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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1954-12-17, Page 2�+k t(p iK ru^ THE HURONwow= DEM MR, :T 19 POSITOR ed 1860 4 Seaforth, Ontario, qday morning by McLean A. Y. McLean, Editor Subaeription rates, $2.50 a year in minae; foreign $3.50_a year. Single e►, 5 cents each. Member of Canadian Weekly Newspapers " Association. Advertising rates on application. PHONE 41 Authorized- as Second Class Mali Post Office l.epar<.ecni Ottawa . .EAFORTH, Friday,. December 17 THE CHRISTMAS TOWN An indication of what can be • ac- complished by co-operation can be een in the Christmas decorations along Main Street. Made possible by the united effort of the Town Coun- cil, the Chamber of Commerce, the Public Utility Commission, the Lions Club and individual merchants, the decorations have transformed Main Street into a veritable fairyland of ght. There is no doubt but that this year, in any event, Seaforth is the Christmas town of the district. Coupled with the decorations along Alain Street are the scores of private dwellings throughout town that have been decorated. Every day more are being completed, and by Christmas .13ay there will be few streets in town that will not present a colorful appearance suggestive of the Christ - as season. The Chamber of Commerce, to en- courage the decoration of Seaforth and neighboring homes, is offering -prizes for the best decorated resi- dence Entry blanks may be obtained in Seaforth stores or • clipped from this issue of The Expositor. The fact that Seaforth has done a job of Christmas decorating is indicative of the emphasis which the. merchants and citizens place on this Beason of the year. As district peo- ple who visit Seaforth and shop in Seaforth stores soon discover the 1 emphasis is reflected, too, in emany gift ft o �or tunnies that are available in local stores. A TIME FOR CAUTION 'What is probably the most dan- gerous season of all, insofar as mo- tor facilities are concerned, is at band. The experts say that concern with other matters and the urge to get things done before Christmas are what make motorists less careful at this time of year. Beginning with Sunday, Decem- ber 20, last year, through to the end -of the year, there were 3 people kiIl- ed in or by Motor vehicles in Ontario. On the day before Christmas alone, tllere were 13 people killed in 10 ac- 'ents. They were pedestrians, drivers, passengers and bicyclists. Increased care and consideration will prevent a re -occurrence of simi- lar tragedies. For those driver's"who .cherish their own and other safety, afet Y. here are the recommendations of ex- pert observers: L Respect the weather. Adjust .your speed to road and weather con- ditions. 2. Keep windshield clear, and use tire chains for severe snow and ice agonditions. 3. Brake intermittently — don't Jock the wheels—when the road sur - tee is slippery. 4. Follow other vehicles at a safe 4Tistance. G. Allow plenty of time to make your trip without hurrying. $. By all means, don't drive after ming. PROGRESS CONTINUES While there have been times of stress much greater than any envis- by Lord Macaulay, famous historian and poli- �e wrote, the lines re- in 1830, we can be we litre in a world of es ori he was able to more than a t articularly a bk breakers—but the tide continues to come in. "Thepresent moment is one of great distress. But ho wsmall will that distress appear when we think over the history of the last 40 years; a war, compared with which all -oth- er wars sink into insignificance; tax- ation, such as the most heavily taxed people of former times could not have conceived; a debt larger than all the public debts that ever existed in the world added together . Yet is the country poorer than in 1790? . . . Now and then ther has been a stoppage, no wand then a short retrogression; but as to the general tendency there can be no doubt. A single breaker may recede, but the tide is evidently coming in. "If we were to prophesy that in the year 1930 a population of fifty millions, better fed, clad and lodged than the English of our time, will cover these islands . . . that mach- ines constructed on principles yet un- discovered will be• in every house . . . that our debt, vast as it seems to us, will appear to our great-grand- children a trifling encumbrance . . many people would think us insane. We prophesy nothing; but this we say: if any person had told the Par- liament which met in perplexity and terror after the crash in 1720 that in 1830 the wealth of England would surpass all their wildest dreams . . .. that London would be twice as large and twice as populous, and that nev- ertheless the rate of mortality would have diminished to one-half of what it then was .' . . that stage coaches would run from London to York in twenty-four hours, that men . . . would be begining to ride without horses, our ancestors would have given as much credit to the predic- tion as they gave to Gulliver's Trav- els . . . We cannot absolutely prove `that those are in error who tell us that society has reached a turning point, that we have seen our best - days. But so said all who -came be- fore us, and with just as much ap- parent reason." What a Other Papers Say: Cost Of a College Education (Toronto Financial Post) It costs too much to go to college. For an out-of-town student who has to pay his board, . a four-year B.A. may run to $5,000. For a medi- cal student the tab is likely to be closer to $10,000. Joe College can work in the sum- mer, rake lawns in the fall, mind babies in the winter. But it's still a prohibitive amount for many able scholars. Even with scholarships, higher education is becoming the pre- serve of the privileged. -Ability ranks after father's bank account or the stroke of fate which puts the would-be ould b e studs nt s family in a col- lege town where he can live at home. University of Toronto's President Smith complains that "we should be getting more students from the rur- al districts and from centres that are remote from universities." • Yet there are lots of students at college who never should be there. There's too high a percentage of fail- ures. President Smith puts it at two per cent of the freshman year. Why are they there wasting their own and other students' time, the re- sources- of -the, university, their par -_._J ents' and taxpayers' money? There is, of course, a snob appeal of some sort in a university degree and a lack of recognition that 95 per cent or more of Canadians who havent's got one are doing quite well without it. Tuition fees on average pay Ies than 50 per cent of a student's educa- tion; in most cases, the taxpayer pays the rest. Wouldn't it be wise to spend some of this money to help those who have the ability and willpower but not the • money to get a college education? To il%ttip a human &Lind is to waste a ou .resoure- Sit. IN THE COUNTY PAPERS Celebrates Birthday Mr. Charles Fritz celebrated his 86th bithday last week on Decmber 2. How the years roll along! One should be so thank- ful to have health to enjoy the same. We wish Charles many more happy birthdays.—Zurich Herald. Walton Couple Honored A reception was held in the Walton Community Hall in honor of Mr. and Mrs. Melvin Byerman, newly-weds. The ev- ening was spent in dancing to the music of Wilbee's orches- tra. Mr. and Mrs. Byerman were presented with a purse of money. A dainty lunch was served by the women present. —Blyth Standard. Wins Scholarship Kathryn Hunter, S.H.I4.H.S. graduate, has been awarded the third Huron County Carter scholarship, it was announced last week. The award, valued at $40* is given to students in Huron County with the highest aggregate marks in June de- partmental examinations. Miss Hunter is enrolled at London Teachers' College. — Exeter Times -Advocate. Home From Hospital We are pleased to report that Mr. Leroy O'Brien has recover- ed sufficiently to return to his home on Wednesday, although he is still in the recuperating stage, but we hope to see more of him as time goes on. Many of us have had our ups and downs in health, but partience and courage has enabled us to get well and to take our place in life. We wish Leroy a speedy recovery.—Zurich Herald. Break and Enter Charged Heard Charges of conspiracy to break and enter the Brussels Creamery, heard at a prelimin- ary hearing before Magistrate D. E. Holmes, Q.C., were dismissed in Goderich on Monday. Magis- trate Holmes found there was insufficient evidence to warrant the case being tried before a judge and jury. Charges were dismissed against Ross Hardy, Sutton; his brother, William J. Hardy, T. J. Wilson and R. N. Leslie, all of Toronto.—Clinton News -Record. Deaf Mute Couple Wed 60 Years A Toronto couple. marrried in Clinton and who at one time made that town their home, on Monday became the first deaf mute couple in Canada to cele- brate their 60th wedding `anni- versary. Davis Sours, 85, and his wife, Ellen, $4 were given a party with an attendance of a - about 100 at the Toronto Evan- gelical Church of the Deaf. Mrs. Sours, a native of Bayfeild, is a prize winning crocheter and while the pair lived in Clinton their flower garden drew resi- dents for miles around. The Sours were the earliest deaf pupils to be admitted to the On- tario School for the Deaf in Belleville when it opened its doors in 1870.—Goderich Sig- nal -Star. Three Cars Collide Three cars involed in an ac- cident at the Crediton and air- port road intersection on Tues- day morning 'were damaged to a total of $800. When a car be- ing driven east on the Crediton road by Louis Boulianne, Credi- ton, collided with one being driven south on the township road by Grant Triebner, R.R. 1, Exeter, it then bounced over and struck Arthur McKerral's car, which was parked at the inter- section. No injuries to the driv- ers resulted. Three hours later on the same road, LAC. Keith Miller, of Centralia R.C.A.F. Station, skidded while travelling west and broke off a pole. Mil- ler and his passengers escaped injury. Damage to the car was estimated at $175. P.C. Elmer Zimmerman investigated both accidents.—Exeter Times -Advo- cate. Boy Brekas Jaw Two Sunday accidents result- ed in injuries to Emil Hendrick, son of Mr. and Mrs. Sam Hen- drick Exeter, and Susan Davies, of Corbett. Emil Hendrick was driving a light truck west on Huron St. about 9 p.m. when he lost control of it and struck a tree near the home of H. Truemner on Huron St. East. He was brought to South Hur- on Hospital and later taken to Victoria Hospital, London. His injuries consist of a broken jaw and bruises. In an accident north of Corbett, Stephen Twp., Susan Davies, three, suffered head injuries when she fell from a car` driven by her moth- er as the door flew open. Af- ter being treated by Dr. W. H. O. Matthews, of Crediton, the child was taken to St. Joseph's Hospital, London, in Hoffman's ambulance. Her condition is satisfactory. — Exeter Times - Advocate. CROSSROADS (By James Scott) THE TELEVISION MENACE - The other night I heard a de- bate on whether or not televi- sion is a menace to youngsters during their formal schooling. These debates are getting to be more and more of a rarething t rng in these parts. It used to be that the old red school house would be full if it was known that on a given night some o the more mentally -alert mem- bers of the community were going to get together to debate say, reciprocity with the United States (you could always count on that for a hot one) but -the other night. the Clinton Colleg- iate auditorium was far from bulging when three debates were scheduled. The answer could be many things but perhaps the most common of all would be that many people who might have attended these debates were just plain too busy. This problem of always busy is one which seems to beset all modern men. Wherever I go, I'm always finding folk who say that they don't have time for half the things they would like to do. In fact, I'm always saying it myself. Well this is to be expected. After all, we don't live in quite the same simple way of men of three to four million years ago. Things have got a bit more complicated since then because we have learned to do a great many more things than our pre- historic ancestors. There's the catch right there. The more we learn the more there is to do. Every time we invent a new gadget and add it to our culture, we automatically add something else to keep us busy. This of course is what is hap- pening with that new gadget called television. The other night, in the course of the debate, we .heard- a lot of statements about the good ef- fects which TV could have and, when you begin to think about it there are a lot of good things which it can do. Then the oth- er fellows got up and listed a lot of bad things which might happen if we put television in- to our homes. The debate was to see which side was' right. It was very close and that was to be expected, ---because therealtruth of the matter is that both sides were right. One of the first important things man learned to do was to make fire. Some authorities say that it was not until man learned how to make a fire that civilization really began. Yet you and I know that fire can be a terribly bad thing. Every year it causes millions of dol- lars worth of destruction; it de- stroys countless human lives and brings unutterable suffer- ing and privation to many, many people. That, I think, does not mean that you and I would like to live without it. We know bow good it can be 'for us all—es- peeiall in climates like ours new. that Winter is :here. We also know that if we are going, to ado". the. benefits Of fire ithotit the danger .'ire have to, �uu , yhow to tett = it rt is Pre' cisely the same way with tele- vision. We're living in a fool's para- dise if we think there is no harm in it. There is danger in it—plenty of danger, and it can do more harm to our way of life than most of us realize. But there is great benefit too. In f order to reap that advantage, it is absolutely imperative that we learn to control it. That is where the time ele- • ment comes in. If our caveman ancestors had said to them- selves after they learned how to make fire, "Well, there's a nice cozy blaze, it may be a little dangerous but I really haven't time to worry about it," there is a good possibility that the entire human race would have been destroyed by now. Now probably TV is not that menacing, but if we don't take time to learn how to use it pro- perly ,you can bet your bottom dollar it will deprive us of many values we hold dear be- fore we're finished with it. We better find the time. YEARS AGONE Interesting Items Picked From. The 4iuron Expositor of Twen- ty-five and Fifty Years Ago From The Huron Expositor December 20, 1929 Mr. John Woods, Bayfield,. went to London last week with Mr. and Mrs. Alex Sparks, who were in Bayfield for a few days. Mrs. Keyes, of Hensall, visit- ed her sisters, the Misses Parke, Bayfield. The many friends of Mrs. W. Stackhouse, Brucefield, will re- gret to hear that when milking she was knocked under the feet of a cattle beast and was so bad- ly hurt that she had eight stitch- es put in the back of her neck and head. Little Jackie McDonald, son of Mr. and Mrs. James McDon- ald, Brucefield, fell and broke his arm last week. Mrs. Wm. Duggan, Seaforth, left this week for Washington, D.C., where she will spend the winter. Miss Gertrude Cardno receiv- ed word on Wednesday. that she had. successfuIlly passed her fin- al examination at London and had been awarded her degree of Registered Nurse. Mr. John Messerschmidt, for- merly of Manley, who moved to Stratford, made a business trip to Seaforth last week and re- newed old acquaintances. Miss Gladys McLean, Kippen, spent the weekend with friends near Cromarty. Miss Margaret Cooper, Kip - pent, spent the weekend in Lon- don. Miss Jean Elder, who is at- tending Pharmacy at Toronto, is a visitor at the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. John El- der, Hensall, for the Christmas holidays. • From The Huron Expositor December 16, 1904 Mr. Finlay McKercher, Beech- wood, who has spent four months touring and exploring the Northwest, is home again and is looking well. He thinks this is the garden of Canada. ' Thomas Hamilton, of Hulllett. had the misfortune to get his hands caught in the cogs of a straw cutter the other day, with the result that he lost the sec- ond finger of tits left hand and two others were badly injured. On Wednesday while John Corbett, of Hullett, was driving some cattle homeward along the concession, near George Farqu- har's, a couple bolted and ran down the railway just as the train was coming south. One of them, a 2 -year-old steer, was struck and killed. Mr. D. McLeod, of Washing- ton, Western States, is the guest of Mr. James Hinchley, Con- stance. He is Mrs. Hinchley's brother-in-law. Mr. George Webb, Londes- bo, has secured a position in Seaforth and left for that place last Thursday. Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Dun- kin, of Varna, are visiting with friendsin McGilllivrary. On Wednesday of last week Mr. George Fairbairn, third son of Mr. Elliott Fairbairn, Tuck- ersrnith, was united in marriage to Miss Mabel Symmons, Hib- bert. The ceremony was per- formed by Rev. C. Fletcher at the manse, Thames Road. Miss Bonthron, who has been home in Hensall spending the past month with her parents, Mr. and Mrs, James Bonthron, of Hay, has returned to Port Huron. a The people in Leadbury are pleased to hear tI .t their young friends, Mr. Clayton White and his sister, Miss Cora, who are attending the Model School at Goderich, have been engaged to teach the coming year, Cora at a school not far from Leadbury, and Clayton at Port Albert. .;t ,r.-; ,).., �:I•�;%,f,r�NIy,..v. • ,w.s7. q`>4, Order Your Christmas Tree Now Our Large Selection Is _- -Sure to Please You. Many sizes, types from which to choose. 1-MacaulayLtd. Lumber and Building Supplies Phone 77' ' Seaforth A Save Lives and Property Loss! Your attention is' called to the danger to life and property from Christmas decorations, such as draperies, scenery, cotton to repres- ent snow, etc. Displays of this nature and the lighting arrangements in connection therein, add greatly to the ordinary risks of fire! See that inflammable material is clear of and not hung over lightning devices, steam pipes,. stove pipes, electric light bulbs, etc. See that electric circuits are properly fused and not overloaded. Have all temporary decorations removed as soon as they have served their purpose. ' REMEMBER! Nothing can render these displays absolutely safe, and that if accidents are not to mar the festive season, constant vigilance and care must be exercis- ed. To Citizens of Seaforth and District We Extend Best Wishes for a happy Holiday Season! SEAFORTH FIRE BRIGADE F. -C. J. SILLS, Secretary JOHN F. SCOTT, -Fire Chief i'%1 rt 71.nt ni fh4-4r ly ITSi�rf ,. 1 iT 1 r ,fesT ,T.`'r .t "The temati momessieussaimmenor • Limited 1j MONTREAL—TORONTO—CHICAGO On business or pleasure, travel the fast and comfortable• way on Canadian National's International Limited. Put . usable time to your advantage as the engineer does the • driving. 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