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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Goderich Signal-Star, 1970-10-01, Page 4` ' , C • GNAL S 11 P � its P-• "If alt ,� •rinters vete determined not to 'print anything tilt • were sure it would offend 'no one, there would be they � Very' Ver Mule. printed .. .Ben jamcin Franklin Wh�t's the Ontario Farmers have rebelled agaihst what is considered by them to be an unfair system used in • the province to assess education taxes. In their rebellion, the farmers have been urged by their provincial federation to withhold their portion of the education taxes. This, many of them have agreed to do The farmers' organizations,. in particular the Ontario Federation of Agriculture, the body which organized the tax withholding program, have cited instances of unfair tax assessment; have pointed out, other organizations that._also believe the present system of taxation to be unfair and have given what they call, • an alternative solution to the problem, and it is undoubtedly, a problem, by suggesting the province pay 100 per cent . of the' cost of education. Other groups Went as high as 80 per cent. .. e•,What we fo .nal :on€derstand were': ::this,-extra--money--is goingt t 'found'•`bi the province if the farmers' suggestion is accepted and acted upon. Perhaps business tax is the answer. But then We.would havaas ,.:called`.`tax str-ik-e"— put on •by businessmen _who also will consider the taxation unfair. How about income tax?-' Farmers earn incomes "'I (presumably) and would perhaps feel they again -being-deal-t with. - unfairly. -.as.__. they often claim to be earning less than the average Joe, although this would mean they. would pay less extra income tax. • These suggestions may sound facetious, �Nand they ,are. They are used only to point -�!out that to find a sollution is going to be a tough job. 4 , 4 aiternative, SAFARIS, By (1, MacL.od Inas ° Just now a number of interesting safaris are being advertised. For example Eric Shipton leads a party to Everest oxygen and yak's milk iex'tra =• while Peter Scott will host another, excursion to the Antarctic to look ,.at the. ' ducks. Sir Alec Bose,. the gallant - • single-handed round -the -world yachting grocer, will lead a party of enthusiasts to Australia next year at $1875,00 a nob. Sir ,Alec must be a philanthropist because how else can he stomach listeningto his a ` excursionists telling him for a whole month blow tosail a yacht?' It is ,,, . not hard to .suggest some other tours which should be offered: low E ,about Tour No. 41. Visit Dublin and 52 licensed premises (drinks extra), for a series of lectures by -Mick MacMulligan, Commandant, 31. -Trish Republican Army retired, on what, if he had the time, the fare, E. and the artillery, and the certainty of a safe-conduct, he would do to b',Major Chichester -Clark, the Rev. Ian Paisley, Sir Arthur Young and any other Proddie louses that got in his way in'Belfast, Note: This • I tour restricted to the physically fit as it's bound to be tiring. DOG LOVING. It is Tar too easy to acquire a dog casually. All too often they are looked on as animated toys, with no feelings and no rights, • M 'disposable as an old ball, at the mercy of owners with small sense of " , responsibility. A cynical .philosophy, of thousands seems to be that a P. holiday is'the time to abandon your,dpo: - • • Passing to a less unfortunate aspect of dog -loving, we arrive at the matter of •"making the tail wag,'which is accomplished by a variety • of foods. Most of the makers employ a full panel of dog tasters, • made up entirely of dogs. Entry to such an elite panel is by influence a only, though the dog which refuses any kind of food is most • diligently sought. A second firm of dog food makers, or should we not rather say `prepares' — feeds their collations to dogs which pass , on the stre'f i, Thus ' far everything is done to attract the 'dogs • themselves. It is only when it comes to advertising their wares that I these food firms appeal to the owners of dogs. a. TURKISH FINANCES. - __ Tur • h finance Is something in which Canada has an interest and the ▪ deo tion o f the lira from nine to .the dollar to 15 cannot have made a great hit in Ottawa. There is hope that the new measures will enable Turkey to 'start paying import bills, which,have been overdue • for more than a year. But then deficiteering has featured Turkish -17-,finances fora quarter of a century. . By withholding their share of the education tax farmers will be increasing the amount of. tax they must ultimately pay. A late payment fee of one percent will automatically be assessed. ' Whether they Will be breaking th law or not, is for the legal men to ascieain, but the federation must believe it will be for a -recent release from the Ortitar' Federation of Agriculture states in part "Twenty ,years of representations by farmers have produced no results, so the Ontario Federation of Agriculture feels justified in taking the +law into .its own hands:" There is never any justification for .caking the law into one's own hands. Farmers have had problems before. They have solved them • by ,,mass demonstrations and other means, but they have never shown themselves to . be a lawless lot. They elected a provincial. body -wfo.:re{�r.,esent4herxt..et to zoper,levels.a_nd t'a s'�thisbody-th�at°�[s irig-tf 'aarrnerito take this tax withholding step. We would suggest that if the Ontario Federation of Agriculture can `not find a better way of -y—proving a paint other tian by the path it has suggested, it is falling down on its job. We would hazard a ' guess twat ;regardless of what farmers are now saying after continual prompting, by the federation, .._the_..maj.oti_ty_.of _them would prefer a better way of bringing the taxes within reason. So far we have heard no suggestions for alternative ways of doing this. We would like to hear if any ,have been suggested by this present executive of the federat)on and i so what they were. F.' COOP This greedy continent Our century has seen the unfolding and then the blighting of a dream — the vision that modernscience could bring . Utopia; -end poverty, hunger and war, .cure most diseases, alleviate, most forms of suffering:* It hasn't happened. Instead we live in a fear -stricken world of wars, • polluted environment, riot -torn cities and virulent antagonisms, Where every ,form of separatism mocks the vision of the one beautiful, round; blue Earth the-' astronauts have-yiewed from' outer- -space: What went wrong? Why do not men today live healthy, prosperous, fear -free hives; active but with ample leisure for enjoyment of the beautiful in nature and art; pressing on to explore the greatness of space and the smallness of the nuclear particle?. The answer is ignorance and greed, more specifically the greed of North America. going, had the. ._lu k to_ cgroerua major fraction of the world's capacity for 'technological mass production, North America has kept ' the fruits of such productivity largely to herself — mainly to her upper and upper -middle classes. • In the face of the world's poverty-stricken two-thirds, this greedy continent exhibits the psychology of. the spoiled child who, after opening his twenty;fifth Christmas-- parcel., whiningly asks, ' Is that --all?"---Exploiting natural resources far beyond their; replacement potential, we parade, without sharing, a. standard of living that holds out two;ca'rs, a boat, a "skidoo, hi-fi radio, TV and air-conditioning as, the family norm, - meanwhile recklessly wasting the food for _. lack of which, millions of Asians, Africans and South Americans gory„hungry. to bed every evening of their lives. • THE FLAG 'BEARERS by Ron Price - = One tof the fallacies of modern municipal government is the fact that no one ever counts the cost of another by-law. It is easy to decide .that cars shall only stand for 30 minutes in one, location, but how about the costof policing the locationto ensure the by-law is • obeyed.? Chief Justice Warren Burger warns the U.S. Congressthate in passing new laws it ought to` make sure the federal courts can enforce them. Since legislation is enacted without, regard to what it may mean in judicial labour and expense, justice too often is delayed and denied. A statute passed 100 years ago, under President Andrew Joiu sorr-did yeoman - service in the cause of civil rights. An 1899 .-statute--has-been-found_ta_deal with. water_.:pollutian: -I -all- the- laws. -- passed in the last 190 years were enforced the courts would be paralysed. t THE PLANT HUNTERS. Tyler Whittle has produced a book with the above title, published by Heinemann at 55/-. It is hard to believe that in Elizabethan England there was no coffee, tea, chocolate, potatoes, tomatoes, pineapples, French beans, very' little rice, no wallflower, stock, tulip, phlox, crocus, cornflower, dahlia, chrysanthemum, camellias azalea, lilac, mock orange, acacia, horse -chestnut, or cedar. The vast majority of roses, lilies, and irises, which we now grow, had not been introduced. In the sixteenth century, great •Flemish botanists brought back many exotic piants°. The, first English collectors were the Tradescants, faaheii nits Were- etn cloyedd by the Stuart kings. 1n -1648 -the Oxford Physic Garden was growing 1,400 foreign plants. In the following century Nathaniel Ward invented the "Wardian Case” in' which plants could survive long journeys because they*ere sealed and glazed intothe case. This started numerous people searching for new plants and it fostered the' glass hot -house _ too. Immediately orchids -outdid the paintings of the Old Masters. Then towards the end of the 19th century, Robinson and Jekyll introduced hardy and half-hardy plants. which could survive out of doors. At once `plants were sought in Western China, Northern Burma, and the Himalayas, and. at once thousands and thousands of •new genera and species came to the gardens of the Western world, . • Often the treasures were stolen. en .route home. A. Czech narned Roezl," who discovered -'the 'anthuriuni with its scarlet, pink; wh Ce; greenish flowers looking like patent leather,,.was robbed seventeen times in Latin America. Today y we would say he was lucky not to have been robbed of his life. • DECIMALISATION IN BRITAIN: Decimalisation of the currencyrin. Britain has had a side effect, noted in Canada too. The temperature is i3eing given in Centigrade. Many , Blimps and Empire Loyalists are asking: hat's happened to good old British fahrenheit?" (Gabriel ban Fahrenheit. German Physicist 1686 to 1736.) BENSON REFUGEES. •�.� For:the information of those who are considering leaving -Canada to the 'Bensons, Robarts, MacNaughtons,. Davises, Trudeaus, it will, be • of interest to learn that income tax in the Island of Sark is only $625' on an income of $125,000. In -Guernsey it is twenty per cent, but on neither island are there any depth duties. Malta only asks 21/2 per cent and again no death duties. uumatt[u[ut[[[tauiainiu[sir[um[> anuansauwumu[[u[uau[uum[uorr - Remember When ? ? ? 60 YEARS AGO Headlines: Lizzie Anderson's -Body was found ,with J'hroat Cut and Head Battered - No Clue to • the Murderer - Town Greatly Disturbed over the Foul Deed Provincial Detective Greer Working on the Case. As will be seen on reference to our advertising columns this week, tenders are. being asked . for the addition and alterations to the Goderich Post Office : • The addition is to be built t Vthe rear of the presen building in line with the east side of the building and is to be 22 feet by 35 "feet 8 inches. The following resolution was. adopted by the .Wptnen's, Christian Temperancb Union at the lastregular meeting: Whereas it has come to our knowledge that a deplorable state of „Wings exists in w,. wn in matters of morality e beg respectfully to urge upon the parents and guardians of the town the necessity of not allowing their children out upon the:. street unattended after a reasonable hour in the evening. Father, mother, it may be your'daughter wiretnstead of attaches them or your son *Willa d--nger: See to it that your duty to your child is discharged to the bestof your ability iii the sight of God. :We hope to hear the curfewbell tinging again ..in the near future. 25 YEARS AGO The ' colored lights around Court House Park are to,- be reinstalled as soon as possible, t C having received at esday -night's meeting a `request from the Town Council that this be done. It was left to the superintendent to procure iron poles for supporting the to trees, as was formerly done. The hydro power bill for the month of August was $4,940.81.. At a meeting of thea GCI o r B$TALLIt1iED � tttzir' T23rd YEAR ' of ._. -•-[j— The County Town Newspaper of Huron --O P U $ L I CA T I O"N Published at Goderich, Ontario every Thursday morning by Signal -Star Publishing Limited , TELEPHONE 524.8331 *tea code 519 ROBERT G. SHRIER, president and publisher RO11AL •P, '1l: !RICE, managing editor %ORLEY J. , KELL.ER, women's editor • EDWAkD. J. BYRSKI, adivertising manage 4hF�;7E• t -4/ESO- li. • N Superior: Shoal DISCOVERED IN 1929 ABY THE. SURVEY SHIP MARGARET, SUPERIOR SHOAL. IS A GROUP OF JAGGED, GRANITE PEAKS TUTTING •UP FROM THE DEPTHS OF LAKE SUPERIOR, IN AM AREA THOUGHT TO BE 4100 Fc. DEEP MANY OF THESEPEAKSRISE TO WITHIN 30Ft.OF THE SURFACE, ONE 15 ONLY 21 Ft. DEEP. . IN. WEATHER MOST .SHIPS CAN PASS SAFELY OVER BUT IN ROUGH SEAS A SI -11P MAY. DROP 15 TO10.EET IN THE TROUGH OFA WAVE — ANO THEN THE TAGGED PEAKS CAN. RIP THE BOTTOM OF EVEN SHALLOW DRAFT ,,VESSELS: :.IT, IS HOPED THIS KILLER SHOAL' HAS CLAIMED IT'S LAST VICTIM. CLEARLY MARKED ON • ALL MARITIME CHARTS, LAKE SKIPPERS NOW GIVE WIDE ,BERTH TO, SUPERIOR • SHOAL. e board OnFriday night, it was decided to organize, subject to the approyal of the Minister of Education, evening classes in shopwork, home economics and commercia) •- work. .the Board also authorized the purchase of. sound moving picture projector for the Collegiate. ' • Mrs. M. D. Willis, Britannia Road, called at thisoffice this week with a hubbard squash weighing 28 lb. It was grown from the seed of a squash wh'id1 tipped the scales at 20 lb. last year. _ ro• A 1* 0 *. 1 r 4 1 4 vegetables and flower. divisions. •, She was, awarded 38 prizes, - consisting of 20 firsts. and 18 seconds. She also won three - special prizes. • 1 YEAR AGO Penny Louise Brown, 203 Widder . Street, Goderich, wag awarded a bursary by the Royal Canadian Legion last Sunday - during a short ceremony at Royal Canadian Legion, branch 140, Clinton; with members € from Goderich branch 1090•,.... takin part. 10 YEARS AGO Goderich and district women can be well ,dressed and never go beyond the town limits -- .at least not pin -search of fashion. This conclusion was reached by some 500 women after viewing the inany garments and , accessories shown by the (loderich . merchants at the !Maple Leaf -Chapter .- IODE annual fashion shows.,, in • Harboriite Inn. • . b cript.on Rates $6 i Year ' .'To U A. $7.50 iiia advatt6iii __... L 7C",. 1A'R' , `.:Yry -i,a`. .,,... •.'�"f 'w't .•.�i'„-<Y.. vJ..� n..u.. .., .._..._ 4'l".1:'.';.";i,.k'..`. ° Second class mail registration nul,rber - . 1071`6 Headlines: Qf • '24,184 Processed in Huron Only .03% llad1, • Mrs:. °` .�.. i•i. � Jo,j.R sto e ` of l deniCh ,iustly°ej wardeclat .;. the Bayfield Farr four her entries in the baking, canning, knitting, sew ig, arts and crafts, fruit, Headlines: Sunset Hotel `death trap' to be boarded up. , John Kane was the winner of the ' first flight in men's championship at the Maitland Country Club. Runnerup in the event was Jack Gould. r a Knox Presbyterian Church on East Street has -just had ' a complete .;. face-lifting with ,exterior walls being sandblasted and two coats of water repellant paint applied. Cracks were pointedwith cement and view; stdrrn windows were iflstalled on the stain building and ehapei.",;A, rnmpletejy • new I window was iia+ .o1.theioit diturhor.,l FRESH SPRING iEGS, BUTT -CHOPS BONELESS ROASTS ROASTS • (SAVE 44c -lb.) (SAVE 20,c l,.) ROUND CH -MADE FRESH .DAILY Ib. 95' lb. '89 e X83' 9 Nb. lb.