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SEAFORTB, ONTARIO, JUNE 24, 1965
Area Trustee Offers
Perth County, like Huron and other
centres across Ontario, is facing up to
the demands ' which teecent legislation
makes• of area school boards. Elected
representatives—there are 55 in the
eleven township boards in Perth—are
analyzing the situations that exist in
their respective areas and are seek-
ing answers to the problem of provid-
ing• the• complete education required,
in today's• world in the most efficient
and economical manner.
As is the pease in other counties, par-
ticular areas find there are relations
and conditions and long established
usuages existing between various mun-
icipalities which common sense suggests
should not be ignored, and so trustees
from several boards in the Mitchell -
Dublin area got together to look it
• f
over.
Out of the discussions' came a sug-
gestion which the Stratford Beacon -
Herald describes as "an imaginative
one, which deserves tobe picked up
and thoroughly discussed."
As described by the Beacon -Herald,
the proposal advanced by John Vosper,
chairman of the new Fullarton School
Area Board, was that the sensible way
4•
Suggestion
to rev ise school area boundaries would
be to try to make the public school area
fit with the appropriate high school
area. The township school board in
Fullarton, he indicated, would be inter-
ested in trying to co-operate with other
townships to put .together a public
school system to match the boundaries
of the Mitchell. High' School District.
He went so far as to suggest that
eventually there might be one large
public school to serve the area (includ-
ing major portions of Hibbert, Logan
and' Fullarton) now served by the high
school at the north edge of Mitchell.
A boundary revision directed to this
purpose, he pointed out, would get rid
of the necessity for overlapping school
bus services. It would not be- necessary
to have two school buses travelling one
concession road. Each bus would pick
up 'its full load from a shortdr route,
with the result that buses could start
their routes later in the morning, and
complete them earlier in the afternoon.
And, adds the Beacon -Herald, from
the taxpayers' .point of view, there
would be the added convenience of hav-
ing all school taxes, for elementary and
secondary schools, paid within one
area.
Sugar and Spice
NEW BREED --OF PYGMIES
Well, father, how did you en-
joy your day?
Personally, Father's Day sad-
dened me, as it saddens me
each year.
The mere existence, of such
a day is an indication of the
new low to which the father
has sunk in the family unit.
Just a few decades ago, every
day was father's day, and there
was no fooling about it. ,
When I was a; kid, there was
none of this nonsense of father
helping around the house. Now-
adays fathers scrub- the kitchen
floor on their day off, and help
• with the dishes after dinner. In
the good old days, father didn't
have a day off, in the first
place, and mother wouldn't
have let him dry the dishes,
in .,the second, because she
knew her place, and his,
Perhaps it's the increase in
leisure time that has turned the
head of the house into the foot
of the family: a substitute baby-
sitter; an unpaid domestic'
slave; a handy wailing -wall; and°
in general, a pale reflection of
his dignified, respected male
forebears.
• Until a couple of decades ago,
father worked a six day 60 -hour
' week. But he. didn't get ulcers,
or drop dead at 45, And da you
know why? Because he didn't
see' as much of his family as
the poor, cripple -gutted creature
who brings Jioine the bacon to-
- By Bill Smiley —
day.
Nowadays, father gets a- day
off. Does he potter in the gar-
den?. Does he go fishing? Does
he- play golf with the boys?
Would it were so. -He is kicked
into the street with the chil-
dren, while mother does what-
ever modern women do around
home, with $2,000 worth of la-
bor-saving machinery.
There is nothing ,more piti-
ablethan the sight of a father.
on his day off, wandering for-
lornly about a supermarket,
trailed by two or three whin-
ing kids.
When my Dad -got home from
work, he didn't have to set the
table, run around .looking for
the kids, then jump in the car
and go to get a quart of milk.
Nor did he .have to "pick up a
few things on the way home,"
because mother looked after
her own shipping.
No, sir, When my Dad got
home from work, he was greet-
ed affectionately, but politely,
and left alone. He retired to
HIS chair, and read HIS 'paper,
until he was called for supper.
During the meal, he was not
forced to listen to -a 30 -minute
monologue about the terrible
day mother had. Nor did he
,have to break up ,'quarrels
arhong t h e children. They
wouldn't have dared squabble:
And on the weekend, my Dad
wasn't expected to turn into a
party boy. He was tired on Sat -
A Macduff. Ottawa Report
•' Quelkec Minister Makes
OTTAWA—Maurice Sauve is
'the Liberal member of Parlia-
ment for Iles de "la Madeleine.
He is Forestry ,Minister in the
Pearson cabinet.
He its also a man, it seems,
who wants very badly to be
Prime Minister of Canada some
day.
He may well succeed, espe-.
Cially if he can ,curb his impa-
tience, and divert his enor-
mous 'energies towards • making
friends, rather than enemies.
It may seem strange that this
young man, of 41, only a few
years on the political scene,
should even be .considered as
a future Prime' Ministerial can-
didate.
This is part of., the Sauve
mystery. His combination of
energy, arrogance, and intelli-
gence has attracted a great deal
of attention. He is recognized,
even by the opposition, as a
man who ' could go places.
Sauve is not a man to cre-
ate, indifference. . He inspires
sparks around him. What
makes Maurice run has become,
at least as frequent a coffee
break topic as 'what makes
John Diefenbaker stay.' • "
People are either for Sative,'
or against him. Ile is admired
and:. detested,, lauded and re-
sented, courted and, feared.
Vlore is a strange potential in
him: He will never be a minor
actor on the political stage. He
" ' will either go to the top, or
nowhere. He is an economist,
a graduate of the University of
Montreal, a Ph.d. who studied
at the London School of Econ-
omics and the University of
Paris. •
He was little known when he
won ,.election to the House of
Commons in 1962. At that
time he was given, or took a
great deal of credit for the
1960 victory of Quebec Premier
Lesage over the old Duplessis
machine. •
When the Liberals won the
election in 1963, Prime Minis-
ter Pearson offered Sauve a
parliamentary secretaryship. He
refused.' He wanted a cabinet
post or nothing.
For a year he had to be con-
tent with nothing. But he was
not denied for long. In Febru-
ary 1964,he was brought into,
the cabinet as Minister of For-
estry,
orestry, taking over responsibility
also for several agricultural
programs of particular impor-
tance to Eastern Canada. •
He has been an exceedingly,
busy man since then.,His vision`
is not limited by his depart-
mental responsibilities, mhich
he apparently ' performs easily
and effectively.
Sauve aims at large objec-
tives.
bjecttives. His steady purpose has
been to reform the Liberal Har-
ty in Quebec, to articulate a
new Canadian federal structure
based on federal -provincial co-
operation, and to formulate a
social and economic policy with -
.,SA lye literally carne out of"1 ""that structure• which will
urday night, and he went to
bed. If he felt like going to -
church next day, he did. If •he
didn't, he didn't. But he wasn't
pestered ah day Sunday by kids
wanting to be taken swimming,
or, wife wanting to go for a
drive, or "have somebody in!'
He made the decisions. If he
just wanted to sit on the ver-
andah and •look at the grass
growing, he did, :.
Not that he was an ogre.
Usually, we went for a picnic
on Sunday. But there wasn't
any dam' foolishness about Dad
doing the , cooking on an out-
door grill. Mother made the
lunch, and Dad 'would sit on a
stump, in his Sunday best, gaz-
ing with dignity and a certain
amount of distaste, at nature.
After lunch, he would reclin
on a blanket, in the shade,
was relaxed, that man.
Another reason for his un-
questioned head - of - the - house
status was that we didn't argue
with him. Now you have to dis-
cuss everything • with the brats.
Today's . father can get into a
20 -minute argument with any
kid over the age of 'five„ at the
drop of a suggestion. And come
out whimpering.
One generation has, turned
fathers from giants to pygmies;'
And now, if you'll pardon me,
I have to go and make the beds,
while my wife dries her . hair
and watches a little TV,
4.
•HrS NOT A GOOD LISTENER'
In the Years Agone
From The Huron Expositor
June 28, 1940
Mumps and holidays arrived
simultaneously in Seaforth this
year and as a result five' stu-
dents and one teacher will
spend the first week or so of
their holidays under the doc-
tor's care.
James A. Stewart was elect-
ed president at the Seaforth
Lions Club -final 'meeting. He
succeeds A. Y. McLean. Other
officers are: vice-president, M.
.A. Reid; treasurer, J. M. Mc-
Millan; seer tary., G. C. Bright-
rall; lion t 'mer, N. C. Cardna;
tail -twister, J. E. Keating; di-
rectors, Ross Scott and C. E.
Smith. •
Meeting in the Town Hall,
members• of the Seaforth Old
Boys' Reunion Association turn-
ed over.,. the balance of the
funds, amounting to $147.22 to
the, Seaforth. branch of the Red
Cross Society.,. The money re-
presented the balance on hand
following the 1924 reunion. The
meeting named Harry Stewart
secretary, and C. P. Sills -treas-
urer, succeeding• the late A. D.
Sutherland and R. M. Jones.
William Ament is president. •
Mr. Eiserman, contractor of
Mitchell, has secured the con-
tract for the erecting , of the
new. school at Cromarty, to re-
place :the one that was burned
last January.
Mr. and Mras: Joseph Rowland
have moved to their new home
in McKillop. Their cottage in
Dublin has been purchased by
William Stapleton, and. will be
occupied by. Mr. and Mrs. Fer-
gus Stapleton. -
There are plenty of people
in town and country who have
not been able to plant pota-
toes yet. But. Mr. Robert Smith,
Goderich St. East, is not , one
of them. He has had his first
meal of new potatoes from his
own garden.
• Donald McTavish has
been supplying at the public
school 'this week .for Miss Har -
try :.who is confined to her
home,
Miss Betty Southgate will act
as; „,nurse at Statton -*Taylor
Ca np, Algonquin Park. Miss
Southgate filled the same posi-
tion last.' year.-
Mr.
ear.Mr. and Mrs. John Bach are
moving ,, into their , new home
which he purchased recently
from the. Adam Dickson Estate.
Mr. and Mrs. George Walker,
of Hensall, received a cable-
gram last week advising them
New Proposals -
raise standards of living and
eliminate poverty.
His views on these matters
are close to Mr. Pearson's and
to those of the Prime Minister's
key advisors. His methods are
not so "universally acceptable.
Sauve is accused of towering
personal ambition. He is said
to trust no one.. Ile is blamed
for scheming against possible
competitors in his, own party,
for nursing a spirit of revenge,
fbr covert acts aimed at elim-
inating enemies.
"He is a machine politician,"
grumbled otie Quebec Liberal,
"Ile wants to kick out the old
guard and bring in, a new guard
which would soon become an
old guard itself. We don't want
any guard at all. We just want
a democratic organization,"
- Said another: "If most of the
Quebec caucus members are
hostile' to Sauve, that's a point
in his favor."
Sauve's personal standing has
risen and fallen ' mainly on the
question of the Quebec leader-
ship of , the federal Liberals,
The • mantle of leader worn
by Justice Minister Favreau has
become somewhat frayed. ,One
by one, other Quebec Ministers
have counted themselves, out of
contention,
Only Lucien Cardin, now pub-
lie-• works minister, and Sauve
remelt' as .possible Contenders.
Por the moment, Favreau is
the Quebec leader, and Sauvefs
stock Is low. Quebec Liberals
'react angrily against what they
of the safe arrival in England
of their son Donald, who left
Toronto with the RCR.
From The Huron Expositor
June 25, 1915..
Pupils promoted from Form
I to Form II in the honos class.
at Seaforth Collegiate are: M.
Cuthill, H. Dickson, Jean Hays,
Leona Holland, Reta Kerslake,
Jessie McMillan, Dorothy Wil-
son, George Kerr, Howard Kerr,
Robert Sleeth. Form II to
Form III: Warren Ament, Keith
McLean, Kathleen Burrows,
Olive Rankin. In the senior
commercial: Nelson Govenlock,
Anna McGrath and T. Holland
captured honors.
A social gathering of the El-
ders and members of Duff's
Church, Walton, and members
of the Adult Bible Class was
held at the home . of James
Smillie in Grey 'to celebrate has
82nd birthday and his j bilee
of 50 years eldership in Duff's
Church.
The Steamer Greyhound of
the White Star Line made its,
annual visit to Goderich. The
passenger list numbered 240
and the same 'evening the boat
took 600 excursionists ,on the
lake under the auspices of the
Goderich 'Band. '
Misses Agnes PuYrcell, Evelyn
McGrath, Gertrude Heffernan
and Masters James McQuaid
and Joseph Melady, of St. Col=
.umb'an .vere in Seaforth 'writ-
ing on the entrance examina-
tions.
Misses Frances Winter and
Jennie Govenleck entertained a
few friends at their respective
.homes in honor of the bride-to-
be, Miss' Agnes Smith.
The congregation of St.
'James' Church have installed a
handsome new pipe organ.
Mr. Clifford Hunt, of the
School of Commerce, Clinton,
won• a gold medal for profici-,
ency in typewriting, having typ--
ed at a net rate of 65 Words per
minute. • •
Seaforth Collegiate Institute
have 'engaged Mr, J. F. Ross as
headmaster at a salary of $1700
a year. The board also engaged
Mr. A. C. Hazen,- of Simcoe, as
science master, at a salary of
$1400.
There was quite a seyefe
frost in town and district
The lawn •• social, sponsored
by the Ladies' Aid of First
Presbyterian Church on the
manse grounds, was a success,
despite unfavorable weather.
Mr. C. Aberhart was chairman.
-Rev. F. H. Larkin and Mr. Thos.
McMillan delivered addresses,
and the Seaforth•Band and W.
T. , Hays supplied- the musical
part of.: the progr\am,,••'
• * $
From The Huron Expositor
June 27,, 1890
The -hose company of the Sea-
foyth Fire Brigade will go' to
Toronto carnival to take part
in the hose reel contests.
feel is Sauve's ambition, and
his attempts to destroy oppori-,
ents.
In the meantime Cardin is,
rising to a position of more
importance, but Sauve remains
confident Favreau, whose use=
fulness is diminished, will ev e
entually go. Sauve may make
it then.. He has the ear of the
Prime •Minister, He retains the
confidence of Many ofthe new
provincial Liberals in • Quebec.
Sauve has more energy, more
ambition, and quite possibly,
more talent than all the other
Quebec ministers combined. He
is considered a reformer; he
has' many friends outside the
party, and ,he is working hard.
At the moment he has al-
most no popular base in his
own party. Brit that • could
change. He is a willing speech-
maker anywhere in Canada,
fluent in both languages. He
is capable,, confident, even ar-
rogant in,, the House where he
says no more than is absolute-
ly -necessary. Sauve's future
hinges largely on,. himself. How
far can a man go ,. without a
popular base? How far can a
,politician go without trusting
anyone? How long can a party •
man last who beIieves that he
must knife his , colleagues be-
fore they knife' him?
Sauve is an intelligent and
ambitious . man. Ile must be
asking himself these questions.
The answers he comes up with
may 'very .well determine whe-
ther or not he ever becomes
Prime Minister of Canada.
'The Hurons of Seaforth were
defeated for the first time this
season by the Scots of Toronto
on the recreation grounds here.
The Hurons now go to Toronto
to meet the Scots again.
Horse races were held in
Walton. In the open run, Beat-
tie Bros.' two horses took- first
and second prizes and Watson
Ainley's bay, third. The old
man's race resulted in William
McKay , taking first place, with
P. McEwen and George Coop-
er, second and third. A match-
ed 100 -yard 'foot race between
R. Beattie and Wm. Carter, was
won .by the former. -
Over 9,000 pounds of cheese
were.sold by the Morris & Grey
Cheese Factory to Mr. Hodgins,
of London. The price paid was
83'4 cents per pound.
Rev. R. Y. Thompson, son-in-
law of Deputy .Reeve Scott, . of
Hullett, is recommended to the
Chair of Apologetics and Old
Testament Literature in Knox
College, Toronto, at a salary of
$2,500.
A man has been going
through Hullett for a few weeks
past wanting to purchase a
farm. He has stopped with sev-
eral respectable farmers. One
night latelyhe took some $18
or $20 out of the. ,pocket of
one of the proprietors at whose
place he stopped, and then left.
A startling occurrence took
place at the lawn social.: Wed-
nesday evening. While a bunch
of bananas was being taken
apart, a good sized tarantula
was discovered peacefully en-
cased within. The dangerous.
spi'der was hastily captured
alive and is being preserved by
Mr. W. D. VanEgmond.
• Mr. Joshua Ashton, of Farqu-
hard, had a bee for the purpose
of making a gangway -to his
barn. He also had a rag bee
in the afternoon for the pur-
pose of entertaining the fair
sex. Mr. Richard Speare, Crom-
arty, did the calling off. Mr.
Wm. Brimacombe was the solo-
ist for the evening.
•
Smiles ..
"What can I do about this
terrible toothache?" the suffer-
ing victim asked his 'friend.
"Well," said the friend, "when
I get a toothache 1 go to my
wife; she puts her arms around
me and caresses and comforts
me and 'the . toothache • goes
away."
'Wonderful!" exclaimed the
victim, asking: "Is she home
now?" •
A farm braggart was telling
his neighbors about his strength
and how he could unbend a
horseshoe with his bare -hands.
"That's nothing,' one -neigh-
bor countered. "My wife can
tie up ten miles of telephone
wire , with her mouth."
TO THE f DJTOR.
Bayfield Reeve
Discusses Problem
Si,r: We were very interest-
ed in. your recent editorial on
the school question in this _area,
Perhaps the following might al-
so throw some light on the
problem.
There has been so much said
and written about the Bayfield
school question that there is
danger,pf the issues being lost
sight of in the bushes of Re-
tail and emotion. Perhaps we
may be allowed to sum up the
present situation from the
standpoint • of Bayfield and the
western part of the Stanley
Township School Area. '
What do Bayfield end West-
ern Stanley want? They watt
what was 'suggested by Inspec-
,tor Burrows earlier this year
when he advocated the idea of
a county school area to include
Tuckersmith and Stanley Town-
ships and the Village of Bay-
field. He suggested this. would
make possible a four -room
school at Bayfield. At the same
time it would enable an eight
or nine -room school near Bruce -
field and also enable a sensible
solution for the problem of
Harpurliey and Egmondville.
There it no, reason to doubt
that each of the 'three munici-
pal -councils sincerely believed
they would.; achieve what was
suggested when they asked for
the, formation of a county school
area. However, soon after this
was approved by county coun-
cil at the March session, the
form began to change. In the
absence of a County School. Ar-
e'a-Board, which will not be set
up until the beginning of next
year, the two Township Area
School Boards - began tr; receive
advice from Inspector Burrows.
that a 16 -room school to serve
the whole new County School
Area was a much' more prefer-
able plan. This'opinion was set
out in a report written by In-
spectors Burrows and Kinkead
the last week of April.
The report is inadequate and
incomplete. It failed to conSid=
•er in detail or cost any alterna-
tives to a 16 -room central.
school. It seems _to have dis-
regarded the procedures which
the Minister of Education set
'out in a letter dated 28 Decem-
ber 1964, for the guidance. of
County Public School Consulta-
tive . Committees. We quote;
"Each Consultative Committee
should 'make a thorough over-
all study of "its' county or dis-
trict„ taking into consideration
such factors as geographic fea-
tures, highways, location of sec-
ondary schools, existing public
schools, distribution,. growth,
and likely shiftss of school pop-
ulation. The committee may
wish to hold meetings with
school boards, elementary and
secondary school inspectors,
and municipal 'councils, and to
•receive briefs from other indi-
viduals and groups interested in
public school education." This
all seems very fair. But is it
happening in . Huron County?
If the quoted procedures had
been followed, would it still be
suggested seriously that the
Seaforth suburbs of Harpurhey
and Egmondville could still be
counted on to supply pupils in
the long term for a 16 -room
school south of Brucefield?
Have "the geographic facts of
life governing Western Stanley
and Bayfield been adequately,
considered?-•- Have population
trends which forecast steady
decrease in 'rural population
and increase in urban popu-
lation „been considered? Appar-
ently not for all three of these
questions. '
Are the wishes and views of
large and informed groups of
parents and ratepayers to be
completely, ignored? We hope
not. In the first section of his
letter of 28 December 1964, the
Minister of Education used the
word "encourage" twice to em-
phasize the manner of ap-
proach toward larger school
areas and larger schools. But,
in Huron County School Area
No. 1, it would be more cor-
rect to say 'that an attempt is
being made to "shanghai" cer-
tain large parts of the area in-
to a 16 -room school.
to repeat, what we are ask-
ing for is§ the provision of a
four -room • school ta serve the
western part of the School Ar-
ea at Bayeld within the adinini-
strition of the County School
Area. Such a school would be
sure to expand as the popula-
tion in the community grows.
Given good teachers, such a
school can provide good educa-
tion. This solution to our prob-
lem does not interfere with
graded 'education in the re-
mainder of -the County School
Area. It would also save money
and prevent the waste of thou-
sands of hours of time spent in
bus travel.
For years the control of
school facilities .in Ontario has
been at the local level — and
rightly so. Is this right to be
withdrawn suddenly in 1965?
Does the erection of township
or county school, areas mean
that communities of consider-
able size lose their traditional
rights in education overnight?
Surely there is a very pressing
responsibility on . `the members
of these new Boards ,to guard
these rights. Are the members
of our township and county
school area boards aware how
easily they can become mere
rubber stamps for the bureau-
crats and planners These are
important issues in our pres-'
ent problem. •And they •are 'the
basis, too, of •a. healthy and ac-
tive .democracy:.
FREDERICK• A. CLIFT
Bayfield, Ont.
Boy: "Dad, when you were
a little boy, what was your
greatest ambition?"
Father: "To wear long pants,
son—and I got my wish, too.
I don't know anybody who
wears his.pantslonger than I
do."
The teacher, annoyed by his
clock -watching students, pasted
a cardboard sign over • the clock
which read: ."Time will pass.
Will you?"
Boss: "Go out and convince
that fellow I'm not in."
Office boy: "If I went out
smoking one of your cigars,
he'd really believe it."
"How do you fee about
accepting a Canadian de-
fector?"
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