The Wingham Advance-Times, 1963-01-10, Page 2Page 2 — Wingham Advance -Times, Thursday, Jan. 10, 19t33
THE WINGHAM ADVANCE - TIMES
Published at Wingham, Ontario, by Wenger Bros, Limited
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Congratulations Port Elgin Times
Hearty congratulations to the owner
and staff of The Port Elgin Times, the
most recent addition to the fold of "off-
set" weeklies in Ontario. After a rough
go because of newly -installed equipment
for their first issue, the second edition
completed under the new process is high-
ly creditable. Using a slightly smaller
sheet size than The Advance -Times, the
Port Elgin paper employs the same meth-
ods of type setting and photo composition
for display types.
We are personally most interested in
the Port Elgin effort, for Editor John Haf-
ermehl, a brother of our local jeweller,
learned his trade in our Mildmay plant,
and his assistant, Wilbert Schwichten-
berg, is a "graduate" of the Wingham
printing office.
Owner of the newspaper is the Mr.
Stafford who, incidentally, owns a rather
large concern known as Stafford Foods.
The owner is installing modern equip-
ment and we can look forward to a con-
tinuation of the high standard which has
been set in past years by The Times.
Home Nursing Service Needed
There is a plan under study by the
Huron County Children's Aid Society at
the present time which could do much to
alleviate both suffering and high costs.
We refer to a scheme by which home
nursing and housekeeper services might
be provided. Whether or not this plan can
actually be implemented in Huron re-
mains to be seen.
Have you ever stopped to think of
the numbers of people who are admitted
to hospital each year, not because they
are so dangerously ill that they require
constant attention, but simply because
they do need daily nursing care? Among
them are pneumonia patients who re-
quire one injection per day of an anti-
biotic drug. There are others who come
from families where there is no woman
in the home to care for a bed patient. This
category includes the mothers of small
families.
The plan which is being studied in our
county proposes the training of practical
nurses who could go into a home where
illness has struck and take over for a
week or two. There is, in addition, a great
need for visiting nurses who could make
daily calls as do the Victorian Order
Nurses.
The pressing need for hospital beds
has made all such auxiliary health service
plans worthy of study.
Brighter Future for OPP
The announcement during the past
week that Hon. Fred Cass, the provincial
attorney -general, intends to undertake
some far-reaching reorganization in the
Ontario Provincial Police promises a
brighter future for that body.
During the past few years there has
been a decided improvement in the
calibre of men enlisting in the provincial
force, but dissatisfaction on many points
has been widespread. Apparently all was
not as smooth as it might have been.
We are all in favor of paying the hest
of wages to police officers. When salaries
are low and working conditions poor, the
public always gets exactly what it is pay-
ing for in police protection. One has only
to recall the sad state of the Quebec pro-
vincial police force under the Duplessis
regime, to recall how completely demor-
alized a big force of this kind can become.
Quebec's boys in blue were commonly
referred to as "the goon squad" because
of the tactics they employed. Bribery was
not unusual and from all reports derelic-
tion of duty was an everyday occurrence.
We are fortunate here in Ontario.
Practically every one of the provincial of-
ficers with whom we are acquainted has
fine sense of the responsibility of his call-
ing and exercises his powers with decency
and fairness.
If Mr. Cass can find the means to
further improve the morale and con-
fidence of the police force it will most
certainly he one of his finest accomplish-
ments.
Wearing a New Suit
During the past week we received a
letter from a veteran reader of The Ad-
vance -Times who sent along her subscrip-
tion, but rather sadly informed us that
she was not impressed by the new ap-
pearance of the paper. In fact she said
she felt she had lost an old friend.
When we planned changes in the for-
mat of the A -T we had such people in
mind, and kept the paper as close as pos-
sible to its former style. Such changes as
we did make were all for the purpose of
achieving greater clarity and better read-
ability. In fact, one class of readers was
uppermost in our minds—the older folks
who have so often told us in the past that
the paper was hard to read.
We have received some complaints
about the smaller size of the page. This,
too, we felt, was a distinct improvement,
for the wider pages are much more diffi-
cult to handle and to hold open. The new
size, we might add, is the same as The
Advance -Times of seven years ago, and we
always did regret the necessity to broaden
out to a wider sheet at that time.
Please don't mistake us. We are not
feeling sorry for ourselves because there
are some criticisms. The compliments
outnumber them many times over. We
were quite aware that not every reader
would be happy. We do, however, ex-
press our regret that it is impossible to
make improvements in the appearance of
a newspaper that are universally accept-
able. Let us assure you that we are not
trying to murder your "old friend"—we
are simply supplying him with a new suit
of clothes, something which he sadly
needed.
You will find every one of the features
and departments in the paper which were
there before—and we hope to add several
new and interesting ones as the weeks
go by.
About Small Business Success
(From the Royal Bank Monthly Letter)
Small business is an important ele-
ment in Canada's economy, characteristic
of the democratic way of life in which a
man is free to make choices and achieve
security through his own efforts.
Historically, ours has been a nation of
entrepreneur, independent business men
who are proud of their self-reliance and
their ability to accomplish " miracles
against overwhelming odds. They are
marked by their competitive spirit and
their single-mindedness of purpose.
There are still, in spite of the increas-
ing bigness of industrial operations, a
Targe number of people in Canada with
that spirit of entrepreneurship, people
who not only believe in and talk about
free enterprise but practise it by going
into business for themselves.
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A blizzard is howling about the house. That man with
the piece of chalk in each hand has just informed me that
the temperature is 15 below. He didn't have to. My arth-
ritis had already given me the message.
These are the gray days of *
deep midwinter, when one is an average home, where are
sorely tempted to get drunk, gathered beauty and chivalry,
or take off for Tahiti, solo, or fair women and brave men.
just wander off and lie down Typical Canadians, in short.
quietly in a snowbank.
There's only one thing that
saves my sanity each winter.
That is the certainty that
there are several months of
exciting evenings of contro-
versial conversation ahead.
Every winter I feel sorry
for people in lush, tropical
countries. What in the world
can they find to talk about?
How bored they must become
with nothing to mull over but
love, religion, politics and the
heat! No wonder they're so
emotionally trigger-happy, so
prone to revolutions, just to
break the monotony.
* * *
W e Canadians, besides
being the healthiest, happiest,
richest a n d best - looking
people in the world, are
surely also the most eloquent
conversationalists in exist-
ence. We are never so desti-
tute of conversational gam-
bits that we have to fall back
on such hackneyed themes as
art, the soul, love, or man's
inhumanity to man. Never.
For six months of the year duzzen even hafta go down,
we discourse brilliantly on only every coupla days, so it
fishing, The Boat, babies, The gives 'm more time ta help
'tha dishes." Winking gaily
at the hapless George.
"Saycha like," contributes
Hark to this young matron,
h e r simple dignity and
w a r m t h of countenance
scarcely marred by t h e
purple eyelids and slight
double chin. "We like the
oil, cuz y' don't hafta fool
with it. Just set 'er and she
stays the way y' want 'er. A
course, the minit I turn it up
a bit, Jim runs over and
turns it down. Says I'll ruin
us." Giggling.
Speaks with courtly grace
the gentleman on her left.
"Ah, you can have that oil.
Stoo expensive. Gimme the
good ole hard coal, with a
man that knows howta han-
nel that furnace. I mean y'
get that real hot heat."
Superciliously.
* * *
"Yah, butcha gotta have a
good fan, or she doesn't kick
that heat around," says the
demure little woman across
from him. "We like the stoker
ourselves. George useta puff
something terrible when he
had ta shovel, but now he
Cottage, gardening, The Car.
The last-mentioned, of course,
appears as often in our dia-
logue as deity does in that of another young gallant, lean -
less favored races.
But it is in the other six
months, the winter, that we
really come into our own,
conversationally. During the
long black nights, listen in on
almost any conversation in
our land, and you will marvel
at the intricacies of intellect,
the subtleties of expression,
the rapier -like parry and
thrust of our communication.
* it *
A foreigner is baffled and
charmed by the sparkling
quality of our colloquy. A
Canadian midwinter conver-
sation would make Socrates
sulk, Plato pout. At the
bridge table, cards are for-
gotten when the conversation
begins to bubble like vintage
champagne. In the pub, beer
is left untouched on the
table.
What, you may ask, is the
essence that makes Canadian
converse so rich and heady
in the winter? Let's listen in
and find out. We'll drop in
on a typical January party, in
ing across, "but I'll take
wood. Sa little more work,
but she's quick an' she's hot.
An' ya never hafta worry
about strikes, cuz the farmers
never go on strike." Trium-
phantly.
And so it goes. Of course,
that's only a rough sample of
what makes our midwinter
conversation so fascinating.
Mere words could never con-
vey the intensity of emotion,
the nuances of meaning, that
emerge in these clashes of
wit.
But you needn't talk to me
about the brilliant discourses
in the salons of 18th century
France. Tell me not of the
sparkling exchanges among
the dons of Oxford. Just give
me any group of red-blooded,
furnace -minded Canadians in
midwinter, and I'll settle
back happily, waiting for the
opportunity. to thrill them
with the story of how I almost
put in a sawdust -burner one
winter.
One Moment, Pease
by Rev. C. M.
Jardine, Wingham, Ontario
Christmas and New Year's
Days have come and gone once
again. Memories of the past
have been re -kindled and have
brought a measure of happiness
and sadness. For children, and
not a few adults, these days
were anticipated with high
hopes and great exspectations—
some realized and others wait-
ing another year for fulfillment.
The Spirit of Christmas has en-
riched our lives in the renewal
of our faith and left an impres-
sion that will not easily be
erased.
The beginning of a New
Year reminds us that "time
marches on" and according to
the Psalmist the passage of
time teaches us that "we spend
our years as a tale that is told".
It is well that each of us takes
a little time to reflect on our
achievements and failures in
the year that has ended. We
ought to take stock of ourselve$
even as a business man takes
inventory of goods unsold and
computes his profits and losses
to ascertain his net gain,
All of us can look forward
to a happier year ahead when
we are willing to examine our-
selves and find where there is
strength and weakness in the
development of our character.
Having done this we can "look
unto Jesus the Author and Fin-
isher of our faith" for guidance
and support.
Making resolutions now has
real value, even though it may
be said that resolutions are
made only to be broken. To
set definite goals for a new
year and endeavor to reach
them will enact] our lives and
enable us to make a worth-
while contribution to the peace,
happiness and prosperity of our
fellow citizens in our commun-
ity and world.
Elects Officers
GORRIE--The Curling Club
elected the following officers
for 1963: President, Wesley
Galloway; vice-president, Ed-
ward Stewart; secretary treasur-
er, Alex Graham; bonspiel
committee, Earle King, De-
Witt Adams and Thomas Rit-
chie; lunch committee, Gordon
Edgar and Burton Hubbard.
The Club is curling Wednes-
day and Thursday nights.
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"Bombshell"
for Colds.
The war against the common
cold Ls being stepped up by SwLss
firm of chemists who have dis-
closed a new " bombshell" attack
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A white tablet, which, dropped Carl' Rosa
Into a glass of water, makes a failing heari
refreshing fizzy drink, Is the"new ruined her
weapon designed to destroy colds, resorted to fr
It was made known at an ex- small boardln
hibition in London of the latest Sentencing
drug descoverles. said: "This
within the c
ing minstrel,
being sung h
The tablet contains a massive
dose of vitamin C. Wartime studies
proved that the body needs large
quantities of this vitamin to resist
infection.
There are smu11 amounts In
oranges, lemons, and some vege-
tables,
But during the common cold and
influenza It melts away from the
blood. That is the reason for the
new " bombshell " treatment.
Doctors at the University Clinic,
Vienna, have proved that the treat-
ment. speeded the recovery of 247
patients and members of the
hospital staff suffering from acute
infection.
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WHEN—Wednesday, Jan. 16th, 1963, 8 p.m.
WHERE—Wingham Town Hall
Week of Prayer
SERVICES
ARE BEING HELD IN THE
United Church, Wingham
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Mrs. Gordon Davidson - Organist
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