The Wingham Advance-Times, 1962-09-19, Page 2glitte Two the Wing'hpm Adantee-` iMes, SVe4,,e9day, Sept, 19, 1992
Who Said Recession?
There are times when we believe
the news media of this country are
.altogether tot, efficient. For ;several
weeks now there have been attuuer-
OUS .stories about au ililpending re-
cession in the economic lite of the
nation. if these unhappy tales are re-
peated often enough there certainly
will be a recession.
The trouble ,ell starts when
some high -domed economist is gi)ot-
ed in a forecast of business trends,
He states his belief that the economy
has reached the top of the current
cep -swing and may begin a gentle clip
downward, Perhaps he has no inten-
tion of indicating that there will be
any real hardship --•- just the normal
swing of the economic pendulum.
Mr. Newsman, however, is short
of headline material that clay and he
makes a big thing of the story. The
public is tremendously influenced, by
the press. The size of the letters used
to head the story appear to give
warning of a disastrous depression
in the offing, so the plan who was
about to sign a contract for a new
home decides he had better sit tight
and hold onto his money in case he
is laid off next winter, As a result
the contractor decides against add-
ing any more men or equipment
CHANGING PATTERN
Though the present discussions in
London, England, in which Com-
monwealth prime ministers are bat-
tling over Britain's entry into the
European Common Market, may
seen( remote from our community,
the results of the talks may have a
far-reaching effect on all of us.
The whole concept of the ECM is
a bit vague to most Canadians, chief-
ly because it seems so far from our
own shores. The ECM is a free as-
sociatiorl"of six European countries
in which they have been carrying out
a policy of free trade between the
member nations. There are no tariff
barriers; goods move without hind-
rance from one country to the other.
Their monetary systems, have, of
course levelled off to equality and it
is believed that the union will not he
confined to economics only, but will,
in all probability, reach into the cul-
tural, political and even military
fields,
The Commonwealth prime minis-
ters, led by our own Mr. Diefenbak-
er, are determined that Britain shall
not align itself with the ECM, be-
cause of the feared results on Com-
monwealth trading, The British
Commonwealth countries have based
a large part of their ecdnomy on
sales of raw materials, food -stuffs
and manufactured goods to the
mother country. They naturally fear
that with Britain in the ECM her im-
ports from the Commonwealth coun-
tries would face stiff tariffs and a
consequent loss of business.
However, those who contend that
Britain should enter the Common
Market have very valid and convin-
cing reasons, They believe that the
Six member nations of ECM are fast
becoming a powerful group, domina-
ted to a large degree by the forceful
personality of F'rance's General
Charles Declaulle, They fear that if
:Britain does not enter the European
community she will have no oppor-
tunity to influence the decisions
which are niacle within the group,
and which could prove utterly dis-
astrous for the rest of Western Eur-
ope.
The problem is a thorny one, The
British people themselves are split in
their opinions. Some are whole-
heartedly for entry and the others
The Wingham Advance/Times
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A.dvertising :Rates ort application
right now, even though he still has a
big backlog of building orders ahead,
(.)f course that isn't the end of the
thing. The unemployed carpenter
who was about to get a. job with the
contractor falls behind with the pay-
ments on his furniture ; the furniture
dealer has to pull in his i)elt and cot
down on his advertising, etc., etc,
Before long the effects are :felt
right here at home. The contractor
was about to order the necessary
doors for six new homes -from C.
Lloyd & Son and Berry Door Co.,
Ltd. But he deckles against placing
the order because he may run out of
contracts, so as a consequence there
are a few less jobs for Wing -ham.
people and the merchants fill smaller
grocery and clothing orders.
The unfortunate thing is that
most of these recessions need never
occur. They result .from a state of
mind rather than a shortage of
money. Right at the present tithe
Wingham has never been busier. In
Toronto there is feverish activity on
all sides and expansion continues at
a. booming pace. Most centres in On-
tario are experiencing the best busi-
ness in history. Yet there is a great
deal of talk about a recession this
fall. Somehow the two don't fit,
are unremittin` ly opposed. The Con-
servative government of Prime Min-
ister Harold MacMillan may fall on
the issue.
All Canadians are indeed deeply
concerned in the matter, for the com-
plete break -down of Commonwealth
trading preferences could create
widespread hardship here. Canadian
wheat, bacon, newsprint, beef, but-
ter, cheese, lumber, minerals and a
hundred and one other export items
which are purchased by Britain each
year, would.- go _begging for sound
cash markets and Canadian farmers
and labourers might be begging too.
The' world has become a small
place, hasn't it ?
DO WE GET THE BEST?
Since we are well and thoroughly
,into the subject of economics we
might air a pet peeve abort one of
our Canadian products. For years we
have heard and .read about the de-
mand' in England for high-quality
Canadian pork products. Every Can-
adian farmer has been brought up on
the ilnderstanding that: he must pro-
duce a lean type of h,tig for the export
market because the Englishman just
sloes not like and will not buy fat
bacon. We have also been reminded
that if Canadians can't supply this
type of meat the Danish farmer will.
The meat packers in this country
must have the idea that we are much
less discriminating in our tastes than
our English cousins. Just try to find
any lean bacon among the packages
in your grocer's cold -counter. Sure, it
looks fine through the cellophane
window of the package because some
bright fellow has come un with the
neat trick of packing the strips of
bacon in overlapping rows so that
only the lean portions show. But
when you start to separate the slices
you are in for a rude awakening. Yon
will he lucky to find a narrow quar-
ter -inch of meat along the inner edge
of pure fat which .makes up 90 per-
cent -of the slice.
Canadian housewives have de-
veloped a most complacent attitude
about the things they buy. Gone are
the days when grandma's sense of
thrift would rebel at paying good
money for poor food, for clothes that
fall apart as soon as they are hone
from the store and appliances that
never work right from. the start.
The Britishers have the right
idea. If we are going to pay good
money for what we buy we have
every right to expect full value for it,
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"He gave them their request, but ' press.
sent leanness Into their soul."
Ps. 100:15.
What is ail tate world seeking?
What do men uud ,cations want
more that' anything .else? What is
the desire of alt races and all
Rut is it true? No. Too much
security is as bad as too little, if
not worse. If ail our dreams came
true, if we had everything we
wanted, would we be satisfied land
happy? Far from it. Unless we
peoples? want the right things,
Of course the wurkd wants many How borIug and how dreary life
things -wealth, health, power, plea- would be if we had everything we
sure, prestige, and trinkets no wanted; The Psalmist sums up the
end. It wants "lite, liberty and the experiences of the Children of
persuit of happiness," Israel during their journey to the
But the one word which sums Promised Land. He says that even
up the desires of all peoples is after the people were delivered out
"security", Men think that if
they had security all other things
would be added, They would win
wealth, happiness, power, and pro-
of the hands of their enemies and
the dangers of the dessert, their
wanton craving put God
to the test' andel He gave them
what they asked but sent a wast-
ing disease among 'herr,"
Jesus understood well the stung.
era of life. Life could not be
abundant unless it was rounded
out by an understanding and sat-
isfaction of its deepest needs
The physical, inteileetuul, social
spiritual capacities must be :dis-
eipllned and nourished to aehievt:
the purpose for which God :created
them, The key that unlocks tit(
treasure house to abundant life
however, is ours when we follow
kits commandment: "Seek ye first
the Kingdom of God and II r
righteousness and all these thing:,
shall be added unto you." (Matt,
SUGAR
and
SPICE
1112011 By Bill Smiley
Do you ]lice autumn? I ,do. For
me, It's the epitome of all that's
best in Canada. You can have
your spring, glorious spring, with
its drizzles and its mud and its
chilling winds. You can have your
summer, with its particular pests -
tourists, bugs, visitors, And you
can most definitely have winter in
its every possible aspect. Just give
me about six months of that Sep-
tember -October weather, and you
couldn't drag me out of this coun-
try to the island of Bali.
I know that, according to the
rhythm of nature, fat] is supposed
to be a time of dying, of melan-
. choly, of shriveling on the vine,
of preparing for the deep, dead
sleep of winter,
Maybe Canadians are )ust enn-
tra.ry, but they don't react the way
they are supposed, to at all, in
the fall. Instead sof carefully pre -
I paring for winter, drawing in their
horns, and, going arotmd with long
faces, they bust out all over at
soon as that first nip is felt in, the
morning alt.
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Perhaps they're just fooling
themselves, but Canadians act as
though they love the fall. They
come to life. They bustle. They
form committees, make plans, have
parties. They even start going to
church. Perhaps it's just a last
hysterical fling, a frantic escape
from reality, with the grim pros-
pect of six months' winter ahead,
but they certainly burnwith a
clear, gem -like flame while it
lasts.
Where is the sober householder
who should he chinking up the
nooks r
o s and c a'lniesrutin the
g on t e
storm windows, getting his fuel
supply, and battening down the
hatches for the bitter voyage that
looms ahead?
I'll tell you where he is, on his
day off. He's standing in ice wa-
ter up to his chest, trying to catch
a rain how trout. Or out on the
golf course, so bundled with sweat-
ers he cap hardly swing. .Orles
sitting with 'a noggif, watchintg
the football game on television.
That's where he is.
Andwhere's the gti dewife, who
should be knitting woollen socks,
putting down preserves and can-
ned meat, airing the flannelette,
sheets, and patching the family's
long underwear and quilting a
quilt?
I'll tell you where she is, She's
on the phone, talking about what
she's going to wear to the tea. Or
she's off In the car to attend a
wedding, Or she's out playing
bingo. Or she's taking in an auc-
tion sale. Or she's sitting around
with her feet up, watching the
afternoon 1novie, That's where
she la,
It must shake our pioneer an-
cestors rigid to look down, or up,
from their present abode, and see
us preparing far whiter. About
this time of year, grandfather was
(tilling a beef, shooting a deer,
salting down a hog, making apple
cider, stacking vast piles of fire-
wood and hustling his wheat to the
mill,
It must rot his celestial socks to
loblt down and see his grandson
hunting deer for a holiday, buying
his pig pre-cooked at the meat
counter, and laying in his fuel
supply by picking up the phone and
calling the ail dealer,
And what about Granny? In her
day fall was the time When you
worked like a heaver, making sau-
sage, spinning wool, putting eggs
away in waterglass, filling the
root cellar, making candles and
soap.
She must do a little quiet sus..
sing, in the shadow of her halo,
when she sees her granddaughter
facing up to the rigors of winter;
racked by the dreadful indecision
of whether to buy a home freezer
or a fur coat; torn by the dilemma h
of whether to have the cleaning•
Woman come onee or twice a week.
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But, of course„ that'll looking at
only one side of the satiation.
Granddaddy didn't have to wor-
ry about antifreeze, a'to'm bombs,
income tax or payments on the
car. He didn't need suppositories,
idiets and a new tail -pipe every
time he turned around,
And Granny didn't have to cope
with a kitehenful of machinery
kids who were smarter than she
was, and the late movie. She didn't
need sleeping pills, cigarettes o'
psychology,
Say, come to think of it, those
WERE the good old days. They
didn't have much, but what they
had was their own, not the fin.
ance company's, No auto accidents
no alcoholics anonymous, no as-
pirin, Let's stop worrying about
the hardships of our pioneer an-
cestors and get back to sweating
over our own neurotic chaos.
1 a Reminiscing 1
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SEPTEMBER 1912
Mr. R. A. Graham this"week
handed us a copy of the Times of
the date . of .October 24, 1872. That
particular' issue of the paper was
volume 1, number 27 and Mr, Gra-
ham was the publisher, The .paper
was a neat sheet of.four pages
and the sribacriptioh " price was
$1,50 per' year. '
At the meeting of the Lord
Charles Beresford patrol of Boy
Scouts, a Complete organization
was. formed, and the following of-
ficers were elected. Scoutmaster
R. E. N, Barron; Assistant. 3, Mann
Troop Leader G. Howson; Quarter-
master E. Hall; patrol leaders,
Eagles, F. Galbraith and .G, Bu-
chanan; Hounds, K. Smith and N.
McLean; Curlews, P. Manuel and
L. Drummond,
Mr. Joseph Pugh has purchased
a. grocery business in Palmerston
and will move to that town this
week. Mr, and Mrs. Pugh have
many' friends in town who will re-
gret to hear of their 'removal.
oval.
Alex Robinsbh ,tiled 'at' her
home In Seaforth on Thursday in
her 106th year, The deceased lady
was grandmother to Mr, Robert
Beattie of this town,
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SEPTEMBER 1924
The law firm carried on by Jas.
L. Killoran and Dudley E. Holmes
has been. dissolved. Mr. Killoran
continues the business in the old
Prou,dfoot office on the Square,
and Mr. Holiness will remove and
take over Mr. M. G, Cameron's of-
fice,
Mr, Peter Linklater, who has
been visiting his sister, Mrs. Peter
Gowans, and other relatives for
several months, returned to Sask-
atoon, Sask., last week.
Edward Tompkins of Turnberry
drew attention several days ago
to the .presence of a white robin
near his reaidence. The bird is all
white except his red breast, sings
the usual notes and there seems
no question that It Is a robin.
Mrs. A. H. Wilford le leaving
this Week for Windsor where Mr,
Wilford is now permanently lo-
oated as president of a large cold
storage company,
Mr, iR. S. Whyte of Toronto paid
an official visit to the Whyte Peek-
ing Co. plant in Wingham. He is
Very well pleased with business
and has decided that the Wingham
branch will remain open this win-
ter,
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SEPTEMBER 1937.
Last year students of the Wing -
ham High .School. who are attend-
ing Western university, London
are Ross Howson and Dwight Reid
Mr, Norman • Hall, a former stu-
dent, is' taking his seebnd year
arts Course at the same seat of
learning.
Former students of the Wing -
ten High School who will attend
Normtil School' this year are Fibra
Coulter and The Higgins.
Recently the ladies of the Sacred
Heart Church presented Mrs. J.
Dalton of Itingsbrtdge with a cabs-.
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Wingham, Ont.
September 1.3,
Dear Sir:
Being the first "Yes/No" ballot
in which I will participate, I have
been following the many state-
ments of both sides with keen M.
teres'.
Summing up the campaign so
far 1 have reached the following
conclusions:
The Town of Wingham most
definitely needs further modern
hotel accommodation, together
with dining facilities of the type
proposed. The question appears to
be whether there should be a mo-
dern hotel AND a liquor outlet. A
town can only prosper with new
progressive facilities. Riverside
Park, „supermarket, garage, bank,
television studios etc., are all a
step In the right direction. Erection
of a :new hotel with dining and bev-
erage facilities must surely be an..
other, The "seller' must prosper
rom the sale of ligltor, and so will
he town as a whole. This I believe.
is our Democratic way of living,
Iowever, the "seller" can only
lrosper with an expenditure of
$200,000 or more while the town
will reap the benefit of this amount
plus part of the running profit!
While 1 agree a higher accident
rate will prevail when "drinking
and driving" are mixed ,I consider
present conditions tend to acceler-
ate this situation. Surely it is far
safer for alcoholic beverages to
be consumed by the glass than by
the bottle, or even case, Evidence
of the present situation can often
be seen along the side of , the
highways .out of town.
There are regulations regarding
tht sale of alcoholic beverages, es-
pecially where children and "teen-
agers" are concerned. Families can,
and are being raised to respect
the law without depriving the town
, of the facilities now offered. We
all have our own moral responsibi-
lities.
' Having resided in Wingham only
two and a half years, 1 have still
seen many advances and improve-
ments in this short time, which
makes one feel it Is a "go ahead"
town which is well worth living in!
We all owe this proposed facility
to all future residents of Wingham
who, at the same time, help to
create Its expansion.
Yours truly, •
H. A. Bell,
net of silver. Mrs. Dalton left here
a short time ago and when here
over the week -end the ladles took
the opportunity of making the pre-
sentation, The presentation was
made by Mrs, Sproal and the ad-
dress was read by Mrs. J, Lock -
ridge,
Miss June Buchanan left on Sat-
urday to continue her studies at
Western University, She is now
in her third year Arts course.
This year many vegetables have
great growth but a cabbage in the
garden of Frank Edgar is deserv-
ing of special mention. It is a quin-
tuplet, five heads on one stem.
One is straight up and four more
are grouped around the base of it,
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SEPTEMBER 1997
Teaehers-in-training Who have
registered from this district at the
Stratford Normal School are Joan
Patricia Anderson, R,R, 4 'brus-
sels; Gladys Velma Campbell, R,R,
4 Brussels; Elinore Dennis, R,R,
2 Bluevale; 'Herbert Ross Erring.
ton, R,R. 2 Auburn, Wilfrid San-
ders Spivey, D H 4 Brussels.
A business deal was completed
in town last week When the North
End Grocery, owned by Hugh Car-
michael, was said to Albert Ruth.
et`fot'd of St. Thoinas,
The presentation of a farewell
gift to Mrs. Wllltam Brooks feat-
ured the meeting of the Catholic
Woinen's League of Sacred Heart
Rotnah Catholic Church. Mrs.
Brooks leaves this month to take
up residence in Stafford.
Mrs, James Taylor entertalned
at a dinner ort Saturday evening
In honor of her daughter and son.
trt-law, Mr, and Mrs, William Van
Camp, on the occasion of their
silver weddln anniversary,
g
Mr, and Mrs. Stranford and Mrs,
4, McMillan of Fort Erie, also Mr,
Witlrarri Rodertis of San Gabriel,
California, have been guests of Mr,
and Mrs, .1. Crandall, ltklward St,
This was Mr, Roderus' first visit
tri 88. years to his Cid home town.
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