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The Huron Expositor, 1963-02-21, Page 2Since 1860, Serving the Community First i'ttblished at ORTH, 0 Mem 0 0 ULP ARIO, A NDRE er. Canadian Ontario Wee Audit Su Canada ( i very Thursday, morning by McLEAN BROS., Publishers Y. McJ.EAN, Editor Weekly Newspapers Associatiolt y Newspapers Association ureau of Circulation cription Rates: advance) $2.50 a Year si s e ada (in advance) $4.00 a Year SINGLE COPIES — 10 CENTS EACH iized as Second Class Mail, Post Office Department, Ottawa SEAFORTH, ONTARIO; FEBRUARY 21,-1963 Time To Think of Goderich Street Sewers It won't be long before Goderich Street is rebuilt to modern standards and to a design that reflects the in- creasingly heavy traffic the street is carrying, and that it is the connecting link through Seaforth for busy No. 8 Highway. Council at a meeting last week acted without hesitation in approving plans prepared for the street and which had received the blessing of the Department of highways. The cost of the project incidentally is to be borne in its entire- ty by the department. By acting as it did, council not only accepted its proper responsibility, but avoided a repetition of the confusion that attended long discussions of plans for North Main Street. Experience in connection with NorthMain had indi- cated that if there were good reasons for a particular action, and if those concerned were properly informed, there would be no serious opposition. It was only when council had hesitated to take a positive course that difficul- ties were encountered. Completion of the Goderich Street project—including rebuilding, widen- ing, new drains, new. sidewalks and new pavement—scheduled for next year, will remove a long-standing com- plaint which motorists have' had for some years. Seaforth will lose — and not a moment too soon—the unfortun- ate reputation it has earned from pass- ing motorists, as the town with the rough streets. While council acted with commend- able despatch to get the rebuilding pro- gram under way, there still remains a problem that must be settled. That problem has to do with sewers to serve residents on Goderich Street. It is realized that the sewer project now under way does not include Gode- rich Street, and it may be several years before work to serve this area can be undertaken. But that is no reason why decisions cannot be taken now as to how Goderich Street is to be served. If a rear distribution plant is feasible, and is recommended by the engineers, it should be planned now, to ensure that it fits • into existing arrangements. On the other hand, if : to provide ser- vice, a sewer line along the street is necessary, it should be laid now. A new pavement on Goderich Street is long overdue, and council is wise in proceeding with it. At the same time, . a, sewer service for Goderich Street is inevitable, whether it be three years, five years or ten years away. This means that before the pavement is laid there is a responsibility to de- termine on a sewer plan and to see that any sewer lines that would con- flict with the pavement are in place. Any other course, which would .result in tearing up a newly -laid pavement a feVv years from now, could well be a needless waste of money. A New Look At Canadian Trade Elliott M. Little is" chairman of the board, Anglo -Newfoundland Develop- ment Co. and president of the Cana- dian Exporters Association- A leading Canadian executive, he is well known here, his wife being the former Doro- thy Wilson. Mr. Little is concerned about Can- ada's position trade -wise and in a re- cent address before the Empire` Club in Toronto suggested that the policy that has existed in the past no longer is practical, and unless we do "something drastic pretty soon it will topple to the ground". Negative approaches such as "volun- tary" quotas and "Buy Canadian" won't work. "We are not going to ex- pand our trade by offending our cus- tomers," he said. The answers to greater trade lie in a lessening of tariff protection and greater specialization, Mr. Little be= lieves. "We should be prepared to bargain away some of our tariff protection in order to obtain access to•foregin mar- kets," he says. "We should switch the emphasis from making as few changes. as possible to securing as many new markets as we can. Let the bargaining be tough, but let it he aimed at expand- ing, not restricting trade." The success of other countries, such as Sweden, .where relatively small popu- lations through specialization create a standard of living equal or superior to our own suggest asimilar approach for Canada. "The key to the solution of many of ,Canada's economic problems lies in this kind of specialization. If we could spe- cialize our production more," Mr. Lit- tle recommends, "we could lower our unit costs, find export markets, reduce unemployment,-, raise our living stand- ards, and slow clown our loss of valu- able manpower to the U.S." Show Contempt For Costs (Canadian Printer and Publisher) If any two things emerge clearly from the Glassco Report on government organization they"have to be: 1. The increasing tendency of the government departments to get into the business world on a do -it -ourselves basis; and 2. ,A general civil servant indiher- ence to cost records. At least $50 million in goods a year are being "made" by government de- partment., and not always well nor cheaply—which could be bought from private tax -paying firms. The Glassco report states: "Many public servants appear con- vinced that departments produce goods and services more cheaply than private enterprise. They ignore the factthat true costs exceed the figures provided by their accounts by 50 per cent or more." The government is the nation's larg- est purchaser. It is foolish economics for the largest buyer, dependent on in- dustry and workers for income, to deny the largest market to its own people. We Like Our Water Hard (Kitchener -Waterloo Record) A good drink of water is a vanishing asset in the world today. The Twin Cities are fortunate to be blessed with a refreshing, potable supply of basic liquid which needs no improvement. For that reason it would be a dis- aster if there was any move to adopt the suggestion of Prof. Ted Heeg of the Ontario Agricultural College to the Grand Valley Conservation Authority this week. Prof, Heeg proposed that .municipal water supplies should be softened at source so as to combat the problem of pollution from mineral -based de- tergents, This would fill the water mauls with artificial rainwater, whleh "4has is inneh ;beverage ebar+aeter Its, a Many, perhaps the majority of, Twin City homes are equipped with water softeners. But they also have at least one tap where drinking water in rel- atively unadulterated state can be ob- tained. Industry remains the biggest user of water and it is there that the large- scale softening process can be utilized without removing one of our cherished assets to good living. Food and .fled China Communism sometimes flourishes on hunger, as well as other human ills. But hunger—as terrible as it is reported in , China—can be, and `may be, the & h knell • of its bted tyrants.— (t'hladel. v:24/ T4%ee/i "I've never been able to figure out where we got off the track during his training" A MACDUFF OTTAWA REPORT THE• FATAL FLAWS ,OTTAWA—Is the naive Dief- enbaker to go down in .history alongside those of Bennett and Meighen, denoting a brief and rather purposeless Conservative interlude between Liberal dyn- asties? Most recent events, particu- larly those of the first twelve days of February, lead inescap- ably to that conclusion. In those twelve days—surely the most exciting period in re- cent Canadian history—the Gov- ernment has been rent by both internal dissension, and by quarrels with the United States. It has been defeated in the House of Commons and now goes forth, bearing almost im- possible burdens, to seek re- election. Prime Minister Diefenbaker has been openly challenged as leader. He has been attacked from within. He has Iost the confidence of a very large body of his' party. Even those who publicly de- clare their loyalty do so be- cause they know there is no one else to take his place. They speak for the good of' the party rather • than for the good of John Diefenbaker. • The Conservative party is split–defused, desperate, dif• ratted and perhaps doomed. Prime Minister Diefenbaker is dyed with the hues• of five years of misjudgment and mis- management. At the moment it looks as though only a miracle will pre- vent the Liberals from taking office. Miracles still happen i ,politics, of course. so a Diefen- baker win cannot be entirely ruled out. • Bqt if the Diefenbaker Gov- ernment does succumb. it will succumb not because of Liberal opposition, not because of Unit- ed States interference, not be- cause of current internal revo- lution. It will succumb because of fatal flaws in the character of its leadership, flaws of indeci- sion and procrastination which have marked Mr. Diefenbaker for the past two years and more. The current cabinet troubles are spectacular but they are not unprecedented and not nec- essarily fatal. After all, Mackenzie King had his resignations, and he surviv- ed, and Mr. Diefenbaker's cab- inet troubles are as nothing compared to those of an earlier Conservative Prime Minister, Mackenzie Bowell.., In 1896, seven of Bowell's ministers 'resigned, which led him to publicly denounce his cabinet as "a nest of traitors", Bowell did not survive but that was probably due more 'to Laurier than .it was to his cab- inet collapse. ' Mr. Diefenbaker's cabinet crisis is rooted in his own his- tory of indecision. Patch as he may, he cannot change the re- cord of the past five years. It is a ,record of misjudg- ment and mismanagement and indecision. Has 'chore ever been a Government so Skilful at hid- ing its solid legislative achieve- ments behind chaotic executive conduct and mouthy, meaning- less phrases? It's a pity the people will not get the true message. The mes- sage that 1962 was ofle of the best years, economically speak- ing, since the war. It was a IDE MOW FAMILY A 1' C.701/1610 PUT` THESE NEW %iarrS. OUR LINEN CLO ET I JAMMED, _1 pow wow }UScAN MAKE E. OFSOME // WASTED SPACE, ODEAR 3 ,4, better year than any other in- dustrialized nation had experi- enced. It's a pity the full force of important legislation on techni- cal school aid to the provinces, on water pollution, on exports, on agriculture cannot be felt by the voters. These are all important mea- sures. They redound to the credit of the' Government. But what do they mean when view- ed in the light of the shatter- ing Coyne affair? Didthe fian- cial„crisis of last June, break- ing just after the election, in- spire confidence in the Govern- ment's ability to manage its af- fairs? Can opposition parties be blamed £or the Government's failure to get any important legislation before the last ses- sion of Parliament? And what is the actual financial position of the Government no‘An There were no spending estimates tabled before Parliament dis- solved. There was no new bud- get. The ministers who resigned gave as their reason disagree- ment with Prime, Minister Dief- enbaker's nuclear policy. That was convenient but only partly true. Mr. Diefenbakes"s nuclear pol- icy is merely one of the most spectacular indicationsof the indecision of its leader, Prime Minister Diefenbaker. The fact that many Canadians still do not see the absurdity of a nuclear policy which sanc- tions use of warheads by Cana- dians in wartime but refuses to let Canadians load their wea- pons inpeace time, is a tribute to either the Prime Minister's skill or their own apathy. But the nuclear policy of Mr. Diefenbaker still remains as the prime example of his inde- cision, an indecision which ex- tended to most other matters as well and stayed with him till the dying hours of this Parlia- ment. For the past year men like former Trade Minister George Hees had taken the only road around this obstacle. They act- ed first, and got approval later. The Ministers, although frus- trated by this eternal indeci- sion ,did not attempt to take matters into their own hands until they saw the danger of defeat in the' Commons and a new election. When Defence Minister Hark- ness resigned, and when Socred Leader Thompson issued his ultimatum, setting terms which the Government must meet if it hoped to stay in office, the ministers acted. They urged the Prime Min• ister to accept Mi. srhompson's terms, which were reasonable. They urged him to resign if he could not accept personally. Mr. Diefenbaker could not Make up his mind. Eventually ,he capitulated to the Social Cre- dit demand, a few hours before the vote. It was too late. The Government toppled. The elec- tion was called. More ministers resigned. This time, Mr, biefenbaker's indecision had been all but fa- tal to his party. The coup de grace May be delivered on April 8. Neighbor to a small, ditty boy: "I've heard of the Soil Rank, but aren't you slightly overdrawn?" BY LLOYD "II. s t�AD NjR9DE " Bt)flXS SIAAPts ✓ tam .PRAME1 /IDs OF CLOSET - WIDTH DEVIZEP 00111 f!i ii0(86 ti bIMWEtt aLrAT FORM DRAWER CUAMNEL. IN THE YEARS AGONE Interesting Items gleaned from The Expositor of 25, 50 and" Y5 years ego. From The Huron Expositor February 18, 1938 This district experienced its worst sleet storni of the year on Thursday, when a steady ram, which froze as it fell, turn- ed sidewalks and roads into .veritable skating rinks Walk- ing was possible only with ex- treme caution, and town em- ployees, busy since morning ?sanding streets, saw their work come to nothing as ice covered the sand almost as soon as it was put , on the sidewalks. At a meeting of the directors of the McKillop Mutual Fire In• surance Co., Mr. Thomas Moylan' was elected president, to suc- ceed Mr. A. Broadfoot, who re- signed. Mr. Roland Kennedy has leas- ed his 100 -acre farm on the 7th concession of Tuckersmith to Mr. George Pullman, of the same line, who will get posses- sion in April. Mr. James Walton, of Barrie, spent the weekend with his cousin, J. J. Pollard. After an absence of 57 years he visited his birthplace near Walton, now occupied by Mr., John Morahan, also visited' the school grounds at Walton, where he first went to school, but failed to find any- one living in or around the Village that he knew. A rink of Seaforth curlers, composed of M. A. Reid, W. J. Duncari, C. A. Barber and John Beattie, skip, were in Toronto last week playing in the big Dominion Bonspiel- Miss H. I. Graham, of Sea - forth, one of Ontario's out- standing poetesses, has written many poems and has published three books of verse which have received Very favorable com- ment from writers. From The Huron Expositor February 21, 1913 Mr. George Stewart has tak- en the Seaforth agency for the Massey -Harris Co. Mr. W. J. Duncan has moved into his new premises, the Grip Hotel property, and has his machinery all at work. - Mrs. W. P. Varson, of Sea - forth, was the fortunate winner' of a handsome gold watch and To the Editor Express Thanks For Response Toronto, Feb., 1963. Editor, The Huron Expositor: Dear Sir: On behalf of the Board of Trustees and the Hos- pital staff, may I express to you our appreciation and thanks for your most valuable support during our recent Christmas Appeal. During the year we received over $300,000 from 31,000 contributors. Funds given to the Hospital permit the continuation and ev- en expansion of our work for children. The needs seem lim- itless and we can assure you that the generous contributions of our many friends is put to good use. We wish that everyone could read the grateful letters from parents and children. They would be an inspiration to you as they are to us. Many thanks on behalf of the Children in the Hospital. Very sincerely yours, C. L. GUNDY, Chairman, Board of Trustees. chain, valued at $50.00, offered by the Imperial Watch Co. of Montreal, for the correct solu- tion of a picture puzzle which was advertised in the Free Press. James B. Berney, of the 4th concession of Morris, has pur- chased the farm of the la�te William Knox, third line, fin the sum of $3.200. The Exeter Times says that 1400 tons of sugar beets grown in that 'vicinity were shipped from that station recently. It required two trains of 55 cars each to remove them. The price paid to the farmers was in the neighborhood of $65,000. The opening .of the new school took placeat Kippen on Tuesday, when Inspector Tom, Mr. F. Hess, Sr., secretary-treas urer, and a number of friends were present. From Tho Huron Expositor February 17, 1888 Mr. John H. McGougall is going into the life instrance business and will work for the North American. On 'Thursday night of last week between 9 and 10 o'clock, the thermometer registered 24 degrees below zero. this being the lowest point the mercury had reached in this district for many years. Mr. William Van Egmond has moved to Kinburn, where he will re -embark in the hotel business. Mr. R. K. Hall, of Atwood, has the contract of supplying the Grand Trunk Railway with 10,000 ties. Bishop Baldwin confi ed 22 candidates in St. Tl oma's' Church on the occasion of his recent visit to Seaforth. There 'once was a man with a vision,• Who just couldn't make a deci- sion. He was willing to fight, But thought it not right To resort to nuclear fission. His critics were quick to sur- round him, His buddies all rallied around him, Except for "the few Who decided to do What they'd long wanted to— and confound him. * * * • And that is my sole contri- bution to the current confused picture in Canadian politics. By the way, have you taken a good kick at Dief yet? Now is your chance. Give "him a good one while he's on the ropes and his mouthpiece has fallen ,out. Only thing that has pleased, me greatly in the past couple of weeks is the recognition of the solid intelligence, the basic reliability, the sturdy independ- ence, of the Canadian voter. Why, everybody I've talked to could see this 'crisis coming Iong ago. People I was certain didn't know' a legislature from a log cabin, a `Common Market from a market garden, have shaken me with their certain grasp of the situation, and their crystal- clear exposition of the prob- lems, * * * "It's the darn Yanks," one voter informed me. "Ther're behind the whole thing. They've been sore at us ever since Laura Secord went marching through Georgia with her cow, in the war of 1812, handing out chocolates to the newly -freed slaves." This was a lady voter, I might add. Always looking for , the women&s angle. Another political type, who has voted the straight Tory tick- et for years, told me bluntly that he's seen the error of his ways. He's swung to, as he put it, "that there Royal Coat, that French fella who waves his arms a lot. That Crucial Credit sounds pretty good to me. We need a lot more of that, these days." * * * 1 Another chap who has gone right down the line with the Conservatives, is .fed up. He has swung far to the left, and is `now, he assured me, a solid supporter of "that Tummy Douglas. Tummy has done a great job for the common man, since he quite practisin' medi- cine out west. Never made a go of it as a doctor, anyhow, I hear." Quite a few people aren't go- ing,to vote for the Government, because they've already got Lent is the forty ,days prior to Holy Week when the suffer- ing of our Lord is remember- ed. This year; Lent begins on Wednesday, February 27. The "forty days" recalls the forty days and nights that Jesus Christ "fasted" and was tested by the devil as reported in Matthew, chapter 4, verse 2; Mark, chapter 1, verse 13, and Luke 4:2. It is appropriate, therefore, that the followers of Christ should be prepared for the re- tnembranee of His passh n by accepting certain disciplines. It is an a'pl5ropriate time for "re- pentance" Long recognized in the Chris- tian Church, Letit begins with the -act Of repentance, the out- ward sign of Which has tradi- tionally been ashes placed on the head of the penitent. Ashes, .being the remains af- ter fuel had burned, were used in the Bible in eases of mourn- ing to show that joy had passed (see Esther 4:1 and Isaiah 61: 3). It is easy -to see, front this; how ashes would be the sign of repentance! Lent begins with Ash Wednesday. Suggested Daily Bible Readings Stindhy---Isaiah 35:1-10 Il/londay--lattiab 42:1.11 '1"uesdayy- `7 diah 42:1-7 Wednesday -Isaiah 53:10.12 - rriday IU3[101 155,111 �.. f41ir.1 SVGA and SPiCB By Bill Smiley that new dock or post office Dief promised them, and they've voted for him three times and they figure he's been paid for it. Now they're ready to try one of the, other parties, and see what they can wangle out of it. • I\ * * * One elderly lady of my ac- quaintance, who has been a Grand Old Tory ever since she ceased being a Fighting Young Conservative, would never con- sider changing her vote. But she's a little sore at the party for accepting Churchill's resig- nation so readily. "I think it's despicable," she snapped, "after what he did during the war. After all, Blood, Sweat and Tears Fight on the Beaches * * * I tried to explain that it was Mr. Harkness, a former school teacher, who had resigned, and , that Mr. Churchill had been pro- moted from Veterans' Affairs to Defence, and that Sir Win- ston was a Tory, but not in this country. 'It was no use. As I left, she was shaking her fist and shrilling, "Give Us the Tools and We Will Finish the Job." I rather admired her. By the way, don't make any rash bets that the Liberals will win in a waltz. I've talked to at least ten women who pro- claim vehemently, "I can't STAND that Pearson!" I ask them why. They can't explain. But they simply wiI:l not vote for him. I think iit's because he looks too much like some- body's brother-in-law,• * * * The most embarrassing of all the interviews I've do n e, though, are those with ladies who lean at me fervently and coo, "But don't you think Mr. Diefenbaker is a Wonderful Man? I mean, I realize that he hasn't DONE anything, 'and that the country is on the rocks, and unemployment is terrible, and all that. But don't you think he's a Wonderful man?" Jeez, as the kids say. * Now, I know you're busy Mulling the whole thing over. But I hope this 'brief glimpse into the teeming mind of the Canadian voter, alert, well vers- ed, conscious of the problems, will help in the trying six weeks ahead. One last thought; Wouldn't it be lovely if we could bottle all the gas that is going to be produced between now and April 8? We could heat every home in Canada, Flee, from now until June. - by Tom Dorr WE WOr;2KED 1415 WAY 1i4 OU6li CO3sLlcttiE