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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Goderich Signal-Star, 1967-02-09, Page 6etter • After the but ertng the ditor. gave my last effort, I'm a bit hesitant to jurnp bads into the fray. However, appropriately chastened, I apologize for any in. telnperate.°language I might have used, for all my, ether 'short. so*n ngs, and even include' a pro. nclfse -to try and rriend "rhy-,ways.- ' there, if that isn't 100 -karat burn- • ilityl And so, mcappinga "brew" and unsticking a couple of ,hype• . writer keys, ['m away. ' It w a terestia • to lea that Mr„ "4darnis intended lettex"'for the Bditer personally, "and no one else". It was evid. - ently published by mistake,,. My suggestion, Mr. Adams,, Is to mark such letters "personal" in future. YoU will save -the type.. setters, ,, in the back room a lot of extra trouble. Your second letter, fortunately, must not have been marked "personal" either, In this, .effort , he states that anyone who "implies the U.S.. is running a dictatorship" or who compares U.S.. acts in Viet. nam to' those of Hitler, lex° "a ' coirYrfl c6 .b"(��,q 1Lik ; dn�t S�.' t ' `I'h,'L'� �e ual, a poisorr. peri' crank," and a "freedom parasite." In quality. rf notyetn quantity, U.S. incineration' of Vietna ese children" by • napalm and. ite • phosphorous bombing is just a$ evil as Hitler's liquidation of 6,000,000 Jews duringWoildwar , "At leasta quarter of a rri'ill- -ion Vietnamese children° have been killed :in the war by --tixt O"ahaw`a w apows;" ii oth x. hre , to a f e . t mill. is r o a ion burned or woundeci;'�� states Wm. F. Pepper, journalist' and a director of the Children's In.- stitutg,'for� Advanced Study, and Research, New York, who has just returned. from a six week tour of `that country. An associate editor' of the NeW York Times, Harrison Salisbury, has been jolt. ing The Great Soceity with on. the -Spot accounts of,what Amer. ican (and Canadian) bombs do to populated areas'of Hanoi.. Also significant is that 420 U.S. troops have '' now •been killed by :their ruses cn:ror own 1 -0 .,er vxse sb su gic- Oyes the,sitent, suffering ns, ally C1�lr�r A� � avbidi civ li � lam» q � ar 2i �aabrned�" � sa writes Dr. Grim indictments of U.S. policy Perry in Redbook. in Vietnam also come frornartic. The fact that we may not reach Yes In 1:aSt month's Ladies Home Hitler's figure of . six million Journal, by Martha Gellhorn, for. deaths should be rio reason for .mer wife of late writer Ernest smugness. Vietnam is a small Hemingway; and in Redbook Mag- country. We're likely to run out mine, by Dr. Richard E. Perry, of these small targets first. an orthopedic surgeon. Both Now .to the 'question, "Is .U.S. writers .have • just returned from running a dictatorship in Viet - tours of thehespitals and bombed- nam?"• The so.called government out areas. However, I don't wan of so-called South Vietnam re. •#o pressure readers into buying presents nobody but itself and » airy ,.1�it rto- Cad v a�t--- l±,"fi�: It"4 T't ts" -Weft ti s te. '. • dirty,;aced "beatniirs, ment together a en with the bill. "poisoned -pen cranks,', free. ions in swa ected from Uncle dem parasites," or "frustrated Sam. Its a Gilbert and Sullivan Oyes • bright, ebairman of the Senate that 1 ' arm not trying tet, " mpilF, Foreign ^ 'RelatiOns Comintttee, that patriotism is obsolete, even who warns the U.S, is "marching though Edith Cavell said "tt was towards disaster with an exagger. "net enough" and Dr. Samuel ated sense el polder and a» Johnson, said it was too often imaginary sense of mission," In "the last refuge of a scoundrel." his new book;" "The Arrogance ' Love of country is generally to of- Ppwer," he points Out. how be admired, There are, however, Hitler and Napoleon both marched better ways -of showing 'it than to Russia with similar "delusions . commit/ing suicide,. ... , of manifest destiny." Dr. Reis, Anyone whose memory goes chauer told the Committee that back to '3.9.or '14 for that Matter. Ho Chi Minh could have .ruled ...will recognize certain words as all of Vietnam Without menacing a signal, I • mean . words like •trrterests�if � � . of c ©x� • t '' n .. u t� offs' • o rrr�R•-s pa• rifxce••gi-•• errors had not caused- a Viet. -newer• of CQur youth, . just cause, nam war. I suppose there are rfl thers tears 'gallant little ally, y, special reasons why.Arner;,cans ,victory an,d glorious heritage of.. find it- incredible to believe that freedom, aced sd on. These are • they are wrong. in Vietnam,, even all food 'words a,nd I am not 'though a billion andq.haltAgians. mocking them,. I only mean that half the human race. and many of when a° politician begins to use other nations,- think they. are them, all in the same speech, it is once again the 11 th hour, Armageddon is nigh, all hell is about to break loose and rational discussion must end. Johnson has° come perilously close to using than all in recent oratory. 'Mr. Adams , writes: "I for one would like to.bow my head in thanks to the over 5,000 U.S. soldiers who have died in Viet. intellectuals" write. Both issues. -farce .;"sr -would be -if it were not involved in a hideous and.dis- graceflrl' war. It couldn't last ten ut mines Without U.S. shoring tip. Typical item comes from Saigon Post, Jan. 12, reporting theft of 10 million piastres ($300,000) of gold :and pearl valuables from a _customer's safe in a foreign. owned Saigon bank. The gal is Mrs.- Iran Thi Dung, wife of General Ky's "CIA" head. An- other wife safe from ,,mal- nutrition. • The, present puppet -premier of South Vietnam, Gen. Neuyen Ky, got off to a bad -but significant, start with his "free world" baek- ers when he made a widely publi- cised avowal. of admiration for Adolph Hitler. Crews of Pentagon PRO men have since been trying to keep both his feet out of his mouth and "re-educate," but the General still pulls some dandy boobs. Its hard for any nation to see itself as an aggressor. A Sew in ,Britain did during the Opium War with China °' and • again in 18' '-•when the Boer War started. There must have .bee;, Germans -----ire IM- •antirSa15anVge—rri-"`rni also. contain tips on sex, "How to ''save your marriage, bold trrd bare bikinis, cooking and fash-' ion tips, and `a few cartoons. something for; everyone., ° ". "Nothing could have prepared me for myw encounter with Viet. namese women and children burned by napalm:, It, was sicken- ing, even for a physician, to see and smell, theblacked flesh, ,qne never 'forgets the bewildered who felt the same way... • Three U.S. top diplomats are this week testifying before the U. S. ' Senate Foreign Relations' Committee. All have been 'criti- cal of U.S. involvement .in Viet. nam and the growing trend to. • wards militarism at home and the blind, uncompromisingbelief that all communists are wrong and we are right. . These men: are: George F. ken. nan, former" U.S,. ambassador to Russia and author of "`Russia,ana the West"; Edwin 0, Reischauer, U.S. ambassador to Japan and Harvard U'niversiity authority on Asian' affairs. The third of this trio of "dirty -faced beatniks, fru- strated _ intellectuals, poisoned. pen , cranks and freedom pari asites", is Senator J,W., Fu11: Q nam 474*, tl; old back the Come. a , still day in the hot sun; and mullet gareh against. the tree. tRilitary leaders thunder "the dom of the world."(Theaccurate comtnuntsts must diet figure is 7,100.)'' We attach no particular blame Like many people all I can feel to the Oren who trip the trigger, is a detached sorrow because„ open ar}otlier's belly with a they ha to waste their live in- bayonet, or 'press the bomb -tit. such a senseless manner.s Th da these thins because their mothers, wives ' and fam.� somehow, they have been' con. ilies I feel a much deeper s,,o row, vineed that what they are doing • also for the one million, tiny is right. A death toll of over u;, -r. Vietnamese children burned jo forty millions in two world ware ' death, malnied or :wwounde by should reveal some error in. this these "defenders 'of' our free.: line of thought.' ",y �.m A • befere� d s.,�, d i tins ea•th•- I� o �! •tit #� � a.1 er �oyertook� r .fist an "them. The r is jority of,men going who have Caused this slaughter; to 'war', do 'hot understand the • .1 feel nothing brat loathing and 'essential meaning o#'what they dfsgust. Leaders yierepersons in 'are .doing. They rely on polio. ° responsible positions who allow. icians, religious readers and so. ed themselves to be carried•along ^--eal1ed military experts to guide on waves of enaotionalisni, relig. them. This situ do . exists • nous. fervour and atriotism. The a • n on o � �;, both sides in all wars. ' • were in a positio to -shape and'' All this unnecessary carnage mould the opinions and feelings of ' should strengthen our determin. ' the common man -not to, turn him ation not to be deceived when into a brainwashed brute who politicians start felling us we murders . and then cominitts must honour our nuclear commit. suicide. merits; when re i ous leaders urge us to take` • g cross of Christ to the battlefield as Gwent the - theme of many a drum -head ser. vice I've' stood thru usually on For dile thing, they are used to thinking 'of their country as - the great bringer of peace and prosperity. For another, they find the • emotion -packed appeals to patriotism of LBJ,. and others, hard to • resisit . Let n1 e. Masten to explain, ere , IODE, Legion, eta1, land on my, neck enmasse, r..,..,:,:,.. ,4,444. �,, , ,,,�_-----^---. . J.C. Hindmarsh • R.R. 2 Cloderich' 444 -...a..,..c .•w.a,-..,..�-.a�vv¢xc _ .-.--'—"--^•a..a'nazw_s��.vc i•. waN. =44,44,...=-.:ms�7m=G R: G. Shrier (right), president of Signal -Star Publishing Ltd. has received a Citation of Merit from the Canadian Cancer Society for publicity given the satiety's fund appeal and effort, in education on cancer control. The, plaque was presented- by• Trevor Or- mandy, education chairman of the -society's Goderich. branch. A', rink' skipped- by Morris McMillan Wow ` the annual Hi1°am Walker Borispiel at Malt land Country Club last Thursday, From •ieff Ralph Morels, Jack Hoffineyer, Pat Os-. 63r0e Mr: McMillan, and Hugh Wood, of Hiraret; Walker. - In a recent article about the Canada • Company's land posters,:i. mention was made of the town- ships„ named for directors of the °company.. Nope, it was said, appeared to have been . ,� • • director Martin T Smith. — Jfi scot£ points Out that 'we do • indeed have a Huron county town- ship commemorating this man,. whose full name was Martin Tucker Smith: A'glance into Noth. in,g But Names (H. F, -Gardiner, 1899) would have disclosedquite _�. a good biography"'of . the gentle. man, who was born in 1803 and died in 1880. Ile was M.P, for Midhurst and for Wycombe, in .,.,the British Parliament, and his • daughter Helen was married to Col. William 'J. Gascoigne, who •commanded"the militia of Canada from 1895 to 1898. The biography is preceded by an old election rhyme; "Th e•Tbwnship of Tucker - smith, Joe Rymal said, Could be worshipped without any sin, - Eor it looked not like any.. thing • else upon earth, --^-•,.,,And • nothing the waters within. -' So outrageously -mangled ,. oor of Hy the great gerrymander • ' had been." W. E. Elliott Goderich, 1iI w gys ost, ►; ,.' !er... DOZENS OF HAPPY PEOPLE WELL -PICK UP THEIR TELEPHONES AND HEAR THIS . TODAY, OTHERS ,WELL ANSWER THEIR DOOR BELLS AND HEAR THE SAME, WORDS T0. BUY,RENT, .HIRE, SEAL OR F 44.4414. GODERICH DISTRICT CO..I,EGIATE INSTITUTE GODERICII ARENA P.M. -418:3„ —