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SEAFORTH, ONTARIO, NOVEMBER 9, 1961
Remembrance Day is Saturday
Sepforth and district citizens, in
common with their fellow Canadians
from coast to coast, will pay tribute to
the dead of two wars at Remembrance
Day services on Saturday morning in
Victoria Park.
The occasion provides an opportun-
ity for citizens to pay homage to the
memory of those who laid down their
lives to preserve our way of life. Un-
fortunately, it is an occasion that in
past years has been ignored by far too
many among those who benefit from
the sacrifies of the fallen. A Remem-
brance Day service attended by a mere
handful of citizens is not only an af-
front to those who gave their all, it is
an indication of a "don't care" attitude
that prevails all too frequently today.
At no time should Remembrance Day
be regarded as a holiday, as a day of
relaxation, of pleasure. Rather, as the
name implies, it is a day of remem-
brance, of dedication.
This is particularly so this year when
the free world is faced with a challenge
Citizens Aid L
That the average citizen can play a
vital part in curbing juvenile rowdy-
ism and careless driving, is borne out
by a recent experience in Wingham,
which is recalled by the Palmerston
Observer.
Three citizens of Wingham watched
a car go down a street of their home
town. Its speed, they felt, was exces-
sive, and its course was erratic. This,
they felt, was a menace to everyone,
and should not be.
So the three men reported the inci-
dent, pressed charges, and an 18 -year-
old driver was found guilty of careless
driving and will be sentenced on De-
cember 13,
Pointing out the citizens acted en-
tirely on their own, the Observer com-
to peace, greater than any with which
it has had to deal since the end of
World War II. If ever there was a
time when it was necessary to give
thanks and to seek guidance in a spirit
of dedication, this is it.
In the two World Wars, 102,653 Can-
adians were killed. In the war to stop
aggression in Korea, 288 were killed,
and since then in other theatres where
Canada is joined with United Nations
forces in the preservation of a shaky
peace, still more Canadians have fallen.
In addition, in the wars, thousands
more suffered wounds, the results of
which they will never be rid.
These Canadians died and suffered
to protect and preserve our freedom—
freedom to worship, to vote, to speak
as we will. They died, too, to free
humanity from the horrors of war. Re-
membrance Day, therefore, is a time
when their sacrifice must be recalled
and our thoughts and actions directed
in such a fashion that their lives will
not have been given in vain.
aw Enforcement
mends them for assuming such re-
sponsibility, and adds : "Police can not
be everywhere at once, and co-opera-
tion of citizens is absolutely essential
if flagrant lawbreakers are to be curb-
ed."
English is Tough
By way of illustrating the numerous
different pronunciations of "ough", a
Professor of English at a leading uni-
versity has come up with the following:
Though the tough cough and hiccough
plough us through . .
Is it any wonder that those who have
come to Canada find that learning the
English language is one of the most
difficult tasks facing them in settling in
tapir new country?
Is Church Giving Slipping?
(Kincardine News)
Members of some denominations had increased to $30.
practice tithing but they are the ex- While this represented an increase
ceptions, at least in this part of the of some 300 per cent in givings, it does
world. not tell all the story. According to the
The costs of keeping a church open Chesley investigator, wages have in -
and the pulpit filled have soared, as creased to 'a higher per cent in the same
have other costs of everyday living, period, so that instead of giving $300,
but it is questionable if financial sup- contributors are contributing only $30.
port to the churches has kept pace. "Our forefathers worked about ten
The editor of the Chesley "Enter- days to earn the money they gave to
prise" looked into this and found an the church, but we work only about two
example in a district church. In 1900 or three—days for What we give to the
its members gave an average of $9.00 church today," he concludes.
annually. In 1924 the average annual Obviously our forefathers were bet -
contribution was up to $14. By 1930 it ter church men than we are.
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By the time this appears in
print, the battle over the ob-
servance of Remembrance Day,
Nov. 11, will be over, in most
centres. It's an annual fracas.
which generates a good deal of
heat, and, on occasion, some bit-
terness:
On one side is the Legion,
one of whose aims is to keep
alive the memory that a goodly
number of fathers and sons,
uncles and brothers, had their
lives torn from them, prema-
turely and painfully, in the two
world wars that have disgraced
the twentieth century. The Le-
gion urges that the day be de-
clared a full holiday in every
community, and that it be fit-
tingly observed.
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Ranged on the other side are
the merchants and manufactur-
ers, some of whom resent the
loss of profit or production that
is involved. Lots of them are
veterans themselves. They
claim, and with some justice,
that it's not a day of remem-
brance any more, but merely
a holiday. They wonder aloud
why they should pay Wages to
a fellow who will simply take
the opportunity to go hunting
or sit in the pub all day.
And right in the middle is
the Canadian Government. In
deference to the big pressure
from the Legion, the govern-
ment closes its own offices on
Nov. 11. But in deference to
the even bigger potential howl
from industry, the Government
does not declare the day a na-
tional holiday, and makes lit-
tle attempt to encourage it as
such,
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What about that ubiquitous
creature, the man in the street?
Where does he stand? I'm not
sure, but I have a pretty good
idea that he feels about this
question just as he does about
most others: he couldn't . care
less.
Of course, if it were put to
a nation vote, he'd vote for the
holiday. I hate to admit it,
but I'm afraid that fellow would
vote for a paid holiday if some-
one suggested one in memory
of Henry the Eighth, John A.
MacDonald or Good King Wen-
ceslas:
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I have an idea for Nov:`'11.
Let's make it a full holiday.
And let's make it a real day
of national mourning and re-
membrance. Let's turn off all
hydro. Let's make any kind of
heat or light against the law
for 24 hours. Let's close all
places of entertainment. Let's
forbid travel. Then, in the cold
and dark and the boredom, we'd
suffer perhaps one one-hun-
dredth of what the fellows in
the trenches went through, back
in that big war that ended 43
years ago.
Perhaps the reason the Gov-
ernment plays it cagey is be-
cause it is obvious that in 20
years there won't be many
World War I veterans left, and
in 30 yea's they'll be virtually
extinct. 1 find that a depress-
ing thought in more ways than
one.
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Personally, I hate to miss the
annual parade- to the Cenotaph.
At our school, we have an im-
pressive remembrance cere-
mony.
We always formed up at the
Legion Hall, with a great bust-
ling among the color party and
the parade master, The Scouts
and Guides would tag on the
end 'to swell our meagre ranks.
To the inevitable strains of
SUGAR
and
SPICB
By' Bill Smiley
Colonel Bogey, we swung smart-
ly down the main street. Stern
and straight we marched, look-
ing neither to left nor right.
except to nod at friends or grin
at our kids or wave to our
wives.
When we halted at the Ceno-
taph, there would be a big
crowd—maybe 40 or 50—gath-
ered there. Everybody would
be looking pretty serious, It was
always cold. The Mayor read
the names of the fallen, and the,
wind would snatch them up and
throw bits of them into the
crowd.
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A representative from each
of the town's organizations plac-
ed a wreath, with varying de-
grees of self - consciousness.
Then came the call for indi-
vidual wreaths. You blamed the
wind for making your eyes wa-
ter as one or two women, lone,
swollen with memory of lost
son or husband, went awkward-
ly forward.
At the flagpole, his post of
honor, stood the Old Legion-
naire. He had fought in the
first one, and he had lost his
son in the second one. And
when he lowered the flag and
bowed his head, and the colors
dipped, and the Last Post shiv-
ered in the cold, and the town
bell tolled in the silence that
followed, there was a big, pain-
ful lump in your throat.
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And then, with the jaunty
hoot of Reveille, the dying was
ended and life began again.
The shouted command, the live-
ly march tune of the band,
brought the wanted release
from sadness, and we swung off
merrily enough.
And after the service, the
warmth of the Legion Hall, with
good friends, good fellowship,
good refreshments and good
stories by the hour. Ah, I'm
sorry I won't be there this
year. I'll miss every bit of it.
Except the bit where I catch a
phenomenal blast from my wife
for arriving home 12 hours af-
ter the parade.
FACNIED
(Prepared by the Research Staff
of Encyclopedia Canadiana)
What Incident Almost Brought
On a Canada - U.S.A. War?
An episode in the history of
Anglo - American relations,
known as the Trent Affair,
threatened in 1861 to embroil
Canada, as part of the British
Empire, in war with the United
States. On Nov. 8, 1861, Cap-
tain Wilkes of the United States
sloop Jacinto halted the British
steamer Trent, plying between
Vera Cruz and the Danish Is-
land of St. Thomas, and remov-
ed from it two commissioners
of the southern Confederacy—
James Murray Mason and John
Slidell, who were on their way
to Europe.
The British Government im-
mediately protested against this
breach of international law and
for a few weeks it appeared
that the incident might lead to
war. Eventually, the United
States Government acceded to
the British demands and sur-
rendered the two Confederate
commissioners. The incident
was influential in Canada in
N 144 Week
"Heyl How am L supposed to tell if this one Ls the
'Drearnhost' or the 'CreeP!z„
By REV. ROBERT H. HARPER
IT PAYS TO ADVERTISE
We have often heard that it
pays to advertise. And if you
will only keep your eyes open,
you will find that a host of peo-
ple are engaged in advertising
something. From the days when
a ruddy -faced fellow asked if
you had used a certain soap and
you almost decided it would be
criminal if you did not start on
that soap until the present, it
is amazing the high voltage of
advertising to which we are sub-
jected. Every medium is em-
ployed to put the message
across.
The advertisers of big busi-
nesses are themselves engaged in
a big business. And it is all to
the ;good, for how else would
the buyer be brought into touch
with the seller?
What have you to advertise?
You may reply that you have
nothing to advertise, that you
are not in business. Neverthe-
less you are in the advertising
field. The way you live and the
things you do affect others. And
you have the blessed opportun-
ity so to live a life worth while
that you will influence men to
seek for themselves the good
things.
Just a Thought:
Even if we never accomplish
anything spectacular, we can
still earn admiration in old age.
It is as simple as learning how
to grow old gracefully and at
peace with the whole world,
bringing about a reorganization
of the Canadian militia, in has-
tening the construction of an
intercolonial railway and in aid-
ing the movement towards Con-
federation.
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Are ThereMany Canadian
V.C: s?
The Victoria Cross (V.C.),
highest award for valour given
in the British Commonwealth,
has been awarded to almost
100 Canadians — to one-third
posthumously. The order was
instituted January 29, 1846, by
Queen Victoria to reward indi-
vidual services of exceptional
courage in action by members
of all ranks of the° armed ser-
vices. The medal is in the form
of a Maltest cross surmounted
by a lion and bearing on a scroll
below the words "For Valour."
A small annuity—in Canada $50-
a year—accompanies the decor-
ation.
Only one award of the V.C.
has been made for a brave deed
not done in the actual presence
of the enemy. That was to Tim-
othy O'Hea, in Canada, in 1867.
At Danville, Quebec, O'Hea dis-
covered a fire in a munitions
truck and at imminent risk to
his life worked for an hour to
successfully extinguish t h e
blaze.
A SMILE OR TWO
"Ethics," the man -told his
son, "is vital to everyday liv-
ing. For example, today an old
friend paid me back a loan with
a new $100 bill. Just as he was
leaving I discovered he'd giv-
en me two bills stuck together.
Immediately a question of eth-
ics arose: Should I tell your
mother?"
A MOW OTTAWA REPORT"
FOOL'S BARGAIN?
OTTAWA "Confederation
was a fool's bargain," a gentle-
man by the name of Jacques
Paris recently told the St. Jean
Baptiste Society of Ottawa
North when it became thet-sec-
and such organization to pro-
claim Quebec's right to accede
from the rest of Canada.
The statement by M. Paris
and the resolutions of the two
St. Jean Baptiste societies are
both extreme expressions by a
tiny but vocal minority which
reflect the separatist sentiments
developing into a potent force
within the Province.
Even though he has rejected
secession from the union as
either feasible or desirable, ev-
en Liberal Premier Jean Lesage
has been moved to respond to
the forces which lie behind the
separatist movement.
Once a Canadian nationalist
in his outlook, as former Prime
Minister Louis St. Laurent is a
Canadian nationalist, for a num-
ber of years a Minister in the
Federal Government and an op-
ponent of Premier Duplessis'
narrow provincialism, Mr. Les -
age has slowly been changed to
fit the mold,
His reference to the "state
of Quebec", his unique pilgrim-
age to France to renew old ties
with the mother country, his
strange refusal to co-operate
with the recently appointed roy-
al commission on health — all
these are in deference to the
separatist sentiment.
If this feeling had developed
and taken shape at some other.
time in Canadian history, at
some period — and they were
many — when hate between
English 'and French was in-
flammed to a white heat, it
would be easy to understand.
But it has developed at a
time when ' understanding be-
tween French and English has
never been greater, or the pow-
er of particular organizations
to promote bigotry and religious
prejudice never less. For nine
years a distinguished citizen of
Quebec served only recently as
Prime Minister of Canada. To-
day Maj. -Gen. George Vanier, a
member of one of Quebec's old-
est families, is Governor-Gen-
eral.
For many years the late Pre-
mier Duplessis seemed to give
perfect expression to the de-
mands of his people for the
preservation of their rights.
Frequently he created imagin-
ed threats to those rights in
order to picture himself as the
champion and protector of all
that was near and dear, most
particularly Quebec:s-language,
religion, law, culture and edu-
cation.
But even Mr. Duplessis, arch
'provincialist that he was, did
not champion the idea of Que-
bec seceding from the nation
known as Canada.
Why then should a body of
French-speaking Canadians de-
cide now their ancestors struck
a "fool's bargain" when they
agreed to become Canadians at
all. Why should they react so
violently to slights from the
rest of Canada, when there has
probably never been a time
when fewer were real and more
imagined?
There are no clear answers
about a question that is so com-
plex and so controversial. But
there are some reasons that
suggest themselves, all of which
relate to Quebec's growing to
maturity.
For years the French-speak-
ing people within the province
have lived unto themselves.
Quebec has been heavily rural,
its people removed from con-
i'
tact with the rest of Canada,
to say nothing of the rest of
the world, Life went en un-
changed and unchanging. The
Church played a dominant role
in the life of every community.
ThN,. universities clang to the
traditions of classical education
in the arts, avoided training
young Quebec men and women
for science and industry and
commerce.
Now all that is changing,
and changing fast. Over ' the
last decade Quebec has been
undergoing a virtual social rev,
olution, although it was not im-
mediately apparent to many
people 'because Premier Duples-
sis, more than any other single
individual, managed in his life-
time to prevent Quebec society
from spilling out of its old
mould.
Since the war, Quebec has be-
come heavily industrialized and
tens of thousands of its people
have become intimately involv-
ed in the industrial process.
The influence of the highly con-
servative rural society has be-
gun to diminish. Through books,
magazines, movies, radio and,
above all, through television,
the people of Quebec have be-
come exposed to the world
around.
Within Quebec's institutions
of higher learning there is a
revolution in process which has
bred an intellectual ferment not
unlike that which accompanied
the renaissance of the 15th cen-
tury as Europe moved out of
the Dark Ages.
The Province is moving into
a new age, from something al-
most akin to childhood to
adolescence. It is being expos-
ed to a welter of new thoughts,
new ideas. It is re-examining
the whole structure of its be-
liefs, sometimes highly critical-
ly.
Awkward, super -sensitive, in-
secure and with the rebellious-
ness of young manhood, it is
naturally preoccupied with find-
ing its place in the new world
that is opening up to it.
The separatist movement is
a clear reflection of this chang-
ing pattern of life in Quebec,
but it may be a fair guess that
it is at most a passing phase.
It is a strange thing, but noth-
ing quite so infuriates a separ-
atist as for a Canadian who
lives beyond the borders of
Quebec to suggest blandly that
if the Province wants to secede
it should by all means do so,
What is Canada's Greatest
Tunneling Feat?
Although there are tunnels of
much greater length in Canada,
the system of spiral tunnels
completed in 1911 on the CPR
line through Kicking Horse
Pass in the Rocky Mountains, is
considered the most remark-
able achievement of Canadian
tunneling. Designed to reduce
the gradient (which formerly
reached a maximum of 4.5 pc)
between the continental divide
and Field, B.C., the first tunnel
enters Mt. Ogden from the west, .
circles and crosses its own line
50 feet above its point of en-
try; the track then crosses
Kicking Horse River and en-
ters Mt. Cathedral, where a
second tunnel circles and again
crosses its own line with a
gain in elevation of 54 feet. The
two tunnels together compose
a gigantic figure eight more
than 1.1 miles in length, with
a gain in elevation of 104 feet
and a gradient of only about
1.7 p.c.
Sin has many tools, but a lie
is the handle which fits them
all.
IN THE YEARS AGONE
Interesting items gleaned from
The Expositor of 25, SO and
75 years ago.
From The Huron Expositor
November 6, 1935
John H. Storey, a McKillop
farmer, was rushed to Scott
Memorial Hospital with a verte-
brae in his back and two ribs
broken caused by his team of
horses which ran away while
he was hitching them.
G. A. Ballantyne, principal of
Seaforth Collegiate Institute,
announced this week that word
had been received that the
Third Carter Scholarship had
been awarded to Miss Dorothy
Golding, daughter of. Mr. and
Mrs, W. H. Golding.
Mrs. D. J. O'Connor, of St.
Columban, was the lucky win-
ner of the car draw at the an-
nual Seaforth Lions Club Hal-
lowe'en Frolic on Friday eve-
ning. Over 3,000 people were
present at the frolic.
Mr. and Mrs. William Berry,
of Brucefield, celebrhted their
golden wedding anniversary on
Tuesday when they received
congratulations from a wide
circle of friends.
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From The Huron Expositor
November 10, 1911
Dr. H. H. Ross, Seaforth, pur-
chased the prize winning team
of drivers from Mr. Ellerington,
of Usborne.
Mr. T. S. Blue met with a
bad accident last week. While
working in his store, he step-
ped on a nail, which pierced
his boot and penetrated into his
foot some distance.
Mr. W. P. Thompson has pur-
chased the homestead farm on
the second concession of McRiI-
lop from the estate of the late
gr. Thompson,
The rural roads running into
Hensall are receiving a fine
coating of gravel this fall. Grain
is coming freely to market, and
the grain buyers and millers are
kept hustling'
On Sabbath morning last in
the early hours, Mrs. James H.
Moore, of Hensall, had a very
narrow escape from being suf-
focated with coal gas. It ap-
pears that in the putting up of
the coal stove, the pipe had
been pushed in too close to the
chimney, causing gas to be
forced back into the room.
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From The Huron Expositor
November 12, 1886 .
Cattle are still roaming about
the streets as if there were no
law prohibiting them from do-
ing so. The town authorities
should have the courage either
to enforce the law or appeal it.
The frame of the new Salva-
tion Army Barracks is now up
and the work of erection is be-
ing rapidly proceeded with.
Mr. John McFarlane, of Tuck-
ersmith, has been offered and
refused $200 for his driving
mare, which took third prize
at the Seaforth show this fall.
Mr. Pyper has moved into
his new residence on West God-
erich Street, and Mr. H. Robb,
Jr., is now located in his com-
fortable new brick residence on
the old Adams' homestead pro-
perty.
The first sleighs of this sea-
son appeared on the streets on
Monday. It was pretty hard
scraping and the snow has since
disappeared.
Mr. R. N. Brett, one of the
pioneer residents of this dis-
trict, has purchased a property
in Goderich and intends remov-
ing his family to that town
-shortly.
The village scales at Staffa
were blown down by the wind-
storm of last week and have
been repaired by Messrs. Camp-
bell and McMillan.
New fall wheat is selling
from 70c to 71c per bushel at
the Seaforth market this week.
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