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HomeMy WebLinkAboutClinton News-Record, 1970-07-16, Page 44 Clinton News-Record,. Thursday, July 16, 1970 Eihtloriol compiont We '000 core if you think wo.fro right or wrong •Wo care only that you think. • loggiggiNNU1111111118111111111111111111111111018181111111118118111111111118111111811111111181111111811111111111111111114111111111111111111111111111111011111111111111111111111111111111111111 Break the welfare cycle There is a refreshing tone of realism toward, poverty solutions in last year's Economic Council report, also in the deliberations of the conference last year of federal-provincial welfare ministers at Victoria, B.C. This call for new methods of financial support to break the cycle of welfare gets down to fundamentals. Today's rigid rules which restrict personal assets to qualify for welfare and which prohibit earnings to supplement income, has kept the poor in the welfare straight-jacket for two and three generations. The Council maintains that a minimum adequate standard of living should be the base for evaluating all assistance programs. This is sound policy. Excessive price increases in food, clothing, housing, plus low wages, sales and other taxes, all drastically cut income, increase privation and keep the. poor "living on the edge of disaster at all times." There is realism in the emphasis on prevention of poverty. Long range planning by governments for retraining, for equality of job and educational opportunity in all regions is a must. Fair, realistic laws which don't, discriminate against the poor are required. Equal in importance with adequate government programs and policy, is proper training of the individual from childhood on to cope successfully with life. Fully functioning mental powers, sound emotional health, development of initiative, responsibility, discipline, good work habits, would equip the individual to grasp the opportunities which society provides. In our wealthy society, poverty is a word which should become obsolete. People and pollution Is the overcrowding that is occurring in the world today a kind of pollution? This vital question is being debated on every continent because the very concept that humanity itself is part and parcel of the global pollution problem is alien'to us. People are quite prepared to admit that careless industrialization and the general urban, sprawl around the world are the prime causes of pollution. But rarely do they tie the problem up with over—population. Yet facts and figures bear out the claim that by growing too rapidly, the human race itself is polluting the earth. The world's population already stands at 3.6 billion. Mankind is increasing at the rate of 1,400,000, every week and if present trends: continue, the world population will double by the year 2,005. The tragedy is that most of the human pollution is occurring in the countries that can least afford it. The underdeveloped countries of Asia, Africa and Latin America contain about 2.6 billion people already, and are growingit a rate of between 2.3 and 2.9 per cent per year. Africa, Latin America and Asia (with the exception of Japan) contributed 86 per cent of the world's population growth in the past five years. There is no question that the world population must be stabilized. Without proper population control, the problem of people polluting their environment can never be solved. Certainly the unchecked growth of mankind is an even greater danger—to our future than the nuclear arms race. OPTOMETRY J. E. LONGSTAFF OPTOMETRIST Mondays and Wednesdays 20 ISAAC STREET For Appointment Phone 482-7010 SEAFORTH OFFICE 527-1240 •%, INSURANCE K. W. COLQUHOUN INSURANCE & REAL ESTATE Phones: Office 482-9747 Res. 482-7804 HAL HARTLEY Phone 482-6693 LAWSON AND WISE INSURANCE — REAL ESTATE INVESTMENTS Clinton Office: 482-9644 J. T. Wise, Res.: 482-7265 ALUMINUM PRODUCTS For Air-Master Aluminum Doors and Windows and AWNINGS and RAILINGS JERVIS SALES R. L. Jervis — 68 Albert St. Clinton — 482-9390 Clinton SUNDAY, JULY 19th TRINITY 11:30 a.m. — Matins and Sermon. CALVARY PENTECOSTAL CHURCH 166 Victoria Street • Pastor: Donald Forrest SUNDAY, JULY 19th Sunday School: 9:45 a.m. Morning Worship: 11:00 a.m. Evangelistic Service: 7:00 p.m. Business and Professional Directory R. W. BELL OPTOMETRIST The Square, GODER ICH 524-7661 DIESEL Pumps and Injectors Repaired For All Popular Makes Huron Fuel Injection Equipment hayfield Rd., Clinton-482-7971 °Mee§ in printing Chia across tiriAdA 100031340114001001CWIMSWVIPOKS30030611013MilitiMitiCtilik*** W. G. "BILL" RIEHL ADVERTISING SPECIALTIES Calendars & Gifts Magnetic Signs For Cars & Trucks "Display ShOWrObin OP Wheels" 24 NORTH ST. CLINTON Price Waterhouse 8 Co. chartered accountants ROYAL BANK BUILDING 30 RICHMOND STREET LONDON 12, ONTARIO 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, $6.00 per year; U.S.A., $756 KEITH W, ROIJLSTON Editor HOWARD AITKEN General Manager Published every' Thu-11day it the heart of Huron Cbunty Clinton, Ontario Population 3,475 TIM 110ME OF RADAR IN CANADA »,•• • "WA* ‘;•:•. 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 — Goosey Goosey Gander WESLEY-WILLIS The congregation wirl worship at the Ontario St. United Church until the end of July with Dr. Mowatt preaching Wesley-Willis -- Holmesville United Churches. REV. A. J. MOWATT, C.D., B.A., B.D., D.D., Minister MR. LORNE DOTTEP.ER, Organist and Choir Director SUNDAY, JULY 19th ST. ANDREW'S PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH, ONTARIO STREET UNITED CHURCH "THE FRIENDLY CHURCH" Pastor: REV. H. W. WONFOR, B.Sc., B.D. • Organist: MISS LOIS GRASBY„A-R-C-T, SUNDAY, JULY 19th 11:00 a.m. — Morning Worship and Junior congregation (Wesley-Willis congregation will worship in Ontario St. Church until the end- of July). Sermon Subject: "PLAYING AT LITTLE GAMES" Rev. A. J. Mowatt• Mrs. B. Boyes, Organist and Choir Director SERVICE_ ALL SERVICES ON DAYLIGHT TIME A lia-Hai wedding at You've heard of rock-and-roll groups. But have you ever heard of Ba-hai groups? Just when my wife and I get everything squared around, and look forward to a period of doddering about in peace, somebody throws the overalls in the chowder and we have to fish them out. Usually, it's one of our kids. Sometimes, old or new friends. This time it was a little of both. First of all, Kim arrived home Friday night with a car-load of friends. They'd come for a Fireside. I'm sure you know as much about Firesides as I do. They have nothing to do with tires. She and many of her friends have become Ba-hais. It sounds like something out of the musical South Pacific, but it isn't. . A cynical colleague of mine asked: "Is it one of those Indian religions that justify sitting around on your rump and doing nothing?" I don't think it is. It's something new that came out of the Middle East about a century ago,, complete with prophet, and has grown, quietly but steadily.. A Fireside is a meeting of Ba-hais and those interested in learning about it. People of all ages and faiths and colors sit around quietly at somebody's home, listen to those who have "declared" themselves, pray together and meditate. There are no churches, taxes, and all the ills that plague the modern the Smiley house church institution. - It has great appeal for the idealistic young, because it contains the best and the essence of the world's great religions: Love for God, neighbor and self; gentleness; honesty; abstinence. It seems to have no political or racial overtones. No good Ba-hai will touch drugs or alcohol. Though I notice they all smoke like fiends, and never have any cigarettes of their own. Anyway, here came Kim with her friends, all set for a Fireside. Her mother had been at, one the week before, and though a staunch Anglican, was impressed. She agreed to go again. I could see the pincers closing in (I'd been away fishing the week before.) To my relief, a young fellow from another world dropped in at the crucial moment. Davie Lodge, leader of Major Hoople's Boarders, just to tell us his rock group was playing that night at the local arena. We've known him since he couldn't blow his own nose. My wife went to the Fireside. I went to hear the Major and the bedlam. We both arrived home slightly dazed, I slightly deaf. The Ba-hais had gone back to their lairs in the city, but the Hooples came home with me for a cold drink, with their girl singer, Gail, the tiniest girl with the biggest voice on either side of the Rockies. It was interesting. Two completely different groups of young people, about the same age. One flat broke, spreading the gospel, talking about establishing a commune in the country. The other flat out, with thousands of dollars of equipment, hurtling from one engagement to the next, in their own expensive rolling commune. All of them bright and polite. The generation gap that night didn't seem as wide as the caste system among young people themselves. There was no confrontation, but the two groups had less in common than we middle-aged yahoos had with either of them. And think of all the other castes: the yippies, the greasers, the straight kids, the freak-outs and a dozen others. But to get back to my point, if possible. The up-shot is that we are committed to having a Ba-hai wedding in our backyard in October. The bride's mother can't afford a wedding reception. The groom's mother offered to have it at her place if all the blinds were drawn. Anybody who wants to get married outside in October needs a pretty strong faith. I suppose they could roll in, the leaves in some symbolic ritual. But the moment of truth came when the prospective groom informed us joyously that a rock group had agreed to play at the wedding. I've heard them. Clearly. From three blocks away, I have a feeling I'm going to put my foot down. Talk that's cheap My waste basket has been on time-and-a-half of late coping with money-back guarantees to make a better man of me. There's a veritable epidemic of how-to-do-everything mail order courses. Hardly a day slips by that I don't decline a free, introductory offer to teach me how to breed Chinchillas, how to improve what remains of my mind, how to read 10,000 words a minute, how to keep bees, hotels, sanity. The latest offer is 12 thrilling leisorii by a clinic known as the Ethel Cotton Conversation;-. Course with a money-back promise that I may not onln enrich my own life, but those of everyone within earshot by learning, as Miss Cotton puts it,. "to manipulate the shuttle that weaves together the threads of fine and worthwhile friendship." I'll say this for the lady: She's timely. Conversation fell upon evil days when we dimmed the lights and flicked on the little screen. I daresay there are vast numbers of folks who are beginning to wonder if they've lost the ability to communicate. But somehow I doubt that it can be recaptured in 12 thrilling lessons. The imagination boggles, begad, at the contemplation of a world of Conversation Course graduates, cum laude. It would be akin to being caged with a covey of early morning radio announcers. That way lies madness. 75 YEARS AGO The Huron News-Record July 17,1895 Mr. D. A. Forrester returned from his trip to Britain last week, and reports a most pleasant voyage. Kitty Bros. have an electric fan in their restaurant. The shock from it will keep people cool only and this is enough in the warm weather. The Woodmen of the World, will organize here this week. Among the juniors who left for the camping ground yesterday are Messrs. Cantelon, Jackson, Fair, Gilroy and Smith. 55 YEARS AGO The Clinton News-Record July 15,1915 Dr. Thompson has had a top addition to his verandah erected which adds greatly to his house, Wilmer Wallis has taken a position with the G.T.B. at the station taking James Mannings place who is now on the road relieving. Miss Shirley Emden is spending her holidays at London and other points. Last Tuesday, Hazel Carter, daughter of Mr, and Mrs. I. Carter, fell and broke her arm when she fell while climbing a tree, 40 YEARS AGO The Clinton News-Record July10,1980 C. W. Draper was elected president of the Western Ontario FireMen's Association on July 1, Av..40i& The pamphlet before me merely hints at the lady's methods, but it does promise to teach the student eight "sure-fire topics of conversation" and how to add interest to even such an outworn theme as the weather. I keep imagining what it would be like to encounter one of Miss Cotton's honor students on a fishing trip. Perhaps nowhere in the world is there a severer test of communication than in a small boat cut off from escape by deep water. I have been in such circumstances with men grimly determined to weave together the threads of friendship, men with at least eight sure-fire topic sentences guaranteed to ruin any genuine rapport. Thus I'm all too aware that the world's worst conversationalist is the poor boob who thinks that talk, like a shuttle-cock, must be kept banging over the net or it's no game. There was that certain fellow this Spring, for example, who kept leaping heavy-footed from one weighty subject to another, apparently convinced that conversation is made, not born. Finally I was sure that sheer inertia had stilled him and that we might spend the rest of the day in less compulsive intercourse. He was silent for perhaps a minute and then, brightly, he enquired, "What are your views on cremation?" Needless to say, we never fished together again. The partnership having subsisted between Messrs. Robert and Harry Fitzsimons for the past 25 years, has been dissolved, R. Fitzsimons having withdrawn. The business will be carried on by H. Fitzsimons. In the list of successful entrance students writing at Clinton, Gene Andrews took the highest marks in the Clinton class and thus wins the Dunn cup. Dr. P. Hearn has been appointed to the Public Library Beard and at a meeting of the board R. E. Manning was chosen chairman. 25 YEARS AGO The Clinton News-Record July 12,1945 Taggers who worked for the Navy League of Canada last Saturday were: Jean McIntyre, Kay Britton, Anna Glew, P. Shanahan, M. Thompson, A. Husty, D. Elliott, J. Andrews, A. Britton, J. Fines, A. Jervis, K. Glew, C. Fingland and N. Ford. Misses Joan and %Isbell' Sloman are at the Girl Guide camp near Toronto. Miss Eunice Roy, nurse-in-training at Toronto East General Hospital, returned to her duties on Sunday, after spending her vacation with her parents at LondesbOro. Mrs. Richard Barley, Galahad Alta, is visiting her brother, 1Pred Not t, 15 TEAR.B. AGO The Clinton News-Record July 141956 Robert M, AldWinkle, Miss Cotton quotes the fine old actor, Conrad Nagle, to underscore her claim that conversation is the staff of life. "Long talks before the fire or discussions under the trees or as we walk in the hills may be the deepest joy in life," Conrad had said. This is very true, of course, but only when the conversation is natural and spontaneous. If it comes easily, effortlessly, talk is the most „rewarding adventure. Put it in ,the mouth of one who is desperate to fill a vacuum and it is simply an intrusion. Communication by a fire or on a mountain trail is often best achieved by total silence. So I doubt seriously if conversation can be taught. But what might be taught is the art of intelligent listening which is really what we've forfeited to the age of television. .The terrible ability to absorb without understanding or without contemplation is bound to be the ultimate curse of the tube. Already we see, in the young, the capacity for taking in vast quantities of the spoken word without a response of pleasure or pain. The way back is not via 12 thrilling lessons, but in a groping, sensitive, effort to recapture that art of the face-to-face exchange of ideas. Bee-keeping or hotel managment are more easily learned than that. formerly of Varna, has been promoted to rank of Group Captain, with the Royal Canadian Air Force. He is presently resident engineering officer for the R.C.A.F. with Canadair at Cartierville, P.Q. Ken Arkell left on Wednesday for Ottawa to commence training with the Ottawa Rough Riders football team. While taking his two years in the premedical course at University of Western Ontario, he was an outstanding player with the Western Mustangs. This year he will attend Carleton College, Ottawa, while studying for his Bachelor of Science degree. 10 YEARS AGO The Clinton News-Record July 14,1960 Miss Suzanne Bartliff, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Elliott Bartliff, has written the prize winning •essay in this district on the subject of conservation sponsored by the Ontario Horticulture Association and the Toronto Daily Star. Kenneth Knights son of Mr. and Mrs. George Knights has joined the staff of the Bank of Montreal, Clinton Branch. Laurence C. 13egeatif Kitchner has been awarded the medal of merit for his work with the Boy Scouts, He will be presented with the award by the Governor General Geo, P. Vanier, Laurence is the son of C. Mortimer Bezeatt, Kitchener, SUNDAY, JULY 19th 9:30 a.m. — Morning Worship. SUNDAY SCHOOL DISCONTINUED FOR THE SUMMER MONTHS BAYFI.ELD BAPTIST CHURCH SUNDAY, JULY 19th 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. ST. PAUL'S ANdadAN':-..tillJRCW-7'-::-1