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Clinton News-Record, 1969-05-01, Page 2? Clinton lyews-Record, Thur day, May 1, 1969. Editorial •comment They give their. best i "When you car9 enough to send the ,ery best is .the well known slogan of a meting card company. With a slight change in 'wording, this could be the Mogan of the ' Red Cross. Certainly the volunteers , of the Canadian Red Cross Society 'amply demonstrate that "they care enough to give their best" by the generous contribution of their time and talents to help those in less fortunate circumstances. Volunteer workers are the backbone of any non-profit organization and it is obvious that this is true of the Canadian Red Cross Society since .over 9Q per cent of its work is carried on by volunteers. s. These dedicated men and women, of all ages and from .all walks of life, have a deep concern for anyone who is suffering or who is in need. They believe that neighbour should help neighbour whether he lives next door or thousands of miles away in another country. The activities of these Red Cross volunteers ran9e from community service to international assistance, Whether it be giving blood, visiting a lonely hospitalized veteran, caring for children while the mother is i11 in bed, making clothing and • bedding for disaster victims, • or raising money for self-help programmes in• the• developing •countries or here at home, they are not clock -watchers nor do they seek any material •reward., Rather, they are content in the knowledge that through. their efforts they have given help and hope to someone, It is good to know that despite ,the evidence all around :us of •man's inhumanity to man, there are people of • compassion and understandingwho believe that they have a responsibility to clothe the naked, feed the hungry and comfort the sick. This year the Canadian Red Cross Society is celebrating its Diamond Jubilee. Its record of achievement over the past 60 years clearly testifies to the public spirited generosity of its volunteers, We salute these men and women of this community and this nation whose humanitarian principles are expressed in social action. Support the Red Cross with your dollars. Give generously so • that the Canadian Red Cross may carry on •its work of people helping people. Best foot forward Now that the weather is a little more conducive to outdoor living, it is a fine time to think about sprucing up the property for. the long, hot summer ahead. Nothing speaks so well of a town as rows and rows of painted houses and tidy' yards. Exeter and most of the communities in the area are blessed with caring citizens who know that repairing and picking up are two vital jobs around the average household every year. Unfortunately there is always that minority of residents who allow the steps to sag, the ,paintl,fo peel, the litter to collect. Since we do dwell in a democracy where people can make a choice about how they will live, it is nearly impossible to expect full co-operation in the matter of property neatness. We wonder if there is not something more we can do to promote cleaner, more beautiful surroundings. It may be that some persons cannot attend to the. outward needs of their property because. they -are without strength to do the,work themselves or funds to hire the job done. In the case of senior citizens, for instance, it would be wonderful if the service organizations or youth groups could sponsor a kind of municipal arbor day when free labor would be supplied to. rake leaves, burn sticks and 'papers, do odd bits of carpentry work or some painting. Local councils should be able to legislate change where the sloppy conditions become health problems. Garbage piles that attract rats and mice and long grass and weeds which promote allergies and insects should be cleaned up at the expense of the delinquent ratepayers. it would take some foresight and some planning but there are ways to perk up a greater 'portion of the countryside each spring. Centennial year motivation did wonders for the •: farming. community,: Maybe we can take•�our,cue from that,- -Exeter Times -Advocate Lower voting age Should the voting age be lowered? Should a person have to be 21 before he can be served liquor in Ontario? These are two questions which have been asked for a long time, and we are now groping towards answers in the Ontario Legislature. The government last week announced a number of measures to broaden the province's liquor laws. But there was no action on lowering the drinking age. The Provincial Secretary said this would be delayed until a report was received from the Ontario Law Reform Corr nission on the matter of the legal age of minority. For generations the legal age of majority has been 21. When you reach 21 you are deemed to be mature, capable of handling your own affairs, and thus free to vote, drink, and inherit money. But lately, there is a growing feeling that young people are ready for these responsibilities earlier than 21. My guess is the age of majority will soon be lowered to 18 or 19. Our party has been contending in the Legislature that the voting age should come down to 18 years, and one of my colleagues, Mr. Fred Young, moved a private bill to this effect. The ancient rules of the Legislature would not permit this bill to come to a vote. But I'd bet that, if there had been a free vote, with every member guided only by his conscience and free from party discipline, that bill would have carried. Today the young man enters the armed services at 18. BUt more significant than that, 18 is the age when most young people finish secondary education and go on to the labour force, or to higher education. it seems sensible to give those young persons full participation in the political process while the lessons of history and civics are fresh in the mind, and while the idealism the. educational system tries to instil is very much to the fore. i think it's a fair statement that young people today are better educated and more aware of the world around them than' were the 20 -year-olds even a generation ago. Newspapers, radio, and especially TV have given today's youth a sense of participation and involvement in world events which no other generation has so far experienced. They see significant world events happening right before their eyes. Many of them want to react in some positive way, and they are frustrated that the Canadian political process is closed to them. Young people today are restless. They are a potent force in our society whether we like it or not. And because we bar them from meaningful participation in politics until they are 21, they must exercise their power outside the system until that time. You don't teach a person respect for a tradition or an institution by forbidding him to take part in it. Lowering the voting age to 18 won't solve all the problems of youth. But it will make politics a more meaningful exercise for today's young people who care, often passionately, about what's happening to their fellow men. And it will badly -needed energy and ide give the political process a injection of new vigour, as. Queen's Park Comment by Donald C. MacDonald, MPP THE CLINTON NEW ERA Amalgamated 1924 Established 1865 THE HURON NEWS -RECORD Established 1881 Clinton News -Record A member of the Canadian Weekly Newspaper Associations Ontario Weekly Newspaper Association and the Audit Bureau of Circulation (ABC) second Class trial! registration number 0817 SUBSCRIPTION RATES: (in advance) Canada, $5.00 per year; U.S.A., $1.50 ERIC A. MCGUINNESS Editor J. HOWARD AITKEN - ra eneral Manager Published every Thursday at the heart of Huron County 1 Clinton, Ontario Population 3,475 TJJH HOME OF RADAR IN CANADA W. Jene Miller The empty pew This is not ordinarily a book review column. But, a recent publication has prompted and deserved its praise. The book is, "The Last Years of the Church," It is authored by David Poling. It treats of the collapse of ecclesiastical 'structures nd'er':the weight ''of the ' demands. af, human existence. It tjiistly,attacks,,,thd self-sustaining demands of institutions for their own sake at the expense of the human values being, trampled under organization. Just as it is possible to speak of the fall of Athens, without meaning the death of democracy; to speak of the fall of Rome without meaning the death of government by law; so it is possible to speak of the Last Years of the Church without meaning the death of the Eternal Word, In fact, Mr. Poling's book is fundamentally an optimistic one. He is declaring that the Word of Life is actually the power breaking, the outworn molds of social religion. He sees 'trig`'vei "tiir'eat''clf time to' the institutions as proof that the great human virtues are not going to be stifled by any amount 'of cultural conditioning. ' The theme does in a theological way what Dr. Erich Fromm is trying to do in a psychological way. Dr. Fromm's cry is tor men to appropriate their unique human attributes. Photo by Ron Price even in defiance of a world which distrusts them. Fromm, in "The Revolution of Hope," makes the devastating observation that when men think like robots it will not be hard to make robots which think like men. Dr. Poling calls upon scholars, prophets;, and philosophers in presenting. his ,,•..diagnosis: , ; and prognosis. He sees the failure of the institutional church as its inabiltiy to support and free human life from mere conditioned responses to life. He sees the death of the church as the giving, again, of the "Body of Christ" to save the world. For, in that dying, new life is found. by Bill Smiley Sugar and spice Irish stew today, or clam chowder, or whatever your fa- vorite mucky dish is. It will contain fish and eggs, metal and glass. A recent column on personal beefs brought a hair -raiser from W. T. House of West Gravenhurst. Quote: "Question—for what formal education teachers have done and are doing, should his- tory indict them as murder- ers, manslaughterers, suicides and conspirators thereto? 1 must vote 'yes,' because after years of research I have not been able to find others on whom to place the responsibili- ty for the hell on earth which will be Our Canada in a very few years now -- death and destruction everywhere." It may have been my attack On the beer can that sparked this, But he goes on to say that scarcely any teachers know that ours is a metal civiliza- tion, that we have nearly ex- hausted the most necessary of these metals and that there- fore our form Of civilization is ending. Mr, House would never make a public relations man for ther the teaching vocation or the metals industry, hut he sure comes to the point. The tame column in which I attacked disposable bottles, brought a letter from — guess who -- the public relations firm for the Glass Container Council. Enclosed was a broc- hure called "No -Deposit Bot- ties A Study." The summary of The Study says the facts have shown that, properly handled, the no -de• posit bottle is not a danger to • children or livestock, not a sig- nificant source of litter, not a cause of forest fires, not a k problem in handling solid waste. How did we get onto forest fires? It ends on a smug note: "The no -deposit bottle is wanted by the public as a form of conven- ience packaging." Well, I'm one of the public, and I don't want it. Also, "convenience," used to be a noun when I went to school. But the key words in that blurb are "properly handled". Do they mean the facts of the bottles. Facts, properly han- dled, can be a snow job. However, mustn't get hung up on the bottle. I promised some fish in this stew. Read the fish story the other day. It's too good to be true, but will pass it along. Local couple was ,vacationing in 'California. They were invit- ed to a wine and fish dinner, , Hostess had a huge fish, sal- mon or something, cooked, gar- nished and put on. the table, She went in from the patio for a last-minute check and there was the family cat up to its eyebrows in fish. She squealed for her hus- band, He came and like a sensi- ble chap, said, "Tarn it Over; they'll never notice." There was Onty about a pound miss- ing, front the one side, 'They from 75 years ago The Clinton NeW Era May 4, 1894 J. Hodgeiis advertises all wool cashmere hose at 25 cents a pair. lJr. Turnbulf was a visitor to Listowel on Wednesday; these visits are becoming alarmingly frequent, and the best thing the doctor can do is to transfer the our early centre of attraction to Clinton. Mr, George Emerson was in Toronto this Week oh bicycle business; he says the demand is SO great that wholesale houses ekperiente difficulty iti filling orders. Mr. James Steep has sold his first creamery butter at 24 cents wholesale, which he fiigure5 an e.kdeptionally good figure. did, the guests were called in, and unanimously called it the hest fish they'd ever eaten. Host, pleased at his ingenui- ty strolled outside and saw the cat lying dead. His thoughts can only be conjec- tured, But three hours later, after all the guests had been to hospital and had their sto- machs pumped out, he and his wife got home, just a little harassed. A neighbor woman came to the door. "I didn't want to disturb you while you had guests, and I'm .' terribly sorry, but I ran over your cat and killed it." End of story. Which reminds me of Gracie Fields and the eggs. This is true. 1 was there. Miss Fields, Lancashire lass with great voice and comic sense, was on her fourth -last farewell tour. She took the old steamer Ha. manic, on which 1 worked, down the lakes from Duluth to Detroit. In for breakfast two hours late, she ordered eggs, The chef was sore, but fried them. She sent them back, because they were sunny side up. The chef lifted an Oriental eyebrow then his spatula, flipped them over on the plate, and sent them back in, sunny side down. Gracie being a woman, peek- ed, and the poor devil of 'a waiter, working his way through college, took the full force of a Lancashire tirade, while the wily old chef, in the galley, helped himself to A gin, caring not a Cantonese damn about Gracie Fields. files 55 years ago. May 7,1914 Reis. 3. Beaton; B.A., now of Toronto, who goes t� China text fall, won the Robt. Wallace prize for New Testament introduction at Victoria University. Please turn to page 3 ......\ \\\\\ ..\ VS. \•..................... Business and Profess onal' Dir. ectory OPTOMETRY J. E. LONGSTAP F OPTOMETRIST Mondays and Wednesdays • 20 ISAAC STREET For Appointment Phone 482-7Q10 SEAFORTH OFFICE 527-1240 • R. 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