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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1964-11-12, Page 2• • • "" 1,, r • '4 • • . • — . , . 0 Since 1860, Serving the Community First e,41)1184e4 at SEAFORTH, ONTARIO, every Thursday morning by MeLEAN BROS., Publishers ANDREW Y. MCLEAN, Editor V" P" Member Canadian Weekly. Newspapers Association Ontario Weekly Newspapers Association If 110C . Audit Bureau of Circulation Sabsalption Rates: - 4' • i Canada (in advance) $4.00 a Year ‘ Outside Canada (in advance) $5.50 a Yehr L SINGLE COPIES — 10 CENTS EACH ' Authorized as Second Class Mail, Post Office Department, Ottawa. SEAFORTH, ONTARIO, NOVEMBER 12, 1964 Almost Everything Moves Faster This is a fast age in which we live. Highway traffic moves at increasing speeds; aircraft break the sound bar- rier; we have almost instant communi- cationswith pretty well every point on the globe, and even on occasions with outer space. Everything fs moving faster, Everything, that i, except the Post Office. It requires sixteen hours for a let- ter to go by first-class mail,from Sea - forth to Clinton, a distance of nine miles. If it happened that the letter was posted at, say,- 5 :10 .in the after- noon, it would not be delivered, in Clin- ton until 9 a.m. the second day follow- ing --39 hours and 50 minutes after it had been posted. And Clinton .is still only nine' miles distant! The Misses Lizars in their interest.- _ ing book, "In the Days of the Canada Company," in which they describe this • district as it was in pioneer days, tell •the story of a pioneer resident of Gode- rich, who "anxious to join her brother, who was working on the road east of Mitchell, left Goderich early one morn- • ing and made her .way 35 miles, over streams, bogs and by blazed track, alone, readring hr destination that evening." That was in 1830—one hun- dred and .thirty-four years ago. The late Professor Wilfred Brenton Kerr, in his book, "From Scotland To. • Huron," recalls the first of the family to settle in McKillop—James Kerr— would walk from his McKillop farm to Goderich for flour, . and return the same day—a one-way trip of 22 miles. That was in 1852. The rbads were poor or non-existent, and there were no cars and trucks in those days a century or more ago, bait the settlers found ways of moving from centre to centre within reasonable time limits. In introducing changes in mail sche- dules, the Post Office Department pre- sumably held the view there would be some improvement in service. Perhaps this improvement bas become appar- ent in the larger centres. Certainly as far as mail movement between the smaller centres in Huron and Perth is concerned there is no improvement ; on the contrary, the clock has been turned back a hundred years. - With the additional truck routes which the Department has introduced, and with the high degree of automa- tion which has been attained in mov- ing mail, surely some method of send- ing a letter from Seaforth to Clinton in less than 16 hours could be devised. Every move towards a more ,.efficient handling of mail should be encouraged. But when changes result' in unreason- able delays in delivery and in mail clos- ings that fail to recognize the prevail- ing,practises in a community, it is time the Department took a •second look. That time surely is now overdue. Say Thankstothe‘NumberPlease'Girls The familiar word's, "Number, • please", that have been echoing in Sea - forth homes and business places for nearly eighty years, will become a cas- ualty a progress when the, new dial exchange here comes into use over this weekend. Seaforth and Hensall are among the last manually operated exchanges in the district to be converted to dial. As demand for phone service has increas- ed, so have the problems facing the op- erators. Despite overloaded equipment and the pressures which some time impatient subscribers exert, they' have continued to answer with smile in • each of their voices. • Dial phones bring advantages, but in the process we are going to lose a personal contact. o The mountains of equipment which in future will pro- cess our calls as a matter of course, are a poor substitute for the voice that in its inflection indicated ,its owner was concerned that our -calls went through. Certainly the humming dial will com- plete our calls expeditiously and with mechanical perfection, and if there are mistakes they will be our mistakes. But it can never look over us as Seaforth operators did. It can never sense an accident, or trouble, or satisfy a curi- osity as to where the fire is. We can't thank them all personally, of Nirse, but perhaps ifr Wouldn't be too much to suggest that this would be an appropriate time to, at least, sil- ently apologize for those occasions when we have been less than courteous in commenting on a wrong number, or an imagined slow response. As they put off -their headsets for the last time, we phone users can do,no less than salute them for a job well done and wish them well in the future. THIS WEEK AND NEXT Time For U -N Showdown (By RAY ARGYLE) What began in,1945 as a mar" riage "d'amour" between the VS: and the United Nations has turned into a somewhat stormy marriage of convenience. • The honeymoon period in the U.S.-U.N. relationship was about the longest in the history of our international relations. It lasted from the U -N's founding at San Francisco to roughly around I. Of course, there were unpleasant incidents such as the Communists using the U -N as a base for espionage and the Soviet veto holding things up in the U -N Security COun- cil. But in general, the Truman and Eisenhower administrations dished out the same sweet line about the. U -N being the corner- stone of American, foreign pol- icy, the last hepe of peace, ete. Ironically, the honeymoon be. gan to end with the accession of power to John F. Kennedy. It wasn't JFK's fault because his administration was just as pro - UN as previous administrations. What caused the passion to go out of the U.S.—U-N relation- ship was simply that a lot of new members began to join the U -N club- in 1960. e new members were, most- ly African states which had just t gained their independence. But s they were not content to merely join the — they wanted to curl it. Thanks to their own large number •plus the backing le of ;the Asian blot nations, the 1 etaed, to he'it big -Wheel • (ePteePt4henit tante 1 to paying the U -N bills, and then no one seemed to notice that we always picked up the tab). Once in control of the U -N General Assembly, the Afro - Asians proceeded to run amok, They rammed all' sorts of reso- lutions through, regardless of whether the big powers would pay attention to the resolutions, They openly insulted the U.S. aridn the American people (we're racists and capitalist exploiters you know) while at the same time being very careful about treading on the toes of the C munists. They sanctified aggres- sion in the case of Sukarno's grab of West New Guinea and India's invasion of Goa. Yes, the U.S. certainly took a real beating in the U -N. But the worm began 4oturnin Jan- uary of this yeai. when Dean Rusk gave a stinging speech in which he made plain the U.& had no intention of continuing to pick up the U -N tab as well as all the guff that wap being dealt out by the pipsqueak na- tions in the General Assembly. The opening of the General Assembly December 1 will bring a crisis over Russian non -pay- ments. And eventually, al - hough possibly not this ses- ion, the question of admitting Communist China will have to be faced lup to. Yet in spite of the recent hange in the American U -N hie, there is a realization in WaShington that the world or- liatiNt is still a valuable A•( • ' ,09 • tool for peace. The honeymoon is over, but the U -N still pos- sesses enough solid virtues to keep the U.S. faithful to the U -N. On the asset side of the U.S. —U -N relationship is that the world organization has, shown its great peace-keepipg value in the Congo, Cyprus and the Mid- dle East. When the pipsqueak countries stop shouting, the U- N in fact does turn out to be a valuable form of internation- al relations. One aspect of the U -N opera- tion generaily negleeted is that part of the U -N effort which is dedicated to helping the back- ward countries improve their lot. After World War II, the U.S, played the role of a sort of international Santa Claus. To- day, the U -N's expenditures in the aid field are constantly growing in the battle against world poverty. Of course, the U.S. still pays a big hunk of the 1.1-N aid pro- grams (roughly about a third), but this is far smaller bill for the taxpayer than if the U.S, were to go it alone. More im• portant, the very existence of the U -N aid programs makes clear that it is the duty of all countries—not only America— to kick in for the good of man- kind, Assyrians stretched nets in the forest and drove game into them 700 years liefore Christ *as born. "GOT EVERYTHING? A Macduff Ottawa HUNTING LICENSE... BOTTLE OPENER... LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT..." Report A Change of HorseS OTTAWA — Mr. Diefenbak appears to be trying to chan horses in mid -stream, usual considered a pretty precario exercise in river croSSings politics, But the Tory leader has bee getting into pretty deep wat and there is a strong possib ity that his present nag m not be able to carry him an his Parliamentary group safe to the other side. In other words the flag i sue is going sent inside th party and probably outside. H chief lieutenant, the Hon. Leo Balcer is in open rebellion wit most of the Quebec Consery tive members behind him. H has declared publicly that h will not support any continu tion of the flag,.filibuster. Eve this may • not prove as seriou to party unity as rumblings o discontent from some. • othe members who have been spend ing a little time in their con stituencies and find that th voter is getting impatient. H is ready to cry "a plague o both •your houses" and 'whil this may be as damaging t Government as Opposition it i scarcely an encouragement t carry, the fight to the hustings But just when the' swirling waters look threatening, up comes a fresh mount in the shape of a constitutional issue Shades of Mackenzie King! The "Fulton formula" for amending the British North America Act in Canada, adopt- ed by the Liberal •Government, . has been accepted by the At- Jorney's General and Premiers of all the provinces but has still to be approved by Parliament, And Mr. Diefenbaker has al- ready condemned it. He refuses to accept the draft bill as the same which the Min- ister of Justice proposed to a 'Federal - Provincial conference in 1961 and came within an ace er ernment retain. These situations Now with the unexpected sale ge are difficult to explain to an of 10,600,000 bushels to Russia ly electorate during an election and a futther•3,700,000 bushels us campaign and the onus here to Hungary there will be a or will will fall on the Government, not stantial winter movement. - on the Opposition. n Mr. Diefenbaker has already. * er accused the Liberals of trying Despite a log jam of urgent il- to "balkanize" Canada and Can-- and important legislation pilin'g ay adians are going to hear that up z two members, R. W. Prittie d word a great deal .in the weeks (NDP, Burnaby Richmond) and ly .and months ahead. • J. M. Roxburgh (Lib. Norfold) One difficulty Mr. Diefenbak- are amusing themselves and s_ er will have is that the Tory their 'fellow members by pro - • Premiers of Manitoba, Ontario, claiming the relative rights of is Nova Scotia and Prince Edward hockey and lacrosse to be des - I., Island are as much parties to ignated• as Canada's -national h the Fulton formula as is the game, Mr. Roxburgh has a bill a_ Liberal Government in Ottawa. declaring that it is hockey; .11/11*. Capital Hill Capsules Prittie, that .it is lacrosse. This pastiche may be innocent en - • If Finance Minister Gordon's a- ough, but to some observers recent speeches can be consid- here it is not designated to • ered as straws in a wind, the raise the low esteem in which f Canadian taxpayer may be in many of the electorate, with ✓ a happy frame df mind after good reason, are holding their bis next budget. He is empha- elected representatives these _ sizing the need for continuing days. ' e expansionary policy which in e the plain English of the man on xi the street can be interpreted as e tax cuts. Figures speak even O louder than words and Mr.•Gor- don's revenue picture at the O end of' six months means that Writing a policy, the insur- . his deficit this year will be ance agent inquired of the cow - very moderate, perhaps less boy if he had ever had any acci- than $200 million and that by but a rattlesnake, bit dents. - budgeting for a similar deficit Nope, in • 1965-66 he .will have room me and a few broncs have kiek- • for tax reductions'in some form. * * * ed me." East coast ports mayi look for - "Don't you call those acti- ward to a- somewhat better win- dents?" asked the agent. D ter than had been expected. "Nope, the critters did it_ on F With last winter's huge wheat Purpose." a movement to fill the Russian or- • a der the facilities of . Atlantic A 5,000 -year-old hearse in a ports were taxed to capacity, tomb excavated in Mesopotamia With no Russian prder a slack is the earliest actual wheeled winter had been anticipated, vehicle known. -•( • ;,„4, In the,Years Agone From The Huron ExpositOr NovemOer 17, 1939 Mr. J. P. Bell and Mr. Cliffcrr Bell, of Toronto, attended th funeral of the late Heiiderso Smith on Monday. Miss Sybil Courtice, of Cli ton, who is home on furloug from Japan, was the gue speaker at the Mae Lane mee ing at Northside Church. Mrs. Elmer Townsend, Mrs. Carnochan and Mrs. R. Carn chan, of Tuckersmith, wer hostesses on Friday afternoo at a shower for Miss S. Whi more, a bride-to-be of thi month. After lunch was serve two negress ladies met th guest of honor at the door wit a clothes basket laden wit gifts, mostly of kitchenware cream or red. The Huron Old Boys' Associa tion of Huron County in Toron to claims to be the oldest an largest organization of its kind in Canada. Originals includ Ed. Floody, E. J. B. Duncan K.C., Thomas Soole and J. Me Laren..There will be' an at-home on Nov. 24, and in charge o arrangements are H. M. Jack son, R. S. Shepherd, John Ma son, pert McCreath and Dr.. H J. Hodgins, of the senior execu tive, and Robert Leiper, Jessie Archibald, Bob Passmore,- Doris Hill and Mrs. McCutcheon, of the junior executive. the weund. The annual meeting cif the d Horticultural Society was held e Saturday evening in Carnegie n Hall, when the following officers were elected: President, A. F. Cluff; vice-president, W. D. h Hong; secretary -treasurer, Chas. st Stewart; directors, W.- Hartry, t. James Wright, J. Grieve, H. Hartry and L. FleuScheutz. Mr. 'G. R. McCartney and Mr. 0_ James Allen, of Tuckersmith, e who have been in the West for the past month, have returned. t. They brought two carloads of s cattle with them to feed, for the d winter. e Dr. Rogers, of Brucefield, • h went to Belmont and brought h his mother home with him. n They made the trip in John B. Mustard's automobile in one _ day. Mrs. Rogers, who is in - poor health, enjoyed the trip. d A list of the sugar beet grow- s ers in the district are: T. Lane, e Tuckersmith; George Eberhart, George T. Turnbull, John Mc- Nay, J." L. Kerr, M. Klein, C, Eckert, W. P. Thompson, E. J. f Box and Mrs. McQuaid. . At the council meeting Mon - ..,day evening J. D. Hinchley was , appointed a member of the _ Board of Health to fill the vac - any caused by the death of Mr. George Murdie. Mr. T. G. Scott, -of town, has recovered from his recent .111- ness and is able to attend to business again. Miss Helen Swan, professional nurse of Hensall, left this week to enter one of the largest hos- pitals in New York. * * From The Huron Expositor November 15, 1889 MessrS. D. Campbell, Thomas Kyle and Thomas Dinsale, Jr,, young men of Kippen, left for the Pacific coast last week, Mr. George Hess, of Zurich, has received a patent for his electric clock. A few days ago Mr, Edward Cash, the veteran butter dealer of town, received an order from Rev. Joseph McCoy, of Chatham, New Brunswick, for a couple of tubs of choice dairy butter for his own We, Dr. Coleman is having the old foundry building on Main St. rebuilt, ;and it is said a foundry will be • started again. A literary and debating socie- ty was' -organized here last Fri- day evening. The following offi- cers were • elected: President, Seaforth` citizens large numbers paid solemn tribute to their war dead at an impres- sive service in Victoria Park on Remembrance Day. • The Holy Name Society of St. James' Church held a very en- joyable and successful euchre on Monday ,evening. Twenty- three tables were in play. •The prizes being fowl, were won as follows: ladies' first, ars. E. L. Box; gentlemen, H. Weston; lone hands, C. P. Sills. Lunch was served during which a,.fourth chicken Was raffled, Mr. J. M. McMillan being the Winner. Jack Crawford, Dublin old boy, who is one of the, leading players on the Boston Bruins, suffered a broken arm . while the Bruins were playing an ex- hibition game in Owen Sound. Seaforth firemen answered an alarm early Friday evening to find a chimney fire at the, resi- dence of William Venus, Main St. South. Little damage was done. Another successful enterprise for raising funds for the Red Cross was the performance on Wednesday at "The'Simple The- atre," situated in Munn's gar- age. The admission was 5c, chil- dren 2c, and the net proceeds f 90c was turned over .to P. B. Moffat, of the„public school or the Red Cross. The program was under the management of onald Munn, Gordon Wilson, red Weedmark, Donald Stew - rt, Billy Munn, Ernie Clarke nd Jack Weedmark. • Sugar and Spice getting u'nanimus• approval, al- though Mr. Fulton says it is es- Ry BHI Smiley * * From The Huron Expositor November 13, '1914 The following is the official list from Seaforth as furnished y Col. Alex Wilson, of the Hur- n recruits who have joined the . econd Canadian Contingent: illiam Galby, Percy Ralph, J. pearpoint, W. N. Westcott, oseph Klein, Hugh Kyle, Fred- erick Daniels; Jesse Daniels. Mr, Thomas Rands, of town, shipped a carloap of apples in boxes to Edmonton this week, Mr. N. J. Darwin, second son of Mr. and Mrs.' John Darwin, of Ottawa, formerly of Sreaforth, will leave with the second con- tingent with the Army Medical Corps, now training at King- ston, ' Mr. Wes Free, who is with Mr..J. W. Beattie in the but- cher shop, received a bad cut on the hand on Thursday that required five stitches to close sentially the same bill: If he can now shift emphasis from the flag to the constitution with- out losing too much face for himself br the party and re- form ranks around this issue he would like to do so. Mr. Pear- son may conceivably give him that opportunity. He and his party too have ,been. getting re- ports from the grass roots. When Mr, King in 1926 an- nounced that he would appeal to the country on the Byng is- sue there were plenty' of doubts within, his cabinet. But in Mr, King's astute hands the academ- ic complications that are still being argued today by the con- stitutionalists were swept aside and in its over -simplified form the Byng incident brought Mr. King back with a working ma- jority. The Fulton formula provides a method whereby a Federal Parliament may delegate to provincial legislatures any of the powers given to it under the British North America Act. The request must come from the legislatures of at least four provinces and in practice one of these provinces must be either Ontario or Quebec. This is designed to take some of the rigidity out of the division of powers laid down, in 1867, It would allow Ottawa, for . exam, ple, to confer on provinces that want it the 'right to impose in- direct taxes. Those opposed, however, point out that if four provinces ganged up on Ottawa and were able to bring enough pressure to bear on a Government or a sufficient number of • Federal .t members they might take over r the power to issue money, for- eign policy, external trade; in fact, denude the Central Gov- a ernment of all its power. The y chances may be so remote as r to be academic, Alberta, con- i ceivably aided by British Col- umbia, mightwant to repeat the t Aberhart experiment of he RETROSPECT ON • their backs, pull in their pots J REMEMBRANCE Ls there any point in prolong- • ing the observance of that mid- dle-aged and Melancholy occa- sion known as Reinembrance Day? They mean nothing to about eighty per cent of the several million immigrants to Canada since World Mar H. How would you feel about Remembrance Day if you were a former Ger- man tank commander, or an Italian ex -infantryman? * * * Both .the world wars of this century are ancient history to school children, and the old cliches of the day — "Sacrifice," "laid down their lives," "fought for freedom" -- leave them solemn but uncomprehending. And last, but not least, it in- terferes with business. Merch- ants will tell you, with tears as big as turnips in their eyes, that they'll go broke if they have to close upon November 11. Manufacturers will assure you that the one -day interrup- tion of production will force them to the wall. * • * * In view of all this, is there any sense in hanging on to this special day?' Why not cut it down to a one-hour coffee break on November llth? Within a couple of years, this could be further reduced to a two -Minute silence. And within decade, he whole archaic business of emetnbering a few million dead men could be discarded Is there any meaning in i ny more? I don't know h ou feel, but my answer a esoun'ding, reactionary sl It s base not on fac •ut on motioif 1930's.But couldthey getsup- port from either Ontario or Quebec, much less control a majority in Parliament? Que-• bec- has had a yen to control broadcasting in the province, but would find it impossible to get support from other prov- inces. So it goes down the list of any major powers which it is essential that the Central Gov ignore their waving at them from the sidewalk, and for a few brief moments toss away 20 -odd years and becoming tough Canadian troops, striding toward their destiny. During the two -minutes' sil- ence at the Cenotaph, I remem- ber. 1 remember the two lads, a Canadian and a New Zealand-- er, with whom I shared a tent in Normanday. Both shot down within three days. I remember Frankie, Eng- lish, 18. He had a baby face, a big grin and a run of bad luck. One day he dropped a NO -pound bomb, purely by ac- cident, in a neighboring army camp, and the troops were ra- ther hostile to airmen for a few weeks. Another time he was sent to England on the beer run. Flying back across the channel, he spotted two Ger- man fighters about to attack him, jettisoned his extra tanks and prepared to defend him- self. The extra tanks,- full of beer, went into the drink. The German fighters turned out to be two oil specks on his wind- screen. And he was nearly lynchedwhen he arrived and told his story. His hick ran out one day. Hit by flak, he bailed out and his parachute failed to opeh. * * * I remember ithe dreary No- vember day six of us carried -a coffin up a bleak hillside to a stony cemetery in North Wales. I contained what they'd been to scrape up of Paddy Bu s, Australian, age 20, after he flew into a hill. And I remember half a hun- dreds others; roaring boys, laughing boys, timid boys, gay boys, and boys scared stiff. ab I'm a sucker for Remem- brance Day. There's something And when the Last Post plays to mist the eyes In the jaunty their sweet requiem in the still gallantry of the old vete as autumn air, I'II be there, my they try to match the swing face all crumpled and a Itimp here a stiff leg swinging, there throat! they marched with 46 years ago, as big as a boiled egg in my a pinned -up sleeve. Scrap Remembrance Day? And -there's something almost Not as Tong as 1 earl still cry, WOW War It They straighten Legion affr the parade . eqOally touching the ve,.,t,, s of and a, rad beert the, • W.4:1; Mrs. R. McMordie; vice-presi- dent, Miss Monteith; secretary, Mr. W. Doig; treasurer, Mr. Alexander Smillie; executive committee, Messrs, Thompson, Cooper and Thompson. Mr. Robert Hovvartf, of Blyth, has purchased the old Metho- dist church here for $150. Mr. John Moffatt has moved his family from Bayfield to Kip - Penin order to be near his work. On Friday of last week Mr. Sam Hinchley threshed on the farm of r. John Hinchely, Sr., in Hullett, 15 acres of wheat and barley, in two hours. The feeding was done Staples and Mr. John Button, Stoneman Bros. have sold their farm in Tuckersmith to IVIr. A. Buchanan, Jr., of Tuck- ersmith, Mr. J, Blatchford, of Hensall, has purchased the farm of Mr. A. Buchanan, Sr., of Usborne. Mi. Buchanan will take Mr. Blatchford's residence in Hensall. On Thursday eVening of last week about 100 members and adherents of Knox Church, Cranbrook, assembled at the manse for the purpose of sur- prising the highly respected pastor, Rev, D. B. McRae, R. F. Cameron read an address and Miss Annie Steele presented Mr. McRae with a plendid astra- chapnarcaoeat, and Mrs. McRae with a Y. . • ' x 001. • 7%. . rti • • • * • • • • • • • • •