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MAFORTIL ONTARIO, December 14, 1972
Christmas is love
Into this world, long
ago, came a Man of humble
birth. Born in a 'stable
when his land seemed
without hope, when terror
walked in some quarters,
and there weren't enough
jobs to go around. The
people we-re downhearted..
His time was much like
ours. His time was like
all ages before and since.
The joys of His people
were His. So were their
fears and sorrows. .
He was not a wealthy
man. He was not a profi-
teer. He did some car-
pentry. Some have since
claimed. He was a failure
`at the age of 33.
He went around talking
of love, compassion, urg-
ing action against social
injustice, helping the
sick and needy. He was
a man of action.
He taught that we are
all children of God. He
was a simple man. Yet He
changed the world.
Christmas. Its true
meaning lies in Him. He
brought hope, a hope based--
on simplicity, on the
things around Him and in
his experiences; a hope
that led to belief, that
led to conviction.
Conviction? Yes, con-
viction that God, the
Giver of life, the Origin-
ator of the universe, is
alive and well . . .that
only through people with
His convictions could
Chaos be ended and Order-
liness brought about. He
was committed 'to the be-
lief that only through
active L-O-V-E could this
come about.
(The United Church of
_Canada Unchurched Editorial)
Social Critic, Friend or Foe?
People are constantly
urged to participate in
community affairs and to
work in.-supp-ort of.lroups
protesting injustftes s and,
exploitation. But many fail
to respond.
There are several rea-
sons. Apathy, timidity, the('
let-Joe-do-it attitude are
some. Protest is often-re-
garded as slightly obscene
if marching, carrying a
sign, demonstrating is in-
volved.
Opbosition to supporting
protesting groups may be
coloured by personal atti-
tudes toward criticism in-
general. In their every-
day lives people abhor the
critic. Criticism here is
a sign of moral weakness
and the complaining critic
of other people and situa-
tions is generally a mean,
undesirable, person; some-
one to be avoided at all
costs. But criticism of
the problems and issues.
in society is.a very dif-
-ferent matter'. Outspoken
criticism and protest here
has a creative purpose. In
fact. it is .the very first
step which sets in motion
the process of change and
the eradication of evils.
The critic, the protester,
thus performs a public
serVice when he speaks out
against injuStice and ex- .
ploitation and activates
the nation's conscience
against the festering sores
of society.
Criticism and protest is
thus a duty and obligation
to all citizens,with any
sense of public responsi-
bility.
(Clinton News-Record) .°
Sir;
In a previous issue you carried a
letter from Councillor-elect Wayne Ellis
concerning the apparent lack of interest
in the municipal election which was then
underway. That election has now been
completed with the polling day held on
Monday, December 4t ty at which two were
elected to the P.U.C. and two members
to the Huron County Board of Education.
It certainly seems that the charges made
by Mr. Ellis were supported by the voters
of the Town during the poll. There are
1604 persons on the Seaforth polling list
but' only 517 careenough to cast a vote.
- This means that the constitution of P.U.C.
for the next two years has been decided
by 32 percent of the ?lectorate.
I do not know the total number on
the polling lists in the Board of Educat-
ion area and have no way to determine
what percentage cast ballots but on the
basis of total returns it seems likely
that it was comparable to the P.U.C.
vote. This in' spite of the fact that the
Board of Education will spend over
$10,000,000 of our money each year and
the two persons elected from this area
will represent a poptilation of about 7,000.
It appears ea though the majority are
content to leave decisions in the hands
of the few who care, confident that they
will always make the best choice. So far
this has been generally true and those
elected have been capable, conscientious
people. This trend towards unconcern,
however, is inherently dangerous to our
liberty; the few who care will become
fewer and eventually we may have no
voice In our local government. If we
demonstrate a lack of concern by our
unwillingness to participate in, the local
process of government we will have no
grounds for complaint if the right to do so
is removed.
Lack of concern and unwillingness to
participate on November 13th left the
Town one councillor short of the re-
quired number. Under the rules set by
the Province of Ontario in the Municipal
Elections Act, I am required to conduct
a second election complete with the re-
quired period of notice followed by a
5 day nomination period and 21 days
after that a polling day for the position
of councillor. We have had the required
nomination period and three of our citi-
zens have declared a willingness to stand
for election. On Monday, December 18th
we will have another chance to show
whether or not we are concerned by
casting our ballot for one of these three
candidates,
Ernest M. Williams.
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Letter to editor
A challenge to our liberty
Sagar and Spice
by Bill Smiley
There's a typical Canadian tragedy in
the making right now, and it maybe too
late to avert it, unless there is a hue
and cry that will rattle the halls of parlia-
ment:
I use the word "typical" because it has
happened again and'again in this country,
and we have lived to regret it. Prompted
by political or pecuniiry motives, Canada
has gone a long wayo,t.AtVard destroying
Its very self and tile things that make
it most dear, to the average Canadian:
I am refer ng to pollution and the
disturban of the balance of nature. In
the name o progress we have fouled our
own nest, time and again, 'until an out-
sider would think we enjoyed living in our
own mess.
Item. Lake Erie, with some friendly
help from our old buddies, the Yanks, has
been turned into a vast cesspool, which is
almost unreclaimable.
Item. Paper mills and other indus-
tries have been pouring their poisons into
Lake Superior for years.
Item. If you took a drink of water
_ out of Hamilton bay, you'd probably be
rusting within.-twenty-four hours.
Item. Huge industries continue to
belch into the air over our big cities,
until you'd think there was A continual
fall of black snow.
Item. Two of our magnificent rivers,
the Ottawa and the St. Lawrence, are run-
ning, o en sewers.
's a very brief sampling. And
no tat idiot Bourassa, prime minister
of Quebec, in an attempt to save face
'after mishandling everything from the
FLQ kidnappings to the unemployment
situation, has launched the James Bay
project.
DECEMBER 16, 1897
Last week, Wm, McDougall of Eg-
mondvIlle, took a carload of„,horses to
the Michigan lumber woods and while
away paid a visit to John Waugh, a
former resident of the village.
Chas, Donnelly of Hibbert, was tear-
ing up the tloor of an old house which
had been va6ant for some time, when
he came across two watches which had
been secreted under one of the joists
of the floor. One was silver and the
oterh gold plated.
Benjamin Makins of town has gone to
St. Marys where he has secured a good
position in a steam laundry.
Rueben Graham of the American Ho-
tel, 13rucefleid, proposes holding a
shooting match for turkeys and geese at
his hotel on Christmas Day.
A pleasant event took place at the
home of James Gemmell of Tuckersmith
when a goodly number of guests !rev
Hensall, Brucefleld, Clinton and Kirk-
ton assembled to celebrate the 10th an-
niversary of the marriage of the wor-
thy councillor.
The other day, while Mrs. Wm. Mc-
Gavin and daughter Sophia were out dri-
ving, the horse became unmanageable
and ran away, throwing them both out,
and 'seriously injuring Mrs. McGavin's
arm.
At the council meeting for Seaforth,
A Forbes was given the contract of
supplying a horse to draw the hose-reel,
when a fire alarm is given at $1,00
each time.
Maybe you don't know much about it,
and it's all so far away that it's like a
flood in China.
But that's what we thought about all
the other signs of ',progress", is it not?
"Oh, they'll never pollute th? Great
Lakes. They're too big. So dump the
garbage boys, and flush out the tanks."
"What? pollute the Ottawa and the
St. Lawrence? Impossible. Too much
running water. ' Why should' we build a
sewage disposal plant? Let' 'er rim into
the river."
"Don't be stupid. Squawk about the
big plants p011uting and there won't be
no jobs for nobody."
We've said it all, and heard it all.
But what heritage are we leaving behind
for our children, and theirs? A great
big pile of you know what.
Letting Bourassa and his boys play
around with the James Bay project is
.like letting a couple of bright science
students play around with a nuclear bomb.
Here's the picture. The Quebec
government plans a hydro project in the
James Bay area, one of the last great
wilderness areas in eastern North Amer-
ica. It is a mammoth sriseme. Sorde
estimates place the cost at $10 billion.
Yep. Billion. Where is that kind of
money going 'to come from?
Plan is to tinker, with up to ten dams
and seven rivers which run into James
Bay. The damage to the area affected-,
170,000 square miles, larger than the
whole United Kingdom, is incalculable.
The sub-soil, known to be unstable,
has taken hundreds of years to build up
on the solid rock. The tremendous
weight of water in the .artificial lakes -
Old Huron scored a big victory at
the Provincial Fat Stock Show, held at
Brantford. In Shorthornsy the animals
--of Messrs. H. & W. Smith of Hay, near
Exeter, made a big record.
R. C, Cheswright of town has rented
Charles Bartliff's brick residence on
John St. Mr. Bartitff intends moving
onto his farm near Bruss,,a.
Fred Kibler, merchant of Zurich,
has purchased a large stock of boots
and shoes In Listowel, which he has
moved to his store in the v111 tge.
James Fair of Clinton has his mill
and office lighted by electricity. He
supplies the power himself.
Henry Rundle of Osborne, has dis-
posed of hi s farm for $6,500 to Norman
Sweltzer of Woodham.
DECEMBER 15-, 1922
The well known townsman, Theos.Cam-
eron, Hayfield, passed is 76th birthday,
and received many congratulations from
his friends.
Henry Horton of Brucefit...1 , has pur-
chased -Edgar Armstrong's farm and the
stock and implements., paying the sum of
$13,000.
A hurried call by telephone was rung
in to the Reeve of Hensall, stating that
the residence of Wm. Pearce had caught
fire from the furnace. It had originated
from some green wood which had been put
on top of the furnace t o dry out. .
Mrs. John Bolton of Hensall was in
Toronto as a delegate b f the U.F.O.
The choir of the Methodist church met
at the honie of Mr. and Mrs. Oliver
some of them 70 miles long - could
cause earthquakes, landslides, who knows
what? .
The lakes themselves are big enough
to affect the climate of the whole area.
Worse, the change, in fresh water flow
into James Bay could delay the spring
breakup in the. Bay, and make winter
longer. This could affect the tempera-
ture of the water flowing out of Hudson
Bay, which joins. the Labrador, ,current
going south, and this in turn could make
the whole eastern seaboard colder.
, project this a little further and it
could affect the entire fishing industry
on the Atlantic shores.
And worst of all is the callotis disre-
gard of the native peoples of the area.
They are Cree Indians, who eke ,a meagre
living from the fish, geese and moose of
this bleak area. These people have never
been conquered, never sold their land,
and never ceded it by'treaty. They are
to be uprooted and transplanted.
So we have the ironic spectacle of
the federal government on the one hand
creating vast new national parks, and on
the other, condoning, if not approving,
the possible. destruction of another vast
area. This is not progress. This is rape.
'And for what? Sure, it will create
temporary jobs in Quebec for 'a large
number. A few people will become
wealthy.
But it will do nothing for the long-
erm unemployment situation in Quebec,,
vhere unemployment seldom goes below
n per cent. In a few years the jobs
will be finished, a few guys at push-
buttons will be left, and the U.S. will have
another source of power. At what,tost?
In the Years Agorae
Anderson and during the evening a well
filled purse of money was tendered Mrs.
Anderson as an appreciation of her ser-
, vices as organist.
DECEMBER 19, 1947
Dr. R. Hobbs Taylor, member of the
Legislative Assembly for the riding of
Huron since 1943, died suddenly at
his home in Dashwood.
A -pleasant surprise party was held
at the home of John Snider of Clinton, on
the occasion of his 80th birthday. He is
in good health and has conducted a har-
ness and bicycle business in Bri,......c3ield
for 60 years.
W. H. Goldirt• M.P. for Huron-Perth,
was re-appointed deputy chairman of corn-
ittees of the whole house in Parliament.
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Upshall, resi-
dents of Seaforth, will celebrate their
50th wedding anniversary on Dec. 22nd.
'Andrew H. McKenzie, who with his
wife and daughter resided in Seaforth,
was recently inducted as minister of
the Islington Presbyterian Church.
Mrs. Wilbur 'Turnbull of Walton,
slipped on the ice at her home and pain-
fully Injured her leg.
Messrs, Harold Jackson and H. Glenn
Hays were in Toronto last week.
The Tuckersmith Federation of Agri-
cultural meeting was held in Watson's
Hall, kippen, when the election of officers
was as follows: Past President E. 13.
Goudie, Seaforth; President Robt.
McGregor, Kippen; 1st. vice, Gordon Rich-
ardson, Brucefield; secretary-treasurer,
Ignatius O'Leary, Seaforth.