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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1962-01-11, Page 2• r 1 , -••- • Since 1860, Serving the Community First h'ublfshed at SEAFORTH, ONTARIO, every Thursday morning by MCLEAN BROS., ublishers ANDREW Y. MCLEAN, Editor Member Canadian Weekly Newspapers Association Ontario Weekly Newspapers Association Audit Bureau of Circulations Subscription Rates: ¢► . �= Canada (in advance) $2.50 a Year ` Outside Canada (in advance) $4.00 a Year `•�1E0 A ee i o u I. asilvan COPIES — 10 -CENTS EACH Authorized as Second Class Mail, Post Office Department, Ottawa SEAFORTH, ONTARIO, JANUARY 11, 1962 Advantages in Conservation. Authority Seaforth has named a representative to the Maitland Valley Conservation Authority. Whether we like it or not, we are members of `the Authority, and as such will be subject to such""levies as the Authority may determine. If there had been any doubt -about the matter, it was dispelled with a letter from the Department of Commerce and Develop- ment, instructing council to act: in the. appointment of a representative. Seaforth ,is located on the southern boundary of the Authority and as a re- sult can expect to realize fewer bene- fits than far instance will be the case in Wingham or othercentrally located municipalities. This fact, coupled with doubts that more than half the town lay within the Maitland watershed, as claimed by the Authority, led to a lake warm reaction among members ,of Seaforth Council when the new enlarged Authority was first broached. Council's reservations about the mat- ter unfortunately' did not find expres- sion because notice of the meeting at which decisions concerning the enlarg- ed Authority were taken did not come to the attention of officials here until it was top. late. Council did not learn of the 'meeting until it was over. All this is beside the point now:• What counts is that the Authority is in existence and ,definite,;benefits can .be• anticipated by the municipalities locat- ed entirely in the Maitland watershed. To gain equal benefits, Seaforth and other fringe, towns- and townships -might well look to the enlargement of the Maitland Authority to include the relatively small area drained by the Bayfield river and lying between the Ausable Authority on the south and the Maitland. By including the Bay- field watershed with ,the Maitland, the people living in border municipalities would enjoy greater benefits. The entire areas draining into Lake Huron, in- cluding Huron lakefront properties, could have the protection of conserva- tion legislation. As it is at the moment, townships in the centre of Huron on the fringe of the Maitland are be- ing assessed for something that will be of relatively small benefit to them. But what is more important to the peo- ple of Huron generally 'is that more than half of Lake Huron's shores ly- ing within the County, and abutting lands, are denied the protection which a conservation authority provides. At the rate our once public .areas are being converted to private use, it is high time we acted. It's Different (The Recorder, Reston, Manitoba) .:,Let's face it—we must be getting old. There was a timewhen our older children were in the lower grades thab we could help them with their home- work, but not now when tI4y are in the higher grades. No, sir, the courses seem to have changed since we went to schdel—a-t least 'the .answers we get and the correct ones are different now. Take chemistry for instance, we were taught that" matter could' not be def•, str yed, only ,.changed from one form to another—Einstein ' changed ail-. that and the kids nowadays study about at-' ours and stuff, which to as is like Greek. Mathematics. too, seem to have tin- dergone a radical change, •since our school days, or else our memory is fail- ing. Now logarithums enter the picture and to understand them ' is beyond us. Fortunately trough, some of the familyre still in the lower grades, and._ we have ° no great difficulty with the grade one speller and even the grade two arithmetic is not beyond us. A Good Senator Passes (The Stratford Beacon -Herald) Senator William Golding, who died Sunday in Seaforth, aged' 83, was a man who spoke in the same tone of voice to everybody. When he was a worker -in a machine -shop in Seaforth, 60 yearn"ago, and .when he was • a dis- tinguished parliamehtarion, high in the ranks of thexovernment party, he had the same manner. "Bill", -Golding did not talk up or talk down to anybody. His long career of public service brought him success of two kinds. At the top level, and in the widest field of Canadian' politics, he was liked and re- spected at Ottawa by all who served with him in the House of Commons or in the Senate. At the local level, in his own town of Seaforth, he was liked and respected by all who knew him during his years there, and in a town of 2,000 people, everyone knows the mayor per- sonally. His day-to-day behavior both as a small-town citizen, and as a presid- ing officer in the Dominion Parliament, could stand the closest scrutiny, because neither as mayor of Seaforth, 1921-29, nor as MP for South Huron, 19324949, noir as Senator Golding, 1949-61, was he ever putting on an act. What he said was what he believed, and his beliefs grew frorei straightforward work and study to master his successive tasks in public life: His matured philosophy of govern- ment was stated 12 years ago, when he was moving the adoption.pf,the address in reply to the speech from .the Throne, in the Senate. In a considered speech, penatoxlMding, then. a veteran of 18 "years in Parliament, said he did not be- '-lieve that, "our forefathers expected the government was going to meet all the problems of Canada." Canada will never reach. its highest destiny, he said on that occasion,, Feb. 21, 1950, unless Canadians learn to lean less on government shoulders. He was speaking 12 years ago, long before the pr-esen,,t state of world turmoil took shape, but he 'had a word to say then about defence policy. If the forces of material:isfn, he said, should be 411owed to exert their strength in the tworld, "Cal'iada 'world be led down„In evil course from which it would never re- cover. No matter how much we love peace, we are never going to lower our- selves as a nation from' what we believe is right." It would be hard to believe that ever in his 83 years "Bill" Golding spoke an_ angry word to anybody, but on the sub- - ject of defence policy, he believed firm- ly that Canada must maintain armed strength, and that heavy expenditures for the defence forces had to be accept- ed as necessary. One incident of the Golding 'career has now been almost forgotten. His appointment to theSenate, 13 years ago, was closely connected in the public mind at that time, with the move. of Lester B. Pearson froth the diplomatic service to the House of Commons, and to cabinet rank as minister of external affairs. It was confidently „rumored, in 1948, that the riding of South Huron would 'be opened for Mr. Pearson, by the appointment of Mr. Golding to the Senate. The rumor was almost right; a senatorial appointment went to the member far South Huron, but the rid- ing that was opened, at the same time, for Mr. Pearson, was that of Algoma East, which he has represented ever since. The Golding appointment remained clear of any taint of political bargain- ing, as it deserved to do. Not every Senate appointment has carried out the intentions of the Fathers of Confedera- tion as clearly as did the Golding move •from House of Commons to Upper Chamber. In the best tradition of good government, he carried to the Senate 'a wealth of ecperierice and wisdom, and used them there. Hansard records show that he spoke much more frequently in Senate debates than he had done in House debates, and he built up a record for faithful and conscientious attend- ance which became notable in Senate annals. All the way through his public career, beginning with the day he became a member of Seaforth Town Council, in 1916, he passed the most searching test of all. The people who knew him best, respected him most. `The country could use more like hitn. We a l know what a sump pump isr. It's a pump used for sucking water out of a hole in the ground. The hole in the ground is very often somebody's basement. The sump pump is -used in spring and fall, in the rainy seasons. What is needed in this country in mid-January is not a sump pump, but a slump pump. This is the time of year when we all go into a bit of a slump, and need something to pump us out of it. * * * The businessman is down in the mouth. The only people with any money left after Christmas have taken off for: the south. Thus, his only cus- tomers are those belatedly try- ing to exchange Christmas pres- ents. It's the slack period for the skilled tradesman, and he sits arbund the house... driving his wife welted, while he broods bit- terly over his trade, which is always a feat or a famine, in the small. town. Teachers and "preachers are depressed. -The former, shock- ed by the ineptitude revealed in .. the Christmas exams, face the long, dreary midwinter term, the most trying of the year. The latter shudder at the thought of the outdoor funer- als, the endless cups of tea to be swilled with old ladies, the "interminable struggle with low income and large family. Old people sit in their cheer= less rooms in the nursing homes,, and watch with little hope as the drab, dark days uzifold so slowly. Mothers of young children wearily' wipe vea't r off, . th.e flog ,look for lost mitts, and endlessly -put on and„ take off snowsuits. * * * -The householder has -h"is moments of despair as the stack of Christmas bills eyes him in- solently, the furnace chugs away, burning more' fuel than the Queen Mary, and icicles threaten his new eavestroughs. Even the jolly farmer is slightly down in the dumps_ Isis.. work load is lighter in winter, But he has ovaa wetter of a mile throug the. snovegte. the highway with his milk cans; his taxes have gone up again; his -sons ate talking about leav- ing the' farm as soon as they finish school. "" * It's time..to get out the slump pumps; chaps, Don't tell me. you haven't got one,or can't. afford one. That's the beauty of being a human. We all have built-in slump pumps. Mr. Merchant, lift those droopy mouth - corners ! . You know perfectly well that busi- ness is always lousy this time of year. It'll pick up ire the spring. Stop grouching. Give a pint of blood, fall in love, start a whispering campaign against the mayor, or get down to the curling rink. Do anything but stand around like a kicked hound dog, feeling sorry for. yourself. • * Mr. Carpenter, or Electrician, or Painter, brace up! Get off your .tail and get out of the house. It's always slack in January. You'll get your . re- venge this spring, when every- body will want your serves at once, and you can play as hard to get ,as a wealthy widow. Teachers a n d Preachers'; SuGR. and SPIC By Bill Smiley cheer up! You never had it so good. You eat meat a er-y day now, which was not always the case in your vocations. Who gets so many holidays?;,: In what what other callings can you get up there -and blather for hours without fear of interruptions? What ham actor has your op- portunities? k * * Old People, hang on! Think of how bad you were when you were young, and all the fun you had. Demand more attention from your children. Learn to like rock 'n roll. Write letters. Knit. Spit. Chew. Snarl. Laugh. One of these days you'll be strolling in God's lovely spring sunshine again. Young Mothers, don't de- spair! .When the kids hammer on the back door, five minutes after you've shoved them "out- side, and whimper,-�Hafta wee- wee, Mum," don't shriek,; Just unzip them philosophically. Be- fore you know it, those same lids wilt' be sneaking in th'e same door at four a.m., and you'll be wishing--.. they were back in snow suits. *° * * Householder, give up a smile! It won't be long until you're complaining about the dam' grass growing so fast. Farmer, don't be down! Just sit and drool over those fantastic crops you're. going to have next sum- mer. Now, let's hear all those slump pumps working in uni- son, sucking out the black mud- dy . thoughts. Slump! Pump! Slump! Pump! That's the way. Feel better already? Just keep them going and you won't hear a thing when I go 'down sellar apd shot myself. (Prepared by the Research Staff of Encyclopedia Canadiana) Why Was Klondike Mike Famous? For his strength and endur- ance.. Born Michael Mahoney, near, Buckinghani, Quebec, in 1878, he became an athlete and fighter, bat his great days came with the Klondike Gold Rush. He earned his grubstakes carry-,. ing mail out of Dawson and. later from Nome to Prince of Wales. Mahoney made one famous trek from. Fairbanks, with the body of Judge Humes of Seattle. He later topped this feat by carrying a piano, over the Chilkoot Pass. Mahoney took part in more than half a dozen rushes in the Yukon and Alaslee made a rich strike in 1910 and returned to Ottawa to become a businessman and a well-known lecturer. * * * Which Governdr Married His Enemy's Widow? Charles de, La Tour. In 1631 La Tour .Wit Fort -ba Tour at the mouth of the St.. John Riv- er. Razilly, French Governor of Acadia died a few years later° and two lieutenant governors were commissioned' in his place —La Tour and Charles d'Aulnay Charnisay of Port Royal. Con- flict developed. La Tour attack- ed Port Royal • in 1643. Two years later Charnisay. attacked Fort La Tour in La Tour's ab- sence. Madame. La,. Tour con - 0/ The W Q CI Fo 'That's good old George for you •y-• he't always around when he needs•rne." By REV. ROBERT H. HARPER TIME NOUGH In the -story of the Discontent- ed Pendulum we read,.pf the pendulum of -a clock' that felj' to thinking of the great number of times he would have to swing back and forth in the future and the thought quite appalled him and he resolved to stop his, seemingly endless task. No -sooner thought than done, and in a few moments the clock be came still and silent. When an investigation was set up by other members of the clock, the pendulum read- ily confessed that the fault was his. He was told that_ though it might tire him to think of mil- lions of strokes, it would not tire him to make one stroke and that for every stroke he would make he would have a full sec- ond for the movement. Hearing this; --the pendulum admitted that he was told truly and a moment more he went merrily to swinging. So, as we go on into 1962, let us know that for every task required of us there will be full time -and opportunity to do• well the work and to complete in such way that God himself will be satisfied. And let us resolve that in ev- ery enterprise of which we are a part we will not be tiresgm_e dreaming of what we may hive to do, we will not stop the clock. . • Just a Thought: • We cannot help but be suc- cessful in life if we,, develop the habit of never turning our back on a piece of work until we have completed the assign- ment. A minister offered some strong horeradish to a dinner guest who -stook a big bite and then gasped, "I've heard many preach hell fire but you're the first one I've met who passed out ,sample,s!'R ducted the defence, but was forced to surrender. The gar- rison was massacred" and Ma- dame La Tour died soon after- wards. La Tour fled, but re- turned after Charnesay's death in .1650 and later married his rival's widow: *. * * Who Named Lachine? Cavelier La Salle. He came to Canada in 1667, settled in Montreal and -obtained a grant of land at La Chine (later Lachine), so named because of his ambition to reach China, by way of the Western Sea:` Fur trading and exploring expeditions followed. In 1678, now, the noble Sieur de La Salle, he set out to find an en- trance from the sea to the Mis- sissippi. On April 9, 1682, a hardy band of whites and In- dians led by La Salle, planted the arms of France and ,raised a cross at the great eriver's mouth. Thus they took posses- sion of "that river, of all the rivers that enter it and of all the country watered by them" for Louis XIV. La Salle named this almost boundless territory —Louisiana. The explorer's dis- covery of the mighty river's mouth was the high point of an adventurous and controversial career that had seen him battle against great odds to build a fur trade in the Illinois coun- try and that was to come to an end in a brutal death at the hands of his own men in the Texas vends. A MA FF OTTAWA REPORT CABINET SHUFFLE IZZES OTTAWA—For weeks be the Cab'inet's ill-fated trip t Quebec City the word had been seeping out of varigus ministers offices that.., Finance Minister Donald Fleming Wag 'through. It came from ministers who sided with Mr,aFleming, and from ministers who in the past have had no use for him. He had become, they said, a politi- cal liability, and Prime Mini- ster Diefenbaker was going to blimp him out of the post, and, possibly, out of the Cabinet. - Qn the basis of these reports, many Ottawa - newspapermen wrote speculative stories involv- ing a Cabinet shuffle. If Mr. Fleming was going, who would take his place? It was obvious that shifting the pugnacious nance Minister would involve, a wholesale rebuilding of the Diefenbaker ministry. As the stories piled up, Mr. Diefenbaker remained silent. Im the past, when there were re- ports of this or that minister leaving 'the Government,* the P.M. had squeshed the specula- tion with a word.' But not -on this occasion. On the night of Wednesday, Dec. 27, the special railway cars loaded with Cabinet mem- bers rolled out of Ottawa's Un- ion Station, with most of the questions 'still unresolved. Ear- lier that day, the Ottawa Jour- nal, a newspaper very close to Mr. Diefenbaker, had reported "on the highest authority" that Mr. Fleming would remain in his post, but there was still a large measure of doubt. Few could believe that Mr. Diefenbaker would allow one of his chief ministers to suffer the indignity suffered ,.hy. Mr Fleming without 'going through with the beheading. But that is the way it hap- pened. The great Quebec City expe- dition, dreamed up by the Con- servatives as a way of re- storing some of the Party'e for- tunes in French -Canada, fizzTd out,' Mr., Diefenbaker appoint- ed Jacques Flynn--of--Quebec City `to"the vacant Mines and Technical Surveys portfolio in a pale shadow, of the changes forecast by the Conservative brass.• At the -last -minute,it, was decided to make Secretary of State ''Noel Dorion, President. of the Privy Council. No one even laughed when Mr. Diefen- baker tried to convince the as- sembled newspapermen that this was an important jobs The post has 'been" `vacant since the. Con- servative victory in June, 1957, and the Privy ,Council doesn't appear to have suffered. Despite the denials, .it is ob- vious Mr. Fleming won a ma, jor victory over Prime Mini- ster Diefenbaker. Future events may make it - a hollow victory, but it is a victory all the same. He is staying ,1n the Cabinet, In the -finance portfolio, and will be in that job when Mr. Diefenbaker seeks 'a new man- date later this year. + It is equally obvious''tliat Mr. Fleming set conditions for his continued stay, after represen- tations from the business com- munity and other Cabinet mini- sters convinced the P:1VI. he had better stay his hand. Mr. Fleming has been ter- ribly unhappy at the free -wheel- ing spending programs put for- ward by his colleagues. On at least one occasion he threaten- ed to resign when a major pro- gram, involving millions of dol- lars in new expenditures? was approved by the Cabinet in his absence. He is very orthodox in out- look, and the enormous deficits incurred during the past four years have not been to his lik- ing. After the events of the oast few weeks, Mr. Fleming is .in a position to bring tre= inendous influence to bear on klx. Diefenbaker end t h "spe$ders' in the Cabinet. He now in he driver's seat. th; first time since tak- ing i• e, the Prime Minister ha est' control of his Cabinet. Ni , hey, at -least the Fleming far' on, are controlling him. It -is .an untenable position for Mr. Diefenbaker, and he will be for- tunate if ,he can hold things to- gether until after the next elec- tion, assuming, of course, that his Government survives the election. !� It will be natural for him to. seek an early election to clear the air. And the earlier the bet- ter. Given Mr. Fleming's pres- ent status it would be prefer- able; from Mr. Diefenbaker's point of view, to hold the elec- tion before bringing down a budget. After taking a buffeting in the press without a word _et, support from the Prime. Mini- ster, • Mr. 'Fleming, secure now in his , position. , is not going to go along lightly with tax cuts and higher old age pensions and other social welfare measures. Mr. Diefenbaker's only way out would appear to be to intro- duce his legislative program, in the Throne Speech, and take his case to the voters without letting them see the budgetary measures proposed by ,Mr. Fleming. - The alternative is equally un- palatable -to hang on to of- fice for another eight or ten months, hoping everything will simmer down, economic condi- tions improve, and the voters will forget. - That would be taking the Government's term of office al - .most to the legal limit, and Canadian voters have illustrat- ed in the paste- that they don't like Governments to hang on 'to office after four years of 'their term " hae expired. While this is the generally accepted analysis, some feel that the opposite' may be true -enamely, that Fleming backed down to a compromised posi- tion on pre-election spending— and that what caused the Cab- inet re-slluffle to fizzle out was when Fulton, backed by Flem- ing, Balcer and perhaps others,• refused to rpake, way for Dorion in -justice. The . one common ground is that somewhere, the P.M. lost control of his Cabinet in front•of the public—and thus he not only lost yards in Que- bec for, failure to give Quebec a major cabinet portfolio, but also in •the country as a whole. If we'do not -get a budget to- gether with the normal com- plement of legislation prior to the election, we -- may never know which story is right. If we do get them, they should re- veal 'whether Fleming did win the battle with the Prime- Mini- ster on this issue, or whether,. it wee something, else that went off` the rails,` and produced a fiasco. A SMILE OR TWO' A backwoodsman was leaving home for a trip of several days. His wife wasn't happy about it: "Ike," she complained, "you're goin' away for.near on a week, and there's nora single stick of wood cut for the stove." "So!" demanded Ike, logical- ly.; -"I ain't takin' the axe." A man went into a butcher's shpp. Finding the owner's wife in attendance, he thought he would have a juke at her ex- pense, and said: "Madam, can you', supply -me with a yard 'of 1300?" --''"Yes, Sir," she said. And turning to a boy, she added, "James, give that •gentleman three pigs' feet!" IN THE\'YEARS A -GONE Interesting items gleaned from The Expositor of 25, 50 'Pend 75 years ago. From' The Huron Expositor January 8, 1937 Mr. Robert L. Miln, who for the past year and a half has been on the tall of the Cana- dian Bank of Commerce here, was transferred' to Windsor this week. Mr. Donald MacTavish 'was the winner last week of a theee- stone diamond ring, valued at $100, given as first prize in the December "Ring of the Month"' contests, sponsored by a diam- ond company. The beautiful and gaily il- luminated Chriitrhas tree which stood at the head of Main St. during -the 'holidays,,,,was the object of vandalism„ on New Year's, when a large number of electric light bulbs were stolen from the tree. The result of the McKilibp election • is as follows: Reeve, J. M. Eckert (acclamation);' Cpuncillors: Alexander, Dor- ranee, Hackwell and O'Rourke. Members,. of the Seaforth Branch of the Canadian Legion at brei{, annual meeting in the elide rooms Wednesday evening elected J. E. Keating president. a, * From The Huron Expositor January 12, 1912 On Tuesday last the roads of Hensall• were so impassable that the courier on the Hensall-llur- ondale route could not even make the first office of Chisel - burst on the route, and the foil. .• , way -trains were running with two engines, hdurs late. Mr. James McKay has sold his farm, south of Egmondyille, to Mr. Porterfield, of Hay Town- ship. Miss Adie G>vant, of Brussels, has accepted a position as teacher in •.»Jowl& Township. She is a graduate of the Clin- ton Model School. A telephone is considered to e a need in the•Seaforth post office. * s. From The Huron Expositor January 14, 1887 Fa'h wheat is selling from 79c to 80c per bushel at. the Sea - forth market this week. Mr. John M. Summer, who has been employed in Mr. Coun- ter's jewellery store in this -tovn for four or Ave. years, left on Tliufrsday for Simcoe, where he has taken a good situation with Mr. Counter's brother, in a similar establishment. Mr. J. R. Habkirk has pur- chased Mr. W. Colwell's black- smith shop property in Hensall. A large quantity of snow has fallen during this Week and the depth is now so great as to interfere with teaming and makes work in the woods al- ost impossible. r. W. Hendrie, of Hensall, has this week sold out his boot and shoe business to Mr. James Carlisle, of Farquhar, who in- tends carrying"on the business in .the same premises. The new barracks recently built by the Salvation Army fn Seaforth was opened and dedi- cated on Sabbath last. THE I1tJJOY FAP lLY WRVS.A ICE 2t, 6'HOf PIcTuRE OFA CliT YootUJ HOW FOR MY pA0M, TO MAKE MOM/ A num SSU Y BY LLOYD BIRMINGHAM MOM'S tom rag A, PICTURE FRAME CUT FRAME BASE CROM HEAVY CARP - BOARD. CUTGOtoREYI STRAWS TO LENGTH AN( GLUE TO 8115E