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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Goderich Signal-Star, 1969-01-30, Page 41ONAF,.STAR. THURSDAY, JANIZARY 30. 1909 Editorini.:.. • r Some Control- Pleasel • Movie theatres- throughout Canada. • -and. certainty in Goderich are required to list restrictions for admittance - to the shows. Some types of movies are considered bycensors to be unsuitable for "viewing., by younger audiences. _It is a good system, up to a, point, • although in same instances it is hard to understand the reasoning of the censors as 0' to why 6ne'film can be shown and another not. ' But something that is apparently lacking, as ` far as censorship goes, , isv control over theytyp'es of books available at the Goderich Public Library. • Lewd publications are readily available at area stores ,the so-called '°health" magazines and ."men's' magazines, but presumably the prop.rietor of a store selling such books will refuse to sell -them .to minors. But who: is to say which books our children may take from `the local library? )„1/4.. • There • is at present a book at the library that, while it' might not be called pornographic, it most ertainly- is obscene. • The language in thi?iis hard enough for the roughest cut troopers. The book is .not by any estimation a literary work --a title that too often is used to excuse the use of obscenities --and as'far as I -could see, there was not even a storuoli to justify publication. When complete pages are. given over to such .idiocies as Eeeeddddiiiitthhhh yug. yug. -sniffle truffle deep bulb blub bud • X11 button* -sweet soup pea spit rub hood rubber knob girl /i/ ' /@-head bup bup pom pig pug yum one tip tongue, and so on_ with no punctuation and for pages at a time, this then becomes drivel. When obscenities are added on almost: every page of .this thing We are forced to wonder, who is responsible for selecting , books for ,our public library and how in. the name of decency was such a work. allowed to be printed, let alone be•placed on the -shelves of• a public' library where any child; has access to it. No librarian can possibly know the contents of every book under her care. But even if this were possible, and even if she did spot.the book in the wrong hands and stopped it being issued, who is to stop 0 these children from reading the thing while it is on display on -the -shelves? ,. It is time the people responsible for public libraries took a long hard look at whet is allowed on the shelves.`And while they are taking that look, I earnestly recommend that\this book and the rest of the filth like it be thrown out now before more harm can be done, The narne of this book has purposely been omitted from this editorial: To iblish it would only lead the curious. among the young people to search it out. 1 have no doubt the name will be made. available to the necessary authorities who, hopefully, will exercise more control in the futtire.over what our children may or may not have "made; available -to -them at the public library. Consideration With the thaw of the past two days, Goderich streets are once again becoming_. like ponds as snow melts and the water finds no place to go but on the roads. - Hopefully the present storm sewer program'of the town . will alleviate the p obiem in fu-tu-rey'ear-s, bu-t---far • :the present we must bear with it. This being'`. the case,,, it might be appropriate to ask -motorists to give a bit more consideration to pedestrians while the roads are in, this condition. The problem, of course, is that peop-le, walking beside the, roads are being ._... splashed by motorists who are either blind or do not ,care that when they pass through a small, lake in the centre of the road it throws water over both sides and ' drenches any unfortunate citizen, be it • R man, woman or child who is passing. -And that water is not warm! • Special consideration could at least be given to women or children. Recently on Warren street one of these non -caring drivers in a yellow car drenched a young. girt who was :on 'her way home from school. The 1 child was soaked with , half -freezing water and had to travel the rest of the Way home in near freezing. weather. What if she -had been on the way TO 'school? Many children would have continued in their wet state, said nothing - to the teacher and 'would have finished • with pneumonia. AW because of • some ignorantlout who hasn't the decency --or brains --to slow down under such conditions. i would suggest anyone receiving similar treatment take the licence number of the car and report it to police: 0 Needn't Have Happened At All T�rwi iu:dent _Amuses _acvlio diel after going. through the ice in. a Walk north � ; o 7tr \��\\ w�,are O a g r1;a 1 \ ftewanden t�o� theo - a` t o thin ice covering a swimming pool — two ice fishermen drowned in .Northern Saskatchewan when their., --snowmebile—broke through—thin- ice-, • - These are but a few of the most •: recent Canadian. winter" drownings emphasizing the need for great cares when walking, skiing, . or snowmobiliny� on snow-covered ice - which can be unsafe even in .the dead of.. winter. The danger oof winter drownings has increased sharply• with the appearance of tens of thousands of snowmobiles bodies of .wter:: The speed ,and _ weight Of the mach nes make it an absolute P'elipan Lake ice which _ was a _foot thick in .spots, the vS.hicle\\Vsa \ki: en ; c ter aIQekSall\�Nere\ ;\drowned:\ probleins� of\ the' unknown ''are even , greater in Canada than in the U.§.. because there are . fewer marked snowmobile trails' and too many._ snowme-bjlers__ know __very _ little about the -'dangers built- into the" areas where they are., enjoying themselves — dangers which' are ' most often 'common knowledge among the area residents. if you, do go through the ice, remember to resist the temptation to grasp the edge of the ice and climb out.. This will result only in your weight breaking`-zf Y• Keep your chin • A CAMBRIDGE COLLEGE ENGLAND Photo by Ron Price CANADIAN BOAT SONG'CONTROVER$Y GOES BACK TO FUZED HURON MAN By Victor Lauriston Was the famous -and mysterious "Canadian Boat - Song`' , --the "Ione shiel ng ' song once quoted: by Joseph Chamberlain — the ,first literary product written in the Huron Tract to attain print? Or was.it the work of a Scots doctor who • never set foot in Canada? The century -old -controversy as to the authorship of this famous poem is reopened by the new hypothesis, advanced by Prof. G.1-1 . Needier of the .University of Toronto that' Dr. David Macbeth Moir of Musselburgh, Scotland, really wrote 'the he "Fr'om`the Ione shieling of''the .distant island Mountains divide us, and the waste of seas, , hill the blood is strong, the heartlis Highland, Arid we, in dreams, behold the Hebrides. ' The Canadian Boat Song, as it was officially entitled, first appeared in Blackwood's Magazine for September, 1829, in the "Noctts Ambrosianae" department edited by Christopher North . (Dr. John Wilson). The context explained that the poem had just been received from a friend then travelling in ° Canada, and that it was a w . translation from the Gaelic of .a boat song of Highlanders in Canada. . Despite this explanation the authorship was at one r " time attributed to . Christopher North himself. Later it r , transpired that his column; in that particular issue was actually.edited by John..G. Lockhart, known to the world of literature'as the son-in-law and biographer of Sir Walter Scott. In later years the poem was attributed to Scott himself, to James Hogg and to John Galt, among others. , Not many years , ago one - theorist asserted i emphatically that the song was translated from, the Gaelic by Hugh 'Montgomery, twelfth Earl of Eglinton, who succeeded to the title in 1796. while' in America, and died in 1819 at the age of 80, The circumstantial story stated diet, after the, Earl's death the poem was found in a pocketbook he carried. Anyway, the Eglinton hypothesis .blew up with a resounding crash, and has been relegated to the limbo reserved for lost causes. ;,•. ' Professor Needler's identification' 'bf .Dr. ' David Macbeth Moir as the author has the merit of plausibility; „ yet Needler's basic argument seems to be that details in the poem — such 'as . the referende to ''oars" = indicate, 'unfamiliarity with Canada. On the other hand the fact the Moir was not in Canada -at that time, or ever, runs counter , to the statement in.the original context, that the poem had just been received from a friend then travelling in Canada. * That statement may have been mere window dressing: but one prefers to believe that J. G. Lockhart . told.. the truth: Accepting that, only two - of the Blackwood's group were at that time In --Canada - Johw Galt, who wrote much,' but who never wrote anything remotely resembling thissong; and DI. William (Tiger) 25 YEARS AGO Durdom who was then helping Galt open the Huron Tract. Gr ununuuuuuuuiimnnuuunnunnunnunuuuuuunnuuit�nluiituuuunutuunnuuutuuntiuntuunntuuutttuuntlultltuunnnuuluuutnuuutiuuuuutuutttlu Remember When Baa ONE YEAR AGO Mr. Justice Fraser ` was presented with - the traditional pair of white gloves symbolizing no criminal cases to be heard at the spring assizes of the Supreme Court of Ontario- which opened.' here Monday afternoon. • W. J. Mills, president of t Buewater Shrine Club, was recently elected, as a delegate-, from Mocha Temple , Shrine, London, to- the Imperial Shrine, Cncil to be held in Chicago in July. Mrs. Charles Robinson was elected president . of the Goderich and. District Labour Council at the group's annual banquet and meeting at' the Bedford Hotel Monday evening. She succeeds Ewan Ross.:. 'The Mothers will march in. Goderich again Monday evening • Clinton Lions Club will give $100 towards transportation of one of two Clintonyoungsters who -attend the training centre for mentally retarded at Goderich. Last Fall the Kinsmen and. Kinette clubs of Clinton made a similar donation. 0...,.. 10 YEARS AGO Oath of office was taken by members of the .L.adi:es6 Auxiliary executive,' during joint installation ceremonies .held- by Canadian Legion Branch 109 and the -auxiliary Friday. night. Mrs. Albert.Kneeshaw, treasurer; he 147r 11+--E1liotli,. _secoond vc§e-president; Mrs. Paul Hill, p• sicfnnt; Mfig9 fr.Yaing " -'first vice-president; Mrs.. R. Rush, secretary; Mrs.. A. Thomas, s t-an.dard be e_r;__ Mrs... R.. Kingswell, executive member; Mrs. A. McAulay, " executive member; Mrs. Andrew Smith, executive member; Mrs. H. Carroll, past 'president; Mrs. James Sherratt, recording secretary; Mrs. Op Anstay, sergeant -at -arms. 50 YEARS AGO Rev. J. E. Ford speaks on the liquor traffic - says laws °were framed tb protect liquor men and ministers should guide public opinion = 'Mr. John Cliallen acts as chairman and also thinks three-fifths clause is arbitrary. The inaugural meeting of the - l7 one on is cod or, . I � R WaS�t�e only pian r�`���te tpul,�ttq�����N new town council was held in .the council cllamber on Monday morning' at , �1 o'clock. Mayor Reid presided as usual and Reeve Robt. Elliott and DeputyoReeve Dr. Clark were in their paces. The rest of the councillors were present, , including Councillors Wm. Proudfoot, jr., E. R• Wigle, J. C. Laithwaite, . J. H. 'McClinton,. Henry J. Morris and. Frank Elliott: ' -Dunlop was- a_ native..of:-D-unbarton, educe at reported to the commanding ' Glasgow, who came to Canada in 1813 with the .officer of a battleship for duty. The captain was gruff and sized Connaught Rangers"as a army surgeon. He served' through - the youngster up with anything the War of 1812 and later wrote a vivid narrative of his but a friendly' air. "Well," 0he experiences in which he.,describes. Toronto, the Muddy said, "I- suppose as usual they York of that• day, as a "dirty, straggling village containing have sent the fool of the family about 'Sixty 'houses" where he converted the only church to sea.!-' "Oh no, they've into a military- hospital. Later, in India, Dunlop won the changed all that since your time, „ A'. y citing midshipman' • Coupons now valid are jungle fever, did considerable writing, became intimate tea -coffee coupons 14 to 27 with -the Blackwood's group, and ultimately -- .as a result, sugar 14 to 24; preserves Dl to it is said, of a broken romance = came to Canada With Dil; butter 42 to 47; meat 30 to John Galt in 1826 as "Warden of the Forests" for the 35.' Coupons expiring January Canada Com an He died •n 31 are 1l'utter 42'to 4.5 and meat p Y• I 1848, and lies buried in the sobriquet Tiger . He. returned to England. as a resdlt of • 30 to 34. On and after January ' Dunlop cairn on the Gairbraid hill overlooking ,Goderich. • ,„\„,,,,7, 4 -atter e a' mpo art \\r se cO\ntex '\ o \ this idle\ e� wri ' poem. He had written already; was ,meat coup the\ \ pu chase ' 1 onik ,poUii i of i aillied Three officers and a seaman then in Canada;.. was the sort of man to build such verses of the Canadian National Fleet were included ina the King's New out' of a Gaelic .boat song;, and was also the sort of man to YearIonours List. The officers be 'deeply stirred by the treatment of the Scottishcrofters, are Chief Engineers Edwin just as he was later stirred by the exactions of the Canada Griffith, John Paul MacDonald Company, against the Huron settlers.' • • and Henry Hubert ' Jenkins, who , became officers of the Order of Professor: Needler's hypothesis points out that "the trst two verses' seem to be the -utterance_ of ' an --exile". Clearly so. But the last two verses might quite as readily be the ,lament of an exile as "the lament of a Scot still on his, (Please turn to page 5). By G. MacLeod Ross 1958 IN RETROSPECT If there .is °.. one word for 1968 it is • intolerance. Moscow would not tolerate Prague; Lagos would irate tolerate Biafra; Greek. would not tolerate Greek; Arab would not tolerate 'Israel; Britain would not tolerate Rhodesia; Americans would riot tolerate L.B.J. and de' Gaulle would not tolerate anyone. Irf Francestudent power almost toppled the Government. In England it didlittle more than - fix the London policeman firmly on a pedestal. Even so, ' the number of certifiable lunatics, with power over other people's lives, did not noticeably . increase. ' m, THE OLD GUARD another chunk. - -of ,_ �- - - . L e' --all Presidents he wanted to , be a great one. His be done and little ._time in which to do it. Yet he was up, experts advise. confident, even °over confident, that he, ,the practitioner" of in"ust thatuncoil rs eltfler know Extend- gots arms forwvard over the the -ail- of- the impossible, could overcome all obstacles: their terrain 'beforehand or make sure unbroken 'surface, alt the while kicking Lyndon B. Johnson was ' a provincial. Not a Texan eigkib d ---fou ..Jugs—as—k�ard--»as� yQu�.-Gan..Tb is —nutter provincial, but ' a Washington provincial. The world that t#a�ayind.----ou# tJ�e--.mn ©u�haa ..yezr—t --trim began nd—ended—ai—the---two-•ends—of winter -pitfalls from local resident If not possible disasters. A year ago in Minnesota, a father took his son , and three daughters on a fishing end $ -skating expedition with their snowmobile. Retuming after dark over doesn't guarantee - that you'll be Pennsylvania Avenue; it was the world between the White propelled onto- solid ice the - first time House and - the Congress. He was too overwhelming;, too but is the best method of„; achieving' much Big Daddy: The -blind and primitive mixture of pride the . first big goal, - getting your chest and defiance; his belief that nothing' shirt of victory wd'uld do for him; his illusory__.. -belief that definitions of almost onto, the- ice ,which will permit you to Churchillian proportions must in the end succeed. This squirm or toll to safety. .,-\) `Spirit of the Alamo'. But the war divided the country and L it also forced his own withdrawal from the Presidential race. ESTABLISHED GDi1PxtC� tigttal-Otar. 1�'2nofYEAR Trier Canty Town Newspaper-- of Ninon , • Published at Goderich, Ontario every Thursday morning- by Signal -Stam Publishing Limited ktOBER G.. SHRIER President and Publisher RONALD 4'. V. PRICE EDWARD J. I3YRSKI Advertising Sales Subscription Ratan SS a Year—To Authorized as Second Class Mail by Ottawa, and for Payment of Postage U.S.A, $6, (in advance) the Post Office Department, in Cash • It soured the American odtlook on the world. It undermined American faith in allies; faith in the.4function of foreign aid; faith---in._-American invincibility, and in the rest of, the world; faith in American world leadership. This most unloved Democratic resident desperately wanted to do well, a great patriot, fate may have been cruel to him and his legacy may do, more for his successor's place in history: --- `than for his own. - -Henry Brandon •-D4444,4 4116 •L11 W ail mpire; an _ e crewman; Able Seamans =laud .Freeman, who has been awarded the British Empire Medal. London Sunday Times THE RIDDLE co THE ,CANAL - Today Europe no longer depends on the Canal. The Cap9 route, using super -tankers, would. still be cheaper in .piety. of_ ggyp ion insistence on huge Canal fees. The Krerrilrn, on the other `hand`,; wlsTies m e p l-�rol to the Arabian • sea and the Indian oceai, thus it reeds .the Suez Canal to be reopened. Hence its effort td impose another "fragile" peace on the Incite Ear 111th' would" restore Canal operations for the benefit of the Red navy. Barrons 0,, CcNTRE SLICES SAVE 20a LB. LOIN 'PPR. K ;HOPS '89 Ib. BONELESS = TENDER POT BEEF. Ib. • be 00,