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The Huron Expositor, 1960-10-27, Page 2Published, at l�t D Since 1860 Serving the Community First SEAFORTH, ONTARIO, every Thursday morning by McLEAN BROS ANDREW Y. MCLEAN, Editor Member Canadian Weekly Newspapers Association, Ontario Weekly Newspapers Association, Audit Bureau of Circulations. Subscription Rates: Canada (in advance) $2.50 a Year Outside Canada (in advance) $3.50 a Year SINGLE COPIES 5 CENTS EACH Authorized as Second Class Mail, Post Office Department, Ottawa ., Publishers SEAFORTH, ONTARIO, OCTOBER 27, 1960 Recall Agriculture's Contribution Much is made of the necessity of building up industry so that the Can- adian standard of living can continue to increase. Commenting on the trend, the Globe of Lacombe, Alberta, warns us that in stressing the importance of industry there is a tendency to for- get the contribution made by agri- culture. Both industry and agriculture make contributions, the Globe points out, and by way of emphasis recalls a comment of the late Charles Willis, Seaforth native and former editor of the Stettler Independent, who once mused, "Town and Country— the two sides of a dollar bill." "So much has been made of this type of growth that the importance of the agricultural industry to this province is often glossed over or for- gotten completely. But it is none the less a truism that without agricul- ture, there couljl be no people, no civilization and no country," the Globe says, referring to the growth of the oil industry in Alberta. "People can live—even thrive— without oiland without the large in- dustrial plants which today spew out millions and millions of dollars worth Work and the During World War Two a relative-• ly unimportant project in Britain was under the command of an ad- miral, assisted by a colonel, a major and a captain. None of the four slackened, on the job and the project went along satisfactorily. Then it happened the admiral was tempor- arily assigned' elsewhere, the colonel was on leave, and the major was taken ill. However, the project went right ahead because the captain dis- covered during the many days he was in sole command, that he could finish' all the paper work by lunch time. It sounds like a fairytale, but it was an actual occurrence. The cap- tain was C. Northcote Parkinson and out of the experience he later framed Parkinson's law, namely: Work ex- pands to fill the time available for its completion. In a. book that has be - Mlle a best-seller, Parkinson sup- ports his theory that administrative officials multiply without reference to the work they have to do with two axioms: (a) that an official wants to multiply subordinates, not rivals; and (b) that officials make work for each other. It is his observation, too, that expenditure rises to meet in- come. Before returning. to England, af- ter a year on the history staff at Harvard, Professor Parkinson was of products. But they cannot live without food, and it takes the agri- culturaI industry to provide this food. "As a matter of fact, this province as a whole could not exist as it does today without the farming commun- ities. Lacombe, certainly, and all other rural towns of its kind are di- rectly dependent on the prosperity of the farming community which sur- rounds them. Lacombe provides the services which this farming commun- ity requires—but it is the farmer who actually, produces the wealth with which to buy these services. "The necessity of a prosperous ag- ricultural community to the prosper- ity of the province as a whole must never be overlooked. That is why the present trend of the younger peo- ple away from the farm and into the towns and cities is worrisome when one considers the future, it is difficult if not impossible for a farmer who looksover a quarter -section of crop recently ruined by hail, to . realize that his loss is shared, in part, by many, others. But such losses spread to the entire community, in spite of the fact that 95 per cent of the direct loss lies on the shoulders of the single farmer alone." Time It Takes invited to expound his views to. the Ontario Legislature's select commit- tee on the organization of govern- nient, One of the professor's sugges- tions to the committee was that the Ontario government simply cut., its spending next year by 20 per cent. 'Another was establishment of a three - man tribunal — possibly a treasury department officer, a busi- nessman and a judge, all retired to invite and reward proposals for de- partmental economies, with• all sav- ings ear -marked for debt reduction rather than diversion to another de- partment. Another was elimination of three minor departments. None of the suggestions aroused enthusi- asm in official quarters. In his Toronto visit Professor Parkinson told of a British chain store company that last year cut its staff from 26,000 to 18,000 by what he termed "three decisions of monu- mental common sense." One was to assume the staff was honest, thereby eliminating an elaborate internal bookkeeping system to guard against pilfering. A second was to return money to dissatisfied customers with- out argument which eliminated a paper mountain of complaint forms. The third was to stop filling filing cabinets with data no one would ever study.—Acton Free Press. • • It's time to shop for your PERSONAL VAS CMOS that vital ink in each of your friendships Choose from the BIGGEST most BtAUTIFUI and VAQIEA display of Christmas Cards we have shown in many a year. YOU'LL UM THE 7fy 74.01f4 F'taturtd IN THE NATIONAL LINE s • w • • •, • • • • • � 1 e/•-• ✓ �tit40;Nt Ar. • • • • • Order them through The. Huron Expositor Phone 141 • • • .4 ale 1 • • • • • IIALF4MT 1EEN DAO...I WROTE TH/5 COMPOS/TION ABOUT MY NEWDOG -BUT i+t7RD5 Wt2W7 OE Cie/BE H/M.I 6(1E55 NX/ HAvt"70 EH/M 70 BEL/EYE/T. -SUGAR AND SPICE By W. (Bill) B. T. SMILEY By the time you read this the Canadian landscape may be as bleak as the inside of a public lavatory, but I can't resist a paean to the finest autumn in memory. The other day I was out for a last, long draught of that . most heady of brews—a perfect Octo- ber day in the country—and, as usual, I grew .quite tipsy on it. * * • Standing at the top of a high hill, I could see for miles in every direction. The sight was enough to make a poet weep at the in- adequacy of words, or a painter curse the scanty range of his palette. It was one of those blue and gold days, when the world is still and waiting. • * * High, high, out of sight and sound, a couple of jet. aircraft- diew their careful chalk marks across . the sky. Far below was that eternal showoff, the Bay, bluer than ever a maiden's eyes, broken only by the islands, like so many bonfires in their crimson and yel- low flame. And back from the water rolled the brilliant tapestry of the fall foliage, the green fields, and silver, winding river. * * * I stood there with my children. Even they were momentarily hush- ed by the magnificence of this Canadian fall day. I couldn't help wishing that life would always be as sunny, as clean, and as excit- ing for them as it was at this moment, * * * Then I started to get hungry. A typical Canadian. On those rare occasions when we are touched to the quick by Iife, beauty or truth, our gastric juices, temporarily quelled. ,start to bubble like a home-brew mash, and sky, forest and lake are dismussed with a "sure is a swell view," • * • And we hurry home, duck out of the golden afternoon into our caves, turn on the idiot box, and sit there swilling beer, watching the football game, and drooling over the odors from the kitchen. * * • The Japanese, they tell me, can sit for a whole day and contem- plate the beauty of a willow leaf, or a tiny pool. You can belabor the average Canadian with .the most riotous colors, the most ex- travagant vistas in the world,and within seven minutes he's wonder- ing what's for dinner. • * * Mind you, I believe the Cana- dian has a deep, if mute affection for his native land. But he should be reminded at intervals of how lucky he is to live in this country of freedom, of bounty, and of un- excelled loveliness. There is no person- on earth with so much to be thankful for as a Canadian, on a fine October day. • • * Think of all the poor devils who don't live in Canada in the fall. How would you like to be an Aus- tralian, for example? Down there it's spring right about now. No anticipation of cosy winter nights with the trees snapping and the furnace rumbling, for him. No looking , forward to those brisk, blood -curdling days of midwinter, for himI. Nothing ahead for him but month after month of bril- liant, monotonous sunshine, It must be depressing to be an Aus- tralian in October! * • • How about the Englishman in October? What he has to face is six solid months of days spent in the fog and drizzle, and nights spent in the Dog and Whistle. By spring, he is so wet, inside and out, that he'd never notice if the entire island sank quietly to the ocean floor. * * • Maybe you think the. folks in the Congo are better off in October than are Canadians. Not a hope. You've just learned how to pro- nounce the name of the new presi- dent, Kisamafuto, when he's re- placed -by a chap called Mon- goloidijit. * * * Perhaps you'd rather spend Oc- tober in Cuba, where Tarzan the Apeman was recently dettdurtced as a tool of imperialist interests. Or in the States, where the Voters have to face that grins decision whether Pat or Jacquie should go to the White House. * * * No sir, for food and friends, and all God sends, there's no place on earth th_at'.s quite as fine as this Canada of ours, in October. And I'll stick to that, even though my„ daughter picked for her leaf collection the other day some bril- liant sumach leaves that turned out to be poison ivy. autada, (Prepared by the Research Staff of Encyclopedia Canadiana) - What Was Canada's First Chemical Industry? While Canada's chemical indus- try may be said to have begun al- most 400 years ago with the dom- estic arts of tanning, brewing, dye- ing, 'smelting and soapmaking, the first chemical manufacturing in- dustry as such was established in New France in 1674 by Nicholas Folll'n, who was granted the right to make soap commercially. * * * Where Was Canada's First Electric Trolley Service? In 1887 the first electric street - railway system'in Canada was op- ened at St. Catharines, Ont. Vic- toria became the second city to have such a system in 1890. Van- couver followed in the same year. Soon other cities, such as Ottawa, Montreal and Toronto, which al- ready had street railways using horsecars, converted to electric systems. Horsecars had been put into operation in Toronto and Montreal as early as 1861. * * * When Did Television Operations Begin in Canada? The first regular transmission of programs from Canadian televi- sion stations began in September, 1952, when the two Canadian Broadcasting Corporation stations in Toronto and Montreal went on the air. The first private televi- sion station was opened in Sud- bury,• Ont., in October, 1953, By March, 1954, nine Canadian sta- tions were operating and 725,000 television sets were in use. Today more than 3,000,000 homes have television sets and better than 90 per cent of Canada's popu;ation is within range of a TV station. * * * I•s Epilepsy Common in Canada? Epilepsy is a disease that affects about one out of every 200 Cana- dians, It takes its name .'from the Greek word for "seizure", as the seizure or "fit" is its most char- acteristic sign. Such seizures; re- sulting from an irritation of brain tissues, fall into four main types: (1) grand mal, the most common and the one generally associated with the disease; (2) petit mal, less violent and of shorter dura- tion; (3) psychomotor, which tem- porarily affects mental stability; and (4) Jacksonian, which begins in an arm or leg and then spreads to the rest of the body. Epilepsy is most common in the young; it can attack persons in all walks of life. Heredity is a less important factor than was once thought. Pro- per treatment can enable most epileptics to lead relatively normal lives. Studies indicate that epilep- tics who rettive proper treatment lose no more time at work and have no greater accident rate than non -epileptics. The disease in it- self does not impair intelligence, Plan Wolf Cub Reorganization Reorganization of the Seaforth Wolf Cubs will take place on the upper floor of the Seaforth Town Hall at 7 p.m., Monday, Nov. 7. Boys intending to register are ask- ed to proceed upstairs quietly, as there may be other meetings in the lower chambers, The meeting will be in charge of Scouters Anne Carnochan and Jack Stevens. The age group /or Cubs is to 8 to 11, inclusive. The • Law of the Wolf Cub Pack is: 1. The Cub gives in to the Okl Welf, 2. The Cub does riot give fit to him. self. OFA presents Brief On Powers Of Expropriation. Bill 120, an Act whose intent is "to make uniform the procedures for determining compensation for the expropriation or injurious af- fection of lands by public authori- ties", affords scant protection to property owners in the considered opinion of the Ontario Federation of Agriculture. According to J. A. Ferguson, St. Thomas, who read the brief of the OFA to the Select Committee on Expropria- tion, Bill 120 "makes more iron- clad and dictatorial the powers of provincial authority." "Bill 120 bolsters and amplifies the arbitrary means employed by government ov many years," said Mi. Fergu on, "without any real attempt to consider the pos- sibility that public ends might be achieved primarily by peaceable negotiation?' The OFA had expected a mod- erate piece of legislation, mem- bers of the OFA Land Acquisition Committee told the Select Com- mittee. They did not question the government's constitutional auth- ority, but they said it seemed "un- necessary to flaunt these powers in so flagrant a fashion at a time when the question of civil rights is being given attention by all conscientious citizens." OFA Com- mittee members are Mr. Ferguson, Len Laventure, Glasgow Station, Roy Coulter, Campbellville, and W. P. Oswald, Chesley. The proposed Act had many shortcomings, according . to the OFA. One of the most serious was the omission of any provision for a trial of necessity. Put another way, this means that the proposed Act does not allow for a property owner to test the necessity of any project which requires expropria- tion of his land. The OFA feels al- so that provincial and local plan- ning authorities should be consult- ed •early • in airy project before ex- propriation takes place to see if the project is truly in the public interest. In the past, land has been expropriated on occasion and never used afterwards. The OFA brief Laid before the Select Committee other basic prin- ciples which- farm groups across the province are in agreement with for land acquisition matters. The OFA stated that land owners should have some means of arbi- trating compensation disputes oth- er than the formal courts of jus- tice. Legal and expert , witness fees alone could mount to $2,000, or, if costs were awarded against him, to $3,500, with the possibility of another $2,000 in fees if an appeal was filed and lost. Few landowners can afford this; and consequently are forced into pas- sive acceptance of whatever com- pensation offer is made by the expropriating agency. The OFA suggested that some sort of tri- bunal might be effective, before which a land owner might plead his case without running up high costs for legal help, and which he might appeal from to a higher authority if he feels the decision is not right. The OFA also asked that provi- sion be made in the proposed leg- islation to afford against malprac- tices such as the printing of bind- ing clauses on endorsement sides of cheques which traps the unwary land owner once 'the endorsement is made. Farmer Protection Lacking Bill 120 does not provide for qualified appraisers who under- stand farm values and who would be designated to conduct all nego- tiations with affected property owners; nor have previous OFA requests for a farmer appointee to sit on the Ontario Municipal Board in all cases involving farm owners been answered by'the pro- posed Act. Bill 120 does not give protection against damages which become apparent only after a • lapse of time, nor against many other in- justices which can and do crop up in expropriation proceedings, the OFA brief indicated, In short, and in the words of Mr. Ferguson, chairman of the OFA committee, "Bill 120 does not meet the needs of this province.' - A McDUFF 0 TTAWA REPORT THE NEW SALES• TEAM Shifting the Wheat Board from the Department of Trade and Com- merce to the Department of Agri- culture is a move designed to con- centrate wheat production policies under the same Minister respon- sible for devising wheat selling policies. In the Government at Ottawa it is regarded as a move long over- due. However, the reaction among western farmers is reported as by no means one of unanimous ap- proval. The debate as to whether wheat growing and selling should be under the one department, is one that has raged for sqme years in the west. Rt. Hon. James G. Gardiner, during the long tenure as Min- ister of Agriculture in the former Liberal administration, was a staunch advocate of such a move. Many western farmers concurred. But there were some who believed that the actual selling agency should be separate from the Agri- culture Department, and they agreed that it should be under the Trade and Commerce Depart- ment, a division of the Government primarily concerned with selling Canadian products abroad. Moving the Wheat Board to the Agriculture Department does not mean that the Agriculture Depart- ment will have to open trade mis- sions overseas and staff them, as has been suggested in some west- ern circles, The Wheat Board when it was under the Trade and Commerce Department did not re- ly on that department's selling agencies but had its own facilities for making sales abroad. The Wheat Board deals through the trade; is in close contact with the key grain people who have offices in Winnipeg; and ,when necessary the Board sends its own agents overseas. Frequently one or more of the Board's commissioners pack -up and head for foreign des- tinations to promote or clinch a sale. In deciding to transfer the Wheat Board, Mr. Diefenbaker obviously had in mind the background of the ministers he was moving into the key. portfolios of agriculture and trade and commerce. Hon. Alvin Hamilton is a' Westerner. He comes from Saskatchewan and served on a special Cabinet com- mittee considering. farm problems. Hon. George Hees is an Fastener. It was assumed that the Western farmer would not be happy to have a Toronto businessman handling wheat sales, and so Mr. Hees be- comes Canada's super -salesman but, does not have to worry about selling wheat. , The Wheat Board will carry on as it has in the past as the gov- ernment agency most concerned with the sale of this country's surplus wheat. With the Board under the Min- ister of Agriculture it is being suggested in• Government circles that at long last production poli- cies can be tied to sales. If the• country has an over abundance of wheat, its storage facilities plug- ged, the Agriculture Department can devise policies that are not calculated to encourage an over production of wheat. This might be done 'through reducing wheat acreage. Meantime the Trade and Com- merce Department is now free to concentrate on doing a selling job for Canadian industry. There is mounting pressure on the Government at Ottawa to pro- vide more protection for secondary industries in this country. Mr. Diefenbaker and others have ac- knowledged that something must be done along this line. The well - organized campaign to convince the Government that current un- employment can be eased by pro- viding protection against low price imports, seems to be registering. It is not being overlooked in the capital that for the first time in the country's history the two im- portant portfolios of finance and trade are held by Toronto mem- bers, Hon; Donald Fleming and the Hon. Mr. Hees. It is out of Toronto and its surrounding ter- ritory that the pressures come for protective tariffs and other mea- sures to assist secondary indus- tries. 1 The Prime Minister's chief ad- visors on trade questions now come from the central Canada in- dustrial area. This could signal the start of a period of increas- ing protectionism. As a westerner Prime Minister Mr. Diefepbaker is in a difficult position. Traditionally the West is opposed to the erection of high tariff walls. The western farmers are advocates of freer trade. Recently the question has be- come a live one in the West be- cause of demands in Ontario that the Government curb the ship- ments of Japanese goods into Can- ada. Japan is a good customer for prairie grain. The western farmer is afraid that if the Cana- dian Government is persuaded to impose barriers against Japanese goods then the Japanese Govern- ment will retaliate by raising bar- riers against Canadian grain. Fearful of such retaliation and what it could do to sales of wheat the western farmers' organizations have been speaking out against the Government taking action to ser- iously curb the sale of Japanese goods in Canada. This puts Mr. Diefenbaker, the man from Prince Albert, clearly on the spot. * * * Capital Hill Capsules One of Canada's ,najor oil com- panies, Imperial Oil, followed an unusual course of calling a press conference in Ottawa to set out its arguments against an Alberta - Montreal pipeline, The spokesmen for the Company warned that any move to force Western Canadian crude oil into the Montreal mar- ket—displacing Venezuelan crude —would place a burden of up to $50,0.00,000 a year either on the federal taxpayers or on the Que- bec domestic and industrial con- sumers. It could cost Montreal and Ottawa car drivers an extra $60 a year for gasoline, they said. * • • The Canadian Government was not consulted "in any way, shape or form" • when the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation made,. arrangements for carrying an •. interview with Soviet Premier Khruschchev, National Revenue Minister George Nowlan made this clear recently. He contradicted a CBC producer who suggested the Canadian Government favored the idea. DUBLIN Mr. and Mrs. Patrick Benn and Joe, of Toronto, with Mr. and Mrs. Frank Evans. Mr, Neil Stapleton, O.A. College, Guelph, at his home. Mrs; Al Young, Toronto, with Mrs. Mary O'Rourke. Mr, Joe Krauskopf in Detroit. Miss Phyllis and Glenn Butters, London, with Mr. and Mrs. Tom Butters. Mr. and Mrs. Billie Feeney and daughter, Kitchener, with • Mrs. Catherine Feeney. Mr. A. Loomans has returned from a month's visit in Hilland. Mr. and Mrs. Gus• Dennome, of Dundas, with Mr, and Mrs. Clay- ton Looby and relatives. Friend and Whetham, the local meat merchants, are having the front of their store remodelled. Mr. and Mrs. Billie Feeney and daughter, of Kitchener, with Mrs. Catherine Feeney. Mr. and Mrs. A. McDougall and family, London, with Mr..•and Mrg. Joseph Jordan. Dublin Colleens Meet The 4-H Homemaking Club, The Dublin Colleens, held their second meeting at the home of Mrs.. Friend on Saturday afternoon. Miss Betty Ann Butters, the presi- dent, conducted the.business part of the meeting. Reel call was an- swered by material we will make slips out of. Patterns for the same were given out The leaders then took charge. Mrs. Butters and Mrs. Friend showed how to make a neat patch and a fell seam. Mrs. Friend gave a short instruction on the care of the face. Karen Dill will make a sample for the record book cov- ers, and the next meeting will be held a_ t her home. The meeting closed with lunch. IN THE YEARS AGONE Interesting items gleaned from The Huron Expositor of 251, 50 and 75 years ago. ., From The Huron Expositor October 25, 1935 More than 1,300 people were fed at the annual fowl supper of the Lutheran Church, Zurich, on Thursday. The eighth annual public speak- ing contest and the fifth annual spelling match will be conducted in the auditorium of the Clinton Collegiate Institute on Nov. 2, at 2 p.m. An enjoyable evening was spent in Clinton last Thursday, when the Junior Women's Institute of Clinton invited the Seaforth branch to be present with them. Everything is practically ready for the Seaforth . Lions big HaI- lowe'en frolic next Thursday eve- ning. Present indications point to this being the best frolic yet. The annual dinner of the officers of the Huron Regiment was held on Wednesday and was attended by 30 officers, including Lieut. J. A. Munn, Basil J. Duncan, N. C. Cardno and Charles B. Stewart, of Seaforth. Anniversary services are to be held next Sunday in Brucefield United Church. Rev. Hubert W. Piercy, of Niagara Falls Ont., will be the speaker for the day. Anniversary services were held last Sunday in Cavan United Church, Winthrop, •and Turner's Church, Tuckersmith. The first in the series, of bridges held each winter 'by the Seaforth Collegiate Alumni Association, took place in the Young Liberal Club rooms on Friday evening. The Seaforth fire brigade was called out. on Saturday about noon when a bonfire at the home of Mr. Jphn McKenzie, Market Street, threatened a large wood pile, From The Huron Expositor October 21, 1910 The new steel and cement bridge over Graham's Creek, in Stanley Township, will be ready for traf- fic about November 1. Anniversary services of Bruce - field Presbyterian Church will be held on the second Sunday in No- vember. Rev. Dr. McCrae, of Westminster, will be the speaker. On Monday, a tea meeting will be held. A bowling contest between Zur- ich and Hensall on Wednesday af- ternoon resulted in favor of Zur- ich. The eetnent 'gutter on Welling- ton St., leading to the railway sta- tion in Hensall, will be finished this week, and the council are making a fine job of it. Mr. Munroe, who has been trans- ferred from the staff of the Bank of Commerce here to thfe West, was entertained by friends at a complimentary supper at the Queen's Hotel, The Electric Light Company have extended the time of the night service until 1 a,m. On Friday last, Messrs Dayman and Riley, of McKillop, threshed for Mr. A. Gordon, of the third concession, 1,200 bushels of oats in six hours. The farmers in this area are busily engaged securing their root crops, and have a Iarge yield. Mr. James Walker, of Londes- boro, seems to be the champion large•potato grower in the county, having one which weighs 2 lbs. 2 oz., and he says he has others almost as large. Many out-of-town horses will eompete in the races on Thanks- giving Day, according to the entry forr'@il whhiieh hairo beet sent out, From The Huron Expositor October 23, 1885 The Centennial Skating Rink at Hensall, -which was rebuilt and is now one of the nicest in the coun- ty, was opened on Friday evening last by a concert of local talent, and a hop was held in the hall after the concert, Mr. George Plewes, of Tucker - smith, carried off 36 prizes lit the fall' shows for his celebrated Suf.: folk swine. Some of the weather-wise say we are not to have any hard wea- ther or sleighing this year before New Years, and give as a reason for the faith that the fowls have not yet cast their' feathers. Mr. Thomas Downey has a patch of potatoes ih this town, with some weighing 2/ pounds. Mr. Robert Coleman, of town, is erecting a large addition to his residence. There are several cases of typhoid fever in town. Londesboro creamery butter won first prize at the Seaforth show. Dr. Smith, of Seaforth, was ap- pointed medical health officer for the Township of McKillop. A four-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. James Graves was kicked in the face by a horse at the Seaforth Show, but was not hurt badly. John McFadden, of the Huron Road, was killed instantly while working on a log road near Ster- ling, Michigan, He was struck on the head by a falling limb, frac- turing his skull and breaking his neck. Last Sunday night burglars en- tered the Belgrave railway station office and broke into the cash drawer, scattered paper around, and carried off $20 in cash.