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HomeMy WebLinkAboutClinton News-Record, 1969-03-27, Page 22 Clinton News -Record, Thursday, March 27, 1909 Opinion pale VI/e live in a costly age The budget introduced to the Ontario Legislature by Provincial, Treasurer Charles MacNaughto,n' certainly emphasized the fact that we are living in a Costly age. In fact, it is startling to discover that government is in such dire need of funds at .a time when the general prosperity of the province is at its highest. peak in history. • Of course, all of us, who use our heads at all must realize that the price' of everything we purchase has gone up very sharply during the past two years and we can therefore expect to be asked for more taxes than we have paid in ,years gone by: Somehow or other, though, we all carry the hope that government revenues will increase through a larger volur a of business rather than by a higher rate of taxation. It is quite possible that we are now suffering the pains of growth which�g� sometimes accompany the change ?froth adolescence .to adult years. With a fall century of development behind us, during which governments had to concern themselves chiefly with the immediate responsibilities of their day, the emphasis has always been upon providing those services which were required by a pioneer society working its way up from the log cabin era to the comfort of . modern civilization. Economy was 'always the watchword as far as the public was concerned, and the electors were usually inclined to vote for those candidates who promised the greatest protection for the tax dollar. In 1969 we have reached a new Plateau. We have provided, in .large measure all the material comforts we can reasonably use and we are now required to think about and provide the wealth for an entirely new era. Government people have decided that the end has come for the present units of local administration: Already education has been moved to the county level and it is expected that within five years many more of our local administrativebodies will either disappear or fall into the category of local sub -committees: Town councils, public utilities commissions, sewage and water services -- all are likely to be taken over by regional bodies. From the evidence now provided by the switch in education control there: is good reason to believe that these riew forms , of government will cost the taxpayers a great deal more that tire administrations we now support. All levels of government have; of course, a perfect right to impose taxes..We have asked for, or at least agreed to a myriad of services and each of them costs money. We do. believe, however, that governments have failed to some degree in their obligation to explain the benefits which are supposed to accrue from the costly changes they are making. (Wingham Advance -Times) All must be involved Robert F. Nixon, Ontario Liberal leader, in a speech to the Ontario Education Association's 109th annual convention in Toronto on March 18; • "That education is a public responsibility is a truism, but it must be seen to be carried out in public and with the involvement of the whole community so that taxpayers and studentswon't..feel foutside,.,t f.: h they are.. ie t h/c, realm. o t • y4 'n i��'.!h f e : understanding .of .,policy plahning.. decision: . "While the Toronto teacher who was. last week refused rehiring by the board has political views different from mine, I believe that the Toronto board has acted with regrettable ham -handedness in the entire affair, Teachers, and I speak as a former high school teacher myself, have a• right, if not an obligation, to speak out on educational matters. "If the schools are being starved : for needed supplies and if a Board will not act on legitimate complaints, there is no reason, in my view, why a teacher should enter a conspiracy of silence The points March March is the time when we start pushing for spring. Anxiety produces some forms of madness, and the weather doesn't help the stability. A mild day develops into a freezing one. A flag-siirring breeze turns into a flag -shredding one. Eddies of wind -tossed snow get transformed into blizzards.' Step from a patch of warm sunlight into a shady spot and the cold stabs like icicles, The wintering crows are restless and grumble and mutter as if protesting spring, They'll move off north any day to avoid contact with their softer brethren who migrated for the winter. Slopes of snow turn slushy by day and then manage with night cold to become glassy lures skiers, tobogganists fists and the night -riding snowmobile enthusiasts. Everyone seems compelled io curiously participate in the dying time of winter. March is also the . month when as Shakespeare said: in this whole matter are not that the teacher should be dismissed, but that her criticism should be examined, and that a public Board has• to give adequate reason, whatever the state - of the contractual situation, to justify their position. "No board of education, no public group of any kind, should consider that it is in the business of protecting itself against all comers. , "t e Toro nto'case isa s ii`t of tile adversary situation that has developed between boards, as employers, and teachers, as an employee group. I have taken part in salary negotiations and twice submitted my resignation in support of teachers' stands . which .1. felt were justifiable. I feel, however, that boards are much more than employers, that they are the democratic vehicle whereby the community forms its. education policy, and that. it is in this regard that the barriers among the board, the teachers, and the parents and ratepayers, must come down so that it can be recognized that common goals are shared by all." madness "Daffodils, That come before the swallow dares, and take The winds of March with beauty." No other month is mad enough to have blossoms and blizzards as a natural event. (Montreal Star) Wisdom "WHEN ORDER suppresses freedom, we have stagnation or revolution: When freedom destroys order, we have chaos, commonly followed by despotism. 'Many people think liberty is worth any price .... We cannot have both liberty and order unlimited "Excess of one will mean deficiency of the other. Civilization is measured by the ability to unite order and freedoM. This must be a union of spirit, rather than of form." — Arthur E. Morgan, former president of Antioch College. THE CLINTON NEW EliA Amalgamated 1924 ' Established 1865 THE HURON NEWS.RECORD Established 1881 Clinton News -Record AMember of te Canadian Weekly Newspaper Association, An Weekly Newspaper Association and the Audit Bureau of Circulation (ABC) Authorized at second class -nail, Post office Dept., Ottavva, and fat payment of postage in cath SUBSCRIPTION RATES: (in 'advance) Canada, $5,00 per year U.S.A., $6.50 -- or ERIC A. ltilcGUl Edit... h1ESS • J. HOWARD AITKEN . General Manager if e Published every `Thursday at the heart of Huron County Clinton, Ontario Population 3,4'75 THE HOME OP' RADAR IN CANADA Direr OPTQMETRY J, lr. LONG$TAFF OPTOMETRIST Mondays and Wednesdays 20 ISAAC STREET • for Appointment Phone 482-701Q SEAFORTH OFFICE 527-1240 - R. W. BELL, OPTOMETRIST The Square, GOOERICH 524-7661 RONALD L. McDONALD CHARTERED ACCOUNTANT 39 St. David St. Goderich 524.6253 INSURANCE K. W. COLCUHOUN. INSURANCE & REAL ESTATE Phones: Office 482-9747 Res. 482-7804 HAL HARTLEY Phone I.AWSON A D$WIS3 E INSURANCE -HEAL ESTATE INVESTMENTS Clinton Office: 482-9644 H. C. Lawson, Res.: 482.9787 J. T, Wise, Res.: 482-7265 ALUMINUM .PRODUCTS ,' For Air -Master Aluminum Doors and Windows and Rockwell Power Tools JERVIS SALES R. L. Jervis — 68 Albert St. Clinton — 482-9390 SPRING FRESHET by W. Jene Miller The empty pew A nut in Chicago stabs eight girls to death. A nut in Austin shoots 16 people to death and wounds more. What's wrong with the world, anyway? What gets into people like that? Why doesn't somebody do something. Killing, carnage and rape flood the pages of our history. But, just suppose that "nut" in Chicago had walked up to you and said, "I'm sick. I need a psychiatrist." Suppose that "nut" in Austin had mentioned in your presence, "Well, you see, I'm taking psychiatric therapy." Would you have rejoicedto know theyrswere -:getting ..help? Or, t1`,woutd x .4u4,4havh.' med; to .'es ' ; under psychiatric care. tie's crazy." Would yoti Have contributed to the real disgrace: the belief that it is wrong to admit that anything is wrong? Our generation is no different than all the generations of men. Scripture pays us no compliment on our heritage. Our first parents were rebellious, and our second parent killed his own brother in a fit of pride. More recently, Billy the Kid killed 21 men. What is wrong is pot the brokenness of our nature. We were made finite to keep us aware of the love of our God. What is wrong, however, is our conceited belief that we can fool the world and play like we are completely self-sufficient. The bloody truth is that we cannot save ourselves. s , The blind passions which drove those E, , .ail} ti, ,,you men 4yo t{q.heir a iii destt ..11ffla� 7QV�e nr, 1'�c�n are part and parce�of the nature of every human being. They were just trapped in a situation where^ ienitly expression of their symptoms was explosion. Photo by McG. M This does not make it right in any way. In fact, it makes it all the more disgusting. They needed help, and society knew they needed help. But they could not seek that help without society condemning them. So they tried to pretend. And they succeeded — for a little while. The real damnation of Almighty God falls. on the culture which dares to develop attitudes of judgment and rejection. The anathema of Divine Love is levelled against a world that thinks itself superior to those who are entrapped in sin. ` This is ;why y the greatest thing hing u'for',yourwirid is ,radna' Mural. t,nen 'open confession of need and humility. He who ridicules the search for healing is worse than he who refuses it, by Bill Smiley Sugar and spice A couple of weeks ago, I sang a song of hate in this space. Since Spring, theoreti- cally, is just around that cor- ner which recedes steadily as .you approach it, the least 1 can do is sing a song of love, and ask you to join me. Everybody loves something, even if it's only his car. Looking into the backyard, it's pretty hard to get all goofy about Spring. The pile of snow pushed up beside the garage is now down to six feet. My cedar lawn chairs look like a couple of matrons, buried to the waist in blanc mange, their arms ex. tended- pleadingly. The picnic table still looks like a freshly risen loaf of bread. But the sun shines, day after day, and eventually those arti- cles must reveal themselves in all their scabby, shabby ugli- ness. Spring in Canada is pure fe- male; unpredictable, perverse, passionate, hot.or-eold, cruel - or -kind. And completely unde- pendable, as far as mood goes. In this crazy climate, I have lain on fresh grass in March and in love and in sun that suggested the following month would be July, And I have gone fishing an. the first of May line freeze and had m to Y the rod. There. Having expressed my mistrust of Canada's Spring', I shall return to our thetnc: love, This is a favorite topic for poets who can't think of any- thing else to write abodt, Not being a poet, 1 will avoid trying to be poetic and thereby saVe both of us a lot of embar- rassment. Some people think that love is a potion, especially in the Far East. You know. rhinocer- os horn ground up in a mixture of oysters, and celery, Actual- ly. 1 wouldn't tnind taking a swig at it. Sounds ;roily invigor. Citing, or something. Love is nota Notion; it's a lotion. It warms the cold heart, as analgesic balm warms the sore shoulder, It lubricates the grinding nerves. it soothes the tortured son] try olive oil does the baby's burn. It, is an ointment (by the way, Mecca ointment it good for 'practically anything, Un. paid commercial). And it is a Mecca toward which you trav- el, and from ,which you return, rather wondering whether the whole trip was worth it. Sand and flies and heat. And nobody else there but a ' mob of ex- hausted, hot, tired find dis- gruntled pilgrims like yourself. That's love. • -'However, one mustn't wax philosophical' about love, even Ori a highly elevated plane• like this. Not in this ,country, in this climate. Let's get down to specifics. What do we love? •.1 love my country. Not the government or the people, Particularly The physical Can- tacla. A 4lack.,Spring stream rac- :jng "between; the snowbanks in Alarch •:.'-The ghostly mist of green that, slips into the trees lin May ';The Rockies,' in. mid- asummer;'.siloof .sneering at the nts that crawl about their ' nees.• •The ,":scuiptuYcd bltte, white•seascapes of January. I love peace and. loneliness, and:they're dam' hard to come by, now -a -days. It's beautiful to be alone, sometimes, without the yelp and clamor, the stink and garbage of everyday living. About the only place you can find. it is in an inacessiblc bog, with a fishing rod. The outboard motor and the ski- doo have seen to that, And I love all growing things: grass, flowers, Ieaves. Except when they have to be mowed, or cultivated, or raked. And nearly all children. Ex- cept when they grow up. And I love a good poker game, especially when the cards are coming right. And a good argument, especially when I'm right, which seems to be nearly every time. And I love my wife, but oh, you kid. And I love my kids, hut OH, YOU KIDS! And I love to do a good job, whether it's writing a column,. orteaching a• dumbbell some- thing, or finding a new gim- mick in my tax return, It sel- dom happens, but it makes me happy. Sometimes 1 can even love my neighbor as myself. It's a ,lot easier these days. He hasn't an ox or an ass or a maid -ser- vant to covet. See? I've just begun. I haw' eri't even mentioned hot bon• fires or cold beer, or a thou• sand other things, Put down a list for 'yourself, and you'll de- cide you're not such an old miserable after all. From our early files 10 years ago Clinton News -Record March 26, 1959. Mrs. C. A. Trott accompanied by her mother Mrs. Ann Looby, Dublin, returned home after spending the past month in Houston,, Texas, visiting her brother Rev. A. R. Looby, CSB. 'Visitors during the weekend at The home of Mr. and Mrs. John A, Sutter include their' daughter Miss Shirley G. Sutter, Preston; Mr. and Mrs, Kenneth Welch, and two sons, David and Jon, Wallacetown; and John Kelt, London, 1V1rs. Keith Pruss, with Janice and Charlie; spent the weekend with Mrs. Jack/Parker, hayfield, who returned td Loticlon with them on Sunday; where she will visit and then spend. Baster .with het son and fan ibc,iitii Toronto. 1,0 15 years ago Clinton News -Record March 25, 1954, Miss Catherine Fingland; University of Western Ontario, London, was a weekend visitor with her parents, Mr, and Mrs. Frank Fingland. Miss Helen Ball, London, spent the weekend with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Leslie Bali. Mr, and Mrs, Maynard Corrie, David and .Martha, Bayfield, visited the Rev, LaVerne and Mrs, Morgan, Marine City, Mich., from Satutday until Monday. 25 years ago Clinton News -Record March 28rd, 1944,, Miss Gladys Addison, daughter of Mrs. J. Addison Of SERV'C Attend Your Church This Sunday ONTARIO STREET UNITED CHURCH "THE FRIENDLY CHURCH" Pastor: REV. GRANT MILLS, B.A. Organist: MISS LOIS GRASBY, A,R.C.T. SUNDAY, MARCH 30th 9:45 a.m.—Sunday School. 11:00 a.m. — Morning Worship Easter Contatta — Junior and Senior Choirs "THE STORY OF EASTER" EVERYONE WELCOME Wesley -Willis -- Holmesville United Churches REV. A.J. MOWATT, C -D„ B.A., B.D., D.D., Minister MR, LORNE DOTTERER, Organist and Choir Director SUNDAY, MARCH 30th Ii,ESLEY-WiLLIS 9:45 a.m:—Sunday School. 11:00 a.m. — Morning Worship. COMMUNION SERVICE 2:00 p.m. — Sunday School. — ALL WELCOME — HOLMESViLLE 1:00 p.m. — Communion Service. CHRISTIAN REFORMED CHURCH SUNDAY, MARCH 30th 1:0:00 a.m. —Morning Service.— Engiith. 2:30 p.m. — Afternoon Service — Dutch. Every Sunday, 12:30 noon, dial 680 CHLO, St. Thomas listen to "Back to God Hour" -•- EVERYONE WELCOME -- ST. ANDREW'S PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH The Rev. R. U. MacLean, B.A., Minister Mrs. B. Boyes, Organist and Choir Director SUNDAY, MARCH 30th 9:45 a.m. —• Sunday School. 10:45 a.m. — Holy Communion. PENTECOSTAL CHURCH Victoria Street W. Werner, Pastor SUNDAY, MARCH 30th 9:45 a.m. — Sunday School. 11:00 a.m. — Worship Service. 7;30 p.m. -- Evening Service, Clinton, has enlisted asa Nursing g Sister with the Royal Canadian Army Medical Corps and is stationed at Trafalgar Military .Hospital, London. Master Donald Kay, son of Mr. and Mrs. David Kay is at present a patient in Clinton Hospital. We all wish Don a speedy recovery, Pte, Harold Johnston Of Camp Ipperwash spent the weekend at his home in town. 40 years ago Clinton News -Record March 2$,1929. Mrs. 11. B. Cornbe and Miss Barry have returned from a trip to Bermuda. Mr, and Mrs. Elliott of Millford, Mich., have been visiting this week with the former'= sister, Mrs. Hr W.- Could Of Clinton and the latter'= parents, Mr, and Mrs. John Jacob, managers of the Huron County Home. •....v.T,..;.:G 0.1.1010,004: Ya,ui MAPLE STREET GOSPEL HALL SUNDAY, MARCH 30th 9:45 a.m. — Worship Service. 11:00 a.m. — Sunday School. Thursday, 8 p.m. — Prayer `meeting and Bible Study. Beginning April 1, Prayer meeting on Tuesday. Miss Eileen Atkinson is up from London for the Easter vacation. 55 years ago Clinton New Era March 26, 1914. The Doherty Piano Co. are rushed with orders and they are now working some of the departments overtime. This is certainly a good sign. Mrs, James Ford and Miss Cleta Ford attended the recital of Mme. Schumann-ifeink at London on Tuesday night. 75 years ago Ciintori News -Record March $6,18$4. The town safe still remains locked and an efforts to open it have been its vain; it is not unlikely that an expert will have to be sent :for in Order to get it open.