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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1963-03-21, Page 2Published at 9%r Since 9 r Since 1860, Serving the Community First SEAFORTH, ONTARIO, every Thursday morning by MCLEAN ANDREW Y. MCLEAN, Editor Member Canadian Weekly Newspapers Association i Ontario Weekly Newspapers Association Audit Bureau of Circulation Subscription Rates: = Canada (in advance) $2.50 a Year Outside Canada (in advance) $4.00 a Year N L A ' SINGLE COPIES — 10 CENTS EACH Authorized as Second Class Mail, Post Office Department, Ottawa r BROS., Publishers SEAFORTH, ONTARIO, MARCH 21, 1963 Sites For International 'Event in Area The recent announcement that the 1966 International Plowing Match would be held in Huron County sug- gests the necessity of an early decision concerning just where in Huron the match will be located. Many factors, of course, must be tak- en into consideration on deciding on a site, and the least of these is a location in relation to the county as a whole. As hosts for the event, the people of Huron are interested in knowing that it will be as centrally located as possible. An- other requirement is the availability of suitable lands in a single block and ad- jacent to modern highways. On all these counts the Seaforth area stands high. It is equi-distant between. the north and south boundaries of the county. It is served by modern high- ways,. and a number of excellent sites invite inspection. Typical is the 400- Centennial Suggestions At the risk of injecting another is- sue into the election campaign, we agree with the Letter Review when it sets out a program for Canada's Cen- tennial. Here are the suggestions: 1. There should be an effort to get back as closely as possible to the sound principle that governments should govern and stay clear of matters that are outside the realm of government. Canada's government should remember that its follies are sufficient unto them- selves and that it should not contribute to other follies by trying to administer affairs beyond its proper sphere. 2. Canada should be an independent nation, maintaining that independence. 3. Canada's foreign policy should bd one of friendship and frankness with the other countries. 4. The central government should again study the act of confederation and rediscover the fact that the prov- inces have their own rights and privi- leges, and that their independence with- in their own sphere should not be un- dermined by attempts of 'the central government to intrude on matters 'out- side its jurisdiction. 5. On financial matters government should' remember that its solvency de- pends on not- spending more than it has..In the long run governmental solv- ency is the same as the solvency of the citizen. If more is spent in one year, it has to be offset by lesser expenditure in another year. Also, government should always remember that inflation. of the currency is robbery of the peo- ple. acre Scott Poultry Farms, adjacent to Seaforth, in McKillop Township, which are bounded on three sides by a provin- cial highway, a new Ontario develop- ment road and a township road. When the match last was here in 1946, it was located north of Goderich at Port Albert, on Huron's western boundary. Earlier plans to hold the In- ternational on the Whyte farms in Hullett in 1942 were cancelled because of the war. Certainly the area immediately ad- jacent to Seaforth can provide. the facilities required. There can be no doubt concerning the co-operation those in charge would receive. The International is a major event, requiring the combined efforts of the community. It is not a bit -too soon for the communities concerned to consider the establishment of a representative group and to extend an invitation to officers of the event to take advantage of the facilities this area offers. Less For Producer (By A. H. Musgrave, in The Rural Co-operator) Consumers who will ante up the in- creased price for automobiles, television sets, liquor, cigarettes, entertainment and holiday travel without a murmur, will rise in a tidal wave of righteous indignation when there is even a threat of a one -cent per quart increase in the price of milk, or a one -cent per loaf increase in the price of bread. Commuters who will accept the steady increase in the price of gasoline and never even so much as blink when their coffee break refreshment is jolted from five cents to 10 cents per cup, will write letters of protest to their • member of Parliament and further in- flame their Bay Street ulcer if beef prices increase two or three cents per pound. What is 'it that causes people to have such a strangely distorted set of va- lues? Why its it that consumers feel that food prices are a sacred right on which no one may trespass, while at the same time they accept the ever- increasing costs of other less essential goods and services without a whimper? The wage-earner's hourly wage buys more food today than at any other time., More than this, the housewife can buy with her food budget the finest assort- ment of wholesome, qua ity foods avail- able anywhere in the Id. At the same time, t ortion of that consumer's food dollar that finds its way back to the primary producer con- tinues to decline. •u - IN THE YEARS AGONE Interesting items gleaned from The Expositor of 25, 50 and 75 years ago. From The Huron Expositor March 18, 1938 Mr. E. L. Box was on Tuesday elected a director of the Aan- 4 cient Foresters' Mutual Life In- surance Co., on the occasion of the company's annual general meeting in Toronto. Mrs. M. A. Reid was appoint- ed secretary -treasurer of the Seaforth Library Board at a recent meeting. The Seaforth fire department was called out' for the first time in recent months when a car belonging to Cliff Smith, Win- ,throp, was on fire at Dunlop's service station. The fire was soon under control, but not be- fore the wiring was almost completely destroyed. Presenting their annual re- port to council and requesting TIE RANDY FAMILY JUNIOR -WOULD SURE,MOM-ALL X11 01 -EASE EXCEPT THIS ONE- 6EiT RID OF I'M SAVING IT 10 A1 -1.114E-45 OLD MAKE SOMETHIINO CARTONS? NEXTSPR NG & their usual grant, members of the Seaforth Highlanders Band pointed out in the report that instruments, uniforms a n d equipment in the hands of the Band, but owned by the town, were vaalued at more than $2,000. From The Huron Expositor March 21, 1913 The big court room in the court house at Goderich is be- ing Covered with, heavy lin- oleum to replace the matting. Mr. Fred Broadbridge, who has been with the McFaul store for many years, has transferred his allegiance to Stewart Bros. Mr. John J. Dickson, of Tuck- ersmith, has sold his farm on the second concession, west of Egmondville, the old Dickson BY LLOYD IMMOIONAll 'PIN-UP BOARD FOR GARDENERS Cut DOWN LONG GROW AR ON -ID LEAVE ONE sID6 AND FORM A 8114 AHOLDS 16 HT TGN PLANTINGS SCHEDULES NOTE SEED Ac is ETA fita homestead, to Mr. W. L. For- rest, of Goderich; Mr. Robert Adams, of McKil- lop, has sold his farm on the 8th concession, near Winthrop, to Mr. George Little, for $5,000. The new industry known as the Misner Manufacturing Com- pany, Goderich, which purchas- ed the Smith Tannery property and converted it into the manu- facture of massage creams and talcum powder, are doing a flourishing business. The choir of St. Thomas' Church, Seaforth, made their appearance for the first time in uniformed surplices on Sunday (Palm) last. They wear mortar board hats with them. From The Huron Expositor March 23, 1888 Mr. Hazelwood, engineer for the Canadian Pacific Railway, has commenced the work of making a survey of the route 9f the proposed new branch from Guelph to Goderich. Over a foot of snow fell here on Wednesday morning, which leaves the roads in a very bad condition. At a meeting of the Trustee Board of the Seaforth Collegiate Institute, held on Wednesday last, Mr. Thomas Kidd was ap- pointed chairman of tht. board in place of the late Mr. Mc- Caughey. . Mr. David Johnson has let the contract for, his new res'. deuce, to Messrs. t. H, Brom-, foot a»4,l, Ouifti4e.. • • ei weeke r, "Did you tell those bullies on the bus what I'd do if thAy took your hat again?" There's one thing about Cana- dian weather—you'll never die of boredom. That is my thought for the week as the equinox arrives. I think a Canadian March 21, the first day of spring, is just what the word suggests. Equinox is from the Latin Equus -- horse, Nox — night. English translation— nightmare. We don't know whether we're going to be sitting out on the patio in the sun, having lunch with the birds yelling wildly and the grass sprouting 'green, or huddled by the window with a red nose, looking at a back- yard of navel -deep snow, with a gale howling about the house. * * * It's refreshing, by George. I have neither patience nor sym- pathy with those traitors who complain continually about our Canadian weather. What we should do is pack them off to England, where it rains all the ruddy time; or ship them to the desert, where they'd be stunned into sullen submission by the brutual thump of the daily sun; or pay their passage to the tropics and let them mould in the mildew of monot- onous dampness. We should- be proud of our winters, for example. They're mean, tough, old devils, grim- ly clinging to their reign until they've wrung the last ounce of resistance out of us. Sometimes, I swear, one more week of cold weather would have everyone in the nation at each other's throats. * * * Then comes one of those in- credibly soft, caressing days, then the wind is velvet from the south, the sunlicks ice and snow with hot, ravishing tongue, gutters gurgle, and there's a lovely stink as the wrappings are . peeled from the rotting, buried body of the earth. Out in the ice, the steamboats bellow like trapped buffaloes. Out on the street, the kids stroll through puddles over their boot tops. Out in the bush, the trout streams, black eels against the snow, snort and chuckle and burble with pure SUGAR and By Bill Smiley , pleasure as they race to their nameless destiny, free again af- ter months of silent slavery. * * * Down at the dock, the boat owners prowl, calculating, esti- mating, figuring the days until they can launch that leaky, paint - peeling monument, to man's eternal folly. Up on the hills, the fanatics are still at it, hurtling down over gravel and grass, rocks and roots, and oc- casionally some snow. Up in the bedroom, the good wife views with horrified de- light, the sickening shade of last year's wallpaper, revealed by the yellow March sun. Down in the basement, the fisherman puatters, swears and! glares, ties flies. * * * Down at the park or the pool- room or the post office, the old gents, sick to the soul with confinement, suck in the sun, shivering, but once again defi- antly alive, part of the world. Up in their rooms, the teen- agers seem to. be studying for their Easter exams,, while through their heads and bodies swirl the heady fluids of life, the juices of spring. Up in the attic, the black squirrels perform their endless 'do -so -do, -interrupted only by queer, periods in which they don't scuttle, but chortle and croon to the doubtless thou- sands of babies they have pro- duced in the winter months. Down in the basement crouches the cat, vast With unwanted kit- tens, brooding, patient, green- eyed. '* * * Ours, I'm afraid, is not the spring of 0 To Be in England, Now That April's There. It's not the spring of tiny jonquils poking their dainty heads through the turf. It's not the spring of birdies and blossoms of gambolling lambs and ten- der green buds. All this is two months away. Ours is a savage, sudden spring, raw and rugged, ornery and awkward, unexpected and uncomfortable, muddy and moody. But it's never dull. And boy -o -boy -boy, arent's we glad to see it. I-ALFI-M.T TEBI By Rev. Robert H. Harper FINE FIGURE OF EPEECH The harp has always seemed a superb instrument, both for its appearance and the music it may produce under a skilled hand. My admiration for it goes back to days in college when in a lyceum course we had a read- er who was supported by a harp- ist. And song and story have been woven about the harp. For in- stance, "The Harp That Once through Tara's Hall the Soul of Music Shed," which I heard John McCormack sing in Port- land, Oregon, But I submit that one of the most beautiful fig- ures of speech is to be found in Locksley Hall. It is as fol- lows: Love took up the harp of life and smote on all the chords with might, Smote the chord of self that, trembling, passed in music out of sight. There is a wondrous harmony and syynpathy between identical tones of different instruments. Once while a college mate turn- ed his violin, I felt an answer- ing string. of the same note tremble under my finger, on my guitar. As swiftly as the wings of the humming bird pass out of sight so do the swiftly -vibrating strings •of the harp pass in music out of sight. When love reigns in the heart, selfishness has no place. Just a Thought: We cannot expect a life with- out some sorrow and unhappi- ness, yet we can always im- prove our let by holding to the realization that trouble and dis- comfort are temporary and that tomorrow can be a bright and cheerful day. "If you can't find the answer in your law books, you will find it in that pocket edition of the Bible that is in your saddle bag," Mayor Gordon Stronach,, of London, Ontario, .stated re- cently referring to the. early days of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. The Mayor stated that his "alma mater" was the R.C.M.P. Lobking for the reason for the high regard held by people With respect to this force, with special reference to Canada's early history, Mayor Stronach indicated that justice was ad- ministered faithfully from the precepts of the Bible carried by the pioneers, then called, the Royal Canadian North West Mounted Police.. Speaking at the Mayor's breakfast on the morning fol- lowing the inauguration of the London City Council recently, His Worship Mayor Stronach stressed the need for Christian principles to be applied at ev- ery level of living, making spe- cial reference to those in pub- lic office. The Mayor's breakfast was sponsored by the London Group of International 'Christian Lead- ership. In Washington, D.C., the annual President's Prayer Breakfast is a project of I.C.L. A group of Senators in Ottawa meet when the House is in• ses- sion under the auspices of I. C. L. Suggested Daily Bible Readings Sunday—lst Samuel 15:10-16 Monday—lst Samuel 15:17-23 Tuesday' --2nd Samuel 12:7-15 Wednesday—Psalm 51:1-19 Thursday—Isaiah 43:22-28 Friday—Isaiah 59:1-8 Saturday—Isaiah 59:9-15. QUICK CANADIAN QUIZ 1. The first census of Canada was taken in what year?? 2. In 1939 it took 12 minutes for ,the average Canadian factory worker to earn the price of a loaf of bread. How long does he work for it to- day? 3, The value of Canada's min- eral production was $1,285 million in 1952. What was the value for 1962? 4. What is the rate of the fed- eral salestax? 5. Ten years ago defence spend- ing. took 45.5 per cent of to- tal federal budgetary expen- diture. What is the propor- tion in the current year? ANSWERS: 5. It is estimat- ed at 26.3 per cent. 3. Mineral output in 1962 was valued at $2,844 million, more than twice the 1952 value and up by 10 per cant over 1960. 1. In 1871. 4. The rate of the federal sales tax is 11 per cent, levied on the manufacturer's sale price of goods made in Canada or on the duty-paid value of goods imported. 2. About six min- utes. And then there's the psychia- trist. He can do wonder. Take, for example, the woman who used to live in mortal fear of the telephone. Now she an- swers it whether it rings or not," Guest Your little daughter loq(4s so good and quiet," Hosleseg "I hgdn!t. noticed.. Mari,, come:. hope,. What, naught• n a hgvez yotl boo, up, to A MACDUFF OTTAWA THE TWO APPROACHE$ OTTAWA—The eampaigns of the two main parties in this general ections are very differ- ent. The speeches by Prime Minister John Diefenbaker and Hon. L. B. Pearson are unlike in tone and content and, even the physical aspects of the cam- paigns show a sharp contrast. Prime Minister Diefenbaker is travelling by train this time. In the 1962, election he travel- led by chartered plane. Pint he did not like it. Now he has gone back to the train and makes brief appearances where the train stops. He likes to say, "Last time I flew above the people. I looked down on them. This time I'm travelling by train, so I can meet the people and find out what they want." This Usually brings applause. However, while Mr. Diefen- baker personally prefers the train for campaigning there is another reason why the Tory party has left the plane to go back to ground travel. A lack of funds. It is much more ex- pensive to traverse the country by chartered plane. But ravel- ling by plane has the advantage that you cover more territory more quickly. You can be in Saskatchewan one night and at Port Arthur the next. You see more people in less time by hopping from point to point. The Diefenbaker campaign party rides the train with the Prime Minister occupying his special car. There is a coach of small cubicles known as "roomettes" for the press. They make the train their base of op- erations. There is a third coach for his staff. Comfort is at a premium and baths are hard to come by unless some time can be snatched at a hotel enroute. The Pearson Party rides a specially chartered Canadian Pacific Airlines DC6B aircraft. To the Editor Sees EMO Link With Defence Dublin, March 16, 1963. Editor, Huron Expositor: Sir: The choice of an appli- cant for E.M.O. for Huron County it would seem, should involve consideration of his stand in national affairs. To my mind, • there is an inescapable Iink between Civil Defence and National Defence, and a head -in -the -sand attitude on national defence is not good enough for one in such a posi- tion. It would seem 'that civil de- fence is just an extension of national defence and that we must be willing to admit that under present world conditions there are, no non -conformists: the prime purpose of rivil de- fence should be the maintain- ing of the civil population as an effectve agent in their own field of national strength . . . to ensure that enough of them retain their effectiveness—not to merely hide them so they may exist under another ruler. I think the public will co- operate if this attitude is tiriven home. Then,.too, we must look fur- ther than national interests: it should be evident that theG Com- monwealth or the Empife, by whichever name you wish to call it, is still the most impor- tant element in democracy and the preservation of human rights and decency in the world. it should be as much our aim to remain an effective force in its defence. J. M. NAGLE "When does the library op- en?" the voice on the phone askked. "At 9 a.m.," came the reply., "And what's the idea of call- ing me in the middle of the night?" "Not until 9 a.m.," answered the disappointed voice. "No, not until 9 a.m.," an- swered the librarian. "Why lo you want to get in before 9 a.m.?" "Who wants to get in? I want to get out!" REPORT The organization works well at each stop. There are cars laid on to transport the party to a hotel where rooms have been obtained. The press returns to the hotel after the meeting to write their reports. Mr. Pearson attends a reception either be- fore or after his meeting and mingles with the crowds shak- ing hands. The only Province where the Liberal arrangements appeared to come unstuck was in Mani- toba. There at ,Brandon, Mr. Pearson was scheduled to throw a rock during the Mac- donald Brier. But the local Lib- erals had not cleared the ar- rangement sufficiently with the officials of the bonspiel. The chairman of the Brandon Bon - spiel Committee stormed that no politician was going to make it into -a political rally. He was all for keeping Pearson out of the arena, entirely. But cooler heads prevailed and Mr. Pear- son was able to attend and watch the play for a while. That incident was the excep- tion rather than the rule. Gen- erally the Liberal organization functioned smoothly at each stop. There were few if any hitches. The Diefenbaker tour organization is not as efficient. For example, the Prime Minis- ter seldom if ever produces a text for the benefit of the press travelling with him. Mr. Pear - son's party produces notes which are to be the basis of the Liberal Leader's speech that night. Sometimes it is not avail- able until half an hour before he speaks, but one is ,always available: Mr. Pearson has hammered hard on, the fact that Canada needs a stable Government. He states that the first •priority of a new Liberal Government would be to take immediate and necessary measures—"involving hard and unpleasant decisions" —to restore the confidence of ,Canadians in themselves and of the world in Canada. He says that as leader of a Liberal Government he will be prepared to make unpleasant de- cisions, if they become neces- sary. H -e adds too that he will be happy to make pleasant de- cisions when theyare possible, right and financially sensible. He was not offering promises. Mr. Diefenbaker on the other hand was making his main theme an•attack on the Liberals. He lambastes them for obstruc- tion, accuses them of bringing on the election because they were hungry for power. He complains about powerful forc- es fighting against him from within and without his' Party and from within and without Canada. There is an undertone of anti -Americanism. He does not resort to any direct criticisms of the United States or nasty comments of Canada's Ameri- can ally. But by innuendo he makes it clear he has no great love for the Americans in this election. However, the Prime Minister denies he is anti-Am- erican. It is more correct. he says, to describe him as "pro - Canadian." He appeals for sympathy. He is running as the underdog, He likes to claim that he has "on- ly the people" on his side and alleges that powerful forces are arraigned against him. He has also declared that his Party is running short of campaign funds. He has played the role of martyr to the full. He has made " reference to the "re- wards" of being Prime Minister. "What are the rewards?" he has asked. Then he tremulous- ly answers, "I will retire on a pension of $2,900 a year. I ask you to remember that" It is too early to determine which campaign is the more ef- fective, that of the Liberals or the Conservatives? Mr. Diefen- baker is making an emotional appeal. He pulls out all the stops. Mr. Pearson is making an appeal for a commonsense approach to Canada's problems. He wants the Liberals to win a majbrity of the seats so they can form a sound administra- tion at Ottawa and set to work to provide good government. There is little if any emotion in his appeal. t'3EA-, VouR CAu6HTER HAS Nv,1tED A NEW a BOY OVER FOR, DINNER NEXT WEEK 1 LE VNANT$ lb KNOW 1F WE N GET NEW CARPETINE,. T 114E LIVING ROOM.., AND BUY A 21" -r.v.?