The Goderich Signal-Star, 1957-03-28, Page 2atle obertrii #t.gttal-
HURON COUNTY'S FOREMOST WEEKLY
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THURSDAY, MARCH 28th; 1957
COUNTY -WIDE VIEWPOINTS
A tour of the editorial Mages of weekly
newspapers in Huron County reveals current
Lhoughtn of the editors in various parts of the
County. We reproduce extracts for a eross-
seetion picture.
Editor Ken Whitmore, of The Blyth Stan-
dard, views with satisfaction the proposals of
the enterprising promoter of the Blyth Trade
Fair, Mr: Wilford. Mr. Wilford plans to bring
prominent purebred stock men and also men
representing the potato (hip industry on 0
busman's tour of the district. Ile plans to
interest them in Western Ontario development.
Mr. Chester Smith, Editor of The Zurich
Herald, gives proof you can still have some
su'ba(rihers not mad at y011 despite the fact
that you run a weekly 11e\wspaper 111 0 small
town. " Your publisher and wife NV On' so
thoughtfully presented vcitll treats front
Florida," he wrote- "Large grapefruit anti
monster oranges, i11 fat we do not see them
this sire ((tt the Markets, were given to us. We
say 'thank you' for these juicy treats and 'arc'
glad to sed, the folks who gave them to Its
safely Leek home i11 Zurich.,'
Bast week was the one for comments on
the budget of 1+`inan(•e Minister Walter Harris.
As the standard bearer for the Liberal Party
in IIuron for the fort h(o1uing Federal elections
this puts, Editor "Andy" McLean, of The
lfluron Expositor, Seliforth, in an embarrassing
position. No hatter what he wrote, it would
naturally be considered by some as prejudiced.
So, "Andy" solved the situation by running
the editorial on the budget from The Ottawa
Citizen, which was 0 fair one.
The (Tinton ;dews -Record Editor Wilma
Dinnan. did a finaltzer" in a round -up on
store hours. The editorial read, in part : "The
e. and to Friday -night shopping, in place of the
traditional Saturday, has continued to catch
'eh with More and nicere munieiperlitii s through-
out the County. Clinton was the first town in
liurnn to take the step to Friday night open
hour;; and as sue, has had quite 0 stormy
session of it. All the street corner lawyers
had something they could get their teeth into
and did so, mightily enjoying the discomfiture
of the merchants they were. needling. {Treat
rumors spread that everyone was going to
QI-oderiol1, to shop. or to Exeter, or up to Sea -
forth, beeausc they could shop there on Satur-
-,g_ litrhts. -,-.Even when the merchant's could
look into their cash registers and count more
dollar bills there on Friday nights than they
had sten on a Saturday Might for quite a few
years, they still were influeneed by the street
corner lawyers to some degree, and a number
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of them gave ill. The result was that some
stayed open—someclosed—sone announced
what they were going to'do-----and others stayed
' 11111111.' 'Phe answer was chaos. Clinton 'is
sticking to Friday night opening because it
suits the merchants and their employees and it
also suits the shopper, as cash register receipts
show'"
The Wingham Public School Board is corn -
mended by Editor Barry Wenger, of The Wing -
haul Advance -Times, for its sense if responsib-
ility to the taxpayers. This- was reflected in
the board providing for the Advance --Times a
full report of the deliberations of the board
and its dissatisfactions with the practical as-
pects - of plans submitted by ar(11ite(ts for au
addition to the school. Says, Barry : " We do
commend the hoard on its attitude about a
piddle report on its meeting, for in this way
the people who must of necessity pay the price
of piddle expenditure, deserve to be informed
\V hell 511(11 problems arise ----unpleasant though
the information may be.. Because the board
has made no attempt whatever to delude the
public thele will be a great pleasure of cop-
s 101e11(e 111 whatever deeislons are made .in the
future. Simco pu'blio funds have become avail-
able in (ver-inoreaing quantity during the past
telt years there has been a tendency to assume
that the taxpayers can safely be kept in the
dark about how the money is spent.. 'These
salile taxpayers, of course, invited such a treat-
ment by their indifference to platters of coin-
nluirit} , (01101 111."
Editor Doll Southoott, in The Exeter Times -
Advocate, urges citizens to attend the annual
meetilgr``(ift"ie SOuth—Filifiin 1Tospital in the
hope that a hospital controversy there might_
be brought to, •a head. The medical staff last
year requested permission from the board of
directors to perform, operations of a common
nature but the hoar(? declined. Says The Exeter
Tinges -Advocate editorial, in part: "Although
the request of the doctors was never made
public, itis understood they stated that such
operaions could be performed without n1,al'or
expenditures for equipment, since much of it
was supplied when the hospital was built. It
is also understood that the doctors felt the
operations could be performed without undue
,strain upon the aceornmodation or nursing staff,
available. The hoard, on the other hand, made
a pn'hlie statement to the effect that operations
could not be permitted bee nse of a shortage
of nursing staff and because ace6mmo<lation
.was being taxed without providing these ad-
ditional facilities. . . There appears to be a
strain in the relations between the doctors and
the hospital. If this is so, wiry?'.'
Flail, The Resenfful Taxpayer
A voice came over the radio.
We didn't hear the speaker's name,
but he described himself as a
resentful taxpayer.
He =trongly resents the fart the.
taxes take a third of his income,
that for evert day lee works to
support his family he has to work
a half day to support the govern-
ment; and that no matter hciw he
saves on the family expenditures,.
there is no possibility of saving
anything on -his . tax hill. '
We can understand how the man
feels; but we can't help wondering
how much he himself has helped
to create the situation that makes
it necessary for governments to
(The Rural Scene)
take so much of our earnings.
Canadian, don't like to he taxed.
But there are ether things we
like ,gill le s. Vve don't like doing
.vi`.hout things : nit our neighbors
hare. l if gm.t'rnmel(t', offer to
r(r�;such thing_, for us, we
fiont h -hate to allow them to do
eN en though we know that it
‘,‘-11 mean higher taxes. '
, We ,.dnn't like the trouble of
managing our own affairs, of plan-
ning how to spend our earnings—
so many pennies for this, so many
for that and so many to put away-
for
wayfor future needs. To most of us,
money is something to be earned
and spent, and when we have it
in our pockets we like to spend A.
But managing our own affairs
requires k-eeping track of the pen-
nies and carefully planning what
to huy with thein. The virtues
of thrift and self denial are some-
what painful to most of us: .arc
when the politicians ,14 er to re-
lieve us of that pain we are apt
to fall for their blandishments.
What we overlook is the fact
that the more we allow the politic-
ians to plan and direct our affairs,
the less control we have over them
ourselves, and we are still the ones
who have to pay for it all.
There ,was a time when politic-
ian.s were trusted with public af-
THE GODDRIOH SIGNAL-STAfl9
Down Memory's
Lane -�
45 Years Ago
"Henceforth, let all 1awsbreakers
in Goderich beware," said The
Signal, "for Justice now shall go
forth on wheels. R. C. Posteleth-
waite, chief of police, has pur-
chased John Stead's automobile,
and is .having the machine thor-
oughly overhauled preparatory to
the opening of spring."
Mr. and Mrs. William Stewart, of
Trafalgar street, celebrated their
50th wedding anniversary. Among
the gifts received was a gold watch
from W. L. Eliot, local 'manager of
the Bank of Montreal, with which
Mr. Stewart had been connected
for many years.
The housing problem 'was dis-
cussed at a meeting 'of the Board
of Trade. William :Campbell re-
ported that there was a demand for
houses of the class desired by
workingmen. 'The matter was set
over until another meeting for
further discussion.
According to the advertising' col-
umns of The Signal, issuers of
marriage licenses in Goderich in
1912 were W. Lane and Walter E.
Kelly, JP.
Forty-five years ago, they were
laughing at jokes like this:
Mrs. Exe—ft isn't right to charge
Willie with taking that money
out of ,your pocket. Why don't
you accuse me?
Mr Exe.—Because it wasn't all
taken.
25 Years Ago
After an almost snowless Janu-
ary and February, a 10 -inch blanket
af snow covered Goderich and dis-
trict onMarch 24, 1932. Traffic
was at a stand -still, except on
higfiway 8. The mercury had been
below freezing for, almost a week.
S. D. Croft was re-elected presi-
dent of Goderich Board af Trade.
The members also returned G. L.
Parsons as vice-president and E. J.
Pridhalm as secretary.
There was little. unemployment
-in Goderich, according to aa Board
of Trade report. One of the rea-
sons was that Town Council had
followed a policy of providing work
forpersons who could not find
regular employment. About 75
workers ,were said to - hays been
given employment by'`" .,j a 1pwn
during the winter.
In an auction sale conducted (by
Thomas Gundry at the farm of
W. }L Wilson in West Wawanosh
Township,_ 16 1lorses iwnre sold_ at
fairs only. But withthe develop-
ment of the ' welfare state they are
taking over the management of
everything, even of the spending
of the citizens earnings.
As long as we listen to the
blandishments of politicians with
bigger and better plans for our
welfare, we can .be sure of one
thing at least—that taxes will con-
tinue to rise; and it won't be long
till the resentful taxpayer will find
the figures reversed and that two
thirds of his income is taken by
the governmentt, leaving him only
ofle third for the support of his
family.
A sound taxation policy would
aiim at building up productive in-
dustry so that the country would
be able to produce the things it
needs. This would require that
industry be allowed to retain
enough of its earnings to enable
it to build up reserves against all.
ordinary risks, and to keep itself
efficient and abreast of the times.
This is particularly true of agri-
culture, for the risks the farmers
take are so many and so great that
a farmer without reserves has a
poor chance of survival.
The kind of reserves the farm-
ers need are well tilled fields,
convenient and well kept buildings,
modern and well kept equipment.
and high quality, well kept live-
stock. A farmer with these things,
not over -encumbered with debt,
would he able to produce efficient-
ly and to stand a calamity T1s
serious as a complete crop failure.
But as long as the politicians
are allowed to use taxation as a
means of redistributing the nation-
al wealth, no sound system of
taxation will be possible. •
prices ranging from $75 to $125.
Wood [brought two dollars a cord
for 12 -inch raced.
At the annual dinner of the
Maitland Golf 'Club, Charles Mea-
kinsannounced tha(he was donat-
ing a cup for competition for the
greatest number of jingles (the
greatest num(pber of holes in one
put in the season).
15 Yeats Ago
In a letter in The Signal -Star,
Mayor • E. Douglas Brown asked
citizens to park their cars some
place other than the Square, when-
eVerpossible, to relieve Saturday
nightcongestion.
The sucker run had started a+t
Port Aubert and elsewhere. In
one case, boys were reported to be
catching them with bare hands.
A survey of 205 'Goderich Town-
ship fannrs, showed that the average
age of th€' farm operators was 47.
The average farm contained 139
acres.
A large thermometer had been
placed in the hall of Victoria
School to record the • amount of
war savings stamps purchased by
pupils. At the end of February,
the amount was $2,148.
Town Council agreed to hand
over the baby carriage frames in
the old Artcraft factory to the
war salvage committee.
There was one man isGoderich
who was not worried about gaso-
line rationing. He was Walter (R.
Henry, who observed his 84th
birthday Eby taking a spin on -his
'beloved motorcycle. The one -
cylinder, English -made machine
gave him 90 miles to the gallon.
10 Years Ago
Town 'Council was negotiating.
with an eye to disbanding the town
police force and calling in the
Ontario Provincial Police to take
over. Constable Austerberry had
resigned and it was said that it
was difficult to train suitable men
for the local force. Also, the
members of the town force were
asking for salary increases.
A special train was scheduled
to carry 'Goderich hockey fans to
Stratford Saturday night to watch
the Goderich Louzon Flyers tackle
-New • Hamfbur^g•iin an -OITA Junior
MC" playoff game.
The Signal -Star team won the
championship of the Industrial
Bowling League by defeating Pur-
ity Flour two games to one.
At the annual meeting of the
Huron •iFruitgrowers' Association
-in -Clinton,-Clayton Laithwaite, of
Goderich Township, 'was returned
for a second term as president.
Goderich Midgets, WOAA cham-
pions, were eliminated from the
°MHA play-offs by Port Colborne.
In the West street arena, the visit-
ors defeated Goderich 5-4 to take
the round 16-6.
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The Rideau Canal system, origin-
ally built to provide an inland com-
munications route that could be
kept open in event of armed in-
vasion from the United States, now
gets most af its traffic from plea-
sure 'boats manned by American
tourists.
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One youth was sentenced to six
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