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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Goderich Signal-Star, 1956-08-30, Page 2eikok, TWO tle tibtrir4 Otottat-Otar HURON COUNTY'S FOREMOST WEEKLY Lstablished 1848. In its 109th year of publication. Published by Sigual-Star Publishing Limited eeebscriptiotn Rates—Canada and Great oseritain, $3.00 a year: to United States, $4.00. Strictly in Advance. Advertising ,' ates o,►. request Telepboa 71. Authorized as second-class mail, )lost O ;t. ce Department, Ottawa. Out -of -Town Representative: C.W.N k. 237 Foy Bldg., 34 Front St-, W. Toronto. Over 3,00 aegest Lira uiati©n of any newspaper publIshed in Huron COa,atty—Over (sari b.r of Canadian Wcelciy Newspapers, Association. Member of Ontario► Weekly Association, Member ©f Audit Bureau of Circulations. GEO. L. ELLIS, Editor and Pubisaher.' 3,000 Plewspapsirs THURSDAY, AUGUST 30th, 195a FROM SEA TO SEA This week, down in Quebec Province, "Canada's biggest family party" is being held. It first got that name when it was staged in Toronto in 1954 and the label has stuck. Attending the "party" are close to 500 persons ---mostly members and their wives of the world's biggest press association—the Can- adian Weekly Newspaper's Association. Canada has close to 800 non -metropolitan weekly, twice -weekly and tri -weakly papers .and the large majority of there pay dues, rang- ing up to $75 per year, to support their nation- al newspaper association. Ill Ontario alone there are over 20O weeklies°. It is true that the Canadianc,Weekly News- papers Association has a few economic objec- tives and is concerned to some extent with the over $21 million of advertising and printing its members produce each year. But primarily it lives simply for the promotion of Canadian - ism Ai -though its head offices are in Toronto, the Association's annual convention is held each 'e -year in a different part of Canada. This year it is Quebec. In 1957 it will be Banff, Alberta in 1958, Ilalifax. And. to these conventions collie the publishers and editors not only of the Digger journals, -but of the little ones, too— The Fundy Fisherman of Black's Harbor, The Fort Saskatchewan Record, The Altona Red itiver Valley Echo, The Fort Qu'Appelle Valley Legend, The Osoyoos Times and The Similka- ineen Spotlight names as picturesque and as Canadian as Canada itself. At their conference tables and their after - hour discussions, editors of French, English and foreign language papers, leen and women from rugged Newfoundland fishing villages, from Prairie grain lands and from industrial centres in Ontario, each year rediscover the common ties. that bind them and their corn- iiiiiiuties into a Canada that is truly one • (lonliuion from sea to Sea. Unsubsidized by government, little heral- ded in the Massey reports, and seldom probed by spciologists, we N -onder if there is any single factor which looms larger in the development of a Canadian culture than tde annual get- together of the weekly newspapers of this land. This year's Allouette convention at Murray Ray will be their 37th. _U.EEO. PASSES OUT The United Farmers ief Ontario, an Organ- ization which cut a wide swath in the political field for some years but has now almost been forgotten, is surrendering its charter and all that remains is a page, a lively page, in the political history of this Province. The U.F.O. came into prominence and power after the first World War and from 1919 to 1923 controlled the Provincial Legislature, with E. C. Drury as premier. It placed softie good legislation on the statute books in this term, but its rep- resentatives were politically inexperienced and inept and they went down to defeat in 1923 after four - years in nffiee _M.r. Drury, one of the sanest- political leaders this Province has 'Seen, tisrsu a ccs artvuucn; Veeee iei s -of is�3is-''Lip ^. porters by bridging in the many sympathizers who were not, farmers, but J. J. Morrison, the leading spirit in the U.F.O. organization, would have none of this, and the difference of opinion proved disastrous. • The organized farmers had some success in the Federal arena also, eluting several mem- bers to the Ottawa House. Among these was John King, who won three successive elections iii 'North Huron but died. while still a member. The Drury Government has to its credit such legislation as the Mothers' Allowance A(t', proteetian for children of unmarried mothers, minimum wages for women, and kin- Bred_acts. • Mr. Drury is- noW living at Barrie, where .,.y�l�..h,aa_ ��, nfr i�Y.L i �ni}i"� _ • - +,�, r - EDITORIAL NOTES As someone has observed, one swallow doesn't make a summer, but too many make a fall. * * 11 • The railway, first came to Goderich in 1857 and, has been a great factor in the life of the community. That . it should in 1956 an- nounce a partial withdrawal of its service seems rather a poor way to celebrate its cen- tennial. ® o 0 0 Of recent years a great part of the supply of peaches in this district conies from • Essex County, and it is good news that the crop there is in good condition—lighter .than last year, but the size of the fruit making up the difference, according to a fruit specialist. 'l'he peaches are said to 'be ripening slowly, which should indicate that the supply will not be cut off for a while yet. - This column has on oecasion taken objec- tion to the improper flying of the U.S. flag in this country, and in this connection the Quebec ChEoniele-Telegraph says: "In tourism it is proper to make the visitor feel at home. But this -flag business seeing to be • carrying things a bit too far. Visitors from ILS. .sometimes remark that they feel as though they may be in a 'cheapened imitation of their own home town, rather than in an historic city in its own right. And if this is the attitude of our American friends, what must other Canadians think of us when they come here?" " The Federal Immigration Department an- nounces a special ef'fert to bring farmers from Italy and 'Yugoslavia with the object of pro- viding. help for Canadian farmers. The London Free Press asks how these .neweemern are to be kept on the farms, experience having shown that many of the immigrants brought to this country for this purpose are soon drawn away from the farms by the higher wages available in the cities. Possibly Ottawa might reply that it has done its part in getting the men to the farms and it is up to the farmers to keep them there. What would The Free Press suggest? TIE GODERiOH SIS u 1AL�ST�R THE OW HOME TOWN � � B ; STANLEY LADy° IF 4 Ai �y� COMMi4RCIAL Q.Q5 -, WAS S GAYAIBP HAPPY I ietil5HED lakes- Fop -F E 1014014U E(0140 49Zg R 47 Zrk 04 WHY, YOU St1OUlap re3E SMhLLMG,`i' ®1 NEWS liONtw- i MY FEET AIR -d47 KILLING ME 0 IPN, CCM r4ATtm 3 IMIDSCATC fat. wentRiutfro 0000V@ Down Memory's Lane 45 Years Ago Supporters of the rprocity treaty, then a hot election issue, claimed its adoption. would mean vastly enlarged opportunities for trade in this country's natural re- sources. Workmen finished rebuilding that part of the Kensington furni- ture plant destroyed by fire. Fifteen Boy Scouts, in charge of Scoutmaster 'Hayden, went to Tor- onto to camp on the grounds of the Canadian National Exhibition. The scouts, wlio had the time of their lives, were Watson Straiton, Kenneth Hawkins, Harry Watson, Morris Swanson_ Allen Sinclair, Harry Tufford, John Van.stone, _Willie Black, Bruce Noble, Albert Wiggins, Maitland Pridham, Alfred Habel, Harold Bates, Willie Proud - foot, P.hilip Carey. When the employees of the Doty engine works took a day off -to go on a picnic, everyone knew about .it. Led by the "foundry band," the workers marched around the' Square before shoving off for Black's Point. 25 Years Ago T. G. Connon suffered burned feet in a Sunday morning blaze at his residence. A lean-to. was destroyed by the flames but there wasn�t much damage to the rest` of the house. • • A 50 -year comparison of prices showed that butter sold for 22 cents a pound in 1880 and was 21 cents:fit -n'1:: rhe highest- t was reached_ in 1920 when it P......>.4,200l+k-.RSLt. _444.4.,,k4,4,,,. _..s..+.aws�.a.._ I.Don Christian aehreved a - hole - in -one in the 100 -yard pitch of the Punch Bowl at Maitland Goff Course. His prize: a case of 'ginger ale. Fifty Goderich pigeons were among the 5,000 birds to be re- leased in the international pigeon flight from the Canadian National Exhibition. In the GDCI aquatic competitions at the harbor, the champions were: senior boys, Joe Taylor; intermedi- ate boys, Keith Saunders; junior boys, Norman Craik; girls, Jean Abell. Perhaps this column was somewhat inac- curate in stating that public interest in big _swims had declined and that the extravagant prizes -offered fon-these events were no longer available. This may be true for Eastern Can- ada, but 1 he rage has transferred itself to the West. (roast, where Marilyn 3e11, after her con- quest of Lake Ontario and the English Chan- nel, has crossed the Strait of Juan de Fuca in record time antl has stirred the people there to a frenzy. A Prize of $10,000 awaited her, and she has been showered with honors and gifts by the citizens of Victoria. Young people would do well to emulate the young Toronto girl in learning to be at home in the water, but, they Should npt be discouraged by inabili- ty to match the feats she has performed. There is not a Marilyn Bell in every swim suit. Note to hitch -hikers: It is an offence punish- able by a fine of up to $10 to "solicit a ride from the driver of a motor vehicle other than a public passenger conveyance". If you do not believe it, see Section 47 of the Highway Traffic Act. The same Act, incidentally, states that "every person who throw's or deposits or causes to be deposited any glass, nails, tacks or scraps of metal, or any rub- bish, refuse, waste or litter upon, along or adjacent to a highway, except in receptable provided for the purpose," is subject to the same penalty. Fatal Natioria!ization (By Lewis Milligan,) . i in the future another Gibbon should arise to write a history of The Decline and. Fall of the British Empire, he will probably trace the beginning of the deeline to Gecialism, particularly to the Labor Government with its pet and fateful child, Nationalization. Littledid,thoSe labor union leaders and their highbrow Fabian backers, 4r�ho *ere so ambitious for political power, realize that they were undermining the very foundation of the Empire upon which British ;industry, commerce and labor de - fended for. ,their `existence. They orgot or ignored the historic fact that ,'Efritich industry and World- wide trade were founded and built nF entirely by free enterprise. Tete pionecm, of the British Em- pire were all individualists. Time `Wdit out not knowing ttihither they went." They had to thought of building: lding an c1npir'e; they were daring e?i �J l ep, CiiiiS;;io ric1 'tinder? and e 'dis,'4'anili Seeking a "better country." If itnne-rick to a !Man,Mnigrant3 Settlfed in �>Il WIPP *tf ,-traite 111/1'i, from dawn to sunset, they hewed clearings in dense forests and made for themselves new homes in the wilderness. When Americans or Canadians speak haughtily and ,deridingly of "colonialism" they are scofiittg -nt their forefathers and "denying the rock from whence they were hewn." it was colonization that transformed the wilds of North America into the vast farm lands and great cities that today are m,arvelo of industrial and scientific advancnt such as the world has never known before. And all that was initiated, developed and accomplished by free enterprise. It could never have been -achieved under the dictatorship of Com- munism, and it could not Aper: iiia and prosper today under the in- dutrial nationalization and the enervating welfare -state of ; •ecial- hm. • Mien the Labor Government na- tionalized industries they started sotliething that was to spread by they 'example to other countries upoir Witi4li--113k;itain depended for raw material and trade. Iran, for instance, followed suit by riatiou i- izing the Anglo -Persian Oil Com- pany. The Iranians quite naturally thought that what was good for Great Britain was just as good for their own country. They took over the oil fields, which had been. de- veloped by .British private capital and engineers. When the company withdrew its -technical staff and management, the na t ion al izets found that they could not operate the great industry. They had na- tionalized it out of business and thousands of their own people out of employment. That was the work of a demented and upstart dictator, Dr. Mohammed Mossadegh. And now another up- start dictator has arisen in Egypt to nationalize the Suez Canal. That great waterway was planned and undertaken by a French engineer, de Lesseps, through whose untir- ing efforts a company was formed and the necessarycapital raised: It took ten years to complete and cost 30 million pounds. An o high- way to India and the Far East it shortened the voyage by 7,600 railed. It is well at this time to mall that when the canal was built, !Egypt -and the whole ti:f the Arab which greeted them on their ar- rival at Goderich harbor. Defeating Moorefield in two straight games, Goderich Lions' Midgets won the Ellwood Epps Trophy, emblematic of midget baseball supremacy in Western Ontario. o=-- o--- o "Tired; " Crashes Three Mail Boxes Magistrate D. E. Holmes dismiss- ed a charge of careless driving against Mervin McAllister, of Farmington, Mich.who was the driver of a car that crashed into .three mail boxes. McAllister said he was ``tired" when his car left highway 2i', five miles south of Goderich, at 4 a.m. on July 27. Pleading not guilty, McAllister said he had paid nine dollars to have the nail.boxes repaired and he had reported the accident to the OPP himself. If he had not done so, it might have been dif- ficult to trace hiru, it was pointed out in court. - When the court was told - that 'police estimated damage to Mc- Al9,iste•r's 1948 car at $150, the motorist revealed that he had bought the ear for only $125. 15 Years Ago Miss Helen Bisset, daughter of ,Mr. and Mrs. James Bisset; of Saltford Heights, succeeded Miss K. M. Park as classics teacher at GHCI. The Georgian, Carrying 200 pas- sengers on her regular run north, called at the local harbor. Miss Maude Howell, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. H. W. Howell, of this town, went to St. John's, New- foundland, to become assistant principal of the United Church College. Work neared completion on. the Gully bridge, between Goderich and Bayfield, but there was some filling still to be done. It was dad who paid the damages when police caught some boys "pinging" the range lights at Bay- field with air guns and .22 rifles. One father had to pay the federal government $80 to repair damage done by his trigger-happy son. 10 Years Ago Population of fGoderich was 4,705 in 1948, according to assess- ment figures. This was an increase of about 200 over the previous year. The Boy Scout movenlent, dor- mant during the war, was. revived. The leaders were Glen Lodge, Ed. Simpson, Leslie Riley,' Fred Whit- tingham and Martin Oke. The Gabs wete re -organized under the direction of Miss Ann Wurtelie. Addressing the. Progressive -Con- servative picric at 'Harbor Park, Premier Drew disclaimed any re sponsibility for the rain that sent listeners scurrying for cover. Since pipe bands are compar# atively rare in the United States, passengers on the S.S. North Am- erican displayed considerable in- terest in the Lucknow pipe band countries were under Turkish domination. The governors of Egypt were appointed by the Sulo tan. The people were in constant uprising against their rulers, whose oppressive taxation and per- sonal extravagances brought the country to a state of bankruptcy. As the chief creditors, Britain and France established a dual control over Egyptian finances in 1880. A national revolt occurred in the next year led by Ammed Arabi. The Sultan refused to quell the rebellion. ,Britain and Prance sent fleets to Alexandria. The French hesitated, and the British bombard- ed the city, suppressed the rebel- lion in a land campaign and re- stored the Khedive to power. That wag, the beginning of British oc- cupition of Egypt. *Britain with- drew from Egypt ten years ago. The severance of that vital link between the Past and West would leave Russia free to occupy Egpyt and extend the iron curtain over the Middle East. driven (creaon separators, amongFi'ydro Travellingother pieces of equipment, made a favorable impression on the men a,�ircusoo At asEx11 Beside the Hydro Building at. the C.N.E. this year will stand a mobile demonstration unit that caused great excitement among rural 4wAlers when it first ap- peared in the summer of 1912. Known as "Adam Beck's Circus," the unit consists of a truck sur- mounted by a canvas awning and carrying a wide range of labor- saving electrical equipment for display to, the fa ming ,people of Southern. Ontario. By sending two of these units on tour during the summer months Hydro Chairman Beck. (later Sir Adam Beck) was able to prove conclusively that electricity could be used to do many of the chores about the farm and in the actual farmhouse. Ontario Hydro is retiiving the old "Circus" for visitors to the "Ex" as part of its Golden Jubilee program of historic observances. The first of these rural demon- strations was held on a farm in Toronto Township. Electri,cally- present, while their wives marvel- led at the way in which electric toasters, washing machines and vacuum cleaners could make their housework easier: The truck on view at the `‘'Ex" is equipped with folding running boards, from which demonstrators used to explain the operation of the outfit. A 15 -.foot jack -shaft belt connected, to a three -horse- power, 110 -volt, three .phase dn- duction motor, mounted on this platform was employed to operate a mechanical milking machine, a steelframe circular saw, a wash- ing machine, a cream separator, a churn, to butter -worker and a wind- mill pump. A 159 -gallon auto- matic rotary pump equipped with a quarter,horsepower motor and a small electric stove were included in the original equipment. Electricity now has over 400 uses on the modern farm, and 'visitors will be interested to com- pare these early pieces of electric apparatus with their counterparts of today. o •0 _--o Signal -Star classified ads bring results. Tl1 i4U1I DAY, AUGUST 30t11, 10410 Money still tales, but what the ,smnaller denoisinatii0ns Gay seems to be less interertinng than It was Lakeview casino GRAND BEND DANCING WEDNESDAY FRIDAY—,SATURDAY Sunday Midnite Last Dance of the Seasoni Final ludgong of the, -,Sunday afteir- noon Beauty Parade will be made at the Midnite Dance. $500 In Cash Prizesl •••••••••••••••••NN••• If•••••m•••N•••••••I•••••••••••••••e••• •••f•••••••••••••••••••• • 1 SPECIALISED t • • • • • • • • • ._ -� Adult Refresher Courses in Shorthand, Typewriting and Accounting. • •Modern equipment incl •udin '.� �'. �g typewriters. • •• • • 0 •0 • • • • • Telephone 1272 or 428 • for an appointment. GODERICH BUSINESS COLLEGE I• •. . •• EAST STREET GODERICH, ONTARIO O .34 •••N••N•H•••••••••••0•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••rn t BUSINESS TRAINING # Practical Instruction in all COMMERCIAL subjects. Courses approved by the Canadian Business Schools Association. �► The Association examining body sets all final papers and marks them. • • 0 0 1 1 • • • • s 1 FALL TERM begins TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 4: PROMPT REGISTRATION ADVISABLE In order to obtain best results, we urge all students to commence on the opening date. Tuition $18 per month. FOOD new hit with ice-cold Coca-Cola - Stuffed Hamburgers - ground beef savory bread stuffing . - tomato slices onion slices Make thin meat patties—put therm together in pairs with atu i't ng, a alive of tomato and a slice of onion between each pair. Broil and serve with oparkling Cocci -Cola ! There'o no refreshment co welcome. Coke bringo out the beat in any delicious food ... a e meals, picnics or parties. Bring home the Coke today! Alternative cuggeotioa—put patties together with packaged cheese and pickle relish for filling. ... and Coke -to put you at your sparkling best!' Regular Size 6 Bottles 36 ,t03 e00 # W Vele` b o re0E5erad trodo.otasb. Goderich Bottling Works 55 KinOgton St. Phone 4459 Authorized bottler of Coco -Cola andel. contract with Coro -Cold Ltd 0