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SEAFORTH, ONTARIO, JULY 6, 1978
The berry picking stoop
Three ,cheers for Dublin
Behind the scenes -It was a lot, of work for a lot of
people and it went on for many
months but the fact it was all
wort (while was proven\ over the
weekend when many hundreds of
former • Dublin residents returned
home to greet each other and 'those
now in the village.
A centennial celebration is a big
undertaking for any_community bu"t
particularly so when the community is
relatively small'. This mearis that
.nere are fewer people to assurbe-
responsibility for the detailed plan-
ning and the 'myriad tasks that must
oe undertaken if the event is to be a
success.
But the people of Dublich .never
hesitated and the results on Saturday
and Sunday-proved they had planned
Drell. The various program features
were well coordinated, the parade
was outstanding and even the
weather could not have been better:
For most people in this country, the
problems and concerns of the rest of
the world have had no more relevance
tnan an academic 'exercise, or a
crossword puzzle. Oppression,,
inequity and,, corruption happen
elsewhere, not here - so- CanasAians
(lon't get excited about democracy in
India, civil war in Africa, economic
colonialism in South America, or
Even moral crises in the United
tates.
But now things have, changed.'
•In India, former prime minister .
I ndira Ghandi refuses to testify before
a commission she calls unconstitu-
• tIonal. Here at home, federal
Solicitor-General Francis Fox
wouldn't release documents to the ,
keable Commission examining
RCMP wrongdoing, for the same
reason.
Former U.S. president Richard
Nixon's "dirty tricks" squad sent out
fake documents to discredit his
opposition; the RCMP did the same to
the FL9.
o a barrage of moral indignation,
To the editor:
I too attended the recent meeting in Clinton
District High School to discuss the booki in
question being taught in grade 13 Huron
:'aunty. Not having any children attending 6-
,chool at present; I went to the meeting to
hear the various view points expressed: and I
must say, at the conclusion of the discussion, I
share your feeling of apprehension that such
basic differences of opinion can ever be'
resolved.
I have read the three books in question and I
( an understand the revulsion of some people
to certain passages when taken out of context.
thought it rather contradictory, however,
"hen one of the panelists referring to certain
passages in a deliberate attetiipt to
make this point was then severely criticized
f it taking exeerpts out of context and failing to
relate to the whole 'cause and effect of the
c hipter.
Where does censorship end?
A couple of tnohts ago I was astounded to
read a news report that the same organization
which is objecting to the study of the three
books in Huron County was also not only
objecting to these Woks in-•a 'lathy cotinty
Lougheed Aircraft revealed sordid
practices of bribery of other
governments; Massey-Ferguson and
Atomic Energy of Canada Limited
turn out to have similarly dirty linen
to air.
More than one struggling Third
WorIckpation has had its precarious
econordy staggered by financial
decisions of multi-national corporate
gianti; now Quebec has been sent
'reeling by Sun Life.
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And it was easy to hurl occupations
of "support for terrorists" when the
World Council of Churches made
grants to liberation movements in
far-off Africa; now the WCC also,
funds Canadian native organizations.
So let's quit kidding ourselves.
Let's stop.dividing the news into
"us" and "them", into "world" and
"local". Because both are really the
same.
For the future, we can't hope to
improve the world unless we clean up
our own act,•Nor, anymore, dare we
beast of our .own salvation while
letting the rest of-the world go to' hell.
• Unchurched Editorials
but including W.O. Mitchell's story "Who
has seen the wind". I had just finished
reading the tender, compassionte tale of a
'young bOY's development in a :prairie town
and I was at a loss to understmid how anyone
could object to such a heart-warming,
delightful book. Subsequently, a couple of
weeks later, I happened to hear a critic on a
T.V. program explain that the objection, was to
the language of one character, a rough earthy
but humane relative. In spite of the fact it was
made very clear throughout the book hi,s salty
language was not approvectby. nor acceptable
to the rest of the family, these critics would
ban the whole book! In my opinion such
objectons to a book can only be based on blind
bigotry.
Finally, Mme Editor, I believe ypur
suggestion that a study group or club be
formed to read and study current literature in
group discussions is an excellent idea. I would
be very interested in joining and assisting in
such an endeavour.
Yours sincerely,
Paul L, Brady
F.C.F.P.
By KeitkliRoukton
It's hard to remember in the heat of July,
why so many Canadians abandon this country
every winter to seek warmer climates.
----A-Srdrivedciwtrottrdusty concession on the
way to Own these days, I. f it unbelievable
that only a few short months o there were
days when the car couldn't eveli ake it along
the read. Where the roadside gr s and weeds
now grow were once towering ovvbanks. If
you told a stranger from another land all this,
he'd think' you were out of your nut.
While many miss the heat of , Canadian
summer and try to recapture it on the beaches
of Florida or Mexico what I'd really like to
remember next January as 1„push my car out
of a snowbank for the.thirty-fifth time are
some of the other things of summer, things,
I'm afraid that aren't so easily recaptured.
For instance, they cut the hayfield beside
our house this past week and released one of
the most subtle and pleasantIensations in the
vvorld: the- scent of mew mown hay drifting in
on the warm air. Keep your Chanel No. 5 or all
your' other eipensive, commercial smelly
things, nothing 'can match that smell. And
Miami Beach or the Bahamas aren't going to
`be able to bring that smell next winter either.
In fact ahrmt the closest you're likely tp came
is to visit a neighbourhobd barn at eeding
time when that same hay is, loosed for, the
cattle and some of the old perfume returns.
There's another precious smell of summer
I'd love to be able to bottle too, that's , the
spring air laden with the sweet smell of lilac
blossoms,'or for that matter,- cherry blossoms.
The perfums fills the air for a few brief days
then is gone for another year, leaving only the
memory. It's this fleeting quality of course
that makes it precious. The weather.' of
summer lists for months but the really special
things come and go in hours.
There are tastes of summer that will be
missed more next winter than the hot weather
too. How in January can one adequately
remember the exquisite pleasure of biting into
a strawberry fresh from a strawberry patch.
You 'can freeze them of course and they'll
seem a delight when the snow is deep around
the house, but they're not a patch on the real
thing. You can bay imported strawberries in a
'supermarket but they've long lost their
se freshness in the trip north and, can't posSibly •
• compare.-, •
'Or how about a tomato., picked from your
own garden, brought into the house, washed
To the ed~zor:.
I read the front page story by Jeff Seddon
about the great Clinton "Book Debate" in the.
Expositor of June 15 and the editorial in the
June 8 issue from some distance and could not
help but be fascinated by both. The focus this
has taken on makes one wonder if the use Of
controversial books to teach English is
- important enough to divide 'a community. The
phenomenon of experimentation in the . past
decade has taken' on, an appeal for some
c people who like to get an issue "up front" and
" take it on as a challenge. Some feel that the
school t is the place where -today's students
must he- made awtare of our new' found
morality. A new moralit' that somehow
reminds me of the old mot-E. lity.
Books, the theatre, and the arts in general
are caught up in an absurd race to press to its
outermost limits the capacity of the mind' and
human feelings .to resist shock and revulsion.
The trouble with 'this kind of wide open
interest in trash that, is rampant today is not
that it removes the blinders, but . that it
distorts the view.
Prowess is proclaimed, but loving is denied.
What we have is not liberation but
dehumanization.
One of the participants in the debate said
she felt art was the "truth of the human
spirit" and that she did not feel children
would be adversely affected by materials in
the novels pointing out that well written books
permit readers to share emotions with the
anther and learn about the 'complexities, of!
human feelings. Somehow, I thought these
books related, to the teaching 'of English. It
seems 'now from the statements of one of
those supporting the books that they also
teach students "about the complexities of
human feelingV".
Is it possible that teaching "the
•
.and sliced. All storebought tomatoes are a
pale imitation of the taste experience gone gets
from those super fresh-tomatoes. It's the same
with corn, taken directly from the plant to the
pot or with fresh peas, picked at their peak of
flavour and prepared immediately before they
can lose any Of their sweetness. I'm drooling
already and I've just finished breakfast.
The one common denominator' about all
those things is that money just can't buy any
of them. The irony is that in our affluent
modern society, a sinaller proportion of the
populations is enjoying, these pleasures today
than 50 years ago. It's hard to smell the subtle'
hint of lilac on the air, whim the air is filled.
with gasoline exhaust in Agincourt or White
Oaks. Hay fields are a little hard to find in the
middle of Kitchener' or Hamilton. People are
eating "fresh" fruits and vegetables 'air-year
long, but they never get to taste what the fruit
or,vegetable really is like before it's picked
green, shipped hundreds or thou lands of
miles and left to -Sit for two or three clan
before it goes in the display case.
Canadians have so many material things
today that their 'grandparents could never
have dreamed of, but they're also missing so
many precious things that their grandparents
took for granted. I guess it 'depends which you
think is mote important; two cars or the taste
of really fresh vegetables, but I really wonder
ifthe average Canadian is -better off than his
grandfather. ;
The, tragedy is that 'fewer and fewer people
will have the chance to enjoy these natural
pleasures in the future if we continue to drive
people off the farm and discourage small
towns in favour of cities.. .
People soon, will think a real tomato tastes
strange because they've grown up used to the
poor imitations they buy 'in their city stores,
much the same as many of us don't know what
real orange juice tastes' like anymore because
we're so used to the processed imitation.
Ah well, let them suffer. VVe people in the
country and in 'small towns where everybody
has a' small garden still"know the real of
summer. Come January our summer thoughts
;will not so much be of baking on the beach but,
of eating in the 'kitchen, of smelling the air in
the back yard s We'll know' that summer is
more than a tan all over and. we'll know that
even if we make that trip south, wewon't be
recapturing a`reall anadian summer. Some
things about—Sbrim just can't be bought.
complexities of human feelings" is in fact a'
very complex subject not toTie' left to the
chancey luck of reading the right book in high
school. The moderator went through the usual
"old chestnut" number of using a reference to
Hitler in an analogous way to the subject of
the books in question, but did spare us from,
"the next step Will be book burning". Also, I
really can't see any relationship between
being "taught' the facts of life"....and smart
alec language from the gutter. The "facts of
life" deserve much more than that even if a
sixty year old .lady from Hensall thinks
otherwise. '
There is one thing that overshadows
everything else and it should jump right out at
every reader of your paper. Here is a story of
such proportions and interest that over one
quarter of the front page was used in its telling
with a five column headline and yet the
subject of the whole, question did not get' into,
print.
The reason behind the meeting. " in Clinton
and the coverage it received in the Expositor
centred around a few words and expressions
that some people suggested were all right
po nsaibgleyrseven educational for high School
Yet the seasoned adult population that no
doubt make up the grat bulk of the subscribers
to the Expositor are spared. Would you not
think that if the expressions in question were
necessary for the book they would indeed be
-vital to the newspaper story and to the
" editorial -in the edition the week earlier.
Would it be too much to ask for the same
common sense and consideration for the-high
school kids as that Shown by the edit of the
EXpositor for his readers.
Clare Westcott
19 Hollingworth Drive
Scarborough, Ontario
h .yfqrs agone
41,4$r Il078
The crop thxoughout this county keys, Tnntisod
botor at this season of the year.
Athnr Forbes, of the Ceptercial ffete).i lost his
valuablehorSe. Visitingin hayfield, he tiedAtte ltorse.t0
a tree And oil returning found the horse, dead. .
Win,. Allen has. removed his stock of groceries, to
temporary quarters in Mrs. Whitney's block.
The thermometer several times has stood at 90 in the
shade,
hn McMahon, of Hay Township, planted a patch of
corn a month ago, and on going one day to see it, found
one solitary lilade, the crows having taken up all the
rest of the seed.
James Mains of Milieu received severe injuries,_
white handling a fractions horse, The animal struck him
with his fore feet.
4 JULY 100900
Harry Soan, veterinary surgeon of Zurich met with a
serious accident. Ile had been, proscribing for. Mr.
Robert Sm011ia:s stallion andon the day in question 'Mr.
Smillie had just placed him in his stall in the hotel
stable when Mr. Soan went into the stall beside , him.
He spoke .shitiply to the horse andthehorse struck Mr.
Soan: In falling he struck a pail which threw him toward
the horse and he was trampled and-injured iii a very
serious manlier.
The watering cart recently bought by the corporation
of Blyth, arrived in town and now the streets will be
kept free from, dust,
The farmers at Brucefield are all busy haying and
some have an excellent crop but generally it is below
average.
Miss Pearl Woodley.of Brucefield received first class
honours at the conservatory pf music in Toronto.
Chas. Mason of Brticefield left here for Manitoba,
taking with 'hint a carload of horses.
Messrs. Gladmour and Stanbury have decided to
open a law office in Hensall and have engaged rooms •
over the jewellry Store.
Master Garnet Cudniore, of Hensall ., had • the
misfortune to get his leg broken by coming in :contact
with a hand car when alighting from a moving train.''
Wm. Hugill of Constance has been painting Geo.
Dale's house. •
As, an evidence of the advantage manufacturing
establishments are to a town we may State that the pay
sheet of the Bell Engines work now amounts to over
$2,200.
There were 16 writing for first class certificates, 5 for
second and 4 for matriculation' at the Collegiate
Institute. The class was under the care of Andre* Scott.
Master Leslie Reid has been appointed secretary of
the Young Men's , Christian Association in London.
JULY 0, 1928
Fred'Fowler of Constance has resigned as teacher of
Kinburn school after ten and one half years of efficient
service.
Miss Ida Medd of Constance has been engaged as
teacher for the Kinburn school for the coming year.
The cottages at Bayfield have been filling up rapidly
during the past week.
Miss Jean Hays and Miss Gladys McPhee who have.
been teaching-second book and primary at the Seaforth
Public School have resigned.
Eleven men from Seaforth left 'Tuesday morning to
spend a -Week at Carling Heightsi - They were C.B.
Stewart, H. McLeod; J. Mcdonald, A. Knight, L.
Fortune, C. Rolph, C. Neely, G. Hildebrand, J.
Ferguson, T. Beattie,'and Leslie Bateman.
Messrs. 'Gallop and McAlpine, the enterprising
Massey-Harris agents opened their new show rooms
and service station on Main Street. The foundation and
floor were done by Messrs.. Rapier' and son and the
walls by R. Frost.
K. M. McLean, .Editor of the Huron Expositor is
attending the C.W.N.A. convention in Edmonton.
W. E. Southgate has leasedOne of the Jewett
Cottages in Bayfield.
W. J. Finlayson has resigned as Principal of the
Wellerby and has accepted .a position as .principal of
the Milverton Public. School.
• Miss Eleanor Burrows, and Miss Elizabeth McLean
have left for Camp, Arondoga, Port Bruce, where they
will spend the Inext 3 weeks.
Murray Savauge of Exeter, has been transferred to
the staff of the Canadian Bank of Commerce here.
Messrs. W. Pollard and W.Y. McNay have left to
'attend a three week's training camp in London.
JULY 10, 1953
At Monday night's meeting HenSafl Councii
members decided to install an alarm connection .
between the Bell office and the Fire Hall that would
automatically ring the fire siren from the office.
About 900 people attended the bingo sponsored by
the Canadian Legion, an d.,Seaforth Comtpunity Centre
here.
Drowning took the life of Daniel Burns of Staffa when
the boat he was riding with four companions capsized
north of Grand Bend.
Mr. and Mrs. John Meagher, recent newly weds,
were guests of honour at a post-nuptial reception in
Dublin Parish Hall. Approximately 200 neighboors and
friends were present to extend good wishes.
R.G. Shortreed, Clinton, a native of Walton, was
elected president of the National Defense Employees
Association.
-Mr. and Mrs. Edward Sturgeon, Bayfield, celebrated
their 40th wedding anniversary. All the members of the
family. 'were present for dinner.
Miss Margaret Anne Troutbeck and Miss Phyllis
Btyans are holidaying at Huron Church Camp,
Bayfield.
THESE CENTENNIALS ARE ALRIGHT—Carrie .
Morris of Shakespeare didn't mind the Dublin
Centennial at all, from her vantage point atop a .
*nib table, as LinOoln Green played in the
background. (Expositor Photo)
Apart from the hundreds of ?family
gatherings that the centennial
Prompted probably the highlight of
.the two day event was the parade on
Saturday. Not only did. It provide an
opportunity for those of the village to
display accomplishments in business,
in athletics and in community
activities and to recall events of the
• post, but it also brought.a great deal.)
of-pleasure tb several thousayds- -of
' people from the area who, came to
share with their neighbours in Dublin
their happiyess on the birthday party
occasion.
It was their way of showing
their appreciation of Dublin as a'
neighbour 'and of the contribution
which people -of Dublin had made ,
throughout a century.
It was a great centennial and one
for which everyone, who in any was
associated in planning and carrying it
out, deserves the thanks of the
community.
Clean - up our .act
Where goes censorship end?
the smells and tastes of *sumer
Why are newspaper readers spared?
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