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P. Scott showed pictures of the
Lions International Convention to
San Francisco, at the meeting of
Bayfield -Lions Club, held in the
Little Inn, Grant Turner is pres-
ident of the Bayfield Club.
80 candles lighted a lovely cake
for the birthday of Mrs. Helen
Dalrymple, when her family sur-
prised her with .a party on Nov-
ember 1.
Ted Mack purchased the former
Scotchmer Hardware in Bayfield,
and announced his intention of
changing the name to Bay-field
Hardware.
Editorial thought: What a man
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back with a - hinge in it.
The Board of Directors of
Baird's Cemetery Association
desire to announce that there will be a public
meeting of interested plot owners in the
ODDFELLOWS' HALL, BRUCEFIELD
Wednesday, November 13, 1957
at 8 o'clock p.m.
for the purpose of adding additional members
to •the Board of Directors.
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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 7,'^1957
THE CLINTON NEW ERA
11.
REMEMBRANCE
FOR SOME hours now, I have been thinking
hard thoughts about Remembrance Day. Edi-
torials are supposed to be objective, but how
can one be objective about Remembrance„ not
just the ceremony but the spirit of it? How
can one be objective when 104,000 Canadian war
dead turn restlessly in their graves because we,
the living, have lost, the true spirit of .Remem-
brance and 'are mocking their sacrifice?
Therefore, I would beg your indulgence for"
these personal observations on Remembrance.
Last Noveabber I stood at a war memorial,
feeling sick of heart, hypocritical and afraid.
We were dangerously close to a third world
war — perhaps the last, Even economically,
most of the nations involved had not recovered
from the last war. Yet there was much braVe
talk, many itchY trigger-flingers and an exceed-
ingly grave situation. •
Beyond the morning coats, the uniforms,
the wreaths and the -monument. I saw another
procession of men. I saw men like. nay father
at a place called Passchendaele. I've made a
point of learning to spell that name because
two- spuare miles of land cost us 16,404 casual-
ties ,there. And there were other places,.which
don't,,, even have a name, like the 3,000 yards
where'Canada suffered 24,029 casualties in mov-
ing some forgotten front 4,000 yards. That
works out to more than six casualties a yard.
I wondered how they were responding to
the nation's two-minute tribute.
After Dieppe, in 1942, I talked to a life-long
friend who led a platoon in the assault. Within
minutes of hitting the beach, he was cut doWn
and his platoon was almost completely wiped
out. He• was unconscious when somebody drag-
ged him to- a boat. After months in a hospital,
his speech ryas still labored and he suffered from
amnesia. But he was . one of the lucky ones.
They left 3,369 of their 5,000-man force on that
beach.
The engagement at Dieppe never did make
much sense. But last November, in the shadow
of a third war, it became as meaningless as
the storming of a caste in feudal -times.
Beyond the monument, 1 saw another life-
long friend. He had sat impatiently in England
for four years. He finally went into action an
D-Day, and was killed on D-.Day plus two.
YOUTH'S SACRIFICE
Then the long roll call of the dead rang in
my ears. As the faces returned, I was shocked
at their extreme youth. Every" year they get
younger. They were not men, not as 'years are
measured. In ten brief years, my eight year-old
INTROSPECTIVE
son will be the age of many of them.
What did they know about reasons for
dying? Most of them never had an opportunity
to learn why they were living. Yet they died
casting one lingering thought homeward, des-
perately believing in- the long hope that the-
reason lay somewhere back in Canada. '.liven if,
in- moments of bitterness, they blamed the war
on the failure of the preceeding generation,
hope that the future would be better died hard.
Those -who' lived until the spring of. - 1945
saw that hope being embalmed. But within
a few months they were- civilians. And some-
how it didn't matter, They were able to shove
their sense of •frtistration and guilt further back
4 into the recesses' of their minds, They grew
older, they grew selfish and they grew afraid.
I am one of them, one of the little men who
now stand before the Monuments to big men:
We place a wreath and try to hide our guilt in
a noble, solemn bearing. Unable to meet their
eyes; we try to rationalize and call as witness
our gross national product. It's the highest in
our history. Is this not a worthy ti3it of your
sacrifice, we ask? Beyond this, we have noth-
ing to offer. We have produced little with the
Peace which they bought with their lives.
• OUR COMPROMISE 00
We derive a smug satisfaction in the belief
that we are a moral nation. Yet we sell arms
to two opposing sides 'in a conflict. The fact
that the quantities were not great has nothing
to do with ouur moral principles. It simply is an
indication that we didn't have much to sell.
We have accepted the term "political
suicide" as a natural obstacle to doing what one
believes is right. Although a course of action
may be the right one, we condone its not being
taken because it will meet with some unpopular.
ity. Is this not a manifestation of personal and
group selfishness? Regardless of political party;
regardless of the leVel of government; is not
this pre-acceptance of loathsome compromises
eating at the very fabric of what we are 'sup-
posed to be grateful for at Remembrance cere-
monies?
The dead made no compromises.
Is there less prejudice today than there was
in 1939? Or have we merely learned to live 'with
it? Is a man accepted as an individual as he was
in action? Or has he become a Jew, a French-
Canadian or a "maudit Anglais" again?
It is indeed difficult to be objective about the
spirit of Remembrance.—(Contribbted by the
Public Relations Branch of the Dominion Com-
mand, Canadian 'Legion, B.E.S.L.)
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CLINTON NEWS-RECORD
Clinton ews- cord
From Our Early Files
40 Years Ago
Clinton New Era
Thursday, November 8, 1917
Canvassers for raising Huron's
share of the Victory War Loan
have been appointed. In Hullett
and Clinton, W, Brydone, John
Torrance, D. L. McPherson, Sam-
uel McCool and John Fingland.
'Council of the town of Clinton
was threatened with, an injunction
by John Connell, farmer, whose
complaint was the continued use
of the Mary Street drain by house-
holders living along it, to carry off
their sewage. Letters to and from
lawyers, and contact with the De-
partment of Health • had been
made,
All Liberals are invited to 'a
meeting, in the Liberal Club Room,
when Thomas McMillan, Liberal
Candidate will present an address.
Voters lists in Ontario were for
the first time showing the names
of females.
The Gunn-Langlois and Co. Lim-
ited was offering to buy all proper-
ly finished millc-fecl chickens over
5 lbs. each. N. W. Trewartha is
manager of the firm.
A. J. Holloway got a car of
chestnut and one of stove coal dur-
ing the• past week, and it lasted
about as long as a snowball in
South Africa. Even then there
are hundreds of empty coal bins in
town.
Quarterly salaries paid by town
council were: clerk, $112.50; chief
of police, $112.50; night constable,
$100.
25 Years Ago
- Clinton News-Record
Thursday, November 10, 1932
A. feature, article in the Mail
and Empire showed- pictures of
Trick's Mill, inherited by Mr. Trick
and his brother from their father,
the late Thos, Trick. It is des-
cribed as an "80-year-old mill still
serving the countryside, Pictures
were taken by James B. Lobb,
Clinton.
The Legion church parade was
to St. Joseph's church on. Sunday
morning last, with the Kiltie Band
heading the parade; Comrade A.
Inkley in charge of the parade and
start calling•myself names. Mild-
est of them' are such terms as
"lazy procrastinating idiot." That
makes two of us. My wife starts
calling me worse than that about
two weeks earlier. Why? Be-
cause the cold weather is here, and
I haven't stirred a stuna to get
ready for it. * * *
Sunday morning, I took a look
out the front window. There was
small daughter, bundled to the
ears, rolling herself a snowman.
I looked out the back Window.
There was small son breaking the
ice on the rubber swimrningpool,
which has been sitting there, full
of water, since June.
* * * *
It happens every year, and every
year as I climb the ladder with a
vast, unwieldy storm window clut-
ched in my purple little hands, I
swear a solemn oath along with a
number of profane ones, that next
year I'll do the necessaries in
August, and greet the first cold
wave with airy disain. .
It isn't that I simply ignore the
whole situation, No indeed. As
I stride out the door on a warm
afternoon in September, with my
golf clubs, I realize that the cellar
is half full of ashes, the pipes are
pregnant with soot, and the storm
windows are buried under a baby-
carriage, assorted bedsprings, a
„roll of siding and various boxes
and baskets fullof various things,
in the back shed, * *
For a moment, it casts a pall
over my sunny countenance. But,
like a man who has a bad tooth
and knows he's got to visit the
dentist soon, I cheer up and think:
"Oh, -well, lift is short. Maybe I'll
be hit -by a truck before I have to
do something about it," That's
what is known as a mature phil-
osophy, and- it takes years to ac-
quire it.
* 01'
I did make one honest effort this
Year. Briek about October 1st, I
determined to hurl myself into the
breach, regardless of cost, and get
things- squared around. In other
words, my wife said: "When are
you going to get a fire on?" I
went down and took a leek at the
furnace. It was full of ashes and
Unburned- coal.
Morgan Agnew sounding last post
and reveille, This was the first
time the veterans ban attended
this church in a body. Rev. Maur-
ice N, Sullivan discoursed on the
fundamental beliefs of the Catho-
lic Church.
Sherlock-Manning Company ap-
pealed their assessment on the
grounds it was too high consider-
ing the position of industry at the
time. Taxes were reduced some
$250;, Mayor Trewartha, Council-
lors Cook, Churchill, Langford and
Paisley and Assessor Rorke con-
stituted the court.
A note in the early files: In
1892 Miss M. Engler has been en-
gaged to teach at SS 9, Goder-
ich Township for the salary of
$280.
A carload: of fruit and vegetables
Huron County left on Tuesday for
relief distribution at Kincaid, Sask.
Over 200 barrels of apples were in
the shipment, as well as beans,
carrots, beets, turnips, onions, hon-
ey, maple syrup, cabbages, pun ip-
kins and walnuts. It is' proposed
to ship another car within three
weeks.
Douglas Ball who has been in
Peru for the past three years, ar-
rived home on Saturday for a
leave of absence,
10 Years Ago
Clinton News-Record
Thursday, November 6, 1917
Jane Hartley, Olive Petrie and
Joyce Hawkins contributed guitar
and banjo trios at the meeting of
Clinton Lions Club when W. L.
Whyte, Seaforth, told of exper-
iences at the Lions. International,
Convention in San Francisco, in
July,
John Brampton and W. G. Ross,
both of near Londesboro, are in
hospital suffering frem injuries
received when working with trac-
tors.
W. S. R. Holmes; Past Worship-
ful Master of the Murphy Lodge
LOL No. 710 introduced the guest
speaker at the anniversary of Guy
Fawkes Day held in Ontario Street
United Church hall.
G. Allen Betties, Bayfield, was
elected president of Huron County
Holstein Breeders Club. Past
president is William Sparks.
coal and ashes fell into the bottom.
The grates had rusted right
through in the dripping, dungeon-
dike of my ""recre-
ation room," I gave the whole
mess one dirty look, callecl it one
dirty name, went straight uptown
and purchased a second-hand space
heater, and haven't been- back
down there since. *
In the weeks.since that day, my
family has sat huddled in the
diningream, the only place the oil
heater would go, with the rest of
mark jovially that it's certainly
nice to have some heat to take the
chill off, and talk about how cold
and damp it was in England dur-
ing the war.
What I do each year, of course,
is sit around waiting for a miracle
to happen. When it doesn't, and
everybody's nose is at the right
shade of -blue, I go berserk for a
day, wrestle with dirty pipes, tot-
ter precariously with storm win-
dows, hammer on weather-strip.-
ping in a blizzard, and emerge
bleeding, swearing, filthy, but tri-
umphant, the furnace on and the
Old Girl silenced.
* *
This year, I haven't succumbed
yet. The- leaves, half-raked, lay
under the first snowfall, Tatters
of last winter's weather-strip--
ping wave from the windows. The
furnace sits, cold and choked with
damp ashes, like an almost ex-
tinct monster lurking in the depths
of a -bog. With lots of extra
blankets at night, and going vis-
iting as often as pos,sible, we've
.pulled through this far
But I'm at the end of 'my rope.
Monday morning, Kim, who gets
up at daylight, and lies around
on the floor colouring wth cray-
ons, in her bare feet, came and
jumped into bed with us about
7,30. She put one icy little foot in
the small of my back. I jumped so
far I Slipped a disc, *
'This weekend, the Boss is going
to be away. When she gets home,
I'm going to have a dandy fire go-
ing in the furnace, every storm.
Windaw snugly in plate, and the
winter's fuel in, That is, of course,
Unless somebody drops around Sat-
urday afternoon and wants Me to
go partridge hunting. .
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 1957
SUGAR and SPICE °
(By W. (Bill) B. T. Smiley)
Every fall about this time, I I gave it a shake, and grates,
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CHANGE OF OWNERSHIP
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