The Rural Voice, 1978-07, Page 10Huronites dig in their heels, Look at M.P. Bob McKinley. He
wants the death penalty back. He knows full well that this is no
deterrent to murder, but he reflects accurately the feeling of his
people demanding revenge. Look at Jack Riddell MPP. He
protests loudly and convincingly the union tactics at the Fleck
strike site. He also reflects accurately the feeling of his people
who are fed up to the teeth with greedy unionists who want
always more for less work. Look at Murray Gaunt MPP. Who is
there who goes to a local fair and hasn't shaken the hand of the
friend of the people? If he met you once you can be assured that
he still knows your name next year.
Come to think of it, our thinking'has changed too since coming
to Huron in 1969. Being quite soft-hearted where social issues
were concerned. we now have a much harder attitude to many of
them. We now find that many of the pressure groups with their
lofty ideas could bear some hard scrutiny. We now find that it is
nonsense to let unemployed draw benefits they didn't pay for
when jobs in stoop labour are available. Now we tend to learn
More to the government side during a postal strike than on the
side of the overpaid mail sorter. That wasn't always so. (See, I
allready assume that the mail sorter is overpaid, when in reality I
don't know that.)
Conservatism is good. as long as it is not conservatism for its
own sake. Huron's residents want to conserve their way of life,
and since most of these residents are farmers, we want to
conserve our farmland. Some townspeople on the other hand. for
we have them too. want their town to grow. That is their
conservatism. We all have been brought up to believe that
growth is a duty and almost sacred. A Goderich town politician
was recently quoted as saying that Goderich has the potential of
becoming a second Toronto, implying that this would be a good
idea. It should be noted that this politi cian is also a developer.
Knowing my neighbours, I doubt that there would be much
enthusiasm for being enveloped by a new Toronto.
For many years we have thought the name " Progressive
Conservative" to be contradictory, but it suits us here in Huron
admirably. We want to be in the stream of this century's
progress, and at the same time we want to conserve that which
we have experienced to be good.
Drive through the county. Take the back concessions and see
the beauty of the landscape. Compare the county with any place
in the world and we are convinced that it is unsurpassed.
Unsurpassed in summer. Unsurpassed in winter or in the fall.
Unsurpassed in the spring and in its people. The burghers here
take all this more or less for granted, but for those of us who
come from other parts of the world, it is a constant wonder.
We cannot say enough about its people. It is now 25 years ago
that we left Europe to come to Canada. The country has been
good to us from the very beginning, but not until we came to
Huron County, now nine years ago, did we really feel at home.
We will never forget the feeling of coming home, of having been
taken into the family. Where before, be it in our native country of
Holland or in the other region of Ontario where we lived before.
we have always been as if looking in from the outside. but here in
Huron we have been drawn into the community as never before.
We have been made a part of the county. For the first time we
really have become involved, and it is a good feeling. ,
We hope that the town politician who is reported to favour a
Goderich to size of Toronto, will never see his dream fulfilled. If
we close our eyes and see a future for the county with high rises
around Benmiller, smokestacks in Clinton and an airfield at
Exeter, we shudder. We hope that the resistance of the farmers
against another huge nuclear or other development in the county
will be successful. We hope that our property taxation system,
which encourages the tearing down of older buildings in order to
replace them with higher assessed monstrosities of glass and
steel. will be changed.
Finally. we hope that for many generations to come a man will
sit his tractor in our field and seethe next generations of seagulls
landing and staring at him with their unblinking eyes. U
PG. 10 THE RURAL VOICE/JYLY 1978.
VISTA VILLA
FARMS
ANNOUNCES
The Introduction of our
Purebred Yorkshire Herd
We based our herd on females from the herd of
Murray Faris, Bradford, and a herd boar from
Bodmin Farms, Brussels. Therefore, these will be
genetically different from most of the Yorkshires
in this area.
We plan to base our selections of Yorkshires on
the same important basics that we use on our
Hampshires: soundness, length of body, and
Ieaness.
We have tested our first group of boars on the
R.O.P. programme, and got the following
averages:
158 days, 200 lbs., 12.8 m.m. (.15 in.) backfat.
We would be pleased to show you our new line
of Yorkshires or our regular quality line of
Hampshires any time.
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