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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Goderich Signal-Star, 1957-03-14, Page 2`,-Jailertrii ea') HURON COUN'I'Y'S FOREMOST WETOKLY Established 1&48. In its llOth year of publication. Published by Signal star plataishIne Limited Subscription Rates --Canada and Great Britain, $3.00 a year: to United States, KO. Strictly in 4dvanme. ne Advertising Rates o- request Telepho710 Authorized as second-class mail, Post Office Department, (Melva Out -of -Town Representative: W NA 237 Foy Ildg.a 34 Front $t., W. Toronto. Over UN --Largest circulation of any rOwspaper published lin . Huron County -Over Member a Canadian Weekly Newspaper Association. Member of Onr© Weekly Newspapers A550-Ciation, Member of Audit tureau of Circulation GEO. L. ELLIS, Editor and Publisher. 411‘ tar THURSDAY, MARCH 14th, 1957 T E' FUTURE WILL TELL While many persons seem happy NVItil t ht. announeement that the ario hospital insur- ance plan will go into effect early in 1959, there are others who are doubtful about the tong range benefits of the set-up. One thing is always eertaio. .1ohn Public will be paying the bill regardless of what insurance plan is used. He need not think he viIl 110 getting something for nothing. Time alone will tell o nether the move is a s ie one for Ontario. In the meantime, a report from Britain of grave rumblings of dis- ntent among members of the medical pro- lession is of interest in the light of discussion re government -operated hospital insuranee. To all intents and purposes, doctors in Britain are now employed by the State. -When a Britisher thinks he requires the services of a physician, he merely put‘; his name downon a doctor's list. Ile goes to the doctor's °tile - SERVING YOU "What 1>oes This Town Expect of Its Newspaper?- was the subject of an editorial eunipetition for weekly ii(wspaipers sponsored by "The Canadian Weekly Editor,"1 of Van- ianiver. Winner of the competition was the Ux- bridge (Ont.) Times -Journal With the follow- ing editorial, contents of which are revealing "The difference between -a daily news- paper arid a weekly newspaper:is as great as „ --1,17-atifftFrarrtrak lieficretrtr- tire -1N+ t ch --hap someone in another fown and that whieh hap- pens to you or your friends. The first is iner- ty something, about which you make a casual remark -the latter is.something to becriticised, ?,ondemned or eomplimented. The daily press is- the synopsis_ Of international, news -the weekly press is the personal approach. "Sitiee some 5,000,000 persons in Canada today are readers of weekly newspapers -it- anight ha well to look at your own hometown paper, analyae;and determine just what you expect of it. We think we know what you .expect. It is this - ``First. you expect the news of your town, its organizations, its dabs, its church groups. its sehools and its council. You expect all this news and much more to be presented regu- larly and in -a concise and fair manner. You. as a discriminating reader, dopot. wish to have news reports or news coverage colored with individual or affected thinking. "Seeond, you expect your newspaper to be the show window of the municipal merchant as well as the sales bill of the enterprising farmer and the individual seller. As such, you expect to SAP merchandise advertised in a clean, if hisillness is trifling or examination requir- ed. If the illness seems serious the man either calls the doetor to his home or else goes into a hospital. The trouble is that sinee physicians' ser- vices are supposedly "free," patients with imaginary ailments clutter doctors' offices and make inordinate demands upon their time, to the detriment of those who are really in need of hospital or medical care. Tfie medical fees, paid by the taxpayers through the Government, are uniform, with no allowance made for the physicians who are outstandingly brilliant or exceptionally competent. Many of Britain's family doctors are considering quitting the National Health Service. If they were to do so, a problem would be created in the United Kingdom. But then, they have quite a few problems over there and a couple more would probably he neither here nor there. R COMMUNITY legible style that leaves nothing to guesswork or to doubt. -Third, you expect your paper to help promote anything that is good and desirable in the coninninity. 'You expect it to take an editorial stand, quite apart from factual news reports, on any project, undertaking or con- troversial town affair. You expect such edit- orial viewpoint but only after the subject has been thoroughly understood, after all points of view have been claaly considered, and after .you ealitorshaiaagiven -it-aagaskatsaleal. of- sanions. study and unbiased thought. "Fourth, you expect that both town and country news will be so presented that your newspaper will be a chronicler of events, a continuous history about you, your family and - friends. Births, deaths, niarriages, gradua- tions and other of Irife's milestones will be recorded on the pages of your paper, you exo. peet, so that in future years -s .perTrsal of back eopieswill provide a .comprehensive review of life in your community. Yen expect ails- as match as you expect your paper to be the kind that Ma' be read by child, parent .or grand- parent without doubt of reliability or fear of em ba rrassment. "You expect information, picture -8 and publicity. You expect authenticity in news reports, fearless thinking in editorials and leadership in community -enterprises. You also expect that y7;fir paper will be the goodwill emissary working between your•town and other cities and towns in the camtry. "It seems like rather a large order, yet any newspaper worth the name will have as its goal this duty of endeavoring to live, up to your very fair expectations." • EDITORIAL NOTES Sin:;t. Patrick's Day is on Sunday it is interesting to note that the..last census' listed thos.-e of Irish origin as 15 per cent of the total in Ontario. 0 0 e e 011,10r if G. Wells took a peek iia() the future to about right now when he wrota his "Outline of History" and said in it, Human history becomes more and more a .Ta''e bvt sv'u education and eatastrophe.'' a 0 4 * Tile a 111111 al house-to-house o ;111Va Ss of thy Red Cross in Goderich is worthy of your sup- port. It is from March 18 to 22, inclusive and is being directed by the Ladies Auxiliary of the Canadian Legion. As long as there is the Red Cross, there is always hope and help for the victims of disaster. 0 0 0 0 Wit h attendance at Sunday evening ser- vices presenting a problem to many churches. an experiment at Lucknow is' being watched with interest. There, th'ee ehurches-United. Presbyterian and Anglican -alternately hold the Sunday evening service for all three con- gregations. "Excellent attendance" is reported by The Lneknow Sentinel -Review under this set-up. 0 0 o After paying due tribute to the Iluron County Soil and Crop Improvement Associa- tion on its successful, tenth annual seed fair at 4 linton, the IN Ingham Advance -Times says: -With all due respect to the folks in CI int On NVO would like to suggest that this event might well be moved from place to place, in the county to the benefit of all concerned." This is a point, which we feel the officers of the assoeiation might seriously consider if they want*to get the full support, financial and otherwise, which the fair desarves. People are marvelling at the nuniber of I'anadians, ineluding St. Nlarysites, who are. making, winter trips to Florida and other southern climes,'' says The St. Marys °Journal - Argus. "Will this habit increase as greatly in the next decade as it has in the past _ten 'years?" the Sit. Marys paper asks. If it does, the winter population of Goderich in 1967 is in for 8, big dt'op, based on the nuniber of Goderiehites who haVa been down 'there this winter. Ooderieh, howeirer, is a bit different. Many lines of business are geared to service more of a summer trade than a winter one and, eonsequently, winter is fhe most suitable time for the operators of these businesses to take their annual holidays. Taking holidays in °January or February meane only one thing - the "sunny south." RUMORS OFTEN POISONOUS (rtoysi flank fully Letter) Rumor and gossip lit' intheatices and can !become menaces to busi- ness, government and individiaais. they polsofe relations (between people and tffect the well-being r Of society. Amor cUtS across. all boundaries of Odtitpation ainl private life with e speed that is yeater than that • di anf other.humae communiza- tion. Gossip, mostly ,direeted agoinst something or senneIone, does darnage in busineso, 'family Or Onialunity groups. Both cling .to Invention and deceit, and both, revere thotigh containing graius Of truth, are Malignant. What on Tve do about jt ',2 In usessiifv, it per8onal mid iit tsotial life We need to puneture thel rieg 1u gor-sit twor, One mark Of a runner that mikes, it distinct rtan truth is thAt it tlirkit filth it no secure standard of evid, enre.The teller often ,seeks to motee't integeity thy saying sOillething like"It is only rumor, but 1 heard..." Or he may say: "A man who ought to know says . . Under some conditione 'gossip 15 a powerful tool ,for keeping society in order ethically anal politically. We all dislike tote "talked abate because we cherish social approh. ation. In small communities, where everyon,e knows everyone else, gossip is effective in restraining anti -social behaviour. CG032iP, said Kimball Young in Sociology, is the voice cif the herd, thundering in ,our ears, telling tie that the goblin.; of ridicule, oetrace Lem, and punishment will get tee if IW (1611t behaVe. Having paid this tribute to gos- 'EJia Sean! .forge for goad, eve niwtt adealt that the rattling tongue -whips ip new ones to ammo cern, penione is doing a great deal of dettafCt- Our culture eeras to be caddied with gossip Dir goad or bad. Some. OM 6 -ail] tint perhaps we alaottla (,) hang all the cgossips, only it might come to pass that there would be no one left to pull the rope. We can make sure that we refrain personally from taking part in malicious or dangerous gossip and rutnor, and that we kill by ridicule expwure any that conies to our attention. How does gossip start? It may arise from love of one's own pet ideas. When we take a alai) at solawthing ram don't like, eve exper- ience an emotional release. Just as important, we give ourselves a "chance to explain to ourselves and others why we feel as we do. On a lower level, our gossip may be aeettAtig others of having done what we would like to do. We may gossip merely to fill a gap in °a tea party c-onvereation, and then, as Lady Unit said in Sheridan's The School for Scandal qwlien say an ill-natured thing, 'tis out of pure good laninor.' It is easy to go on from that to enlarge ono s activity. ushed -a - THE GODERICH SIGNALSTAR 11r,r4„ri suRE, A LiTTUE IT OF HEAVES far ,Arjagn success, the coiner of rumor be-. comes arrogant. The attention he receives turns his head. He mis- takes his toy trumpet for the trom- bone of fame. Rumor In Business There has been no great 'business executive unplagued by the indis- creet talk of his assistants and workers. Only the common cold is a rival to rumor in'the speed with which it spreads through a factory or an office, and the disturbance it causes. Pereneenel ofee firm may result in loss of 'business, damaged reptitations, physical ill- ness, and destruction of morale. Rumors .predicting misfortune to the business, to a department, or to a class of worker's, are of this sort. Rumors that arise from wish- ful thinking -the so-called "pipe dream" rumors -can be nearly as deadly, because they build up workers' hopes in readiness for a let- down. The grapevine within an organ- ization always deals -with 'something affecting the employees or their families, but it may attack anyone from the president down to the wash-reom attendant. If it starts from the personal insecurity of one maaitmay spread to take in everyone. Whispering campaigns can 'be organized to slander a department head or an -executive. The only answer found so .far 'is quick and definite, publication of the truth, stenpninig from an honest will to have understanding prevail. Use of bulletin boards, employee maga- zines, and meetings of supervisors may straighten out the distorted stories. It is not only among workers on the lower levels that gossip must be guarded against and met. Thoughtless talk by junior execu- tives and department managers can cause trouble. The temptation to give the impression by hints and suggesticn that he is "on the inside" has withered many a man's budding reputation. The basis of a rumor may be an actuality. Someone sees or learns something that he thinks is of enough interest to communicate to others. He may supply fanciful embroidery. He may distort the facts. He may blend this incident with others of a similar kind. A mulish way of thinking Com - .mon.to rumor -mongers and gossips is that of all or nothing, black or white. Gossip*ordinarily leaves no room far grays. A teeny bit of badness demands wholesale con- demnation. The "badness" may not be a breach of our moral code, but only a little deviation from the customs of the community or of the workshop. Most propositions are both true and false, depending on time and place. The rumor about them may 'bear the same resemblance to truth as abrckkeR mirror does to a whole one. Dryden referred to distortion in this way: "Some truth there 'was, but dashed and"brewed with lies to please the fools." Prejudice is a fertile base for rumor. Our 'beliefs of today may have their roots in bigotry far in the past. Those we inherit may be added to by experiences In child-, hood or in our (bdiness years, and may be -erne shaiekles preventing our free exploration of thought The rnantryizgtathiakstraight will keep this In mind when he comes up against a rumor. H there is ample evidence he may say he knows auchtand-such; with less evidence he may have an opinion about such-and-euch; but when evidence is almost or Otte ebsent he may not even venture a guess, It is a good thing, and not only in testing rumor, to 'know ;that you do not know. Bias or prejudice may show it- self in the loose or improper use of words. Much of the pain and misery in the world today can be laid to erroneous or wrongful usp of words. One cunningly chose a word may have more power than a thousand good deeds. Give a man a cleverly bad name and it may do him more harm than many sound arguments would do ,him .good. Out of realiz- ation of this danger has grown our law of defamation. 0— —0 -o When there is a need for help your Canadian Red Cross serves across the street, across the nation anti across the world. „ Canadian Red Crass relief sup- plies were in Hungary within hours after the outbreak of disturbances. You were there through your sup- port of the Canadian Red Cross. Ontario's ,first Sunday newspaper 7 Section; - Up-to-tho-Minute News - Complete Saturday Sports and Pictures - Modern Living Religious News and Views Full Length Novel Weekend Magazine - 26 Pages of Color Comics TV Weekly Intertainment and the Arts - M1 for 15c. To bo sure of year copy, contact the Tely carrier on your street, reserve oeo at your newsdealer's or pilisse Of WI*. e rrii.1 • .1 1 11./ .141t itteiri T 1.4 114( 1;R N4 ONITA1410 /-40M112 NICVVIAPAPER SAY A$ MIUNDA SYS. 0 TORONTO I WPM' 64011 On Your Doorstep Sunday Morning 0 310LifiettiLlietiteeeseeeeeneemeneneeeneencesenneenenetiii2Lernle4i'ilejje„; Down Memory's Lane 45 years Ago Town Council decided not to contest payment of interest on he-Ontarkrirat-StirOfe' -IMMO bonds. Earlier, an official of the railway had said that construction of the line would get underway again soon. James Strough was hired as in- spector on the sewer construction job at a salary of $1.2 per week. Archibald Elliott, 92, one of the Huron County pioneers, died at his 'home on Palmerston _street.. Though born in Ireland, he had lived nearly all his life in Gode- rieli ilia- the -I olvvn ' The trustees of North Street Methodist Church were planning to build a new parsonage. - Cameron Yule was injured while tobogganing on the steep bank ar Jklkthouse. While sleig_lk riding on the Maitland River bank, Miss Florence Wootton received a broken leg, and Miss Sara Beacom suffered damage to her teeth. -125 Years Ago William (Scotty) McDougall, pro- fessional wrestler, 'was convalesc- ing at the home of this mother and brother in Goderich. He suffered a broken jaw in winning a bout at Ha m Hon.. Raymond Player, of Wellington, was appointed organist of North treet UniEed'Uffurch. A team of horses, owned by Harry Williams, was rescued after 5waton 14th, 1057 plunging through the Ice below the Sunset HoteL The hones had been pulling -a wagon leaded with three to'ns Of ice. Goderich Sailors tied Windsor Mic Macs 1-31, in the first game of their 01-11A- intermediate play-oir series here Dot Stoddart scored :for the Bole teara. Colborne Township Council i.vas ormed that Goderich firemen Id be willing to light fires in township if seven, men were paid 60 cents an hour eacth. There was still one catch: Goderich Town Council had not , consented to its equipment leaving the toevn. 15 Years Ago Itev. D. J. Lane resigned as minister of Knox Presbyterian. Church. He said he „had no defin- ite plans for the future, but, in the trneantime, would continue as chaplain a the Elementary Flying Training School at Sky Harbor. A fierce gale dislodged 1,200 square feet of metal roofing on the marine tower of he Goderich Elevator. Workmen were brought from Preston to repair the damage. The entire complement of Fleet training planes at Sky Harbor was to be replaced shortly by Tiger Mothss it was announced by Man- ager J. R. Douglas. Goderich Public Library Board asked Town Council for a grant of $2,100, an increase of $100 over the previous year. Goderich citizens subscribed 119 percent of their quota in the latest Victory Loan campaign. . 10 Years Ago Goderich Collegiate Institute Board set the minimum salary for teachers at $2,200. The maximum salaries were $3,000 'for female teachers and $3,300 for male staff members. Harry Sturdy beaded an organiz- ation which had been set up to seek a new -community memorial hall for Auburn. The group aimed to raise $15,000 over a period of five years. Residents of Goderich district contributed $3,100 to the Aid to China Fund. B. H. McCreath was elected pre- sident of Huron Old Boys Associ- ation at a meeting In Toronto. The association was entering its 47th year. Towti Council suggested that a plebiscite be taken op the Public School 'Board's proposal to con- struct a rievrschool at -an estimated cost of about $325,000. ' MARGARET SEAGER CLUB The Margaret Seager Club met Monday in the Parish Hall. Plans for a tea and bake sale .to be held in the early summer at the home of Mrs. D. Challenger, were made. There was a good attendance to hear Mr. Wm. Prest speak on the making of wills. -After hi a talk, Mr. Prest answered questions _put by the metmbers. Tea was served by Mrs. C. H. Graham and Mrs. Mothers. immememmommimaiimple For a lifetime of roomier living! "CUSTOMLINE" —first and finest of folding doors 4 NOW available in your choice of 30 Beautiful Colours —and at a NEW LOW PRICE.., In Oyeter White $ 36.85 or Golden liyAleat ... from Make more floor and wall space. usable, give yourself more room for living - with MODERNFOLD CUSTOMLINE, the sturdiest, smoothest -operating folding door on the market today, with exclusive all -steel frame. 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