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herald ntythud year of publication wednesday evening january 31st 1940 1 50per annum in advance 200 to usa borgetown intermediates defeat orangeville in hockey thriller t 7 vard nete pour goals when locals win 6 4 team bol stered by two new puyers for balance of season jtti hockey setto here last bight be- i j i otangevillo and georgetown in- sdlateslisplayed the- finest brand itths national winter sport as seen r for some time both teams were ring the best hockey they are cap- s of and georgetown bolstered by o new layers and sparked by bun- ward rattled in six goals u visitors four led off to a good start in toe first when bungy ward cracked t three goals the oeorgetown team ere out to win from the start and n the play of the first two periods lahould bare a number of extra goals jr father mooahes charges gjvoved almost equal to the task of the score in the final round and i some anxious moments lor the pioc fans y in the first period ward soloed on nice effort after eight minutes of play only to have patterson tie the eount on a shot from outside the blue 31ne that caught coaler hoare nap- f ward closed the period with more tames on passes from ken walter richardson ard seems to have the knack of tag the game somewhere or other netted another for the oeorge- i squad at the opening of the sec- lend period and started the third j jjeriodvln the penalty box however i this is aside from the point patter son counted the next and w ric- hardson and ahem finished off the period with a goal each only two goals were scored in the last period when qullsple scored for orangeville on leach s pass and richardson for oeorgetown a return game win be played orangeville on friday night while ward was the pick of the fans oh the nights play w richardson dewh aud crlch- i ten- all turned in exceptionally good xiorts the two new players baker george and bud palmer are shaping hi well ollllspie and broyden were i the pick ol the visitors team i orangeville goal silk defence l3eners broyden centre ahern wings m sttb3njeacr gmia- pie patterson walker georgetown ooal hoare defence sail dewhurst centre k richard ward w richardson htsaas crichton sargent palmer bakergeorge houston toronto first period i georgetown ward 857 ckrangevule patterson 12 14 oe ward k richard son 1527 georgetown ward w richard son 17 04 penalty palmer parliament dissolved elections will be held march 25tk t l leslie elected director of fanners mutual fire insurance co annua meeting reveals s21295 firefclaims in the past year e pearen hr 3 acton was ag ain chosen president of the halton union farmers mutual insurance co for his second term at the 15th tithh meeting at acton on monday the complete slate of offl cers was returned with the exception of george finney acton who replaces duncan campbell on the board of nine directors officers are j e pearen president victor hall 1st vice president char les readhead second vicepresident art moore secretarytreasurer and w a lftsby e f ford t l leslie daniel gray leslie kerns and george finney directors during 1938 the company paid out 31295 in claims to farmers of halton and dufferin county and ended the year with 58 124 in assets the annual report showed the biggest claim of s2 739 was paid to a m mcmeekln cbinguacousy township for a disastrous bam fire more than 10 claims were due to light ning when the members ot the house of commons and of the senate met at ottawa on thursday last for the offi cial opening of parliament none of us anticipated that by the end of th same day we would find parliament dissolved ing to 1 speaker georgetown ward w richard- son 220 orangevule patterson 1323 georgetown w richardson ward 1748 orangeville ahern 18 47 penalties dewhurst ward third period orangeville offlispie leach 103 georgetown w richardson ward 321 i tots i b mackenzie beubcted president of jrocal council of women the annual meeting of the local council of women was held at the stoma of miss a ryan on monday af ternoan jan 29th there were nine u member present after the us- nal business was taken care of spien tftd reports were given by our com mittees and representatives of the affiliated societies r the ladies in charge of the wading pool appreciate the increased interest of the parents of the children who get so much pleasure at the pool in the fijmmt it was moved by mrs nod well and seconded by miss m lawson that the same officers remain for the iiyttg year carried president mrs j b mackenzie 1st vicepresident mrs a h feller 2nd vkepesdent mrs r ross c secretary miss hetty faawson recording secretary mrs r paul recreation mrs darin public health miss e marshall mental hygiene miss o young cubwnahlp mrs j b mackenzie of nations mrs htrtt and itatlve to red cross miss a alter an enjoyable cup of tea the adjourned oioral society gave splendid concert although not laavuect- georgetown choral splendid concert in the presby- uk church on tuesday evening of week with the entire proceeds to the red cross society al the attendance was small i present enjoyed the program yms under the directlonof mr solos bar dr rycooropantot at the london man died on bus near here last thursday buried on monday at carusl on his way to toronto to visit his daughter thos westcott of first st london out died of a heart attack on a qray coach bus near here thursday evening last mr westcott was s3 years of age and had had very bad heart condition a passenger on the bus reported to driver p stevenson at acton that att-eldriy- to take full responsibility mr mr manion then take it mr mackenzie kino i thought i had done my hon friend a courtesy in mentioning that i had talked the matter over with him before jhejast while a party truce was unanimdus- 4 session and tha he bad glvenme bis coach reached georgetown the driver questioned the man and when he re ceived no reply summoned dr paul of oeorgetown chief of police marshall stated paul examined the body q called in coroner dr j a mcnhen of acton who pronounced mr west colt dead chief marshall was unable to identl fy bfr westcott for pome time de ceased having no papers of any kind on his person when the luggage was checked in toronto by gray coach of ficials a clubbag belonging to mr westcott led to identification deceased was born in elisa craig but had spent several years in california where he operated a fruit farm lat er he lived in sault ste marie where he lhad extensive interests in mining and lumbering and still later in lon don where he had a small market garden mr westcott is survived by a daugh ter mrs chas m nixon 7 elora rd toronto arid a son rolo president of the westcott construction co of los angeles who was able to come here for the funeral the funeral was held from mc clures undertaking parlours george town on monday with interment in carlisle ont cemetery iy agreed upon at the time of the war session of the house of commons in september and the head- offices of both of the major political parties were exceed yef it soon became oulte apparent that we had a political truce in name only while many or us re frained from political activities there were made others who did not respect he truce many attacks upon tne government appeared to thepfees and on the public platform the climax of these attacks was reached lust a few days ago when the provincial legisla ture for ontario passed a resolution condemning our war effort with a very bitter personal attack- upon the prime minister thrown in for good measure the major part of this at tack came after parliament had oeen summoned to meet at ottawa part of these attacks were doubtless made honestly and for patriotic reasons but a large part of them would appear to have been made for selfish political purposes mr king and his cabinet have de cided that it would be futile to attempt any constructive legtslattorr in such an atmosphere and have decided upon and immediate appeal to the people to let them choose a government to prosecute the war when the election contest is over the government which is chosen by the people will then not be hampered by political intrigue and will be able to devote its entire effort to the prosecution of the war so far as i am concerned personally politics have little interest txy me when the empire is faced with a life and death struggle and when the stakes are so high while i am quite free to admit that we are all liable to make mis takes and some minor mistakes hav been made yet in the light of ail the circumstances i do not believe that more could have been accomplished in so short a time in the coming cam paign much will be made at first li any event of the fact that parliament was so quickly jusolved but to me the only real issues are the unity of canada and the prosecution of the war we cannot lose sight of the fact that if our war effort is to reach its maximum this can only be attained by unity- in the recent elections in quebec hon ernest lapolnte and the other quebec ministers m the king government took their political lives in thelrhands to further the unity of oanadam our war effort the result well justified the risk in order that the people of this county may form their own opinion of the facts leading up to dissolution verbatim extracts from the speeches of both leaders appear below yours sincerely hughes cleaver jos- mothersill celebrates 83rd birthday tomorrow joseph mothersill resident brampton for the past score of years will celebrate his 83rd birthday on february 1st he was born on the fourth line west of chinguacousy on of the late joseph mothersill and elisabeth mckane the farm on which he was born was cleared by ro bert mothersill who came to canada from yorkshire and mr mothersill remembers that his grandmother lived to be 103 years of age for many years joseph mothersill operated 300 acres of land of which 50 acres was a bush lot and his memories go back to days when there were much more severe winters than those of which people complain in modem times in the days before now plows farmers were frequently compelled to shovel a path through heavy drifts for their horses and there was a man appointed responsible for each of five lots of roadway as a boy of 13 years mr motherslu carried off first prise in the piatplow ing match in which he comp teti be cause of the early training he received in his occupation of fanning he was one of the most successful farmers ot his districts he firmly believes that modern educational methods should be directed to keeping capable men the farms rather than to training them for white ooharjobs he has been a member of grace un ited church during hit residence to brampton and is kmmng forward to the rmwiing- election as he has always been a strong s of the liberal party mrs motheraul died five years ago and he has son the rev bhnore tw mrs j a wiflougnby of toronto when theyre alert the only thine sarnie- women caff get straight are the ssttrm of their right hon w l mackenzie ktno prime minister may i say mr speaker that i had hoped that circumstances might be such as would permit of another session of this par liament being held before a general election but as i have said no one ran forsee what la likely to take place in a time of war and none can fore tell the degree to which a government may continue to enjoy the confidence of the people in carrying on the attaint of the nation at eo critical a time i was careful therefore to saythatit would be desirable when parliament next assembled to have had a careful review in the interval of all circum stances which would bear on the ques tion of whether it would be advisable to proceed in a period of war with preelection session or to have on the hustings such discussion as must nee essarily take place in other words to avoid two political battles one in par uament and one on the hustings as well i had felt i must say up until a very short time ago that it was going to be possible at a session called in the month of january to present to this parliament the measures which the government felt it would be neces sary before an appeal to the people to carry through for an effective prose cutlon of the war i had always been very much concerned as i think the boue is well aware vbout the long period of time required by our elec tions- act for a general election u n der the act and its administration i think something like eight weeks is required to elapse between the date of dlsralutlon and the day of election i had felt that possibly we might get over the difficulty of having such a jiphs lnteeyal war was on and paxuament was not in session by shortening the time in which there would be no parliament through an amendment to bur elections act to re duce the period in which the country wo b without a parliament to spotr view float it would be unwise ut at tempt a measur of that kind i mr manion the right hon gen tlcman told me that he was going to i bring it in at this session ot parlia ment i pointed out that such a period wou d not give- aieader time to cross this countqt and my right hon friends repry was why should a leader cross this country so far as bringing lr such a measure last ses j slon is concerned there was no dfct- cusslon mr mackenzie king possibly there may be some trusunotestanding in the mind of my hon friend as to just mutt our conversation was at any rate be is quite right when be says that he had mentioned to me as one of the reasons why it would not be advisable to try to shorten the pe riod for the election that the leader would wish to take seven weeks at least in discussing issues before the i electorate in the country however my hon friend has made quite clear his own point of view which is that he should have a period of something like eight weeks because that is about the time required under the act to address the electorate la a period of a general election if that is the case it demands con sideration at once of just when a dis solution should take place which will involve a campaign of something like eight weeks and controversy on elec toral matters throughout that period of time at a time when thegnintry in a state of war and europeis ok condition which we all know jf today v buti am getting away from had wished to make clear to the which was that i had hoped there would be a feeling of sufficient fldence in the present administration and an evidence of sufficient unity be ween all parti of this country have enabled us at a session at this time to introduce a number of meas vies and then go to the country t llltle later on until a week or two aiio indeed until a week a my intention that this should be the procedure but as hon members ksawriust aweek ago today or yes terday the premier of the largest pro vince in this country- miss m a liberal mr mackenzie king introdu ced in the ontario legislature a res olution which was directed in no un certain terms at the government of canada now administering its affairs that resolution was seconded by the leader of the conservative opposition in the ontario legislature and when it came to a vote the resolution was supported by all the ministers of the ontario government who were present in the house at that time by some of the members of the liberal party in ontario and by all of the conservative members in the legisla ture the resolution had been pre ceded by some discussion in the legis lature a discussion which had taken place i think for a couple of days- attacking the manner in which this government has sought to administer the affairs of this country during this period of war i think i would have paid 11 tie or no attention to that dis cussion had it been confined to the leader of the government of ontario and to the leader of the opposition of ontario i would have allowed it to pass and not made turther mention of the matter other than to dis ifominafioa meeting thursday evening in public library t candidates to he selected for reeve councillor for ward u and hydro commissioner it is hoped that there will be a goo attendance ot ratepayers at the nomi nation meeting in the public library on thursday evening feb 1st to- trorrow when candidates win be pro posed to fill the offices of reeve coun cillor for ward h and hydro com missioner doe to the death of the late reeves george davl the resignation of com- ciuor jos hall in ward n and elmer c thompson being unable to qualify as a member of the hydro connriis- ston candidates will have to be again chosen for these offices ft is up to the ratepayers of th town to attend this nomination meet ing at 720 pjn thursday and see that the necessary number of rsnrllnatrs are proposed something like louf ffeext to my hon friend the leader of the op position about that prior to the special session last year x should like to have introduced such a measure at that time but i gathered from what he said to me and from what others have said that the totroducuon of any measure to amend the elections act would be certain to create aonwi suspicions tothe minds of some hon vwmiii1 suit fr pwwmlf a vivt ft discussion that woukloot be advisable mr manion if the right hon gentleman wm allow me to interject i should like him to take his own re- spomibiuty for bis sets and not try to put it on other p i mr anrttmyrg king i am go- professor rnhnkc addresses annual meeting of halton crop- improvement a well filed hall greeted prof g i ruhnke head of the chemistry cpartment at the ontario agricul tural cortege when he addressed the annual meeting of the halton crop improvement association in the far mers building mdton on saturday j afternoon last r prof ruhnke delighted his audience with his practical and informative ad dress which in the opinion of many of nb audience was the highlight of the many exce addresses given on the subject of soil fertility in halton county during the past few years with the aid of coloured slides prof- ruhnke depicted to his audience plant symptoms indicating lack of such min erals as potassium phosphorus and iron in addition to routine buslnesa he board of directors presented a p report covering the extensive programme of soil and crop experi ments laid down hi 1s39 march 8 and s have tentatively been selected as the dates of the titihw count seed fair which win be sponsored by the association the association is also planning to erect a county dis play in the king edward hotel tor ontoyta connection with the annual ig of the ontario crop xmorove- assoclatlon which will be held february 14th the election of officers for the hal ton association resulted as follows president w ebrackon vice presidehv j h i secretary vr j e white directors trafalgai victor hall v j lawr ence and reg smith esquesing edwin harrop t j brownridge g w murray and donald mcnabb nassagaweya geo gordon j e ellenton and lloyd chisholm nelson w j robertson r s hea iherington erin and eramosa j e pearen georgetown business man dies suddenly the merits of any points which might have been raised in the discussion however when the ontario legtsla tore adopted the resolution and it was iven a permanent place on the rec ords of the legislature quite a differ ent situation presented itself to this government may i read the resolu lion that this house has heard with interest the reports made by the prime minister and the leader of the oppoltion of the result or their visit to ottawa to discuss war measures with the national government and this house here bv endorses the statements made by the two members in question and jolnswith them in regretting that the federal government at ottawa has made so little effort to prosecute canada s duty in the war in the vigorous manner the people of canada desire to see i should have thought that at lean until this house had met and expres sed its views those who have any ense of public duty would have been content to allow their political mi- mosity not to be given too much ex pression however it is now evident that a political campaign has begun that being so i ask hon members whether it is wise to try to carry on a po c in t c aad- a political campaign in this parlia ment two campaigns at one and the same ti wh war is going on al the front people the world over will under stand i baueve what may be said on the hustings and they will be prepar ed to make some allowance for ex treme statements rnsosvtn the eotm of a political campaign they can inderstand pahtloaf opponents apeak- mguiareina ditf erjent way than where they have the responsibility of which rests upon m in this house it is a very different thing to bare snob discussions mtroduced into the debates in this house as la tnevit- conunued on page 4 death came suddenly on saturday afternon last january 27th to wd ham w mcmillan well known and highly esteemed bufil of this community mr mcmillan had suffi paralytic stroke while attending the local theatre on friday even- and had to be removed to his home on emery street and from which attack he never gamed consciousness herbert redshaw seriously injured when car crashed into freight train at freeman herbert redshaw 50 of marion st hamilton and formerly employed at smith stone ltd georgetown was rushed u bunllton general hospital friday night with a fractured skull and serious chest injuries his ear had been in colllssion with a standing freight train on the ouelph line level crossing eest or freeman his condition was reported critical provincial officer w h cole said redshsws condition made it impos sible to question him regarding the cause of the accident he was alon in the car constable cole reported that a cnr freight train had pulled out on a siding at the crossing to permit a onr passenger train to pass the freight was directly across the road waiting for a switchman to throw a switch when redshaw s car was ha collision with a box car it was repor ted the roadway slopes gently up to the tracks a wjg wag warning slgnsx is ptaoedran the north side t the tracks but there is no signal on the south side from which direction the redshaw car came the injured man was attended by da- g mltchen and dr j s good- brand before being taken to hospital police reported the wreckage of the car was cleared away quickly to permit railway traffic to continue miss marjorie whitaker dies in india deceased was born at hornby of the late john and margaret mc- 1 mlllan on nov 28th 1672 and spent his entire life to tniscommtmity re- siding in georgetown for the past thirtyseven years in 1903 he joined the international harvester co and was a successful traveller for that firm until 1935 when he retired to local business here mr mcmillan was a member of the presbyterian church and a conservative in politics sur viving are his widow formerly mary mcdowell one son kenneth of oeorgetown and a sister and brother mrs mary fletcher toronto and alex mmnn british columbia the funeral on tuesday afternoon was largely attended and the many beau uful floral tributes bespoke of the high esteem in which the family hekt in the community the service was conducted at the home by the rev d d davidson of knox pres byterian church and interment took place in greenwood cemetery the pallbearers were messrs h barnes thos anderson geo cleave thompson thos hewson and hugh karns word was received in oakvule on tuesday of the death in india of mia marjorie whitaker daughter of the late mr and mrs wm whitaker miss whitaker wen to india in 1s3s as tutor to the children of rev h cbrwen she formerly taught at cen tral public school oakvflle and sol ders comers school trafalgar she returned on furlough in 1935 but re turned the next year to teach school at mtsoorte in the himalayas two sisters mrs s c robertson of paisley scotland and bessie at home and three brothers william jack an alfred all of oakvllle survive the late miss whitaker was a nieee of the latejjr a w nixon and cous in of miss agnes and mr e w cole georgetown health report the following is the report of com municable diseases by the mojh u oeorgetown board of health for jan uary 1940 dlptheria 0 scarlet fever 0 chickenpox 1 measles 0 german measles 0 mumps 0 infantile paralysis 0 typhoid fever 0 whooping cough 0 cerebrosplnal meningitis 0 epidemic skiing pofulab evenjn japan althougt- far away in the orient canadians living in yokohama and other centres in japan endeavour to keep in touch with winter spqrta do ings in the various parts of oar stated d e ross general agent of the canadian national railways yokohama who is on a business trip here to the railway headqusxrtets the nearest approach to japan to native winter sports territory for these far away canadians are the japanese alps whereihey can indulge in aui ing on these high mountain aidea bv orient said mr ross names jaapa whfi1 m tm t les has become wes known hi tin orient as a great winter as well as j e houck addresses nelsoft short course banquet the closing banquet or the nelson short courses in agriculture and home economics was held in the net- son township hall on friday evening last when the students and guests numbering 150 sat down to the delic ious banquet served by the ladles of the nelson presbyterian church the toast list included the following toasts the class in home economics pro- poed by wm lucas and responded to by mary angus the class in agricul tureproposed by eva vanslokle and responded to by philip bell our guests proposed by mary breckon and responded to by t a blakelock mjp mrs arthur cowan district president of halton women s insti tutes and warden geo finney the guest speaker mr j e houck of brampton was introduced by agri cultural representative j e white- lock who acted as toastmaster for the evening mr houck is an inspir ing address took as his subject mtod the light reference was made h the abyss facing the world at the pre sent time and while the speaker was optimistic regarding the outcome of the war he stressed the attention ot his audience on the possible situation at the close of the war which in his opinion one keeping in mind the thought con veyed in the tbree words mind the light to order that their tomorrow might be the kind of tomorrow that they would be proud of as indrfiduabv as canadians and as members of the empire the awards to the bhort course ste nts were as follows coothmg -pjor- eoce rose nutrition mary breekont home bon wntshnnfc- w vf sickle agriculture public geo hamilton stock judging pre bell following the banquet the rsmabs- w of the evening was devoted ta in japan sie ttbafthteteatbd danetng the amide for which was 0- dmdonment for sud taking j lstrtil stiht