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SIGNIFICANCE Of DAY IS FORGOTTEN
Monday, as you know, was
holiday, but it is safe to assnme that
feW people gave any thought what-
ever to the reason for the suspension
Of everyday labor. Looking at the
caleadar we find that the 20th of
May is marked "Victoria Day”, and
the annual holiday is now observed
on the Monday preceding 1\lay 24th.
May 24th, of course, 'vas the
birthday of Queen Victoria, who
presided over the destiny of the
British. Empire for more than 60
years, Apparently ,that well-known
childhood- doggerel, "The twenty-
fourth o fay is the Queens birth-
day; If you don't give us a holiday,
we'll all run away I" was more sig-
nifkant than our fathers and moth-
ers realized, At least the holiday
leas Ione; outlived the monarch in
whose honor it was established 130
years ago.
• Memories of "Vktoria the Great"
are fond ones for mast folk who are
proud of their English blood, Not
only was she a great •queen in her
• own right but it was her magnificent
fate to sit upon the throne of the
world's most powerful empire at
• what has since turned out to be the
greatest era of development the
modern -world has ever seen.
NVe who are living through the
birth of the atomic age are apt to
smile in gentle derision at the techai-
cal advances of the, past century,
•but in Queen Victoria's day there
was a atientifie and industrial revo-
ntim of much greater magnitude.
:The discoveries of •the past fifteen
years are tertainlv startlinaa but
•each of them has been based b upon
many years of research and plan-
ning, so that few •of the develop-
.
inents we have seen were actually a
JUNE IS DAIRY MONTH
"June Is Dairy Month" is a slo-
vn with speeial meaning in Canada.
Starting as an •advertising slogan
und,er avbich dairy foods were relat-
ed to summer eating, it has now
come to take on a broader meaning
•across the nation,. Mention of June
conjures up in most minds a host of
pleasant associations. Warm wea-
ther and green grass are immediate-
ly tied np with grazing cows and the
• scenes of contentment which seem to
spread across the land at that time
ef yea.
June is an excellent time of year
-for urban and rural people to once
• again consider their interdependence.
Canadians eat something like 1033
pounds of dairy foods per capita, per
year.. This is at important part of
the indiaidual diet, considering eith-
er volume or nutritional aspects of
the situation, By their generons
purthases af dairy foods. urban
Inansewives enable 453,000 dairy far-
mers to spend millions of dollars
_each year for the products of the fac-
tories where urban husbands work
There is real interdependence here.
Dairy products are worth a bil-
lion dollars a vear to the Canadian
economy and this is only part of the
story. One of the greatest argu-
ments for a. dairy industry does not
appear in cold atatistics. It is gen-
erally accepted that Canada needs a
healthy and prosperous agriculture
• as a part of the overall economy. In
this context a healthy agticulture
means not only good prices but ef-
ficient soil use and management. No
agrkultural practice does more to
conserve the vital elements of the
soil than does dairy fanning., for
dairy farming requires large acreag-
es of pastnre and hay ereps which
not (thy build but prevent the faV-
ages of Wind and. water erosion.
It cart be said with some truth
That dairying preservea both the hit -
Mall and the aoil tesources a the
Canadian nation.
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surprIse to either scientists or ordin-
ary citizens.
Things were different in the
Victorian era. When the young
queen ascended the throne in 1837
the world lacked any sort of motive
power except the horse, the water
wheel, the wind -mill and the strong
arms and hacks of men. In her time
steam was harnessed, to open the
greatest phase of the industrial re-
volation which affected not only
England, but every nation in the
world. Before her death the auto-
mobile was a reality; flight was al-
most in the grasp of man. Factories
were humming on every side; the
first rudiments of mechanization had
been applied to the tilling of the
soil; the forerunners of our modern
paved highways were under con-
struction.
Change had overtaken not only
the industrial world but a revolution
had taken place in the minds and
hearts of men as well. Her reign
eommenced in a time of tremendous
public irresponsibility. Child la,bor,
which was scarcely better than slav-
ery, was common under the Appren-
ticeship Act; soldiers who had lost
eyesight or limbs in the service of
their homeland were 'left to beg a
starvation diet on 'the roadsies;
medical science as we know it was
non-existent ; female nurses were un-
heard-of. Before Victoria's •death
the world was to learn and believe
that human suffering is the responsi-
bility of all. Those decades produc-
ed Florence Nightingale and her self-
less followers. Great surgeons em-
erged and tremendous strides were
made in the more humane methods
of healing. Anaesthetics, opiates and
sedatives ushered in new hope for
pain -wracked patients.
Under Victoria, too, the influ-
ence of what was then known as the
British Empire was •extended to
lands in every continent. Today we
are forced to listen to the wireacreS
who sneer at British Imperialism,
bot any reasonable student of his-
tory is aware that most of the better
aspects of civilization accompanied
the British colonists into disease and
war -ridden countries all over the
globe., The British "conqueror" may
have imposed Western law upon un-
wihing but he also intro-
dacetfa system which included Brit-
ish justice—a code of fair play for
the common man for whith each of
us in this land has good reason to be
thanidal. -
"Victorianism" is laughed at to-
day as the epitome of all that is
stuffy and outdated. The typical
Victorian gentleman was indeed - a
prim and proper creature.. However,
he and his wife and his sons and his
daughters were the product of a
- wave of revulsion which seized the
country- after centuries of sloppy and
ignorant living. Often he eschewed
gambling and hi/aritaT because those
pastimes had ruined his grandfather
or his titled great-unde. He became
a rigid gentleman because one of his
family had been a rake.
Let us IVA 'laugh too loudly at
this stuffy product of another day.
We could do with some of his un-
bending virtue in this present age of
unlimited freedom.
NO NEED TO FEAR
IMMIGRATION
immigration on the present scale
should net alarm arra Canadian who
knows something of the history of
his country and ;as any vision of its
economic future. Quite apart from
the good it will do the conscience of
Ca.nadians, this massive immigration
will foster the culture of the country
and promote its industrial, agricul-
tural, commercial and technical tle-
velopment.
Canada would be a pretty poor
and humble nation if ever,ybody
here now vAio was Zia born in
this country had never emigrated to
it. Suppose they had all suddenly
to go back to the lands of their ori-
gins., taking their children and grand-
cen with them? According to the
1951 census, 2,059011 of Canada's
population at that time as born
outside the itOuntrz Peterborough
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BOX 473 I
• Brandon, Man.,
• Editor Advance -Times,
Wingham, Ontario.
'Keep op the good work an the
• .4.-r. we Certainly enjoy it, usual-
ly from front to back in its entire-
ty, our editorials are particularlY:
• timely and worthwhile.
We have two Winghamites or
• former Wingliamites out here tak-
big COTO training at the Royal
Canadian School of Artillery at
SbUo Tbey are -tk- (Barney) Mc-
Intyre and "Pete" Spittal, whose
• father was a manager at " the
Dominion Bank in Wingham sever-
al years ago.
Yours- very tr,uly,
Stan Hiseler
Reminiscing
polar TEARS AGO
CAR HORNS AKE DONNYBROOK
OFTEN A DIIIMNA msges T.,UPY ThOinp4Ort, and
Margaret •Tetteraon 04rdlie
t taere ta 4004' tbat
pocultrumor anguior orkirer
1:cooks's 'of your cars approach, and
the circuritstances of the moment
will not allow you to stoRor
o therwlee avoid the SitUationt
4100114 your 'horn, advises the
Canadian X-righwe* Safety cfoo,
terenee. Otherwise says ;Canadian
nigh% .yay :Safety Conference, keep
nulet.
•T,he ring or button (net so con,
venlently a finger -flick will op-
erate it) thaonads your auto-
:mold/0 horn cart be the means -of
saving hOrnan life -",Or ending' it!
VoolislilY uaed, the horn can
• frighten or aggravate peOpie to
such an extant that their safety
and the way; of others Is in
S erious peril, How often have you
been ;stopped for a traffic light,
only to haVe the driver behind
sound his horn the second the
light ,Changed, to green? Relearn,
Were home for the ,hOlicia)'' week.
ond,,
Mr. and Mrx. John Name vent
the week -end at Mosley and at. -
tended the Wedding of the latter*
brother,
Mr, Gerald Doerr and the MIssea
Jonnand Sheila Doerr Of Niagdia
Falls And Mr. and M'S, Gordon
Chimney of Niagara Valls were
Sunday VistiOrs With Mr, and Mre,
11.
Mr, and Mrs, VaortrileY Thompson
of Brampton and Mr, Harold
Sherridan of Ingersoll were Sun-
day tors with 1*.- and Mrs.
110.0t Ind $114non spomt
the weelpend with Ur. and Atm
Stuart 'Cheniney and daughters,
and lYfra. PrOmin and
family of Stratford Were holiday
:eeiaterio with Mr,. and 1.111113. Ray
oaaria and
Flower Sunday
4t United Church .
16/.40X,Enft rlOwer Sun*.
win obserYd Wroxeter tnit,
ea 4019.rall: an. sun, aaa, .a.tay42cab, atn
1.1, RV 3.Y 13 liana
TW4ileiro-git", tzbleghtthpit 4,adotresesor;;;Leret,
gationa of Oerrie and Wroxeter
oor,f thotwooceroallhoonu. he
left at Wroxeter United oiturea on
John R. ThottiPaim and IlaWard, $0.turdoy.:afterhoon.
riliff.MIUMUMM ; ; .41M{IMHOPYIMA ; ; JJ 0)1101 OUWEIM,140,41),a;IM.11. JJ J Ilitti./fifftli$1411Augumilit:
Watch fat*
berfelt?ell that A' 111
in g of indignation, anger and
frustration can start a chain of ' . s.
Wfeel- I
24th
• events that could lead to mornen
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TWENTY -FATE TEARS AGO
The 'Canadian Club net in- the
council chamber on 'Friday even-
ing to enjoy an address by J.
Collins, New. Zealand Trade 'Cr..ari-
raissioner in Canada. At the end
of this meeting, the close of the
fifth session—the Men's and Wo-
men's Canadian Club of Winghain
was discontinued with regret
Oj TnesdaY .afternoon the com-
mittee of the Alps Golf Club Made,
inspection of the golf course. It
had been hoped to hoid the offie-
lel opening of the club onMey24th,
but on account of the backward
growth this season it has now been
decided to hold the official open-
ing On June ut.
New Rates Set for
Test Wednesday the Clinton.
High School baseball -am to-Ok en
trar
ingh 'School team. .Our 'boys Public Telephones
were successful in winning by a
score of 5-1., The girls' basketball
team was not $ri fortunate, losing'
to the Clinton klris'by the Score of
29-0. •
The estate which 'formerly" own-
ed the property - where 'the Bell
factory stood are having: the lot
cleaned up. Two men, a team and
a scraper will commence :Work at
once end this work will have to be
Pour officers who went overseas done to the satisfaction« -of - the
with the 3.91st Huron Battalion llortieulturaiSociety.
have been released and are ex- « «• -
pected home about the beginning
of June: They are Lt Col. Coombe,.
Clinton; Maar N. T. Wingham Rek:Cross'ilrive has
"Wingham; Major Hays, -Seatorth,, e ohieett,ce end gone
and Major Ileaman; Rxetar, alightlY heYentl,;:ae-coreling to re-
• -, turns in the bands :of Mr. -ca
The Winghaza Methoclist,Sunclay"-
School held tbeir anniversary ser- Gamow, the campaign treasurer.
%lees op. Sunday and are to be
congratulated on :the snceess of the
services. The s,peaker for the oc-
r-asion was Rev. Halpenny„ of To -
route. The supe.rintandent, ,M.r. F.
Buchanan, presided over the ser- Ii the opening:game of the town
league softball season on Tuesday
the Clerks .won. from rthe
'The annnal meeting at the Wing- evealine.'
ham branch of the Women's Insti- FralPdrY tem. Two games -were
tute was held in the council dear:A-
ber and ,a soap and candle shower
for the boys who have gone to the
front was organised.
'The -reares of Seafoitb, Grey,
Wronetei. :County Commissioner:
Patterson and Warden Dr. Milne tfrOra- Rag: Wawanosh, wili liresent.
passed through the town. onTnes- staging and liPmeing and:11311m
day. They eoroprise the County band xancabers.'-
Road and Bridge Committee and .As soon as possible the Winghem
they were aronna inspecting aRilted 'Qess Society wall bola al
ottmty bridges. feonrse of instruction in Home
tous conclusions. Your first re-
action is to pin the- other driver
down with a scorching remark
But there isn't thrie for that, so
you gear and gun and rush away to
show blin, 'once and for all, that
if anybody's going to hold up
traffic 0 won't be -youl
Meantime, an inniocent motorist
or pedestrian is in your Path and,
with your feelings hurt and your
temper enraged, you're not as
careful in your driving as you
usually are.
You can fly $0 feet through the
air, they say, before the pave-
ment or tree or a house stops
you—dead.
EIFTEM.T*VEMIS AGO
This does not mean that the Wing-
bern
taZITILSF is cbtapleted. The,
needs , of the Red Cross are atill
urgent and it is hoped :that this
year's drive vAll top all -previous:
record's.
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scheduled for last -week but were
rained P4-
reeltal rcf school mu -sin is to
be held under the direction of kiss
Vairoa.Wheeler in Foresters' 1-Tol,
Be -iv -rive, next week_ Eight argot:As.
mt. rTh2,,alirt Ritelfle niet with Nursing; atd War Hme-rge:acies.:
To standardize all local calling
from public and semi-public tele-
phones throughout its territory in
Quebee and Ontario, the Bell Tele-
phone Company of Canada plans to
adopt a 'uniform charge of 10 cents
per :call ;in Wingham and all other
communities where this rate does
not now aTiPlY, IC H. P. Johnston,
Bell Telephone manager for this
territory, announced this week The
new rate is expected to become ef-
fective toward the end of June.
Approval in principle of the 10 -
cent rate for local calls from all of
33e.11s public and semi-public tele-
phones WAS gt4Mki in November,'
1951, by tbe Board of TransPert
Commissioners :for Canada. How-
ever, because of equiliment short=
ages at that thne, the Bell asked
for the higher rate to be applied
immediately only in •-the, larger
-centres. With equipment now avail-
able to modify the public tele-:
phones in the smaller Centres ‘‘Iso,'
the company decided to coraplete
the application of the standard
rate Zhrojighout its territory.
Introduction of the uniform 10-,
cent rate for local tails would fol-
low the approval of tariff revisions
filed by the Bell -company with the
Board of Transport Coramissioners
for Canada..
Conversion of *pliblie mird semd-
publie coin boxes in thearess con:
cerned is now 'under way. 'Ili date
for introducing the 10 -tent 'local
calling rate throughout these ex-
change areas has been set tenta-
tively for Jane 29.
serious accident while tauloadinii2ara. It* B. T2°311 is arranging
at the marble war here on Monday. The derrick on, corageabgeb-nna to Bob .Spittal ot MinI IL WYLIE
ks
which the stone was being- raised;
broke and fell on 'Mt Ritchie, ren -;promoted recently to the rank of
flexing hint uneonscioas.
the 99th Battery, who has been.
HOSTESS TO • II SI
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Monday Map 27 to Saturdai June 1
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