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SEAJ'ORTH, ONTARIO, SEPTEMBER 9, 1965
Chance for Talkers as Well as Doers
An editorial in the Smiths Falls
Record -News deplores the fact that
there are "too many talkers and not en-
ough doers" in town. It goes on to say,
"They are the first to criticize and the
last to act, They rip the municipal
council and other Civic bodies to shreds,
never offering any .constructive criti-A
eisra; just tearingapart what has or
has not been done without ever consid-
ering what has been accomplished or
offpring their own services either on
couhcil or .one of the many council ap-
pointed civic boards."
"They condemn the Chamber of Com-
merce, doctors, lawyers, firemen, police-
men, service clqbs,' hockey and ball
teams, newspapers, politicians, TV and
radio, all with the same type of sec-
ond-guessing. In' all this, they never
seem to notice that their own contribu-
When
tion to the community adds up to a
.great big zero."
The season of municipal elections is
near at hand, and this is the occasion
when the "talkers" which the' Smith
Falls papej refers to may becotne
"doers".
There is lots of room in every com-
munity for more "doers" and where
else should ane look for them than
among the "talkers". They undoubt-
edly are in possession of many excel-
lent ideas just as the doers, perhaps,
under pressure to carry on the day-to-
day requirements of government, some-
times are at a loss to find time to con-
sider other than the routine.
A getting together of doers and talk-
ers in a common desire to advance the
cause of the community could not help
but create a, banner year for Seaforth.
Writing Meant Something
"To be able to write a plain hand,"
was a specific necessity to qualiy even
as a third class teacher in the common
schools of Upper Canada, according to
a government Act adopted October 3,
1850. The undecipherable scrawling
contained in press reports to news-.
papers by even some high school teach-
ers today apparently -would have dis-
qualified them as third class teachers in
common schools of Upper Canada 115
years ago,' the Goderich Signal -Star
comments, and gees on to ask : "Has
the art, of penmanship become practic-
ally a forgotten one in the rush of
things today?"
In the Huron Signal of .November
21, 1856, appeared,an advertisement of
the local school board Hating the re-
quirements for any candidates seeking
certificates as third class teachers. .In
addition to the one jnentiOned above,
there w so: To be able to read in-
ely and rectly any passage
fror& any common reading boPk; to be
able t� spell correctly the words of an
ordinary . sentence dictated by the Ex--
aminers; to be able to work readily
questions in the simple and compound
rules 9f Arithmetic, and in Reduction
and Proportion, and be familiar with
the principles on which these rules de-
pend; to know the elements of English
Gramtnar, and to be able to parse any
easy sentence in prose; to b5, acquaint%
ea with the elements of Geography, and
the general outlines of the Globe; to
have some knowledge of school organ-
ization and- the. classification of .pnpils.
There were further qualifications for
second class and also 'first Class teach-
ers. But at the top of all these was`the
-Warning: "Candidates shall not be
eligible to be admitted to examination
,until they shall have furnished the
Examiners with satisfactory evidence
of their strictly temperate habits and
good moral character."
A a off Ottawa Report
National Park's Issues
OTTAWA—A great battle is , Eldon Woollins is the mem- enjoy no particular economic
raging over the proper policy ber of Parliament for' Alberta advantage or disadvantage be -
for Canada's ' national parks. Bow River .constituencY which cause of their- special place of
includes Banff. He contends residence or business: In gen-
AffairsOn .-the one side is Northern
that there is a sharp difference. eral, he said, they should be
and National Resources
and his of opinion between the Federal subject to the same financial
Minister Arthur Laing
Gdvertiment's northern . affairs responsibilities- as those who
department. They want to pre -
and national resources depart- live or carry on business else-
- servo as far as humanly pos-.
• .11 ment and the Government's where. This policy is to be ap-
sib e the wi erness conceptplied when charges, rentals and
the national parks. Canadian travel bureau.
fees paid by national park resi--
But on the other side are Mr. Woolliams argues" that
dents to the , Federal Govern -
the people of Banff, Alberta, the Travel Bureau is bending
meat are being reviewed.
and others who believe that• every effort and spending large
sums of money to persuade The policy was intended spe-,
. , tourists travelling to visit the
with tourists to travel to^ Banff and cifically to end trafficking in
park, should be provided
. the type of facilities that tour- -Jasper and other national parks. leaseholds in Banff and Jasper
Btit at the. same time the Fed- and generally, to ensure' that
*sts are accustomed to finding
eral Government's northern af- the national parks were pro -
south of the border.
The Trade and Commerce De- fairs and national resources depected from commercial intru-
partnient •. has embarked. on -sion. Mr. Laing announced that
partment's. travel bureau has policy of holding' back in the in future all leases will revert
been spending many• -thousands development of adequate facili- to the Crown as they run out.
of dollars in promoting tourist ties for these- same tourists. Under his policy land will be
travel ' to Canada and inside let for specific terms of up • to
Canada. Prominent in the -lit- Mr. Woolliams has a solution.
42 years. When the lease ex -
He says the Federal Govern- erature the Bureau circulates
ment should zone the parks, ,pires ,on residential lands,' the
suandln the advertising it places lessee will be paid a fair mar -
are ,pictures of.- the beautiful Jasper. ket prite for his home, which
scenery in Banff and Jasper There .should be one area settourist
will be torn down if the land
aside for commercial
National Parks. is needed for another park Ilse
development, and the other
or become Crown rental pro-
-The message is, clear for tour; areas (by far the greater pro- or
If it is to be rented the
ists in the United States: "Come 'portion) should be left as wil-
rormer owner will be given first
to Banff and Jasper and enjoy derness in its natural state so
chance to rent it.
the mountain scenery and get that the tourist can get babk
'back to nature". But today the to nature. He argues that this Leases on cornmercial• pro -
modern' tourist travelling with could be done quite easily in Perty will be drawn up for
a trailer or with a tent, or Banff because the townsite is shorter periods. Businessmen
perlutps just looking for a only one very small segment will be expecteato write off
motel, likes to do ' his sight- of the yak lands that make up the capital cost of the business
seeing daring the daY, and in the national park. However, during the lease term and at
the evening he exp' t to Iliad the Minister, Mr. Laing, does .the end of the lease the pro -
some good entertainment and not agree with. suggestions that Perty will revert to the CroWn,
restaurants. ' there be commercial attractions This policy has had the effect
Th Banff today at, night all such as resorts, amusement ar- of depressing real estate values.
the average tourist can do for eas and that type of entertain., Businessmen have, protested
entertainment is walk up and Anent. He contends that the that it has ruined lifetime in-
.. down Banff Avenue. After two average tourist visiting Banff is vestments.
' or- three nights he gets fed tIP more concerned ' with baying But Mr. Laing is adamant.
Y and heads for Other Parts. The adequate camps and picnic Meantime,' the National and
: people of Banff are determined grounds rather than luxurious. Provincial Parks Association of
- ' that they should be allowed to hotels or motels. He is primer- Canada has rallied to his de-
' expand facilities. . ily concerned with preserving fence. it has urged the Gov-
. 4- The first national park wag the natural beauty of the parks ernment not to give ground in
,_ set up in Canada in 1885 when and . wants no "Coney • Island" the face of a strong attack
by order-in-eouncil "sale, settle. Concept to destroy their appeal from a minority group that has
trient' or sauattine in the ten for thee who want to 'escape a "vested interest" in the areas.
squat* tulles around tariff's from the ' hurley , burley of The battle raga and the tour-
ilphr Mountain was express- modern day living, ist is caught in the middle. The
ferbiddelt,, At 'present the A year ago the Minister .an- solution wouId . appehr to be
;. Conntig-lik,*666 Outtre miles notinced itt the dor:moils a the compromise put forward by
W.ltitua4apes\attdalie. qua., statetrient of policy ,that those Mr. Woolliatria, and that is t
(eiiiillaVaiiieftr Viltae.tltditlit. Who',1104 old catty en business zone the parkso One area de-
;itOkOhtititi1/2*,,,Orldit,f,': ht. :,,thg,' 41061114 Orkk 06014 Voted - to.,,C#MiriAteial . dbt,,blop.4
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From The Huron Expositor
September 13, 1940
Injuries which. he sustained
when kicked by a horse Mon-
day morning proved fatal for
Charles Wright, highly respect-
ed and well-known McKillop
Township farmer. He had been
in Seaforth with , a team and
returned home shortly before
noon. When he failed to come
to the house, for dinner,. ,his
wife went to the barn, to investi-
gate and found him lying un-
conscious beside the horse. He
was struck and thrown to the
cement floor.
A host of friends join The
Expositor in extending congrat-
ulations to Mr.. and Mrs. Conrad
Eckert, who on Thursday quiet-
ly celebrated the 52nd - anni-
versary of their wedding at ried off the. first .prize at To -
their home • in Seaforth. Both,tronto this week for heavy draft
Mr. and Mrs. Eckert are in the foal and third for mare in the
enjoyment of fairly good health. same class.
With nearlY 700 Canadian Le- Mr. H. E. Edge has donated
a 'handsome -gasoline' cooking
range and an electric 'lamp as
prizes' to be drawn for, the pro-
ceeds to go in aid of the Red
Cross.
Mr. Thomas Thompson has
leased the store on Main Street,
in Stark's Block, which was burn -
.ed some time ago, and will use
it for his produce business,
which is increasing so rapidly
as to make more commodious
premiies necessary.
.-The following additional
sehhol ;teachers were ticketed
'this week by W. Somerville:
-Miss Marion Watson to Blen-
heim; Erank Murphy to Ottawa;
Miss ShillinglaW to Port Credit;
Miss Cecelia Horan to Maxville;
Miss Cowan to Dundas; Miss
McKinley to Listowel. Other
travellers to distant points were
Mr. and Mrs. R. A. Wilsqn, to
New York; Mr. and Mrs. J. H.
Taman, to Watertown, S.D.; Mr.
and Mrs. Joshua Dennison and
Mrs. Albert Constable, McKil-
-lop, to Redlands, Sask.; Mrs. H.
K. Beattie and two boyto Win-
nipeg. In addition to ,t e above,
129 were ticketed to Toronto,
and Thomas,- Rands and Cyrus
Atkinson, to WillowCity,N D
. .
Hullett is again well to the
front at the big show at Toron-
to. In the Leicester 'sheep, A.
and W. Whitelaw, Guelph, and
James Snell & Son, ° Hullett,
pretty well divided the honors
in all cifsses. Snell had five
firsts, six seconds, two thirds,,
and one fourth. Thos. McMichael
Mr. David Bolton has been 8E Son carried off second prize
appointed Caretaker of the Can- for two-year-old roadster in a
adian Bank of Commerce as keen competition. •
successor to the late William
Deem. • '
The continued Wet weather is
prolonging", stook -threshing,
while the lucky ones can rest
at ease, but it's feared that
some of the tough grain will
'herd in the granaries, -which is
a worse job than allowing it to
dry in the straw. -
Mr. Albert Dfnnin has been
transferred from the staff of
the Bank of Montreal, Clinton,
to the Hensall branch.
Edward Little, Hensall, mo-
torcycle rider, and his passen-
ger, James M. Parkins, Zurich, gall's Sunday school class' num-
were taken to St. Joseph's Hos- bering 20 in all. They took up
pital, London, on Sunday for a collection and it 'amounted
treatment, after the cycle was to nearly $19, and will be used
in collision with a car on No.' for patriotic purposes and hos-
4 Highway, at the 6th conces-
sion of London Township. pital' supplies.
fimr. Colin Hudson, Hensall,
• Clerklanies A. Paterson, lien- having 'seld his blacksmith pro -
sell, has been busy lately ,regis- perty on King St., has rented a
tering guns and rifles, of which portion of •Mr. 1. Murdoch's
there seems to be no shortage' block on Queen '$i., it being
around the village. Already 20a,
part of the block rented by Mr,
have been registered.
An alarriiing .explosion In Sharp for the past few months.
Mr. Roy McCIimont and Miss-
Hensall Tuesday evening
,
hit- es A,. Graham and E. Ivison, of
mediately brought tomind
bombings, but it turned out to Kippene are attendfng busindss
be' Mr. Bushie, Hensall, black- college a1 Clinton.
Some fine fields of , corn are
smith, blasting a eement block to be seen in the Kippen area,
at Mickle's Mill.
George King, left Tuesday for
Toronto, where he has secured
a position as teacher in one of
the public schools.
'Messrs. Robert Parsons and
William Homey, Hensall, have
gone on a two months'trip to
visit friends in the West. Moose
Jaw district will be their head-
quarters.
Mr, Thomas Pryce, Leadbury,
shipped a number„ of big steers
which were pasturing on one
of the farms of T. J. Irvine, be-
fore the recent drop in prices.
Mr. James McClytnont, Kip-,
'pen, has again started his
threshing campaign, with Mr.
Joseph • Dayman, Hullett, as
helper.
George Dale and son, of the
Huron Road, Tuckersmith, car-
gion members and bandsmen,
representing Legion branches
and including 10 bands present,
the annual, Zone No. 10 Legion
Drumhead serviee, combined
with a Huron County patriotic
rally, attracted an estimated at-
tendance of nearly 4,000 here
on Sunday. •
' Mr. H. Douglas Stewart occu-
pied the pulpit in First Presby-
terian Church Sunday morning.
He has spent three menths on
a ,Mission field in the Edmon-
ton, Alta., district fast' suiriMer,
and this year has served in New
St. James' Church.
Dr. Ross P. Dougall, of Petro-
lia, who offered his services in
the Second Great War, has been
notified that his application has
been accepted. He will be in
charge of the new military hos-
pital at Chatham , now being
erected .in -connection with the
Government training scheme.
He is a son of Mr. and Mrs.
Wnj. Dougall, Hensall.
Miss I. A. Ballantyne' has sold
her residence in Harpurhey -to
Mrs. Margaret Nay. Miss Bal-
lantyne has leaglad the rooms
on doderich St., formerly4,eccu-
pied as an office by Dr. G. C.
Mr. Geo;,.g Pryce,, Winthrop,
Jarrott.
has purchased the residence on
North Main St. from the estate
of the late J. R. Govenlock; and
will occupy it shortly.
Miss Margaret Grieve has
been engaged on the staff of
Dresden public school-.
fandly a pleasant surprise: Mrs.
Smith is noted for her kind-
ness to,' all the neighbors who
were and her services were
always cheerfully given and
without reward. A kindly ad-
dress was read by Miss T.
Forbes, while on behalf of the
donors, Miss.Janet McIntosh
presented Mrs. Smith with , a
handsome easy chair and other
useful articles.
The barns of Mr; Moses Han-
nah,' a mile east of Winthrop,
together with their contents,
were' destroyed by fire Friday
morning. One barn was a new
one with stone stabling,' and the
other was an old building, Both
were filled with crops of the
season.
.Mr. M. R. Counter left Tues-
day for Nanaimo, B.C., where
he intends starting in the jew-
ellery business.
Miss Nettie Armstrong, sister
,of Mrs. George A. ' Sills, who
has been visiting her for some
time,, left on Monday for Chi-
cago, Ill.
Miss Grace McFaul lett on
Thursday for Toronto pursue
her studies at the Conservatory
of Music there. - '
Mr. Patrick. Keating and his -
assistants have been- busily en-
gaged for several weeks build-
ing new barns and repairing
old ones on the Cluff farm,
Where the Messrs. Coleman are
erecting extensive stabling' for
the. • accommodation of ,their
thoroughbred stock.
Mr. James Cummings, Tuck-
ersmith, who got his right hand
so badly lacerated a short time
ago by having it °caught in the
gearing of his binder, is .still
nursing the injured member.
and is not able to work.
Mrs. Robert Coleman, fifth
concession of Tuckersmith, has '
a natural curiosity in the shape
of a chicken with four perfectly
formed legs.
Seaforth marksmen returned
from the Canadian Winibleton
at Ottawa on Saturday. Lieut.
Alex Wilson"hashad the good
fortune to, receive a position
on the Wimbleton team for
next year. This is the fourth
time that Mr. Wilson has won
for himself such honorable dis-
tinction.
Durine his recent visit to the
Old Country, Mr. D. D. Wilson
purchased a number of thor-
oughbred Shorthorn cattle,
which will be shipped out this
fall and which he will place on
his farms here. ,
Mr. James Hull'iston, Spring-
field, Ohio, is at present visit-
ing his aunt, Mrs. Robert Hul-
liston, in Tuckersmith. This is
his first visit to this part of
Ontario, and he is greatly de-
lighted with the appearance of
the ccitt,V.y.
Smiles
Miss Sparks and Miss Jean
Lavis, of Clinton, have return-
ed h to town and have resumed
their duties in Stewart Bros.'
, store - as milliners.
The little. son of Mr. and Mrs.
John Rankin, who underwent
an operation for appendicitis a
few weeks ago at the home of
a friend in Grey Township, has
been brought home and is re-
covering.
On Monday afternoon, tabor
Day, the hospitable home of
Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Dougall, of
Hensall, was open to Mrs. Dou-
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From, The Huron Expositor will ' be many well-ffiled silos
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September...10, 1915 this year.
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Mr. Ford Tango son of Mil,
From The Huron Expositor
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September 12, 1890
ments of special appeal to the company have sold their July
The Constance cheese factory
tourist who want entertainment
and August make of cheese for'
provided in hotels, motels, the- 84 cents per pound.. They have
atres, or linnisement Eigea and
the other areas —, byi "far the per cett.
also Sold a lot of hogs for $5.10
largest seetion—eleft tintooched One night last week neigh -
and in ha taiirnatural state for hors and friends of lvtrs,, tobt, qxcuse.,mv )1r, Nom.
those Who Want. to get away Stnith,,to4the tiliplbet of.,iibotit
from the ' onfertaiiiinent areas, lip 000101,0 St 114 r4ideSe's s
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Suak and Spice
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ON THE CANOE. TRAtt
DATELINE: Somewhere in
the vast hinterland.
I am sitting at a picnic table,
looking over a beautiful, small,
blue lake, ringed with golden
sand and white birches. Twen-
ty feet 'from shore, a devoted
couple swims •quietly among
the lily pads. They are wild
ducks. Farther out, a loon rais-
es its arrogant head on its
snake neck, then dives.
When I look up, slim, sway-
ing spruce lean together to cir-
cle blue distance that ,makes
the head swim. In their branch -
.es, four and 20 blackbirds talk
over last night's party. On the
left, our Indiana neighbors
whistle for their setter, who is
trying to catch a duck. On the
right, our Illinois neighbors
sli'riek exultation over a string
of 8 -inch perch.
Behind me sits the tent, rath-
er resembling a very sick cain-
el. And. inside the tent, .wild-
eyed, wan and woe -begone af-
ter two straight sleepless nights
under canvas, broods my wife.
It's been a grand holiday trip
so far, but something tells me
we went at it backwards. After
two days and nights cruising
the inland „Seas, being wined
and dined and waited on hand
and foot, we were unceremon-
iously bundled ashore at the
lakehead.
We couldn't face ill like that,
cold, so we holed ulo• in, a hotel
for a night. Next day; we were
up at the crack ,of noon and off
on our. camping trip. That is,
after luneli, and putting up our
hair, and taking it down, and
shopping for grub. , We finally
hit the road about 4:30 and
belted off on our adventure.
The scenery was superb: huge
humps of rock, swathed in
green; dark serpents of rivers,
gliding far below; dizzying
glimpses of Lake Superior, blue
and splendid and almost fright-
ening in its immensity. Say,
this camping .was tgreat, so far.
Then came the dawn, at our
firSt campsite. Or, to be literal,
the dark, And us in the midst
of it, trying to put up the tent.
Inside out, as it turned out.
A couple of fishermen were
• lying about their catches. "And
what about your haul, Brown?"
asked one., "Haven't you caught
anything worth mentioning?"
Said Brown, "No. The last
one I caught was too small to
take home, so three fellows
helped me throw ,him back' in."
WICKS' WEEKP
BEN Maki:
Into: the 'r11c14* ),011d
SfOileY — •
The charcoal wouldn't burn.
We couldn't find anything—the
salt, the coffee, the breadknife,
the hot mustard. Nothing. We
were sitting forlornly, side by
side, on a cot, swatting inos,qui-
toes, eating burned_wlausages,
and blueberry intiffins, a n d
burning with envy of our neigh-
bors, , every one of them in a
luxurious trailer.'
A plaque' had informed us
that we were camping right on
an historic carioe route, used
by early explorers and fur trad-
ers. It's still a popular route.
This occurred to me about 4
a.m., as I lay there Staring
starkly at the roof of the tent,
my wife whimpering in the next
cot. -About every four minutes,
a transport truck thundered past
on the highway, sixty yard be-
hind the tent. At one-hourin
tervals, a train hurtled clatter-
ing by, about 200 yards away,
And every so often, a jet liner
screamed past right overhead.
And I lay there, sick with.
envy of those hard-bitten fur
trAers, on their canoe routs.
Not for them the stumbling.
over tent pegs. Not for them
the charcoal that'refuses •to
light. Not for them the never-
ending, muddling search for
the egg flipper or the toilet
paper.
• And, above all,, not for them
the ' endless recriminationi. I
can't quite ,imagine the follow-
ing conversation taking place
on the canoe route, on an
August evening, say in 1742.
"Hey, Pierre, we're de hell
did you put de kleenex?", -
"Dat's all. right for you,
Jacques, but oo was 'de one oo
said we didn't need no French
diessing, • and 'ere I 'ave de
salade ready, and no dressing?"
"By gar, Jacques, for ftwo
beater 'ides I never go "wit'
yon againon a petite camping
trip. All de time you boeuf,
boeuf, boeuf!"
No, it couldn't happen. Oh,
well, that's- progresS. Guess I'll
go in and give the old lady
another tranquilizer, strike
adulterated horror.
camp (it takes only three hours
to "strike camp"),. and get roll-
ing for the next episode of , un-
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How This Iger
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By Having. '
Our Temperature
,Taken ' 'd
Regularly
Every newspaper has an halal tben•
mometer. It's called," tion." The
paper's Ups and downs in ita efforts to
satisfy the greateit number of editorial
interests is reflected in its cir' culation.
So tht4 there is no possibility ihat the
calibrations on our tbermometerbecome
blurred by self-satisfaCtionove have
our temperature taken regularly — by
a trained Al3C*-circulation auditor.
When he leaves, therd's no ;question of
how we feel.
And-,:wele feeling quite healthy today, •
thank yd — an indication that.we'le
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doing our 'ob of providing aninterested,
audience fo your Wes messages.
We would welcome the opportunitpot —
showing you the ABC fachrdiur cir-
culation, and toNexplsifi Just how our
editorial program' is helphig to build
reader interest for your advertising
messages. Call Us this week. .
THE- 'HURON *EXPOSITOR
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