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SEAFORTH, ONTARIO, JULY 1, 1971
We Observe Canada Week
Canadians in all prov-
inces are invited to take
part in special festivit-
ies to honour_Canada Week.
Canada Week is a short
period of time set,aside
to honour our country the
-Canada Week committee re-
minds us. This does not
mean that the rest of the
year we should be indif-
ferent. Quite the contrary!
If Canada Week were some-
day Canada Year, Indeed if
a marked feeling of nat-
ional pride expressed it-
self on a year-round basis
through efforts towards
unity and brotherhood'on
the part of all Canadians ,
a special week would not
be necessary. Canada Week
spirit of patriotism that tela7federai system of
seems today to have been government that this_ .
pushed aside. country has progressed and
achieved international -
respect.
Point of our celebrations. Canada ,Week has a def- H nite purp the committee
We must not forget its ' emphasizes. We want Can-
significance. On 'July 1st, adians to take special • 1867, Canada was bPrn out notice of their homeland, of the union of Quebec and of their liberty, of their Ontarid with New Brunswick cultural and linguistic and Nova Scotia. Within a,
few "years the country
stretched from tte Atlantic
to the Pacific; Created to.
withstand political,
:ination from the outside -
,..),ard to, fully develop its„
vast potential , this then„,
inevitabje union. n6W'en'-'
joys one of the highest
standards of living An
the world.
' We have. now reached a
point in'our history where-
many of us seem. to take
'for granted 'all. that Canada
has given us. Some people
express their discontent
.by preaching secession
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From My. Window
— By Shirley J. Keller —
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from or disassociation
with the central govern-
ment. They fail to realize
that the success of Canada
today is due to its abil-
ity as a large power to,
overcome many of the di f-
ficulties which inhibit
the growth of:smaller
countries. We enjoy an
ineviable reputation in.
',foreign affairs -. Canada ,
ts,often called 'upon to
act as arbiter in inter-
nattonal Nsputes, and its
peace-keeping forces have
done much to pacify some
of the world's trouble-
spots. The Canadian Pass-
port i-s- more_Tespected
than that of any other
country.'
In short, it is thanks
Our'national holiday,
July lst,'is the focal
diversity and the tremen-
dous potential ahead. -No
doubt, there. is much room
for improvement and we
hope Canada Week will pro-
vide the incentive for
-A-h-aught-about,assuring that
we 0.“WWfr9ffi its
advantages and from .its
future.
. To dispel indifference.
and promote understanding
amongst all Canadians is *
our goal, not only during
Canada Week but all year.
If we can contribUte in
any way towards this at-
tainment, we will have
served our purpose...
By golly it is the first of July . . .
and 1971 , is offiCially half gone. Isn't
that a unique way to Start a column
which has to do with smoking?
I was leafing through the morning
paper today and discovered the picture
, of a 17 , month old child from Normanloy,r
England. The baby of . . I'm sure most
mothers will agree that he is still very
much a baby -.at 17 months . .-was
photographed as he puffed -away on his
pipe full of tobacco. The accompanying
lines told me the little guy had been
enjoying the smoking habit since he was
just 12 months old. What do you think
of that?
His father is the secretary of a pipe
smokers" club. 4 He feels It is better
for the little fellow to be smoking than
to be eating candy. I'm just enough of
a fool to say the youngster would bene-
fit -More from meat, milky-vegetables
and fruit and an afternoon nap in the
fresh air than either pipe smoking or
candy.
I really cannot imagine any mother
or father teaching a youngster such a
bad habit as smoking. True , pipe'
smoking 'is not considered to be
Is dangerous to the health Of cigaret-
te smoking, but why on earth would
any parent get pleasure from seeing a
toddler pulling on a pipe stoked with
burning tobacco any more than he would
methodically teach him profanity
instead of ma-ma and da-da? It just
isn't natural.
Our 15 -year old son said he would
dearly love our permission to stroke.
He is no different than most boys his
age I suppose. We know he takes the
occasional cigarette and I'm convinced
that when he is particularly flush do
' payday, he may even; purchase a pack of
the obnoxious weeds.
Whenever I co verse with' him con-
cerning the 'smoking habit, I tell him
what I discovered• about, it while I was
hooked on tobacco - It is dirty, expen-
sive, offensive to others and unhealthy.
I ' remind him it is 111'10 easier never
to start thaii to' Stop once you've begun
and he littens and nods knowingly.
Then he tells Me that at school, there
are plenty of filMS and' piles of pam-
phlet's aVailabie to tell you all about the
ugly smoking habit. He says that his
teachers and the school medical author-
ities save no effort to discourage him
concerning smoking . . . but he perSists.
Why? Not because he enjoys smoking.
Not because he needs something to do
with his hands. Not because he is prone
to overweight. Not because he is ner-•
vous and tense. Not even because all his
friends do.
Would you actually believe that our
son smokes because it makes him 1pok
Older? That's right. Our mature and
well adjusted boy who is tall and mes-
,cular smokes to give the im?ression that
he is older than 15 years. How's that
Yor common sense in the face of all the
knowledge about the harmful effects of
smoking which are available to the kids
trfese days? • L decided that since the kid was
smoking anyway, he m'ght just about as
well smoke at home. Some folks are not
in agreement with that theory but some-
how, I thought that was the best way to ,
deal with a situation like that.
So I re-opened the smoking subject
one day with our son. I told him that if
he insisted on ruining his health and
fouling up the. air, he mlght as well
smoke at home in our presence than
sneak around in , restaurants and side
streets with his fags. .
He looked at Inc with a wide-eyed
I.are which bordered -on terror. In that
instant I realiied that our son did not
really want to smoke and that by invit-
ing him to enjoy his vice in our home I
was actually encouraging him - daring
him if you like - to continue the habit
against his better judgment. I Was'being
no help to him at a tim a when he really
needed assistance. On the contrary, I
was giving up and making it more difficult
for him to break off.
And tliat's what I thihk about the father
mentioned in the newspaper who ,,,s teach-
ing his little lad to smoker.' It May seem
like the cute and harmless thing to do
today but someday, that boy may be sick
or physically or mentally weakened by
the habit and he may learn to hate his
father for letting him down when he
needed him most. And that's when old
pop may wish he'd given his son a teeth-
ing biscuit instead of a pipe.
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There's a lot of talk about recycling
these days. That does not mean that
great numbers of middle-age& people
are going back to the bicycle in despair
over traffic and their own wretched
physical condition, although this is also
happening, and a good thing too.
Recycling is basically the smashing up
of such things as piper -and tin and
turning them back into more paper and
tin, instead of the polluting of our
countryside with such garbage.
It is common practice • in many of
the countries of the world which are out-
stripping Canada and the U. S. inter-
nationally. It also makes a great deal
of common sense.
It boggles one's mind to- think of the
millions of tons of paper, cans, bottles
and other :reclaimable materials which
head each week for the garbage dump.
There are several reasons for this
vast wastage. One of them is that we have
tremendous natural„ resources and we
throw them away with a lavish hand.
It's like living on one's capital. A
second reason, obviously, is -that in-
dustry is not geared for reclaiming waste.
In many cases it's probably cheaper,
to produce new tins than to recycle
tin.
Neither of these reasons is a valid
one. In the first place, thase "inex-
haustible • resources" of ra'W mated-al
could be exhausted in a few decades.
In 'the second, industry should, and must,
find cheap means of recycling manufac-
tured-materials into raw materials.
But of course it's much simpler to
look at the immediate buck. It's much
simpler just to raise the price of- the
product than to find methods of using
disposable items over and over again.
Like everything, else,, the recycling
business seems complicated. A local
'organization is raising money fora worthy
---?-cause.--1-t-is-eell-ecting-newspapersz-But-
they must be' bundled and tied just so.
And they don't want any other kinds of
paper. In the meantime, I' throw out
five hundred pounds of books which -have
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JULY 5, 1946'.
Wilfred Lyall Whyte has been awarded
the M. B., E. in the King'i Dominion Day
honors list.
A. R. G. Ainent, Toronto, son of
Mr. and MrS. Wm. Ament, Seaforth,
was honored when his appointment to be
a member of "the Order of. the British
Empire was announced.
Two himdred and fifty friends and
neighbours of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Wright
danced to Murdock's Orchestra in Car-
dno's -Hall. • PreSenting -them with a
chesterfield suite, Carman Rowcliffe read
an address.
The stucco dwelling of John Hart-
man, Jarvis Street has -been sold to
Austin Matheson of Egrnondville; the brick
dwelling of Mrs. Clara Little, Goderich
and West -William Sts. has. been sold
to W, T. Teall. These purchases have
been made through the officer of Watson
& Reid.
Fifty-one descendants of the two
pioneer Scott families had a most succ-
essful and enjoyable reunion at orThorn.-
ton Hall" now owned and -occuped by
°James F. Scott. A program was pre-
sented when Solos were given by Sam
Scott, James T. Scott, Anderson Scott
and Master Ddiglas Scott with Mrs.Helen
McMillan at the piano. Readings were
given -by Susan GoV'enlock.
2- The eighty-second anniversary of the
Cromarty Church was' exceptionally well
attended.. Rev, James Ritchie took the
services for both morning and evening.
Mr. and Mrs. Finlay McKerCher of
McKillop, spent the week end in Hamil-
ton and Buffalo. Miss Helen McKercher
accompanied them as far as Buffafo when
she left for Corn ell University where
she will take a post-graduate course.
Mrs. Jack Kellar, whb has been teacher
at S. S. No. 7 McKillbp, has accepted
a position'at the Winthrop school.
Miss Lenore Habkirk hs joined the
staff of the Canadian. Bank of Commerce
here.
John Bach is making preparations to
erect a one-storey addition at the' rear
of his brick block and also a large
- loading ramp on the adjoining property.
Mr. Thos. Scott of Cromarty has
moved his house to . Cromarty and has
it in place ready for repairs.
JULY 8, 1921.
The death took place in Chicago of
one of the. Huron Old Boys, Francis J.
Carlin, col St. Columban who was fox the
past' thirty years the genial and popular
purser on the 'steamer Manitdu, plying
between Chicago and Mackinac Island.
There was a large gathering at the
'picnic held in school section No. 10
Tuckersmith. The day was ideal and
the place suited every way.
The annuatpicnic on the mountain at
Cromarty was a great,success. --The
Mitchell band added 'gretly. to -the pro-
gram me.
Miss Mabel Dorrance, who has taught
at HarlOck for the past two- years has
resigned and we understand that the
trustees have been fortunate enough to
hire Miss Dinah Staples.
Kilpatrick Bros. of Kippen haa a very
successful barn raising and although it
is a very busy season, all the neighbors
were on hand to help.
Mr. Andrew Bell of kippen1;trought
a load of gravel from the pit and delivered
it at Mellis' hoUse before the sup was up.
The Seaforth Citizens Band have sent '
to England for new Kilty uniforms which
will cost in the, neighborhood of $800.•
a higher rag content than the newsprint
which is being picked ,up. Seems silly.
What ever became of the old junk-
man? There was the ideal catalyst
between the consumer and the recycler
The perfect middleman.
Most .small towns had a junk-man.
He usually had a' big yard with a fence
around it, and' in de the fence was an
exotic jungle of Jun .
When I was a kid the junk-mail was
my chief source of income, A vast,
genial Jew with a benign, twinkle, he
treated us as one businessman to'
another. There was little haggling on
our part, because it was the only game
in . town, but on the other hand, he
didn't try to beat us down.
Prices' were established.- Pint beer
bottles were worth a cent, quarts two
cents. He'd double his money on them.
Old car tires were a nickel apiece.
Paper and "scrap iron were carefully
weighed, and after a judicious pause,
beard cocked to one side, he'd say,
Of you tweif cents."
An enterprising kid could pick himself
up forty or fifty cents a week, big money
in those days. And if we caught a nice
pike in the canal (this was before people
worried about sewage and such) it was
a bonanza, worth a dime or fifteen cents.
But a meal for his family.
He prospered. And many of the
big fortunes in Canada today started out
in the junk-yard. The , junk-man was
an unrecognized benefactor to society.
During the war, there were tremen-
dous drives for scrap metal and news-
print. It must have been used for sonne-'
thing. Pig farmers picked up the- food
garbage from big military kitchens.
Why couldn't we do the same today?
It would provide employment, stop wast-
ing resources, and do a lot to clean up
our environment.
garbage -into waste food, bottles and cans,
and newspapers. How about yOu? We
could all be our own junk-men, and
do a lot for our country.
StMAR64..
The weather has been the hottest that
Seaforth has experienced for many _years.
The thermometer , has been hovering
around the 100 mark and there is no
relief in sight. ' "-' -
The supply committee 'of First Pres-.
byterian Church met" at the hOrne of
Miss Rachel Grieve and presented her
with 'a .life membership' certificate of
the Women's Missionary 'Society.
While taking , the census in Mc-
Killop recently, R. Scarlett came across
one farmer who' holds the record for-
the number of years spent on one farm.
This was John Flannery of the 14th con-
cession, who purchased the land from
the Canada Company in 1963 and is still
working the' same farm.
The members of St. Patrick's Church,
Dublin, celebrated Dominion Day in good
style. A. football match between Dublin -
and Beechwood, resulted in a draw. Brod-
hagen band was on the grounds and
Reeves' Orchestra furnished the 'music
for dancing. About $1,000 was received
for improvements around the church.
JuLy 3,• 1896
Kilty Bros. have disposed of their
restaurant business in Clinton to C. Witts,
late of Brucefield, who have taken posses-
sion.
The large .frame barn belonging to
John Moffatt, of Stanley, was placed upon
its foundation,
W. J. and Geo. Dickson, well known
stock men of Walton, shipped !Dui cats of
fine beef cattle from Brussels.
` Now that the smoke of the great
political battle is clearing away, we have
a better opportunity of seeing just where
we are, Hon. Wilfred Laurier and Sir
Oliver Mowatt will have a good working
majority when the House meets in July.
A few days ago, the writer took a
drive through the front of NicKlllop, with
0. C. Willson to inspect several pieces
of Page wire fence. Among those' who
had taken great pains in levelling the
ground and painting the fence were David
Scott, Geo. Murdie, Wm. Henderson,
Joseph Henderson,Robert Beattie,
Soloman Shannon an James Cowan.
G. E. Jackson, returning officer for
South Huron 'in the late election, states
that the most exact returns from any
polling sub-division were made by J,'J.
Irvine.
Misses Jennie and Maria Hills of
Egmondville leave for a holiday
tour up the lakes. They intend going as
far as Sheldon No.Dak.,where they will
visit with relatives.
Mr. Sadler, of the Opera House
grocery here has place a fine new delivery
wagon on the road, made' by Messrs. S.
Barton & Son.
Work has begun on the Dixon Hotel
at Brucefield) Mr. Heywood of Exeter has
the contract for the brick work and Mr.
Walsh of Hensall, does the frame work.
' The Council of Hay have very properly
decided to offer a reward of $50.00 for
such information as will lead to the de-.
tection and connection of the party 'or
parties who spread Paris Green in the
pasture field of Christopher Miller.
During this season considerable im-
provement is being made on a -number of
the streets in town, by the town author-
ities,. under the able managementotJames
h. Anderson. Geo. Murray% grading
machine has been called into requisition.
The tWenty-ninth anniversary of the
birth of the bominion of Canada passed
over very quietly in Seaforth.' '
'Farmers are now busily engaged in
cutting and saving the hay crop.
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