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The Huron Expositor, 1964-03-05, Page 2' . Since 180, Serving , the Community Fifst Published at SEAFORTH, ONTARIO, every Thursday morning by IlacLEAN BROS., Publishers s ANDREW Y. MCLEAN, Editor •• ,.• „0, • ____„, I.,. E D Member Canadian Weekly Newspapers Association Ontario Weekly Newspapers Association ti 4 4 Ot 0 Audit Bureau of Circulation • Subscription Rates: ' CsMllb/ z Canada (in advance) $4.00 a Year ..c. Outside Canada (in advance) $5.50 a Year ..• 0 1. A SINGLE COPIES — 10 CENTS EACH " Authorized as Second Class Mail, Post Office Department, Ottawa. .0 I r SEAFORTH, ONTARIO, MARCH 5, 1964 In Support of Canadian Unity - At a time when there is every ap- pearance that Canada is faced with problems of dissension—When, areas of the nation are 'speaking in anger of other areas—what is most important is that eac.14f us reject the hasty word,' the prejudice, the bigotry that prevents objective consideration of the situation. Contributing to just such considera- tion were the remarks of Prime. Minis- ter Pearson, when he spoke recently in the Throne speech debate. • It was a speech which has evoked strong praise wi,thout regard to poli- tics from newspapers across the coun- try. Here, in part, is what Mr. Pearson said: The dream of a strong and united Canada, as.,,we all .know, is' older than confederation itself. Indeed, it motivat- social or political pressure. This is es- pecially the case when the political foundation of a federal state is based on two language groups, with a conse- quent emphasis on duality which might seem to depreciate the cultural impor- tance of other racial groups in our pop- ulation. Bicultural does not, as I un- derstand it, and must never Mean this kind of exclusiveness, with any assump- tion or appearance of superiority. What biculturalism in our country does and should mean is that there are two strains, French and, for want of a bet- ter word, English, which were the foun- dation of our national society. There must be no pressure 6n one to absorb the other, but they should de- velop alongside each other; each; I hope, influencing and improving the other and each influenced and enriched by the cultural contribution of other racial ed confederation'. It was in the mind groups' and strains which areto be en - of an hon. member of this house, Louis', couraked.' Honore Frechette, in 1875, when he • made this statement : Surely, Mr. Speaker, it is the re- sponsibility of all hon. members of We will form but one great nation • with deeprooted patriotism and noble this house to overcome rather than cre- aspiration, working as one tocommon ate misunderstandings at this time, to - ' • prosperity, and advancing together toavoid rather than engender resentments .- • a great and productive future. and to repair rather than tear.This, it 1.'c'tvatdA. seems to. me, is the only possible atti- Speaker, on this ideal alone can ture for honourable men who really be - We find the ,solution to the problem of lieve in Canada and Canada's future • be - the relations between English speaking and French speaking Canadians. as a great nation: All of us here are It is a problem which by its very nature called upon to present the case against is ' highly emotional and particularly sensi- prejudice, againstdissension, against extresm • tive to' gusts..of passion and 'prejudice.— miat every opportunity. There is no easy; magic solution to it. Diatribes in either of our languages will contribute nothing to national. un- ity but much to national disunity. No magic will dissolve hosilities which are engendered by extremism on either side. No magic will. educate the suspicious, satisfy the legitimate aspirations of ebec, remove understandable anxie- ties outside Quebec; in short, 'make the problern. go away. Moreover, the prob- lem is complicated by loose talk and mis_understanding about the meaning of such word as "biculturalism" and "bilingualism". What \do we mean by biculfuralism? Not, surely, that our nation has or will ...- have only two cultural sources, French , and- English, each exclusive of the oth- er. For one thing, English culture And French culture are not, and cannot be, separate and distinct from each other or from other cultural strains in Can- ada. Above all, biculturalism does not mean that these other cultural strains in our society, non Anglo-Saxon or non-, French, should be discouraged from making their own strong and enrich- ing contrilDution to what we are trying to develop in Canada. Cifitiliar segregation, or cultural sep- aratism, is no more welcome than some other forms of segregation or separ- atism. Equally to be rejected would be attempt at cultural absorption by any I know that every hon. ,member of the house, to whatever party .h,e belongs, believes sincerely in that: I know every hon. member of the house feels in 'his heart that we will -not be unworthy of our forefathers as we face this prob- lem. I refuse to believe, as I know you refuse to believe, that we Cannot rise to the occasion, match our problems and be equal to our opportunities. I refuse to believe that when the crying need for unity in the world, for peace and security for all men, for the growing recognition of the realities and rewards of interdependence, with men in, all continents corning together �r being driven. together, we in this country must move .apart. a,Canadian grave in France there is an epitaph which I believe captures what all of us in this house seek, It is on the headstone over the grave of a Canadian boy whO won the Victoria Cross and who was buried in the first of far too many. war cemeteries. Whe- ther he was English speaking or French speaking I do not know; some of both races lie. in all those cemeteries side by side. The epitaph on the grave of this particular young V.C. boy, which was chosen by his Canadian 'mother, -reads: How blessed it is for brethren to dwell together in unity. It is for us, sir, to seek that unity too. 'iff.1.144.41'1 Tuckersmith's Artist (Stratford Beacon -Herald) One wonders what was the special attraction of Huron County, a century ago, that led two of the big names in Cana- dian cultural history to settle there, and live out their lives in the Seaforth-Clinton area. Neither William Nichol Cress- well, the painter, not Horatio Hale, the scholar and author, was a native of Huron County. nor even of Upper Canada... Cresswell, the painter, was born in Devonshire, England, in 1822, and finally settled down to make his --home, for about the last 40 year of his life,. at Seaforth, where he died in 1.888. Hale, the author, and specialist in Indian languages, was born ,in Newport, New Hampshire, in 1817; for the last 40 years of his life, from 1856 to 1896, he lived at Clin- ton. - Creswell's pAintings are now collectors' items, while Hale's name has just conle batk into the news because of the repub- lication,.by the .University,, 'of Toronto Press, of a book by Hale 'Which was first published In 1883. If has been republish- & because it is still consider- ,,,,.0),,,„;,.,,‘4.s4SUStrovi,la.s,',' • ed by scholars to be a neces- sary text for the understand- ing of the history of the Iro- quois Confederacy. gothing bet- ter of its kind has been done, it seems, in the 81 years since it was first published. CresSwell obviously did not pick Seaforth as his permanent.. home because of the subject matter he found in Huron 'County for his paintings. The Cresswell paintings which sur- vive in galleries and private eollectiens show that he rang- ed all of Eastern Canada for his subject matter. The Lake Huron shoreline attracted him, and so did fanning scenes of Canada West in the mid -19th century, but he ranged Much more widely than that. In a rather posh executive office at the top of the only skyscraper in Quebec City, the showpiece item among the furnishings is a large oil painting showing sailing ships in the St. Lawr- ence River at Quebec. The painting is by William Nichol Cresswell of Seaforth. Hale obviously did not pick Clinton as his permanent home because it was convenient for his Major research int e the languages and political &gal. Jo, 4 Macduff Ottawa Report ANTI -DUMP DILEMMA is an old chestnut but one that OTTAWA — It was to have has taken on much larger pro been a short and unimportant portions since the devaluation visit. -Trade Minister Sharp, had of the Canadian dollar. Can - been invited to address the ada's automatic anti -dump law Canadian Chamber . of Com. makes it impossible for the Bri- merce minin London . and tish exporter to shade his price i) '. was planning the sort of speech to the Canadian consumer to one alwaSis gives to Chamm ber of make - it copetitive with the Commerce groups. , Canadian product. Then the British Prime Min._ II goods of a class' or kind ister, Sir Alec Douglas -Home made in Canada are sold here dropped in on'Ottawa en route at a price lower than they are to Washington. He mentioned sold in the home market,a spe- • publicly that problems of An- cial duty equal to the ' differ- glo-Canadian trade , would be enc e automatically applies. If thrashed out in talks between an article sold at $1.00 in Eng - Mr. Sharp and the Rt. 'Hon. Ed_ land is imported at a price of ward Heath, Britain's Minister ' 80 cents in Canada the import - of Trade , and Industry. Cana- er pays a dump duty, of 20 dians changed their plans. Tar .. cents Ind 'then the regular du- iff experts were added to the ty on the full $1.00 value. Sharp retinue because it was We have had this anti -dump obvious 'that the British had a law for 60 years. It •was de - few things to discuss which signed then to prevent dump - were not precisely the old ing by the United States and, cliches about the bighippy Americans are still the rain Commonwealth family. target. Under a rule of the Mr. 'Heath, incidentally, was General Agreement On Tariffs ' the nearest thing to a peace. and Trade from which Canada .maker during those acrimon. enjoys exemption, injury to. the ious days when Canadian poli- home industry must be ,proven ticians were squealinglike before a " dumping duty is im-. stuck pigs over the prospect .of - Britain entering the European of imports from the United Common Market, and dumping States a Canadian industry Commonwealth. preferences at could easily be put out of busi- the door. .. ness before such injury was This was a happy coincidence proven. because the London talks could Britain has repeatedly de - scarcely have passed without manded that Canadians con - some mention of the threat to form to the rule. But there is ,those Commonwealth prefer- a joker in it which the British ences which the so-called Ken- do not seem to have recogniz- nedy tariff cutting round at ed. Under the GATT rule the Geneva may pose. ' , anti -dump can • apply not only If the Kennedy round, e' yen= when there is injury to an es- tually does get off the ground, tablished industry but to an Canada will be faced with 'the industry that might be estab- necessity of paying a fairly lished. The Canadian duty . ap- high price for some of the tar- plies only when a competing in- , iff concessions to which she will dustry is filling 10 per cent of be the beneficiary...It may not 'the Canadian need at the time. 'posed but with the huge volume be possible to pay the price en- -A large portion of the imports tirely in Canadian tariff conces- from,.,13ritain can come. in at sions any price because they are not United • States woUld be the There is on e British beef, SMileS young an very mu alive, a band?" • Much more valuable to, the classed as made in Canada. . elimination of British prefer- however, that Canadians are. in - hi the Years Agone From The Huron Expositor ' town, has sold his farm on the March 10, 1939 , Huron Road East to Mr. Louis Investigation of two Hensall Devereaux for the sum of fires which within five days de- $5,500. This farm adjoins Mr, stroyed a vacant residence and Devereaus homestead and will a five -store block of stores, is give him 200 acres of as fine ' underivay, with Provincial Con. land as can be found in Can - stable P. McCoy, of Goderich, ada• , in charge. Constable McCoy The Seaforth Creamery has was in the village on Wednes- made a good start and is get - day and again on Thursday, and ling- in a good supply of cream in company with Chief Hedden for this time of year. Last week examined a number of witness- they made over 2000,pounds es. of butter, and the supply is , Owners ,of pistols and revol- continually growing. The Beechwood rural mad to register those • firearms with vers are required by regulations police departmentsand while , route starts next Monday. Mr. John Horan has the contract. the registration forms have not been received here, Chief of Police Helmar Snell has receiv- ed word that the registration must be completed by July 1. Chief Snell already has a- large registration from three years ago. The annual Hospital Aid Theatre Night will be held in the Regent Theatre on Monday evening, March 27, when the ,popular picture, "Four Daugh- ters," will be shown. There will. be two shows',' at 7:30 and 9:15 J. M. McMillan's rink won the silver spoons at the Seaforth Curling Club's weekly bonspiel on Wednesday afternoon and evening of this week. The rink was composed of Harry Stein- berg, A. Moore, Keith McLean and J. M. McMillan, skip. * * * From The Huron Expositor a price sufficiently lower to let March fis 1914 4 the distributor ,meet his Costs Mr. J. F. Daly is making ex - and profit. tensive preparations for a .big Yet the • Canadian law says season's business in the sale of the manufacturer to retailer Ford automobiles. He had his price in „Britain must be the new 'salesroom on Main. Street value for duty in Canada and fitted tip with all the conyen- that if it is less the dumping iences- for the handling of ma - duty, applies. This may he chines and repairs, and now * * * changed. . has an auto entrance 'on lVfain,for him. The breed is evidently Street as well as one at the as goed as the name. * * * From The Huron Expositor March 8, 1889 Messrs. George Turnbull and James Holmes cut on the farm , of the latter One day last week 10- cords of wood in seven hours. They did not loiter much or waste much time spit- ting on their hands. Mr. Robert Scott, of Harpur- hey, has been appointed gener- al agent for the Counties of Huron and Bruce for the Sun Life Insurance Company. Mr. Scott is a good and thoroughly reliable man, and he has a first class company to work for, it being one that he can con- scientiously recommend to the public. At a' meeting of the Seaforth Public School Board On Friday evening, a committee was ap- pointed to procure, if possible, a suitable place to be used as a school room until more school accommodation can be built. - '• The black Clear Grit driving colt sold last fall by Mr. T. E. Hays to Mr. Honey, of Mit- chell, for $200, is now owned by a gentleman in Toronto who a short time ago refused $600 - rear of the premises. His first Messrs. Elder • and Wilson, , Capital Hill Capsules shipment of Fords, consisting veterinary surgeons of Seaforth, • Prime Minister Pearson is of a carload, arrived in 'town on attended the annual meeting of pushing forward the Canada Wednesday of last week, and the medical veterinary associa- Pension plan -in face of objec- are now assembled in the' ware- tion held in Stratford on Fri - lions from Premier Robarts of rooms. • day last. Mr. Wilson was ap- Ontario. Mr. Robarts says the Mr. E. R. Forrester, of this pointed. vice-president. Federal plan can't be integrat- ed into Ontario's plan for port- able pensions without disturb- ance to private plans, Mr. Pear- son says these plans can take it in their stride and that, mean-, while,,,his Government intends to give protection to the 70 per OH, HOW WE DANCED! couldn't speak a word of Eng-' cent of Canadian workers that lish and was doing a dreamy -Have you watched teenagers have no such plan. The Canada Pension plan win get strong dancing lately? If you haven't, tango while you were doing a support in the House of Com- • and you are .old-fashioned, and brisk fox-trot? Sugar and Spice By Bill Smiley your blood pressure is high, mons but whether it can be * * e my ;advice. Don't! brought into being still de-. rka pends on Mr. Robarts. 11 * ' Amendments propesed to the National Housing Aet are go- ing to be a disappointment to a number of Canadians who ex- pected confidently ' that they would be able to get N.H.A. mortgages on older homes. Mortgage loans on older hous- es will be available' only in urban renewal areas and then only to allow restoration to conform with standard set out for the area by municipalities. Within this limit they. will be at the standard N.H.A. interest rate of 614 per cent, may be for as much as 80 per -rent Of appraised value and in some cases extending -o4r a 25 -year term • How many of them," I quer- - Saturday afternoon, through ied, "have ,ever been to a real sheer inertia, 1 found myself old try s uare-dance, where before a television set showing the sign that. the , dance was one of those teen-age dance over was not the band play - programs. Fortunately, I am ing `The Queen', but the stove - neither old-fashioned nor high- pipes coming ,down when the blood -pressured (it says here). fight started? But I must confess, I was wish- ,,How I thought, ing I were 25 years younger. "have ever tried to fox-trot * * * 'with a brawny Land Army girl who was bound she was doing Today's kids dance dolefully, a waltz, and could lift you right but sweetly, to the slow num- off the floor in the process? bers, heads knuckked togethet bodies scarcely inoving, intent, * * * serious, tender yet strangely „How. many of them," I con - impersonal. sidered, "have walked up to a But when the music begins flashing -eyed young French ma - to clang and thump, they come tron in Brussels, at a night - into their own. They laugh; Club, bowed to her, bowed to they bob and bounce; they wig- her husband, asked her for a gle and and jiggle and giggle. din un eccable ,Grade Their faces light up. Their feet Eleven French, and received a weave and ,shift and trace pe- slap in the face from her, a kick in the culiar patterns. They are very groin from her hus- . * • • completely caught up in that most ancient means of com- 1 11\1•TacoN; 'e let y themhavetheeiirigfunhe: ,ences in the Canadian roarket dined to view as , legitimate. - which on some manufactured, Because of the canceritrated 'To men most out of the munication—rhythm.- fore these kids. were running plane as it land. Suddenly one around with their diapers dang- goods give he'British exporter population and short distances let out a cry. * *. * ling, I was cheek -to it a margin as high as 25 per the, distributor or wholesaler in "Joe," he, groaned, "I think Watching 'them,- I was sad. on enchanted summer evenings cent. These preference mar- the United Kingdom has been . gins are no longer bound and largely eliminated. The manu- I've lost my wallet!" It's a pretty bitter thing, 'after ears berfeattheifrgAhaenatviilvylahtlisto. the since Britain was ready to sacri- facturer sells directly to the re- "Did you look in your pock- all, to have been too young -for the Charleston, too old for the ets?" asked Joe. fice. them for EEC entry she tailer at a price which includes can hardly , object to Canada the small distribution cost. "All but one," replied the Twist. , ;• -.doing the same thing in 'the in- When he -sells in Canada it is other, disconsola'tel'y.disconsola'tel'y.But I couldn't stay sad. Let- terest of freer world trade. to a distributor or wholesaler. ?Well, for goodness sakes, ting my mind drift . back over why don't you look there?" the years, I actually began to The other main subject dis- If the price to retailers in cussed in London was the Unit- Canada is to be the sameas ' its not there, I'll"Because," was the reply, "if feel sorry for the . youngsters. ' die!" ed Kingdom beef over Cana- the price in the home market , - dian anti-dumping duties. This thearticle must be imported at On a building a plaque had ' "These kids," r thought dis- been affixed to perpetuate the dainfully. "How Inany of them THE HOME- TEAM had lived and died there. Sure, memory of a famous writer who. haig,they masa dehe mastered astetpasaatli: ASTAIESS: ization of North American In- dians. From his home at Clin- ton he had to travel to Brant- ford to study the Iroquois, or to the neighborhood of Wind- sor to study the Wyandottes. When Cresswell established himself at Seaforth, and when Hale established himself at Clinton, neither town was yet served, by railway, although the Buffalo and Lake Huron' was soon to be opened thrbugh from Stratford to Goderich. At the beginning of residence in Hur- on County, they could not have got about, either with easel or with notebook, any faster than a horse could trot. The republished book by Hor- atio Hale, "The Iroquois Book of Rites," is a 220 -page volume which reviews the first 300 years of the amazingly success- ful confederacy of the MbhasOlcs, Oneidas, • Omindagas, Cayugas and Senecas, to which five were added, later, the Tuscaroras. review by Marcus van Sten, in the March, 1964, sue of "Saturday Night," rates it as being of "obvious literary excellence and historical sig- nificance." Stratford Public Lib- rary has the new edition on order. by Wirth and the Twist and the Bossa After the ceremony, two "men of letters" went off to- Nefovtha.emBowt his() tehaearehaasesinaglwehoenlee gether. "I say, old boy," said the first, era of dancing on one step— '"' "'' ft". "do you think they will put a the foxt,trot—as I did?" plaque outside my house when There are ample - bosomed I die?" "What do you think they'll land ,who testify that middle-aged. ladies across the "Why, surely." was e when he corkerk et rr ippifednotthae light fantastically. . terror,SmleY put on ' it'?" "Room To Let." , On long drives or trips, be * * * kind to your circulatory sys. • There are grandmothers in tem, the Ontario Heart Founda- Canada, England, France and tion says. Get a change from Belgium whose eyes still light • your sitting position by walk- up when they remember the ing about every half hour or, so. way we Whirled about the dance halls, a' symphoney of smooth - If you haven't been exercis- nes, a fantasy of fox-trotting., -14"(..,- ing regularly, don't suddenly "HevS many of these kids," , • turn into an athelete overnight I wondered, "have ever danced "Shall 1 qdd some soda or or on weekends, the Ontario with a Brazilian beauty who would you prefer ginger ale?' Heart Foundation says. Build up the habit of taking moder- ate exercise daily. 1 The invention of the electro- cardiograph, one of medicines most useful tools for diagnos- ing heart diseaSe, is credited to Willem Einthoven, Dutch phys- iologist, born about a century ago, aecording to your Ontario Heart Foundation.' Scientists are seeking the still Unknown reasons why . some babies are .born with heart defects, says the Ontario "Heart Foundation, which is sup- porting research in this and many other areas of heart and "He'll be terrine when he learns.to ikater blood vessel .disease. lAVVM*/*447:10,4 'WNRW#.ovo,""m AR -r Ggre 1944 dues PION* pa 'To think that :once asked /or that hand fn mar4ageP6' „