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Editorials
Better Service Asked
IT WAS POINTED OUT recently
by the editor of the Huron Expositor
at $eaforth that the idea of testing
drivers in Ontario at regular intervals
was .a commendable one. But, that it
was only fair that residents in Seaforth
should have an office at which such
testing could be accomplished without
driving to Clinton.
We recall that a similar suggestion
has been made by the editor of the
Signal-Star at Goderich, with regard
to residents of the County Town.
The Seaforth writer asks: "Is there
any reason why persons qualified to
examine drivers could not be appoint-
ed in each town?"
Well, we would like to hazard a
guess; we figure it is a man-power
shortage. After all, those men who do
the testing of drivers have to be hired
by the provincial government and
trained, We believe that all the time
of personnel men in the last little while
has been devoted to training people in
the ways of giving answers concerning
the ways and means of collecting the
new sales tax,
It probably seems much more ur-
gent to those at Queen's Park, than
any minor thing such as insuring more
safety upon the highways.
Up to the Housewife
THOUGH A BY-LAW has now
been passed by the council of the town
of Clinton with respect to licensing of
hawkers and pedlars, it appears that
the job of actually apprehending those
who do not purchase a licence, rests
mainly with the housewife.
After all, if a housewife permits
a non-licenced person to enter her
home, and she buys, and says nothing,
then the sales person is free to go on
to other homes and continue his sales.
The licence fee of $100 is imposed
for one purpose—and that is to give
some protection to resident business-
men, who help support the town by
their business taxes. If they are in com-
petition with other non-resident busi-
nesses who do not pay municipal taxes,
then this is unfair competition.
Also, the idea of licencing is meant
to give the town government some
record of the persons who are legiti-
mately selling in town. This helps to
provide information about those who
are selling un-legitimately.
Our suggestion to housewives —
and, to business places, too — is to ask
for the hawker and pedlars licence of
any person approaching them with a
sales pitch. If he cannot produce such
a licence, then we suggest you tele-
phone the police office with a descrip-
Taxpayers' Button
(The Printed Word)
A STUDY on mental disorders has
come out with the finding that the rul-
ers of mankind are, in general, crazier
than the rank-and-file. It is unlikely,
however, that any governing body will
be crazy enough to give those citizens
who have paid their income taxes a
button or some like insignia, as no ad-
ministration which knows its real inter-
est will go out of its way to draw tax-
payers' attention to the fact that they
do pay taxes.
A little thing for the lapel would
be nice, though, and it would give the
taxpayer something for his money.
Lion of the man, or woman who has
offered you things to sell. Tell the
police, if you can, what kind of car
the salesperson is driving, and which
direction he went when he left your
home,
We asked at the town clerk's office
if this licence would be required by
salesmen who showed samples,, took or-
ders and made delivery of goods later,
and were told that it would be required.
Wording of the by-law is as fol-
lows: "That every person who goes
from place to place or to a particular
place with goods, wares or merchan-
dise for sale within the town of Clinton,
or who carries and exposes samples,
patterns, or specimens of goods, wares
or merchandise which is to be delivered
in the municipality afterwards, shall
obtain a license for so doing from the
town clerk."
Governments are
Wonderful
FOR SOME WEIRD and wonder-
'WI reason, known best to some
thoughtful civil servant, no doubt, the
counties of Huron, Perth and Water-
loo are to be in the "Grand River"
zone, insofar as the Ontario Sales Tax
is concerned.
Why this name should be chosen,
we were at a loss to know, until by
checking a dog-eared map of Midwes-
tern Ontario which has been in the
office for ten years, we found that the
Grand River does drain a major part
of Waterloo County.
The fact that no part of this river
has anything to do with Perth, much
less with Huron Counties, probably is
of no importance to the powers that
be.
The Better Way
CONSIDER the unemployment sit-
uation in our modern society. How in-
finitely better that we create employ-
ment in the education field, rather than
by way of armaments.
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Amalgamated 1924
Published every Thursday at the
Heart of Huron County
Clinton, Ontario — Population 3,000
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WILMA D. DINNIN, Editor
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THE CLINTON NEWS-RECORD
Est. 1881
a year
25 Years Ago
434INToN NEWS-RECORD
Thursday, August 20, 1.036
Mrs, G., Cuninghame who was
in Louisbargh, Nova Scotia
last week when fishermen
caught a giant swordfish, re-
ports that people were greatly
excited over it,
John Scroton escaped injury
when the gasoline-laden white
Rose truck he was driving ov-
erturned in the ditch. Jack had
successfully 'avoided a flock of
geese, and en oncoming car,
on highway 8 between Clinton
and Seaforth.
A new 'continued story starts
this week in the News-Record.
Readers should know that tw-
ice 'as much is paid for these
Canadian stories, as would be
necessary for foreign ones.
Dr Wand Mars, F, G. Thomp-
son; Dr. and Mrs. J. W, Shaw
have arrived home from 'a trip
abroad with the Vimy
Wheat has gone up to $1.00
butter remains the same; live
hogs are up 25 'emits to $9.25
and eggs are 15-25 cents.
J. W. Bayley, Hullett Town-
ship has brought in an onion
measuring 11 inches in circum-
ference. •
10 Years Ago
CLINTON NEWS-RECORD
Thursday, August 23, 1951
Grade 13 students recorded
95.3 percent of papers written
passed.
Gordon Stock, Holmesmille
was 'among the largest winners
art the 'Clinton Flower Show.
He showed 100 gladioli.
Leonard Johnston, graduate
of Clinton Collegiate and St-
ratford Normal School has
joined the staff of St. Marys
Public School.
Captain J. W. Jolly is the
new 'dentist at RCAF Station
Clinton,
Water has been struck at
the 361 foot level by the firm
drilling for the Public Utilities
Commission. Drilling has con-
tinued for four months. Water
is presently being pumped at
300,000 gallons per day, and
there is no scarcity, The new
well will provide added insur-
ance.
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C.D.C.I. STUDENTS
Complete book lists are now available at the school
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from August 24 to September 1 between the hours
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Retailers, wholesalers, manufacturers
and all others who will be collecting
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SUGAR and SPICE ...
My, but the city has become
a wild, wicked place, since
lived here As a student, twenty
odd veers ago. In those days,
it was considered a lost week
end If you had a few beers in
the King. Cole Room, Once in
a while, we had a Dionysian
revel in 'the men's residence,
when we were ,aliewed to have
gide in, on a Sunday after-
noon, and give them cocoa and
raisin bread, in 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 Or-
leans. Your words would fall
on the indifferent •ears of a
man who has just emerged
from a weekend of unbelievable
debauchery in, The 'City. Can-
adiene need no longer hang
their heads in shame when the
talk turns to depravity. We're
loaded.
*
I know I shouldn't have done
it, It's going to be hard to
face my wife and children. But
you know how it is when you're
at •the dangerous age. Sudden-
ly something just seems to snap
and you're off on a crazy wing-
ding.
• *
I'd stayed in The City on the
weekend to study for the exams
coming up. My intentions were
as pure as' those of as divinity
student But, oh dear, it was a
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
charts with myself: "You have
to go out to eat anyway. A
change is as good as a rest.
You'll go queer cooped up in
here. You can, study later."
As usual, I won the argument,
• *
Next 'thing I knew, I was
strolling happily up Philosoph-
er's Walk, enjoying the sights
and sounds: The lovers lying
on the grass, nose to nose; the
old lady bawling hell out of a
black squirrel because he
wouldn't come out of the tree
and get his peanuts; the bum
stretched out, his overcoat on,
but his feet bared 'to the even-
ing sun,
* *
I thought I'd eat at a new
place, just opened. It boasted
a 50-cent buffet, all you can
eat. Just right for my budget.
It had a Gay Nineties decor.
ordered a beer and nursed
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, chuck-
ling 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.
M. 'I *
The waiter brought the bill,
Food-50c; beer-70c. Wit a t
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 on, the way home.
Either you try to get it back,
or you go home, a failure, * * *
Throwing family ties and
moral, principles out the win-
dow, I walked right around the
corner and went to a bad mov-
ie, 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
avalanche-guard place the min-
ute I went in, because people
were smoking, right and left,
in their seats, And I was sure
of it, when some of 'the char-
acters in the film swore, right
out, clear 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 gawrkery that has
turned The City into the Sod.
am, to say northing of Gomor-rah, of our One. The first
thing i walked past, for eg-
envie, was a, place with people
eating outside. There they
were, sitting at tables right be-
side the eiderwalk, eating away
just .as though they were for-
eigners and had to remals at
all.
• 1* *
Just a few doors dawn, caught
up by who kntws what mad
iiiipulSe, I turned into is,
I'm' sorry, I can't go oh. When
I remember that I Was once
President of the YiJung 1VIeWs
Bible Cla cit our church,
(By W. B. SMILEY),
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
40 Years Ago
CLINTON NEWS-RECORD
Thursday, August 25, 1921
The Sod-Busters Concert
Company, a group of young
OAC men, all of whom saw
service overseas gave a play,
let (supposed 'to be sot in the
Year 1961), in the town wall
on Tuesday evening,
The six member staff at Cl-
inton Collegiate is suede up of
Mr. Treleaven, principal; Miss
J. lefecDougall, R. V. Sum-
merhays, A. Sinclair, Miss
Roxie Ellis and Miss Lylla, E.
Smith,
LOST; Near Holmeevilie,
some weeks ago, a buggy lap
robe. Reward for return to
George, Connell, RR 3, 'Clinton.
LOST; Between Malcolm
MeDernerid'S and John MeMil-
lan'e, Hullett, a plaid wool
shawl. Finder please leave
word with the News-Record.
The annual community pic-
nic at Lomd'esboro will be held
on Labour Day, with baseball,
football, races for everybody,
Record attendance at the
CNE is 1,201,000, reached' in
the Prince's year, 1919.
40 Years Ago
CLINTON NEW ERA
Thursday, August 25, 1921
Fred •Sloman, principal of
Blyth Public School reports
pride la his entrance class,
where 14 out of 17 have passed.
Rev. E. Tighe, eon of Mr.
and Mrs. T, Tighe, Hullett
Township, newly elevated to
the priesthood, will sing his
first high mass in his home
church in Clinton on Sunday,
September 4.
Exeter's tax rate will be ar-
ound 40 to 42 mils on the
Jabez Rands has a barred
rock pullet, four months, and
ten days old which started 'to
lay on August 20. Can your
pullets beat that?
Model school is re-opening,
with, six pupils enrolled.
M. T. Corless has taken 'over
the business conducted under
the firm name of Oarless and
„ITerraler: anything in the
hardware line.
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dreadful night. But it will have
to be in next week's issue.
Watch for it---the but
affecting story of one small-
town chap's descent into the
pit that is The City after hours,
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