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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1964-11-05, Page 21 1 • Published at %I E .O w - soy Since 18$0, Serving the Community First SEAFORTH, ONTARIO, every .Thursday morning by 1tcL.EAN BROS., Publish ANDREW Y. MCLEAN, Editor Member Canadian Weekly Newspapers' Association Onta'r•oWeekly Ne ewspapers oAssociation Audit ation • Subscription Rates: • Canada (in advance) $4.00 a Year sv Outside Canada in advance) $5.50 a Year SINGLE COPIES 10 CEivrs EACH Authorized as' Second Class Mail, Post Office Department, Ottawa. 1; SEAFORTH, ONTARIO, NOVEMBER 5, 1964 A Day Of Remembrance Seaforth and district citizens, in common with fellow Canadians from coast to coast, will pay tribute to the dead of two wars at Remembrance Day services next Wednesday. In line with many area centres, Seaforth has de- clared the day a public holiday, and places of business will be closed. The occasion provides an opportun- ity whereby citizens can pay homage to the memory of those who laid down their lives to preserve our way of life. Unfortunately, in too many cases in the past it is an occasion that has 'been ignored by for too many among those who benefit from the sacrifices of the fallen. It is not enough to regard Remem- brance Day as being something that is of interest to members of the Legion. A Remembrance Day ceremony, attend- ed by a mere handful of citizens, is not only an affront tothose who gave their all; it is an indication of a 'don't care' attitude that prevails all too frequent- ly today about matters that should be of concern to a community. Rembrance Day is not a holiday in the ordinary sense of the word. It should not be regarded as a day pf re- laxation, of pleasure. Rather, it is a day of remembrance,. of dedication_ True, world tensions at the moment appear to be eased. „Nevertheless, there is in many areas concern as to the fu- ture. The fact that on the surface, pressures seem less than at other times is no excuse to ignore the true sig- nificance of Remembrance Day. Inthe two World Wars, 102,653 Can- adians were killed. In the Korean War, 288 more Canadians gave their lives. In addition, there were those thousands who sufferedwounds, the results of which they will never be rid. These Canadians died to protect and preserve our freedom—our freedom to worship, to vote, to "speak as we will. Remembrance Day is a time when their sacrifice must be recalled and our thoughts and actions directed in such a fashion that their lives will not have been given in vain. Industy Can Aid Economy The Goderich Signal -Star notes that "scores •of towns throughout Ontario anxiously Jiope that a sizeable new in- dustry will locate in their municipali- ties in order to give the economy of that particular area a needed "shot in the arm". The writer contiriues: "Reading the many weekly newspapers which come to the Signal -Stat office from various parts of Ontario, we see articles or editorials in them, from time to time,. always maintaining that 'what this town needs is another industry or two.' It's the same old story right across the Province. - "Correct as that statement might be, however, the odds do not seem to be in• favor of' Ontario towns getting new industries, comparatively speaking, that is. More than 60 per cent of the indus- try coming into Ontario, . for example, settle within ,a 25 -mile radius of To- •ronto. There are 32 per cent more people employed in manufacturing • in Metro Toronto than in seven provinces com- bined—all the provinces except On- tario and Quebec. In the four counties around Toronto (that's, about 35 miles in each direc- tion) almost as many people are em- ployed in manufacturing as in eight provinces—all of them except Ontario a-nd Quebec. How can Ontario towns expect . to compete against that kind of centraliza- tion of industry? We're not so sure that the central- ization of industry in the" Toronto area and, also, in the larger Ontario centres such as Hamilton, Kitchener, etc., is— in the long run—good for the economy of the province as a whole. To explain, in detail why, would make a rather -lengthy article. Just let's say that the decentraliza- tion of industry—away from the large cities and spread out among Ontario towns—might well 'correct a lot of economic ills at present existing in On- tario. Naturally, Ontario towns need not expect any help from the cities in question to bring about this decentral- ization. It will remain for the Provincial government to do something about this. This can be done by wavy of sub- sidies—legal inducements, if you will —to attract industries to Ontario towns. The government is already sub- sidizing many things in Ontario. Why can't this he a worthwhile one? If, after a comprehensive survey, the government finds that such subsidizing would not be in the best interests of the Province as a whole, then Ontario towns could be so advised, These towns could -then plan their economy accord- ingly. As it is now, many Ontario towns, in various ,ways, , are spending hundreds of thousands of .dollars an- nually in efforts to gobble up most of the new industries at the expense of other Ontario towns. ' Would not a more equal distribution of these industries across the Province result in better over-all economy in the province'?" An archaeologist is the best husband any woman can have: the older 'she gets, the more .interested he is in her. —Agatha Christie. Learning should come in an off -hand, cavalier fashion.' An artist, especial- ly, should be able to go right through college with one brain tied behind him. —Robert Frost. Vices sit'Ftbn Maned on polfecsP' "O ;'1 Cil .fid „Jibn ::.'. -•'mo�w. 'r r,De'�gUpm)o),,; "Our' house is sure hectic I n the morning ... look, a pot holder sandwich/" THE WAYWARD BUS A Macduff Ottawa Report The Log Jam In Ottawa OTTAWA—This is the most talkative Parliament in the his- tory of Canada but it hasn't been so big on action. Sincethe sessiog started Feb- ruary 18, this "tong parlia- ment" has broken all records in the verbal olympics. • The nimble fingers of the Hansard reporting staff have taken down about eight million words of debate. Printed on the pages of Hansard itself, this ocean .of talk , takes up about 10,000 pages. Bound in hefty, black vol- umes, this output makes the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire look like a pamphlet and rivals the size of the En- clopaedia Britannica. - And still the talk goes on. The length of the 1964 ses- sion has smashed all records, including ` the 174 -day 'high point set by the session of 1960-61.. The previous record session was spread over two years. This is compressed into one. But if . Canada's 26th Parlia- ment has been long on debate, it has also' been short on deci- sions. The major business of the session—approval of the spend- ing pending estimates, railway legisla- tion, the Canada pension Pian, labour code, redistribution of electo-FaI boundaries, the flag— have come, floating down the tide of talk to build into a giant log -jam of legislation. Each party blames the oth- ers but the situation is taking its toll of the morale of mem- bers of Parliament, especially the backbenchers. They're bored, resentful; and some of them are rebellious against their own party leader- ship. 'All these factors have some- thing to do with the recent humiliation of the Liberal Gov- ernment when opposition par- ties combined to write an extra -holiday—Remembrance Day— into Labour Minister ' MacEach- en's vaunted new labour code. Mr. 'MacEachen had rejected the 'addition of •an eighth statu- tory holiday both (privately . in the Liberal caucus and publicly in the Commons. But when the vote came at the committee stage, only 44 of the 128 Lib- erals were on hand , and the opposition won. Later, some' restless Liberals claimed they had stayed away deliberately—a telling commen- tary on (he state of the party discipline which is absolutely vital to a minority govern- ment. Another sign of parliament- ary boredom has been a rising incidence of absenteeism among the $18,000 -a -year MP's. The "T -to -T" club—members who leave Ottawa Thursday and don't return until the following Tuesday—is again in full swing but now can travel by air at the expense of the taxpayers. This makes membership in SPARKS by Willis Forbes Behind the iron curtain lire is just one banned thing aFter another, "Wait until you see the beau- tiful tropical plant we bought today." the T -to -T club open to West- ern members who formerly got an undeserved halo for parlia- mentary virtue because even a four-day weekend wasn't long enough to get home and back on a free railway pass. Some of the more thoughtful MP's have been talkingrecent- ly about the possibility of a roll -call in Parliament to expose the members .who .seem to be seldom at their desks. The Senate takes account each sitting day of which of its members are in their places. But there's 'nothing of this kind in the Commons. Instead it is left td an "honour" system which doesn't seem to work very well. Each month, when the MP gets his pay -cheque, he gets with it a declaration to sign and return. He is supposed to declare how many days he was away from the House that month. The member is allowed to be away 21 days without. penalty each year. But over that num- ber, any day of absence costs him $120 off his pay -cheque. There's no way of proving it, but the opinion of all the ex- perienced observers on Parlia- ment,' Hill is that there are many absences which never show up on the declarations. Public accounts for past years show that few, if any, MP's ac- tually apply the financial pen- alty to themselves. They al- ways find a reason to give them- selves a good attendance re- cord, if only that "Everybody's doing it". It wouldn't -improve the de- bate or the job done by indi- vidual MP's to keep all mem- bers, glued to their seats all day every day. But an atten- dance record would give a con- stituency a way of judging their member's performance - and it would be up' to him to explain what he had been doing when he wasn't around th • Some faithful -attending ,mem- bers- feel, too, that ,it .would be more fair than the kind'of "at- tendance record" which some newspapers now compile from the roll -call votes — the only time it is officially recorded whether • a member was, pres- ent. Votes come at' unexpected times and are sometimes sprung. suddenly. A member may have been in his seat for three weeks solid, then miss a couple of votes. In the vot- ing record, it may look as though he is seldom in the Commons. But old-timers say the lazy member usually gets his' just deserts, eventually, even un- der the present system. A roll - call might speed the course of justice but voters can't be fool- ed all the time anyway. And this 'raises the question of what the voters will have to say 'about a Parliament of talk and little action when they get the chance - - a chance which seems closer each day the House of Commons is bogged down in its own verbosity. Sugar and Spice By Bir SHE'S EVERYTHING BUT PATIENT --I get a'few fan letters. About half of them are from dear, sweet, intelligent people who tell me they read the column faithfully, and like it. About a quarter ofthem are from mutton - headed, wrong - minded, opinionated people who read the column faithfully and disagree with my politics, lan- guage and philosophy. The oth- er quarter is made up of fran- tic chairmen of the program committees for various service clubs, wanting to know if I'll speak to their group on July 14th. The answer tot the last one is always no. I spoke to a service club once, and swore I'd never do it again. I have never had such an ignorant audience: After spending a week pre- paring a speech, and driving 50 miles on a winter night, after a hard day's work, I was asked anxiously by the president if I could "keep it down to ten minutes or so." About half the members were half -oiled and two or three went to sleep while I was being in- troduced. This is about stand- ard. The president and secre- tary keep looking at their watches. Before the ritual "thank you", eight 'or ten members had slunk out. The president apologized, "thy hafta go curling." The minute the vote of thanks in which the mover called me Mr. Wiley, the famous column- ist) ended, the club came to ife with tigerish intensity, and sat there listening for three- quarters of an hour to them quibbling about whether they hould spend fifty bucks on a °nation to boys' hockey, which would get them •a picture and a alf 'a column in the local pe- er, or twenty-five bucks on a ()nation to a scholarship fund, hick would 'get them a para- graph. Guess which won. 1 I s d h p d w However, as' you ' have long since guessed, this experience has nothing to 'do with what ii'm going to talk about. What 1 started out to say w'as that • In the Years Agg►ne From The Huron Expositor November 10, 1939 John Robert McKenzie, son Mr. and Mrs. R. E. McKenz won the silver medal in t boys' class under 10 years age in. vocal at the Canadi Musical Festival at London. Miss Jean Hurford won t beautiful baby Tootsie doll g en by the Rhythm Band of James Church, in a conte held by the band in order, procure a -new drum. At a dinner given in Alexa dria Hotel, Toronto, on Satu day, Nov, 4, Mrs. Moody H land, of Walton, was presented with a flodr lamp by the mem- bers of Wiliams°n Road School staff. On Thursday Mr. and Mrs. Holland were given a chester- field chair by Walton friends. Mr. ! W. C. Bennett made the presentation and Mr. Arthur Bewley read the address. Mr. W. G, Willis, Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Willis, Dr. F. J. Bech- ley and Mrs. Bechely were' in Wingham on Sunday attending the funeral of the late W. H. Willis. • Miss Laura K. Pelton, promo- tion secretary of the WMS in the Presbyterian Church in Can- ada, was the guest speaker at the meeting of the Barbara Kirkman Auxiliary in First Presbyterian Church on Tues. day. Mr. Fred Beer, of HensalI, met with an unfortunate acci- dent in his garage on Wednes- day evening. His car was in gear when he cranked it, wit the result• that it jumped fo ward and crushed him again the wall, fracturing one leg' an injuring the other. He is a 'wa veteran and was taken to Wes minster Hospital, Liindon, o Thursday morning. On Friday •evening, about 7 neighbors and friends gathere at the home of Mr. and Mr Alex McDonald, Tuckersmith to honor their daughter, Edn a. bride -elect of this week: •• A address was read by Rober Archibald and the presentatio was made by Messrs. John OId field and Warden Haney. Man lovely miscellaneous gifts wer received by Edna. Lured by the call of the wild Chief of Police Helfnar Snel left this week for Northeastern Ontario, . where he will - spen two weeks hunting. Included i the party is . Rev. Harold Snell of Ethel, Also on hunting trip this week are Dr. D. J. Colqu houn, Merton A. Reid, J. M Scott, R. McCallum 'and Alas tair Wigg,, Mrs. J. C. Laidlaw, of town quietly observed- her 90th birth day on Tuesday at her hom on Goderich St. Members of the Seaforth Bad minton Club officially opened the season Friday evening when a pot -luck 'supper, arranged by Sally Wood, Merna Smith and Patsy Southgate, was enjoyed Following supper, a tournament was' held, which was won ' by Emily Lester and Stan Dor- ranee. Aldie J. Eckert, son of 'ex - warden and Mrs. J. M. Eckert and a student of Seaforth Col- legiate Institute, has been warded a second Carter schol- arship. It carries with it a prize f $60. Mr. and Mrs. George Bell, of Tuckersmith, marked their olden wedding anniversary at he home of their daughter, Mrs. Andrew Houston. They were, presented with -two beau- ifu"I' chairs. . ' From The Huron Expositor November 6, 1914 Miss Ruth Van Egmond has one to Bredford, Pa., to enter pon a course `of professional ursing in the hospital there. Messrs. William and Matthew cott, of Tuckersmith,• have old their farm on the Kippen oad to Mr. David H. Stewart, eaforth. , 'Mr.' August Guhr, of town, as recently obtained a $17,500 rain contract in the Township f Grey. He has just complet- d a big drain contract in Mor- s, and aping, both of London, and Miss B. Marson, of of Seaforth. ie, The principal of Zurich he School, G. S. Howard, had the of misfortune to fall out of an an apple tree last week and sprain his ankle very badly. he The 47th anniversary of St. iv- Andrew's Church at Kippen St. was celebrated bn Sunday. Rev. st Mr. Urquhart, a former minis - to ter, was the guest speaker. The church choir, under the leader- ship of Miss Ivison, gave spe- cial music which was much ap- r- preciated. ol- The members of the Young People's Society of Egmond- ville Church spent'a pleasant evening at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Charters, on the Mill Road. Mr. James Robb went to Luck- now to lay hardwood floors in some of the residences in that town. Mr. Robb is an eXpert in this work. Mr.. John Malone, of McKil- lop, near Beechwood, has sent us the champion apple. It weighs 15 ounces and measures 14 inches around. From The Huron Expositor November 8, 1889 Mrs. William Dawson, Sea - forth, left. a few days ago for Seattle, Washington' Territory, where she intends to join her husband who has a good situa- tion' with the Cable Car Co., of that city. As an indication of the h ,healthfulness of this locality, r- we may state that the inter- st meats in Maitlandbank ceme- d tey during the past year have ✓ been fewer by 50 per cent than t- in any year since the cemetery n was Opened, Mr. Wm, Copp has now the 0 framework of his new residence d on Goderich St. up and is hau- s. ing it enclosed. , Mr. Thomas McMichael, of the a, second concession of Hullett; n had his two-year-old Canadian t bred stallion weighed. It weigh- t ed 1500 pounds. - Mr. Isaac Moore,. of Hibbert, y has sold his farm on the 10th. e concession to Mr. Richard Hog- garth for $3,150. 'The farm 'con- , tains 50 acres and is an excel- 1lent place and was well .sold. Mr. H. A: Ross has been en- d gaged by the trustees of School n Section No. 11, Stephen, for , next year at a salary of $375.00. s Mr. Menzie, a Scottish gentle- - man from the old sod, spent a , ,'couple of .weeks visiting at the - residence of Mr. Robert Turn- bull' in • McKillop. He was great- , ly impressed with the country. A couple of weeks ago Mr. e John P. Maclaren, of the 8th concession of Hullett, had two - sheep killed by dogs, Mr. John Riley, a neighbor, also had two sheep killed. Mr. John Dorsey, of -town, has purchased the Haskin farm of 100 acres, being lot 16, con. 2, Hibbert, near Dublin, from the estate of Joseph Kidd, paying the sum of $5,000 for it. The Seaforth Football Club visited Aylmer and played a match with the club of that place on Friday, which resulted in a score of 2-0. The following were the names of the Seaforth team; Goal, R. Fairley; backs, Walter Willis, W. McDonald; • half backs, R. Jackson, D. Mc- Donald, J. Livingston; right wing, G.' Dewar, J. -Killoran; centre, J. Henderson; left wing, G. Hammell; D, Dallas. The employees,in the oatmeal mill of . Mr. Walter Thompson, of town, entertained P. Dalphin to, supper at Kennedy's Hotel on Monday evening. Mr. Dalphin has been in the employ of Mr. Thaimpson for about 20 years and leaves now with the view of taking up residence in Chi- cago, where most of his family now reside. Last Sunday afternoon, Ar- thur, the four-year-old son of Andrew Crozier, fell on the road while going to • Alex Mc-, Laughlin's and broke the small bone in his left arm, near the elbow. A son of Mr. James Barry, Hibbert, who is 'lumbering in California, had a very narrow escape from instant death re- cently. As it was, -he was bad- ly injured. Mrs. Page, who has kept the hotel at. Staffa for a number.o£ years, left recently for Exeter where she has purchased the Metropolitan Hotel, Mr. Frank Carlin, of . Mitchell, succeeds her at Staffa. we had a switch this week. My a wife got a fan letter. It was a lovely letter—warm ° kind, friendly, intelligent, , and utterly mistaken. g In ' $art, it. reads: "I'm sure t you must be a very patient woman and a very happy one, as I think I can tell from your t husband's column he is a happy and contented man, and this is mainly • all a wife needs to be happy herself. Perhaps?" * * g Bless you, dear lady, for,that u "perhaps". There's still hope n for the reading public. My wife is about as patient S as Henry the Eighth, about as s happy as .Hamlet. • R She's a good kid, basically, S but it's beef] a long time since she was on base. Or even knew h .what innings it was. d At least once a week, she's o so depressed she says, "I just e feel like jumping off the dock." ri I reply, "So who's stopping you?" ,She, old Patience, bel- S. lows, "You'd just love that, th wouldn't you? You'd go right a out and get married to some young flibbertigibbet w h o so couldn't keep you in line." And J: SO on, ' L th She thinks she's smarter, fin- ancially, than the president of U the Bank of Canada. But she Sa never has any change for the on milk bottles. de She claims she's so• neurotic'-th she can't sleep a wink, ever. I T take her to a movie, she falls st asleep in eight minutes, and it th takes the combined efforts of ve me, the ticket taker, and the an manager, to get her out of the • theatre when it closes. • tr * * * et Last week she wanted to go an ,to Africa and teach all the kids to in the Congo how to play the ga piano with the' proper finger Po movements. Next week she'll ch be bawling hell out of me be- an cause I haven't been bawling to hell out of the kids about some- to thing or other. Br Happy? No. Patient? It is to laugh. Interestin? Si. At- v tractive? SI. Nutty? Natural- Pre Iy. And perhaps that, dear 16 lady fan, is why her .husband Iia is, as you Ind' it, "a...happy and oh contented man," 0y1 as Mr. John Neely, son of Mrs. Neely, of town, has joined e second volunteer contingent nd left for London on Monday. Messrs. •Jas. Speirpoint, Nei - n Westcott, Percy Rolph and Pethick left on Tuesday for opdon where they will join e volunteer services. One of the finest barns in sborne Township, owned by muel Hicks, Eden Line, see- d concession, was completely stroyed by fire, together with e whole of the sea'son's crop uesday afternoon. The fire arted from sparks from a reshing engine and spread ry,rapidly. He had no insur- ce on it. In addition to the usual local avel, the following Were tick- ed to distant points this week W. Somerville: Mrs, Barr d daughter, Mrs. McNaugh- n, and Miss Muldrew, to Cal- ry; Mrs. Mulligan to Grand rks, N.D,; Miss Annie Carno- an to Boston; Aaron Mitchell d son, of Cromarty, to Eris - 1, England; Jules Chyselinek, Brussels, Belgium.. Ernest ooks to his home in England: The cantata, "Olivet to CaI- ary," will be given in First sbyterian Church on Nov. , under the direction of Mr, rold Nixon, organist and oir leader, The choir will be silted by .Mr. Harold Whyte, Farmer to his son: "Always remember that a job well done need never be done again," The alert son replied: "Dad, what about milking the cows?" ' • •• MEREOm4 "1 ,drink if's putting on too - umch weight!"