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The Goderich Signal-Star, 1949-12-22, Page 2Pio*. TWO • FQBEIKS:T Published by g -utas,, .Lrmited 111041criprtion Rates ---Canada and Cereat Britain, 1244 a year; .to .[lusted , tieing . 11,atee on 'regdest. Authorized as atseeand-class mail; Poet QUIee Depart hent, ( Wa, ATelephone 71, • , • lieanber of Ca nadraa WeeklyNew p era Association Weekly. ..-. Circulation e .. 2 Oo ROBEBTSO s �" lu�EQ. L. !T=7LJS ., RSDAY, DEC.,F)Efid, 1€40 • DITO AL i :0Es This £ oluinn wishes its readers, each • and every Tie, a bright and halt' ,y Christman. • • For, those under • t , it wishes l'itarty appetite for the, Christmaaa dinner; for the older 'ones; enough will -power to push away„ from the table in good time: .• • ♦' „s, • • Its too late paow to do your • , 0uistuxa,a> sholaping early, but there are still a couple of days before the; ,stares close on ...Christmas Eve. *.• Thie. Soviets don't believe in Christmas, and Stalin. just now may be congratulating his people on, all the trouble he is saving them in Mvi igno need of preparations for great festival as in Christian lands. No carols -s -•no Christmas trees—no Christmas entertainments ' quo Santa Claans for the children— nos -hatipy homecomings. What a country' , • 1 come home at Christmas" And they did. He had elothed himself in the. beautiful garments, of Christ. ian living One reads in, the press that some s iritualis�s have been busy, °ealw- • ° s Former Prime, Minister• Mac- kenzie King observed •i his seventy- fifth birthday on Saturday. Inter- ^vJewed, , he said he ,missed. the ac •tivities of ',public life, but there were coiaipensatiotis -.in the hours • -of "leisure now at his disposal: The •;retired statesman received •mes- . sages on the anniversary • from. ,all ., parts- of the world, - -' • s •• • •--."7"."111 'Gerata.ny Setanes-sassstorl :, . a town"council w'ho Hired a. •man tb roam the streets at night barking like a dog.. He does .it so well that every dog, witblii hearing responds , with' barking; he, makes, a note of where all -the dogs are and ze- ports to the town tax. collector, and any, = owner '- who ''hasn't a %iten:se • for his..4og"-.receives a •demand for payment of the tax. Perhaps there is somebody, out of a job in- Gode- rich who might deninnstrate his ability to hicat,e unlicensed canines, • ,: , o., • • • __._ Dr. C. M. Hincks of Toronto, .director of -the National Conimittee for Mental ,Hygiene, ,is quoted as saying that- farm -children have a better health than. its: children.: "Irsnot just • by- accident,", 'be says, "that many of -our great' lea,ders come -from - i ural ' areas." Children on farms develop a sense of responsibility from doing chores about the 'farm. City •children okse, lack sufficient outlet for their gr�ergies,, said 'Dr.. Mucks. Perhaps 'that is why near- ly all of the bank robberies and other crimes that make news in the daily press are committed - by yqung fellows •frons. the cities ;. their energies find an • outlet, but not in the right • direction. ` • •- , • ,An Ottawa despatch reports a movement to establish a salary, of $10,000 a year for members of the - douse of Commons. Members now receive $4,000 for e4ch session, with anadditional_ tax-free allowance of $2,000. With two sessions this -year, members of the last Parliament who •,were re-elected in :June re- ceived ab -nit .$10,000, The uwnal • r �4(l(7Yll .I? a�.'/�,i �es ltosvever, is °. to }Moe only • one session a year.fr' ``vfd nber�3 com- plain that the sesssioh5 ' now© are lodger than in pre-war years and ! us they are kept away from their 'ordinary;_ vocations for longer periods.- "The sessions. might • be Shortened If a penalty were iiniinssed ing back some :close associates of Hitler in; their seances; making to very heart of,4.iowntown Toronto,. some 'of ua questionable use of the most sur rotuitied by stores and medium. It occurs to us -they might T'aarehouses, and completely. hidden get busy, on soave_ snore desia,hie from the view of the casual pAagr4 characters who have graced our by. Ix takes hunting-' to °. find it, earth and title, if there is anythi'ng but it is well' worth the• finding at to it. Frank .Crossley would sae one ' any time. It is a fine building, such to 1i spire us to make a good 102 years old, which has been- re - showing at Christmas. ' -std and redecorated. The: We • don''[ .need to follow a I windows 'are Beautiful; ' the inside. mediate., or to desire one from the; vel•iis are light :and ` the ceiling spirit world to appear or eonv'erse, timbered in squares. Each square with. We might rather profitably h.as a colored design on a blue read Dickens' Christmas Carol' background ; ;the rector suggests again, and study the way of ; th.t it represents the spacious Brio - Scrooge's transformation spurred on ' ament with rain, snowflakes, etc., by his Christrnsut . `dreams. • Let us: as in ;St. Francis' hymn. Read it make, say, the Gospel of Luke ours,.• over in your hymn book some .time. thief William Riley,; ief , It begins ``All creatures • of our United Nations, truce observer in y Godand' King." The choir; screen, „Palestine, ' a year—ago, asked . the and pulpit are of hand -carved wal- Israeli arra Arab Legion commandera n.'ut. The pulpit in particular ' is in the Jerusalem area to open the really a gena. The Beatitudes are Bethlehem road for the Christmas-apainted over thewindows of the seasoaq, sq visiting pilgrims making nese. and other Scripture' over 'the use of the season might do justice other" windows and the arches above to the great event, and all the grand the chancel. meaning 'of that city of David be Rut before, I on, I a •ttst 'tell -brought home to our world that you t �s-o or three tories : about the Phillips Brous reflects in his poem- church. . In 1845 the'; Bishop of hymn :. "O /Attie Town - of Bethle- Ripon sent a cheque for .i5,000 hem!" from a lady in England to the The road to Bethlehem= has been Bishop. of Toronto to be, used . fqr clogged with hatess quarrels.. scorn, the building and 'endowment of a pride, in so. many lie es. Perhaps chureh in • which the seats were to the,astead..bias been .pulled up or be',;ftree and unappropriated forever; blown up in a demonstration that the donor to ' }ntliai;' anonymous. .v-:epsJr .. titer a w,. ERIC H .;sIGNAL-STAR. The' Country Mouse at The Chrisimas .-St()ty Deter' Friends, --.0 iristmais it3' Tpr-1 The rest of thecostumes were made !from the ,ora . al des' s b : the ,, tmas s axial h Holy Trinity ladies.. Everything and synthetic• Chras .Gree in the whole pageant is dare by the red -nosed reindeer. Last night I people of the congregatio,u—pres attended the slosh beautiful, -moist foss%nal men., mechanics, laborers, impreSslve`>' and ' lrobdbly• ,most old age pensioners and cb.ildrena• -. There are two complete east of reverently produced Christmas stony t Torty members -each, but at lea$t in Toronto-- n Gybe in, Canada—and 150' people take part' in other 1' ays. the one. which is seen • and beard —singers, electricians, etc., and one b the mast , ople, This is the can only' imagine the • +countless y � of year."The Christmas 'tory"hours dUce SAC practicewonderful and be pro - twelfth _las been givea at thehureh of ful rforimance. Holy Trinity. The Srs't year it The •,ANatis sty star is told in was performed twice, ,t'or probably light, Color; , mimic, Scripture find one thousand, people. `his year it p nearly 10,000 people • will haste a series of penfect tableaux. >.. The doors were open at -6--o'clock. ,attended, ,- By 7 all. seats were taken, At, 7,15 Holy. Trinity Church is in . tee some of those waiting in ,line doesn't suggest anger staging, nor yet peace -log rng Pepp�e voicing Christ a i' carols.- A--- ,etour sign may be excused' on the Bethlehem road, providing it leads to -the -inn w irere- "t`heniol „" a — i inr=dic '`n t the Wise Men iial'e to .detour ` -their quest,, and, when returning ,found detouring -very ' essential:? But for every last one of us there As wird. oin in..resting by the weary road to hear the angels sing. There sholild be °at Christmas time, first of all, -before candies •are lighted and parcels are unwrapped and Santa Claus 'is received;: and the great feast spread with scores of. attractive . things, the ge>eral ,sug- gestion that in \thought and [vision• and sacred ,remembrance we should afct upon what the shepherdssaid and did, "Let us now go to Bethle- hem to see - this'; that has ` come; to pass,'p • . Such a- thing Mould• be fruitful. burden grievous of bad feel- ing weald be dropped and wanted no more ; some unforgiveness would disappear from mind and heart; some- foolish sirence on which we have prided ourselves would be broken in halting yet penitent speech or in a tender letter. It is amazing what a kind, tender letter written, tothose who hunger for the unspoken and Un- written word iIT do. ' Didn't Bos- well write to the great Samuel' Johnson and say, '„'Vaso lines from yoti will keep my lamp burning brghl"?? And on another occasion he wrote, "To hear from you will animate me like the sound of • a trumpet." Those tvio liaies,,.humbly and sweetly written • in the Christ - mar spirit, `would., bring ,as ,_grand• results as.. RnsWeils anticipated. Making ' others feel; better, causing their flag to go, to the ,stop of the inast, making the band'' to begin to play in 1•ife, is something we can 'well do this Christmas. Happy and rewarded is the man who puts on the Santa Claus mask and the red outfit, whiskers arid all. He gets very much out of it for •his own spirit and satisfaction. In the pageantry of life why not offer ta do the part of an „ atagel,, or a Wise Man seeking the best, giving the costliest, or a shepherd offering toe' heart's adoration with no gift but love, • or enlist in the grand .9M/.q.,�h'g dM , ,of ;difneMary and Joseph. were 'the The church was opened and_ con- secrated by - Bishop . Strachan. in 184T. I understand that the son and 'grandson of „Bishop Strachan were buried in. Goderich cemetery: TTe- iaTeres' 'iinr "siil`l; "t"he-'-"`re!ar u `l told rue last night that, many people in the Goderich parish felt 'at one time' that the.ehurch- should have been built there. The unknown lady also' said that the church should be called .Trinity, but since' there was already, a Trinity church in • Tsoroftea it wars, called ably Trinity. Somewhere, I • have read that some • time before this lady was visiting in Toronto and- attended church as a stranger and was shown.' into an inferior pew—in the days when people paid •pew Tents. Slre-• was .so hurt . and insulted at this treatment that she decided •to _endow a rent-free church. I won't _vouch• for the truth of this story, 'hut it ' is an ipteresting legend and legends in Canada are few. One hundred years ago, some of the "best" families of Toronto, attended : Holy Trinity and on the wails now 'are memorials to many. —the:-names are like a history of. Toronto. One had been a, chorister there for fifty-seven weirs=a record surely! . • • •• But tunes •have changed.. Holy. Trinity was on the fringe of the young Toronto. Now- it is almost swallowed up by commerce -and finance. `f any of , the old families have mored away arid the congrega- tion:,..noww- is' "just people,'' as the rector said last night, and. I don't think he would use a- ,capital Ps -as or would • • he?> • There is almost. every , Europeans. Asiatic and A rteart' natio�nalitgi represented, with a • sprinkling of'Anglo-Saxons. Rev. Mr. Freak says , when they heed an Qrie>?'i,•tal or African face they don't use Brea a paint ea'nd make up:' ` They •jt choose a church member.. And ,what person- ality these other Canadians have! I Was introduced. to Rev. • Mr Frank by an ' usher who was baptised in Holy Trinity and wbq a mother' was baptised there ninety years ago. So not all the old families have gone. , ' The rector,' Res. :Mr. Frank, is English.° Mrs. Frank was at one slit` "oftctx anil' at „great, length, taking, -hours of tb$' liana of the Souse to `say what[ • eotrlil be said vyith greatE'r iiffect In a fnw• rninrtta.s, Members who expect to be re- elected should hesitate dhow ask- ing . f'er any-',ineren P of salary. Mow would tlwly justify' it to fauna vefers'a'-`he rind the prices -of their products falling, or to ,t1awn dwellers who find employment „slack? The' present sessional in- demnity lfiolts fairly genions .o tile average voters THEN .°oHEZSTMAS. COMES 4. .13. ' Q, I ailways ilke that letter- that gr"eat charter' members --arid so he of tho• Grand and Everlasting Order of Bethlehem this. and all other Christmases? • t ., were seated by the the • children on the • front. This - twelve tunes this side walls and the floor at has happened year.' ,Toronto stairs,'[ ,alt froth and glitter after all! 4t ?;,3i? " M'r Fraulc led lit a.. short pryer and #poke-; a Ver few -Words of -welee ne ' `e; all sang : "While .Shepherds Watched'# and thea the, lights. went o -a1 _ '• 1 11 ,1 • eaine in the widows ;Toms the street lights, Eight , cantors s hang •a processional carol, following the s t kited old cross o ,the 1?0 t. chancel, Then ••a faint -glow ap- pear -ed en the stage with, Mary in the midst.' Mary was -most beauti- ful in- white and gold. Fran,#:, that° moment the Stery unfolded bit by bit, becoming more impressive .as time went on., I'm sure''there were n- 'hoist •e e m is s and slyke ed a yq . n 'hearts, in ` the congregation, A "voice"narrated the story, using Scripture passages, and when any characters spoke only. Scripture Was need. The cantors in :the chancel and the gallery choir sang ap- propriate carols—original' tradition? al . airs, arrangements of old carols 'and some. composed recently,, but nearly all •in, the traditional 'man- l,�er. The gallery choir was con-' imannommoramimmirsommoremoir ESE.PRE$ ::,ELECTRCONTRACTOR ,�tARM V�IRIN(�.AND BEPAI$,WORB FRSF� EATiMATES-NO OBLI({QTTQN 71 CAMBBIA RD. PHONE 832W nr CARLOW 207 C Af • posed, of • about twelve„ voices, a few ciiildein• with their clear, high,' thjrst'' tones, and a ..few adults • to fill in, the- lower parts. Their a : capella sipging was un. belieyab' sweet. They 'rooked ..> lovely, too,•:grduped_aroun�l a lglit 31< 1 11 , 1 weren't supQosed to. look at them). I wish. x {could go. on to' tell y'o'u 'the wh, 01 ' Story, -but space After the Presentation in the=Temple -the -east assembred on The. stage, ;dar.,yu With the Babe in her arms at the front, the others grouped around and the angels ,at the hack,' somewhat higher, and Gabriel with huge gold* wings, •'in the centr-e',of them—all against the h t in of the eat t, .' Y fr e in e g ow g white a sc' .dow surmounted by "Holy, Holy, y, .Lord God '.Allnighty." It w s unforgettable. Mae congregation (still. in dark- ness )" sang "'o Come,, All Te Faith-. fu1,", as a ,recessional hymn for the cast,- who, led )s e' Mary, moved slowly and 'reye eptly in a blaze of colored light to the back of the cburel —and disappeared. Last of all came Simeon, a feeble tottering old ma -•n with weak, rheumy eyes who might well- say in reality, "Lord, now lettest Thou Thy serv- 'arit depart in peace, for mine eyes ,hare seen Thy salvation." For a moment all' was darkness again, and then we - found ourselves in the work=a-day world of down- town Toronto,. I wish you had all been here to ' see and, hear the beautiful and. wonderful 'twentieth century presentation'of the Nativity Story. • . THE -COUNTRY MOUSE. Toronto. • .P.S.—Enjoy , a happy Christfnas season, everyone' at home. We're holding it bus -for all' to see . meiry, merry, Yule •from .A 'to Z. preyentf MOTH'da!t+: 'tot's YEkts ,. • or -BERLOO e - makes Its `•,� AL'S FIST & CHIPS 1, FAIENCE °DRY CLEANERS Godericli ' .. 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Now, they'even have some f1. of the original St.' Martin costumes. ,,,////V l7 F 4/irfill i, 7/b ' / / t l ;Iln.j /4///'i t!/idI,4:1/ 4J //4 ' //400/// ,1/ ',14 /•,'jai/ /11,,.0 .F CANADA CANADA .4aY U 1J• C A ST B A.1ii 1( O•N THE "FOa> > Y ,'L " . Do4d k � LINA 1'EI C1 x,,11 11 i14 MerryChristmas and a right & Hapy New Year ore & Ginn Electric SHORE ✓._ PHONE 1199 4 W. GINN • Y r 0 bens, for Chrisqinas.! Ring ost joyfully; Its vvoe and misery.: ChristThas come 'again to us, If they would sip 'forego. • His rove, Its aid,. If we -His laws 111.or u4. 'That 'angels sang above eave A world is needing its.high hope,. Its, faith, and love,. an rot men ean only be rthetn7 light of .Then. let Ivy turn tads all those Vith4 do His ' be elven to be niters, and tholte, Who will *alio practiotii use.of the work it their daily °coups.* Along. 'Applications alieWd riOcil)Ot A. lit; SOO'iT iiefore January 1, 1960,