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The Goderich Signal-Star, 1969-03-06, Page 44 ..' +r11)44It H 5fOSAIA�'AR, TUURSDAY, MARCH '6,1969 r ., L 7r'. • ib •�.. tt� If all print¢r°s were determined not to print anything till tkey were -sure it ,would offend no one) there would be very Eiute printed :° .. Benjamin Franklin r.� (hamming •their •positions There may have been a feeling around town in the past few months that a split existed in council ''betvv'een opposing factions. There was an indication of such a split from time to time, but nothing was „very, definite about it. One week the members- of council were • up in arms against each other, the next it was old home week. Typical politics. This has now gone beyond politics, and has entered the realm of .personal. anipi'bsity between opposing factions. So much so that' last week it was revealed that fiv.e members of council (story page one), met with representatives of other municipal councils without the knowledge or consent of all the members of council. The mayor was on vacation at the time. The action was a deliberate attempt to exclude members• of council from important discussions and violates standing rule two of the town council which states in part: "The Mayor may call special meetings of council asprovided by' law and the clerk shall give notice thereof, to each member of council at `least one, day before such meeting." It also states that in notice of such meeting the business to be discussed shall be specified. Three members . of council were . excluded ` from meetings involving the town of Clinton and the township-- of .Goderich, with regard to.a waste disposal site. One of these excluded councillors was the chairman of the towns finance committee. These men might in some way be able to justify the exclusion of Couns. Paul Carroll and- Ed. Geisbrecht; but -Fiow do they, justify excluding the finance• chairman from meetings that could conceivably result in the expenditure of 'vthousands of dollars of taxpayers' money?. The intentions may have been the best , in the• world- - there is no better reason for a -special meeting of council right now than to discuss an alternative site "for garbage disposal tor the town - but what possible reason could these, men have for not including all the members of council? What " possible reason could these men have for not wanting the meetings knoWri l" to the press? And what _reasons could certain of these men have for wanting to discuss this - once it had been brought to light behind the closed doors of committee of the whole of f council, with the press again excluded? --This a subject that is of vital concern' tc all the residents of the town, including those who voted these men into office. Yet they want to keep the details of these meetings from their electors. The actions of any member of council who attempts to hider from the public behind closed doors will always be 'condemned by this newspaper. The council is elected by the taxpayers. The taxpayers have a right to know what is being d ne with their tax., dollars and should be kept informed of the progress of important issues at all times. The press is the media through which the public of a free country is kept informed. -To exclude the press ,is to exclude the public. If it is true that these men real ize they made a bad mistake, and if they , have learne&by their -mistake and there are no further meetings "held in the manner „in which. those. Were two weeks ago, the matter should end right there.. But if this council decides- it has the right'to step beyond the bounds of accepted conduct for municipal representatives, or attempts - to hide from the taxpayers of this town details of important issues, the minister of municipal affairs will,hear of -it. , No reason in the world is good enough to excuse the conduct ofthese mere in holding .secret meetings in this manner. It, was indeed "...reprehensible and unconstitutional.:.." and unbecoming duly elected representatives of this town. .Not. humane The Government of • Ontario has exercise, deprived' of an .adequate diet,_ introduced legislation which will have the and which produce countless thousand• s of effect of • 'destroying the humane foals every year, the majority of which are movement iri Ontario as we now know it. weaned at a very, tender ,age and - At present, the Ontario Humane transported long ,distances, before being Society has the .authority fo, Investigate sold. The legislation wiil -classify these .complaints .of cruelty an __ d_ -neglect _ of premises _as_ premises" and. - animals. The society employs inspectors protect them against any. inspection by throughout the province to carry out this the society. task. a - The' Ontario Humane Society does not The Government intends to limit the,rrrleaS, �i� .anim I' ali�� f r research. ' Its horn ,of ` i eators in such a ! + consttl'ut'on a byl,ws i it i'tt\ This s '� t.hat � r alr ractical purposes, they clause � the o tttut been h \ \` Wi • be helpless. Apart from requiring all ratified from tim, to time, only as inspectors to obtain special warrants A recently • as 1967. There seems little before making any investigation, the doubt, therefore, that the Ontario government is also proposing to set up a Humane Society will refuse to comply board to review these officecrs''actions on . with the government legislation requiring eco m ptaint from fie pupil ic'~ The re is no their to" surrender ti-tase-arltmet-s. The only doubt that this will- 'so intimidate alternative left would appear to be for the inspectors that they A will be unable to society to crose down its animal shelters carry out their job. In addition, the or turn them over to. municipalities for i- -._ . w : - _o- ,-,tion-.as do ou_nds_ ._ legislation *i farce aiF htit%ane eiettes' pe 9 P to surrender all unclaimed animals, not There are 28 modern shelters in the only to research institutes but to dealeys province today and a competent force of • in animals for research. In other words, • uniformed inspectors. This organization any private animal ,dealer operating for has been built up over the last 50 years by profit will have the right to enter any the dedicated efforts of countless' shelter and demand any unclaimed thousands of voluntary workers: It would «animal. .. fl . be a tragedy if the government by this WINTER. HOME,.. GODERICH Photo by Ron Pricc nuuunniutnununtnlinuunlnttiuunniuliuuntfunnuuuuufnmiuuunnuutnnlilllllilriuunnnunnuinuuunuroninunuunlnunuuniuiiuununuuuuuuu Remember When ? ? ONE YEAR AGO Hardy Shore was honoured with a president's pin and watch as he retired from the presidency of the Holstein -Friesian Association of Canada • at- the group's recent annual meeting in Toronto. 'Making the 10YEARSAGO presentation was G. R. Row of Curries, ,..___-Ontario, a former president of the associati_on_,_and Mr Shore's daughter, Mrs. Ronald 12.: McDonald, of Tgwn Council has called for tenders on the job of converting part of the Capital -Theatre into a fire hall. A valued member of the Goderich• • Sial -Star staff of long • i It)_* THAT'S LiFEF By G. MacLeod Ross THE LONDON.TO BRIGHTON standing, Mrs. Rae McNevin, is a patient at' • Victoria Hospital, London. Her many friends, first, the Board of Education agrees to pay unmarried 1 including the management and women teachers the sum of seventy-five dollars per month, staff ff the Signal -Star, hope for ` under the fol!lowing'conditions. her speedy recovery." , . The teacher agrees:.' , ,, • 25 YEARS AGO 1. Not to get married. This contract becomes null and The announcement that from void immediately if the teacher marries. March 1 night rates on 2. Not to keep company with men. . ., .1 uron History Corner.. THE DARK DAY OF 1881 c..moRT MIER BE.ZEALI KITCHENER Few of those now living who, on September 5, 1881,,. were old enough to understand • the consternation that IP possessed a large number -of people in Western Ontario and a part of the United States will have forgotten the day, though they may, not readily fix the date. But that date has been known as "The Dark Day" to all who remember it. On the afternoon of that day the writer went, to school as Usual.- At that time the sky was becoming overcast, and a , d'arkness, like that of deepening night, was spreading over the land. Though the sun was stilihigh in the heavens ,its rays reached the earth as through a dark glass. By 2 P.M. the sun was no longer visible; and the sky was blood -red as far as the eye could see. At 2:30' the darknesshad so deepened that the school had to be dismissed, and the. factories had to, be shut down, or use oil, lamp to keep going. . )1 s the writer walked slowly homeward from school that fternoon, and saw lights glimmering from the windows of homes as though it were night, his childish 1 mind pondered over many things, and tried to reason out 'the cause and Meaning of it all. But his was not the only .mind confused by the apparently supernatural spectacle. The chickens, frightened, hurried to their roosts. From the distant•fields came the lowing of cattle as though fearful of some impending catastrophe. Inside many homes the v people knelt in prayer awaiting the final summons, as they . believed the end of the world was at hand. Inside my home there was an 'unusual quietude. Mother went about her usual • household duties, but with face pale though .. Otherwise serene. We children spoke only when spoken t©: ----- Father was his usual self. He did not believe ' in i supernatural exhibitions of any .kind; nor did he believe the end of the world had come. • He did not pretend to understand the phenomenon; but 'he °was certain that the cause was natural, though unusual, and that all would be explained on the morrow. His attitude}had a reassuring effect on us all. • Between 3 and 4 o'clock .there' was a light rainfall which dispelled the red -in the sky, and cau,sed the darkness to deepen. Never since has the writer seen it so dark - it was "a darkness that might be felt." The temperature registered 86 degress Fahrenheit. In some sections there was a light fall of ashes, .while in other places the fall was 1, heavy. The -cause:` Extensive bush fires in Michigan. CONTRACT OFFERED BY BOARD " FOR UNMARRIED WOMEN TEACHERS For a period of eight months, beginning. September very - long-distance telephone calls will 3 To be at' home between the hours of 8 p.m. and 6 Hyde Park to the sea, coaxed or pushed all the way. On an average. heretofore, will be of special a•m. unless she is in attendance at a school function. Once a year, just for fun, grand old pre 1905 cars journey froth begin at 6 p.m. instead of 7, as three million people, on whom the rain falls unjustly, turn out to interest to • boys. and girls watch. This ;year's run was to commemorate ` the famous telephoning home from camps - Emancipation. Run of 1896, when mechanically propelled vehicles and barracks all over" the were permitted to run on roads at a speed of twelve miles'an hour country. The change will be i .. i . -the • with a red. . ,The, ``Autocar"- : . in s of_ E.- without a rrran preceding mflag effect�ye also on all - lines e th wrote: "Yesterday five miles an hour was furious driving, whilst Trans -Canada Telephone today the law says.nrth-ing if fob -r -teem loot -e -x eeded"�-F i-fty-eight----sysiem- - vehicles from T3ritain, Europe and the U.S.A..had entered; thirty. 55 YEARS AGC ° ..s nine fought their way through the excited crowds to Charing Cross, unheeding 'of the jeers of horse -bus drivers and the cabbies of The Goderich Knitting hansom cabs. I)e Dion Bouton, , Panhard et 1evavassor, Daimler, Company still continues to hold D T Peug t o bi s beton ink to H ods! re utation with 'the hosiery ndou telly a \few hid chew , notably g. ro g rehab) g Xi' whose owner, years later, confessed that it had travelled most of the sales a covering \.the r way by train. Though the unreliability and. discomfort of the between Halifax and Vancoer. atent to all, the few men present who were to be the great They report a successful' year's Du a. a was u \� h ut ' f th ty ine, went, w �� u led in\ tr• d i tl� Do i ion in ,'�� \tAd \\e chic brow h� n r e too was p pioneers, like Royce, Napier and Dr. Lanchester -were, all satisfied. business. The factory was kept The twenty -day 1,000 mile trial of 1900 proved • to even the most running steadily during the year, skeptical that the motor car was no longer a freak. A letter in the, mnloying between- 35 and.40 e "'e' rri °car"4 lamented that the motor car Wadeirtf5Vlig-th."rffau1 4. Not loiter downtown in ice cream parlors. 5. Not to leave town at any time without the permission of the Chairman of the Board. 6. Not to smoke cigarettes. This contract becomes null and void immediately if the teacher is found smoking. 7. blot to- drink beer, „wine or Whiskey. This _contract becomes null and void if the teacher is found drinking beer, wine or whiskey. 8. Not to ride in a carriage or automobile with'any man except her brothers or father. 9. Not to dress in bright colours. \\\ .\�0. N t to lye her'hair. 7 ea'\atl Ostt�vo pe ek s. A`'\s'\ v. 12. Not to wear lIressag mw than\tw�oinh s abdve'the\\ ankle. - 13. To• keep -the schoolroom clean, to sweep the classroom floor at least once daily; to scrub the classroom oor once a week with hot water and soap; to clean the, blackboards at least once daily;: to start the fire at 7 a.m. so that the room will be warm at 8 a.m. when the children., arrive; to carry but the ashes at least once daily. r 44r� =Not to ... -u se -face= powder, mascarkor _painat_ I* By the way, the date on, this contract is the year 1923. youth, of Britain by interrupting their fox-hunting. In 1902 gasoline In spite of counter attractions, cost 14 cents a gallon. Sixty years later the price, excluding tax is the concert given in Knox only a few pennies greater. Church under the auspices of the In 1952 disc brakes were seen at the Show. in London on choir drew a large audience and -. La h sten . Ma -ray ears- had tubeless_ t.fixes-i.n-.1.9O.0,--whil `anti freeze_ t-kese -w-ho. attended- were .well= has be in use since 1902 and so have pre -selectors ! pleased with the concert. On November 1st last 200 or more gleaming, •,tuff-tuffing, - • horseless villages assembled at the Serpentine in Ilyde Park, ready for another London -Brighton adventure. .. ° �:►aHwawaa:tQaart.xr-r�s. aux:��al�st�dsi��{xvG�Ia��ak�i>�e�i�ert ,adL�c�,a'r Even worse, the government legislation destroy this organization. • The research procurement legislation is a drastic invasion of civil rights and should be rejected on these grounds alone. Everybody who is concerned with the prevention' of cruelty to, animals, who is concerned with civil rights, sbould protest these two bills, 73 and 74, by -writing to their Provincial Member of Parliament in Queens Park-, or by registering e protest in any other way. specifically protects dealers' establishments against any investigation or inspection by inspectors of the Ontario -Humane Society. Remember, these are - the premises that have led to so many prosecutions and convictions for neglect ° ,in past years. - There are over 700 farms in Ontario where- pregnant-rnares are -kept - 'under inadequate conditions, 'deprived of' Esr ia4aHO (uirrirt �ZsnoFYEAR —0— The County Town Nevtlspaper of Huron —CT PUBLICATION Published at Goderieli, Ontario every Thursday morning by Signal -Star Publishing Limited hOBERT G. SHRIER President and Publisher RONALD' P. V. PRICE Managing Editor _, �� _�,, c"s'. Sub crt f"iari yR`a es ' ` a�'' ear -=i o`�CT. : ►."" in dvatire tDWAtD J.'BYRSKI Advertising Sales Authorized as Second Class Mail by the Post Office Department, Ottawa, and for Payment of Postage in Casio ne MUGGERIDGE RIDES AGAIN! The ultra -modernity of Malcolm Muggeridge has caused• many to regard his prognostications with scepticism. To some therefore,,,.,", the following profession_ of.:faith.-may ,be-startling_. - 'fil"I<1 tftlittatmaifdratiremEreveitsaini.,,, ry, , a:aili attitudes, nothing will remain of institutional Christianity in ten ' years time. This is the outcome quite a number of Church Leaders openly hope for. if indeed the Christian religion rested on the word of its. leaders I, for one, would have abandoned all hope of its survival. In fact:Christianity's real validity -Ties to its own inherent and everlasting truth. Many Church leaders and clergy are insistent that Christ's kingdom,'"•contrary to what he said; is of this life. Anyone who suggests that the pursuit of happiness,--, the contemporary cult of eroticism. underpinned by the birth pill and fortified by the greatest outpouring of pornography yet known, runs directly counter -to the Christian way of life is sure 'to be condemned as a life 'hater. Unspeakable-c7ergyriien twanging guitars denounce. such people....From Woolwich andC(f°r„pm°Southwark and from other °iamous Sesu- co=t3me thunderous vorres --prvrlairrring--that to-- -be carnally -minded is life. 1 had myself a little experience of this when rector of Edinburgh 1'nlversity. it was the two Roman Catholic chaplains at the university that made the bitterest denunciation of me as rector for having resigned rather than seem to countenance •a demand for the indiscriminate distribution of contraeeritives to students. Iiow 1 envy the historian who will be able to look back across (4.he•• errtkcries at the hilarious speelac•k' of Marxist -Christian dialogues .: attempting to find some common ground ,between the brutal - atheism of .the Communist Manifesto and the Sermon on the Mount; of pious clergymen attaching themselves to enraged mobs shouting `Black Power', or 'student Power', or some such crazed 'shibholet.h; of an Anglican bishop recommending 'Lady Chatterley s Lover" as icing-rain°c ue4ve-+errehrist-iotn-rn r -rix -g+ .= Soeh-lnnaay,l-as<su you,ii:- the- despair of professional comedian: It is obvious that the last preeariorfs footlThal of law and order in the world is now hying dislodged. We may expect the darkness.;Scfch were the circumstances in which Ihip Christian religion was born and could 'well provide for if, rehirlh." SMOKED -- SAVE 20c Ib. IDEAL FOR THAT QUICK MEAL TEAKETTES,