HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Goderich Signal-Star, 1952-09-18, Page 2THE GODERICH SIGNAL -STAR
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HURON t`OUNTY'S FOREMOST WEEKLY
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7111;1tSDAY, SEPT. 18th, 1052
EDITORIAL NOTES
The days are getting shorter, and
when fast tune -is discontinued ,oll
the 28th of this mouth there won't
SIGNA.L•STAR PHOTO FLASHBACKS •
Do You Remember. When...?
As,for selling, the Guvernment gives
its support, but it is -the foreign
buyers who decide where Canada's
exports go. If Canadiaus wish to
help Great Britain by purchasing
be any evenings at all, in a manucr more British goods it is up to Call-
a speaking. But the.days will 'still mlian firms and indiViduals to direct
contain twenty-four hours, and the their purchases iu that direction.
evenings will be longer. It's just The Saskatchewan Premier is par -
the way you look at it. .• tient:it-1y anxious to encourage
Speaking. at Winnipeg on hisl that the grain -growers of his
Western' tour, Prime Minister St. I vince have an immense crop of
Laurent said that tit.iation had just wheat and other grains to be dis-
about reached the limit in Canada posed of anti lie is addressing an
if yearly expenditures were not to appeal directly 1,, the people of
overbalance° revenues. That iS his Province to -,ee that as much
this column said last week, so the as possible of the goads they buy
prime Minister must be right. is of British origin. This is
PracticUI method helping Sask-
atchewan fanners to sell the great
crop wita which they have bei•a'
fa vored.'
i'here is talk of another railway
!, strike, and grainhandlers at the
Lakehead also. are said to lie
getting ready to walk out. Why
not everybody close up shop and
let business take care of itself for
a while, until- we make up our
minds that the only way to get
withou1, this continual threat of
a break -down in the • industrial
machinery?
In Ow last six years, or from
1944 to the end of July, .195g,
Canada has admitted 762,246• Ba-
t ' migrants, of whom 245,682 were
from Britain—slightly less than
ene-third. The figures were giVen
hy Immigration Minister Harris
reply to criticism to the effect that
'CanadaTwas not bringing in eneugh
people of British origin Of those
from other eountries than Britain
62,875 were Americans, -.180,6.10
f rom North Europe, 'and 273,059
from other eountries. Mr. Harris
warned against making conclusions
as to the proportions of inunigrants
from the figures , any short
.perimi; it Was .only by reviewing
the results Over a term of years
that :1, reasonable judginent could
be reached.
Premier Frost, opening the Oro
fall fair last week, perhaps sur-
prised his hearers °by saying:.
"We have on our statute
books right "now- iegislation to
tight racial discrimination, and
that reminds me that we have
a great leader hi Prime Min-
ister Louis St. Laurent, when
he said a while ago that 'the
key to tvorld peace is under-'
EVENING
CLASSES
AT
GODERICH DISTRICT COLLEGIATE INSTITUTE
OPENING OCTOBER 1
Instruction .will be offered in
* SHOP WORK . *-SEWING
* HOME ECONOMICS * COMMERCIAL WORK,
*.ENGLISH FOR NEW CANADIANS
These Classes will be held provided there is a sufficiently large
registratiou in each subject to justify opening the Class.
Shwa- Roosevelt's first election
campaign in 1932 the-majorits'
U.S. daily newspapers have favored
the Republicans in preference to
has increased until in 1948 it wits
more than two to one, aceording
figures given by The Boston
Monitor. This year it is five to
one, 75 per cent. favoring Eisen -
Prospective students nusy register at the Collegiate on
Wed., Septentber 24 from 7.30 to 9 lust. 36-7
'RCAF
bown Memory's
Lane
bower. anti 15 per vont. Stevenson. 15 Years Ago , Bars created a world's -record, vie -
Reporters de not line up neeessarily
with the editorial office. Reporters - -
"rhe steamer King Edward made "lig the first heat.in 591,4 seconds,
Ihe second in 1.001/2 and the third
travelling with Eisenhower .wero her last call for the season, having,
a good passenger list and a full Hal ca.me t.;iectil-lnh th'ree.
cagro of freight. heats. '
polled and 24 favored Stevenson,
while seven preferred Eisenhower The steamer .Greyhouna neide a .A pleasing feature in conzu,ction
and six, were undecided. As the nafonlight trip on the lake, taking with the band coneert on the Square
Rt,publicans haa'e not W011 a 11 t`let, out 500 passengers. The Black- twits the preSentation of a baton
sone orchestra furnished the music- and .an address to Mr. Wilkinson,
tion in all these x -ears, it mitt.
al prograin for the trip.. , the leader, by the members of the
held that 'editorial- opittiOn has 'hist X new steamship record betweeti hand,' in recognition of his good
its influence, hitt this is not. al- a European port and Ness' 'York was work, resulting' in the recent sue -
together eorrect. The Monitor holds. nuide by the Cunard -line's new cess at the Toronto Exhibition
giant turbine ship, the Lusitattli,t,. where the Godorich luind won third
It pt)ints init. that. while the editor- 1,
the crossing -from 'prize.
Queenston. to toe ,sandy Ilook 15 Years Ago
one direction the news eollinins of ship irt five days and 5-1 minutes. Dr. It. 'Hobbes Taylor .of Dash
reputable ritts-spapers itre usually _ Three special rains, bearing the, wood was hominated Chnservatilae
Guelph city council and 'civic- of- condidate for tlie.Legishiture in the
fair and impartiitl in reporting
ticials, the directorate of the Guelph rhling of Huron.
guided rather by these reports than .of the 110:trd of
by the. editorial views• The ,pub;ie, invited guests, came to Goderich the Great Lakes, brought 85,000
to eelebrate the opening cerenionits feet of logs for the (loderich Mann -
too, is pow less dependent on the'
of the Guelph and Goderich Rail- facturing Company.
daily papers for pelitical news, way.
-'• 'Robert Barnes, a student at the
since. news 411:igazines, 'the nidio 25 Years Ago Goderich Collegiate Institute, wits
;Ind television II contribute to the Though it wits not completsay awarded the Robert MacKay mem-
of itif„,„,„1 i.„H„ ble. (letit ri/Yed by tire, the Masonic Hall oriel scholarship, having obtained
building in Liwknow was damaged nine firsts "and two second-class
newst,aper 4 'Kt rt
ata such an extent that it could honors in his examinations.
will be interesting on the night Ito •bv micuplea. , The local_ Bottrd•of Health, meet -
of November 4th to learn whether The North Street United Church ing to discuss the spread of in -
the reporters again have the lough softball team, chimpions of Huron Pantile paralysis, decided, as a pro-
m, tho editi,rs m, the Irt,nd a two_ l'ounty, won the first game of the cautionary measure, to close all
score years has been reversed and def,,,,ted ,.der
anibton day schools, and plaee a ban on
standing' and friendship.' 'll'hat
'the t•dititrial • pen has at - C,ainty winner's. the aPpearance at the theatre or
very true."
In the grrat frecfor-all race ;it the bathing beach of ehildren under
ttrit.irio Conservatives need not iriu"114"41. 1 11., Limit( ffi Fair. in whieh Grattan 111 -years of itge.
be alarmed that the leader of their
ST()1' HITTING MOTORISTS
. party going over to -the Liberals. –1
it hunting around for funds to.
Mr. Frost had just. conelmied an boitd n't,w road to ease a perpetii,;: WOMEN'S TASK
arriitigeoant. by which tile „respon- tratlit. Jumble, (ow Toronto eontrol-
sibility of collecting large part: lt*r '"ggested "" im're"se in all economie tiower, en-
, motor vehicles lee. "It inisn't been •
of coitai..„, to lie assil eniti:1;41. men to practice their pro-
- raised in yet everything' c.sel
Mr. St. 1,aurent's CoiN'etbIlleat has gone op." 'per trade .of dreaming anti making
and the antetint hantied over to"Mr. As an argument. that carric,-.; c"""'
IN,. it ha ,tct hp,n t`I,I1,1111 IC responsibility and anxiety,
wonder Mr. nest 'is grateful and is ,,„„, „wit, Th,., I, IA yet rementher not to t.reat
them with the contempt which wo-
uteri naturally ft -el for artists -nail
At ti if this eolitain has been
railed to ;111 editorial article in The
Toront,, Telegram litinded "Redis-
tribution tluillotine Begins Work'in
Ontario" ami referring to the
change in the eleetaral set-up in
this county. Expressing sympathy
with Mr. (7ardiff, whom it seems
eotisider the vitamin of the "guil-
lotine," the article concludes With
the information that the munieipal-
ales ineluded' in the new riding,
according te the vote in the 1949
election. give a Conservative major-
ity of 324. So the surprised render
learns that the "guillotine," instead -
of striking at Mr. Cardiff, has been
deliberately set to miss him by a
margin of :124 votes. of the two
ridings affected; North Huron, is
how represented by a COnservative
lii,tearl of thinking tip more ways
:Ind means of milking the overtaxed
motorist it is about time we stortet1
planning- some rtlief. If Wt. don't,
a lot id people are going to &cid"
that they ean't afford to drive eats
any" longer and then where would
the tax collector be?
THE TAX AGREEMENT
Neither big- government nor big
ta xes a re desirable. But if we
must have then -i we might- as well
make themes efficient and painless
as possible, .says The Financial
Post, in commenting on • Ontario's
entry into a fax agreement with
tawa.
The Canadian taxpayer is one
Whole person even theugh he splits
his tax paY,ments among three
levels of government. Today's high
tevels of spetuling•demand .that. the
levies made by one government be
set with recognition of other levios
the Citizen must pay.' This can best
be done by co-ordinating the chief
tax fields so that eneh (!anadian
(Mr. Cardiff) and Huron -Perth by
similar, cireumatances and enjoy -
a Liberal (Mr. McLean). 'The net nig similar services will be liable
.result of the change is that instead for approxintately the sante burden.
of an even break between the
MAN TO 'MANY,
parties:one Liberal and otie Con -
Canadian businestamen tak, to-
granted- the ease witlt which they
can goitre many of their problems
informally, by a caSual chat or a
Kum -distil nee esti. They also take
whleh our federal Ind provincial
Premier Douglas of Saska tch-
ewan announces that he has sent.
out 8,000 letters asking the people
of his Provim•e to buy more British
goods so tlipt Britain may be able
to htly Canadian wheat. This is a
realistie approach to the problem
of promoting trade between Canada
and. the, United Kingdom. -It
the' ordinary thing to take the nit-
servative, there is now one riding
with a Cimservative majority. it
seems. that if anyone is deserving
of sympathy it is Mr. MeLean.
governments put out for- them.
eomments Tito Financial Post.
Much of this country's business
and business -government relatiotic
are negotiated on a person-to-persi
level. Yet at the Same tuna), in
tegritY in such dealings *is just
taken for granted.
It is probably because of these
facts that a signifietint side of the
Ontario tax agreement 'WAS over,
_ looked by many Canadians.
Omani trade returns; Its indicating While eonferences over the yent4
'no doubt paVed the way, It was
novernMent policy in buying and
"flee Frost's and "Doug" Abbott's
getting together whieli closed Ott
deal.
Let us hope that this cordiality
selling. But It is not the Govern -
Ment that imports and exports:ex-
cept to a minor extent. Manu-
facturers, wholestiderm. "en in- this putting of problems ahead of
dividenie make the purchusem _4, personalities and polities continues
. the goods that come from abroad.
scientists, then they'll turn that I came down tole to finish
human societies into great ant -hills
, it tinder police prateetiont."--The
unchanging, utterly terrible bore -
The sePtell'h" meeting "f rht" Letter to the tailor
of Mrs. Hem, North street, with
a good attendance. The president,
Mrs. Graham, was in charge of
the meeting and opened it with a
Goderieh, September 10.
Editor, The .Sigaial-Star.
As a Small group of women we
Cantelon. Routine business was to us a detailed aceount of • Cie
seas delegates coming to N'ancouver ew-deeitth-tiel
This fund is being raised for over-.. ii)svoupsieisth.ionuirdht,k2tHombeinthsuomt
next year to the world convention what goes on in the town as regards
who are allowed te bring out of the aetions of those that at least
their ewn country very little in we shollid resPect•
eash.' The provinees tire all havin;.; And so we say "thank you ;ery
:a part in this work and Ontario !bitch." your, vet; sincerely.
alone has .cont rilmted thus far near-
TIIE
IN' $2,000. devotional period
was taken by Mrs. Jewel who .gavo
a very tine talk on "The Value of
Friendship," closing her remarks
by singing the hymn "The Christ
of the Human Road:" TWenty -
three -calls were made and 10 boa-
quets,, sent to.. sick and° shut-ins. °
The meeting was closed with a
hymn and prayer by -Mrs. Graham.
Afterwards a tasty lunch was
served anti a social time spent.
As I entered the police station
one evening' to pay a parlinig tine
I noticed that an old lady just
ahead of - me was trembling all
over.. I paid illy $3 and was about
to leave when I saw the lady sitting
on a bench absorbed in a book.
there anything I can (1°T:
"No. thank. you," she replied
sedittely-.-, "Von' see, I was 'sitting
nt home all alone reading this
EDUCATION COSTS
There t-nin be no ,hard and -fast
rule for cutting costs 44 education.
That's the consensus of replies
to a Financial Post.. question.
"Eliminate the frills" is sug-
gested most often, but against thAt
are the recommendations that' noth--
ing should be done tO lower in any.
Way, our standards or _edueation,
. "We hare- probably been too
shortsighted in tin) salary levels
for our teachers ;Ind too generou.4
with buildings and PliiiiiIinent,"
comments one. Ontario businessman.
The Arthur Ciretts met on Mon-
day evening at. the home of Mrs.
Brian Ainslie. Miss Ethel Elder'.4
group was.in charge of the mem--
ing. The Scripture lesson was read
knitting led in prayer. The busi-
ness portion of the meeting was
presideii over by Nit's. II. Rivers
and arrangements were made for
the bazaar to be held the latter
part of October.
The topic, ."Building a Living
Church," was given by Mrs. R.
Venus, wile' (at/waived the Winding
of the ntwient cathedrals in Great
Britain by' hand TO oar essn new
edifice. Even today, after several
hundred years these imildings are
stnnding as a living devotion
to those men who labored on them,
.atid,tow in Scotland's Holy Isle
imm (Christianity's birthplace
in Scotland) a band of Presbyter -
114, headed, by Dr. George MaL,-
Leod, are building St. Columba's
ceitie ehureh and Monastery. build-
ings and It is our duty today to
lint life into this beautiful church
We are about to oeenpy and make
it a living church. Mrs. Venus
closed by- reading Psalm 139.
The meeting closed with prayer
followed by a social half hour.
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Doctors say that eight hours'
proper rest in bed will save 7,000
heart -beats a day.
NI011teZ11 11111 Wt1 III(' lost
empt-ror of Mexico.
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Tuesday and Wednesday, Sept, 23-24
Gates open to the public, Tuesday night, 6.30 p.m., with a good
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Wednesday, September 24
— The Big Fair Day at Mitchell —
with one of the best school parades ih this County led by the
Mitchell Band.
GRAND STAND PERFORMANCE
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Clown Acrobatic Acts—Stunt Model U controlled Airplair
Flying, Exhibition of Square Dancihg by the Champion
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C. N. E., Toronto.
Horse Races -with mobile starting gate
$10.00 extra for fastest mile in races.
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WE'LL TRADE IT
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Annual fall fair dance at the Crystal Palace with Paul Cross
and his 11 piece Band
Dancing 10 to 1 p.m. Admission 75 cents
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