HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Goderich Signal-Star, 1970-02-19, Page 17n
By W. E. Elliott
:fir. And Mrs. ,,dg$,r Weston,
married 60 Years ago in, Sarnia,
. - �- celebrated the Yee.... • .
t li e• Pro racial
,� G. Mn U ' ROSS' deli ed to handle, wih'a f . l Socialist* et o egovernments here In Ba fieldlast Sunday, never . all
� Anil, � i � yet �► . X �'�
GROUP LOYALTY
T.. e overnment ..who ro o . �tle Can'ada,. are' not they' that eriod' being long awa .
e'n w�f before � . � p ands the sun... ,. p , �� y
ea t increasingl ;� takin the fornn....et from this, district.
illowe�l its. way Into ctivi las inference that a teacherloses.his' y g -e .
OR CONSCIENCE? ri n ele of icia _. far" ',Their. or,
which It was Q ro . Profession if and.w a he tlk 1t+ees to Vie ss ;� a�, 1�o.�e �>�i, Bayfield, with
p � h.n s
.
• manning, that such. rofussto r publicr p r, Mrs, ' Llord' Mostiake, is
� gl . g> P .� , ...outr�%de ,the :• reach . p and
It is graduallybecoming more
.. 'e cl - ducatio � •• O ' . LOYALTY ^ ; ; ;.scrutiny', of vast. and over-ridir►: only three �r four miles'from.
as , � di _..n,uz, B .:..., .. ,:m •GRt�1�" Q �A►t,TY , X ag •.,
an d , muore' universally accepted .- I .. : v • inhuman u Ed s birth .lace in Concession 5 -
Engineering : and � Law, -.o o�::cQr�sCI SCIENCE?' ' � �- , x.�='�`"'arld all, too .often, h man P >n
that the strike weapons archaic -1 aintaine Innate, • sense of
maintained. an ria e
I i ' veers over men's. lives,homes' ` _ Oodericl Township,,- right next
True it atilt -gets you'the,, buck • :«. _ . : , ,
. • il. c his bili. n (fedi cation Y t . ' ' o -' t . . • i:. .‘rights , to ' where ' Grandfather Geo. e
respo ._.l did ....i 4., o Miss Win s action Wises ..h . most herrshed rigb►ts and
today you did'not earn and: -will . oci ; n la ti ,that... .. Weston settled in' 18 ° it>
yS ety: •a apprec ton .... .ion; Gonf lief between loyal libel"tles, As .exam .les. you have s�� and bu
age .�.
g r y
y
rro :bu s the _ ,.
not earn, toni4 W, _ . t�4 t ...:. theirs was u:�h her culling, But �,, �,. 1 al to� -one s nl tae .e e,. ov racial u. log house.'Vvhleh..st I;•-�'tands,
� � u fid. � � o �a�in th
Me, the J..d ement o.. the.. Federal.
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er u g � .� . �wtth the aril a Of ed care ,t e , , ,, - � � ,,.. ... d Th aria oral .• .arwzen lees •
. v: l m i ,, h individua coxtsc�ence, Are ,oft Assessnrtent Tar�ce, the �e �. � '�' � Y :. o , . til
- a ., ..lace will eventuall ruin ,.,
rkt�' ��
_ ...._.. ..,. , ... _ Y rofession was- f r .. d � .to
� .. . o ee.. ... :o' � . of::'flock_ .� i rich iii ,
,B .. oXn to ._ , he . a .... of �"lactate..„tai, .whir t�' t nl,e-fu �. 'nth hey.,.
... . _pzn Goderich,, ich t -
. ,., . ,, 'sheep, , .. sed
. ou, 'You are . now well, on the:: rrender• itself to.: beco`imin • an:, ., , f n
�' .. ...�. ., �x tse • g shee ,'gar are you going to be an clr$ineleo ,,the t1i'reat o h ,had two periods of residence •,
rata to Priding ourself out of:• tb ata ince o o pN , , .. . : •. o ; � ,, - *Oiling 27 "e s
y p � y au arae, u s th se , wh , indvi�duaY�' This is the cru�c at NI�r., Bens+an. rifting thirough ,you, t4�t . ng y. ars' Weston:
--the-market. Rigor Mortis always- enjoy 6�ealth., a ear to -TOW c ,list Creed:tie-cumulated. - was born -there u hter of
7 Y• pP the So i tee r�i;ost a g
takes time to manifest itself. at - outnumber . those who r ., ,� • cherished.
. ,.. William Joh stop for e
Bre •.ly separates the 'shheep from the passessxons and souvenirs, which. JohnSton, , corn
:en o 4 ood ,healt. to the end ate and e stat . •o, :ears a blacksmith at the Tom
In order; to strike effectively.. 7 y � . _ h, goats and d v a e s he has, decreed are•a suddenly.t y
This that the former • so' clogthe individuality., It insists, you* he ”
organization 'trade uniod This be ' classed as "capital". The Warrener'shop on , Hamiltoih
%Mails the offices of the medicine man, loyal to the , Leader, otlierw,iset.•�'ludicrous tax on paper profits Street.
anti
used to be called, but whichhas that thelatter can hardly attain the groupwill not generate which, . will occur every • five 'Open house" at 'the
highways were still a decade, In .,
the future,
'When Ed Weston Tante mail'
between ayfield and Brucefield
the '
station, • 'W
horsedrawn for a long time, but
o
k.
finahy' he•drove a car, tiie second
to be owned at Bayfield.
"Radio and "televisionhad not -
larrived, but when the first radio.
sets were available,' Ed bought a
little Atwater -Kent for $170. In
1910, Canada's population was .
.1,200x00� Lauil
erw�'r
im
p
Minister; -'Whitney �headed'- the
v
• Ontario government;
;E.• Lewis, represented West
Hur. •in .' the House of
Commons' andWill am
ProudfoQt sat. in the Legislature, '•
• o
for Centre Huron, World War r z,
with new taxes, Was only a little
cloud on the horizon.
By the time World Wain was
well under way, the Westons ha
three sons in uniform. • Clayton,
was in the U.S. Air Force,
Grafton served in the Canadian
• army, and Richard was a warrant
officer, Class -1, in the Royal Air
Force. Dick died in ' a bomber
raid over Nuremberg. His name
is among those carved on the
Goderich cenotaph,
Edgar Weston was born in
1882 in Con. 5; about where the
Sloan orchard was set out by his
Uncle John and "next to
granddad's old log house."
Grandfather, according to family
tradition, was the son' of a
British . general who served in
Canada in the War of 1812-15
and was taken prisoner by U.S.
forces, his son . George being
born in that prison camp. •
George's son Richard,;. who
married Elizabeth Looby,
farmed in `Goderich Township
and later lived in Bayfield. They
had nine -children, "all"gone-now
but Edgar. George, of Bayfield;
Orval, of Seaforth and Maude
, (Mrs. Blair) all died in 1.968, and
a n o t her ' sister, ,Mrs.' Lulu
Schuler, Detroit, died last ' year.
• George was 98, Orval 83, Mrs.
Blair 87. The others, were
William J., Mabel, Elizabeth and
Lily.
Edgar Westonspent a couple
o f years in Detroit, On
construction work. He operated.
• for about 10 years the Bayfield
hotel now ..known as the... Little
Inn, and also the dancehall. He
and his brother George built the
stone -based double • verandah
• which once- was part of the
become the `professional unix. !„ for themselves' the attention Force. ,For successful„-Socialisnl years, if your equities .have ;Westlake home gave opportunity.,
It• is the,, union' movement:which
perpetuates the strike; 'a weapon
asarehaic as the arquebus. Years `
go,when the employer was
akin money.at the expense of
the worker -d "grinding him
into the ground", the strike was
justified. That situation has long
since` disappeared, nevertheless
the union still employs the
arquebuswhich, 'if the
t• conditions of battle . had not
been . altered in its favour; would
have resulted in its 'obsolescence
being acknowledged "25 years
ago: As things have been legally -
oarranged, the arquebus is
invariably presentEd at ' the the attic long ago, cease, Ramsay Macdonald,
- -., defenceless head" of the ' upon a time, in a less , fq ook the -party because he
adversary. Under such disparate 'sophisticated "age, it exemplified believed he had. a higher duty to
conditions, it can- be, and professional dedication. Today I
invariablyis, decisive. Put more fear' it might be considered trite. Crown and • Country; action
• But to re burn to the teachers! which his old followers were
simply: Once upon a time the -0t, never able to forgive, Harold
strike was a necessary defensive, Theirs , too used tn, be a Wilson . is often regarded as a -.
weapon. -- Toda when the profession which demanded
p Y . .-profession , hypocrite,. because he is. foreverl.
"dragon's feet " have been dedication, if any satil;faction•, trying to reconcile' •Socialism
their health -requires. Thus it is., ienes" on force* for its. results; ° increased in value en 'the stock for , friends to drop , in. and
that. the one respected ' seldom,' if ever on reason: It's market. Everyone reduced' to congratulate the couple. About
profession of medicine has been • recipe is: Blind yourself to all one common denominator. 150 signed the visitors' book.
forced to "relinquish its age-old „ normal experience4•Cultivate the Of ' what use, then your Mrs. Westlake, 'a °niece of Mrs.
characteristics of dedication to narrowest point:'of view', namely'success at the . University? OfA Weston, was a gracious hostess.
Society. • your own welfare. You fear to what use your talent and genius , and had the assistance of several
In those far away days when I be called a blackleg and the with'which a gold God endowed charming young ladies - in
lived with the 'Doctor, I recall (your) government, which . • you? No longer will you be greeting' the guests and . serving
that a favourite picture was one capitulated long before you did,..permitted , the satisfaction of refreshments. • x
titled "The Doctor", by Luke offers no protection against the achievement; of a job well done. Ladies who alternated in
Fildes• It showed a doctor sitting violence which your , fellow- - Incentive and 'achievement are pouring tea were Mrs. Emerson
beside the bed of a child, whose unionists are legalized to develop both to be, proscribed by this Heard, Mrs. Perce. Weston, Mrs.
life he was trying to save. It was to' make you change your ways; Bensonian credo of creeping Edward Reid, Mrs. Rehne
late in the day and he waited for -to make you.. untrue to your sterility. We should not be 'Larson, Mrs. Walter Westlake
some • sign that his skill ' was conscience; confused by the label on the.and Mrs. Charles Wilson.
succeeding. I feel sure that this One of the most eloquent party They, are all tarred with The Westons were one. of the
steel engraving was relegated to f Socialist
the same brush; they are all out first four families to -settle -in
proselytisers or the ci ist
though once for their own `advantage; for Goderich Township, and many
power and patronage and all the of :the names°min _the .visitors' -
exhiliration which.' these- afford. :book'represented _families' In the
As you have seen in:. other township from itsearly days.
. communities where- Socialism Edgar Weston will be 88 in
has had full rein, there`' will be April; Nina Weston is 84. Sixty ,
only two classes of citizens. The years of wedded life brings a ,
Governors a minute percentage message from the Queen, and
a n o the population; and the ` congratulatory cards came from
° was to be extracted from life. the Prime Minister, • PC ,leader
drawn, it has b orae simply, with common sense and the Governed, le .vast numbers. It. is
offensi$e weapon with which to , But the government killed those astounding that we cannot seem
Robert Stanfield and, on behalf
P requirements of national policy, f
the ' profession into another man• one fnend. of the eo le. ' P q g
During' 'bile First World War old -di in occupation, in Wilson is far .too dyed in the P P by Hon: Charles MacNau µton
Socialism was preached' through-. • g Ad -digging s P wool; he is a devout and 'These then, are some of the g
g whi the servants became :the and Hon. Robert Welch;.. •
the crowded cities of England as convinced Socialist. ,reasons wily' the refusal of a
masters in more ways than one.. • ' Cornish Headmistress to do, at Grafton Weston, son of Mr
0 'Methodism was' preached in the No wonder more and more ' Butyou reply,to alt toP and Mrs. Weston, came from -
the
1$tµ cerate and Puritanism in loyalty ,behest of the corporate
professions ,are so boring, Their creed and comrade is one of the, London, and Clayton, who lives
• $ . , group, what hex conscience tells •
the 17th; as a ' Salvationist origm�_ purpose has been so best of human attributes; like her is wrong is so heartening,' for In Chicago, telephoned his
Crusade. The message was that circumscribed by :'extraneous . plants we need roots to enable like Luther -Qf, old: "Here: I congratulations. Cards were
poverty and injustice .could be forces, • that'incentive' • and us to . flower and ow. But received from friends in many
stand. I can do no other .,_
abolished by State-'inteervention, dedication' have been purged. loyalty to the corporate groupparts of Western Ontario. •
that is, by altering, the laws to P g y P - And Goderich has _ -its own
Today it remains only for • ideal can ' become a tyranny story •along these.lines. A story When the Weston -Johnston
favour the "underprivileged government - de artment .to , when that group becomes too weddingetook place in-. 1910,
,P � P which belon s-' to thea •Strang
The indispensable • corporate . g horseless carriages had come to
manhandle, a profession for it to. powerful, and the . ideal is too family, a dedicated family of•
loyalty which, in those early days become a source of sterility and generally and uncritically teachers in the fullest sense of stay, but they were not
• • ' ' accepted. This .is exactly. what -.the word. When one of his ,
a
commit' a"felony against Society. eglurations
too, and translated o • O n tarso Premier John
•• but his -critics are mistaken: ;Mr.. to b•able to elect one honest Robarts a framed la ague si neo
was ` so essential, 1f seemingly boredom
immovable tyranny was to:be
overcome, is still jealously THE HEADMISTRESS OF
arded as the first of Socialist BISCOVEY INFANTS SCHOOL
tues.. Loyalty to the team; -
vi1
re
usal to question the dictates So what" 'do you ..say when
- of j the holy writ of Socialism; to
keep the Red Flag flying; all-' you__ hear that Miss Marjorie
..... ,these are the quintessence of . Wilson the .sister of Harold
Socialism. Wilson, the Socialist- - Prime
Minister of England, has. refused
At first only the wage-earners to strike? What does she say in
were organized into unions and her defence? "I hale been
p protected by law whenever they teaching for nearly 40 years and
d e4 i d ed to ' strike. The i. have never been asked to strike
prOle s s i o ns refused , to before. I don't -know whether
contemplate the 'strike weapon, this will ,make ,me a blackleg or
,even though they were;' as well not, but I have my standards. As
organized din' their Institutions, an _older member of the National
Guilds" and Societiesas the Union of Teachers; .I support the
wage-earners. salaries claim. I do not support
NATIONALIZATION
i 4
But the government
nationalized education and
medicine, and before you could
say 'Jack Robinson' both these,
M professions had .decided the only
way they. -could- _make ar-
impression ' on that sterile
amorphous body which
masqueraded as, modern
government, was -to withdraw
their services. It is true that this
usage has become a way -sof life
for the teaching - profession,
while- it is -very much a -last resort
-- of the - medicals. Bit then the
• medical ' profession has been
presented by government, at any
rate in Ontario, with a blank
cheque, which, is filled daily,
sent to headquarters and is paid.
It might be said with truth that
the only thing which limits the
sum. a doctor can earn is the
number of hours in ,the day. This
is -no slight on the medical
profession; , but ,irather an
indication• of the government's
inability to poli'ee' airy form of
endeavour economicall, and
therefore an -additional reason
for. it to cease . to become
s bivalved hi pursuits it was never
-has •happened ' to the Socialist daughters told Mr. Strang that .?
'brotherhood over, the past she wanted to become a teaches,.
quarter' of a century. For strike§ he replied: "How much do you
,gym no 'longer an expression of ' really want to become a teacher?
protest against unjust power. Do you want it so' ardently that
What are we.to'think of loyalty you:,would°..be prepared to teach
to trade union (Socialist) : for no remuneration ,at all?
ideology which, in support of a Purely for the rewards of seeing
wad claim, indistinguishable your pupils develop their talents
from selfish -, greed, which in to the best of their ability?" The
earlier • days Socialists used to : daughter answered after. mature
denounce so passionately in the . consideration': "Yes,. I want it as
profit-making classes, results' -in much as that." -
depriving vast multitudes of " Do ' y o u
their fellow citizens of . heat, conscience? If
light, essential - transport, in 1970.
hospitalization, the means of
warming their homes inwinter,
disposal of _garbage and- 'of -
strike action, because all my life . travelling to and from their
I ' have worked with so many homes to . work, on which
others to get ac ptance of• depends their daily bread? Yet
teaching as a professio ' . such strikes are "common today.
Suddenly 'we are fac As for our. Federal and
0
to face ,
Golf': competition
Saturday on CBC -TV
seen
seen
- • American PGA veteran Dan ' choice since it is regarded as- one -
Sikes clashes with Roberto De -of the most demanding tests of -
Vicenzo of Argentina m the final golf in the United States. Playing
matchof-the-$1-24,000 "Shell's at 6,669yards to a ear . of 71
Wonderffil World of Golf" .7 the layout winds diabolically
international elim°ination through -heavy stands of trees.
t o ur n a meet on the CBC Arrow -straight tee shots: and
network, Saturday afternoon, pin -point iron play, to
Feb. 21. . , .. well -trapped greens are essential
• - if a player hopes to score' well.
The match, played at the Gene Sarazen joins fellow
prestigious . Olympic • Club, . San ; all-time golf great Jimmy`'
Francisco, will determine the Demaret as a co -commentator
champion of the 197A Shelf for this` final "championship
tournament. He will take home. a match.
total of $37,000 in prize money,
more than is awarded for all but
a few_PGA-sanctioned events.
The Olympic Club has two
courses with the Lake course
being,' selected. - . for ,the
championships match. It's an apt
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numerous ere, outs, an . pave
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Mr. - and d: ` Mrs, Edgar SIVE
hotel, but it was taken down in
the. Little occupancy..
YIr. Weston --also • conduueted-*Y-
store in "Bayfield. "`b early half
their married life ' was spent in
Goderich. One residence was the
brick house immediately west of
the A & P- store on West Street,
and Edgar was in charge" of the
Skating kink -- the town's
at West Street and Waterloo
In . later years' they:: 'had an'
apartment at 27A West ,Streets In
the brick block recently ,
demolished` to provide: a bank
site, and which anciently was
known as the Kay Block',
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