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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1961-09-07, Page 2Since 1860, Serving the Community First Published at SEAFORTE, ONTARIO, every Thursday morning by McLEAN BROS., Publishers ANDREW Y. MCLEAN, Editor E t► Member Canadian Weekly Newspapers Association Ontario Weekly Newspapers Association i A Audit Bureau of Circulations Subscription Rates: = Canada (in advance) $2.50 a Year o Outside Canada (in advance) $4.00 a Year U L Pt SINGLE COPIES — 5 CENTS EACH Authorized as Second Class Mail, Post Office Department, Ottawa 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. 1TlT IT 1T IT IT 1T IT ITJT.LT IT" WE ARE BUYING �. = • WHEAT • FLAX At COMPETITIVE PRICES! Contact us. on Price before you sell. NOTICE 'S. ORDER YOUR SEED WHEAT AND WINTER BARLEY REQUIREMENTS EARLY Since the supply of Quality Seed is limited We have a good supply of Fall Fertilizers — a 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" TIT IT ITT IT IT IT 1T ITT IT [TIT 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& ELMO WOW BR (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 :::�t:;:::::i:•'t;:t::;::,':::::t::t;:l:;:::•';!•'::j:l::l::;:?,'::It:;t:t:::::.;:..;}.t'fiI:ljJ: i::):f.^•t::::t:;:• u: i1'r 1 ,...n. •7•tii.;.:::i: •:i::.:,.r .: ..,.t•r"ail "1 guess he want's out:'" 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. % TIM HANDY FATLY THOSE BIRDS LOOP. LIKE' WRENS, SUV. T OUGHT TO MAKE A LITTLE HOUSE FOR THEM SWELL .iUNIOri BY LLOYD J HOUSE FROM A COCOT SHELL i°x2` GAw cocoSUT 11..— W HALF, RE- MdVE MEAT •. . CUT FNiRANCE.` i,ititijk, HOLE Gl-UE "'/\ f�IF, .,, HAaESTO l;/�1i �I OEIHER ;�i,`��iI I� COAT WITH ,:::.;.„," ,� I,'bt ,WATER- .�I�i'�,PROOF 44.,.:141;:: ftri VAR ISH;!ttl,l�I�i DRILL4"� ti' Il HO' ,1NSER1 sERVaASA 01