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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1962-07-12, Page 2Since 1860, Serving the Community First Published at SEAFORTH, ONTARIO, every Thursday morning by McLE.AN !.,,11ANDREW Y. MCI,EAN, Editor. D . . A Member Canadian Weekly Newspapers Association Ontario Weekly Newspapers Association t► Audit Bureau of Circulations Subscription Rates: Canada (in advance) $2,50 a Year • Outside Canada (in advance) $4.00 a Year - V LP. SINGLE COPIES 10 CENTS EACH Authorized as Second Class Mail, Post Office Department, BROS., Publishers Ottawa SEAFORTH, ONTARIO, JULY 12, 1962 The 9ther At a time of year when auto fatali- ties soar and every day brings fresh headlines of yet another crash, it is common sense for each of us to review our driving habits. What are the qualities of the expert driver? Here are some standards drawn up by the B.C. Automobile Association for those who wish to cultivate the quali- ties of the exper . The expert river—can park easily, quickly. Can change gears efficiently, up or down. Can travel slowly, forwards or back- wards, smoothly safely. Does not accelerate sharply or brake suddenly unless in an emergency. Handles his vehicle smoothly at all times and under all conditions. Keeps both hands on the wheel ex- cept when signalling or changing gear. Is constantly aware of all that is hap- pening around him and keeps 'his eyes moving across his driving range. Knows an bserves the traffic regu- lations. Knows, and applies, the rules for safe following distances. Slows down at sundown. Consults the rear-view mirrorto as- sist following faster drivers. Does not "hog" the centre line. Gives hand signals correctly, clearly. Practises patience. Does not use speed as a habit. If he has any disability, knows it and makes allowances for it. Can handle a skid, a blowout, a sud- Fluoridation At the beginning of this year, 25 more Canadian communities were fluor- idating their water supplies than at the same, time last year. Fourteen of these 25 are, in Saskatchewan, six in Quebec, ,three in Ontario, and two in the Yukon and . the Northwest Terri- •`tories. The campaign on behalf of fluorida- tion continues steadily, sometimes against vociferous opposition. A total of 37 plebiscites on fluoridation were held in Canada during 1961. Of these;' only 15 were successful—cape Breton Post. Driver Crazy den braking emergency. Exercises good judgment — never takes a risk. Appreciates the need to be especial- ly alert where children are on or near the road. Has the right outlook on driving be- cause he respects the rights of other road -users. Is courteous. Keeps his car in first-class safety condition. Drives in harmony with his fellow motorists. Perhaps the best advice is that given recently by a New York taxi driver. Completing a million miles of accident.- free ccident-free driving, he was asked,to give a 15 - minute talk on safe driving as part of the celebration of his record. "It won't take me any 15 minutes to tell how to avoid accidents,"- the taxi driver said. "It's simple . . . just drive on the theory that every other driver you see is crazy." Grammar Sense There is a lot of common sense sin the advice which Dr. William DeWitt Hyde, president of Bowdoin College in Maine has given his students. , "Get your grammar right," he says, "and all other needful things will come to you." Here is. Dr. Hyde's grammar - for -living formula : • Live in the active voice, not in the passive. •Think more of what you make happen than about what happens to you. Live in the indicative mood, rather than the subjunctive. Be concerned with things as they are, rather than as they might be. Live in the present tense, facing the duty at hand without regret for the past and worry over the future. Live-in the first person, criticizing yourself rather than finding fault with others. Live in the singular number, caring more for the approval of your own con- science than for the applause of the crowd: And if you want a verb to conjugate, you cannot do better than to take the verb, "to love." ,KNOW YOUR ' .Which is the most mys- terious cemetery in Can- ada? The serpent -mound of Rice ,Lake, Ontario, would probably ilualify. 'This ancient burial ground, built of rocks and earth in the shape of a serpent, is located in an -oak grove. It is 190 feet long and five feet high. It was constructed by the Hope- wellian people, a prehistoric group that 'disappeared about 5,000 years ago. In front of the serpent's head is a large egg- , like mound. Surrounding it are five ancient burial grounds. Rice Lake, 25 miles long,- is about 15" miles north of Port Hope and Cobourg. * * * What are the Richelieu Clubs? A service -club organization founded in 'Canada and of F'rench expression. Its mem- bers are professional business- men. Its purpose is to further the mental, moral and physical protection of children. Found- ed in 1945, as a single club in Ottawa, the organization grew, within its first 10 years into 82 clubs throughout French Can- ada. * * * Who presided twice over revolutionary governments in Canada'? The i11 -fated Louis Riel. Lead- er of the Metis in the Canadian West in the period when the free life of this buffalo -hunt- ing people was menaced by white immigration, farms and railways, Riel became president of a provisional government which negotiated with the Can- adian government until a rash act of . violence brought troopa in froth Ontario and sent Riel Oft in flight. Iii 1884 he return- ed to Canada in answer to the invitation of the Metis in Sa - 1katdhewaii. T same course of peaceful agitation followed by violexthe� again brought alined'.:• reprisal and defeat. after trial, Riel was treason. CANADA This time, hanged for * * * What is unusual Richmond, B.C,? Like Venice •in Italy, Rich- mond, B.C., is a municipality of islands. With an area of 58 square miles, Richmond is situ- ated on two large and several smaller islands in the Fraser River delta near Vancouver. It has two race tracks and exten- sive fishing and cannery opera- tions. However, market -garden- ing and small fruit growing are still principal activities, with • about modern industrial plants rap- idly coming up in importance to the area. d * * What famous .business- man got started running a trading post? Donald A. 'Smith, later Lord Strathcona. He served the Hud- son's.Bay Company as the trad- er in charge of its post at Rigo- let, Labrador, for many years. Smith went on to become gov- ernor of the Hudson's Bay Company, a leading banker and a founder of the first transcon- tinental railway line in Canada. timiv I. - "If they don't want initials carved on their old desks they shouldn't have taught us how to print!" A' MACDUFF OTTAWA REPORT GREEN CHAMBER JUNGLE OTTAWA — Prime Minister John Diefenbaker has made it clear he has no intention of forming a coalition with the Social Credit group in the Com- mons. Nor has he any plans for entering into .a "working agreement" with the Socreds, despite their surprising show of strength in Quebec. A report was circulated re- cently by a wire service agency that the Prime Minister was considering inviting a Social Credit member of parliament from Quebec to join his cab- inet. His reaction was almost explosive and he denied the report emphatically. ' It had been ''suggested that to take a Socred into the cab- inet from Quebec would help him solve a dilemma he now faces -namely in selecting an- other inember of the cabinet from Quebec from among the so 'few Tories from that French- speaking province. The Con servatives only elected fourteen members in Quebec while the Social Crediters elected 26. The Prime Minister has five cabinet vacancies to All. Three of them are in ,Quebec, one in Ontario and one in Newfound- land. Mr. Diefenbaker has told reporters at Ottawa that -he will be soon making an announce- ment about cabinet changes, but has refused to drop any hints as to how he will reshuffle the cabinet. One of the first decisions con- fronting the Prime Minister is the selection of a speaker for the new parliament. Tradition- ally. the speaker must be French-speaking because the last speaker was English-speak- ing. • The first and obvious choice for speaker appeared to be Paul Martineau, MP -elect for Pontiac-Temiscamingue. He was deputy speaker in the last House of Commons and would normally succeed to Mr. Speak- er's chair. Bot there are sug- gestions that he is headed for the cabinet to fill one of the vacancies created by the defeat of three Quebec cabinet minis- ters. In such a case Marcel Lambert, MP -elect from .,Ed- monton West, who is completely bilingual, may find himself designated as the man to suc- ceed to Mr. Speaker's chair. The new Speaker will have a very important post and a dif- ficult task: The Social Credit group had indicated that it in- tends to raise many questions in the Commons. Already, Real Caouette, the French-Canadian deputy leader of the Socred group, has suggested he will be on his feet frequently to chal-' lenge policies, raise questions and generally create some con- sternation in the Commons. With Stanley Knowles, the NDP member of parliament - elect from Winnipeg North Cen- tre, an expert on procedure, in the next Rouse the Speaker will have to be careful in his rul- ings. No longer will there be a massive majority to back up Mr. Speaker2 in his findings, who will be treading a tight- rope of technicalities. Meantime Mr. Diefenbaker has decided that the best strate- gy is to stall. He ..will .put off calling the new parliament in- to session until pos's'ibly Sep- tember 27 at the earliest. This despite demands from Liberal Leader L. B. Pearson and New Democratic Party Leader T. C. Douglas, 'that Parliament be summoned into session as soon as possible. The Prime 'Minister's delay- ing tactics brought him under sharp attack from J, W. Pick. ersgill, Liberal MP-eleet from Bonavista • Twillingate. T h e doughty member from New- foundland pointed out that Mr. Diefenbaker in the election had been repudiated by 63 per cent of the Canadian voters. Ile labelled Mr. Diefenbaker's illethrid of ir11rodtieiag the aus- terity program. Withdut Persia• ment, as the "press release method" and "taxation without representation." This,,he sug- gested, "was the wayof the dictator, that is the way peo- ple's rights. are trampled." One key man missing from the new Parliament is Tommy Douglas, the New Democratic Party leader. There was re- gret in many quarters that he had not made the grade at the June 18 election because he is known to be an able parlia- mentarian. However, Mr. Doug- las may still be able to put in an appearance in the new Par- liament because Erhart Regier has declared his determination to resign his British Columbia seat in favor of his leader, Mr. Douglas, and his own constitu- ency organization has now vot- ed in favor of Mr. Regier with- drawing in favor of Mr. Doug- las. But it is not as easy as all that. Normally, a Member de- clares his resignation in the Commons, or by.; writing a let- ter to the Speaker, witnessed by two other persons., But the House is not in sessionand no speaker has been chosen. In addition it is up to Prime Mini- ster Diefenbaker to call a' by- election if Mr. Regier resigns. There is nothing binding on the Prime Minister to call an im- mediate by-election. And if Mr. Diefenbaker is disinclined to call the by-election as soon as possible there is no point in Mr. Regier resigning. He might as well sit in the first session of the new Parliament, assum- ing that within six months, or less than. a year, the minority govern ent will be defeated and a h r general- election precipitated. Mr. Pearson, following the first caucus of his group of new- ly elected Liberal members of parliament exuded confidence and served notice that his par- ty is ready for another general election at any time. He declar- ed flatly and firmly that the Liberals would ' fulfill their du- ty as the official opposition. 'They will oppose when opposi- tion is required. He added that if the opposi- tion resulted in an early elec- tion "this will, not be, an unwel- come result." Meantime the Socreds are on rec rd. as wish- ing to avoid another federal election this year. But the par- ty's parliamentary leader, Rob- ert Thompson, said the Socreds would vote against the Diefen- baker government's austerity program if a non -confidence motion was placed before the House. • Thus the stage seems set for an early election. The Liberals have indicated their eagerness to introduce motions trf lack of confidence (which they strongly feel) in the administration as soon as parliament meets. The Socreds have said they will support such motions if they are aimed at the government's austerity program. It looks like Canada might find itself plung- ed into another general electiop„ before Christmas unless the Socreds have second thoughts, or what is more unlikely, the Liberals weaken in their de- sire to challenge the minority government. THE HANDY FAMILY YOUPitOMISED LAST WEEK TO MAKE SOMETHIN& POR ME, WITH, THESE 7YPEWRi1ER aI,BoN SPOOLS 1 vE SAVED' Y'll GET MKT TO If SUZY,M'DEAIZ IN THE YEARS AGONE Interesting • items gleaned- from The Expositor of 2S, 50 and 75 years ago. i=rom The Huron Expositor - 0' July, 9, 1937 Seaforth Dominion Day cele- bration established new records as perfect weather, together with an outstanding program, attracted a crowd estimated at nearly 3,000. Hoekey-minded caddies at the Seaforth Golf and Country Club tournament on Wednesday had a thrill when they spotted Mar- ty .Burke, well-known Chicago Blackhawks player, Ken Powell, son of Mr. and Mrs. Baden Powell, had the honor of carry- ing his bag and received a buck for doing so. On July 1st, Mrs. William Sclater celebrated her 87th birthday at the home of her daughter, Mrs. John Finlayson, where a family gathering was held. One of the worst electrical storms, accompanied by- rain, passed over this vicinity last Monday and has delayed hay- making and damaged a Iot which was ready to draw in. Miss Margaret Grieve has been engaged as teacher of SS No. 9, Tuckersmith, for the com- ing year. Mr. I. H. Weedmark, of the Collegiate staff here, is taking a five weeks' course in Agricul- ture at Guelph. A rink of local bowlers, com- posed of Messrs. M. A. Reid, W. J. Dunlop, R. S. Sproat and J. Beattie, skip, was in Stratford on Wednesday playing against the New Zealand bowlers, now touring Canada. * * * From The Huron Expositor July 12, 1912 The iron for the bridge on the 5th concession of Morris, north of Brussels, is being team- ed through town from Mitchell. It takes two days for the teams to make the round trip. Mr. Rollie Kennedy, of Tuck- ersmith, while assisting his men in loading the large boil- ers at the electric light ,works onto cars, got his hand caught between two timbers, smashing several fingers of the left hand. The first finger had to be ampu- tated. There were 241 adults and 118 children's tickets sold in Seaforth for the Sunday School excursion to Goderich on Tues- day. The furniture factory has been closed down since the firs of July, taking stock, but ig expected to resume work on Monday. Mr. Thompson, of Stratford, formerly of Logan, has been in the ;vicinity selling corrugated. pipes for sewers and culverts, of ,which the councils of.Hul- lett and McKillop are trying. At the last meeting of Tuck- ersmith council, Mr. James Mar - By REV. ROBERT H. HARPER McGuffey's Readers It had been my intention to write at some time about a group of books I had loved from childhood—now a contro- versy in some place beyond my horizon about McGuffey's Read- ers has stirred my typewriter keys. I do not pretend to ;any great knowledge of pedagogy, but 'tis hard for me to think the, way for a child to learn is to mem- orize a -lesson and then declaim it. One day I pointed to a cer- tain word in a small boy's per- fect declamation and asked him what it was and he did not know. I'll admit that the boy finally learned to read, and that `there is something about it that I don't understand: But I still believe I learned faster, begin- ning with "The cat is on the mat." Still though I -lay no great claim to knowledge of pedago- gy, I record my gratitude that lessons of life that I learned from McGuftey's Readers have remained with me to the pres- ent. With McGuffey right is right and wrong is wrong and the right has a way of vindicat- ing itself. McGuffey has quite a litera- ture to draw upon•, but if fault be found with his choice, I sub- mit that any literature that. tends to make boys and girls better is- worthwhile. Anyway, I'm, satisfied. BY LLOYD mwrrmao bAD MASE A TOY TELEPHONE FROM THE 'TYPEWRITER RIBBON Sff?OLS tin 'was appointed weed inspec tor for the township, and Mr. Andrew Archibald, as secretary - treasurer, at a salary of $125 per annum. At the regular meeting of Seaforth Council this week, Mr. J. F. Daly was appointed to fill the vacancy on -the Hydro Elec- tric Commission, caused by the, removal of D. J. McCallum. The tender of Mr. R. Frost for repairs on the town building was also accepted. * * * From The Huron Expositor , July 15, 1887 Mr. D. D. Rose has in his gar- den one of the natural curiosi- ties of the day„in the shape .of a black currant bush on one ofthe limbs of which is grow- ing a cluster of red currants right alongside the black ones, and there are no red currant bushes near the place. Mr. R. B. Scott, of. Roxboro, McKillop, has shown us a rear literary curiosity in -the shape 0 of the first paper published in Palestine. It is called the,. Palestine. It is called the "Hadikat-el-Akhbar,” and was issued in the town of Bayront, on the 14th of May, 1874. It is a paper about half the size of The Expositor, and one side is printed in Arabic and the other in French. One of my Grade 12 students is taking off in the morning on a trip. I rather envy him. He's heading for Vancouver, on a bicycle. All he has to do is pedal through the great loneliness of Northern Ontario, ant -crawl the endless prairies, toil across the Rockies and push the last long stretch through the vastness of B.C. * * * He has a brand-new bike, $50 in cash, one army blanket and a big supply of peanut butter sandwiches, to commence his journey. Also, of course, he has one other thing—a stout heart. When he reaches Vancouver he will sell his bicycle and set off for the Yukon. He hopes to work there for a year, save a stake, then return home and go -back to school to complete his education. He wants to be a writer, Thousands of young people have the same desire, but they never do anything about it except dream about all the money a writer is supposed to make. This fellow does' something about it. He writes all the time —poems, stories, paragraphs— struggling heroically with a natural inclination to misspell. He's going to keep a daily jour- nal on his trip. * * *'. He could have chosen no bet- ter method ofP acquiring the ex- perience and material so help- ful to a budding writer. There will be 50 stories, a hundred poems, a thousand incidents, in the strip of Canada ' across which his wheels will roll this summer. I envy him, as I said. He will grow brown ' and• hard. He will lie beneath the stars and yearn. He will heat pork and beans beside a mountain stream. And he will meet a thousand in- teresting people: Some of them will be •mean, most of them friendly. He will see a Canada that the passenger on transcontinental train or jet liner never sees. He will smell pines and see ripening wheat and feel the sun on his back in the morning, and hear coyotes yapping at night. * * * He will savor the joys of hot food in an empty belly, warmth after "zero at the bone," con- versation after loneliness, rest after exhaustion. He will mar- vel at sunset on the prairies and the moon setting fire to a tiny Iake. He will encounter hospitality that will enrich him SUGAR and SPICE By -Bill Smiley with.an abiding faith in human kindness. If he's very lucky, he will have the most rewarding ex- perience of all—he will get to know himself. This is the most difficult of all things for mod- ern man, who is so seldom alone, with time to think, and feel, and wonder. * * I think he'll make it. The fact that he reads and tries to write poetry does not mean that he's a pantywaist who will be crushed by his first brutal en- counter with life. This lad plays a rugged game of foot- ball. Last summer, he got as far as Mexico and wound up fighting bush fires in B.C. be- fore returning to school. YIe'A sensitive, but tough. But the important thiug is not that he makes it. the fact .that ;he is going, alone. We hear so much today about the desire of youth for conformity and security that it's ,refresh- ing to see the evidence refuted. * * * I do agree that today's young- sters seem to lack a spirit of... adventure. But note the wotd "seem." I don't believe they really lack it. I 'think they are seduced away from it by over- protective parents; they are robbed of their initiative by having things made too easy for them. At any rate, I'll be going west, in spirit, with this young fellow, and wishing I were • 20 years younger, so that I could be riding with him. I have a special interest in him because I taught him English and en- couraged him in pis writing. * * So I gave him a letter of in- troduction. It reads: "This will introduce 'Jim McKinnon, one of my Grade 12 students. Dur- • ing the year, this student has never (a) 'pulled a switch -blade on me; (b) Written an essay in which there were no spelling errors; (c) done anything of an ungentlemanly nature, while I was looking at him. ' Any fav- ors tendered him would be ap- preciated by Bill Smiley." There you are. Fair warning to my thousands of readers in the west. If a dusty, unshaven hobo with a bicycle appears at your door, or your newspaper.. office, and 'pulls out that letter, you have a chance to tell me off, by proxy. On the other hand, if you don't feel too hos- tile to me, don't be afraid to give him a cup of tea or a shakedown in the barn. He's a decent lad, and maybe some, day he'll put you in a book. IIALF�PAST-TEM -e • y y • r 4 • • • r • 4 • • M • • • • • • • e • •