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SEAFORTH, ONTARIO, AUGUST 30, 1962
Recognize Aims Of Development Association
Well deserved recognition of the work -
being done by the Mid -Western Devel-
opment Association on behalf of area
municipalities, including Seaforth, is
contained in a recent editorial refer-
ence in the London Free Press. Too
often, as the Free Press points out,we
fail to give proper value to studies such
as those being carried out by the associ-
ation.
Too often an economic study of agri-
cultural land, industries and feasibility
of new development, such as that re-
cently completed in Perth and Huron
Counties may sound like a lot of paper
talk and statistics, the Free Press says.
Yet this is the basis of surveys sought
by persons who intend to invest their.
capital, in a particular town.
If surveys are completed by a board.
such as Mid -Western Ontario Develop-
ment Association immediate informa-
tion is ready for anyone wanting to
open up new industry or commercial
houses. Few merchants now will plan a
major store outlet without having a
competent analysis made of the buying
power of the area, or the trend toward
increased population and industrial ac-
tivity.
Frequently municipalities who club
together for these development boards
see no concrete result. Yet new indus-
tries are not built daily nor are super-
markets scattered broadcast. The muni-
cipality must have facts and figures
ready to present to prospects.
Ontario continues to grow. Towns
that have looked ahead and prepared
sites for new enterprises may have an
edge on other centres that were idle,
the Free Press warns, and adds this ad-
vice in conclusion : If your town isn't
suitable for new industry it is as well
to know in advance rather than hoping
against hope and spending citizens'
money uselessly on worthless promo-
tion.
What Is . Behind Fiscal Crisis?
There has been much talk about the
financial crisis which we in Canada
have faced for some time, but the ex-
istance of which has but recently been
admitted by the Government.
During the period in which the diffi-
culty was building up we didn't pay
much attention. It seemed too remote,
too complicated to bother with and, in
any event, it never would affect us as
individuals.
Now, however, that the crisis . is re-
flected in higher prices, in tight money,
in higher interest rates and in many
other ways that :bring home to each of
us every day just how, serious the situa-
tion is, more people are wondering what
happened.
The fiscal crisis, which could get
worse before it gets better, is not so
complex that it must be a mystery to
the average Canadian. In effect — as
explained in the following ekcerpts
from an article in the monthly .Com-
mercial Letter issued by the Canadian
Imperial Bank of Commerce—individu-
als and governments have been living
too ' high for too long on borrowed
money. -
"After nine consecutive years of de-
ficits in our international- balance of
payments, aggregating $9,235 million,
and after five consecutive years- of fed-
eralbudgetary deficits, amounting to
nearly $2,200 million, explains the art-
icle, "foreign investors -are reappraising
Canada as a place for investment."
"It is one thing to employ foreign
capital to provide capital goods which
should earn their keep by future pro-
duction ; it is quite another to obtain
foreign capital to enable the country to
use up, consumer goods when this capi-
tal has tobe paid for from some other
source at some future time. . . At
the same time, the combined expendi-
tures of our three levels of government.
have consumed increasing percentages
of the gross national product. In 1951
these governments took 23.5 per cent;
last year, 32.3 per cent. A consequence
has been constant upward pressure on
costs of production which has more'
than offset increased efficiency in busi-
ness administration and has placed
manufacturers and other. producers at
an increasing disadvantage in competi-
tion with foreign production in both
domestic and foreign markets. .
"The •first stage in remedying prob-
lems is to recognize what the problems
really are. .There are many difficulties
to be overcome and they are not transi-
tory or easy. The first basic step is a
fresh appraisal of the ways in which
the heavy weight of the nation's wel-
fare undertakings can be borne and the
ways in which the tax structure can be
reorganized, so as to provide incentives
rather than deterrents to enterprise'
and to encourage the accumUlati'on of .
domestic capital."
KNOW YOUR CANADA
Which is the largest Uni-
versity in Canada?
The University of Tdronto.
It is, the provincial university
of Ontario and a Ieading cen-
tre for graduate study and re-
search. The University of To-
ronto is a vast complex of sev-
eral federated denominational
"'colleges, • along with many well-
knowninstitutions, such as the
Royal Ontario Museum, the
Royal Conservatory of Music
and the David Dunlop Observa-
tory at Richmond Hill, Ontario.
The Ontario Agricultural and
Veterinary College at Guelph,
60 miles away, belongs to the
University of Toronto, as does
the Ontario College of Art .in
Toronto. Degrees conferring
entry into many professions
are awarded to graduates and
PhD's are granted for post-
graduate studies. Research ac-
tivities are widespread, the best
known being -medical and aero-
nautical: The University of To-
ronto libraries house over one
'million books, including many
rare volumes.
Tit HANDY FAMILY
A WO UNDER I CAN TAKE
THIS THEE WOULD BE A HINT M'bfAR
DEUGHTFUL... I'LL HATCH A
PLAN
Why is the small city of
St. Jean, P.O., important in
Canadian history?
For both military and indus-
trial reasons. Situated on the
Richelieu River, 23 miles south-
east of Montreal, St. Jean stands
at the head of the Chambly
Canal, giving it a direct wa-
terWay to New York City, via
Lake Champlain and the Hud-
son' River. Champlain passed
the site of St. Jean in 1609, but
not . until 1748 was Fort St.
Jean built there. During the
American Revolution, St. Jean
became the key to Canada. The
British concentrated defensive
troops there in 1775 and stood
fast for a month in face of the
American, Montgomery's, at-
tacks. The city also played a
large part in the Rebellion of
1837• and still retains a military
importance today. R has a fine
barracks -and " is the site of the
College Militaire Royal, a train-
ing school for French-speaking
Officers. St. Jean became the
terminus of Canada's first rail-
way, the Champldin and St.
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This railroad from La Prairie
to St. Jean was 16 miles long.
Today St. Jean is an industrial
centre 'producing sewing ma-
chines, clay, machinery, knit-
ted goods,,.cables and conduits,
rubber products, canned goods,
furniture and matches,
* * *
Which ,.Victorian won a
prize for foreclosing the
mortgage on the old home-
stead?
George Agnew Reid, famous
Canadian painter. His picture,
"The Foreclosure of the Mort-
gage," won medals in the 1893
Chicago World's Fair and in the
following year at the great San
Francisco Fair. The subject of
his prize-winning picture has
long been the climactic situa-
tion of stock satires on Victor-
ian melodrama. But in the
1890's it was a serious matter
and Reid painted it that way.
Born -in Wingham, Ont., in 1860,
Reid studied art in Toronto,
Philadelphia, Paris and Madrid.
At successive stages in his ca-
reer he specialized in portrai-
ture, genre pictures like "The
Foreclosure of the Mortgage,'
and finally murals. Reid enjoy-
ed great eminence among Cana-
dian artists of his day, beconi-
ing president,of the Ontario So-
ciety' of Artists, later rising to
the presidency of the Royal
Canadian Academy. He was
prineipal of the Ontario Col-
lege of Arts from 1912 to 1929.
Reid died in.1947, but many of
his works can be seen in the
National ,Gallery and the Pub-
lic Archives. In 1954, Encyclo-
pedia Canadiana recalls; the
Federal 'Government erected a
commei'riorative tablet to this
1?iotte¢r of Canadian art at
Wing am,
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"That'll 'be three dollars -for the visit and thirty
dollars for the stethoscope he ate."
A .MACDUFF OTTAWA REPORT
WAIT AND SEE
OTTAWA—It begins to look
as if there will be no snap Fed-
eral election before Christmas.
Statements made by the lead-
ers of the two splinter parties
indicate that they are not
anxious to have an early elec-
tion. '
They, are going to stall and
stall, thereby keeping Prime
Minister John Diefenbaker's
minority Government in -office
for some months at least. There
had been some thought among
politicians drifting back to Par-
liament Hill after the summer,
that the first six days of the
new session would be crucial.
The Liberals' have made it
clear they will introduce a
want of confidence motion: If
the Social Crediters and the
New Democratic Party group
supported. the Liberal motion,
that would be the end of Mr.
Diefenbaker's minority admini-
stration. The vote. could come
very early in the new session.
But at two press conferences
held in Ottawa the leaders of
the Socreds and the NDP group
have shied away from any sug-
gestion of an early defeat of
the Diefenbaker Government.
Both claim that it would not be
in the interests of the country.
This seems passing strange in
that both leaders "during' the
June 18' general election cam-
paign had been strenuously try-
ing to convince the Canadian
people that the Diefenbaker
Government was not to be trust-
ed with administering Canada's
affairs. Time and ' again they
had shouted from election meet-
ing platforms that they had no
confidence in the Conservative
Government. But now sudden-
ly they think it would be in the
best interests of time country .to
keep the Tories in office at
least , through the winter
months.
Politicians, it seems, like wo-
men, have the privilege of
changing their minds, and ex-
ercise it.
The twin leaders of the. So-
cial Credit group called a press
conference to clear up . matters
during a party caucus in Ot-
tawa recently, But after the
two leaders had answered num-
erous questions 'the newsmen
went away shaking their heads
in bewilderment. Robt. Thomp-
son wished it clearly under-
stood he was leader and Real
Caouette was his deputy. But
the title, according to Caouette,
is "co -leader".
There is no need for a snap
election said Mr. Thompson. He
contended it would be wrong
to force another election at this
time as it would only result in
another;,, minority Govern-
ment". • Later at a press confer-
ence the following week, NDP
leader Tommy Douglas 'made
the same point: an election
brought on now might wind up
with another stalemate. The
Liberals don't subscribe to this.
Neither it would appear does
Mr. Caouette. He told report-
ers_he had fought against the
Tories for 22 years and was not
going to start supporting them
now. He would continue to fight
Diefenbaker and would support
any "serious" non-q�onfidence
motion.
There's the rub.' He indicat-
ed he would not class as a "ser-
ious non -confidence motion" .a
simple unadorned motion' re-
cording want of confidence in
the Government. That is the
form of motion the Liberals
have suggested, through their
leader Mike Pearson, they may
bring forward. With such a
motion the Grits don't see how
the Socreds or NDP'ers can vote
against it. If they don't support
it the splinter .parties are in
effect stating they suddenly
have regained confidence in the
Diefenbaker 'administration. Mr.
Thompson wants no election un-
til at least May or June; neither
it would appear-- does -.the NDP.
But both groups emphatically
deny they are afraid of another
election, They are sparring for
time to gather funds and organ-
ize for the next national con-
test.
Both splinter parties contend
they are stalling off the defeat
of the Diefenbaker minority
Government for the good of the
country, an argument that some
people will find hard to swal-
low. Both claim that to precipi-
tate an election in the winter
would aggravate the unemploy-
ment situation and the econ-
omic crisis.
But shortly after the June
election Mr. Caouette express-
ed the opinion, "The quicker
we have another election the
quicker we will have such a
(stable) Government". There is
some evidence that he is still
inclined to that view. Obviously
Mr. Caouette and Mr. Thompson
are not as one. But at the out-
set there will be many Quebec
members of 'the Social Credit
group who will prefer to hold
on to their seats and the hand-
some pay cheque that.goes with
being an M.P. They too will
want to stall off an election for
several months, so it will be
"follow the leader Thompson"
rather than "follow the leader
PAST TEE
1
50 FAR THERE'S' GAILY
0/VE THING WRONG .W/TH
/T. TWENTY DOLLARS A
MONTH f7,i? TO/0 YEAR$`.
IN THE YEARS AGONE
InterestingItems gleaned from
The xpositor of 25, 50
and 75 years ago.
From The Huron Expositor
August 27, 1937
Workmen commenced Mon-
day to build bases for the new
ornamental lights which will
soon replace the present poles
on Main Street.
The Collegiate Institute board
at a meeting Tuesday evening,
appointed Mr. T. S. Smith as
caretaker to fill the vacancy
caused by the resignation of
John Laing.
Very large quantities of grain
are being marketed in. Hensall
and shippings very brisk at the
railway station.
.A terrific downpour occasion;
ed heavy damage to crops and
orchards in the Brucefield dis-
trict on,,, Thursday. Hail accom-
panied the storm, as did light-
ning.
Mr. Harold Smalldon, Walton,
met with an accident last Satur-
day while unloading wood from
a car at the CPR station, having
some ribs broken and a frac-
tured kneecap,
Mr. Brownlee, of Goderich,
has taken the position as CPR
foreman in Walton.
Mr. Ralph Davidson has pur-
chased -the blacksmith shop at
Winthrop, formerly owned and
operated for many years by
John Bullard.
Farmers are busy hauling in
and threshing, having been de.
layed by the long wet spell.
Some grain is sprouting and
some moulding is occurring in
the stooks. •
The August price on first-
class hard coal, stove or nut
size, is $12.40, delivered, or
$11.80 picked up, the Seaforth
Farmers' Club announced this
week.
* *
From The Huron Expositor
August 30, 1912
Mr. Hubert Henderson, who
has completed the short term
By REV. ROBERT. H. HARPER
TWO OLD MEN •
When Napoleon Bonaparte
returned from Elba, made his
triumphal way to Paris, and
scattered' the regime the Allies
had set up for France, he is-
sued the last great call to arms
and youth and aged alike an-
swered the summons. Though
youths were called, it was large-
ly older men, including the
famous Old Guard and other
veterans who fought in the bat-
tle of Waterloo.
I thought of those veterans of
Napoleon as I read that Aden-
hauer and De Gaulle were meet-
ing in Paris, to discuss the prob-
lems of Western Europe. There
is a strong appeal to the imag-
ination as we think of the lead-
ers.of two mighty nations that
have spilled the blood of their
sons in wars against each other
so long, with victory going to
one side and another, now meet-
ing to work out enduring peace.
Thus often have old men, like
Moses of ancient time, led the
way and pointed with unerring
finger -to the land of promise.
And we trust that in maturity
of 'wisdom the great ,and sore
problems of the distressed
world may be worked out to'
the good of mankind.
Just a Thought
If man can see one foot be-
yond the end of his nose he
cannot go through life without
coming to the realization that
the handiwork of God sur-
rounds him every step of the
way.
Caouette" at the start, That
could change. ' •
Mr. Douglas speaking for the
NDP does not want and does
not expect an early election. He
is confident Canadians want no
part of a winter election. First
job of the new parliament was
not to defeat the minority Gov-
ernment he believed, but to
cope with the grave economic
situation.
How did Mr. Douglas justify
his group supporting a Govern-
ment that it had denounced
during the election campaign?
He explained, "I think there
would be genuine resentment
in the country if an early elec-
tion was precipitated. We're
heading into a severe Winter of
unemployment."
bfowever, he dislikes any im-
plication that his group would
be supporting the Tory admin.
istration. He emphasized that
the NDP'ers first would wait to*
see what the throne speech con-
tained. If there was no pro-
gram, no satisfactory measures
to cope with the' current econ-
omic crisis, then the opposition
groups would have no choice
but to vote the government out
of office.
It is shaping up that early in
the coming session the Liberals
with their 100 members will be
voting against the Government
in support of their nonconfi-
dence .motion. But the Socreds
and New Democratic Party will
be aligned with the Diefenbak-
er minority government to prop
up that discredited administrh,
tints at lest through: the witip
tear mantra:
at the military school in Lon-
don, has been appointed prin-
cipal of the Bridgeburg Con-
tinuation School, at a salary of
$1,100.
Unless the coal miners anti
the railways get a swift move
on, there will be a coal famine
next winter, as a quarter of the
required, amount has not y., t
arrived.
Dr. Harburn is having a large
new stable erected near his resi-
dence on Main Street.
Mr. David Bell has sold his
farm on the third concession of
Tuckersmith, LRS, to Mr. Wil-
liam 13roadfoot.
Tuckersmith council met in
Seaforth on Saturday, when
James Stewart was appointed
collector for 1912, at a salary
of $125.00.
Wheat dropped this week to
87 cents a bushel at the Sea -
forth market.
Miss A. I. Petrie left this
week for Sault Ste. Marie, near
which place she will teach
school.
* * *
From The Huron Expositor
September 2, 1887
Dry weather still continues,
and water is getting scarce, but
the old Maitland is still holding
good. •
Harvest is over and now the
farmers are busy seeding and
threshing. Farmers are getting
10 bushels to the acre.
Mr. John B. Henderson, of
the Huron Road, Tuckersmith,
has a pear tree which was plant-
ed last fall; All spring it re-
fused to thrive, and later on
seemed to be dying. A few
weeks ago it broke out in blos-
som and now small, pears are
forming on it.
The trustees nave ►rade great
exertion to get the alterations
and .additions to the Seaforth
High School completed.
Fair warning. This column—
all of it—is going to be about
my son. I used to think it was
bad form to talk about your
kids. But after years of sitting
around listening to other par-
ents rave about their fantas-
tically clever and talented chil-
dren, I became fed up. Now,
you'll find me right in there
with the most boring of them,
trying to insert a few brags
about my own offspring with
the proper degree of false mod-
esty.
Fifteen years ago this week,
my son was sitting in his moth-
er's lap, in his bare feet, look-
ing like a miniature Winston
Churchill; blinking at this hot,
bright , world, and waiting for
some more of those goodies
that came every three hours.
* * *
Right now, he's sitting in the
living room, in his bare feet,
at the piano, alternating be-
tween Chopin mazurkas and
Blues In The Night. The Lord
alone knows what is going
through his mind, but I'll bet
anything that within 20 min-
utes he'll be in the kitchen look-
ing for something to eat.
' Food is almost a religion at
that age. Their- most familiar
pose is standing with the re-
frigerator door open, gazing in-
to the interior with, the rapt
look of a Buddhist priest at his
prayer -wheel.
* * *
All that grub seems to bear
fruit. In the last year he's
grown about a foot. The shoes
you bought him a month ago
are suddenly pinching his toes.
The trousers you bought last
Saturday are halfway to his
knees.
Hugh is an odd kid in some
ways, but show me a 15 -year-
old who isn-'t odd in some ways,
and I'll show you a freak. Like
most boys, he's a confusing
combination_ of opposites: sulks
and sunniness, selfishness and
thoughtfulness, cowardice and
courage. In my prejudiced opin-
ion,' the' virtues heavily out-
weigh the others.
* * *
He's 'as stubborn as a mule,
when he thinks he's right. Just
like• his mom. Orhe can be the
easiest person in the world to
get along with. He can give
you a look so surly you can
scarcely keep your hands off
him. Or he can met you with
the most charming and disarm-
ing smile any boy ever produc-
ed.
He can sit and discuss Com-
SLJGAR
and
SPICE
By Bill Smiley
munist China intelligently, but
don't send him to the store to
buy four pork chops and a loaf
of bread. He'll come home
with eight lamb chops and a
bag of buns.
* * *
He can memorize a Beethoven
sonata, but don't ask him where
his gym shorts are, or when
his -weed collection , is due, or
what .day it is, or what time
the party starts. He doesn't re-
member.
He can work from seven in
the morning to 10 at night on
his music and school work,
without complaint. But when
summer arrives, he can scarce-
ly find the strength to put on
his shoes afid he can develop a'
complete mental block about
the fence he started painting
six weeks ago and never finish.
ed.
* * *
He's an honor student at
school, but he can't find the
shirt he took off last night. He
can play a clarinet, but he can't
get the lawnmower started.
In short, he's right in the
middle of that bewildering ex-
perience known as adolescence,
when the body is undergoing
chemical and physical revolu-
tions, and the mind is groping
through the no-man's-land be-
tween the cool sanity of child-
hood and the confused fever of
young manhood.
However, our son is taking it
with remarkable calm, I must
say. In fact, he's so calm that
he can sleep until noon without
moving a muscle, if he's not
called.
* * *
I don't pretend to understand
him. But we like each other
pretty well, which is more im-
portant. The chief difference
between him and 'other boys of
the same age is that he is my
son, and I would not trade him
for eight million dollars, Eliza-
beth Taylor, and the last 20
years of my life returned, singly
or. together.:
Oh, I almost forgot my llrag•._
The kid tried a music exam in
June, Grade 1¢, piano. The re-
sults have been corning in ever
since. He obtained -the highest
mark in the province. He won
two' cash scholarships and ad-
mission to a special school of
music.
His mother nearly went out
of her head. When asked how
he feels about it all, Tugh re-
plies, "Pretty good, I guess," .
with a small grin.
by
Tom Dorr
YOU MAY RETIRE IN THE
THOUGHT THAT YOUR
DAUGHTER IS IN SAFE
HANDS,
YOU HAVE NEVER
HEARD MY
REPUTATION AS
A G✓rNTLEMAN
QUESTIONED.
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