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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance-Times, 1951-02-14, Page 2(117itr ifinAhnin Z/Vtutrr Eintr$ WritattoN ":8tAti-THEAD1 Pul;liNhed at Wingham, Ontario Wvtiger Brotlt e rN, rs, \\, harry' cutter, Editor :Ntessaber Audit Duteati Circulation Authorized as Second Class Mail Post Office Dept. Subscription Rate — One Year $8.50, Six .Nlontlts $1.25 in advaisce S. A. $3,01.) per year Foreign Rate $3.50 per year Advertising Rates on application Train or Bus — That Is the Question .1\lany civic leaders, who have given time and thought to the future of the communities, in which they live, are seriously concerned over the proposal by the Canadian National Railway that passenger, mail and express service by rail be dropped. The objection boils down quite simply to the feeling that it is more than a bit of a slap in the face to learn that the district in which one lives is "not consider- ed important enough to merit the continuation of services which have been in existence for many years, There will be many who will not object seriously to the proposal, their reasoning more than likely taking the line that the loss of passenger service wouldn't make any great difference, since the present passenger facilities are slow ,and unpopular, Those who urge the railway to con- tinue the trains have a more progressive thought in mind. They believe that this section of Ontario is growing, that there will be inure and inure business to be done here. They RUGS - DRAPERY SLIP- COVERS LAMPS , - CHINA OCCASIONAL FURNITURE Eil Phone 475 Wingham 11 1 ,1 1 1 1 1 1 11 EM E1 1 1 1 1 3 1 11 6 1 1 1 1 11 1 1 8 1 11 1 1 1 1 1 g1 1 1 C. C. 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So he gets all dolled up in his finery which includes a suit of course. The jacket of that suit is so padded and puffed that the unfortunate victim inside the coal has lost the last shred of vitality after the first two dances. For the remain , der of the evening he pants near an open window as his wife whiles away the happy hours with a younger fellow who is better able to stand the strain. (incidentally, he's a better dancer than the sweltering head of the house.) 'While father is gasping for air his. carefree spouse is quite coin .fortabk„ because all the clothing she has to wear wouldn't Weigh more than eight ounces. She naturally. comes .to the conclusion that late dealt her a poor hand and that the breadwinner may be all right at times but that the romantic side of marriage has just about disappeared. All of which proves that we humans don't really have too much common sense. Apparently the seasorrs don't really make any difference. The only thing • that really counts is style. We are much more afraid of "what people will say" than we are of the elements. Apparently the only thing to do is go on suffering until we really do smarten up. fur collar. If his cars are tender he pulls on a ski cap with. ear lugs, or more frequently a Highland bonnet with a big red tassel on the top. Now we say the man is smart. Only a few years ago lie felt it necessary to. wear ,a trim overcoat and a felt hat, the latter being. about the coldest invention on the 1.11[11-kel. 1-his wife probably has a lovely warm fur coat but she is still duty bound to travel the country side with nothing more on her shapely legs than a pair of tissue-thin nylons. The male, we say,' i„S a smart fellow—in the winteri people of the West wanted, particular- time. Come the scorching days of mid-summer and he does- ly in the northern part of Saskat' 11't look so bright, The little ‘voman insists that he take chman,m'an ivas a fanner candidate, and particu larly-a tanner who had never taken any part in polities. The dele- gation that asked me to run said they did not ears what party—all they What's In the Editor's Mail? The editor 91 a weekly newspaper receives many sug- estions for editorial comment. .Llardly a week goes by without someone suggesting atopic—uktally it's a conten- tious qUestion that would mean trouble for the editor, but that seems to be aside from the point. Rather than expecting the editor to get into every 'battle, the thing- to do is to write a letter to the paper. 'Un- less your language is very bad, or you intend. to slander someone, we will be pleased to print your letter, if you don't Want your name to appear in print, just say so. But don't send in a letter without signing. your name. We must know 'who you are before the letter is prtinted. If you are not sure about your composition, just say so and we will make certain that bugs are ironed out without changing the in caning. letters from the public in the local paper are a sure sign of active interest 111 your community. 1,Ve would like to have two or three of them in every issue. There are many points on which every worthwhile citizen would like to express himself. This is your chance. * The Canadian Male Smartens Up Just cast your eye along the main street any frosty morning and you will see that the male section of the popu- lace has begun to use its head. Style has been forgotten and father dons a parka as he leaves the house for work, Or .•, Ottawa; ,.ereace. for once, politics made no g he may favor a warm •oat a quilted lining. and a bi. din "A year ago today," Mr, Weir said feel that. rather than curtailing its activity in this area, the railway should be thinking in terms of an improvement in Honorable Raoert Weir Was equipment, of faster schedules and nitre attractive travel- It may seem out of place for those who are not in- Native of Turnberry Township hng conditicms for the public. timately acquainted with railroad problems to attempt to suggest what can be done. The railway claims that $100,000 a year could be saved by eliminating the service they suggest on the Southampton and Kincardine lines. To the outsider the move seems anything but progressive. Cars, buses and trucks have most certainly sliced into railway business, but by the same token the railways have not been any too active when it came to meeting compe- tition. The services offered are almost what they were r ears ago. In the United States several of the feeder lines were facing the same problem and they came up ith the idea of converting to a specialized type of light, inexpensively- operated. equipment which has put their bookkeeping hack into the black ink figures. Let us hope that some such sol • 7:tion may be found here. on the occasion of a visit to Western Ontario in 1981, "I had never attempt- ed a speech of any kind in my life. I attended only one political meeting between the time of the war and my own convention, so I did not receive this portfolio because 1 was a politic- ian. in fact, I insisted at the conven- tion that if 1 allowed my name to g,' forward it would be as an independent Conservative, because I felt what the The life insurance business lust a great actuary when Robert Weir's health failed and he look a physician's advice to go West and stay outdoors. But he became, nut only a great live-' stock man, but Canada's Boss Farmer, for R. II, Bennett took him into his Cabinet as minister of agriculture—a tough job in the' 30's. Robert Weir,, originally of the \Vingham district, was graduated front the University, of Toronto with first-class honors in mathematics, pyh- sics and actuarial science; went to work with the Confederation Life and put all his spare time concentrating minister, Mr. Weir came down from upon actuarial science until forced ,to Ottawa with Hon. D. M. Sutherland, relinquish his chosen work. Four minister of tuitional defence, and gave years after he took up farming he a little talk at a meeting out at Ent- was elected to the House of Commons bra in Zorra, It was all about horses as first (and so far the only) Con- and cattle M1(1 farming in general—a servative member fur ,Melfort, Sask. farmer talking to farmers. The Zorra He was sunumnied to the ministry Scots, mostly Liberal in politics, without ever having been in'Parlia- warmed up to this Conser\ ativc ascot as a private member. ister and afterward came,up to shake Hon, Robert Weir had no liking for the mechanics of partisan poli- tics; never tried while in office to learn them. He had no constituency organization when elected by the far- mers of Melfort, wlio had pressed hint to become a candidate because they recognized in hint a good citizen and capable agriculturalist, Up to that time the riding had sent Liberals to 7 he following article reprinted from a recent issue of the London Free Press, was written by W. E. Elliott, well-known Canadian News- paperman, It will be of interest to trimly here for the late Mr, Weir was born in Turnberry Township. Miss Jean Weir, of the J. W. Bush- field law office, :Wingham, is a sister, Saskatchewan livestock breeders have many exhibits at the Royal Win- ter Fair each year, Wm, among the shiny black Percherons and well- groomed Hereford cattle none of late have borne the entry cards of Here- ford Park Farm, Nobody of whom this writer enquired seemed to know who, if anyone, is operating the stuck farm once "Bob" Weir's. wanted was a farmer for candidate." Weir was of good Northern Ire- land stock, with somewhat prominent features and hair as dark as that of his Percherons. His parents, Robert Weir and Jane Johnson Weir, cause from Fermanagh. lie was born on a farm near Wingham, attended 5, S. No, 9 in Turnberry Township, had nine months at Clinton High School and after a course at London Normal taught, in Huron and at 'Mamoru. During vacations he worked on farms and at sawmills • to finance a college education. A. H. Musgrove of A,Ving- bans, a teacher who later represented North Huron in two legislatures, coached Weir ,. for the matriculation test and may have given hint some notion of politics. After graduation and a short time with the Confederatit,n Life, Robert Weir went to Regina as mathematics master in the collegiate. When World War 1 began he was commissioned in the 78th battalion and served with the rank of major in France, where be won the Military Cross. Wounded at Passchendale, he found scope for activity as a director. of Khaki Col- lege. Back hOme,again, he was em- ployed as Selt'eorinspectbr when he turned back to the land and establish- ed Hereford Park Farm of 1,000 acres near Weldon. One week-end in 1981 when he. was Phone 106 • n N a • a n a N N N N N N iNI a • • n his hand. At this gathering he said: "There is tie life I would rather live than the life ott the farm,. The only reason I hold this portfolio is that I hope I may be of use as all instrument to improve in some way the condition of agriculture in Canda, The Politield side of it does not mean one whit to me except this; From 9 o'clock inn the morning until O'clock at night no one appreciates more than I the gigantic responsibility Of My Position at the present time—but that in itself is a challenge, "I f I had my' choice and were a millionaire tomorrow I would not hesitate, i would again ,he a farmer. There is a challenge to farming that is different front .anything else,-. We match (Mr wits against the elements and sometimes against something more untrustworthy Onus the ele- ments,,' When the people of Wingham and district held a sort of homecoming fur their distinguished native sun in 1930, it became known that for 84 years lie had not failed to visit the old home on an average of (MCC it yea?. Sentiment fur the old county and adiniration for the pioneers who settled it formed the theme of au ad- dress at Ilensall on July, 19, 1938, The minister pictured conditions of nearly a century earlier and the sac- rifice of pioneer families—parents and elder brothers and sisters—in the children an education. "So", he concluded, "WC are not just ourselves in this work we are called on to perform. 1 am nut just myself, bin in me is the lifeblood of others for which 1 have to give an account. Therefore my appeal is this —and 'that is why the old County of Huron means so much—there is no higher task to which I can set myself as a citizen of the county than to try in every way to be worthy of my forbearers and those who came in here and overcame obstacles we would even now hesitate to graPple with, and to be in every way worthy of the foundation they laid," In view of Robert Weir's admitted- ly fine service as minister, for' five years, it seemed strange that he should have been denied a second terns in Parliament, even as private .115;1111111101M1111131110111131111I31113111E91111111111IMIIIIIIIIIII WARRE HOUSE FURNISIIINGS member,. Not Ion ago I sought tut explanation front a well-Posted friend ill. "71 1. 61 ;44" Ito wrote. "the Liberals went back to power in Saskatchewan without a single supporter of the Conservative party being elected to the local House, Then came the 19t3fi Dominion election and the Liberal just was a little too strong for Bob Weir 9101Iti:aotoi9Ltedi„u cspilal-yl:c107vatittt e .bent- nett policy of "blasting' into the'mar- kets of the world, It was just one of those things wIterea really good man for western agriculture was thrown wills the party heelers, along with a prayer that none like them - would return,ever ;;1,1; chat .tblaeltiegobths. Weir toi bheelo tilgte stains . ed to the wrong party at the wrong time, though he was the right man for western agriculture, 1-le knew his West and its needs, but was not strong enough to make the Eastern Gamaliels understand that the Western cow was beoming quite dry and the East could not milk it much longer unless parity treatment with the two great eastern Provi n ces 'were given Saskat e wan." Be that 1,s tt. may, Bob 'Weir after his one st'r'ut of good SL:r c'.12 was Seated in 1935 in 4 1041.--111411 whertItY Fate played 411001er queer and tr:els. Four years later, when as member for Melfort be would have been in Ottawa, he was in tact NV orkinb on Ins Saskatchewan farm. A load of grain toppled over on him mud cut short the career of the master of Hereford Park. He was 56, "'Wise more 1 see of the inside mak- ing of history," Sir Robert Bruce Lockhart has written, "the more realize how haphazard it is. There is, in fact, no law of destiny except chance." Exclusive Agents . Kerr's Drug Store "Protect What You Have" — FOR -- FIRE - LIFE - AUTO INSURANCE CALL Stewart A. Scott 'Phone 293 Wingham We Stand Between You and Loss All Year I G. Alan Williams Optometrist In former office of Dr. R. C. Redmond Patrick St., Wingham Professional Eye Examinations Phone 7/0 Evenings by appointment, iritV,GREAMIT: WASHER "OF -ALL TIME A sensational washer at a SENSATIONAL PRICE! 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