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Break the veifare cycie
Thera a refreshing, tone of re`Iism
toward p "verty solutions in last year's
Economic Council report, also.. inthe
e i eerattons of the conference last. year.
offemde aTprQv ielr'welfare' ministers at
Victoria, B. C. ,
This call for new methods of financial
support to break_ the cyel'e=if welfare jet.
• down to fundamentals. Today's rigid rules
which .restrict' personal assets to qualify,
for welfare and which prohibit earnings to
supplement income, has kept the poor in
the welfare` straight -jacket for two and
three generations. ' .
The Economic Council maintains that a
minimum adequate standard ' of living
should be the base for evaluating aII
assistance programs. This is sound policy.
Excessive price increases in food, clothing,
housing, plus low wages, sales and ether
taxes, all drastically cut income, increase
privation ,and keep tht'poor'�'I.iving on the
edge of disaster at all times."
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There is realism ' iih the emphasis „on„
,prevention .of' poverty. - Long range
planning , by governments for retraining,
.for - equality of job .and , educational
Opportunityin -all _rag ions 1,0.
realistic Laws which -dorm''!`* discriminate
against the poor are required. Equal -in
importance with adequate government
programs and policy, is: proper training of
theindividuai from childhood on to cope,
successfully with life.- Fully functioning
mental powers, sound emotional health,
development of initiative, responsibility,
' discipline, good work habits, would equip
the individual to grasp the opportunities
which -society provides. In, our, wealthy
society, poverty is -,a Word
d Which _should
become obsolete.
the .tithe factor
'The spillage of oil off Cape Breton crushed in the Arctic ice. with deadly__
from the wrecked tanker Arrow is another consequences to every form .of. marine
warning, to °. a a increasingly life.' .' .
poi lution-consbic J's continent --of -the We -are -discovering -that -:numerous
worse form pollution assumes. • -.. h-. -form-s--of '-=eaw.based ` life 'are ---nearing..
Air fowled.. with factory smoke. and extinction or are no longer safely edible.
-motor- exhausts; soil contaminated with The, algae which'. feed upon
pesticide resid'Ues; rivers ruined ,with phosphate -based detergents are -consuming
industrial waste, domestic sewage and ° the precious oxygen in the sea water,
• detergents are but a few of the pollutants dovtrnwevighing the balance of nature
contributing to the deadly brew' we are against the survival -of life's higher forms.
mixing -the oceans, --'hese have become - It is in our, power, if we act resolutely;.
the- catch basins for every type of to reduce -to a, tolerable level every' form -
pollutant we are concocting on land. of pollution of, air, soil and river.
In addition we are directly poisoning But in the oceans we..have started a
`the oceans by oil accidents like that of the life -destroying process which iiay already
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countless' other less -public, ed . outrages. the possible nearness of this deadline
The -Manhattan's voyagethrough the which makes the time factor the vital
Northwest. Passage Makes it probable that element in mounting 'an all-out attack on
° sooner or later an `oil -Laden tanker will be pollution:
THE STATE OF EDUCATION
Now that. Latin has been superseded by Science in our schools jt,
is not surprising that Duan Spiro Spero" was recently mistaken for
.Insult, to the Vice President of the United States. For those who
missed a `classical' education the.correct translation is "While there'd g
breath there's hope!"
CENSORSHIP IN EXCEi.SIS
People• who complain about. censorship today don't know whet
censorship rev" llrls,.Looking over„say 1942 diary I came across some
marvellous examples: For a tarrip Cher -w-as tthat letter tce Ireland
which said "I wish you would send me a cow. It was marke byIhe
censor "Import of cattle into England ,from. Eire by private
-individitals-is not permitted." -You eamsee-f -that-tiutt4he ensors
Were not :to•.be caught napping: Then there was a cunning man who
wrote , to .a friend in Tibet, in Tibetan "Send me ,ak•. 'The letter
was returned marked , "Import of _ Yaks into England
from Tibet by private individuals is hot permitted. Obviously there
is nro getting round the censors, as the supervisor remarked when he
tried to encircle the waist of the largest girl !tithe S9siojt div $ign,
Those are just the simple cases proving the censorship never
sleeps. Butwhat about the languages in which it is difficult to ole
sure of the meaning of a phrase which may mean one•of two things.'
Thus a girl writing to a man in Swedish Lapland may say "Jag har
fatt ett storti min bolpr.” This may mean "I have made a hole,in my
bowler hat" or "Twelve battleships are sailing at nine ten." Again in 4
Swahili, the same words, with only a slight difference of stress may
mean `jSend,ine, a cabbage" or "Send me a herd of zebra." You see
what. I mean? The censor never slept in those far off days and his
sleeplessness - may account ytfor the permissive -clime of the
Seventies.
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Accident cause covered up
The 5,000.traffic deaths in Canada each
year make it difficult to criticize any type'
of highway safety campaign:
Nevertheless, suspicion attaches to
safety propaganda, which• intimates, if- it
does not actually say,, that all vehicle
accidents : are caused by reckless or.
negligent drivers.
Probably, the majority are, in -whole or
part, so caused. But there are other
causes:' -,bad weather, poor roads,
dangeroubridges, misleading signs and,
very importantly -. defects •in vehicles
it iemse`ives. •The "loose nut behind ' the wheel"
theory " . of accident -=causes can be a
coverup for the real truth that the most
careful driver can be ditched' by a, loose
nut in his. car. •-
Thenumber of vehicles manufacturers
have been constrained to recall for safety
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Reniember When ? ?
THE LANGUAGE OF OFFICE STATIONERY: Sign on theside`
of a van advertising duplicators: "Please drive carefully. .,W_ cannot 4
duplicate you."
MAGICIAN'S LAMENT
"With Magic everything is just a variation of the basic rules of
_vanjsh,r..transform1 , „re.—appear, -levitate, etc: I've had trouble in
. ;:1,,Bermuda7with:::lentatian lisii•gixis_flnat;:.Z_xan- just pint' hein..thei
and -they float; buttyoirtanftW'fioat A'inericsa`wtiynenr: ey're'too"`—'.t1.—
heavy." •
.' Robert - Harbin's wife_ is tiny and effervescent; 'always, quite
prepared to be set on fire for purposes of magic...
adjustments. in the recent, past, is its own
comment on the`situation.
Costly vehicles, fresh from factories,.
should nit be offered for sale in
conditions which require independent
inspection to protect their purchasers. Yet
some. provinces find it necessary to
compel- such inspection by law.
Feelings of buyers who- discover
defects, whether _ glaringly -obvious or
concealed in ,brakes or steering systems,
are not mollified by the statement, often
_heard from dealers: -"oh, you must expect
a•few little things wrong with a new car."
You should, expect nothing' ofthe sort.
New, expensive, precision • machines
should reach their' ° purchasers in perfect
mechanical condition. Nothing Tess should
be expected -or tolerated. Careless driving
.should" not be allowed to form a shelter
for careless manufacturing, - Contributed
Our 'daily dose of -poison
When a baby 'swallows a bottle of '`
aspirin;• a `frank mother rushes the child
to the nearest hospital to 'save its life.
When a 'man kills his wife with poison,
justice is demanded and he receives the
deathseratence'`or a jail tern) for life. Most
poisons,are regarded with natural fear and
`thought of in terms of death. ,,Cvnly a
suicide deliberatelytakes poison.
Today the entire population takes
-poison' daily--- poison -not • imposed- by.
some scheming enemy, but absorbed,from
their trusted, natural environrrI'ent - air,
Water and soil. But strangely enough, the
great majority, of people h calmly and
apathetically accept "their daily poison
potion without fear or 'protest.
No doubt ..the danger is difficult to
grasp. We have enjoyed these basics of
.life, air, water and triod, and taken them.
for granted over a lifetime. Now our good
friends - the . Iements - contain an
-insidious enemy attacking our bodies,
slowly eroding the internals of man - his
lungs, liver, blood and other organs. • ,
Pollution has^ developed to almost
• catastrophic proportions and many
scientists maintain the extinction of the
° human race is irhminent. Even our faithful
oxygen supply is jn jeopardy. People are
--seldom----.urged- . to .be_._arfulr but the
Salvation of mankind may well•depend on
arousing natural fear of our poisoned
environment in, individuals. While, leaders
in governments and industry are in
positions of power to take action, citizens
everywhere will- need to form pressure
. groups to ensure action is: taken to halt
• the trend -to suicide. - Contributed
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ONE YEAR AGO
In Days of Camelot, directed
by Miss Doreen MacKenzie, will
be presented this weekend in the
auditorium of GDCT. - With a
variety night theme.. the show is
a co-operative venture of "staff
and students.
The Goderich Home and
School Associa-tini has v"- Died to
disband. After a general meeting
of the Association held at
Victoria . School, the executive
recommended that the
associationb was no longer in a
position to continue
functioning. A vote of members
was taken and the decision was
to disband.
Council last week approved
the recommendations of the
harbour committee to rehire
Alex Wilkins as dock
superintendent at Snug Harbour.
An expansion program ,at the
Sifto Salt Mine -at_Goderich, . has
been announced by L. H.
Groom, General Manager of the
Salt Division, Domtar Chemicals
Lifnited, Montreal. '
Ooderich town council has
passed a bylaw for the control of
dogs in town. The bylaw has"
been drafted from a bylaw in
effect in Guelph that has proven
to be succes,ful.
Mrs. David Gower of
Colborne Central .School and
Gail Milton Victoria Public.
School, were among 500 'women
teachers . who attended • the
FWTA annual conference in
'Toronto recently. -
Three executive officers were
;elected and appointed at the,
regular meeting of the, Goderich
and District Labor Council:
Marjorie Robinson, Walter
Gdttscbalk and Manfred Dierolf.
In Goderich, Bell Telephone's
constructive expenditures during
1968 totalled $48,892.
A Bank of Nova Scotia is to
'be built in Gdderich this year
and will be located at the corner
or The Square and West Street.
Mr, and Mrs.. Gerrie Glenn,
newlyweds, were involved in a
freak accident on the first day -of
their honeymoon. Gerrie and
Bernice were headed for Mexico
when the incident happened.
•
TEN 'YEARS AGO
G. G. Gardiner was appointed
as public school inspector for
North York has been announced
by the Ontario Department of
Education.
The two=hour parking: bylaw
received two 'readings in town
council Friday evening, but°.ivith
' such strings: attached as could
prevent it- from going : further.
The opinion 'Sas expre ed that
iner'chants. on, the Square, are
asking for a bylaw to force
-thein
to take their own .cars off the
1
irevi 'Provincial ‘" %'olai'e
headquarters building for
Godetikh is to be built. this year,
.i a !news release fro -
�cor�ting- t� from
"' Qtieen''s Palk. Ixaet loi~ath or
the building has not, been stated
as yet, although rumours persist - it is to be on Thr -Blue Water
Highway south, just outside *of
the town limits. The OPP ' is
presently in a' rented house on,
Park Street.
Deputy, Reeve Bisset reported
"a lot of grief this past week
with sewers". "I think it should
be
taTcen up with our engineer;
he- said, -!'and make plans- for
'some storm sewers. We ate
building , new houses each year,
and the sewers cannot handle
then. We may have been putting .
in two instead of three feet on
account of cost.', I-• am of the
opinion ;•that wherever a new
house is built and it is in order for
them to tap into the sewer, there
should be a flat rate of possibly
„$50. For anybody planning a '
x^$10,000 home, $50 is neither
.here nor there, and it would be
revenue for the town."
60 YEARS AGO
Smart intelligent boy wanted
to learn the printing trade.
Preference given to one who has
passed the entrance
examination. Apply at The.
Signal Office. (advert)
Of they 'bine Vel twhi h.
wintered, Belie,- y th' it
e or , was a first to clear.
The town solicitor issued a
statement to council advising
that he is opposed opposed to the
proposal to charge a frontage tax
for the watering of the streets in
Goderich. •
On Thursday last a very
painful accident happened to
Bertha Foster, the little daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. John Foster,
Sheppardton, when she had part
of her finger taken off by the
windmill: •
Mrs. R. M. Sparliing, 121 --
Nelson St., has been awarded
first 'prize in the preliminary,
district competition for . the
Provincial Essay, contest of the
Ontario Horticulture Society
• - The new Christian Education
Wing addition to North Street
United Church is taking shape
fast, despite some inclement'
weather experienced. •
25 YEARS AGO
Thursday afternoon, shortly
• before 4 .o'clock, the body of
Milton °Gador, who disappeared
from his home on March 9, was
discovered in the .lakejust off
the bathing beach and a few feet •
from the south pier. ' •
A congregation which filled,
the North Street' United Church
was present Sunday morning for
• the Easter communion service. at
which Mere were '26 new.
members. At this service the
ordination of five new elders was
conducted by Rev. R. ' H.
Turnbull; who also gave the
address: They were . F.
Walkom, A. L. Cole, Nofval
Anderson,, J. M. McTavish and
William Ellwood. ' t
County clerk Miller has been.
notified that a shipment of trees
is to be tirade on April 9 from
the' forestry station at St.
Williams to fill the orders sent
,,frornr this county. The
requisitions, received from
school section and private
individuals throughout the
county, called for 230,000
young trees, of the following ,
varieties: white pine, red pine,
white spruce, Norway spruce,
.white ash, white cedar, silver
maple , and 'white elm.
Distributionwill be made under '
Rev. W. .H. Dunbar,
'incumbent of the
MI -Tad to ►--1 ortiesvilre=
Suinterhill Anglican parish who
has received. a call to a parish
near Hamilton, has decided not
to accept.
'George and Leonard
Westbrook ;have left town for
the Pacific 'Coast, Vancouver,
B.C. is their destination:
Goderich is fortunate in
having a soprano soloist . of the
ability of Mrs: W. J. May. Those
who.have heard her will not fail
fo attend "The Rose Maiden"
and hear her in ode of the
leading solo parts.
MORE ABSENCE OF MIND
The family myth regarding Dr. Robert Beckinsale, .of University .
College, Oxford -is that walking down the Broad one day he raised
his hat to his wife,, then turned to his companion: "Who was that
lady? Once going to. his room -to change for golf he got --into his
pyjamas•and into bed, wondering why it was so light.
NEW DATES FOR OLD
It comes as something of a.shock when someone arises to doubt
oartg sllnntifc
morons like myself, the system seemed absolutely sure fire. After all,
Carbon 14 is produced high above the smog of earth through the
bombardment of atmospheric nitrogen by neutrons from cosmic
rays. It always seemed pollution -free to me. Twenty years ago, when
Professor W. F. Libby of Chicago first propounded the theory that
the decay rate of the --isotope Carbon 14 could be used to date'
organic remains, everyone in sight embraced the idea as being
fool -proof. But as time went on Dr. Edwards of the British Mt seum
began to have his doubts. He chose Egyptology as his check, because
ields of ancient organic materi`al in Well' preser'v`ed for n are Igadify
i 11 ble vOline there is a reliable 'dati checlt� `' oingbaek
wive thousand years. 'The result or i arils checks. that
correlation over the first millenium B.C. checked well: But in the
second Millenium, the carbon date was too' late: Rope from the
funerary boat of Cheops, for example, showed an error of 450 years, a .
and reeds from the Pyramid of Sesostris II (1897-1878 B.C.) were Et--
century
�century late.
Then along came the ingenious Dr. Seuss who used tree -ring
dating as a check. He took the bristlecone pine, an immensely
long-Iived tree, and by linking, jiving specimens with dead ° ones
pushed back' chronology some 7000, years. He then stablished a
correlationship between the rings.and carbon dating, from whichr,a
_corrective* curve was derived; rather -a bumpy curve it is true, yet a
very. useful corrective for the carbon method, so that estimates are
now correct to within about 100 years. Dr. „Edwards.now'fmds that
using the Seuss correctionall his Old Kingdom radiocarbon dates fall
into their historical `place.
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THE HIGHER HOOLIGANISM --
Drop.
*Drop, a cigarette carton and you risk a . $50 fine; but mangle a
beauty spot and you may receive the Canada Medal.
In the courseof the incessant legislation` which the grip of the
fashionable socialist theory has caused to choke the statute book,
vast and almost unlimited powers have been delegated to nameless
officials.
NON -SATIRICAL ITEM`
A current bulletin" gives a Recipe for a'good time in London thus:
First:, Go td West -London Air Terminal at Cromwell Road after
11:30 p.m. on Saturday night..Buy the Sunday papers from the man
there. Step- on the escalator and make your way to the all-night
snack bar for•coffee and cream.
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Leeburn, have . be+en busy this
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