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The Huron Expositor, 1964-06-11, Page 2• Since 1860, Serving tlie Community First Published at SEAFORTH, ONTARIO, every Thursday moruing by McLEAN BROS., Publishers ANDREW Y. MCLE,AN, Ed-toj :.p1 a Member Canadian Weekly Newspapers Association Ontario Weekly Newspapers Association ABC B J' n Audit Bureau of Circulation �j Subscription 'Rates: Aa Canada (in advance) $4.00 a Year " Outside Canada (in advance) 45%50 a Year U R ASINGLE COPIES — 10 CENTS EACH Authorized as Second Class Mail, Post Office Department, Ottawa. SEAFORTH, ONTARIO, JUNE 11, 1964 Water Safety And The Lions Pool This is Water Safety Week in Can- ada. It is a good time to think of the contribution which the Seaforth Lions Park and Pool makes towards water safety. How many lives have been sav- ed because of water safety procedures learned at the Seaforth pool? Last year, for example, 400 children received free swimming lessons at the pool. Of this number, nearly 100 were beginners and learned to support them- selves in the water; the others improv- ed their swiniming ability as they ad- vanced in the Red Cross swimming in- struction program. During the 1963 season, a total of 23,983 swimmers us- ed the Lions pool. ° An ability to swim and a knowledge of water safety practises can mean the difference between life and death. It is not just the lake that takes the lives, it is fish ponds, ditches, private swim- ming. pools. Drownings have taken place within a few seconds within five feet of the supervision of adults. Most parents, of course, do care that their children are properly trained to protect themselves while in the .water. But sometimes the problem of teaching them proper water safety habits pres- ents difficulties that are hard to over- come., Sometimes, of course, they don't bother,. perhaps because they believe that the old adage, "it just couldn't happen to us;" applies to them. It is this thinking that was a factor in the death Jast year of 99 children by drown- • ing in Ontario. This is where the Seaforth Liens Club pool program enters the picture. Proper instruction to Red Cross stan- dards is available for district children during July and August without cost. • The more parents that insist that their children take advantage of the pro- gram, the more chances there will be that unnecessary deaths by drowning can be avoided. Is It Time For A Complete Review? The inconsistencies, present in laws dealing with gambling and the difficul- ties of enforcement are such, a reflec- tion is cast on law enforcement gener- ally. The Wingham Advance -Times says Ontario's_ gambling laws are so com- p l ely out of date "and unrealistic that they have become a public nuisance. They are inconsistent and impractical, the paper adds, and in support points out that last week the Optimist Club of Sarnia had several booths in which wheels of fortune and dice games were being operated, closed down by the po- lice. Though the club had operated similar games of chance at their street carnivals for the past 13 years, without complaint or interference, this year they were suddenly informed they were • breaking the law. . The, Advance -Times goes on to dis- cuss the problem in these ,words: "The same sort of nonsense has been experienced by other service clubs and it will continue until the laws are amended. "Reason, of • course, for only occa- sional crackdowns by police Is that they will not interfere unless somecitizen makes a formal complaint. "In this latest instance the daily press quotes the anti -gambling act as permit- ting such games of chance at •agricul- tural fairs and exhibitions. This clause. must be similar in nature to the one which permits bingo games on an 'oc- casional' basis. "Our gambling laws are typical of the sort of legislation which has been passed all too frequently — the kind which seeks to keep everybody -happy at the same time, for fear "some votes might be jeopardized. Gambling should be either legal or illegal, not a mixture of both. "Obviously we cannot permit whole • - From .The Huron Expositor From The Huron Expositor June 16, 1939 June 12, 1914 $7aforth's tax rate will re- Tuesday last was the hottest main the, same as in 1938, coon- day of the season, the ther- cil decided. Monday evening as iometer registering 90 de in the shade at 4 o'clock in it approved estimated expendi- the afternoon. a, tures of $83497 for the year. The rate will be 44 mills, less 11h mills Government subsidy. More than 50 golfers took advantage of perfect weather on Wednesday and played in a two -ball foursome, arranged by the , golf committee. Honors went to Mary Hays andr..E. C. Boswell, who turned in a 58: The closing meeting for the season of the Ministerial Asso- ciation took the form of a plc. nic, held at Varna "United Chtirch parsonage on Monday, sale gambling establishments to be op erated for personal gain by unscrupu- lous individuals, because the potential danger of criminal racketeers predom- inating would be too great. But it is high time to clarify the situation where service clubs and. other non-profit or- ganizations are concerned. - "The truth of the matter is that laws which forbid gambling are completely unenforceable.. Gambling, in one form or another,. can be and is carried on in a thousand places that the more inno- cent members -of society never dream about... A person who wants to do so can bet on anything from the date of winter's first snowfall to the make of the next car which will drive past the town hall. It can't and won't be stop- ped. "There are many perfectly sane and moral people who believe thatthe only sensible thing to do about it is to legaI- ize gambling and permit the govern- ment to take its share of the money which changes hands. This does not mean that they think gambling is a good thing—any more than they believe smoking is a good thing. They simply • recognize the fact that people will gam- ble and contend that if they have so much to throw away as luxury spend- ing a fair share bf it should be inter- cepted by the state for better purposes. "You are entitled to your own opin- ion, but for goodness' sake let's get away from the outworn idea that ev- ery social ill has a religious or immoral connotation." Let's treat facts in a practical way and seek sensible,. outlets for the urges which centuries of his- tory have proven to be part of human nature, the Wingham editor urges. Tenderhooks are the upholstery of the anxious seat.—Robert Sherwood. In the Years Agone • ' The excursion, under the aus- pices of the South Huron Farm= ers' Institute to the Guelph 'Farm, will be held on Monday, June 22. Every persofi' on the route should bear that date in mind and all who desire a de- lightftl and profitable day's outing should go do ,the excur- sion. There were 79 tickets sold at Seaforth for Stratford on Wed- nesday morning, the attraction being the big circus there. Of the tickets sold, 55 were Dur- , when Rev. and Mrs. Peters en- chased at the uptown agency of tertained the ministers , ands Mr. Somerville. their wives. Mr. Joseph Hoggarth has pus. Fire completely destroyed a chased the property of Mi. cal' owned b sit: 'W G. Wright, of Thomas Lane, in Egmottdville eaforth, ar iy Sunda ey morn ing on the McRilinp41ullett road in front Of Scott Haw- `titavne's forth "'he ear was be• int' drivert 'Wr'ig f, 'there are three acres of land, a good residence and barn on the place, and Mr. Hoggarth has got a comfortable property The .price paid was in the neighborhood of $700. From The Huron Expositor June 14, 1889 Mr. Samuel Smith, of McKil- lop, has purchased a couple of lots from Mr. Hugh Grieve, on North Main Street, and intends erecting a residence with the view of coming to Seaforth to live. Seaforth Collegiate Institute will be closed this year for the summer' holidays with the us- ual annual, literary and musical entertainment, which will take place on or about the 28th. Messrs. Grieve & Stewart, of this town, received a carload of Brantford binders and mowers on Saturday last for farmers in this vicinity, to • whom they were sold. There were 15 bin- ders and five mowers, and they were all set up and taken away by their owners by Tuesday. • A. telephone has been placed in the wate"rc4orks building and there will be connection be- tween it and all the places in which there are telephones ev- ery night. "I FEEL I'VE EARNED A NICE LONG REST" LETTERS TO THE EDITOR A Protest Against Store, Hours Varna, Ont., June 6, 1964. Sir: I would like to express our shock and disappointment at finding the stores, of Seaforth closing at nine o'clock on Fri- day evenings. It is impossible for us to get to town before eight o'clock, and with less than" an hotir left for shopping, it isn't very pleas- ant running from one store to the other and finding the doors being locked just as you .get there, It was disappointing when they changed from Saturday night to Friday night. 1 am sure these views -will be shared by many more farm families, especially those where the hus- band works until six o'clock and has to come home and chore after that. I certainly hope that the merchants will reconsidef with respect for the farmers, take another vote, and remain .open until -10 o'clock, or later. Yours sincerely, (Mrs.) WM. F. DOWSON SIGHS Band 603 Westluke Ave., Montreal 29, Que., June 6, 1964. Sir: Some of your readers may remember my mother,. Mrs. E. F. McL. Smith, who, will cele- brate her. 92nd birthday on June 20th. Mrs. Smith was born in Lucan in 1872, the daughter of Dr. and Mrs. Hossack. She married the Reverend E. F. McL. Smith, who was the min- ister of the Presbyterian Church in Hensall from 1904 to 1917.. Mrs. Smith is now living with her two daughters and a niece at 37 Kilbarry Road; Toronto. 1, listen to the Over -Ninety -Birthdays every Sunday before going to ,. church, by Arthur Phelps, from CKWS, Kingston. Last Sunday, May 31, I at- tended the Lions convention in Kitchener -and was invited to join the float of the Seaforth Lions Club in the Lions parade. I wish to thank them for their hospitality and compliment them on the fine Band whitih took part in the parade. If you think this is worth publishing I would be pleased to receive a copy of your paper. Yours very truly, T. C. H. SMITH * * * A Protest Ottawa, '.Ontario, June 1, 1964. Sir; A few years ago when I lived at home and worked in your fair town, politics fascin- ated me and the life of a poli- tician seemed to be complicat- ed and one I could only dream about. . Now I dwell in the Capital City and that fascination has • turned into something . like. a ^�! nightmare. Headlines in the local papers read: "P.M. Stakes Government on Flag", "Fi ht general election is at a new high. Let us go back a week prior to 'the above headlines when External Affairs Minister Paul Martin gave an interesting and important speech exploring the changes taking place in our world today, Mr. Martin ex- plained that ' the Communist countries are not as tightly bound together as before, and that the West could no longer. stand for the non-Communist A McDuff Ottawa Report world because many countries have declared themselves to be neutral or non-aligned, He elab- Obstructing The View Sugar and Spice By Bill Smiley THE IMAGE HAS CHANGED As the school year. draws to- wards its close, I can't help looking back on the past, ten months, my first hitch as head of the English department in our factory, with a mingling ,of amazement and amusement. I am amazed that I have not gone down for the third time in a sea of paper. There were times when I rose to the sur- face only long enough to gulp a breath of ink, before being swept under by another wave of essays, or book report forms, or memos. My amusement stems from another source — the• old•fash- ioned image of the English teacher. There just ain't no such thing as a modern image of same., For many years the image of the English teacher was - fairly' concrete. It was.. that algia wispy, gentle •spinster of either sex, wholly dedicated to the written word. The only person -in town who actually read poetry. Some kind of a nut who actually believed Shakespeare was thrilling the- atre. When I hold up that image beside the gallery of charac- ters who taught English in my department this year, I chortle. There isn't even the most re- mote resemblance. Let's -see, now. There's Jack, a vast young man of great good nature and courtly manner, who is a dead ringer for Henry VIII on one of the latter's good days. 'He's a beer drinker, a collector of antiques and a for- mer advertising salesman. There's Mac, a former golf pro. He's also an ex -bus driver, ex -house, painter, ex -chairman. He's an inveterate punster who writes some pretty funny stuff. As witness our production this year of his master -piece, "Jul- Ius Seiz'er", in which the principalcharacter was Dr. Bladder from Gaul. There's Jeanette, five -foot - nothing, 98 pounds of doe -eyed French-Canadian, w h o spent the first six months trying to convince- the other teachers she was not one of Jhe students, who can pin a six-foot 200- pound Iout into paralyzed, pet- rified panic with one flash of those eyes. There's Geoff, the young Englishman who came here af- ter a year of teaching ina good English grammar school. He planned to spend a•year in Can- ada, as a lark. He was horri- fied at the free -and -easy atti- tude of our teen-agers. He was appalled at our materialism and love of .comfort Now he has a car on the never-never plan, and is beefing about his salary. In short, he's become a typical Canadian. We also have a gal who gra- duated in music, a former am- bulance driver, an ex -chartered accountant, a dream-hattered social worker, and a lady who got sick of housekeeping. Not only do these birds not fit the old image of the Eng- lish teacher; they don't fit the new one, either. There's not• a beard in the bunch, an esthete. in the ensemble, a pansy in the patch. • And n6t one, thank goodness, is "dedicated" to the teaching of English. None shivers in ecstasy over a sonnet, bursts into tears over the beauty of an ode, But I daresay my poly- glot, hardworking crew has taught the kids more 'about English and about life than many an old gal whose idea of heaven was to make a journey to England and stand in rever- ence before the graves of the poets. orated and probed much fur- ther,.and I would have to think that our legislators would have been most interested . . . but only forty-eight members could muster the strength to crawl to their seat for this important and thought-provoking message. The shabbiness of this per- formance is underlined by the frantic interest which is dis- played in the first mentioned flag issue. Choosing a flag will solve none of Canada's prob- lems and none of the world's problems, but it is a simple issue that appeals to simple politicians who cannot be both- ered with vastly important, but complex questions, of foreign policy. To Finish Over Flag—Dief.", and the chance of ten million dol- lars being spent on another Yours sincerely, KEN BURCHILL miles. . Once upon a time, the vil- lage blacksmith hired a young lad tq be his apprentice. Im- mediately, he began instructing him: "Now, when I take this horse- shoe out of the fire, L'll lay it .on the anvil. When I nod my head, you hit it with :a ham- mer." The boy did as he' was told. A wealthy man motoring through the country district noticed an old than sitting for- lornly outside a cottage wit a pile of furniture around him. "Poor old soul," the wealthy man thought to- himself. He stopped the car and, giving the old man a twenty -dollar bill, said, ''So you got behind in your rent, eh?" "Oh, no," the old man re plied mournfully. "It's worse than that. My old woman is doin' the spring houseclean- ing." OTTAWA—Beware of Prim Ministers who talk of oppos tion obstruction. Their word may conceal dark purposes in volving elections. Former Prime Minister Die enbaker used the charge of Lib eral obstruction in the 1958 1962 and 1963 campaigns. Ho well the issue served him is part of history. Now Prime Minister Pearso has taken up the refrain. At the National Liberal Coun cif meeting in Ottawa at the b ginning of June, Mr. Pearso openly accused the Conserve tives of obstructing Governmen business in the House of Com mons. He spoke of "a Tory filibus ter", of "bickering, obstructio by procedural and partisan de lays . . repetition and ob- structing debate and raisin useless questions of order an privilege." A little later he, said that h did not want an election. Hi party did not want an election But the Conservatives migh provoke one, he suggested, "by filibuster and by blocking pub lic business." That was a revealing state ment. It did not, ,reveal any real • opposition obstruction What it did reveal is the fac that the Prime Minister was at least entertaining the possibil ity 6f calling an election be fore the normal span of four years has, expired. r- )Viten the time arrives to call n election, it's traditional to have a reason for doing so. It's almost as' traditional, if you're a minority government, that you claim inability to' get leg- islation through the House be- cause of opposition obstruction. That's what Mr. Pearson was really doing—setting the stage for an election just in case it becomes advisable to have one. While we're waiting for' -the election, however, it might be well to examine Mr. Pearson's charge of Conservative obstruc- ti e Canada Pension Plan for exam- ple, the new one, has never s been before the House. Its far- - reaching changes in transporta- tion policy have never been f. called for debate. . Important amendments to the , National Housing Act, on the w other hand, made good progress a as soon as they were introduc- ed. n As a matter of fact, the op- position even agreed to the in- - troduction of bills amending the Farm Credit Act and the Ex - n port Credit Insurance Act with- out the snormal protracted de - o bate on' a resolution stage. But Mr. Pearson himself ef- fectively undermined his charge of obstruction in the same n speech to the Liberal Council. He set out an impressive ar- ray of Government accomplish- ments inthe little more than d a year in office. How, such an impressive record• could have e been built up in face of • opposi- • tion obstruction is a question Mr. Pearson did not answer, Furthermore, this record has been achieved in a minority parliament with four opposition parties, each one of which has to have its full say on every measure and at every stage of every measure. t Mr. Pearson's charge of ob- struction, taken at its face ye- _ lue, just doesn't stand up. Tak- _ en at its political value, how- ever, it has considerable signifi- cance. Obviously the Government is setting the 'stage for a possible election. At the moment it has no freedom to call an election. The only acceptable excuse would be a defeat in the•House of Commons, and that is some- thing over which the Govern- ment itself has little control. The Government certainly does not want an election now. But, it would like to have the freedom to call one when the time is ripe. If, things go well, Mr. Pearson would prefer to wait a few years, to implement the pension plan, the labor code, a new 'transportation pol- icy, and a number of popular social welfare measures. But suppose the political winds blow hot for the Govern- ment this Fall,. Suppose econ- omic forecasts indicate some sort of decline. The Govern- ment may want then to bet its whole bundle on winning a ma- jority in an election. At the moment the Govern- ment is not 'free to time an election. There is no good and sufficient reason. But Mr. Pear- son is working' on one --opposi- tion obstruction. A few months ago Mr. Pear- son firmly shut the door on an election. Now he has opened it again. That, surely, is the' real meaning behind his accus- ation of obstruction. "Don't ask him about that clam unless you want to hear along boring story of his adventures in the South Seasr S1I ane' Fa,an. "Give him a tranquilizer three o'clock and my bill lour o'clockr' 1.710,01.01/1400 ‘agrcISZOO *94 atm retia. *'fill be our later ...t'us laving a tantrum nave On the surface, at least, there is no more obstruction in this Parliament than there was when the Liberals were in opposition and when Mr. Diefenbaker . was Prime Minister. - On one or two occasions, the Conservatives have carried de- bate to a point which even ob- jective observers may have con- sidered prolonged. But the measures were not obstructed. They passed., The ..Government is naturally expected to take a different view of Parliament than the opposition does. What is ob- struction for one may be care- ful parliamentary scruitiny for another. What then did Mr. Pearson mean by obstruction? He said in his speech that the Tories were filibustering the bill to bring about non-partisan redis- tribution of parliamentary seats following the• census. ti It's true this bill was intro- duced and suffered several days of contentious debate. But the Government itself called off'the debate, and. when Mr. Pearson made his speech, had not seen fit to resume debate on the sub- ject. What of other major propos- als of the 'Governtnetlt? The :fM An optimist and a pessimist went into business together. Trade flourished. "Well," said the optimist, "we've had a won- derful month. It's been one constant run of customers." Dourly the pessimist agreed. "We have had some good busi- ness. But look at those . front doors!. If people keep shoving through them, the hinges will be off in a weekt" • • • • • • �rt • • • • • 4 - r •