars, (Continued on Page 6) From The Huron Expositor April 1, 1904 Mr. Theodore Holland has sold his farm a mile west of Walton, to George Jackson, of Morris. The farm contains 100 acres of choice land, but no buildings, they hav- ing been burned a few weeks ago. Mr. S. Bolger, Walton, left Tues- day with a carload of horses for Manitoba and the Northwest. Master Henry Larkin, son of Rev. and Mrs. F. H. Larkiu, of town, won a handsome prize from the Toronto News for an essay entitled, "Sun- set on Lake Huron." It was a well written and clever production for a lad of his years. The following were' ticketed to distant points this week by Mr. W. Somerville: Mr. and Mrs. John Eckert and Mrs. John McMann, Jr., to Somerset, Ohio;. Mr. and -Mrs. Thomas Barrows, Leadbury, to Lauder, Man,; George McKim, of Walton, to Vasst:: , Mich.; Mr. and Mrs. John Bristow, to Calgary; Miles McKinnon, Tuckersmith, to San Francisco. Mr. W. H. Willis has purchased the property at the back of the store occupied by him and will er- ect as soon as possible, a two- storey building, 50 feet long and the full width of his store. During the busy season last year Mr° Wil- lis employed in the neighborhood, of 20 hands, and the output was over 10,000 tiaire of leggings. What nearly every person ex- pected xpetted occulted the latter part of last week. The Mild sunny weath- er of Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, fofiowed, by a heavy rain, softened up the snow and. caused quite a freshet. The ditche es and watercourses were filled with water and, many cellars in different parts of the town were flooded. The stables of many farm- ers in this vicinity were also flood- ed by the melting of snow around them, that the stock had to be re - droved from them. Fortunately the rain was followed by a freeze-up on Saturday. Mr. James Johnston has purelaasr ed the west half of lot 12, and the east than 01 lot 13, concession 11, McKillop. The farm contains 45 acres and is a pa'rtfcillarlp .good one. 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