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Hold your breath
washed away, leaving a terrain that looks
like a small Section of the moon.
After sOrne years of this totally
uncontrolled destruction the mining
companies were forced to build the
smelter stacks taller and to, install some
of gas removers. By that time,
however, the damage had been done and
With all the new regulations currently
being introduced by the Ontario
government we can look forward to a
much sweeter atmosphere before long.
There's a law against burning refuse,
another one that controls the amount of
carbon monoxide your car may emit from
its tailpipe and now they are going to do
something about those big, smelly diesel
trucks and buses. By 1971 we will
Probably be required to wear some sort of
face masks in case any of us have halitosis.
Nonetheless we shouldn't be too
sarcastic. Many of these air pollution
controls were long overdue and a
sharpened interest in retaining the
cleanliness of our atmosphere and our
fresh water is entirely welcome to the
general public. It will be less so to those
business interests and municipalities
which face rather expensive remedial
programs.
If you have ever, travelled through a
paper-company town you will recall the
nauseous stench which invariably
accompanies that industry. We imagine it
will be a long time before that smell is
eliminated.
One of the worst problems exists in the
nickel belt of Northern Ontario around
Sudbury, Coniston and Copper Cliff. The
smelters in those communities were first
put into. operation decades before any
thought was given to the rights of the
public where fresh air was concerned. As a
result the sulphurous fumes from the
chimneys completely denuded the
landscape for miles around. The green
foliage disappeared; the trees died and
with no covering growth the topsoil
the area still looks like something straight
out of science fiction.
The present condition of Lake Erie
provides another startling example of how
man can ruin his pleasant surroundings,
Situated as it is in the centre of the
continent's busiest industrial area, Lake
Erie has been the collecting basin for
thousands of types of industrial and
human pollutants. Some experts believe
that the lake is already doomed; that it
will become a stinking bog within a
generation or two and that no remedy can•
now be successfully applied.
Such deterioration is hard to imagine,
but it is a well known fact that many
beautiful and productive areas of the
earth's surface have been completely
devastated by man's carelessness. North
Africa, for example, was once covered by
green forests and verdant fields. Wild
goats are believed to have cropped it so
thoroughly and steadily that it became
the Sahara Desert. The bare and eroded
slopes of central and southern Italy once
bore abundant crops until the life was
worked out of the soil.
Our conservation restrictions will be
the cause of a great deal of complaint, but
they are absolutely necessary.—Wingham
Advance-Times.
Conservation
"Conservation is the planned
management and wise use of nature's
resources. It aims, in co-operation with
science and nature, to increase their
quality, quantity and availability through
the years. Conservation is not merely a
subject for a school curriculum or for
attention of conservation officers and
departments of government: it is a way of
life for all people." — The Royal Bank of
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. The following story appeared
last week in the second edition
of The 'Conservation Clarion, a
publication of the Ontario Dept.
of Energy and Resources
Management, under the byline
of Ken Musclow, "Clarion roving
reporter.'!
LISTOWEL—That • dreadful
bureaucratic title, "Resources
Manager," implies that the
incumbent manages a variety of
resources, when in truth, the
incumbent must have a reservoir
of very peculiar resources in
order to manage. The challenge
of a job is never ever really
insurmountable. The real hang
up is the cultural crunch,
because inevitably, we end up
dealing with people. Let there be
no doubt about this: people are
the staff of life.
There was an occurrence in a
nearby municipality that
illustrates the type of crisis that
really gets people worked up. A
municipal councillor who was
also an authority member called
me up °oh the phone.
"Hey, Dad, are you there?"
"Yes, I am."
"Well, look, there is a dead
cattle beast in the Lower
Wingham Pond. It's been there
for a couple of months and it's
pretty ripe. Can you get rid of
it?"
"Alive or dead it belongs to
somebody. Why don't you have
the owner move it?"
"I don't know who owns it
and if I did, I would have his - -
flang in gaol."
"Alright if the Authority is to
be stuck with this problem,
have it moved."
Much to the delight of the
authority foreman and his crew,
the town work force removed
the carcass on a hot, humid
'afternoon.
The incident was duly
reported to the executive and
after some discussion, the
following tale was unfolded.
"You mind so and so over on
the seventh of Morris?"
"Ile raises beef, don't he?"
"Last February during that
mild spell, he let his cattle beasts
out of the barn into the pasture.
Well, nine of them wandered
across the river over the ice. He
had to fetch them back to the
barn, as there was no grass. So
he had them in a tight bunch
and when they were on the river,
they broke through the ice and
they all drowned."
"He wasn't very bright, was
he?"
"No, it was - - - near stupid.
We hauled them out this spring.
Cost him an awful pile of
money."
Then' there followed a thin
discussion on the mechanical
properties of ice and snow. At
the end of the meeting, the
Committee sat around drinking
instant coffee and eating
crackers, with summer sausage
and either cheddar or Limburger
cheese. A Huron county member
started a discussion with a man
from Perth county.
"I mind one time a fellow
from Perth county once asked
me how to make Limburger
cheese."
"What did you tell him?"
"I told him to hang a pail of
cream up in a sheep shed and
leave it there for two weeks."
"Did he?"
"No, the - - fool went home
and hung a pail of sheep manure
up in the cream house."
"He couldn't have been from
Perth, must have come from
Wellington county."
"Sounds like Something they
would do in Huron County."
At this point a government
appointee interjected; "If a man
told me he liked Limburger
cheese, you know, I wouldn't
trust him in a with a
Wooden spoon."
These perturbations are not
confined ,to any:pattimiat Age,
educational, of;4,:eceup,Aonali
group. Some time ago, a young
farm lad became a member in
good standing of a conservation
club. One of the goodies
available to the club was a
weekend at a conservation
school. The group was a mixed
bag; like, there were both boys
and girls present.
In the evening before lights
out, they played cards and
accomplished this by shoving the
pasteboards under the door
between the rooms.
While most activities were
integrated, some were not.
Anyway, the poor lad aspired to
a more meaningful
communication but seemed
frustrated.
"Look," he said to me,
"these hinge pins in the door
have been rivetted and can't be
removed. These locks, you can't
unscrew them. I don't think it's
fair; in fact it's almost
unreasonable!"
"Well, what's the problem?"
"There are girls on the other
side."
"Yes, I know, but what is the
problem?"
"We are locked out on this
side."
"I can see that but what is
your problem?"
"Like Dad, how do we make
the scene?"
"Have you and your true love
thought of going down to the
end of the hall and leaning
against the panic bar of the fire
escape door? It will open and
you will have several hundred
moonlit acres of Conservation
Area all to yourselves."
"Oh, gee thanks!"
Undoubtedly, there are
natural resources to which
people should not have access.
But that, of course, was an
afterthought.
"Bar the door, Matilda, and
close them shutters! Henry,
look to your flintlock! The In-
juns are on the war-path!"
Let's hope it doesn't come to
that, but the Indians of Can-
ada, a quarter-million of the
natives of this vast continent,
have blood in their eye, wheth-
er it's a product of politics or
bean wine.
"And .they don't need toma-
hawks, bows and arrows, and
rusty muskets this time. They
have two weapons which bring
them right into the nuclear
age. One is the white man's
guilt complex, with which they
belabor him at every opportu-
nity. The other is the mass
media, which they are using
with a skill that would make a
public relations man turn
green.
There are some facts that
have led up to the current
confrontation. First of all, the
Indians were victims of one of
the greatest eon jobs in history
when the various treaties were
drawn up.
Have you ever read one?
They sound great, full of poet-
ic stuff like," As long as the
rivers run to the sea and the
grass grows to the sky and the
mountains do not fall down ...
etc., etc." Then comes the
crunch, in the small print. As
long as the Indian stays on his
reserve, and out of the white
man's hair (especially the
scalp), he and his children and
his children's children shall re-
ceive an annual bounty from
the Great White Queen across
the Big Water.
For a whole Indian band, it
75 years ago
The Clinton New Era
July 21, 1894
Master Ernest Cooper, son of
Mr. W. Cooper, leaves for
Toronto today where he takes a
situation in the McLean
Publishing House.
Mr. A. Ewing Mid daughter
have gone on a visit to the
neighbouring republic, they go
by boat to Detroit and then take
in several of the eastern cities;
they expect to he gone some.
time.
Dr. Horsey, who has been
away on a trip through Egypt
and elsewhere, Was. in town
calling on his old friends
yesterday; he says that in all hit
crown. Each plan was tried with
great enthusiasm.
One vulture disguised himself
like an eagle and just built a nest
like theirs. It almost worked, but
the Flying Bird Investigators
were too smart. They spotted
the vulture and chased him
away.
Another vulture suggested
distrust. The vultures began to
slip up at night and whisper to
the birds that their leaders were
really in sympathy with the
vultures. They called them
vul-symps. They tried to weaken
the unity of the eagles. But their
lies got so ridiculous that no one
believed the vultures, even when
they occasionally told the truth.
Another vulture suggested
might be 1,000 pounds ster-
ling, Not cash annually, but
only the interest thereon. Fig-
ure out sometime what the in-
terest is on 7,000 pounds ster-
ling in 1969. Yes, inflation
has caught up with the Indian,
too.
Treaty Day, according to
old-timers, used to be a real
'fair at the reserves. Each In-
dian family received its share
of the loot and avaricious mer-
chants gathered from miles
around to separate the Indian
and his treaty money as quick-
ly as possible. Today, he might
be able to buy a few bottles of
wine.
Second, the Indian culture,
or what's left of it, is quite
dissimilar to that of the White
man's. It is based on commu-
nal, rather than cut-throat soci-
ety. The romantic refers back
to the "noble red man". The
pragmatist calls him "a shift-
legs bum." Neither is anywhere
near the truth. lie is a human
being. He's neither red nor any
more noble than the rest of us.
Third, the paradox exists
that the Indian has special
privileges (medical care, fre(
education, no taxes on the re-
serve; etc.) and yet he is un-
derprivileged (inferior housing
and education, plus plain old
discrimination, social and eco-
nomic.)
And now, the Federal goy-
eminent, with a cold logic that
seems to seep down from Mr,
Trudeau, says, "Put up or shut
up. If you aren't happy about
the way we run things, do it
yourself." This, after years of
treating reserves with all the
journeyings, he found no better
place than Ontario.
5.5 years ago
July 23,, 1914
Morrish Clothing Company
advertises boys' overalls at
half-price, regularly 50 cents, for'
25 cents.
Mr. George ltoberton
attended the annual outing of
the London Life at
Niagara-on-the-Lake a Week ago
and reports having an excellent
time.
Mr. and Mrs. Jervis and Miss
Lamm were picnicking at
Bay field last week.
Miss McLaughlin, nurse, of
London is the guest of Miss
Annis liartliff, On Tuesday
working on the young birds.
They organized activities and
hunting parties. All the time
they kept telling the eagles that
their leaders were not worth
protecting. But the young birds
saw the life of the vultures and
wanted no part of it.
Eventually a winning plan
was devised. A vulture would
agree with whatever was good
for the eagles. The eagles were so
afraid of being accused Of
sympathizing with vultures that
they opposed whatever the
vultures favored. Eventually,
vultures favored eating fresh
meat, and the eagles all died
from eating canon.
Fear of agreement is more
cowardly than fear of a fight.
largesse and benevolence
usually associated with an or-
phanage.
The Federal government
proposes to dump the Indian
problem on the provincial gov-
ernments and the Indians
themselves, all in the course of
five years, then fold its tent
and steal off into the night.
The provincial governments
want the Indian problem like
they want the Black Plague. So
do the Indians.
For the latter, the Canadian
government's new policy is a
smoke-screen to cover failure,
For the young Indians, dissolu-
tion of the reserves is like
burning your boats behind you.
For the middle-aged and elder-
ly, it is terrifying.
Indian leader Wilmer Nadji-
won of Cape Croker put it
succintly, if over-simply, when
he said the new legislation
Would allow an Indian to sell
his property for two bottles of
wine. That doesn't solve a
problem. It creates one.
The Indians don't want as-
similation, They want help to
get on their feet and some
redress for 200 years of being
considered second-class Cana.
dians.
Some reserves are worthless,
mere slum areas. Some are ex-
tremely valuable as potential
resort areas. How does every-
body get a fair share if these
lands are handed back to the
Indians themselves, for dispos-
al as they see fit?
You're not going to settle
that one in five years, Pierre
Elliott.
morning Mt. John Gibbings and
Miss Lucile Grant left for LaPier
Mich. to visit relatives.
40 "years ago
July 25, 1925
Dr. Manley Shipley and little
daughter, Mary, who had spent a
fortnight visiting the former's
Mother, Mrs, George Shipley,
left Friday for their horde at
Kirkland Lake,
Miss Florence Rorke, Dees
Durnin, and Ruth Ball have gone
to Muskoka to Spend Soma
Weeks,
Mr. and Mrs, Ilea Jervis and
children of Toronto are visiting
with the lady's parents, Mr. and
Mrs, It, J. Gibbings.
Please turn to page 8
Once upon a time a group of
vultures looked up to the cliffs
and envied the mighty eagles.
They decided that they would
like to live on the cliffs. They
wanted to take over the
dwellings of the eagles.
Naturally, the eagles refused
to move out. They stopped the
vultures from nesting. They flew
so much faster and higher that
they kept the vultures from
catching the fresh game. They
were so strong that the vultures
could not throw them out by
force.
Finally, the vultures offered
to make any bird their king who
could devise a way to beat the
eagles. Many of the smartest and
strongest' sought to win the ,
Bill
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