HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance-Times, 1954-06-09, Page 8The Wingham Advance-Times, Wednesday, June 9th, 1954
HIGHLIGHTS
from the
HIGH SCHOOL
AROUND SCHOOL
At this time of year there is always
a very special significance in a soggy
handkerchief, tear-stained cheeks, and
broken-hearted sighs.
Another wonderful year has passed
and we pupils are expected to be an
other year wiser. The teachers have
another year’s worth of gray hairs
(or missing hairs, as the case may be)
and have a few more wrinkles added
to their furrowed brows. Another
batch of little darlings has success
fully crossed over the hump and has
left the protective walls of Wingham
District High School and a new
group will step into the shoes of the
graduates.
How we dreaded those three sets of
exams! Exams are as permanent as a
visiting mother-in-law, They have
been going on for a long, long time
now and there doesn’t seem to be
much hope for future generations get
ting out of them either.
If a mileage gauge could be attach
ed to the pen of a student entering
Grade nine, and the mileage read at
the end of Grade thirteen, no doubt
that pen would have travelled the
distance from here to the moon and
back at least six times. When a Grade
twelve or thirteen graduate looks back
on his first day here at W.D.H.S. it
seems as if it were only last. Septem-
her. Pn that day our sentence in this
prison looked unending but time really
does fly. Won’t our grandchildren he
amused at our stories of the old fash
ioned field days and basketball gam
es? And to think we loved anything
so ancient as football!
In the past four or five years many
changes have been made in the teach
ing staff of our school but many of
the prpfessors have hung on through
thick and thin.
Truthfully, teachers, we really did
hate your tests and exams and home
work but without your help we would
all be parked in Grade nine. Maybe
you were right whe^ you said we
would wish we were back in school.
We have enjoyed W.D.H.S. but,
we haven’t started wishing yet!
Catherine Keating
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For a long time now there has been
a verbal battle going on between the
folks In the country and the folks in
the town, over two major issues, one
of these is "Daylight Saving Time”,
and the other is store closing hours.
Perhaps it would be more proper to
say that a combination of the two
has caused most of the misunder
standing. I am sure that misunder
standing it must be, for no two seg
ments of our society are so depend
ent upon each other, as the farmers
and the merchants in a small town. I
have talked to hundreds of farmers
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things done on time, whether, it be
their farm work or their shopping.
The folks who always get to town late
on a Saturday night are most often
the folks Who are late getting the
seeding done, late getting into the
haying, and always seem to be behind.
The light is on jn the barn till 11
o’clock, doing half as many Chores as
their successful neighbours who have
finished long since and are now tak
ing it a little easier- This same class
of people do most of the grumbling, be
it about store hours, daylight saving
time, the weather, the way the coun
try in general is run, or the behaviour
of their neighbours.-
There are similar people in town, too,
believe me, and just as large a per
centage as there are in the country.
But, by and large, you’ll find that
people adjust themselves to condit
ions very quickly and quietly. It’s the
squeaky wheel that get’s the oil in
most cases, but if he squeaks too long,
he is either ignored or replaced.
Let’s be broadmidinde about this
business, about all similar problems.
As I said before, the farmers can’t
get along without the urban merchants,
and the stores would be closed in a
we$k, if they didn’t have the farm
business. But, we need some elasticity
of thought, to solve mutual misunder
standings and problems.
We know the truth, not only by the
reason, but also by the heart.
—Pascal
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IV.M.S. Meets
The regular meeting of St, And
rew's Auxiliary of the W.M.g. was
held on Tuesday afternoon, June 1st.,
at 2.30 o’clock, with Mrs, Horace Ait-
chison presiding.
After the opening exercises, the
secretary, Mrs. Wm. Keith, read the
minutes and correspondence and call
ed the roll. Mrs, J, Burchill read the
Scripture and meditation. Mrs. W. J.
Henderson led in prayer. The treas
urer, Mrs. N. L. Fry, read her report.
Tfae offering was received and Mrs.
H. Gilmour led in the dedicatory pray
er, A piano duet, "The Lord’s Prayer”
played by Mrs, Nelson Pickell and
Mrs. Bruce Keith, was greatly enjoy
ed. The topic, "Flight Around the
World” was given in a most interest
ing planner by Miss Cora Gilkinson
who outlined a trip from Vancouver
to Japan, Hong-Kong and India.
Complete and interesting reports of
the Presbyterial sectional meeting
held in Ethel on May 31st., were given
by Mrs. W. Ringrose and Mrs. Horace
Aitchison. After some discussion re
garding the Home Helpers’ meeting
in July, the meeting was brought to
a close with prayer by Mrs. Gordon
Hastie.
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misunderstanding.
I have no intention of drawing any
conclusions as to who is to blame, but
I am convinced there are two sides
to every story, and a little give and
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argument, no matter how bitter.
Think of the feuds between neigh
bours, yes, between members of fam
ilies, that have started over some
minor, foolish misunderstanding, and
then these grudges grew and multi
plied, until neither were speaking to
the other, and everyone was unhappy.
The same applies to many of these
foolish disagreements between urban
and rural folks.
Take the store closing and opening
hours. The store keepers tell me that
they are faced with a very acute lab
our problem, and it’s one that they
can do nothing about. They are bound
by labour laws to work their help only
so many hours a week. Without these
clerks and workers they cannot oper
ate their stores. It used to be that
stores were kept open till 11 o’clock
on Saturday nights, but that has been
changed to 10 o’clock in some areas,
9.30 in others and even 9 o’clock in
many others. Some of the larger chain
stores, close altogether on Saturday
night. Again it’s labour problems, and
lack of business in these late hours
that have brought about this change.
They will tell you, and I believe they
are very correct, that in the majority
of the cases, the late shoppers in any
town are the folks who live in or dose
to the town, and generally they are
the same people who have gotten into
that rut, and can't seem to get ahead.
Store keepers tell me that it is all a
matter of adjustments to these hours
on the part of the shoppers. My own
personal observation has been that the
successful farmers are those who get
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