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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Lucknow Sentinel, 1960-01-06, Page 8'AG EIGHT' 5 • f. d. 4 sty I f. sf 4 e. gar and Spi • By 'i?4. r.. ".I... Smiley There's something • completely • satisfying about getting the old •nose back to the familiar 'grind- stone after • the • scramble • •of. Christmas and the folies of New! Year's , Eve have faded. It's a ..good . • feeling" to ,have a• brand, new year stretched ahead, , as clean and fresh as a field of new snow, even though we• . know it won't look like much after .we'vs. bogged around in it for awhile. ,** Looking ; back over last year is rather depressing. I , can't ` seem to see anything of progress, mor- ally, .physically, • or financially, in my own twelve month ,stint. I did get to church mor e often, but 'that was offset by an increase in smoking, and Some pretty vio- lent swearing. I didn't have any major , operations, but made the" acquaintance of :a nasty customer called Arthur Itis. And I ended 1959: as I' did the year before, deep in debt. Happily, the rest of the fani-'•. did show • some progress. The kids did ,well with music and 'school; grew a • ' foot, ; each, • and. improved 'their swimming,.: skat: ing and sundry other accomplish- ments. On the debit side;, their internecine! warfare , increased in ••` tempo, and they learned -a: ' num her of new ways of irritating their parents' to the,' verge of breakdown,:- _ _ Mywife had a • good ' year, too. She. seemed .to; get a lot :smarter, because, she stopped trying.' 'to push Me, • and began pulling . me. I. didn't, move, anyanr faster, but we were' both, spore comfortable.• '• She also showed definite; signs • of meliowiu 'said laidhands on olntl• oil c` 'ts� I. . m `'wi e e . F• y��tvri tha can : remember,. We. had a traed before g .Y. Christmas, when our spaniel pup was killed by a. car.' There :were. some heart -broken days ' around • our house;. I can 'tell : you. our 12- year-old, a tough young nut who wouldn't, cry if You .pounded him with a two-by-four, wept open-, ly, bitterly and often.. His mother. • who ; called that dog evert kind, of no-good you could imagine, still weeps ,Whenever •she thinks of Playboy, the. puP•:. * Isn'tit; amazing how . little we can`, remember of what happened in •the . world •at largeduring the past .year? I vaguely: recall that the Queen' was here last summer,; that Mr. ' Kruschev visited the • West during the ,year, -,that there were various "incidents"` in' var- ' ions pats` of : the'. • globe, all of them scary. • But most : vivid in my memory • are • things like cat, Ching. 14 nice speckled trout one hot day iri .June; -the day Kim's pony -tail was • cut off; : the day Hugh won a scholarship at the music festival':. **. Like most ,:Canadians, I ani in- clined to be ' more interested in What's . going on in my: Own back-. yard than what's happening to the. world.. It's nothing.; to brag about,, of course, As 'a;.nation, we are prone to •interest ourselves: • more in a local dogfight than in the starving' ;millions of Asia; •A' more in: our new outboard, mot or- than in intercontinental mis- riles. f * , • • This doesn't'apply only: to Can- adians, 'of 'course. It is World- wide. But it seems to be empha- sized in our country because •we • are, so well off, compared to great sections of the world's pop- ulation. As a nation, we are -gen- erous • enough with gifts and• loans, to less, fortunate countries, though we don't strain ourselves.. but, as individuals; we.' 'acre' con- tent to make our piddling ,con-' trfbutions to missions and world welfare organizatlonS then ds,N 'THE LUCKNOWSENTINEL,: LUCKNOW, ONTARIO miss them tr'oM our minds. Perhaps we could set as one`' of our goals for 19$0 ; an; examina- tion of what's wrong; • with the" world, and a deterniination to do' something, however small it may •be, about it This is my one resolution, ; and I'm going to 'do' my miniature best, to spread. lightfi:' and cheer, to be more Christian; in thought,: word ' and deed, And if you don't ,think: that's a tall order for a harden ed sinner; a solid, sceptic, you. is wrong, Mabel, Besides, • it's much • : simpler 'to make- one , grand, sweeping res- olution ; like that, than a lot of trifling ones. It means you can devote" yourself to studying ,world affairs and making nebui- ous plans to do good and still go •:on smoking, swearing, booz- ing, beating your wife, kicking dogs, or whatever your:.forte`is. * * These cut-and-dried resolutions are all right, but give me a big, fat, sloppy, confusing one that your wife can't put her 'finger on. and say "Ptah!"' ` LEGION' SEEKS NEW�:PRESIDEN.T The regular monthly ':meeting of Branch 309 • Canadian. Legion was held Tuesday, December 29• with: ;1st vice President, • Stuart Collyer in the ,chair; • •The Charter • was draped and a chair . placed at , the front of .the hall in memory of the.'presi-. dent, William MacDonald; ':._ The draw for '$14.90 was • won by Harvey Kilpatrick. It was decided that paid ':up members: for :1959: would' participate in the. ` draw until; March• The Parcel ,• committee . gave "• a good • report of ',gifts sent out'. at. Christmas. A nolgC natin :,..committee, of Ken :. Cameron, Harold `Ritchie and: Bud Thompson agreed to interview members with a, view to 'finding ' a president for. the next meeting. next • Bingo • committee stated that the 'next bingo will. be : Jan- uary 7th and may be weekly. after that : date. WEDNESDAY, JAN. sth,, 1964 • ESSEX, • JORbAN, DURANT , . more than . 2,400 different cars have been, made in North America. Of these, less thanthirty still make new appearances each year on Canadian roads:. The reasons for failure were many, -but the , under. lying factor was the . inability to make annual, profits sufficient for survival and progress. This is a dramatic example ;in just one industry 'ofd the role of .profits in helping a company 'survive. +and grow. Without profits, only one road., faces any com- pany. It must lay ,off its employees, '.close its doors and go out of . business. Whatever the industry, whatever its size, steady profits mean steady jobs. HE EEL: •_ ,C01.PAPATNY- ....OF.: CAN LIMIT•E'D MONTREAL- GANANOQUE -. HAMILTON "BRANTFORD . :.TORONTO': Canadian -made steel from Canadian -owned plants ITUARY . MRS. ALEX * IREHOU, SE The death Of Mrs. Emma :Mire- House occurred recentlY. ' at Meli to Manitoba: Her. . death occurred after a long illness following 'a stroke, and •thirteen'•.days`: after she had observed her '85th .birth,. day. • Mrs Mirehouse was a native of Lind§ay and . went west in 1915 Three years later the : mar- ried' Alex Mirehouse, a native of the Langside 'distil)* and they farmed in. the Fertile dis- trict until takingupresidence in Melita thirty-two years ago. She was member a e ber of the United, • Church, . •w'here ` the funeral'' ser-'• vice was •heldwith interment in ' Melita. .• t Y Besides`' her : husband,. she is, .. survived by a brother, Mark Lee'.' of R:ayboro. Huntley : .Dawson 'of Kinloss is a nephew, and returned, recently .`. from. 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