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The Huron Expositor, 1961-03-23, Page 2Since 1860, Serving the Community First Published at SEAFORTH, ONTARIO, every Thursday morning by McLEAN BROS., Publishers ANDREW Y. MCLEAN, Editor Member Canadian Weekly Newspapers Association, Ontario . Weekly Newspapers Association, Audit Bureau of Circulations f J A fl R a Subscription Rates: Canada (in advance) $2.50 a Year Outside Canada (in advance) $3.50 a Year SINGLE COPIES — 5 CENTS EACH Authorized as Second Class Mail, Post Office Department, Ottawa• 4 SEAFORTH, ONTARIO, MARCH 23,'1961 SDHS Occupies Proud Role in Community The role which a school occupies in a community is difficult, sometimes, of assessment. There are many tests to be applied; there are various factors to be considered. This is an occasion, as the Seaforth District High School marks the open- ing of the latest in a series of addi- tions, which provides an opportunity to examine the part 'this particular school has played in the community it has served for more than eighty years. An assessment of the standing which Seaforth District High School enjoys in the community already has been made. It was contained in a short piece which James R. Scott, a graduate of the school, wrote on a previous occasion when an addition was completed. Mr. Scott's words, as true today as when they were written, indicate vividly the proud role of the school. It was seven years ago that Mr. Scott wrote: Looking back over its seventy-five years of history, it is apparent that the Seaforth and District High School has not always been in smooth waters. It could hardly have been otherwise for the school has never been divorced from human affairs, but closely allied to the lives of the people it served. The period of its history has been one of spectacular change and advance on the one hand and, on the other, an era of unusiial unrest and dislocation. Unless the school had become an ivory tower, cut off from and uninterested in the state of the community, it could not help but have a story which fluctuat- ed from great attainment to alarm- ing lethargy. The significant and important thing is that at no time did the com- munity ever lose faith in the school or in the ideal of education which it rep'resented. Conversely, never did the school fail to serve the commun- ity to the best of its capacity. The final test—the one for which no diploma is granted—is in the kind of men and women which the school has produced. Over the years, the record is astonishingly good. There is not a profession in Canada which cannot number among its leaders a graduate of the Seaforth school. There is not a section of the country to which graduates of Seaforth have not gone and taken their share in the pioneer work of building a greater Canada. Men and women from the school have taken their learning all over the world, to the United States, South America, China, Australia, Europe, and to,the Motherland. Wherever they hve gone they have brought honor to their old school. Perhaps even more important has been the role of those who stayed at home. In a very real sense, this dis-, trict has been made 'by the men and women who got their education up at the high school. On the farms, in the offices and the stores and in the kitchens, the majority of the. men and women of this district are alumni of the school; They are by far the biggest single group in the district's. life. Theirs is the task of really prov- ing what the high school has meant to Seaforth: The fact that they still support the school and look forward to its development and expansion would seem to indicate that they have no doubts as to its worth in the com- munity. Lethal Toys A girl of nine years was killed in her Detroit home when a shotgun her 13 -year-old brother was holding dis- charged. How did it -happen the boy was holding a shotgun ? Why, bless his little heart, it was a Christmas gift to him from his father who should have had his head examined. The slogan there seems to be: slaughter begins at home. They can't wait to leave town and shoot a farm- er's cow in lieu of a deer.—Cape Bre- ton Post. Regular as Clock -Work twice a year you wilI receive your interest cheques when you invest in a British Mortgage Guaranteed Certificate. interest for any period from 3 to 10 years paid from the day your investment is received in our office. To invest — see yourlocal agent or send us your cheque. British Mortgage Certificateis are approved for trust funds. SI M® Its I GAGE & I,, 1ST COMPS Founded in 1877 Head Office: STRATFORD n British, Mortgage & Trust Company, Stratford I0 •I enclose my cheque for $ for investment for years. 0 Please send me a free folder giving full information. INAME I ADDRESS British Mortgage and Trust Company represented by W. E. SOUTHGATE Phone 334 Seaforth British Mortgage and Trust Company represented by. VON A. CARDNQ"' Insurance, Company Phone 214 Seaforth omnNNWIIIwrNAamnipinrmmomall18alglwugqumnntmnmmn nunuununitlinmimnmm�nnmrmmmmalutlllthlm!t SUGAR anci SPICE mnironsa By ' Bill Smiley •■��•► Do you know what we're get- ting to be a nation of? We're get- ting to be a nation of child -wor- shippers. And personally, I'm be- coming a bit nauseated by the whole perverted business. When the ancient Hebrews be- gan feeling their oats, they built themselves a golden calf, and you know what happened then. We're in the process of building ourselves a golden kid, and we'll deserve everything that's coming to us, when the Lord grows tired of our silliness. I keep reading things that make my hair stand on end with sheer horror at the idolatry we're com- mitting. Just the other day, I read in the paper some remarks by a professor of psychology at the University of Montreal. He claimed that a disturbed child be- conees delinquent because he is convinced he is meant to be. The professor said: "For in- stance, a child is sent on an er- rand with the admonition to bring back- the change. There's an in- sinuation there that the worst is expected of him. Slowly he builds up this image of himself, and ac- cepts himself as the black sheep of the family." From there, ap- parently, it is only a hop, step and a sWitch-blade knife to a criminal gang. Now, isn't that the damndest poppycock you've ever heard? Of course a child is warned to bring back the change! It's the first thing you do when you give him a dollar, and you tell him at least three times more, before you let him out the door. I'd rather have a•kid come home with the change, and feel like a black sheep, than come home with six comic books and new proof that the old man is an easy mark. It used to be that when a child was a mean little beast that no- body, including his parents, had any use for, everybody steered clear of him, and he grew up to be a business tycoon, or a great artist, or a brilliant politician, or just a plain, ordinary, miserable adult that nobody had any use for. Nowadays, when you encounter some vicious little brute you can scarcely keep your hands off, you are quickly told that there's really nothing wrong with him, except that he's emotionally disturbed. He's never forgiven Mom for slap- ping him on the bottom to make him go in the potty. Or he ,hates his Dad because the latter has re- jected him—wouldn't join him in a game of kick -the -cat. With the aid of the Reader's Di - 'gest and Liberty, we now have more amateur psychologists in Canada than we have unproduc- 'tive gold mines. And they're all agreed that it isn't the fault of The -Children -Poor -Thinks, it's the parents who are to blame. It never seems to occur to these modern swamis that there might be anything wrong withthe kids. Not a chancel. Children now occu- py the positionof mingled respect and awe once reserved for such dignitaries as the Royal Family and the Devil. And the kids revel in it, of course. There's nothing a modern kid enjoys more than having an old man who drink;;, or an old lady who runs around a bit. It qualifies him at once for the Brgk- en-Homes Club, and gives him an Open Sesame to any kind of con- duct he feels like pursuing. No longer is he lazy, bad-mannered, surly, greedy or ill 'tempered. He's Disturbed. All I can say is, look around you, chaps. There are certainly some children who have a rough deal and are upset about things But it has always been my con- tention that kids are tougher than a sitxy-cent steak: And if they're not, look at all the rich emotional experience they're piling up. No, it's the parents I want you to Took at. They are the really emotionally disturbed people of oar time. The women} who should be enjoying the marital delights of young middle-aged, gaunt and haggard as they scramble for new sacrifices to heap around the feet of the golden kid. The. torn -down, worn-out fathers, desperately try- ing to be a chum to , their chil- dren. It is to them that my heart goes out. • * * I don't know, maybe I'm just jealous because I was born thirty years too soon. I was never able to hate my mother for more than twenty minutes, even when she walloped me with the yardstick. Nor did I ever feel rejected by my Dad, because he never paid any attention to us, except to give us a dime once in a while. And I thought he was a dandy father. Perhaps if I'd been a product of a Broken Home I might have amounted to something. I never got a chance to be Emotionally Disturbed until it was too late to cut any capers. But just because I didn't have the opportunity doesn't mean that I'm going to deny my Children the chance of being delinquent. You'll have to excuse me now, while I go down- stairs and start a fight with the old lady. (Prepared by the Research Staff of Encyclopedia Canadiana) What Watchmaker Founded a Shipping Fleet Benjam Bowring, English watchmaker' who founded the famous Bowring Brothers firm in Newfoundland. After being appren- ticed to the watchmaking trade, Bowring opened his own jewellery shop in his native Exeter in 1803, at the age of 25. In 1811 he went to Newfoundland as a clockmaker, entered general trade in St. John's, and by 1823 had acquired the schooner Charlotte, the first unit in the fleet that was to be con- trolled by the Bowring family for more than a century. In 1834 he returned to business in Liverpool, leaving his sons in charge of the Newfoundland firm, which in 1939 changed its name from Benjamin Bowring and Son to Bowring Brothers. He died in Liverpool in 1846. When Did the Commonwealth Replace the Empire? Lord Rosebery in 1884 was prob- ably the first to call the self-gov- erning parts of the then British Empire a "commonwealth of na- tions." Lionel Curtis revived the term in 1916. The 1917 Imperial Conference spoke of the Domin- ions as "autonomous nations of an Imperial Commonwealth." Field Marshal Smuts in the same year, suggested that "British Cothmon- wealth of Nations" would be more accurate than "Empire" to de- scribe the relations between Bri- tain and the Dominions, The An- glo-Irish Treaty of 1921 gave the phrase legal recognition, and the 1926 Imperial Conference describ- ed Great Britain and the Domin- ions as "autonomous Communities within the British Empire, equal in status, in no way subordinate to one another in 'any aspect of their domestic or external affairs, thc,ugh united by a common allegi- ance to the Crown, and freely as- sociated as members of the Bri- tish Commonwealth of Nations." Gradually "Empire" came to be used for the dependent territor- ies and "Commonwealth" for the autonomous communities. jai, e.'? Wer•#4.1 ' I've always made it a practice not to cross my bridges before they're hatched, but now I'm up a tree without a paddle . . REV, ROBERT H. HARPER BE STILL AND KNOW Perhaps one reason for the neg- lect of kite -flying by our small boys is the great interest that has been developed in rockets and space ships and the dreams of conquer- ing new reaches of space. Why should a boy be greatly concerned about sending a kite a few hun- dred yards toward the moon when mature men are sending up colos- sal rockets and confidently talking about reaching and landing on the moon. After all, the moon is a satellite of the earth and only about 240,000 miles away. But that distance is small com- pared even to the distance to the closest planets. Think of Venus. "We were native to that splendor, or in Mars, we should the globe we groan in fairest of their eve- ning ,star," Tennyson has written giving evidence that he dreamed of space. So have I. And reach- ing a dim line that marks the end of space, I have asked myself what is beyond that? How great is the imagination that can stand in thought at the bound of space when in reality a man could not travel there in ten times ten mil- lion years! It's the LAW. Sec. 12 (1) of the Highway Traffic Act provides that: Every motor vehicle shall be equipped with a Muffler in good working order' and . in constant.- operation to prevent excessive. r unusual noise and excessive smoke, and no per- son shall use a muffler cut-out, by-pass or similar device upon a motor vehicle. Penalties upon conviction range from not more than $5 to $25 and suspension of lic- ense or permit for up to 30 days. Tuberculosis can be prevented. Support your TB Association. A McDUFF OTTAWA REPORT BABY BUDGET BLUES In the midst of an extraordin- ary pre-ChristxMas session of Par- liament called to deal with the unemployment crisis, Finance Min- ister Donald Fleming brought down a supplementary budget de- signed mainly to remedy a long- term problem on a long-term basis. Although 10 months before he argued no problem existed, Mr. Fleming introduced measures in December to check the heavy in- flow of foreign capital; the grow- ingforeign ownership of Canadian resources; and, the chronically large deficit balance of interna- tional payments. Judging by results so far, little or no progress has been made to- ward this far -away goal. At best, the budget changes may only have prevented the situation from get- ting worse than would otherwise be the case. In the end, Canada may find itself relying more on Washington than on Ottawa for measures to achieve it objec- tives. Mr. Fleming's budget contained tax changes aimed both at discour- aging the inflow of capital from abroad and encouraging the in- vestment of Canadian savings in domestic investment. It wiped out incentives to for- eign investors in the form of ex- emptions from the normal 15 per cent withholding tax on interest and dividend payments going out of the Country. At the same time it abolished the four per -cent in- vestment surtax and provided a strong tax inducement to Canadian mutual funds to invest at least 85 per cent of their assets in this country. The Minister described these changes as powerful incentives for the strong growth of the economy. Most observers questioned whether they were as powerful as Mr. Fleming represented, and in any case doubted they would have much immediate impact on most of the long-term problems associ- ated with the heavy inflow of for- eign capital. There was, however, one place where it was confidently expected the budget changes would provide an immediate and substantial benefit, that was in reducing the heavy premium on the Canadian dollar in terms of United States' currency. At the time he brought down his main budget last March, the ex- change rate of the Canadian dol- lar was running as high as $1.014, due mainly to the heavy inflow of foreign capital into Canada. This heavy premium seriously hurt the Canadian economy, since it meant a substantial reduction in the revenue earned abroad from exports paid for in United States dollars and lower prices for im- ported goods competing with do- mestic products. At the time the Minister brought down his ,baby budget in Decem- ber, the exchange rate was down to 'just under •$1.02 cents, but the Premium was still regarded as a major handicap td the economy, Following the budget changes, 1,1r, Fleming confidently forecast a still further drop would come about. Some of his officials spoke hopefully of the dollar going to a discount of two or three cents. For a time the exchange rate did hover around par with the U.S. dollar, but it is now back virtually to the same pre -budget level. Fur- thermore, since the exchange rate is one of the best yardsticks avail- able at the moment for measuring progress made toward other ob- jectives set out by the Minister of Finance, its behaviour indicates the b.udget has not proved hugely successful on other accounts as well. From all available evidence, foreign capital is continuing to pour across the border. Just as Ottawa introduced mea- sures to remove tax incentives for importing foreign capital, Wash- ington is considering the removal of tax incentives intended to en- courage the export of United States capital in order to solve its own balance of payments problems. In- troduction of these tax changes might more effectively reduce the flow of U.S. capital into Canada than anything the Canadian gov- ernment has done to date. Capital Hill Capsule The Government-owned Trans- Canada Air Lines racked up its first deficit of a decade last year, $2,607,000, but it may well be the beginning of many. The loss was the result of many factors, notthe least of which was the heavy cost of, bringing modern new aircraft into service, But another factor, one that may be coming increas- ingly important, was the new ciom- petitioi it faced from the private- ly -owned Canadian Pacific Air Lines on the trans -continental route which it once enjoyed all to itself. IN THE YEARS AGONE Interesting items gleaned from The Huron Expositor of 25, 50 and 75 years ago. From The • Huron Expositor March 13, 1936 At the recent Toronto Conserva- tory of Music Examinations held in Seaforth, John Mills was suc- cessful in passing his Grade II (Junior) Theory examination with first-class honors." . Professor A. W. Anderton is his teacher. - Measles have reduced attend- ance at local schools to a large extent during the last two weeks. William Robert Johnston, Bay- field, was at John McClinchey's farm on the Goshen Line, looking at a horse he thought of buying when it kicked him, breaking two bones near the ankle. The hydrographic service at Ot- tawa reported the waters of Lake Huron were three inches higher than February 1935, and 291/4 inch- es lower than the average for the month for the last 76 years: The road from Bornholm to Brodhagen has been opened for motor traffic, and for the first time since the end of January cars have been on the road. Mr. John Pullman and family have moved into the cottage on Mill Street, Seaforth, recently va- cated by Mr. William Pullman, a former old Seaforth bay, who has moved to the country. Mr. Bert .Hart, of Mimico, a former Seaforth Old Boy, was in town on Wednesday calling on old friends. Miss Mary Geddes underwent an operation for appendicitis in Scott Memorial Hospital on Friday. Friends of Mr. Fred,„Fowler are pleased to know that ffe is recov- ering after having an attack of shingles in his legs. A successful and largely attend- ed hot supper, under the auspices of the Ladies' Aid, was served in the basement of First Church . on Tuesday evening. Mr. and Mrs. James Dick, of Hensall, left last week to join their son, Ross, I near Smithville, on a farm where• there are hun- dreds of maple trees to tap. Mr. Charles L. Jinks, contractor and courier of Hensall Route No. 1, has replaced one of his horses with a fine young driver. From The Huron Expositor March 17, 1911 We are in receipt of the first copy of the'Aylmer Sun, under the management of Mr. Wm. Powell, an old Seaforth boy. McIntyre and Edge are moving the office of their hardware store from the back of the building to the front, and are cutting an arch- way between the two stores. The fine weather the end of last week and the beginning of this led people to believe that spring had arrived, but the storm on Wednes- day was anything but like spring. A hen owned by Mr. Thomas E. Hays, laid one egg weighing three ounces, one three penny weight, and one, 18 penny weight. Mr. F. Kling was attending a big horse sale at Cambridge, In- diana, last week and purchased a five-year-old trotting stallion. Mr. Charles P. Sills, son of Mr. and Mrs. G. A. Sills, who is at- tending the School of Practical Science in Toronto has been ap- pointed manager of the University of Toronto football team for this year. A number of poles for the hydro electric transmission line between Stratford and Seaforth are in the station yar4 here. Mr. Y1, „Troyer left~ hero, Thurs- day morning for Magentewan, where he has secured a situation in his uncle's store. Mr. George Patterson is in To- ronto this week attending the Grand Lodge of the Ancient Order of the United Korkman. Jackson Bros. have disposed of their photograph gallery to Mr. McArter, of Blyth, who got pos- session this week. Mr. T. Leeming, of the Lead - bury Line, has disposed of a very fine Shorthorn Durham bull calf, eight months old, for which he re- ceived the handsome sum of 95. From The Huron Expositor March 12, •1885 Mr. .George E. Henderson has purchased the premises on Main Street, which he now occupies, to- gether with the barber shop ad- joining, from Curry Brothers, of Brantford, for $1,050. Mr. John Kyle and a large num- ber of others in this district leave here in two weeks for Manitoba, where they will take seven loads of freight. Mr. Robert Campbell, son of Mr. Robert Campbell, of the town line, Hullett and McKillop, who has been spending the winter here, re- turned to the Northwest on Tues- day. Mr..loseph Laird, who left here for New Hamburg a few months ago, has purchased the Cluff farm adjoining the town on the north side, and will shortly return here to live. Hensall merchants, one and all,' are laying in immense stocks of the choicest spring goods. Mr. J. Wilson, VS., late of Kin- cardine, is opening an office here for the practise of his profession, and can be found at the Royal Hotel. A large number of the many friends of Mr. and Mrs./John Goflo assembled at their residence on Tuesday "evening of last week to celebrate the 25th anniversary of their wedding. Mr. J. P. Marshall, who owned the brick block in Hensall, lately destroyed by fire, has decided to build again 'and has already a large quantity of sand and brick on the spot. Mr. A. McPherson, of IlHnsall, who has been carrying on the tail- oring business here for a number of years past, has recently enter- ed into partnership with Mr. J. O'Brien. Mr. R. Coad, of Wingham, and Mr. E. Rannie, eldest son of Sam- uel Rennie, Reeve of Hay, have entered into partnership in the general store business and are this week busily engaged in opening out in Rannie's brick block, Hen- sall. Mr. J. • Coulter, of Hensall, who recently sold his dwelling on King Street to Mr. J. Habkirk, has pur- chased a fine building lot from Mr. William Stoneman in Hensall. What is the World's Largest Body of Fresh Water? If taken together, the tremen- dous freshwater seas known as the Great Lakes form the largest body of fresh water in the world. They have a total area of 95,000 square miles. From Lake Super- ior to Lake Ontario the waters descend from 602 feet to 245 feet above sea level. The Great Lakes are bordered on the north by the Province of Ontario. On the south they are bordered by no less than eight American states: Minnesota, Wisconsin, Illinois, Michigan, In- diana, Ohio, Pennsylvania and New York. Though TB most often attacks the lungs, it is also found in many other parts of the body, including bones, brain, spinal cord covering,. skin and' abdominal organs. • MOTHER, SOMETHING HAS TO BE DONE -- HERE Z AM...