The Wingham Advance-Times, 1962-05-30, Page 2ilea e 'two,
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Conkkderatio.n
We all learned in. oar public
school histories that the (onfedera
tion of Canada was initiated in 1867
and 'vas :broadened to include the re-
mainder of the mainland provinces
within a few years.. '.l'he final act, or
,$o \VC thought,. took place only a telt'
ye'a's ago when Newfoundland he
came the tenth province within the
Vomition of Canada. Thinking Can
adiaus have good reason to believe
that Coniedet atinn is not, in actual
fart, neai1 as complete as mo. -1 of
us would believe.
'l'ee'r, weeks ago we attended a
meeting of publishers ill Loudon and
one of the more interesting cunver
satic,ns Was ty ith a former Ontario
editor who has been working in a
very responsible position in :111111
treat for the past five years. Ile made
the statement and defended it of
fectively, that the hove in Quebec to
,rain independence from the rest of
Canada is not merely the heated ex
pI'ea5i011 of a few radicals, bill rather
the heartfelt wish of a shall 1)111
growing minority.
Michel Sanouillet, writing in the
University of Toronto "Varsity Gra-
duate" outlines the situation in cold
and clear tern's and leaves little
ciclul,t that Quebec could and well
might achieve independence and that
the rest of the 'nation would be left
weakened anc1 as a result he thrown
directly into the course of union with
the- United States.
'Phis well-informed writer says:
"To scoff at separatism is to close
one's eves to the fact that it could
quite well become a reality, since the
creation of a new state depends more
on emotion than on logic . . . Quebec
could well beco.lile independent,
could even resort to armed revolt,
and the sooner we remove our heads
from the sand and come to grips
with the situation, the better the
chances are that a satisfactory
ar'•reement may be reached,"
Our friend from Montreal .and
the writer we have just quoted point
out a salient Act, of which most peo-
ple in Ontario' are completely un-
aware - the prevalent feeling in
French-speaking Canada that Trench
Canadians are treated as an inferior
race by the rest of the nation, If such
is really the c,as'e, the blame mist
lie chiefly with those English-speak-
ing Canadians who have lived closely
with the French Canadians, for in
this part of Ontario we can readily
guarantee that public opinion does
not consider French Canadians as in-
ferior, In fact it could be truthfully
said that they are not considered at
all.
And right there lies our greatest
weakness. It now begins to appear
that the two language groups have,
for the most part, stayed so com-
pletely separate from one another
that the process of assimilation has
never taken place. We of Anglo-
Saxon. background may blame the
French for sticking too closely to
their own parishes and cities and
failing to mix with us, but that atti-
tnde sloes nothing to solve the prob-
lem that has. arisen.
Away hack in 1759, when Wolfe
and his soldiers captured the citadel
r,f Quebec,. an awakening British
.'nvernmerrt initiated .an experiment
to which few of us ever give any
thought. All previous history records
that conquered races and nations
were simply made over, by cruel
force, into citilens or slaves of the
conquerors; Rut the French people in
Card.ada were permitted to retain
their own schools, their ow t1 tango
age.
We have inherited what is now
known as a "bilingual" country at1(1
any regrets we might have are some
200 years too late,
The article we have just read
proposes several basic steps which
should be taken to re -weld the honrls
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Advertising Dates lin, application
is. not (o nnp kte
of confederation and unity, but the
one we touiid most interesting and
practical was the recommendation
that Ontario elementary schools
start to teach French at once -•••- not
the "frill" type language taught
in
high school -but actual French con-
versation, It is quite true that a lung•
huge learned early enough in life
adds a complete new scope to the hu-
man 'hind, It enables the growing
person to think. in the same terms as
those who .are native to his second
lallguagt'.
'l'llis step would by 1.10 means he
an experiment. French has been
taught with great success in the Ot-
141,w'at elementary schools for several
ears. We have learned from parents
of Ott schold children that their
youngsters pick up the second lang-
uage with. no trouble at all, Taught
early enough it comes naturally . .
At the time of life when the n1.in(1 is
still open to neve words, :After all,
Most o1' us learned the greater part
of our English by the time we were
five or six -and that's the hardest
language test. of all,
Don't think for a moment that
French is not already needed, even
here in Wingham. At least one of
our manufacturing firms is engaged
right at the present time 111 convert-
ing all its printed matter into :French
its well as l ;nglish. Another we know
of has issued many French sales
pieces each. year.
THE PROBLEM'S ROOT
listening to the Hon. Alvin
J-lall.11iton On Saturday evening we
were struck by the practical vein of
the suggestion he has to offer as p.art
of the Progressive Conservative
agricultural program. for the next
five years. He suggested several
ways in thelotof the Cana-
diani. which a
dian farmer could be improved.
These are outlined elsewhere in this
issue and we will leave them to the
reader's judgment,
He did, however, have a particu-
lar plan. in mind which arouses our
intense ,interest. Referring to the
controversial sale of Canadian -wheat
to Red China, Mr. Hamilton stated
his belief that it was our dirty to pro-
vide food for any nation where peo-
ple are starving, regardless of which
side of the 'Curtain happens to he
their homeland.
The speaker also told of the
agreement between nations which.
has established minimum and niax,i-
mlutn prices for the basic food coni-
modities, such as wheat. The prime
purpose of this agreement • is, of
course, to prevent repetition of the
extreme fluctuations in price which.
have been. so disastrous for farmers
everywhere -indeed for business and
prosperity, in general.
Two billion people, said Mr.Ham-
rlton, are existing in this world to-
day with. less than sufficient food to
keep thein healthy and productive.
Canada and other prosperous na-
tions are already producing more
than enough for themselves and
c'ot11d produce much. more. The proi)-
lern, of course, is how to get the sur-
plus food to those who need it -
short of simply giving .it to then'
without charge. The latter course
has been in progress for some years,
brit it is at best- a stop -gap solution,
If: was Mr. IJamilton's sugges-
tion that international agreements
on price stabilization- shorted be con-
tinued to include the products of the
"have-not" countries, such as cocoa,
copra, spices and the hundreds of
other commodities we need from
thein.
Personally, we liked the tone and
spirit of the suggestion. Thisside of
the world has seen too much shame-
ful waste of food ---which never did
reach human. mouths. Surely there
is a workable plan whereby the
plenty the Lord has granted us may
be transferred to those who are
starving ---without the Loss of httinat
dignity which an outright gift en-
tails. Are we able, ,indeed, to send
men out in search of the moon and
still lack the knowledge of how to
feed our own brothers?
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WLlginteu, cant,
"Lord, teach as t4) pt'ILY," ,nke jttt
The poet has sallcl: "Prayer is the
soul's sincere desire, uttered 01' Ilii •
expressed. !-low thele, shall we
pray? Jost as the disciples noted
the power which came to the in-
ner life of the Lord Jesus, we need
to learn something of the power
wh]eh will fill our lives, when we
really learn the seel'et of prevailing
prayer. The greatest power LI the
world today is not Mundt' power,
It is the power of prayer. How
sad it Is to eonfess that we use
this power su .little! Arehbishop
Tench has .some . well-known lines
which deal quite plainly with this
aspect of our prayer life:
"Lord, what a orange within
one short hour
Spent in Thy Presence will avail to
make,
What heavy burdens froth our bos-
oms take;
What parched ground refresh no
with a shower!
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Lia lower
'W'e rine. null a11, tilt. tit. taut :dal
till• 14(111',
yCamdN forth, in `1111(114' 1811 lilrr,
brave :tint chit'
\\'o kneel how wt•:tli, w1't' 11'te 02,11•
Atli of power!
\VI y rilt'refure 11uu1t1 wt• du aur
selves this N'44I4(
( bi' ut1101'N, that IVt' :211• not always
81 long,
That we tire .'%or OVet•bu1'lle WW1
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'Mat w0 ':1 inti 0V01 Wrrt11 or
hearth ss be,
Alrxions or 1i -wailed v.11011 1'110 le;
1N Prayer,
Anil Joy, autl l,trerta;l ll, and colic
tike, itl't' With '1'1i001
11 1s give)( 10 et)u)h:t,nttvt'ly few
to really experit•nee the trtlt' pall •
er of prayer. Yet player is not in. -
tended as the privilege til' the tiler
sy, to be used un mer'e'ly formai
ut't•uvit)))n of worship, but in the
lovely ltt't'iteet• 01 till t;ut1's child
1(11 evc'iyWheie, to be lewd Ute ev..
(try mid d fill oeeanionn.
In the lives of ail of us 1110re are
tidy eltinit.a in the dutter of each
day, which could well be filled with
Inu111en18 of prayer. Prayer for our
world leaders, prayer for 11)e Chris
titin c'imlrch and its message of
luii,e fur tll)') world in 14'ili01l 1vF
live'.
A little faith, a little prayer,
A little ltllowirtg Clod 1s there,
(1(1)1 bless and tan/duel )Ilid etu1
brine;
The 110E4 ler st rt'ut;tll rot' anything.
The morning always follown night
The stars forever give their light,
Aute p1'ayerti are always nnsweretl
too,
A$ yours are nitre to be for you.
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I am observing a birthday this
week. You'll notice I didn't say
celebrating. No, at my age you
don't celebrate them. You merely
observe them, with a dim view or
a wistful look.
In an effort to prove that there's
plenty of life in the old boy yet, I
am taking on a pair of huge mort-
gages the day before my birthday,
They say there's nothing like a fat
mortgage to make a fellow get out
and hustle. If that's true, I quali-
fied years ago for membership in
The Hustlers.
I knew the hair was getting
thinner, and the teeth. scarcer,
but 1 haven't much of a pot yet,
and figured I was inpretty good
shape for spy age.. A couple of
experiences ort the recent holiday
week -end destroyed this illusion
and left me convinced that I'm
a pretty good age for may shade,
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First of all, the two old side-
kicks dropped in for a visit, with
their families. The three of us
joined the RCAF on the same day,
and we've kept in, touch since. In
those days, we could make the old
welkin ring right merrily all night.
You should have seen us, Satur-
day night, trying to maintain the
old traditions.
It was more like a winding at
the Home for the Aged than a re-
union of warriors. One of the boys
was in great pain. He had pulled
a muscle in his back while trying
to tie his shoelaces without platting
his foot on a chair. The other
divided his anxiety equally between
his ulcer and his high blood pres-
sure. And I fell sound asleep right
in the middle of telling our wives
what hellers we were In the old
days,
The second incident to emphas-
ize my increasing senility was a
challenge from my daughter. She's
practising for a field day at.school
and wanted some competition.
Despite the fact that I nearly burst
a blood vessel over it, she heat me
handily in both the broad jump
and the hop -step. This hurt, hut
after all, she's in training and 30
years younger. What really des-
troyed me was the Old Battleaxe
tried it and heat both my marks
without even breathing hard.
I dont- really mind getting older.
But I certainly resent the fact
that they're malting all the stairs
steeper and the garbage cans
heavier these days.
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When I look back to my birthday
however, and realize what has hap-
pened since June 2, 1920, I can't
help thinking that' I've been for-
tunate enough to liVe in one of the
most exciting eras man has ever
experienced.
Just think. The war to end wars
is over. George V was on the
throne of England, and the sun
never set on the British Empire,
In those 40 -odd years, we've had a
bigger war, George's grand-daugh-
er is Queen and the Empire has
almost vanished,
When I was horn, there were no
jet engines, television commercials,
rocket missiles or nuclear weapons.
In dther words, things were pretty
quiet. Income tax was only a dead
on the horizon. No one had climb-
ed Mount Everest or run a four -
minute mile, Tuberculosis wan a
dread disease and lung eaneer had
not been invented yet.
In those four decades and a, bit,
Canada's population has doubled.
The telephone has. replaced the
back fence as a gossipmonger.
The automobile has gone through
the stages of a curiosity, a luxury,
and idol, a necessity, and a month-
ly millstone around our Weeks.
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There weren't any Communists
-fast Bolsheviks. Socialists were
"Reds". Whiskey was stronger and
a he2'k of .a, lot r0Paper. Women
were dressed mach as they are
today, and were just as neurotic,
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and
SPICE
By BiII Smiley, Ell=
Oil heating, deodorants and tran-
quilizers were unknown. Nobody
was trying to get to the 'moon. I'"if-
ty dollars a week was big money.
By golly, that. WAS a long time
ago, wasn't iL?
tip Reminiscing 61/1,
MAY 11112
Mr. Uodl'ge Lamont, for . some
gime G,T.R. agent here, has re-
signed and handed over the alley
to his successor on Tuesday of this
week. The hew agent i:. ver, 810w
art Young, of MOM.
The lists of successful atuden1.:
at the recent examinations at.
Q,ieen's University, Kingston, in
elude the names of :toy Stack
house, who ('01)1111('1(11 his fist year
in Medicine, and of !]arry preen,
who completed his second year in
Arts. Harry Green won second
place in Division I hi Physics and
Minerology and sixth place in Div-
ision I in (:eulogy. The successful
students at the S.Y.S., Toronto, in.
elude Clarence Wilson, Marl Por-
ter and Richard Lloyd, who finish
ed their first year work with hon.
ors,
on-
ors, and !Fred ScarulroLL who ob-
tained the graduation diploma,
Mr. Arell Paterson has a hen
that can boat the record for large
eggs. This particular hon has ft
record in laying an egg that plea-
sures 7 inches Lim small way and
7 7/8 the lung Way.
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MAY 1924
A pretty May wcdalirlg was solem-
nized at the home of Mr. and Mrs.
C. B. Wilkinson on the 4th line
of Morris on Wednesday, May 21st
when their daughter, Hazel, be-
came the bride of Mr. Jamas
Charles Proctor, son of Mr, and
Mrs. Charles Proctor, also of the
fourth line,
Mrs. Charles Coolc spent at few
days with her daughter, Mrs, Thos.
Burke of Grey.
Mr. George Hanna of Newmarket
spent the holiday with Mr. and
Mrs, E, Zirbrigg.
Mr. and Mrs. Oliver Thompson
and children, accompanied by Minns
• Vesta I"ox, 11)010red to Stratford
for the week -end.
0110 of the bent attended organ-
ization meetings ever, held for the
bowling club was that in the coun-
cil chamber on Thursday everting.
The following officers were elect -
cul: Hon, pres., Amos Tipling Hon.
vice pros., T, H. Gibson; pres., J,
W. Hanna; vice-pres., Rev, H. W
Snell; see-treas., C. R. Wilkinson;
grounds comm,, A. Iz, Lloyd, Josh
Hirst and R, A. Spotton; tourna-
ment comm., W. • R. Hamilton, A.
M, Crawford, R. A, Currie, D, Som-
ers and L, C, Young.
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MAY 1937
Rev. Kenneth MacLean and Mr.
J. Homuth are attending the Gen-
eral Assembly of the Presbyterian
Church in Canada which is being
held in Ottawa. Mrs, .MacLean is
also in Ottawa this week visiting
relatives.
ID, A. Arbuckle, son of Mr, and
Mrs. William. Arbuckle, who has
been attending Osgoode, Iia11, To-
ronto, passed his third year exam.
inactions with honors, also winning
the Clara Brett Martin Memorial
Sehdlal'ship,
In honor of Miss Vesta Pox, who
is being married this month. Mrs
W. 'L', McCool, Miss Phyllis Johns
and Miss Yvonne McPherson were
hostesses at a bridge 011 Tuesday
evening al the holnc of Mrs, Nie -
Cool,
A pretty house wedding was sol-.
emnized at the home of Mr, and
Mrs, David Scott when their eld-
t'211 daughter, Velma Evelyn,. war
united in marriage to Mr. Arnold
Vint, son of Mr, .Robert Viol; off
Wingham,
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MAY 1947
Miss Ethel Dustow of town has
acc'e'pted a position with Howson &
Howson Flour Mill and commenced
her new duties this week,
Mrs. W, Williamson, of Bristol
Terrace, is confined to bed, suf-
fering from concussion and revere
bruises from a fall down stairs.
Currie & Tervit took their .hors-
es to Aylmer on Saturday for the
East Elgin Horse Breeders Show
and won a first, a second and two
third prizes.
On Wednesday evening several
neighbors held a surprise party at
the home of Mr. and Mrs. W. H.
Haney and presented them with
a, silver tray, it being the eve of
their 40th wedding anniversary.
George Johnson and Alan
liams decided. to hitch -hike homtl
for the holiday from Kitchener.
They found the hiking poor that
day so chartered a two-seater plane
and came home one at a time, land-
ing on Bluevale Road.
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A GOOD MANY PARENTS were out to see what their youngsters
have been doing during the high school term, when open house
was held at the local school last Friday. Oscar Schefter and his
son, Ronald, are seen in the welding shop, where the father said
his son has already learned enough welding procedure to he of
value on their farm near Whitechurch on Highway 86. -A -T photo
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