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SEAFORTH, ONTARIO, SEPTEMBER 7, 1961
Ratepayer Apathy is Increasing
Lack of interest in community un-
dertakings is a problem facing many
municipalities today. There appears to
be an increasing tendency on the part
of the average ratepayer to ignore—
as being something of no concern—
matters affecting their municipality,
and which is to be financed by their
taxes.
It was different fifty and even thirty
years ago, we are reminded by the St.
Marys Journal -Argus : "Today mon-
ies are voted and spent without so
much as a murmur from those taxpay-
ers who years ago would have risen up
in their wrath and beaten their fists on
the Board tables. "
"How has this apathy come about?"
the St. Marys paper asks. "Some say
the easy living, the government hand-
outs, and the other socialistic tenden-
cies have killed the old spirit of free-
dom and liberty which was the ear-
mark of the pioneering spirited peoples
of this country in the old days. Per-
haps also, the rush of events during
the past two decades have dulled the
interest of a great many persons, who
otherwise would have reacted to local
situations."
Changing Conditions Affect Area Rail Service
have handled all the outgoing livestock
shipments.
Incoming rail freight at Walton has
fared a little better, but not much. The
station has been receiving about 40 cars
a year, including about 30 cars a year
of feeder cattle from Northern Ontario
and the West, and an occasional car-
load lot of coal or grain.
Passenger business started with a
rush 54 years ago. In the files of The
Huron Expositor at Seaforth there is
a note that 200 tickets were sold at
Walton station on July 12, 1907, to peo-
ple going to the Orange Walk at Blyth..
Four passenger trains stopped at Wal-
ton every day until 1930, when the
service was reduced to once a day each
way. Regular passenger service came
to an end in 1955.
The trains will still run at Walton,
of course, after the station is closed
next month, but the paper work for
rail shipments to Walton will be done
at Blyth, eight mites to the west, or
Monkton, 12 miles to the east.
In transport service for rural areas,
it seems, we can't have it both ways.
If the highways were still rutted dirt
trails, and automobiles were still hand -
cranked, railway business at Walton
would still be brisk, and there would
still be a job for a station agent there.
(The Stratford Beacon -Herald)
There is another sad note in the his-
tory of rural railway service to be
sounded soon, as the Canadian Pacific
railway station at Walton, 10 miles
north of Seaforth, is prepared to join
the list of abandoned railway stations.
There is no longer enough business to
justify keeping it open. CPR officials
have courteously gone through the us-
ual drill of asking the local municipal
authorities whether they have anything
to say before the axe falls, but the local
authority, which in this case is Morris
Township Council, knows the facts as
well as anybody. In the process of mak-
ing township roads much better than
they used to be, they have played their
part in making railway business much
worse than it used to be.
The history of Walton as a railway
shipping point has been a brief one, as
such stories go. It is only 54 years
since the station was opened, and the
first rail ' shipment arrived, and there
will be hundreds of people in the Wal-
ton area able to draw from their own
memories the whole story of the be-
ginning, rise, fall and end of Walton
station. ---
The
--The Canadian Pacific branch from
Guelph to Goderich was completed in
1907, and the first rail shipment to ar-
rive at Walton was a box carload of
British Columbia red cedar shingles, in
April 1907. The station was a busy
livestock shipping point for about 25
years. Before highway trucks took ov-
er the shipping of livestock from farms,
the station at Walton would despatch
about 200 carloads of cattle and hogs
every year. In recent years, the trucks
Toothpicks
The lowly toothpick has been elevat-
ed to professional status. A Chicago
dentist says its regular use can be of
importance in maintaining the health
of gum tissues, in conjunction, of
course, With fluoridation of drinking
water.—Stratford Beacon -Herald.
Remember, a couple of weeks
ago;. I was telling what a wick-
ed place The City has become?
And of the dreadful pitfalls
into which a steady, reliable
chap from a small town can
stumble, particularly if he's at
the dangerous age? I promised
to continue the confession ppf
my wild adventures that night,
in the next week's column, but'
I couldn't bring myself to do
it.
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BARLEY REQUIREMENTS EARLY
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After serious thought, how-
ever, I've decided it's my duty
to reveal the perils and the
purlieus that exists, in the hope
that you may be saved, should
your foot slip from the paths
of righteousness, as mine did.
* * *
You'll remember that, torn
by who knows what strange
and wayward desires, I had al-
ready been clipped at a honky-
tonk piano joint. And then
been shorn at one of those
wicked foreign movies in
which the actors seem to think
sex is funny, not sinful, as we
all know it is.
Well, I escaped from there,
and had determined to go
straight back to my room and
read a pamphlet called The
Teachers' Superannuation Act,
in an attempt to pull myself to-
gether.
OPNOTCH FEEDS
* * *
But I fell. It was a warm,-
seductive;summer night, re-
member. Just as I walked past
this narrow old house, it hap-
pened. The door was open,
young people laughed and talk-
ed in the dimly lighted hall,
and from the depths of the
house, faintly, came a sweet
song and the tinkle of a guitar.
I couldn't help it. I turned
and walked straight in. I must
have thought I was in another
incarnation, as a sailor on a
street in Marseilles or Shang-
hai, rather than a staid thor-
oughfare in what was not long
ago the dullest city in christen-
dom.
A darkly handsome young
fellow barred my way and ask-
ed me, pleasantly enough, if I
was a member. When I shook
my head, mouth open, he sug-
gested I night like to join. It
could have been the Foreign
Legion, for all• -I cared. Fork-
ing over the modest fee, I al-
most knocked him down as I
hastened through the door, an-
ticipating mystic rites, cabal-
istic ceremonies, exotic danc-
ing girls and, if necessary, a
pipe or two of opium.
SUGAR
and
SPICE
By BiU Smiley
audience. Here, three pretty
Japanese girls listen intently.
Over there, five young fellows
heckle the singer good-natured-
ly, between songs. Near them,
two young -married couples_, sup-
ping onion soup. Aig, sad -
eyed blonde girl sits fazing in-
to space.
• * *
What about the atmosphere?
Well, the wildest drinks serv-
ed are hot apple cider and a
youthful nightmare called coke-
au-lait, which, believe it or not,
is coke and milk, mixed. The
entertainers joke with the audi-
ence, and there's no smut. The
waitresses smoke on the job,
and demand cash for coffee. A
fellow with a beard and a babe
with long black hair struggle
noisily in the tiny kitchen, look-,
ing like two people washing up
after a party.
Let's have a chat with that
girl singer, who's just finished
a "set" of songs. There's no
dressing -room to retire to, so
she sits down and drinks coffee
till she's on again. With her is
a nervous -looking young fellow,
in horigrimmed specs.
* * R
She's Karen James, 21, folk -
singer by choice, Canadian by
residence, Norwegian - Spanish
ancestry. She's poised, intelli-
gent and knows what she wants
to do. Her ideal of the good
life would be that of a stroll-
ing singer, wandering from
town to town. But she . con-
cedes that that is impossible
for a girl, especially one with
an urban background. So she's
doing research on Canadian
folk songs, hopes to become a
specialist in them, intends . to
go on singing, and has made a
record with a U.S. company.
* * *
It was dark inside. On a
small, lighted platform in the
middle of the room, in the cen-
tre of the gloom, stood a very
pretty girl, with deep red hair
and white skin and white teeth
that gleamed as she sang.
Sad songs and love songs and
old songs and funny songs she
sang, picking them out as daint-
ily and strongly as she picked
out the accompanimenton her
guitar. And that was my intro-
duction to The Purple Onion,
and the world of folk music,
blues- and jazz that comes to
life in The City when every-
thing else is going to sleep.
* * *
On the surface, these clubs
—there are half a dozen of
them in The City now—look
like dens of iniquity. They are
shabby, dimly lit. There is ex-
citing music, and in some,
home-made poetry. They are
full of kids in their early twen-
ties. The atmosphere is inti-
mate. They stay open late, late.
And yet, it's a curiously in-
nocent world. Let's take a look
at The Purple Onion. First, the
Phone 775 LIMITED Seaforth
"THE MOST VALUE FOR THE FARMER'S DOLLAR"
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By REV. ROBERT H. HARPER
WHO'S TO BLAME?
Someone told the story of a
teen-age girl who was in her
room upstairs dutifully engag-
ed on her homework until she
was glad to hear her mother
come in downstairs. And she
called down to her mother, 'Be
sure you lock the front door."
Back came the answer, "I -can't,
daughter, your grandmother
hasn't come in." Perhaps Father
and Grandpa were not expect-
ed until daylight.
And incredible as the story
may seem, it Will at least re-
mind us of the bad example
that many parents set before
their sons and daughters and
the way in which the children
are left to do about as they
please.
It will not mend a situation
in our country that is bad en-
ough to give all adults grave
concern by laying all the trou-
ble upon juvenile delinquency.
Just to say, "Do as I tell you"
will accomplish little if you can-
not say, "Do as I do."
When we read and hear of
so many terrible things involv-
ing our youth, it is high time
for serious thought and whole-
some and righteous actions by
the elders.
Just a Thought:
. It is possible to speak a thou-
sand words and never utter a
worthwhile thought, never in-
fluence the thinking of those
who have no choice but to lis-
ten; on the other hand, one
single good example m a y
change the course of a human
lie.
The bird sitting with her,
who dotes fondly as she talks,
claims he's the only real beat-
nik in The City, because he
works only when he's starving.
At what? He designs surgical
instruments, has the surgeons
try them out on him, shows
the scars to prove it. 'N
* * *
Let's have a word with the
manager. He's the young fel-
low who was at the door. Is
he a night club operator, a
gambler, a promoter? Not ex-
actly. He's a chartered account-
ancy student, and so is
his partner. No beatniks they.
They like folk music, running
the place makes a nice change
from the grind of work, and
they even make a little money
at it.
Another young fellow, with
a little beard, sings while we
chat. He's a bit nervous, but
pretty good. He comes over
and sits down. He's Rick Smith
who has been singing at the
Black Swan in Stratford. It
turns out that the songs he
just sang were an audition. No
wonder he was a trifle nervous.
Does he get a job at The Pur-
ple Onion? Yep. It's all set-
tled over a cup of coffee, in a
delightfully vague manner:
* * *
The whole business has a
casual, comfortable easiness
that is•charming, in these days
of the hard deal, the solid con-
tract, the cold, efficient and
mercenary attitude encounter-
ed in most clubs and restaur-
ants.
And this old columnist, log-
gy with coffee, groggy with lack
of sleep, totters into the street
at 4 a.m., thinking - maybe The
City isn't so sinful after all,
and with ten hours on the town
behind him, heads back for the
barracks, wistfully wishing he
were twenty years younger, and
could twang a guitar.
24 6/ Wm Week&
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(Prepared by the Research Staff
of Encyclopedia Canadiana)
How Did the Peace River Dis-
trict Get Its First Press?
Father E. J. ,B. M. Grouard,
who went as a missionary to
Great Slave Lake in 1863, in-
troduced the first printing press
into the Peace River country in
order to publish hymn books,
prayer books and catechisms in
the languages of various Indian
tribes. Until his death in 1931
Grouard remained in the North-
west ministering to the Indians.
From 1890 until 1929 he was
vicar apostolic of Athabasca,
with the title of Bishop of
Ibora; in 1930 he became a
titular archbishop. Grouard, at
the western end of Lesser Slave
Lake, was named in his honor.
* * * ..
Where Was Canada's First
School For Deaf -Mutes?
Canada's first institution for
deaf-mutes was founded in
Montreal in 1848 by Father
Charles Irenee Lagorce, a na-
tive of St. Hyacinthe, who had
been ordained in 1837. Between
his ordination and the opening
of his school he had engaged in
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A MACDUFF OTTAWA REPORT
CANADA LOSES SECOND
PLACE
OTTAWA—For a full decade
or more, it has been a matter
of pride to Canadians that they
enjoyed the second highest
standard of living in the world.
For far longer than that it
has. been axiomatic to most
Canadian businessmen'that Can-
ada's buoyant prosperity was
constantly in danger,__ of col-
lapsing from the growing load
of social welfare costs on the
nation.
Both ideas have recently been
called into question by two sets
of international statistical com-
parisons published independ-
ently in London add Geneva.
In Britain, the National In-
stitute of Economic and Social
Research indicated that by 1959
Sweden had forged ahead of
Canada to become the second
most prosperous nation in the
world after the United States.
Using Britain as the basis of
comparison, the Institute calcu-
lated that in 1950 the produc-
tion of real wealth per capita
in the United States came to
an index of 184, compared to
127 in Canada and 115 in Swe-
den. By 1959, the United States
index of real production per
man dropped from 184 to 181,
that in Canada from 127 to 121,
while the Swedish index jump-
ed from 115 to 124, three points
ahead of Canada.
Over the whole of the last
decade, the average increase in
national production came to two
per cent in Canada. Out of 11
major industrial countries, only
in Britain was the average low-
er, amounting to 1.7 per cent.
That the growth in most
European countries should be
considerably greater than in
Canada is not surprising, con-
sidering the long road back
they had to travel to recover
from the setbacks of the war
years.
Yet it is interesting to note
that the real production • in-
creased an average of 4.5 per
cent between 1950 and 1959 in
Germany, compared to 1.7 per
cent in the United Kingdom.
Growth in the United States av-
eraged 2.2 per cent against two
per cent in Canada.
Unlike most other countries
in Europe, Sweden did not suf-
fer the ravages of war. But in
the last decade the average in-
crease in real production on a
per capita basis has been 2.8
per cent, well above the ex-
pansion in Canada during the
same period.
The second set of figures of
interest to Canada were pub-
lished recently by the Interna-
tional Labor Organization, one
of the special agencies of the
United Nations, and cover so-
cial health and welfare expen-
ditures by 41 different coun-
tries.
They show that in relation to
national income, Canada spent
less on social security than
most modern industrialized
countries, with the exception
of the United States, up to
parochial work in rural Que-
bec. Destroyed by fire in 1852,
the school was moved tempor-
arily to Joliette but was re-
established in Montreal in 1853.
Father Lagorce retired in 1856
and died in 1864. In 1851 Sis-
ter Marie de Bon-Secours, who
had studied with Father La-
gorce, founded a similar insti-
tution for girls in Montreal,
1957—the last year for which
complete figures were avail-
able. Out of 32 countries for
which the statistics are fully
available, Canada ranked 17th.
In 1948, social benefits paid
out by Canada totalled seven
per cent of national income.
The proportion climbed to just
over nine per cent six years
later, dropped back to 8.5 per
cent in 1956-57.
In contrast, the United States
spent 5.7 per cent of its nation-
al income on social welfare in
that year, Germany 20 per cent,
France 17.9 per cent, Norway
9.9 per cent, and Britain 11.4
per cent.
Sweden, which has apparent-
ly displaced Canada as the
country with the second high-
est production of national
wealth, in 1957 was spending
12.5 per cent of its income on
social welfare benefits.
Quite obviously it would be
drawing a very long bow to
suggest that the conclusion to
be drawn from these independ-
ently assembled figures is that
a nation could spend itself to
prosperity through social wel-
fare. But at the same time
these figures are bound to
prove upsetting to those Cana-
dians who have insisted for
years that the country was go-
ing to the dogs because of the
growing sums it paid out for
social security.
The argument is hard to sus-
tain in the face of the fact that
people like the Swedes, who in
the past have devoted consid-
erably more of their income to
security than Canadians, have
now become more wealthy in
terms of their ability to pro-
duce the material things in life.
It should be added, of course,
that most of those primarily
concerned over the high cost
of government" in general and
social security in particular
would be the first to be alarm-
ed if they should be substan-
tially reduced tomorrow.
No matter how much they de-
plore them, many businessmen
are aware that the outlays of
Government have been re-
sponsible not only for increas-
ing demand for the wares they
produce, but helping to main-
tain the economy on an even
keel through times of recession.
* * *
Capital Hill Capsule
The present reluctance of the
big three Western powers to
seek genuine negotiations with
Russia in an honest effort to
reach an acceptable agreement
on Berlin is a matter of some
concern to Canadian authori-
ties.
While the U.S. Government
is apparently disposed to talk,
its excitable citizens have push-
ed it into adopting unreason-
able positions from which it is
difficult to retreat with grace.
France has been dead -set
against negotiations, one theory
being that De Gaulle wants to
use the crisis to justify bring-
ing home French troops from
Algiers.
Britain quite obviously is
alarmed at the turn events
have taken, but has hesitated
to take a strong position at
odds with France—and to a
lesser extent Germany — when
it is about to open negotiations
on admission to the common
market. Canada has been in-
clined to share the British view,
but so far has not played much
more than a passive role.
IN THE YEARS AGONE
Interesting Items gleaned from
The Expositor of 25, 50 and
75 years ago.
From The Huron Expositor
September 4, 1936
Miss Dorothy Golding, daugh-
ter of W. H. Golding, M.P., and
Mrs. Golding, has been award-
ed the University of Western
Ontario Scholarship for the
Seaforth Collegiate Institute.
She had previously won the
S.C.I. Alumni Memorial Schol-
arship.
Both Public and Separate
Schools report an increase in
attendance over last year, the
former 13, with 194, and the
latter 2, with 48. The Colle:
ate has 150 pupils, as compar-
ed with 153 last year.
Twin colts, both in excellent
condition, born recently on the
farm of Joseph Murray, McKil-
lop, were an unusual occur-
rence, according to farmers in
the district.
Mr. Louis Purcell, CSB, BA,
intends leaving for Edmonton
about the middle of the month,
to attend the Alberta College
of Edmonton.
Mr. C. E. Snaith, who recent-
ly purchased the residence of
Mr. Ross Savauge, West Wil-
liam St., has had it stuccoed
and is moving in this week.
Mrs. J. B. Russell has also had
her residence on Huron High-
way West, stuccoed.
Miss Helen Britton, of Con
stance, has been engaged to
teach music in the Kinburn
school, as required by the De-
partment of Education.
From The Huron Expositor
September 8, 1911
Mr. Hugh Stephenson, head
moulder of The Bell Engine
Works, met with a painful ac-
cident on Saturday. He was
assisting with the casting when
some of the moulten metal
splashed onto his leg, burning
him seriously from the knee
down.
Mr. W. H. Henderson met
with a painful accident while
piling lumber,' A • board flew
back; striking him oft the fore-
head, making a bad gash.
Miss Florence Thompson has
secured a school near Wood-
stock and left Monday to as-
sume her duties.
Miss Murray, of Tavistock,
and Miss Henderson, of Arthur,
have taken positions in Stewart
Bros.' millinery. department.
Over 265 tickets were sold
from Seaforth to Toronto Fair
during the past two weeks.
Miss Florence Laidlaw has
been engaged to teach in the
school at Eglington, near To -
onto.
Miss Mary Buchanan, of near
Hensall, hats gone to Toronto
to take a course of nursing,
training at the General Hospi-
tal.
The grounds around the
New Commercial Hotel, Hen-
sall, have within the past two
weeks been nicely levelled and
graded, and after being drain-
ed will be A-1 in every re-
spect.
Mr. and Mrs. R. Mellis, who
are the oldest residents of Kip -
pen, left this week to make
their home with their son-in-
law and daughter, Rev. and
Mrs. McKibbon, of London.
The Misses Margaret and Liz-
zie Eckert, of St. Columban,
left for Loretto Abbey, Toron-
to, on Tuesday to continue their
studies in music.
* * *
From The Huron Expositor
September 10, 1885
Mr. J. W. Miller, of Toronto,
has opened out a new tailor-
ing and gents' furnishing estab-
lishment in the store lately oc-
cupied by Mr. C. L. Papst.
A young lad, while engaged
in cleaning the plate glass win-
dow in front of Joseph Kidd &
Son's store, fell off the plat-
form on which he was standing
and went through the large
pane. A new one will cost
about $50.
Mr. John Dorsey has pur-
chased a fine three-year-old
Clear Grit mare from Mr. Jas.
Johnson, of Tuckersmith, for
$175.00.
The Seaforth market is pay-
ing 35c to 40c per bushel for
new potatoes; 11c to 12c per
dozen eggs; 29c to 30c per
bushel for oats and 71c to 73c
per bushel for fall wheat.
Mr. George Brownlee, of the
4th concession of Tuckersmith,
has a stalk of peas, produced
from a single pea, which has
on it 112 pods. He pulled a
second stalk which had on it
111 pods. %
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