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"If all printers were determined not to print. anything till
trey were sure it would offend no One, there wouldbe
very litt[e printed.... Benjamin Franklin
Best wishes
The year is fast coming to a close and
for the . Goderich Signal -Star and
Signal -Star Publishing Co. it has been one
`sof change and improvement . and the
improvements will continue in 1970.
New machines will be installed next
year in an effort to improve the product
and quality further and several changes
will be' made in the plant structure to
keep up with changing times.
.Our circulation has grown and the
interest in the news seems to continue to
increase. We hope in 1970 we will be able
to give our readers, something more in the
way of irerest items and more, in depth
reporting on local news fronts.
Change takes time and in the past two
years there has been a lot of change in our
plant and equipment. With the changes
forseen for 1970 we hope to be able to
give our readers more yet.
But nothing we have done or will do is
possible without' the support of our
readers. It is to these people that we are
indeed grateful.
May we offer you all the best wishes of
the staff for Christmas and 1970.
Aid starving children
In Nigeria and Biafra volunteer doctors
are now faced with one of the greatest
and gravest of medical decisions — the
choice of which child•shall live, and which
child must die.
The. heed is so great, the refugees so
many, that the volunteer teams are forced
to give the food, drugs, hospital space and
professional care to those children with a ,
hope of survival. One'doctor goes among,
the waiting hundreds of ill and hungry
mothers and children each morning and
with a felt -pen marks on each forehead
those who` through starvation and disease
need immediate hospitalization and those
whose diet must be supplemented with
high -protein concentrates -to ward off the
wasting diseases of kwashkiorkor and
marasmus.
"Day after day we go through the same
routine," the CANSAVE medical staff
The protein -deficiency cases are the
worst while the marasmic children still
have a will to live and can actively fight to
gain the food. This is the rule as long as
starvation has not damaged the vital
organs. When that has occurred none of
our therapeutic measures will help. They
are definitely "doomed."
Today there are thousands of children
in this war-torn land who are beyond
medical help. Qon't let there be thousands
more tomorrow.
The help that you, as a Canadian, send
to these million children, caught in -the
path of war, shows remarkable 'results.
One baby changed in a week from a
skin -clad skeleton to a happy smiling
child. Other extreme cases of inanimation
and dehydration have through tube
feeding and other treatment been brought
back to life. 'As the CANSAVE doctors
reports, "going to a different village each. report "The last thing that should be
day and always there are rows of . lost is hope."
`rriiserable children with- swollen, oozing -• And hope -will not •be lost- when -you
g�, 'chid clY itd rrso ernacfa1ett that end -your' donatii o "' --to-- -T re —
wonders how the skin could contain the Canadian Save the Children Fund, 70
bones. Hayter Street; Toronto, Ontario.
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Save the Children Fund doctors report that one baby changed in a week from a skin -clad skeleton
to a happy child. But there are thousands of children in these war-torn countries who will die of
starvation without immediate help. You can send immediate aid with your contribution to The.
Canadian Save the Children Fund, 70 Hayter Street, Toronto, Ontario,, Try to imagine how you
. would feel if this were your child.
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Food for the hungry
Agricultural co-operatives become
self-sufficient with help from Oxfam. This
means that a lot of people who ,need food
today will be able to grow their own food
tomorrow. And helping people grow a
better tomorrow is what OXFAM is all
about.
This Christmas..,_ appeal is one of
OXFAM's major ways of raising money.
Money that is raised through this appeal
will go to help OXFAM projects.
This Christmas help OXFAM tackle
hunger at its roots.
OXFAM of Canada opened its
Christmas fund • raising campaign on
November 24. This year OXFAM is
stressing the development side of its work
rather than the relief side.
Food for the hungry is important to
OXFAM. A hungry man can't farm, can't
learn and can't improve himself.'He needs
food now. So OXFAM feeds 'a lot of
hungry people.
But it .does more than that. OXFAM
tackles hunger at•its roots. Mothers learn
how to feed and care for their children. It
helps farmers to grow better crops.
Letters to the editor
Through a directive from the
administrative staff of the Huron
County Board of Education, the
people of .- Huron County are
being given an opportunity to
meet with the teaching staff of
their local school to discuss the
aims and objects of education
and a list of some twenty
different topic's has 'been
prepared by the principals as
possible subjects for discussion.
Having been closely involved
with schools and the education
of children for the past fifteen
years, I realize that this is an
occasion for which those persons
vitally concerned with the
development of the full
potential of all children, have
long been awaiting.
For years children have been
attending smaller schools, taught
by teachers and run by .local
school boards with whom the
parents were , in close . contact.
The advent of the county board
has made the individual contact
with parents a thing of the past
-- it would seem that no one
now knows what is taking place
in these seats of learning. Brit,
the day has long since gone
when parents can cease to be
concerned.
The Home & School
Association is ,the one existing
organization which can bridge
the gaps and the Department of
Education readily recognizes this
and •has encouraged the
establishment of communication
with boards of education by the
Home and School Council and is
also anxious for the ' closer
relationship between the parent
and the teacher which takes
place when there is a Home &
School 'Association connected
with a school.
Gone are the days when the
majority of parents are out to
have a go at the teacher or to
criticize the running of a school.
It is of mutual benefit for
teachers and parents to get
together to discuss the ways in
which the teachers' job can be
made easier and to inform the
parent of all the new advances
which are presently coming our
way in the field of education.
More tharrhalf our population
is under 21 years of age and
therefore in some formal school
of learning. One-third of our tax
dollar goes to education.
Let us, therefore, come
together in January, to study the
"Aims and Objects of
Education" as so ably put
forward in the publication of
that name by Lloyd Dennis. If
we take a serious and intelligent
attitude to produce constructive
ideas which will benefit not only
the individual ' child but all
children in the county, the
board of education may have
some idea of the policy it should
form for the next few years.
When you receive your notice
from the school to come and.
attend 'a meeting to discuss the
needs of your 'particular school,
I urge every parent, and not only
the mothers, to take an interest
in these meetings.
The children of today will be
the leaders of tomorrow and it
will depend upon the job that
we can do of educating them,
what they can make, of the
world when it is their turn to
lead.
Mrs. Archie. Couper,
President,
Perth -Huron Council of
Home & School Assns.,
Hensall, Dee. 15.
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Remember When ? ? ?
55 YEARS AGO
The last regular meeting of
the town council for the year
1914 was held Friday evening
with all the .members present..
The collector s report • was read,
showing. that $44,000 had been
paid over to the treasurer, that
$1,500 was on hand and that
$277 of 1912 taxes and $2,052
of the 1913 taxes were yet to be
collected.
Dr. W. F. Clark, V.S.,
announces that he is m the field
for the reeveship. The doctor has
put in a good many years in the
council, first as a councillor and
latterly as deputy reeve:
Bread is 7 cents a loaf in
Clinton.
At the American Road
Machine Company's factory,
preparations are being actively
.made for the filling 'of the order
for 110 army transport wagons,
reported in The Signal last week.
The machines are being put in
order.. and everything is being
made ready in anticipation of
the receipt of the government
inspections, and it is expected
that by Monday next a large
staff will be at work: The old
emplotres of , the factory are
being Faken on first and others
will be engaged until 80 or more
men are on the'staff. These will
work in two shifts of ten hours
each,'
Lieut. D. G. McLean of the
Army Service Corps, who will
leave shortly for Quebec and
thence to the , front with
Canada's second contingent, was
presented with a pair . of field
glasses yesterday afternoon by
the members of the Globe Staff.
Lieut. McLean, who has been
assistant commercial editor of
The Globe during the past year,
leaves this week for his home in
Flesherton prior to taking his
departure with the second
contingent.
25 YEARS -AGO
The Goderich post office staff
is this week handling the largest
business in the history of the
office. More,. than $450 in
stamps was sold on one day this
week.
At the Lions Club bingo at
the Town Hall last night the
20 -pound turkey was won by
• Sidney Leggett.
Orville Durnin, Ashfield
Towna'hip, • is in Alexandra
Hospital suffering with two
broken heels and injured pelvis.
The injuries were received when
he fell 25 feet from a windmill
at his farm on December 15. He
is making good progress.
At noon today a Red Indian
oil truck driven by Harold Bogie
and a taxi driven by the
inimitable "Cactus Mac"
McDonald "ticked" at Saltford
corner and some damage was
dune — to the vehicles only.
School boards have received
official notice of the money
grants to be paid by • the
Provincial Department of
Education under the new
scheme adopted by the Drew '
Government. The notice
presents the basis on which the
grants are to be made, but some
figuring and. ' some further
ex . filiation of the . regulations
will be required before actual
amounts are known. While the
scheme aims at an . over-all
reduction of fifty percent of
school costs, the grants are
graded in the case of urban.
schools on a, population basis,
while for rural schools the
assessment is considered. So far
as the Public School Board of
Goderich is concerned, it can
figure on a grant of a straight 50
percent of approved school
expenditures. Apparently this
will - mean one-half of
approximately $22,000. This
alone should mean a reduction
of four mills in the Goderich tax
rate.
Penicillin, the wonder drug,
has just been used in Alexandra
Hospital with splendid results.
Its prompt use, from the
hospital's own stock of the drug,
was credited along with the
excellent nursing she received,
with saving the life of Mrs. Irvin
Oke, Goderich Township.
10 YEARS AGO
isn't so important after all. The
one thing I'd really like for
Christmas is "peace" in .every
sense of the word — peace . of
mind, peace of soul, the kind of
peace you have when you do
want anything.
Milton Rayner, manager of
the Bank of Montreal's Goderich
branch for the past two years is
retiring after a 47 -year, banking
career. His successor is 'William
Wardley, previously manager at
the Teeswater office. .
A deputation of the Goderich
Trades and Labour . Council
presented itself at Town council
Thursday night, December 19 to
request council to investigate the
reasons for the recent departure
from Goderich of Dr. M. J.
Moffat.
SINCE' HE FORGOT....
In the report on a Pubic Meeting (Signal -Star for 11/12/69) Mr.
Jewell is reported as. "disagreeing with some of his colleagues ... and
never heard a complaint" about trailers in Harbour Park..
The reason he opposed Coun. Carroll's motion was that• "when,
two men can speak to Council and have council' ban the trailers in
Harbour Park..." Just for the record, a short five and a half years
ago, when Mr. Jewell was a councillor, the President of thb
Horticultural Society, Mrs. Reg. Bell, assisted by Mrs.. Sam
Anderson, collected no less than nine hundred and forty-four
signatures opposing the retention of trailers in Harbour Park, These
were presented to Council, together with several impassioned
remarks. Council immediately disappeared into Committee in the
Hole and when they surfaced declared: "Goderich Town Council
will, not remove the trailers from Harbour Park this year (1964), but
have agreed to review the postion at the end of the next tourist
season." (Signal -Star for 25/6/64.) Like the "Long Christmas
Dinner" readers will realize that this was an exceptionally long
tourist season which apparently only ended in November 27th last
or thereabouts.
"The smooth answer turneth away
procrastination is the saviour of empires. • t,
WISHART'S LAW
Composing laws is Canada's national game. The only trouble is
that the laws are so badly expressed that no sooner are they
unanimously passed than confusion reigns. Wishart's Law on the
Breathalyzer is a good example. Its object was to prevent highway
accident due to drivers being under the influence of liquor. So, after
years in the lab.; .thousands spent devising apparatus which had been
in use for the past 20 or more years in Chicago to my certain
knowledge; it is decided to word the law so that you may be stopped
for no visible reason the spot-check is legalized.
Instead of making the criterion `driving to the danger of other
users,' we give the police powers to stop anyone, whether driving
normally, or like a maniac, and check him with the breathalyzer.
This is just another method of undermining the probity of the
• police. There is an old saying: "People who write laws should be
conscious of their own limitations."
THE GENTLEART OF COMMUNICATION
I suppose it is rather incongruous to compare 'the constant
_communication of George Cunningham with his Pathans (Bfue
Thumb 11/12/69) and the lack of it when it comes to our own
Council, but, as you know there are sermons in stones •
Futhermore not being able to read both the `Globe & Mail' and
the `London Free Press it is possible to miss some of. the really
fruity encounters whether inside . or outside_ the "chambre de
conseil." And when it comes to a weekly paper, the disadvantage is
magnified seven fold. There are such vital matters as "Who pays for
the drinks?" when some historic occasion occurs in the old home
town and the A.O.F.* gather round. Lean see "Remember When???"
column—in 2024 recording how the wassail flowed when the P.U.C.
finally managed to. control the voltage so that you could use an
electric razor with certainty. Ah me! Boys will be boys, and that
goes for councillors too.
However, what I was endeavouring to say was that George
Cunningham's success was due in large part -to good and continuous
communication. He gave the people good news and bad and during
the years 1939 to 1944 there was lots of bad news. What" was the
result? The people responded. Lesson: Never underrate the people.
In the 11/12 issue of the Signal •it took a full•page of print to
explain three issues viz: The Trailer Park; Waste Disposal and Liquor
(disposal).' Council must be very cagey in council if so many people
don't
wrath," and truly,
, had got the,wrpng end of the stick as appeared from this page.,
When a councillor asked me, as a preamble to an X-ray, if I`would
be at the Town Meeting, I replied: "No! What's the sense? The dice
have been loaded against me for the past 12 months. I know no
more about the actions or proposals, still less the thoughts of council
than Premier Bennett of, credit an, no r .'IoW fi � ". lJ 4� sk a
,than
I cannot distinguish one councilman from the next. With
their apparent fear of taking a position; of being publicly linked to
an opinion; still more of responsibility . to anyone but themselves;
What is there to ask about? A•retreat behind the cldsed doors of the
Committee in the Hole is too tempting for them. In a number of
small and even large towns like Goderich, the mayor writes a weekly
column inthe local paper, thus keeping the taxpayer in touch with
the background: information which is available to the council. It is
useless to plead lack of time. Anyone who knows his job can 'dictate
a statment in ten minutes.
Note: *Ancient Order of Freeloaders.
Five boys, between the ages
of seven and 13 and who live in
the north-west section' of
Goderich, have been charged
with vandalism, including the
removing of Christmas tree
electric bulbs. They will face the
charge in family court.
Charles Ruffeil was installed
as Wdtsl}jpful Master of Loyal
Orange Lodge No. 182 at a
recent officer installation, of the
lodge.
"Referred to the 1960
council" was the disposition of
many items that came before
this year's body, at its final
meeting. Proposals for two-hour
parking and other restrictions in
the Square area were similarly
laid over, though presented by a
deputation of retail merchants in
a brief requesting that a by-law
be passed by the present council
and given three readings.
The fire siren in its new
location • on the post office
freezes up and won't work. This
happened Saturday and Sunday,
and at ,Friday's council meeting
Chief Hoggarth reported that the
alarm had failed to functipr» on
four occasions. He had ' be e'n
working on it an hour, the
previous Saturday, before-" he
could get it going. The fan in the
siren has very small clearance
and moisture getting in through
the slots of the covering soon -
freezes. Council authorized
Reeve Donnelly, chairman of the
fire committee, to purchase a
cone for the siren.
ONE YEAR AGO
Captain Ralph Ifewlett of the
Salvation Army writes:1 am one
of the fortunate few who can
buy almost anything material • I
want .., and I've found out it
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