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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance-Times, 1975-12-11, Page 11Pre viole For the seeorld OneY in As ,Many weeks we have been. surprls .end,: Impressed by' the htQh. calibre of our neighbors,. This. column mentjoned .last week the excellent presentations which were:submitted to the Porter Comrnissitn. on Ontario's power needs. When the o.. a . �..1+ l CamrntssLen on Vio- lence in the C om:ica rn�►n ton . ;i . u � r. �e s rid., �►# �` h . kt,a hearing in W inl�ha n` lastWedneaa y evening several outstanding briefs were pre- sented. The Molesworth Women's Institute -and the Bluevale-Whitechurch UnitedChurches had prepared comprehensive and excel« Iently-worded briefs, Nor were these the'.` . enl:y, good presentations- Many speaker$ Who ad= dressed the.commission gave evidence of the deep concern. which. is felt by the people of this area at the Increasingly open portrayal of violence in the print media, movies, radio and particularly on television, The most Common criticism ofthe=eom- m ission itself is that when all the evidence is in and all the briefs have been heard,there ere i S very little the provincial government can do about violence in.our, newspapers or on the air waves. The .appointment of the commisr sion has frequently been described: as. a poli- tical smokescreen, designed to portray gov- ernment as the anxious parent of a beloved populate. Be 'that as it may, we 'personally believe that the mare exercise of inquiry is a move in the right direction. At least the com- mission's public hearings provide a forum in which attention is'being focused on a serious problem of our times. Our reaction to the commission itself was not quite that positive. Supposedly, such a commissionhears all the presentations with an open mind, reserving judgment until all the briefs have 'been presented and only at the time of writing their report, permit- ting their convictions to be expressed. -,it was apparent through the Wednesday hearing that some of the commissioners' • minds have already been made up. • A very graphic- fil,r. is used to.eXpialn. the purpose of the commies on s work, In the movie several pronnini nt personalities com- rnent on the portrayal of violence in the media- -mdst of them condemning present- day r practices, ip this .regard: However, Gordon Sinclair and she.ubli e r "' publisher Jack McClel- land are totally forthright in their o inion 9 p s that vlojence is a fact of le a life ife and there js nothing the media can do to sweeten its Im- pact. te, bir in the meeting Miss LaMarsh, who heads the ,comm fission, said that' both Sinclair and McClelland would Gael like "asses" if they saw themselves in the movie. Hardly an unbiased viewpoint. When Jim Currie of Wingham attempted to make the point that the increase in acts of violence can more truthfully be laid at the door of irresponsible parents than in the edi, torial rooms of the media, he was interrupt- ed by Miss LaMarsh with an argument about the communities in which most vlole.n�oc. curs—and. the point about responsibilities of. parents was lost in the ensuing exchange. Barry Wenger of The Windham Ad- vance -Times, presented a written brief, and added verbal comment that as far as news- papers are concerned, it appears the most valid form of control should be through press councils—formed by mutual consent of pub- lishers who seek to police their own publica- tions. Scott Young, who chaired the sitting of the commission, commented that Wenger was the first publisher who has addressed any of the sittings held to date. Violence is, indeed, a disturbing -pheno- menon in the present age of affluence, when ' few have valid reasons for discontent. How- ever, ignoring its presence will not make vio- lence disappear. The media have an obliga- tion to report violent occurrences. The big question is the good taste with which such reports are presented and whether or .not they are a benefit or, a detriment to society. What of the future? Now that the- posi office strike is over ' Canadians have a right to be curious about the future. The executive of the CUPW says 0 that the workers are, unhappy with Abe a renewal of the warfare at first opportunity. Certainly the public has the right to ask what remedies are planned for a situation that will not tolerate another exercise .of the kind we have been through in the past two months. An entire battery of comp.uters would be incapable of reckoning the total loss to the nation created by the six-week interruption of mail services. Whether rightly or wrongly, the vast majority of Canadians were prepared to support the postmaster - general in waiting out the strikers, but that sort of patience cannot be expected if there is a renewal of hostilities. This particular dispute has provided ample evidence that labor disagreements should be dealt with by labor-management :tribunals. Strikes are simply too costly for all concerned. It is equally evident that the sort of arbitration which has been offered so far is not adequate. Labor distrusts boards of Joe 12;'ta1X' and wit dark e e Y is�i i, light-brown,air a � � yhair ndt medium complexion, He is to,excellent 'health but much below -average mentally so he needs uidanc n u i ion. is y g e a ..d s..Qervs , Re attending a.special school and is in a group itorne operated by a' young professional couple.with a particular .interest in below- , average children, Joe is:malg great progress there. Joe loves to be given;respohsibility. He is.proud to be trusted with chores and conscientious about carrying them out. As an .adult he. should be employable in a sheltered, supervised setting. Joey likes other childre . d gets on well with��them. He en- joys family -type c ivjti joys tivttiea , damping, swimming, and skating. Gentle, sensitive Joey p a quiet, laying family Where he will feel secure and, where.,, the parents, while :realizing his linnitations, willhelp iii develop as much as he is able. To inquire about adopting J: : please write' to Today's Child, Ministry of Community Yat Se ' is �� ry e �888, Box andStation . �� S. K, Toronto M4P 2H2. In your;letter tell something of your present family and your way, of life. ti ri , For general adoption cinormation, contact your local Children's Aid Society. arbitration, *laiming that they are usually loaded in favor of management. SUrely, if labor, managernent and government are capable of hahdling their own individval re- SPor.4101.1414 Intelligently, they 0101d- be equally capable of arriving al a formbf labor court which would merit the confidence of all three. The post office strike has done more in- jury to the cause of organized labor than any other single action in the past 40 years.. It has solidly cemented publicopinion. Members of parliament, who after all have the power to make laws about union rights, are now keenly aware that the vast majority of Cana- dians are flatly against unreasonable de- mands 'by labor. Those same members all want to be re-elected and they have been pro- vided with a clear signal about where the majority of their electors stand. Unfortu- nately, that 'attitude will be applied to re- sponsible unions as well as tb those which are used as the tools of overpaid professional organizers. One message comes through loud and clear. "No more post office strikes." New trend in business It is not news that we are living in and through rapidly changing times. Signs of change are all about us—perhaps most par- ticularly obvious in the restlessness of our young people. Business methods are changing too, and many small town merchants are becoming increasingly uneasy about what is happen- ing. The latest" development has been made possible by the availability of transporta- tion, whether it be by car, motorcycle or moped. Shopping plazas, as they are gen- 41, erally termed, are no longer limited to the big cities and mushrooming subbrbs. Towns as close as Goderich and Hanover now have their shopping malls—groups of retail outlets where parking is available right out- side the shops and where the shoppers can wander from one store to the next under cover. Not only are these plazas a threat to the "downtown" merchants in the same towns. They are attracting shoppers from nearby towns as well. Retailers in the main street outlets are finding a sharp need to develop new ways in which to attract customers or even to hold onto the ones they already have. If it is true that competition is the life of trade, we should be on the receiving end of some pretty hot trade before long. Slashing health costs Health Minister Frank Miller's recent announcement that health service costs will be slashed is more than a bit alarming. Mark you, the word is not "trimmed"—it's "slashed". .There is no point in denying that mount- ing costs for medical and hospital care must be controlled. They account for a tremen- dous proportion of the provincial budget, in addition to the personal charges paid by all citizens through compulsory health insur- ance premiums. Local health authorities, as represented by hospital boards, are placed in a rotten position by drastic cuts in provincial budgets. On one hand they are eternally under pressure to improve standards of care, and on the other being told to do all this on less money. The voting public might be more deeply impressed by "slashing" provincial budgets for fancy printed reports and costly public relations departments. We might even ac- cept a certain amount of slashing in the funds for our highways, if the health pro- gram could be limited to some thoughtful THE WINGHAM ADVANCE -TIMES Published at Wingham, Ontario, by Wenger Bros. Limited Barry Wenger, President Robert 0. Wenger, Secretary -Treasurer Member Audit Bureau of Circulations Member — Canadian Community Newspapers Assoc. Ontario Weekly Newspapers Assoc. Sublicription $10.00 per year. Six months $5.25 To United States $15.50 Second Class Mail Registration No. 0621 Return postage guaranteed , , etteri to t e Editor DECEMBER nig At the 4m 'in Victoria College, Toronto t weed, Rev. A. E. M. Thompson, a :former Wingham boy, received the hon- orary degree of Mor of Divin- ity. Officers for 1929 were elected when Wingham 10.0.L. No. 794 geld its regular meeting. Thomas Wheeler is, Worshipful Master and wilt:: besupported by Ale* Robertson, C, ti: Copeland, Joseph Guest and J. W. McKib- bon. Capt. W. J. Adams, among his endeavors to lease the public, .P P ,, has just added a' Brunswick Panatrope to provide music , This machine uses the ordinary records but by means of tubes and amplifiers produces a volume of tone that fills the thea- tre, and its effect is 'generally appreciated by the patrons. Wednesday radio reports are to the effect that, King George is making a brave'. fight against what looks like a fatal illness: Arrival of the Prince of Wales at his bedside seemingly gave his father added encouragement. The Women's Missionary Soci- ety of Wingham United Church held its annual Meeting and elec- tion of officers. Mrs. W. H. Willis was named president and vice- presidents` are Mrs. (Rev.) Davison, Mrs.. (Dr.) Stewart, Mrs. F. R. Howson and Mrs. J. Wilson. Secretaries are Mrs. Bert Wellwood and Mrs. W. J. Greer;. treasurer, Mrs. George Ross. • About 125 neighbors and friends gathered at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Weishar, near Belmore,to enjoy one more social evening before their departure to Teeswater. Wilfred Lynett read an address and Will- iam Lynett made the presen- tation of a beautiful electric floor lamp. John McKenzie was elected reeve of . Ashfield Township in elections held in that area. T. Anderson is Deputy Reeve. Coun- cillors are James Ritchie, Mr. Black and .Sam Swan. Dear Editor: The working of minds centred at Queen's Park seem quite strange, in fact, coinpletely in- comprehensible- to residents of small towns. Countless thousands of dollars are spent on projects that seem borderline ridiculous. We read of the vast slims spent to preserve the Niagara Escarp- ment. Yet we are also seeing small hospitals being closed because costs of operations are allegedly too high, and the small hospital inefficient. To residents of small towns this is absolute and utter nonsense. Few of us, (or let us be kind) very few of us, will ever use the. "nature trail" and walk from Owen Sound to St. Catharines. Yet every one of us, and every one near and dear to us, will some day use a hospital. If that hospital is 40 to 90 miles away, what op- portunity will we have to spend a few hours each day with a friend or loved onellow happy will that loved one be, miles and miles from home, totally surrounded by unknown, and seemingly uncar- ing strangers? What added ex- pense will families already tragedy smitten have with car mileage, and work hours lost? What additionat hazards will there be on ourhhighways when minds, preoceupied by worry, start to guide a speeding auto a half a hundred Miles or more? There are so many points in favor of the small hospital that to me their closing is absolutely unthinkable. It has been proven beyond all reasonable doubt that big cities are bad places to live. In these large cities, violence, air and water and every type of pollution, including moral, seems to flourish. The very milk of human kindness curdles. Conversely the small town, with its intimately co-ordinated town council, With the butcher, the baker, and the small town loans maker sharing the respon- sibility of maintaining and im- proving the life style, has become the ideal home -site. The perfect place to raise your family. The very best place for the young to pattern their sets of values after those they see displayed around them. Why an elected govern- ment centralized in Toronto is seeking to destroy the small town is absolutely beyond the com- prehension of any thinking person. Why are they trying to enlarge something that has been proven bad, and destroy some- thing that 1\as been proven price - The only possible explanation can be that our elected repre- sentatives have through utter lethargy abandoned their duty of decision making, preferring to set up*commissions, and listen to career civil servants and other such dreamers, allowing them to make the rules and enforce them. All of this must stop, and we must stop it right now. Not to- morrow, or next week, not next election, but today. We must devise some system other than the overthrow of the government by force. Some system we all can work at to convince those Toronto based administrators that we want, and must have, our small hospitals, all of them presently existing, and more built and en- larged. All that have been closed re -opened, re -furbished, and re- staffed. One way would be to hit the Government in its most sensitive spot. We have in mind, not the .seat of the Member's trousers, but very close to that spot. The wallet in his hip pocket. Let us all let our Governnient know that we want our taxes spent where they will do the most good for the most people. Here is a suggestion. In every small town there are at least several dozen merchants 'who are Collecting hundreds of dollars in sales taxes. In most small towns there are manu- facturers who are collecting, and payingjhe 12 per cent tax to the Fteceivef General of Canada. Let these folks file their returns as demanded, on the date specified. Instead of attaching a cheque, they append a note stating that the cheque has been made pay- able to the hospital ,pf their choice. The administrator of the hospi- tal cashes these cheques and deposists them in a special ac- count, so that the merchant has a cancelled cheque, proof positive that he has not diverted the tax money for his personal better- ment, but had indeed put his tax money where he wants it to be spent. Possibly he has broken some legal technicality. But he has certainly not committed theft, bore false witness nor coveted his neighbor's ox, nor broken 'any of those ten mar- vellous rules of this game of life that old Moses received and passed on to us. It is hard to picture a jury of twelve of his peers finding that man guilty of any moral misconduct. More probable, the jury might strike a medal commending him for his action. So let's get with it. Form a committee in each of our towns, whether our hospital is threatened or not. Let's cut. Queen's Park sales tax revenues to an extent that will surprise them. Let us show them that we want our hospitals. That we prefer them to greenbelts, nature trails, research into our lavatory habits, or subsidizing someone to publish a book of blank pages. Let's get the car dealer, the corner druggist, the host at our hotel, the service station opera- tor, the 'printer and the photog- rapher all writing cheques to their hospitals instead of the Treasurer of Ontario. By golly! It has to work'. And thanks for your time in reading this. Yours faithfully, Arthur Carr Oct. 20, 1975 Dear Editor: Please may I have a little space in your "Letters to the Editor" column. We have been trying for years to complete a Moore family tree. Cornelius Moore immigrated from England landing in New York and made his way to !Penn- sylvania. His sons Daniel and Lawrence (whom I am a descen- dant of) carne tO the Niagara Peninsula and John came to Flamborough township in the Waterdown-Dundas area. John's son Cornelius came to the "Queen's Bush". It is Cornelius and his family that came. to the Queen's Bush of whom all trace has been lost. As family records show he had a large family, so there must be some of the descendants some place. They came with him. It may be the northern part of Huron County. Family papers show the name Wawanosh, Hullett and Tuckersmith. But up to now we haven't been able to find any descendants or any trace of Cornelius. We found records of a Cornelius Moore who lived north of Ches- ley. But his family said he came from Ireland. If anyone reading this, if there was a Cornelius Moore in your family history, or if you know anything about it. please write to me. I will answer all letters that give me the information I want. Mrs. Hazel Paige RR 1, Priceville, The Ladle*. Bluey had a very auccut year. Tbe3r, were able to pay 4200 on .he cbureh debt, . i ters for t'ho coining year ease iss'Olive Ott Mrs. Moffatt, Mrs, , ► '' ey al Mrs., Alex **Om y ,-E�E ,' C MBE 1s44►, ,,. More than 611,000 of tur key the plum t and mos tender in Western da - will be sent, to Canadiian t7rot England as o post -Christmas treat. Back of,, the campaign to send the turkeys the .ehnirtniaan of the Cana',lit;too. titan !iN.ar'�er vices, ' The Wi m b a. n h of the Cana an f C" dl Legion;. D E,%S`. ,., held its annual meeting, with Duncan Kennedy named president. Vim presidents are C. R, Coult , H McBurney and William G. Hamilton. A. M. Forbes is secre- tary and Bert bard treasurer. Last week Don Nesmith passed his examinations for entry'in the Royal: Canadian Air Foi;ce. He expects to be called at the begin- ning Qf. the new year.. Former County Constable Jack Stewart, veteran smithy, of Bel - grave, has secured a good job at his trade with a London mttni- tions fiirm,. Jack says he scan heipr, win the war better by wielding the .blacksmith's hammer .than by wielding the baton. Mrs. J.J.Elliott. was elected president of the Women's Missionary.. Society of Knox Presbyterian' Church, Bluevale. Other officers are Mrs. R. Elliott, Mfrs. W. H. McKinney, Mrs. Archie Messer, _ Mrs.. ,Harvey Robertson „apd Mrs °R.. F. Gar= nils. • Mr. and Mrs. William Wade moved into their new home Which they recently bought, on Gibson Street in Wroxeter. Mr. and Mrs. ?Cecil rt. Mahood have taken up their abode at the Mahood home in the village of Belmore. STI, ,._ -lore►, chair an committee, :.appears eo it i+'itbar+ f+�`;,- Odi:over � ea f#y mit foi�the a.r 1 theThey council a tthe. motion . t li . �. » ?pp Ott# made to the Man• tel , the, additional ;ai'netint- th -incr d C9*, Marianne fir. . e g3ofp'o .gid was.haW,a . ,riled, r. . n` club trophy for. school championship *POW spea • at a"Lia. District High ` ot,i .comi 4' ment exercise"... eo:�, ova senior .girls''+er, :Mrs: J C. McBurnek.- vi► elected president of the W Km* PresbyterianChur grave. Vice-pr.-esidents. mason:and AirS. G,>F treasurMM a ; tom,.1Mrs..Bruce, llss JeanneUMof'fat� • of Mr, slid Mrs. Alm. Mi Wroxeter was�guest of 1i a•twoparhes:dui4ng thep Her marriage to Geoir. miller of 'Kiti he tali later. this month*, 0 0 0 DECEMBER a194t Joseph McGi11 vas Master of Winghain ' 6 and•A M;;No 286, when:m 4. 'metlor the election of if p her officers electedh: Gorge Guest, AlexHo Gordan Leggatt, Archie, and: Howard Bondy Following�,the: annual mos banquet held by ;cls Considerable comment has been stirred up in the village of Belgrave with the announeetnent of the proposal to close the ONR liveitock raising area. More than 120 carloads of stock have been shipped from the village ..so far this year. DECEMBER i951 Signs of spring. It's hard to be- lieve, but last week two children were spotted walking along the main street of Wroxeter in their bare feet and carrying their - rubber boots. The new memorial chimes of St. ' Andrew's Presbyterian Church were dedieated Sunday by Miss Helen Inglis, grand niece of thedonor, and Rev. A: Nimmo. Mrs. Carl -Lott of Wingham and grocer Harry Angus are each $230 rieher after winning the Mother Parker contest Saturday Ronald Rae's rink captured the Fred L. Davidson Trophy after a torrid game with a Walkerton rink skipped by C. 0. Monroe at the bonspiel here last week. Other members of the winning rink were Frank Hopper, Harold Thomas and D. A. Rann. Don W. Jeffs was elected master of Wingham. Lodge No. 286, A.F. and A.M. as it held elec- tion of officers. Other officers are H. A. Mitchell, W. H. Smith, E. S. Gauley, A. M. Peebles and H. L. Mr. and Mrs. R. E. Laidlaw, Wingham, announce the engage- ment of their daughter, Alice Ann, to James Armstrong Munro Point Pelee National Park, a birdwatc-her's paradise, is located on Canada's most southern mainland on two major migration flyways. MRS. EVELEN DEMARAY represented the Bluevale- Whitechurch Pastoral Charge last Wednesday when the Royal Commission on Violence in the Communications Industry arrived in Wingham tO hold a public hearing. Mrs. Demaray and Mrs. Genevieve Moore presented a brief and a list of recommendations to the commission members.