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The Huron Expositor, 1969-02-27, Page 2From My Window — By Shirley J. Kellar -- . I feel just terrible. Yes' I do. There is much truth in the old saying "Be sure your sins will find you out". Every day now I'm paying dearly for my lack of wifely concern, for my hus- band. • Even before last week's col- Mutt hit the street telling'about my husband's tonsillectomy; the poor nen had to be rushed back to hospital because of hemorr- hage. • You may remember that I had a great time the' previous "Window" teasing my "heroic hubby" about the 'fuss he made over a little thing as minor as a tonsillectomy, Now I find out that for adults Tonsillectomy is nothing to take tee lightly. One nurse said 'disapproving- ly, "Mrs. Keller, having one's tonsils out at your husband's age is not child's, play. It is serious business." NoW I believe her. When I saw my darling draped over the toilet bleeding and 'sick, I was ashamed of myself for making right of his condition. Through it all I experienced somefirsts —'and learned,soMe- thing- about myself in the bar- gain.. I had my 'first opportunity to discover how I would %function in a real emergency with no` one to lean on, I'M not cairn, cool or collected. I go into a thou- sand pieces.1 needed direction to. do a simple thing like• call the ambulance! And I had my first- ride in an ambulance. It 'seemed like- an oternity-from our house to the hospital and still I can hardly remember what the interior of that vehicle of mercy was Iike., • The' memory of our two-year- old is much better. . • He watched with interest .as the stretcher was rolled into the house; daddy was strapped on to it and the whole'inisitieSs was loaded into the white car with th'e flashibg red light,, ' The tieOtt. day when the crisis had, phased; the little— felt* Showed) „he, ini&been.„quite pressed. laid 416 trend. mother, ."rsaddy was, in the bath. roMn haling a hemorrhage.,' ljaddy • might have been hav- Such realistic hemorrhaging too — complete with gagging and spitting and moaning. Perhaps one good thing has come of it all. Our little lad has no fear whatsoever to go to hos- pital. In fact, he thinks it would be quite a lark. Just the other night he cried as thimgh his heart would break because we would not promise he could go right then to have his tonsils removed. He had his coat on, just in case we Chang- ed our minds, might not all be groundless. I admit I underestimated the suffering my husband endured while undergoing surgery; I'm also ready to concede that Pm* not • the rock of strength I've always claimed to be; rin even prepared to listen for the next 100 years to my husband's stories about my heartless, ate: tude toward his perilous jour- ney to the -jaws of death and back. But how can I cope with a two-year-old hypochondriac who lives to be sick? ' ing his teeth brushed for all But now the mere mention of 'the expression in our little going to see the doctor brings a child's voice as _he recounted huge smile that would melt a the story. • . stone. The child's happiest when But he hadn't missed. a thing. he's complaining about an ache Now his Christmas wagon has which travels from his big, toe become an ambulance, the pil- to his 'ear with 'alarming steed. kiwi off my bed are stretchers, As his mother, I can't affOrd to the kitchen floor is a hospital i -answer his every wail for a doc- ward and our young son is a , tor's, care, nor can I completely hemorrhage victim. ignore his pleas because they alke isn't frozen'and we don't have a ball, so that 'rider obe hetkey anittatibell; I Midis ill de my home. load" . Jr. NIeljaytei1-- olergeaft .*spaper +54t00 1860, SerOng t1e Ossimutittil First PRAFORTIL ONTARIO* every 'AMOY morning by McLEAN BROS., "Publishers Ltd. ANDREW Y, MeLNAN, Member Canadian Weekly Newspaper Association -Ontario 'Weekly Newspaper- Association Audit Bureau of Circulation and Class 'A' Community Newspapers Subscription Rates: Canada (in advance) $5.00 a Year Outiide Canada (in advance) $7.00 a Year • ' SINGLE COPIES — 12 CENTS EACH Authorized as Second Class Mail by the-Post Office Department, Ottawa and for payment of postage in cash SEAFORTH, ONTARIO, FEBRUARY 27, 1969 •ci9k.N0E.' It keens • tri-4.WW.#40'.tPit violenee JP the *Igo... a nation' must pay for change and pro- gress. Canadians have always been proud of their history of evolu- tion rather than revolution; quietly — even smugly — Affinitteely, there have been a few short frantic Wars on .an- adian soil, .a number of comic- opera crises with Fenians, and a few prairie skirmishes with the Indians. and Metis the- pitifUl prophet, Louis Riel — but :generally speaking, Can- ada lazed. into the 2Qth century with a relatively peaceful • past behind her. • In front of her, -however, the days -look anything but pacific and calm. Thereserve that was • Araditional in Canadians -has suddenly been widely displaced by a radiCalism, a violence that is shaking Canada's present and threatening her future. In Quebec, FrenchCanadian , revolutionaries or madmen or • both have terrorized i province with 60 bombs over the Past. year, finally lashing against the Montreal stock exchange — synibel_ of the financial domin- ation of les Anglais. In Montreal, too, a multi-mil- lion dollar computer became a symbol and scapegoat and as• though it could be guilty of a fabriCated racial discrimination, it was demolished by a mob of Negro and white university stu- dents. Some Negroes, in Toronto"and Halifax especially, band togeth- er in Black Power brotherhood, impoeting..hate-from the United States in the form of Black•Pan- ' ther speakers, ,and•nledge- them- selves . 'uncbmPromisingly 'to somehow harm, to hurt . Can- ada's "whitey society". Mid to wreak revenge for what they call .Canada's, "!polite racism". Realizing . there 'are 'not enough 'Negroes in. Canada to do much damage tien, Black Patier Militants augment their threats by pledg- ing to draw in Canadian-Indians as allies. • ' As the average Penadian,. 'Views all this in..his..newapaper or on television, his mind reels with consternation. What is Causing this upsurge of violence that' was unknown to his..fore- fathera, What, bas he done to. deserve this anger, to foMent this unrest? Has the Federal GovernMent .not offered concession after concession to French Canada? Have taxpayers not proyided bigger cart bettpr universities for students; and haven't cour- ses been liberaliZed? Haven't the doers been widened fig eel-, erect iMmigrants 'from the West Inches,' >lritann and the United States, with an estimated 15,000 to 20,000 Negroes entering Can- ada in 1968? • Isn't a comprehen- sive Federal inquiry being made into - the economic and .- social conditions of the Canadian In- dian? As he dwells, on all these im- provements, the average citizen may grow indignant over the "ingratitude"• of people, and be- conie defensively hostile against further reform. So long as people are kept in an iron grip, held by a tyranny that they have long been -used. '-to„ there will be no great tur- moil. But the moment that grip is released ever so slightly, the • second the people experience a new freedom of Movement, they will refuse to accept their • past imprisonment passively, . and will violently try .to tear themselves free of the ; old re- strictions)• . In Russia,' for example, the most bloody'conflict 'occurred • not taring the worst periods of feiktal_ tyranny, but after -the czars began to grant a few • , meagre liberties. Africa, too, was far more peaceful during the periods of dictatorial colo- nial control' than after the in- troduction of internal freedoms. • Change is necessary. If a per- iod O unrest and violence is the inevitable cost of, trenei- tion, then we "mast pay not happily, but stoically, bracing ourselves for the certain "storm. The French Canadian, the student, ' the Negro„ and Indian — all have one „thing .in com- mon. They feel they have been starved_ of certain freedom& ''After a Period of starvation, it is normal for the victim, when food is first placed, in front of him,' to eat bio, hurriedly, too frenziedly. Realizing 'this, all we can do is try to stop the& from gobbling down more than is good for them, . . . or us. . Contributing to The extent to which a given amount of'vrork can expand to occupy the time of an increased staff is a theory ex- pounded some years ago by Professor Northcote Parkinson which in due course' became known as "Parkinson's Law". Now Prof. Parkinson, who has taught in universities around the world, has' looked at the contributary causes of youthful unrest and ,student disorders and his conclusions are reported in an interview. in Executive Magazine. Prof. Parkinson says : "In my opin- ion, the sense of authority in the mod- ern Western world began to weaken around the turn of the century when women .revolted against. the supremacy of men, and claimed equality in voting, in entrance to university and the profes- sions, and generally struck the word "obey' from the marriage ceremony. Up to then, the father had been considered in the home the 'last word in authority.! Unfortunately for the wife, when she ceased to obey the husband, she lost her authority over the children. In Victor- ian households, the mother used the authority of the father as a threat and also by ostensibly obeying 'the father, she was setting an example. Over the In a recent issue of "The Anglican", the editor of the newspaper draws to mind one of the increasingly ridiculous notions of our time. The idea that once one reaches fifty, he's "over the hill!" has become one.. of the cliches of the 1960's: Just because automobiles and refrigerators must be retired at a hur- fled rate because of "planned obsoles- cence", we have come to think that''the same concepts apply to 'human beings. "The Anglican" suggests' that many congregations will not accept a man who is over fifty years of age despite the fact that, he may, have accumulated the valuable wisdow of service and may have many active years to offer church. people., The fact that , Prime Minister. Pearson, at the age of seventy-one, has All. About Those 'Students 'My mind , is so scrambled right now that I'll be lucky if I can write three understandable sentences. I've been trying to explain to my 'daughter, in an hour or so, such things es., Marxism and COMmunism, why the Russian and Chinese types are differ- ent, -where Fidel Castro fits bit. 'Whit where and when the na- • thin of Israel_ was created, and Why-the Jews, notably non-bel- ligerent for about 15 centuries, have a chip the size of a brick. on their shoulders these days. From there we wandered 'to Mahatma. 'Ghandl, the Congo, nationalism in Africa, separa- tism in Canada,. the Black Pow- er .. 'movement in the States, growing anti-semitism among Negroes, and her biology test on the dissection of rats, which takes place tomorrow 'morning. Golly, it Woullikhe nice- to have once egainn- little girl, whO asked' such simple ques- tions as; "Dad, does God have to go to the bathroom?" It all began with a discus- aien of the student militants at universities. She is appalled at the Vloletice of the hard core of ."Paelfiste who, lurking in the forefront of all the young idealists and the middle4ged deliberately resort td"vieletice in' their efforts - to eat* head** 'fltartr* aid ;iletitini.in whiCh bat tikeh kind* 4,000,-.•4tars to' 1144v0.001'.' • 'e'..ifieed *hit Mid /: T een Revolt "In practice, of course, the father's authority was not -nearly so absolute, but it kerved as a team effort to instil the sense of authority in the children. You know, ozie's idea of authority is acquired before the age •of 5, and may be as early as the age of 3 . .. so today, we start off with -children, who have come from a nice, relaxed, modern home, with. no great sense of authority' about human affairs. "Something ' might have been done about this even then if the schools had stepped in and started to instill a sense of discipline and authority, that the home had failed to ' impart. But our schools have been influenced by some- thing called "progressive education' as a result of which, invoking the name of the late Mr. John Dewey, they have de- tided that children- should learn by ex- perience, not by precept, nor inciden- tally, by example. Eventually they em- erge from this system into the universi-• ties. They have rio idea of authority, either from the home or the school, and it is. now too late to instil it, arid the un- iversities are very poorly equipped to de so." • , Now we know what caused-the prob- lem.. The question, however, is what do we do to solve it? themselves. of the rigid, puritan traditions of even 20 years ago. When I was there, living in men's residence, we were allow- ed to bring girls into the place once a year, on a- Sunday after- noon, for a heavily chaperoned cocoa and cookie party in the common room. Now, wow! I'm not advocating a return to those days, when university men and women were treated like bright juveniles who were basically sex-fiends and 'Mee- holies. But I am, dismayed to see these once-great institutions cowering and cringing 'under the attacks .of makontented, Marxitt Wolf-cubs who repre- sent a fraction of student Opin-.. ion. As Mordecai Richler pointed out recently, the real yuk of the whole affair is that while the student activists endorse anything, up to the burning of buildings; they are scared,•stiff lest they get a police reord, which would be a serious detri- ment when they try to get a job in the aystent they are try- ing to destroy'. The solution? Kick out th hard-nosed boys and girls, for whom democracy is a sham anY- way. Sock it to them with the law when they disturb the peace or commit vandalism, And get back to the blisinesa Of educit- Mg, or . teaching to think, the vast majority who want those things, • SO now I'm a fascist, and a tool a The Imperialistic press. kneW it at het, From The Huron Expositor March 3; 1944 Prueter, R. T. Dunlop, J. Gasho, Rev. H. Rembe, Rev. F. B. Mey- er and A. F. Hess. Congratulations are extended to Mr. and Mrs. Mathew Arm- Wm. Taylor has purchased will celebrate their 56th wed- field Road near Varna. The strong of Hullett Township who J. C. Reid's farm cht - the Bay- ding anniversary. Mrs. Arm- price paid was $12,000. The strong is the former Elizabeth farm has been worked by E. F. Rogerson. Both enjoy . good 1)/kerner. health,. and they reside on the -John McLachlan of bromarty farm in Hullett on which Mr, is moving to the farm which he Arthstrong was born. 'purchased from Andrew Archi- ..Janies C. Shearer, agricultur- bald. al representative for. Huron The committee appointed to County is giving up his work take into consideration the erec- for the government 'in' which Aing a large -new shed for Car- he has been involved for the mel Presbyterian Church; Hen- past 15 years and is going into ' sail, or the remodelling' of the Present one will report this farming on his own. week at a congregational meet- Fire badly damaged the resi- ing called to receive Buell re7 dence on North Main St. occu- port. • pied by Mrs. John; McLennan. Miss Madge Stewart who has The origin ,of the fire is not been 'attending "'the millinery known but apparently started' opening in Toronto• has gone to between the Boers and had Aurora' to resume her position. gained considerable headway Robert Archibald and family before'the alarm was turned in. moved in from lykKillon to the . About fifty friends and neigh- residence on' James St. he re-bors on the 13th concession., of cently purchased from Col. Wil- McKillop gathered at the Den- nison heime. Cards were played son. . Maxine Emmerson Wright, who has ennison and Erni Toll with been for the past seven months consolations going to AV—in ,the office of the Canadian ter Somerville and Russell Bar- Flax Mills in town, has been rows. They 'were presented with • moved to . the head office' .in a txi-light lamp, magazine rack Toronto.. Mr. • Walter Cole of and bracelets. Archie Somer- .Toronto is now in charge of ville, ' Ed. Miller and Frank , the Seaforth office. . Kirkby presented the lamp, Mr. Mustard of Brucefield has while Muriel Schade and Joan a gang of men cutting and Somerville presented the brace- swamping out logs on the Shil- lets. linglaw farm. The death of Mrs. Catherine • George Jackson. of Waltenhas McQuade, a resident of Dublin, moved the livery stable" to:: his for 16 years, occurred in 'Strat- farm where he intends using tt ford General Hospital. She was for •a, driving shed. in her 77th year. By defeating. London in the Mr. and Mrs, Thomas Moly- home and home games in the moux of Dublin were entertain- OHA semi-finals •Seaforth inter- ed to a chicken dinner at the mediates now enter the finals Royal Hotel, Mitchell on the oc- with Collingwoo'd. The follow- easion of their 35th wedding an- ing, was the Seaforth lineup: niversary. McGeoch, D. Reid, E. Hoffman, mr. and Mrs. J. E. Reynolds Sills, R., Reid, Hoffman, subs, hecently celebrated the 40th an- Dick and Thain. iversary of their marriage at Irene Nash, the little daugh- their home. • ter of Daniel Nash of Harpur- The' large frame home of Mr. hey, while 'carrying an axe, had and Mrs, Hugh Dunlop of Hal- the misfortune to fall sticking lett Township was burned to the her left hand' out and severed ground. While the men Were her little finger. ' doing the chords they noticed * * *. the house on fire and had' to From The Huron Expositor rush inn and remove Mrs. pun- March 2, 1894 lop who is, confined to her bed, A, number of the -young to the home of her daughter, friends of James Holland of the Mrs. Orville Dale. • Huron Road, Hallett, shoWed Mrs. John Canino left for their sympathy and good will Prince George, BC where she by _turning out and cutting up a will spend-two or three months' quantity of woodfor him. with her husband who is sta- Edward Horan of I3eechwood tioned there. had the misfortune, to get his Miss Isabelle Bottles, AN of leg. broken. He was getting his Winthrop, reports for duty at team out of one of the sheds the Military Hospital, London.- and his lines caught in some Miss Agnes Love of 'Hills- way causing the horses ,to turn green is confined to bed as she short, catching his. leg Between met with a painful accident, the Sleigh and the wood rack. While working with hot lard James nMeIntoSh of the 2nd she' had the misfortune to get concession of Meltillop, Met it' spilled on her legs, causing with a painful accident. He was very severe burns. chopping in the Woods when a • * * tree' slipped off the stump 'and From The Huron Expositor came down on his foot, bruins- Feb.' 28th, 1919 ' ing and smashing it in a fear- With all the honors which the ful manner. state could bestow, with the A, new tailoring and gentle- most magnificient ceremonial man's furnishing establishment which, the Roman Catholic was •onened out in*town in M. Church ordains for such occa- Jordan'e" forin'er stand, by H. Mies and accompanied by Spoare and P. Dill, both well thousands of Canada's most pro- known young men in this town,. minent men, the body of Sir During :the past week,- we Wilfred Laurier was laid to rest have had-same ' of the coldest days of present, winter,. the therMometer .getting as low as 15 degrees below zero. • There is a" inagnifkient view to be • had in return for the tropble of climbing, up into • the tower of. the tOWii a brielit elder day, Clinton can' be seen with the naked eye, Miss Susie • Smith, who has been learning the telegraphy in Mr, Somervillels,Office here, has Scented a .sttuation, intim dreat northwestern telegraph coftice, Hill a t Fifty? been given an assignment of far-reach- ing importance with the 'World Bank, suggests that notions about one being "`over the hill" at fifty are nonsense. Of course, some people with rigid minds put themselves "over the hill" at a much earlier age. A closed mind in this day and age and a determination not to be curious about change could put a man of thirty over the hill. But surely we have room in our churches, and in our‘ society in general; for the wisdom of men who have seen something of life. If anything 'is need- ed in the world of today, it is_the abili- ty to apply perspective to the mad go- ings—on around us. And that perspec- tive can only mello with age. (The Elmvale (Ont.) Lance). Sugar and Spice — By Bill Smiley that neither of us wants any part of the' whole stupid busi- ness. Admittedly, the universities are sitting • ducks. Over the years, they have grown as sleepy, and fat and insolent as an old tom-cat who has been "fixed". They have almost taken pride in their adMinistrative ineffi- ciency, their mokihund tradi- tions, their cosi with The Establishment, Write a letter to a university. Three weeks later you will receive a reply, either a form letter or something com- pletely alien to what you asked. And admittedly, students, universally, have always been among the vanguard of rebels against the system, political or social. That because they are idealistic, want action, and are inclined to see things in blacks and whites (or today, blacks and. reds). But the fact remains that the universities, over the years, have become the only true ffde centres (albeit timid) of sound' criticism of society, and its ills, in addition to their" normal function of teaching people to think and/or learn a profes- sional skill. ' And -another feet remains. , The universities, on the whole, under pressure from within and without, ha' Made a tremen- dous offal to rouse themselves From 'their Stately torpor and into '.the • twentieth Even thotigii it's two. tliiia over'; lar 'the ,,'dears, they have leaned Mier bailiwards to,.,free min Notre Dame Cemetery, Ot-. ;awn. Henry Krueger of Zurich has sold his farm in Hay to David Haugh. The first steps towards secur- ing a public library for Zurich viere taken at a well attended• meeting when the Public. Lib. rary Association was fettled With a board of Management consisting Ofthe members: Dr, B. A. Campbell, Dr. A. I. McKin- non, Mesita. N. E. Dahms, ti In the Years Agone at, Gobourg. Over twenty teams have been' engaged drawing slabs .to the now brick yard on Campbell's farm ;lose to the village of Walk from the Star• Mill on the 16th of Grey. W. J. Dickson, one of the most enterprising farmers of Walton is now busily engaged -drawing material for the erec- tion of one of the largest, if not the longest barns in Huron. The dimensions are 126 feet 'long, 60 feet wide •and 26 foot posts. Wm. Rivers of Staffa has bought Hugh Miller's• house and lot, paying the sum of $850 for it. Mr, Rivers intends carrying on' a butchering busineas4 A short time ago, a company numbering about 50 waited on' Mrs. Ross of Brucefield at the manse; with swell laden baskets and after the inner man had been satisfied, all repaired to the parlour where Miss Janet Mustard read an address and present Mrs. Ross with some very nice gifts, among them be- ing a beautiful fur cape. The contract for- the erection of the new Presbyterian Church in Hillsgreen was awarded to Robert Paterson of Hensall for . $1,180.