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The Huron Expositor, 1963-05-09, Page 2Since 1860, Serving the Cpmmunity First Published at' SEAIi'ORTFI, ONTARIO, every Thursday morning by McLEAN BROS., Publishers. ,t E 0 A ANDREW Y. McLEAN, Editor Member Canadian Weekly Newspapers Association �0 f - ,. Ontario Weekly Newspapers Association er (� 4 Audit Bureau of Circulation E Subscription Rates: Canada (in advance) $2.50 a Year Outside Canada (in atdvance) $4.09 a Year V IS. At` SINGLE COPIES — 10 CENTS EAC$ Authorized as Second Class Mail. Post Office Department, Ottawa 6174 week, SEAFORTH, ONTARIO, MAY 9, 1963 Everybody Can Assist Promotion There has been much discussion late- ly concerning industry in Seaforth. Much of it has centered around steps which, it was suggested, the Council- or the Chamber of Commerce should have taken, or should take. And, too, there was discussion concerning` the assistance which properly should be provided for existing industries. But it remains for the Wingham Advance -Times to touch on one aspect of the problem that concerns every citizen. "Talking to a member of the town council the other day," the Advance - Times says, "it was pointed out that individuals, and particularly business- men here, do have more opportunities than they realize to affect the future of the community." When a large manufacturing concern decides to open a branch plant in some Western Ontario town it is quite cus- tomary for one of the executive of the firm to go out on a tour of exploration. He may look over many communities, taking note of such .self-evident facili- ties as geographical location, water sup- ply, transportation services. These facts he can secure without too much trou- ble. Eventually he will narrow 'the choice down to two or three towns, and at that point he wants to know something • 44t:- „tam ::•.y.,:::•:•:::...:. 9 about the communities which cannot be discovered in public records. He wants to find out about the spirit of the place —whether it is "alive" and vital. His best source of information is the peo- ple of the town, and he is likely to start dropping in on a few merchants. Without disclosing the reason for his interest he will start to ask ques- tions—whether or • not his informant likes living here ; whether business is brisk or quiet ; whether the merchant would move out if he could sell his busi- ness. The information he gets from a few calls may well determine whether or not the man (and his industry) are ever heard from again. The Advance -Times concludes with advice that applies equally in Seaforth - as in \\Ingham : "Surely it is clear that no person in the community can afford a pessimistic attitude about our town and its future- No industrialist in his right mind would give a second thought to locating in a town where the residents and businessmen are dis- couraged and unenthusiastic. "It would be foolish, of course, to paint a false picture of the town. Hon- esty is ,a first requirement—but let's make our attitude optimistic about the town in which we spend our lives,., and where we hope our children will spend theirs." A MACDUFF OTTAWA REPORT WILL MITCH SING ALONG? OTTAWA — Canada's new trade minister, Mitchell Sharp, has grown in the tariff cutting atmosphere of the General Agreement on Tariffs a n d Trade. He was 35 and director of the economic policy division of the Department of Finance when it came into. being. He was actively engaged- in the first round of bargaining. at Geneva in 1947 and subsequent GATT conferences at Annecy and Torquay. Mr. Sharp is also a Western- er, exposed- to the doctrinal free trade of the. Prairies. Yet the new Trade Minister appears perhaps a little sceptical of the rules. being proposed by the United States for the new round of tariff cutting. The recent visit, to Ottawa of Christian Herter, President Ken- nedy's chief negotiator, has left problems and confusion in its wake. The Herter proposals have been described as "the package deal" an "across the board cut" and finally as the "linear approach to tariff cut- ting". The United States is propos- ing that President Kennedy be put in the position of imple- menting the powers given him under the new Trade Expan- sion Act by cutting all tariffs over a five-year period by 50 cer cent, in return for recipro- cal concession from members of the European Common Mar ket and other GATT signator- ies. Herter fully expects that the counties with which he will be negotiating when the Ken- nedy round gets under way next year, will be making ex- ceptions. The Americans have already provided for a "reserve list" under the legislation. It /ill include any commodity subject at the time to national security policy, as, for example, oil or any commodity found, by the U.C. Tariff Commission, to be entering the United States in such increasing quantities as to threaten domestic production. These will not be subject to negotiation. But Mr. Herter is emphasiz- ing that any list of exceptions to an across-the-board 50 per cent -cut should be kept to a minimum. • For a new Liberal Govern- ment committed ig principle to the Kennedy trade liberaliza- tion program, this presents a dilemma. While Canada likes to describe itself as a moder- ate tariff country, secondary in- dustry has been nurtured by tariffs since Sir John A. Mac donald's National policy of 1878. Today need for expan- sion of secondary industry, both in terms of increased pro- duction and new production, is pressing. It is true that even a Con- servative Government has been laying emphasis on competitive export of manufactured goods rather than protection of the home market, but any across- the-board 50 per cent tariff cut, if this is what the Americans mean by reciprocity, would be. impossible to accept. Nor is Canada ready to ac- cept in principle the idea that exchange of an agreed percent- age tariff cut is fair reciproc- ity. A country like the United States whose industries can feed for the most part on the home market, and whose ex- ports can be marginal, ' gets more relative advantage. In the commodity - by - commodity bargaining that has characteriz- ed tariff cutting rounds of the past, Canada has often got the short end of the stick in such an exchange. At the same time, Canada has no practical alternative to offer to the Herter proposals. It is conceded that the four rounds of tariff bargaining under GATT, Geneva, Annecy, Tor- quay and Geneva extending from 1947 to 1056 have, in ef- fect, taken the water out of tariffs. Anything that countries could give in exchange for ad- vantages in other markets with- out injury has been given. Too often, incidentally, we have trade concessions in such a way as to give us benefits only in our primary industries. In any event, as Mr. Herter argues, a new round of tar- iff bargaining by commodities could not result in any sub- stantial reduction of tariff bar- riers. To do that, sacrifices must be made—and those sacri- fices will only be made under a policy which recognizes the principle of the greatest good for the greatest number. During the "Herter talks'' Canadians accepted nothing and rejected nothing. l 'ut since that time there has been con- centrated study of the 'Trade Expansion Act and what it means. It does not specify reci- procal tariff , cuts but reciprocal advantage. This, at once, pres ents new problems but could hold the solution. If 40 coun- tries can determine a formula by which each receives a fair share of the obvious advantages of tariff cuttings • the Herter proposals might succeed. For some countries, including Can- ada, it might mean few if any concessions. But how do you determine a reciprocal advantage to an across-the-board percentage tar- iff cut? It can be worked out statistically if you are trading entry for Canadian apples in exchange for'American oranges but the impact of a linear cut on a country's economy is al- most impossible to gauge. When the Canadian delega- tion reaches Geneva this month for the ministerial meetings of GATT that will work otrt the ground rules for the Kennedy round, this may well be the position it will take. If some Canadian industries are to be judged expendable, and some Canadian factories are to close down there must be compensat- ing advantages to Canadians as a whole and it is difficult to see how any other yardstick can be used than increased em- ployment and a better standard of living. 4.1 Q "Yes, sir, Harry—I married myself a real little homemaker!" SUGAR an SPICE By Bill Smiley ,w Mother's Day is just around the corner, And so I think I'll take this chance to warn 'er Not to be fooled by all the flowers ,and fuss, When Monday comes, we'll be right back to us. And you know what "us" are like during the other 364 days. Us eat like hogs and vanish, leaving Mother with the dishes. Uswalk across,Ma's clean floor with our swamp -soiled hip wad- ers. Us stay out too late and make Mummy's nerves shriek. Us arise on Mom's third 'clarion call in the a.m. and bawl her out for not waking us up on time. Us come home from school and take a big wedge out of the cake Ma has baked for the church tea. Us, spill gravy on our clean blouses and chusk them into Mom's laun- dry. Us decorate doorknobs, chairbacks and floors with our clothes, because Mom gets a big kick out of putting things away. Us drive Mother right up the wall. Daily. Mothers come in three sizes: regular,, large and family size. They come in several shades: red with rage, white with fear and gray with exhaustion. Some are thin and holy -looking. Some are roly-poly--looking. But every single one of them is a martyr, and I say it with- out irony. Martyrs are people who were burned at the stake, just once. Mothers burn all day and every day. Mothers are like farmers. They plant the seed carefully in the only ground they have to work—their children —.nurture it with care, watch with deep delight as the first green shoots appear, tremble lest they be flattened by the elements, view with pride the ripening stalks. and recoil with horror when the crop turns out to be wild oats. Some -mothers are like hens. They sit on their offspring .un- til the kids are either rotten or half-baked. Others are like cats. They birth their young, feed them well until they can eat by themselves, then give them a lick and let them fend for themselves. Some mothers swear, drink beer, and run around town af- ter men. Most mothers bear, drink tea, and run around the block looking for their kids at suppertime. Some mothers—and I hate to say it at this semi -sacred time —are slobs. They sit around dring coffee in their bathrobes. The •only time they get out of their slippers is when they go out to play bingo. They whine incessantly at kids and hus- bands. Their household gods are., the can -opener, the freez- ing compartment and the tele- vision set. They have runs in their stockings, curlers in their hair, and aching backs. • Some mothers are just the opposite. They are hell on high heels. They are out of bed like a Roman candle in the morning and continue to explode -at regu- lar intervals all day. They drive their kids and bully their hus- bands. They redecorate at the drop of a color chart. They move the furniture around. They join clubs- and terrorize the other mothers in them. They flee down the short cor- ridor of life as though pur- sued by a stream of molten lava. And somewhere between these extremes are all the other mothers, like yours and mine. Oh, they are not atil perfect, our Mothers. They ark not gentle, little, old, silver - haired ladies who smile and mind their own business and hand out cookies. There are saints and sinners, golfers and gad -abouts, naggers and nap- pers and nippers among them. But they're the . real mothers, and they can be forgiven any of their little foibles. They are the women who bore children proudly, played with them joyfully, taught them carefully, and walloped them with aching heart when they had to. They are the mothers who nursed their children with ten- derness when they were 111, kissed their bumps when they fell, listened to their troubles, with sympathy, and showed them the beauty and the joys of life. They are the mother's of whom young men whisper, for whom they call with anguish, when they know they are dy- ing, in war. They are the moth- ers to 'whom young girls bring their first, fragrant love affair, on whom young wives call for help. They are the real mothers. ,God bless them for what they have done in this world, and reward them' with a perpetual Mother's Day in the next. A SMILE OR TWO When a young lady fell be- hind with her fur coat pay- ments, the finance company wrote: "What would your neighbors think if we found it necessary to come and repos- sess your coat?" In reply, the company receiv- ed the following note: "I have taken it up with my neighbors, as you suggested, and they all think it would be a dirty trick." IN THE YEARS AGONE Interesting items gleaned from The Expositor of 25, 50 and 75 years ago. From The Huron Expositor May, 6, 1938 - Al. Murray, chunky New York American defenceman, was the guest speaker at the annual banquet and meeting of the Seaforth Amateur Athletic As- sociation on Monday evening. The young people's tennis court at Dublin is completed and much credit is due to the president, Getald Holland, and his competent executive com- mittee for the success of the , court. Hensall's population increas- ed this year for the first time in many years, stated Clerk J. A. Paterson, as he went over the assessment roll. There are 685 people on the roll. While Seaforth has never Lacked in public welfare and public spirit, its record in ama- teur athletics, once well known across Canada, has suffered a severe decline during the past decade or two. The Seaforth Athletic Associ- ation at its annual meeting and banquet Thursday evening .el- ected Elmer D. Bell president for the coming year. From The Huron Expositor May 9, 1913 Mr. William J. Aikenhead, of By REV. ROBERT HARPER SYMBOLS Symbols play .a larger part in human life than may be cas- ually realized. It can be well- nigh said that the whole of life proceeds upon. symbolism. Sup- pose you make a trip to a cer- tain city on business. You reach the city and take a cab which bears certain symbols that iden- tify it. You go to a certain JUST A THOUGHT: Defeat is never so difficult to swallow as the time it comes with the realization that we never really made the full effort to achieve suc- cess. street which bears a symbol, then to a certain building identi- fied by symbols, then within to a certain office known by its symbols. And within you meet a- man who is known by sym- bols, and so on and on by sym- bols. When your business is con- cluded, youmay relax in.your hotel room and read the' daily paper that . is filled from be- ginning to end with symbols. Inthe evening you may go to a concert in which musicians follow certain queer symbols straggling up and down the lines of the staff. So it is not strange that we find symbolism in religion. We find it of course in the words that are used in the worship. And also there are certain forms and ceremonies that are rich in meaning to the inform- ed believer. There is a danger in symbol- ism that we should be careful to avoid. We must not take the symbol for the thing itself. 'It will profit you nothing to re- cite the words of an unknown tongue. But with the symbols of faith you may build a tem- ple on which himself may see fit to abide. The new efficiency expert of a business firm hung signs all over the place saying: "Do it now!" The cashier skipped out with $20,000; the accountant eloped with the most efficient secretary; three clerks asked for a raise, and the office boy joined the navy. 1-11,6E-FASi 1FEEU I HEAR THE COACH HAS YOU ON A D/ET THAT REALLY WORKS. A`THLET OFFICE •taBo=vPa•rr. Stanley, near Brucefield, has passed his graduation examina- tion before the examining board of the Medical Faculty of West- ern University, London. Seaforth Lawn Bowling Club has installed a new and up-to- date system for lighting the green, which was tested for the first time on Wednesday eve- ning. Local carriagemakers are dis- playing more and finer vehicles than in any past year. For the past two weeks The Expositor presses have been running by electricity, and ev- erything is quite satisfactory. Mr. ?? J. McGuire, who hap been in the grocery business in Seaforth for a couple of years, intends moving to London. Mr. George Henderson, of the second of Tuckersmith, speared a fish in the Bayfield river which weighed nine pounds. From The Huron Expositor May fl, 1888 Mr. Frank Gutteridge is er- ecting a large brick addition to his residence in Seaforth. Mr. George Murdie. of Mc- Killop, was in town a few days ago driving one of the hand- somest colts we have seen in a long time. Cluff & Bennett, Seaforth, are erecting a large addition to their pump factory. - Mr. David Sproat, contractor, is erecting a new frame resi- dence for Mr. Friel, of Hibbert, on one of the Wilson lots, near the residence of Mr. Clarkson. Mr. J. Livingston, captain of the Seaforth Collegiate Insti- tute football team; has been chosen as one of the players on the Canadian team in the International match at Berlin, on the 24th of May, between Canada and the United States. Advertisements have been is- sued by the Post Office Depart- ment calling for tenders for the carriage of mails between Bayfield and Clinton, via Varna, and also tenders for a like ser- vice 'between Seaforth and Eg- mondville and Brucefield sta- tion and the village. Township of Tuckersmith R CLAMATION RE DOGS In accordance with a resolution passed by the Municipal Council of the Township of Tuckersmith, and by virtue of the provi- sions of Bylaw No. 13, 1952, I.,hereby pro- claim that no dog shall be allowed to run at large in the hamlets of Egmondville and Harpurhey, Township of Tuckersmith, dur- ing the period ending October 31, 1963. (Note: The bylaw provides for the impounding, de- stroying or selling of any such dog and, upon conviction, the owner or harborer of such a 'dog is liable to a fine not exceeding $50.00.) ELGIN THOMPSON, Reeve Tuckersmith, May 8, 1963. "GOD SAVE THE QUEE " THE KIDS LOVE IT!! • • • THERE IS NO DOUBT THAT SEAFORTH CHILDREN LIKE BEEP! HERE JANE SILLS AND LINDA BEDARD TRY A GLASS OF THE NEW JUICE DRINK DE•E'-P The Breakfast Juice Drink* • NEW — SMOOTH — DELICIOUS With Added Vitamin C and Vitamin A Here's a wonderful new waiter upper drink. A delightful nectar of four delicious fruit flavours—Orange, Apricot, Apple Prune—blended for youthful tastes. Has that smooth, easy going delicious flavour. Nutritious too, because it contains Vitamin C which cannot be stored in the body and should be replenished daily. More econ- nomical, too. Try it — and your family will become regular Beep fans. AVAILABLE FROM YOUR MILKMAN Maple Leaf Dairy Phg,ne 101 Seaforth