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Zurich Citizens News, 1965-07-08, Page 2FAGE TWO ZURICH CITIZENS NEWS THURSDAY, JULY 8, 1965 iteoual eapitoteat - NNW Guilty of Doing Right William Grant is a former civil serv- ant who was bounced out of his job as an Indian agent, and charged with the crime of fraud. He was tried on six separate charges of making fraudulent returns to the Indian Affairs Branch. the government department which was his employer, Af- ter a trial which attracted a lot of atten- tion in the Yukon Territory, where Grant was employed and was well known, a judge convicted Grant on all six charges. The evidence was that Grant had made out cheques for relief payments to Indians, with the cheques payable to someone em- ployed by the Indian agency. He would then get the cheques endorsed by the payee, cash them. and use the money to provide housing for Indians. Consider now one of the remarks made by the judge who convicted Grant. Mr. Justice John Parker, in the course of announcing his decision. said: "I would like to think that had I been in Grant's position I would have had the courage to do as he did." He then proceeded to im- pose the smallest possible fine, $10 on each charge, with the option of one day in Judge Parker found that Grant was, "an exceptional man" and that it would be, "quite inappropriate to send Mr. Grant to jail." The judge further took the trouble to explain publicly why he chose not to put the convicted man on suspended sentence. He said that to suspend sen- tence would be to say. in effect: "You'll go free if you stay out of trouble." That would be an insult to the convicted man, said the judge, and therefore he would not do it. For an explanation of what was be- hind this unusual decision, we can quote the judge who heard the evidence, and ruled on the case. Judge Parker. in his summary, noted that the government had made no effort to recover any of the money spent by Grant from the proceeds of the fraudulent cheques. "The govern- ment is saying. in effect, 'you had abso- lutely no right to do the things you did, but we quite agree with what you've done'." As the judge himself summarizing it: "Grant saw the housing need, the condi- tions in their tents, the infant mortality - .. disease . . . pneumonia. He realized they couldn't do much to remedy their own condition. The cost of housing units was $5,000 to $6.000 each. Though official funds for housing were limited there was no particular limit to the amount for re- lief funds at his disposal. designated for food. clothing. fuel and other relief objects. The number of needs here was greater than encountered elsewhere. So what he did was write relief cheques payable to someone in the agency, have them en- dorsed and use the funds for housing and other purposes." Judge Parker made it quite clear that he agreed with Grant that it was pretty silly to let a baby die of pneumonia just because the regulations were too rigid, "I feel compelled to say that nothing Ieads me to suppose that Grant received a penny of public funds, Mr. Grant is not charged. with putting a penny of public funds in his own pocket. His whole purpose was to better the lot of the Indians in his care." The trial of William Grant evidently was a big news event in Northwestern Can- ada, where there is a tendency to regard Ottawa officialdom as distant enemies. There was enough interest to prompt the Edmonton Journal to send a staff reporter more than a thousand miles to Whitehorse, to report the trial and dig into the back- ground story. The Journal's man came back with a story that, "There are numer- ous legends of Grant's personal initiative on behalf ow the Yukon Indians. Grant .. appears to have enjoyed great popu- larity as the best Indian agent the Yukon ever had. It was Grant who helped set up the Indian Co -Op store in Whitehorse where the Indians' handicrafts could be sold and the profits plowed back to their own advantage, His wife often helped in the store until it got going ..." Everyone who has knowledge of the case seems to be on Grant's side except, of course, some faceless bureaucrat in Ot- tawa who ordered that Grant should be prosecuted. The acid touch was the order that he should he prosecuted, not on one charge, but on six charges simultaneously. We've got the man down. Don't kick him once; kick him six times. Still farther back in the dim shadows of bureaucracy are the people in Ottawa who framed the regulations Grant was expected to obey, 3,000 miles away. Ac- cording to the rules laid down from Ot- tawa, Indian children Iiving in a shack that could not he heated against the Yukon winter could be helped by providing fuel, but could not he helped by moving them to a house where fuel would do some good. Any Canadian taxpayer who provided some of the relief money spent by William would rather see the money spent usefully, than see it spent on fuel for a place that could not be heated against sub -zero weather with any amount of fuel. Mr. Grant is out of the civil service, has a criminal record, and has moved away from the Yukon to Vanderh•oof, B.C. The responsible minister is the Min- ister of Citizenship and Immigration, Hon. Rene Tremblay, who was in the news this week because he was completely exoner- ated by the Dorion Report of any sugges- tion of wrongdoing in the Rivard case. Mr. Tremblay might now find time to pay attention to the Grant case. One possi- bility he might consider is to re-engage William Grant, promote him about seven rungs up the civil service ladder (criminal record and all), and give him enough au- thority not only to temper regulations with common sense, but to crack the whip now and again, and make .other people use com- mon sense.—(Stratford Beacon -Herald) Consumers Pay More But Farmers Get Less Canadian farmers, who have long com- plained about the spread between farm prices and those the consumer pays for food, have even more to complain about these days. Although consumers are paying more for food, the producers' share of the food dollar is getting less. And the farmer finds himself squeezed between rising pro- duction costs and almost stationary returns. It's not the food you pay for so much as the processing. As an extreme example, take the case of potato chips, at 49 cents a nine -ounce bag. Retail price of potatoes in this form works out to about 1,700 a tan, although the farmer is lucky if he gets 100 a ton for his spuds. There may not be as much of a spread in the price •of .other foods. But farmers get angry when they see their products selling in the store at even two or three times what the producer was paid far them. The housewife can be blamed for much of the price spread. She demands washed vegetables, graded fruit, fancy containers, fast -frozen poly -wrapped creations which bear little resemblance to the original pro- duct of the field. And it all costs money that goes into the pocket of the processor, not the farmer. Faced with a decreasing share of the consumer's food dollar, and rising produc- tion costs, farmer have only one way •out— improve their production methods and de- crease their costs. The Price of Immortality A new dimension may have been add- ed to the business of dying with the dis- covery of a system of deep freezing the deceased in the hope that medical tech- niques of the future will be able to cure his ailment and restore him to life. A professor in Michigan is said to be working on a freezer cemetery, where peo- ple can be interred to await advances in medical science that could mean their res- urrection in later years. Cost of the process is 50,000, consid- erably higher than the usual funeral. But who can put a price on immor- tality? rich News PRINTED BY SOUTH HURON PUBLISHERS LIMITED, ZURICH HERB TURKHEIM„ Publisher J. E. HUNT, Plant Superintendent Authorized as Second Class Mail, Post Office Department, Ottawa and for the payment of postage in cash Member: Member: Member: Canadian Weekly Newspapers Association Ontario Weekly Newspapers Association Canadian Community Newspapers Representatives Subscription Rates: $3.00 per year in advance, in Canada; $4,00 in United States aid and Foreign; single copies 7 cents. SUGAR AND SPICE by Bill Smiley From Britain cane an un- precedented rumbling in the at- mosphere. No, it wasn't thunder. Not real thunder, anyway, though it sounded mighty like R. It was made up of two things: great men turning in their graves; and a vast groan of disgust and despair from sev- eral million ghosts. If you listen carefully. you can even distinguish some of the individual voices in this continuing thunder of protest from the nether world. Surely that rasping growl be- longs to Sir Winston Churchill. Poor old chap. Barely laid to rest when something like this comes along to destroy his hard-earned peace. Doesn't that angry bellow belong to Sir Francis Drake? Could that bull's roar of rage be anyone but Henry the Eighth? Surely that booming of blank verse is John Milton? And wouldn't that howl of anguish be Rudyard Kipling? There's 'a duet: the angry snarl or the Duke of Welling - fon and the outraged holler of one -eyed Horatio Nelson. And there's a trio. It sounds much like the pontifical tones of Archbishops Cranmer, Ridley and Latimer, martyrs three. Gruff Gladstone and dapper Disraeli, roaring protest, are in tune as they never were alive. I'd bet money that female squeal, rising above the others, belongs to the Good Queen Bess, hurtling down the halls of five centuries, as s h e rages, "Namesake! Child! Elizabeth! How could you?" Methinks that magnificent bell -toned baritone with the shudder in it could belong to none other than The Bard, sob- bing in sorrow and frustration, "Is this a Beatle which I see be- fore me?" There. It's out. I knew the suspense was killing you. Yes, the great 'ones of Britain's glor- ious heritage have good reason for their celestial storm of in- dignation. The Beatles were awarded the 1\03.E. (Member of the Order of the British Em- pire). Yes, to this depth of deprav- ity have sunk the ancestors of those giants who took on the Spanish Armada, the Pope, the French, the Germans, who clobbered natives all over the world and established peace and good trading conditions, defied single-handed the great tyrants, Napoleon and Hitler. (Well, almost single-handed.) Don't quail like that, old chap. Don't rip off your Vic- toria Cross or your D.S,O. and throw it in the garbage. Chin up. Have a stiff drink. You British have always been able to muddle through. You may even muddle through this one, But it will write finish to the once -mighty British E m p i r e. And perhaps it's best this way, after all, The Empire was shrinking like a two -dollar all wool sweater. If you couldn't enol with a bang, be satisfied with a snicker, 0 Church Ladies Told Of Life In Trinidad Miss Florence CIark, mission- ary on furlough from Trinidad where she teaches home eco- nomics, was the guest speaker at the general meeting of Hen- sall UCW Monday evening. Miss CIark is formerly of Cen- tralia where her father, Rev. Clark, was stationed. Miss Clark described Trini- dad as a country smaller than Prince Edward Island with 43% of its people under 15 years of age — a country where people never hurry and a country very much in the limelight in UCW studies this year. 'With Miss Clark was a charm- ing young Iady, a native of Trinidad who is spending three weeks at a camp at Graven- hurst. She will be an ordained worker when she goes back home. Slides were shown of the beautiful and wonderful coun- try, its industries, home s, crowded schools, means of trav- el and beautiful scenery. The speaker was introduced by a former classmate, Mrs. Ian Mc- Allister. Mrs. Janes McAllister, lead- er of unit 4, presided forthe program. Mrs. Fred Beer as- sisted her with the devotional. Mrs. E. Rowe gave a short talk on personal witnessing for Jesus Christ. Pupils of Miss Greta Laramie presented musical numbers in- cluding a piano trio by Gail, Sherry and Tommy Travers and a duet by Sherry and Tommy Travers; piano solo by Joan Goddard; violin solo by Jane Waters; piano solos by Jim Traquair and Ann Mickle, and Expert Watch Repairs • Trophies and Engraving • DIAMONDS -WATCHES - CHINA Anstett Jeweliers LTD. CLINTON — WALKERTON — SEAFORTH • 1: FLOOR - COVERING TIME! Be Sure and See the All -New VINYL CUSHION -FLOOR" Available in 6, 9 and 12 foot widths. It's so easy to install that anyone can do it themselves. 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Mrs. Stanley Mitchell reported on the bales being packed and sent to Hazelton, B.C,, Salvation Army and Toronto for over- seas relief. Amber Rebekah Honor Officials At June Meet At the inaugural meeting of District No. 23 of the Rebekahs held Wednesday evening at the Lodge Hall, Hensall, Mrs, Edna Caldwell was installed as dis- trict deputy president for 1965- 66, by Mrs. Harry Beaver, of Exeter, D.D.P. Members of lodges attended from Goderieh, Clinton, Seaforth, Brussels and Exeter. Mrs. Beaver, retiring D.D.P'., of Exeter, was presented with her past president's jewell. All the past noble grands of Amber Rebekah Lodge, Hensall, sang "How Great Thou Art", accom- panied at the piano by Mrs. Alex McBeath. Plans were made for the past grands' picnic at Seaforth, on August 4. FREE TIGER MUGS and GLASSES Small Glass --- WITH A PURCHASE OF $3.00 WITH A. PURCHASE Large Glass -- OF $4.00 Tiger Mugs -- WITH OF $5 00 HASaE on All Types of Purchases AT ST. 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