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The storm et plushest «Mer visisnx iu
• TV is at lest having an' efiect that will
be evident la future programming.
New meths! treed needs M •. be
challenged --the fascination will set.
This fa evident le sone **Wien
oelnadias spiced up with bar -dreamt
Owner, leering ire and seduction
sows. Unfortunately these shows
catch whole tainilieiLelf !ted in prime
viewing hairs. Se maybe • Ws time to
raise ansMtsr chervil of pretests and
chastise the soonersof��
the ad-
vertise sur 11+• United Church.
As for TV movies, which can be
pretty gamey, the problem is slimier.
Must are shown in later hours to an
adult audience. And viewers are often
warned in advance that the scenes and
language may be offensive.
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SU& warnings, lit, may
used Aleve widely. Theatre* Mi.wiil-
flints met label them
as adult r rest ided. Girt dines this
prepare. Metal moots Iyer shaking.
nudity and e3nplicit sett Net
at all. Similar warnises.flaelted en Ike
screen It the. skirt of a rices Deme
tele lath.
Why shauldWt theatres be Compelled
to pert strongly. warred, highly visible
signs near the but office to tip off the
public as te the true natured the en-
tertainment inside?, says the Ciwrdi.
Why net adept similar cautionary
statements on the jackets of lurid
novels liberally sprinkled with four-
letter wards?
In fact, no commercial interests
should assume that everyone enjoys
highly sex -oriented, vulgar en-
tertainment.
Ment.
1h touglest qvestioi is adoptios
Should an adopted person have
access to identifying information about
his biological parents? This question
has plagued adoption agencies,
adopted people and adopting parents
for years. To this day social scientists
are ,not in agreement on the answer,
says the United Church.
Florence Fisher of California, much
publicized proponent of finding natural
parents, asserts that everyone has the
absolute right to "look into the eyes of"
natural parents.
The agencies arranging the adop-
tions tend to uphold the right to privacy
of parents who give a child up for
adoption. Surely they have a right to
live with their traumatic decision
without fear of a painful confrontation
years later.
Adopting parents find it hard to
accept a child's need to locate
biological pari -Its. The situation is
fraught with and often conflicting
emotions making it difficult to frame
satisfactory legislation.
British Columbia attempted to
establish a provincial registry where
those wishing to find or to be found
could enter their names and addresses.
This solution was yoked by a lobby of
adopting parents who insisted on
maintaining the confidentiality they
had been promised.
In Scotland and Finland. anyone
reaching age 17 may obtain his or her
birth records including the names of
natural parents. In Canada such
records are not available to the in-.
dividual and it is up to the discretion of
the agency through which the child was
adopted whether or not to divulge
identifying information. But what
about the children themselves?
Most adopted children are secure in
their relationship with their parents
and think little or not at all about those
who place them for adoption. It is the
ones who have identity problems so
serious as to approach breakdown who
occasionally need to know more. The
turbulent teen years' can present
anxieties which adopting parents find
difficult to assuage without laying to
rest ghosts of the past.
It is in those rar&n>ftances when a
compassionate agency with flexible
rules can offer guidance (with or
without information) required to help a
young person to square with his past.
Some human' problems are simply
beyond legislation.
Sugar and Spice By Bill Smiler
' Thai sinking feeling
This is a time of year when a lot of school
teachers get a sinking feeling.
Mi year they have been laboring in the
fairly barren vineyards of their students.
sustained by the knowledge that there is
still time to produce a green shoot or two,
and maybe even enough grapes to make
some kind of brew. ,
Suddenly, there are only 16 teaching days
left, and there is the dreadful realization
that they have exhausted all their skills,
and that it had about as much effect on
Susie and Joe as would a bucket of water
poured over a seal. It just doesn't stick.
Thus, when they should be looking for-
ward with anticipation to end of term
and summer vacation, many teachers find
themselves instead in a veritable Slough of
Despond.
It is the students' perennial belief in
miracles that puts the teachers onto anti-
depressant pills about now.
Aside from school work, adolescents are
not dumb. They are quite aware that
education these days is a sociological
jungle from which they have a far better
chance of emerging unscathed than do
those poor devils who try to teach them.
'They know that in . our enlightened
society. "failure" is a dirty word. and that
everyone from the Minister of Education.
through the school board, down to their
classroom teacher, will do back flips trying
to avoid plaaMg such a label on thein.
Many students know perfectly well that
they can god around most of the year. play
truant, miss assipamewts, be late with
essays, and nothing very WrrIble will
happen to them.
In tact, it they go around looking serious
and sincere ter the last few weeks, and do a
little wort. there's every chalice that they
will scrape or scrauwrle through. owly to
repeat the whole process the next year.
$orrah..and raised la • society where it is no
shame is accept charity, became it's now
dignified as welfare, where unemployment
insurance is - a cosy cuilkiors agaiast ad-
versity, where 1M4r aged waists win be
Joshed aper by the state, where the work
ethic i• goetraid, whore the semi -literate
hickey player er pap star is net only
idolised bet rich. the kick are net jinekt
get Blair shirts in a keel over something as
agp4ently irrelevaet as dulsg well at
As net's not blame them tae mush. teat's
take a look at the world we're passing on to
them.
It's a world strangling -drowning in its
own poisons, created by the greed of past
generations. The kids see the greed and the
poisoning going right on. Small wonder
they are a little cynical about some of the
virtues such as unselfishness and the
golden rule.
It's a world in which the rip-off is ad-
mired, on the whole. They see unions
ripping off management. management
ripping off the consumer, everybody trying
to rip off the government. So why not rip at
the school systegm? it's the biggest sucker
of a11.
It's a world in which the media pander to
the bizarre and violent. The hijacker. the
terrorist are overnight sensations. is it
naive to suggest that these are responsible,
to some extent. for the bomb warnings. and
the incredible vandalism in our schools?
It's a world of drugs. The old man has his
drinks every night and gets smashed on the
weekend. The old lady has 111 different
kinds of pills. Why not run away from
reality by emulating them.
it's a world in which the daily papers are
full of examples of corruption in high
places. A senator here, a president there.
has helped himself. So what's wrong with
cheating. as long as you aren't caught?
It's a world in which the best and bravest
are often bullied by the brutal and
belligerent. So why not give the teachers...
hard time? "They can't do Paothin' to yi.
anyhow. 'ceps sewja home; So what? Write
a none and sign your old man's name."
Not a very pretty picture? You're right.
gentle reader. But this is not an indictment
of students. it's a cry of shame for the
society we're handing on to them.
Let's restore "failure" to our
vocabulary. Let's restore "excellence,"
another ward that's been dropped. Let's
show the kids that apathy is ugly. that
reason is superior to violence. that love and
sex are not synonymous. that compassion
and courage far outweigh cruelty and
cowardice.
I'm sorry for them and what we have
shown them. flirt i deal despair. Let's
slow them it's a beautiful world, and that
they are beautiful olid that they are needed
is maps K mare beautiful. Thew wattle
thews go.
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is to try to change gold into Soso urs. "
Oct
-, by Udine Town.,ht rid
Something missed
I feel as though I missed something - spring.
Way back in April, 1 vaguely recall a few sunny, warm
days. The daffodils were blooming, and the tulips were
growing. Blossoms festooned the fruit trees. and the buds
were opening on the other trees. Robins and red -winged
blackbirds were building their nests.
Spring fever had seized most humans, too. Farmers, in
clouds of dust. were cultivating their fields: gardeners were
planting their vegetables: campers were hauling their
trailers out of their garages, and beach lovers were flocking
to the beach, like kids just let out of school.
As for me. I hunted out my one and only set of decent
summer clothes, and thinking one pairs of shorts wouldn't
be adequate for the hot days ahead. I rushed to a store to
buy more.
What happened? The April showers, that were supposed
to bring the May flowers, turned into snow, Most bloom
daring to poke their heads above the groundwere
nipped with frost. The blossoms disappeared amid the
snowflakes, and the birds huddled among the naked
branches.
The rivalry between many neighbourhood gardeners was
lost because of rotten corn seed. The farmers replaced their
tractors in the sheds wondering whether their grain would
grow or freeze. The campers shoved their trailers back into
their garages. and even the hardiest beach lovers foresook
the sand. Meanwhile my new summer clothes went from a
shopping bag to a drawer.
I've heard of short seasons but this is ridiculuus!
It's strange to see lilacs blooming with only sparse leaves
on the bushes. For the past month, the buds on the trees
have been at a standstill. If the leaves don't open more.
we'll certainly miss t)hoie shady branches. although we
haven't yet felt the need for protection from the sun.
Another odd sight is to pass three grain fields with one
sprouting a few inches above the ground. the next growing
in patches and the third showing no signs of growth at all.
One question puzzles me: If the grain won't grow in the
fields, why does the grass grow so fast in our lawns?
It seems strange to bundle up in coats. scarves and
gloves to mow the lawn. We look as though we should be
shovelling snow instead.
No matter how backward the spring season may be, we
can always depend on one thing -dandelions. By the way,
anyone desiring experience in the removal of dandelions is
welcome to practice on my lawn. A million of the pretty
little things should give any greenhorn plenty of experience.
Perhaps I shouldn't be such a pessimist regarding the
weather. Those warm days in April spoiled me, but I should
have known they were too good to last.
Summer will come sooner or later. By the time this
column hits the press, we'll probably be basking in sun-
shine. In fact, this morning the weatherman's forecast for
tomorrow was "warm and sunny." Funny...that's the same
thing he predicted for today. It's now 4 p.m.. and I haven't
seen the sun yet.
But there I go being a pessimist again.
From our early files
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11 YEARS AGO
Jaime 2.1!01
The business administrator
and the chief -engineer at Clinton
Public Hospital meekly stole
away last weekend and entered
the Hospital Administrators of
Ontario golf tournament at
Bayview Golf and Country Club
in Toronto. Administrator Tom
Steep won the low net trophy and
engineer Fred MacDonald. the
tow gross. shooting an 30. in
competition. with over 1S0
hospital employees.
What is planned as an annual
event. the first awards banquet
was held in the CHSS cafeteria on
Friday evening. Present were all
CHSS students who participated
in team and individual sports
throughout the present term.
members of the "Over 10" club
and major and minor school -
letter winners. At the banquet,
Clare Magee and Janet Roorda
were picked as the most valuable
athktes at CHSS in the present
term.
Clinton's 112th Spring Fair gets
underway Friday evening at
Clinton Community Park
Secretary of Clinton Spring Fair.
W.G.kiehl has had more than the
usual number of requests for
demonstration and machinery
space this year. Gerry Mon-
tgomery, former mgr. rep. in
Huron. will officially open the
fair at 2 p.m. nn Saturday.
A coat o1 arms stamp. 14th and
final release in a pre -centennial
floral emblem series inaugurate+!
in 1964 to honour the provincial
and territories. will be released
on June 3111h. 1!111, the eve of
Canada's pith birthday. Pat
master General Jean-Pierre Cote
has announced.
Huron County boys and flirts
numbering 1011. $mak part ton
Saturday. May 2s. at Seaforth, in
the annual 4-H chub livestock
judging competitions. Three
classes each of dairy arid heel
cattle. swine ansa one class nI
slsetp were *died drone • of the
switte classes was a class of hog
carcasses. Dennis Schultz. RR 1.
Lssckjnow wow the CNE shield.
having the highest aggregate
score in the novice class
3s YEARS AGO
Nay 11, 011
Miss Ruth Wiliam, stassghtet os
Mev and Mrs. C WNwow Mtss
Li•betin %finnan ala splster. of Mr
and Mrs. Fred Shaisan, rad Mi..
Maryann Colipilisms, i nglitur vel
Sr. sad Iris. R. W. Csigriomm.
all of Clinton. all graduated from
Western University with first
class honours.
. Robert Allan. Brucefield. who
scored 2.670 points to capture
first place in the Huron County
Seed and Livestock judging
competions. won a trip to,
Chicago. Bob has been prominent
in Junior Farmers activities for
several years.
Contracts totalling nearly
32.500.000 have been awarded in
connection with construction
projects at two Western Ontario
RCAF Stations. the Department
of Defence production announced
at Ottawa yesterday. Defence
Construction Limited has
awarded a 31.303.000 contract for
buildings to be erected at Clinton
RCAF Station to the R. Timms
Construction and Engineering
Lt.. Welland. Another for 3144.610
has been awarded to Gordon M.
Ritchie and Co. . Clinton for
RCAF Clinton.
The 47th annual edition of
Clinton Spring Fair has proved to
be a sucess. even down to the
weather. The showing of
livestock was up to the usual high
standard ,of excellence. and the
crowd was greater than last year.
Entries at the fair totalled close
to 300. M. L "Tory" Gregg.
Wingham. again acted as master -
of ceremonies for the Fair.
Clinton and District Chamber
of Commerce- is attempting to
take some action to have the
Hayfield Road. which has been in
vary had condition. improved.
The C `sof (' wants the County to
surface the roved from Bayfield to
Middletim's corners.
(.scan Irish Nine Mads the pack
in Iluron•Perth Paschall
League's young season with two
victories And no defeats but
Clinton Colts are hard by with one
win and one los *canon Hensell
and Loran respectively.
f1 YEARS AGO
June I. NIB
Some people were rudely
disturbed at eleven o'clock
yesterday foremost when the
whlstk at the ti(nittiag Cuosh
pony's plant *rat omit its Iwncheon
call the engineer evidently felt
Misery and tanked cranked at his
watch Nobody had a holiday as a
result, hoover. '
Mo Harry Pall of the
University of Western Onli.rhs
sprat the weekend with Ma
perms*. Mr ansa Mrs. Helene
Pell. Ile left Taw.dMy M joist a
a►I
ravvirprig path no the
• lied tAbe MOON set will he
absent most of the summer.
.A citizen remarked to the
News -Record this morning that
on his asking why the town flag
was not flying today. the King's
birthday. he was informed that it
could not be hoisted because of
some defect in the pole. The flag
pole has been out of commission
for some time. indeed. last year
the same eitcuse was given. Why
not have it repaired?
Marketswere wheat. 11.30:
oats. 40 cents to 45 cents;
bucketwheat. 60 cents; barky. 10
cents; eggs. 20 cents to 23 cents:
butter. 30 cents to 32 cents: live
hogs S13.75.
At the Rectory of St. Paul's
Church on Thursday June 3. 1321.
by Rev. C.L. Harrison. Dorothy,
younger daughter of Mr. and
Mrs William Gage to Fred. son
of Mr and Mrs. William McCool.
The attendants were Miss Louise
Turner and James McCool.
75 YEARS AGO
May 31.1Nt
Master Willie. son of Mrs. A. H.
Manning. narrowly escaped
serious injury on Friday. He was
4etting off some gun powder. and
the fuse not burning quickly, he
bent over to blow it when the
powder went off. burning his
eyebrows and singeing his hair. it
was exceedingly fortunate he was
not hurt any worse.
There are many who would like
to send the New Era. Huron's
Family newspaper. to some
person. as ,,token of friendship or
.s relative. may learn that we will
angora the weekly mailing of the
New Era to any address in
Canada or the United States until
the end of the present year for
only 50 cents. Subscribe now,and
get the benefit of the full time.
Mr. Wm. Doherty is/ having
made at his factory. for his own
use, a bedroom suite. that will be
a handsome set of furniture when
completed. It is oval front. hand -
carved. this part of the work
being done by Mr. A. Hale. of
Seaforth. well-known as an ex-
pert in this line. When it is known
that suites of this character are
valued at from one to three
thousand dollars. some idea of its
beauty may be formed.
The price of hogs has reached a
high -figure. nearly 37. and far-
mers having any to sell find a
ready demand. Many packing
establishments are in existence
and raisers of bogs are unable to
keep the pork packers busy.
Every week shipments are sent
out from Clinton. but it will very
soon take hustling with big prices
for the buyers to obtain hogs
enough to ship regulary as
heretofore.
The applications of candidates
for the departmental exams were
handed to Principal Houston. of
.the Collegiate. last Thursday. We
learn from a report of the
inspector the following are the
number of applicants for the
different examinations: Part 1,
junior leaving and junior
matriculation. 2S; Part 11. junior
leaving and junior matriculation,
31: senior leaving and honor
matriculation. S; commercial
specialist. 1.
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Maay thanks to you all.
Mrs. Muriel Grigg.
Clinton.
Education
Dear Editor:
We as residents of Cliatws have
recently. found ourselves with a
bone to pick with the provincial
government regarding its aa!
called for interfereace with ewe
hospital. You may also recall this.
hue and cry resulting tram
government interference is the
area of seat belt laws or even km
the area of measurement cad the
changeover to the metric system'.
Each of the above areas of oar
contention can and have
argued to violate one or Mose d
those inalienable rights that
as individuals or groups -
claim to possess in Canada...
There is however, one a
where the. government' ha
blatantly interfered in the prism
sector with hardly an ey
raised. 1 speak of the area
education
We in Canada have alwa
prided ourselves on that meas
of religious freedom afforded us
Most sincere. Christians wi
mention their freedom to worth
and to practice their, per
religion as a matter Of cour
when they list the things
which they are thankful. It is
without a great deal of tha
fulnthereessore for w hat we have,
fwithout som
hesitation. that I write to co
plain about a lack of reli •
freedom in Canada.
The issue to which I shall
dress myself is one which we
Canadians allowed to c
upon us andhave, as a matter df
is one which we in ignorance.
as a result of poor judgm
have actually encouraged.
issue is the limitation of
personal religion to our ' a
lives and -the resulting corfverse
the exclusion of our. tell •
beliefs from any areas of life the
arc public
My part iculsr beef is the etc-
clusion of the faith of the parents
from the.schools Who among us
of an}; -faith would give up his God
or ...whatever else given right to
educate .his children m the way
-that he himself believes? For that
matter. who would give up his
right to allow his children to find .
their particular faith for them-
selves') On the one hand. we take
the above right to teach our
children our own personal faith
for granted and on the other we
agree to limit our teachings to
nur homes and our churches with
the result that we teach one faiths
at home and by its very exclusion
in the so called public areas we
teach nur children another and an
opposing faith
Let me explain that last
statement
The Christian. as we alt know.
is .s believer in and a follower of
Jesus Christ. He is one who
believes that the crucifixion
deathof Jesus Christ were a
momentous and an earth -shakiest
event which turned the course
the whole world. The Christian
believes that this Christ made
complete and total payment for
the sins of all men who woo
believe in Him The meaning of
this event is all the more
astounding when one reads in thle-
Bible that it was as far back
Adam and Eve 'that the
persons . disobeyed God a
thereby plunged all of the fiat
mankind into disobedience also.
It is from the above all in-
clusive disobedience to God t
the Christian finds himself free
when he believes that le
Christ in dying has made for
a new beginning. t- ram this
on the Christian's life takes tam
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