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PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY MORNING at ZURICH, ONT.,
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Southern Part of Stanley Township, in Huron County.
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WEDNESDAY, JULY 15, 1959
40TH ANNUAL CONVENTION
WE'RE TAKING this space this week to salute our colleagues
of the weekly press who are holding their 40th annual convention
in Regina.
Editors and publishers of weekly newspapers from Newfound-
land to Vancouver Island have gathered in the famed prairie city
to discuss the problems that confront them in this highly mech-
anized. rapidly changing world.
And those of you who are not familiar with the weeklies
may wonder how they survive the competition of the big dailies,
the national news magazines and radio and television.
The answer is simple: Your weekly editor has changed with
the times, and so continues to fill an important role in the
communications network of his community.
He does the job of providing accurate local news and opinion
in a way that meets the high technical and cultural standards
of today's modern reader.
Gone are the days of the casual deadline and the "gone
fishin' " sign, which were mainly fables, anyway. Today, the
weekly editor has one of the biggest and busiest jobs in the
publishing field.
He not only has to compete for business against new and
powerful media, but he has to do an ever improving job of
reporting local news and interpreting his community to itself.
Our higher education and living standards make this mandatory,
And the men and women who are gathered in Regina would
be the last to claim that they are masters of the situation. In
fact, they're attending the 40th annual meeting of the Canadian
Weekly Newspapers Association to listen to experts and to swap
suggestions among themselves on how to do a better job.
One of the things they have done collectively through the
CWNA is to set up a series of awards for excellence in the
weeklies to encourage editors and publishers to strive for greater
improvement and to recognize those who are making the grade.
They have, through CWNA, set up their own promotion and
public relations program to tell their story.
And at this 40th annual meeting they undoubtedly will take
further action to help them do a better job for their readers
and advertisers.
It is for this reason we ask you to join us in our salute
to them. It may seem that we're tooting our own horn a bit.
But we feel they've done a great job to date—and are trying to
do better in the future. And that's good for all of us.
FARM SAFETY WEEK
THE HARVEST season on Canadian farms is 52 weeks long
. for death! Each year an estimated 1,200 farm people are
killed, and over 100,000 are injured in accidents.
There is a twist of tragic irony in the fact that so many
Canadians lose their lives providing the food without which the
country could not live.
And to make the picture more grim the Huron County
Federation of Agriculture points out that the majority of these
deaths are somebody's fault --• and could be prevented. The
main cause of these accidents is human failure -- ignorance and
carelessness.
Safety organizations across the country are trying to stop
accidents on the farm. For the second year Canada will join
the United States in observing Farm Safety Week, which has
been proclaimed for July 19 to 25. Prime Minister Diefenbaker
has publicly endorsed the program.
Every farmer should lend his support, too. As individuals,
rural residents can help in the battle against farm accidents by
making regular inspections of their homes, buildings, fields,
machinery and equipment. A little repair and extra care is
most of what it takes to bring safety home to the farm.
As groups, farmers can work for safety, too. Rural organ-
izations should make accident prevention a part of their activity.
Many farm groups are planning special programs during Farm
Safety Week, and a number of rural ministers will mention the
special week at church on July 19.
July 19-25 will be a good opportunity for rural residents to
take a few new lessons in safety -- and then practice them
all year.
The theme of this year's Farm Safety Week is, "Safety
Makes Sense". Safety does make sense. It could save your life.
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(By W. (Bill) B. T, Smiley)
Something that has been swish-
ing around in my mind for a long
time was crystalized when T read
of the overwhelming reception the
people of Chicago had given the
Queen. during her visit there.
I think it's time we shook off
our selfishness, did the fair thing,
and offered to let the United
States become part of Canada. It's
downright hoggish for a measly
17 million Canadians to be sitting
here in this big, fat, wealthy
country, while 150 million neigh-
bours are crowded into a much
smaller area that is practically
depleted of natural resources.
* *
It's like a miser, with a million
in the bank, sitting all alone in his
great big house, too cheap to spend
the fuel to warns it, while his
happy-go-lucky cousin, who has
spent his inheritance, lives in a
trailer with ten kids and has to
work like a demon just to keep
them all fed and warns and cloth-
ed.
Aside from the selfishness angle,
it would make sense. If we took
in the States, Canada would be the
biggest country in the world. Fol-
low that up with 20 years of wide-
open immigration, and we'd have
half of Europe over here. Then we
could look those Chinese and Rus-
sians right in the eye and say:
"Slow down, Buster, or you'll get
a fat lip."
* * :,
There's never been any real an-
imosity between the two nations,
so there'd be no trouble that way.
Oh, they've tried to grab an odd
few hundred thousand square miles
of ours, in border disputes, but.
that was before we became a na-
tion in our own right, and they
haven't taken an inch since. They
tried to conquer the country, back
in 1812, but made a botch of it.
B * *
Anyway, most of our ancestors
were hoeing spuds in Ireland,
stealing cattle in Scotland, or pull-
ing the forelock to the squire in
England, when that was going on.
Since then, aside from the Fenian
raids, a typical Irish farce, the
only attempt at invasion has been,
not with guns, but with dollars,
and we welcome them with open
arms,
* *
Some of our people are descend-
ed from United Empire Loyalists,
and they'd probably want some
compensation, but that could be
handled. We'd merely give them
back the land their forefathers
fled, or were run out of, and all
would be forgiven. Of course, most
of that land is in and around New
York City, and runs, they tell me,
as high as two or three hundred
dollars an acre. As recompense to
the dispossessed of Wall St. and
Madison Avenue, we'd give them
ten square miles of tundra for each
acre of N.Y. real estate. That's
fair enough, surely.
*
Politically, there'd be no prob-
lem. Instead of having ten prov-
inces, we'd have 59 or 60. It would
be a dire blow to Texans to learn
that they were numbered among
the middle-sized provinces, But
think what fun it would be at a
Provincial -Federal tax conference,
with 59 provinces demanding just-
ice from Honest John, or whoever
was Prime Minister.
M: * Js
Of course, if they were allowed
in, the Americans would have to
change their habits. No more
walking into a drugstore and say-
ing: "Gimme a fifth of bourbon."
They'd have to line up like good
Canadians, consult the hierogly-
phics, present their permits, and
buy it from the government, with
proper humility and gratitude for
the privilege.
* 4' 4'
No more of those easy divorces,
They'd have to learn that in Can-
ada, it doesn't matter if your bus -
band is a drunk, a wife -beater, in-
sane, or has deserted you. You
still can't get rid of him unless
ICE
he's an adulterer and
prove it.
you can
Mind you, I don't think we
should just throw open the border
and Iet them come trampling in
here to wallow in our wealth and
culture. That would spoil them,
right off the bat. And besides, they
wouldn't appreciate it if they got
it for nothing. No, I'd charge them
a nominal sum, say $100 a head.
That would retire Canada's na-
tional debt. Of course we'd have
to take on the US national debt,
but we'd immediately repudiate it,
and start off with a clean slate.
It might be a little hard on the
U.S. farmers who are making so
much money in subsidies for not
growing stuff that they've retired.
But we could relocate them in the
muskeg, and put them to killing
mosquitoes.
Of course, there'd be the ques-
tion of where to put the millions
who flocked north when they saw
the gates opened. Personally, I'd
have it in the agreement that the
first 50 million of them would be
settled north of a line from Hud-
son Bay due west to the Rockies.
That would keep out the carpet-
baggers and open up the north.
And we'd feel a lot safer with 50
million Yanks between us and the
Russkies.
* *
I can really see no hitch in the
plan. We use the same currency.
We both speak English, though
they'd have to become bilingual,
WEDNESDAY, JULY 15, 1959
like us, and able to toss off asides
in French like: "Papa est encore
dans la maison du chien".
And just think, there would be
free trade, and those things dear-
est to our hearts ---our cars, our
liquor and our smokes—would be
a lot cheaper.
WHY DO ALL THAT
%A/MING?
When A
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will do it faster, easier,
and who knows? may-
be neater, too.
Order one at the
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GERALD SNIDER
on
Thursday, July 16
8 p.m.
GERALD SNIDER,
Secretary
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