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HomeMy WebLinkAboutClinton News-Record, 1957-04-04, Page 2AM TWO Clinton News -Record 9 THE ,CLINTON NEW ERS, ( 5) THE CLII NNEWS-RECORD (18$i) .Amalgamated 1924. OLIN ON NM/S.11E00= THUZ$SDA ., APRIL 4, IST ll,'1?B ASH D EVERY T 'c7>d, PAY AT (71 INTON,. ONTARIO., INT 1 7 EA i,T RF HOR4 N COUNT` Population --- 2,865 (19Ci CenowA of Cicada)I SUBSCK> ON R4T $ ray Ole in advance --Canada .and Creat Britain: $3,00 a year; United iStetes and Foreign; $4,00; Single Copies Seven: Cents Authorized es second glass mail, Post Office Departrrient, Ottawa THURSDAY, APRIL 4, 1957 THIS ELECTION YEAR THERE, ARE those who would argue that politicians do net change their tootles the few Months before an election. There are some who ;consider all politicians are statesmen, and that they are working for the good of the country, and if they are Members .of Farliaxnent, then they are little tin ;gods. But ere'U wager that there has been many a conference in Parliament Hill during the last several months, just getting things straight about what best, to say concerning the budget, `the famed Canada Council, the (sh=ph-enh) pipe. 'line, the Suez situation, and many others. After all, these men whom we send down to Oetawa, •arid to Toronto, too, are just humans like the rest of us, They're doing their best to work for Canada. .However, they are firmly convinced that the best way to a do a job for Canada, is to stay in parliament, and so their job comes first amOng all other considerations. WHY NOT CO 7r r RATHER think thatthis idea must have gone through the heads of a great number of people in Clinton ,through'out the lastfew days, After all, why not have a rural Commurdty Chest? Why not lump all the demands for mon- ey together into one big request, and have a cam- paign in April (it seems to be a popular month) and then forget about the major charities the rest of the year? Just loon about you, Last month was Red Cross month, and househgiders Were asked to give out with a cash donation, This month is Cancer month, and we'll all be asked for money for that. From now untilE'aster will be Easter .44.444444444.44.43.444 The weeks before an election ca' be~mad, wild dayss of speculation, of mud -slinging and. foolish slogans. Remember the ;horse on the payroll at Petawawa? That was years ago, but, though it has joined history, along with Pickers- gill's babies, and the foolish talk of St, Lau1'eiht's son over a year ago, it also serves as an example of the strange things which are talked about prior to elections. Catchy, gossipy stories such as this catch at the imagination and the general reading public is intrigued that people in high places can be derided in press, radio and at their work, Though such stories 'gain attention for the election cam- paigners, they also tend to obscure the main issues for which the thinking men of all parties should be battling. To us, the main issue at stake in this sun?- mer's, election is the very idea of democracy it- self. It is the basic idea of government by the people. MMUNITY CHEST? Seals campaign for crippled children, and heaven knows that the need of these poor kids Is great. We have no quarrel with any of these re- quests for money, • They are all worthy, and the money raised in each of these ways is given by charitable, and kind and gracious people, But sometimes we wonder if the one request, where- in all .charity donations Could be lumped into ane cheque might be preferable. This method would then leave the ordinary person free from the continual; requests, and when some local campaign, such as a swimming pool fund drive, or a community arena. fund drive, or like projects came along, they would not be considered a bother at all, NOT A PHENOMENON BRUCE HUTCHINSON SEES the corning election campaign to be , clearly based upon whether or not the people can recognize inflation ••" and. its outcome, and whether or not they • vote for men who are fighting it, or men ,who are , encouraging it. "Inflation," he says, "is much more than an economic phenomenon. It is an attempt by a society to live perpetually beyond its means, to ' fool itself, to break the convexiants between hon- est men to violate the state's financial contracts with its citizens, to repay debts iri, devalued money and make fraud a public policy. "Such a society may seem to raise its living; standards for the time being, as any man feels better after a few drinks, but it is on the skids. see e "Yet that•;;precisely� is what various Canal-e� , ians are now advocating, conscious' or uncon- sciotisly, on the assumption that a big inflation is bad but a little one excusable, "You cannot have for long a controlled and harmless inflation, once that process is know and accepted as a state . polity or regarded as inevitable. As soon as the public knows that in- flation, however inocuous looking, is here to stay it will rush out and buy goads before the next .price' rise and make the rise certain," WHAT GOES' UP . * (Financial Post) • TIS RCIDNT decline in hog prices from previous lofty levels was mainly due to a snow-' balling of consumer resistance, according to the Meat Packers Council. With other meats and poultry more attractively priced, the housenvife switched to them. "When any species of meat begins to en- counter serious consumer resistance because of its price, there is only one answer: 'prices have to come .down. Unfortunately demand for a product cannot be turned on and off like a tap. Once the housewife is steered away from one produht because of price it always takes a while to win . her back, even after prices are brought back into line." There's a fundamental lessonin sound mer- chandising here.. It doesn't make much differ- ence what is being. offered. It may be pork, but-. ter, dresses, cars, stocks or bonds. If the con- sumer decides the price is getting too high, then he or she will switch to something else. RACKET TIME IS IN THE OFFING (Meaford Express) NOW THAT Spring's just around the corner, the get -rich -fast boys and girls will be spreading but to the smaller communities in the province. You, may be sure that they'll have a rainbow tinted story on how they can save or inake mon- ey for you. It may be a girl or "supposed -to -be" veteran selling a magazine. It may be a reputed law officer selling, a police booklet. It may be some- one selling fancy chimneys, siding, fire -places or insulation for ybur home. It may be the photo- grapher, who will do a picture ofthe children or emerge and frame one of some departed dear one. The touch, and that's what it is, may come• in many ways You may be sure of flattery and the fact that you'll save money galore. There's only one thing to rememiber and that IS no one can sell goods esr service without a pro- fit and t'h.t the best mat to do it for you is your local, tradesman, supply house or merchant. 'T'hey are prepared to back goods and service with a dependable guarantee. BE STRONG 13e Strong! . We are not here to play—to dream,. to drift, We have hard work to do and loads to lift Shun not the strugggle :face it; 'tis God's gift Be Strong! Say not the days ale evil. Who's to blame? And fold the hands and acquiesce --O shame! Stand up, speak out, and bravely, in God's name. Be Strong! • It matters not how deep entrenched the wrong, How hard the battle goes, the day how long;;. Faint not—fight on! Tomorrow comes the song, - 4/Ialtbie D, Babcock Huron County Crop Report (By A. S. BOLTON, assistant ag. rleditUral representative for Huron 'County) "During the past week the ground has dried sufficiently to allow' fanr ere in the south end el the County to 'start .spring plow'. ing, and tete dressing . of wheat and hay and pasture.- If favour- able weather continues seeding could start within: a Week. "Wheat and legume crops ap- pear to have wintered reasonably well bttt'some could no doubt ben- efit enefit fr'oiit an addition of esenionitutt nitrate within the next coupe of weeks. Although there has bon a strong demand far Garry oats the supply of seed is expected to Meet the demands. Brant Barley it very acarce and has reached a price of $3,35 pere bushel for reg. istered seed. "An eictrenrely good run of map- le sap has 'beers reported during the past Week. Aerording to vete it Wag the best run Of sap inthe past five years." CORRtECTION iPI+EAS} In the article next to Letters to the Editor colt= last. week, it was noted that Mrs. Wilhant 1?iek• Ott's aunt, Mary leithardsen, mar- ried Mi Disney, the father of Walt Dittsey, now, of I<l bilywood. This should have read, "grand, father et the Weenie Walt Disney," That's Gratitude? One publisher whose experience in the advertising line hasn't been altogether successful says: "Menet newspaper pian has to yell himself hoarse trying to per- suede people to ,patronize home merchants and then ateldentaily stumbles brit() the faet that some, of the fellows he is trying to pro- tect is sending away for their jab printing br using printed matter sent out byy patent r,oncerxts, it rather shakes his faith hi Man- kind and makes reel rocity look k like a dime with a hole in it, From Our Early Files '0AIRS AGO Clintcg News -Record T. i5ursciay, APra d, 1.011 lvirs., Hari' fair, Toronto, is vis- ,ting her sister, Mrs, W. H, Hell. yar. The Doherty Piano Company, for over a quarter of a century the chief Industry of Clinton', has re- organized and the thew company will be itnown as "Doherty Pianos Limited" The re- organization meeting was held on Tuesday when the following officers were Appoin- ted: president, W, Jackson; vice- president, H, R. Sharpe; secertary, G, H. Ivey, London; directors, the, same 'three, Mr, and Mrs,. William Rabb, are spending Eastertide with • their son at Clifford.. • Clinton New Era, • Tihersdey, April 5, 1.917 Mrs. Mcc arva and Miss. Wallace returned last Thursday after spen- ding the winter at Paisley. Mr. J, B, Lindsay is spending the Easter holidays with her daughter, Mrs, W..S. lsiliott, Tor- onto. C. McKinnon, of Chicago Univ. ersity, a :former classical master Of COI is in town for the vacation, William Path, Kirk Street, is not in as good bealth as his many friends would like to. see, Miss Bertha Armstrong, sels, is the guest of Miss Bozell, Charles J, Keller, formerly org- anist of Willis Church here, is now organist at Trinity Method- ist Church at Stratford. Brus- Annie 4 • 25 YEARS AGO Clinton News -Record Thursday, April 7, 1932 The newsreef the death of Mayor S. S. Cooper on Tuesday came as a shock to most citizens, for while it was known that he was in very poor health, the seriousness of his condition was not ;gener' ally known. Mr; Cooper was serving his seqond term as Mayor at the time of This death, The town council meet on Mon- day and 'fixed the tax rate at 486 mills, a reduction of 4' mnilW• Council will look into the matter' of street improvement, Mrs. C, E. Demean .and Miss Mary R. Stewart, assisted in the =sleet part of the anniversary services. et North Street United Church, Goderiee, Howard Clark has returned from; his. business trip to. the northern part of the province, Mr. and .Mrs, R, Currie ' have moved back to town, taking the cottage at the corner of Joseph and Orange streets. 10 ,YEARS ,AGO Clinton News -Record 'Thursday, April 3, 1947 Murphy. Bros., local garage Pro- prietors, have purchased the new building and property from J. 0, Proctor, located at the southeast corner of Huron and Orange Streets. A. highly esteemed Clinton coups le,, Mr. and Mrs, William. John Nediger, celebrated their golden wedding anniversary at a family reunion in Goderich on Sunday, Ald. -Melvin Crich yesterday completed the purchase of the stucco cottage on Mill Street own-' ed 'by Wilfred Potter, Goderich Lauzon Flyers are still in there battling for the O. Junior "C" championship, the only hockey team from this part of the province left in any playdown. Londes'boro again was snow- bound for a few days last week. Highway 4 was blocked from Tues- day to Thursday and the villagers were again without mail for three days, Fire completely destroyed the brooder house and the four -week- old chickens of ' Donald Sprung one night recently, SUGAR and SPICE (By W. (Bill) 1 see where the government is thinking of letting municipalities fluoridate their drinking water, if they so wish, As I was present when the anti-flouridation forces received'il^r „ death, blow, I thought yo might like to hear` about it, . • * For years.„there have been two violent factions involved in this fluoridation business. Each has ac- cused the other of fanaticism, ho- micidal mania, and the like. In my qwn unsolicited opinion, both sides are riddled by crackpots and self- apponted do-gooders. * * * Personally, I lean slightly to- ward the anti-,flouridation side, for no logical reason except that I'm tired of people telling me cigar- ettes are riddling my lungs with cancer, alcohol is shrivelling my liver to a sad little sac, and my skull is beginning to show on top because I don't brush my hair a hundred strokes morning and night, a: a+ T feel the same way about my teeth as I do about my lungs, liver and scalp. If I want to let them rot, that's :Cray business. I know, I' know, what about my children's teeth? Well, if they want to let them rot, that's their business, too. They've been told often enough that they wouldn't have a tooth left in their heads if they didn't stop eating candy. Their Meted, late reaction is an interested look, 'then they start making faces at each ether,' pretending they have no teeth, then they ask for a nickel to get- some candy; so. their teeth will fall out as soon as possible. Somehow I don't think our chil- dren will add anything special to. the culture' of the ages just be- cause they can all go around flash- ing a big mouthful of perfedt teeth at each other, twenty years from now. I refjise to believe that, be- cause they will have choppers that can snap through • a steel bar, they'll enjoy their meals any more, or be more intelligent, honest, or brave. However, I drift. The anti. fluoridation group committed harm kari in the Legislature last week, with a Mr. Grossman, 1V/LA. for a Toronto riding, wielding honour- able knife. T was visiting the local member,. and he had fisted me Up With a seat in the gallery, to hear the debates. He Was poised on the edge, of his seat, ready to Leap up with a piercing question that Would• skewer a cabinet minister. I was sitting on the edge a my seat, pencil poised, ready to take hate some of the Clash and din, the cut and thrust; of parliamentary de- bate, to the readers • in the home riding. t 1s, f'eilaw party members were on the edges of their seats, ready to applaud hien to the rat- ters. * ..* So Mr. Orossmatt draftily sought, and get the perniisslon of the Speaker, and the forebearance oi? B. T. Smiley) the Members:, while he spoke a few words on fluoridation. That was fine, •I was rather interested, it would only take a few minutes and then the fireworks would be- gin.. , * * :,I, n The Bible Today Ghana, a newly hcirn independ- ent and self-governing pountry within the British Commonwealth of Nations has a well .established Christian Church, The total mem- bership is around 4,()Q,00Q out of a total population .of just ever 4,000,000, The whole Bible has been 'trans- lated into fear main languages of. the -country. These are we Fante, Ga, and Twi. Gospel por- tions only have been published in Dagbane spoken in the Northern Territories, , S'eripture distribu- tion is mainly through Christian bookshops although work of trans- lation and ,publication is still done by the British and Foreign Bible Society. The first copy of the Scriptures to reach Ghana, formerly known as the Gold Coast, was probably taken the by an African school- teacher coming from Free Town Sierra Leone, This man, Joseph Smith, arrived to open a govern- ment school for the training of trading company clerks. Mr, Mr. Grossman was against fluor- idation of drinking water, Oh, how he was against it! He was against it for one hour and forty minutes. He was against it through stages of sweet .reasonableness, throbbing sincerity, defiant martyrdom, sol- emn warning and, in his perora- tion, flaming heroism as he stood on the ramparts of the rights of man and hurled back the barbarian hordes who wanted to add one part of fluoride to one million parts of water. a: * * * He paused only to take trium- phant gulps of =fluoridated wat- er. His fellow -members listened in progressive stages of polite disin- terest, crashing boredom, utter hopelessness, and writhing rage as he plodded through innumerable articles and editorials,, reading them verbatim. He read well. * * * ,I By the time he neared the end, the Assembly bore some similarity to Union Station, what with the pageboys dashing about like- red- caps, as they fetched water and daily papers, the Members slump- ed in their seats like soldiers try- ing to sleep between trains, other Members wandering in.. andout of the lavatories, or for a smoke, and Mr. Grossman bellowing data with the monotony of a stationmaster calling the stops of the 4.35 train. * * * * Mr, Grossman meant well. He was sincere. He had gone to a lot of trouble :getting all that stuff together. He should have gone to the movies instead. * * * * He finally stopped beating a dead horse, and ended with a fer- vent appeal for support, something along the line of throwing the torch from faltering hands, be yours to hold it high. The torch, practically in midair, turned into a ,boomerang, * * * * MLA Harold FFishleigh, who de- lights in being termed "Irrepres- sible" by the press, rose and said that hi his office rour people were for fluoridation, four against, and those who were for it till had faise teeth, * * "What," snapped the exhausted -Mr, Grossntar, "does that prove?" Undaunted by the fact that he had ns. answer, Mr. 'Fishleigb resorted to a retort Worthy of a witty nine- year -gold. ",lt proven that you're all wet," at which brilliant sally the House broke into a gale of heighten showing how debilitated Was its natural discernnieiit, throw ugh sheer weariness. * * * * And that's the inside story a how the atvtiefluoridation cause had its back broken in the Legis; lotion. Anil, if sonieoiie will just ptzt a drop of, something, and I don't Mean fluoride, in my water,. t wilt gladly ohange the subject. Smith read the Bible to his stud- ents regularly, One of Smith's pupils was Per, plexed by some of the Scripture- truths cripturetruths read in private study, He asked a British sailor, aCaptain Potter, to carry a request to Eng - ,land for more copies of the leible and someone to .explain its mes-. sage, On January 7; 185, Joseph R, I?unwell, the first of a. heroic band of missionaries,, landed at Cape Coast. His death, due to the rig- ours of the climate, occurred with- in six months of that date, His arduous work however, resulted 3n the establishment of Bible teach- iilg and translation, The name Ghana is a curious term with which to designate the new eountry. It was the narne of an obscure town, Its exact :rite is now unknown, but it was Pro- bably almost 1000 miles from modern ,Accra. 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