The Huron Expositor, 1975-10-23, Page 2Since1.0,60, Serving the Coramunity First
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SEAFORTH, ONTARIO, OCTOBER 23, 1975
Hanging is murder too
A
farmer hosts, through a paper which holds
the events, even of one or two farm
families, so dear. I was given the most
friendly bospitality hy the families of Vera
and Paul Szasz of Beamsville, Janet and
Charles Munro of Embro, President of
Canadian Federation of Agriculture and
the International Association of
Agriculture Producers, Mona and James
McQuigan of Cedar Springs, Ruby and
Gordon Hill of Varna and Mina and Joe
Loewith of Lyndon. On the tour I had the
opportunity to , meet several farmers on
their fields, in the groves, in their barns
cow-yards, a winery, a cooperative. I've
learned to understand the basic facts of
their life, the set up of the' various
associations and marketing boards, the
producer-consumer-government relations.
Many •thanks to my host and to the
unnamed farmers whom I met.
May I stress one fundamental observation
Your country, like mine, built and
developed from wilderness, by an unend-
ing wave of immigration, assimilated,
luckily for them, into one nation. Mr.
George Atkins, who was my guest in Israel,
and Mr. S.J. Hale, of the OFA, planned my
itinerary-intentionally or not, I 'do not
know - so that I fortunately have had an
insight into the trials and errors and the
accomplishment of two immigrants (o ne of
them a prisoner in the notorious Nazi death
simply an act of social revenge. Our
laws could be toughened up
sufficiently to ensure that no
convicted murderer would be
released until it is certain he will n of
repeat the act.
But-death, by whatever means and
let us be clear there Is no "humane"
way of execution, is morally
indefensible. Forgiveness,
compassion, rehabilitation are part of
the moral fibre of our society at its
best, and these instincts must not be
blunted in the first wave of emotion.
Those who suggest that capital
punishment is a deterrent must be
prepared to return to public
executions and put them 'in prime
family hour TV viewing. That, would
no doubt be the fastest way to ensure
this barbaric method of punishment is
forever eliminated.
The irrevocable act of hanging on
the part of society --all of us—
precludes any chance to study and
remedy the causes of these crimes. It
strikes at the very sanctity of human
life that our Judeao-Christian
heritage so cherishes.
Surely we can find more humane,
effective and just ways of seeing that
threats to our life and liberty are dealt
with, than by hanging people.
(Contributed)
Storm coming
the- YttiPs AgOge
,cicro gRzz,
Snnday, the 17th o October , Dr. Walsh, Bishop pf
London officiated at the reopening of the Roman Catholic (
Church at Seaforth. The interior of the church presents a
tharited and beautiful appearance, Rev. Deon Kutphy
showed refined taste, High Mass was chanted by the Very
Rev. Dean Murphy, assisted by Rev, FathetsMcGrathp'Shea
and Dara• with n splendid choir, presided over by Miss
McDonald.
On sunday morning we were favoured with the first
genuine snow storm. It was accompanied by thunder and
lightning and before dark, the snow had all disappeared.
An entertainment in aid of the orphan's home "Belleville "
was given in the hall at Brucefield. Not Withst anding the wet
weather and bad roads the house was crowded. Dr. Campbell
of Seaforth gave a very eloquent 'address to great applause.
Comic readings were given by Dr, Burgess of Seaford'.
Wm. Murray, 6th concession ot Tuckersmith last spring
sowed one pound of Emperor oats. This one pound yielded 27
pounds of good clean oats.
Mrs. Solomon McDonald of Egmondville was getting over
a fence when she slipped and fell fracturing her leg. She lay in
a helpless condition .for an hour.
At a recent meeting of the IvIcKillop council, a resolution
was passed exempting from taxation the sawmill of Andrew
Govenlock, on the 10th concession.
Robert Scott of Roxboro having occasion to call at the
iesidence of Wm. Habkirk, north of Seaforth, tied his
horse to the gate post . When he returned in half an hour
the horseand buggy were gone. he found his property at
Leslie's hotel.
Louis Walper of Hay Twp. was returning from Exeter when
his horses. became alarmed and jumped into the ditch. While
endeavouring to prevent their escape, he had his arm put out
of joint and two ribs broken.
Add to this the fact that some who have
accepted office and are not doing their fair
share of the work, or, indeed, are dragging
their feet and slowing progress of others by
drinking too much at lunch, is frustrating to
conscientious types to say the least`
When such individuals are in county
council, municipal council or'association work,
their attendance and performance should be
made known to those who place them ther-e.
So, if some members drink so much at lunch
they have a little snooze during the afternoon
session, .• become ....a little 'belligerent. ' hi '
discussion, or otherwiimpede the normal se..
process of business, then e people who put
them in office should h ' formed.
It is a good thing the Grand Bend reeve was
not on county council a few years ago, when
drinking was heavier. Then he would have
been really frustrated and disillusioned.But
with drink so readily available, or people
using more common sense now, there just is
not the drinking there once was.
While there are some municipal and county
councillors who may feel Grand Bend's reeve.
spoke out of turn, no doubt there was more he
could have added. Whatever, he should be
applauded, because it is only from such
constructive criticism does improvement come
arid goodness only knows , taxpayers are
getting little enough for their money now from
some levels of government.
Bowing the whistle
I t would be a n aive politician who,
today, can approach the issue of the
abolitibn of capital punishment
without some trepidation. But, sooner
or later it must be faced and' our
leaders must give us some guidance.
Police chiefs, law enforcement
associations, municipal politicians
and private citizens are demanding
the return of the noose or some other
form of execution for murder.
Whether it be for the murder of
policemen and prison guards,
premeditated murder, murder by
insane persons or simple crimes of
on
passion, there sers to be a vocal and
substantial sec of society that
believes Capital' Ounish ment is the
only suitable way of dealing with
murder.
The reams of statistics, the endless
studies by competent authorities and
the clear pronouncements by many
church leaders that hanging is n o
deterrent for murderers and merely
brutalizes society seems to have little
effebt on people who are engulfed in
revulsion when they hear of a
partictklarly senseless or brutal crime
inflicted on some innocent chUd.
All society is afflicted with horror at
such crimes. The perpetrators must
be dealt with but to eradicate them is
(By Ly nn Lashbrook in the Rodney Mercury)
After Grand Bend's reeve exposed Lambton
County councillors last week for drinking too
much at two-hour lunch brekks, thus not
giving taxpayers value for their money, you
can imagine be is about as, acceptable to
councillors as a polecat at a nuptial breakfast.
Still, you have to give him credit for his
conviction. No doubt h is criticism resulted
from frustration with the system. The problem
is not peculiar to Lambton.
There always has been a joke in Elgin, and
no doubt it is common el4ewhere, about the
farmer who could not get his calf to drink so he
took it to county council.
But even the Grand Bend reeve had to
admit 90 percent of county councillors do not
drink so much at lunch hour that it hinders
their thinking and duty at afternoon, sessions.
Thus he means that one or two councillors
drink too much. And it is the same two
percent for which all laws are written ,and
enforced.
No doubt the Grand Bend reeve's exposee
resulted beCause of frustration many feel
whether on municipal council, county council,
in association, or whatever -- the frustration of
being unable to get enough accomplished.
Anyone who has been elected 'or appointed
to such a group knows how it feels to attend
meeting after meeting, and the years come
and go without much being accomplished.
To the editor
George Atkins of the CBC and Mr .
S.J. Hale, the General Manager of the
Ontario Federation of Agriculture have
given me an unforgettable opportunity to
follow, day by day, through a week, the
events and thoughts of farmers families, on
the farm and at home. My last "stop" was
in your editorial office, in the company of
Mr. Gordon Hill of Varna, the President of
OFA, and I had a friendly chat with Mr.
Andrew Y. McLean, the publisher. As a
token I was given fortunately enough for
me sotne issues of your weekly.t,
That added a very useful impression to
my observations on the week-long. tour
from village to village, a paper, which in
'tradition of 116 years of "serving the
community first" (as stated at the paper
head), in the midst of several towns, puts
above all the news of its area the sad event
of "Two Walton Area Barns Burn, Crops,
Livestock Destroyed".
Being on a life-long servier of the
farmers federation of Israel, whose motto
is "Homestead is Homeland", and whose
founder at the turn of this century coined
the expression "The family of Land",
stressing the togetherness of farmers, I
was, understandably, even touched by the
"gradation" of the news, not common in
out urbanized world.
That is why I deaded to ask' your
kindness, to -express my thanks to my
Amen
by Karl Schuessler
My wife started to take all those TV ads to
heart, Give mother a treat. She needs a break
from meal making. Take her out to lunch. To'
dinner. To supper. Take her out to anything.
But just take her out. Give the lady in the
kitchen a rest.
Now if she'd listened closer to those
commercials we should have wound up at a
hamburg place. Or a finger lickin' good
chicken palace. Or a plain old stop and shop
for fish and chips --eaten right out of
simulated newsprint in the front seat of the
car. .
But no--it didn't wind up as simple as all
that. Or as inexpensive as all that.
She had a place in mind alright. A very posh
place in town, She asured mel'd like it. The
decor was exciting.' ought to feel -right at
home,
It was a 100 year old church converted into a
restaurant.
Now I've had supper before in a church
basement, but this• Meal on• the main floor was
something else again. It -was red carpet
treatment all the way from the very beginning
when we walked under a • black canopy
stretched at least ten feet in front of the
entrance, The host led us into soft carpets and
dim lights. Sweet music. Why, he even took
the napkin off the table, shook it, open and
helped us tuck it in our laps as we sat down.
The cousine was as excellent as the service.
Then came the inevitable bill at the end. A
good stiff one.
It wasn't the charge that bothered me. Well
okay, maybe it did a little. But I was taking
mother out, wasn't I? She deserved every bit
and bite of it. But I do feel guilty paying so
much for foOd. If I had spent only a quarter of
that amount some place else, I would have
come out well nonrished.And at a time like
this I couldn't dare let myself think about all
the starving people in the world.
Why' was I getting so bothered in .that
restaurant? What's wrong with in e? Is the old
church getting to me? This place is
impeccable: in .t'as'te and food and style.
Everything is stylish. Of high order. If
anythini, understated -- not garislvor gaudy
in tone. The church's stained glass windows
spo ke of more gaiety than the newly painted
dark walls and dim lights.
What's wrong with me? What am I feeling
so uneasy about? Some closed down churches
beg to get such stylish treatment. Why,I've
seen Oh& old churches reduced tp living in
weeds on the'outside and falling plaster on the
inside. I've known about churches turned into
grist mills and garages and beauty shops.
camp of Ashwitz), a self made man, a farm
labour hand, who has built by toil and
sweat, a farming enterprise, and,
two farmers who were born on their very
farm and expanded them, while dedicating
time to public service with the help of their
resourceful sons. Together, by free will,
compromise and consent, they constitute
one farming society in Ontario. As an
Israeli, from a country of mass immigr
ation, of vastly different backgrounds, I
fully apprehend this achievement of the
Canadian farmers. _ 4
I am not used to the sight of the vast
plain, to the blessing of fertile earth. My
country is small and dangerously narrow,
the land is mostly poor. the rains an24 the
water resources are miserley (our national
slogan is "Save Every Drop"). There is the
National Land Fund, set up for reclamation
of rocky land„swamps and desert sand in
order to lease it (through the National Land
Authority) for farming, for 48-96 years
-92% of the land is national. Even the
kindergarten children are taught to donate
some pennies to , the Fund, for this
purpose, on the eve of every Sabbath. The
family farm is small, and to provide a living
the farmers have to run it intensively. But
the agriculture in my country is regarded
not only as an economic factor, but as the
main instrument in National revival. Even
the army maintains a unique corns.
the Combat Pioneering Youth Corps ot
And I've walked through churches made
into dance halls and gift shops and community
halls. And I've lived -- and I am living \.-in a
church right now. None of this ever bothered
me. -
But why was that posh restaurant getting to
me so? Lswallowed hard when I looked up at
that stained glass window given by a family in
loving memory of their father. I marvelled' at
the organ pipes that covered one wall. And
when my eye traced them down from the
ceiling to the floor, it came to rest on mirrors
and a long bar.
Now there's nothing wrong with a bar in a
restaurant. But where an altar was? And
there's nothing wrong with aguest registry.
But at the lecturn where the Gospel was read
each Sunday? There's nothing wrong with
tables and chairs on a carpeted floor?- But
where pews should have been? .
How could such a noble and stately building
remain so beautiful and still not be a church?
No restaurant deserves to h ave walls that
soar to height's unspeakable. No restaurant
deserves to have beams that arch to peaked
gables. No restaurant deserves to spread itself
out across that traditional concept of nave and
transpept -- that plan that lays out the church
in the shape of a cross.
Maybe that's what was hurting.The original
intent of the building was thwarted. It's no
longer serving the purpose it was made for. In
art, it's called kitsch. Something thrown
together --especially for popular appeal--but
it's a debdsed, lesser form of art.
It's the kind of art that takes a gunstock and
turns it into a lampbase. Or an old milkcan
into a bar stool. It's a substitute
art--something wrenched from its origins and
made to serve other purposes.
And what hurts even more is that money
can make the difference. Lack of money can
close a church. A pocket-full can open it
up.And turn it into a thriving business,
Maybe the Anglicans are right. Maybe they
have something. When one of their Surches
has to close, the traditional way is to burn it
down: And if not burn it down, then tear it
down. Not that the policy is always followed,
of course.
I never could understand it. It seemed such
a waste -- a very impractical thing to do. But
now, I'm beginning to see why.
conscript, whose function is to man the
new farm settlements. The pride of
farming is the essential motivation. Most
Of the national leaders come from various
farming settlements ahd the 'Ministry of
Agriculture is one 9f the 4 or 5 top
ministries, (recently, the minister is a
refugee of an Arab country, who was
settled on a farm in the desert). Among the
farmer ministers are the defence, foreign,
transport, immigration, and two of the
deputy-ministers (agriculture and trans-
port) are Arab-Israelil farmers. The most
prominent generals, like Moshe Dayan, are
farmers. In short, Israel regards farming as
'a' national arm. We do not diminish the
importance of industry and commerce, but
it is commonly agreed the basis of a stable,
healthy and progressive economy is
agriculture. The measure of Heaven above
and people is-the meature of the ploughed
land they possess, as our national poet so
milly phrases it.
Coming hack to my journey through your
farmland, these are the reasons why I
dared to ask the kindness of a, country
paper, so expressively dedidated to the
farmers interest, to express the thanks of
their guest.
' Sincerely,
Izchak Ziv-Az
Tel-Aviv, Israel
Chairman, Farmers Federation
Farmer from Israel thanks Canadians
OCTOBER 19, 1900
T.R.F.Case .8c Company have disposed of their meat
business in town to Fred Gales.
The 33rd Regiment band gave an entertainment in Clinton
and were assisted by Wm. McLeod, the comic vocalist.
Messrs. Alex Winter and J. P. Henderson, are making
arrangements for the publication of a picturesque souvenir of
Seaforth. While coming down town Wm. Morrow, lost his
purse and it was found by Mrs. J.H.Hays.
Messrs. Reid and Wilson have displayed in the door of their
hardware store an inimense block of Carmel coal which
weighs about 563 pounds.
J. Love of Hilisgreen disposed of some of his valuable
cattle to A. McMurtrie of Kipper'.
Hugh Dunlop qf Constance sold his farm on the 8th
concession of Hullett to a gentleman in Morris.
John Kaiser of Brucefield, had the misfortune to lose a fine
Jersey cow. She got an apple in its throat and died from the
effects.
Wm. Scott of Brucefield is' at present receiving large
quantities of grain and is paying the highest market price.
Squirrels, especially red ones, are unusually numerous this
fall. Some say that it means that we will have a severe winter.
The teams of Geo Murray and W. J. Beattie have been
busily engaged in drawing gravel for the town streets.
Messrs.John Beattie and J.O.Rose left for Lambton County
on a quail shooting expedition.
R. McMordie of Kippen was on a business trip to Owen
Sound.
Miss Jessie Gillegpie of Cromarty has been visiting in
Wingham and Whitechurch.
The brick work of the Ancient Order of United Workmen's
Hall is now completed and the carpentry work will be pushed
ahead.
Geo. O'Brien, of Hensall , has purchased 50 acres of swamp
land to the west of his farm.
Wm. Glass, of Wingham, well known resident of McKillop,
visited and while here presented his adopted daughters, Mrs.
J.E.1rvine, with a new -cooking stove andi a large number of
pieces of furniture.
S. Rennie, of Zurich, has disposed of his farm and is having
a' sale of his farm stock and implements.
Messrs. Lewis Foster, S.E.Faust, and W.G.Hess were out
shooting and came home with thirteen black squirrels and one
pheasant.
DECEMBER 19, 1925
Messrs. Finlay McKercher, Thos. Wheatley and Geo. Little '
have returned from Re gina, Sask. with their brother-in-law
Robert Robinson and while there they were Mr. Robinson
threshed 500 acres of wheat which averaged 35 bushels to the
acre.
Matt Murray and James McQuaid of Manley left for Detroit
to seek their fortune in Uncle Sam's domain.
The meeting of the Manley School in the interest of Thos.
McMillan waslargelya ttendecl. Dr. Ross of Seaforth said that
the Liberals from Seaforth were as strong as ever,
The first snow of the season visited the people of McKiliop.
The result of the membership contest of the H Orticultural
Society was announced and L. Norris carried off the honors
having secured 26 new members.
The summons of death came with startling suddeness to a
well known man when John R. Habkirk passed away at his
home on -John Street.
The -euchre and dance held in the G.W.V.A. Hall was a
wonderful success. A Fter the euchre, the Lions led by Frank
Sills, gave a fine sample of singing the favorite songs. Hugh
Chesney accompanied by Edith Hunt played the music for our
old time square dance.
Wallace Parke of town left for his home in Norwich,
England. He was accompanied by P. Calder, who is returning
to his home in Scotland.
Samuel Cluff, a former well known resident of Seaforth
died suddenly at his home in Goderich.
OCTOBER 1950
Miss Ella M. Roulston, Reg. N. has heen appointed Matron-
of the now $2,000,000 Hospital for Indians at Moose Factory
in Northern Ontario.
The T. Eaton Co.Ltd. special award to the highest scoring
girl and boy at the,Mcicillop School Pair was won by Barbara
Boyd, and Bobby genres of McKillop. Diane Bolton was the
lucky winner of a bicycle in a draw conducted by the fair
officials.
The Eastern Star sponsored a home baking sale at which
$120.00 was realized. •
E. C. Boswell retires as manager of the Dominion Bank
ere and his place will be taken by J. R. M. Spittal of
Brantford. _
"One of the most useful lives spent in Agriculture" was
the description of Rt. Hon. James G. Gardiner of Miss Isabel
Cummings, acting librarian of the Dept. of Agriculture who
retired after 29 years in the Federal Civic Service.
The men of the Seafortli Lawn Bowling Club entertained
the ladies to a turkey dinner. W. J. Duncan expressed the
thanks of the men to Mrs. Win. Miller. Following the dinner,
bridge and euchre were played. Gordon Muir and his partner
' won the euchre while Mrs. W.M.Harbana& Mrs. J.C.Keating
won the bridge honors.
Neighbors and friends gathered at the Salvation Army to
honor Lieut. M. Deacon, bride-elect. She was the recipient of
many lovely gifts.
A miscellaneous shower was held at the home of Mr. and
MrS. Emelt Toll in Mullett when about SO ladies gathered to
honor ICtithleen Roe. Mrs. Thos. Kirkby read an address and
Dianne Kirkby drew in a decorated wagon with the gifts.
Mr. and Mrs.Wm. Koehler entertained 'on Oct. 15, the
occasion being the 85th birthday of Mira. Henry KOehler.
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