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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1962-11-15, Page 2Since 1860, Serving the Community First Published at SEAFORTH- ONTARIO, every Thursday morning by McLEAN BROS„ Publishers ANDREW Y. MCLEAN, Editor Member Canadian Weekly Newspapers Association Ontario Weekly Newspapers Association Audit Bureau of Circulations Subscription Rates: \11U U/ = Canada (in advance) $2.50 a Year Outside Canada (in advance) $4.00 a Year U L N ` SINGLE COPIES — 10 CENTS EACH Authorized as Second Class Mail, Post Office Department, Ottawa SEAFORTH, ONTARIO, NOVEMBER 15, 1962 Bring Tipping Under Control Little by little, customs which at one time were confined to larger centres, come to be regarded as commonplace in even the smallest community. So it is with tipping. There was a time when the only occasion rural' resi- dents came face to face with tipping was on those rare visits to a large city. Now, however, size means nothing in- sofar as expecting a tip is concerned. That is why it is refreshing to see that Japanese railway workers recent- ly approved, by an, overwhelming ma- jority, a resolution which denounced tipping as "dishonorable," The Peter - Home Computer Underscoring how complex life is get- ting to be, tiny computers are being de- signed especially for home use. And al- ready trend -spotters are forecasting a "home -office" room where all domestic °paper work will be done. Well, there's certainly plenty of pa- per work around the house. Not the least of it centres about the almost daily accumulation and recording of data for use in filing federal income tax returns. So a fireside computer ought tQ be pretty handy. Moreover, with the government in- stalling its new giant computers to fer- • ret out taxpayers' errors, it seems on- ly fair that the citizens be armed with a gadget of his own to match its wits with Uncle Sam's. - But there's a limit to a home com- puter's talents: It can't, for instance, march down to the internal revenue service and launch a spirited defence of a claimed deduction. As between tax- payer and taxtaker the struggle, we fear, will always be unequal, — Wall Street Journal. Truly in Earnest If the world someday finds a way to beat its bombs into plowshares and for. the lion to lie down with the lamb, the little Central American country of El Salvador will deserve commemoration as the great pioneer. Its army learned that not enough steel reinforcing rods were available to build 95 schools that are part of the Alliance • of Progress prug.ram. ' The army offered to melt , down 3,000 rifles, the Ministry of edu-: cation accepted.and the rods have been delivered,— ( Detroit Free Press) . borough Examiner, who draws atten- tion to. the decision, adds it becomes all the more significant when it is realiz- ed that most railway workers earn only $75 a month and could increase their earnings considerably by bending their inoral convictions a little. Behind their opposition to tipping, however, is the realization that once courtesy has a price, it becomes a commodity instead of a genuine expression of respect be- tween civilized beings. "In western society, where tipping is considered more of .a duty than is courtesy, many people are forced to de- pend on the generosity of others for a livelihood. They are it•r fact part beg- gar. It is unfortunate that our influ- ence is Iikely to win over the Japanese ultimately and make them part of the international conspiracy to have cus- tomers pay what the employer should —wages," the Examiner concludes, Carrot Whiskey A particularly hoary `old wives' tale" that has held up welt under the buffetings of outraged medical science is 'the one about the eating of carrots being good for one's eyesight. We couldn't care less whether it is a big fib or not, but we imagine some people will be when they learn that a whisky made from carrots won first prize in a recent contest in England. After all, anything that might help keep a drink- er from getting "blind" would be greet- ed with throaty hosannas inome so- cial circles—(Hamilton Specta r). Signs of Times? During the days of- gallant knights, citizens in a Moselle village organized a fraternity of St. Sebastian to protect themselves against bandit gangs. The fraternity also guaranteed free funer- als—which is why it has continued to this day. Citizens have just voted once again to keep the fraternity going.-- Rundschau, Cologne. Who Needs ,'Hearts? A West German hqusewife dressing a chicken discovered the bird had two normally developed hearts. Interesting but not helpful. What we're looking for is the chicken with four drumsticks. —Cleveland Plain Dealer. KNOW YOUR CANADA Who discovered the Lake of the Woods? Jacques de Noyon, voyageur. Born in Trois Rivieres, P.Q., in 1668, de Noyon was only 20 when he made his great voy- age of discovery to the Lake of the Woods, via Rainy Lake and Rainy River, which also claimed him as discoverer. In 1700 de Noyon became discon- tented with the French gov- ernment's restrictions on the fur trade and offered his serv- ices to the Earl of Beilomont, Governor of New York. Four years later he married Abigail Stebbins in Deerfield, Mass. Less than one month later, la terrible massacre took pia e there under the leadership of 3. B. Hertel de Rouville. De Noyon and his bride returned to Canada, accompanied by her family who came as captives. De Noyon died at his family's' home in Boucherville, P.Q., 77 years old and the father of 13 children. * * *. Has Canada's population increased steadily? No. It has grown more in fits and starts from a broad his- torical view. Our recorded pop- ulation history began in 1605 when 79 French settlers, un- der Champlain, wintered at Ile Ste. Croix. 13y spring only 44 remained alive. In 1608 a smaller group wintered at Que- bee. English settlement began in 1613 with 62 people at St. John's, Nfld: In 1666 the first intendant of New 1*trance, Jean Talon, carriedut" the first eensus of modern times. His count was 3,215' persons., By the end of the !.7th century, hti'Wever, New Mow 'had a boil ltatfoIt et X5;000`. "the 10. 000 French Canadians of 1763 Were descended from no more than 10,000 original French set- tlers and the five million French Canadians of today stem mostly from this tiny group of ancestors. Following the American Revolution, Bri- tish immigration into Canada grew rapidly. The 10 -year -cen- sus system began in 1851 with a count of 2,436,000, Succes- sive census figures have shown a growth rate varying from 10 to 35 per cent every decade. This is one of the most persist- ent records of growth to be found in any country, * * * What part did the Swiss play in early Canada? The first person of Swiss ori- gin to figure prominently in Canadian history was Sir Fred- erick Haldimand, early in the British regime. The United Em- pire Loyalists included Mon- nonites, some of Swiss origin. They settled in Waterloo Coun- ty, Ontario. Among them was Christian Schneider, whose fam- ily Bible traced the Schneider history back to the Canton of Berne in 1534. Several early Huguenot fam- ilies immigrating to Canada were also Swiss. Some settled at River John, Nova Scotia. Sir George Provost, of French- speaking Swiss descent, became a prominent Canadian it the last century. The Encyclopedia Canadiana also recalls that Lord Selkirk's Red River col- ony, in Manitoba, included 200 Swiss. They were artisans, ra- ther than farmers, and had a difficult time in the pioneer community. l+or the protection of liis doloay, ,acrd Selkirk en- paed more than 104 then of two Swiss mercenary regiments. Some of the Red River Swiss eventually moved to Western Ontario, where they founded the villages of Zurich and Berne. The total number of Canadians born in Switzerland is now over 6,000. A well- known Canadian musician of Swiss birth is Ettore Mazzoleni, principal of the Royal Conserva- tory of Music of Toronto, i Which 60 -Year -Old New Canadian lunched a re- markable career in Saskat- chewan? P. M. Hendricks. This enter- prising man was born in Nor- way in 1834. At 18, he •was sailing his own seagoing fish- ing vessel. Later Hendricks moved to the United States, where he established two farm homes in succession and be- came a member of a state leg- islature. Ever restless, he im- migrated into Canada, acquir- ing a big farm at.Outlook, Sas- katchewan. He also started a newspaper there; and was ap- pointed' Norwegian consul. Hen- drick's Spirit typifies the 120 thousand Norwegian -Canadians. They have established many progressive rural communities, while others have become well known in industry, commerce and the professions. The Ev- angelical vangelical Lutheran Church, to which the great majority be- long, has more than 50 parish- es, with ,125 churches and a seminary in Saskatchewan, The Norwegian Canadians have as- similated easily into English - Canada. This has led to an abandonment of heir languafe, but they retain a strong inter- est in Norway and in their Own chttteltes and organitiations. "Good night, fellow chess club members!" A MACDUFF OTTAWA REPORT A FADING AFFAIR OTTAWA — The topsy-turvy voting on the last two want -of - confidence motions in t h e House of Commons has left a new atmosphere of uncertainty in its wake. In spite of fair indications of where the respective parties stood in regard to an early election the first few days -of the' 25th Parliament were tense. Then a pattern appeared that bode well to last for a long time. Neither Social Credit nor New Democratic Party were ready for an election but the Socreds with a solid phalanx consistently supported the Gov- ernment overnment through thick and thin, wording their own want - of -confidence motions in a way deliberately designed to fright- en off the other parties and giving the NDP the easy way out of voting against the Gov- ernment without risking an election. This, Social Credit continued to do until last week when the first Government motion to re- solve the House into Commit- tee of supply brought another opportunity for passing jud- ment on the Government. Their motion called for introduction of "debt free money"—a vague though perhaps obvious refer- ence to so-called funney mon- ey. But the Liberals swallowed it and supported the, motion, determined to take the oppor- tunity for a quick kill. The New Democrats embar- rassingly, but not unexpected- ly, rallied to the Government's support; Had there been nine more absentees in the NDP or Conservative ranks, Canada would have been facing a Janu- ary election. However, the ' vote on the Liberal motioh of non -confi- dence was more significant of what might happen at any time, Before this vote the Socreds stood solidly behind the Gov- ernment and it had begun to look as though this • marriage of convenience was as solid as any based on true love. Now, however, the Quebec Social Credit group is obvious- ly getting restive, Some of them have been hearing from constituents back home with re- minders that, after all, they were sent to Ottawa as a pro- test against the Diefenbaker Government, not to support it. Two already have broken their marriage vows. Others may fol- low. The Liberals remain the on- ly certain quantity in opposi- tion. Even they are facing a dilemma. The caucaus which preceded their surprise politi- cal manoeuvre in supporting the Socreds was by no means unanimous, While Party strate- gists appear anxious for an early election there are some people who feel there is a very real and non-partisan question of responsibility. The Canadian dollar crisis is only in suspension. While Can- ada's reserves of gold and U.S. dollars -are in. a superficially healthy state—on October 31st they stood at $2,613,9 million, a new high record—it will take another two months at least to determine how much real depth there is to this strength—even in the short trun. The basic cause of the dollar Crisis is a chronic balance of payments current account de- ficit that will be with us again this year to the tune of nearly $1,000 million. While it lasts there is only one way of main- taining the Canadiah dollar at its present pegged level—an in- flow of foreign capital approxi- mately equal to this amount. At the moment we are get- ting that inflow but, a large part of it is so-called "hot money" — speculative short term buying of Canadian securi- ties to make a quick profit and get out. !Nothing can frighten it away faster than new evi- dence of political uncertainty. At this moment when there is a heavy normal outflow of Cam adiatii dollars. to pay interest and dividends and na oftdetting tourist business such a sell-out could be serious. That is one side of the coin. For the other we can look at the official Liberal position out- lined by Opposition Leader L. B. Pearson in presenting his want -of- confidence motion, The Liberals contend that there is political uncertainty now and that only a new election can end it, That argument is not without reason; nor, is their contention that Mr. Diefenbaker's "tem- porary measures" imposed last. June including high interest, rates and tariff surcharges are causing business uncertainty. Higher tariffs which are perm- anent at least permit planning ahead on the basis of their continuance. While it appears the surcharges may have had some effect in stimulating Can- adian business, to continue them on , a temporary basis for anylength of time does create uncertainty and prevent long term planning. It is an open secret, however, that Ottawa is resisting all pres- sures at home and from the U.S. for their removal and that that they are likely to remain for another nine to 12 months. So, if all this is as bad as Mr. Pearson contends, there is at least logic behind Liberal moves to precipitate the elec- tion. * * * Capital Hill Capsule Ontario's energetic Minister of Commerce and Development, Robert Macaulay, is causing some -concern these days in the Federal department of Trade and Commerce. During ,his recent trip to Japan to find markets for Ontario products he told the Japanese Prime Minister that Ontario was in a better position than Canada to do business because she "was not bound by international agreements". Federal officials were shocked. But, Mr. Macaul- ay is right. There is a specific. clause in the General Agree- ment on Tariffs and Trade ex- empting all junior governments from its provisions. The salesman stared doubt- fully at the formidable looking animal lying on the doorstep. "What breed is your dog?" he asked the lady of the house. "Don't rightly know," she an- swered. "My brother sent it from Africa." "Well," said •the saleman, hesitantly, "it's the queerest dog I've ever seen." The lady nodded, "You should have seen it before we cut its mane off." IN THE YEARS AGONE Interesting items gleaned from The Expositor of 25, 50 and 75 years ago. • From The Huron Expositor November 12, 1937 Mr. Con Eckart has received a letter from Saskatchewan, thanking him for the produce which he donated to the car sent from Seaforth. Workmen this week complet- ed the removal of the west half of the Canadian National Rail- way freight sheds. The portion of the sheds which was left has been completely repaired. Cheques totalling $2,726.70 were mailed this week to de- puty returning officers, pot clerks, constables and owner? of polling places in the recent Dominion election. Quite a heavy electrical storm passed over Winthrop early Monday 'morning, Mr. and Mrs. George Cockson have moved into the residence in Winthrop recently vacated by Mrs. Simpson. We welcome them to the village. Mr. Cock - son is the new blacksmith, A- white eagle was sighted 'in Auburn by Lewis Rudy and Kenneth McDougal on the farm of Mr. Rudy. The Bell telephone staff at Seaforth at present consists of Miss Minnie Habkirk,- Miss Ev- elyn Cardno, Miss Elizabeth M. Cluff and Miss Grace Free. Thirteen sacks of , good sec- ondhand clothing and quilts were packed and will be sent to Regina to be distributed among the needy. --in the dried - out areas in Saskatchewan. From The Huron Expositor November 15, '1912 Messrs. Bert Cluff and How- ard Hartry are representing the Seaforth Horticultural Society at the Provincial Horticultural Exhibition held is Toronto' this week. The new hydrant on Goderich Street, on the corner at Mr. James McMichael's residence, has been erected and is now ready for use. The brick work om the new Carnegie Library has been com- pleted and the roofing will be finished in a few days. In Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, ownership of the fine Bible House premises which were dedicated in February 1947, "To the glory of God and the wider circulation of Holy Scriptures" was transferred from the Amer- ican Bible Society to the SoIci- dade Biblica 'do Brasil. The American Bible Society authorized this generous ges- ture in July of this year. Dr. Layton E. Holmgren, Executive Secretary, in 'handing over -the deeds said, "With this gift go our hopes and prayers that in Brazil, as in all the world, the day will not be far distant when every knee shall bow and ev- ery tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord to the Glory of the Father." The occasion was also mark- ed by the retirement of the two fraternal Secretaries, Mr. C. H. Morris, of the British and For- eign Bible Society, and Mr. 0. K. K. Nelson, of the American Bible Society. The Brazil Bible Society has had phenomenal, success in the distribution of the Scriptures. since World War H. Suggested Bible Readings Sunday—I Timothy 1:1-17 Monday—Isaiah 60:1-14 Tuesday—Isaiah 61:1-11 Wednesday—Isaiah 62:1-12 Thursday --I Thessalonians 1: 1-10 Friday—Acts 16:19-40 Saturday—Acts '17:1-15 01-I, PARDON ME I THOUGHT YOU WERE THE,' FAMOUS MOVIE S'T'AR. WELL, SHOULD X OE RtAL, \..,� HONESTY CERTAINLY! THinI WHAT X LIKE MOST IN A BOY! 1 trA 7;4 It still rains very easily and all the streams and drains are overflowing. Mr. Frank Smith has taken a position in the business of- fice of the Ogilvie Milling Co. Silo filling this fall has been a pretty discouraging task on account of the heavy rains. There are still, fields of corn in this part to be harvested and the soaking rain of this week makes things look blue. At the rate potatoes are rot- ting, very sqon there will be a famine with us, and the . only remedy will be to fall back on 11E MY FAMILY I'M GETTING " TIRED OF CARRYING US TAME IN AND , Our -I'M GOING TO MAKE AN ALL- WEMMER TABLE the turnips and beans. s From The Huron Expositor November 18, 1887 Mr. E. C. Coleman has been appointed Lieutenant in the Seaforth Volunteer Company. Mr. James • Graves has sold his cottage on West Goderich Street to a Mr. Green, a bridge contractor. - A pair of cowhide boots were found about three weeks ago near Harpurhey. Mr. James Scott has purchas- ed the old Meyer farm adjoin- ing Harpurhey, 'BY LLOYD BIRMINGHAM NOW PAD MADE AN` ALL WEATHER TABLE CEMENT BLOCKS .01610 FILL HOLES IN BLOCKS WITH CONCRETE. INSERT FOLDED WIRE COAT HANGERS TO HELP BIND BLOCKS TOGETHER. 6ET FLAG- STONE ON LEGS. TABLE NEEDS NO MAINTENANCE Can anyone tell me Why w men are so •fierce about money. As Brutus said, I pause for a reply. No answer? We'll, then, can anyone tell me why women are so absolutely clueless about perfectly straightforward hand- ling of the lovely stuff? No an- swer.. I knew there wouldn't be. For years, I handled -the money in our family, and ev- erything ran smoothly. A coo- ple of years ago, yielding to some mad whim, I agreed to turn over the family finances to the Old Battleaxe, and since then, we have endured fiscal chaos. * * * The trouble is, she panics. I used to solve the problem of bills by putting them all in my hip pocket and letting them age for a while. She gets half a dozen bills and goes into a tizzy. She spreads everything. out on the, table: pencils, sheets and sheets of paper, bills, bank books, cheque books. She adds everything up six ,times. She subtracts debts from bank bal- ance, bursts into tears and hurls charges such as "nicotine addict" and "alcoholic" " at me. * * * Every time we haye a finan- cial crisis—that it, about once a week -it turns out that the only way we 'can stay out of debtor's- prison . is for me to give up the weed and the malt. And every time, I have to point out carefully and patient- ly that we little sinners are the only thing that keeps this coun- try from going on the rocks. w SUGAR E7 and SPICE By Bili Smiley_ o-' YMCA drive, and watch the late movie without somebody hol- lering at me to come to bed, Besides, it was my week to entertain the Friday Afternoon Club, a perambulating organiza- tion for tired teachers,at which they left off steam and take on fuel. * * * It's not the big sinners who support the schools and hospi- tals and pay for all those new docks and post offices and mis- siles without warheads and in- conclusive elections. Heck, I could keep a mistress or two, gamble heavily, declare a phoney bankruptcy — do every- thing but commit murder—and the government wouldn't take a nickel in taxes. No, it's the wee sinner, with his deck of fags and his box of beer, who pays the shot. This simple economic truth, however, rarely . diverts the old lady from her tantrum. She threw a dandy when she came home yesterday, after spend- ing a week away from us. * * * She was sore as blazes at all of 'us when she left, over some- thing or other, and she wasn't home twenty minutes, the kiss- es and hugs were scarcely cul- minated, when she blew up again. She had left me a detailed note. I was to pay the interest on the mortgage, be "sure to pay the hydro bill and get the discount, put so much from ac- count A into account B to cover such -and -such, see the bank about renewing our demand note on the. TV set, be sure to put the right change in the milk bottles, because th'e pup licks the milk off the top and the pennies fall into the leaves, rake the Ieaves, put out the garbage, pay my insurance premium, see that the kids had a bath, and not watch the late movie. * * * I was sort of 'busy while she was away. After all, I had to cook dinner for three each night, organize a trip to the dity for ttiy Grade 11 kids to see a play, canvass for the * * * I did get the garbage out. At least, my son did. He's still scared of women. He's only fifteen. But I didn't pay much attention to- the rest of the in- structions. In fact, the note con- taining them was misplaced, That is a word I like. I didn't actually lose it, but I couldn't find it. To cut everything short, and to put it so simply a child could'' understand it, I collected $141.78 from my students for tickets to the show, picked up $49,50 on the YMCA canvass, issued a cheque on either ac- count A or account B for $270 to cover the cost of the tickets, spent either $14 or $24 of the Y money on groceries, bought some . beer for the Friday Af- ternoon Club out of either my ticket money or my canvass money, and made my own don- ation to, the -Y out of the milk money. * * * You should ' have heard the screams. You'd think I'd run off with a belly -dancer, or lost my job, or failed to use a deodorant, or- committed some- thing equally heinous. She was just about ready to call in the Mounties. One of these days I'm going to put my foot down over these financial crises of ours, and if it doesn't sink right to the knee, there'll be some changes, made. Or something. To the Editor Looks Forward To Expositor While in Florida 465 --8th Ave., N.E. Apt. 3 St. Petersburg 1, Florida, November 7, 1962 The Huron Expositor: Dear Sir: Will you kindly send my copies of The Huron Expositor to me at the above address. We had a good trip down with one wet morning in North Caro. ling. The weather here is bright, though several degrees colder , than normal, and the town is swarming with people. You would think it was Decem- ber instead of the start of the season. We'll be pleased to get our copies of the paper, •as we miss it especially when away frons, home. Thanking you, I am• Yours truly, IDA L. LOVE He had just completed a long prison sentence and on the great day when those big gates opened and the whole world lay before him, his joy knew no bounds. "I'm free," he shouted, "I'm free!" A little girl who was playing nearby gazed at him for fi few moments and then came over, "That nothing to shout bout," she said, "I'in four." N a 4