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SEAFORt14.$ :.P TARIQ, MAY 17, 1919•
The great debate
Peraps the Sunday night debate between leaders Of Canada's three
political parties didn't change many Votes. according to reportsin the
daily press but it did make'obvious why the polls continue to indicate,
that Pierre Trudeau is the overwhelming choice of Canadians as the
leader considered most competent to guide Canada at this critical time.
This despite the fact that the same polis give` the ConservativeS<a slight
edge in vatting intention. •
Throughout the debate the Prime Minister exhibited , all those:
qualities: which have contributed so much to making Canada a country.
admired by leaders throughout the western world. Mr.. Broadbent, too,
in turn advanced policies of his party•aPPlicable; to all Canadians. Mr.
Clark on the other hand, was vague and; Unable or unwilling to indicate
a position or .to look beyiond: the demands of . the provinces. as, they
.relate ;to .the greater needs of Canada,
Canada's positron in a constantly :changing world depends on
• consistent and considered policies on alf those questions that mean so_
much in` the years to come and not the least of which is the matter' of
unity. The 'debate made plain .that. only Mr. Trudeau, had an
appreciation of the•pr.,oblems and, at,the same time, was able to project
• the quality of leadership necessary to a solution.
Of course there have been problems in Canada in recent years but on.
balance these were much less .pressing than were those faced by
citizens of other countries- Canada hadthe strongest economic record
during if. cul
s. e.• u n the d fi t
• • ` inq stria! lzea :nation :during the 70 . Even d 9. I ,
of any u
'" did better than almost every other in
oil crisis years Canada's economy . .
the wes 9 tern world accordin to studies carried out by the International
•,
Organization' for Economic'Cooperation and Developme
nt:
All this means that toda, desPite, some. difficulties, the
avert
e
Canadian has increasedincone, increased savings, increased profits •
,
is s ending mare and enjoys amuch higher standard of living than ten
years' ago.
The Policies of the Tcudeau,government have worked. It is important
ns,
n -inti to work for' Canadians, .
that sim"iiiar polic%es cat e •_ •
it becomes a questien of'leadership< Since only.Mr. Trudeau or Mr
clerk ca . r form overnment We must decide whether we want proven
n ora a g
,
leadersteipor Leadership by. .one who,'as the debate revealed, refuses to
indicate or has no position on even the most routine matter let alone
such vital issues as unity and: energy. A country can only go: so far in
placating :selfish regional demands without destroying,itself and Mr.
Clark's acceptance of provincial demands coupled with an obvious lack •-•
of any determined policy could' . t
well 'have this. result,.
..•
;There ,can be only one Canada and Canadian policies must apply'"
is � � whether. theyfive in Newfoundland' or
witt�'equat effect on:Gonad ns ,
in the far west. They cannot be bent to the whims of strong provinces
at the expense of the.small•and the weak.. That is why a strong central
'government under strong leadership is particularly vital ,
to Canadians
-at: this time :and in the years ahead. •
haveal one wa to ensure there is:a strong united country
•: Voters only y,, g
end this"is�by supporting and voting for a candidate who not only would
be a PP q
creditable, member but also who represents a -party which is
dedicated to a strong Canada.
Craig:
in this riding. voters have such a candidate in Graeme , ig,
t,are they afraid of.
r�won't . sh wyou take'the show to the people.
if people go to the. o P P
' old adage the entertainment business and it's lead to
That's od 9 in.,
decentralization that brings top Canadian entertainment to places like
h's :Me orial and used' to in the old days, bringtouring
B yt rti i Hall, s
Y,
players to excellent small auditoriums like Seaforth's Cardno's.Hall.
y
lt's also anadagethati chel-Seafarttr CableTV
owner
Jack W-_.
ar
d
likely had in mind when he Sent a letter to Seaforthcouncil, asking
.i. n t o video a `.re regular council meetingand show it on' the.
permission t tape � ...
community's Channel 12,
Y
i d.council ,,. meeting,just ort as apilot project' to. see if
A telex se } e
anyone could care less, is'a great idea we think.
• Mind .you council meeting aren't always terrific entertainment.
.they often • consist of :Icing readings of bylaws and committee reports.
But oval'council meetings have their interesting mormients,.and, at
best a televised! Meeting" would give Seaforth viewers a chance to see
conduct town business; • usually
how their elected : representatives
responsibly
and efficiently,, we 'might add.
Therefore we have to ask members of Seaforth council what they are
afraid of when they vote four to three, as they did Monday night, to
turn down the televising proposal.
We can't tell you, which council member voted how because there
wasn't vote on; the. matter. Butwe 'su ..estyou askyour
v+►a t a recordedoft art suggest ,
favourite councillor how he voted, and what he's afraid of if he voted
against televising a Council meeting.
• • Our sometimes fragile democracy depends on an informed public.
Televising a council meeting could only add to what Seaforth voters
....: m n
..i{now, about how their local govern e t w orks �
We edeplore councils short. si ness i .rejecting ghted n the Cable TV
offer.
Seaforth's:. oWn poll
With the election Wetting p u on
Maki 22 it seems like just, about
everybody has been corningup with
Y Y g
eleetlorsurvey pont and making
g
predietion8 on the election outcome
as a. 'result of these` .rolls. '•.
Cberving: that . the Huron;
expositor 'decided to do its bW'fi
opinion poll both within town and!
surrounding areas, WO Oiled 000016,
•
THE �. eir platform and answered . questions.,
H CANDIDATES AND THE STUDENTS - Students at SDHS listened • presented their
attentively last Thursday as the three Huron federal election candidates
In the years agone
Buggy accideri
MAY 16,1879
A
•. :, on of James Snell of Devon sustained a...
sever e. fraeture of one of his :legs when he
jumped froma wagon drawn by .a runaway
..team on Tuesday::
daughter As Ivirs. E. McFaul and .of Staffa
were returning from Exeter their horse
became unmanageable and ran away. As it
on the' buggyoverturned killing
pass ed a wagon
both occupants.
We have had July weather this week, The
8enial, shower of Wednesday night has
cooled. the Air and done ouch` .good. •t(t
vegetation.:
A. G. Van •E mond has built a large
woollen mill in mondville:
addition to hisE 8
Farmers in the neighbourhood - ' of Blake
. ate mostl • through seeding except the
unfortunate few who waited on the warm,
weather. ,
i e has all gone from: the lake but the •.
Winds keep very high.
G:co. Sproat of Tuckersmith has , sold his
thorough bred bull to James Colquhoun of
Hibbert. bel•
Agentleman AfroYm Ua 104i
hboutin
town
a great deal remarked
who travels the road g
•
tins of Hensel( that it was
•.ta•;one of. the citizens ,
at: random and promised not to use
their harries..
• Out -of 10 patois potied the results
showed four votes for the Con-
eervatives, two votes for the Liberal
and fourp eople: who were stili
unaided about Which way they'll
vote when they go to the polls
useiday
• nil _sp
Ice
B` BiII'Smile
Y Y
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Music • festival t tim"
My oisback in the music festival seems to do the trick.
f . d "lad �
business, iness, after an absence of some years, That worked pretty well when the old girl
and it's just like old times around here; had twenty -odd students: And was churn-
J.
' outrite winners b = the dozen at every'
hectic:: ing p by
-the
ed that
I was
aitfl
t
festival, She`d, be s s
We valla{ frequently about: great issues}
9 o t.sr_ . right ahead and.
whoput out the garbage last week listening. and. would' go g
surhasg t;.
'Or whose turn it is to do the dishes.. When . have the kid. play the piece the way she.
"
these tiffs bec.ome heated.,. I am frequently y knew it Should be played:
around, she doesn't have
• f this
told, in a typical wifely. when. Eotime - o
she is logically cornered, that:.I know' the same oid confidence, because she's
nothingbeen awayfrom it so long. She makes die
b
almost ;about mus
tc.
ari to.
•' • en instead'of'ust appearing n
list P g
It has notliing'to'do with' the argument, • actually J P
but I hear, "You, couldn't even find middle When 1 question the speed of a piece, she
i tones of contemn t, 1 " plays it at four different speeds', and forces
C on the :piano, , n p
t ort at fact the further me to make a judgment. They all sound the
claeerfully.admtt t. „h
'fact that I don'tive a diddle,_ which fans same tome,.,
8 g nuet.seems'a'..
the. flames. This always non-complusses ,Should suggest that the mi
)'w is i s u. she. ' meget u ' in the
aht�h is the object trifle fast, she makesp
her..
But.. Shen .a music festival looms..and ,living -room. pretend I am a bewigged,
c ve 'r ant in tight ants
looms is : the words, t, suddenly `dis o . r lie owdered French gall 8 P
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that ".'You have a good' ear. and a great' in the court of Louis Fourteenth, and dance.
sense of rhythm and tetnpo."`.and I realize, a minuet. It's hard: to get into the mood '.
with an inward groan, that l m in for hours when 1 min my bedroom slippers, painting
•,of listening to minuets and gavottes and
sonatinas, and making judgmentsbased on
my good ear and great sense of etc.
It all began about 20 year ago. Both our
kids were taking •piano lessons, and doing
well: One evening I was sitting idly,
reading my paper and wagging my foot in
time to the sonatina msy son i as preparing;
fora music festival.
My foot got going so fast I couldn't even
readthe printed word for the vibration.
"Hey," 1 thought, "this kid isn't Chopin or
•paderewski, That's a mite quick for a grade
six ,piece."
I made my wife sit down and listen, She
checked the tempo in the book, He was
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playing about double sPecd. She brought it
tothe attention nf his music teacher.. who
was a little shocked and' embarrassed to
realizethat old: tin ear was right. Happy
ending. We got the kid slowed to
half -speed. and he won first prize...
That was the end of any peace for rite,
around festival time, Ever since, I've had
to listen to dozens of kids 'play all their
festival picceS, and -come up' with sortie
i
' ighfe ingcomment. about things of ea,' themselves, figure out her teotne tax
'Which 1 have absolotely absolutelyna knowledge, like Naturally. she didn't have half the inform'
-
pace,ation. And Balind, three, asserted that he,
tem, teiripo, appogfatuto.
tone, rhyt
forte. crescendo and the like, l dolt t even was ne longer Robin, .but the incredible Hulk, Whatever that is . ,. ,.
.
know what the words mean. ,
`self-defence, tve concocted a number $ut
" r:f he estiva tight igh.t up there. like' a is
of commcnts about as useful as the things bill board, with its ts nfighting: anxiety.
teachers written report cards, Thing, like. lousy adjudicator (if yott lose), teachers
•
"
' Bond movement is a bitteetering on the verge of a coronary, and
petltaps the: se_ their
hair
.
. subdued'," or, "Yes. that's holding tow . mothets tearing; their hair' tint in clumps:
� r
..ether nicd -,1 et "don't you think the Next year, 1 hope the old lady takes up
karate or sk divin orsomethin sane and
andante allegro is a• bit tutgtd. When you k „ " , Y . p... � . , ,.,.
don t know an andante from an allegro, if scjiSible and safe, Wait festivals ate
one were to era, out: of :y+out soup, it Mittder.
pants and old sport shirt.
Prancing - around on ;.
,Have you. ever ariciJ°..gran g, ...
the strains of a gavotte, on .a Saturday.
morning. when you know your neighbours
can see in 'the windows and are wondering
what on earth Smiley got into at this hour
Of the day?
have you ever ttied to' Butn-bum-bum"
your way, through a sonatina, at the same
time trying to clap your hands to establish.
the time and to• read the headlines about
the coming election. It's nerve-wracking.
Our Social life has deteriorated, too, as it
always has at festival time. Instead of
going to sparkling parties where all the
guests are full of repartee, among • other
things, we sit in the living -room, with her
pounding the piano, and' me waving my
foot. It's not enough to keep the mind
alive.
Oh, we do take a sashay into high life
occasionally, On Easter weekend. we really
lived it up, We went to see Great -Grandad.
who is reoovcritlg from an operation,' and
carte home the next day to help' Kim, who
arrived with Batman and Robin, as they
one bf the neatest, atest cleanest and best kept •
,
villages in the Province that he knows. •
The heavy "rainfall ofthxs ,month is likely to ,
insure a good' drop of hay as well as. help all
growing crops
B cefield: to
'While driving from ru Kippen
R
Bell s
fTuckersinith�had the misfortune .D
to meetc
. with an 'a cident; : that might have
resulted uch more seriously than it did; A.
man drove tip behind him at a very rapid rate
and when Mr, Bellturned•out to -allow him to
•
of his sulkywas•'cau htby
pass.. the wheel 8
the passing rig and the sulky overturned' and
n to"the gground and` had
• M>•. Bell was theow ,.
°hts shoulder dislocated;'
`_
• The :largest " shipment . of cattle : ever
delivered in Seaforth in one day to one man a 'position on the staff of the .Goderich.
was made to John O'Keefe- His delivery ;on Collegiate Institute. He is the son of Mr. and
Friday amounted to S43,883. Ivlrs, James Hill of S#affa,
li e
clerks .
ev k
We are�:informed that the d . • ry John A. Eckert of Manley is making a
of �eaforth have formed,a:'union: They have of chicken raisingand has obtained a
S that thegrocers must have. all orders
success
decided ha new incubator
delivered. before 8 o'clock on Saturday nights Special services were held in Egmondville
and the butchers before 9''p.m, sharp.. United Church in honour of Mothers :Day"..:
A.W. Stobie, • 'who is a Fenian Raid Four infants were baptised -. DonaldpHugh
veteran, has received ,his ;certificate for his McKenzie, Robert Grant Houston, Shirley
hien tie ets:from the Province for his
'farm w 8 ,, ,.''Jeannette Love and John Howard,
services on the occasion;the the threatened
MAY 21 1954,
Fenian Raid:
Wilson Wof town intends; oin
• D.D. t s 8. B to the
old country and will be accompanied by his
dau ' hter Mrs. Sampson of Montreal. •
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The workmen who are now tearing down
the wall of the `resb .terian Chttrch sayit is
it Y
as solid and well built a brick wall as they
have ever seen,'` It was built by Wm., Shaw
aboutY g
37 ears.'a o: ' `
Large .'stocks of anthracite coal are already
being laid' -in for next year.
We have to Congratulate G.F. Roger
head master of the Seaforth Collegiate
Institute on the honotir conferred on him by
his fellow teachers in selecting him as their
president for the'coxni
ng Year, ,
Wm. .lvicteod has recently; sold to the
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(Expositor Photo)
l •a mer V. Ryan .of St, Columban has been
appointed mail carrier between Beechwood.
and St• Columban flag station. -
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MAY 17,1929
The residence of John•. • Workman of
�'i. • n is amongone of the first to be wired
K ppe {
for hydro,• the work being done by .Ernest
Uaviis'of Exeter.
Owing to the backward weather a number
'of' farmers in the Kippen area. have 'been
held back with seeding operations.
Professor Brenton Kerr M.A.. PhD. has.
been honoured'': by havingbeen made a
fellow -of . the Royal 'Historical .Society : of
London, England.
D.J. Hill B.S.A. of Seaforth, has accepted
Misses"Davis of Hibbezt a',very handsome
cabinet grand piano,
James Nevill has erected a very handsome
Monument in Harpurhey Cemetery to,.:the
memory of the late .Mrs, W.N. 'Watson.
Harty Jeffery has returned and has taken
a position in the store of William Pickard! and
Co.
Miss Mary Lou Sills is oneof the
candidates for $
raduation in Home Eco-
nomics, -from
conomics-fromh Western University, London.
A firethe: Topnotch Feed` . Mill here
at p,
resulted in an 589,000' loss. During the fire
the 3 storey elevator collapsed, Chief John
F. Scott and Seaforth fireman fought the
blaze for three hours.
Mts. Jane'Walker,lker, .for "}any years a well
, known and highly respected. Seaforth resi-
dent, will celebrate' her 90th birthday at the
• home of herdaughter, Miss Mary. Walker in
Ottawa. •
,."
Audrey and: ;lune 'Hackwele l .of Walton,
'S25.00
h ' rod' Coun
were• winners of the Huron ty
Educational Scholarship.
holarshi
p
Unable get et his'seedin :done because of
8
illness Russell, Pringle ' of McKillop'"` was
agreeably surprised when several of his
neighboursup
turned with' their tractors and
seeded 40 acres. Those who assisted were`
Con Eckert Graham Kerr, : Albert Harrison,
John Henderson, Joe Riley, Gerald van den
Henget and others. •r
xpositor asks:
Did the debate 6ai a charge your mind
'YDEEB IE Ift"
B ANNEY'
The great, debate between the three
political leaders i$ over and, many seemed
to think that debate would be a big factor in
helping the undecided voters make up their
minds was it? Apparently not from the
response to; this week's Expositor .Asks
when we asked," Did the debate between
the three party leaders change your mind
or help you make up your mind about who
you ate going to vote for?" We also asked
sortie people what they thought of the
debate,
Cathy Boon of Brucefield said she had
watched the debate but that she hadn't.
decided who to vote for yet anyway,
Mrs Ed. Dorrance of R.R.2, Seaforth
I sawpart of
said,
' it. 1 had already trade
tip my mind but not 100 per cent."
She said after she saw the debate she
thought She was on the tight: track. •
Of the debate itself he Said, "1 found it
,i.
ng. •n
very, interest 1 th is in the debate the
a is have to ,e
particip n Mee to grips with .,
their own ideas I thought it was a good'
debate,"
Mrs. John Watt of Egiiiondville said the
debate didn't 'helpher make up' !tot tow
butthat it :didn't make any difference,
because you're voting for the candidates'
around here; not the leaders.
. ,1 Brucefieid
Mrs:• Adam Wilson of- RR ,
said she had watched the debate but she
still doesn't know who she is going, 1* vote
for,
Mrs. Nelson,Hood' of R.R.3 Kippen said
she had already Made up her mind and that
the debate didn't change it,
"'I thought it was : very good, It Was
interesting," she said of the :debate.
Mrs.. Robert H. Kelly of R,R.1,
Londesboro said, "No: it didn't. We had'
our minds made up before that,"
Of the debate She said, "I don't tike to,
see them make a. fuss and ..uarretin" like
the Way they were doing but it wasn't t too
bad.
Harry Horton of 56' London Road in
Hensall Said, "I've made up mymind, rni,
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still going to `vote for the same "!ani"
He Said he had listened to the debate
and thought it Was vary goad •
"Each were giving their real opinions of
what they thought and it was good," be
Said.
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