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SEAFORTH, ONTARIO, FEBRUARY 19, 1960
Huron's New Magistrate Is Wise Choice
Announcement of the appointment
of H. Glenn Days as Magistrate in
Huron will be well received across
the county.
During the years he has served
as Crown. Attorney, Mr. Hays has
carried out his duties in a capable
and sincere' manner.
The very nature of the office of
Crown Attorney prescribes that cer-
tain stands must be taken. But while
.Mr. Hays was zealous in prosecution,
he was.at all times eminently fair. He
regarded his duty not necessarily to
'obtain a. conviction, but to adduce all
the evidence and •. to ensure that jus -
"Do It Now" Is Wise.
There is much merit in the "Do •
It Now" campaign being conducted
by the -Department of Labor. Work-
men in many lines are less busy at
this time of year, with the result that
jobs are completed more convenient- ,
ly, and frequently at less cost. At
the same time, each project, be it
large or small, is a factor in increas-
ing employment at a time when more
and more Canadians .. are seeking
work.
It seems inevitable that the wheels
of production slow down in winter
`months. The Canadian climate is
such that it is not possible to carry
on certain activities on a year-round
basis, This results in winter lay-offs
and it is to offset this that the winter
work program is designed.
In stressing "Do It Now", there is
the realization that it is notso much
"old man winter"• himself that caus-
es the seasonal decrease of employ-
ment, but rather the habits of the
general public to put all planning
and development o'major purchas-
ing off until spring. Every job that --
is carried out in winter, rather than
later in the" year, makes a contribu-
tion to winter employment and tends
to assist in balancing the demands on
the labor force over tyle entire year.
Unemployment insurance benefits,
while they provide a cushion against
•
tice was done. That these same at-
tributes of fairness.,, of common sense
will prevail while he is onthe bench
goes without saying.
Magistrate Hays was born in Tuck-
ersmith, but grew up and spent most
, of his life in Seaforth, andthis re-
sults in there being a particular in-
terest in the appointment in this area:
But interest is by no means confined
to the Seaforth area, and there will
be general expressions of good will
towards Magistrate Hays, and inher-
ent in these will be the wish for a
long and successful career on the
bench.i
Advice Fo Community
the shock 'of seasonal inactivity, nev-
er can take the place of a regular, pay
cheque. _ . Nothing Wcan. affect-, the
spending power of a community
more rapidly than having a number
of its citizens unemployed.
Dr. R. H. Coates
The recent death of Dr. Robert
Hamilton Coates,. .the founder of the
Dominion Bureau of Statistics,. is a
reminder of the contribution which
natives of Huron have made to Can-
ada He was born in Clinton.
Dr. Coates began his career of pub-
lic service in 1902. In 1918 he estab-
lished the Dominion Bureau of. Sta
tistics, whose researches and con-
clusions reach almost every aspect of
Canadian life. Its reputation was
such that Canada on many .occasions
has been called by other governments
to give advice on statistical and re-
lated matters.
Describing Dr. Coates as typical of
the • Canadian civil servant at his
best, the Montreal Gazette goes on to
say his loyalty, his honesty, his dedi-
cation and his efficiency were of such`
a high order that they would be hard
to match. "It is ecause such men
exist, working tirelessly and pur-
posefully, that plans become projects,
and projects "become- accomplish-,
meats," the Gazette concludes. --
TO-
TO THE EDITOR
Birthday
Toronto, February, 1960.
' Editor The Huron Expositor: tl
Dear Sir: You will be pleased
to know that the 1959 Christmas
Appeal of The Hospital for Sick
Children *as most successful, and
that our research deficit has been
met.
Please accept our sincerethanks
for your valuable assistance. It is
alway"s appreciated, I assure your
You will recall that our need in
1959wasfor funds to carry on the
integrated research program now
in progress at the Hospital, and to
help with . the cost of treating
patients in .the low-income bracket
who visited our Out -Patient De-
partment. This was a change from
previous year when, we were
1 seeking assistance with the over -
1 all deficit incurred in running the
We were aware that there -might
be some difficulties in outlining
the changed situation to the public,
but the co-operation of newspapers,
radio and televigion stations, to-
gether with the understanding and
generosity -of the public solved the
problem.
Very sincerely yours,
J. GRANT GLASSCO,
Chairman of the Board
of Trustees.
• , Goderlch, Feb. 5, 1.960.
—Editor, The Huron Expositor:
Dear Sir: In response to.,, the
- many editorial'requests for a
statement" from the .local health
department ,regarding the relative
good or harm of chest X-rays, may"•"
I atubmit the following:
Chest X.ray examination ,is an
indispensable procedure in the
diagnosis and treatment of chest
diseases. •
Mass surveys have been the
lneans Of protecting large numbers
of people front becoming infected
and developing ,active; clinical tub-
erculous disoase,
All mass survey X -ran -machine's
InOntario Are .properly designed
fq.elimfnaite unnecessary or harm-
,fat radiation. ' Except for special
reasons,.' Chest X-rays are not my
diaated at intervals more frequent
than two .years.—* .:
tuberculin test, is. Of benefit
uill', a. screening procedure :for, cera
ala groups by indicating, the prey-
irs M.ernori
ence or absence of tuberculous in-
fection. This test is complemen-
tary to, -but can never replace the
chest X-ray.
Since TB and other chest dis-
eases continue to be a major pub-
lic health .problem, chest X-ray
programs should be continued.
Yours truly,
R. M. ALDIS M.D., D.P.H.,
Medical Officer of Health.
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Toronto, 'February, 1960.
Editor, The Huroil,Expositor:
Dear Sir: We wish to extend our
sincere appreciation for the public-
ity your newspaper, gave to the
UNICEF Hallowe'en program last
Fall. We are happy to -report that
the children of Canada collected
$200,000 to assist the needy.. young-
sters e1'-dther-Iands. This remark-
able increase over the $135,000
which was raised in 1958, is due
in great part to the generouslin"-
portof newspaper editors in com-
munities- throughout the country'
who have'' been responsible for
helping the project to become bet-
ter known.
There was also a 50 per cent
rise in the sale of UNICEF Greet-
ing Cards. -this Christmas as .more -
and more people chose to have the
benefits of their greetings extend
to the youngsters of less -fortunate
countries, The widening appeal of
these cards is again attributed to
the promotional assistance which
was received through,Qamedian
newspapers and magazines.
Through the funds raised by
these voluntary projects the United
Nations Children's Fund at present
is partially able to sponsor projects
in 104 countries. Children all over
the world are receiving food an
medicine resulting in healthier
Youngsters today and more pro-
ductive citizens tomorrow.
UIVIi EF's Hallowe'en and Greet-
ing Card programs have indeed
become a truly national effort
whereby the citizen"s of Canada
have shown their desire to• under-
stand and sharewith those of less-
forfunate. heritage. On 'behalf of
the children ed the world, We'thank
you for -the part you have had in
piromoting these benefits.
Sincerely yours,
MAZY 11; CARTEE%
> ec ,,,Secretary.
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240 West Park St.,
Lapeer, Michigan.
Editor, The Huron Expositor:
I was thrilled when I read in
The Expositor recently that Mrs.
Tom Baird, Sr., had reached her
100th birthday, and that she was
able to greet friends. What a
grand age! I imagine that -only
The Huron Expositor itself is ahead
of her—and by only one year.
Let's see now! She was married
in 1879 or 1880. Wasn't that the
time they built the London, Huron
and Bruce Railway? And now, the.
L. H. & B., if I understand it right,
is or little importanee in the area.
B
ut thin
'king of this lovely wo-
man and her 100th birthday brings
to mind such memories as the old
sideroad that she often travelled to
and from her church. There was
-that little stable on the corner of
George Hart's 50 acres, and the
windmill he bought from Jim Swan
(one of the first around the area),
just over the railway crossing. It
was for the purpose of watering
cattle roaming in the•woods. Either
Jim Swan or Mr. Hart conceived
the idea of hooking a big block
and wire to the mill and when the
water trough lowered it set the
windmill in motion. As a boy I
was perfectly useless insofar as
having a "mechanical" mind was
concerned, and'I used to be thrill-
ed at the operation of that con-
traption yonder. At 68 I'm still the
most useless "mechanical" mind
in either the United States or Can-
ada. In fact, one time about 20
years ago, when it was learned by
Flint friends that I had had a tire
blowout on a nearby road and that
there was a spirited movement un-
der way to erect a fitting monu-
ment at the spot—the feat was so
unusual, so unique, so Jo speak.
It's about. all I can do to drive a
nail into a cedar post, and. do it
anywhere near proper.
Well,,- yes and on a summer's
morning -when the Baird's were
coming along that sideroad the
birds of many species would be
singing in the bu$h-Baird's bush
on -either side,and Hart's and Freci
Tomlinson's, to e' east. And
them perhaps Billlcoat's family
would be coming out the other
s
ideroad about the same time -or
Sandy +Gray! s, they used to use
it toe. Then down the London Road
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-SUGAR AND SPICE -
By W. (Bill) B. T. SMILEY
There is quite a foofawraw' these
clays about fluoridation. All the
experts - Federal" Department of
Health, Canadian. Medical Associa-
tion, Canadian Dental Association,
and others -are just busting to get
some sodium fluoride into our
drinking water.
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*
They want to cut down on the
holes in, the teeth in the heads of
our children, bless the . They are
supported by many members ' of
the press,, including a good few of
my weekly' contemporaries. In On-
tario, the government is being be-
rated for being .backward about
fluoridation.
* * .*
Most violent and •emotional of
fluoridation advocates is a Toronto
newspaper columnist, who insists
that all who oppose it are violent-
ly emotional, irrational, fanatical,
dimwitted, and crackpots.
* '* *
All 14 can, say is, mover over,
crackpots, and make .room, for one
more. I'll line up with the crack-
pots against the experts any time.
That will -help -the balance a trifle.
Nowadays ,there are too many ex-
perts, and not enough craekpots.
* * *
Experts are: people who give
yQu weather reports that are about
400 per cent wrong; people who
predict election results 200 per
cent wrong; generals who tell you
how wars should have been fought,
after they're over; politicians
whose party is not in power; and
hordes of people who know a little
bit about -one thing, and sweet
beggar all about anything else.
* ' * *
Crackpots are: people like Chris-
topher Columbus, Galileo, Thomas
Edison, Al'fre'd Einstein, Mahatma
Ghandi, Dr, Albert Schweitzer;
people who are too stubborn, fen-
atical and narrow-minded to make
an honest effort to get along with
the experts. ,
In between the experts and the
crackpots lies the great slumber-
ing, lumbering body of humanity, -
even as you and me. We are bul-
lied by . the exports. id!nored by
the crackpots. All we want to do
is grow up, get married, have chil-
dren, make money, live in peace,
die at a ripe old age, and. --go
straight to heaven. It isn't much
to ask. But the experts won't let
us do it. M--- -
* * *
Right now, the expert politicians
have us teetering on the verge of
total annihilation; the expert sci-
entists are creating the ways and
means; the expert warriors have
their fingers ready to push the
buttons; and the expert news an-
alysts tell us with One shallow
THE BIBLE TODAY
Many years _ago a young Sufi—
a member of a Muslim sect of
holy men—was handed a copy of
ono of the Gospels. Indignantly he
tore it to shreds for he had been
taught that this Book was false
and blasphemous. Later, however,
a copy of this same.. Gospel came
to his attention again, and he felt
,impelled to read it. The reading
revolutionized his life, Without ev-
er having seen a Christian Minis-
ter or Missionary he said, "It is
sufficient, I want to become - a
Christian" Thus John Sulshan be-
gan a pilgrimage of faith that was
to ,take him far. Today he is a
Bishop of the Methodist Church in
India.
breath that atomic War will wipe
out humanity, with the next, that
we can escape.the effects of radia-
tion by building a shelter.
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Sorry, I drift, as I do every
time I muse on that self-satisfied
stultification known as the. expert.
We were talking about fluorida-
tion. I am opposed to it for sev-
eral reasons. Not because I think
it's going to poison me, or because
it's too expensive, or because if
God .had wanted .sodium fluoride
in our drinking water He'd have
put it there, or because it's going
to kill all the frogs in the . town
reservoir.
* * *
First of- all, I'm agin it because
I think it's silly: I don't think
teeth are that • important, Le's
get cracking on mental illness, the
ulcer, the common cold and hem-
morhoids. If these ailments were
cleaned up,''half the tensions of the
world would vanish, and I'd be will-
ing to talk teeth.
* *"
Second of all, the -experts, as
usual, are on .the wrong. track. If
they are so concerned about the.
teeth of our children, why don't
they start at the base of the trou-
ble? Why don't they raise a hue
and cry against thesale of soft
drinks and candy? Why don't they
decry that "enriched" bread we
have to 'eat these days, that tastes
like wet kleenex when -fresh, like
bleached sawdust when- stale? Or
is all that stuff we learned about
diet and teeth just so much 'expert
malarkey?
H: :k *
Third of all, I'm agin it, because
I' don't like people., doctoring my
drinks. Oh, I don't mind a 'little
chlorine to kill the bugs. But the
principle is wrong. This year,
the fluoridate our, water. ,Thirty
years from -now, _with the wrong
people in power, they'll be putting
a sedative in it, sol everybody will
relax and be happy no matter
what's 'going on.
But the best argument I've heard
against fluoridation e ame from my
wife, I asked her what she
thought, just to get an 'outside
opinion,' As usual, she was away
outside. First, she asked if there
would be any of the stuff in our
milk,._ I pointed out that cows tts-
ually live in the country and get
their water from wells, streams
and such -like, not from the..muni-
cipal water supply.
"Then what's the use of putting
that stuff in the water?" she
snorted. "Kids never drink water.
All they drink is orange juice,
milk and pop." My case rests,
however, uneasily: I'm saving my
good- points for the next round.
SEEN IN THE COUNTY' PAPERS
Postmaster Falls
Postmaster E. J. Hingst sustain-
ed a fractured bone in his heel
when the rung of a ladder broke
as he was mounting it on Satur-
day morning to remove snow from
his balcony. He was thrown to the
ground and has since been confin-
ed to Stratford Kospital awaiting
a cast.—Mitchell Advocate.
Forget To Set Own Salaries
Members of the' Village Council
forgot to set their own salaries at
the January inaugural meeting,
and the February meeting was
drawing to a close before the over-
sight was righted. To keep the
record straight, the Board again
voted a $100 each ;kith the Reeve,
as•last year, preferring to receive
the same as council members.—
Lucknow Sentinel.
Tech For Huron?
Interest in the establishment of
a technical school in Clinton to
serve Huron County and surround-
ing areas was indicated last night
at. the board meeting of Clinton
District 'Collegiate Institute. Pre-
liminary discussion took place and
further investigation will be car-
ried out. •It appeared to the board,
Whose chairman is Irvine Tebbutt
R.R. 2, Clinton, that such a school
would fill a need felt in Clinton,
as well as in nei hboring towns.
There are a number of students
attending• classes in secondary
schools of Huron who would be
better' suited to. technical- school
Suggested
Sunday,
Monday,
Tuesday,
Wednesday,
Thurs.,
Friday,
Saturday,
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Bible Readings
Luke 12:1-2
Juke 12:41-59
, Luke 13:1-17
Luke 13:18-35
Luke 14:25; 15:10
Luke 16:1-18
Acts 20:13-38.
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How Did Kirkland Lake Get Its
Name? •
Kirkland Lake; Ont., one of the
largest unincorporated communi-
ties in Canada as well as one of
'the largest gold -mining centres in
the country, was named after Win-
nie Kirkland, an employee of the
provincial Department of• Lands
and Forests at the time of the gold
rush. The lake around which -the
community developed has long.
since been filled in. It was. in July,
1911, -that--a- solitary prospector
skirted -the east shore of this then
unnamed lake, ....panned rock and
'discovered gold. He was: Bill
Wright. who, with -his brother-in-
law,'founded the Wright -Har-
greaves mine. Six months later
Harry Oakes, with a packsack and
a cash balance of $2.56, trudged
to stake a claim on the southshore
of the same lake. His grub stake,
the Lake Shore mine, developed
the deepest mining shaft on", the
continent. The first producing
mine was the Tough -Oakes. The
bonanza years for Kirkland Lake
were 1927 and 1928.
training.—Clinton News -Record.
Too Costly—Shelve Project
The proposed $60,000 storm drain
on Pryde boulevard won't be tack-
led for several years at least, town
council 'indicated Friday night.
Members voted decisively to beep
the project out of this year's bud-
get and suggested it appeared fin-.,
ancially impractical to consider it
for some time. Reeve Chester
Mawhinney, who moved that the
drain be shelved for 1960, said: "I
think it's the coming thing but
the town can't afford it right now."
His motion was seconded by Coun-
cillor Murray Greene. — Exeter
Times -Advocate.
Will Vote in Zurich
On Tuesday; March' 29, the elec-
tors of the village of Zurich will
go to the polls to decide on three
issues under the Liquor Control
Board of Ontario. The three bal-
lots in front of the voters will be:
1—Are you in favor of'" the sale
of beer only under a public house
licence forconsumption on licens-
ed premies to which men only
are admitted?; 2—Are you in fav-
or' of ‚the sale of liquor under a
dininglounge licence for consump-
tion with meals on licensed` prem-
ises?; 3—Are you in favor of the
sale of liquor under a long lic-
ence for consumption on licensed
premises? .The voters may vote
,for or against any or all of the
questions on the list.: A 60.40 ma-
jority is required to� pass' the is-.
ws
auric ' Citizens No
Sire, hr
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Does Wheat Lead the Cereal
Grains in Canada?
Yes, wheat comprises about 42
per .cent of the cereal grains pro-
duced in this country. Oats makes
up about 37 per cent of the pro-
duction, barley 18 per cent, rye
and corn about one per cent each,
and buckwheat about half of one
per cent: Some 95 per cent of the
wheat and barley and 70 per cent
of the oats are produced in West-
ern Canada.
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Which Medical School Has a North
' Am_ erican Record?
The medical faculty of McGill
University, at first known as the
Montreal Medical Institution, has.
the longest uninterrupted r-ee'ord of
beside teaching in North America.
It was this feature that attracted
'the great Sir William Osler to Mc
Gi.11,,, ,four members of the staff
of the Montreal General Hospital,
which had been founded in 1819,
established a medical school to
provide clinical teaching in 1823.
This was the Montreal Medical In-
stitution and it was at once suc-
cessful. Its charter, however, did
not include the 'right. -to grant de-
grees and in 1829 the school be-
came the medical faculty of `the
university.
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Where is Sugar .oaf" Mount*?
A MUFF OTTAWA REPORT
Waited: Political Platforms mg cut, both having -been 'found
OTTAWA—This is the year that administratively essential.the Government has fidally caught As we said, ft is good far us to
up its own "hold•the hoe" be reminded by the -Opposition
policywith all has not turned out as rosily as
it was painted by the Government
It's too late of course to ho
the "built-in" spending providkd party at election time, But surely
- that should no longer be the main
less the Government were sudden- theme of natiqnal political debate.
by statute. Too late, that is, un
Canada faces serious new challeng-
had been right after all •and take es at home and abroad—new trade
ly to decide that Walter Harris
the suicidal course of recommend- patterns, relaxed international ten-
ing that old age pensions go back
to $46 a month—or that some other stops, ever greater indebtedness to
the United States, unemployment
welfare benefit be cut. at home and dislocation due to
the introduction of automation.
It's also too late to undo that
part of the development program
which contributed to an extra $2,-
000,000,000 in the national debt and
hence to higher repayment charg-
es. •
But it isn't too late for a tough-
minded finance minister to put on
the brake, a probable two years
away from an election date with
the voters, and cut back con-
trollable spending. That's just
what doughty Donald Fleming
did in presenting the Government's
spending, estimates to Parliament
recently. And the results of his
savings, combined with higher tax
revenues, will show up when later
-he presents a budget rapidly corn-
ing back into balance.
,The Liberals criticized the Gov-
ernment-- strongly,, of .ceerse. for
reckless spending and piling up
debt during the recession; but they
voted for all the spending mea-
sures. Those were the days when
the, Government was pushing the
northern "vision" development pol-
icy and boasting of,a massive pub-
lic works program made to appear
much bigger than it actually, was:
Those were the days, too, when. it
was urging management and labor,
to "hold the line" on profits, pric-
es and wages so as not to feed
inflation and price Canada out of
markets abroad.
TodaY; having• caught up with
its advine to management and la-
bor, the Government faces an op-
position which, while approving of
the curtailment of spending, tries
to paint it as Tory austerity
Wrought on by Tory financial mis-
management.
Just as the Liberals could paint
the deficit -financing period as a
repudiation of promises of a bal-
anced budget, so today they can
picture,. "austerity'' as breaking
the promise of northland develop-
ment and more services without
higher taxes__ The argument is not
so much that the Government's
policies are or were basically
wrong, as that the disparity be-•
tween electoral promise and Gov-
ernment performance is political-
ly immoral.
It is a charge that should'- be
made. There is truth in it. But
bow serious is it, and should it be
dominating our political debates in
1960?
' Actually, ` the Government can
claim some mitigating circum-
stances. In the big promise, cam-
paign of 1957 the Conservatives
had been out.. of office 22 years,
bad virtually no hope of gaining
office and did not have experience
of the limits whieh Governmental
responsibility imposes. From this
position of desperation and a good
deal of ignorance, led by Mr. Dief-
enbaker, they went too• far with
their promises. But some of that
exuberance was surely excusable
in the circumstances.
As a Government, the success-
ful campaigners made a genuine
effort to fulfil the main promises
and won re-election on that basis.
In a sense it was good fortune that
the high -spending coincided with
a recession period when economic
pump.priming was needed. By
now, of course, the Government's
performance of 1957 and 1958 has
been watered down by last year's
tax. raise and this year's spend-
It is a volcanic neck, nearly 1,000
feet high and aboirt•three mile in
circumference at its base hat
overlooks the city of Campbel ton
in New Brunswick, Campbelltofi
lies on the estuary of the Resti-.
gouche River, some 15 miles west
of Dalhousie and the mouth of the
river. The last naval battle of the
Seven Years' War in North Ameri-
can waters — the Battle of the
Restigouche — was fought on the
river three miles above the site
of the present city in 1760. The
settlement of Campbellton began
about 1773
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New Proposal Considered
A revised awl "far more fav-
orable" proposal from the Ontario
Water Resources Commission for
a new water system is pow before
town council and utilities commis-
sion, evidently with good prospects
of acceptance and an early call for
tenders. It provides for a supply
to the prospective Ontario Hospi-
tal, and appropriate cost-sharing,
Presented personally by Charles
MacNaughton, M.L.A., in his ca•'
pacity of 0.W.R.C.' Commissioner;
it was received with cautious en-
thusiasm by members of council
and utilities and left for discus-
sion in detail by both bodies. The
utilities commission meeting Tues-
day evening, decided to ask Mr.
J. F. Maclaren, of MacLaren As-
sociates, to come to Goderich and
finalize the plan. A number of
points will be discussed. "When
he gives us his final set-up of the
plant," Manager E. Weaver said
"the commission will study it and
if they feel it is what they want
they will have copies printed so
council can go averit. nen we
will get together and exchange
ideas/"--Goderich Si