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T:h.e. Times -Advocate, .January 23, 19SS.
Ed itor.ia Is
This. newspdp.er believes the
.right to: eXpresb 411opinion in
public contributes to the .pro-
gress, of the nation and. that it
must be exercised freely to .pre-
serve and improve de.meer•Ole
government,
• :Congratulations
The Times -Advocate joins all of the citizens
in the district in extending congratulations to the
reeve, of .Stephen township, Jack Morrissey, who was
elected warden of Huron County on Tuesday.
Mr. Morrissey's victory is a distinct honor
because he won it iii a very close race contested by
five other municipal reeves, all of whom were worthy
- • candidates.
Mr. Morrissey's election to the top office in
the county should serve as encouragement to all
those who aspire to political office but do not have
immediate success. Ieach of the offices he has at-
tained—councillor, reeve andwarden—he has had to
suffer one defeat before reaching his goal. Obvious-
ly, his ability to accept setbacks without giving up
a . easily has been a major factor in his success.
We hope he has a successful year as presiding
officer of county council and that Huron will be able
to make notable progress during his tcrm of office,
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Need Fire Study
Disastrous fire on the farm of H. H. G. Strang,
Usborne township clerk, stresses poignantly the need
for an exhaustive study into the causes and preven
tion of fire in rural areas.
Loss from farm blazes is rising sharply, not
only because of higher values but also because of
greater frequency. This is borne out in last week's
• report from the. Hay township mutual which reveals
losses far beyond any experienced before.
Many people look upon fires as inevitable oc-
curances about which little can be done. We can't
share that opinion, primarily because th" cause of
many of them is never determined.
4.We're certain that a serious study of farm fires
• will reveal valuable information of how to prevent
and fight them. Whichever agency tackles this prob-
lem—be it government or farm group—it will render
an important service to the farm community.
Farm Warning
Agriculture Minister Harkness is to be com-
p mended for blunt warning he. has voiced against
clanger of treading any farther along the slippery
path of farm price supports than the Government
has already gone, says The Review, of Fort Erie.
According to Mr. Harkness, rigid party price
--formula for supports, such as advocated by the CCF,
could mean only the accumulation of huge food sur-
pluses unless production controls were placed on
farmers.
'Glance at US situation shows all too clearly
that even acreage controls don'.t work when it comes
to curbing the excess production stimulated by rigid
support prices. Anger of US taxpayers at high cost
of keeping farm land in idleness under soil bank
Scheme, . without any appreciable cut in total produc-
tion, and total cost of price supports, already has US
politicians worried.
So it should,
Sort of thing that makes US taxpayers angry
is word that Mississippi State Penitentiary ha re-
ceived windfall in form of cheque from Washington
for $71,000 for not growing cotton under Mr. Ben-
son's soil bank scheme. Report doesn't state whether
prison authorities shared this wealth with prison in-
mates, most of whom, instead of being productively
employed, have been twiddling their thumbs in idle-
ness.
Mississippi State Penitentiary, it seems, is but
one of dozens of institutions and individuals receiving
soil bank payments for not farming in 1957. It would
be interesting to .know how such payments are dealt
with for income tax purposes. Occupation of recip-
ients could well be described as "net farming."
Blunter description would be income fol "loafing,"
If farm planners in Washington have made a
mess of things, same thing is true of farni planners
in Russia. • In Washington, planners' schemes for
curbing agricultural production have proved a dismal
flop. And in Russia, farm planners, according to
Moscow dispatches, are becoming summarily re-
moved from office because their efforts to increase
agricultural production, particularly of wheat, have
proved fruitless.
As one wag suggests, simple swapping of plan -
nen might solve farm production problems for both
countries.
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Marriage is a wonderful insti-
tution, as the saying goes. "But"
invariably adds a friend of mine,
when the remark is made, "who
wants to live in an institution?"
Far be it from me- to make
snide remarks about marriage.
As another old saying has it,
there's no use crying over spilt
milk, Or half a life is better
than none, Or there's many a
slip 'twixt the womb and the
tomb.
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But when you get right clown
to it, there is quite a similarity
between marriage and an insti-
tution. In both, there is the same
panicky sense of lost freedom
when the door clangs shut be-
hind you. In both. you're told
when to get up and when to go
to bed, what clothes you can
wear. You have to eat what's put
in front of you, you're only al-
lowed visitors at certain times,
and you can't get out whenever
you feel like it.
* * * .
In some ways, institutions are
superior to marriage, Inmates
are not required to stoke the fur-
nace, shovel the walk or work
and worry themselves into bald-
ness and ulcers trying to keep
the Warden in style.
* * * i
But there's one respect in
which marriage is miles ahead,
In every institution there comes
a time when tension mounts to
the danger point. If it's a prison,
there's liable to be a riot. If it's
a mental outfit, someone's liable
to set fire to the drapes. If it's
marriage, however. you can save
the day by sending the Head
Keeper away to visit her mother,
sister or somebody,
• * **
That's what happened at our
place last week. Relations had
reached that point of rawness at
which I was hiding the axe to
preventtragedy. The kids had
been building up, for weeks, to
unprecedented heights, of surli-
ness and sauciness.
• * **
Bugged by a stuttering stoker
in the cellar, an 18 -foot icicle
that was pulling my roof off, and
a throbbing corn on the ball Of
my foot, I was going .around
like a revolution looking for a
place to happen. Overwhelmed
by tracked -up floors. lost scarves
prying frozen clothes -line, and
another birthday coming up. the
Warden was sizzling. like a Sput-
nik with the fuse lighted.
• *
There was nothing for it but
to get her off our necks, and us
out from under her feet for a
couple of clays, by sending her
away for the weekend, with a
couple of pieces of folding
money in her hand. Which we
did,
* >* * *
Well sir, you should have seen
that institution of burrs after we
got her on the early train. First
thing we did was go and have
breakfast in a restaurant. None
of this grubbing around in the
kitchen. Hugh ordered his fa-
vourites.haniburger a n milk
shake. Mini had apple pie a la
mode and ginger ale. I luxu-
riated in three curs of coffee
and three cigarettes, instead of
one.
* . * *
Until she got back. it was the
same. We raalIy lived. No piano
nractisleg. Elbows nn llin. table,
Reading at meals. Unmarle bpds.
Never changed our socks. The
kids went to two cowboy pictures,
and stayed up as long as they
liked. I had the boys in for a
little session. We had delicious
and exotic meals such as hot
dogs and ice cream pie, or fish
and chips with cherry tarts.
* * * >*
As usual, it worked like a
charm. By the timeshe got
back, we'd had enough of this
wild freedom. We were ready to
change our socks, eat off some
clean dishes, and get some
sleep. We were also slightly ill.
* * * 5
It was the same for the War-
den. After a couple' of days of
freedom, in which she had no-
body to order about, she was
glad to get back to the institu-
tion, where she had some autho-
rity. She didn't think we were
nearly so repulsive as when she
went away. In fact, it was seve-
ral days before she got out the
whip again. Yes, indeed, mar-
riage is a wonderful institution.
For them that has the constitu-
tion,
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News Of Your
LIBRARY
By MRS. J. M. S.
There are 24 periodicals in
,use on the reading tables of
your library as well as the local
weekly paper. and recent leaf-
lets on current issues.
The current issue of each mag-
azine remains on the reading
table until the newer issue is
received and then they may be
taken out to be read just the
same as any of the books. An
up-to-date magazine rack has
been installed this past year
which displays the magazines
and stores the older issues.
One new magazine has been
ordered this year, Science and
Mechanics which it is hoped
will be of interest and .value in
this scientific age. It should ar-
rive soon.
One British magazine, The
Woman's Journal, arrives each
month and is enjoyed by our
English readers,
The Story Of Walt Disney
Many of our readers enjoy the
Walt Disney productions on TV
and now, newly arrived in your
library is the story of his life
as told by his daughter, Diane
Disney Miller to Pete Martin.
Walt Disney's biography is a
'typically success story full of
interest and inspiration to read-
ers frolic 12 to 80. The picture
section alone in this book is
worth the price of the book. Six-
teen pages of photographs trace
the high spots of his career.
Many of the 49 pictures' included
in this book have rarely or never
before been published,
We quote from the daughter's
story "My great grandfather had
a farm. at Goderich on Lake
Huron in Canada. My grand-
father was born on it in 1859
and it was there he grew up.
Father says Goderich is a
beautiful town, Hes been there
to meet his father's 'cousint and
Grandfather deserihedlife there
so eloquently to hire that he
feels he knows it. .
Goderich has a oionehr ceme-
tery and my great -great grand-
fathers on both sides of the fam-
ily lie buried. there. Then in the
1876's before Grandfather reach-
,[otting.s0y 1,MS,
fur Bch postal Service
Established In 1$5 7
Last week we referred to the
early history, of• flay Township,
as i•egorded in the tluron Coun-
ty Historical. Atlas published in
1879. Reference was made to
the villages of Zurich, Hensall
and Dashwood from, whicli %re
take the foowin
".Zurich ills theg: .principal vil-
lage within the confines of this
township, and is a particularly
smart, enterprising little town of
about l00 inhabitants, though
they never have as yet applied
for incorporation as a village,
"The first settlers in this lo-
cality were mostly. Germans,
but the pioneer of the village
site was Frederick Knell, a
Swiss, Who settled on lot 21,
.concession 11. Two blacksmiths,
Peter Deicliert and Frederick
Axt were amongst the earliest
settlers, as was Henry Wohi-
nich, a Carpenter, but the oldest
residents at present living in the
village (1.879) are Michael Kel-
ler and Henry Greb.
"Thee first storekeeper and
Postmaster was Fred Knell, the
post office being opened in 1857,
with a tri -weekly nail off Bay-
field. Mr, Knell also ran a grist
and sawmill, this being the first
gristmill in the township, though
Moses Johnston .-(now teaching
school in Michigan) had previ-
iously built a sawmill at John-
soP,0,
"n'sTheMills first public house was
kept by Henry Seldom, a shoe-
maker, who combined the trades
of landlord and cobbler for some
time and subsequently moved to
Dashwood.
"Among the conuiiercial and
industrial institutions of Zurich
are three general stores, one
:drug store, ane merchant tailor,
three harness shops, three car-
riage shops,. One tannery, one
woollen mill, ,one grist and flour-
ing mill, one flax mill, two good
hotels, four churches—Methodist,
Baptist,• Lutheran and Catbolic—
a very fine brick public school
in which three teachers are em-
ployed, a telegraph office of the
Montreal line, and a post office
with daily mail off Hensall.
"The town hall is situated
here, having been built about
1863 at a cost of $G00 There is a
fine public clock in the tower
of the Lutheran .church, which
adds greatly to the appearance
of that edifice. The village is
surrounded by an exceptionally
fine farm district.
"Though Hay is peopled prin-
cipally by Germans, yet the
Anglo-Saxon is the "official"
language of the township except
in German Sabbath schools; and
the circumstances will bear us.
out in this assertion that this
township, either in respect of
the quality of its land, the thrift
and enterprise of its people, or
the number, extent and prosper-
ity of its villages will compare
favorably with any other' town-
ship in the country."
An account of Hensall. Dash -
weed and Johnston's Mills will
appear next week.
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SO YEARS AGO
Teamsters are busy bringing
the supplies of ice for the hotels
and butcher shops.
The fancy dress and racing
carnival on Monday night in the
rink was well attended. Prize-
winners for fancy dressed gent,
Case Howard; fancy dressed
lady, Miss Hattie Sweet; comic,
H. Dayinan; local take -off, Geo.
Hockey; one -mile race, G. Ache-
son; half -mile, Herman Elliott.
Centralia church choir, under
Mr, Nelson Hicks, has been en-
gaged to furnish the music for
Eden anniversary, February 9.
Champion ,carpet bowlers were
W. Statham, R. N. Rowe, R. N.
Creech, and their opponents
were Ed Dignan,John. Hind and
Thomas Boyle.
N. Cantin, , the wizard of St.
Joseph, was arrested at Gode-
rich last Thursday on 'a charge
of fraud in obtaining money for
his phantom city.
25 YEARS AGO
One of the oldest established
businesses in Exeter changed
hands on Monday when the
blacksmith business • of James
Dignan was taken over by Hil-
lary Horton.
James C. Ballantyne, reeve of
the Township of Usborne, was
chosen warden of Huron County.
Rev. P. •G. Price and Mrs.
Price, missionaries on furlough
from Japan, were special speak-
ers at Main Street United Church
on Sunday. •
Reeve B. M. Francis is in
Goderich this week attending
the opening sessions of Huron
County Council
Walter Mathew climbed the
flag pole surmounting Trivitt
Memorial Church and replaced
the cable.
Milk consumers in Exeter are
enjoying the benefit of a price
war and milk is being sold at
50 a quart.
15 YEARS AGO
Rev. Alex Rapson, who since
July 1940, has been the minister
on the Kirkton circuit, and who
on Tuesday at 'London entered
the Canadian Army as a chap-
lain, took his household effects
to St. Marys to be shipped on
Tuesday and was delayed by
snow drifts on his return for a
wedding at p.3 i, The wedding
took place at 5. 6 p.m. •
M. W. Telfer' who for 17 years
was managerof the'Crediton
branch of the Canadan Bank of
Commerce, is being transferred
to Parkhill.
Some 400 freight cart in the
Stratford 'region , Were snowbound
ed legal voting age, Great
grandfather mewed from 'Gode-
rich to Ellis, Kansas. •
Take advantage of the privi-
leges offered by your library.'
during the severe weather of
last week.
Secretary -treasurer of the Lib-
rary, Miss L. Jeckell, reported
285 new books had been pur-
chased during the year and 18
periodicals were in use on the
reading tables.
10 YEARS AGO
Hugh Berry, reeve of Usborne,
was this week appointed warden
of Huron County.
The South IIuron Young Pro-
gressive Conservative ` Associa-
tion was organized last Friday
evening in Exeter Town Hall
wit), Ray Wuerth to head the
new organization.
F. W. Morlock was appointed
clerk of Stephen Township at the
inaugural. meeting.
At a meeting of the directors
of Huron County Federation of
Agriculture a resolution was
passed asking that price ceilings
be imposed on coarse grains,
The Exeter Lions are sponsor'-
. Ing
ponsor'-
.'Ing food parcels for Britain. Ten
dollars sends a food parcel to a
needy family in Britain.
Mr. Jack Doerr, photographer,
moved his wife . and family to
town from Mitchell this week.
Gardiner Proves
He's Spry At 74
James G. Gardiner former fed-
eral agricultural. minister and
native of Farquhar, proved he's
still spry at the age of 74 by per-
forming a jig before the Liberal
leadership convention in Ottawa
last week.
His nephew, Ward Allen, a na-
tive of Kirkton, who has won
numerous fiddling contests in this
district and elsewhere, provided
the music.
'• The gay proceedings preceded
Mr, Gardiner's speech to the
crowd at the Coliseum.
He was introduced to the tune
of a Newfoundland folksong
The Squid, Jidding Grounds —
played and sung by a western
type five -man band, of which
Ward Allen was a member.
At the end of the song, which
had special lyrics calling for de-
feat of the Tories, Mr. Allen
fiddled a few bars of the Sailor's
Hornpipe while Mr. Gardiner did
a lively jig.
The colorful, cowboy,dressed
musicians -- the Happy Wander.
en 'of an Ottawa radio station,
sang the words of the specially -
written song while the crowd
roared its approval of lines like,
"We'll set all the Tories adrift in
the dories."
Lawyer; "You say ydu want
to get a divorce On the grounds
that your husband it careless
about his appearance?"
Client. "Yes, he hasn't shown
up in. nearly two years,"
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