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The most important item In the program will be the construction of a centrally -lo- cated swimming pool. The plans also include other,,as yet unnamed community service projects. . The swimming pool is not, of course, the first ambitious plan undertaken by the How - ick club. They have contributed in many ways to the betterment of the life-style in their communities since the club was char- tered. The unique factor in the Hbwick Lions' success, however, lies in the way they have 40 succeeded in overcoming local jealousies in the interests of a common purpose. Nowhere in -Canada does community pride run at a higher temperature than in the small villages of rural -Ontario. One has only to recall the difficulties and objections en- countered in the •formation of township school areas. No doubt some of the old-time jealousies still exist in Howick, where rivalry between, its three villages has been traditional. If the Howick Lions never achieved anything more than the fostering of a sense of common pur- pose their record would be secure: The Lions have, in fact, done a great deal more. They have helped to make their township one of the, most progressive rural communities in the province. Facts cannot be hidden Some airline pilots and American poli- ticians are demanding a total news blackout when aircraft highjackings occur. The rea- Vsond for their demand is self-evident, but there is no sensible way in which it can be carried out. . Certainly the detailed aecounts of sky- jackings have led to further crimes of a simi- lar nature. One highjacker originated the es- cape -by -parachute technique and imme, ,diately his method was copied by other criminals. M The co-operation of the news.,media should besought in order to suppress details .of the methods used in these high altitude crimes, but there is no way in which an event which affects so many people and costs so -much money can be kept from the public. Other and better.ways must be employed to put an end to the highjackings. An act of federal legislation would be re- quired to make such a news blackout effec- tive, because freedom of the news media is basic "not only to the American constitution but also to the guarantees of personal free- dom in most other democracies. Once the precedent has been set and the press has been muzzled for even one type of -news, it would be comparatively easy to repeat the move' at any future time. Misbehaviour by public officials or members, of the judiciary might be the next reason for a news'blackout. Police brutality might be banned as a ne,Ws subject on the ex- cuse that such a misdemeanor could be copied in other sectors of the public domain: Hitler's first move when he gained poli- tical control in Germany was management of the news. We cannot afford such controls in a free country. 'Heiiyer--leader or fake? With along tradition of political stability behind them, Canadians are hesitant in the extreme to accept those who proffer new forms of leadership.' Thus Canadian con- servatism has avoided the extremes of fad ytpolitics-and may well have consigned many potentially brilliant leaders to the trash can of -history. . There was Mr. Stevens who founded the ill-fated Reconstruction Party during the de- pression years—and others who posed new and challenging concepts. They got just about as far as the inventors of storage bat- teries which would .have put the oil com- anies out of- business. Paul Hellyer, former Liberal cabinet minister and one time right-hand man to Mr. ' Trudeau—is the .latest to urge departure from the traditional. Disillusioned with the ruling party, he first went totally independ- ent and originated Action Canada. When that `movement failed to arouse any widespread public interest he threw in his -lot with Robert Stanfield and the PC's. It may have been a sensible solution for Paul and his followers— but.persoitlally we hoped for something more original and courageous. Canada could use a 'new approach to her problems and a dy- namic leader, to fire us- with some en- thusiasm fpr what we can still achieve, as a scion. Sadly enough Paul Hellyer was not the man. He would have -cast a longer shadow had he sought oblivion on the bridge of his own ship rather than nbn=entity as a stoker for the Conservatives. They never give up Clarence Campbell's union -with the .Na- tional Hockey. League must be a true mar- riage of the spirit—"till death do us part". Certainly neither public opinigp nor a sense of- fair play Will ever shake him loose from his post in the presidential chair. For some • obscure reason it seems impossible to turn him out by the normal, democratic methods. After years of bickering, the Russians finally conceded that Canada should have *the right to use her best hockey players— amateur or professional. The door was ;at last opened to a truly all -Canada team and the first contest with the Soviets was set for September of this year. Then came Clar- ence. . 'Bobby Hull, the greatest player of them all, was a traitor. He had left the NHL to team up with the World Hockey Associa- tion—so Clarence ruled that he couldn't play gainst the Russians on the Canadian team. page of editorial opinion Thursday, August 17 •r ***7/77. ,y r..,y... .:rr•rr•: >'r'�! I% !'J `' �/ �f;J%F F ,!i'r %' r ! . rf •J� ./ .r' :•. rr . F ,• JF` r. f. / •rf r/ . F •r :•F .r f :r�. .. �y• / • . r. .. . - ......... .. r.... r.. r. r..... r✓% F 11JJl:i'J�rtJ�r r! h My ;Big Toe and World Hockey Bill Smiley Random notesthis week. Could there be anything more sillythan writing a column about your silly old wife breaking her silly old. ankle, and four days later going out for a swim and breaking your own silly old big toe? Well, I did both. And boy, it hurts, boy. Trouble is, there's not much the doctor can do about•it. Had it X-rayed. He took a look at the plate, didn"t even look at the toe, and cheer- fully informed, "Yes, Bill, you've broken a chip of bone off it, but you can't put a cast on one toe, en lust wear a comfortable shoe, wiggle the toe so it won't get stiff,• and sweat it out." in sweating with every step. I didn't realize how many things you could bump your toe' against. It hurts even when I kick the cat, which I don't do, but will, if she comes near my toe. Enough about toes. Watch out for those bees. While waiting for the doc to talk about (guess what) my toe, two large and husky men came into emergency ward swelling like balloons from bee stings. One was the local veterin- arian, six feet six and about. 280. His right hand and arm were al- most completelynumb and"it was spreading into is chest. He was disgusted. How could a silty little thing half an inch long do this to him? And speaking of bees, how about those two headliners, Bobby Hull and Bobby Fischer, hockey player and chess master, in that order? Has ever so much media space been devoted to ;a couple of guys who are doing -well--' what they enjoy, and getting rich at it? And speaking of Bobby Hull, what do you think of the• World Hockey Association? It has stolen Hull and another half-dozen' top hockey players from that far - from -benevolent monopoly, the NHL. Good luck• to the WHA. love ' to see a big organization kicked in the groin, or the pocket- book', in this case. Particularly by its own slaves. Why shouldn't a hockey player, a good one, make more money than a movie star? He's often a better actor. And speaking about hockey, which is rather slily in this weather, "leave you ever read or heard anything more silly than the bleating of sports -writers, and even editorial writers, about , .the series with Russia? "The whole thing is getting rather sickening. It's mist Another symptom of our inferiority hang- up. We can't beat the U.S. al money We can't beat the Chinese at ping-pong. We can't beat any- body at the Olympics, except .Maybe North Males or West Tan- aTti.a. ( With the notable excep- tion of those horsejumpers, who are pretty good.) Why don't we just relax and en- joy it. as Confuscius did not say? Why don't we forget the -years whenother countries were wob- bly -anklets on skates and every red-blooded Canadian boy had a Simpsons catalogue on one leg and an Eaton's catalogue on the other and could shoot a frozen horseball through a hairnet, and we won the world championship 28 to one every year? Except. Remember that dread- ful year (about 1936) when the British, of all people, beat our team in the Olympics? Their team, of course, was made up of Canadians living in England. Or Englishmen who had'grown up in. Canada. One of them was an English kid I went to school with. Another, so he claimed; was an old, friend of mine, Squire Tan- ner, attending Cambridge. Another was George Hees, doing much the same, before he got into politics. But, oh, the shame of it! All this, of course, is prelude, and masquerade to a secret hunch of mine that the Russians .are going to lick• us in the forth- coming series, if it ever forth- -comes My hunch is based on the fact that the - games will be played under international rules. Take away the body -checking, high - sticking, elbowing,. slashing, boarding and gouging; from the game, and your average Cana- dian player is lost. I can visualize cleaNy five Russians descending on some hapless Canadian goalie, with .all the other Canadians in tho penalty box. Enough: This column is about summersilliness. How's this? An aunt '"of my wife, who was born and reared near Belfast, but has lived fora number of years in Canada, went back to. Northern Ireland for visit this summer: We're watching the obituary col- umns. My kid brother, who is a colonel What a surprise it must. have been .to the USSR to learn that they had agreed, not to a Canadian team, but to an NHL team. Those fellows thought they had shot the last of the czars in 1917. They overlooked the fact that we still have•one presiding over hockey in North America. The enigma central to the whole ques- tion is how professional sportsmen have managed'fo saddle themselves with so many dictators. There must be some basic rules lacking in the constitutions of their various associations. The- National Hockey League, -- however, may be destined for oblivion be; cause of its infinite strictures and binding regulations. The World Hockey group is al- ready picking off some of the NHL's top players and may emerge as the dominant association. , The Campbells aren't coming. They're going ! Little known .danger Back before holiday time one of our readers sent us a clipping from a daily paper which exposed a previously (at least to us) *unknown threat to public health. Incidental- ly it served to re-emphasize the nuisance value of dogs on the loose. The newspaper story, which was date- lined in Ottawa, related the sad fact that an `18 -month-old child 'was the first person in Canada to die from round wormi fection.,, Many children and adults, it seem, suffer illnesses caused by roundworms, but deaths, until this year, have been unknown—or at least unrecorded. And where do round worms come from? From dogs—or cats—which have not been de wormed in infancy. It is suspected that the child who was -fatally infected contacted the worms through animal offal, possibly in a public park. ` Yes, the danger is remote ---and the pets are deeply loved by their owners. Whether dogs are spreading roundworms or simply and happily tearing up your garbage bags— you can love them only if they are your own. THE WINGHAM ADVANCE -TIMES Published at Wingham, Ontario, by Wenger Bros. Limit0. Barry -Wenger, President - Robert O. Wenger, Secretary -Treasurer Member Audit Bureau of Cir ulations Member Canadian and Ontario Weekly New aper Associations. Subscription Rate: Subscription $10.00 a year, $5,25 for six months, in United States $12.50 in advance. Second Class Mail Registration No .0821 Return Postage Guaranteed TODAY CHILD RYHFFN ALIEN • THE TORONTO iLj»j SYNDICATE Charles has two absorbing interests — horses and fishing. Ile seizes every opportunity to go riding and he loves to go camping near a lake or river where there might be fists. 'Charles is 13, slightly built, with blue eyes, brown hair and fair `skin. Ile has just finished Grade seen and did yell in school last ,year. . This boy was moved mane tidies before he came into the care of the Children's :lid Society. lle k left with the insecure feeling ,that perhaps he does not belong anywhere. Ile very much needs a home wlie.re he knmys he will ,stay. Charles is cheerful and outgoing but somewhat ►m nn atu•e. ile has difficulty following through on' projects he undertakes. .\ healthy. active boy, he likes sports, especially 'baseball. Charles needs a mother .and father who w111 welcome, en- courage and love hien for himself and who w ill understand it will probably take him some time to realize that finally, after all those unsettled years. he rea1R has a home and parents. To inquire about adopting Charles, please write to Today 's Child. Box $8M, Station ti. Toronto. For general adoption in, formation consult your local ( hildren's .lid Society. in the air force, is being posted to Germany in a few •weeks. What, in the name of all that is silly. are Canadians doing in Germany? Who are they guarding'? Against what? And with what? I know I've come a long way from my broken toe, but some- where, in some secret little niche in my mind, there is a connection linking all these summer silli- nesses. Or maybe I just got too much sun when I went to the beach the other day with Kim and her husband. `And broke my toe. Presentation FORDWICH — Mr. and Mrs. Dale Murray (Marlene Douglas), newlyweds, were guests of honor at a dance held in the community hall 'here. Mrs. Grant Bartman read an address and Mrs. Doug Bunker and Mrs. Murrray Donaldson presented the young couple with livingroom lamps, a bookcase buffet and a purse of money. Both Mr. and Mrs. Murray expressed their thanks and the Fordwich Ramblers supplied music for dancing. LETTERS TO �EPITOR Wingham, Ont. July 28, 72 Dear Editor: • I couldn't help but notice your recent article on "Hit(and Run Becoming More Popular in Wingham". Could this be why? Recently our son was the vic- tim of a hit and run accident, in which his right leg was fractured, and he was left screaming in the street. Thanks to the fast work of the Wingharn police force and the witnesses, the driver was ,soon apprehended and charged with hit and run. However, when the case came before the court, the charges were withdrawn by the 'Crown. The driver claimed he didn t think the child was hurt, even though he admitted having felt his wheel pass over the child and the bumper hitting the stroller, ,and the child was screaming. Now the driver was no doctor, and children don't usually scream in pain for no reason, but the facts remain, there is no charge against )him. I guess he can go on backing out of drive-„ ways over people and there will be nothing to it. How can parents. expect. their children to uphold justice, when there is no justice to uphold? Sincerely, Marilyn Jones Feature finds homes for many Ontario children Readers of this newspaper are fare iliar-•with-a feature -which. ap -_ _ pears regularly and titled "To- day's Child". In picture form, the caption carries information about a different child each week—one forwhom adoptive parents are needed. Perhaps you have wondered whether or not those pictures and--,-_ the stories they tell ever get any results. The answer is a very positive yea. . One hundred and ' thirty-one children who have. appeared in the column this year (daily as -• well as weekly papers) have found adoptive hordes. Many more will be going to new homes with the opening. of the fall school season. The articles originate with the Ministry of Community and Social Services as part of the On- tario government's program of child welfare. Every adoption is special because every one means that a child who has been waiting for parents has to wait no longer. The child has found a place of his or her own and a mother and father- with home and ' hearts open Several of . the children who have found -new homes were those youngsters with particular needs created by a variety of handicaps. One such child was Mark. 'a four-year-old ,who wa born without legs and only the stumps of what should have been arms...klandsorne algid bright, no less than 40 families,, -expressed sincere interest in adopting the boy. He is now .a permanent member of a family which in- cludes mother and father, two' older brothers and a sister. The program has also brought touching,evidence that racial dis- cord does not prevail in all ele- ments of our society. A family - group of seven.. Indian children hatiNteen adopted - by 'a ' white couple who have only two chil- dren of their own. However, they had previously adopted three other Indian children. There was one previous in stance of the adoption of a family of seven; one occasion in which five brothers and sisters found• the same home; two families of four have been adopted as have two families of, three and ten families of two. "Today's Child" has certainly proven the old adage that it pays to advertise. More important, it has proven the fact that love and unselfishness are far from for- gotten virtues. • —Mr. and Mrs. Alvin Higgins and Carol recently enjoyed . a camping -holiday in Northern On- tario and Winnipeg; returning' home via the U.S.A. They spent two days at Bay City. Dear Sir: I read with interest, mu. edi- torial ditorial referring togasoline and fuel oil pricesdinOntario. I was a little concerned with your refer- ence that the Federation of Agri- culture is taking a hopeless atti- tude -in this matter. The Federation of Agriculture has an ongoing program directed toward bringing about some competition in the petroleum fuels industry. The success or failure of this program . depends entirely . upon the support of people who like yourself are not afraid to "scream their heads off". Our organization has been suc- cessful in similar ventures in the recent past, and I feel sure that as- we continue to grow in strength and numbers, that . the rural voice of Ontario will be- come -a force to reckon with. As you are aware, the Huron County Federation of Agriculture is now endeavouring to persuade Bell Canada to provide wider toll Wee calling areas in the north of Huron- County. Bell Canada is a large corporation that can give much resistance. It will take con- siderable effort to accomplish our purpose. If enough people will assist, if only by "screaming their heads off", in an organized way, I have every good reason to believe we will be successful.. We appreciate your high opin- ion of our organization, but those who are involved in these pro- grams have not adopted a hope- less attitude. The growing sup- port that the Feder"ation of Agri- culture is gaining can only lead to eventual success. ' Yours Respectfully, Mason Barley, Presiderit Huron County Federation of Agriculture. July 29th, 1972 1R 3, Blyth,.Ontario Dear Sir: May we make an -appeal to your readers for some _missing docu- ments? • ' • The Historical Branch of the City of Edmonton' Parks and Rec- reation Departmetit has been re- searching information about the Hudson's Bay Company Fort Ed-. monton as it was during the 1840's, in preparation for an au- thentic reconstruction of the post. Much of our knowledge of this fort in the 19th century is, derived ' • from Fort Edmonton Journals Of Daily Occurrences which h are now in the Hudson's ' Bay Company Archives. Unfortunately, all of the. Journals between the years 1834 and 1854 are missing, but it is possible that they still exist somewhere, perhaps in a private collection: If any readers have informa- tion concerning the whereabouts of .these missing journals. , we would sincerely appreciate hear- ing from them at: The Historical Exhibits Building, 10105-112 Avenue, Edmonton, Alberta, T5G OH1. ' Yours truly, D. Babcock, Research Consultant. 111; i.11{ .S lioRSES .ea "HON/ COME E1/ERY 77/446' DAD BUYS HE A S(/GC6g, T'N 70 :KEEP !T /&/DE' MY H/4r? �'