The Goderich Signal-Star, 1961-03-30, Page 1414 `le Goderich Signal -Star, Thursday, 1ytarch 30, 1961
Easter Message
For Knox WMS
dent, Miss Gracey, the. March
Z t,T oeiety ' of Knox. Pres•
b rte1,1a'a Church was conducted
by the first'vice-president, Mrs.
C. Stranghan.
An invitation, extended by
the 'North Street United Church
Woman's 'Missionary Society to
Knox W.M.S. Wise their guests
at a meeting on Tuesday, April
,11, ht 8.00 p.in. was read and
gladly accepted.
The devotional exercises were
conducted by Mrs. Robert Bissot
who read the account of the
Resurrection, St. •Luke, Chapter
24, followed by prayer by Mrs.
A. H. Erskine. Continuing in
the Easter theme, the solo,
"There iso a Green Hill Far
.Away" was beautifully rendered
by Mrs. M. Sutherland, accom-
panied on the piano by Miss E.
Somerville.
.Rev. G. L. Royal was the guest
speaker for' the meeting. _In an
inspiring address on Easter, Rev.
Mr. Royal divided his subject
into three parts: first, th&tleath
of Christ on the 'Crass; second
the women at the open grave
and third, the consciousness of
God's presence. In Christ's pro-
mise, "Lo, I am with you al-
ways," the minister. emphasized
that the, Spirit of Christ lives
with,us always -•--stressing the
be «'ith us, not only at Easter,
FOR A
GREENER THUMB
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year. •
Mrs. R. Bisset expressed the .
grateful thanks of, the meeting conservation I11
to Rev. Mr. Royal and tri Mrs. f For the past' two weeks this
Sutherland. ' column has devoted itself to the'
At the conclusion of 'the meet: theme of Conservation, with
ing, a .social time "as en.loyed, special reference to, Nature Re -
with Mrs. W. Tebhutt, Mrs. Wserves which the Federation of
J. MacEwan, Mrs. H. Rivers lOntario Naturalists is assisting
and Mrs. George MacEwan as the Province to set aside before
sisting with the serving ail rural beauty is swallowed by
-- l urbanization. One function of
The beginning of Canadian the'Reserve is the preservation
prairie settlement was in 1811.' of wildflowers and the F.O.N.
In that year the first group of has declared 1961 as "Wildflower
settlers organized by Lord Sel- i car. Unfortunate as. it may
kirk left Scotland for Canada. ; be, there is no use ignoring the
It took them several months to i fact that a great body of the
reach the Red River Valley, not , public remains unconvinced of
far, from where Winnipeg now the need for preserving wild-'
stands. They had to overcome flowers. The 'Other day in the,
the suspicion and later the arm- House of Lords, Lord Birkett
ed attacks of the established fur- said: „'People pay lip service to
tradersof the North West Com- the countryside but disregard it
pang. In fact, the organization in the face of practical consider -
of the Selkirk Settlement result- ations. The moment you begin
ed indirectly in bringing to- to speak of natural beauty peo-
eether the North Westers and pie think you are a'little cranky.
, the Hudson's Bay Company into
, one great combine.
by it just as much as they do
by ,brain."
The question is: How do you,
inculcate a. love for wildflowers?
A reverence which will preserve
them, in their natural habitat.
How, too, do you wean builders,
civic officials and public utilities
from the attitude of mind which
regards trees as public nuis-
ances? How do you defeat the
anti -tree philosophy? We who
so smugly smite our breasts, and
(proclaim our high standard of
civilization might consider the
North China coolies who formed
the Labor Corps in the first war.
As far as the eye could see
these men were pure brawn, yet
they brought hyacinths in pots
to their work and when they
took a break, spent much of
their time admiring the beauty
of their flowers. Perhaps you
have noticed in such delta areas
as surround cities like Tientsin
But I believe that beauty has a the way men •at sunset lift up
final value, of its own. Men live the -cages of their tame larks so
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g at home where
that the bird `ritay catch the last
glimpse of the setting sun. Their
love of beauty is inbred, but.
for -materialists like ourselves,
the problem seems to be psych-
ological. We are much closer to
the cave man than we care ,a
adxn it, .and are not content to
mama from, the chase of
°Mitti «Y e £ natn-re w1tYiou i
bringing back concrete proof Of
our- prevue;as,.=,,1,51-e still- covet gips
rare tangibles of life and be-
come heroes to ourselves -at least
when we can display some wilt-
ed rarity which nature has fail-
ed to hide from our hot vorac-
ious hands.
One of the best parallels from
Vwhich to distil the essential fac-
tors, required to induce a con-
servation complex pin the public
mind is to be found in contemp-
orary experience with wild
animal hunting. The two, main
factors which produced a change
of heart were propaganda and
the camera.. Propaganda spread.
the news that the animals were
nearing extinction. The camera
enabled the hunter to bring
home proof of his prowess (prox-
imity) ably assisted by the tele-
photo lens. The hunter of today
has a neat portable case hold-
ing 500 transparencies instead
of 500 cumbersome heads such
as Teddy Roosevelt once brought
home from Africa, only 50 of
which were accepted by the
Smithsonian Museum for mount-
ing. • With a slide you can make
wild flowers bloom at any sea-
son of the year and the more
widely they are shown, th&keen-
er. some -member of the audi-
ence will become to start a col-
lection of his own.
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For the man who still wishes
to try to grow wildflowers in his
own garden, Mrs. Boucher in her
"Our Canadian Wildflowers" has
provided .h list of 27 plants
which can be purchased from
the trade. In the Lisle Arbore-
tum in, Illinois there are wild
flower trails where each flower
is identified; a form of fam-
iiier zati"on- whinh nightA e
copied in our Provincial Parks.
It would -seem that what is xigcl
ed forprupifgardh:1--i - -Weenie
ffeettve 4s for- a-l6the_ aethor
ities and interested societies, the
O.H.A., the Department of Lands
and Forests,_ the F.O-.N., the
`Press, the schools and -,Just but
not least the nature divisions
of the photographic societies to
accept some common obligatioh
to publicize the gospel of 'con-
servation.
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This is the fag -end of the
year. Winter has retreated as
stallenly as a 'rattlesnake • with,
an ulcer. Summer is as remote
as heaven. And the citizens of
Canada are at the end of their
tether.
In most northern countries,
winter ' is the bad time. The
Finns and the Swedes and the
Russians clo most of their suicid-
ing in the melancholy of the
long, dark months. Not Can-
adians. We are too busy curling
and going to meetings and
watching the hockey games on
television.
=i= * *
No, we get through the winter
famously. It's around the end
of March that Canadians begin
to brood, to draw in on them-
selves, to eye each other darkly.
About this time of year, though
an outsider would never suspect
it, most Canadians are as mad
as March hares.
At Port Franks, .the Ausable
Conservation Authority has
established a wild flower. sanc-
tuary—the W. Sherwood Fox
Sanctuary. As the title implies
it is a sanctuary and will not
be freely open to the public.
Such sanctuaries satisfy the
need'of 'science but they( cannot
be said to do much to persuade
the public to reverence the wild-
flower where it grows and it is
a gloomy prospectnndeed if this
is to be the only device by
which our successors are to be
enabled to enjoy pur native
plants. Wildflowers removed
from their natural surroundings
lose half their charm. We have
got to .discipline ourselves. The
thrill of discovery must suffice.
The head' hunter in us must
satisfy that urge by projecting
his slides. For by obliterating
other kinds of life, man may
well be destroying himself.
s * *
What's behind it all? First, it
must be remembered that we
have just come through a five -
months siege by a fierce, deter-
mined and implacable enemy.
We have fought gallantly and
well, but our nerves are frayed,
our bodies racked, and our
galoshes holed. Second, though
the siege is raised, and the
enemy has moved off, the relief
column is at least a month away.
• r-y'tarv-iiig- ut st feed on
something, and there's nothing
round to.,eattbut people..-
-'`fiat's the toughest truck job you can think of? wilding the
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Truck_`doing ,it. Because, this is the truck that's built for the tough
ones! Built to take a beating from men and nature — and come
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het e -at=e -141. i-ble-sconce.
our homes, as men and women
chew at each other and child-
ren -snap at their parents. In
offices, bosses snarl and secre-
taries weep. In schools, teach-
ers run amok and hurl them-
selves, head -first at blackboards.
:k * *
The March madness takes
many forms. Honest, upstanding
citizens spend hours crouched
over income tax forms, trying
to diddle the government. Elder,,
ly ladies stumble around their
backyards in rubber boots, peer-
ing'wildly at, the ruifs of last
year's herbaceous border.
* * •
Other men dri"•e far into the
coilntry and sit alone on a little
bridge, bitterly watching rain-
bow trn11t leaping up a little
waterfall. Other women dye
their hair mice. or start frantic-
ally painting their kitchens.
* **
There's nothing unusual about
all this. it's simply that the
residents of this country have
entered that miserable, wet,
cold, frustrating, dismal season
that delights in the name of
Spring, ° gladsome Spring. We
might as Well be honest about
it. Spring in this country is a
hideous nightmare that may last
from the end of March to the
middle of May.
=i= * qa
Because we are a people used
to Doing, rather than Thinking,
we find spring an excruciating
experience. There's nothing to
DO! Curling is about shot, and
it's too early for boating, gard-
ening, golfing or fishing. It's
tate mating 'sea son, presumably,
but everybody is so irritable it's
rather a waste.
In other springslIttv waiting
period, this spell of madness,
has resulted in near -tragedies
around our place. I have seen
myself pick up a coal shovel
and batter a harmless old fur-
nace with it until 1 dsopprd
from exhaustion. I have seen
my wife trembling with homi-
cidal intent on catching me
chipping pieces of coal with
my nine iron when I was sup-
posed to be cleaning up t the
basement:
*
In some 'countries spring may
be'a season for light hearts, for
love, for song and laughter and
dancing. But in the true north,
strong and freezing, it's a gray
time ef`_aiting� ,.ctf : despair, . of
Seed Identification q
For the benefit - of those of
the 77 recipients of seed opack-
ages at our last meeting who
did not catch the names of the
seeds, the contents were: One
large seed: Silver Bell Tree; two
spherical white seeds: White
Fruited Mountain Ash; long grey
seeds r_Epaulett-e.::Tree: -:,brawn,
beans: Yellow W-o-od--Tree;
orange seeds: Ettonymous de-
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OBITUARY
NELSON A. YED
'former resident of Gode-
rich oft Goderich Township,
Nelson A. Yeo died in a
hospital March 21; at the age
He had moved from Gode-
rich Toronto about 40
He is survived by a daughter,
Gets-ge Halligan, Toronto;
sister, Mrs. Minnie Turner,
ins, Washington, and se
v-
' in
mesville district,
Funeral services -were held
March 23 with interment in
Weston cemetery.'
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Mr. R. J. Hogan, of Chicago,
was at the Signal -Star Wednes-
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Mr. Hogan was at the Strat-
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ilar audit before coming to
Goderich. -From here, he went
to the daily newspaper at, Col=
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few months auditing the circul-
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Coast of the U.S.A.
These audits are made to
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their mailing lists.
the March mania.
as *
You can't have a light heart
when you have a heavy fuel bill.
defy anybody to fall in love
in-"Canalda in March. Your song
can't be heard above the he arl
of the wind." The only peorie
who, are laughing are being
taken away by the boys in he
white coats. And it's prey
a'wkwar,1 dancing when you're,
up to the knees in mud.
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Oh, I'm all right. I haven't
snapped yet. But my wife r" i
kids are looking rather sin; -'gr
these days. And some of any
neighbors are beginning; to a ,t
mighty peculiar. And don't tell
me that old lady who tried , o
push nye in front of a nick•, : t:g
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was completely sane. In the
spring everyone in this count v
except me • goes slightly mad,
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