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Vol. 76 — No. 17
CHRISTMAS,
Christmas is with its once more, It
is one festival that loses none of its
attraction and inspiration as time goes
on, To old and young, it is always
the same. Down through the centuries
it has lost none of its freshness and
-power; but rather, it is spreading more
joy and gladness than ever each suc-
ceeding year as the knowledge of the
Christ-child reaches more of earth's
benighted millions.
Christmas never grows old, or gets
out of date and stale; and each recur-
ring Christmas day is looked forward
to, with the same joyous anticipations
as its predecessors, because back of it
is the ever-living,—the loving. Christ,
the God-man, the World's .Redeemer,
the greatest gift of the loving Father
God, to a sorrow-stricken and sincur-
sed world, The spirit of the unselfish,
Self-sacrificing Christ, as it pervades
the Christmas time, is the secret of its
enjoyment.
Christ's life was a il)orieficent life;
his was the most unselfish life ever
lived. He gave Himself for us. 'He
was wonnded for our transgressions,
bruised for our iniquities." In propor-
tion .as we follow in His footsteps, and
live the unselfish, Christ-like life, do
we enter into the Christmastide spirit.
At no other time in the year, do we
give to others so unstintingly, and thus
manifest unselfishness and good will
as we do at Christmas.
It is possible to err, even in our gifts.
The gift given with sordid expectation
of return that will be intrinsically pro,
fitable, is an insult; and the gift that
wrongs the giver or his family by its
costliness, outrages the Christmas spir-
it. The true Christmas gift expresses
the sentiments of kindliness and good-
will which He (whose birth we cele-
brate by the custom) came to teach, It
is free from commercialism, or the
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hope of return. Between friends and
acquaintances it is the token of attach-
ment, of personal remembrance; and
from those who enjoy plenty to those
less fortunate, it is the self, but that
each has a responsibility for his fel-
lows—a practical evidence of our be-
lief in universal 'brotherhood,
A little of our fulness given as gifts
to the sick, the unfortunate and the
poor, will cheer theta and brighten
their lives, Such Christmas acts will
not go unrewarded because it is more
blessed to give than to receive. When
love directs the gift, it blesses both the
giver and receiver, Without that
spirit, Christmas giving deteriorates in-
to a mere formality. Much more might
be written along this line,,but we must
forbear, and content oui•selveS with
wishing all our readers ,a very joyful
Christmas season,
MOTOR CAR SLAUGHTER
UNDECLARED WAR .
Motor car slaughter in the unde-
clared war on the roads of Ontario dur-
ing the past 16 years has taken a toll of
10,066persons killed and 175,168 in-
and a property damage amount-
ing to over $31 million dollars. There
were 497 deaths on 'Ontario's roads
this year up to the end of September,
compared with 553 in the same period
of 1941, which was Ontario's worst
accident year. '
Bad as they are, these figures do not
begin to measure the bereavement, hu-
man grief and suffering which has re-
sulted from this needless slaughter and
maiming. And most of it is so un-
necessary and even sheer wickedness.
Only a very few of these so-called ac-
cidents can be attributed to "acts of
God" because of weather hazards or
to mechanical failures in vehicles. By
far the great majority of these traffic
tragedies arc solely the result of hu-
man carelessness, r e ckless n es s,
thoughtlessness, physical weaknesses
which should have vetoed the applica-
tion for a driver's license or to boor-
ish discourtesy and "road-hogging,"
And by far the greater number, in
fact almost all, of these human weak-
nesses, which are. the cause of all this
needless heartache and suffering, arc
attributable to drink. Liquor and gas-
oline both are man-made products, but
liquor is always a destroyer, while gas-
oline is a useful servant of man until
drink turns it into a wrecker, Liq-
uor is drunk by people who rebel
against social laws and customs, who
feel the urge—soon the absolute need
for it as the occasional drinker becomes
an addict—to use it as an escape-gap
into the hazy realm of false values and
make-believe.
Even one small glass of liquor af-
fects the brain, and nerve and muscle
reflexes. It gives a false sense of om-
nipotence and power, dulls the per-
spective of vision, clouds the focus of
moving objects, belittles the dangers of
excessive speed and road hazards, and
encourages recklessness and discour-
tesy to other motorists and pedestrians.
Those who drink should not drive and
those who drive should not be under
the influence of liquor.
Provincial Minister of Highways,
George Doucett, recently told the On-
tario Safety League that Ontario now
has 30,000 more motor vehicles than
ever before, some 1,200,000 drivers,
630,000 passenger cars and 138,000
commercial vehicles. He said.: "We
will make no real progress in traffic
safety until the same good manners
which we use at borne and in company
are used by all of us in traffic, Every
possible safety feature is being built
into our roads and highways, but in
the last analysis, safety is a personal
responsibility. It is the human factor
which snakes accidents, and continual
public education on safety is the most
powerful remedy.'
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AIR IMMIGRATION
SCHEME. SUCCESS
The air immi4ration scheme i the
Ontario Government is -proving an
qualified succoS. When it was :sus-
pended recently for the Christmas hol-
iday, about 5,800 13ritons had arrived
in this province ,by plane, Of this
number the immigration !branch of the
Department of Planning aid Develop.
went, had a record of only 44 persons
returning and two of these—both men
—have written asking the government
to help them return to Ontario,
Of the 44 returns, 37 were men. Fif-
teen of these gave no reasons for their
return; eight left for personal reasons;
six because of their inabality to obtain
suitable housing; three were dissatis-
fied; two became ill; one was to be
married; one had domestic difficulties,
and one was homesick, Three of the
seven women returns gave no cause
for their return; three had domestic
trouble and one, who was 40, claimed
that she was too old to 'settle here,
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KNOW WINGHAM
Early History of Wingham, cont'd.
(An extract from the Historical Atlas
of the County of Huron, Ont., pub-
lished in 1879,
The first settler within the limits of
the "town plot" of Wingham, and be-
fore any one had turned their atten-
tion to the place occupied by the pre-
sent town, was Edward Farley, an
Irishman, who had previously resided
at Owen Sound, which place he left
for the "plot" in the early spring of
1858, and arrived at the spot where he
still resides, on the 17th of March of
that year. He relates Some extremely
amusing incidents in connection with
his journey, which lay by water to ,Col-
lingwood; then by the Northern rail-
way lately finished to Toronto; Grand
Trunk to Stratford; and then on wheels
as far as he could go. This later
point proved to be Bodmin, a little
settlement in the Township of Morris,
(To be continued next week).
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WEEKLY THOUGHT
Proverbs 10:12, "Hatred stirreth up
strifes: hut love covereth all sins."'
BELMORE
The December meeting of the Wo-
men's Institute was held on Wednes-
day afternoon at the home of Miss
Jeffray, with a fair attendance.
The President, Mrs. Wm. Elliott call-
ed the meeting to order, Mrs, Elmer
Zinn took the topic •"Patriotism in our
Education", Motto, "Christmas". Mrs,
Citric; .,Minutes, Mrs, Zinn, Roll Call,.
What I would like for ,Christmas, a.
pound of butter would be very accept.
able, The highlight of the meeting
was a beautiful display of fancy work
by Mrs. Elliott, Mrs, Fraser and Mrs,
McAdams, As the day was cold all en-
joyed the lovely lunch prepared by
Mrs, Norman Newans and Mrs. Roy
Rutherford, the next meeting will be
at Mrs. Wm. Edwards. Roll Call what
I have enjoyed most the past year,
A concert was held in the school
room on Wednesday evening followed
by a dance,
Mrs. Wnt, Abram will attend the
wedding of her son, Wesley at London,
December 19th.
Miss Minnie Jeffray visited with
Mrs. Jas. Hamilton and Miss Nettie
Burns on Thursday.
Rev. Udell visited his sick people
the past week. Mr, Asher Dustow is
in Walkerton Hospital quite poorly.
The Finlay family attende'd the fun-
eral of Mr. Wm. McGill in Wingham
last Monday.
The United Church Sabbath School
will hold their concert on Monday,
December 22nd. There was a large at-
tendance Sunday, so this promises to
be a good one. Come out and bring the
kiddies.
Mrs, Herb Miller visited her mother,
Mrs, Wm, Edwards on Wednesday.
Miss M. Jeffray visited'al Robb's on
Saturday,
iMiss Mildred Stokes visited with her
aunts, Misses Hannah and Mary Stokes
on Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. Robt. Jeffray, Mr. and
Mrs. Arnold Jeffray, Sally, Bill and
Joe, Mr. and Mrs. Wilfred Weltz of
Clifford visited at Elmer Jeffray's re-
cently.
Mr, Elmer Ballagh was confined to
his home with a heavy cold, but is able
to be about now.
Mr. Steurnol of Gorrie, spent Satur-
day evening at the Reid home, and was
so stern he kept them all in order.
"You brute; you deceived me. ,Be-
fore we were married you told me you
were well off."
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