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WITH QUIET DIGNITY
THE. 4,INTON NEW E RA
Est, 1865
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year
IN AN ATMOSPHERE denied recent
graduating classes of Clinton District Col-
legiate Institute, over 100 students received
diplomas, scholarships and bursaries last
week,
Remember the old auditorium? Wonder-
ful in its day, but recently beset with creak-
ing hardwood floors, and those particularly
noisy sets of auditorium chairs with mov-
able seats, that old room had become the
noisiest imaginable, and we recall that half
way back the audience just gave up trying
to hear what went on upon the stage.
Remember the limited dressing room
facilities? the small stage? the years in
which students lined both walls on, elevated
benches, waiting to receive their diplomas.
Even with two nights in a row, the space
was jammed, and not all of those wishing to
attend were able to do so.
We could find no fault with the way
in which the processional, recessional and
general routine were carried out. We were
favourably impressed by the dignified way
in which student ushers, pianists and speak-
ers carried out their duties at this year's
commencement exercises.
The whole affair was proper, with an air
of solemn dignity about it quite fitting to
the importance of Commencement exercises.
If this indicates only a part of the good
which will come of having this new addition
built, then we feel it is worth every cent it
has cast, and will cost the ratepayers.
Essential Significane6 Remains Undimmed
(Delhi News-Record)
AND SO, once again, the magic days
are almost upon us.
Inevitably, we suppose, as the greatest
date draws ever closer, the annual wail will
go up from those professional killjoys and
latter-day Scrooges, to whom Santa Claus
is anathema, fit only for abolition. What
can we do but pity them?
Just as certainly, the month will not be
much older before we will be told once more
that the real meaning of Christmas has been
submerged in an orgy of commercialism (or
words to that effect).
How superficial a view! (Is this then,
the season for misery and woe, for sadness
and despair?). Maybe there really are those
who object to "dragging religion into Christ-
mas" (!) (although, truth, to tell, we have
never met any such). But who is there in
Christendom who, when the hectic hours are
past, and the day itself is come, will not
reflect on the true majesty which is Christ-
mas?
Time may have wrought many changes
in the observation of it, but *the essential
significance of this most enduring of ail
festivals shines on with undimmed radiance,
It will take mare than a large dose of
"commercialism" to put it out.
vamoose,
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even have one lousy, little Iran- "Maybe so," I shot back,
sister radio." "but I was snapped up pretty
* darn quick when I decided to
become a teacher, Does that
look like a failure?" He bared
his tobacco-stained teeth at
me in a grimace of scorn. He
opened his mouth for the crush-
ing rejoinder. I braced myself
for it. And just then, like the
bugles of the calvary arriving,
in the nick of time, a piercing
feminine call came up the
laundry shoot: "Are you going
to spend all day in there?
You're eggs are hard and the
tea's getting cold and it's 8.30.
40 Years Ago
()TaliNTON NEW 1MA
,juraday, December .20, 1920
Tax Collector Fitzsimons re-
ported that about WO was all
that remained unpaid in 1920
taxes.
Property qualifications for
candidates at municipal elee-
tonal were reduced and any
citizen qualified to vote was
now eligible 'for office.
Dr. Wilfred Fowler, Toronto,
formerly of Clinton and a na-
tive of Hallett Township, suf,.
fered what appeared to be con-
cussion of the brain, the result
of an accident in which a rath-
er unmanageable horse he was
riding reared backward and
fell on him.
The Ontario government pro-
posed to make it compulsory.
for all persons intending to be
married in Ontario to give pub-
lic notice one week in. advance
of the proposed nuptials.
E. Mulholland and S. Mc-
Math, Holmesville, had artes-
Ian wells drilled, One obtained
water at a depth of 251 feet
and the other at 180 feet.
"You're a failure, Smiley,"
he told me. He said it casually,
but I must admit that I quailed
before the cold knowing stare
he gave me. It didn't matter
that he was baggy-eyed, un-
shaven, and scratched himself
like an ape. I knew he could
see right through me.
"Yabbut ." I started to
say. Whenever I'm put on the
defensive, I find myself saying.
that. "It's Old English or some-
thing for "Yes, but . . ." He
brushed it aside: "Yabbut me
no yabbuts. For years you've
been trying to blame it on ev-
erybody but yourself. Face it,
You're a failure and you know
it" * * *
With a vestige of my cust-
omary dignity, I drew myself
up about an inch and asked
him where the heck he got
that idea, After all, I told him,
there's meat on the table every
day, nobody has holes in his
shoes, and we have furniture, a
car, an electric dryer. We even
have 'a kitten that may, or
may not, be pregnant. * *
He just looked at me and
snorted. "You're such a fail-
ure you don't even know you're
a failure," he continued in that
disgusted way he affects.
"Your furniture is junk, your
car won't be paid for until
1962, and that's the cheapest
dryer on the market." He went
an: "What about the important
things? Do you have a recre-
ation room? No. Do you have
a patio? No. You don't even
have a television set! You're
forty years old and you don't
25 Years Ago
CLINTON' NEWS-RECOAD
Thursday, December 11, 19$5
Mr. and Mrs. Fraser., Blyth,
and Miss Fraser of the Public
School are nicely settled in
Miss Marion .Thornpson's easy
house, Ontario Street, which
they have taken for the winter.
o de r i eh Township Men's
Club put on an open meeting
with ithe proceeds going to mis-
sions. Splendid readings were
given by Isobel Woods, Mrs.
Milton Woods, Lorn • Elliott,
Mrs. Phillips, Phyllis Harris,
and Argyle and Glen Lockhart,
Mrs. Bent Allan, Harlock,
spent Monday the guest of Miss
Reid, Londesboro.
"Country Doctor" the story
of the Dionne quintuplets, was
being filmed in Callender, Clin-
ton hoped to be able to see the
film in its new theatre,
Adam, Cantelon) Maple Creek,
Sask., was in town' in connec-
tion with winding up the estate
of his brother, the late H. H.
Cantelon.
Everything he said was right
of course, but he didn't have
to look at me with such dis-
taste. I began to get a little
sore. "Now, just hold on there,
Buster," I retorted. "You may
think these are the important
things in life. But we're not
all like you, thank goodness.
What about the real values,
the solid achievements?" * * *
"Yes?" he needled, hawking,
spitting and scratching in a
most disgusting fashion. I st-
ood right up to him, and told
him a thing or two: "How a-
bout that B.A. degree I earn-
ed? How about flying that
fighter-bomber against the Ger-
mans? How about editing a
newspaper for ten years? How
about a wife and two children
who are devoted to me? You
think a fellow can do all those
things and be a complete fail-
ure?" * *
He rubbed his bristly chin,
looked at me with the enthus-
iasm of a farmer about to clean
out the stalls, and said flatly:
"Yes, it took you ten years
to get that B.A., and they were
sympathetic to veterans, or
you'd never have got it. You
were a second-rate pilot, res-
ponsible for the loss of an $80,-
000 aircraft. You edited that
paper with more complaining
than a ruptured hen laying
eggs. And I can show you even
bigger failures than you, who
have a wife ,and eight children
devoted to them."
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Directors: John H, McEwing;
Robert Archibald; Chris Leon-
hardt, ,Bornholm; Norman Tre-
wartha, Clinton; Wm. S. Alex-
ander, Walton; J. L. Malone,
Seaforth; Harvey Fuller, Gode-
rich; J. E. Pepper, Brucefield;
Alistair Broadfoot, Seaforth.
Agents: Wm. Leiper, Jr., Lon-
desboro; V. J. Lane, RR 5, Sea-
forth; Selwyn Baker, Brussels;
James Keyes, Seaforth; Harold
Squires, Clinton.
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10 Years A:go
CLINTON NI WS-Itg0040
Thursdays December 14, 19.00
Huron County bur$411es were
awarded to the following stud-
ents at the University of West-
ern Ontario: Margaret Colqu-
houn, Clinton; Alice A. Laid-
law, liVingliaro; J„ Grant Mills,
Woodham; Ronald C. Sills and
John Graham Wallace, Sea-
forth.
The School Board purchased
seven acres of land from Mrs,
R. W. McKenzie, adjoining the
easterly end of the town, ex-
tending north of Rattenbury
Street and as far east as the
laneway of the McKenzie farm.
It was understood that the price
was approximately $3,200.
Clinton Branch 1.40, Caned-
lap Legion, conducted a cam-
paign to stir up greater interest
in the local municipal nomina-
tion and elention, if one is held.
Hector E. Kingswell was nam-
ed chairman of the "Get-out-
the-vote" committee.
A reception in honor of
newly-weds, Mr. and Mrs. Doug
Farquhar was held in Londes-
bare Community Hall.
K *
So I shut up, rubbed in the
lather, took a suck on that
first fag of the day, and when
I started to shave, he had dis-
appeared. Self - confident, no
longer a failure, I sped through
the rest of the business and
ran briskly down to breakfast,
the picture of a well-groomed,
keen dedicated teacher. * * *
A man spends most of his
time trying to impress some-
body. At work, it's the boss,
fellow-workers, and subordin-
ates. At home, it's the wife
and children. At any other time
it's whoever happens to be a-
round. We get ulcers, heart
attacks., divorces, and the odd
punch in the eye, trying to im-
press somebody. * * *
But try as I might, I can't
impress that hard old case who
lives in behind the mirror in
our bathroom. I know he'll be
there again tomorrow morning,
bleary-eyed, rumpled, scratch-
ing, disillusioned, and cynical,
Tomorrow morning he'll prob-
ably try to convince me there
is no Santa Claus.
Orange Lodge
Officers for -1961
John Henderson was installed
Worshipful Master of Murphy
Lodge, LOL, No. '710 in the
lodge room last Thursday even-
ing. There was a good attend-
ance for this annual meeting
and installation, and reports
showed a good year,
Other officers installed were:
deputy master, Alex golvIjoh
eel; chaplain, Clayton goclg,,
Ms; recording secretary, Har-
old Crittenden; financial sec-
retary, Tom Peeves; treasurer,
Henry Sloman;
Marshal, .,T o h n Wise; lec-
turers, Ross Miller, Wilfred Gl-
azier; committeemen, Frank
Andrews, Mervin HanleY, Mer-
vin Falconer, Charles Stewart
and George Falconer; inside
tyler,, Charles Cooper; sentinel,
William Cook; past master,
Harry Crich,
STORE HOURS
FOR DECEMBER
1. OPEN ALL DAY WEDNESDAY
2. OPEN FRIDAY NIGHTS TILL 940 P,M,
3. OPEN EVENINGS FROM FRIDAY,
DECEMBER 16 TO SATURDAY DEC.
EMBER 24.
4, CLOSED CHRISTMAS EVE AT 6.30
P.M.
S. CLOSED MON., DEC. 26; TUES,
DEC. 27 and MON., JAN. 2.
Clinton Retail Merchants Committee
R. B. Campbell, Secretary-Treasurer
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