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their lowest point in six years, The
clear warning here is that we are not
now in a position to support current ac-
■ count deficits of $1 billion and more.
Moreover, we are all aware, I think,
that rapid and quite drastic policy and
other changes can occur in zthe United
States <and elsewhere which' could spell
trouble for us in short order; Dare We
push our luck too far?”
“Impressive as, our export perfor
mance has’ been oyei’ the past several
years, it admits of no complacency,” was
a quotation made by Henri Joly, Presi
dent, of the Canadian Manufacturers’
Association in a recent address at St.
Johns,. Quebec.
Our gains have been made, Mr. Joly
pointed out, in a period of rapidly ex
panding world trade and, in point of
fact, they are less spectacular than those
made 'by most of our industrial competi
tors.
Mr. Joly was reported in'“Indus-,
try”, a pamphlet published by The Cana
dian Manufacturers’ Association. It'
reads:
“We must remember also that while
our total exports have been rising im
pressively, our imports have been ris
ing, too, year after year. Even in 1966
much of the gain from the 17 percent
increase inf our export total was wiped
out by the 14 percent jump in the value
of our'imports.
“It’s quite true that we nevertheless
mbnaged to chalk up a surplus on our
commodity, trading account of some
. $400'millibn. This looks pretty good un
til you remember what we have to pay
out .in the form of dividends to foreign
investors and such things as our deficit
on tourist account. Our overall deficit
on services such as these last year was
of the order of a massive $1.4 billion..
In other words, we wound up 1966 with
an international balance of payments
deficit of a cool $1 billion!
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“In consequence, and as for some
years now, we were once again driven
to rely in a ibig way on the continuing • .'
is
nearly everything that we~know today
had not appeared in any book when I
They All Majte Sense
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ONE OF our suppliers issues' a
monthly blotter on which >is printed, a
unique quotation or phrase, some of
which we would like to pass on to you:.
“It is still our aim:' to sell goods
that won’t come back, to customers that
will.”
“Speaking of ailments ~ don’t!”
“Prosperity is something that in
dustry creates and politicians take
credit for.”
“Golf: The futile pursuit of a white
ball over impossible terrain, with im
plements ill-suited to their task.” —Sir
Winston Churchill.
“I will honour Christmas in my
heart, and try to keep it 'all the year.”
—Dickens. '
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Quote of the Month
“THE measure of national change
shown by four startling faicts: one,availability .of sufficient foreign invest
ment capital to bridge the gap and bal
ance dur books. We have done this so
teen'frde wiKitHt'te a. -went to."; ^o- the,sum .total of
question how much longer we will be
able to do so.
“Over the past year our national
reserves of U.$. dollars and gold have
fallen by .more 'than $400 million to
far on an annual basis.. and so far have
human knowledge doubles every four
years; three, 25 percent of all people
’who ever lived are alive today; four,
90 percent of all the research scientists
who ever lived are alive today ...”
Prime Minister Lester IL Pearson.
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Church Service "’Kicks Off” Centennial Week
.Rev.- A. J. Mowatt, D.D„ mimste.’ of Wesley-Willis United Church, was
guest preacher at the special service i.i St. Paul’s Anglican Church Sunday
May, 14 which began the Clinton Retai'. Merchants Centennial Week — May
15 to' 20. Dr. Mowatt was in' old style dress for the occasion, as were over
half of the 150 persons who attended. (News-Record Photo)
From Our Early Files
The trustee board meeting
was held on Friday evening in
CCI. It was decided that a'fee
of $1 be levied on candidates
for entrance examination. An
advertisement for a science
master is to be placed in the
Globe, and Mail; duties to com
mence in August. The principal
was empowered. to prevent
pupils leaving the school
givunds during recess without
permission from himself or as
sistants.
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75 Years Ago
HURON NEWS-RECORD
• Wednesday, May 25, 1892
Messrs. David Cantelon and
Peter Cook left Clanton yester
day en route for Britain where
they,-will endeavour to make
arrangements for exporting sev
eral lines of Canadian farm pro
ducts'.
Burdock Blood Bitters are a
positive cure for dyspepsia,
.constipation, headache, scrofula,
'bad blood, foul humors, bilious
ness, rheumatism, jaundice and
all diseases arising from a dis
ordered condition of the stom
ach, liver, bbweis .and blood;
It ’ is worth a' trial. Price ■ $1
per bottle, 6 for $5 or less than
lc a dose.
. Horatio Hale, our “grand old”
citizen, left town last week on
a trip to the United States. He
will visit Washington and will
have the pleasure of hand
Shakes with President Harri
son and other dignitaries.4* ri t
THE CLINTON NEW ERA
Friday, May 27, 1892
W? East has bought the* house
and lot on.the corner of Queen
and Princess Streets at $500.
Messrs. Ern. Hovey and W,
Cole have recently purchased
high bicycles of the well known
Brantford make.
its true colours/
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55 Years Ago
CLINTON NEWS-RECORD
Thursday, May 30, 1912
Bart Lavis' spent the holiday
with Mr. and Mrs. Harold John
son of Toronto'
Mr. and Mrs. Sutter of Strat
ford spent the holiday in town
vliteiting ■ their son, Jphn Sutter.
. Miss Erma Diehl, who is
teaching near Parkhill, spent
the 24th at, the home of her
parents, Mr. and Mrs. Henry
Diehl, Stanley Township.
Masters Andrew Steep and
Roy Forrester visited the lat
ter’s uncle, Wm. Forrester of
Mlitohell over the 24th.
Messrs. George Watts, Will
Stan bury and Will Falconer
have erected wire fences along
the front of their farms which
will prevent ''the drifting of.
snow.
Local markets are as follows:
wheat- $1.00; oats 48c to 50c;
barley 60c to 70c ;„ peas 90c to
$1.00; butter 19c to 20c; eggs
19c to 20c; live hogs $8.50.’ * * * s
THE CLINTON NEW ERA
Thursday, May 30, 1912
Morley Counter is leaving
town next-, week for Brantford,
where he will accept a position
in a large store there.
Inspector Tom visited SS No.
1- Stanley, taught by Mass
Elizabeth McEwan, on Monday
afternoon.
Canada on June 3rd will cele
brate the King’s- birthday as
a legal and bank holiday.
Mr. ahd Mrs.' Albert Seeley
and son arrived home last week
from . their western visit.
Forbes Bros, have secured a
big contract for the installation
of a rural telephone system
near Kincardine. ' The gentle
men are sons of A. Forbes of
town.
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25 Years Ago
CLINTON NEWS-RECORD
Thursday, May 28, 1942
At-'a special meeting of the
Board of Education held • on
May ' 25, W. Brock Olde of
aBothwell was engaged as
member of the CCI staff.
Misses Maxine Miller' and
Florence Aiken, students of'the
School of Commerce, have ac
cepted positions with, the Water
loo Mutual Insurance Co. at
Kitchener.
Mr. and Mrs. Clayton Guest,
Moira and Donald Guest of
Toronto spent the weekend
with Mr. and Mrs. M.' Tonis.
Mr. and Mrs. Lome Pepper,
Niagara Falls, spent the week
end visiting his parents, Mr. and
Mrs. John Pepper of Stanley.
Having completed her Arts
Course at Toronto University,
Miss Kathleen Cuninghame has
returned home and will spend
the greater part of the summer
with her parents, Mr. and Mrs.
Gordon W. Cuninghame.
IMiss Isobel Colquhoun spent
the weekend' with her sister,
Miss Jean Colquhoun of Tor
onto.
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40 Yfears Ago
CLINTON NEWS-RECORD
Thursday, May 26, 1927
Mr. and Mrs* Albert Bond of
Goderich Township spent Sun
day last at the home of Noble
Holland.
Jowett’s Pavilion opened on
Victoria Day, Harold Skfrmer’s
Blue Water Boys supplied (the-
music. Mr, Weston plans to
hold a dance every Wednesday
evening in June.
Mrs. Will Grieve has return*
ed to Detroit after a-short Visit
dt the home of her sister, Mrs.
Milton Wiltse.
Mr, and Mrs. Allen Bettles
and family and Mr. and Mrs.
George Monk and family of
Porter's Hill, spent Monday,
evehing at the home of George
A. Vanderburgh, .
Miss Norma Bentley, London,
was home over the Weekend.
Messrs.' George and Fred '
Elliott of Toronto have been
visiting their home in town
over the weekend.
15 Years Ago
CLINTON NEWS-RECORD
Thursday, May 29, 1952
Miss Leota Freeman has join
ed' the staff of the Royal Bank
of Canada.
Mr. and Mrs,-Gordon A. Grigg
spent the weekend at the sum
mer home of the latter’s par
ents, Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Eadie,
London, at Tobermory, Bruce
Peninsula.
Officers elected to the execu
tive of Students’ Council for
the school term 1952-53 at the
election held Wednesday were:,
president, Barbara Middleton;
first vice-president, Betty
Parke; second vice-president,
Gerry Tebbutt; secretary, Jean
McVittie: treasurer, Harris
Oakes; girls’ sport representa
tive, Joanne Oastle, beys’ sport
representative, Ronald Steepe.
Douglas G. Ball of Ball and
Mutch, Clinton, ^attended a post
graduate course held in Bantling
Institute, Toronto, last week, by
the Board of Examiners ap
pointed under - the Embalmers
and Funeral Directors Act.
When you write a column
like this, you get some reac
tion, If you didn’t it wouldn't
bp worth writfrig, because it
wouldn’t be worth reading.
A recent column hag pro
duced reaction. It dealt with
the load we heap on teen-age
kids generally, and contained
a list of what my IS-yCar-
old, specifically, had. to dp
in the iiexf few weeks.
Two letters arrived smart-
ly, then a third- The first
was from K.1 D, of Owen
Sound. “Your column is not
up to your usulal standard. Not quliite so frank. It bright
have beep, if you turned the
X-ray on yourself as well
as on the critics of the young
people of today — whoever
they toiay be."
Critics? KT>-, meet L. E.
Taylor .pf Toronto. Admitting
that he has met a feiw decent
teen-agers while on .Summer
vacations in a small town,
he adds: “But not so in this
big city ... A great many of -
the teen-agers here are the
pushing, impolite, immoral
bores to be shunned and a-
vpided .wherever possible.”'
K,D. says: “Any same 'per
son would know your daught
er is trying to do too much.
Result of having two over-
ambitious parents .,. Each of
you wanting to realize in
each of your children your ■
Own ambitions. Selfish, I’d
say.”
Now wait' a minute, there,
K.D. You can say what you
like about my wife. But' by
gurry, you're all wrong about
.me. All I want is for. my
daughter to stop driving her
mother nuts, pass her school
year if possible, get married1
(preferably by elopement.;
I'll spring for a 50-fobt ladder
in lieu of a $1,000 weddfing) >
have about five kids, and get
as much fun out of them as
we have out of ours.
Back to Mr. Taylor. He
doesn't • blame the parents,
but the kids. They have it
too soft. Says they have more
advantages than we had but
lack initiative and drive. And
he lisrfc about 30 things he
Was doling, while in high
school. Gome on, L.E., be '
sensible. Sure, you did them.
But how many others of your
age did. There was dam little
■initiative • and drive during
The Depression.
He goes on: “Matnic had to
be studied, and written off in
swelteringiy hot June days,
with air-eonditiioning no
where.” It still does, old boy,
in most places, and further
more, it’s about three times
more difficult than the matric
you and I passed. And the
universities demand'standards
far higher,' for admission.
Back .to K.D. “Bet your
•mother would have had more
sense.” (She didn’t have time.
Ed. note) “Whose fault is it
and
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it’s the kids’. TfreyTe both
•wrong. And both right.
And then came the third
nerves. 1$ was from an old
letter, balm to 'tortured
friend. Edith Rudell of Lon*
don, Ont, She is not exactly
an amateur commentator. Six
boys and a girl. I quote:
will frame it (the column)
and amen! Thg farteitiiic a-
mount of time and energy
and nervous tension expend
ed by my group is not pos
sible to describe. Furious?
Anyway, it exhausts me just
being an onlooker. Sb bless
you, Bill, for putting the
thoughts into words.”
And bless 'you, dear heart,
■And bless K.D+ anl L.E.
From The
Gallery
By
HENRY F, HEALD
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20 NATIONS IN-
ONTARIO REGATTA
Mora than 20 nations have
entered craws and scullers for
the first North Antericah, Can
adian Centennial regatta, an in
ternational rawing competition
to be contested Aug. 10-13 over
the Royal Canadian Henley
course at St. Catharines, Ont
ario.
10 Years Ago
CLINTON NEWS-RECORD
Thursday, May 30, 1957
Miss Barbara Yeo, RR '1,
Goderich, topped the junior
4-H Club class at the Spring
show With her' Holstein calf,
Thomas W. Rathwell and
daughters Joan and Lois took
home two firsts, four seconds,
one third and two fourths for
exhibiting their Jersey herd at
the fair.
Miss Marilyn Shaddick Who
graduated May 17 from the
School of Nursing at Stratford
General 'Hospital, has been ac
cepted on the staff of that hos
pital.
Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Trott
ahd Ann travelled to Toronto
via CNR this morning to attend
convocation exercises at Univer
sity of Toronto, when Mr. Trott
will receive his bachelor of
Education degree.
Miss Heleh Blair left oh SUri-
day for London en route to rd-,
stwhe Ker teaching duties at
Lively,
The Bayfield Golf and Coun
try Club, which was Closed with
the Outbreak of World War IT.
has now been officially opened.
The new name is the Bayfield-
Clinton Golf Course and the
owner is Fred W. Hulls.
that your daughter
others want to do so much
in and out of schools? Yours
and others like you. What
kind of training, advice, guid
ance have you given her a-
part from ‘strive, strive,
strive’ ,'anid ’achieve, achieve,
achieve’?”
K.D., you are hereby in
vited to give my daughter .
some of that stuff. But don’t
blame me if you emerge from
the conference bloody and
bruised.
Therei’s more of the same
from K.D., and a lot of it
good sense. It ends: “Baloney
to your sex, LSD and '
drinks — mere red herrings
to drag in and show how
up-to-date you really- are! ■
Not stuffy at all! Ho! Ho!
Well, hoJho to you, K.D.
You’ve been reading too many
articles about punk parents,,
and not enough about punk
kids. If .'you think drink and
drugs and sex are red her
rings, in relation to teen
agers, you’d! better pull your
head but of that sand-pile.
There you are. One corre
spondent says it’s the par
ents’ fault. The other slays
OTTAWA •— In Carleton
Universiity’s Southam Hall re
cently, Solictor-General Larry
Pennell welcomed an invited
■audience ,of about 300 people
to the premiere of a fulm called’
“The Squarejohns.”
- It won’t win any oscaus. But
circulated widely enough it
might help to persuade the pub
lic that" rehabilitation rather ,
than punishment is the best
way of. dealing With law
breakers.
To a reporter ’accustomed to
the ’parliamentary scene the
audience was an unf amiliar one,
apart, that is, from the dozen or
so MPs, his fellow journalists,
a Supreme Court justice and.
the director of penitentiaries.
It was easy .to speculate on the
remainder of .the audience.- They
were parole officers, policemen,
security guards, social workers.
A sqUarejohn is a convict who
decides 'he wants to go straight.
In the movie the National Film
Board has tried, in a brief half
hour, to, show what happens
when a man is paroled, the kind
of help he is offered, what
forces ha has to compete with
and what happens when he suc
ceeds or fails.
Getting parole is not too easy
in the first place and when
•the squarajohn steps onto the
street he has two strikes
against him. He has to lick the
same' forces that led him to
crime in the first place and he
has to' compete with a society
that he thinks (with some justi
fication) is hostile to him. If he
has been, behind bars for a
number of years he has the
added problem of getting ac
quainted with a world that has
taken tremendous technological
leaps while he was sidelined.
It was not a swinging even
ing, but then Solicitor-General
Pennell and Parole Boarfl
Chairman ..I George Street 'are
not what' the. go-go world calls
“swingers.” They are squares:
unspectacular, dedicated men
Who believe they have a role
to play in- society and are de
termined to do it.
When the purple oratory
flows from the mouths of the
fervent abolitionists and reten
tionists, when the demands-for
penal reform scream from the
headlines of the newspapers,
when the Jeiws cry for law to
ban hate literature and 'the
unions want freedom from the
law to commit violence ‘in
strikes and when public opinion,
aroused by a best-seller, de
mands an early parole for a
convicted murderer, it is good
to', know there are a few square
guys trying to fit the whole
business logically into place.’
There are more private mem
bers bills before Parliament
asking for amendments to the
Criminal Code than any other
Subject. Capital Punishment has ,
been abolished in fact and be-
fore' ’the Centennial Session of
Parliament is over it . is almost
certain to be- abolished in law
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