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Ed itoiial
Have you got message yet?
How many children or adults have to be maimed, injured or
killed in a farm setting before we get the safety message? Every
year Farm Safety Week is observed but many people must
wonder if the message is getting through.
A document listing the last 15 years of fatalities in Huron is a
frightening picture of accidental deaths in agriculture. Huron
County has a history of tragic farm deaths and it is time for each
farm family to make an action plan to prevent further tragedy. A
tractor, combine, horse or silo can be a farmer's enemy. So can
fatigue or carelessness.
Farm safety issues include more than just dramatic safety
hazards. They also include everyday mental health and physical
health issues.
In a Huron County farm health survey farmers identified many
farm health hazards. The number one issue was lack of vacation
time. Other issues were exposure to dust and contaminants,
physical strain, dangerous chemicals and lack of rest.
One needs only consider how many hours a farmer works to
recognize the potential for danger. Financial pressures also lead
farmers to cut corners with equipment and do more repair work
themselves. Common sense and observing safety rules may help
farmers avoid some farm dangers. Certainly no livelihood is worth
a death which could be avoided. No child should be denied
her/his father and no one should be denied a spouse because
safety rules weren't followed.
On Farm Safety Week please consider those changes you can
put into effect to make your farm safer. Ninety per cent of
accidents are avoidable. - (TBC).
Letters to the Editor)
Hibbert book expands
Dear Editor:
As a representative of the Hibbert
History Committee, may I again use
your column to update our activities
and, again, alert the readers to our
appreciation of their responses, as
well as a plea for furnishing infor-
mation through the kits which have
not yet been returned, as well as
help with some materials such as
Hibbert Federation of Agriculture
records which we have been unable
to locate.
We are extending our covt lige to
the north side of Highway 8 within
the limits of St. Columban and
Dublin, and would ask that those
residents and businesses allow their
input to appear in our book.
We would also welcome informa-
tion about the "boat people" who
were sponsored by the communities
in 1980. It would seem right to
include Gowrie P.O. and
McTaggart's Cemetery which bor-
der Hibbert. Anyone who could
enlighten us on the history of these
two would improve our appeal to a
broader readership.
scope
After 22 meetings we are begin-
ning to consider the book's organiz-
ation. Alice Gibb will be our editor.
Proofreaders will continue their
work on the concessions which are
now ready.
History is made every day. If you
have current happenings to report,
feel free to do so. Otherwise we
shall miss items of interest to our
people.
Talented artists, would you
enhance our work with suitable
small sketches to use in openings or
closings of chapters, margins or
corners? We would like to use
these.
You could be the one to submit a
title for our volume. Aug. 15, 1994
has been suggested as a deadline
for submissions bearing name,
address, and plainly marked "Book
Title".
Thank you for allowing us this
valuable space.
Sincerely,
Margaret Kemp,
RR 2 Staffa.
Opinion
Modern films create moral vacuum
A boy kills his girl friend's
pimp, steals some cocaine and
tries to sell it. His father is
brutally murdered and his
fiancee kills a cop for no reason.
Don't wary, everything comes
up roses. This is the plot (I kid
you not) of a happy -ending
Hollywood movie written by one
of the United States' most
acclaimed film auteurs.
The film is called, appropriate-
ly, True Romance. Of course! In
the amoral (or immoral) world
of the 1990's this is the stuff of
romance.
It would be unfair to single out
this film as an exceptional piece
of cinematic violence. This is
just one symptom of a North
American disease present in our
morally -vacant culture.
In the immoral world we live
in the new hero is the antihero.
In The Silence of the Lambs
the most charismatic, charming
figure of the film is a cannibalis-
tic serial killer. Screen actor
Harvey Keitel has made an
entire career out of playing
violent sickos. Not too long ago
serial killer Ted Bundy was
portrayed on television by sym-
pathetic Hollywood hunk Mark
Harmon.
Violence is not restricted to
motion pictures. There is an
abundance of violence on the
evening television news. Even
the daytime talk shows warp our
traditional sense of morals,
A recent study documents how
these shows depict tales of
BIT
by Tim Cumming
people such as .the grandmother
who had an affair with the news-
paper delivery boy or the mother
who steals her daughter's boy-
friends. We are exposed so often
to subjects once considered
taboo that the abnormal becomes
the norm.
The controversial study sug-
gests that if you hear often
enough about the man who
sleeps with his neighbour's wife
the man who doesn't sleep with
his neighbour's wife will seem
like the exception.
The problem is that biblical
standards have been discarded
but society has not found a
moral foundation to replace them
with. We are creating a society
of consumption that worships
consumer goods and instant
gratification. Tit concept of
individual rights has been
stretched to absurd extremes and
social responsibility is ignored.
This is not to suggest a return
to the 'good old days' which
weren't so good. It would be
counter-productive to return to a
statist theocracy which tries to
preserve marriage or values by
external coercion. The nostalgic
nuclear family of the 1950's was
only a reality for some...and it
was stifling for many women.
But, while we have discarded
the moral strait -jacket of the past
what have we replaced it with?
The Sexual Revolution of the
'60's was meant to be liberating
but was it really?
Women today, more than ever,
are expected to live up to an
unhealthy body image. Men,
more than ever, avoid commit-
ment and consider relationships
expendable. In an age of dispos-
able cameras and disposable
garbage bags we also have the
disposable marriage.
Is our carefree modern society,
devoid of a moral compass,
really happy? I don't think so. I
think we are in need of solid
values. I think our society has an
unhealthy obsession with sex,
violence and consumerism when
it should be concerned with
goodness.
Instead, our children are grow-
ing up learning their values from
television and movies. These
mass. media preach glory through
violence and happiness through
sexual excess. The message of
these movies is wrong...but this
is what our children are learning.
Movies like True Romance just
reinforce the moral vacuum we
live in. As parents we have a
duty to create a moral order
which doesn't glorify violence
and sexual irresponsibility.
If we don't take action now
our children will grow up believ-
ing that morals are irrelevant and
instant gratification is more
important than goodness.
End of sermon.
*
You will notice your local
newspaper editor is a little bit
more aerodynamic these days.
If you find him at a local
function wearing a baseball hat
please don't presume he's being
rude...he may just be hiding his
lily-white head which is being
worn au nature! these days.
Thanks (I guess) for all the
donations to the hospital which
made this new look possible.
This was event number 26 of the
52 mini marathon events for the
hospital...which means the
fundraising marathon is exactly
half -way finished. (We are now
close to $3,000 in pledges and
donations...all gratefully
received).
It's all meant to be good fun
for the sake of raising awareness
of the fine hospital we have in
the Seaforth area.
Fladlael
The original Toronto Dominion Bank, on Seaforth's Main Street, was built in May of 1893, and was
replaced with a more modem structure in 1960. The new building stands to this day. -
Parent urges
earlier curfew
Dear Editor,
In regards to the letter from the
kids of Victoria Park. I agree with
them that it would be great if they
had a place to go to, and to have a
monthly dance. I also agree with
the letter from the people who live
around the park, about . the lan-
guage. Both have a valid point.
Mine is a different viewpoint. I
think it would be great if the par-
ents of all the teens have a curfew
the kids have to go by and to make
sure the curfew is obeyed. I'm
trying to bring up a teenager who
has a 10 p.m. curfew bat he seems
to be the only one,' I itlixt" I think 14-
year-olds should b r'iftit rfaittlihat
time but some are out 'til 11 or 12.
p.m. I try at all times to know
where my teenager is but once they
are out of the door who can telt
where they go or what whey do? If
there was a curfew it would be
easier on everyone, the kids would
be home so the parents know where
they are and the kids wouldn't have
a long evening to get bored.
I'm not telling people how to
raise kids but this might help.
A. Robson
Sergeant visits Egmondville parents
FROM THE PAGES OF
THE HURON EXPOSITOR,
AUGUST 3, 1894
Mr. D.D. Wilson has sold his well
known Durham bull, Prime Min -
In the Years Agone
ister, to Messrs. J. & W. Watt of James Cowan. Capt. Logan, has just 9 McKillop, for
Salem. The bull was three years returned from overseas where he
old, and was imported by Mr. served with a western battalion,
Wilson when a calf. having listed at Regina.
* * *
Mr. Nelson Hays returned to
Chicago on last Friday. He took his
sister Aggie with him on his trip.
* **.
On Friday afternoon last Mr. A.
Cardno, Sr., had the misfortune to
fall from an apple tree, breaking a
bone in his foot. Mr. Cardno prog-
ressed favourably.
* * *
Mr. Brewer, of Parkhill, is visit-
ing at Mr. Robert Willis'.
AUGUST 1, 1919
Captain Walter Logan, son of Mr.
and Mrs. Robert Logan, formerly of
Scaforth, was here this week visit-
ing at the home of his uncle, Mr.
* **
Sergt. James A. Gordon, who has
been doing clerical work in connec-
tion with the Army Training Camp
at Regina for the past year, spent a
few days with his parents, Mr. and
Mrs. Alex Gordon, Egmondville.
He leaves shortly to resume his
former position as an accountant in
the Bank of Commerce in Sask.
* +*
Rev. Dean Downey, of Windsor
is the guest of his sister, Mrs. W.
Devereaux, of Huron Road.
* **
Miss Jean Hays, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Adam Hays, of Seaforth
has been appointed as teacher for
school section No.
the coming year.
* * *
Mr. William Rae, barrister, of
Edmonton, has been spending a
couple of weeks holidays at his old
home in McKillop. Mr. Rac is
chairman of the Edmonton School
Board and one of the prominent
younger men of the west. Hc came
.cast to attend the great Liberal
Convention, at Ottawa.
AUGUST 4, 1944
Rev. and Mrs. H. V. Workman
returned from Bruce Beach on
Friday last and motored to Flint,
Michigan, to attend the funeral of
the late Ralph Workman on Satur-
day.
* **
Mrs. William Anderson, Sr. of
Parkhill, spent the past week with
Mr. and Mrs. William Anderson, in
McKillop.
Lieut. Stan Dorrance, of Chatham,
spent this weekend with his mother,
Mrs. Mac Dorrance.
Miss Ann McLelland and Billy
McLelland, of Toronto, were guests
this week of their grandmother,
Mrs. R.S. Hays.
AUGUST 7, 1969
Twenty neighbours and friends of
Mrs. George Wheatly gathered at
the home of Mrs. R. S. McKercher
on a Wednesday evening for a
social dinner party, prior to her
taking up residence in Seaforth.
During the evening Mrs.
McKercher presented her with a
dinner ring and earrings.
***
Mr. and Mrs. James G. Taman of
North Bay spent the weekend at the
home of Mrs. E. H. Close. Lynn,
Deborah and Darlene returned home
after spending the summer here.
Society needs more religion, fewer pacifists
I have just had my brain put
into gear by an article in the
London Free Press by Judy
Savoy Macdonald, wife of an
Anglican minister.
She said since the '60's we
have little or no religion in
schools. Some years ago in my
church I was told we could not
have Christian religion in
schools because there was a
possibility of a Jew or Muslim
child coming to that school and
they would be offended. So to
keep one or two children happy
50 or 100 Canadian children
were deprived of religious edu-
cation.
If any Protestant denomination
wants religious education in their
school they must start their own
and pay for it themselves.
Except listen to this: The
Catholics, they can teach all the
religion they like in their schools
and the government pays for it.
They're the only smart ones in
Canada.
Thoughts on
by Harry Palin
The only way our Protestant
youth can have a religious edu-
cation is if they belong to a
church -going family and arc sent
to Sunday school, which may be
good or not so good. In the
Anglican Church they go to
Sunday school 'til they reach the
age of discretion when they go
through a Confirmation and
become a full-fledged member
of the church. It should be a
passing -in ceremony but I think
it is more often a passing -out
ceremony.
I have gone to church ever
since I could walk. I was intro-
duced to this church in Seaforth
in 1924 by Rcv. Thomas Brown,
who was one of the nicest men 1
ever met. I met my wife in
church and he married us in
1928 and we started farming.
Unfortunately in the '30's he
retired and the man who fol-
lowed him was a dud. There was
one year in the '30's when we
weren't making any money. We
did not like the minister and 1
did not likc going to church
without putting money on the
plate. And Nell, my wife, could
not go because she did not have
a pair of stockings without a run
in them.
Then came Conon Appleyard,
who was really a top-notch
minister and he talked sense to
us so I went downtown, bought
Nell a pair of stockings and we
went back to Church. Pierre
Burton thinks Jesus Christ was a
pacifist and the Church should
be pacifist too. 1 have lived
through two wars and know that
pacifism is impossible. Man is a
fighting animal and everything
we have has to be fought for,
even peace has to be fought for.
Religion has to be fought for.
Was Jesus a pacifist, was he an
ethical example of a prophet
man or was he Divine?
Pacifists are stupid and cow-
ardly. There are too many paci-
fists running around marching
for peace, kindness to animals,
not wearing fur coats. Animals
arc not more important than
people and it is good to be kind
to them. Farmers have to be kind
to them to make money.
Some people worship God,
some worship money, some
people worship cars and so on,
whatever turns you on.
Oliver Goldsmith wrote:
"111 fares the land to hastening
ills a prey,
Where wealth accumulates and
men decay."
The prophet Amos in the Old
Testament had the same idea.
The Ten Commandments have
gone into limbo to be replaced
by the Seven Deadly Sins. I
don't know them all except pride
is number one followed by lazi-
ness and ignorance should -be in
there somewhere. I feel sorry for
those who arc only happy when
they arc miserable and want to
make others miserable too. There
arc too many of them around.
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