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Editoriai Comment
Walking a tightrope
The inaugural Speech ` given by
Clinton Mayor Don Symons last
Monday night demonstrates there are
a great many problems associated
With trying to run a .municipal
government.
From one side municipal councils
are plagued ,with demand,`s for more
and improved services, all of which
cost money, and'on the other, they are
battered with ,demands to stop spen-
ding
money and hold the tax rate.
But 'we must admire the Clinton
council, who have been fortunate, with
the help of grants from the Ontario
government, to lower the tax rate ih.
the last two years, and yet maintain an
excellent public works and recreation
-department, build a new, sewage plant,
and embark on an ambitious road
reconstruction program.
But that era is .now at an end. 'No
council in this time of two digit in-
flation, can expect to remain
progressive or even hold the line on
taxes.
So Clintonians should be prepared
for a tax increase this year, and from
this obser'ver's standpoint, we must
have one to maintain our basic ser-
vices and- reconstruction program.
We b,adly need the street paving plan
and' it .should be topmost on the list.
Sugar and Spicc/By Bill Smiley
.My -Merry Christmas
This is being written. in that pre -New Year
hiatus. And I am writing it in the pre -natal
position, the hiatus between -being happy and
being alive.
It's rather awkward, as my elbows keep
hitting my knees, and vice versa.
However, I'm alone, with the lights out
and the doors locked, so it's worth it.
My wife has been away for three days, so ..
that life has been rather peaceful in the
domestic confrontation field. On the other
hand, we are plagued with that infernal,
external thing invented by Alexander
\Graham Bell, and at, any moment Y expect to
leap with nerves at its shrill, and hear th+e reflected. "The world is full of them. -He wore a �•ha�h+t,rig?�
butexpected-voice on the ether end, cheeks. . °r Y Well yes
beloved as~p T kwe ems, ' o lmige
pleading, b`The>"ram,
isn't it?" bJ �- world His are like two huge, da g .,
IthuhtId
wife. The rest of this column is cold fact.
My daughter was home with Pokey and'
that other fellow, she hangs around with. I
changed his diapers six times (Pokey's),
while his father slept and his mother played
-.contemporary music (slabs and cords) on
the piano.
The kid 'and I had our usual super time. I
must be getting old' and sick and stupid and
'queer because he's. the only person I have
any fun with any more.. We wink solemnly,
smile gravely, crawl under the dining room
table and bump our heads, and hold out our
arms to each other when everything else
palls. He likes whisker -rubs and I like satin
}
fi
The Doc's advice
The Doc and I were sitting ►n front of a blazing,
January -type fire, ,discussing Life and The Times, when
Joe Whalley, as I'll have to call him, dropped' in for a
visit.
Joe is a quiet, mousy kind of guy, about 40, who.lives
down the road apiece and comes
whatby for
e does. occasional
estalks
beer. I've never really understoodh
about invoices and loading pool cars and stuff like that I
don't understand. hypocrisies
Now he Mouthed a few of. the customary
' and then blurted out the real reason for his visit.
` I havetoask my boss fora raise
`Maybe
the Doc
„
Joe
said.
i(e get
fetters
Problems'
Dear Editor,
1975 is here and it finds
mankind facing as never
before the harsh fact that its
problems are truly global --
and global problems demand •
global solutions.
"Science News" magazine
says that a group of scien-
tists and industrialists called
the "Club of Rome"
describes the situation as
unique, because today- `only
a global solution is now
adequate', and whereas
there was time to search out
,solutions to previous
problems, `only. rapid action
will now suffice'. _
In the New York Times of
Nov. 10, 1974, editorial writer
Anthony Lewis expresses
similar ideas: "The fear that
something fundamental is
changing in the relationship
of man and nature, the
concern that things are out
of joint in the world, is not
confined to the problem of
food. The use of oil as a
political and economic
weapon, the 'pressure on
other resources, the inflation
raging across most of the
world -- all give rise to
uneasiness. Oil, food,
SQ,
give him any song and prosperity, security,
"So, everything is connected to
dance about why you need the raise. He's not interested in Y g
the hungry mouths you have to feed or any recitation everything else."
about how inflation has hit you. All he's interested in is
Economist . Robert L.
what you're giving him for his money. Chances are he Heilbroner has expressed the
knows that already. He probably knows, too, that you're belief 'that 'the world will .
move toward a new social -
worth more than you get." order to. meet its problems'.
"Oh, he knows .all right," Joe said with some bitterness. The Bible foretells that the
"You see, to him it's just another business problem," nations will arrive at some •
the Doc 'went on. "To you it's a very personal situation. So kind of global arrangement
".Tomorrow," he said, you have to meet him on his own ground. Not yours. No allowing them to 'claim that
in pay." appealing to his sympathy or anything like that. You have they have found the way to
W Y the Doc said. = something to sell. He needs it. Now you want a higher "peace and security". But it
"A day that comes to every man„ shows that such .will be
"Trouble is, I dread it," Joe said. "If it weren't that price for it. That's the kind of straight talk a boss un -
Martha was after me all the time I'd never think of it. I . derstands. It's the only kind he understands.", short-lived and that only
need the raise, of course. Feel I have it coming to me. But ry"It sounds very sensible when you put it that way," Joe God's promised 'new order'
I'm just no good at that kind of thing conceded. , ,., ".�.� - (Matt. 6:9, 10) will bring the
the Doc went on. You r
The
"Don't
„
went
on.
conte e . . ,.•,• .
"Now, about the money," ` were desired relief from global
Doc lit his pipe. he
"Another guy who never: learned to sell himself,'' going to ask him for a raise and let him decide on how distress. (I Thessalonians 5:
ltd while * g g '1-3; 2. peter 3:13)
That is why Jesus stated
that, when there was upon
the earth distress and
perplexity with seemingly no
way out 'This good news of
say, s or the kingdom' would be
preached (and published
Joe had listened to all this intently. Now he put his beer Mark• 13:10) in all the world.
on the floor and stood up. He pretended to open a door (Matthew 24:14) (Luke
and walk into• an office. He faced the Doc and gave a 21:25,26) That Kingdom is of
short little speech. It hada quiet, man-to-man•dignity and global scope and will bring a
was altogether persuasive. He grinned when it was over. happy solution to global
The Doc grinned,'too.
"Can,'t miss," he said.
Joe slumped hack in his chair.
"It'd be so much simpler if Martha could do it," he
said..
•
eat>,�i'dirf tb 1�1"�g�Fiiiho►'* ' ' p "It's a fatal mistake. Set
�,.ab� ;. g.' to' w'"o`ir�'iiti�`a"� little speech in your "Dont,,' the Doc said sharply. have the two sets of most beautiful eyt" tr ask - '
looks as the won rk mind ri ht?" he asked. „ a value on yourself and ask for 25 percent more. If you
arse << Joe confessed. o g ask for peanuts then you're judged as peanuts. Nothing
that was ever sold cheap was ever valued. My father used
to s 'Ask f the moon and compromise for a star'."
As a matter of fact,, the ho
though a ship -load of Vikings had spent the grapes with a 'devilish light in them. Mine
blood -shot fallen -angel type. We
weekend, before going on to loot and rape are blue, ,
somewhere else, but 'I alb equal to these also share an affinity for doing things other
occasions and reply firmly, "I've just people think -we 'should 'not do. He rubs the
finished the dishes, dear," " cat' the wrong way. I ruffle, my wife's
Brunhilda, ' 'at the other end of the phone feathers.. ,"
doesn't know that this means I've just I'd like to have had him,.for Christmas acbut
line,
dropped and smashed a huge trayful of his other grandfather was•appa Y pacing
Beleek, Spode, Worcestershire and fine old the floor, hitting his head.against things, and
Woolworth's Japanese. threatening to call' out the Mounties if' he
But she senses something. Some people didn't see his grandson, so ,I had to let him
have a great sense of smell, or taste. My go.
wife has a great sense of sensing. "You neiWeloitering,was
asnIt to hadhsoleft
uch looked
sound finny," she'll say. "What are you p lonely
forward to, during the holidays. My son
to?" My son is a
"Well," I chuckle, "it depends on what the or ahhedra arrived.ed sparrow, depending on how
rd of .paradise
mean, dear. At the moment, I'm up to bedraggled
phone. In the fairly recent past, I've been up you feel.
to the bathroom, andd to get I was a bit in the sparrow mood, following
r days before, of his bag an
some milk."
This goes over like a ton of feathers. "Just ... baggage, to the tune of $46:60, express,
house is an collect
h up to the
airy d
the receipt, a fewy
so
as I thought," she'll gay. The to spread the
absolute mess." She seems n °outget
of this fa th Yes, he Yesls going to ast yearPhea wlent to the Holy
tisfact did
"You are quite right,"enchilada is a corpulent
Yes, I have,"
"Forget it," the Doc interrupted. "Your boss isn't in-
terested in your qualifications as an after-dinner speaker.
In my day I had many men working under me. Nothing
antagonized me more than the raconteur type who came
to me with a memorized speech. Right away I began to
doubt his sincerity."
"You don't know this boss," Joe put in miserably.
"All bosses are haled" the Doc said, "and in most
cases they don't deserve it. What yokes ve gotto t asr in he'd buy
ember
is that the boss is buying your services, j
liquid paste or paper towels for the washroom. 'He's out to
get the most for the least money. If he isn't, he doesn't
stay boss very long."
From our early fiie....
• • -• •
10 YEARS AGO following days.
Jan 210 1965. 25 YEARS AGO
At the close of Monday Jan. 1'9; 1950. Jan. 15, 1925.
night's meeting, members of Central Agricultural Misses Ferrol Higgins and residents of Ontario• had an Goderich township) and, H.J.
Clinton Town Council id- HuronMary Stewart are assisting opportunity of ,seeing a total
Society held its annual Fair, now of Varna.
' arrows satisfaction 'then Wearer sold a joining Mid- at a concert in Goderich this eclipse of the sun, and not
strange, Vicarious Western Ontario Develop- meeting in the Board.Room,
e house is a mess, our marriage is Land. The Arabs didn't get him. Nei non- Ontario Agricultural Office, evening. Bert Langford has until 2144 will Ontario have 100 YEARS AGO
idea. If theopportunity, .y
good and solid and I am to be trusted. the Jews. Yes, he is broke.
ldas and Mennonites ment Association, a taken over the International ant then such opp Jan. 14, 1875.
go there are enchiladas profit organization designed . Saturday afternoon, with a for Clinton. He is
•t 1 retort knowing Yes, fair attendance and agency - 75 YEARS AGO W. Young Esq: of
The to promote and develop the fixingupthe former Prin-Colborne, was selected as
the formula. '`Your daughter and your sore- In Paraguay President E.J. "Dick" Jacob Jan. 19, 1900.
in-law and has just
grandchild have just left and scorpion. If your step on squashonwhile he is area for the betterment of in the chair. cess Theatre as an
to restingin shoe, and him, the area. automobile salesroom. Jos. Colclough, of the Base member of the council oft e
your son has arrived, and he is going and this results in a disease Glen Webb of Alex F. Cudmore was re- Goderich township has Agricultural Association of Reeve Cl.H.B. Combe has been Line,
Paraguay to pioneer the faith and Paraguay must eat him, elected chairman of Clinton Ontario (in place of Sheriff
snakes and tortillas and enchiladas called mouth
hiladi ave in. calls for the roof of Stephen, elected- warden of appointed honorary colonel sold forty acres of his farm Gibbons, whose term of
is full of Public School Board at the
Mennonites and the Green Hell and he your mouth to cave Mennonite Huron .for 1965,.in a brief inaugural meeting in the of the Huron Regiment in to W. Barrett late of Morris,
and Men And,eo course,seif you step on a in who Barrett it office now expires of
wants money."inaugural speech, asked that g recognition of his greatfarm.
in the course of spreading not theafaith, you get the roblem of accomodation Public School. f.,. ,,recogn to the militia of into a fruit and convertingveof Sit office
Agricultural to expires)
Tenthhe for
"Don't give him a cent, until I get home," W Cecil I. Johnston, reeve o
Mennonitis. This does not cause the roof of at HuronvieW he based upon Canada and his gallantry �� It is now the pry Ontario.
she commands. course our mouth to fall in, but the front, including � Ashfield Township for the Joseph's to possess a daily
to
• � s rnter ..,...._ ., _.... .� _�, _ ......._..-. u.�tderstanding, and that new - � - w ��.1�.ted-• du�ing th�..Great War. : _ gy
This rs what rs known a . w _.Y .y .z. _M._ , est four years, s h _
75
•'�eeth..
. know. ___._ _ . m em�g_r s � � f a trr 1 i a�r i � e P -for- _ At ...a mea �n�g _o�f thvvrr.i1, rning..:%.aun �.ur.itoh to a 1 W �I°�r i`����' �orif+�i`m'
a
between marlumsi ass, ` vtfrust tes the with all the .
there is no There are shots for the former, buFnot for Warden ofIuro n n°uof the Council, the following were here. This is a long felt want the By-lawyof the Village of
what the next move is, and th pe g and was duly appreciatedconfusion, clumsiness, or frustration. I the latter. January session in the Co Pp and
when given. Clinton to the Town of
Hugh and I dined in lonely Clinton. `
shudder to think What it must be between a At any rate, House Goderrch, Tuesday C t 1 sudrtors
single people. �- state on Christmas Day, from a capon. We re f afternoon One day last week .
if weren't lonely, but he was. He was the -only three week vacation t g of Dr. J.W. Shaw, d P D 1G , D I and gang
Well, 'that was an imaginary, h At the January
verisimilitudinous, conversation with my castrated rooster in the joint. h took to the
chairman for the meeting.
50 YEARS AGO
problems.
Sincerely yours,
C. F. Barney,
Clinton.
of the sun's eclipse on honor standing at the recent
Saturday morning as Normal examinations in
. possible. Not for over 100 Ottawa are the names of
years, since 1806, have the C.A. Tehbutt, Summerhill
f F Tebutt of
facts. 1950 ate� o
Court appointed for their several
Casey Atkinson has � wash duties:. J. Wiseman a
turned to Bayfieldroma , D.W.L. an a on,
'n in The u
meeting
Bahamas where he waste Library" oar
guest of Mr, and Mrs. W. the Clinton Junior. Farmers, Board of
Robson. Mr. Atkinson flew vice-president Fred Gibson MacPherson,
from Toronto to Nassau was in charge as Bob Allan Health.
where he - enjoyed balmy was in Toronto attending the There have been 145 new
Junior Farmers' Provincial lock hoxes installed at the
weather and spent con-. Conference. Post Office this week which
siderable a time deep-sea W Robert Miller, first
should greatly reduce the
fishing. teller of Clinton Branch of •
Mrs. Margaret Farquhar shortage that has been
• is leaving for Cypress, the Royal Bank of Canada, prevalent for some time.
California to visit her has been transferred to the N•W • Trewartha has
'` daughter and son-in-law, accounts department at the opened a new business in the
Mildred and Emery Baggs SunnvilY•e branch and old New Era building. This
and 'plans on staying Until reported there Monday. will be known as "The
spring, • The inaugural meeting of Clinton Poultry House".
W Stanley Township Council , J.B. Stewart is busy
A suggestion that Clinton moving his family
•
merchants and businessmen
was held in the Township from.
dewalks Hall, Varna. The clerk was Goderich Township to their
last week,Alex One day
ar in while John McDonald, of Hullett,
pressing hay on the farm of Stapleton . Saw
Geo. 'Bowes, pressed 120 Mill a soft elm log that
hales, weighing .from 150 to measured four feet six in -
170 pounds each,' in five ches at the thin end. It was
hours. eleven feet long and con-
Mess'rs. A.A. Cox and C.J. tained over sixteen hundred
Campbell, valuators of the feet,"board measure.
Canadian Life Insurance Co., •
were in town on Wednesday -
looking into some real estate When was the last timer
matters in which the com- you...had your polio shot? The
pany is interested. March of Dimes Ability
George Robison, C.E., Fund reminds us that
(son-in-law of Robt. Coats) everyone should be im-
munized against polio every
spent, a . couple of days in
five, For your
Clinton this week. He had protection, contact your
just returned from the coast local Department of Public
where his relatives reside. Health.
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wishing ,then- sl
cleared of snow could pay authorized to draft a by-law new home on Victoria St.
for the service *with a special prohibiting the dumping of Miss Dorothy Ward has Williamo Dodds, who was
,�_ ._ junk on township roads and accepted a position in for years the head sawyer
� sou g .OilA� , __ ,t tax m a b e , es'ent,"= ' 4a me- tQ
is tn...pfc Detr�eit; d--hasmalrea Y left. for_
or ...ihe....E,a�axu.-.. , Qthers, has
brought before the Y next` ncil at its next meeting. for her duties there accepted a similar position
regular town council Cou
meeting. The annual meeting of the T. Managhan was the with Doherty and Co., and
Bayfield Cemetery Board winner of the euchre prize at will take charge of the
Winter has finally come to was held on Saturday, .Tan.
Clinton and surrounding the Odd Fellows party held sawmill to be rim in con -
14 at the home of the on Tuesday evening. rtectiorl with their establish-
areas.
stablish-
snow.There is quite a bit of resident, , Lloyd Scotchmer. Everyone should make merit as soon as itis ready.
snow already on ,the ground p
and more is predicted in the D.H: McNaughton was p:eparatiol:.4 t see as much Among those who secured
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