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right to exprete. an opinion in.
public contributes to the pro.
vets of the nation and filet it
must be exercised freely to pre-
serve and improve democratic
government.
Your Ballot CoCounts
The person 1,vho says, "What's the use of
voting—enY ballot won't change anything",doesn't
realize how wrong he really is.
In recent eleetions, less than 70 percent of
those eligible have exercised their franehise. The 30
percent which didn't vote could easily have changed
the result in any of the 205 ridings across Canada.
Take Huron constituency last June as an, ex-
ample. Although the riding had one of the highest
percentages of votes in the country, only 21,000 of
the 25,000 eligible cast their ballots, The winning
candidate's majority of 3,700 ceuld have*.beeri wiped
out by those who didn't think it worthwhile to exer-
cise their rights.
Every vote counts—let there be no. false im-
pressions about that. Those who don't are doing a
disservice to them -selves and their country -
The Home Stretch
As the election moves into its final week,
reports from across the country indicate the Pro-
gressive Conservative government will be returned
with a working majotity.
Public opinion polls (can you believe them?)
give the PC's a big edge over the Liberals. Despite
all of the talk over major issues, it appears that the
public has not been dissuaded from its decision last
June to give the Tories a chance.
Prime Minister Diefenbaker's popularity has
not waned, as evidenced by the record-breaking
crowds he has attracted across the country. Report-
ers covering his tour indicate he has raised party
spirits to a high level wherever he goes. This should
be reflected at the polls.
Despite his awkward position in presenting a
platform radically different from the government he
represented less than a year ago, new Liberal leader
Lester Pearson has done an exceptionally good job
in the short time at his disposal. Although his crowds
have not been as large as Mr. Diefenbaker's, and he
has not been able to arouse* his supporters to the
extent that the PC leader has, Mr. PearSon has
encouraged party workers to make optimistic pre-
dictions about the outcome. . .
While the external affairs expert has, in all
probability, persuaded most Liberalvto hold to their
convictions, we doubt if he has yet Convinced the
9n-betweeners"—those people who decide the out-
come of elections—that he should fcrin the next.
government.
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Although there is excellent opposition to
men who are seeking re-election, we doubt if there.
will be any changesin this area.
W. G. Cochrane, former Exeter mayor, has
worked hard in his campaign t�. unseat 'veteran
Elston Cardiff but his obstacles 'appear almost in-
tUrrneuntable.
In the first place, he is opposing a practical,
down-to-earth farmer in a farm constituencye a man
who has been able to win elections when the tide
was strongly against his party because he knows at
first hand the problems facing the majority of" his
constituents. In the second place, Mr Cochrane has
had the formidable task of making himself known
throughout a wide area in a short period of time.
Although he has received generous and active ,sup-
port from his organization in ,the ,eouthern. part".of
the riding, and from' the former Liberal candidate,
A. Y. -1VIcLean, reports from the north indicate the
organization is weak and there are many voters there
who still do not know him. •
Nevertheless, we think this area of. Huron,
particularly Exeter, should give Mr..Cochrane strong
support because his previous record of public ser-
vice has been an excellent one•and because he is a
relatively young, energetic and 'capable lawyer with
a pleasant personality and an effective platform
Manner. It will certainly be a disappointment if he
does not receive a substantial majority. from his
hometown area.
We hesitate to make a prediction epncerning
Middlesex West riding, Since we were caught with
our editorial pants down in the last election when
we didn't. think it possible for W. H. A. Thomas to
unseat popular Bob McCubbin. Although he. is mak-
ing his first attempt in the federal field, the new
new Liberal candidate Harvey Wales, cf .Komoka,'is
better known than was Mr. Themes last time since
he tan M the provincial field.. He 'will liave to be
extremely strong, however, to .unseat the man who
upset. Mr. McCubbin. In the north end of the riding,
at least, Mr. Thomas has gained rather than lost
stature since the June election and,. -if this is in-
dicative, the Conservative candidate, SoUld„iricrease
his majority of 1,700 considerably. •
• But inditations, polls', reports and rumors
don't decide elections. The "X's" on .March 31 will
provide. the •answers.
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"A politician," my great-uncle.
Mountain Jack Thomson, told
me when I was a little boy, "is.
like a pet pup. When he wants
something, he fawns all over
you. When you pay any atten-
tion to him, he runs around in
circles. yapping and chasing his
tail, But when he's supposed to
be guarding the henhouse, he's
curled up behind the stove,
asleep." •
There was something else in
there, about always making a
mess for somebody else to clean
up, but I guess I was too young
to understand if,
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Of ceurse, anyone can qualify
as a wit by making sarcastic re-
marks about politicians. Person-
ally. I've -always desposed this
as a cheap practice. I think poll-
ticians have a tough row to hoe,
Even though some of them would
be a lot more useful with a hoe
in their hands, in somebody's
turnip patch, than doing what
they are.
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But don't forget those long,
weary sessions in the House,
where they have to hang on
every word of a debate with ex-
hausting keenness. Except when
they're reading the paper, of
course, or not having a smoke,
or down in the cafeteria, or over
at the Chateau Laurier havin a
snort with some of the boys.
And think Of those awful week.
ends. Sometimes the press of
.public business won't let them
get away from Ottawa until
Thursday afternoon. Then there's
the long, dreary, free, train -
ride home, trapped in some
smoky first-class coach with a
lot of fellows telling vulgar
stories, smoking cigars and
drinking whiskey. That's pretty
hard on the nerves, I can tell
you, after the quiet of the House.
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But .however rigorous is the
lot of the politician at Ottawa,
imagine how crushing it is for
him when the session ends, and
he has to go home and live like
the rest of the peasants. No
mote jolly sessions with fellow -
members in .a French restaurant
in Hull, No more impressing the
delegation from the home town
with his easy familiarity with
"John," "Mike" and "Paul."
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Instead, he's got to go to
church every Sunday, march in
the Legion parades and attend
all the fiftieth wedding anniver-
sary celebrations. H e niilst
charge about the riding. from
one stultifying banquet to an-
other, telling the seine pair of
tired jokes, at each, His ear is
bruised and tender from listening
to demands for new docks, new
post offices an eld-age pensions
for people who aren't too sure
when they were born. He is
tapped for a ticket on every raf-
fle in the riding and is touched
for a tenspot by every organi-
zation in' Whose vicinity he finds
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And when his Course is run,
what is left for. this willing work-
horse, this servant of the peo-
ple? Sheer ingratitude is his lot.
He faces three alternatives, all
equally horrible. He goes on
pension, a miserly $3,000 a year,
Which will scarcely keep him in
the cigars he has grown accus-
tomed to. Or he is hoisted up to
the Senate, where he must
labour and sweat over legisla-
tion until he drops dead from
sheer exhaustion at the age of
88. Or he loses an election, and
has to start making an honest
living again.
Oh, my heart goes out to them,
these public-spirited men. But
a few vital statistics have.
emerged :from the 1958 election
campaign and we must face the
facts. Here they are.
If all the politicians who are
elected spent one-quarter of the
time, energy and enthusiasm on
the affairs of the country that
they have. spent in being. elected,
Canada would be top nation in
the world within five years.
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If all the power that has been
poured into hearty handshakes
in this campaign could be trans-
formed into electricity, we could
turn Niagara Falls off for a
month, and never Miss it.
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If all the political promises
made in the past six weeks were
stacked on top of each other, a
fellow could climb the pile and
board Sputnik as it went by.
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• And if all the politicians in
Canada were laid end to end,
they might not be as long as
the Trans -Canada Pareline, but
they'd produce twice the flow of
gas.
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(The following letter was ad-
dressed to "The Lucan Paper"
and forwarded to The Tithes.
Advocate.)
To the Editor:
In case you 'did not see it, I
ani enclosing an editorial which
appeared in the St, Thomas
Times Jonrnal, March 18, about
the Ed Sullivan Show and the
Lucan Leprechaun's Pee Wee
Hockey team and ,their recep-
tion on that program.
Thought it might be of interest
to you to notice the reaction of
St. Thomas and district to that
particular show.
You have a fine little hockey
team and you and your district
deserve every credit for the
backing you have all given these
youngsters,
Yours very truly,
Walter W. Read, M.D.
Aylmer Wet, Ont.
The editorial follows:
THE SULLIVAN "BRUSH-OFF"
It is doubtful if "Irish eyes
were shilling" in Lucan Sunday
night when parents and friends
of the Leprechauns pee -wee
hockey team, watched as the
young puck chasers were intro-
duced to millions of television
viewers on the Ed Sullivan Va.
riety ShOw.
The Leprechauns, pride and
joy of the Irish Hamlet 16 miles
north of LoncloO, who haven't
lost a game this season, were
literally given the brushoff as
they appeared before the TV
cameras for a brief moment and
were then told to stand aside
while the next„ act Was intro-
J.cotings
Usborne's 'Gardiner -
Makes Final Appeal
An [laborite TOWMhip lad
whose life story would rivat an
Horatio Alger story of "from
rags to riches' has made his
final appeal for election in his home
town of Lexemburg, Sask.
From the Yorktown (Sask.).
Enterprise, we clip .some
ex-
erpts from the report of that
meeting:
When a great artist sets to
work on his last .canvas _after
many years of success; .when a
brilliant architect :accepts his
last OMMiSaiOn. which • is the
greatest challenge to his genius;
when a successful .nu...1 teacher
accepts an engagement for .what
he or she has agreed to be their
final team; when an engineer
sets out on a .trip that is to be
Ms last run after a long, sue.
cess life on the railway; when
the ,ageing farmer puts in the
good earth what he knows will
be his last crop on the family
farm.; when the great actor
agrees to a contract for a great
show and he has announced Inc
retirement at its termination .• . .
what are the thoughts in the
minds of soch illustrious people?
And we wonder what Rt, Hon.
James Garfield Gardiner was
thinking when be concluded an
hour-long address to his ain folk
in Lemberg on Tuesday, For
nearly half a century this won-
derful man, small in stature and
large in mentality, hasbeen.
campaigning :politically up and
down the country and always
winding up "at home" in Lem-
berg seeking support for his
cause.
Today a capacity home -town
audience had turned Out to hear
"Jimmy" Gardiner in his last
home -town appeal for electoral
support. With almost 400 in at-
tendance surely every voter
must have been there. Certainly
some of them were of other than
Liberal persuasion. Yet there
was something in the atmos-
phere to indicate that this time
— when he was making a final
appeal for support — they'd
abandon party affiliation to pay
tribute to their .friend and neigh-
bor whom they know as the
"toughest of fighters" and their
,champion, regardi4ss.
The, Lemberg junior band was
UR hand for the occasion as well
as a school chorus. Present at
the meeting were Mr. Gardiner's
son, Wilfred, whois now M.L.A.
for Melville., like his father be.
fore him, and his. wife, and
many others. And the show was
televisedl as well.
But, nothwithstanding, "Jim-
my" Gardiner was the same
little two-fisted political fighter
on Tuesday that lie was 44 years
ago when he was a former.school
teacher preaching the gospel of
Liberalism in his spare time.
Ten years ago at the age of 64
he made a bid for the leadership
of the Liberal party, only to lose
out to Mr. St. Laurent, then
promised to. "sparkplug" the
Liberal party. And he has done
80,
Having told his political story
for the last time in his home
town, he shed the cloak of poli-
tics and said:
"It has been a great jay to me
to have had the opportunity to
represent you in the House of
1C8m3n,einns.
o,ns at Ottawa for the past
"Throughout the 22 years f
have been at Ottawa, I was,
until June 21. last, a member of
the. government as minister of
agriculture, which gave me an
opportunity to help agriculture.
There was criticism, but it is
interesting to note that in the
nine months the present govern-
ment has been in office our main
critics have not been able to put
any legislation on the statute
books which is acknowledged by
opposition parties or farm or-
ganizations to be more helpful
to agriculture,"
Thus "Jimmy" Gardiner made
bis last appeal for political sup-
port in his home town of Lem-
berg.
This we know It will be long
before we know another
"jimmy" Gardiner, All his life
he has been a good Christian, a
loyal, hard-working, uncompro-
mising, "'solid citizen. He was,
and as long as he lives, will be,
an exemplary Canadian,
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• 50 YEARS AGO
This year millinery is clistin.
guished by unusual height. Big,
heavy roses in mealy colorings
are strong featurea",
Mr. John Triebner won the
trophy presented by the Times
Publishing Company to mem-
bers of the Exeter Gun Club,
There will be single fare on
the railroad for a rally of tem-
perance workers from all muni-
cipalities of Huron in Clinton,
April 3.
The agent for the F'ain King
remedy made his rounds this
week.
Mr. R. E. Pickard left.for Fro-
bisher, Sask., on Tuesday eve-
ning.
Mr. James Bagshaw left on
Monday for the West, taking a
car of settlers effects. He with
his two brothers, George and
Homer, and brother-in-law, Mr,
Christie, will work on a farm to-
gether thIa• year.
25 YEARS AGO
The town hall was packed to
capa,city for the etory,telling and
oratorical contest by the stu-
dents of Exeter Public School
under the auspice; of Exeter
Women's Institute,
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Mews. Carling and Morley
have installed a new filing sys-
tem for their clients' paper e in
their fire proof vault. The new
system consists of steel filing
cabinets.
Mr, Ivan Hirtzel, Crediton,
shot a banded du*. He sent the
number to the Bureau of Biolo-
.,
duced. ,
Mr. Sullivan even fumbled
the introduction when he inquired
if he had pronounced "Lucan"
correctly. Had we not known
the Leprechauns' background we
would no doubt have been as
confused as the television
audience must have been—par-
ticularly those in the United
States — following the brief an.
pearatice. '
Th e young Irish -Canadians
went to New York at no expense
to Sullivan, and surely deserved
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gical Survey at Washington and
received word that the bird was
a mallard banded at Chippewa
County, Mich.
The work of demolishing the
old fire hall in Exeter north has
just been completed.
Dr. Margaret Strang of the
Peace River district has been
granted a three month. leave of
absence by the General Board
of Missions of the Presbyterian
Church of Canada.
15 YEARS AGC
Norman Jolly who received
his honor graduation diploma at
Exeter High School Commence-
ment exercises enlisted with the
R.C.N.V,R. at London.
An addition .of two mills over
last year's tax rate was levied
at a special meeting of munici-
pal council for improved drain-
age.
Mr. and Mrs, Wilson Morley
of Whalen are moving into their
new home in Exeter,
LAC Fred Ford, Central Band,
Roekeliffe has been home on a
14 -day furlough.
Highway 83 from Exeter to
Dashwood and west to the Blue -
water Highway was closed to
traffic during th0 latter part of
last week owing to the soft con-
dition of the roads,
10 YEARS AGO
Caven Presbyterian church
has extended a call to Rev.
Donald Sinclair of Allendale to
become minister to succeed the
late Rev. Kenneth MacLean.
Mr. Stanley Love, Kippen,
held a successful auction sale on
Thursday.
A combined meeting of, the
four Farm y orums met foe the .
last meeting of the season in
Thames Road Sunday Scheel
rooms, Four reels of educational
films were shown.
Mr. Harold Murray who has
been in charge of the Canada
Packers plant' in Exeter left
this week for Berwick N.S. to
take over the management of a
milk plant.
The canvass in Hensail for
funds for the erection of a new
recreational centre is off to a
good start.
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