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EDITORIALS GUEST ARTICLE
Dirty, frustrating, rewarding Need earlier otanization
By Boss WEIN, CREDITON, A MEMBER OF THE CROSSROADS AFRICA SCHEME
Pr. James Robinson, who
started Crossteads Af r id a,
stated at Orientatien that ttus
trip “is not a joyride nor a
safari, it is a person to person
contact with the African peo..,
pie,"
From my ai^ticles the reader
may think that we were on a
''joyride", but I have purposely
left out much reference to our
work. I felt itwas necessary
to complete the summer before
I could evalnate what we really
accomplished. This is much
more difficult than just relating
facts that I have heard or seen
as I have done in former at-,
Ogles.
For the first six weeks, our
group was joined by three Afri-
can university student counter-
parts who worked with us under
the direction of the veterinary
department.
We built one poultry honse,
one pig shed, two cattle crushes
and hundreds of Yetds offences.
It is hoped that the buildings
will serve as examples for other
Airican farmers to copy. Dem-
onstration is one of the better
methods of teaching people.
To be quite honest, I would
have to say that this project
was not quite what most of our
kids had hoped for. Since we
were working on only six farms
during the six weeks we did not
meet too many people during
the day. We would often run
short of materials and organi-
zation of the projects seemed
to be lacking.
To overcome the lack of com-
munity contact we began to visit
several nearby primary and
secondary schools where we
spoke to both teachers and stu-
dents about Canada and United
ONE MAN'S OPINION
by John C. Boyne
Look before
you point
The operation of the county plowing
match by the .Huron ,County Plowmen's As,
SOCiatiOn 'Paine in for some Mild criticism at.
the board meeting at SHDHS. last week and.
the ely,iticisin appears to be warranted.
Main objection of the board was that
they had not been approached beforehand in
connection with paying the entry fee and ex-
penses of any local students Who may have
Wished :to compete in the high school classes.
As it turned out, two lads did enter
the school class, and the board had to decide
after if they were going to pay their fees,
as well as whether or not they would pay
the expenses of the lads to represent the
school at the International Plowing match at
Peterboro.
There can be no doubt but what this
is a backward approach and there is actually
no necessity for it.
The Plowmen's Association apparently
knew about a year ago that the match would
be held in the southern part of the county.
They knew approximately on what date it
would be held; and because it has been a
competition held for several years now, knew
there would be classes open to school teams.
But, while knowing these facts, they
made no representation to the board in re-
gard to having them stimulate interest among
students. And on top of this, they didn't
choose an exact date and site until about
three weeks before the match was held and
even then failed to give their endeavour any
great publicity or promotion to attract en-
tries or spectators.
The Plowmen receive substantial
grants of public money and therefore have a
responsibility to make their plans known
earlier and to have it better organized so the
match will attract as many contestants as pos-
sible,
There is no reason why an exact date
can not be set well in advance, and there is
no reason why they can not make approaches
to the various boards well in advance for se-
curing competitors. 'The site also should be.
made known as soon as peSS1b1p,. although
this is really not as important as the first two
points mentioned.
This would give .everyone an ample op-
portunity to plan to compete and would per-
injt the boards to -draft -a policy before the.
match, *.
While the present slipshod arrange-
merits put the $1-1011$ board into a bit of a
quandry last week in regard to expense
money for their representatives at the Inter-
national, there is one aspect that was not.
mentioned,
And that is the fact that these plowing
matches are "professional" competitions with
handsome prizes being offered. The high
school class winners at the Huron event re-
ceived $40 for their efforts, and we suppose
the International prizes are somewhat larger
than this.
This all leads to the question of how
far the board should really go in reimburs-
ing students for expenses in professional
events.
There is no doubt but what it would
be fair to pay the actual expense's, but a de-
cision to grant a flat rate of $30 for each
competitor may not be entirely workable in
that it may leave the lads with a profit or a
loss.
Perhaps. the question should be an-
swered once and for all and a committee
could be asked to come up with a plausible
policy in regard to paying students' expenses
for any such outings.
To point out further that such a policy
should be made, it is interesting to note the
board voted $60 expense money for two boys
to attend a professional plowing match, but
at the same time appeared quite content to
learn that two groups of students would be
paying all their own expense's on two worth-
while educational trips this fall.
That hardly sounds equitable.
Practical but not appropriate
The attitude of some members of Hen-
sall council, following a refusal of their re-
quest to have the arena repaired as their cen-
tennial project, is quite understandable.
In fact, in one respect it is a com-
mendable attitude and shows the down-to-
earth practical thinking that is displayed
among many of the members of area coun-
cils.
to 'show we are proud enough of this nation's
heritage and achievements to undertake proj-
ects which can be enjoyed by all.
While it is Canada's 100th birthday,
this is a very tender age as nations go, and
so it is understandable that we should cele-
brate 'as most youngsters do and this includes
"presents" that are more in the luxury cate-
gory. While a pair of stockings may be an
ideal gift, it is doubtful if any person would
be overjoyed with learning that his gift was
having his old socks mended.
And this in effect, is the nature of
what Hensall had in mind in regard to fixing
the washrooms at their arena.
While the project may be practical, it
is apparently something that has to be done
anyway and is hardly an ideal centennial me-
morial.
It is to be hoped the council of that
community won't give up on the selection of
a project, but will use the money available
to them in a suitable manner.
States. Many of us sat in on history, geography, science,
music, art and agriculture
classes to teach, and discuss
as well as ask questions.
Once we became better knewn
we would wander through the
nearby villages talking to those
who could speak English or
speaking through our African
counterparts. This taught us a
great deal about the Kikuya way
of life.
After about the second week,
if we ran out of materials or
the project failed in some way
we had plenty of other things
to do.
The last two weeks of our
stay were spent working at an
African hospital, painting baby
cribs, staff houses and roofs.
We also fixed beds, made signs
and did some landscaping. We
were joined by 15 African stu-
dents, both young men and wom-
en from different parts of Kenya
who had joined the Kenya Volun-
tary Work Camps Association.
These students give up their
vacation to work on worthwhile
projects on a voluntary basis.
The Crossroaders made sev-
eral very good friendships and
I hope to be writing quite reg-
ularly to some of these students.
This was the person to person
relationship that Dr. Robinson
was speaking about.
Since this work was a com-
munity project, favoring no one
person, we were accepted very
readily by the people. One lady
brought us 10 pineapples one
day. This does not sound like
much but when you consider
that this is about two days wages
it meant a great deal to us to
receive this gift. Other people
often gave us sugarcane, or-
anges and cabbage. Another lady
organized a tea for us just
before we left.
The summer's work was
sometimes hard, dirty and frus-
trating, but when people show
that they appreciate what we
were doing the work went much
easier.
Speaking for myself, I would
not have missed this summer
for anything. It opened my eyes
to the world need for develop-
ment, the problems of racial
segregation and the narrowness
of my own thinking. These ar-
ticles relate only a few of the
things our group saw and did.
Many of the other Crossroads
groups had health problems,
poor diets and poor living con-
ditions but since we were pre-
pared for the worst each group
turned in a very favorable re-
port on the summer.
I feel that my summer's ex-
perience did not stop when I
stepped off of the jet air liner
at J.F.K. Airport in New York
but through my speeches here
at home and my letter writing
to my African friends my ex-
periences will continue for a
long time.
nese. In 1960, Canada and Aus-
tralia were represented as
dragging their feet on coloured
immigration in world refugee
circles. The story of Chinese
immigration in this nation is
tragic.
Our government has on paper
a declared policy of equal right
of entry for all people. Our
prime minister warns that with-
out racial equality the common-
wealth cannot survive.
Yet we continue to stifle im-
migration from coloured areas.
Yet from Italy, from Portugal,
in short, from white Europe
comes a steady flow of people.
I am not complaining about
their entry. I am simply saying
that coloured people should have
an equal opportunity to enter
this nation.
In "To Kill a Mocking Bird",
Harper Lee had Jean Louise
say to her brother, "Jem, I
think there's just one kind of
folks". He replies, "That is
what I thought too when I was
your age. But if there's just
one kind of folks why can't
they get along with each other?
If they're all alike why do they
go out of their way to despise
each other?"
We forget, at our peril, that
God "has made of one blood
all nations of men". We forget
that "God so loved the world".
In our growing interdependence,
in our development towards one
world we are going to have to
re-learn what that means.
For this. type of person, it is rather
difficult to understand why a project that is
definitely needed in the community would be
turned down while some other projects of a
less needed type----such as a fountain in the
park as mentioned by a Hensall councillor—
are approved.
But at the same time, it must be re-
membered that the funds 'are being made
available to communities to appropriately
celebrate Canada's 100th birthday and to
serve as -a somewhat lasting memorial to the
occasion and perhaps even more important,
BATT'N AROUND WITH THE EDITOR
Short memories . . . long livers
When the United Church want-
ed to build a fellowship centre
in Winnipeg the most violent
opposition came from recent
white immigrants.
Recent research in the U.S.
shows that the most violent
pockets of resistance to equal
opportunities for negroes in the
north exist in areas where the
people are largely recent im-
migrants.
Those who have been wel-
comed now seem to have found
a strange new arrogance. But
are Canadians of long standing
any better? I know one minister
in Quebec who adopted three
multi-racial c h 11 d r en. You
would be surprised at the criti-
cism this aroused in his own
congregation.
For too long, Canadians have
pointed the finger at the south-
ern U.S. and South Africa and
have said "what a good boy am
I".
But the statistics show that
our immigration policy has a
very clear colour and racial
bias. I worked one summer as
a porter on the C.P.R. "Cana-
dian". I got the negro point of
view on Canadian attitudes and
it wasn't pretty.
My own church did a little
research on this subject and
it said, "Discrimination should
be particularly repulsive to
Christian men and women and
to the Church of Jesus Christ
because it is abhorrent to God
and contrary to the spirit and
teaching of the gospel of Jesus
Christ".
On paper, our immigration
laws are fine. In January,1962,
the Federal government stated
that in future immigration would
be based upon equal right of
entry for all regardless of
race, colour, or nationality.
What has happened since? In
1962, the following were ad-
mitted to Canada: Asians, 1,-
690; non-white, Africans, 383;
West Indies, 1,480. Yet from
Portugal (white) alone we re-
ceived 2,928 people — almost
as many as the combined total
of coloured immigrants.
In 1963, there was an across
the board increase: Asia, 2,543;
non-white Africa, 495; Westin-
dies 2,227. But again the number
of Portuguese was only slightly
under this total.
The fact is that the real
critical problem areas in our
time are in the non-white lands.
Hong Kong, for example, has a
horrible refugee problem. Yet
we receive relatively few Chi-
50 YEARS AGO
The dimensions of the fall
millinery styles have been
somewhat reduced but the price
still remains firm.
The municipality of Exeter
is desirous of contributing 200
bags of potatoes to be sent to
the British Government for re-
lief for destitute English and
Belgians.
This is Belgian week in Hur-
on. At Centralia Monday enough
produce was brought in by the
farmers to fill three cars. So
it was at Exeter, Hensall on up
the line.
Mrs. Hastings and Mrs. Al
Hastings are WI delegates to
the London convention held this
week.
In the not too distant future, the
House of Commons special flag com-
mittee will be making their report and
it will be interesting to see if their
suggestions will be supported by their
fellow members.
And, it will also be interesting to
see if the people of Canada will sup-
port their suggestions, especially the
residents of Huron County.
And just what flag are the residents
of Huron most likely to support?
Well, that answer may not be too
difficult to ascertain if you've been
reading some of the stands taken by
members of our county council lately.
Back in June, members of that
astute group let it be known in no
uncertain terms that they backed the
Red Ensign as a national flag and any
other suggestion for a design of an-
other nature should be dismissed at
once.
This vote was made in connection
with supporting a resolution from
Wellington County, and the Huron
members voted in support of the re-
commendation made by their legis-
lative and educational committee,
which had apparently studied the mat-
ter beforehand.
This certainly left no doubt in
anyone's mind as to the thinking of
residents of Huron County, and it
was perhaps further emphasized when
Arthur Ford, a summer resident of
Hayfield and former editor of the
London Free Press, even went so
far as to suggest Huron may well
secede from Canada if the Red En-
sign was not chosen.
Yes sir, we Huron residents have
strong convictions on such matters as
a national flag and those chaps in
Ottawa had better not try and foist
anything but the Red Ensign on us.
We know exactly what we want and
it's doubtful if our minds will be
easily changed, and the overwhelm-
ing support given by county council
backs this up.
Or does it?
Looking through the files at the of-
fice the other day we came upon a
report of the flag issue of 1960 and
were astounded to read the headline
"county backs national flag".
Obviously a printer's error! We
read further in hopes of finding the
true fact that county council had in
fact not suggested such a thing at all.
But alas, it was indeed true. County
council had voted 19-15 at their Sep-
tember meeting of that year concur-
ring with a resolution that the federal
government "provide forthwith for
the establishment of a distinctive
Canadian flag".
Supporting that move were Deputy-
Reeve Glenn Fisher, Exeter; Reeve
Lloyd O'Brien, Zurich; Deputy-Reeve
Karl Haberer, Hay; Deputy-Reeve
Alvin Rau, Stanley.
Opposing it from South Huron were;
Reeve Chester Mawhinney, Exeter;
John Henderson, Henson; Clayton
Smith, Usborne; Ivan Forsyth, Tuck-
ersmith; Glenn Webb, Stephen; and
the Deputy-Reeve of Stephen, Ed Gill.
Conclusion: Members of county
council are perhaps as fickle as the
rest of Canada's residents in that they
do not know what they want in the way
of a flag. And, persons who question
why we ever did get into the hassle
over choosing a new flag may now
see that it was perhaps from reso-
lutions such as the one passed by
25 YEARS AGO
Rev. J. B. Rhodes MA, minis-
ter of Caven Church from 1929
to 1933, returned Sunday to his
old congrea.tion to conduct the
anniversary services.
Last week the Exeter Horti-
cultural Society and Lions Club
completed the planting of 25
Norway maple trees on the vil-
lage streets. They were planted
under the supervision of E. C.
Appleton.
The annual South Huron Plow-
ing Match was held Friday at
the farm of Percy Stone,
Thames Road. W. T. Quinn is
president and Percy Passmore,
secretary.
A memorial hockey game for
the late Babe Siebert was play-
ed in Montreal Friday evening
between the Montreal Canadians
and the National Hockey League
All-Star team. Total receipts
were $15,000.
15 YEARS AGO
Plans are being made for the
organization of a Home and
School Association in Exeter.
Adorning the front of Exeter's
postoffice is a huge thermo-
meter that, in the future, will
mark the progress that is being
made for the raising of funds for
the erection of a new hospital
to be known as the South Huron
Hospital.
The Sweitzer Lanes, owned
and operated by Mr. and Mrs.
William Sweitzer, have been
sold to Mr. Rene Francis of
Tillsonburg.
Mr. William Ellerington re-
turned home last week after a
trip to the West going as far as
Calgary where he purchased 350
head of feeder cattle.
10 YEARS AGO
The annual meeting of Huron
County Municipal Officers As-
sociation was held in Exeter
Town Hall Wednesday after-
noon.
Damage was estimated at well
over $100,000 from the weekend
flood at the Haig Farm, south of
Grand Bend. Some 1,200 acres
of soya beans were covered with
water.
Exeter and community has, to
date, contributed about $800 to
the Ontario Hurricane Relief
Fund. General Coach Works,
Hensel', have donated a mobile
relief office for use in the flood-
ed Holland Marsh area.
Construction of a superniar-
ket under Way at the south end of
town is expected tebetoinnieteci
early in December.
was as follows;
Dear Sir:
I would like to draw your at-
tention to one particular item in
your want ads under poultry
for sale: regarding the Honeg-
ger Layers which are 125 years
old and still laying gobc1111
Here in Wellington County we
do have hens living to the ripe
old age of feta* and five years,
ptoviding highway accidents,
diseases, etc., de not hasten
their reward:
You are certainly to be don=
gratulated on hens that are such
"long livers".
Respectfully,
John Hendrick.
For readers who may not be
acquainted with our friend (1?)
we ShoUld point out John is the
Son of Mr. and Mrs. Sam }lend-
Huron County council back in
1960.
* *
While no man is infallible,
there are probably few who
have theit MistakeS recorded
for postetity such as news-
papermen. There are Many
"excuses" for our mistakes
naturally, but no matter how
plausible they may be, the
take in. the printed word can
never be altered.
Knowing this, and in an at-
tempt to point out to everyone
that others also Make iris-
takes, it was perhaps a news-
paperman whO noted that we in
the ptefeSSiOn were not as lucky
as some, and to back this up he
came up with the note that a
lawyer, hangs his mistakes and
a doctor hiS. Both these
avenues are of course riot open
newspapermen.
We don't know What under-
takers to With their mistakes,
kilt it Is possible they rank hi
the category of doctors and are
able to' bury them 6..S. well:
At any "rate they tuusthuye
some Method, or they probably
Wouldn't be so quick to point
Out our tillatakeS and mock us
as the 1011oWing letter &OS:.
It was received this week and
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