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HomeMy WebLinkAboutClinton News-Record, 1972-02-03, Page 4Where are our priorities? Spacecraft that can quiekly be turned into nuclear bombs, underground nuclear tests that bring • protests from around the world, missiles fired from the submarines and bombers—these are the monstrous weapons that continue to haunt mankind. Total defense costs around the world are today nearing the $200- billion figure annually, This is an indictment of national leaders, and tends, to point up particularly, the stupidity of the two superpowers, the United States and the soviet Union, whose defense planner admits that Washington and Moscow have reached nuclear parity, The most ludicrous aspect of the continuing arms race is the sorry state of the United Nations, without doubt the most vital single organization in the world, Although Washington and Moscow spend countless billions on defense, between them they owe more than $0-Million to the U.N. The worst offender is the Soviet Union which owes a total of $.32- Million—S22-Million for this year, and $10-Million for previous years, For the first time in history, the United Nations annual budget for 1972; will pass $20041illion, yet the nations of the world each year spend a thousand times more on weapons and other means of defense. The arms race and the financial plight of the United Nations, which is always pleading with its menpers to pay its debts, are negative examples of mankind's follies. Where do our priorities lie? Do we keep pouring billions of dollars into nuclear and thermonuclear bombs until some fiend like Hitler decides to attempt global conquest by nuclear war? Or do we seek world peace through a body like the United Nations? Any sane person will know the answer. French 1 anguage survival The Quebec government has switched tactics from gentle persuasion to direct intervention in industry with its new plan to make •French the working language. "Strike forces" of government linguistic experts will go into Montreal and Quebec City industries and set up programs for the switch- over to French. Specialists will tailor the programs and supervise implementation. Warned Quebec Education Minister Guy Saint-Pierre, "the English must accept as inevitable that the Quebec government will become more and more the spokesman of a French population which feels, perhaps with reason, that its culture and language are threatened." But the government feels the English minority must be left with its right to English schools. Planned future changes include channelling new immigrants into French education, more courses in Car doomed At last municipal leaders are becoming aware of a fact that choking, noise-battered ciffieris in large citie$ have been muttering for some time— the car must go. The problem is how to get rid of cars from downtown streets without infringing on the rights and convenience of citizens? An Ontario government decision to stop construction of Toronto's Spadina Expressway which would have cut to the heart of the city was the first sign of political awareness. , Recently Montreal municipal officials have had second thoughts about a crosstown expressway extension of the Trans-Canada highway now under construction— slashing through downtown Montreal. English schools taught in French, and unified school boards (French and English together) already in the talking stage for Montreal — to spread across Quebec. Many English-speaking Quebeckers think it is unrealistic to do business in French — surrounded as the province is by 17-million English-speaking Canadians and . 200-million Americans. Francophones feel thiey are fighting for the very survival of French culture against the long term consequences of 80 percent of their new immigrants choosing English schooling — and a fast declining birth rate. A great responsibility to seek understanding of this issue reposes upon all Canadians. Those who call themselves Christians and talk about "reconciliation" may have a particular responsibility. Montreal Urban Commission Chairman, Lucien Saulnier, feels approval should have .b6en-"delayed "until we'had a bettefassessnient'df need." Saulnier noted, "I'm sure that there is a better than even chance a motorist who is offered a very good alternative will take public transportation." Both Montreal and Toronto are extending their subway systems, and a firm in the U.S.A. with a grant from the government, is experimenting with small electric-powered, rubber wheeled vehicles which run on either streets or tracks. Surely a country which -has the technology to put a man on the moon can find ways to move people quickly, quietly, and cleanly around cities. How to deal with Women's Lib Letter to the •••••••11110011.1.1.111Min. A member of the Canadian Weekly Newspaper Association, Ontario Weekly Newspaper Association and the Audit Bureau of Circulation (A130) second clats mail registration number — 0817 :SUBSCRIPTION RATES: (in advance) Canada, $8.00 per year; U.S.A., $9.50 KEITH W, ROULSTON — Editor J. HOWARD AITKEN — General Manager Amalgamated THE HURON NEWS RECORD 1924 Established 1 8 81 Clinton News-Record THE CLINTON NEW ERA EStablished 1865 Published every Thursday at the heart of Huron County' ClintOn, Ontario Population 3,475 THE HOME OF RADAR IN CANADA 4—Clinton News-Record, Thursday, February 1, 1972 110M11110.10101010MOIMINIIM THE EDITOR those areas which can be reached We are receiving an increasing by available transportation. number of enquiries as to what is Mr. Selz also reports that he being done and what can be done to assist the returning refugees and' other desperately needy people in the newly-established state of Bangla Desh. We would be grateful if you would make available in your newspaper the space necessary to relate what CARE is doing and hopes to do to provide immediate relief and continuing rehabilitation for those unfortunate victims of the disastrous events described so vividly in the news media over the past several weeks. Despite the evacuation of the majority of foreign personnel (both government and private agencies) during the height of the emergency, CARE Director, Henry Selz, and Assistant Director, David Van Zant, were able to remain in Dacca throughout. Although Mr, Selz was wounded by a stray bullet during a final skirmish in the center of Dacca, he was recovered fully and has continued to meet regularly with Bangla Desh officials in an attempt to establish priorities and work out methods for mobilizing all the available resources for the relief of those in most urgent need. Daniel Roth, the ,head of the CARE-UNICEF Team, is also in Dacca and negotiations are underway for the return of the CARE-UNICEF Team which was evacuated during the height of the conflict. Ina communication received directly from Mr. Selz last week, we learned that the Government of Bangla Desh has informed him its priority relief and rehabilitation needs are for food grains, transportation and housing materials. Since both UNISEF and CARE have supplies stockpiled and enroute by sea, we anticipate Yours sincerely, an early start being made in the Thomas Kines, distribution of food stocks in National Director What with this being Leap Year, and all, and the Women's Lib growing ever and ever more shrill, it could be a bad year for the gentle sex: men. Not that I ever did hold much with that Leap Year business. There might have been some merit in the idea that once every :our years, a lass could pick her • ' in bygone times. t it is my conviction, based on careful observation, that the custom is out of date. In these times, if a girl sets her eye on a likely candidate, she whips her tentacles around him, hangs on until he stops struggling, and carries him home to be devoured, with utter disregard of whether or not the year can be divided by four. Now the Women's Lib movement is another thing. There's scarcely a man in the country who dares make a crack about women any more. He knows that the slightest slight will result in his head either being blown off by a grapeshot charge of vituperation, or sliced off by the guillotine edge of irony, These dames are dangerous, and they fight under their own rules. The only people who can stand up to them are other women, who know a good deal when they have One, and don't believe in Women's Lib. That's one of the things that Might make ita rough year. If the two factions go at it hammer and tongs some day, what'S a man to do? He's going to be caught in the cross-fire, tie matter what he says„ If he supports Wm/101'S Lib through altruistic Motives (like maybe his wife is a believer), he is liable to find that she will turn on him in scorn and denounce him as a boot-licker who is trying to get in on the ground floor of the revolution. If he attacks the movement from profound conviction (like maybe his wife is against it), he is liable to find that she'll turn on him in fury because it turns out that he really is a male chauvinist pig, after all. That old saying about "sisters under the skin" is not to be Sneered at, Not in these troublous times. I repeat, what is a man to do? There was a time, not so long ago, when the male of the species could retreat to some sort of a simulated dugout when women got into a flap: his club, the Legion Hall, a bar, the poolroom. Not any more, The women have infiltrated every one of these homes-away-from-home, and there's no place to hide Men are constantly and plaintively asking about women the rather bewildered question that Anglo-Canadians have used so oft in recent years about the Quebecois, "What is it they want, anyway?" And getting the same non-ansWer. At the risk, nay, the certainty, of being assailed from every direction that is illogical, I'll put my life On the firing-line, while the rest of you cowards skulk behind your Wives, common-laW or otherwise. What is it that women want? Nothing Much, really. Just everything they can get. I don't just mean material things, though I've never met a bird yet who Wasn't convinced that one in the hand is Worth ''two in the bush, whether they're dealing with fur coats, colour TV, labour-saving devices, new drapes—or men. But those are not important among their wants. The things they are really seeking are on a much higher plane. Foremost, they want a strong man. Tbis is half the fun of the game. It's a challenge. Sometimes it takes as long as two years before they can completely dominate a' strong man. If they have chosen a weak man, he's already dominated before marriage, which takes a lot of the zest out of the game. They want to be loved. This is a normal, and even lofty aspiration. So do men. But women want to be loved all the time. This is where things get a bit dicey. No man wants to be loved all the time. I'd like to see someone trying to love me at '7 a.m. as I Slouch toward the bathroom like some arthritic plantigrade (look it up), yawning, ' groaning, scratching. In the first place, I'm completely unlovable. In the second, any woman who tried to express her devotion at that Moment Would be snarled at. Women are different. Just the other night, after an 18-hour day, I crawled into bed, put my liniment- rubbed neck on the heating pad, yawned mightily, vaguely patted my wife on the bum, and fell asleep. Twelve seconds later I got a belt in the ribs from an elbow, "You didn't say, `Good night, dear' ", she snapped, and I got a 10-minute tirade about couples drifting apart When such amenities are omitted. I've just touched On the things women really want, and already I feel that Pm over my head. What do they Want, anyway? 10 YEARS AGO February 1, 1962 Directors of Huron Central Agricultural Society will meet on Saturday afternoon in the agricultural office board room, to begin making arrangements for the 1962 Spring Fair. Complete directorate for the society is to be installed at that time, and officers elected. Rubinoff and his violin will come to Clinton tomorrow morning and will spend a full day making appearances in schools in the area. Guest of the Clinton Lions Club, Mr. Rubinoff, will give a public concert at C,D,C,I. at 8 p.m. that night, 15 YEARS AGO January 31, 1957 Representatives from seven out of the nine organized branches within the Perth-Huron Unit of the Canadian Cancer Society, were guests at the home of Judge and Mrs. Frank Fingland last Thursday evening, for the Unit's annual meeting. The Clinton Hospital Auxiliary Will meet on Monday afternoon at three o'clock in the Nurses'' Residence. Everyone is WelcOme. Come out and Support your hospital. tight cents an hour increase to all hourly employees of the Clinton Public Utlities Commission was decided upen on Tuesday night by the because I have an enormous nose. It promised to be a rendezvous, I reflected, that might stop traffic. I must have waited at least 30 minutes ior her appearance, brooding over the inconstancy of the female and furtively wishing my appointment might have been with the spectacular number across the way who, it appeared, was being stood up as scandalously as I. It was, as I see you've anticipated, the woman lawyer. There was about her a haunting wistfulness, a most attractive lacrymose ("She' was' P:mighty) lacrymose," as the funny man said) and somehow, in this hypercritical way of which I speak, she'd come to think of this in derogatory terms. I suppoSe it is inevitable that almost everyone has some feature or mien that displeases and the becomes exaggerated in his own mind. I read somewhere or other that • the average person sees himself or herself in a mirror 20 times a day (not including actors or television announcers) and this amount of study clearly results in a distorted self-portrait. I have no hesitation in admitting that for years, when I felt as if life wasn't worth living unless you looked like Cary Grant, I could never see my reflection without being dismayed at the wall-to-wall proportions of my prodigious snout. Men with thinning hair are particularly prone to this. I have a friend who is getting a little shiny commissioners, following a meeting in committee prior to the regular one, 25 YEARS AGO January 30, 1947 Clinton 'Teen Town elected three top officials at last Friday evening's session in Clinton Collegiate Institute, and voted on the primary ballot for six councillors. Bill Hanley was elected mayor for 1947, Margaret Colquhoun was successful for the reeveship. Fred Kirby is treasurer. The Hayfield river broke on Sunday and is jamming opposite D. Atkinson's cottage, at Hayfield, below the construction Work for the new bridge, It took a toot-Shed belonging. to Blyth Construction Company with it and it is perched On the jamb at present. 40 YEARS AGO February 4, 102 Reeve Elliott Was appointed a member of the county good roads committee at the meeting of the county council last week. Sleigh bells have been heard in Clinton this Week for the first time during the winter of 1031-32. Mayor Cooper informed the News-Record on Saturday that he had decided to reduce the rents on all his property by 10 per cent. As he has 42 tenants, this Will mean quite a driMP in his income, }1_, nk, matter of $500 or more. The death occurred early Monday morning in Toronto of Silas Davis, at the great age of 95 years. 55 YEARS AGO THE CLINTON NEW ERA February 1, 1917 Huron County Council at its session on Thursday, decided to increase its grant to the Patriotic Fund from $3,000 to $8,000 dollars, Otto Fink, formerly of Clinton, is now the owner of the photo studio in Hamilton. Miss Ruby Potter, nurse, left for the New York Polyclinic Hospital on Wednesday where she Sunday's regular chapel service was supplemented this week by a sing song Sunday evening Oresen'ted'b'y 'the Christian Reforin Young -Peolile under the leadership of Dick Roorda. The regular Monday afternoon old tyme music session was held with the accompaniment provided by Norman Speir, Mrs. Mary Taylor, and Miss Della Peart. On Wednesday the Kinnettes were on hand to serve tea to the residents and sing a few songs after the luncheon. During the program a wheelchair was presented to the home by the Kinnettes. Mr. Archibald accepted it and thanked the ladies on behalf of the residents. Thursday's Family Night program presented by Jim Laurie of Blyth was a very great success as far as the 120 residents in attendance were concerned. Being "Bobby Burns Night" the program was, of course, Scottish. The show began with Mrs. Adelaine Campbell and Mr. Jim Laurie singing two duets, "Flow Gentle Sweet Afton" and "When You and I Were Young Maggie," Hugh Wharton, James Wharton, will take a post-graduate course in nursing. 75 YEARS AGO THE CLINTON NEW ERA January 29, 1897 The Hockey Club is trying to make arrangements with the Exeter Club for a match to be played in the rink, here, on Thursday of next week. The secretary of the club is I. Read. The Clinton exhibitors at the Poultry Show in Seaforth this week are Rev. Mr, Ford, Messrs. L. Kennedy, Jas. Howson, A. Grigg, H. Evans and A. J. Holloway. Each of these exhibitors were prize winners. Mr. Grigg, as the largest exhibitor, heading the list; some 20 prizes came to Clinton. expects tone able to continue the Cinvaram housing program in high-priority resettlement areas where massive destruction of individual homes has taken place. Cinva-ram block-making machines will be made available to families who can make enough building blocks of compacted earth tp construct permanent flood-proof homes. CARE has available at the moment almost a million dollars in Canadian and U.S. funds to make a significant startin this gigantic undertaking but this is, of course, only a small fraction of the estimated three billion dollars needed just to get the country back to its 1969-70 economic level (when the per capita annualincome was still an abysmally inadequate $30). With an estimated six millions homes destroyed and one million four hundred thousand farm families without tools or animals to work the land, all available resources from governments and private agencies will be required to prevent an already disastrous situation from becoming the greatest human tragedy in the history of mankind. There should be, therefore, no hesitation on the part of any Canadian, whatever his income, to make some sacrifice towards alleviating the misery of millions. The transportation of collected food or blankets presents a monumental problem but money can be transmitted easily. We therefore recommend that everyone who reads this message make an immediate donation to the agency of his or her choice. If CARE is your,choice, the address is 63 Sparks Street, Ottawa, KIP 5A6, the designation is CARE- Bangla Desh. The Wharton Family namely, Sylvia Bromer and Sherrie Bromer .played a . medley . of„ number;sincluding You Take tbe;;.. High Road' "Buffalo' Gal" :and) ."Put On Your Old Grey Bonnet." James then sang "Nobody's Child" and following this James and Sherri sang the French song "Dominique." Avon Toll was the next performer and she very capably danced the Highland Fling. Angela Duttman on her accordian played "Popcorn Polka and Grand Old Medley." Mrs. Adleine Campbell returned this time by herself to sing "Mary Argyle" and "I'll Take You Home Kathleen." Mr. Bill Flicks treated us to three saxophone solos, "Peek-a- boo" The Waltz You Saved For Me and You're the Only Star in My Blue Heaven." Mr. Jim Laurie did two numbers which one could probably hear in a Scottish pub. The songs were "She's My Daidy" and "She's the Lass for Me." The Whartons gave an encore performance consisting of "Life is Like a Mountain Railway", "Telephone To Glory" and "Anchor in Jesus." Jim Laurie got back to the lighter side again when he sang "I Love A Lassie" and Stop Your Tickling, Jack. The Famous Scottish sword dance was next with Avon Toll the entertainer. Accordian music by Angela Duttman once again filled the auditorium as she played "Scotland The Brave" and "Spanish Eyes". Bill Hicks and his saxaphone returned to provide us with "Easter Parade, The World is Waiting for the Sunrise and Now is the Hour". One person not mentioned yet who did a very capable job was Mrs. Grace Brown who was the pianist throughout the program. The evening was brought to an end in a very appropriate and practical manner by the joining of hands and the singing of "Auld Lang Syne." kaw„ Unknown faces Yes, it's a curious thing how people almost always depreciate their appearance. I was reminded of this again yesterday when I was asked to pick up a visitor from the east, a fellow I'd never seen before. "I'll meet you in the lobby of the hotel," he said on the phone. "You'll know me because I'm fat and bald. " Fine, I said, and he'd know me because I'm grey as a badger and have an enormous nose. Well, we'd never have t go together if I hadn't had him paged.. In neither case, was- 4,11e, identification at all positive. 'notice this whenever I travel. People you're to meet blindly invariably describe themselves in a hostile manner that would be insulting if it came from another party. You hunt in the lobby or on the street corner for specimens who have pictured themselves as florid or cadaverous or jug-eared or prognathic-jawed (I deal a lot with writers and they are aggravatingly fond of the exact adjective) and, almost always, they turn out to be nothing like their candid portrait. Women, particularly, either underestimate their appearance or are unduly sensitive to what they fancy are flaws in their physiognomy. A classic case was a young woman lawyer in Quebec City who had agreed to meet me for lunch to talk about women's rights. "You'll know me," she said, "because I have the mournful face of a St, Bernard dog." Fine, I said and know me up there, though you'd never notice it. Yet so sensitive is he to this that he unwittingly draws attention to it, sweeping his hand • regretfully over`the sparse patch in a gesture of melancholy remembrance that focuses attention where he least wants it. Of course, we overestimate the importance of appearance far too much. While it's true that all men are not born equal there is a certain fairness about the distribution of looks, If you watch the passing throng analytically you see that pe.dibtigeably,ugl.),person,,,IHe) the noticeably handsome, is no more than one in a million. It is remarkable how average most of us are though we may fancy ourselves as being excessively easy or hard on the eyes, The viewer could not distinguish one of these strangers from another by physical features. The impression they make comes from whatever light that may burn within. This person is gloomy, that person is happy. This person is mean, that one generous. You may make such snap judgments without any reference whatever to the grouping or the evenness of the features and working only with the air or attitude or what you may call it that we know as character. You learn this, of course, as you grow older and more content or reconciled to your own mug, your lifelong companion, and if you can find any consolation in that, old funny face, I offer it to you without charge. hat's new at Huronview? masswis