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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1962-02-22, Page 2• Since I8.6O, Serving the Community, First Publisheii at SEA )RTE, ONTARIO, every Thursday morning by Me AN BROS-, Publishers ANDREW Y. McI+LANI Editor Member Canadian Weekly Newspaper Association. Ontario Weekly Newspapers Association Audit Bureau of Circulations b°ubscription Rates: Canada (in advance). $2.50 a Year A� •Q Outside Canada' (in advance) $4.00 a Year 1.SINGLE COPIES -- 10 CENTS EACH Auth$rixed • as Second Class Mail; Post Office Department, Ottawa SEAFORTH, ONTARIO, FEBRUARY 22, 1=962 Farm Organizations Among organizations most repres- entative of farm opinion across Canada are the Dairy Farmers of Canada arid the Canadian Federation of Agricul- ture. So it is that governments at senior levels look forward to meeting with these farm g r o u p's' f o r the meetings provide a special oppor- tunity to become informed concerning' the farm viewpoint. At the same time, the farmer delegates appreciate the information which government repres- entatives are able to bring to the delib- erations. The fact that the Diefe'nbaker Gov- ernment this year chose to break with tradition and ignore the meetings of the two organizations has caused con- cern among many associated with farm organizations. The feeling is express- ed in this comment which appeared in a recent issue of the, Manitoba Co-op.era- tor: "Because of illness, Canada's Mini- ster of .A'riculture, Alvin Hamilton, • Entitled To Cowrtesy was unable to attend the annual meet- ing of the Dairy Farmers of Canada in Montreal and ` the annual meeting of the Canadian Federation of Agriculture at Banff. Delegates to both meetings expressed sincere regret that the Mini- ster had taken ill. They were anxious to hear his address. These two national farm bodies were entitled to this courtesy. While Mr. Hamilton could not be expected to attend these meet- ings under the eircumstances, he has two recognized parliamentary assist- ants. It is possible, because" -of his ill- ness, that they had extra duties to per- form. This is understandable. But, surely there are responsible' govern- ment members of Parliament both in the Province of Quebec and Alberta who could have been delegated to read the Minister's address. Do such govern- ment Mernbers of Parliament not war- rant a little more delegated responsi- bility than warming seats in the House of Commons as back -benchers?" Population Slowdown :Hinders Economy In 1961 'Canada's net gain through immigration was only 12,889. Recent figures released by Ottawa show the number of people who moved 'to Canada last year was 71,689, the . lowest number in any year since 1947. But • what is even more disturbing is the fact that during 1961 some 58,000 persons left Canada to live elsewhere. No wonder, in--the-face_of_this infor- mation, Canada has stood still during the past several years. The effect which new arrivals create on the economy is all to the good. When the . flOw stops or slows down, so does the demand for homes; for stoves, for cars, and for the hundred and one other items needed too establish families in a new,„country. Nowhere has this been more evident ths,n in Huron and Perth. Had there not been a substantial„ movement of immigration into these counties in the post-war years, today there would be hundreds of vacant farms in the dis- ' trict. In turn, the towns servicing the rural areas would have felt the effect of • a lower population. The fact that the dis- 'If we are tp avoid a steadily increas- trict has maintained its population is ing scale, of unemployment in this coup- due to the splendid type of New Cana- try, we have to get back to creating the dian who came here in . the pbst-war proper environment for private enter - years and has become such an excel- prise to work in, to keep its factories lent citizen. humming and to build new ones,— One of the things which has to be (Halifax Chronicle -Herald). . EFFICIENCY AND CONTROL WITH done in order to, get Canada moving again is the creation of a climate that once more will encourage the move- - ment of people who wish to make Can- ada their home. There will be few to argue against the point that if Canada hada great many more people, the country ' would be a great deal more prosperous. There are few industries that would not-tave;.benefitted from an increased domestic market. "'There is no doubt that the economy today would be in much better shape if the average annual net population gain established during the post-war years had `"been maintained during the past four years. As it is important to encourage the. movement of potential citizens to Can- ada, so is it equally important” to move in such 'a way -as -to discourage emigra= tion. There is little net benefit to Can- ada if people come 'in the front door ,and -at the same time almost as many people leave by the back door. Environntent Rediform Spee.diset STOCK BUSINESS FORMS 50 CONVENIENT TO USE .. . 'TYPE OR HANDWRITE ... ONE EASY SNAP SEPARATES PARTS AND CARBON • IMMEDIATE DELIy Ry • " UP TO FOUR COPIES FROM ONE WRITING EACH FORM READY TO WRITE • ONE TIME CARBON ASSURES SHARP • CLEAN COPIES NOCK SPEEDISETS TO CONTROL PURCHASING ... SELLING ... BILLING .. DELIVERY AND COLLECTING There's been quite a fracas recently in ane „Canadian town over its -school 'policy toward repeaters. Bone of contention is the suspension from high school of seven pupils.. Each was repeating his year, each was over 16, and all were giv- en the gate "for habitual neg- lect of duty." This particular incident oc- curred in Wiarton, Ont., and as a former editor of the best lit- tle old weekly newspaper in Wiarton and a present school teacher, I followed the clash with more than usual interest. * * * It began with a red herring, when the mother of one of the suspended pupils charged the principal with discrimination because the girl in question was an Indian. I knew this was poppycock, but held my peace, Sure enough, the charge was vigorously countered in the next issue, not by the principal, but by his students. They claimed that Indian students took part in all school activities and were treated with equality and re- spect espect in the classrooms. The letter also pointed out that there were five non -Indian pu- pils suspended. * * * The chairman of the board backed the principal by quot- ing chapter and verse under which the youngsters were shown the door, A former clergyman in the parish, now teaching in a U.S. college, wrote a hot defense of the principal's action, claiming it was not only good for the students suspend- ed but for the others as. well. Still another letter ' roundly abused the principal for his stand. Important thing to come out of the scuffle was not the dis- crimination charge, which was patent nonsense, but the fact that a principal and. a school - ,board had the nerve to pen- alize by suspension a number of pupils Who were not pulling their weight. * * *... It's no secret that there's a percentage of students in ev- ery school which falls into this category. For various reasons— parental. indifference, psycholo- gical problems, or just plain lassitude—they refuse to work. Many of them have average, some above-average, intelli- gence.: * * * Some of them are content to sit all day like ' vegetables, drowsing, dreaming, doodling. They are no trouble to any- body and no use to anybody. Others, more lively, but just as adamant in their rejection of work, spend their time in a running battle with. authority. They have a compulsion to at- tract attention. These are the discipline problems, the people, who -disturb other pupils, the people who push some teachers every year into nervous break- downs. What's to be done with these people? In my day, they drift- ed out of school by a natural `process, and found a job. Most of them became reasonably use- ful members of 'society. Some did very well in business and industry, when they shook off the dust of the classroom. * * *.. But they're facing today a ,society that, neither wants, nor, needs. them. "Heavy machinery ` and automatfon have gobbled laborers' and factory jobs, Em- ployers demand ever -higher ed- ui,-J GAR 1.1lI,� SP1C,B By Bill *Smiley ucational standards, Remember that we're speak- ing, not of slow. learners, but of those with normal intelli- gence who won't•"work:- I dgri't have the answers, but I do think some kind of drastic ac- tion should be taken if their abilities are not to be wasted, if ,they `are not to --become a permanent burden on society. * * Should these young people, Whatever the reason for their refusal to work, pe allowed to disrupt the system, set a bad example_ to others, and gener- ally act as a brake on the edu- cational process? They would not be tolerated in business, in- dustry or the armed forces. Af- ter high school, they are ne longer babied. At university, technical school, nursing school, those who refuse to work are plowed under, and nobody weeps for them. Faced with the same prob- lems of over -crowding and staff shortages as our schools, even our hospitals, meet them squarely. Beds are for sick peo- ple, not for those who feel like a rest. Out you'.go unless you need hospital care. *- * * Would fear of being kicked out of school for failure to work have the desired effect on the lazy, the emotionally disturbed and the others who make up this indigestible lump in our high,. schools? Or would it have no more effect on them than the constant cajoling, urging and threatening they now un- dergo, both at hatie• and at school? Should they all be turned, out of school into the cold, cruel world at 16? Should they all be psychoanalyzed? ' Should their parents be fihed or sent t� jail if the kids don't''achieve a pass- ing Mark? Or would any such drastic action leave :a stigma upon, them which they would never overcome? * * * - - Lots of questions. Who has the answers? Let's have a for- um on .at. - Many intelligent, thoughtful people,read this col- umn. What do you think? Is, suspension of non -workers in high school a positive or nega- tive approach? What alterna- tives are there? Let's hear your opinions. Send them along to the editor of your local pa- per, and we'II thrash this thing around until we get everybody hopping mad. (Prepared 'by the Research Staff of Encyclopedia Canadiana) What Great Canadian Warrior Became a Greater. Peacemaker? Maskepetoon, or Broken Arm, a Woodland Cree chief. Born about'1800, he became a skilled archer and horseman. Even be- fore his his election ' as chief, he was called Mone-gabanow, the Great Chief, by enemy bands of Blackfoot, :Piegans, Bloods and Cameos, that he had de- feated. He became known in time as the greatest warrior in what is now Alberta, but, while still a young man, turned to peacemaking. When his fa- ther was murdered by a Black- foot, Maskepetoon deliberately set ,an example by adopting the *Axaii of tue mat Phone '. Rftlirth Slice 1866, SOiittg the Comitlt inity First -' pyfrllittd; t Was, tailing you Abut+•halt " jtleYillfu 41161° 4. THE BIBLE TODAY A report from Cuba states that fpr the first six months of 1961, double the number of Scriptures were circulated than in the same period of the year before. The 605,000 volumes which were circulated is almost the total estimated distribution for all of 1961. In Costa, Bice, 150,000 houses were visited and over 100,000 Gospels distributed by the ef- fart of the whole Protestant population. Tireless efforts, in training laymen, ,publicity, Io- caI evangelistic meeting, Bible schools for children and the 'house-to-house visitation pro- duced the above surprising .re- sults... The institution of Bible So- ciety work in "Columbia as a separate agency of the British: and Foreign Bible. Society and the American Bible Society, rather than as a sub -agency of Venezuela, was celebrated by a special service in Bogota, at which the Reverend L. E. Holm- gren, executive secretaryof -the American Bible Society, was the special speaker. Members of .the secular press were pres- ent and one of the leading papers published a full account of the service. Scripture distribution in .Col- umbia now ranks third in the Spanish speaking - Latin Ameri- can countries. Distribution in the month of May, 1961, total- led 117,000 copies of the Word of God. Suggested Bible Readings• .Sunday—Psalm 95:1.11 Monday—Psalm 115:1-18 Tuesday -;Jeremiah 1:4-19 Wednesday—Jonah 1:1-17 Thursday= -,Jonah 2:1-10 Friday—Jonah 3:1-10 Saturday --Jonah 4:1-11 killer as his foster parent. He carried out .many peace mis- sions in enemy territory, once crossing 1,000 miles of hostile territory on horseback to Fort Union in, Missouri. . While engaged in one of his peacemissions in 1869, Maske- petoon was shot in the back by a Blackfoot warrior. Today, Maskepetoon Park, a wildlife sanctuary on the Red Deer Riv- er, commemorates the great In- dian man of peace. * * * • Who Was the One,Man Merrickville Express? John McCrae, one of: the pioneer settlers in this Ontario village, 44 miles south of Ot- tawa. ' McCrae. :operated the first transport service in and out of Merri'ekville in its early days as an isolated bush village. He would put on a shoulder harness, get a' cargb as heavy as 200 pounds into it and then set off alone to Brockville, 30 miles away, through the bush. After ,the first 'roads were op- ened, he secured a team of ox- en and would spend the winters hauling potash to Montreal, re- turning with settlers' supplies. McCrae is an early hero of Can- adian pioneer transportation in the most rugged sense. Who Was the First Chris- tian Missionary West of Lake Superior? Father Rene Menard, a Rom- an Catholic, who was sent to found the first mission at .the western end of Lake Superior, in 1660. He disappeared in the woods and was never found. A 1 CDUFF 'THE OLD SHELL GAME OTTAWA—In the budget he brought down in the House of Commons last June, Finance Minister Donald Fleming fore- cast that he `Avould run up a record peacetime budget deficit in the current year of some $650,000,000. Although this was his fifth straight budget deficit and Promised to bring the total to well over. $2 billion since the Conservative government took office in June, .1957, Mr. Flem- ing was -,•-as ever—hopeful that the future held betterthings in store. OTTAWA . REPORT "On the basis of the present situation and anticipated trends it is not unreasonable to expect that the current flows of rev- enue and expenditures will be approaching a balance by the end of 1962," the 'minister told the House of Commons during the course of his budget speech last June. , However, it appears that there will be a deficit in 1962 at least as large as this year's record of $650,000,000. As unemployment decreased, he continued, it was only right and• proper that the Govern- ment should move toward a sur- plus position in order to pro- vide. an "orderly retirement" of its debt, one of the favorite expressions of one who yearns in vain for some orderliness of government.. Ever since last August, - un- employment has in fact been steadily declining. In January it was 148,000 less than a year ago and represented only 8.5 per cent of the total labor force, compared to 10.8 per cent without work in January, 1961. But there is utile likelihood of the Government's deficit un- dergoing more than a Moder- ate decrease at best in the new fiscal year beginning in April from thelevel for the current year. If the worst comes to the worst, there could be a further rise in' the gap between .rev- enue and expenditures, the; lat- ter depending in large measure on what kind of expensive pre- election goodies the Prime,Min ister still has tucked up his sleeve. The Minister of Finance's es- timate of a $650,000,000 deficit this year is far more Iikely to turn into some $800,000,000 worth of red 'ink as a result of the failure of revenues to live up to. expectations and of ex- penditures to remain within -the prescribed bounds. Earlier in February Mr; Flem,• ing , brought down in the .Cam - mons estimates for the coming year which purported to pro- vide for a $203,000,000 decrease' from the present fiscal year. Mr. Fleming must be -an ex- cellent practitioner of the old shell game, for his own analysis of the estimates was certainly a case of 'now you see it, now you don't'. The' Minister told the House of Commons the main spending program for the coming year amounted to $6.2 billion, a de- crease of $203,000,000 from the estimates for the coming year. The comparison was highly misleading for a number of rea- sons. ' - It provided a contrast be- tween the main spending pro- gram for the new year and the main spending program for the current year plus $356,000,000. in, supplementary estimates. It failed to include provision for increased spending., on old age pensions,old age assistance and . blind and disability .pen- sions of . $124,000,000. When the main estimates 'for the current year are compared with those for the new year, the increase actually amounts to $294,000,000. This brings the total to $7.02 billion. But even this understates the case. In the year ahead the Fed- eral Government is entering a new tax sharing arrangeinent with the provinces that will result in a $271,700,000 "reduc- tion in grants, a sum that Mr. Fleming has quite correctly de- ducted from the estimates for 1962-63. But this reduction will be .. matched by a comparable fall in federal tax revenue, with the result that the net position of the treasury remains unchang- ed. The deduction is really, an illusory one and for a realistic• comparison o f" expenditure planned for "the two years. it should not be made. It is as if the main estimates for the next year really come to $7.29' billion, an increase of some $559,000,000 over the main estimates for this year and $210,000,000 over all ex- penditures -approved to date for 1961-62. . • Throughout • the year ahead new 'Supplementary spending estimates.will be introduced thab will eventually boost the total fairly substantially. Over the past year the average has •been some- $294,000,000. Pre- suming an increase of a simi- lar amount in the coming year, which is conservative consider- ing the fact an election is just over the horizon, there would be a net increase in federal spending of around $500,000,- 000 in all. But the Government can count on. an increase in revenue to partially or completely off- set this' rise in spending. Justice Minister Davie Fulton recently forecast that the na- tion's total' production in 1962 will increase '$3 billion to a to- tal of $40 billion, which is the kind of prediction that is - us- ually the prerogative of the 1VIinister of Finance. 1' r As a rough rule of thumb, the federal treasury 'can usual- ly count on picking up some 17 per cent of the national pro- duction ' in the way of tax, re- turns. An increase in the order of $3 "billion, therefore, would put another $500,000,000 into the coffers. , Under those circumstances increased -expenditures would be matched by increased. rev- enue and the deficit would re- main more or less at the same level as that for the present year, with Mr. Fleming's long- sotzght budget surplus just as far removed as ever. But if /Mr. Biefenbaker still ha's more 'expensive pre-election gambits to come, the deficit could be significantly higher thane the :$800,000,000 in the offing for this year. The prospect of a sixth. straight budget deficit bringing the total to over $3 billion must at times chill the essentially thrifty soul of Donald Fleming, 4 I„ A SMILE OR TWO fol' about 10 years but never proposed to her because 'he first wanted to own some pro- perty and an automobile. At last he could afford both, so he called her up. - "Honey," he said, "I've got a ear, I've got a house and a thousand dollars in the bank. Now will. you marry me?" "I sure will," she replied. "Who's this speaking?" A ,peasant in a Russian vil- lage went to the polls on elec- tion day and was handed a sealed envelope to drop in the ballot box. He began to tear the envelope- open' when a Sov- iet official shouted, "'What do you think you are doing?" The peasant -said he wanted to see for whom he was voting. "Are7 .' you crazy?" exclaimed the offi- cial. "This is a secret ballot!" IN THE YEARS A -GONE From The Huron Expositor February 19, 1937 Mr. M.' A. Reid, secretary - treasurer of the McKillop In- surance Company, stated in his report that the cash assets for the company increased by $11,- 03.75 11;478..75 over the 1936 year. Seaforth Lions Club is now supplying 76 children with a very, much needed daily bottle. of milk. The purpose behind' this scheme is to build up re- sistance to disease, rather than compelled at 'a later date to correct the results of malnutri- tion in the child or children. Mr. P. B. Moffat was elected chairman of Seaford' Carnegie Library Board and Mr. E. C. Chamberlain elected secretary treasurer at the board's annual meeting on Monday evening. The session of First Presby- terian Church, Seaforth, honor- ed Mr. John Scott on his retire- ment from the choir, where he has "been a valued member for the past 65 years. * * * From The Huron -Expositor February 23, 1912 Mr. Baroid Best, who for the past two years has been employ- ed in Stewart Bros." store here, •has gone to Toronto 'to take a position as traveller f or.. a wholesale house. A handsome hew organ has been installed in Egniotidvrlle Church acid Wilt conducethc•' plebe arid proflt of both the choltr and congregation. The - Seaforth Milling Com- pany's mills and works are op- erated now by hydro -electric power. The entire works are operated by one immense mo- tor which has recently been in- stalled. ' Mr. Lorne Pethick is having one elle stores in the . Camp- bell block fritted up for a bar- ber shop. M. T. G. Scott is having one of the stores in the Beattie. block fitted 'up for a .wallpaper, picture -framing and upholstery establishment. From The Huron •Expositor February 25, 1887 Mr. J Avery,'Jr., of Seafarth, has gone into partnership with Mr. Watson, of Belgrave, in the INE NANDI( FAMILY • I'M BIFID WATCFIINe, tit. BUIL) A JUNIOR, BUT THSY RE 9529 FEEDER. Nor MANY OF TH 8U4ANP ARANO- OM You'u. PAYS HOUSE ""k DOZEN.$ OR101' BO lataklWS TO WATCH. - lail + N91:11;::. 1 , , .4 ‘ „..„4„,„ ` m",... • r,2 Interesting items gleaned from The Expositor of ' 25, SO and 75 years /ago, shoemaking business. Mr. H. J. Cosgrove, formerly a teacher in` the Seaforth High School, is now practising law in Lincoln, Nebraska, and is dosinesa- large and profitable A little boy about eight years of age, son of Mr. ' John Mc- Mann, fell off a sleigh on which he was riding on Monday eve- ning and had his leg broken, r On 'Nestle last George and Henry Jackson, of Fgmpnd- vilbe, voted here .in the morn- ing for Dr. Campbell; • they then drove to Fordwich in the Township of Howick and voted for Mr. Farrow, and then to some •point in the County of .Wellington, where they voted ' for the •Conservative candidate there. • i? i,%orrr11111011111111 4uNIOR'$'BIRD FEEDER t.w PLAsnesatogs.tatt•N4,10 BOWL 09 Nl„Hss- -i eor+�n,•A ALL PLASM AKIN PLATE".'" fIVt (Ci Till 'CAMi ta100 B A 0