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“nerves”.
YOUR FUTURE depends on them
Don’t be hindered in your work by the
headaches and gastric disturbances
resulting from defective vision. The only
safe plan is to have your eyes examined at
least once a year. It’s the smallest invest
ment you can make—and the soundest. Do
Jt now.
W. R. HAMILTON, OPTOMETRIST
“A Complete Visual Analysis”
During 1953 Canada recorded 1,657
business failures, up 10 per cent from
1952, Not all employers make money.
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Record Year for
Huron Museum
Huron County museum at Goderich
had a record year in 1954, according
to a report presented at the County
Council last week by Jos. Allaire,
chairman of the historic committee.
Mr, Allaire reported that 10,706 visi
tors went through the museum up to
November 19th, and that $2,340.00 was
received in admissions, He said that
334 historic booklets had been sold,
and recommended that a copy of the.
booklet be placed free of charge in
each school in the county,, with a
rubber stamp indicating where fur
ther copies could be secured.
A new addition has been built at
the north-east corner of the museum
at a cost of $1,150 and a new work
shop was built away from the build
ing at a cost of $425. Fifty feet of new
show cases was constructed during
the year.
The Wingliam Advance-Times, Wednesday, December 8th, IftSi Page Thirteen
By BOB GABBERT
Give Her
60 Gauge
NYLONSNomination Time
nomination time has rolled
around again, and we are getting
ready to listen to the election speeches
of the candidates for the many muni
cipal offices in the surrounding areas,
In some districts, all is quiet, and the
last year’s council has bden returned
by acclamation, while in others, some
local bone of contention has brought
about an election.
Nominations are not as fiery, nor
as exciting as they once were, when
we had more people of local colour,
who were not afraid to say what they
thought. Today, most folks are con
tent to sit back and let things take
thejr natural course, unless there is
something drastically wrong. We have
fewer individualists, fewer characters,
fewer statesmen. We are living in an
age of generalities, and it seems that
there are few folks who would dare
to^ump up in a nomination and speak
their mind, and take their neighbour
to task for something he has done, or
hasn't done in his municipal office.
As we drift more and more towards
the security of oUr generation, with
so much dependence upon govern
ment grants and social security, we
lose the pride in
that used to pack
nation time.
If you were to
ing of a school, or the paving of a
street, the building of a bridge, or the
surveying of a drain in the old days,
everyone took an active interest for
they knew that they were going to
have to pay for it themselves. Today
we pay for it, that’s true, but we don't
feel it quite the same, for we pay for
it in a couple of dozen other hidden
taxes. So the commitments of local
government seems to be small, and
folks say, “Oh well, it doesn’t amount
to much, for the Dominion and Pro
vincial grants will pay most of it.”
Our age of social security has bred a
generation of indifferent lethargists,
who takes little interest in community
affairs, local government, or for that
matter any government. Their state
of indifference is a disease that needs
treating, once and for all. Empty
halls on nomination night, polling
booths that see few of the voters ex
ercise their franchise. These are the
systems that we see every year at this
same time and again whenever there
is a Provincial or Dominion election.
We need more men of character, more
individualists. More men of action,
more men of words. More people who
have backbone, ability.
Yes, it’s election time again, but it
will be a quiet election by old time
standards. There won’t be much fire,
much campaigning and even less en
thusiasm by the voters. Lethary is
described by Webster, as “An unheal
thy drowsiness, a state of inaction or
indifference.” Is that your attitude
toward the district politics? I hope
not, for your sake, and for the sake
of your and my children. Hon. Vin
cent Massey, Canada’s Governor-Gen
eral, and one of our great political
figures, has said that Canadians are
losing their ability to think for them
selves. Could it be that we have been
floating with the tide too long, and
now we have forgotten what to do
with the oars? Those so-called
“characters” of a few generations ago
who livened up the local political
scene, knew what to do with the oars,
and they took pride in their ability to
row upstream.
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