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1.10th Year -No. 9
&hiortal Comment
T•aia the easy way
The decision of the Ontario govern-
ment to go into the lottery business will
no doubt set a lot of heads wagging,
says the Wingham- Advance -Times.
The older and . more conservative
residents of the province are not the
only ones who will be opposed to this
move into the field of out-and-out
gambling by provincial authorities.
Apparantly the Ontario cabinet has
agreed that a $100 million a year lot-
tery will be the painless way to finance
an expanded program of cultural and
,recreational activities. Perhaps so, but
it could be that Ontario is a bit late in
its, timing. Hundreds of millions of
dollars have already been syphoned
out of the economy by the Olympic
lottery and as much more will be
soaked up in that venture before the
Olympics take place next year.
Knowing Mayor Drapeau's
propensity for making the most of a
good thing we can expect him to
continue the lottery in some form or
other long after the athletes have come
and gone. Everyone can recall the way
he queezed mileage out of Expo '67 for
several additional years.
There are already government -
backed lotteries in Western Canada
and it is worth noting that some of
them have been losing money. There is
no guarantee that Ontario will be any
more successful in a venture of this
kind.
Then, too, there is the moral issue. At
least it is an issue for a sizeable
segment of Ontario electors, many of
whom object to gambling on religious
grounds. Whether or not lotteries
deserve condemnation from a religious
standpoint, they are questionable, to
say 'the Least; from the social stand-
point. The simple fact that gambling
offers something for nothing, or next to
nothing, reinforces the belief that hard
work and sound planning are a waste of
time — a belief which is held by all too
many Canadians today. And obviously,
for every winner there is a host of
losers who get nothing for the money
they invested.
Well, of course, there will be no way
of stopping a provincial Lottery once it
has been approved by cabinet, and lots
of people will think it's a great idea. To
be consistent, however, the govern-
ment should now lift its regulations
against pin ball machines and all the
other forms of gambling which it
selfrighteously declares are bad for the
simple-minded peasants of the
province.
the smelling craze
From The Financial Post's it -had -to -
happen department comes news of
what may be the latest Wrinkle in the
Scratch 'n' sniff ad craze of a couple of
years. back.
This time, though, it's sniff without
the scratch, and the odors are in T-
shirts, not advertisements. Ap-
pararently, the scented T-shirts sold --
maybe
maybe even smelled — like hotcakes
over Christmas, and at $14 each, that
sounds like money for jam. The secret
scenting process has never been
- revealed, but if you buy a shirt with a
picture of oranges and limes on the
front, you —or your shirt at any rate —
will give off a delicate citric aroma.
Experiments are under way to
produce more scents, and the
possibilities seem endless; how about
old running shoes, fresh air, or even
essehce of crisp new dollar bills? Just
how many washings the T-shirts can
withstand before they lose the im-
pregnated scent and take on a plain
old -T-shirt aroma, is uncertain, but
smelling obviously has become big
business.
Seems you're no longer allowed to be
satisfied with the scents you were born
with. --.
Sugar and Spice/By Bill Smiley
M. Drapeau's little game
I think we'll all agree that there is nothing
quite so downright miserable and annoying as
the person who delights in saying "I told you so."'
Certainly, all married men will agree with me.
Most of us know perfectly well that we are poor
little lambs who have lost our way, that we have
feet of clay and bones for brains. But we hate
being reminded of it.
It seems to me that there is nothing more
redundant than to wake up with a hangover,
mouth full of the bottom of a birdcage, head full
of porcupine quills, and have _a .smirking, self-
satisfied voice grating "Well, I warned you, but
you wouldn't listen to me."
Who needs it? Who needs a post-mortem, when
he is still alive, though barely? I speak not from
experience, of course, but from hearsay. Not
admissible in. court.
After that preamble, I have to admit that I told
you so. I told the whole nation so. But nobody
Canada. And even though I t 'n the Clinton Legion about 11 inches thickan years
to be reamed like an old pipe, but they wouldn't
listen.
Oh, well, what the hell. A prophet is without
honor in his own country. You in your small
I in mine. Competing in the Ontario
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Place -droppers
We're to examine today the curious type of parlor menace
known as the Place -Dropper, a fellow you always seem to run
into when you've returned from a trip to a foreign land.
The Place -Dropper is not to be confused with the Name -
Dropper. The Name -Dropper is the, man .(or woman) who has
met one or more celebrities and never lets you forget it. "I'll
always remember the late Jack Benny telling me...." "Once,
when I was talking to Robert Goulet at a party...." "Speaking
of old-time stars I recall asking Jimmy Cagney...." Thus,
cunningly, they bring any conversation around to their fleeting
moments with the famous.
The Place -Dropper, on the other hand, does not deal with
human beings, but with geography. His terms of reference are
not to be found in a Who's Who, but in an atlas. In most cases
he's a man who has, travelled widely, has a photographic
memory and a deep conviction that any place in the world
where he hasn't set foot must be pretty dull.
The curse of the Place -Dropper is that he may transform a
whole roomful of nice, normal people into as militant Place -
Droppers as himself. Purely in self-defence they will start
recalling their itineraries of the past and what started out as
the host's narrative of a holiday in Mexico may disintegrate
into a conversational global travelogue.
The Place -Dropper has the knack of making any of your
expeditions seem as uninspiring as a bus ride into town. At a
small gathering the other night, for example, I was giving a
short, 10,000 -word monologue on the beauties of the village of
Taxco when I was interrupted by one of the breed.
"Of course you visited Cuernavaca?" he inquired softly.
"Why, no, as a matter of fact, we missed that. But as I was
saying...."
"Pity," said the Place -Dropper musingly. "Cuernevaca, of
course, is the real Mexico. I remember spending a week with
the basket -weavers there....". and he had taken the ball from
me and was down the field.
The only way to stop the Place -Dropper is to beat him at his
own game.
"Interesting that you should mention basket -weaving," I
said, "because that happens to be one of the chief industries in
TaxcoThe town, as you know, is built on the very steep hill
and "
"I wonder if it could be as steep as some of those lovely little
villages in the Swiss Alps," the Place -Dropper interrupted
smoothly. "Some of them in behind Zurich must be reached by
funicular railways or cable cars..."
"Rather like the cable car up to Table Mountain, I presume,"
I countered, having caught on. quickly. "Capetown really is
fabulous, you know. The international flavor...."
"Nothing to equal that of Marseille, as you'll doubtless
agree," said the Place -Dropper.
The Place -Dropper is determined to top any of your ex-
periences. Supposing, having returned from Mexico, you
mention that it was 82 degrees in Acapulco, as I just happened
to mention it the other night.
"Quite coot, really," observed the Place -Dropper. "I
remember one day in Maracaibo when it was 98 in the shade...
"Leopoldville at 110?"
"Khartoum at 120," said the Place -Dropper.
I might have stood for this, but the Place -Dropper over.,
stepped his limits when I was showing my home movies.
"Interesting that the foliage should be so similar to that of the
West. Indies," he observed in a strong, clear,voice above the
clatter_ "Of course, the bougainvillaea grows more densely,
particularly in Jamaica in the rainy season.
It was all he got out. There was the sharp crack of my Smith
& Wesson, the smell of the cordite and it was all over.
"Zanzibar," he said and never spoke again.
From our early files.... • .
• i •
10 YEARS AGO
March4, 1965
corner, a�av
My severest critic of my point of view is not my _Commercial Teachers
wife, as is most often the case. Slee thinks. the- Association annual typing honour the 40th anniversary with
Games are something the teenagers play down competitions for ntral Huron Secondary time, a series of sales.
Ray Gibbing elder son of Mrs.
at the Olympia restaurant. The only connection tSchool students made a Melvin Crich of town acct an
is that the proprietors of the Olympia are Greek. satisfactory showing, employee of CNR atA each,
No, my chief opposition comes from my Clinton and District had its has been successful in passing his
assistant department head, which only confirms share of snow last Thursday and * rules at examinations in Toronto
my long -held view that she is—bigoted,- thick.- Friday, but was a long way from the first week in February. Ray is
headed, disloyal to her chief, and a lousy shuf- being isolated. The town streets now qualified to take a station.
fleboard player. department worked overtime in The weather has taken a turn
Her 'argument goes like this "The Olympic keeping streets and walks open. for the worst with the coming of
Games are for all of Canada. Why shouldn't all Township roads Saturday and hiwere hwaas 9pen by and 8 _yesterday and duringstorm ed thell day
night
Canadians help pay for them?" highways .`�'�" �'-'
Well, she's all wet, in which she wouldn't weigh were never closed to traffic. with the result that at noon today,
• Two of the First Clinton Scount things were pretty well tied up.
85 pounds, soaking. Troops received their Queen's The annual ice harvest has
Nobody asked me if I wanted the stupi• d Scout gold cords at the father and
d of a
Robert N. Irwin, who has had
charge of the dry goods business
which James A. Irwin started in
Clinton 40 years ago March 1, is
now the owner. He intends to'
commenced this week. The ice is
listened.- .__ when r Olympic Farce to ane son banquet i
I saidNO. Hall last Wednesday evening. good sample considering the mild
-- -- t. the rest of us
terms the
arn�ed� in �n��ncertarn ., .egg
were going to be pickingupfie tabs for NaPoi
D belief that he is really a reincarnation
f theinfamous
ked
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.,. ,�,..�_ .....•f -_. -- someone. . _ . i _e, ,Cour }r'Gmet -at,.. .wealyr..this,.>�,�,tnte�r•;
'�By me the C�1y�mpte Gatt`teonsistvf-cornea q'he�--A✓rllag on - - mination',
on ayregular r,= of ,.the ..Synod.. Of the
Drapeau's t 1 better than else
Reeve Clift the
Presbytery of Huron -Maitland of
o be it' emperor. meeting. Or maybe it's Caesar he thinks he is. CertainlyIf Mayor Drapeau had ..shown any desire to Y
the position that Bayfield wishes the Presbyterian Church in
he is giving us members of the populace'�read clean.up Montreal, which hrobablworst
hilums, est to retain its present school and to Canada was Rev. D.J. Lane, of
and circuses, as Caesar did. Mighty light on -the • the worst sewage system, probably increase it to four rooms by Clinton, who had served over 30
bread and heavy on the circuses. crime rate in Canada, I'd buy a whole ten -dollar taking in children from SS 3 and years within the Synod.
I said it right here, in black and white, that the lottery ticket, instead of splitting one 10 ways. SS 4; he also pointed out that this Collection of the necessary
He's,,not interested. He wants coliseums, would be a considerable economy data for Huron County Crippled
mayor of Montreal was going to take us for a fast
palaces, and probably wouldn't object to a few for the. proposed amalgamated Children's Survey, which is eine
Bugg ride, when he got the Olympic Games. P
raven images of himself scattered about the school area and would give conducted by the ten is nowsinlubs
full
proving that he or she can .do something cpm- their new hour,7:30 p.m. Tho no
pletely useless a er anyoneM d 1Viarch 1
teresting travel talk in Willis
Church on Tuesday evening. The
event was sponsored by the Girls
Club of the Church.
'" Miss Madelon Shaw is visiting
her cousin, Miss Dorothy Rat-
tenbury, Peterboro..
The hockey, team had a very
successful skating party at the
local arena on Tuesday evening.
Markets were: wheat, $1.65;
oats, 50 to 52 cents; barley, 85c;
buckwheat, 80c; butter, 28c to
20c; live hogs, $11.25.
Thomas Brandon and family of
Bayfield have moved into Lewis
Thompson's cement house for-
merly occupied by Mr. and Mrs.
Charles Thorns.
A ,Y it !� ,� �A�P.:.�.: Wim,... . •
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we get
Dear Editor:
Many pensioners and
misinformed people have fallen
prey to many supposedly
humane w good -will
organizations who are out to
make a fast buck. The books
and works of these people
should be closelyr examined
before they work any longer on
public sympathy.
Does anyone know . the
amount of game birds and
small animals killed and
maimed by cats and wild dogs,
which is usually a well-fed
animal out for fun and comes
and goes as he pleases? But the
sob sisters can't see this.
I keep telling the sheep
farmers that other people have
just as much right to shoot and
trap their sheep if the sheep
ramble the countryside biting
other people's pets.
Do you know that when you
buy a synthetic coat or gar-
ment, that you are buying an
irreplaceable resource? If wild
fur is not annually harvested
the animal population is cut
down periodically, after
months of suffering, by
diseases.
Have you taken the trouble to
see a humane, waterset trap
which is most humane? Have
you seen a paw -hold trap
humanly set by hand or
bothered to find out? A paw -
holding trap is just a device to
detain an animal, and if
properly used, an animal, if
unwanted can be released.
Yours sincerely,
John McCabe,
RR 1, Inwood.
Dear Editor:
Poetry lovers everywhere must
feel a profound obligation to
thank you for sharing that little
gem recently: "Ballad of the
Unborn". May we expect more of
this high quality material in the
future?
Perhaps one may venture the
liberty of gently pointing out that
the title of, the poem was not quite
exactly accurate; space here is
not sufficient to allow proper
definition and illustration of that
form of poetry known as the
ballad. However, on in
vestigation, one finds that
"Ballad .of the Unborn" is a
ballad in name only. It is not truly
a ballad, just as it is not a
limerick, or a sonnet. Possibly
the author was not adequately
versed in. these distinctions;
nonetheless, that does not detract
from the nobility of her ideal.
Probably she chose the word
"ballad" for its frequent
associations with tales of heroism
and martyrdom.
The editor of the publication
which sported this poem on its
cover reported that it evoked a
"tremendous . response" from
readers. Doubtless, this is at
tributable to the poet's turn of
waving the Union Jack marched Phrase. That's not all she turns,
up and down the streets once the either. One can nearly pop one's
news was learned. biscuits on the rug, so violent is
Mr. and Mrs. J.C. Greig have the imagery and the rush of
taken possession of their hand- thought.
some new residence on Goderich There is provocation for one's
intellectual ponderance, too.
street, .Seaf Salkeld
Consider the implications of the
Isaac Salkeld jr, of the first word fruit'• in the line, "I
con. of Goderich township, has myself was judgedto be a fruit of
purchased from George Church,.little worth". Debate the irony in
thirty-nine acre's of the letter's the line, "my eyes will never scan.
farm adjoining his own. Mr. the sky for my high -flying kite".
Church reserved the homestead Can you hear the faint echo there
along with nineteen acres. fly a
of the slang phrase,"go
Professor W.J.R. Fowler, kite"? Subtle.
lecturer and demonstrator of And what in the name of
anatomy at the Ontario
Veterinary College, who prac- literature is an "aborted wind of
Y g thought"?, A misguided zephyr?
tised during the past summer, A fractured participial emission?
has declined a prominent k wind?
government situation in the city How does one brea
75 YEARS AGO follow his The author of this. poem is
March 2, 1900
and intends to obviously. well-acquainted with
profession in Clinton. Depew psychology. Notice the words,
Mr. J. Murray' P carefully selected, that ' carry
On Monday morning, every
house and fence (representing the Nordheimer scads of connotations, over and
Coati, tree, ,
for the -- ;Zit ed' As though 'the' mroo-n-t had-
beett. displaced by the furies in
the management of the weather,
such flying of snow and low
temperatures are seldom seen.
It was a hot time in Clinton last
Tuesday as the town celebrated
the surrender of Cronje...and the
relief. Ladysmith in South Africa.
Many parades of loyal citizens
for the Motierata
For anada?Don't besilly. For Montreal.
g adequate opportunity or of Huron County
The handwriting is now on the wall, loud and city.
Didyou notice that when the Olympic Com- education in Bayfield, without swing.
clear. And as fast as M. Drapeau rubs it off, or lookingpreventing the 'formation of a
licks it off with his eloquent labial organ, it mittee was on the edge of the abyss,bookin into entral school at Brucefield.
reappears it, there
*asn't exactly a scram ewarrtong a Bell Telephone has added 12?
' tions to ick u the tab? ele hones in Clinton in the last
It seems inevitable that you and me, sistern worlds na p p t p
and brethren, are going to be picking up a big, fat The, only tentative offer was from the Arab year. This makes a total of 2,230
tab' for the 1976 Montreal Games. And games is swingers, who are in similar circumstances to telephones in service here as of
the word, if the Olympics consist of running in the
ydbaarelswho
thelived
don't know rwha have
do December
Mrs. Tuckey, Bayfield
ever -decreasing Circles until you disappear up .
your own you -know -what. Admitted, barrels are better than children these entertained a good turnout of
but there's a limit. families gathered at the Bayfield
Let's not blame it on the construction strikes in days, United Church at a pot -luck
Montreal. Let's not blame it on inflation. Let's Say. Pardon me for a moment. Just ad a supper which was served
'blame the $300 million dollar deficit (and who thought. Those Arabs are buying up practically
, cateteria style by the ladies.
knows how much more?), on the delusions of anything these days. Wonder if they'd be in- 25 YEARS AGO'
grandeur of the rolyiest-polyiest con man since terested in some fine moose pasture I own up
P. T. Barnum made -that immortal statement: north. Used to be called mining stocks. March 2, 1950
"Never give a sucker an even break." Probably not. However,�maybe they'd take a
Hank Bourassa of Quebec and Pete Trudeau of flyer on a pure-bred hybrid cat,
,Half wolf, half suggested innct connection
ne ionof wanith
the
Ottawaknew they were dealing with a greased pig. And by golly, the price right.g g sugge ice plant in ClintonnLions
eel when they tangled with Drapeau, but all they this jewel, this loving, lovable creation is going Arena presentnd to the
ditl•wwas make polite political noises, assuring the for four. quarts of oil and a one -billionth share in members were the Lions Club at the
suckers that it wasn't going to cost more than the Holy Old Eruption Oil Company. regular semi-monthly dinner.
ma be seven cents each to put on this ex- Now, how did I get.away off here in the oil Scouting again is being revived
id Let s see Trudeau oily B masa oilier. in Clinton under the aegis of the
e fields? t ou ,
travagorama. Drapeau, oiliest. Lions Club with A.G. Grigg as
Some of •us, those possessing the. gift, and a A simple matter of conjugation. chairman.
memory, knew perfectly well that we were going
50 YEARS AGO
March 5, 1925 ,
Milverton defeated Clinton in
the first game for the Silver Cup
which has been donated by Mr.
Smith, manager of the Clinton
Arena.
Mrs. James Appleby fell while
on her way to church on Sunday
morning and injured her spine
and as a result will be laid un for
some time,,
Harry Watkins entertained a
number of boy friends in honour
of his birthday.
Miss Edna Wise has been
sucees ;ful in her examination in
connection with the Toronto
Conservatory of Music, obtaining
first class honours.
Mr. and Mrs. F.A. Plaskett,
who were burned out several„
weeks ago, have moved to
Stratford.
*Dr. P. Hearn gave a very in -
d
IIE (:I.INTON NEW ERA
I:'si tblIshi•d 1865
o d Musie Co.) has be
�; Pian .an
noun th►s
value. Indeed,
weeFC'exhTsting at the
above -their initial
t-
C...1Hoare., one of the o
Store of Mr,,.. seem So.near-to impudelate) that ...
...,.
greatest novelties in the musical Ms. Clayton employs her
instrument line the Orchestra thesaurus with a better skill than
Piano player.
Messrs Innes and Horton have her her poetic key words: "morning", craft. Extract a few of
just purchased the famous prize „awn", "fruits of the earth",
and stock winning stallion, Sir
ne might suggest (did it not
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