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HURON COUNTY'S FOREMOST WEEKLY
Established 1848. In its 109th year of publication.
Published by Sigual-Star Publishing Limited
Subscription Rates—Canada and Great Britain, $3.00 a year: to United
. States, $4.0Q, Strictly In advance.
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Authorized as second-class 'mail; Post Office Department, Ottawa.
Out-of-Town.Representative: C.W.N.A. 237 Foy Bldg., 34 Front St., W. Toronto.
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GEO. L. ELLIS, Editor and Publisher.
THURSDAY, MAY 10th, 1958
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.THE GODERICI1 SIGNAL -STAR
THURSDAY, MAY 10th, 1058
Down MemQry's{:Tbe Bible4oday
the Italian invasion of Greece and
saw some of the fiercest fighting.
In the midst of the suffering of the
bitter winter in the wild hills of
Albania, with comrades wounded
-and dying all about him, he re-
solved that , he would spend • his
ost-war life seeking to bring peace
to people however he could.
When the tide of war turned in
favor of the Allies, and he was
stationed near Thebes, one day
in a house where he was billeted
'he found a 4New " Testament in
Ancient and Modern Greek, print-
ed in 1839, over a century before,
by the British and Foreign Bible
Society.
Nicholas began to peruse it idly
until one after another passage
caught his attention. The Book
began to fire his imagination. He
refused to be disturbed even when
food and cigui ettes- were offered
to him. He read on and on for
days. After demobilization he was'
offered a position as a colporteur,
Anil gladly accepted. ' •
He was sent to Cyprus at the age
of 33. Now, as he tramps the
streets and hills of the city and
country; he carries not only a
supply of Bibles for distribution,
but the more than century -old copy
that had sparked his own interest
in the Holy Scriptures.
Suggested readings Tor the'week:
Sunday, Psalms 104:1-35; ;Monday,
Psalms 113:1-9; Tuesday, Psalms
147:1-20; Wednesday, Colossians
1:1-29; Thursday, Colossians 2:1-23;
Friday, Collossians 3:1-25; Satur-
day, Colossians 4:1-18.
,45 Years Ago
An English syndicate has taken
steps to purchase the Platt pro-
perty, on the river flats, with a
view to manufacturing salt by a
new propess. Townspeople hope
GoderiW will now regain its old-
time supremacy in the salt trade.
met Hon. Adam Beek to dismiss_
of the district. Mr. Beck promised
his engineers would investkgate the
project's -feasibility and report to
A consignment of eight horses
was received last week from Pic -
ton by Gundry's livery.
The White Star Line advertised
an excursion front Goderich to
Detroit on the steamer Greyhound.
The return fare was $1.50.
Council agreed to ins -tall 30
shower baths on the military camp
grounds here at the request of
army officials.
25 Years Ago
Contract has been awarded for
erection of a new Presbyterian
Church in Bayfield. The formal
opening is scheduled for July 12.
The government boat, Miseford,
which is now planting fish spawn
in the lake, called at Goderich.
Some stores are observing a half
holiday on Wednesday', but others
are keeping open.
The first flight 'of the season
by the Goderich Homing Pigeon
Club was held from Stratford this
Rev. R. C. McDermid, of Knox
Presbyterian Church, Goderich,
has accepted a call from St. Paul's
Church, Toronto. 'His decision was
announced at the meeting of Huron
Presbytery here, •
Showers caused an abrupt clos-
ing at the sixth annual Mother's
Day service in St. Patrick's Park.
15 Years Ago -
The 1941 tax rate has been set
at 35 mills, 10i,:2 mills lower than
last year. There was a sizeable
surplus left over from last year.
Over 70 fellow citizens from
Goderich and Huron County honor-
ed Flight Lieutenant J. M. Roberts
last Friday evening for his part
in bringing about the establish-
ment of Sky Harbor Elementary
Flying Training School and, in a
lesser degree, the founding of the
Air Navigation School at Port Al-
bert. He is being transferred to
Winnipeg as chief of the RCAF
recruiting centre there.
Helmar Snell, Seaforth police
chief, has been appointed to fill
the vacancy in the county police
force caused by the resignation of
LQn� Cyprvs is inlihxane Cyprus is in *the news as perhaps
never before. The calibre of the
Bible colporteurs who travel from
price to place 'and call house .to
house with the Book of books in
the midst of the.exploslve situation
there is illustrated in the story
of Nicholas.
Although of Greek parentage,
tc o as was rn ani taus in
the polyglot community of. Cairo.
power of the :Maitland River and, At 19; he volunteered to .oppose
water -
powersupply
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WEALTHY BUT MENDICANT
The Toronto Star says "Ottawa sh:rks
as duty" in not paying municipal tams on
Yed-ral- �overnment- 'op 'ty in- the various
municipalities. This failure, it says, is based
ors., " the. archaic theory that the Crown should
not be taxed." Anything is "archaic" or
reprehensible that The Star does -not like, and
the reason for its newly -discovered disapproval
of the immunity of the Crown from municipal
taxation is divulged in its statement that if
the Dominion paid full taxes on its holdings
in Toronto that city would get an additional
$900,000 a year.
Despite the Toronto paper's attack upon
what it terms an "archaic theory," there is
something to be said for it. Every town and
e4y is pleased when it is chosen as the site of
a government building. It means more busi-
ness and- it adds to the importance of the town
cur city. Imagine the anguish of the people of
Toronto if the Government buildings in their
city were removed elsewhere, say to Hamilton;
they would be ready, not , only to promise
freedom from taxation, but to give a bonus
to get thein back again. Further. Govern-
ment`buildings are not profit-making concerns;
they provide:facilities to the communities that
have them. that are not readily available to
the people of. those _communities which do__not
rip
LIGHT BULB BLITZ OF
f1LTTB Fit DAY --EVENING
Welfare work will benefit from
the third annual Light Bulb Blitz
of the Goderich Lions Club, Friday
night, Members of the club will
make a house-to-house canvass be -
have thein. For the reasons stated they have,
like church properties, schools, ete., been held
immune from taxation.
llowever, of quite recent years the Ot-
tawa Government has adopted a policy of
grants to municipalities in lieu of taxes on
Government property and, fortunately for the
rest of the country, the basis upon which .the
gran are given is favorable to smaller places
rather than to the large and wealthy cities.
Fortunately, we say, because if Toronto re-
eeived the $900,000 which .The Star claims the
taxpayers of the rest of the country would be
fared with additional taxation to till up the
(tole in the ,Government's reentte created by
the loss of this nearly a million dollars handed
over to Toronto' And if Toronto got it the
other big cities would have t ► get correspon-
ding autouuts and there would be possibly
*50,000.000 or more annually for the people of
the smaller towns and townships to make np.
We do not know how many millions of
dollars are poured into the city of Toronto
every year by --Federal and Provincial Govern-
ments,: but it is a huge amount. it is a re-
markable thing that the largest and riehest
eity in this Province, possibly the wealthiest.
in Canada, --should be everlastingly looking for
further Government favors. Surely it is Can-
ada's Ilontown.
AN EXPERT VIEW
The Signal -Star has repeatedly remarked
upon the enormous increase of land values in
the Toronto area- and the failure of the
authorities either to adopt measures to cheek
this increase or to take steps to collect a
reasonable revenue from it. To show that
this is not an idea conceived in the mind of
an outsider who bas insufficient knowledge of
the subject to justify editorial comment upon
1t, we_ttunte_}iortions_of A...)elter_.from Ernest
J. Farmer published recently in The Toronto
-Star. _.him.-rrner}-ht1e _T7z�atutl'w_:.sti}l
a residept,of Toronta.or,-the .vicinty, has given
a'116E1rrie A study=`to the cities -Don of taxhtiail. A. portion of his letter, which refers particu-
larly to the Metropolitan area, is as' -follows:
The municipal councils are flagrantly neglecting
tween the hours of 5 and 7 p.m.
The .-campaign Is directed by the
ways and means committee of the
Lions Club.
o- o— ti
There are 14 acres of grass lawn
at the Frigidaire plant at Scar-
borough, Ont.
Ontario. Championship,
FIDDLERS'
CONTEST
at HENSALL on
FRIDAY, JUNE 8
at 8 p.m.
to
collect the revenges to r which they are entitled
under the Provincial laws. Toronto -has conte to be
the heart of a metropolitan area where land values
are almost beyond the comlirehension of the aver-
age man, some areas having increased in value 20 -
fold. But land assessments have uinereased by a
paltry $25,000,000 and are actually lower than they
were in 1930. The recent reassessment of the
Metro municipalities, outside Toronto, brought as-
sessments a little nearer actual values. But since
it was based upon _Toronto practice, assessing land
it Tess thin" 20 per cent. -of actual value, it is altt5-
gether--inadequate. . . A mer realistic - assessment
of the land is imperative: If the municipal authori-
nes ntgtee or -"ret "tit _Vitt" sante ." s"iii t�"' `ni dsime
into erect, by far their best chance is •to send a-
• letterappealing for funds to Mr. Santa Claus, North
Pole, Canada, by air -mail, registered.
PRINCIPAL
INGREDIENT,
THE PRINCIPAL INGREDIENT in the cost of a
product is labour—labour in mine or forest, in
transportation, in factory and office, in wholesale and
retail outlets. At every stage of production and
distribution; from the -extraction -of -the-raw—material
to the ultimate sale of the finished product, cost is added
in the form of wages.
Because wages are so all-important they must be right
with relation to the services rendered. Higher wages
are -sensible only when accompanied by greater pro.
ductivity. Disturb this balance and higher prices are
inevitable. When prices get too high, sales go down.
When sales go down there are fewer jobs.
Education for a new school on the
site south of the present Victoria
School.
Town Council is considering a
Lions Club request for construe
tion of a new ball diamond in front
of the grandstand, the improve-
ment of the present diamond and
a third diamond so that junior
baseball ---teams. and girls' teams
might all be accommodated.
The fifth annual Huron County
Festival of Music was opened here
by G. Roy Fenwick, director of
music, Ontario Department of
Education.
THE
STEEL ,COMPANY : OF CANADA
LIMITED
MONTREAL GANANOQUE HAMILTON BRANTFORD TORONTO
t•,
In the , Huron Deanery dramatic
_fest iv_al__^het L,,in Belgrave, St.
George's APPA, of Goderich, won
the trophy -with the presentation
of The farce. ackef Tears" Dir-
ordcr_-.umr,,,e. arAld F ' r5v1nr..,. tut ._
the cast included Harold .-Shore,
Hazel'poyce, John MacKinnon and
Hilda Stewart.
Hundreds of Western Ontario
anglers thronged the . piers and
breakwaters last Sunday as the
spring run of perch began. Catches
have not been large so far.
10 Years Ago
Sites for 50 "wartime" houses
have been approved and it is hoped
a good number of the homes will
be completed by fall.
The coal strike and other con-
ditions are interfering with `move-
ment of grain from the lakehead
and only two cargoes were deliver-
ed liege 1st. week. - W. C. Attridge was appointed
chairman of Goderich Board of
Trade at a largely attended meet-
ing in the Town Hall. .The board
has received a flood of enquiries
from tourists. '
Goderich Public School Board
has received tentative approval
from the Ontario Department of
EDITORIAL NOTES
The Saltfortl Sage says he wishes he had
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a fur coat.
• • It 0
It lots been 9 o'clock by official (Court
HIouse) - time in Goderieh -for "stiveral'-werks.
And I've don't want any remarks from Clinton
or elsewhere about this being a sleepy town.
* • • •
A. weekly editor is cruel enough to point
out that it is only sixteen weeks to the lst. of
September and the beginning of autumn. \Ve'11
Ti iv .tn make as much as possible of .Tune, July
and August. (There now, we haven't said a
word, this week about the weather.)
• , • . •
A contemporary throws smile light on the
question, of the value of the British market for
Canadian agricultural products. In wartime,
when the food supply tit Britain was uncertain,
the Government paid subsidies to farfners' for
production on British' farms, and these sub-
sidies have been continued and on some pro-
ducts increased. Agricultural products still
subsidized in the United Kingaorn include oats,
barle3','rye, sheep, cattle, bacon, potatoes, eggs
and milk. No British Government has had
the courage to fade the opposition of farmers
to the withdrawal of these subsidies, and some
of them have recently been increased. Britain
buys wheat where it ca'n get it cheapest, even
from Red Russia. As our contemporary ob-
serves, the main victim of Britain's agricul-
tural protectionism is the Canadian farmer.
A youngster, recently moved from Brooklyn,
N.Y., 'to an upstate town, boasted of his former
home: "Everything is modern in Brooklyn. Even
the telephones are away ahead in Brooklyn. You
don't even have to dial a number. All you do is
pick up the phone and a lady asks what -number you
want and she gets it for you."—The Blue BelL
' THE BALL-POINT PEN
(Christian Science Monitor, Boston)
"Times change and we change with them" runs
the proverb. Yet it has seemed to mortal observers
that some objects would go on forever—such as the
postofliice pen, though it never went far without
scratching. But now even that institution is ap-
proaching the end of things mundane. It is to be
replaced by something better.
So goes an announcement from Postmaster -
General Summerfield. The "something better" is
to be a ballpoint pen. His department is asking
for bids on half -a -million of the new -type writing
instruments.
Not long ago some experiment was made with
this innovation. At first it was feared that too
many' of the pens would be carried off and the cost
would add to the Post Office deficit. (No one ever
was seriously tetnpted to take one of the old shafts
with the steel point.) But the losses have proved
small. And the ubiquitous ball point now is inex-
pensive 'to produce.
So humorists have lost a sure-fire subject. But
about a hundred years from now a generation that
has never seen a "postoffice pen" will become
curious. And antique dealers who now seek a
quill to stick into the tiny dish of shot on a
colonial desk will dig up from somewhere a new
item.
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CTA Problem
(FromExeter Times=Advocate)
?The Goderich Junior Chamber of
'Commerce should be commended
for its investigation into the merits
ori the Canada Temperance Act
which controls the consumption of
alcoholic beverages in Huron
County. .
According to a recent, statement
by- the Jaycees' • president, Jack
-Brady, a committee is "comparing
the -various faders of the C.T.A.
.and the. Ontario Liquor Control
Act and-_is_tiying---to- determine,
with an .open mind, what changes
would take place if the Canada
Temperance Act were repealed
and whether or not these changes
Would •be;:'bcnelicial to the com-
munity as seivholc,"- •
It would ',appear that if the
,.,'soup feels there islf definite ad.
,vantage'irt°changing to the Ldquor
Control . Act,; at -willl -petition Tor a
ete. -On ,the:,:question by Huron
ihtp; residents';; ►h9' have' not
had a ballot on beverage control
since 1914.
This action by the Jaycees is a
reasonable approach to a contro-
versial subject. It is a courageous
move in face of the rabid opposi-
tion put forth by church and temp-
erance groups against any party
which tampers with the idea of
repealing the C.T.A. These church
organizations insist the C.T.A. is
the best liquor legislation avail-
able,
In spite of this religious defence
for C.T.A. law enforcement of-
ficials of the county have repeated-
ly 'condemned the act because of
its administration problems and
have asked Jluron citizens to give
them something better to work
with.
It . appears to us that Huron
County should give consideration
to the requests of these- officials
since it is they who aro. charged
With the responsibility of enforc-
The Major' Stores
Goderich .. w_. Ontario.
ing liquor law. In our opinion,
their experience should carry snore
weight than the opinions of lay
groups.
We are not anxious to' see pubs
opened up in Huron towns' nor to
see consumption of alcohol'increas-
ed but we are not convinced that
repeal of the C.T.A. will bring
about these conditions as the tem-
perance groups would have us be-
lieve.
We are concerned that there.
should exist legislation as ancient
and out-of-date as the Canada Tem-
perance Act which attracts so
much ridicule and contempt and
efnbarasses police and court of-
ficials. This tends •to encourage
disrespect for the whole Mime -
work of law and its enforcement.
Some day Huron must take a
realistic attitude toward this prob-
lem and repeal or revise the C.T.A.
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