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SEAFORTH,,_ .,ONTA'RIO, FEBRUARY 8; 1962
Rushing Doesn`t Pay
Sam saves time taking happy -pills
to keep him. going all hours. He spends
it with his psychiatrist.
Marty saved time putting a penny in
the fuse box, instead of going to the
store for More fuses. He's spending it
Working on a second• job, trying to re-
place his house which burned down. - --
Mary saved minutes every clay Mr'
20 years racing home from work in his
car. He spent .it guzzling beer and eat-
ing pretzels—put on an extra 40
pounds of weight—had a heart attack
at age 45.
Fred saved time not waiting for help
to lift a heavy part. He spent it lying
in bed with a slipped disc.
Frank saved time working instead• of
playing with ,the kids' when They were
young. He's spending it wondering
in what happened to .the babies he once
in had.
of The average, person just can't afford
to s?.ye time this way.
Some people seem to (waddle to such
an extent that they appear to,get noth-
- - ing . done. On the other hand, there are
those Who, in • an effort to save a min-
ntes aro always In a rush.
That there is a happy medium, and
that constant rushing without a -pur-
pose 'canbe a costly business, is the
conclusion which the Elmira Signet
reaches as it asks the question: "What
do you do with the time you save?"
and provides these answers by Robert
D. Gidel:
Al saves` timet
skipping lunch and
other meals. Hespends' it nursing an
ulcer.
Gil saves time not going " into detail
instructing his employees. He spends
it clearing up mistakes and filling out
scrap records.
Jack saved time going' 40 m.p.h.
a 25 m.p.h. zone. He's spending it
.the penitentiary for manslaughter
a pedestrian.
Advertising Determines Living Standard
An imaginative writer has pictured
the conditions which would exist after
the last advertisement was I printed.
You have cut it out andput it away
to show yoursgr• andchildren: With it a
way of living as you knew it, has pass-
ed forever.
Tonight you will want to see a movie.
q Pull up to one—saw it last week. At
another --but no, you don't like-; it. So-
and-so's acting.„ . Let's go home. It's
too much gas and time to waste on a
show. Next i\ r half of the theatres
will close. Poor attendance..
Tomarrow you wilt want some gro-
•cerie.a. You will go to the. nearest gro
eery store and buy some. Rib roast
perhaps, and linea beans. You -won't
hear until -tomorrow night at the bridge
party that the store just next door
was having a "special" on rib roast and
lima beans. Pretty soon your husband
will wonder why the food bills are so
high. - The last advertisement was
printed yesterday.
Next month is Aunt Jane's -birthday.
Well if you think I am going to spend
a day tramping from store- to store
looking for a gift that I used to find by
turning, a page can't afford gifts any-
way. We're spending money like water •
and living like poor folks.
Old 'car's wearing out. Can't afford
a new, one ... Chevies and 'Fords are
both $3,500, - - . demand fallen off
. . - they've had to up prices to meet
plant expenses. Most of the others
have closed down .. - don't „know how
the government, will feel about all the
new unemployment:
Fellow in Montreal is inventing color
television to sell for $50: No one will
hear of it. You will never see it. What
is color, television anyway? The last
advertisement was printed yesterday.
A' contempora"r-y suggests that adver-
tiseiment has brought us many things---
finer
hings-finer ears, better homes, silly fads and
,`wonderful inventions that have made
life easier and longer; Advertising is
not an unmixed blessing but it has help-
ed -give Canada a standard epiving few
countries can match.
—That standard standard of -living should per-
sist aslong as people have wants to
and money, to spend and eyes with
whieh to read. • It will persist only as
long as the presses keep rolling; and
th+y would soon cease if drained of
their life blood, „the advertising dollar.
To a large' extent our standard of
living today results from the selling
power of the advertising dollar.—(Th,e
Glengarry News, Alexandria, Ont.).
No Shortcut
There is no short-cut tQ a fuller
measure of ownership in our own econ-
omy. Discouraging or blocking foreign
investment will not achieve it. It. will
come about only when Canadians fully
realize their responsibility and assume
part of the burden which has been car-
ried forso many years by -capital from
foreign nations. Our confidence must
match theirs.—(The Halifax ChronicIe-
Herald) . "
--dust some random thoughts
this week. I'm too depressed
to write a regular column. It's
been snowing for 22 days, the
temperature is 12 below, and
some sadist has sent me a copy
of the Miami Herald. The 014
Lady is down with the 'flu and
as genial as a cobra. My old
aching 'back is back, and ach-
ing. So here - goes.
I'm a staunch supporter of
royalty, but Pll go along with
the British press in 'the latest
verbal spanking it has given to
Princess Margaret and young.
Tony whats-his-name. It was
bad enough to take off for:. a
Caribbean holiday, leaving, be-
hind not only a two -months -old
baby but some 50 million half -
frozen, browned -off Britons who
couldn't afford the trip. But
when Tony came back with his
usually well -slicked hair con-
verted to a mass of curls by a
permanent, it was enough to
make a fellow go "Ugh!"
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Do you know something I'm
sick and tired of? .I'm sick and
tired of reading articles about-
the enlightened new leaders of
black Africa, fighting -to free
their down -trodden black bro-
thers. From what I can, gather,
many of these enlightened lead-
ers are pure thugs, whose first,
act when 'they gain some auth-
ority is to purge all opposition.
Somehow, newsreels of skulls
being cracked by clubs, even
though the skulls -are black and
the arms swinging the clubs
are just as black, don't fit into
my ideas of freedom and dem-
ocracy. Or do two blacks make
a white, these days? •
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among them. And do you know
that there's ndt - one of them
who can sit-down and play a
tune if you ask for it? They've
either just finished a piece and
have already "forgotten it," or
they're just "getting, up" a new
piece and can't play it yet Buy
your kid a mouth organ.
About domestic pets. You can
have them, and if there weren't
ladies present I'd' tell you ex-
actly.. what you could do with
them. We have a smart cat and -
a dumb dog, and between them
they're cutting deep into my
allotted; , span.'
Recently, the cat went • off
and lived in sin for a few days,
creating anguish in the home.
Saturday, the front doorbell
rang. A little girl'•stood there,
crying. "Your dog stole my.
mitt." He'd ' snatched it and
run. , I spent the next twenty
minutes wallowing about the
back yard in snow up to my
navel, while that mutt danced,
just out cif reach, .the mitt in
his mouth: I finally fell flat
on my face, and he laughed so
hard he dropped the mitt and
I was able to grab it:
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There, I feel so much bet-
ter after these ill-tempered re-
marks that I think I'll make a
pot of tea and take some to the
Old Girl, who's wheezing 'for
attention in the next room.
Speaking of democracy, the
present picture of pre-election
bribery in Canada is a pretty
one, as the three major parties
dangle old-age-pensionincreas-
es of varying amounts. I won-
der how concerned they would
be about a pension increase' if
nobaaly-over 70 had a vote?
As far as old -age pensidns o,
rm., a raving socialist. I'd,,,. u
o -a
crease the pension Mid lower
the age limit. But I can't quite
stomach the .sudden interestin.
the old folk.. when there's an
election in the offing. Perhaps,
the old system of a dollar and
a'drink oqf whisky for a vote
was more honest.
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Across the land, teachers'
federations and school trustees
are squaring off for their an-
nual bout of namecalling. What
is at stake in the battle? High-
er _standards
igher-standards of education? Bet-
ter schools and equipment? Hot-
ter lunches? Nope, just money.
As a taxpayer, I wish those
teachers would come to their
senses, and 'realize that they
are supposed to be dedicated,
sort of like ministers, and stop
wanting to be as well paid as
other 'professional people. If we
increase their salaries, mark
my words, they will -only get
big ideas, and go out and spend
every cent of them..
As a teacher, 1 can only add
that money isn't everything.
But until I have everything—
and the prospect is dim—I'11
take some of that money for
the time being.
Don't ever let your kids start
taking music lessons. Not if
you ever want to hear some
home-made music. -...There are
three taking piano lessons in
my family. The other day,
while I was shovelling snow, I
figured out that they have more
than 20 years of music lessons
(Prepared by the Research Staff
of Encyclopedia Canadiana) ,
Who, Built Winnipeg's
First House?
John (later Sir John) Schultz,
Torontonian, physician and poli-
cian. This medical man took a'
prominent part - in the 'iucor-
poration of Manitoba as a "post-
age -stamp" prpvince in 1(170,
the famous description being a
reference to its size at the time.
Its area- consisted of the land
just around the tiny Winnipeg
of the time. Dr. Schultz later
gave up medicine, had a- bad
time in politics, but won
through to become Lieutenant -
Governor of Manitoba.
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Who Was Canada's First
Botanist?
Michel Sarrazin, chief sur-
geon to the King of . France's
troops in Quebec in the late
17th century and later Royal
physician. Sarrazin collected
over 200 Canadian plants and
sent them to the Royal Acad-
emy --of Science in Paris. He
was the first man to put maple
syrup production on a commer-
cial basis. The Latin tag of the
pitcher plant is named . after
this early scientist, who rose
tothe -heights of his profession
but was to die a pauper,
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How Did Frederick Wel-
lington Martin... Become Fans-,
ous
an -
ous and Successful?
By REV. ROBERT H. HARPER
LOOKING BACK
-Sgme years ago, the papers
told `of a grajxp 9f 'tramps who
salvaged a discarded Yule tree
and set it up in a box car on
the river front in New Orleans
and played like they were. _hav-
ing Christmas. After the bless-
ed day, old memories must
have led them to imitate days
in their homes of the long ago.
In a differ at mood, business
men -may lo* back upon the
Christmas -season, with their in-
ventories and this or thet'effort
to unload stock left- on their
shelves. Alas! for ' some there
is a tearful looking back upon
a terrible accident on the high-
way or elsewhere. And the
least that can be said is that
for hundreds of our people the
memory of Christmas will be
clouded with sadness.
.44 And we cannot escape the
conviction that many who ob-
served phristmas lot. sight of
its significance and used it as a"
tiine of huge feasting and mer-
rymaking. In too many cases,
they forgot the Lord whose
birthday, they were observing.
They were like thec ens of
a Western - city who . �c ' ed a
great occasion to hhnor a na-
tive artist who had achieved
fame throughout the Nation.
All the local great persons
were invited. But the great
artist did not come. Those in
charge had forgotten to invite
him.
Just a Thought:'
Every day of the year would
be like Christmas if we would
always remember that Christ is
with us every day. We should
open • our hearts in February
just as in December.
Windsor, and Bethesda Hospi-
tal, London, Ontario. In 1926 he
took leave of absence from the
Salvation Army and set out to
promote a Detroit -Windsor ve-
hicle tunnel.
- Though totally lacking in re-
sources, the intrepid young pro-
moter secured the backing of a
group of New York 'bankers.
Construction was begun in 1928
and -completed in 1930 -an in-
credible monument to the faith
and' courage of a Canadian who
would not be stopped by a mere
lack of money.
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11y a series of seemingly un-
related steps. Born in 1888 at
Moosomin, Saskatchewan, Mar-
tin was educated in local public
schools and by correspondence.
His chequered career. in a
youth saw him in the roles of
a boxer, poolroom manager
and night clerk of an Edmon-
ton Hotel. In 1906 he joined
the Salvation Army. He pro-
gressed to the °rank of. major,
raising funds for such major
projects , as Grace Hospital
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A MA+CRUFF OTTAV A' REPORT
FARM VOTE PRICE TAG
OTTAWA -,-The new .session
•of- Parliament was only five
dayssrrld when )'inance Minister
Donald Fleming tabled supple-
mentary estimates that added
another $42,000,000 to the Fed-
eral defict in the current fiscal
That amount was to provide for.
acreage payments- to Western
farmers.
The millions of dollars in
payments to the fare ers to
help bolster their sagging in-
comes, was not taken into con-
sideration by Mr. Fleming when
he prepared his budget last
spring. In that budget brought
down in June he forecast a
budgetary deficit or $650,000,-
me.
$650,000;Oop.
Soaring expenditures and rev-
enues that!;Failed to Ire realized
in amounts sufficient to offset
the increased outlays are ex-
pected to boost the deficit by
around another $1.50,000,000.
This will make the deficit for
1961-62 about $800,000,000.
The Government, with the
consent .of the opposition, in-
terrupted the throne speech de-
bate to bring down the supple-
mentary estimates, including
the item for acreage payments.
This cleared the way for a full-
scale debate on the acreage
payment plan add the Liberals
and CCF -New Democratic Par-
ty farm spokesmen lost no time
in attacking the Administra-
tion on its agricultural poli;
cies. , a '
What World -Famous Mys-
" tery Ship Came. From Can-
ada? •
The Mary Celeste. First nam-
ed the
am-ed.the Amazon, she was a
brigantine built at Spencer's is-
land,' N.S., and registered at
Parrsboro, N.S., in 1861. Driven
ashore ,at Big Glace Cape
Breton, in 1867, she w s a vag=
ed and re -registered �dney
in 1867. Later she was partial-
ly remodelled and given a new
name, The Mary Celeste, and a
new flag—that of her American.
purchasers.
In November 1872, The Mary
Celeste left. New York for
Genoa, with a cargo of alcohol.
On December 5, a British ship
found her, seaworthy but total-
ly abandoned, halfway between
the Azores and Portugal. There
was no sign of her crew. They
had apparently left in a hurry.
Her chronometer, papers and
boat were missing. There was
no evidence of any struggle.
The fate of her -crew, 'never
seen or heard of again, remains
unsolved. The Mary Celeste
niet her own end in 1885 when
she was stranded on the coast
of Cuba.
The outspoken house leader
of the CCF -New Party group
Hazen Argue 'is the chief farm
critic in the opposition from
the Prairies. There are strong
rumours, that' he has been flirt-
ing with the Liberal party and
may •decide soon to join . its
ranks with the disappearance
of the CCF. The Liberals would
welcome him. '
He was critical of the acre-
age payment plan - on the
grounds that it only provided
the Western farmers with •half
as much as they had a right to
expect. He said. the Govern-
ment had failed .to provide ac-
reage payments for the 1960-61
crops.
- -- It is very apparent this ses-
sion that members on both
sides of the House are acutely
consciout of the Federal elec.
tion looming over their heads.
The acreage . payment debate
was no exception. Mr. Argue
needled the Government mem-
bers and stirred up a verbal
storm when he accused the
administration of•
Conservative
"gypping" the Western fermi
ers out of an acreage, payment
'en their 1960-61- permit books.
He said with heavy sarcasm
thataroused bitter interjections.
from . Western Tory backbench-
ers: ' "The Prime Minister wants
the farmers to come begging:
He wants to keep them on „ten-
terhooks. He wants to have a
carrot on.. a stick. Ile wants to
feed` them a little before the
election and withdraw it after
the election, if he should be in
that position."
He suggested' that it was
unsatisfactory to the Western
farmer to have to wait each
year to see if the Government
was prepared to -bring down an
item in supplementary esti-
mates to provide the grain
growers with ah acreage pay-
ment: It. should ;be regulariz-
ed by -legislation"-
The
legislation"The acreage - payfrients plan
provides --$L00 per cultivated
acre4-up to a maximum of $20)
a farm. It was •paid by,,, the
Government in 1958 . and again
in 1960.
Mr. Harkness, who as Agri-
culture Minister before moving
to the defence portfolio, told
the House that the GoLernment
had examined various programs
for improving the income posi-
tion of the Western farmers.
The Government had decided 9
the acreage payment plan •was
the most equitable and practi-
cal method. ,It ensured that the
smaller, worse -off farmers re-•
ceived the greatest proportion -
of benefit from the money pro-
vided.
An important advantage of
acreage payments was that they
did not stimulate production of
particular commodities. Aere-
eayanents were a type of pay-
ment vehicle did not serve as an
impedimentto the marketing.
of agriculture commodities or
to free trade in them. Many of
the alternative schemes of as-
sistance suggested would have
that undesirable(. feature, ac-
cording to Mr. Harkness.
Mr. Argue snapped that the
farmers had been asking for
parity 'prices, not charity. In
asking for parity they asked for -
a set of prices related to costs
of production. They did not
want handouts.
Liberal Leader L. B. Pearson
called on the Government to
widen Canada's trade oppor-
tunities and remove obstruc-
tions to trade . in the face of
developments in Europe. He
said such moves towards freer
trade were of vital impoortance
to Canadian farmers.
The acreage payment had no
relation to drought stricken:
farmers. It applied trail farm-
ers.and as such the Liberals
welcomed it. But he suggested
the farmers hard hit by the
drought had been "deceived"
by the wording of the throne
speech.
The speech had said the
"drought in the Prairie prov-
inces during 1961 had resulted
in severe losses" and that the
Members of Parliament would
be "asked to provide assistance
by acreage p 'ments to farm-
ers who have been affected."
Mr. Pearson and Mr. Argue sug-
gested the Government should
also act on its throne speech
and provide special aid for
farmers hit hard by the •
drought.
It was a ding dong battle that
raged for three days in the
House. • Finally it ended with
all parties supporting the plan •
after the Government's Agricul-
tural Program had come under
sharp criticism. Clearly there
was the smell of an election in
the air.
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Capital Hill Capst se;
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Canada's delegation to the
inWheat Agreeinent
o at
talks in Geneva left this coun-
try confident that modest in-
crez es'in the prices will 'be.
_established under the n e w
agreement. ' They cautioned
fannersagainstexpecting-"ex
travagant increases" but said
that large wheat stocks that in
the past overshadowed the
world wheat market have dwin-
dled. Wheat stocks are now
closer to world requirements
making it :less of a buyer's
market.
A SMILE OR TWO
"Just look at the lovely ring
George has given me . it
fits beautifully." `
"Yes, dear, it's 'very nice on
you. It was a bit too tight for
me."
A new farm hand was told to
hiess a mule •"early one win-
ter morning. In the dark he
tackled a -cow instead of the
mule. In a few minutes the
farmer shouted from the house,
"Say, what is keeping you so
long?"
"I can't get the collar over
the 'mule's head," shouted the
farm hand. "His ears are froz-
en stiff."
IN THE YEARS AGONE
' interesting items . gleaned from
The Expositor of 25, 50
and 75 years ago.
From The Huron Expositor
February- 5, 1937 '
Ptes. Fred E. Willis, and Nor-
man Scoins, of "D" Company
of the Huron -Middlesex Regi-
ment, are in London... attending
the Royal School of Infantry
and Machine Gun at Wolsley
Barracks.
Mr. F. Sills, who has had 34
years' service with the Sea -
forth Fire Brigade, and Mr. T.
Johnstone, who has been a
member for 42 years, were pre-
sented .with signet rings as a
memento of their long years
of service at the brigade's ban-
quet Monday evening.
Tit -W. -weekly meeting of the
first Troop of Seaforth Boy
Scouts/was held on Wednesday
even' Scoutmaster P. B.
Moffat is again in charge of the
troop. The followings boys
passed their first aid test giv-
ing- them their second class
badge: Harold Free, ` Alastair
Wigg, Fried Stewart, "Den Mac-
Taish,a Toni Wilbee, Mac South-
gate, - Richard Box, David
Griebe, Don Scott and deralc1
tarry.
Floods were so high,... in this
area on Monday that many
farmers had to take their stock
out of- the stables"and put them
tip an the barn.
The United -Farmer at Con-
stance have recently greatly
improved their elubho se b
having eleetrie lights "installed.
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Front The Heron- Expos.06e
Febrr cry 9, ,1912 ,
.-•11 F' rdS • 010, MAIO,'
neat' flaker, shipped`: last week
45/10.
ti taaaiier put hlni;Xte• th* elda ketienf faio th►tillNlrid ajltttSiilit
,.end, .h* at -tel, assort outAt aWiintbody's 40.04*4 . .
a carload of very fine horses.
Mr. Frank Devereaux met
with an accident en Saturday.
He- was standing on a ladder
when he missed his footing,
and in•falling sprained his leg.
Seaforth Public School Board
have engaged Mr. A. A. Naylor,
of Auburn, as principal of the
school.
Bainton Bros., Blyth, shipped
two cerloads of wool during the
•past week. -
The GTR yards at Hensel( are
being well filled with square
timber and sawlogs for ship-
ment.
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From The Huron Expo;liets.
February 11, 1887
Mr. George Dorrance, of Mc-
Killop, recently sold a very fine
yearling bull F, of Hullett, for$o 0r, J.
Fowler,
The windstorm on Tuesday
afternoon unroofed a portion
of the barn of Mr. William
Grieve, of McKillop.
Serious' damage 'was done to
ornamental, as well as fruit
trees,Aby the ice on Sunday
and Monday in Kippen.
Seaforth High School open-
ed't-his-year with 110 students.
The number on the roll is now
137, and will receive several ad-
ditions before -the close of the
month.
Mr. J. McMillan, the nominee
of the .Reform convention held
at Brucefield, addressed a very -
largely attended meeting of the
electors of the south riding of
Huron in Hodgin's Hall, Hen-
sall on Monday evening.
Hides per 100 pounds are
selling from $6.50 to; $7.00 at
the Seaforth market this week,
while sheepskins are selling for
75e to $1.00 each.
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