The Exeter Times-Advocate, 1959-06-18, Page 4Pop 4
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Sensible .dectsion
"Old Man Ontario" made what seems to be t
tensible decision last Thursday,
Voters returned the Frost government with
'tubstantial working majority of 70 seats but they
Also strengthened the opposition to ensure good
ibanagement.
They have rewarded Premier Frost for his
achievements; yet they have indicated. he cannot be
Content with his record nor can his government be.
come smug with power.
They have told Liberal leader John Winter-
ineyer they appreciate his all-out drive to provide
effective opposition but they have also said he must
develop a .sound platform and able lieutenants before
they will consider his party as an alternative to the
present government.
The province apparently realized the folly of
recent leadership cults which have brought about
some unbalanced governments in recent years
through the election of overwhelming majorities.
More consideration was given to the individual can-
didates, a welcome trend.
During the next few years, it will be interest-
ing to watch the efforts Mr. Frost will make to re-
juvenate his cabinet and to follow the progress of
the new Liberal party. Both developments should
strengthen the leadership of the province.
Another deaelopment which should prove
amusing is the proposed formation of the new labor
party which will succeed the CCF. According to re.
ports, this new group will attempt to woo agricul-
ture into its of a task the CU' fonnd. impossible.
Frankly, we can't see these two sections linking forces
but it's no secret agricultural leaders are beginning
to realize they need political power to attain the
ends they seek.
We hope the two major parties pay sufficient
attention to the needs of both these segments to
remove, as much as possible, the reasons their ad.
herents might have for supporting this third party.
By 'virtue of his impressive victory, Charlie
MacNaughton has established himself as a strong
political figure in Huron. Comparatively young, the
Exeter seedsman appears to have. quite a few years of
active political service ahead of him, and his platform
and administrative abilities should bring him some
important tasks in this field.
The fact that he increased his Majority by one-
third despite the four per cent swing in popular vote
to the Liberals, indicates Huron electors recognize his
talent and appreciate the enthusiastic effort lie dis-
played during his first year as the riding's representa-
tive.
In view of the handicaps he faced, Harry Strang
made a most creditable showing on the Liberal ticket.
Unlike the previous candidate, he did not have an
urban centre to support him, which appears to be
essential to win the riding. Then, too, he did, not have
sufficient campaign time to btcOnle familiar with the
voters in the northern parf of the riding.
This community, justifiably, is proud of its two
candidates in this election.
It was interesting to note that one London
organization made a confident — and correct — pre-
diction about the outcome of the election.
The board of the London Crippled Children's Treat-
rnent announced about two weeks before that
new.centre.would be opened. on June 17 by Premier
Frost. Obviously, there must be some PCs on the boarL
The South Huron Agricultural Society didn't
stick its neck out that far. It announced that "the
newly -elected member" for Huron would open the
fair.
Siren is command
Most drivers are not aware that the siren of an
emergency vehicle is more. than a warning.— it is a
command to get out of the way. This comthand must
be obeyed if authorities are to provide the type of
action the public expects in an emergency..
The Highway Traffic Act sets down a citizen's
responsibility quite clearly:
"The driver of a vehicle, upon the approach of
an ambulance, fire or police department vehicle, or
public utility emergency vehicle, upon which a bell or
Siren is sounding, shall immediately bring such vehicle
to a standstill as near as it practicable to the right-
hand curb or edge of the roadway and parallel there-
with, and clear of any intersection."
Drivers should also note the following provision
in the event of fire:
"No vehicle shall follow any fire *aliment
vehicle when responding to an alartn, at a distance of
less than 500 feet."
Substantial penalties are provided for offences
In both eases:
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"I don't want to scare you, But Pop says if don't
get better report cards, .sorneone ip going to get a.
good spanking!"
Father's Day is but a pallid
imitation of that great commer-
cial orgy known as Mother's
Day, but apparently it is with us
to stay. Each year father re-
ceives gifts that he neither needs
nor wants, and before the wrap-
pings have been ,put away, he
-realizes the ferrety has put him
in hock for the price of the gifts.
I don't know what the rest •of
you birds want for Father's Day,
but I know what would please
me most. The most thoughtful
gift the family could produce for
me would be if they packed a
lunch, got in the car, and dis-
appeared for the day.
I find the whole business of
Father's Day revolting, The mere
existence of such a deer is an
indication of the new low to
which the father has sunk in the
family unit, Just a few decades
ago, every day was father's day,
and there was no fooling about
it.
When 1 was a kid, there was
none of this dam' foolishness of
father helping around the house.
Nowadays fathers ecrib the
kitchen floor on their day off,
and help with the dishes after
dinner.. In the good old days,
tetherciidn't have a day off in
the ifirsi 'piece,and feother
wouldn't let him help with the
dishes, in the second, because
she knew her place and his,
'Perhaps it's the increase in his
leisure time that has turned the
head of the house into a sub-
stitute baby-sitter, a domestic
menial, a handy wailing' -wall,
and in general, a pale reflection
of his dignified, respected male
forebears.
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Until a couple of decades
father worked a six-day, sixty.
hour week, but he didn't get
ulcers. And do you know why?
Because he dide't see as much
of his family as the .poor, crip-
pie-gutted creature who brings
home the bacon today,
Nowadayie'fithee gets a day
or half-day off, Does he potter
in the garden? Does lee go fish-
ihg? Does he get away for a
game of golf? Would it were so.
He is kicked into the street with
the children, while mother does
whatever modern women do
around home, with $800 worth of
labour-saving machinery,
There is nothing more pitiable
than the sight of a father, on
his day off, wandering forlornly
about a supermarket, -trailed by
two or three little monsters of
children, as he does the week-
end shopping. When he gets
home, he is allowed to put the
groceries away, and spend an
hour mowing the lawn, before
dinner. After he has put the
kids to bed, he is supposed to
emerge from his chrysalis, as a
full-fledged social butterfly, and
go off and get all juiced up at
somebody's Saturday night perty,
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No wonder nerves are rubbed
raw today. In the old days,
fathers weren't partidulatly con-
cerned with "gettirie to know
the children." They didn't worry
about theft' children likirieethem,
They took it for granted and
everybody was a lot happier.
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Win, my dad got home from
Week, he didn't have fn set the
• Sugar
AND
Spice
Dispensed By BILL SMILEY
table, run around looking for the
kids, then jump in the car and
go and get a quart of milk. Nor
did he have to "pick up a few
things on the way home," be-
cause mother looked after her
own shopping.
* *
No, sir, when my clad got
home from work, he was greeted
affectionately, but politely, and
left alone. He retired to HIS
chair, with HIS paper, until he
was called for supper. During
the meal, he was not forced to
listen to a 20 -minute harangue
about the terrible day mother
had had. Nor did he have to
break up quarrels among the
children. Nor did. he have to
jump up and make the tea be-
cause mother was called to the
phone and was still there, talk-
ing about the bake sale, 20 min-
utes later.
And on the weekend, my Dad
wasn't expected to turninto a
party boy. He was tired Saturday
night and went to bed. If he felt
like doing to church he did. If
he didn't, he didn't. But he
wasn't pestered all day Sunday
by kids wanting to go for .a
swim, or a wife wanting to go
for a drive, He made the de-
cisions. If he just wanted, to sit
on the verandah and recoup for
the corning week's struggle, he
did.
* *
Usually, we went for a picnic.
But there wasn't any nonsense
about Dad doing the cooking on
an outdoor grill, Mother made
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No hurry for dial
To the editor,
Some while back you invited
"letters to the editor", even for
the sake of argument. So let us
argue a bit about last week's
editorial, calling on town council
to press for dial phones "at
once,"
Dial phones are coming, most
likely when it suits the telephone
company in their own over-all
plans for this and other COM-
munities. When that day arrives
we shall save five to tee seconds
per call placed—maybe one min-
ute per day for the average sub-
scriber. If we have to find or
clean our spectacles for the op-
eration, we may even lose more
than this minute. But we shall
make our own mistakes—no op-
erators to blame—too bad!
When the dial phones are in
use, whether gradually or ab-
ruptly, a a payroll of ten (a
inert guess as to number) osier.tors will cease, in Exeter, Now,
if a new business were to ap-
pear in town* offering employ.
meet for ten ladies, at fair wages
and good Working conditions we
would -all- be telling each other
how nice it was and how much
good this would do for Exeter,
But thin dial business is the re-
verse of the situation.
So "dials are coining", but
town council does not need to
hasten the move.
- Back Street' Subscriber
Chevrier recognizes
Cantin's contribution
In his new book "The St. La W -
relic e Seaway" by the Ipn
•Lionel Chevrier, MP, president
of the St. Lawrence Seaway
Authority from 1954-57, publiebee
by the Macmillan -Convexly of
Canada Limited in a chapter an
early pioneers. 14i. Cheerier has
this to say about the vision Of
Narcisse Centel, of St. Joseph:
When I was a yonuester in
Cornwall, Ontario, a visitor to
MY father's office from time to
time could be heard talking
lengthily and excitedly about
the "St. Lawrence Seaway", I
can only vaguely remember this
man now. 1 doubt whether 1
met him more than a dozen
times but 1 ditl notice that he
had a great capacity for makin,,,„-
people listen and agree with
what he was saying. At that
time, I did not realize who Nar-
cisse -Cantle was, or how he fit-
ted into the St. Lawrence Sea-
way project.
Cantle is a symbol of all the
disappointments that preceded
the seaway. He bad more than
his share of thein. Be was as
much of a visionary as Dottier
de Casson and it was hardly his
fault that he failed to realize
any of his dreams of the sea-
way.
He came from a boat -building
family who lived in a Freud"
settlement on the shores of Lake
Huron. He stood well over six
feet and weighed about 240
pounds, He was impatient, and
early in life broke away from
the boat -building tradition to be-
come a cattle buyer and trader.
He married at seventeen and set
out on a life of adventure, tie'
was one a sparring partner for
John L. Sullivan. He invented a
new type of furniture polish and
patented a new model gas burn-
er,
At some point in his varied
and adventurous life, he became
obsessed with canals. One of his
first heroes was William Patter-
son, the brilliant Scotsman who
tried to build Panama in 1698—
an almost Jules Verne -like at-
tempt on the future. Cantin was
fascinated by Patterson's suc-
cess in securing a charter from
the Scottish parliament for A
"Company of Scotland trading to•
Africa and. the Lidice."
This company . was to bend
a WWII at Darien,. on the Palm.
Menial'isthmus,dig a .canal
and "thus hold the key to the
commerce of the world and .turn
Scotland from one of the poor-
est to one of the richest •colin-
tries."
• In 1919, some years after
had seen Cantle. in Cormvall, he
published a -booklet in .which he
outlined his plan to build a 30 -
foot waterway connecting Lakes
Champlain„ Ontario, .Erie, Niche'
gan and Superior. A 30 -foot
canal! When at last we built the
seaway, we •only made 11 27 feet
deep. Cantin's ideas .were bigs
ger than those of his age.
He wanted to see $500 million
spent on navigational works,
$200 million on "hydraulic de-
velopinent". He planned a canal
running from Lake Champlain
due west to the et. Lawrence.
Be wanted a new canal to re-
place the -Welland.. He planned
a. 43 -mile canal running. over-
land between Lakes Elle and
Huron and by-passing Detroit and
Windsor. He planned a network
of canals running through the
rapids section of the St.
ronce. He wanted more canals
joining the Ottawa and St. Law-
rence Rivers,
For a private individual to
suggest' a project of such magi
-
tilde at that time was hardly
less visionary than Patterson's
Panama canal idea and it is not
surprising that there was little
enthusiasm for it. But being a
showman and promoter at heart,
he immediately decided that he
needed some promotional device
to attract public attention. It
would have to be big enough to
create public confidence, There
must be no suggestion that this
was created by an opportunist
who wanted to make a quick
profit,
Cantln moved in on the 04-•
tario village of Johnston's Mills,
renamed it St, Joseph and set
out to build a seaway city, He
eetahlished local industry, in.
eluding a lumber mill, an organ-
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50 YEARS AGO
Miss Stella Gregory . of the
High School Department and
Wes Winona Howard of •the Pub-
lic Schdol have -resigned.
Mr. E. J, Eacrett who recently
passed his final examination in
medicine has gone to Newfound-
land to practice for a time.
It is -expected that jos. Law-
son will commence work at the
Crediton East bridge next week.
Rev, A. H. Going, pastor of
James Street Methodist church
for the past four years, Mrs.
Going and daughters are moving
to Hamilton,
Rev. H. J. Fair will preach
farewell sermons at Whalen,
Bethany and Elimville next Sun-
day.
Mr. Robert Dinney, who leased
the Grand Bend park, has trans-
ferred the lease to Messrs. 1 -bat
and Tiedeman of Grand Bend.
Mr. Diney has moved back to
Exeter.
25 YEARS AGO
Mr. Harry Jennings, a student
assistant of the Anglican church
at • Port Elgin for the summer
months, wheeled to Exeter on
Tuesday to cast his first vote,
Rev. John A, Walker, wife and
three children who recently re-
turned from China visited in
town Saturday,
Early Thursday morning the
general stem of Southcott Bros.
was broken into mid between 60
to 75 ladies' dresses stolen. Mrs.
Skelton, WhoSe apartments are
above the store, sounded an
alarm and prevented more goods
being taken.
High School entrance examinee
tions commence on July 4,
In a landslide that has swept
tile province of Ontario the Lib.
eral party under the leadership
of Mitchell Hepburn has been
returned to power after a period
Of 29 years in Opposition.
15 YEARS AGO
A tidal wave swept the beach
at Grand Beed Sunday morning
and entered the Aux Sable river
rising about five feet,
The Math Street Red Cross
had an all -clay quilting at the
church on Tuesday,
On Sunday evening the citi-
zens of Exeter were entertained
by a band concert in Victoria
Park, The band played a selec.
Lion in memory of two former
baudsmen, F/0 Alvin Linclenfield
and Flt, Sgt. Harold Elliot both
of whom were 'killed in action
overseas.
• Saturday, July 1 Will be ob-
served as Dominion Day and a
public holiday in Exeter. Stores
will be open the Friday night
previous.
Mr, M. A. Hunt will be guest
speaker at the Thames Road
AVMS Baby Band meeting in
July.
An old weight -driven clock has
been presented to the museum
in cOnnection with the University
of Western Ontario by Mrs, Er-
nest Knowles of Zion.
10 YEARS AGO
On Wednesday evening Hon,
Leslie Frost, Premier of On.
tario, addressed a large gather-
ing seated in the grandstand of
Exeter Community Park in the
interests of Mr. Elgin McKinley,
the Progressive Conservative
candidate for Huton-Perth.
The pupils of the Exeter Pub-
lic School in Grades 1 to 5 in-
clusive held a picnic on the
school grounds and the main
feature of the afternoon was a
turtle race. About 20 turtles took
part.
Seven years ago No. 9 SFTS
was born, when airmen and
WD's moved from Suminereide,
P.E.I. to establish what is now
the busiest airport iri Canada,
Roof on the new added grand.
steed will be installed before
the annual race meet here July
20.
An old boys' and girls' reunion
will be held to mark the end Of
59 years in Lucan High School.
Next term Lucan pupils will
travel to Medway High School,
John Sinclair, RR 1 Eippen,
was awarded the tractor offered
by the Clinton Lions Club at its
Street Frolic.
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