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SEAFORTH4 (*TAR*, JUL* MAIM
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TEDDY BEARS' PICNIC The annual Teddy Bears' ,Picnic was held
Tuesday at the Seaforth Public School, Rain prevented the picnic from
being held outside at the library, so the school gym was used to
faikkAia.
accommodate the many children who participated, Scott Jervis, duinn
Ross and Justin Rodney were three chidiren who brought their teddy
bears to enjoy the fun. (Photo by Rimmer)
trhe fxpositor
Since 1860. Serving the-Community first
12 Main St 527-0240 Mr. Willis leases new store
In the years alone
Published at SEAFORTH ONTARIO every Thursday morning by
McLean Bros Publishers Ltd
Andrew Y McLean, Publisher
Susan White. Editor
Member Canadian Cornawnity.Newspaper Association. Ontario Weekly
Newspaper Association and Audit' Bureau of Circulation
Coping with the strike,
The mail strike, irritating to us all, is a special hassle for businesses
which depend on Canada Post to deliver their product.
Specifically what comes to the editor's mind is of course the newspaper
business. Thanks to the co-operation of neighbouring newspaper and our
employees, small post offices and rural mail carriers, Expositor readers
in the immediate area, most of Huron and Perth, get their papers every
week at the usual time. But that takes a lot of extra effort and our own
courier routes don't always' work out perfectly:
Just how much those papers mean to some readers has been brought
home to us over and over in recent weeks. People from the city home on
holidays come in to collect the copies "they've missed.
At out of town social engagements staff members here have been
greeted with "well I hope you brought the Expositors." The editor's
taken to always having some back copies in the car because you usually
run into hungry readers after the office is closed.
Once in awhile• the reaction of loyal readers isn't quite so gratifying.
Staff itv the office of a tiefighbourInq newtdaper -Were' being- driven
bonkers a couple of weeks in a row when one reader's copy of another
weekly, not the Expositor, didn't arrive as soon as he thdught it should.
"The strike's been on for weeks. You'd think you people' could have
gotten it straight by now" this irate reader berated the staff who were
kind enough to let their office be used as a depot by other county papers.
The whole mess is the newspapers' not the post office's fault, was the
gist of this gentleman's argument. Needless to say, we disagree but
please if you're missing your paper and are upset about it, call us and
we'll try and work something out. We hate to' hear about anybody
abusing a colleague's hospitality and willingness to help.
And the strike? Well, like every small business dependent on the mails
(we listened in amazement the ether night at the tale of a city person who
said "well, I can't really see how the mail strike's hurting' anybody is it?)
we hope it's over darn soon. It's pretty rough when-the-accountscan't go
out and no money is coming in. A fully paid 17 week .maternity leave
sounds terrific, sure. Any worker wh lif
e
been or plans to be Pregnant
likes the idea. But we can't for the life of us figure out how any small
business, dr for that matter the business wean own, the government, can
pay for it.
So we hope the fells hold firm on that one. But we just wish MPs had
seen fit to hold firm on their own 31 per cent pay raise, plus cost of living
allowance. At those rates, maternity leave would be' a breeze.
JULY 29.1881
Robert Willis has leased the ...liner store
in Cads's new block and intends moi,ing
into it as soon as it is finished Mr Willis
will have one of the handsomest stores and
best stands in town
Thomas E. Hass of the third trwer.sion
of McKillop. cut a field of spring a heat on
Thursday. it is a splendid crop. AO is .not
injured either by rust, weevil or any other
pest. Ibis is the, first ‘Spring wheat cut in
this Section t seaaOtt, • —
VII Scot t• tb., el) 4:oat:Viso:in 14
•-l*Kitttici• has tiorehased•frpre Soho Watson
Pf. stain binders. 4 has
been. thetrong14 tested, atilt works. well, It is
draw.dby altie hiartre and follows tTond
fler. the rgaper and pickers ;up the, sheaves
and binds them as fast as, 'a machine can
reap. ThiS is the first machin$ of its kind
that has been introduced into the township'.
but they will soon become as common as
reapers or mowers. They will work on any
land where a reaper can be worked. and arc
very simple of construction and easily
managed. The cost is 51.50. A farmer with a
large harvest would save the price of a
binder almost in one season.
Lewis McDonald of Walton, our enter-
prising mill-owner and farmer is doing a
rushing business in the lumber trade.
The Messrs. Modeland Brothers, the
well-known threashers of this township.
have just got home a splendid new
Separator threshing machine to run their
engine. The machine was made at the
works of Messrs, McDonald and McPher-
son of Stratford and was built specially for
the Messrs. Modeland.•
AUGUST 3, 1906
.I. B. Thompson of Seaforth who has
been caretaker of the public school- for the
past couple of years, has resigned, to take a
positioe with the `Willis Sittle Comply,
Thos. Pioltney'has,aold his. fast. trotting
mare. 0e0tie. - F to Mr:S. of
Mitchell 0e;htti4 foe 11.0-, .019, Pie 'is A,
promising,yOutt$•ArliMat.Wiih lots of ''speed
and <will yo*a.liejtek.:nt4itt,
And -McCOO•pdll of
.Brtiveheld Started up their tie* machine
last Monday at GrahaM Bros. We wish
them. success,- •
John R.
horse
of Hensall. while
shoeing a horse on lvlondayafternoon had
the misfortune to get a kick, on the
forehead, which required a number of
stitches.
Thos Quigley of Seaforth has moved his
shoe shop into the store adjoining the new
telephone office.
JULY 31.1931
Quite a number from Kippen • and
surrounding localities enjoyed the ice
cream social which was held last Thursday
ei ening on Robert McBride's fine lawn
.under the auspices of Blake United Church.
John Bolton of the Boundary. a few miles
east of Hensel{ had the misfortune a few
days ago to have his horses get frightened
just as he was about to engage in doing
some plowing and with the lines around his
waist he was caught and dragged for some
distance., receiving painful jittery CO one of
his shoulders and body as well. and it was
fortunate that he ,was not more seriously
tkr.. and. Nrs. 4,..:Taintt and fautilly.of
'Taman of Niagara •Falls.afe
tiolidaThOexts,4t. the.ltotne of 'Mr.' and Mrs. •
09.Y•140,Geiacli of •*tforth, • ••.' .
Tuesday evening 'just as Fergus
Kelly of Dublin oats finishing uP
his wheat, Florence was driving. the wain
on the gangWay.• when - the Whiffletresa
broke and "hit 'her on the hind. Miss
Florence, is a bus y girl..
Mr. and „Mrs. P. Rutledge and. family of
Walton are' spending their vacation with
relatives in Grafton. H. Parsons is relieving
Mr. Rutledge at the C.P.R. station here.
AUGUST 3, 1956
Possibility that C.N.R. passenger and
express service to Seaforth and •other
centres on the Stratford - Goderich line
would be cut in half within two months was
seen on Tuesday as the Post Office
Department advised local contractors their
services may not be required after Septem-
ber 30. Marshall Stewart. who has the
contract for carrying mail between the Post
Office and the C.N.R. station here was
given notice his contract might be terminat- •
ed.
Morris Township will be the centre of
activity as far as citizens of this district are
concerned, when the township celebrates
its centennial over the weekend. The
celebration begins on Saturday.
The Hensall District Co-operative plans
extensive changes in thetBrocefteld chop-
ping mill, which, WOO purchased recently
from J., K.- Cornish; according to manager
Garnet Mcittaseae.• of "-Herisall. While all
details have net been wPiked• put 'UT..
MpeaSeati said We#nesd4 it was piadhetl
to provide 4441.4onal*F4iii -09#igo capacity,.`
tor stc.hr,spvg:n thposaro4wio.
-400.091)114$'bOrl ta40ors 19•14140 this
*01013e:in% bins or Silisv although Mr..- • •
Mousseau thought that as -..beginnin g..
bins would be'-constructed on the second
floor. ,
The expansion program announced some
weeks ago by. Topnotch Feed Mills, Limited,
is well advanced, officials of the company
said this week. Of the eight concrete
storage silits which are planned. one is
completed and the second is well under-
way, Each silo of reinforced concrete, is 65
feet in height and 12 feet in diameter. The
silos will hold a total of 60,000 bushels.
Seaforth firement were called to Seaforth
Shoes Ltd.. Thursday afternoon when the
automatic alarm system at the factory rang
in an alarm.
The factory was empty at the time, the
staff being on No-idays. On gaining entry,
firement found the alarm had been
sounded as a result pf pressure dropping in
the automatic sprinkler system. according
to Chief J. F. Scott.
•
One day at a time
by Jim Hogarty
Slow down, live longer
We all have •our various methods of
Rh-ding YeraTafinn, pastime's-Thai' -take
minds off the broken dishwasher, the huge
telephone bill, the_p_oatal strike antlinterest
rates.
And it is a wise person who practices a
careful balance between work and play. Too
much nose-to-the-grindstone is a guaran-
teed ticket to ill-health.
A man 11 know once claimed half the
people in psychiatric hospitals don't belong
there. and I believe•him.He said so many
people work around thee ciciek for -months
and years on end until their systems finally
rebel, and break down. A soli-week slim in
the Meal hospital. away from the pressures
of work, and our friend is back on his feet,
ready to run -hirriself into the ground once
again,
SoMe people can't allow themselves a
holiday , the work ethic is too deeply
ingrained in them for there to be any room
for good.'old-fashioned goofing-off. But
they can accept a brief slay in a "hospital
because, after all, who ,can be expected to
work when they're sick?
The strange thing is that many workaho-
lics seem almost proud of their slave-Like
attachment to their responsibilities and will
brag, from time-to-dine:about their 18 hour
days'at work. They are often contemptuobs
of people who go skiing in the winter and
camping in the summer.
It is true to certain happily-situated
individuals, their worlds just like play to-•
them becuase they love it so much. But
even those people are too often blind to
other aspects ofliving that should be
experienced and enjoyed.
I wonder Where the idea originated that
lie-rtiati-or.womatt• who work sr ineredibly
hard and long hours is somehow more noble
than people who don't.. Wherever the notion
cattle it liaS been bonght Wholesale by
millions cif us poor schmucks who all seem
intent on living three lifetimes in one. •
Studies have been done in an attempt to
determine what type of people become
corporate presidents. •political leaders and
other top-of-the-heap title-holders. Results
seem to show there are very few confirmed
workaholics among this society's cream of,
the crop. Hard workers often achieve much
and go far but rarely do they make it to the - top, or stay 'there long if they do.
The reason? Workaholics can't be trusted'
with huge loads of responsibility because.
without 'fail, they take it all too seriously
and everyone around them knows they will
work themselves to death if given a big job
or they'll throw up their hands halfway
through it and quit.
That is the irony of the whole thing. If the
hard worker would learn to work less, to
develop more of a carefree attitude to his
duties and to treat himself to more breaks
and holidays, he'd probably wind up getting
some of those wonderful promotions he's
strived for so hard.
It's like chasing a butterfly. The harder a
person works at capturing the elusive little
devil, the more it will escape him. But if he
tits under a shade tree for a few minutes,
quite °heti the butterfly will come and land
on his shoulder,.
Slow down and live longer is a slogan
used to try to get speeders to take it easy on
the highways. But it can apply to other
areas of our lives as well.
Summer IS traditionally the time when we-
"get away fromil all" in Canada by going on
vacation by either retreating to a peaceful
haven somewhere in *the backwoods or
seeing some other part of the world. ,
This summer you don't even have to
away to get away from it all .because what
with various strikes, "it all" is tieing taken
away from us. 'You don't have to worry about
getting bad news by mail these days thanks
to the postal strike and you won't get it on
C.B.C. thanks to the technicians strike. But,
of course, if the strike business gets on your
nerves and you want to esgape by going to a
ball game you'll be out of luck because the
bail players are on strike too. For a huge -
chunk of the Canadian population. "getting
away from Walt" in the last fens years seems
to mean getting away fOren the lob and out
on the picket line. CatVada has developed
one of the worst strike records in the World.
We are paying the price once again for an
adversary system that dominates this coun-
try in everything front -politics to labour
relations.
We have a s% stem that 'pits one
side against another in a tug o'.war4 to see
who will -prevail instead of polling together
to make the country better.
The adversary system in labour relations
grew naturally enough. It became such a
bitter battle because a good mans business-
men were quite happy to make employees
suffer any danger, for as many long hours
for as little money as possible so that owners
could make a lot of money. Faced with a
complete lack of morality front the bosses
(many of whom hid behind a veil of Christian
self-righteousness all the time) the workers
had to use whei power they could to try to
even the balance of power. Every increase in
pay, every improvement in making the
workplace safer, every concession to the
dignity of the workers had to he fought for by
the workers, often to the point of violence
and bloodshed: too often at the cost of lives.
When you' hear those union songs sung at
rallies, there is a lot of history and feeling
behind them.
• Unionists have been caught up in the
rhetoric of those early struggles, however, to
the point of the ridiruloirs: Today any fight .
with management, no matter how trivial, is
spoken of in the same terms as those early
fights, for the fundamental human necessi-
ties in the work place. We hear the idiocy in
'one of the leaders of the baseball strike
talking about the baseball players in terms of
the "workers** struggle. Some workers,
Many make more than the president of
General Motors. A majority more than the
president of the United States. Nearly all
More than the prime Minister of Canada. for
six month's work. Would that we all were
downtrodden workers like those. 'We have
gotten to the point that in the misuse of
power. the immorality is often as much on
the side of the union as on management. We
have even seen cases where the manage-
ment has warned that -increased demands
would mean bankruptcy. but tlie union.
conditioned never to believe management.
strikes anyway", wins the pay increase but
loses the jobs of everyone because within
months the company goes under.
How much longer can we go stupidly
along the course we, are on? Any kid
watching Sesame Street can tell you there
has to be a better way. They teach childen
that people working together can do a lot
better than people working for themselves.
The kids then grow up. go to work for
management on one side and the union on
the other and forget the lesson.
Some countries have made large steps
toward industrial-democracy and arc reaping
the dividends. Instead of turning workers
against management they co-operate for the
good of all. lvlanagment, instead of thinking
that only the men in the business suits can'
run the company, have .been involving the
workers in decision making. The men doing
the actual work often have a better way of
getting the job done than the' textbook
planners. The Workers feel that it's their
company too. On the other hand. with
, worker representatives on boards and invol-
ving them in decision-making knovohe true
financial workings Of the-company. and don't
build intheir own minds false mountains of
profits.
They then aren't so apt to ask for
unreasonable pay increases and if their input
increases the efficiency of the company. they
deserve more reward which they often get
through profit-sharing.
Odds n' ends
Thinking alike 'can give sisters a very
amiable relationship, but, occasionally it can
'hose" problems.
My sister and I didn't realize how much alike
we thought until this year, She gave her
daughter a charm necklace and one charm for
Christmas.
I knew she was giving my niece the chain,
and I though another charm would, make a
perfect gift. The one I chose seemed fitting for
a girl who loves horses; it have four tiny silver
horseshoes on it.,,
When the family got together for Christmas,
I asked, Janice what her parents had given her.
Out she came with a pretty silver chain with a
charm with four tiny horseshoes on it.
Eight horseshoes seemed a little much, even
for Janice. Fortunately I was able to change
mine. < My sister and I agreed we'd have to
communicate better in, the future. .
For the first birthday of the year, we
Compare ideas. On the second and third
birthdays, we forgot until the last minute, but
no harm was done. Soon we forgot about the
Christmas incident. Besides it couldn't happen
twice.
ma along cope Mother's Day. We arrived
It's not a perfect,answer of course. People
'are still people and they'll find a way to foul
things up even in the best of systems. But
over the years. at work in various employee
and mangement positions. I for one have
always found things work best when as much
trust and honesty are built into the system. as
possible. Involve the people in decision
making who will most be affected by the
decision. Then, at least if something goes
wrong, they'll feel they had their say. Keep
them informed as much as possible about
the true financial picture and they'll feel
they're not just being used. It sure beats
fighting all the time.
Behind the scenes
by Keith Roulston
Show you care
Write a letter to
the editor
Today
by Elaine Townshend
On giving gifts
At the house, and my sister and I each took our••
gift out of a bag. We each set a small
' Square box wrapped in pretty paper and tied
with a bright bow in front of Mom. The size
and shape were almost identical. Oareyths met
in a silent: "You didn't!"
We did, almost. Eadh box contained a pin;
each pin was round, and each held pearls.
(Simulated, you understand). That's where the
similarity ended.
Mary's pin had pearls and amethysts
alternating in a gold setting. Mcim opened it
and said, "Oh, lovely!"
My pin had two pearls and two leaves inside
a silver ring. Mont opened it and said. "Oh
lovely!"
She's extremely diplbmatic. When she
sees me. she arms the silver pin. When she
seems my sister, she wears the gold one. And
when she sees us both, she wear& a chain that a -friend gave her.
During the.ecinversation on tvfothet's Day.
she made the termitic that I've heard several
mothers make: "I don't know what I'd have done, If I'd had halt a dozen kids."
One of my nephews commented: "Then
you've have six' pins you wouldn't know what
In do with either."
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