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iGt)ing 1E 111* Dogs
OUR TOWN may be going to the
dogs, but any remedy may PrOVe more
costly than the taxPayers. .WOWld like
to SeP.
We note that ListOWel, a town .of
3,500 people, and presumably with as
many dogs as Clinton has been investi,
gating remedies, TO hire an Out -of,
town dog catching Unit, from London,
Listowel figured a Year round Ontract
would cost $2,470.
'This cost would include daily
Patrols, with a mobile Unit equipped
with radio ancl uniformed servicemen.
Besides catching dogs, the service would
include collecting dog taxes, disposing
of animals and investigating mistreat-
ment of the animals.
Cost is one thing. Results is a.n-
other.
We find it hard to understand why
the People of Listowel, or in Clinton
should apparently want to have dogs
as pets, and then not be ready to com-
ply with regulations concerning them.
A cost of $2,470 for a town of 3,500
PePPle, means a cost per person of 79
Cents,
It does not seem reaSonable that
•a family with five children, WhQ Might
desparately want a dog, yet not be Per-
mitted to have ono, Should be charged
$4.90 in order that dogs belonging to
other families who will not take care
of them, should be rounded up and
destroyed,
The thing does not make sense,
Basically this problem of dog control rests with the elected councillors
of a municipality. The first steps in the
control, seems to be a by-law setting
forth the rules, and the penalties. Clin,
ton has Such a by-law.
The next step is to see that rules
are adhered to, We would presume
that this should be done as economical-
ly as possible, yet as effectively as pos-
sible.
Let's get on with the job.
Business Going Out-of-town
(Hanover Post)
An influx of third class mail ad-
vertising from out -of town stores should
make Hanover merchants cognizant of
a few facts. The foremost fact is this.
These stores are probably selling con-
siderable merchandise to people in this
tovvn, or they would not waste their
advertising here. Some of these towns
are smaller than ours—and a few of
them are larger.
Secondly, these out-of-town merch-'
ants are taking prospects from right
under the noses of Hanover merchants.
How are they doing it? Advertising!
Too many of our local merchants seem-
ed to feel they have "it made." They
are sitting back resting on their laurels
and reputation. .' and loosing custom-
ers. They do not believe in newspaper
advertising. Advertising has long been
established as the most effective mer-
chandising media available to business-
men. The successful merchants, inclu-
sively, advertise regularly. We have
them here. You see their advertise-
ments regularlyin The Hanover 'Post.
Ask thein! They will tell you that ad-
vertising pays.
The "buy at home" theory is fine,
and we endorse it, But home -town buy-
ing is a fifty-fifty proposition. Certain-
ly people should attempt to purchase
their needs here. At the same time,
merchants are obliged to make known
their goods, prices and bargains —
through advertising.
Buyers are not always to blame
if they go elsewhere. Every person is a
potential customer. The wise merchant
who reaches them first through the
media of advertising is the' merchant
who secures a buyer. Merchants who
continually find fault because people go
elsewhere to shop should remember an
old saying. The early bird gets the
worm!
Water From Lake Huron?
(Huron Expositor, Seaforth)
Opinion in London as to the best
method of ensuring an adequate supply
of water for that city is divided be-
tween those favoring Fanshaw as a
source,. and those who regard a pipe-
line from Lake Huron as the Only an-
swer. At this distance it, would seem
the additional. capital necessary to pro-
vide a pipeline is all that prevents a
decision for lake water.
Whatever London decides, the dis-
cussion does bring attention to bear on
the water problems which today face
so many municipalities. It becomes
more and more apparent that as the
population grows and tends to gather
in increasingly larger cities, the only
reliable water source will be the lakes.
Faced with this knowledge, it would
seem desirable that the Ontario Water
Resources Commission.study a potential
network of pipelines to serve the water
needs of Western and Central Ontario.
Such a system would be costly, and as
discussions in London indicate, could be
beyond the financial resources of a
municipality. This suggests that the
success of such a system must rest on
a broader tax base than that of an
individual town, city or county. The
answer perhaps would be an enterprise
paralleling Hydro.
In view of the tremendous demands
for water which such a system would
create, the study might well include
the effects which would result to lake
levels. There would then be no need
for undue concern on the part of these
centres along the shores of the lakes,
who are dependent upon a. reasonably
static water level.
• Time Of Decision
(Wingham Advance -Times)
The next two or three months will
be important ones for 'most of our high
school students. With the drastic chang-
es which have been made in education-
al programs this year, the projected
construction of new vocational schools
in this area, and the increased emphasis
on education for every young person,
there is a new and sharp demand that
young people give thought to their own
future.
By the end of Grade IX a student
has to make some decisions about his
course for the next year, and by the
end of Grade X he should be Making up
his mind about how he expects to earn
his living. He will not be forced to
make these decisions unaided. The voca-
tional guidance person in each school
will have his record df the student's
achievements and so will be able to
offer a good deal of sound advice on his
likelihood of success in any selected
course of stUdy.
This emerging need for early de-
cisions on the part of the students
points up the need for a welt -rounded
program of guidance, even in public
sehdol. If a teen-ager is to be asked to
make up his mind about his life's work,
he will need the available results of
httelhgentassessment a his capabilities
all through school life,
The construction df central schools
in rural areas has met with a good deal
of Opposition from parents and rate-
'
payers, who bemoan the fact that their
children will be carted off on buses to
schools several miles from home. The
central, school plan may well have its
draw backs, but it is becoming increas-
ingly apparent that the old one -room
school simply cannot meet the needs
of today's children. One teacher cannot
adequately handle the whole range of
subjects in each grade of public school,
and still have time to keep records of
the varying abilities of each of her
pupils.
A Japanese 'Saying
Nara ga fukureba mega tarumu
"When your stomach gets
full, your eyelids droop"
There's a chuckle behind the
thought that a fat man's skin is stretch-
ed and pulled down over his eyes, but
there's a far More serious meaning be-
hind the saying. The lapanese, a people
;famous for their industriousness-, are
really saying that a man's mind is not
at its best either when he has just fin-
ished a big, sleap-indwing meal or, more
significantly, if he allows prosperous
living to MI him into laziness, In Eng-
lish, We Might express this by saying:
"When yon get fat and lazy, yoUr Mind
gets dull." (The New Japan)
Clinton News -Record
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SUGAR and SPICE .•
(By W. � r. SIVOLEY1
It may still be snowing in 'Whitehorse,
Though I hope for their sakes that it ain't.
But this unprediotable hussy
Would elicit bad words from a saint.
You don't know to whom I'm referring?
I'm sure you're acquainted, old thing.
The lady whose name I am slurring
Is greeted with rapture as "Spring"
And that's pretty horrible
deggerel, But it represents my
long -held and -carefully consid-
ered opinion of the character eff
that particular season which is
suspposed to follow ort the heels
of winter, but is usually so flat'
behind that /she's out of sight.
It has been my .custom to
write an arintral and. extremely
illstempered column about 'sp-
ring. For year's; my opinion of
this .greatly overrate d season
has been similar to that of a
dying man who calls for water
and is given healthy slug of
vinegar.
* * *
For years, I have longed to
get hold off one of those poets
s/vho burble about the tiny cro-
cuses polcing their heads up to
the sun, and show him some of
the stuff that pokes its head
through the snow around our
place, in the spring.
This year, we've had such a
delightful spring here, so far,
that I find myself in an unusu-
alllY inelksw mood. This year, I
cannot bring myself to vilify,
spring. Evert toughI Imo*.
penfectly' well that behind that
disguise of chaste and gentle
maiden with the warm sweet
breath, lies a cold-hearted old
harridan. Even though I know
that she will probably produce
a wind that would freeze the
brains out of a brass monkey,
along about Opening Day of the
trout season.
It must have been that won-
derful month of March that
softened me. Almost every day,
the yellow sun nibbled daintily
at the huge, cruel banks of ice
and snow until they were sud-
denly gone All except the big
one behrin,d the garage, an top
of the picnic table. It will be
there until july,
* * *
I hate to destroy a tradition,
and I'm doing it with my fing-
ers fercissed, which makes 'typing
rather awkward, but this year,
I'm going to weite a salute to
spring. I'm going to say nice
things about her. Shell blush
and weep all over the place. So
get your s'utrip pumps' reedy.
Let's face it. Were it not for
the belief that life will return
to our frozen land annually,
everybody north of the 49th
pameellel would be running
around drooling and gibbering
by the middle of March.
Spring is like Santa Claus,
She has something good for,
everybody.. She brings pore de-
light for the kids, Skipping rop-
es 'and marbles arid' mud. And
mud and mud and Mud And
off with the rubberts, and into
it, the Mtrittte rorty baek is
turned,
For the elderly, perhaps more
than anyone, the lengthening
days, the warming sun, are a'
bleesing and" a jby. Cold and
darkness and the eternal efeemy
who lurks in the shadows are
beaten again. Life, however
tremulous, blOSSOMS and fear
and pain retreat.
*
For mother, she. brings
To offset the tracking in of
dirt and the constant battle
over wearing enough clothes,
'with the kids, there are the
touches of ,reprieve from mad-
ness: a, goofy spring hat, a flow-
er peering up from the earth; a
wild, • new shade of paint for
the kitchen/.
Dacl gets his presents, too,
Car body rusted in spots; a fuel
bill like the national debt; April
30 and the Receiver General ly-
ing in wait. But he can stand
it. The ice on the lakes is
gone. The golf course is drying
up, And a Sunday jaunt on the
inuddly sideroads has discovered
a new trout stream of superla-
tive potential.
Teensagers turn peculiar in
the spring, as she pouts potions
into their blood and bones. Eyee
gaze vacaetly at teachers, Bod-
ies are one moment utterly list-
less, the next, supercharged
with energy. There is a ,great
increase bunting and pusfhing
and hand -holding and ebanding
about on corners, .md long
looks.
*
But the trollop has only be-
gun to distribute her laztesse,
when we list these. There's
the lovely •smell of rotting earth
corning alive as it crawls front
the tomb. There's the chitter of
birds and the chuckle of run-
ning water. There's the grand,
spring feel of yielding ground
underfoot again.
Gone is the sombre charcoal
sketch that wasf winter. Here'
a touch of green, there a flick
of yellow, yonder a smudge of
brown. How warming are they
to eyes that have grown cold
and pale with looking at ice.
There, how's that for an ode
to spring? And if it's snowing
when I step out tomorrow
morning serves me right.
Letters to Editor • • •
(Feillowing is a letter from
the Lendbn Free Press of April
2,, It waeakawn to our attens
ti411 by a News -Record reader,
and we agreed that it was
Worthy of re -printing.) '
On Councillor's Pay
Sir: Recently your paper car-
ried a report of Mayor E. S.
Vance of Tillsoriburg rejecting
his council's offer of an increase
in. gallery. For the stand which
he has taken, Mayor Vance
should be acclaimed by every
right thinking citizen 'across
the country. In recant years the
ran-nber of :municipal councillors
who have raised their own sal-
aries shortly after ,befing elect-
ed this been notorious,
A,s Mr. Vance well says, "If
a man is not willing to, serve at
the existing remuneration, then
the time for him. to say so is
before election and not after."
Certainly any proposed increase
Should be fannounced before an
election. This iniquitious proce-
dure has not been confined to
municipal councillors. It was
perpetrated by the Liberal Gov-
ernment at Ottawa after the
laSt election.
It is not entirely a matter of
what men are worth — though
we do believe that public men
have over -played the "poor
mouth" plea in recent years'.
After many rnen and women
give hours rand hours of ser -
Wee rnboards of education and
hospital boards without receiv-
ing one cent in the forThi of pay.
But should public men be due
for an inerease at times, let
these ,inoreases be predefined
openly ;above board and before
hand. A Matter—a Very import-
ant Matter—of principle is in-
volved, 'The practice whet is
becoming alT toe general is def-
initely not ethical.
How would any one of us like
to hire a servant at a certain
salary and for a definite period
only to have that same servant
hold a gun to us a few weeks
later saying that he was re-
mairring for the duration but
that he would forcibly extract
.a fhigher salary! Public repre-
sentatives who increase their
ofwn remuneration immediately
after election place their elec-
tors in a comparable position.
Many times we have talked
against and spoken openly
against this design of public
conduct. Surely our elected re-
presentatives ought to be the
very exemplars of the loftiest
rules of ethic,
P. M. DEWAN
(Former Crawl°
Minister of Agriculture)
Ingersoll
Remedy For Dogs
To the Editor:
About the abundance of dogs
around town, I have an idea
that might help the situation:
If all male dogs were castrated;
that would put an end' to most
of /the unwanted' pups.
Male dugs of a particular
breed, if kept for stud use,
could have special licences. I'm
not against mongrels, but usual-
ly if someone 'has a purebred
diog, they are not likely to leave
it running loose.
One thing with mongrels, al-
though all baby pups are cute,
they don't always grow like
their ma. In faot, most of them
end up as chips off the old
bloek, quite large chips in some
cases, And the nice little pup
the kids fetched home turns out
big enough: to pull a milk wag-
on! Houses being what they
are these days, there just isn't
room for the large economy
size, so "Out you go, Buteh! '
and there you are.
It would alto help if people
didn't giVe pups away to' chil-
dren. They'll always take them,
you know. It's best to Task the
parents. Unwanted pups are
best off put to sleep painlessly
by the vetenitariart.
Interetted Party.
P.S. I like clogs, too!
PETER'S
Modern MEAT Market
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SMOKED bitii FRESH .
YOUNG BEEF LIVER .. 350 lb,
PICNIC HAMS 47C Ib. wEINERs v ,,,, ...v.„...„. got lb,
40 Ya* Ago .
JNTQNl`tivws.n.Wo13,0
Thetettay.. .A444104 192g
0:e9rge Stipigy
deot p Oothrie $,treet
spring $bew xnosteooco$04
▪ thee 1913. T1tere Ri7cPrt
.ecintourSe of people, ,Showor.4.
barely a4 ale 404,
i. tiav,i$ vy0" first ipg4;e fog,
best ihdy driver.. Aest threa
baitea t..owre.$11V 01151$$ w04
Wcin: 4fan:E. Voth-
eriogOarri .apt! prP4OVit Brel„
all of IVelceminith,
)3irOW4i, .4 Co, Oft.e.
Easter eggs at coe cent -each.
.,1‘lame. Sir1iig at pOrr'
lho,s some .spring wbeat
sewn already.
A letter conained at or4Y
50 **mpg ooplci be .hoeseel
hotel bares, and .the town bad"
needed -0c14111144A0, .ebect..
There are five trains in and
out of Clinton 40y .except Sun,
day, with taiffett-parketr car
and first -plass vestibule eoaob-
In oath clinopuou.
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40 Years Ago
oirJ1STTON NEW ERA
,Thursday, April 13, 1922
Herb Cox, Goderich Town-
ship, president of ‘the Spring
Show reports a good fair, A. J.
Malurray, Clinton's booster,
wants ,another $100 added to
'the prize list for horses. E.
Wise and Son had. top place
Shorthorn bull.; Charles Lind-
say, Clinton, prize Aberdeen
Angus.
Dr. S. W. Shaw, M01.1, has
called for the .annual elean,
qf the town.
Lest Friday morning, the
horse attaahed to the bread
wagon of Brown's Bakery fall
upset in the ditch on Victoria.
Street opposite Mrs, J. John-
son. Outside of a few pieces of
h arness being broke no other
damage was done.
Mr. Stewart, the new black-
smith at Lcaidesboro, hes mov-
ed this family to the village.
Clinton. Boy Scouts are plan-
ning a county Scout program
here on May 24.
25 Yrs Ago
pormroN isrAvv$40Dogn
Pmrschty, AprIk 8,18,81
'Pa1 Clinton 4a rodOc-
ed one 2Ing ttda year to 43
rilputpeals' sosQi.54e3rfor351737,1
Lon Frank Firigl'and welcont,
110*PY 'team to a
banquet in the ,St, au.. ariah
13aok in 1897 the New Era
mported that 3Wt Kerr beAl
teloest Wet. the 'repair AlePart-
„moot 0f mensent's Bles'ele
$talhc: ssels! ti.cd
Alden °rich, Seafeetle end
JoTurnbull, Bru
for timt ogee in ,the live stock
jedging ,eompetition aq1aton
SiPrIlnEg, re413.eY, Znridl., offers
Rock and Leghorn chicks day
oId for eight cents,
W. R. Lobb was harried bY
Goderiet Township melon to
fill the vacancy on the Tele
-
Phone .Commissicn eatised teT
the death of W. J. '
10 Years Ago
CLINTON NEWS -RECORD
Thursday, April A, 1952
Clinton Public School' teach-
ers' will have salaries ranging
from 32,000 to $2,500. This in-
cludes ta $200 rise this year,
F/L G. J. Ruston tend F/O
Bowers RCAF Station Centre, -
Ilia, navigated the Maiit1an Riv-
er for 25 miles, going over the
Maitland Falls, and on to PIP.
er's Dam where they landed.
Robert P. Allan, 13rucefield,
is president of Huron Junior
Farinerts. Isabelle Spier, Ha 3,
Biiussein heads the county Jun-
ior Institute,
Harry OM, Jdni 1Vlarraghan
Patrick Kyle, aged 13, 11 and
10 were rescued frorn en'abut-
rnent on the Bayfield River aft-
er a trip by raft equipped with
homemade paddles.
Robert Elliott, Son of Mr. and
Mrs. Melvin Elliott, is named
to the London Free Pres Lead-
ers Club from (MCI.
A. J. McMurray's Red Crass
campaign raised 31,900 in the
district to date.
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