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AVOW g9,1952
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(By James Seatt)
OLD TIME ELECTIONS
About the job Upon the Fourth
They did me persecute, •
But on their damned' conceited heads
I will vengeance exectate.
Believe it ''or not, this, is but a
-single sample taken from a politi-
<cal address made in the Township
'of Tuckersmith almost a hundred
years ago. In these times it is
not easy to ,picture a candidate for
•eiection stepping to the platform
to deliver eighty-eight rhymed lines
to present his claims and, as you
• <can see, berate his enemies. Not
•only that, but he closed his spirit-
<ed speech with two lines of Latin!
Ah, those were the days. If you
.could but see this whole poem you
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would realize that in' those `days
Polities could be—indeed were''' --a
mixture of art and learning, plus
some real down to earth •blows • to
the middle, heart and ahead.
,Don't ti%in'k for a moment that
because a candidate could turn out
a long poem he was above a sly
jibe at the foibles and mistakes of
bis opponents. In this case they
come in for cracks on their drink-
ing habits, their probity, their ap-
pearance, etc., etc. Here, just a
few years before Confederation, no
holds, were barred and the result
was a bot election, full of color and
fire.
And another thing, I'll bet that'
w hen the word got around that
Mr. D. L. Sills was making speech-
es in poetry in and around Bruce -
field, meetings would be packed' by
friend and enemy alikee by sup-
porter and ,heekier, and that there
would be no need for -weary speak-
ers to go around to half-filled halls
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to tat to dispirited Midiencas like
today.
Of course he could snake a good)
long speech in 'the atter tradition
too, }Ie eels so iiinnself:
I will give a speech a two 3aours'
length,
My policy to explain,
But anything like retrenchment
1 will treat it like disdain. /
Attal, oy!
And this learned political fervor
which we u ed to .have in the old
days was something which was
foro than a good show. In the
rst place it came from profound
conviction. Secondly, it kept poli-
tics alive and moving. And third-
ly, but •perhaps the most important,
it bred a family tradition of publiq
responsibility. For example, there
has not been a single generation of
D. L. Sills' family (including the
present) which has not ,been. active
in politics and held municipal of-
fice. That is good, that is right,
that is the way a democracy keeps
itself strong. The same can be
said for all the other names men-
tioned in this poetic peeoh. Friend
or foe, they too have been 'the back-
bone-
ackbone" of political life in Tucker -
smith right up to this day.
These are the lads we' need. The
ones who for generations now have
been bred in the political traditions
of the community. Another tiling
we could use would be a little more
of that fire which runs all through
this poem. In fact, as a literary
man myself, I wouldn't mind a few
poetic political speeches right now.
They would be better than most I
read in Hansard.
I wonder if our Reeve could do
it?
County 'Bookmobile'
Schedule Released
Schedule of the Huron County
Library's Bookmobile from Septem-
ber 3 to 19 has been released by
library officials:
Wednesday, Sept.' 3: Goderich
School, 8:30 a.m. Thursday, Sept.
4: Brussels High School, 9 a.m.;
Seaforth High School, 9:45 a,m.;
Clinton R.C.A.F., 11 a.m,: S.S. No.
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... to readers
Every now and again one of our subscribers from
town or a neighboring area drops in or calls The
Expositor and asks why the account of So-and-So's
wedding, or the fact that Mr. and Mrs, Such -and -
Such were recent visitors, wasn't in last week's
paper? Well, the only answer we can given in a case
like that is the truth: We didn't know a thing about
it. True, our business is collecting news, but you, as
a reader, can increase your own reading enjoyment
by filling in as our reporter when WE may not know
of news—visitors here and away, marriages, deaths
—that YOU do know about. If you know about it,
and think other readers would like to know about it,
give us a call. We'll be glad to publish it.
Present St. Lawrence Seaway Projectis
Last. Link in au Almost -Completed -Chain
the Review, that this allno$ leges
dary prirjeet, after 'a troubled his-
tory spanning several decades, has
a good chance of ,becoming a re-
ality.
From Canada's point of -view
there are both advantages and dis-
advantages to independent action.
The cost to the Federal Govern-
ment of carrying out the navigation
works single-handed will be very
much greater than Canada's share
of a joint venture, more particular-
ly since, under the joint scheme!
Canada was to have received credit
for cher substantial outlays on• the
Welland Ship Canal. On the other
hand the project is planned to be
self-liquidating and the Review
quotes the Minister of Transport
as saying, 'If the costs not borne
by power are covered by tolls on
shipping, it is of much lees conse-
quence who makes the initial ex-
penditures, and Canada can do the
necessary financing" Moreover, if
the new navigation facilities belong
entirely to Canada, she will have
complete control over tolls and toll
revenues.
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The twenty-year stalemate over
the St. Lawrence Seawya and some
of the very large estimates of cost
Made by its opponents have creat-
ed
reated in the public mind the impres-
sion of a"•new and untried project
of enormous size, diffoulty and
costliness, says the current month-
ly review of the Bank of Nova
Scotia,
In actual fact, the present pro-
ject is the final link in an almost
completed chain. Deep -draft navi-
gation is already an accomplished
fact through most of the great in-
land waterway that stretches for
distance of more that 2,200 miles
from the Strait of Belle Isle to the
heart of the continent at Duluth.
To provide 27 foot navigation
through the entire waterway, what
remains to be done in addition to
the deepening of existing channels
is to construct about 40 miles, of
canals with seven locks and eight
movable bridges in the 115 -mile
bottleneck between Prescott and
Montreal, where the existing can-
als have a limiting depth of 14
feet.
12, Hullett,' 1:39 P.M.; ,Blyth Schoal,1
2:15 p.m. )•riday, Sept. 5: S.B. No.
9, McKillop, a.m.; S.S. 'bio. 8, Me-
Ki11op, a.m. (call only) ; 8.2. No. 6,
McKillop, a.m.; 8.8. No. 7, Hallett,
p.m.; ,S.S. No. 5, 11ullett, p.m.; S.S.
No. 8, Hullett, p.m. Monilia 1,
Sept. 8: Belmmore, 9:15 a.m.; Lake -
let, 10:30 .a.m.; Fordwich, 1:30 p.m.
Molesworth, 2:30 p.m. Tuesday,
Sept. 9: leensall, 9 a.m.; Exeter,
10:30 a.m,; Elimville, noon; •Kirk -
ton, 1:30 p.m.; S.S. No. 2; Usborne,
3 p.m.; Thames Road, 3:30 p.m.
Wednesday, Sept. 10: Lucknow, 9
a.m.; Whitechurch, 10:30 a.m.
CKNX, 11:30 a.m.; Bluevale, 1:15
p.m.; Wroxeter, 2:15 p.m.; Gerrie,
3:30 p.m. Friday, Sept. 12: Wal-
ton, 9 a.m.; Seaforth, 10:30 a -m-;
K•ippen, 1:15 p.m.; Brucei6ield, 2:39
p.m-; Varna, 3:30 p.m. Monday,
Sept, 15: Bayfield, 9 a -en.; Zurich,
10:30 a.m.; Dashwood, 1:15 pm.;
Grand Bend, 3 p.m. Tuesday, Sept.
16: Goderich Library, 9 a.m.; Clin-
ton, 10:30 a.m-; Loudesboro, 1:00
p.m.; Blyth, 1:45 p.m.; Auburn, 3
p.m., Wednesday, Sept. 17: Credi-
ton, 9:30 a.m,; S.S. No. 1, Stephen,
10:45 a.m.; 'Centralia R.C.A',F., 11.15
a.m.; Centralia Library, 1:15 p.m.
Thursday, Sept. 18: Belgrave, 9
a.m.; Windham, 10:45 a.m.; St.
Helen's, 2 .p.m.; Dungannon, 8:00
p.m. Friday, Sept. 19: Brussels, 9
a.m.; Ethel, 10:30 a.m.; Monchieff,
1:30 p.m.; Cranbrook, 2:30 p.m.
Seaforth Fall Fair
September 18 - 19
Prize lists for the 1952 Seaforth
Fall Fair will be in the handsof
the secretary, Mr. F. J. Snow, this
week for distribution.
There will be increased prize
money in some departments, and
several new features have :been
added.
The various committees, under
the leadership of the president,
Russell T. Bolton, have revised
their respective classes.
A special event in connection
with the fair this year will be
the Regional Show of the Ontario
Hereford Association, with pilze
money to the amount of $645.
Former Principal
Injured in Fall
E. R. Crawford, former principal
of Seaforth Public School, and
principal of Shakespeare Public
School, Stratford, was taken to the
Stratford General Hospital Monday
suffering from a head concussion.
The injury resulted from a fall: out
of a front lawn maple tree at the
Crawford bome, Stratford,
The tree was ordered cut down
by the city. Mr. Crawford started
the job early in the morning, and
by'the time of the accident around
noon he was in the .process of cut-
ting off the last limb before he
felled the trunk. No one knows
exactly what happened, but some-
thing struck the ladder the princi-
pal was standing on, and he was
pitched to the ground where he
struck his head against one of the
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Little Hope of Congress O.K.
,Canada's decision to proceed
aline with the navigation part of
the project and the concession
made by the United States in sub-
mitting the joint power applicati n
to the International Joint Commis-
sion both stem from the reluctant,
conclusion that there is little hope
of obtaining Congressional approv-
al for joint U.S.-Canadian partici-
pation in the St. Lawrence Seaway
and Power 'Project. A number of
steps remain to be traversed be-
fore the double undertaking can be
carried out. Yet in spite of som=
uncertainties, it now seems, says
fallen limbs. The ladder was
broken. He is reported in favor-
able condition.
Takes New Position
After 35 Years
Mr. Norman Knight, who has
been a familiar figure • on the
streets of Seaforth for the past 35
years while in the employ of Beat -
tie's, and later, Wthyte's, butcher
shop, has retired from the butcher
business. Commencing next week
Mr. Knight will be a driver on one
of Scott Habkirk's school buses.
Presbyterian Group
Enjoy Social At
Bayfield Wednesday
The Fireside Fellowship Group of
First Presbyterian Church, num-
bering about 20, motored to Bay-
field Wednesday evening to spend
a social hour or two with Mr. and
Mrs. Frank Kling at their cottage.
Supper was served on tables over-
looking the lake. Boat -riding, with
Miss Marilyn Kling at the helm,
was the most popular sport. Later,
a fire was built on the beach and
enjoyed by everyone. Marshmal-
lows were toasted. The group
lopinioned that it was an ideal spot
for a picnic.
WINTHROP
The McSpadden clan held a pic-
nic at•the hone of Mr. E. Hawley.
Winthrop. Among those present
were Mrs. C. Hardy, Mrs. Fred Hut-
chings, of California, and Mr.
and Mrs, Sam McSpadden and fam-
ily of Burgessville-
• Mrs, William Wilbee and sons,
Ted and Allan, are spending a
week in Sarnia with Mr. and Mrs.
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Canada's Cost 300 Millions
The cost of the navigation pro-
ject to the Canadian government is
not expected to exceed $300 mil-
lions. This is a substantial but
certainly not a staggering sum- Ev-
en if the estimates of cost should
prove over -optimistic, as estimates
on very large projects all too often
do, proponents of the Seaway point
out that the cost in real terms
would be no heavier than the $132
millions spent on the Welland Ship
Canal twenty years ago, and that
the 'burden, in view of Canada's
larger population and greatly in-
creased national production, would
be relatively lighter,
Behind the increasing Canadian
pressure for the St Lawrence pow-
er and navigation project, accord-
ing to the Review, lie two impor-
tant economic facts—the acute post
war shortage of power in Ontario,
and the opening up of the Quebec -
Labrador iron -ore deposits. The
St. Lawrence project was once re-
garded chiefly in terms of cheaper
freight rates for outbound Prairie
wheat, But important as this con-
sideration still is, the project's po-
tentialities as a source of power
for the growing industrial needs of
central Canada and as a means of
getting the new supply of high-
grade ore cheaply to interior steel
furnaces now tend to overshaw
Provision For Expansion
Though it is true that a 27 -foot
waterway will still not accommo-
date the largest ocean-going ves-
sels, ocean ships will no doubt en-
ter the Lakes in considerable num-
bers, especially tramp steamers 'at
seasons of the year when lake ship-
ping is over -burdened, but the
greater part of the freight through
the Seaway is likely to be carried
in the efficient bulk freighters of
the Great Lakes—the capacious box
shaped "upper lakers"—with trane-
shipments of ocean cargoes at low-
er St. Lawrence ports. The Seaway
as now planned will be able to ac-
commodate enough vessels of this
type to carry a very large volume
of traffic, even though the naviga-
tion season is limited to between
seven and eight months each year.
And if at some future time further
expansion in capacity should be re-
quired, it would he practical to
duplicate the single locks in the
Welland and St• Lawrence canals.
The Review notes in conclusion
that some of the opposition to the
Seaway has tended to die down in
recent years. The port of Montreal
is now less concerned over possible
loss of traffic, nor are some of the
lake carriers as strongly opposed
as they once were. It would, of
course. says the Review, be idle to
deny that some injury may result
to particular groups, Any major
new development inevitably causes
temporary dislocations and renders
certain facilities obsolete, The
Cape Breton coal industry will be
faced with increased competition
from U.S. coal in its present Que-
bec market. Similarly, the inland
shipyards will be subject to com-
petition from coastal yards and
perhaps also from overseas yards,
though, they may get an increased
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Was Perth Warden,
Dr. Gerrance H. Jose
Dies at Kirkton
Dr. Gerrance H. .Jose, 55, V.S.,
former warden of Perth County,
and executive member of the Upper
Thames Valley Conservation Auth-
ority, died of a heart attack at his
Kirkton borne just before lunch
Wednesday.
His housekeeper, Mrs. Catherine
Fitt, said, "I had just gone up to
his room to call him for lunch,
when 1 found him,"
His brother. Dr. J. G. Jose, St.
Marys, arrived within 15 minutes,
she said, and pronounced him dead.
Di•. Jose, former reeve of Blau -
shard Township, was chairman of
the budget committee of U.T.V.A.
and a member of the Ausabie Rtiv-
er Valley Conservation Authority.
He had been reeve of Illanshard
Township 20 years, was vice-presi-
dent of ,Kirkton Community Asso-
ciation, a member of Granton Ma-
sonic Lodge, and an active member
for many years of the Perth Coun-
ty Progressive Conservative .Assoc-
iation and of St. Marys Rotary
Club. He was a member of Kirk -
ton United Church, and was un-
married. He was born at St.
Marys and was a son of the late
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Jose.
Only survivor is his brother, Dr.
John G. Jose, St. Marys.
Resting at the Ball funeral chap-
el, St, Marys, until Friday morning,
then after 10 a.m, at Kirkton Unit-
ed Church, where services will be
conducted at 2 p.m., and interment
made in St. Marys, 'Cemetery,,
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