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THUBSD,AY, JUNE 10th, 1954 -.
_ THURSDAY, JUNE 10th, 1954
THE TRIUMPH OF HAILE SELASSIE
Haile Selaathe, Emperor of Ethiopia, has
been visiting North America and unless he is
different front most people he must have got •a
lot of satisfaction as his visit recalled the
.___.. refusal of -his plea.nearly•twenty years ago for
help against the brutality of Mussolini. He
received a great welcome at Ottawa, where he
was greeted by the Prime Minister and other
notables, was the guest of the Governor-Gen-
eral at Government House, and generally ac-
corded the honors 'due to a victor. In the
House of Commons the Speaker expressed ad-
miration for "the statesman who, in the dark-
est hour, when the League of Nations had un-
fortunately decided to recognize the conquest
of Ethiopia," defied the invader and surren-
dered only to necessity.
Now Ethiopia, freed by the Allies in the
second World War, is represented by' troops
fighting with other forces of the United Na-
tions against Communist aggression. Rarely
has there been such a reversal of fortune—the
ruler of a once despised country rallying 'his
people to the aid of those who had before
turned deaf ears to his desperate appeal for
help.
PURSUIT OF EMPLOYMENT
(By. Joseph Lister Rutledge)
One of the highly ingenious ideas"
of our day is that everyone is en-
titled to a job, and that someone
other than himself is obliged to
provide it. On these two unten-
able propositions most ofour labor-
management -capitalistic arguments
rest. '
We say untenable because we'do
not know of any authority that
states categorically that anyone is
entitled to a job. In Holy Writ we
do read that "the laborer is worthy
of his hire." But that seems to
suggest riot an inalienable right to
.be hired, but merely a right to be
paid
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words addressed to the first. Adam:
"In the sweat of thy face shalt thou
eat bread," or the statement in the
Soviet constitution: "He who does
not work, neither shall he eat."
There is no suggestion of a basic
right to a job, only a basic obliga-
tion to return honest effort for a
job supplied.
It seems that• whatever .. right
there may be is like the right
involving happiness set forth in
the American constitution. It is
the right -to "the -pursuit of happi-
ness," the right to struggle with-
out let or hindrance towards a de-
sired end. The attainment is a
persona matter.
If there is no right to . jobs cer-
tainly There can be no obligation
to provide them. We need jobs,
of course, and we like to think
that industry has a mission to pro-
vide them. 'But the only obliga-
tion resting on one individual or
group rather than another is one
that his been voluntarily assumed.
And responsibility has been as-
sumed for definite reasons, to make
two blades of grass grow where one
grew before, and to benefit in the
procesg.
The assumption- that there is
something mildly immoral in pro-
fits arises from the false assump-
tion that industry is under an
obligation • to provide jobs. The
provider -of jobs assumes large
hazards. . Someone has .said that.
the ability to establish and success-
fully maintain a business is limited
to less than 10% of ,our working
population. There must be ade-
iquate incentive to induce this small
minority to assume the risks.
We will be in a sounder place if
we face this rather obvious fact.
No one owes any other individual
a living. That obligation is one
of the most personal. It is the
obligation to pursue and to find
and to justify a job.
Parliaiuiit is still in session and before
long there will be complaints from members
of having to remain at Ottawa in the, hot
weather. As The Ottawa Journal `observes,
they will be stewing in their oWn juice. This
does not apply, however, to. the entire melll-
bership, for there are some half-dozen mem-
, hers who occupy far more than their fair share
of Parliament's time.' Some of these .have an
amazing capacity for talking at length on
almost every subject that conies before the
House; if these garrulous fellows 'could be shut
up in some place where they could talk as much
as they liked tivlrile the o'th(;r members vent
• on vvith their business the Sessions could be
shortened by one-half, the pages' of Hansard
lessened correspondingly, and the general ex-
penses of the session reduced. Cabinet mem-
bers sometimes have to make lengthy explana-
tions of 0oV ernruent measures, and the leader
.of eaeh Opposition party should be given a
generous allowance of time, but there might
be a rule that other nienlbers should not occupy
more than a .fixed amount of time during the
entire session, Then tiv would learn to say
something while they are on their feet.
ANOLiacgN -Sy
The leonsumer index" compiled by the
Federal-Bureau,.of Statistics registers a decline
of one-tenth of a point in the month of April. •
This consumer index, however, has only a loose
relation, to the cost of living. It includes many
things that may or may not enter into the cost.- ,
of living for any . particular person or house-
hold. For instance, rent, which everybody
does not pay. Liquors, which- many people
do not use. Medical, dental and hospital
- charges, insurance and other things that may
cost some families a considerable suin and
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other families very little. As an index of the'
cost of living it is practically' useless. •
• Another Government bureau reports, as
the result of, a survey, that Canadians are not
growing taller, contrary "to general observa-
tion, but remain short and dumpy. Well, We
don't believe it. Perhaps the survey was con-
ducted among the Eskimos.
• The • back of our hand to .these bureaus
that spend. a lot of money discovering useless
things or things that people won't believe,
,.(B. K. Sandwell in The Financial Post) spelt today; whether they make use of it or
not is beside the question. They drive the
same motor -cars at the same speeds, with the
salve licenses on which is supposed to be set
forth the age of each license -holder. They
A group of I ontreal judges, subjected to -
interviews on the subject, gave a majority
opinion that a .woman should pot be expected ,
to state her correct age even when signing an
official document. Whether they would. arrive
at the same conclusion in an actual ease
brought into one of their courts is. perhaps
doubtful n•d' I suspect that the traditions of
the age chivalry may be surviving longer
and stronger in the province of Quebec than
in. other parts of Canada.
In the days when ladies were expected ,to
faint at the slightest provocation, to leave all
practical affairs (except those of the house-
hold) in the hands of their menfolk, and to
work at water -colors and embroidery while
the men were voting and holding "office, there
was Pinch to be said for treating: them as, a
species ,of children and letting, them fib about
matters concerning which every man has to
tell the truth. Put those days are gone.
Women have the same political power
40 Years Ago
Members of the Canadian Order
of Foresters attended the .Sunday
morning service at North Street
Methodist Church. They were wel-
comed by Rev. W. K.'. Hager, who
preached the sermon.
The steamer Greyhound experi-
enced a rough passage on a return
trip . from Detroit to Goderich
Although expected- to arrive in
Goderieh at midnight, the boat did
not dock until 5 a.m. When off
Sarnia an anchor chain broke loose
and tore • away a section of the
deck rail at the bow. The captain
said it had been the roughest'ero s-
ing he had ever. made: -
•Cervtral school pupils and teach-
ers enjoyed a break from routine
when a picnic was staged on the
lawn at the school. Bowling, cro-
quet and other games were . en-
joyed by the children.
Messrs. Downing and MacVicar,
who operated a boot and shoe busi-
ness in Goderich dissolved partner-
ship, with Mr. Downing retiring
and Mr. MacVicar becoming sole
proprietor.
draw the sante old -age^ pensions when they—. 25 Years Ago
arrive at seventy (and I hear frequent cons- The congregation of North Street
` �laillt that the envelope in which it comes is • United Church heard an interest -
`plaint ing 'address by Rev. J. A. Walker,
recognizable as such by the postman, the a missionary from China, who had
,janitor and anybody, else:.•who happens to been tak g pastoral work at Dun-
annsee it). They go to the same hospitals when .fromon theurinm scion field.an absence
Stratforr' won the first scheduled
game of the Huron -Perth Baseball
League defeating the Goderich
Black Sox 10-5 at Agricultural Park
in Goderioh.
Huron -County Council set a tax
authority it is . advanced, which encourages rate' of seven mills, four for gen-
them to believe "that a misrepresentation of eral expenditures, two for high-
way and to p
their ages, to anybody who has a right to in- provincialwork highwayone debay off the
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claire, is a venial matte^r, a :finer 'c -harming t Rev. Scott MacKenzie, nephew•of
foil)Fe, something which any he-man should
regard • with sympathy and. toleration, 'is old
nineteenth-century stuff, and will, I trust, be
repudiated by every strongminded and ye-
as sponsible woman in Canada:
they are sick, and if they do not give 'the
(•6r'rert age there they are quite likely not
to receive the correct ^treatment.
Any. theory, no platter on what judicial
Abraham Lincoln is credited. with this beer on their trains in Ontario. ` The idea play'
one.: "Tact is the ability to describe others as be that this would -attract more. passengers.
they see themselves."A 1t would attract some ; it 'would keep others
e i• away. If,. all the, people who cannot travel
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without drinking were put in the railway
Russia now claims that its explorers were 'coaehes, and the highways strictly reserved
- among the first white men to go into darkest .,for , non-drinkers, there would be fewer acci-
Africa. Sure, didn't llavid Livingstone find dents, but it would be rather rough on people
a tribe of queer people in Africa whp tised a who haven't' automobiles and would have, to
guttural speech he couldn't understand? ' . endure the beery odo'r of the railway coaches.
• • « e Another proposal re'eently'put forward is that
. liquor be sold in grocery stores: This would
As we write wesee a hummingbird ,darting take us away back into the last century and
about a bush outside the window. This is the ,is not associated with our mental picture of the
first we have seen .this year, though tliese "good old . days."
charming visitors were reported earlier ''from „ *
a more favored part of the town. They add
much to the perfectidn of the Summer. Sone published figures on the use of
• canned goods" 'tire interesting. We are told
„ l • • • ' that Canadians consumed 59 per cent. more of
` - A document said to outline Communist , canned 'fruits in 1952 than in 1939; that in the
plans for conquest of the entire world has been same year they used_, 23 per cent. more can -
presented in the .United States ,Senate. The ,-ped vegetables, four tunes as much canned
date set ' for. the completion. oft. these plans is meat, .21/2 times -as muclicanned.. soup, the same
SEWAGE DlsPosAL
1973, allewing: less;: than .twenty years before ,proportionate incre> se 'of . canned milk pro- Town Council- last .)l:ridiay�;night
.:,' freedonti is to,: be .final'ly extingu3shed4. This duets, 70 per cent. more tomto juice, 57 =per received a letter frpm the O itario
• • ' result - is-.riot%to•-'be `'brought abdut by, Russian cent. more jams, '`jellies and "Marmalade, and Department of Health asking
iv/hotter 'there had been an fur-
sritnies but b' revolution ` oris country after so on, amounting to a total value of $359,000,- fur-
ther. development, -in connection
^ �i -.�I;. i tib'' ,e'Y, •
anihez01.North Aineriewould probably be 000 in 195�!'1ln, teoin j ar icon with *50,000,iit00 in with construction' of a sewage'treat-
t ' ° ` a '"' '' `s ''x " ' " ` deans that CanadianR can have went plant -'.to serve .-the ;town.
Clio �1�!iireR 0 sui~C , 'With. Joe McCarthy'. 1939. This, Councll.has received similar letters
,ky ..-.y
'' prot,P0pgMto the2s1ost that' everybody in the , fresh fruits and othe ,comestibles all the year ahnoost annually. in recent years.
Bi±gd�ts A�' a r+r 4x^;.fra rr..• ,!� rr' y
, '(,1.$ vas a Comiaiums `•,exeept hitnself.- rbiind,�•wltfli lets 'work •`fo>+ the housekeeper Aa in .the past, it was referred tap
y: d,, A. •r and less ekpense• . There remains the problem council's public works committee.
of the tin can the only use for which we,can
think of for- the .Moment is in the making of
the l'r ► n"oral-liquor Board :tai e e wwine'and automobiles. and bo s' clothing. e. :.
Dan • Neil MacKenzie, of Ashfield,
was named to the principalship of
Montreal College. For some time
he had been acting principal and
professor of homiletics.
15 Years Ago
Mrs. F. Oster, of Blyth, was elect-
ed president of West Huron Wo-
men's Institutes at a meeting held
in MacKay Hall. Other officers
elected were: Mrs. B. Thompson,
St. Helens, first vice-president; Mrs.
N. Keating, Belgrave, second vice-
president; Mrs. W. H. Fraser, 'Wing -
ham, secretary -treasurer.
Ex --Mayor C. C. Lee was painfully
burned about the arms and chest
by 'liquid ammonia as the result
of ,an accident at his hotel, the
Sunset. He was installing a new
tank in the refrigeration system
when he was sprayed with the
ammonia.
Nelson Hill was elected president
of the, Goderich Lions Club, suc-
ceeding R. Stonehouse. • Other of-
ficers -elected were: First vice-pre-
sident, F. J. Little; second ; vice-
president, J. D. Thoniasr.third vice-
president, J. H. Kinkead; secretary,
A. R. Scott; tail twister, George G.
MacEwan; Lion tamer, T. R, Pat-
terson.
Major Henri K. Jordan, who be-
gan his career as organist and
choirmaster at Knox Presbyterian
Church, directed the Sc ubert
Choir of Brantford in a ,pr ram
at the New York World's Fai '
10' Years Ago
Dr. R. H. Taylor, MLA, re ived
word that the Ontario Department
of, Highways was calling tenders
for the paving of the Goderich-
Bayfield section of the Blue Water
Highway. It was understood that
the portion of the highway between
Grand Bend and Forest• was to be
hard -surfaced also.
First open lawn bowling tourna-
ment of the season was heldt the
greens. on Picton street with 20
teams competing, including teams
from Blyth, Exeter and Lucknow.
First prize was won by F. H. Wood
and Fred Rouse, of Goderich. ,
Pastoral changes announced by
London Conference of the United
Church of Canada included the
transfer of Rev. A. J. MacKaye
from Victoria Street United Church
in Goderich to Straffordville,• in
Elgin County. Rev. Lawrence H.
Turner, of Crediton, was trans-
ferred to Victoria Street Church.
WE ARE NOW .OPEN
• AT OUR NEW ADDRESS ON •
KINGSTON STREET....
AND ARE. ANXIOUS TO SERVICE YOUR
HARDWARE, COAL AND FUEL OIL REQUIREMENTS
The reason lots of us never hear,
opportunity knock is because we
are at our neighbor's house pour-
ing out a hardluck story. ,
SUMMER COAL PRICES ARE NOW IN' EFFECT
POCAHONTAS—$21.00 NET
CHESTNUT AND STOVE COAL -$25.00 NET
Watch this newspaper for our official opening announcement
with many dollars worth of give-away prizes and a FREE penny
bank for every child during opening week.
PHONE -22 HARDWARE;COAL;-FUEL OIL --
Are you planning to BUILD
a NEW HOME
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