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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1962-05-03, Page 2' Since 1860, Sem:11g the Community First Published at SEAFORTH, ONTARIO, every Thursday morning by McLEAN BROS., Publisher s ANDREW Y. McLEAN, Editbr %1 R A► Member Canadian Weekly Newspapers Association • Ontario Weekly Newspapers .Association ABC \ Canada (in advance) $2.50 a Year Audit Bureau of Circulations Subscription Rates: E Outside Canada (in advance) $4.00 a Year V 1. ASINGLE COPIES —40 CENTS EACH Authorized as Second Class Mail, Post Office Department, Ottawa SEAFORTH, ONTARIO, MAY 3, 1962 Hospital Auxiliary Seeks .Members The Women's Hospital Auxiliary this year is taking advantage of Hospital Day to increase the number of women, in the area the hospital serves, who participate in the work of the auxiliary. The auxiliary plans a house-to-house canvass membership campaign that will begin next week. . Commemorating as it does the birth- day of Florence Nightingale, Hospital Day on May 12 serves as a reminder of the task the hospital is carrying out in the community. Through the auxil- iary tlie public can learn first hand, as it were, of the service being provided and the difficulties faced by hospital staffs. This is possible because auxil- iary members are in close touch with the problems challenging hospitals to- day. They are in and out of the hospital regularly and know what is going on from day to day. They know, for instance, that hospi- tal doors never are closed—that no mat- ter what hour of the day or night help is needed, the hospital is ready to serge. The hospital is expected to,—and does —provide a year -by -year,' day-by-day, and around-the-clock service. A hospital to serve properly requires financial support. But equally impor- tant is the moral support of its com- munity. If the hospital has the under- standing and loyalty of the community it serves there need be no fear as to its 'ability to meet its day-to-day prob- lems. Membership in the Women's Hospi- tal Auxiliary provides a ready means whereby this so important support can be indicated. That is why the member- ship. campaign being conducted by the Women's Hospital Auxiliary to Scott Memorial Hospital deserves the whole- hearted support of the community. Solution Lies With Citizens (Wingham Advance -Times) June 18th has been set as the date people who voted for him didn't have of the federal election. The announce- much choice, since opposition parties G • ment did not come as any great surprise, are illegal in the Soviet. for election talk has been in the air for If, by chance, the calibre of our poli - several months. Even the date was pre- ticians has slipped since the days when dieted with accuracy by many persons the Fathers of Confederation hammer - who are keen observers of the Ottawa ed out the sound and abiding basis of scene. Reaction from mostof the peo- our constitution . . . we have only ple we have talked to is one of mild in- ourselves to blame. If we continue to terest, ranging ' downward to indiffer- • look down our noses at those who seek ence. public office, we will very naturally per - In Canada we don't get quite as work- mit low grade men to represent us. • ed up about our elections as they do in Only by paying the closest possible many other countries. Most of us can attention,to our selection of candidates, easily recall the last presidential elec- by demanding that they be men of hon - tion the United States, and the cam- or and integrity—and by . paying in- paigns, conducted with all the glamour demnities commensurate with their and showmanship of which that ener- abilities, will we achieve the high stan- getic nation "is capable. dard of government Canada deserves. Though we do feel that the Americans carry their election campaigns to rather ridiculous extremes, Canadians could (Kincardine News) use some of the enthusiasm and inter- An aroma of fascination surrounds est which is so evident in American a newspaper, making many persons say voters. We are apt to assume a super- they'd like to own one. It is a fascina- ior attitude about the whole business tion which clings to everyone except' and persuade ourselves that his quer- newspaper people. They have no illu- tion of politics is beneath our dignity. Bions.. To own -a newspaper, here are We are inclined to categorize all aspir- but a few things you will have to do ing candidates as men who are simply in one normal day : seeking public office for their own ag- Ex -plain to Mrs. Strong why Aunt grandizement. It's Simply Routine • Weak's 85th birthday party was not Of course, not all Canadians take on the front page. this stand ... we have our solid core Explain to an advertiser why it is of hard-working party backers, who impossible to get him on page three. devote lots of time and energy to for- warding the cause in which they be- lieve. Though some of them may be out of material gain, by backing the party they think can do them the most good, most of the political workers are sincerely •interested in the welfare of their country. The party system in itself leads some to the belief that politics is a dog- eat-dog affair, but it is a system which has proven itself over several hundred years as the best means so far selected, by which men can govern themselves. In sharp contrast, not the "electron" in Moscow this week, when Mr. K: was returned as his cdtlntry's boss. The Explain to an ex -subscriber why you had to cut off his unpaid subscription. Explain deadlines 20 times a day and why you have to have them. Soothe a lady because she, had called in a Personal too late. Explain why some weeks you've .got news running out of your ears and other weeks, the paper reads like a re- port on Amalgamated Steel. Apologize to an advertiser for an error in his ad and smile sweetly when he tells you what an idiot you are. Try to soothe an irate subscriber who had missed her paper for two is- sues. It turns out she hadn't advised us of a change of address. KNOW YOUR CANAD-A (Prepared by the Research Staff of Encyclopedia Canadiana)_ The Indians tapped the maple trees in the spring by making a cut in the trunk and sticking a reed into it. This carried the sap to a bark trough. The sap was condensed into syrup when. the Indians plunged hot stones into it. The resulting syrup and sugar were strong and smoky in flavor. Even today, the sugaring -off party is a big event of early -spring--_in— areas ...of. ,-_Canada where there are large stands of sugar and black maples. Crowds of children and grown- ups visit the sugar camps to enjoy hot sap, sugar and toffee. -Maple toffee is syrup boiled to the density of melted wax and then poured • out to harden on clean snow. * * Howe "dld'a dead( mansave Mai onn*uve's IWO Alija& 91i4 moist• gotieY'nor °of Ville Marie, later Montreal, Maisonneuve and his settlers endured years of intermittent surprise attacks by the neigh- boring Iroquois. In 1643, a year after he founded Ville Marie, 11ralsonneuve was accused of cowardice by his men because he felt 'they were too outnum- bered by' the Indians to win a pitched battle. He responded• by leading a counter-attack im- mediately, outside the fort. Outnumbered in fact, t h e French were defeated and re- -tired in disorder. Only the kill- ing of the Iroquois chief saved Maisonneuve's life, for the In- dians stopped to bury their fallen leader. * * * Who went from' the Riel Rebellion to the Tower of i,otidon? Sir 1~ rederick • Middleton, sol - diet and. Waterman. 'torn in 1825, he entered the Sritish 44e;:e44, ei 944 Wee4e. Zealand, then in India during the period of the Indian Mut- iny. Later in his career, he was appointed major general in charge of Canadian militia, when he commanded operations during the Northwest Rebellion of 1885. In 1896, two years be- fore his death, he was appoint- ed keeper of the Crown Jewels at the Tower of London. His second wife was French-Cana- dian. "Test your strength, Sir . . . see if you can lift the mallet" Two more milestones of 1962, Easter and Opening Day, have whipped past, and I managed to come through, if not with flying colors, at least without disgracing myself. Easter was a regular fandan- go around our place this year. With an organist, an altar boy, and a girl chorister in the fam- ily; and about six church serv- ices on the weekend, the dog, the cat, the kittens and myself had to walk warily; as the bodies hurtled by at the speed of those in an old silent' movie. * * Climax of „the weekend ar- rived on Easter Monday, when Kim Smiley made her televi- sion debut, with a recorder group. I drove a carload of the kids ato the studios, my ears ringing with last-minute in- structions from ,.the boss, about combing the child's hair, mak- ing sure her slip Wasn't show- ing, and about 14 other items,. I did my best. But I'd lice to see some of you fathers trying to comb a kid's hair when she's wild with excitement about ap- pearing on TV in a few min- utes. It's like trying to lasso a humming -bird with a lawn hose. And sure enough, her slip was showing; plenty of it. * * * Which Canadian Indians hal no tribal. government?, The Micmacs of Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and Prince Ed- ward Island. They did not set up any form of tribal govern- ment and had 'little idea of chieftainship. However, suc- cessful hunters had consider- able influence among their fel- lows; and the Micmac& also fol- lowed certain customs faith- fully, such 8s forbidding inter- marriage between fl embers of Army at 1/1 Served id NeW the Ottie ctetx, * * * During the Easter holidays the wife and, girls went off to visit Granny', while Hugh and I stayed home to work. Some- thing was proved which we had both suspected. Females are directly responsible for 97 per cent of the noise and confusion in the average household. It was as peaceful as a tomb while they were away. And just about as interesting. Then along came Opening Day of the trout season, ,the annual shedding of winter's cerements. Usually, it's'' an exhausting ordeal. You stay tip until two in the morning, the night before, making plans for next day, over a noggin, with a couple of wild-eyed friends. Two hours later, you groan out of bed, totter into the cold blackness, and spend the next 14 hours 'lurching through swamps, frozen, frustrated and wishing you were 18 again. SUGAR and SPICE By BiII'Smiley spokesmen of the various par- ties, the Tories are going to be turned out without mercy, the Liberals are going to be turfed out with a shellacking, the NDP hasn't a hope, and the Socreds' claims are in the realm of -dreamland. If this is true, why have an election that -will cost the voter 22 cool millions? Why not just go bumbling and stumbling along? Everybody says .t h e Yanks will own the place in a few years, anyway. , * *. I have a suggestion which would save us all those millions, as well as a lot of potential earache. ' It's simplicity itself. Every four years, let each par- ty nominate its choice for each seat in Parliament. Then we accept them all. This wouldn't cost a penny. In this way, 'we'd have about 1,100 candidates, -a11 good men. This is too many. We don't want to have to. build an addi- tion to the House of Commons, with all those school additions Still to be built. Well, here's what we''d do. We'd have the 1,100 draw lots, for the - seats available. * * * The lucky ticket holders would become MP's. Each would retain his own .party membership, so that we'd still have a loyal Opposition. The party with the most luck would form the government. We'd save all that election money, and we wouldn't have all those broken hearts on election ight. There'd be just as much sus- pense, under my plan, as there would be with a regular elec- tion. And I'll bet you a spoiled ballot to an ancient senator that we'd have just as good,' or as bad, government. ,* 't * • The only improvement I can see to the suggestion would be to combine the event with a national sweepstakes, based on the draw. All profits would be applied to the national debt. Who is with me in promoting this sensible policy? * * * This year, I tried a new tech- nique, and it was the best Op- ening Day I've ever experienc- ed. I passed up the night -before session. When the alarm went off at 4 a.m., I shut it off, chuckled fiendishly, and went back to sleep. I rose at 10, had a leisurely breakfast, and ar- rived at the trout stream about the time .the others were going home. Three hours later I had had a pleasant outing; had tak- en as many trout as any other year, and didn't feel like the wreck of the 99. Now that those two land- marks in the year have been successfully negotiated, we can turp our thoughts to more triv- ial things.•Like_politics,-for ex- ample. Yes, gentle reader, the mighty 'stirrings, of that big, lazy hibernator called Dem- ocracy are being heard in the land. The big -game hunters are sharpening their spears and ar- rows, and the beaters (that's us voters) are being harangued•be. fore we start out to flush the. beast into the open. * * * As nearly as 1 can make put, fracm tiatefthig... Carefully ..._to. IN THE YEARS AGONE Interesting items gleaned„ from The Expositor of 25, 50, .and 75 years ago. From The Huron gxpositor April 30, 1937 i Thieves. gained entry to the store of Isaac Hudson on Main St. some time Saturday morn- ing and after forcing open a desk drawer, took some $10 in silver. Entry was also made in the McGavin store next door, but nothing apparently was stolen. Dr. A. Crich, a son of Mr. and Mrs. W.' A. Crich, of Seaforth, is in private practice in Toron- to, specializing in exadontia and X-ray diagnosis:- Many iagnosis:Many fields in Tuckersmith are veritable lakes and many roads are impassable because of washouts. Seeding operations -are at a standstill because of rains and floods. Many barns had parts of their roofs torn off with last Wed- nesday's windstorm in Tucker - smith and St. Columban. On Tuesday of last week Mr. Robert Reid, of Walton, met with an accident while working in the sawrld'ill, his wrist being badly cut. Mr. Kai Pong, recently of the Commercial Cafe, will open a restaurant in the Routledge block in the course of a couple of weeks. * * * From The Huron Expositor May 3, 1912 The fall wheat in this vicin- ity emerged from its wintry covering in fine condition. The recent cold winds and frosts have been hard on it, but most of it looks well yet. Mr. W. H. Colquhoun, who has been engaged in the butch- ering business here for some time, has given up business and intends going to the West. The little son of Frank Dev- ereaux had the misfortune to get his hand 'caught in the gear- ing of a washing machine on Monday, cutting off the tip of one finger of the right hand. By REV. ROBERT H. HARPER MONTH OF MAY It is likely that the most of us think of May as a pleasant month. And in the time when the present is hard we may wonder with the poet if "after all the stormychanges we shall find a changeless May?" Thus he indicates that May is re- garded as a time of balm that should endure. . But May has sometimes been other than a month of quiet and ease. It was in the month of May that the Nazis broke through the Ardennes and headed toward the Channel and toward Paris. The entrap- ped French and English were driven to the Channel and the Eng)ish were able to escape by the "Miracle of Dunkirk." Let us remember that it has not always been a month of disaster for mankind. It is a •time of spring and of new hope, a time of newly -springing flow- ers and a time of new pro- spects. Let us in the spirit of new hope resolve that the bat- tle -flags shall be furled in "the parliament of man, the federa- tion of the world." And may the flowers of May cover the ruins of war. We shall not actually dance around a May pole, but we rejoice' in the assurance that "God is in his heaven and all's well with the world." Just a Thought: Many today find it hard to realize there are places in the world where there is a penalty for belief in God. For a few in this "modern" world, Sun day in church is just as much a social affair as a Saturday afternoon barbecue. Mr. McKenzie; the contractor of the new Post Office, has re- sumed work again and has a large gang of men employed. Mr. Arthur Forbes left last week with his telephone men for Shakespeare, where he has. the contract for extending the local telephone system. ' Mr. J. F. Daly has moved in- to the residence which he re- cently purchased from Dr. Mc- Ginnis. by Tom Derr WHAT' COLLEGE DOES YOUR BOYFRIEND PLAN TO ENROLL N NEXT YEAR?. HIGH SCHOOL-. TN1N44. * * * • From The Huron Expositor May 6, 1887 The town watering cart, re- splendent in a new coat of paint, was brought into use, on ii1ain Street for the first time this season on Tuesday. Mr. William Kyle, of Tuck- ersmith, has just completed the addition to his hotel. Potatoes are very scarce and dear, and considerable difficul- ty will be experienced in get- ting enough for seed. Mr. and Mrs. Robert Elgie have now got comfortably lo- cated in their new residence lit Egtnondville, . Mr. L. Murphy is having a large stable and driving house erected on the property he re- cently purchased from Mr. Smithers. Dr. Evans has decided not to go to Stratford and has en- tered into partnership -"with Dr, MacKid, of this town. The weather during the past week has been very favorable for agricultural purposes, and the farmers in this neighbor- hood are making the best use of it. A MACDUFF OTTAWA REPORT B.C. OUTLOOK: TORIES IN TROUBLE .. OTTAWA—(Vancouver): With campaigning for the June 18 Federal election nicely under way, Canada's westernmost pro- vince may provide some of the hottest platform fights and plen- ty of upsets on voting clay. British Columbia is the only province where four p�li',ical parties are more or lessevenly matched in popular standings. In the 1958 Federal election. the voters here sent- 18 Con- servatives and four CCFers to Ottawa. Two years later, they return- ed 32 Social Crediters, 16 CCFers and four Liberals to the provincial Legislature at Victoria. The Conservatives were denied a single seat. The small number of Liber- als provincially, however, did not reflect their voting strength accurately. They picked up 21 per cent of the popular vote, against 38 per cent for Social Credit and 32 per cent for the CCF. In the 20 months since, So- cial Credit strength has been declining at the provincial lev- el, and the Conservatives are in some trouble Federally. The spoils on June 18 may go to the Liberals and the New Dem- ocratic Party, successor to the CCF. Today the Conservatives in this province appear the weak- est of the four parties as cam- paigning begins. The NDP may well be the strongest. The Conservatives have no provincial leader since the resignation of Deane Finlayson in 1961. Nor is there a succes- sor in sight. They seem to be in' difficulty, too, as a result of the long deadlock on power development of the Columbia River. Criti- cism of the treaty they wrote with the United States has come from all sides, and the Social Credit provincial Government may yet win the argument for sale of Cgluinbia power to the Americans. The 'Liberals, after 10 years in the wilderness provincially, show evidence of new vigor and strength. They have produced some front-line candidates for the Federal test—including a Rhodes scholar -winning econo- mist, a prominent lawyer -indus- trialist and the former provin- cial leader of the party=and they claim growing support at the constituency level, both provincially and Federally. aren't prepared to give ground. anywhere, there is considerable doubt that they will be able to hold man, if any, of the ridings ' that swung to them in the Dief- enbaker deluge. The Liberals claim the best chance in at least • seven rid- ings, and sayings, and say the margin . could widen consider- ably in the event of a trend setting in across the country, And the NDP talks confident- ly of taking 10 to 14 seats, with the Conservatives reduced to two—Messrs. Green and Ful- ton—and the Socreds shut out' as they were in 1958. Social Credit offers the great- est paradox. Although it has formed the Government at Vic. toria since 1952, it has never scored a major Federal .win, and seems to be having more difficulty rounding up candi- dates this time than any of the others. This leads to the suspicion that Socred strategists, may re- sign themselves to the role lat- e fa strong Provincial party—like the former Union Nationale re- gime in Quebec—and leave the Federal field to the others. Whatever the outcome, B.C, may have one big . ace up its sleeve for the rest of the coup, try. . The polls will not close here until. three hours after Quebec and Ontario have sealed the bal- lot boxes. If the results from ,the east —where most of the vote is registered—are close„• is pro- vince and its westerns. , artners may have the responsibility 'of deciding ,the outcome,- as they did in the cliff-hanger... of '195'7. And the final counts here will keep eastern Canadians on the edge of their chairs until well into the morning of June 19. * * * Capital Hill Capsules Okanagan -Boundary . will be B.C.'s most interesting contest. Four ex-M.P.'s are in the race: Conservative David Pugh, who won in 1958; NDP candidate O. C. Jones, winner in 1948, 1949 and 1953; Liberal Elmore Phil- pott, formerly M.P. for Vancou- ver South, and Socred F. D. (Jack)' Shaw, who represented Red Deer, Alta., in Ottawa for 18 years. All parties rate it a tossup. The NDP is probably strong:. er in R.C. than anywhere, in Canada today. It has more can- didates in the field than any other party, and more money to spend than the old CCF. It's shooting for a big win here to build party support elsewhere in Canada. And Social Credit, though it failed; to win a single Federal seat in 1958, cannot be written off. Three former Socred M. P.'s are in the lists for June 18, and the party is looking to Premier W. A. C. Bennett for solid support as the campaign gathers speed. For at least six candidates in B.C., the election is pretty well decided already. All sides con- cede the likelihood of External Affairs Minister Howard Green and Justice Minister Davie Ful- ton winning again for the Con- servatives. Re-election • is indi- cated, too, for the four CCF - NDP politicians—Bert Herridge, Harold Winch, Frank Howard and Erhart Regier—who surviv- ed the Diefenbaker tidal wave in 1958. The remaining 16 Federal constituencies are prime fight- ing ground for all parties. Although the Conservatives 1wow !AIMIN NOW WHEREON EARTH ru. 601.vii tS Ala -1,Si1oPP N& 'i iKf auDT7TREN eAttNEVEit. Hares P firsu %S 1-fly-flND=7H'E,V1rRE not9 f * * * The Vancouver SuO, tradi- tionally a Liberal supporter, may be forgiven some degree of neutrality this time. It suppor- ed the Conservatives in 1957. But its editorial page column- ist, Elmore Philpott, is running as a Liberal; and its page-one hunnorist, Barry Mather, will carry NDP colors in New West. minister. A SMILE OR TWO Two society leaders in a cannibal tribe were discussing marital troubles. "I don't know what to make of my husband these days," one said. - "Don't let that bother you," the second reassured- her. "I'll send over my new book of recipes." People who borrow money to get themselves out of the- rut usually end up in the hole. A young man who complain- ed of his dreams was being re- assured by his psychiatrist. , "Stop worrying, son," the doctor consoled, "it's perfectly normal for a fellow like you to dream he is being pursued by ,beautiful girls. There's nothing wrong in dreaming that lovely girls are chasing you." "But doctor," said the young man sadly, "I keep getting away." BY LLOYD BIRMINGRAI HERE'S HO* altitOR ..toitIn A 1 - NOTE HOLDER CUT AUT AS OF Flom OF VECOW Hotitestils4 OtPi , rut.151.1*t, bit PANT rr YOuRSEL.F.1ACK1t WALL OR IHSIDE OF dieltlEr ISR