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stores plagued
Clinton store pwnets are plagued
with shoplifters, They say-that; the
plague is not seasonal, but, a year- '
round problem now reaching epidemic
proportions.
What is the cure?
In order to find a cure for any dis
ease, it is first necessary to isolate its
germ.
In this case, most of the germ
carriers are children. They, are blamed
by storekeepers for the rash of petty
pilfering, But they are not the true cul
prits, They are children, whether they
are 8 or 18 years old, because they act.
like children. They have homes. They
have parents.
This shoplifting germ is nurtured
in the home and carried from there by
the children. If is nourished by lack of
discipline, of parental control, of true
love and understanding. True love is
not just a matter of indulging a child's
every whim; something nearly opposite,
is the truth. Above all, this germ feeds
on indifference.
One Clinton shopkeeper, who re
ported a coy caught shoplighting to his
mother, said the parent seemed un
concerned. He was horrified, not at the
child's crijne, but at the nonchalance of
the mother.
With the germ thus isolated, a vac-
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cine can be developed for the preven
tion and cure of the disease.
To control and stamp out shop
lifting by children, the name of the
vaccine is "care." .Parents must care,
for their children enough to know what
they are doing at all times. If they don't
know/ they must check, even at the
risk of offending the children, which
is apparently considered a major sin in
many homes.
Perhaps branding the crime of
shoplifting with its proper name might
help. It is STEALING. And theft is pun-
ishable under the Criminal Code, as
are murder, arson and rape.
Whether the article stolen is a 10-
cent chocolate bar or a $ 1,000 color tele
vision set, the principle is the same.
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simple weapons. They plagued the
R. W. BELL
OPTOMETRIST
The Square, GODERICH
524-7551
Samuel de Champlain repelled Sequent attacks
by the hostile Iroquois Indians in 1609-10 after
forming an alliance with the friendly Hurons
and Algonquins. In the picture, Champlain wears .
the outfit of al7th century musketeer, but without
the traditional steel armoured breast plate and
thigh guards. He favored buckskin fortravelling
lightly by canoe in the wilderness. Two powder
flasks and a bag of bullets hang from his belt.
The gun was a heavy, muzzle-loading arquebus,
fired by a long fuse. The arquebus was clumsy,
slow to operate, and its recoil could easily
dislocate a shoulder or collar bone. Eventually
the Iroquois realized the superior efficiency of
their own simple weapons. They plagued the
French settlers with swift, silent surprise
attacks until about 1670, when flint-locks were
developed and muskets became lighter and more
efficient. Champlain made up in leadership
whit he lacked in hardware. Builder of the first
permanent settlement on Canadian soil and
founder of Quebec, he was an explorer, ad
venturer, cartographer, colonizer and writer.
He was commandant of New France for 15
years. After being captured and released by
the British, he was governor for the final two
years of an energetic and brilliant life which
he had devoted to strengthening the colony.
From Our Early Files
55 years ago
The Clinton New Era
Thursday December 12,1912
Miss Ruth Walkinshaw was
the guest for a few days dur
ing the past week of Miss Ruby
Wise, of Tuckersmith,
Mr . Levi Trick attended
the Guelph Stock Show on Wed.
nesday.
The Modelites are having an
At. Home tomorrow evening.
Mr. Harrison Wiltse of Win-
nipeg is expected home for
Christmas.
Mr. A. J. McMurray was in
Toronto this week on business.
Miss Sadie Watkins left on
Saturday to visit her sisters
Mrs. A. Cousins of FlintMich.
Miss M, Streets is visiting
her aunt Mrs. J. W, McDonald
of Detroit.
Mr, F, H, Powell, Goderich
township, was a delegate to the
U.F.O. convention in Toronto
last week.
soring a free show for ali the
children of Clinton next Wed.
nesday afternoon.
Ordinary Seaman R. Schoen-
hals of the R.C.N.V.R. is home
on furlough until the 28th
of December.
Miss Agnes Agnew of Toronto
is visiting her parents Mr.
and Mrs. M. Agnew.
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FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH
(Baptist Convention of Ontario and Quebec)
Pastor: JACK HEYNEN, B.A.
SUNDAY, DECEMBER 17th
9:45 a.m.—Sunday School.
11:00 a.m.—Church Service.
— ALL ARE WELCOME HERE —
Universal medicare, a program to
ensure adequate medical services for
ail Canadians at fees they can afford
is apparently synonymous With rabies
*in some quarters.
-Doctors froth at the mouth at the
mention of medicare. Practitioners who
treat the pocketbook instead of the pa
tient will be forced by medicare into
a standard fee structure. Since the
Canadian Medical Association, backed
by the American Medical Association,
has one of the most powerful political
lobbies in Ottawa, further delays in
passage of a national medicare bill are
almost certain.
First promised by the Liberals in
1919, national medicare is a political
football still awaiting its first boot
through the goalposts. But kicked
around it has been, and will be.
Delivering the latest toe-punch is
the Ontario Chamber of Commerce, of
fering "unreserved support" to Ontario
Provincial Treasurer Charles MacNaugh-
ton for his opposition to a universal
medical care program.
In an open letter to the treasurer,
Ontario Chamber president F. H.
Howard declared: "We endorse state
ments in the press attributed to you
which recognize the inflationary pres
sures implicit in such a program, and
the critical need for cutbacks in govern
ment spending."
Mr. Howard noted that 80 per cent
of Canada's population was protected
by some form of medical-surgical insur-
ance by December of last year. In On
tario, 95 per cent of the residents were
covered. .
"These figures," Mr. Howard said,
"certainly indicate that the need for
imposing a compulsory universal plan
does not exist, particularly insofar as
Ontario, British Columbia and Alberta,
which represents one half of Canada's
population, are concerned."
Differing with Mr. Howard, the
figures indicate no such sweeping as
sumption. Mr. Howard fails to answer
several important questions, such as:
What happens to the 20 per cent of
Canada's population not covered by
private insurance? How-comprehensive
is the coverage of the 80 per cent com
pared with medicare? Can members
of the 80 per cent afford the private
insurance premiums?
Mr. Howard said that the Chamber
supports a health services insurance
program based upon private insurance
and prepayment carriers "coupled with
government assistance to provide for
that small number of our population
who are unable to provide for their own
health services."
Insurance companies are members
and supporters of the Chamber of Com
merce, just as doctors are members and
supporters of their Canadian Medical
Association. Doctors pout at medicare
through the CMA. Insurance companies
pout at medicare through the C of C.
Their pouts are predictable, set
with the permanence of petrified wood.
Their arguments, tattered with age —•
reduction in quality of medical care;
cost burden on the economy — were
waved like ragged banners in the futile
battle to thwart provincial medicare
in Saskatchewan in 1963.
, In that fight, doctors howled, in
surance companies screamed, the
American Medical Association poured
huge sums of money into the war-chest,
but medicare won. And medicare must
leventually, inevitably, win on the na
tional front.
There is one great argument in
favour of medicare: It works.
The Clinton News-Record
Dec. 15, 1927
Mr, William Sturgeon and
daughters, Berthina andEmma,
of Bayfield, were at Alvinston
on Sunday.
Skating last Saturday night
in the local arena marked tlie
earliest skating here for the
past few years .
The News-Record has been in
formed that .there is no pro-,,
spect of being able Jo giy^Jhe*;
children jhe?customary Christ^
mas treat, canSy‘“ and nuts
simply cannot be had in the
required quantities. Nor will
there be any lighted Christmas
tree down town this year. How
ever, the Lions Club are spon-
SUGAR
AND SPICE
by Bill Smiley
Town Council at their meet
ing Monday evening honoured
Mr. M. T. Corless and pre
sented him with a beautiful
watch as a momento of the
esteem in which they held him.
Mrs. Gordon Herman-, and..
Janice spent last, week- in
Glencoe and attended the Rees-
Woods wedding.
Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Kirk
ham and Carol Hewitt, London
spent the weekend with Mrs.
Kirkham’s parents, Mr. and
Mrs. Emerson Heard, Bayfield.
Mr. Nelson Brown, Detroit,
Mich., spent the weekend at the
home of Mr. and Mrs. D. E,
Gliddon, Holmesville.
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“THE FRIENDLY CHURCH”
Organist: MISS LOIS GRASBY, A.R.C.T.
Pastor: REV. GRANT MILLS, B.A.
SUNDAY, DECEMBER 17th
9:45 a.m.—Sunday School.
11:00 a.m.—Worship Service.
TURNER'S UNITED CHURCH
2:00 p.m.—Church Service r*
3.00 p.m.—Sunday School.
Hurry home, honey
I’m beginning to realize
what a widow with children
goes through. It’s tough being
both a momma and a poppa.
I’ll be glad when my wife fin
ishes her college course, gets
home, and can fight it out with
Kim on the old basis, no holds
barred, recriminations aplenty,
ferocious threats, and tears
enough to wash the kitchen
floor.
Last weekend I nearly gave
my wife a heart attack. After
spending most of the weekend
screwing up my courage, I grit
ted my teeth, took a good, stiff
pelt of Walker’s Special Old
nerve tonic, and announced
gravely:
“Dear, I've got something to
tell you about Kim. Now don’t
get all upset. Everything will
probably work out for the
best,”
“She’s . not!”, she shrieked.
Oh, my God!”
“I’m afraid she is,” I said,
sombrely. “But you’ve got to
face the facts. You can’t keep a
kid in the nest forever. These
things happen in the best of
families. There are some
things in this day and age that
we may not approve of. But ff
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after my wife had flown three
times around the living-room,
without ever lighting, it
emerged that we were talking
about different things.
She thought Kim was preg
nant. All I Was trying to do
was tell her something even
worse, that Kim had, after giv
ing me a real feminine, logic
less* charming con job* joined
a “group,” She’s been invited
to play the organ and sing in
one of those shouting, belting,
deafening .groups that are driv
ing every ’adult over 30 out of
his little old square mind.
This is just a sample of the
troubles I have- My Wife thinks
that classical music is it, and
groups are for the well-known
birds. Kim thinks a young per
son is blissing a Vital, terribly
important experience if she
doesn’t ever belong to a group.
I think — welt never mind.
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But my point is that in the
good old days, Kim and her
mother would have fought it
out, with frequent appeals to
me from each side, and both
sides ignoring my rational
compromise. Now, I have to
take the decisions, lay down
the law, designate “getting-in”
hours, and try to force the kid
to eat some breakfast.
Not to mention cheering her
up when she’s down, cooling
her down when she’s all up
tight, telling her to pick up her
clothes, and roaring at her to
put the lid on the jam bottle
and put it away, after break
fast.
And she’ll read this column
and say, “You don’t like me,
do you Dad? I’m just a nui
sance to you. I wish Mum was
here.”
And I’ll say, “Stop feeling
sorry for yourself. Did it ever
occur to you to do the dishes?
I wish Mum was here
She‘d straighten you out,
little bum.”
And she’ll say, “Oh,
think I’m a little bum,
Well, thanks a lot. That
tainly makes a person
wanted.”
And I’ll say, “Bum, schlum.
Get the carrots ready for the
stew and then get at ' your
homework.”
And she’ll snap, 'That’s all
you think about. Carrots.
You’re getting more like a
too.
you
you
eh?
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10 years ago
Clinton News-Record
Thursday, December 12,1957
Clinton Horticultural Society
and Clinton and District Cham*
ber of Commerce are offering
fifty dollars in prize money for
the best decorated homes in
Clinton.
Dr. Lloyd Stackhouse, Pres
ton and his mother from Ridge
way visited Mrs. A. Adams and
Miss Brigham.
Mrs, Roy Pepper .and Mrs.
Wilmer Wallis spent a few days
this past week in Pontiac Mich,
with their brother who "is ill.,
Mr. and Mrs. Nelson Mc
Conkey, Toronto, were at their
home in Bayfield for the week
end.
school-teacher all the time.
Pompous and arrogant.”
And I’ll shbut, “You get up
stairs and get at your home
work and stop being so lippy
or I’ll give you a thick ear.”
Knowing I wouldn’t dare,
she flounces out, goes up and
Works off her repressions with
the guitar and a couple of
shouted freedom songs. And I
work off mine by getting the
carrots ready and inviting her
down to dinner.
But we get along fine. She
knows her place — head of the
household, and I know mine —
foot of the household,
I’ll be glad when Mum gets
home. At least she knows a
head from a foot, which is
somethihg in these troubled
times.
Wesley-Willis — Holmesville United Churchee
REV. A. J MOW ATT, C.D., B.A., B.D., D,D„. Minister
MR. LORNE DOTTERER, Organist and Choir Director
SUNDAY, DECEMBER 17th
9:45 a.m.—Sunday School.
11:00 a.m.—Worship Service.
Sermon Topic:
"IN THE WILDERNESS MAKE STRAIGHT THE WAY"
HOLMESVILLE
1:00 p.m.—Worship Service.
1:45 p.m.—Sunday School.
ST. PAUL'S ANGLICAN CHURCH
Rev. R. W. Wenham, L.Th., Rector
Miss Catharine Potter, Organist
SUNDAY, DECEMBER 17th — ADVENT THREE
9:45 a.m.—Church School.
11:00 a.m.—MORNING PRAYER.
2:30 p.m,—Christmas Concert by Church School in
Parish Hall.
ST. ANDREW'S PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
The Rev. R. U. MacLean, B.A., Minister
Mrs. M. J. Agnew, Organist and Choir Director
SUNDAY, DECEMBER 17th
9:45 a.m.—Sunday School.
10:45 p.m.—Public Worship.
— EVERYONE WELCOME —
CHRISTIAN REFORMED CHURCH
Guest Preacher}: Rev. John C. Derksen, Guelph, Ont.
SUNDAY, DECEMBER 17th
10:00 a.m.—Worship Service—English.
2:30 p.m.—Worship Service—Dutch.
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Sunday, December 17th
9:45 a,m.--Worship Service,
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1:00 p.m.-—Evening Service.
Speaker: Eric Vetters, London
Tuesday, 8:00 p.m.—Prayer and
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Pentecostal Church
Victoria Street
W. Werner, Pastor
Sunday, December 17th
9:45 a,m.-—Sunday School.
11:M a.m,—Worship Service.
7:30 p.m.-—Evening Service.
Friday, I p.m.—YPU Meeting