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Editorials
Moved To Tears
We shed a few salty onesurn
receipt of the latest Readers Digest
and after reading the "personal mes-
sage" which was included from the
president Paul Zimmerman, of The
Reader's Digest i ssociatien .(Canada)
Ltd.
As was expected following the de-
cision of Prime Minister John Diefen-
baker and his government to restrict
the growth of so-called Canadianedi-
tions of foreign magazines, the Reader's
• Digest is putting across an appeal to
its "readers;
Mr, Zimmerman b e c'a m e s o
emotional about what he calls a "cruel
dilemma" that at one time he refers
tq his magazine as the "Canadian.
Digest".
This magazine, which admittedly
r the 'ion
has many readers across Dominion,
has this month a total of two Canadian
articles out of 30 major ones and an un-
counted number of small features. This
is quite typical of a "Canadian Edition".
Mr. Zimmermancontends that his
firm hires 1;000 Canadians in the job
ofprinting these articles, and of course
its • soliciting advertising, preparing ad-
vertising, ete. We agree with him, that
this would be a loss to Canada, should
these people be unemployed, when the
proposed legislation is passed.
But we do not think they would
be unemployed for long.
If Canadian advertising is more
available to Canadian publications, then
• those bona fide Canadian publications
would expand their staffs and would
employ those people who would be
temporarily unemployed.
We do not worry too m>ieh about
the content of Reader's Digest coming
into Canada, for we read it as a Cana-
dian fully aware that it is United. States
material we are reading.
We are concerned for those people
who ignore footnotes, source marks,
ete., and apparently think that they
are reading a Canadian publication.
That is the insidious part of this.
"Canadian edition" type of thing.
On the bulletin board of one of
the classrooms in our own public school
is .a preponderance of United States
material. Included within a few square
feet on the day we looked, was a full:
page 'colour meat advertisement from
Saturday E,veningg Post; a, large four-
colour presentation of the solar system
distributed by GM of Canada Ltd. (of.
course this is a branch of the American
General Motors) ; a front page of the
"Canadian edition" of TRUE depicting
a charging wild beast of some sort;
the front page of an issue of MacLean's
showing President and Mrs, John Ken-
nedy; a Royal Bank calendar . and an
editorial page from the London Free
Press.
Bad enough to be subjected to the
overflow of manufactured articles from
the United States and the persuasive
powers of United States. TV, radio and
their beautiful monthly magazines,
without having the same material fed
to the Canadian people under the guise
of "Canadian editions".
Our answer to Reader's Digest, and
other such magazines when they ask
for a subscription is to request a sub-
scription to the United States edition.
So far there has been no results.
We cannot help but wonder what
they're saying about Canada in their
United States editions.
At Time To Change
The winds of change are blowing
through the Dominion of Canada, and
there is need to heed the indications
which are most obvious.
Within our own small sectiondeep
in the good farming lands of Ontario,
there are some movements toward a
change in our way of life.
We'll wager that those of us who
have not been on a modern farm, or in
a barn for the past ten years, would
see a vast changeover the way things
are managed now than they were even
that decade ago.
In the same vein, people who have
not been in Clinton for ten years, will
note great changes, notonly in the
ownership of business places, but the
type of housing which people are erect-
ing; the many more homes than there
used •to 'be, increased size of schools,
three more churches, different types of
business.
More change is coming. Our town
is going to grow. The management of
the town's affairs -must keep in mind
the changes which are pending.
The taxpayer must be prepared to
continue his contributions toward keep-
ing the town in 'modern dress, even
though he may be asked to keep up
with the moderately high tax structure
which we now have.
Possibly the increased revenue
from increased assessment will see the
town through its next growing stages.
We rather think it will, for the finances
of Clinton are in good .shape.
But if it seems necessary to ask
for even more tax money, then we
think the town fathers would be justi-
fied in this, for Clinton must be ready
to accept the changes which time brings
about.
'Goderich To New Zealand
(Stratford Beacon -Herald)
A shipment of heavy machinery
which came along the Canadian Nation-
al line from Goderich, and through
Stratford, a few days ago, was a chunk
of. evidence that Canada can compete
with manufactured goods, in world,
:markets.
Pessimists will tell you that Canada
can sell farm products, minerals and
pulpwood in world competition, but that
our manufacturing industries are too
feeble to compete with those of other
countries.
A gloomy view of what will happen
to exports of Canadian manufactures
to Great Britain is at the root of some
of the fears about Euromart; factory -
made Canadian goods now being sold
to Britain have the benefit of a 17 per
cent tariff advantage against goods
from Western Europe, and if Britain
joins Euromart, this advantage will be
lost by Canadian exporters.
The rail shipment from the Domin-
ion Road Machinery Company at Gode-
rich, which came through Stratford,
was on its way to New Zealand. It con-
sisted of six big road graders. They
were going by rail to Saint John, New
Brunswick, vvhex'e they are to be loaded
aboard the SS Port Nelson, for Ship-.
rent by way of the. Panama Canal to
New Zealand. That's a long , way to go
in successful competition, and the Gode-
rich firm is doing it.
The six graders complete orders
fol a total of 11, bought by the New
Zealand. government. Three went last
year, and performed so Well `that the
New Zealanders ordered eight more.
Two Were shipped in January of
this year, and six to complete the order
are on their way noW. For this export
Shipment, the high cabs were taken off,
dismantled, and packed in with the
Main frame of the grader, to save cargo
Space aboard ship. The cabs tall be re.
assembled when they get there.
• This bit of export business is an
example of the way a seeming liability,
the Canadian winter`, can be made to
work as an asset. In Canada, counties
and townships normally reckon to use
their road graders as dual-purpose
equipment, converting them to work as
snowplows in the winter season. For
Canadian use, to buck snow and fight
winter storms, as well as to do normal
road maintenance in summer, the Cana-
dian designers and manufacturers have
to turn out a rugged product. When
the ruggedly -built Canadian machine
goes to work in countries which do not
have our winter conditions, the extra
ruggedness • shows up as extra dur-
ability,
The Goderich firm is demonstrat-
ing that when Canadians stir them-
selves abroad, and try to sell, we are
able to compete.
The Art of Living
To TOUCH the cup with eager lips
and taste not drain it;
To woo and tempt and court a bliss
--- and not attain it;
To fondle and caress a joy, yet
hold it lightly,
Lest it become necessity and cling
too tightly;
To watch the sunset in the west
Without regretting;
To hail its advent in the east
the night forgetting;
To smother care 'in happiness and
grief in laughter;
To hold the 'present close — not
questioning the hereafter;
To have enough to share — to know
the joyofgiving;
.
To thrill with ell the sweets of
life is living.
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WAITING FOR THE OTHER SHOE TO DROP
SUGAR and SPICE .
There's an aircraft flight
scheduled far this corning July
that I'd like to be taking. 1
read all about it in a letter
received the other day from
the air force branch of the
Prisoner of War Association.
Some of the boys, with their
wives, are .chartering 'a plane
to take them to the United
Kingdom, where they will visit
old .heunts.
Former prisoners of the
Germans call themselves
"ka iegaes". It's an abbrevia-
tion of the German word
"kriegsgefangenen" — or some-
thing of The sort. It'll be a
lively jaunt. There is to be
a well -stocked bar aboard. I
can visualize the antics when
some of•the old kriegies get imito
the grape.
* a: *
At one end of the 'aircraft,
the singers will be serenading
0/Riley's Daughter and other
ladies of that ilk. In the galley
somebody will be mixing up a
kriegiecake: pulverized biscuits,
powdered milk, man, and prune
es. There was never a eaike
recipe to beat that one for
sheer weight — 12 pounds to
the square foot. You can have
your Duncan Hines mix.
Some other character will be
setting out a batch of pure,
unadulterated kriegie brew. It's
made from potatoes, •turnips,
prunes or anything else that
will ferment. One hooker of
that stuff, and an angel can
turn in his wings. He doesn't
need them any more.
• Elsewhere in the aircraft,
some old-timer will be hammer-
ing away at empty powdered=
milk Minns, turning them inito.
cups, plates, jewelry and high-
powered machinery.
But I doubt if the expedition.
will ever make it to the IJ -K.
Some kriegie, who cut his way
through a six-inch concrete wall
with a nail file, 20 years ago,
and was en the loose for three
days before he *as caught, will
insist on demonstrating how he
did it. And when the whole bot-
tom falls out of the aircraft,
the others will have to agree
that he hasn't lost ,.his touch.
*
Every old kriegie is larcenous
at heart, and the pilot of that
aircraft is going to have his
hands full convincing thern that
he hasn't room on the return
trip for a few things they pick-
ed up in England, each as The
',rower of London:, princess
IVfargaret, Big .Ben, and the en-
tire saloon bar of The Gate
Hangs eligh or the Dirttry
Duck.
There's to be a grand reunion
party in London, with former
RAF kriegies. That'll be a
good one. T wonder if wee
Jock will be there, with his In-
verneee tongue that could peel
your hide? Wel Paddy B. make
it, and of he does, will the get
drunk and want to fight eNerr-.
body? I 'wonder • if Dave Will
show up and infuriate one and
all with 'his calm English view
that it`s time somebody "took
these •Catorde s in hand," mine at.
big us?
*
Tx'd'ttbl'e le, l: See thein, and
morin, like thein, as they Were
then: 'Wee Jock with hie nob..
hiy, •schoolboy face, Paddy as
strong es a bull and quick ,a5
a rabbit. {earn, blond Date
With his carnal Mariner, ledi
face, Inig'e tnrurstaehe. And All
of /tient just ,A year or two
elder, than the lads I'niteach.
ins 'in school eight new,
WOnit3t•t;'t 'it be terrIble of they
turned up for the lei dor parity
looking lust lie the rest of tiisf,
(By W. IL T. SMILEY)
thick around the middle and
thin an top; a whole lot less
interested in staying up all
night; and meekly murmuring,
"Yes, dear" to some strange
woman with a, cold, suspicious
eye in her head.
That letter about the trip
brought back t host of mem-
ories of prison -camp days. All
of them were good ones„
That's a beautiful piece of
machinery built into us humans
--the ability to forget the bad
times and remember only the
goad ones.
In retrospect, the life in pris-
on camp 'has a great attraction
for old kriegies. The reason, of
course, is because it was com-
pletely free of complication.
Thome were no jobs, no homes,
no anortgages, no cams, no chil-
dren, and no women to worry
'about.
• •
All the decisions were little
ones. You had 'to decide wheth-
er to have turnip soup or turnip
stew for dingier. You had to
decide whether to go on smell-
ing like a goat or to have a
midwinter bath with ice water
in
the unheated washhouse. You
had ;to decide whether to gobble
yourslice of bread in one glut-
tonous mouthful or nibble at
it for an hour.
Looking back from the welt-
er of payments and problems
and .children and wives in which
they are firmly morassed today,
it pis little wonder' that old
kriegies heave a sigh of nostal-
gia for the simple; ordered ex-
istenee of .the camp, Even
though they'd have sold their
own grandmothers into slavery
to get out of the ;place while
At The Library
(By MISS EVELYN HALL) '
A Passion In Rome
(Marley Callaghan)
Described on the jacket as a
major novel, this latest story
by Marley Callaghan Packs
something, that almost indefin-
able "something", that places
a book 'above others.
The story is not cluttered by
a mass of characters and to
it is extremely easy to follow
the thoughts and actions of the
two main characters. The set-
ting is. Rome in those weeks of
anxious waiting before the
death of tihe last Pope.
Sam Rayburn, a Canadian, a
newspaper phetogr:apher of no
mean ability is scheduled to
meet a feature writer in a
certain hotel. On arrival at the
hotel Sam is horrified to learn
that the man has come and
gone. Knowing nothing of the
language his efforts to com-
municate with the desk clerk
leaves hen quite frustrated. He
leaves the +hotel to walk off
his moodiness. He feels; lone-
ly, bitter and entirely bewilder-
ed.
His life up to then had been
lonely, cut off from his artisstic
father who despised' him when
he would not conform to plans
made for hen Secretly he had
dabbled at painting and just
before receiving this latest
assignment had came to the
conclusion that his talent did
not lie itt the 'field` of painrbing.
He wants to knave why he fail-
ed 'aad hopes that while he is
in Rome he may find .the are
saver.
There are places of beatity
V) vdeit, fine paintings to see.
It was on that first lonely
night 'that he caught a glimpse
of .a young lady who seemed
so desperately unhappy. He
Was coinpletely intrigued by
her and feta so strongly that
he would meet her again, and
in the best tradition of fiction
he ;does just this. Unable to
understand or speak Italian he
seeks the services of an inter-
preter. It does not take him
long to learn th.a't • she knows
the young lady, Carla Cane+li.
Born Anna Connell in New`
Jersey, She had found life hard
and brutal, ,and even her rise
to stardom as a folk singer
was too much for her. A severe
set'baek had knocked the props
from under her and she was
alnriost a mental wreck, a victim.
of steady drinking.
Sam feels that it is his duty
to rescue her and restore her
lost confidence. He finds a
small apartment and starts on
the uphill struggle to make
Carla feel a real person again.
He makes mistakes but is pleas-
ed to see the real Carla ,emerg-
ing from the blurred image.
Sant is surprised to learn that
he feels more like an artist
creating a masterpiece. He has
more talent at a confidence re-
storer than as a painter.
He proceeds .patiently and
cautiously with 'tins, plans only
to feel that all is lost when an
American producer hears Carla
sing in a small; restaurant and
pedes her that he will take
her back to the 'United' States
and manage her career.
Callaghan has a •good sato{',
but why dial' he have to pad, it
with such sordid quantities of
sex ,and; drink? Earlier it was
suggested that something was
lacking, maybe it was what
wan added that puts the book
into "the second.class". Osie
standard of a goobook .i.s how
many readers Will comment int
it voluntarily when it is .returns
ed, Se far no one .has made a
cotnmerit oh this one.
Merchants Meeting
Town • Hall
Tuesday, March 618 p m
ALL MERCHANTS WELCOME
Bring Your Ideas end raoke this n Bigger
end Better Meeting.
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40 Years .Ago
OU NToN NIPM 'PRA
Thursday, Marv11. 2, 1922
The first class gf nurses gr.
adAting from .Clinton Public
Hospital were Miss Margaaeert
Mucha id, Miss Annette S nelaxr
and 'Miss Fanny . MnKe'nziet
The received dip1gxnas dram
Dr, W. Gunn and ,pins from
Mrs. W. el, f 'ann.'ing first pros -
of the board, Special
gifts were presented by ?Vers.
N. W. Trewari ha, president of
the board, Dr. J. W. Shaw made
.the address. The ho, spital plant.
is now worth about $10,Q00 acid
flnailly paid for.
Jack Miner entertained a
large crowd at Wesltey Ghurgh
with his plain but humoa'ous
bellk about his cxlinnpanions i ip
with the wild things of the air,
1I. B. Chant and Ernest Rum-
ball hada narrow escape from
gas £amines at U e waterworks
Nous
pump . e Art S cele,
oovered the hien in time,
A ratepayer ;asks that Clin-
ton Piubdie School adorn the
idea of •purchasing text books
for lyupils.
40 Years .Ago
CLTNTON .NEWS-RL!'GORD
Thursday, March 2, 1923
W. E. O'Neil 'and Miss Win-
nifred O'Neil thave bought out
the Corner Grocery from F, W.
Wigg. They will continue to op-
erate their own store until ex-
piration of tine lease,
A London company has pur-
chased the Owen interest in
the •Clinton knitting concern
and it will be reorganized. We
understand Col. Combe will
continue to hold a large int-
erest in the new company.
Mrs. M. Brown has moved
from Londesboro to take pos-
session of the grocery recently
purchased ,from L. Strong.
"The Four ,Horsemen of the
Apocalypse" will be shown in
the Princess theatre next week.
The News -Record did not
come -out until 1130 p.na. Sat•
-
urday night awing to the power
failure.
,ary CS
25 Years Ago
,04/4T9Isi l WS- LECQ$D
Tbursd y, Vebrilary 27, 936
A .favorite {wall during the
past few weeks has been up
y negarr. TN111 to view tho snow
piled up on Qithetr ski of the
road, by line :many exertions
of the srlow 01oW. On $und'ay
a little racing car attempted
the road, buried its nose le the
soft saaow. The deriver, from
GoderiGh, s'irnply lit up .a cig-
arette. and wa'ite'd until those
Cutter ,drivers who lead ftp got
lakiraugh, got busy end, dug him
out.
0'oe M11rplhy, Royal Canadian
Corps signals, Carlip Borden,
spent the weekend with sea
parents, Mr. and Mrs, Bert
Murphy, Concession 2. Stanley.
Mn and Xr$•. J. W. Tippett,
Bayfield, celebrated their 57th
wedding anniversary on Valen-
tines Day.
'erYone' glad to see Mgr -
way 4 'tlhlrough, Londe -sieve .open
again to traffic.
Back in 1896 the News -Rec-
ord reported a telephone being
installed in the Wavee ey
House.
10 Years Ago
CLINTON NEWS -RECORD
Thursday, February 28, 1952
Tenders are .called for the
new $300,000 Public Sehool 'irt
Clinton.
Thomas Pryde, MP for Huron
is appointed Deputy Whip of
the Progressive Conservatives.
P/O J. R. Wood, Goderich,
was •aanong personnel graduat-
ing as radio operator from No.
1 AROS, RCAF Station. Clinton
last Friday 'afternoon.
Bayfield Lions saw pictures
of the Royal Family's tour of
Africa, shown by Robert Welsh
in the Little Inn.
Addition to MCI basely need-
ed. 325 enrolment expected this
fe>,1 for a building planned to
accommodate 180. •
Miss Ciama Hanson reserved
a jewel pin from the LOBA.
She as a Past Worthy Mistress.
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