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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Goderich Signal-Star, 1953-04-30, Page 11THURSDAY, APELG" 80th. 1gei , URN, A 38: . Are is in the hosppital. God EJmear Holster -and Linda returned home on Sunday from Brownsville where theyspent .the pail week with her siser. KLaa. D. McKlintok and Mr. McKlintok, lei* sad ifn. Andrehr,. Io visib d ar may her uid �" 11.1111.Betty in Sarnia. Mr. and Mrs. Joe Hicks and Mr. and, Mrs. Blake Surae, all of Detroit, visited over the W e.k-end with Mn. hicks' pareuti4l(s. -aqd Mrs. Geo. Fuliord, and family. 111E-Cithierf SPORTS C 0 l UN 4 &Nees 7e/tredeldi The afternoon of Saturday, May 2, will be the', occasion of the seventy-ninth running bf the Kentucky Derby, at Churthill Downs, Louisville. Scores of thousands of out-of- town novelty seekers will be present. Per- haps_ local and visiting attendance will lift the total to more than 100,000. And Ws all about a race that doesn't seem to deserve the attention, pub- Ikity and money lavished upon it. • For the Derby, isn't a derby, to begin with—not in the requirements of distance, for example. Of course, in America, the term "derby" has come to be used very loosely, and very frequently. All sorts of tracks have a "derby" annually. But few, if any, parallel the daddy of all derbies, the Epsom ,Downs race, in the matter of distance. This Kentucky Derby, run „annus ly on the first Saturday of May furnishes the first test of three -year-olds over the distance 'of one and one-quarter miles. This is one-fourth of a . mile short of the regular Derby distance as established by the English classic run at Epsom Dbwns, from which the name ('derby" is derived. The English race is at a mile and a half, find is raced in early June. The Kentucky, race occurs almost' too early for eligible females of this age to compete on equal terms with colts. And it is too early to condition even the males of the species for a 10 -furlong 'struggle. You may think that transportation difficulties are annoying now. But back in 1875, the year the Derby was first run as a modest little race, the sporting folks of the era who attended really had grief. The "Louisville Jockey Club raee-track" since labeled Churchill Downs, was so far . from the city that horse- drawn street cars required two hours to make the trip. Many of the customers started to walkthe distance early in the morn- ing. Others went in wagons, buggies and on horseback. At- tending the Derby in the seventies and eighties was a journey, not a trip. Arrangements for the -race were primitive. There was, of course, nothing like a starting gate. Even the web barrier of 40 years ago was unknown. The starter drew a line in the dirt across the track with the butt of the flag he tired to start the field and then lined up the candidates well behind it. A walk- up start was the system. When "Col. Johnson of Nashville," the starter for the first of all Kentucky Derbies, got his field in alignment he flashed down his flag. A drum sounded the official start and the field was off. There were many other differences between the races of those early days, and now. It has gained in importance, in glamour; in attendance, and in speculative interest, so who are we to point out minor technical shortcomings of the continent's No. 1 glamour race? Tour comments and suggestions for this column will 6e wekoased by Elmer Ferguson, c/o Calvert House, 431 Yonge St., Toronto. Catvert DISTILLERS LIMITED AMHERSTBURG, ONTARIO TSS GOD Letrs to the Eor Mr. • Georg L- Ellis, The Signal -Star, Goderieb, Ontario. Dear Mr, Epic - Here is the certificate of Your membership in the Bureau. Tpis is the emblem of your Milano* with 3,386 leading American '`laid Canadian publishers, advertisers and advertising agencies in an ac- tivity that is recognizeed as the greatest single factor in the de- velopment of the publishing " and advertising industry. We .hope you will have the cer- tificate framed and placed on the wall of your. office. To visitors and members of your organization, the A.B.G. membership certificate is a visible expression of sound business policies, namely (1) the use of circulation facts to sub- stantiate advertising values; (2) the use of A.B.C. reports in analyzing your circulation activities and rev- enue,and as a continuing record of department performance. Sincerely yours, J. N. SHRYOCK, Managing Director Audit Bureau of Circulations, Chicago; Ill. Editor, Signal -Star. Sir,—In the April 16th issue of the Signal -Star, I read an 'article from The Rural Scene entitled "Who Really Rules Canada," which set me wondering. After reading it, I was.no wiser but I had a vague idea that it intimated that Canada is ruled either by the labor union which called the strike at Swift's Stratford plant or else the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to animals which put the baby chicks to death. However, a week ago, I read a very enlightening and frightening article in "Canada's National Mag- azine" which seemed to give some answers to the question. I refer to "Our Illegal Elections" by Blair Fraser in the April 15th MacLeans. I suppose a man in Mr. Fraser's imminent position would not write wildly, so I feel safe in quoting him. "Both major parties are now collecting for the Federal election campaign they expect this summer or fall.. ..•Between them, they will need about eight million dol- lars, give or take a million or two. They'll get five million of it in Ontario and Quebec. Where does that money come from? Probably more than half from big corpor- ations . . , chartered banks, insur- ance companies, steel companies, mining, pulp and paper, automo- bile and oil companies and so on. At the second level of con- tributors are the contractors, the people who' actually get govern- ment business The third'cate- gory of donors are the people who give to individual candidates in the riding ..., small business, shops, trucking and taxi firms, local fac- SIGNAGSTAII taa'ies, protosiioaal mea. ... . 1 pow I sbRuld mecttion a fourth e gory, thio ape Pontifical'. tell Yen' donut With _asswitsramw. Pah. These are the Members who contribute 5, 10. or even 50 dollars." (I pusposely put these sums in figures rather than words.) Mr. Fraser 'tsays the donation from the first three sources range from $50,000 down to $200. He continues in the article by telling what these contributors expect to get for their money, and also sug- ge is ways of holding elections without such huge party expendi- tures. The whole thing makes fascinating reading, and it also makes one wonder what is happen- ing in, this Canada of ours which we have always believed was a model of honesty integrity z lad fair dealing, politically as well as every other way. On January 22. 1953, I attended a lecture on "Who Runs Canada?" I wish to quote some figures from it also, referring to the composi- tion of the House of Commons. There are 265 members, 75 from Quebec and 80 from Ontario, or just over 60% of the total. The four Maritimes have a total of 34. The four Western provinces are represented as follows: Manitoba, 14; Saskatchewan and 'Alberta, '17 each; and- British Columbia, 22. The result of this distribution is that the party which carries On- tario or Quebec almost certainly will rule Canada. It will probably have to make concessions to either one or the other of these provinces also. The majority of seats in the House of Commons consist of rural or semi -rural constituencies. One reason forthis is the „tear of the potential role of labia in the in- dustrial centres. In most cases, one rural vote is worth several urban votes. Thost who distribute the ridings realize that labor is now so strongly organized that they could rule the country if re- presentation were by population, so the urban ridings have a Iarge population in a small area while the reverse is true in the rural ridings. Of course, if all farmers would vote for farm candidates THEY could rule Canada! Of the actual members, 30 per cent are lawyers or notaries, "a very worthy group, ' but nob by any widest stretch of the imagination can it be said that they contribute the greatest benefits to society" to quote the speaker, himself a law- yer. Most of these members have spent most of their professional lives serving the interests of the business community. (Please re- member the contributors to cam- naigning funds mentioned by Mr. Fraser.) 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HUGH GILM©UJR_ CLINTON, April '28. — Funeral services for Hugh Gilmour, 78, 01 Brucefield„ were held at the Ball and ?dutch funeral home, Clinton, Monday at 2.30 p.m. The Rev. D. J. Lane, St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church, Clinton, assisted by the Rev. W. J. Maines, Brucefield Un- ited Church, officiated. , Burial was in Bairds cemetery. Mr, Gilmour died when at woik at the garage of Robert Dalrymple, Brucefield. Born in Stanley Township, son of the late Mr. and Mrs. John Gilmour, he was a farmer all his life. He lived for a time at Bay- field and lately at Brucefield. He was a member of Bayfield Presby- terian Church, the Bayfield Lions Club and No. 210, IOOF Lodge, Brucefield. Surviving are one brother, Alex- ander Gilmour, Vancouver, B.C.; a sister, Mrs. Janet Ross, Wingham. MRS. J. • MacDONALD CLINTON, April 29. — Funeral services• for Martha Grace Mac- Donald, widow of James MacDon- ald, Brucefield, who died in Clinton Public Hospital Sunday in her 90th year, were held today at 2.30 p.m. at the Beattie funeral home, Clin- ton. The Rev. W. J. Maines, of Bruce - field United Church, conducted the services and interment was made in Baird's cemetery, Stanley Town- ship. Born in ,London, a daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. Moses CaI- will, she came to Brucefield with her parents, when a young girl. She was a member of the Bruce-. field United Church. Her husband died 28 years ago. She is survived by one son, James MacDonald, Brucefield, and three daughters, Misses Mary, and Martha, of Brucefield, and Emma, a teacher onjhe staff of Goderich Public School. tM ag ou i In `the ' we .a �l nee of the immeeid Me families, C. Scott united in marriage,,�Laura Mae, eldest daughter ti Mi i. and Mrs. Alvin Leatherland. R.R. 1, Auburn, and ,Gordon Brooks, youngest son of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Chamune y, R.R. 2, Auburn, The bride was smartly attired in a gabardine set of Cor ation blue, small blue hat and matrhing accessories and wore a corsage of red Happiness roses. She. was at- tended by her sister,' June, wear- ing 'a whipcord suit in a salmon shade, small hat and a corsage of blue carnations. Stuart Hat, lam was best man. Following the ceremony a buffet luncheon was served at the bride's home by Mrs. Wilfred Plunkett. The room was decorated in pink and white and the dining table centred with the three tiered wed- ding cake. Later the young couple left on a trip to Owen Sound and other points. On their return- they will reside at Donnybrook. of the members are business men --executives, mechanics, engineers, accountants and salesmen. The next group is labelled farmer -39 members in all, but most of them are not JUST farmers. Many are in business as well. Almost the smallest group are labour people —half a dozen or so members. So if Canada is ruled by the House l of Commons, certainly the labor union which called the Stratford. Strike does not rule the country, and I can find no mention any- where of the S.P.C.A. The Canadian Government, that is the Prime Minister and his Cab- inet are the rulers of Canada, sub- ject to the dictates or requests of those who put them there, be it the individual voter or, the con - ti ibutor to party funds. No back bencher, even of the party in power can introduce a motion call- ing for the expenditure of money. They can only make awkwardly worded suggestions. The rules and the party whips are often more important than conscience. A good man is not a free agent, he is a prisoner of theparty machine, which is the reason many consci- entious members absent them- selves rather than vote against either conscience or, the party. 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