The Goderich Signal-Star, 1970-05-21, Page 4ERI sioNAL•STTR, THURSDAY, MAX 21, 1970
Better safe than sorry
Tragedy struck last week near Parkhill
when twp teenage • students from
$outh•Huron • District High School
drowned while taking part in a school
Meld trip in connection , with geography
and science courses.
'Accor'ding to' director of education
• John Cochrane, there is still no official
reports of the mishap, and until there is
one, there can be no official` statement
from the Huron County -Departtn.ent of
Education.
Unofficially though, there is plenty of
discussion going on throughout the
county, concerning the death of the girls.
Some put the blame squarely at the feet
of the school system which permits
youngsters to be out of the classroom and
into potentially dangerous situations
• without sufficient staff to watch each
child every moment.
But generally, there is a feeling of
futility when something of this nature
occurs. Most thinking people will admit
that field trips for school children are
beneficial and that accidents, even
accidents as horrible as this one, are a
definite hazard whenever there is a
sizeable group of carefree, energetic
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As of last Friday, all. school field trips
were banned until authorities had had an
opportunity to sit down and come to
some reasonable, thoughtful decisions on
the' whole matter. Tuesday afternoon, alt'
`the principals in the county,,met with
administrative officials of the Huron
County Board of Education and drafted a
set of strict rules to be obeyed by all -
schools, i the county where field trips are
concerned:
a;.' No free time 'to students during. a
school field trip; -
b. No swimming during a school, field
trip;
c. Parents to be advised of all school
field trips requiring children to be away
from school;
d. When school field trips will take the
children away from school for more than'
three hours at a time, the board of
education office is to be notified.
It is time that some uniform policy was
laid down for schools which use field trips
as part of the educational process. It is
also time • that • teachers, parents and
children alike reaffirm that the adage
''better safe than sorry" applies as'niuch
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For many ' 'years winter -wearied
Canadians welcomed EmpireDay on the
a
Queen's .Birthday or May- 4th. School
kids used to. shout: "If.they don't give Lis
a -holiday we will -all run away."
Now, Victoria Day, moved to the third
Monday in May, is observed.. in all
'• provinces except Quebec which prefers
Ascension Day earlier in -the month. Both
days increasingly, mark openings of
summer cottages, , family outing, often
with tent trailers and the smell of -bacon
cooked on open fires. ,
But the word Victoria has a deeper or a
• •victory' meaning. It recalls the quotation
"Peace ,,;.bath tier viptories ' no , less
tenowvne"rfat ars '' 'hely this therinei•n
our,atomic age has special -value: Positive
signs multiply. Last month the U.S.A. and
Out
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readers
write
WHY?
"Enough problems at home"
:.... May 14 edition was a
good editorial's .satisfactorily
explaining 'the lack of coverage
of the visit 'of, , forty-eight negro
students and teachers from
Chicago to Colborne Central
School ' area. And then the,
closing paragraph `tet also is to
be hoped that race will he kept
out of any issue that might arise
out of their visits here. 'They
' have enough of those problems
at home." -- and my question to
this is "Why?"
Why should race be kept out
of anything in . which it plays
• such an important part? One of
the characteristics so refreshing
abort 'today's young people is
that they are no longer willing,to
keep anything out of any issues,
but rather, insist on bringing
things out into the open for
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the U.S.S.R. held round two of their
Strategic Arms Limitation Talks begun in
Hglinki, Finland. Recently 1,700 East
German students broke police lines at
Erfurt to acclaim Willy Brandt who came
there to meet their 'Willie Stoph and talk
about . a United '.Fatherland. More
significant is the world's, pdoples' call for
peace. The little man is tired of war. It
does not matter of what nation, race,
creed or, • color—he demands peace.
Evidence that the. big powers li'sten' is
Washington's sensitiveness to, criticism of
the Vietnam war or South .Africa bending
from protestsr-gaga gist,, its apartheid policy.
Pope Paul calls on modern man not to
"turn means -of progress into weapons of
• destructionh” It is an appeal we might
ponder, -
in Hitler's
r �
About a third of a century has passed
since Hitler started, his campaign of terror
against the yews in iermany, •yet mans
inhumanity to man continues unchecked
in many areas. •
;Because totalitarian governments seem
to have the right to do as they please,
little is heard •• about , the atrocities
committed by the military regime in
Brazil, for example, Yet occasionally,
from Mexico and the United States, one
hears well documented accounts of ,nen,
women' and even children being tortured
and killed by the Brazilian authorities, .
because they -disagree with the way the
country is being run. •
Electric shock torture, children being •
mutilated, before the very eyes of their
helpless .parents, dissident priests being
terrorized and- ,,murdered are common
occurences in Brazil—whose brutal regime
gets more U.S. aid than any,other country
with the exception of Vietnam and India..
�~- cording" t - hr-is1ian churchmen, -the .
Brazilian regime. tortures then releases
people as effective method of subduing
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shadow
the entire population to its will.
Similar tales of. torture cdlme from
Iraq, where scores. of so—called `traitors
have been hanged and shot in public ever
since last year, and from Greece where.
opponents to the junta in Athens have
given detailed descriptions " of
„atrocities—some of them involving even
pregnant women,
The regimes in Greece and Brazil are
so—called, allies of the West, though
fortunately Greece has been pushed out
of -the Coucil of Europe because of. its
treatment of intellectuals and political
opponents. ' Nobody- is supposed to.
interfere because even torture is'sai.d to be
the internal affair of each particular
nation. But the United Nations, the
Organization of American States and all
the world's churches should raise their
voices much more loudly against the
monstrous acts of these military regimes.
or. if the Westi.as to dependon xallie$
who'walk in Hitler's shadow, such friends
in time can become only'a liability.
if all printers were determined not to print anytking till
'they were sure it wout,d offend no one, -ter¢ would be
very litde printed ... Benjamin Franklin
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Words of wisdom
when, suddenly the aisles seemed
to .F be alive with gay colours and
a spontaneous merriment to
match. I couldn't ' recall ever
before seeing so many
delightfully happy faces while
shopping. They belonged to' the
visiting .negro, students and their
new friends frorp " Colborne
Township. If only a camera had
been available that afternoon for
candid. shots!, The young
journalist wh.o forsook • his
assignment add the' available
camera, perhaps relinquished as
good an opportunity to capture
facial radiance„ " and a serene
beauty born of trust and
understanding, , as he will ever
have.
These children from Chicago
made my day. I am pleased the
Colborne people made theirs
week.
discussion, clarification and Bernice Morley.
betterment:L'ditor's Note: -Thank you for -
The fact that visits have been )roar letter Mrs. 'Morley. Your
exchanged previously between a points are very well taken.
Goderich school and a St. Clair I:et me say at the outset that
Shores school, . where the vt;c, ,/et heard from the student
exchange involved. a handful of ofjournalismt'herand it was his
specially selected children "of
white parents and of similar belief 1 /tad assigned another
backgrounds, is worthy of merit. reporter to the job.
But does this compare with the In answer to your query: It
ingenuity •and indeed, was not my intention togiue the
compassion, displayed by the idea I. felt race, problems should
'Colborne Central School? Those . be suppressed.. I t was intended
.fortunate pupils will _always ,,,,,,,.t„�suggest�race prdblcrr.�s„sliould.w..,
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-shared-such a-week-tivith-•children not exist.
'of a different colour and A s is very evident from your
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. the rewarding, fruitful ones. This
brings to mind :two "Dennis the
Menace" W cartoons in which '
Dennis appears with his negro
friend, Jackson. In the one' he
says: "Me'n Jackson -are exactly
the same age. Only - he's
different. - He's, left-handed.'" .
And in the other'- "I'm having •
some race trouble. with Jackson.
He runs faster than I do." Many
race • problems are not too
serious, with children.- They ,
' needn't be with adults. - -
Early on Thursday
afternoon r - I had the good
fortune to. be in Woolworth's
any raced problems as this boy or •
this girl being able to out -run
that bon or that girl. Problems
of • race ary not created. .by
children, but by adults. Children'
•arc not born with racial hatreds,
these must• be placed in their
.young minds. They will learn all
trio soon that the world is not all
peaches and cream, all 1 ask is
that they be allowed to growup
with their innocence of racial
problems and nor have them
forced upon . them through
• senseless actions such as 'we
witnessed in the letter -last week.
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ONE,YEAR AGO North Street United. Church Township -are most extensively
collected bottles around town travelled during., the " summer
The Goderich Kinette Club on Monday evening in an effort months, and ` therefore during
will be helping to, make' the to raise money for World this period should be kept as
summer months a little happier Refugee Year. • Their . take. smooth as possible, would it not
for mentally disturbed children amounted to more than 2,000 ` be welt if the pathmasters would • -
again this year by assisting' in postpone their gravelling until
sending them to summer camp.
The local club last week.donated
$85 towaids• sending D the
children from Goderich
Psychiatric `Hospital to the
Anglican Church Camp in
Bayfield in August.
Goderich town council is to
seek the advice of town. solicitor
Ken Hunter into the legality pf
recent . increases in hydro rates
=Set"b ".Gudi t'th?abiic l't.'rlities
Commission. R. Haydon, Warren
Street, in a letter to council.
pointed out discrepancies in in
announced times for an increase
by the PUC and .in the time the
increase was put into effect.
John W. Leamen, 32 Bennett
St. .W.,. was among more than
900 graduates receiving diplomas
from President F. C. Jorgenson
,at the Spring Convocation at
Ryerson Poly technical Institute
, in Toronto. His course was civil
technology.
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Subscription Rates S6 a Year (- To U.';.A. 57.50,fin advance)
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Ond class ,"nail registration nur.iber -- 016
bottles which raised a total of
550. ,
25 YEARS AGO
During the electric storm
which swept over Goderich and the main lines of travel try the
'vicinity' on Monday morning, 4 experiment for' one season.
two cows of George C. Feagan s p
the fall and thus allow those
who drive to get as much
enjoyment out of it as possible? •
Suppose the pathmasters along
fine herd of graded guernsey
cattle, at his farm on the Huron
Road were killed by li htning
and another seriously injured
while they were grazing in a field
under a tree. "
Empire Day was -observed in
the local schools yesterday. At
St. Peter's School, the program , .
as outlined by 'the Department '
of Education was followed: An
address on the ' British . Empire,
was given by Craig Costello; and
featured in the program were
"patriotic songs, class recitations
and the salute to the flag.
Previous to this a study of the
Empire with map sketches was
taken in the classroom.
Miss Peggy Hay left on
Monday' 'to return to Kingston -
10 YEARS AGO after a fortnight's visit with her
Members of the Golden Age parents, Mr. and Mrs. W.A.Hay.
g Miss Peggy has been appointed
Club who staged a comedy play • to a position -with the Kingston
"The Bugginsville Uplift,R departm f of Health.
Society" were Mrs. Wilson, Mrs.
Chambers, Mrs. Whiteley, Mrs. 60 YEARS AGO
Noble Young,. Mrs. N. McInnis, A meeting of shareholders of
Mrs: Elsie McKenzie and Mrs. J. the ,,Goderich Rural Telephone
Marwick. Company Limited was held in
qt. -M. -Coulter of the staff of the Board of Trade room on
Stratford Teachers' College. has Friday last. An organization was
been made •a 'public school effected,' with the following
inspector for Fluron C'uunty. His directors: Wm. Hill, John
appointnient fills. the vacancy MeNab, Dungannon; John
created by the appointment of Schoenhals�, Port ' Albert;
G. G. Gardiner of°Goderich to a Stephen Medd, Auburn; John
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York. A ,ratios- of'iyfngh nr, Mr. G. 'Gamble, 0oderic and -W:"
. Corliter taught at Kitchener parks, Wstfiield.. • «.
before 'oi in the staff ..of The' 33rd
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Teachers' chers College i
joining
g n vent Victoria Day at Brussels,
' 195v. assisting din a celebration there.
The members of the YPU of As the • ,roads of Gode cl
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