The Wingham Advance-Times, 1961-05-03, Page 2Only a, few weeks ago we had
words Of eommendation for the
Huron County Council, when it was
announced that the increase in the
mill rate had been held to one-tenth
of a mill.
Last week the Wingham, Council
went the county boys one better
with a "no increase" budget for the
1961 fiscal term. The pleasant stir,
prise was even further sweetened by
the fact that tax rate increases in
surrounding communities have been
running as high as ten or eleven mills
this year.
Several factors contribute to this
happy position, but the most impor-
tant of these is the financing me-
thods which have been employed
here for several years past. With a
sizable reserve fund on hand, interest
A TREE THAT STANDS
ALONE
You see them in the lowlands.
along the fences and walls of mow-
ing fields, on boulder-studded pas-
ture hillsides and on craggy ridge
heights. •
A tree that stands alone is a
symbol. Graceful elms along the
rivers and brooks, patriarchal pines,.
great oaks and gaunt maples are
trees that have fought a long, test-
ing battle and have established their
strength.
For a century and more they have
known the tempests of winter, the
miracle of Sin-ing and the heat of
sunnier. A century ago a small
seed found sanctuary in good humus
and a tiny white root struck down-
ward; a slender green shoot lifted
toward the sky and stars. Over the
decades while a nation fought wars
and grew- in statute the trees grew
taller.
Cattle have rested in their shade:
birds have made homes among their
branches. Great roots reached far
to find food as bole and branches de-
veloped. Men and women have lift-
ed their eyes to the trees and in their
serenity have found inspiration.
A tree that stands alone repre-
sents qualities that a man admires.
The tree has met and conquered the
storms of life: it has bowed but
never broken before powerful forces.
Its feet are in the ground but its head
is lifted to the light.—Ottawa Jour-
nal.
COURTESY WILL PAY
Last week-end thousands of an-
gleli• took -to the rivers, and streams
of the province, on the first of maim'
happy outings which will Last until
late in the fall. Some of them are a
welcome sign of spring hut many,
many others were as popular as so
many skunks at the proverbial gar-
den party. -Landowners and farmers
all over Ontario have learned to re-
sent the annual foray of trespassing
and destruction.
• The Wing-ham Sportsmen's As-
sociation has devoted a good deal of
time and money to a program of
education for its members and any
other httnters and fishermen who
are prepared to lister; — all with the
same .message. They suggest in the
strongest terms that those who want
to fiSh the streams and rivers ask
permission of land owners before
they trespass on private property.
There are, of course, all kinds of
ronscientions fishermen who are
careful to dose gates behind them
and .-in-general remember that they
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on borrowings has been reduced to- a
worthwhile degree.
We are not in favor of a policy
of municipal financing rvhich keeps
taxes down at the expense of sensible
progress. Such tactics have spelled
the doom of bigger and better towns
than ours in years gone by. How-
ever, we feel that the vital operations
have been well maintained, and. that
new facilities and services have been
added at a reasonable pace. Our
town either directly orindirectly, has
been paying for new hospital, public
and high school buildings, parks.,
street lighting, etc.
There is little doubt that tax in-
creases will have to come before too
long, but in this particular year,
when the general state of economics
has been slack, it is indeed gratify-
ing to maintain the status quo. -
are enjoying their sport only ,as
privilege. But then there are the
others — the ones who never give a
second thought to broken fences,
open gates or unquenched fires. They
also love to leave a trail of waxed
paper lunch wrappings and empty
beer bottles behind them. Who could
blame the farmer for posting no tres-
passing signs along his property af-
ter a few experiences with this type
of nuisance?
Hunting and fishing have been
gaining in popularity for the past
decade, in fact they have become the
biggest sports activity in the nation.
No true sportsman, however, leaves
his litter to spoil things for the next
man, nor does he jeopardize his wel-
come by being careless with the
property of others.
The population of Ontario is
growing so rapidly that every care
must be taken to preserve the privi-
leges of the great outdoors, lest we
become a people of city streets and
paved highways, with all sense of
sporting freedom forever lcist.
VERY CLOSE CALL
In the midst of all our prosper-
ity and self-indulgence we have had
a narrow shave with disaster. So
accustomed have we become to the
sheer danger of the age in• which we
live that comparatively few people
seemed to sense last week that we
might be only hours away from total.
nuclear war,
With the threat of civil strife in
France, the entire world could well
have faced the prospect of annihi-
lation. For two night;; the people
of France waited for the descent of
air-borne French rebels in their
homeland, Thank God they did not
come.
Some may believe that France
could be left to deal with her own
domestic problems . . but it would
he inconceivable that civil war in
France would not spread to the other
civilized countries of the world,
There is too much economic inter-
locking and political investment in
France to leave the other nations in
a position to stand aside and watch,
V.mbroilment for the rest of us would.
have come speedily if Frenchmen
had started to shoot one .another.
World problems today have
reached an amazingly complicated.
stage. One may curse the-Algerian.
rebels for their Willingness to en--
danger the whole world, but they-.
feel that their future, Yes, their very.
lives are endangef-ed by DC Gaulle's
decision to give political autonomy
to Algeria, where.Moslerns outnum-
ber theTrench .many'times over.
The same is true in south Africa:
where 'physical fear of the hordes of
blacks has driven the majority of
whites to protect themselves with
the cruelty of apartheid.
Perhaps it is just .as' well that
the Russians and the Americans are
racing for the moon. It would seem
that there are hardly rich enough
spoils left on this planet to engross
all the energies and ambitions of
those to whom world leadership has
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SOWING
Be not deceived; God is not
mocked; for whatsoever a men
Rowena that shah he also reap,
Very soon we shall be in our
gardens, and the farmer in his
fields. SOWING! Sowing what?
Flower seeds, vegetable seeds, and
seeds of grain. We see the end.
front the beginning; hence we sow
accordingly; and, with the exeecta-
then of reaping the kind of newer,
vegetable or grain desired.
The sowing of the natural seed
and the seeds of our thoughts, are
I'm not much for blood lines,
when it comes to people. But every
So often, when I'm wondering what
is wrong with, or right with, my
kids, I begin thinking of all the
characteristics they've inherited,
and of what will become of them
with all those queer ancestors lurk-
ing in the background,
One of my old-maid aunts, a good
soul in many ways, had a, firm
conviction that there was some-
thing special about the Smileys, As
a result, she got in touch with one
of those firms that specialize in
family. trees. She ,proved, to her
own satisfaction, and for a stag-
gering fee, that we were descended
from Sir William Pitt, the Young-
er, among others.
This is about As impressive as
saying you are directly descended
from Adam and Eve. I'd have been
much more interested had she
managed to prove that Henry Ford
was 'my uncle by a previous mar-
riage; or that Gina Lollebrigida was
a kissing cousin.
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My personal guess is that my
kids are the descendants of a long
line of Inish peasants, who lived on
potatoes, never washed, went
around in their hare feet, and never
did anything more illustrious than.
steal a few cattle, or slaughter the
odd Englishman.
However, I wish to go on record
-as stating that I'm mighty happy
about the one And only Hying
grandfather my .kids have, There's
a man anybody would be proud to
claim as an ancestor.
Fictional grandfathers are - gruff
old characters, •big men with a.
thatch of white hair and twinkling
blue eyes. They're as shrewd as all
get out. In their youth they have
been buffalo hunters, or sailors, or
soldiers. They emit corny philoso-
phy every time they open their
mouths.
I'm afraid my father-in-law
doesn't fit that -frame.
nets not gruff, but gentle. He's
not big, but weighs about 118, soak-
ing wet, He has about as much hair
as have at his age, He has
brown eyes, and they. don't twinkle.
He's not all All shrewd, thank
heaven. He's never shot a buffalo
or anything- else, not even a man.
And he' has no .homespun pltifeee-
pity, praise be. •
There's nothing flamboyant' be
colorful _about my kids' grandfath ,
ea He's led a peaceful life. He's
Worked -hard, Ile. doesn't cuss, drink
afeertlystera •HeVinild :of Mannar
and speech, He could pass for a
Sunday - School superintendent,
which he has been. Nothing ex-
citing has ever happened to Grand-
dad. • •
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Unless, of course, you consider it
exciting to lose your arm in a
threshing machine, as he did about
thirty years ago. But there's noth-
ing interesting in the story of a
man who raised a family, and ran
a farm, with one arm.
Heck, you can read much more
thrilling stuff than that every day,
in the papers --- all about fellows
who have been out of work for
simply weeks, and will, -any day
now, cease to draw unemployment
insurance,
No, nothing exciting like that
ever happened to Granddad. Oh, a
little after he lost his arm, while
the remains were still in bandages,
he was thrown .out of a cutter and
broke the thumb on his good hand.
But he passed a pretty uneventful
winter, running the farm with four
fingers.
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And a couple of years later, while
he was ,up ph, ladder putting on
storm, Windows, ha ,fell and smash-
ed the bones in 'his amputated atm.
or what was left of it. He alibi it
"Was pretty sOre for a whilea4 Rut
it wasn't very exciting.
He had an iron hook fitted to his
stump, and it was a useful thing,
though uncomfortable. One day he
Was watering a rather jumpy horse.
tfis hook was thrust through a link
In a long chain attached to the
horse's leactrope.
Something startled the animal,
My mother-hi-law looked out the
kitchen window arid aaw the beast
go by -at full gallop, with her hus-
band, completely helpless, :being
much alike. We shall, reap what
we sow, hut in effect there is one
great difference. The natural seed
will yield its natural fruit; where-
as the seeds of the thoughts do.
not always' yield as we figured.
For instance, one may -sow an evil
thought which will spring forth in
false delight, Pleasure for aa, sea-
son is found therein. Soon the
feet become caught in the -brush-
wood of entanglement„, ao. .x.noch ,49
that-the delights, and .pletnelres of
such, thinking have tntated traitors;
bringing with. them .rep orse and.
years.
This gave him a bad shoulder for
dragged at the end of the chain.
Another day, he was raking hay,
with a team, when he slipped off
the seat and fell between horses
and rake. None of the Mines - pene-
trated his hody, but he was picked
up by _the rake and rolled along
with the bay lurid] be yelled "Whoa"
end the horses, ..by some miracle,
obeyed.,
He drove g rural mail route, with
his ore arm, In the days when the
mailman started out, in the sleigh
in the" morning, went through
whatever tortures the 'winter day
had for him, and got home after
s
dark,
On more than one occasion the
overturned, the horses ran,
and he had to walk -home to a wife
-frantic with worry because the
team had galloped into the Yard
with the -sleigh long before 'him.
Today, at an age when most men
are tip:toeing cautiously toward
retirement, my kids' granddad is
ap tough asemmican, looks ten years
younger- -than he is, and does more
work day than most men of
half his years.
I have yet to hear him complain
about anything. He has a tremend-
ous courage, He .has an integrity
that is avhole. He is generous and
gentle. For these reasons I'm very
glad that part of him is ha my
children'.' Even if he has led it quiet,
Uneventful life.
•
FIFTY YEARS AGO
Mr, Lyons, of Gorrie, has decided
to discontinue publishing the Gor-
rie Vidette and will remove his
printing plant from that town to
Deseronto,
Four young men. Wingham can
ill afford to spare intend to leave
next Monday for the West. They
are Benson Cruikshank, Frank R.
Howson, F. Hollyman and E. A.
Hammond,
Word was received here last
week of the death of Dr. Alexander
Bethune at Emo, -Ontario, in the
Algoma District. He practised in
Wingham for many years.
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BOND STREET STORY
by NOrman Collins
One cannot whirl through this
book in an evening or two. Nor
would you wish to. It is a book
that needs to be savoured and
there is fun in the savouring. A
Most dblightful collection of people
is contained between the covers.
Bond Street, Mr. Collins tells us,
is the only reality in the story, all
the paoPie are fictitious—he gives
them reality.
Each Character has a story All
his own, 'They meet, intermingle
And party The focal point Of the
whole Story is Rammell's, a rather
exclusive department store, located,
Of coltrse,, on Bond Street. There
is' no attain Character; there is just
a aeries- of thene As the spotlight
plays on • each ha turn, you forget
the others temporarily; until often
surprisingly their lives become en-
twined. One set of entanglements
is cleared away and just as rapidly
new set forms. All are solved
ainally in a, very satisfactory if um-
expected fashion. ,e.,
Mr. Collins, has entered the
world of -salesclerks, shopwalkers,
models, secretaries and directors,
and he leaves little of their ptivate
or business lives. unrecounted. The
titles of the Chapters ate tantaliz-
ing; composed, I think, with his
tongue in his cheek. For example,
Rehleteritee of a Female Appren-
tice, Love and the Shopwalker, Prl.
vote Affairs of Model. They
contain eltactly what they say, but
not necessarily what one tragat, ex-
peet,
Itarninsell's traditions get into the
bloOd of the eruplOyeks. Its stand-
anguish,
Remember, either for good or
for bad, we all sow a thought and
reap an act; we sow an act and
reap a habit; we sow a habit and.
reap a character; we sow a char-
acter and reap a destiny. Our
thought life determines our des-
tination—Heaven or Hell. We
ought carefully to guard our
thoughts end actions, for it sail
holds true: "Whatsoever a man.
sows that shall he also reap." In
large measure we experience this
truth here in this life,
pedigreed 'Jersey cow this week.
The Ontario West Shore Com-
pany is negotiating for the' propos-
ed extension of the railway from
Goderich south to Bayfield.
. R. J, Dobie's house and lot at
the neat-Lend of town have been
sold to Mr. 'H. Wheeler, of the
Junction, who recently sold his
farm to. J. T, Lennox.
Mr, Jos. Colley, VS, formerly of
Wingham, is removing from Tre-
herne, Man., to take up a -home-
stead near Wirte, Alta,
Hereafter all youths joining the
Canadian Bank of Commerce will
start their career on a salary of
$300 per annum. Up to this time the
starting- salary was $250,
The contract for the Marnoch
bridge has- been let to the Hill CO,,
of Mitchell, for $8,250, and the 10th
line bridge to Hunter & Co., of
Kincardine, for $7,500.
0 - -
FORTY YEARS AGO
Mr, Gordon Rintoul, of Knox
College, Toronto, was a visitor in
town this week.
Mr, W, H. Gurney left on Mon-
day on a commercial trip through
Western Canada. His glove works
will be closed during his absence.
Dr. J. M ,Fox, of Battle Creek,
Mich., has arrived here and will
enter into partnership with his bro-
ther, Dr, J. A. Fox, Dr, Fox will be
particularly weleotned to town by
baseball enthusiasts as he is a
pitcher of some experience,
Mr. and Mrs. Richard Porter,
Minnie Street, celebrated their 63rd
wedding anniversary:
Citizens of Wingham -were shock-
ed on Sunday morning when they
learned that Mrs, Mary L. Hanna
had passed -away, She was married
to John -Hanna in 1869 and after
farming for several years in Wa-
wanosh they opened a store on the
10th concession of that township.
She has been active in the business
life of Wingham for 42 years.
Mr. R, 'D. Cunningham has sold
the Dominion Express and Tele-
graph business to Mr. Garnet L.
Baker, who was operator at the
CPR depot for a time. '
Mr. and: Mrs. J. T. Lennox have
sold their fine 50 acre farm near
the Wingham Junction for $6,000
to An.. Charles Martin.
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TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO
Sam Burk, of Wroxeter, had his
Pontiac car stolen from in front of
the Zurich Hotel -on Wednesday
evening of last week.-
Rev, .3, F. Anderson was in Tor-
onto on Monday attending the
Council meeting of Emmanuel Col-
lege.
Mr. W. T. Simpson, of Staffords-
ville,, joined the focal staff of the
Canadian Bank °O.f. Commerce on
Monday, Mr. Harold Kitchen, who
has been on the staff of the branch
here for five years, has been trans-
ferred to Tavistock,
Mrs. Harry Vixter and daughter,
•Donelda, who:- spent the wintee in
Vancouver -haVe retriarted hoine, °
, • ,.,•. •, •
ands, must be maintained at all
costs. When- the head shopwalk-
er receives unfavorable_ newspaper
publicity—the indirect result of an
unfortunate second marriage- -he
is -their employee, no -longer. Even
the directors feel the pressure of
-this high standard. Poor Mr. Eric
Rammell—what -a life he led! He
had grave responsibilities; his di-
lettante wife involved 'him in so-
cial functions for :which he had no
inclination; his only son Showed
little aptitude for anything; and
his retired 'father, a fireball if ev-
er there -was one, bombarded him
ruthlessly with fantastic sugges-
tions in regard to every phase of
his life. Not even the Harley
street specialist mild save his
stomach, churned constantly by the
complications of his life.
Those readers who •revelled in
"London 1Wongs to 'Me", by Col-
lins, will also enjoy "Bond Street
Story". He has . a deep under-
standing Of the many strata of
English society, which seems to
site alatteh more .dlearly defined than
in our Canadian society, It is in-
teresting' :to' read of, no matter
how you feel about living in it.
Food, drink, dress and furrtiehings
he deals with in minute detail; arid
thus -his people live and breathe.
There is On exciteinent amid the
routine—the staff dance, the sum-
mer sales, the prothotions and con-
sequent upheavals, even the nor-
m-al disturbances at the staff hos-
tel. Mr. Blootis budgies and Mr.
Privites model yachts also provide
material for further action. The
book is English- front cover to nom
hut wilt he enjoyed by a varied
group of readers.
IN THE LIBRARY
By DORIS G-. McKIEBON
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