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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance-Times, 1962-11-29, Page 17nut k ices ,.$11 „$11 S Is s ES gyral a d'$3, unlin ....$3, qD 3 31.00 1,54 geer ,ESA Seventy-six Years of Service is week -end The Bell Telephone ny will switch Wingham and area o the dial system, marking the Ing of an entirely new era In the of communications here. $ is, indeed, a momentous oc- and one on which we pay our is to an eminently successful Can - company. It was 76 years ago that st telephone was installed in town, doubt it was considered more a an anything else in those far-off t was one of the earliest of the n inventions to reach the general in Western Ontario, coming not ng after the first railways, and efore the automobile. could have foretold in 1886 that riasity-piece which was the tele - would become one of the most ant adjuncts to everyday living. it would be impossible to carry siness as we know it without the e. The whole basis of modern flu- s been geared to instantaneous unication with distant points. th the introduction of the dial sy- n yn this area we are also to be served omething completely new and dif- Gone will be the delays of wait - human operators to make connec- when we want to call "long dis- ' All we will be required to do is few extra numbers and millions nts on the North American con - will be within our reach in seconds. telephone company has proven to be a true child of its founder, Alex- ander Graham Bell, who lived his long life in the spirit of inquiry and research. Filled with bright dreams of the marvel- lous attainments which could be achieved by science, he invented hundreds of new types of equipment and pioneered in techniques which were unknown up to that time. The Bell Telephone Company has followed loyally in his footsteps and its laboratories and scientists have added. thousands more items to the list of ma- chines and gadgets which have contribu- ted so much to the ease and safety of modern life. One of their most wonderful achievements was the development of the very early form of the tape recorder --a machine which was a miracle only 20 years ago—and today is a commonplace appliance in many homes. Bell Telephone has made a lot of money. its profits, no doubt, have been immense ... and because of its success there may be some who are resentful of the charges it makes for its services, which are protected by franchise. There is another way of looking at the matter, however, for Bell provides one of the finest examples we have seen of the merits of the free enterprise system. Its profits have been turned back into re- search and development of new and finer aids to our existence. Our congratulations to The Bell Tele- phone Company. Both the firm and its patrons are deeply interested in the switch -over to the new dial system. Buying Our Own Degradation w did you like the TV program at Sunday evening? It was one of the titled "Quest" and dealt with the f the Canadian Indian—or we sur - at was what it was intended to do. nkly, we were glad the children n bed. From start to finish it was with "damns" and "hells" and obscenities which we don't intend t. It depicted a drunken Indian anted through the full half-hour hat a hang -over he had and how he had kilned his brother'. The ow was disgusting, revolting and umably the writer and produc- eved they were editorializing. The as trying to demonstrate that the is badly treated by the white man. eeded only in picturing all Indians nkards and near -idiots and the as morons who haven't sufficient ence and interest to do anything Their red brothers' sad state. e of the facts may have been true. are some drunken Indians. There areless and inconsiderate white ians—but they aren't all like that. edly the Indians' poverty and lack ration are a blot on our honor. lumn has pointed out these same any times—and believe it or not mments have several times been Nledged by the government depart - concerned. At no time have we arced to resort to obscene language ress our opinions. It should be understood that the local television station does not select such programs for your Sunday evening view- ing "pleasure." This was a CBC produc- tion and was no doubt part of the pro- graming which CKNX is obliged to accept. This program is part and parcel of a giant fraud that is being forced on the Canadian public. Anything that is daring, obscene or suggestive is being parcelled up under the guise of "culture" or "hon- est reporting" end is being broadcast— at our expense—to come blasting into our homes. Sure, we can shut the set off, but why should parents, who have made a strong point of decent language and behaviour, find it necessary to police the shows which their children might see? The movie industry managed to pro- duce all manner of pictures for 30 years — everything from factual reporting to music hall humor—and never was per- mitted to use obscene language. What do these bright young long -hairs in the CBC think they are accomplishing? ' Every adult in the land ... and this show was primarily directed to adults, has heard the words they used on the air. There is no novelty about them. They didn't make the message one bit more impressive. We believe it's high time for television viewers to express their opinions about the class of stuff our own publicly -owned corporation is putting on the air. Lend a Bit More Support e annual meeting of the local Re- n Council is slated for Thursday g of next week. If it follows the pattern only a small number of workers will be on hand. s is a phase of the community's which more people should take an interest, for Wingham has done rs in the field of organized re- n with little fuss or commotion ith a comparatively small outlay ney, nor hockey in winter, ball instruc- summer, swimming classes, wad- ol supervision, summer crafts and activities are all part of the full am carried out under the direction Recreation Council. Figure skating, handled by a separate club, k the sponsorship of Recreation. E WINGHAM ADVANCE -TIMES Published at Wingham, Ontario Wenger Bros, Limited W, Barry Wenger, President t. 0, Wenger, Secretary -Treasurer ibex Audit bureau of Circulation ed by the Post Office Department and Class Maii ami for payment of postage in east: ER 2 Subscription Rate: 23,,-6 eat, $4,00; Six Months, $2.25, in ad- U.S.A., $5.40 per year; foreign rate, $5.00 per year dvertlsing Rates on application Ali this is being accomplished with- out the aid or guidance of a paid director. Most communities the size of Wingham spend 85,000 a year or more to secure the services of a trained director, but here the devoted and loyal help of unpaid workers carries the program. A day and age when juvenile prob- lems are plaguing so many centres, we have every reason to be grateful to these leaders and to offer some assistance in their work. We Need More Dentists Meeting in Toronto last week, dentists of the province welcomed the announce- ment by Dr. Matthew B. Dymond,, On- tario's minister of health, that a new dental school will be established, it was pointed out at the gathering that of 110 students- at the University of Toronto Dental School, only seven hail from rural areas. And evidence has shown in the past that city -bred students will set up practice in the larger centres when they graduate. There are, at the present time, 100 Ontario rural communities with no dentist at all. Dr. E. F. Shaunessy, of Wingham, is a member of the permanent executive which will study the recommendations of the meeting. THIS IS THE LAST PHOTOGRAPH of Bell Telephone operators connecting calls at the old manual exchange on Josephine street. Automatic switching equipment will make the connec- tions when dial system begins early Sunday morning, Frotn right are Anne Jeannette Watson, Betty Kennedy and Waverley Douglas. 'ingbwm Ithteuctgeintit Wingham, Ontario, Thursday, November 29, 1962 '41111!IIIIIHIIi!91111!fII?II!I!Ili'llllllilli!:IIIII'!!II!;!YrEll11?IICI!!IIiiiI;I!lillllilllf Illilllllllllllillllll!!IIIill�lill9ailill IiililililHlillillillllllllllllllllllllll!INllllllllllllllllll�u` SUGA R. and SPICE By Bill Smile yllimi??li?ICI?iml o Noticed a ldtter to the editor the other day that sug- gested congregations should give their minister a hearty round of applause if they enjoyed his sermon. At first, the idea appealed to me. Many a time, in church, I've been completely carried away by the sermon. In fact, on several occasions, I've been carried right out of this world. To dreamland. On second thought, how- * problems to make anyone take refuge in blasphemy, but he can't. He knows enough inside stuff to blast the parish wide open, but he has to keep mum. Some of his parishioners get sore if he doesn't visit them regularly. Others turn out the lights and refuse to answer the door when they see him coming. Still others invite hint in, which is prob- ably the worst fate of all. He can sit down and wait until the television show is over. Or he can drink a gal- lon of tea with some old girl who's only too willing to get the knife into him the min- ute he leaves. Or he can sit by the bedside of some old reprobate who hasn't been to church in 50 years, but is thinking better of it as the pearly gates loom. * * * People want their parson to he a leader in the cors) nunity, but, if he expresses a firm opinion on anything outside the doors of the church, he is a professional troublemaker or an interfer- ing busybody, and "He'd bet- ter rem n)bir where his money comes frump." For a salary a little above that of a laborer he is expect- ed to he a public relations expert, psychiatrist, big brother, wailing wall, youth leader and building inspector on week days, a Thomas Aquinas on Sundays. "Ves, but he gets a free house," howl his parishioners, The free house is usually a vast, drafty barn, which the min- ister has half enough furni- ture to fill and half enough furnace to heat. There are a tot of dunder- heads, crashing bores and outright incompetents in the ranks of the clergy. But, on the whole, they are men with a high purpose in life, for melded and frustrated by the thorny perversities of human nature among their flocks. Most, in their ;modest way, are heroes and I salute them, if not with reverent awe, at least with a hearty respect. ever, the notion of applause for a sermon lost its appeal, Supposing the minister got a real storm of hand -clapping. There's always the chance that he would beam happily, hold up his hand like a TV comic, pull another sermon out of the sleeve of his cas- sock, and give us a 30 -minute encore. With the knowledge that the roast was odorificating at home, the gastric juices would flow like Niagara Falls, and the consequent rumbling of stomachs would be hon rible to contemplate, fright- ful to listen to, and destruc- tive to any facade of holiness that we'd managed to erect. Then, on the other hand, It would be only fair, if we were to applaud with gusto for stirring, sermons, that we should be able to express our disapproval in the cus- tomary manner by booing, stamping and whistling, it we didn't like what the par- son said.. And the prospect of rousing some of our sound- est sleepers with such an out- burst instead of the mellow tones of the organ, is fraught with heart attacks, strokes, and apoplexy. We'd need a crew of trained stretcher bearers in a day when you can hardy get sidesinen. Can't you imagine the jolt you'd get as you sat there happily nodding, if some hardened sinner who disap proved of the sermon on sin came out with a ;nighty "B00.00-00" right in your ear? You might very easily fall off the bench, sirnul. taneously uttering an exple• tive that would irrevocably consign you to the fiery ra- gions from which the sermon had just tried to save you. Nope, we'd much better !o leave things as they are, and greet the- end of the sermon with the same old hawking, coughing, snuffling and glove -searching -for as we do now. I've often felt that being a preacher must be one of the toughest propositions in mod- ern society. He has enough One Moment, Please REV. W. J. MORRISON, Most Christian people agree that we ought to reveal Christ to others by being Christlike. To do this, we must cut out from our lives every un -Christ - like thing. In order to know what the un-Christlike ele- ments are, we need some de- finite standard by which we can test our lives. The standard many people use is that expressed in the words, often heard, "Anyhow, I am as good as my neighbours" . This is a false standard. The Apostle Paul scornfully dismis- ses it with the words "It is a small thing to me that I should be judged of you, or of man's judgement". (1 Cor, 4:3) An- other standard commonly used is the standard of the so called "good -living" people, and measuring ourselves by their standard. We think we are doing well if we come close to it. But we forget that many outwardly religious people are not far removed from thePhari- REMINISCING NOVEMBER 1912 Dr. Sparling, of Winnipeg, is visiting for a few days with Mr. and Mrs. F. G. Sparling. Mr. A. C. O'Neil, who has been acting as relieving agent at the G.T.R. Station for the past few weeks, left on Wed- nesday for Sarnia, where he again takes up his old position. Mr. Wm. Burgman, who has been agent at Milverton for some years has been appointed as agent here and has taken up the work. On Thursday last,. A. L. Pos- liff received his certificate to the rank of Cadet Instructor; having qualified during vaca- tion at London Military School. He is now eligible as instructor of cadet corps in Canadian schools. Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Rut- ledge of Montreal were visiting for a few days with the former's parents, Rev. Dr, and Mrs, Rutledge. Mr. and Mrs. Rut- ledge were on their way to Winnipeg where Mr. Rutledge is taking a position as Manager for the McLean Publishing Co. 0--0-0 NOVEMBER 1924 The Wingham Arena Limit- ed held their organization meeting on Tuesday afternoon and elected the following of- ficers; Pres. — Mr. J. W. Harr na, Vic. -Pres. Mr, A. Tip - ling, Directors -- Mr. J. A. MacLean, Mr, W. H. Gurney and Mr. T. J. McLean, Sec- retary -- Mr. Abner Cosens. The directors wish to pub- licly ask every citizen of Wing- ham to get behind this great Community Enterprise. With the co-operation of the major - Brussels, Ontario ;sees of Jesus' day, whose re- ligion was mostly an outward show. The only true standard of comparison is Christ, Himself. But we find ourselves accept- ing some lower standard be- cause of pressure from the world around us, with the re- sult that there is no visible dif- ference between Christians and non-Christians. When people ask "Why doesn't the Church do something?" they mean that if Christians were true to their Lord, their lives would be obviously different from those of the people round them. In science and in industry, the highest standards are sought continually, So let us seek the help of God to purge our lives of all un-Christlike elements, for only so will the standard of Christian living be raised, and the Church of Christ be en- abled to lead men and women to God. ity of the citizens it is expect- ed that the new building will be completed early in theNew Year. Mr, Charles VanNorman moved Wednesday from John St., to the house he purchased on the corker of Victoria and Francis Streets. Swansdown Flannellette blankets sold for $2.49 at Han- na's Sale this week and the same blankets are advertised in sale catalogues from the city at $3.95, yet every time we print bilis we hear some knocker say there is nothing cheaper than usual. Wool bats sell at Kings for 82.00 and the same article in city catalogues are $2.85. 0--0--4 NOVEMBER 1937 Mrs. Jean Hetherington, mother of Conn. R. S. Hether- ington of town, is seeking a seat in the council at Goderich, Mrs. Hetherington, who lived ' for a winter here with her son, made many friends while here who will wish her success, Mr, M. R. Roberts, recent- ly of the Yonge and Queen Street Branch, of Toronto, of the Dominion Bank, has been appointed accountant of the branch here. Mr. Roberts took over his duties here on Monday. Mr. and Mrs. John Young and daughter, Kay, of Winni- peg, were week -end guests of Mrs, L. Young. Week -end visitors with Mts. Geo. Mason were Mrs. G. T. Gregory and son, of Cookstown, Mr. J. M. Beattie and family, of Woodstock, Mrs. 0. B. Mof- fatt and little daughter, of Ingersoll, and Geo. Beattie, of Clinton.