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Elston Cardiff, Servant of All
Early in his long career as member of parliament
Elston Cardiff promised that he would "render service
to all, at any time". He did that for 25 years in the
House of Commons and in eight elections was never
seriously challenged by the strongest candidates the
Liberal party could field. He was 51 years old when
chosen by North Huron Conservatives in 1940 and 76
when he announced his retirement as MP for Huron.
Mr. Cardiff was 80 when he died in a London
hospital Wednesday.
Lewis Elston Cardiff was born in Morris Township
and for 12 years was a member of the township council
meeting in the hall down the concession a little way from
the Cardiff farm. It was a useful preparation for wider
service as it turned out, but Mr. Cardiff actually had no
plan to contest the convention when he went to Wing -
ham on June 27, 1940. ,His name was not among a half-
dozen mentioned in the press.
One of these aspirants declared that Elston Cardiff
alone could win the riding—it was held by a Liberal—
and that Cardiff knew every person in the large audience.
"I don't know if I have any friends .in this hall or
not," said Cardiff when his turn carne,' "but I thought
I was in a very good place to find out. If you see fit to
give me this nomination I will do all in my power to win
the election."
He retrieved the riding by a small majority, won
by 1,810 the next time and after three terms as member
for North Huron continued to represent Huron by ma-
jorities as high as 6,558. In the course of eight contests
there were changes in leadership, changes of govern-
ment, but Cardiff of Huron never met defeat and quit
only when he was ready.
"If you look after your constituents, you don't
have to worry about votes," he said at a convention some
years ago. "The people of this riding have had six
chances to defeat me and did not do it. There must be
some reason." On another occasion: "Unless a men can
keep his mouth shut, his ears open and brain working,
he won't last long at Ottawa."
Always a farmer, and for many years secretary -
treasurer of the Huron Plowmen's Association, Mr. Car -
cliff deplored continual applications for government aid.
"Every time we ask our government for money," he said,
"we lose some of our independence."
He served as parliamentary secretary to agricul-
tural minister Harkness and was chief whip in the Dief-
enbaker administration. He was a staunch supporter of
the former prime minister, but much too independent to .
go along with him at all times.
Mr. Diefenbaker, he said once after retirement,
"is a smart man, but even smart men men sometimes do
foolish things."
A straight -forward. modest. kindly m^n, Elston
Cardiff had a great capacity for making friends. With
greater academic education he undoubtedly would have
been a cabinet member of the government. He served
Huron better as it was and Huron people recognized his
worth as long as he offered himself to them.
Wife Not Second Class
Ruling on mailing lists is not new .to the post
office. Years ago there was an examination of the
mailing list of a now defunct publication of comment
which sometimes evoked the ire of politicians (all
parties). And that may have been the reason for the
harassment it experienced.
The post office department went to the trouble of
visiting the printer and looking over the mailing list
and the inspector found a number of paid subscriptions
in the names of people who were not what he called
bona fide subscribers. They were people whose sub-
scriptions had been paid for by somebody else.
In one case a person interested in the publication
paid in cash for a subscription for his wife. The pub-
lisher was not permitted to send out that copy at the
lower second-class rate.
The publisher of the paper, also now deceased,
protested that if he was not allowed to have subscrip-
tions paid for by someone other than the subscriber,
Maclean's Magazine, Time, Newsweek and other publi-
cations, including Saturday night, should not be allowed
to have the usual low mailing rates for Christmas gift
subscriptions since the people whose names were secured
in that way would not themselves be bona fide sub-
scribers.
The post office said it was a different case.—(The
Printed Word).
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Area Men Elected to Board of Directors
At South Huron Hospital Annual Meeting
Only 28 persons attended the in the hospital at Christmas
annual meeting of the South and Easter was presented with
Huron Hospital Association,
held last week in the hospital.
The hospital superintendent,
Miss Alice Claypole, reported
there were 1,146 patients during
1968, an increase of 150 over
the previous year. Total patient
days were 11,103.
Births numbered 178, an in-
crease of six over last year,
but still down almost 50 percent
from the 340 average the hos-
pital had in its first 10 years of
operation.
A total of 49 deaths were
recorded, there were 948 minor
operations, 1,341 emergency
room visits and 2,620 X-ray
examinations. There were
60,237 meals served.
Miss Claypole said that a
new automatic processor would
soon be available and X-rays
would be completely processed
and dried in nine seconds with
the new equipment.
A new water heater and other
equipment in the laundry greatly
reduced costs in that department
Miss Claypole said the cost of
doing one pound of laundry
was six cents, compared to a
previous cost that ranged be-
tween 11 and 13 cents.
The 90 permanent and part-
time staff put in a total of
146, 895 hours of work and the
hospital administrator noted
that salaries constituted just
under 70 percent of the hospit-
al's total expenditures.
She also reported that most
expenses and supplies had in-
creased, but did point out that
food costs "haven't changed a
great deal" in recent years.
Similar to most other speakers;
Miss Claypole paid tribute to
the work of the Hospital Ladies'
Auxiliary, the Women's Insti-
tutes and all other organizations
who contribute to the hospital
and the patients' well-being.
Miss Ruth Skinner, reporting
for the Auxiliary, said the
group had a very sucessful
year. One of the highlights
was the career day attended
by 110 SHDHS students.
The ladies made 427 visits
to patients and each patient
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They purchased several pieces
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R. E. Pooley presented the
nominating committee report
THURSDAY, APRIL 24, 1969
and only one .change was made
on the board of directors.
Harry Hayter replaces V. L.
Beckers as representative of
Dashwood,
Board chairman Jack Pryde
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