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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1963-03-07, Page 2f.. �tl Published at %itD A Sine 1860, Serving the Community First SEAFORTH, ONTARIO, every Thursday morning by McLEAN ANDREW Y. MCLEAN, Editor Member Canadian Weekly Newspapers Association Ontario Weekly Newspapers Association 4 Audit Bureau of Circulation Subscription Rates: Canada (in advance) $2.50 a Year O Outside Canada (in advance) $4.00 a Year O L Ri SINGLE COPIES — 10 CENTS EACH Authorized as Second Class Mail, Post Office Department, Ottawa BROS., Publishers v204/ The Wee4e. SEAFORTH, ONTARIO, MARCH 7,- 1963 "There Was Nothing To Obstruct" The Prime Minister speaking in Win- nipeg this week set out what he consid- ered the main issues of the election campaign. High on the list waswhat he describ- ed as the "obstruction" of government business in the last parliament. It is true that the last parliament accomplished little in the way of im- portant legislation. But to suggest that this was because of opposition obstruc- tion is, of course, nonsense. Little was accomplished because the Diefenbaker . government, more con- cerned with political expediency than, with the country's business, brought no business of consequence before Parlia- ment. Instead, the time was consumed dealing with matters already a year old which Mr. Diefenbaker had swept under the carpet in his haste to call the election of last June at what he felt was a politically opportune time. Referring to the charge of obstruc tion, Liberal Leader Pearson, in a re cent speech, quite properly asks : "Ob struction of what? The budget? an goes on to answer: "We never saw it. "The austeriy program? We were not allowed to discuss it! The long-range -program to restore growth and bal- ance in our accounts. It never was pro- duced. The estimates of expenditure? They never were brought before us." and added, "There was nothing to ob- struct in these fields." It is the government, not the opposi- tion, which is responsible for initiating legislation, for determining the order in which various matters will be ccp- 'sidered by Parliament, It is impossible for the opposition to debate legislation which is not before it, nor can the opposition initiate legislation. There can be no obstruction when the busi- ness Mr. Diefenbaker claims was de- layed was not even before Parliament. The Prime Minister's complaints fail when considered in the light of the Government's, record. The Globe' and Mail, long time sup- porter of the Government, puts the matter in proper prospective in these d ,, words: "When it is also remembered that Mr. Diefenbaker did not call Parlia- ment into session until more than three months after last June's election, gave it very little to do for the next two months, sent it home for a month's holiday after that, and still had pro- duced no Budget when the Government fell on February 6, his protestations now that he was anxious to bring in a Budget are unconvincing." Instead of discussing non-existent details of a Budget that never was, the Globe and Mail concludes that Mr. Diefenbaker would be better employed in telling the electorate precisely what he would do if he were given the op- portunity to bring down a Budget in future. Teaching is Challenge This is Education Week and those responsible for the event have placed emphasis on the teacher and the role he or she plays in preparing Canadian youth to take its place in the world. But what perhaps is even more im- portant is the emphasis to be placed on the need for more and more teachers for the thousands of new pupils who each year enter Canadian classrooms. Teaching, of course, is more than just a livelihood. As the Education Week committee points out, teaching is one of the most challenging, exciting and rewarding careers a young man or woman can choose. It brings dignity of position in a community; it gives the security of steady employment and provides a comfortable income. It brings the most important reward of all—the sense of doing a job that is meaningful and of great purpose. A teaching career can be an inter- esting challenge to those of high acad- emic and personal qualifications. If Education Week accomplishes nothing more than encouraging even a few with the proper qualifications to enter the teaching profession, it will have been ' worth while. A MACDUFF OTTAWA REPORT AGAIN TO THE LION'S OTTAWA — Prime Minister Diefenbaker's third venture in- to the lion's den so early in his campaign is surprising, but in the end could prove to be good tactics. The self-styled Daniel paid his first visit to Toronto in the wake of his defeat and Parlia- ment's dissolution. That was technically non-political. The second sortie was for a provin- cial Conservative convention where he should have been among friends and did indeed get an ovation. It had been rumoured that if he failed to get one he would quit but rum- ours from Toronto about Dief. enbaker resignations have been a dime a dozen since last De- cember. The third visit to Toronto in roughly as many weeks by a leader who has the whole coun- try still to cover has raised questions. He can scarcely hope to salvage anything from the Toronto and York disasters of last June. The answer seems to be that he is using the provin- cial capital as both a spring board and sounding board for Southwestern Ontario. Here the battle for Ontario „if not the battle for Canada, may well be lost and won. Here a dozen or so fickle seats could tell the story on April 8. In the good old days of stable (a good many Canadians thought Nor are Party strategists in too stable) Government, most Ottawa helping the situation. of them returned Liberals with Realizing that "a voice crying healthy majorities. They waver-- in the wilderness" to repent ed with the upset of 1957 and was hardly the right approach were swept along with the ava- for one who had held the office lanche of 1958. of Prime Minister for five years, The three Essex seats in and they have been searching for a around Windsor are a good ex- new one. Today, if they have ample. Loyally Liberal after their way and Mr. Diefenbaker the defeat of Bennett in 1935, seems agreeable—he will play one played turncoat in 1957 the role of casting the money and a second in 1958. In the changers out of the temple. third the unbeatable Paul Mar- With 81 seats on the Prairies tin had a hard run for his and in the Maritimes at stake, money. Bay Street and big business Last June saw them all back will be the bad boys of the with the Liberals though by campaign with perhaps a little shaky Margins which 'Conserve. thrown in against the press of tiviss, Will fight tooth and nail Canada. Already parallels are to swing. beiixg drawn with the famous lht the Libelrals need those darty Truntatx win. The first a seats and balers lit thelirbvittee teitilt t it Shp a of *'itt'ty a if they are to fulfill hopes of forming a majority Government. Realistic tories are ready to admit that they may be lucky to hang on to the few South- western Ontario seats they have left, among them the City of London, where a new candidate will be placing the Secretary of State, the Hon. E. G. Halpen• ny. In the Toronto area itseff Conservatives may have very little fight left. They will prob- ably lose two -and could lose all three seats out of 18 that re- mained to them after June. Two were held by key ministers in Mr. Diefenbaker's cabinet, both now resigned and not running again. Trade Minister Hees' resigna- tion and accusation that he was double-crossed by the Prime Minister is not likely to en- hance chances of holding his seat by a candidate yet to. be chosen. Justice Minister Flem- ing is resigning for personal reasons, but ig" obviously un- hapy about everything. In any event, Mr. Fleming had the tight of his life on his bands last June against the former Deputy Minister of Trade and Commerce, 'Mitchell Sharp. On this occasion, with a new un- known Tory candidate, Sharp should take the seat comfort- ably. funds and sad prospects. Con- servatives will make a virtue out of the necessity of spending. far less than they did last year. Resentment, -however, is on- ly a small factor, if a factor at all, in Canadian business re- luctance to fill the Tory war- chest. Fears, obviously growing south of the border, that anti - Americanism will be used for political purposes have spread into Canada. Diefenbaker himself has giv- en assurances that this will not be the case and it may never materialize. But so long as the possibility is there Canadian business and investment inter- ests will be wary of. espousing the Conservative cause. Aside from any drying up of Ameri- can investment that might re- sult there could be retaliation in such fields as oil and lumber where Canada at the moment hold a privileged position, Capital Hill Capsules If the Liberal Party is re- turned with the largest group but no over-all majority there might be a formal and open approach to T. C. Douglas and his ND? group. However, the biggest obstacles to an agree- ment between the two parties comparable to the arrangement made in 1921 between Macken- zie King and the Progressive group is the stand on nuclear weapons. Mr. Pearson is com- mitted to acceptance; Mr. Do�g las to outright rejection. Cor'h. promise might be difficult, * * * A 600 -page report of the Re- strictive Trade Practices Com- mission on the price of drugs in Canada has no one very ex. cited except the drug industry, which will make strong repre- sentations against the recom- mendation that drugs be remov- ed from the protection of the Patent Act. This and other re- commendations which largely duplicate those of a committee of doctors appointed after the -thalidon de tragedy will prob• blI end tip eventually before Plcrliamentafy cetainitted. "Sorry, Bud—we're closed on Monday nights!" Not without regret, and with a few secret misgivings, I made a big change a couple of years ago. Frazzled, scrambled, and slightly addled, I took myself aside, and we had a serious talk. Just the two of us. "Smiler, old boy," I said to me, "how much longer do you intend to keep up this non- sense? Is this what you fought in the war for? Is this what you really want out of life, to be a seller of four -dollar ads, a chronicler of endless meet- ings about nothings, a pacifier of old ladies of both sexes who •have a beef, a ' lugger of, papers to the post office, a member of 40 organizations, a payer of mortgages, a fighter of lost caus- es, and a lousy husband and father? "I d no," said me in my straightforward, Canadian way, "Wutcha gotten. mind?" Well, what do you do when you talk to a moron? You humor him, that's what you do. So ( explaihed carefully and clearly about ulcers, and pen. sions, and security, and family togetherness, and the fact that I was 40 and ready for pas- ture. .Me listened open-mouth- ed. This was all new. As a result, soon after, I dog - paddled my way out of the turbulent stream of life as a weekly editor into the quiet backwater of life as a school teacher. I figured I would lie back and float there for a while, resting up before I sank quiet- ly out of sight among .the bull- frogs and the pollywogs and the tepidity and the mud of the academic pond. But I must have fallen asleep in that pond and been washed out to sea, with ,a forceeightgale blowing, brakers every- where, my collapsible life -belt doing just that, and my emerg- ency rocket flares in my other pants. It's just not that simple, You can't just turnyour back on Life, that aging but still lively mistress you've kept in style for years, had so much fun with, done so many crazy things with, and expect her to let you walk quietly into the arms of that Other Woman—dear old dim, dull Peace. She won't do et She'll hurl abuse at you in public. She'll throw gravel at your window on moonlit nights' She'll trip you as you • march heavily to- ward respectability. She'll put black squirrels in your attic and black thoughts in your head. She'll just plain raise hell until you take her back. I've tried. I've looked the THE BANDY FAMILY SUGAR ani. SPICE By Bill Smiley other way when she flaunted herself. I've held her at arm's length until I ran out of arms. I've put my head in the sand when she approached (and re- ceived a kick in the rump for my pains). But she's given me the works. I determined I would never act on another committee, join an- other organization, donate any of my free time to • anything, or do anything for anybody, unlessit were life or death. What happened? Life cackled with glee, and I find myself on numerous committees, a mem- ber of several organizations, lurching out of bed to " teach Sunday School, collecting for the Red Cross, putting out the school year -book, and giving help to backward students af- ter hours. I determined I would be a better husband. Life sneered. Every time I tried to oust a bad habit, .She was right there, tantalizing. So I still lug home the box of suds, light one fag from the end of another, 'stay up till 4 a.m. reading, occas- sionally try to tell my wife she's wrong, and 'avoid any discus- sion of repairs, renovations or renewals. • I decided to be a better father. Life chortled. When I took up skiing, the kids were embarrassed. When I come home ready for a fatherly chat, everybody disappears. When I ask them if they'd like to go for a nice family drive, they Iook at each other significantly and roll their eyes. Only this morning, Kim said, "Dad, you .don't seem happy any more. You're acting kinda strange lately.". I swore I'd never; have au - thing to do with politics again, On any level. Life snickered. I'll swear it was she who put the skids under Dief, just to make a fool of me. At any rate, not one, but two of the local candidates have asked me to, give them a hand, and I've promised both. These are only the major ob- stacles she has thrown between me and my courtship of that cool but complacent lady known as Peace. She has also: Bashed in the rear end of my car; load- ed my eavetroughs with ice to the pendulous point; arranged for my cat to get in the family way again; tricked me into get- ting five weeks behind in my work; broken the dipper on my snowboot, and put my hot Wa- ter system on the blink. I give up. Come back, you old trollop, and I'll embrace you as of yore, and forget about Peace, who never did appeal to me much anyway y�q DY LLOYD BIRMINGHAM i &ASKt=t'dKto AHE pwita E IN THE 'YEARS 'AGONE Interesting items gleaned from The Expositor 9f 25, 50 and 75 years ago. From The Huron Expositor March 4, 1938 Lack of variety in weather is one thing Seaforth never has to worry about. Since Saturday each day has been decidedly different, ranging from pouring rain on Tuesday to 9 degrees below zero on Thursday morn- ing. Indications point to a stormy month, weather prophets claim, since the first day of the month was decidedly spring- like. The firemen's club rooms in the Town Hall have been com- pletely renovated and redecor- ated and are now the most commodious and comfortable club rooms in the district. With 9c hogs and 40c but. ter, farmers are wearing a broad smile. And no doubt people living in villages and towns will be a bit envious of their brothers and sisters iiv. ing on the farms. Ross J. Sproat, well-known Seaforth bowler, was elected president of District 4 of the Provincial Bowlers' Association at Mitchell on Friday night. Seaforth Public Utility Com: mission receives a credit of $272.89, the 13th adjusting bill for Hydro power bought during the year. The 13th bill has just been received by Secretary - Treasurer D. H. Wilson: From The Huron Expositor March 7, 1913 Messrs. A. E. Sparling and James Wright are busy getting into shape for operations in their machine and repair shop in D. D. Wilson's block. Miss Sparks, of Stratford, and Miss Jean. Ross, of Clinton, have taken positions in the millinery department of Stewart Bros.' store. Seaforth boys in Regina play- ed a hockey. match recently with a team from the city club anti showed the Westerners what scientific hockey is, beat- ing their opponents by 4-0. The Seaforth team was composed of E. Murray, M. and A. Twiss, Ellis McLean, Ed. Everett, Scott Hays and Mr. Hodgin. The fine brick residence of Mr. Samuel Carnechan, Jr., on the second concession of Tuck- ersniith, with most of the con- is tents, was destroyed by fire- on Friday last. Mr. William Bristow has re- ceived a contract for the erec- tion of a two-storey cement block house for Mr. Robert Hogg, of McKillop. Frpm The Huron Expositor March 9, 1888 Miss Annie Welsh, Usborne, has just completed a quilt con- taining 4,949 pieces, and an- other of 3,375 pieces. The proprietors of the Blyth Woollen Mill, Messrs. Forsyth & Son, have just about closed a contract for the manufacture of 35,000 pounds of wool for a Listowel firm. The Winthrop Cheese & But- ter Company :have received the insurance on their factory,. which was burned' last fall, from the City Mutual Fire In- surance Co., of London. The amount was $900. The contrac• tor now has all the material on the ground for the new cheese factory. Mr. T. Berry, Hensall, recent- ly shipped a carload of very fine horses for the Boston mar- ket. One day last week two teams belonging to Mr. Arthur Forbes, of Seaforth, that have been drawing wood to the salt works st Blyth all winter, brought in- to the yard two loads that were something to talk about. Each team drew one load of three cords of 8 -foot green wood. CD Q co -op ALFALFAS 1 areLOVERS selected seeds High Quality Standards in the Selection and Cleaning of CO.OP SEEDS helps guarantee top yield ! Only Ontario adapted varieties are selected. They are then carefully tested to assure high germination. Cleaned by the most modern seed cleaning machinery, you are sure of high .seed purity and low -weed content. PLANT CO-OP SEED Order your Grain Seed Now For Spring ! SEAFORTN FARMER PH ONE 9 - SEAFORTH YES ! EVERYBODY LIKES and NEEDS At any age, milk is your best food. It is truly nature's most perfect food, rich in riboflavin for vitality and a sense of well-being, calcium for strong bones and teeth and for serene nerves, and other health -building minerals and vitamins. A daily quota of milk is • vital to all growing youngsters; a real health -and - energy booster for alI grown-ups and a miracle food for older people, help- ing them maintain youthful vigor. Re- member, your never out -grow your need for milk! Be sure every member of your family gets . his daily quota of pure, fresh milk.. Get it at VANDERHOEK'S .SUPER - TEST SERVICE or from your Milkman at your door, de- livered daily. Phone 101 aple Leaf Dairy Seaforth MEET • • Gordon McGavin LIBERAL Your Liberal Candidate For Huron • He is a native of McKillop, where he was born 57 years ago. • Married to the former Flor- ence Stewart, of Brussels, the McGavins have two sons and a daughter, • A successful farmer a n d businessman, Gordon McGav- in farms 200 acres in McKil- lop, and since 1936 has oper- ated an extensive farm equipment business in Wal- ton. , • He is a member of Duff's United Church, Walton. • Long active in plowing com- petitions, he was Canadian Champion in 1926. Since 1936 he has been a director of the Ontario Plowmen's Association and is a Past President of the O.P.A. . GORDON McGAViN • Interested in travel, he visit- ed Russia and other Euro- pean countries. In 1958 he was manager of the Cana- dian plowmen who took part in the International Plowing event at Stuggart, Germany. YOU WILL. SEE AND HEAR GdRDON McGAViN ON AREA TV AND RADIO STATIONS AND MEET HIM AT GATHERINGS THROUGHOUT THE RIDING DURING THE NEXT FEW WEEKS. FOR INFORMATION CALL 83, SEAFORTH, OR DROP iN AT ANY COMMITTEE ROOM. (Published• Eby Il iirtin Liberal Association) a' ft • A • • • 4 •