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a successful gathering which served 'a.
useful purpose.
"Things look much different when
you see what the government is trying
to. do," Warden Hayter said.
We can appreciate that viewpoint too.
Most' problems ..can be cut down to size
once they are understood or at least ex-
plainfd.
A' true politician, Warden Hayter
had given a general report of the meet-
ing without 'divulging any specifc
thoughts about it. We respect that kind
of diplomacy.
Just one questions remains. Why all
the mystery? What is so hush-hush that
non but the elected can, know?
(Exeter Times Advocate)
Seaforth people will have an opport-
unity to put out the welcome mat next
-week for visitors from across Ontario.
For the first time a summer course
for Ontario teachers is being held, at
Seaforth District High School. gore
than 100 teachers are expected to enroll
for the course sponsored by the Ontario
Department of Education.
Already there have been indications
in the town of the visitors who plan to
attend the course. A number have been
here during recent weeks arranging ac-
comodation in the area. Others plan to
Last Friday afternoon, the Hon. C.
S. MacNaughton got off the political
merry-go-round for a few hours to sit
down for a heart to heart chat with
Huron County council members:
The press, was not invited to the ses-
sion arid while we were denied some 'hot
copy' We can understand the. reason be-
hind the quiet meeting.
Warden James Hayter said the pur-
pose of the informal clatchwas to afford
county politicians an opportunity to
freely. and openly discuss provincial af-
fairs as they pertain to Huron and/or
the local municipalities without fear of
being misquoted or misinterpreted.
Everything was off" the record. Ac-
cording to ' Warden Hayter it was
commute from larger centres and still
others, planning a combined work ses-
sion and holiday, have rented cottages
at the lake.
It doesn't matter where they are
staying. What is important .is that more
than 100 visitors will be in our midst
for the next few weeks and that we go
out of our way to welcome them.
We want them to leave Seaforth re-'
membering it not only as a place where
they passed a course but as a friendly
and forward looking community in
which they would like to live.
Quite a few people are upset
by the Ontario ,educational sy,7
--stem— these --days. They think
the teachers' salaries are too
high, the county boards
too far removed from the
people, the consolidated' schools
are too posh, gymnasiums are
unnecessary and what's much
worse, kids are left '''to them-
selves, undisciplined,
Actually these' things don't
bother me much Once upon a
time I taught school and you
couldn't get me back in a class-
room far twice the wages most
of our teachers are paid.
The county boards are manag-
ing remarkably well, I feel,' con-
sidering the handicap they are
working under; most schools
are only comfortably nice; gym-
nasium training is a boon in
our lazy society; and kids should
get their behaviour training at
home, for the most part.
What really , grabs me about
the school system in Ontario is
the hideous way in Which the
kids are averaged out. Compet-
portunities their youngsters
have enjoyed for the past sem-
ester, Taxpayers are required to
pay the bill cheerfully, without
question, and to keep their noses
out of the school's business.
But those parents Who have
ever disregarded the rules and
made it a point to discover, just
'what goes on at school know
that students get much the same
keep-yournoseclean-kid treat-
ment. You are expected to
knuckle under, .to work like a
fiend for academic excellence,
sporting success, dramatic de-
cency, citizenship perfection,
leadership proficiency and a
dozenor so other attributes, and
at the end of your school career,
pastieulary elementary school,
each graduate gets the identical
piece of paper with the identical
wording. Nothing more. Certain-
ly not a speck of recognition for
any past accomplishments.
Graduation excercises are grat-
ifying for the teachers who are
getting rid of the little monsters
and for the two or three top
students singled out ,for awards.'
There's nothing for the kid
who worked his head off to
complete the best science pro-
ject; there's nothing for the gal
who brought her history mark
up from below average to above
average in just three months;
there's nothing for the shy lit-
tle girl who overcame her prob-
lem to top her class in public
speaking; there's nothing for the
boistrous boy who showed his
extreme humility by organizing
the marathon walk to aid retard-
ed children.
Sure, the teadhers know ab-
out these accomplishments. Do
the parents? Does the com-
munity? Do even the other stud-
ents know?
What's• wrong with recogniz-
ing a student's accomplishments
Whether academic or not?' Why
can't there be more singling
out, more public praise, mare ap-
preciation shown?
The school system seems to
want everyone in a neat little
Me, It hates to admit there are
differences in the levels of abil-
ity although most everyone
knows it already.
Seems to me kids are going to
get pretty weary of competing
when there is nothing to be
gained by it.
JULY 7, 1944
About 3 o'clock Sunday after„
neon the fire brigade was called
out to a mattress fire at the
home of James King in Egmand-
ville. A second alarm was rung
in at 10:15 Sunday night When
fire broke out tuddenly, in a barn
just over the railway track, re-
cently purchased by Harvey
Bauerman. He had a number of
chicken's in the barn and they
were destroyed.
Two Seaforth men, Jonathan
Hugill and Thomas Ferguson are
in Chatham Hospital suffering
severe burns they sustained
%then a brace they were tighten-
ing shorted :with. a high voltage
transmission. wire. They were
burned about the hands and
feet.
Mrs. Herold Lawrence' enter-
tained at a trousseau, tea for her
daughter, Alma. Over 90 friends
called to see the brides trous-
seau.
Sister M. Janet, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. David McConnell
of Dublin, made her final Pro-
fession of religious vows at
Maryknoll, N. Y.
MeEwan's sawmill at Hayfield
is running to capacity, • these
days. A large quantity of logs
is arriving every •
Fred C. Kalbfleisch, Zurich,
manufacturers and head of ' the
saw, flax and planing..inill died
suddenly in his 78th, year.
John4Pullman Jr. had the mis-
'iertune to have .his hand Caught
in the feed roll of. a drum sand-
er at the Boshart Furniture Fac-
tory.
JUNE 29, 1919
On the day school closed, Win-
throp pupils presented their
highly esteemed teacher of the
past two years, Miss Laura
Ament; 'Brussels, with a kindly
worded address, read by Hiram
Shannon; accompanied by 'a gold
bedroom Clock and jewel case
presented. by Neil Montgomery.
Mr. and Mrs. John Beattie ,of
town motored to Owen Sound
Where they 'took the boat for
Minndemoi'a where their son is
manager of a creamery there.
Robert Y. McLaren, of the
London Road, north of Hensall
had a barn raising bee when a
good frame was raised into pos-
ition on a good cement foundat-
ion.
James Gillespie, son of Mr.
and Mrs. Neil Gillespie, Louisa
St. was first on the honor list
in the 2nd year .Civil Engineer-
ing•Conrse at the school of Pree.
tical Science, Toronto,
F. S. Savauge has ari exhibition
in the window of his jewellery
store. A display of German war
souvenirs collected by Lieut.
Harvey Doiyance.
W. J. Walker has -purchased
the two frame 'houses on John
St. belonging ' to the Cardno
Estate.
The old time picnic held in
Case's Grove on Dominion Day
under the Auspices of St. James
Parish was the greatest success
of the kind that has been feat-
ured here for many years. Mrs.
°E. C. Case's baby Won first prize
in the baby show, and the tug
of war was won by McKillop.
Wm. Rinn, the well known
farmer and stock' marrof Hullett
took a sample of flax grown on
his farm -to Canada Flax Mills,
Seaforth, that beats• anything
seen about here this year. The
sample measured 36" in length
and he has six acres just as
good. •
Sergi. Harold Turner of Tuck-
ersmith arrived . home having
.spent the past three years over-
seas.
" Henry Kleber of McKillop has
finished shingling his house and
the items for shingle nails alone
amounted to $36.00.
The annual Methodist picnic
was held in Wm. Leeming's bush,
The weathre was fine and every-
one reports having had a good
time. The, music was furnished
by the Winthrop Orange Lodge
,,Fife and drum band.
JULY 6, 1894 '
The corner stones of the new
Methodist church at Kinbimi
were laid, one by R. Stephenson,
and the other by Mr. W. Snell,
the two oldest members of the
Church. The tea meeting• and
other exercises realized about
$150.00.
J. Blatchford Jr of Hensall,
is preparing to build a nice
dwelling near his present one
on the north side of Queen's St.
The Roxboro picnic has be-
come quite a famous affair and
the one held this year on John
Scott's flats was no• exception
to the rule. Willie Hays danced,
and after supper Thomas E.
Hays, was named chairman and
addresses were given by -Rev.
Hodgins, Dr. Smith, and A. S.
McLean.
On. Monday there were 46 rail-
way tickets sold for-Clinton, 274
for Goderich, and 84 for other
points.
Wm. Copp,. Seafonth is build-
ing some stabling under the
barn at Dr. Scott's farm in HAT-
purhey.
A. Spraat of Tuckersmith has
bad two barns elevated for the
purpose of having a • foundation
erected underneath.
J. P. McLaren of Hullett has
disposed of his fine farm north
of the village of Kinburn to Wm.
Jtimieson for the sum of $6,300.
Since purchasing. Mr. McLaren's •
farm, Mr. Jamieson has disposed
of his farm containing 50 acres
to Mr. Hugh Dunlop, for $2,600.
Canada Is. an 4idelasCint
-Wells- gWir-takei's doy or
two, and Canada is 102 years
old. A man of that age is en an-
cient, either wise or senile, dig-
nified or drooling. A country of
that age is just a pup.
Question: Is Canada senile and
drooling, at the age of a pup?
Some think so. I don't.
More than anything, our
country is an adolescent. It has
all the best and worst feat-
ures of that peculiar breed.
It is easily fired to jealousY,
self-doubting, suspicious, lack-
ing in• self-confidence, shy one
minute and bold as brass the
next, opinionated without know-
ing much, conformist and re-
bellious, anxious for approv-
al and deeply wounded when if
is not understood, idealistic and
materialistic. In short, a typical
teenager, all mixed up. Tremen-
dous potential, but no clear idea
of where it Is going.
Older brother, who used to
seem' content to work the farm
and go to church, has gone all
weird. He gets sore now when
you call him the old nick-names
like Peasoup or Froggy. He de-
mands a voice in management of
the farm and threatens to leave
and step up on his own, if he
doesn't get it.
It's probably because he has
fallen in with bad company —
a 'gang interested in bombs and
folk-singing and poetry and free-
dom and all that sort of disturb-
ing stuff.
Little brother, who Used to
be content to sit in hit playpen
and 'feed on scraps, and be hap-
py if his diapers were changed
once in a while, has also become
belligerent.
Instead of 'smiling When you
give him a Morsel, he has taken
to blowing on his Kahn-Tineta
Horn and rattling the bars of
his ca-uh; playpenand ,scowling
and hollering "Discrimination;"
if he doesn't get a share of the
goodies — right now.
Second cousins out west, up
to their ears in wheat and oil
and $1.69 steaks, arc also deep-
ly and vocally resentful because
Grampa told their fathers, "Go
West, young punks, go West."
They feel that they should• still
get a cut of the old family farm's
income, back East.
DOWn East, Uncle Hiram is
fed up with fishing and rum,
and is sending his sons and
daughtert to visit, permanently,
as soon as they are old enough.
Even up North, those ex-
Siberian cousins who were here
first are beginning to bellow in-
stead of grin happily. Not con-
tent with having ruined the
sleigh-dog industry, they -want
jam on their blubber.
Right in the heart of the
country, Uncle Charlie, smooth
and debonair as ever, is patting
everyo•ne on the' back with' one
hand and lifting his wallet with
the other:
In OttaWa, Daddy, who has
taken to wearing .his hair a
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laolos,. is saying --edngs,as he
always did, which sound very
profound, until you' try to re-
member what he said.
No wonder Canada is an ado-•
lescent:. up-tight, bewildered,
belligerent. He's beginning to
feel as though he comes ireni
broken home. And he feels
pretty rotten• When be thinks
of the good old days when the
family was one big happy fami-
ly,
He's glad for his cousins out
West, though he's switched to
fish and poultry. He's leery of
his older brother, who's be-
come so hard to get along with.
He's sorry for his Uncle Hir-
ana's' kids, but wishes there
weren't so many of their com-
ing to visit.
He wishes the kid brother in
the playpen would stop rattling
the bars and climb out and help
feed the chickens. And that
Uncle Charlie wasn't so slick,
and that Daddy, up in Ottawa,
would stop giving him an allow,
ance and then borrowing most
of it back, without interest.
Perhaps most of all, he wish-
es Uncle Sam would stop being
so avuncular and at the same
time bellicose. Sometimes, he
wishes he still had a Momma.
Today, it's tough to be an ad- .
olescent.
Regulations.
Are Problem
•
to school every morning, for ten
months of. the year: They pro-
vide them with respectable
Clothes, a nourishing lunch,
whatever money is required by
the school for this project or
that class outing' and an occas-
ional swat on the backside to 're-
mind them not to bring shame
to the family name.
Once a year parents get called
into the school for a five or ten
minute interview with the teach-
er., Usually the •parents Would
be better off enjoying a rye and
coke in some swinging bar be-
cause the conversation is pretty
general and about all you'll
learn about your kid is what
a rotten influence your son has
on the rest of the class and how
talkative your daughter is dur-
ing mathematics period.
Also once a 'year, parents get
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SEAFORTH, ONTARIO, JULY 3, 1969
Welcome Them To Seaforth
Many Secrets Unveiled
From My Window
— By Shirley J. Keller —
itioh may not be dead in the the bill for the educational op-
.schools but it may as well be
for all the encouragement the
youngsters -get.
Parents send their brood off
Because, the Ontario Depart-
ment of Labor hat instructed.
the Huron County 'Library Board
that a •minimum wage of $1.30
per hour must bepaid to all em-
- ployees except. students, • the.,
board hat found it necessary to
'revise the number of hours
each week the libraries in. the
county will remain open,
The change will in, no way ef-
fect the larger branches.• How-
ever, Hensall Library has been
cut from 15 to 12 hours; Brussels
and Zurich Librarie from 10 to-
6 hours; Blyth from 10 hours
to 3; and Bayfield from 9 to 5
hours. •
The remaining libraries.in the
county will each remain open a
hours per week.
Reeve Borden Cook, Blyth,
learned that Elyth library, heurit
were cut drastically because of
the small circulation of books
there.
Some members of council as-
ked Whether the local municipal-
ity could pay'the librarians' ml-
ailes to keep the libraries open
longer hours and were told a de-
finite "no" by Carolyn Croke,
County librarian. Miss Croke said
either the county library board
makes the decisions or there is
no county library . board.
Miss Croke also said the' lib-
rarians could not keep libraries
open longer hours, even if they
volunteered their services.
"The department of Labor
could come back on the county
library board," explained Mimi
Croke.
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