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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1964-02-20, Page 2Published D 90 AOC.% _ n Since 1860, Serving the Community First at SEAFORTH, ONTARIO, every Thursday morning by McLEAN BROS., Publishers , ANDREW Y. MCLEAN, Editor M -ember Canadian Weekly Newspapers Association Ontario Weekly Newspapers -Association Audit Bureau of Circulation Subscription Rates: = Canada (in advance) $4.00 a Year Outside Canada (in advance) $5.50 a Year SINGLE COPIES 10 CENTS EACH Authorized as Second Class Mail, Post Office Department, Ottawa. ULA • PLACE 50UVENI 4F THE QUDGE SEAFORTH, ~ONTARIO, FEBRUARY 20, 1964 , Brotherhood Events Is Worthwhile • We dont • know how frequently or over how many years it is necessary to hold an event in order that it becomes traditional. There are some gatherings of course, that no matter how often '.-~they are repeated present a difficulty in being justified. There are other gatherings with pur- poses, such as to encourage repeat per- formances. In this latter class is the -annual Brotherhood Night which, .in recent years, has been supported joint- ly by a number of Seaforth organiza- tions. The event highlights Brotherhood Week which has become an increasing- ly important tool, contributing to great- er understanding and co-operation be- tween -differing races and religions. There is an element of spiritual and national urgency in our 'observance of Brotherhood' Week in Canada this year. Prime 'Minister L. B. Pearson, in en- dorsing•the principles of the event, went on to say that today, the ideals of bro- therhood are under attack from the forces of hate and bigotry, fear and pre- judice. And whether their weapons "are discrimination or demonstration; they are equally to be despised and rejected. "Brotherhood Week provides . us, as individuals and as a people, with a spe- cial opportunity to declare our support for the ideals that are under attack; ideals of 'universal tolerance; equality and' understanding," Mr: Pearson, said, aid added that these ideals today de - man' our reaffirmation—not only in pious 'declamations and high-sounding proclamations, but in adopting right private standards and public attitudes; 1114nv'elt trQ�h!l N+ tlh�klVkvisµ� Til 114041110014.141d41111 IJNN .8RUGK 1964 not only in appeals to governments, con- stitutions, laws and courts but in, con- scious acceptance,pf brotherhood as an expression of .o't r'hearts and minds and consciences. "Brotherhood calls for more than Fe sistance to the violence that hatred in- evitably begets. It must also reject just as resolutely, the moral cynicism and hush-hush social discrimination which •are the foots of more violent bigotry," The Prime Minister said, and recalled that our country has been built by men and women whose racial origins and religious convictions are .as richly varied as our otheii resources. A Fixed Date (St. Marys Journal -Argus) . Advocates' of calendar reform have been heartened by word from the Vati- can ecumenical council in Rome. The -Roman Catholic Church leaders have stated their willingness to accept a new, universal calendar including a .fixed date for the feast of Easter. Christians and non Christians alike have .long been puzzled by the practice of cele- brating a fixed religious date on a mov- able basis. It has also proven a dislo- cation in many other fields where term activities are linked to the Easter date. Most of the 'luxuries, and many of the so -c lied comforts, of life are not only t indispensable, but positive hindra ces to the elevation of mankind. -Hen y Thoreau. i5 • Focus on Agriculture 1964 (Some excerptsfrom an address by. Everett Biggs, Deputy Minister, Ontario Department of Agriculture, to the annual convention of the Ontario Soil and Crop Improvement Association) 'Apart( from the basic—and foremost—responsibility these farm families have to them selves, they • will be under great world pressures in the not too distant future as the need for food becomesmore and more acute in the under -developed countries of the world. The farm families of Ontario and those living . in other good agricultural regions of Canada, may be called'upon to reverse many of the trends in farming which have been accepted up to 'now, but which • may not be accepted in the future. They may be asked to reverse the exodus of farm ' families from the land., They may be asked to keep their young peo- ple in farming. They are.almost certain to be asked to increase acreage under cultivation, to improve rather than abandon poorer land, and to produce to the limit of their capacity. If peaceful solutions can be found to the problems of world wide food distribution — and there is some hope that present efforts will be successful•' -then farm families must be well-pre- pared and well equipped to do the job which will be expected of them. In planning for the future, .we must seek to preserve and expand our farm communities, and strengthen the family farm structure which is the founda- tion of agriculture in this pro- vince, and the only hope we have in this country that Can- ada will be able to meet its agricultural responsibilities in the future. All those in, agriculture, whe- ther in production on the farm or in secondary agriculture, have a responsibility to point out that the farmers of this country are faced with the job of meeting a 70 per cent in- crease in food consumption in Canada over the next 20 years, and in helping to meet an an- ticipated 80 per cent increase w in the orld food demand. The consuming public should have some appreciation of what is involved in meeting this re- sponsibility. For instance, 'the public will demand more live-� stock products in the future. At the present 'rate of demand, Canadian farmers will have to increase livestock numbers by about 60 per cent int the' next 20 years, and this in effect will. meati that they will have to also double their output of feed :grains. a rural to' an urban footing, as .the percentage of people involy- 'ed in farming drops -to some eight per ',cent of the total, there is greater need today than ever before for farmers to or- ganize their basic thinking in agriculture, ` and give it new' meaning and purpose in terms which can be readily under- _ stood in these days. as If I were ked to name the most important immediate chal- lenge to the social and .econ- omic security of farmers today, it would be in this field of pub- lic opinion, in this area where future farm policies will be de= ' termined, in the traditional meeting ground, so to speak, of the marketplace. And this mar- ketplace must be taken in its broadest concept from' farmer to consumer. The situation calls -fqr fully informed farmers and farm 'or- ganizations, in all parts of the province, able, qualified and willing to• take the long-term view, and to decide upon poli- cies which will determine the future course of agriculture in Ontario. Never before has there been • a greater need for farmers to reshape the conscience of agri- culture, of the food industry, to give it a new set of values in the changing world. • The United Kingdom remains our best customer, but signifi- cant gains are being made in West Germany. I thought that you would be interested to know, for example, that experi- mental shipments to West Ger- many of fresh frozen turkey to- talling 120,000 pounds last No- vember indicate that there is a promising market for both tur- key and chicken in that coun- try. If these export markets—are to be maintained and expanded, they can no longer be regarded. •as dumping grounds for surplus production. This is not the light in which they are regarded (/by the ,agricultural exporting coun- tries of the world. Coming back to our home market, which is our most im- portant one, we see that it is expanding at a rate faster than our ability to supply. PopulatiQn is increasing at the rate of some 120,000 persons a year, which means that Ontario -is continu- ing to account for about one- third of the national growth. In every respect this is a good market for Ontario farmers. During the past year person- al incomes rose about 5y2 per cent; unemployment fell to 3.8 per cent',Oiitario's •gross pro= vincial product advanced 6 per cent, and the number of new jobs in the province increased by 60,000. The general economic out- look in Ontario, and for all of Canada, is for continued pros- As our province shifts. froth perity. Farmers have a constant in terest in population growth and increased personal incomes; be- cause these are the two factors which determine the demand for food. nt is the consume d less of ist them but to asing ef- They indicate, for example, that more stress can be placed on red meats and dairy product promotions, particularly fluid milk.But equally imports fact that as personal incomes rise people tend --to more of some goods-" an others. These trends are important to farmers and farm organiza- tions, not only to ass in production planning help guide their incre forts and expenditures for pro- motion of their own food pr o- ducts. The -per capita consumption of beef in Canada is rising. Last year the average Canadian con- sumed 72 pounds of beef, but this is still far below the 92 pounds consumed by the aver- age American. There is no reason why Can- adians should npt consume as much beef in their diet as Americans. If Canadian con- sumption can be raised, it will have an important effect on the long-term security of livestock farmers. Earlier estimates called for a 14 per cent increase in hog marketing this year, but recent figures indicate this will lower, probably around 9 to 10 per cent. There is doubt now that Canada will have a surplus in pork as indicated in early De- cember. But there may be few- er hogs coming out of Western Canada than earlier believed, and American farrs are show- ing a trend to recYuce hog pro- duction. - While hog prices are current- ly running below last year, they are expected td strengthen earl- ier than expected, and by sum- mer should be running ahead of last year. A few years ago the long- tertn forecasts indicated that the public • was veering away from fluid milk, cream and but- ter. But there was a marked change in the,direction of these products last year, and a good deatnf this change for the bet- ter was sue to the excellent promotion campaigns in the dairy industry, and concentra- tion on, quality in dairy pio- ducts. Butter consumption in Can- ada reached an all-time high last year. The average Cana dian consumed about two pounds more butter than usual. Butter production was about equal to demand, and stocks of butter were reduced by export to Nil 11'6 II 11/1114rJ11111 • CANADA'S MEDAL A MACDUFF OTTAWA REPORT International Peace are pow stationed in many parts of "'the world on peace -keeping Offer assignments, and this country is • uniquely equipped for such ser- OTTAWA — The British r quest for Canadian forces t police the strife -torn island o Cyprus is one more indicatio of the increasing importance o the kind of role Canada ca play in keeping peace in th world. Forty years ago, in anothe age, 'a similar request, or ra ,::they a near -demand from Bri tain'for troops for the Chana crisis, became, a turningpoin in Canadian independence. The position of the Canadia Prime Minister, Mackenzie King at that time was that 'Britai could' no Ionger commit- Cana dian forces to any course." Such decisions were a matter for th Canadian Parliament alone. Even. Canadians often forge that their full independence dates back only a few• genera ttions. In just aP few decade this country has developed' no only its own complete inde pendence but has taken on a full measure of responsibility in• the international sphere. When the British Prime Min inter, Sir Alec -Douglas Home visited Ottawa recently, he. put forward a strong request to Canada for military aid in Cy- prus, where Turkish and Greek Cypriots were on the verge of civil war. But this request was not made to Canada on any sentimental grounds. It was not an appeal to old loyalties. It was 'made rather in the light of Canada's •previous contributions to peace- keeping in the world, and in the light, 'of Canada's contributiens to the North Atlantic Treaty Al- liance, the Commonwealth, and the United Nations. It was fairly clear at the time that the Canadian Prime Min- ister, Mr. Pearson, was -disposed to offer Canadian troops for a peace -keeping role provided a satisfactory arrangement could be worked out with the Cypriot president, Archbishop Makarios. Admittedly there was a little embarrassment and resentment over British Foreign Secretary Butler's public statement that he hoped Canada could supply 1,000 soldiers for Cyprus. ... Canadian Government officials thought this a bit of a dirty trick. By naming a figure, Mr. Butler in effect restricted the Canadian Government's room to manoeuvre. "He pulled the rug out from under our feet," said one official. But this mirior incident had. no appreciable effect on Can- ada's a9sessment of its interna- tional duty. Canadian troops e- vice. A specially trained and o equipped infantry battalion is f maintained on standby in Can- n ada to provide at short notice f a force for United Nations ser- f vice in any part of the world. e The difficulty in the .Cyprus situation was that it was not ✓ sttrictly a United Nations solu- tion • that Britain was seeking. _ Britain preferred- to reach k agreement with the major par- t ties in the dispute for a type of force which would not be n hampered by use of the veto in the United Nations Security n Council: The Canadian Government stands basically for United Na-` e tions solutions to 'such `prob- lems, but feels it has obliga- t tions also in this case as a member of NATO and the Com- - monwealth. s It seems ;likely, therefore, t that when the framework for a - special police force for Cyprus. is decided upon, Canada will,. supply up, to 1,000 men to a force which is expected to to, - tal about 10,000 men. sales, and it is expected that they will be further reduced this year. The dairy picture is bright. For the first time milk produc- tion may not show its regular annual increase in Canada and we may even have a slight re- duction from the 19.3 billion pounds produced in 1963. In regard tolivestock.,, feed, the situation c'gill be improved this year in Western feed grains for farmers in Western Ontario. Corn productibn, as you know, was one 6f the bright spots in Ontario's, local supply of feed last year, and more farmers are taking advantage of this trend towards self-sufficiency in feed supply. In my opinion, the future of the agricultural and food indus- try will be bright; but the de- gree of brightness will depend upon you and me and the many others associated With the agri- cultural and food business. It will depend upon our ac- ceptance and treatment of the points I have raised today; our appreciation of the broader con- cept of agriculture, • from the farmer to the consumer, and the image we project to an in- creasingly concerned and criti- cal public. This will bring to almost 2,- 500 the number of Canadian sol- diersop peace -keeping ' assign= merit's aro�i.'nd_the-tvorld, not in- cluding, of course, the full- strength brigade in NATO ser- vice in Europe. There are about 900 Cana- dians serving in the United Na-' tions . Emergency Force in the Middle East, patrolling a sec- tor of the Egypt -Israeli frontier. • In the Congo, more than 300 Canadian Signal Corps staff pro- vide communications, and head- quarters personnel for the Unit- ed Nations force. In Kashmir, Korea, and Pales- tine, about 25 Canadian officers contribute to United Nations commissions. Besides its United Nations commitments, .t h e . Canadian Army provides abo>,lt 75j officers andmen for truce supervisory duties in Viet • Nam, Cami3odia and Laos. A glance . at a • map of the world reveals no' scarcity of trouble spots, where the" United Nations or some other agency. may be called upon in future for police, duty — East Africa, Malaysia, perhaps even. Latin America. Canadian defence policy ap- pears to be moving towards em- phasis on highly mobile, con- ventionally armed $roops able to deal effectively with out- bursts in any part of the world. Of course, suctroops would never beused unilaterally. They would be made ready for use under the auspices of the Unit- ed Nations or some other ac- ceptable authority. Canada's re- cord 'already demonstrates that this is a form of international service which it can' provide with good effect. This country already has a "high reputation as an international police of- ficer. An even greater demand for these special skills may be expected in the future. Emil1tlIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIl01111111111111111111111111111111111111111tIImiII111mIInnIImIIIIIffin111111mIIRlII(11UIInimulIII inmotRI momII11 morin • glIIIII inuiIIIiH 11111111111111111111111 There's A Moral In It Once in a while, it is the good fortune of an English teacher to come across a fresh, original` piece of writing by a student. When he does, it's a drink of cold, pure water after days of wandering in the desert of mangled syntax, crucified spell- ing, howling triteness and tor- tured thinking through which it has been ordained that he should plod. It happened to me this Week. At first, I thought my judg- ment might be prejudiced, .. be- cause I was quite fond of the youngster in question. I read it again. It still sounded good. To make Sure, I had it mime- ographed and treid it on my Grade 13 students, as a piece for critical analysis. Their snorts and giggles ' confirmed my first impression. Then we discussed it in depth. They could find little wrong with it. It had unity, coherence and em- phasis. The tone was consist- ent. Well, here it is, just as it was written, on an examina- tion, under stress. See what you think. The title was: The Wander- ings of a Ten -Dollar Bill. "My mother was extremely large and could make only loud, whirring sounds in her throat. The thing that puzzles me is how I turned out so thin) when she Is such a fatso. ','Anyway, when I popped out feling like a wet piece of cab- bage, a long, dark man with a blaek mole beneath his left eye, clutched me and cried, 'Oh, darling George.' He and • the rest of the bays kissed me all over, even on th'e. Queen's head. I' was later to• discover that I • • IN THE YEARS AGOIE From The Huron Expositor February, 24, 1939 - The 15th annual commence ment of the Seaforth Collegiat Institute, held in the' new, Col legiate auditorium on •Thurs(la and Friday evenings, was high ly successful ,and was attende by an audience that completel filled the large hall both eve- nings. John F. Daly, chairman of the board, acted as chairman Seaforth curlers were host to three Stratford rinks at thei weekly bonspiel Wednesday Tvyo Kitchener rinks which were to have taken part were pre vented from playing by bad roads. Announcement was made on Thursday of the retirement of J. G. Mills as manager of the local branch of the Canadian Bank of Commerce. Mr. Mills has been manager of the Sea - forth branch since May, 1933, when he succeeded Mr. J. G. Mullen, upon the latter's retire- ment. Members and officials of the Seaforth Intermediate `B' team were guests of°Mr, C. M. Smith of the Tasty Grill, at a banquet Tuesday evening, following the Goderich game. Huron County was unsuccess- ful in its bid for the 1940 In- ternational Plowing. Match, the Ontario Plowmen's Association of Toronto on Tuesday accept- ing the invitation of Elgin Coun- ty breeder and importer, ,was in town on Tuesday. He brought out with him two very fine g.eld- e ings, which he sol1 to Mr. John McMann. One of them was com: y Mg four years old, and was sited' by an imported horse and d • realized the very handsome sum y of $220; the other was a six• -year-old, and although • only bred from a Canadian horse, re- alized $130. s - r• TO • THE EDITOR: From The Huron Expositor February 20, 1914 The Canada Furniture Manu- facturers shipped from their factory here on Monday the last of a special order for furniture for the new offices of the Good year Rubber Company of To= ranto. The order consisted of 43 flat top desks, 28 typewriter desks, seven standing desks, • 10 tables and six magnificent roll- top 'desks. The first home -and -home game to decide this district in the' Intermediate hockey series of the Northern League was play- ed in the Palace Rink Wednes- day evening, with Seaforth win- ning over Clinton 8 to 3. Line- up for . Seaforth is as follows: goal, McGeoch; defence, Hays and Reid; centre, T. Dick; rov- er, Hoffman; right wing, Hab- kirk; left wing,' Best. Mr. J. Arnold Case has been appointed town assessor. been Case should make a good as- sessor. Mr. William Oke, who recent- ly purchased the farm of the late Robert 'Gov lock, north of Seaforth, has Id it again to his son, . Cecil Oke, for $4,000. s a good. farm and well situated, and contains 97 acres. *. '-aF PREDICTIONS FOR THE FUTURE Westminster Hospital, London. The Editor: While here in hospital a fel low has' lots of time to think so 4 have come up with a few things that may happen in the future, so here goes for what they're worth. AGRICULTURE: Due to the large amount of farm drainage done in the past, few years, the draining of woodlands and swamps, which are natural res- ervoirs of water, I predict that within 15 years that there will be irrigation canals from Lake Huron running through Huron and Middlesex Counties. Due to the high cost of mech- anizemech- anizedfarming, that the 100 to 200 -acre farms will be a thing of the. past, and the average farm within 10 years will be 400 or' more acres. The small farm will disappear like the independent_ corner grocery store. WORLD AFFAIRS: In the last war when Italy joined up with Germany and Japan, Sir Win- •,.ston Churchill, the last of the world's great statesmen, said how war brings together strange bedfellows. At the present time there—is a mighty struggle go- ing on between Red China and Russia to see who will be the Big Boss of the Communist world., .Russia is ahead yet, due to having great superiority due to nuclear weapons of destruc- tion, but the scientists say that Red China' is only about 18 months from developing a nu- clear bomb. China has a big- ger population than Russia,. England and the North :