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SEAFORTH, ONTARIO, NOVEMBER 10, 1960
Education — The Key To Canadais Future
Throughout Ontario this is Educa-
tion Week. In an age when the spon-
sors of everything from macaroni to
lettuce have succeeded in giving us
more weeks than there are in the
year, it is possible to greet yet an-
other "week" with a groan. But that
would hardly be justified in the case
of Ontario Education Week, since its
objectives are of the highest order
and its message concerns us all.
Ontario Education Week is spon-
sored every year by the Ontario
Teachers' Federation and co-sponsor-
ed by a great many equally serious
organizationscutting across all seg-
ments of our society. Their aim has
been, over a number of years, to
throw a spotlight on local education,
to bring its achievements and short-
comings°to the notice of the citizens
d the province.
Ontario has a fine educational sys-
tem, one that is second to none in
North America. This can lead and
quite probably has led to complac-
ency, a comfortable feeling that
sometimes preceeds a fall.
To have a public Education Week
each year is therefore a good thing.
We are reminded of national and in-
ternational implications as well as
the local problems. We, can take pride
at our accomplishments in education
and, more to the point, we can come
to understand our own individual re-
sponsibility in fashioning a system
that is the key to the future.
The participation, the considera-
tion of every citizen in educational
problems can have far-reaching ef-
fects in making Canada the kind of
country in which we want our chil-
dren to live. That is the purpose of
Education Week—to focus our at-
tention on "Education—the key to
the future."
Write Us, Please !
The St. Marys Journal - Argus
recalls a problem that faces every
weekly when, in a recent issue, it
commented on the "Letters To the
Editor". This is what it said, and we
couldn't agree more completely:
"A newspaper likes receiving let-
ters from its readers. They can be a
barometer of local opinion and also a
source for local stories. Occasionally
a constructive suggestion can be act-
ed on or a wrong righted. News-
papers like publishable letters be-
cause they know that it is often the
column that attracts most reader in-
terest.
"Our rules are simple. To be print-
ed, a letter may be controversial, but
not libellous, and we insist that they
are signed. Even if the signature on
the Ietter is withheld from publica-
tion, we must know ourselves whose
views we are printing.
"Occasionally we get good letters
about a legitimate complaint and
sometimes criticisms about local af-
fairs which are perhaps justified. We
read through the letter rejoicing that
some public-spirited people are con-
cerned sufficiently to write about it.
But then, alas, the good effect is
quickly spoilt when we find the sig- ,
nature replaced by an ineffectual
pseudonymn like 'Taxpayer'or 'An-
gry Father'."
by
Tom Dorr
(FATHER, IS THERE ANYTHUN6�
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CERTAINLY NOT! LIGHT
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PER SECOND .
HELLO, ALVM...FATHER
SAYS NOTHING TRAVELS
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OF LIGHT.., UNLESS HE
SOT TO MENTION....
-SUGAR AND SPICE
By W. (Bill) B. T. SMILEY
It made my blood boil to see
Toronto critics picking on Marlene
Dietrich when that lovely creature
graced Hogtown recently with her
theatrical presence. They made
the brilliant discovery that Mar-
lene can't sing, and annoyed her
with puerile questions about being
a grandmother.
Of course she can't sing, and
never could. But she can make
the skin crawl on the back of your
neck with that husky snarl. And,
grandmother or not, there is more
sex appeal in one long look from
above those haunting cheekbones,
one twist of that heart -broken
smile, than in all your strutting,
hip -wiggling pouter pigeons of half
her age.
Perhaps I'm a little warped on
the subject of Miss Dietrich. She
was the first woman in my life,
the first member of the opposite
sex who made me realize there
was more than one sex. I was
ten years old 'at 'the time.
Don't tell me you can't fall in
love at ten. Perhaps that is the
only age at which your love is
completely selfless, utterly pure
and absolutely undemanding. I
didn't even expect her to marry
me. I knew she wouldn't marry
any ten -year-old kid. All I want-
ed to do was think about her, and
nurse my pain to myself.
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'* * *
It happened at a movie. I was
a young devil for going to mat-
inees. In those days they had
them twice a week, after school,
as well as the - usual Saturday
show.
I had been threatened with ev-
erything from the children's. aid
to the reformatory; I had been
licked several times; my mother
had given personal orders to the
theatre manager that I was not
to be allowed in, and 'still I went
to the matinee every,..time I could
find enough empty bottles to raise
the price. I'd arrive home about
6:40 p.m., my inner glow from the
movie a buttress against the 9uter
glow I would have shortly on my
butt.
At any rate, I fell for Dietrich
in a movie called Morocco, about
the Foreign ,Legion, in which she
appeared with• Gary.. Cooper. I
didn't realize it at the time, but
Miss Dietrich had the role of a
woman of ill repute. I thought
she just worked in this bar, may-
be as a singer or something.
She sang, in that whiskey tenor
of hers, and I was enchanted. She
smiled, that`rueful, knowing smile,
and" I turned to molasses. She
winked, that naughty wink, and I
twisted my hands until my fingers
cracked. She smoked, with that
mysterious elegance, 1111 my heart
leaped painfully within me,
I thought I would burst with
pride and revotion when the pic-
ture ended with her forsaking her
job at the casino to follow Gary
into the desert. The last shot
showed her, barefoot in the sand,
dragging a goat as she struck
after the Legion, with the other
women camp -followers. I can't
describe the gallantry with which
she threw back her hair and gave
a splendid brave smile as the des-
ert wind struck in her face. Nor
can 1. I convey the misery with
which I realized she thought so
much of that big jerk, Cooper.
ARMISTICE DAY
November llth has stood out
among dates and it will doubtless
continue to hold a prominent place.
At the same time when the Arm-
istice was signed, it was hoped it
would be extended into a sure and
abiding peace. But the First War
was soon followed by greater war
and a number of lesser conflicts.
The hopes of men for peace have
been like "the rainbow's lovely
form vanishing amid the storm."
Some years ago a hearer was
enthusiastic in his praise of the
man whose address he had just
heard. When he appealed to an-
other hearer for confirmation of
his high estimate of the speaker
and the address, the second hear-
er, in reference to the speaker,
said—"W.ell, he successfully point-
ed out the difficultiesin the way."
And his tone of voice indicated
his conviction that the speaker
had not told of anything that could
be done about the disturbing sit-
uation. • And this is the trouble
with much of the . oratory heard.
There may be a fine flow of words
and a dazzling flight of the imag-
ination, but nothing is really said
about something that can be done.
I am taking my place among
those who do not suggest what to
do, especially in the present situa-
tion over the world. But let us be
content, not because "God is von
the side of the heaviest artillery,"
but that he is on the side of those
who cause is just."
There were lots of girls after
that: in England, France, Bel-
gium. Some of these affairs were
sweet, some bitter. I even asked
one of them to marry me, but I
was too late. She'd just accepted
a proposal from another Canadian
who had a big country place in
Canada. It was big, and it was
in the country: 200 acres of stone
and swamp in Northern Ontario.
Then, of course, and I know you
think I'm just putting this in for
self-protection, and how right you
are, there was the BIG love of my
life when I met the Old Battleaxe
and started hewing my way
through the domestic jungle. Since
then the only other girl I've kiss-
ed, except the odd one on New
Year's Eve, has been my wife's
daughter.
,I guess, all told, I've been in
love about 12 or 20 times. But
it never again had the impact of
that first, swooning, searing sick-
ness over - Dietrich. And that's
why, Marlene, if the crude re-
marks of those Toronto critics
bothered you, feel free to call on
me. My ardor may have cooled
and I may not be quite as pure
as I was,30 years ago, and you
may have become a grandmother
in the meantime, but by George,
you're still the most beautiful,
glamorous, mysterious woman I
ever fell in love with, I wish you
were MY grandmother.
(Prepared by the Research Staff
of Encyclopedia Canadiana)
How Did Grand'Mere Get Its
Name?
The city of Grand'Mere, on Que-
bec's St. Maurice River not far
from Shawinigan, was named
"grandmother" in French because
of a.rock in which -the Indians saw
the likeness of an elderly woman's
profile. The rock, originally in
the river bed, was moved to the
shore when the power dam was
built. The city, founded in 1898,
owes -its existence to the water.
power and timber of the St.
Maurice valley. The hydro -electric
plant at Grand'Mere develops
222,000 horsepower.
WINCHELSEA
A McDUFF OTTAWA REPORT
A SHOT OF ADRENALIN
OTTAWA—The Hallowe'en bye -
elections have shaken the Liberal
and Conservative parties to the
core.
Most politicians discount the re-
sults of by-elections. They claim
they are not an accurate reflec-
tion of political leanings, and his-
tory would indicate they are right.
But the four held on -Hallowe'en
may be in a different category.
First, they were held in fairly
representative ridings, in Quebec's
Labelle, in New Brunswick's Roy-
al, and two in Ontario, in Peter-
borough and Niagara Falls. Sec-
ond, they were considered in ad-
vance to be important from a
strategic point of view, Third, this
was the first time the New Party,
that nebulous creature now being
formed by the Co-operative Com-
monwealth Federation and the
Canadian Labor Congress, contest-
ed Federal seats.
The Conservatives have for
months been, uncertain whether to
accept the findings of public opin-
ion polls as a true indicator of
their slipping popularity. They
were suspicious of the polls; they
knew they had lost some strength,
but were unwilling to believe they
had dropped that far.
Conservative brain -truster s
thought they would take three of
the four by-elections, Royal, La-
belle and Peterborough; a per-
centage good enough to dispel the
defeatism now troubling the party
organization. It would be, they
said, widely interpreted as a vote
of confidence in the Government.
What happened? The Tory can-
didate in Royal, federal Forestry
Minister Hugh John Fleming, man-
aged to gain only half the lead
chalked up by the former Royal
member, Alfred Brooke, who is
now safely ensonced in the Sen-
ate.
In Labelle, despite the best ef-
forts of half a dozen cabinet min•I
isters, including the Big Three
from Quebec, Noel Dorion, Leon
Balcer and Pierre Sevigny, the
Tory candidate, was decisively
beaten by the Liberal.
In Peterborough, a Tory riding
for 20 years, Walter Pitman, run-
ning as a New Party candidate,
won with a good majority. In
Niagara Falls, Liberal Judy La -
Marsh won in a walk, with a ma-
jority' 10 times (5,000 against 500)
that of the previous Liberal mem-
ber, the late Bill Houck, who had
been personally popular with ev-
eryone in the riding:'"
Of greater significance than the
results themselves is the shift in
popular vote. Back in 1958, when
the Tory tide was running at full
flood, a total 94,923 voters cast
ballots in the four ridings. Of the
total, the Conservatives took 53,-
625: On Hallowe'en, there were
90,593 votes cast, and the Tories
got but 34,548 (just about exactly
the 38 per cent national support
shown by the last Gallup Poll).
If the Liberals had picked up the
votes of the disenchanted Tories,
they would be filled with optimism.
But the figures prove they didn't.
They didn't overall, although they
did pick up in all the ridings ex-
cept Peterborough where they
went down. In 1957, they got 36,-
229 votes in the four riding's, in
1958 they got 35,970, and on Hal-
lowe'en they got 35,854 (a bit un-
der the 43 per cent national sup-
port shown by the last Gallup
Poll). The Liberal vote didn't
move at all, while the Tory vote
fluctuated wildly.
Where did the votes go? To the
party of the political left, the
CCF, or New Party. In 1957, CCF
candidates won but 3,418 votes
from the four ridings; in 1958 they
climbed to 5,002, and in the by-
elections they leaped to 20491
votes (close to double the CCF 12
per cent national support shown
by the last Gallup Poll).
Third parties traditionally do
better in by-elections than they do
in national elections. This has
been the proven Canadian experi-
ence of the CCF and the recent
British experience of the Liberal
Party. Candidates are also more
The pupils of Winchelsea School
and their teachers, Mrs. S. Hen-
drick and Miss Marshall, enjoyed
a Hallowe'en party at the school
on Monday afternoon.- Costumes
were displayed, prizes given and
lunch was enjoyed.
Mr. and Mrs. Newton Clarke at-
tended a Credit Union banquet in
the Legion Hall at Clinton on Wed-
nesday evening.
Mr. and Mrs. Horace Delbridge,
Bruce and Fred attended the fif-
tieth wedding anniversary of Mr.
and Mrs. Bruce Cooper, held on
Friday evening at Elimville
Church, and later at their home
in Elimville.
Mr. and Mrs. Colin Gilfillan
spent. Friday in London with Mr.
and Mrs. Jack Maher.
Mrs. Garnet Miners is spending
some time - with Mr. Howard Johns
and family, of Elimville North.
Mr. Gary Hern is confined to
St. Joseph's Hospital in London,
having had an operation for ap-
pendicitis on Friday evening. -
Mr. and Mrs. Jack Maher, of
London, visited on Saturday with
Mr, and Mrs. Colin Gilfillan, Grant
and Barbara Anne.
Mr. and Mrs. Newton Clarke at-
tended a banquet at Kirkton on
Saturday for the 4-H Club of Kirk -
ton, held at the Anglican Church.
Mrs, Philip Hern visited with her
son, Gary, in St. Joseph's Hospi-
tal, London, on Saturday after-
noon.
Mrs. Beverley Morgan, Johnny,
Jerry, Scott and Susan, of Thames
Road, visited Sunday afternoon
with Mr. and Mrs. Newton Clarke.
Mr. and Mrs. Colin Gilfillan and
family visited Sunday ' with Mr.
and Mrs. Harvey Smith, of Credi-
ton.
Mrs, Freeman Horne and Mrs.
Ivan Brock spent Thursday at
Kitchener.'
Mr. and Mrs. Newton Clarke and
Mrs. Garnet Miners attended the
fiftieth wedding anniversary of
Mr. and Mrs. Bruce Cooper Fri-
day evening_ at their- home in
Elimville.
* * *
What Are Saskatchewan's
Boundaries?
Saskatchewan is the only Cana-
dian province all • of whose boun-
daries follow lines of longitude or
parallels of latitude. The prov-
ince's boundary with the North-
west Territories runs along the
60th parallel of latitude, while the
famous 49th parallel determines
its international boundary on the
south. In width the province ex-
tends from the Manitoba line on
the east (at longitude 101 degrees,
.30 minutes, and longitude 102 de-
grees west) to the Alberta line on
the west at longitude 110 degrees
west. From south to north Sas-
katchewan is 761 miles in length.
It has an average width of 335
miles, varying from 393 miles at
the United States border to 277
Miles in the extreme north.
* * *
For about three months I was
literally sick with love. My mother
thought I had some disease, be-
cause I wouldn't eat. She was con-
vinced of it when I stopped going
to matinees. How can a boy of,10
tell his mother he is desperately
in love with a movie actress?
Oh, I had a good many affairs
after that. There was a neighbor
girl who used to catch me "and
kiss me heartily every tint -16 we
played Run, Sheep, Run. That
ended when she pushed me out
of a hay mow one day just for
fun, a'n41 I broke my ankle. Then
there was a brief episode with the
French teacher when I was in
high school. This came to a cli-
max when I kissed her up in an
apple tree one gladsome day in
spring. I thought I'd never get
out of that apple tree.
And there was a Brazilian girl`
I met at College. She couldn't
speak any English. By the time
I'd taught her the language and
she could say "park bench" and
"kiss me, daddy," with the best
of them, I'd missed so many lec-
tures I hadn't a hope of passing
my year, so I patriotically poined
the air force.
The time to get primed for the
future is when you're still in your
prime.
* * *
Where is Inuvik?
This is the name of the new
community constructed. by the
federal government on the East
Channel of the Mackenzie River
delta,' well north of the Arctic
Circle. When planning for the new
townsite . began in 1954, it was
intended that Inuvik would replace
Aklavik, the well-known settlement
33 miles by land to the west on
the river's West Channel. Aldavik,
however, is maintaining its exist-
ence although a number of gov-
ernment services have •been mov-
ed to Inuvik. The -move to Inuvik
was made because the permafrost,
silt and river floods at the
old community seriously affected
buildings, prevented the construc-
tion of proper roads, a permanent
airfield, sewers and water mains,
thus creating a health hazard and
hamt itIng expansion. Inuvik lies
on land with 'better drainage and
a lower moisture content.
important in by-elections and the
New Parti had excellent ones in
both Niagara Falls and Peterbor-
ough.
Liberals in high places are re-
acting in two ways to the Party's
failure to pick up the dissatisfied.
who votedConservative in 1957
and 1968. Some claim purely lo-
cal factors were at work in Peter-
borough, where the bulk of the
CCF -New Party gains were made.
Among these factors were high
local unemployment, estimated at
4,000 and a heavily organized cam-
paign
rwereeffected.
ubethe n1
o An older
weak Liberal candidate against a
young vigorous and capable New
Party candidate; and, a concen-
trated Liberal effort in Niagara
Falls' and Labelle and even Royal
as against New Party, concentra-
tion in Peterborough and Niagara
Falls (letting Royal go by default
and not even contesting Labelle).
Others interpret the results as a
clear indication the Liberal party
must move to the left, or get
caught in the middle of the road,
squashed out of existence by the
Conservative Party and the New
Party, a fate with which Liberals
in Great Britain are very famil-
iar.
There has been some conflict in
the Liberal Party since the 1957
election, between those who would
veer to the left, and those who
would try to steer a course down
the middle of the road, a course
well marked out by King and St.
Laurent. The Party's recent con-
ference at Kingston brought to-
getherthose who would move left,
and some conservative Liberals.
not invited are still condemning
Kingston as a bad move. .,
For the New Party, the,by-elec-
tions were like a shot of adrenalin.
For many months now, it appear-
ed the New Party would never get
off the ground. The win in Peter-
borough came at precisely the
moment best calculated to spur
the organizers to new efforts, and
to still the critics within the CCF
and CLC structure.
In Niagara Falls, the other New
Party candidate running for office
doubled the CCF vote of 1958, from
about 3,000 to over 6,000. That
alone would have been heartening
for Stanley' Knowles, David Lewis,
and others promoting the new so-
cialist -oriented party-.
Between now and the next Fed-
eral general election, the lessons
learned on Hallowe'en will be
gone over with a fine-tooth comb
by the politicians and their back-
room advisors. There could be
decided shifts in policy and plat-
forms, new tactics and organiza-
tion. When the massive party or-
ganizations swing into action for
that next important vote, Peter-
borough, in particular, will be
very much in their thinking.
There will be another by-elec-
tion in the spring, in former De-
fence Minister, now Lieutenant -
Governor George Pearkes' old rid-
ing of Esquimault-Saanich, on the
outskirts of Victoria, B.C. It, like
Peterborough, has a Tory tradi-
tion, but the New Party and the
Liberals, with a lot at stake, will
contest it bitterly.
What Mines Appear
Inexhaustible?
The asbestos mines in the region
around Thetford Mines, Que., the
largest asbestos mines in the
world, were discovered in 1876
and appear to be inexhaustible:
The deeper the pits are dug, the
more abundant is the mineral and
the finer its fibres. The city of
Thetford Mines lies 71 miles north-
east of Sherbrooke and 77 miles
south of Quebec City. It became
a village in 1892, a town in 1905,
and a city in 1912.
Huron Farm News
Because of the recent snow and
cold weather most of the cattle
are now stabled or have access to
shelter. Some fall plowing is still
undone. There are some turnips
to harvest yet.
IN THE YEARS AGONE
Interesting items gleaned from
The Huron Expositor of 25, 50
and 75 years ago.
From The Huron Expositor
November 8, 1935
A sn)all earthquake occurred in
Seaforth on Hallowe'en and it took
citizens some time to make up
their minds whether it was a prank
or a real earthquake. No damage
resulted, but the shock was suf-
ficient to shake buildings.
The death this week of Reeve
W. W. Crozier will not necessi-
tate an election to fill the posi-
tion. Council will elect one of its
members to fill the office.
Thieves broke into A. W. E.
Hemphill's drug and fancy goods
store in Hensall early Tuesday
morning, but after disturbing
much of the stock, left, apparently
with a, little loot.
The annual anniversary services
of Egmondville United Church
were held on Sunday with a very
large attendance at both services.
Don Benninger, St. Michael's
College, Toronto, spent the week-
end with his parents, Mr. and
Mrs. M. J. Benninger, Dublin.
The licence plates were stolen
from the car of Ted Taman, of
the Canadian Bank of Commerce
here. Police from Hensall are in-
vestigating.
Edward Jordan, St. Clements,
and James Jordan, Toronto, spent
a few days with their mother,
Mrs. William Jordan, Dublin, who
is seriously ill in Scott Memorial
Hospital, Seaforth.
Some mean hunter shot Mr. Sam
Regele's faithful dog, and it would
be • a pleasant treat for them if
caught, as the game warden is
investigating.
Friends and neighbors called on
Mrs. John Dalton, of Hibbert, re-
cently to bid her a farewell and
extend best- wishes to her prior
to her leaving for her new home
with her daughter' and son-in-law,
Mr, and Mrs. Frank Bowman, Mc -
The young folks of Winthrop at-
"This isn't our baby," said the
wife. "You've got the wrong car-
riage."
"Shut up, you dope," said the
husband. "This ones got rubber
Ores,"
,r
tended the reception Wednesday
night at the home of Mr. and
Mrs. John Cuthill in honor of Mr.
and Mrs. Wilmer' Cuthill, who
were married recently.
* * *
was in London recently attending
a poultry exhibition.
The fowl supper in the Methodist
Church, Londesboro, was a great
success, with the proceeds amount-
ing to $248.
From The Huron Expositor
November 4, 1910
Mr. A. Gardiner has sold his
100 -acre farm, on the 13th conces-
sion of McKillop, to John J. Mc -
Gavin, which gives Mr. McGavin
a fine farm of 200 acres.
Mr. William McLaren, of Hen-
sall, has gone to Toronto where
he has accepted a position.
A needle was removed from the
stomach of a boy named Howard
Stewart, who lives near Clinton,
by Dr. J. W. Shaw, last week. It
has been bothering him for eight
years.
Mrs. S. Essery, of Usborne, has
purchased the old Eden building
which was sold by auction.
At the nomination meeting held
in Exeter on Tuesday last to select
a reeve, Messrs, John Taylor, T.
B. Carling and T. H. McCallum
were nominated. It is probable
that Mr. Taylor will be elected,
thus saving an election.
Mr. James Scott, who has been
a respected resident of Hibbert
for 50 years; removed his family
to Exeter last week.
The young people of St. Colum -
ban are having the interior of
their beautiful new church fixed
up.
The Canadian Order of Foresters
of Constance held their annual
oyster supper on Thursday night,
with a large attendance.
Quite a number of applications
are being received for the lead-
ership of Carmel Presbyterian
Cijii'eh choir, Hensall, made vac-
ant by the resignation of Miss
Hart, and are to lead the service
from Sabbath to Sabath on trial.
Mr. 3. W. Otfw.e n, .of Hensall,.
* * *
From :The Huron Expositor
November 6, 1885
Charlesworth and Brownell have
leased the old Hill store, lately
occupied by Scott Bros., and are
having it fitted up for a grocery
store.
Mr, John Hannah, of the Sea -
forth Creamery, has disposed of
the remainder of this season's
make of butter, August butter was
sold at 201/4c and September and
October at 23c.
Mr. D. D. Wilson has sold near-
ly all his Shropshire ram lambs at
$20 each.
The recent rains and snow have
made the roads very bad, and
business is somewhat dull, al-
though the .delivery of grain still
continues large.
Mr. William Hall, of Kinburn,
left on Monday for the Northwest,
to take charge of a mission sta-
tion there.
By an arrangement of the Cana-
dian Express Co., the dealers of
Seaforth are now enabled to get
their finnan haddies and sea fish
from the original packers at Port-
land, thus ensuring freshness and
best of quality.
Last week Mr. William McKay,
of this town, rode from Seaforth
to near London and back again, a
distance of 75 miles, on his
bicycle, in seven hours.
A couple of school girls from
Harlock gathered 1,800 apple seeds
one day last week, so no person
need be out .of employment.
Mr. M. McDonald, of Winthrop,
left last Saturday for British Col-'
umbia to join his brother and take
up- farming.