Clinton News-Record, 1969-03-13, Page 2`Clinton News- Record, Thursday,. March 13, 1909
Editorial comment
Not bread alone
Those who believe that an agricultural
revolution will solve many of the world's
pressing problems would do well to reflect
on recent comments by Lord Ritchie
Calder, president of Britain's Conservative
Society. There are, he said, other
problems confronting man - not the least
of which is the population explosion -
threatening the prospect of a "hell on
earth" unless something is done.
There are, of course, conflicting views
on world hunger, C. P. Snow recently
forecast widespread famine before the end
of the century, Robert McNamara,
president of the World Bank, believes that
"we are now on the brink of an
agricultural revolution as significant as
any development since the industrial
revolution. And UN Secretary General U
Thant, while acknowledging this hopeful
sign, maintains that "the population
problem remains a • major source for
anxiety for it has to be viewed in a much
wider context than the food -population
equation."
The latter point was supported by
Lord Calder in his reference to "an
avalanche of children smothering every
effort at progress in • the developing
countries." It is not that parents in those
countries are necessarily having more
children, he observed, but that more
children are surviving. And it is children
who ultimately suffer.
Lord Calder's concern, however, went
even further. He spoke, also, about the
cost and danger of disposing of atomic
waste, and about the pollution of rivers
and streams. He criticized scientists and
decision -makers for acting "out of
ignorance" and pretending, it is
"knowledge."
"My concern," he said, "is to preserve •
the human spirit not from the hell
hereafter but from hell upon earth." • to
other words, scientific "advancement" is
not good enough if men fail to consider,
also, its social implications. The point
cannot be made too often. (Montreal
..Star)
Coin confusion
To the average spender, there is more
than 20 cents difference between the new
25 -cent piece and the nickel. Some say
the nickel is larger and the 25 -cent piece
smaller. Others say the 25 -cent piece is
lighter and the nickel heavier. But all
agree the two coins al,e too darn much
alike.
What are the real, differences? Acting
master, Royal Canadian Mint, E. F.
Brown says the dimensions haven't
changed a bit. In switching over to nickel
from silver in 1968, the 25 -cent piece
became 12 grains lighter (there are 480
grains in a Troy ounce) so it takes a
sensitive hand to weigh the difference. At
present the nickel weighs 70 grains and
the 25 -cent piece 78 grains so it takes an
even finer hand, it would seem, to
differentiate the two coins. -
But the confusion according to the
mint, is a matter of . color. Since both
coins are pure nickel now, they have the
same shiny sheen. Silver sounds more
exciting but it has a duller gloss.
Last year the mint stamped out 88.6
million 25 -cent pieces and 99.2 million
nickels. In view of the confusion, is there
any hope that the Mint will color or
change the size of succeeding batches of
change?. There are no plans at present to
change the coins, says the Mint, (Ottawa
Journal).
Sign in Wingha,n Photo by McG
A matter of course
by W. Jene Miller
The empty pew
There is, it seems to me, only
one way for a man to stay in the
Christian ministry and save his
soul and his mind. Every week
some publication comes forth
with some great article about
why someone left the ministry.
I have come to believe that
the ministers of this generation
are in reality missionaries to the
past. They must realize that
those. brave souls who faced the
stone -age cultures of darkest
Africa were not facing any more
primitive, hostile and obsolete
way of life than the young
seminary scholar who stands
behind a pulpit in a North
American church today.
They have to confront habits,
attitudes, superstitions and
organizational structures that are
go, therefore, not to condemn,
but to redeem the people, to
bring them into a courageous
faith, to enable them to
surrender the idols of their
emotional conditioning, that
they may face the world of
tomorrow with the same
tenacity they use in clinging to
yesterday.
And, as in any missionary
enterprise, there will be a lot of
blood shed, both figuratively
and literally. Already ministers
have been hounded out of
pulpits by the Ghost of Ages
Past. There have been bombings,
economic reprisals and
or for the Church.
The Christians like to stand in
conceit over the Jews who felt
that the Covenant of Abraham,
Isaac and Jacob was forever. But
the very founder of Christianity
said . that if the owner of the
vineyard could not get his
servants to co-operate, he would
utterly destroy them and give
the vineyard to others.
to stand in conceit over the Jews
who felt that the Covenant of
Abraham, Isaac and Jacob was
forever. But the very founder of
Christianity said that if the
owner of the vineyard could not
get his servants to co-operate, he
institutional betrayals of would utterly destoy them and
ministers by the Ghost of the give the vineyard to others.
Present Age. The choice of the religious
The Ghost of the Future also world is regeneration or
has a ' tombstone in his degeneration. This is what
as. out of date in. •the; 21st:, :pictographr'Fherony'question is Scripture means when it records,
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by Bill Smiley
Sugar and spice
Last week I wrote a column
which must have made faithful
readers believe I was either
taken with drink, or breaking
down mentally. It was full of
joy and good spirits, looking
on the bright side, and reveal-
ing silver linings.
It's a great relief to me, and
it must be to you, to go back to
normal. Last week was a brief
mental abberration. This week,
I'm back to my old sane, snar-
ly, misanthropic self: the man
my wife calls "Old Stoneface,"
What I propose to do today
is act as your alter -ego, the
brooding, dark self that is hid-
den behind your bright, sunny
exterior. I'm going to let .you
take out your aggressions, vi-
cariously, through mine,
I'll list what I despise and
detest in our society. Send in
your own special beefs, and
we'll keep the column going
for months. Everybody hates
something.
There is no particular order
to these items. My venom ex-
tends with equal virulence to
each.
First, Non - returnable bot-
tles. I know. The old ones were
bad enough, cluttering up
shelves and basement floors
until you had a car -load. It was
a half -day's work to take them
back to the store and haggle
over them, because the store
said they didn't sell this brand
or that.
But you could get rid of
them. And for kids, they were,
in many instances, their sole
source of income, Many a Sat-
urday I spent as a boy, search-
ing ditches for miles, and coin-
ing home With 32 cents for a
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IN CANADA
day's work.
The non -returnable bottle is
about as easy to get rid of as
chronic arthritis. I demand
that their manufacturers give
every customer, free, a plastic
bucket, filled with a solution
which will instantly dissolve
the cursed things when they're
dropped into it.
The same goes for cans that
hold drinks, whether beer or
pop. In ten years, you won't be
able to step on a piece of
nature south of the Arctic Cir-
cle without twisting your ankle
on an empty beer -can.
Next. Long-distance dial tele-
phone calls. A few years ago,
you gave. your number to good
old operator, and within a rea-
sonable time, you got your par-
ty, or didn't.
On the do-it-yourself plan,
with a string of digits as long
as your leg, anything can hap-
pen. A friend of mine called
his son in Montreal the other
night. He didn't have his
glasses on, and wound up talk-
ing to the secretary of the
Sheep Breeders' Association in
Auckland, New Zealand.
How about zippers? Great
invention, but it should have
been strangled at birth. What
ever happened to the good old
button? Every time I tangle
with a zipper, Whether it's on
my galoshes or my fly, there is
a moment of sheet, cold appre-
hension. Often it's justified —
and there I am with my galosh-
es flopping around like a pair
of drunken crows.
Politicians. Not all of them.
Oniy those who promise to
hold the line on expenses,
while providing better serv-
iees. And then do the opposite.
Taxes. The rich are hit hard,
but have enough left to avoid
starvation. The poor pay none,
dr very little. It'S the middle-
income bird who gets it where
it hurts. One of these days, I'm
off to Bermuda, where "taxes"
is a dirty word.
Social slavery. We know that
as individuals, we have free
Will, But we are strangled with
so many regulations and tradi.-
tions and pressures that our
free will becomes a broken -
Winged bird in a cage tasteful-
ly decorated with red tape and
tidiculosity:
Love. If there's anything
that turns my stomach, it is
people Who preach love, in-
cluding liihples, and Spend
inost of their time telling you
about all the peqple and things
they hate.
Hate. How can people hate
other people? Yet they do. I
hate but I can't remember ever
hating a person in my life.
Lots of people are despicable,
contemptible, malicious or just
plain boring. But you don't
hate them. You pity them. I
hate hate, and there's lots of it
around.
O.K., chaps. It's your turn.
Let's hear from you, This is
hate week.
From. our early files
10 years, ago
March 12, 1959,
Mrs. Alma Baird and Mr, and
Mrs- George Allen I linkhamer,
Detroit, spent the weekend at
the home of George T. Baird,
Stanley.
!� new organization, the
Huron County Home Auxiliary
was formed on Monday at a
'meeting there with Mrs. M.
Smith, representative of the
Ontario Department of Public
Welfare, Toronto, presiding.
First president of the new
organization is Mrs. F. G.
Thompson.
Mr. and Mrs. Fred Middleton
left London last Friday by
plane, on a trip to Florida,
where they plan to spend several
weeks.
IS years ago
March 11, 1954.
Weekend guests with Mr. and
Mrs. Gordon Herman were Mr.
and Mrs. R. J. Cameron,
Toronto and Mr, and Mrs. C.
Probyn and Carl, Jr. London.
Miss Thelma Baird who has
been on the staff of the Clinton
News -Record for the past four
months, left last Saturday to
take up a position with the
Singer Sewing Machine
Company office in St.
Catharines.
John MacKenzie on the
teaching staff of Albert College,
Belleville, visited his parents, Mr.
and Mrs. J. MacKenzie, Bayfield,
from Saturday till Tuesday.
Mr. and Mrs. William Cook,
Kitchener, were visitors at the
home of Mr. and Mrs. Frank
Mutch over the weekend.
25 years ago
March 9, 1944.
Mr. A. M. Knight spent a
couple of days in Toronto on
business this week.
Mr. Elwood Epps is spending
a few days in Toronto attending
a Sports Goods Convention at
the King Edward Hotel.
Cpl. A. J. Shore of Deseronto
spent last weekend in town with
Mrs. Shore.
Mrs. Wm. R. Elliott and son
John of Waterloo were home in
Bayfield overthe weekend.
Miss Kay Snider has returned
to her duties as'Hostess at -No. 3
Basic Training- <• Centre,
Kitclieneri, after', spending two
weeks at her home in town.
40 years ago
March 14, 1929.
Mrs. (Rev.) D. MacLeod and
little daughter, , Marion, of
Mountain, Ont., are visiting the
lady's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Ralph
Tiplady. Mrs. Tiplady has been
in rather poor health for the past
two or three months but it is
hoped she will soon be restored.
Mrs. McGeorge of Toronto is
visiting her sister, Mrs. E. W.
Morrison.
Mrs. H. B. Combe and Miss
Barry Combe left this week on a
trip to Bermuda.
Messrs. G. L. Hanley and
G. M. Evans attended the
Life like
My life is like a trail
Through a wandering green forest
That covers more land for a broader outlook on nature.
The trees stand tall and firm .
Expressing true facts that were then and always will be;
The leaves are concepts - made by my own
That, like the weather; change to an autumn splendor,
So does a new and better concept change the last.
A cluster of sweet flowers, an experience
That grows, radiates beauty and remains a loving memory.
The birds that flutter through the air
Are friends of every kind that change from season to
climate;
Rocks and gullies encountered on my path
Show hardships to be surmounted and hopefully
forgotten.
The sky holds the sun and moon --
Goals to be sought for that are there and can be obtained
by working for them.
The quiet, starlit darkness
An hour of need, to sit and reconsider -things past and
present.
The thick, luSh grass,
A place of rest and retirement
After a long, weary journey.
Freshly tilled earth shows the end of old life and of a new
for many to come.
SHARON BROWN
February, 1969
LEPRECHAUN TEA
And
BAKE SALE
At
WESLEY-WILLIS
UNITED CHURCH
1, On
Wednesday, March 19
24p.m.
Horne Baking -1- kiddies Tea Room
lib
Firestone banquet :held .in the Hamilton, have moved to to
Hotel London, London, on and the former has take»
Monday evening. position with his brother, Mr.
Hawkins.
Reeve Cantelon who is
Warden of the County, i$
March 12,1914, Ottawa with the Cou
deputation asking for hats
Next Sunday, March 15, improvements at Goderich.
Wesley Church, Clinton
celebrates its Diamond Jubilee, 7$ years ago
0
It is sixty years since the then -.
village of Clinton became a Mr. Ab. Switzer left
separate circuit, previous to that Detroit on Monday morni
date Clinton was a part of the where he goes for the purpose
Goderich circuit. registering with a Medic
Mrs. Tozer and Miss Cleta college; he will return in a day
Ford entertain this evening at two and enter on his stud'
snow shoeing party. with Dr. Gunn, going back
Mr, H. Wiltse is at Hamilton Detroit in October next.
this week attending the . High -
Court of the Home Circle.
Mr. J, Hawkins and family of
55 years ago
The electric lights have bei
put in the Town Hall and entr
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"THE FRIENDLY CHURCH"
Pastor: REV. GRANT MILLS, B.A.
Organist: MISS LOIS GRASSY, A.R.C.T.
SUNDAY, MARCH 16th
9:45 a.m.-Sunday School.
11:00 a.m. - Morning Worship
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REV. A.J. MOWATT, C.D., B.A., B.D., D.D., Minister
MR. LORNE DOTTERER, Organist and Choir Director
SUNDAY, MARCH 16th
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9:45 a.m;--Sunday School,
11:00 a.m, - Morning Worship.
Sermon Topic:
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7:30 p.m.- Youth Night (Featuring "The Other Three")
HOLMESVILLE
1:00 p.m. - Worship Service - Ail Welcome.
2:00 p.m. - Sunday School.
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SUNDAY, MARCH 16th
10:00 a.m. ••-Morning Service -- English.
2:30 p.m. -Afternoon Service - English.
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listen to "Back to God Hour"
EVERYONE WELCOME --
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The Rev. R. U. MacLean, B.A., Minister
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SUNDAY, MARCH 16th
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Speaker: JOHN MARTIN
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