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Happy New Year from: Howard Keith Marg Peggy and all, the staff The problem of China's absence from the international community once again is haunting diplomats in world capitals. The great ,powers today would like to see China agreeing to a new Geneva-style conference to discuss the conflicts in. Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia. Britain and , France already have approached the Chinese through diplomatic channels. The Soviet Union is putting out feelers in the same direction, and even the United States has admitted that a political solution in Southeast Asia is absolutely impossible without Chinese participation in the peace talks that would have to be held first. But today, the Peking regime is playing hard to get, and with some justification. The United States and its allies, including Japan, continue to bar Peking' from membership in the United Nations and in other international organizations. China, a thermonuclear power, is not consulted in regard to disarmament and nuclear weapons, treaties. Nobody seems to care what China thinks about nuclear proliferation. The United States has no diplomatic relations with Peking, and continues to place severe restrictions against the entry of Chinese exports. As a result, the Chinese attitude toward an enlarged Vietnam, conference is simply this: All or nothing at all. China clearly is not interested in being asked to participate in talks on Vietnam when the United States refuses to concede the legality of the Communist regime almost 21 years after Mao Tse-tung's government assumed power in Peking. It is most doubtful that China will agree to any settlement in Southeast Asia while it remains barred from a place in the United Nations by American blocking tactics. Faith in 1971 Maybe the best of a few bad years Reverse move A bird as rare as the trumpeter swan is the, city boy who hankers for the country. It's common the other way around. One in three farm boys, for better or worse, are now leaving the rural areas to take city jobs or, things being as they are, to look for them, Occasionally I get letters from them asking for advice, as someone who's had a look at both sides of the coin. I do the best I can. Mostly, I think, they've already made up their minds and just want a friendly pat of reassurance. Now comes a city-born and city-bred boy of 17 who wants ' to move the other way. "My new year's resolution is to find some way to go farming when I graduate," he writes. "I know nothing at all about farming. Nearly everyone seems to advise me against it. They say there isn't much money to be made for the work required. My father suggested I write to you. Your advice would be appreciated." I thought, at first, I'd just write him man-to-man, but now I'm wondering if maybe it isn't worth some reflecting in print. For one thing, he's a rare and admirable type. There aren't many kids who can look beyond the immediate horizon to ask themselves what they really want to do and that, I think, is vital. And, secondly, I fancy there are a good many young men a generation or two removed from the pull of the country life who may be totally unaware that it has much to offer as a career and a style of living. There should be no ' great difficulty in finding out if he's right in his hunch, that it's what he wants to do. One summer on a farm would provide the answer. The wages will be small by his city standards, of course, but the experience will be worth a silo of gold. Assuming he takes to it, there are two things he'll have learned. One is that "farming" is a mighty loose word for what would be more fittingly called the ptofession of agriculture. As much as any industry, it demands new methods, new techniques, specializing and acquired skills. The second is that it takes ah education. Old -time farmers, like old-time newspapermen, may escoff at the need for university training, but wherever you go in the country you'll find that the real pioneering these days is most often the work of the graduates in agriculture. The boys who are leaving the farms are usually boys who are in revolt against old-fashioned, traditional methods and unaware, perhaps, that the challenge for them, as it is for the city boy, is to progress with the times. When we lived in the country one of our neighbors was a poultryman whose son had fought with that agonizing decision. The father scraped together enough to send him to agriculture college more as a compromise than anything else. He took the 'attitude that it would do the boy no harm and that, when it was over, he might come back and carry on the business. The • boy came back, right enough, but not passively. He came back with ideas and experiments and the kind of production evolution that may THE CLINTON NEW ERA Amalgamated • THE HURON NEWS-RECORD Established 1865 1924 Establithed 1881 ' Clinton News-Record A member of the Canadian Weekly Newspaper Association, Ontario Weekly Newspaper Association and the Audit Bureau bf Circulation (ABC) second class Mail registration number — 0817 ussciorrioN RATES: (in advance) Canada, $6.00 per year; u:g.A., $7.61) KEITH W, ROULSTON — Editor J. HOWARD AITAN General Manager Published every Thursday at the heart of Huron County Clinton, Ontario Population 3,475 THE HOME OF PADA!? IN CANADA There is no doubt about it, 1971 will be a year of crisis for Clinton and to P certain extent all of Huron county. The big reason, of course, is the closing of the Canadian Forces Base south of town. We've known it was coming for a long time but the day of reckoning is finally at hand and come September the military presence will no longer be felt in Huron County. The crisis centres around our success or failure in replacing the armed forces as tenants of the $50-100 million piece of real estate. The problem, and the danger to Clinton, was compounded this year by the closure of one of the town's few other industries and production cutbacks at another. Recent headlines in many area newspapers probably have many people thinking the base is doomed. First came the reports from Ottawa that there was little cha nce of the combined armed forces and department of transport training sci,00l being located here. Then came a story from county council last week where President Church of Conestoga College said the base was too big for his college to take over completely. One area newspaper headlined the story '{Conestoga College • Can't use PFI3. clinton", Yet if the story was reeci..Perefully, the- truth 'of the matter was that President Church had, agreed, that Conestoga _could share the base if someone else took over the operation of the whole installation. Actually it was. encouraging news because it was the first time that the college had publicly acknowledeed.that it wanted part of the base. Until now they had only been considering the situation, There is no doubt about the fact that it's going to be a tough fight from here on in to cut through the red tape and politics involved and find someone to take over the whole base so that smaller tenants.can move in and take over specific parts of the huge complex. But there is still hope. For one thing it is inconceivable that such a valuable installation, could be left to deteriorate. For another, there are many persons deeply involved in making sure the base is used. By this time next year we could be looking forward to steady growth and improvement in the area rather than slow stagnation and death as at present. Let's hope so. Let's hope we can all have a Happy New Year. 4 Clinton News-Record,. Thursday, Pecernbar ?Lim itorial coponowt .!NreNe"..NreSer." A year of crisis 'All or nothing at all Christmas: through the eyes of poets at Brucefield school Now that you didn't get what you wanted for Christmas, what would you like in 1971? It's a pretty messy old world, as it always has been,' and nobody is likely to get what he wants in the coming twelve months. But it's the only world we have, so let's make the best of it: hope, pray, dream and, equally im- portant, remember that the Lord helps those who help themselves. For the world, we can only hope for an end to war, and pray for peace in all the touchy areas. But there's something Canada can do: stop selling arms. It's hypocri- tical to talk of peace, point the finger at others, when ,you're standing up to the ,waist in the muck of arms' sales yourself. I'm afraid we can only dream about an end to unem- ployment, pollution, terror- ism and inflation. They won't be solved in 1971. But surely to goodness some progress can be made toward solutions. There is something, frighteningly wrong whele a country with the natural resources of Canada looks forward to a long hard winter for over half a million unemployed, at the same time that countries like Germany, prostrate 25 years ago, are crying for workers. And we can do something in this country about pollu- tion, if every soul puts his back into it, That's a bit Irish, but you know what I mean. Terrorism? That's going to be a tough one. But surely, somewhere in the world, there is someone who can de- vise something to nullify the new weapon of thugs and fanatics throughout the world, the weapon of black- mail through kidnapping and hijacking. Man split the atom and hit the moon. Surely, surely. Inflation is a cancer. But we're desperately searching for a cure for cancer. Can't we do the same for inflation, I, personally, will take a cut in income if the government will cut my •income tax. For my country, these are some of the things I'd like to see in 1971. Full employ- ment, or as near as possible, Less economic and cultural dependence on our benevo- lent Uncle. A sharp decline in poverty, drug abuse and al- cohol use. Lots of bright wes- ter days and hot summer days. An end to the tension, one way or the other, be- tween Quebec and the rest of the country. An end to the endless talk about housing and education and equality, and the beginning of some action. A return to faith in our government, our religioh and ourselves, all 1.• - .y cor- roded in the last de , ee, For my faithful and friendly readers; I'd like to see some special things in the coming year: \good health; a closing of the generation gap; warmer personal relation- ships; fine, healthy children; a small oil bill; and if you must spoil the whole thing by kick- ing the bucket, may it be quickly and painlessly. I also hope that your gar- den grows, that your car doesn't rust, that your roof doesn't leak, that your wife doesn't nag, that your hus- band doesn't drink too much, A big order, but there it is. For myself, I can dream, but I don't really want much. I'd like to improve my golf, fishing and curling. But I don't really hope. They seem to go downhill steadily. I'd like to be able to walk without an elastic bandage around my bum knee. Ed like my waist-line to stop growing and my hair to start growing. I'd like to wind up the year With the same number of teeth 1 have right now. These are still in the dream cate- gory. I'd like to spend a full two weeks, anytime , during the year, without a domestic cri- sis: cat, kids or wife. But most of all, I'd like to be sitting right here, a year from now, writing a column about a 1972 that leaked a lot more promising than does 1971. And the same to you. 55 YEARS AGO The Clinton News-Record December 30, 1915 We understand that Dr. Howson is a candidate for municipal honours in the Township of Mullett. He has proven himself an efficient officer in the village and we bespeak for him the hearty support of the ratepayers of the Township. Ex-councillor W. J. Miller of Mullett who now resides at his fine residence on Ontario St. was the lucky one to win the Mast offered by R. Fitzsimons and Son for the one making the nearest guess to the weight of the animal hanging up in their butcher shop. Mr. Miller guessed 410 lbs. and the animal weighed c•1051/4. The Clinton Public Schools closed on Wednesday. Many of the rooms had suitable closing exercises, the Christmas predominating. Miss Rands was presented With a leather encased timepiece by her class. 40 YEARS AGO The Clinton News-Record limitary 1, 1931 Nominations in Clinton at the Meeting last Monday evening resulted iii a large slate. Fbe the offices of Mayer and Reeve the following nominations. — Mayor: W. J. Stevenson nominated by Fred jaeltsen seconded by S. J. Andrews. Ed Munroe, by T. Hawkins and A. W. Groves. S., S. Cooper, by W. H. Cowan and Fred Rogerson. H. B. Combe, by S. J. Andrews and Robe Welsh. Reeve: — Geo. I-I. Elliott by F. G. Thompson and J, B. Levis; N. W. Trewartha by H. B. Combo and D. Cantelon. The incumbent mayor, Col. Combo said that he did not intend to stand for election at this time; that he had been mayor for three years. He expressed regret that his health has been such that he had been obliged to Miss some meetings. 15 YEARS AGO The Clinton News-Record December 29, 1955 A. 0. "Sandy" Elliott, Ex e ter , was re-appointed director for eitron County on the Waterloo Cattle Breeding Association Bead at a meeting of the County Unit hero yesterday afternoon. A welcome present on Christmas Eve Was $29.22 won by Mrs. Ken McKenzie as a Share in the merchants' Appreciation Day treasure chest. t'catutod at the Mien and Goderich Theatres 15 years ago: — The Roxy Theatre, Clinton: Donald O'Connor in "Francis in the Navy", Abbott and Costelle be found in most aspects of farm life. The father resisted, but not for long. Today they're equal partners in a thriying business that owes as much to the old man's years of sacrifice and labor as it does to the young man's ambition and education. It's not an example that applies too directly to the city boy who has written me. He'll have to start from scratch. But it shows, I think, that country life is no more static than life among the towers. Apart from such considerations I'm completely convinced that, all things being equal, the man in the country gets more out of life than the man in the city. • • The late Lew Gordon, a great newspaperman who, himself, retired to the green acres, once declared that his primary aim in life was independence. "I never want to be in a position where I can't tell anyone to go to hell, " as he put it. , Well, it's true that the 6rmer is just as dependent on the whims of economics and more dependent than the rest of us on the whims of weather, but it is true, too, that he has that priceless sense of being self-reliant. "I grow things that people eat," a farmer once told me, "and people always have to eat." I may be wrong, but this seems to me the basic reason that country people very often appear to get more out of life than city dwellers do. Independence is the root of their philosophy. It gives them a purpose and an integrity that is their own. But, of course, the city boy will have to discover that for himself. in "Meet the Keystone Cops". — At the Park Theatre, Goderich: "Ulysses" — starring Kirk Douglas — Anthony Quinn and "The Far Country" with James Stewart. County Engineer Peter D. Patterson received an injured knee in a two-car crash occurring on the County Road east of Auburn, last weekend. 10 YEARS AGO The Clinton News-Record December 29, 1960 Ten years ago -- noted especially for outdoor lighting were the beautifully decorated homes of Dr. George Elliott, and George F. Elliott; at Frank McEwans and William Griggs, also at Alf Crozier's home. The annual Christmas party for children Of the l3ayfield district WaS sponsored by the Bayfield Lion'S Club and was attended by about 140 children on Thursday afternoon lest at the Town Hell, Alf Scotehener projected a film for their entertainment. The committee in charge was Leslie Elliott, Cliff Utter, and Spencer Ervin& The home of Mt. and Mrs. James Ilutchings, Bayfield, their son Allan and hie bride (the former Grace J. Harris) was levelled by fire on the afternoon of December 24. The house and contents Were a complete loss. Huron Centennial School at Brucefield had a visit from the muse before school let out for Christmas. The result was a flow of poetry about Christmas from the pens of grade seven and eight children. Their teacher is Mrs. Montieth. THE WEEK BEFORE CHR ISTMAS w as the week before Christmas, when all I could do, Was stand around with my ' fingers to chew. The presents were all wrapped and under the tree. And five of those presents were just for me. I'd shake them and rattle them to see what they were. Mother said I'd have them open for sure. ' I could hardly stand it, I could hardly wait. The week before Christmas. The week I hate. Susan Parke, Grade 7 AT CHRISTMAS When Christmas time comes to my house once each year, My brothers and sisters all give a great cheer. For up in our minds there is swirling about, The hope that our house might - be on Santa's route. Billy wants a train set, Sally wants a doll, I want a bebe gun, and baby wants a ball. I hope we'll get these from Santa old dear, That's all we want from his huge bag this year. I'm sure that you'll get what you want if you're still, For he'll be along, no matter the chill. Paul Robinson, Grade 7 WHEN SANTA COMES It was quiet in the house on Christmas Eve, I dreamed of the things Santa would leave, I dreamed of a puppy to love and to care, And a little red ribbon that puppy would wear. I woke up that night after a dream of cheer, For I heard the sound of Santa's reindeer. I tiptioed downstairs making the slightest noise, As I peeked around the corner, I saw a bag of toys. There stood our tree What a beautiful Sight, As the silver tinsel shimmered in the light. U the tree went a present eawrapped, Then he picked up his Sack and threw it over hie back. His eyes how they twinkled he acted so Merry, His'cheeks like roses, and hie nose like a cherry. I went back to bed, not to be seen, I heard him whistle, as he called his team. Early that morn I had to arise, I flew downstairs and had a surprise, The stockings were filled on the chimney so bright, The presents under the trees were a beautiful sight. e • • The cake, milk and cookies that I left by the door, There was a few crumbs left and not a bit more. I got a new sled that will slip and slide, Later on today, I'll take it out for a ride. Brenda Johnson, Grade 7. CHRISTMAS Christmas is a joyous time When families reunite, Christmas gifts to give and receive, And Christmas cards to write. Christmas symbols everywhere, Trees with tinsel bright, Mistletoe and holly too, Oh, what a glorious sight! ' The star that shone so very bright, The night that babe was born, The shepherds and the wise men, A time not meant to mourn! The lights that are strung about the house, The stockings on the chimney, Dear Santa's climbing down to fill them, With small gifts and home made candy. All in all, Christmas is fun, It brings gitfs and good cheer, The meaning of this poem is to say to you, Merry Christmas and Happy New Year. Jill Charlene McLellan, Grade 7 THE DAY AFTER CHRISTMAS "Nes the day after Christmas, And all through the town, Carrie music and laughter And many glad sounds.' The sun, it was shining, AS much as to say; "I'm glad Christmas is over! What a day! I Children were playing with, Their new found toys. And even the adults Were quite full ofjoy! The mothers were cleaning, The living rooms. While nature's poor trees Were dieing in gloom, Christmas comes and goes again. Once every year. It brings tis together In peace, love and cheer! I Patti Rote, Grade 7