The Huron Expositor, 1978-06-22, Page 3PIONEERS AT SPS Wednesday capped a series of
classes on our forefathers when Pioneer Day vas
held at SPS. Students baked bread, made candles
and sawed wood the old ways. Others toured the Van
Egmond house. This group, some in costume,
enjoyed lunch on the lawn outside the school.
(Photo by Oke)
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•by Karl Sehuess-I,r
Karl talks to Billy Graham
Two Sundays ago the crowds flocked into
Maple Leaf Gardens to hear the -opener .of
Billy Graham's week long crusade for Christ"
in Toronto. • .
They'came in cars and taxiss. On foot and on
streetcars and subways. In chartered buses
and. church owned buses. They came to hear
,this century's best know evangelist.
By 11:00. that Sunday morning the seats
started to fill up. By 2:00 the place was
packed. Every single place was taken--18,000
people indside and 6,000 waiting outside.
That was a full hour before the service began.
The press packed into the Garden too. They
held reserved space and it was not the' usual
crow's nest boxes- way high above the stands.
The press sat on ground level. Only a' huge
blue carpet separated them from the platform
,raised on what's normally center ice. They
could listen to Billy' Graham in preferential,
treatment-111p front and close to him. . .
At a press conference held just after that
first rally, he thanked the press for its
cooperation and coverage, He said he hadn't
seen the -likes of so many of them anywhere.
They came from everywhere from radio, TV
and press.
It's not, of course, that everyone of the fifth
estate treats him all that well. Some have tried
to do ,hirn in, Discount him. Question his
motives. One Saturday magazine on • its cover
had his picture overlaid with money bags in
the shape of a cross.
Other reporters have tried to trivialize his
mission. Or call. him innocent and harmless,
but plain ineffectual. Then there was that
same Globe and Mail Weekend Magazine
article that listed all of his illnesses and
diseases since childhood.
Graham got a laugh out of that one. He told
that first Sunday afternoon audience, N'Oien he
finished reading Thai article, lie wondered
how a than in his condition would ever be able
to mount the steps and stand up to preach.
But Billy Graham dispelled any such doubt.
He looked tan and healthy—far younger than
his 59 years. That afternoon he may have
paced himself--only eight to eleven jestures
per minute, as the Weekend article, pointed
out, instead of the 21 gestures per minute
of his younger years.
Billy Graham never looked better as he
preached his old time gospel and brought
forward hundreds on-the blue 'carpet to make,
decisions for Christ.
Th' press has to give a certain amount of
admiration to Billy Graham--no matter how
grudgingly. For Graham is a Christian
gentleman. Southern one at that. He treats
the press as gentlemen and he remains ever
one himseff.
- He never wearies of answering the
long-standing objections the reporters bring
up. He answer s them with a smile andwith a
first time freshness and welcome. . .
He knows all the 'objections by heart: His
simplistic message. His man centered -,•••••
ministry. His not speaking out on asocial and
political issues. His pietistic and in-
dividualistic approach. His well oiled, well
heeled machinery, His actual number of
conversions considering The drOp-out rate; his
questionable follow-up program; the, cam-
paign cost of $643,000 in Toronto, aren't there
better ways to spend that much money? His
higher-than-average salary. His endorsement
of the establishment.
As surely as he knows the objections, more
Surely still, he. knows all the answers. 'And
Billy Graham conies out looking better than
ever. • ' •
He never attacks his critics. He just defends
their r ight to state their views. He won't
answer vicious and outrageous charges. He
demurs and says the attacker's rancor speaks
for itself.
I never saw a press. man bring down
Graham. Reporters can spend days massing '•
their ammunition, and pressing it on him,, but
Billy has a way of deflecting it. He manages to
disarm and charm. He turns their attack
around. So-while all those reporters battle for
their story. Graham is able to get his own
story across.
He's good reason to be grateful to the press
--for it did help make him greatful. The story is
well know how William Randolph Hearst told
his Los Angeles paper to puff the . young
evangelist' come to town those thirty years
ago..
And when I had my chance to ask a
question or two • of him, 1- didn't. feel
comfortable iii the devil's . advocate -suit—
There's something about Billy Graham that
makes you pause. His dignity. His
genuineness. His honesty. His credibility.
Sure, I could carp here and there. Trifle with
this and 'that. But the man comes across as a
spokesman for God. You feel you must tread
tighter on what seems holier ground.'
So what to do? But shake his hand. Wish
him good health in face of ithe Weekend
Magazine report on his so-so medical report.
For Billy Graham had given us a good story.
He answered all the questions. 'He stood up
well.
I did take a second look though, at his smile,
I wanted to check out his teeth. For that
magazine article said "The saved have few
doubts and. more teeth. Think of Jimmy
Carter. Anita Bryant. Billy Graham".
Yes, I can report. Billy Graham has a whole
mouthful. Bright. White. Many. His own.
Saved.
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c, ocornet,rung to say THEE HURON EXPOSITOR, JUNE 22, 1978
bye Susan White
• !hope I'm wron
SO THIS IS A FASHION SHOW — Little Pam Carter
did her best as she _modelled clothes from Jack and
Jill and accessories froM Hetherington Shoes and
SeaforthJeW011ers at"the'Craft ShOw Fashibn Show
on Saturday. Both fashion showings attracted large
crowds, (Expositor Photo)
ROCK FARMERS AND GOOGLIES — Allan Van
Der Ende, R.R.2, Goderich, displayed googlies ,
and roOk farmers, both made of small stones by he
and his father, who's also a painter, at the Seaforth
Craft -gtiow held on the weekend.
(Expositor Photo)
for pioneer days
mothers wore didn't stop the girls Square dancing was enjoyed by
from enjoying skipping at recess, both the• g iris and the boys.
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McNichol and !Robert Broadhagen disco'vered there's
powei• tools as they strained their Muscles with an old
at Seaforth Public School's Pioneer days held last
(Photo by Oke)
_HEAVE' HO! — Murray
something to be said for
fashioned crosscut saw
Wednesday.
forin a reading group and discuss
the books and other contemporary
literatures . this summer. We
might all learn something. Get in
serious.
We
you're interested. I'm
We have to do something I
think, to get rid of the atmosphere
of suspicion. -and' self-righteous-
ness that pervaded the meeting.
The panelists I felt were open,
conciliatory and friendly. They'
were confronted' too often. by
unkindness and mean „spirited
comments. .
()net woman trying to explain
how Canadian books made us feel
like one nation, like a family, told
a childhood story that makes her
family feel one;
himself as an elected official said
he didn't know what her silly
story had to do with the English
-*books. • It's just that boorish
least of all, what 1 think about it attitude that thoughtful teachings
all.. . _ of literature can help to prevent.
I'm sorry but I have to tell you The game speaker by accident
anyway. Stop reading here if gave an excellent argument for
you've had it with the whole teaching Of Mice and' Men in
mess,school, where it 'can be studied
How would you as asj parent feel with care. He's read it on his own
if your daughter was called a slut he' said, and it 'seemed to
in a public meeting, in the press advocate killing retarded people.,
and on radio and TV? Or how As anyone who's read
about if people charged publicly Steinbeck's book knows, that was
- 'that your son was corrupting the - 'One of-the-evening's truly -obscene'
morals of those he came in
contact with?
You'd be sick at heart. We all
"uid Okay, stop a moment with me
and think about how respected
Canadian authors feel when they
hear their books described in
similar terms.
A really good book, as several
panelists , tried' to explain at the
meeting, comes from the soul. It
is a-creation.. just like a beautiful
quilt or a fine chocolate cake. It's
a writer's responsibility, Alice
Munro said, and I believe her,'
"to come as close as you can to'
room 'and circulatory system.
• Other work included in . the
program involves changes ,in the
ball, diamonds area and lighting,
rk area lighting, cleaning out
the river and necessary bank
protection, improved road and
parking area and provigion of an
,equipment storage building.
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the shifting reality of human
experience...not to flatter or to
offend."
The unthinking hostility' and
rudeness that was directed at
panel' members and authors in
general must have hurt them.
I know it bothered me because
I've read and been moved by the
books in question. They're
important 'to' me for all the
valuable things they say about life
and how it is to be lived.
, Too Far • •
But I'm not going to try and
defend the bookg. The panelists
and several audience members
tried to do that Tuesday night and
didn't get too far. No, instead, I
challenge you to read The
Diviners, Of Mice and Men ,and
Catcher , in, the Rye,' and see for
yourself that they teach honesty,
openness and humanity and seek
to avoid hypocrisy and sham .
Better yet, read the books with
a high school English class and.
see how carefully and thought-
fully,they are presented. Or, let's
There are plenty of light„and
funny things coursing throudIr:my
head today...things I could write
a column Or two on. For a change.
It would be easy.
But I can't. I'm bugged by
something that I find it
impossible to be light and funny
about: the meting in Clinton last
Tuesday to talk about the three
books that some people want
removed from Huron's high
school English reading lists.
If you were there, you •know
what I'm talking about, If you
read Jeff Seddon',s excellent
report of the meeting in last
week's Expositor, you have a
pretty good idea what happened.
Maybe like a whole lot of
people, I suspect. you're sick of
the whole darn discussion and
don't know and couldn't care less
about the books, the meeting, and
Grades 2. _to 8 _have visited
either the Doon Pioneer Village or
Van Egmond House,
Egmondville.
For one day the students
discovered what the old one-room
schoolhouse was like ai Grades 2 .
to 5 were divided up in a
cross-section of grades. They
were given names - S.S. No. 1,
S,S. No. 2...and these "schools"
held spelling bee contests as one
of their activities.
Lunches were brought to school
in pails or baskets and eaten
picnic fashion on the lawn.
The students ate the bread,
buns and cookies they made as
well as the butter they churned
and the homemade " jams and
preserves.
Sonic tried the pioneer crafts
rug braiding. candle 'baking with
beeswax in antique candle molds
while others tested their strength
and skill on the crosscut saws and-
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present day requirements. The
electrical service much .of which
was installed more than 40 years
ago and is obsolate for some time
has been hard pressed to• carry
•the dethands made of it.
:A contract for $32,498.00
covering the work in the firSt
• phase has been awarded to
Wayne" and Harold Sundt Con-
struction Ltd,
Decision to proceed with the
program was taken by • the
Seaforth Lions Club following
study of a report on the park
facilities which was prepared last
year by London Engineers James
F. MacLaren ,Ltd.
Financing of the program will
come from four sources officials
d est.,. are funds
on hand resulting from estate'
gifts to the park, proceeds ftom
annual fund raising activities and
from public participation in a
campaign expected to get under
way later this year. In addition
Wintario participation has been
indicated in principal. Total cost
ot..the .program expected to.
continue into 1980 is estimated at
$191,815.00 of which perhaps
$50,000 will be required to be
raised during the period,
One of the first projects of the
Seaforth Lions Club when it was
formed in 1924,the Lions Park has
grown from a small park
including a pool formed by a dam
in Silver Creek to a eight acre site
which provides complete picnic
and sports facilities including
pool, bath house and tuck shop,
wading pool. picnic„ pavilion and
ball diamond. Each year thou-
sands of area people use the park
facilities and through the years
countless area children have
learned to swim as a result of the
Lions Park smuttier programri.
While a firm decision has hot
been takeni it is expected the next
phase of the renovation 'program
will included repairs to the pool
and deck, the pool equipment
comments.
Parents' Rights
I respect parent's' rights to
determine what their children will
read. But no one forces all, the
young people of Huron County to
read these books. Alternate
literature is available in high
school classes.
Perhaps, as some studentS
said,• they are subject, to peer
pressure if they don't read what
the majority does.. it's not easy to
object to things...it never is "but
someone who feels strongly
should be able "to take some
flack."
Alternate books was not a
solution for many of the, objecting
parents who spoke at the
meeting. That meals they not
only want -their kids not to study
these three books in English
classes, they want to take the
choice away from , my kids. I
object to- that. We're all
concerned parents but we have
different points of view, different
absolutes. Why, can't we respect
but not 'dictate to each other?
Choice
The emphasis on taking choice.
out of the- schools worries me. if
we let a group determine 'what all
kids can read in Englishoclass, the
next step may be to 'prevent
adults from obtaining other books
in the public libraries. Then we
could have those whose religious
precepts 'teach a literal interpre-
tation 'of the bible. demand that
evolution no longer be taught in
sell* high, schools and univer-
sities:
- Where will it end? That's
exactly what scares me: It's not
Work under way . now is •
scheduled for completion within
10 days, and is not' expected to-
,Inci lei c with the. usual swim
program which as usual will
gt_t finderway prior to the July 1
weekend according to Eugene
Todd, The Pa•rk 'Manager.
Classified Ads pay dividends.
long time ago, tIgleo(glio
ndescs)':
days Were called these trying
times.
Indian war paint; Sioux veneer,
step back
their grand-
Expositor asks:
Should housewives be paid a salary?
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Kippen said, ' Well I'v,e been one for a long
time and I didn't get paid, When you get
married, you'te supposed to share things and
do your 'part.
"I didn't get paid in cash and I've had
everything I ever wanted," she said.
• -Mrs, Robert 'Miller of R. R.-#1, Hensall
agreed with Mrs. Kerchcr's viewpoint.
' "No, I think it's a duty, We're getting our
room and our board. I think that a woman, in
the home should do what she does out of 'love
rather_than be paid for it," she
Mrs. Reg. Channel' of R. R. '#2, Staffa
thought. housewiveS•thould be paid for what
they do.
"I think' they do their great share .around
and if they.Work out of the home that's-helping
that way too. Most of them 'raise families and
keep the household going," she said.
• "1 think ft should be 50-50 in everything
that you have," she said meaning that if a
husband -and wife bought something the wife
should have a salary to help pay for it.
Mrs.: John O'Reilly of R. R. #2, • Dublin
thought that husbands shoirld provide for
their wives if they could. She thought farm
wives should be allowed more on income tax
forms,
"I don't think income tax gives the wives a
fair share: I just think the way it's set up they
should be allowed more especially where
there's a number of ehildien. Housewives do a
lot extra," she said.
Mrs. Neil Dolmage of R.R,#4, Walton, said.
"it might be*a good idea. I guess it would give
the women an incentive to stay home and 'rage"
their own children and give the younger
Women jobs."
Manor
honours
Rev •
Stephens
Little Tommy was• telling his
mother about his day in school. •
"Today our teacher asked me if
1 had any brothers or sisters, and
I said I was an only child."
"And what did she say?"
inquired the mother.
SPS pupils
exaggerating to say that authorti
tarian regimes, be they Ku Klux
Klan or Naxi, very early make it
their business to control what
people read and what they learn
in schoO.
I don't knoiv about you but it
bothers me to hear Huron County
bandied about in the national
media as the home of backward
thinking. You and I know it isn't.
In fact Huron has had in the past
a reputation for producing fine
scholars and , a respect for
'learning. "Huron blood will tell,"
the expression was!
Why isn't Huron County
making the national news
because its people are up in arms ,
about child abuse or about
religious or racial intolerance?
Surely not because the same
parents who are worried about
books aren't equally worried
about these issues, potentially a
million times more corrupting of
their children and mine,
The meeting that night, in
Clinton left me very depressed
about the future of freedom of
thought, about communication
between those of us Who think
differently and about tolerance
for our fellow human beings.
I hope I'm wrong to -be so
pessimistic.
Will someone please tell me I'm
wrong?
Rev. E. Stephens of Brucefield
united Church and.--Rev...,' Roberts
'of Egmondville U.C. conducted
services at SeafOrth Manor-
Nursing Home. Rev. Roberts
preached his first sermon, to
residents, and Rev. Stephens
*companied at the piano for the
hymns and also favoured with two
piano solos.
It was both a happy occasion
and a sad one. Residents were
happy to welcome Rev. Roberts
for services' and sad to bid
farewell to Rev, Stephens who
has visited each month the past
few years.
In grateful appreciation Miss
Doris. Wills and isobel Lamble
presented Rev. Stephens with a
small gift on behalf of all
residents,
Rev. Stephens fittingly replied
and also said he would come and
see everyone whenever possible.
Correction
A story on. Seaforth council's
discussion of apartment buildings
in the new subdivision it is
Planning with Arris Land
Development Ltd. said there is no
land zoned general residential left
in town.
In fact there is some land thus
zoned, which allows apartments
to be built on it.
Changes underway at Park
Smiles
She said. 'Thank goodness!'' "
harnmering, -nails.
The pupils at Soaforth Public _ lby Wilma OW
School took a step back in history
Long dresses like
this week fo pioneer days as part
of their Canadian history studies.
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