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Clinton News-Record, 1971-10-28, Page 4Shell out, shell out The witches are opt If you don't come out We'll throw you out It's that time of year again, when the little people, the spooks and ghosts are out in full force, full of excitement with safety the farthest thing from their minds. Parents can and should do all they can to protect their young goblins by adopting a "See and be seen" policy. Here are some techniques suggested by the Ontario Safety League; Instead of buying a funny face, make one using make-up: eyebrow pencil, clown white, colored moustache sticks and anything else your imagination Congratulations to Since the News-Record earlier commented on the clutter caused by election posters put up by various candidates, we feel we should now congratulate the local candidates for the speed and efficiency in taking down the signs and cleaning up the clutter. Both Mr. MacNaughton and Mr. `Carroll should be proud of the job done by the people on the campaign committees in cleaning up what could have been a messy suggests, Face paint provides clear vision, whereas the conventional mask with small peep holes restricts vision and can even slip down over the child's eyes. To help drivers see dark clad youngsters after dark, decorate costumes with reflective iron on, sew on, or self stick tapes. It gives an eerie appearance band shows up brilliantl' in driver's headlights. Parents should accompany their youngest toddlers and impress on the older ones the need to be extra alert when crossing streets. Drivers should remember that on Halloween there's bound to be some small ghost who will forget to be careful and then his chances depend on you. the cleaners situation. It would have been easy after the election to put off the job or forget about it completely. People might object to it at first, but it's a long time until the next election and they would forget, But both teams didn't forget and the signs came down, some of them the day after the election. It will make it much easier to believe the sincerity of both men in the future when they talk about the problems of pollution. Safety important at Hallowe'en ,.. AND 111 SHOW YOU SOME GREAT YOUNGSTERS COLLECT! NG 1969 by News Syndicate Co. Inc. World Rights Reserved ki1111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111 1111111111111111111111111111111111111111/11/1/1111111111111111111111111111111111111111111/111/11111111111111111111111111/1111111 isommiimmiammow Letter to e Editor THE CLINTON NEW ERA Amalgamated THE HURON NEWS-RECORD Established 1865 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 it the heart of Huron County Clinton, Ontario Population 3,475 THE HOME OF RADAR IN CANADA KEITH W. HOUSTON Editor J. HOWARb AITKEN — General Manager "iiisiossesemisinsimimisaiss second class Mail registration number 0817 SUBSCRIPTION RATES: On advance) Canada, $6.00 per year; U.S.A., $7.50 4 Clinton News-Record, Thursday, October 28, 1971 Will we ever It seems, if we are to believe the financial experts, that Canada is in for a tough time, economically. Them dam yankees are at it again. They are paying as much attention to our various trade missions and professional whiners as would a buffalo, charging toward a cliff, with. a flea on his back screaming that he, too, would be killed if the buffalo went over the edge. . Well, as the fleas, we can't blame it on anybody but ourselves. It's been too comfortable, riding around on the back of that big, fat, juicy buffalo, Better we should have been wasps, stinging instead of sucking. Now we know how the Esquimaux and the Indians feel about the rest of us, Newspaper editorials are crying the blues, telling the government to do something about it, or trying to assure their readers that the U.S. is not out to "get" us. They might as well save their type. It's too late for crying; there's no use telling the present government to do anything about anything; and the U.S. is not interested in "getting" us: it is interested in getting itself out of the worst economic mess it has been in since the thirties. Writers of letters-to-the- editors are offering some emotional, but largely irrational advice to anyone who will listen. Some would cut the Yanks off from all our resources. That would be like cutting off your nose to improve your appearance. Others would seize, or seriously police, all American subsidiary companies in Canada. That would result in further unemployment as the Yanks started closing plants, many of them heavily subsidized by our own government, and started pulling in their horns. Maybe a mouse can frighten an elephant, according to legend, but a rat can't stop a ship froth sinking by threatening to jump overboard. And there's a lovely Mixed analogy for you to ponder over, To carry on with the cliches, Canadians are reaping what they have town. For several generations, they have invited, nay, begged foreign capital to invest in this country. They have refused to invest in their own country, preferring something "Safer" like Brazilian Traction or A.T. and T. Result? The country is crawling with British, Swedish, German and American plants, directed from abroad. I wonder how many Canadiau companies you would find operating successfully in any of those countries. Another cliche. You can't have your cake and eat it. We • have all the ingredients for the cake. But rather than bake it ourselves, we send them to foreign bakers, buy it back from them, and find that it's mostly crumbs. One more, You can't have it both ways. You can't be half capitalist, half socialist. And if you want to play around with a giant among capitalists, like the U.S., you need more protection than an Mean jockstrap. You don't send in your high school second-string juniors to play against the pros. Have I a solution? Of course I have. This economic lecture wasn't prepared without deep thought and deeper research. First, let's stop running around in ever-decreasing circles, like that bird of legend. You know it's fate. Second, let's not bite the hand that feeds us. Un*les.s that hand tries to give us a cuff on the ear, Then bite to hurt. Third. Let's pull in our belts, get off our tails, and start competing with industrialists in other countries. In short, stop producing shoddy merchandise at inflated prices. take a wage freeze, will you? Thus endeth the lesson. 0,, keep in Ar, up At a dinner party the other night the conversation turned to the continuing agony in Pakistan and one of the wives at the table asked, "What is that all about?" The woman's husband turned on her belligerently, "This thing's been all over the front pages for months," he snapped, "and you haven't a clue." "Well, neither do I", a second woman admitted and then the other two' women present, one of them being my wife, volunteered that they, too, had only a vague idea of what was happening in Pakistan, though they were aware that it was yet another crime against humanity. This information precipitated the usual wrangle which often seems these days to make any social gathering a battle of the sexes. I was glad when it petered out and we could turn our attention to other matters, like gossip, a subject on which the : ladies were splendidly informed., But, thinking of it since then, I'm wondering if we oughtn't to be viewing with alarm this curious fact that a great many women, intelligent, thoroughly emancipated and on the way to being liberated, presumably with more leisure time than ever before, are woefully ignorant of world affairs or any current history which does not intimately touch their lives. It would surprise me very much if any more than 10 percent of a cross-section of Canadian women could pass the simplest of current affairs tests. I'm not as critical as my friend at the party. Since I do quite a bit of my work at home, I've a beter-than-average chance 15 YEARS AGO The Huron News—Record Wednesday, Oct. 30, 1896 John Roach, of Seaforth, Who was so seriously injured at the Goderich show, is recovering. At Porter's Hill: Mr. Dah McInnies, the champion Wood chopper of Ontario, has appeared in our midst once More, Mr. James Stirling of the 6th Concession commenced the gay season by inviting his friends to an old fashioned husking bee. Messrs. James A. Ford and Richard Murphy have bought out Mr. W. J. Langford of the Central Butcher Shop and take possession today. 55 YEARS AGO The Clinton New Era Thursday, Oct. 30,1916 A great improvement will be made at the Library Square after seeding and the walks are The Smith Memorial Fountain will add beauty to the square. Miss B. Porter, who started for Canada on the "Arabic" — which was sunk by a German submarine, expects to leave for Clinton about the 28th, Her many friends will hope she has a safe and pleasant voyage. Clarence Shepherd, son of Mrs. Shepherd, Townsend Street, who has been at Iroquois for some years with the Molsen's Bank, has enlisted With The 161st Battalion and is now on the Paymaster's Staff. 40 YEARS AGO The Clinton News--Record Thursday, October 29, 1931 Mr, Abe 13tanden, wheti driving home from Clinton to to observe the demands on a housewife. One of the great frauds of the day is the assumption, on the part of the male, that the gadgets and the labor-saving devices have given Milady a life of ease. It just isn't so. They've yet to invent a machine that makes a bed or scrubs floors or picks up after careless . children and careless husbands or one that dusts or darns socks or cooks or keeps the windows clean. I'm not saying they've the drudgery of Grandmaw's day (though Grandmaw could sometimes afford domestic help), but it is an endless job and to be honest about it I wouldn't trade places with my wife for 18 million dollars. And so, when a woman has a respite from this, she'll likely as not turn to something that's relaxing or that represents an excape. She does not turn to a newsmagazine, but to one of fashion or trivia or romance. One of the women at the party, defending her lack of knowledge, put it another way. "I just don't seem to have the time to keep informed." she said, "and I've given up trying." It is also true that a man is required to have a broader knowledge because he is judged, in part by this in his daily affairs with other men while a woman could go through life with the narrowest of views and perhaps never be discovered. All of this, then, may seem a justification for women being' ignorant of the world of politics and international relations and the conflict of ideologies. But can women so lightly explain Bay field on Tuesday, sighted two deer on the road in front of his car. On his approach, the animals scampered in Jovvett's woods. Mr. Brandon says he saw two deer at the same time last year. W. T. O'Neil, Clinton's big corner grocery, features a re-opening sale with the following specials: 5 lbs. sugar, 27 cents; 3 lbs. lard, 50 cents; picnic hams, 25 cents per lb.; and Kraft cheese, 33 cents per pound. 25 YEARS AGO The Clinton News—Record Thursday, October 31, 1946 A very successful Tag Day for the Canadian National Institute for the Blind was held in Clinton on Saturday., Clinton Lions Club sponsored the canvass with Harry Bartliff's committee in charge. Mr. Bartliff stated that more than $109 had been raised for this worthy cause and wished to thank all who had taken part. After a lapse of several years, Clinton is again to have a photograph studio. Fowler Bros., Mitchell, are opening a branch studio above McEwan's store, Two brothers, Ted and Ken Fowler., formerly of St. Catharines, ate opening the studio.new Studio will be The equipped to handle all types of photographs, including portraits, baby photos, wedding and family groups. It YEARS AGO The Clinton News—Record Thursday, October 25, 1956 A meeting is being held In 'the away what should be the responsibility of every adult regardless of sex? I think not. If a woman is to participate in society under the concept of equality and with the hard-earned right of the vote surely she must have an awareness of the world's issues as much as a man. If my assumption is correct that. 90 percent of women are ill-informed then it must be assumed that 90 percent of their influential vote is suspect and that the gravest of decisions, the cross on the ballot, is not arrived at through a reasonable process of study and thought. For all the demands upon them domestically, I don't think women can alibi away their failure to accept this responsibility. If it is, as they say, a choice between having a home in apple-pie order and one that is not, then I think some sort of compromise has to be made. We in the business know from our newspaper studies and surveys that women do not read the "serious" news as men do, but it is also significant that they spend as much time with their newspapers. They read the births, marriages and deaths columns, for example, more religiously than men and this is an indication of their more parochial outlook. Yet the fact is that a sound knowledge of world affairs may be had by no more than a half hour's nightly perusal of a newspaper and if that must mean a floor that goes u n scrubbed or a window unwashed then I think most men would gladly make that sacrifice. .. . auditorium of the Legion Memorial Hall on Kirk Street next Tuesday evening, commencing at 7:30 p.tn A for the organization of a boys and girls hand. All interested boys and girls, eight years and over, are asked to attend this meeting with their parents, Parents of teenagers and teens themselves are asked by the Police Department to be more careful driving le the vicinity of the Collegiate and the Public School. h e H art o uraires, with Members from Goderich and Clinton, will be seen on CKNX-TV from 5 to 5:30 p.m., Sunday afternoon. 10 YEARS AGO The Clinton News—Record Thursday, Oct. 26, 1961 Work 'continues steadily at the site of the new Ontario Hospital on Blue Water Highway south of Goderich. At one time there were 150 men, working on the construction, including 75 on sub-trades. Grounds have been pretty well levelled, black-top surface is laid for roadways, and light standards are going in, Mrs., Catherine Hedden, Hensall, who can claim the distinction of 94 descendants including 10 sons, two daughters, 40 grandchildren and 42 great-grandchildren, will on Tuesday, Oct. 31, quietly observe her 81st birthday, Mrs, Hedden is in failing health and keeps to her room, According to a proclamation published by the mayor of the Town of Clinton in this paper, Daylight Saving Time will cease in Clinton, Oct. 28. The editor: I have just read the editorial comments in the Oct. 14 paper, Something is wrong in our province when some old jokers figure the government should be run by over the bill men. We need new and young faces and Paul Carroll would be a new face for •Huron. Like your paper says, "He is a nice guy." I will take your word for it, as I have never met him. He would make a good member now, He doesn't have to grow up like your comments say. People may think he is in the wrong riding — maybe so, but changes are - being made in our great province every day and it is time a change was made in Huron. Don't knock a fellow down until he is given a chance. A change was .made in Sudbury East and we are proud of it. Why not give it a try in Huron? Former Huron County Resident, Mrs. William Jenkins, Hanmer, Ontario. P.S. — I enjoy the paper very much — like to hear the home town news. The Editor, As a former resident of Bayfield, and a still somewhat frequent visitor to the charming village, I naturally am interested in the news of that community and in fact all of Huron County. Yesterday a copy of a paper dated September 10, 1971 came to my attention and I would very much like to air my views on two articles in that issue that I found quite shocking. The articles I refer to concern the decree by Provincial Judge Glenn Hays to have a. German Shepard dog "Put to sleep". At this point I wish to state that I am extremely fond of animals and in the past have been the owner of a large variety. However I am not a fanatic about them nor do I place them before the safety of a 'human being. But even if I did, I doubt that I could presume to question the judgement of a learned and respected official whose duty is to endeavor to protect all; or at the least, the majority. In the Community Forum I. L. Blum of London extolled the German Shepard, critizised the judgement of the Court and left some question as to Dr. M. W. Raithbys ability to appraise the animals temperment. I. L. Blum neglected to mention that the great service rendered by this particular breed has been of an aggressive nature, that of watchdog of homes, (and yards) for police service and most regrettably for tracking AND attacking helpless prisoners held by the Nazis during World War 2. I beli6e the old saying "Breeding will tell" is also intended to apply to canines. It is common knowledge that the German Shepard is not a desirable breed to expose to children, nor indeed anyone who is not its master, It is in fact the breed most frequently chosen to discourage anyone from approaching, its Master or the Masters property. Even as a reader not familiar with all details of the case I cannot help but wonder that the child's parents had not instructed their son never to approach a strange animal, or if that was not the circumstance, was the animal improperly restrained; also was there a Beware of Dog sign posted which would have alerted the neighborhood that the dog was not overly fond of humans other than its master. I marvel that anyone could assume that the Court would pass judgement without knowing these things and a great many more facts that obviously did not add up in favor of tile dog's owner, please note "DogS Owner", for in acquiring ownership of any dumb animal .one aiso assumes responsibility for its welfare and training, it would seem that the training the dog's owner had given it did not include friendliness and thus by the very ingrained breeding of the German Shepard created a potential hazard to anyone in the Community. May I now direct attention to the paper's article, section two of the same issue in which the perpetrators of a Petition to save the animal are mentioned. The two women -Mrs. Harold Barber, a housewife, "any small children?" and Martha McPherson, a university graduate never taught that dogs e.an be dangerous?" Both of Apt. 208, 633 Kipp Lane, Must be nice and snug and safe in their apartment building, and if dogs are allowed at all I am sure the ladies in, question' are only exposed to the cute and cuddly lap size, It is obvious that before starting their hue and cry to discredit a Court decisipn neither had ever visited a childrens' hospital. It would be most enlighting to them and to all who have signed their ill advised petition' to visit the childreng wards. Every hospital has, and has had, children and adult patients who have been mauled and maimed by somebody's "devoted dog". If what these good people miss seeing because of bandages does not shock them sufficiently may I recommend a visit to any plastic surgeon, I'm sure that in a matter over which there is so much unnecessary controversy he would be obliging enough to show pictures of scars inflicted by dogs, and which unfortunatley sometimes even the most skilled surgeon cannot obliterate. It is regrettable that a. newspaper's hunger for a human interest story and two womenS well meaning but misguided crusade have caused a somewhat routine Court case to be transformed from the proverbial mole hill into a mountain. However since this has already transpired it is to be hoped that all parents, who are not apdrtment dwellers, and perhaps even live in the suburbs where dogs abound, will rise up and circulate their own petition supporting the Court. Thereby letting it be known that they would never tolerate an animal in their Community that could possibly harm them or their children. Before closing I wish to mention that the- area in which I live has many competant veterinarians but on several occasions in the past I have taken pets to Goderich and put them in Dr. Raithbys care because he is so highly spoken of by pet owners in the district and because I have, myself, been impressed by his ability. Regarding the dog's behaviour being impaired by his being kept in a kennel, It is also interesting to note that all animals going into the British Isles are required to be in a quarentine for six months and at the termination of that time are not released to their owners in a vicious or even bad tempered condition. In writing I have endevoured to control my wording so that it would not be considered unprintable, as I sincerely hope it will be, un-edited. I will leave it to the reader to imagine what I think of I. L. Blums dramatic pleas comparing capital punishment for humans to a carefully weighed Court order that a potential killer dog be put to sleep. It may be of interest to some who are not familiar with the procedure to know that Capital Punishment is by far less humane. For the benefit of any who may think that Judge flays dislikes dogs it is well known he has always shown extreme kindness towards all animals and surely his disposition towards animals has not changed recently. There are many instances of his kindness, to mention two. Instance one When a gentlemen in Bayfield died the Executrix of his estate ordered that the two, elderly and somewhat unimpressive, bitches he had owned be put to sleep. Judge Hays out of kindness offered to give them a home. Instance two - A lady lost her little long haired dog in a snowstorm. When Judge Hays found the little animal he took it into his home dried off the •snow and fed it warm milk until its Mistress arrived to claim it. If he had been unkindly he could just as well have shut it up in his unheated garage. I would not presume to defend the wisdom of Judge • flays decision nor the dignity of his Court, for his position or that of any presiding judge requires no defense, respect yes. However it cloes seem extremely unfair that there has been so much publicity given to this matter and that the courts dignity cannot allow that its side to heard. I trust that for the sake of all small children the efforts of this Judge to protect them will not be negated by the people who are so blinded by their love of animals that they cannot see the little children who are also Gods Creatures, Very truly yours, Mrs. Norman F. Cooper, Mount Cleinins, Mich.. nee Patricia Atkinson, Bayfield, Ontario, know what happened? The election is over. The verdict is in. The people of Ontario last week gave PreThier Davis a bigger mandate than many, possibly even himself, expected. What happened? Perhaps we'll never know. Some say it was the massive advertising campaign, but lord help us if that becomes the reason governments are elected. Perhaps the 'separate school issue had something to do with the huge vote for the Conservatives who refused . more aid for separate high schools. But let's hope there isn't that much bigotry left in the province for that to be true, Many say it was fear of a New Democratic Party government that drove people to vote for the Conservatives. But surely, in this educated province, the Red scare tactics used against the N DP can't be taken that seriously, Let's hope instead that it was a positive vote. Let's hope that people really thought the leadership Davis offered was the best to be had, because to accept any of the other reasons for the result would be to admit there is something dangerously wrong in Ontario. But what happened to the disenchantment with government policies that has been voiced over recent years? What about the fear of regional government? The cost of education under the county systems? The growing bureaucracy? Do people not care about them any more, or do they think Davis will reverse former government policies? One thing is sure. Those of us who oppose the philosophy the government has worked under of centralizing power in the hands of fewer and fewer people are in for a hard time in the next few years. With a huge majority behind him, Davis is likely to move faster, not slower in the area of regional government and province-wide planning. There is alWays the hope, of course, that he will reverse government policies as he did in the case of /he Spadina expressway issue, but that seems hardly likely in such fundamental areas of government planning. Here's hoping the opposition becomes a vocal minority or we all could be in trouble. S m i le j ,'s formula 10 saVe C1111 (lila