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Editorials
Winterize All Over
Enjoys Paper
Oltotop Yews-Record,
Clinton, Ontario,
Dear It.IditOr, Etc. Unclosed
is a cheque for $4.50, to pay
for your • newsy paper for .ari-
other year, I always look for-
ward to the news from home,
usually delivered four days aft-
er it is PUblisted.
I pass the paper on to a
friend who teaches. in Junior
High here in Shawnee, and she
yeas takes it to school, and the
youngsters enjoy reading it.
Although it's been 14 years
Since I lived in, Clinton, there
are still a goodly number of
acquaintances there, but many
have passed on.
With good wishes and greet-
ing for the holidays, •
Sincerely,
Bertha K. Wilson.
November 28, 1961,
13325 W, 61st,
Shawnee, Kansas.
Letter to the Editor
40 Years Ago
CLINTON NEW ERA
Thursday, December 8, 1921
The Hon. William Lyon Mac-
kenzie King is Canada's new
Prime Minister, There are 118
Liberal seats in the House.
Miss Eliza Mountcastle fell
and broke her arm last week
and later Miss Ellen Mount-
castle fell and broke her hip.
Manager Manning showed
the "Mark of Zorro" in the
Princess theatre.
Jabez Rands has sold a nine
month old pig which weighed
360 pounds. Mr. Rands must
be some feeder.
New motor licences will be
available by January 1.
N. Trewartha, reeve of
Goderich Township is attending
County Council at Goderich,
Fred Watson has purchased
a Sauble Line farm from Ro-
bert Greer.
Drew Swan has sold his farm
on the London Road to J.
Berry, Egmondville.
40 Years Ago
CLINTON NEWS-RECORD
Thursday, December 8, 1921
Thornton Mustard, old Stan-
ley Township boy and graduate
of CCI is now principal of To-
ronto Normal Model School.
Eighteen applicants have been
received by the Clinton Model
school board for the princi-
pal's job vacated by C. D.
Bouck, who after ten years
here is going to join the staff
of Toronto Normal,
Miss Ellen Mountcastle fell
at her home and fractured her
right hip. She is 88, probably
the oldest living native-born
Huronian.
A social gathering was held
at the home of T. R. Jenkins,
Huron Road, to mark the end
of the Holmesville beef ring
year. A debate on "resolved:
that a young man should not
marry until he has enough
money to support a wife" was
won by the negative side.
John Butts has returned
home to Kippen from the
West, intending to farm.
SUGAR and SPICE
Smart Shoppers!
Here's why yOu'll want fo
shop Clinton sfores:
Every gift you could want will be
found right here—at the most rea-
sonable prices you could find any-where!
You save so much time and money by not joining in on those hectic
shopping trips some people make ta other cities.
You are
a neighbour, not a stranger, when you shop in Clinton stores
your merchants treat you royally,
offering extra services to make shopping easier.
SUPPORT YOUR COMMUNITY,
SPEND YOUR MONEY AT HOME!
Lots of advice is given these days
about winterizing your car. Garage
mechanics are eager to put all things
right that might be wrong with the
innards of your vehicle,
However, these Huron county win-
ters require a bit more attention than
just some mechanical adjustments.
With the light snowfall and then
frost which was experienced early this
week, pedestrians had to adjust the way
they stepped along the sidewalks in or-
CHEMICAL Agriculture News tells
us that the cost of living in this era
of high prices is not so serious as we
think it is. Reporting on some facts
and figures about food the magazine
notes: "The real cost of our food today
is lower than it has ever been. We
spend only 20 percent of our take-home
pay for food: Wages from one hour of
factory work buy 83 percent more
round steak, 126 percent more milk
than in 1929."
The report says farmers are ef-
ficient and are becoming even more so.
One fanner now produces food and cl-
othing for 26 people. One hour of farm
labour now produces four times as
much food and fibre as it did in 1919-21.
Crop production is 65 percent higher
per acre.. Food supplies in this country
are called "the most varied and nut-
ritious in the world."
Food is a bargain in Canada today
because of teamwork of farmers, in-
dustry and government. So, anyhow,
der that they did not slip. Motorists
had to do the same.
There is an art to controlling a
motor vehicle on icy roads. By the
middle of January we'll all be accust-
omed to it, that is, if we've not had a
serious accident by then.
But right now, it needs a little
more caution; a realization that this is
not fine summer weather with dry
pavements below the wheels,
the late Karl Homuth, who represented
one of the most progressive and pros-
perous communities in Canada, the
Kitchener area. Back in 1911 there
were a number of manufactureri and
other businessmen who found it feasible
and perhaps in the public interest that
they be in the House of Commons.
But not so today. The man who is
taxed the heaviest is represented the
least.
here is something for father to think
about as he helps push mother's groan-
ing basket around the grocery stores
and food markets.
The Teacher
I took a piece of plastic clay
And idly fashioned it one day,
And as my fingers pressed it, still
It moved and yielded to my will.
I came again when days were past,
The bit of clay was hard at last.
The form I gave it, still it bore
But I could change that form no more.
I took a pie& of living clay
And gently formed it day by day
And molded it with power and art
young child's soft and yielding heart.
I came again when years were gone,
It was a man I looked upon,
He still that early impress bore
And I could change that form no more.
—Anonymous
Do you knew something?
We haven't any national char-
acter, There's no such thing as.
"typical Canadian". We're
just a vague, unformed glob of
human beings who happen to
live in the same vast hunk of
geography. 1sta that a fine
state of affairs, with Christmas
coming on and everything?
I learned this while reading
a couple of new books about
Canada this week, The authors
seemed not only disturbed but
displeased. because they were
unable to put down .a list of
adjectives, point triumphantly
and say, "There you are: A
typical 'Canadian"
This search for .a Canadian
identity has become a regular
parlour game among writers
25 Years Ago
CLINTON NEWS-RECORD
Thursday, December 10, 1936
A Christmas issue with cov-
er page in four coloars.
Intention of King Edward
VIII to renounce his throne
for the love of a woman, an;
ced,
Streets chairman L. Paisley
reported that a car of shale
had been shipped in and would
be, distributed as the streets
needed it.
J. W. Shaw, M.O.H., warns
that a permit is needed by any-
one planning to instal a septic
tank.
A remembrance gift of $200
froin Mrs. Tillie M. C, Brown-
lee in memory of her father
W. H, Perrin and brother W.
G. Perrin has been received by
Clinton Hospital Board.
R. E. Shaddick is now reeve
of Hensall.
Mrs„ George Cook is presi-
dent of Middleton W.A.
Thornton Mustard, old Stan-
ley Township boy has been
commissioned by the Ontario
government to draft a new
course of studies for public and
separate schools in the pro-
vince.
10 Years Ago
CLINTON NEWS-RECORD
Thursday, December 6, 1951
RbSs M. 'Colquhoun is home
from a year's service with the
Princess Patricia Canadian
Light Infantry in. Korea.
Thomas Pryde has defeated
J. Armstrong by a 1,423 maj-
ority in the Huron riding.
Robert P. Allan attended 4-H
Club Congress in Chicago last
'eek. He vrtia one of 25 from
Ontario.
Phyllis Hardy has earned the
est Cooper scholarship .„ 1 as the Carter 'scholar-
ship. She is attending Univer-
sity of Toronto.
Principal E. A. Fines reports
an enrolment of 284 at the col-
legiate.
Election for mayor and five
council members at Adastral
Park will be held by that 135-
household community. WO2 H.
E. Bennett is present mayor.
H. 0. Free, Dungannon, paid
$675 for a Shorthorn cow Con-
signed to a Scotch Shorthorn
sale here by Clifford H. Keys.
(By W. B. .S1VIHXY)
and intellectuals, I find the
whole problem remarkably un-
disturbing, rd: rather be a typ-
ical human being than a typical
Canadian. Have you ever not-
iced that when people say,
"He's a 'typical American" (or
Englishman, Frenchman, Ger-
inan), they don't mean it as
a compliment? 4' )4,
However, in the interests of
pure truth I thought I'd 'look
back through a number of fr-
iends, and acquaintances and
see whether I could come up
with a typical Canadian, after
more than 40 years of consort-
ing with the species.
There was a huge, happy,
lively-tongued, quick-witted fel-
low with whom I once trained
AA pilot, in the dead . of a
typical Canadian winter, He
didn't have any special advant-
ages of wealth, schooling or
social position, But Jake Gaud-
aur, president of the Hamilton
Tiger-Cats football club, is do-
ing all right these days. A
typical Canadian?
There was a skinny, starved-
looking little guy at college
•who was so shaky, physically
and financially that I didn't
think he'd 'graduate. But he
had a wicked wit and a won-
derful way with words. His
name was Jamie. As Professor
James Reaney, poet, play-
wright, novelist and editor of
a new magazine, he's doing all
right, A typical Canadian?
There was 'the French- Can-
adian kid who worked with me
as bellhop on the lake boats,
before the war, When he start-
ed that summer, he knew only
three words of English, all of
them bad. I couldn't help hoot-
ing when I saw his name in
the paper the other day —
distinguished member of the
clergy in Quebec. A typical
Canadian? * * *
There were a couple of young
screwballs who wrote and play-
ed in comedy skits when I was
at university. Next time I
saw them was 'in a troop show,
overseas. They had improved.
I saw them on television the
other night, They're getting by,
as Wayne and Shuster. Typical
Canadians?
Then, there's Dutch. Once
a wild and woolly Australian,
he taught me to fly Spitfires,
in England. He came here after
the war and is 'happy as a troilt
hotly pursuing his first million
in Toronto( A typital Canad-
ian?
And Chuck. His old man was
a Ukrainian. We were in prison
camp together and . when the
Russians. were getting close he
taught me ,to say, "Don't. Sh-
oot!", in Russian. He was a
first rate cartoonist and last
I heard he was in Vancouver.
A typical Canadian?
And three Georges. One was
a quiet student, who bought a
Belgian pistol from me after
the war and' paid me $10 more
than it was worth, because I
needed the money. He's manag-
ing these days between direct-
ing plays at Stratford and on
television. A typical Canadian?
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For a Canadian Tea Party
(The Printed Word)
It is time in Canada for a party
claiming that there should be no taxa-
tion without representation. The Can-
adian business community is taxed to
an excessive amount and yet it has no
spokesman or other representation in
Parliament. Even the dear old Senate
puts partisan affairs ahead of economic
need.
There was a time when a manu-
facturer could run for Parliament and
be elected. The last one was perhaps
Notes on Cost ,ofLi ring
(St. Marys Journal Argus)
THE BIGGEST
GIFT VALUES
• . WILL BE FOUND
RIGHT HERE IN
CLINTON STORES
No need to travel miles to find grand
gifts at budget prices — they're all
in your Clinton stores right now.
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Open Friday Evenings Till 9.30
Open All Day Vio.,-jnes,,:a7 during December
Open Evenings Mon., Dec, 18 to Sat., Dec. 23
From Our Early Files
Thank You!
To the citizens of Clinton and
district for the excellent support
given to our Grey Cup Ticket Draw.
Special thanks to businessmen and
non-Lions who sold tickets.
See front page for list of winners.
Signed on behalf of Clinton Lions Club, by
STEWART TAYLOR,
First Vice-President,
Chairman of Grey Cup
Draw Committee.
ALL WEIGHTS
Another George repaid the
Yanks for burning York in the
war of 3.83., lie went over to
Wall -Street, made a million. be-
fore he was forty, and carried
it gleefully back to his northern
lair, A 'typical Canadian?
The third George used to be
a czech, He was in a concen-
tration camp during the war.
Now he's a dentist in Canada,
has a split-level home, a two-
car garage, and a real aversion
to, paying so much income taxi,
A typical Canadian?
I can think of a dozen others.
The country is full of charac-
ters, but there's no such thing
as A "typical Canadian" any
more than there is an "aver-
age man." I, for one, am heart-
ily glad of it, Who wants to
be A "typical"? Do you want
to be A typical farmer, or 'typi-
cal merchant, or typical lab-
ourer, or typical housewife? Or
even .0, typical millionaire? Not
a bit of it. No more than I
want to be a typical school
teacher.
The only thing the 'charac-
ters above have in common is
that they live in this country
and love it. And that goes for
me, too. How about you?
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