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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1962-05-17, Page 2I Since 1860, Serving the Community First Published at SEAFORTH, ONTARIO, every Thursday morning by McLEAN BROS., Publishers `� E D ANDREW Y.. MCLEAN, Editor ' Member Canadian Weekly Newspapers Association Ontario Weekly Newspapers Association q /I n nl o Audit Bureau of Circulations Subscription Rates: oa Canada (in advance) $2.50 a Year • Outside Canada (in advance). $4.00 a Year U L A't SINGLE COPIES — 10 CENTS EACH Authorized as Second Class Mail, Post Office Department, Ottawa vegaii el The firkehe SEAFORTH, ONTARIO, MAY 17, 1962 Clean -Up Benefits the Community It was appropriate that one of the topics discussed by Council Monday night involved littered, unkempt yards . and delapidated buildings, since the discussion coincides with the time of the annual Chamber of Commerce Clean -Up Campaign. Councillors were concerned about the indifference of ratepayers in con; nection with the proper maintenance of properties they owned or controlled. The indifference resulted in unsightly eyesores which blighted the views of neighboring property owners and pass- erbys. Councillors pointed out that in a number of cases, definite fire hazards were created, since tumbled down buildings and lots filled with bedraggled weeds and uncut hay offered perfect settings for children playing . with matches. It is just a year since we drew atten- tion to the problem and told how it was being met in Goderich. We suggested Seaforth Council also might give con- sideration to similar action. This is- what was said a year ago: "It is remarkable how an otherwise favorable impression of a community can be spoiled by the appearance of an' unsightly yard, a delapidated building, or a clutter of abandoned machinery, or of wrecked cars. "It is true there may be good reasons for such a . condition to exist. $ut a visitor to town cannot be expected to know this. All the visitor can do is form his impression of the community as a whole. Unfortunately, the good things he has seen—the streets, the parks, the public buildings—will be weighed againstthe unsightly things , he has seen. The net result may well be unfavorable. The work, the plan- ning and care of the many thus is spoil- ed by the don't -care attitude of a few. "Several communities are becoming concerned about those who don't care and are "taking ,Steps to clean up un- sightly messes within their borders. In Goderich, unsightly junk, abandoned auto bodies and tumbled down buildings are being given a second look by citizens anxious to have their community a place of beauty and tidiness. "The Goderich Signa) -Star points out that ... 'the Town Fathers are becom- ing concerned, and rightly so . , about properties around the town which they believe are in such an unsightly condition that something should be done with them," and then says a by- law is being prepared whi h will com- pel property owners to kee their yards tidy.' "There comes a time when it be- comes necessary for a community to adopt laws to protect the interests of the many from the irresponsibility of the few, and Goderich apparently con- siders such a time at hand. Perhaps Seaforth Council, too, should give con- sideraion to such a by-law. • "That there is ample authority for such a step is indicated by a comment in the Municipal World. Replying to a letter seeking regulations with respect to untidy properties in a town, the Municipal World, a "recognized author- ity, said : 'Town Council may pass a by-law requiring the owner to clean up his premises. If he does not comply with the by-law after sufficient notice, the Council may have the work done and collect the cost in the same manner as municipal taxes. See Municipal Act, section 88 (1), paragraph 80 and sec- tion 496'," PENGUIN MORE SUITABLE?' There's a suggestion that the U.S. national emblem be changed from the eagle to the penguin. The argument runs- that the country is more like the "penguin because the left wing and the right wing keep flapping while the body continues steadily ahead on two feet.— Brantford Expositor. WITHOUT THE VOTE Governor General Vanier has called off his western tour in order not to get mixed up in the election campaign. Un- der the constitution, he doesn't have a vote, so he need not listen to any of the speeches.—Toronto Telegram. IN THE YEARS AGONE Interesting items gleaned from The Expositor of 25, 50 and 75 years ago. From The Huron Expdsitor May 14, 1937 The local branch of the Cana- dian Legion has donated $25 to the Red Cross for the use of London flood sufferers, R. B. Holmes, secretary, has announc- ed, following a recent executive meeting. Mr. C.,S. Smith, for a number of years proprietor of Smittie's Recreation, has announced that he will open The Tasty Grill, a new and modernly equipped restaurant, in the Cardno block,• next week. Seaforth council approved new street lights for Main St. at its meeting Monday evening and instriicted the Public Util- ity Commission to purchase and install the necessary standards. Members of Edelweiss. Re- bekah Lodge observed the 25th anniversary of the formation of the Seaforth lodge on Mon- day evening, when members and guests numbering 180, en- joyed a delightful banquet in the IOOF Hall. Seaforth and district citizens, in company with others throughout the British Empire, observed Coronation Day on Wednesday with a parade, fol - lo by a short service in Viet is Park. * * * From The Huron Expositor May 17, 1912 The closing blizzard for this season occurred on Monday last and for a time the weather -..a WATCH YOU...SWCE YOU HAVE HAD SO MUCH �XP'ERI>=NCS ..- THAT WAY I'LL BE LESS LIKELY TO MAKE THE SAME MISTAKES.S looked more like March than May. The snow which fell to a considerable depth soon melted and the moisture was speedily absorbed by the earth. Mr. Charles P. Sills left on Monday for Crow's Nest. Pass, where he will be engaged in engineering work for the . CPR during the summer. Mr. L. T. DeLacey, who has been bookkeeper in the Ogilvie Mills' here has been appointed local manager in succession to Mr. D. J. McCallum, who re- signed the position and who leaves here shortly for Saska- toon, where he intends to en- gage in the real estate busi- ness. Mr. Thomas Stephens, of the Queen's Hotel, is having the foundation prepared and the material laid down for the er- ection of a new concrete stable to replace the one burned down last fall. * * * From The Huron Expositor Mary 20, 1887 Govenlock and Winters ship- ped 150 head of fat cattle to the Old Country on Monday. The prices paid ranged from 4 cents to 41/2 cents per pound. The wool season. has now commenced and wool is in good demand. A. G. Van Egmond's Sons are paying from 23 to 25 cents for first-class articles. Mr. Massett has just turned out a very handsome red gran- ite monument for erection to the memory of the late Mr. Manley, of McKillop. In the report of the recent written and oral examinations of the Medical Council held in Toronto and Kingston, we no- tice among the successful can- didates the name of J. II. Mc- Faul, son of L. L. McFaul, of this town. Mr. Hugh McCartney, of the Brucefleld Creamery,, has re- ceived from the authorities of the Colonial and India(!Y Exhibi- tion, London, a handdhome di- ploma and bronze medal, which Was . awarded the crearltery but, ter he had az'i a 1191 10011 thee. "How about a receipt? . . . My wife will never believe me!" Well, Mom, how did you. make out on YOUR day, as the advertisements call it? Same old routine, I suppose: lots of kisses; cuppa tea in bed; big production of a potted begonia or stale chocolates; everybody off to church with a flower in the buttonhole; rapid _diminish- ing of interest in the whole pro- ject; you getting huge dinner and doing dishes while family rests after excitement and strain of' Mother's Day. Just to show -you that some- body cares, I saved by Moth- er's Day column until this week. You'll need a pickup right about now, as the realiza- tion .sinks in that last Sunday's fussing over you is a once -a - year shot, and you are relegat- ed to your usual functions of household slave, comedy straight man, domestic detec- tive, family wailing wall and unpaid civil servant. * * * • • Don't thank me. It's a plea- sure to come right out and an- nounce my firm conviction that. mothers are the ,finest people in the -world=with the possible exception of fathers. Everything I am, I owe to my mother's training. Well, perhaps riot quite everything. She didn't teach me' to shoot pool, play poker, :drink beer, swear and chase after women, all of which I used to do. Nor did she show me how to play golf, fly an airplane, catch trout or write a column. * * * But she did teach me some important things: never to say anything about a person unless you could say something good; always to vote against Macken- zie King; never to be -cruel: al- ways to laugh sardonically when you paid your taxes; nev- er to be discourteous, whatever the situation; always to land the first punch if you were forced to fight. She :also taught me how to make a bed, do a family wash- ing, prepare a simple meal, clo- the dishes, and run an ironer, all of which have stood me in good stead since I got married. * * * Back in those days, I didn't appreciate my mother. They can be annoying creatures to children, #. you know. Their interests 'are very limited. They miss the big picture and harp on such details as clean ears, looking after your hor- rible little brother, going to Sunday School, hanging up your clothes, going to bed at bedtime, and getting up at getting -up time. Not only did my mother pes- ter m41 with such petty irrita- tions, she had the gall to sug- gest—only once in a while, and rather, timidly, I admit—that I cut the lawn, run an errand, or help my Dad put the ashes out. She even had the effrontery to drop these Flints when she knew perfectly well I had to go to the matinee, or off to play ball. Oh, I put up with a lot around there, I can tell you. * * * And she was cruel, too. I distinctly remember the beat- ings I used to get. Well, I re- member one, anyway. Well, maybe not a beating, exactly, but three skelps with the yard- stiek, 1 was six at the time, and I'm quite certain it scarred nle, pe ychologically,. for life. 1 still don't ktrow Why she threshed line >#o brutally, 1 SUGAR and SPICE By Bill 'Smiley _ hadn't done a thing. How could 1 •know my kid brother would swallow that screwnail I ' gave him to play with? Could I help it if my ball went a little crook-; ed and through the kitchen win- dow? And what red-blooded boy hasn't burned all his eye- brows off with a firecracker? No, I think she was just in a bad mood that day. * * * People talk about mothers working so hard.' I never no- ticed . my mother doing much. Except maybe fooling around with the housework. And doing a little washing for the seven of us. And you'd hardly call ironing work, when a person sings all the time. And there was the cooking for us and the three boarders, but she enjoyed cooking. In the summertime she ran a tourist business in the house, but she got a kick out of talk- ing to the tourists. Then there was a cosmetics line she sold, when Dad was out of work, but that was good for her.• Got her out of the house. She was sec- retary for the .Blind Institute, and in the Home and School Club and the Ladies' Aid and the choir, but that was all fun. * * * No, I can't recall my mother doing any real work. Seems to me she spent most of her time fooling around doing little things. Like looking for things we'd lost. And kissing places where we'd bumped ourselves. And picking up our .clothes. And hugging us when we were feel- ing sorry for ourselves. • And getting , us little snacks after school. And helping us with our homework. And telling us bedtime stories. And nursing us when we were sick. And taking us on picnics. And solv- ing all our problems. And, Mom, I hope that's the way your kids remember you. Sunday Sermon A , MACUUFF OTTAWA REPORT OTTAWA — A series of re- treats has marked the history of the present Coinservative Government in dealing with the economic problems that face the Nation. Nothing better' illustrated its record in this all-important area than Finance Minister : Donald Fleming's announcement short- ly before midnight of May 2 that the Government had de- valued the Canadian dollar from around 95 cents to 921/2 cents in terms of U.S. currency and pegged it at that reduced rate. But first let's go back to 1957 when the Conservatives came to power following the defeat of the Liberal Government af- ter 22 years in office. From June to around the turn of the year, the Conservatives saw on- ly continued prosperity ahead, were publicly oblivious to the recession shaping up on the horizon, to. say nothing of the fact that the postwar boom had come to a permanent end. For the latter they can hardly be blamed. However, by the time, early in 1958, that the recession was an undisputed fact, the Con- sereatives were attempting to lay responsibility for it on the Liberals, charging that the pre- vious' Government had failed to take action to head off a down- turn in the economy which they themselves had failed to ack- nowledge for more than six months in office.' Late in 1959, when it had become apparent that Canada was faced with ser- ious long-term problems, rather than just a cyclical downturn in the business cycle, a great economic debate began to rage across the nation. It was touch- ed off primarily by James Coyne, then Governor of the Bank of Canada, who charged that the Country's difficulties Which is the. most rare Canadian herb? The leading candidate would be the musk -root,. A curious family of obscure relationship, the musk -root contains only one genus with only one species. This green -flowered perennial is found mostly in shaded, moist aspen and poplar woodlands in the West. Its appearance is' al- ways rare owing to its highly specialized requirements. * * * What Happened To Can- ada's First Moravian Mis- sion? Nobody knows. In May, 1752, the Moravian Brethren, a Pro- testant church founded in the 15th century, sent four mission- aries from London, England, to Labrador .to start mission work among the Eskimo. They went ashore in Labrador -,and were never heard of again. were the result of living beyond its means'on a grand scale for many years. Mr. Coyne proclaimed from public platforms across the country that the main symptom of this basic illness Was Can-- ada's chronically large deficit balance of international pay- ments, which in 1959 hit a peak of over $1,5 billion. His diagnosis was swiftly de- nied by the Conservative Gov- ernment, always unhappy about the Central Banker they had in- herited from the Liberals, first by Gordon Churchill, then Min- ister of Trade and Commerce, in January, 1960, and, later, in the budget the following March by Finapce Minister Fleming. In December, 1960, the Gov- ernment took a half about turn,. In the baby budget brought down to deal with the developing recession, Finance Minister Fleming acknowledged that Canada's deficit balance of payments constituted a serious problem. He introduced a series of measures aimed at discourag- ing the heavy import of capi- tal, the payemnt abroad of divi- dends and interest on which was such an important factor in the payments deficit. Mr. Fleming hoped that by reducing the inflow.; of foreign capital, the demand for Cana. dian dollars would also be re- duced 'and that the exchange rate on the dollar, then at a premium of around three cents, would fall. The effect of such a move would be to make Canadian ex- ports more competitive in world markets by reducing their price abroad, while making Canadian goods more competitive in the domestic market by increasing the price of all imports. At the same time, however, Mr. Fleming went. to great lengths to explain why it was completely impractical to take direct action to push down the value of the dollar by using the Government's foreign ex- change fund to buy U.S. cur- rency and sell Canadian funds. By increasing the supply of the latter, many authorities argued, they.. would become cheaper in price and the exchange rate of the dollar would fall. But to do so, Mr. Fleming said, the Government would be engaging in a massive gamble with public funds without any assurance of success. Six months later M. Coyne, engaged in a fight to the finish with the Conservative admini- stration, disclosed that the Gov- ernment within a very short time after that had in fact mov- ed into the foreign exchange market in an effort to force the dollar to a discount in U.S. funds. And in the budget which. was brought down a few months lat- er; Finance Minister Fleming announced the Government's intention of using the Govern- ment foreign exchange fund to push down the Canadian dol- lar. Completing his turn -about, he described Canada's defict balance of payments as a funda- mental problem facing the Country which had to be at- tacked as a matter of urgent national importance. Last April 10, Mr. Fleming introduced another budget in which he reiterated at length all the arguments he could think of why it was completely Un- practical for the Governtnent to establish a fixed exchange rate on the Canadian dollar, as the International . Monetary Fund had been urging ever since last June. Before it took such action, he said, the Government would want to be assure¢• ;of a better chance of success than that which marked the ill-starred at- tempts of the 'Liberal Govern- ment to peg the dollar between 1946 and 1950. Only three weeks later, Mr. Fleming was announcing that the Government was devaluing the dollar and fixing it at a discount of 71/2 cents interms of the U.S. dollar. To buy $L00 worth of goods south of the border, would now cost Cana- dians $1.08 instead of the pre, vious $1.05. The government decided it had no other choice but to take this step, despite the ser- ious political repercussions that could develop in the campaign already underway, because of the heavy downward pressure developing on the dollar. A heavy. sale of Canadian dol- lars by speculators in the last 10 days of April forced • the Government to shell out $115,- 000,000 in its U.S. dollar hold- ings in an effort to maintain Canadian° currency at the 95 - cent level. Since last October it had put out $516,000,000 in all, reducing our foreign ex- change reserves by that amount. Only three weeks after Mr, Fleming was proclaiming the Government's preparedness to make a massive use of the ex- change fund to hold the dollar at its existing level, the Gov- ernment decided to retreat. The big question now is—can the Government hold the dollar at the 921/2 cent level without a continuing drain of its foreign exchange holdings. It may in fact" turn out that it is iinpos- sible to do so without adopting the highly unpopular foreigh exchange and import controls that had to be marshalled in, 1947 to meet a similar situation, And now that Canada has. bound itself to a fixed rate, it will lose much of its auth- ority to adjust monetary policy to Canadian conditions, instead of being forced to follow close, ly the policy of tight or easy credit adopted in. the United States. The latest move' by the ad- ministration may be a desir, able one .But the manner- in which it was. made will do noth- ing to enhance the reputation of fthe Government's ability to govern. The ,prestigious Lon- don economist, while guessing the 82.5 cent was probably the- right heright figure, referred to it as. having been "fumblingly achiev- ed." By REV. ROBERT H. HARPER FROM ZONE TO ZONE In recent weeks my sister and 1 went to Washington for a visit. with my son and family. When we left home, the, azaleas were coming into full bloom, then as the train sped through the Caro- linas, my sister called my atten- tion to something white along the track. It was snow. The next morning we looked out upon patches of snow in a small park in front of my son's home in Georgetown. It is a great trip that we make at intervals. But I re. member that migratory birds have been making comparable trips through the ages, spend- ing their susnmers in the north and their winters in the south. One of the thrills of boyhood was to see the long V line of wild geese high overhead, and I remember how a modern poet has written of the "wild geese sailing high." What wondrous power guides the wild creatures through the boundless Skies? It is indeed a mystery of things that we have seen from childhood. One of the poets in his "lines to a Waterfowl" wrote thus- "0 Thou who from zone to Zone guides thy certain flight. 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