The Wingham Advance-Times, 1956-02-01, Page 2Local M.P. Makes Plea for
Decentralization of Industry
SIXTY YEARS AGO
Mr. and Mrs. John Linklater,
who were burned out last fall, have
moved into one of David Pringle's
cottages on Edward Street.
Mr. McLeod, of Seaforth, won
first money in the five mile .race
at Lucknow on Tuesday and Mr.
Samuel Elliott, of Wingham, sec-
ond,
While going home from prayer
meeting in the Presbyterian
Church on Wednesday evening,
Mrs. Parr fell and broke her leg,.on,
the sidewalk.
On Wednesday afternoon, while
Alex MeNevin was engaged in- rip-
ping some lumber in MeLean'.s
Son's sawmill, he had the .misfor-
tune to come in contact with the
saw which severed two fingers.
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meat by having this removed?
Mr, Biwa Maily, who has biien
eonnoett with his father in the
grocery business hem, has purchas-
ed a grocery store in Wood:stook.
Mr. Mundy is a valued member of
the town hand, and his leaving will
Inc a severe loss to that organiza-
tion. We wish him well in his new
venture,
Dudley Holmes, KC., Crown At-
torney, Goderich, was in town the
latter part of this week, presiding
at the Division Courts in this ais-
trict, owing to the atm of I-Rs
Honor judge Lewis..
James Faille, 10th Concession of.
Tarnberry, narrowly es,caped death
when his home was totally destroy-
ed by fire on Saturday. Mr. Paths,
who is in ill health, ,was awakened
by the smoke, to find that the en-
tire upper portion of the dwelling
VMS a mass of flames. Despite the
efforts of a volunteer brigade, the
building, together with its contents,
was totally destroyed. There Wah
210 insurance.
Bruce County will donate a fully
equipped mobile canteen unit to the
Salvation Array to be used •for its
work amongst Canadian troops,
Three members of the Wingham
Hospital Board, R. H. Lloyd, J. W,
MoKibbon, Fred L. Davidson,. Miss
C. Schultz, the Superintendent, and
Mrs. Walter VanWyck, attended
the opening and dedication of the
Listowel Hospital on Thursday,
Mr. Fred L, Davidson was re-
appointed to the Wingham Hospital
Board for 1941 by the County
Council last week, Mr. T. H. Gib-
son was appointed for a three-year
term to the Hight School Board,
Congratulations are in order for
Miss Jean Cruickshank, who re-
cently graduated from 'Victoria
Hospital, London,
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Ilerry Ross recently enlisted with
the Reserve Royal Canadian. Artil-
lery, .P.A.S.M, at , Woodstoele •
Harry's father, linitry (Scotty)
Ross, is a member of the RCA at • •
Petawawa.
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Peoj5Je of Wingham and this dis-
trict will be pleased to hear that the
A Ingham Lions Club is again going
ahead with plans for a Frontier Days
celebration in -town this summer. The
celebration which was so successful
last year, and its predecessor, the 75th
anniversary celebrat ion, have given
district people a taste of the fine type
of entertainment to be had at these
functions, and Nvil1 do much to assure
an interested audience fur a similar
celebration this year.
Because the last two celebrations
were successful, however, it does not
necessarily follow that this year's
Frontier Da3,-s should he a'slavish imi-
tation of what went before, In fact,
recalling the pitcher which went to the
well too often, it might be a very good
idea to introduee some new and differ-
ent elements in the program this year
to ensure that nobody will he able to
talk about Frontier Days in terms of
"the same old thing."
Although operating on an infini-
tesmal scale in comparison with the
Canadian National. F,xhibition, mem-
bers of the program committee for
\-Vith the passing of W. J. 'Plenty
on Thursday last, the editor of this
paper and his staff have lost a valued
-friend. 'Though he was nearing his
91st birthday, "Bill" visited the news-
paper office three or four times each
week and on many occasions it has
been our pleasure to benefit from his
advice ands experience.
Until a short time ago he frequent-
ly wrote stories of a reminiscent nature
under the heading "The Man on th
Street", and his articles invariably
brotyht favorable comment from our
readers.
His influence upon our work was
always beneficial for he carried with
him that spirit of an earlier day when
newspapers were published in a some-
what less hurried fashion, when a coin-
IF Not - Why?
In a speech in London recently T A':
Gen. Guy Simonds, former chief of
Canada's General Staff, spoke some-
what forcibly on the subject of Can-
ada's unpreparedness these days, in the
face of a possible thermo-nuclear
attack, and he accused the political
leaders of this country of not facing
up to the problem of organizing Ca-
nada's manpower.
Military leaders, and particularly
Military ex leaders are well-known for
their vehement support (if military ex-
penditures. Their jobs and those of
their associates depend largely on the
support of military spending by the
government. 'Their views, like those
of any other individuals 'in a like situ-
ation, are apt to.be a bit colored by
their own professional outlook; and,
like newspaper editors. businessmen,
teachers and ministe*rs, they sometimes
tend to overestimate The importance
of their own particular calling.
• General Simonds has some interest-
ing arguments to support his charge
%that Canada is hopelessly disorganized
to meet a sudden attack. He says that
we have not taken the necessary meas-
ures to mobilize our armed forces
quickly in an emergency ; that our
civilians have not been trained to take
over their role of rescue, rehabilitation
and maintenance of essential services
in case of attack, and that we will not
be given ample time to make good our
deficiencies in this regard should a
crisis come.
However; Canada can hardly .he
alone in this respect. No country in
the world, probably, would consider
itself ready, at any time, to meet any
emergency. Indeed the only way in
which a country could remain in such
constant state of preparation would be
to have the army, navy and air force
on a full-scale, wartime footing at all
times. Surely even military men can
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this year's Frontier Days might \Iva.
take a leaf from the Toronto exhi-
bition's book. F,ach year a new' attrac-
tion or series of attractions are bally-
hooed throughout the land, and each
year new and brighter gimmicks are
used to gain the publicity needed, to
put across such an event. By clever
use of publicity the C,N.11',. is able to
double the effectiveness of its huge.
advertising appropriation, and derive
the utmost benefit from the money
spent 011 promotion.
Attractions featured at the C.F.,N
are expensive, of course, and far be.
3,•ond the reach of the average celebra-
tion. What Wingham is lacking in
money, however, it well makes up in
brains and bright ideas, which in the
long run might go even further. Last
year's pony express ride illustrated
well what can be done in the way of
promotion without too much money,
but with plenty of ingenuity.
With activities now getting under
way for the celebration next summer,
there should be plenty of opportunity
and scope for such ingenuity in this
year's celebration.
ma was an important piece of the
journalist's equipment and a misplaced
apostrophe was a disgrace, Ilis old-
fashioned insistence on accuracy and
thoroughness was truly refreshing in
a clay when all standards have tended
to slip.
Bill Plenty was a man who had
lived a truly successful life. We do
not know that he had amassed any
great wealth, but he had borne him-
self and his profession with pride, had
maintained his love of music, good.
reading and family ties, and had al-
ways taken his place as a responsible
citizen in the communities in which he
lived and worked. Like many another
older person he leaves a fine example
for those who succeed to his responsi-
bilities.
see that such„ an arrangement is not
praCtical.
In the estimates presented to the
House of Commons last week, the
national defence budget amounted to
$1,775,000,000, approximately 40 per
cent of the .total national outlay. De-
fence represented the biggest single
item on the budget, over twice as much
being spent on preparedness as on
health and welfare. Defence spending
amounted to 22 times the amount
spent on agriculture, 10 times the
amount spent on public works, and 7
tittles the amount spent on veterans
affairs.
Whether the 40 per cent of the
budget earmarked for national defence
has been spent wisely or not, is h.
matter of conjecture. Military men
presumably have something to say
about the spending of it.
If 40 per cent of the taxpayers'
money can't buy a defence set-up
which is reasonably adequate, and if
the proportion of national income de-
voted to defence continues to rise as
it has in the past twenty years, the
prospect for future generations is ex-
ceedingly dun.
Business Up or Down
Following our comments last week
on the subject of retail sales in Detroit
stores as they were affected by the
recent newspaper strike, a reader pro-
duced a set of figures to indicate —
nay„ even to prove that sales were not
adversely affected when newspaper ad-
vertising was not available.
'The figures upon which our re-
marks were based were, we believed ;
quite authentic, but there was no doubt
about the authenticity of those which
refuted the first set.
Perhaps time most interesting fea-
ture was a footnote which was ap-
pended to the second set, pointing out
tha# in this age of mass production
and mass sales, all advertising media
have become necessary to the smooth
and rapid flow of general business,
T,:qually interesting to the consum-
er should be the fact that with stepped
up advertising programs goods actu-
ally reach the user without increased
cosv which can be charged to adver-
tising, The answer, of course, lies in
greater volume of sales and conse-
quent narrower profit margins.
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Ydriejy Is The Spice We Need
Tribute to a Lire Well Spent associated products.
Throughout the world today we
are coming close together from an
economic point of view, so what
happens in one part of the world
affects every other part. The same
is true of our dominion. The fact
that the western farmer has of
necessity had to become a general
farmer has affected the farmers of
southern Ontario. What has hap-
pened? In a recent address Pro-
fessor McDougal, professor of ec-
onomic agriculture at the Ontario
Agricultural College, advised that
some of the younger men who are
farming should leave the farms.
that they would be happier in the
cities. Many of these young farm-
ers are boys who went overseas and
fought for us in the last war. When
they came home they used their
war benefits and gratuities to do
what they had fought for -and felt
they had the right to do. They used
them to become farmers, to carry
on the occupation they had chosen
in this supposedly free world, to
live in the way they wanted to live.
Now they are faced with the in-
ability of the government to sell
the products of the farmers on the
markets of the world.
BOX 473 I
20th January 1956
The Editor
Wingham Advance-Times
Dear Sir:
The supreme test of the year for
the Postal Service of Canada comes
at Christmas time, when the mil-
lions of cards and gifts which
Canadians exchange with their
friends and relatives both here and
abroad must he handled in the
few short weeks before Christmas
Day.
In meeting this test, the Postal
Service, of course, makes very ex-
tensive internal preparations to
cope with the flood of mail, but
each year also it solicits co-oper-
ation from the public in mailing
early so that the emergency
schemes set up as effective as
possible.
The co-operation. extended by the
public in this respect has been in-
creasing from year to year, as
more and more people come to
realize its importance to a satis-
factory mail service at Christmas,
and it is a pleasure for me to be
able to state that in the rush
period just closed this co-operation
was in evidence to an extent never
equalled before.
Generally speaking because of
the co-operation received from the
public, moat post offices were back
on a normal operating basis, one,
and in many cases, two days be-
fore Christmas, which I am sure
you will agree was a very satis-
factory result.
On behalf of the Postal Service
of Canada, therefore, I wish to
thank the public for the assistance
so considerately given through a
very difficult period, and also the
newspapers for the part they
played in making their readers
aware of the need for co-oper-
ation in mailing early.
Yours truly,
W. J. TurnbUll,
Deputy Postmaster General.
George Beverly Sheo Paul Michelson and
, Tecld Smith
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Since the' snow storm of last
week the snow has piled up on the
main street, making it difficu for
a cutter or sleigh to pull up in front
of the stores. Wouldn't it be a
F,ORTY YEARS AGO
A very happy event took plae:.
in the school room of the Methodist
Church on Monday evening, when
the Epworth League entertained
members of the Wingham Comp-
any of the 161st Huron Oversee,:
Battalion to supper. Promptly at
6.30 o'clock, hosts and guests sat
down to a sumptuous repast, after
which Mr. A. H. Wilford, presid,i.ni.
of the League, extended a welcome.
to the soldier boys, Major Sinclair
then took charge of the proceed-
ings and in a neat address express-
ed their appreciation of the hospi-
tality and outlined the growth of
the battalion. Solos were render-
ed by W. FL Willis and Pte, Pen-
rose, Sergeants Windsor and For-
bes. a.-
Mr. D. Lougheed ha's recently re-
ceived letters from three former
Wingham young men who are
serving at the Front. Percy Harris
is \with the 18th• Battalion in thr
trenches in France. A. Jones, wpo
was a reservist is doing bomb
thrower's duties and Darkey How-
ard, who went with the first con-
tingent, is in France. All are en-
joying good health and wish to be
remembered to old friends nn
Wingham.
The firemen had a run on Satur,
day afternoon to Mr. Robt. Knox's
residence at the rear of the post
office. A burning chimney was the
cause of the alarm. There was no
damage done to the building,
Mr. Ernest Greer, of Craig,
Sask., and formerly of the Times
staff and a nephew of the editor
of this paper, has enlised for over-
seas service with the Queen's Bat-
tery at Kingston and left this week
for England.
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W. Marvin Howe., M.P. for Wel-
lington-Huron, had the following to
say when he addressed the House
of Commons last week:
Mr. W. M. Howe (Wellington-
Huron): Mr. Speaker, I should like
to join in fhe congratulations of-
fered by other hon. members to
the mover (Mrs. Shipley) and the
seconder (Mr. Laflamme) of the
address in reply to the speech from
the throne.
My initial address in this house,
of considerable length, described
my own riding and mentioned the
necessity of some way of decen-
tralizing industry. Many reasons
for such decentralization can be
seen by those who live in smaller
communities. The fact that many
people are crowding into large
urban municipalities makes them
very vulnerable to complete anni-
hilation in this day and age of
atomic warfare.
Decentralization would help
many phases of our economy. For
instance, if our population were
more diversified and spread out,
the carrying of freight throughout
the country would bring additional
revenue to our railroads. So I could
go on. There are many reasons for
this. However, as others have
mentioned and I myself have Men-
tioned, industry is moving out into
the smaller communities, to a con-
siderable extent. Several industries
have settled in my riding during
the past few years.
In this connection I should like
to congratuate all our local muni-
cipal councils and associated boards,
such as school boards and hospital
boards, on the wonderful job they
are doing to keep those communi-
ties attractive for industries that
may be looking for good industrial
sites. In the last year it has been
interesting to note the increase in
hospital facilities that has taken
place in that particular part of the
country from which I come. In one
centre, that of Fergus, a new hos-
pital was built with 56 beds- at a
cost of $541,000, The general hos-
pital at Palmerston had an addi-
tion and was remodelled at a cost
of $138,000, The Wingham Hospital
had, an addition estimated to cost
$610,000. The Louise Marshall hos-
pital at Motint Forest had an. ad-
dition at a cost of $112,064. As I
have said, all this is an indieation
that those communities are doing
their best to look after the services
and facilities so necessary in our
smaller communities.
All this work, as all hon. mem-
bers know, is done with the co-
operation of provincial and federal
governments, but I maintain that
the initiative and the main part of
the cost is borne by those muni-
cipalities themselves and neighbor-
ing municipalities interested in
those particular centres. In that
connection, in my own riding alone
well over a million dollars has been
spent on hospital facilities in the
last year. In the past few years
well over a million dollars has also
been spent on public' and high
school facilities.
I hope other hem, members in
this house will join me in urging
the Minister of Finance once again
to give consideration to the neces-
sity for 'dropping the sales tax on
purchases by municipal councils
arid associated boards. The land
and property taxes, are increasing
and are a. very heavy burden on
the property and land oWners in
the small communities as well as in
the large communities, but they are
necessitated by the provision of
modern arid adequate faeilitiee for
those people.
Now I should like to turn to
another phase of the economy. We
are still interested in our awnrid-
itga, but this is one of the funda-
mental problems Of agriculture
throughout the eot.intrY. The c'Oull*
ties of Wellington and Htlren
their share in providing agricult-
ural products ter this country's
economy; in particular they are
among the leitilers in the produe
tion of oats, mixed grains, flax,
butter, eattle, beef and many. Other