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SEAFORTH, ONTARIO, MARCH 18, 1960
School Boards
Face Many Problems
Education Week, which ended on
Saturday, properly emphasized the
fact that Education Is Everybody's
Business.
The occasion provided the oppor-
tunity to stress. the vast expansion
that had occurred in educational
facilities daring recent years, and to
point up the fact that despite new
facilities growth was not sufficient to
keep up with dernand.
Education Week reminded us,
too, how great is the contribution
which teachers can make towards a
,properly rounded and knowledgable
youth._
But there is one facet of the edu-
cational problem that too frequently
is ignored, the Yorkton Enterprise
points out. That is the place that
school boards occupy in the com-
munity, and the work which trustees
contribute towards a better educa-
tion program.
The Enterprise puts it thus :
"There are in Canada about 12,000
school areas, each with a school
• board, to handle the education needs
of our people. When our population
was only half what it is today the
school areas numbered conside-rably
more. In more recent times the trend
has been to larger school units with
a broader base of assessment, and
larger, better -equipped and more ef-
fectively staffed school.
•"Unless someiocal issue of a con-
,- tentious kind arises in a community
concerning education and the school
„board, all too frequently there is lit-
tle interest in the election of school
trustees. For this reason we are
fortunate in having the high quality
we have in school boards.
"Many become trustees because
they are fascinated by one of the
most interesting of human activities.
These people generally make the best
trustees. Probably a few run for the
school board because they ,have been
set on Are - by critical articles or
books on educational methods, fads,
frills and the rest, and. they want to
, •
get in and change all that. Those
who run..for the school board with
the idea of changing the course of
study, the professional training and
certification of the teachers, or train-
ing methods, or textbooks, if elected,
find they are helpless. These matters
belong to the Provincial Depart-
ments of Education.
"Members of our school boards,
however, do have very onerous and
important duties. They can set the
standard of educational opportunity
in their school areas. They have an
"immense indirect influence in ex-
pressing public demand far iniprove-
ments in the educational system and
sooner, ,or later the people, through
• them, get the 'sort of schools and the
sort of 'education they, wish to have.
• In Canada, the schools belong to the
people, not to the State.
"Our school boards are worthy of
•recognition and the individual trus-
tees of 'a pat on the back', this edu-
cation week in Canada. Seldoni, if
ever, do they get the recognition they
• deserve. It is the school board that
builds and maintains our schools and
equips them to the standard set down.
They hire teachers and pay them,
buy books and other materials for
the use of the students. They see that
the regulations and requirements of
the Department of Education are
fully complied with, and their re-
cords are kept in proper form. They
prepare the school budgets, in most
cases tell the municipal Council the
amount of money they must have,
and enter into contracts, •-
"While most municipal councillors
are given an honorarium for their
efforts, thisis not so of school trus-
• tees. Trustees as a group are -re-
markably devoted to their task, and
seek ,to do the best they can for the
schools and the children in their care.
There should be full measure of re-
spect for the trustees."
A Good Citizen
-
A good citizen is one who hums the
national anthem while,/ filling in his
income tax return. --,-, Rapid City
(Manitoba) Reporter.
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"With all the requests for autographs I'm getting them, they better
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AND SPICE—
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—SUGAR
By W. (Bill) B. T. SMILEY
Every St. Patrick's Day I try
to write a column about the Irish.
And every year 1 give it up' as a
bad jqb. What can you say about,
the Irish, good or bad, that they
have not already said about them-
selves, being the greatest talkers
and writers -•on the face of the
earth?
• * * *
Abotit ninety-four per cent of
this talking and writing is pure
Irish blather, but the remainder
is as -fine and true as anything
that has -come from tongue or pen.
'* * *
I'm no authority on the Irish,
and I promise that anyone who
finds a single "begorrah" in this
column may clobber me with a lep-
rechaun. But. it behooves me; as -
a student of the highway's and by-
ways, the ,odds and sods, .to. peer
through the fag, and squelch'
through the bog, in an honest de
fort to find the real essence of the
Irish.
* * *
Fortunately for the cause of
pure research, there are hordes of
genuine anthgrities on Ireland and
the Irish. They are all Irishmen,
of course. No nation ox earth' has
found itself so fascinating as the
Irish. No people has ever examin-
ed itself with such nothing de-
light, such hopeless disgust.
* * *
Most of the confusion about the
Irish must rest with their writers.
The brooding, turbulent,. hilarious,
soaring language of their poets,
story -tellers and dramatists has
tumbled into our ken as Irishman
who is half -man, half-inyth, half -
clown, half -hero.
• * * *
If we listed all the fine things
the Irish have to say about them-
selves, we'd have them down as:
loyal to the death; witty as all
hell; fun -loving; handsome; deep-
ly religious; sensitive; and with a
fine disdain for the material things
of life, to mention only a few self -
bestowed virtues.
* * *
And if we listed all the sorry
things • Irishmen call themselves,
we'd put down: cowardly; treachs
erous; simple-minded; morose; ug-
ly as sin; deeply, profances coarse
as crows; and with a shrewd eye
for a shilling, to name a few self -
bestowed vices.
* * *
This is to say that the Irish are
just •like _everybodystIse, Which, of
course, is ridiculous,and any
Irishman worth his weight in boil-
ed potatoes will attack this slan-
der at the drop of a crack.
• * * *
There's one thing about the Ir-
ish, for example, that stands out
like the head on • a draught of
Guinness. Aside, of course, from
the fact that they're bad-tettiPers
ed, garrulous, inconsistent, self:.
pitying, lyrical, humourous, warm-
hearted and entirely charming.
And that one thing is the mem-
ory of them. They have a mem-
ory that would make a self -re -
respecting elephant wind his trunk
,around his left ear in an ecstasy
of 'embarrassments The Irish have
never forgotten anything, which is
at once their curse and their glory.
* * *
An Irishman just one jump out
of the bog will remind you with
some disdain that the emerald isle
was a centre of learning, a cultur-
al, Christian country, when the
British were just climbing out of
their coracles and wiping the woad
off their faces. And good for him.
ut the same fellow will tell you
the reason he hates the English is
because of the rough treatment
his folk got from Cromwell. To
hear him tell it, you' think it had
been last Hallowe'en, not 300
years ago.
• * * *
Another thing you'll notice about
the Irish is their immense self-
satisfaction, Who else would ex-
cuse the possession of a foul tem-
per by declaring proudly: "I
guess it's thesIrish in me"?
* * *
One more national trait is their
'glee in throwing cold water. They
don't really mean it. But show an
Irishman a silver lining and he'll
show you a black cloud,
* * *
However, it takes all kinds to
make a world. and some of my best
friends are Irish, but how would.
you like your sister to marry one?
Well, my sister's brother married
one, and I "tell. you, boys, you
never know whether it's a kiss or
a kick you'll be getting!
IN THE YEARS AGONY •
Interesting items glean -ed from The Huron Expositor of 25, 50
•' and 75 years ago.
From The Huron Expositor
March 15, 1935
Mr. and Mrs. 15aVe Papple, of
Tuckersmith, celebrated the 25th
anniversary of their wedding on
Saturday. They were married by
the Rev, Neil Shaw at Egmondville
on 1Vitarch 9, 1910.
While on his way home on Fri-
day evening, Councillor John J.
Broderick slipped on the lee in
front of Mr. C. P. Sills' resident*
Goderich St. East, and fractured
his hip.
Mr. John M. Govenlock tapped
six trees on Thursday morning and
is getting a good run.
Approximately 1,200 pints of milk
were distributed to needy children
in Seaforth during February as a
result of the monthly donation of
the Lions Club to the town relief
committee,
Mr. Ian McLeod, agricultural re-
presentative -for Huron County,
spoke to the Lions Club on Mori -
day night. He told the Lions Club
that Huron County is at the top
in the basic industry of agricul-
ture.
,* * *
From The Huron Expositor
March 18, 1910
The horse sale conducted by W.
Cudmore and F. Kling in Seaforth
was one of the most successful
sales ever held in town. Buyers
were present from surrounding
towns and country. Bidding was
brisk and good prices were realiz-
ed.
A serious fire occurred in St.
Peter's Church, Goderieh, on Sat-
urday. The heat calmed a lot of
the plaster to fall. The loss is
centered by insurance.
One day recently Mr. Louis
Crick TitekersmithOdlled an Ord -
wry .use eat 404 delivered the
tO•Setiforth'fi fUr dealereThe
pelt measured 40 inches, which is
exceptionally large for a house
cat. ,
Prices at the Toronto livestock
markets were up this _week. But-
chers' prime Easter cattle, $6.85 to
$7 per cwt.; common, $4.50 to $5.15;
cows, $325 to $5.50; hogs, dealers
quoted $9.65 for selects, fed and
watered, at the market, and $9.60
fo.b.• cars at country points.
* * *
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From The Huron Expositor
March 20, 1885
A short time ago as Mr. Thomas
Dodds, McKillop, stepped out of the
door of the residence of Mr. James
White, an unknown person fired at
him. The shot was fired in ,jest,
but since itazed his face, such
grazed
jokes should ot be practised.
Mr. Jatiles roadfoot Jr., Tuck-
ersmith, recently sold a very su-
perior thoroughbred boll calf, 17
months- old, to a gentleman from
the County of Essex, for $160.
This has been the coldest March
In many years. The hermometer
on Tuesday registered 20 below
zero.,t
s
-The keystone in the arch of one
of the windows in the second flat
of Reid and Wilson's hardware
store becaine loose and fell to the
sidewalk on Tuesday. No one was
injured.
The Mill Road, Tuckersmitb, is
the only road around not blocked
with snow. Summer and winter,
it is almost as level as a floor with
scarcely a drift or pitch -hole. A
.farm on this road is worth $50 -a
year more than on any county
road.
The new Presbyterian Church in
Clinton was opened for public wor-
ship last Sttaday. Hey. Prof. Mc-
Laren, 1).D., preedied in the mem
ing, and Het A. D.• McDonald,
Seaforth, in the afternoon,
•
BIRDS OF A FEATHER
Of old is has been written that
"birds of a feather will flock to-
gether". Whether for good or bad,
men will flock together drawn by
their common interests and ani-
mated by kindred purposes.
Like the writhing tentacles of a
mighty octopus, the lines- of crim-
inal enterprises are extended
throughout the world, to all nations,
from the west to the east. And,
while the nations are arming with
every conceivable weapon and dis-
tance -defying engines of death, it
would be well for- them to give
some thought to a defence against
a traffic of evil things that lepows
no national barrier.
* * *
There is a saying in some seg-
ments of the business world that
"price is everything". It is based
upon the theory that many con-
sumers are "price-minded"—some
are bargain hunters; others will
pay a high price for interior mer-
chandise because they think price
alone is the value factor. In our
relations with people, sometimes
we judge a map by what he is
"worth" (the size of his bank ac-
count) and not for what he really
is.
* * • It
So let birds of is feather flock
together in the upholding of right-
eousness and the putting down of
the evils that prey upon men
throughout the world. ,
Someone said that you should not
fight the devil with fire because
he has more fire than you have.
But he cannot have more organ-
ization and more determination,
than you, if you remember that
yon have God, and the devil has
not.
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What Is the Highest Peak In the
Canadian Rockies?
Mount Robson, on the confinedtal divide at abouts55 degrees north,
latitude, is the highest peak in the
Canadian Rocky Mountains' -It has
an altitude of 12,972 feet. The CNR
main line passes close to the moun-
tain. The surrounding Mount Rob-
son National Park is named after
the Mountain, but the origin of the
name,is -in doubt.
* * *
Where Was Port La Joie?
This- was the early name of
Charlottetown, capital of Prince
Edward Island. The name was re-
tained until the island fell into
British hands during the Seven
Years' ,War. Then it was changed
to honor Queen Charlotte, the wife
of George III. The site of Char-
lottetown had beensa French forti-
fied post for a few years before
1720, when a party of 300 colonists
under Robert David Gotteville ar-
rived. They presumably gave . it
the name of Port La Joie to ex-
press ther joy at safe arrival.
*
Who Were Canada's First Cross -
Country Tourists?
Dr. Walter Butler Cheadle and
Viscount "Milton, The two came to
Canada from England in July,
1862, and, travelling ,purely for ad-
venture, made the long and peril-
ous ourney across the continent to
Victoria. They travelled by canoe
and on horseback, crossing the
Rockies by way of the Yellowheid.
Pass. Cheadle and Milton have
been called the first transcontin-
ental tourists. The return journey
from Victoria was made by ship
and they arrived in England in
March, 1864. The account of the
expedition., published in 1865 un-
der the tile The North-West Pass-
age by Land, became a popular
travel book and passed through
many editions. The names of both
men appear on the title page but
the text was by Cheadle alone. Dr.
Cheadle (1835-1910) became a dis-
tinguished pediatrician and was for
many years connected with St.
Mary's Hospital in London, Eng-
land.
TO THE EDITOR
•
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Fordwich, March 8, 1960.
The Editor:
Dear Sir: On behalf of the Hur-
on County Tuberculosis Assoeia-
tion, I would appreciate your pub-
lication of this letter in your
newspaper by way of extending
thanks to all who have. contributed
to otir Christmas Seal Campaign.
We appreciate the generosity of
those, who, by their contributions,
are assisting in the control of this
dread disease in'our county. Such
contributions finance free chest
clinks monthly in five county cen-
tres, and an educational program
in nromoting same.
The officers of the association
would particularly like to thank all
volunteers who helped in prepar-
ing the seals for mailing, the post -
piasters and their assistants in
delitering the seals, the theatres
and, Station -MIX, Viingham, fot
their contribution of advertising,
The officers of thd- association
also want to thank you, Mr. Editor,
for tbe publicity that you have
freely Am this .IMPortant cause.
Yours sinaerelY,
HARVE'iA, mentiturrr,
%le -sided.
• OTTAWA -43Y now it is apparent
thatCanada's 'effort"-4durin
World Refugee Year must e seen
only as a beginnieg- So much of
the first,two-thirds of that June-to-
Jfine year was devoted to empty
•political oratory and bureaucratic
bungling that the program is hard-
ly off the ground.
The, Government, tremulously
waiting to be pushed by public
opinion instead of leading, has
been waffling about over regula-
tions and federal -provincial -muni-
cipal problems. One way and an-
other the Departments of External
Affairs, of Citizenship and Immi-
gration, and a National Health and
Welfare—to say nothing of the
Prime Minister—have produced a
picture of well-meaning but queru-
lous and impetent senility.
The basic problem is simple en-
eugh. In the world today there are
hundreds of thousands of people
uprooted and blown hither and yon
by wars, persecution and the sear-
ing political winds generated by
uncompromising international an-
tagonisms. Homeless, they have
been consigned to refugee camps.
And, there , the most unfortunate
among them have stayed in grind-
ing, hopeless, soul-destroying -pov-
erty. Can they and their children
be given a home and a chance to
live, many of them in Canada?
Canada's answer.so far has been
less than heartwarming. Three
years ago we received more than
36,000 refugees from the Russian
brutality in, Hungary.
This time we have responded to
the clarion call of World Refugee
Year by accepting from European
-camps 100 tubercular refugees and
their families, for a total of 345 im-
migrants. Finding that treatment
and care cost less than expected,
:we have magnanimously agreedto
take a few more. No doubt Mrs.
Ellen Fairclough, the Minister of
Citizenship and Immigration, will
be down at.the ali•Port.to' give them
a well -photographed wekome,
. And now what about the other
refugees, those barred from Can-
ada not because of TB but because
of such other un -Canadian short-
comings as no relatives in Canada,
physical handicaps, illness, lack of
skills, etc.?
Toward them 'the federal Gov-
ernment was ,truly geuerous. It of-
fered to relax immigration regula-
tions so that private charitable -or-
ganizations could sponsor their
settlement in Canada.
And then, with the welfare groups
rising to the challenge and hasn-
tnering at Ottawa's door, it took
the Citizenship and Immigration
Department only, six months from
the start of Refugee Year to get
out - a new set of regulations en-
titled: "Admission of Refugees to
Canada During' World Refugee
Year". The pamphlet was dated
1960. Ottawa was really pushing
itself! -
Ottawa's main excuse relates to
its insistences that the provinces
be associated with the refugee
program. Yet at the sante time it
has shaven little enthusiasm and
no leadership for getting together
with the provinces to make co-
operation effective. It was left to
the Canadian Welfare Council to
bring all the welfare' organizations
and federal and provincial repres-
-entatives together at a meeting in
January.
We- have only the Council's word
for it, but they maintain that sev-
eral of the provinces would be wilt-
ing to co-operate with the federal
Government in providing publiv
health and welfare benefits to the:
privately -sponsored refugees, gnat
such .time as they would normally
qualify for these benefit's along;
with other Canadians. But the fed-
eral Government, recalling theft
only six provinces agreed tot Pars
ticipate in the TB -refugee scheme
by paying treatment costs, was al-
together dubious—not to say inert,
—before- the. Council's recommen-
dation that it approach the prov-
inces to institute the healtb-and-
welfare scheme.
The Executive Director of , the
Welfare Council, Mr. R. E. G. Dav-
is, is sure that if Governments will
take on this "risk" item, the coun-
try's welfare organizations would
bring 1,000 refugee families to Can-
ada over 18 months. This would ac,
tually be a major contribution to-
ward emptying the long standing
European refugee camps.
It is estimated that this will cost
them up to $3,500,000, based on n
cost of $700 per refugee, or 43,500
per family of five, to pay for trans-
portation to. Canada, rent, food,
clothing, other necessities, rehabilition services and so on to get
them established in Canada. Rom-
an Catholic Church groups' alone
estimate that they could bring 300
families to Canada under the plant
foe --parishes, or groups of parish,
es, to "adopt a family"
"Surely," says Mr. Davis, "the
private organizations should not be
asked to commit themselves to
more expense than this. It may
well be that special health and
welfare costs will be very low. Yet
there could be the odd case where
a refugee might get cancer, or
some other tragedy strike, which,
would cripple the sponsoring or-
ganization. We feel that Canadians
in general, through the Govern-
ment, would be willing to make
coverage of this risk their contri.
bution to the program." •
- It remains • to be seen whether
the plea of the welfare groups will
budge the Government. One:hoPes
ful sign was a• public opinion poll
showing that Canadians with an
opinion (many had no opinion!)
favored the TB -refugee scheme two,
to -one. Unless this writer is very
wrong in his understanding of the
majority of his fellow citizens, the
humanitarian effort to bring the
1,000 sponsored refugees to Canada
would be favored also.
Indeed, as the voluntary welfare
groups -point out, the effort should,
not stop there: The refugee pro-
gram should become a permanent
part of our immigration policy as
long as the problem exists. And
its scope should be broadened to
include adoption of refugee orph-
ans from Hong Kong and the- re-
ception of refugees .from other
than -European camps.
The voice of humanity cries out
to us. But that is not all. Refu-
gees, as Lenin once said, are peo-
ple who vote with their feet. The
The Weft should be glad that there
is a refugee problem, for it means, •
in our struggle against Commun-
ism, that hundreds of thousands
prefer to leave their homes and
all they know, to face the uncer-
tainties of. being refugees, rather,
than to continue to live under com-
munism.
SEEN IN THE COUNTY PAPERS
• Concession Manager
George E. Rether, town; has been
appointed manager df the snack
bar and catering concession at
RCAF Station Clinton. His appoint-
ment will take effect later this
month. Mr. Rether and his wife
already are operating the same
concession at RCAF Centralia un-
der the name of George -Anne En-
terprises.—Exeter Times-Adv.ocate.
Adopts Crest
The Village of Zurich has decid-
ed to adopt an Official crest, which
will appear on all their legal docu-
ments' and stationery. Designed
and drawn by H. R,,,,Latimer, the
industrial arts teacher at the local
school, the crest will represent
Lake Huron to the , west, the rich
agricultural area surrounding 'the
Village, and kcal industry.—Zurich
Citizens News.
•
Spring On the Way
So -far we have heard no stories
of robins- back from the south, but
a flock of, geese„ flying northward,
was reported int the- Whitechurch
area, and several crows h,ave been
seen in or near town. If spring
is to arrive at anything near the
normal time this year, we shouldn't
have to wait more than two weeks
for the big thaw.—Winghani Ad-
vance -Times.
CDCI Budget' Higher
The budget for 1960 as ap-
proved by members of the Clinton
• District Collegiate Institute Board
snows an increase of about six
nfills for ratepayers in Clinton. A
similar increase will affect the
tax rate of all eight municipalities
in the district. Total budget amount
required by tax levy is $130.128.69.
This .is almost twice as much as
was required last year -Iii 1959 the
tax levy raised $68,247.10. The
1960 levy represents about 13.5.
mills on ,an equalized basis. The
greatest part of the increase was.
caused by salaries. At cnor there
will be a .staff of 26 teachers be-
ginning in September, an inctease-
from the 20 now on the staff. To-
tal of salaries included in the bud-
get is $149,000.—Clinton News -Re-
cord.
Plan Centre
A meeting of the executive of the
Community Memorial Hall Associ-
ation was held at the home of the
presidents. Mr. William L. Craig,
last Friday, Minutes of the last,
meeting: were read by the secre-
tary - treasurer, Mrs. Gordon R.
Taylor. Mrs'. Taylor presented the
financial statement as follows:
cash in bank, $934.87; bonds (par
value), $4,500.00; grant from Hul-
lett Township, $1,000.00; pledges
from 'townships, $750.00; balance,
$7,18497: After some discussion of
the finances, it was decided that
plans for the Community Memor-
ial Hall should be proceeded with
on the basis of aii over-all cost of
$12,000.00. First draft plans for the
building were discussed and a
committee was appointed to pre-
pare final plans for the next meet-
ing. The lot was purchased in 1959
from the County of Huron for $300,
and is situated beside the athletic
field on the Station Road.—Gode-
rich Signal -Star.
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