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HomeMy WebLinkAboutClinton News-Record, 1970-05-14, Page 16SEE US ALSO FOR . • SEAT COVERS . TAPES . HER BRAND TOOLS . HASTINGS FILTER TAPE PLAYERS . AUTO RADIOS THESE POPULAR SIZES IN FIRST LINE QUALITY SIZE 16.9 30 ALL TRACTION CHAMPIONS SIZE 18.4 34 ALL TRACTION CHAMPIONS SIZE 13.6 28 ALL TRACTION CHAMPIONS 20% OFF REGULAR PRICE ALWAYS FREE INSTALLATION AT SCRUTON'S FANTASTIC OFFER !! LUCY R, W4P.PP, In .a village gtell as I3,ayfield one often sees "Neighbourly love" i n action but the most striking _example. was witnessed by Lucy in a four—laed ward in Hamilton General Hospital. Away hack in. the "Hungry Thirties" •Lucy had occasion to enter hospital for one of ' the many ebecli.--tips, she has endured over the years. Then as now hospitals were crowded at times, but she was fortunate to secure a bed in with a delightful .Fnglish woman, recovering from pneumonia, in the next bed two women experiencing confusion with the change of life, on the other side. The woman opposite Lucy was a Romanian and experienced considerable trouble with the language barrier when talking to the doctor and nurses, By her side was a Canadian who refused to be drawn into conversation. She was never out of bed. She refused all medication, would not eat a bit or take a sip ..of water from the nurses, It was all poisoned, she told them, Every day at noon a very trim smartly dressed little Jewess marched into the room with a tray of food, "It is poisoned" reiterated the patient. "It is not poisoned, I brought it here from my own kitchen" And she stood aver the woman alternately coaxing and almost pushing every bite into her mouth, "Come here's a bun, eat it!" she'd say, "It is poisoned!" the patient would protest. "It is not poisoned, I baked it this morning" and she'd butter it for her. She kept on cajoling until the food Would be almost finished. When the patient refused more, she'd say: "I won't give you any ice cream If you don't finish and drink this tea", Ice cream was the ace card she held, so to speak. Lucy was surprised to see a woman not in uniform carrying in a tray the first day. One day after one particularly difficult session she made a motion of despair as she was about to leave the room, rather exhaustedly. Since there was no resemblance Lucy smiled and asked: "Is she relative of yours?" "No", she replied "my next door neighbour!" • "Has she no relatives?" "Yes", she replied "Five children living in the city. She has been in here for weeks and not one of them has ever come to see her, They don't care!" Lucy remarked that the woman was lucky to have a good friend and neighbour. She replied: "1 am tired out when I go home, for it is quite a trip on the street car, My husband say, "Why for you do it?" I say, "I would do it for any woman to keep her alive!" After the English woman left, the floor supervisor told Lucy that she would move her into another room with more congenial company but Lucy - elected to stay where she was. The Romanian woman interested her. Her husband came up every night and sat for an hour but they didn't talk, so Lucy commenced to talk to her. Her story was "Never sick. One morning, awful. Hurry send for the priest. I die; He say "Why you want to die? Send for Doctor" "No priest, I die!" Then her husband called a Doctor who put her in hospital. After awhile she felt better and went home but then became sick again. Lucy asked if she had any Children. "No, just him and me." "Would you have liked children?" Lucy inquired. "Not care. Married late." "How old?" "Twenty—two", she replied. Lucy was astonished that 22 years was considered old for marriage in Romania. Then she elicited the fact that the woman was only 38 years of age at that time. Lucy felt that the woman needed someone in whom to confide and advise her. "Have you talked to your priest?" she asked. "No, cannot speak English to him." "I read somewhere about a Romanian Church in Hamilton," Lucy told her. "That Presbyterian. No Romanian Catholic." "You make me understand, why couldn't you tell the priest what you've told me?" "With you it is talk, but with priest words don't come." Lucy felt what a pity it was that there was no social worker who spoke Romanian and could interpret for her to the priest. The day she was discharged the doctor came in and said, "Wouldn't you like to go into the sun room?" She shrugged her shoulders. "You want to go home don't you?" he asked. "To eat de Turk," she replied. So he ordered the nurse to take her into the . sun room in a wheel chair. As she got out of bed into it, she confided to Lucy, "I think I better. Legs not trembled before." Then Lucy's physician told her to sit over beside the radiator (a cold November day) if she were leaving that day. The Canadian suddenly came to life and adjured her, "Get away from that heat. Don't sit there! Your kidneys will dry up." So Lucy left the room but she has often wondered if the Romanian woman got home for Christmas, and if the Canadian lived. to return to her home and express gratitude to her neighbour. As the plans for the elosing of the Clinton Base move Slowly to gompletiori there are more and more-gasts' being held. One of them was the father and son banquet held by the Base Boy Scout Group for although it is planned to eonkinue activities while boys remain there to, need them it is unlikely that this time next year will find enough there for a full scale event to mark the conclusion of the years program. The banquet was attended by about 200 fathers and sons and was served by mothers and daughters in the Junior Ranks Mess Hall Many of the traditional ceremonies were carried out including the `starving' of the, fathers by the sons. The boys put their own scout or cub neckerchiefs round the necks of the fathers &a show their close association in the scout movement. A goodly number of badges were presented to Scouts and to cubs of both packs reflecting a busy year's work and the chaplains, both protestant and catholic had several Religion in • Life Awards to give out to diligent winners. The Base Commander Col. Ryan and Boy Scout District Commissioner 'Ray' MacInnis presided over the event and another last was recorded when the district commissioner on behalf of the Chief Scout made a presentation to John Ingram of the Queen's Scout Badge, in all probability the last to be awarded in Canada. The change of the program and lowered age for membership in the Boy Scout movement has led to its elimination as being too hard for Boy Scouts to achieve but many boys who began their scouting under the old scheme gained permission to complete the exacting requirements for the badge which normally takes three years of effort and public service by the boy showing his fitness to receive the homour. The Badge was instituted on a suggestion of King Edward VII to the Founder and was intended to encourage the boys to learn skills useful to the community and mark them out when they had achieved competence and demonstrated their spirit of public service. The note of the evening was sounded by Deep Sea Scout `Will' Maundcote Carter long time member of the movement in several different countries and acknowledged authority on the Boy Scout training method instituted by the first Lord Baden-Powell. He reviewed the history of scouting in the district, one of the first so established in Canada. Blyth formed the first troop in 1917 and the District C Council came into being in 1937 after functioning for years with a District Commissioner alone. Seventeen groups have been formed in the 'district at various times although only seven are now active and the Clinton town group which began in 1922 was rescued from demise and revived in 1936. The RCAF began groups in Centralia and Clinton in 1950 and these have run successfully and prospered while BERG Sales — Service Installation FREE ESTIMATES * Barn Cleaners * Bunk Feeders * Stabling Donald G. Ives R.R. 2, BLYTH Phone Brussels 887-9024 13.20p FORAGE AND GRASS SEEDS We still have most lines of seeds, including Saranac Alfalfa. Smile varieties of cereal grains are still available. R. N. Alexander Londesboro Phonet Blyth 523-4399 Minton 482.7475 20la the bases remained active in the area and have, in fact, provided the bulk of the administrative and training staff for the district during this time. • `Scouter Wilr went on to review the development of Scooting as a formative method setting it in a historical setting often overlooked. R was evolved by Baden-Powell from his own experiences in training young men in self sufficiency but was not unrelated to many movements of educational development of the time, State education was just beginning in Britain and Canada but the innovators were people like Reddie who founded .Abbotsholm which led eventually to Gordounstoun school, which Prince Charles attended; Outward Bound, which has become an international institution of youth training people of the Atlantic community - a bright hope for the future. Madame Maria °Motessori began her researches and work with the young • at the time Baden-Powell was writing the book which led the boys of his time to begin the Scout Movement for it was boys - and girls — not the adults which made the idea into a Movement. The adults came later. Like Baden-Powell, Montessori was so far ahead of her time 'that in many quarters much of her work was discredited' depite the Proven results because it was not an easy method to implement and it is only 60 years later that trends have come around again to find the 'Latest' ideas and the revolutionary method in what has been for years regarded as impractical and out of time with the times. The speaker went on to analyse the method, its failure and successes and suggested that although the method had indeed all the ingredients for successful application it required unusual men, and women to implement it. When, men with what is frequently called 'charisma' are available, it has succeeded brilliantly with the boys and is essentially timeless because, devoted in its subject matter to fundamentals, to the basics of nature and creation on the contemplation of which all sophisticated developments must ultimately be founded. The lack of suitable people led to the formation of administrative organizations and the multiplications of 'plans and directives which had the effect, not of aiding the more prosaic adults that were available but scaring off the charismatic leaders who might otherwise have come forward. Looking through scouting's history it seemed that as the leaders as such dirhinished so the administrative load grew. Short dramatic sketches and a film on scouting concluded the evening. REAR TRACTOR TIRES BIAS-BELTED FIBERGLASS POLYESTER • A full 25% wider than conventional tires putting more rubber on the road for quicker starts and safer stops. 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