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Losing our roots
We are losing part of our heritage, some of the crucial building blocks that
made this country what it is.
Dominion Day was changed to Canada Day during Pierre Trudeau's term as
Prime Minister. The Lord's Prayer has been banished from Ontario's public
schools, schools set up by Egerton Ryerson a century ago as a system of
universal, tax -supported elementary education based on Christian morality,
The Lord's Day Act is an anachronistic joke. Former holy days are now just
holidays.
The Christian precepts and principles inherent in our governments, our
courts and our educational systems have had a strong and beneficent' in-
fluence since this country's discovery, and made a large contribution to the at-
tractive and enviable Iifestlye currently enjoyed in this democratic land.
Canada was built by successive waves of immigrants who came to one of
the most beautiful and bountiful places on earth to escape poverty, religious
persecution, or a future with no hope.
We are not perfect. Our history contains many accounts of injustice and
discrimination. We have had wars and insurrections. Yet somehow, we
managed to muddle through our long and often turbulent gestation period.
In 1967 the Dominion of Canada came into being, born of a British father
and a French mother. Both founders considered themselves Christian, and
this has had a profound effect on their offspring.
The name "Dominion" was suggested by Leonard Tilley, one of the Fathers
of Confederation. He took the word from Psalm 72:8. "He shall have, dominipn
from sea to sea, and from the great river to the ends of the earth."
Canada inherited two of the world's basic law systems: English common law
in the nine provinces and the territories, and civil law in Quebec. Our system,
though flawed, attempts to balance justice with mercy, and protection of the
rights of the individual with the good of society as a whole.
Our education system, too, is rooted in Christianity. The first Canadian
teachers were four Jesuit priests who accompanied Champlain to the New
World. Until the., mid -twentieth century three Christian denominations - the
United Church, the Catholic and the Anglican - significantly influenced the
Canadian ethics and morals and prevailing economic, social and political
views.
Our first 100 years of nationhood were spent establishing a great country.
Are we going to spend the next 100 dismantling it
An increasingly secular society, and shifting immigration patterns, have ex-
erted subtle pressures over the last few decades to alter or abolish some long
established Canadian institutions.
Homegrown Canadians who want to remove all vestiges of our Christian
roots are reminded of the story of Samson; uprooting the pillars brought the
whole edifice crashing down.
People from non-Christian cultures are pouring into Canada, drawn by a
society that has its roots in the Christian faith; some then try to change the very
institutions responsible for making this country such a desirable place.
Self-serving politicians, ever mindful of votes, have rushed to the head of the
parade. A multi -cultural policy was proclaimed in 1971, and a federal cabinet
post announced the following year. This makes hyphenated Canadians of
ethnic groups, instead of encouraging them to join their predecessors in conti-
nuing to make this country one of the most desirable on earth in which to live.
Newcomers are entitled to the same rights and freedoms as native-born
Canadians. They are free to worship in their mosques and temples, free to
pass on their language and their culture to their children, free to write letters to
the editor, and free to call for protection under the Charter of Rights.
Those planning to make this country their future home should come here
legally, and live here lawfully. Grievances and feuds from other times and
places are excess baggage. Our customs and institutions should be
respected, and not altered to conform with ones left behind.
0, Canada$ True patriot love in all of us command. - This editorial, written by
Yvonne Reynolds of the Exeter -Times -Advocate, is being re -run in The Ex-
positor at the request of a reader.
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Parents gain new respect for teenagers
We feel as parents, we would like to com-
ment on our respect for 14 teenagers. In our
society today, most comments about our
youth are usually negative.
They rented a Winnebago, and asked us to
drive it JUST DRIVE, NOT CHAPERONE!
As it turned out, it made prom night '89, as
exciting an event for us, as it was for them.
We brought to their attention, upon leav-
ing our home at 6 -pm, that we covered a
costly damage .clause, so please respect that
issue, .and we hope you will remember,
every detail of Prom 89 -All of them honored
both. Theymade us feel such a social part of
their evening.
They showed us real respect, appreciation
and shared communication throughout the
night, which ended at 7 am Saturday. We
hung in, they didn't.
These kids have been in our home many
times, and we have always enjoyed them.
There.was some concern among the kids,
that we would act like parents, but they
never gave us any cause to do so. These in-
dividuals are truly an asset to our society to-
day and -in most cases a pretty special con-
tribution. Bear with them, there's good in
Turn to page 15
'Canardi ons unaware -sof what's agoing on
To the Editor
.With reference to the goodwill toward
Freneh•Osnada:being-espoused byElizabeth
Fingland in her letter to FOCUS :dated
March 7, 1989, eonsider:tbis •from;the back-
cover:efFthe;Book "ENOUGH' by LCdr. J:V.
Andrew -RCN (Retired).
",At this very :.moment (1989) :the
Secretary of S.tate for Canada and the :Com-
„nnissioner"for-Official ;Languages ,:are, :by
their own definition,. on, a ",War -footing" to
Weeks; rinada;anemirelyFrenchnatian':the
,gatibppertlytadmittodvbylformerSecretarY
of State, Serge Joyal.
"The:new Official Languages .Act, com-
bined.with:theProvincial French Language
Service:Acte, have been designated. to bring
about: 1)1 herFrenehification,o£,every,pro-
viilncial,regional,-city ,and;town;government
and !their services to;the;public, across the
whole:;of.Gattada• 2)-The=F;renehification of
Allebusilleaa,. irtduatry,:anions, the -courts,
'and;evetyrenterpriseoprivato ,or otherwise
setwing
Abe -Canadian ;public. 3) -The -Fren-
ehi ieation of ,,:all schools ,and every
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To reed or not to weed
Not that I'd have the time to indulge
myself - but someone, somewhere should of-
fer we soon-to-be former apartment
dwellers, Instruction on gardening.
I tried my hand at it the other day, and
could probably safely wager that, good in-
tentions aside, I destroyed more than I
saved.
I mean, just how does one determine
which are the plants, and which are the
weeds?
If I pulled everything I thought resembled
a weed, there'd be little left in my flower
gardens. By the same token, by not pulling
anything, what I've got left on my hands are
crammed living quarters for these plants.
To be honest, I did not plant the gardens
I've been attempting to salvage. They were
left behind courtesy of this home's former
owner - and it is quite evident that these
must have been glorious gardens in their
time. I've been privy to quite a variety of
flowers in recent weeks - everything from
daffodils, tulips and narcissus to bleeding
hearts. (Obviously someone other than
myself identified the more unique flowers in
this garden). There are also some rather in-
teresting purple and white flowers, and
minute blue, and yellow blooms.
Unfortunately though, as beautiful as the
flowers are, these gardens of mine are a tad
overgrown right now. And, in an attempt to
prevent a certain someone from simply
plowing them all under, I've been trying to
at least salvage a few. I mean, once these
flowers are gone, who's to say whether I'll
be able to raise a few on my own.
If genetics have anything to do with it, I
won't. Green thumbs aren't exactly
prevalent in the membersof my immediate
family - and beyond that... Well, suffice it to
say, I haven't heard anything about
anybody's rose bushes winning first prize at
the county fair.
However, salvaging a garden is a more
difficult task than I ever imagined. Weeding
is hard work - herrlpr .Still when vnn'rn net
really certain what exactly it is that you're
doing.
And, if I ever do get the task completed
(and the blooms may have gone into hiber-
nation by that point) will I like the result?
I'm afraid the gardens will have looked
better overgrown and healthy, than weeded
as only I can do it. Maybe plowing them all
under is the best approach - although I'd
probably feel like a murderer doing it.
Then of course, there's the absolute pain
of weeding itself. Tell me, is there a more
comfortable means of weeding other than to
duck squat over the greenery for a day? Say
maybe, something in a reclining position
that allows one to tan something other than
one's backside - which technically, for pro-
priety's sake, should be covered anyway.
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_More Lop
"The Moscow girls really knock me out,
leave the west behind..."
In the latest movement in the new Soviet
Glasnost or openness, the Soviet Union held
its first ever national beauty pageant.
A huge step forward! (??? )
I didn't catch what they are calling the
most beautiful woman in Russia so I'll refer
to her as Miss CCCP, but I did catch her pic-
ture on the tube and I bet she surprised
some people.
Most of us in the west have a slightly
tainted picture of what a soviet woman
should look like. Evidence of this is the
television commercial which uses a russian
"fashion" show as a backdrop. A thickly ac-
cented voice says "first, evening wear,"
and out onto the stage waddles a matronly
woman in a plain grey dress and a kerchief
on her head. The voice then says "next,
svimwear," and out trots the same woman
in the same frock, holding a beachball.
So when they showed the curvy Miss
CCCP on television after her recent crown-
ing, along with some of the other com-
petitors like Miss Siberia and Miss Ukraine,
it showed that the USSR too has women we
would consider attractive (that's a nicer
word than "built").
Litt.
MY TWO BITS
by Neil Corbett
I knew there was a reason the Beatles
wanted to get back there.
I'd say that the fact the soviets have
started having beauty pageants at all
-rather than that they started late- shows
that, although enlightened, they're still pret-
ty backwards.
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I've tried to avoid commenting on the
Stanley Cup this year because talking about
such things can only make you enemies. But
I'm sure if Stanley were around he'd want to
give his cup to the Flames.
I've sat back and listened while all sorts of
sportswriters take shots at the Flames, and
make rude suggestions like "the !Rabe in
six." Enough is enough.
Isn't Habs short for "has been"?
It's good to see Clod Lemieux back in the
Canadians lineup. He's a real entertainer
and it'll give some flames a welcome chance
to welcome him back. He stops just short of
tears in trying to draw a penalty if he gets
bumped, his face twisted like a three year
old's who is trying to get his big brother in
trouble, even though only two shifts ago he
half dismembered the player who bumped
him.
If you want my prediction, and I'm sure
you do, I'll take the Flames in seven. As
write this the series is tied at 2-2.
I could pick the obvious player for the win-
ning goal -Joey Mullen, but I'll go out on a
limb.
I'll say in the first overtime of the seventh
game, off a faceoff in the Canadians end
(caused by a penalty to Lemeoo for lousy ac-
ting), Joel Otto will win the draw while
decapitating Bobby Smith with a headbutt,
and wring a snapshot off both posts and in.
I can't think of a better ending to the
series.
Post Office first rate in 1914
MAY 24, 1889
We are pleased to see that the fall wheat
this year is so good that there is quite a
rivalry among farmers as to -who can show
the best. We hope it will continue to prosper
until harvest, as a real good crop would be a
welcome change in the programme and
would perhaps help to revive the faith of the
millers in the omnipotent powers, of Sir John
and the National Policy which seezn to be
exceedingly weak just now. Mr. Joseph
Stenzel, lot 11, concession 12, McKillop
seems to be the champion wheat grower so
far.
The Collegiate Institute football club went
to Berlin on Saturday to play a match with
the champions of that town.
Workmen are now busily engaged ex-
cavating for the foundation for the new.wing
to the public school buildings.
The people of Egmondville are talking
about taking steps to secure incorporation
as a village. This is the best thing they can
do as according to Mr. Jackson's statement
last week, their connection with the
township will be a loss to them now that the
Township School Board system is to be
abolished.
MAY 29, 1914
The Brussels Post of last week says: Last
Friday a .Post scribe, while calling .at
Seaforth, had the pleasure of;a:look:through
the new Post office and Custonns govern-
ment building. It appears to ;be An .A 1
building throughout.and is finished in first
class style, modern and :host gonvenient,
well lighted and heated-andncci)pies one.of
the ,lost convenient sites tin aewn.Aar-
mory<haagenerous quarters tuider the same
rool", -while .a town •,clogs sufaqu $S ithe
building. We-hope'the preposed,neWipost:Rf-
:ftee .and , armory for :13tvsse1-s y be:the
IN THE ' E YEARS AGONE
from the Expositor Archives
equal of it when it comes to erecting it next
year.
The horse attached to the wagon of the
Jew pedlar got frightened at an automobile
on Main Street on Saturday. It ran the
wagon against a telephone pole in front of
Mr. Somerville's office, breaking loosefrom
the vehicle and making for his stable on the
other side of the track. No person was
injured.
It was rumored in town this week that Mr.
Walter Pickard, formerly of Seaforth, but
now of Calgary, made eight thousand
dollars last .week in an oil land deal.
On Monday as Mr. Lorne Weir was return-
ing from Mitchell, In his auto, he. hada head-
on collision with Mr. Htuuphrey of Walton.
No, person was injured, but both autos were
considerably smashed. Mr. Humphries'
auto had got into.a rut and be was unable to
control it. Mr. ;Weir brought his toa stand or
the consequencesitnighthave been,worse.
:Woe 2G„1939
Ticket No ;-Il#t :29012 in the Irish
Sweepstakes :is Meld jointly by „Her,bert
Weston,,Seafotlhi;service:station,pperator,
,and =A -.F .Alales„Lonclon, ,auto parts
sal amen, it wasdiaclose'i bere:F'riday.Te
tic et;issonAlan 'Cameron;,a•non-starter .xat
the-Derby4at,Epsom' Downs. It-willpay,-,ap-
Ipro iatelyf.$1,900• cu of
Mr. and= ',: _Albe ,:Geo. . , Occup is
the b gy -which zwas,rn,,ce t6t M tll,a oar
two :Aea. +.:• :..'' ..:.!e ' .jock
Sunday night, suffered only minor injuries,
but the buggy was badly smashed_ Driver of
the car was F.S. Savauge of Seaforth.
The swimming season, in as far as the
Lions Pool is concerned, opened officially on
Monday afternoon, when Neil Beattie and
Frank Ryan swam across the pool. Apart
from one or two children who have fallen in
the water while playing, they are the first to
use the -pool this year.
Victoria Day here was observed by a
large crowd from the district who came in
the morning to see the opening softball
game, stayed for the races in the afternoon,
and attended the Turf Club dance at night.
MAY 21,1904
Miss Carol Brown of Seaforth was award-
ed two gold medals, three silver medals and
a bronze medal at the Stratford Kiwanis'
Music Festival last week. She also received
a ;$25 scholarship to assist in her music
studies.
About 100 friends and,neighbors gathered
in the Walton Community Hall to honor Mr.
and Mrs. R.J. Doig on the occasion of their
25th,: wedding anniversary. The early part of
the evening was spent playing progressive
euchre; f#ollowed by, a Short program put ,on
:bY the -children •.of the .community.
F;pr-ifiy,years ;a -highly regarded citizen
01 SeafptthAnd-fitir amen of rthat fame:a
famliar-,figure,rrlong,retail-dgerefiants,An
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