The Wingham Advance-Times, 1960-08-17, Page 2Last week we had the supreme
pleasure of an all-too-short holiday
ri Algonquin Park, that vast tract
of woodland, lakes and rivers which
was stet aside many years ago for the
people of this province, 1.7p to this
year we have known very little about
the provincial parks. with the excep-
tion of the .new picnic and camping
sites along the major highways.
We have, however driven the
highway through the park many
times and have had several meals at
a hotel which was situated on One '
of the beautiful lakes near the road.
A few years ago the hotel was burn.-
ed and we were surprised that it was
never replaced. This last trip, pro-
vided the answer.
Our expedition started at the
south end of Lake Opeongo, where,
until recently, there was an extensive
lodge for guests. This enterprise
has recently been removed, Travel-
ling up the lake, we, camped on a
beautiful, wooded point and later
went over a mile and a half portage
to Happy Isles Lake and again por-
m ud to Merchant Lake, Imre the
trout are biting well this year.
Allaloner the shores of these
lakes roughb camp sites have been
cleared for the convenience ,of those
who are rugged enough to make
their way into the hinterland by boat
or canoe and carry their gear over
the portages. Later we learned that
only a few private cottages are left
and that as the leases on these expire.
they are not renewed. As a result
PUTRID PUBLIC
RELATIONS
IN newspaper editor receives a lot
of mail. There are free publicity
blurbs every day from business in-
,terests and organizations through-
' out 'Canada and other countries as
-wellec For the most part we don't
get too heated up over most of these
efforts to get into our columns with-
, out paying an advertising fee. After
"all'; if is good for our ego to know
so many professional publicity writ-
ers believe that the Advance-Times
is a valuable medium for their work.
One envelope, however, does
make us burn. It carries the words
"South African Scope" in the upper
left- corner. Inside are a series of
colorful pamphlets which tell in
glowing terms of the wonderful
progress which is being Made in the
former British colony. One booklet
is titled "The Progress of the Bantu
Peoples Toward. Nationhood." An:
other article deals with the history
of South Africa since its•indepen-
deuce, under the 'heading'"Fifty Gol-
den Years." Still another gem reads
"State not to Blame for Low Bantu
AV:ages".
South Africa has grievous nation-
al problems. There is no sense in the
theory that the state should grant
immediate freedom to all blacks, for
the violence in other African states
which have recently become inde-
pendent indicates that it may he
some time before all native Africans
are ready to govern themselves. Nev-
ertheless, alter the events which
have taken place in the past year:Nve
citizens of other Commonwealth
countries are not particularly sus-
ceptible to,tales of the South African
paradise. Human freedom is a price-
less gift, conferred not by govern-
ments, but by our Maker, and those
states which thwart this universal
right scarcely belong within the com-
munity of, decent nations.
The solution to South Africa's
problems is complicated in the ex-
treme- but we simply cannot believe
that mass beatings and wholesale
imprisonment and exile are basically
sound steps in which to found the
improvements which are so badly
needed.
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NEEDLE AND, 11.11READ
In Prayer', there is the story of an
In. the 'book. The World At One threads of our lives, how much
mending we eould do in this. torn I African evangelist who first came old World: Threads of patience and
to the mission station as a primi-
tive savage from a distant village. forgiveness could mend the rends
He spent some time watching of resentment, Threads of courage
children in a sewing class. Later, and hope could repair shattered
in a prayer meeting, he uttered his dreams or do some invisible mend-.
first public prayer: "Lord Jesus. ipg on the holes of disappointment.
you be the needle and I will be
the cotton thread. Yon go through
first and I will fallow wherever yota
may lead!'
Thus we thread the needle of the
Spirit and stitch through the fabric
of everyday life to make it a thing
of beauty, a gift of love, a living
sacrifice wholly acceptable to God.
We may even take the stitch in
time now -'with, love, understand-
ing, forgiveness, faith -- the stitch
in time that will mean an eternity
of difference for some soul,
daughter. Patsy, returned, home af-
ter spending a week. with Mr. and
Mrs. Edgar Cowan at Severn Felts.
Mrs. R. F. HoKson, London, Frig
land, is visiting with Ea and Mrs.
-0. W. Houston.
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FIFTEEN 3,'EARS AGO
Among the service men who have
returned -home recently are I'te.
Ralph McCrea, of Beigrave;
Norman Weiwood, Cpl, Bert Culli-
more, Fit, Lieut. James C. Russell,
Gnr. Win. G. Irwin ands Pte. Roes
Holloway.
On Thursday there was some ex-
citement at the CNR station. A
number of ears were on the siding
next to the coal sheds. As they
were 'being moved by hand one of
the seas was derailed at the muse
street crossing. obstructing both
the road and the rail line.
C. E. Smith has purchased the
Scott residence on Diagonal Howl,
opposite 'the arena. It is understood
that he intends to Make a duplex
of the house.
James Smith, of Lucknow, who is
employed at the Fry & Blackball
factory, has purchased the Buchan
a n residence on Carling Terme
Capt. J. R. M .Spittall, of Shilo,
Man., has :been home on furlough.
letCpl. Andrew Scott and Mrs.
Scott, of Debert, N.S., are spending
a furlough 'here.
LAC Donald Adams, of Moncton,
NB., is spending leave at his home
in town.
Threads of true friendship and
sympathy could pick up slipped
threads of neighbourliness and
draw lonely people Into the warmth
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Rev. J. Swart alarke, theerie
and 'Wroxeter United Churches
With the Spirit of Christ going o of our circle of friends. Threads
through first, followed •by the, of understanding, trust, and humil-
ity could restore strained relation-
ships with one another In the home
or in the community.
ass "oerseee
than being en the
When I was 20, I found nothing
More attractive
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Move. I was ready to go anywhere,'
without notice, at any time. It
meant a. change of scene and rou-
tine, new friends and new Peeve
It was .challenging and stimulating.
Now I am twice twenty. We are
moving to a different home in a.
different town next month, and
I'm as mournful as a shroud. I'm.
clinging to the old home and the
old life with the grim tenacity of •
a :grenay about to he lugged off to J•
the eounty home. The movers will
probably have to strap me to the
ironing board to get me out of the
house, on moving day. •
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I've known it was coming for
Some time, of course, and thought
I was i•econeiled N it. But last
summer sehool and saw the two big
FOR. SALE signs hammered into
any* lawn, it wns a terrible Jolt. I
felt as though the stakes had
been nailed right through my heart.
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But an the whole, it's been a love
match all. the way, and there has
been a rich, understanding re-
lationship between us. She knows
I haven't begrudged all that money
rye spent on her. And I know
that when I comes home to her
after a hard day, she will Mice me
in and comfort me and soothe my
troubled spirit, She will give me
privacy and peace, a Sanctuary
from the dogs of life, snapping at
my heels.
That's why this uprooting is
such wrench. My other wife, the
real one, feels it too, She has
spent many more hours than I
have with -the old girl: bathing her I
regularly, 'feeding her delicacies I
like paint and wallpaper, and
dressing her with the dignified
taste her age demands, But wo-
men are tougher than men. and
basically less sentimiestal. They
look 'forward, not back. So my
wife • has turned her back on the
old girl, though not without a tear
or two for -times remembered, and
hardly-wait to start aeeorats '
ing-and making drama at the new
place,
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FIFTY YgARS 'AGO
Pipes have been delivered on
Shutee Street for the installation of
water 'service to residents on that
street. All effort' le also being
made, to secure a branch sewer.
An auction sale of farm stock
and implements will be held at the
home of the. late t W, F. Rath in.
East SVieWanosh. .. -
The new provincial regulations
covering- the manufacture and sale
of bread will come into effect short-
ly. The law requires that each loaf
of bread weigh at least 24 ounces,
The firm of Wilford and Brown
intend erecting an evaporator for
the processing- of apples. They ex-
pect to employ about •30 hands for
three months of each year.
!Antithei- weekly- paper -has sue,
climbed- to excessive- competition- -
this time the Wroxeter Planet.
As automobiles go' down in price,
horseflesh advances. There never
was a time when' a gond, sound
horse, for either read 'or draft pur-
poses, was worth more than it is
today,
Ten thousand people were in
Wingbane for the . reeent• Orange
Walk.
A barn belonging to Alex Forgie
in Turnberry, on -the Jobb home-
stead, was burned after it had been
struck by lightning.
Cochrane has had the front
of his marble works painted.
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FORTY YEARS AGO,
Mrs. George Turner left last
week for Oakville, Man., where she
will spend the summer months
with her daughter, Mrs: R. D.
Nicholson,
Miss Margaret Henderson motor-
ed from Toronto last week and
spent a week with her mother, Mrs.
William Henderson, Luekhow, and
Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Nivina
Wtg
Rev, Frank E. Powell, Toronto,
spent a couple of clays at the home
of his father, Mr. Rom K. Powell,
"Turnberry, and :attended the funer-
al of his aunt, the late Mrs. .Robe
inson, on Tuesday.
Mr. Gordon Willits, accompanied
by his mother, is spending 4 few
'weeks renewing acquaintances in
London and their old home -in
Wroxeter. Mn Willits reports good
crops in the part of Saskatchewan
Where he lives.
At the London .Conferenee re-
cently held at Stratford it was
recommended that minimum sal-
aries for ministers be set at $1500
rather than the previous $1200.
The remains of the late Mrs. John
Robinson arrived home from Hard-
isty, Sask., where she died sudden-
ly on Tuesday, while visiting at
the home of her son,
Harry Waller, a war veteran and
former member of the 161st Bat-
talion, has been appointed post-
master to succeed the late W. M.
Robinson at Wroxeter.
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TWEN• TY-FIVE YEARS AGO
Miss E, Ruth Pollock, Toronto,
has been appaiMea to the staff of
the high school here, replacing
Miss L. Hammond, who is going to
Port Hope.
We have' on display some stalks
at barley which measure 5 feet 8
inches in length, They were grown
by. George T. Robertson 'on the
Henderson farm at ViThiteehurcii,
Elmer Wilkinson of town has
been awarded _the contract for
caulking the county court house at
Goderich,
Dan Galles, ulio has been em-
ployed by A, J. Walker for the past
year left for Wheatley, Ont., where
he will establish an undertaking
-business.
• In a game of ball between White-
church and Wingliam's second
team in the former village, the
Whitechurch pitcher, Jack -Garton,
was injured while sliaing_into third
base. He' gashed his knee on the
peg which held the bag.
Miss Jean Copeland, a former
liupil of WirigitaM: pnblie sand high
schools, after two years of success-
ful teaching at Maynooth, has been
appointed to the teaching staff ,of
the London public schools.
Mr, and Mrs, Stewart Cowan and
laughter, Maxine, accompanied by
'Mr. and -Mrs. Neil. Sparks and
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Couldn't -the that. T had to
have a final, dramatic leave-taking.
I chose last week end to do it, be-
cause I knew I'd be too hot, frus,
trated and furious on
to give her more than a cases:
look. SO I went and poked around
the old place, growing mare maud-
lin with every memory,
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First I went up to our bedroom.
I stood for a moment and renaem-
berea the night nay wife came home
from a. meeting and found the bed
oil fire and are sleeping peacefully
in it. I turned away with a lump
in my throat as I recalled the
lively, warming scene.
Then I went to the bathroom
and looked fondly about at my
refuge, the only place in our house
with a bolt on the door. Many a
happy hour I spent there, shouting
to the kids, that I'd be out la a
minute. I gave the toilet eeat an
affectionate glance. It comes
away in your hand. When stran-'
gets are in the house, you can al-
ways tell whether it's a man or
lady using the bathroom. The
men flip up the seat, and it flies
off and ricochets around the room.
With an appalling clatter. Quite
unnerves them, in the dead of
night.
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I lied to pay a visit to the cellar,
Where I'd sptht So many bassi,
creative hours, digging drains,
piling Weed and sWearing. Yes,
there if wits the two-to» pile
of 'stoker coal that's been sitting ,
there since I put in the oil furnace,
It took Me back to the wi»ter
tights When I crouched behind my -
Battle mt stoker, ntitsirtg It through
the iens,11 hettles: es a Marine
Week end, when I went home from friend; the black, reproachful pit
where I dig my warms, so riegleet-
ea this summer.
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It was too much, I went over
and leaned against the 40-foot, $225
new chimney I'd put on the old girl
:last and cried like a baby. I love that old house as a man You'll have to excuse me now. I'm loves an old wife who is hard to all choked up again, just thinking get along with, but who has grace
and charm, a comf orti ng werm ael about this,
which he can't get along without,
I've reviled the old girl, privately
and in public. I've told her she was
frigid, slatternly and extravagant.
And she's given as good as -she
got. My head is all knobby from
the whacks she has dealt me with
her cellar ,beams. On s ever al
occasions, she has di )pped all the
plaster from a ceiling, just before
guests arrived, out of pure per-
versity.
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gineer nurses his cranky old. ens
gines la an attempt to reach Port.
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I went out to the patio. Anti
I almost broke down at this point:
I gelt like an artist -being dragged
off to jail just as .he is about to
start work on .bis masterpiece.
I've been planning that patio for
eight years, revery winter I've
given it a lot of thOught, . I've been
pretty busy,' summers, and haven't
quite got started it, but I
know I'd have built ,it next sum-
mer, if I'd been. spared.
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Tnen I went into the garden,
Stead. Lush, green, .'fragrant, the
pampas grass hadaihnost . hidden
the dear, familiar landmarks: the.
ash pile so prettyeia winter with
its topping of snow, the heap of
fuenaee pipes, each like an old.
A Reminiscing
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Sid Adams
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the park is being cleared for the use
of those who get there because of a
pure love of the outdoors rather than
because they have enough money to
grab up choice cottage lots.
The entire policy is one with
which we agree wholeheartedly. At
the present time there is a great
surge to the outdoors among On-
tario people and nothing could be
more tragic than to find all the
lovely, natural places overrun with
the newly-rich in a few years'. time.
The way things are now the park
will still be there, wide open to rich
and poor alike, with its hundreds of
miles of flashing waterways beckon-
ing one on into the wilderness which
should be the inheritance of all.
• TIME FOR METERS'?
From time to time we hear sug-
gestions that parking meters should
be installed in Wingham—and at
times we cannot do anything but
agree.
Though the meters would pose
a certain nuisance problem for those
who bring- their cars into town to
shop, the nuisance might well be off-
set by making availale main street
parking space which is totally lack-
ing at the present time. , In other
words, it might be preferable to
scramble through your pockets for
a nickel rather than parking away
back, on Edward Street because there
is no room on the front street.
There are still many car owners
who bring their vehicles down town
and simply leave them parked on
the main street all day. The instal-
lation of meters would, logically,
make - it costly for these people to
park on the main street and would
therefore open more space for shop-
pers—the really important folks in
our business section.
!FREEDOM NEEDS
SELLING
Stuart Armour, economic Ad-
viser to The Steel Company...of Can-
ada Limited, had some interesting
things to say in a recent speech to
the Advertising and. Sales Exec-
utives Club of Montreal, Mr. Ar-
mour said that while it is grossly
unfair to label advertising and sales
executives as wolves in sheeps cloth-
ing, the fact remains that "the man
in the grey flannel suit" is today, in.
the minds of many millions of
North Americans the symbol of
something sinister or reprehensible.
The. at-tackers and detractors always
choose to ignore the fact that the
salesman has been the most potent
civilizing agent in the history of
mankind. Also ignored is the fact
that without advertising the sales-
man would have been a far less
effective civilizing agent than ha.s
been the case.
Mr. Armour told his audience
that the expenditures of government
last year' on goods and services con-
stituted 19 cents 'of every dollar
spent in Canada and "personal ex-
penditures on consumers' goods and
services" amounted to 63.6 cents,
Back in 1929, when business in Can-
ada was at or above the 1959 level,
personal expenditures on consumers'
roods and services amounted. to 75.3
cents of every dollar spent in Canada
while all three levels of government
spent only 10.4 cents. "Expressed
percentagewise" said Mr. Armour
"the decline in personal spending be-
tween 1929 and 1959 was about 16
percent Ivhile the rise in government
spending was .82 percent. No society
<'an long remain a free enterprising
society if the right of its citizens to
spend their own money as they think
best is consistently curtailed as it
has been in Canada in the past 30
years."
it is to be hoped that Mr. Ar-
mour's' challenge does not fall on
deaf ears. We cannot think of any-
thing more valuable, more attractive,
more saleable than the Canadian way
of life and all that it stands for. It
is certainly worthy of the advertis-
ing and selling talents of everyone
Who has had a taste of what this pro-
duet really it,
The Wh
Advanefs-TinteS, Wethwaday, A
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