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HomeMy WebLinkAboutClinton News-Record, 1969-09-18, Page 13Editorial comme nt ► .p- ace to stand or .swim. "The beaches, all sand, -earth .and 9round, really belong to the public." That recent claim by Miami leach Mayor Jay Dormer did not .endear him to the owners of the city's luxury hotels, reports Time magazine, and it is doubtful it would endear him to the owners of waterfront property on Lake Huron. Mayor 'Dermer charges that the hotel .owners who proudly advertise their beaches as private and even hire guards to chase away non-guests — have stolen the beaches by persuading former city councils to grant them broad rights to the property. In reality, Dermer argues, they only hold the land in trust for the public. Of the land suitable for recreation along the Atlantic and Gulf coasts of the U.S., more than 90 percent is privately owned, but court fights over beach rights are in progress in many states. Time exppcts more litigation — and perhaps legislation — to reassert the rights of the public to the beaches. The pressure on Ontario's shorelines was evidenced this summer by protests staged on Lake .Erie by open -beach advocates. It is not too late to try to preserve or reclaim where necessary the right of access to Lake Huron's narrow strands. The Ontario Government holds rights in the name of the -Crown — that's all of the people — to a 0-foot strip. of land along the shores of all lakes and rivers. One of the reasons for preserving this land is to hold the strip open to and for the use of the public. When such lands are incorporated into an organized municipality, the 66-foot strip does not pass to the municipality, There are properties to which early settlers acquired rights to the high water mark and subsequent owners still have that title, but the cases are not many and the fact is always in the deed. Huron County has its share of waterfront owners who seek to fence out the public, who try to close the ends of public roads leading to beaches, who would leave the public a hollow and nearly meaningless' right to beaches accessible only by boat, Maybe Ontario needs to .enact and enforce a law like the one adopted in Texas in 1961 that permits public access to all beaches. Certainly citizens of landlocked communities like Clinton must not allow the lakefront to be lost to all but a privileged few. And God must weep At a time when people in the West are questioning the , usefulness of foreign aid, one of India's leading Hindus is talking of burning food worth more than $17,000,000. Fortunately, this kind of criminal waste does not have the backing of the Indian Government. A man who calls himself Lakshman Chaitanya Brahmachariji Maharaj has said he plans to burn more than 9,000 tons of food in a sacrificial fire later this year. His aim is to foster universal peace and the welfare and prosperity of the human race. Last year, the same man -- who is known as one of India's leading spiritual Hindu figures — organized a similar sacrifice to. the gods during which he squandered food worth more than $500,000. The 1969 Maha Yagna (or grand sacrifice) will be met by public subscription. The Hindu leader hopes— that 1,000 couples will, pour foodstuffs, including almost Z000 tons of rice, as well as more than 7,000 tons of butter, barley, sugar, medicinal herbs arid sesame into the sacrificial fires watched by 125,000 Hindu priests. The priests will be paid for their services. Each month, thousands are dying of disease caused by malnutrition in the famine-stricken I nd la n state of Rajasthan, not far from Rajkot in Gujarat State, when the sacrifice will be held. In Nigeria, hundreds of thousands are starving. Across Asia, Africa and Latin America, several hundred million are always hungry. Surely this is the kind of sacrifice that makes God weep, 'and it is to the credit of the Gujarat Government that it will try to persuade the Hindus to abandon their sacrifice -2:possible by resorting to legal action. Mae „.4.4witro Mothers relaxed but kids are getting rough deal :SECOND SECTION. THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 1,8, 199 11 \11\\1\\1\11\ 1,111.1.1.1.1.1.11.1.1111. 1 Na • 11. "Oa 111 1. %N. '1 . . , % • 11%11\ %%% %%%% %% OPTOWTRY J. LONGSTAFF PPTOMUBIST Mondays and Wednesdays . 20 ISAAC STREET For Appointment Phone 402-7010 SEAFOFITH OFFICE 5271240 R, W, °pi-Q[0E1131ST The Square, GODERICH 524-7661 PETER J. KELLY your Mutual Life Assurance Company of Canada Representative 201 King St. Clinton 482=7914 il\ISLMANQE K. VU, CO LQU HOUN IN$1,RANce & REAL ESTATE Phones: Office 482-9747 Res. 482,7804 HAL HARTLEY Phone 482-$693 LAWSON AND WISE INSURANCE — REAL ESTATE INVESTMENTS Clinton Office; 482-9644 H. C. Lawson, Res.: 482-9787 J. T. 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Directory * THE CLINTON NEW ERA Amalgamated THE HURON NEWS-RECORD Establithed T866 Established 1881 Clinton News-Record A member of the Canadian Weekly Newspaper Association, Ontario Weekly Newspaper Association and the- Audit Bureau Of Circulation (ABC) second class mail Published. every Thursday at the heart of Havers Celerity regittratsarl nUrnber 0817 Clinton, Ontario Population 3,418 SUBSMPTION RATES: (in advance) Canada, $6,00 per year; U.S.A., 0.56 7711.: 110110: OP R/IDAP IN CANA DA ERIC A, McGUINNESS — Editor HOWARD AITKEN General Manager • ,r1. S'" F1RE INSURAME COMRANT :,. SEAFORTH Insures: * Town Dwellings 4' All Class of Farm Property * Summer cottages * Churches, Schools, Hails Extended coverage (wind, smoke, water damage, falling objects etc.) is also available. Agents: James Keys, RR 1, Seaforth; V. J. Lane, RR 5, Seaforth; Wm. Leiper, Jr., Londesboro; Selwyn Baker, Brussels; Harold Squire, Clinton; George Coyne, Dublin; Donald G. Eaton, Seaforth. ,,, SERVICE Attend Your Church This Sunday v. mi ONTARIO /. ,, ,...;,4,). or cry ili .1% 9 ,s,., Sermon Topic: SEPTEMBER The evening September STREET UNITED CHURCH "THE FRIENDLY CHURCH" Pastor: REV. H. W. WONFOR, B.Sc., B.Com., B.D. Organist: MISS LOIS GRASBY, A.R.C.T. SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 21st 9:45 a.m. — Sunday School. 11:00 a.m. -- Morning Worship "HOW TO LIVE WITH PAGANS" 28 — ANNIVERSARY SERVICES unit of the U.C.W. meets Monday, 22 at 8:30 p.m. Wesley-Willis -- Hdlmesville United Churches REV. A..1. MOWATT, C.D., B.A., 13.0., D.D., Minister MR. LORNE DOTTERER, Organist and Choir Director SUNDAY. SEPTEMBER 21st 9:45 a.m. — Sunday School. 11:00 a.m. — Church Service Sermon Topic: "THE OTHER WORDS OF GOD" HOLMESVILLE 10:45 a.m. — SUNDAY SCHOOL. -- All Welcome — October 5 — JOINT THANKOFFERING WITH ONTARIO STREET CHURCH. CHRISTIAN REFORMED CHURCH SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 21st 10:00 a.m. — Morning Service. 2:30 p.m. — Afternoon Service. 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 Chair Director SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 21st 9:30 a.rn. — Public Worship. 9:48 a.m. -- Sunday School. .s. ...., MAPLE STREET GOSPEL HALL SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 21st 6;45 a.m. ,-. Woi-ihip g'0ViCe 1 I `;00 A.M. --" Sunday School 705 . ):45 — Hymn sing. 8:00 pm. '-- MA, JOHN AITKEN, Shelburne; Speaker, 8:00 p,m. — tueSday Prayer Meeting; Bible Study .....,411••••••••••11 Have you noticed what has• happened to all those tense, harassed, haggard, harried, hysterical women, who were around all summer? They've, suddenly turned into fat cats, smiling, relaxed, ready to turn the other cheek rather than belt you on yours. Know why? Beckuse their kids are back to school, that's why. Not that they don't love their children. No, no, no. All mothers love their children. But they can't STAND them after two months' holidays. Paradise on earth is 'not the Isles of Greece, or two cars, or four credit cards, or a mink stole. It's sitting down with a cup of coffee after the kids are off to school and realizing that you won't see them for anY• where from three to six hours, Silence, Golden, No more of, "Jane's mean. Billy won't give back my bike. When are we going for a swim? I wanna popsicle. There's nothing to do, It's hot outside. flow conic we never have any cold pop?" And so on, Lucky ladies,. No dirty bare feet tracking through the house. No whining, No de- mands for the impossible. No fighting, Nothing but ah hour of blessed solitude, with a cup of coffee and maybe a ciga- rette for the depraved, and nothing to listen to except Jol- ly Jack, the disc jockey. Even getting at the dishes and the washing is a pleasure, when there's nobody there snivell, ing, "I fell and hurt my knee, Mum, Muth my •knee hurts, Mum," Well, girls, I hope you enjoy it. You deserve it. But while you're lolling in this sybaritic splendor, let me remind you that I and all the other idiots who teach school are stuck with your rotten kids for ten months, six hours a day, Keep this in mind when you scream at your horrendous education taxes, . It's not that I don't enjoy getting back on the job in Sep- tember. If I did, I wouldn't be right in the head. It's a pleas- ant change after two months 'Of my 'wife and daughter driving me crazy, singly or in tandem. Instead of two women yet- tering and wheedling and scolding and nagging and ca- joling end conning me, all have to face is about 165 kids doing the same. But there's safety in numbers. And I have some authority at school. If a kid bugs me too much, I can threaten him with all sorts of dreadful punish- ments, like being sent to the principal's office, which terri- fies him about as much as being attacked by a bunny rab- bit. Or I can resort to the final edict, "Look, if you're 16 and you don't like "it here, out, vanes, raus, get lost, There's the door. You're free," This is fairly effective, especially in winter, because they don't want to go to work, Another delightful aspect, of getting to work is meeting all my old friends on the staff. There's the cut-and-thrust Wit of the staff town at lunch hour, much like the atmos- phere of the French salons of the 18th century. "Who's got the crossword puzzle? Gawd, my feet are killin' me. Jeer, I wish it was Friday." And there's the genuine thrill of staff meetings, where the real, gritty business of edu- cation is discussed with a dig- nity and decorum that would shame the Senate. Sometimes, in only 40 minutes, we decide whether gum-chewing is al- lowed daily, or only during ex- ams, to relieve tension. And often, with remarkable dis- patch, say half an hour, we decide, within four inches, how long a boy's hair or how short a girl's dress must be, However, I do like kids, and it IS rewarding to watch them grope, then cope. And a few weeks ago a couple of former students, now at university, who were real hellers when I taught them, asked me out for a game of golf, And then a little girl called me up, and asked if she could be in my . English class. And Jerry, a boy of whom I rather despaired, but a good lad, asked Kim what I wanted for a gift last June, when he graduated, magna sans laude,. She replied, rather intelli- gently, I thought, "Give him something he likes, and some, thing useful." All on his own, he hustled downtown and bought me a bottle of good Burgundy and three golf halls, When a chap shows judgment like that, you can't help feeling you've succeeded, somehow. Poets, clowns and beautiful women are the likeliest bearers of happiness, but anyone may be a carrier. I am thinking of the short, balding man, the traveller in plastic garbage bags, who was my seat-mate on a brief inter-city flight earlier this week. He fairly bubbled with gemutlichkeit. Like those ships that pass in the night and speak to each other in passing, he cheered me on my way. Gemutlichkeit is the fine, juicy German word for happiness. It somehow seems the only word that will do for my transient friend. It was his little joke that he was in plastic garbage bags, that being the products he sold, but he was no mere wit. He was just a genuinely happy man, a strangely rare breed in our affluent society. Did he like travelling, I asked. Like it? He loved it! He liked flying. He like meeting new people. He liked to see new places. Then his work was interesting? Interesting? Why, it was wonderful! He didn't know how he had the nerve to take a salary for it. He wasn't putting me on. It wasn't an act. He was neither the hearty, back-slapping type nor the Life Can Be Beautiful sort of bromidic missionary. He was just a 'guy, met by chance, who tur:ied out to be hugely enjoying 75 YEARS AGO THE CLINTON NEW ERA September 21, 1894 Misses Zimmerman and K. Uzzell were in 13rucefield on Saturday, visiting the former's aunt, Mrs. Diehl, Wm. H. Miln of Toronto, publisher of 'Cycling,' was here last week, in the interests of his journal. He was touring on his bike and expresses himself as highly pleased with the roads in this district. The attempt to establish a weekly market day is, seemingly, not a success, the attendance last Saturday being practically nothing; this is much to be regretted and shows that neither farmers nor townspeople have yet realized the Value or advantages of mutual co-operation in this respect. 55 Yl?,ARS AGO THE CLINTON NEW ERA September 17, 1914 Last week the post office and the express office resumed the sale of money orders payable in Europe with the exception of Germany and Austria. As a result of a case of rabies, the Harriston board of health has ordered all dogs hi town to be muzzled or destroyed, At 8 o'clock Saturday night, Sir Adam Beek, chairman of the Ontario Ilydro4nectric Commission, turned a switch which illuminated Windsor With elettric 'power ,genera ted a t Niagara 256 miles away, his passing. It had been years since I last heard such a heartening or contagious reminder that life may be full of fun and adventure. Since happiness is, I suppose, the elusive goal of all of us, such rare birds as this always seem more enviable than those who have attained mere 'fame or fortune. Brief as the encounter was, I'd gotten the impression of meeting a man with a priceless gift. In a way, I suppose, it is child-like. Just as a child, trusting, naive and uncomplicated, faces each day with interest, excitement and the spirit of discovery, so this salesman seemed to be charmed with the ability to see pleasures and delights in every commonplace experience. It could not be said to be ignorance, immaturity or innocence. He proved to be well-read, informed and knowledgeable. It was not a calculated, attitudindal happiness that he generated, but entirely natural. "Built-in hap pin ess," I found myself thinking. You couldn't for a minute imagine this fellow bored or disgruntled or defeated. Whatever it was he possessed — call it zest, enthusiasm, curiosity or what you will — he was constantly exposed to happiness. It would come to him easily, 40 YEARS AGO September 19, 1929 Miss Emma Plumsteel has had as her guest Miss Broadfoot of West Palm Beach, Florida, Harry Watkins and Thomas Crone of Chatham spent the weekend at the home of the fore-lees parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. Watkins. • Miss Jean Plu msteel is supplying on the Public School staff owing to Miss Wiltse's absence through illness. The rains during the past week have filled up the creeks and wells to some extent, but we shall need a good deal more before winter sets in. The local Hydro commission has procured a small motor truck for use in its business. The mechanical staff was often handicapped by failure to secure the services of a dray or a horse when needed, now it has its own conveyanee, 25 YEARS AGO September 21, 1944 Miss Florence Evans, Who has been employed for Several years at the Richmond Hosiery, has accepted a position on the staff Of the local Office of the Bell Telephone Co. Mr. and Mts. 13, F. Lancaster Of St, Marys ate guests this week of Mr. and Mrs. George McLay, Miss Madeleine Hawkins left on Monday morning for London, before going on to St. Anne do Bellevue, Que„ to the Officers' Training School, where she Will be taking a special course during the next, six Weeks, effortlessly, though there are other men, desperate for it, who cannot buy or borrow it. I found myself thinking of some words. of wisdom on this subject by Harry Golden, the Carolina philosopher, who opined that for most of us happiness is no more or less than a moment of fulfillment, the moment for which all expectations has been aroused. Such moments come to everyone — the moment the plane touches its wheels to the ground when you're coming home, the moment of a promotion or a raise in pay, the moment a girl says "yes" or a baby utters its first word, the transient moments of tangible rewards for patience or endeavor. We cherish these moments because they are so rare, because very often they happen to us only by chance or by accident. Happiness comes along, in other words, just as grief often does, as a surprise, Hang around long enough and it is bound to strike, Not so with the salesman, if I judge him rightly. He confidently anticipates gemutlichkeit around every corner, actively seeks it out and welcomes it by constant expectation, a man going someplace where happiness will surely happen and, I'm reasonably sure, giving as much as he takes. Mrs. Wilbur Welsh and Mrs. Oliver Welsh spent the weekend in Stratford as the guests of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Fisher. 15 YEARS AGO September 16, 1954 Mr. and Mrs. Frank Perkins, Miss Jane Perkins and Peter Hardy, Barrie, were Sunday guests with Mr. and Mrs. Frank Pennebaker. Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Deseck and Steven were in Toronto last week attending the Canadian National Exhibition. Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Wilson leave on Tuesday for Montreal, Que., where on Wednesday morning they set Sail for their home in England aboard the Iscania: For the past 18 months they have been living with their son-in-law and daughter, Mr, and Mrs. R. 4, Stevens, Isaac Street, They ,dish to thank all the people of Clinton for the kindness during their stay here, 10 YEARS AGO September 17, 1959 Miss Mary Lavis left last Thursday to attend Alma. College, St. Thomas. Mr, and Mrs. William Lee and Sharon Ann have returned from a motor trip to Prince Albert, Sask., where they visited the former's brother-in-law and sister, Mr. and Mm, Howard Cowles, Larry and Clair. Mrs, Lenore Pearson accompanied them and remained with her daughter for a while, Mrs. Julia Fulton, Saskatchewan, is visiting her sister, Mrs, Party Wnison, Bayfield,