The Lucknow Sentinel, 1953-09-23, Page 5■* ■
WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 23rd, 1953
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MacMillan Letter From Formosa
Mackay Memorial Hospital,1
Taipei, Formosa, China.
My dear Campbell:
Again I beg your assistance in
an effort to reach old friends
around Lucknow. May I there
fore have a little corner of The
Sentinel for this purpose—for a
brief letter describing our journ
ey (my wife and I) back to East
Asia again?
There used to be an old say-
-4ng,“thelongest-wayroundis
the sweetest way home”. If For^
L^^aixouldJj^calied home, then
the, trip Toronto to Taipei was
about the longest way possible;
whether the sweetest, is another
question!. We left Toronto on
May 16 and arrived ih Taipei on
July 3. That was about 48 days
of almost -continuous travel. Had
we travelled by air we could
have done it in just a little more
than half that number of HOURS!
In these facts we see the con
trasts in our time between slow
movement and speed, in travel
and communication; between the
bld way and the new, between
the way of the sailing ship and
the jet airplane.
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All across Canada by train we
saw evidence, of the changing
times. Older people in the CPR’s
luxury diner found it difficult
to eat in modern style. ‘“Who
ever heard of having to pay forty
cents for ope egg?” complained a
farmer from Vancouver Island
travelling back home Rafter a visit
“back East”! Obviously he hadn’t
travelled recently. It was inter
esting to note that younger peo-
„ple didn't seemtomind.-Their-
1953 dollars didn’t look so big
as his did. They
^abouPmflatipn!.
Outside of the train windows
we saw* signs, of Northern On
tario’sjwealth of nickel and iron
and pulp attracting more and
more business attention, with
modern ideas and machinery. And
shining,, motor cars blew ; their
horns where price the moose were
at horne in silence.
On the prairies, horse days
were obviously done. They had
disappeared as - earlier had the
buffalo. Farmers didn’t seem to
mind if snow still lay in ravines
here and there late in May. Their
big machinery icould put in a
thousand acres ih the time it took
for about a hundred with horses.
Tractors could run day and night
When the snow would finally dis
appear, and the wind blow warm
er.' Farming was becoming big
business., and a farmer had to be.
a -capitalist'to .carry on? .
Through the Rockies We were
drawn by modern diesels, and
train men didn’t seem to mind
..when _we„gQ.t. held up and were
three hours behind schedule. “Oh,
we’ll easily make that up. befpre
Vancouver”. , But diesels were
said to be, hard on. the road-bed.
So, keeping up-with the chang.-
ing times meant. heavy roadbed
repair. \ .
Across the Pacific we were
back to old times. Our freighter
pioughed along at fifteen miles
an hour, loaded with /its own
weight in cargo. No one in the
crOw of about fifty- seemed to
mind th^ slow passing1, hours arid
days. Of course they were well
paid and not hard worked, and
then they’d be back in the good
old U.S.A, in two . months time,
having seen the big. cities of East
Asia in the meantime. .
For us, however, time passed
Slowly: And to make it seem
worse our watches went, back an
b o u r—e-ye-i-y—nighh-B ut—then--at-
the International. Date Line "we
had . to jump ahead a whole day
to keep step with the Orient.
| That day just happened to- be
I June 2. So 4he great Coronation
-DayT-^ebser-ved --by-so-rffany, just
disappeared from our calendar.
. Meanwhile, on ship board there
was little to do but eat and.sleep,
or. perhaps to walk bits Of the
deck when it was not washed by
winds and waves. Reading dr
writing was diffieull. Food, for a
few days made meals enticing.
“Threshing gang dinners”..... was
what one young American bride
from the Middle West called’ our
■ ship crew’s’ meals. She was on
her way for a visit with, her sold
ier hjusband,. in Tokyo on leave
from the front in Korea. Her
language reminded tis of home
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x OBITUARY
GEORGE SHIELLS
'The death of George Shiells oc
curred suddenly August 31st at
his home in Huron Township in
his 92nd year.
He was born near Edinburgh,
Scotland, brought to Canada as an
infant by his parents, the late
Robert Shiells and Elizabeth
McLeod Shiells. He lived over.
80 .years on the farm on which
he died. As a youth he helped
to clear the bush off $he farm
_and_hadplowed-with.oxen-on-the
sarins fields that he drove a trac^
tor within a?week of his ddath?
He was a member of-Pine River
United Church' and it was very
Seldom .that he : missed a Sunday
service. ’* \r'//*• * ,
. ‘ M&ny 'will miss his genial, plea
sant manner and his well-dressed
appearance.
The funeral service was con
ducted by the Rev. J. C. Hutton
or Pine River church at the Mc
Lennan' funeral home, Ripley,
with interment in Ripley cem
etery. The pallbearers were El
mer Reavie, Steve Irwin, Robert
Campbell, Mac MacDonald, James
Shiells and ’John Campbell. •
He leaves one son, Stewart, on
the home farm; four sisters, Mrs.
il, ' . •
Minnie MacTavish, Ripley; Mrs;
Agnes Merritt, Detroit; Mrs.. Jes
sie Wilson, ^North Dakota; Mrs.
Elizabeth Chisholm, Winnipeg;
and one brother,J Robert, British
Columbia. His wife, the -former
Clara Stewart, predeceased him
in 1937,
He is also predeceased by three
sisters and two brothers, Mrs. Ely
len Bell, Huron township; Mrs.
Margaret Argue, Stratford; Mrs.
Jane Morow, Iowa; John of Rip
ley and Charlie as a youth.. .
Men, Women! Old at
40,50,60! Get Pep
Feel Years Younger, FulloYViin
pon’t blame exhausted, wdm-out, run-down
•feeling on your age. Thousands amazed at’
r? up with Ostrex ToniciTablets will. do. Contain tonic, hemic
lant'often needed after 40-by bodies weak.
Old because lacking iron. A 78-year-old doc-
1 to?5 # myself. Results fine/*
frtroductory or "get-acquainted” size only '
600a Stop feeling old. Start to feel peppy and
younger, today. At all druggists. - '
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in Canada. .She could have come
from Kinloss! Yes, the meals
were enjoyable for awhile but.
when the ship got to rolling “like
a-day kitchen song" oy “short
stacks, beefsteak rare, Brussels
sprouts” over and over again
tended to monotony. This, as it
happened, was something to be
thankful for. It prevented over
eating.
Our passenger group of twelve
included two young American
brides^going-to-see—theirsoldier
husbands, two young- Americans
recently discharged from the
army in Korea, now returning to
Japan’to join 'their Japanese ..war
brides, 'two young Canadians
from prairie farms and an Al
berta Bible School going as rnis-
sionaries to Japan and two Jap
anese young people returning
from post graduate studies in
Canada and the U.S.A* As you
will see, our ship was old fash
ioned but the passenger , group
could be said to belong to the
new Pacific world of tomorrow.
Four days blSunloading cargo
in Yokohama gave opportunity
for daily electric train, runs into-
-TokyorTh-pre-wartirrre's we knew
Tokyo well, so it was interesting
to see the great Oriental metro
polis again. Comparatively few
scars of the awful bombing
wounds, of war-time remain. Jap-
■aneseTindustry, ingenuity and real
know-how have patched. up the
damage &nd life, goes on much as
in the past. A few external
changes Were noticeable. The
kimono had* almost disappeared
from the workTa-day streets. A
i few elderly people still .dress, in
that artistic garb of yesterday,
but youth, have “gone Western”.
Skirts and blouses an,d “civvy
l suits” are much cheaper and more
practical. From the streets the
picturesque 'jinricksha. ■ has dis-
appeared.- A variety of ..ubiquitous
taxis has crowded out of life the
“two wheeled cart”.
■ Leaving Japan Our ship took us
on .an unexpected, three weeks
round of tropical Philippine Is
land ports. But of that experience
I have no space nor time to. telL
It would be a long story because
:we saw a good- deal of what is
-ba-ppem-n-g-^m~t-his-4^1-and““R'epTTtr:r
lie as it struggles through a new
ly e'rrierging ■ nationalism, • trying
to learn democratic‘ways. •
• It was a lorig and Comparative
ly old fashioned way of travell-
ing«- Cut off ‘from voluminous
daily /.‘newspapers”, ever chatter
ing radios arid^frequently ringing
, telephones we might he expected
to- have missed all the big .news
of the world.:And yet, from here'
and thereM \ve DID hear hews of.
., w h a-t-i.TUP,y. bo-t-alked abou-Hi-n—tbe-
w’orfd for-many a day. We.heard
about the conquest of the world’s
highest mountain,' the crowning
of. the World’s newest queen, and
the signing- of peace .plans to end
the world’s' strangest war, We
happened to be* travelling thru
momentous weeks. ' .<
'■ -jWith every, gobd wish* ",
. Yours sincerely;'
‘ , Hugh MacMHlan.
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