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PAGE 4—CLINTON NEWS -RECORD, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 1977•
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Communities care important
Next to the family, the community is
the most important centre of activities
that make life human, 'civilized and
cultured. No other environment con-
tributes so significantly to nourish the
values of life.
Governments on all levers are
learning this by the failure of their
.efforts to impose neighbourhood
'redevelopment programs without
',consulting and involving the people
who live there. Community work
satisfies the desire to contribute to
humanity; it gives a person something
to do thaT is worth while; it provides
fellowship.
The community bf individuals, in
hamlet, village, town or city, supports
churches, schools, fraternal societies
and centres -for recreational and ar-
tistic activities.
If a person is to have dignity, he must
make his contribution to life. It"is in the
community that 'man feels what he is
and has a chance to become what he
can be. Through association with
others in church school, club and
recreation, the individual gets a sense
of status and a sense of social ac-
ceptance and support.
People do not become part of a
community merely by being together,
but rather by `sharing interests and
engaging in' activities to further the
wdlfare of the group. The strongest
bond between people is the feeling of
having common problems, common
values and common hopes.
Community work is self -developing:
It is more than merely sending a
cheque. We seek' the respectf the
society in which we live. Mutual
tolerance and co-operation will lead to
the point when you call your neighbour
"friend" and that means much to both
of you. Membership in the community
comes from a conscious sense of
"belonging".
By belonging, we,. accept certain
responsibilities for constructive
contribution. The good citizen will
shape his community by working with
other citizens. Then problems get
solved, wrongs are righted, the beauty
and spirit of the community is
enhanced.
(From the Ridgetown Dominion
People are different
To understand people demands first of all
that we admit two truths: we are all dif-
ferent, and often we are not aware in what
respect, to what degree, and why we are dif-
ferent: and we are all acting and reacting in
different environment.
When a person realizes these truths he will
be inclined to begin understanding people by
studying them. He will go out of his way to
encourage 'them to talk about themselves
and their interests. Only so can the executive
learn what makes employees unhappy in
their work, what qualification young
workers have for advancement, what
mistaken ideas are prevalent in the office or
factory that should be corrected.
Sugar and Spice/By Bill Smiley
I'm for conscription
A. WHILE ago, Defense Minister Danson
sent up a trial balloon suggesting he would
not be averse to conscripting young
Canadians into the armed forces.
I thought it wasn't a bad idea. Guys my
age always think it isn't a bad idea to
conscript the young. "Give 'em a bit of
discipline. Put some backbone in them,"
we huff.
Many other nations have conscription
schemes under which young men must
serve from one year to two in the armed
forces, then are listed in the reserve, and go
back once every couple of years for a few
weeks for a refresher course.
Switzerland is the classic example. It has
a cracking good army and a large, well-
trained reserve, although it has nevertbeen
in a war, as a nation. It doesn't have much
use for a navy, for some reason.
In Britain, used for many years to a
small regular army of professionals, and
swarms of volunteers in time of war, the
National Service, as . it was called, was
introduced after World War II and was
very unpopular. It has' since been can-
celled, as the need for bodies in the services
shrank with the shrinking of the Empire,
It was pretty well the same in the States.
That infamous thing called The Draft was
suffered in war time, but when it was used
to rain young men to go and,.kill people in a
senseless war thousands of miles from
home, for no logical reason, it met with
calumny, chicanery, and plain draft -
dodging, along with a desertion rate that
was a national scandal.
That's not quite what Barney Danson
and I had in mind. I wouldn't mind seeing a
modest form of conscription in which
everyone was called up, except of course,
your sons and daughters, and mine.
• What I'd like to see would be -more lke
the Dutch conscription system, in which the
troops can have long hair and beards,
belong to a union, elect their own NCOs and
wear civvies when not on duty.
Conscritps would be well paid - about $100
a week - would get one week off for every
three weeks in service, and armed forces
kitchens would have the best food in the
world, outside of four-star restaurants.
The usual perks, of course, would
remain: free dental and medical service,
duty-free smokes and booze, free travel on
leave..
One more thing I would in oduce.I
would get "rid of the arransexi•, that
exists in our present armed forces. omen
would share the same jobs, the same pay,
the "same privileges, and the same
barracks, as the men.
Women would have the same number of
senior officers, based on the proportion of
females in the service, just as the French
Canadians have now.
Women would be given maternity leave,
with no blight on the old escutcheon, just as
lady school teachers are now. With one
difference, They would have a built-in baby
sitter' when they went from the swaddling
clothes phase back into uniform.
Just to make it fair, men would be given
paternity leave, although possibly not the
six months granted women. Free day-care
services would be provided for the children
of parents who were both in the forces.
Medicals would be a little more lenient.
I'd admit anybody who: could see his or her
hand before his -her face; did not have
veneral disease; was missing no more than
two limbs.. This would absorb about 94 per
cent of our young unemployed.
But this would cost millions, you will
exclaim.
Of course it .would, Billions in fact. But
what's a billion these days? How, many
billions are we now throwing off the end of
the dock to these same people, in the form
of unemployment insurance, welfare
cheques, reform schools, jails, psychiatric
treatment, and education?
•I -guarantee you we'd asked for a show of
hands from those who were unalterably
opposed. Not a hand was raised. But of
course, they were not sure what
unalterably meant.
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"This is a stick-up!"
Odds 'n' ends - by Elaine Townshend
The great Ontario gold
A place to stand; a place to grow;
Ontari-ari-ari-o.
the past few weeks, Ontari-ari-ari-o
bias also become a place in which to
cough, snort, sniffle, sneeze and choke.
In Southwestern Ontario alone, half the
population looks as though it's com-
peting for Rudolph's job this Christmas.
Ironically, one of the unhealthiest
places to be is in a doctor's waiting room
- a cough here, a sneeze there and germs
float freely.
In one corner, yours truly dozes bet-
ween sniffles and coughs.
In another corner sits a middle-aged
man, whose red, watery eyes appear to
be half closed. I'll bet hishead feels
twice its normal size and a buzzing
sound in his ears mals concentrating
on a conversation difficult.
To his left is a teenage ,gi>l1 with an
open book in one hand and a kleenex in
the other. A fit -of sneezing causes her to
lose her place. She wipes her nose, leafs
through the pages until she finds the
right one and then settles back in her
chair. In a few minutes, another sneeze
forces her to abandon the book to search
her purse for another tissue.
On a couch, a little girl lies with her
head on her mother's lap. Each time she
coughs her mother whispers with a
croaky voice, "Put your hand over your
mouth."
In the corner next to the couch slumps
a young boy, whose sudden spasms of
coughing make him rifle his pockets for
lozenges.
Across the room, two ladies converse
about the wet weather, how long -they've
had their colds and how many times
they've seen the doctor lately. One of
them pulls a heavy sweater tightly
around her shoulders and says she has
been 'sick for three weeks. The other
dabs -her flushed face with a kleenex and
says she's been sick for a month. I don't
have the heart to tell them I've had my
cold for six weeks.
A third lady says nothing at all; she
has laryngitis.
One by one the patients are called into
the examining room to cough for the
doctor.
"Take deep breaths, he instructs.
"That's it. Now cough." Then comes the
little wooden stick and the command,
"Say Ah -h -h."
From the doctor's office to the drug-
store, we straggle with prescriptions in
hand. While waiting for the drugs, we
replenish our stock of kleenex, and
thinking of our tender noses, we buy the
softest brand we can find.
When we emerge, we're armed with
lozenges to soothe our' sore throats,
tablets to unplug our stuffy noses,
vitamins to build up Jur strength and
cough syrup to relieve the tickle in our
throats.
Incidentally, I think the makers of my
cough syrup should be sued for false
advertising. The label on the bottle
describes the contents as "a pleasantly
flavoured syrup for the temporary relief
of congestion and coughs due to the
common cold."
It makes,my tongue curl.
From the drug -store, we retreat to the
warmth of our homes, our blankets and
our heating pads to continue our battle
against the great Ontario cold.
From our early files .
5 YEARS AGO
November 2, 1972
Robert E. McKinley is
victorious. Political analysis
in this County had predicted a
win for the chicken hatchery
man from Stanley Township
and it wasn't long after the
returns began to roll into
Progressive Conservative
headquarters in Zurich
Monday evening that
McKinley supporters began
to celebrate a successful
campaign. •
(jiff the 36,851 eligible voters
in Huron County, 29,716
' turned out to the polls for the
Federal seat to give 19,131
votes to McKinley, 8,63.1 votes
to Liberal Charles Thomas,
1,869 votes to IDP Mrs.
Shirley Weary and 85 votes to
Ed Bain, independent.
The 20th anniversary of the
Clinton Community Credit
Union was celebrated on
Saturday with a banquet and
a dance. Cutting the cake
were charter member, Skip
Winter; 'Clinton Manager,
Fred Gibson and President,
Hector Kingswell.
• Dr. C. T. M. Hadwen of the
University of Guelph who has
directed an Interdisciplinary
Study of Huron County in
19`71.-72 at a cost of $21,000 was
not unfamiliar with Huron
County before the study
began. •
But •Dr. Hawden has
learned ' some surprising
things about Huron County
and admits this county may
well be unique in many
respects.
For instance, Huron County
citizens like Huron the way it
is, they would prefer to
change jobs rather than move
from Huron County and
many, many present .Huron
County ,citizens have proven
their loyalty to the county by
'revealing they've been born
and raised here and haven't
even considered moving
away.
A's well, Dr, Hawden
discovered that the county's
weekly newspapers are not
Only appreciated and
respected, they are the most
trusted source of news and
advertising inforinatio>i
Huron residents have.
Hawden said that while
there would never be
established, "a com-
prehensive picture of Huron
County," there are some
indications of its makeup in
the discoveries after in-
terviewing 535 heads of
households.
10 YEARS AGO
November 2, 1967
The new Centennial wing at
Central Huron Secondary
School which was built and
equipped for $574,386 will be
officially opened at a
ceremony for invited guests
Jon Wednesday, November 15.
The new wing begun in the
spring of 1966 provides 250
additional pupil places,
bringing the total number to
1,460, Present enrolment at
the school is 1,031. -
It is just a memory now, but
our good friend Torn Lep-
pington called at, the News -
Record office this week to
remind us that it was 51 years
ago on Tuesday that the 161st
Huron's Own Battalion was
on its way overseas.
Tom recalls that
Hallowe'en in 1916 and
remarked, "Some folks can't
believe it was that long ago."
Reg Clifford of 412 Matilda
Street, Clinton, was recently
presented with a certificate
and a pin by G -E E. W. Ryan,
Base Commander, in
recognition of 25 years
continuous service at the
base. Mr. Clifford is em-
ployed as a stationary
engineer. -
Brucefield and Seaforth
fire departments answered a
call to the farm of Allister
B'roadfoot on • the 4th con-
cession of Tuckersmith late
last Friday evening but were
unable to save a large steel
barn which was blazing from
a cause still undetermined.
The barn, built just 15 years
ago following a fire which
destroyed the initial
Broadfoot barn in 1953,
contained a quantity of hay,
straw and grain as well as
some implements - all lost in
the fire.
A carload of Scouts and
Cubs from Londesboro with
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their leaders, Gordon
Shobbrook and John Jewitt
joined in the western Ontario
boys' parade held in London
on Sunday, October 22. -
25.YEARS AGO
November 0, 1952
Subscribers of the Goderich
Township Municipal
Telephone System, at a
meeting held in the town hall,
Clinton, on Tuesday evening
'voted 134 to 59 in favor of
selling their tel' phone system
to the Bell Telephone Com-
pany of Canada.
The commissioners were
instructed to take the
necessary legal steps and
approach the Bell Telephone
Company, who, as yet have
made no offer to purchase nor
have they expressed their
desire to do so, and offer the
system for sale.
They proposal to sell was
offered because of', the
necessity' of moving, ,time
telephone lines back from the
ship in order that the roads
might be widened. The lines
are in very poor condition and
all the wire along with some
300 poles would , have to be
replaced.
Doug Bartliff has been
invited to give a demon-
stration in cake decorating,
before an assembly of pastry
chefs in Kitchener, this week.
St. Andrew's. Presbyterian
Church, Clinton was the scene
of a• double wedding recently
when Rita Guetter became
the bride of Peter Lazet, son
of Mr. and Mrs., Petei^ J.
Lazet, Londesboro and her
brother, Peter Guetter, was
united in marriage to
Johanna Veldhuis, daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. Marinus
Veldhuis, Waterford. Mrs.
Lazet and Mr. Guetter are
daughter and son of Mr. and
Mrs. John Guetter, Clinton.
Mr. and Mrs. Lazet are
planning on living at RR 2,
Clinton while Mr, and Mrs.
Guetter will live at RR 1,
Londesboro,
Phyllis Purst, Clin/in;
Leone Lamb, Goderich;
Mary Durst, Clinton did a
good deed for competitors
and audience• as well at the
annual Huron County Junior
Farmer Plowing Match,
when, as members of the
Junior Institute, they turned
out to supply hot-dogs and
other refreshments.
50 YEARS AGO
November 3, 1927
Hallowe'en has again come
and gone', with little damage
done. More and more
Hallowe'en has come to be
considered a time for
merriment and frolic in the
homes as well as outside
,them, and here and there, in
private home and in con-
nection with church and other
organizations, little social
gatherings are held. Several
of these were held in Clinton
on Monday evening, many of
the young people being in-
terested in these; and fewer
were left '' to "carry on"
outside. These were, of
course, a number who
dressed up and played a few
roads throughout the town= ----^tricks but nothing very
"serious was done.
Several local bowlers spent
Hallowe'en on the bowling
green; some of them in their
shirt sleeves. How' is that for
the "Lady of the Snows?"
"Some newspapers .are
making a great fuss abou•tthe
new leader of the opposition"
being unmarried," remarked
a thoughtful little woman the
other day, "but he and a few
others are just the exceptions
which prove the rule, that
most men who have ever
amounted to anything are
married. And you will
notice," she added, "that
when a man is once married
and is, unfortunate enough to
lose his wife, he is not long in
hunting up anoiher."
Mr. Fred Warning, who has
been visiting his daughter,
. Mrs. G. A. Crooks of the Base
Line, noticed bees going in
and out of a hole on the side of
the house and on Thursday
last he proceeded to in-
vestigate. He was well repaid
for hig trouble as after taking
pf'f- several boards he came on
a great store of honey, taking
out about 70 pounds.
The bees have been there
for a couple of years, as they
were noticed last hill also.
What you
think
Cold
Dear Editor:
It was very laudable for
Mr. Cook of Barrie to go to
such lengths to defend and
stressstrict control of hun-
ting and trapping of our wild-
life in response to an article
by Elaine Townshend. We all
wish it were better controlled
(and it has great need to be) .
It would be nice—to think all
was sweetness and light in
this regard. Alas, it is far
from that.
Constant vigilance ma
accomplish I much, but th
fact remains over the year
man and his greed (and
women's) have lost to the
world many animals and
birds which will never be seen
again. Grey Owl saved 'the
beaver after a hard battle.
The Audubon Society never
lets down its guard in its
efforts to save madly beautiful
birds.
While we deplore hunting
and trapping, and all its
works, we -are not so naive as
to think it can be stopped.
Many fine men make a living
thus and most of these use the
most merciful° means
possible and are willing to
strive for more. Still, stricter
control over sale of traps and
issuing of trappers licenses,
better trapper education,
legislation which demands a
trapper pass an intensive
education program before he
is allowed a license and that's
only a licensed trapper could
purchase any trap other than
a wooden backed rodent trap,
would help greatly to reduce
the animal suffering which
occurs. All this Mr. Cook
knows and works for.
On the other side of the
coin, and which I am sure
Miss Townshend meant, was
the senseless killing which
goes on every autumn at this
time. The boy allowed a gun
to shoot at anything that.,
moves, being taught a love of
killing for killing's sake -
shooting at song birds and in
town limits (oh, yes it occurs
Mr. Cook) thinking it fun to
shoot a chipmunk which runs
up to him.
The man who stopped his
car on the highway, jumped
out, shot a hawk and drove on
(bursting with pride, rfo
:doubt ). The men who hid in
an apple tree ,and shot the
deer lured thus - great
prowess that! The man whose 'i►
face shines with delight when
he kills the lowly ground
rodent but why does it give
him •so much pleasure to kill
it?
I do not know if the leg -hold
trap is yet illegal. It should be
and great effort is made in
that direction by right
thinking people. Eatons will
no longer sell it. Ever have
your dog get his paw caught
in one? Even with paw not
injured, the fright and
screaming are pitiful and
what is one of these horrible
contraptions doing on the
roadside anyway?
Why.did Grey Owl save the
beaver? Because a trapper
and hunter himself, he was
sickened by the heartless
savagery of the hunt and
extermination of these gentle
industrious creatures. One
such he saw busily trying to
build his house with one leg, •
the other three being chewed
off. -
No one is taking exception
to conservation or controlled
experienced hunting and
trapping, Mr. Cook.- It's the
mumbling, bumbling hun-
dreds who come out in their
Daniel Boone hats to show
what brave hunters they are.
What justifies a man with a
rifle inflicting terror,' -pain,,
injury or death on another
c-reature? What does he
prove? That he, is sm,rter,
than the deer? That hV is .a
fir
hat
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good marksmi,
target would pro
population mus
trolled?
You may possibly just be
right in that, only I usually
believe Nature looks after its
own in that ' event. But
granted it might be so, let it
be done by expert marksmen
not by a group of swaggering
careless hunters who have no
thought but "see what a
clever fellow I am I shot a
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