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SEAFORTH, ONTARIO, AUGUST 10, 1961
Carelessness Contributes To Farm Accidents
The public quite properly continues
to be warned about the dangers of driv-
ing in today's traffic and of the hazards
which exist in boating and swimming
unless proper care is taken.
Yet, despite the toll in lives which
results from carelessness on the -road
or in the water, the cost is little differ-
ent than that which carelessness on the
farm exacts.
We are told that one in 25 of Canada's
farm population was injured in an ac-
cident during the period of a one-year
survey by the Canadian Council of 441
Clubs and Canadian Chamber of Com-
merce, and one in 50 accidents was fatal.
Of the injured, half went to hospital.
The survey, reported in Canadian
Doctor, covered about 49,000 persons
living and working on various kinds of
farms in Canada. A third of all ,re-
ported accidents happened to those be-
tween 13 and 20 years old.
One in five accidents involved wo-
men. Most occurredin the farmyard,
others in the fields, buildings and barns
and the homes in that order of fre-
quency. Farm machinery was involved
in 27 per cent of the accidents. Acci-
dents to farm families off the farm
were evenly divided between highways
and secondary roads.
Contributing to many accidents was
the inexperience and youth of the op-
erators of heavy farm machinery. Trac-
tors driven by small children, whether
on the farm or on busy highways, can
be potential killers.
Records show that most farm acci-
dents occur during the months of July
and August and that more than half of
all farm accidents throughout the year
happen to young people, those under
twenty-one.
Concerned with the problem,' The
Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce
has published a booklet on farm acci-
dents, based on two independent sur-
veys by different farm organizations
and governments. The conclusions to
be draw from them are substantially
the same : farmers ought to take extra
care while they go busily about their
work during the summer. And what is
probably more- important, they should
see to it that the young people are
forcefully reminded that the price of
carelessness is often painfully high.
The disturbing feature of the sur-
veys, however, is the fact that farm
accidents are increasing, while the
farm population of Canada is actually
declining.
There always will be accidents that
couldn't be prevented, but farm fam-
ilies and farm communities must work
together to eliminate those accidents
that are preventable—that result from
carelessness. There is no reason why
farming can't be the safest industry in
Canada, if those engaged in it are hon-
estly concerned.
Ontario Sales Tax Will Be Costly Experience
(Thedford Enterprise)
It's in the book! The 72 page book
which the Provincial Government has
issued in an effort to explain the new
sales tax that Queen's Park is putting
a tax on taxes!
Here's how it works :
Some items, such as commercial print-
ing, are already subject to a federal
sales tax of 11 percent. Now the Pro-
vincial Government comes along and
announces that it will charge an ad-
ditional 'three percent.
But this additional three percent will
not be calculated on the basic price
BEFORE federal sales tax. It will be
charged on the price with federal tax
included.
Thus, not only is Queen's Park put-
ting a tax on a tax, but it is, in effect,
imposing a provincial sales tax of more
than three percent (when you consider
the basic price of the product before
federal tax).
Is this playing fair with the consum-
er? We submit that if the Government
intends to charge this additional three
percent, it should charge it only on the
basic price before federal tax.
In the course of a week, we have an
opportunity to chat with many business
men around the district, and in the,past
week or so we have noticed increasing
complaints about the impending three
percent tax and the headaches which
will come with it.
It is the general feeling that the
amount which the Government intends
to pay retailers for collecting the tax
will not cover the retailers' expenses.
Also many feel that the vast army of
new Government employees needed to
police the tax will take too large a bite
out of the revenue produced.
By using existing tax machinery, this
would be a much less costly method.
There are still many, of course, who feel
that this additional tax is unnecessary
and that the Government could avoid
it by cutting down on wasteful spend-
ing.
The average
person has about
one chance in
90 of being polled
during his
lifetime for his
opinion, the
►- station he listened
to, or the book
he read.
Readers of this newspaper express their opinions
every issue — either they buy it or they don't. It's as
simple as that.
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ONLY THE HURON EXPOSITOR provides audited
circulation in the SEAFORTH AREA.
After nearly fifteen years of
complete bewilderment I think
I'm beginning to understand the
Old Battleaxe at last. This sum-
mer, I'm taking a course in
psychology, and it fits her like
a suit of wet long underwear.
I used to think she acted the
way she did because she was a
woman. Or because she had a
large dollop of pure Irish in
her. Or because I wasn't making
money, or wasn't a good enough
father, or didn't do the chores
around the house. But it wasn't
of these things. It was because
she's just about as psychological
as they come.
It's all beginning to fall into
a pattern. When I began taking
these lectures, there seemed
something familiar about them
—as though I'd taken the course
before. Then I realized that my
wife was a walking case history,
and that she'd had practically
every one of the neuroses we
were discussing, at least once.
Only last week, I realized that
all these years, she's been suf-
fering from in inrefiority com-
plex. As the fellas say, ya
coulda fooled me. But now I'm
trained in psychology, I can see
the signs. It says in my notes
that the person who is over-
compensating for failure to
achieve his goal—a typical in-
feriority complex case—may be-
come pugnacious and belliger-
ent. That's my girl.
Of course, sometimes the per-
son who cannot solve a problem,
or reach a goal, succumbs to
another way out, it says. This
results in the Emotional Ex-
plosion, or, as you old-fashioned
lay people might term it, the
temper tantrum. This is usual-
ly produced in babies by a re-
striction of some sort, such as
holding their arms. It is produc-
ed in exactly the same way with
ladies who are trying to clobber
you. They become even more
violent when you wrap your leg
around theirs, so they can't kick
you on the shins. This requires
a good deal of facility in stand-
ing on one leg. Just call me
"Stork".
Another little gem I've culled
from the course is: "Reason and
emotion don't mix. Apply any
reason and it will cut down on
emotion." Well, I've tried that
with the Old Girl: When -.,she
gets emotional, I get reasonable.
rm afraid they're going to have
to remove that maxim from the
books. Maybe there's something
wrong with the reason, I apply,
but every time I do it, it's like
applying a torch to the drapes.
« « «
Strangely enough, I'm scarce-
ly psychological at all, myself.
However, in all fairness, 1 must
admit I've found a couple of
labels that apply to me. When
I'm frustrated, I have what is
known as the Indirect Reaction,
instead of the "Emotional Ex-
plosion. In this bit, you can do
one of several things to compen-
sate for your failure. One is
having Delusions of Grandeur.
This one I have never managed.
It's impossible for a father and
husband in these times.
A second reaction is the Suf-
fering Hero. This is one of my
favorites, and I use ft often. I
see myself lying there, after the
accident, covered with blood,
cold, stiff, amazingly handsome
all of a sudden, and my wife
hurling herself, weeping bitter-
ly, on my chest. She shrieks,
"Darling, come back to me! I
didn't mean a word of it. You've
been a wonderful husband!",
while the kids stand by bawling
piteously and, for once, not
wanting me to take them swim.
ming.
The other type of Indirect
Reaction is Rationalization, and
it fits, too. This consists of con-
vincing yourself of something
that is not necessarily true. But
this I've been doing for about
the past 35 years, so I might
as well relax and enjoy it.
However, these are mild and
harmless reactions, so you can
see that it'd"" not me, but my
wife about whom I'm concerned.
It's difficult to understand how
a person can live all these years
with someone as normal as I
and still be psychological.
« « «
Another of her troubles is
that she's obviously a passive
periphrastic. Woops, Just a min-
ute. I've wandered over into my
Latin notes. No, here it is. She's
a straightforward case of anx-
iety. This is typified by worry,
foreboading, dread, inner dis-
tress. That is, something is go-
ing to happen, or you think it
is. For example, she always
thinks we're going to have
another baby, but then when we
don't, she's kind of sore about
it.
Some of the anxiety symptoms
are: depression for no apparent
reason; upset by little things;
snaps at attempts at 'kindness;
angry at nothing at all; nervous,
edgy; streak of cruelty. This is
our place, practically any Sun-
day morning.
It's fascinating, even if a little
disturbing, to see someone 'you
know so well unfolding right
before your eyes, like a drunk
who has been sleeping on the
lid of the toilet bowl all night,
in the foetal position.
But we're only.. scratching the
surface. We haven't come to it
in the course yet, but I'm look-
ing forward to learning the psy-
chological motives behind her
taking up playing the organ,
and her throwing a perfectly
good gin -and -tonic all over, me
last Saturday night. I'll fill you
in as we get to them.
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By REV. ROBERT H. HARPER
The Bible Today
The British and Foreign Bible
Society and the American Bible
Society from 1911 to 1936 dis-
tributed 121,000,000 copies of
the Scripture in Chinese. In 1960
these two societies in concert`
with the National Bible Society
of Scotland and the Canadian
Bible Society, circulated in Hong
Kong and Formosa a total of
750,00 Scriptures.
Western missionaries are not
permitted on the mainland bur
the eight Bible houses there
still function in a Hauled way.
The most widely spokttn langu-
age in the world today is Chin-
ese Mandarin, used by 46.1,000,
000 people. This fact points up
the importance of the new, full
revision of the Chinese Scrip-
tures. Mr. Lu Chenching has
been working for the last seven
years on a new translation.
The Roman Catholic Church
has just finished a new transla-
tion of the Chinese Bible with
doctrinal and historical intro-
ductions to each book. This is
the combined work of the Ger-
man, Italian and Chinese schol-
ars and will be published in
eight volumes. The Bible Socie-
ties are preparing for the time
when the Scriptures may be
freely circulated on the Chinese
mainland.
Suggested Bible Readings
Sunday, Corinthians 5: 1-20.
Mohday, Isaiah 38: 9-20
Ttiesday, Isahiah 40: 12-23
Wednesday, Isaiah 40: 12-23
Thursday, Isaiah 40: 24-31
Friday, Isaiah 42: 1-13
Saturday, Matthew 9: 9-13.
(Prepared by the Research Staff
of Encyclopedia Canadiana)
When ;Did Canad Get Its First
Separate External Affairs
Minister?
Not until 1946. The Canadian
Department of External Affairs
was created in 1909 for the pur
pose of conducting "all official
communications between t h e
Government of Canada and the
Government of any other
country in connection with the
external affairs of Canada." The
term "external affairs" was ne-
cessary to cover both Imperial
and foreign' questions and the
two could not be separated since
foreign .relations were still con-
ducted through Imperial agen-
cies. The new department was
at the outset essentially a "post
office" and came under the
direction of the secretary of
state. In 1912 the prime minister,
was designated secretary of
state for external affairs. The
,,two portfolios remained com-
ibined until 1946 when the Rt.
Hon. Louis S. St. Laurent be-
came the first minister in
charge of external affairs only.
* * *
What Is a Community Chest
A community chest, s o m e -
times known as a welfare fund
or welfare federation, and sym-
oi The weeize
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"I'd say he was rather brave about it, wouldn't you, doctor?"
bolized by the Red Feather, is
a co-operative organization of
citizens and welfare agencies
that raises funds from voluntary
contributors annually for the
current operating costs of the
voluntary social welfare and
health agencies affiliated with
it. The funds obtained by a
community -wide campaign are
distributed among the agencies
in accordance with an agreed
budget procedure that takes in-
to account the relative priorities
of the community's welfare
needs. In conjunction with or
through a community council,
a chest further promotes the
community's well-being by co-
ordinating existing services, pre-
venting overlapping of services,
administering common central
services, such as the social ser-
vice exchange, seeking to im-°
prove standards of service, pro-
viding an avenue of joint action,
and developing better public
understanding and support of
welfare services and aims. The
community chest movement be-
gan in Canada with the forma-
tion of a Federation of Jewish
Philanthropies in both Montreal
and Toronto in 1917. These fed-
erations were followed by the
foundation in Toronto •of the.
Federation for Community Ser-
vice in 1918. .
A MACDUFF OTTAWA RERORT
TOIL AND TROUBLE
OTTAWA— Another political
convention has come and,.gone,
Ottawa's Coliseum is agin silent
after ringing again to the voices
of men and women who believe
they and only they have the
answers to Canada's problems.
This New Party convention
was unique in many respects.
In some ways it was a three-
ring circus; there were three
.separate and conflicting factions
represented, all seeking to mold
the New Party in their own im-
age. The result was a confused
program that satisfied few, and
disappointed many.
There were the solid phalanx-
es of organized labor, voting on
command, a little bewildered by
all the talk on political matters.
There were the old-line CCF'ers,
shunted to the background by
the shirtsleeved trade unionists,
and there were the somewhat
woolly-headed representatives of
the New Party Clubs.
The mixture was stirred'
mightily, but the ingredients
didn't blend too well.
Originally, the New Party was
touted as a political force that
would unite the farmers, the
workers and the liberally -mind-
ed. To the dismay of the orga-
nizers, the farmers didn't show
up. Craft union representatives
stayed away in droves, and the
liberally -minded were the same
school teachers and university
professors who have been with
the CCF for many years.
It was a' big crowd, by any
standards. But one wonders how
big a crowd it would have been
if the trade unions had not put
up the expense money for their
delegations.
But that, of course, is the
whole purpose of submerging
the CCF in the New Party struc-
ture. The CCF has been dying
a slow death, and it needed an
infusion of new blood and new
money, and the unions appear
willing to put up the money.
Many CCF'ers left Ottawa
wondering if the price they paid
wasn't too high. For to win the
backing of organized labor, they
have had to abandon their prin-
ciples. Socialism, they were told
repeatedly during the week-long
convention, is a dirty word. The
program that finally envolved
was a limp and innoxious docu-
ment when compared with the
passion of the Regina Manifesto.
Doctrinaire socialists winced
as they heard speaker after
speaker say the CCF "was all
right in its time, but you can't
win votes with CCF policy these
days." .
There were the die-hard CCF'-
ers who fought every inch of
the way, but the combined
forces of the trade unions and
the New Party Clubs- easily
overcame every attempt made
to pull the Party to the left.
Now to the future. What
chance of success has this New
Party?
From this point of view, very
little. As it stands, the Party
is a disorganized imitation of
the Liberal party, Its adherents,
although enthusiastic, are un-
sure of their ground. After this
convention even they don't
know exactly where they stand
on the issues of the day.
Many were disgusted at the
obvious attempt to win votes
through such ridiculous planks
as a Guaranteed Employment
Act, under which a New Party
Government would guarantee
every Canadian a job as a social
right. No mention, of course,
was made as to how this was to
be implemented.
Most important, the N e w
Party -doesn't offer the voters
an alternative to the Liberal or
Conservative parties. It is simp-
ly an immature Liberal party,
not quite certain where it is
headed, badly split by ideolo-
gical disputes. The men who
brought it into being, the men
at the top, are political ad-
venturers and masters of exped-
iency, barren of profound poli-
tibal convicitons.
Although every attempt was
made to bury socialism, includ-
ing leaving the word out of the
draft platform, the New Party
will still be labelled a socialist
party in the eyes of the voters,
a class party, in fact, and as
such will have little appeal to
the Canadian electorate.
There may be an initial flush
of success, but, since the New
Party is founded on nothing
more than a desire for power, it
will not last,
Capital Hill Capsule
Premier Bennett's take-over of
the B.C. Electric power utility
angered B.C. delegates to the
convention when they heard the
word. Bennett, they said, took
the thunder away from the New
Party in B.C., and the delegates
complained: "Unfair!" Such a
take-over has been the main
plank of the CCF party in B.C,
for many years.
Who Is The Comptroller of the
Treasury?
The comptroller of the treas.
ury is an officer of the federal
inance Department, conducts
a pre -audit or running financial
control of government financial
operations. His staff includes
treasury officers in each depart-
ment, whose approval is neces-
sary to ensure that public ex-
penditure is made strictly in
accordance with, the intention
of parliament. Unlike the audi-
tor general, who is an officer of
parliament, the comptroller of
the treasury' is an executive offi-
cial.
* • *
Who Was Quebec's First
Chief Justice?
William Gregory—a man who
seems to have had the knack of
recovering from setbacks. Born
in Ireland, he was called to
the bar in England, but in 1760
found himself imprisoned for
debt. He came to Canada after
the conquest and was appointed
the first chief justice of Quebec
in 1764, despite the fact that
he knew no French, a situation
that no doubt handicapped him
in the exercise of his functions.
In 1766 he was dismissed at the
suggestion of Governor Murray.
He practised law for a while in
Montreal, then returned to
England where he once more,
in 1769, found himself in a
debtor's prison. Nothing further
is known with certainty of his
career, although he may have
been the William Gregory who
was judge of the Supreme Court
of South Carolina in 1775.
IN THE YEARS AGONE
Interesting items gleaned from
The Expositor of 25, 50 and
75 years ago.
From The Huron Expositor
August 7, 1936
The Kippen elevator, owned
by George Mickle and Son,
which has been closed for the
summer months, was re-opene9
this week for the benefit of the
farmers.
Mr. Richard Dawson, assistant
superintendent of the Detroit
Street Railway System with Mrs.
Dawson, were guests at the
home of Mrs. Dawson's sister,
Mrs. J. F. Reid.
Mr. John McTavish, of the
Hudson Bay Company, Edmon-
ton, and Mr. Dan McTavish,
of Paris, two well-known Sea -
forth old boys, spent Tuesday
in town.
Mr. Robert McDonald, Wal-
ton, was badly burned when
some gasoline ignited and ex-
ploded near where he was work-
ing in a garage in Londesboro
Tuesday afternoon.
The first hole -in -one to be re-
corded at the new Seaforth Golf
and Country Club, was made on
Thursday by J. A. Egan, Nap.
anee, who is visiting in this
district.
As hundreds of chickens dis-
appear from Huron farms, farm-
ers in the county are sleeping
with one eye on their chicken
coops and shotguns beside their
beds.
Dr. and Mrs. J. J. McKenna,
former Dublin residents, but
now of Sarnia, celebrated their
25th wedding anniversary on
Saturday.
• • •
From The Huron Expositor
August 11, 1911
Miss Grace Murdock has been
engaged to teach in the Stan-
ley school near Brucefield.
Mr. and Mrs. Peter Daley and
daughter, Miss Sarabel, left on
Monday on a six weeks' visit to
Mr. Daley's daughter at Pen-
ticton, B.C.
Mr. George Paterson was in
Southampton this week inspect-
ing a quantity of lumber for the
Bell Co.
Mr. G. B. Parkes, Dunnville,
and former manage:l' of the Sea -
forth branch of the Bank of
Commerce, has been elected an
honorary president of the Inter-
national Bowling Association at
its meeting in Buffalo last week;
Mr. A. McAllister, Hensall, has
passed his Ontario Medical
Council examinations complete
and is now ready to follow in
his chosen profession.
Mr. George Murdie showed us
the other day a ripe tomato
which he had grown in his gar-
den and which weighed one and
one-quarter pounds.
Miss Margaret Horton, Har-
purhey, has been engaged to
teach in a school near Windsor.
On Sunday afternoon there
was quite a heavy hail storm in
Dublin and neighborhood, when
large chunks of ice came down.
A good deal of, grain has been
housed, so litle damage was
done.
Mr. John Smale has purchas-
ed the property of the late Mrs.
Chappel from Mr. Thomas Cam-
eron in Staffa.
* * •
From The Huron Expositor
August 13, 1886
Mr. Bethune, agent of the
Grand Trunk Railway, with his
usual thoughtfulness and erer-
gy, has procurer very cheap rail-
way rates to surrounding( points,
and we have no doubt cbut that
our citizens will largely avail
themselves of the facilities offer-
ed. The following are the rates
to several places: Toronto, $L75
return; London, $1.25; Goder-
ich, 40 cents; Stratford,,60 cents.
Mr. Moore, the very efficient
secretary and librarian of the
Seaforth Mechanics' Institute,
has been granted two week's ,
leave of absence.
Mr. A. Strong has been ap-
pointed agent here for the Can-
adian Pacific Railway.
Mr. Arthur Forbes has leased
McQuade's stone quarry on the
first concession of McKillop, and
will open it out and work it. It
is said to contain an unlimited
supply of the very best building
stone.
Mr. Hastings has opened up a
law office in Cady's Block, op-
posite the Commercial Hotel.
Mr. Rodger Pepper, of lot 36,
con. 3, LRS, Tuckersmith, is rig-
ging up a new cider mill and will
soon be able to make sweet
cider for all who will favor him
with their patronage.
Representatives of the Wo-
men's Christian Temperance
Union are now engaged in pro-
curing the signatures of women
to a petition to the governments
of the world. The object is that
the women of the whole world
might unitedly appeal to the
men of the world in Legislative
Assemblies to prohibit the manu-
facture and sale of intoxicating
liquors.
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