HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Goderich Signal-Star, 1976-11-11, Page 21The annual Royal Canadian Legion Branch 109 church parade started out
fionn the Legion Hall on Sunday morning in -cold, snowy weather. The
marchers, led by the Goderich Laketown Band, attended services at
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North Street United Church as a fitting prelude to today's Remembrance
Day .Service at the cenotaph to honor ..the dead of two world wars. (staff
photo)
reminder to never let it happen again
BY MYRTLE BRODSKY „would carry the torch, were
On this day, November events to alter their views; as.
llth, . Remembrance Dagr-,. •
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tribute is paid throughout
L�anada to those who gave
their''' lives. in the two World
o Wars and commemoration
services are held at our war
memorials, those hallowed
shrines where differences of
.creed and race cease to exist.
Most of these memorials
were executed after the First.
World War during those
twenty-one -years of respite
before the next holocaust;
after 1945 they were
rededicated to include those
who died in the Second World
Wr..
And how wonderfully the
sculptors of these early
memorials captured ,the
spirit of 1914,'the hot-blooded
enthusiasm of • eager yaiith
who hastened. to "join yup" so
as to.be-in time to take part in
"the war to end all wars."
There is `•a statue . in
Goderich's town Square
which, together with its in-
scription, tells the story of
proud' sacrifice in epic form;.
a soldier, a gallant, debonair,
helmet -waving figure, the
' very embodiment of vibrant,
glowing life gives altost
-unbearable poignancy to the
epitaph'; which reads, "ALL
THAT THIS EARTH. CAN
GIVE THEY THRUST
ASIDE: THEY , CROWDED
ALL THEIR YOUTH INTO'
AN HOUR AND.. FOR ONE
FLEETING DREAM OF
▪ RI.G.HT THEY DIED.".
• There •was r disillusion in..
Canada at the outbreak of the
Second World War so that the
• new generation oi; fighting
men were in sober mood,
determined to save
:civilization at all costs.
'Tlie Ranks of those, who
grieve" "tfif"th-Bir dead in the
First World are sadly thinned
and the time is not far distant
When no more tears will be
shed over those deaths .than
are today over the deaths of
the six soldiers whose names
' are inscribed •on the South
African War memorial
("Boer War" 11899=1902) in
London's Victoria Park. : i
Moreover thirty years have
passed since the days in early
May when the Second World
Wear's hostilities ceased,, so
that it shouldn't be too
disquieting to hear, yes, even
on Remembrance Day, the
"it -wasn't -my -war" ,type ,of
slogan, voiced by part^of that
large section of Canadians
who are too young to
remember six searing years
of war. Dieppe and Falaise
are the same matter of
history to them ,as Blenheim
and Waterloo; memorial.
parades and services are
interruptions in •a day's
holidaying and are of no more
significance than a- late, fall
fair.
This isn't an attitude of
brash heartlessness and lack
of patriotism: on the con-
trary, it reflects an upsurge
of idealism which has faith in
the innate goodness, of
mankind, believes tat
humanity is capable of
making a fresh start and that
all international.
disagreements ,could be
settled` by Communication
and understanding, in short
• ;rbY love in its widest sense and
never by confrontation.
Make no mistake,,,tliese are
fine, sincere people who
bravely as did the fallen who
are remembered today.
Yeo though �., 1 walk through
the valley
- of the shadow of death. 1 shalt icor no
evil. (or Thou ort with me.
—23rd Psalm
DON "RED" WARREN
Don ' "Red" , Warren of
Welland, Ont., son of J. P.
Warren of Goderich; passed
away Monday, November 8,
at • Roswell Park Memorial
Institute, Buffalo, New York..
"C. FRANK ARCHER • .. one daughter . Mrs. Thomas
C. Frank Archer, 561 -'(Marianne) Arkell of London,
Avenue Road, Toronto, died England and.. two grand
suddenly at ,,,Toronto General children Joanne and Kenneth. -
Hospital Friday, November 6. • .Funeral service was at the
He,was 66 years old:. ' McCallum Funeral Home,
He' was born November.24,'. Monday, November 8 with the
1909 in Hamilton, Ontario ia` Rev. William:' Bennett of -
Charles and Ethel (Lane) ficiating.
He:was a resident of Interment was in Bayfield
Archer.
Southern Ontario working' as Cemetery. Pallbearers were
Donald
a mining engineer and was , Sager, Clare. Sager
married.in Hamilton June I1, and Tom Sager of RR 4.'
Goderith, Fred Lebeau a
1930.to Grace MacKenzie. arid
After his marriage he lived in Phil Turner of Bayfield, and
the Red Lake district of Tony Vandongen of RR 3
Northern Ontario where he Clinton: _
was involved with mining and
in 1964 moved. to Toronto •
where he spent the remainder
of his life.
He was a member of the
Masonic Lodge in. the Elliott
Lake District.
He is survived by his wife
JHAfl NEW AT HURONYIEN
. A social' evening . for all those responsible for the
representatives of groups and
individual volunteers was
held in the auditorium
Thursday evening. Chester
Archibald, Administrator,
showed coloured slides and
gave an interesting com-
mentary of a trip taken last
summer to Western Canada.
Special events that had
been..filmed with the new
audio visual equipment were
shown followed by a general
discussion on volunteer work. •
Mrs. Finkbeiner. of Exeter
expressed the appreciation of
the volunteers to -Mr.
Archibald for sharing his trip
and to the kitchen staff who
prepared the buffet lunch.
Dick Roorda led the
Christian Reformed Song
Service. on Sunday evening
accompanied at the piano by'
Marlene Vanderwal. The
residents enjoyed' two
numbers by the juniors.
The Clinton Legion
provided a film for the
-Family Night program: The
story.of the film was related
to Armistice day and was
filmed- 'in Holland and
France.
Percy Brown • and .Bert"
Colombe operated the
projector and Mrs. Hen-
derson and Mrs'. '.'Parker
played piano instrumentals
during intermission. Miss
Margaret Mitchell who spent
several years as a nurse in
the armed services thanked '
Bob McCALLUM
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program.
Miss Sybil Courtice and.
Mrs. Ross McNee: were
welcomed to the over 90 Club •
at the November meeting.
Twenty-six members at-
tended the get-together and,
joined - in the sing -a -long
accompanied by. Mrs. Elsie
Henderson. 'The • Walkerburn
Club volunteers assisted with
the activities.
• However wishful thinking
has so far failed to produce an
n
intern ti l Utopia and,
oa op
thankfully, there suf-
..ficreno ofthose-whoc
.mbiie.
idealism ..
with vision and
realism and , who therefore
consider it -their duty . to
voluntar„ily undergo the
training which would become
mandatory were Canada's
freedom to be threatened.
1 "Freedom threatened!
Nonsense! Impossible in this
enlightened age!” is a
response with an all too
familiar ring for those whose.
memory reaches back to the
Merry,carefree ."Bank
Holiday" crowds who
rollicked in that other Lon-
don, the English one, almost
on the eveof the declaration
of war in August; 1914.
Perhaps the "Theme" of
Winston Churchill's
"Triu'mph and Tragedy"
("The Second World War'.
Volume Six, 1954) provides a
commentary on this response.
it reads, "How the great
democracies triumphed, and.
so were able to resume the
follies which had sonearly
cost them their life.
Many men of good -will •in
the free nations are dedicated
to eliminating these "follies",
still so painfully evident, but
acute differences in emphasis
on the ' numerous points of
agreement continue to tear
them :apart '•With. possibly
`disastrous results.
• But no dark thoughts should
cloud our minds as we stand
at the Cenotaph today; this is
the timefor hope and faith
hope that all goes well and
faith that, whatever befalls,
those we honor did not die in
vain.
REV. CLINTON BELL
FORMER ASSOCIATE PASTOR OF "YOUR WORSHIP
HOUR" AND NOW MINISTER OF ELMIRA MISSIONARY
CHURCH
WILL SPEAK
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"THE REFLECTIONS"
GOSPEL SINGERS
WILL SING
SUNDAY, NOV. 14th
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The pregnant. two minutes'
sice, ending with the clear,
triumphant . notes whose
sorrows even .faith and. hope
-are -powerless- to --heal uThe
only balmless wound is the
departed human life we had
learned to .need - - - All other
peace has many roots and
will spring again." (Emily
Dickinson in letter, 1879).
It's time to wake up and see
that it never happe'ns, again =.
never, never. '
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RICH SIGNAL -STAR, THURSDAY, NOVEMBE
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SILENCE NOT GOLDEN
One thing about being in the
business of YvViting a weekly
column, m•y, friends and
relativ'as ' supply me with
clippings .and'.ma'gazines
from which' 'they hope I may
glean ideas. •I am grateful for
this for after almost 200
Singing Waters columns, the
flow •senietimes gets down_to
a tinkling trickle:
„This week I received a copy
of The Canadian Baptist, and
the editorYal is, on a subject
with which I have dealt from
tame to time and which I feel
is terribly important. It is
about those times when
silence' is NOT golden and is,
in fact a, • s jn. 'Vol takingthe
liberty of 'quoting it in its
entirety. •
"The worst violation of
decency to plague society
occurs almost every day on
radio, on television, in
movies, in _ newspapers,
magazines, . and even- bill
boards. It is the common use
of profane and v.u.lgar
language, -licenti'ou=s
remarks, nudity and ex-
pressions of immorality:
People who resent such
expresliorilseem.without plan
or power to stop the pattern,
or even to shield themselves
from it. So they stay silent.
"In the, past vulgarity
existed, &but it was generally
repressed. Early
movies
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were -sometimes risque and
'-surgge'stive; .,T• __..trashy
magazines were sold under
the counter. ' Society's
mistake was to just wink at
such things, rather than
'taking, a hard line against
them. As •a consequence,
movies - became steadily.
bolder, magazines more
openly vulgar, and in what
was thought 'to be
sophistication, it was
tolerated. b"
"By the time decent people
began to demand a- step to
pornography in print, ori
radio, television and .movies,
it was too , late. As
Shakespeare 'said in King
Henry VI: "A little fire is
quickly trodden out, which
being suffered, rivers cannot
quench."•
"The .promoters of .por-
'nography are no longer
limited to a few amoral
morfey-crazed or underworld
characters. They include
entertainers who substitute
sensationalism for •talent.
They include writers desirous
of sales'; rather than art. They
include ,bus'ines•s nen
sacrificing integrity for sales,
and ordinary people sitting in
their homes, willing to look at
anything ,.for a cheap laugh,
no matter how degrading.
They.. include also decent
people who just put down the
paper, toss out the magazine
or turn off the set -... people
who object, BUT IN
SILENCE!
"Such expediency, such
selfish greed, SUCH
SILENCE, have combined to
pave the way for
coeducational college dor-
mitories, living common law,
the breakdown of marriages,
a widespread use of drugs,
alcohol problems and the
_great. increase _in muggings,
.make-.
Tape -apes and -murders -that
it unsafe to go out at night in
many cities.
"The present situation is
due to sin in many quarters,
and the sin is due also to
decent people who did nothing
tostop it...decent people who
JUST KEPT SILENT.
."To attempt to do
sornething, .even at this. late
date, 'would' be an act • of
courage. It might result in
loss of popularity, cause .one
to be branded .a trouble-
maker, and test a few shallow
friendships. But these are of.
little significance. Decent
people .have. a right to a
decent society. Christians
have not only a right, but an
obligation to:gain and secure
a Christian atmosphere for
their children, 4,0nd this in-
cludes what they read as well
as what they watch.
"Courage, determination
and persistence v ' are.
necessary to win back an
atmosphere of decency. The
battle must begin in' EACH
HOME,,. EACH CHURCH and
'EACH COMMUNITY. • It
cannot be won by being silent.
"THERE ARE TIMES
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SIN." ;
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