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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1977-04-14, Page 2M.P.P. says Gordon Hill article leaves false impression S • . . xpositor Since 1860. Serving the Community First Iublished at SEAFORTH, ONTARIO. every Thursday morning by McLEAN, BROS. ANDREW Y. McLF.AN, Publishar . 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 C. riadiafira*ance)$20.`,0-0 a Year SINGLE COPIES — 25tENTS EACH Second Class Mail Registration Number 06% Telephone 527-0240 SEAFORTH, ONTARIO, APRIL 14,,1977 PUBLISHERS LTG, Separation by default? It's that season again. Please be careful In the Years Agone Local men leave_ for mines in 1877 APRIL 6', 1877 • James R. Benson has', purchased from Thos. Stephens his brick residence and grounds on Goderich Street paying therefore the stint of 53500. The new hotel of Mr. Stephens had it narrow escape fnnn destruction by tire. The floor above the furnace was on fire but was quickly extinguished. • A ncw'post 'office is to be established in the Township of McKillon and Joint Ready is to.be the postmaster. Messrs. R. McDonald. los. Kaiser and Wm. Walters • all young men of Tuckersmith. left for Mountain territory where they• intend trying their luck among the mines. 'Mr. Lawson Hultetr caught in a trap, a large horned. mwl. He, discev'ercd his best turkey gobbler Forty-eight is a good round number. . Easy .to remember. EVen..Right ,down the - middle. It's an okay number.. It.thight even be a ' great number. The only trouhle is it;s my, . age.. — • Yup. 'the great number I scored, on. my. last birthday. people at oar house were good enough .,t1Qt -to ask how many years old 1 Andilly Wire was kind-enough tirtrtoo smother the cake in candles, She didn't even try the guessing game trick--one' big candle to stand for so many years and then all the,little ones for something else. Nolte :of that. Just' one lone candle -- for ,any one's guess. • 13ut age' is no guessing game. Everyone • knowS how old you are: Just take a look at 'your kids. You can't have, a 23 v car old son and try to pass yourself off Als 40. Of courses you could harp On your 12 ycar•old. •• but she's the last .4....thv brtiod, 'Everyone knolls that,' . • And if people can't nail your age by your kids. then they should. take a• look at your • That's what inm• mother always told me. 'Forget it,bout the hair—whether it's. thin, receding or greying. And don't get • sidetracked on bifocals and false teeth. In this life, there are lots of premature everything.. But not skin, It never lies. • t, 's the great irgo-betritycr. Tlkre's not a thing you can do' about it --lined, wrinkled, erepe .papered and thOWn spotted. It's all 'ere—hanging out and not doing a good job of covering 'for you. But Fm.not complaining. I want you to khow I'm proud of forty-eight „Forty--eight. I kicked over .the youth cult long ago. Aside front , the ads telling me that young iS ''''''''''''''' I can't—sec what's so great about those early years. Insecure. Unstable. Unsure -- a zit king-•if I ever did , see one; What's the glory of youth? WItenj can have • me? ,•-• mellowed: matured. A lot of • English speaking Canadians hayen't really figured out yet how they feel about the possibility of Quebec separating from Canada. 'Some, if they were Quebeckers; would, probably, be separatists. But they are Canadians and don't like the idea of their country being torn apart. The Pc) win in Quebec last pall was a result of votes for honest gGvernment . and because Rene Lesveque's party was made up of some of the brightest people -in the province, the people best prepared to ' give Quebec good government. The Pa.majority wasn't a vote in favour of separation from Canada. • But . what's happened since is another story.- The PQ has jumped into battle with the conception of Canada as a country, They've got studies which claimthei,r province has given more,to the central government that it's gotten from it. Anti French incidents and bigotry in the rest of ''.Canada, like the Essex County French school issue, are played up in Quebec, 'adding fuel to what many . Quebeckers already feel that in fact, they aren't welcome in the rest of Canada. • • The ,recently announced English langua ge policy, which brought howls of protest in part of Quebec and in the rest of Canada, has met with widespread -acceptanCe in French Quebec. They probably feel that_they are„only turning :tables: aridAreatim the English minority with the 'same disdain _that French speaking Quebeckers had to face in their own province for so many,,years. Denial of. the 'best jobs, narrower educational opportunities, a ghetto lifestyle and a need to learn the other language to get:anywhere at all were realities for French, not 'English' speaking Quebeckers until 20 years or so ago. The "White Niggers. of North, America" Pier're Vallieres' called his 'fellow Quebeckers in the sixties and there's' a lot 'of basis in fact for his 'charge. The Parti Quebecois is pulling out all the stops to convince Quebeckers that they , have no future in Canada . and the federal %government is mounting an offensive to tell them 'otherwiSe. Our country is involved in , a ,propaganda war for pretty high stakes... Quebec, will she stay ior go?. Meanwhile, English speaking . Canadians, haVe mixed feelings about it all. At one extreme, - you, hear "We'll all be better . off if QUebec leaves and we can get one with our. own (English speaking) business." At the other you hear talk about wooing Quebec and attempting to convince her citizens that .the rest of Canada loves her and needs. her. To the editor Then you have a concern that we think is really valid and that is "if Quebec leaves, where' will it all stop?" Although we all have feelings about being Canadian, .Canada is really a sort of super country, made, up of five separate regions, some bigger than countries,who feel they have more in common with their own' region than with the rest of the Country. They all at times feel put upon in comparison to other, regions. It's not too far fetched to say that if Quebec .started the ball rolling, the Other region's, of Canada could start thinking seriously of going their own ways. Maritimers often . feel that high unemploymentHossof , manufacturing and high energy pr'ices were all ,they got out of Canada. Industrial Ontario complains at times that it supports the rest of the cotintry. The west feels Victimized by,Canada's transportation and • tariff And.- central Canadians getthe'feeling ttat British . Columbia would Dike to withdraw behinci its mountains and do its own thing. - They could decide the it grievanc0 are luSt as valid as Quebec's and plan their own separations. The fathers of Confederation had a dream, based ,.,on „shaky economics and a shakier railway,. that, Canada could --be one country. Were they wrong? That scares most English speaking Canadians and probably some. French speaking ones. I What, if anything, can be done • about it? We' can " woo" Quebec. We can attempt -to call a truce, admit -past wrongs on both sides and try to start over again On a foundation of mutual respect.. The- PQ won't buy -that though and neither will ' bigoted .Canadians- of both languages. ° We can attempt to prove to Quebec. • that .the rest of Canada won't go for any kind of -"economic-association"' with Canada after separation, that that's a pipe dream. Or we.can decide, that what Quebec does -is Quebec's business. We can conclude that animosity betWeen Quebec and the rest of Canada goes too deep to be cured by concern for each other at this late date. We can watch Canada, as we know it now, dissolve. No matter wnich• view ''ysu fake, there really is;ft't much of a ' choice. But we can think about what Quebec 4 ' means-t6 Canada, what it means to debate it, weigh the 'evidence and take a stand either encouraging -separation' or fighting it. Then, at_ least, we won't get separation by default. headless and surintsed that this is where his chickens had been killed, APRIL 4, 1902 Henry Smith of Hay shipped 17 head of thoroughbred cattle to Iowa. Messrs, Geo. Love and Wm. McCall of Winthrop arrived home after spending the winter in Minnesota, For the first time in the history of the Grand Trunk No. I •express stopped at the Jetter crane 'at Dublin. The Reform Convention held at Hensall was very largely attended and was one of the best ever held. The unani,,iotts choice was, M.Y.MeLean of Seaforth, the' ver:,, able and well known editor of the Huron Expositor. Messrs, James Petty, Geo. Trott, and Geo. Joyiirtf Hensall intend taking a trip to the Old Country. Neil Cameron of Bavfield has gone to Detroit to take a seasoned and reasoned. My wife tells me I'm better than ever. She's had to wait a fang time 'for me to ripen. She's not ready for any trade-in now at 48., , And I'm not. buying this'"It's-no-matter how-old-youare-just-so-long-as-you're- young-at -heart ." ' Bah: Humbu g. It's still perpetuating. the notion that young -is, beautiful. 48 is great. Forty-eight is 'great. And just to prove, it; let me tell you what got, for my birthday. Twenty years ago I got stuck with ties, shirts and 'a had-Imo-- all very p'ra'ctical arid useful .gifts.' But not -this year, It brought Memore laughs. Fred Youngs of the Mitchell Advocate sent me Over 26 pieces of yellow paper -- to write my column on. Someone else gave me a . cool chick--a frozen roasting hen she t''''fflised • on the farm. Another fellow brought 'me some mellow Yugoslav wine. Someone else gave me tennis balls-- so I can play — not work. And my family gave a travel alarm and an hour glass. Yes. an hour glass. Now I 'can 'sit and .watch the sand and think up good reasons why we need two more time pieces. • We have already two old wooden gingerbread kitchen 'clocks ticking away,, two broken alarm clocks, a 'wrist watch, and an electric clock. • Maybe my family is trying to tell me something. Maybe they want me to number my days. To let me know that time is slipping underneath my feet, that time is money. Butill have none of that. I'll mock the times and say there's no time like the prese nt. I'll say• these are good times. Good days. Great forty-eight days. - Not every num can claim an hoot. of ',piano practise to the trickle of sand running through his hour glass. You have to be forty-eight -- old enough -- to do a thing like that. position on a large boat. Learoy d & Co. have moved to their nev,:.store in the Cardno Block. Miss Lizzie M. Durrance and Miss Fowler, who are attending the 'London Normal School returned to their homes for the Easter holidays.. A number of the farmers' in Tuckersmith, have'been making maple syrup and repbrt a , fair run. Mrs. • G.T.McKay• of' Tuckersznith attended the funeral of her father, David Mason, also her brother-in-4v,', WM. • Finlaysoo. both, of Egmondville. APRIL 1, 1927 The fishermen at Bayfield have cottmenced • operations and set nets and have had a fairly good catch. of perch this week. Wallace Archifiald..vvho has been doing engineering work in Northern Ontario for the past 3 months has returned home. Mrs. Dolmage of McKillop ham Moved into the apartments over Hudson's store on Main St. Mitchell• Bros. of •Manley have almost finished their custom sawing. • The. public sale of the Ii4M-Istbek and implemcnts ,of the late. Emerson Snider n or Drysdale was one. of the largest ever held :at Zurich. Fairbairn moved. this week• into the main part. of the dwelling rented and •• occupied 'by A marble tournament was held in the Egmondville School during .March. The winners. were as follows: Sr.Boys Glenn Hays, .lr. Boys Harold Finnegan: Senior Girls -Margaret Case, Jr. Vivian Townsend: boys • champion Glenn Hayes.: girl's champion. Margaret' Case. -• • • The 'pastor W.P.Litne and members of the Offical board ofNorthside United Church met at the home of Trethewav and. presented hint with an address . and a gold headed cane..The address was by J.W. Beattie and the presentation was made Chas'. Holland. \ APRIL 4„1952 r. The Women's Association of Northside United Church sponsored a Stdr-Free good music '.convert when the"COmmodres'" presented aconcert of varied "musie. ittinibers„ • l'he Fireside Fellowship group of .First Presbyterian Church together with the merchants of the town, presented a fashion show.-The commentator was Mrs. The •folloZiiig"-are- the merchants who contributed to the succcess affair., together with their models - The Kiddies Shop Models, Miss Lorna Gordon, Pearn McLean, 'Lois Smith. Kim M cLean, Mary :Jean McLean, Joyce Smith. Mona Marie. inzenbcrger, and Dhrothy En:zenberger., A large' crowd gathered in Winthrop hall to.honor the Montgomery family, prior ro: their, leaving for Brantford. Allan Campbell acted as chairman. itsiS Byerman, read the address and Lorraine Smith andMarjorie McClure presented them with 'a purse of Money. : " Mr. and Mrs. John McLean of Cromarty have returned to their home .after spending the winter .months with Mr. and Mrs, .1. Melville of Mitchell. Appointment of Dr, Thomas R. Melady of Dublin, as public' health veterinary to the Huron County Health Unit was announced. Mr. and Mrs. Ray Hutchison have moved into the McMaster Apartments on Main St. recently occupied by Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Wilber, Henry E. Diegel of Brodhagcn, who way confined to Scott Memorial Hospital, Seaford'. with a btoken ankle, has returned home. Austin Dolmage of Winthrop Mir:rids moving into the residence at the rear of his. store' this week end. Amen by Karl Schuessier Forty-eight Tile 'article of March 31st, "Has G. 'Hill betrayed farmers"? by John M •incr. contains a number of false impressions which I would' like to clarify. Last stimmerk - the Liberal Party voted against the Government's Farm Income Stabilization Bill and we had 'a number of excellent reasons for doing so. We ourselves were in favotir of a 'programme such 'as that outlined .by the Ontario. Federation of Agriculture, which would permit farmers to contribute to the scheme, which would be voluntary, and under Which the farmers' own representatives would, in fact, decide the level of support to be provided for any given commodity; a programme which would enable farmers to recover at least production costs, at any time when market prices were excessively low. A plan along these lines would.h our opinion, acted as a form of guarantee to farmers of a certakip amount of financial return for theirprOlducts; a system of price .insurance, in a sense. Priot- to June of 1976, the Government had, year after year, promised sonic kind of 'fair ,and equitable income stabilization plan, Yet when the 1Minister• of, Agriculture finally Unveiled his'plan. it was a great disappointment' little more than a public relations exercise.. It would ' have accounted for five or perhaps seven , million dollars' worth of support, and covered between 15% and 20".i, of the contmodities which are produced by farmers in „Ontario:. In our ., view. it would have been of little value to the vast majority of the agricultural industry in the Province, because what is needed. is sane kind of protection for the other 8'S% of commodities producsd here.. For this reson the 'Liberal Party introduced an amendment to Bill 96,, which would make the plan one of protection rather than insurance, and 'on a voluntary and contributory basis with the Govern- ment negotiating with legally constituted farm spOkesmen', and' also insisted that the Bill should be :reintrodked no la 'ter than the 31'st of last. year. As y ou know' the ,Go,;;ernment was forced to take the original Farm thcome Stabilization bill back. to the drawing board to incorporate in the legislation the above principles, Had , the Government made an honest attempt to bring in a forni set Farm IncoMe Stabilization which would' have been effective, in giving, our .farmers a degree of • income protection. we .would not have hesitated to give it our approval. principle s,;(2. Wt,o dstliteTtopittd,1 itilieq:1-18tehitiela.ititsicte\‘:‘\11(,,illilii)(e(iBi ihielalvvele3inlb)etoehnne highly irresponsible on anyone's part to oppose a Bill ie e'e(he1laldSofth:01oition Parties have actually been tet vestillicligj ng s about th Government's proposed` plan . and endeavoured to prevail upon --the prembsed. was' in connection with. indexing. gegIsltartuioiyn which g‘‘4..0)N,Ifirduhmaevtei t ctl(i)a%ceedint amendments he ,.,.. first step towards buildin g viable fain income stabilization plan to meet the needs of our farmers, Our first amendment ‘t‘h•tviS .icnocnolln-iiniesest4i)oiln tv,ith the ronstitUtion of producers in of der to arrive at a stabilized be established to consult with orodu.'er organizatilms and price. We were of the opinion ' that Commission members should he appointed not alsoodniity•ecbtylyti11)ev. Ltlil ectifiterit.litint,r(g411)1‘;'ieirantl sb-1; the Province, which would ensure that , There n ison rtehael efftornnitmcisosniontili n n it re PV se, n - The second amendment which we We -heli eve that actual cost of production should he taken into consideration. because many factors are involved in addition to cash cost, The farmer must be allowed some return on the high invests- ment which he makes, and some allowance should be made for his bwn labour„ and so forth. Our third amendment was to the effect that the Commission should 'be. required to' consult with producer organizations or 'commodity boards before arriving at a stabilized price for a particular comrnodit y ht. ,.s . It unrealistic to expect thc Commission to arrive at a stabilized price without such' consultation. In this connection, where the Government bill said the Commission "may" consult, we felt ittshould read "must!' consult with the various 'commodity boards. The article states that the N.D.P. has been the only party more than willing to back the farmers' demandS. On , the contrary. while thie new Democratic Party made a great public display pf the fact drat its Members Were prepared to vote against the Government's PArm InCome legisla. ,1 /4 i*: I list ,. fell I, +I .mld short-sighted and foolhardy to reject the Government's propopsals, thus denying the farmer's any kind of protection while the Bill was •redrafted yet again - to suit the Government's own purposes ^and to appease Opposition Parties • not by giving in to our demands completely .but by providing, enough bait for us to. a ibblc on until such time as the P remier felt the time was ripe to go to the people of Oritario in an election campaign. In recent years, there has been a lot of discussion about the pros and cons of the free,,enterprise system. Few groups in the Province are more committed to the principles of free enterprise than . -the agriculture industry. ThatS why the Liberal_ Party, which contains a significant number of farmers from farming communities' around the Province were convinced that the kind of Farm Income Stabilization plan which the N.D,P, had in mind would not be acceptable to our farmers. That's why we were prepared to accept the Government's proposals, suitably amended, as a basis on whcih to build a real Fattn Income Stabilization Progita tn. .lack Riddell, M.P,P, ll-luren-Middlesex -