HomeMy WebLinkAboutClinton News-Record, 1969-12-04, Page 44 .Clint9n News-Record, Thursday, ,Qaparnherk 1969
It is insanity
The international. Red Cross estimates
that wars this century alone have killed
90,000,000 PeoPle. The world's nations
have spent some $2,000 billion On
armament's in the 20th century, and 13Q
WarS and conflicts on five continents have
caused damage SeVeral times this amount.
It is indeed a sorry record for modern
man who considers himself the wisest and
most civilized Pf the world's . creatures, I
who truly believes he is one better than
his forebears of past centuries.
Despite the repeated warnings of the
Past seven decades, the world is moving
toward the 1970s with the basic question
of disarmament far from resolved. On the
contrary, in the fearsome arsenals of the
super powers, weapons of mass
destruction are piling up at an alarming
rate.
Annual defense expenditures by the
great powers and other nations are
heading toward the $200 billion mark, so
it will ' take barely another decade to
double that total the world has spent Pn
arms and on keeping enemies,away.
Unless the arms race is halted, future
generations may well look back to those
90,000,000 killed in 70 years not with
horror, but with sortie SurPrise. For if ever
the super powers start hurling their
nuclear weapons, far more than
90,000,000 probably will be killed in the
first hours of the next global war. Today,
,the United States and the Soviet Union
already have thousands of atomic
warheads and intercontinental missiles
which can be fired at a moment's notice.
For mankind to keep racing along this
path is not just dangerous, It is insanity. -
Unchurched Editorials, United Church
Board of Evangelism and Social Service.
The best of gifts
There are few more heart-warming
phrases than "home for Christmas." At
once the mind conjures up happy
reunions, laughter-filled rooms, sparkling
trees and laden tables with every seat
around them filled.
Christmas is also the time for another
kind of home-coming; we mayr at this
season, come home to ourselves. As the
great day approaches the heavy shell of
cynicism that desensitizes us can be
dropped, and we can let faith seep slowly
back into our bones - faith in others,
faith in our own compassionate and
simpler moments, faith in the future, faith
in God.
This is a period to sift our memories
and to make again the exciting discovery
that the men and events most firmly
anchored there are not warriors and
battles, terrorists and mob rule, but the
quiet exploits of the "terrible meek."
Ask any teenager about Hitler or
Mussolini, the, colossi that thundered
through their parents' childhood; they are
scarcely even names. It is the Ghandis, the
Schweitzers, the Martin Luther Kings who
remain fixed; above all, the Manger Babe
who inspired the others and taught man
the awesome power that comes among us
in unpretentious and apparently
defenseless ways.
Thornton Wilder, in his last novel,
"The Eighth Day," has written, "Men of
Faith ecompass a large landscape...When
the evil hour comes, they hold...They
confront injustice. They assemble and
inspirit the despairing."
May we all both give and receive this
best of Christmas gifts. - Unchurched
Editorials, United Church Board of
Evangelism and Social Service.
The communication nail
The current issue of The Printed Word,
a monthly newsletter published in
Toronto, contains the following comment
on a recent News-Record editorial ("Why
the Surprise?" Oct 16):
"In Huron County, Ont., broiler
producers, in most cases without any
.warning, recently found themselves
'assessed for business tax. The editor of
the weekly Clinton News-Redord hit the
communication nail right on the head.
"The confusion, he wrote., could be
blamed on lack of communication, 'but
not on lack of avenues of communication.
All that was necessary was for the
assessment commissioner to make use of
them.'
"The weekly press in the district, the
source of local news, had not been given
time to inform local farmers about the
notices they were going to get in the mail
or to explain.
"it can be assumed there will be a
protest, and it can be assumed that the
farmers would have protested even if they
had been taken into the confidence of the
assessment commissioner in advance.
What would have been accomplished by
reaching the public through the weeklies
would have been a reduction in the
degree of rancor."
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No fun in toys for fathers of girls
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High school principals
This column is dedicated to
my namesake, Bill Smiley, a
high school principal in Sask-
atchewan. He doesn't even
read my column, bad cess to
him, but his wife does,
Recently, she forced him to
listen as she read a column in
which I hurled a dart into the
raw hides of school administra-
tors, It made him write, but it
was a, friendly letter and it's
nice to hear from you, Cousin
Bill.
He must be a cousin. The
Smileys, five brothers of them,
came out from Ireland' during
one of the periodic potato fa•
mines and with the skill •and
foresight that has always char,
acterized the name, chose some
of the most meagre land in
Canada on which to strike it
rich.
The crops were mainly
stones, with an occasional bo-
nanza of boulders. Most of
them had enough dim Irish wit
to .get out and move West, but
my grandfather, with nine kids
and no Wife, stuck it out and
the old family farm is still
there in Pontiac, Quebec, push.
ing up its annual crop of milk-
weed, burdock and fieldstone.
Cousin Bill must be a de,
scendant of orie of the Smileys
who went West and starved
during The Depression, instead
earn their keep
of staying home and almost
starving.
We've lost contact complete-
ly. But I did meet a chap, Bev
Smiley, directly' ahead of me in
a' line-up on a troopship corn-
ing home, who turned out to
be a son of my father's first
cousin, Joe, who went West.
Isn't this fascinating? •
However, this is not a family
history, though I know you're
intrigued. It is a heart-felt
expression of sympathy for
high school principals, like
Cousin Bill.
A high school principal, is
usually a normal, human being
(though not always) who is
caught, not between two
grindstones, but four, Grind-
ing from above are the school-
board and the parents, From
below, he is whetted to a fine
edge by teachers and students.
Either he emerges keen as
an axe, or ground to a pulp.'
The odd one is smart enough
to quit and go back to the
classroom before either hap-
pens. But most, driven by the
insatiable greed of their wives,
keep at it until they are
punchy.
This is one of their hairiest
times of the year. After three
months of Unbelievable chaos,
they have finally got the, big,
brutal, awkward, maniacal ma-
chine, that is a modern high
school, running with only the
odd fit or start. (Be careful
there, linotype operator)
The Board has cut off all
expenditures until the new
budget is struck in January.
The students are becoming un-
ruly. The teachers are corn-
' pletely browned off with
Board, principal, students and'
each other. In short, every-
thing is normal
Then, the poor old principal
gets three or four resignations
from his staff. They are from
people who are _ill, fed up, or
merely going out of their
minds.
Where do you pick up, in
December, an art teacher who
can double in typing? Or a
German teacher who is a whiz
at German but weighs 200
and must coach the basketball
team? Or a history teacher
who can pick up a welding
class without doing a Nero?
Soinehow, they find bodies
to reit in front of the kids and
the show goes on. And the
principal takes another giant
step, not for mankind, but to-
ward his first coronary.
Bless you, chaps, and have a
happy Christmas. It's a job I
wouldn't touch with a 20-foot
Hungarian, let alone a*ten400t
Pole.
This is that time of the year
- the only time, I hasten to add
- when a father of girls may
wish that they'd been the other
kind.
You'll say that I'm being
selfish, that I'm turning my back
on the Christian ethic * that it is
better to give than. to receive,
and you will be absolutely right.
But if I'd just had three boys
instead of three girls I could live
comfortably with my Christmas
hypocrisy.
You'll see my kind at this
time of the year in any Toyland.
Observe, if you will, the father
of girls in such a place. Notice
how dutiful he appears - at least
every other inch. See him poking
wistfully through the stuff that a
little girl's dreams are said to be
made of. Watch as he studie4
with a view to purchase, the long
shelves of dolls and cuddlesome
things, the array of
Lilliputian -sized household
appliances that his wife has
assured him will warm the hearts
of those certain small parties.
There you see a moderately
miserable man.
For one thing, he has no
conception whatever of what
little girls see in them. Why a
little girl wants a set of tiny
dishes or a muffin-making kit or
a miniscule facsimile of mama's
manicure set or a sewing box is
beyond the male understanding.
They are not toys, in his view.
They seem more like equipment
for an occupational training
program.
He must accept the fact that
little girls do not want really
fun-producing things (like the
deig&ANJAA6*
Jim-dandy set which consists of
a basketball' and a hoop that
caught my eye yesterday.) No,
they are terribly purposeful.
Even their dolls must have a
built-in mechanism that will
cause them to function in a most
elementary way and, indeed, the
newest rage, called Baby Brother
and Baby Sister, have "a subtly
moulded addition," it says in my
Christmas catalogue, "to
indicate with naturalness and
good taste that Brother is a boy
and Sister is a girl." This lust for
realism is totally foreign to most
fathers whose primitive idea of a
toy is simply an escape
mechanism.
The father of girls, wandering
through Toyland,' will almost
Certainly meet up with a friend
wheis a father'Of boys, 'Usually
at the electrictrain. ccitinte`rAle
will try to get by unnoticed, as
he heads for the teddy-bears, but
the father of boys will catch his
eye and beckon him over.
"I envy you," he will say,
patronizingly, "having just girls.
Why, you've no idea what these
things cost." As he says this he
will be looking at the electric
trains. "See how they back into
that siding?" he may remark.
The father of girls, eyes glued
to the beautiful, tiny trains, may
try to pretend that his heart isn't
breaking.
"I have just bought a little
muffin-making set," he may say.
"My little girls will • probably
bake me ,a muffin for Christmas
morning."
"You're to be envied," the
father of boys may reply, "You
know, I'll probably have to
Detroit has been visiting his
mother, Mrs. S. G. Castle.
Mr. W. Marquis of the Base
Line spent a few 'days with
relatives in Toronto last week
and accompanied * by his
daughter, Miss Stella, who is
nurse-in-training at the Western
Hospital, spent several half days
at the Royal Fair. It was well
worth a visit, too, according to
Mr. Marquis.
Mr. A. Atwood left on
Sunday for Detroit after having
spent a few days with his
mother, Mrs. E. Atwood,
Bayfield.
25 YEARS AGO
December 7, 1944
Misses Helen • Crich, Mary
Hudie and Ruth Middleton, and
Mr. John Cook are practise
teaching this week at the Clinton
Public School.
AB Maurice Maguire
R.C.N.V,R. is spending a few
days' leave at his home in
Clinton having just returned
bran Overseas.
Mit. W. T. Herman spent the
weekend at Milgrove with her
daughter, Miss Helen Herman.
Sgt. Ken Rowden of the
R.C.A.F., Montreal, is visiting at
the' home of his uncle, Mr. and
Mrs. Bert Rowden.
15 YEARS AGO
December 2, 1954
Mrs. Ed. Glen spent last week
in London with her son-in-law
'and daughter, Mt and MrS.
Chester Neilans. Mr. Glen Was
spend the whole of Christmas
day setting up this "train and
teaching young Bill how to run
it."
"You poor guy," the father
of girls may say, trying to keep
the tremor from his voice. "With
a muffin-making set a man
doesn't have to do anything."
The' above dialogue, as it
happens, is engraved in my
memory, because it seemed to
happen every year until my own
girls reached the post-muffin
age.
I know, of course, how these
fathers of boys are' because, for
many happy years, I lived with
one my own.*
Christmas was always pretty
predictable for me because my
father would take me on a tour
shops, in, early December.
atvpys tell what he liked
and, so, what was in store for me
under the tree.
The Meccano sets were his
greatest joy. By the time I was
15 I had enough Meccano parts
to put together a model of the
Eiffel Tower that was nearly
life-sized.
I well recall those Christmas
mornings when, his face alight
with happiness, my father would
sprint for the tree, grab the
Meccano box that was always
under it, and rush to the kitchen
table to "demonstrate" its
construction principles. As I
grew older he would even
occasionally allow me to fit one
or two of the pieces together
unless, of course, some of the
fathers of the neighborhood had
arrived to assist in the operation.
They were, I need hardly add,
always the fathers of girls.
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there on the weekend and on
Saturday Mr. and Mrs. Glen
visited in Ingersoll and
Beachville.
Mr.; and 'Mrs. David Sours,
former residents of Clinton, now
living in Toronto,fire celebrating
their 60th wedding anniversary
on December 6. A reception is
being held for them in the Deaf
and Dumb Evangelical Church,
Toronto. Mrs. Sours is a sister of
Morgan Agnew, Mrs. George
Phelan and Mrs. R. L. McEwan.
Mrs. E. J. E. McLean, Pilot.
Mound, Man., who has been
visiting Mr. and Mrs. Norman
Bali, left on Monday for home.
10 YEARS AGO'
December 3, 1959
Mr. and Mrs. Gordon
MacFarlane and Bob, St.
Thomas, attended the Christmas
gathering of the Bert Lobb
family in the Londesboro Hall
on Saturday.
Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Burchill
and baby, Cold Lake, Alta.,
visited for two weeks with Mr.
and Mrs. Lloyd Millar and Mr.
and Mit. Ross Millar and family
on Townsend Street, before
leaving for his posting in France.
Mrs, Edwin Woods,
LOndesbom i is spending a week
with her daughter, Mrs. Bill
Andrews and family, Toronto.
There will be no election in
Clinton this year. Although all
indications at the nomination
meeting on Thursday pointed to
a spirited election, by Friday
night only enough perSon8 had
qualified to nicely fill the slate
required.
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75 YEARS AGO
° The Clinton New Era
December 7, 1894
The wife of Mr. James
Lai t h w a i te, of Goderich
township, left here on Friday,
on a visit to her son in
California; from Chicago she will
be accompanied by her uncle,
Mr. T. Jenkins.
Several hereabouts are
adopting boys and girls from the
Barnardo home, Peterboro.
We understand that the
Messrs. Kemp have leased the
skating rink, and will fit it up
and run it for the winter season,
Mr. Albert Seeley hes rented
the blacksmith shop adjoining
Leslie's carriage factory, and will
commence work on Monday.
55 YEARS AGO
The Clinton New Era
December 10, 1914
Mrs. Fred Turner and Miss
Mayfred Allin are expected to
arrive here today from Calgary.
They have been spending a few
days with their brother, Mr. A.
E. Min, at Toronto.
Mr. Wesley Caldwell' of
nensall, and a former C.C.I.
student, has joined the second
contingent and is now at:
London.
MISS Katharine Drake of
Ueda, Japan, has been Spending
a few days with. Miss Sybil
Courtice.
Mrs. J. Leslie Kerr returned
last Week from her visit with her
parents in Toronto,
40 YtAltS AGO
Deeember t, 1.920
Irlatold • Livermore of
BAYFIELD BAPTIST , CHURCH
Pastor: Leslie Clemens
SUNDAY, DECEMBER 7th
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
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