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Published EVERY THURSDAY at CLINTON, Ontario, • Canada, in the Heart of litironCounty
TH U FZSC)AY iMi\12C1-1 10, 1955 •
CLINTICiN'S RA.TE
THE ALL -TOO -PROBABLE , result -of in-
creased expenses in town will be an increa*.se to
the present tax rate. Finance 'chairman of the
, • •
town, council this week auggested a possibie
rise of five mills to a total of 79 for this, year.
• This increase is 'based on an expected mill
request from the 'Public school board; two mills -
increase expected from the collegiate institute
board; one • from the county, 'and perhaps one
from town.
' All of 'us would like to see this amount
kept to the minimum, It would appear that if
any cuts are to be made, however, they will
have to be made in town expense only. The
county ?ate its set, and Clinton can make no
change in it. The collegiate institute board is
no longer a town board, butincludes represent-
atives from the surrounding townships and
municipalities. There is little if ettY* control
over expense there by the town. *
There seems little that:council can do over
increased expenses at, the public school, either.
, We would suggest however, that the school
boards should bear in mind the continual in-
crease of the tax burden 'upon Clinton, people,
and attempt any feasible economies. Though
"frills" may be desirable, they are certainly
not necessary to the education of/the young.
LITTLE 15 CHANGED
ACTUALLY, L
SO -FAR AS CAN be seen, the f'police
situation" remains about the same. Clinton's
policemen are doing their work as they have
in the. past, and their salaries are being paid,
and are being accepte , as o e ruary 15, on
the basis of $2,450 per year. •
Council met with the police on Monday
night, and bargaining was carried on in corn-
" rnittee-of-the-whole. In this meeting the junior
constables understood that a salary of $2,600
had been agreed upon.
In open council; however, a motion to this
effect was put, and council registered a split
,decision on the matter, upon which the Mayor -
cast the deciding vote in the negative. A second
motion setting the salary at $2,550 was passed
• •
• • - CONSIDER
ACTUALLY, if 'salary of police constables
• must be considered from every side (as it ap-
pears to be done in most conversations through-
out town) there are a few points to consider:
If Clinton were to be policed by the Pro-
vincial force, we understand that the job would
be undertaken by four men plus a corporal.
Their salaries would amount to $15,000 approx-
imately, plus cruiser cost, and other administ-
rative. expense. This in contrast to -the 1954
police committee expense ,of $11,000.
' There has been no, complaint laid over the
efficiency of the present police constables. To
replace them, even with inexperienced help, (at
best the town cquld hire only men of unknown
background and capabilities) will cost money
In advertising costs, replacement of uniforms,
FREEDOM IS A
FREEDOM is a man at the lathe or at
the desk, doing the jpb he likes to do and
speaking up for himself. It is a man in the
pulpit, or on the corner, speaking his mind.
It is a man puttering in his garden in the
evening, and swapping talk with his neighbours
•,• over the fence. It is the unafraid face of
men, women . and children at the beach on
• Sunday, or locking out of the car windows
•
ABOUT A SMALL TOWN
"IF YOU DROP a stone into the ocean the
impact is as great as if you drop it into a
• farmer's pond. The difference is that the ocean
doesn't seem to care. It swallows the stone
and rolls on. But the pond, if the stone is
large enough, breaks into waves and 'ripples that
eoverats surface and are audible in every cranny
along its banks.
"So it is with life in a metropolis and life_
in a small town. It takes a colossal event to
affect a city. .After the bombing of Hamburg
in which 80,000 people were killed, the city
was functioning withjn. a few days. Grief did
not paralyze it because, to the survivors, mos,t
of the casualties were people they had never
net. But a single murder can 'convulse a small
town for the reason that insuch a community
• people care who lives and who dies. They care
because they knew each other. All knowledge
is relative to ourcapacity to grasp •its details,
• and no matter what the communists and in-
• dustrial organizers may say, no man can think
humanly if he thinksin terms of masses. In
•, the small town, and not the metropolis, human
• life is understood in fundamental terms."
(Excerpts from "Thirty and Three", a series
• of essays by Canadian author Hugh Mac-
• Lennan). •
HUMAN RELATIONS
(Contributed)
TIII IS W T th N ti 1 A i ti
o• n a vote of 5-3 M favour. This proposal was
refused by the constables.
• On the one hand, then, are the police, who
feel they were the victims of a double cross,
when after receiving assurance of a decision on
a certain sum, later saw this fall through as
councillors apparently changed their minds.
Then when asked M accept the lower figure,
•• they refused it as a matter of principle.
On the other hand, are the councillors, some
of whom we believe ate as honestly confused
about the situation as the rest of us are. There
• seems to be too strong an attempt .at "saving
face" and "standing pat" regardless of the out-
come or the expense to the town. This week
advertising has been issued for constables,
THE SALARIES
and training. Already special meetings have
been held, costing $45' approximately each.
In comparing the wages of a police officer
with those of other workmen and professional
men it would appear that the present level is
not particularly high. Investigate for instance
the wage paid wheel teachers of equal years
experience. Then' add a few dollars for the
element of risk involved in policing plus another
few for night shift work, Sunday and holiday
work, court appearances and other extras. Sub-
tract a few for the clothing advantage and the
figure ends upab. out the selne.
It has been suggested that Clinton could
go back to two, constables and a part-time assist-
ant. One answer given to this wasz Sure.' We
could go back to horse and buggy travel, too.
That would save money,
LOT OF,THINGS
speeding along a four -lane highway.
It is the man saying, "Howdy stranger,"
. without looking cautiously over his shoulder.
It is the people of the country making up
their own minds.
Freedom is the air you breathe and the
sweat you sweat. It is you and 160 million
people like you, with our chins up daring
anybody to take it away from you. — (From
the Lions International Newsletter.)
.TASTE F011 THE BEST
(Tulsa (Olde.) Tribune)
•• IN THIS wonderful printing and electronic
age, we are' surfeited with mediocrity—mediocre
music, mediocre writing, Mediocre speech. It is
a tragedy that with SOk much opportunity to
enjoy the finest that human genius has ever
produced, we stand in endless Shower bath of
hokum.
You should get acquainted with the stars
and develop a taste for the best in literature.
It will add immensely to your pleasure of living
and your ability to make the angst of your
• talente., If you do not "read 'well" you will
never write well,
The road to literary greatness lieth not
through a Mickey Spillane,
THE NEWS
(Reprinted from the Listowel Banner)
"THE NEWS does not belong to us. • It
isn't our property to juggle. We don't make
the news, we merely report it, If- something
yon do or say is news, we print it. If it
happens in Court, we print it.
"We know of several people who don't like
us any more. Policy calls for printing all the
news that is news. Please remember this, if yon
are planning to be arrested. Let people stop
evil before they commit *it and not ask the
newspapers to make up for them afterwards."
To ,all of which we would most heartily}
of Manufacturers says: say, "Amen!"
• We need some frank talk on this .subject.
Good human relations is good business—not
' only for employers, but for employees. The ,
independent, free employee, stands in no need
of favors, paternalism, or "something for noth-
• ing" from his employer. He doesn't want
• philanthropy, What he wants Is good wages
•' for a job well performed; recognition Of his
• personal dignity and of his ability, and the
feeling that what he has to say' to his ern-
• ployer is as Worth littening to as what his
employer has to say to him.
Both the employee and the employer have
things to exchange with each other. Nothing
▪ • • fess than a fair exchange, made with no loss Of
"dignity or self-respect, , and with benefits to
• both; will make for good litanan relations be-
. tWeen tnehe
• • What are the things that add up to ',g05x,
• finnan relation? Human relations is a pretty
• broad terne • Any time two htirnan beings
meet, there is some kind of human relations
•involved. Only a hermit or a castaway on a
desert island- lives without human relations.
, But in 'industry, everybody understands
that human relations-. Means the kind of under-
• standing and cooperation :that exist between
employees and employees. The plant where
• understanding, mutual appreciation and coopera-
tion all are real, dependable parts of daY-to-
day Iivine has good* Human relations. Where
these thiligs are not, in evidence; people feel
that all they have is a job.
• That is simple enough—but how is good
humaii relations achieved? It ' isn't easy to
define good human relations, nor is it easy to
'bring it into being.' However, there is one sure
st thing about it—good human relations rests on
understanding, rn,aintaining dignity and self-
• respect and doing the right thing. — (The
F.A.D.A. Magazine), • •
•
From Our Early Files I
40 YEARa AGO c°av'ellt;.ell- el. the Canadian
ciiiit.pO.::440*0;R0490,4
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:•• The.*LeBeau' •111'e
gealt,,0", Mile*Sotith.,62
1'e Changed".11andai*the pirelia0ar
bong
Hotvard Trewartti'a had the nlis-
fortUne to lose a yaluabie horse
last week, ' •
• Clinton citizens need no longer
be M doubt as t6 -the exact time
as V. H Hellyar has procured a
new Walthant chronometer which
be is, placing in hip window so
that anyone who wishes may reg-
ulate his time.,
Foster, Stanley Town-
ship, was in Creditor.on TlittradaY
nilst on business.
Corporal Britton spent 'the
weekend with his family in town,
Harry Carter of Victoria Street
has taken a position as foreman
of Captain Sloan's fruit farm in
Goderich Township.•
Quite a few farmers hereabouts m
are preparing for sugar aking.
The Clinton New Era
Thursday, IVIarch--11, 1915
.
E. E. Hunniford has rented the
house now occupied by J. Taylor
and will move after Mr. and Mrs.
Taylor leave far Toronto.
A. J. McMurray, secretary of
Clinton Spring Fair is now busy
making final arrangements for the
Mrs. W. T. O'Neil and Miss
r Association,
polio O'Neil who nave spent the
winter in Los Angeles, 041., are
exPected,home todaY,
We are glad to beer Miss Annie
Walter is feeling better after
treatment for 'goitre.
\A robin was heard on Monday
of last Vveek, ,The poor fellow will
think winter has, come again,
Harry Errington has secured a
position on a boat for the strainer
and will leave for Port Colborne
shortly to report for duty. '
Those who tap for sap have al-
ready begun work. '
Harold Squires is now in the
employ of Tait Clark. '
MiSs Ida Waikinshaw has been
visiting with friends in Toronto
during the past week.
10 YEARS AGO
The Clinton News Record
Thursday, March 8, 1945
Lloyd Batkin has purchased the
William Tiplady house on Gibbings
Street.
Leading Fireman Frank Me -
Ewan and Leading Fireman Ro-
bert Draper have returned after
serving for two and a half years
in England with the Canadian
Corps of Fire Fighters,
Bob Morgan and Roy Churchill
enlisted recently in London in the
Canadian Army. Bob will take his
to be bald on Thursday, big
training at Army Trades School in show,
A '1 1 Hamilton, and Roy will go to
William Bender, Zurich, will
take charge of the Commercial
Hotel at Hensall.
Rev. Dr. IL A. Abraham has re-
signed his position as field secre-
tary of the Dominion Alliance
after a service of five years in
temperance work.
Miss Fanny Hellyar held a skat-
ing party for her girl and boy
chums last Saturday and all had
an enjoyable time.
-25 YEARS AGO
Clinton News -Record /
Thursday, March 6, 1930
Clinton's tax rate is likely to be
reduced a little this year.
Reee Trewartha is in London
this week attending the 18th an -
Chatham for his training.
Mrs. M. 13atkin' has received
word that her brother, daftsrnati
W. H•M
. iller ,has arrived safely
at his destination, .
Mrs. William C. Bezzo has re-
ceived two pairs of wooden shoes
from Holland, sent to her by her
son, Pte, William I. Bezzo, who is
with the Essex Scottish there.
Miss Donekla Adams was the
guest of Miss Hazel Dilling, Exe-
ter, over the weekend,
Miss Wilma, Radford, London,
spent the weekend with her par-
ents, Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Radford.
Red Cross is pebple working to-
gether to meet the humanitarian
needs of their fellowmen in the
community, in the nation and
throughout the world.
• •
Letters to the Editor
WORMED AT BROWN'S
The Editor,
Cinton News -Record, -
Clinton, Ontario.
DEAR SIR:
Enclosed herewith cheque for
renewal of the News -Record for
myself and also for my aunt, Miss
l3essie Sloman (address below),
Ani sorry it is somewhat late.
I was keenly interested in all
your news Went regarding the
disposal of mer ch an di s e in
"Brown's Store". During the pre.
Christmas rush and activities I
did not take time to read carefully
all the papers but kept them for
future digest.
I worked in Brown's store for
a ' number of years, beginning
about six months before Mr. Tozer
left. I was the book-keeper but
had. to relieve in sales work when
we were busy. Your articles
brought back memories of a mixed
variety.
I still remember vividly the
hundreds of boxes of silk hose,
assorted three pairs to a box,
black, brown and grey, and I won-
dered how many boxes were still
upstairs after more than 20 Years.
The dozens of bolts of factory
cotton, flannelette, prints, white
cotton and nainsook piled in re-
serve during days of World War
1, much of which I am sure still
remained in the store at the time
of sale. As I read descriptions
of articles sold I could remember
the yards of ribbons, laces, trim-
ming, the long "undies"—Stan-
field's was the favorite in the.wool
garments. Coats and dresses that
were old stock when I went to
work there.
But I must not take up your
valuable time in reminiscing, I
could remember practically every
item that was mentioned, It was
at one time the nicest dry. goods
store in towe, and after having
been associated with it for so
many years there was a feeling
almost of sadness to see it deter-
iorate so badly. Thank you for
listening to my ramble.
Sincerely yours,
ALICE A. SLOMAN,
1002 So. Westnedge Ave.,
Kalamazoo, Mich., USA.
February 24, 1955
ABOUT 'ROBINS
The Editor,
Clinton NeWs-Record,
Clinton, Ontario.
DEAR SIR.:
Where is our Robin of yester-
day? •
saw your. question mark in
the First Column of your paper of
last week,
I have tried to keep track of
the arrival of the first robin of
spring in Clinton for several years.
My conclusion is: Look for him
about March 10. February
robin may have had an accident
and made, unfit to migrate and
may not be the first robin of
spring. •
Migrating birds fly, great dist-
ances. For instance, the Arctic
Tern (a small sea gull) migrates
from the Antarctic to the Arctic,
a distance of eleven, thousand
miles, The Golden Plover fattens
in the fall. Some on our east
coasts•on berries. • Then he takes
off on non-stop flight south, doWn
the coast 2,000 miles, often over
the water.
Unlike some people, robins are
anxious to, get back north in
March. IVIany people associate this
month with mud, slush and sleet,
but March to me is associated
.with bees, birds and flowers and
naple sap for flavour. Speaking
of spring flowers=elast year MIS
• '•• " ,
C 1
u ing aaitie and. I enjoyed
"
'fodil Week in Victoria". The city
marked and dropped ten thousand
cut flowers over Calgary by plane
and the same over Edmonton.
Hudson's Bay and other large
stores gave bet -Whets free to
customers.
The yellow flower- grows in
lawns like dandelions do at home.
It is a wonderful sight to see acres
of bulbs in bloom in all colors,
growing on the Island in March.
Getting back to birds, here is a
story told by a bus driver of a
sight-seeing bus, we had the pleas-
ure of being on through Hollywood
and Beverley Hills. We had seen
the homes of movie stars and had
them explained to us and were
almost back to our hotel we had
started from, when he told us this
one.
A mother penguin was taking
hei baby for a walk over the cold
Antarctie when baby stopped and
shivered. Mother asked whet was
thee trouble. Baby said, "My tail
is told".
Yours truly,
CORDON CUNINGHAME
March 7, 1955.
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Balmy Beach Road,
Owen Sound, Ont.
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THURSDAY, MARCH IP,
DIVIDENDS
OF. ABSTIINEINCE
The diViderida of abstiqrrie are
keen mind, delightful memories
and sound prineiples, Would you
live richly, keenly awl fully? Reat
assured that drinking won't help,
Geod health is one requisite 'to
good living>and not only is al-
coholism now the world's fourth
most serious disease, but in some
degree alcohol menaces the health
of all who use it, Drink is
principal cause of conflict and
disaster in the home and on the
street. This is established by an
overwhelming weight of reliable
statistics. Young people, there are
more thrills to be found in good
health, intelligence, social inter-
course and a sound family life
than in all the drinking' one can
do in a lifetime,
This advertisement is inserted
by the I-Turcin County Temperance
Federation. 10-b
, •
•
The Top Shelf..
(By BENJAMIN BEVERIDGE)
American parents who are wor-
ried to death about their offspring
being seriously distracted from
the pursuit of knowledge by ex-
cessive use of , television will be
happy to know that the Federal
Communications C orlim is sio
which is the government's monitor,
of the air in the U.S., is reserving
252 channels for educational pur-
poses. Canadians may hope that
the CBC will make some similar
consideration in this country.
There is a big "if" attached to
the seemingly wise move, how-
ever. The channels are only al-
loted for education. These options
must be taken up , by interested
educational organizations, just as
a prospector has to work his ofl
or gold claim if he doesn't want
M love it. The problem is that
few educational bodies can afford
to go into TV, and it is possible
that by ,the time development of
this new media is complete in the
U.S. the allotment of 252 educa-
tional stations will be greatly re-
duced.
The newspapers of Canada have
done great things in all the years
since men began fighting in this
land ,f or the cherished freedoms,
The Nova Scotian helped Joseph
Howe bring responsible govern-
ment to the continent, Sir Hugh
Graham used the, columns of his
Montreal Star to build a united
people out of diverse nationalities
and sentiments, Out in the West,'
Bob Edwards in his own way
made Canadians see a bit more
clearly their responsibilitieszto
new country in his Calgary Eye
Opener. And printers and editors
like the late Senator Buchanan of
Lethbridge and John Wesley Da -
foe of Winnipeg, and others like
Senator Rupert Davies of King-
ston, carried and are still carrying
the ideal .of government .to the
people from sea to sea.
No Canadian newspaper ever
made a greater contribution to
this end than The Toronto Globe
and Mall. Through the years it
has passed through the hands of
George Brown and George IVIc-
Cullagh, and now to new owners.
There is something sad about the
transfer of an historic journal
from old bands to new ones with
new ideas. But perhaps it is all
for the best,
A century or more ago, men
like Josiah Blackburn bought
newspapers like The London Free
Press with as little as 5500. There
is no more of .that. It takes mil-
lions to break into print these
days, and more to stay in busi-
ness. The Globe and Mail is sol-
vent enough, but in recent years
we have seen many of our old
papers disappear for financial rea-
sons—The Halifax Chronicle, The
Saint John Citizen, The Edmonton
Bulletin. One hundred and thirty-
three weeklies have ceased pub-
lication since 1945.
But good things have happened,
too. As many as 227 weekly pap-
ers have come into being during
the past decade, thriving young
journals such as The Saint John
Loyalist, The Weekly Review of
Ocean Falls, B.C., and The Kiti-
mat Northern Sentinel. Several
of the weeklies have become
dailies—The Western Star, Coe-
nerbrook, Nfld.; L'Evangeline,
Moncton, •AT.13.; The Hamilton
News, The Flin Floe (Man.) Min-
er, Le Progres du Saguenay,
Chicoutimi, Que„ and The Packet
and Times, Orillia. Roy Thomp-
son, the chain -owner, has been
responsible for the increased stat-
ure of some of these, and others,
including some foreign language
weeklies like The Courier, a Ger-
man paper of Winnipeg, are head-
ing toward bigger things.
The press of Canada is growing,
and it is a good thing. Because
without a strong and honest press,
no town, no city, no nation, can
reach its full destiny.
* *
During the New York World's
Fair in 1939, I was most intrigued
by. Mrs. Anee Clopton's art ex-
hibit at the Dave Elman. Hobby
Lobby. The paintings were not
unusual in themselves—and not
quite so attractive as those of
Grandma Moses—but she used a
most unusual type of canvas. In
fact, it wasn't canvas at all, It
was spider's web.
Late in the last century, when
Mrs. Clopton was a young girl in
Tennessee, she read that someone
had done a painting on a spider's
web. She was fascinated, and
started doing tt herself. What she
did not know was that the other
person had pressed numerous
thicknesses of spider web together
to make an inch -thick "canvas".
Mrs. Clopton endeavored to paint
on a single, flimsy net, and found
that the web of the brawn grass
spider is. best.
I have just discovered that this
unusual hobbyist, now a retired
teacher, is living in Huntsville,
Alabama.
050
• We have come across some more
useless information about whether
the egg or the chicken came first
This time it is about whisk and
whiskers.
Mechanix Illustrated tells us
that "whisk" is a Scandinavian
word which British traders once
used to refer to a material used
in making small brooms and
brushes. It took little imagination
thereafter for people to compare
the bristles on a sailor's chin to
brush fibres, and to call the for-
mer "whiskers".
That was before General Burn-
side created the sideburn and Mr.
Fuller started making his famous
brushes.
TO MOTOR VEHICLE OWNERS AND DRIVERS
• Tuesday, March 15th, 1955, is the last day
• upon which 1954 motor vehicle and trailer
registration plates may be used. It is also the
• date of expiration of all 1954 chauffeurs'
and operators' licences.
Secure yours at once