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New Interest in Politics
Thursday of next week will see
the voters of iuron-Bruce at the
polls to elect a member o1 the On-
tario
-tario Legislature, This is not just
another ordinary flection ---.it's some-
thing special.
Since it is the provincial provincial vote
called for that ��the eyes
of all
Ontario will be on
Iluron-Bruce,
hoping to find some indication of
trends for the next provincial gen-
eral election, which could come in the
spring.
The most unique feature of this
particular political campaign is the
intensity with which it has been car-
ried out by both liberals and Pro-
gressive Conservatives, the two par-
ties which have candidates nomina-
ted. So far there has been virtually
no evidence of bitterness or ill -will.
It has been a clean but concentrated
• campaign with indications on both
sides that the workers are viewing
this election as a vitally important
one.
The purposeful air is not confined
to those who are taking an active
part in the campaign. Meetings and
other functions sponsored by the two
parties have been attended by larger
crowds than we have seen in many
years. The days of old, long-winded
speakers seem to be over. Both par-
ties are concentrating on personal
contacts by the candidates and party
leaders. The public is responding in a
way which we think is completely
heartening.
Interest in political parties is a
healthy sign in any constituency. In.
the easy years sine the war, too
many voters have taken the attitude
that it doesn't much matter who is
elected. The freshly awakened sense
of the importance of good govern-
ment in this riding is a good sign.
When election day rolls around
next week, just make sure you get to
your own poll and cast your ballot.
Where you place your mark is your
SENSELESS •
DESTR.UCTIION
The recent rampage of destruc-
tion in which most of the windows
in the Scout House were broken is a
shameful episode that should not he
forgotten or overlooked by the auth-
orities. In all too many cases of this
kind indulgent adults are inclined to
shrug the whole thing off as some-
thing you can't do much about.
Of course something can be done
about it. No doubt there are parents
right here in town who know at least
one or two of the youngsters respon-
sible. Continued questioning would
disclose the names of all and it *oti.ld
be a plain favor to the culprits if they
were stopped in their tracks before
their wanton destructiveness gets
them into more serious trouble.
This is the sort of thing that has
to be accepted in large cities where
there are real problems of delinquen-
cy. Wingham, however, is too small
and too decent to be forced to dis-
miss such wholesale damage.
The Scout House was fixed up
and re -decorated at a great cost in
time and money as the fulfilment of
a dream. At last we were able to pro-
vide a meeting place for the boys of
the town so that their very best qual-
ities could he developed. It has met
the same fate as facilities in the -park
and at the swimming area.
Certainly it is difficult to believe
that any but a small minority of
trouble makers could be involved' in
anything so vile, but in the interests
of the future welfare of the com-
munity they should be found and
punished. Do we want this sort of
thing to happen to all the improve-
ments and benefits we can provide
for our kids?
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FAVORED LAND
Talking recently with lamer Ire-
land, who has returned to Ontario
after an interesting trip through the
northern United States and the Can-
adian ]Maritimes, we were struck by
one of his observations. He remarked
that in his entire trip he had seen no
part of the country which shows the
evidence of prosperity one sees right
here in our own section of Ontario.
We have noticed the same thing,
not with any sense of superiority, but
rather in thankfulness that we are so
fortunate. Naturally we h.aven't seen
all areas of the dominion, but travel-
ling from the west coast to the At-
lantic, we have yet to see anything
which compares with south western
Ontario. Of course we are biased.
This is our home territory and we
see it, no doubt, through the eyes of
the native rather than the expert, but
statistics bear out this belief.
There is a strong possibility that
we spend too much time bewailing
what we think are shortcomings in
aur own part of the world, rather
than exulting in the richness that lies
around us and doing our best to see
that it yields its full. benefits.
There are a thousand and one in-
teresting places to go when you are
in a mood for a trip. You can go up
to the lake country of the north and
feast your eyes on beautiful land-
scapes ; you can gaze in wonder at
the Rocky Mountains or gasp at the
sheer violence of the rivers near the
west coast. But if you want to see
rich and productive farm land and
prosperous towns and cities, just
look around you and realize your
blessings.
YOU CAN HELP
The little boy who crouched out-
side the wooden hut had very rosy
cheeks and unusually bright eyes. He
might have looked the picture of
health had it not been for his tiny
arms and thin, wasted body. The ob-
servant nurse, part• of a team of so-
cial workers maintained by the Uni-
tarian Service Committee of Canada
in a Korean slum; suspected tubercu-
losis and arranged to have all .mem-
bers of the family X-rayed. The re-
sults were grim. Of the family of
seven, six had active tuberculosis.
Only the mother, who worked part-
time as a seamstress, had escapedthe
dread disease.
The energetic social team moved.
quickly. The but was turned into an.
isolation ward, the mother instructed
as a nurse. Emergency food, fuel and
winter clothing were supplied by the
USC Relief Centre, and vital medi-
cines administered to the afflicted. A
second son, aged 7, with. advanced
TB of the spine, was sent to a USC -
sponsored hospital for a successful
orthopedic operation. As soon as the
father's disease could be safely con-
sidered as "arrested," the USC ad-
vanced the necessary funds to set
him up as a fish seller in the market
.area of Seoul, He is still under strict
surveillance, but the health of his
children has been completely re-
stored.
Since 1945, the USC emblem of
light has• brought hope and healing
comfort to the darkest corners of the
globe. In the worst slums of Korea
and India as well as in isolated vil-
lages of Greece, the USC symbol
means emergency food, medicines
and clothing. It means scholarships
for exceptionally gifted children and:
a haven for the homeless in USC
Children's Homes. With an eye to a
brighter tomorrow the agency en-
cburages community development
and generates hopes in its gifts of
livestock, seedlings, tools and self-
help projects. USC Headquarters is
at 78 Sparks Street, Ottawa 4, where
your donations will be thankfully re-
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ONE MOMENT, PLEASE!,
Just a few days ago I heard e
minister friend of mine refer to.
the weak (indeed "anaemic" was
the Woni used) status of modern
day Christhu. discipleship, 1 be-
blieve that the .Christian life is
meant to have a certain quality
or temper which should mark the
follower .of Jesus Christ. Such
marks should bear their own wit-
ness that the bearer is a man of
God. In the preface to "The Young
Church in Action", J. B. Phillips
says that one tact stands out in
the Church of that day—the very
vitality of New Testament Chris-
tian living. Most of us will agree
with him that there is an amazing
contrast between the virile, power-
ful witness of the disciple of those
days, and the weak-kneed falter-
ing, pathetic thing which passes
for the witness of the Church to.
day.
It was G. K. Chesterton who re-
marked that the New Testament
Christian acted as though he alone
was carrying the key to life.
Should the modern day disciple be
any different? Let us examine for
a moment, the secret of the Early
Day Church,
One reason, I believe for the
powerful witness evident in those
days, was that again and again
they placed tthe emphasis on the
word "know", In. the New Testa-
ment we find constant emphasis
plaeed upon this important word,
1 John 3:14 records; "We know
that we have passed from death
unto life, because we love the bre-
thren."
re-
tti. 2 Tim.1'12 tells us know
whom I have believed and am per-
suaded that He is able to keep that
which I have committed unto Him
against that day," Again, 1 John 3;
24 we read "Hereby we know that
He abldeth in us," Then, in the
lovely and familiar chapter 17 of
John's Gospel we read in verse 3,
"This is Life Eternal, that they
may know Thee the only true God
and Jesus Christ whom Thoa hast
sent" Of course, there are many
more references-- they reflect the
certainty of the hope which the
Christian of those clays rested up-
on,
pon, Paul adds his word of witness
when he wrote to the Phillipians:
"Tbat 1 may know Him and the
power of His resurrection." Phil.
3:10,
The early day Christians were a
joyful community. Ire spite of out-
ward circumstances which were
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anything but haPPY, their certain-
ty of their relationship to their
Heavenly leather, and to His Son,
Jesus Christ, s;aused their joy to
remain inwardly undisturbed,
It Is increasingly obvious those
days, that this quality of Inner
strength and Joy is comparatively
unknown ---at least is not as well
I wn toindividuals as itshould
be.
"Though thunders roll, and (lark-
ed be the sky,
I'll trust in Thee."
is a couplet from one of the older
hymns of the church. Yet it Is far
from being the personal experi-
ence of many who take the name
of Christ upon them, It is high
time we who call ourselves by His
lovely Name should become much
better acquainted with Him, and
With those standards for Christian.
living which He Himself laid
down. Let us get back to God's
Word as the standard upon which
to base our lives, and catch from
the Spirit which breathes from its
pages, something of that vital, ac-
tive relationship to Christ, which
made all the ,difference to His.
early clay followers.
Don't ever let them talk you in-
to making a speech, old friend.
Especially if you have nothing to
say, It happened to me, and pretty
well destroyed the entire month
of September,
I've been avoiding speech -malt-
ing for years. My distaste for lis-
tening to speeches is only' exceed-
ed by my panic at the thought of
having to deliver one. The whole
business of speeches has grown
into a monster, an insatiable fiend,
The Guest Speaker leas become
one of the more flagrant symbols
of the Sickness of our Canadian
society, You can't get four people
to sit down. in the same room any
more, without one of them suggest-
ing that you have a. guest speaker
at your next meeting.
All across this once -carefree
country, the blight has spread. A
new species called the Program.
Committee Chairman, has surged
to the front in every organization.
He is more important than the
He is more important than the
president. He is the bird who
scrapes guest speakers from the
bottoms of barrels and other native
habitat,
He is one of those persons en-
gaged in the greatest man -hunt of
the 20th century—trying to find
a guest speaker, any old guest
speaker. There is an excellent
chance that he will wind up with
an ulcer. The competition is more
frantic than it is among the super-
markets,
There is a fair probability that
our Program Chairman•will suffer
a complete nervous breakdown
in a few months after he has taken
the position. This is• usually a di-
rect result of: a) the guest speaker
coming down with the flu the night
of the banquet; or b) the guest
speaker getting a little oiled at
the pre -dinner reception, and in-
cluding a couple of off-color jokes
in his speech; or c) the guest
speaker turning out to be a real
clod, who has nothing whatever
to say, and says it at great length.
However, I have aro sympathy
for Program. Committee Chairmen,
who are completely unscrupulous
in their ,methods. One of the more
slippery members of the fraternity
hooked and landed me with the
skill of acon. artist, and that's
how I came to be standing in front
of a couple of hundred. people the
other night, with my hands hang-
ing down, my mouth hanging open
and the entire audience hanging
on my opening reanarks, which I
couldn't remember:
This crafty character called me
last June and asked me casually
if I would address the Canadian
Club in September. He had picked
his day, It was the last day of
school, I'd had a couple of belts
to celebrate, and September seem-
ed six months away. "Shore. Shore,
glad to."
I went back out to the garden,
picked up my empty glass and en-
quired, "Hey, Suse, what do you
know about this Canadian Club?"
She said, "You know perfectly
well we can't afford any of that,
It's about five dollars a bottle"
This was getting us nowhere, I
then learned that the Canadian
Club was an •outfit irn town that
imports 'distinguished speakers.
This made me feel like a hot -shot
for about three minutes, then
threw me into a blind panic. How-
ever, T did have the whale summer
to prepare a sophisticated, schol-
arly address, so I stopped worrying.
Unfortunately, time passed', as it
ao often does, and I didn't do a
thing about it, Two nights before
the banquet, desperation drove me
to choose a topic. I decided to talk
to the Canadian Club about Cana-
da. That was throwing swine be-
fore pearls, but it was a nice, big
vague subject, so I stuck to it.
But I can tell. you I felt pretty
foolish when I stood up in front
of all those people. At their ban-
quet last year, they had really ob-
tained their money's worth — a:
beautiful, blonde speaker, colored
movies, :dancing girls, special Ha-
waiian music.
I didn't have even one lousy
lanttern slide. I had tried to talk
my wife into doing a few native
Canadian dances, to add some
color. But the only native dances
we have are Indian, and she re-
fused to stomp around a fake fire-
place in her bare skin, and the
kids got into a scrap over who was
going to play the bongo drums for
the performance, so we had to
wash out the whole business,
It was awful. But do you know
what I found out? People are ex-
tremely polite. They will sit there
fighting to keep their eyes open, no
matter how rotten a Guest Speak-
er you are. They will applaud, with
a nice blend of relief and gratit-
ude, but politely, when you finish,
And they will have one of their
members stand up and thank you,
without a trace of irony, for your
inspiring address "which I amsure
we will all remember."
Reminiscing
SEPTEMBER 1912
Mr. C. N. Griffin, real estate
agent, this week reports the sale
by W. F VanStone & Son of the
beautiful farm adjoining the town
to Mr. Frank J. Hill. Mr. Hill has
secured a good property and will
getpossession ossession on October 1.
The Brussels Post reports the
death of Mrs. Robinson, grand-
mother of Mr. Robert Beattie of
this town, as follows: Mrs. Alex
Robinson, possibly the oldest wo-
man in Ontario, died at her home
in Seaforth on Thursday, at the
age of 106 years and 5 months.
The Times is this week in receipt
of aletter from Mr. H. W. Wells,
renewing his subscription to this
paper, Mr Wells is now located at
Arcturaus, South Rhodesia, South
Africa and is prospering in that
country, He is engaged in the gold
mining business and has been very
successful in operating the mines
as 18 shown by a copy of the paper
have received rmth
we h e ece vel f o that coun-
try.
Mr, J, J. Mitchell is away on a
trip to the West
Mr. W, Bell of Spokane, Wash.,
is visiting with his brothers, Messrs
D, and A, Bell,
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SEPTEMBEiii, 1924
Mr. Ed Tompkins of Lower
Wiinghani met with a painful ac-
cident on Tuesday when he had
three fingers badly cut while at
his work In the Western ,Foundry,
About 70 people enjoyed the hos-
pitality of Mr. and Mrs. W. E.
Brawley and Mr, Sam Hutchison
on Friday evening when they gave
them a corn roast on the beautiful
grounds between the CPR depot
and the river, Dr. Geo. Howson
brought his radio to help enliven
the evening,
Mrs, W. E, Mccandish died sud-
denly at her home in Nelson, B.C.
Deceased will be kindly remember-
ed by many of our readers. Mrs.
A. M. Fralick and Mrs. W. G.
Gray of Wingham are sisters,
Mrs, H, 13, .Robinson of Cayley,
Alta., is visiting at the home of her
brother, Mr, James Mitchell.
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SEPTEMBER 1937
Major Kenneth Weaver, M,C.,
zone representative of the Canadi-
an. Legion and president of the lo-
cal branch, received on Thursday
of last week a coronation medal,
Mr. Andrew McDougall, Town
Plot, celebrated his 80th birthday
on Monday. Together with his
many friends we extend congratu-
lations,
Mr. James Lockridge of Lower
Wingham had his 80th birthday on
Sunday..
Mr. George Mason has accepted
a position with the Anderson Book
and Stationery Store in New Lisk-
eard. He left on Sunday to assume
his, duties.
Dr, G. W, Howson and Dr A. W.
Irwin attended the Dental Golf
Tournament at Walkerton on Wed-
nesday afternoon, Dr. Howson won
the first prize and Dr. Irwin won
the mystery prize.
We are pleased 'to hear that one
of our former high school students,
Dan Arbuckle, son of Mr. and
Mrs. W. J. Arbuckle of East Wa-
wanosh, was called to the Bar last
week. He has taken a position in
thee law office' of I. B. Lucas of
Markdale and commences his du-
ties there this week,
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SEPTEMBER 1947
Word was received here last
week of the death of Charles Mc-
Cool of Devlin, Ontario, in Winni-
peg Hospital on Friday. He was
a former resident of this •district
for many years,
Mr, John Brooks of Lower Wing -
ham has a row of sunflowers of
which he is justly proud, all of
them having grown to quite a
height. Two stalks in particular
are worthy of note, they are both
13 feet tall, on one there are 24
flowers and on the other an ex-
tremely large one,
Mrs. G. L, Dunlop was a dele-
gate to Grand Chapter, Order. of
the Eastern Star, held last week in
the Royal York Hotel, Toronto.
Mrs, ,7, A. Fox, Mrs, F. C Fuller
and Mrs. T. A. Currie also attend-
ed.
Hugh P. Carmichael, who re-
cently disposed of his grocery busi-
ness, has purchased the brick resi-
dence of Miss Jean Weir on John
St, andgetpossession about
willp In
three weeks. Miss Weir Intends
remaining in town.
ONTARIO MINISTER.
ADDRESSES MEETING
Political irresponsibility must
give way to •a, sober and sound ap-
praisal of the challenge of our
times, the Honourable C. S. Mac -
Naughton, Ontario Minister without
portfolio, said in an address in the
Progressive Conservative committee
rooms here Monday night.
"Therevolutionarychanges c gee to}t-
ig place in the world with the de-
velopment of the European Eco-
nomic Communtiy, particularly
with what now appears to be the
inevitable entry of Britain, in-
volves changes in our markets
which can have a drastic effect on
our economy," he said, "But it is a
challenge which can be met if we
can couple the resourcefulness of
our people with our wealth of na-
tural resources."
Mr. MacNaughton based his ob-
servations on a recent four-week
tour, of Great Britain and Europe
on behaif of the market develop-
ment program of the Ontario Gov-
ernment,
The minister was strongly critical
of the stand of Liberal leader Les-
ter Pearson in criticising the prime
minister on his stand for Canada.
"It is not the first time nor
will it be the last when Mr. Pear-
son has chosen to place politics
ahead of responsibility and mature
leadership,!' said Mr, MacNattghton.
"Were h1 Huron -Bruce the Liberals
seem to havo adopted the same lr-
responsible tactics," the minister
stated,
:Speaking on behalf of Progres-
sive Conservative candidate George
McCutcheon in the by-election cam-
paign, Mr, MacNaughton pointed to
current values for hogs, cattle, and
farm products and said, "The farm•
ers of this typically agricultural
riding hardly need to he reminded
that Ontario's farm product liar.
lceting policies have produced the
highest prices. in at least a decade,"
Relating the value of the agricul,
tural industry to Pluron-I3ruce, the
minister pointed to a total of $90,-
000,000 for field crops, cattle, swine
and poultry in the year 1061, "Peil
the present indicators reveal that
this value will be considerably ex-
ceeded in 1902."
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