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The Wingham Advance-Times, 1965-04-08, Page 9• M This Is A Worried World The entire Western world is deeply disturbed by continued U. S, bombing of North Viet Nam military targets. Signi- ficant of the worry here in Canada was. Prime Minister Pearson's visit to Presi- * dent Johnson at the end of last week, when the former is reported to have begged for a calculated pause in the at- tacks to allow time for negotiations. The new generation of pacifists, of course, voice screaming protests over any concerted military action. The federal member for Nanaimo, speaking in the House of Commons, branded the Ameri- can actions as brutal aggression against an unarmed people. His foolish accusa- tions may be taken seriously by the un- informed segment of the population. The truth, of course, is that the Viet " Cong, the Communist fighting force or- ganized in North Viet Nam, is anything but an unarmed populace. It is proving to be one of the most skillful and deter- mined armies the modern world has seen. True, its weapons are often sharpened a " bamboo spikes and deadly pitfalls on the jungle trails, but these crude methods are taking a dreadful toll of human life. The Viet Cong, too, make it a regular prac- tice to wipe out women, children and old folks when they attack a farming village. There is no reason to believe that American leaders are any Tess conscious of the need for preserving the peace than we are, In fact, their actions in South- east Asia are for the express purpose of stopping Communist aggression before it assumes insurmountable proportions. However, there must have been a drastic alteration in American thinking since the day, a few years back, when the British forces landed at Suez for expressly the same purpose. We who sit in the spectators' seats do not have enough inside information about this deadly game to pass judgment on the rules, However, Prime Minister Pearson should have; he has played some major roles in this regard before. The Broader Field We noted with interest a recent story in the Owen Sound Sun -Times, which re- lated the fact that the civic development committee in that city is exploring the possibility of bringing an industry to their community from West Germany. The contact was made through an Owen Sound business man who is a German native and knows something of the prob- lems which are facing industrialists in his homeland. He cited the fact that skilled labor is extremely scarce there and that space for expansion is limited and expensive. While visiting Germany recently these same facts occurred to us when we were told that Italians, Frenchmen and work- ers from other European lands have been attracted to West Germany in an effort to fill out the labor force needed to keep up with the post-war business boom. Land, of course, is at a premium and building lots are consequently expensive. In fact, we found that in the area we visited even farm land is extremely valuable—so much so, that little livestock is raised on the agricultural land. There simply isn't room for animals. The land is used to raise such vital crops as sugar beets, and the milk and meat are shipped in. All this gives rise to some thoughts about our industrial ambitions in this part of the world. There is a strong possibility that if the Wingham Municipal Development Board could afford to send a keen representative to West Germany he might well bring back a new industry for our town. Obviously we do not have the funds available for such direct approaches, and therefore it seems equally obvious that membership in such an organization as the Mid -Western Development Association is imperative for a town our size. It is through such groups that contacts can be made farther afield. The Crack -Ups Continue Last week's Advance -Times recorded yet another accident at the intersection of Diagonal Road and Victoria Street. It is doubtful that even police records would show the true total of smash-ups at that corner. The intersection is extremely hazard- ous and we cannot understand why the Department of Highways has not long since recognized the cause of the trouble. The curve in Diagonal Road (Highway 86) as it turns into Victoria Street makes it one of the trickiest corners in this part of Ontario, as the high accident rate proves. Surely a new system of stop signs would be well worth a small change in normal regulations. The saving in property damage would be tremendous and it could be that a few lives might be saved at the same time. Our Boats Do Need Rocking Dr. Morton Schulman, Toronto's out- spoken chief coroner, is not very popular these days. He just will not sit still and leave the status quo undisturbed. He's ,, the doctor, you may recall, who was re- sponsible for some sweeping changes in the application of regulations to cases of questionable medical procedure in public hospitals. Dr. Schulman has been branded as a trouble -maker. Last week he apparently thought that his term of office was just about over, but we were pleased to see that a conference with Prime Minister Robarts did not result in his expulsion. The Prime Minister apparently under- stands that occasionally the boat really does need rocking. Dr. Schulman has publicly stated that it is very difficult for the ordinary citi- zen to obtain justice where cases of mal- practice occur, chiefly because it is all but impossible to get one doctor to testify against a professional brother. It is hard to understand that this outdated sort of thinking should persist. Most of the doc- tors we know are very intelligent men. One would think that intelligence would convince them of making sure every bad apple is picked out of their professional barrel. A Questioning Age A great deal has been written and said about Pierre Berton's controversial book, "The Comfortable Pew." Written at the request of the Anglican Church, the book aims some powerful broadsides at the established churches, openly criticising their effectiveness in an age where rapid change is so significant. It is hardly to be supposed that loyal church people could accept all Berton's statements without being ruffled. He accuses the churches of dereliction of duty and blindness in the face of facts. We do not intend to discuss in this limited space how many of his statements we agree with or would discard. How- ever, there is no denying that the book is accomplishing the very purpose for which it was invited—to make Christian people re-examine their church activities in the harsh light of criticism, to make them think deeply about their own re- lationships to a troubled world and above all, to a generation of youngsters ap- proaching full citizenship in an age which will resemble that of their parents in superficial detail only. Berton is a professional critic. He has earned much of his well-paid living by poking big holes in the "establish- ment," business, political and social. None of us who consider ourselves prac- tising Christians can afford to dismiss his charges without very thorough ex- amination. THE WINGHAM ADVANCE - TIMES Published at Wingham, Ontario, by Wenger Bros. Limited W. Barry Wenger, President - Robert O. Wenger, Secretary -Treasurer Member Audit Bureau of Circulation; Member Canadian Weekly Newspapers Associ- ation; Member Canadian Community Newspapers Representatives Authorized by the Post Office Department as Second Class Mail and for payment of postage in cash Subscription Rate: One Year, $4.00; Six Months, $2.25, in advance U,S.A., $5.00 per year; Foreign rate, $5.00 per year Advertising Rates on application REMINISCING APRIL 1915 Messrs, Miller and Merkley have opened a bicycle repair shop in the Tamlyn Elock, op- posite A. E. Smith's flank. Ac- cessories of all kinds will be kept on hand. Mr. W. H. Gurney, Glove Manufacturer, was on Friday elected to the Council of the O. A. L. A. 'This is the first time Wingham, or this District, has been thus honored. Mr. Gurney will do credit to his new office. On April 5th a pretty wed- ding was solemnized in Clinton at the home of Mrs. Thomas Mitchell, Albert S. , when her daughter, Miss Mary, became the bride of Mr. Joseph Guest of Wingham. APRIL 1929 Mr. Elmer Ireland, who has been attending the Wingham Business College for the past ten months, has taken a posi- tion in Toronto. Miss Gregg, of Dublin, Ire- land, who for the past six months has been visiting rela- tives and friends in New York, Chicago and Indianapolis is making a short trip through Can- ada on her way to her leave- taking port, New York, and is at present the guest of Miss Simpson, Diagonal Road. At the O.E.A. meeting in Toronto last week, Rev. H.W. Snell, of Stratford, a former Rector of St. Paul's, Wingham, was elected President for 1929, of the Trustees and Ratepayers' Section. While here, as well as in Stratford, Mr. Snell took a more than active part in edu cational matters and this ap- pointment is certainly merited. APRIL 1940 On Friday, Ernie Kargeshad the misfortune to cut his left hand and fingers on a saw at Cook's factory. Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Edgar, Wingham. Ontario, wish to ,announce the engagement of their eldest daughter, Helen Ruth, to Mr. Louis Stonehouse, son of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Stonehouse,.rlgrave, Ontario. The installation of a mo- dern signalling system has just been completed by the Utili- ties Commission at the hospi- tal. The system is a Northern Electric one and should be a great asset to those who find it necessary to use the facilities of our hospital. Over each door there is a light that works from the button at the bedside. Whet-, this light comes on itsignals by a buzzer on each of the three floors also showing the floor number from which the call was made on the panel on each floor. Mrs. Harold Garlick and son, David, of Kincardine, visited this week -end with Mr. and Mrs. Roger Oke. Last week Elgin Coutts and Donald Adams hitch -hiked to Windsor and back again. The boys made good time and en- joyed the experience. Elgin Coutts and Ralph Baird of town, and Jack Wettlaufer, of Bluevale, left on Monday for Galt to take a course in the Youth Air Training Service. APRIL 1951 Mrs. Maxine Adams of the Howick Jr. Institute was named secretary -treasurer, and Miss Audrey Haste, one of the di- rectors of the Huron County Jr. Institute. Ron McMichael is second vice-president and George Adams a director of the Huron County Jr. Farmers. Principal Stan Hall of the Wingham District Iligh School, was the speaker at the meeting of the Lions Club in the Bruns- wick Hotel on Friday evening. Speaking on the subject of "Ed- ucation is everybody's business- -by it young people learn to feel, to think, to behave and to act." There was a pleasant gather ing in the basement of St. Paul's Anglican Church on Fri- day evening, when Roy Mundy, organist of the church for the past 22 years, was honored, Mr. Mundy, who has resigned, was presented with a smoker and pipe froin the choir. The ad- dress was read by the president Mel Keating, and the gifts were presented by herb Fuller. SKATING ON SKIS as part of the Swiss Winter Wonderland act at the annual figure skating show were Janet Haines, Helen Ann Holloway and Kim Mellor. lug ain Atitoniceffamt Wingham, Ontario, Thursday, Apr. 8, 1965 SECOND SECTION Box 390 Dear Sir: Now that the warmer wea- ther is nearly upon us, the usu- al stream of highway cowboys have come out of winter hiber- nation. It might be appropriate to draw to the attention of certain youthful automobile owners that driving a car is a privilege, 'not a right.' and such privi- leges may be withheld if cer- tain driving infractions are per- sistently committed. One such infraction which several owners seem to ignore is one regarding mufflers: - Section 8, subsection (42) paragraph 1 reads as follows: "Every motor vehicle must be equipped with a muffler in good working order to prevent excessive or unusual noise. Use of a cut-out is prohibited." Several automobiles in this area have such defects, and attention is being drawn to such vehicles via the local'police authorities, with a view to issu- ing a warning to such offenders, and to have such defects reme- died. Concerning U turns on Jo- sephine street: It seems that many drivers are circumvent- ing this law by using a gasoline service station on the main street for the sole purpose of getting back on the main street as fast as possible, instead of driving around a block. In Clin- ton and Listowel, main street gasoline lessees place boards prohibiting such U turns on their premises. Why cannot the Jo- sephine lessees do ilkewise? Why cannot Wingham own- ers have these drivers prosecut- ed for using their frontage for such turns if they do not use the station for purchases? Such ac- tion would do much to cut down the aimless driving, and exces- sive acceleration at such points on the main street, which bor- der on residences in which old people and young children have to live, and put up with such noise. Any evening between 7:30 p.m. and 1 a.m. one can hear dozens of wildly driven cars screeching around these outlets annoying resident and pedestrian alike. Operators, Town Council; -- what about some action? Now! Any other residents of Wingliam feel the same way? Let the Advance -Times or the local police know about it. I am sure that the local police are as frustrated too, since these 'cow- boys'are very law-abiding at the appropriate moment and it requires specific complaints be- fore action may he instituted against any offenders. Perennial Sufferer. 'SUGAR' . AND SPICE by Bill Smiley Everybody's Doing If Watching the world lately, I good bartender could probably find it hard to believe that come as close to the truth as mankind has progressed very far since the day Cain clobbered Abel and began a fad that has never lost its popularity — mur- dering one's brother. Whether it's Alabama, Ham- burg or Havana, Quito or Que- bec, the pattern is the same: clubs swinging, women scream- ing, skulls cracking, blood spurt- ing. Hammering one's fellow cit- izen with a billy -club is one of the leading outdoor sports of this generation. It's difficult to believe that all t h e hatred and viciousness among men is based on color, or religion. The Pakistanians and Indians loathe each other. They're the same color, differ. ent religions. The Viet Nams and the Viet Congs murder each other with mutual relish. Same color, same religion. In South Africa, whites kick blacks around. In North Africa, blacks kick whites around. In both cases, religion is ammateri- al. In South America, the rich kick the poor around, and they all go to the same church. In North America, wives kick their husbands around. Same color; same religion; different sex. If it isn't racial or religious or sexual, what then is the basis for all the pounding of other people? Is it simply fear that if you don't smash the other fel- low's skull first, he will kick you in the groin? ither. It is my experience that the tensions of race, creed and color are completely artificial. It is only when they are fanned by ignorance, fear or malice that they burst into flame. Ignored, they dissolve and vanish. The other day, I was supervis- ing an examination. For some- thing to do, I looked down a cou- ple of rows of students and checked off their national orig- ins. They were Swiss, Polish, Dutch, German, Italian, Nor. w e g i a n, Anglo-Saxon. There were Jews and Roman Catholics and Protestants of all denomina- tions. They didn't even look as they should have. A red-headed Ger- man and a red - headed Jew. A couple of swarthy, black -haired Mediterranean types called Smith and Jones. And I happen to know there is no hatred, no tension over race or religion or pigmentation, in this group. There is only the normal clash of personalities, based entirely on individual likes and dislikes. In 1943 I trained at a R. A. F. station in England. On my course were pilots from half a dozen European countries, from Canada and the U. S., from Afri- ca and Australia, from Trinidad and India, and from all over the British Isles. Color ranged from silver - blond Norwegian, through cof- fee -hued Maori Indian from New Zealand to coal -black West In - Or is it something more sim- dian. Religion ran the gamut plc and primitive, just a savage from agnostic to fervent R. C., joy in the letting of blood. in from Baptist to Moslem. We pain and cruelty? were like brothers. It's hard to know. An anthro- pologist will say one thing, a psychologist another. And a PROTECT CHILDREN FROM LEAD POISONING Lead piping has been mane- facturcd for more than 4, 000 years and lead poisoning has been known since before the 4th century. No toys or furniture should be finished with lead- based paint since youngsters may bite or lick the articles and be poisoned by the lead. On my 21st birthday, having sprained an ankle badly in a rugger game, I couldn't walk to my own birthday party. I was carried to the pub on the should- ers of a magnificent turbaned Sikh from India, a Polish count, an Australian dairy farmer, and the scion of a fine old Belgian family. it was my finest hour. when my brothers deposited me gently at the bar. And it helped convince me that race, religion and color have very little to do With mart's inhumanity ... or humanity .. . to man.