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A, L. ColophOun, Publisher
THEeCILINIUNT NEW.SaRECORD
.Anielgemat.ed 1924
published every Thursday at the Heart of iffuron Coelety
Clinten, 9114r10 - RaPOlation 2,992
THURSDAY, MARCH 27, 19:58
aft
Wilma. A. Rbwia
....The setting of the federal election at the •
,end of this month is almost complete, After
enany opportunities to hear of and read about the
*latfornis of our candidates, and those leaders
of the four main parties, we have the respensib-
ility of deciding which one we will support.
-Then we must make sure that on Monday, March
31, we get to the polls and vote for that choice.
Not long ago, a prominenit_ lawYer, who
was disappointed with the choice his party had
:made for a candidate, said that rathee than sup-
:port his party's candidate be - would not vote
on. election day. Obviously, if many Canadians
lheld this attitude, derriocracy would be a very
*ail vehicle.
Devotion to political party must never
'be so firm that its followers cannot turn against
it if they feel its choice of candidate or its
choice of policy is wrong.
The reason we believe in free elections
is not because we must stand by a particular
Marty through thick and thin, but rather so we
In the %went arguments in various
-parts of Canada over . whether governments
should impose marketing regulations in farm
produce, the following quotation from. the En-
cyclopedia Eritannica's article on Spain is use-
ful reading. There may even be a few people •
left around who believe in price control; the
article will do them good too. Then there are
those who still think that government is useful,
an be a help; this passage of history hould
scare- them:
-"Encouragement of industry was not want-
ing; the state undertook to develop the herds of
,.merino- sheep, by issuing prohibitions against
Well, we managed to make an error last
week in our deductions concerning what the
increase anriiainced by the Hog Producers Mark-
eating really meant to the farmer. We
said that It meant an increase of-16 cents Per
:hog marketed.
This was wrong.
The increase apparently is closer to 11
reents per hog:
Previously the costs to farmers was 24
:cents per hog, plus a 20 cent per* statement,
. pro-rating charge.. This last charge averaged
can vote for the party and. individual we think
is 'bestequipped to govern. our nation.
Laet year in the federal election there
was about 85 percent of the _eligible voters in
Buren ridingyvent to the polls, This was con'sid-
erab'ly better than in the rest of Canada, where
the .average turnout was 70 to $0 percent,
That' other 15 percent, which failed to
vote, fail to recognize their responsibility in our
society. They fail to, see that their opinion is
mighty important in, the final tabulation of the
vote, In many constituencies, this small per-
centage is large enough, to sway the outcome
of the vote itself,
It is important that each individual vote,
Each of us has a duty to perform on March a,
and 'that is to.make a choice, and then 'register
that conviction so that our, Political leaders
know with certainty ibe opinion of the Canadian
people.
-Cur duty next Monday is 'clear. Vote as
you please, Out please vote.
inclosures, which proved the ruin of agriculture.
. , Tasas, fixed prices, were placed on every-
thing The- weaver, the fuller, the armourer,
the potter, the shoemaker were told exactly
how to do their own work, . All this did not
bear its full, fruit (immediately), but by the
end of the 16th century it had reduced Spain
to a state of Byzantine regulation in which.
- every kind of work had to be done under the
eye ,and subject to the Interference' of a vast
;swarm of Government officials . . , By the 17th
century it had made Spain one- of the two `most
beggarly nations in EtiroPe' e- the other being
Portugal," —THE PRINTED WORD
out to five cents per hog, making a total cost
for selling, • of 29 cents. Now the entire cost
is included in the 40 cent deduction.
We're sorry we made the mistake.
Perhaps if the publicity department of the
Hog Producers Marketing Board had been inter-
ested enough in getting the story straight, to
sent this paper a copy of the release which it.
apparently made to the daily papers, there
would have been a greater chance of it being
done correctly in the first place.
BIG BROTHER
ABOUT THE HOG FEE
40 Years Ago
CLINTON NEW ERA
Thursday, March 28, 1918
A few Clinton merchants waste
good time fretting • about outside
competition. They would not need
to if they made' more use of the
New Era,
'Spring has arrived' again, for
the fifth, time this month.
The new te1ephdne- directory
was delivered last week and Clin-
ton Central has 172 town phones
besides the rural connections,
As the days pass, the importance
of •the back yard looms up more
distinctly. Each and' every one of
them available' should be made to
furnish vegetables abundantly dur-
ing the coming season. Time en-
ough to revert to flowers after
this cruel war is over.
The mills of government grind
slowly, but let us hope that they
will grind exceedingly small' when
once they get , started on food
hoarding. '
'The old snake fence will soon
- be as rare as the sea serpent.
Land and wood are too valuable-
to be wasted.
CLINTON NEWS-RECORD
Thursday, March 28, 1918
S. B. Stethert, the newly appoin-
ted agricultural representative for
Huron. County , has arrived in
town and is getting his bearings
here, Clinton being his headquart-
ers. Mrs.- Stothers is a , true "son
of the soil", having been born and
From Our Early Files
SUGAR and SPICE
(By W. (Bill) B. T. Smiley)
reared on a farm near Lucknow,
For the first time in history,
'the Huron County council conve-
ned in Clinton on Tuesday, when
the Warden called a special meet-
ing, at the instance of the Canada
Food Board, to consider the quest-
ion of greater production. The
heart of this problem is labour.
Without more farm labour more
food cannot be produced.
The only thing that balks Ger-
Man ambition is the battle line in
France and the British Navy:
The only thing that sustains our
men on land and sea is Food.
Mrs. Weir, Detroit, spent a day
or -so in Clinton last week as the
guest of her brother, R. 4, Man-
ning.
25 Years Ago
CLINTON NEWS-RECORD
Thursday, March 30, 1933 •
Frank Giew, who has been fore-
man of the Provincial road gang
has decided to go back to the
land and has purchased the Geo-
rge Vanderburgh farm on the Hur-
on Road. This will give the Glews
300 acres all in one block, as Har-
old Glew, a Son, already has 150
acres and the father and son
will work together.
Ross and Frank McEwan saw
three- deer, a doe and -two fawns,
in a wood near Bayfield on Sunday.
Deer seem to be increasing here-
abouts and are sighted on all sides
quite frequently.
George Wilson, Brucefield,
le tet a ti member of Clinton Branch
No. 140, Canadian Legion,. was
honored at the March meeting in
the. Legion Hail Monday evening
when he was, presented with a
Past President's badge. Two- new
anerabere were initiated—J. Wil-
liam Counter, who served with
the Navy during the war, and
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CLINTON NEWS-RECORD
Thursday, March 25, 1948
Army veteran. Membership now
approaches the 200-mark,
In this section of Western Ont-
ario, at least, the spring break-up
of 1948 will• long be remembered!
Damage running into MUMS of
dollars was caused as rivers, swol-
len beyond all expectations from
melting snow and ice and heavy
rainfall, jumped their banks and
carried everything in •their wake,
Playing at the Roxy Theatre;
"The Best Years of Their Lives".
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flours:
Seaforth; Daily except Monday &
Wednesday-9 a.m. to 5.30 p.m.
Wednesday, 9 a.na. to 12.30 p.m.
Thursday evening by appOintment
only.
Clinton: Above Hawkins Hard-
ware—Mondays only-9 a.m. to
5.30 p.n.:.
Phone hinter 2-7010 ,Clinton
PHONE 791 SEAPOIVITI
are morally
responsible for
safe driving
You, as a driver, are required to know the Rules
of the goad to qualify for a Driver's Licence.
But your obligation in driving is greater than
merely knowing how.
You must also practice safe driving whenever you
are behind the wheel of a car.
Remembet that you ate morally responsible for
the safety of everyone with whom you share our
•strosta and highways.
ONTARIO DEPARTMENT Or TRANSPORT
When I was a little boy, "is like'
Mountain Jack Thomson, told me
"A politician", my great-uncle,
a pet pup. When he wants some-
thing, he fawns all over you. When
you ,pay any attention to him, he
runs around in circles, yapping
and chasing his tail. But when he's
supposed to be' guarding the hen-
house, he's Curled up 'behind the
stove, asleep;"
There was something else in
there, about always making a mess
for somebody else to Clean up,
but I guess I was too young to
understand it,
Of course, anyone can qualify
as a wit by making sarcastic re-
marks about politicians. Person-
ally, I've always despised this as
a cheap practice. I think politic-
ians have a tough row to hoe.
Even though some of them would
be a lot More useful with a hoe in
their hands; in somebody's turnip
patch, than doing 'what they are,
But don't forget those long,
weary sessions hi the House, where
they have to hang on every word
of a debate with exhausting keen-
ness, Except when they're reading
the paper, of course, or out hav-
ing a. smoke, or down in- the cafet-
eria, or over at the Chateau Lame
ler, having a snort with some of
-the boys, *
And think of those awful week-
ends. Sometimes the press of pub-
lie business won't let them get
away from Ottawa until Thursday
afternoon, Then there's the long,
dreary, free, train-ride home, trap,
ped in some smoky first-class coa-
ch with a lot of felloWs telling -Qui-
gar stories,- smoking cigars and
drinkiitg whiskey. That's pretty
hard on the nerves, / can tell you,
after the quiet of the House. *
But however rigairous is the lot
of the politician at Ottawa, im-
agine how crushing it is for him
When the session ends, and he has
to go home and live like the rest
of 'the peasants. No more jolly
sessions With fellow metebett in a
wrench restaurant in Hu% No
More impressing the delegation
from the home town with his easy
familiarity With "John"; "Mike"
and "Peer. * *
instead), he's got to go, to ehurth
parades and attend all the fiftieth
every Sunday, march in the Legion
wedding anniversary celebrations.
He must charge- about the riding,
from one stultifying banquet to an-
other, telling the same pair of
tired jokes at each. His ear is
bruised and tender from listening
to demands for new docks, -new
post offices and old-age pensions
for people who aren't too sure when
they were born. He 'is tapped for
a ticket on every raffle in the- rid-
ing and is touched for a ten-spot
by every organization in whose
vicinity he finds himself.
And when his course is tun,
what is left for this willing work-
horse, this servant of the people?
Sheer ingratitude is his lot. He
faces three alternatives, all eqie-
ally horrible. He goes on pension,
a miserly $3,000 a year, which- will
scarcely keep him in the cigars
he has grown accustomed to. Or he
is hoisted up to the Senate, where
he must labour and sweat over
legislation until the drops dead
from sheer exhaustion at the age
of 88. Or he loses an election, and
has to start making, an honest liv-
ing again. * *
Oh, my heart goes out to them,
these public-spirited men, But a
few vital statistics 'have emerged
from the 1958 eleetien campaign
and we must fade the facts. Here
they are. *
If all the politieians, who are el-
ected spent one-quarter of the
time, energy and entimsiesm on
the affairs of the country that
they have spent' in being elected,
Canada would be top nation in
the world Within flee years, ' *
If all 'the power that has been
poured into hearty handshakes in
this campaign could be- transfor-
med into electricity, we could turn
Niagara Flats off for a month,
and never miss it
If all the political ,proutises
made in the past six weeks were
stacked -ori, top of each other, a
fellow could climb the pile and
board Sputnik as itswent by,
And if all :the politicians in
Canada were laid end to end,
they Might not be as long as the
Trans-Canada Pipeline, but they'd
produce twice the flow of gas,
DOCTOR
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