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Growing nationalism in Canada
back in 1967 the organizers of the
Centennial celebrations in Canada had P.
Their idea was. not just to see .people
celebrating the hundredth anniversary of.
the confederation of their country, but
instill a sense of natibnal pride that would
help Canadians build a new identity
outside the British influence of their past
and the American domination Pt the
present.
The final proof of the "miracle of '67"
can be seen today in the very definite new
nationalist movement gathering 'strength
in. Canada.
For a time, after all the hoopla of the
centennial subsided, it appeared as if the
attempt to nationalize Canadians had
failed. The old apathy and
self-depreciatimset in again.
Then the exciting rise to power of
Pierre Trudeau started things back on the
track,
Now, from several sources, the success
of those who pointed Canada towards
Nationalism, is evident, The rising alarm
over the possible loss of sovereignty in the
Arctic, our last frontier, has forced the
government into strong pronouncements
on the extent of our control over the
Arctic. islands and the waters between
them: '
There has been a gathering protest
against the amount of foreign control over
Canadian. business which has led to new
regulations limiting the extent of foreign
control in the uranium industry and the
prevention of the sale of financial
institutions to foreign -parties.
There have been new regulations
governing Canadian content in
broadcasting, •
There are other subtle, but perhaps
.more accurate indicatOrs, Speaking to
members of the Canadian Press recently,
Jack McClelland of the publishing firm of
McClelland and Stewart, said • that the
nationalist trend was evidenced in his
industry by the demand for Canadian
books. He warned the government, that if
they didn't heed the trend and continue
to let the Canadian economy slip into
foreign hands, they would not remain in
power long, ,
Canada needs nationalism as perhaps no
country in recent history has needed it,
We' need it for our existence. BUt let's
make sure. that our nationalism is of A
constructive type which will .allow us to
improve our country and help the world.
Let's not fall prey to the evils of
nationalism that have led great powers
such as Britain, Germany, Russia and the
United States into war and internal strife.
Instead, let's make Canada the best
country in the World and try to help
others in the world reach the same level.
Capricious March
March is a capricious month. It plays
tricks on everyone. The countryman who
goes out one day to tap the maples may
be faced next day by a blizzard. The
weatherman finds his cloud
interpretations have a habit of getting
mixed up.
Skiers discover that a snowfall in the
valley is not a guarantee of snowy slopes.
They may have been swept bare. A
daytime of mud and slush may mean a
frozen mass by night.
PussywilloWs appear in snowstorms. A
street game of hop-scotch on bare
pavement can be hailed out.
But March is filled with promising
signs. A person doesn't have to be an
ornithologist to recognize the increasing
bird population. Green grass fringes are
appearing. High knolls are baring.
No matter what March does in the way
of weather, there's no denying the feel of
spring. Above all even March cannot resist
the clock and the equinox. These factors
are even now hastening new life in the
earth for the new season. — Montreal Star.
Big brave hunters
There are some big, brave hunters
around these days.
Recently there have been some stories
in the papers about animals being run to
death by drivers of snowmobiles. The
most publicized episode was the case of a
wolf on Lake Simcoe which was chased
by some snowmobilers until it dropped
from fatigue. It was then run over by the
-snowmobiles and killed.
A less publicized case was the discovery
in Vaughan Township near Toronto where
more than 20 rabbits were found dead
With the marks of snowmobile tracks on
their bodies.
These may be isolated inciftts,,,qul we
have heard durinto'., the "winter :: of
snowmobilers in out own ar.:ge'„,!tlaasing
foxes until they dropped from
exhaustion.
What big brave men we have these days.
It certainly must be a great feeling. It
must make a man proud of his cunning
and endurance when his powerful
machine finally runs over an animal after
a half-hour run.
Spring needs some zing
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! Pastor; REV. H. W. wow-pa,
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Organist: MISS LO/S GRABY, .A.R-C,T-
0.4 o SUNDAY, MARCH 29th
9:45 a.m, Sunday School, ,A --
1 1100 a.m. -- EASTER SERVICE,
Specie' Music by Junior and Senior Choir,
Sermon Topic: "BEHOLD YOUR GOD"
FRIDAY, MARCH 27th
11:00 a,m. - .Gooci Friday Communion with
Wesley-Willis..
Wednesday, April 1, 6:00 p.m. - Congregational Supper.
Wesley-Willis — Hulmesyille United Churches
REV, A. J. MQWATT, C.D„ BA., ELD,, MO., Minister
MR. LORNE DOTTERER, Organist and Choir Director
- SUNRAY, MARCH 29th
WESLEY-WILLIS
9:45 axii. - Sunday School.
11;00 a.m. -- EASTER SERVICE. ,.
SPECIAL EASTER MUSIC by Junior and Senior Choirs,
Soprano Solo: "I Know That My Redeemer. Liveth"
Sung by Mary Hearn.
Sermon Topic: "OH, WHAT A BEAUTIFUL MORNING"
HOLNIESVILLE
1:00 p.m. - EASTER SERVICE AND MUSIC.
2:00 p.m. - Sunday School
- ALL WELCOME —
ST.
CHRISTIAN REFORMED CHURCH, Clinton
263 Princess Avenue
Pastor: Alvin Beukema, B.A., B.D.
*Services: 10:00 a.m. and 3:00 p.m.
(On 2nd and 4th Sunday, 9:30 a.m.)
. The Church of the Back to' God Hour
every Sunday 12:30 p.m., CHLO
— Everyone Welcome —
ANDREW'S PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH-
The Rev. R. U. MacLean, B.A., Minister
Mrs. B. Boyes, Organist and Choir Director
SUNDAY, MARCH 29th
9:45 a.m. - Sunday School.
10:45 a.m. - EASTER SERVICE.
Special Music by Choir
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BAYFIELD BAPTIST CHURCH
Pastor: Leslie Clemens
SUNDAY, MARCH 29th
Sunday School: 10:00 a.m.
Morning Worship: 11":00 a.m.
Evening Gospel Service: 7:30 p.m.
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ST. PAUL'S ANGLICAN CHURCH
Clinton
EASTER SUNDAY, MARCH 29th
GOOD FRIDAY - 12:00 NOON
Meditation on The Seven Words
10:00 a.m. - Parish Communion.
is last Sunday for service at 10:00 a.m.
April 5 service will be at 11:30 a.m.
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PHE HOME
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IN CANADA
Mee
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• I remember so well one day
when I was walking my pair up
to the school bus and it was
quietly suggested to me that I
turn back before reaching the
assembled children, the first
overt expression of their
independence. Believe me, it
seemed a long, lonely way home.
'Haven't tried a bit of dogger-
el for quite a while, so I hope
you'll forgive me if I succumb
to that rare and insane urge to
write non-poetry,
-Ode to Spring
Spring!
You are simply not doing
your thing.
Most seasons enter with a
certain
Equanimity.
You have been coming in
with utter
Asininity.
You're behavior's absurd
And only a bird
Would be dumb enough to
take wing
This spring.
Let's see a little ring,
Spring!
I don't mind the slush
And the snow and below
But it's not exactly the thing.
Spring.
And I don't know about you,
that's all I can stomach of
that particular poem.
It promises to he an interest-
ing, spring. In Ontario, the
teachers in Metro Toronto
asked for a sturdy .inerease.
The Board refused. The teach
ere' federation "pink-listed"
the Board. This means that any
member of *the federation will
be frowned on from a great
height if he or she takes a job
with that Board.
The Trustees' Council of the
province has retaliated by bar-
ing its claws and exposing its
yellow fangs. It has pink-listed
all the school boards in the
province. The result should be
a' barrack-room lawyer's de-
light, and an educational
schmozzle.
At least (though I doubt it)
this might put an end to the
annual cattle sale, a demeaning
aspect of a fairly fine profes-
sion where teachers are lured
with booze, bigger salaries and
other benefits, into teaching at
Great Slave Lake secondary
school. And at which school
boards become panders.
Along this line, don't get too
excited by the government's
expressed determination to
"hold the lint" and "take a
firm stand" against inflation,
The government is merely
trying to trim a little fat off
the cat, trying to conceal the
fact that she is pregnant and
nobody wants the kittens.
The rich will continue to be
. rich, and the poor Will contin-
ue to be poor, And the middle-
class will howl bloody murder,
as they always have.
I couldn't care less. I'll pay
my income tax, and support an
entire family on welfare.
Maybe they need it. I've lived
on bread and water for three
weeks, and I know what it's
like,
But there are two things I
object to in the White Paper
an' tax reform: I' don't like to
be taxed on taxes. That is, if
I'm paying $500 in real estate
tax, and I have to pay income
tax on that $500, I object.
Strenuously. And I object just
as violently to the fantastic
capital gains of land specula.
tors. This field is full of down-
right crooks working with oth-
er people's money and produc-
ing nothing except fat profits
for themselves. Sock it to
them, Mr. Benson.
This has nothing to do with
tax reform, but Kim Smiley is
alive and well and living in
Limbo. That's the favorite resi-
dence of a lot of young people
these days. It's a sort of cross-
roads between Utopia and the
salt mines,
Limbo is not a bad place to
live, actually. No taxes, no de-
Mantling job. I wouldn't mind
the odd holiday there. .But
wouldn't like it as a permanent
residence. I'd Mies the old tit
and struggle and Sweat of real
life, It's cool in Limbo, bet
who wants to be cool all the
time?
take the arena of life,
where you have to ;Nee the
bull (and you can take that
any way you wish) and either
not flinch from the horns, or
run like hell for the barri-
eadoes, At least there's a
ehOicc,
A sure-fire conversation piece
whenever parents get together
concerns "the difficult age" for
children. Pound for pound, I'd
say it's one of the world's ten
most controversial subjects.
A sage of my acquaintance
once remarked that the most
difficult age for children is
firmly hold on the matter is that
the first two or three years of a
child's life are the crucial ones.
It was the view, you may
remember, of the good Dr.
Benjamin Spock whose famous
book on child care added up to
simply this: give 'em plenty
lovin' in those tender years and
everything will turn out right.
(Dr. Spock, by the way, has a
new book on the market giving
his advice on adults, instead of
children, and it is equally sane.)
If I were asked to select the
most interesting age of children
- and I'm so glad you asked -
I'd say it was between six and
eight years.
This is a time of great,change
physically when visiting Uncles
always exclaim, "My! How
you've grown!" and really mean
it. It is a time, too, of profound
mental change when the parent
must be prepared to be asked,
"Daddy, what is there behind
the sky?" In this span from
six-to-eight they can be more
aggravating and more precious
than at any other time in their
development.
It is a time, for example,
when the imitation of adult life
'ee&
75 YEARS AGO
March 27, 1895
Mr, W. D. Fair, So long
deputy postmaster in the office
here, will take over the book and
stationery business and store so
successfully conducted for some
years by Messrs, Rance and
Spalding.
Miss Dolly Mason of Tawas
City, Mich, is on a visit to her
Sister, Mrs. John Scruton.
Poste-letter Porter has rented
the post office building and will
Move his family in as soon as
convenient.
Mr. James Howson has rented
the Shop recently owned and
occupied by the late John Steep.
55 YEARS AGO
March 25, 1915
Clinton New Era
On July next not Only will
the retail sale Of all intoxicating
liquors dote, to an end but the
wholesale trade will be taken
Over by the government and
Operated as A government
Monopoly, under a Systeni of
dispensaries.
Mr. Harry Tvhtehell took in
the review day at London last
rriday,
George 13eatty, Varna, has
rented the retell Of John
Kitchen's hi Stanley.
always stay so late at the
,ffice?"
I speak only as an authority
On girls, having three of them
and, anyway, they are the most
absorbing kind. Boys of this age
go around in a kind of daze,
cutting themselves with Scout
knives and falling out of trees
and often don't become
interesting until they are 40
years of age.
The girlish mimicry of
maturity, yoti see, isn't all
play-acting. There's a strong
desire on the part of the
six-to-eight-year-old female to be
considered out of infancy. Just
as the caterpillar in the cocoon
struggles for release into the
butterfly's bright world of flight
and beauty, little girls ache to be
on their way to freedom.
Fathers, particularly, are
reluctant to face this fact. It is
always a grim day when you are
addressed for the first time as
"Dad" rather than "Daddy."
There will come the inevitable
moment when you'll say
something like, "Flow's my baby
tonight?" only to be rewarded
by the sharp reminder that your
baby ain't your baby any more.
John Armstrong and wife
have moved to Clinton, their son
Edger has charge of the farm.
The automobile owners are
busy these days cleaning,
repairing and painting up their
buzz wagons, for the coming of
fine weather.
40 YEARS AGO
March 27, 1930
Word has been received that
Ruth Barr of Toronto,
granddaughter of Mr. Fred
LockWood was successful in
passing het latest musical
examination with high marks.
The young lady passed het
junior, intermediate and
intermediate-progressive ell in
thirteen Months.
Miss Jean Mustard, left' last
Thursday for New York.
Miss Lottie Slomen has been
visiting her brother in Kankakee,
Illinois.
Dr, and Mrs, Wm. Swan
visited at the home of the
doctor's father, Mr. Jas, Swan,
trueefield.
25 YSARS AGO
Match 22, 1945
Mt, end Mrs. Les Jervie have
received theft first letter from
their soli, Ivan, who is a
prisoner-of-War in Germany
Miss Helen Heti/ten, of
Milgrove, spent weekend
out" the sentences not meant
for those adorable pink ears,
You don't try to put anything
over on them. A woman's
intuition, you find, begins to
develop at a remarkably early
age.
A little girl will be learning,
on the one hand, to write a
sentence like "I see a brown cat"
and, on the other hand, will
negotiate with you on a matter
concerning her civil rights with
all the virtuosity of a Missouri
mule-trader.
It is a time, too, of sudden
enthusiasms. The positive
opinion, birthright of the
female, begins to take shape.
Things are either "Awful!!' or
"Neat!", Other little girls are
hated or loved extravagantly.
The mysteries of school have
been solved after a year or two.
There is an awareness of society
generally and a deterinination to
figure everything out in as short
a time as possible. Often you
will see the hawk in a
seven-year-old, sitting quiet as a
mouse, tuned to adult
conversation. They are testing,
testing, testing, for a perilous
voyage ahead.
with her parents, Mr. and Mrs.
W. T. Herman.
Mrs. Harold Fremlin received
word last Thursday that her
husband L. Cpl, Harold Fremlin
is missing in action. L. Cpl.
Fremlin is the son of Mr. and
Mrs. Theo. Fremlin.
Superintendent A. E.
ttumball and Messrs, Thos.
Churchill and W, E. Perdue, Were
in Toronto this week attending
the Hydro Convention.
'15 YEARS AGO
Match 24, 1955
Honours have Come to
another Clinton boy. Leonard
Johnson, son of Mr. and Mrs. W.
L. Johnson, Clinton has been
appointed principal of the two
public schools in the town of St,
Mary's.
Street expenses may be tip to
$52,000 in 19b5.
Rohn B. Livermore, Mary
Street, has been appointed
Clerk-treasurer of the Town of
Clinton and is expected to take
over his duties from the acting
clerk, M. T. Coriess sometime
this week.
Pitst step towards the
chafigeoVet to dial operation in
Clinton Will be the COnattudtien
of a dial eicehatige building on
the seta side of Ratteribury
Street, lyisl phones are promised
for spring of 1958,
10 YEARS AGO
Mardi 24,1960
The Clinton News-Record has
moved into' the 'Butterratt
Office' of the Roxy Theatre
Wilding and is now in everyday
tiee,
Clinton Goes "Wet" — One
thOtisand four hundred and
eighty-five persons Went to the
polling places yesterday and
Voted a tesounding majority in
favor of outlets for liquor and
beer in town.
ftobert Arthur, Auburn is in
Toronto this Week.
Mr. and Mrs, William L. Jervis
spent the weekend visiting their
sort.in,law and daughter, Mr, and
Mire. Jblin Edgar, Georgetown.
While there they attended the
Sportsman's Show hi Toronto,
takes on an almost frightening
fidelity:
In the playing of the game
"House", for example, two or
More moppets of this age will
carry on a dialogue that's almost
an- exact copy of the original
script, including elaborate,
peevish discussions on the family
whatever one they happen to be budget and domestic problems.
going through at the moment. If Only the other night I heard one This is an age, too, that brings.
nOthing,, eelse- it's a' a kind of shrewdness and savvy . wiew seven-year-old little sweetheartee
cal64*d „td,.„ the t4, 4p tog "more rem oi,i/caiiing! (tor cliteiderable
befOrejahy; blood is `shed • weespishly4ira'SIX*41dele*, adjustme0Se the r of the
'1"parentg, -'d no no 1 'ie‘r "spell About the only conviction ;1 playing "dad": "Why do yoii