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GEO. L. ELLIS, `Editor and Publisher.
THURSDAY, JANUARY 20th, 1955
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WHAT WOULD THE CRITICS DO?
The fact that such a large ,proportion of
ganada's foreign trade is with, the United
Sys seems to be greatly alarming to some
people and we are warned against having
Almost' all our eggs in one b,asiSet.
,tars not the most desirable situation, but
wh t are we to do about it? It must be borne
in ind that foreign trade is carried on mostly
by private or corporate business firms, and
that these firms buy and sell to what they
consider the best possible advantage. Con-
venience is one great consideration; a merchant
or manufacturer (3 -an obtain needed goods
from the United States' in a fraction .of ,the
time that it would take to get thein el.aewhere.
Similarly, though we do not like the restric-
tions that Uncle Sam places upon the entry
of Canadian products,, he ,is the best and most
convenient customer for a great proportion
of the goods that we have for sale.
• Another factor is the -currency ,difficulty.
Otforts have been made for years to solve, the
exchange problem, but it still remains.
What would the critics propose? Would
they decree that the importation from the
• United States of such things as coal, cotton,,
oranges and other -fruits, and of the hundreds
of materials needed in.Can•ada, shonld-be pro
hibited, and inferior articles at greater "cost
be obtained from some more distant and less
convenient source? And would they force
Canadian producers of.. newsprint,' metals,
grains and other goods to abandon the in r'ket
they have across the line for much .of, their'
products and try to find an outlet for them in
countries that don't want them or that could
not pay for - them if they did want there.
We are told that in 1938 about one-third
of Canada's foreign trade zras with the United
States and two-thirds with other world markets.
Allowing that .this statement may be correct,
is 'Canada not better off today than it was' in
1938?
Foreign- trade must be conducted on coni -
mon sense principles, with .business firms al-
lowed to buy and sell to the best possible
advantage, not confined in a strait jacket.
A' QUESTION OF LAVA
Our eonteniporar;.- The Rano vcr Post.
questions Whether Boxing Day ran be made a
legal holiday without governmental authority.
1t holds that`a ixrunicipaI council has no author:
ity. to -sleet-are a holiday without an act of
1Pai'lian ent, .and in., the absen.ee of suet' legis-
lation a council is going beyond its powers in
proelairning' a holiday, This year, The Post.
stays, Hanover- -didessreste-sha ve--13o-x•ing_ Day a-
. holiday;
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holiday,' although 'the town uierehants an-
nounced- the closing of the stores: here we
would raise another queation, Even if Parlia-
meet passes an act declaring any particular
day--I)oruinion Davy for instance—a holiday,
dors that mean that it, is, unlawful for a ,mer-
chant to open his store or .t'or'so( -person to go
about his ordinary work or business on' Haat
day, with such exceptions as legal offices and
blinks? In some matters • general custom is
alzrio;st as -powerful, as ,legal, enactment, aid
the observance of holidays 'seems to be- one of
theca. For a more serious pronouncement on
the oddest iota one may appeal .to the nearest
lairyer.
EDITORIAL NOTES
Some observing person points out that,'
While husbands may have better halves, often
bachelors have better quarters.
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= Noting announcement in his paper of the
March of Dimes, the Saltford Sage wonders
*ken it is coming this way. He says he has
a dime to contribute.
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Despite snow-covered fields, signs - of
apring are beginning to appear. The 1955
sehedvle of•' the National Baseball League is
published, With the opening game. on April 11
aft Cincinnati.
—A -that is much overworked is
'fabulous." The merchant who advertised
"fabulous" savings in a Toronto paper the
other day might be. chagrined if he looked up
the word in the dictionary and discovered that
his promised savings were •" fictitious, mythi-
eal, not real."
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A titled Polish couple recently arrived at.
Vancouver and although practically penniless
are glad to he in a flee country. The Goun-
teas says elle would rather sweep the streets
than live 'iia Poland under the Communists.
Perhaps we Canadians, having had no experi-
ence of cruel, despotic rule,- do not assess our
freedom at its real worth.
*
In the •'Toronto City Council a member had
eriticism fur the '`boxlike, factory -type"
apartment houses, as he termed there, that
were being built in the city. He could not,
see why some attention shoal -d not be paid, to
the architectural beauty of buildings. But
where world he find an architect, to produce a
building with 'architectural beauty? •
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'Winter has come -upon. us. in earnest this
week. It should he welcomed.- It is much
better to have cold weather in .January and
February than to be denied the warmer- tem-
peratutres we look for in other months,. Be
aides, normally cold weather at this time,,,is
better for heal( . .than the changeable, un-
seasonable variety we have had.
A. piece of interesting information at the
present time, refers. -to the population of the.
divisions of Gernlany. • A' statement recently
%sstxod v``"lie papulation of West Germany
5,0,0 i0 'East Germany, 17,600,000. -Zn
itih eye tlae, Saar (in ' which France has
adt ' y'11r 59649 ; est Berlin, 1;175,000,
t.. 'et1m, ,1S ,Ot11 .� Thug, of a total
" of` I miilidits that pa•r.t of Germaxly
iaa cis' edi e'ontrCi1 •has less than one-third.
tre death• of It at. Saunders,
t rcl ' o t t a r ;its robbed -Oafs
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bxn`tS', (tae; t '>i at t1 at i. -work tip 'citize ,.,
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risks as much as possible.' One ,person's life
is as precious to'him ,as : is that of any other,
but men of especial usefulness should protect
their lives with particular care.,
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Pr sident Eisenhower, sending his budget
to Congress this week, said that while progress'
was being made towards balancing the budget
there could be no tax cuts at this time. Two-
thirds of the appropriations,. he said, would,
go to the "stern requirements" of the national
defence. When the •President took office two
. years ago there were hopes that the change of
government would bring a lowering of taxa-
tion, but the realities .,of the situation were
such that these hopes were' dashed. In Cal-
ada also there are stern realities. Since the
war the firr�a1ce'dep•artment has been able to
_produce a succession of surpluses, but there
has been also a succession of tax reductions,
and -these, coupled with continuing .'large ex-
penditures on defer ee, may result in a deficit
for the ,,first time in years. In the circum-
stances, anyone who is looking -for any ire
'portant tax cuts in this year's budget at Ot-
tawa is indulging in false hopes. At least,
'that is the Way it .looks from any reasonable
view of the situation.
PEN MARKS SOCIAL STATUS
(Port' Elgin Times)
Odd standards are'used in different groups and
in various lands to decide who is a person of dis-
tinction. In one village the, family without a power
mower doesn't rate; elsewhere it may be lack of a
<television set which sets the household apart. But
in India the fountain pen decides social status.
The man of distinction there carries a fountain pen
always, but many 'who aspire to that high estate
can't afford even the ' cheapest of such pens. In
that event they settle merely for the top—with a
pocket clip, of course. One American pen company
has just received an order for'' 3,000 pen tops for
social use only. Keeping up with the neighbors by
acquiring a pen top may seem cheap to us and
completely unenviable, but to the man who gets a
rupee a day or less—some days --'the •goal is about
the same as a mink coat for the average housewife,
here.
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WHO SAID BRITAIN WAS THROUGH?
(Financial Post)
"There is only one hope for Britain," an econ-
omic, adviser to the U:g.-embassy in London told an
American friend. -"e'en million people must emi-
' grate and the country will then have •a chance to
survive."
That • was five years ago When there was still
TH.I�,V M Y EI
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Down Memory's
Lane
45 Years Ago
Ceoderieh Elevator and Transit
'Company informed Town Council
it proposed to build an annex to
its existing elevator of a capacity
of at least 500,000 bushels. The
company_ asked a fixed assessment
of $100,0011 on the whole plant for
20 years.
Western Canada Flour Mills also
to add to its existing
plant a concrete and steel elevator
with a capacity of at 'least 500,000
bushels: This firm asked council
to fix. the annual tax" payment on
the ertion oaf ethe Company' pro-
perty used for manufacturing pur-
poses at $1,800 ,for a peridd of 10
years and on the elevator at $1,200
for a period of 20 years.
Since they had proved popular
in 1909; horse markets were being
planned again for Goderich. Man-
agers of the Goderich Horse Mar-
ket predicted another successful
DISGRUNTLED IMMIGRANTS
By Lewis Milligan
Letters from recently arrived
immigrants have, been appearing
in Toronto papers expressing dis-
appointment with conditions in
Canada. They say they were mis-
led by promises of immediate em-
ployment, whereas they had sought
in vain for work in accordance.
*ith their training and ability.
They declare their intention of. re-
turning to their native land, "and isolated
of them have gone back dis-
gruntled. These' are Usually from motor transportation was con -
England, particularly from the corned.
south. One letter writer complain, "The Use aril Abuse of Radio that his English accent was a and Reading" was the topic at the
handicap in applying for a poli regular meeting of Victoria Home
tion. I can well understand thatom and School Association'` with Rev,
in v
some cases, s s, for several English A. C. Calder and Dr. N. C. Jackson
immigrants I have. met lately could as speakers. .
Four teams were organized to
comprise a junior hockey "league
in G•oderich. Two games each
week were planned.
Goderich Public School Board
had its inaugural meeting. Sworn
iIfto office were Trustees C, L.
Parsons, John Cutt, . J. F. Thorx�son,
F. Miller, James Carrie and Walter
Naftel. Mr. , Parsons was elected
clxairrnan of ,the board,
During 1929 there were 78
births, 65 death. and 35 marriages
registered in God rich. In ''S 1928.
the nutalier ' of '-Hilitis ivas `elcactly
the -same, 78, but there were only
57 deaths and 30 marriages. ofsthe Goderich Racing
Association held their annual meet-
ing at the Town Hall and decided
to stage two race meets here in
1930, one in June and one on the
Civic Holiday in August.
15 Years Ago
At the inaugural meeting of the
Goderich Separate School Board,
John Boyle was named chairman.
Other appointments were: D. M.
O'Brien, secretary -treasurer; W. A.-
'Coulthurst, Collegiate Board re-
presentative; E. L. Dean and Mrs.
R. Phelan, Public Library repre-
sentatives; Capt. Frank McCarthy
and J. J. Hayes, auditors.
Huron County was digging out
after one of the biggest snow-
storms in a number of years. For
three days, roads were blocked and
towns and villages were 1a
year "of filminess.
25 Years Ago s.
ted
from the outside world as far as
not speak plain English. It was
not so rtiuch their accent, but their
affected and clipped manner of
speech and their apparent assump-
tion of superiority,
One young Englishman of good,
10 Years Ago
At a service in' St. George's An-
glican ' Church an honor roll ;bear-
ing the. names of members of the
congregation serving in the armed
in- forces `overseas and: two engraved
appearance and ' education co
walnut memorial tablets with the
plained to me that he had been names of airmerie who died or were
repeatedly- turned down for .no.
apparent reason, and the only job
he could get was that of a filing
clerk. He did not 'have much of Reeve Alex Alexander, 'of Grey
killed in service . at_ Port. Albert
airport were unveiled and defile -at: -.
an accent, but spoke through his
teeth with the slightest movement
of the lips, so that I, as a born
Englishman, . could hardly under-
stand what he was saying. I told to Noveber 27, 1944, Mrs. George
him he would never get a- j_ob iJam�es, of Go 1erieh,had ,knitted
where he had to meet the public 236 pairs of -Softs, 63 pairs of sea-
man's boots, 29 pullover sweaters,
14 pairsxo,f wrist -bands, three tuck -
in mufflers, three boys' sweaters,
three girls' sweaters, three pairs
of mitts and one pair of gloves, all
home and associations in. the. old dor , distribution to the armed
countries and find themselves forces.
strangers in a strange land. How-
ever'' humble the ' lost home may
have been, the new immigrant suf-
fers from that heart -sickness of
the early Scottish ,pioneers, which
was so poignantly expressed in
Moir's poem,
"From the lone shieling of the
misty island
Mountains divide us, and the
waste of seas—
Yet, still the blood is strong, the
heart is Highland, •
And .we in dreams behold the
Hebrides!
Fair these broad meads, these
hoary woods are grand;
But we - are exiles from our
fathers' land."
That applies not only to Scots
and 'to British people generally,
but also to European immigrants
have the greater handicap of
being unable to speak or under-
stand ,a word of English. I have
frequently been stopped on 'tire
street by these people- for direc-
tion. Dumbly they hold out a
paper inscribed with an .address,
and I can only dumbly motion a
street car that will take them to
the point nearest to 'the address.
Notwithstanding this disadvantage,
the "foreign" immigrant adapts
himself very quickly to his new
environment and eagerly seizes the
first opportunity to work for a
living."" To those who have come
from distressed and war-torn coun-
tries Canada must seem like a
utopia,' and in a few'years, by hard
work and thrift, many of them own
their own homes and the homes of.
some native . Canadians as well. I'
know this for a fact here ,gin Tor-
onto. They must wonder and smile
at our labor, disputes and strikes
for "fringe benefits."
The question has been raised as
to why there are not more people.
coming from Britain., -The stated
reason, that those who have Come
were misin£orrned,,;.is more of an
excuse than a reason. The truth
is that the average Britisher has
been softened -up by the fringe
benefits of the welfare state. The
Times Weekly Review (London) 're-
cently published;' a" letter, signed
Mary Martin, of 'Winnipeg; The
writer said she had come to Can-
ada in 1950, and in the meantime
had discovered that she would
much prefer to live, bring up and
educate her family in her•- native
Gloucestershire, rather than on the
"hundreds of miles of dull, 'flat
plains with the long ands severe
winter of the Prairies." he ad;
mitted that the reduction of the
population • of the United. Kingdon
Township, was axned Warden of
Huron County at the January meet-
ing of ,County Council
Since the beginning of the' war
until he could open his mouth
'and
speak from, the throat outward.
As a• one-time immigrant, I have
the deepest sympathy for people
who have broken away from their
was "an urgent matter," and she
dded: `,,One cannot help worxdef-
ng if the provision fllade by the
Welfare state •har:....not partly
uemched the old spirit of ad °ent
It was die s •'-off rdi en `tr
that. created arab >naaintahiedr he
ritisb Empire with, its w lrld-' Id*
trade and .cctinr neren. Without than
pirlt'tbe population of . •those isle
Will tun. to' seed and he. urelfar
tate w111,die of atar°vatie .
tin ter- :e`G e Y'1'fnr .sleepy (
t thl li rn and ear' are gid,
a.ittight�ti n;.
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taco .1stzty a �tl hde letlglx After
11, yeti re old` WO ' Sr�t °r'...
rationing and austerity. The views of the mail t a
quoted differed from those of many others only in I i
the degree of his pessimism. But they were ail
wrong.. q
Today 'Orealt, lfr r:rn is" -p` a pexous; ..§"ortiht'ff .
more ' prosperous rous tlla ' e ;
.,,� P pe n v� brefdre. lUFor'e. jobs ark,
available than there re peo ler to fill . them. "B
Massive em gratloit' bad,, nothing tio, do with
this transfortation; Ifir4the lftst tftve years, only A.
few hundred, thousand YArit` "fts left /the- country, not', .'s
millio'ha, and total population h' aotn y Yft�eyeased:
• 4 , . '' tat oct't Main started oil the jIong road ,,t+
(retic le ree001y ,was , aetl'y i th'' me . fonibi *, .
N (toil that. ,a any ,prudent individual al' Must use, nudely ely
doiing wiittitct t luguriii until btitiness Is rebuilt.„
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;Year ` ua 1amilton' where tWn t-
riots. ;t rorn every Part of the P,
vine are assebled ta:partioipte'
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and proj;esex if Ids and d 's-
oxns; .4%,,InOng the paws to he
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