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The Wingham Advance-Times, 1965-10-07, Page 9• U a • • V New Law May Plug the Drain The announcement was made last week that a new system of immigration rules to be applied to those seeking en- trance to the .United States may seriously affect Canadians, In brief, the number of Canadians admitted for residence in the States may be sharply reduced. For many years American immigration policy has discriminated against Orientals and other nationals, chiefly on a basis of country of origin. Under the new in- terpretation of the quotas such discrim- ination will cease. As we understand the changes, the chief limiting factor will now be total numbers to be admitted in any one year. It appears reasonably certain that Canadians will find a limitation placed on the number transferring their residence from our country to the U. S, each year, With their new consciousness of the basic rights of all mankind, the Ameri- cans, and particularly their president, are returning to the original concept of the United States of America as a haven for the oppressed and unfortunate peoples wherever they come from. Though Canadians who are already planning to slip across the border in order to benefit from the higher pay scales which prevail there may be somewhat bitter at the thought of limitations, Ca- nada should, in the long -run, benefit from the curb on emigration to the south. Ever since the war, in, fact for many years before that, successful Canadians by the hundreds have left their native land to seek better fortunes in the States. Some of them have been disappointed— but many have indeed achieved great sue, cess in a land where heavier population and bigger markets provide higher in, comes for nearly all classes, One can scarcely blame these individu- als who decided to seek greener pastures, but the Toss to our own country has been a heavy one. The first examples which come to mind are the actors and singers who have been lost to the Canadian scene, Much more important, however, was the loss of nurses, promising students, scien, Lists and teachers, whose skills Canada has sorely missed. If the new regulations prevent some of these vital Canadian citizens from leaving it will eventually prove of tremendous benefit to our de- velopment and progress. Nor will the enforced "stay-at-home" policy necessarily mean a loss to those who would like to leave. An interesting fact of the last decade is that an increas- ing number of Americans are coming to Canada. Their reasons are varied. Some merely assume that the "rat race" is less deadly here. Others have found that they prefer our system of government and our comparative freedom from race discrim- ination pressures. More particularly, how- ever, a growing class of keen American business men and salesmen believe that Canada is, or soon will be, the land of opportunity and they want to get in on the ground floor. They sincerely believe that within a few years Canada will be a real boom land and that fortunes will be made by those who are farsighted and energetic. There Must Be a Better Way Of all the out -dated legislation we have on our books, it is' possible that the Lord's Day Act is the most anachronistic. Last week -end a hockey game in Stratford was cancelled because there was a threat of action under the Lord's Day Act, The threat, of course, would have been idle in Toronto or any other municipality where a Sunday sports by-law has been passed. Of course there are lots of people who don't believe that sports on Sunday are a good thing ... nor are they forced to attend such games if it is contrary to their beliefs. On the other hand there are many who see nothing wrong in attend- ing a game of this kind on the Sabbath ... and for all we know a large majority of the latter class may be sincere and active Christians. The leaders of all Christian faiths in these present days are openly acknowledg- ing that changes must be made in atti- tudes and in actions if the Church is to survive in a changing world. Some pain- ful re -thinking is going on and some far- reaching alterations are being made in the rules of human conduct. To put is briefly, most denominations of the Christian world have, whether they admit it or not, acknowledged that man- kind has matured to the point where there is little to be gained by forcing a pattern of behavior upon anyone. Unless moral conduct is motivated from within a man it is of little value to either himself or his neighbor. if it is still necessary to force the pub- lic, by a stern law, and under threat of fines, to observe the Sabbath in one par- ticular fashion, what has been accomplish- ed? This Act serves only to express the fear that the churches have failed in their mission. A New Incentive Is it not rather interesting to witness the new interest which has been aroused in politics since the last federal election? We suspect that the increased annual sti- pend of $15,000 per year has something to do with the awakenintg of new zeal in the various parties. Although a good many of those who sought office at recent nominations were motivated by the prospect of high pay, we still believe that increased remuneration was a move in the right direction. Though the higher stipend is bound to attract the type of man who is interested more in the money than the responsibility, it also serves to make it possible for younger and more active candidates to offer themselves for public service. In years gone by our parliamentary system has witnessed some shocking scan - dais, occasioned in no small degree by the fact that junior members were so ill -paid that opportunities for graft provided real temptation. If a man is sufficiently in- telligent to represent us in the House of Commons it is obvious that he is doing so by sacrificing some remunerative form of occupation in the business or profes- sional world. Therefore we must pay him according to his worth. What Does It Matter? On Sunday evening the CBC's contro- versial TV program "This Hour Has Seven Days" managed to stir up the public in its usual fine style. Hundreds of Cath- olics were offended when the program announcer failed to make it clear that one skit portrayed only an imaginary situation, in which the Pope was being asked to um- pire a baseball game during his visit to New,York on Monday. This program has served some highly useful purposes in pointing out injustices to the public but there are times when its producers do become over -zealous. On Sunday evening it was implied that a Tor- onto advertising agency was untrustwor- thy because it had produced a series of ads for the Canada Pension Plan in which various classes of Canadian employees were depicted. "Seven Days" went to a great deal of trouble to prove that the names used in the ads were not those of the persons actually pictured. Whether or not the names were ficti- tious was unimportant. The ads in ques- tion were used only to demonstrate typi- cal cases for various classes of workers. The pictures were only there to arrest the readers' attention. We believe this usual- ly fine program should stick to the im- portant rather than messing around with the trivial. THE WINGHAM ADVANCE - TIMES Published at Wingham, Ontario, by Wenger Bros, Limited W. Barry Wenger, President - Robert O. Wenger, Secretary -Treasurer Member Audit Bureau of Circulation; Member Canadian Weekly Newspapers Associ-, atioh; Member Canadian Community Newspapers Representatives Author1ied by the i'oat Office Department as Second Class Mail and for payment of postage in cash Subscription hate: One Year; $4.00; Six Months, $2.25, in advance U.S.A., $5.00 per year; Foreign rate, $5.00 per year Advertising Rates oh'appaCatio MAITLAND ON THE RAMPAGE—Many readers will recall this wild scene in the spring of 1947, when the Maitland flood waters sliced through the roadway just south of the Howson dam. The Howson grist mill is in the upper left. Town council has recently approved a program of recon- struction at the dam to prevent any recurrence of such conditions. btancitmant Wingham, Ontario, Thursday, Oct. 7, 1965, THIRD SECTION SUGAR AND SPICE by Bill Smiley We're Romans, All I've been reading a fascinat- ing book about the ancient Ro- mans. Meditating on their econ- omy and social customs, I couldn't avoid comparing them with ours today. Like us, the Romans of the Golden Age we3e nuts about highways. The Roman Empire had over 60,000 miles of thru- ways. Italy alone had about 400 major paved roads. These ena- bled Caesar to travel 900 miles in eight days. A messenger sent to announce the death of Nero made 300 miles in 36 hours. To- day, it takes almost that long to get home from the cottage, on a holiday weekend. Like us, the Romans were in- terested in things that worked. Unlike the Egyptians and the Greeks, who built massive, or beautiful, but useless structures like the pyramids or the Parthe- non, the Romans were great boys for water -works and sew- ers and stadiums. Like us, they were in the toils of the bankers, with all their di- abolical inventions: savings books, travellers' cheques, mon- ey orders, interest and mort- gages. Like us, they had a hybrid government, half -socialist, half - capitalist. It froze the price of wheat and plunged into public works to solve unemployment, but did nothing about slum land- lords, exorbitant interest rates and shady used -horse dealers. Sound familiar? Like us, they practised birth control, and abortion was com- mon. Unless she were hard up, a Roman woman who had had a child got rid of it immediately by turning it over to a wet- tturse, then to a Greek slave governess, then to a Greek slave tutor. We don't have wet - nurses but we have the bottle. And we don't have slaves, dans it, but we have the baby-sitter and the public schools system. Like us, they divorced each other indiscriminately. Caesar had four wives and Was unfaith- ful to all of them. Their entertainment was much like ours: horse races, the theatre, variety shows, gladia toriai contests. And just as t day, the chariot drivers, actor and gladiators were idolized and paid 8,000 times what they were worth. Of course, the Romans were cruel. After the city was almost destroyed by fire, emperor Nero blamed the Christians, and had the whole lot, or so he thought, thrown to the lions, all 1,000 of them. We'd never think of doing that today. It's too vicious, too flamboyant. Today we quietly stuff six million Jews into gas chambers, or incinerate 100,000 Japanese with a big blow torch. The ladies will be glad to know that Roman women were just as silly as they are, about their looks. It was three hours every morning over the hairdo assisted by half a dozen slaves. Underwear was of silk and the brassiere was just coming in. The milk -bath was common and wealthy gals who were tra- velling brought along their own herd of cows to be sure of a de- cent bath. Bathrooms as today, were lit- tered with razors, scissors, soap, perfume, oils, powders, hairbrushes and all that muck. No wet nylons, though to hit you in the face. Hair -styles were fantastic. And they had some great par- ties in those days. They began at four in the afternoon and lasted far into the night. Not like our stodgy affairs, which commence with cocktails at five, and Iast far into the morn- ing. At their parties, or orgies, the air was perfumed, flowers were everywhere, there were two ser- vants for each guest. and the host would offer precious gifts to his guests. They hit the grape pretty hard, and got ill on stuff like thrushes breasts, but slaves passed regularly distributing emetics so that everyone could throw up and then go right on eating. I sure would like to get in on a good old orgy. Why does a fel- low have to be born 2,000 years too late? Tom: "You look tired," Tim: "I am. I plugged the electric blanket into the toaster by mistake and kept popping out of bed alt night." REMINISCING OCTOBER 1915 Mrs. C. N. Donaldson, Miss Shirley Keith and Charles spent Thanksgiving with their cousins Mrs. R. Douglas and Misses McInnis, near Blyth, Privates Brown, Bryden, Bowden, Brooks, Boardman, Bunn, Dear, Holland, Lance Corp. Bayles, Pte, Hayles, Sr, Corp. Taylor, Sergt. Groves, Pte. Stratton, Goodman, spent Thanksgiving at their respec- tive homes in town. Three more of Wingham's young men have answered the call to enlist, Messrs. Leonard Brock of the Bank of Hamilton, Horace Buttery and Charles Gander. A cement mixer used on the construction of the new G.T.R. bridge here, tumbled over the steep embankment near the Western Foundry one day last week and was completely smashed. It was replaced in a day or so by a new machine. Andrew Everett, an em- ployee of the Exchange Hotel, was taken violently i11 last week and Dr. Kennedy was hurriedly summoned. The doc- tor pronounced it a serious case of appendicitis and he was at once hurried to the hospital, where he was operated upon. OCTOBER 1929 A disastrous fire occurred about 5 p.m. on Tuesday when Abe Smith, of the sixth con- cession of West Wawanosh, had his barn and the contents com- pletely destroyed. Mr. and Mrs. Miller Procter announce the engagement of their daughter, Addie Peal, to Dr. George William Howson, son of Mr. and Mrs. W. J. How son, Wingham, the marriage to take place about the middle of October. The decorators at work in Wingham United Church, and workmen installing the new pip'. organ, are rapidly finishing their contracts, and will have everything in readiness for the re -opening services, a week from Sunday, October 13th. Rev. J. W. Hibbert, of London, a former pastor, takes the re- opening services. Fred Stephenson, of Toronto is visiting at the home of his father, J. 11. Stephenson. Mr. Stephenson, who was in the jewellery business here until about two months ago, when he disposed of his business to Mr. Williarns, of Toronto, is now opening up a business with his son in Chatham. OCTOBER 1940 There was a large entry in The T. Eaton hog special at the Fair last Thursday, 15 pens, which made 75 hogs. The win- ners were; lst, J. D. Beecroft, who also won the prize for the champion carcass; 2nd, Benson Cruickshank; 3rd, Robert Coul- tes, 4th R. J. Currie; 5th W. Pocock; 6th J. H. Currie. Four Wingham youths had a lucky escape when the car in which they were riding plunged about eight feet into a ditch. The accident happened Sunday night about eight o'clock at the junction of the Durham Road and Highway No. 4. Clarence Ohm was driving the car and with him as passengers were Bill Forsyth, Joe Wilson and Bob Prentice. OCTOBER 1951 An early morning alarm aroused the firemen from their warm beds Monday and sent them hustling to a fire only a few doors from the fire hall at Lee's Restaurant. A pan of grease which caught fire filled the restaurant with smoke but no damage was done. Mr. John Hanna MPP, and Mrs. Hanna were guests at the dinner given by the Lieutenant - Governor of the Province of On- tario and Mrs. Ray Lawson in the Royal York Hotel's main banquet hall, Toronto, last Sat- urday evening on the occasion of the visit of their Royal High- nesses the Princess Elizabeth and the Duke of Edinburgh. David Whitby, age 8, suffer- ed a fractured left leg when he was struck by a car opposite the hall park last week. Ile is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Ed. Whit- by. A car -tractor crash sent two men to Wingham General hos- pital early Saturday evening. Admitted were Roy Colin, 64, with head injuries and shock, and Gordon Ritchie, 40, with fractures about both shoulders and shock Harold Victor Pytn, organist and choirmaster of St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church, Winglram, and musical director of radio station CKNX held a recital at Evangelical United Brethren Church in Elmira on Monday evening. The church was filled to capacity for the dedication of a new organ. Make a better lawn and the world beats a path across it to your door.