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The Huron Expositor, 1972-05-25, Page 2anon Since 1860, Serving the Community First Published at SEAFORTH, ONTARIO, every Thursday morning by Me.LEAN BROS., Publishers Ltd. ANDREW Y. McLEAN, Editor Member Canadian, Weekly Newspaper Association Ontariq Weekly Newspaper Association and Audit Bureau of Circulation , Newspapers Subscription Rates: Canada (in advance) $8.00 a Year 'Outside Canada (in advance) $10.00 a Year SINGLE COPIES — 20 CENTS EACH Second Class Mail Registration Nwnber 0696 Telephone 527-0240 SEAFORTII, ONTARIO, May 25, 1972 Police merit recognition 4410CNA aren't a guy who stopping We ex 'the thie our home we resen tell us cautions chain on We expect them to watch over our children but resent it when they apprehend our holy off- spring for committing an offence. We expect police to keep traffic accidents to • a minimum by strong law enforcement, but when we are caught doing.a,feW miles aver the speed limit 'we get ,.upset. We expect them to en-force`lawS and at the- same time to mintMize their powers.. ' Sometimes, we give- them.medals for saving lives, stopping runaway horses or shooting it out with bandits. Sometimes we give the: medals to-their widows. . At a time when respect for theIlaw - and the people who enforce it - is'in ur- gent need-of revival, a week to draw attention to their "impossible task" is a good idea. _ (Exeter TimeS Advocate} round to catch the pulled out without in front of us. pect them to catch ves who ransacked. last -night but t it when they. to take more pre- ,and to put a the door. *ft 1., • 4 Sugar and Spice by Bill Smiley In the Years Agone In the peaceful enjay- M*nt of all that is fine in our modern society,the part the police have play- ed in bringing about that pleasant state of affairs js too... frequently over- looked. Those words of Commis :- siOner Eric Silk remind us that this is Police Week. Some people may ques- tion the observance of such a week, pointing out that a police officer is similar to any other per- son in that he merely gets paid to do a job. But as our "employees" we expect them to give more value fQr_th.e.t wage .dollar than- mcist of us would be pre- pared to equal. On TV, a policeman is an oaf'Who couldn't find a bull fiddle inside a telephone booth. In ,real. - life he';_s expect'ed.to find a little blonde boy "about so high" An, a crowd of 10,000 people. We, expect them to bed friendly, kind and cour- teous even after one of us crawls intoxicated from behind the wheel of a car. We expect them to let us get away, with minor in- fractions like failing to. Qbe.y a stop or_iieTd sign and complain Whe-n they Well, you can stop holding your breath. The biggest thing since the building of the pyramids, in the opinion of some people -Is accomplished. Our daughter is married. And off our hands after 21 gruelling years. It says here. .„ • I- hope there's,some ancient saying like: "Sto'rmy wedding day, sunny marriage." Not that there was anything stormy about the wedding itself. It was positively seraphic, and some people were smiling with sheer delight for the first time'in years. , But the weather was something else. The day before was sunny and still. The day after was the same. The wedding day was the worst: rotten day of a long, rotten spring. Driving rain and bone- chilling wind. I know. I was there. Out in it, doing all the last minute chores: ice cubes, cream for the coffee, smokes, mix, 'dry- cleaners, etc. I have neither a hat nor a raincoat and I couldn't find my wife's umbrella, so I was soaked to the skin from the navel both ways. However, I mustn't complain, even though I have my first bad cold for three years. It was KIM'S DAY, as everyone ' kept telling me for about a• month, and what matter if her dear old Dad has double pneumonia. , Somehow, as it so often happens, everything fell into place. Her old lady talked her way out of the hospital, then went three solid days and nights without one wink of sleep. She was so nervous and exhausted she was positive she'd have to take to her bed before the ceremony. But from that subterranean depth which most of us don't possess, she not only made it, but ca-me through with flying colours. The rug-cleaning man had been here and everything was spotless. This was bad, .because everybody would have muddy feet. But it was good, because every- body wiped their feet or took nff their boots. A gang ,,of boys had arrived the day before to, rake up the lawn. This was good. But it was bad because everybody was too wet to notice. First arrival was -Shelby, an itiner- ant• young actor, one of the men Kim had shared her apartment with all year. No, lie •was not the bridegroom. This was bad, because Kim was still talking and laughing with him, In jeans and T- shirt, 'with one hour to go before the ceremony. But this was good, because Shelby t,s a great mixer, and later ov, when we ran out of mix, he went out and got some. Next guests were 2 drenched urchins who had hitch-hiked through the torrent some 65 miles, Soaked right through. I didn't know what to Elo with them. Son Hugh, all the way from Montreal for the day, provided a solution that no middle- aged square would have thought of: He took them downstairs, had them take off their jeans' and threw them, (the jeans, not the kids), in the dryer. . • Then both front and •back doorbells started to ring 'like a five-alarm fire, and yours-truly, the only one dressed, sprinted back and forth, accepting gift- wrapped parcels from little, boys and delivery men, hanging up dripping coats, and trying to introduce perfect strangers to each other. Chaos. But chaos often works better than logistics. This was to be a Baha'i cere- mony. The bride and groom, with their. tyrical acumen, had not even decided on the order of the ceremony, and were - well,'not squabbling, but arguing - until the moment of truth. Kim hissed at me, 'Dad, you say our prayer- after Marlene. That's all you have to remember." And that's, about all I did remember. There is an old cliche: "The bride was beautiful in a . . . " Well; I'm here to tell you that the bride was beautiful, in a long,' svelte, bovowed dress that 'looked as though she had stepped out of a"Bottirviii painting, long auburn hair, huge brown eyes and infinite youth. The groom looked pretty good, too, but his father can write his own column about that. "' Most- weddings are like funerals. This wasn't. There were prayers, short.Mine, perhaps subconsciously, was 9 General Thanksgiving from the Book of common Prayer. Chopin's mazurkas ripptild quietly in the background. Brother Hugh sang a haunting. song in Freneh and -English. Then came the most dramatic and 'poignant part of the ceremony. Tapers were lighted, without one ember drop- ping on the rug. A single candle was lit from them. The bride and groom face'd each other, eye to eye, and made their personal oaths (not repeating some- thing after a minister). They had kept secret from each Other what they were going to say. Shelby kissed the rings, put them on the apprqpriate fingers. The couple kissed. Four beautiful nieces each brought one 'white rose to the,bride. -And it was over. I, think It was *mole, spiritual and joyous. If I ever get married again, God forbid, I'm going to have a Baha'i ceremony. I think my daughter taid goodbye. I remember a kiss on the cheek, a deft hand extracting from my pocket the proMised cheque, and my son-in-law going down to the basement to pick up the double sleeping-bag I'd bought in case nobody else did. Now, how about some grandchildren. The world is surely a crazy place to live, isn't it, but unfortunately, there's. no place else to go, We're- here on this planet and we're stuck with it - for a while at least. A•few days ago I was having a kind of ecumenical discussion with. a friend of mine. We were talking about all, sorts of things,' but as usually happens when I talk with this particular friend; the topic • got around to religion. Now don't get me wrong, This column isn't going to 'be a discourse on the dif- ferences between religious denothinations ...although I'll just bet there are many readers out there who would ger a big" bang out of. reading something like .'that." Actually 'what my friend was suing' was that The Pope in Rome turns him off because The Pope dons his papal robes and emerges from his papal palace and tells the masses to love one another, to feed the starving, to clothe the naked, to heal the sick. He then returns"to'the secluSion of his finely furnished, well- stocked mansion and does nothing. . Well, I don't know what the papal palace looks like. I don't know whether The Pope wears ermine or rags. I don't know whether he eats steak or dry bread. And it doesn't much matter to me because I believe' that -in our owtrways, each of us is a hypocritj. . and anyone who 'says he isn't Is that much more of a hypocrite.. I told my friend not to fault The Pope for his human weaknesses unless he MAY 28', 1897. Ephriam Snell, 10th concession, Hullett, has sold his farm of 40 acres to Manny Hill for in the neighborhood of $2,500. James Armstrong of West Wawanosh, shot a full grown wolf on his farm last week, Word was received here that Wm. Spain of this town had met with a fatal accident at Goderich. An engine descend- ing to -the dock struck him and he was knocked down by the cow catcher. WM. Powell, a former employee of the' Huron Expositor, spent the Queen's holiday at the.parental home here. He is now mechanical superintendent of the Presbyterian Publishing House in Tor- onto. Hugh J. Grieve of Tuckersmith, had the misfortune to get his left thumb caught in a turnip .cutter. The knives were clogging up and he was trying to keep them clear with his left hand. The members of the Presbyterian Church choir went to the tea-meeting in the Hayfield Church where they discoursed sweet music. W. J. Clark of town has placed a handsome new delivery (wagon on the road. It was made by Messrs. S. Barton & Son. Alex Mustard of Brucefield has se- cured the contract of erecting cement abutments under the Bannockburn bridge. Wm. Murdock ,of Stanley, and David McLean of Tuckersmith, intend starting for the Old Country with -several car loads of fat cattle. .- A few days ago, as Alex Mustard was going 'through a field of-fall wheat, on his farm, he pulled a stalk which measured three feet in length. Joseph Foster of the Parr Line was seriously injured by a horse while hold- ing the animal, he was 'struck down by its two front feet. MAY 26, 1922. Wm. Drager, pioneer resident of could prove blameless himself. I re- minded him that in my humble opinion, anyone who lived comfortably and ate, well and . dressed warmly and did not 'share, with his neighbors and friends who were in need, was just as guilty as anyone. And that's what turns me off when it. comes to most modern day peace- makers. So many of these •would-be do-gooders think ,that by sitting idly by writing poetry and talking .'"about love, they are bringing peace to the world. Tell someone who's being oppressed that you're aiding him by wearing a flower in yonr teeth and strumming a guitar, and he'll tell you you've got something to learn, buddy. It really irks me, , too, that •some people believe they are perfectly within their rights to live the way they want to live . . despite the fact that, their only source of income is welfare. And here again, please don't get the idea that I'm opposed to welfare. For deserving people - folks who for some reason be- yond their own control are unable to earn a decent wage - I believe welfare should be provided in such 'amounts that it, provides a dignified lifelor the recip- ient. But take the healthy, virile male who prefers to recline in bed until noon and rises only to rest until evening when the action begins . '1 just because he doesn't "dig" (agree with) the free enterprise, Manley, passed away at' his home in Brodhagen in his 76th year. He was born in Germany and came to Canada when °, three years of age. Grenville Atkinson of Hayfield is in- stalling a radio outfit and expects to be listening to concerts from Detroit. Messrs. James Jarrott and Wm.Sproat of Kippen, are home from the London Medical College for the summer hell days, G. C. Petty of Hensall, is having a new roof put on his large brick block immediately west of the post office, The trustee board 'of the Egmondville. Public School halve let the contract for the new school building to be' erected this summer... H. Edge of Seaforth has the cement work and E. J. Dinnin the carpenter work. The cosy; of the building will be $3,125.00. A motor hike was proposed from Stratford to Goderich last year for. Oct- ober, but owing to a bad snow storm it was postponed. , ,It is now going to take place on June 2nd. 'Thos. 0. Loughlin of Egrnondville has purchased the McElroy farm on the Kippen road. Miss Thelma pethick of town was among those who graduated as trained nurses at Victoria Hospital. John MacTavish of town has purchased a McLaughlin car from the local agent, E. H. Close. The sacred concert givpn in the Strand Theatre Sunday evening by Dr. MacKenzie Smith, was greeted by a very large audience. The sacred solos by E. W. Bateman, George Israel and" Roy Willis were rendered in a distinctive.manner. The Seaarth's quartette also was much enjoyed, else Mrs. O'Connell and L. T. Delacey, as pianists. Lacrosse is to be revivetin Seaforth. The following officers were elected:, - Hon. Pres. Dr. Chas. MacKay; Pres. E. H. Close; Sec. Treas. D. F. Buck; Committee, C. Stewart, J. McKenzie, Elton Umbach; Official' Referee, T. democratic concept. This fellow will brag about his "rights" in ,a free society - and then ignore the people who fought to make it free. He'll do nothing at all to retain the precious freedom which makes it possible for him to enjoy his peculiar quirks in peace. When he gets hungry, he'll expect to be fed . . but he'll scoff at the silly fools who expend an honest day's effort to provide the fundS for his welfare cheque. He'll beg all .to leave 'off working, but has no thought for where the funds will be realized to support his life. He won't lift a pinky-to help himself or anyone else, but he'll scream bloody murder and protest all day and bail way through the night if necessary to complain when there's a so-called "injustice". He'd kill and maim and burn and plunder in the name of peace - and,,he'll call it . ."justice". I just don't "get it On with" (under- • stand) .the people who, as the Bible so aptly puts it, fail to remove the beams from their own eyes before attempting • to take Out the splinter from the other fellow's peepers. So The Pope doesn't actively pursue the feeding of the masses by inviting 100 Biafrans to dinn'er each eveping. What difference does it make, when Joe Blow from Kokomoe doesn't give that extra winter coat to the shivering refugees ,in China? Who, really, does the most toward world peace? Johnston. John Doig, Kippen, the veteran farmer of 60 years or more started on his 80th year. He is still hale and hearty and .busy at his work. MAY 30, 1947. John J. Cluff, distinguished Seaforth citizen, Mayor for ten years, died sud- denly at. his home. Upon retiring from "'office at the close of 1946, he was pre- sented with a silver tray by his col- leagueS in recognition of 40 years ser- vice to Seaforth. Ruscoe Farm, horde of Hugh Chesney, Tuckersmith, hummed with activity when a number of the neighbors gathered with teams and six tractors to put in the crop for Mr. Chesney, who has been ill for several weeks. Mr. and Mrs. John Knight were pleas- antly surprisea, on the occasion of their 50th wedding anniversary, when a family dinner was held at the home of Mrs. J. Ritchie. During the evening their son, Carl spoke briefly and presented Mr. and Mrs. Knight with a dollar for each year of their married life. Mr. and Mrs.• E. H. Epps of Clinton celebrated the 50th anniversary of their marriage at their residence. Mr. and Mrs. Epps have four children, Mrs. Mel- vin E, Clarke, Seaforth, Clifford lh, Clinton, Lorne K., London and Ellwood ' Clinton. The annual inspection of. the Se'siorth High School Cadet Corps was held. On Sunday the annual cadet church parade was held when Rev. H. V. Workman preached and Major Alvin • Sillery took the salute. Rev. J. R. Peters, B.A. of Sombre, was given an unamimous call to be the minister •of McKillop charge. Rev. GOr- don Hazelwood presided at the meeting with Robert Mdparlane as secretary. John J. McGavin, well known moKillop farmer, suffered painful injury to his left hand when a loading machine slipped and fell on his hand, crushing it against a gravel box. From My Window — By Shirley J. Keller ife A 4 0