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Pepin makes it plain
Trade Minister Jean -Luc Pepin has
clarified the government's position on one
point at least. He told a meeting of the Com
mons finance committee last week that
small, uncompetitive Canadian businesses
probably don't deserve the protection of the
legislation controlling foreign takeovers.
The new law., which Opposition mem-
bers have branded as a watered -clown at-
tempt to mollify the Canadian public, will re-
quire Cabinet decision on the purchase of
Canadian businesses by non -Canadian inter-
ests. However, no screening of the transac-
tions v required ifathe.business in ques-
tion at less than $250,000 or has less
than — 14 Ton Turnover annually,
One of the finance committee members
expressed concern that American entrepen-
eurs would seize the opportunity to buy
groups of small, independent Canadian
firms in order to merge them into single
Targe=scaleenterprises. Mr. Pepin's answer
was that the government is not concerned
about protecting small Canadian firms
which cannot compete in the marketplace.
The committee member pointed out that
U.S. companies have taken over much of the
funeral business in this country. The minis-
` * ter's, reply was to the affect that "if Cana-
dians cannot compete in the funeral business
there is something basically wrong with the
(mana9ement) talent of Canadians."
Reference to the fate of smaller Cana-
dian food stores falling under foreign owner-
ship•was dealt with in the same fashion. If
foreigners take over a smaller business and
expand it "do you really• want to prevent
I. that?" Pepin asked.
The tenor of the trade minister's re-
marks would appear to substantiate the very
• fears which the Opposition has expressed. It
seems evident that the goVernment is not, in
fact, deeply concerned about the fate of
Canadian business, 51 per cent of which is al-
ready in American bands. The flippant dis-
regard of the future of smaller businesses is
shocking when one recalls that int is small
business upon which the entire commercial
structure of the nation stands. ,Big business
provides only a small proportion of the taxes
which •feed government coffers. The l"
litte
fellows by"
virtue of their numbers, are the
most important source of revenue in the en-
tire nation.
Mr, Pepin's reference to the ability of
larger •American concerns to expand Cana-
dian business are, of course, perfectly true,
as any community which has benefited from
an American -owned industry well knows.
What troubles far-sighted Canadians, how-
ever, is the 'fact that there is so little en-
couragement or opportunity for expansion in
Canadian hands. Many a small business
owner would be delighted. to expand his
enterprise if he could secure the funds to do
so
Most large Canadian businesses were at
one time small Canadian businesses. The
owners of small .businesses in this country
are more enterprising, more willing to take
on the financial.gamble than are their big-
time brothers in the large concerns. It is
usually the big fellow who is super -cautious
with his money.
Mr. Pepin has endeared neither himself
nor his government to the small business-
man he is so willing to cast aside.
Stiff price for progress
•
Many of the communities in this part, of
the province have been more than a little en-
., vious Wof the progress which has been en-
* gendered in Kincardine by the advent of the
Douglas Point nuclear development. Most
towns are industry hungry. They want more
jobs for their citizens; more incentives for
young people to stay at home instead of de-
parting for the cities.
It seems, however, that progress has its
.price. The recent announcement that the
oldest manufacturing concern. in Kincar-
dine, the Andrew Malcolm furniture plant,
would close its doors, was definitely not good
news. Last week two more Kincardine indus-
tries called it quits. Coombe Furniture and
Fi rents Limited are through.
The basic reason for the closures, of
course, is economic. High wages paid at the..
Douglas , Point operation, coupled with
sharply increased living costs, have forced
the issue. Furniture workers have never
been too highly paid and Competition with
Douglas Point rates has apparently proved
impossible.
It may be argued that the town is better
off without the, low -pay industries if resi-
dents. can find more remunerative employ-
ment at the Point. That is true for the work-
ers who are willing and able to make the
switch, but it's a little s'ad for the veteran
factory hands who have neither the skills nor
the youth to take on new jobs. •
Somethingwrong at home.
The cost of keeping • Canada clean has
reached an .astonishing total. It runs into
millions of dollars annually just to clear up
the most obvious litter. The Canadian Army
is now enlisting the aid of militiamen to
clean up streams and beaches which have
been fouled by careless Canadians who fail
to realize there is' a high price for their
sloppy habits -which ,they must., eventually
pay out of their own pockets.
Tidiness is a habit which begins at home
*and at an early age. When you .walk down the
-main street of your town and see the accu-
mutation] of chocolate bar wrappers, cigar-
ette packages and paper bags on the side-
walks and along the curbs, you realize that
every piece of litter was dropped by a person
who. has no sense of personal neatness. His
mother and father have never taken the time
,
or trouble to instill the basic habits of tidi-
ness which should• be part of every child's
education.
When you see a group of young fellows
attack ,a newly installed litter basket with
the intention of kicking it to pieces you 'are
bound to conclude that there is something
basically wrong with their home life.
Young 'people are certainly not the only
offenders in the wave of carelessness which
threatens to *engulf us in a nation-wide
mound of -litter. We have seen older people'
who are equally careless and perhaps it is
too late to change their habits. However; un-
less the .younger generation learns the rudi-
ments of good housekeeping and common
sense future generations will have to settle
for a life style somewhat akin to that enjoyed
by the rats in the town dump.
0,7
Dying days of June
Quite a , few school teachers and ele-
mentary school students'are peeved at the
Ontario • Department of Education.
' ,The .trouble"started when the London
board of education announced that its
schools would close a few days early to allow
time for teachers to assess the pupils'
work—and no doubt to decide .haw many
would spend another year in the same class.
That's where the department came into the
picture. No school, no grants, said the au-
thorities.
The Wellington County boards, public
and separate, had decided to close up shop
on Jrne 27th and they, too, had to change
their minds. June 30 is the official closing
date and that's final—according to the all -
*powerful department.
It sounds a bit silly to the outsider. The
elementary school kids, right down to kin-
dergarten age, must sweat it out within four.
,,walls till the last day of June, while the sec-
ondary school students, who presumably are
old enough to make use of an extra couple of
weeks over the books, are running at large.
The learning the average elementary school
pupil will absorb during the last -three days
4of.,June is highly questionable.
,The important point with many of the
teachers is that university classes which
many of them will attend, open promptly on
Monday morning, July 2, leaving. only one
short weekend to complete all the detail
work for the school year and get themselves
and their belongings to the city for a summer
of study.
As usual, the big -wigs in government of-
fices are demonstrating their conviction that
ordinary mortals who make up the personnel
of county boards'of education and the staffs
of the schools are incapable of making a sen-
sible -decision on their own. The club in de-
partment hands is too heavy for argument.
School grants, based on student attendance,
amount to'a sizeable sum for even one day's
classes, and the county boards cannot afford
the loss should they decide to close yearly.
If the present trend continues all the
worthwhile brains in the land will be concen-
trated` in Toronto and Ottawa, leaving the
hinterland in which the rest of us live as
nothing more than a great grey wilderness,
where the mindless legions of the dim-witted
bend low every time the voice of Big Brother
sounds forth from the towers of the capital.
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HE'S SPORTS -MINDED
It's baseball time and a happy season for Gerald. This young
lad is sports -minded and baseball is one of his favorites.
Gerald has just turned 10.- He is a tall handsome boy with
sparkling eyes.
In excellent health, he is doing well in Grade Four and is
well -liked by both classmates and teachers. Ile is well-informed
and articulate. At least average in ability, Gerald will probably
be better than average when he feels settled in a,..home of his
ow n with parents to encourage and be proud of him.
Gerald enjoys Sunday School and a boys' club. Ile would very
' much like +to learn to skate and Swim but has not had the op-
portunity. Neither has he been encouraged to read, but since he
is a bright boy, he will probably enjdy books if they are
available to him. •
This friendly, appealing, sensitive youngster is.very wary of
adults because his experiences have included almost'nobody he
could count on. For the last three months, he has been in a small
treatment centre for children with emotional- problems, but the
psychiatrist says he ,should not .'remain there•.rnore than six
months. Ile is insecure'and cautious in forming relationships
but not emotionally disturbed.
The Children's Aid Society isanxious to find.a warm, loving,
stimulating, home where he wiillthe, sommetine .speeiah. There
should not he many other children to compete for the parents'
attention.
To inquire about adopting Gerald,, please write to Today's
Child, Box 888, Station K, Toronto: For general adoption in-
formation, .write. to ,your Children's Aid Society. •
°
Candles Couldn't Hold the Ccrke
Bill Smiley
About one more birthday party
and they can include me out. Last
Friday was my birthday, and I
arrived home exhausted to' dis-
cover that 'friends of ours bad in-
vited the whole gang to dinner, to
celebrate. My birthday. I was
uverwueiuied. i didn't think any-
body cared any more. Even
though Kim gave me a kiss and a
big hug and two golf balls when I
got home.
Yes, the who
Kim, and her h
artist. But may
to them later.
their wedding
fan mail to thr.
The party wa
cess. A roaring
everybody is r
,
examined the
seems about as
with one wag o
wined and dined
the ribs into the
I didn't mind
`''smashing me wit
speech. Express
tion."
Every time .sh
sone of Pavlov's
hafta go to .the
"I'd like to make
My speeches s
pretty well, thou
the end that she di
by this time I was
le gang included
husband, Don, the
be I'll get around
My accounts of
have tripled my
ee letters a week
s a roaring suc-
success is when
oaring at every-
body else over
some idea that
next morning,
exciting as a bio-
graphy of Mackenzie King.
A good time was had by all and
Rap, their massive Labrador re-
triever who, when he is happy,
can knock you ri
ght off your feet
fhistail.Iwas
and punched in
small hours.
the wining and
dining, but got a
little sick of the
pokes in the ribs. My wife kept
h her elbow and
hissing, "Get u
p and make .a
your apprecia-
e did it, I, like
dogs, got up and
made a speech.
They were all
one -sentence sho
ts, such as, "I
bathroom," or
a toast to me.
eemed to go over
though drawing no
thunderous ovations, but my wife
was hitting me s
o hard toward
dislocated her el-
bbw. It was just a
s well; because
n't even getting
up to make my speeches.
Three nights later, last night, to
be exact, a' friend and his wife
asked lis to come down and cele-
brate his birthday: 1' should have
known better. At least) after the'
first birthday party, T was able to
sleep in a bit on Saturday morn-
ing. But this one was on a•Monday.
News Items from OId Files
JUNE 1937
Herbert Campbell was elect
president of the Alps Golf Club
its annual meeting. Vice pres
dents are Dr. McKee and Ro
Thompson; J. R. M. Spittal
secretary and L. R. Blackwood
treasurer. Mrs. H. Campbell
president of the lady memo
with other officers Mrs. A. Pee
les, Mrs. Roy Thompson, Miss 'N
Dinsley and Miss D. Felts'
G. W. Geddes, former Wing
harnite, General Manager an
Actuary of North American Lif
Assurance Co., London, wa
elected president of the Canadia
Life Insurance Officers'Associa
tion.
Misses Frances Lockridge an
Evelyn Edgar came second in th
vocal , duet class at the „Brut
County Music Festival in Walker
ton last week.
Film star Jean Harlow, one o
Hollywood's most highly paid
stars, died in Hollywood Monday
at the age of 26.
A quiet wedding took place in
Arthur when Laura Charlotte
Hicks of Wingham was united in
marriage to William Russell Ire-
land of Teeswater.
H. C. McLean and R. S. Hether-
ington were among those elected
officers of the,North Huron
Liberal Association at a meeting
held in the council chambers.
Mrs. R. Davidson of Dungannon,
David McDonald of Culross and
W. T. Booth of Wingham were
among those elected' by the
Huron -Bruce group.
Mrs. Edwin Lewis sails on Fri-
day Trom Montreal for London'
England. She will spend four.
months in the Old Land.
Prompt action on the part of
Mrs. Robert Medd; who is quite
feeble and almost blind, recently
saved the fine barn of Mr. and
Mrs. T. McNall of West Wawa -
nosh from being destroyed by
fire, The fire was caused by chil-
drenplaying with matches.
Mr. and Mrs. Elwin Munro of
Blyth are moving to. Orangeville
where the former will engage in.a
plumbing and tinsmith, business
and Comber in the Kent Deanery.
ed Among those graduating" with
at honors from Victoria College, To-
ronto. University; was Mrs. Pati;
y ricia Parker Hamilton, daughter
is of Dr. and Mrs. Parker.
is Reeve Murray Johnson attend -
is ed the Mayors and Reeves con-
rsevention at Ottawa last week.
b- Belgrave School Fair music
• festival was held last week.
Among the winners were Phyllis
- - Fear, Edith Daer, Colleen Rath,
d Donald Haines, Carl Cumming
e and Bodie Craig.
s Rev. Charles H. MacDonald,
minister for the past 22 years of
Lucknow and Dungannon, last
week was elected Moderator of
d the 73rd General Assembly of the
e Presbyterian Church in Canada.
e F. E. Madill Was elected presi-
- dent of the Wingham Lions Club.
Vice presidents are G. W. Tiffin;
f G. C. Gammage and W. B. Mc-
Cool; D. Nasmith is secretary'
Following the heavy, rain the
rapid rise of the•Maitland River
last week marooned 35 head of
cattle on a small piece of high
land. The cattle belonged to John
Potter and Louis Hutton. When
they started crowding it was
found necessary to remove them
to safety. Mr. Potter waded to
open the gate while Glen Foxton
herded the cattle in a row boat,
nearly a mile to safety.
Kenneth Ross of Whitechurch
left on Monday to join the June
class of young men who are
travelling, to Regina to take tile
six months' course at the RCMP
depot there.
JUNE 1947
Rev. Jack H. James, who has
been rector of St. Paul's Anglican
Church, Wingham, for the past
two and a half years, was last
week appointed by the Arch-
bishop to the parish of Tilbury
JUNE 1958
The first Wingham Trade Fair—,
sponsored by the Kinsmen, was
one of the most successful events
the town has seen, Provincial
Treasurer James N. Allan open-
ed the fair. In all, 45 exhibitors
bad displays at the fair.
Friends gathered at the home
of Mrs. Morris Swanson to honor
Miss Donna Wilson prior to her
marriage to bon Hopper on June
21st.
New officers were elected at
the meeting of the Wingham
Lions Club. President is W. B.
Conron; vice presidents, Dr. W.
A. Crawford, W. B. Cruiltshank
and W. W. Currie; secretary, L.
E. Vance and treasurer, Norman
Welwood.
Mrs. T. L. McInnes 'of Gorrie
picked a small dish of ripe straw-
berries in her garden on June 4th.
Can anyone beat this?
Two Belgrave boys have re-
ceived word- that they have suc-
cessfully passed in their year's
work at the OAC in Guelph.
George Procter has completed
his second year and Allan Scott
his first.
Eight members of the Baby
Band of. the Bluevale United
Church were prornoted to the
Mission Band 'at aJpecial meet-
ing last week. They are Kenneth
Mathers, Murray Willits, Russell "
Barnard, Jane Campbell, Brenda
Glousher, Warren Thynne, Kal-
vin Fischer and Joan Hall.
ha come
night. We got home at 3:15 a
the alarm went off at 7:15.
My old lady, who is down on t
voters' list as "housewife", didn
stir. I•°stirred, and stirred, a
stirred one more jnagnific
time, and made it. It was not
of my most inspiring days on
job. I'm afraid I didn't ma
many young minds flower. But
pulled through on sheer dedica
tion.
However, it was a dandy part
Our host was a captain in, th
German.army. His wife is a Sc
tish Belgian. Another coup
dropped in. In fact. it was th
perfidious couple who had he
the first birthday party. His wi
is an English war bride. And u
My wife is a nut.
And of course, Courvoisier wa
there. In large quantities.` N
he's not a Frenchman with' a bi
family. He's a liqueur that look
like water and tastes like burni
coals. •
Rut we had a great time, a
sang songs in German, French
Scottish, and a few old Englis
music -hall numbers like, "M
Old Man Says Follow the Van
and Don't Dilly -Dally on th
way."
We put a terrible dent in tha
Frenchman and ate about four
pounds of highly aromatic
cheese, and would probably still
be there.. belting out "Lili Mar
lene" and "I Belong Tae Glas-
gie", had not our host, with that
German dash that. makes them
win battles but lose wars, sprung
,to his feet and announced that he
was going to bed.
That's what he thought. My
wife couldn't find our car keys.
He' had to drive us home, after
which she found them.
So, enough of birthdays, for a
nd few, days. I wound up with two
golf balls and two headaches: My
he German friend was luckier. His'
't invitation was rather a. spur of
nd the moment thing, , so we had -no
ent chance to buy him a gift, not even
one a ball for golf; which he ttthr f
the a silly game, which it i3 when you
ke play as 1 do.
1 My wife bought him a' three -
quart jug of milk and a ie she
bought at the milk shop, (it was a
y. real beauty, as you can imagine),
e aid a hamburger which she ate
ot- herself,
le I was rather nonplused, but
dived into my tool box (he's a
fe great carpenter, for a doctor of•
philosophy) and came up with a
s- beautiful, rusty key -hole saw
which I had inherited from my
s father.
°' As I hadn't sawed any key -
g holes recently, I didn't figure I'd
hs
miss it. And it really is a beautiful
ng little thing. A family heirloom,
nd you might say. It has this.blade
which retracts and suddenly pops
, out. A sort of 19th century switch
blade.
'I can tell you there were tears
e in Karl's eyes as he ran his finger' overthe teeth of that little rusty,
t dull beauty and murmuredisome-
thing like, "Lieber Gott im Him-
mel."
I think that, in English means
_ something like, "Dear God, it's
heavenly." Never did I think that
I'd see a captain from Rommel's
desert troops break down like
that over a simple little senti-
mental the
In fact, he was so touched
that
he offered to come up and, fix my
picnic table. And.I suppose we'll
have to have a. birthday party for
•the blasted picnic table, which is
three years old this week.
Ingham brief'qi.td
Briefs presented in Walkerton
recently to a public hearing on
the inadequacy of public trans-
portation facilities ' in. . Western:
Ontario and the rest of Canada
were reinforced' irk the House of
Commons last week; from both
sides of the House, when Ross
, Whicher, MP (Lib) Bruce and R.
E. McKinley (P -C) Huron, for-
cibly represented the views of
their constituencies.
As recorded in Hansard for
Tuesda', June 6, Mr. Whicher
stated in the House:
"May I start by saying that I
agree substantially with the
motion put forward by the speak-
er • for the Progressive Conserva-
tive Party, the hors, member for
Moncton. I say this because in the
past week, along With other
members. 'of the Standing .Com-
mittee on „Transport of the
House, I' have been visiting West
ern Ontario. We attended hear-
ings in the City of London, in .
Chatham, Stratford and in the
Town of Walkerton. With respect
to the speech made by the Minis-
ter of Transport (Mr'. Jamieson)
earlier this\fternoon, made in a
very capable manner, in ' my
opinion he defended a rather
weak case. I must tell him that
without exception, not one of the
briefs ,that were presented -to . us
in each of the 'four places- took the
view'that hettook his' fterno n ':%, .. _ .
Horse Faster
An excerpt from the speech of
R. E: McKinley:
"If some of the members of the
railway transport committee had
been with us last week when we
attended hearings in Western On-
tario, they would have found out
that their conclusions are incor-
rect. ,A brief presented by the
Wingham and District Profes- .
sional Women's Club stated that
it takes 41 lours to go to Toronto
bybus and takes 6,/2 hours to re-
turn, but by car it only takes 2 to
2' hours travelling within the
speed limit. At weekends the bus
takes a different route and less
time.
"The brief pointed out that the
main problems with the bus serv-
ice are that it is slow, it is uncom-
fortable, there are no washrooms
on the buses and there is no place
to get even a cup of coffee. It is no
wonder that the hon. member for
Bruce (Mr. Whicher) said it
would be just as quick to use -a
horse -if you had a fast horse, it
would be a lot faster."
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