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HURON COUNTY'S FOREMOST WEEKLY
Established 1848 -In its 106th year - of publication:
Published by Signal -Star Publishing Limited
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GEO. L. ELLiS, Editor and Publisher,
THURSDAY, NOV. 12th, 1953
TR GoDEEICB SIGNAL rAK
Now Where Is Thmr, Ark?
MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS
„It will soon be time for municipal voters
to elect their Town Council for 1954. If there
were any prospect that the members would be
chosen in any other than the haphazard man-
ner of recent years it. might be of some use to
urge ciens too take thought to the niatter,'but
the arb trary regulations imposed by the Pro-
vincilll authorities are an obstacle to the free
exercise of the electors' choice.
Unless a citizen is present at the twuuieipal
meeting or has given written permission for his
nomination his name cannot go on the ballot.
This means that if a citizen who has no yearn -
int; for public honors, but if elected would
make a first-rate councillor, is not present at
the nomination- meeting; -possibly away from
town on business --tile municipality could not
have his services. It may be, theoretically,
the duty of every citizen to attend at tate
nominations, but not everybody considers it
so. If there were .really a free election the
voters at any rate would have a wider ehoice
than they now do. \Ve have no criticism, to
retake of the present Council, but the regula-
tions now in force tend to the re-election of
the same members year after year, unless there
are candidates who would like to have seats
at the board and are on hand to see that they
are nominated.
'Other regulations for municipal nomina-
tions imposed a few years ago suggest that
somebody .at Queen's Park had a brainstorm,
but the worst is the one we have mentioned
which prevents the free choice of nominees.
WHERE ARE THE LAND -TAXERS?
What has
become of the advocates of the
tax on land values who some years ago
vigorouslyset forth their plan for -the eolleetion
of governmental revenue? The question comes I
to mind in reading of the sale of a '200 -acre
farm in Peel County, a few miles from Tor- 1
onto, that was bought eight, years ago for
$7,000. When sold the other Clay for industrial e
purposes the price, was $110,000. It was i
nothing the seller slid to this property to ac -
.count for the profit of $103,000: it was the 1
growth of population and the demand for land
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in the Toronto district that (treated the increase
in value. The land -taxer lvould claim -that as
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the inurement was created by theei,tnnl[utity
creases were taken by the Government a very
large proportion of the taxes at present levied
could be done away with. And who would be
limited? The land speculator would be put
tut of business, but every person who had by
tis own effort added to 'the value of his pro-
ocrt) would be exempted from taxation to that
'x tent. indeed, the arguzuent for the tax on
nerea-ed land values is not easily put aside.
Possibly the reason so little has been
ieard on this subject of recentyears is that
he country has been so war -ridden that
governments have' had to levy tate. wherever
�hec- could niost-e;lsily do so. Necessity gives
it should no heed to right . or reason: wherever anything • 2S Years Ago
r o to the, community, tet' Ill outer o
the cool. taxable slttell-s ftp a tax is clamped on it. So Goderich stood third in grain
words the troy<'rntnent 1 presetztiue
the lazltl-taxers, pre.untably, hacc .vett the use cargo deliveries to Canadian ports
munit .
Down Memory's
Lane
Letter to the Editor
MechanicUe, Iowa, U,S.A.
Editor, SignaiS ar,
Sir, ---I am • a World War I vet-
eran and -American Legion mem-
ber. I found your town on a Can-
adian road guide and thought, that
I would write to you. •
We have an active -Legion post
here and 1 would like to hear
from some Carfadian World War
I veterans.
Yours truly,
LOUIS NICKLES.
SUSPICIOUS CHARACTERS
(Wingharn Advance -Times)
Two local ladies were driving
past the arena in the small hours.
on Tuesday morning and noticed
a suspicious -looking person- stand-
ing in front of the doorway. Circl-
ing the block several times for a
better ,cook, they finally ?ave up,
and had hardly pulled into the
curb before the town cruiser ar-
rived wth a squeal of brakes. Ask-
ing the night constable who was
loitering around the arena, the
night cop replied, "That was just
********, He just phoned in
about two suspicious -looking wo-
men who were -driving 'round and
'round the block." ,
LEEBURN
I.FEBURN, Nov' 11. -Miss Joan
Clark, of Wingham; is enjoying a
10 -day holiday at her home.
Mrs. ,Terence Hunter, Mr. and
Mrs. Elmer Hunter and Linda
visited int• Detroit Last week.
Mr. and .Mrs. W. J. Meyers and
family visited " with Mr., and Mrs.
Lorne Finnigan • in Stratford on
Sunday.
John Clark, one of the three
chosen from the Huron County
Junior Farmers as the judging
Qg440.•✓ rs• lfs class, is this week spending two
days in Guelph and then on to
Toronto to the Royal Winter Fair
John has been judging at the
C.N.E., Western Fair, Walkerton
Christmas .Fair and several others.
Pat Cook, who is a patient in
Clintbn hospital, is progressing
favorably after undergoing an op-
eration necessitating the removal
of his knee cap. Jerry is con-
valescing at his home.
Fred -Gliddon visited in Mitchell
and Hamilton a few days last week.
Congratulations to Mr. and Mrs.
Saluda CoYok who were married last
.
George Fulford and other meta-,
bers of his family enjoyed a hunt -1
ing trip to the north last week.
flying alone over Lake Erie, man_ The ladies of the Leeburn W.M.
aged to glide safely to a landing S. are invited to meet for their
on a farmer's field at Port Stanley November meeting at the home of",,
after the . lane's engine went dead. `Mrs. 'fait Clark next Wednesdley
The areal of.the steamer Sup- afternoon, November 18.
erior at Goderich brought the total
of grain handled here for a two-
week period to well over one and
one-half million bushels.
The semi-annual laymen's ban-
quet of the Deanery of Huron was
held at the parish hall of St.'
George's Church with about 90;
persons present. E. D. Brown was .
There has been an immense llli•1•t'0.e
land value`, especialiy itt the large eltte s,
recent ears, and if the alite)lttlt of these
le•s.►tess of presenting their plan in these times according to a statement by tate
iu and have gone into retirement- until the war Lake Shippers' Clearance Associa-
i11 taxes are paid and they can maks, themselves+tion for the period August 1, 1927,
in- heard to better advatlt;tgc. to July 1, 1928. Goderich's total
was exceeded only by Montreal and
Port Colborne. In cargo deliveries
ACROSS THE LINE to Lake Huron and Georgian Bay
ports, Goderich stood first'
At a meeting of the Goderich
Public.School Board the principal's
Elections in the United Statee; last sleek that, althorugh President Eisenhower was exec (,report showed 95 boys and 79 girls
gave the Republicans something like a black toil with au overwhelming majority, the Demo- on the roll at Central School; aver-
cratss had a majority of votes in last year's age attendance of 92 per cent, and
eye -at any rate resulted ill embarrassment 186 boys and 176 girls on the ro11
(',c1t�rres.ii,nal. elections, the Repttbliearls' l►�' at Victoria School, average atten- chairman and during the evening
for them and rejoicing for the Democrats. electoral aeet lent winning slim majorities iti dance of 92 per cent. S. E., McDowell sang. W. E. Eld
One sua!loly, of course, does not make ![ soul- beth Senate and House of Representati�•es. The Goder>ch Lions Club had liotl, editor of the Woodstock Sen -1
seven members of the London tinel-Review, was guest speaker I
Iger. Ilene in t itttd1 if tht, trend of 1)y-eltc- R.piibiic fns will have another year to put their The banquet was served by mem
Lions CIub and 10s members of the hers of the Church Woman's -Guild. bows had been: followed in last year's general policies into cfl'ee t and convince lily 'electors Seaforth Club as their guests at
election there might be a Conservative admit).- that these policies are an improvement upon •their regular luncheon meeting. 10 Years Ago i
Plans for .the district convention to L L. Knox, 'one of Goderich
istration at, Ottawa; so these "off-year" votes. those of their predecessors in grilse. !be held in London were discussed, best-known citizens, passed away,
across the line may not glean a general trait- at his home. Mr. Knox, who was I
It has happened before that Congress was' 20 Years Ago
born in Goderich and attended ,
over in public opinion. However, the Demo A jinx seemed to hound the in-
crats hive high hopes of ousting sutrolled by one patty while another party jstallation of a new plate glass in local schools, was Town Clerk ands
gthe Pc�pui► had the White House'. resulting - ttltiu�.. not infrequent- ;the window of Goderich Fruit Mar- year;
Treasurer for a number of e
Mar -
livens front control of both houses it Congress
_ .
lc- iu 0 lcaeliook. Tilts is one reason why ket. Workmen started to install retiring a yeear before his •death'
in November sof 19<)1. t' h theydiscoveredThe funeral was attended b
a New York -Detroit flying trip sav-
ed Cass Hough, of Plymouth Mich.,
well-known in Goderich, from
crack-up and injury. Mr. Hough,
It is perhaps not generally realized here •
a pane when it Y a
anaeiian._ d,e it'et watlt an elee+Tcd Setsate to large. number of citizens, members
was eighS_.inche _.tQsL�hort_l wt:s�_of-the--Towrr-Coulmi1 and -of --Malt--:
1'c'ate ti�tlfllsieell iii _r )v'rli1ne'lit. taken to London and another one
was brought here. But as workmen land Lodge, A., F. & • •A.M., and
Huron Lodge, I.O.O.F.
lifted it out of its crate it fedi and
was broken. !Throb County went well over its
Clinton defeated Listowel by 0 objective Thee county
eth Victory Loan
•
score of 2 to 1 in a football game quota was 53,-
score
Clinton, Collegiate grounds •0 125,000 and $3,385,250 was 'sub- ,
capture the Hough Cup. Listowel scribed, or n per cent. The t
had held the treasured award for air schools i.the he county went over;
21 years. their objective by 30.99 per cent.
A truck carrying a four -ton load The auditorium- at the Town
ran- into a herd of cattle at night
on Saltford Hill. Two of the an-
imals suffered broken legs and had
-to be destroyed. ' The driver roun-
ded a curve and did not see the
i animals bunched in the railway
overpass in time to stop. The cattle
had broken loose from their pas-
ture and wandered onto the high-
; way.
15 Years Ago
Skilful handling of his plane on
EDITORIAL. NOTES
Transport Minister ('hevrier has put it lip
to the weather forecasters to extend their
predictions to a year ahead. It would be quite
an improvement if they could ' give us the
probabilities correctly fora day ahead.
* * *
(_ioderieh may again put forth its 'di -tint
as a winter resort. While Toronto and other
.parts..? the Provin•e we're visited with a six-•
inch snowfall at the .week -end, there was
merely a trace of- snow here. We had some
pretty heavy rain, of coarse, but rain doesn't
stop traflie. As we write the sup is shining
brightly and the air is mild and clear.
„ , s >s s
The appointment.. of another lvoman Sena-
tor has been announeed. She is Mrs. Nancy
Hodges, 65 years of age, a resident of Victoria,
B.C. She has had experience in actlt•e polities,
having been a member of the Provincial Legis-
lature of British Columbia and Speaker of that
.body, the first Woman, it is said, ever to become
the Speaker of a Legislature in .the Common-
wealth. At Ottawa she will he one of five
women holding seats in the Senate. _
* « * „
Are the becoming eallous about highway
fatalities? We read in the Paper of ,some
erash that has blotted out perhaps A whole
fninily.and we pass on carelessly to the sports
or financial pages, giving hardly a thought so*
the loss which suelt a •tratredy means. to some
community. Reckless drivers should be dealt
with sternly. and this before they cause a
s"riee,u ;ie•.i,Icnt: OTil+• iu this tray can the
higtiw;it. lee' mad,. reasonably safe.
s * ,r *
Lake .t'rci::rl►ter. isle getting bigger and
bigger. Thr' barge-st of all so far was launched
cit the Mi,illand shipyards on Saturday. It is
a 715 -footer' budt for ('finadirSteamship Lipes.
lc ith a earrvitteg capacity of 800.000 bushels of
.:rain. It is terns• a few. years since the.record
conger wa.. suite 50)000 bushels. The new
queen of the (treat Lakes is to have crew ac-
commodatioll that can be described as sump -
toot's. iiic1tidini television itt 'two recreation
rooms. Nothing 'is too good for the sailor.
et e * * S.
Ilengoti r1i is a name unknown to most of
the present, generation, but years ago J. W.
t'ttgough ti -as the best-known and perhaps the
nleosrintlut'ntial cartoonist of his.day. Ott Fri-
day last a tablet was unveiled at Toronto in
his memory. Ile worked.on The Toronto Globe
cw-ht''zt that journal was Liberal and Bengough's
cartoons were the delight of most readers of
that paper. . While often they were biting they
had a distinct element of humor, and for some
years he conducted "(Trip," '.Canada's only
weekly publieation devoted to humor. H
advocated the single tax on land values, the
fralrchise for wotnett and prohibition and he
abominated customs tariffs. It is said that the
tablet i` only the second sin (tiiada to honor a
journalist. The other one, a memorial to Sir
-lohtt 1\'illison' e'ditor of the old Toronto News,
is on the court house here in (1oderich.
a (Financial Post)
Finish high school at 50 Gradu-
ate from college, years and years
later.
That's what would happen if
every professional and specallized
oup in the country could put into
igh school and college courses
all of the subjects which they
think .are neceisary:'
!Nigh school halls would be filled
with mdddle aged merf,'' and college .more are added with little regard
campuses w,old' become some sort to whether the students have ever
of "Last- Gasp" clubs. • been taught to read or write -let
While we've.. hardly reached • alone think.
these extrea e , .4 , yet _ . perhaps : It's expensive --not just in
roe oe Mb f r already in our money -but in wasted time.
psrblie avid high schools- The problem comes from Piave are econfut-
I
Tod+tt, terking' stances ing schooling ,and` education. to
TIME WASTED
to teach teen-age girls what their
mothers should have taught them
at home, long ago. And many a
high school is throwing money
away trying to teach farm boys
how to be farmers -- something
they started to learn the first day
they jogged along. for • a tractor
ride on father's knee.
And these are only a couple of
examples. Every day more anti
'tt
Alberta the other day, J. K. 1V.
Shortreed, an.- Edmonton public
school board members outlined the
distinction, "Education means to
learn to think." The crafts, the
optioncourses, are schooling but
not education; he said.
He added, "learning crafts does.,
not teach children how to think.
One who has been taught how 'ac
think eould learn crafts' in less
time than Is spent learning them
in the schools."
Wonldn't the taiipayeraa money
go further, wouldn't the education-
al system do its real job better,
it it returned to its primary re-
sponsibility `--•- that of teaching
young people to think?
Hall was filled to capacity for the
showing of films by the mobile re-
cruiting unit under the sponsor-
ship,, of the Vicetoria Home acrd
School Association.
Canadian -railways rates are com-
parable with those of any other
country in the world despite . the
fact thateathere are so few people
to support the vast systems.
tommornismall
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