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SEAFORTH, ONTARIO, JANUARY 24, 1979
A nein era
Naming Edward Schreyer Canada's governor-general' may just turn
out to be the best thing the Trudeau -government has done fot. this
country.,
Anyone who watched Mr, .Schreyer's installation, to the vice=regal
post Monday on TV couldn't help but speculate on how much promise
the former premier of Manitoba brings to the job.
Without casting any aspersions at:alt et previous governors-general,.
we have to admit that Mr. Schreyer's appointment turns a corner and
brings anractive, committed and contemporary man into what has peen
a fairly low key and honorary position.,
The new governor-general is a' man for all seasons,, a -westerner
who understandswestern alienation, a federatlist .who .understands
Quebec's aspirations, and a social democrat who know it's important
that all Canadians share in our country's wealth.
He'll make, a valuable- contribution to this country's -public life at a
time when public confidence in leaders of our political parties is pretty :
While he's not elected and therefore his .powers are and should be,
carefully limited we-'°he'li have:untold occasions.
,...x pduring r g the
next uncertain five years to sat an example, to' listento' rd'
pl , t o tnat'y
Canadians and p pass, their messages ge to the Prime minister, whoever he
m"ay be,
Just interes
as. ing l _.
r t, y, the young and ilveiy. Schreyer family shiould
provide fQr some fun at Government House and giye other Canadia
familiesinspiration.
o -
e al an
n C di �•i
I a oris welcoming h
the Sc
jlire er� m asgovernor
y•-�r 9
general. We're in for interestin i • s.
9 g Utiles. ,. `.
•By. Bila. Smiley
with the. rage
It's hard to head into a new year with a (what a mess the Y've•made of things). But 1
or
high heart, wheneverysecond headline think it makes more • sense to subsidize
: -
news announcer, hitsYou •anot er' farmers;for, growingwheat so that the rice
smarmy n s y h p
blow where it hurts - right on the financialof bread may be'.kept .down, than it does to
bone• ' It doesn't tingle, like a crack on the -subsidize American industrial'giants so that.
funny bone, Rather it produces a dull, sick . a few thousand jobs will be created.
ache that you know isn't going to go away in I•know the answers: we need the jobs and'.
a. few •minutes, " the taxes industry will produce: But the
All the staples of life in our once- farmers will still be here, growing wheat,
wonderful Canadian standard of living are when huge new factories, have closed, the
taking another spurt in the • inflation race: jobs have vanished, and the Americans: are
bread, butter, cheese, milk, meat, vege-;gone, laughing ail the way to the bank. It's
tables, fruit. There's a plausible explanation .':happened;,before. and will again.
for every increase xs usual_ I,don't blame the Yanks, If you can find a
But 1 have a deep, abidingsusp
i ion oA
dsuckerwi1li
willing to give .you' huge' subsidies,
,
a w e axe c s"o t.use.,him? •
if I had', :the research facilities I Il bet l could rid s e t t , ,gg e; J,,,ns,:}vliy.no
W , subsidiesu and the` to
hen dryx
h'ave's stibpg�feeling that, when the ]?•
the'bas>c commodity rises, say, 20 per cent.concessions•. period ends, you can always go.
the middlemen , the big food chains with home, taking your marbles with you. No skin
their bandy outlets. the supermarkets, add off yours.
another five per cent to make it a nice round ; Don'tthink I like subsidies of any kind, I
25 per cent, fully realizing that the harried hate them. Nobody ever subsidized my
shopper hasn't time; or resources to figure. father. Andy when he `went broke in:the
out whether the increase on the shelves'is depression, he and my mother had to.
justified.. . scramble to keep usoff the relief roles. But
they did.
One would have to shop with a callculator That of course, was in the days when •
in one hand, a copyof the Financial Post in individualenterpriseep: was possible,before
..
t other, and a
he th mind like a steel trapto be"
e' and
ve ot- so big and facet ss n
abletopr proveI havedeep in
e rything $ ,, _ , R
p o, a But a feeling deep unwieldy,: whena person wasstill a human
my bones that it's so, Heard of any big food being, not just a number buried in the
bowels of thatvast conglomerate 't at is
o h
government today.
No. I don't like subsidies, but I do believe
in fair shares, or as near as we can get in our
system. And that brings me from food
fiddling to taxes. ..
Every year 1 read the early January
reports of changes in the• tax structure. And
every year••1 •almost weep. It's the rich wot
get the gravy. 'it's the poor wot • gets the
blame,`, as the old song goes. This year, as
usual, the poor get a few minor concessions;
but with inflation, wind up shorter than ever,
or supermarket chains going broke lately,
truing to keep prices down? Any liquor
stores. Any big oil com 'Paniies:Nope. just
round it off to next figure above the increase,
never below andet the c nsumer make
1 o r up
the ;difference. After all; it's a free
enterprise system stem we'reliving in. devil
y , And
take the: hindmost. •
Ts,;type of swidl is
only pennies, when
you look at one item. But it doesn't take
thosepen ies longturn n to t rn intomillions of
dollars when the manipulators gather in
their counting houses at the end of a year.
And it's a kickthe solar plexus for '
in p the The rich.get the concessions, but with
o ii
people .., n low or limited incomes trying to their money invested' at fat interest rates,.
keepfoetid on the table. If l were an old -age
, $ Come out ahead of the game. The poor don't
pensioner and had nothingelse to live on I d
P ,, have investments. Theyhaveto operate in
be scared stiff to pick up .the morning paper the market place,
and learn what •new item would have to be
�,,.. It's all very complicated and 1 won't go
banished 1 'from the menu. into it here. But putting it roughly, I reckon
Ifwere a young mother with a raft of kids 'that. if you were a totally disabled veteran..
and a husband out of work. I'd contemplate _with_ 2 kiaft .a w'rking t£e. W might,
eating the kids, starting with the ,youngest just might, have the .same income, as the
and most succulent, rather than trying to pension of a politician who served two. terms,
c time feed them was soundly thumped the last time atound;
I'm no* an economist, i. .
nom t, thank the Lord. and had returned to his fat law practice.
`•e editor: '
Path
Likes
rom
My mother gave me a subscription a the
Huron Expositor, this past Christmas. T
receive the weekly Paper 'Ana 10 a.m. ' rovides.
Thursday of the week the paper is
published. 1 feel this is eittellent service,
and feel you Must be complimented .on
your protftptnese.. '
Having been *way ftoirt the totheittnity
t' service
for nearly twenty -rive years, I do enjoy the.
news, and- contact 'which thep Pa er
Yours.truly
Ruth (Keyes) Carter
307 Leinster St.
Woodstock. Ont.
rn.theyeais'
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inter .
Pone
JANUARY 24,,,1879'
The New Presbvt"erian Church in E =mond
vide will be formally opened Sunday
February 2nd, Tb.. rdination of the new.
pastor Rev. Janes McCoy will take place'on
r }
Feb uar t 3rd where Rev, M. Bar"'will
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preside:• Rev, .Musgrave will address the
people;
iii -S -af
A.t the first meetg of the pew e Orth
Council Wm, Ellliot was re -appointed clerk
5�_
at solar of 1.50.00 being2x.00 overlast
3 Y s.
year. Messer$. James A,' Cline and ,W$:.
Watson were re -appointed auditors. ,:
The roads leading to the town, especially
froththe north are in such a condition as to
be almost unfit for travel.
Wm. Weed of McKillop was chopping
wood on the farm of,W, Bell when he met
with 'a painful accident. He- was felling •a
large tree when it lodged against another
tree and both trees fell., He was unable' to
escape and the limb of one of the trees strucfC'' '"
him on the shoulder inflicting several':
JANUARY 29, 1904
Dr James Hogg of .Preston was here this
week on account of the illness; and death of
his •fathet'.-.lames Hogg of McKillop.'
The little sonof W . udmore metwith a
t m Cit
painful accident. He spilled .a kettle of
R P 1 .
bgilin'g water, <scalding.hisface and hands.
The T e roads were so bad that the south mails
were brought, from Bruecfield in a cutter. ' It
is a mighty sad road that conductor McGee:'"
8 Y
can't get through in someway. •
Monday night was the coldest of this
winter. -The t r,noneter - registered 18
degrees below zero: with a stiff east wind,
blowing:
1-1, Goltz of .Brucefield has purchased the.
back 25 acres'from•the Mex Thompson btPon far..
Wm, Beattie of^•$rucefieid w,lio has been,.
'carrying on a general store'bustness herein
the Simpson .store has disposed of his, stock
to Mr, Hazelwood of Norfolk County:
• ' JANUARY 2S 1929, •
,l•anies Armstrong and Mrs. Colchough of
Constance have had radios -installed in their
homes, . •
Butchering is now the order of theday at
Hillsgrecn.
riNeIson Govenlock.ofWinthrop attended a
telephone convention in. Toronto this week:
The weather thus far at Hensall has been
rather - unfavourable for the open : skating
rink, ,
f`lvtr: and. Mrs. W,R:
.i ,hter ' The litth, ti,u� tG .•
n salt w taken to the'hos hospital
Dou�gafi, Hensall, , as p
an Sunday and an operation was performed'
for: mastoid.- .•
a co
ee causes
ehind the scenes
by.Keith Roulston
Miss Ruby Young of Walton. has gone to
Tweedwherewill c - duties '•
Ts ted -she ill ommcnee,her ut
teaching school.
The snow has$ one clown so that cars.
can run between Walton and Seaforth which
is a great convenience to many
fl rcn e Bennet Walton, is having t
he
upstairs of his store remodelled. Thomas
Johnston and, Alex 'Dennis are doing the
work.
David Bruce of Cromarty sold his farm,
recentlyl and will hold a sale.
Inthe best hockey game seen in Seaforth
In years, the New Hamburg Junior O.H.A.
hockey team defeated the Seaforth Juniors
by 54 iii 10 minutes over time.
The annual congregational meeting of
First Presbyterian churclaia seas held 9n
Monday evening
Annie: Wilson, widow of the late Andrew
Young, passed away at her :'home on
h e
Goderich Street East, in her 79th year. y a
Young was thedaughter of the late
Alexander Wilson.
George Muria of Brandonand a former
well-known resident' of this town was here
,
who
"nhis .mother • -Mrs,_.Ellenvisiting MurrayY
Marra
is ill , with pneumonia.
The storm on Tuesday night filled in the
•
ace
roads again making even the highway heavy.
for Cars.
• ..JANUARY 29,1954:
James Doig, recently elected Reeve of
Tuckersmith, is attending Huron County
council
Fr theme
:Front .' moment nt that the "traditional
Haggis entered the auditorium to the
singing of the Auld Lang Syne, until nearly
three hours Ia was no doubt as to.
_.. ter tIc
the "sentiments of the 200 guests, who
attended the annual Lions Burns' night
dinner in the Community centre. The Burns
night ;program .was arranged by J Scott
CIuf and included selections by D.L. Reid.
Ena Lillico, J.R. Spittal, •. Mr. and Mrs.
James ' A. Stewart. Mrs. F Kling, Fred
Willis, : Miss Marion Lillicoi" and ' Peter
Malcolm. Rev. Alex Nimmo of Wingham
was the guest speaker.
yr. and Mrs. HenryWeiland of E mond.
•
ville
celebrated their (,4th :wedding anniver-
sarY4 Yuietl at their homer
Simon Hallahan of Blyth was elected head
of the Blyth Agricultural Society
Mrs. P. Holman of Walton was -presented
with a silver'plate at the W.A. and W.M.S.
meeting
intolera
Wewe
o a good• deal tO the strengths our
pioneers btougtYt With thoiiY,.to'the " clew
lands of North America. Unforunately, we
still stiffer from some of the weaknesses
they brought. •
I was doing some historical research
recently tv,hen I ran across' probably the.
first major case of religious paranoia in our
history: h began with'the'Fenian raids: The
Fenians' were Irish; who wanted to brings
freedom from Britain for Ireland. But they
weren't Irish fighting in Ireland, theyavere
Irish Americans Who mistakenly thought
they coulddrive the British out of Ireland
by attacking Canadians. They spread terror
throughout southern Ontario and in the
lepg ;run •recce one of, the contributing
factors. to Canadian. confederation because
the colonies wanted to unite for defensive
purposes;
The Fcnians had brought Irish problems
to North American soil 'and in doing so,
they also 'gave root to the countervailing
forget the anti-Catholic di:.trtist of Protest-
ants. •
ts. Reading about the Fenian raids now.
sounds funny,
sounds but it is also, tragic.
Protestants actually believed that Cathii •s
living itt their own Communities were
readying their guns to join the Fenian$:
when they invaded:-••-�
:I ".
n , .Win gham, one night, the people of
Lower Town were roused with the warning
that the Penia
ns e ns w ere 'invading:. The •
Catholics, •the residents were told, were
moving out their `wives- and children to
prepare for the battle, The residents got up
and prepared fthe i i
p p or evasion but when
nothing happened, they decided they'd
better sedat
wh was going On in the Upper
Town, a half mile or so away, and found
everyonc'aslcep, including the Catholie5'..
The next morning it turned out that the
Sound that had been uiistaken for the
Catholic exodus was actually a drunk, who
r' kicked his family out into the cold. 4
Stich incidents,• were pentitol in towns,
and villages and',outposts throughout the
area. The distrust: they shote among the
r"
..atholics and .Protestants is a continuing
thing. As a youngster 1 renetnber the
Orange e: parade as ,something of a .
g joke, an
excuse for 0,,.big drunk. Somehow the.real
meaning ofdidn't ing of it all d do t came through. tor
$
some of thds attending it was indeed a
chance f°or a good drunk, For' others,
though, it was, and robably Still Is
$ .P Y ,
serious business. They sec a, real danger hi
Catholicism and feel' they must fight t'o•
keep, Cut iadda,,statinchly. British and Prot-
estant;
W>
c.
end' u
t tothink of bur national crisis as
being French: versus English ,buts wonder
how :much of it was Protestant: versus
Catholic. lathe eyes of the staunch Orange
followers, :the •Quebecois• were ' doubly
dani,ed:• first they ,wcr' Catholic; second
they weren't British- They didn't want tO
fight British wars. They didn't take pride in
` the -Empire:: Strangely, most of our.
• pioneers came to Canada. because of,
injustices done to them by the system • in
the old country butoffice here, suddenl
y.
Britain became the epitorne•;of all that was.
ood and those who argued against $ g gainst that
were traitors.
The first crisis that. pitted Quebec'
. a'$nst the rotestant and English-'speak-
ing
n lish=s eak
P gP
ing provinces came with the'Riel rebellions
• Riel" wasn't French Canadian, he was
actually a half-breed, but he was Catholic
and he spokep French and the Orangemen
of .Ontario were out to get him That was
'good enough to 'win him support in
Quebec; The animosities bent Up' in 1885,.
have$ rown and hardeneduntil we have
the mess we are in today:
An acquaintance who owns a grocery
Store was saying recently thathe got, into
trouble with some of his 'customers if the
cans.:dn the shelf were turned the wrong
way so that the French side of the label was
out: 1 thought surely he was exag eratitig
B,
.to make a• point but then there was the
• C,B'.C,, television program M an Alive last
week interviewing an old Orangeman who
talked aboutjust that and having to turn
$
the, can. 'aill.the,..t ay around" to be able tO
„read what was in the can. He didn't think,
that was right, he said. '
M litst ;reaction to such s tateinc
My t rite is
anger. Such a huge sacrifice to make to put
' a little understanding into our country,
. Such a shame .to have to' turn the can all
the way around. •
But then .the second rdactittn is one of
deep sadness One hundred,. even 150
yearsafter the pionecrS cane to this new
country, we ate still plagued b y their 3etty
prejudices. Today, with, the growing, hat,
ionalistn in Quebec,'such intolcran is
, ce s
growing harder on the opposite side of the
question AS well. The chance of under-
standing, of brotherhood meths_ to be:
lessening. every day. How sad. •
not perhaps saddest of all is 'that the
iMoss ootsoth s whole ssin the s au
r tri, lay t rich
belief of Catholics on one side and
• ., !- 1
inherit
Protestants,onthe a hertway to
and they
-only; had the,txue � ay to God.
The intterance:'the hatred has all been
A
Practiced in the: name of the. Prince ; of
Peace, ht � anw o .. en•mh said we should love
our, fellaw. man:,
Amt
by Karl Schuesst.elr
Winter Bahhh!
Well, this is it.
.Winter.
Bahhhl And while I'm. at it, I'll say
' Brrrt",
We're right smack dab into the middle of
winter and there's norunning out. Forward
or backwards. We're stuck -•right on dead.
center.
I heard a fellow say the other day that
when he was growing' up on the farm, his
dad counted'Febrttary 1 as the midwaypoint.
If they had used only half of their stored feed
for the cattle on February .I, that meant
tte�'d have enough to carrythem through
Y $ g
until spring.
,
Until that good• time comes, l m stuck with
'the; wonders of winter. I'm stuck with one
nlutilated mailbox. In its;place•Fve nailed Up
a metal oil can. At: the minute it's dangling
on the post by only one"bent nail: One good:
whiff of wind and she's down again, Or a
rumble of a snow plow going by, would bring
her down for good.
I say. These snow plows only have to Write
near nt mailbox and she's a oner. C
figure it out: The snow'-plowers say they
never aim for the mailboxes, but: there she
.
is.dead in the snow every winter.
Then there are the cars. The wonders of
getting the car started. I have two to play
with --really three. -with My tractor, I tan
keep busy half a day trying to start my' tin
cans'out: itt the drive way. Rearranging them
' to the east of the house or to the• front of the
house-.depe'nding on which bile :1 want, to
take out for the day,
And in between the snowstorms, 1 wait'fdt+'
HarveyAhrens to come down and shovel me
out with his: snowblower.. Harveys decided..
'I don't need both ends of nty circle drive
bldWit out, One ends ei otigh,'he says. That
way it takes more: talent and time On my part
to maneuver all. three of my four wheels
around.
Then there"s' the wonder o1 ,garbage
M'three and 'four green garbage
pick-ups. ,Y g B 8,
bags wait each week to et. icked u ": And if
.g F„ P
they're lucky, the garbage men get to them
before the neighborhood dogs.do. And. if l m
luck mywife will .learn about -.the new
Y
^ ick -u day and not insist. on
garbage pick-up Y
kee tin garbage 'bas on the' roadside for
P g8 g, $.
• days:and tempting, . every snowplow and
beast that go by. • •
Then there are the rtici acioads
t Iia pct n on
T.V. Solite bear of a man is hibernating in
his livingroom for the -winter and growling
"1 hate winter"Then in walks this fun loving, •,
's fellow e' gwinter is
powtelling me howgreatw to is.
All You have to do is get out of your Chair
•,
andgo out and a snow, Take u :
n enjoy all the a e p a
win s_ Hiking. ter port 'Skiing. 1'it i g 1•lockey. Ice
:Skating: S. nowmobil- ing,: Anything
Be a
sport. . ustremember. Winter if fun.
Okay, so 1 took his advice.
I went out and
boughtmyselfkii
a pair of s i s, Not new, of
i
course. I sawthis ad in the paper used skus
Poles. Shoes. The works. Hardly used. :.
• This was my big bargain ticket to enjoythe
Winter. And after I av the man "
__tri gave o the money 1
asked him why he wasn't skiing anymore.
Ile to told me he
i lost 1's• h s appetite after his
friend on skids careened into a tree and Split
into all kinds of pieces,
He said he hoped I'd like skiing though:
Oh, 1 do alright. The skiffs are standing,
upright in the halhvay and they haven't
touched any snow yet. But they announce
to anyone who conies in the front door.
There's a winter enthusiast in this house.
The ski shoes' are a bit too snug for
comfort.
comAnfodtttny wife tells a veryo e
at our age we •
should be cross coutitty skiing. That's More
our speed. Hills, spills and thrills need
yottes bones, she claimts.
A bargain pair of downhill skiiat iinydnitt
Bahhl' Winter: I'm Stuck with it. And you:
.,_.. every ottowf'liike telling rot
cirri bet, ort eve , . • . Only .. ,
counting the days re a ng,, Only SS days to
got