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McKinley was,, present at two farm .
hMeetings ,id: the county 'recently and
'both.tlr1es me out strong ,against a.
plan to; ,guar ntee far nerS receive at
ie►t.. t1e cyst of production on their
farm produce.. this kind orM;Mr. Me lntey objects to
cry-.eept***
i°af sur. He wants to , see
:
far tyting retrain a:" comp efery frerq
enterprise S.yte.M•
We sy{rnpathize vvitl1 Mr. McKinley.
it- seems a shame to see a the last
vestage of free enterprise dying. More
and more things are controlled py big
government or big business. The small
fa.mi y
.farm, vigorously independent,
went on.
But whether the farmers take active
part in changing the system or not, free
enterprise seems to be a thing of the
past on farms, In the past 10 years
we've seen the hard economic realitiesof
force more, and more farmers o
business. More and more farms- are
being .concentrated in the hands of a
few relatively powerful individuals. If
the trend continues as it appears if will
unless some drastic action is taken, we
will soon have the same situation as in
nearly every other business where a
few large. 'companies control
market: These largecompaHies cannot
only' 'artificially control prices, they
also have the political clout to get
-concessions from the government that
make the money farmers now get from -
government, look absolutely paltry.'
- -1 get sad when I see .what has hap-
. pened to farming since the Second
World War. This land in Huron County
-was settled . by hardy people from
Europe who came here because they
could get free land (or at least cheap
land) and have a chance to escape the
poverty they faced under the
established economic and social
.hierarchy In their homelaf
battled against',they ' Janc'
Ornate togive r'- them v
e�C"hwhat' has now b+ er {�y�{{r" a/
erlceY uM�,�����xtrSel 1M
a: nay► hier r h that.
to 'people trying : to dO the
same thin• S..
•. You have,to have a lot of money to
even thlinK' aboutg °into farming,
The price Of that "free land' has
grown,rnfnensely.� ' ice you 9t: the
x
land, you }still have tb buy e. pettSiVe
'machinery to .Work the Land.. lf,. for,
`rlr>tac y
instance, . you wanted to go into the
`dairy besiness, you d have to buy`, a
milk quota, another stumbling bloc to
thamu-manage
se trying to ,get started in farming.
alt. -these thir195 .X. me
wild chance, you'll stili likely go broke
within five years because the cycles
f
the farm pricing system won't ;provide
enough money for you, to pay the in-
terest charges on ail the "Honey you've •
had to borrow, If you don't go broke,
well you probably had enough money
and enough business savvy that her
ou
should have put to work in some o
line of business where you could really
make money.
No, I don't like the present system' in
farming. I'm not sure I'm whole-
heartedly behind the income
stabilization or behind the production
quotas some marketing boards have
. set up either, but something has to be
done. Farmers can't continue to
f arm
Not
under the present circumt nces
only does depleting the number of
farmers concentrate ownership in the
hands of too, few and not only does it
drive families off the farm who would
be much happier on the farm than in
some illy but it also weakens the small
towns and villages that keep a place
like Huron county going.
Free enterprise? Well, if we could
turn the clock back 50 years to where a
farm family could make.a living on 100
acres, to where all our towns were
bustling places much larger than they
are today, I'd be all in favour. But until
we can do something like that, I'm for
protecting what few farmers we have
left.
we get letters
Dear Editor: • newspapers. 250,000 requests for this book,
g and we get more every day.
,The Editor:
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Program was launched on program, we felt we should, special arrangementsrequests
February nary G, Since that time all produce a few publications, been made so that all short
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perat�•�ai�, the message -° aflafawglyi��
,,.24 energy conservation has on how to save energy. A copy who receive it find it interesting
reached all sectors of Canadian
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industry, business,
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Industry has shown their in-
terest by integrating energy
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Por'T Joiti ANY WA1..K col FOR TNf. NEXT FEW WEEKS
The class of '75. ri •
An invitation to address a high school graduation ceremony
is well nigh irresistable to any man who fancies that the years
have taught him how to do almost everything the wrong way.
Speakers who tell . the graduates how they made a roaring
success of themselves are ten cents a dozen. If there's anything
that's meaningless to a young man or woman quivering on the
lip of what's known, in these speeches, as the Hard, Cruel
World Beyond These Ivy-covered Walls, it is a testimonial to
Making It.
There's really more to be gained in theegative bruised and bat -
roach of
tered
guide who has slipped and fallen and
been and who, though he may not know the right trail, sure
enough knows most of the wrong ones. which I'm not, I'd be
If I were going to make such a speech,
tempted to list a few simple "Don'ts." I'd address them
directly to the graduates who haven't done too well. of
It happens to be a theory of mine that one of the dangers
the scholastic system is that it arbritrarily conditions a boy or
girl to life beyond the
classroom
by some quite uuls. Succesi nreasonable
r failure in
later ,years may be determined
school -house standards. graduating next month
There are boys and girls who will be gra g
with the epnviction,ecause of their showing, , that they're
gouig; to'1 ave things all their own way. There are more who will
leave with a deep-seated inferiority feeling. And one, I suspect,
is as wrong as the other,
When you leave of school learn quickly pediactable
mental capacities of mostpeople have a k
norm.
Intellectually there are the very dumb and the very bright.
But most of us are in the middle. The extent of our ability to use
our brains is not so much a matter of natural ability as it is of
energy and adaptability.
Yet I've met a good many young men and women who,
because of their school records, feel that they've been short-
changed mentally. I have heard too many young people say,
with a shrug, "1 guess I'm just dumb."
Indeed, you meet many adults who have slow, non -inquiring
minds not because of any mental limitations, but because they
have been convinced, or have convinced themselves, that they
aren't endowed with as much intelligence
for them.the next fellow.
The effort of thinking seems too
It's inevitable that the school system will have this effect.
The student is competitive in a terribly narrow way. A boy who
has been slow in developing his capacity for memory will in-
variably get lower marks than the boy blessed with a retentive
mind. There are, too, the students who rebel against authority
and discipline who do poorly though they've just as much
capacity as the bright few who adore thegimen.
ime has been in the
Whatever the reason, the young person
bottom half of the class may get the impression—from his
parents as well as his teachers ---that he's just no good.
Graduation, for hii'n, may mean the need to face a new
challenge-without confidence, which j,ust Kappens to be what
he
needs the most.
If I were going to make that speech I'd tell such a boy or girl:
Don't underestimate yourself.
The real thing to be learned is that learning doesn't .sbov on
the day they hand out the diplomas and that an unsatisfactory'
record in school is far from being a life-long rating of low
mentality.
Such a record will call for some cold-blooded self-
examination, but it is a tragedy if it means branding for life a
young person who, in fact, may go on from a disappointing
scholastic life to be a brilliantly mature individual.
There is, in short, just as much hope for the future in the
Hard, Cruel World for the bottom half of the class as there is for
the top.
Antiques
Dear Rdttor
It is now almost a year since
the Council of Huron County
delegated the Management of
the Huron Historic Wail to. a
board of interested citizens, We
consider the year to have been
successful in that more than
73000. people, not counting
School tours, took tirne to visit
the building. -
The board is now beginning a
project which will take several
years, that* of furnishingthe
governor's house in the fashion
of 1900 when it was built. This is
being done under the super- . -
vision of Mrs. Dorothy Duncan,
museums adviter, from the
ministry of cultuire and
recreation.
In an attempt to provide
furnishings and all details
which will be authentic we are
seeking guidance from pictures
of interiors of that period. If
any of your readers have such
pictures we would be most 0
grateful if they would loan
them to us for a time for our
stidy. Anyone who is willing to
do so may send them to the
following address;
Mrs. J.W. Wallace,
35 Wellington Street,
South, Goderich
Chairman of the Refur-
bishing Committee,
Huron Historic Jail Board.
I would also be most in-
terested in hearing from
anyone ' who has furniture of
that period which is in prime
condition either for sale or on
loan for exhibition in the house.
Sincerely,
Dorothy Wallace.
From our early 'files ... •
• � l0 YEARS AGO
To hell with .metric
fire started in on the main Mr. Crich on Town the house nsend Streed by
stockings in a box M G.D. McTaggart,
tent Mr and Mrs.
Travelling
Dear Editor :
As you may be aware, recent
surveys have indicated that
Canadians are on the whole a
nation of travellers. At the
present time over 10 per cent of
the population is in possession
of a valid passport. As the
holiday season is just over the
horizon it is safe to assume that
the majority of these passport
holders as well as a con-
siderable dumber of soon, be
ap-
plications may
preparing for the annual
summer exodus .beyond the
national boundaries.
Inevitably, a certain per-
centage of this group, through
the lack of awareness of local
customs, social taboos or local
laws and regulations, may
(continued on page 6)
J. and N. Fair are selling their carder and fuller who has leased
celebrated family flour (one-half the Clinton Carding Mills, has
in any size recently put in a lot of new
Manitoba) put up chinery which, with what was
ma
s in have arrived in England after a parcel at $1.70 per cwt. formerly in, will make it one of
and hazardous During the past week J.E. the best Woollen Mills in the
about modern society that politicians, newspapers, experts, and my wife. Jack Pearson, London, in the absence of Chief very stormy has had men at work
One of the thingsPo g regular weekend visitor to his chargecounty. has been
uta minorities attempting to That is what they are for, and at least I canfi htA new paint shop
Crealy e is mouthy cottage at Bayfield has positive Grant Ra fire was 1 gh ba that crossing
1 and Mrs. Wilbur Welshon a 'preparing
shaper• gettingCltn sk m ming
betrays m g damage by
Lenore, are t vied on Isaac St t
impose their wishes on silent majorities. But I deeply resent simply being told by some
Another is the attempt by those who profess a'P stooges in the sodic
profound belief in a vague concept -called Ottawa ostriches and their
that I must, willy-nilly, switch to Celsius ther-
everything,
"progress" to find the common denominator in urometer and metric weights and measures.
everything, and try to shove the rest of'us in that 1 am a reasonable man, I hope. If someone
direction.
Sometimes I have a nightmare about the convinces' me that something is for the common
future. In it, I see the entire earth populated by good, even though
it inconveniences me, I'll go,
beings, no longer humans, who look alike, talk along With it.
alike, think alike, and even smell alike. Example: at this very moment, the govern -
Everyone will be a sort of ^reamy yellow ment is removing money from me, who has
brown in complexion. We'll all, be the same never been unemployed, and giving it to some
lazy bum who wants riot to work. This is known
height and weight. All individual anomalies such
as hooked noses, buck teeth and jutting ears will as unemployment insurance. In the same way I
have been eliminated- am helping subsidize other people's food,
I wake up from this dream screaming, at the medical care, housing. Not a word of complaint.
point where I am just about to be told that we are But what gets me is the arrogant attitude that
all of the same sex, typifies those who one valid ouse etc me) nd metric.
n for
In the dream, everyone will speak the same They do not present et that everyone
e, some type of bastard speech like the changes. They say vaguely
MAY 13, 1965
floor of the building. Asses
1 am :•0e+d to attempts to brainwash me by a Chief Frank Dixon, who wa
proof that there are trout in the
Bayfield River. Last weekend he
caught a 26 inch, five pound ten
�_
ounce rainbow tr
"somewhere" in the river.,
Clinton town council awarded
the contract for storm •sewers
along Highway 4 and recon-
struction of Highway 8 within the
town timit�td.,Bot
of Oakville Construction
All
Company
four bids received were over the
estimated � het' contract Decision on
was
awarding
deferred until the consulting
engineers and the Department of
Highways could study the bids.
At the regular meeting of
Clinton Recreation
niCommittee the
last Thujsday e. g
board room of the town hall 'a
motion was passed that four
extinct except for .
• p else is doing.it, -
• `~ Fiat acv k' i $ ld-- No less. t11a?rl man PPP
s..
,, -the 13
.ra. .-. .. ” ill Qe
park, ns 1 lc
_� � ri vir b ,:. �a,.r... ,,,
� p
, ., . ,... - tiled.
. �1"i'g': t'?•�If th'g `ice , , .......�trscCltbe�til . ._ .
a few scholars studying its sitize"`"d rem1� .go�uw-l1a .. - �-
be lost. you," "J Ear• must I become a member d apart with four and"fivelilTa3t•e �" nm'a�ent at some time flet 'k:h'`
Shades of meaning willhisnose in ublic does t31
Huron County been living in g
��something of the sort that mean thatl should, passed their Health ,
last week's had charge of a brick y
• "1 love ou, a th Society, two rods given preliminary Virginia for a
" will all come out as one else is irking P inch • e. the clinic held in
"adore," and " euro, every too? Four . of Clinton's Auxiliary h Unit yesterday. This was been er of years, where Mr. East
"Yoch the d or
t ofor is m o
by water, caused by daughter, Miss enc , ..,,started c rand E.
the damagesprinkler motor trip to London, Hamilton, station, which he now has maim Messrs. Copp
systemhe efficiency of the at J. Miller's shop. Ness s. Jos. Copp and well
okwas more substantial. It and Toronto. known in this two young
sprinklerstock quite a time to turn the A formeroanC Aldermanin the Seaforth,an, A.E. stations athe latter uplace dbeing Dr. Dowsley has removed his
off. Coombs, nowformerly
-office to the opposite
Miss Sybil Courtice was en's me iofo St. Catharines, tpossible Liberal and converted into butter.
collectedoccupied to byh M. building Lee,
speaker at the Women's mentioned as P h decided not to
sionary Society of Wesley- -- candidate for Lincoln,n
County in Clinton as Fair's Mill
celebrate the 24th of May but Mr
the next federal election.•
Mrs. Charles Lockwood and in§tead will hold forth on Labor Ross's old stand is making ex -
Jim, Blyth, are spending a Day, September 3rd. Many of the ROSS a improvements. He is
son, citizens have plans made to go to the front part to a
few days in Clinton. removing
the other towns around. vacant lot where he intends to fix
The pork suppliers report
75 YEARS AGO it up as a shop.
MAY 11,1900 prices at $5.75, and the market
Messrs. M. McEwen acid W. lively. Quotations in dairy
Graham, of the 3rd con. Stanley, productsremain
us � dairy e rolls being
e
..a.o
Willis United Church. She drew a
thrilling picture of the new Japan
vghich is rising out of the ruins
and chaos of war.
Although detailed provisions of
Clinton's new parking by-law will
be published in due course
following its final adoption, it is •
understood that one of the main
clauses provides for parallel • left last Saturday with four car groc
parking only on the main loads of cattle destined James from 9 to he from Ilc to
per er lb. the latter
s
business streets. The streets will Liverpool mare plentiful. Cantelon Bros.
be so marked and the by-law . AiMr. ad Thos. East and faanied hem. being mily of made their largest single bsehi
rigidly enforced.
' ed Norfolk Virginia, formerly ing
to me
nt
eyear
eaggs on
Monday,0 lbs. of
-.4 U' tery-u -rY -•.'. •Ra.. ,�'��.5. ytk'..�'YarMu+ j&':.?Yni„�.:.;a:
Seeding is about finished, in
R. Hays, who bought ivir.
and until
In' dream, there are no decisions to f Metric maniacs insist that metric is more policeman have nine greater than as
be anydif- Police examinations his death last winter. Mrs. Earl
made, because will no longer accurate. More accurate than what? Is a Auxitiary
black andThompson, EugeneCPractically all cattle are still will make his residence in sown in
' t and wrong,thousandth of, centimeter more accurate than a H.R.Hrts Tluttop Police Chiefs estimate• stabled because of the slow the future.
white, between rigaCraig Cox, Wesley being
white, good and evil. Television will tell us what srt.thousandth of an inch? m course not. Kis merely McLaren,
g Holland and George,Currie wrote pasture cases.
to think, painlessly, and why. � - shorter. Or longer. I' m not sure which; and
We will all smell alike --a subtle essence with don't give a diddle. the tests Monday night. 50 yARB AGO
Canadians, with their wild extremes of climate The Board of Sessions at the MAY 14, 1925
traces and Chinese elm, Russian borscht, Congo should battle Wesley -Willis s Church singled out
musk American b.s: and vast expanse of geography, one mother last Sunday and
'f 'e will all arise when the universal siren this so-called "progress" with every ounce of J Seeley,
In unison, at the appointed moment, we their strength. Yes, the word was "ounce." Do bestowed upon her the honour of M
sounds. ill to get us
willtake our Breakfast pill, our pep p you realize that will soon be a dirty word, if the becoming
the . Mrs: Hugh enior 1C�ameron,
ther of
going, our tranquilizer to slow us down for our metric marauders have their way? who has been an active member
1l, a dinner ill and at flavor as a nation
lunch pill, another pep Pi p Canada would lose its very • of the church for 45 years wasthe
2245 hours, we will simultaneously swallow our should we allow this metric' -Celsius pap o flow
lucky mother.
i t us into a du Several tar
sl
h
Mr. who conducted a
shoe repair business here,. ,has
decided to move to Londsesent
le
had to vacate his p
.premises and has not been able to
obtain suitable acccommodation
for his business.
A.T. Cooper is holding a 40th
Anniversary Sale of the founding
of business here by his father the
tote is one of the olliam dest businesser. es
h
this
on the main street it is a thriving
one as "A•T." is constantly ad-
ding new lines and branching out
for the betterment of service° •to
all his patrons.
W.S.R. Holtnes is in Toronto
this week attending the Druggists
Convention. The annual banquet
was last night and it is always a
jolly affair, so Mr. Holmes did not
wish to miss it.
George Hanley has moved Into
ll ¶acsimile o a ms on the Bronson
aping pills and become unconscious for s xover us and fean Line bore the brunt of the severe
ours and forty-eight seconds. • those other dull nations.
But each evening, before retiring, we will have For one thing, it would cripple our con- thunderstorm on Sunday af-
versal culture and "recreation period. verstion, 60 per cent of which begins with a ternoon.
t the cold
our.
ani
Something like countingotiir toes. ' pseudo -complaint about the ea or
It's only a nightmare, but each year that I live, It would destroy dur idioms. Can ou 1'iMagine
our hero "Centirnetering" his way along the
the picture seems closer and clearer. One Of � C.A. Trott, supervising prin-
these days I' m afraid l won't wake up.
Hardy lodge, rather than "inching" 7 ci al of the seven school area and
,wool and a meter wide" doesn't P
Two of the most reew steps by mouthy - r'ye's al"Third down and a principal of even s hoo.1 a school
minoritieS and the people who cherish common exactly stir me, Nor does,
meter, 40 centimeters to go for Winnipeg. has resigned to accept a• post as
denoriciiriatoi"se the attempts at the forced heard princiral of the new public school
application of Celsius tempera res and the Well, the varmints haven't
rmish. But I ,need rein" at Clinton RCAF Station.
metric system. me. This is only
doe ask you if you wanted to switch forrcements. Come on, gall you thousands
Fire off Brigade n s ao volunteer
etc Ctl ire
Did any deplore the change. Let's hear fromy
from Fahrenheit. to 'Celsius? No. Did anyone askafter 5 p.in. Friday last when a
a letter to your editor, for a start. Then well roll Hosiery Mill, Mary St., shortly
t e No. Did anyone itri either of its If we wanted upthe big guns.
to "think metric"'� Faroe answer. -
25YEARS AGO
MAY 11, 1950
THE Cf.INION NEW ERA
Established 1865
this
locality.
100 YEARS AGO
MAY 12, 1875
E. Corbett; a practical
Mr.
readers ere en-
couraged to express their
opinions in letters to the editor,
however. such opinions do not
necessarily represent the
optn@one of theme bs usedby
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be antes" it Chn
verified by phone.
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Published every' Thursday
et Clinton, Ontario
Editor . • James E. Irltsgereld
Gleneril Manager.
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