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• HURON COUVIt'S FOREMOST WEEKLY
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THURSDAY, JULY 18th, 1957
A WORTHWHILE PROGRAM
*since (;oderit•h harbor is admirably suited
'for a water sports'riay programs, it is pleasant
news to learn that just such a program will he
staged here in a big way on August 18.
Launched three years ago by the (loderich
Aqua t.'lub as an annual event, the program
this year will be under the joint sponsorship
of the _\,yua Club and the (-iotlerieh bions ('lub.
This amalgamation will give the event the
ad(1t•,1 stimulus needed to 1011 the show over in
n 1)1 Way. 'There i• 1111 rt•a;•►n -ashy (ioderieli
zillould not have 7111 atlnoal Niater sports pro -
gran: as large and as sltt•,•t•-still it; the annual
rvett! 1:,•1d at Southampton. The event at
Sown tL pto1l has been hinit op over a period
.)f ye.trs and it would appear that the lioderiel►
program is on its way to similar success. Such
a program is a "natural" for Goderich and
there is no reason why it can not be developed
into an affair of considerable proportions,
The Aqua Club is to be commended in
securing 'for the program here sanctioned
speed boat races of the Ontario Boating` Fed-
eration. Some 70 boats are expected w hien
can hit speeds of from 60 to 70 miles per hour.
Profits from the affair are to bo...divided.
'I'lte Aqua Club •will use their portion to pro-
vide better safety facilities at the harbor and
the lions Club will use theirs for welfare
work. 1t', a needed program of entertain-
ment with proceeds going to worthy eauses.
The 'general public should give the affair every
possible support.
NATIONAL DEFENCE EXPENDITURES
Tier military d,t have great virtues but
thrift . not one of th,•nl,.''aitl Itl!tt',l States
Sena?..:• 1)owzki_s .0111,• time atiz . lit' Wil; eo1►-
rern'- l about the ritit,•d S;tatt's Navy spending
$562.0+0t for 'an of1eers' mess and.swimming
pool in Florida. 11e w a; perturbed when the
itniCe1 "States air fort -e put in a request for an
elaboeate swirl -intim; pool in the sarin' state.
"We have long felt like Senator Douglas
1111 -il.�: spending o.f_ntt►tll'y by the armed forces.
That's why we are a bit disappointed that no
major noll('y changes seem to lie eontemplatetl
in the realm of (lefenee by the I)iefenhaker
.4rovernment. We gilith • realize that it is so
easy 1.; ;it on the outside and critieize things
ENGLISH—A
F real examinations have been written
some seeks. ago now in eolle•giates and hip^h
schools- t hroitthout the Province. 13y this time,
the examiners %yill he holidaying. But even
as they haul in `'t big fish, bask in the sun on
the be-aeh or take the family on a motor trip,
their Imidds will periodically ,jinni) from happy
holiday •thoughts to ones they held while mark-
ing examination papers. - -
(tften these thought; will be -punctuated
with the eoneluion that the basic' tool: of
learning are still the three
Nfany. students on tite senior highelehool
level do not have, apparently. too firm iI\foun-
dation in -these ba --ie tools. At least, on their
final examination papers. they, violate simple
rules of grammar, mis-spell common words,
make arithmetical errors and misinterpret
about iv1►ieh w -e have not full detail;. But we
.till lave stispit-ion, that a tremendous amount
of money is spent needlessly and foolishly in
the realm of defence.
1)f -fence -11inister 1'e.itrk,es doubtless has
sound reasons for feeling that the military
affairs of ('anada sjtould 1)ro,eee(1 along the
same general lines as have prevailed,in' recent
vt'ar:. The fact retrains. however, that little
has been (lone t_ o aetluaint Canadians with
ftuldanlentals of the defense policy and, the
feeling i; widespread that such military estab-
lishments «'llieh (have sprung up in Canada
and abroad are eostntl-r taxpayers far more
than is necessary.
BASIC .,TOOL -
(Inestiorls the,• are to answer.
-Ability to Ilse the 'English language with
some clarity and some degree of force should
be - relatively by.' the time a
student reaches senior -high seltool. Yet exam-
iners have,,1ftpitnd stt(•11 simple words a.` athlete,
business. friend, sentitel and speeeh misspel-
led on papers. Punetluttion was "original"
and use of p.ronouns was weak. 'There was
little..faeiiity in the use of the- smother tongue,
little originality in expression but rather' a
tendenc'v to use haektttyed words and phrases.
- English i the basic tool of learning and of
coinmunication for English-speaking Canadi-
an:.- T should receive greater emphasis in
stir sehools. ('anadians should regard the
.language as a heritage to be cherished, to be
used eorre('tly and vigorously in everyday
speech and writing.
"COMMITTEE OF THE WHOLE" -
If the house of (-'t)rrltuoris went into --A
committee of t}i 'whole" and hared the press
from -ante to th•' extent that .unci- municipal
s.tiiti -i1s do, the electors of Canada svoultln't
know- very many details of issues, on ‘vilich
the, -' ii1t1 vote in an election.
l;ut. the Press Gallery at Ottawa i, filled
v4•ltli reporters from all Nils of ('auatht «•111;
are :1st refused the. dein&-rata• priyile'ge of
reltlt:-- in,► for the public what their elected
reprt•st•1ltative.s at Ottawa are doing and say -.
Colne 11111t4icipal corulciI \votiltl do well
to
k.• -It this point in 11111.1.
I 111 the ,atrte ;i}►je-1-t, they --might also note
Cite .•unt,•ttts of the following -tutorial from
the -'ort Elgin Times: -
"1'h, belief, .prevalent in many .. tluar•ters,
that when an elected bully goes into "com-
mittee 1,f the whole'' the pet',s is not permitted
to print any of its pr•o(-eedings has been termed
erroneous 11y no le.;, an authority, than lfa•jor
Alex C. Lewis, former elet•l: of the Ont, ri -
le trislatnre and one of Canada', out.,an lin„
authorities (nt parliamentary „procedure.
'Alajor Lewis, ivhO has written extensively
on the subject says:.
"Committee of the whole is Merely a de-
vic.• whereby members van he given more
Of eXpreSSIOW thall is allowed other-
wise, -4f11.11 as when. the -rules of debatc must
lie applied.'
—When a (..outteil goes info eommittee of
the -ii hole for dismission, the mayor, -or head
of the conned, IIII1St vaeate .the chair anti
appoint someone else to take his seat. There
is no 11110 that Says) he 111'01•4"1"4111117,S 111'1'0111-
mittop (..annot be report ed.
-"When a munieipal council goes into
eoinniittee of the ivhole tile newspaper re-
portesrs attellIlalli-e may, be requested not
to report. eer tain matters, but it is entirely up
to the reporter to aeeept the suggestion."
Parliamentary discussions. in committee
,of the %Omit. are fully reported dri Hansard,
ltho. offieial record. of Parliament, whieh, Major
out, is -"clear evidence there is
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Down Memory's
Lane
45 Years Ago
,Huron County farmers were
prospering but were worried be-
cause many of their • young men
had gone .West and it was hard to
secure help. farm lana was sell-
ing at from $50 to $79_ an acre
in this district.
Winners of the Robert Park
memorial medals were' announced.
The gold medal for the Goderich
pupiltaking. the- highest marks
mhigh school entrance examin-
ations, was awarded to Elsie Dun-
nadge, while Allen Sinclair re-
ceived the silver medal.
A band of gypsies had pitched
tents on the Maitland fiats below
the, Grand Trunk Railway station.
J. S, Robinson, CPR" agent at.
Goderich ever since the station
opened in 1907, was transferred
to Woodstock. He- was succeeded
by W. H. Sanderson, why came
from Milverton.
M. J. Farr sold the Union Hotel
to John Lennon, of town. Mr.
Farr purchased P. T. Dean's resi-
dence on Elgin avenue for $2,500.
25 Years Ago
Commercial fishing was "fair"
.with a splendid market in U.S.
cities for small fish for "smok:iig"
purposes.
The measles epidemic was abat-
ing, said Sanitary Inspector Fred
Weir. About 20 homes were still
placarded in Goderirh.
Winners of the ladies' bowling
tournament held at the Picton
street greegs were Miss Mary Mac -
Vicar, Mrs. W. Glazier, Mrs. T.
Glazier and Mrs. A. Grassick.
William Golding, ex -mayor of
Seaforth, and Huron County, War-
dell Louis Rader, of Dashwood,
were carrying the Liberal and Con-
servative colors in a by-election
campaign in the riding of South
Huron. -
Ab .Leonard,.. who lost his fishing
boat across the lake in a storm
the year before, succeeded in rais-
ing it. A new bottom was put in
the craft and it was returned to
its home port here.
15 Years Ago
Though the shortage of help was
'a handicap, farmers were harvest-
ing one of the best crops in the
history of Huron County. On
many. ' short-handed farms, farm
women were helping their hus-
bands bring in the crops.
Thomas Culbert, of Dungarnon,
who was 87, was the oldest Orange-
man In the 12th of July parade at
Lucknow. -
The bulk carrier Lemoyne, com-
manded by Capt. C. E. Robinson,
of Goderich, set another record
as she passed through the Welland
ship canal. She carried 17,800
tons of coal, surpassing her own
record (set cne month previously)
by 600 tons.
The former Signal office 'building
on North street was sold by O. E.
Fleming, KC, to Thomas Gundry.
In a move to bolster the deplet-
ed Canadian lake fleet, Toronto
shipping interests purchased the
375 -foot freighter Starbuck from
the Poker Steamship Co., of
Duluth.
10 Years Ago
A crowd of nearly 2,000 people
thronged Clan Gregor Square as
Bayfield Lions Club • held its first
casilival. In an exhibition softball
game between two Goderich teams,
'Frosty Cops defeated Goderich
Legion 19-12.
Police in Goderich were crack-
ing down on traffic violators, ac-
cording to Cpl. G. J. 'Maguire. He
said that the three most common
offences were double parking, fail-
ing to stop at intersection -s and
speeding on the Square.
E. C. Beacom, public school .n -
Lakefrcint Dancing
Bayfield Pavilion
Every Friday Night
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Enierson's Drug Store
Tow sokeIgrmielht •ItkiNitrItt. or 'ow..
29-0
sessensear
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spectoj at Goderich, was appointed
acting principal of ,North Bay
Normal School
Goderich Lions Club' won an
award in an international member-
ship contest. During the year,
the club had added 24 members
to give it •a total membership of
100, the largest Lions Club =mem-
bership in any towu of its size
in Ontario or Quebec.
Members of Huron County Coun-
cil appeared to -be divided on the
question of whether to build a
new court house or not. Reeve
F. S. Sills, of Seaforth, thought it
would be a, better idea to build
an addition to the old court house.
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REALISM ISN'T PESSIMISM
(By C. J. Harris)
At a moment when some Can-
adians are questioning whether
their country's economic growth
has paused to gatther strength for
further , gains, or whether it has
reached a peak ,from where it must
follow a descending curve, com-
ment by leading Canadian indus-
trialist E. H. Walker, president of
General Motor,s of Canada, is
worth pondering.
In his first meeting with the
press since his appointment as
head of an industrial enterprise
that both -buys and sells goods and
services' in oxery part of Canada,
Mr. Walker summed up the opin-
ions formed do a 15,000 -mile busi-
ness tour in the course of which
he talked with not only the hund-
reds of members of his own com-
pany's field force, but also with
some 2,000 other business and in-
dustry leaders. Mr. Walker chal-
lenges the querulous view that'per-
haps Crnada's 12 -year, post-war
period of expansion has lasted too
long for comfort. "At times," says
ti't1r. Walker, "we are likely to per-
mit a certain -amount't>f-pessiinism
to creep into our thinking if we
don't persistently pile record on
record in ever-increasing progress,
year after year. I 'think we can
see a little of this scepticism this
year, and I believe it is unwarrant-
ed.'+ Barring a major world up-
heavel, he' believes, the Canadian
people are. capable of continuing
their country's &onomic growth.
Realistically, he sees some hur-
dles. 'One handicap to full-scale
development; he notes, is the lack
of population. Another .is accept -
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ance of a taxing policy that puts
wireasonable levies on the tools of
production. On the latter point
the auto -maker refers to his own
industry as a specific example.
Despite the .faet that nine out of
ten miles driven by car in Canada
today are driven on business, the
war -time luxury impost -of .a 10
per cent excise tax col aptcrmobiles
remains in effect. Conceding that
Ottawa would be loath to close up
a tax funnel into which Canadians
last year poored $72,250,000, Mr.
Walker suggests that this sum
might be "more than made up
through the extra realization of
regular taxation from an economy
that was allowed to expzild faster
because it was released from the
impediment of this unfair tax on
the tools that work to make the
economy better."
It is realism and not pessimism
to argue that at this particular
moment in Canada's economic his-
tory the state should make every
effort to tax in such a manner as
not to impede further economic
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