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SEAFORTH, ONTARIO, NOVEMBER 14, 1963
Grandpa Would Never Hear Of It !
Each of us has difficulty in resisting
the demands of habit—in discontinuing
practises that we suspect contribute
nothing to our welfare, but which are
carried on in dumb obedience to cus-
tom.
In most cases, only ourselves suffer.
It is when the same reaction is found in
some industries in relation to the intro-
duction of labor-saving procedures that
the public as a whole suffers. The pub-
lic is denied the benefits, the economies
that new procedures could produce.
The existence in certain quarters of
such a reaction makes story which ap-
peared in a recent copy of Industry par-
ticularly timely. This is the story :
One morning, many, many years ago,
a young farm boy set out on his regu-
lar trip to the grain mill.
The horse he rode was a good sound
one, and he himself was a good sound
horseman.
As the day grew warmer, the young
man found his animal growing weary,
so he decided to walk a little of the way.
He had just dismounted when a man
stepped out onto the road from a path
leading into the woods. By his looks
and dress, he was a complete stranger
to the section. He seemed to be a friend-
ly enough fellow, and the farm boy
could see no harm in walking part way
down the road with him.
They had not walked far when the
stranger asked : "Boy, why don't you
ride the horse? He looks strong en-
ough."
"I would, sir, and I will later, but
he's weary now—and he's got enough
of a load with the grain and the bal-
ance stone."
The stranger claimed. no knowledge
of balance stones, so the boy explained.
"The horse carries his load easier, sir,
if it is equally weighted on either side
of him—so on one side we put a stone
and on the other side we put enough
grain to balance the stone. In this way
the load is easier to carry."
"That's very clever," said the strang-
er, "but wouldn't it be easier to divide
the wheat into two portions and carry
it that way—each portion balancing the
other?"
"What would we do with the stone,
sir?"
"You could throw' it away."
"Oh, no, sir, it's been in the family
for years. Grandpa would never hear
of it."
SOON A NEW SUBSTATION will be in operation to provide increased capacity for Sea -
forth Hydro consumers. Located off Welsh Street, in the northwestern section of town, the
station will be bridged into the existing system, and in addition to providing increased ca-
pacity, will result in more balanced operation, according to PUC officials. Looking over
plans with the steel frame for the superstructure as a background, are PUC Manager R. J.
Boussey (left) and Chairman D'Orlean Sills. (Expositor photo by Phillips).
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SPICE
ttiBy Bill Smiley
There's a new television ser-
ies on the air that is giving me
an inferiority complex about
the size of a giant squid. May-
be you haven't seen it, but it's
called Mr. Novak, and it holds
me breathless, and makes me
wretched for one hour every
Sunday night.
It's a sort of Dr. Kildare with
classroom and chalk -dust and
psychology instead of surgery
and blood and psychology.
Mr. Novak is a blond, hand-
some, young, idealistic teacher
of English in a high school.
That's enough to flatten a bald-
ing, homely, middle-aged, re-
alistic teacher of English such
as I before the opening com-
mercial.
But it isn't this sort of thing
that is eating away my self-
confidence. It's the excitement
of Mr. Novak's life that makes
me feel like something the care-
taker forgot to sweep out on
Friday afternoon. '
Every week, he gets involv-
ed in the damdest situations,
and emerges smelling of violets
and looking like Joan of Arc.
And every week I get involved
in the damdest situations and
emerge. Barely.
Mr. Novak saunters through
the halls of his school in his
well -cut gray suit, buttering up
the principal and looking dedi-
cated. Mr. Smiley scuttles
through the halls of his school,
avoiding the principal, and
looking harassed.
Every week, Mr. Novak tan-
gles fearlessly with some im-
possible problem, and solves it.
Every week, Mr. Smiley tangles
fearfully with eight impossible
problems, and by the time, he's
finished, he has 16 impossible
problems.
In the last few weeks, Mr.
Novak has outdine himself. He
has squelched an outbreak of
racial prejudice. He" has caught
a colleague cheating and for-
given him. He has encouraged
a colleague with an alcoholic
wife. He has pulled the prin-
cipal out of hot water.
In the last few weeks, Mr.
Smiley has undone himself. 'He
has barely lived through an
outbreak of the 'flu. He has
caught a colleague trying t�
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make off with his rubbers. He
has encouraged a colleague
with an alcoholic mother. He
has got the principal in hot
water.
You can see why this pro-
gram makes me feel pretty in-
significant. Mr. Novak leaps
joyously from one crisis to an-
other. Mr. Smiley totters des-
perately from one anti -climax
to the next. `
Take this week, for example.
I'll bet you that right now,
that Novak is rehearsing an
episode in which he defies the
school board on a matter of
principle, solves a hairy per-
sonal problem for one of his
students, and pulls the princi-
pal out of a nasty situation.
Right now, I'm trying to
write a column. My wife is
downstairs, teaching a piano les-
son. My son is across the hall,
practising the piano. My daugh-
ter is in the bathroom, roaring
out the lines of her oral com-
position, which is to be .deliver-
ed tomorrow, and waiting to
pounce on me and make me
hear it.
Five months ago the phone
rang. It was a colleague, want-
ing me to tape an interview for
the Air Cadets. Tonight I have
to go to night school, German,
and haven't my homework done.
After that I have to go out
canvassing for the YMCA.
Tomorrow I have to help my
students get the weekly news-
paper column ready, give my
son a driving lesson and get
rid of the squirrels in the attic.
Thursday I have a church board
meeting. Friday there's a de-
partment meeting, followed by
the Friday Afternoon Club
meeting, followed by a blast
from my wife for attending it.
Friday night, if I can shake
off the 'flu by then, I have to
go deer hunting for the week-
end. In the meantime, I have
to arrange with MGM for a
showing of the film Hamlet,
and with O'Keefe Centre for a
trip for 140 kids, four buses, to
see My Fair Lady. Somewhere
in there, I must mark 120 tests
and eleventy-seven essays.
Gee, I wish I could just go
around Sunday nights, looking
dedicated, like . Mr. Novak, in-
stead of going around all the
time looking desiccated, like
Mr. Smiley.
Survey Reveals Grade Troubles
A recent survey by the Live-
stock Grading Section, Canada
Department of Agriculture, has
spotlighted the reasons why
many Canadian hogs failed to
earn the $3 good quality pre-
mium paid by the federal gov-
ernment on all A grade car-
casses.
The main ones were carcasses
that were too fat or were too
light or too heavy for A grade
requirements.
Weight limits for the top
grade range from a minimum
135 pounds to a maximum 170
pounds.
Overfinish was the most im-
WROTE "ANNE OF GREEN
GABLES"
Lucy Maud Montgomery Mac-
Donald, who was born at Clif-
ton, P.E.I., in 1874, at 34 wrote
the tremendously popular "Anne
of Green Gables." Mark Twain
described it as the "sweetest
creation of child life ever writ-
ten." The authoress wrote six
books, but none ever equalled
the Green Gables saga for
worldwide and enduring popu-
larity.
portant single factor for car-
casses failing to earn the pre-
mium, the survey shows. Of
those graded B, but in the A
grade weight range, 86.2 per
cent were too fat, while 7.2 per
cent failed to make the pre-
mium grade because of poor
type — heavy shoulders, light
hams, short sides and other
defects.
Of the B grade hogs, 9.6 per
cent were in the 125-134 pound
weight range and too light for
the top grade. Another 12.9 per
cent weighed between 171 and
180 pounds and were too heavy.
Farmers in Saskatchewan
marketed the largest percentage
—15.6 per cent—of lightweight
hogs, while Ontario was lowest
with 7.6 per cent.
In the overweight group,
Quebec farmers marketed the
largest number -14.1 per cent
--of B grade hogs. British
Columbia had the best record
in this category with 10 per.
cent.
Results of the survey, officers
of the Livestock Division point
out, emphasize that more farm-
ers should market their hogs
with less finish if they wish to
cash in on the quality premium.
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"WELL, DON'T BLAME ME ...!"
A MACDUFF OTTAWA REPORT
UNWANTED BEQUEST
OTTAWA — The Gill report,
the first and only common
sense and comprehensive effort
to take a bankrupt unemploy-
ment insurance fund off the
back of the taxpayer, is an
orphaned and unwanted child,
It was conceived and born of
a Diefenbaker regime which
promptly left it on • the door-
step of the new Liberal Gov.
ernment. Now its new foster
parents are finding it no less of
an embarrassment and its fu-
ture is uncertain. During the
'60 May and June days of de-
cision it was near the top of
the program for the season and
had been given prominent men-
tion in the Speech from the
Throne.
While low summer unemploy-
ment and a consequent excess
of contributions over benefit
payments gave the fund a sea-
sonal respite, a committee of
officials was put to work to
draft the legislation.
But in his recent outline to
the House of Commons of pre -
Christmas business, Prime Min-
ister Pearson listed it, in com-
pany with the Canada pension
plan and the Canada Develop-
ment Corporation as matters
that could better be handled at
the next session. This means a
TO THE EDITOR:
Seaforth, R.R. 5,
November 6, 1963.
The Editor:
Dear Sir: I would like to
thank the business community
for their response to the invi-
tations sent out to attend Open
House and see the CHCS School
in Clinton on Nov. 8, 1963.
It is the desire of the Indus-
trial Committee that more job
opportunities become available
in the future through expansion
of present industries and acquir-
ing new industries. As a mem-
ber of the above committee, I
hope that Seaforth and district
will share in any such benefits.
Yours sincerely,
MRS. THOS. B. GOVENLOCK
ASMILEORTWO
If you want your children to
get a good education today, you
have to pull a few wires: On
the TV, the radio and the hi-fi.
The Golden Rule is old but
it's as good as ever. It hasn't
been used often enough to re-
sult in any appreciable wear.
"Lady," said the traffic officer
a little wearily, "you just can't
turn completely around in a
street like this."
"I can't?" she exclaimed in-
cerdulously. "Didn't you just
see me do it?"
IN THE YEARS AGONE
Interesting items gleaned from
The Expositor of 25, 50
and 75 years ago.
From The Huron Expositor
November 18, 1938
A party of Seaforth hunters,
which included Dr. K. A. Mc-
Master, M. A. Reid and C. M.
Smith, and J. Keely of Atwood,
returned Friday night from the
Burk's Fall district, each with
a fine deer. Mr. Reid shot the
largest, a 10 -point buck.
Members of the Seaforth
Highlanders Band elected D'Or-
leon Sills president at the
band's annual meeting Monday
evening.
"Rover," the Collie which
some weeks ago saved his mas-
ter, Joseph Maloney, from fatal
injuries when a bull attacked
him, is this week one of 12
Hero Dogs attending the Royal
Winter Fair at Toronto. Rover
has been awarded a medal, col-
lar and a diploma, attesting to
his bravery.
The first snow of the winter
came on Monday evening or
earllt Tuesday morning, and it
looked as though the beautiful
spell of nice weather, which ev-
eryone enjoyed so much, had
Mite to a sudden stop.
The Egmondville Auxiliary of
the Women's Missionary Society
celebrated its golden jubilee on
Thursday afternoon, Nov. 10,
in Egmondville United Church.
From The Huron Expositor
November 14, 1963
It is estimated that at least
200 lives have been lost and
over 20 boats destroyed on
Lake Huron during the terrible
storm of Sunday and Monday.
The James Carruthers, the larg-
est freight boat on the lakes,
has been wrecked and the en-
tire crew of 23 drowned.
Johnston & Barber of Wood-
stock have purchased the elec-
tric light building at the station
and will have it fitted up for a
creamery.
Miss Gretta Thompson is at-
tending the Western Ontario
Librarians' Association in Strat-
ford.
tratiford.
The town snowplow was out
for the first time this season on
Tuesday, Nov. 11.
Mr. S. T. Holmes has pur-
chased a handsome new hearse
for his undertaking busineBs.
Stewart Bros. have issued,
their annual "Style btews". It
will provide intereS.ting atld
profitable reading for all.
From The Huron Expositor
November 16, 1888
On Monday last Mr. William
Somerville, of the local tele-
graph office, sent a cable mes-
sage for Mr. A. Cardno to Lon-
don, England. It was sent from
here at 9 a.m. and a reply was
received at 10 minutes to one.
Mrs. John Smith and sons
have leased the premises in
town recently occupied by Mr.
M. Pullman, and intend carry-
ing on the carriage and wagon
making business in all branch-
es.
On Saturday last a very pain-
ful accident befell one of Mr.
Houston's horses in Tucker -
smith. He was engaged in tak-
ing up potatoes when his team
took fright and ran away, They
ran into a barbed wire fence,
when one of them, whose neck
came in contact with the wires,
received a terrible gash in the
throat.
Mr. Morris has now one of his
new greenhouses erected and
stocked And 15 making pxepar'at•
tions for the seebfid,
period of nearly three years
from the time that a Govern-
ment decided that something
should be done until something
is done, if, indeed, anything is
done in the end.
It also means more borrow-
ing from the Treasury to keep
the fund solvent during the win-
ter months. At the moment it
has a balance of about $25 mil-
lion compared with $110 mil-
lion at this time last year. While
these are treated as loans, they
are loans that, quite reasonably,
will not be repaid.
Finally, it means another win-
ter of paying seasonal benefits
from December to May to thou-
sands whose regular benefits
have •keen exhausted. Today
these seasonal benefits are paid
even to fishermen, who, even
after a profitable season, get
their $36 cheques each week
through the winter.
As a result the fund which,
in 1956 stood well above the
$800 millionmark, had dropped
to below $20 million last spring.
Faced with heavy unemploy-
ment and the choice of increas-
ing Finance Minister Fleming's
deficit by several hundred mil-
lion or "reading" a fund built
up of contributions of employ-
ers and workers, the Difenbak-
er Government picked the lat-
ter.
In July, 1961, however, a
committee was appointed under
a Toronto accountant, E. C. Gill
to investigate the fund and re-
commend how it could be re-
stored. The committee was
ready to report in May of 1962
but at that time Mr. Diefen-
baker and his party couldn't
have cared less about bankrupt
funds. They had a tough•elec-
tion campaign on their hands,
as well as a dollar crisis. The
committee was directed to stall
along.
When June ballots dropped
Conservative followers in the
House of Commons from 208 to
115, there was less reason to
hurry. A good summer of em-
ployment had given the fund a
reprieve and, in spite of fre-
quent needling from the Lib-
eral opposition about delay, the
report did not make its appear-
ance until December.
When it did, the reason for
delay was obvious. It was a pan-
doras box of political horrors.
The committee had not stopped
at recommending the end of
seasonal benefits and the elim-
ination of fishermen who were
to be given a separate fund. It
also cut the period for regular
benefits in half and, suggested
a plan for "extending benefits"
to be paid by the taxpayer
which would put thousands of
present unemployment benefici-
aries on special assistance with
a "means test", a dirty word
in the dictionary of any politi-
cian.
Recommended measures were
included to eliminate abuses
CANADIAN SCENE
such as the drawing of benefits
by married women during preg-
nancy and by retired persons
not looking for jobs.
And, to make it all more po-
litically acceptable the commit-
tee warned that if any ,Govern-
ment tried to sort out the -popu-
lar recommendations from the
unpopular and failed to imple-
ment the whole report as a
package the state of the (unem-
ployment insurance fund- would
only be worse.
If there was one bright spot
in the clouds of defeat that
surrounded Mr. Diefenbaker
and his colleagues on April 8th,
it was the pleasure they must
have experienced in handling
this unwelcome bequest to the
young Liberal Government.
Capsule Comments
Justice Minister Chevrier may
find it difficult to satisfy the,.
Conservative opposition that he
had any legal authority for de-
laying the arrest of Hal Banks
for 10 days after a Montreal
court had issued the warrant.
But if the procedure proves a
little irregular, Canadians gen-
erally will forgive them. The
first thing was to get back to
work the men Banks had or-
dered off the ships to march
on Ottawa, thus tieing up the
grain movement. Only Banks,
at that moment could have done
this. The second step was to
give the new trustees an oppor-
tunity to get their feet under
their desks. The Government
chose wisdom instead of haste.
* * *
Finance Minister Gordon has
invited national organizations
such as the C.M.A., C.L.C. and
the Canadian Tax Foundation
to submit briefs next month, or
at the latest, January to help
him in his budget making. The
move is significant on three
counts:
n. It perhaps means some
small degree of budget secrecy
may be sacrificed in order to
feel out reaction in advance.
2. It gives some indication of
the timetable for the next bud-
get. Meetings of the budget
committee will start in January
making budget day possible at
the end of March or in April.
3. It would seem to indicate
no change in the finance port-
folio. Mr. Gordon is to be giv-
en a chance to recoup his loss-
es and those of the Govern-
ment,as a result of the June
fiasco
* * *
Western farmers will not be
discouraged by Ottawa from
sowing another 27 million acres
of wheat next year. While in
the long run Trade Minister
Sharp feels there should be di-
version to other crops, prospects
of wheat sales between now
and 1965 means marketing of
all we can grow.
LET'S FACE IT,
GENTLEMEN, THERE
is NO SUCH THIN&
AS A PAINLESS,
NEW FORM OF
TAXATION
By Mac