HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance-Times, 1954-10-06, Page 2The Winghajrn Advance-Times, Wednesday, October fith, 1954
EDITORIALS
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• SIXTY YEARS AGO
■ The Directors of the Wingham
; Drivxg Park gre pushing _
I work on the jxew grounds. They had j
; twelve teams and a large gang of men I
fixing the track on Tuesday. I
The frame one and a half storey!
dwelling on lot 23, Edward Street west, |
owned by Mr. J. W. Scott, banker, of Si
Ldstowel. has been sold through tfeeL agency of S. Youhili. to Frederick 1
Seyfort, foreman in the Button and ’ t
Fessant factory, who 'will go into pos-f(^
I session in the near future.
[ A Brantford minister. Rev. Mr.,
;Hobbs, in a recent sermon, described.
; dancing as “hugging set to music’’, 4
and warned all members of his eon-1
gregatton against indulging in this' Archie Peebles
wicked pleasure. . « Ever walk up to the wicket in the
Mr. Samuel B. Smale, of town has, post office with blood in your eye be-
six hens whose record for the past six ' cause a letter you were expecting
months is something remarkable. Five toever arrived? We did. We made un-
of them are white leghorns and one is kind remarks about the postal system
a mongrel During the time mentioned and threatened to complain to the
they laid seventy-five dozen and two, postmaster-general because the letter
YOUR NEWSPAPER - FREEDOM’S FORUM
The earl}’ Roman lonun was a public place or a
marketplace in a city; the center <jf judicial or public
lm&ines».
Itb modern-day counterpart is, of course, your news-
$apvr, in who.-ri: columns the minds of many men converse,
and where an /pual number of ideas are debated,
Through this means of mass communication, many
idea*- gather fohowings, becoming championed ideals, and
.sometin;*;* liberties,
While your free press, symbolized here by your news-1
jpaper, ha> aided in the birth of the many liberties we calif
ireedom, it ?erve> al>o to protect these librties by expos-.-
ing those -rho would curb- or «
The tree pres*'—-vour new
.donr's forum.
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forum, we must go a *ttp
have made it jjos-ibl-e for
such an unportant role.
The early forums were
tariff’s or rents paid by z
wares there. TodavE mere..-...... —--------- . _ , , ,• - ' , . , ■ , - , .I. Preyllis Johns, of John Street has. pocket for five days oef ore depositingation oi a newspaper thrown them purchase oi auvertssmgybeaten some of’hfrr eHers showing;it m the post box.
Space. tone true Patriotic spirit. She madeS Needlessly io say we humbly apolo-
Be-id^- th*-*e ^milarhie1- we would fail to recognize doll's bonnets and held a mil-jfiized to Postmaster Archie Peebles
- ■> - x finery opening and sold them for I tor raising all the fuss. And Archie,file lull impor ..daAC O. .he>e jorums *.O OUT liberty, A ere, Which she received two dollars whdi .showed neither .surprise or anger
we to neglect our Standard^-. Yet, uniform standards are ; sixty-five cents, she donated this to I When we told him the sad tale, merely
fundamental to the swxe^ful commerce and industry that Soei&t-V- Three J-That sort Cf thing happens an
v , , , « . , - jeneers for Phyllis. Jtoe time around here ’. We supposeMa- fieipeu to guarantee Mur iretflom. - , -» 5 - ‘postmasters .get used to taking the
It wa.* in the Roman forum where uniform n - els air nHlCTTriei
for 'weight and measurement were first evolved.
papers, too. have played an important role in establishing
uniform standard* used in auditing, reporting and measur
ing circulation audiences.
In 1914. newspapers joined with advertisers, adver
tising agencies and periodicals in establishing a bureau of
circulation standards—the -Audit Bureau of Circulations
-—for the advertising and publishing industry.
The U’ingham Advance-Times plays an active role
as an A.B.C. member in voluntarily upholding and main
taining these circulation standards which are s
fast in our relations with out advertisers. Important. al>ojv<'itfc overseas force from this:
to the cfitorial quality of ou. paper. _ ’
lhe Advance- I lines IS proud oi Its part, in association‘Weekly competitors are being held at
with other newspapers, in earning the slogan, ‘"Your News-ith® Whitechiircb rifle range and pnz-
paper—rreedom s rorum.' . j
TIMELY ANY WEEK
This week, October 1st to 8th, is Newspaper Week
and newspapers all over Canada and the United States
are marking the occasion.
However, as Editor Ray ^Vilson, of the Shawinigan.
J7alls Standard points out, any week is timely to stress
the merits of the weekly paper, both in its news and ad
vertising.
zThe advertising director of one of Canada’s leading'
'banks gives this important but emphatic reply to the
question, uWhy we advertise in the weeklies”:
“Very simply, we use weeklies bcause they’re a darned
:good buy for our advertising dollars. If our appropria-;
ttion ever had to be cut, weeklies would be the last of our;
media to pay the supreme sacrifice.
“While we’re national advertisers, our business is
■essentially local; consequently we advertise at the local
level in the local weeklies.
“Familiarity breeds friendships not contempt. Our
weekly newspaper advertising enables us to say ‘hello’ in
a friendly atmosphere. In return, we get back a friendly
‘hello’ from the readers of weekly newspapers. They go
farther; they stop in for a chat.
“When we advertise in the weeklies, it helps us to
identify ourselves with the life of the people around us.
Our advertising rubs shoulders with that of the local
butcher, baker and hardware store. As a result we become
.an integral part of the community and accepted as such.
Our branch and branch officers are accepted as a friendly
part of lhe community.”
Continuing on the subject of the weekly newspapers,
this discriminating advertiser says: “Everybody in town-
reads it. You can’t compare it with the big dailies be
cause in the weeklies, the news is right on your own door-
.step; in the big dailies it’s a long waj’ from there. By
their very nature, weeklies constitute an important part of
<our overall advertising program.”
, ADD CLICHES
A character in a recent short story objected to the
‘term “eminent psychiatrist”. Feeling that it’s getting to
the stage where all psychiatrists are eminent, she felt that
the time has come to abolish such cliches.
We wonder what newspapers would do without them.
Eor they come in very handy in describing, in newspaper
shorthand, a journalistic world, peopled with eminent
psychiatrists, veteran newspapermen, shapely chorus girls,
brilliant scientists, elder statesmen, battle-scarred veter-
.ans, hardened criminals and ardent golfers.
Not to mention the saddest of these, the harassed
-editart
5 destroy them, i
■paper—is certainly free- J
!
newspaper iu the early Roman i
beyond and credit those whoj
blir modem counterpart to play-‘Or 90S eggs, and the mongrel hen hat-'"which had been mailed definitely on
; ched tvzo broods of chickens, • Saturday in London hadn’t arrived bj
supported to an extent by the’
merchants who displayed their teaks ago
■Hants- aid m the financial oper- j
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Friday ^astgr McDoa_ blame tor the nos-receipt of letter*
News- aid. the thirteen year-old sea of Mr. I
Geo. MacDonald, cf Bluevale, met with '
J a very severe accident. He was in thA
=, act of crossing the street when he |
was knocked down by an auto. He was ’■
at once taken home and medieal at-'1
tendance summoned, when it was!
found he had two ribs broken and 3
severely bruised and scratched about j
11 the face. II , *» Wingham company is drilling twos
'nights a weak, and has a list of 82 5
; members on the roll, and members are 4
O IHlpOr- (Still coming an. 39 went to the front;
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WEXTY-FIVE YEARS AGO
A disastrous fire occurred about 5
p.m. on Thursday, when Abe Smith,
of the sixth concession of West Wa-
vranosh, had his barn and the con
tents completely’ destroyed. Besides
the season’s crop of hay and grain,
some of which has been threshed, the
barn contained two wagons, a fanning
mill, a set of scales and a few other
> articles. A horse,, twenty-two hogs and.
about 30 hens also were burned.
The decorators are at work in Wing
ham United Church, and workmen in
stalling the new pipe organ are rapidly
finishing their contracts, and will
have everything in readiness for the
re-opening services, a week from Sun
day, October 18th. Rev. J„ W. Hibbert,
of London, a former pastor, takes the
re-opening services.
Fled Stephenson, of Toronto, is vis
iting at the home of his father, J, H.
Stephenson. Mr. Stephenson, who was
in the jewellery business here until
about two months ago, when he dis
posed of his business to Mr. Williams,
of Toronto, is now opening up a busi
ness with his son in Chatham.
Mr. and Mrs. Miller Procter an
nounce the engagement of their dau
ghter, Addie Pearl, to Dr. George
Howson, son of Mr. and Mrs. W. J.
Howson, Wingham, the marriage to
take place in the middle of October.
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Published at Wlngham, Ontario
Wenger Brother^ Publishers, W. Barry Wenger, Bfltor
Member Audit Bureau of Circulation
Atrtltorfsed M ISIeeond Osm Mafl Pout Offlce IW
On# Tear $2JW, Sfat MMitha |1JS In adunnM
M A X Fomifh Rato par year
Advertising Itateu on appUMtldn
to
■to
I which never get posted in the first
place.
Archie Peebles was born in Paris,
Ontario, and came to Wingham in |
1924. At that time he was a travelling
representative of E. S. Perrin and
j McCormick, biscuit manufacturers, of
i London, a job which he held- for
1 eighteen years,
j In 1915, -during the First War, he
| enlisted with the 76th Battalion and I went overseas to England with them.
I In England he was transferred to the
3rd Machine Gun Battalion, with
j whom "he served in France from 1-916
|to 1919.
j As -sergeant and No. 1 man -on the | Vickers machine gun, Archie saw
•action at Vimy Ridge, the Somme,
IYpres, Lens and Cambrai. He says he
still has vivid recollections of strug
gling knee-deep' through First War
mud with a 50-odd pound Vickers tri
pod and a few other accessories on his
back.
| During his sendee in France Archie
[was wounded and invalided back to
' England, and suffered mustard gas
j wounds as well. He returned to Can-
jada in March 1919.| In 1940 he took the job of post
-master in Wingham, and he’s been at
! It ever since. He says it’s/an interest-
i ing job and an exacting one as well,
since it involves a good deal of diver
sified knowledge and the ability to
remember a host of rules and regula
tions which would keep a Philadel-
, phia lawyer busy. The Canadian postal
i system is constantly changing and
enlarging, and it takes a good man to
keep abreast. 4
Mrs. Peebles, well known to most of>
the post office “customers”, is the;
former Allene Clements, of Brantford.'
They were married in 1922.
CANADA’S MEDIEVAL DIVORCE LAWS
| In thia day of social scientists, welfare plans, psychiatrists, marriage
| counsellors and what not, It is amazing what medieval savagery exists In Can-
1 ada’s law governing divorce,
j There is only one. legal basis for divorce in this country—adultery. The
j provinces have n°t, as individual states in the U. S, have, the power to estab
lish their own divorce laws, most of them now based on Victorian English
I law.
As a result of the rigidity of the country’s divorce laws, and the opposi-
I cion of many sections of our churches, to any change, many couples have only
I two alternatives, even if both, are agreed to separate. They can go on living in.
j that peculiar hell of unhappiness that made them want the divorce, or they can
• doctor up a phoney adultery situation, to satisfy the law; *
In a country that consciously seeks enlightenment, justice for all, and a
(humanitarian solution of social ills, the present divorce laws are a farce,
j Not cruelty, alcoholism or insanity are grounds for divorce in this coun-
(try. Is it any wonder that we read, so mueh ab^ut "deserters" from marriage?
i Certainly we want none of the cheap and easy divorce granted in some
states in the U.S. But surely, in a country where common sense is not uncom-
! mon, there might be a little of it applied to the misery of so many homes by a
| little more charity in the matter- of divorce—Wiarton Echo.
Guest Editor of the Week
THE PEOPLE WHO COUNT
Mayor De Witt Sillier
j Perhaps, one of the easiest things to
! do, and perhaps one of the most ne- ■
i glected, is to pay tribute to the people
jin our town -who make Wingham one
of the best towns we know of in which .
to live. And in Wingham we have an;
overabundance -of such people.
During our 75th Anniversary we had
a perfect, example of what the people j
of Wingham. can do when they put'
their shoulder to the task. But this is‘j
not the first time, nor will it be the
last, where people of our town pitch in
to help. And looking back over the;
history of our town, we find that:
Wingham has- always had the type ofi
citizen who has taken a pride in mak-z
ing Wingham a better place in which
to live.
You wilt find' that the people of any1
town who do> things for the better
ment of that town, are not the knock
ers, thg people who find fault with'
everything th town, but they are the
people who are promoting everything
’worth wish.’'
’ I would like to name these persons
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! ST. PAUL’S LADIES ' .
■PLAN FALL WORK !
. | The Ladies’ Guild.of St. Paul’s An- j
dglican Church held its monthly meet-
. <ing in the parish room of the church
,; on Thursday, vzith a good attendance.
•' The president, Mrs. W. Connell,
i; opened the meeting with the repeating
of the Creed and the Lord’s prayer.
The minutes of the previous meeting
. were read by Mrs. H. L. Parker in the
(absence pf the secretary, followed by
! the roll. call. «
Ii Proceeds from the strawberry fes
tival were sent to the Huron College
Fund. It was decided to re-shingle
the roof of the rectory and to re-
i decorate the ladies’ parish room. The
j annual bazaar will be held the last
Wednesday of November. A group
toystem is being 'oganized this year
jand all members of the church are
j asked to co-operate.
■ The meeting closed with prayer and
j tea was served bji- the hostesses.
THANKSGIVING
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personally, but Pm afraid if I did I
would leave somebody out. Ypu will
find them in our churches, our Cham
ber of Commerce, our service- clubs,
our hospital and school boards, our
recreation, arena and softball commit
tees, our drama club, our newly-form
ed boys’ and girls* band, the boys and
their
many’
town
have
many
pur town.
I’m kure I speak for? every member
of the town council where I say
happy we are in having so many
zens of this type in: our town.
Looking to the future ! can
great things for Wingham, providing
we keep up the good work. Our town
is in good shape financially. We have
practically everything that is required
in a town and we have the people who?
will see to it that it does go ahead:
NEXT WEEK:-.Catherine Keating.
coach who have brought so
championship honors to our
and also the individuals who
contributed in sports and the
other worthwhile endeavours of
Small town editors, on the other
hand, are a different kettle of fish
entirely. Everybody knows them, and
if something is ;said in the paper
everybody knows who said it. Not only
that but the irate reader, if there is
one, can barge right into the editor's
sanctum and tell him in no uncertain
terms what he thinks-of it all. There’s
or
be
how
citi-
see
no receptionists, armed guards
ante rooms to run intereference.
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So a small town editor has to
careful what he says.about the meet
ing; If there were any squabbles like
there are down in Toronto, he’d Have
to think twice before he wrote that
nice little satirical piece for page 8.
Unless, of course, He’s had commando
training. And even then he has to-live
with his readers.
Perhapsrit’s jUst as well that Wing-
Ham meetings aren’t the lively- ses
sions they Have in: Toronto;.
[LAURA SECORDf
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1- 2 lb. $2.40
« A Walk Through Town
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Minutes of the Last Meeting
Reading-about the spirited exchang
es in the Toronto council, -we’re in
clined to think that meetings around
here are a bit dulL Only last week in
Toronto the mayor and two or three
controllers got into a hassle which
almost filled a column, complete with
two pictures, of one of Toronto’s local
dailies.
It was about some minor detail in
procedure, but before Toronto’s coun
cil was through with-, it, it developed
into a three-way battle between the
mayor and two controllers, with the
third controller calling upon them all
to get back to business and the fourth •
turning his back on the whole affair.
The incident may not have done
much for the dignity of the city coun
cil, but it made a nice little page 3
story for the paper, and no doubt
provided a certain amount of amuse
ment for that portion of the electorate
which is amused by that sort of thing.
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We never seem to have much luck
(from a story standpoint, that is) with
the meetings We attend. Usually every
body gets along with everybody else
and the meetings proceeds so quietly
that it’s a wonder some of the mem
bers don’t fall asleep. In face we have
a suspicion that sdme of them do but
are skilful enough to conceal it. We
often find that we’re nodding over the
old notebook ourselves.
Sometimes' the meeting proceeds so
quietly that the monotonous hum
mesmerizes us, and we find after its
all over that we haven’t any notes at
all. At meetings like that it probably
wouldn't do any good to take notes,
anyhow.
FIFTEEN YEARS AGO
Frank Vanner, a veteran of the
first war, has enlisted in the Royal
Canadian Engineers at London. Frank
Angus and A Stokes have signed up
with the Perth Regiment at Stratford.
The Middlesex-Huron Regiment is
mobilizing up to peace-time strength.
Anyone wishing to join this regiment
from this district may secure all'in
formation by getting in touch with
Lt. Harry Towne.
The story of a rabbit which shot
a hunter came out at the inquest at
Southampton into the, death of 28- year-old Charles Ganfield. The coroner
Said Ganfield was fatally wounded by
his own gun when the dying rabbit
kicked the trigger. The verdict was
accidental death.
A deer, about half grown, Was killed
by dogs on the farm of Joseph Hogg,
3rd. concession of Morris. County Con
stable Wm. Gardiner was called and
had the animal buried.
According to orders issued ^.t head
quarters, all militia units in Canada
will be immediately mobilized to
peacetime strength. This order covered
the 99th Battery at Wingham, of
which Major* George W. Howson is In.
charge. Recruits are now being taken j scribbled it dowh before some member
On th bring the Battery up to strength of the board suggests that in. the pub-
which i« about 70. lie interest It would be unwise to to-
Solos
Baptist Church
CRUSADE FOR CHRIST
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(CHURCH OF ENGLAND IN CANADA)
port the only bit of the meeting which
was worth reporting. Worse still’,
there usually is some good' reason for
it. As a result the most, interesting
stories never get printed:
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In Toronto), of course, they’d' splatter
it all over the front page: But then
they have bigger offices;
They have- receptionists; armed'
guards, ante rooms and' editors’ sanc
tums. (Or is it sancti?) Anybody with
a complaint has to get through them
all before he can pop the editor on
the nose—a very difficult piece of'
broken- field running.
Toronto editors are a retiring lot.
Nofeody knows- them; few people even
know who. they are. They are anony
mous. Furthermore they cart hire the
best lawyers, if' anybody dares to
bring suit. They can say- what they
darn well please and get away with it.
Seventeenth: Sunday after Trinity
8.30 a.m.—Holy Communimi
11.00 ami.—Morning Prayer & Sermon
/ 2.30 p.m.—Church School
7.00; p.m.—Evening Prayer & Meditation
* **
Oct. 17th—Loyalty Sunday
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Oct. 24th—Laymen’s Sunday
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Thurs., Oct. 7th—W.A. Meeting in the Parish Room
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We don’t know how they handle it
doWn in Toronto, but one of the
things that discourages us about meet
ings in Wingham is the fact that
whenever anything interesting does
happen it’s usually ‘'off the record".
You can Sit through nine-tenths of a
meeting‘with hardly a happening
which is worthy of recording. Then
somebody comes up with a tastey mor
sel Which, you think, would make a
nice little story. Hardly have you
with
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of Detroit, Mich.
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