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dant a miracle
In ' iast ' week's news there was a story
,from the IODE in 'Goderich noting that
the ladies 'e're planning to place hanging,'
baskets of flowers. on the lamp posts in
the centre section. of the business area.
This community -spirited venture will
mark,. the 50th anniversary of the
provincial IODE.
While it is still too 'earlyto know how
successful: the JI O,D E idea will be, it is no -t
too premature to suggest that members of
the .LODE are to be commended for their.
enthusiasm and energy. We .think hangingl
baskets in the centre of the _business area
of Goderich is a -fine endeavour and we
' wish. the ladies well in this effort.
We also think 'individual `citiers in the
.town of Goderi"ch can take a hint from
the IODE. If every homeowner and tenant
in this ,municipality would follow this
excellent example to "plant a miracle
somewhere around their dwellings,
afters
-ROAM. AND -POLLUTION
As I have already expressed.
my opinion regarding ..the-: need
•of a four -lane highway linking this L
"- area with Highway 401, and
hold in high regard the
' judgejment-.usually shown by. our
- keen, . youthful councilldrs
pushing this plan, 1 did not
intend to get involved in. the
clinical` debate now raging as for
the size and number. of
aperatures in 'craniums of said
councillors, as charged last week
by Exeter Town Council
However, Our Editor, in a
lead editorial,: takes the Exeter
Council to task for turning down
this plan and, having the gall to
refer to it as "the stupidist. thing
I've ever read," . to quote their
mayor. • ur • itor • so- p ea. s
, for "enlightment" as to why
anyone should not endorse this
super -highway.
Knowing full well the fate of.
he who invokes the wrath of The
Editor, it is with fear and
trepidation that I blow the dust
off the old typewriter, uncap a
' beer, and attempt, with , all
respect and humility, to oblige:
Common sense (called
"common," I suppose, because
so often • it is so rare) and simple
economics, brand the scheme as
completely mad.
. Compared to other parts of
the P'rov'ince, our highways are.
lightly used and well maintained.
It is still possible to drive a°team;
play hop -scotch, or hold a
drag -race, without too much
• interference, on many of our
main arteries. On the other
hand, -the four, six and eight -lane
highways leading out of the
Oshawa, Toronto and Hamilton
areas ,are clogged solid from
-noon Fridays until Monday
mornings, not ,to mention
regular rush hours, thru • the
week. As an unwilling part of
the bumper -to -bumper weekend
snarl-up,' when half a million
motorists try to leave this area
for their cottages, I've taken two
hours . to cover ten miles. A
normal 3 -hour, 150 mile trip,
,take up to eight hours on the
weekends. -
Highways, unless they are toll
-roads, are financed by gasoline
and other taxes levied on
motorists who use them. Experts •
'agree that these taxes 'are now
about as high -as they' *can ' be
without becoming self-defeating..
Where new roads will be built is
usually decided by "the most
good for the most number."
Should any Minister' -of •
Highways ignore thea plight of
the millions of -motorists bogged'
in the bottle -necks of the
"Golden Horseshoe" area, and,
Goderich would surely live op tkb its
motto "The Prettiest Town in Canada."
Flowers and greenery .actually cost very
'little. White there is time involved to plant
themand care for them, the project is.
worth the effort. For fiftyicents and a few
hours, a house can look like a home where
somebody, cares about the face their
property puts out to -the community.
. Goderich is a summer resort town.
Thousands of tourists pass through here
on their way to points north. Many of
them will stop for one reason dr another.
Many more of them, we believe, will bet
encouraged to spend a tittle more time in
Goderich if' the town is aljve with
colourful flowers against a background of
shrubs.
We suggest you "plant a miracle" in
your front yard this summer just to show
you care what impression Goderich makes
on its summeTVisitors.
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Editor
sAVE T IE TiGER RIND-
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UND-°The World Wildlife i±'und is making a special appeal for the tiger
this year; The funds `'wilt train , arid, -equip wardens and restock
reserves witli games In 190 it was estimated there were 40;Q00,,
Lige in the Indian sub continent. Today there are not mom` than
2,5ora. Their habitats, have been borrowed to create reservoirs for
hydro -electric projects and tigers have migrated as high es the 13,000
foot mark in Nepal. Huntingfrom the,back of an elephant is old hat.,
The modern method uses a jeep with headlights • flaring by night, .
which immediately places the tiger at a great disadvantage. ' Both
India anti Pakistan have banned, the export , of 'skins, but there is
nothing , tc, . „prevent a tourist buying a skin, thus there is every
encouragement to :roach: The. King of Nep1 recently had two
poachers shot. •The"tigers best hope for survimral dies in the Sulda.
Phanta Reserve' in west papal, or ..in Sunderbans National park ib
Eat Pakistan, `491 square ',miles of mangrove forest,, develoPed by
7Vlountfort,'the•Trustee of the Fund,
THE -BROOK
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instead, push;four gleaming :lanes..
thru peaceful, pastoral 1'iiron, I
fear` this gentleman would be
burned at the stake,•as delighted
woodchucks and . -groundhogs
court and cavort on the fresh
concrete. '
Four -lane highways, in the
past, have too often heralded
heavy, haphazard industrial
planning and hideous pollution.
I was raised beside Lake Ontario,
between Toronto and Hamilton.
TheJake• was crystal clear. You
could` stand on top of -the bank
and see submerged boulders and
the whole bottom pattern. for
several hundredyards off shore.
With binoculars yoti could watch
loons andducks dive and swim
under water.
Toda this beach is a • utrid
mess ,of stinking garbage. After
every storm it is ringed, with
rotting algae, dead gulls, ducks
and fish. At times it is possible
to float a flat shale rock on the
oil -algae scum. There is a saying
that it is now impossible to
drown in that portion of Lake
Ontario -yon simply rot. .
Unless there'' is. a direct
off -shore breeze, residents keep
windows closed. -East 'or west
winds bring the stench from two
oil refineries, mingled with
the crud and corruption of a
huge, haphazard industrial
complex. What were once clear
trout streams now run red and
purple, titre the kindness of
chemical plants. Some ' wits
claim these multi -coloured
streams can be effectively
floodlighted at Christmas time.
And the most ironical aspect
of the whole mess is: Who is
doing all this damage? "Who is
wasting our natural heritage?
Who , is responsible for all this.
anarchy and ruin? Who oils the
beaches, bulldozes 'the trees,
fouls our air, spews death into
our rivers and lakes, kills birds,
animals and fish? Who scars the
hillsides with strip mines and
gravel pits? •<. . _.
Is it the Maffia? the college
radicals with theirlong hair? the
pacifists? the Hippies? , The
Godless communists? ::.Just who
is taking our country away from
us before our eyes?
it is the short -haired,
welt -dressed, patriotic,
God -!easing, upright, • staunch
and solid citizen. In the name of
saving, serving; civilizing and
protecting us, our statesmen,
businessmen, scientists and
engineers are making us into a
people without a country. And
we're, paying them well to do it
crus.
No, Mr. ,Editor, lets be very
cautious of the fourilane-high-
way: and industry -at -all -costs
philosophy- -.Qualitive}y,, if not,
quantitatively, we have' been just •
as negligent , and • guilty,'
pollution -wise, as those in the
Lake Ontario -Erie region.: What •
has saved our area is -the fact our
population has stayed at the:
6,00Q=7,000 level, instead
several million: Picture the area
if we- had another 'dozen or so;
stacks spewing their corruption;
wa cement plant or two,• an oil
refinery, chemical -companies,
steel -mills, even,.a hot -mix plant
'such as regularly• turns day into
dusk in the Holmesville area.
U Thant, Secretary General of
the United Ntions, recently
warned that world wide
compaign to beat pollution has a
chance to succeed. If left for ten
ears. "the is n•. Token
rmes levied on polluting
industries in the past have been
just a laugh. We must stop them
with fines, so heavy that they
will go bankrupt• and out of
business. If that doesn't, work,
send them to jail - for the
murdering mob they . are
Xresident Nixon announced fines
of up to $15,000 per day for
,polluters. Prime Minister
Trudeau last week declared a
large portion of the Arctic a
'. "pollution control area." Is it
too "way out" to take a, lead
and declare the Goderich area
, one also?
Our future development, I.
feel, lies in the tourist industry.
Why not cater to• them with a
modern, well-equipped tourist
camp, make it possible for them
to reach and swim in some or
our superb beaches, or to stand
and fish on some -portion of the
Maitland's bank .without being
told to "Get: , the hell out"
by self-important little men. For
tourists wishing • to go further
north, a few miles of- by -past
highway (two-lane, nbt four, 'I
think, Mr.. Editor) would.' save
wear -and -tear on their nerves,
and our unique stop -light
system I must now mosey
to the back field, look for survey
stakes, check out a rumor that
the. Goderich interchange of
some vast flew' super . highway is
to• be built directly over our
barn; the "off" ramp running
tfiru our bath-rpgrn: To "avoid
any inconvenience" .our house
will be moved to Northern, or
"Nouveau" Quebec Oh well,
"C'est la vie", as we bilingualists
say.
J, C. Hindmarsh
1:{lite; 's Note:' .
What iiJ, llind,narsh and the
t►ro members of Exeter Town
Council. her;e ' failed`'. to
ccnnpreheird lir .this Matter is
that nohodi' has requested a
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four ,.lane, hijr,iyav be. _put is ludicruus To suggest .opening. even the.O.W Et ...QLwas tisfiec1
anywhere. ,The resolution by up • the Huron region for tourism ` today a` significant _portion 'of
Coun. Carroll asked only for a without better roads is as the Great' ' Lakes system. is-
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feasibility. ,study' to be made: equally. absurd People on affected by this insidious poison
Neither Mr•. Hindmarsh, the men vacation want -to travel as far and a greater area threatened.
from Exeter, Coun Carroll nor • and as fast as they can To d6 it Regardless of this experiende,
the folly continues. We are in
the cdf for of the Goderich they • needgood roads. Let us , the midst of a huge expansion
.Signal -Star is qual lifted to say ,oppose mechanised, industry -in, program - in nuclear .powered L
what a four laitc' (righwav would this area by all means. But. let usgenerating , stations, within the
:or would not do for this area not ..lose sight -of the fact that next few years- these plants in
We 'can only gime way' to tourism is also an industry- the Ontario alone will be stockpiling
conjecture and let the -experts do second largest in;Canada today radio active wastes in their spent
the rest To lair the blaiite for •• LIVE BETTER.. ,.: fuel ,bays at the rate of six
the pollution of ._the natural " ` -Ay ear ago the • `exerts' hundred' tons per `year, this -
resources of the world squarely p
,.as�,�red us ,that no mercury was figure may be extracted from
• on the doorstep of better roads escaping into the St. Clair River,
THE SOVER,EiGNTY OF ,ISRAEL
Like a lot of things which statesmen hoped they had settled
during the 1910's and 1920's, the sovereignty of`-Israetover portions
of Arab occupied land continues to be questioned, not that there is
much purpose to this attitude, since as time goes on, the question
becomes, more and' more academic.' Nevertheless to look back to
191.1,, November 2nd, when the Balfour Declaration was first gi'ven
publicity; there can be no doubt that itcaused considerable surprise.
Lord Swinton, in a recent book (*1), has given us some
unpublished details of how the Prime Minister, Arthur Balfour, came. ..
to be converted to Zionism. It appears that Chaim Weizmann, the
leader of the Zionist Movement, was a scientific chemist -working in -
East Manchester, which was Balfour's constituency. It was thus they
became acquainted. During the General Election campaign of 1905
Balfour- asked Weizmann to lunch with him this hotel. All through
luncheon the -topic was Zionism and more Zionism, so that when it
came time for Balfourto leave to address a most important meeting
at the Free Trade Hall, he refused to go, telling his agent he could
get the other candidates to speak. He added that come what might
to the election, he was going to continue his talk with Weizmann.
When, late in the afternoon, the conversation 'was concluded
Balfour announced that he was a convinced Zionist, and he promised
Weizmann that he would be glad to help the cause if he was still in
-.an appointment of power. In 1917 Weinannbrought a deputation
-tor -.Downing -Street to --see 'Lloyd George. -.Balfour -'was'gresent as` ' ' a
Foreign Secretary. He reminded W. of their conversation of ten years
before and said that now he Could and would help. He took W. to
the F.O. where'. he wrote out the Declaration...."view with favor the
establishment in Palestine of a National Home for the Jewish People,
and will use their best endeavors to facilitate the achievement of this
object, iindeis 'ooctthat-nothingshall-_be. done which ---•,-
may preclude the civil and reli iotls rights of the existing non-Jewish
communities in Palestine; 'or the rightsand political states enjoyed
rby Jews in any other country. ,
This• rather sudden fulfilment of a promise of ten years before
.must have seemed to many to be insufficiently considered. It is
therefore of some interest in appraising this feeling to read what
Lord Curzon set down in -a 1922 memorandum about Balfour's
character. It has just been given publicity in a new book: "Superior
Person" (*2), which is portrait of Curzon. and his Circle in late
Victorian England. •a-
"I regard him as the worst and most dangerous of the British
Foreign . Ministers with whom I have -been brought into contact in
my . public life. His, charm -of manner; his extraordinary intellectual
distinction, his seeming indifference to petty matters, his powers of
dialectic, his long and honorable career of public service, blinded all
but those who knew him from the inside to the imentable
ignorance, indifference and levity, of his regime. He never studied•his
papers; he 'neVer``ktrety' th `facts;,it the Cabinet he' hast seldom read
the mornir}g l ge cis Office telegrams; he, neer got. ltt 1 a ase; he
never looked ahead....it was sheer intellectual ,indolence,' an
• d=- a-trust-i•n-,lie entail -agility
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`ftONALO P. V. PRICE, managing editor
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LEY J. KELLER, women:'s edit
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INFALLIBLE RECIPE TO PRESERVE CHILDREN
Take one large grassy field:
1/2 dozen children -
Two or three small dogs "
A.pinch of brook and some pebbles •
, Mix "they 'Children and dogs well together, and put them in the field, stirring
constantly: Pour the brook -over the pebbles, sprinkle the field with flowers,
spread over all, a deep• bine sky and bake in the hot sun.When'brown, remove
and set away to cool in a bathtub.
Remember When ? ? ?
60 Y -EARS AGO
At the regular meeting of the -
'Own council on Friday 'evening
'last- the deadlock over the Road
Machinery 'Company valuation
was broken •by the council's
agreeing to allow the change
upon certain conditions which it
is believed sufficiently safeguard
the town's interest.
May the .owner of a lot in
Maitland cemetery be given
permission to remove a tree'
from his lot? This was a question
which aroused 'considerable
discussion among' the aldermen.
Reeve Reid explained that Mrs.
Simons wished to erect a
monument on her lot but on
account of the presence of a tree
there was not sufficient- room.
Councillor Hawkins thought it
was unnecessary to remove the
tree, as there Was plenty Of room
for a tombstone, and if was one
or the few beautiful trees in the
cemetery: Councillor Vanatter
thought that permission should
be given to• ,have -the tree
• rerrloved. Reeve Reid remarked
that • there „were many such cases
as that of Mrs: Simons. Deputy
Reeve Muttnings moved that the
tree be removed and suggested
that there be some rule to
•
govern the cutting of trees in' the
- cemetery.. Councillor Hawkins
wanted the matter referred hack
to the committee with power to
act. Councillor Martin moved in
amendment that the committee.
hc► giPPrt the power to remove►
the tree, hut the motion to have,
the matter referred back to the
committee was carried,
Subscricition Rates $6 a Year — To iia';.A, $7.60 (in advance)
I,:,..t'egistretityt 'rl`ctt; ober ° ;.
25 YEARS AGO
A. L. Miarison, '3.A., son of
Mr. and Mrs; John Munson,of
t wn had; t pened a -taw. off re in
C.ri:to .f:ftrrori ah,tl.,:1''ric f u ictf 4:1
ondon.
Briefly but impressively at the
morning' service of Knox
P.resin terianChurch last
Sunday, Rev, Richard Stewart
'referred _to the death - of
• President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
Mr. and Mrs. D. 'H. Downie
have returned to town after
spending some ' months in
.Toronto.
10 YEARS AGO''
Rev. Kenneth E. Taylor and
Mrs. Taylor left April 21 on
their trip to Europe. -
The reputation of _ Canadian
fighting men was made at Vimy
Ridge, Major the Rev. Jock
Anderson, area padre, stated' at
the '_Vitny Memorial banquet
held by the Canadian Legion
- Branch 109 Wednesday. ' •
_ The town obtained $4,500 or
$30 a foot for the Huron Road
site for a beer warehouse from -
the Brewers'' Warehousing *Co.
Limited,.
The • bridge over the CNR
tracks will be the first stage of
the " new Maitland bridge
construction-, `along with an
extensive fill along the bridge
approach. -
ONE YEAR AGO
Lewis-. Elston Cardiff,
Conservative qMP for Huron
County for 25 years, died in St.
Joseph's Hospital, London, April
16. Ile was71.
A 225 -foot aromatic
trnloai(ing • btf rn aboard the
LakerB. Barber buckled early
,W.e'dttesd21y :mornit 'and
�r", . v. <.• , _ ef[ t rt . ,alitr tlr'' `
while being swung inboard.
' which would enable him at the last moment to extricate himself
from . any complication, however embarrassing....The truth is that
Balfour with his scintillating, intellectual exterior has no depth of
feeling, no profound con�aictions,and strange to say (in spite of his
fascinating manner) no real affection."
Curzon's .eyewitness account of Balfour in the Cabinet cannot be
dismissed lightly, and it serves to make one wonder whether Dr.
Weizmann did not charm Balfour to an extent that he forgot.
prudence and became precipitate in paying off a hostage he had
given before he knew -what -the eventual ramifications would be.
*1. Sixt Years of Power. Earl of Swinton. Hutchinson. 35/ -
*2. }'erior Person. by Kenneth Rose: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. 75/ -
Headlines:. Dignitaries will
take part in OXFAM Walk;
could be best yet. •
`'Monday evening, the town
band went to Clinton to
entertain the residents at
Huronview.
WAGES
No wage is too high if the worker earns it. Five cents an hour is
too high if the worker doesn't earn it. Guidelines are not set by
governments but by consumers. When unearned. higher wages force
prices higher (as they are doing) the customer simply stops buying
and then more ancPThore workers have no wage at all.
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"Everyone owes the Government a living." (From the
unpublished dreams of ,a politician.)
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