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HomeMy WebLinkAboutClinton News-Record, 1971-06-17, Page 44, Clinton News-Record, Thursday, June 17, 1971 EflifOrk4i CORIrneot Rebel or conformist? Who really' are the good and bad guys in society, the rebels or th.o conformists? Since good and bad are at issue, the non-violent, humanitarian type of rebel is considered. This man, out in the mainstream, fights to remove injustice, protect our rights, increase our freedoms, He attacks prejudice, deception and fraud and in so doing speaks for ail of us, He brings out in the open, hidden evils. Rachael Carson exposed the dangers of pesticides, Ralph Nader unsafe cars. Some challenge old attitudes and values, suggest radical new ideas. Should the country be run on service rather than profit? Is war legalized murder? This sparks healthy controversy, keeps thought moving,' avoids stagnation. The rebel pricks the conscience of the nation by publicizing racial discrimination, the degredation of poverty and so on, Thus he promotes tolerance, keeps love and compassion alive. The conformist? His personal life is his main concern, the job, snowmobile, the cottage. He may complain bitterly about injustice but does nothing. Calls to "rise up in outrage" against pollution and other evils, are mostly met with apathy and silence. Sometimes he even boasts, "I keep out of things," Asked to join and support a good cause he may say "I'm not a joiner." He is likely to call the rebel a troublemaker. But surely the conformist is the troublemaker, the foe of progress. By ignoring and accepting society's wrongs, he perpetuates them, It is he who keeps the unjust society and he paves the way for revolt. —Contributed. Knowledge and education A vastly increased total sum of human knowledge — not demonstrably coupled with corresponding increases in wisdom — poses a serious problem to educational systems. , The store of known facts is now far beyond the capacity of any one mind, however brilliant, to absorb. Long gone are the days when Aristotle or Francis Bacon could be thought to "know everything." Alfred Einstein and Bertrand Russell may have been the last two humans for whom comprehension of the "scheme of things entire" was even remotely possible. Today, therefore, children are not expected to learn all the facts, as much as learning where to find them! Education now consists of translating into learning the basics and terminology of subjects, plus knowledge of the mode of access to books, tapes, films and computer memory banks where the totality of knowledge about them is stored. The mysterious One of the most mysterious of ail diseases and, at the same time, one of the most crippling, is one which attacks the nervous systems of young adults and destroys, to a large extent, their ability ever to lead a normal life. Multiple Sclerosis has been recognized for more than a century as a distinct medical entity. Yet it remains a disease for which there is not even a simple laboratory test to confirm its diagnosis. It is estimated that 25,000 Canadians are victims of multiple sclerosis. Add to that the families affected and you find that 100,000 Canadians are undergoing hardship because of the disabling nature of the disease. At the present time, however, many nations throughout the world, including Canada, are making an all-out effort to The danger in this kind of education, particularly at secondary and higher levels, is too intensive a specialization, resulting in, people widely informed in one limited branch of knowledge, ignorant in all others. In today's situation, schools cannot give children an education but only the tools by which they can get one for themselves, the list headed by those very same 'three R's' of a simpler age. A less-compleX school system for a more complex age seems like a paradox, but it may be the logical solution for an urgently-pressing problem. This doesn't mean returning to the one-room schoolhouse, but would you believe four? Or, how about a house every six city blocks to teach the kids in surrounding houses? (Rural Canada could work out its own boundaries). It would certainly be one way of overcoming the inadequacies of huge educational complexes that cannot do a sensitive individualistic teaching job. —Contributed. disease solve the mystery of multiple sclerosis, for recent research clues are said to represent real hope for dramatic and meaningful progress. In the words of Dr. Jonas Salk, "every disease has its time and the time has arrived to find the answer to multiple sclerosis." The Multiple Sclerosis Society of Canada, as part of the world-wide program, is currently making an appeal for $130,000, to be used exclusively for currently committed research. This money is being allotted to researchers at nine universities and teaching hospitals across Canada. The program could have far reaching results. This appeal it one worthy of support from all Canadians —Contributed. Bill shares Some birthday secrets FR Isie4•4._- "fotkivei'Y 71,44-S P Ay /41) (4) E ARE SURE You WILL uNOEFIST4A!D rttfir, B Cf4 //Si OF OUR INCREASED cosrs due To plictikit_ AcconAir ?RTES 1:IMO GoSTS of REPPIJOS, LJE thitre IJO 144.7 -Eftwarivk l %vat ili.cre),40611.4 -11J.5uPai.icc RrITE$ AXE 14EgEgY INCRERsED,.. The poker gang the heart of Huron County Clinton, Ontario Population 3,475 771E 110A1P, OP PADAR IN CANADA A A When you are little, birthdays are great days. There are gifts in fancy wrappings, to be ripped open without even looking to see whom they are from. There is cake and eandIet and ice cream, and a general feeling that you, at least for a day, are Number One. As life tumbles along ever More rapidly, some birthdays are highlights. A boy of thirteen is about six years older, at least in his states feeling, than a "little boy" of twelve. A hoydenish girl of fifteen is five years younger than a "young lady" of sixteen, Seventeen is a special age. You are looking back with Scorn on sixteen and looking ferward with licking lips to eighteen. Eighteen is a tremendous barrier to crash through. For both sexes, it means you can now get in to see dirty movies without borrowing somebody's 1.D. card. In some depraved areas, such as Alberta, I believe, it means you can drink legally. Twenty-one used to be tie climax of all birthdays, It was the "I've got the key of the door, never been twenty-one before" tort of thing, It Meant you could vote and DRINK. But with the sophis'tic'ated youth of today, the 21st birthday has become rather a ho-hum affair. After that, most crucial birthdays were less than inspiring, some of them oecasiOna for deep soul-searching, if not tears. At least for worrier'. Men have always taken birthdays a little more casually. But most women lot* forward to their thirtieth birthday With anything but anticipation, And When their fortieth is upon them, you'd think they were stepping into senility, Strangely enough, after a couple of days of claiming they're over the hill, they turn right back into the same women they were before the birthday. Ah, `you sly devil. You've guessed that all this is leading up to something. And you're right. Tomorrow is my '%&$th birthday. Don't think I'm going to admit which one. It's for Women, not strong, silent men, to quibble about their ages. But I'll give you some tips. I have lived during the lives of four Britith monarchs, not including queen Victoria. It is a rank canard that I Was in 'World War I, though some of my students insist on asking whether I ever had any personal dog-fights With the Red Baron, In fact, my first movie was called "Lilac Tithe", all about .sillt-searved pilots throwing their brandy glasses into the fireplace and taking off at dawn in their Spads to battle the Hun, I remember Jack Benny and Fred Alien and Fibber McGee and Molly On radio. Even Amos 'n Andy. On the Other hand, my first great love was Marlene Dietrich and she's gill around flashing her legs and singing sexy songs. I Was about twelve when I fell for her. I grew up in the era of the ten-cent hamburger and the nickel pop. That used to make a big evening for fora young fellow and his girl, I remember adults sitting on the verandah, drinking lemonade in the dusk. And the elop-clop of horse and buggy in the quiet, tree-lined streets of small towns. As a kid, I ate stew in the hobo °jungle" down by the railway tracks, and talked to the quietly desperate men riding the rails from coast to toast. I remember working a whole Saturday with my big brother, on the huge grounds of the huge manse of the minister. And I remember very distinctly that he gave us a short dollar (16 hours work) and a long blessing. And one of my favourite memories is the clang of the horseshoes when the local men gathered on summer evenings to enjoy the only Wert they could enjoy, because it cost nothing. It was the best of all possible times, and the worst of all possible times. But it was precious, as every moment of life is. Take a guess. Ilow old am 17 Almost anybody who wants to make a quick fortune in the world of literature can whip up something called "Confessions of an International Jewel Thief" or "Secrets of a Society Gambler" and wait for the money to roll in. At the moment I am gathering material for a somewhat similar thriller, tentatively titled "Poker Types I Have Known" or "The Strange Case of Seven-Toed Pete." It so happens I've become a member of a mob of cold-eyed, big-time gamblers, men who think nothing of coolly raising a pot 15 cents or taking a loss of as much as three or four dollars with a sardonic smile and an elaborate shrug. One would think that money meant nothing to them and save for a trembling lip and a tear in the eye any one of these men can write out an IOU for as much as seven dollars without losing his magnificent poise. The games rotate from one home to another under a cloak of secrecy. "Game at my house tonight," the host will whisper out of the corner of his mouth, "see if your wife will let you out to play." All going well, you then rendezvous at eight o'clock, 75 YEARS AGO THE CLINTON NEW ERA JUNE 19, 1896 Mr. James Beattie has disposed of a half interest in his livery business to his brother, Samuel, and has rented Hodgen's Hotel, Hensel!, A certain gentleman Seaforth, of strong Conservative leanings, has been boasting lately of his willingness to wager $500 that the government would be sustained on the 23rd, On Friday last a gentleman of Liberal tendencies offered to cover the wager, but the Conservative flunked. Mr. Carline has bought from the McMullen estate the house and lot on Rattenbury Street, at present occupied by Mr. Dinsley. He purposes thoroughly overhauling it, but will not do so until next fall. 55 YEARS AGO 'THE CLINTON NEW ERA JUNE 15, 1916 Saturday of last week Mr. and Mrs Wm, Jackson, Mr. and Mrs. John Itatsford, and Mr. Melvin Ransford left Sarnia on the steamer Hamonic for Port Arthur and Fort William, 'where the gentlemen will attend the 30th annual convention of the Canadian Ticket Agent's Association: After the conference, they will return by boat to Port Nichol and will be back here tomorrow. Mr. Lorne Murch and family Will move shortly to the house vacated by Mrs. Gardner, Ontario Street. The L.O.L. will hold their regular meeting on Friday evening when they will administer the BOW Arch Degree to several candidates. usually in the kitchen, and proceed to fill the room with clouds of cigarette smoke withmft which no poker game would be complete. A banker is chosen, usually the only bachelor whose solvency is fairly intact, the first pot is won by a pair of fours, all the losers laughingly remark that it's fatal to take the opening hand and the game is under way. As anyone knows who has played in such a "friendly" game, poker players fall into several well-defined categories. There is, for example, the Smooth Operator, a fellow who goes at any activity with a knowing and confident air. At poker, he suavely shuffles the deck with the rhythm of a machine gun, deals with skill and dash. His face becomes an elaborate death mask, revealing nothing. He always remembers his hole card without looking each time. Unlike the others, he rarely makes an investment on the chance of filling a three-card flush or catching the case Ace. I've never been able to understand why he almost always loses. The other extreme is the Happy Dough-Head who shuffles the pack with banana fingers, is always dealing the cards off the 40 YEARS AGO JUNE 18,1951 A very interesting meeting of the Young Peoples' Society was held Monday evening, when Mr. Will McGill delivered a stirring description of his 'work in Sudbury, adding details of interest about the country. Will is a former Member of the League and the young people were glad to welcome him home. Banns were called in St. Joseph's Church on Sunday for the marriage of Mary Irene, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Walter Swinbank of the London Road, and Thomas Leslie Knox of Mullett. The marriage will take place in a fortnight. Miss Grace Gibbings, who is just finishing her course at the Clinton School of Commerce, will take a position in the Bank of Commerce, Henson, and Miss Jean Sheare, another graduate, goes to the office of Elliott's Garage, Exeter. 25 YEARS AGO JUNE 20,1.3346 The price of milk will probably jump another two eehts a quart in October, when milk subsidies to farmers are removed. The bandstand, which has been a familiar landmark in the Town Hall Park near the Public Library, is now reposing in Community Park, it having been moved for use in the Spring Show. William Davidson, who has operated a general store at flillsgreen, West of Kippen for the last five years, has purchased Gordon Lawson's residence on Mary Street and takes possession August 15. Alex Purvis and his wife, a war-bride who recently arrived from overseas, were guests 'of table and is never quite sure if a flush beats a full house. The Dough-Head's face openly reflects the value of his hand and occasionally he gives a shrill cry of joy if dealt the right card. I've never been able to understand why he almost always wins. Then there's the If-I'd-A character, the one who conducts a post mortem on every hand. "Why, say, if Cliff had dropped out that would have given me the King and Morgan would have got the deuce," he's apt to say. Or, "If-I'd-A taken two cards and held my Ace I'd-A had two pair if Stan had folded." After a couple of hands nobody listens any more. Perhaps the strangest aspect of this kind of poker is that nobody wins, a trick of mathematics that's never been fully explained. As the game winds up and the host's wife appears to brew coffee the participants discuss their various losses, One will remark that he's had a good night and is only a dollar down. Another will have just come out even. Another is three bucks in the hole. Any elementary arithmetic will quickly establish the fact that somehow ten or twelve honour at a gathering of friends and neighbours at Community Hall. 15 YEARS AGO JUNE 14, 1956 Miss Helen McKay, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. S. McKay, who has been attending Goderich Business College during the past year, has now joined the staff of Padfield Motors, London. The 'next meeting of the Huronic Rebekah Lodge will be on Monday evening, June 25. Please note that this is a change (torn the regular night, 'Those planning the meeting would like all members present. A social half-hour and lunch will follow the Meeting. The Clinton Chefs, members of the 4—H Homemakers' Club, held their fifth meeting on Friday evening, and answered roll call by presenting a supper dish prepared at home. The girls read over the important points in making a salad. Mary MacAuley and Janet Sharp demonstrated how to make a scalloped vegetable dish. THe CLINTON NEW ERA Established 1865 dollars is missing. No direct accusations are made, of course, since everyone understands the psychology behind this, a small matter of cunningly hiding the loot from Mama. The leaders demonstrated a tossed vegetable salad, 10 YEARS AGO JUNE 15, 1961 An offer from Harold Gibbings to remove 13 stumps from East Street, a street which council plans to re-surface, was received by council on Monday night. A suggestion by councillor Donald Symons that steps be taken to replace trees cut down Was not discussed, A new "Vacation care" service is being inaugurated at Huronview, which might he of interest to some of your readers. We know that there are many elderly relatives living with families in the county, and that the presence of the elderly relative in the home can make it difficult or, in some cases, impossible for the family to take a vacation. It is a well-known fact that a change is as good as a rest and through this new program, the elderly relative can have a "vacation" at Huronview while the family takes a vacation trip, In cases where the full per diem rate can be paid, a simplified application form may be used, Families who cannot afford to pay the full per diem rate will not be deprived of the opportunity to use this service. However, in this latter case, it will be necessary to complete the full regular application form. For all applicants, the regular medical form must be completed by the family physician and a chest x-ray provided. People coming to Huronview under this program will, for the duration of their stay, be residents of the Home in every sense of the term. They will enjoy the same accommodation, meals and nursing services and will be encouraged to take part in all activities and attend all entertainments. Further information can be obtained from your reeve or by calling or writing to Huronview, Clinton. Yours truly, C. A. Archibald, Administrator, Huronview Very truly yours, I. W, Pease, Bayfield, Ont. Frequent heavy rains and hot, humid weather has encouraged excellent growth of all crops during the past week. This growth has been most noticeable in fall wheat, wheat, hay, and pasture. There is some lodging in wheat and hay. Corn is making excellent headway. Yellow Rocket is fast becoming problem in hay fields. Mr. and Mrs, Fred Rice, Deerfield Beach, Florida, visited Mr. and Mrs, Walter Baird and other friends over the weekend. Lette to the Editor The Editor: second class mail registration number — 0877 61.165d4IPTION AttS: (in advance) Canada, $6.00 per year. U.S.A., $7.50 Ictii1-1 W. ROUL8TON tditor J. HOWAtAil AITKEN — General Manager The editor, This letter is .aimed at the Bayfield Council and directed to the residents and all other interested persons. Everyone is entitled to one mistake but: "DON'T FENCE ME IN" In the village of Bayfield was a lovely old park, Where couples drove in and parked in the dark. Three or four young uns, you know who I mean, Drove carelessly in and tore up the green. Therefore, the council, I've decided to roast, For encircling the park with post after post. Now here we are in the middle of June, And change the subject for a different tune. Look at the grass, look again if you please, It's not very high but it's over your knees. The mower must be broken we hear but after but, Council should get off theirs and get the stuff cut. Now back to the gripe and for your moral, The new name for the park is the village corral. So if in the corral while playing, snowmobiling or joggin, Be careful and cautious you could break your noggin. Writing poems, you'll agree, isn't my kind of meat, Instead of the-posts they should have paved a street. "Driving beyond this sign up to $100.00 fine." This sign would be better and effective by gee, And need only be placed in every odd tree. As you read on it will show you the route, For the only solution is take the posts out. Today at the river just sittin and fishin, The answer just came "Take up a petition." So all of you ratepayers please hear my plea, And sign the petition along with me. Wear a government. approved LIF- JACKET when water Skiing. Have a lookout man in your tow-boat. Amalgamated THE HURON NEWS-RECORD 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) Published every Thursday at