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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1962-01-25, Page 2• Since 1860, Serving the Community First 1 Published. at SEAFORTH, ONTARIO, every Thursday morning by *GLEAN BROS., Publishers • - ArFDREW y: MCLEAN, Editor elf E it A� Member Canadian Weekly Newspapers Association . • r Ontario Weekly Newspapers Association n a- Audit Bureau of Circulations • w t C Subscription Rates: o D U Canada (in advance) $2.50 a Xear` 0 Outside Canada (in advance) $4.00 a Year U Pt SINGLE COPIES - 10 CENTS, EACH . Authorized as Second Class Mail, Post Office Department, Ottawa SEAFORTH, ONTARIO, JANUARt 26, 1962 Throne Speech Provides Little Help changing patterns of world trade, '-as - evidenced in the European common market. There was no reference .to a . Cana- dian 'defence policy, nor an indication whether Canada is to have nuclear weapons or not. The omissions probably won't worry the Prime Minister as long as he feels be is gaining political 'Capital with ad- ditional headlines. The Throne Speechdebate, which got under way in Ottawa this week, has ,underlined the extent to which Canadian ,affairs have detriorated dur- ing recent years. What is more impor- tant is the evidence brought to light which indicates lack of any program to bring to an end the drifting that has characterized the government. The . Prime Minister, basing his. claim for the success of his government in what he said was the fulfillment of 50 out of 62 of its promises, chose to ignore completely the major promises he had made, and not one of 'which has been kept. These include: _ 1.. The promise to give efficient ad- ministration "to ensure that no Cana- ' dian would suffer from• unemploy- ment." 2. The promise to interest rates. 7:, 3. The promise to reduce government spending and eliminate wastein gov- ernment. Instead of keeping these promises, the government- of_course, has been faced with a recordnumber of unem- reduce taxes. and Disillusionment We are a firm believer_, in the powers of advertising. - But there is'disillusionment when the product does not measure up to - the claims made for it. So, we suppose, is anyone else com- ing up against the same difficulty. Many a time on a winter night we viewed with interest a television com- mercial which claimed . that a particu- lar type of cleaner not only made the surface sparkling, but got underneath and cleaned; too. ' There 'was- even a diagram showing how this was done, ployed.. Canadians are paying .more in a nice effervescent action seeming to taxes than 'during any previous peace- get out the underneath grime. That, time period, and instead of reducing we said, is for ues. government expenses, Mr. Diefenbaker Noting that the kitchen sink had has since takingoffice created deficits adopted—in—part, tones which can only totalling two billion dollars. be described as "tattle tale grey" The Throne Speech itself was devoid (though that's from another cammer- of any concrete program—the result, cial) we acquired some of the magic perhaps, of a considered decision on the part -of the government to gain addi tional headlines by introduction . of particular announcements throughoi}t the debate. ✓ W . Certainly as it was presented, the Throne Speech was outstanding for four great missions. There was no action ecortornic growth. Theit was no effective action to com- bat chronic unemployment, There was no policy on the . rapidly to stimulate cleaner and went to work. After sev- eral -attempts, we report in horror that not only is the underneath dirt not Cleaned . away, but the surface grime is still, there. This happened `°at a time when we were about to succumb to another ad- vertising blurb about country st ribs, just like grandma used to mak till we discovered that they are cooked to perfection in seconds. Not even grandma was able to do that.—(Kin- cardine News). There's something gruesome * the interest everyone has these days in being annihilated. Some people are so'absotEbd in the whole business that I swear they'll be disappointed if no bombs fall. I've just finished reading a pile of Grade 12 essays. More than a third of them dealt with some aspect of nuclear warfare, If those kids knew half as much about the subjects on their course as they do about radia- tion Aallout, there'd be no stop- ping them. * * * They are morbidly interested in the monsters to be created by mutations among the post - atomic generations. They talk casually about the dosages of strontium 90 and iodine to be released by 'the bombs. They are fascinated, by fall- out shelters, and write long and frightening lists of the equip- ment they should contain. One lad, as nice a teenager as you'd, come across, warned,iii all ser- iousness, that shelter supplies should include a gun, for the purpose of mowing down any outsider who tried to join the inmates., ` * * * You can't blame the young- sters. Listen to the conversa- tion next time you're out play- ing bridge, or drinking beer, or whatever you do at your par- ties. That plump, gentle wife and ,mother at the next table will' be reeling off the number of millions who will be killed in the first attack. That portly, jovial church warden across from you, will be saying that we ought to drop it before they SVG.Ag and PIgE By Bill Smiley • shabby. • Those kids are driving you crazy. Jack's never home at nights. -You're a nervous wreck. The house isn't nearly asnice as Mabel and George's. You're losing your looks. And the church is always after you to bake pies. I'd think you'd be happy to abdicate. I'm. not .frightened by all this., I''m., bored. I'm, sick to death. of--nninformed prattle about world politics from people who think Marx is a TV comedian. I've had quite enough half-bak- ed lectures on nuclear 'fallout from people who couldn't even combine hydrogen ,Yid sulphur and come up with a stink bomb. * * * What I can't understand is why everybody's so concerned. • do we sit around^like so any ghouls at a garden party, licking our lips over the horrors to- come? Are we scared or something? You'd think nobody had ever been killedbefore, violently and painfully., You'd think no other civilization had ever perished before. Surely you're not worried about leaving this world sud- denly, Jaek? Why, all I've ever heard you do is complain. Busi- ness is terrible. • Your - wife nags. Your hemorrhoids are acting up. You can't do a thing: with your -kids. The govern- inen't's taxing you to death. The salt his ruining the, body of your car.. You're working too hard. You haven't thrown a decent rock in the last two bonspiels. I'd think you'd be glad to be• out of it all. • * * * How's that a g a i n? You wouldn't trade the whole sordid mess for a mink coat, a model's looks and figure, a mansion with servants, as -"long as you can stick around for a few years? Stop whining, then. • Enjoy, while you're still with us. _Really, I don't see what we're all so alarmed about. For. the Darwinians among us, nuclear war will be an interesting ap- plication of the theory of sur- vival of the fittest. For the un- regenerate sinner, there's still" time to do something about it. And for the rest of us good Christians, it will merely mean that we all get to heaven that much sooner. Especially us Anglicans. * * * 0 Personally, if this is any con- solation to you, I haven't the slightest intention of digging a hole in theground and crouch- ing there with my family, like four terrified moles. In the first place, it's not a dignified way tq meet death, should it come: In the_ second place, I have better things to do. And in the third place, Ffully intend to live to the age of 90 and expire peacefully in my own bed, my last conscious act being an attempt to pinch the bottom of my special nurse. If this interferes with the plans of either Khruschchev . or Ken- nedy, they're just going to have to change their plans. Must Solve Lack of Hospital .Facilities A proposal from authorities pf the eral and provincial, governments to - province's towns and villages ' that ward hospital capital projects. monthly hospital insurance premiums In spite of the higher appropriations be increased to create a special fund to in the field of health; grants to hospi- assist in financing of new hospital con- tals-amounting to $32,600,000—will struction merits close stud. It could 'ac•,tually be $300,000 less than the 1960- be a means of overcoming a problem 61 figure. that is' besetting a number of munici- It is already apparent that the prov- palities. ince's tight health budget is causing the The towns and villages section of the Ontario Hospital Services Commission Ontario Municipal Association, at a to have some second thoughts on the weekend meeting in Renfrew, approv- question of how far it. should go in ed a resolution calling for higher con- assisting Ottawa's much-discussed -hos- tributions under the Ontario Hospital pital program. . . Insurance'' Plan. The separate fund A shortage of •hospital facilities re- thus established would be used to sup- duces the effectiveness of any hospital plement grants now paid by the fed- insurance plan. (Ottawa Citizen) RELIABLE RECORDS -- with •MOORE REGISTERS FLATPA.KIT 'FORMS AND ACCESSORIES • ,yy MOORE REGISTERS AND FLATPAKIT FORMS ASSURE RELIABLE RECORDS ONE COPY MAY BE PILED AUTOMATICALLY PREVENTING LOST OR TAMPERED RECORDS.:,, N1'JLTIPLE COPIES NUMBERED FOR AUDIT USE .. - ALL FROM ONE .WRITING ,,LET US DEMONSTRATE OUR FULL LINE Of.MOORE REGISTERS AND ' FLATPAKIT FORMS. . By REV. ROBERT H. HARPER • ,THE VANQUISHED, In the Delgado Museum ' of Art in City Park, New f.Orleans, there i4ir a figure in bronze of a fallen gladiator. The shield has slipped from his arm, the sword has fallen from his nerveless fingers. Above hint stands the strong, alert figure . of his an- tagonist, who we imagine looks to theemperor in his -box of 'state who, with his minions and his dames, views the games, to learn what the signal will be, whether life, or death for the fallen gladiator. Who bears a heart could with- hold the sign of life for the man who 'did his best but fell in the fray? But how many deny sym- opathy to the vanquished) When 'afar beneath stars a brave is'sleeping only Red Wing -may-be weeping her heart away. The fiery lava covered the Rom- an sentinel , who stood at his post of duty at the gate of Pompeii, with none to pity, and none to know of him until long years had passed. •And not .so many days ago,,.a multitude of people could go wild with... ,enthusiasm over a team that won, perhaps by .a margin • of only one point, or was saved from defeat by a few seconds on the clock, while' scant praise was given to other men who battled hard. But whatever it is, the good God. says "Well done" to the 'roan who develops the talent that is given him- , - A NIACDUFF OTTAWA.. REPORT LEFT MINDING .THE STORE OTTAWA—The voice of the New Democratic Party in Par- liafnent these days is that of the ellen the Party rejected as leader at its founding conven- tion last summer. Hazen Argue is carrying on with his Commons duties al- most as though the old CCF Party remained in existence, with him as its national lead- er. Tommy Douglas, the former Saskatchewan • 'preacher -p rem ier who • ran away with the6 NDP leadership, plans to leave House duties to his former rival while he stumps the Country repay- ing for the coming general elec- tion campaign. It's a situation almost unique in Canadian history. There have been occasions in the past when party leaders carried on without a seat in the Commons. But they stayed close to the jobs directing their followers from a vantage point in the galleries. Mr. Douglas has a special problem. He's working against a deadline, trying to spread the NDP gospel in time to make a creditable showing' in the Par- ty's first national 'election test. He has a problem, too, with Mr. Argue, who holds no.official position with the New Demo- crats other than parliamentary leader of the nine -man group in the Commons. Mr. Argue was badly disillu- sioned by his leadership defeat, and hurt even more by being virtually- ignored by the Party brass both during and since the leadership campaign. He has no love for the likes of Claude Jodoin, • Stanley Knowles and David Lewis, who played a leading role in the formation of the new Democra- tic Party and the abrupt -dump- ing of Mr. Argue after a year as national leader^ , of the old CCF. But Mr..,Argue andMr. Doug- las, long-time political' friends ifK not exactly close buddies, seep to have reached, a •meet i `of minds, and a polite saw -off in their respective responsibilities. Mr. Argue has been encour- aged to shrug off approaches by the Liberal Party, which has been dangling a carrot by half, promising him a cabinet 'port- folio as Minister of 'Agriculture if he comes over; and if the Lib- erals should win the next elec- tion. 'B'ut he has been denied the traditional plum of the run- ner-up in .the. _leadership contest —deputy status to Mr. Doug- las. Mr. Douglas, presumably with the active guidance of NDP ex- ecutives, has . decided to wait for the possible election of a French-speaking NDP member to,perform the deputy role. The object, of course, would be to knit the Party's English and French language support into a co-ordinated whole. Mr. Argue is out for the de- puty role because his political home is too close to- Mr. Doug- las', and since both represent the Saskatchewan farm voter rather than the industrial wing in British Columbia and Cen- tral -Canada. All that Mr. Douglas has been able to promise Mr. Argtee is the role . of agricultural,_ critic in the NDP apposition group when he assumes House leader- ship—or alternatively in- the un- likely event of NDP victory, a cabinet portfolio, presumably that of agriculture.. But no one ,is seriously banking on that as a probability. Meanwhile Mr. Argue's loy- alty to the new "leader and the New Party will be tested in the crucible itself—the cross-fire of Commons debate, where= no (Prepared by the Research Staff of Encyclopedia Canadians) Where Are Martens Found in Canada? In dense forest, all the way from Newfoundland to the Pa- cific. This shy animal is a member of the weasel family. Smaller than a house cat, it is a good climber, Prayingon squirrels, birds, rabbits and mice. It also eats nuts and ber- ries. Even nowadays, most mar- ten furs come from trapped an- imals, few from fur farms. The marten'sfur is a rich brown, darker on legs and tail, with a. reddish patch on the breast. The fur has fluctuated greatly in price, historically changing from as little -as- 57...to as much as $56 within a year. What's that? You don't want to die? Life is sweet and warm and beautiful and you love your - wife and kids and business is` picking up and your bottom's better and the government could be worse and the old car's had it anyway and you- like work. and you just curl for the• fun of it? Well, why didn't you say so? And what about you, Ethel? You haven't stopped moaning since you were married. You've nothing to wear. Nobody ap- preciates you. The furniture is ,,lust a Thought: n he wins or he loses, a man can cling to his pride—if he can leok himself in the eye and know that he really tried. Criticism is something you can avoid by saying nothing, do- ing nothing and being nothing. Mrs. Smith: "Where did that naughty little boy of yours :get that gash on his forehead?" Mrs. Brown: "Your little an- gel hit him with a brick." quarter is offered dr Sought. He has a lot of personal em- -- harrassment to overcome. - The oMetat Party stand On NATO, for instance,,, is radically differ- ent from that of the old CCF, and Mr. Argue is going tohave to do a double back -flip to -•stay in line. It will take a hard po- litical shell, ora tough skin if you prefer, to abide the taunts and barbs thrown from the Gov- •ernment side at the pbvious in- consistency in views. It may be the making of Mr. Argue; who has always been a formidable debater, or it may be hit undoing. But he is going to have to sink or swim by himself, with neither the advice or regular counsel of Mr. Douglas to help, There is not to much incen- tive, under the circumstances, for Mr. Argue te strain himself in the role. For, the last four years, he has been by ,811 'odds the hardest -working tnatt^in the Commons, driving himself ---re- lentlessly in searchof the lead- ership prize. With that denied him, and not even the promise of deputy leadership for the future, it will be only Party' loyalty that will keep him at work. 'How he rises to the chal- lenge will be . one of the more interesting aspects of the fifth session of Canada's 24th Parlia- ment. ton ship. Then she was sold to. James- Baines, who refitted her for the England -Australia emi- grant run. On her first trip, the, MarcoPolo broke ,all -speed .re- cords. Known for ..a time as the fastest ship in the world, she became the pioneer vessel of the famous , Black - Ball line. But in 1883 the Marco Polo, end- ed much as she began and not far from her place of building despite She globe-girling jour- neys. She was- wrecked at Cape Cavendish, P.E.I. — the most famous and least fortunate of the champion sailing -ships of Canada. * * * What Ship Was Canada's Tragic Champion of the Sev- en' Seas?' The Marco Polo, built at Saint John„ N.B., in 1851, was in- tended to be a timber carrier, not a record breaker. • An un- lucky sailing ship from the out- set, her framework was destroy- ed during her construction by a hurricane. She took a .year longer to be built than her un- happy backers had planned Launched In 1851, the Marco Polo 'promptly crashed into the opposite bank of the Saint John River; damaging her hill. An inauspicious career as a timber carrier followed for the 1625- ev47.4. b * * * • Who was the First lar Nurse in North Secu- Ameri- ca? Jeanne Mance, born in 1606 and founder of the Hotel Dieu in Montreal. She Tame to Can- ada in 1641 with the little band led by Maisonneuve.. Four years later Canada's first hospital was built, under her leadership. It is the Hotel Dieu, a little wood- en building. A pioneer among Canadian women, she endured the threat of Indian savagery and the opposition of some French authorities, and spent her life caring for the sick un- der primitive conditions. * * * - Capital Hill Capsules Government strategists ex- pect their Party to be hurt, but not as badly as might have been imagined, by the Courte- manche scandals and the find- ings of the Salves Royal Com- mission in Quebec. They say privately that Liberal claims to 55 or 60 of Quebee's 75 seats in _.the -..--coming_ _.election are ridiculously high (the Tories. now hold 49):' And they deny Social Credits claims that a political vacuum exists in the Province, leaving it open to a splinter -party victory. * * * The same insiders dispute the 'use of the word "rebellion" to ...,. describe the performance of Finance Minister Donald Flem- ing and Justice Minister Davie Fulton in the Quebec City Cab- inet-making fiasco. But it's real- ly just, a question of semantics. No 'one denies—privately—that Prime Minister Diefenbaker was stopped in -itis 'tracks byout- right opposition to his plans for a tnajor shakeup of Cabinet.re- sponsibilities. • 0 e • IN THE YEARS AGONE Which Ex -Canadian Once Earned the World's 'High- est Personal Income? a Louis Burt Mayer, film pro- ducer. Born in Russia in 1885, the child was brought to Saint John, N.B., by his family .`in• 1888. As a young man hework- . ed there in his father's ship - breaking business. He saw his first film at Boston in- I902,- bought 902;bought his first. ••theatre five years later, ` owned eight by 1914. In 1918 he opened a stu- dio • in California to turn out films for Metro Pictures.. In 1924 Mayer and • •Samuel Gold- wyn formed the -.Metro -Goldwyn - Mayer , organizations with him- self as 'vice-president in charge of production. Fg iafiy years, Mayer_ earned the highest, per- sonal income in the U.S.A. and in 1939 the highest reported in the world. Throughout his ca- reer he encouraged. such Cana- dian -born stars as Marie Dress- ler, Walter Pidgeon, Walter Huston, Norma Shearer. and Raymond Massey. He resigned from,, MGM in, 1951 and two years later re-entered the film business a's production chief of Cinerama. He died in 1957. - a Interesting ite-ms_gleaned from ,-,.,,,,The Expositor of 25, 50 " and 75 years ago. the addition to the new high •. school building to be erected next summer. • - The Grange Hall in Egmond- ' vine was broken into some time ago by some evil disposed per- sons, who carried off some tea,. sugar and other articles. Mr. Daniel Quinn, McKillop, e has sold his 50 -acre farm to Mr. Timothy Curtin for $1,800. Owing to the large classes , now in attendance at the High -School, .and the wide range of subjects in the system of op- tioMs allowed in the examina- tions, the board has 'found it necessary to increase the staff to . five teachers this term. - Mr. Thomas Town, of Sea - forth, has arranged: to skate a race with five alnateurs of Brussels in the rink there on Wednesday night next for $50 a side, in a five -mile recce. - 4 Mr. E. Roedding,.-of, Zurich, has rented Macathur &-..-Co,'s shop in Hensall and intends ed in preparing the plans for carryingon shoemaking. Froin The Huron Expositor January 22, 1937 Reeve J. M. Eckert, of McKi1- lop Township, was elected War- den of Huron County at the in- augural meeting of council on Tuesday. Alderman --George C. Miller, who recently won the mayoralty battle in Vancouver, B.C., with a lead of 3, . 8 over McDonald, is a native ouron County, be- ing born near Roxboro. For the first time `in many years the Seaforth .Agricultural Society is out. of debt and has money in the bank, Secretary- treasurer Mrs. J. A. Kerr stated at. their annual meeting on Fri- day. Seaforth has gone for hockey in a big way this year, With 172 players on 14 teams, using the Seaforth rink as headquarters. John Hotham waselected chairman of the 'Seaorth Pub- lic School Board at the board's "organization meeting on Wed- nesday evening. Miss Swan, of 'Clinton, has been appointed stenographer in the town and Public Utility Commission offices. * * * From The Huron .Expositor January 26, 1912 'ANhat di' gas, the well would be used for manufacture of salt. Mr. Gordon Campbell, of Hul- lett, isr now over 104 years of age. He is still possessed of all his faculties, but is very •weak physically and is confined to bed most of the time. Practically' a unanimous vote was given here Monday in favor. of Bayfield being linked in the hydro -electric power chain. Mr. W. J. Shannon has pur- chased, a residence in town and Mrs. Shannon and himself will remove here from Stratford to reside. . The ice harvest is now in full swing end those having ice- houses are having them filled. The ice is of .good quality this rear. John Kerney,, whoa was ex- press agent and division court' 'clerk in Brussels, will leave for Guelph, where he will accept a pose ion as" life lnsuranee agent. .There is a movement on hand 'to sink . n well in Brttssela for oil or gas. Mr. Stratton, bf Ohio, will, likely be' .the opera tOf if ilea )project attecneds.: . ease' of failure: to Oblate' tia'Or: Is- 47.* From The Huron Expositor January 28, 1887 Mr. J. R. Lyons is now engag 0 TNN NANDY 'FAMILY wen. MAYBE YOUR FATHER RFJIAE •,,,�TH!9 . G• OLLYNOIA T H P A HARD TIME NE 'MIS • 7IWI BY LLDYo eI IAr DAD MADE TWINE DISPENSER MASON Jaz s N P QEEAR