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Remembrance is a two-sided coin.
; On, one side, annual observance of
• Remembrance Day creates a pause
in which to pay tribute to the valour of
the past; to honour the sacrifice of those
who fought and died in defence of
freedoms we too often take for granted;
•nd to honour those who returned, as
well as those who remained at home
to keep alive the spirit of freedom at a
time of international upheaval and
upset.
To this end, we support the aim
of the Legion Poppy Drive to honour
the dead by helping the living. More
than a token of respectful remem
brance, the poppy has become a
tangible instrument of assistance for
those who still bear the. scars of inter
national conflict.
■ The second side of this observance
is that it fosters ref lection on the tragedy
of war—the broken lives and curtailed
promise, together with all the attendant
social and psychological disruption that
is born of mass violence.
If the function of memory is to
teach, then surely Remembrance Day
should be as much a time of self-assess
ment and re-evaluation of relationships;*
as of silent tribute to past accomplish-^
ments. The root of war is the malaise "
the social gap
'■ By PHILIP DEANE
(Foreign Affairs Analyst) -
- The writing intellectuals of the .
world have turned the Niagara of their
scorn upon Mrs. Louise Day Hicks, seg
regationist candidate for the mayoralty
o.f Boston, and upon her followers. There
could be no better illustration of the
rigid barriers .that divide our North
American societies which are supposed
to be so democratic. It is such divisions
that preclude the coherent political
action needed to solve our major prob
lems.
A national magazine in the United
St“+es, describing an election rally for
Mrs. Hicks wrote of her supporters:
"They looked like characters right out of
Moon Mullins . . .a comic strip gallery
of tipplers and brawlers and their tin
selled overdressed dolls . . . the men,
Unscrewing their cigar butts from their
chins to buss her noisily on the cheek or
pumping her arm as if it were a jack
handle under a trailer truck . . /'
v In other words, the writer of the
article thinks that the people of Boston
who like Mrs. Hicks are goons, not the
type one would feel unembarrassed to
accompany at a diplomatic reception.
And these so-called goons have equally
harsh feelings' about the establishment
about people. In other words, who
write the sort of thing quoted above:
"The suburban housewives and the Ivy
League students have gone poor crazy
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of society, which has its own root in the
weakness of the individual in his
society.
The clarion is sounded: "Take up
our quarrel with the foe."
But our foe is not the German, or
the Japanese, or the Vietnamese.
For men of conscience every
where, the true foe is that part of our
nature which causes enmity between
us and our fellow man, at all levels.
The ranks of our foe include pettiness,
rancour, jealousy, acquisitiveness, self
ishness and inflexibility.
To destroy this foe is to remember,
c- And- to remember is to realize that
'‘ipeace is much, much more than the
absence of war.
but only for the colored poor" and one
of the Hicks supporters.
The whites at the bottom of the
social and economic scale are badly
scared all over the United States. These
are people who have only begun be
lieving they too can achieve the
American dream, if not for themselves,
then for their children. They have come
out of the slum, out of the ethnic ghetto,
out of the inferior school but they re
member how it all was before they
came out.
To these recent and precarious
partakers of affluence, integration
means that the ghetto they escaped will
be allowed to pursue them so they op
pose integration. It may be that they
want someone else kept inferior so that
they can look down on him. But it may
also be that looking down on someone
inferior is the only way they can really
convince themselves that they are es
caping.
"Their tinselled, overdressed dolls"
are only trying to ape models and film
stars with no unconscious experience of
such things to help ward, off ridicule,
no pattern of good eating habits to help
the figure, and above all no confidence.
But they want to claw their way up
away from what the Negro represents,
because he represents what one escapes
from in the social climb. And social
climbers are as cruel as the elite which
despises them.
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The cariboo road to the gold fields of B.C.
completed in 1865s miners are going in, and
a coach is. coming out, with gold guarded by
armed men. Placer gold was discovered on
the Fraser River in the 1850’sjt was Canada’s
first important find of the precious metal.
Further discoveries up the river sparked the
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known as New Caledonia, consisted of employees
of the Hudson’s Bay Company’s fur trading post
plus 40 freehold farmers, at Fort Victoria on
the colony of Vancouver Island. Then came
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adventurers from California and all over the
world. Britain quickly proclaimed a second
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its capital at New Westminster. The gold rush
also led Sir James Douglas, the first governor
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From our early files
55 years ago
THE CLINTON NEW ERA
Thursday, November 14, 1912
From 3 p.m. on the 12th till
8 a.m, on the 13th there fell
nearly an inch and a quarter
of rain.
Dr. Gandier spent a few days
in Toronto this week.
Mr. T. Shipley has taken a
position with W. T. O’Neil at
“The Hub” Grocery.
The McLeod Brothers of Bay-
field have gone to Port Stanley
to finish up the season’s fish
ing there.
Mrs. (Dr.) Gunn of Old Or-
chard Beach is the guest of
her sister Mrs. William Gunn.
25 years ago
THE CLINTON NEWS-RE CORD
Thursday November 12, 1942
Aircraftman Dick Dixon of the
RCAF Vancouver Island, is
spending his leave with his
parents, Mr. and Mrs. Frank
Dixon.
Miss Elsie McLeod, Bayfield,
left on Sunday for Hespeler
where she has taken a position.
Mrs. (Dr.) Addison and two
children of Sudbury visited her
parents Mr. and M.rs. Hugh
Cameron.
Miss Beatrice Greene of
Munro spent the weekend with
Mrs. F. G, Thompson.
Leading Airwoman Madeleine
Hawkins, of the RCAF (WD)
at Toronto was a visitor with
her parents over the weekend.
15 years ago
CLINTON NEWS-RECORD •
Thursday November 13,1952
Clinton Public Hospital will ,
hold its graduation service on
December 5, in Ontario Street
United Church with Miss Edna
McDonald and Miss Irene
Howatt, both of Blyth, as grad
uates. According to Miss A.
Sinclair, superintendent of the
hospital, these graduate nurses,
who have trained at the hospi
tal for the past three years,
will be the last class to grad-
uate from the hospital.
Mrs. Henry Young and Stew
art left yesterday, November
12, for England where they will
visit at the former’s home.
Mrs. David Baird and son
Carl and Mildred Scott, London
spent Sunday with the former’s
sister, Mrs. Ed Sturgeon, Bay-
field. Mr. and Mrs. Frank An
derson and baby Francis, Mit
chell, and Mr. and Mrs. Dennis
Bisback, Clinton, also visited
their parents Mr. and Mrs. Ed
Sturgeon.
10 years ago
CLINTON NEWS-RECORD
November 14, 1957
Lawrie Slade, a partner in
the firm of Remington Brothers
who operate IGA food stores
in Kincardine, Chesley and
Wingham, will move to Clinton
at the end of the year to as
sume the management of a
fourth store now being erected
here.
J. A, Bert Gray, principal
of Clinton Public School re
ceived his Bachelor of Arts
degree at convocation at Uni
versity of Western Ontario last
month. Mr. Gray has bet rin-
cipal of the local 13-room school
since September of 1956 and
prior to that time was the
principal of the Blyth Public
School.
Miss Althea Bertrand and
Polly Jervis from Stratford
Hospital spent the weekend at
the latter’s home.
Miss Marilyn Shaddick,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. A.
Shaddick, Miss Jayne Mary
Snell, daughter of Mr. andMrs.
Ephraim Snell and Miss Ruth
Clarke, daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. W. G. Clarke, Varna, grad
uated with Registered Nurse's
Degree from Stratford School
of Nursing.
SUGAR.
AND SPICE
by Bill Smiley
Some of us remember
What will the Flower Child
ren do on Remembrance Day?
Will they refuse to buy a pop
py because they associate it
with past wars? Or will they
buy every poppy they can get
their hands on and try to in
fuse a brew of opium, so that
they can turn on?
All I know is that they’ll
have a tough time getting any
poppy-juice out of those paper
poppies the Legion sells.
My daughter and I have a
running battle about the Flow
er Children and hippies in gen
eral. She has a slogan. “Love is
all you need,” which I find
scrawled on things all over the
house.
My contention is that these
kids don’t love anybody but
themselves, that they heartily
hate anyone who doesn’t sub
scribe to their half-baked phi
losophy, if you want to grace it
with such a term, and that
most of them don’t know
enough about life to wipe their
own noses.
This goes over big, of course.
I am immediately relegated to
that rapidly-increasing seg
ment of the population that
doesn’t understand anything, is
against everything and can’t
communicate. Even though she
does admit they, are pretty
snobbish about their “love”
deal.
I asked her why she didn’t
have a whack at the Legion
contest. It’s open to all stu
dents, and they can write an
essay or a poem, about the
meaning of Remembrance Day.
Good cash prizes, and she
writes well.
“But it doesn’t have any
meaning foi' me, Dad. I didn’t
have an uncle or anything
killed in the war.” Well, what
do you do? I apologized for the
fact that both her war-time un
cles are alive, and that I
couldn’t get myself killed, even
with the utmost application of
incompetence, just so that she
could really enjoy Remem
brance Day.
Eighteen seconds later, She’s
beefing because I haven’t giv
en her a driving lesson iri a
whole week, and she’s just got
to get her license before the
snow flies.
I’m afraid we're going to
have to face the fact that lie-
ihembrance Day does not mean
much to the average kid today.
It’s not nearly as important as
the latest “soul” record. And
it’s a mild bore, a solemn mo
ment at school, that has no
connection with the Saturday
night date, or the really impor
tant things of life.
It’s just one of those silly
things that middle-aged people
got “all hung up” about, like
hard work and honesty and
chastity and all those other
drags.
And it’s not just the kids
who ignore it. Most young
adults sneer at it as a relic of
“Britannia Rules the Waves”
and “Over the Top” and beery
old veterans.
It’s much more fashionable
to join a “protest group” and
march on something or other.
City Hall. The American Con
sulate. It doesn’t matter. Break
some windows. Splash some
paint. And go home sniggering
that, “We really showed those
fascists.”
■ There’s a vicarious thrill in
the thought that the police
might whack a few heads, even
draw blood. Not yours, of
course.
I wonder bow many of those
protesters would have the guts
to clamber out of a muddy,
stinking trench and hurl them
selves into barbed wire, and
machine-guns looking for their
vitals?
I wonder how many of the
. people who carry placards,
with their little fat jowls
bouncing on their white col
lars, could fly through a. thou
sand acres of red-hot flak, be
cause somebody had to do it?
I wonder how many of the
petition-signers, with their
clean socks and their under
arm deodorant, could take a
week of puking and getting
smashed about in a corvette.
Maybe I sound a little bitter.
Maybe I am. Maybe they could
and would, some of them. But
Until they try it, they shouldn’t
spit on others.
Wa.r is rotten. War is stupid.
But to those who died,
“Salud”, And to those who
live with fottOH lungs and ar
thritis and all the rest of it,
know that there are still some
of Us who think about you On
Ro membra neo Day.
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