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SEAFORTH, ONTARIO, FEBRUARY 1, 1968
Changes In County Goverment?
As the debate concerning re nal
governinent becolnes Warmer the dis-
tact press continues to discuss alterna-
titres thit hqo'been i3uggested.
Mflr the latestli 'that of the Strat-
ford 13,eacptieMid when a ,proposal
to 'reduce the strength of exiging
,
county councils is eXIitoined.
• The Beadowlierald put it this way.
' Bruce Count Y is now studying a rec-
ommendation that says it should re-
duce membership of its Council from
:the present 44 to 16.
The recommendation, strange as it
may seem, Mimes from a special com-
mittee of Council itself. The committee
feels that 16 members would be enough
to represent the 31 municipalities in
Bruce.
• To accomplish this reduction, the
committee reCommends that the six
towns in Bruce send only one represen-
tative each. Now, several send both a
• reeve and deputy -reeve. It is also rec-
ommended that townships and villages
be grouped together, where possible, to
.reduce the total: -
Bruce County, ,with a total •popula-
tion -�f 41,000, has 13 municipalities
'with populations under 1,000. Of these,
five are under 500. There is no city,
and. the largest town is Walkerton;
which has a population of 44.52. It is
a county of small towns, smaltvillages
and townships with small populations.
The picture is different in this coun-
ty, Perth. Perth has a total population
•of about 32000, not including Strat-
ford and St. Marys, which are separate
from the county for government pur-
poses. .4.
Perth County Council is compos,eci
18 members, who represent
'It ilts no nuniA0pality .With
fel9trer‘ than 1,000 people. 'Milirerton is
the sinailesf, With about 1400; Listow-
el, the largest, with 4,500,
Perth's '18 Council members each rep-
resent about 1,777 persons. Bruce's 44
mqnbers each represent about 895 per -
spa. tf\6\the Bruce Council were to be
cut 1 members, there w,ould be one
, representative for each 2,502 persons.
The Kitchener -Waterloo Record in
supporting the recommendations, points
out thaefhe traditival one representa=
tive for each muni2ipa1ity was neces-
sary in bYgone days whentravel and
comMunications were slow.
The Record, in. an editorial, says re-
forms such as those proposed in Bruce
are like& too late, since it appears that
the Ontario Government is working to -
ward's its own kind of regional govern-
ment.
• By Bruce 'County standnrds, Perth's
18 -member council is a compact, unit
representing -a sizeable group of people.
If the Government continues with .
its trend toward more regional forms
of government, however, (as it is do-
ing with fire areas, planning boards,
health units, school boards', and so on)
•Perth can expect to have some very
penetrating studies performed on its
• system of administration. ,
Sugar and Spice
— By Bill Smiley
ALL'S WELL AT SCHOOL
There are heartening signs
•
that a revolution, bloodless, but
sweeping, is taking place in ed-
ucation.
There are indications that the
oppressed people have passed
• the muttering stage, have at
tacked the Bastille,, "wW.1 free
the prisoners and in the process
`over -run the Swiss Guards, de-
fenders af the ancient •regime.
• And all will be wine and danc-
• ing in the streets. And chaos.
But out of chaos eventually
emerges order...,Look what God
made outof a heap of chaos.
And out of the chaos of the
French Revolution em,erged a
completely new concept of
freedom and equality that had
a tremendotis impact on the
world.
Perhaps the revolution in ed-
ucation will produce a similar
—11reeing of the spirit of man, al-
lowing him to cope with the
• great and relentless pressures
of this age and those to come.
Education in this century, the
century of the common man,
has been a failure on a grand
scale. It has failed entirely to
come to grips, with a society
that has been turned upside
dawn- and inside out by two
• global wars, mass communica-
• tion,, a tremendous spurt of
technological advance and a
clot, hard look ,at traditions.
Edlicators, with a few nota-
r,
ble exceptions, have been tim-
id, shying from anything that
might upset the system: The
public at large has ignored) ed-
ucation, except to bleat about
the -cost. .......
As a result, education has
been a generation behind the
: tithes. It has beeome a mono-
lith of represssion, rigidity and
conformity. It has, been an ele-
hant waltzing with a giraffe.
ut fresh winds are blowing
through the Concrete boxes:. in
which young 'minds are.,suppos-
ed to be exhilarated, excited
and liberated. Aild with many
another, I cry a. loud, sincere,
"Halleluia!"
Go into an elementary school
today. You may be shocked to
death. Instead of sitting in neat
rows, facing a teacher, and put-
ting up their hands so they
ca,n spout some meaningless in-
formation whichlias been mem-
orized, you're apt to find the
children wandering all about
the room, doing things, looking
up information,, actually talking
to each other, which, of course,
is pure heresy.
It looks like atuarchy, but it
isn't. The teacher is teaching,
not just telling. The kids are
learning, hot "being taught. No
longer are they little sponges,
each in his own eompartnient
There is a flowing of Meat, a
joy in finding out for oneSelf.
. Go into a high school. . The
teacher is supposed to be read -
"rib here to give myself up!"
a
ing a poem, preferably written
at least 100 years ago. 'Den
he is supposed to elicit from
the student's; _with a series of
childish ,questions which bore
the bright ones and are ig-
nored aby the dumb ones, the
meaning of the poem. Then
there is supposed to . be the
search for similes and meta-
phors. Then he is to put an
analysis. of the poem on . the
blackboard, the kids copy it
down„ ahd everyone is happy.
They haVe "done" a poem.
They are beirug taught. the joy
of poetry. They are being edu-
cated.
But what's this? They're not
even sitting in rows, but in a
circle. They're„ arguing about
the -poem, which was written
three years ago. They relate it
to their own lives. The discus-
-sion may run from hippies to
drugs to broken hearts' to reli-
gion to joy to beauty. They may
still be fighting about it when
they leave the classroom. Dread-
ful. Disorganized.
It's all disgusting and degen-
erate, but it's happening. And
not, just in the classroom. There
are field trips in • geography:
Imagine. Going right outside '
where the geography is. A visit
to.parliannent by a history class.
Shodking. History should) be in
books, where it belong& A triP
to the theatre' for an English
class. Sheer depravity. That
Shakespeare can be pretty fil-
thy stuff, if it isn't carefully
censored.
My wife tells the that some
of the professors at university
are actually teaching these days,
instead of just talking at you.
Where will it all end? The
iron hand has been. rembved
and one of these days we're
going to be, faced) with a gener-
ation of kids who like school
so much they'll have to be
kicked out at 16.
In the Years Agone
OrOm., The Huron Expositor as "the Master".,, having been
Feb. Sth, 1943 the school teacher of the Stan -
S. Sgt. W. C. Bennett of Wal- ley School tor fifty years.
ion, heads the postal clerks in , R. Kruse of.Tuckersmith has
Toronto. Sometimes as many as had several teams drawing
28,000 pieces of mail are re- wood from the swamp on south -'
addressed in a month. He says haif of lot five on) the 8th con -
the girls are' equal to men in cession.
Inany'respects and superior in Benjamin Riley of Constance
sone forms of work. 'hada- successful wood bee. The
Tuesday was ground hog day evening was spent in tripping
and the sun shone out so bright- the light fantastic.
ly that any inquiSitive ground Henty Weisinberg of ManleY
hog could see his shadow al- is busy getting ready to saw
most anytime of the day. Con- 'Dan Beuerman's •timber with
sequently e are going to have his 'portable sawing outfit,
six weeks re of hard winter. • Fred Eckert of Manley has
Archie igen, prominent .purchased a new Gilson gaso-
„ district farrnet of Usborne Twp. line engine from J. Beirnewies
suffere.d_a s vere stroke -Land— and is highly pleasedi.with the
was taken t Victoria Hospital, work it does. '
London. About one hundred people at -
J. M. Govenlock was re-elect: tended the box social in the in -
ed president ot the "Setiforth terest of the Red) Crosi' Society
Agricultural Society. Other of- alid held at the home of Mr.
ficers were honorary president, and Mrs. W. Kinsman of Chisel -
Humphrey Snell; first vicb pres- hurst Mrs. Knight acted as
ident, Russell Bolton; second auotioneer. A prize was offered
vice-president, Stewart Dale; for the box realizing thg largeSt
secretarytteaturer, Mrs.' 'A. ,amount which ,was carried Off
Kerr. •- by Miss Vera Bell.
Dr. E. A: McMaster was re- Miss Marks of-Brucefield had
elected chairman of the Sea- • the •miSfortun,e to fall and
forth Collegiate Institute board, break her arm,near the wrist.
A twin enkine Anson bomb- George Hill, who lately -serf
'his farm in Tuckeismh, has
bought the house of- Leonard.
McCennell in the village of Eg-
mondville:
Many fairness at Cdnstance
were stocking them selves up
vtith salt last\ week, as the -salt
works at Stapleton has closed
indefinitely.
By order of the fuel control-
ler, all the stores and other
business places in 'Seaforth, will
be closed, on Saturday and Mon-
day aft, owing to the coal
shortage.,
The couple went into .a
shoshbwroom to buy a new
ecnomy compact car. After
learning the price of the auto-
mobile, the husband retnon-
Strated,'s” "tut that's almost
as much as a big ear costs."
' "Well renlied the seem=
brightly, "if • you want econ-
omy, you've got to pay for it."
er from Centralia, piloted by
LAC Powell of Wales, made a
forced) landing on the farm of
August Koehler, north of „Zur-
ich. The plane was badly dam-
aged but the pilot escaped in-
juries.
Master ,Robert Snell, son of
chief Belmar Snell, fell in his
home recently and brake his
elbow.
Mrs. M. MaKellar and' Miss
Margaret McKellar Were ,in
Stratford to see Miss Isabel Mc-
Kellar receive her cap in Strat-
ford General Hospital., ,
' Mrs. D. J. Stephenson of Var-
na, while returning from a Red
Cross meeting had the misfor-
tune todall and broke her right
arm. '
A highly respected resident
of McKillop,' Township, in the
person of IVIrs. Margaret Walsh,
celebrated her 83rd, birthday' at
'her home, receiving many con-
gratulations from her neighbors
• and friends.
-Miss Veronica' Molyneaux,
school teacher at Kennicett, has
resigned her school and) has
taken a position inthe civil ser-
vice' at. Ottawa. - Mrs. Joseph
'/Vielady crf near Dublin has tak-
en her school for the balance
of the term.
'A delightful evetiing was
spent at the home of Mr. and
Mrs. Clarence Smillie of Hen -
salt, when some 66, cousins,
aunts and uncles tendered) a
farewell, party to P.O. -Mervyn
Keyes' a the RCAF, Port Al-
bert and who'lt or Alberta
recently.
* *
From The Huron Expositor
Feb. 846,1918
• The past 'week has been the
coldest experienced by the
people of this vicinity, even the
old timers cannot point back to
anything nearly as severe. One
morning the temperature. drop-
ped) to 38 degrees below zero.
The few cars of coal which ar-
• rived last week, will not tide
over souk people until the end
of the week and no relief is in
sight.
A friendly game of hockey
between the teams of Clinton
and Seaforth Public Schools was
played in the Palace Rink, the
• score being 4-0 for the locals.
Miss Ethel Williams has an-
cepted a position in an office
in Toronto.
One of the most highly res-
pected citizens of Stanley Town-
ship, George Baird, died in .his
7th year. Although a prosper-
ous farmer he was best known
• * *
From The Huron Expositor
Feb. 10, 1893
James, Armstrong of Varna
met with a very painful acci-
dent. He had been turning neck
yokes when one flevy.out, strik-
ing him in the face making i
gash in his forehead and black-
ening both eyes.
By invitation from D. D. Wil-
son, superintendent, the annual
meeting of the teachers in the
Presbyterian Sabbath School
was held atjrigleside, the hand-
some resid ce of Mr. Wilson.
A • very pleasant event took
place at the residence of Mr. and
Mrs. Alex ' Ross in McKillop
Township, it being the marriage
-of his daughter, Miss, Sarah to
Mr. Robert Boyd, a prosperous
young farmer.
William Peck of Bayfield has
been engageld to teach school in
South Dakota and "has left to
take the IlieSition.
• Sohn' Shpplierd the yvorthy
reprve of .Tuekersinith and will
known cattle dealer this week
purchased from Atiguit Wel&
of ,Hensall one of his fine lots
on •Hing St.
Mr. William, McAllister of
Hillsgreen hadi two stone
"Hi there! 1 just dropped in
to complain about,the noiser
both of which were successful,
considering the state of the
weather and roads.
John H. Smith of Hillsgreen
has received employment in Ro-
bert Bell's saw mill, Hensell.
The opening reception or "at
home”, in the rooms of the
young men's christian associa-
tion in Strong's block was an
encouraging success.
Never before have the deliv-
eries 'of 'wdod in town been so
small as this year and many are
forced to use coal who h,aVe
never ,burned,dt before.
We notice that Mr. George
Baldwin, Seaforth champion
skater has •arranged) for a five
mile race with Devine of St.
Thomas. The race is to take
place in that city andwill be
for $50 a side.
Smiles...
• The^foreman was angry and
demanded,"Whykis it that you
carry only one plank while
all the other methi carry two?"
"I guess," said • the fellow,
"they're just too lazy to make
two trips like me."
A travelling salesman had
been duck shooting in the
marshes. When it grew dark,
he found that he had wan-
dered Milesfrom the motel
where he was staying. Lost,
he walked until he came to a
farmhouse. It was very cold
and he wastiredand hungry.
He pounded on the farmhouse
door, and at Hest a window
.opened and a man yelled,
"What do you want?"
"I want to stay here all
,night," shouted the travelling
salesman. ,
"That's all right with me,"
yeled the farmer, slarnming
the window, "stay there all
. night."
Aciviartitterit.e
By Having.
Our Temperature
Taken
Regularly
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you --- an indication that we're
omg our job of providing an interested
dience for your sales messages.
We would welcome the opportunity of
showing you the ABC facts on our cia.
culation, and to explain just how our
editorial program h helping to build
reader interest for your advertiaies
messages. Call us thia week.
THE HURON
PlE(01NT 527-0240
EXPOSITOR
Seaforth
THE HOME TEAM
;'What happens if your Mem wants that pot before the gams
is over?"
NawricE TO
EDIESTRIANS
It is an offense to proceed across cu control-
led intersection against a red light
Pedestrians are requested to heed traffic regulations when
crosSinig the 'Vain and Goderich Street intersection and pro-
ceed only when the lights are green.
Pedestrians should always follow thine 7
steps to safety
1. Before you cross the road; stop at the curb, look left, look
right, then left again.
2. Cross only when you -have a clear view in each direction.
'rake extra care near parked vehicles or other obstructions
3. Cross AT intersection, not BETWEEN intersections,,,and
always watch for turning vehicle's.
4. Where there is no footpath, walk on the left-hand edge of
the roadway, facing oncoming traffic.
5. Get in or out of a car from the curb side, not the street side
6. See that therwayis clear before getting' on or off a bus.
7. Do not 'cross until the way is clear; the. cross at right -
angles, keepinga careful lookout all the time.
Gordon Hulley.
Chief Ccinstable
Town of Seaforth
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