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-COVIDE011 111ter.v 110Wadays, and. appar
entry the lino- shades of meaning in
inutieent tpleSt ion have occupied
the minds of greater than tilirselves,
Spea-lcing before the Rotary Clob of
Montreal on Vebroary 21st, Stuart
Armour-, 00011 Ofilic, adviser to th e
president of the Steel Company of
Canad41teaded his talk "Who's Loony
Now.,?.'! Mr. iklunor dealt in detail.
with the eammonlyr accepted idiocy
which.. had led• otherwise-normal Ca-
nadians into the belief that our Mime-
tary .resources are unfailing and that
commitments for the future can he
made without fear or limitation,
To :illustrate the folly of such an
ideolOgy he enumerated the capital in
both private and govern-
Mental, which mtist be made within•
the next decade if nitr present rate of
progress is to be maintained — and
seriously doubted Canada's ability to
pay the 'pipet.
WORTH THINKING ABOUT
• The' present- poptdarity of • tele-
-ancl the tact that so many
people stay home every night to watch
its programs, -has bee p g 1111AW
WW1 other types of community enter--
-taitimeni, hockey games "have suffer-
ed to the point where many towns
hav-e . ''threatened to close tip their
arenas, and other Forms of community
activity have been ctirtailed.
Amongst the greatest sufferers
,..frorti the -new television craze are the
hundre,ds of small town movie houses
across the 'country, many of whom are
:altriost forced to close their doors for
lack of customers. The general
ariong-st television viewers seenis
to be, why pay to. see a show when
von can sit at home and see one, for
free? ,.,..
Unfortunately it's not quite as
simplg, as that. The local movie
theatre has, over the past years, be-
come a community institution in those
fortunate enough to possess
One, It- ranks with the high school,
the :neWspaper and the arena as one
.of.rhe assets which every self-respect-
T ing towir Should have, and it is
,aAotic.eable fact that -in towns which
jhave no.regular theatre, like Lucknow,
the' local merchants have paid money
out.' of ••their own pockets to finance
-,'StattelOrin of moving pictures for the
benefit: of those who shop in town.
Small town -editors all over .the
'country.are 'awakening to the fact that
the loss of their local theatre conld
••-lead to the gradual. deterioration of
.their town. They are writing editor-
la's about it and urging people to go to
-the Movies more often, and trying to
devise ways of keeping the local movie
houses
Perhaps . 1101 tot) Many people
the importance of a moving
-picture,. theatre I o a town. Some mei--
chantS, for instance, are inclined to
;think -that people come hi to town only
to shop. They -forget that while
•'-ftibther-is shopping, father and the
,,.ehildrerrmay want some entertainment
to while away the time, and that the
movies,, the restaurants and the bil-
liard rooms perform • this valuable
function. Furthermore these establish-
ments, by staying open at nights when
everyone else is closed, attract people
-to townin the evening, many of whom
panse before going home to look in
the merchants' lighted l ows, Look-
ers today are customers tomorrow.
Our own Lyceum Theatre is equip-
ped to handle just about: anything in
the movie line. It has Cinemascope,
some of the latest pictures which have
opt even hit the city yet, soft seats and
a friendly atmosphere. It shows the
latest spectacles from tfolywood at
`frices that are less than those in the
city,
It would he a sad daxfor Wingham
if the Lyceum Theatre Were forced to
close for lack of patronage, 11 each.
person in town would go to .titc
'movies twice a month that possibility
.cottlet be averted,
The "gingham AdvanceTimes
Pilh)19110t1 at Wingharn, °Marin
Wengel, PIthitsherS,
W. Ha.rty Webger,
Moilbpr Audit lItIread Of tiectilatton
Alith6th2ed tts second CUM mall, rot: OffiCe Dept,
.1tIbiteriptio11 Rate -- One Yea is $3.06, Six Months
$1,0 lb tttlVailte
ti, 8, A. $4.06 Per year
Proeligh late $4,06 year
AdVertining ttates ou appileatiOn
Self-Discipline Essential for
Survival of Democracy •
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Ntp The Wiugbarn Advance-Times, Wednesday' )00). 19, 19isti
d Greater Insanity Idi h Interests
SHORTER AND LIVELIER
The new rules of the house of
Commons are working out remarkably
well, according- to a man with many
years in' the Press Gallery at Ottawa,
Putting a 10-day Minh on the' throne
speech debttte, he says, has not only
resulted in shorter speeches but livelier
ones, with more talking and less read-
ing.
To an old Ottawa hand, any change
probably would seem an improvenwa t
says the Financial. Post, but don't leap
to the conclusion that the gasbags and
the timewasters have been completely
choked oil, You can still bear lots of
this: "And now I would like In tell yon
something Of the wonderful Part (If
the country which I have the honor to
represent" -- and so on and so on,
But Stilall 111ertie,f; are much better
than 11011e at all and we do' seem to fie
moving a. little bit: in the right direc-
tion,
lis remarks .might seem very
ltioSely CoUlleeit'd '10 II c0111111tillity Slid)
as our: where capital investment -is
not great nor expected to be so •
until he struck the following note:
"The Canadian people, long regard.
(41 as bard headed and (us
well as thrifty and hard Working-) have
conic to see ironing crazy in the oil-
led headline, 'tloyernnfent will
pay half the cost,' (or too often the
whole cost) of this or that pet scheme,
'Acceptance of the idea that the
State of itself away largesse
very dangerous,
What a sound thought is here,
Ow- eoonoluiC reasoning is about as
far advanced as that of the fellow who
grinned hugely to himself. when he
tricked his wile into paying a slice of
his gambling debts 0111 of the pay
cheque she had forced front his grasp
only two eVellings previously
By Rev, A. J. Wilson, D,D,
A slave who had been freed after people, armed with hoes, rakes and
the American Civil. War was pretty I shovels,were marchin g .out t o work
well down at the 'heels. One day in the fields, singing as they
he met his former owner. "Would marched, The whole atmosphere
you like to come back to me?" the had chan ged from 1927. The na-
owne r asked, "Didn't you have •a tdorard spirit had been revived. In-
better home with me and better stead of depression there was ex-
clothes and more security?" "Yes," hilaration. But, it was a discipline
said the former slave, "but there Imposed from without, In time the
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is a looseness about this here free-
dom that I likes."
Most of us would go along with
the slave • to some extent anyway.
There is quite a lot of looseness
inn democracy. That is because it
is based m i the worth of the indi-
vidual, In theory at least, each per-
son in a democracy has a right to
his own views, and to his own way
of life, But a, democracy couldn't
function at all if everybody did
that which was ri ght in his own
eyeS with no regard to the rights
of. others, A lot of disciplin e is
needed in a democracy, especially
self ,discipline.
The writer was in Ce'rmany in
1927. There were five million un-
employed, idleness was eating at
the very heart of the nation, The
people were in a bad way. There
was moral degeneracy, juvenile de-
linquency and -other 'attendant
evils, Disciplin e had broken down.
He was hack a gain in 1035 and
an his first night in 'Berlin was
awakened by singing and martial
trampling, • Thousands of young
Reminiscing Ir
SIXTY YEARS A00
Plans and specifications are nut
for a . fine brick residence which
Mr. Sutton, of Turnberry, is going
to ballet this summer.
The people of this town were
deeply -shocked, when a message
reached here announcin g the sad
intelligence that M:r. Alex Living-
s tone, brakeman on the London,
Huron .and Bruce way freight,' had
met• a horrible death in, the
way yards' at Hensel]. the acet..
dent occurred through Living-
stone mistaking in the insufficient
light, a, cattle guard packed vitt)
snow as part of the solid road bed.
Ile was assisting in the shunting
inirried as the crew was a day late
because, of the 'heavy snow storms.
A ear had been "kicked" into the
Hensel] siding in the railwayrnan's
parlance, and Livingatone pas in
the net of drawing a coupling pin
from between' two ears 'while the
whole train was being shunted. He
had to move along while pulling
the pin, when he suddenly sank in
deep snow in the cattle guard, Tn
au instant the fatal ear following
had done .its Work, The body was
badly mangled. Although the itc
eident tit:curved early in the even.
ing it was not until about four
o'clock in the morning that the
Mangled body arrived. here In
results of. this imposed discipline
Were that the whole nation became
a mechanical robot to be moved
about at the whim of one man.
That is what happens when dis-
cipline is imposed arbitrarily by
the state,
In a changing etilture such as
that which marks our day, if we
are to avoid the degeneration of
individualism or the compulsion of
totalitari anism we need a new em-
phasis on self discipline, We must
discipline ourselves; nobody can
do it for us. This In a sense is a
reli gious practice. That is why the
Len ten season is so valuable. Lent
is not just a time for practicing
some little restrictions, doing with-
out chocolates or cigarettes. It goes
much deeper. It underscores the
need for self discipline, in ..develoP
in g and sustaining a strong virile
democracy.
Without self discipline a democ-
racy can go haywke; with it a
nation's moral fibre is toughened
to withstand degeneracy from With-
in or totalitarianism from without.
charge of his grief stricken cam-
paninons, Deceased was an unmet,
fled man, 31 years of age. He lived
with his father and mother, Mr.
and Mrs. Jas, Livingstone, - Fran-
cis Street, who not long ago had
moved here on his •aceount. The
funeral was largely attended.
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F011.117 YEARS AGO •
.-Mr. A. G, Smith, of The Advance,
and Mr. tiliott, of The Times,
attended the annual meeting of the
Perth and Huron Publishers and
:Printers"Association. in Stratford
on. Friday : .last.
The annual meeting of the share-
hOlders • of' the Western Foundry
Co, was held on Wednesday after-
noon-of last week, The various re-
ports presented showed that the
company had a very -success-
ful year and prospects are very
bright for the coming year, . the
company having a. large number
of orders ahead for their various
kinds of furnaces, stoVes and
ranges. The Western Foundry is
undoubtedly one of Wingham.'s best
industries and The Times is picas-
ed to team of the bright prospects
of the company, ()Meeks elected
were as follows: President and
general manager, ' Cunning-
ham; vice-president, 1 A. Mac-
Lean.; secretary-treasurer, R, Van-
stone; office manager, Miss Mae
'rho Womere8 Institute of Wing-
harit have during the past Week
sent a box to the tread/MN, centaln-
hig twenty-six pairs of Mocks and
PIGURE SKATING
NEWS
Have -yob notieed the extra activ-
ity around the Wingham Arena?
Ar e the children , asking you to
buy tickets? Then yo u know it's
carnival. time again, and that you
can hell) our Chlb pay for ice time
for lessons and practicing while
you enjoy an .evening at the arena.
After March la, you can reserve
a seat and avoid a long wait before
th e show begins. These may be
or
2115".ctatrittsM, epNhillbsbQarljrsegpullLalg r. t
Store
icltt1/41..
c
ar
lub membership card, Regular
tickets may be had from club
vQar l.
at
lhitzilt,s a w e
arena
a1i
du r ing
' the e
the members selling the most
tieiwts,
We hope 1.9 pave NO00;10118 from
Wingharn Lions. Boys' anti Girls'.
Band before the show and during
intermission,
Whetlter you live in Tneswater,
Belmore, Wroxoter, Wingham,
Lucknow, Belgrave illyth
Want to see the girls and boys 01
your community who will be par-
ticipating in their carni val in the
Wingham Arena on March Mb
and 15th beginnin g at 7.49,
U n der 'the leadership of tin;
club professional, joseph Pope,
ably' assisted by .Harold 1.3foolt4,
they will proudly display their
skill on the saver blades in varied
solos, and routines, enehaneed Icy
smiling faces, and entraneIng
'gowns or -disguised as fabulous
characters from Alice in Wonder-
land. 'You 11 love the Red mid
White Roses and the Bhm :Ballet;
you'll laugh at our own Jack
and John in their Daffy Duet, An
added attraction will be several
numbers of the Guelph College
Club; tiny Bronwyn Brothers and
Mr. ,Jas, Hutenison, also N144
Joanne Markham partnered by
John Wild.
Anyone wishing to attend Ca-
nadian Championship Competitions
at Galt on Saturday afternoon and
evening, March 24, must register
with Mrs. Burrell or Mrs. Wild a1
once to get a reservation. Deliosit
$4.00 and any balance will be re-
funded. No skating member will be
accepted unless his application for
membership has been signed by al
parent and returned.
two pairs of wristlets, They also
sent two pairs each to George Mof-
fatt, Ross Maxwell and iermin
Copeland. Twe»ty-ftve pairs of
socks were supplied from the pro-
needs of a concert given by the
children north of the OTR tracks,
I The Bible. Today.
-rho birch -thark talks!" With
these words the Indian braVes Of
Canada's far north expressed their
amazement when they found that
the magic signs before their eyes
"told them stories".
Actually the characters which
look like Tilgyptien doodling were
the simple systems of syllable
shorthand devised
who found their language too dif,
fieult to reduce to writing in alpha-
/al form,
by a missionary
By this simple method invented
over a hundred years ago, JaMeg
Evans was able to teach a clever
fudian to read in a few ,tours. The
system was built from n ine syllable
characters Dieing in four different
positions, representing thirty-six
different sounds. It has been used
throughout roost of NOVLhOrn Cana-
da across the years since It was
created for the -Cite India/1,4.
To put the peculiar geometric
writing on, the hirek bark, Evans
first copied his translation of the
Dilde portions by liand. Since this
method was slow, he deckled that
fie must print To make type
he first melted tea idlest lead lin-
uy...uev .0, 0, tamp,
Svp, VAPaiio, 0.114 Society,
iuga and shaped them In
motildS, Impressions in the clay
were made from hand carved wood
blocks, Later he carved the type
from musket bullets.,
A press steed for treating furs
was ttirned into a printing press,
However, he still bad Tie paper and
no ink, Birch bark gathered by the
children and squa ws .served as
paper, Chimney soot and bish all
were mixed to provide ink,
The "Good News" was printed
and the soft bark pages were soWn
together with leather thongs and
bound in soft deer skin,
"The birch bark talks," said the
Indians. "It speaks tile words of the
Great Spirit," Today the . entire
Bible is available from the British
and Foreign Bible Society in Cana-
da, i n Ore°, in. a script invented by
a white brother.
Suggested Nile Watlin g,
Sunday, dames 2:1.20; Monday,
Ja m es 3:1-18; Tuesday, jaws 4;
1-17; Wednesday,* James 0;1.20;
Thursday, Bxodus 20:1-17; Friday,'
Psalms 51: 1-10; Saturday, Psalms
96:1-13. •
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29c, 49c
THEY ALL COST MONEY
Not a few of the taxpayers are be-
Mining:- alarmed at the amount of debt
which has boon contracted by the town
daring the past five years. While we
all like the idea of having new public
buildings in town, the question of who
is' going- to pay for them, and how, is
beginning to worry a lot of people
who already find taxes high.
Since 1950 the town has issued de-
bentures for a public school addition,
a 1101.V (lHsi ['IC( high school and a new
hospital wing, the second such addition
since the war. Now it is faced with
the expense of a new public school
addition, and the prospect that some-
time in the near future a new sewage
plant may have to be built. Small
wonder that taxpayers are becoming- a
bit restive.
- Naturally the needs of schools and
hospitals must be met in some way.
To many, however, it seems that no
sooner is one project completed- than
another call for lnaney takes its place.
in fact the situation is now getting to
the stage where additions to the ad-
dii.ions are being considered, even:be-
fore the additions are built,
Most confusing to the taxpayer is
the 'dirt that although we now need
twice as much accommaclation in our
schools and hospitals, the actual popu-
lation of the town has increased very
little over the years, When Wingham
had twice as many factories as it has
today, when families were much larger,
an eight-room public school sufficed
for over half a century. Now for
some reason we need 16 rooms, and
our population is still below the peak
pe ri ad when there were 3,01)0 people
ill Wingliam.
sources. tit he taxpayer's only hope is
that someday, somehow the need for
schools, hospitals and sewage plants
will diminish.
*
With federal and provincial fingers
already deep in the taxpayer's pocket
it seems unlikely' that nmnicipalities
will get any more aid front those of ears, and the work was being
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ittiingbarn
The Third Sunday 7n Lent
8,30 a.m.—Holy Communion
11,00 amh—Chloral Communion
2.30 p.m,------Church School
7,00 1).111,- -1 Prayer &Y Sermon
*
Wed., -7,30 pon.---Midweek f,enten Service
Mar„ 3,00. in the Parish
Room
TWENY-FIVE" YEARS A00
The debenture issue of $8,500
mcently sold by the town was
oversubscribed two or three times,
showin g the faith that residents
and fortner residents have in the
town financially. Two offers were
made to take the entire issue after 3
they had already been sold, one
corning by air mail from Texas.
Some time Tuesday evening or
early Wednesday morning of last I,
week, the store of George (Aver 6
was broken into. Entry. was gained
through the hack door, by smash-
ing out one of the panes of glass, !,
It was thought it was the work of I
boys, as -a/1 that could be discover-
ed taken were a few coppers and a
quantity of grapes from a barrel.
No trace of the burglary has been 6
found.
Mr, John C. Hope, rancher front
Mirney, Montana, visited for a few
days at. the holue of Mr, ;ins,
Edgar on Victoria St.
TIVTEEIN YEARS AGO
Drilling operations for oil on the
Allin farm, near myth, have been 1,
halted temporarily but will be re-
stated when road and weather 1,
conditions are 'favorable, according
to Mr. W, I, Patterson, who is in
charge of drilling operations. Tim
well has been sunk to about 1,5on
feet and it is hoped that oil will
be struck before going much deco-
eV.
The baby son of Mr, and Mrs.
William Schmidt, of Lucknow,
which was horn in the hospital last
week, had a tooth already through,
As n, general rule when a pencil
gets away from one It is "good-bye
pencil." It is said that more pencils
get'lost or removed or something
than umbrellas. We heard of one
pencil, however, that had homing
instincts, A Snort time ago Alex
Notts ,Was packing a parcel of
clothing for the Red Cross Society
for shipment to headquarters at
Toronto, After getting the parcels
all nicely packed and tied up, Alex
discovered that his Dead' was miss-
ing, a beautiful Eversharp. Days
went by and no word of the pencil,
ao Alex gavo it op Per ToSt, Then
1W had a big surprise. The pencil
came back, At Red Cross mad-
otp,torg It w6..,4 found in the box
with refuge clothing so they sent
it to Miss X. Pringle, seciretary of
the. Ideal goeletY, WhO rettirned it
ter Atek. Incidentally the pencil be-
longed to bin WO, TOO, who is
With the It.C.A.P.,` SO Alex Was
doubly glad rot'' its rani.%
I.
Box el 7 sets, regularly 29e
Vitamins, Minerals
Antibiotics
Serums, Bacterins
"Feed 'ern , right
. . and watch your
profits grow!".
We carry a full line of Vitamins,
Minerals, Antibiotics,' Serums,
Haeterins, Louse Powders and
Veterinary 'instruments. If it is
a good product, we have it. if
you. need we are as near as
your telephone Day or Night.
Your problems. are our problem
and we are keenly interested t oa
help :you wherever pos-
sible. Remember, AN
• OUNCP', OT: PRY,VEN-
TION TS WORTH A
POUND 01' CLIRF',.
IIA. WEEKLY SPECIALS--
ENVELOPES, linen or vellum 8c, 2 15c "11:01110aly" padicet or 20, reg., 10e YtOn
IDA. BRAND LINSEED MEAL 29c 12 OZ. CONTAINER, reg. 3.5c
IDA MILK OF MAGNESIA
10, :12 OZ., reg, 25e, 00e
IDA BRAND PENCILS, reg, 5c' 5
With 1111 lead and eraser FoR 19c
SEIDLITZ POWDERS
MILK of MAGNESIA TABLETS 29C 5
100's, .300's, reg. 29e, 89e ....... ....
WHITE EMBROCATION
4 and 8 OZ„ reg., 29e, 69e
WRITING PADS
Lvoi.pw or leiter slum, reg, lOc ea,
29c, 49c
13c, 2 1,0„ 23c
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Presented by the ,
Wirigham Figure Skating Club
WEDNESDAY AND THURSDAY
MARCH 14 AND 15
7.45 pan,
GUEST ARTISTS
FITOM aut-norn comuut
JOHN WILD and JOANNE MARKHAM
SILVER DANCE MEDALISTS
James Hutchison and Tiny Arenwsni Brother
SPECTACULAR SPECIALTY NIThIBVIIS
PLUS
CAST OP 80
Members of The Wingharn Figure Skating Clu
TICKETS 50e Public Sellout Children. 2e
Pre.Sehool Children FREE
TICRETS AVAILABLE VROM CLIJII MEMBERS ORF. AT T
Alt taerA nonwo okumvAL, ALL utsurtvon 8V,AT8
EXTRA ON SALE METER MARCO 1, AT goitrititoNS
ICE REVUE of '56
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