HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance-Times, 1973-11-22, Page 4HE ADVAIIICE
t s our turn
All living residents of Nortti America
•over the Walt of slightere aware that they live
in a separate voorld---a part of this planet
where, with few exceptions, we have dwelt
Ilk* pampered millionaires.
The poorest among us are well fed and
clothed by the standards of Asia and Africa,
even by the levels of existence in Latin
Americo. The averatie Canadian family
which has to; live on unemployment insur.•
once benefits receives as much in a month as
an Angolan coffee worker is paid in a year or
more. •
The most meagre Canadian diet supplies
more meat and other prole in a
month than many people in Inc, 4 me iri
* lifetime.
Being human, and therefore basically
selfish, it is hardly surprising that we have
chosen to Ignore such inequalities within the
. family of man. When we did require a rea-
soned excuse we !nuttily protested that there
eras not the means to rectify such a vast.
balance of wealth -despite a legion of agen-
cies right here- in Canada begging the
generosity of affluent families for evert a few
solid imag
The royal marriage last week coolie at 4,
unique time to the history of •England and the
rest of . the .world - as well. The . -glittering ,
drama of Princess Artne'0.0tittals 0911.10ided
with Britain's MoSt.terioes financial crises,
in modern times;',
Of course there were cries of woe r frem,
some of ttiebard-presseci.,Britisktaspayerti:
even.- as 7:countless thousands of .-:their,.•
.
countrymen gathered-, in the streets of
Lon-
don to.. shoot -their Lgood Wishes- to theloollg,
couple. :Here in'Conada.thereWerethe usual -y
„comments enotot- Lthe,'UntrnOOrtanCe',..of-
royaltyjci. Our .Independent
:ffe0,01 this side of the Atiartti0.it. is
-
ireriossible for .its to: assess the relative cost
-of maintaining royalty rWe do
-
•know that ajarge.:.nroportiokotthe;roVet
.family's expenditures are borne out ofthe*
.• .
• oventetstrom thaleriain•pertehalproperties ,•
and-Investmentt.-- Certainly . , . . .
knowledge that royalty :costs. Canadians not
one penny, therefeire-Whativer-letereati'We.
.haVein the cost.ofroyalty is,ataderrite;:.,
, ,
.H.As for 0.;•-,,otlierenset-„o
Canadians, to the Crown, Many, in this tota1;
, try, • the. 4.. ,
or ,s cMinJtg
, resp #ooiptttAOEioito:',..otrgfiMtiv:'imotite
c�f us who Still feel A0'061100000'to express
respect for the CrOWrido-rio bend the knee to
weeks A000 *IS column mentioned
the abiiird1ty4of a Toronto hotel room mes-
sage which begged guests to save electricity
when thosesame guests had only to look out
of the windows to tee monstrous office
towers blazing with lights ori every floor, da
,
and night,
• The Toronto Star recently carried
story to the effect that leaving the lights on in
these huge buildings Is actually an economY.,
FErst, said The Star, it takes a great &al'of
energy to re -start these fluorescent lights
, and, second, they help to heat the buildings
True, perhaps, but we "doubt It, One
engineer *ass recently quoted as saying that
11 ht tenteeded for as little ,.
1'15 minutes it sies energy to turn 'them
off. As far as heatgoes—just try to warm
\ Your hands over a fluorescent tube.
As usual, the pressure is on the little guy s
d about t
Last week the Ministry of Education an-
nounced the end of a five-year experiment'
under which secondary school students were
free to make their 'own choice of sailed's.
English language and Canadian history are
back on the compulsory list—thank good-
riess.
. My employer who haS hired 'high School
students for his statttan tell you about %the:
deplorable lack of ,knovviedge where proper
English is' required. The rules of spelling'
seem to have been forgotten and the struc..
turepf a proper sentence is in the same cate-
gory as the Skeleton of the dinosaur;:
Stedents, iftheY. Wish,may forget about
the *beauty of our language, but since they
are the products of this age of, sciencethey
should acknowledge the corripelling, need for
clear and -unmistakable method's of com.
munication—one of the basic recluirernents
'flan age of facts and figures. Cornrriunica4
tidos are indeed shaky when the receiver of a •
message can only guess at Its meaning be.
'cause' the sender totes his own unique and
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helpings from their bowl of plenty.
Now, it seems, the fates are about to
bring us sharply to our senSes, With hrn.
pending shortages of food, fuel — . almost
every commodity that one can name, we
may find that our wealth has finally por-,
chased poverty that our dollars are, atter
all, dirty pieces of paper that do not even
make edible soup. •
The stark trkith iSi We have wasted. For-
getting the precepts of our forebears who
carved their homes and ours from the raw*
wilderness because they were fleeing, the
poverty of Europe, we have grown so care.
less that we have eaten up most of Our re.
serves with virtually none of our own
wizards to "sheot
It is true that we will neither starve nor
freeze this year, nor next—but what .of our
children and grandchildren'' Surely feet of us
are so , careless or unfeeling that we will
knowingly condemn them to lives of unend.
ing Iiardship The Creator plaCed uS On a
bountiful earth. It Is high time we paid some ,
attention to the way we waste- His gifts.'
a .queen- .or a king We acknowledge. he',
importance of thOseteStitutionS.Oftaw, -order
and,stable government we have iriherited,;
from -Great Brit* .,Those. founding
princi-
pies have always had their 'flaws and ShOrt-'''
'comings, but they, have: endured "the :change:
of Passing, centuries better than any :OtOet...
tonstitutionat .strectereS. 46:„. Our,: *-World.--:-
, largely because,', they were flexible ;arid .
admitted that the wilt Of the governed oioo,
always be of COnSiderotion..
.
:
The status ' of OrltaiWS royal tangly.' has
ofiforrned to and been r subservient to.; the
same Charigirigittitedes'andteesanrie•Witl f.."
-;tee: Comnierk citizen.,
— The Oastfeei.ortoitihS:.bave provided, -,
,whole-gaMut Of, reasons why ,our.O.Wri,',,!, ..1.,'
tish.na:tterned,,'Iorrn-•-•.eit.:.:Selfgoverittnent":;
• "vastly T Preferable.'. to that fititith..•...o.f.)!epubil..
cariitini ••followed by ' the United.. States. Can
'..anyone imagine:a British monarch r'.defying
.:
the 14S, Of. Pa II 416140 .1:113.5r than. -40tyears..,
• agci.'0,, king Of ;Eliglaridga‘te.:tii*hiS.;tnrette,
when .,i'l#'.:reallied.."hiS - tubtectS.,10ere. ,': not ;,,,ifr
. agreement wittl,hilic.lioice Oft ife partner. He *
' did net, even wait to '.00:10.14 PO do ' tO.'..'''.''
Vire Ping*: .Of:i.ritita 1'
fiiinUS• ' --1.eem
. • .,. . , age. • .
tjper
--, 1?
rt"this , ,..,ot re,`Oit
till oti • 'the:MO*0400,0f, lid,ria at.
iitegrity',,at 4e1
the highest 7.1e,-* in the land.
.. . . .,
to the saving, The Toronto towers are still,.
blazing away night and day. Most city offices
re, heated to the point of suffocation in,
winfer and air-conditioned to near freezing
in surnmer. The lights are still ,glowing over
the freeway networks and creating—as they
„always did ---a doubtful safety factor.
The -storeys -high advertising Signs are,
as brilliant as ever. There' are eye 600 (ight,
bulbs in the ceiling of thetovered driveway
to the rear entrance of one airport hotel in
Toronto. Thousands. of tars still pour in and
out of the cities with their 'One occUnants.
Western Ontario still has no public 'pas-
senger serVice worthy of the tionle to su'itt-
plant even a portion of the private autos.
As usual the heart-rending appeal, to the
public is not matched, by realistic ap-
proaches to the problem on the part of those
who have the power to make worthwhile
savings, I
impromptu letter,'s to' form
vverds. . •
As for history—we have nothing but con.
terrvit for artr student who 'Jaye claim to.
intelligenceandat the Same time ignores the
need to know from whence he came. He need
not agree with or be enthusiastic about the*.
events of his cciuntry'l histery—btit he is a
collectioh
of
fool if he chooses to remain ignorant of its
jessons arid so avoid the pitfalls of repeated
mistakes: , ,•
Hapefulli, , we are refureing to a time
when common sense will again prevail in our '
educational system, free choice of subjectss impractical. The lazy will choose the easy
ones and the ambitious have not the experi-
ence to recognize the necetsar . •
Educators Might do well to consider the
possibility of a few months of basic Latin
vocabulary as part of the English course, 'It
is no longer necessary to understand the in-
tricacies of Latin grammar, but an English,
course without some knowledge of Latin is
aboutthesame as buildinga houseith
w ou
foundation;
pageach editorial opinion T6rsdayJslevimber 22
THE' AttbiENClE WATCHES as, the 1972-73 graduating' class of F.. E. Madill Secondary ,
School receive their diplomas.' The number of 14,..,.1,:rsons, who turned out for the comMence. •
• ment exercises Was estimated in the high hundreds. (Staff lThoto)
, „
NOVEMBER 19
George Muldoon, Returning
Offjcer forNorth Huron, declared_
nominations closed and read the;
tames of the two ,candidates
• nominatedto contest
in the taming , tioo on j
., :4 North
l
Detember, lst. They are .161111
ri1pii
Ynt toft4,6148,,,,e sailnotoge:toefrt 4conocskyibetrxavwab;
f the ,township of Colborne.,
The office of the Canadian Na-.
tionar Telegraphs has, beelf.,
'evedfrom *Express Office to:
the MR station: For 'thertcon-.
. venience of its patrons a sub-
' office has been opened in H. B.
Elliott's Store.
, A pretty wedding took place on
\ November 17, when Edna 'Jane
Gibson, eldest daughter. of Mrs',
and Mrs. James Gibsortof wing.;{,
ham, became the bride of Moo(
Campbell Casemore, only son of,
Mr., and Mrs. John C. Caseinoreil '
;1st line ef Morris.
Thegirls and boys of the Wing -
ham Ihnted Church have decided,-,
to have Et Junior League. George,
Young ..is• the president; vice-
presidents are Helen Field and,
Wilma DOW; Betty , Walker is
secretary and Agnes. Loutittk
treasurer,.-- • /,
'A , debate $4,-, . "Resolved that;
cars do more ham) than good to
the people of Canada" --- was,,
held at the regular meeting of the
High School Literary Society:,
The affirmative was upheld by
Kate King and George Alien; and
the negative by Jean Seobie and
Billie Itrawleyt
The Young People's Society of
' the ,Wingharn United Church
elected W. B. McCool president,
Vice-presidents are Miss M. E.
Finch, Miss Blanche Sennett, J.
McMichael, Miss Annie Mus-
grove and W. G. Akins.
The CN1t has a gang of men
working . at the station, in Bei.
graVe, doingtonsiderable repair -
Ing,, '
•
. an enthusiastic meetini'held'in
the :club, rooms. J. "J., Evans is
vice-president and secretary -
treasurer is .Dr.,
Ukelele Bill and. his Hillbilly
*rroupe,, who entertained in this
district 'Iaat Wiatet and who have
been in Northern: Ontario all
summer, have returned to
naM, '
pooeida „McLean;: w
tutted from Wieghom High School
in, June • has been: awar the
Or
examine the buildkng, e visi
ors were delighted with the latest
addition, the ,kindergarten.
The first ray of sunshine in the
hydro situation was received on
Monday when Ontario's imports
from Quebec were increasi
000 000idlowatt hours a Wee
1110111PITAL
NoTALPira. I
faii4PAreiri
• "IT KEEPS GETTING HARDER TO FIND
A VACCINATION SPOT THAT WON'T
SHOVV."
TOT
ar 'Editor, - • Postage stamps, anytime
'EspeCially Christmas
*rik of , the Used postage
stoMps. that are needlessly
dis-
carded. These seemingly worth-
less .articles; •froin any country*,
are sold in bulk by the sCo
Fathers, to iitaltp dealers, to help
Mance,* mission projects'
•
throughout theworld ,
.in to. months I have receivedi
over 100 lbs: cancelled postage
stamps, Small quantities, in
:very large ,„quaptities, from
schools, Service com-
panies, individuals etc:. They add
up quiekly-,. 'everyone collects,•
them for,me. •
thir4--darter7Seholitrship
.,‘Horoe•00unty,",, ,00 cask":
James :, sUtherland':of Easl
awanosh: bas purchased , the
residence Of, the late T. • R. Bea-
aett and will lake:possession tita
Lirat'Of -December.. ,
, McArthur been a
pOintedit0Serategie'Sealeit.the
CPR station; he is to reeelieitheihall of receipts. It was agreed
,:
:-that'.the,rateS for weighing coal
be set at 10 cents per load and
that farmers bringing in loose
• hayb,e0-06.0seeliti.-,Pir
Allother loads to be 25:eentS untilfurther investigation is made.'
H. T. tfitiMSOit„has purchased
the building which -the Massey.
Harris 'agent previously.. occu-
pied, nest to Buehorten's
Hard-
ware, and, will open a fit* :otld
feed business in the, store..-. „
MrS.',Detichtnan,..wife,of R. J.
Deachreari, MP for North Huron, .
• Waa..,elected":preSident of the
'Iowa Women's Liberal chili at.
the annual rneelitifk held:ire the'
'
. Chateau Laurier00-0:-
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THE WINGIHAM ADVANCE.TIMES
at Wiriehomi Ontaitit, by wow grog. Llmleid
,Itabert a *enter, Secretary Treasurer
r Audit Bureau of Circulation*
$10,00 per
1444100001; Ms Ontario Weekly Newspapers Assoc
Ns, !wait $6,2$ To United &Met $12,86
tion No4 •N21 lttum posbig guoanteod
NOVEMBER 1038
3. A. Wilson was elected presi.
dent of the Huron Curling Club at
NOVEMBER, 0148
. The tiir.inginfirri Armouries was
the Ni
ht
of the Wingham- Kins-
men's Charter Nent banquet last
• •
Friday.There were over. 200,,
Kinseien' present along with
prominent .tivi‘imi• Kin guests. .
The Kincardine, Kinsmen Club
Was the seonSoring 'CIO Of the.,
evienspite of. tin' er,
ilarge'number,of 'people took ad- *
Vantage' of open house- at the
Wingham Public School
modern trends, in education and.
acre
Heart
(silk)
Grades 1 and 2 have -been work-
ing on an activity about a story
called '",8The . Moonbeam Prin.
cess".. They heee done various
boOklets andloiderS.
Grades 3 and 4 have been busy
these last two weeks, Grade 4 is
hiking part hi a ninitiplieation
meted. They heVefilliehed their
unit! Ott "Early Life on the'
Varth". They saw twine interest-
inglossibi.. They are going to look
for some fossils •inour neighbor.
hood.
Grade's 5 and ilt„leartted about
*primary and Secondary color
ev
dee • president: of th' e Triple
Gordon' Mundell was re -
Knox
is vice-presi-
a°eriu.' fla'rgnadelY11114$7 °Phir5irtr
.Prestfrolrtranaciiwur,cie6t11".i,l'
•
n, formerly of
:deWiligrtedillaanrhe.BankbasofbeeCtilliith rt
he
ce
staff in Atwood, has been trans-
ferred to the staff atiPert Dai
41allSe4•
' Sutherland l•was
elect4presiderit of the WMS Of
the • Whitechurch Presbyterian
• Chereh;Vice-presidertitare.Mrs.
'James McInnis and Mrs., Fred ,
Newman; Mrs.' tialiscin. Craig is
secretary and, Mrs; Johnston
Conn, treasurer.,
Neyg,mnER 1959
awsitiaiwitreet,,on be,
graced with a. new besineis
es-
tablishment . the first ' 'of ,
'March When a new Moderit'sta.
tionery and book supply store will
be opened in the MacDonald
block. It wilt be Ideated n the former Lee'Restauraijt ..
r mg.
It
will be tieerated by Miss Marg. •
Oret MacLoait'andWill be known
as Mara's, Stationery,.
Kenneth' ,Redmond has leased
the Supertest Service Station 'at
the north end af-Joseehine-Street •
ged,willbeepeefor business next
week. The station was formerly
operated by JIM Angus. •
Wayne Brown, student of Wing
ham District High School', Was in
'London last week • where, he at-
tended a banquet sponsored by .
the University of Western.' On-
tario and the .tondori Free Press.
He was there as honer" athlete
front the Winghant:Scborg.
. Roy 'Mundy, Who meetly re-
ired from business after operat-
ing a groperystore on Wirightim's
main Street for the past 43 year's,
,Was the guest of honor at the
;Wes Club meeting when he Was
• ,presented With a gift.
Retnington 'Brothers, • who
operate MA Stores in Winghant„
Kincardine and Olinton, have
poled another business at God
rich.
Williaallenderson, Carl IOW.
ton, Earl Hamilton, George'
rooks and Robert ft - were
. t
in Art, also tints and shades.
They finished their Social Studies s
projeets, under the following ' n
headings: 'countries, animals, s
clothing, peoples, food and crops. tit
(Lizanne Morrison) •nt
Grades 5 and 6 headed a beauti- "D
ful -Remembrance Day service on he,
Thursday. Mrs; Day led the chit- 'tf,"
dren 801Ig. was very moving,
During the Past week Grades.
and have been studying and gr
writing, exams. Hopefully we'll t
get good markt (Mary ne Is
artlYtI) il
th
taed as ofrers of the ttoyal
eeting held in the WLHall.
TWO' students of the Wingliam
istiet High School brought
nor to the district at the 441
elf Show for the Queen's
olives at the Royal Winter Fair
n Toronto. Ken Illaek Be1.
eve won the ehampionship in
he,shorthorn .clatis and Rodger
offer of RR 1, Winghten, won
e Hereford championship.
tack Prete tory No. 707 at a
rseconar
the used postage stamps' off of a
envelope leaving a bit of paper
around it.
This Oar),be YOUR way- of help-
ing the world's poor without cost
ing YOU a lot of time or ' money.
•'Please send (by- "Third Chi
Moat or bringall your cancelled
year to: Mrs. M. Chmay, 220
Jarvis Street, Fort Erie, Ontario
or Mrs. J. C.. Latvrence„ 6782 Dor-
chaster Road, Niagara trails, On. .
tarn).
you,
Y
ou very much for send
.:01• paper concerning the artl
:bearAi,e0tdeov, anng fitoa!-Times,
einties' with Ontarlo
Hydro on the „tise': of farM:
pro-
#perty. your.'reporter'did„ti.:
Oegkannectiirate' ": on
exactlyIt is...' 't the peopl
need—those• whO.,:with Hydro in the future.Yours truly,Harold A. Mason,.Wallace Twp. Counciflor,have. to deal
ELE 1.LE
and fair skin.: He is French Canadian in descent and English -
Jerry is a ,g004400kilig 10-Year*old with dark eyes, brown hair
s!neaekaillithgyt• and.
active, Jerry loves the outdoors. His interests
..involve things a 1).4r can do alone or with one or two others, \
.rather than group activities. He doesn't go in for team games
.but i enthusiastic about swimming; bicycling, hiking, skating,
bunting, fishing and tamping.
Jerry's hobby is building model planes. lie likes working with
•ten•
. Jerry
is extremely
'ely soositivo and somewhat introverted.
He
gets on well wit b other children: but is inclined to bock away
from difficult situations rather than defending himself or "
standing up for his rights. He has a good sense of humor..
Jerry is an average student in Grade three. The fact that he
does better in oral than written work suggests he may have a
slight perceptual'handicap.
Parents being sought for`Jerry will, he people who can com-
bine warmth with firm, consistent discipline. His adopting
mother and father will need to be patient and understanding if it
takes heti some time to realize that he is indeed their son.
To inquire ' about adopting Jerry,' please write. to Today's .
-Child, Box ; Station X, Toronto 1VI4P 2112. For general
adoption informatien, please contact your local Children's Aid
Society,
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