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The Huron Expositor, 1977-04-07, Page 2On bigotry' I• • Cotnedian Will Rogers, loved, all, used to say he never met a mattlq, didn't like. This may be t itd•Cliring racier' bigotry among iNers.40anada. • A racial reperClinancect by the Secretery„O'ttate found bigotry in 64v - of 255 students surveyed in seven Ontario centres, including students in eight schobls in (wont°, where everyone of East Indian, or South Asian color is called a "Paki". They are targets of "Paki-bashing", a new sport In our high schools. The study showed that the most overt bigotry was directed' towards EaSt Indians, and to 'a lesser degree, ,Arabs. The study on teenagers' attitudes, written by Janet Rbsenstock and Dennis Adair, both freelance writers specializlng in education, said East Indians particularly are the target of "the most overt racism found in Canada today." Pam Singh, a irember c4 the research staff of the Presbyterian -Chureh An • Canada, SAO the ° Child suffers in the,s0hOol Systert` because of the iglibratipe of tither" plipliSo! and in Some eaSe$:the teaOtierec.4 ,, Walter Pitman, president of Ryerson Polytectfric, I Institute has beernappopted as a one-man task "'9`b."-L,54.7,4;ervestigate racN attitudes in Toronto. 'Mr. Pitman may-find a \plue'in'the, teenagers' attitudes repbrtqct Flosenstock and Adair. In every school surveyed, except one, Arabs were as much the object of 'racial bigotry 'as Pakistanis, In that school, where the bigotry toward them was almost non-existent, there • was an Arab ,pn staff. ' • Will Rogers, in saying ,he never met a man he didn't like, was following in • the footsteps of Jesus Christ Who' suggested that loving. God and loving our neighbour are r ,,,,, two 'great commandments. When Jestis Was asked to identify the neighbour, He told a story about 'a Samaritan, to whom prejudice,:was 'shown. Jesus thus changed "Samaritan" to m can one Who sho9vs concern and dare. By following such an example' we can help' change racial attitudes. Let us ail tell ,stories about the "good" Pakistanis} and Other non-whites, JesUS changed a 'national.. reputation day why Can't We? Published at SEAFORTH, ONTARIO, every Thursda/ morning by McLEAN BROS. PUBLISHERS LTD ANDREW Y. McLEAN, Publisher SUSAN WHITE, Editor DAVE ROBB, Advertising Manager Member Canadian Community Newspaper Association Ontario Weekly Newspaper Association and Audit Bureau of Circulation Subscription Rates: Canada(in advance)$11,00 a Year Outside Canada (in advance) $20.00 a Year SINGLE COPIES 25 CENTS EACH Second Class Mail Registration Number 0696 Telephone 527-0240 §g?,EORTH, ONTARIO, APRIL 7, 1977 Opportunity or plot School Board voting to extend French instruction in their schools. The province will give special grants for French immersion in the schools and there's lots of evidence that this language teaching method really works. In the U.S, a French immersion program, using Canadian, ideas and materials (and that's a switch) has been a tremendous success in a Silver Spring, Maryland elementary school. The principal there says his English speaking students, who are 'taught all subjects in French, have increased reasoning powers in. both languages. The program is heartily supported by parents who are con- vinced that. fluenCy in another language can be a huge asset to their t<ids. Ontario should-also make French compulsory in .our high schools once again. There's no sense at all in 7 spending $6 million more in elementary French if kids don't' continue to learn the language. French . should also be required, for entrance to university....another language helps all students, be they future dentists, - engineers or teachers, think better. The feds and Ontario have also announced that they are co-operating on a classroom exchange for students in Quebec an.d Ontario. That too can only help us underbtand each other. But we have to make a personal effort too. We must decide how we feel about our kids learning French and let ourschool boards, MP's and MPP's know how we feel. A generation of kidi whoarefluent in both English and French would be a huge boost to the :future of this country„ The large number of -- reasonable people in Quebec who do 'not favour separation will be more, not less in favour of keeping Canada together when they see English Canadians making honest efforts to learn Canada's other language. But that's not the main .reason that we should insist our kids learn French: The main reason, is a selfish one. People who speak two languages have wider opportunities Than people who . speak only ,one. Ask a European.' • It's about time that Ontario put more emphasis on teaching kids French., There's lots of evidence that someone who speaks two or more languages is more mentally agile than someone who speaks -only one. A persOn who;speaks two languages is twice as employable, and twice as ' open to experience and more than one culture as a person who speaks only one. Any unilingual Canadian who's been to Europe comes away a little ashamed and depressed at how easily Europeans speak several languages. Canadians, meanwhile, make a fuss about French on cereal boxes. It's just as easy to see bilingualism as a fantastic opportunity rather than as a threat and a plot to undermine Canada's "Englishness." Canada has two official languages, as much as some of us hate to admit it, just- as our -country had two founding peoples. French language rights are guaranteed in the BNA Act. That's _the reason our government pushes fbr us to1earn French, rather thanSpanish or German ehich could be equally enlightening. It's crucial not to let a:backlash against the Parti. Quebecois' anti- English langUage policy .turn us off from wanting to learn French. The PQ's discrimnatory policy is wrong'... if they get away with it (and we hope that's unlikely) they'll be the losers by violating_hurnan rights. If we react by. hardening against French we'd-cut off our nose to spite our collective face. Regardless of what Quebec does, English. Canada wilicOme out ahead by putting more emphasis ontearning French. • We should spend our tax dollars teaching French to kids ,with their receptive minds rather than, middle aged, civil servants whose main reason for taking language classes is to .get salary increases: • Ontario's throne speech plan to put an additional $67 million into irriproqing teaching in elementar y schools an excellent place to start., Locally, were proud to see the Huron Perth Roman Catholic Separate t- Aitien by Karl Schuessler Spring means auction You .may think a sure sign of spring is kids riding their bikes. Or girls skipping ' rope. Boys playing marbles. And-father's flying kites. But I have my own spring forecas ts. • And let me •tell you --spring is here. Spring has arrived. It's all those farm auctions coming up. The sales registers in the newspapers' beige and farm goods come busting out all over the grass and fields and sheds. And my wife's on the go scrounging out every last-bargain after a winter's dearth. "I only paid a dollar for it," my wife announced to me after her firgt foray out. It's good she -started off that way. I figure she couldn't do much damage with a dollar: Then she let. me have it. "It's a pump organ." "But we've already got one,"I said. "But it's only a dollar and it's as big as a - piano," she gloated. And heavy as one, too. I though t. "But we don't need an organ like-a-piano," I said, "We've, got -one of each already." "But it's only a dollar," she insisted, "I was just trying to help F ranklin *Hulick out. He•kept saying. 'Who will start me off on a bid? $15.00? $10.00?" • No one budged. He waited. Time was getting on. "How about five?" No sound. "Okay," he stomped his cane on the shed floor, "Who will give me a dollar?" No one. "Won't anyone give a dollar for. this organ?" he. pleaded. "Okay," my wife said, I'll give you a .. -"Sold" snappedfranklin Buuck and the ,organ was all hers. She's been working a miracle all week on that organ. She's wantedJo proye to me that spending that dollar was a good investment... Of course I had to see to it that three men hauled 'the filthy, peeling and broken down thing to our place. They barely managed to push it' through the doorway. And there it's sat for a week now right in the 'hallway. And there's where she and Russell Piper went to work. The real miracle worker was 77 year old Russell Piper. He showed us once again that his 35 years of organ tuning and repair still live 'inside him. Russell proved he could bring back old organs to life. My wife helped him along. She drove RusSell back and forth-frorit Seafoeth -three- . days in a row: She rummaged around in his old shed--roof collapsed and all--to find brass reeds and spare organ stops. She took him into Robinson's Lumber in Mitchell for a piece of cedar. He needed to whittle out six organ pegs. The mice had chewed out the others. H e covered the bellows box in new leatherette, bought from the scrap pile at Lou Heimbuck's upholstery And Russell sho pbought ten inches of strong wire at Fausts--only ten inches, mind you. I don't think Keri's ever sold such a short piece of wire before. And right before his eyes, Russell twist the wire round, asked for a hammer, and on •the store's vise,.. clamped to the counter, Russell hammered out a reed book. He needed one to pull out the brass reeds for cleaning and repair. And while Russell fixed up the -hrside, my wife took care of the outside. And what a job they did! The quarter-cut oak wood r" now sparkles. And that Blatchford Organ, Galt, Ontario now puts out a mellow tone. Those two are gloating over the organ they fixed'up. The think they've done me a • greatfavour,. by brineing another music maker into the house. 'But 1 say the real favour is bringing ,in Russell Piper. He's the treat who came to our house for three days. It was_lilce_ old times -- when Russell fixed up our other organ, a few years back. Now we could listen to Russell once again. Hear how he and his father fixed organs all over Ontario: How on one Sunday he wheeled from Seaforth to Mitchell and bad. On a 'bike, that is. We can hear how this 'bachelor chuckles when he- tells our daughter the first 40 years of marriage' are the hardest. This was our treat -- to hear and see Russell Piper again. To watch him eat the barbeque spareribs he said he'd walk a thousand miles for. And to watch him wait until my wife sat down before he started to eat his dessert. And when I noted our. . family wasn't that polite, Russell just lowered his head and said, 'Yeah, I was brought up right, wash't I?" I'd say we had two miracles in our house last week: that dollar organ and ussell ' Piper. 7;.-) the editor Reader writes from. Florida -Where did you get that "Expositor"? It is a Spanish word. Somehow we got one of your papers. I enjoyed reading about the .snow. It is a •Feb. 17 number. See you have a Sebrineville. 3ust as soon as the 1St storm . hits we start getting cut outs from papers. One woman with 4 children 'had 65 • people overnite, 4 bedrooms and the usual downstairs. Police got thru with• food., Fire halls are often used. Poor Buffalo, N.Y. won't forget, That old Lake Erie must cause a lot of trouble. We had a little surprise down here. People woke up their children to see the snow. I scrape it out of the freezer and throw it on die ground. See! .1 also sweep off the sand and throw it back out doors. I enjoyed the cool air. Used my warm clothes, lots of blankets, a gas stove in the kitchen, a blanket for a door' into the living room, :In oil space h eater Om. And remember'the good-old days, slbigh rides, sledding, a hill acrosk the street, the limbs,. of a' tree touching the ground, the snoW4 Wet, the'big long isles. Power off 4 days,' You should have More news from Dublin. 'A former neighbor, Pete Maloney,. was here part of the winter, went back early. He might have a story for you about , himself, trip, bhsines,s, etc. . Th S town Was se Wed or started in 1914 by-tlfe Sebring family from Sebring, Ohio. Any of them in Sebringville? The name almost died until a gr. grandson,start'ed a family. Hope there is no more discord between' your country and ours. It is so awful other places. We helped you all out during the War II, And we see more and more ears . from up there. I often wish I were younger, could go 4' andStay awhile. The water here is ;the best. I read all I can get about your country and look 'up places on a map, Are you mostly A.C.? Little mention R.C. W e atle &limn ical, about 25 religions here, The aper - tiewS was all very interesting and the paper itself (a view from st eet7 ) It came to Pete M.. flYeettirsshtoruntlye, M. E. Kelly 619 So. Eucalypttis, Sebring, Pia. 33810, . litt5 • 11/11TH WHISTLING SWANS IN TUCK — About 200 whistling north winds, thesSfink swans spent about a week in Tuckersmith last week on a pond Huron bird watchers-1GI behind the farm of Mervin Falconer at R.R.8, Seaforth. The swans, ever that residents of the are which breed in the summer in the low:and mid Arctic, winter on the number have been seen other Atlantic and Pacific coasts of the U.S. Presumably because of mild a break in their journey north and gave b. njoy them. It was the first time tetrifieswans but a smaller year in the Kippen road area. (Expositor Photo) Os. ligroin xpositor Since 1860, Servin,g the CoMmunity .First In the Years Agone MARCH 30, 1877 H. Quisley of Clinton has purchased from H. Snell of Hullett, 4 year old .Durham heifer which weig1id 2000 lbs. The farm of Mr. Craviri near Londesboro which was recently put up for auction and bid in at $6,490 has since been sold to J. Lasham for $5,500. Mr. Stoddard of Egmondville has purchased from Mr. Badge his- house ,and lot. for $775. R.N.Brett, formerly of the Egniondville tannery has opened in Seaf orth, a leather and shoe finding store. The Saw mill" here is doing a good trade. Messrs.' iGarrow have secured a large stock of logs, . MARCH 28th, 1902 F. Karn of Hensall , who ,h as been manager of the Molsons Bank here, has been promoted• and has left Hensall. H .J.Billings of St. Th omas is his successor. Duncan McCallum of Sealorth, and Mr. M cCloy of Tuckersmith, were on the Leadbury Line showing the implement business. Mr. and Mrs. T.N.Forsythe of Kippen, attended the. funeral of her aunt, MrS: Neilans ,of Harlock. D. Spencer and James Johnston of Bayfield accompanied W.G.Johnson to the northwest. • James Sturgeon of Bayfield is . preparing to fill his contract of supplying 400 cords of stone for the harbour improvement. " The enterprising firm of Greig and Stewart, . have have taken possession of both stores 'in the Johnson block. ' Many of the farmers have been ploughing and some have sown grain. Herbert Morrison of town has opened a bicycle repair shop in the south store of the Holrnstead block. Herbert -Box leaves shortly for the old Country where he will take a good, position in the English warehouse of the. Canada Furniture manufacturers. Andrew Stewart of the Seaforth Milling Co: has. leased the Kidd residence on the corner of Market and High Streets. MARCH-25th,:1927 Nelson Govenlock of Winthrop has treated himself to a Ford sedan, and Neil Montgomery is sporting a Ford coupe. W.C.Bennett has engaged Armand Kernick of Blyth ' for the coming season. James Wright of Chiselhurst has purchased the farm on the Kippen Road lately occupied by. Thos. Workman. T.C.Joynt of Hensall is having some more rooms fitted bp over his block of stores. At the tarriegie Library a very successful meeting was held -when the'Seaforth Home and School was formed. ThefevTere20 present.and the following officers were elected: President, Miss S. I. McLean, Vice Presidents, Mrs. Munn, Mrs. McKenzie and Mrs. Spencer. Treasurer, Mrs.'T.Swan Smith, and secretary Mrs. Chas. Holmes., iteeVe Beattie of Seaforth, Kennedy of Tuckersmith and McQuaid of McKillop were inboderich attending a special session of the Huron County Council. • Mrs. Frank`Byrne of Dublin has disposed ,of her 50 acre farm on the 3rd concession of Hibbert to Frank Feney. Mr:Alfred Smith of Hensall purchased a fine Essex car and intends using. .it as a taxi. . , • A number of Indians who• have been living in Hensall have returned to Muncey. MARCH 28, 1952 Mr. and Mrs. Frank Crich of Tuckersmith entertained, to celebrate the birthday of her mother, Mrs.W. Rogerson. The evening was spent in cards and music. The prize winners were Ladies 1st Mrs. W. Rogerson; Consolation, Mrs. Peter Dunlop; Men's 1st Howard Snell; Consolation Kenneth Rogerson. The launching of the maple syrup season in McKillop by the Dennis Bros. is pictured in this issue iii a series of photographs. The pupils of Seaforth Public School st aged the operetta "Cinderella'!. Miss Mabel Turnbull was in charge of the play. • Many of the buildings on 'Main St. are 75 years •old this spring. When fire destroyed the large part of the business section, merchants lost no time in replacing their frame buildings with •brick structures. Spring cleaning on the Seaforth Streets has been in progress. Town employees under 'the direction of Harold Maloney have cleaned the winter residue from the Main St. and are now, working on the 'other paved streets. h.., Mrs. G.A.Whitney was hostess to the ladies of the SeaforthLawn' Bowling Club, Mrs. B.F. Christie won the prize which was presented by Mrs. G.C. Brightral. Joseph T. Hugill, Seaforthi has:been awarded the contract for a new vault at the Bank of .Commerce, Atwood and alterations to the. two apartments at the rear of the building. Jackson Hom es Incorporated , Egmondville • rtatited its charter. The new company 'is building lovi cost prefabrieted homes. Officers of the company are: President and Treasurer, Norman McLean ; Vice Pres. `LT...fathom Secretary H.G. Meir.