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Chance to Save Lives
Recent issues of The Advance -Times
have carried an advertisement asking ap-
plications from interested persons for the
position of driving instructor at the Wing -
ham District High School, Arrangements
have been made to have a staff member
handle the classroom instruction for the
student drivers' course, but the board is
seeking someone to handle in -the -car in-
struction,
We certainly do hope that there is not
too much delay in locating the right per-
son for this job, because we have always
felt that safe driving instruction is a tre-
mendously important addition to the
training program offered by the school.
Though the course is not compulsory, it
offers one of the surest methods of re-
ducing the horribly high accident rate
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among young drivers.
it has always seemed a tragedy that
young drivers had to be branded as care-
less, and even dangerous. At that time
of life they should be the very best of
drivers, with their keen reflexes and un-
impaired vision. The Air Force long ago
proved that young men and only young
men could be trained for the exacting
task of handling new and highly com-
plicated aircraft. However, Air Force
training included one aspect which is
generally lacking in the training of car
drivers—unending drills and practices to
ensure that safety levels are kept at a
maximum,
it is this attention to safety which has
made the high school driver classes so
successful. The impetuosity of youth is
bridled and restrained. The idiocy of
"gasoline cowboy" tactics is emphasized
and sane driving practices are taught as
the only intelligent method of staying
alive behind the wheel of a car,
School board members have often
contended that driving instruction should
not be the obligation of our secondary
schools. They feel that some other agency
should be responsible for it, However,
no other agency has yet emerged which
can and will handle driving courses with
equal authority and success. The auto-
mobile
utomobile has become a universal tool of
modern business and social life, and our
high schools have the responsibility for
fitting young people to meet the demands
of a changing age. Safe driving does
seem to fall into this category.
We are indeed pleased that the Wing -
ham District High School will offer this
extremely important form of instruction,
Thanks for Your Compliments
Our thanks to the very many readers
and business people who have spoken so
highly of the spring fashion edition pub-
lished by The Advance -Times last week.
We are indeed pleased to know that it
was of interest to the public and that it
has stimulated attention for the fashion
show held last evening.
e . We are very enthusiastic about enter-
prises of this kind, where small town
businessmen get off their hunkers and do
something practical about keeping busi-
ness at home. Too many have fallen into
a dejected attitude and resigned them-
selves to losing trade to larger city stores.
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Smaller towns can still be the best of
all places to shop if the businessmen
chose to make them so. This column has
often mentioned the practical reasons for
shopping at home, chief of which is per-
sonal acquaintanceship with the man who
sells the goods.
It is to be hoped that the fashion
show will be only the first of a series of
business promotions designed to let the
public know more about the town in
which they live and do their shopping.
With each such effort the level of service
to the general public will be improved.
Water Shortage Is Critical
Those who own cottages along the
shores of Lake Huron are in for a some-
what bleak summer. Instead of sandy
beaches and rolling surf they are going
to spend their holidays gazing out at 300
yards of water -worn rocks. If they own
a boat they will either leave it in the boat
house or scramble over a quarter -mile of
stones to reach it.
The situation is one which gives cause
for considerable alarm—and the cottage
owners are among the least seriously af-
fected. The economy generally will suffer
to considerable degree.
Various causes are mentioned for the
low water mark, the lowest, by the way,
in nearly a century. The latest reason is
that the deepening of the St. Lawrence
Seaway channels has "pulled the plug"
from the Great Lakes bathtub. Just who
is right we don't know. Thirty-five years
ago it was claimed that the Chicago sew-
age canal, which drains Great Lakes water
into the Mississippi River was respon-
sible, .At that time, however, the water
level would drop for a year or two and
then return to normal. Today's prospect
is that the levels will not be back to
normal for several years, if at all.
One prominent engineer has seriously
proposed an immediate start on a pro-
gram of river diversions which would dir-
ect water flowing in the streams of the
Hudson Bay drainage basin back into the
rivers which feed the Great Lakes from
Northern Ontario, Another engineer has
outlined a 30 -year plan for similar di-
versions of the rivers emptying into the
Pacific.
Whatever the cause of the shortage,
it is evident that some drastic and no
doubt costly steps will have to be taken
to remedy the situation. London and the
communities farther south are well on
their way to securing the construction
of a water pipeline from Lake Huron to
supply their needs. The plan appears
hazardous if the level of the lake itself is
dangerously low.
If serious thought and action are not
devoted to the problem right away
Southern Ontario could conceivably be-
come as aricl as the Sahara.
A Word For It
Anyone who has the dictionary habit
is likely to acquire a good deal of mis-
cellaneous, and frequently useless, infor-
mation. This is because he rarely can
keep his mind exclusively on the word
he intended to look up, but is diverted
to by-paths.
Latest acquisition of a confirmed dic-
tionary addict is the word "phillumenist,"
which he stumbled upon in the addenda
of The Concise Oxford Dictionary. No
clue is given to who coined the word, but
it would be condemned by some scholars
as a hybrid, because its roots are both
Greek and Latin.
The definition given by The Oxford
is "a student or collector of match -box
labels." Presumably a collector of match-
books would also qualify for the title.
If those hobbyists are as numerous as
they were a few years ago, they may wish
to form a society. If so, they are wel-
come to the name.—The Printed Word.
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WINGHAM BOY SCOUTS are seen as they demonstrated
some of their work at the Father and Son night held at
the high school last week. About 90 fathers were on
hand for the occasion.
catered for the event.
The Scout and Cub mothers
—Advance -Times Photo.
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Wingham, Ontario, Thursday, April 16, 1964
SECOND SECTION
SUGAR AND SPiCE
Love That Sunday
By BILL SMILEY
Last Sunday was one of
those days. Filthy outside,
with mud and rain and
wind. D i s -
mal inside,
with every-
body bored
and crabby.
I mooched
around t h e
house gloom-
ily, wishing
the golf
course w a s
dry, or the
trout season
open. Then I started think-
ing about what Sunday
really meant, was ashamed
of myself, and cheered up
considerably.
As some wit remarked: to
our ancestors, it was the
Holy Sabbath; to our great-
grandfathers, The Lord's
Day; to our fathers, Sun-
day. We call it The Week
End,
The Sabbath is not of
Christian origin. It was
originally a Jewish holy
day, on the last day of the
week. Like most of the laws
of the ancient Hebrews, ob-
servance of the Sabbath
was a combination of reli-
gion and common sense.
Man needs a day of rest in
every seven. He demands
punctuation marks in the
life sentence he is serving.
However, there's a vast
difference between the Sab-
bath of the ancient Hebrew
and the Sunday of modern
man.
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The former lived a pas-
toral life. When the Sabbath
came along, all he had to
do was lie around and count
his sheep. He didn't have to
roll, groaning, out of bed
after a late Saturday night,
scramble around trying to
get his family off to church,
wash the car or catch fish
or play golf. drive 80 miles
to visit some relatives of
his wife, and tear home to
watch the hockey game,
If it were not for Sunday,
the Saturday night bath
would become obsolete. If
it were not for Sunday,
many hien would go
through life without shining
their shoes. If it were not
for Sunday. many women
would never get a new hat.
Bill Smiley
Sunday is a great conn -
fort to those intent on get-
ting to heaven. They don
sober garb and pious mien
on Sundt* morning. On
Monday, they go back to
the normal pastimes of try-
ing to scramble to political,
social and financial emi-
nence over the crushed and
bleeding bodies and souls of
their fellow Christians.
secure in the knowledge
that if there is a rush for
seats on the judgment day,
they will have some pull
with the management.
Sunday means church.
Church, too, is a good thing.
First of all, it provides em-
ployment for ministers, and
employment, or lack of it,
is pretty important these
days, Secondly, it provides
probably the only place in
modern society where
people who like to sing, but
sound like hyenas, can vent
their frustration without
someone telling them to
shut up.
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After c h u r c h, what?
There's nothing particularly
Christian about gorging
oneself with food and sitting
in a stupor looking at tele-
vision.
What about a nice Chris-
tian game of golf, with no
swearing when one slices?
What about a little walk in
the woods, worshipping the
wonderful world of nature
that was created for one?
And if one happened to look
down and see a fishing rod
in one's hand, one shouldn't
worry too much about it.
Remember the old adage:
Evangelists may rave and
shout,
But only God can make a
trout.
BOX 390
General Delivery
Clinton, Ontario
April 11,1964
To the Editor,
Dear Sir,
I would like to take this. op-
portunity to thank all your rea-
ders who so kindly sent things
for the Ontario hospital pa-
dents. They were a great help
in passing the time.
At present we are not need-
ing any more greeting cards,
but we welcome old nylons,
odds and ends of knitting yarn
and jewelery. Thanking you
most sincerely for your interest.
Yours truly,
Grace F. Hussey
ANCIENT TONGUE
Lithuanian is considered by
philologists to be the most
ancient of all living languages.
It is older than Greek, Latin,
German, Celtic and the Slav
tongues. It belongs to the Indo-
European group and is the lan-
guage most closely related to
Sanskrit.
Rem iniscing
APRIL 1914
The Public School Board
met Dr. Field, Inspector of
Public Schools, at a meeting
held in the office of the Town
Clerk on Friday morning last to
consider ways and means of
relieving the overcrowding in
the school. After hearing the
Inspector's explanation of the
different methods in which this
could be overcome they de-
cided to establish a Kinder-
garten Department on the first
of May. The Government pays
50 per cent of the teacher's
salary for three years, also 20
per cent of the cost of equip-
ment for three years.
b1r. R. A. Currie, one of
Wingham's progressive furniture
dealers and undertakers has this
week added a new rubber tired
casket wagon to his undertak-
ing equipment. The wagon is
of the very latest type manu-
factured and is up-to-date in
every particular. ivl:. Currie
believes in keeping abreast of
the times in rhe undertaking
line.
A happy evening took place
at the home of Mr. and vlrs.
Biehl on Tuesday evening,
when their daughter, Miss Edna
Idella Knechtel was united in
marriage to Mr. James Ellis
Filbert, of London.
Mrs. A. E. Simmons and
children left ort Tuesday for
their new home in Brandon,
Man. Mrs. Simmons has been
a resident of Wingham for a
number of years and her large
circle of friends will wish her
many years of happiness in Iver
new home.
APRIL 1928
Miss Elsie Blackhall has re-
turned to Crediton, after visit-
ing her parents, Mr. and Mrs.
C. Blackhall, Diagonal Road,
the past weep:.
R1r, John Galbraith was con-
fined to the house the last week,
from an injury sustained by a
heavy roll of oil cloth pinning;
him to the stairs. The roll
slipped crushing his kg and in-
juring his hack, For a few days
he suffered considerably but is
now improving nicely.
Wroxeter formally voted
away its identity as an incorpor-
ated village on Monday, when
the ratepayers, in a closely
contested ballot, decided to
revert to the Township of itow-
ick. The voting stood: for re-
maining; as an incorporated
village 41; for reverting to the
township :i:,. The purpose he -
hand the change is to place the
residents in a position to secure
hydro power .1t the rural rate.
APRIL 1939
A party was held at Wing -
ham General 1lospita1 on Mon-
day night in honor of Miss B.
I., Harris, by the members of
the staff of the hospital, who
presented her with a beautiful
marble lamp. Miss llarris has
been assistant superintendent
for about a year at the hospital.
Mr. Cecil N. Ivierkley took
part in the Ken Soble amateur
contest that was held on Wed-
nesday evening last week in
the Patricia Theatre, London.
The elections for the Wing -
ham Public School Students'
Council for April, resulted as
follows: Grade VIII Grace Small,
Craig Armstrong; Grade VII,
Elizabeth Hare, George Cope-
land; Grade VI, Grace Bailey;
Grade V, Fred Taylor.
Mr. Arthur Lawlor suffered
a heart attack at his home,
Frances St., on Thursday after-
noon, It is hoped he will have
a speedy recovery.
Messrs. Currie and Tervit
have made a good start with the
horses this year. At Clinton
show in the roadster in harness
class they won first prize. At
1Iensall they took first in the
roadster farmers' class, 1st in
the single roadster open and al-
so the championship.
APRIL 1949
The newly elected Recrea-
tion Council for the new term
are as follows; Pres., A. D..
MacWilliam; Vice -pros. , Ron-
ald Rae; Treas. , Clayton Gam -
mage; secretary, Mrs. Jack
flapper; directors, Miss Agnes
Williamson, Joseph Clark, Ro-
bert Ferguson, Frank Howson
and Harold Wild.
Ken Ilingston, an employee
of The Advance -Times joined
the active army last week. Ile
leaves next week for Shilo,
Manitoba for training.
The regular Lions dinner
meeting was held at the Brun-
swick hotel on Friday evening.
Lion Sam Burton had a record
player handy and played a re-
cord recentlti received by Lion
Bill Galbraith and Lion Dr,
Connell from Rev. Otto Gall-
agher of Globe, Arizona.
President Bill Tiffin welcomed
a visitor, George Beattie of
the Dominion Bank Staff. Lion
Bill Hamilton was welcomed
back to the: Club.
Mr. and Mrs. Harry L. Mc-
Guire wish to announce the
engagement of their daughter,
Ruth Lillian, to W. Harold
C:antelon, son of Mr. and Mrs.
C. R. Cantclon, Wingham,
Ontario. The wedding will
take place on Wednesday, May
isth, to Knot United Church,
Belgrave
Announcement was made
last week by the llydro Electric
Commission of changes in per-
sonnel, Morley T. Somers,
who came from Barrie five
year: ago 1n charge of Wing -
ham Rural llydro, and later as
manager of the Wingham arca,
receives a promotion and re-
turns to Barrie as assistant line
superintendent of the Georgian
Bay Region,