The Goderich Signal-Star, 1965-06-24, Page 10The Goderiell
NEW BREED OF PYGMIES
Well, father, how did you
enjoy your day?
0 rr
Personally, -Father's Day sad•
ciened me, as- it saddens me
each year.
trailed' by
kids.
two or three whining
When my Dad got home, from
work, he didn't have to set the
table, run around looking for
the kids, then jump in the car
•and go to get a quart of milk.
The mere •existence of such a Nor did he have to .'pick up a
day is an indwation of the new few things on the way home,"
ow ..ta._ v,�hieh tli�..-father-, lee-i--because---.mothe'r -looked- 'after
sunk in the family unit. Just her own shopping.,
a few decades ago, every -day * n
was fathc:'s day, and there was No, sir. When my Dad °got
no looking about? it. home from work he. was greet-
`' ed affectionately, but politely,
'When I was a kid, there vas .and ,,left alone. He retired to
none of this nonsense of father HIS chair, and read HIS paper,
helping around the house. Now.. until he was called for supper
adays fathers scrub the kitchen During the - meal, he was not
floor on their day off, and help 'forced to listen to a 30 -minute
with the dishes after dinner. monologue about the terrible
In the good old days, father day mother had. Nor did he
didn't have a day off, in the have to break up„ quarrels
first place, and mother wouldn'tamong the children. They
have let him dry the dishes, in wouldn't have dared squabble.
the second, because she knew
her place, and his. Antal on the weekend, my Dad
* '" 4. wasn't expected to turn into a
Perhaps it's the increase in party -boy. He was tired on
leisure time that has turned Saturday night, and he went
the head of the house into the; to bed. If he felt like going
foot of the a substitute to church next day, he did. If
babysitter; an unpaid domestic; he didn't, heC�-idn`t. But .he
Slavey: n handy 4wailing-wa11; , wasn't pestered all day Sunday
and in general, a Hale reflection' by kids wanting to be taken
of his di';ni;ieu, respected male swimming, or wife wanting to
forebears. go for a drive. or "have some-
' body in." He made the decis-
Until a couple of decades ions. If he just wanted to sit
ago, father worked a six-day on the verandah and look at
60 -hour week. Rut he didn't get the grass growing, he- slid.
ulcers, or drop dead at 45. And •
do you know why? Because he Not that he. was -an • ogre.
didn't see as much of his family, U4ually, we went for a picnic'
as the poor, cripple -gutted crew- on Sunday. But there wasn't
tore who brings home the bacon any' • dam' foolishness about
today.' Dad doing the cooking on an
outdoor grill. Mother made the
Nov, adays, father gets a day lunch, and Dad would sit on a
off. Dees he potter in the gar- stunip,in his Sunday` best, gaz
den" .Iboes he go fishing? Does ing with dignity and a certain
he play golf with the boys?` amount of 'distaste, at nature.
„A:Quid it were so, .-..He is kicked • A•fter • lunehr--he would--recline—
into the street.' vvith the child-' 6n a blanket, in the shade. He
ren, while' mother does what was relaxed, that man.
ever modern women do around '
home, with 52,000 worth of Another reason for his un -
ague UnveiId In
On the ftont of the new of-: and egtagratulate Mr. Neill."
Led erected at front of .. Huron Great Asset
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"The mi se ra i4 a re
�:R.�EI�.- fir.• Museum-
�... ,Itb. �. t* asset,
titivate expense of 'former Cur- i to the county town," said R'eeve
p Robert C ibson • of Newick,,, Mr.
ator J. H. Neill, Warden Glenn ! Neill's, old home. "The eere-
Webb unveiled a plaque in hon-; mony could not have . come t
or of the "founder and Wilde,a mote appropriate time, with
of the museum. The ceremony; our Grade 7 and 8 pupils visit -
took place in; the presence of I ing the museum. HQwick will
county councillors, Salvation always thank you for honottig
Army friends of Mr. Neill, and Mr. Neild i' a '
two bus loads of pupils from I "Not every roan in the county
Howick- Central Sghool, i would have attempted to start a
Presiding as property coni- museum at the time Mr. Neill
mittee chairman, deputy reeve ' did,". said James Chisholm, cur
Elmer Hayter of Stanley flown- l atot. ' "He deserves a lot of
- -Yip—recalled_..-mit-- coristtii-etiQ i1 credi't.— Many'.tt tes'.'he .dtd 'not
of the office had been requested get the backing he should have
I several times. There had been 'had- • He bought a locomotive,
discussion as to whether or not ' buili a track and put the loco -
Lit would detract from the ap- I motive in here. I have god.. to
pear'ance of the main building. bed at 10 o'clock, when I lived•
"I am quite sure, as we see I on=Trafalgar street, and he was
it today,' Mr. Hayter said, "it hammering away with the light
adds to the beauty of . the mus- I on. When I woke in the morn-
ing, the hammering was still
going on. The museum was
built by long hours and hard
'eum."
"This occasion gives us an
opportunity to recognize the ef- „
forts of Mr. Neill," said Warden w Captain Roy Wombold, after
Webb. "It must be a source of
' p satisfaction to him to see the the dedicatory prayer, referred
museum grow. Actaaally, to the Salvation Army centen-
1 think, he can be called the nial and presented a medallion
creator of the museum. We I to Mr. Neill "for his services
are very proud of it, and pleas not only as a Salvationist but
ed to take part in the ceremony.
"The museum is the town's
best drawing -card, apart from
the beach," Mayor Frank Wal-
kom said. "The fact that we
to this county and neighboring
counties."
Mr. Neill's voice would not
permit an outdoor speech, but
labor-saving machinery. questioned head -of -the -house
* status was that we didn't argue Oil -Base House -Paint
There is nothing more piti with him. Now you have to
QU CAN 'BUY!
have 22,000 visitors•to the mus- Dead Animal
R-EMOVAL
eum means a lot to Goderich.
I bring greetings from the town
any kid over the age of five, at
the drop of a suggestion. And
come out whimpering..
One generation has turned
fathers from giants to pygmies.'
And now, if you'll. pardon me,'
I have to go and make the beds,
while my wife dries her hair,
and watches a little TV.
for dead and disabled animals
call collect
Darling',& Company
of Canada `Ltd:.
Phone 482-7269, Clinton
Dead- animal licence number
350-C-65
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he had a sheat one typed out for and ridiculed?' h "
cUatttr;tued, I
Capt.
toiaF o
ld to -read ti? the have szt#farer`d ,at,-44._hahtn
of 1 '•ccalied 8i years ply -bac work, but tarried .on.
gathering museum material, The log house was a real fight.
and he displayed one of the the lacomoti',e was another '
first articles, a little square fightraised 5,00, but0 thethe attendancesameyear was
lantd'rn.
"I have been misunderstood has kept up ever since. "
m,
Three years ago, the q,ue4-
tion: was a railway school' earj
it was let, go ,by wwhllortt 'an
effort, a loss of many thousands:
of dollars and the history. Now,
ri o our do ors a `s a
airPiane,.; If it stays, here it is.
it . will become a sh;m,bjes.. If
it was hered under a roof,- and
burglar' traps. all through it,
it would be worth thousands to
Godericb and Huron County, R
is history.
"There are hundreds, of ar,
tides and machines ,here that
the children Of tomorrow will
not And in any dther place, not
even other museums. Ninety
n co.esi
e mo a ran
cent of th � n
frozz>;:outside the,county. *Lei's:
are 150 models here that I- have
made, and there are many v;
able ones to make. I hoa to
carry- on for some t l and
build for the children` of to-
morrow."
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