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HomeMy WebLinkAboutClinton News-Record, 1972-09-07, Page 41/4 WARNIN4 'MOM 0 YOU 1111N 'T MK, 70010NT CAT MO 16UPTIti (OCON THE CLINTON NEW ERA Amalgamated THE HURON NEWS-RECORD Established 1865 1924 Established 1881 Clinton N ews-Record A member of the Canadian Weekly Newspaper Ontario Weekly Newspaper Association and the of Circulation (ABC) second class mail registration number - 0817 'SUBSCRIPTION nATES: (in advance) Canada, $8.00 pet year; U.S.A., $9.50 JAMES 8. PIT ZGERALD-Editor f. HOWARD All KEN - General Manaaer ,rommilmmkoomeol.mhorindr Association, Audit Bureau Published every Thursday at the heart of Huron County . Clinton, Onterio Population 3,415 1" ir 11016" OP R.4 PAR 1,V CASA DA The BBC, Londo! , researching a program on family finance, reveals facts on pay for housewives which should please Women's Lib, They estimate the. housewife works at least 85 hours weekly and her duties encompass 11 jobs - nurse, teacher, catering manageress, buyer, public relations expert etc. And if she were paid the going rate for such jobs, she would earn 88,750. Wow!! To have the dreary drudgery of household chores raised to professional level and to be paid for it all is enough to go to any woman's head. But hold it girls, there are thorny problems. Not all women are good housekeepers and if govern- ments paid housewives, job standards might be introduced. Then, never mind the means test, think of the encroach- ment and publicity of home inspection tests. Is she a good cook or a poor one, is she economical or wasteful, does she The good side of Labor Editorial commeiti Should vve pag the housewife 4 f lintrxn News-Record, Thursday, September 7, 1972 neglect her children, is she slovenly or tidy, is her home dust-free? Courses in homemaking just might be compulsory to qualify for pay, Courses in child-rearing should definitely be man- datory - this is long overdue anyway. Training for every other job is com- pulsory, yet the biggest, most important job of all, motherhood, is left to chance; it's supposed to be a natural gift. If all women really qualified for motherhood, the tragedy of misfits, delinquents, and battered and neglected children could be greatly reduced. Paying the housewife to stay at home would remove the need for day-care cen- tres. Womens' jobs could then go to cut down male unemployment. Yes, paying the housewife could raise standards in the home environment and benefit the whole nation as well. "Boy, that Rocky really knows how to organize a break!" This has been a trying year for everyone — workers, management and the general public. We've been plagued by strikes and nobody enjoys them. Because their results are so visible we blame the unions and grow impatient with the collective bargaining process. Before we're too hasty in assigning blame we'd better look at some of the less visible elements in the labor- management-citizen triangle, and try to be fair. Murray Cotterili, the publicity director of the United Steel Workers Union (Canada) — our largest, points out that 95% of labor-company contracts are negotiated quietly and peacefully, with no strikes or threats of strikes. These agreements never make headlines. He also reports that one out of every eight workers is injured on the job to the extent of needing compensation, This throws a spotlight on the callousness of some employers toward safety standards. Before our fur rises too high about wage demands and their relation to inflation we'd better look at corporation profits. The Canadian Press reported a month ago, "The record year for dividends was 1970 and market analysts are now predicting that corporate payouts this year will surpass the 1970 rate." For example, "The profits of Ford of Canada jumped 45% in the first six months of 1972." When profit is the only touchstone, we all forget human values. As operations get bigger and more highly mechanized there is a tendency for firms to close branch plants and colsolidate. Men who have worked 20 years and more for one company in one place, who have bought their homes and put down roots are either dismissed with little warning or required to move. Management — particularly at the lower levels is not exempt from this upheavel, which can be traumatic to families and a tragic blow to the whole economic life of the vacated community, We all need to recollect that any process is more than materials produced and sold, it is also "lives of men," It's a clichelo say: that We prosper together or regress together. What's needed is conscience and a sense of responsibility all along the line. They already have my invitation The new machine If today's small contribution strikes you as even more incon- sequential than usual I hope you'll allow for the fact that it's being written on a brand new typewriter, the fourth I've owned in the many years since I opted for newspapering. There! You see? My old machine, God rest her platten, could have handled that opening sentence with far more facility. It would never dream of using the word "opted." At this rate it may be weeks before the new one gets the feel of things and overcomes the self- consciousness of being under these rough, cold, unfamiliar hands. The subject may not be as narrow as itfirst appears.'I-clare: say that any man or woman who "' works with tools of any descrip- tion--the carpenter, the artist, the housewife, the surgeon, the butcher, baker and ornamental candle-stick maker--has had the similar experience of adjusting to new instruments. Part of it, of course, is the unreasonable affection and loyalty we develop for the out- moded simply because it served us well. This is a changless thing in the changing world. It and the old hands is not so many years ago that I was a spokesman for railroad buffs who were fighting a losing battle to keep a number of steam locomotives in service, for purely sentimental reasons, scornful of the unromantic diesels. Only the other day I'd a note from a middle-aged man wondering if I might support his whimsical notion that the airlines maintain in their schedules a few flights by piston-driven aircraft "for old time's sake." We hate to give up the hard- ware of memories, eh, kid? Typewriters are like most other utilitarian labor-savers, I sup- pose, in that they get handsomer every year, more sophisticated ry.their functions (this one has More knobs than a church organ) and a lot less durable. A comparison might be made with washing machines. The Maytag people, for example, continue to run a series of ad- vertisements showing machines that have been reliably swishing away dirt, with only minor repairs, since the early 30's, visual museum pieces, yet still going strong. On the other hand both con- sumer report magazines to which I subscribe have had in- vestigations in the last year demonstrating that the in- cidence of failure of the newest washing machines is scan- dalously high. Two out of every three of the most heavily adver- tised machines on the market today, according to one of these studies, have required major repairs in their first 18 months of service. There's more to this than merely a calculating built-in ob- solescence. A manufacturer might risk making a product with a factor of rapid decay. He'd hardly dare market one deliberately that was designed to go on the blink almost im- mediately. • The real lexplanation is that the consumer, by conditioning and by choice, is mad for em- bellishments and refinements that go beyond the purely func- tional. It follows that the more you ask a machine to do the more chances there are that it will go haywire. My own reasons for buying this particular typewriter, I realize now, were somewhat similar to those of a housewife who wants a washing machine that will do everything but go into orbit and play Amazing Grace. In spite of myself I was tran- sfixed by the salesman's demon- stration of a dozen new "magic" and "miracle" improvements, not a single one of which I will ever use and which, I now per- ceive, simply get in my way. The only innovation I could possibly care about would be a system for ribbon-changing that would protect me from periodic temper tantrums, but the ribbon on this one changes just as un- magically as the one I had on my old original Remette which, like the Maytag, is probably going yet. The salesman made much, too, of the quiet operation of my "design of insulation -which, it- new ,machine, realized by a now occurs to me, makes this typewriter two pounds needlessly heavier and thus less portable than my original. I say needlessly because the curious fact is that I like a typewriter that is noisy. I really wanted a typewriter that goes CLACK-CLACK—CLACK. It may take months to get ac- customed to one that whispers a constant apology of Shucks- Shucks-Shucks, we get letters 11r:ar Ed itor: I woo Id like to address letter to all Iluron f;ounty pork prod flit Septernher 20th at the Myth Fall Fair there will be a barrow show. This is the only harrow show in Huron County. A pork producer has asked me why he should take part and here I will give some of the reasons why he should and why you should: First, pride in your product. Second, $150 in prizes. Third, if' you sell weaners, to prove that it makes sense for buyers to come to your barn and pay premium prices. Fourth, if you buy your weaners to see which supplier provided you with the best' stock. Fifth, to see the results of the different feeds and feeding methods. Sixth, it helps to improve car- cass quality, and a better car- cass results in better pork, which results in more sales and ultimately in higher prices. Seventh, it is part of a pork promotion program that costs you next to nothing and can give you as extra a very nice prize in- deed. Eighth, come and participate. Load a truck together with your neighbours and see how the new ultrasonic equipment works. Come and be proud of your in- dustry. Adrian Vos, Bluth. Dear Sir: May we make an appeal to your readers for some missing documents? The Historical Branch of the City of Edmonton Parks and Recreation Departhent has been researching information about the Hudson's Bay Company Fort Edmonton as it was during the 1840's, in preparation for an authentic reconstruction of the post, Much of our knowledge of this fort in the 19th century is derived from Fort Edmonton Journals of Daily Occurrences which are now in the Hudson's Bay Company Archives. Unfortunately, ,all .of the Journals between the years 18.34 „ and 1854 are missing, but; it is possible that they still exist somewhere, perhaps in a private collection. If any readers have information concerning the whereabouts of these missing journals, we would sincerely appreciate hearing from them at: The Historical Exhibits Building, 10105-112 Avenue EDMONTON. Alberta. TSG OHI. hat's new at Hitrouriew? One of those new African nations is kicking out of the country all the Indians. This is an emotional and political, rather than a rational decision. African blacks hate these Asian Indians because the latter are better educated and on the whole, much wealthier than the natives. The reason for this is that the Indians are smart, work hard, and in backward countries, usually wind up in control of much of the economy. Trouble is, with these Indians in Africa, that nobody wants them, Many of them have British passports, as their grandfathers went to Africa when the territory was under B- ritish rule, to build railroads. They're clinging to these passports like life-belts, but it isn't doing them much good. Britain doesn't want them. It has enough racial strife on its hands already, after admitting thousands of Pakistanis, Indians and West Indians after the war, There have been race riots, white against coloured. India, their homeland, doesn't want them, It already has more refugees than it can handle, Canada has been approached, and, as usual, dithers. We could do a lot worse than accept a sizable chunk of these people without a home. They are industrious, peaceable and capable. They wouldn't be coming here as penniless immigrants. Most of them are fairly well off. Many of them have skills and professions we need. I, don't know much about Indians. I have some Canadian Indian friends, but the only Asian Indians I have known well were four chaps with whom I learned to fly Spitfires in England, longer ago than I care to remember. ' Perhaps they weren't representative, because they worep all from well.to-do families. and all spoke good English. But they were certainly a cross-section of that class, and gave me a good idea of why there is so much strife in India. You'd think• that four youths who had come all the way from India for advanced training would have been pretty, close, thrown into the midst of all those Poles, British, Australians, Canadians, and a dozen other species of whites. the contrary they could barely stand one another. There was Krishna. Smallish, very handsome, flashing black eyes that could almost literally flame when he was angry, He spoke such precise and fluent English that he made the rest of us feel like hicks. He was a Christian. There was Ahmed. A lanky kid of about nineteen, sleepy- eyed, slow-moving, a big grin, and not much to say. He was a Pakistani Moslem. And little Koori. He was pigeon-chested, weighed about 115, and huge, mournful black eyes, and was in a perpetual state of terror when flying. He should never have been there, One day he and I were sent up to practice dog-fighting in our Spits. I knew he didn't like flying, but not until that day just how deep was his fear, Every time I'd take a pass at him and go, "Tut-tut-tut-tut" like a machine gun, he'd veer wildly off about a mile and call wildly, "Sttaitee, Smilee, don't come so close." He was a Hindu. And then there was the inimitable Singh Thandi. Flashing white teeth, chuckling eyes, magnificent silk turbans, under which he bundled his hair, which came down to his tail-bone. Curly black beard. Fastidious as q Model, Kept his beard Curly by tying a handkerchief atound his jaw sat night and knotting it on top of his head. Singh WM; a Sikh, another religion heard from. But he was a pretty lousy Sikh. They're not supposed to drink, smoke, cut their hair, and a lot of other things. He didn't smoke or cut his hair but he could put away about twelve pints of beer in an evening arad, except for a little giggling, be none the worse. But he had his hangovers. He was a crafty devil. When he had a particularly bad head, he'd just stay in bed. When the C.O, tried to give him a blast for his absence, he'd roll his eyes at the ignorance of these infidels, and say politely "Sorry sir, today is holy day for Sikhs. Cannot fly on holy day." The baffled C.O. had no answer, as these Indian boys had to be well treated. Singh would have nothing to do with the other "Indians" and joined a convivial little group with .Van, a Belgian, Sven, a Norwegian, a couple of Australians and Jack Ryan and myself, Canadians. With the beard, the turban and the silver tongue, he attracted girls like flies, He loved flying as Koori hated it. Never forget the time I shared a room with him in London, on a weekend leave. About 11 a.m. •we started to pull ourselves together, He got up, groaning, holding his head, and tottered about in his shorts, his great mass of hair hanging down to his bum, (He didn't wear a turban to bed.) There was a knock at the door, one of us grunted, "Come in", and the maid entered, to clean the room. At least she almost entered. She took one look, her mouth fell open, then she screamed and ran. Despite his head, Singh nearly threw up from laughing so hard. "I 'bet, Smilee, she thought you were shacked up with the bearded lady froin the circus." Singh was killed in Burma. I like Indians. Lees invite more to our country. 10 YEARS AGO SEPTEMBER 5, 1962 An English-French dictionary proved invaluable at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Brock Olde and family last week, when they played host to a young Quebec girl, Catherine Caron. The visit was arranged through "Visit,es Interprovinciales". "No Swimming" signs may have to be placed along Lake Huron in the Bayfield - Goderich area within a few years because of increasing pollution. This was indicated by Dr. R.M. Aldis, director of Huron County Health Unit, who revealed last week that regular bacteriology tests of the water have been made throughout the summer along the beaches, 15 YEARS AGO SEPTEMBER 5, 1951 ,Nearly 900 children and teenagers began another ten months of learning this week, when on Tuesday they appeared for registration and yesterday settled down for their first full day of instruction. Bean supper was served to 3,000 people on Monday at the fourth annual Ontario Bean Festival sponsored in Bonsai) by the Kinsmen First prize for floats $50, was won by the Hotel Clinton, which entered a replica of its dining room decorated for a wedding - Entries by W.G. Thompson and Cook Bros,, Hensall, placed second and third. 25 YEARS AGO SEPTEMBER 4, 1947 Old landmark, the Ritz Motel irl Hayfield, hurtled to the groltrid, •35 guests (1St% p0(1 safely. Some were housed over the weekend at the Anglican Church Camp. A loss of about 510,000, partly covered by in- surance, was reported. George Rumball will open a grocery store at Victoria Street, opposite the Post Office, next, Monday. Clinton's second annual motorcycle races went off under the direction of the London Motorcycle club, sponsored by the Park Board and Ellwood Epps assisting. Prizes totalled $400, 40 YEARS AGO SEPTEMBER 8, 1932 Highland Inn operated by Mr. and Mrs. C.H. Epps on Highway 2, three miles east of Bowman- ville, was completely destroyed by fire last Thursday. Hope for the safety of three London men was abandoned when their boat was found washed up on the beach near Sarnia. Eric Ch a pma n, Reginald Appleyard and Douglas Milne left Friday last. for Detroit by sailboat,. Their craft was found by a member of the London Plying Club who spent most of the day searching the beaches, by air, Tenders for the painting of the town hall were being called for by Clerk MK Manning. 55 YEARS AGO SEPTEMBER 6, 1917 Complete suits for boys It) at- tend school were offered by the Morrish Clothing Co, for $5 cash. ladies knitting for the soldiers are urged to "pill notes in yonr sox" and keep writing even if yon don't reeeive an an- swer, These notes add interest to life for the soldiers and those who can will answer. The School of Commerce reported an enrolment of 41 students coming from as far as Dungannon, Goderich and Zurich. Clinton Collegiate Institute is 'offering three courses: the general course; the course for teachers; junior and honour matriculation. 75 YEARS AGO SEPTEMBER 8, 1897 Mr. Whitney will visit Clinton tomorrow evening, The Town Band will meet the leader of the Opposition and colleagues at. the station, where carriages will be waiting. Speaking will com- mence in the town hall at, 8 p.m. The management of .the Floral Exhibition have kindly consen- ted to allow the decorations to remain in the hall for the oc- casion. Everybody should go and hear Mr, Whitney and his col leagues. Yesterday morning Dr. Gurm's horse ran away and smashed things generally. There was no one hurt in the rig and no one was hurt. ••••••••••••.•:••••••:,..'",ev, A family trio. Koby, Bert and Tom Amning sang several numbers at the Clinton Christian Reform song service on Sunday evening. Mr. Arie Van Derende led the service with Chris Geutter as piaist. Debbie and Cheryl Flynn entertained the residents with a step dance at Monday afternoons get together. Marie Flynn accompanied the Huronview Orchestra for the old tyme music session and led the sing song along with volunteers. Gladys, Dale and Donna Flynn. The McQuaid family of Seaforth provided the variety program for Thursday Family Night. Mr. and Mrs. Wilfred McQuaid, Mary Catherine. Norman, Bernard, Aldynis, Paul, Annem, Marie, and Madonna who appeared on the Big Al show last Sunday play old time favourites and western music' on a variety of instruments. Mary Catherine and Anne Marie were not able to be on Thursday show owing to illness and were replaced by Mary Ann Segerean as •Ss., . announcer and Verne Sawyer step dancer. Wilson Hawkins, a friend of the, family thanked the entertainers qn behalf of the residents. Several families of the residents took advantage of the fine weather last week and had a picnic with their relatives at the lawn tables. , we get letters Editor, Clinton News-Record. Dear Editor: Enclosed find copy of picture in your paper of August 24. According to the caption un- der the picture - the horse "Derby Dan" is the main character in the event pictured. but he earl scarcely be seen for all the "humans" in the picture. It would have been more in.. Wresting to see the horse. Sincerely (Mrs. G.) Audrey Graham Hayfield,