The Wingham Advance-Times, 1961-06-07, Page 2On Saturday. July 8, the young-
itet'S of this district ‘vill have a
:fiance' to see something which, for
them, will be most unusual .a circus.
If you belong to the generation:
which was, familiar with the old-tune
circuses it may be hard to imagine
that most ..of today's kids have never
Seen an elephant in the flesh . nor
any :of the other menagerie :animals
which accompany the "big top,"
The \\Ingham LionS Club is
bringing an American circus to town
and though the prime purpose of the
showing is to raise funds for the
club's. welfare program., we are pret-
ty certain that many- of the I
secretly wanted a chance to .show
their own youngsters and their
neighbours' families just what a real.
circus :is. like.
Goodness knows our youngergen-
oration is not lacking in varied forms
of entertainment, but all the tele-
vision in the world can't provide the
excitement of an old-fashioned cir-
cus. Perhaps just as interesting is the
sight of the. tents being set up, with
all the elephants at work.
It is a good many years since a
circus came to Wingham, and even
A GREAT PLACE TO LIVE
As you may have noticed pre-
viously, we tend at times to run off
into rapturous comment about "this
great province-in which we live," to
quote the words of our own Mr.
FrOsti;" To make Ontario the subject
for frequent editorials may seem silly
to some, hut the reason we do so is
because we continue to discover so
many new and delightful spots to
write ahout,.and so many 'friends and
neighbours who are well acquainted
with far-away places and' so unin-
formed about their own province.
This past Saturday and Sunday
We had occasion to attend a series of
conferences on subjects relating to
newspaper work, and the committee
in charge had the happy inspiration
to select Honey Harbour as the meet-
ing place. Many of those who attend-
ed were visiting this scenic spot
for .the first time and had no idea
that we had anything as completely.
fascinating right in the centre of the
province.
Honey Harbour, which is only a
few miles around the bay from Mid-
land, and less than six miles from the
new section of the Trans-Canada
Highway at Port Severn, is situated
at the foot of the Thirty Thousand
Islands. The main hotel, the Dela-
-Walla, which is an exceptionally fine
establishment, lies right at the junc-
ture of a maze of channels and water-
ways through the islands.
A short Mat ride lo the south
takes the voyager out into ,an open
bay leading down to Midland, Pene-
tang, Victoria Harbour and Port
McNicoll. A few minutes west, again
by boat, and you reach the Georgian
Bay Islands National Park. Turning
inland to the east, your boat will
take you through Jiterallv hundreds
of miles of passages and channels.
tvery island in the vicinity is dotted
with cottagest—large and small..
Of particular' interest to Wing-
ham folks would be the grand., mod-
ern dance hall and restaurant owned
and operated by Mel Lavigne and his
family, former residents of Hillcrest.
In addition to the main business pro-
ject' they have now taken over a
Marina out on the Main boat channel.
It would he difficult to select any
one of Ontario's beauty spots as a
favorite, brit we find ourselves turn-
ing hack year, after year for a few
days at Honer- gat-hour.
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taelle TWO Wbliehunt Adsluice-Uwe, Wedneedey, 400a 7, sae:,
EVER. SEE AN ELEPHANT?
at that, the latter ones were poor int.
Rations of the lunte:,1 rc, goodnes:,
shows in the old days, The :nee which
is scheduled to appear here MI July
8th
come with the full traps)iogs
carried cm 22 trucks, a lull men
agerie, slack wire artists, rick riders
and all. \\'e c\pect the muig-,t er
(and quite a z, w of the mothers and
fathers) are in for some real fun.
"THEY SAY"
There are IWO words in our Ian
guage which have wrought havoc
and brought inure tragedy into a
suffering world than. all the Nights,
diseases and scourges known to man.
"They say." Where is the histor-
ian whose life Oil earth will be long
enough to enable him to set down the
ghastly record -of suffering and des-
pair which "they say" has brought
to humanity?
When such_ a historian comes, he
will find that "they say" brought
witches into the world and burned
helpless old women ; that "they say"
saw the first ghosts which. walked
in the world and veiled the world in
ignorance and superstition, while the
heads of thinkers dropped like,acorns
from the gallows,
"They say". Who are they who
say? What is this monstrosity which
has come into the hearts of men and
moves their idle lips in a sickening
prattle of gossip, slander and sheer
falsehood which results in so much
heartbreak, suffering and death, too?
"They say". it causes men to hate
and suspect each other ; to go to war
arid kill each other; to tear down and
destroy innocent reputations; to
make of millions who should be just
and enlightened beings, the mere
.tools of gossip mongers and, thous-
and varietie§' of common scold. •
What a 'frightful record, what a
mountain of victims lie heaped in the
kingdom of this crazy monarch
whose willing dupes so many Mil-
lions of people are The Traveller.
COMPROMISE WITH.
DEATH
In the new legislation which has
been tabled in the 1louse of Com-
mons the government proposes to
compromise where the death penalty
for murder is concerned. Although
we aren't usually too fond of com-
promise, it does appear to be the only
course in this instance.
The new law would classify
murder under two headings. The one,
premeditated, carefully thought out
and committed in cold blood, .would
be punishable by death. The other,
those acts which the French call
"crimes of passion" would carry
mandatory sentences of life im
prisonment. .
' The burden of decision is a hard
one to carry, In its effort to arrive
at a solution acceptable to the ma-
jority of Canadians the government
last year made an unprecedented plea
for expression or public opinion on
this matter. Opinion, as might have
been expected, was so completely
mixed that no clear-cut guidance
could be obtained.
Murder is an awful. crime. 1.:p to.
our times the public has been led to
believe that the death penalty was
the only punishment which would be
sufficiently fearsome to deter count-
less other would-be murderers. To-
day, however, criminologists and
pyschologists in many lands are
seriously doubtful that the death
penalty is a deterrent at all. Rather
they tend to the belief that there al-
ways will be some murders, and that
the only action open to members of
an enlightened society is to shut the
murderer away -front his fellow hu-
mans so that he never again has an
opportunity to take a human life..
it is reasonably safe tom predict
that within 'a few years the ,death
penalty will be entirely abolished itt
most civilized lands,
ee aseeeeseesesse
ONE MOMENTA' ••••" _Salvation 'Wingbam
Capt. G. Stani6, Newman , PLESE
OIRISTIAN STEWARDRIlitr use he had for 'wealth, wele to ; direction, and to obey ins corn:7'.
"For where yodr treasure is, there create more wealth. He obviously, .mends, then we begin to prove the
will your heart be also"-ef-dike 120.4. never Saw anyone around him who glorious truth of the promises con-
When one's treasure is net in the was. in need. He knew nothing of Mined in . His Word. "God is able
right place, his heart is not in the the feet that there Are two sorts • to previde you with every blessing
right place, either. Jesus told the
story of the prosperous farmer.
When his crop outgrew his barns,
he tore the barns down, to 'build the farmer in the story which every good work," e2 Cormtlitang
larger ones, The story tette Us that Jesus OK The are so busy getting 9:8).
this man was wrong in his timing. together what they consider to be
By the time he was ready to enjoy the important things of life that
himself, he heard the dread sum- they fall to 'grasp the truly 'Am-
mons: "Tonight thy soul is required portant truth etintained in Our
of thee." . Lord's teaching—that true and last-
He was also wrong in his idea inegatisfaction may only be found'
of how to enjoy life. Al! he looked when our personal treasures are
forward to, was physical, tangible thdse of 06 Hkvenly Kingdom.
Satisfaction, for himself. The only When we learn to live under His
What this country needs snore
than anything, in these trying
times, is more conservatives. Now,
don't go all chalky and trembly
like that, I don't mean Diefenbaker
Conservatives. I mean good, old-
fashioned, conservatives.
For the past couple of decades,
"conservative" has been practically
a dirty word. People were as afraid
of being 'considered conservative as
they :are today of being considered
conformist. Lying awake and lone-
ly in the small hours last night, I
realized suddenly, with a flash like
a camera bulb that at heart t am a
conservative, It was such a shock
that I sat bolt upright in bed.
This woke my wife, who lurched
to her elbow, turned on her bed-
side lamp and moaned, "Whassat?"
This, in turn, disturbed my daugh-
ter, in. the next room. She yelped in
her sleep, rolled over abruptly, and
crushed the cat, who sleeps beside
hen He squalled _ and dug his
claws into her. She hollered. All
this woke Hugh, who staggered but
of bed and went to the bathroom.
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The sound of running water was
too much for the rest of us, and
there was a steady procession to
the place, which wound up with me
having to go dawn and let the' eat
out. He wouldn't come 'back in and
twenty minutes later, standing'
there Shivering and calling him and
worrying a little because we're not
sure it's a boy cat and he might
get pregnant if he was out all.
night, I consigned the whelp con;
servative Issue to' the appropriate
place,
But this morning, on sober sec-
ond thoughts, I realized that I had•
truly seen the light, that I was a
died-in-the-wool conservative, I ex-
perienced a vast wave of relief, as
though I had just emerged from
the .confessional, or had just been
awakened from one of those drag-
ging, nagging, not-quite-terrifying
had dreams,
You've no idea what a relief it
was, to shuck off that false-face of
liberalism I've been wearing all
these years, uncomfortably. I felt
better and better as the shabby',
borrowed layers of tolerance, reae
son, and desire for change peeled
off one by one, and left me an
honest, naked, intolerant, illogic-air
prejudiced,
"Oh, boy!" I chortled. "No more'
having to get sore at anti-Semite&
No more having to be nice to Irish,
men or Armeniats or Negroes, un,'
less I like them. No more having'
to be tolerant of half-baked relig .
ious sects: No more pretending that
women are as smart as men."
It's wonderfully refreshing to be
able to look at life through your
own sharp prejudices and emotions
for a change, after years of gazing
at it murkily through the thumb-
printed, thick lenses loaned by
small-I liberalism,
No longer, for example, must I
put up the slightest architecture.
Now I can say what I think; that
new churches look like either tents
or' silos; that you can't tell a new
school from anew factory; that the
new split level homes, with picture
window above and garage yawning
below, resemble One-eyed harpies
Who have just beets delivered of,s'Y has a'eeettry which has raised
12 young birds since winter.
Mr, S. McIntyre, businessman,
has sold his diitible residence near
St. Pain's Church to Dr. Parker
and has purchased Mr. Zurbrigg's
house on Patrick Street.
'Miss Lillian Green of Wingham
and Miss Ida Thdmpson have been
successful inn securing stenographic
Positions Tbrento,
Mrs. R. M, Lindsay and two
children of Regine are Spending a
few Weeks With her mother, Mrs.
John Ansley, Edward Street.
'tt. -C. Alexander and Mrs.
B. VanNormari of Calgary Are
visiting at the hothe of their par-
Mite, Mt. and Mrs, R. M, Vat:Nor-
-Man, Diagonal Read.
Mrs. C. N, Griffin' and daueeter.
Miss Annie, have returned to their
home, John St. and Carling Tor-
race. Mrs. Griffin has spent the
winter with her daughter, Mrs. A.
H. Wilford, at Moose Jaw, Sesk.
Mr, Jahn Potter, Lower Wing-
hard, caught a large 'main near
f/ ** /.10 ** 10,1. .05,,,•01
The 'search for the treaseres of
earth is a never-ending one. Not so
with the Heavenly -values of which
Jests spoke. Ta put Him first in.
all our lives, is to prove the lovely
truth of Matthew GM "Seek ye
first. the Kiegdoin . . all things
shall be 'added."
stitiWing pftaple' of Asia, I'm. go-
ing to pull out a $20 bill and sug-
gest,,Ifretis kick in, $20 each and
send .ja •to CARE, right now."
Thet!laaturn him green.
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As' a conservative, naturally I'm
going .to come out pretty strong
for some things. For example--
lower taxes; cutting off the baby
bonus; dispersal of revolutionary
organizations like the Women's In_
etitute and the Canadian Legion.
Butt laas going to throw my
weight and influence just as
strongly against other things, such
as: letting American tourists stay
in the country between sundown,
and sunrise; drinking while diving
off anything higher than it dock;
beating children with anything'
thicker than, a. pool cue.
From now on, no more hiding
behind that phony liberalism. Let
the chips tall where they may. I'm
going to proclaim my real ideas,
regardless of prejudice, lack of tol-
erance, or any of the rest of that
bolshevik jargon. I'm going all out
to preserve the status quo, and if
that doesn't work, we'll try the quo
vadis. Better stand well back so
you won't be spuashed when I'm
blown to bits by a bonib hurled by
some wild-eyed member of the',
(`CF.
Reminiscing
PIFT1(YEARS AGO
Mr. and Mrs. I, W. Coles attend-
ed the funeral of his 'brother near
Mitchell last week.
Mr. John McCallum of town left
on Tuesday 'for a three-months'
trip to the Northwest and British
Columbia.
Miss Maud B. Hanna graduat-
ed last week from the Victoria
Training School for Nurses in
London.
Harry Dennis fell off the evap-
orator wall on Monday but was un-
hurt. He fell 17 feet and received
no injuries, a rather remarkable
occurrence,
Dr, Field of Goderich, the new
public school inspector for East
Huron is paying his first official
visit to the echo* In this vicinity;
FrYfogie has •rsennkd his
'Implement shop to the building
just east of Lloyd's, factory on
.7ohn Street.
• Another automobile has been
:added to Wingham's list, for on
Saturday Mr. and Mrs. John Cun-
ningham came home from Toronto
with a stylish-looking car. Mr,
Cunningham says it cost $2685, ,
cash.
Brock Brandon of Stratford
spent Sunday with his sister, Mrs.
W. Reid, East Wawanosh.
Fessant and her
daeighter, Miss Minnie, spent a
few days with relatives in Luck-
new liat week.
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FOR1i11IYEARS AGO
Wingliam races will be held on
Wedassday esidlt Thursday, June
20th and 25:ge
Mrs. George,Oasemore, Turhber-
TWENTY-laIVE YEARS AGO
Mr. Hugh P.elieleft on Thursday
for a menth'e trip to Saskatche-
wan.
Mrs. Marsales returned on Sun-
day after vieiting at Mei:mond
Mrs, W. J. Greer and Mrs. B.
Wellwood are attending the Lon-
don Conforenee Branch meeting of
the Women's Missionary Society at
Sarnia, , . -
• Miss Caroline Wellwood, return-
ed missionary 'from 'China, is this
week in Sarnia, where she is one
of the speakers at the conference.
Mr, George Hendereon has pur-
chased the Blackhall farm on the
Bluevale Road.
C. Lloyd & Son will start on
Thursday to build an addition to
their factory. .. A second storey
is being built on the original shop
that was erected in 1888 by Charles
and A. E. Lloyd.
Out of 160 applicants Mr. Gor-
don S. Kidd, now teaching at Dun-
gannon, was chosen by the public
school board as principal, succeed-
ing the late A. L. Posliff.
Wingham's oldest man, Alexan-
der MeNevin, passed away at his
home on Carling Terrace on Thurs_
day, He was in his 98th year.
Miss Dorothy Alice Pollock, of
Whitechurch, received her diplo-
ma as a graduate of Guelph Gen-
eral Hospital.
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bee TEEN YEARS AGO
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the -dam one day last 'week. It
tipped the evairs; lie 7 ibs., 13
ounces,
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Derril Hallman, 13-year-old son
of Mr. and Mrs. Cliff Hallman,
Con, 12, Howick, was painfully
burned as he attempted to light a
lantern, The boy had been pump-
ing gasoline from a barrel in the
barn and some of the fluid had
splashed onto his clothing.
Total revenue at the hospital
rummage sale Was $560,00.
Mr. James Henry, who moved his
family to Wingham last year from
Lucknow, has purchased the re-
sidence on victoria Street of the
late John Thom.
Mrs. C. H. Magee and sons Ken-
neth and Donald left on Saturday
for St. John, New Brunswick, to
join her husband, who is employed
there.
Four more servicemen from
Wingham have arrived on the Ile
de France from overseas. They are
One. G. A, Williams, Gnr. C. R.
Brooks, Pte. A. K. Stacey and LAC
M. lef. Rae.
A meeting of the ratepayers of
the township of.Morris will be held
in the township hall for the pur-
pose of discussing the high school
area, •
Miss Agnes Williamson and Miss
Phyllis Johns represented North
Huron Inspectorate at the regional
assembly of the Women Teachers'
Federation in London on Saturday.
Alan W. Scott Is
Assistant" Ag. Rep.
Alan W. Scott, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Walter Scott 'of Belgrave,
R,R. 1, on attaining his B.S,A, de-
gree as an honor graduate from the
Ontario Agricultural College, be-
gan his 'work as assistant agricul-
tural representative in Lambton
County on June 1st. He will be
monsters, by caesarean section.
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Oh, I'm going to enjoy my con-
servatism, I can tell you. An im-
mediate project in mind is the fosL
mation of a small-c conservative
men's club, with one purpose in
view--getting women out of our
hair anal back in the kitchen, We'll
start in 'a small Way of seeking
legislation forbidding women to
smoke in public, This would keep
about 50 percent of them at home,
Another thing that's going to
give me a lot of pleasures in my
slew life, is squaring around some
of my small-I liberal friends.
There's one who is always come
plaining about .the lack of tolerance
shown toward minorities, in our
society. Next time 'he opens his
mouth, I'll say, haul and clear,
"You're a fine one to talk about
tolerance, when you can't stand the
sight of your em(n mother-in-lavir!"
t Next time One of these birds
Aerie- bleating about the peer,
stationed at the agricultural of-
fice at Petrolia, where William Ab-
raham, who conies front the com-
munity of laelmore, is agricultural
representative.
At the graduation 'ceremony at
the 0.A.C. Alan received the Lieu-
tenant-Governor's Medal for Out-
standing work in animal husband-
ry during hie four years at college.
I-le also
o f
the Meet Class
Award of $75.00 preeented by the
Pioneer-Cafeteria Feed company.
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SUNDAY, JUNE 11th
GUEST SPEAKERS:
Lt-Col. and Mrs. A. W. DIXON
Divisional Mr:menders
9 :45 a.m.---Sunday School
11:00 Meeting
7 :00 p.m.---Bright Gospel Service
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