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Editorial comment
End of equal opportunity
There are substantial grounds for
the concern which members and
officials of the HUron Hoard' of
Education have expressed about the
effect which Davis government
economies will have on the quality of
education in Huron.
As was pointed out in a letter by
Huron's Director of Education, John
C. Cochrane, boards such as Huron,
which economize and plan ahead are
being penalized in that the ceilings
imposed effectively prevent the
standards in effect in counties where
concern with cost has not been a
factor.
What the new Davis pol icy means of
course • is a complete denial of the
policy enunciated on the introduction
of the county board system five years
ago. The number one priority of that
time to provide equal ity of educational
opportunity no longer exists as far as
Huron and similar counties are
concerned.
The basic problem is that the Davis
government finds itself in a financial
straight jacket as Mr. McKeough
made evident in his budget. The rosy
pre-election promises are coming
home to roost and the dollar shortages
denied last year now are admitted and
used as reasons for substantial tax
increases or as Mr, McKeough
prefers to regard them—increased
service charges.
Unfortunately it is not the Davis
government thatfaces the costs of its
past financial management. These are
costs whiCh Mr. Davis and Mr.
McKeough have transferred to each of
us in Huron Through increased
municipal taxes, higher
transportation costs and lowered
educational opportunities.
—FROM THE HURON EXPOSITOR
Hang the cost
Plans for the Olympic stadium and
other Olympic faci Mies to be built for
the 1976 Olympics at Montreal were
unveiled last week and the cries again
went up from Toronto that Montreal
gets all the goodies.
If you'll remember, Montreal beat
out Toronto for the right to bid on the-
Olympics for Canada then beat out the
United States and several other
countries for the right to host the
Olympics. As soon as that victory was
won, the doom and gloom boys who
mastermind the media eminating
from Toronto began to moan about how
much it was going to cost the
taxpayers of the country to fulfi 11 Jean
Drapeau's wi Id visions. They point out
how much it cost "the taxpayers" to
finance Expo '67, which also was in
Montreal. Somehow "the taxpayers"
always gets translated into "Toronto
taxpayers" as if no one else in Canada
paid taxes.
ltdoesn'ttake much imagination to
figure out that the cries of the cost
being too high would not be heard if
Toronto was hosting the Olympics. It
would take more imagination to
picture Toronto ever hosting the
Olympics because they just don't have
the foresight in Toronto to plan such
an occasion.
And speaking of the taxpayer, it
seems it was alright when the rest of
us in Ontario helped pay for Ontario
Place. The fact that we're also to help
pay Toronto's subway bills doesn't
seem to be protested by the Toronto
media men either.
So far there has been no evidence
that the Federal Government is indeed
going to offer financial help to
Montreal to host the Olympics but it
does seem that the federal
government is going to have to help if
the Olympics are to be a success. But
so what if we do have to give some
money? As someone recently pointed
out, these are the Canadian Olympics,
not just Montreal's. If they are
impressive, we' will all share the
spotlight in the rest of the world. If
they fall flat we will all share in the
ignominy.
We have to pay for so many hai r-
brained ideas every year (many of
them in Toronto) that we might as wel I
pay cheerfully for something that wi I I
help give a good impression of our
country around the world and give us
good sports facilities besides.
Many places he's he'd rather be
•
"Now about this big mistake you made in the government's
favor — just what,- exactly, are you up to?"
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Published every ThurSday at
the heart of Huron County'
Clinton, Ontario
Population 3,475
THE HOME
OF RADAR
IN CANADA
As I write, the so-called first
day of spring has long gone, but
the only indication that winter is
nearly over in these parts is that
the curling season is drawing to a
close.
Outside the window the
snowbanks look like the iceberg
that sank the Titanic. Inside, the
furnace thumps away like a bull
moose that has just outrun a pack
of wolves. And every four days, it
seems, the oil delivery man
wades through the drifts, inserts
that solid gold nozzle in the side of
the house, and whistling
cheerfully, pumps another $30
worth of oil into the great guzzler.
It is a time to try men's souls. It
is a time of year when I curse my
Irish forebears for not
emigrating to New Zealand or
South Africa or Jamaica.
However, it happens every
year, and there's always some
little ray of spiritual or emotional
sunlight to penetrate the late-
winter blues,
My little ray of sunshine (at
four o'clock in the afternoon) is
sleeping the sleep of the pure at
heart. She's been in the sack since
7:$0 this morning, after sitting up
all night talking to her crazy
Mother, who suffers from
insomnia. ,
It's not that Kim disturbs the
quiet, gentle routine of our daily
life. She doesn't disturb it at all.
She destroys it.
As mentioned, she's a night-
owl. Does her best work, writing
essays and stuff, after midnight.
And just like the Owl, she can
sleep all day.
Same with eating 4 She's never
hungry when anyone else is, If
dinner IS carefully planned for
six-thirty. She is suddenly
famished at five.thi rty and
smashes tierSelf (Ma big mess of
bacon and eggs Or spaghetti and
sartlineS, leaving her mother and
I looking ruefully at the roast. Or
else she is not hungry at dinner-
hour and will eat nothing but some
celery, and then about eight-thirty
is fainting and slaps up a vast
concoction of fried bananas and
mushrooms.
These are minor things, of
course, and she's a delight to have
around the house. When she's
here, at least I know why my socks
are disappearing and I haven't a
clean shirt to wear.
The problem, you see, is that
we ask her home for a weekend.
She throws a clean blouse in a
shoulder bag and heads home. But
she hates the city so much that her
weekend's turn into a six-day
sojourn, and she has to wear
somebody's clothes, and she and
her mother can't abide each
other's taste in garments, so she
wears mine, which are so drab
and nondescript that nobody could
fight over them.
As I said, these are trifles. But
she's always in some kind of a
hassle, and these are the things
that produce the hours-long, all•
night sessions with her old lady,
While I lie blissfully, dreaming of
the grand old days when she was a
cuddly infant. She's Still pretty
cuddly, by the way, NOM for the
old man.
And that's the sort of thing she
and her Ma can talk about for six
hours at a stretch, without either
one drawing a full breath.
They can talk about Don and The
Wedding, This is not the title of a
Russian novel about the Don
River. Don is the other man in her
life, and The Wedding is causing
more confusion around here than
anything since the day we
discovered our tomcat was
pregnant.
The great 'event is schednled
for May. Typically, Kim
announced that they had chosen
May 7 as the day. And typically,
her mother, who never misses
anything important like this,
though I doubt if she knows the
name of the prime minister,
checked the calendar and
discovered that May 7 is a Sunday.
Not many people get married on
Sunday, though I don't know why
not. There isn't much else to do:
I've had a lot of free advice
about the wedding, Most people
chuckle fiendishly as they tell me
what it's going to cost. "Well,
she's your only daughter, so
you'll have to go the whole hog,
eh?" Or, "Well, it only happens
once and it'll cost you a bundle,
but think of the loot she'll get."
Consoling stuff like this.
In the first place, I wouldn't
care if I had 10 daughters. Well,
maybe I would. But in the second
place, I don't want her to get a lot
of loot. We'd wind up storing it in
our house for 10 years until she
and her broke intended are
making enough to afford more
than an unfurnished room.
Her mother promptly
announced that she was not up to a
big wedding with all the frills, the
smartest decision she has made
since she agreed to marry me.
Her mother, that is.
Next, I laid it on the line, Four
choices. A small wedding,
immediate family only, and atoll--
sized cheque. A slightly bigger
deal, with a smallish reception, to
include close friends, and a small
cheque. A big splash, with a lot of
people, and no cheque. Or a
massive affair, with pomp and
circumstance, ih a City hotel
ballroom, with her Uncle and god-
father, a well-to-do lawyer,
paying the shot, if she could talk
him into it.
She chose No, 1. But we"ll see,
We're far from Out of the woods
yet.
10 YEARS AGO
APRIL 12, 1962
Hope Garber, London, lent a
professional touch to the highly
successful fashion show held by
the Kinette Club of Clinton, held in
the large auditorium at Clinton
District Collegiate Institute last
week.
Conveners in charge of the
entire event were Mrs. Maitland
Edgar and Mrs. William Fink,
This year's Red and Blue Revue
is to be held in the CDCI
auditorium Thursday, April 12
and Friday, April 13 at 8:15 p.m,
There are approximately 200
students taking part in the show
under staff supervision. The
theme of the show is "A Day at
Western Fair."
15 YEARS AGO
APRIL 11, 1957
The four-member cast of
"First Dress Suit" brought home
the bronze plaque, emblem of top
placd in the Ontario Junior
Farmers drama festival, held in
Glielph on Tuesday night.
Coached by Mrs. Elizabeth
Sterling Haynes, Clinton, the
young people are Misses Lois
Jones, Ruth Brown, Stanley Johns
and Ivan Mcelyrnont, •
The moving of the drug store
from the Bank of Montreal
building, last week, means
breaking of a tradition 100 years
old. That particular location in
Clinton has had a drug store since
1857.
"A healthy goodwill between
teachers and pupils exists in the
township", Lloyd G. Queen,
Toronto, remarked this week as.
he paused in adjudicating the two-
day music festival held in
Londesboro, Mr. Queen
remarked favourably on the
quality of the music, as well,
Mentioning particularly the
excellent part singing in the
senior classes.
25 YEARS AGO
APRIL 10, 1947
A bridge building and repair
suggest, would show that the one
primary essential of these
relations, consumer confidence,
has gone to pieces.
A friend tells me of a typical
incident, the kind of thing that
happens to most of us with
monotonous regularity.
His oil furnace went on the
Fritz. He consulted the yellow
pages of his directory, found the
name of a firm that's widely
advertised, telephoned them with
a cry of "Help!"
Did the firm rush out a repair
man on a white charger? It did not,
The voice at the other end sighed
and enquired, "What kind of
furnace is it?"
saidiourirtend, feeling
something close, te ,shame, "WS
just an old-style pot-burner."
"Sorry," said the voice, "We
don't handle 'em."
He got the same brush-off from
four' other large firms, finally
being rescued by an obliging
neighbour who just happened to
have a talent for fixing old
furnaces.
Somewhat the same experience
can be heard over and over again,
involving not only service people
gang from Stratford is busily
engaged this week replacing 22
wooden supporting piles carried
away by the pressure of rushing
water and ice from underneath the
CNR bridge over the rampaging
13ayfield river on the London-
Clinton line, about a mile south of
Clinton.
Mrs. Hannah Glazier and her
son, Percy who reside on a farm
in Hullett, east of Clinton, were
forced to take to the second storey
of the house, the water of the
Maitland having caused the water •
to rise to a height of four feet
downstairs. They were 'evacuated
by boat on Monday.
Decisions on adoption of
daylight saving time in Clinton
this year were shelved—at least
temporarily—by Clinton town
council when a recorded division
produced a 4-4 deadlock on the
matter,
40 YEARS AGO
APRIL 14, 1932
Miss Marjorie Mathers,
assistant matron of the Huron
County Home, has resigned her
position. Miss Martine,
Dashwood, has been appointed in
her place.
The remains of the late Mayor
S. S. Cooper lay in state at his
apartments, Normandie Block,
from Tuesday until Friday
afternoon, teat week, during
which time many friends from
town and community called to pay
a last tribute. On Friday
afternoon, the funeral took
place...at the Ontario Street
Church, conducted by the Rev, F,
G. Farrill, minister of the
church. Interment was made in
Clinton Cemetery,
The Jackson Circus Company,
a travelling company with a few
animals, gave an eXhibition in the
town hall yesterday evening.
An important change took place
in Clinton this week when the Sank
of Montreal purchased and took
over the McTaggart Bank, a
but dealers in all manner of
goods.
An acquaintance who purchased
the most expensive washing
machine on the market has had
trouble with it constantly. He gets
the most grudging and delayed
kind of service.
Why is this? Is it simply that
business is so good that a large
furnace outfit isn't interested in
doinga small job for a customer
who is a potential purchaser of
new equipment (which, he vows,
will never he bought from that
firm)?
Is the washing machine retailer
so disinterested in maintaining
the good name of the product he
handles that he'll let a faulty
machine ruin its reputation in a
neighbourhood?
Or is it simply that the whole
concept of dealing with the
individual has been replaced by
the image of the customer as
simply a blob in computerized
statistics?
What I don't know about
business, I admit; would fill a 12-
foot shelf of books.
And yet I'm convinced that
those old-fashioned and
private bank carried on by Major
M. D. McTaggart.
55 YEARS AGO
APRIL 12, 1917
Thursday last was the
fourteenth Huron Spring Stock
Show day in Clinton, It wasn't a
pleasant day, Indeed the "Oldest
Inhabitant" can hardly remember
when we did have nice weather for
the show, Such a trifle as had
weather never by any means
spoils the Show, however. People
come in spite of weather.
The Hydro-Electric
department has announced a
substantial reduction in the cost
of power and lighting for Clinton,
to take effect from April 1.
The Clinton Board of Trade has
appointed a committee to enlist
every willing, patriotic man to do
something towards helping to
increase the food production in
this vicinity. If the farmers will
accept such help as we can give
them, it is our plain duty to go out
and help,
75 YEARS AGO
APRIL 9, 1897
The regular meeting (of town
council) was held on Monday
night, A communication was read
from the City Clerk of Toronto.
Nowimeodonok
THE CLINTON NEW ERA
Established 1865
seemingly out-of-date
considerations loom large in the
public's spending, that there's a
kind of word-of-mouth
recommendation that's every bit
as valuable as full-page
advertisements.
I think that if I were in business,
big or small, I'd try to have 'a
passionate devotion to the task of
keeping every customer
satisfied, to keep him as a life-
long client and a walking
advertisement for whatever it is I
might be selling rather than a one-
shot deal.
There are such people.
There is a television repair
man in our own neck of the woods
who started from nothing and now
has his own thriving shop simply
because he appears to have taken
the customer's satisfaction as a
call of destiny.
There is a certain department
store that swung into action over a
broken six-dollar tea-potas if the
lady who bought it (my wife) were
Pl'incess Grace.
But they are the exceptions in
this day when the customer seems
hardly ever right.
Concerning exemptions, it was
ordered to be laid on the table. A
communication from Geo. Cook,
asking for sidewalk, etc., on
Joseph St., was referred to the
street committee.
Warden Cox of Porter's Hill
has purchased from Mr. G. F.
Emerson an exceedingly fine
Cabinet Grand Upright piano.
This is the instrument that was
used recently at the Oddfellows'
concert and was so highly spoken
of. Mr, Cox is to be congratulated
on securing so superior an
instrument.
Many of the farmers began
plowing last week, but not much
seeding has been done yet. Fall
wheat is looking fine and has
apparently stood the winter well.
Those farmers who are changing
places this year are making
preparations for removal.
A car doing 100 mph may be
less dangerous than a car that
isn't moving—on an expressway.
A stopped car on a high speed road
is a very serious hazard, the
Ontario Safety League points out,
If trouble develops on an
expressway, first priority must
be given to getting the car and
passengers off the pavement.
Letter
to the
Editor
The Editor,
ECHOES OF EASTER
Throughout Christendom
Easter is a gala festival, said to
be the most important feast of the
whole ecclesiastical calendar.
Yet, how many people know what it
is all about?
Ask the average celebrators
and they will say it
commemorates the resurrection
of Jesus on the third day after His
crucifixion, If that is so, then
what do the colored eggs and the
candy rabbits, the fancy baskets
and springtime fashions, have to
do with Jesus? How many even
know where the name "Easter"
comes from?
The dictionaries and the
encyclopedias point out that
"Easter" was the life and spring
goddess of the devil-worshipping
Druids of northern Europe. Other
authorities show that this goddess
of the Druids was the same as
"Astarte" or "Ishtar", who was
worshipped by the ancient
Chaldeans, Babylonians and
Plibenicians.
The name "easter" and its
more ancient form "Astarte",
come from the root "Ash-tart"
meaning "the woman that made
towers". This woman obviously
was Semiramus, the wife of
Nimrod, who helped him build the
tower of Babel: After her death
she was deified as the "queen of
heaven", and for many centuries
before the days of Jesus all the
primitive religions held a
springtime festival in her honor.
Then when Constantine the Great,
that "great" religio-political
schemer, united apostate
Christianity with paganism to
form a single catholic (universal)
state religion in the fourth
century A.D. such pagan festivals
as Easter were made a part of the
ecclesiastical calendar.
The appendages attached to the
festival as now celebrated are
further proof of its rank
paganism. If any will say that the
multi-colored eggs and rabbits
are harmless, meaningless
ornaments added to amuse
children, then why is it that all the
ancient demon-worshippers, the
Romans, Greeks, Egyptians,
Babylonians, Persians, Hindus,
Chinese and Japanese—none of
which worshipped Jesus or His
resurrection—why did all such
attach deermystical significande
to these Easter eggs and rabbits?
Because, in their phallic
"mysteries" and sex-worship the
egg was a symbol of life and
fertility.
The rapidly multiplying rabbit
was also a symbol of fertility and
great reproduction. Says the
CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA,
"The rabbit is a pagan symbol and
always has been an emblem of
fertility." The wearing of new
clothes and colorful ensembles is
a hand-me-down of the pagans who
believed that wearing a new
bonnet on Easter brought
happiness in love.
In view of these facts what could
be more reproaching, more
dishonoring, or more
blasphemous of Jesus and His
beloved Father Jehovah God than
to have this sexy pagan holiday
associated with the resurrection
of Jesus? Moreover, the Bible
condemns in no uncertain terms
this worship of Easter (Astarte),
the "queen of heaven", called in
the Hebrew Scriptures,
Ashtaroth, Ashtoreh, Ashteroth,
and Astaroth. Christ and His
disciples were fully aware of how
King Solomon fell into disfavor
with God because he served and
worshipped the goddess Easter.
(1 Kings 11:5, 31; 2 Kings 23:13)
They knew how Jehovah's wrath
was kindled against the nation of
Israel when Israel turned from
pure worship and celebrated the
Easter festival, (Judges 2:11-14;
10:6; 1 Samuel 7:3,4; 12:10) They
knew how God by the mouth of His
prophet Jeremiah condemned
those that made cakes for the
"queen of heaven", (Jer. 7:18;
44:17-27) Hence there is no
record of the disciples of Jesus as
ever celebrating Easter.
Manifestly, Easter from its
very origin and by its nature is not
Christian, even in name, and its
annual celebration by
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The fast sale
I deplore those people who say,,
"I don't want to tell you how to run
your business, but.,.." and then
proceed to tell you? exactly that.
Still, it's a failing of most of us.
Kibitzing is the cheapest vice.
So, I don't want to tell you how to
rim your business, gentlemen, but
if I were dealing with the public in
sales or services, I'd sure enough
make an effort to get hack to that
old-fashioned thing known as
personal contact.
What in the world ever
. happened to that relationship in
which a customer felt he could
rely on a firm or an individual,
that he was being catered to
jealously as a valued client, that
there was such a thing as
reputation and integrity to be
maintained over the long years? It
seems to be gone.
In its stead you find a public
vaguely distrustful of the people
with whom it does business, very
often treated with something near
contempt when it comes to
emergency service that may not
involve a fat price, at the mercy of
a system that seems competitive
only in window dressing.
Even a cursory survey, I
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