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The Wingham Advance-Times, 1963-04-25, Page 9Edsha Comma - A New Leader Takes Over Canada has a new prime minister. Whether or not you helped to elect him, he has become the most important man in our country—the one person to whom leaders and citizens of other lands will turn for information about Canada's role in world affairs. Lester B. Pearson is no stranger to problems of international portent, for he acted as Canada's spokesman in the United Nations at a time when the world tottered on the brink of a third world war. We fail to agree that he single- handedly saved the human race from ex- tinction, but there is no doubt that his wise counsel and understanding appreci- ation of the dangers which arose at that time contributed largely to the final so- lution. Today the world still stands near the edge of the cliff. The tension created by the Cuban situation last fall has not been dissipated—it has only been postponed. Our election is over and Mr, Pearson is in office, even though he lacks a clear majority. Canadian people, regardless of their party affiliations are now of one mind. They would like to see the nation's business running smoothly once more and they are not going to take kindly to the politicians within the House of Com- mons who seek to interfere with our national progress for the mere advantage of political opportunity. We sincerely believe that the prime minister should be permitted to carry out the tasks of national leadership rother than those of party leadership. A few years hence the electors will have their opportunity to express their opinion of the man and the government which took office on Monday. No Insults Intended Last week this column inadvertently injured the feelings of some post office employees and may have done the same 'to a few on the bank staffs, although the latter didn't say so. An editorial re- ferred to the nuisance value of the Easter Monday holiday. We had no intention of casting any reflection on the employees themselves, for the post office handled all incoming and out going mails and opened the wickets for the public for several hours. The banks were open on Saturday morn- ing to compensate, to some degree, for closing Good Friday and the following Monday. Our only point was the fact that most other places of business have long since dropped the Easter Monday closing. Quebec's Cause Will Be Hurt Canada is witnessing an upheaval ,��jG,i'ithin the province of Quebec which the 'West of the nation finds hard to under- stand. A minority group within the pro- vince is agitating for independence. A few years ago the entire movement might have been treated as a joke, but residents of Montreal tell us that the separatist /Wyup, though small, is extremely vocal ild gaining support with each passing week. It seems that a tremendous number of people in French Canada feel they have been treated as second-class citizens by Canadians of Anglo-Saxon origin. This attitude comes as a complete surprise to the rest of us, who have never any op- portunity to do an ill -turn or speak an unkind word to a French Canadian. Be that as it may, we might as well face the fact that many French-speaking Canadians feel they have been treated as underdogs. Since national unity is of paramount importance, it behooves us to take whatever steps are necessary to achieve a better understanding of our French-speaking countrymen. Their cause, of course, will be ser- iously injured if there are any more in- cidents of the sort which occurred at the week -end when a watchman lost his life in a Montreal bombing. It was appar- ently placed by a member of the extrem- ist group which would force the Free Quebec issue on us by violence. It is our firm belief that one of the most important needs, if we are to ach- ieve a better understanding of French Canada, is universal acceptance by the rest of the nation of a bi-lingual culture. French should be taught in every public school from the primary grades on. Started early enough, our youngsters could become completely fluent in Can- ada's second language. The need for a knowledge of French is dictated not only as a gesture of appease- ment. Thousands of Canadian firms, with head offices in English-speaking Canada are trying to do business in the Quebec market. With increasing fre- quency they discover the need for a.re- liable bi-linguist in their offices. Several firms right here in Wingham print their advertising literature in two languages—and a translator in Montreal is required to prepare their copy. Canada will remain a two language country for many generations. We would be wise to know and understand both segments of our population. Only Thing of Its Kind Young Canada Week — the grand round -up of young hockey players at Goderich, has become one of the most successful events of its kind in the coun- try. There is no specific reason why the lakeshore town should have achieved such widespread fame and should attract so many teams. The town is not even cen- trally located, as are such places as Toronto. It requires a slow and awk- ward sideline trip for the teams which come from such great distances as this year's Lynn Lake (Man.) club. How, then, did the event achieve such far-flung renown? The answer would appear to lie in the enthusiasm of the townspeople themselves for the project which was started several years ago by one of the service clubs. The club mem- bers, alone, could never handle the in- vasion by hundreds of young hockey players. The help of hundreds of citi- zens, not only in the town itself, but in the surrounding countryside as well, is required to feed and billet the boys. They must be well treated, for they re- turn year after year. Young Canada Week is a venture which merits the admiration of all the towns in this area. We could well take a leaf from the Goderich book, when we tackle our own local understandings. THE WINGHAM ADVANCE - TIMES Published at Wingham, Ontario, by Wenger Bros. Limited W. Barry Wenger, President - Robert O. Wenger, Secretary -Treasurer '-Member Audit Uureau of Circulation; Member Canadian Weekly Newspapers Associ- /A� atio Member Canadian Community Newspapers Representatives Authorized by the Post Office Department as Second Class Mail and for payment of postage in cash Subscription Rate: One Year, $4.00; Six Months, $2.25, in advance U.B.A., $5.00 per year; Foreign rate, $5.00 per year Advertising Rates on application lova Attbanctelei nu Wingham, Ontario, Thursday, April 25, 1963 SECOND SECTION CUTTERS FIND LIVING EXPENSIVE IN ITALY Geneva Is luteresting but Confusing, Drives on Mediterranean Are Beautiful Arnheim, Holland April 11, 1963 Hello Boys, We just finished our trip through Switzerland, Italy, Austria and Germany. After we left Basil we drove through the most beautiful valleys, country side, and villages along the mountainsides of the snowy peaked Swiss Alps. The roads were excellent, the people kind and generous. We stopped quite often to take pictures and talk to the people. I got along fine talk- ing German until we hit Lake Geneva. From there on it was French. We didn't have too much trouble at the hotels be- cause every place you go they speak English. We stayed in the Regina Hotel at Lake Gen- eva. Beautiful at the lake, but busy. The streets are nar- row, which makes the driving quite hazardous. Most European cities are built from the centre out, and if you miss a turn and expect to go around a block, you just keep on driving and always seem to come out at the same place you started from half an hour before. In Geneva we were looking for the post of- fice and landed in the old part of the city. We started looking for our way out to Simplon Pass and drove around three times past the same place. However, we ran into the most delightful street market of old French furniture and copper of all kinds. Finally we landed back at the hotel and followed the road signs from there out. We never did find the post office. We stopped off in one of the small mountain towns and took '-_!!IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIiHt II;IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIi w iltIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIuu SUGAR and SPICB IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIi1IIIIII@By Bi11 Smi1eylIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIr Don't expect those ingredients unity and coherence—this week. Since last November, I've been needling everybody who bored me by talking about what a dreadful dose of flu he had. "Stop babying your- self," I derided. "It's all in your mind. You're getting too much rest. You're not booz- ing enough to kill the bugs. You just want a day off." And so on. So ... it couldn't happen to a nicer chap, but what throws me is that I had to wait until the Easter holidays to catch it. Something that gives me a big pain in the arm is the advice you get from doctors when the flu sneaks up and pounces. "A couple of days in bed is the best cure." Who in the world can take a couple of days in bed in this crazy age? A farmer, with the seeding to be done? A fisher- man, with the ice just nicely out of the lake? A contractor, with his first job in four months, and a rush one? * * * Ask any mother of young children how many days she spent in bed last time she had the flu. The only time most women ever spend a few days in bed is when they are com- pounding their confusion by bringing another little stranger into the world. Enough of that. I still say it served me right. However, I made it to church on Easter week end, before succumbing, and was delighted to renew acquaintances with so many old friends I hadn't seen since last Easter. They should charge admission, and a good stiff one, for those bums who turn up at church once a year, on Easter Sunday, stuff- ed full of hot -cross buns and holiness. * * * Most of the election recrim- inations are over by now, but a few editors are still catch- ing it from readers who feel that the local paper was one- sided in its coverage, or did not print the whole truth. Few of these complaints are from winning candidates or their supporters. This has always tickled me —the fellow who demands that the paper print the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth. What he means, of course, is the truth as he sees it. Or the truth about some - of any good column— some pictures; shopped in a village hardware store where I bought a Swiss bell set, and think I did much better than I would have in a gift shop. From there we drove to Simplon Pass, We had to put our car on the train that took us through a tunnel 20 miles long. There were about 30 cars to be driven onto the flat cars, which are open on the ends. You just drove on from one end to the other until all the cars are on, and stay in your car. Little pamphlets were distributed say- ing to put your car in low gear and pull on the hand brake, and no light while going through the tunnel. Holy smoke, it was so dark it hurt. On the other side we were Italy. We had to'change money again. The paper money in these countries is awful for size. In Italy 10, 000 lires is about the size of this paper and not worth much (one lire about 1/6 of a cent). Everything in direct cost of living, such as hotels and meals is very expensive. Their work is very artistic and beautiful whatever they do. We drove through some parts of the country to Milan and from Pisa to Florence. You wonder how the people live. Than again from Florence to Venice and from Venice to the Austrian border, everything looked very prosperous. We enjoyed the drive along the Mediterranean. It was warm, a little early for the tourist business, but forsythia and rhododendrons were out, the trees were hanging with oranges and the stately palms were beautiful along the beach drives and mountains sides. We had been staying in fair- ly expensive hotles it seemed, and the lires were going awful fast. In the tourist literature they had been suggesting some of the smaller hotels, a little off the beaten path. It was much cheaper and just as com- fortable, so we thought we would try it. We picked on a small town between Genoa and Pisa, about 10 miles inland from the sea. We drove into the town and as soon as we drove into the main square ( it was a dumpy looking place) and slow- ed up a little to look around, body else. Most newspapers print the truth, but show me one that prints the whole truth, and I'll be the first to donate toward a statue for its editor. Or a tombstone. Perhaps it would be a good thing if newspapers did print the whole truth, about every- thing. It would certainly put some life into the obituary columns. But in the first place, a lot of people would suffer where it hurts most in their vanity. In the second place, the editor would be so busy facing actions for slan- der and libel that, even if he won them all, he wouldn't have time for anything else. The truth is a fine thing. It's like potatoes, one of the staples of life, But just as we can get tired of spuds three times a day, every day, we could get mighty weary of nothing but the plain, unadul- terated truth. Do you think women would lead a fuller life it, when they ask how they look in a new outfit, their husbands in- formed them that they resem- bled something left out for the dog's breakfast? * * * Would the preacher feel richer, spiritually, if you told him, right in the middle of the Sunday morning hand- shake, "That was the dullest sermon I have ever heard"? Would your friends feel more warmly toward you if you answered the casual query, "How are you?" with the plain, unvarnished truth, right from your throbbing corn through your pulsing hemorrhoids into your ach- ing back and on up to your certainty that you had a lump in your breast or a brain tumor? Perhaps the bride would get a better send-off in life if the editor, instead of cooing that she was radiant in white, simply announced: "The beauty of the bride, a plain, dumpy little girl, was scarce- ly marred by the hint of a black mustache beneath her prominent nose, on which sat a wart. the size of a small gherkin." Truth, like cheap whisky, is invigorating in small doses, but is easier to take if it is mixed with something. in the people started to wave hands, telling us we could park there. That was all right but when we got out and lock- ed the car and started to walk away, they almost dragged us into the hotel. They couldn't talk a word of English and we couldn't talk a word of Italian, so all in all it was quite an ex- perience. It was cheaper all right; the beds were clean, but what characters. We couldn't get out of town fast enough. This was the first morning we were up, dressed and out be- fore 7:30. We didn't try that again. Next the leaning tower of Pisa. So long for now, Pete Superintendents Feel First Year Is Successful The annual meeting of the Huron County Road Superinten- dents' Association was held in the Stanley Township Hall at Varna on Wednesday. The 1962 slate of officers was returned for 1963. Wm. G. Mundell, Township of Turnberry as president; Wm. J. Taylor, Township of Stanley as vice-president; Wm. J. Routly, Usborne as secretary -treasurer; and Mel Good, of Colborne as county representative to the provincial association. Lawrence Hill, Township of Stephen, Andrew Houston, Tuckersmith and Lenard Cald- well, Hullett, were also ap- pointed as program committee. Various items of business were disposed of and a lively discussion took place on mat- ters pertaining to municipal work. In reviewing the results of the organization's first year, it was felt by all that it had been a worthwhile venture and plans. were laid for further meetings and activities by which the various municipalities and the County of Huron would bene- fit. The president, Mr. Mundell, thanked all who had helped in any way in 1962 and hoped for even greater success in 1963. One Moment, Please By Rev. Gordon L. Fish Wingham Ontario LOW SUNDAY The first Sunday after Eas- ter is known in many Christian Churches as 'Low Sunday'. The spiritual heights have been reached the previous Sunday and now it is the return to 'other things'. The disciples, as yet without their pentecos- tal experience, were perturbed as to the events of the Cruci- fixion. When Peter said, 'I'm going fishing, ' there was little effort needed to persuade the others to join him. Spirits were low, confusion was rife and indecision ran riot amongst even those who followed Jesus in His earthly ministery. There are spiritual heights and there are sloughs of des- pair, with which we contend daily. There can be little room for the mercurial be- haviour of most Christians as they rise and fall according to the 'winds' in their testimony to His unfailing grace. We, as Christians, have every right to enjoy the continuing well- being of Easter each and every hour of our life, as we live in utter dependence upon Him. There is no secret to all this -- the answer is plainly given in the Scriptures. In the Epistle to the Romans 11:28 — 39, we have the ideal pattem to follow that we might live a consistent testimony to our faith in Christ. 'All things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are called according to His purpose.' By applying this truth to our lives we recognize the need of an utter depend- ence upon Him who loved us, it is dependence and not the half-hearted hopefulness that all will eventually work out well. "If God be for us, who can be against us?" Say this to yourself in the most convincing tone that you possess: do you believe. it? You can do this only as you come and trust Him as the God who went all the way to the Cross and has defeat- ed efeated death on your behalf. The consistent walk is the most convincing argument for that which was accomplished in you, through Jesus' death and resurrection. Make indel- ibly sure that your faith and trust is in Him as you apply these above promises in your life, and that Ile in turn will 'crmit you to express the Eas- ter Sunday experience each our and day of your earthly ife in flim.