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Colborne Chronicle Established in 1959; Successor to the Colborne Express, (Est. 1366) and the Colborne Enterprise, (Est. 1886) Published every Thursday at the office of publication, King Street, Phone 44, Colborne, Ontario WILLIAM T. HARRISON -- Editor and Manager Member of the Canadian Weekly Newspaper Assoc. Member of the Ontario Weekly Newspaper Assoc. Subscriptions Payable In Advance In Canada $3.00 In U.S.A. $4.00 (Authorized as Second Class mail, Post Office Dept., Ottawa) 1 Sugar and Spice > By Bill Smiley < My, but the city has become a wild, wicked place, since I lived here as a student, twenty odd years ago. In those days, it was considered a lost week-end if you had a few beers in the King Cole Room. Once in while, we had a Dionysian revel in the men's residence, when were allowed to have girls in, a Sunday afternoon, and give them cocoa and raisin bread, the common room. But those days of innocence and virtue have vanished. Don't talk to me about the stews of Alexandria, the bordellos of the Left Bank in Paris or the French Quarter of New Orleans. Your words would fall on the indifferent ears of a man who has just emerged from a week-end of unbelievable debauchery The City. Canadians need longer hang their heads in shame when the talk turns to depravity. We're loaded. I know I shouldn't have done it. It'sgoing to be hard to face my wife and children. But you know how it is when you'i the dangerous age. Suddenly something just seems to snap and you're off on a crazy wing-ding. I'd stayed in The City on the week-end to study for the exams coming up. My intentions were as pure as those of a divinity student. But, oh dear, it was warm, soft summer evening and I was lonely all of a sudden, and Psychology in Education seemed a book of monstrous size and dreadful dreariness. So I had one of my famous little chats with myself: "You have to out to eat anyway. A change is good as a rest. You'll go queer cooped up in here. You study later." As usual, I the argument. l» Next thing I knew, I was strolling happily up Philosopher's Walk, enjoying the sights and sounds, The lovers lying the grass, nose to nose; the old lady bawling hell out of a black squirrel because he wouldn't as anything. Why, they said things I wouldn't even say to my own wife. But it wasn't until I left the movie that I was sucked into the real whirlpool of vice, sin, mope and gawkery that has turned The City into the Sodom, to say nothing of Gormorrah, of our time. The first thing I walked past, for example, was a place with people eating outside. There they were, sitting at tables right beside the sidewalk, eating away just as though they were foreigners and had no morals at all. Just a few doors down, caught up by who knows what mad impulse, I turned into a . . . I'm sorry, I can't go on. When I remember that I was once president of the Young Men's Bible Class of our church, I feel a wave of something going over me. Besides, I've run out of space. I may be able to tell all, to relate the remainder of that dreadful night. But it will have to be in next week's issue. Watch for it -- the simple, but affecting story of one small-town chap's descent into the pit tttat is The City after hours. Hustlers Auxiliary The September meeting of the Hustlers' Auxiliary was held at the cottage of Viola Teal at Little Lake on September 6th, 1961. President Frances opened llie meeting with a poem. The W.A. Theme was sung and Frances welcomed everyone present. The minutes were read and approved. It was moved by Kate Thompson and seconded by Doris Cook that Lorna Campbell be acting Secretary until the end of the year. come out of the tree and get his peanuts; the bum stretched out, overcoat on, but his feet bared to the evening sun. I thought I'd eat at a ne place, just opened. It boasted Just right for my budget. It had ) cent buffet, all you can eat Gay Nineties decor. I ordered beer and nursed it through the entertainment -- a fellow playing a honky-tonk piano and a gal belting out some oldtime songs. I loaded my plate at the buffet, chuckling at the way I was beating the management. For one beer and 50 cents, I was getting the whole show. An evening on the town for maybe 85 cents. The waiter brought the bill. Food--50c; beer--70c. What they lose on the bananas they make up on the pineapples. The waiter was a big, robust dead-ringer for John L: Sullivan. I tipped him a quarter. Disgruntled but dignified, I walked out, ready to head back to the books and brood on the treachery of mankind. But, Monday's lunch money already shot, I was caught up in that wild, devil-may-care frame of mind familiar to the crap-shooter who has lost half his pay-check the way home. Either you try to get it back, or you go home, Throwing family ties and moral principles out the window, I walked right around the corner and went to a bad movie, the one that had "shocked the City," according to the ads. I got the first shock when I produced my 75 cents to get in. "It's a dollar and a half," sneered the young lady. Well, you know how it is. You don't want to look like a hick. So, muttering "There goes Tuesday's dinner" through clenched teeth, I paid. I suspected I was in a pretty avant-garde place the minute I went in, because people smoking, right and left, in their seats. And I was sure of it, when some of the characters ii the film swore,- right out, clear f| SEPTEMBER U POPULAR TIME FOR WEDDINGS so Come In and See our Display of CHINA, CRYSTAL. SILVERWARE COPPER and many other gifts E. M. RIMMER Phone 349 Your Local Jeweller Colborne The Honourable Matthew B. Dy-mond, M.D., CM., Minister of Health for the Province of Ontario is to officially open the new $800,000 extension to the Trenton Memorial Hospital in a ceremony on the hospital property starting at 2.30 p.m., Sunday, September 17th. COLBORNE ROTARY The medical profession was well represented at Monday evening'^ meeting of the Rotary Club. There were eight visitors, four of whom were doctors. They were Dr. Garry Cormack, guest speaker; Dr. Bill Wade, Tom Grimshaw and Russ Manning, of Cobourg; Dr. Pember Bernard Fo.x and Mr. Gibson and his son, Dr. Gibson, who have recently set up residence in Ccl-borne. Dr. Gibson is with the R.C.A.F., Trenton. Ably introduced by Dr. Wade, the speaker Dr. Cormack, psychiatrist, launched into most interesting, absorbing talk on the history, past, present, and future, of psychiatry, explaining the misconceptions of the past and new vistas opening to the practice of this, to the layman, not too well-understood subject. The speaker was thanked by Alf Smith. George Moore president, hopes to be able to attend the next meeting, and we had the great pleasure of welcoming Bill Smithers back to the Club, after illness. PERSONALS Mr. and Mrs. Earl Thompson attended the wedding of their new niece and nephew, Bell Thompson at Beaurepaire, Montreal, on Saturday afternoon, returning late Sunday. Mrs. G. Corbyn visited Miss Marion McLean of Cornwall over the week-end and Mr. and On Monday, September 11th, afternoon and evening, Mrs. Albert Smith gave a Tea in honour of her cousin, Mrs. Wm. Hines, (nee Beverly LoWe). Mrs. J. Blackhall poured tea, Mrs. Walter Harnden served the afternoon and Mrs. C. R. Coyle in the evening. you notes were read and business discussed. Betty Beamish led the programme. Hymn 11 was sung and the Scripture, Psalm 46 was read by Margo Pacey. A meditation called "Mending Our Fences", was read by Leita Rowsome, followed by prayer. A reading, "A Spotty Story", was given by Lillian Mutton. Kate Thompson gave a topic on Labouring. Kate spoke of how Jesus laboured as a carpenter yet preached and went about His Father's business. So must we. Doris Cook gave a readi n.g, "Better Scale of Values". Ella Philp closed the programme with prayer. Eunice Smith conducted a contest won by Agnes Baxter. President Frances thanked the hostess, Viola Teal and Kate Thompson and group for the programme and Viola Ferguson and group for the lunch. You'll never be popular if you spend all your time taking advantage of your right of free speech. BELL LINES By S. Ross VanDusen your telephone Now, here's an entertainment treat for the whole family! On October 2, 9.30 to 11.00 p.m., the Trans-Canada , Telephone System will present it's first 1961-62 television program -- an , all-Canadian production by CBC-TV of Tyrone Guthrie's 1961 Stratford Festival presentation of "The Pirates of Penzance," Gilbert and Sullivan's gay comic opera about Major General Stanley's beautiful daughters and their adventures with the pirates. The show, which will have the original Stratford cast, has been skillfully adapted for television by CBC-TV. This will be the first of several shows that will be presented during the coming season by the Trans-Canada Telephone System of which The Bell Telephone Company of Canada is a member. So make a note of the time and date; you won't want to miss this excellent show. During September a lot of young people will be leaving home for college or boarding school. For some it will be the first time. When youngsters are away from their families they are bound to become a little homesick. This is when a word from the folks back home means so much. And, of course, what better way to keep in touch than by telephone. Lots of folks set a regular time for calling and keeping up on the news. And more often than not, this time is on a Sunday or weekdays after six p.m. when rates are low. If a member of your family is away from home, keep in touch by long distance. You'll find it's quick, it's personal and it's the next best thing to being there. Here's an important thought for September. This is the month when the streets about town are alive with youngsters starting back to school. Some of them are very young and not always alert to passing automobiles. Most of us have little ones who are near and dear to us; let us think of them as we drive through the streets of our town.