HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance-Times, 1968-02-01, Page 4Honors Well Deserved
Most folks in Wingh*m and the sur.
:rounding rural community will agree it
was a sincere pleasure to scorn that Cen-
tennial Medals had been awarded to Mason
Robinson of East Wawanosh and to W. T.
"Doc°° Cruickshank of Wingharn., Bothof
these men are well known and as choices
for Centennial honors, none could possibll
meet with more widespread approval,
We can say without hesitation, too,
that these two men would be the first to
protest that many other local people con-
tributed to the efforts which resulted in
their selection for this particular distin-
ction.
Mason Robinson's devoted work in
connection with the East Wawanosh cen-
tennial celebration was certainly most im-
portant to the success of that venture.
"Doc" Cruickshank's radio and, television
station also contributed in large measure
to the interest which was aroused in Cen-
tennial undertaking throughout the entire
CKNX listening and viewing area.
It was not, however, a case bf Centen-
nial efforts only which led to the selection
of these two recipients. Unquestionably,
the years of unselfish devotion to the best
interests of their communities were the
deciding factors in the minds of those who
submitted the names to the Centennial
committee. The fact that both were ac-
tively interested* in Centennial events was
only an' indication of the long-standing in-
terest they have betokened for community
betterment.
Our congratulations to Mason Robin-
son and W. T. Cruickshank. The honors
are certainly well deserved.
Above The Rabble
Last week the Liberals in the province
of Quebec voted by a Targe majority to end
Canada's acknowledgement of the British
Crown and in its place to substitute a
pres'irient, elected by vote of the Canadian
. Senate and Commons. The resolution was
in -no way surprising, coming as it did
from one Canadian _province which seeks
to cast off, all ties with British heritage.
We suspect that many Canadians, per-
-haps a. majority of Canadians .would
agree with the Quebecois that it is time to
end Canada's allegiance to the . British
monarchy. There is a ;fairly general feel-
ing that Canada is a sovereign nation and
should terminateeven verbal homage to a
"foreign" monarch, The fact that our
nation's population springs from such
widely ,separated ethnic origins does in-
dicate that there is .so°rne basis for the
argument to end the Canadian monarchy.
We do believe, nevertheless, that , Ca-
nadians would do well to taive some
thought to the alternatives.. The Quebec
Liberals sugglrst .a president, and we don't
have to look very far ' afield to observe a
presidential system in action.
Presidents of the United States, par-
ticularly in recent years, have been vul-
nerable not only to heated critics of op-
posing politiciai hue, but to the. snide
jibes . and cheap jokes of all second-rate
entertainers who can gain access to stage
or TV- screen. A president's most soul-
wrenching decisions are laid wide open
to the uninformed comment of critics
and clowns alike.
It is true that even in Britain the
Queen must -occasionally submit toe bit
.of facetious comment, buf for the most
part royalty is exempted from the crudi-
ties to which a president is liable. It is
not so much a matter of personal respect
for the Queen,as it is a 'deep respect for
4tlie dignity of The office she holds. The
monarchy has served Great Britain well:
chiefly because the monarchs in recent
times have had the goodsense to change
with changing times and 'conditions,
When Canadians debate amongthem-
selves about the merits -or allegiance to a
Iritish monarch, they might well ask them-
selves how the Queen feels about Canada.
It just -might :be that she would be more
than happy to have one less sectjon,of her
realm to , worry about: Frequent visits
to Canada impose a considerable burden
Upon a woman whose day-to-day duties
leave very little time for familyor friends.
1n the exchange of obligations between
Canada and the Crown we would guess
that Canada has always had much the
better of the deal.
-- it is not fashionable in . our country
to indutge.i%e public criticismof. our Am-
,iencan neighbors. We are much too de-
pendent upon their goodwill to permit free
expression: of our opinions. There are
times when that --very .Closeness fosters
shivers of apprehensions _as we -peek out
from their broad shadow M the results
of American behaviour' in internatioria'I
spheres
The -who -1e world is holdingits breath
because an ' American spy ship was caught
in or near North Korean territorial waters
last: week and has been taken, captive by
the communist -dominated government of
that country. Though it may be treason
for a North Americanto say so, we can't
really blame the North Koreans completely
for taking action against, such'an intruder.
The saddest part of the whole mess is
that it illustrates the lift -mentioned :"credi-
bility gap" which exists when American
C
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il-• ti�jr.y..dy. S ,t Icy 1].`A
forces are' involved in such charges and
counter-charges.'The'D:S: Navy says their
ship was outside the territorial- limit; the
Koreans say the Americans are liars.
Unfortunately, in several ' .previous in-
stances of a similar nature, events proved
that the Americans were not always- the
soul of strict honesty: A case in' point was
the celebrated U-2 incident, in' 'which an
American flyer and hisspy plane were
shot down over Soviet territory and the
first words" from the American govern-
ment were a denial that they had- anything
to do with the venture. It was several.
days before a reluctant confession was
forthcoming.
Espionage of all ..kinds is a 'necessary
adjunct to national defense, but the first
rule is never to -get, caught in the act..
The most recent slip-up has brought us all
too close to the brink of a nuclear war.
Merno to Business People
It goes without saying that we whole-.
heartedly agree with the action of Editor
Eugene MacDonald of the Glengarry News
at Alexandria when -he reprinted the fol-
lowing: •
"During these first weeks 'of the year ,
merchants have been busytaking inven-
tory arid sizing up the prospects for in-
creased sales in the year ahead. We might
offer some helpful suggestions, but instead
we .reprint some advice which appeared in
e Bankers Magazine published in the U.S.,
and 'which applies particularly to town
merchants.
"No businessman -in any ;town should
allownewspaper published in his com-
munity� to go without his name and busi-
ness being mentioned somewhere in its
columns. This does, not mean that you,
should have a whole, half or even= quarter
page ads �in each issue of the paper, but
the name and business should be men-,
tioned if no more thana two-inch spaceis
used.
"A stranger picking up a newspaper
should be' able to tell what business is
represented in town by looking at the
paper. This is the best possible town ad,
vertising. The mare who does not adver-
tise his . business does an injustice to him-
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self and to his town. The -man who in-
sists on sharing -the ._business that. comes
to town, but who refuses to advertise his
own, is not valuable addition to any com-
munity.
om-
munity. The very, life of a town depends
on the live, wide-awake and, liberal ad-
vertising man."
This advice is applicable, not only to
merchants but to service. shops, especially
in these years' when the town and, area
are absorbing new families. The stranger
in our midst. may be at .a loss as to the
types of service available here or whereto
locate a reliable, competent tradesman.
,Scarcely a week goes.by without some
newcomer to the area dropping into this
office orphoning far information.
Among our new subscribers are several
right at the present..moment"who will be
Moving to our town within the next few
months -or those who are taking a quiet
look at our community as a prospective
home. In many instances their only source
of information is the newspaper and if
they find it scantily supported by 'the
business community they tend to turn
their interest to, towns- where there is
more evidence of alert community interest
and enterprise.-
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SI?JCAR
AND SPICE
by Bill Smiley
Mrs well at school
There are heartening signs.
that a revolution, - bihodless,
but sweeping, is taking place
in educatio.
There ar r. dicationSb that.
the oppresse people, have
passed the muttering stage,
have attacked the Bastille, will
'free the prisoners and in the
process over-rttn the Swiss
Guards, defenders of the an-
cien regime. And” all will ' be
wine and, dancing in the I
streets. And chaos. ' .v
But out of chaos everatttally
emerges order. Look what God
made out of a heap' of chaos.
And out of the chaos of the
French Revolution emerged a
completely new concept of
freedom and equality that had
a tremendous impact on the
world, •
Perhaps the' revolution in ed-
ucation will produce a similar
freeing of the spirit of man,
allowing him to cope with the
great and relentless ,pressures
of this .age' and those o come.
Education' hi this centsur*
,the century of a co oil,
man, has been a sailure .hr Ix'.
grand scale. ' It'.1 as failed-
tirely to .come toegri
societyWM&
upside down and inside out by
two global wars; mass cbmmu-•
• nit ation, a treniendox R 4
/�/ spuft-
-oft technological adva,ttee anda.
close, hard look at traditions.,
E4ucators, with a few no
ble exceptions, have been ti
id, shying from anything .that
might upset the system. The
--public at large has ignored ed-
ucation, ` except to bleat about
the cost. •
As a restilt, educati6n hes
been ,da generation behind the
times. It has . become a • monks -
lith of repression, rigidity and
conformity... It has been an de=
phant waltzing with a giraffe.;
But -fresh winds are .blowing
.through the concrete boxes in
which young minds are sup-
posed to be exhilarated, excit-
ed and liberated. And with
many another, I cry a lou't',
- sincere, "Halleluia!"
Go into an elementary school
today. You may, be shocked to
death. Instead of 'sitting in
neat rows, • facing a teacher,
and putting up their hands so
they can spout some meaning-
less • information which has
been memorized, you're apt to
find the children wandering all'
about the room, doing things,
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looking up information, actual-
iy talking to each other, which,
of course, is pure heresy.
It looks like anarchy, but it
isn't. The teacher is teaching,
not just telling. The ' kids are
learning, not .being taught. No
longer are they little sponges,
each in his own compartment.
There is ..a flowing of ideas, a"
joy in finding out for oneself.
Go into a high `school. The
is supposed to be read-
ing a poem, preferably written
at least 100 years ago. Then
he is supposed to elicit from
the students, with . a series of
childish questions which bore
the bright ones and are ig-
noredby the dumb ones, the
meaning of the poem. Then
there i s supposed- to be the
;search . for similes and meta-
phors. Then he is to put an
analysis of the poem on the
blackboard, the kids copy ` it
down, and everyone is happy.
They have "done" a poem.
They are being taught the joy
of poetry. They are being edu-
eatad.• •
-
o.:Bti't what's this? They're not
Ven sitting, Me rows, ,buL;ina
ircic�. 'ThC3 erg ill qu
the poem, which was written
three years ago. They relate it
' their own . lives. ,The discus-
sitdrg, may run from hippies to
drugs to broken hearts to reli-
gion to joy to beauty. They.
may still be fighting about it
when they leave the classroom.
' Dreadful. Dis-.,-rganised.
It's all disgusting and de-
generate, abut it's happening.
And not just in the classroom.
There are Geld strips in geogra-
phy. Imagine: Going right out-
side where the geography is. A
visit to parliament by ,a history,
class. Shocking. History should
be in books, where it. belongs.
A trip to the theatre for an
English class.. Sheer deprayity.
That Shakespeare can be pret-'
ty filthy stuff, if it isn't ,care-
fully' censored. •
My wife tells me that some
of the f professors' at university
are actually teaching these
days, instead of just talking at
you.
Where will it all end? The
iron hand has been - removed.
and one of these day,s we're
going to be faced with a gener-
a;:on of kids who like school
so much they'll have to be
kicked out at 16.
Seal campaign indicates
public re -awakening to TB
The use of Christmas Seals
which .provides funds for the.
control of tuberculosis and oth-
er important respiratory dis- °
eases, produced record reven- •
ues in .Ontario this year. An
interim report by the Ontario
Tuberculosis Association shows
contributions exceeding $l, 309;-
e0.06, almost $110,000 higher
than the 1966 Christmas Seal
Campaign.
In Huron returns to date, a
total of $13.500, has been re-
ceivedand contributions con-
tinue to come -in officials said.
' Seventeen of the 47 pro-
vincial district volunteer organ.
izations which are co-ordinated,
by the Ontario Tuberculosis
Association, achieved more
than 100 percent of last year's
result, the highest being Grey
county district at 113% of the
1966 total.. York,.'wliich in-
clude+ ,Metropolitan Toronto,
was" 107*n with more than 155,
600 individual contributions.
p "The result of the 1967,
Christmas Seal campaign,
' while not yet complete, re-
flects a reawakening of public
awareness of Tg at tlfe nu fiber
•
one infectious disease = - in
spite of drugs and selective use
of vaccines," said Dr. L.W.C.
Sturgeon, president 'for ,Ont -
ado. "The problem of tuber- ; •
culosis is one of constant need
for control in Ontario where
6,000,000 lack immunity to
the disease and at least 20 per-
cent of the population carries
the tuberculosis gerrri. +featly
1,500 active cases of tubercu-
losis were found in Ontario last
year and the incidence of the
disease is especially high in
the urban areas," he said. "The
concern of the Ontario Tuber-
culosis Association with respir-
atory diseases, other than tuber
culosis is both broad based and
growing," said. Dr. Sturgeon.
"It stems from the high percen-
tage of lung and chest abnor-
malties found in the course of
tuberculosis case findings. We
have been particularly succe
ful in Beteeting heart oda&
tions and cancerous /lungs,
which are immediately referred
to the family doctor. Emphy-
sema, bronchitis and asthma
ate three other diseases with
which the Association is in -
News Items From
FEBRUARY,191,9
A reception Was held et
Ute borne Qf Wag sem pompr
can of Donnybrook to welcome
her son, lance Corps rel` rnest
Thorppson who arrived borne
January 29,'
Lieut. `Phomas 14AtLOU1 arC>
rived home from overseas last
week and is visiting at his horse
in Pleasant Valley. Torsi was
an employee of Pringle's Glove
Works before he enlisted.
FEBRUARY 1933
Eleecher "Speck" Meyers
who last year was the Pro at
the Alps Golf Club has accept-
ed a position at the Sarnia
Golf Club this season.
Specials this week at .the
Dominion Static: Sliced pine- .
apple 100 tin; Aylmer pork and
beans, 2 tins 130; Campbell's
soup, 3 tins 230; Kellogg's corn
'.flakes, 3 for 260;° pink salmon,
tall tins, 120; good quality
peas, 100 tin.
- Field Day Championships
were presented by F.R. Howson
at the commencement Friday
night. Those who received the
awards were Miirray Rae, senior
boys; John Weston, -junior boys;.
Grace Ireland, senior girls;"
.Muriel Ross, junior girls,
Much merriment was caus-
ed by the Old Time Orchestra
at the commencement on Fri-
day night. 'The orchestra was
composed of Tena, Reid, Ella
Rae, Carl McKay; George Ter-
vit, N. Blatchford; 'G. Carter,
Herb. Fuller and- G. Bracken use
FEBRUARY 1943 7-
- Mrs. George Allen had an
unfortunate accident Saturday
evening when she fell near Mur-
ray Johnson's garage on main
"street, fracturing her left hip.
'Her husband, Chief 'Allen, Wad
been on the sick list and ihe
was on her return from the doc-
tor's office to secure medicine
when she had the fall.
Jack Madigan, a formes.
Witighamite who now lives at.
Oceandale, Ohio, informs us
he lives 34 miles frons Tilla-
mook Lighthouse, a picture of
which appeared in Scott; s• Scrap
Book in our paper recently.
Mrs. George Hotchkiss, two
sons ani daughter moved here
frorit Aylmer on Friday>, Mr.
Hotchkiss is manager of the
Dominion Stora. Theft, are re
. iding .in ' Ciar1 ; ►prtirt�rneet,
on Maple Street.
In renewing his.paper last
week Albert Steen of Craik,
Sask., told us it was 54 below
.'zert,the day he wrote.
Early Saturday afternoon
the roof of the Charles R. Coul-
tes barn, the former Dr. Ford
barn on Patrick Street, collap-
sed frdirthe -weight of snow. •
There was much shovelling off
of roofs around town after this
roof went down.
Miss Doris Dells who is . -
leaving on the 18th of this
month to report in the Wrens
was presented with a gold ring
with a ,navy crest at the home
of Mrs.. W. L. Kress on Wednes-
day. .
The Cub Pack -held an in-
vestiture on Monday when Cub -
master E.O. Gallagher invested
Glen Foxton, Raymond , Merkley,
Laverne Newman and John
Crawford.
FEBRUARY 1954
A history of Huron County,
to he published in booklet from
has been undertaken by Prof.
James E. Scott of Seaforth and
will be underwritten by Huron
County Council, it was decided
at the January session. A writ-
er and lecturer at the University
of Western Ontario, Prof. Scott
reminded council that Huron
REC. ASSOC.
EUCHRE
BLU'EVALE--The fortnight-
ly euchre of the�Bluevale Re-
creational Association was held
in the community hall on Thurs-
day evening when 15 tables
were in play,..
Prize winners were high
lady, Mrs. Andy Adams; high
man, Mrs. Harry Adatns, play-
ing as a man; draw, Mrs. Chu-
te- Sewers.
The committee in charge
was Mr. and Mrs. Gerald Timm,
Mr. and Mrs. Bernard Ortlieb
and Mt. and Mrs. Goodon.lioss.
volved," he said.
"While generally coticerne
ed with airpollution as it re-
later to respiratory diseases,
we are specifically concerned
with what we call "personal
air pollution", that is the det-
rimental effects of cigarette
smoking—in relation to cancer
of the lung and other respira-
tory ailtents, " Dri Sturgeon
said.
was the original county of the '
Canada Company. Three, his'
tortes of Bruce County have alp
ready been written while Huron
has net had otic.
G. A. Sohatte, whofor
many, years has made a hobby
of S reP airi$ surd rebuilding
violins. i a he has dfscuvel-"
ed the'secret of the famous •
Stradivatious violin, a secret
that has eluded violin makers
ever since the celebrated ,rafts'
man, Antonio Stradivarious
first made his in Cremona. It-
aly ever 250 ,years ago.
J. N. Perdue, a former
W,inghain boy, .has been named
manager of the Canadian Na-
tional Exhibition agricultural,
and livestock department.
James Wylie of Wroxeter
was injured on Highway 87,
between. Gorrie and WJoxeter
Saturday night when his.car col-
lided with a vehicle driven by
Thomas W. Pritchard during a
heavy snowstorm. Wylie was
admitted to hospital suffering
from a fractured skull, injuries
to the chest, pelvis, right artn,
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cuts. and shock. The shiver of
the other vehicle .offered Minor
cuts and beillais
Don, niblebtarsd., swum.
er at station CKNX byes otitn1
ed°a position as news aline iiu t ,
on'the new TV station, PC,KCO'
TV in Kitchener. , The new
station will be sending oft test
patterns around the middle of
the month and isexpected to
go on the air full tittle February
28.
Miller Pavia of the,Holtaii*
'dale Creamery who wits slat
in the dark watching tevistan °
last week wasrudely distu*bed .
when,the fire chief ,and air Mut)
of neighbors burst ink, fire ex-
tingu sher at the reaady. ' Sonde®
one bad seen smoke corning
out of the building. °lt turned
out there was no fir4. The
smoke was cotmngfrom the
town dump behind the cream,
ery.
Ron Murray, wto has been
employed at the Dominion
Bank forthe past year and a
half, -'-has been transferred to
Windsor.
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REV. H. W. HAMILTON, Dip. Th., Rector.
Organist: MRS. GORDON DAVIDSON.
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FIFTH SUNDAY AFTER E`i'IPHANY FEB. 4th
11:00 a.m. Holy Communion, Sermon- and
e Church School
ANNOUNCEMENT
Senior and Junior Altar Guild Tea and display of
Altar Furnishings to be held in the Parish Hall on
February 14th, 3:00-5:00 p.m.
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If you are not associated with any other Church,
you are cordially invited to worship . with us.
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