The Huron Expositor, 1972-10-05, Page 2Ready for Thanksgiving
WON
We complain about taxes
1 and —the amount each of us
is called on to pay aut--
of our income for'govern-
ment services,
. At this election time
increasing reference is
made to'the tax bite of
the federal government
.without realizing that
what appears to be a fed-
eral .tax is in fact to-a,
great extent a payment to
the province. We tend•to
think that the .; slid
federal government collects seve
our taxes it retains all
the. money. This, of course pens
isnot the case.
"How Your tax dollar
4s spent 1972-73" is the
title of_an intereatiqg,
booklet iss.Oe'd by the
Federal treasury 'Board:
In a,chart prepared
by the Board, comparisons -•
are made between expen-
ditureg made"in 1964-65
and 1972-73, revealing
some'interesting facts.
Total spending by •the
Government. in 1964-65 was
$7.2 billion. Eight years
later that has climbed to '
$15.7 billion - over double
While some people con-
-ttnually complain with
some justification that
. welfare costs haVe esca-
lated it is interesting
to note that 24 tents.. out
of every .dollar gOes in
that. direction now while
25 -cents was allotted in
1964-65. Economic develop-
ment'tind support. now re-
quires 14 cents out of
every dollar compared to
11- cents back'in,1 64.In-
terest on the public debt
noW,requires, 14-tents as-
compared to 15 cents-eigti
y e ars ago.
Defence spending had a
high priority eight years
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Where the, taxes go
SEAFORTH, ONTARIO, October 5, 1972
,same at t.
The fi
only a ch
ties but
'tent to w
lected by
to the pr
ten year
did direc
crease bu
substanti
education
had been
Taxes
under any
are burde
sidering'
'remember
-and the 1
that, is r
spending
ago with 21 cents out of
every dollar allotted to
defend us. ItdAs signi-
ficant that only 13 cents
out of every tax dollar
now goes toward.defence.
Fiscal transfer pay-
ments to the provinces
have risen from five cents
to eight cents during the
eight year period while
spending on transportation
and communications,has
from 11' cents to
n cents.
nternal overhead ex-
es such as government
office space, pension con-
tributions, etc.; has
'risen from four, to 'six
cents per dollar and gen-
eral government .services
such as administration of
.justtce, tax collection,
Parliament, etc., 'has gone
up one cent from four to
five. Education assistance
has risen from 0.4 to four
cents and foreign affairs. ,
has gone from two to three
cents while culture and
recreation remains the
A
Sugar and Spice
Aren't you glad this week you're a
Canadian? Don't you,wish everbody was?
Wasn't that just the, greatest three
periods of hockey you ever saw in your
lives last Thursday when the Canadians
too, the Rtissians in the last couple of
minutes of play? Didn't you feel just a little
bit', safer when you went to sleep that night?
You know what I mean: It Seems that
lately, the Russians are supreme at every-
thing. In the Olympics, it was Russia this,
and Russia that. In the space race, it is
Russia you have to beat. In the arms. race,
Russia is a kind of unknown quantity. In
people services (now don't give me any
argument on this) Russia leads the way
with things-to-think-about.
It just made me sick to think that
Russia could wipe the ice with our hockey
players. And that's the way it appeared
in those first fewgames here -in Canada.
Our boyi looked whipped and exhausted
beside the-top`-conditioned Russian squad.
Heavens, I thought. They even play our
national game better than we do!
When I watched those Russians racing
back and forth over the ice surface, I
thought about all the good, solid nutrition
it took to keep them that• way. No french
fries and hotdogs like our fellows.
Probably raw fish and rare beetwith plenty
of cabbage to make it slip down! Vodka?
Maybe a little, but I fanciedl could see the
Russian team drinking goat's, milk and
yogurt for a midnight snack. You don't
get to be he-men like that on orange
ads and cookies.
And then there was Phil Esposito's
speech after the fourth game Canada.
BOA, did I feel like a rotter. I was one
of those fans (well, not really an i./id fan)
who. expected more from our NHL stars
than they'd produced. I had hoped we'd
teach the Soviets a thing or two while they
were in our country, and as it turned out,
they taught us not to be no all-fired smug
'and to get down to basics - like diet,
exercise; fresh air and hard work.
And Phil told it like it was. He said
he and the boys were doing the best,they
could and If, that wasn't good enough for
the fans, then' tough toe-nails to them!
nearly crawled -under the sofa 611shion
in shamed)
t
So we went to Russia, more determined
thati•eVer to win. I think maybe Phil and
the boys said, ',Let's show those faithless
fans in Canada whatve can do. Let's make
them eat crow. It will look good on them."
By the third game on the. Russian ice,
we had tied up the series. As the hockey
Commentator said, it wasn't a series any
more. It was _a sudden-death contest to
see who was best.
For the first time, I began to see a
glimmer of hope for the Canadian boys.
The Russians may be tough. They may be
strong. They may be conditioned. They
may know how to shoot and to pass and to
sink that Puck in the net. But by golly, they ,
haven't had as much practice as our fellows
at producing under pressure, and they may
just weaken a little - enough to give
Team Canada the edge.
I don't know whether the Russians
weakened op notit didn't look like it to
me, although they looked More tuckered
than I'd seen ' them before. But there
was a difference in attitude. You could
feel it in our livingtoom, thousands of
miles away from where the action was.
Our boys were alive . and fighting for
something real and precious. The Rus-
sians performed like robots, prograrrimed
to shoot and to pass but denied the plea-
sure of truly getting into the game with
heart and soul.
Our team was electrified. The Soviets
were simply reacting to a' situation.
When Paul Henderson tipped that puck
into the Russian goal late in the third
period, I thought I'd die. Big tears Welled
up in my eyes because I ,knew those
Canadian hockey players,were giving this
country something more irapOrtant than a
win. In that last period of hockey, Team
Canada pulled the nation together unlike
any hi-lingual, bi-cultural scheme could
ever do.
In that few moments, I realized that
Canada isn't just a, country abutting the
USA.. It isn't just another nation In a
world of many nations. No, gosh darn it, I
thought, Canada is my country and these
team members are my countrymen and
those fans standing there in that Moscow
arena singing O Canada are expressing
sentiments. And what's more, for one
time the Russians are goi ng to know
about us - and' respect us. How about
that?
There "are teachers and there are
teachers. Most of us in the rank and
file face from 150 •fo 200 students every
school day. We groan about' the size of
our classes, sigh over. the impossibility
of giving personal attention to each student,
and grumble continually about the amount
of marking of papers that we have to do
at home.
And then, of course, there are the
aristocrats among teachers. 'These 'are
the people with small classes, and not
many of them, who teach in an easy
atmosphere •oldreedour.
We have one 9f-ea type in our family
this fall. Your 'humps servant belongs
to the great mass of slaves in the pro-
fession, reacting like Pavlovian, mice to
bells subject to the .whims of adminis-
tration and bent almost double under a
continual deluge of paper work, ninety per
'cent of which has nothing to do with the
learning situation.
My wife ,has joined the tiny aristocracy.
Yep, she's a teach. She has not tigot,a
job", as we ordinary teachers put it.
She has "accepted a position."
It fair makes my hear bleed. I come
home about four, head straight for the
refrigerator, hurl myself' into a chair
and mutter incantations such as "Oh,
boy! Oh, boy! There must be Some
other way of making a living."
She is sitting there, cool, unsullied,
ready to regale me with a detailed account
of her ',day".
Some day! • She starts as 11.20 a.m,,
and goes non-stop for thirty-five minutes.
She has One class. There are five students
in it. Private school. No bells. No hall
supervision. No cafeteria supeiviSion.
No bus duty. No teams to coach.
• OCTOBIR 8, 1897
W. Baird, son of Geo. Baird of Bruce-
field, has been engaged to teach In school
Section No. 10 at Stanley.
Mathias Glew has bought from T.Noble
his 40 acre forth on the 3rd concession of
Hullett, for somewhere in the neighbor-
hood of $1,000.
The dwelling house of Joseph Bushfield,
near Beechwood, was destroyed by fire,
together with all the contents. Mr. Bush-
field was unaware of the fire until he
heard the chimney fall.
The good people of the Chiselhurst
Methodist Church have had their church
building almost made -new. They had it
raised up; a stone foundation and base-
ment placed under it; the-outside prick
veneered; the interior re-seated, painted
End the whole building made as good as new.
John Rutledge, of Tuckersmith, re-
turned from a two week's visit in-Algoma.
Be brought with him a carload of steers.
D. D. Wilson of town, has purchased
the butter of the Londesboro and Staffa
Creameries for shipment to the Ontario
mining district near Rat portage, Man.
The swamp fires near Bengali are
still raging, there being no rain to check
them.
OCTOBER 6, 1922
we are sorry to report an accident of
Mrs. W„, E. MeLaren
'
Cromarty.
returning home from the school fair at
Staffa, the horse became untnenageable,
throwing her out of the buggy and break-
ing her collar bone.
,Geo. ' Tuffin of staffa has just com-
pleted a cement bridge on the Centre
Road, which is a credit to the *orkman-
ship of the contractor. The bridge is
28 feet long and nine feet wide.
James Wallace of Egmsudville. had
by Bill Smiley
If she wants to take her class out and
sit under a tree, or bring them to our
house to listen to records, no problem.
If I wanted to take a class out and sit
under a tree, 'I'd have to notify the
Governor-General or, somebody a month
ahead, in triplicate, and then the principal
would veto the whole thing, because it might ,
start a. .trend. Other classes would be
distracted and jealous. Other teachers
might want to do the same thing, and the
whole system would crumble overnight.
If she wants a cigarette or a cup , of
coffee during her ',teaching day", no
problem. She has it.
if I want a cigarette somewhere about
the middle of teaching four straight periods
and 120 students, I have two aiternatives.I.
can go on wanting, orI can spring the half-
block to the men's can, making like a
,dysentery victim, swallow two drags,
choke on them, and make the return dash
to confront the next class, red-faced and.
coughing. Hardly worth it.
That's all 'rather" hard to take. B'ut
what really 'rubs salt in the wound is the
homework. She comes home with five
little • sheets of paper, and fusses over
marking them as though she had just
discovered something, on a par with the'
Dead Sea Scrolls.
I come home with an armful of essays,
look at her skinny sheaf and in frustration'
‘hurl my eight pounds of papers into ,a
corner. They have to be picked up again,
but it's worth it.
Another thing that gets met you'd think
her miserable little band of five was the
only group of students' in the, country. She
can spend twenty minutes a day on each of
them, telling me what Gordon didn't say
some ribs fractured while working at
the stone crusher on the farm of D.
Fotheringham in Thckersmith. He had
gone up to help on a load for Mr. Norris
when the horses bolted throwing him
against the spout of the bin with con-
siderable force.
Apples are very plentiful. Thirteen
bags were taken from one tree in the
orchard of Rudolph Fischer on the Lead-
bury line.
While playing at school Mildred Scruton
of Hensall had the misfortune to fall
and break her ,arm above the wrist. .
The annual meeting of the Seaforth
Highlanders Band• was held in the band,
rooms, when the following officers were
elected: - President Melvin McPhee;
Vice Pres. E. L. Box; Sec.Treas - Dal-
ton Reid; Managing Corn., Malcolm Mc-
Leod, Dawson Reid, O i Snowden. Auditors
Malcolm McLeod and Earl Smith. Con-.
ductor 'w m. Freeman.
Francis Cleary, son of Mr. and Mrs.
Peter Cleary, Seaforth, had the mid-
fortune to fall and fracture his 'collar
bone.
Mr. Cheoros of town has greatly im-
proved the appearance of his residence
on Goderich Street.,
J. E. Willis, Manager of the Strand
Theatre believes that good music should
go with good pictures as he has installed
a beautiful concert grand piano in his
theatre.
James Robb of town has completed his
beautiful bungalow On West William St.
and will occupy it in the course -of a
week or two.
OCTOBER 10, 1947
Plunging through rotten planks, mask-
ing a 50 feet deep well on the property
Of the Hopper Funeral Home, Exeter,
Archie Noakes of Bengali, Carpenter,
and what Rick said, and so ori, and how -
she gently led them from the murky
valleys into' the sun-kissed mountains of
beauty and truth. •
She thinks she's so, dam' smart that
-it's infuriating. For years, I've been the
savant in the family. tioem orplay, short,
story or novel, my opinion was the final
one, accepted with proper humility.
Now, she thinks my interpretation is'
wrong, and hers , •is right. How's that for
sheer ingratitude? It's, bad enough when
a 'stranger disputes a chap, but when it's
hiS own flesh and blood - well-she's not
quite, ,but practically - . I tell you
I'm not going to take much more of.thal.
At' the dame time, along with this
effrontery. thesets---anotiter---effronte
there's another irritant. She' hasn't the
slightest -scruple about picking my brain -
'whenever she can' find anything there
pick. And next day tossing an idea out
as though . she hadn't stolen it twenty-
four hours before.
There's one othet aspect of the
situation that has me slightly alarmed.
• Her earnings, while not ample, are just
enough to screw up my income tax. At '
the same time, she's spending more than
she makes on books, equipment, and new
clothes. ',
I wear my old. gray suit 'five days a
Week, fohr weeks a month. But it seems
that lady-teachers, especially in the aristo-
cratic bracket, have to wear something
different each day. •
If this is an example of Women's Lib,
you can call me a male chauvinist pig.
• Now I know 'why the peasants stormed
the Bastille and lowed off the noodle , •
of Marie Antoinette.
•
was saved from probable death' by the
quick action of a fellow worker.Gordon
• Parker, Exeter haStily clutching the
sides of the covering as he fell, Mr.
Noakes was hauled from the hole by
Parkerc Injuries, consisting of two frac-
tured ribs were suffered- in the fall.
Fire of unknotvn origin destroyed a
pig sty owned by J. R, Burns, Coleman
Street. Two pigs were also destroyed.
Mr. and Mrs. Ken Chessell of town
entertained in honour of Miss Joyce
Wilbee, bride 'elect of the week. Follow-
ing cards •two boys, Ronald Riley and
Keith Pethick drew small •wagons laden
with gifts of aluminum. Mrs. John Smith
entertained at the home, of her mother,
Mrs. M. E. Clarke. During the evenini
Mrs. Smith read an address and Miss
Vera Mole and Miss Gladys Hopperpre-
sented Miss Wilbee with a shower of gifts.
Co-operating in the effort to provide
funds fir furnishing of the new "wing
at Scott Memorial Hospital, four mem-
bers ,pf the staff, Miss Jennie Campbell,
Mrs. J. wiirm, Mrs. Geo. Pinkney and
Mrs. Carl Knight are disposing of tickets
on a crocheted chesterfield set: -
Ralph Traviss of Walton has bought the
garage building on East Main St. froth w.
C. Bennett.
Mrs. J. Jacobs,. matron of Huron
County Home, Clinton suffered shook and
bruises when a car in which she was b.
passenger, and driven by Mrs. Thos.
Morgan of Clinton and a car driven by
Geo. Buchanan of Goderich were in col-
The Seaforth District High. School
Board held a routine meeklng with C.M.
Smith presiding. Announcement was made
of the appointment of two new teach-
ers. Miss Olga Hoare, Toronto will teach
English and History, while J.E. Silcox,
also of Toronto, will teach mathematics.
From , My. Window ,
— By, Shirley J. Keller
wo cents.
gures reveal not
ange in priori-
emphasize the ex-
hich money col-
Ottawa is going
ovinces. In the
period not only
t transfers in-7
t Ottawa assumed
al payments for
which greviously
the sole respon-
of the provinces.
at any time and
tircumstances-
nsome but'in con-
them we should
what they provide
evel of government
espongible for
them.
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