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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1972-12-14, Page 2frOTht Eon (fxpositor Since 1860, Serving the Community First Published at SEAFORTH, ONTARIO, every Thursday morning by MCLEAN BROS., Publishers Ltd. ANDREW Y. McLEAN, Editor Member Canadian Weekly Newspapef Association Ontario Weekly Newspaper Association and Audit Bureau of Circulation Newspapers Subscription Rates: Canada (in advance) $8.00 a Year Outside Canada (in advance) $10,00 a Year SINGLE COPIES — 20 CENTS EACH Second Class Mail Registration Number 0696 Telephone 527-02.40 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. ••• •••••••••• •••• 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.