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SEAFORTH, ONTARIO, AUGUST 14, 1964
Will It Improve The Standard?
It will be interesting to see if pay-
ment of school trustees, as permitted
by recent Ontario Legislation, will re-
• sult in competition for the job. Re-
muneration is to be based on enrolment
and the amendments become effective
in 1965.
• Perhaps this wasn't the intention of
the legislation. It may reflect simply a
feeling that school trustees should have
available to them some remuneration
similar to councillors and Members of
other municipal bodies. Certainly with
the increasing importance of the educa-
tional system,• many trustees carry a
load, in. terms of time and responsi-
bility, that in many cases is the equal
to that of councillors, In other cases,
of course, there are the trustees who
coast along and regard their appoint-
ment as little more 'than an opportun-
ity for a night out. '
At the present time there is no leg-
islation permitting payment of school
trustees, although members of council
have been permitted to pay themselves,
within certainlimits, for a number of
years.
Permission to pay trustees is seem
by the Acton Free Press as perhaps
one more step in the evolution of the
provincial education system. In earlier
-days ' the •actininistration . of the one -
room school was not such an onerous
task as to require any payment. The
Dreadful Secert
" (The Montreal Star)
For years a lot of people daring en-
ough to try it have wondered, often
ruefully, just what Calgary's Harry
Hays uses to make his concoction of
syllabub. It's his own dreadful secret,
so dreadful that he uses it just once a
year when he throws a tremendous
whingding in connection with the open-
ing of Stampede Week.
But now he is Minister of Agricul-
ture in the Federal Government. And
the news stories from Calgary indicate
that he also has a secret of animal hus-
bandry, one which in his official capac-
ity . he is almost duty-bound to share
with farmers everywhere. It's a secret
that could make life so much easier for
few -cow farmers, and cheaper in the
long run for major dairy producers.
As the news story revealed it, in
the final step in making his syllabub,
"Mr. Hays took some fresh cream from
the cow."
Or should it all just be blamed on a
city slicker reporter?
If the moon isn't made of green
cheese, how come there's such a rat
race to see who gets there first ?—Ord
(Neb.) Quiz.
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one -room schools have disappeared,
however, and now the consolidation of
schools, coupled with increasing enrol-
ments, has added new significance to
the role of the Board member.
It is a rare municipality that does
not raise as much for education as it
does for all other purposes. This in it-
self indicates the growing cost as well
as importance of education. With this
growth the Board member has had to
accept greater responsibility.
"We sympathize with those who
serve on school boards. The gamut of
their interest must run from curricu-
dum, and salary schedules, through,
how to repair a boiler or expand a
school," the Free Press poiii s out, and
suggests the • Boards are entitled • to
some remuneration in this age when so
little is done for nothing. In the in-
terest of. economy, however, we hope
the Boards will recognize that the
amounts set out by the Minister in the
proposed amendments are "allowable
maximums". This is to say the matter
of payment is still within the hands
of the Board but the figures quoted are
the top, not the required.
Like ourselves, the Free Press doesn't
think the permission for remuneration
to school boards will attract any bet-
ter representation, as is sometimes
argued. The citizen who gives his ser-
vices, purely and simply because of his
interest in education or in obtaining
the best possible educational facilities
in his municipality, will continue to de-
vote himself and his time to that pur-
pose, regardless of his remuneration.
The citizen who .is attracted to a
school board solely -because of the re- .
muneration he anticipates, will have
little to contribute. The board, and the
cause of education would be • better
without him.
Humane Action
Much credit is due to the Hensall
district farmer who last week had the
kindnessand courage to shoot the live-
stock in his stable when he found theirs
hopelessly trapped by fire. All too of-
ten we have followed the fire truck to
barn fires and have been sickened by
the sight of half -burned animals wan-
dering around outside after they had
broken free., with no one to put an end
to their indescribable agony.
Humans still carry a dark corner in
their minds which tells them that suf-
fering doesn't mean anything if it's
only an animal in pain.
We have long contended that the fire
truck should be equipped with a high
powered rifle and that some person on
the brigade should have the authority
to order the destruction of these hor-
ribly wounded creatures.—(Wingham
Advance -Times) .
In the Years Agone
From The Huron Expositor
August 7, 1914
Seaforth Old Boys', Reunion
was a great success. Main. Street
was blocked with sightseers,
autos and carriages until after
midnight.
Mr. Henry VanEgmond, of
Bay City, Mich., was the guest
this week of Mr. and Mrs. W.
D. VanEgmond:
The threshing mills in this
district have started out on
their season's campaign, and
now the whistles can• be heard
on all sides.
Mr. John Sparrow, of Stanley,
the well-known horse dealer,
has purchased for his own use
a new and up-to-date automo-
bile. Mr. Sparrow is a great
admirer of the noble horse, but
he can get around the country
more. quickly by auto than by
horse vehicle. -
The onion harvest is now on
fa Kippen and growers are
much encouraged by the excel-
lence of the crop.
The train from the east Sat,
ur1ay night was several hours
Ifte, An overhead bridge,, be=
tween Stratford and Sebring-
vilie, was on fire, so the train
had to wait until it burned out.
From The Huron Expositor
August 11, 1939
Rev. Father O'Drowski has
completed decorations -',,of the
parish house, St. Columban, and
is now doing some;. work on the
vestry of the church.
Miss Margaret Grieve has re-
turned from Toronto, where
she was taking a summer
course at the University.
Misses Merle Keating, Betty
Sandford, Frances Brugger, Bet-
ty Anne Hughes, Jean Dale,
Mary O'Neill, Zetta Dunlop,
'Ada Gropp, Jean Dungey, Joan
Devereaux and Mrs. Dungey
are in Grand Bend this sum-
mer.
A new flax puller, capable of
pulling some 10 acres a day, is
now in use, being used by J.
G. Anderson •& Sons, Seaforth.
Misses Cecelia Horan and
Norma Jeffery will have charge
of gulf on ladies' day, next
From The Huron Expositor
August 9, 1889
There. was a heavy frost last
week, b t no damage was done.
One day last week a mare
belonging to James Campbell,
of Stanley, fell into a 14 -foot
well. After some trouble, she
was taken out and was found
to have suffered no damage, al-
though she had been in for
four hours.
in Stratford, the Seaforth la-
crosse team won all four games
—the first in 10 minutes; the
second in 20 seconds; the third
in 40 minutes; and the fourth
in 10 minutes.
Mr, Robert Scott has dispos-
ed of his seed and feed busi-
ness in Seaforth to Mr. F. W.
Crich, who is well. and favor-
ably known to the farming
community of this district.
The crops in this vicinity are
the best we have had for years.
Fall wheat, of which^ such fears
were entertained for a time, is
going to turn ottt pretty well
Thursday. after, all:
"PM TORN BETWEEN FEELING PROUD OR SCREAMING.."
A Macduff Ottawa Report
Third
Estate Problems
OTTAWA—It has been a bad-
-tempered summer. in .Ottawa
where the politicians, worn ,out
by . interminable and fruitless
debates in the Commons, have
been snapping at each other
and at the press.
For some months now, Par-
liament has been feeling the
hot breath of public criticism
for its performance. A good
many M.P.'s are inclined to di-
vert some of the heat to the
press gallery.
Criticism of the press by poli-
ticians reached a kind of cli-
max recently at the Couchiching
Conference which was sponsor-
ed by the CBC. and the Insti-
tute of Public Affairs. It has
continued since in thecorridors
and chambers of Parliament.
The main charges are that
the press has substituted pundi-
try and pontificating for report-
ing the facts and that it neg-
lects the solid debates and real
accomplishments of Parliament
for breathless gee -whiz accounts
of the latest political insults.
Some of the denizens of the
dusty, paper -piled, overcrowded
press gallery quarters on Par-
liament Hill, are inclined to
shrug off these charges as a re-
sult of hot weather temper and
the historic tensions between
press and parliament.
These tensions are never en-
tirely absent. M.P.'s need pu-
blicity but are seldom satisfied
with anything less than hero
treatment. Reporters must try
to write objectively about the
politicians who easily, become
personal friends or personal
enemies in the •small political
world •that is Ottawa.
And there are special rea-
sons for tension as well. Con-
servatives are still convinced
that the press of Canada "hang-
ed . up" on the Diefenbaker
Government, and they resent it.
Liberals are finding the `press
much more critical than when
they were in opposition.
Almost all. members have
been thin-skinned since they
boosted their salaries to $18,-
000 a year last . Fall: Every
story on M.P. absenteeism has
left them smarting and angry.
A. recent survey of M.P.'s
found that 85 per cent of them
agree that Parliament is held
ip low esteem by the public.
Few are inclined to find fault
with themselves, but 77 per
cent put some of the blame
at the doorstep of the press.
The debate on the quality of
Ottawa reporting has produced
some odd attackers and defend-
ers. 'The august Toronto Globe
and Mail came out against the
reporters, blaming their alleg-
ed lack of digging on a desire
to, be television prima donnas.
But the press gallery found
a defender in Douglas Fisher,
the New Democratic M.P. who
has almost made a career of
complaining about the press.
He said the quality of Ottawa'
reporting, although it still has -
a good way to go, has improv-
ed more than the quality of
politicians.
There's some • soul-searching
in the press gallery .too. Both
parliament and the p,ress.. gal-
lery are in a state of change.
A series of unruly minority
parliaments, balanced on the
brink of the next election, pre-
sent a different reporting chal-
lenge than the stable, majority
parliaments of the past.
The press gallery itself, as a
body of . reporters, _has grown
enormously. Once the Ottawa
press .corps was a chummy
group of 35 or 40 men from
't
the bigger Canadian dailies who
enjoyed a relaxed, club -like at-
mosphere in their quarters on
Parliament kill.
Now the gallery quarters have
bulged out into a corridor but
the 130 reporters have to write
their stories almost sitting in,
each other's laps. •
Growing press gallery mem-
bership has brought reporters
to Ottawa from the United
States, Britain, Germany and
other countries. The three -marl
Soviet contingent was cut to
two recently, when a reporter
for Izvestia was expelled for in-
dustrial spying.
But gallery membership was
madeup by the addition of
Pu Ch,ao-min, a reporter from
Communist China who writes
for the New China News Ag-
ency and brought along his own
interpreter, Hsu Ching -mei.
The biggest growth hasn't •
been in the staffs of the Cana-
dian newspapers or the foreign
correspondents, but in the ra- •
dio and television reporters.
Electronic reporting is here to II
stay; every press conference is
a forest of ` microphones and •
tape recorders. This has had
its own impact on the reporter
who still uses pencil and type- •
writer.
As an institution, the press •
gallery realizes it -faces serious
problems. • They'll have to be •
solved to the tune of growls,
and kicks from the M.P.'s down
the hall. But' that's probably •
fair because Parliament is
struggling with its own prob •
lems to the tune of public dis-
content reflected in press' criti-
cism.
•
Sell that unnecessary piece of
furniture through a Hu•ron Ex
positor Classified Ad. Phone 141. •
Sugar and Spice
By Bill Smiley
A SUMMER RHAPSODY
Summertime in this country
is a mixture of so many won-
derful things that I would hap-
pily leave for the next world,
at once, if someone said to me,
"Sorry, old boy, but you'll nev-
er be able to spend another
summer in Canada."
Perhaps the fascination of a
compared to falling in love,
once a year, with a passionate,
unpredictable woman.
Just as you are never quite
sure where you're at with such
a dame, you are never sure of
what a Canadian summer has
in store for you.
She might greet you with the
warm, seductive scents of June
and, just as you are about to
seize her, retreat into a frame
of mind so chilly that you're
diving for your recently dis-
carded woollies.
In July, she turns on the
charm full blast, clutching you
in a sizzling embrace that
makes your head reel -and your
feet falter. But when you've
thrown caution to the winds
and submit yourself entirely to
the affair—in short, when you
go on your holidays—she has
a change of mood, and weeps
for .two weeks without pause.
When August comes, her
murmurs langor, the sheer, de-
lectable sight andsmell of her,
sends you running once more
into her round, golden -arms--
and her perfume gives you hay
fever:
On Labor Day, leaving your
frustrated, exasperated, ex-
hausted and broke, she smiles
once, enigmatically, and heads
south to look for fresher lov-
ers and bigger bankrolls.
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Phone 141
Seaforth, Ontario
Since 1860, Serving the Community First
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Ah, she's a bad one, old
Mesmeranda Summer. She de-
lights in making -kids whiny or
sick, giving them sunburn, an
directing them into pate es of
poison ivy. This for th sake
of tormenting their mot ers.
She doesn't like women, you
see. That is, young women. And °
her malice towards them is
easily grasped by looking at
the costumes she persuades
them to wear at the beaches
and in town. I wouldn't be sur-,
prised to hear her chortling
merrily about the topless swim
suit silliness, which she doubt-
less started.
Teenagers she like to tease.
She fills them with mysterious
urges and yearnings which
make them drive like retarded
orangoutangs, dance in their
bare feet .amid broken bottles
and rattlesnakes, and fall in
love with people who should be
put away in institutions.
She's not pure evil,, though.
She has a rather soft spot for
the older folk. She warms their
arthritic joints with her hot,
tender hands. She Mls their
lonely hearts with pleasure in
her loveliness. And she re-
minds them, in subtle fashion,
of the days when they knew
her long ago, when they were
young and passionate them-
selves.
Every time I feel the cool,
smooth hands of children after
swimming, every time•'••I walk a
lonely _.,.be.ach and see lights
across the bay, every 'time I
hear the silken rustling of her
garments in the evening trees,
I know I am once -again in
thrall to that wonderful witch
—the Canadian summer, And
I'm glad. '
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