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The Goderich Signal-Star, 1947-02-20, Page 2oberirk*ignat-titar A u i.i-r .045 COUli 'S FO1impaosT WINE/SLY G Published by. ,Signal -Star, Limited . imeri taints a -B atea---Canada and Great Britain, $2.00' 0. year to U $ • tet t ►� Statee, $2.50. • t •'kltatert on request. Authorizes: as second-class mail, Pot Ol;tce Depn.z't (, e>mte, Ottawa. Telephone 71 ,Nlieanber ol: eanadian ,Weekly NewpaPers , Associatiota — Sworn Circulation Over 2,600 • ' . GEO. L: EIsLIS THURSDAY, FEBRUARY Y. '2Othy 10 47 THE GODEItICII SIGNAL -STAR 11 WHO GOVERNS CANAflA- 1'.ARLIAMI'%NT OR CIVIL SERVANTS? la. KELLEY, "TOLD OFF" championship as a figure skater, is • today without a rivaliu-the affections ea It looks as if 1 3[on. Russell T. Kelley t of the people of the ' capital among hap been • handed the - "black spot." whom she has lived and trained Cance • The 6acloise and Mail, whieh usually I young girlhood in preparation for the • ban nothing but laudation for melliibers j tic,}lwrs which she has won at"' Stock .cane out ou ' holm. And (;autidians .everywhere join 7�m_°R.°_-iii--It$le°••�-.7___---___�-------�•;_..�.�- Monday with.an editorial article rudely E with the citizens of Ottawa"-•-"'l1T scolding the Minister of Health for ; claiming the brilliant .young. skater. h. Describing him as l One result of her aachiesemeut may Oc MEADOWS ��o� ' QS���R OF �i�' Tcirry J. Boi4a SUMMER IN g TIEY TI `� This is one of those perfect winter claiming t does > X The Tcpronfio Star oat, Saturday had hired of itt� Ialmin aci�ditlot f for ale talking, • the following despatch from a staff .work of the perumwent civil servants. Between the °two,. and Subjected to. pressure front both, axe the hable'sa get Cabinet: gwith. 'ministers both who ot • them. � t Soine along Cabinet -ministers, usually favor-, .their experienced, permanent #nigh civil servants. ()triers -have their staff jump through hoops ..at- the lifted eyebrow aif the; .member from Goon Lake. The -war chaugedM all that. With <their Jobs vastly more, f nportant, top civil servants, generally speaking, dom.. inated their Cabinet ministers, and the minist'ers kept M.P.'s 'firmly under their thumb. The Government had .a big majority, it was easy to pass an ordter in council if M.P.'s got a little crusty at tkues in the Commons. Much of the-. credit for Canada's amazing weir -time achievements _in fin- ->iid production must go to the civil: servants ami -the- isetr`brought-he correspondent at Ottawa: afternoons. The snow bus drifted OTTAWA, WA, 'eb. 15.--pThar's _revolt clean over everything , on the fields, -brewln' around and about Parliament an ° he c use it's undsY there ' hasn't UIll, and the silent warfare between been as much opportunity,, te' get the 'private M.P.'s, Cabinet ministers' and roads all chopped up sagai-n, with sleigh the civil_ service threaten§ to become 'end cutter marls. There's a bright more apparent than that nastiness be- suu..aud.ft gutters a little, Oil the clean tween .the atlields aid the Coye. snow. - , • • First major result iif the revolt is Two Years ago about this time I that the Liberal , Governnien�t . has was in Vancouver. Sitting here luck-` promised its .folloWers they° will have iug out over the quiet farm today, that a chance to discuss legislation before popped back hate my Iniad. What a it comek before iPerliamelt• contrast it makes! The verbal buckshot banged into the I•t was bright and sunny in Van- unprotected rear of front -bench Cabinet eouver. - People were going around ministers during the past two weeks'by without even topcoats. in some gardens mustang Liberals has Cabinet members flowers Mill bloomed iu spite of the livid with rage, but responding to the occasional little skiff of suow that fell wishes of ;the people's representatives „m f,•+,tri the cold in a fashion Unheard of since the war. weather of the East, I spent' eV'er' More frecl[ent' irrt'y eaiu�'usEis-mill ktt' available day just wandering. around. It seeuaed to be alznast too good to be talllting too muc man inveterate speechmaker," it says I be a more general interest in figure true The biggest shock of all cause in deter him g among Canadians We might th place biggest s u 415 Stanley t skating a ( e Park. that "no . su►�jgct, seems to c e eI; , Folks' w no audience is too small or too uniul- go un` to say --that i'liplatic conditions Fakif it wereere wandering right around y on summer rtaut for him. He will apparently ! gine this country au undoubted ad-, � •�tiu.d the old men were playiu� '- speak anywhere, on anythifig, at the-' vantage in this tield of athletics if tile' ehe- ens oil -au eueormous outdoor merest suggestion) of the drop of a ` proper facilities are provided, such ate board. Itanged around .ou tiers of hat." e - the arena whiff h Guderic•h hopes to seats were speetatorS -watching in rapt e interest. Somebody at Toronto lies 'evidently have in.a<year car two. tore incl filen, preteudiug not to be Mr. Kelley, for aware of the peoplepret �d in €, >s a °hill " t em, -been held. Instead of the ' leaders- telling the M.P.'s what they. shou11 do th003' from outside who aided them. Bo will be asking for advice from the 1 '- Ilan C. D. 'Ilowe, as minister of M.P.'s, it is -reported. There' has atlways been a sort of dirty -look relationship, betweeil the ' 1.P.'s and the civil services with the triliutioil. M:P.'s regarding • many of �tl-ie civil - The civil servalrts, too, must share servants as guys' who couldn't make the responsibility for the wistakes.that good in private indlystry but .are was- were Made during the war, for many ing fat at the taxpayers' .expense. . ! a time -Cabinet ministers 'found them- Call- Them "Hired Help" selves. in difficulties because of follow - The civil servants regard the private ing the advice of civil servants whose 1I,P•'s by and ].♦arse, as temporary- attitude often was tinged with 1 public- be-d:uu'ned"outlook. -. - -The Nvar new is long over and even. '. the transition period' Is nearing an _'� and the .lowly members of the end, Coronions are beginning to- ask them- selves. "Ani I --ala M.P. or a mouse?" Every time a. Cabinet minister gets ,up now he starts getting the - verbal banning front Liberals behind hint, as - part of this new• -attitude. Cabinet members are_ getting wary about ac- cepting deputy ministers' -easy -solution order -in -council 'advice.- . ; - Tom Reid, bagpiping Liberal M.P. from New Westminster, with seventeens 'I years' experieirce, is one of the first. to decide he's no• mouse, and .in no mouse -like Voice lie -is sounding off mullitioil5 and suppby, and Itt. Iron. J. L. Ilsley, as minister of finance, paid tribute t their staffs for. -this 'con- keeping tab .on . r. e' h ithin° 11 Bezeu's letter published in au- but really -very much ai a're of it, were T1it*__(xlobe aiicl Mail Says that "w - r. c . - v >l • short time he has oilier cultlnln recalls earlier dads.. be- playing faticgame�'th f checker thte`� big a comparatively S 'tl winter lauuhE , . , - spoken ou, such. subjects .as: Interna- tore the automobile era, .v he bluc•ks �vhula swei't> the chockEis. 7 hEy, tional affairs; the flag issue : con- ';,iratiic was not held up by, unplowed never :'poke. Two old men, retired eentration of aSleighs nd cutters travelled' froth some farm in -the -Prairie or � - the the Okanagan • •e is staying up ieo• a on t snow, � :i little bit culifused about city - . goungsters dancing tun late: bridge: road .uiiglit - be almost _Its ('�, � a little bit lonely for the prairie ' • the causes of divorce, i fence' alongside. A. group of young or the tams Nestled in some valley bey 1 _diseasegrimly intent on and the clryraybaacks of . rg crtiey. NOW On which of these subjects has industry 410(1 dc>rNritra11z roads. a i or the Fr:isel pulley, late:hesnow though sometimes 1 t it •life anon parents 1t,h ( the h same farm venereal , n b 1 p >rh•aps older caner: — Would tween mountains . grim people wv to offend' the• powers that:- be at Queen's' •Park?—for it is not to be � lVi Iclize. Iaa`ac s- s — t form a' sleighride party and go to a winning a' game of checkers. cion the Minister of Health spoken ill u hospitable home a dozen miles away \1 hat ago it must be, to move for au• form of winter pleasure quite out of ,i sitsitr outdoor cboard. with tble.eee„n'gallery of w when stei hs that would u wf t 5eaun that t? �i ,. Nw(�rr -PSN e..kA: fPFh a�i i t from a warm farm kitchen on a co evening's eutertainmeut — a frosty n ' ht where the checkerboard S w_" _p Y•r•4e•+-.® o.�w.>.rf.•w-,c..w....�.� ..+c "J• nxn•w-ran w=•r ` sl Ilia launched such an littac'�: upan o e accommo�afe;`""' `�b'�'p��l e4 ' '� niv�"'"o"Y'''�1�1�"-tt-tu�- rs=TM•t�r'$" .-.. F- • ofd Premier Drew's colleagues without • would trevel over enoii-covered roads ' than early .fall in the rest of t%ana(la,__ a hint from headquarters. Or is it have given way to, automopiles that ; They'' suekeda.at byg.pipes . . . one had n crooked stem .the other clenched that these, -• subjects de not include will carry only four .or fret• persons a Battered, stubVs- relic between, his those . that are more to the liking of and then only When the roads are clear, I teeth. - • kbe leaders • of the Cabinet, such as For summer f' the • automobile -is Th tall one bowed to the crowd Domiiion-Provincial •• relations, on which Mr k s©c,ffequently sepreme ; but iu those 1' �yheti e ;had ;Vanquished his opponent. The short one' sl pp ear ter yearsi ed to a seat and Drew speaks people "got about" more An the winter•; his piece was taken by a lean old: ori(1_so f'.rvently,_or the folly of re- ! tithe than they do noiv when they de- man with a wisp of whisker who wore _ a, cap' Dressed hi a black suit �turn- atrictions on -the liquor traffic, a- favor- t pend u ate topic of Attorney:General Blaek•- 1. -e do not tii-in one.would claim I chat itifr:,.'laeliey the o SIri wish to extend thanks to a tI ped pop fhetmotor car. ing green with age, he took up a stick OR THE SKATES. __ .,Y..1 wander if they're•playing checkers . ... - ... , if : _this - � Park. <<arxr3, ..._ today in .Stanley three old men I saw in action are still .�._;.._;::• ll there: -Possibly one is .gone, and his y VQpt: any r ',�„,, gt* - 4 e I.t-' :steep` he YSilgnaai-Star. and the next gain was_on Provincial Cabinet, or to the request in absence is noted and never mentioned', P 5 10N P member of the Pro 1 ,' A""� those .scbo responded cl gladly the dt'hers carry on as if he had 0.? CPs w . h ,rthe proiro iiitiest thinker or reeeeetsnt• suee o•f crra I:lapc� and � ladly . to� there. ,f• tisat a Is ..VA VI roost skillful politician among the parted with their. unused` skates -to never been. ,� make atany..children happy n of. Queen's Park. But we should 11 A. McCREATH. P.S.—I even got a letter from' Florida started 'ofd like tt day , in mid-April; but toward the end of the wont the mot be far wrong if we stated that F1 id h in point v popu - asking me 'what kind of skates were :snow fell in great volume, and the x�on people of this part of the Province wanted since the beverage rooms were , velocity of the wind increased to a real closed.'"' blizzard on the last day. For three lie has no equal in the Cabinet. ` Not blizzard days rndt a train moved between tree at - that other members of , the Cabinet WINTER TRAVELLING - ' ford and Gederich. • have* not their points; but the fact 'IN OTHER YEARS Looking back over the years, i sozn tunes wonder if we' still have "wiuters e- is,- the ; �� i th the • except suns . of the • � Premier, the Attorney -General and ' Editor`IThe Signal -Star. - - 1 like they used Co be." .'' - It BF1.E2,IJ. Minister of Agriculture Kennedy .the Stl' (• greNr"del1i °itis-Let�n written ilnovvn about the recent snmv4'tortns and the• Kitchener. Feh.' 17. t f > of l:a.rity among the corn - Fa Qtttario MlfISters are. almost nn ' - 1 t tie re up o Fa feet, we believe that ..not more • interurban wall unieatlons. AV the; Loop not into the• past l'' im! than three or four in 0 hundred people , risk of being charged - with confusing it comes not hack again. thine. C you the names of the Pro ''apse and effect.. I venture to suggest i prove the ,present it is To forth could tell, that t he inconvenience is largely the tai meet the shadowy future without ,. rvinciai Cabinet Ministers and their 1 result of the difference bets een the', year, and with a manly heart. -r -II. W. - 'portfolios without referring to some neer and the old method of travelling Longfellow: -rap tic't1-"WfrtTs`-Who." Most of them between distant points. Ica the days >tit(fnt to stay in. their offices ; before the :ititonioblTe in-feritrliaii travel.1 seem ' was4.by f rain. -and : horsc>4 were used , -aan_d le' Mr. 'P w and \Ir. Blackwell for short tlis:wr(•es. , Ica those daps a e rculaee among the "right" people and' foot or t«ct of snow ,n the level made decide the policies of the Government. ideal sleighing: hut today -it ties up 1'ti;,�h�c:ty traffic until the smiwplows Mr. >r (',ley Bets around, meets the get through. eotnni( o people and consequently knows . t,ldt-infers Will recall the "pitch- ! More about what they ore thinking; hole," leo) which: a hot swiiiamMr seg :(nd .('litter . •\V,,n1d alnto',t disnopenr. )The . pitch- �Ehan ,1�, those t�-ho rcrtrr:iin sheaf' - ' holes were caned by the snow drifting j This is not iutetuled :is a defence I acros. the i' ads in high ridges, like of Mr. Kelley, he can look 1fte r into- nti►(iat (n•(• nuornt;(ins, and 1111 •s1rtce self-; but there -is a marked tendency between these ring(• were the piteh- on the part of Cabinet Ministers --and -1101,4.. gnloc roads had `more and dieepet• holes than others:. :i good deal thi applies,.1 ( they Federal ns well as depen(iii1 ( „n' Yhe° type of fe0ce that tb. the Qatari,. Cabinet—to °determine li paralleled the read. t)ften one would Ipolicics on important matters without llit�el> road---. of hiwitt,.YcrY little up-and-down,rttp1tn 1- :referet:�•e t� the wielies of the electors ' cl `� csi:� _. `I.. tic•llfili�. - Party Palr. y a� _. . v, and ,haler'. even members of Parlia maent, feel compelled to "stay with the o •n all the way. '['he ;now feneee t ti are �,trun<• t .:e' Preniiitc•ut.lc� ' 'displayed along' the sidieeof the highways today. and which perintental stage. There were no high - party 'huur;h they disapprove.policies 'i way cnu•wjrlo�ys in those day. -ilo ( t put ‘forwar(1 by their leaders. There 1 (•amevvith the motor vehicle and the are !netters• in both the'Federal and ' `�tdemand' :for bal:v nee l ds. f :(i ' ll(Jtai a I1 the Provincial field of politics that• in j'ttt n operate them. our opinions_ would not have reached 1 ;. Two snowstorms are Clearly il:aed in,, the point tips have if the electors had.' iffy memory: (in a Saturday ecenitit; been allowed to pronounce freely upon In the month of F•ehruar,v, 11102. Nor- man Fit inions (now of Detroit t and them. Mot -le frequetit and frank eon I undertook the jottt'iaey•frdm Cloderic}i snl'tatior1 with the people is needed if to , Clinton with a horse T 0nd cutler. democracy, is tai he a reality instead We left (( (Ieri(h at 7o clock 0nd a - I rived 0•t of a sham. 1 mile`. just before midnight. The wprst (nrtail driftittgP were then- 141 the -(>x- part of the way waw between Taylor's o EDITORIAL-- NOTES ('earner and Flnlmesti•ille. For a gren't Sault Ste. Marie reports flocks of nhen(1 to break a way for the horse, part (if the- way one of us plunged geese flying north, The ,late Jack Dinner used to :say that geese knew what they were doing; so . we may look for spring any time now. . • , • �. Canada cannot launch a eomprehen- sive immigration scheme because of the housing scarcity. And the hong- t - gig .ecatEreity will continue • until there ire mere people to produce building ( , materials and build houses. So there you tyre! while the other - held the 1t'11(s incl walki,d behind the cotter to else the load. The other storm was about the year 18R0,•11nd convinced n number.of people that there „Nil's. truth in the' <ayiiag: "If Mart°h comes in like 4t lamb it will go out like a lion." .That year Match Backache May Warn Of kidney Disorder a e hooka tib if the biggest job for some years to come will be the pin- thisea`ci�tltof. food for the undernourished t peoples of the world. Canada's flitinerg. are aysr1re(1 fic frilarT1et5, and if there trete equal assurance in the matter of Dull, aching pains in the baek may be a warning of kidney dis- orders. Don't negleet these pains. Doan 'a Kidney Pills stimulate -the' e • action a the kJidr(eyts; li©l to d imi- j nate the waetes which ttxe ones 01.0 ' cause of backache, rheumatic painrl, and minor uriip fry and bladder ail- ments. -Timis Doan's Kidney Pills • h®1li the kldnoyo to clear the body og impurities. (10 tlioom1cnt11i Of a tve� r?'nintle dktwm have 'done. 'WIon. troubled riceia for titeil' priitlu('te, in relation to 41e. pricers of what they buiat buy, fai3rii11i wi,tdd •1'111Le a tit'etater nieiunre ' security. , than altlto`t any other d. - a io n6.41'44114 (0- t'u N% la; 1 • tti(r, i f Z Api itti' anionic c thee pcotlih' ij,' (11111111:t ;,V11Cti;i �1;art ii 'ao 1. the '"ofnf; , watli Tsachttekd, iak9 Do= 13 Mane), If Pil . Ou ere ' Brag' c(mnter , J''•1�°�'t i•iWn Ciif' CL'Cr'l4l'f3 c , "What happens to spy money when l save it?" I asked mY'-:' self When. --;writing a cheque for a Life Insurance premium. I knew 'that my money was safe, that the terms of my policy would be met in full, but I wondered •where my money would,be invested and how it would be 'put to work. Then I realized that &his district is full of improve- ments and projects financed by Life Insurance• funds which are secured by bonds and other good guarantees. Schools, homes, highways, harbours, elevators, electric plants, and dozens of other utilities and enterprises, are made possible by Life, Insur- ance investments. ."t°'IIIy Life Insurance money does double duty, it protects my earnings and creates em- ployment. It finances the safest forms of progress • • O 90 • Bide Insurance hs a bashians 'built for everybody, a vrpot ontorpriao which pro*octal the futturo of more Moo four r16ldi ie policVtib1 res cutol sfaolr loved ones. Life Iia uroned oflora a system- atic carni oozy way to soh. 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