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4 Clinton• News-Record, Thursday, April Z 1970
Editorial comment
Who's driving this bus'
the Ousps had eOrle home at night and
they had no way to get home.
They found, many of them but not all,
the kind Of alienation that erowS
whenever people are dealt with in large
numbers. •
That's just one story, but you can hear
it in other places and, nine chances out of
10, if you go tO Milverton two years from
now, you can hear it there,
It's -a tale that has been told so far
mainly in education but one which is
going to be heard more of in other areas
too. Most municipal leaders in Huron
County realize the fact they are in a losing
battle fighting for local autonomy and are
striving now just to keep Huron County as
the local level rather than having it
bunched together with• Perth as the
smallest level of government.
Area government seems inevitable. The
only question left seems to be how big the
area will be.. -
It raises the question again: who is in
control? Do we have any control over our
own future and how our own taxes are
spent?
The people of Milverton know they
don't. A group of outsiders just decided
that, like it or not, they weren't to have
their own school. A number of smaller
towns around have recently found out
that, like it or not, their police force is
being taken over by the Ontario Provincial
Police.
Like it or not, your taxes are now
being assessed by a provincial assessor, not
a local one.
And, like it or not, we're 'about to lose
control of many of the functions of our
town council. Some already have been
lost.
For instance, if the town decided to do
some work on its streets, it probably
would look for grants from that province
to do it. The province could, by
withholding grants, stop work all together
or it could influence, by offering larger
grants in some areas than'others, influence
just what was, and wasn't done.
This seems fair enough, since the
province is paying part, in many cases the
biggest part, of the shot. But look at the
other alternative. Say the town wanted to
go on its own, without help from the
province. This would likely require
debentures to be issued, and there again,
it runs smack right into the provincial
government.
-Alt projects requi6mlnig the issuing of-1
debentures, must be approved -by the
Ontario Municipal Board, a government
agency, • before they can proceed. This
board has been called the most powerful
single unit of government in the province.
Without its approval, nothing in the
municipal field moves whether in the
town of Clinton or in mighty,
Metropolitan Toronto,
Not all the moves of the government
have been bad. Several have been
improvements. But the problem is that
the units are so big they no longer serve
the people. They rule them.
Ifs time that we started to fight to
keep our rights to govern ourselves. Much
has been said and written lately about the
arrogance of Prime Minister Trudeau and
his government, how they are extending
their control ever wider and paying no
attention to the common man. But the
same thing has been happening here in
Ontario for years and you hear hardly a
whisper.
It's time to ask: who's driving this bus?
A decision reached by Perth County
School Board Monday night isn't likely to
have any direct effect on people in our
area, but it is cal-ISO for us to Stop, and
take a long look where we are headed,
The Perth board decided to close the
high school in Milverton because they
claimed it was uneconomical to operate.
Students will be bussed .to Stratford;
Mitchell and Listowel. The decision was
made despite the strenuous efforts of the
citizens of Milverton to keep their school
and a fight by the only member of the
board from Milverton to have the school
stay open.
The question arises, just who is running
the show anymore?
Recent years have seen, especially in
provincially controlled area, a trend
toward larger and larger units. In
education there was the move away from
one-room schools and toward larger
consolidated schools. At first these took
the form of three or four-room schools.
Then whole townships were grouped into
one school. Now often two or more
townships are herded into one building,
and the trend is to make them even
bigger.
These days, if a high school has fewer
than 1000 students it is considered small.
If a town isn't big enough to have that
sort of school, then its students are bussed
to another school several miles away.
The Milverton path has been followed
by many other towns in recent years and
the story of what happens next is seldom
happy.
The most recent example that comes
to mind is the case in Lucknow. Two
years ago, after years of encouragement
and mild blackmail by the Department of
Education, the local trustees decided to
close the local high school and unite with
the high school in Wingham. They were
assured this would save money since their
small school of just over 200 students was
"uneconomical". They were told that the
students would have a much wider choice
of subjects in the new school since there
would be more teachers. They were
informed their children would get a better
education because a large school could
afford better teachers.
What happened?
To accommodate the new students, a
new addition " had to be built at the
Wingham school, raising school taxes
higher -than -they:-had -ever •been raised.
before. The students found they did not
really have more options than before
because timetables can only be juggled so
many ways. And, they found, the same
mixture of good and bad teachers to be
found in any school whether large or
small.
They also found that they were
travelling a lot longer on buses every day.
Some students, who already spent nearly
an hour on buses just getting to the
Lucknow school, faced the fact that they
had to put in another 15-20 minutes each
way travelling from Lucknow to
Wingham.
What the students didn't find was that
undefinable sense of belonging which they
had had in their own school in their own
town. Instead of a compact group where
everyone knew everyone else by first
name, they found a large production
line, churning out graduates. They found
that they couldn't make use of many of
the school facilities for extra curricular
activities because they took place after
75 YEARS AGO
Huron News-Record
April 3, 1895
The butchering business so
long conducted by Mr. John
Scruton was purchased by Mr.
Lack Kennedy who has taken
possession.
The Czar has ordered
500,000 rubles to be devoted to
a fund for the relief of
newspaper men and authors.
The latest organized youth
group are the Young tritons
Cricket Club, with the following
officers: captain, Harold Steep;
president; Percy Couch;
secretary, Geo. McLennan;
treasurer, Walter Irwin;
committee, Dean, Finley,
Norman Fitzsimons, Harry Irwin
and Will McMurray.
55 YEARS AGO
The Clinton New Era
April 1, 1915
This week a government
representative was here installing
the new clock in the post office
tower and in a few days our
citizens will know when to go
home to their families at night.
Mr. W. R. Counter' who has had
the clock here for the past year,
is assisting in the work.
Miss Lily Adams is the guest
of her sister, Mrs. Chas. Dexter
of Constance.
M r. Wi tm ore, General
Manager of the Clinton Motor
Car Works has rented the house
5t-zh,
recently vacated by Mr.
Taylor.
40 YEARS AGO
April 3, 1930
The play presented by the
young people of Holmesville
United Church "Wrecking
Robert's Budget" a three-act
corrieey was a delightful success.
Those taking part were Mr. and
Mrs. Norman Mair, Misses Edith
Herbert, Rita McDonald, Thelma
Cudmore and Messrs. Gordon
Stock, Harry Cudmore, Norman
Trewartha and Eimer Potter.
Music between the acts was
provided by an electric radio,
kindly loaned for the occasion
by Mr. J. B. Langford of
Clinton.
Please turn to Page 8
One of the depressing aspects
of looking at the ancient movies
that unfurl during the long
afternoons -- as I've been doing
this week, home with Galloping
Snuffles -- is the tendency to fall
out of love with a lot of the
sweethearts of yesteryear.
Any red-blooded Canadian
boy who once carried a small
torch for Norma Shearer, Kay
Francis, Claudette Colbert or
any of the other queens of the
silver ,screen in the dear, dead
day slif4614,; is: fittoSeq injora
rude'awakeriing the second time
around.
Take Sylvia Sidney, a thing I
was dying to do about a quarter
of a century ago.
Time was when I kept a
pretty regular tryst with Sylvia
from a seat up in the peanut
gallery of the Rex Theatre and,
by jimminy, she brought the
roses to my cheeks in those
days.
Imagine my dismay, then,
when one of her old pictures
turned up on the tiny screen
yesterday afternoon and it came
to me that we'd outgrown each
other. Sylvia hadn't changed so
it had to be me,
I felt 'that sort of let-down
that's said to inflict spinsters
who come across an old treasury
of love letters in the attic only
to find that, in retrospect,
they're pathetically hilarious.
I suppose everybody hates to
be separated from an illusion.
That's really what was
happening to me. My blood
pressure remained distressingly
A kitten for Easter
Somebody ought to do some-
thing about Easter. It's much
too flexible. It's supposed to be
a. time of rebirth and rejoicing.
But you can't really be swept
away by a feeling of rebirth
and new life when there in still
a foot of snow on the ground
and the wind cuts to the mar-
row. '
Sometimes Easter is in
March, and the weather is
beautiful. Sometimes it's in
April and the weather is horri.
ble. I don't know how the date
is determined, any more than I
know how to fix loose door
knobs, how to/ get outboard
motors going when they stop,
what to d o when a woman
weeps, or how to play midwife
to a eat,
I'M not knocking Easter. I
like it. I love the sackcloth and
aahet feeling, and the gloomy
dirges of Good Friday, when
even the ptibs are closed, And
there it a joy and triumph in
the Easthe Sunday hymns that
Can't be surpassed, I think,
even by the Christmas carols,
Easter is also one of the
days that keeps many of our
chnrches from becoming ex-
tin& Some primitive instinct
brings out the wayward, the
fallen, the sinners, and the
Easter Sunday collection is the
best of the year, You meet old
church friends you haven't
seen for a year. And won't for
another.
This yeAr, we- were sera a
normal. My toes refused to curl
as they once had.
I wouldn't bother mentioning
this except that a couple of
items have come to my attention
recently which bear on the
subject.
One of them is the report of
the reaction that's attended the
re-release of a picture called "A
Fool There Was," starring Theda
Bara. Now Theda was slightly
before my time, you understand,
but not so much that I couldn't
hek the reverberating echoes of
A sighs• of &'whole genelatiOn
or males who took her as their
dream girl,
When Theda lowered the
awnings of those immense
eye-lids, so the story went,
strong men were heard to cry
out as if in pain.
Now the picture is showing to
modern, 1970 audiences and the
response to Theda is just as
positive as it ever was. The
difference is that the cries of
today are cries of heartless
laughter. The great fascinator of
the past, has become a comical
figure.
That brings me to an essay
written by one Barry Bingham,
one-time editor of the Louisville
Courier-Journal, a man who has
taken a long look R at the
changing standards of sex appeal
and has decided that it is as
subject to alteration as the
design of automobiles or
women's clothes.
The passion flowers who have
dripped their poison on helpless
mankind since the invention of
the motion picture, he'
Manifestation. No, it wasn't
from the Department of Na-
tional Revenue, although it is
pretty good at providing such
things.
We had a birth in the fami-
ly, and were privileged to wit-
ness the blessed event, an ex-
perience which must convince
the most hardened cynic that
God does see the little sparrow
fall.
Our kitten had a baby. This
may seem a contradiction in
terms, but she is a bare- adoles'
cent, yet she managed to pro-
duce, with great yoWling labor
pains, one tiny kitten. I didn't
think cats had labor pains, but
she did.
NOW, I haven't any use for
cats, but I was fascinated by
the whole procedure. We knew
she was progant, of Course, But
lady cats, just like lady worn,
en, are rather unpredictable
'about the exact day, br even
Week, of the great moment.
' She had begun to act a trifle
odd, it's trim, prowling the
house looking for the most in=
convenient possible Plate to
lay her eggs. We caught her
twice in the fireplace; casing
the joint.
But I thought it was at least
a Week away, She was so spry.
When' we put her out, she
would leap nimbly onto a win-
dew sill and sit there glaring
malevolently at friendly torn,
eats conic to Vigil, or, alter-
nately, at us through the win-
dow,
I Of home for lunch, from a
concludes, are forever in peril of
being out-dated.
Theda Bara is by no 'means
the only siren of the past who
doesn't stand too close a
scrutiny by our modern
standards.
Bingham recalls the mass
worship of the stage star, Ann
Pennington, whose irresistible
charm was that she had fat
knees. They were known then as
"dimpled knees" but a cold,
analytical study of them today
indicates that they werellimpled
onlyi„pecause they *et overly
plump. In a mini=skirt they
would be a dreadful handicap.
Similarly the once deadly
charm of langour has gone by
the boards.
One of the great femme
fatales of those earlier years was
Nita Naldi who, like Theda, had
eyelids so heavy that she could
scarcely lift them and whose
attraction to the male was a sort
of torpor that went out with the
bustle and the high-button shoe.
The remarkable thing is that,
apart from movie stars, women
generally are constantly
undergoing change to attract
males.
You need but glance through
any old album of photographs to
prove the point. The girls of a
short 20 years ago appear
strangely sexless. Even those
identified as dazzling, beauties in
their time are unmistakeably
old-fashioned.
Only the male remains
physically durable over the
years, though the male never was
much to start with.
Saturday bonspiel, and was
chatting with my wife in the
living room, boring her with
the shots I had almost made,
Pip was sitting on the best
chair in the room. She was
acting in a rather peculiar
fashion, stretching her legs in
all directions. I. remarked on it.
My Wife agreed and went over
to look at her. SLAM! Too late.
The water sac, or whatever,
had burst all over the brocad-
ed upholstery.
With one fell swoop, I
snatched her up and deposited
her on a blanket, and bingo,
she popped a kitten — some-
thing resembling a tiny, dead
dinosaur. Child-bride though
she was, Pip's instinct Worked
and she licked and licked until
the infant's heart began to
beat.
Isn't it remarkable how a cat
will clean up the entire mess,
leaving her offspring sleek and
shining? And isn't, it amazing
how a mere thick of a kitten,
by the act of giving
birth, turns into a complacent,
mild-eyed, smug 'mother, nura-
ing by the bour with her motor
going on all cylinders?
We Were as delighted as she
was, and had a glimmer of that
feeling grandparents must
have when the first grandchild
arrives. What really ,shook me,
though, was My Wife'S reaction,-
Normally, if anyone drops so
Much as a crumb, a bit Of ashi,
or a drop of Coffee on her
precitniS fttrniture, all hell •
breaks loose, And there's het
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MR. LORNE DOTTEFER, Organist and Choir Director
SUNDAY, APRIL 5th
WESLEY-WILLIS
9:45 a.m. --- Sunday School.
11:06 a,m. — Christian Fellowship Hour.
Discussion Topic: "Lateral Thinning in a Horizontal World"
HOLMESVIL.LE
1:00 p.m. — Christian Fellowship Hour.
2:00 p.m. — Sunday School
Sunday, 8 p.m. at Ontario Street Church
Community Couple's Club
CHRISTIAN REFORMED CHURCH, Clinton
263 Princess Avenue
Pastor: Alvin Beukema, B.A., S.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
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ST. ANDREW'S PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
The Rev. R. U. MacLean, B.A„ Minister
Mrs. B. Boyes, Organist and Choir Director
SUNDAY, APRIL 5th
9:45 a.m. — Sunday School.
10:45 a.m. — Morning Worship.
Madeleine Lane Auxiliary meets Tuesday, April 7,
8:15 p.m. at the home of Mrs. Rnbert Homuth.
BAYFIELD BAPTIST CHURCH
Pastor: Leslie Clemens
SUNDAY, APRIL 5th
Sunday School: 10:00 a.m.
Morning Worship: 11:00 a.m.
Evening Gospel Service: 7:30 p.m.
Wednesday, 8:00 p.m. Prayer meeting and Bible study
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Clinton
SUNDAY, APRIL 5th
EASTER
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Tuesday, April 7, 2:45 p.m. Ladies Guild at home
of Mrs Mabel Counter.
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good chair, with a great stain
On it, and She tosses it Off as
nothing.
She became all Sat and
motherly and was heating inilk
and tucking in the kitten and
lifting it an her hand to iodic;
with the inevitable accident: