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Clinton News-Record, 1971-11-11, Page 4After being one of the principal countries to fight for the entrance of Communist China to the United Nations as the representative of the Chinese people, Canada should now lead a motion to seat Taiwan as a separate nation. There is no doubt that Communist China must be in the U.N. and that, as the government of 700 million people, it must take precedence over the 14 million of Taiwan. But as Opposition Leader Robert Stanfield says, Taiwan should also be in the United Nations. It is just as morally wrong to leave little Taiwan out in the cold as it was for the huge Chinese nation. No one could support the claim of the Nationalist Chinese that they were the government of all China, but they are the government of their island nation and as such should be represented. Canada should lead the fight for such representation and let's hope it doesn't take 20 years. Car of the future Appollo 15's successful voyage featured the automobile in which astronauts Scott and Irwin ventured such greater distances than their predecessors who could only fravel on foot. Stories have headlined the $8 million cost and wastefulness of abandoning the moonmobile, perhaps to be retrieved by some future earth expedition or puzzled explorers from some "jar-off planet in a post-human stage of universal history. Less discussed has been the machine's power plant — an electric motor geared to each wheel. The moon's lack of atmosphere ruled out internal combustion engines; these require air, which they pollute as they use. But the circumstance recalls that in motoring's early days steam and electricity rivalled gasoline as automobiles' power source. Electric cars never completely vanished from use and in engineering circles belief is very much alive that electricity is the logical motive power for automobiles, that only the vested interest of the oil industry keeps the gasoline car from joining the steam locomotive in museums of antiquated transport. Exasperating slowness of the big mato.- corporations to produce electric cars may let newer, smaller companies steal a march on them. One such, incorporated by four Toronto University professors, is at work on machines which are pollution-free, practically noiseless, -and will incorporate modern safety features, cost 1/3 per cent per mile to operate, go 70 miles per hour and sell for $5,000. Their one drawback, a battery change stop every 60 miles, will nevertheless consume less time per stop than the tank refill of a gasoline car. —contributed. When men went willingly to war ()pin ions In order that News—Record readers might express their opinions on any topic of public interest, Letters To The Editor are always welcome for publication. But the writers of such letters, as well as all readers, are reminded that the opinions expressed in letters published are not necessarily the opinions held by The News—Record. 1 O OP i• ". 7 .... .1,4 • A•i•ez. 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) second class mail registration number — 0817 SUBSCRIPTION RATES: (in advance) Canada, $8.00 per year; U.S.A., $9.50 KEITH W. ROULSTON — Editor l'IMARD AITKEN — General Manager Published the heart every Thursday at of Huron County Clinton, Ontario Population 3,475 THE HOME OF RADAR IN CANADA A second car 4 Clinton News-Record, Thursday, November 11, 1971 Editorial commoitt • What's to remember? Many of the younger generation, and some of the older, too, are asking these days just what purpose is served by the annual Remembrance Day. Many feel that Remembrance Day no longer holds any meaning and that it should be dropped off the calendar. What a shame if it Were.1 Certainly, after 26 years of relative peace, many of the reasons for the massive sacrifice of life have been forgotten, but there are new reasons why we should remember on Nov. 11, or some other day, each year. Remembrance Day gives us another chance to see the price paid for nations' greed. Figures can be rhymed off without 4 much effect: 10,000 clad in that battle or 100,000 in another', campaign, and it doesn't have mucifl effect. But on Remembrance Da when one stands at the town cenotaph and hears the individual names pf citizens of the area who died in battle in some far off land, the real horror of war, of its futility, reaches home, These men who went off to war with high hopes .and never returned, tell the real story of the tragedy of war. It is good that we remember them, and that we wonder, perhaps, what they would be doing today if some greedy nation had not tried to take over the world. The editor: The job of a weekly newspaper is to keep its readers aware of events in their community, and, where possible, to persuade them to take positive action to help make that community a better place to live. The Clinton News-Record has for many years fulfilled this purpose. You present a cause to the public. It is not your fault if the public remains apathetic and chooses not to act. It was a profound shock to learn in last week's News-Record that adoptive parents in Huron County must wait in line for babies. All because the general populous is too selfish to give a little of itself. It is difficult to understand why not even a few people are willing to have illegitimate babies to fill these vacancies. Perhaps recent campaigns for "a return to morality" (aimed at reducing the incidence of venereal disease) have done more harm than good. Perhaps our young people have taken them so seriously that population growth may be stunted for a time, until such programs become stale and lose their appeal. . Let me assure you that you have my full support. I intend to do everything I can to correct this deplorable situation, and I hereby beseech all citizens to lend their assistance and get involved. Now, don't go completely to pieces. Simply keep the cause in the back of your mind, and don't be afraid to do a little personal crusading. Love thy neighbour. Remember, guilt feelings have no place. We are on the brink of a severe social crisis! We must pull together! So please give generously. A. Moore. Get Taiwan back in •00`,.."1.0%••••4"0"0'%0NP0%•••••" As the two great wars of this century move gradually out of memory and into the pages of history books, our annual Remembrance Day recurs with alarming rapidity, for the veterati. There was nothing "great" about either of those wars, except for their size. Yet, the old sweats call their war the Great War, and the middle-aged sweats have to settle for the title World War It. The name of the day has been changed from Armistice Day to Remembrance Day. A good change. But I'm glad they haven't changed the date. November 11th is an ideal time to remember. It's usually cold, wet and gloomy. Even the skies seem to weep at the folly of man. It's difficult to conceive of hearing those hallowed cliches' "fallen comrades": "In Flanders fields the poppies grow..."; At the going down of the sun, and in the morning, we shall remember them..."; "lest we forget..."; on a hot day in July„ But I'm not being sardonic when I refer to hallowed cliches. They are cliches, but they are also hallowed, and they mean a great deal to the men — and many women who gather once :a year to remember that the cream of Canadian young men, in two generations, was skimmed off by a brutal fate on faraway fields. It's hard to believe in these days of the burning of draft cards, of draft dodging, that in those two great wars, Canadians went not only willingly, but in most cases eagerly, to fight in a war 3,000 miles away, against an unknown enemy, for hazy reasons. At least, with hindsight, the reasons were hazy. But at the time, they were crystal clear. The Kaiser was out to destroy the British Empire. Good enough. Hitler was out to stomp across the civilized world in jack-boots. Clear.. Let's stop the sods. We didn't fight to subdue anyone, as the Russians, Germans, Japs, Italians have done. We weren't out to conquer new territories. We were out to prevent someone from subduing us, or conquering our territory. In both wars, there was a minority who "joined up" for less than heroic reasons: to get away from a nagging wife; to avoid the law; to escape a boring job. But in the first great war, Canadians literally flocked to the colours, swamping recruiting offices. In that war, they showed a dash and elan and fortitude, once in action, that made them respected throughout Europe, and especially among the enemy. And in the second, despite the disillusion of the depression, despite the -cynicism of the Thirties — perhaps the most anti-war generation of this century — they did It again. And once again they proved themselves, beyond a doubt, as doughty warriors on land, sea and in the air. Personally, I didn't exactly flock to the colours, Both my brothers had jumped in early. That didn't bother me. I was a product of the cynical Thirties, a University student, and I laughed at them as they went through endless months of dull training, while the war in Europe was a complete stalemate. But a time came. The Germans broke through. Civilization, as we knew it, was in danger of being tramped into the mud by the jackboots. That was when thousands of us stopped sneering at the "phoney" war and took the oath. Looking back, I shake my head wryly as I remember how desperate we were to get killed. It was a traumatic experience to be washed out of air-crew, where your chances of being killed were fairly good, and wind up washing dishes at manning pool, safe as a sausage. We knew what we were doing, in some instinctual way. We wanted to come to grips. That's why I feel a certain pity for the conscripts of the so-called free world, in these days. They are forced to go to war against an unknown enemy, for something they don't believe in, amidst an atmosphere of corruption and downright lies. To all veterans: don't remember the blood and mud and sweat and brutality and fear. Just remember all the good times and the good friends. You'll never have them again, For a variety of reasons, none of them having to do with status, we're on the verge of becoming a two-car family and so I've been scouting the used-car lots on my own, intending to surprise my loved ones. Back when the world was young, you see, my father surprised us with a car and left such' a happy memory that I though to duplicate it. How I recall the excitement on the day when he drove up in our original 1934 Dodge touring! How we rushed out to bounce on the genuine leather seats and to try the horn! How we hugged pater for being such a grand provider. It was with these visions dancing in my head that I finally selected a four-door Whizz (as I'll call it) in a nice light brown that wouldn't show the dust and told the man, Honest Charlie, that, all going well, I'd probably be back to claim it. Something told me that PO better consult first with the other members of our household, but I was sure they'd 10 YEARS AGO The Clinton News-Record Thursday, Nov. 9, 1961 The Happy Doubles Club of Ontario Street United Church will play a shuffleboard tournament (wives against husbands) beginning at 8:30 p.m., Wednesday, Nov. 15, in the recreation hall of the church. Though it was a small gathering in the Council Chambers of Clinton's Town Hall on Saturday morning, it was a serious, yet friendly event. Mayor W. J. Miller convened his council, and then officially pledged Mr. Jefferson to the service of the community as Honorary Mayor. for the day. 15 YEARS AGO The Clinton News-Record Thursday, Nov. 8, 1956 Registration for figure skating classes in the Clinton Arena this winter is still open, and the first classes will be held this Saturday, The Figure Skating Club has Merged their program this year to include four hours of instruction under D. Silverthorne, in place of the two hours a week of last year. The registration fee remains unchanged. Beautiful warm weather is still blessing us. Sometimes we begin to feel that there's a touch of spring fever in the air. Then this week Miss Gerda Skov brought us a daintily wrapped bunch of violets from the garden at her home, That delightful aroma will help us 'face the winter months ahead. 25 YEARS AGO The Clinton News-Record Thursday, Nov. 7, 1046 Gordon W. Cuninghame retired as C.N.R. agent on Nov, 1, and his sister, Miss Florence Cuninghame, assistant, Is now concentrating her activities in the florist business. Clinton's streets, subjected to a sewerage construction bombardment of several eumtlis duration, were again the object of another kind of attack, a verbal one, at. the November meeting of town council. Mrs. W. Thomas Hawkins, during the past week, received be ecstatic over my choice. I've always liked the little Whizz, myself, it being the first car I ever bought with my own money, and for a second car it was clearly reliable, cheap transportation. Those, in fact, were the exact words that Honest Charlie used and I kicked the tires in the time-honored gesture of approval and went home hippity-hop to break the glad news. I told them at dinner. "I think we're going to get a second car," I said. "I've got it all picked out — a brown Whizz sedan." I waited for them to throw themselves at me in adoration and gratitude. They did not. Their faces registered that mixture of shock and incredulity I've come to know so well when one of my decisions strikes them as beyond human understanding. "A Whizz?" my wife asked thinly, making the name sound somehow dirty. ,"Don't you think perhaps we might consider something a little more ambitious?" the operational wings and certificate which were posthumously awarded her son, Flying Officer John D. Hawkins, in recognition of gallant services. 40 YEARS AGO The Clinton News-Record Thursday, Oct. 29, 1931 A hard fought game of football was played in Mitchell Monday, between C.C.I. and Mitchell High School, the score being 1-1. With continued fine weather, fall work on the farm is being rapidly completed. The harvesting of the turnip and sugar beet crop is almost over with good average yields of turnips and slightly below normal yields of sugar beets reported, Fall plowing is well under way and fall wheat has made excellent growth. The weather office reports a monthly mean temperature of 50.3 degrees F. for October. 55 YEARS AGO The Clinton New Era Thursday, Nov. 9, 1916 Mr. and Mrs. John May leave next week for Toronto, where they will reside. Owing to the demise of W. 3, Mitchell, editor and proprietor of the Clinton New Era, the plant and goodwill was offered for sale. The purchaser is 0. E. Hall, who has been foreman of the New Era for six years. John A. McEwan returned last week from the west and resumed his labours. Herman Samidereock took his work while he was away. 75 YEARS AGO The Heron News-Record Wednesday, Oct. 11, 1.896 Weather prophets base their Prognostications of the heavy Winter ahead on the height of the ragweed. The weeds are from two to three feet high, mid an old adage is recalled which says that the snow will fall as deep as the ragweeds are tall. The yearly meal self-denial of the &Ovation Array for raising 'fends for carrying oe the social operations throughout the Dominion .cOiriMelti es text Sunday week. The officers and "Brown?" asked Jill gravely. "Why brown? The Maxwells have just got a wine-colored Mustang. Don't you think wine would be a little nicer than old brown?" "A sedan?" asked Jenny, making a face. "Why couldn't we have a convertible like Cathy's Daddy has?" (The Maxwells and Cathy's Daddy always seem the uninvited guests when material matters are discussed at our place.) I fought back the bitter tears. "Listen," I said. "A long, long time ago my father brought home a beat-up old wreck and he was a conquering hero. I want you to think about that and let it rest on your conscience come Father's Day." And I fled to my neighbor, Bob, a man of much sympathy and understanding in moments like this. "It isn't that I'm angry with them, you understand," I told Bob. "Certainly not," Bob said. "You're too big for that." "It's just that they are conditioned by the hidden soldiers of the Army in Clinton have this week commenced the canvass in the country. persuasion of advertising that's changed the whole concept of car-buying." "How well you put it," Bob said. "The automobile has come to be a symbol of personality and position," I complained. "My family isn't interested in reliable, cheap transportation. They are looking for a car that expresses themselves and the Whizz isn't it." "A Whizz, did you say?" Bob interrupted, raising his eyebrows. "Why, yes." "Well, now, I wouldn't interfere, but why not a Mammoth like mine?" Bob said. "A Mammoth has that big car feel. I mean it's a prestige car...and, besides, it's a great symbol of virility." He was still talking when I left and headed again for the used car lots. I'm looking for a 1934 Dodge touring with leather seats and a horn you squeeze, Nothing else will do. Unless more people accept greater personal responsibility for obeying Ontario's motorized snow vehicle laws that have been passed for their protection, the accident statistics of last winter could be a foreboding spectre for the season ahead, Minister of Transportation and Communications Charles MacNaughton, said recently. Last winter, 38 people were killed in Ontario snowmobile accidents, compared with 26 the previous year and 27 in 1968-69. Injuries last year totalled 598. Motorized snow vehicle registrations rose to 157,000 last year -- 40 per cent more than the previous year and, for the first time last winter new legislation required the full reporting of all snowmobile collisions, both on and off the highway. Mr. MacNaughton said the statistics "are cold comfort indeed." He said the majority of mishaps could have been avoided. "`The principal cause of death and injury was, to put it bluntly, the irresponsibility of people who violated the motorized snow vehicle laws set out by the Government of Ontario for their protection." Mr. MacNaughton said mishaps occurred from snowmobilers riding on the wrong side of the road, colliding with parked motor vehicles, failing to obey stop signs and other road warnings, driving too fast for surface conditions, and lack of familiarity with the capabilities and limitations of tee macnines to manoeuvre and What kids remember What do you remember at Reiqembrance Day? Don Peterson — They fought for us, Randy Garrow — Flanders Fields. Stephen Colclough — That my grandfather fought in the war. Elizabeth Reid — Of all the soldiers that were killed in the war. Doug Elder — For the people that died. Paul Castle — The soldiers that fought for us. sook„,....00.4,/"....4.40%,"04•44.00N~ AMONG THE OLDEST The Forestry Associations in Canada have been emphasizing personal responsibility for environmental protection for over 70 years in Canada. They are among the first public-service groups to enlist public co-operation for this purpose. stop. The Minister urged snowmobilers to get a copy of the Department's pamphlet which spells out the laws covering the operation of snow vehicles and contains safety tips. In addition, he urged novices to take a training course from local snowmobile clubs. Statistics for last winter show: 29 people were killed in highway collisions, compared with 15 the previous year and 353 were inju'red, compared with 164 the previous year; nine people were killed in o f f -highway collisions, compared with 11 a year earlier, while injuries, under the new reporting slaws, rose to 245 compared with seven a year earlier; over 65 percent of all highway collisions occurred on icy or packed-snow surfaces; 46 per cent of off-highway accidents involved collisions with obstructions, such as tree stumps and fences, 13 per cent of of f4lighway collisions involved two snowmobiles running into each other; 19.4 per cent of drivers involved in collisions-where the condition of the driver was known-had been drinking, compared with 20.4 per cent the previous winter; 41.6 per cent of all highway collisions were on township roads; 47.3 per cent of drivers in highway collisions were 25 years of age or older. The next major category was the 16.19 age group with 24.1 per cent. This pattern has been consistent over three winters. 77 per cent of all highway collisions occurred during clear visibility conditions. More care needed on snowmobiles