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SEAFORTH, ONTARIO, SEPTEMBER 10, 1964 •
Maintenance Makes The Difference
One of the most pleasing aspects of
Seaforth's recently paved streets is the
trim, green boulevard that frames the
new pavement. This is in addition, of
course, to the feeling of satisfaction
which motorists enjoy as they no long-
er must contend with a variety of pot-
holes and humps and hollows.
Along Goderich Street, from the east-
erly to westerly limits of the town, and
on Main Street North, theuniform
concrete curbs and the new sidewalks
provide a symetry that never existed
before, and which draws appreciative
comment from passing motorists.
" Unfortunately; however, throughout
the lengths of the streets there are evi-
dences of thoughtlessness -that spoil the
effect.While the large majority of
residents who live along the streets
take pride in maintainingthe boule-
vard opposite their properties, there.
are a few who don't bother. Here and
there, uncut grass and ragged weeds
border a property, providing a sad con-
trast to the neatly trimmed boulevards
on each side. -
True, maintenance . on North Main
Street and- East 'Goderich provides
some difficulty. North Main boule-
vards were; seeded and the . re-
sulting growth, while green, can at
best be regarded as but a poor cousin
of lawn grass. Weeds of every descrip-
tion predominated and this has meant
additional work to bring them under
control, a task which most household-
ers have undertaken successfully.
The difficulties along Goderich Street
East arise from the different design of
the boulevards. Here, crushed stone is
used between the gutter and the grass,
making grass maintenance_ more dif-
ficult.
It is too bad if the over-all . effect of
Seaforth's street improvements is lost
because a very few peopledon't take
the trouble to 'do their part. It is not
fair to those who do take a pride in
their surroundings and detracts from
an otherwise favorable impression.
Perhaps this is the time to take a
look at the problem before it becomes
worse. The answer may be a bylaw
that would permit the town to carry
out maintenance where owners fail to
co-operate, and with the cost being
charged against the property.
The Courage To Be Different:
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(From Industry)
"Aye, - but it does move," the great
Galileo is said to have whispered to
himself when forced by the fiat-earthers
under pain of torture to publicly recant
his belief that the earth revolved
around the sun. Such heresy violated
all the accepted concepts of the age in
which he lived and could not be tolerat-
ed by the. lesser minds of the day.
Although there have since been
countless other examples of the ma-
jority being later proved wrong, we
still all too often look askance at the
man whorefuses to conform. He is an
individualist, an eccentric, a crank, a
screwball. These and worse epithets
are his lot.
A recent case appears to be that of
the dissident juryman in Connecticut,
His persistent refusal to fall into line
with his eleven colleagues against all
the evidence incurred official wrath and
ultimately forced a mistrial verdit of
'acquittal.
He may well have been wrong. Cer-
tainly his obstinacy must have been in-
tensely irritating to everyone else in-
volved, except the accused. The impor-
tant thing is, however, that he chose to
doubt, believed he was right, and was
free to do both. Legal expense and in-
convenience are a trivial price to pay
for the exercise of such a prerogative
by any citizen of a..free society, how-
ever much in error we may believe him
to be.
And anyway, ought we not to praise
rather than condeni'n,the man who is
prepared to maintain his point of view
even if it means scorn and censure
from his' fellows?
After all, there is always the danger
that he and not we may be proved right.
Now, as always, the most telling proof
of human fallibility is progress itself.
We do well to remember this. Not
least because the great strength of a
true democracy is that there are men
and twomen who have the courage to
dare to be different.
"Quotes"
Failure has no method of defeating
a man's dreams as long as he holds
them high when ,he is down, and keeps
them from soaring away when he is
winning.—Douglas Meador.
No human being, past the thought-
less age of -boyhood, wantonly kills any.
creature which holds its life by the
same tenure he does. The hare, in its
extremity, cries like a baby. ---Henry
David Thoreau.
Finish every day and be done with
it. You have done what you could.
Some blunders and some absurdities
no doubt crept in ; forget them as soon
as you can. Tomorrow is a new day ;
begin it well and, serenley with -too high
a spirit to be cumbered with your old
nonsense. This day is all that is good
and fair,.,, It is too dear, with its hopes
and invitations, to waste a moment on
the yesterdays.Ralph Waldo Emerson.
In the Years Agone
From The Huron Expositor
September 15, 1939 '
Mr. James Scott, son of Mrs.
H. R. Scott, left on Thursday
for Boston, where he 'will at-
tend Harvard University.
The threshing machine is on
its last round for thin year in
Tuckersmith, and corn and
beans are now being harvest-
ed.
Seaforth council on Monday
protested at evident profiteer-
ing on foodstuffs during the na-
tional emergency.
Donald MacTavish, son of Mr.
and Mrs. John MacTavish, Sea -
forth, has been awarded the
sixth annual Seaforth Colleg-
iate Institute Alumni Memorial
Scholarship, valued at $25.00:
The Seaforth "Junior Women's
Institute is planning to have an
exhibit of pioneer farm imple-
ments and household' equip-
ment al Seaforth Fall. Fair.
Photographs and tin -types of
pioneer settlers will be exhibit-
ed, if enough of theta can be.
located, to warrant it.
'turns have been phohib-
ited at the intersection of Main
Arid Goiiei,I h streets and speed
on Main Street, from Goderich
Street to the railway, has been
reduced from 30 M.P.H. to 20
M.P.H.
From The Huron Expositor
September 11, 1914
The old frame bridge, north
of Brucefield, and known as the
Aikenhead bridge, will soon be
torn down and replaced by a
cement structure,
Mr: William Bennewies, Man-
ley, had the roof blown off his
barn last week.
There were about 100 train
tickets sold for Toronto this
week. This as about one-half-
the
ne-halfthe number sold last year. The
unfavorable weather and scar-
city of money no doubt accounts
for the falling off.
Mrs. James Mullen, who has
been spending the summer here
with her parents, Mr. and Mrs.
L. L. McFaul, has left forher
home in Phoenix, British Co-
lumbia,
With constables and citizens
guarding every plausible means
of exit* a burglar neatly gave
the slip to his would-be captors
and escaped from Paplestone &
Gardiner's store early Sunday
in Blyth.
Prom The Huron Expositor
September 13, 1889
At the show of the Tucker -
smith Branch Agricultural So-
ciety, prizes of $2.00 and $1.00
will be given for the, best Here-
ford pows, and the same for
the best Hereford class.
The Royal Templars of Tem-
perance will have a parlor so-
cial at the residence of Mr.
William Sclater on Friday, when
a very enjoyable time is prom-
ised.
On account of there being no
rain to rot the flax, the flax
mill has been shut' down for
several days.
About a week ago some evil -
disposed persons stole several
frames of honey out of Mr.
Slith's • bee hives on the 12th
concession of .McKillop. b .
The weather during .the last
four or five weeks has been
very favorable for harvest op-
erations, and this season's crop
is now about all housed.
"MIND POPPING IN? WE'RE SHORT A FOURTH FOR BRIDGE..."
A Macduff Ottawa Report
Pension Plan Problems
OTTAWA .— Waiting in the
wings during the long flag de-
bate, the Canada Pension Plan
has been like a starring actor
upstaged by an upstart rival.
And there has been growing
concern, in and out of Parlia-
ment, thatit won't.get the kind
of study deserved' by a plan
with such a big potential ef-
fect on Canada's welfare struc-
ture and the economy of the
Country.
Although this session has
been going without a break
since February — the longest
continuous run in Canada's his-
tory—it 'hasn't an impressive re-
cord of performance and it's
beginning to run out of time.
Little more than three months
remains if the MPs are to be
out of the trenches by Christ-
mas, probably not enoughtime
to get final approval' for the
Pension .Plan.
But this isn't -ads vital as it
was 'before the recent White
Paper on Pensions revealed that
the first premium collections
have been postponed a year
and now won't start `until Janu-
ary, 1966. •
The first,Canada pensions will
be paid in" the centennial year,
1967.
What's more important, hi
the -view of some thoughtful
observers, is that the general
parliamentary situation will
work against careful answers
to the big, basic pension ques-
tions such .as these:
Can the country afford the
Canada -Pension Plan? What
will it do the pattern of,' sav-
ings and investment? Is it the
most urgent use for the money?
What's to be done for the mil-
lion Canadians already' retired
and the million more who will
retire before the Canada Pen-
sion Plan reaches maturity?
The question of,cost and eco-
nomic effect has been raised by
the report'"of the Royal Com-
mission on Banking and Finance
which flashed a warning signal
that the result of the Pension
Plan might be to cut invest -
Ment funds, increase the power
of the Government in the- econ-
omy and lead to increased re-
liance on foreign capital.
The Government's answer,
given in the recent White
Paper, was that there is noth-
ing to worry about—the effects
on cost of production and on
investment in Canada will be
minimal.
These two viewpoints will
probably clash before the Par-
liamentary Committee which is
to study the Pension Plan, once
it gets second reading in the
House of Commons.
But the Cpmmittee study it-
self—however.... and detail-
ed—may turn out to be an ex-
ercise infutility if the fears
recently expressed by New
Democrat Stanley Knowles turn
out to be correct.
Mr. Knowles pointed out that
the present form of the Pen -
ion Plan—after three revisions
—is the result of long negotia-
tions with the provinces, espec-
ially with Quebec. If the Gov-
ernment decided to change any
important feature of the plan
now, it would have to go back
and negotiate with the province
all ,over again. In particular, it
would have to persuade Quebec
to make the same changes in
the separate -but -equal pension
plan proposed by that Province.
This means that Parliament
won't be debating an ordinary
piece of legislation, according
to Mr. Knowles. It will be rat-
ifying a treaty. And this means
that no material changes can be
made. All Parliament can say
is yes or no.
There is little doubt that the
answer.will be "yes" despite the
doubts raised by the Banking
Commission and Manitoba Pre-
mier Duff Roblin's call for a
look first at the whole question
of Government •priorities in
spending.
No politician in his right
mind can be against pensions,
Opposition Leader Diefenbaker
challenged the Government sev-
eral
everal times during the flag de-
bate to bring on the Pension
Plan and his Conservative par-
ty would speed it through the
first stages and into commit-
tee.
These first stages are- where
the pension plan is accepted in
principle. But students of Par-
liament have been noting re-
cently that instead of trying to
curb spending—the traditional
role—oppositions now compete
with the Government in think-
ing up, ways to spend money. .
The Government hasn't . wait-
ed for Parliamentary approval
to go ahead with one aspect of
the pension plan ---that is to re-
gister Canadians for the plan.
Already 5.6 million Canadians
hold the new social insurance
number cards and are thereby
registered for the Canada Pen-
sion Plan.
This number includes about
one million personswho weren't
required by law to register.
The other 4.5 million employ-
ees now signed up were requir-
er to do so under the unem-
ployment insurance law, which
also makes use of the social in-
surance numbers. • "
But another one million Can-
adians , not covered by unem-
ployment insurance'haven't ap-
plied for a social insurance
number and this group presum-
ably includes the hard core of
those who will resist the num-
bers game as long as possible.
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Capital Hill Capsule
Finance Minister- Walter Gor-
don is wading cautiously into
the area where he almost
drowned, oplitically, in 1963—
the area of appointing outside
budget advisors. Still smarting
from the walloping he got over
appointment of three outside
advisors on his first budget, he
has been careful to announce
the appointment of three more
well in advance and to make it
plain that they'll be• paid by
the, Government and nobody
else.
Sugar and Spice
By Bill.
SUMMER: WHO NEEDS IT 1
Waning summer is a sad
time, in a way. The halcyon
days are nearing an end. The
sun has lost its burning,bak-
ing strength. The nights come
sooner, and cooler.
Young lovers who have had
a summer affair part with. a ,
last- embrace, desperate prom=
ices to write, and a great heart -
wrenching, a feeling that some
thing is going to be lost, ir-
retrievable. And they're right.
There is a slightly ` forlorn,
lonely air about thea beaches
and' the resorts and the sum-
mer places. They have acquir-
ed a certain air of shabbiness
that goes with the end of.sum-
mer.'
Canadians fall asleep every
year, in June. Lulled by the
whispered, scented promises of
.,that lush and lovely month,
they dream of dazzling beach-
es, pine -scented woods, fun and
sun, health and happiness.
And then the dream turns
into the reality. The sizzling
irritation ' of the July heat
wave, when they have decided,
for a change, to take their holi-
days in August this year. And
the cold, wet blanket of Aug-
ust, which -turns camping trips
into shivering family feuds,
cottages into miniature mental
institutions, and resort owners
into wild-eyed neurotics.
But don't let this end -of -sum-
mer sadness bother you'. It's
phoney. Canadians are not
really sad as summer ends. At
least, they're no more sad than
I am, when I dream I'n► flying
to Hong Kong with Elizabeth
Taylor, and I've just drifted
off With her head on my shoul-
der, and she shakes me gently
and leers into my eyes and says,
"I think I WILL have a dou-
ble brandy", and I suddenly
wake up and the Old Battle-
axe is shaking my shoulder, the
one with the bursitis in it, and
mumbling, "Gemme a drinka
wodder."
Smiley .
In fact, I am elated at the
thought that another t w o
months of muddling around
with visiting relatives, irration-
al. golf balls, reluctant fish and
lippy kids, is at an end.
As any true, red-blooded Can-
adian knows, fall is the time
when . we begin to live again.
We love it. We come alive. We
stop dreaming.
We look at our kids with
clear eyes, after the opium -
dream of summer, and find
they've grown four inches. We
look at our stomachs, after two
months of barbecued chicken,
French fries and dairy queens,
and find they've grown two
inches.
We look with loving eyes at
our ,schools and realize with.
some joy that it's only a few
days 'until we can take advant-
age of our position as taxpay-
ers, and get rid of the kids for
the best part of each week.
We look at our country and
see it with new eyes. It's beau-
tiful. Not a tourist in sight.
We look at our soft, soppy,
silly summer selves, and re-
alize that this is not what life
is all about. And -we give a
dim silent Canadian cheer for
the fact that it's all over once
again, and we can get back to
the serious things of life. Like
having a baby. Or running for
the school board.
Summer in this country is an
absolute fantasy, so/nettling in
which no sensible Canadian
would put any more faith than
he would in his Irish Sweep-
stake ticket, or .,his old Aunt
Ethel who has changed her will
six times. •
Summer in this country is a
fraud, an illusion. Every time
I Iie out in the backyard, on
the green grass, with the green
trees enclosing a circle of blue
sky and pinch myself, until I
know it's a dream, and that If
I tried the same thing four
months later, I'd be buried un-
der three feet of snow.
That's why I feel no real sad,
ness as summer draws to a
close. The Canadian summer is
about as real as Gilbert and
Stililvan,
"fm sorry, Jack, Ern just not
Interested In an accident-
• policy."
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