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LETTERS T0 THE EDITOR
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MR, CARDIFF'S ELECTIONS '
The late L. „E. Cardiff's
electoral record was .ohe_QE the
most remarkable in Canadian
parliamentary history, and in
some respects' unique. It would
be unfortunate if the
Signal -Star's final ,mention of
him, containing a number of
errors, were to remain
uncorrected. Mr. Cardiff was
never a candidate in
1► Huron -Perth, and consequently
was never MP for Huron -Perth.
The constituency disappeared it
1952. He was never member for
Huron - "county," nor- was
anyone else; from Confederation
to the present; there were always -
a few municipalities- added or
aliena
The /25 -year period in -the-
Commons deserves a:• brier
summary before -it passes from
• mind and memory. Mr. Cardiff
.was a "dark horse" when he was
to
given • the Conservative
nomination for North Huron in•
1940. He had note b'efn publicly
mentioned, but the convention,
at " Wingham, 'liked his `brief
speech and made him,
candidate,-, •Theriding was held
by a Liberal, 11. • J. Deachman.
The majority for Cardiff, only
40, was actually one of his
greatest triumphs, for Deachman
in • the previous . contest had 563
plurality over George Spotton,
Conservative, (A
''ceconstWctionist split the
onservative vote). That was a
bad election year for the
Conse•rvative (National.
Government) party led by Dr.
Robert Manion; and it elected
only 39 members from all
Canada, but Cardiff was one. •
• Great shifts of elet'toral
support like that sometimes have
greater effect upon resinols iii the
constituencies than the
qualifications of the candidates.
"Thus in Rt. Hon. Louis .St..
Laurent's first election as prime
minister, 1949, he nearly wiped
out `the Tory group in the
House. Cardiff was a survivor,,
but his majority of 521 over R.'
S. Hetherington, K.C., of
Wingham, was the lowest he ever
received after his first contest.
The Diefenbaker sweep of
1957 found Cardiff on top by
3463, and when ' the prime
minister went to the country in
the following year, to increase
his following in the House,
Cardiff received his largest
majority of the quarter-century,
65.58.
The. Liberals fought him with
lawyers, - newspaper -men, and
finally a farm implement dealer.
The outcome varied only in
degree. Cardiff's first opponent
was the Liberal member, R. J.
Deachman, a journalist; his
second was a soldier, Major
Douglas R. Nairn, of a well
known Goderich family. In that
contest there:, was a CCF
candidate, but his votes did not
affect the result. In 1'949 there
was another CCF-er, and that
was the last third -party
.participation in Cardiff's time.
Ernie Fisher, ex -mayor of
Goderich, got -Cardiff's margin
down to 2365, and Gordon
McGavin of Walton pared it to
2055. Maitland Edgar, Clinton
teacher, opposed Robert
McKinley cin 1965 and almost
halved the Progressive
Conservative lead.
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Cardiff was , parliamentary
-assistant to the minister of.
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W. J. Denomme
FLOWER
SHOP'
agriculture in the Diefenbaker
government, and for two years
previous had been chief whip of
the party in the House.
W. E. Elliott
BALANCE OF NATURE
I am tired of the way some
people are gadding to gross
injustice inflicted, - on .the .
defenceless •deer. Practically
everything that lives or is •
man-made, when big enough is
an enemy of these creatures. Itis
amazing that there are any left
at all. The idea that a hungry
wolf will pass up a young deer is
stretching things a little tod far.
What I know about deer, moose
arl!d wolves I, learned from these
Animals. I certainly Jrlidn't learn
it trim- : The Department of
Lands and Forests. ,
As for the balance of nature,
man and his equipment are the
ones that 'upset it, simply
• because they were not there
when it was first set up. But man
has -given himself priorities, and
it looks as though he is going to
keep them. Now it would be in"
order. if he -'sot sup a man-made
.bale tee. The art of '•collecAing
revenue alone is note
enough, money in the treaiiirY
does not mean deer in the bush.
We do know that wolves kill
deer. When deer are plentiful, a
large wolf may kill as many as
18 a year, as many as he can get,
.regardless of sex or age.
A female wolf, a .long time
before whelping, kills a slxpply in
advance, knowing that close to
that time she will not be able to'
do so. Again regardless of sex or
age. I have actually come across
one of their supplies.
1f man • would kill one wolf
for every eight. or 10 deer he
kills, we would be restoring part
of natures balance. 'But not by
poison please! We must
discontinue, the practice of
hunting the deer only, or we will
see an end to the deer. That is
for practical purposes.
The possibility . of killing all
the deer and wolves in Canada is
-nil. We have too much
untrodden territory for that. As
for the nature boys and wolf
lovers, • it would be •well . to
remember' that deer, and moose
will survive without wolves.
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FILM DEVELOPING
HELP YOUR RED CROSS
Europe proves that. But the wolf
cannot survive without deer.
The best way the wolf lovers
can protect their pets is to make
sure there are plenty of deer.
Forget the tears and lip service.
They are of no avail and
incidentally, snow is nothing
new in this country.
' E. F. Rector,
Elliot Lake
• INTO THE FIRE
Some of the . residents. on
Widder and Elizabeth. Streets
were greatly pleased when the
old Cranston horse barn.
disappeared. However, the joy
was shortlived. Then we had flies
which we could control with
insecticides; now we have floods,
thdt,; at present, 'are b gond our _
capacity to alienate. It is a very
serious ,problem, whe the water
rises so high it floe- in the
basement windows.
There was, previously, a,, toile
drain with some br-ancber1 which
took care of surplus Inoistllre.
This was destroyed wheal'
excavations were made for four
new basements:
The .'plgns. r the .new
structures must have been made
by a dropout from a Vocational
School, or by some party with a
glorious hangover from an
all-night cocktail session.
Had the contractors severed a
Bell Telephone line, or broken a
Gas Company main, they would
have•, to immediately repair the
damage. ORDINARY CITIZENS
SEEM `TO HAVE . NO
REDRESS. -
With modern technology -and
the, raising and/or moving' a
structure is quite feasable, but
how do you proceed to lower
buildings that are four or five
feet higher than those adjacent?
There was. no problem, from
a drainage standpoint, to cause
these homes to be placed on a
higher level than those nearby.
The whole proposition is a
mess, but one solution would be
to bring the terrain down to the
proper level and -erect steps to
the several entrances of the new
buildings, This would be a poor
cover-up for the major mistake,
and 'would hardly . please the
tenants. •
BELL
LINE;
by.
W.W.HA YSOM
your, telephone
manager_
BellCanada people are turning up everywhere these days _,
in Spain,' Turkey; Greece, the Philippines, the, Bahamas, the
Barbados, Nigeria, Kenya, Uganda, and the United States. And
they' aren't on vacation. It's all part of our rapidly growing
consulting services program. Under this program, Bell Canada
specialists in various fields provide advice and training on a
paid, consulting basis to foreign telephone companies.
Negotiations for ' our most recent contract - with the
Spanish Telephone Company - began in 1967 when Spanish
telephone authorities- were in Canada and gained first-hand
information about this country's- telecominunications, Last
inonth, 10 Bell Canada men flew to Madrid where they will be
stationed for about six - months. •. They are ...responsible -'for
recommending long range plans for the Spanish long distance
network, the Madrid metropolitan network and for future
methods of charging for customer -dialed 'long distance and
international calls.
Ben H. Willings.
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While it's a fact that Bell Canada people are turning up• all
over the world, it's also true that people from all over the
world' are turning up at Bell Canada = visiting our Panorama of
Progress in Telecommunications..
After just one year of operation, the Panorama has received
more than 34,000 visitors_ hailing from Canada and the -United -
States, and from such distant points as Australia, Kuwait,
Russia, Great Britain, France, India,•South America.
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Particularly popular with students - they constituted some
40 percent, pf'last year's visitors - the Panorama puts sound,
light, deinonstration and narration to dramatic use in telling
the story of man and his communications through past ages, ih
modern times and into the future. A Bell Canada guide escorts
each group of visitors "along a fascinating journey through
time. Each tour takes about an hour and a half and the
narrations a e..given-in: either English_or French. , .
Even though the.Panorama has only been open for a year, it
is becoming well., known as one of the principal tourist
attractions in the city of Montreal. If your- holiday plans
include a trip to la bell cite, we hope you'll drop in to see our
Panorama. It's open Monday through Friday and, since the
Panorama is so popular, we would suggest you phone or write
to us first to' make a reservation. That way you'll avoid any
delay' between your arrival and the time the tour gets under
way. The phone number is -870-8895 in Montreal or write: Bell
Canada, Panorama of Progress in Telecommunications, 601
Lagauchetiere St., W., Montreal 128, Quebec.
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NO WEEP -IN
A general Goderich
"weep -in" for Mr. and Mrs. Ben
Holman does not appear tohave
resulted from Town Council's
ilejection of their last week's •
'request to
our only 'public
access to river mouth property•
be sealed off.
This ruling does not„ exactly
leave the Holmans devoid of any
water -frontage As well as most
of a mile of superb sand beach
just north - of of the Maitlaiiid's
mouth, they claim ownership of
both banks of the river up to the
CPR bridge and all of Indian
Island. As water -rights are ce
include4 in their. .claims, no boat
• may land, or fisherman stand, on
any of the above mentioned. A A.
scant 30' strip at the east end of
the break -wall, through some
oversight; seems to be, still
public. ,.derenimble type-; With
a bit of mountain -goat in his:
blood, ,can scramble: down to
launch a canoe or light boat. It is
this last chink, in an otherwise
complete monopoly of land -type,
generally considered` to be' a
,,public heritage, that the Holmans
consider •a threat to their private
plans.
' l y the same self-centered
reasoning, Mr. and Mrs. Holman
could request the removal of all
fisherman from atop .fof the
breakwall as their forms conflict.
with a clear view ,of the sunset.
Snug Harbour perhaps should be
closed lest it serve as -41 base for
.trespassers' crafts.
• The whole farcical situation
calls for ° Government
investigation, and, if necessary,
expropriation. Such action is
„ now underway , in certain Lake
\Erie, beach resorts, - where the
provocation was much less.
J. C. Hindmarsh.
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