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4 Clinton. News-Record, Thursday, ...February .20, 1970
fditorial comment
.time for answers
When the announcement of .the
establishment of a huge Wildlife sanctuary
in Hullett township was made two weeks
ago through the office of Charles
MacNaughton, Huron M.F.F. and
Provineial Treasurer, the News-Record
welcomed it as a wise move,
We still commend the project for the
benefit it will bring to the area over the
long run. We cannot, however, approve of
the way Mr, MacNaughton, the
Department of Lands and Forests and the
Ontario government in general, has
handled the situation,
, When a large project such as this is
begun for the good of the majority, there'
are usually some who must suffer. It is the
responsibility of those who promote the
project however, to ensure that this
suffering is kept to a minimum.
This, it would appear, Mr.
MacNaughton has not considered. In a
manner that has become all too typical of
the current government in Toronto, he
went right ahead planning and 'dreaming
from the safety of his Toronto office
without ever consulting those who will be
directly affected, the farmers who will
lose their farms and the government of
the township.
Much of the current discontent and
anger in Hullett could have been avoided
if the government had taken the time to
tell the township leaders and the farmers
involved of the plans and answered their
questions.
Instead the government went ahead
blindly, deaf to the Proposals made for
improvements in the plan in the one
meeting they did have with municipal
officials last August. Who wouldn't feel
angry and hurt if they read for the first
time in the newspaper that their farm was
to be taken over for a government
prpject?
It's easy for officials in Toronto to
write off land as mostly marshland, they
don't live on it and earn their livelihood
off it. The land hasn't been in their family
for generations as have some of the farms
involved. The arrogance of the way the
government is frightening, not just to
those directly involved but to everyone
who thinks of this as a free country.
It's time for some answers. Mr.
MacNaughton should come to the meeting
of Hullett ratepayers in Londesboro next
week prepared to listen to problems and
prepared to give answers to the questions
of those involved. It would be a shame to
have such a worthwhile project disgraced
by any more government bungling.
Help a worthy cause
Not many of us these days are
completely happy about giving to appeals.
For one thing, we are not always familiar
with the names of the agencies to which
we are asked to contribute. But that's not
all. How do we know that our donation
will be put to good use? Will it reach
people who really need it? Are charitable
organizations run efficiently?
These are all relevant questions, and we
do well to ask them.
One agency that has passed the test
time and time again is the Red Cross. Its
finest contribtition to mankind has been
its fight for the protection of victims of
armed conflict. A year after its' founding
in 1863 it helped to organize an
international conference which drew up
the artiaes of ' the First Geneva
Convention, providing for the relief of the
war wounded. it was also closely
associated with the later Conventions that
are concerned with the humane treatment
of prisoners of war and the protection of
civilians in time of war.
Today the Red Cross is a worldwide
movement with a flourishing peacetime,
as well as wartime, program, There are
national societies in over a hundred
countries, each society working to meet
the needs of the country in which it' is
situated.
The Canadian Red Cross was founded
in 1909. Its rapid growth was due in large
measure to Canadian involvement in the
two World Wars. At the end of the
1939-45 war it reverted to a large
peacetime program, maintaining many of
its established welfare and health services
and also setting up new ones.
Internationally the Canadian Red Cross
does much to help disaster-stricken
countries through.its membership in the
League of Red Cross Societies. Organized
relief takes two forms — emergency relief
for natural disasters such as floods and
'earthqdakes; and long-term assistance to
c_o .slevastatp,d= by war,
overpopulated by refugeeS"br faced with
famine.
March is Red Cross Month in Canada.
It is at this time that we should pause for
a moment to express our gratitude for the
many valuable services provided by this
excellent humanitarian organization.
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Docs who keep us kicking
It's an unpleasant but undis-
puted fact that most of us in
today's material' society envy
those who are making more
money than we are, -
I'm as guilty as anyone else,
simultaneously knowing that
it's silly. But there's one breed
— the doctors — that makes a
whole lot more money than I
do. And I have no envy; uoth-
lug but admiration,
We've met some new ones in
the past couple of weeks, and
they have confirmed my long-
held opinion that their's is a
noble profession,
I know, I know. There arc
some rotten apples in every
barrel, There are some doctors
who arc interested only in the
buck. There are others. who
wouldn't take a night call even
if you were dying. There are
the specialists who work office
hours only, and knock off
$45,000 a year, (Tried to get
an appointment with an eye
doctor lately? Takes months.)
But the vast majority of to-
day's doctors are just as dedi-
cated as their predecessors,
work just as hard and long,
and are just as interested, in
healing body and mind. And
proportionately, in terms of to-
day's living costs, they're no
better off than the doctor of
50 years ago,
First doctor I Over met, '
guess, was the one who deliv-
ered me, and our acquaintance
was casual, Just a Whack on
the bum from hilt, and - a
squall of protest from me.
When I was a kid, our family
doctor was Dr. Hagyard, He
was a' massive man with a mas-
sive calm. When he arrived, at
any hour, you felt as though
God had just taken over and
everything was O.K. In the
winter, he charged about the
country with a device of his
own creation, a sort of snow-
mobile built from a Model T
Ford. In summer, his favorite
recreation was hitting fly balls
to the outfielders in our pro-
baseball team. He could hit
them half a mile.
In prison camp, I met a cou-
ple of dandies, One was coal-
black, six-foot-six and reputed
to he the son of an African
chief, I went to him in some
perturbation, and he said, "If
you had that excrescence on
your nose, you'd call it a pim-
ple,''
The other was a ginger-
haired British major, a sur-
geon. lie was going around the
bend because there wasn't
enough surgery to keep his
hand in, When he had removed
all possible appendices and
tonsils, on the slightest prove-
cation, he spent most of his
time sidling up to people and
asking if they'd been circtun-
cised, We used to hide when
we saw him corning.
When our kids came along,
both were delivered by a won,
&dui doctor, Frank William,
son, Four O'clock in the morn-
ing Meant nothing to him, He'd
he there, quiet and calm and
rational, in a flash. He grew
roses.
When we came here, we had
Bill Neill, He had a theory that
people needed only four hours
sleep a night. He grooved on
tropical fish and tape record-
ers, didn't give a hoot about
money, forgot to bill you, but
was .always compassionate and
on the job when you. needed
him.
Now our family doctor is a
quiet Englishman with a com-
plete lack of the affectation
that the odd little-tin-god type
doctor assumes. He has a pro-
pensity for Christmas carolling
outside your house with his
wife and children, and has
learned to play a creditable
trumpet.
I've been curling with a doc-
tor in his 70s lately. I enjoy
his stories about the old days,
when he used a dog team to
cross the bay, hoping there
wouldn't be a gap of open wa-
ter when he got to the other
side, lie's a courtly gentleman.
When we picked up .our
daughter at the hospital re-
cently, we met another Species
of the bred., Youngish, tough,
red-eyed from 'lack of sleep, he
took two hours, including his
lunch hour, to talk to us, with-
out recompense. He tared,
And one more. An eminent
city specialist, who is married
to an old friend Of my wife,
took time from his busy sched-
ule to check oh Kim and allevi-
ate our fears. Re didn't even
know us.
A pretty fine bunch, the
Does, in my experience.
Awful confession 'of
This one is written on a grim,
grey February day with not a
show in town worth seeing, not
a book on the shelf that attracts
me, not much of anything, in
fact, that I really want to do but
have a quiet afternoon nap.
It is for this reason that I
propose to say ,a few words
today about the editorial that
appeared in The Sunday Times
of London, Eng. God bless the
Sunday Times of LondorCEng.!
For this great newspaper, alone
among the newspapers of the
world, has now come out boldly
in support-of the siesta.
I've clipped the editorial — or
fourth leader, as they call it in
Fleet Street — and pinned it in a
prominent position above my
bed for all the world to see.
All the world is exactly what
marches through my bedroom
when I decide on such days to
re-charge my batteries by a few
stolen moments of slumber.
I am a subject of shame, of
scorn, of derision. I am an
Afternoon Napper. Next to
infanticide nothing seems to
arouse the populace to such a
pitch of intolerance.
I am forever being rudely
shaken awake by visitors,
sometimes even perfect
strangers, who shout in my ear:
"Whassa matter with you,
sleeping in daylight? Are you
sick or sumpin ? Get up, man!"
Until now I have babbled a
few incoherent excuses. Edison
was a napper, I mutter, So was
John F. Kennedy. So was
Napoleon, for gosh sakes. Or I
have made a little joke of it,
saying that I am still trying to
catch up on the sleep I lost in
the army.
No more, Now I will simply
75 YEARS AGO
Clinton News Bra
February 22, 1895
Mr. Daniel Walper, a former
resident of Mullett Township
and who has been home for a
few weeks, returns this Week to
St. Thomas, Dakota where for
12 years he and a brother have
been farming.
Henry Curving, son of Mr.
John Cuming, of the 18th con.
Londesboro, came home from
Assiniboia last week for a visit.
He looks as if the west agreed
well with hint.
An enthusiastic Meeting of
farmers Of this district took
place at the Commercial Hotel,
Blyth to discuss the bitilding of a
cheese factory which it was
decided to do, the site selected
being the farm of Mr. Robert
Marshall, Wawanosh.
40 YEARS AGO
February 21,1980
On Friday, February 21 Miss
Lottie Sten-Ian brought into the
NeWs-Record Office some
pansies and daisies plucked in
her garden that Morning.
The Chataugua Festival dates
are March 12 18, 14, 15.
Program brings the world's best
in tusk, drama, literature and
an afternoon napper
point wordlessly at The Times'
editorial, roll over with an easy
conscience and a sly smile and
do my best to ignore them.
The Times goes into the
benefits of The Afternoon Nap
in more detail than I'll trouble
you with except to note that the
siesta has been proven medically
to lengthen a man's life and that
a rest period adds to the
Rfficiency and work capabilities
of both mental, and physical
toilers.
But here are the splendid
words that dignify the whole
misunderstood business.
"The truest addicts," The
Times says, "are neither bold
nor sheepish; they simply like
the feeling of slipping off into
slumber and the feeling of
refreshment afterwards; they are
not sensible of any need to
cushion themselves with
arguments either specious or
ingenious; they are scarcely
conscious, as they settle down,
that anyone might think they
are wasting time — scarcely
conscious, scarcely conscious,
and soon not conscious at all."
This, of course, is easier
written than done.
In the first place there's never
any place you can go where the
scornful intruders can't find
you. As soon as you're out of
sight they get restless. For' some
reason I've never been able to
divine people who can't stand
the idea of anybody sleeping
while they are awake.
I can almost count on it.
When I tip-toe away to my
boudoir they are all behind me,'
like rats after the Pied Piper, to
make sure that I'm not going to
remain undisturbed.
entertainment to rural
communities,
The total revenue derived
from the Ontario Liquor Control
Commission from the sale of
intoxicants during 1929 was
$57,529,987.81. This is an
increase of $8,584,396.00 over
1928 figures,
Miss Clara Ball spent the
weekend with Miss Elda Watson
of Londesboro,
Boost Clinton Week - —
Buy-At-Horrie-Campaign
Specials:- Irwin's; gloves, 20c
pr; W. D. Pair, glass sherbert, 5e
ea. 60c dozy J. T. McXnight and
Son, 10 lb, sugar, 57c; Davis and
Herman, blue serges, $32.00;
Connell and Tyndall, sausage lb.
22c; W. T, O'Neil, buttermilk
and Clinton bread, 10c ea,
Clinton Creamery butter, 41c;
A. T. Cooper, rose bushes direct
from Holland, 15c per bush;
Morrish Clothing, boys' knitted
suits, $1.50; Elite Cafe, dinner
40c; Bartliff and Crith,
Dainty Maid bread; Pluttsteel
Bros. 54" all-wool (Irma flannel,
89e yd.
26 YEARS AGO
February 22, 1945
No. 81 11,A.F; Air Navigation
SchOol at. Port Albert WAS CIOSed
If it isn't the vacuum cleaner
howling under the bed it's the
neighbors dropped in to disturb
the peace or a child with a
yo-yo, sometimes a child I have
never seen before.
The Times and I are, of
course, fighting a losing fight.
Even in the tropics, as I was
perturbed to discover during my
years as a correspondent in Latin
America, the siesta has become
outmoded, except fiit:a the
peasantry, wherever American
know-how has raised its ugly
head.
The old-fashioned notion that
sleep was really a decent,
honorable pastime has been lost
in the swift pace of modern
living. Nobody enjoys sleep any
more (except for The Times and
me) because it is assumed to be a
lazy man's refuge, a sloth's
escape. Get-Up-and-Go is held to
be the greatest virtue of these
times. A man who finds it
rewarding to Lie-Down-and-Stop
outrages everyone.
I suspect that what's
happening is that The Afternoon
Nap has gone underground, has
become clandestine.
In the last week alone I have
been in four executive offices
which contained chesterfields —
one of them still holding the
horizontal outline of the exact
bulk of the tycoon behind the
desk. He'd no more admit that
he'd been snoozing, I was sure,
than he'd admit that he was
untrue to Rotary.
What it means, I suppose, is
that I'll have to work my way up
into the executive ranks to have
a little retreat of my own and,
by George, I will — just as soon
as I've had a little nap.
Saturday after four years
operation. A small holding unit
of the R.C.A.F. has taken charge
of the school.
Joseph W. Frazer, chairman
of Graham-Paige Motors Corp.
announced recently that his
company has acquired
manufacturing rights to
Rototiller, a farm implement
that does the work of plowing,
disking and harrowing in one
operation.
Judge Livermore of Sarnia
was in town for a couple of days
last week with his parents, Mr.
and Mrs. James Livermore.
A benefit concert sponsored
by the Clinton Lions Club
presented May Rance McKinnon
in "an evening of dramatic
sketches, Monologues and
singing. Proceeds in aid of Lions'
British Child War Victim Fund.
15 YEARS AGO
February 24, 1955
$ob Satindercock,
Londesboro, left on Monday for
Maruton, Manitoba, where he
will Spend a feW incinths'with his
cousin, Eddie Crawford,
Mr, and MrS, Myron J., MAIO
moved into their new Wine in
notleid (the former May
residence). Gordon Stotelitner
and family moved from the
Bayfield Line into the home on
the • Blitewater Highway which
he purchased last autumn from
M. J. Butler.
Mrs. Douglas Freeman
entertained at a trousseau tea for
her daughter, Leota on
Saturday, February 12 when 65
registered in the guest book,
Mr, and Mrs. Ross Scott and
Mrs. C. Ham, trucefield, spent a
feW days in Toronto,
10 YEARS AGO
February 25, 1960
Thomas A. Steep, J.P., has
been appointed seeretary-
treasurer of the Clinton Public
Hospital,
Mr, and Mrs. Lyle Pratt And
son, Merlin, spent the weekend
With the lady's parents, Mr. and
Mrs, Ron IVIacDOnald,
lenneth
Stratford Teachers College,
received word last week that he
has been awarded a bursary
valued at $100,00,
Mrs. Wilfred Castle was able
to return to her home in
Bayfield on Friday with her
fractured ankle in a walking cast.
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