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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1962-03-29, Page 2Since 1860, Serving the Community First Published at SEAFORTS, ONTARIO, every Thursday morning by MCLEAN BROS., Publishers ANDREW Y, MCLEAN, Editor 4Member Canadian Weekly Newspapers Association *� Ontario Weekly Newspapers Association +� f- jT ��• Q Audit Bureau of Circulations - Subscription Rates: e\ ttUv /= Canada (in advance) $2.50 a Year Outside Canada (in advance) $4.00 a Year 1.1 L a, - SINGLE COPIES. — 10 CENTS EACH Authorized as Second Class .Mail, Post Office Department, Ottawa SEAFORTH, ONTARIO, MARCH 29, 1962 Co-operation Can Mean Savings There are many ratepayers in Sea - forth and other municipalities who nev- er miss an . • opportunity to complain about the services being received,' or about high taxes. But very few of them contribute any ideas about improv- ing the situation, or provide suggestions of alternative approaches. • But . not so the citizens of ,Mitchell.. When the Council of tiat town discov- ered cost of surveying frontages as a basis for sewer rentals would amount to several hundreds of dollars, rate- payers were asked to co-operate and produce -deeds to each of the proper- ties. The descriptions contained in the deeds were regarded as being accurate in sofaras frontages were concerned and these formed the basis for rental charges levied by the town. As a re- sult, the town:—which means the citi- zens—has saved perhaps a thousand dollars in surveying fees. And it was possible because the ratepayers con- cerned were interested enough to take a few minutes to co-operate. Therm are many occasions when municipal dollars coul.d,be saved if only there was a greater 'sense of individual responsibility on the part of each rate payer. Too often we think of the' municipality as being some remote and. vague organization which doesn't con- cern us. We forget that we, as indi- viduals, provide the dollars with which the town .operates, and anything we, as individuals, can do to aid in a more economical operation; -means a lower cost to each of us. In this mechanized day in which we q live, it is not practical to revert to the system of statute labor, which was in existence for so many years, and where each ratepayers contributed -so much time to provide for road maintenance and other municipal services. At the same time, we can bear in mind there can be occasions arise—such as occur- red in Mitchell—when the benefits of co-operation and individual participa- tion can be helpful and profitable. Councils Deserve Support — Not Threats "It, may not be considered a great privilege to be on Town Council," re- marks the Smiths Falls Record -News, "but in any case the members need sup- port—not threats." The Record -News was referring to' a debate ort a .proposed shopping cen- tre erntre which .had taken place in 'council. A citizen present at the meeting sug- gested that a.certain group of business people in the town carried an influen- tial vote at election time and they might not choose to re-elect some of the pres- ent members if council's actions were not agreeable to them. One of the Councillors was quick to inform the speaker that the people of the town were not -doing the council members any favors by electing them to their jobs. The Record-- News remarks that "serving on council can be considered a thankless "and difficult job. Most of the council -business is public knowledge and no matter what decisions are made, • someone won't like them,and often will call a councillor at an "ungodly" hour to tell him so. "Not only that," con- tinues the editorial, "but a councillor must take an interest "in such `vital is- sues' as a crack in the sidewalk, or why thegarbage was late in being picked up, or why they voted a certain way on a specific question," "Support—not threats" is what is needed, emphasized the Record -News in conclusion. John W. Hanna Death last -week of John W. Hanna, Member of the Legislature for Huron - Bruce, removed one who for more than twenty years has been a devoted puljlic servant. Mr. Hanna was one of those alto- gether too few people who had a gen- uine liking for other people, and who at the same time possessed the happy faculty of being able to transmit that liking to those with whom he was in contact. All this "resulted in. Mr. Hanna be- ing..known and liked over a wide area. But what was the major factor in his continuing electoral successes was the way in which he looked after the ..in- terests of, 'his constitutents. No prob- lem was too small, or too involved, to receive his careful attention, and the people didn't forget. Cancer Aid is Investment The message of hope and comfort which every cancer society volunteer endeavours to bring to her work is re- flected in the flower of Spring — the yellow -daffodil. So it is that the annual Cancer Society 'campaign gets under way here' on Saturday, when the local group sponsors 'what has become a symbol of the campaign here a daffo- dil tea. - T h e cancer cam`Paign provides funds with which the Canadian .Can- cer Society can continue its work of research, of education, of aid to the stricken. About 45,000 new cases of cancer will, be diagnosed this year, but because of the work of the Society many of these cases will be controlled and cured. The Huron objective is $16,000. Only through the wholehearted sup- port of the community can the amount required, be raised. When the work be- ing done by the Cancer Society across Canada, and by the local unit in assist- ing area cases, is considered, there can be no doubt or hesitation . concerning the worthiness of the cause. It isip to us to provide support. as each of us may be able. A donation to the cam- paign is an investment in health and happiness. Man's Home No Longer His Castle? . A man's home, is not his castle, nor in these times in Canada is a person innocent until proved guilty. Those charges of faults in the law were made by Toronto lawyer John Honsberger to the recent annual meeting of the On- tario Bar Association. Mr. Honsber- ger's critisms specified only the laws of his own province, but no doubt the an- omalies apply generally. Just a preliminary study of the On- tario statutes, said the Toronto lawyer, has turned up 40 to 50 statutes that call for reverse onus in which a person charged with an offence is required to prove. his innocence, and another 40 to 50 acts allow a variety of inspectors and officials to enter 'and search a pri- Vat, Ione n t t id iti ..errs o.... iorl thq revel^ oy. onus feature—mentioned as being con- tained in the Medical Act. Liquor Lic- ense Act, Milk Industries Act, Motor Fuels Tax Act, Municipal Tax Act and the Insurance Act—may be justified in some instances. However, it' is creep-. ing into many statutes simply because legislative draftsmen are finding it easy to incorporate it in the law. And of the statutes that allow various' inspectors to enter private homes, he said that some stipulate that entry must be at a reasonable hour but that these are in the minority. The individual tends to ignore the warning that the extended activities of governmentlid the widened powers of the state infringe personal liberty. Free- dom., it has been rightly said, can be clipped away and never missed until it as lost (A0on rr4e, reOs)y , Long winter got you down? Feel a,bit frazzled? Ulcer act- ing up? Worried about the bomb? Let's take a straight look at things, and see how we feel. If people paid any "heed to: the warnings, dire predictions and appalling statistics- with which they are assailed on' ev- ery hand, the human race...would be made up of driveling cow- ards, cringing under their re- spective beds. * * '* Reach for a coffin nail with your morning coffee and paper, and a headline hits you between the eyes: SMOKING, LUNG CANCER LIN ,ED, TESTS PROVE. Turn oh your car ra- dio as you drive to work and the announcer tells you, tri- umphantly, that weekend fatali- ties hit 72, bettering last year's record by eight. He sounds happy about it. Just look as though you feel like a beer, and somebody, probably your wife, will start reeling off the latest figures on alcoholism. * * * Start putting away something for 'your old age, and some cheerful vulture will inform you, with ill -concealed satisfac;, tion, that the human race will be obliterated by nuclear wea- pons within the current decade. Put in an honest, hard day's work, and some magazine ar- ticle will trumpet the news that you're - heading for a coronary. * * * Besides these - fairly deadly fdrecasts, we are subjected to a barrage of minor threats and insults, most of them of a per- sonal nature. The ads leave nothing sacred. They shout that we have: body odor; loose scaly dandruff; unpleasant breath; slipping dentures; treacherous kidneys; acid stomachs, and that we are badly in need of a new truss for that old hernia. They don't leave a stone, not even a - gall -stone, unturned. They imply that we are sicken- ing. creeps. Fortunately, there is a won- derful cluelessness, a deliber- ate obtuseness in human na- ture, that makes us go blithely on our way, reeking nought of the Cassandras in our midst. And a jolly good thing, too, or life would be not only frightful but also frightening. There is something gallant and dashing about the two - decks -a -day man who reads the • lung cancer -story, pales slight- ly, then lights a fag and blows out the smoke with the devil- may-care smile, the quizzically lifted eyebrow, of the condemn- ed spy facing the firing squad. There is something heroic in the man who hears the weekend fatality figures while driving to. work, and merely set his jaw, tramps on the gas, and bulls through the traffic, with all the skill; enthusiasm and disregard for danger of a Ben Hur at the reins of a chariot. k * * You can't help admiring the cool concern of the heavy drink- er as he peruses the article on alcoholics while getting through his fourth rye and water. "Trouble is a lotta these people are weak, an' they get too fonda the stuff and they can't harmed it," he muses, as he reaches for the quart and knocks the lamp off the end table. It is difficult to withhold ap- SUGAR and SPICE By Biil Smiley plause at the spectacle, of the type who disdains the immin- ence of sudden annihilation by H-bomb because he's too busy figuring out angles to diddle the government out of death duties on his estate. * 4' * And surely one cannot re- frain from a rousing cheer for the man with a bum ticket who, retired after thirty years in a sedentary job, immediately starts slaving like a navvy, building, tearing down, fetch- ing and carrying, shovelling snow and cutting grass, and generally showing a fine scorn for living to a ripe old age, It must be horribly exasper- ating to scientist, traffic author- ities, temperance people, tax collectors and doctors, but there's something unbeatable in human nature. It's a sort of massive, charming stupidity, a superb recklessness, that has made people ignore all warn- ings and deliberately seek out disaster, ever since the day Eve was warmed not to fool around with that apple. r IN THE YEARS AGONE Interesting Items gleaned from The Expositor of 25, 50 and T5 years ago. From The Huron Expositor March 26, 1937 George H. Langan, superin- tendent of the Ontario Employ- ment Bureau, Stratford; was in Seaforth Tuesday, organizing a local committee for the Home Improvement Plan. One of the earliest establish- ed businesses in Hljron County changed hands last week, when W. Scott & Co., Brucefield, sold their stock and trade to Mr. A. C. Brandon. Warden J. M. Eckert of Hur- on and W. J. Manley, road sup- erintendent of McKillop Town- ship, were in .London on Tues- day attending a meeting of township road superintendents of Huron, Elgin and Middlesex Counties. Little Bobby Edmunds, nine- year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Jack Edrnunds, Mitchell, and grandson of Mrs. W. G. Ed- munds, Seaforth, had a narrow escape from drowning in Mit- chell on Sunday_ The Public Utility Commis- sion received its "thirteenth" power bill on Thursday, show- ing a credit to the Commission of $812.83. Mrs. George Stewart, Belle- ville; Mr. and 'Mrs. William Charlesworth, of Toronto; and Mr. and Mrs. Lindenfield, Exe- ter, were here attending - the funeral of the late James Stew- art, of Egmondville. KNOW YOUR CANADA (Prepared by the Research Staff Has Canada any Octopus- es? Yes, if coastal waters are in- cluded. Octopuses are found in both Atlantic and Pacific, on both Canadian coasts. The west coast variety reach a very large size, one species being over 10 feet in length, with tentacles over 30 feet long. * * * 'Which is the largest fresh -water island in. the world? Manitoulin Island in Lake Huron .lays claim to the distinc- tion. It - has an area of over 1,000 square miles. Indian tra- dition has, radition-has, it that the island was the home of the good spirit, gitchi-manitou, and the evil match-manitou, Today the is- land is an important holiday, farming-- and lumbering centre. * * * Are Canadian moles use- ful to man? Yes. They destroy large quantities "of harmful insects. The star -nosed mole, which can be identified by the 22 fleshy projections radiating out from the tip of its tiny snout, is the common species from Labrador and Nova Scotia west to Mani- toba. The hairytailed mole lives from, southern New Brunswick to Lake Superior. The prairie mole, despite its name, occurs only in the extreme southwest of Ontario. It may be recogniz- ed by ' its naked tail. British Columbia has two large moles, close relations in genus Seep - anus, which average six to nine inches each. The Coast province also has the little shrew mole, only 41/2 inches long. * * *- How did Montreal get its name? From the first ,European to visit the site of the future city, Jacques ,Cartier. He found the village of Hochelaga on the is- land and he -called the moun- tain on which slope it lay, Mont Royal. Hochelaga had disap- peared when Champlain visited Mont Royal in 1603; but he es- tablished, in 1611, a temporary settlement there which he call- ed Place Royale. Thirty 'years later, Maisonneuve laid the Oi The Week& 1 ah",et$, give my best rega1aEa • c k yattt cowb loon "r of Encyclopedia Canadiana) foundations of a permanent settlement on' the site, a little town surrounded by a stockade. He called it Ville Marie de Mon- treal. Even 25 years later, the future metropolis of all Can- ada had only 766 citizens. Gra- dually, by popular custom, the longer name was dropped and the name Montreal in time be- came official. * * *. How Many Monarchs_ Has Canada Had? The answer depends upon what is meant by Canada. If -itis taken to mean a dominion or nation, established in 1867 by Confederation, it has since had six sovereigns, from • Vic- toria to Elizabeth II. However, if Canada means simply the ter- ritories ,now comprising our country,' ' we have .'had nine French kings over New France and Acadia and 22 British cov- ereigns, since the flag of St. George was first planted on territory now Canadian. In this sense, the antiquity of the Bri- tish throne in' 'Canada is sur- prising. ' For example, the Bri- tish first claimed what is now Canadian soil in the reign of henry VII, so that his portly successor of the six .wives was our second British monarch and the. first Elizabeth was Canada's fifth. The territories now com- prising Canada have had a mon- arch since the founding of New France, except for a brief per- iod when Newfoundland and Nova Scotia were parte of Cromwell's protectorate. �..1011 By REV. ROBERT H. HARPER ALL FOOLS' DAY • It -came to me as a mild sur- prise.. when 1 looked at the,cal- ender and found that this year the month of April has five Sun- days. And as I looked at the calendar and the date, there stood out in my memory of oth- er due the words, "April Fool." Now. if you think I am going to delve into the history of April and All Fools' Day, take the last words in the pre- ceding sentence to yourself. I trust you were not fooling when you promised yourself th-at -you were going to church Ellis Sunday. I -trust you are in your house of worship today. For be well assured there is no possibility of deceiving God. He knows all your desires and pur- poses: And "as a man think- eth in his heart, so is he." Let us examine ourselves to- day that we know what are the real issues in life for us and what are the goals in view. It is an arresting thought that the heart is ,an open book in the sight of God, and that there is no possibility of deceiving him. We need not first to set a guard upon our lips or shackles upon our hands, because we need first to set an angel of purity with a two-edged sword at the doorway of the heart, in that mystic place where thought is linked with thought, desires are conceived and motives are born that govern conduct and fix eternal destinies. • Just a Thought: If we can keen our hearts and Minds , eoncetnedm with • the goad thftigs .0 life, 'we should Mai little' timet• in;*Welt to, cow eider 'things wliitlt ate evil; From The Huron Expositor March 19, 1912 Mr. Frank Kling is in Indiana this week attending the big -sale of fancy horses being held there. Mr. J. M. Best has purchased the Lawrence farm in McKillop, adjoining the town on the Horth side. Mr. James Robb has just com- pleted the work of fitting up the show windows in Mr. W. G. Willis' shoe store. N. Cluff & Sons are, now pre- paring to remove their planing mill from its present site to the property on Goderich St., re- cently used as a lumber yard. Mr. J. F. Daly has purchased the neat and comfortable resi- dence of Dr. McGinnis and will occupy it shortly. * * * From The Huron Expositor April 1,'1187 Mr. David Charlesworth has returned to^ towlly and takes the position of. head "%liter in the Red Mill. - Mr. Robert Govenlocic, of, Mc- Killop, has received a handsome bronze medal and diploma ,for fruit and- grain exhibited by him at the Colonial and India Exhibition at London, England, last season. ' Mr. David Johnston is making preparations to build a brick residence on his site near the residence of D. D. Wilson. A MACDUFF OTTAWA REPORT POWER AND GLORY OTTAWA — Representatives of nine provinces locked them- selves up with members of the Federal Government in Ottawa on March 19 to talk about "long distance extra high voltage transmission". The meeting v' sn't as techni- cal, as it sounds. In fact the whole thing was a pretty basic exercise in Canadian politics. In other words, the meeting was concerned with power— both electoral and electrical. And as election dates approach, those two aspects of power will become ever more difficult to. separate. - The one -day meeting gave preliminary discussion to a na- tional power grid, a system of transmission lines spanning the nation, bringing blocks of pow- er-, from province to province, from far-off rivers ,to industrial markets. The experts have already gone to work or the difficult technical problems of long dis- tance transmission. The nation- al power grid offers difficult po- litical problems too, which are not being ;neglected. Prime Minister Diefenbaker is no doubt seized With the high- minded purpose of equalizing power supplies' and prices across Canada. "But' with another general el- ection around the corner, Mr. Diefenbaker may also see in a national power grid an updat- ed version of the vision on which he blazed to power in 1957 and 1958. Premier Lesage of Quebec boycotted the Ottawa meeting on the grounds that power is' a provincial resource. But while posing as cham- pion "of provincial rights, which he hopes will redound to his electrical benefit in Quebec, Mr. Lesage also enjoys throw- ing a bit of a Liberal monkey - wrench into Mr. Diefenbaker's vision of national development. British • Columbia's Premier Bennett blew in for the one - day meeting amid talk that -he might spring a provincial elec- tion on the issue of power ex- ports to the :United States. Mr. Bennett wants to develop the Peace and Columbia Rivers, come hell or High Arrow, and to export to the United States. ♦ He's been locked in• battle with the Federal Government for over a year on development of the Columbia. River. There was some evidence after the Ottawa meeting that the Fed- eral Government might be soft- ening on its attitude towards sale of Columbia power in. the U.S. That sums up the general tone of the Ottawa nieeting. The meeting was closed, but that whining noise coming through the door was the grind- ing of axes. And each province had its axe to grind. Saskatchewan wants to ex- ploit the power potential of its lignite coal deposits. Manitoba is interested in developing the Nelson River. The. Maritime province stressed the harness- ing of the tidal power in the Bay of Fundy. Newfoundland has big plans for the Hamilton Falls in Labrador. With so manly job -making and vote -catching projects avail- able, it's surprising .the nine provinces attending didn't give the national grid idea more emphatic. support. Some provinces, besides Que- bec, seem to have reservations, though all attending agreed to set up a working committee of experts to study the technical, economic, and policy problems. The official communique from the meeting said mildly that "there may well be advantages" in setting up a national grid system. Hardly a very strong endorsation., YE BMW FAMILY I'LL BE READY TOGO YOU OUGHT TO TO THE MOVIE: HAROLD, HAVE A HAMPER JUST AS SOON AS HERS IN THE '1 TARE' THIS SOILED KITCHEN,M'DEAR, TABLE LINEN FOR. YOUR TABLE UPSTAIRS TOTHE CLOTHS, NAPKINS, HAMPER KITCHEN TOWELS, ETC. • 'And some highly -placed indi- viduals have already expressed their doubts. ' The Liberals quote extensive- ly a statement by M. H. L. Briggs, of the Federal Govern- ment's national energy board. The outspoken Mr. Briggs said "no advantage is clearly ap- parent to justify construction of, a trans -Canada grid system." One fact that did come out at this Ottawa meeting was that only Ontario seems to have a deficiency of power. British Columbia has more than it can use. Could it put it on a power grid to Saskatche- wan? No. Saskatchewan's big pitch was for aid in developing thermal power so it could sell it to Ontario. Alberta's natural gas and petroleum reserves give it a power surplus. Manitoba wants to develop hydro, power, chiefly to sell to Ontario. Quebec has more power in- stalled by far than any other ` province.. It already supplies some to "Ontario, and could probably supply more. The Maritimes have enough local resources of power if they had the means to develop them. Re- gional hook-ups already exist in the Maritimes, between Ontario. and Quebec, between ' Ontario and Manitoba, and between Sas- katchewan and Manitoba. So why a national grid? To bring power from where to where? Prime Minister Diefenbaker told , the. Ottawa ` meetingthat long distance power transmis- sion'forms "an inherent part of the Federal Government's na- tional development policy." So be it. But what needs to be' answered .now before this dream of a national power grid becomes reality , for reasons of Government policy, is this: Do we really need a national pow.. :er grid, and why? . TO THE EDITOR: Toronto 4, Mar, 26, 1962. Editor, The Huron Expositor. Dear Sir: It is my privilege as 'president to express the grat- itude of this Foundation for your co-operation in the 1962 March of Dimes Campaign. ' As you will see in the enclos- ed report, the results again ex- ceed the record set in the pre- ceding year, and. I am happy to report that campaign cost does not exceed seven and one-half per cent. Growth in contributions and economy in costs are attribut- ablein no small measure to the supporting publicity enjoyed by our volunteer committees in their respective communities. Thank you for yourlhelp in this vital community service. Yours sincerely, JOSEPH A. P. CLARK, "" President.. 'Ed. Note: The campaign in the Southwestern Ontario dis- trict, including the Counties of Huron, Lambton, Kent, Middle- sex, Elgin, Oxford, Norfolk and Essex, collected ,.$52,074—an in- crease of $1,647 over last year. When W a s Universal Compulsory Military Serv- ice First Adopted in Can- ada? In the early days of French settlement: For example, a. document still preserved, states that., in 1651 the people of Trois Rivieres were required to own arms, to drill and to do guard duty. Later in the French re- gime, it became established that each parish had its own militia company, in which all able- bodied men had to serve. Par- ish militiamen played a large part in French campaigns against the English colonies and hostile Indian tribes. - BY LLOYD BIR MIKQIIA*, DAP'6 PLAN FOR A BUILT-IN KITCHEN HAMPER • CAEINET TON, HANDLE 6 • PEGBOARDOit PERFORATED } ME-rAL PANE/ uai le" P}.'►!WOOD, • r • t