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THURSDAY, NOV. 18th, 1954
THE QUEEN MOTHER
Queen Mother Elizabeth's presence in Can-
ada for a few days has given rise to a sugges-
tion that she should be appointed to the gover-
nor -generalship at the conclusion of Mr. Mas-
sey's term. She would add prestige to the
office and would be a most popular figure at
Ottawa and wherever else she should go, but
it is doubtful that 'such an invitation will be
*given or, if given, that it would be accepted.
She would naturally be reluctant to part for
.
such a long time from her family in Britain,
and, from another view, to have a member of
• the royal family in Rideau Hall succeeded by
a less illustrious personage might be unfair to
the latter. Another suggestion is that the post
should be filled by some person of eminence
from another part of the Commo'uwealt4 while
a Canadian might take the corresponding office
in one of the Commonwealth countries. Such
an exchange would tend to kbit together the
various parts of the Comriionwealth.
INDUSTRIES' WAR ON COSTS
In the competitive conditions of today's
buyer's market, industry is compelled to wage
a constant war on production costs. Failure
to do so may. place the industry itself and the
jobs of its employees in jeopardy.
Some interesting examples of how compe-,
tition benefits the consumer conies from' the
Westinghouse Eleetrie Corporation. Researeh
into .the design of a magnet used in certain
Westinghouse products resulted in production
costs. for the magnet being slashed from $1.25
to 30 cents. A Westinrhotrse buyer visiting
a firm which. makes tray., for the big electric
company noticed that the flour was littered
with bits ..)f s•'rn:p loft over from 'another job.
The scrap was just the size required for the
trays needed by Westinghouse. Saving' effec-
ted on this item alone carne to $8,900 a year.
Countless other examples. of eeonomy in
production by Westinghouse and other large
corporations reveal in striking fashion the
benefits to the consumer of a conlpetilive
eeonnmy. For were industry under no such
compulsion to pare costs, the price of almost
every manufactured commodity would rise.
As it is. tinder the Competitive enterprise 00011-
ww1i1y. the ultimate buyer, whether it be of an
automobile, all electric toaster,_a refrigerator
(1t' 't lamp fixture, gt'ts the benefit in terms of
price of the economies of ,industry. -11.0.E.
WINE OR MILK?
Pierre ; vIcncl.es•-F ranee, the dynamic- Pre-
mier of France, has reversed anothei tet of
his character by attacking the drinking hallits
of his "eountrymen. Much of the weakness of
Prance is said to be attributable' to aleoholisrn,
and iendcs-France has pledged himself to
wipe out the blot even if it means his .political
life. ,Ile points to the vast comsulllpt'Ir)11 of
wine and liquors and urges Frenchmen to
drink milk, as he'does himself.
This of course does not add to his popu-
'-larity, for the "trade" is more influential' than
the dairy industry, and there is strong op,
position to the' measures taken by the 'Cabinet,'
at his insistence, to curb the sale of. alcoholic
--rlrirrks.—trhe-- 'rench assenrbl•y-' -an t]_ -the- peap1e
of France Have .se'e11 Several instances of their
Pr1'iiiier's courage and will -power in I'eee'nt
months, and he has managed to pull through
crisis after crisis..Whether lie will be able
111uch longer to keep his place as leader of an
--assembly ww•hiuh is. prone to change its leaders
every few Months remains to be seen.
At present Mendes -France is in Canada
on it visit of state and he has reeeived a special
welcome from the people of Quebec, who natur-
ally 'are proud of a leaw of their own race, who
has taken such 'a' high place in world affairs.
EDITORIAL NOTES
A Christmas atmosphere is making itself
felt. It's time to prepare for holiday fes-
tivities.
"Kitchener report: a population of "over
55,000 this year. With neighboring Waterloo's
14,000, the ,twin cities are now of the big city
.size, and growing rapidly.
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Sir Winston Churchill is said to have
Indian ,blood through hiS American ancestors.
Sure enough, he has scalped many,. of his
enemies—in 20th century style.
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The counties sof Grey and Bruce are plan-
• ning to eo-operate in firs' -fighting. The equip-
ment of eaeh town in the twu collnties is to be
available in the event of a :serious outbreak in
any other municipality. Details off -the plan,,
whereby protection- would he proyided for
those towns ternporaril;v Without equipment,
are being wonted falt. :1n initial step has
been the- standardization of hydrants anid hose
_. •couplings. This system is a . phase .of civil
defence•'that 'night, well be carried into effect
in other areas
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rl'lt).
Lindsay \Vatehlnan-Warder cites the
ease c;f ,a fanner who approached employment
officials in that town to obtain a hel per. ' The
farmer was astonished when he was .told that
there were aver 600 out •of employment in the
area, but not one was available for farming.
Ile was further shocked and annoyed when he
approached four men on the hank corner, and
all with one accord provided excuses why, they
could'not go to the farm, one of the fonr stat-
ing that he did not have to work so 16 g as he
was drawing unemployment insurance.
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The president of Tufts College, at Med-
ford, Mass., is quoted els urging that stlydents
should develop `the''rhabit of reading news-
papers every day. Elis freslirrlen's class was
advised that this practice not only would
round out their own education but would
them to to appreciate the responsibilities which
educated men and .women mast shoulder in a
worfd of . confusion and tension. The head-
master of Goderich high school, in the writer's
student- days, used to say that the best•pre-
pared. pupils came from homes in which news-
paper -reading was thre habit.
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,Dr. Albert Einstein, Awh s- lives on such a
iirtelleetual level.tvhat: few eg11 Iruderatand
says ,that: ..e: i erre : a •young n an main
woiiId ; t tP ,fr o *nine a sclentist,,or,
toe itolar dor'`? e " . He-. rattl'd.,, "'rather chooHe
ddler in the hope to find
a g7re !ti,,dfdiide.pentte,ngee still avail.
' br a 'rettinStarr' es441r,' `e have
at anodes
e
�oTUCO`airrTieag i r of 13Yrct3ss
+tited�'e' tredyfiiers hobs,
;without
responsibility or ambition—but- they would
not have chosen plumbing or peddling. The
plumber's time is not entirely his own; and the
peddler has responsibilities of a sort. I)r.
Einstein probably is discouraged, as many
profound and unorthodox thinkers through
the ages must have been,'by realization of the
slight progress achieved in a lifetime in the
advance c)f ct,vilziation as he sees it. The seer
points out the path that will !bad to the goal;..
it is for omen of actiohl slowly and with difficulty
to brush aside the obstacles as thea- follow the
gleam.
SHOULD BE BANISHED
, (Ingersoll Tribune)
We have often felt a supreme sympathy for the
members of the royal family because of the con-
tinuous spotlight on their every move. At the
same- time, we realize that they probably accept it
with the same grace with which they accept many
other facets of their unusual existence. But we
firmly believe the spotlight was entirely too bright
and searching last week when it followed the Queen
Mother Elizabeth on her New York shopping trip.
Must the publicknow what this gracious lady
chooses to give her daughters, her son-in-law and
her grandchildren for Christmas, weeks before-
hand?
People who give away Christmas secrets, like
those, who toll tee murderer's name when they
recommend a mystery story, or those who insist on
telling the end of a movie, should be banished to
the most deserted of desert isles.
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"NOT CLEAT OF THE WOODS YET"
(Financial Post, Nov. 13)
It is no secret that Canadiahs, regardless of
political leanings, feel just a little more, comfort-
able when the Dembcrats . are calling the shot at
Washington. On too " many occasions our export
trade has suffered crippling blows from general
and sky-high tariff hoists shoved through Congress
by the Republicans.
Nothing sweeping like that has happened since
the G.O.P. came back two years ago under Eisen-
hower, but there have beery' sevei•al- disturbing
-certain:Andiyidual:_.-produetsr, some : of
which were of considerable concern to Canada, new
restrictions have been imposed despite the General
Agreement on Tariff and Trade. With the high
tariff wing of the Republican forces decisively
ousted'in last week's voting', Canada will certainly
•breathe easier and hope that something further
may be accomplished in easing world trade barriers
at the current meeting of the GATT countries in
Geneva. would be fooling ourselves, 'howev r, to
assume that all U.S.-Canadian troubles will now
vanish overnight: One of the biggest of these is
the commodity surplus problem. There is "slim
hope indeed of that disappearing quickly and it
could grow .worse. -Why? _Because -it sterns directly
e� r..0 ,r
from the new, - fair" and- otheroideals" 'of' the
Democrats and- the absurdly high- government .sup-
port prices Which' treated the surpluses and are
nowl.considered sacred by,a,lat of members of both
pal teg.
At the taxpayers' expense,, the 'U.S. Government
is holding . an enornloua ' aecrimtnlation of commodi-
ties, most bbt„not, all fain.. products. So long . as
these "huge stock hang otter 't re ,markets, 'world
prices 'are bound to:, be '" reSsed. Canada, 5f
couYs'e, is vitally .interested in; ,the world price of
farm product , particullarly°''wheat,"and also in that
of certain blase metals Which Uncle Sam has been
aecumelating 1t Is ditticiillt;; to sed"`°where last-
wtiek's "elect iott 'den help much' in easing tension
horst.
IM.
THE GODRRICFI SIGNAL -STAR '
Down Memory's.
Lane
40 Years. Ago
Burglars entered the Grand
Trunk station in Goderich one
night, but all they got for their
trouble were a revolver and a pack
of cards, the property of the de-
spatcher, Police said they had an
idea who the guilty party was, but
no arrest had been made.
Householders were anxiously
watching the coal pile dwindle and
earnestly hoping • for milder wea-
ther, . while skaters and hockey
players were scanning the weather
"probs" in hope that the cold snap
would last. The weatherman was
having a hard task to please every-
one.
Police Sergeant Moore had been
busy placarding houses owing to
'the epidemic of measles. Upwards
of 100 homes were affected.
Mayor Reid had taken up ' in
earnest the project of a tablishing
a home guard in Goderich, and had
called a public meeting in the
Town Hall for thp purpose of or-
ganizing such a bbidy.
25 Years Ago
A meeting called for the purpose
of appointing officers for the Gode-
rich Baseball Club had a very
slim atte„pdance and disbanded
without any officers haying been
elected.
Town Council., decided to pur-
chase a new ladder truck for the
fire department. Some members
of Council had made a trip to other
Western Ontario towns to investi-'
gate their fire fighting equipment
and one member, Councillor Mun-
nings, said that after seeing equip-
ment at Hespeler and Ingersoll,
councillors would feel ashamed to
have people from these places
come to see the Goderich fire hall
and town hall.
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"RELIGIOUS ILLITERATES"
By Lewis Milligan
Dr. Sydney Smith, president of
the University of Toronto, has been
outspokenly critical of the relig-
ions ,and the literary standards of
the sfudefiT • eritering- that institu'
tion. He has gone so far as to call
them "religious illiterates" and
declared that many of them were
unable to pass an elementary test
in English comi1bsition. In. regard
to religion, the reflection is upon
the churches and the early home
life of the students; and their low
standard in English can be at-
tributed only to the poor training
in the high schools.
It used to be said that "the hand
that rocks the cradle rules •the
world," and that a child gets its
first ideas and practice of religion
at its mother's knee. But the
cradle, with its rhythmic lullabies,
has long gone out of fashion, and
prayer at the mother's knee has
been crowded out .by the radio,
the mdtion picture or some other
evening attraction, in which case
the devotional exercise is' left to
the baby-sitter. Young mothers in
these days, and fathers too, seem
to regard religion as something to
be left entirely to the Sunday
school, and nursery education as
something' for the kindergarten.
There are exceptions,' of course,
who faithfully fulfil the duties of.
parenthood and enter into the emo-
tions and delights of their child-
ren. But how many fathers today
make it their business and delight
to see their children to bed, teach
them a simple prayer, sing with
them, "Now the day is over," and
tell them a story? I speak .from
experience, and can say, that there
are ho sweeter memories in later
years than those of the quiet hours
spent with the children at the end
of the day.
The entrance of television into
the home has created a further
distraction from .parents' duty to-
wards their children at bedtime.
The radio was bad enough in that
respect, but with the prospect of
a motion picture show at home the
entire family is keyed up with ex-
pectation of an evening's entertain-
ment, and the process of getting
the children to bed is anything but
a religious one for either party.
In most cases Parents take the line
of least resistance and allow the
youngsters to stay up with their
tired eyes tensed on jerking im-
ages.. To say nothing of what
enters their ears in the way of
gangster . slang, family , squabbles
and illicit 'romance."
As for home education, the first
introduction to -literature is the
so-called "comic book" which is
neither comical nor humorous, but
is made up of grotesque carica-
tures of the human form, exciting
pictures of impossible exploits,
violent encounters and criminal
cunning with a gloss of heroism.
Many .public protests have been
made against permitting the iln-
portation• oft..- such- -demoralizing=
literature. One protest has been
issued by Judge Pickup, in which
he has declared that crime comics
are a "menace to thesocial life
of Canada." They srike at 'the
very roots of society, poisoning
and perverting the minds and emo-
tions of the future men and women
of this Dominion. Boys and girls
are devouring this stuff' and be-
come addicted to it like d1'ug ad-
dicts, and it is little wonder ,if
they then become religious illiter-
ates and have no taste for religion,
art and literature.. - , •
We have laws banning the im-
portation an11 sale of drugs and
flagrantly indecent Iiterature for
adults. Wht riot the same for the
protection of the rising erteration
from thcse'•illuStrated inducemefits
to crime and indecency? Thiai is
a matter in whicch all parents
should combine a's an • urgent dat
toward their offspring. They coyly
ban such books from their homes,
but while they are displayed' for
•
sale • in the stores the young'• ad-
dicts':cannot 'resist buying thrift'',
and new 'customers are attracted
to this lurid and vile trash every
day.
A joint meeting -or the -Lions
Clubs of Goderich. Seaforth and
Wingham had been called to con-
sider .taking over the work of
caring for crippled' children in
Huron County.
. 15 Years Ago
Under the direction of .the
Huron County Branch of the On-
tario Department of Agriculture,
short courses in agriculture and
home economics were to be held
at Dungannon from' November 21
to December 15.
Mayor MacEwan gave Town
Council an oral report on an inter-
view which he and other members
of the- PUC had had with the On-
tario Hydro -Electric Power Com-
mission at Toronto and.._sid that
he saw no hope of getting o it from
under a hydro contract w tit the
commission in anticipation of ob-
taining cheaper power. Council-
lor Huckins asked for the views of
the PUC on the interview and the
mayor said that the PUC. would
probably issue a fuller report.
Bert Johnston, of Kintall, shot a
wolf while hunting • wild geese
three miles north of Kintail. The I
pelt of- the wolf, of the timber
variety, measured five feet, , six
inches from tip to tip. - ' •
Sidney Brown, teacher at Ben -
miller for 'five years, had been
engaged as principal of the Con-
tinuation School at Crediton.
10 Years Ago
Hon. J. L. Ilsley, Minister of
Finance, addressed the annual
meeting.of the Huron County Fed-
eration of Agriculture held at
Clinton. Harry L. Sturdy, of East
Wawanosh, was re-elected presi-
dent, with R'usseli Bolton, of Mc-
Killop Township, as vice-president.
William Dale, of Hallett Township,
was named secretary -treasurer.
Every municipality in Huron
County realized more than its ob-
jective in the Seventh Victory Loan
campaign. BIyth hadthe best
showing, going 56.63 per cent over
its objective. Goderich went 36.02
per. cent over •its objective. The
quota for the county was $2,980,000
Royal Conservatory
of, Music of Toronto
MIDWINTER
EXAMI'NA'TIONS
1955
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Tater than DFC. 19, 1954
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THE MIRACLE
LUSTRE EMMEL
and $3,812,750 was realized, a per-
centage of 120.50.
As part of Remembrance Day
services, United Churches at Ben-
-and
en-
•and Nile unveiled 'and de-
dicated 'honer rolls for those wile
had\enlisted in the war. The rolls
were dedicated by the Minister,
Rev. H. F. Currie.
Gilbert Frayne was elected pre-
sident of the Ashfield Township
Federation of Agriculture`. at the
annual meeting held in Dungan-
non. Other officers elected were:
Gordon Kirkland, T. J,.'Lana, vice-
presidents; Earl McDonald, secre-
tary -treasurer.
MISSION CIRCLE HAS
REGULAR METING
The regular monthly gathering
of the senior Mission Circle of the
Goderich Baptist Church, was held
at the home of Mrs. Lloyd Fergu-
son, Huron road, with a good at-
tendance. -
Mrs. Raithby conducted the de-
votional period, and gave an ar-
ticle on Remembrance. Several
hymns were sung and prayer of-
fered by members.
Mrs. Marshall sang a pleasing
THURSDAY, NOV. lath, 1954
solo. The roll was answered with
Scripture verses on Remembrance.
Mrs. Miller read an article on
Temperance and 'Mrs. Wilson gave ,
the study bock portion.•
Mrs. Johnston read a letter from
Rev. Lainb,. from Feller Institute
Quebec. Mrs. Raithby gave brief'
notes from the recent Middlesex-
Lambton Association meeting held
at London.
It was decided to Invite Aubuin
and Clinton Circles to the Decem-
ber meeting. Rev. S. H. Findlay
spoke briefly and closed the meet-
ing with prayer.Refreshments
were then served by the hostess.
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