The Goderich Signal-Star, 1966-09-01, Page 2The Groderieh Signal -Star, Thursday, September 1, 1.
Editorials
Labor Day and t
Vionday is Labor Day, and if
organized working men reckon their
year from that date, it .has, been a
year. ofmore than passing interest
in Goderich.
One of the town's larger em-
ployers• was struck by its workers
for 13 weeks before a settlement
was reached. In another large indus
try ' a settlement was reached with-
out disrupting production.
• In both cases, the unions involv-
ed felt they had made substantial
gains in their collective agreements.
As this is written Canada is
feeling the wide -spread u effects of
a nation-wide strike of 118,000
railway employees.
Whether there is a •quick set-
tlemeg or a protracted work stop-
page the °railway unions' action will
• probably not gaff a large measure
of public sympathy. A railway strike
causes shipping tie-ups, cut backs
in production, lay-offs, and often
personal priV"ation.
In a long strike, the railway
workers will be among those feeling
- the privation, for they are members
of an unusual labor organization,
one which has not financially re-
inforced itself for a strike by creat-
ing a defence fund. -
This , means, that unlike mem,
hers of many unions, the railway
workers:,,while_ oil strike do not re-
ceive a arty benefit -from the union tei
provide them with the necessities.
For these people, if the strike
continues, Labor Day could indeed
he Railway Strike
be a bleak Monday.
Unions have been blamed for
int tion through high wagg de -
m d:° it has been said they have
outlived their usefulness.
Unfortunately the Utopian
state, where a worker can depend
upon an employer to provide , him
with the requirements of a digni-
fied life or a fair share of .tlie ,re-
turn from their joint efforts,. has
not been reached.
We still have with us the sys-
tem where labor and management
consider each other as adversaries.
Each characterizes the other in less
than complimentary terms, al-
though there are exceptions.
Thus Labor Day, as it has in
the past, will be an occasion for the.
leaders of organized workers ao ex-
hort their followers to eternal vigi-
lance against exploitation.
Labor relations in most cases,
therefore, continue in a state of con-
stant warfare. The society in which
we live, grasping for the devaluing
dollar, is strangling the spark of
human charity and the blame is
upon all.
The government that can lead
to better ways of establishing fair
wages, and all other guarantees
which a collective agreement needs
today, will live in honor in the niem-
ories of men. _� G
-on Labor' Day,''-those—who.
Buto
espouse the cause of organized labor
might also think on* that. It is their
responsibility, too. •
Patriotism In Positive Form
There is something so definitely
patriotic about the way in which Do-
mY.nioi _ Road Machinery Company
Limited ,has been .managed in the
past 21 " years that it is almost dif-
ficult tobelieve in this day and age.
• Canadian patriotism is some-
thing to which lip service is paid,
but seldom physical demonstration
given, other than a negative form
that tells what is wrong, but seldom
what is right.
Dominion Road Machinery has
taken such a positive approach to
patriotism' that last week it was
awarded an "A" for Achievement by
the Minister of Economies and De-
velopment, Stanley J. Randall.
The words of John K. Sully,
president of Dominion Road' Ma-
chinery, best demonstrate that
patriotism was a matter of intent:
"For 21 years we have strug-
gled along her endeavouring to
build °a Canadian company, a Cana-
dian 'product .
This week the company an-
nounced a Centennial Scholarship.
It speaks for itself.
It is a further indication of pa-
triotism, to the Town of Goderich,
that a company with the evident
ambitions of Dominion Road Ma-
chinery remained here to grow and
prosper.
Lest any make the mistake of
believing that the Ontario govern-
ment's "A" for Achievement comes
easily let them examine closely the
record of Dominion Road Machin-
ery. The manner in which the com-
pany reinvested in itself, is a demon-
stration of faith in community and
country that is patriotism exem-
plified.
xem-plified.
In expor• t markets the company
has developed trade in 12 countries;
thirty-five per cent of current pro-
duction sold outside Canada's bord-
ers.
In research the company _plows
back one per cent of annual sales
volume to develop something better,
something originally Canadian.
In plant expansion,. equipment
and `employment Dominion Road
Machinery built for the future.
Mr. Randall's comment that
Dominion Road . 'Machinery has
shown that a small company in a
small community can compete suc-
cessfully in foreign markets carries
a message to other industries.
If one aggressive industry can
have success here, why cannot
others? -
New Driving Regulation
School reopens next Tuesday.'
The majority of children will be',
attending through familiar sur-
roundings; a few will be going for
the first time.
The annual message, requesting
motor vehicle operators to exercise
extra care because young persons
will again be mingling with traffic,
seems futile.
Those who drive irresponsibly
will continue whether children are
near or not. Careful drivers will, it
is hoped, continue careful.
Regardless , of their driving
habits, motoristsshould be , aware
of amendments Q to the Highway
Traffic Act. as it pertains to school
buses.
For several years motorists
overtaking a stopped school bus
from the rear have been required
to stop when "do net pass" .signals
are flashing._ . -
The same regulation now ap-
plies to drivers meeting a school bus
from the front on a highway. They
must stop at .the sign of flashing
red lights and remain stopped until
the bus moves or the red lights are
out.
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gown Memory's Lane
55 Years Ago -1911
The number of automobiles
owned in Goderich continues to
increase. The latest arrival is
a runabout for Jas. F. Thomson,
music dealer, built by the Ken-
nedy Motor Car Company of
Preston. It is a tidy little ma-
chine- of =.eighteen .horse -power..
Sedfoethe expects teeiratesNlai.
gara power by Labor Day,
September 4. A monster celebra-
tion is being arranged for the
occasic__,
An advertisement: Kellogg's
Corn Flakes, 10c per package.
The schooner Azov, Capt. John
MacDonald, and the schooner',
Marie Annette, Capt Murdoch
McDonald, were outside the "har
bor in shelter'of the breakwater
on Friday last. Both boats were
upward bound.
15 Years Ago -1951 -
.The Goderich Junior Chamber
of Commerce, after a great deal
of work in measuring, where
buildings are on the streets and
marking their position accurate-
ly on a master map, have .com-
pleted a large part of the first
scientifically accurate house
numbering system ever planned
for Goderich.
The first domestic cut of 'the
Hydro's frequency standarization
program in Goderich will be on
Wednesday, Sept. 19. '
Evidence of the continuous
expansion pr o gr am at the
ILC-A.F. station, Clinton, is be-
ing felt in Goderich. Both the
tourist«'informs tTan---booth; and
The Signal -Star have many in-
quiries from airmen seeking
houses to rent in Goderich.
10 Years Ago -1956.
It's public knowledge that
teenage drivers are a problem
in • Goderich, said Crown At-
torney H. Glenn Hays in police
court here. "We seem to be hav-
ing an epidemic of horseplay
among these juvenile drivers."
Termed a $64,090 question
by Mayor J. E. I-luckins, the
problem of Goderich's inadequ-
ate water supply may have a
$550,000 answer. That was the
figure mentioned Friday night
when town council and the Pub-
lic Utilities Commission held a
special joint meeting. to hear
Dr. A. E. Berry, general man-
ager of Ontario Water Resources
Comtnission. '
VGoderieh Girls Trumpet Band
received terrific applause along
the route as they took part in
the Warriors' Day Parade at the
Canadian National Exhibition on
Saturday. The crowd that day
was 305,000, the biggest attend-
ance total in the history of the
•Oil+e Y-ear-Ago-*965r.:,r:..—
A 57 -year-old cripple died.of a
heart attack moments•before his
hand -controlled car plunged into
30 feet of water in the harbor
here Thursday. Polio -victim
Glenwood Campbell ,died at the
wheel of his car which jumped
a safety ?ail and sank close to
the harbor -wall.
Lightning caused a $15,000
blaze which destroyed a barn on
a Port Albert farm during a
storm last Friday night The
barn, which' contained 2,000
bushels of grain, 1,000 bales of
straw and 300 bales of hay, was
the property of Art Dickson.
A Goderich pilot George Mor-
ley, took part in .the third an-
nual Exeter fly -in. Mr. Morley
flew his 1937 Cessna C37 four -
passenger plane to the show.
The plane is believed to be the
oldest Cessna flying in Canada.
Rebellion Era Gun Platform
Unearthed By .Archaeologists
The Canadian, Historic Sites
Division archaeologists, who
have been working since April
15 at archaeological excavations
at Coteau -du -Lac, 30 miles south_
west of Montreal, have unearth-
ed a 24pounder platform, the
construction of which goes back
to the Rebellion of 1837-38:
The platform is believed to
have been built during Febru-
ary, 1838, according to the Notes
of an Old Soldier, written by
Captain George Bell, who had
participated in the defeat of
the "Sons of*Liberty" at Saint-
Eustache, before eventually,
taking up the command of the
Coteau -du -Lac fortifications:
Prior to the battle of Saint-
Eustache, the rebels had threat-
ened to take Coteau and occupy
it because the site commanded
the main road linking tipper,
and Lower Canada. 1'or want
oftroops to occupy the fort,
the government bad the Coteau
artillery `spiked and submerged.
A colonel of the militia and a
few volunteers later occupied
the fort until` the author of the
Notes took command' on Jan. 3,
1838.
His first initiative was to re-
store discipline, as the worst
confusion was then rif e at
Coteau. A month later, as the
author commanded a group of
Well trained men, it occurred to
him to lift the guns out.o£ the
water in order to prevent any
potential aggressor from passing
the canal at Coteau, this canal
being the sole means whereby
ships could bypass the Coteau
rapids.
Having managed to salvage
four 24 -pounders weighing ap-
proximately 5,000 poundi each,
the same officer summoned an
artillery expert, who stated that
the guns were useless because
they were spiked with a special
kind of nails. Later on, two
enterprising individuals offer-
ed to bore in the vents ran
opening to set off the charge) of
the spiked guns, at a set price,
a bargain which was agreed
upon. Following 'three weeks„ of
arduous labor, the vents were
freed from their spike§ without
getting damaged in the process
The 'other guns were removed
from the waters and the men
FAMILY PICNIC '
The -Snyder family picnic was
held at the home of Mr. and
Mrs. Laurence Snyder on Aug
21. An afternoon of games and'
contests was carried out under
the leadership of Wayne Snyder
and Lenus Yeo. Some special
prizes went to the oldest pre-
sent, Mabel Fisher; the young-
est, Connie Sowerby. A barbecue
supper was enjoyed after which
election of officers: president,
Leola Ames; vice-president, Carl
Fisher; secretary -treasurer, Lois
Rowe; sports, Douglas Yeo and
Grant Fisher; lunch, Doris
Fisher, Mildred Clarke and
Donna Snyder.
FIRST REUNION
The first Steels reunion was
held at the home of Mr. and
Mrs. John Clements of Nile on
Saturday with approximately 45
relatives present. They 'travel-
led from Essex, London, North
Bay, Lambeth,' Clinton, Sarnia,
Forest, Dungannon and Gode-
rich. It is planned to make it a
yearly event held' next year in
a park.
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IN THIS CANADIAN CITY IS A MEMORIAL
TO OFFICERS AND MEN OF 1}4E NORTH-
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Good eyes meow gold ineindries.
Cori far your eyes at' a// tunes.
built platforms upon which to
set up batteries.
The platform just laid bare
by the Canadian Historic Sits
Division is the one :which Cov-
ered the southwest end of the
canal. Laboratory tests have
Made it possible to determine
that the lumber used was a
coniferous species,, probably
spruce. Experts are of the opine
ion that the corrugations mark-
ing the surface of the platform
may have been caused at a later
date by the storing of gun bar-
rels which may have exceeded
5,000 pounds each.
Roger Marois plans to restore
the platform in the course of
the coming year, when the
museology section of the Cana-
dian Historic Sites. Division will
complete the strengthening and
the interpretation work of the
fort ruins. •
Educators. Caught . Up
i 1inds Of Change
F▪ ORTlt,-:,. 9, Inds when they might preeee t very
of 'change are blowing hmough well in other subjeeta $U -te
the' education systeth ;of Ontario, their interests and capa'b,i lee,
and nowhere Salt week were Ontario's universities,he
they bl+ixwing /More strongly pointed out, had become more
than In the tearridors ori Lake- flexible- in their establishment
head *Un versity where nearly of 'entrance requirements train
200 Ontario. eeeondary school :secondary school. Now it waa
principals Met to re -flew their up to the secondary sahoel sys-
Sta nd on today's eduoatio'n Pro- tem—with the leadership of the
biems. headmasters -;to demonstrate a
1le principals, dn, a four-day similar attitude of flexibility.
sUm'nJ.etr ,conferenee of the On The tiime has come." he said,
taro "Secoattiary • Sehool .dead- "to reverse the overall purpose
masters' 1Couneil, eame to their of the school,"
'meeting not Only p epared to
eenduet their, own' discussion on
the new trends in eddeaon, but
to listen to critical outsiders.
Dr. Brock Chisholm, ihy'chia-
trist and perhaps Varigda's best
known image smasher, told them
that the jib " of teachers. Was
not only to teach but to ques-
tion outmoded beliefs and tradi-
tion -and to encourage their
pupils to maintain the same
questioning attitude.
• Greatest. Crime
The greatest crime against a
child, he said, was to prevent
that child from thinking freely.
Most aspects of nationalism, un-
der the. guise of patriotism, he
said, were no more than blind
prejudices and "tribal beliefs,"
and to perpetuate them was to
inhibit the true development
of the educated human being.
Dr.''Chishalm said that- for
the first time in history man
was capable of destroying him-
self and his world. and would
do so unless his basic attitudes,
mostly inherited from childhood,
could be lrej laced. It was the
major job of education, he said,
to "break down this foolish-
ness." •
• The ri�nie p is -get- into n
p ... 1?a o.t e
discussion -With --two-critics-lir
their maid -twenties, Stewart
Goodings, associate director- of
the Company of Young Canad-
ians, and Donald Carmiehael,
director of the Kingston Com-
munity projeof Both assailed
the education system for being
unrealistic.
The principals examined and
passed resolutions approving
study with the department of
education on the matters of a
new appioach to time -tabling,
and on finding new methods of
measuring final year, students
following abolition of depart
rent-setGrade43 examinations.
Examine Grading
They also examined the 'pre-
sent arbitrary "horizontal" struc-
ture of subjects in each grade,
to permit students to be accel-
erated across grade lines in sub-
jects, in which they were pro-
ficient. while not holding them
back a full grade for doing
poorly in an, another subject.
J. R. McCarthy, deputy min-
ister of university affairs, urged
that there be 'greater flexibility
in curriculum and in standiards
necessary to, pass through the
system, He suggested that, for
'example, a non -graded second-
ary school be established on an
experimental basis. It was' "un-
realistic" in today's world, he
added, to expect a large propor-
tion - of four-year students - to
be proficient in nine subjects
at an arbitrary standard.
Dr. McCarthy questioned the
wisdomof con'tinuing'' to fail
those w,ho lacked proficiency
in. say, French or mathematics,
L. M. Johnston. director of the
department of education's pro-
gram byanch, warned that the
"total body of knoweldge on..
which we will have to draw for
courses ... will be enormous
and 'constantly increasing." He
added that the traditional meth-
od of memorizing facts will de-
cline progressively, and "we
shall have to turn more and
more to mastering fundamental
concepts and pHnciples, and to
learning how to apply them."
Discard Rigidity
This, in turn, he said, will
call for a `free -wheeling ap-
proach" to curriculum. There
Would be no place for rigidity
of thought: "We shall need to
keep an open door for new ideas
and viewpoints."
A. majority of the headmas-
ters agreed that the current
praetice of restricting the hiring
of teachers to a short period
each spring was unsatisfactory. -
This causes an annual crush of
teachers and board represent-
atives going to Toronto around
Easter time. The resulting .brief
interviews give neither the
teacher nor the board ample op-
portunity to check each other's
ba'C grou
.k nd.-.
The prop al- will -Aka—
up with the Ontario School Trus-
tees' Councii to determine whe-
ther a year-round system of hir-
ing might be instituted. This
would not necessarily affect the
dates on which teachers could
change jobs as their eantrats
hold them until the end of the
school year.
LETTER TQ THE
EDITOR
Sir:
I would like to take this op-
portunity of expressing our
grateful appreciation of your
warm welcome to members of
the Bellevue Trailer Club. We
enjoyed a wonderful weekend
at your lovely' city and look for-
ward to visiting again next year.
• 0. W. CROUCH, Secretary,
Stitatl'iroy.
CROP REPORT
°I'here is still a fair amount
of spring grain to harvest due
to catchy weather. A few
farmers have pulled white
beans, Some of the pods are
short and may reduce yield
potential. Pastures are looking
and ,producing very well. A
fair amount of land is being
prepared for fall wheat. Grain
earn yield should be pleasing
if we can get sufficient warm
weather to . finish ; it. Silage
corn should be satisfactory.
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