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HomeMy WebLinkAboutClinton News-Record, 1969-11-13, Page 44 ClintOnNeWOlecord„ Thursday, November 190 000001 comment Better answer needed Clinton's town council on Monday evening endorsed a resolution Proposed by the Town of See-Forth after disturbances there in recent weeks. The resolution called for standardization of penalties for all those convicted of clearly described crimes or misdemeanors. It was framed as a protest against what some Seaforth people believe were light sentences for accused offenders in such breaches of the peace. After Wingham town council gave rather hesitant approval to the resolution, the. Advance-Times headed its editorial comment, "A New System of Justice?" The newspaper said: "It is not difficult to imagine the frustration of police officers who have been manhandled or verbally abused when they find that those they have arrested are let off with light sentences. "However, to demand that a Pre-set Penalty be established for any, single type of crime would be to negate the entire concept of justice in our , country. Our judicial system -recognizes that transgressions of the law occur under varying influences and in different circumstances and our judges are appointed in the belief that the element of sound and considered human judgment must be applied in each case." We concur with our Wingham colleagues, but at the same time believe there is some substance to the complaints that penalties are at times too lenient.and that too often charges are dropped or reduced and the eventual penalty hardly as severe as the original offense might warrant. Both are drugs In spite of, or perhaps because of, all the articles and television programs on drugs, most parents have evidently missed the first point regarding drugs and the young. Not the only point, but the first one. The more most adults warn about marijuana, the more their hypocrisy shows. Many young people are aware of the dangers of marijuana. They have also seen the dangers of alcohol. They consider them both to be mood-modifying drugs. One is not "alcohol" and the other "a drug". Both are drugs. Many have experienced both, know the differences, know the similarities. Then what? Along come their parents, anxious, puzzled, righteous, to lecture the Twain on "It seems that an anecdote concerning Mark Twain might be appropriate to illustrate one of the important roles of advertising — that of informing the consumer. Apparently Mark Twain, who at the time was editor of. a newspaper in Missouri, received a letter from a subscriber. This gentleman had found a spider inside his copy of the newspaper. He wrote to Twain and asked what this ,,mearit,'gdod luck or bad kick? "'Finding a spider in your paper," replied Mark Twain, 'was neither good luck or bad luck. The spider was merely looking over our paper to see which merchant is not advertising so that he can young about the "terrible dangers" of marijuana, which the parents have never experienced. In the next room is a bar stocked with powerful drugs in quart bottles. Indeed, Dr. Roger Whitman, of Seaforth, in speaking to a group at Central United Church last month, described alcohol as the drug "most damaging socially in the western world." The hypocrisy is so loud that it drowns out the parents' words. And that is the first point. It must be dealt with before there can be useful discussion between adults and the young on mood modifiers whether inhaled or imbibed. —STRATFORD BEACON HERALD advertising go to that store, spin. his web across the door and lead a life of peace and quiet ever afterwards'." — L. A. Miller, president, General Foods Limited. • Inflation "How serious is inflation? If prices in Canada go up by an average of only four per cent next year as against this year's probable 4.5 per cent, consumer prices in 1970 will be 22 per cent above those of mid-1965. Half a decade of inflation, in short, will have cut the purchasing power of a dollar by more than one-fifth." ....Financial Post, August 30. ,Aor, November is a nightmare "They wouldn't be outdated if you deliver them on timer This cartoon is reprinted from Publishers' Auxiliary for the benefit of our out-of-town subscribers. 1/110ES ALL SERVICES ON STANDARD 'TIME t, ONTARIO STREET UNITED CHURCH "THE FRIENDLY CHURCH" • Pastor: REV. H. W. WONFOR, . Eig l3.Sc,13.Corn., B.D. Organist; MISS 1_015 GRASSY, A.R,C.T.1 "•,',- :.' SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 16th . 9:45, a.m. — Sunday School. 11100 am. — Morning Worship. Sermon Topic: "The Christian Letter Writer" Sacrament of Infant Baptism 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 WESLEY-WILLIS SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 16th 9:45 a.m. — Sunday School. 11:00 a.m. — Morning Worship. Sermo n' "BLACK SHEEP" HOLMESVILLE 1:00 p.m. — Worship Service. 1:45 p.m. — Sunday School — All Welcome — CHRISTIAN REFORMED CHURCH SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 16th • 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 Choir Director SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 16th 9:45 a.m. — Sunday School. 10:45 a.m. — Morning Worship — Rally Day. Tea and Bazaar, Saturday, November 15, 3 p.m; BAYFIELD BAPTIST CHURCH Pastor: Leslie Clemens SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 16th Sunday School: 10:00 a.m. Morning Worship: 11:00 a.m. Evening Gospel Service: 7:30 p.m. . Wednesday,, 8:00 p.m. Prayer meeting and Bible study Business arc! Professional' " Directory OPTOMETRY J. E. 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Jervis — 68 Albert St. Clinton — 482-9390 a THE CLINTON NEW ERA Amalgamated THE HURON NEWS-RECORD Established 1865 • c 1924 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 registration number 081/ SUBSCRIPTION RA 1 E5: (in advance) Canada, $6.00 Per year; U.S.A., $7.50 ERIC A. McGIJINNESS Editor J HOWARD AITKEN = General Manager Published every Thursday at the heart of Huron County Clinton, Ontario Population 3,05 TBE 110AM Ob" RADAR IN CI NA DA THE McKILLOP MUTUAL . FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY SEAFORTH • Insures_:. * Town Dwellings * All Class of Farm Property * Summer cottages * Churches, Schools, Halls 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. Baton, Seaforth, Hills, Hills, Calif., to spend the winter with his daughter. Mr. COrrie has been With his son, Maynard, and family of Bayfield since April, 10 YEARS AGO November 1.2,1959 MitseS Mary Lavis and Lynne Kitney of Alnia College, St. Thomas, spent the weekend with Mary's parents, Mr. and Mrs. George M. Levis, and Sister Linda. Mr. and Mrs. Andy Husty Jr.,1 Nanette and Michael, from Port Rowan, visited in Clinton over the Weekend. Dr. and Mrs. Donald Bradley and David, C.W.O., London, were the guests of Mrs. Fred McEwen, tayfield, Over the weekend of November 1. Mr, and Mrs. Donald Barker and family, King City, are Spending a few days visiting at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Fred McClytnont, Varna. Elf COMPANY.:: It doesn't require a high IQ to realize that the world is going to hell in a hurry. All. you have to do is read, look and listen. Vietnam, that great canker, continues to suppurate. There is an explosion imminent in the Middle East. China and Russia are ;snarling at' each other' in outer Mongolia or somewhere. There are a dozen or more brush-wars in pro. gress. Then there's pollution and inflation and discrimination, and high taxes and shortage of housing, and student riots and sexual freedom and drugs among the kids, just to men- tion a few other jollies. Top this off with coronaries and constipation, Tung cancer and livers turning to stone, abortions and acne, and it's hard to believe the ragged old human race can keep it finger in the dyke much longer. As if that isn't enough, it's November in Canada, a thought to chill the spirit, cur- dle the blood, make the bones ache and turn one's theughts to Hamlet: "To be or not to be; that is the question." Personally, I'd prefer not to be, in November. But I haven't the guts to commit suicide. However, anyone who'd care to finish me off is welcome. November is a month that Should be deleted from the cal- endar, by act of Parliament,' f necessary. It's given a perfect send-off by the horrors of Halowe'en. This is kind of fun when your kids are little. They're excited and you're delighted. But when they've grown up, and you have an entire evening of answering the doorbell and ' smiling heartily at surly ur- chins who sneer at your Mc- Intosh apples and snarl, "Hav- en't ya got any chocolate bars?", its charm fades a little. Then there's everything else that November brings. Snow tires neglected until too late. Storm windows ditto. Freezing winds. Rain that turns to snow. Last year's rubbers leaking. Dirt tracked in. The glories of autumn have vanished. The pleasures of win- ter are not yet. All yoU have is a grey, ulcerous, dirty, sodden, spiritless thirty days of gloom in which the sun seems to have disappeared from the Universe. It's a time for huddling by the fire. Except that you've forgotten to get your winter wood in: A time for reading depressing poetry. A time for grouching and grumbling. A time for watching third-rate TV and despising yourself for wasting the time. A time for AA's to fall off the wagon. But we mustn't despair, must we, chaps? We most be a man for all seasons. Surely there must be something good about November. Just as the Human race `tackles; pollution,- inflation, population and all the other ailments mentioned above, we must tackle November. We'll probably be too late, just as we are with these items, but we've got to give it that old human try. Let's see. Well, there's Re- membrance Day to brighten things up. There are the Christmas gift advertisements, six weeks early, but very color- ful. There's the 'annual wallow of the Grey Cup game. I must admit that something bright happened to me this November. I had slept in Sat- urday morning for a bit, got up, looked at my lawn, shud- dered, and retreated to the morning paper and coffee with a substitute for cream. Doorbell rang. "Dam' paper- boy, collecting," I muttered, but answered. Four fresh-faced students, equipped with rakes, wanted to know if I'd like my lawn raked. They were raising money to take the local retard- ed children on a couple of jaunts. Somehow, that little note of warmth in a cold world did wonders for me. They raked the lawn, after a fashion, rang the doorbell every five min- utes to ask for a drink or the time, and it cost me ten bucks. But it was worth it. Some- body was doing something for somebody. It gave me enough strength to hang on ,for that most welcome day of he year, Nov. 30th, and the end of the annual nightmare. A nose by any other I'm always pleased when a story appears in the papers bearing testimony to the importance of the human nose. It was almost a thrill, for example, to read last week of the case of Laszlo Veress of Toronto. Laszlo, as you may have noted, being knocked out, bound and gagged by some unidentified villains, gnawed through his gag when he recovered consciousness, picked up a telephone receiver with his teeth and dialed for help with his nose! A triumph; you'll agree, for'that noble organ. My interest in such rare items is more than merely academic since I was born with, and carry to this day (Thursday), a very big nose. I use the word "big" in a defiant sort of way. My mother, from whom I inherited these dimensions, always took pains to use the word "generous." Whenever I would lock myself in my bedroom and cry into my pillow she would be near at hand to reassure me 'with soothing semantics. I could not have been more than 10 years of age, indeed, before my mother was quoting Rostand to me to prove, as that splendid man wrote of Cyrano, that "a great nose indicates a great man — genial, courteous, intellectual, virile, courageous." Thank God for mothers. This was small Comfort, however, in my formative years (before the dial telephone) when my nose seemed responsible for a general boycott by the world's entire feminine population. But 75 YEARS AGO THE CLINTON NEW ERA November 16, 1894 Business men should not leave poultry exposed at their store doors after dark; it is a temptation for them to disappear. People who imagine there has been a fortune in the cattle trade this year are 'grievously mistaken, it having been a disastrous year for both local shippers and exporters. The trade is practically demoralized. About the end of this month John Tedford, blacksmith, expects to move his workshop to his former residence on Rattenbury St., which has undergone extensive changes for the purpose. The premises to be vacated by Mr. Tedford in connection with Leslie's carriage shop, have been rented by Albert Seeley, Who takes possession early in January. 55 YEARS AGO THE CLINTON NEW ERA November 19, 1914 W. T. O'Neil advertises raisins et 11 lbs. for $1.00, Good Red Salmon, 10e per tin, brown sugar, 16 lbs. for $1.00 and Shelled ahrionds at 40c per pound. People say that they would as time went by I came to recognize Rostand's truth. It may even have been the foundation for a lifetime of rationalizing. In reflecting back over my life, a process that takes all of eight minutes, I've often wondered if my early sensitivity about my big nose may not have determined its course. If it is true, as Pascal observed, that had the nose of Cleopatra been shorter the whole face of the earth would have been changed, then surely it is not too far-fetched a notion that had I a less bulbous beak I might have been something entirely different, maybe even with money. Was my choice of a career, itself, perhaps predestined in a subconscious way by some fortuitous remark that I had "a nose for news," an observation I seized upon instantly to symbolize my nose as the outward expression of my enquiring, inquisitive inner nature? Was my first interest in the far north and the subsequent appetite I developed for exploring the Arctic aroused by learning that Eskimo kisses were conducted by a rubbing together of the noses? This intelligence reached me at a time when I'd already had one or two amorous adventures, as inflammatory as any 12- year- old Cyrano ever imagined, and had set me to brooding about the towering handicap to non-Eskimo kissing constituted by too prominent a proboscis. about as soon see Old Nick himself as Chief Wheatley with his little tax slip this year. It is expected that the Wonderland Picture Show which , has been closed all summer will open abOut Dec. 1st. Mrs. Bristowe gave a patriotic tea last Thursday evening. Don't forget the Exhibition of Red Cross work in the Council Chamber on Friday afternoon. 40 YEARS AGO November 14, 1929 Turkeys they say were not ready for Thanksgiving, the Canadian holiday coming too early. Chickens and ducks had to fill the breach, Miss Doris Miller spent the weekend and holiday as the guest of Misses M. beaseith and Kathleen Hurley, Stratford. Miss Mary Grealis and her mother motored to Hamilton to spend the holiday weekend with relatives. Miss Lotta McKellar of Toronto was a ThankSgiving visitor St the home of Mr. and Mrs. 'Gordon W. Cunitighame. Miss Pearl 'Crittenden has returned home After a tWo months' visit with friends at Wyandotte and Detroit; Mich, She was accompanied home by her sister, Mts. Clarence Ball of Detroit, The difficulty was compounded by my inevitable choice of partners who, themselves, had large noses, perhaps instinctively seeking in each other some plaintive reassurance that noses didn't' matter. It isn't easy, believe me, for a boy and a girl to kiss when they resemble ant-eaters, though, as ant-eaters probably know, it is worth the effort. Looking at it this way it now occurs to me that I was, you might say, led by the-nose from infancy and that 'I might 'at-least claim some kinship with those ' famous men whose deformities have inspired them to greater things. It was a point that my wife was wont to make repeatedly when we were courting. I know now that she was after my money (I had just inherited $200 and a gold watch from my late grandfather), but she had had only praise for my nose. I, in turn, had been hopelessly attracted to her because her nose was a thing of absolute perfection as it remains, despite years at the grindstone of matrimony. Often when I would come to her after long minutes of gazing morbidly at myself in a mirror (full-face, of course, since few mirrors will encompass my profile) she would laugh away my silly fears. "Don't think of it as a handicap, my dear," she would murmur, fingering my gold watch, `think of it as a character-builder." 25 YEARS AGO November 16, 1944 Oliver Rands, who has been with the Canada Packers for the past year, has been transferred to Walkerton. Mrs. Rands and children are remaining here for the present. Miss Beatrice Gibson is visiting her aunt, Miss M. A. Gibson, in Toronto. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Glew have returned home after visiting their daughter and son-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Abe. Orpen, of Hamilton. Constable Bob Biggart, RCMP , of St. John's, New Brunswick, is spending a leave with his parents, ME. and Mrs. W. J. Biggart, 15 YEARS AGO November 11, 1954 Guests on Sunday With Mr. and Mrs. A. J. McMurray included Rev, Wesley Cope, Brantford, and Mrs. E. Whitmarsh and Mrs. Bruce Janes, both of London. • Wellington Cook And Mrs. Gordon Coates, Hamilton; Mrs. Chris Crozier and Miss Maud Coultes, Toronto, were weekend Visitors of Mr. and Mrs. Chester Farquhar and their aunt, Mrs, Margaret Johnston. Frank Corrie left on Monday to travel by plane to' Granada :;ftAw..1,wv