Clinton News-Record, 1973-10-25, Page 4United States President Richard
Nixon's decision on Tuesday to release
the controversial Watergate tapes to
Judge John Sirica only partially restores
faith in the American system of
democracy.
When President Nixon had ordered
the firing of special Watergate
prosecutor Archibald Cox last Saturday,
American democracy took a sharp turn
towards dictatorship. In the epic
decision to overrule the laW, President
Nixon was embarking on a voyage of no
return. And his realization that the rule
of law must be paramount to the rule of
men may have come too late to save his
skin.
His decision to keep the tapes under
his guardianship and disobey the courts,
which are the whole bases of the
democratic system, has shaken both
America and Canada.
It also adds further fuel to the fire of
Presidential restrictions, a fire that has
been building slowly but steadily in the
last decade ,as three presidents were
able to launch wars at their own
discretion, without consulting the elec-
torate.
Nixon's defense of his actions as in
the interest of nation security seem pale
beside the interests of national
democracy.
Whether• President Nixon will be im-
peached or not is a decision that rests
with congress, but whether Nixon sur-
vives or not, he will go down in history
as one of the worst presidents In U,S.
history, and his administration, including
former Vice-President Spiro Agnew, will
be held up to future generations as a
shining example of American politics at
its worst.
A success
Now that the soccer season is nearly
over in these parts, it seems a proper
time to pause and give some well deser-
ved credit.
What at first appeared to be an im-
possible task, has been carried out with
good deal of success. A soccer
organization was set up in Clinton this
year for the first time and judging by the
number of boys and parents at the close
out night, minor soccer in Clinton is a
permanent sport.
An undertaking in its infancy requires
a good deal of patience and a lot of hard
work and both these are in abundant
evidence in Clinton.
A special note of thanks should go to
all the coaches and parents who worked
long hours coaching the boys, driving
them to games and washing their
sweaters. Don Armstrong of Clinton
should also be cited for the extra work
and patience he displayed during the
last 10 months. Good luck next year.
Editorial .co*tmen,1„,
History's worst
Type casting
A teacher's clew of lilt' Huron Bona.; salary increase
The Jack Scott Column -
No hope in armed coups
The coup in Chile is another proof that
military power is no safeguard for stable
government, law and order, or freedom.
The armed forces acted against
Chile's legal, constitutional, recognized'
government. Granted, the Allende gover-
nment did not have a majority of the
popular vote. But Allende got as large a
share of the popular vote as the present
Canadian government. And facing an
opposition majority in two Houses is
nothing new -- ask Richard Nixon.
Allende was elected democratically; he
was removed by violence.
The coup threw its force behind those
who were destroying law and order. The
strikes and walkouts that crippled Chile
were by store owners, truck owners,
doctors, lawyers, etc., whose intent was
to destroy the government by provoking
economic chaos. A comparable
Canadian situation would be the
Canadian armed forces overthrowing the
Trudea government because dissident
railway workers were disrupting the
economy by refusing to obey back-to-
work legislation.
And, as in every military overthrow,
the first victim was freedom. Under
Allende, Chile's press had greater
freedom to attack the government than
the press in any, other South American
country. But one of the coup's first ac-
tions was to impose strict censorship.
Under Allende, opposition leaders were
free, even to sabotage his government.
The military coup immediately im-
prisoned or executed hundreds of
socialist and communist leaders.
Allende's failture, in retrospect, was
not that he was a Marxist or that he tried
a socialist experiment. It was that he
believed in democracy a lot more than
his opponents did. (The United Church)
Sugar and Spice/By Bill Smiley
The bird gets too slow a barn
From our early files . • • • • •
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I 7:11E CLINTON NEW ERA
Established 1865
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1924
THE HURON NEWS-RECORD
Established 1801
Published every Thursday
at Clinton, Ontario
Editor - James E. Fitzgerald
General Manager,
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4—CLINTON NEWS-RECORD, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 25, 1973
Offer me a ticket to any
exotic spot in the world, any
October — Rome, Paris,
Athens, Rio, Tahiti — and I'd
turn it down flat.
There could not be, anywhere
on this globe, a finer place to
be, in October, than Canada.
October has everything.
Glorious golden days with the
foliage flung across the land in
such magnificence it's as
though the Creator were
chuckling, "I am far from dead.
Just try to match this with your
puny genius."
Nights are remarkable, Cool
enough for a sweater, but
usually calm. Perfect for a
stroll around the side streets of
a small town, with the smell of
burning leaves poignant on the
soft air, and the spurt of orange
flame as someone pokes up his
fire. It's. against the law to
burn leaves, but such laws were
not made for small towns, and
are generally ignored. And why
not?
All the burning leaves in all
the small towns of Canada
wouldn't pollute the air as
much as one hour on five per-
cent of the highways in
Canada, with about a million
stinking cars belching their bad
breath.
But October has something
for everyone, The hunter is
happy. He can squat in a blind
until he's almost crippled, or
lurch through a swamp until
he's almost on his last lurch,
He may see nothing more than
a few late and lazy crows, or
the starling heading south, but
by George, he feels great when
he gets home and tracks mud
all over the house, and tears
into that peanut butter sand-
wich his irate wife has left out
for him,
More intelligent hunters, of
course, will (go after partridge,
and prowl along an old bush
road in comfort. The most in-
telligent hunters will sit down
in the sun, lean against the bole
of a tree, have a perfectly
relaxed nap, and go home with
a good appetite and a clear con-
science.
Fishermen like October. They
flog themselves out of bed in
order to hit the water at dawn.
Every one of them has a
lurking hunch. that this mor-
ning he's going to hit that big
rainbow. And he can stand
there, shivering, in the misty
morning, happy in the
knowledge that none of the
nuisance anglers of Opening
Day will be' fouling his line,
scaring the fish. They're all
home in bed.
For the sports fan, October is
the zenith of the year. He might
see almost nothing of his family
for a month, but he's happy as
an idiot.with an ice cream cone,
sitting in front of the boob tube,
wildly switching channels as he
tries to club-house sandwich
the height, of the football
season, the beginning of the
hockey season, and the World
Series.
October is Thanksgiving. By
some piece of uncanny good
luck or good judgment, it
usually turns out to be a
beautiful weekend, and this
year's was nigh perfect, in these
parts.
It's a grand occasion for
closing up the cottage, or get-
ting together with the family
for a gorge of turkey and
punkin pie, or just getting out
into the country and counting
the things you ,,have to be
thankful for.
This year we had our
daughter and her husband for
the holiday, 'She insisted on
conking the en tire
Thanksgiving dinner. And she
insisted on using her method,
which is known as slow
roasting.
This method "keeps all the
good of the turkey in, and when
it's finished, it's so tender it
just falls off the bones." End of
quote.
You cook it for hours and
hours at just 200 degrees, in-
stead of the usual 325 or so.
Many a turkey I've cooked in
the normal fashion, and they
always come out golden, meat
falling off. the bones.
I said, "Carry on, kid." My
wife bit her lip, her tongue and
her fingernails, but kept silent.
Every hour or so she couldn't
stand it, and would sneak out
while Kim wasn't in the kit-
chen, and have a look. The turk
just lay there, like a big, dead
bird. It was pretty obvious that
the only process that was set-
ting in was rigor mortis.
But no interference with
modern methods, The grand
moment arrived, after cooking
a nine-pound bird, practically a
midget, for nine hours.
Her husband can't carve, so I
did the honours. I like my
steaks rare, but I can't say I'm
wild for rare turkey. I almost
sprained my wrist on my first
slice with the carving knife.
Meat falling off the bones? I
had to tear it off with pliers.
But it was a great dinner. The
stuffing was well and truly stuf-
fed, the canned peas were ex-
ceptionally tender, and the
white wine was bang on,
There was only one catch,
The kids had to get their bus
right after dinner, That was
Monday evening, My wife and I
looked at elle kitchen, looked at
each other, and went to bed.
We finished doing the dishes
Wednesday evening,'
From time to time whenever
an occasion arises--a visit from
an East Indian friend was the
latest--I give my daughters a
kind of fireside chat about this
business of race and creed and
color.
It's something I think every
parent should do, just as im-
portant as the talks about the
birds and bees. A prejudice in
the mind of the very young
usually becomes a permanent,
built-in fixture. One generation,
unhappily, deeds its ignorance
and bigotry to the next.
What I tell my kids 'Sr. thali„
they must judge everyone they
meet through life as in-
dividuals, and that they must
never have their judgment
colored by appearance or a
name. They'll meet some
people along the way who, for
various reasons, they'll dislike
or distrust, I tell them, but they
must never dislike or distrust a
person merely because he's dif-
ferent.
I often go out of my way to
have them meet and talk to my
friends whose coloring or
features have made them the
victims of intolerance so that
they'll have the knowledge that
this is something more than ab-
stract theory.
10 YEARS AGO
November 7, 1973
Ruth Merrill, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Merrill
RR 1 Clinton, received her
Bachelor of Arts degree at the
fall convocation at the Univer-
sity of Western Ontario, Friday.
She is presently teaching grade
six in an Etobicoke public
school,
The weather is back to nor-
mal - when anything can hap-
pen - and usually does, We had
snow flurries last weekend.
However the fine autumn has
thrown other things badly off
schedule. Mr. and Mrs. Herb
Staffa reported that they have
a Easter lily in full bloom and
John Mulholland, Huron Street
had some large, juicy
strawberries.
Roger Cummings,
Georgetown, visited during the
weekend with his parents, Mr.
and Mrs. Frank Cummings, 129
Mary Street,
Mr, and Mrs. Thomas Lep-
pington celebrated their 44th
wedding anniversary on
November 7th.
Mr. and Mrs. Was Bradnock
marked their twenty-fifth last
week in Auburn,
25 YEARS AGO
November 4, 1948
Clinton News-Record made a
very satisfactory showing in the
recent nationwide competitions
carried on by the Canadian
Weekly Newspaper
Associations for member
papers, The News-Record stood
fifth in Canada and first in On-
tario for best, front page. It also
is among the top ten entries in
Canada and stood fifth in On-
I've been helped latelyin this
kind of teaching by an article
under the name of Otto
Klineburg in The Unesco
Courier which cites two ex-
periments dramatizing the
danger of young people
inheriting the prejudices of
their parents.
In the first experiment a
group of American college
students was shown
photographs of 30 girls and
asked to judge each photograph
on the basis of beauty, in-
telligence, character, ambition
and "entertainingness," They
were to make this judgment
from the photographs alone. -
Two months later the same
students again were shown the
same photographs. This time,
however, fictitious names were
printed under each picture.
Some of them were Jewish
names such as Rabinowitz and
Finkelstein. Some were Italian
such as Scarano and Grisolia.
A third were Irish--
McGillicuddy and
O'Shaughnessy. A fourth, "Old
American"---Adams and Clark.
The vote was completely
changed. The meaningless ad-
dition of the Jewish and Italian
names caused a substantial
drop in general liking and a
tario for best all-round paper.
There were no less than fifty-
two entries from throughout
Canada.
Mr. and Mrs. O.E. Potter
recently celebrated their
dianiond wedding anniversary.
There was a celebration at
their home for all their friends
and neighbours.
Mrs, Kelso Adams has retur-
ned from abroad after having
spent 21 /2 months with her
mother and brothers at Harbot-
tle, Northumberland Co,
England. Mrs, Kelso returned
home on a Trans-Canada air-
plane and made the trip from
her mother's house to her own
doorstep in Goderich in 161 /2
hours.
John A. "Tony"
VanEgmond, Detroit, Michigan
is spending a vacation with his
brother, Ferg VanEgmond and
Mrs. VanEgmond.
50 YEARS AGO
November 1, 1923
Mr, A.F. Cudmore has moved
his family into the house recen-
tly purchased from Mr, W.J.
Hamblyn on Princess Street
and Mr. N. Welsh has moved
his into the house vacated by
Mr. Cudmore on Victoria
Stroor
Mr. and Mrs. J.13. Lavis at-
tended a fowl supper in Zurich
on last Thursday evening and
met a friend whom they had
not seen for a long time, She,
Miss Marne Lamont, was their
guest until yesterday.
Mr, Vines of the C.C.I. staff is
drilling the boys on the first
points of rugby and the boys,
say they are having lots of fun
out, of it.
similar drop for judgements of
beauty and character. The ad-
dition of the same names
resulted in a rise in the ratings
for ambition, particularly so in
the case of the Jewish names.
In another experiment, this
time in London, a group of
students was asked to give its
opinion of American blacks. A
characteristic viewpoint was
this: "I do not like black
people; it's the color; it makes
me nervous; they might be
savage; they are different in
nature to us, more savage and
cruel sometimes, so don't trust
them ever."
Two able African women
teachers then spent a few weeks
in the school. At the end of.this
time the students had changed
their minds. A typical response
was this: "They were nice
people. There does not seem
any difference between them
and us except in color. I like
them."
These experiments show, if it
needed to be shown, that young
people can be prejudiced by
association, but, also, that
through experience and
education they're capable of
change. '
Klineburg cites the danger of
thinking in "stereotypes"---
75 years ago
November 3, 1898
Mr. John Bell of Londesboro
has purchased the residence
owned by the late Mrs. Butt
and will be moving in shortly.
He has had the move in con-
templation for sometime and
has finally succeeded.
Clinton Baptist Church has a
new pastor, Rev. T.J. Murdock,
who was born in London,
England, and came to Clinton
and area around five years ago.
Mr. William Cox, Goderich
Township who was charged
with killing his son-in-law,
Fred Beattie, was acquitted on
Saturday when the jury
declared he shot in self-defense,
The argument started over the
' alleged abduction of Cox's
youngest daughter by Beattie.
When Cox went over to talk to
Scottish stubborness, Gaelic
wit, German thoroughness,
pugnacious Irishmen, and so
on.
We generalize, in other
words, without reasoning, We
have, in Walter Lippmann's
words, "pictures in our heads."
And so, when these pictures are
distorted, either for the purpose
of making ourselves feel
superior or, for economic
reasons, in keeping a group
suppressed, they're blindly ac-
cepted as truth.
If we believe, for example,
that Italians are noisY we'll
have the tendency to notice
those Italians who are indeed
noisy. If we're in the 'presence
of some who don't fit the
stereotype we're unaware that
they are Italian or dismiss
them as exceptions. And so a
myth conditions us to feelings
of hostility.
I have found in talking to my
kids and now in telling them of
these experiments that there's
an essential fairness on the
part of the young. They want to
do the right thing when it ap-
peals to them as reasonable,.
And nothing is more
reasonable than the simple con-
cept of equality.
Beattie, he threatened to "get"
him and jumped on Cox. Cox
pulled his gun and fired
striking Beattie in the head
and killing him instantly. Af-
terwards Cox drove to his
neighbours and told him what
had happened.
For a few weeks a small
coloured boy of about ten years
has been knocking around town
doing odd chores and living
and sleeping wherever he
could. He was an orphan, and
having no bad traits, became a
favorite with many persons, but
there being none of his own
colour in town it was thought
that he would be happier if he
had playmates of his own
nationality. D. Cantelon took
him to London with him one
day last week and put him in
the care of persons in that
place.
we get
letters
Stale
Dear Editor:
Recently I saw a letter to the
editor in the paper from
another Toronto area resident
of the fact that they were tired
of getting "ancient" news from
Clinton. We also belong to the
same club it seems.
We enjoy the news of Clin-
ton, our home for over 15 years
but "NOT" a week and even
two weeks later,
Today we received the Oc-
tober 4 issue of the Clinton
News-Record — on the 15 Oc-
tober mind you and on the date
of this writing, 16 October, we
haven't received as yet the Oc-
tober 11 paper! I don't know
where the hold up is but to
receive your paper anywheres
from a week to two weeks after
printing time?
As I say, we enjoy the news
of Clinton but in two weeks we
can get the town news from
other sources and friends from
there, hence its a waste of sub-
scription money to have to wait
unnecessarily for your paper.
Hoping there can be better
results in the future; that this
situation can be rectified and
that we won't be forced to can-
cel our subscription, I remain.
Yours truly,,,
Mr. G.A. Wonch,
Willowdale
Redundant
Dear Editor:
When I was declared surplus
manpower (redundant) again
this year, and my thirty-five
pupils were dumped among
three (four?) already burdened
colleagues, you might say I was
naturally curious how the
Huron County board of
education might re-assign my
$12,200 "conserved" dollars,
With unbelieving revulsion I
read this week of ad-
ministrative salary increases
(of 'Board Heads Get Raise' -
Oct. 18) totalling $12,200.
Our impoverished director of
education who grovelled by on
$575 1a week must ridW° 'Over'
on $625 every week.
I, too, who formerly
grovelled by on $200 weekly
would like for Messrs. Hill,
Cochrane, et al. to know that
for the month of September, I
received the grand sum of $104
(equals $26/week, family of
five!)
Finding that $1,800 "bonus"
(raise retroactive to Jan. '73)
on top of the regular $2,500
September cheque must have
been a pleasant surprise for the
director's wife. My wife's Sep-
tember treat was meeting Mr.
Haye, field representative for
Huron County Welfare.
However, in case my vitriolic
catharsis has inferred a for-
saking of our education ad-
ministrative officials, fear riot;
out of my 'pogey' I am required
to pay $3 weekly for tax pur-
poses.
In the name of respectability
and responsibility, think on it.
Charitably,
'R.E. Dundant'
News-Record readers are en-
couraged to express their
opinions in letters to the editor,
however, such opinions do not
necessarily represent the
opinions of the News-Record.
Pseudonyms may be used by
letter writers, but no letter will
be published unless it can be
verified by phone.
C101111011111.
Then there's the story of the
two spinsters sorting returns in
the National Revenue office:
"Here's another good one,
Maxine • bachelor, no depen-
dants, $35,000 a year,