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The Huron Expositor, 1962-06-28, Page 2' Since 1860, Serving the Community First Published at SEAFORTII, ONTARIO, every Thursday morningy MOLE b Y AN BROS., ANDREW y Mcg .&AIV_ Fditnr Member' Canadian Weekly Newspapers Association . Ontario Weekly Newspapers Association .� n n a Audit Bureau of Circulations Subscription Rates: � \tlU U� i Canada (in advance) $2.50 a Year % Outside Canada (in advance) $4.00 a Year i✓ L AO SINGLE COPIES — 10 CENTS EACH Authorized as ,Second Class Mail, Post -Office Department, Ottawa Publishers ,-.,.,.. ::.iviiiiii:;:i;:;.:...: •...:...•. x>•:;:.:..::.. �:: •SEAFORTH, ONTARIO, JUNE 28, 1962 Agreement On Austerity Program There will be general agreement on the part of Canadians as to the neces- sity of the emergency measures an- nounced by Prime Minister Diefen- baker Sunday. There cannot be the same agreement, however, as to whe- ther the measures are sufficient to cor- rect the economic problems facing us, for as yet we have not been told the whole* story concerning' the extent of the problems. Instead of abandoning the rosy pic- tures he painted throughout the elec- tion campaign, the Prime Minister in his address Monday evening continued the pretences that while emergency ac- tion had leen taken, things were really not too serious. He still refused to take the public in- to his confidence. He failed to say what steps were planned to reduce the cur- rent budget deficit; he ignored com- pletely the run on the Canadian dol- lar and the cost of the effort to keep it at its pegged price. But perhaps the greatest effort to avoid facts was in the suggestion that the crisis was of recent development. The truth, of course, was that it had been in the making for many months— all during those weeks Mr. Diefenbaker and his Cabinet were. assuring Cana- dians that all was well. That there is much more to be told and further steps to be taken is recog- nized by even the most stalwart sup- porters of the Government. The Globe and Mail, fdr instance, says concerning • the Prime Minister's television speech : • "The Government's program should enable the people to adjust to the sober realities which the politicians have kept hidden for so long. But the program does not provide the answer' to all our problems. "If there is a criticism to be made of the Prime Minister's statement it is that in some passages he appeared to give the impression that the economy was passing through temporary dis- tress which could soon be righted by . Government measures. Any such in- ference would be far from the facts." The Toronto Star has this to say: "Mr. Diefenbaker sought to give the impression that exchange crises were normal occurrences in the life of na- tions. He mentioned specifically Bri- tain and the United States as countries which had similar problems. "This is thoroughly misleading. It fails to take into account the wholly different situation of the three nations: Britain is an overcrowded country with limited resources which have been ter- ribly depleted by two world wars. De- pendent on overseas trade for her very survival, she is bound to be hit hard by any fluctuation in world markets. The exchange difficulties of the United States are due mainly to her enormous °expenditures abroad for military opera- tions and foreign aid. None of these considerations applies to Canada. Our troubles are of our own making, the result of mismanagement and a nation- al effort to live beyond our means." Had the Prime Minister indicated he proposed to call Parliament at,an early date, perhaps the omission of so many details could be excused, since it would be expected that parliament would be given the full story. However, that is not to be. Parliament is not being call- ed until sometime in September, the excuse being a cooling off period is needed. Commenting on this, the Star says : "It (Parliament) must be summoned when anything goes seriously wrong or . when any major change of national pot-'. icy is contemplated. Both conditions apply today.". And adds : "Mr. Diefenbaker got a great deal of political mileage out of the action of the St. Laurent govern- ment when it cut short debate in the House of Commons on the pipeline bill of 1956. He called it `contempt of Par- liament.' "But this is surely nothing to the contempt displayed by a minority gov- ernment which proposes to ignore Par- liament altogether at a time of national crisis." .A MACDUFF OTTAWA REPORT THE REAL CAOUETTE OTTAWA—The • shock of last week's Federal election results was so great—particularly for those who anticipated an easy return of the Diefenbaker Gov- ernment — that it took some time for the significance to em- erge. ° Mr. Diefenbaker and his Con- servatives are still the Govern- ment of the Country. But they have been shorn of most of the power they exercised so confidently in' the years of their overwhelming parliamen- tary majority. Worse still, they are at the mercy of a small and untried group of Quebec nationalists who appear to be more against everything than for anything, and who will wield aninflu- ence far out of line with their numbers. The keyman in this crazy - quilt Parliament that Canadians elected on June 18 is Real Caouette, a 45 -year-old car deaI- er from Rouyn, Quebec. He has put his ownnational leader, Robert Thompson, of. Red Deer, Alta., into a complete eclipse. What he, may do to Mr. Diefen- baker could be even more astonishing. Mr. Caouette has been around for a long time, but hardly any- one had heard of him, much less paid attention to him, until he launched a fiery crusade ov- er Quebec television stations two years ago. He sat in the House of Com- mons—one of four in the new Social Credit group with par- liamentary experience — as an independent M.P. from 1946 to 1949. His affiliation was with the discredited offshoot of the So- cial Credit movement known in raluebec as the Union des lJiec- teurs. He was the only one of this white-bereted, radical group ever to "vin public office. After his defeat by a Liberal in the 1949 election; Mr. Caou- ette, and the Union des Rice - tents both faded in their influ- •enoe •and prominence, • 1n .1957, the ,fanatical union was public.' ly disavowed, by Sacred Nation- al Udder Solon Low. • Mit obottt this tithe, Nit eau. ette abandoned the group and joined the orthodox Social Cre- dit movement in Quebec. His influence within the Party grew quickly and, although the Soc- reds in French-speaking Can- ada passed up the opportunity to participate actively in the 1958 Federal and the 1960 Pro- vincial • election, Mr. Caouette was preparing his ground. In 1961, backed by more than 200 delegates from the province of Quebec, he made a determ- ined bid for the leadership of the national party as successor to Mr. Low. He had strong sup- port from British Columbia's unpredictable Social Credit pre- mier, W. A. C. Bennett but, it wasn't strong enough to pre- vent the election of the per- sonal choice of Premier. Ernest Manning of Alberta, chiroprac- tor Robert Thompson. The results of the leadership ballot were never made public. Instead, the ballots were burn - e1 on the floor of the conven- t on in Ottawa, and Mr. Thomp- son's election was simply de- clared to the assembled dele- gates. Mr. Caouette didn't challenge the results. He did accept, so readily it gave rise to suspicions of some under-the-counter deal, the deputy leadership of the Party. The events of June 18 indi- cate that today it is Mr. Caouette, and not Mr. Thomp- son, who holds the reins. Mr. Thompson, who does not speak French, succeeded in electing four Social Credit mem- hers, including himself, in Can- ada's nine 'English - speaking provinces. Mr. Caouette, whose battering- ram style of oratory brought crowds to their feet screaming with delight in the campaign, elected 26 members, including himself to Parliament from the province of Quebec. It .was hardly surprising, then, that Mr. Thompson's words of satisfaction over the election results were drowned Out by a flood of queries as to Mr. Caouette's intentions. And the Quebec firebrand wasn't backward about coining forward. ' He was willing to "co-oper- ate" with . Mr. Diefenbaker, he allowed, but he added 'ominous- ly: "The terms will have to be looked after." He would refuse to enter coalition with the Conserva- tives, however, "unless Mr. Dief- enbaker becomes a good Social Crediter," accepted Social Cre- dit philosophy and joined the Party. Ridiculous? Not at all, in Mr. Caouette's view—"After all, I haven't been a Social Crediter all my life. There is always time for an old dog to learn new tricks." Pompously, he of- fered the Prime Minister a compliment: "He's a good man," he said, '"but his Party is no damn good." This is the short measure of this man who—incredibly en- ough—holds the whip hand ov- er the 25th Parliament, of Can- ada. - He may neper get. to use his, power of decision whether this is to be a long Parliament or a short one. But it will take all the dex- terity at Mr. Diefenbaker's com- mand to keep the ship of state sailing past the Socred shoals. * * Election Echoes The Commons lost its dean and two of its most promising youngsters in the topsy-turvy balloting on June 18. Hon. Rob- ert Henry (Silent Bob) McGre- gor, Tory member for Toronto's York East since 1926, was fin- ally beaten at the age of 76 by. a Liberal unknown. John Doug- las Campbell Maclean, 33 -year- old heavyweight goaltender- lawyer who jumped to promin- ence in 1958 by defeating CCF stalwart Stanley Knowles in Winnipeg North Centre, and 36 - year -old Robert Simpson Mac- Lellan, who came to Parlia- ment from Inverness -Richmond, N.S., the same year, bowed un- der for the Contier'vative side. In each case, they were trounc- ed by the same men they had bested four year before. 'Best bet: Another election within a year, but probably not before early spring o 1963, Tggis 4'gr40.44 •y':4 - Vii::• ' .... i=ilii:?i::;:;. ••:::.:. VV6'161g4 :i:s "I didn't find my ball, but I did find old Harvey Burquist!" • Coming up, dead ahead, is just about the biggest weekend of the year for Canadians. It has Jan exhilaration that no oth- er weekend on our calendar produces. Hearts are light and gay because it's the real advent of summer. According to an old supersti- tion, summer actually begins on June 21. But try to tell ---that to a school teacher; glassy -eyed in a miasma of chalk -dust and warm running -shoes, as she la- bors through the last week of classes with children whose minds and hearts have fled the classroom to the great, green, throbbing outdoors. * * * Try to tell it to the tourist operator, whose cabins are as empty as his cash register, whose boats squat on the shore like so many gutted crocodiles, whose dining -room echoes only to the lone tread of his wife, as she limps in from the kit- chen to see if there's any point in preparing dinner for non- existent guests. Nope. Summer begins on the last weekend in .June, and we might as well resign ourselves to it. That's when the hordes of urchins pour forth in an ex- uberant tidal wave from their schools, filled With • a bursting sensation of freedom, which will last about 48 hours. :r. * * •That's when the factory work- er, who has spent 11 % months putting round pegs insquare holes, or something of that sort, sets off, quivering with LIFE, for his two -weeks -with -pay, rea- dy to half -kill himself golfing, swimming, drinking beer, danc- ing, or whatever is his plea- sure, before crawling back, spent but content, to -the shriek- ing monotony of his job. That's when mothers who have spent the past 10 months crawling out of bed to find clean socks and blouses, to tot- ter about the kitchen making toast with peanut butter and jam, have a new spring in their step, an unaccustomed smile in their hearts. Their's is the deep, inner warmth that comes .from the knowledge that for: the next two months, they'll get meals when they damwell feel like it, and do the washing ditto. * * * For the bass fisherman, a breed as peculiar in his way as the deer hunter, 'this is the big weekend of 'the year. It means the beginning of two beautiful months in which he can bake to a crisp in an open boat, lash various bodies of wa- ter with miscellaneous hard- ware, and drink skunky beer, to his heart's content. Sheer joy. For the tension -taut young executive, too, it's a special weekend. gFamily settled in at the cottage, he leaves Sunday night with protestations that: "It's gonna , be awfully lonely without you guys." And as he drives down the highway, back to the city, his heart is light as angel cake as he contemplates those long, lovely,sumrer eve- nings, with maybia a drink and dinner in a 'pleasant restaurant before going home to that beau- tiful, peaceful, peopless house. * * * And, of.course, for everyone, this weekend has a special sig« niiieance, because looming up right hi the, middle of it is that glorious celebration of Can- ada's great national holiday - SUGAR and SPICE By Biil Smiley the First of July -,--or, as we us- ed to call it in simpler days, Dominion Day. Let's see, now, was it the day Sir Wilfred Laurier composed Oh, Canada? No, that doesn't seem to ring a bell. Was it the day Barbara Ann Scott swam across Lake Superior? I don't think so. Was it the day Mackenzie King introduced the Baby Bonus? I don't believe it was. * * *. Wait a minute. It's coming back to me, now. It was the day° somebody drove the last spike into Sir John A. MacDon- ald. Anyway, happy the First of July, and try to restrain that Wild Canadian exuberance with- in the bounds of decency as our whole nation goes haywire 'with joy during the celebration •of this—our glorious national holi- day. A SMILE OR TWO "My father can lick your fath- er, so there!" "Big deal—so can my moth- er." Bridget O'Flaherty had a re- commendation written for her before leaving Ireland to come .to Canada. On the way over she lost it, and so she appealed to Pat Rafferty, a fellow passenger and he wrote the following let- ter: "To the general public: Brid- get O'Flaherty had a good repu- tation before leaving • Ireland, but lost it on the way over." Three cellmates in a Red prison- were talking things ov- er. The first factory hand said he was accused of absenteeism for being five minutes Iate for work. The second told how he was five minutes early for work and charged with spying: The third one said, "I came to work on time and they accused me of buying a Western watch." IN THE 'YEARS A G O N E tnterelting items glea25, ned from The and75tor years ago. 50 From The Huron Expositor June 2$, 1937 Miss H. Isabel Graham is in Toronto, where she will attend the National Convention of the Canadian Author's Association, to be held in the,Royal York. Lady members of the. Sea - forth Golf and Country Club were in Mitchel Thursday tak- ing part .in an inter -club match. Seaforth back streets receiv- ed their annual oil bath on Tuesday and Wednesday of this week. Motorists are driving considerably slower than usual to avoid the puddles of oil that have collepted. A meeting for the purpose of organizing a committee to have charge of Scout activities was held in the Scout rooms at Clinton on Monday evening, when Mr. H. G. Meir was nam- ed the committee chairman. One of the oldest, if not the oldest, man who was born in this district, passed away Thurs- day morning in the person of Mr. W. Willison. * * * From The Huron Expositor June 28, 1912 An order has been issued by the Railway Commission that trains must not exceed a speed of 10 miles an hour crossing Main Street. Turnbull • & McIntosh have added a handsome new tour- ing car to their livery equip- ment and have disposed of their old car. The fall wheat in this vicin- ity is heading out nicely and seems to be a good average crop. Farmers say the hay is likely to be a short crop, but the shortage may be made up somewhat from the large acre- age of alfalfa now growing and which promises a good yield. Mr. Thomas Stephens, of the Queen's Hotel, has now got the cement walls for his new stable on Goderich Street completed, and is having the roof put on. The weather still keeps cool. By REV. ROBERT H. HARPER On a recent visit to my son and his family in Georgetown, D.C., I renewed fellowship with a retired member of my Con- ference •and worshipped with him in the church which he at- tends in Alexandria, Virginia. Throughhis ministry, he has had an inheritance in the Mis- sissippi delta and upon retire- ment he bought a home in a suburb of Alexandria. He is spending his time as a portrait painter. He showed me his studio and° several 'portraits upon which he was working and he said he devoted what he re- ceived for his work to the sup- port of • a missionary in Africa. We wish that every man who has, reached the age of retire- ment could be as usefully em- ployed, and in service to others. It may be hard for the young- er perso°'ns to realize how a man who has been engaged in a wholesome activity misses the feeling and the challenge of re- sponsibility. Providing for the aged is more than provision for daily wants in a material way. The dull hard feeling of not having a place any more in the scheme of things is enough to cloud the thought off anyone. ,Just a Thought: The monetary return is not always something to brag about, yet anyone with experience will tell you there is great satisfac- tion in any task which permits one to be of service to others. IALF4M1r iIEI1 I KNOW A FEW BOYS %N OUR ENGL/SH CLASS THEY SHOULD CAPTURE AND PUT /N .THAT G4GE:' • • • . .. • . : . •. .i.• . .... •.• , • • . . • NORYq Aknegov e MOEN 1M i. 111 srisr, C41. L Lr l 1 There has not been a real warm day this season yet. Mr. John Broderick, son of Mr. M. Broderick, has success- fully passed his Civil Service examination and will secure a position in the inside service. Mr. John Dodds, of the Sea - forth Pop Works, is now using his auto truck, made especially for him at the Clinton Works, to use for delivery purposes throughout the district, and thus save time and horse flesh. * * * From The Huron Expositor July 1, 1887 The several departments of the Public School were exam- ined this week and the pupils acquitted themselves most cred- itably, showing that the teach- ers not only take an interest in their work, but that they are also thoroughly competent for the performance of it. On Tuesday afternoon last, two ewes were struck by an engine at the third crossing west of Seaforth, and so severe- ly injured they had to be de- stroyed. Mr. Charles Lowrie is again busily engaged buying 'cheese and butter for the Old Coun- try market. Workmen -on the Main Street drain, under the direction of Mr. James A; Anderson, are having hard and disagreeable, work, but they are making a . good job that will stand good for ten generations, but it's go- ing to cost some money. Bayfield seems to be the cen. tre of attraction just now, and scarcely a day passes that there is not a party from here to spend the day at the beautiful spot. Reid & Wilson, ° hardware merchants of Seaforth. have had ewer 70 tons of iron deliver- ed, which they imported direct. "How did the wedding come off?" "Fine," replied the preacher, "until I asked the bride if she would obey, and she said, `Do you think I'm crazy?' And the groom,' who was in a sort of daze mumbled, `I do.' Then things happened fast!" KNOW YOUR CANADA Where is Marysville? You can take your choice be- tween the one in British Colum- bia ,near Kimberley, and an- other of the same name in New Brunswick four miles from Fredericton. Both are factory towns. *• * Who was Canada's first lady lawyer? Clara Brett Martin. She was called to the Ontario Bar in 1897, practised law in Toronto and served on the Board of Education. She died in 1923• * * * Who was Canada's first lady school inspec}or? Aletta Elise Marty, of Mit- chell, Ont. Born of Swiss par- ents, Miss Marty began teach- ing at 16 and was appointed inspector of Toronto schools in 1919. She was afso the • first Canadian woman awarded an honorary degree by Queen's University. • Who were the Remittance. Men? . Usually young Britons sent to Canada in disgrace,-" for any of a variety of reasons, by their well -to -do -families. The term came into use for such immi grants especially in the years before the First World War. Many remittance men were well educated and some became self- supporting soon after their ar- rivaI. - * * * Are measles still serious. as a major health problem? Yes, wherever the disease can attack peoples unused to it. When a measles epidemic took place in 1952, among Eskimo and Indians in the eastern Arc- tic, 900 Indians and Eskimo fell • ACROSS 1 Cover 4 Satisfy 8 Tops of heads 14 Past 15 Malayan canoe 16 Desolate 17 Electric unit (abbr.) 18 Sweetsop 19 Queer 20 Plural ending 21 Spring Clower 23"Arrow poison 25 Head covering 26 Elbow 28 The lion 29 Ponder 30 Cancel '• 31 Goes without food 33 Newspaper article 34 Kind of fish 36 Diplomacy 36 Lamprey 38 Nevertheless 40 Turns aside 44 Meadow 45 Departed 46 Before • 47 Aura - 50 Huge ill simultaneously at Ungava Bay in Northern Quebec, along with 600 Eskimo in Baffin Is- land. This constituted over 99 per cent of the native popula- tion. The RCAF rushed in sup- plies and a nurse. Other nurses were brought in by dog team by the RCMP. * * * What is Canada's rein- deer industry all about? It aims to give native peoples of the Far North a new source of livelihood, Lapp herders and Eskimo assistants began bring- ing 3,000 reindeer from Alas- ka to Canada in 1929. The great herd did .not reach its destina- tion, the eastern side of the Mackenzie River delta, till 1935, 2,370 animals then remaining. The herd has since greatly en- larged, but its future will de- pend upon how many Eskimo are willing to accept the herd- er's long hours and routine way of life in exchange for his greater security. * * * Who was Canada's first lady industrialist? Agathe de Repentigny, born in 1657 at Montreal. Iroquois killed her father and grandfath- er when she was an infant. In 1703, when the French colon- ists were torr poor to buy manu- factured goods from France, she established a cloth factory. As weavers were scarce, she ran- somed captive New England weavers. Lacking sheep wool, flax and hemp, she substituted goat hair, buffalo wool, tree bark and nettles. When she sold .her factory ten years lat- er, it was producing 150 yards a day of coarse but usable cloth that she dyed according to her own techniques. Site also de- veloped a new method of cur- ing deerskin. 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