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STUDENT COUNCIL AIDS RETARDED GROUP—The South Huron and District Association for the
Mentally Retarded recently received a sizable donation from the Student Council at South Huron
District High School. Above Mrs. George Dobbs, secretary, and Ivan Sharrow, president of the
Association are getting a cheque for $200 from student council president Paul Charrette and Ron Janke.
The money was part of the proceeds of the recent Exeter to Hensall and return walk. Further donations
are being made to other charitable groups. T-A photo.
Definition of true soldier
given at school assembly
Commends
students
Dear Mr, Wooden:
I have recently received
correspondence from Mrs. Betty
Dugan, Director of Public
Relations of the Canadian Red
cross Society re Blood Donor
Clinics in high schools,
I was not aware that there
had been any controversy or
comment regarding these clinics.
Apparently the impression
created was that 60% of high
school donors are rejected as
blood donors due to use of
drugs.
This, according to clinic
officials, is not true. There is a
rejection rate of 10% for all
clinics and for many reasons.
The main reason for rejection
has to do with age and
hemoglobin restrictions.
Rejection for the use of drugs
may vary from antibiotics to
antihistamines and consequently
are not directly related to the
use of the "psychedetic" drugs
that are of so much concern at
the present time.
It is the hope of the Society
that the adverse publicity given
to the student donors may be
cleared up through the news
media and that they can be
counted on for future
co-operation, and support at
future clinics.
Rather than deflating the
enthusiasm of these young
donors (who donate
approximately 20% of the total
blood requirements for the
Province) it is my thought that
they should be commended for
their effort and I sincerely hope
that they will continue to
support a very worthy service in
the future.
Thank you.
Sincerely,
Vera M. Mason,
Chairman
Blood Donors Clinic
Movie Review
Play humour
off colour
Dear Editor:
I was very impressed with
your newspaper and I hope that
you can expand the contents
from one page to two pages, at
least.
I would especially like to
congratulate Beth Cook for her
movie review "Last Summer".
She described the movie
beautifully without really giving
the plot away, and I agree with
her that the movie is excellent.
I would like to question,
however, the article on drugs —
in Exeter.
I think drugs are the least of
your worries because only a
minority of people take them
and it really doesn't influence
the life of many students.
If you have to print
something affecting lives of
students I think it would be the
problem of drinking. I am not
opposed to drinking, but when
you combine drinking and
driving, that is when people have
to look out.
I looked at The
Times-Advocate and saw a full
column of dangerous driving,
drunk driving, accidents caused
by drunks . . .etc. That is what
you should ask opinions about.
One last point —I received by
mail my copy of the SHDHS
yearbook. I was looking through
it and I saw a picture of the
prefects. During that year, I
never knew that the school had
such an organization.
Exactly what do they do? Do
they have cafeteria duty? (i.e.
keep order in lunch hour
WITHOUT a teacher's presence)
do they keep order in the halls,
dances, classrooms . . . etc.
WHAT are they there for?
As I said your newspaper is
good and I hope you can keep it
going ... with the support of
the students you can.
Keep up the good work and
include Girls' Sports in your
paper.
Yours truly,
the "BOLTON FLASH"
Principal's
rebuttal•
Dear Editor:
I would like to make a few
brief comments in reply to the
item concerning school dances.
The article was misleading and
erroneous.
The "life of the dances" is
not questioned; the reference to
radical behaviour is obscure to
say the least.
We have during the past two
years had more school dances
than any school in Western
Ontario,
The last dance, however, saw
a number of hoodlums,
barbarous in their behaviour,
who are in no way associated
with this school or any school,
attempt to enter the school.
They were obnoxious and
threatening.
The police suggested that we
have a delay before holding
another dance because of the
threats and possibility of
trouble,
It was decided that it would
be wise not to have another
dance for a month. Previous
commitments for use of the
school made November 28 the
next possible date.
The reference to 11 o'clock
door locking is totally false. We
have never followed the practice
of forbidding students or others
from leaving and returning at
any time. The practice of not
allowing people back in after a
certain hour is, however, a
common practice at many
schools.
The only regulation in this
regard was the statement that
non-students would not be
admitted after 11 p.m. because
past experience has
demonstrated that after 11,
arrivals are usually trouble
makers.
The requirement that
non-students be signed in by
students is a reasonable request.
This is a common practice and
we adopted it this year because
last year we had a number of
incidents involving non-students.
This policy prevents the
attendance of certain people
that have caused trouble in the
past and by not admitting them
a number of problems have been
solved.
It seems reasonable to request
Editorial
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Freedom questioned
that space and time of which we
like to think that we are masters
by our science and our
machines.
Let us listen to the voice of a
typical man: a murderer; a man
who believed in violence; the
man who killed the first
Christian to be killed because he
was a Christian:
"CA this I am certain, that no
principle of good dwells in me,
that is, in my natural self. It is
not the good my will approves,
but the evil that my will
disapproves, that I find myself
doing. Unhappy creature that I
am, who shall deliver me from
an existence thus doomed to
death? Nothing but the grace of
God, in Christ Jesus our Lord."
— Remembrance
Day Assembly at
South Huron
Three cheers
for students
By JUDI MALONE
Editor
Individuals at the high school are questioning the natural
right of the Guardian to voice its opinion. No doubt these people
are suggesting that the "freedom" of the press be ignored, and are
criticizing their paper for lack of anything better to gripe about.
"A good newspaper presents both sides of any
question it permits staff members to present their comments
in signed articles, even when these differ from the paper's views,
and expresses its own opinion on the editorial page, It provides
ample space for its readers to express their own opinion."
— the Globe and Mail
The Guardian is pleased that the last issue created some
response among the populace of South Huron. Due to the
apathetic nature of the "masses", we feel that extremes are
necessary to provoke constructive agitation.
By PATTI ROBINSON
Three cheers for the students
at South Huron!
It has been quite evident in
the past few weeks that our
student body possesses that
"something special" which we
call "SCHOOL SPIRIT" and the
students should be
congratulated.
The spirit which was shown
at the football games at Huron
Park was the best it has ever
been and the students who are
responsible for the enthusiasm
shown certainly deserve a lot of
credit.
A school team is not a school
team without student support
behind it and we have proven
that we have the support as well
as the team.
The cheerleaders would like
to give special congratulations to
the Junior Football Team, Mr.
Ellison and Mr. Riddell. They
have worked hard at winning the
"Huron-Perth Championship"
and we are proud of them.
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By BETH COOK
Unless one is to be extremely
selective and is willing to be
accused of misinterpretation,
Alice's Restaurant is perhaps
paradoxically, promiscuous,
monotonous, and effervescent
with the traditional American
off-colour humour.
It once again exploits the
terribly redundant themes of the
"new" sexual morality, the
apathy and the rot within our
society, and also dwells on the
Vietnam draft (for variety). In
these aspects it completely fails
to present any new constructive
ideas whatsoever!
Another movie on youth's
discontent and the riots that
result . . . Rebellion is proving to
be the fad of the sixties.
Undoubtedly, our
contemporary society is very
egotistical for it attempts to
picture this innate unhappiness,
caused merely by the innocence
and thwarted idealism of youth,
as if it were a perverted and
calamitous novelty of the
twentieth century.
How ludicrous! The young
have rebelled against a society's
patriarchs for as long as
organized human communities
have existed. This ferment of
discontent is both admirable and
justified.
Obviously, society is
overflowing with corruption and
it should be refreshing to be
reassured that the younger
generation cares.
Perhaps Alice's Restaurant
inadvertently exposes the fallacy
in the glib acceptance of the
division of the generations. The
supposed missionary attitudes of
the young are revealed
unintentionally as shoddy and
vulgar farces. They intend to
convert and perfect the world.
This is fine.
However, they are ruthless
and foolish, believing that
enlightenment can only be
obtained if a totally new
morality is accepted. They reject
all traditional values failing to
even comprehend that there are
a few dignified and worthy
aspects of society.
However anything and
everything goes. A vacuum is all
that remains in Which the
destructive. reformers can
institute their Utopia. They see
perfection as completely
unrestricted freedom.
This is obviously an immature
sentiment and yet it is the only
outstanding difference between
the rebels and the
"establishment" in this picture.
"Mature" men have resigned
themselves to the fact that
compromises and often
complete surrender must be
made in order to survive.
They have learned to
prostitute their deals in order to
save others as well as themselves.
The youths overestimate
themselves and all men in
advocating their blessed anarchy.
They do not realize that even
good, moral, and trustworthy
men are not always reliable,
Consequently, they Meet with
much disillusion and finally
the rottenness of their own
"improved society becomes
equal to that of the
Establishment.
And so the movie enda....
There are two things on the
cheerleaders agenda for the next
couple of weeks.
Beginning November 20 we
are having junior try-outs. All
girls from grades 10 and 11 are
eligible and we would like to see
as many as possible out.
Special thanks to the Student
Council who hate offered to
supply us with a mascot this
year. Many people do not realize
the cost of a mascot and without
the Student Council's assistance
we would not be able to afford
one,
thousand times more deadly
than those of nature, is brought
on by the fear and greed of man,
by irresponsibility of man, - - - is
maintained by the pride and
obstinacy of man, and
intensified by the ferocity of
man.
Yet, when the awful thing has
reached its inevitable conclusion,
when the survivors stare about
them at the corpses and the
ruins, they stare in bewilderment
and desperation. Nobody forsaw
this, nobody intended this,
nobody has gained by this.
Each war leaves mankind
worse off than ever, Each war
creates evils, evils which, it
seems, can only end in war. Our
present world, after two world
wars, finds itself in the most
dangerous state the world has
ever known. And it is war that
had made it so.
What is the lesson of it ail?
A hard one to learn,
obviously. It is that the real
criminal is man himself. Of all
the animals to be found on this
sad little planet, only one is
suicidal, only one has this wild
tendency to self-destruction.
We don't want to believe in
such a tendency, dowe? Though
evidence for it surrounds us
on every side. Though, for a
Christian belief in it is part of his
religion.
Left to ourselves, we tend to
destroy ourselves; we cannot
help it; we tear ourselves to
pieces; we ruin our own lives and
the lives of those whom we can
control. Left to ourselves, we
kill ourselves.
Yes, man is more than a little
like his own supreme invention.
In isolation, he is harmless
enough. But the grim
potentiality is there. Get enough
men together, and in their most
likely mood, and they can easily
become what the physicists call
a "critical mass." The chain
reaction begins.
The noisy group grows into a
demonstration; the
demonstration into a mob, the
mob explodes — then riot,
looting murder, the city begins
to burn and, when all is over, it
is their own homes that are
gone, their own dead lie in their
own streets, and they themselves
are left helpless and
uncomprehending, It has
happened again, The supreme
cataclysm of a modern war is
only the same sort of thing on a
larger scale.
But it does not have to
happen again, you know, the
lesson of our past, bitter though
it be, can be learned.
We must not think that we
have inherited a world, a world
somehow out there, and which it
is our duty to transform. We are
the world. And the world can
only be transformed by the
conviction that we are the
world.
We have had enough of
human beings who set
themselves to transform
something other than
themselves, which they called
their people, or their nation, or
their world.
No, it is we who are the
world. The world's only source
of explosive lies in us. It is we
who are dangerous,
It is we who must
acknowledge, net that man's
deadliest enemy is man, but that
out deadliest enemy is self: that
we cannot save ourselves; that of
ourselves we will destroy
ourselves; that our deepest urges
are suicidal; and that there is no
hope for us except froM outside
So They Get All The Extra Vitamins
They Need to Battle Winter Storms
The Guardian is very concerned over the recent decision
made by the Student Council concerning the position of Social
Convener. Last year, the elections resulted in three candidates for
this position. This year, two of the candidates have left the
school, leaving the third to assume the role.
Melanie West, seemed to many students, the obvious
inheritor of this position. She displayed admirable interest and
ability in her campaign for the job of Social Convener.
Unfortunately some jobs within the Student Council are probably
filled more on the basis of popularity than true ability.
This year Melanie has shown more concern and genuine
feeling for the Social Convener position than any other person in
this school. She has been more than willing to fight for what she
believes in, which is more than can be said for too many
individuals,
Some members of The Student Council, however, decided
that Melanie did not have the majority of the students backing
her. In the opinion of many they imperiously rejected her offer
of assistance and showed a disgusting trend to group prejudice.
The Student Council may feel that they have the right to
make this analysis, choosing the convenient theory that the
students entrusted them with the power to "appoint".
If the Council feels so strongly about Melanie's inability to
perform this job, then we suggest that they hold an election —
next Friday! — and allow the students to decide. Surely they
could not object to this, especially if they are certain that Melanie
does not have the support of the majority.
Their right to "appoint" a successor from within the
established boundaries of their personal preferences is seriously
questioned.
I do not accuse the Student Council of forming a
dictatorship within the system. In fact, I praise their method of
governing by democracy, and I feel that they have contributed to
the quality of South Huron's Student Councils more than any
student government in recent years.
They have made a genuine attempt to place the decision
making and the power in to the hands of the student body. They
have met with serious obstacles in the form of apathy and general
griping without constructive criticism or assistance (obstacles, I
might add,, which we all face!).
I object wholeheartedly to the way in which the "Melanie
West Case was handled. It was a serious, highly unacceptable
blunder on the part of the Student Council.
I encourage a reply from the Student Council on these
observations, We all would appreciate a clear resume of the facts
behind the deeisions — I have yet to hear more than excuses,
appeasement, and whining for sympathy.
I think it absolutely necessary that the student body be
informed of this case and that the final decision be handed to
them, if the Council sees any valid reasons why Melanie West
should not be given the job.
We need a Social Convener, we want one! We cannot accept
the compensation of a vote on the Student Council, (provided she
obtain fifty signatures). This is ridiculous and a mockery of the
democratic InStitution.
It is difficult to imagine how the social life of the school,
the theme for the formal „ etc. , . can be handled by the entire
student council. It is difficult to speculate the Masons behind this
issue why is such a big deal being made out of something with
so obvious a solution?
The two other candidates for Social Convener have left —
Melanie West waits in the wings. I move that Melanie West be
appointed Social Convenor, by law of her right to the position —
who will second that motion?
By FATHER DURAND
"The last soldier of Europe."
This is the title given by a
famous historian to St. Joan of
Arc, who died about five
centuries ago. "The last soldier
of Europe? He may have been
speaking ironically, but what did
he mean?
Well, what is a true soldier?
He is the man who takes up arms
in a great cause: who is willing
to die for God and country.
After St. Joan, this historian is
suggesting, there was no more
dying for God and country, no
more great causes, no more
soldiers. Wars? yes, God knows.
Military men? Yes, military men
in their millions. But no soldiers.
Never again.
The names we heard read
today: they were fine young
men, brave young men. What did
they die for? The dreadful truth
is that they died for nothing.
What was that thing in which
they fought? A war? It was not
very different, I am afraid, from
the calamity of 1914. When
either of these terrible upheavals
began, there were of course
people who thought they saw a
clear cause, and thought they
recognized a true war. It may
perhaps even be possible still to
identify and to accuse those who
started it,
But what we look back upon,
long after the event, is
something very different from
what people thought it was
when it began. The ambitions of
the old empires, the racism of
Hitler, the militarism of Japan,
may all have been evil things,
and may have led to great
crimes.
But what cause, or what man,
or what group of men, had any
notion of bringing about the
ghastly cataclysms which
actually followed? If the
politicians who, in their folly
and rashness, set the armies
marching in 1914, had had any
idea of what was to come of it
all, they would have settled for
anything, rather than let it
happen. It was their own
destruction which they were
bringing about, as well as the
destruction of their world.
If Hitler himself, monster
that he was, had been able to
foresee into what a catastrophe
he was plunging himself and the
nation which furnished him with
power, would he ever have given
the signal to begin?
Thirty million dead: that is
one statistic for the last war,
Thirty million? No one is sure.
Forty or fifty million perhaps,
with waste, oppression, blood,
torture and death imagination.
And all for what? Who won?
The very question is a mockery
of reason,. Mass destruction on
both sides. Mass murder oft both
sides. In the end nobody cared
where the bombs fell, nor what
or whom they destroyed,
Those two great wars has no
More meaning than an
earthquake. To struggle, to
suffer, and to die in either of
them had no more meaning than
to struggle, suffer and die hi an
earthquake.
The great modern war, let it
be repeated, has no more
meaning than an , earthquake. It
is not a true conflict. It is a huge
destructive upheaval in which
innocent and guilty perish
together.
There is a difference of
course, a difference which makes
Remembranee Day necessary for
our good. This sort of
earthquake, as well as being a
"The girl f marry must be the
outdoor type. The kind who
can mow a lawn, weed a.
garden, change a flat,
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