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The Timee-Advocate, une 19, 1
Editorials
This newspaper elelievee the
right to expriee an opinion in
puhlic contributee to the pro-
greos of the nation and that it
met be exercised freely to pra-
eery. •and. improve democratic
government.
We Need Action
Council took wise action this week m launch-
ing an investigation into the towns sewerage prob-
lem. It cannot be ignored much longer.
Neighboring towns of Clinton and Seaforth
have already taken action on sewerage. Whether we
feel the time has come for action or not. we should
know how we stand on the problem and keep on top
oi it.
Perhaps it is wiser. as some suggest. to delay
investment of any extreme expenditure 'on. sewer-
age until the municipal debt is lowered. But the
questions arise. Will the debt become lower or will
Dew school costs ;and other investments require new
debenture issues? Will we, by waiting, force a com-
plete sewerage system. with its -tremendous cost. on
the town in one heavy commitment rather than
spreading the cost by doing sections at a time?
The investigation will be e elcome to solve
this question alone: Are we wise in investing in
permanent paving of streets which may have to be
torn up for sewerage?
It has been suggested that the cost of sewerage
is such that few towns can afford to install it without
considerable financial assistance from the province.
If this is the case, then agitation for such help should
should start now.because it will take a long time to
convince the government that it should enter into
this additional expense.
That the provincial government has not come
to the assistance. materially, of municipalities in re-
gaxd to sewerage does seem ground for question. The
provincial government has increased significantly its
control of and responsibility toward municipal affairs
in recent years in almost every phase. but sewerage.
Why should this service—which would appear to con -
pare with roads, schools, policing and others in im-
portance—be ignored, financially; by the province?
The questions are innumerable and one can
fumble with them ad infinitum. An investigation is
• clearly necessary to •eliminate many of the ifs, ands,'
and buts of the problom.
The committeehas been appointed. This is a
minor step. It is important that the committee be
active.
Value= Of S orts
(This is another editorial. written by a SHDHS
student, which appears in the school's yearbook. "Ink
Spot".)
By BILL ETHERINGTON
Why are sports necessary in our school cur-
riculum;? This is a common question asked by the
casual observer who notes the expense of this activity.
A great deal of money and time is needed to main-
tain a successful sports program in our schools. I
will endeavour to illustrate that sports have a definite
place in our school curriculum by means of some of
my personal views.
The one great value of sports to the high
school is its balancing effect. In this age in Which
there is a growing emphasis on math. science and
other academic subjects, this balance is most im-
portant. The development of the human brain is a
beneficial thing but it has little value unless this
brain is placed in a sound body. The balance between
the physical and mental development of the body
should be maintained at all costs. The fact that the
brain has an almost limitless potential is well-known.
However, what good is this potential if a person has
not the physical strength to develop it? Thus, a
balance must be maintained in this development of
the physical and mental capacities of the human body.
• Therefore I strongly believe that physical train-
ing is a necessity in our school curriculum. A student
looking ahead to the future realizes that proper de-
veionment of his body now may prove invaluable in
later years. In our society which demands a great
deal of work from the individual. physical strength
is very important. Remember that the person who
makes his mark on this world is invariably a healthy
person, both mentally and physically;
Nothing is impossible to the man who can
will; and then do.
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• When you argue with a Viol be sure he isn't
similarly engaged.
Perhaps the movies would be better if they
shot less film and more actors.
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June. like September. is one of
the most delightful months in
this fair Canada of ours It's the
most feminine month of the y•ear.
in that It's utterly impredict-
able.
You don• 't know whether :tune
IS going to gave you an icy stare
that will shrivel your 1'0111E10
plants. burst into a torrent of
tears and hatter down your tu.
hp s nr hang sitch a hot kiss on
you that your hay ‘vont grow.
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ItIs the month of June brides,
and June -bugs, Both fly about in
a tremendous tizzy, getting in
everybody's hair and demandim,,,,
a lot of attention. Evenittally,
the June brides get knotted and
the June -bugs get ewatied, to
the mutual a t isf a c tion of al-
most everybody.
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if is the month in which
gardeners. golfers and grand-
mothers verge on hysteria. The
gardeners are driven to the brink
by dogs- the golfers by honks
and slices. and grandmotherby
letters from their daughtere. eay•
mg they'll he coming. with their
fire kids. to spend the summer.
* *
For young people. graduating
from high school. universityor
nursing school, it is a month of
ineffable sadness and great ex-
hilaration, all mixed together.
They are leaving friehde and a
way of life they'll .always cher-
ish, and it hurts, But just. ahead
lies .the beautiful coast of life
with a capital L. They are easter
to open their new sails and bear
for it, knowing but not caring
that there are shoals and reefs
and sandbars; ahead.
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For kids. June is sheer heaven,
all wrapped up in bare feet on
green grass, cool water on hot
little hides, longdusky evening'S
of throbbing excitement, and the
delicious knowledge that school
is closing soon.
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For the elderly. too. June has
something special. The hitter
winds of spring are gone. and
there is the triumphant know-
ledge that another winter has
been bested. Tbere is sitting in
the sun, and watching the girls
are planning on attend -
in their shorts and the men mg any
if you
workine, on the streets. for the of the plays at the
Shakespearean Festival in atrat-
old gentlemen, There's the pleas- ford thie summer why not read
ure of nursing growing thine's. the play before you see it?
the leisurely natter over the We feel we understand and
back fence. the . fierce joy of enjoy the performance much
throwing clods at marauding more if we - know something
dogs, for the old lathes. about the plot of the play and
* e e * the characters in it.
You'll notice -I don't mention Collies of this season's plays,
young and .middle-aged married King Henry IV, Much Ado About
people. For them. June may Nothing and Winter's Tale are
sing a siren song. but it's drown- on the shelves of your library,
ed out in the roar of the lawn- e e e *
mower, and the howling of kids Now that holidays are here'
with ' scraped knees.
teen-agers Sift be planning more
and more partiee. For the junior
June is just another month eaejese is a new hook
nnytarlay s. under the windo‘v.
,
And what about father Home
after a hard, hot day. he is just
reaching for a cool rme, when
the BattleaNe hands him the
bologna sandwich, with the joy.
some tidings that: "We haven't
tune for dinner tonight. There'sewaY cut northwards through the
Too Much To Be Done,
Scotchmon, Irishman
Decide Kippen's Name
'RecentlY 1 ran across a num-
ber ot interesting items about
Huron Ciente. including the fol.
lowing whtch reveals bow leiPPee
received its. name.
.Robert Bele -who farmed an
Lot 13 along the Londoa road in
Tuelseremith Township, found the
long journey to Hensall for mail
bothersome. SO when Lord Elgin,'
the governor-general, and the
postMaster-general visited Lon-
don in 1550. Bell made a special
trip to ere him.
Bell, along with other 'farmers
around the area where Kippen is
now situated, thought there
!elated he a post office where
the town lines of Stanley Hay
and Turkersmith township meet.
During the interview, the post-
master.eencral sseemed agree-
able, but there was -the matter of
a name for the promised office.
Bee, W110 was born in Stirling
Counte in Scotland, .suggested
Stirling, The postmaster, beteg
1rihnutted that down and Rig-
gestert Mullingar t.o which Dell
objected. After further dickering,
they finally decided on Kippen,
, which though of Scottish origin,
'apparently was a.cceeitable to
the Government official.
So where the. three townships
meet became Kippen. The des-
triet hart been settled early in
the le3oe; as had land in all
townehipe along the London
Road.
Earliest Settler •
Earliest known settler where
Ripen now stands was Robert
Doig, who farmed on lot 30, Hay
Township, on the London Road.
Doig, who purchased 97 acres,
saw his lot later broken up as
the village grew, and when the
London, Huron and Bruce divi-
sion of the Great Western Rail -
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She ticks them off. The lawn
needs cutting it's a disgrace and
I'm ashamed for people to know
1 live here. The clothes line is
broken and when you fix it you
eau put. out the washing I had
to do all river again when it
broke. The storm windows have
to come. off we can't breathe
upstairs; Those kids are driving
me crazy' they won't. do a thing
tell them and I want you' to
give them a good talking-to.
h1
So he gives a nostalgic look at
his fishing, rod and gall clubs,
end buckles on the harness.
While he moles the lawn, he
wanders how they're going to
meet the car payments. While
eeeeching the teighbors'
backearde for the kids.ehe de-
termines to send them all away
In a cottage or somewhere for
a month, if he has to mortgage
the house aethia, While he's fix-
ing the clothes- line, his hands
uncoreciouely - fashion a heng-
man's knot. •
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To them that hath is given Ta
young lavers, .June brings' a
beautiful sadnees, a thrilling
.
promise. To children. brings
the wondrous certainty that there
are six or eight- months ahead.
To old people, it brings warmth
and a new gleam in the eye. But
to the ordinary dray -horse in
double harness. of either sex, it's
just another month, something
to be got through by dint of sheer
heroism.
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By mrt.5. J. M. S.
county.
Setting in the Kippen . area
were active advocates - of the
L.H.B. Railway, and were in-
strumental in persuading the
Township Council to grant $10.-
000 In the railway during con-
strucinn,
Kippen today depends less an
the railway than nn No. 4 high.
way. one of the main arteries -
of trade from London north
along Lake Huron toethe Bruce
Penineula. halfway between two
large towns. Clinton and Exeter.
Kipper's growth has been .slowed
by the development of these
towns, but it etill has an active
trade with the farming district
surrounding it.
Baird's .School
The name Baird is perhaps
better known than any other in
the eistore of the village of
Brucefield, for the late- George
Baird, one of he most illustrious
men of Huron. set a record which
has probably newer been. equalled
in Canada.
For half a century he taught
S.S. 1 Stanley Towaship, a little
country school near Brueefield.
The school is still unofficially
known as "Baird's School." and
-Georg.c Baird, until he retired in
1910, was affectionately known
throughoutAiasterthe district as "The
Scottish Born
Scottish -born Baird attended
school during the winter. and
worked for his father clearing
the hush and breaking the land
during the spring. summer and
fall. But at the age of 19 he
walked 18 miles to Goderich,
tried his examinations, received
his First Class Teacher's Cer-
tificate and walked back to
Brucefield all in one day.
Baird's adopted hometown of
Brucefield was named after
Major Bruer, a brother-in-law of
Lord Elgin and aide-de-camp to
the governor-general at that
time, byt a Mr. McCowan who
built the village's first; store.
The first settler of the coms
munity, located seven' miles south
of Clinton on Highway No. 4,
was Fete'. McMullen. By 1879
the village had a population of
200 and included.. a railway sta-
tion, four general stores, two,
shoe shops, two tailor shops, one
tannery, one steam -powered saw-
mill; one wagon shop, one but-
cher and two hotels.
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50 YEARS AGO
Inepeceor Tom reported there
were 132 teachers in West Huron
ai the close of 1907. •
It has been decided to hold De-
coration Day on Thursday, June
25 at 4 o'clock — business places
Will close,for the balance of the
day.
Local license inspectors have
been ordered to inspect all hotels
to see that fire eseapes are all
in good condition.
Mr. J. 'W. Hogarth, teacher of
SS. No. 4 Usborne has tendered
his resignation. Mr. Hogarth in -
lends going West.
The event of the season will
be the• Garden Party on the ree-
. tory lawn Friday evening.
The Stratford to St. Joseph
railway is again -the talk and it
is stated that the project will
yet go through.
Ward Hodgins, ClandeboYe,
has his new barn jUSt completed
and the franters have gone to
work at Walter Hodgins. •
for mothers of young children.
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Only by brute force can they-
eep lt ou o y
body of water, from a puddle to all entertaining — the hostess —
a pond. Only by using the wiles this book discusses first. the fine
of a witch -doctor can they coax art of being a gracious one,
them into the house in time for then goes on to show step by
bed. And it practically takes an step how to plan a successful
injection of morphine to get the party _
little wretches to sleep in the It tells her how to cope with
long. bright,. June evenings, with difficult situations, gives her
the birds bellowing ouside. and -pointers on party dress, sample
the tough kids, who are allowed menus and recipes and mere
to stay out, playing Run Sheep, than 20 icebreakers.
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Part Cues Per Teens
25 YEARS AGO
Mr. Simon Millar, Cromarty,
was killed instantly when large
sections of a dance floor which
he was assisting in moving fell
on top of him.
At a meeting of representa-
tives of various churches in the
library it was agreed to co-ope-
rate with those who have suffered
from the recent storm' and will
assist in cleaning up the wreck-
age.
A novel Flower and Bird ser-
vice was held in Main Street
United church on Sunday,
Mies Flossie Hunter has com-
pleted her two year course and
has graduated. from the Depart-
ment of Social Service of the
University of Teronto.
k ent fa n handy Beginning al the beginning of
month of the year as well as
appropriate holiday occasions.
Also for eteen-agers another
:new boOk
Toempagers Guide For Living
To help teen-agers better un-
derstand themselves, this book
first clearly explains personality
and all the factors which influ-
ence :behaviour and attitudes.
—Please Turn to Page 3
Run, or se la
tever ltley p 1ay Tt1ere are par
ties for
ivry
There will be a series of six
concerts for the Lions Crippled
Children's Fund in Huron Coun-
ty.
• • • 15 YEARS AGO
Warden B. W. Tuckey is- this
week presiding at the Huron
County council meeting at Gode-
rich.
Members of _Boy Scouts and
Cubs accompanied by 'Scout
Master Harold Whyte, Dr. •H.:
Cowen and Warden B. W. Tuc-
key motored to Mitchell Sunday -
for a rally in Main Street -Halted
Church.
At an auction sale of Short-
horns from the herds of W.C.F.
Oestricher, R. M. Peck and Roy
F. Pepper held at Exeter Fair
Grounds on Wednesday the top
price was $650 for a Peek year-
ling heifer.
Mr. 'Maurice Quance as dele-
gate from Exeter Lodge 1.0.0.F.
is attending Grand Lodge at
King Edward Hotel, Toronto.
Spr. Sam Lawson of Petawawe
spent the weekend at his home.
The first blood donors clinic
to be held in Exeter sponsored
by the Red Cross and Lions
Club will take place on Thurs-
day.
10 YEARS AGO
Very War. Bro. W. W. Taman
was presented with a fifty year
jewel at Lebanon Forest Lodge
No. 133 A.F. & A.M. on Monday
evening.
Zion Lutheran congregation,
Dashwood, will celebrate - the
75th anniversary of its organiza-
tion and the 40th anniversary of
the dedication of its present
church building en. Sunday.
Mr, Cliff White expects . to
have an ice Cream Bar in ope-
ration early in July.
Mr. and Mrs.. J. A. Traquair
have moved into their new 'home
on John Street,
Thirteen candida(es were ini-
tiated into the Exeter Chapter
No. 222 D.E.S.
The district annual of South
Huron Women's Institutes was
held in Zurich Town Hall, JUDE
Mr. Jos. el. Creech purchased
the home of the late G. 5,
Howard.
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