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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1963-06-06, Page 4HUNTLEYS DRUG STORE c- ? EXETER .11t4 `Telephone Ontario 235.1070 Call us for FURNACE SERVICE! Now's the time to have your furnace serviced for next winter . . don't wait until fall. Call 235-2314 today and let Seldon Fuels provide this service for you. FLASH! Our Fuel Oil Storage Capacity Has Been Almost Doubled More storage capacity means better service for you better assurance of regular, carefree delivery and peace Of, tilled that you'll always• be able to get supply. Yes, Seldon Fuel's continues to maintain the best In fttel service, With the finest peteltiets and the latest facilities, .41,,c;,..?,.‘r 61.00N FUELS 11jRAIISITEE SELDON FUELS la5.1314 Exeter EVERGREENS IN POTS We. can plant them anytime •QN •.P.R.E,MARITAI, SEX Best Variety Ruse Bushes OVE-ST OPINION Q1,11413F.P.S, TEA ROSES ti4 POTS Grown up tO 6 Inches or more You can plant them anytime EDITORIALS The wrong attitude The parents problem 1317 CLARE McgOlVAlN', DIRECTOR OF MORON .OHILDREIV$ AID SOCIETY OUTSIDE HARPY MUM PLANTS' neglected without cira stic re- sults must be assumed by both father and mother whp must both be there to do it. STRESS ON MOTHER The complicated society which we have built fpr our- selves puts a great deal of stress on home-life, particu- larly on the mother who bee to make personal decisions which will affect her family. Does the economic situation in her home require her, to go out to work; does she want to work away from home merely to re- lieve her own sense of bore- dom; is it necessary for her to be so deeply involved in outside activities that she is awayfrom home three and four evenings a week? As she is away from home so much, is she completely satis- fied that the skill of a "sitter" or housekeeper is adequate for the training of her family (it is assumed that the physical care is up to standards). By deciding to work away from home or assume other responsibilities, is she harm- ing her relationship with her husband--are they losing con- tact with each other by spread- ing interests? Is this going to affect their children's lives? These queries, and many oth- ers, come to mind as the result of dealing withteen-tigers' pro- blems, Many times in the course of an interview, a girl or boy will say "when I got home there was no one to talk to," or, "Mum is always so busy she hasn't time for me," or "Dad isn't interested." There is a lonely plea behind these state- REDER'S FLOWERS meets, a calling out for the sup- port and understaxiding which is a. child's natural heritage. LOSS Of INTEREST There seems to be no one answer to the problem of teen- age pregnancies but from ob- servation of and contact with these ehildren, it is clear that at least one facet of the exist- ing situation is a loosening of parental interest in the mental and moral welfare of their children. On the whole, physical care is not inadequate, but the closeness of family life, the compatability of minds, seems to be lost in the crowded social and business lives of parents, The lives of children are most complicated these days, too, and there are many induce- ments to leave home after school hours. In the develop- mental life of teen-agers, many of these are healthy activities and should be encouraged but these combined with parents activities, tend to make home- life almost impossible. There- fore it seems that, as a start, parents who are concerned with the serious trend of these pro- blems, might do well to assess honestly, their own situation at home, to take a clear sighted look at their motives regarding their own actions and their un- derstanding of the responsibil- ities of parenthood. It has long since been proved that children need little beyond "Dad and Mum" for the first few years of their lives; is it asking too much for "Dad and Mum" to supply them with just this, and a little extra time be- sides? Phone 2 35-.5603 Please use our winiarn St, entrance Lots of free parking in the yard. Give Dad a chance to relax in comfortable KAUFMAN Foam Tread SLIPPERS $3.98 & 4.98 or give him Hart or Scott-McHale Shoes or Genuine HUSH PUPPIES Handsome Gift Certificates Available SMYTH'S SHOE STORE LTD. Hart Shoes for Men Naturalizers for Women Complete Line of Savage Shoes for Children PHONE 235-1933 EXETER FOR JOTTINGS BY JMS J. M. Southcott FATHER'S DAY GIFTS The area in 1863 Many elected municipal officials, par-, tieularly in the rural areas, have some great fear of providing the people they represent with information about the public business they transact. Such fear, or whatever it is, is difficult .understand. For the most part, reeves and councillors are honest and diluent, anxious to serve and to satisfy, although somewhat best. taut and unsure of themselves because of lack of experience Or, in some eases, education. Normally, they have no cause to hide or ex- owe their actions, because they are undertaken in a conscientious manner. The experience of this and other news- papers, however, is that they are most reluctant to reveal or discuss their decisions for public scrutiny. They will hedge when questioned; they will avoid direct comment; they will even avoid being contacted. Indeed, they have made false statements on occasion in order to dodge comment. Most newspaper editors don't make issue of such tactics because they are neither justified or sensible. Yet it leaves the suspi- cion, usually unfounded. that there is skul- duggery or mischief afoot. It also provides the impression that the rural official believes his public work is nobody's business but his own, which indicates a serious lack of understand- ing of public responsibility. Not only is such a position unjustified. but it creates the contro- versy in most public issues. The latest evidence of this attitude is revealed in the resolution passed by the Huron County Municipal Officers' Association request- ing the removal of recent legislation which re- quires the publishing of auditor's financial statements. This legislation just came into ef- fect this year with the obvious objective of pro- viding the ratepayers with the information to which they are entitled in as convenient form as possible. The statement may be published in. a newspaper with general distribution in the municipality, which is the most economical method of publication, or it may be distributed to each individual ratepayer through the mail, By opposing the regulation the first year it is in force, the officials would appear to show clearly their reluctance to co-operate in pro- viding the public with the municipal informa- tion. The reasons given for the resolution, according to reports of the meeting. are 11) that only one in 20 understands the statement, and t21 in any event, municipalities usually pre, seated the statement at nomination meetings. Neither one is a valid argument, The first would presume that if a rate- payer doesn't understand a situation, he is not entitled to receive information about it. This is a clearer reflection of the attitude of some municipal elected officials than might appear. They feel that because they are the only ones who have first hand information about muni- cipal business, they have no right to be ques- tioned about it. This probably is precisely one of the main reasons that the publication of financial statements has been required. Furth- ermore, it is not likely that people will be en- couraged to understand public business, if they are denied, or not provided with, the details about it. We can agree that the statement as pre- sented in the audited form is not easy for the layman to interpret. However, if this is the point the association was trying to make it would appear logical that the resolution would ask for a more simplified presentation, rather than no presentation at all. We would endorse heart- ily efforts to publish accurate statements in a more comprehensible manner. The point about ratepayers being pre- sented with statements at nomination meetings is entirely out of order and all municipal of- ficials, elected or appointed, must be a- ware of it. This report is presented in Novem- ber, before the year's business is complete, and cannot possibly present an accurate picture. The expenditures of two months of the year, the two during which some of the heaviest expenses are paid, are not included nor has the statement been audited. If the municipal officers seriously sug- gest that the nomination meeting report, in- complete and unverified, is the only one which should be given general distribution to the ratepayers, they surely are attempting to avoid public scrutiny and discourage public know- ledge of municipal affairs. The Huron association's resolution is neither sound, democratic or realistic. It re- flects an attitude far too prevalent and far too iniquitous for good government. We suggest these officials should re-examine their attitude and approach to public business. TRY YOUR DRUG STORE FIRST vt£, $.,\WEESVERMI 70. '4" . • 31414:02..-ka.:. We've gifts galore that Dad'll adore! Come, see our Pop-Perfect array of things you know he likes, , . and lots of new gift-ideas! A DAY TO. REMEMBER BILLFOLDS 90 to $12 OLD SPICE GIFT SETS, $1.50, $1.55, $2.25, $3.00, $4.00 . . . . and up SHAVING BRUSHES, $1.50, $2.50, $3.50 $5.00 YARDLEY SPECIAL, Free Soap with Shaving Lotion, $1,25 ) PIPES • $1.25, $2.50 and up 1) KEYSTONE HAIR BRUSH 980 NATURAL BRISTLE HAIR BRUSHES $2.95 and $3.95 BALL POINT PENS, Paper-Mate in gift box $1.95 and up eluding Goderich, was $5,964, which went a long way toward meeting the total for teachers' salaries, $34,974. The county possessed, on pa- per at any rate, a formidable militia force, including four volunteer corps and eight bat- talions of sedentary militia, which included the entire male population from 18 to 60, or something like that. Some of these battalions reported a strength of 1,000 or more, Exeter does not seem to have been headquarters of any militia unit at the time, but it contained "six stores, four manufactor- ies, three schools, three church organizations, a Masonic Lodge, Orange, etc." It was described as "a post village in the townships of Stephen and Osborne." Isaac Carling was W. M. of the Masonic lodge, which had been organized in 1860, Among those 1 i st e d under professions and trades were William Taylor, toll keeper; H. G. Broderick, dry goods, groceries and hardware; John Hyndman, M. D.; CharlesSouth- cott, tailor; John Southcott, gro- cer; John Southcott, carpenter; Davis ez Baker, carriage factory and horse shoeing; William Balkwell, hotel; William M. Trick, manufacturer of tin, sheet, iron and copper ware. FrancistoWn, a mile north of Exeter, had two stores, a found- ry, and "one of the finest hotel buildings in the country. It was said to be 35 miles from God- erich, though Exeter was reck- oned only 31. Thomas Siciley was reeve of Stephen and John Kay reeve Of Osborne, Population of Stephen was given as 2,826 (2,626 in 1961); population of USborne was 3,219 (1,524 in 1961). Popu- lation of the county in 1861 was 44,632, excluding Biddulph and McGillivray, which about that time went into Middlesex. In 1961 it was 48,891, The gazetteer presents a cen- sus of religions, showing that four kinds of Methodists com- prised 9,653 of the county's population of 51,953 With Bide dulph and McGillivray counted in. The Church of England led easily, however, with 13,440, In Stephen, the Established Church of Scotland, Free Church of Scotland, and United Presbyterians had a total of 1,012, and the Church of Eng-, land was next with 680, In Us- borne, the three kinds of Pres- byterians, mostly Mira , bared 811, Bible ChriStianS 746, Church of England 694. Sothe• of the post Offices in existence a century ago have long vanished, Including Devon, iii Stephen; Ferquhar and Roe getsville in Osborne; Brewster and Johnson's Mitts in Hay, DicksonFames was MP for Iluton and tUddi.GeorgeBrown eat for South Oxford and Oliver Mowat for South Ontario, both of them more fartiees at or after Ctitifederatiem, We have been recalling some of the early history of Exeter as taken from the Huron County Atlas of 1859. This week we re- port some statistics from Su- therland's gazetteer of Huron, published in 1863, of w hi c h Sheriff Harry Sturdy, of Goder- ich, recently acquired a copy. W. E. Elliott, of Goderich, pro- vides this report for us. One hundred years ago, at least one schoolteacher in Hur- on county taught for a year at a salary of $84. Average salary of male teachers, without board, was $280, and the top $400. Average salary of female teach- ers, without board, was $186. "County" in relation to edu- cation meant all Huron except the only two recognized "muni- cipalities," the town of Goder- ich and village of Clinton. God- erich paid male teachers as high as $550, and Clinton $500, but the average for women teachers in Clinton was $240 --lessthan half the average for men. The legislative grant in 1861 for education in the county, in- While it is true that all out- of-wedlock p r e en an eies are surrounded by various forms of grief, PerhaPs the most poignant is that of the under-sixteens. These girls are, in mo st cases, too young to appreeiate fully the situation in which they find themselves. They mayeave precocious manners or an air of psuedo sophistication but ba- sically they are:frightened little girls accustomed to too much freedom from parental control, or sometimes from having had too much attention, In either instance the child is lacking in balance. Under .normal circumstances the years from birth to sixteen, are spent in the parents' home and environment so it seems reasonable to look there for the break down which indirectly brings about these early teen- age pregnancies. In examining the backgroundi of these children it iefeund that they come from all walks of life --from the 'good home, where there is reasonable financial security; regular church going; a busy social life; ranging to the deprived and over-crowded home where the children lack supervision and any training or care. Also in this background group can be included the over- strict home where too much stress on being socially accep- table can push a child into the opposite category, while at the same time a morally careless home can leave a child unpro- tected and insecure emotional- ly. It is believed that some of these factors plus outside cir- cumstances are involved in every case of an unwed mother, but in the case of the very young it seems rather more basic. During the earliest and formative years a baby and growing child needs the physical presence of his parents, both father and mother. This must be provided with love and af- fection and should be constant and consistent with discipline and training, If, by physicalab- sence -- jobs, social engage- ments, broken marriages, death -- the child is deprived of the guiding and steadying parental closeness, he or she usually goes elsewhere, drifing aim- lessly from one situation to another looking for support. The tragedy of the early teen- age unwed mother is that she so often comes from a home where obvious deprivation is not involved. To outward ap- pearances her life is complete: two parents, financial security and a presentable home. But oe closer inspection it may be found that the two parents are not agreeing on discipline; or one may leave it to the other, creating an imbalance of auth- ority; or there is little or no conscious effort put into the training of the children in un- selfishness, self-discipline or good moral standards. Most parents (and teachers) will agree that teaching a child the rudiments of goodbehaviour requires a patient day to day guiding. This responsibility, which belongs only to the par- ents and cannot be shifted or THE signing of the Magna Carta on June fifteenth, 121.5, is regarded by free men as one of the most memorable events in human history. When. on that day, the despotic King John surrendered to the demands of the barons in the great meadow at Runnymede, the lamp of liberty was lit, not just for the inhabitants of a single island, but for all the people — everywhere in the world. And if down through the succeeding centuries that lamp has sometimes burned low, its light has never been extinguished. There came into being in 1215 a fundamental principle which even a king was not permitted to violate. And when- ever the State, in the words of Sir Winston. Churchill, — "swollen with its own authority has attempted to ride rough od over the rights and liberties of the people it is to the ctrine of the Magna Carta that appeal has again and ainen made. never. as yet. without success". The Mt). concepts which have developed from the Charter have given birth to those great institudons of government and of justice which are the world's best hope and which find their fullest expression in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights THE public policy of Ontario, which proclaims that human rights are in- diviothle: that every person is free and equal in dignity and rights regardless of race. creed. enlour. nationality, ancestry or place of origin, likewise finds its smut* and inspiration. on the parchment scroll signed in an open field in England owr ,seven centrzies .ago. It was mice a wise decision and characteristic of the man, that our former Lieutenant Governor. himself a staunch champion of liberty, chose June 15. 1982 as the appropriate date on which to proclaim the Ontario Human Rights Code. It is my sincere hope that on this double anniversary, the people of Ontario, thrriugh their municipal government. churches, schools, community organizations and all crommunications media will, on June 15th. in whatever manner they deem .4iprwriate. give fitting observance to the anniversary of a great turning point thf2 quest 'for libert::, which coincides with a most significant milestone in the life of our own community. And as we cherish and safeguard those liberties. won for us throughout the struggles and great sacrifices of many generations, let us never fail to acknow- ledge the duty that accompanies every right, "The reward of one duty done is the power to fulfill another," john P. Roberts Prime Minister of Ontario team by Reeve Tuckey. Miss Helen Anthony, who has been offered a position with the Ontario Religious Council, has resigned from the staff of Alma College, St. Thomas. Services of dedication were held in Hensel] United Church on Sunday when the church organ was dedicated. The Organ key was handed to organist, Miss Greta Laramie. Ontario will go to the polls next Monday in a provincial election. In Huron County it will be a straight two-party contest between Tom Pryde, Exeter, Progressive Conserva- tive, and Fraek Fingland KC of Clinton, the Liberal standard bearer. 'limes stabliefred 1873 Amalgamated 1924 Advocate eslablished 1881 10 YEARS AGO Bill Brock of HenSall district leaves Sunday for his Corona- tion tour, lie was chosen to represent the Canadian Red Cross at the crowning of queen Elizabeth 11. der unes-A6uocafe SERVING CAelAbeeeS BEST PARMLAND Member; C.C.14,1e. and ABC Published tath ThOrsday Morning at Exeter, tint: Authorized as Second Class Mali* Post Office bep'f, Ottawa, and for pa'ymen't of Postage in Cash Paidwli,=Ar Vance tittuiefionf March 31, 35163--3,918 SUBSCRIPTION ,FtAttS4, tiiriaila 44.'66 Fier • 'Yawl LitA 0:06 50 YEARS AGO Mrs. E. Follick and Mrs E. A. Follick, Exeter, are in their cottage at Grand Bend for a week. John Zuefle has purchased from the executors of the George Petty Estate, Hensall, the block in which his residence and shoe store are situated. The town council Commenced the oiling of Main Street on Monday last. Two blocks were done from the Central Hotel north. Exeter is to have but one butcher shop as William Rivers has taken over the shop Mr. Rivers purchased from A. J. Ford. 25 YEARS AGO Messrs, Robert Passmiere, Nortnan Sinclair,James Mc- Ewen and Alex lshie of ?Jen- sen, who have been attending the University of 'Toronto, have returned home for the holidays. Mr. Hugh J. Creech of the Benting Institute, Toronte, was in OttaWa Thursday of last Week giving a paper on dancer re- search before the Royal Society. Exeter WI had a course in bornanship at three regular and end special meeting, eeve W. D. Sanders of town; Reeve C. Mawhinney and De- puty-Reeve E. /Jumper t of Stephen and Reeve P. Passmere of Osborne are attending County Council in doderieh this week, iS YEARS AGO The Exeter Rodkey Club was banqueted Ifi the Central Hotel Wednesday night to wind up a successful year, Smart Maroon jackets were presented 'to the "rake your last good look at the neighborhood before he lays 1:10Wit his artiOlte screen toe the eitinitert"