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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1963-08-22, Page 2Since 1860, Serving the Community First >F'Ub1teed 1`i at SEAFORTf# ONTARIO, every Thursday morning tt g bY Mc LEAN BR OS-. S ANDREW Y. MCLEAN, Editor 4)5 h Member Canadian Weekly Newspapers Association Ontario Weekly Newspapers Association Audit Bureau of CirculationABC Canada (in advance) $2.50 a Year Subscription Rates: Outside Canada (in advance) $4.00 a Year tl p' SINGLE COPIES — 10 CENTS EACH Authorized as Second Class Mail, Post Office Department, Ottawa. Publishers bl hers SEAFORTH, ONTARIO, AUGUST 22, 1963 Think It Over, Johnnie! There will be discussions, these days, in many area homes to decide whether Johnnie should quit school as he wants to do, or whether he can be prevailed on to go for another year. Johnnie, of course, can advance some convincing arguments why he should be allowed to do what he wants. He wasn't getting along too well; the teachers picked on hi , he never could see what difference it made if he pass- ed his English; above all, of course, is his argument that if he got a job he could' make big money. "Lots of fel- lows are," he will tell you. Well, much of what of Johnnie says may be true. Perhaps he isn't getting along; perhaps he and the teachers have difficulty agreeing about many things (and perhaps the blame should be divided) ; English can be pretty tiresome, but he can't overcome the fact that the ability to speak and write English properly is an asset that be- comes of increasing importance each passing year. But Johnnie's clincher about big money just won't hold up. Statistics show that 70 per cent of the unemployed have been those with 'no more than Grade 8, and of those', about 70 per trent prove inelligible for the jobs that are available. While there has been some reduction in the percentage of high school drop- outs, an . increasing school population has resulted in an increase in their number. This all means that at a time when unskilled and semi -skilled job oppor- tunities are declining, an increasing number of youngsters without adequate training are flooding the job market. It is understandable, of course, that a lad who has found school to be some- what difficult or boring, should be en- ticed by the immediate cash returns which he thinks an unskilled job will produce. But before he makes his decision he would be wise to remember that eleva- tors today are automatic, no longer re- quire an operator; heavy machinery digs the ditches, and other machines, almost human in their capacity, do a host of tasks once the perogerative of the unskilled. To the teenager each year at school can seem to be never-ending. But in terms of a lifetime the year is but days —time spent which will be returned a hundredfold in security, in a higher standard of living. Better think it over pretty carefully, Johnnie. You may never have another opportunity to prepare yourself for the kind of future you would like. Science Loses Something' that we always suspected has now been confirmed by science. The Brookhaven National Laboratory has been dosing' various plants with nuclear radiation to determine what heavy exposure would do to them. The scientists found that exposure to atomic rays that would 'kill humans also kills most plants. What do you suppose they figure would survive a nuclear holocaust with- out harm? You guessed it c a agrass. — (Wichita Eagle) . Public Relations Problem While government and business are acutely aware of the value of good public relations, there nevertheless ex- ists one fairly common practice, in Nova Scotia and elsewhere, that does nothing to enhance the "image" that is otherwise so carefully cultivated. We refer to the policy of- instructing switchboard operators and reception- ists to answer the telephone, "Yes, and who is calling please?" Probably this is done in order to give the person to whom the call is placed time to collect his thoughts and per- haps fetch a file or other information. The invariable impression gained by the taller, however, is that an unim- portant person would have difficulty getting past the ultra -efficient recepJ "- tionist. Thus the practice should be stopped. Needless affront is caused, considering how little is gained, by insisting that a person identify himself and his posi- tion before being connected with his party. --(Halifax Chronicle -Herald) . Troubles The person who doesn't believe in hell is greatly handicapped these days. in describing world conditions. — (Woodstock Sentinel -Review) . , CABINET SELECTION IS TEST By Bruce Hutchison in. The Winnipeg Free Press The successes of the Pearson government are substantial and would be clearer to the public if they had not been obscured by certain failures. In the first place, it is re- markable that a minority gov- ernment not only has survived at all but seems sure of survival for some time to come. In the second, it has restored normal relations with our friends abroad and ended years of barren quarrel. In the third, some hopeful ]policies have been launched and some unsuspected talent discovered. Above all, the public sees that the govern- ment wants to get thins done and this in itself is a refresh- ing change. What would have beencon- sidered a splendid start in nor- mal, -bines has been marred by the government's excessive ex- pectations—especially that frail election gimmick, the Sixty Days of Decision — and by the un- necessary disaster of the bud- get. What Mr. Pearson must be asking himself In these days of relative leisure is: What went wrong? Many things went wrong but one Was outstanding. In the construction of the budget the able experts of the civil service were ignored, the wrong experts were consulted and the cabinet was given only a ,few hours to consider their advice before ac- cepting it. Even another day's consider- ation onsideration would have avoided the 4vdrst tax blunders and Mr. Cordon's humiliating retreat. This isr tto Way , to snake 'a budget, as Mr. Portal s has �� as fnritly adttittol in 0406, of irefir;, Presumably he will change the method as well as the con- tents of the budget next time; but more than that is needed. Like a football captain, Mr. Pearson has tried an experi- mental line-up in the first quarter of the game, has seen its strong and weak points and must switch his players accord- ingly, perhaps with the intro- duction of some new ones be- fore the second g4arter begins. So much has Happened in the last two or three months that we tend to forget that the game is very young yet, hardly more than a preliminary warm-ups but it has given the captain a true gauge of his resources. The team of last spring's train- ing camp looks quite different today, in some respects strong- er, hi others weaker. The next test of Mr. Pear - son's leadership will be his ca- pacity to reorganize the cabinet in the light of this,practieal and, at times, painful experience. A cabinet shuffle, however, is only part of the greater test now facing him. Can he establish full public confidence in the government as he has not done yet? Nothing else is half at impor- tant to hint, as party and na- tion. For without public confi- dence no policy can succeed, no great question can be set- tled and no progress made in the gravest situation of modern times. The Canadian people as a whole obviously wish the god. ernment to succeed. They are not foolish enough to suppose that they can escape its failures, %olio ling silt years of horren-. dousrat 0 ory and syetematte eaten, *heti the stairs resound edifith °itnprerlt ve bast* s:. but no one came down from the attic, the people know at last that they, not merely the poli- ticians, are in deep trouble and cannot cure it without serious inconvenience to everybody. The people are eager to feel confidence in the government because, lacking it, they can not feel confidence in them- selves again. That lack of self- confidence, not the confusion of politics or the clash of per- sonalities, is the real measure- ment of the nation's crisis and Mr. Pearson happens to be the only man now in a position to deal with the crisis. His is a crushing responsi- bility but he has large assets, too, larger than he may sup- pose. The public, well aware of his mistakes, believes in his motives and character, has no doubts about his intentions and realizes instinctively that among all our prime ministers his complete . absence of per- sonal ambition is unique. All this represents, so to speak, a rich estate in escrow, a treasure of goodwill which Mr. Pearson can unlock if he has the wisdom to learn from his mistakes and the courage to repair them. The worst possible mistake would be to overestimate his colleagues out of private friend- ship, to underestimate the pub- lic's good sense or to imagine that any basic problem can be solved by the policies introduc- ed so far. Indeed, the only permanent usefulness of the recent parlia- tnentary session was to strip off the dropsical flesh bf electoral .politics and reveal the skeleton Of -the nation's actual anatomy. Il the work of reshaping, it flat yet to be stag, t a 0 i 0 ti ti d £; it c y ,0 g ti 0 a a tE p it a a y fi h ti o: o. tl a d tI tl e 0 fi a h b p fi k d g u a ere41 011h. -W a pastime year, build-up are miles Dad pain don, ... 4„„„„,.„.. , :.,.t? "t. , ii wi�i:�s+'ti :;:.,. •.ii''y ris,•:• � u.de.n�•• '... �iiit i iiia iai r. }i:ik a it •,`: :t::: :.f}'.hMt;f:. `:•;'•.. tea : ...... , l _.. 0,",,... ..„..„..,..:: „ �l hfl i rtii dill° 40 0 41t1 lit .t mow- -- IIIIIIIIIIIIIilliii,:li:i;:iills,:. a'o p •o ) . . "Digs holes much faster than he did before we sent him to obedience school, don't you think?" 'OM : "' �f y`y ." SUGAR and SPICE By Bill Smiley Going back to the old home own or the old home farm for visit is a favorite summer in this country. Each after a fantastic, nostalgic thousands of families bragged many long, hot to see the place where grew up. It is usually, for Dad, a ,oignant mixture of bitter dis- ppointment and an unmistable wareness that he is growing ld. For Mom, it is a• great big in the arm. For the kids,. t is an exercise in sheer bore, and a realization that the ld man has been kidding him- elf, and them, for years. * * * • , You look up boys you went. o school with, had wild adven- ores with, stole apples with, ated girls with. You find them at, . fortyish and full of futil- ,y, • much like the fellows you url and play golf with where ou live now. -. You look up girls you were nce feverishly in love with, iris you kissed in the park af- ;r the band concert, girls who nce gave you 'infinite heart- the and ineffable *joy. Sylph - like creatures they ere, slim as goddesses, smooth s butter. They have four kids, ilse teeth, and a nasty habit of >lling you that you're getting retty thin on top. Or express- ig shocked disbelief that you re actually the lean, flat-stom- cited, thick -haired slice of outh who took them to their rst dance, You revisit the old swimming ole with your kids, and find tat the green and gold oasis f clear, cool water you've -so ften mentioned, is a dirty lit- e mud hole full of green slime rid saucy little boys. * * * You take your youngsters oyvn to the bridge, to show tem where you used to make lose 30 -foot dives. They've ither lowered the dang 'bridge r raised the water something erce, because it's only a three- lot dive now. You take your children round to see the old family Mme. You look for the huge rick mansion with the vast arch and the big, white picket :nce, You finally find it. Your ids take a long look at the ingy little house with the sag- ng verandah and the ragged, painted fence, and then take long look at you. And so it goes. It can be a soul-destroying ordeal, one you won't want to repeat for about 99 years. But this only hap - pens when you've been away a long time, _ and have lost all sense of proportion about the old home town, which, if the truth were told, was a dump when you, lived there, and still is. - My family's lucky. This doesn't happen to them. In the first place, the old home town is their Mom's, not their Dad's, and Moms are notoriously less sentimental about this sort of thing. Women have a built-in sense of reality. They can fool themselves silly about abstract things like love and honor, but they have no illusions about concrete things like old houses and old swimming holes. * * * ' In the second place, we all lived there until three years ago. We haven't been away long enough to get misty -eyed about it. The old house looks exactly as it did. The old trout streams still have trout in them. The old golf course still baffles me. As a result, our annual sum - mer visit to the old home town is not an ordeal but a delight, It's a leisurely progress down main street, shaking hands, ask- ing after each other's children, i being urged to drop in at the house or the cottage. * * It's popping into the pub for one cold one and having a doz- en citizens offering to buy. It's chatting about town politics, as absorbing and zany as they ever were. It's catching up on whose wife has run off and whose bus- band is running around With what lady. s Our kids love the visits to the town where they spent their childhood years, and know ev- ery dangerous ditch and peril - ous precipice. They meet the youngsters they went to school with, size each other up like friendly dogs and happly start comparing notes. * * * No, they're never disappoint - ed when we visit the old home town. But they're going to get a great shock one of these days when their father drags then, back to his old home town and they discover what a big, fat liar he is about his old girl friends and his old feats of daring,�and his old family man - sion. WEL1. WHAT DIP HIS 1 TO SAY?, HE DID YOU TELLYOUR BE SHHAMMER HE D TOO I USE SUCH SHARP WORDS to us? -, i': ` MOT'HE'R. 1U .iii �� ii HE SAID -(GULP)-_ "THEY'RE SHARP_- FROM TRYING To GETWISE u IN� \ / 4111 CliN \ft)1..: , IN THE YEARS AGONE Interesting rrter$ !In Items gleanedo 9 from The Expositor of 25, SO and -75 years ago. From The Huron Expositor August 19, 1938 Mr. and Mrs. Conrad 0. Eck- ert observed their golden wed- ding anniversary very quietly on Saturday, August 13. The occasion was observed by mem- bers of the family when they gathered at their home for din- ner, Fire completely destroyed the large residence on the farm of Mr. Warner, near Varna, on Fri- day at noon. The Dennison resi- dence, some 60 rods away, was only saved by the quick work of the firemen. A definite step in the search for oil in Huron was taken Saturday when a contract was signed for the drilling of a well on the farm of Joseph and John Mann, lot 16, concession 4, Hullett Township. Heading a group of associates are John F. Daly, Seaforth, and William For- rest, Goderich. It was they who signed a contract with Jackson & McKillop of Dunnville for the drilling �f the Hidden Lake oil well. From The Huron Expositor August 22, 1913 We would respectfully re- mind our worthy chief of police or whose business it is to at- tend to such matters, that Main Street is not a fitting place on which to have boys playing football, and that sidewalks were not made for the use of cyclists. We might also inform the chairman of the Board of Works that there are several prominent corners on our streets which are made unsight- ly by a rank growth of weeds. A day's work of a good man would work a great improve- ment in this respect. Mrs. A. Archibald went to Toronto to visit friends on Sat- urday. She accompanied her niece, Mrs. Walmsley, who had been here visiting. Mrs. Archi- bald, although 83 years of age, gets around as smartly as if she were still a lassie in her teens. Her many friends will wish her a pleasant visit in the city. Dr.. R. R. Ross has been nurs- ing a very sore arm for the past week. While cranking his auto last week the handle flew back, striking him on the right arm, and although no bones were broken, he has had an enforced holiday since. From The Huron Expositor August 24, 1888 The Collegiate Institute and Fublic Schools reopen on Mon- day next, much to the relief no doubt of anxious mothers. The public school building has been thoroughly ceansed and repair- ed during the holidays, and will be more comfortable for both teachers and pupils than it was before. Only three candidates for first class teachers' certificates were successful in this county and none passed from the Coun- ty of Perth. Among the suc- cessful ones are Mr. John Rice, a graduate of Seaforth Colleg- ate Institute, and Mr. Nugent I Clinton. At this rate of going the profession !would soon I pretty well weeded out. Mr. W. J. Dickson, of the northern gravel road, has pur- chased the farm of Mr. Thomas McKibbon, of Walton, for the sum of $3,450. This farm con- tains 75 acres of excellent land and lies alongside Mr. Dickson's present farm. The farmers of the Township of Usborne have suffered sev- erely this season by having sheep killed by dogs. One' eve- ning last week Mr. Henry Fran- is,cof Farquhar, had eight killed. A. tACDUFF OTTAWA REPORT �NEW DEAL FOR WHEAT OTTAWA—An election prom- ise the Liberal Government would like to forget is the $2 floor price for wheat: A sp ecial committee of the Cabinet has been taking a long hard look at that promise along with oth- er agriculture policies with a view to making some revisions. Early in the session of Par- liament that will resume after September 30, it is understood, the Administration will have a positive statement on agricul- ture policy to make which it is hoped will take the pressure off the Cabinet for the $2 floor price. It will probably announce at the same time that the $2 floor price has been dropped. This may be linked to a state- ment that the Government is considering legislation to pro- vide for a two -price system for wheat, on the basis of the unit quota. Under such a system, farmers would be paid a price, for wheat used in domestic hn- man consumption which reflects the fact that they buy their pro- duction requirements in a tariff protected market and sell in world markets. Such a policy would be effected by a consum- er subsidy and consequently would cause a e n o rise in the price of bread. These are questions under consideration by the special committee. It is headed by Prime Minister Pearson. Other members include Trade and Commerce Minister Mitchell Sharp; Agriculture Minister Harry Hays and Hon.. Rene Tremblay, who will be named Eastern Agriculture Minister shortly after the next session starts. There have been rumours in the grain trade for some time that a decline was coming in export prices of wheat. This month shortly after the an- nouncement of the second long- term wheat • deal with China, the Canadian Wheat Board dis- closed that there had been a decline. The price for No. 1 for example slipped from 1951/ down to 192yi, while No. 4 grade went from 183% down to 178%. Faced with forecasts that the export prices of wheat would drop the Government was even more reluctant to embark on any floor price program fixing the floor at $2. As the export price went down the drain on the Federal treasury would in- crease.' It could cost millions. This is a strong argument against instituting any such policy. ' Tlie Government also saw its agriculture program 'emphatic- ally rejected by the Western farmers in the 1963 general election. The only Liberal elect- ed from the Prairies who was eligible for the agricultural portfolio in the Cabinet was Mr. Hays.' The. Party's -other ag- ricultural candidates went down to resounding defeat including Hazen Argue, former Prairie spokesman in the last Parlia- ment on the Liberal side. The uncertainty of the wheat picture arising out of develop- ments in the United States and the prospects of a massive West- ern Canadian wheat crop this fall, all complicate the situation. Faced with these complexities, the Government is inclined to abandon the floor price pro- gram. - Meantime the Prairie Liber- als want a decision out of the Government as soon as possible. They don't like the continual deferment. The Government should either drop the plan al- together or proceed with it, but not leave it hanging, they say. They may soon get their wish. The Government was relieved when the Canadian Wheat Board negotiators came up with a second long-term agree- ment with Communist China. It is valued at $300,000,000 or more for the Western farmer. Under the deal, China, will take a minimum of 112,000,000 bush- els over the next three years and up to a maximum of 186,- 704000 bushels. The new deal with China is almost a duplicate of the first signed when the Conservative Government was in office. It, too, was negotiated by the Wheat Board, although Agricul- ture Minister Hamilton left the impression that he had much to do with the negotiations and signing of the agreement. How- ever, it has now been disclosed that he left for Hong Kong, ostensibly to complete the deal, four days after it had been signed in Peking by the Wheat Board officials. Trade and Commerce Minister Sharp has made it plain to the members of Parliament that it is the farmers' Wheat Board that does the negotiating for these deals. It was the Wheat Board that did the dickering and final negotiating in Mr. Hamilton's day and it is still the Wheat Board that does the hard work of hammering out terms of an agreement. The new deal differs from the old. one in two respects, There is no barley to be sold to the Chinese. e They don't wa o t bar- ley this time. In the last agree- ment they took 28,000,000 bush- els of barley. And also this time the Chinese proved to be very hard bargainers. They bluntly told the Wheat Board that they were, aware Canada had a new Government that was anxious to make wheat sales and that this country was facing a bumper wheat crop in the Fall that would add greatly to its surplus wheat stocks, Un- der those circumstances, they said, Canada should be ready and willing to make certain concessions to sell wheat. One of the concessions was an extension of the repayment period from 12 months to 18 months. In addition, there is an implied acceptance by the Federal Government of greater Red Chinese exports to Canada, including textiles. This is quite a concession because it in- volves the super sensitive field of trade where any increase in imports brings loud protests from the Canadian textile manu- facturers. However, the Chin- ese state trading corporations have agreed to limit their ex- ports of sensitive items. The special Cabinet Commit- tee looking intr the agricultur- al policies is particularly con- cerned about the tendency among Western farmers to keep planting wheat in increasing amounts. ' The Prairie wheat growers were encouraged last year by the former Agriculture Minister, Hamilton, to grow greater amounts of the grain.. This simply added to Canada's already large surpluses. The committee has no thought of imposing any direct Govern- ment control oyer seeding. But it hopes by means of long-range forecasts and through the ad- vice of experts, to persuade farmers to move into other crops. ' This might be done at the annual Federal -Provincial agricultural conference usual- ly held in the year when the experts submit their market forecasts. There is also an awareness within the Government that the Eastern farmer has a legitim- ate complaint that his interests have been subordinated over the years to the interests of the Western farmer. The Govern- ment hopes through the ap- pointment of a second Minister of Agriculture to meet those complaints and to take action to meet some of the long-stand- ing complaints" of the East. Sergeant (to new sentry): "Understand this. If anything moves, you shoot." New Sentry: "Okay, serge- ant; and if anything shoots, I move." SPEED I - STATEMENTS BINDERS 1' CARBO N'rROL S 1) . MOORE REGISTER PLATIsA FORMS GOOKS b HOWER0 REPAIR l`3RL3 •R�"`a THE HURON EXPOSITOR