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SEAFORTH, ONTARIO, JANUARY 30,,1964
Conservation Is Answer To Water Problem,
While the unusually mild weather
which -has prevailed duririg much of
January and the heavy rains of a week
ago did much to ease the water short-
age in some areas, the relief at best
can temporary. .
' The fact is that there is a definite
shortage of water throughout much of
-this district. True, the who must
haul water during most of the year are •
' the extreme cases. At the same time
there are countless others in the area
who are experiencing shortages with
increasing frequency.
While the recent rainfalls provide
some immediate relief, unfortunately at
the same time they lead to a false
sense of security—a feeling that "it's
going to be all right, we don't need to
worry."
Farm water •must be considered on
a long term basis, not just When the
supply—or lack of it --creates an em-
ergency. Water always was the most
' essential item on a farm. Because of
enlarged operations, new approaches to
feeding and developing of livestock,
water is even more important and its
use today far exceeds that of a .few
years- ago.
Authorities point out that winter
precipitation for the past two years has
been 25% to 40% less than normal.
And even with normal rainfall in 1964,
a significant rise in ground water rev-
els cannot'be anticipated for a year or
more. This means that in the long
term view the rain and mild weather—
while welcome—provide, by no means, a
solution to the problem.
What is the answer? DrilIewells
in many areas can provide assured sup-
plies. A farm pond may trap and hold
enough water to serve a farm unit. But
it has to cover perhaps a third of an
,acre at a depth of 10 to 12 feet to en-
sure an adequate supply. Such' a pond
would hold 400,000 gallons — enough
for 30 dairy cows for nearly two. years.
It is costly, certainly, but Much less so
than buying and trucking water.
The best, and in the end .by far the
Cheapest answer, is a greater apprecia-
tion of proper conservation practises
and a speeding up of the construction
programs which each of the Conseiva-
don Authorities have developed. In this
way, water now going to waste in the
spring run-offs, in flash floods, can be
held and, given an opportunity of re-
plenishing the underground reservoirs
that nature has provided.'
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Interesting items gleane4 from- M. Jones. -
The ExposPor 'of 25, 50 • - An.eleetric Motor and elee-
,.? and 75 years ago. tric lights have been installed in
I From The Huron Expositor .
the new esime a mD eordyd Dodds
has buildings.ieas e d ,
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February 3, 1939 the McCallum residence on God -
Preparations for the next erich St., and now occupies it.
Dominion general election are Mr. Oscar Reid, son of Mr. ,
going forward steadily at the and. Mrs. J. H. Reid, has gone to
chief electoral -office in Ottawa. Goderich to undergo an opera -
On Tuesday, a 381 -page book of tion in the itospital there for
election instructions, prepared the removal of a diseased Jame
by Julien Castenguay, chief elec- in , his leg.
toral officer, came from the .'1Vr. Robert Ferris is the new
King's -Printer. A week ago the director for Hullett in the Me.
names eif the new returning of- Killop Mutual Fire Insurance
ficers were announced in a see- Co.
tial issue of the Canadian Gaz-
ette. Froin The Huron Expositor
• Weigh scales clerk for seven- . February 1, 1889
teen years, Andrew Little this Miss Etta Cartwright, of the
week tendered his -resignation 9th concession of Hullett, met
to the Public Utility Commis- with an accident recently when
sion. The commission is adver- she was lifting a piece of meat
tising. for applications . for the from -a pot on the stove, it slip -
position.
•The Athletics are leading the scalding it badly.
Duncan Cup series by one point, -
Mr. L. McDonald, of Walton,
and by their showing so far the enterprising mill man, is
seem to be the team that will away
ing club's weekly bonspiel Wed- tTownship, Kent County,
ing out for timber land.
About half past ten on Tilsit's-
this week in Romney ' -
win this famotis_cup.
The silver spoons went to Dr.
P. J. Bechely's rink at the curl -
day night of last week, the, fire
nesday afternoon and evening, alarm was sounded and the db-
.:, with two Wins plus 20. zens turned out in large num-
ped, splashing her face and
A MACDUFF OTTAWA REPORT
-IVIltes--and Midgets played to bets. -"l'heleene of -the fire -was -
a 1-1 tie on Monday afternoon at the brewery in Egmondville,
in the Atom League. In the sec- owned by Mr. Henry Colbert.
and game the Midgets defeated The fire originated in the weirlt
RESHAPE TO REFURBISH ade erected last spring by the There are reports that Mr, Pear- the Cubs 1-0, the goal -getter e -
old guard, which resents Mr. son is prepared to start moving ing Don Stewart, with credit room. This part of the build -
OTTAWA -Between lying vis-ing, together with all the mach -
its more bitterly than any in on other departments and for the assist going to Don Hil-
its to ,Paris and Washington, hirey and contests, was com-
other representative of the new agencies of the Federal GOvern- Us -
Prime Minister Lester Pearson „ pletely destroyed.
order. Rene Tremblay, Minster ment to put an end to the hand- * ,* * *
took. time off briefly in recentDr. Hanover of Seaforth has
without portfolio, acquired a out of jobs and favors ' that ' From The Huron Expositor
days to take.care of a matter been • appointed medical health
of pressing domestic concern, a. officer for IVIcKillop, and Mr.
strogger position in the Cabinet small-time party hacks have January 30, 1914 -
major re -organization of the as Minister of Citizenship and long considered their due. The Marine Department at Ot- William Archibald, Leadbury,
membership and structure'At the same time that the tawa has decided to install at sanitary inspector.
of Inimigration,•while Maurice La -his Government. Prime Minister announced the -the port of Goderich, one of We regret to learn that the
montagne held his own with his
Throughout most of Canada,ministerial shuffle, he also indi- the most powerful electrically dwelling house of Mr. Archibald
transfer from the Presidency of
this reshaping , of the Cabinet the.
of State. For the old sated that some important operated fog horns in Canada. McGregor, of the 5th concession
the Privy Council to become
seemed unlikely' to have much school, there was only one con- changes are to be made in the At the annual meeting of the of McKillop, was completely de-
immediate effect in refurbish= cession, the appointment of way the Cabinet performs its. Indepehdent Order Foresters, stroyed by fire, together with
ing the somewhat tarnished im- Yvon Dupuis as Minister with- business. In the past there have the following officers were elect- all the • contents, on Monday
age of the Liberal Ministry that always been a number of infor- ed; C.P. Joseph Hood; C.R., morning about 5 a.m. The fam-
resulted from a series of early. mal committees of Cabinet set John Aikenhead; V.C.R., H. Ivi- ily was_ asleep in bed when a
out portfolio.
mr,year. sore. recording secretary, T.'"Child awakened them by crying
blunders. Over a periodof time,- Most of the • other changes up from time to time.
a strengthened Government lack the game political signifi- son proposes to establish nine Meths; financial secretary and with a sore throat. There was ;
may be aIle to dispel. the im- cance and essentially represents regular committees covering the treasurer, D. Hay; auditor, W. insurance of $300.
pression of ineptness that lin- shifts aimed at strengthening major policy questions coming -- .—
ers on, an ineptness that the administrative competence before the Governrnent.
stands 'out. only when it is con- of the ministry.
trasted with the great expecta- One example was the propos-
tions for a new Liberal admini- al to shift Ottawa's George Mc-
ith f th Transport De-
stration rather than with the wra rom e n p
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- former Conservative Ministry. partment -to take over the dir-
The Measure
In these days filled with discussions
concerning education, and how to pro-
vide it, we sometimes wonder if in the
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" heat of argument we lose sight of the
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end product. In emphasizing the loca-
tion and size of'schools, do we give en-
ough thought to the kind of citizen the
schools will produce? We are creating
technically skilled people, but are" we
concerned that they be well rounded,
that they be good citizens who recog-
nize and cart about their responsibili-
ties in a democracy?
It is not a new question. Isocrates in
the Greece of 339 BC put it this way :
• • !Whom, then do I call educated, since
I 'exclude the arts and sciences and
specialties? First, those who manage
well the circumstances which they en-
counter day by day, and who possess a
judgment which is accurate in meeting
occasions as they arise and rarely miss
the expedient course of action ; next,
those- who are decent and honourable
Of Education
in their intercourse with all with whom
they associate, tolerating easily and
good-naturedly what is .unpleasant or
offensive in others and being themselves
as agreeable and reasonable to their as-
sociates as it is poSsible-to be; further-
more, those w o hold their pleasures
-always under c trol and are not un-
duly • overcome y their misfortunes,
bearing up and 'them bravely and in a
manner worth of our common nature;
finally, and most important ofall, those
who are not spoiled by successes and do
not desert their true selves and become
arrogant, but hold their ground stead-
fastly as intelligent men, not rejoicing
in the good things which have come to
them . through chance rather than in
those which through their own nature
and intelligence are theirs from their
birth. Those who have a characterth
which is in accord, not wione of -these
things, but with all of them—these, I
contend, are
.possessed of
wise and complete men,
all the virtues."
"Welcome Back To the Big World"
(The Montreal Star) - -
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Presumably the Prime Minister dis-
cussed certain specifics with President
de Gaulle—things like the soon-to-be-
sumed tariff talks in Geneva and
thei ect on Canadian wheat exports
to Europe, Canada's changing defence
policy in NATO, and_the possibility of
French • investment here. Certainly
these thing's were talked over by his
aides ith French officialdom.
Iniportant than the specifics,
howeVer, was the mood of Mr. Pear -
son's three-day state visit to Paris, be-
cause it marked an important step in •
Canada's return to the mainstream of
-world affairs.
This' is not to suggest that we are
going back into the "honest broker"
business of the 40s and 50s—although
there a sizeable job to be done as
between France and the United States.
It is to suggest that we are moving out
of the isolated provincialism into which
we drifted, for lack of coherent foreign
policy, in the Diefenbaker years.
- By all accounts the Paris reception
for the Prime Minister was laid on, as
only thitYrench can do it, with pOsi-
tively regal splendor.
A cynic might suspect that 'somebody
had reminded Gen. de Gaulle that the
majority in Canada is, after all, non -
French arid that he had better outdo
• his reception of Premier Lesage last
May with the__ honors normally reserved
for a head of stath. Indeed; the Prosi-
debt -in his toast to Mr. Pearson, and
Vrersch officials in their talks With Cana-
Quebec,
the changes should have a -
§eafia" of . rection the - Tre4§u7 Board
heiieVer
dra
from Finance Minister Walter
matic effect- in putting a new
Gordon, who is too hard press -
face onthe E'ederal Liberal
ed with other broad policy ques-
lio
Party for they bring to the fore‘ -
ns to give the time required
most young and able men who
to the details of Government
truly represent the vibrant new expenditures and organization.
society that is emerging in that A second example is the trans -
Province, estry to the Post Office Depart -
The transformation is most ment. While there have been a
dramatically underlined by the few exceptions, the general rule
replacement of Lionel Chevrier over the years has been to
by Guy Favreau as Minister of appoint the weakest cabinet tim-
"Justice. iber to serve as Postmaster -Gen -
Mr. Favreau is 46, a brilliant eral. The theory being that in
lawyer and for five years , an that portfolio they could in -
Associate Deputy Minister of volve the Governmentin the
Justice in Ottawa, where he least amount of trouble. That
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fer of J. N. Nichelsori from For -
was virtually unknown outside theory was found wanting dur-
of the mandarin -class of the Civ- ing the last session of Parlia-
il Service Elected- to irlia- ment when Azellus Denis the
The difference is two -fold. A
great deal mote business will
be handled by the committees
rather than meetings of the full
Cabinet, which because of its
size can be prolonged affairs.
More important, it seeins likeiy
that the committees - will as-
sume a great deal more re-
sponsibility becoming almost
inner Cabinets in deciding ques-
tions which fall in 'their par-
ticular sphere.
As Mr. Pearson- suggested, this
step may be only a prelude to
Canada's adoption of the British
system, which would mean an
expansion of the ministry with
departmental duties, but a Cab-
inet -with a substantially reduc-
ed membership responsible for
decjding the major issues of
Gevernment policy. •
ment for the first time last most ' typical representative of
spring and named Minister of the old school of Quebec poli -
Citizenship and Immigration, tics, was constantly inblot wa-
. Mr. Favreau propelled himself ter over charges of conducting
up the political ladder with patronage on a massive scale.
meteoric speed through noth- Patronage is nothing new in
ing more than sheer ability. the Post Office Department, but
• ' Before many4„months were it just so happened that Mr.
out, it became obvious that he Denis was Caught out at a time
was the logical choice to sue- when a changing political clim-
- ceed Mr.-Chevrier, not only as ate M Canada --maAc the -con -
Minister of Justice, but as Mr. tinuation of such archaic prae-
Pearson's first lieutenant from tices intolerable in the public
Quebec and head of the Federal mind. -.
Liberal Party in -the Province. The new Postmaster -General
With Mr. ' Chevrier's appeint- is a lawyer by profession, a
ment to London as Canadian businessman of wide experience
high commissionerthe way was in top-level management and the
cleared to establish a new Fed- first head---ef.....the....crown-owned
'era' leadership iri French Can- Polymer Corporation. Ordinar-
ada, ily a man of his stature would
Representation in the Cabinet not be named to this portfolio,
of the new political wing in but as it happens he has been
Quebec was also strengthened given a man-sized j.ob, He has
in other ways. Maurice Sauve, been directed by Prime Minis -
a 40 -year-old economist, was to ter Pearson to undertake a
be brought into the Government drastic overhaul of the Post Of -
as Junior Minister of a re -dr- fice 'Department and to clean
ganized department incorpora- out patronage, once and for all.
ing agriculture and forestry. And there are hopeful' signs
This meant a break in the block- that this is only the beginning.
dians
about the opportunity here for
French capital, were most punctilious
in stressing'that they were thinking of
Canada as a whole and not just of its
French element.
But, actually, Mr. Pearson's official
welcome seems to have been genuinely
sincere and his unofficial greeting from
the French press and public equally so.
It was like a return to the days when
a Paris newspaper, reporting Mr. Pear-
-son's arrival for a NATO meeting,
headlined him affectionately as "Mike,
star of hockey and baseball" and sug-
gested that it was his \diplomacy that
held the alliance together.
France has said, in effect, "Welcome
backo the big world." For many Can-
adians to whom the erosion of their
Country international status under the
previous government was a traumatic
experience, it is a welcome indeed.
Bewildering
The bewildering array of laws with-
in the text of the criminal code are frus-
trating enough to the police officer and
the general public, but ,moderri traffic
has brought about another legal mon-
ster in the form of the traffic code.
These volAimes are enough to snow the
average person completely under in a
maze of red tape. Add the numerous
edicts brought down through the years
in the fain of local by-laws and the
whole affair assumes the 'aspect of a
three-ring eircus. The laws of the land
are in drastic need of complete revision
and slinplification.
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RED-EYED BOOK FIENDS
This week I'm- supposed to
speak to our honor students
and their parents, at a banquet.
Dull -topic: "Good Reading Hab-
its."
Choice of speaker was a hil-
arious piece of miscasting. I
think I can state, not proudly,
but with little fear of contra-
diction, that my personal read-
ing habits are the most atroc-
ious in Canada, maybe the
world.
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Thirty-five' years ago, my
mother was saying anxiously,
"Billy Smiley, you'll be blind
Idbefore you're 15 if you don't
di i dark corners!"
stop reading n
- • -. • • ain't blind yet, and.
I'm still reading in dark cor-
Although the commercial ap- ners. Not to mention bright
plication of electricity for pur- corners, on trains, planes and
pose of making light is only ships, in bathrooms, libraries,
about 80 years old, the first dis- and restaurants, before break-
covery of electric lighting was fast and after .going to bed,
made more than 300 years ago. walking to work or watching
About the"' -year 1650, a Ger- teleVision.
man physicist named Otto von
Guericke developed a machine By the time I was ten, I had
by means of which static elec- barreled through the Rover
tricity could be conducted away Boys, the Tom Swift series, the
from a rotating sulphur ball Horatio Alder pap, and was
along a metal chain. Inasmuch gnawing on the massive histori-
as the electricity was generated, cal novels of G. A. Henty. By
only when a human hand was 15; I had gobbled Zane Grey
rested against the sulphur ball, and Max Br)indr-aleng with
this method obviously had 'no most of the detective stories
practical use. Indeed, it was available.
not until mid -nineteenth century At about 16, I was devouring
that truly practical production books, historical, political, tray,
of eleetric light was developed. el .and , biographical, with wild,
In 1846, the .arc lamp was us- swinging excursions - into the
ed in Paris to provide stage fiction of Dickens and Defoe,
lighting. In 1877 the first pub- Poe and Proust, at the rate of
lic demonstration of are light- about 'one -and -a -half volumes a
ing was given in North America, day.
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when , Dr. Edward Weston in-
stalled a street light operation Then came the acquaintance
• on the are amp principle. The with Hemingway, Thomas Wolfe
arc lamp, the Americana ' ex- and Evelyn Waugh, with her -
plains, ,is' the simplest of all oes haunted, wild and sophisti-
electrielighting. devices. It con- tated. Heady stuff for a teen-
sists basically of two carbon ager. Then came the war
The dope addict will resort to
prostitution or armed robbery
o obtain , a fix.
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This is kid stuff. A book
fiend, when 'cut off from sourc-
es, will sink to unspeakable de-
gradation. It begins when he
picks up discarded newspapers.
Next thing you know he's avid-
ly perusing public signs, match
books, and empty toothpaste
ttibeS.
But that's only the beginning:
One day in Algiers, just after
the war, I met an old air force
friend, a •Sikh, from India. Be
was a book fiend, as 1 knew.
One look at his red -rimmed,
vacant eyes announced it. He
Waileading_ en old lady by the
hand.
Asked him where he was go-
ing, who she was. Turned out
she was his aged mother. He
was on . his way to the slave
market. "I know what you
think," he slavered, "but I can't
help it. I gotta getta book," '
I heard 'later he got $10 for
her. Oh, to put it in realistic
terms -38 pocket novels.
A SMILE OR TWO
- For about 10 years an Irish-
man was employed at a lumber
mill. Every night he carried
home a board; a handful of
shingles, or some laths until he
had a cellar full of filched ma-
terial.
One Sunday at church a re-
mark by the priest suddenly
made poor old Pat's conscience
twinge. He decided to go to
confession, and after telling all,
he asked the priest what he
should do to make amends.
"Could you make a novena?"
asked the priest.
"Just give me a blueprint,
Father. God knows I've got en-
ough lumber!"
rods connected with an electri- While the other pilots played
cal circuit The electticity eaus- cartb, or talked about the girl
es the rods to become heated they met in the pub last night,
. to a white heat, which in turn
gives off an intense light. I read.
The real book fiend, lost he -
The fust of the famous yond recall, never reads any -
"bright lights" of Broadway thing remotely connected with
were are lamps installed .t6t real life, as it's 'being lived.
three-quarters Of a Mile along Re's a pure escapist.
that street in. 1880, and in the
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same year Madiabh Square Gar-
dens was illiiminated by are If he liVes on the prairies,
lamps placed eri tiM ,of towerS.Jie reads about the sea, or moun-
But the are lamp hada relative- 'tain clirribing. If he lives in a ,
ly short life, Sb fat aS wide- reads about bold men. If he's
spread cortitherbial tae Was con- Ming village, he reads west-
cerhed. Within ti Very few years erns. If he's a shy boy, he
it was replaced by the incanctes- a detective, he reads love stor-
cent electric bulbs, in -Which a ies. If he's a politician, he
, filament of fine Wire 'is heated reads about detettives. If he's
to white heat within a glass'en- making history, he reads ro-
closed vacuum. mance. If he's in the middle
The first recorded attempt to of p love affair, he reads war
make aft incandescent lamp was novels.
credited to Warren de la Rue, The alcoholic and the drug
an English inventor, about 1835: addict will 'sink pretty low,
However, it waS ThotnaS A. Edi- when Money runs but. They will
son of ,the 'United States and lie and cheat and steal lo get
Joseph Wilsen Swan in Eng- the goo.da. The aley will drink
• • land, who, working separately, shaving lotioti, rubby-dub, or
developed th'e incandescent bulb, paultoaatti�nt obfrcetiandnetod gheetatattaust
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"Wiee Stop,' son, but let's tie those skate laces tighter!" as 'we now ,know...it:
SPARKS
A slap on the
face will make
any wolf look
sheepish.
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1166 fooling around, men,
we've got 6 y6060616 to
. climb!
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