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Your r Deciswon.
Next :11onclay is election 1a . It
is an important (lay to Illa1f > Carnal
rlians but to an alariuiuglA' large
number Monday will mean nothing
at all. We were shocked link the
otllel' day tohear one woman
"I never vote. I leave all that -tuff
to the men,"
Ail outwardly intelligent friend
of ours said, "Ah, it doesn't Itiattci'
an\ w'1\` "
These disinterested comment' ,
of Course, are a sure indication that
at present there is no great dis' atis
faction. with :tile way the cuulltr} i*
being run, But,on the other hand,
they are positive ins of a bat ioa11 '
WHO SAYS SO?
While we are on the subject of
politics we \would like to refer briefly
to the latest on the subject of a sn-
cessor for the late John W. Ilanna
\vhc; represented Huron -Bruce its the
provincial legislature.
The week. -end (doge and \Jail
carried a story, Written by one 'John
Miller, which dealt with the situation
here, We can't saw that his story was
particularly accurate, blit it was in-
teresting. The writer feels sorry for
most of us up this Way. I le starts his
article: "The poor voters Of 1Turon-
Bruce—slightly more than 12,000 iu
the last provincial election-- may lie
hugged and hand -shaken to near ex-
tinction by the time the !,,,,now 114-4
again this year."
This sad prediction is based on
the premise that Premier logs Ro-
harts is waiting only for the results
of the :federal election to be announ-
ced before calling a hy-election in
•-I1lron-Bruce. IVIr. Miller then remin-
isces at some length about the in-
vincible position Mr. TTanna occu-
pied but predicts that the next con-
t -enders for he seat Will not •find it
any push -over. Up to that point he is
on fairly safe ground, bol then he
ventures to name the men \vh(i are
likely to he, in the field \when nulnina-
tion time comes.
Here is 'what he says: "Both the
old parties have within their ranks
about half a dozen aspirants for the
respective nominations. \1n(111g the
Conservative possibilities are : Geo.
_\IcCut•cheon,. the warden of J lnron
County; Geo. Joynt, .former warden
of Bruce County; Barry Wenger,
publisher of \Winghain's weekly
newspaper, and Eldon McKinney,
former mayor of Wingham.
"Among the Liberal possibilities:
George Inglis, president of the lib-
eral riding association ; George
Porteous, secretary of the associa •
tion, and. J. Rae Watson, who ran
-against Mr. Hanna in 1.959."
\\'e can't speak for the other "as-
pirants", but since yours truly is one
of those listed, we (night suggest
that • Columnist Miller must be
launching trial balloons for some •
body or other. The stun total of our
aspirations at the present time k two
days off and a chalice to sit down
under a shady tree, without rear•li o1
the telephone.
The writer also failed 1(11 mens i(111
several other aspirants who, we 1)4'•
lieve, are keenly interested in the
nomination.
The article concludes by poietin r
out that Huron -Bruce may well b(' a.
"finger -in -the -wind" as fat' as a pro.-
vinciat general election is. concerned.
The suggestion is that the results of
a
by-election in Enron -Bruce would
1,0 a reliable indicator for the pro-
vince as a whole. Who knows?
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unhealthy attitude about the :future
of the nation.
How you vote always platters ----
It is one of the most important acts
t►f vour entire life. Certainly you can
One aspect Of the NDP organiza-
ti.oil is the fact that the party is fi
11ancially supported by the labor
unions --- a condition which is highly
acceptable i11 the concentrated indus-
trial centres but less palatable in
llto t rural ridings,
The Social Credit party, strongly
right wring, has some very outspoken
views on the way our finances are
handled and would life to complete-
ly reorganize our federal affairs.
\Ve are not telling you how to
vote. We are simply asking you to
think seriously about the future of
the Dominion of Canada and to get
the idea out of your mind that it
' doesn't matter whether you vote or
not. This is the one and only time in
the least four years that you have
had a chance to tell the leaders of the
nation what you think of them—and
you won't have another chance for
some years to conte.
be led into the belief that your fran-
chise doesn't mean much—as long as
all the parties with candidates in the
field are striving for those ideals
\yith which you happen to agree.
Such is not always the case, how-
ever.
Do you recall, away back in the
thirties, when a siily-looking little
plan with a toothbrush moustache
and a frowsy trench coat began to
ask the German voters to support
him? ?4ost of the Germans said at
that time, "Tt doesn't matter how
you vote. They're all the same any-
way." They maintained that careless
attitude for a few shore years and
then awakened to the fact that they
had permitted Adolph Hitler the
right to control their tragic fate.
Canadians would do well to think
seriously for the next few days about
the issues which are at stake in the
election on ;Vionday. 1Teaven knows
they should be well informed after
the weeks of high-pressure talk they
have been hearing.
They can forget all the nasty
little barbs the politicians have
thrown at one another. Those unkind
words have little or nothing to (lo
with Canada's future. What is really
important is the course which will he
followed.bv the party you elect next
\fondav—at a time when the world
holds its breath on the, brink of
disaster.
Let us briefly review the more
important, a:Spects of this political
campaign. The Progressive Conser-
vatives, like any other party which
has held power for the past few
years, must of sheer necessity, rely
ilpon their record in office. Their gig
proposal is, "\\rill you return us to
power?" The Liberals are building
their approach to the voters on the
contention that the PCs have made a
tress of the country's economy. They
point to the devaluated dollar and its
cost to Canadians as a prime ex-
ample of Conservative mismanage-
ment.
ismanage-
111eitt.
'Phe PCs reply that the ninety -
1 \wo and a half cent dollar will even-
tually encourage foreign trade to
such an extent that all Canadians
will feel a direct benefit. 'They also
point with pride to Canada's first
favorable trade balance in. many
yea rs.
The New Democratic Party
candidates claim that it doesn't mat-
ter a whit which wav you vote as
long as you vote NDP. They vow
that the Liberals and the 'Conserva-
tives have no basic differences in.
their platforms and that the only
real reforms will come when the so-
cialist NDPs are in power. They
swear they can end unemployment ---
they even say they will pass an act
of parliament to ontiaw this tin -
happy state of affairs. They state
very precisely that they will not per-
mit nuclear weapons on Canadian.
soil. On this point neither Liberals
nor PCs are ton outspoken — per-
haps because they believe it would he
unwise to let 13i -other K. know ex--
act:ly what Canada's military secrets
are all about,
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I ONE MOMENT PLEASE
A (ittTlt1 '1 of rt quests have mine
10 me tar this poem(, 1l•11iel, .1 used
On TV It few weals alga. Home,
through this na,lttun many of you
Can have }puny (I 'll copy.
in tht light of numerous sleient'i
fiedli�eove•1'i(" i1 (1lIu,us ,Old hap-
penine,s of the p.tr.t 1(111 years, our
thoughts n1'ty well be directed to.
the many predictions of Mother
Shipton. She ',as, burn in York.
shire, England, in July 1188, and
(lied 111)0111 ial;tl• Before marrying
'Poly :Minton she was t*rsltlu
Southall.
4) a u
M1otht 1 Shq►ton's Prophesy
A house of glass shall rine lu puss
In marry England. but atlas
War will follow with the work
In the land of the bloody 'runt;
And state and stale in fierce strife
Shall struggle for each other's life.
Carriages without horses shall go;
And alecidents fill the world with
woe;
And the maitre of a Bishop's Seo.
In London, Primrose Hill shall be.
Armmd the world thought shall fly
In the twinkling of an eye.
Through the hills mor, shall ride;
And neither horse nor ass bestride:
Under the water men shall walls.
Iron in the water shall float
As easily as a wooden boast.; -
Gold shalt he found and shown
In the land that's now unknown;
Met' and Water shall wonder 4l(:
Audt England shill mina the .Jew,
'1itree ti1n1'11 three shall lovell
lessee
13e led to deuce the bloody dance
0''1141'1- the people shall be flee.
'Valve tyrant rulers shah she see:
IE:ai(I1 :',ir,'t1t); 1l'oiu a different (lyll
881y;
And when the last great fight is
wolf,
England, 1111(1 Frillier. shill. be ((8
nue.
Ald now a word in tlueuulh rhyme
t)1 what ,shall he 111 latter 1.1911':
111 those wonderful far off days,
Women shalt get 11. strange new
craze
To dress like mer(, and breeches
weal';
And tut off their beautiful Welts; of
haul;
And ride astride with brazen brow
As witches do on br0onlsticks now.
'then love shall die, and marriage
cease;
And babes and sucklings so de-
crease
'1'11111 wives shall fondle eats and
clogs
Anil men s1)1111 live mnoh. the same
ars hogs.
In 1'lighteen -Hundred and Nine
Six,
y.
By Rev. C. 1'', •Tohuson, 1?
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\S"iughuiu, On)9110,
fiit(141 y4111 1a nttn 411 rotten slicks;
Fur dun shall mighty 44^1r11 he
planned;
And 111'4' :inti r,4N(,l,'l shall ::‘41 op
the (11un1:
And 1)3(1',' 11.1111 111.1
feat
LIfeat actin l renlhliltl;,
lbs' eealtui'y
thi', 11.11 do;
Fly to the mountains and the glens,
To hogs mot for0ats 'tndl wild (lens;
t"oi' t'lnpuhts twirl rak0, um11 011 141(8
Will road';
And Gabriel staull.
shore;
And as he toots his wondrous horn
0111 worlds will ilio, :mil now bo
born,
In the ail' men shall he seen
In white, i11 black(, and also green.
Now strangle, )mal yet they 811(111 be
t rue.
(1n sea and
The world upside-down Shall be;
And gold shall be found at the roots
of a tree.
When pictures look alive and move-
ments flee;
When ships 11144' fishes swim below
the sea,
When men, outstripping birds can
scour the sky;
Then half the world deep drenched
in blood shall die.
Agatha Shipton.
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SUGAR
and
SPICE
By Bill Smiley,
In trying to decide who was go-
ing to win this election, I was com-
pletely bamfoozlod by reading the
newspapers and the political com
mentators. Do you know some-
thing? Those girds don't have a
clue. After a lot of hedging, a bar.
rage of "ifs" and "buts", they in-
variably conclude that the govern..
meat will be returned "with a re
dueedl majorlt:y."
About eight times out of ten
they can't hell) hut• be right, be-
cause the Govel'nnrent is always in
the favored position of the cham-
pion taking on the challenger. And
when they aro wrong, it's quickly
forgotten in the general hullabaloo.
These prognosticators are not:
something new. They have been
braying .like jackasses ('ver since
Confederation. And they are just as
pompous, just ars insolent and just
as often wrung today as they were
then,
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T disenvered this when T decided
ss compare toiley's, ef('et.ioo emu-
paig,'-ns with those of half a cen-
tury ago, and tllig up some old
newspapers for the• purpose. 1
learned something else—that elec
tions, like Ilt'e in general, have he -
come aL Int ,more complicated and
confusing in the past 50 years. And,
like life in general, they've lost a
to.t, o1' their fun.
Our fathers knew perfectly well
whom. they were going to vote for,
and all the speeches and slanted
newspaper stories wouldn't have
budged them an iota. But that
didn't mean they weren't going
to enjoy every moment of the
campaign, argue the issues hotly,
and try to squeeze a little patron-
age out of the local party boss,
even if it amounted to only a couple
of drinks of free whisky.
Politics in those days combined
the noise, the unpredictability and
the excitement of an Indian pot,
latch, and Irish wake and French
ch arivare e..
0-0-0
samotai
a half was a personal insult. And
there was nothing namby-pamby
-shout the sentiments expressed.
The speaker revealed -personal
knowledge of Government graft,
scandals and corruption that would
c:lydle your blood. He didn't say it
right out, but he implied that his
worthy opponent 'wars 0 habitual
drunk, a known woman -chaser and
h:td insanity in the family.
And the politicians' promises in
those days were- a lot more inter-
esting than they are today, They
didn't talk vaguely about social
welfare, and promise an increase
in this, a raise in that. They gave
you something concrete, like a new
•(dock or a post office -something
,you could sec,
Remember whet Sir John. A. did
when he was trying to induce B.C.
to 30111 the new eon -federation?
They said 111ey'd ,loin i1' the Govern
men( would guarantee at wagon
trail to the west coast, Sir John
said, in greet, "Wagon trail, hell!
I'll build yon a railroad in ten
years!" And he arid.
I caul'( help wondering what the
old -Lime politician would have
thought of today's campaign, with
its giggling coffee parties, its color-
less candidates, its scarcity of
clean-cut issues, and its complete
lack of those basic elements of any
election cheap whisky, strong ci-
gars and at. decent. scandal.
In every small town there was a
Grit newspaper on one side of the
street, and down the block, on the
other side a Tory newspaper, They
vied in hurling insult., slander and
libel at the oppo:,iog party and
each other. Thry contained such
sprightly remarks ars: "The editor
of our esteemed contemporary. 111e
Recorder, has obviously been shiv-
ering at the sante t.ru igh as some
of the other hogs who swallow the
slop thrown to then( by the gang
.of thieves ensconced at Ottawa.
His latest editorial is a Mahler -
piece of naisinformal ion, 1119)11
falsehood, and downright. dem 11v -
I ty.,.
Around eleetion time ht (.hese
days, every male had n cigar, the
women were at inane looking after
the bids, where they belonged, anti
the bars were lined, three' deet) with
enthuslastie political ee4pet"ts.
Nobody went around plaintively
asking, "Well, is there any real
d(fferc•ne(' between the parties?"
as 1:hey do today, Of course there
was a, difference. The '1'(Jl"es for
the Grits) were ruining the cnun.
try and that was all there was to
It. Everybody knew what the issues
Were, YOU were either for the 1te..
cipro('ity or against it, even though
you weren't too sure wind it meant.
0-0-0
F'iftty years ago, a speech was n
speech. When you'd! driven 15 miles
with a horse and buggy to hear 11,
anything shorter than an Hour and
Reminiscing ita
JUNE 1912
The following students graduated
from the commercial department
of the Wingham Business College
last week: Messrs. W. Ferguson,
M. Bell, T. Williams and C. Day.
Mr, F, McConnell, real estate
agent, reports the sale of one of
Alex Porter's cottages on Albert St.
to Mr. Kit Anderson, who recently
sold his ,property lu Lower Wing -
ham.
Miss Gertrude White of Gordo
visited over Sunday with her l'ru'nd
MISS Annie Barber.
Mrs, Peter leryfogle of Sault Ste.
Marie is visiting with her brothers,
Messrs John, W. H•, and 1, I.)avid-
R(n1,
u 0-u
JUNE 1921-
Congratulations
924(congratulations to Mr. and Mrs,
.Joseph Wellwoad, who celebrated
their golden wedding last week.
Mrs. Thomas Procter wishes to
announce the engagement of her
youngest daughter, Harriet (F -Tat -
tie) Boll to Mr. Wilbert Byers of
Detroit, Mich,
The engagem.c'nt is announced of
Sydney Elwood, only daughter of
Dudley Holmes, Esq., and Mts.
Holmes, Wingham., to Ur, W. Moore
Kelly, Montreal.
Mrs. W. Fiayliffc' of London
spent a few days with her parents,
Mr., and M:rs..1. A, Nfac.Lean, Alfred
St.
Mr, 1111d Mrs. E 0. Cross, Brook
syn, are visiting; with her parents.
Mr, a.nc:l Mrs. W. A, Currie, Cath-
erine St..
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.ITTNE 1937
Miss Loris G, 'Trail, at present
teaching at the Creemore• Continu-
ation School, has been engaged by
the High School Hoard.
Mr, and Mrs. Clifford Hingston
and family have moved to (luE;lph
where Cliff has accepted a position
with the Guelph Stove Co.
Mr, and Mr::. Frank Gillespie
visited over the week end with Mr
and Mrs, 'r. Fens.
Mr. and Mrs. Hugh Hamilton of
Toronto were week -end guests of
Mr, and Mrs, David Hamilton.
Mr. and Mrs, Clifford Bibb of
Detr011 spent the we(lc.cnd vitt,
her parents, iilr. anti Mrs, J. T.
Ctt rrie.
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RINE 1(141
Miss Mary Tervit, bridle..elect, was
guest of honor at aa. miscellaneous
shower and tea at the home of
Mrs, William McKenzie, Friday af-
ternoon. Following the presenta-
tion of the lovely gifts the hostess
served lunch assisted by Mrs, .Jas.
Sell, Mrs. Alvin Seli and Mrs. Les-
lie Brooks.
Among those graduating with
honors from Victoria College, To-
ronto University was Patricia Par-
ker Hamilton; daughter of Dr, and
Mrs, Parker Hamilton,
Mr, and Mrs. Robert H. Short-
reed,
hortreed, Walton, announce time engage-
ment of their daughter, Ada Mae,
to Elgin Robert, son of Mr, and
Mrs. Robert Johnston of Wingh.
ham,
ISN'T MILFORD A
"BRAIN'; FATHER?
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HE CAN EXPLAIN OUR
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MINUTES.
ARE THERE ANY
QUESTIONS YOU
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ASK HIM,
FATHER?
I40W COME IT
TAKES HIM AN HOUR
TO SAY GOOD NIGHT?
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Rev. C. F. Johnson, L.Th. - Rector
Mrs. Cordon Davidson - Organist
TRINITY SUNDAY -- JUNE 17th
95th ANNIVERSARY
8,30 al.lrl. TIoly Communion
10.(10 a.m.--Sunday School
1 1.00 111.91.—iV1'ornillg Prayer
Guest preacher:
Rev. Callon J. G. Lethbridge, T.ondon.
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