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Organist: MISS LOIS GRASBY, A.R.C.T.
Pastor: REV. GRANT MILLS, B.A.
SUNDAY, JANUARY 14th
9:45 a.m.—Sunday School.
11:00 a.m.—Worship Service.
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Wesley-Willis — Holmesville United Churches •
REV. A. J MOWATT, C.D., B.A., B.D., RD., Minister
MR. LORNE DOTTERER, Organist and Choir Director
SUNDAY, JANUARY 14th
9:45 a.m.—Sunday School.
11:00 a.m.—Worship Service.
Sermon: "LOVE NEVER BREAKS DOWN"
HOLMESVILLE
1:00 p.m.—Holy Communion.
1:45 p.m.—Sunday School.
children isuffer
Robert L. Stanfield, national Pro-
gressive Conservative leader, has adopt-
ed a child . in Brazil. He and his wife,
Mary are sponsoring a nine-year-old
girl, Maria Regina Silva.
As foster parents, Jr. and Mrs.
Stanfield will pay $1.6 a month. Maria's
family will receive $8 of this in cash,
plus warm clothing, dental and medical
care and "other aid", according to a
four-page publicity blurb issued by the
Foster Parents' Plan.
Such generosity by the new P.C.
leader is commendable. Children in
want should be helped wherever they
are discovered. It is difficult to argue
against Mr. Stanfield's action.
Under the Foster Parents' Plan, a
U.S. organization founded in 1937, it
is possible to sponsor children in
Greece, Hong Kong, Korea, The Philli-
pines, Viet Nam, Columbia, Ecuador and
Peru. Undoubtedly, in these countries
there is great need. But there is no men-
tion of Canada. There is great need
here, too.
Mr. Stanfield is not alone. Canada's
- partial list of foster parents, printed on
the Foster Parents' Plan letterhead, al-
ready reads like a political Who's-Who:
Lester Pearson, John Diefenbaker, Paul
Martin, George Hees . . . And the U.S.
list reads like a show-business 'Blue
Book: Jack Benny, Bing Crosby, Art
Linklettei-, Eve Arden . . .
Perhaps the juxtaposition of Cana-
dian politicians and U.S. show-business
personalities has some significance.
General George Vanier, the late gover-
nor general, and Mrs. Vanier, both
justly renowned for their sympathetic
work with children — and far above the
scramble for publicity — are missing
from the list of Canadian foster parents.
Foster Parents' Plan described the
Stanfield-sponsored child's plight this
way: "Maria is one of six children. They
live, 'with their father and mother in a
hut made of packed mud on the out-
skirts of Niterbi, across the bay from Rio
de Janeiro. All around them are similar
shacks, The family has been struggling
to survive on an income, equivalent to
$9.25'a week, which the' father earns
as a truck driver's helper . . ."
• Change the locale to Canada.
"Maria is one of six children. They
live with their father and mother in a
tarpaper shack on an Indian reserve
not far from a typical Canadian town.
All around them are similar shacks. The
family has been struggling to survive
on welfare payments, which the father
earns through chronic unemploy-
ment . • ."
Slum children beg daily in the
streets of every large Canadian city.
A recent editorial printed in the
Goderich Signal-Star supported French-
English bilingualism and berated "petty
Anglo-Saxon conceit" that allegedly
prevented national acceptance of .two
official languages.
"As our once-big world shrinks
into the McLuhanesque 'global village',"
the editorial sums up, "we in Canada
are in an excellent position to grow
to meet the demands of that shrinkage."
May it be suggested here that the
"global village" exists only in the edi-
torial writer's head — which is certainly
no global metropolis.
What difference does it make
whether Canadians have one official
language, or two languages, or nine?
Of course, with just one language, the
horde of translators now on the public
payrolls would be redundant.
Millions of tax dollars have al-
ready been squandered by a handful
EDITORIAL
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Some do it for extra spending money;
most are hungry.
. If a well-meaning Canadian took
one of these children into a restaurant
for a meal, he would be suspect. If he
took the child home, even with parental
consent, he would risk shrieks of pro-
test from the two children's aid socie-
ties.
These societies, both Catholic and
Protestant, are responsible for child
welfare in Canada. Neither of them
are federal government agencies in the
sense that their employees are civil
servants, although they are monstrous
bureaucratic boondoggles.. They are
private charitable organizations. Only
religious differences separate them. Too
often, these differences work to the
detriment of their wards.
At best, it takes six months of in-
tensive investigation by children's aid
workers before a Canadian family can
reasonably expect to adopt a child. This
seems incongruous when,the workers
claim they are forced fo seridch'ildrem
overseas because they cannot find
Canadian homes for them.
Surely, before fostering a foreign
child, worthy though the' idea might
be, Mr. Stanfield and his fellow
politicians might offer their philan-
thropy to Canadian waifs.
An alternative would be to adver-
tise for persons in overprivileged coun-
tries, say West Germany or Scandinavia,
willing to sponsor Canadian children
who are underprivileged.
of nitwits examining this question of
bilingualism. What they came up with
as a final answer was, basically, that
some Canadians speak English, some
speak French, and some (cheers) even
speak both languages.
It might be mentioned for the
benefit of those public servants wishing
to spend more money on the language
problem that in Toronto, Canada's most
populous city (2,000,000), ;about 250,-
000 persons speak Italian, 80,000 speak
German, and 20,000 speak Greek.
But if there is an argument pro
or con two languages on official docu-
ments as well as cereal boxes, an irritat-
ed Signal-Star reader made this point:
"In Canada„ the French fought the
English and the French lost. If he (the
editorial writer) can't follow this line
of thinking, he should join the Brown-
ies."
Now, as Anglo-Saxon conceit, that
is hardly petty!
Martyrdom of Brebeuf and Lalemant, 1649.
The Jesuit missionaries came to New France
to establish schools and hospitals, ensure the
spiritual development of the settlers and carry
Christianity to the Indians. But only a fraction
of the tribes lived at settlements on the St.
' Lawrence, so the Jesuits went out to seek the
natives. The most famous mission was to the
Huron villages in the stretch of land between
Lake Simcoe and Georgian Bay. Here the
missionaires worked while the fiery Iroquois
Planned genocide - the annihilation of the Hurons
The Iroquois had been raiding the flotillas of
Huron canoes on the way down the Ottawa to
Montreal since about 1640. But in the summer
of 1648 they stormed the outpost village of St.
10 years ago
THE CLINTON NEWS-RECORD
January 9, 1958
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Riehl
and family of Capreol, spent
their Christmas holidays at
their home in Clinton.
Mr. and Mrs. KennethRober.
ton and Sandra, Aylmer, Mrs.
Edgar Thompson, Detroit, spent
New Year's holidays at the
home of their parents, Mr.
and Mrs. George Roberton.
Miss Margaret Howard re
turned - to Harba COIlege ort
Sunday - eVening' aftbi' having
spent the Christmas vacation
with her parents, Mr. and Mrs.
J, E. Howard, Hayfield.
Bert Clifford was elected
LETTERS TO THE
EDITOR
Dear Sir: On behalf of the
patients at the Ontario Hos.
pital Goderich many thanks to
all the volunteers in the Clinton
area for their visits to the hos.
pital during 196'7 and for the
stockings filled at Christmas.
Your dontimied interest will
be much appreciated. My thanks
also to Mrs, R. Horriuth co.
ordinator Of volunteers iii Clin.
ton,
Mrs, Anti Redmond
Ontario Hospital
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Joseph and murdered its priest, Father Daniel.
In March of the following year the Iroquois re.
turned to Huronia and surrounded the mission of
St. Ignace. After a fierce battle the missionwas
reduced to ashes and the Iroquois pressed on to
St. Louis where Fathers Jean de Brebeuf and
Gabriel Lalemant were preparing the villagers
against the attack. ButSt. Louis, near the present
city of Midland, Ontario, fell under the attack
and the fathers captured. To assure themselves
of victory in war the Iroquois that nighttortured
Brebeuf and Lalemant to death with flame and
red-hot irons. By killing, and by taking prisoners
who later became 'one people with them, the
Iroquois went on to destroy the Hurons.
hals and children, M. J. Schoen.
hals" and Mr, and Mrs. E. C,
Nickle spent New Year's Day
with Mr. and Mrs. George Mc.
Cague, Harriston,
Mr. and Mrs. Walter M. West-
lake left on Wednesday morn.
ing to travel.by airoplane from
London to Vancouver, B.C. to
visit their eldest son, William
and family, and youngest son,
Garfield.
25 years ago
THE CLINTON NEWS-RECORD
Thursday, January 14, 1943
Miss Violet McClymont, Bay.
field, left on Sunday for Ethel
where she has secured a posi.
Lion.
Misses Betty Brandon and
Helen Miller of Sky Harbour,
Goderich, were weekend visi.•
tors at their homes in town.
Francis Evans of the Galt
Aircraft School spent the week.
end at his home in town.
40 years ago
THE CLINTON NEWS-RECORD
Thursday January 12, 1928
Mrs. Herbert Wallis and two
little sons, Lawrence and Don.
ald of D'rcy, Saskatchewan
and Miss Maude Stirling of
Owen Sound came on Saturday
to visit their mother Mrs. Wil.
Liam Stirling, Hayfield.
Mrs. Fred Sloman and little
Miss Joan arrived from
Capreol on Monday to visit
relatives in.town.
Miss Dorothy Mutch visited
Auburn friends last week.
Miss A. Bartliff returned on
Saturday to resume her duties
as resident nurse at the Boy's
College, Aurora.
55 years ago
THE CLINTON NEW ERA
Thursday, January 9, 1913
Miss Jennie Holines leaves
this, week on a visit with relax
tives and friends at Gorrie,
Paisley and other Northern
towns.
Mrs. H. B. Chant and Miss
Mary Chant will be at home next
Tuesday from 4 to 6 p.m.
Jas, Spackman has started a
new chopping outfit in the old
church in Hayfield andis expect.
ing a large patronage.
Mrs. George Crooks, Base
Line, spent the New Year's
holidays with her parents at
Delhi.
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FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH
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Pastor: JACK HEYNEN, B.A.
SUNDAY, JANUARY 14th
9:45 a.m.—Sunday School.
11:00 a.m.—Church Service.
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ST. PAUL'S ANGLICAN CHURCH
Rev, R. W. Wenham, L.Th., Rector
Miss Catharine Potter, Organist
SUNDAY, JANUARY 14th — EPIPHANY 2
8:00 a.m.—Holy Communion.
9:45 a.m.—Church School.
11:00 a.m.—Morning Prayer.
January 17—Friendship Guild Pot Luck Supper-6:30 p.m.
January 18—Chancel Guild meeting at home of Mri.
Wenham, 8:15 p.m.
ST. ANDREW'S PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
The Rev. R. U. MacLean, B.A., Minister
Mrs. M. J. Agnew, Organist and Choir Director
Mrs. B. Boyes, Supply Organist and Choir Director
SUNDAY, JANUARY 14th
9:45 a.m.—Sunday School.
10:45 a.m.—Worship Service.
— EVERYONE WELCOME —
CHRISTIAN REFORMED CHURCH
Guest Preach: P. VAN KATWYK, Stratford
SUNDAY, JANUARY 14th
Guest Preacher: REV. TROERE, Blyth
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Tuesday', 8:00 p.m.—Prayer and
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mayor at the annual meeting of
the Clinton TeenTown. Support.
ing him will be Reeve Douglas
Norman,
15 years ago
THE C LINTON NEWS-RE C ORD
Thursday, January 8, 1953
Mr. M. T. Corless, resigned
from his position as clerk and
treasurer of the town of Clin.
ton after 12 years of service.
Mr. and Mrs. A. J. McMur.
ray left on Saturday to motor
to Florida where they plan to
spend a month visiting in St.
Petersburg and Miami,
Mr. and Mrs. W, E. O'Neil,
Halifax, N,S.; Mr. and Mrs.
M. J. Cook and. Betty, Sarnia;
Mr. and Mrs. R. J. So.hnpn.
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Sunday Masses-9:00 a.m. and 11:00 a.m.
Confessions—Before Sunday Masses and 7 p.m. to 8 p.m.,
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Chaplain—S/L THE REV. F. P. DeLONG
SUNDAY, JANUARY 14th
Holy Communion—Following Divine Service, 1st Sundays
' 8:30 a.m.' on other Sundays
Sunday School-9:30 a.m.' (Nursery Department at 11 a.m,)
Divine Service-11:00 a.m.
' Interviews, Baptisms, etc. -- By Appointment
Phone 482.3411, Ext. 247 or Ext. 303 after hours
Pentecostal Church
Victoria Street
W. Werner, Pastor
Sunday, January 14th
9:4S a.m.--Sunday School.
11t00 a.M.—Worship Service.
7:30 p.m.—Evening Service.
Friday, 8 p.m.--YPU Meeting