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The Wingham Advance-Times, 1965-11-04, Page 91 • . i 1 0 r Three Cheers for The Rebels It has been interesting to watch the battle which has raged for several months in the Rayfield area as residents of that village and its surrounding rural district carry on the fight to retain the village school, Along with all other rural municipali- ties they Siere being pushed toward a central school plan and the abandonment of a comparatively new building in Bay- field. When it became apparent that the central school would be located on the east side of the township, and that a long bus trip daily for the students would be necessary, the Bayfield area started to rebel, So far their rebellion has been most refreshing. Now, we don't pretend to be possessed of sufficient facts to pass judgment about who is right and who is wrong. Never theless it is encouraging to find at least one group of people with enough courage to stand up for their convictions in the face of the provincial authorities, The plan to eliminate all small schools in the province and to form township school areas is quiet likely a sound one. It does promise a better grade of educa- tion for more youngsters. However, to assume that any one township is the best possible area for a single school is some- what preposterous, and it would appear that the department of education has not left nearly enough room for reasonable ap- peals against its mandate. We are living in an age when our autonomy is fast disappearing. In fact our independence is being removed so smoothly that few seem to realize it is happening. The latest announcement is that the Provincial Police will take over the supervision of all municipalities where existing police forces number less than 10 men, We aren't being asked, mark you -we're being told. How Do You Like This One? Apparently not all public officials are as scrupulous about the observance of our laws as we, the ordinary folks, are expected to be. You may find the following story from last Monday's Kitchener Record as amusing as we did. It recounted the de- tails of a conference held for centennial planning, and stated that James Webb of the provincial department of tourism and information, centennial planning branch, recommended the formation of a huge beer garden on King Street East. Mr. Webb, according to The Record, said it would be the best way to awaken Kitch ener's interest in Canada's 100th birth- day. Mr. Webb said the beer garden, cov- ering owering the main business district, would attract thousands of visitors from all over Ontario. He hoped the Ontario Liquor Control Board would relax its restrictions against open-air drinking to allow a centennial beer garden on King Street. However, apparently Mr. Webb visu- alized some hesitancy on the part of the Board, for The Record says he advocated that if restrictions continue Kitchener should do what the Shriners did recent- ly in Toronto -- just ignore the liquor laws. "After all, they can't lock up every- body," Mr. Webb concluded. is Minority Government Really So Bad? Biggest political news last week was the report that Prime Minister Pearson had threatened Canadians with another election in a year or 18 months if they failed to elect one party with a clear working majority in the House of Com- mons. Mr. Pearson denies that his re- mark was intended as a threat—merely as a statement of the facts of life. In any case his words have brought the entire reason for the election into sharp focus. The Liberal party chose to call an election in the hope of being re- turned with a greater number of Liberal representatives in the House. They have publicly declared on many occasions , . . indeed have used the theme as the foun- dation of their election advertising . . . that the nation must have a majority government. What, then, are the penalties of min- ority government which are supposed to be so injurious to our national welfare? Minority government, a situation in which the ruling party may be defeated in any of its efforts to bring in new legislation, is, after all, a government in which the opposition parties have a very strong voice. Admittedly, it is a frus- trating state of affairs for the party nominally in power, because its power can be challenged and broken at any time the opponents decide to "gang up." For the nation as a whole, however, it is perhaps just as well that no one party is able to enforce it measures with- out powerful criticism of its policies. Far-reaching social legislation such as the Canada Pension Plan and Medicare Ten Da Only ten days remain before the con- clusion of the "Harvest of Values" pro- motion which has been in progress for the past six weeks. We would recom- mend that shoppers read the three pages of advertisements in this connection with particular attention. According to the reports of several merchants who are participants in this event the shopping public has respond- ed well to the promotion. in addition, the retail sales clinic with which it open- ed provided a service to sales people which should "rub off" in future in the form of better and more pleasing service to the buying public. When the merchants of your com- munity band together for a unified ef- should indeed be argued out in every detail. In this type of legislation the government is establishing systems of state welfare payments which, by their very nature, can never be repealed, no matter how costly they may be to future taxpayers. There is every good reason to make the passage of such laws just as rough as possible. Certainly it takes a lot of time, but it also brings out all the arguments on both sides and permits the general public a much better opportunity to express opinion about the value of the legislation. So firmly has the party system be- come established in this land that we tend to forget one all-important fact. The people we elect to the House of Commons are given our mandate to speak on our behalf -- not merely as dutiful echoes of powerful leaders. There was a time when a Liberal would have the courage to disagree on the floor of the House with his party's policy; when a Conservative would defy party rules and speak for his constituents -- but those days are gone. Lacking this spirit of independent representation, minority government is really the only alternative. And mark one fact well. The defeat of a minority government in the House does NOT re- quire another election. The Governor- General can ask one of the other parties to form a government or any combin- ation of parties may be asked to do so. The calling of an election in such circum- stances is the government's alternative to an admission of failure. ys Remain fort of this town it does mean a great deal to the community. Every town of this size is fighting a stiff battle against outside competition -- and if that com- petition wins the fight your own home town will fade away before your eyes. Within a few weeks the local store keepers will be launching their pre - Christmas sales promotions. They will not be attempting to talk you into pur- chases you don't need, but they will be urging you to do your Christmas shop- ping in your home town. By doing so you will contribute not merely to the prosperity of the merchants from whom you choose to buy, but to the well-being of the entire community. Merchants, too, are big spenders. THE WINGHAM ADVANCE - TIMES Published at Wingham, Ontario. by Wenger Bros. Limited W. Barry Wenger, President - Robert O. Wenger, secret.ry-''reaaurer Mamber Audit Bureau of Circulation; Member Canadian Weekly Newspapers Antoci. ation; Member Canadian Community Newspapers Representatives Authorised by the Post Office Department as Second Clara Mall and for payment of postage In cash Subscription Rate: One Year, *400, Six Months, $2.25, ih advance U.S.A., 0.00 per year; Foreign rate, 86.00 per year Advertising Rates on 1pplicat1oia WESTFIELD', S. S. NO. 6, EAST WAWANOSH, August 28, 1894. -- Back row: Mrs. John Stackhouse, John Stack- house, Joe Hoover, Alfred Carr, Mrs. Andrew Auld. Sec- ond row: Frank Carr, Wesley Stackhouse, Gordon John- ston, Harvey McDowell, Charlie Redmond, George Buch- anan, —, Ed Armstrong, Peter Patterson, Fred Cook, Melbourne McDowell, Albert Campbell, Mrs. Ed. McDowell. Third row: Teacher, Henry Morrish; Chris McClinton, Anna May Redmond, Annie Buchanan, Phoebe Jackson, Hannah Stackhouse, Etta McDowell, Ada Mc- Clinton, Mary McClinton, Lorina Campbell, Elizabeth Cook, Lilian Patterson, Marion Auld, Seated: Walter Cook, Thomas Greenan, Ida Tunney, Agnes Dunbar, Mag- gie Buchanan, Mabel Johnston, two Witmer sisters, Mabel Hickingbottom, Tom Black, William Robinson, Roy Stack- house. Second front: Raymond Redmond, Archie Mitch - chef', Robert Armstrong, Edna Auld, Lily Carr, Beatrice Johnston, Gordon Cook, Milton Stackhouse, Charles Rodgers, Donald Patterson. Front: Mildred McLarty, Dora Phelan, Auld, Etta Tunney, Dora Mason, Lorina Patterson, Tom Tunney, --- Auld. This list of names was supplied by Raymond Redmond, Goderich, who ap- pears in this picture and later taught for twelve years in this school. Abtoutieffeinte Wingham, Ontario, Thursday, Nov. 4, 1965 SECOND SECTION SUGAR AND SPICE by Bill Smiley That College It's not until you get a son or daughter off to college that you learn what a simple, unsophisti- cated, reactionary, narrow- minded, oid-fashioned peasant you really are. He, or she, will make it all quite clear to you on that first weekend home from the hal- lowed halls of learning. Every fall, the blood pressure of countless fathers skyrockets, the tender hearts of hordes of loving mothers shatter, when the freshman student, beloved and cherished these 18 years, waltzes in with a bag of dirty laundry and a swollen ego. We've had quite a fall of it, in our neighborhood. With a sigh of relief, we shipped our gawk of a boy off to one university, and amid floods of tears, the people next door sent their darling daughter to another. Both were home last weekend. And both sets of parents spent the entire visit alternating with fury at the kids and shame at their own ignorance. There's no question about it. A college education is a wonder- ful thing. In a matter of three of four weeks, smalltown kids who barely staggered through high school, and barely knew enough to change their socks or blow their noses, are transformed into pipe -smoking playboys or dashing, desirable women of the world. Imagine what a whole year will do. The boys nonchalantly toss off a remark or two about beer parties, the girls light up a fag right there, while father's frown deepens and mother's jaw falls wider and wider. The boys, with a solid basis of three weeks' lectures in poli- tical science, curtly enlighten their dads on the asinine politi- cal ideas the latter have cher- ished for 20 years. The girls, secure in their three weeks of psychology, put their mothers into shock with casual comments on the neces- sity of a full sex life before marriage. Education Both explain kindly to the old folks not only that all's wrong in the world, but also that God is no longer in His heaven. In fact, He isn't anywhere. He's just a "anthropomorphic projection of the need for a father image." Both point out that the capi- talistic system is driving us into a neurotic pursuit of the materi- alistic, that the dollar is essen- tially an evil thing. And both pocket, without comment, the extra 10 bucks you slip them on departure. Our kid has discovered a new system, in which you can get along on four hours sleep at night. This is done by sleeping all day, which he did on the weekend. He assured us that he had worked out a rigid work schedule, which begins at 7 a.m. daily. But a few minutes later, he let it slip out that he scarcely ever ate breaklast at the dining - hall, because he slept in. The girl next door nearly fin- ished off her father. He gave her a blank cheque, the dope, to pay her first term's fees and residence dues, hoping he could scrape up the second term when it arrived. With admirable sang- froid, she filed in the cheque for the whole year's fees. Next day he received a call from his banker. He had to sell his last bonds to meet the overdraft. Young Hugh is letting his hair grow long, has taken a lead role in the college revue, plays flam- enco records at ear-splitting vol- ume and is just busting to get in on a sit-in or a lie -down or some other form of civic disturbance, so he can be arrested. The girl next door is disgusted that her mother can't read Chaucer in the original and be- lieves the story about Adam and Eve. iter mom was weeping when she lett. With rage. Oh, well, 1 guess it's all worth it. Our grocery bill has dropped by $12 a week since Hugh left. And we'll have the last laugh next spring, when exams start. Although death and taxes are both inevitable, death has one thing in its favor. It doesn't get worse every time the legis lature meets. REMINISCING OCTOBER 1915 Mr. J. B. Duffy who has represented the Metropolitan In- surance Co. in Wingham for the past few years, has been trans- ferred to London. Mr. H. J. Thompson of Sault Ste. Marie, who has taken over Mr. Duffy's work here will be moving to town in the near future. Word has been received here that Private H. Stanley Kemp, formerly of Wingham, was wounded. Private Kemp was for some time an employee of Walker & Clegg and boarded with Mr. Harry Williams. Mr, Elijah Higgins of the 3rd line of Morris, has purchas- ed the adjacent 100 acres from Mr. Charles Garniss. Mr. Hig- gins has given this farm to his son, Robert, who was recently married and will take up house- keeping at once. Mr. Garniss intends moving to Bluevale, where we understand he has purchased Mr. Thomas Stewart's chopping mill. Four members of the Hins- cliffe family are training for overseas service. Mr. Harry Hinscliffe and son Harold, of Wingham are with the 71st at London. Private James Hins- cliffe, Stratford, with the 34th and Gunner Sam Hinscliffe, London with the 29th Battery are brothers of our townsman, Harry. OCTOBER 1929 Mr. Albert Foxton attended the Dairy Convention held in Toronto last week. Mark Garniss of concession 3, Morris Township, lost his fine barn and all his season's crop by fire Sunday night when a bull broke loose while he was doing the chores, attacked him and upset a lantern. OCTOBER 1940 Miss Leila Leggatt, of the Bell Telephone Staff, attended a conference in London last week, and was made chief op- eratot of the local office. Mt. Wes. Leggatt has purch- ased the residence of the late R. A. Dinsley on Leopold St. The Williams Restaurant is undergoing extensive alterations and remodelling and will be one of the most up-to-date in this district, A soda fountain practically the full length of the store is being installed. Tuesday night of last week, a number of friends gathered at the home of Mrs. M. Swanson and presented Miss Cora Phair, bride of this month, with a kit- chen shower. Mrs, Swanson was assisted by Mrs. M. Tem- pleman. OCTOBER 1951 The new front on Clark's store on Main Street is coming along and will be a fine im- provement to our business com- munity. Mrs. G. L. Dunlop and Mrs. W. J. Greer were joint hostess- es at a miscellaneous shower at the home of Mrs. Dunlop for Miss Beatrice McDonald, who is being married the middle of this month. Judith Baker, 8, daughter of Mr, and Mrs. Jack Baker of town, had the misfortune to break her elbow at the public school on Field Day. She is now in the hospital and will un- dergo treatment for a few days at least. Letters to the Editor Dear Mr. Editor, I see in the pages Of last week's Advance A poem by G. Newton I read it by chance. Of the towns of north Huron, He names quite a lot, But there is one little village Which Newton forgot. It Iies just half way Between Wingham and Blyth, And I think you'll agree It's a busy wee hive. The folk who formed Belgrave Were men of renown, There was McClennen and Has- lam And Geddes and Brown. Sproat, Whaley, McKinzey, All worthy of mention To these noble men I would call your attention, So now, Mr. Newton Be fair with yourself, When you hand out bouquets Why leave us on the shelf? -yR, Henry Leishman-- Huronview, Clinton.