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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1966-09-29, Page 2Since 1860, Serving the Community First - Publish.e4,at"`.$EAFQRTII, ONTARIO, every Thursday morning by.112oLEAN BROS., Publishers Ltd, ANDREW Y. MCLEArr, Editor '' Member Canadian Weekly Newspapers Association Ontario Weekly Newspapers Association • Audit Bureau of Circulation Subscription Rates: O Canada (in advance) $4.00 a Year N• . Outside Canada (in advance) $5.50 a Year U L14 • SINGLE COPIES — 10 CENTS EACH Authorized as Second Class Mail, Post Office Department, Ottawa • a S 1AFORTH, ONTAiiIO. SEPTEMBER 29, 1966 A , Place • for the Weeklies. The Time -Review of Fort Erie in a recent issue suggests there is a cur- rent tendency to consider the weekly - newspaper as a thing of the past; some- thing left over from the days of the general store and the pot-bellied stove • where the local gossip could be picked up in a half hour shared with a few old cronies. The Times -Review goes on to refute the suggestion in these words which bear repeating. "It is true the weekly does have the homely air of the general store and is certainly informal in its presentation And there .is no doubt it shares many of its news sources with those who op- erated around the pot-bellied stove. But it certainly is not true that the weekly is fading into the past along with that dusty merchantile market place with which it shared so many lit- - erary honors. "The truth of the matter is the week- ly is corning into its own. More now than ever before. The reasons rest as much with daily newspapers and oth- er periodicals as it .does with the week- ly itself: Of all the changes that are being made. -in daily newspapers, none is more evident than the trend away from the "folksy" news Story and to- wards the harder news of crime and corruption, death and disease. It is this very emphasis of the "hard, news" that puts the average CANADA'S CENTURY A news background special on the Centennial of Confederation citizen literally "out of the picture." It is not often be sees his photo in the weekly and usually never in a daily. Involvement in hard news usually oc- curs only once in a person's lifetime, if at all. "Yet the .average person likes to see news of himself in print whether he admits it or not. People like to read about themselves or about people they are, in however slight a way, connect- ed with and so we have a place for the weekly. - "By its very ,nature, the weekly is able to fulfill a•. need in the life of a great many people, and while it may be true the weekly means more to someone brought up in a small town than to a city dweller,nevertheless this does not detract in any way from the value of the smaller—paper. "The greatest justification for the weekly then is the very fact it, devotes itself mainly with news and activities - of persons who seldom, if ever, make the pages of the .daily papers. "Because earth shattering news is virtually ignored by the weekly, it does not follow that the paper, is not con- tributing to the information of the people. , . "In everything its approach is less contentious and formal and it is for this very reason it plays such an im- portant part : in leading or persuading the people of its - town in the unique way that only a weekly can." The Clianging Church (Sixteenth Of A Series) • By WALT McDAYTER In early Canada the French, and to a lesser degree the Brit- ish,- followed a policy . which -dis- couraged religious minorities from becoming Colonists. This was. in 'contrast to the early American colonies, where popu- lation was mainly .made up of religious minorities who had been drawn to the New World to escape the persecution • of' the Old. • It was the Protestant Hugue- nots from. France, such as Sieur de Monts, who showed the first interest in colonizing and trad- ing in New ,France. De Monts was given permission to estab- lish bis colony at Port Royal only after promising to propa- • gate the Roman Catholic faith in Acadia. He accomplished lit- tle except to erect a few giant wooden crosses at the mouths of certain rivers, which Indians promptly stripped down. The French soon decided it would not do' to send Protestants out to do a Catholic's job. It was determined New France must be populated by Roman • Catho- lics exclusively. Samuel de Champlain summed up his vi- sion of New France as "where I have always desired- to see the lily flourish, together with the only religion, Catholic, Apostolic and Roman." , In 1627, the Huguenots were prohibited from settling in New France at all. They were not al- lowed entry again until a centu- ry and a hall later, after the British conquest. With the British victory in 1759, the French colonists feared the Roman Catholic ' church in Quebec would be suppressed. However, the British chose to grant the church full rights out of fear the French colonists .might otherwise join in senti- ment with the growing .repub- licanism to the south. With _ Confederation, Roman Catholic separate schools 'were protected by the BNA Act. The first Protestant church built in Canada was St. Paul's, at Halifax, in 1750. It was Church of England, and eight years later that faith was de- clared Nova Scotia's official cherch. This discouraged some non -Anglicans in the American colonies from settling here, since they feared religious intol- erance. The Protestant population was Canada's first Protestant church was St. Paul's, showii left, built at Halifax, 1750. i 1 Archdeacon John Strachan (consecrated Bishop, 1839) ma- noeuvred to keep the benefits.of Clergy Reserves exclusive to the Church of England. increased by the immigration of United Empire Loyalists after the American Revolution, and a further flow from the U.S. after the War of 1812. In Upper Cana- da, Archdeacon John Strachan hoped to make the Church of England the "state" religion, but this was thwarted by the Methodists, notably Egerton Ryerson, who championed free- dom for all denominations. Governor Lord Elgin brought about freedom of religion in Canada with an act in 1851, which' promised, "Free exercise and enjoyment of profession and religious worship, Without dis- tinction or preference". In the century since Canada's Confederation, the ratio of Prov estants to Roman Catholics has changed only little. In 1867 Ro- man Catholics numbered about 42 per cent., while in the last national census, the figure rose to 46 per cent. In the 1961 cen- sus, United Church had 201 per cent., and Anglican 13.2 per cent. . As early as 1874, there was a call for the union of all Protes- tant• churches in Canada into a national church. This became partially realized in 1925, when the Congregational Church,- the Methodist and a segment of the Presbyterian Church joined to form the United Church of Can- ada. This trend . will continue in Canada's second - century. The United Church and Anglican Church of Canada have, in fact, already agreed in principle to a union. • Toronto Telegram -News Service •--• CLIP AND SAVE -- Canada's History Evey �e . Epositor "MY CAR'S OUT OF ELECTRICITY..." In the Years Agone. From The Huron Expositor Oct. 2, 1891 Mr. John Knott of the Base Line, Stanley, who went up to the northwest with a car of horses a short time ago has re- turned. He says quite a bit of grain has been frozen. Mr. T. F. Coleman received ,a first prize for his driving team at the Goderich show last week and a diploma for the best driv- ing mare of any age on 'the grounds.., Mr. William Moran, who has been an employee in Messrs. Lumsden and Wilson drug store for the past fiveor six years left for East Saginaw, Mich., where two of his brothers now reside and where Willie expects to get a situation, Mr. A. Cardno leaves for Manitoba today with a carload of horses. • The stage driver at Brussels who carries the mail north to Wroxeter . from Brussels and al- . so carries the Dominion Express was set uponby two robbers on the highway south .of Wroxeter They took a parcel' containing $109.15. The genial neighbors of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Turnbull of McKillop, made a pleasant tour westerly. They went to London first to the. Western Fair, theft to Sarnia, where they inspected the great tunnel-recently'open- ed for railway traffic and which burrows in the earth below the St. Clair River. From Sarnia they ,proceeded to Watford on a visit to friends. Mr. James Ross from Kup- toine, Kansas, son of Andrew Ross, formerly of Tuckersmith, is at present in -this vicinity vis- iting friends. He is engaged in crib roading while his father is engaged in farming. Mr. John Aird of Toronto was in town this week and many of his Seaforth friends had a plea. sant, call from him. * * From 'The Huron Expositor Oct. 6, 1916 The judge§ at the Walton School Fair . were Wm. Hartry, Seaforth, Mr. Squirrel, Guelph, Mr. Revell, Goderich,Miss A. B. Ross and Mrs. G. Muldoon, of Brussels. Inspector • Field has charge of the penmanship and had no small job in making the awards. The officers of the fair were Gilbert McCallum, El- mer Dennis, Esther Shortreed, Andrew Kirkcounell and Ger- trude McKenzie, vice-presidents; Hattie Bolger, secretary, and Gordon McGavin, treasurer. Slow but steady advance at the cost of terrible ; casualty lists is the war situation. Impos- sible . weather conditions and heavy rains on the Western front have turned the battle front into a bog, but not with- standing this, desparate fighting continues without respite. While working with a finish- ing saw in the Canada Furni- ture factory, • Mr. Wm. Pearson had the misfortune to lose the thumb of his right hand which will- lay him off work for sone time. • Miss, Barbara Sproat left for Detroit, to resume her duties in the Herman Keiffer Hospital. Mr. Wm. Rinn of Constance has sold his prize colt to Thos. McMichael and son for $150. Mr. W. L. Siebert of Zurich, has been appointed post master at Zurich in place of the late D. S: Faust. 'Mr. Freeborn Johnston of Kip - pen who has been in training in the C.O.T.C. in Toronto and who had volunteered for work in the artillery was offered a posi- tion by the British Admiralty as assistant superintendent of compasses. Mr. Thos. Pryce, veteran cat- tle dealer has been buying numerous fat cattle in the vicin- ity of Leadbury. * * * From The Huron Expositor k Oct. 3, 1941 When a horse and buggy driv- en by Wm. Sholdice of Egmond- ville was in collision with a car said by police to have been driv- en by Clarence Volland of Kip - pen, in ' Egmondville, property damage resulted but no persons were injured. Sugar and Spice • — By Bill SMILEY TAKES HIS STAND A chap called Richard J. Needham writes a daily news- paper column in Toronto. Quali- ty and content range from high- class to hog -wash, but it is emi- nently readable. Needham is not a true humor- ist, but has a sharp satiric sense a wild imagination, and a clear view of the ridiculisity of many of our moral, social, political and economic fairy tales. Despite the clear view, he is an incorrigible romantic, a 1966 model Don Quixote who tilts at windmills with a typewriter, forces flowers on strange ladies, and thinks of life and love in capital letters. He's a literary burgular and a• bellowing non- eonformist. Interesting fellow. But he has a couple of blind spats. He hates the educational system and has a blatant con- tempt for today's young people. .Sounds psychological. Perhaps he was turfed out of school, or dropped out, or had some rotten teachers. But he despises the whole business. For. him, the educational sys-• tem is a vast; soul -less monolith, whose sole aim is to crush the spirit of youth, indoctrinate it with all the wrong ideas, and fail to teach it anything about LIFE. He's great on LIFE. For him, teachers are a bunch of dull clods, whose only desire is to stuff kids with useless in- formation and promptly squelch any signs of initiative or crea- tivity. For him, modern students are a sorry lot, unadventurous, inar- ticulate, securitynninded1 and materialistic. Well, I'm here to tell brother Needham it's time he got into the twentieth century. His ideas are 'pure polipjtco'eic. Sure, the educationalsystem Smiley is a vast monolith. What do you do with 6,000,000 kids? Shove them into the streets to learn about Lith? But it's far from soul -less. On the contrary, it's composed of men and women with intelligence, goodwill and understanding, who work tire- lessly to improve the system for the benefit of the students. Sere, tealcherS' are dal} clods. Some -of them. Just as some doc- tors, lawyers, ministers and col; umnists are dull clods. But the great majority work their heads .to the bone, shoving, urging, ex- horting, encouraging and lead- ing the youngsters to adulthood. And the students? Are they a sad, beaten crowd, cowed by au- thor••ity, • eager for security, afraid to think for themselves? This ,is what Mr. Needham, with his ' Victorian view of schools, would hove us believe. Hah! A few are. But the majority are just the opposite. They are rebellious, daring, adventurous, and just busting to have a whirl at life, as youngsters have been since the time of Socrates. Right now my son, who is 19, i9 • either hitch -hiking across Canada, on his way home, or headed far Mexico. We're not sure. Right now, my daughter who is 15, is 'pelting out folk songs which she wrote herself, to keep her mind off her sore ear's. She had them pierced yes- terday,. for earrings. And;right now, all over town, 1,209 kids from our high school ale ,ignoring their homework and Watching TV, or shooting pool, or gassing on the phone, or falling in love, or riding mo- tor -cycles. They're certainly not cowed by authority, Or squel- chedl'hy the system, or indoc- ttinated , by anything, Oeept human nature.. - Don't be naive, Mr. Needham. Well known in Seaforth as a golfer, Grat Flannigan of Ham- ilton, who spends his holidays here has shown indications of additional sporting ability when he landed a seven pound rain- bow trout at Meaford. - A pleasant evening -was spent at the home of Mr. and Mrs.. Jonathan Hugill, Highway 8, in honor of the bride to be, Eva Holland. Mr. Hugill was chair- man over a very fine program. Lady members of the Seaforth Golf Club held a successful bridge in aid of the Red Cross. The proceeds were $16. Prizes were won by Mrs.. Earle Bell, Mrs. J. H. Best; Mrs. E. B. Goudie; and Mrs. J. E. Keating. Mrs. Frank Kling and Mrs. Herbert Whittaker entertained at a dinner party in honor of Miss Mary Barber, bride -elect of this month, at the home of the former. Little Marilyn Kling and Herbert Whittaker Assisted, in bringing in- a wagon load of beautiful gifts 'to the bride to be. Announcement was made by the Department of Munitions and Supply that a contract for munitions has been awarded the Robert Bell Enguie and Thresh- er Co. Ltd., Seaforth. The amount of the contract is $100,302. Mr. Basil Purcell of the Ex- positor office, has a -field of potatoes that- are fit to travel in any company. One of these picked at random measured fifteen and a quarter by eleven and a half inches and the whole lot are as clean and smooth a crop of potatoes an will be found.in this or any county this season. Mr. Wm. Stevens of town has moved his family to Hamilton, where ' he has secured a posi- tion. The death occured+ of. a 'well known resident of Seaforth in the person. of- Peter Campbell Kerr of 69 Castle Knock Road, Toronto. In 1914 he moved from. McKillop •to Seaforth and was the salesman for the. Inter- national Harvester Co. Friends of Miss Mary Murray of Manley gave her a shower at the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Thos. Murray, on the eve of her marriage to Mr. Jack Ryan of. St. Columban. • BLANKET When you buy a New Electric CLOTHES DRYER SEE! . FRI GI DAI RE Juxury D-R-YER at MONEY SAVING PRICES ' let us show you How You Can Save Money and also obtain a FREE Electric Blanket , Model DOM • Gentle Flowing Heat pampers your fabrics—dries them billowy soft, fresh as all outdoors! • Exclusive Vent -Free system needs no plumbing—you save on installation! No -stoop lint screen is right on the door! • Timer lets you set exact drying minutes! Phone 527-0680 . • Porcelain Enamel drum! • Fabrics heat selector! 5 YEAR PR- OTECTION PLAN •.. AT IN A1cn1A OMAN= FURNITURE • Seaforth • PERSONALIZED COASTERS • GIFT IDEAS • %SERVIETTES Dial 527-0240 -- Seaforth, SUBSCRIPTION RATE INCREASE EFFECTIVE OCTOBER 1, 1966 The Subscription Rates for The Huron Expositor will be raised to $5.00 per year CANADIAN • ..,\. $6.50 per year FOREIGN Single Copies 12 cents each. New Subscriptions and Renewals will be accepted at the present $4.00 rate up to September 30,1966,. for a' maxi- mum of one year: While for some time The Expositor has resisted any • change that would result in a higher subscription price, continuing increases in costs of production now makea modest' adjustment necessary. dor this reason, then, the subscription rate will become $5.00 per year, effective October lst next. The rate will then be in keeping with the rate which weeklies in other Huron towns' ha re had in, effect -for some time.