HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1981-03-05, Page 2Some Institutions, good in their day, bright, innovItive„ new even,
five out their usefulness. Then, quite, rightly, they 'disappear. That's what
Happened to the horse and buggy, ploughing with oxen and that's, what
oufi lo„VaTiperi to Seaforth's Brotherhood Night.
, Just -about everyone'S heard by now about the two women, invited
guests, who twere,askeci to leave the event Seaforth's male service clubs
N- jointly sponsor .every year. They weren't asked to leave ibecause of.. their,
political persuasion (they're NDP), unacceptable behaviour (they're
polite`and friendly, both of thetri) or beCause they lacked an invitation
(one was issued and at least oneof the evening's organizers expected the
women):
No. GWen -Pemberton and Moira Couper were turned out -of Seaforth's
Legion Han, site of the banquet, simply because they are Women. --
So what, you say? It's a night for men and they're entitled to get away
from women once in awhile, They are, we agree, and. those nights are
called stags.
Brotherhood- Night On, the other 'hand is supposedly organized to
promote gobdwill between,clubs, religions, to help us get to know others
and accept their differences. It's performed that role wet fdr half the
population in Seaforth; for some years 'now.
We imagine that those who say no, di4imination Was inivolVed in the
eviction. of Mrs,. Pemberton and Mrs. Mouper wouldn't feel quite so
unconcerned had two black men or Jews or Pakistanis, been asked to
leave Brotherhood Night.
Or we hope so. Last year an Expositor editorial called for a
Brotherhood Night that included women. We said then that the goodwill
engenders will -be all; the better once it includes the oth if half of the
population. . . 1
Brotherhood' Night has not -in fact kept, !„j'p with the t es, Ontario's
Hospital' Auxiliaries welcome mate members;, in the U the national
Jaycees have named a woman lawyer an outstanding Jaycee'of the year;
men cook and clean; women head corporations/. ,
But another Brotherhood Night has come and gone without any action
to include the capable and active Worneti's groups in.SeafOrth, -in fact,
1981's lEtrofherhOOtHlight-- done a.- lot, of,_hartn„, . to/ .our
reputation as a forward-1601On modern-tninking place, to two ni
women who simply accepted an invitation and to ail of us who are fema
-and live in Seaforth.
Second class citizens? You bet, as John Lennon wrote, end-
Brotherhood Night confirmed, "Woman is the Nig erg ,of the World,"
'.It'll r take an awful lot-of work to salvage Brotherhood Night In our
opinion, unless it includes women it should be quietly put to rest, as most
things are when time passes them by.,
EGMONDV1LLE PUBLIC SCHOOL PUPILS--Doris Allan of Seaforth
brought this photo of pupils at the Egmondville Public School, circa the
early 1900 s, into the Expositor office recently. The only two students she
knoWs are the two girls marked with an X they are her husband's two
sisters. Anyone who Can identify any of the students in the picture is
asked to give us a call at the Expositor office! (Loaned by Doris
1
Mr. andMrs. Archie Hodgert and family •
have moved into Hensall /and are moving
into ones of Reeve Geiger's, dwellings on
Richinond St,,, South lately occupied by A.
Warm and family. f-
MARCH 2, 1956
'Despite freezing' rain and fog which
blanketed the district l and' made driving
conditions over a. wide area : extremely -
hazardous, some 400 people were in Zueich,
Friday evening to atttend the' annual dinner
and meeting of the Huron , Liberal Associ-
ation.
The entltltsiastic meeting heard an i
address by On. Paul , Martin, Minister of
Health and Welfare and elected Hugh
Hawkins of Clinton. president' of the ,
agScieietkni:. -- - --- ' ' - ,.•
Over 150 young.- farmers ..gathered in
Walton Hall Wednesday evening, Feb. 22. ,
despite stormy -weather and drifted roods to
hear an address on farM problems by Joe
Philps.. farmer. of .VVilkie, Saskatchewan who
is - posit president of the Saskatehetvgn
Farnters Union, and a very forceful speaker.,
Dorleon Sills, and Managirlia. Holmes of
_Chairmail----Erank,-Klin mmissioner,'------,
the Seaforth. p.u,c. .were in Toronto 'this .,.
week attending the annual. convention of the, I!
0.M.E.A. ' • . -
Les Dolmage, Seafon , was re-elected
president at the ann ul meeting of the
Huron County ,Trappers Association held in. -
Linton on Friday night.
Huron County 4•H Club Leaders Associ-
ation on .VIonday , named- Bob _Allen of
Brucefield, president. A relatiyely new
member of the, Association and a former
Junior. Farmer. Mr. Allen succeeds William
Turnbull of Brussels "'
Canadian winter nothing to write home about • •
Firemen reprimanded
but for their. dishing
It is true that Dave Date-reprimanded' Mr
firemen but not for driving fire vehicles as
_ reported by tile and press for the last
two weeks. • •
Dave bale reprimanded 'the firemen for
the way they were -driving their own vehicles
to-the fireitall-to-answei a fire call. My own
personal opinion is that Dave Dale conduc-
ted himself in a proper and profestional
manner in this particular situation.
Thank you;
Ron Broome
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Brotherhood had its day
A horse belonging to Simon Young
created' a stall sensation on Main St.
Seaforth on Monday. It took a notion to run
away and taking the sidewalk at Morrison's
store made things lively in front of Strong's
block until it got to Jamieson's corner where
it was very cleverly caught by George
Whitney. No serious injury, was done.
A wolf was seen in Tuckersmith in the
vicinity of Alex Forsythe's farm a 'few days
ago. The animal was chased for a
considerable distance, but succeeded in
eluding its pursuers.
James McDonald has disposed of the Post , Toronto or his majority would likely, have
Office Store and property in Walton which' been two less as the-latt\er, are es strongly
he purchased last week from Mr. PattAson to . Grit as he is Tory.
Richard Pollard for the sum of $3,000. Mr. T.E. Heys -returned front 'Cayuga,
Pollard takes possession on the first of April.
He-will carry on a general store and the post
office. The people of Leadbury will be sorry
to lose Mr. Pollard-but what will be their loss
will be Walton's gain. We wish him every
-success and hope he rites speedily make his.. --Seaforth on Tuesday to Luke Fortune, one of is quite a, responsible position for which
pile in his • ncw sphele. , the progresSive farmers of the Huron Road there were a'nuMber of applicatits, and it
Francis iflatelArd . and 'George 13tOwti of ' Mst. --a- vet"- irandsome-fillY foal .. a ..moniks _goes without saving that Mr. Conchs will fill
Hensall have lately entered into partnership old, for which he received $110. This colt the position most suitably having had a
and have purchased R. Blatchford's black-
and carriage shop, also his residence
on -King Street and intend carrying on the
blacksmithing and earriage business in all its
branches. The new firm are experienced and
practiCal workmeh and as they are both well
and favorably known in these parts, we have
no doubt but they will succeed in budding up
a large business.
'James Kyle has now got his new saw mill
at Egmondville in full running ordei. He has
lots of logs and is able to supply all comers
with the very best lumber. Mr. Kyle is an
MARCH 4, 1881
was raised by Mr: McGavin and was .bred
from his impprted stock horse'. "Sunlight."
1:S•:' Roberts of Seaforth, has engaged
W..M. McKay, a competent druggist tolook
after his store during hisCiliness.
W.H. Cline has accepted a position on the
Grand Trunk Railway -at London ' and will
likely remove from Seaforth shortly.
MARCH 6, 1931
On Saturday night. Feb. 28th before a
rectird crowd of enthusiastic fans', the Dublin
_aggregation defeated the Mill Road to the
tune of 4-1, to cop the championship. In spite
enterprising man and sure to succeed.
MARCH 2,1906
Win. K. McNaught, who was elected to
the Legislattire in North Toronto by so large
a majority last week, is a youngest brother
of D. MeNaught-it present in Seaforth and
an uncle of Russell MeNaught, jeweller. But
it is fortunate for W.K. that neither the
brother nor the nephew had a vote in North
Haldimand County, this week 'and hrought
with him two carloads of steers. 54:head to
pasture on his farm in McKillop.
Isaac McGavin. the well known . horse
raiser of Leadbury. McKillop delivered to
In the years agone
Winter in this country is -nothing to write
home about. 'Especially if your home is
California, Or Texas. or Florida:
We. had a visitor this week from Sao Paulo,
Brazil.. He had never seen snow before. He
couldn't believe how we survived..
Had a ride with a cab driver about a week
ago. He was from the West Indies. It was
one of those comparatively mild days. about
sixteen Fahrenheit. It had been away Moe
zero for about a week.
As a good-Canadian. 1-commented on the
weather. "Nice to see the cold spell over."
His response. "Mon . 1 am ,freezing to
death. I've been freezing to death since I
come tit this ?/!# country two years ago.
The vast, majority of Canadians hate
wirier, with a deep. unrestrained violence.
They hate struggling into boots and
For some time stow the generalpublic has
been involved ity the planning process of
Hydro Electric Power Development in
Ontario. For example, the farm community.
during a period frern 1975-1979, helped
provide , vital agricultural information to
Ontario Hydro via the "Working Group- on
agricultural methodology. Farm organiza-
tions represented on the "Agricutlural
Working Croup" are: The Ontario Federa.
tion of Ag ieulture. The National Farmers
Union, Tne Christian Farmers Federation of
Ontario, the Ontario Cattlemen's Associa•
tion, The Soil and Crop Improvement
Association. and The Concerned Farmers of
the United Townships. '
We, as the Huron Power Line Committee.
are convinced that this kind of involvement
by the public sector is very crucial in
assessing energy needs. and determining
the eliteria by whick those needs are met. in
order for alt of sodir6ty' to benefit,
The Royal CoMmission on Electic Power
Planning, during their hearings, followed a
very open and participatory proCedure, and
in their recommendations urged. Ontario
Hydro to do the same.
We have been expecting a South Western
Ontario study (which has been available in
draft form since the end of October/early
November 1980) to be released by Ontario
Hydriir This Study is expected- to tifoliose
a 500 K.O. power line be constructed, front_
the Bruce Nuclear Power Development and '-
run south through Huron County to serve the
South Western Ontario grid and possibly
export surplus power to the U.S.
The failure of the media to adequately,
explain Canadia s 'n o part ,of Canada to
Canadians in 'anot er has greatly con-
tributed te„,the current mess we face in- this
country as was examined here last week.
lte media isn't doing a much better job in
giving us the real information we need in the,
day-to-day battle of the consetitutional
debate.
The good and bad of the Media is probably,
most handily wrapped up in one newspaper.
the Globe and Mail, the newspaper that calls
itself "Canada's National 'Newspaper". The
Globe is today more national ,than ever
before because using space-age technology,
the'piper is instantly-transmitted-by satellite-
Ruin east and the west where it is' produced
on printing presses at nearly the, same time
it is being printed in Toronto. Where once
the Globe was delivered by 'jet plane hours
after it hit the streets„ in Tortintoi the paper
is now available across the Country at nearly
the same time.
There have been some who have cynically
said that the new emphisis on winning.
readerShip in the 'booming oil capitals of
Alberta is responsible for the current
editorial hysteria, against Pierre Trudeau, his
constitutional policies, his oil policies and
virtually everything about him including the
rose in his lapel. There is ptobahly real
sincerity about the Giobes belief that
Trudeau is wrecking the country but it is still
'hard to believe what is happening to the
paper once know for its cairn., reasoned
approach to editorial writing, Virtually every
day for Months the Globe has used its lead
editorial to 'tear a strip off Trudeap and any
one who dared -to support -him. There has
been little cool reasoning to the attacks.
They ,have often been tittle • short of hate
literature. Not content with that, the Globe
bought space in the, Times -of London to tell
the British what a scoundrel Trudeatt
llublisher\Roy, Megarry tripped ovet to
England hirnself to- get the British to save
Canada. front the Canadian Prime Minister.,
HYSTERIA
-But at the same time as this hysteria on
the editorial page there has been a good deal
of perspective shown in the news and
,opinion columns of the Globe. The Globe has
.been running an informative series of
articles on the alienation of the West. This
aeries has gone beyond just pickiniut:the.
slogans. of Peter Lougheed or the separatist
leaders. It hasn't been afraid to say when the
east has mistreated the west, but it has also
been reedy to say when the westerners were
"ever-reitetitig or fwiifirij theligures to make
things look the way they want fa.
It was the Globe, for instance. that shot a
few holes in Peter LotIgheed's arguments
that the federal oil policy is driving oil and
gas exploration, Companies out of Canada.
The" Globe's reporter did what a good
journalist should do, some homenork. The
result was an article .that showed,., often
quotes of a year ago from the very
people who today blame Mark Lalonde's
policy far all that's wrong in the country. . .
industry experts who were-predicting a year
ago that rigs would have to move out of
Canada, that there was already a surplus not
only of natural gas. but of the equipment to •
find it. 'The same kind of departure now
being blamed on the Oil policy had been pre-
dicted by industry sources tit take place
a Tn e samewa calm, well-researched approach
has been used to examine Petro-Canada.
that villain of the free-enterprise breed ie
the Calgary oil patch. on western
transportation problems and other areas of
western discontent. Meanwhile the Globe's
Quebec correspondent -William Johnson
has been 'delving beyond the generally
accepted rhetoric of the Quebec nationalists
to show such things .as,..,the• fact that
French-speaking Quebeckers arc no longer
the hewers of wood and drawers of water •
that the governinent and its supporters
would like to make out. They have caught up
very quickly in income and other areas. of-
-lifestyle since the quiet ReYolution began.
We need this kind of service from the
media. We need people who don't juSt wait
to record the latest controversial statement
from Ottawa or Edmonton or London
England. We need people who don't accept
something as a given truth just because
some political side has said it often enough.
We need searchers for the truth. We need
people to give us, perspective. '
We need to stop this ridiculous hate
campaign that is building on all sides. The
majority of 'people involved in the con:
stitutional debate care a Owl deal fat their
country. You may choose sides on the issue.,
believing either more power should go to the
provinces or more to the federal government
but, yoU have no right to promote hate about
people on the other side. Pierre Trudeau
loves his country. So does Peter Lougheed.
Beth believe in democracy. in freedom of
speech, religion,titid the other basic tenets
of. our country. Our media could serve us
better not by echoing the voices of hate who
Would make this' or that leader look like a
-devil. but by giving us real information.
ofteliiff -ebndition of the ice, the game was
fast and thrilling at all times.
Line-up of 'the 1930-31 Champions: -Goal.
Matthews: I. defence, V. Lane; defence,
lteknell : centre, .1, Daly; t.-wing, Morris; r:
wing. Malone; subs. Malone. Moylan,
Malone.
Huron County had .Six contestants in the
1930 Bacon Litter Competition and results
recently publiShed show that Russell Bolton,
of McKillep Township was first prize winner
in the district. comprising Huron. Perth,
-Grey-and -Brine. Mr. Boltoe----alsci `stood
second second in the competition in the whole
province. - •
William ConSitt of Henson has been
appointed by the Governritent as' Census
Cominissimier for South Hiliblittistrict. This
good deal of experience in other-positions
under the government and living retired
the village Will have the time to devote,te it
that, the appointment requires.
Dr. and Mrs. Thomas Mulligan of Grand,
Forks, North Dakota, areguer at the home
of Mrs. Thomas McQuaid: Goderich Street
West. Seafortb. Di-. Mulligan has just
returned froM attending the White House
conference at Washington on -Child and
Health and Protection, the invitations to
which were, extended by President 'Hoover
through his Secretary of the Interior
drivers who stall in the middle of the
highway, or go into a skid right in front of •
the bits.
Even the cafeteria ladies' have to •punch •
their way through drifts, batteries that won't
kick over, icy roads, frozen french fries; and
come up smiling.
Some of my students, in a recent essay.
stated that one man cannot change the
system, and that we must compromise our
principles and go along with it, or try to
change it by degrees and legislation.
• Jesus changed"the world. So did Coperni-
cus. So "didMahatma Gh-andi. Einstein? The
guy who invented TV. The guy who invented-.,
the wheel: Stephenson, who invented the
internal combustion engine. Alexander Gra-
ham filen, whose relicts are practically
supported by my wife. '
The entire school system is still in
nineteenth century, when the long summer
holiday was established because boys and
now done by machines.
insist that school continue through
1 here and, now advocate. implore and
the
summer months, and that Janua ry and
nd
o be
has to date failed ht bringing any results, for
which we- as a committee are deeply'
disappointed.
We are panic/Wady concerned about the
feet that thelrilliit Minister o, pa4 t l),. rOlf Ene,rgy. Robert i(oi
fl
Behind the scenes
- by Keith Rouiston
Some journalists, doing their. job
-or$0 creates sensation in
Sugar and spice
Srniley -
for teachers. students, Custodians, bus There's nary a holiday in those two months,
drivers, and evencilie ladies who dish up the "--Christmas vacation is but a memory,- and
grub in the cafeteria. the March break is so far off you wonder if
To the editor:
A cpnsiderable amount of correspondence
to and from Ontario Hrdro, the. Ministry` of
Environment, and PreMier Bill Davis urging
a releaseof this study as soon as possible
It's even harder on the students. Many of You're going to make it without going goofy
them stay up ,until midnight watching, the or slitting your wrists. .
box, get up in -the dark at -some nngodly' From January to March, teachers are
hbur. stand in a blizzard for ten minutes ci tit er catching or getting over the 'flu, One
head-cold is followed by another. it sculls waiting for a bus, and drive twenty nines
toward something that bores them,out of that a third of the staff- the Smart ones who
their skulls. I don't stagger in to work half alive-• are home
sick-. That means more work for the dumb Others, living in town, walk anywhere
ones, like., 'me, who stagger into work from half a mile to a mile and a half,
half-dead. We have to cover for them, which half-frozen, heads bared to elethents-• and
throats unscarved. as is'the way of youth. means your couple Of spare periods.
overcoats, and cars that won't start and the _ It's no wonder they are tited out. surly. normally used to mark papers, plan lessons,
town snowplow. which fills their driveway 'Insolent, and groan loudly when ' they are and try to get over the chaos of the last class.
just after it has been shovelled, and getting asked to do some work. They are 'bound to go out the window. We hate the one'at home
up in the dark to go to work, and having be resentful when some stupid teacher says ' in bed, or sittingup, drinking leMonade and
Vimething like a sauna bath in overheated rum and watching TV. they're going to have -a 'test ,tomorrow and
stores, and shivering and shuddering wait• • :they. missed the entire week' when that work Custodians, or janitors,' as they used to be
ing for a bus or street car. , was -taught. because° they were in bed with - called, have all the problems of teachers, but girls had to help With the farM-work in the
. Some people like it,, the imbeciles: skiers, the 'flu. ' must mop up every day the ocean of snow , summer months. Ridiculous. The wait is
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curlers. ice fishergien and small children, And the kids are sick. The sniffling: and 'salt and sand traded onto their pristine
and misanthropes of all varieties. noselslowing and coughing droWn bin, the linoleum by teachers and students. '
!don't like to make a special case, but I teacher's voice. already enfeebled by ano- Scheel bus drivers also have all the aches
think winter affects that fairly large segment titer sore throat. i ' of rising at an Unearthly hour,, getting the old of our population involved in the educational , bus started and warmed. up. coping with a process even more deeply than allIthe other If the human body reaches its lowest
.
group of untidy kids just coming
and February be declared the long vacation
winter-haters. point at around four a.m.. editeation reaches
'-alive.- • if there is no response. don't expect me
It is a grinding, wearing, tearing process its lowest point in the long Ian.-pen.
haul. :fighting their way through. drifts and 4
blitzards and, freezitig rain and stupid * teaching next.year at this time,
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