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Clinton News-Record, 1961-10-26, Page 2Pose Clinton News-Record Thum, act, 26f 941 • Editorials Support Your Own Business and Professional. Directory A. M. HARPER and COMPANY CHARTERED ACCOUNTANTS 33 HAMILTON ST. GODERICH 7 RATTENBURY ST. E. CLINTON , Phone JA 4-7562 Phone HU 2-7721 1 40 Years Ago CLINTON NEWS-RECORD Thursday, October 27, 1921 A mother bear and three cubs were killed at the farm of James McDonald near Porter's Hill back in 1854, and neigh- bours gathered at the Mc- Donald farm for a bear dance and a bear feast. Then the next day Indians gathered to finish up the bear meat. Mrs. Archie MacDougall, Goderich, then a girl of "four years, five months and six days" had seen the bears first, and reported them to her grandfather -and uncle as a black pig and three little pigs, The memorial tablet for the post office is expected any day, and will be in place for the November 11. unveiling. Sunday evening two buggies collided at the Londesboro cor- ner. "It is high time our vil- lagers joined together to erect some kind of a light on the corner of Main Street, as it is a much-travelled road, and very dangeroug to pedestrians." Dr. Annabel McEwan who has been in the employ of the Provincial Government in Nor- thern Ontario during the past year, contemplates returning to her work in India again very shortly, 40 Years Ago CLINTON NEW ERA Thursday, October 27, 1921 Liberals are preparing for an election. George McLennan, president of the Clinton Liberal Association convened a meeting at which Thomas Hawkins was secretary. Ward chairmen sel- ected were Dr. Shaw, Alex Cul:1111°re, Thomas Hardy and L. Paisley. Mayor Goulding, Seaforth and candidate Thomas McMillan gave addresses. Regulations' for the coming election place women on exact- ly the same footing as the men, for the first time in a Dominion election in Canada. The Goderich Signal in re- porting the final baseball match at Zurich had among its notes of the game, the following one: We understand a Clinton citi zen was richer by over $300 after Saturday's game was' over. Lal. Paisley has had a new team of greys sent him, from Toronto for the oil wagon for winter use. He will use the team for deliveries when the roads get bad and he has to store away the big truck. The Girls Guild of St. Paul's Church is holding a Hallowe'en masquerade social for Friday evening. Letter to the Editor Needs Commonsense The Editor, Clinton News Record I regard to 'the sidewalk now blacketopped along N o r .h Street: it is lovely to walk on for a change and that's, what it is meant for, not 'to drive across as' was the' case before. There are two catch basins at the end of the street, one on each aide of the road. The eolith eide is being filled up fast, because of sand dumped near the catch basin and near the side walk at the elm tree on North Street. This drain was put in last year at high cost and it goes north down- to the Cowper Street drain, There's not much use talking about it, that won't change it, We've been a year talking now, All that is needed is com- monsense and good' judgement and a firm hand, never mind if you lose a vote, Council, that's your job, be not blame eache other for carrying on like two cats tied on a clothes line. Thanks, town fathers for fix- ing the walk, and to the Levis firm for doing a nice job. T, H, teppington, qi? (,_"; 1Q.-4.--? • -tc0 THE 'FALL ,OF 19 61 25 Years Ago CLINTON NEWS-RECORD Thursday, October 22, 1936 Captain F. G. Thompson of the Royal. Canadian Army Medical Corps' is attached to the Middlesex and Huron, Regi- ment 'as medical officer, Wheat is, at $1.00; oats 40e; barley, 95c; buckwheat, 65c; butter, 20c; eggs, 18 to 38c; live hogs, $7.75; lambs, $6.75. Dr. W. A. Oakes used the new kirschner wire treatment when setting a broken limb for a lady patient over 75 years old. This surgical operation has been tried in Chicago a few times, and in Germany, but never, probably, in Canada be- fore. B ayfiel d Badminton Club has re-organized, with Dr. William Fowler as president; Margaret Groves as secretary-treasurer. Bert •Gray, Blyth, president of the East Huron Teachers As- sociation, chaired the meeting when Dr. Field, inspector, was presented with an easy chair, prior to his retirement. Back in 1896, (the early files reported), special trains have been running every other day to accommodate the freight from hereabouts, mainly apples and produce. 10 Years Ago CLINTON NEWS-RECORD Thursday, October 25, 1951 Clinton Branch, Canadian Legion donated $10 toward construction of a wading pool in Clinton Community Park. William A. Andrews, student at University of Western On- tario, has received a Huron County bursary of $100. CDCI rugby team trimmed Goderich 11-2 in a well played match at the RCAF Sports field. Ken MoNaught, ace badmin- ton player at Stratford, has been engaged for special in- struction here by the Clinton Badminton Club. The centre section of WMS Presbyterial met in Goshen United Church where vice- president, Mrs. Robert Allan, Brucefield was in the chair. Frank Fingland, KC, Clin- ton, will speak on community activities and public relations at the Women's Institute meet- ing at Londesboro. SS 5, Goderich Township, won the track title at com- petitions staged by the public schools' in that township. 0 WESLEY-WILLIS WA TO MEET THURSDAY The November meeting of the Woman's Association of Wesley- Willis' United Church will be held' in the church parlour on Thursday afternoon, November 2 at 2.30 p.m. with Mrs. H. Kingswell's group in charge. From Our Early Files INSURANCE H. E. HARTLEY All Types of Life Term Insurance — Annuities CANADA LIFE ASSURANCE CO. ' Clinton, Ontario K. W. COLQUHOUN INSURANCE & REAL ESTATE Representative: Sun Life Assurance Co. of Canada Phones: Office HU 2-9747 Res. HU 2.7556 THE MoKILLOP MUTUAL. FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY Head Office: SeafOrth Officers: President, John L. Malone, Seaforth; vice-president, John H. McEwing, Blyth; seere- tery-treasurer, W. E. South- gate, Seaforth. Directors: John H. MeEwing; Robert Archibald; Chris Leon- hardt, Bornhohn; Norman Tre- wartha, Clinton; Wm. S. Alex- ander, Walton; J. L. Malone, Seaforth: Harvey Puller, Gode- rich; Wm, R. Pepper, Seaforth; 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, -THE WEST WAWANOSH MUTUAL FIRE INSURANCE CO. Head Office, DUNGANNON Established 1878 BOARD OP DIRECTORS President Brown Smyth, R 2, Auburn; viva-Pres., Herson Tr- win, Belgrave; Directors, Paul Caesar, R. 1, Dungannon; George Feagan, Goderich; Ross Me, Phee, R, 3, Auburn; Donald MacKay, Ripley; John P. Mac- Lennan, R. 3, Goderich; Prank Thompson, R. 1, nolyrood; Wm. Wiggins, R. 8, Auburn. Por Information on your in*• sttrance, call your nearest ditto, ter who is also an ageat, or the secretary, butain Phillips, Dun, gannon, Phene Dungannon 48, 274fb OPTOMETRY J. E. LONGSTAFF OPTOMETRIST Eyes Examined OPTICIAN Oculists' Prescriptions Filled Includes Adjustments At No Further Charge Clinton—Mondays Only Ph. HU 2-7010 9.00 a.m. to 5.30 p.m. Above Hawkins Hardware Seaforth—Weekdays except Mondays, ground floor. Phone 791 G. B. CLANCY, O.D. — OPTOMETRIST — For Appointment Phone JA 4-7251 GODERICH 38-tfb PUBLIC ACCOUNTANT ROY N. BENTLEY PUBLIC ACCOUNTANT Goderich, Ontario Telephone Box JA 4-9521 478 REAL ESTATE LEONARD G. WINTER Real Estate 00 Buelnets Broket High Street Clinton PHONE HU 24692 year THIS IS NOT the first time we have found it necessary to set down a defence of the O'Leary Report on Foreign publications in Canada — nor probably will it be the last. Nowhere in the O'Leary Report was the suggestion made that either Time or Reader's Digest should be ban- ned from Canada. Canadians are par- ticularly lenient with regard to im- port of publications from abroad, and we sell on the newsstands well over 80 percent foreign publications, with less than 20 percent coming from Can- adian firms, Yet, the Toronto Telegram con- tinually mis-reads the O'Leary report and observes with horror, that if im- plemented, the suggestions of the re- port would "virtually kill publication of the Canadian editions of Time mag- azine and Reader's Digest", and "the Star now joins the clamor for Govern- ment aid. It joins the chorus of weeping and wailing that Time and Reader's Digest must be put out of business" and "legislative destruction of the Can- adian editions of Time and Reader's Digest", — The Telegram, October 20- 21, 1961. Well, when the time comes that Canadian business cannot appeal to the Canadian government for aid against creeping propaganda from a foreign country, then it will be time for all Canadians to give up their independ- ence for good. We can see two reasons for the publishers of Time and Reader's Di- gest to publish Canadian editions: there is money to be made in Canada and this is a good way of spreading the "American way of life". • d - According to facts obtained by the O'Leary Commission the profits from the. Canadian enterprise of these two firms are huge because the cost of puf lishing is low. The main editorial matter is for and about the United States; it is written with a slanting peculiar to the United States and it is lifted verbatim from the United States publications of the same name. In both cases these magazines are presented as Canadian editions and ad- vertising is sold to Canadian firms on this basis. The magazines are not Can- adian by any stretch of the imagination. There are those who feel that the Canadian firms should place their ad- vertising elsewhere, and thus eliminate the problem by withdrawing their sup- port, This is a naive attitude. - It is surprising how many adver- tisers in these two magazines have US interests, either being owned, entirely or partially by a parent company in the United States. In a recent issue of Time we counted at least 15 pages of advertising by companies which either were distinctly of the United States or had that term "of Canada Ltd." tacked on to give the impression of being Canadian. In Pierre Berton's column on Mon- WE ARE CONSTANTLY remind- ed about the "stress and strain" of modern life. To hear it told, it seems that each one of us exists in a frenzied atmosphere of rush and bustle. Modern civilization, we gather, sets an exhaust- ing pace and demands a constant rush from all who wish to keep from being over-run by the pack. Somehow, this conception of a "tranquilizer era" with everyone under intense pressure doesn't match all the facts. Most workers spend about 40 hours a week in surroundings that are quite tolerable, if not downright com- fortable. They have the means, and the time, for a wide range of recreation. They can relax in homes that are mir- acles of luxury and convenience com- pared with houses in "the good old days". In fact, to most of us life looks pretty good. Yet this impression of pressure and hustle, whether it is an illusion or not, does exist and does affect us. And in no area is this more obvious than in our driving behaviour. The sense of urgency that the av- erage driver gets when he takes the wheel is usually completely illogical, says the Ontario Safety League. When he starts out he may have no real rea- son for hurry, and is usually heading off to do something he will enjoy far less than driving his car; yet his over- all objective is to complete the journey in the shortest possible time. He winces at every momentary delay. A car cut- THE CLINTON NEW ERA Est, 1865 • clay he reports that a Toronto importer attempting to set up an export business in Canadian goods has discovered that with 60 percent of Canadian manufact- uring firms owned by foreign firms, the export trade is handled from the United States by the parent company How the can Canada ever have an ex- port trade of her own? If the gradual divorcement of Can- ada from the United States on a fin- ancial level is ever to take place, then a very good start can be made in this matter of foreign publications. This may seem like a lot of words about something which means little to the editor of a small weekly — but we are a Canadian weekly, and fiercely proud of that fact. We feel very strong- ly about the inroads into Canadian thought, attitudes and buying patterns which are being made by the United States. Our shock was almost physical the first time we bought a Reader's Digest in Detroit and found that it was not the same as the one we had been read- ing at home. That was before we be- came knowledgable about "Canadian editions." You see for many years we had hoped that the United States would take more notice of us Canadians at their northern border. Then we thought they had. We actually thought, in our innocence, that the people of the Un- ited States were reading as much about Canada in these magazines as we were. This, we discovered just was not so. United States readers of these mag- azines are not getting their hands upon any news of Canada. Probably in the spaces where those cute little boxes are done up to give Canadian facts, the readers in the United States are seeing little anecdotes about the hillbillies, the Okies, or their own PTA. We are angry on two counts. First: the Canadian editions are not Canadian entirely — nor can they be if they are to be as profitable to their owners. If these big publication firms had to com- pete fairly with our own good Canadian journals they just wouldn't be bothered with little Canada at all. Second: the people of the United States are not learning about Canada through the pages of their own big magazines as we thought they had been. And we've just thought up a third thing: If the main suggestions of the O'Leary Commission are not put into effect, then we can see the absolute demise of Canadian publications, and the increase in "Canadian editions." We are exporting our best writers, our best comedians, our best engineers, all to the United States. Let's stop. this pandering to the giant maw of the hungry Union. Keep our gifted people at home in an atmos- phere of progress and growth, and do it in a God-fearing Canadian way, free from foreign propaganda and influ- ences. ting into line ahead of his is an affront. A red light is a minor tragedy. The irrational part of the urge to hurry-drive is that it is largely inef- fective. Most of us who give way to the urge know that trying to speed saves very little time, particularly in congest- ed areas. Actual tests have shown re- peatedly that only an inconsiderable amount of time is saved by a "pushing driver", as compared with a man who drives steadily, within the speed limit. The reason for taking risks in tr- affic are hard to understand. But the results are, too often, tragically ob- vious. Autumn Leaves The Autumn leaves Come tumbling down, In a shower of gold On our little town. Little dogs and children, They romp and play In the golden mound At the dose of day, But the days grow short, The wind grows cold, And summer sleeps under Its blanket of gold. —A. L. Bodges Answers to "Speaking of Rowline The Editor, Clinton News-ReCord, My blood pressure Mee as I read yoUr editorial in last week's,- issue of the News-Record' defending Sunday bowling and- voicing the conviction -that attendance at the Sunday afternoon ball .game which -gaye -Clinton the Provincial -ChaMpionahip indicates that the public now favours Sunday sport. I do not know how accurately you have gauged the mind of your readers. I do not of course expect a news- paper whieh has to depend for its existence upon, reader approval to defy public opinion, but I do feel it should at- tempt to follow public opinion •only .4s.' a good coachman follows his 'team, with, a steady 'hand on the reins and a worthy destination in, mind.. And if it is not your business to set yourself up as a guardian of public morals, neither is it your business to beat the drums of license with every, popular assault upon the bastions of Christian tradition, But ,Christian ministers must never equivocate, As Frederick Robertson says, it is -our duty when necessary toy "cut public opinion boldly against the grain." Our alleg- iance is not to public whimsy but to the highest -spiritual welfare of humanity. Let me therefore voice plainly my convictions on, this matter of Sunday sport and bowling. 1, I 'believe our traditional Canadian Christian Sunday with its freedom from regular toil and its opportunity for worship and the cultivation of the religious life is -an insti- tution so 'precious' and so important for our highest well- being that we ought to guard it with jealous care against the erosions of modern secularist interests. 2. I believe the Lord's Day Act which prohibits un- necessary work -and business on the Lord's Day is a salutary piece of legislation and its provisions should be held in honour and observed. 3. The Attorney-General has declared that bowling is not -a sport 'but a game. A game as such is not illegal on Sunday, but as a business bowling -alleys, are-, or should be, subject to -the same restraints as any other business,. We are consistently opposed to the commercialization of the Lord's Day, and it is monstrous to suggest that on a pro- tected holiday when other businesses are prohibited from operating, bowling should be allowed to move in and make -a killing. 4. Further, since bowling is not classed as a sport, its operations would not 'legally be confined to the Sunday afternoon hours to• which legalized sports .are restricted (beginning 1.30 p.m.). The bowling alleys would be free to operate on Sunday morning (as I have seen them do) in direct competition with the churches. I recommend that the Council make its issuance of a license to operate con- ditional upon Sunday closing. 5. Regarding the recent Sunday afternoon ball game. Support of the local team and hope of a provincial champ- ionship over-rode the Sunday scruples of a multitude who attended but these same people regretted that the game had to be scheduled on Sunday, 'and I am sure they are hoping it will not need to happen again. This is quite apart from the fact that though such non-profit amateur sports hardly come under the ban which applies to cam.: mercialized sport, nevertheless- paid admissions does, con- stitute an infraction- of -the Lord's' Day Act. I trust there will be no agitation for -legalized Sunday sport in Clinton. 6. May I commend our Council also for being courag- eous enough to express' their personal disapproval of Sun- day bowling—without benefit of editorial' anonymity! 7. Finally, I suppose we must be prepared to face the inevitable double standard' in our social ethics—the mini- mum standard sanctioned by law, and the higher standard voluntarily espoused through Christian' conviction, I shall *hope that if the future brings a -relaxation of our legal restraints, the Sunday observance of those who take their ideals of conduct from Jesus' Christ will not be appreciably infIttence-d thereby, Ohristl concerned for the Kingdom of Heaven will remember "amid the current emphasis upon, recreational activities' that "The training of the body does• bring limited benefit, but the benefits of religion are with- out limit, since it holds promise not only for this life but for 'the life to come." So said the apostle Paul. (N.E.B., 1, Tim. 4: 8). CLIFFORD G. PARK, Minister of Wesley-Willis- United Church, Clinton, Ont. EDITOR'S NOTE: We had no benefit of editorial anonymity. The editor's name appears on the News-Record masthead each week—end unless indicated otherwise, the editor writes the editorials. W.D.D. The Editor, Clinton' News-Record Many intelligent citizens of Clinton were surprised- at the contents of this Editorial and there is abundant reasons for this' surprise and disappointment of the Editor's reason- ing ability. In the first place, the editorial denies the right of the members of the Town Council to change their minds- in regard' to any issue to which they have set their sanction, when protests are laid before them against the issue. We see in this denial, no possible correction in any matter that comes before either Council, as' a group of individuals, or any correction of decisions once made by individuals. Sur- ely this attitude is a dumbfounding one to say the least. In 'the second place, the editorial makes "Public Opin- ion" the- criterion of right or wrong activities. We suggest' that to do so, regarding .any issue, is 'to tread on the most dangerous' of ground. If history proves anything at all, it certainly proves' that public opinion is the most fickle and unreliable of opinions. Has the editor of "Speaking of Sunday Bowling" never read- of the disasters to Rome and Greece -and many other one-time great peoples, who suc- cumbed to the dangers inherent in public opinions. There is-, we contend no -final standard in "public- opinion", since each individual of -the public has his own private opinion. It is therefore necessary to forego public opinion. and stand by the opinion of a Book which has stood -the test of right and wrong, and still is the final standard despite many and all attempts of men to act contrary to it. "Thus saith, the Word of God" is not a fickle or changeable standard, 'and intelligent people in this land should judge their act- ivities in accordance therewith, What a Mess people -are making of things, by succumb- ing in a host of matters, to "Public Opinion." In the third place, the editorial expresses a sort of regret that one-seventh of tide potential business revenue be banned, if it closed on Sundays, How then does' the editor suggest, -that every -business place in town should not be open for businoss, What is fair to one should be extend- ed to all, surely. In 'the fourth place, in connection, with the switching Of public opinion, and the attendance of a large number of people at the recent baseball game, whom it is asserted in the editorial, felt it not -wrong to attend a Sunday game, All we have to say about this is, that the switching of opinion, and even the "feeling of no wrong" is not a de- pendable foundation lit such matters at all, Criminals of many kinds do not feel it wrong to commit their terrible acts, but the acts are not made right because of their feelings, surely. There must of necessity be -a standard by which to act, a standard which is always dependable, far above the opinions of finite creatures, and which ie always right for all Men, despite their private thoughts of right and wrong. We are therefore of the opinion that the Town Council are justified' in their action in this matter tinder discussion, and should adhere thereto. (AtV.) b J. 1.411V, Secretary, Clinton Ministerial Association. THE CLINTON NEWS-RECORb Amaigarriated 1924 Est. 1881 Sense of Urgency Clinton News-Record /e i 0 0.441 WILMA D. DINNIN, Editor SUBSCRIPTION RATES: Payable In advance — Canada and Great XInitain: $8.06 a United States and Porelot $4.50; Single Copies Ten Cents Atithotized as second class Mail, Pest Office Depattment, Ottawa Published every Thursday at the Heart of Huron County Clinton, Ontario PepUletion 3,225 0 A. L, COLDUHOUN, Publisher