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Are We
Losing the Battle?
Events of the past week make one
question whether man has made any real
progress in his long struggle to achieve
self-government and security of individual
safety and freedom. General Charles
de Gaulle, for reasons obscure to his
closest associates, decided to stop Bri-
tain's entry into the European Common
Market alliance. The success of his veto
and the consequent failure of negotiations
provides startling proof of the fact that
the destinies of millions still lie in the
hands of a very few leaders.
De Gaulle is not the only national
figure who holds such all-pervading pow-
er. President Kennedy, by virtue of his
office as commander-in-chief of U.S. arm-
ed forces is another man who could pro-
ject us all into catastrophe; the Russian
head of state is in an even more dicta-
torial position.
De Gaulle's action is so hard to fath-
om that we may well watch future
events with some trepidation. He was
well aware that his rebuff to Britain
would create enemies among the other
ECM member countries, most of which
favored the inclusion of Britain. Appar-
ently the prospect of losing friends in
Western Europe did not frighten him
too much and it is therefore highly pos-
sible that he had some reason to believe
that France would be able to make new
friends and form new alliances else-
where.
By the week -end there were well-
founded rumors that he was making a
military combine with Spain and that one
of his demands would be the removal of
American air bases from that country. If
this proves true, de Gaulle will be in a
good way to sacrifice American sympathy
as well.
Though there is little point in trying
to figure out this problem in advance,
one cannot help wondering whether a
new dictator is about to walk onto the
world's stage and whether the driving
passion for personal power which has
already cost so much blood is about to
be unleashed once more. The French
leader has a very powerful hold upon the
loyalties of his own countrymen, in part
because he has restored the value of the
franc and thereby was responsible for a
new era of prosperity in France. After
years of costly warfare in North Africa
de Gaulle's personal force ended the
struggle and the drain on the taxpayers'
money. He will not soon be dislodged
from his domestic position.
The rest of the world has been much
inclined to admire the tall war -time
leader of the Free French forces. His
bitter resistance of the Hitler war ma-
chine made us all feel a liking for the
man. However, the fact that Britain gave
him shelter and funds with which to
carry on the fight for freedom does not
appear to have left him with any deep
emotion of gratitude. The hand that fed
him has been well and thoroughly bitten.
Defence and Politics Don't Mix
Canadians are witnessing an alarm-
ing departure from the sound principles
of democratic practice at the present
time. The controversy over whether or
not the Canadian armed forces are to be
supplied with nuclear weapons should
not be bandied back and forth across
the floor of the House of Commons by
wrangling politicians. It should be a
matter for clear -thinking military lead-
ers to assess. In fact, there is room for
the opinion that none but top govern-
ment and military personnel should know
anything about the matter.
After all the arguments which have
Everybody H
During the past two weeks we have
received several phone calls from var-
ious persons in the community who were
wrought up about the way our snow re-
moval problems are handled by the
town's public works committee. Each of
these persons had some valid reason for
complaint, but in each case we found
there was also a reason for the existing
state of affairs.
One person was indeed bitter about
the too -frequent plowing of the streets
and the re -filling of driveways two or
three times a day. Another householder
Name Change
Last week's Teeswater News carried
a story which insinuates that there is
something slightly crooked about the
fact that the name of the Wingham hos-
pital has not been changed.
The editor of the Teeswater paper
recalls that "away back about 1957"
a move was undertaken to change the
name of the Wingham General Hospital
to Wingham and District Hospital. He
continues, "If it was the wish of the ma-
jority at the time the movement was
under way, and it was voted on and car-
ried—why was it not carried through?
"It seems to us that the time is past,
or long overdue for these 'oversights' or
whatever you wish to term them. When
things are supposed to be done, and ap-
proved by the majority (and this takes
in every phase of life, particularly pub-
lic institutions), then let's get at it with-
out delay or around -the -bush tactics."
We can assure the Teeswater edi-
tor and the people of his community
that the matter of change of name for
the hospital was neither neglected nor
forgotten. The Advance -Times has re-
ported many times in the past four years
taken place the Russians know just as
much about Canadian defence policy as
our generals do.
You may differ with us about how
much the voters should or should not
have to say about our defence. The
strict truth of the matter is that military
defences are provided only for the even-
tuality of war. If a war should break
out we would expect our military leaders
to have at their disposal the very hest
of equipment for our protection. We
therefore have no right to hamper them
in their preparations by arguing the mat-
ter of what weapons they shall choose.
as an Idea
felt it was wrong to push the snow hack
from the intersections onto the nearest
lawn. Still another caller was complain-
ing about the fact that only a few streets
in town have ploughed sidewalks.
Though we have all sympathy for
the inconvenience which is experienced
by these people, we simply cannot hon-
estly agree that the public works com-
mittee can be blamed. In a winter such
as this, when snow falls faster than it
can be cleared away there is only one
answer—a little patience all around.
Not Forgotten
on the progress (or lack of it) which was
being made.
Action was taken by the hospital's
board of directors immediately after the
annual meeting at which the new name
was decided upon. Then legal technical-
ities were encountered. The decision
from government was that the name
could not be changed without the con-
sent of the charter members of the hospi-
tal association. Since the charter was
granted to the hospital some 50 years
ago, it turned out that most of the or-
iginal members were no longer around
to give their consent.
Correspondence with the govern-
ment authorities was continued in an
effort to arrive at a solution and only last
year was the association permitted to hold
a meeting of the present members for the
purpose of ratifying the change of name.
That meeting was held on September 14
and the necessary documents were for-
warded to Toronto. As soon as the pro-
per authority there attaches his signature
the local hospital will become, officially,
the Wingham and bistrict Hospital.
One
Moment, Please
Rev. J. 11, Anderson
13elgrave, Ontario
Most of us have grown aceus
tomed to thinking that God is a
Being Who dwells in an eternal
realm of impenetrable mystery,
and that finding Him is beyond
hope or possibility. Therefore
it is futile to seek Him, and we
give up trying to discover Him
for ourselves. The Scriptures
say: "No man hath seen God at
any time." What, then, is the
use of trying to find Him?
But there is another side to
it. It is the fact that God is
persistently seeking us for Him-
self. Probably we disregard His
efforts to come to us. We pur-
posely spurn the appeal of the
Spirit, and close our ears to
the sound of llis voice. We do
not listen because we prefer to
enjoy the lures of the world,
and the pleasures of sin for a
season. Yet it is true that God
is constantly calling us to him-
self.
It was not merely imagina-
tion that caused Francis Thomp-
son to write " The Hound of
Heaven". In this poem he ex-
presses the conviction that he
was "divinely watched, follow-
ed, coveted and loved." These
are some of the words. Listen!
"I fled Him down the nights and
down the days;
I fled Him down the arches of
the years;
I fled Him down the labyrin-
thine ways
Of my own mind; and in the
midst of tears
I hid from Iiim, and under run-
ning laughter.
Up vistaed hopes I sped;
And shot, precipitated
Adown titanic glooms of
chasmed fears,
From those strong Feet that fol-
lowed, followed after."
Who was the Lover that fol-
lowed Thompson, at Whose
Feet he threw himself in per-
fect trust at last? It was the
Eternal Seeker, Who, as the
Good Shepherd, seeks until Ile
finds the lost one. Then, re-
joicing, He bears him home
upon His shoulders. Francis
Thompson said: "Call me not
the poet of the return to nature,
but the poet of the return to
God." Doubtless many readers
date their return to God to the
day when they read this lovely
poem, for, as Thompson him-
self has said: "In Christ is
solved the supreme problem of
life." In this great poem the
words of the Master find fresh
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We parents, on the whole, don't give much thought to
the education our children are receiving. Oh, we want them
to pass their exams, and we'd like to see them get into
something where they'd make a lot of money. But aside from
that, Canadian adults are pretty well in the dark about
what the kids are learning, and why.
As long as our youngsters *
come home from school with
reasonable marks and their
own rubber boots, we are
happy to leave education
alone. Adults feel that they
have enough trouble with the
economic system, the political
system, and the heating sys-
tem, without tackling any-
thing as complex as the
education system.
And it is complex. It's be-
coming more complex every
day, as educators scramble to
keep up with a society that is
changing with the ease and
rapidity of a burlesque queen.
That's why we parents
should pay more attention,
take a deeper interest in what
the sprouts are learning and
should be learning. Our ig-
norance of their training is
equalled only by our eager-
ness to run it down.
We all know the lady, a
superb cook and homemaker,
who announces flatly that
teaching domestic science is
an utter waste of time, that
girls should learn it at home.
She has forgotten that when
she was married, her piece de
resistance was mushroom
soup on toast, that it took her
three-quarters of an hour to
iron a shirt, that she didn't
know French provincial from
Danish blue.
* * *
We all know the man who
declares roundly that this
here shop training for boys is
a waste of time. He didn't
have none and he can make
anything. He then goes down
cellar to his workshop and
takes off his left forefinger
in the saw, or makes a hand
sandwich while trying to nail
two boards together.
These people don't realize
that they have done so well
not because of their lack of
training, but in spite of it.
Nor do they realize that the
world their kids are about to
steps into is not the one they
entered.
I'd like to see more, not
fewer, training courses. Take
domestic science, for ex-
ample. I'd just as soon throw
a boy into a jet liner, without
training, and tell him to take
off, as I would throw a girl
into one of those modern
kitchens, all bells and buttons
and lights, without training,
and tell her to take over.
In fact, I'd expand the dom-
estic training. Girls should
be taught not only how to
make a white sauce and an
apron, but how to make a
happy marriage. They should
be thoroughly briefed on the
wifely virtues of patience,
thrift, silence and humility.
They should learn how to run
a power mower and shovel
snow. They should be taught
that money doesn't grow, on
trees, that the stork is for
the birds, that good husbands
are like precious jewels—
they can be heavily insured
but when they're lost, there's
nothing left but money.
The girls—and I speak as
the father of a daughter—
would learn some other
fundamentals: that "nag" is a
worse epithet than "bag" or
"hag"; that it takes more
than a bust and a bottom to
make a well-rounded woman.
In such an enlightened sys-
tem, of course, we'd have to
have equal opportunities for
the boys. Best way to start
would be to break down a
couple of their basic beliefs:
(a) that the world owes them
a living, and (b) that the old
man will provide it until the
world realizes how fortunate
it is to have the privilege.
Then we'd teach them that
manners, not clothes, make
the man.
They'd be given courses in
handling f i r e a r m s, cars,
motorboats, women and other
dangerous items. They'd be
prepared for marriage with
short courses in diaper chang-
ing, bottle warming, and the
establishing of air -tight alibis.
They would learn the judo
defense against a kick on the
shins.
They would be taught that
soft little girls with turned -
up noses, doe eyes and vel-
vety voices can, on occasion
turn into wives with the nose
of a bloodhound, the eye of
an eagle, and a tongue like a
buggy whip.
These are only a few rough
ideas of what I'd like to see
added to our courses of study.
Some of the other ideas are
even rougher. Mind you, I
wouldn't throw out the reg-
ular subjects. I'm sure they're
useful for something. But
you're married a long time,
and you can't sit around for
30 or 40 years conjugating
Latin verbs, drawing triangles,
or writing descriptive para-
graphs.
OMA Principles. on
Medical Care Ins.
The Ontario Medical Asso-
ciation has set out some desir-
able features of any medical
care insurance program that
might be introduced by the
Government of Ontario,
0. M. A. Council, which
sets the policy for the voluntary
organization of '7,000 doctors,
laid down the basic principles
for the benefit of political par-
ties which have expressed in-
terest in introducing medical
care insurance schemes.
Among the principles:
Coverage should be avail-
able to all groups of citizens,
regardless of financial circum-
stances, through a choice of in-
suring agencies, including
doctor -sponsored plans such as
P.S.I. , medical co-operatives
and insurance companies;
Insuring agencies should base
their insured benefits on the
current O.M. A. Schedule of
Fees so that subscribers will
have adequate coverage;
While the current O.M. A.
Schedule of Fees should apply
in most cases, the medical pro-
fession is prepared to consider
"reasonable concessions" in the
case of the indigent and those
living on marginal incomes.
(Methods of covering these
groups should be a matter of dia.
Toronto, Ontario
January 31, 1963
The Editor,
Wingham Advance -Times
Dear Mr. Editor,
This is really a letter to the
people of Wingham,
I'm sure most of you have
friends and relatives, who, like
myself, have moved away from'
Wingham. And they, like me,
subscribe to our home town
newspaper because we are still
very interested in Wingham and
hearing about you..
Not all of you can get on
page one or the sports page, but
we would like to see you in the
"Personal Notes." We are in-
terested to hear about you —
have you been away on a trip —
or visiting? have you had com-
pany? (las your family been
home?
(loping to see you next week
in the Wingham Advance -
Times --we miss you.
Speaking for many
"Former Wingham Citizen"
interpretation. "The Son of
Man is come to seek and to
save that which is lost."
cussion between insuring agen-
cies, government and the med-
ical profession);
In order to keep down costs,
consideration should he given to
deterrents such as deductibles
and co-insurance, and to the
establishment of a schedule of
benefits in which stated amounts
would be paid to subscribers for
specific services.
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on the third day of life.
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SEPTUAGESIMA SUNDAY — FEBRUARY 10th
10.00 a.m.—Sunday School
11.00 a.m.—Morning Prayer