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SEAFORTH, ONTARIO, AUGUST 15, 1963
Pay Raise Merits
Much has been written during recent
weeks concerning the increases which
Parliament approved for M.P.'s. -
Too frequently the comment was ill-
informed, obviously written with little
knowledge of the problems involved.
The public as a result has on occasions,
perhaps, reached conclusions based on
discussions that were far from objec-
tive.
There are Many who criticize the fact
that the members of parliament voted
themselves for the increase. Who else
was there to do so?
It could reasonably be suggested that
any members who voted against it
—and included among the few was Op-
position Leader Diefenbaker—were
either naive, or seeking a political ad-
vantage. We don't think Mr. Diefen-
baker is naive.
The question, of course, is one that
quite properly should be discussed by
the public. But discussion should be
based on information ; be impartial and
of a nature thatleads to an apprecia-
tion of the matter.
It is in such a vein that the August
issue of "Industry" discusses the salary
increase:
"How much should a Member of
Parliament be paid? The answer—and
it is surely the only answer -is : enough
to enable him to properly discharge his
duties as a representative both of the
nation and of his constituents;
"By this test, there can be no doubt
at all that the $8,000 a year plus $2,000
expenses which M..P.s'"'hare received
since 1954 has long been grossly inade-
quate.
"That the average Canadian, earn-
ing as he does a good deal less, should
question this is perhaps understandable.,
But, like it or not, the plain fact is that
Proper Discussion
a Member of Parliament ceases to be
an `average Canadian' from the mom-
ent he is sent to Ottawa.
"His expenses, obligations and the re-
quirements of public office involve him
in outlays (and, frequently, in personal
and family sacrifices) which the aver-
age Canadian is not called upon to
make.
"It is no answer to say that parlia-
mentary candidates offer themselves in
full knowledge of the remuneration.
The urge to public service apart, many
freshmen M.P.s of modest means sim-
ply do not realize to begin with just
how much the job is going to cost them.
They are not long in fii<iding out.
"But if the case for an increase is
conceded, can one of $8,000 a year be
justified? To many Canadians it may
seem not. Yet the size of raises must
surely be related to their frequency.
The essential point to remember here
pis that it has been nearly 10 years since
the last revision in the salaries and ex-
penses of Members of Parliament and
it will in all probability be as Iong again
before the next.
"It may be true that MVI.P.s are the
only people who can vote themselves an
80 per cent pay increase—but it is no
less true that they are also the only peo-
ple likely to be drawing the same pay
a decade or more from now:
"The hazards of political life are
great enough. Canadians have no right
to add to them acute financial strain
and embarrassment for many of those
who triumph at the polls.
"They do have a right to expect that
their representatives on Parliament
Hill will by their attendance and their
participation apply themselves diligeri:t-
ly and conscientiously to serving the
nation on a full-time basis."
WIN AT LIONS CARNIVAL PENNY SALE
(Continued from Page 1)
ler, Seaforth; set of glasses (An-
stett's), George Dickson, Sea -
forth.
Oil painting (Williamson El-
ectric), Frank Sanale, Seaforth;
garbage pail (cash donation),
Doug Whyte, Seaforth; door
grill (Jackson Aluminum), Di-
anne Oldfield, RR 4, Seaforth;
groceries (Smith's), Bill Rober-
ton, RR 5, Seaforth; lawn chair
(cash donation), Mrs. Bruce
Armstrong, Staffa; shoe polish
(H. Thompson), Marilyn Biggar,
(Hoover), Windsor; car mirror
(Miller's Garage), Mrs, Sylves-
ter Ryan, RR 2, ,G"adshill; scat-
ter mat (Stewart Bros.), Dennis
Hodgert, Seaforth ; sweater,
(Eve -Mar Stores), Mrs. Frank
Fowler, Seaforth; case orange
(Queen's Hotel), Elizabeth Ball,
Seaforth,
Sunoco oil (R. Scott), Dr. J.
Turnbull, Seaforth ; Purina
Chow (M. Dietz), Harold 'login,
RR 2, Seaforth; honey (Wallace
Ross), Mrs. Mary Adair, 310
Wellington St., Kitchener; bed
lamp (F. Kling Ltd.), Linda Pow-
ell, Seaforth;. plane (Ball-Ma-
Caulay), Faye Adams; Seaforth;
vase (Savauge's), Mrs. Mary
Storey, Seaforth; cigarettes (El-
liott's Lunch), Earl Dinsmore.,
Seaforth; car mirror (Neil Bell),
Florence Laidlaw, Seaforth);
cologne (McKindsey's Drugs),
Nancy Devereaux, Seaforth ;
groceries (Dick's Grocery), Lau-
rie Kruse, Seaforth.
Lawn chair (cash donation),
Kathy McLean, Seaforth; large
thermos (Sills Hardware), Ed-
win Malkus, Seaforth; girl's ox.
fords (Seaforth Shoes), Brenda
Houston, RR 2, Brussels; wood-
en planter(Sills Hardware),
Mrs. Martn Murray, Dublin ;
boys' shoes (Smyth's Shoes),
Mrs. Dorothy Kracker, Egmond-
viile; feed or $5.00 (Seaforth
Co-op), Mrs. J. M. Scott, Sea -
forth; thermos bottle (Gin-
gerlch's), Mrs. Jim Taman, Sea -
forth; Boshart chair (J. Boshart
& Sons), Phillip Hoggarth, Sea -
forth; luggage (Stewart Bros.),
Brian Brady, Seaforth; Top-
notch Feeds Ltd. (feed), Gene
Kruse, Seaforth.
OW
IIALF $Y1E(H
I KNOW -Z14 LWOKI/V
UP,,, BUT HOW CAN
2' HELP IT?
Fifty pounds sugar (I.G.A.),
George Mcllwain, Seaforth; Tex-
aco oil (Walden & Broadfoot),
Ann Wood, Seaforth; barbecue
set (J. Cardno), Carol Ann Dun-
gey, Mitchell; ease coke (Mc-
Clinchey Restaurant), J. W.
Crich, RR 4, Clinton; car mirror
(Seaforth Motors), Mae Smith,
Seaforth; paint (J. Bach), Mrs.
Louis Nigh, Seaforth; boys'
shoes (Seaforth Shoes), Mrs, P.
Malcolm, Seaforth; painting (E.
C. Boswell), Garth Flannigan,
Seaforth; beach outfit (Cana-
dian Tire), Donna Brown, Dub-
lin; Supertest oil (Supertest
Station), Mrs. Carl Vanderzon,
Seaforth.
Large shoes (Seaforth Shoes),
Stephen Hildebrand, Seaforth;
boys' shoes (Seaforth Shoes),
Joe Gibson, RR 2, Seaforth;
boys' shoes (Seaforth Shoes),
Danny Muir, Seaforth; $2.50
ham (H. Whyte), Gerda Chris-
tensen, Seaforth; $2.00 baking
(Trapnell Bakery), Mrs. Ken
Hiusser, Seaforth; $2.50 ham
(H. Whyte), Shirley Rapien, RR
2, Walton; half gallon ice
cream (U.D.P.C.), Mrs. Phyllis
Dallas, RR 4, Seaforth; hall gal -
lot ' ice cream (U.D.P.C.), June
Boussey, Seaforth; $3.00 dry
cleaning (Flannery's), Mrs. Geo.
Miller, Seaforth; dry cleaning
(Scoins), Mrs. Enos Boshart,
Seaforth.
Car wash (White Rose Sta-
tion), Mrs. Grant Bisbaek, Hen-
sall; $10 permanent (Bryan's
Beauty), Mrs. Geo. McIllwain,
Seaforth; $12.50 permanent
(Snip & Curl), Mrs. Ed. Mc-
Grath, RR 2, Dublin; two din-
ners (Commercial Hotel), Don-
na Reynolds, RR 5, Seaforth;
five dozen eggs (Henderson's),
Mrs. , Art Finlayson; RR 5, Sea -
forth; $2.06 washing (V. Mil-
ler), Connie Britton, ..Seaforth;
$10 credit on storm door (Win-
ter -Seal Ltd.), Pearl Williams,
Seaforth; car wash, grease job
(Cities Service), Mrs. Ken Camp-
bell, RR 1, Dublin.
Castrol oil (K. Sharp), Mrs.
Russell Whitelaw, RR 3, Sea -
forth; 5 lbs. chocolates (Huroni
Wholesale), John Oldfield, Sea -
forth; men's shoes (MacDonald
Shoes), C. A. Barber, Seaforth;
car polish (D. Schenck), Mrs.
Harold Rice, Seaforth; oil
change (Cleave's Sunoco), Con-
nie Britton, Seaforth; doll (La-
rone's), Mrs. Bill Strong, Sea -
forth; card table (Whitney's),
Henry Ziler, Seaforth; tree (G.
Noble), June Boussey, Seaforth;
painting (E. C. Boswell),,Peg
Case; lawn utnbrella (RRbert.
Bell Industries Ltd.), %loyd Ilog-
garth.
W.eckg oi The week
•
"I came over to show you my new Cockney Spaniard"
If you hear any rude noises
while you're reading this col-
umn, pay no attention. It will
merely be my stomach trying
to remind me that I am not the
Emperor Nero.
For the past couple of
months I have been trying to
convince the old grocery -chute,
through one orgy after another,
that it could handle anything
I chose to throw into it; half
raw steak on top of skunky
beer, rag berries and ice cream
on top of gin and lemon.
* * *
All I'm trying to say is that
.we poor people, simply because
we have some .summer holidays,
shouldn't start acting as though
life were just a gay, mad whirl,
a big bowl of caviar. It's more
like a blind stagger, a bowl of
cornflakes.
As our most recent carload
of old -friend visitors fades in-
to the exhaust fumes, and I
•wave a shaky farewell, I can't
help thinking nostagically , of
those good old days when I
was a weekly editor, and had
one week's vacation a year.
Everything was so simple. You
went to the editions annual
convention, tottered home look-
ing and feeling like a skeleton,
and went happily back to work
for another fifty-one weeks.
* * *
Now that I have those longer
holidays that used to look so
golden, I realize that man is a
creature of toil, and is happier
and better when he has his
nose to the old grindstone, his
shoulder to the good old wheel,
and his feet planted ecstatical-
ly in that good, old, familar
rut.
Lengthy summer holidays,
and I say it vgjth deliberation,
are a menace to health, wealth,
morale and marriage.
* * *
Take health, When my holi-
days began, I was in good shape.
Just the usual smoker's hack,
crocked knee, touch of bursitis
in the shoulder, and aching
Wk. But clear of mind, steady
of nerve. Today, I'm a wreck.
My sunburn is peeling, my
stomach is snarling like a scald-
ed cat, and every time a car
stops outside our place I run
and hide in the attic.
My wife is in even worse con-
dition. When holidays began,
she was pale but perky. Today,
she is brown on the outside,
but a whimpering shadow with-
in. And no wonder. Just the
other day, for example, she was
about to step from a dock onto
the deck of a millionaire's cruis-
er. The gentleman, who can
run eight companies with one
hand behind him, can't run his
boat. As she stepped, he put
it in reverse, by accident.
* * *
Missing the boat, the Old
Girl has only ten feet of air
between her and fourteen feet
of water. It was like one of
those cartoon comedies in
which the hero runs off the
edge of a cliff and keeps run-
ning in air for a second until
he looks down. I might add
that she didn't have her swim-
ming attire on.
She'll never be the same girl.
On the way to her watery wel-
come, she hit the dock a cou-
ple of good ones, losing about
a foot of skin off her arm, and
picking up a bruise on'her nice
tanned leg the size of a grape.
fruit and, next day, the color
of a baboon's bottom. She's off
millionaire boat drivers for
Life.
Take wealth. When we began
these holidays, 1 had two
months' salary to put me
:through the summer. At The
SUGAR
and
SPICE
By Bill Smiley
end of one month, 1 had no
month's salary and a session
with the bank manager.
It seems that when you're
working, you can't spend mon-
ey. When you're not, you
can't. Most people save up for
their holidays and blow the lot
on a glorious two weeks doing
something, -or staying some-
where, they can't afford. Try
doing this for two .months,
* * *
Take morale. Fra. , y, after
six 'weeks• off the job I •have
become a total slob. 1,: rhymes
but it doesn't reason. , y total
accomplishment, on ojects
around the house, has bee he
erection of a twenty -foot clots
line. The book I was going to
write this summer has turned
into a comic book. My' wife
laughs every time I mention it.
Children imitate. When the
kids see their old man lolling
in a lawn chair looking at the
trees, they lie down on the un-
cut lawn and do the same.
As for marriage, you can take
it, too. Lengthy holidays put
more strain on "a solid mar-
riage than drink, gambling or
other women. I won't go into
details. But lady, how would
you like to run a motel -without -
rates with one hand, and try to
direct a lazy, unshaven brute
with the other? Dad, how
would you Iike two months of
togetherness with the old bat-
tleaxe? I leave it to your im-
agination.
If this is what a long holiday
is like, I sure hope I die before
I retire.
IN ! H E YEARS A V O N E Interesting Items gleaned from
The Expositor of 25, 50
and 75 years ago.
From The Huron Expositor
August 12, 1938
The St. Columban Saints de-
feated Seaforth Beavers 1-0 be-
fore a fair crowd in the final
game of the southern group of
the HFL at St. Columban Wed-
nesday evening. An accidental
goal gave St. Columban the win.
In a mixup at the goal mouth,
Rintoul of Seaforth miscued in
clearing, booting the ball past
Bell for St. Columban's goal,
and the only one of the game.
Many tomato plants in Sea -
forth are the victim this year
of tomato or tobacco worm,
which is the larvae of the hawk
moth.
This district experienced its
worst storm of some years Wed-
nesday evening, when a 50 -mile
wind cut a path across Tucker -
smith and McKillop, leaving a
trail of uprooted trees and
wrecked buildings. The wind
was accompanied by a torren-
tial downpour of rain, over an
inch falling during the eve-
ning.
Seaforth escaped the .worst of
the blow, although limbs were
blown down in every part of
town. Lightning struck a trans-
former at the north end of
town, putting that portion of
the town Rtin darkness. Street
lights, with the exception of
Main Street, were off all night.
. From The Huron Expositor
August 15, 1913
Misses Ida Love, Agnes
Sproat, Rena McKenzie and
Florence McKay were rusticat-
ing in Bayfield last week.
A number of the firemen and
several of the citizens motored
to Hensall on Monday evening
to the fire there.
The new post office building
is now completed and ready for
occupancy, with the exception
of the post office boxes, which
have not yet arrived. Mr.
Richard Wright takes great
pride i n showing people
through. It is a beautiful build-
ing, both inside and out, and
does more than fulfill expecta-
tions. Mr. McKenzie, the con-
tractor, has made a job which
is creditable to his skill, work-
manship and honesty as a con-
tractor.
The extensive trade sales
held by the Greig Clothing Co.
and Stewart Bros., which open-
end on Saturday and were con-
tinued this week, brought a
great many people to town from
far and near, and all so far as
we could learn were well satis-
fied with their treatment by
these enterprising firms. There
was an immense turnover of
goods by both establishments,
and the business done was sat-
isfactory to both houses. Enter-
prise and advertising always
pays.
Messrs. John and Arthur Mus-
grave, sons of the late Rev. P.
Musgrave, for many years the
beloved pastor of Duff's and
Cavan Churches, McKillop, were
in this vicinity for several days
calling on old friends in .Mc-
Killo•p. While in town they were
guests of Mr. and Mrs. J. R.
Govenlock. They came from To-
ronto on their wheels. When
they Ieft here they were• both
small boys, but now they are
robust young men. Jack, who
has been engaged in school
teaching for some time, has
passed the civil service examin-
ation and will take a position
in the inside civil service at
Ottawa in September.
There was very nearly a gaso-
line famine in town on Mon-
day. The demand has been so
great recently for automobiles
that the dealers experience
some difficulty in keeping up
the supply.
Misses Anna Bell, Marion
Watson, Ruth Van Egmond and
Lillian McIntyre have returned
from two weeks' holidays in
Bayfield.
Miss B. Morson attended a
fancy dress ball at the Hotel
Sunset in Goderich last week,
appearing in the character of
a Turkish girl.
From The Huron Expositor
August 17, 1888
There was considerable satis-
faction expressed in town on
Friday evening last on its be-
coming known that the Beaver
Lacrosse Club, of this town, had
defeated the Bright club in a
match on the grounds of the
latter, by two games to one.
was a hard tussle, but the Sea -
forth boys got there as, usual.
The weather has been cool
and pleasant for the past week.
Pastures are improving and
crops will be nearly all har-
vested by the close of next
week.
Trade is very quiet in Hen-
sall at present owing to its be-
ing a very busy tinie with the
farming community.
Mr. Allan McLean, formerly
of The Expositor, who has been
in Colorado for about thirteen
years, is at present here on a
visit to friends. It is over nine
years since he has been in Can-
ada before. He says he sees a
wonderful improvement in Sea -
forth and a good deal of change
in the people.
Rev. F. M. Baldwin of Thames -
ford announces that hereafter
he will not preach funeral ser-
mons, nor will he bury the
bodies of those who in life had
been habitual non -churchgoers.
He argues he cannot preach to
the dead, and he cannot con-
scientiously 'repeat the solemn
burial service over the body of
a non -churchgoer.
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