The Huron Expositor, 1969-03-06, Page 2"Look out .. Here they come again!" •
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"As your your mayor, I've been involved in the many
complexproblems facing this City . . . problems that seems to defy solution . . . so I'm quiting politics!"
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"Among freemen. -
• there con be pc!,
successful appal
\ the bultet.:.
\from fill hallot -to .
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reincia,"-teLOpilno er--•
-asket1 lien what she was
big at Y'as':' she came iu 114"
door," pfikeraf4ed. litin8a.age•
definite_ 4) upswing
around here,
Now, don4 get xne =Ong
I'm no Pollyanna, I know - that
though God's. in His heaven
even on weekends, alt's wrong
with the. world, I 'mow • that
there are little black clouds,, na
bigger than- the ItoeltY Mount-
ains,. en the hor,ise - • There are Black' -Panthers,
and the Yellow Menace, and
brown guerrillas, and white 4or-
Was, .and pink elephants, and,
blue singers,„ and reds under a
great many box*
There are liroben hentes and
broken Mairlages •and broken
garterbelt4.-rx*0 every-
body "Yoti-pliet'over the age of
eight moths, is' either .emuton-
ay or senlJe.
_we...have :oxide/Iona: ittl- *y-in:mutation, the .stock Jnarliets
and the. furnaces, of, the nation.
Taxes and insurance and even
the important things, like bread
and milk, keep going up, (It
won't be long before most. of us
are living on bread-andinllk,
considering' tile price of meat.)
Cars are not being as well
made as tin cans. The non-re-
turnable bottle is our biggest
threat since the bubenic plague.
The ManIn-the-lateen has lost
his image and Mr. Traidean is
following fast.
TomorroW there will be a
blizkard. And the clay after, the
muffler and tail-pipe will fall
off my car. My piles Will reactiv-
ate. I'll lose both tOerubbera
But today I don't care. The
, yellow sun is kissing thewhite
snow,' and the latter, overcome
by passion, is melting. That is
all I know and all. I need to
'know. To hell with all the rest
' of it.
I'm in such a state of eupho-
ria, I think I could even want
and have a whale of a time
with , a girl called Gloria. If I
knew' one. "
"What do you want to talk to
the teachers about?" asked my
eager son. "I know the course
I'm, taking. I know what I want
to do with my life. You mothers
always want to make things
hard for a fellow."
• I suggested we tour the build-
ing • as all the other families
seemed to be doing.
"Haven't you ever,seen a
school before," querie - my int-
patient boy. "If you want to fol-
low the crowd, go ahead, but do
you mind' if I go with the other
guys for awhile? I'm tired of
doing nothing much."
"Doing nothing much!" I ex.
elahned. '$1Ve're just making,
plans foi. the' next five years Of
your YOu Call that nothing
MOO.
"dee, mom," he shrieked-1n
deottate trihispers. :qturtdreds
of other kids have gone through
Remuneration for
The decision which Huron County
councillorstook at their February meet-
ing to adjust the remuneration •which
they receive for attending meetings of
,cOarteil and committees is one ,which
, cannot be criticized.
During the five years in which the
present rates have been in existance
substantial increases have occurred in
the cost of items that enter into the re-
muneration — such , as travel and
meals — and there have been equal, if
not greater increases in the average
hourly wage rates applying across the
county.
This is not to say that attendance at
county' council- and related serviceto
the community should .be 'cimpensated
by a schedule that applies an hourly
rate to the time spent on public affairs.
Having regard to the long hours which
the average member of a council spends
in public duty, no. taxpayer could af-
ford such an arrangement even ifthe
hourly rate was but a few cents.
The fact is that dollars as such can-
not fully, recognize the contribution
that an informed, qualified and dedi-
cated member of a governing body
makes at any level -7. be it police
tee or prime minister.
Too often there are' those in public
office, wht; regard the office itself as
• the end and are content * coast -along
To the average spender, there is
more than 20 cents difference between °
the new 25-cent piece and the nickel.
Some say the nickel is larger and the
25-cent piece smaller. Others say the
25-cent .piece is lighter and the nickel
.heavier. But all agree the two coins are
too darn much alike.
What are the real differences? Act-
ing master, Royal Canadian Mint, E. F.
Brown says the dimensions haven't
changed a bit. In switching over to nick-
el from silver in 1968, the 25-cent piece
'became 12 grains lighter (there are 480
grains in' a Troy ounce) so it takes a
sensitive hand to -Weigh the difference.
At present the nickel weighs 70 grains
There seems to be a lot of common
sense in the suggestions of Dr. George
E. "Flower, eo-ordinator of studies at
the-Ontario- Institute for Studies in Ed-
ucation; who points out that the very
costly schOol buildings in use today, are
being employed on tin average of ten
hours per day for 200 days in the year,
or basically only 25 percent of the time.
He says our school .terms and hours of
use are based on an agrarian society in
vogue a hundred years ago, while the
revolution in the economy has swung
, . I know other families have
been all through it—Several
times in some cases. But this is
the first child we've had to start
to high school and somehow
we're worried,
Aciiaally our teenaged torment
is , atilt in grade 8 and will be un-
til June. Whether Hall and Den-
nis are to blame, I 'ciatildn't say,
but we had to escort or lad to
the high? school "in. February for
kind of introduction course.
• ' Almost every youngster there
Waft accompanied by one or more
parents. It was difficult to , tell
who Was Mere tertnani and con-
futed '
Mit 'ease, • my ,tora took the
.otiting in stride. ire seem-
:ad to know exactly What Was
hiPpening tintt, he • was .disgrunt+
144'.to:Ieorn that t• Wanted' tow
seize tide' 'OP-porton* tai talk to
:the
Fifteen Minutes Titer I see My
boy again. This time 'he's lean-
ing casually against' a locker
door, chating with some prissy
missy in a mini-skirt.
Ile' chats easily. She responds
with as much ease. They enjoy
a little joke—and part like two
old friends "" •
At their, age. I would have
died just died—if I'd been that ,
dose to a stratigeldd of the op-
posite MX, Why my husband
didn't even know the difference
between boys and girls until he
owned his cart
My son turns horses about.
with a group of fellows - about
his own age. Every one of those
kids are as confident and as
sure as the average adult any-
where'.
A- teacher makes his appear-
ance. The boys show their re-
spect by signalling "hello" but
there is no shaking- and quaking
in their shoes. they are assured
to a man!
I catch my, sons eye.
"It's, time to go," I say.
"OK," he agrees:
We walk through the school,
,to exit. HO expresses thia eXcii-
ment at the .iliought of attend-
ing classei. here. Nit eyes thine
.With the thrill of-it all,,
Re chatters all the way home
about this and that, I renteinher,
how terribly exited I wit'
the prospect of high school —
and I recall how much I wanted
it NOT to Show.
Maybe lie's better prepared
for high school than I was; May-
he,s just a better actor. Eith-
, et: i)vay colieethed.. Ifow can
Yeu tell a ;boy of the heortaches
he'll knew there The growing
Op have to dO1
lytaYbeI ighonldtil-event try.
be that they can be improved at
very little expense.
We notice that Messrs. Chili
and Bennett of town have been
awarded the contract for the
erection of the new Presbyter-
ian Church at'Constance. ,
Among other choice plants
now in full bloom, Mrs. Henry
Jackson rejoices an the posses-
aion• of a lovely camelia.
Messrs. Chas. Mason, Peter.
..McGregor and John Murdock of
trucefield intend leaving for
Giasgow, Scotland; Messrs.'-Ma-
son and McGregor will take
ahem a number of lierseS- •
The Oddfellows at Brucefield
haVe rented the hall above
Scott's new store. They pay an
annual rental of $50.
• John Denny of the Will Road
met 'with a painful accident.',
While hitching his team, one of
the horses crowded him against
the stable, crushing him badly.
John Prendergast of Tucker-
smith' has rented -his farm to
James Cameron for a term of
yeara at an annual rental. of
$300.
The roads are about as bad
as they can be. In some places'
they seem to be bottomless.
Window
J. Kellar
ers to work movement. "You
cannot lock up an, intelligent
well-educated woman in a home
with small) children and expect
club work a fulfil her need for
achievement." -s •
But who, then, do we "lock
up" with the children? Unin-
telligent poorly-echicated wom-
en? • '
. Since the rise of the femi-
nine cultists, there has been a
disturbing tendency to down-
play the' role and responsibilty
of motherhood. By Am* incel-
eulable female logic, they have
concluded that working as a
typist or as a Girl, Friday takes
'more -talent and skill than the
upbringing of a human being.
One female even suggested
.to the Royal CoMmision on the
Status. of Women that abortions
be legalized to "free women
from motherhood" It seems in-
credible that Woman Power his
become more important than
an unborn baby's life.
This columnist would . agree
that some women ' should in-
deed be forced into careers, and
discourage from being mothers
—not betapte they're too intel-
ligent; .but because they're not
intelligent enough.
The mess that some women
have made of their children's
lives, the number of neurotics
in mitt Society, not to mention
battered babies, indicates force-
fully enough how, all toe many
women lack the emotional make-
up to be good mothers. As over-
population becomes critical,, we
may become more selective, as
to who can become a parent.
Motherhood takes time full
time. Recently, British Women
with Ford Motor Company
fought hard to win equal pay
for equal work. For this equal-
ity, they 'discovered that like
the men they would have to
work the late shift every three
weeks. For the married women,
it was a terrible dilemma: how
much time were they willing to
sacrifice with their families for
the sake of a feminist principle
and their jobs?
A child Can't help but suffer
if a mother works 9 to 5, trying
to hastily squeeze in love and ,
care for her child sometime be-
tween supper and bedtime. If
she's a good rnotlor, site , won't
have time to moonlight :4k shoe
determined to be a patkime
mother, then Society might be •
hottot off if slie Weren't a Moth-
er at al,
'MI it aa delirious feelblg
abeut this, thueV 'Year to Wake
up an the gets 000
from workrbefore dark?
It begins to restore one's,
faith in the scientists' claim
that the earth `'is round, and
moves in orbit about the ann.
Or is it the other way !round?
For about 'three months, any
Winter, I'd join the Flat-Earth
Society, and agree with 'bract):
catty anybody that the sun la a
Iegend, a figment Of last sum-
mer's imagination.
Waal know why I'm' in such
a jolly. mood today. Perhaps it
is that we've had' three straight
days of sunshing:.• Fresge the
brains of a„ brass monkey, bat
sunny,
Spring is on- lb way,. I loans
tell; 'The• sngvrbazik Pu,444 'up
beside my garage has dwindled
font,, "2 f0e.t to le, And tWo
teachera;stalled"atnelt_Other
in gielitikirrlionk this week.
It's not such a bad old. world
after Nobody htiS :axed a
computer or lynched a waiver,
sity „president this week — yet,
My daughter passed two tests
in -school. I got the gaibage:tmt
without Cursing once.
My wife and daughter have
stopped fighting (they gang up
on me, instead). My bursitis is
practically neutral. The_ income
tax deadline is nearly a whole
month away. I found the toe rub-
ber that's been missing for a
week. What more could a man
-want?
The snuffler hasn't fallen off
my car. I haven't had a tooth-
ache 'for six months . almost
made a crucial curling shot the
other night. What more could
life offer?
My son is making his mark
in the world ,-- of diningroonts.
Sonie. nights he makes as much
as $31. And some nights , $6,
And he's making something else;
noises, vague but audible, ab-
out going back to, school.
My daughter came borne
from school today smiling, in-
-the Years Agone
SEAFORTH, ONTARIO, MARCH 6, 1969
County Councillors
neither questioning nor .contributing
regardless of the subject under discus-
sion,
At the same time there fortunately
are a majority in office who inform
themselves, who regard their office as
a means of improving and cotttributing
to-the community in which *3* Elericeg
Office to them is a vehicle to carry jar-
ward their municipality not an oppor-
tunity for petty comparison and puny
localism.
Havipg established, a rate of remun-
eration that reflects present day costs
Huron County councillors now can go
ahead to deal, objectively, positively and
in a forward looking manner with the"
many problems that confront them and
the county. •
- Faced with a complete re=organiza-
tion of the municipal structure and a
re-organization of existing areas as we'
know ..them, county councillors today
are in a position not too different from
that which faced their „ • predecessors
when the county Was established more
than a hundred years ago. If the plan-
ning they do and the decisions they
make produce anything Iike the results
obtained by those; earliermembers of
Council, their small increase of . last
week will be but a fraction. of 'what
the citizens of today • as. well as fu-
ture generations will owe them.
Not Enough Difference
and the. 25-cent piece 78 graini so it
takes an even.. finer .hand, would
seem, to differentiate the two coins.
But the confusion according to the
mint, is a matter of color. Since both
coins are pure nickel now, they have
the same shiny sheen. Silver sounds
more-ekeiting.but it has a duller gloss.
Last year the mint stamped out 88.6
million 25-cent pieces and 99.2 million
nickels. In view of the confusion, is
there any hope that the Mint will Color
or change the size of succeeding batches
of change? There are no plans at pre-
sent to change the coins, says the Mint
(Ottawa Journal).
The Use of School Buildings
Canadian society to an urban way of
life.
Now with Ontario primary eduCation
control soon to be handed over to so-
called regional or county boards, it does
seem that the Education Department of
the Province should go a step farther
toward modernization and see to it that
our school buildings, like our privately
owned factories are put into use on a
more realistic basis. (St. Marys' Jour-
nal-Argus).
This Week and Next
by Walt E. McDayter.
this school. It isn't exactly like
pioneer days. What's to get so
excited,"
"Go ahead!" I say, knowing I
shouldn't give up so easily but
too weary to continue the battle
of .right against might,
"Thanks; mom," he smiles and
saunters off down the corridor
like he owns the place. No shy-
ness of' uncertainty there, I
think.
Scott, secretary.
Sgt. Robert Smith returned
home from overseas. '
Pat Chesney met with a ser-
ious accident. He was cutting
wood in the bush on his farm in
Tuckersmith, when the axe slip-'
ped making a bad gast in, his
foot. •
John .Pinkney was kicked in
the face by a horse and had his
nose fractured.
The Sproat farm on the 6th
concession, which was put up
• for auction at the Dick House,
Seaforth, was purchased by Mr.
Johnston McElroy for $5,925.
Mrs„ Wescott of this town
recently received a very hand.
some silver medal which was
wen by her son, the late Clar-
ence Westeott.
Reeves a. M. Govelock of Mc-
Killop and M. Armstrong of
Hullett 'were in Toronto this
From The Huron l acpositor week on county business.
March-10th, 1944 A grand benefit, dance was
Cad. Norman at, McQuaid, son held in Cardno's Hall when the
',of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph McQuaid, committee in charge- included
Megillop, has been Tosthumoui- John Beattie, •Cliaties Barber, L.
ly awarded the military medal T. DeLacey, Harry Jeffrey, A. A,
for'gallantry in the Italian Cant- McLennan, Charles. Stewart and
paign. Cpl. McQUaid, 30, was a A. D. Sutherland. '
member of the Royal Canadian * *
Engineers. He enlisted in 1939. , From The Huron Expositor
Trainer J. J. Coyne returned March 9th, 1894
home to St. Columban from • Dr. G. L. Mackay, the celebrat-
overseas. • ed Formosa Missionary, accom-
Mrs. James Reynolds had the panied by his Chinete student,
misfortune to break her wrist appeared. here and brought out
in a fall on the ice. , an untaaually large audience, the
A herd of 13 deer were seen Presbyterian. Church. being pack=
in liussel.Austin's feed recently, ed from end to end.
not far from his barn, apparent- Mr. R. Carmichael has got out
V very much at-home the plans for a couple Of stores
Mrs. Alex Wright, "Mill Road in the vacant place on Main St.,
East, received .word of .tile safe ' opposite the Expositor office
arrival of her son, A. B. S: Mor- and work will be begun as soon
ley Wright overseas, as possible. -
,Stanley's grand old,now, Wal- Mr. John McMann, Huron's
ter Mclieth, celebrated his: 94th horse king, shipped 19 horses
birthday OD March 1st at the to Buffalo.
home of his daughter; Mrs. 'J. R. Mrs, Black of the Huron Road
Murdoch. has exchanged farms with Mn • • • John Sproat of Tuckersmith.
From The Huron Expositor There is considerable dissatis- , March 7, 1919 ' faction expressed with the front
Dan Munro, Brucefield is steps of the new town building.
having a supply of ice shipped _ The general opinion seems to
in by train, so that he will be •
. prepared for summer trade.
Mrs. John. Ross, Brtiefield,
who is in, her 88th year, has
knitted one hundred pairs of
socks for our soldiers.
A very large crowd of people
were at the '-Kippen Station to
welcome hoMe from overseas,
Lieut. George E. Stephenson of
Hi me . their hours of work per week The members of the Seaforth at the office, hoping they can Fire Brigade assembled at the spend more time at home, more fire hall, the occasion being the and more married 'women are presentation of a leather chair to J. P. Bell who has been' a desperately' trying -to ' work in
member for the' past 25 years. • an office.
In 1906, about 10 percent. of The address was signed' by
Frank Sills, chief and H. B. Canada's labor force was 'made
up of women. Today it's '30' per-
cent, • Of the 2,499,000• women..
workers, about , 1,380,000 are
married. •Ten 'years ago there
were ,only 710,000 married
women in the work force.
Some women are forced to
work because they're single of
Widows, or because their ,hus-
bands' are earning salaries in-
sufficient to support the family,
However, a growing number are
in the work force because they
want to — disciples of the high
priestesses of feminism who
preach the message that wives
and mothers can not be entire-
ly whole or human unless they
leave their kitchens and kids
to find careers in commerce or
industry.
It doesn't take an economist
to see that in time this could
force more marled women into
jobs, When a' wife and husband
both bring home a salary, they
can afford to pay more for rent,
for example, than a couple liv-
ing on. a man's salary alone.
Since they're willing to •— and
able ' to —; pay- more, supply
and demand could drive the
rents up. The couple with a
man's salary alone 'would not
be able to meet the rising pric-
es as easily, and the wife might
decide she has no choice but to
take a job as well.
There are men who squirm
at thietrend. "Some men ar-
chaically cling to the 'a woman's
placeis in the home' theory,"
complained a woman newspaper
editor, and sometimes-emotional
supporter of the right of moth-
— By. Shirley
From My Window
Part-time mothers
Perhaps it's just typical of
the contrariness of women. Just
as men are trying to cut down
From My
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