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Clinton News-Record, 1972-01-13, Page 4Editorial commer A new opportunity for Huron The establishment of the Huron Centre of Conestoga College of Arts and Technology at Clinton may be one of the Most important developments in the history of Huron County over the long run. For the first time, citizens of our rural county will have the same opportunities for self improvement close at hand that have always been available for city residents. It means that those who finished their formal education early in life now have a chance to continue it. if they do not have the educational requirements available to learn a trade, they can now gain these through courses offered by Huron Centre. Those who did complete their high school education will now have a chance to venture into post secondary education without leaving home. Young people of the community will be able to remain in the county while they receive their college education. But not, only will the Huron Centre benefit individulas, it will benefit the economy of the county. Now, for instance, business meri will be able to take courses to improve the efficiency and operation of their businesses. Factories will have more trained personnel available to produce better products more efficiently. These changes are things which will not become evident overnight. They will have an accumulative effect and along with the quickening pace of development in the county will do much to put Huron on a competitive foot with other counties in Western Ontario in the next 10 to 20 years. Until then, the major advantage will be to the individual who will be able to discover the joys of further education right in his back yard. An unfair comparison Last weekend the Canadian Magazine published a series of articles about persons who had immigrated to Canada, succeeded here but for various reasons had decided to return to their homelands because they were unhappy with the Canadian way of life. No doubt, many of the hundreds of thousands of persons who have come to Canada since World War Two seeking the land of milk and honey have found the milk sour and the honey too sticky and would have liked to return home, but the examples given in the Canadian article seem a little unfair. Most of those who were interviewed complained about the excess commercialism they found •in Canada, the grasping for more and more money. This, they said, they did not find in their home countries. Yet with only one exception, those interviewed came to Canada and lived in large cities such as Toronto, Montreal or Edmonton then moved back to Europe and settled in small towns. Most admitted they,: did not venture out of the cities while in Canada. This was what was so unfair about the comparison. People from small towns here in Canada also are unhappy when they move to large cities. Probably many of those interviewed would have been unhappy if they had moved to large cities in their own country. This is part of the problem with immigration in Canada over the last 10 or 15 years. Nearly all persons who come to Canada settle in Toronto or Montreal and .get to know little of the rest of the country. Their judgements of this country are based on one small area of the country, and one that certainly isn't the nicest. Governments should take some action to encourage immigrants to settle in areas other than the large cities and should work to find jobs for them there. Under the present system, the socialogical structure of our major cities is becoming completely alien to the rest of the country. If some way of balancing out the pattern of immigrant settlement is not found, the country is in for a lot of trouble in the years to come. How lucky we are After watching the excellent six-part television series on the life of Elizabeth I, it makes one happy to be living in 20th century Canada not 16th century England. Even Lloyd's of London, it strikes one, would hesitate to insure the life of prominent officials under good queen Bess. We hear talk of the dictatorial attitude of Prime Minister Trudeau but we have yet to hear of an opposition member sent to the tower or its modern equivilent. Things would be uncomfortable for newspaper men if they functioned today under the type of rule that was imposed by the 16th century monarchs. In such a case the expression "heads will roll" would not be so funny when a newspaper had the audacity to question a government decision or policy. And you can be part of all this Driftwood and ice Men of ire Letters to the Editor THE CLINTON NEW ERA Amalgamated THE HURON NEWS-RECORD Established 1865 1924 Established 1881 ' Clinton ews-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'adaiance) Canada, $8,00 per year; U.S.A., $9.50 KEITH W. ROULSTON Editor J. HOWARD AITKEN General Manager Published every Thursday at the heart of Huron County' Clinton, Ontario Population 3,475 THE HOME OP RADAR IN CANADA 4—Clinton News,RecOrd, Thursday, January 13, 1972 This is the time when pundits across the land speculate in type about what the coming year will bring forth. If there is one thing we don't need more of in this country, it is pundits. We have political pundits, economic pundits, sports pundits, Most of them spend most of their verbiage disagreeing with other pundits in the same field. What is a pundit? It is a person who knows a little more about medically nothing than we non-pundits, Having unburdened myself of those sour sentiments, I now propose to leap into some punditry (pundiheering?) concerning 1972. Read carefully, now, so that you'll have a clear picture of what we shall face this year. Most parts of Canada will have lots of snow, I hope nobody Will give me an argument on that one. Right now, outside my window, it looks like plucking day at the chicken factory. The population, taxes, and your fuel bill will increase. This statement is not based on fact but on pure intuition. Especially the part about taxes. According to some of the rosy statements in the new tax reform bill hustled through parliament, I Will pay less takes this year, about enough less to buy an overcoat from the Salvation Army. But they can't fool an old tax-payer like tile. I knoW with sickening clarity that if one level of government hands me a few- bucks, some other level will be digging three time as much out of my back pocket. The wage-price spiral will continue, though perhaps not as rapidly. The reason? We're all greedy as pigs at a trough. And the biggest pigs — the strongest unions and the most firmly entrenched capitalists — will get more out of the trough than the runts, the ordinary Joes. There will be a federal election, and whoever wins, there will be promises galore, new brooms being waved in all directions, and the country, according to the pundits, will still be going straight to the dogs. ' The churches will continue to be one-third filled and scrambling for enough money to stay alive. But there will be a continuing search for some sort of spiritual experience by our youth. Thousands who are now Merely a gleam in somebody's eye will be born. And good luck to them when they enter a mighty complex world. Thousands will die, and let's just hope you and I are not among thein, I don't want to go until I get my mortgage paid off. Isn't that the supreme purpose of living? Thousands of kids will experiment with drugs and some of them will end up tragic figures, shattered human beings. But thousands of others Will ignore the chance of becoming vegetables, and will lead happy, .1 healthy, useful lives, loving and learning, sad and happy. Unemployment will continue to be a fairly desperate situation. And the schools• will again be jammed to the rafters ' with students who shouldn't be there and don't want to be there, but for whom there is nothing else to do. There will be thousands of broken homes and marriages turned to dust. But there will be thousands of dreamy-eyed brides and proud young grooms, positive that nothing could ever happen to their love, which is something special. There will be wars that have no victories, and peace conferences that go on interminably proceeding from nowhere to nowhere, The United Nations will again announce that it is going broke, but nobody will ante up enough to pay the bilis. Thousands of bright young people will emerge from college, spilling over with knowledge, and come face to face with that brutal edict: you can't get a job with no experience, and you can't get experience until you get a job. But thousands of others wilt break their backs to get into college, where they will learn all about Life and find the mate of their choice. Does this all sound sort of familiar to you*? It should. Does it all sound rather depressing? It shouldn't. '2"ou'll have your downs, but you'll have your ups, too, those glorious and fleeting times When you wouldn't be anyone else or anywhere else. your children will change; preferably for the better, but don't count On it The year will fly by. Make it a good one by thinking positively, To tell you the truth, I'm a pushover for those magazine quiz things designed to reveal your secret, innermost character. I've a secret, innermost character, to judge from these tests, that's a combination of Franken.stein's monster, Dracula and the entire household, of Borgias. Only yesterday I got the highest possible marks in a self-inflicted examination called "How Edgy Are You?" Boy, Ain I edgy! I answered "yes" to every question. Yes, when lying in bed I often compose rude letters to local authorities. Yes, it irritates me when someone in my proximity chews gum. Yes, I know more than two people whose very presence make my temperature rise. Yes, it maddens me when the person behind me in the theatre keeps fidgeting. Yes, Yes, Yes! Dammit ail, yes! With a cold little smile--for I don't often get 100 per cent in anything--I then flipped to the rear of the magazine where I learned that I have absolutely no elasticity or resilience and that I'm in grave danger of losing my inner balance. Naturally, it made me edgy for the rest of the day and far into the night as I composed rude letters to the' magazine's editors. This is about par for these quiz games which go on the THE CLINTON NEW ERA 75 YEARS AGO January 8, 1897 The Clinton News Era has put in a larger press and enlarged its pages by the addition of another column to each, making a very noticeable difference in its appearance. The New Era years ago learned that the mission of a local paper, is to be a local paper. Accordingly it is crowded with local news, and hitherto it has even squeezed out its Grit's editorials in order to make room for news. This suggests our only regret at the New Era's enlargement since the editor may be able now to make room for that reprehensible class of editorial matter. The Stratford Harald THE CLINTON NEWS-RECORD 55 YEARS AGO Thursday, January 11,1917 The Girls' Patriotic Auxiliary intend having a "Sock Shower" for Clinton boys who are overseas On Wednesday afternoon of next Week in the council chamber, Tea will be served from three to six o'clock and the young ladies hope that a large number of seeks Will be contributed so that no Clinton boy who it now overseas May be missed in the distribution, Mrs, T. Jewett, Bayfield, has assumption that if your emotional response to life is a whit more varied than that of a head of lettuce you're in big trouble. This particular quiz is hooked up with an article on temper and .how to overcome it. The average man, it seems, loses his temper twice as often as omen or about ,six times a jel4 ustially flie4 Fhour preceding a meal, and this is regarded by several leading psychoanalysts as "an abdication of manhood." Instead of flying off in all directions, the victim is urged to pause and take several deep breaths or to run down to the basement and hammer nails for awhile. Another alternative is to collapse physically ("close the eyes, allow the chin to sag and the body to go limp,"it says) or, if it's a severe case, "take a bus' ride on some not too familiar route." I didn't make this up. That's what it says. Of course, for a man whose demonstrated threshold of indignation is as low as mine, this could mean a pretty indolent life, riding around endlessly on strange buses, eyes closed, chin sagging. Sure, I could hammer nails in the basement, but I don't happen to have a basement and, anyway, nothing causes me to lose my inner balance more quickly than a sharp crack on the thumb with a hammer, the regular thing for men of my elasticity. purchased a Delco Electric Light plant, for use on her premises. It is small and compact, 'and enables anyone to provide their own electric light without recourse to ordinary power lines. THE CLINTON NEWS-RECORD 40 YEARS AGO Thursday, January 14, 1932 Clinton Public School pupils had at the end of October 1931, the tidy sum of $1,230.21 in the Penny Bank, again of $157.35 during the year. Fifty per cent of the pupils make deposits. Mount Bridges still leads with 100 per cent of the pupils making deposits, Mr. Ed. Farquhar had a flock of chickens hatch out on January 2. Twelve out of thirteen eggs hatched. 25 YEARS AGO ThurSday, January 9, 1947 The first baby born in Clinton Public Hospital in the New rear was Roberta Elaine Wilson, six-pound "Bundle from Heaven" which came to bless the home of W/O and Mrs. R. b. Wilson, Huron. St., Clinton, Friday, January 3, 10 YEARS AGO Thursday, January 11,1962 Bayfield fishermen suffered losses and damage, as yet unestimated, to their boats in a storm which lashed take Huron shore on Saturday night and early Sunday. Gail force winds gusting to an estimated 70 miles per hour, pounded the fishing tugs, tied up at the north pier Goderich with mountainous waves and drift ice, William E. Perdue reports that he has received an answer from the office of Prime Minister John Diefenbaker with regard to his request made in December for consideration of house to house mail delive'y in towns of over 2,000 population. This letter assured Mr. Perdue that careful note would be taken of his suggestion. Pear Editor: I think it is very uncornical to put that poem in the paper about "Unto him a son is born". What you are trying to do is put Trudeau's baby above God. I disagree with your poem. Trudeau's baby is not holier than our Lord Jesus Christ. He is just an ordinary baby, Yours truly, F.Reinsma Dear Editor, I do not think it was right to put that a'rticle of Pierre and Margaret Trudeau plus their baby in the paper, because it is not right to give people the impression that Trudeau's baby is as holy as Jesus, the real meaning of Christmas. Please, do not think I am a rotten person, but it is not right to put that article in the paper the way you put it in the paper, or as a matter of fact it is not nice to put it in the paper any way. So please do not do it again and give Canada an unholy impression. Yours truly, Raymond Frost Grade 6 Dear Editor, This is one of the comments I have on your poem. It's nice for the Trudeaus to get a baby boy but still it is really nonsense to put in Praise Pierre and Margaret too; there is something much more important than the Prime Minister's son which is God's Son. Ann Klomps Dear Editor, In the Clinton News-Record last week there was a verse written by Bob Ryerse about the Trudeau's baby. Not only does it make fun of the Bible but also Justin's later life. How do you know he is go to be prime, minister? He might just became a factory worker. Now be careful what you print. Yours truly Clarence Roest Grade 7 Dear Editor: I don't think it was right of you to put that article of "Unto Him a Son is Given" in the paper. Just in case you didn't know "Justin Pierre Trudeau" is not Jesus and should not be compared with him. Besides if it had not been for God Justin wouldn't have been born so you should give God the glory and not Margaret and Pierre. After all they're only human. Disgusted Grade 6 Dear Editor What you printed in the paper was not very nice because you are making fun of the Lord's verse. That was his verse that he gave to his son. When his son was born God gave Jesus to the world. I disaprove of this poem about Trudeau's baby, Trudeau's baby will not be like Jesus just because he was born on Christmas. Trudeau's baby is going to be like any other baby. Sincerely Donald Hexytema Grade 6 Dear Editor, Grade 7 pupils have discussed the subject about Pierre and Margarete's baby, especially the part about: Glory to our new born king peace on earth ... We don't think that's right. And next time before printing a poem in the newspaper think a bit more. Alice Bos Grade 7 Dear Editor: It is not right to put that piece in the paper about Trudeau's son. I don't think it is right because it shows that ,Instin is just as important as Jesus which is not true because Jesus is the Messiah but Justin is just a baby boy. Yours truly, Mr. Charlie Maaskent Grade 6 and 7 Dear Editor: Remember that piece you put in about Trudeau's son. I hope you know what you were doing. You really hurt a lot of feelings and we felt we should do something about it. That poem was taken from some songs which were written from some people. They wrote it to sing not to make fun of, Yours Truly, John Valkenburg Grade,? Editor: I think the poem you published about Justin Trudeau is terrible. You are ruining Jesus's reputation. "Glory to the new-born King" you should think before you print about what you are writing. You might get many complaints from us. We think its very uncomical. No one can reach as high as Jesus. I think you could put in some joy, but you shouldn't go that far. If you ever print another poem like that, think twice, Yours sincerely, Freda Uyl, Grade 6 Dear Editor In the, "Clinton News Record" the paper which you publish there are a couple of verses with lines like this, "Unto him a son is Given," or "Join the truimph of Trudeau," These verses are comparing Trudpaus baby with, "the Son of Most High," Jesus Christ. The Lord is Greater than all people, not excepting Trudeau's baby. The Lord might have granted Trudeau a baby on Christmas but that dosen't mean that you have to take a couple of verses . out of the bible and stick a fe" words in and compare that humble baby with the "Lord Jesus Christ." Think twice before writing important things like this in the paper.. You might think I'M crazy but let the Lord judge you. That all I have to say. Yours truly Bert Amsing Dear Editor: We were talking about the poem you wrote. Other people might think it is good, but we disagree. How can you compare Trudeau's son with Jesus. It is not okay if you put it in the newspaper but how can you compare Trudeau's son with Jesus who was born holy? Yours Sincerely, Nick Heykoop Dear Editor The article you wrote in the newspaper a couple of weeks ago was very wrong, to our religion. If you wanted to praise the Trudeau's, then you should have made up your own song or peom, without the use of the song, "Hark! the Herald Angels Sing". No son, is as great as Jesus. "Remember it", Sincerely yours Jeannette Kuiperr Grade 7 Dear Editor: I am writing this to tell you that your article about Mr. Trudeau does not appeal to me. Mr. Trudeau's son seems to mean as a king or a great person. I think this is not a good way to make a poem. The line "Glory to our new born King" is not a right thing to say, It is a line given to praise Continued on page 5 I console myself with a secret, innermost conviction that, like most psychoanalyses in popular magazines, this is all a lot of cod's wallop. (Oops, there goes that temper again!) It may well be that a burst of irritability causes all sorts of physical reactions. The endocrine glands, they say, quit cold. Muscular tension increases. 1" Blood pressure soars. Sugar courses madly through the bloodstream. Who am Ito deny it? But I hold stubbornly to the theory that every motor needs some revving now and then and like a whole lot of other emotions---fear, joy, love, hate--there's nothing quite so therapeutic as giving them full throttle. Nobody will ever convince me that the way to dissipate a good, healthy annoyance is to drive nails or take a bus ride. The way to dissipate it is to get rid of it by leaping up and down and beating your pudgy fists to your temples and shouting and generally making a fool of yourself. Show me a man who files away his irritations, big or small, who presents a false facade of serenity when he's mentally at the full boil, and you show me a man who is storing up an awful cache of dynamite that's bound to detonate one day with a fearsome bang. Better, say I, to go to pieces like a gentleman, little by little, tantrum by tantrum. NIMe