The Huron Expositor, 1979-01-04, Page 2-
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ISEAFORTH; ONTARIO, JANUARY 4, 1979
Year of the "Child
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., Unless you live a very sheltered life, fl's almostirnpqssible\p4cipt o
know that 1979 has been, declared International Year Of by
the United NationS. ° - , • '
NOW no one will have much objection to that. 'Being ir f4vouryaL
.children is as 'nocuous as supporting apple pie.
The. Year of the Child can in nq way be considered subversive, aS
, International WOmeni Year was in some quajers a couple of years
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We, hope too, that . Children's Year is; more successful in findind-
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solutions to problems kids have than Women's Year was in changing_
the lot of most of the W'or'itisaatornen. ' • '
There are lots of imaginative programs that allYonelaan get itivolved
in to mark the year, from starting day care care or block. Parent
Programi to, inviting speakers who have a special interestin children. to
' -talk, to local' groups. • "'g•
• We're being urged to think about ,children and their right to mental,
•'. physical and emotional- nourishthent. At the same time we should
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acknowledge that for many children these rights don't exist and urge
. that our governments put more emphasis on educating all of us in the
responsibilities • of parenthood and of being part of a community in
which children are also members. . • ,
Notions I ike,the One that parents "owntheir children and therefore
can abuse or neglect them if they are so inclined, are we hope, a thing
of the past. •
The Ontario Government has not budgetted a great deal of money• ,
' . for Chndreri's-Y.ear ,projects: It has preferred to stress that citizens can
concentrate on the kids and their needs without necessarily spending a •
lot. . • •
'That's fine. But we should recognize that this province,.. and the 'rest
of Canada; is spending many rbillions each year on Custodial PAre for
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• children gone wrong, disaster cases who might have lived normal lives
if more money and effort had -been 'spent -on their rnothers'ilrelfater
care or their fathers' non existent job skills, for example,.
The year of the Child, ve think, means recognizing that children
don't ask to be both and that in many dates, they come into this world
with two and a half 'strikes against them. ` • • • .
The more we can -do-at the beginning or before the beginning of a '
child's life, the more we increase her or his chance, not just of survival, ,
but of flourishing. •
, We wish government programs showed more interest in
the preventative role they should be- playing, •
What are you going to do for the Year of the Child?
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JANUARY 16,4879
On account of the stormy weather and -the. •
impassable state of,the roads the attendance,'
at the -Riffarrn Convention at ,,Hensall Was
verv.small, There was hoWever, a sufficient
number present to organize a meeting when
it was resolved to adjourn the convention
until January 17th to be held on that day in
PurdY's hall
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As the Bayfield stage from Seaforth
. neared the village one nighOrecently, some
party fired either at McPherson the driver
or at the Rey. Mr. Moffatt. the Presbyterian
, Minister of the oJd Kirko was on board
the stage at the time. Very luckily the parson
had a carnal weapon for his on protection
but poor Mr McPherson had none. Both
men say ffiev, have enemies._
The snow blocked the railway on Tuesday.
There was no mail recei ed in towrn
The new high school formally opened on
Tuesday last. -
Albert Aikenhead ,of Brucelieldwhile
assistingnis brother ata threshing met vkith-
Lan accident. While engaged in driving the
hors power his foot 'slipped 149 the
machiln. ut. by promptly stopping .the
. horS•esjbi's leg was 'saved from being badly
crus ed '
JANUARY .8 1994
• On Christmas eve the en(plOyees of the
Seaforth Flax Mill waited on Mr. Owen
Geiger of the Seaforth Flax Mills, and
presented him with a nicely worded address
and a handsome Christmas gift.' •
Sugarand spice
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. James Sproat' his, sold his residence consolation to Dorothy Drager. the men's as the student, with the highest standing for
adjoining St, Thomas Church to W.T. Box first prize went to Bay -Mond Carter and the -1953. • This IS . the fourth year that Mr.
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for the sem of $480,00. • gentlemen's consolation to Alvin Farquisoni' ,....,Whitney . has ' presented. cedar chests tia
VVm., Scott of Tuckersinith delivered in Boys, and girls from Hensall. have gone ' students with the highest standing in •
towm seven very fine 3 year old steers of his ,,forth to other -places and have distinguished Seaforth High. ' , • .
own ,feeding. They .' were purchased hy,,, themselves in many walks of life and among A happy evening was spent at the home of
Robert' Winter, , ' . , ." - 'ihem is the Rey. Andrew Boa who has • Mr. and Mrs; 'Witter Stewart during the ,
Wm. •Gillespie •Wnei visited his parents, accepted a call to Baynharn Union Church Christmas vtvielc• when they entertairred ,the
'Mr. and. Mrs. John Gillespie left to resume near AlYrnei. • • • statf of e -Seaforth Co-op • produce .:„.0,-,•••,..
his' duties as teacher. in the , Shipka ,school. The first part of the week in Hensall has department.' Euchre' was played. with the
He has been re-engaged at an increase in been the coldest that we have had 4in• the honours' going to Ray Hodgert, Mrs: E. • ,.'• '.
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salary. . * , ' locality. for some time •. ' Lilleco consolation Bruce HodgertSand„Mrs
"The New :Year . was ushered in by a .The manssfriends of James Robb, are glad , Charles Felicar. The highlight of the evening ,.
scorcher SO far as the weather . was to learn that he is recovering from an attack came as a big surprise to the Stewarts when
concerned. -' • : ` ' ' of pleurisy.' • , • ' * . . - Roy Hodgert and Mrs Alex Wright t•
F.G. Neelin has removed the eustoms ' A.A. MeLennon • is • moving into the presented them with a floor lamp from the
office to the Bank of COIllitterC block and he residence he remodelled on High Street. . staff. . ' • ' .- . .
will also reside there-- ' • ., • - _ -_. __ ._ ., _Milber Keys ef,Varria_naiL.purchased filo . A railway jigger. .that ran away from its ., ,• •
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Theodore .Holland .rof Walton has rented McLean farm on the, Mill .Road at present, - C.P:It:station-caused-considereahle-excit_e-___ ,,•-•-,---. 4-.-
voais, .„-. • " 1,, • . Last Saturday rain licked up the snow hut' -4,district. Harold Stnalldon And his assistant -
i , .M.0 s e; a term of • leased by Mr. Nicholson.- ' , ment and discomfiture ' to the 'Walton
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NOt Nvithstandinktlie storMy weather and -•
/since then we have had severe weather and _ Clarence Flood had•stopped-two miles west • • •
the bad state of die...roads a good supply ofsr-.._the-reads-are---,in poor shape. for ears-. of Wilton. In some way. the •brake on the
headings 'and-TofS: is being teamed to •'''' . • • .,,,,,,,,... „ , . jigger disengaged, the engine went into gear. '
McDonalcIs Mill in Walton. . . ' L'uluilAY 89154 ' ' '• and the jigger was away with two men in hot
ploughed the Beechwood'ilde road front the • -
-Peereell Miss Mary Beale for more than 40 years
supervisor, and chief__nperator ' for he. -- -
Messrs O'Loughlin gs. and
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Jarina'in Will 'Mark 1. -;i:; • -90t' It 'birthday •
- • McKillop, Logan and Hibbert telephon
i lin concession to the'liuron Road. e------: January 16 aahe home of his daughter Mrs.
• • company at the company% office in Dublin James Henderson
JANUARY 11, 1929' passed .away in Stratford, :
. Tuckersmith Township has elected James
Miss Vera Gardiner of Walton entertained Miss Maja floebal of Hensall and student , Doi • R •
Doig as eevc.
a number of young people of the -village at . ...at Seaforth . District High School was Was installed as •
her hc,-.3e on Friday evening. Theeve,ing . •exceptionally proud of one Christmas gift ' prrsirdsentjoohfnthefatalodries Auxilliary. to the ,
was spent in playing euchre„ the first prize she received this Christmas. A lovsldar . Canadian Legion. She succeeded Mrs. Geo.
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,going to Laura Hay, and the ladies • chest was Presented to her by G.A. WhitneY . ,. • ,
Be' hind the sce. nes ,
by Keith Roulston,
By Bill Srniley
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Her,e we.are staggering into another year.. •
and nothing done. not a single resolution
made. Ah. vvell. I don't believe in r.esolut inns
anywayexcept for tbt. fun of breaking
A man does the „beSt, he can. and ,i11% the
well-intentioned resolutions in thO ‘Norld
won't make hinr.daany bette.r.
Looking back over the last year1 find it
was much like any other: ups ' and cinwns.
topSjes and turveys, ins and outssideways
d backward, "no real progress. but no 'real
retreat. either.' •r•
My son •managed to survive, iiiiinner year
Among the pirrhanas and phs thotis and
poisonous snakes Of Paraguay 1 h. is now a
• gratuate masseur and aettibitictiii ist. hoping
to Make enough from his nevi' trade to come
homefor ivisit..-titior live year..S.
1 Can. hardly wait for him to arriN e. My
teeth and hair are still falling-- outins
arthritis is giving me hell. I have a ..bhin
. backand 1 could use a little free massage
and actiptineutry. E.en thotigh I'd prefer a
'\ masseuse. And ail aCtiptittettlITSS,I ,
My daughter lurched from one crisis to
another, as is her .wonti. but managed •
, chalk up another degree and eltarm •.or
weasel her way into a job as a high school
teacher, after six months of detirth: Any sear
or any decade now, she N.Nort't be expecting
handotitsfrom the old man. .
My grandboys got a year older. sur‘ ed
varidus fatal diseases, acquired some very
colorful expressions that 1 cannot repeat.
and elicited from oqe beleaguered babysitter
the Statenienf that they were the worst kids
she'd ever tried to handle.
The Old Battleaxe and 1 battled it out for
"another 12 months:lost a little skin here and
there. each WOn a nuMber of skirmishes. but •
neither won a decisiv• battleand the war
:sees on sometimes told. SOMetirneS hot,
We had a great trip to 'Europe that lasted
three weeks, and cost Me so much that 1
Won't be able to retire until 1 rit., 83at last
reckening, • • ' '
Etter/thing went up again: insurance.
.taxes, heating, And everything else came
'down: Snowice off the roe the Canad a .
dollar. the confidence of the Liberal party.
branches off my big oak hc.e-' and the
number of years left to live .%
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It was a year like any Other: fraught with
terrors and horrors and Oart and misery
and depression and londlitteSs• all over tile
world' and in our private liVet. 'But also
replete with simple joys and sudden hq
pitiess and special moments and (Wee;
whelming love and occasional peaee,
Wender what '79 will be like, }leek,
don't have to ask. 1 know, tell be the same
last Year* only Mere SO.
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•Ms to rotten old rusty cars Will be e'veti
rottener and rustier. and lll have to bus. a
third -hand turkey to replace them. -
W. students will be even' thicker in the
thatah than this year s crop. and I'll have to
reach even further into the ‘vell to try to
motivate them. There 's onls so much- water
in that s ell Thcn it turns to mud. SO be it. '
MY wife will go on thinking that listening
to her worry, about her daughter her son,
- her brother, her father., her grandchildren.
• her sister -in -lilt% are more important than
mv reading the paper. •
, My grandhoys will go on being a source of
utter delight and • utter despair la me.
sapping ,my strength at the Saint; tifile 05
tht give nit itek:% life. ,
PIS ill, go up ‘;is 'per 'cent arid
inflation ti ill up 13 per pent. So 1 11 stop
eating •beet . whichis hard to Mangle ,witlt
ptirtial plate anyway. '• •
• I'll mike about 800 .deeiSionS. BaSed oti
past performance, -38 of them ss ill 'be
ts rongaccording to inv viik She hill Make
400 deeisions and 400.of thein %c ill be right
on. •
son skill isInd up Uhl) :1161.11: of 524
• profit from his new profession and -wire
tor airtare home ler a N kit •
1'11 lose a fevt more chunks' of niv corpus.
seat' it 55 as 4 ft;t1 teCtli and a piece
tit nose. In *:-0 it cotdd bt. ans thing: gall
. lis er, prostate. cis othef unnIn
tionollics l'sc got lots of parts. '
1111 %tin back up Ot1 my roof this
...* I criish throtigh thL ttemplister on
• .111.7.•in ltig stiitvelline I11itrritt ss ife, its
" The last fewyeeks the big news in Canada
has been ,inade. not by ilit politicians, for a
change, but by the businessmen. Lin:
.fortunately, the news they've made hasn't -
keen any better than the news made by the
pqltticians
The fascinating world of big business has
been taken out of the stock markets and
thruSt onto the front pages in recent weeks,
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It s like Monoply on a huge scale to watch
the offers and counter-offers, the takeover
bids refused, acceptedand reversed. For
"we ordinary mortals its a little hard to
derstnad just what it all means,
In the long run to the companies. In
question such as Sinipsons. • the, Bayi,
MacMillan-13Ioedel and the restir probably ,
doesn't mean much at all . The operations
will stay much the same. None of these Were
companies in financial trouble. All were
prosperous, Now a faceless bunch of stock
holders has been replaced by another
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• faceless h unch of stockholders.
The rest of us won't likely,- notite much
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either, at.,.least at present. Things will likely
goalong' nmelt as before, But we're still
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losing something and continuing d very
• dangerous trend,
Simpsonsfor instance. may have been
just one big impersonal coil -many being
swallowed up by •another but it was until
recently an independent company. Therc
was some hope thatit might retain it.04,
independence so that if a,rival like The Bay
started getting out of lineit could be a
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isn't necessarily:better
counter balance. VVhat if The Bay thonght-it
had . a market cornered and either began
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raising prices or Tts service became poor.
There was always the hope with the
independence of Simpsons that it might step
into the marketand provide good com-
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peition. Now that hope is gime. •
• As a country we have already had the,
problem of being. dominated by large
companies. Usually the large companies
have been those controlled outside our
borders. Now even the companies of
Canadian nationality are becoming so huge,
so concentrated in control that they are in a
position to manipulate the public. As has
been pointed out, if Canada had the same
anti-trust legislation that is Ort the books in
the U.S., most of these mergers would never
have been allowed. But in Canada, our
legislation is virtually ineffective.
The conontration is dangerous to the
whole health of the country because to have
a stiong oonomy, we must have not only
compttloon but growth from the bottom. We
need a steady stream of new enterprises,
enterprises that are More flexible and more
imaginative than big corporations tend to he..
The new companies will try things because
they have nothing' to lose while the big
corporation with stick with old, tried and
true methods because they don't want to
take the risks.
Yet this movement up frOathe bottom is
becoming non-eiistent in Canada. For one
thing, there is little encouragement—for
people to get into business these days. For
another thing, the competition from the big
companies is so stiff that survival if very
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difficult for any upstart company that is seen
as a threat to the giants. .
Moreover, with the giants being able to
•• put so much leverage on our law -makers,
taxation and other legislation is helping to
'guarantee that the laws are stacked in/favour
-. of big business and against small As a case
. in point there is the government's coin; ,
pebton bill that has been stalled since the
early 70's because of opposition from big
business. That bill would have halted
mergers such as those that have recently
taknIte'spelaascye.,:for us, the ordinary guy in the
street_to sit back and feet we're helpless
pawns in the whole stuggle and that we can
only hope for government to act, In many
ways we, are just that, but in other ways
we're the people Who not only make such
concentration possible, but indeed Promote
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I'm as guilty of this as anyone else,„
I suspect. When I'm out of tenni say on a
visit to a nearby city, and need a qiiick bite to
. eat, nothing fancy, just a quick meal so I can
• be on my' way where do I stop? Many
thoroughfares in citieS are lined with quick
take-out restuarants. They're , usually a
mixture of nationally known chains and local
small businesses, So what do I choose? Well
usually I'm chicken. Rather than take a
• chance on one of the small placesthat I know
nothing about, I'm likely to stop in at the
nationally known one. The MacDonald',s or
A & W or Burger Chef. I may be turning
down a tremendous meal for the bland
assembly line job.-
When you go to the store to shopand
there's a brand of toothpaste there that
you've never heard Of beside six branas that
spear' millions On :advertising, which do
you choose? I'll make a bot for the nationally.
advertised brands every time, even though
the other may actually be better because
Mare money is Spent on the contents anc less
on advertising:
area 'theh saps r aead
lso oshopping
meant
eanmor eplazasan5lInt horroeu gthepeople
are lining the pockets of big-CM:PO.600ns and
putting independent businessmen out Of
business. Where once nearly everyone
around here shopped in i store Owned and\
operated by our neighbours, today people '
are travelling , miles to huge shopping
complexes with supermarkets big enough to
swallow half Of the main street of our old
• hometoivittSi;
Yes. we Mast litope for the sake of the
country that the government takes some
action in this growing concentratiOn- of
business but things Will never really improve
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until we stop ,being led like sheep by the
companies that can afford to pay most to get
our attention, until we're smart enough to go
beyond the glitter and get down to real value
And quality. If we don't; I guess we suckers
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by Krl Schuessler men-
- Let's use people's names
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I Mercy he hcrent '1/4111inc th it. ss hen the
nun cante 111 •
The picture Prilbe oil int TV Will l`NOil•re
right in the middle of the Skittle% Cap final.
1 II hustle over to ti •
Myzatighter • h !If bt,
teaching job for nutl,i.rig 0t
colorful rertiarks about the ,ini,..,;stry •••'
sehoOl. Stiperintendeil,, VII tell 1101.
• absolutely right. they're All the citric' -*
send het niOney to assuage th,c loss.
I hope 'virtu don't think this is a pessitniStic
column 1 nin never a tseSsimist: merely a
realist. That's life, and that's the hay the
• bright neck year will go.
reopte are scared of another big hike in the
priee of oil. Not me Energy crisis? We don't
h9ve one. If all the politicans in Canada were
Itiid end t0 end. they'd prodirce cnotight hot
lite to heat every 'tense in aft! 'Otintry;
It's simply 'a of attitude,
11, "'ilt ot the worst Things that could happen
IN 14 u. Year. And they probably will. Hut'
you enri cope Witt i filet% Have a'happy.
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On m sailing expedition in' Florida. I
met a phartnacist who worked in the drug
dispctiSittg section of a mental hospital. He
had, this theory. Far -nut names make
' far-out people. And he had people named
'Audard, iFerdinand. Phineis and Aloyslus
in the hospital to prove it.
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The pharmacist claimed aperson with 4,-„,
freaks; name tends t0 live up to that "
distinction. And he said such a person 15 50
ridiculed by people. that he develops in
abnormal and uninntil ways..
, And when I watched at TV specialthe
other night on skater .and painter Toiler
Cranston. I began to think maybe tht;,
pharmacist/was right. Tollei-ii's hardly a
household word -changed the thole' ityle
of figure skating into an Art form of ballet •
atid drama, And, MS tnuitting-well..to tall
• it different ts to be kind. Wierd might be
more acettratc,.. •
At the end of the priagratn. when a
.._vventan told him she knew someone else
named Toilerhe just smiled and said,
"No. that can't be. 'there's only, one
Toiler,"
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personality, .
. I've always maintained a decent name it '
about the kindest thing a parent ean do for,
his kid. But 1 tso farther. At this season of
new re al 'tint) and peace On earth goodwill
• to men . I have a proposal. Since everyone
owns 4,,•trarne. why not use it? Why not call
a person by his name instead of just '"hey, •
you or nothing?
• I'm convinced: YOU convey or deny
affection by your Use of a person's name, ,
Have you ever noticed/ If someone s
angry with you'1 they never call you by your
name. They never even look at you.
Haim you noticed, If sornetme's not on '.
good terms with you, they keep a
distance -a good space between? They
never would think of corning up real
close or touching y
Have you noticed? YOU feet so good
when your own children call you "Dad" or
`Nom". You knoss something's not quite
right if they address you by a noting You
know everything's back to nortnal When
your name reappears again. • • •
Let's fate.it. The name or relationship-.
mom, dad, aunt, grandpa -is a most
intimate and endearing one. It conveys an
even closer feelingthan the person's
name.
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noticed that sons and daughters-in-law
rarely call their new parents mom and dad.
It's usually first names. And yet through,
the years, I know my Own parents
reasured the name mom and dad and
wanted their new sons and daughters to
Call them by that name, Esther and Luther
Would have been unthinkable.
" A name -especially a deeent 0nputsa
mark On a person, It singles him out from a'
faceless void of humanity. A name makes
,10011 a person; a'unique human being. It
represents not only your identity, but your
Very eXistence. Si -When you leave out the,
• rittine, you're practically dropping the
person out of' existence,'
• Make 1979' a people year. Pitt people
bad into existence. Use thcir And
'with a little luck, they'll be decent 01111elli
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