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The Huron Expositor, 1964-09-24, Page 2' P ' Since 1860, Serving the Community First Published at SEAFORTH, ONTARIO, every Thursday morning by MeLEAN BROS., ' • ANDRPW Y. MCLEAN, Editor 0 t o ^ Member Canadian Weekly Newspapers Association Ontario Weekly Newspapers Association e •ABC a o a Audit Bureau of Circulation Subscription Rates: Canad(in advance) $4.00 a Year 40 Outside Canada (in advance) $5.50 a Year SINGLE COPIES — 10 CENTS EACH Authorized as Second Class Mail, Post Office Department, Ottawa. 4fit.A Publishers SEAFORTH, ONTARIO, SEPTEMBER 24, 1964 Police Don't Make The Laws A series of event in which police have been involved—the most recent being the Grand Bend Labor Day inci- dent—has pointed, up an increasing tendency on the part of the public to deride the police and hold them in con- tempt. In such incidents, of course, the pub- lic is laboring under a misapprehen- sion as to what is the position of the police. In Exeter court last week, Magistrate Glenn Hays cited the case of obstruc- tion of a police officer as perhaps a sign of the times and a misconception in peoples' minds as to the role of a police officer, and there appears to be little argument with this thought. Policemen are not the law, the Exe- ter Times -Advocate points out, and adds:. They only 'enforce the laws which are set up by the democratic process to make this nation a safe and moral place in which to live. The Times -Advocate continues : Policemen do not say we can't drink Ikritil we are, 21. The law does. They do hot say we can't drive over 60 m.p.h. on certain highways. The law does. They do not say we can't beat up on people. The law does. Magistrate Hays probably put his finger on one of the idiosyncracies of most people when he pointed out they demand police protection for them- selves, their families and also demand quick action by the police if they have been wronged by another person hav- ing broken the law, but at the same time they are very displeased"when caught for breaking the laws them- selves. In fact, as the reports would indicate, some people even go to the point of using physical force against the police when they are apprehended. Due to the increased number of police beatings and obstructions, it is encour- aging to see magistrates pronouncing stiffer penalties against those who have the feeling they can become a law unto thenwlves. At the same time, it should be noted that perhaps the law—and to some ex- tent the police thernselves — bring about some of this contempt of law enforcement. •Examples of this can be seen at -Grand Bend this summer where •raids were carried out on pinball machine operators and a bingo game, and also the warning on the final Sunday of the summer certain ' entertainment facili- ties should either close or face prosecu- tion under the Lord's Day Act. If these things are against the law, then it is right that action should be taken against them. But how can law- makers and enforcers explain why action should be brought against them on one particular day when they have been openly operating in the resort for many years without any such action? Or how can they come up with a plausible explanation of why the resort operators were hit when persons oper- ating other open unlawful activities are allowed to continue? The answer may come in the fad that certain of our laws are archaic and completely out of step with our modern society. If this is the case, they should be quickly altered and then enforcement agencies should stage a relentless crack- down until such time as all persons are adhering to the law. Policemen should not be expected to decide which laws are to be enforced and which should not, because they are against the trends of society; and mak- ing •them do this is one of the reasons some people gain grounds for criticising them. Policemen should never be in the position where they can justifiably walk past one offender to arrest an- other as they have apparently been doing in Grand Bend for many years. Temper is a weak man's imitation of strength.—Arnold .Glasow. In the Years Agone From The Huron Expositor September 29, 1939 Charles -Pearce, widely known hobo and self -professed King of the Transients, visited Seaforth on Thursday on his way to, To- ronto. Hehas just returned from an extensive tour of the Maritimes.' A man was arrested Friday evening in Seaforth under the War Measures Act. -He is al- leged to have statd that if there were any way of getting to Germany, he, would immedi- ately go there and fight for Hit- ler. Nearly 60 friends of Dr. E. A. McMaster gathered at the Golf Club for a stag party to honor him prior to his - mar- riage. Seaforth Fall Fair this year attracted a crowd of more than 2,500. The weather was per - feet, •and there was an out- standing array of exhibits and entries, with the result that the crowd came early and stayed late. * * * From The Huron Expositor September 25, 1914-, Jack Warwick and some 4th- er lads from Brussels, while on a mushroom hunt, found a mammoth puff ball that weigh- ed 15 pounds and measured 541/2 inches in circumference. The farmers in this vicinity have been ,making good use of the recent fine weather for the harvesting of beans. The crop is an exceptionally good one this year, and is being well sav- ed while prices are soaring. Mr. Robert Winter, the veter- an Stock 'exporter of Seaforth, last week purchased from Mar- tin Bros. of the -second con- cession of Tuckersmith, seven head of cattle at 9 cents per pound. * * From The Huron .Expositor• Septdmber 27, 1889 The first snow for this sea- son fell on Saturday last, but we have had fine weather since. Sharp & Livens have opened a new grocery and provisions store on Main Street, Seaforth. They have a complete stock of groceries, crockery, seeds and provisions. Mr. George Habkirk and Mrs. Habkirk, q±' McKillop, drove to Lucknow to' see the Caledonian games. While there the horse stable burned down, almost get- ting Mr. Habkirk's horse apd buggy. Mr. Welsh of the Seaforth livery, "recently,.,+, purchased a very handsome young driving horse from Mr. W. H. Scott, of Stanley, for $145.00. °ANY MORE COMPLAINT$r :' '?'' ''' 1-' 4' ., t'..".-'---- A Macduff Ottawa Report i A ChrisT: mas Present OTTAWA — Prime Minister Pearson has made it abundant- ly clear that after the flag cora- "iiiittee reports late next month, his Government will take firm action to get the new Canadian flag approved by Parliament. The Prime Minister has virtual- ly pledged that Canada will have a -distinctive national flag by Christmas, based on -a maple leaf design. There was a general sigh of relief around the country when the members of Parliament concurred with the agreement, reached among the political par- ty leaders, to refer the flag question to a special Commit- tee of the Commons. There had been 23 days of debate and nearly 200 speeches. Now it will be the job of the 15 -man committee to come up with a design for a distinctive national flag. The committee consists of seven Liberals, five Conservatives and one member each. from the New Democra- tic Party, the Social Credit group and the Creditistea. The Prime Minister told the House: "It was agreed (by the leaders) that the committee would report back to the House in the normal way within six weeks.," Later he explained that by "the normal way" he meant that by a simple ma- jority report. By agreeing to the Oag ques- tion going to a committee Mr. Diefenbaker. has substantially reduced the opportunities his Red Ensign group in the offi- cial opposition, will have tot fili- • buster the adoption of the flag the committee may recommend. When the committee makes its report a motion will be made that the report be now concurred in. That motion will enable the Progressive Conserv- atives, who are determined to have the Red Ensign preserved, or some semblance of it on the new flag, to debate at length. There may. be 80 or more Tory speeches. The Conservatives may al,so move a motionthat the report be not concurred in, and this will again provide a springboard for 80 or more Conservative speeches. That will about exhauk the Progressive Conservative fili- buster. But if the Tories come up with some other procedural manoeuvre to try and stall ad- option of the committee's re- port Prime Minister Pearson will be in a good position to either move that the previous question be now put, or to move closure. . All this of course is based on the assum,ptiOn that the Com- mons Conimittee may bring down a maple leaf design which Opposition Leader John Diefen- baker and his group of Red Ensign advocates cannot accept. It may be that the committee can work out a compromise de- sign which Mr. Diefenbaker and his party might be able to ap- prove as a new Canadian flag. However, this is regarded here as extremely doubtful. The committee did not get, off to a very auspicious start. Shortly after the Prime Mini- ster announced that the politi- cal leaders, had agreed to set Sugar and Spice IT'S THE HAPPtEST DAY! • Everybody happy now that school has re -opened? You should be. With the possible exception. of Christmas Day, it's. the happiest and most exciting occasion in the year, for a. large part of our population. . When I was a kid, we all hated going back to school. And it was real. Schools were grey and grimy. Classrooms were stuffy and poorly lighted and smelled. Teachers were maiden ladies of eighty or ninety years old, and crabby as hell. * * * Nowadays most. youngsters are thrilled to enter the portals in September. They've h a d enough summer. They want to get back with their peers, and gossip, play, work, stretch their minds, find somebody to hate besides their parents. Nothing is quite so charming as the gossoons entering Grade 1. Shined and curled and starch- ed beyond recognition, they march off on opening day with the new schoolbag, clammy hand clutched by a disgusted older brother, or pompous sis- ter. They:re as scared and ex- cited ,as a pilot on his first solo flip. * * * Next in sheer delightfulness, I think, are the kids entering high school. Last year they were the big wheels in Grade 8, the monitors, the safety patrol members, the seniors. Sudden- ly they are plunged into a vast high school ;where they are nothing, the youngest of the young,.the rookies, the chickens just out of the nest., Their be- wilderment is • something to be- hold. Mothers either weep' or breathe a sigh of purest relief. .on opening day, depending on whether they.have lost the first of their nestlings, or have just got rid of the last of the lit- tle horrors who have been nudging them towards an insti- tution for the past twelve years. * * * Fathers, too, heave either a sigh or a groan, depending on the age of the kids. If the stu- dents are young, it means the old man at least knows they're in school and safe, not being buried alive at the sandpit or falling into the water -filled ditch, or running out in front of speeding cars to get their ban. If they're university age, he breathes heavily and grunts with a mingling of pecuniary pain and wild elation as he Smiley signs the first of many cheques for tuition fees, plus, room'n board. The "drop -outs" are happy as morons. They quit last Easter, took a job,. the job petered out, and now they fervently agree with their mother, who said they were too stupid to make, .a living unless they had a uni- versity degree. So they've drop- ped back in, to keepz' warm fe another winter. . The school board is happy. The • long dull summer, with nothing to do but make money, is over, and they can get back to the fascinating topics of how much the new boiler -will cost, how lousy the new teachers are, hew much they dare submit to the council in their budget, and how different things were when they were at school. The caretakers. are happy. After all, it's rather frustrating to spend all summer washing, waxing and polishing, -with no- body to appreciate. Now, their two months' hard work vanish- es in •a• twinkling, and they can go back to 10 months of grous- ing .about dirty kids and sloppy teachers. The merchants are happy. Their "Back -to -School" adver- tising campaign went over pret- ty well. Now they can relapse comfortably into criticism of the stupidity of the school board, the hours and salaries of the iteachers, and the maPn- ners and morals of .to -day's stu- dents, compared to those of their own generation.. Theoretically, the , teachers are happy. They return to school clear-eyed, refreshed, af- ter their long . vacation, which they spent lying on the beach, pounding a golf .ball, or. tour- ing Europe. In reality, most of them tot- ter in, red -eyed, wrung -out and broke, after seven weeks of summer school and one dread- ful week visiting relatives, dur- ing which their kids were libly terrors, and it rained every day. • The young couple had just finished going over their month- ly bills and were down to the last two. "Gosh, honey," said the hus, band, "we're practically broke. I don't know 'which to pay—the electric company or the doc- tor." "Oh, the electric company, of course," answered his wife. "After all, the doctor can't shut off your blood." 'WINNERS! Winners in the Sheaffer "Count the Cartridge" Contest, held at ANSTETT JEWELLERS LTD., are as follows: 1st—Barbara Gridzak, Kippen 2nd—Patrick Meindinger, Seaforth 3rd—Sharon Albaugh, Seaforth . Winners may pick up their prizes by calling into the store. ANSTETT JEWELLERS LTD. Phone 77 — Seaforth up the coraniittee, Mr. Diefen- baker was interviewed by news- men and his words taped for radio and television. He said he would prefer a flag that had a symbol of Canada's historic links with Britain and a sym- bol of French -Canada in its design. Mr. Pearson was informed by radio reporters who interview- ed him after they had spoken with Mr. Diefenbaker, that the Opposition Leader was intet- preting the committee as an - Other "retreat" by the Govern- ment. He learned that the Op- position Leader was suggesting that the Government was "on the run and had given up its desire for a distinctive maple leaf flag." The Prime Minister was an- noyed. He had hoped the com- mittee could get off to a good non -controversial start: Mr. Pearson agreed to a na- tional television broadcast ov- er the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, and bluntly serv- ed notice that his Government expected to have a distinctive maple leaf flag by Christmas. This was interpreted in some quarters as an indication that the Government was ready to get the flag recommended by the committee adopted by Christmas even if it meant us- ing closure to terminate the debate. Opposition LeadeP Diefenbak- er charged in the House that Mr. Pearson was predetermin- ing the findings of. the Com- mons _flag committee, thereby destroying its integrity. He argued that the committee was not impartial. - "I protest very strongly," he said. The Prime Minister rejected the accusation that he was in- terfering with the committee. That charge he branded as "nonsense". He was confident that no instructions. had been given to members of the com- mittee by any of the party lead- ers. However,' Mr. Diefenbaker has made it obvious that he will not accept the report of the committee unless it has 80 or 90 per cent of the members of the committee in agreement. He wants virtual ,unanimity with at least 12 or 13 'mem- bers of the committee agree- ing to the report. But Mr. Pear- son insists that Mr. Diefenbak- er in agreeing to the establish- ment of /the committee crincur- red with the idea of a report "in the normal way" i.e. with a majority of one or more, or eight out of the.1,15 members reaching-- agreement. At the same time, the Prime Minister has acknowledged that Mr. Dief- enbaker stipulated that his par- ty would want. time to debate the rePort in the House. There will be a meeting of all the party leaders after the report is presented by the com- mittee. That meeting will seek to fix a time limit for the de- bate on the report in the House. If it is a report acceptable to the Conservatives the -debate in the House will be short. If the Tories don't like the report, the debate will be prolonged. But it cannot be .to prolonged. By accepting the idea of a com- mittee Mr. Diefenbaker has iii effect relinquished ' his oppor-. tunity to carry on a filibuster. indefinitely. 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