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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1963-01-10, Page 2Since 1860, Serving the Community] First Published at SEAFORTH, ONTARIO, every Thursday morning by McLEAN ANDREW Y. MCLEAN, Editor qEb A Member Canadian Weekly Newspapers Association 0% 9 Ontario Weekly Newspapers Association Audit Bureau of Circulation Subscription Rates: O KJ Z Canada (in advance) $2.50 a Y ear a Year o Outside Canada (in advance) $4.00 LPSINGLE COPIES — 10 CENTS EACH Authorized as Second Class Mail, Post Office Department, SEAFORTH, ONTARIO, JANUARY 10, 1963 Is Government By Commission Overdone? Government in recent years has shown an increasing tendency to rele- gate to boards and commissions any problems which, at the moment, may about be found to be embarrassing, which no decision has been taken. Too often this course is one of expediency and is an alternative to facing facts and arriving at an objective long term answer regardless of the political im- plications. Then too there is the board or com- mission created as it were to carry out the administrative function of a par- ticular department of government, or to provide a service sometimes the re- sponsibility of private enterprise. For many years there was . but one body of this nature — Ontario Hydro Electric Power Commission. Now there is a multiplicity of such boards, andare listepC of subjects for which they approach to the problems they 'are ask- sponsible is a long one. Some boards, of course, carry out ed to investigate, who view them from worthwhile functions; others appear to an abstract platform from which there create an unnecessary intrusion into is little hope of anything of a practical the affairs of the individual. But the nature being done." Success of Campaign Appears Assured 4- BROS., Publishers Ottawa fact that government by commission is attracting more and more criticism suggests that perhaps the practise—no matter how useful or convenient it may be—is being overdone. One of the prime criticisms of the administrative type boards—that the members are °ut of touch are expected ton cope the problems they with—is set out in pungent style by Senator Connolly (Halifax North), as reported in Hansard. "I am confounded and confused . by this multiplicity of boards that have suddenly been showered upon us. I have no patience with boards. ,I have less patience with governments, whe- ther they are Liberal, Conservative, or any other political tinge, which abdi- cate their authority to boards—boards which all too often are made up of ogle who have a most impractical With more than one-third of its objective of $195,000 reached, there now is little doubt of the success of Seaforth Community Hospital cam - Pam?• Active solicitation which had been suspended over the Christmas "season began again this week. In the days that lie ahead, campaign. officials should be able to anticipate—thee wholehearted co- operation of all involved in the probt e t so that this particular phase may completed as quickly as possible. In the initial stages there was per- haps a certain skeptio`#i?a.�.as to the ability of the community to succeed in such a campaign, and as a result there may have been those -who hesitated to commit themselves, either by word or by pledge, or who perhaps gave only lip support. They were fearful of taking a stand; they didn't wish to be associated with something that might not succeed. The results to date lay at -rest any such doubts. What is needed now is a concerted effort and an .exhibition oof that confidence in the community, that confideitiee in its future that previous generations have displayed when Sea - forth has been faced with a problem. In this way the community can be assured of a hospital service that re- flects the needs of today. 24 0 Wiz Miele, IN THE YEARS . AGONE From The Huron Expositor January 10, 1913 Mr. George McSpadden, of McKillop, delivered 50 tons of baled hay to Mr. J. R. Goven- lock in Seaforth last week. It was bought for $10 a ton. The following is the result of the town elections: Mayor, J. C. Greig; Reeve, J. A. Stew- art; Councillors, H. Stewart, J. J. Cluff, John Grieve, H. Speare, C. Aberhart and George Card - no. it to a firm in Manitou, Man. FromThe uron 1888 sitor January 13, Mr. Robert Elliott, formerly of the Listowel Banner, has purchased the Wingham Times. Miss Emma Johnson, of Sea - forth, has been appointed first assistant of the kindergarten department Toronto Nor- malSch of o at f taesalary of $40 a month. to Mr. The store belonging A. C. Jones, Staffa, had a nar- row escape from being burned to the ground on Sunday eve- ning. Mr. Richard Hunter, of Hen - sail, sold a six -month-old filly last week to an American buy- er for $100. From The Huron Expositor January 14, 1938 Mr. J. E. Willis had a gaso- line lighting plant advertised Or two weeks in The Expositor and this week he disposed of Sud ,: ! al 0 Following a Star (Queen Elizabeth, in Her Christmas Message) "The Wise Men of old followed a star : Modern man has built one. But unless the message of this new star is the same as theirs our wisdom will count for naught . . . It is only in serving one another that we can reach the stars." "The doctor will be with you in a minute --please be seated" A MACDUFF OTTAWA REPORT TAXES—TO OR NOT TO RAISE OTTAWA—When Parliament re -assembles later this month it will face an unprecedented sit- uation. Estimates of expendi- ture for the year 1963-64 have been completed and should be presented to the House of Com- mons within a few days of re- assembly but not a single item of the estimate's for the current year has yet been approved. So far Parliament has been writ- ing the Goverment bla-ik cheques in the form of interim supply bills to carry on the businotheresS willfthe have tobewritten before the end of the monta. With, the new estimates com- pleted, incidentally, will be in the neighborhood of $6.5 bil- lion or nearly $500 million More than the revised estimates for the current year, the ex- perts of the Department of Fi- nance will plunge into the task of preparing Finance Minister George Nowlan's first budget. It will not be an easy task. They will have a threefold objective: 1. To narrow the budgetary deficit in 1963-64. Mr. Nowlan's October forecast put the cur- rent year's- figure at $570 mil- lion and it will proaly be slightly higher. increase in 2. To avoid any rates of taxation. With talk of tax cuts in the United States it would ern ente in Canadacult to Y Gov - boost them. 3. To produce something that will be fairly acceptable to the Canadian 'voter. In all prob- ability this will be a pre-elec- tion budget. means This means by some substan- tially another producing more revenue at the same rate of tax. Some of this extra revenue can be picked up through any increase in nation- al production that may occur this year but the increase from this source will not be as great as last year. Both Finance Min- ister Fleming in April and Mr. Nowlan in. October based their forecasts of revenue on a 7 pe cent increase in GNP. The ac= tual increase will .probably he slightly higher. But even the most optimistic economic ob- servers are predicting a sub- stantial levelling off in the com- ing year. Forecasts range from 2 per cent if the United States economy goes into a decline to 4 or 5 per cent if it stays stea- dy: Mr. Nowlan takes the 4 per cent figure he would be justi- fied in counting on an addition- al $200 million in revenues without touching the tax rates. This however will fall far short of the amount he needs. There has been some pre- liminary explora'fion of other means of raising avenues, in- cluding a look at cofipmodity taxes and particularly soles tax. Our sales tax exemptions havee grown something like with little rhyme or reason and rapidly. If all exemptions were wiped out except those on non - luxury goods it is estimated that the sales tax nate could be cut from 11 per cent to 7 per cent and yield the same revenue. By the same token if exemptions were pared down and the rate remain unchanged, substantial- ly larger revenues would be forthcoming. Another possible revenue pro - s Interesting items gleaned from The Expositor of 25, 50 and 75 years ago. ity of Hillsgreen are preparing now and having their wiring done as well. It won't be many days now before some will have the pleasure of Hydro. Mr. Jacob Willert and daugh- ter, Miss Edna, of near Dash- wood, delivered the largest flock of turkeys to Exeter, the number being 131, for which they received $413.00. Stewart Geddes, son of Mr. and Mrs. E. Geddes, Seaforth, left this week to assume a posi- tion with the London Life As- surance Co. in London. A .grad- uate this year of the SCI, Stew- art was also the winner of the Alumni Memorial Scholarship. Officials of the Township of McKillop for 1938 appointed at the first meeting of council on Monday are as follows: Clerk, John McNay; George F. Bruce Medd collector, McKee; auditors, James B. Hogg and Alex Dennis. By REV. ROBERT 11. HARPER BATTLE OF NEW ORLEANS On January 8, 1815, the Eng- lish under Pakenham were ter- ribly defeated at Chalmette,. just below New Orleans, and turned back by the Americans under Andrew Jackson. In the campaign and the Generale that saved the 'city, Jack- son accepted the timely aid of the famous Jean Lafitte and his pirates of Grand Isle and Bar- ataria Bay. ducer would be the corporation tax where concessions in many cases have failed to produce the result for which they were in- tended. Whatever means is found of raising new revenues, one thing seems obvious. This will notbe a year for any substantial tax cuts. If anything is done in this direction it will be more glitter than gold. The 1963 budget can be ex- pected by the end of February or early in March. With it will come new -days of political un- certainty. , Will the 30. Social Crediters use the opportunity Of a -budget tat may be none too popular to deal a coup de grace to the Government in the Commons? If they do, Tommy Douglas and his NDP ranks rally to the cause and stand between Mr. Diefenbaker and defeat? Both are questions that no one at the moment is ready to answer. Capital Hill Capsules There are signs -that Social Credit may soon move from its present "bark without bite" pas- sive role to an active anti -Gov- ernment role which would in- clude voting against the Gov- ernment,-- even— though-- this would mean an election. It is known that Social Credit Lead- er Thompson is "disgusted" with what he regards as the complete legislativeand execu• tive inaction of he Govern= ment. He 'is coming to agree with those who say that con- tinuing to support the Tories will only lose support for his Party. Many observers feel he may yet try to get the best of both worlds by voting no con- fidence in the Government at the first opportunity on the grounds that his Party gave them .a chance and they muffed it. What Say, Dear? A news item reports that two uni- versity researchers have discovered that men start losing their hearing earlier than women—at age 32, com- pared to their spouses' age 37. The experts attribute this -to- funda- mental differences of sex and occupa- tions. But, of course, they're all wet. It doesn't take a laboratory study to find out why men don't hear as well as women. • The men 'Simply quit listening after a few years of marriage — Wichita Eagle. In addition to the, unique fact of an American army being sub- stantially aided by pirates, the battle of New Orleans 'was marked by the fact that it was a useless conflict so far as the outcome of the war was con- cerned. For it was a battle fought some days after the war was ended and a treaty of peace had been signed in a city of Europe. This was due to the fact that the news brought across the At- lantic In slow sailing shops did not react the, embattled forces on this 'side of the ocean. This now suggests to us the great value of the wires winged with electric flame over the land and deep down under the sea and the radio impulses sent through the unwired atmosphere. Let,us hope that the marvel- ous achievements and possibili- ties of science in the -present time may be dedicated to the arts of peace and bring to ev- ery home light and warmth in- stead of bombs hurtling down from the skies to make ashes and smoking ruins. TRAFFIC TOLL - In the Second World War, the worst air raid on London killed some 1,400 people. Now that peace has come, North American motorists kill that many people every 12 days.—Chatham News. RELIABLE RECORDS with MOORE REGISTERS FLATPAKIT FORMS AND ACCESSORIES Ad MOORE REGIS( ERS AND FLATPAKIT FORMS ASSURE RELIABLE RECORDS ONE COPY MAY BE PILED AUTOMATICALLY PREVENTING LOST OR TAMPERED RECORDS. MULTIPLE COPIES 'NUMBERED FOR AUDIT USE ... ALL FROM ONE WRITING LET US DEMONSTRATE OUR FULL LINE OF MOORE REGISTERS AND FLATPAKIT FORMS. The Hydro folks in the vicin- SUGAR and SPICE By MI Smiley A blizzard is howling about the house. That man with the piece of chalk in each hand has just informed me that the tem- perature is 15 below. He didn't have to. My arthritis had al- ready given me the message. These are the gray days of deep midwinter, when one is sorely tempted to get drunk, or take off for Tahiti, solo, or just wander off and lie down quietly in a snowbank. What, you may ask, is the essence that makes Canadian converse so rich and heady in the winter? Let's listen in and find out. We'll drop in on a typical January party, in an average home, where are gath- ered beauty and chivalry, fair women and brave men. Typi- cal Canadians, in short. * * * There's only one thing that saves my sanity , each winter. That is the certainty that there are several months of exciting evenings" of controversial con- versation ahead. Just a Thought: Even in the things that are "good" for us, we must learn the value of moderation. It is all too true that there are few exceptions to the saying that one can have "too much -of a good thing." Every winter I feel sorry for people in lush, tropical coun- tries. What in the world can they find to talk about? How bored they must become with nothing to mull over but love, religion, politics and the heat! No wonder they're so emotion- ally trigger-happy, so prone to revolutions, just to break the monotony. Hark to tbis young matron, her simple dignity and warmth of• countenance scarcely marred by the purple eyelids and slight double chin. "We' like the oil, cuz y' don't hafta fool with it. Justset 'er and she stays the way y' want 'er. A course, the minit I turn it up a bit, Jim runs over and turas. it down. Says I'll ruin us." Giggling. Another question the Govern- ment must face early 'in the year is whether it will imple- ment the 'Gill recommendations on the Unemployment Insur- ance Fund. Some of these re- commendations are far from palatable but the report itself warns that to pick and choose "might make matters worse in- stead of better". With more than $100 million Nin the fund, a standby credit of another $25 million voted by the last Par- liament still untouched and, un- employment not likely to be substantially higher this winter it would be possible to put off the evil days, perhaps until af- ter an election. * * * * * We Canadians, besides being the healthiest, happiest, rich- est and best -looking people in the world, are surely also the most eloquent conversational- ists in existence. We are never so destitute of conversational gambits that we have to fall back on such hackneyed themes as art, the soul, love, or man's inhumanity to man. Never! For six months of the year we discourse brillianty on fish- ing, The Boat, babies, The Cot- tage, gardening, The Car. The last-mentioned, of course, ap- pears as often in our dialogue as deity does in that of less favored races. * ' * * Speaks •with courtly, grace the gentleman on her left: "Ah, you can have that oil. Stoo expen- sive. Gimme the good ole hard coal, with a man that knows howta hannel that furnace. I mean y' get that real hot heat." Superciliously. "Yah, butcha gotta have a good fan, or she doesn't kick that heat round," says the de- mure little woman across from him. "We like the stoker our- selves. George useta puff some- thing terrible -when he had ta shovel, but now he duzzen even hafta go down, only every coupla•days, so it gives 'm more time ta help 'tha-dishes." Wink- ing gaily at the hapless George. THE DESERTED `SCHOOLHOUSE The old, old Dublin schoolhouse Now hangs her head so low; Has only weeds up to her knees Where flowers used` to grow; The missiles then were made of wood— That pointer in her hand; It had a favorite landing strip— The .knuckles of our hand. There are signs that the Con- servative Party is preparing to stand aside in the next elec- tion and let Liberals and Social Crediters battle it out for Que- bec. They may do no more than try to hold the 14 seats they salvaged on June 18. This issue will be uppermost when the Party annual ' meeting is held on January 17 to 19. MuniciPalredmby the ter works Federal ro- jectsapproved l Government up to the end of the year will produce more than 4,500,000 ,man days of work before April 30. Some 97,000 men in this period will be paid a total of $66 million in wages of which npay theFederal Government will BY LLOYD BIRMNIBNANM But it is in the other - six months, the winter, that we really come into our own, con- versationally. During the long black nights, listen in on al- most any conversation in our land, and you will marvel at the intricacies .,of intellect, the subtleties of expression, the rapier -like parry and thrust of our communication. A foreigner is baffled and charmed by the sparkling qual- ity of our colloquy. A Cana- dian midwinter conversation would make Socrates sulk, Pla- to pout. At the bridge table, cards are forgotten when the conversation begins to bubble like vintage champagne. In the pub, beer is left untouched on the table. Your eyes once bright now are blind, You've bald spots on your head; Yet, still I think you often smile Remembering days now dead. Gone is the laughter, work and tears, The paths of sport defined; The one old faithful you still shade— That maple tree behind. The maple tree that stood so INE ((ANDY FAMILY A * * * "Saycha like," contributes an- Other n young gallant, , across, "but I'll take wood. Sa little more work, but she's quick an' she's hot. An' ya never hafta' worry about strikes cuz the farmers never go on strikes."Triumphantly. And•so it goes. Of course that's only . a rough sample of what makes our midwinter con- versation so fascinating. Mere words could never convey the intensity of emotion, the nuanc- es of meaning, that emerge in these clashes of wit. ,. * * * But you needn't talk to me about the brilliant discourses in the salons of 18th century France. Tell me not of the sparkling exchanges among the dons of Oxford. Just give me any group of red-blooded, fur- nace -minded Canadians in mid- winter, and I'll settle back hap- pily, waiting for the opportun- ity to thrill them with the story of how I almost put in a saw- dust -burner one winter. near And shed her leaves each fall, And they are_ scattered far and wide In paths, some great or small. Yet, still some leaves of mem- ory Oft blows back there, 'tis true; And there we spend a little while With friends we knew, Dandyou. A SMILE OR TWO A worried neighbor called deao Bill, the farm hand, r your boss is sick with fever. How's his temperature today?" The farm hand thought for a moment, then decided not. to take a chance. "Taint - really fit'tin' for me to say, re- plied. "The old man died last night." A formation of birds was fly- ing south for the winter, and one bird near the back asked another, "Why do welways follow that same idiot leder?" "How ridiculous to ask," re- plied the other. "He's •got the map " "How come all this sawdust oft the .floor?" asked the cus- tomer in the Wild West bar'.. "Mister, that ain't sawdust," dtfWleil "the 'ba tlatl, khats r GOLLY DID WE NAVE I` FUN GOING AROUND SINGING CHRISTMAS CAROLS! .BUT MAST OF YOUR OYFRIENDS VOICES ARE CHANGING. HOW DID IT SOUND? • A 4 4 e w 4 4 • • • ...-.40, • $ WELL, SEVERAL OF THE PEOPLE ACTUALL`i INVITED US .INTO THEIR HOMES-__. et