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SEAFORTH, ONTARIO,"6OCTOBER 29, 1964
It's Thne To ' Think About .Elections
In a recent issue a correspondent,
• long interested in municipal matters,
drew attention, in a letter, to the ap-
proaching municipal nominations and
the necessity of ensuring that interest-
ed citizens are available as candidates
for the various .offices.
It was good advice, particularly when
we recall the difficulty that existed a
year ago in completing the Seaforth
council.
While there has been no formal indi-
cation as to the intentions of present
is members of council and boards, it has
+.. been rumoured that in several instances
members may wish to retire. If this is
the case, new members will be requir-
ed.
Every citizen has a responsibility to
consider the type.. of person he would
...._.r�..,_, wish to - represent him in town affairs
and take steps
to ensure -that. the per-
son he prefers is nominated and encour-,
aged'to accept an office.. It is ,most un-
fair, both to the individual and to the
municipality, to take no action until -
moments before the deadline for the
close .of nominations. And when this
ca
The Early Bird
During recentweeks in an effort to
- meet tighter mailing schedules impos-
ed by the Post Office, we have asked the
co-operation of our correspondents and
advertisers so that their copy may be
in our hands as early'as possible.., Cer-
tainly. the co-operation which has been
extended has gone a long way in mak-
ing it possible to meet new deadlines.
But the problerns are not peculiar to
us: Weeklies across the province are
facing similar situations, as is indicat-
ed by these typical comments in the
Acton Free Press :
The early bird gets the worm and
gets the news space.
Every newspaper has the problem of
allotting editorial space. Compounding
the problem is: the Iocal preponderance
of organized activities searching for
some of that space.
In recent weeks we have been forced
to restrict some of .these activities from
photo coverage and - the printed word
coverage because they got here too late.
Production flow in this newspaper
'requires that the pages be completed
on a regular schedule, preparation for
which starts on the Thursday of the
hurdle has been overcome, it is equally
unfair to pressure a hesitant nominee
into qualifying, again just moments be-
fore the deadline.
We realize that there are many fac-
tors which result in qualified candidates
hesitating to accept a nomination for
office. Chief of these is the unwarrant-
ed criticism to which members- of
council are too often subjected, an this
is something about which every citizen
can be helpful. No member of a coun-
cil or board should be subjected to carp-
ing criticism.
While there can be many heartaches
and trials and tribulations during a
term of office, at the same time the
experience of serving •the •community
can be most awarding; There can be a
particular satisfaction in;l,seeipg long
considered plans being bnonght to re-
alization, and in a growing and finan-
cially. sound'municipality. It takes time •
arid only those who have beers' involved
can appreciate how much, but the time
spent can well be a valuable investment
in a better community. It is an invest-
ment which every qualified ratepayer
has a responsibility -CO make.
Gets The Space
week before publication and continues
until the final pages are printed.
We are constantly in need of good
local news for the first pages in pro-
duction. Yet, ,when the last pages are
being completed we have far more lo-
cal news than space. The result, is that
quite often it is necessary to leave out
of that issue good local news and pic-
tures.
Committee chairmen, publicity chair ---4
en and correspondents could assist us
materially in eliminating this shortage
of local news for our early runs by get-
ting us the reports of their activities
early in the week. By doing this, news
articles would be assured publication
in the current week.
P.S.—By way of a reminder, Exposi-
tor deadlines require display advertis-
ing to be in by Tuesday noon, and class-
ified ads by six o'clock Tuesday.
Today's parents surrender the logi-
cal dictatorship of -the adult for the
irresponsible dictatorship of the juve-
nile, and then dare call it "democracy."
—Franz Marchault.
Gael Feaoures, mc. , , ' ' ,,, �s , .
"Look, Mommy, BUBBLE BATH!"
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"8'Pttep gtve;hhn the inektryi, enlarger .. } has still -
SPARKS
by Willis Forbes
tt' strange how
many shady
people one can
meet, on. the
sunside of the
strenyet.
A Macdioff Ottawa Report
Federal - Provincial Power Shift
OTTAWA—In derhocratic so- ference has become the chief be done are going to be done
cieties, change in the , political instrument -for changing old on a national scale, then there
and constitutional edifice is us- concepts of Government. must be a kind of continuous
ually slow and barely discern -
The historic conference men- , negotiation between the two
sole. tioned earlier is onlyone in a levels of
Occasionally:the 4government.
process is long . series of conferences past• Mainly •through the Federal -
accelerated, offering at least a or planned. Federal -Provincial Provincial conference, the two
glimpse of the shape of things conferences are going on al- levels' are working towards
to come. This, it seems, is what most continuously these 'days. more permanent and more valid
is happening in Canada now. Officials, Ministers, or Prime relationships.
Power' and influence is shift- Ministers, meet "%hind locked nig will' ''Th "all likelih Cid
ing from the federal authority don'ts -0 study and make agree- lead"tti gradual'changes • in he
to the provinces, or to a kind ments on taxation, pensions, constitution and a sounder base
of semi-secret society. known as constitutions, Indian Affairs,' for the 'legitimate exercise of
a Federal - Provincial confer- mental health, the economy, authority.
cute. and almost anything else you
- Just recently, the Federal and can mention. This young confederation has
Provincial leaders met togeth- This • in itself is something never really examined itself in
er in Ottawa and came to what new in Canadian politics. It terms of what services it wants
• were described, as "historic" de- is a development that disturbs and needs, and which of its
visions. ". governments • should provide
some
people. Mr. Pearson is them. This is, after all, a fed -
They agreed on a formula to assailed as a man who is sur -
amend the Canadian constitu-''rendering vast chunks of Fed- eration and it behooves no par- .
tion and bring it home, thereby eral authority. to the provinces. ty to it to infringe upon any
opening the way for gradual but Mr. Lesage has his extrem- other. • '
• important changes- in the con- ists too. They want to have This self-examination is - go-
stitution which will almost,donewith co-operative federal- ing on now, in Federal-Provin-
surely shape a different kind of ism and Canada, to set up their .tial meetings, in Parliaments,
Confederation. . own independent nation along in public discussions. It is dif-
They agreed on an intensive the St. Lawrence River. ficult to see how anything but ,
joint study of tax structures in But there is more valid criti- good can come of it.
Canada which i
Sugar and Spice
By Bill Smiley
DO WIVES REALLY 'HAVE
IT MADE?`-
Some of my best friends are
women. I like women, general-
ly, because they are compas-
sionate, courageous, and smell
nice.
Some are good lookers. Oth-
ers are nod cookers. Most
have .a great fund of common.
sense. -
For these very reasons, I have
refused to stand by and let that
fine creature, the housewife, be
led, or misled, into a morass of
frustration and. unhappiness by
a few frustrated, unhappy fe,
male agitators.
opposite, that it is the male
-creature in marriage who is
trapped, who is the slave to his
family, and who, very often, is
bored silly with the 'whole busi-
ness.
i have no need to quote any
kind of an "ologist". All I have
'to do is look around me.
There's the former terror of
the tank corps. A tiger ,in ac-
tion, his name was a by -word
among the troops, ,a symbol of
dash and elan. There's not
much left of his former fiend-
ish skill as he steers his shop-
ping cart 'submissively about
the supermarket. His wife is
busy Friday nights with her
little theatre group.
For years, I have been fight- ing a battle. It has been made
up of skirmishes in speeches, There's the former bomber
full-scale attacks in this col- pilot. For three' years, he held
umn, and occasional hand -to- within his clever and capable
hand combat with my old lady, hands, six thousand horsepow-
On some occasions, I have er, six tons of bombs, and the
been routed, my banners tat- lives of six men. I wonder if
tered, my forces in disarray. he feels "fulfilled as a human
But my ideals have remained being" as he drops another
intact, my cause untarnished. . quarter in the coin washy But
Once in a while, I've won a it's Saturday night and his wife
minor encounter. At a party, likes to watch the movie on
for instance, when a housewife TV. •
has flung •a drink in my face • Most of the damage has ,been
and rushed off to the bathroom done by a comparatively small
in a confusion of rage and tears. group of harridans who have
produced a veritable tidal wave
of books, magazine articles and
I don't regret a minute of the TV diatribes, all with the same
long campaign. The only thing theme: if you are a housewife
that has depressed me has been (a) you are unhappy and frus-
the intense loneliness. Time and traced; (b) you're a slob be -
again I have felt like a lost cause you're not out working, or'
patrlol, cut off ,from all rein- writing a novel or sculpting a
forcements, betrayed by allies. seulp or something.
But my heart leaped in my Normal, intelligent house -
breast with new hope the other wives, under this finger of
day, when I read an article in scorn, are slinking around
Maclean's magazine,- For the guiltily, trying to convince
first time ii a. decade or more, themselves that they are. un--
I felt that 'thy cause, "Equality -happyrti`,,-etrated' shirkers: -The.
for •Husbands", had an outside only thing I'b worried about 'is
chance of winning. that they may succeed. ''Title of the article was,
"Marriage is Easy -Street (For
Women)". Written by Sidney As any woman of real insight
Katz, it was a sober, factual re- knows, it is the male of the
futation of that base, insidious family.who' is a slave, to the
and increasing whine of the family, who is frustrated, uh-
times — that a housewife is fulfilled and trapped. Let me
"bored, trapped, a slave to her quote from the article. In a
family, and unfulfilled as a hu- survey, one housewife said,•• "A
man being." married woman. has it made."
Welcome to the barricades,
* * * Katz. You can pile sandbags
Mr. Katz' quotes sociologist, while I sharpen my finger to
psychologist and anthropologist • stick it in the dyke.
to prove that I have been say- Go, get him, girls. Katz, that
ing for year: that it is -just the is!
n turn will. prob- cism of this still awkward sys
ably reshape fiscal relations tem. It can be said with rea-
within Confederation. son that the Federal -Provincial
These decisions were made conference is beconling the true
not ,by the Federal Government policy-making instrument in
alone. They were made by the Canada.
Federal Government and the In secret conclave the Fed -
provinces together. eral and Provincial Govern -
They were duly two of many ments work out deals which
decisions which have been made have the practical force of
in this Manner in recent years, treaties between sovereign gov-
decisions not necessarily mo- ernments.
mentous in . themselves but The charge is that..the Fed -
which, taken together, repres- eral Parliament is by-passed,
ent now the drivigg force be- made a rubber stamp; that the
hind constitutional development Federal executive branch can -
in Canada. not exercise its constitutional
The provinces have asserted' power, without the consent of
themselves. They have come of the provinces.
age. They know their combin- There may be some truth in
ed fiscal power now equals or this. But perhaps the pendu-
exceeds that of the Federal Gov- lura would not be swinging so
ernment. They are willing and farhadmore people been more'
able—or most of them are—to solicitous of provincial rights in
take on the responsibilities the days when the Federal
which the Canadian constitu- authority was indisputable boss.
tion ascribes to them. Surely the real paint now is
When one speaks of educe- that the people of Canada, vot-
tion, health, social welfare, one ing in their respective , prov-
is .speaking of the things which inces, have made it clear that
roost Canadians now regard as the things they want most from
priority items. They are also it- Government are those things
ems which fall largely within that can be provided only by
provincial jurisdiction, Provincial Governments or by
This is one reason why a the two levels of Government
shift in power from the Federal_ acting together.
Government has been essential. The Federal Government re -
The really important decisions mains sovereign in its fields.
to be made in the next few But the Provincial Governments
years, will probably be in these are also sovereign in some ar-
fields. They cannot be made -by eas, and always • have been,
the Federal Government alone, though their sovereignty has
Where possible, they will be been defaced again and a ain
made by joint action of the two' Now the g
gain -
levels of Government. Thetis ingprovinces are power and they intend to
why the Federal -Provincial con- use it. If the things which must
Id Ike to know whether it ,
holds ten gallons, if you.
dont mind.'
o Gr -
eux oats
"notd ft, 11 tax cere'' my
cut�oi Ma
."Lady, will you kindly remove your hat?"
oTeAres
"Maid, can't yo1&take NO'tor an answ4t7"
hrthe Years Agone
From The Huron Expositor
November 3, 1939
A blinding snowstorm - Tues-
day evening failed to dampen
the enthusiasm of the thousands
who took part in the Seaforth
Lions Club 10th annual Hal-
lowe'en frolic. Drawing for the
major prizes was commenced at
11:45 with the first ticket being
drawn" by W. H. Golding, M.P.
The lucky winner • was . K. J.
Houston, of Gorrie, who won
a car. A dance in Cardno's Hall
was:..the final event of the eve-
ning.
Mr. and Mrs, -Russell Marks,
Percy Straeder. and Thos. Kirk-
by,
irkby, of Walton, Ieft Wednesday
for Northern Ontario on a
hunting expedition and hope to.
bring home some deer.
Rev. W:.• A. Bremner, Mrs.
Bremner and Miss Edna Brem-
ner, Reg.N., returned on Satur-
day from' a three weeks' visit
to,, New York and the World's
Fair.
Mrs. J., D. Hinchley left this
week for Renfrew,where she
will spend several weeks at the
home of her son, Mr. H. R.
Hinchley. ,
Mrs, George Walker, of Hen-
sall, underwent a critical opera-
tion in Clinton Hospital on Mon-
day. Her daughter, Oliye, -reg-
ietered nurse, of New York, is
in attendance.
Alvin D. G. Bell, Hensall, who
took honor mathematics 'and
business course at the Univers-
ity of Western Ontario, receiv-
ed the degree of Bachelor of
Arts at the autumn convocation.
Mr. and Mrs.'George Hudson,
respected , citizens, of Hensall,
quietly celebrated their 47th
wedding anniversary on Thurs-'
day of last week, and in the eve-
ning partook of a banquet at
Brucefield.
Mr. Charles Wolfe, contrac-
tor of the briekwork, end Mr.
James Sangster, contractor for
the woodwork, are making good
headway in the -erection of Jas.
McEwan's new brick building,.
north of Hensall, in the, Town-
ship of HO. -
While her father was in the
process of backing the car from
the garage on Thursday last,
Betty Young, 2 -year-old daugh-
ter of Mr. and Mrs. Archie
Young, of Hulled, fell from the
vehicle, breaking her leg.
"The Plaza," Mitchell's new
theatre, will open its doors to
the public Monday evening. Mr.
and Mrs. Sutherland hope the
public will like their new ven-
ture.
* *
From The Huron Expositor
October 30,E 1914
Through the kindness of Mr.
William Lane, county clerk, we
are able to give the eontribu-
tions froiir the following places
to the Patriotic Fund: Hensall,
155 sacks of oats, 150 bags of
potatoes; 92= barrels of, .apples;
Brucefield, 2137 ,sacks, of oats,
187 bags of potatoes, 79 bar-
rels of apples; Seaforth, 1
sacks of oats, 236 bags of pota
toes,, -173 barrels of apples.
James Jarrott, of Hay; near
Kippen, while attending to
sick horse, received a kick from
the animal which broke his leg
He will be laid up for son
time. The horse died the ne
day.
Miss Evelyn McCartney, o
Goderich, and Mr. Clifford Hun
of Seaforth, • students at the
Clinton School of Commerce
have been awarded certificates
for proficiency in typewriting
by the Educational Department
of the United Typewriter Co.
of New York: Mr. Hunt is. the
son of Mr. and Mrs.. Edwin -I -hint
of McKillop.
The Lucknow Sentinel says:
"C. A. Barber, of the Seaforth
Creamery Co., was in Lucknow
and vicinity a few days last
week, arranging for the ship-
ment of cream to the factory.
The creamery, under the per-
sonal management of Mr. Bar-
ber, is doing a large busihess
and is drawing cream from long
distances."
Farmers are not selling many
apples. The dealers are only
paying 50 cents a barrel, if pick-
ed; and 25 cents a barrel if
picked by the dealer.
F. W. Hess, W. O'Brien, E.
Axt and 11.'Weber, of Zurich,
are enjoying their. annual holi-
day at the Pinery.
The latest news from the seat
of war is, very encouraging from
the standpoint of the Allies. In
France, fihting still continues,
but the German armies seem to
have spent their forces and the
Allies have made substantial
progress along the whole line
of battle.
Mr. John McDonald, of Wal-
ton, is having a new dry kiln
erected at his lumber mill in'.
the village.
Miss Bessie McDonald; the
teacher at Walton school, fell
from a tree while hunting beech
nuts and broke one of her arms
and bruised her skull near her
forehead. -
Miss Hazel Dorrance, of Sea -
forth, was appointed the dele-
gate from the Presbyterian Sun-
day School to attend the Pro-
vincial School convention in
London this week. •
Mr. Thomas Oliver, of Hib-
bert, who purchased the resi-
dence of Mrs. Fisher in Eg-
mondville, has moved in with
his family.
Mr. W. H. McElroy, of Blyth,
has been. turning but at the rate
of 200 aple barrels per day at
his cooper Shop.
From The Huron Expositor
November 1, 1889
One -day iastweek a8 Mr, John
White,. of x'uekersniith, was
tyi g up his bull after leading
hint out to water, the brute
Caught, him on its horns and
threw •hitn •several times in the
79 air, and' but for the timely ar-
- rival of one of his sons, would
have killed him.
, Mr. and Mrs. William Peck,
a of the Goshen Linea Stanley;
celebrated their golden wed-
. ding on the 22nd ult., by a
e- pleasant family gathering at
xt their residence. They were mar-,
ried in . Yorkshire, England.
f The _auction sale of Mr. Wm.
t Robb, on the 2nd .concession of
Tuckersmith, on Tuesday last,
, was largely ' attended and was
very successful. Under the ham-
mer, the property realized near-
ly $1800.00. A pair of yearling
, steerssold for $51; a pair of
two -year-olds for $90; cows from
$34 to $39, The.. auctioneer's
hammer was wielded by W. R.
Davis; of Mitchell.,
Mr. Matthew Murray, son of
Mr, Thomas Murray, of McKil-
lop, left• en Thursday for Miehi-
gan, Hehas taken up 160 acres
of land near Sault Ste. Marie.
He took a carload of settler's
effects, and as accompanied
by Mr. William Evans, Jr,,. of
McKillop, and he took along a
very superior:• young draft stal-
lion, which he intends to sell
to the Yankies. -
The Seaforth Collegiate elec-
tions
lecttions is the most interesting it-
em these drays and are as fol-
lows: honorary president, D. D.
Wilson, and the following tick- •
ets were nominated for the oth-
.er offices: Red president, Miss
M. Sloan; vice-presidedt, Miss
M. Devereaux; secretary, J.
Campbell; editorial staff, . R.
Reid, J. Kennedy, Miss J. Mc-
Donald; committee, Miss L.
Dickson, Miss M. Porter, T.
Stephens. Blue: President, F.
Clarkson; vice-president, Miss
'J. Bethune; editorial staff, J.
Smith, Charles Willis, Miss F.
Johnson; committee, Miss E.
Downey, Miss W. Killoran, Thos.
Forsyth.
The Seaforth football 'club
scored a grand victory at Ber-
lin on Saturday last, beating
the celebrated Rangers of that
town by a score of 3 to 2.
If we make the best of lit-
tle opportunities, we find our-
selves more able to accept larg-
er ones''
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chief Running Eagle's-
squaw
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squaw k heap bum cook!"
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