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CLINTON NEWS -RECORD
THURSDAY, JANUARY 5, 1950
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Published EVERY THURSDAY at CLINTON, Ontario, Canada, in the Heart of Huron County
R. 5. ATKEY,' Editor A. L. COLQUHOUN, Plant Manager
• Clinton Old Home Week, Saturday Wednesday, August 5 - 9, 1950 •
THURSDAY, JANUARY 5, 1950
In The Sery
MUCH HAS BEEN SAID and written
about the need for combatting juvenile
delinquency in , Canada, Organization after,
organization has pledged itself to fight this
peril. New and varied programs are constantly
being devised . to overcome • delinquency.
Necessary as this may be, it seems a rather
negative approach to a vitally important social
problem.
The root problem is that of the whole
broad field of education. But education for
what? To fill a particular job? To acquire
a certain amount of schooling or a certain
level of culture? To obtain a certain standard
of accomplishment? None of these is a com-
plete answer, Weshould be working to train
our boys and girls to take their place in
society as useful, happy, contributing mem-
bers to the social organism, able to stand on
their own feet and fend for themselves and
ready to assume the rights and responsibil-
ities , of citizenship. -
The big three. of education continue to
be home, church and school. At one time,
these occupied the full waking hours of our
young people. Now, particularly in our cities,
we have the need for a fourth influence -that
of spare time guidance. Where a boy once
learned to work by his father's side and chores
filled ail his spare time, we now find many
families where father and son meet occasion-
ally at meals and over weekends. Modern
ice of Youth
apartment living and ]labour-saving devices
have greatly increased the amount of free
time. Where green fields and vacant lots
were never far from home, there now are
many city 'areas with little or no play space—
and often homes ere so crowded that children
are urged to get out, of the house every even-
ing so that parents may have a little free
time or entertain visiting friends.
Some seek to solve the problem by organiz-
ed sports, others by hobbies and handicraft
groups. Church clubs, community clubs, lib-
raries and other cultural groups all offer their.
solution. Boy Scants ,and Girl Guides provide
'plans of training which can be conducted in
any community at little cost.
All too often, we find these various or-
ganizations competing for the time and interest
of certain groups of boys and girls while others
are left to their own devices. Here the solu-
tion seems to lie in a careful integration of
existing organizations rather' than the setting
up of new ones.
The sponsorship and operation of youth
training programs are not primarily functions
of a Chamber of Commerce. In all but very
small communities, this work can best be done
by religious, educational or civic organiza-
tions. . However, all of us should be alert to
see that some youth development workis in
progress and that it secures adequate financial
and moral support.
Crusade For Health
affairs. They tell the average number of days.
lost per pupil in a year.
Cities All Urban Rural
Advanced . . 8.0 8.1. 14.4
Normal . 11. 11,1 15.9
Retarded • . . 12.1 13.6 20.6
If there is a connection, as these figures
seem to show, between school attendance and
the success of children in passing from grade
to grade, then it is well worth while trying
to cut down absenteeism. One way to do
it is by keeping children healthy.
National Health Week
This is one of the thoughts prompting the
Health League of Canada to proclaim January
29 to February 4 a "Health Week." It is de-
signed to induce 'Canadians to think about
the promotion of health and the postponement
of untimely death.
A campaign like that cannot hand out
health with its leaflets, but the information
given in the leaflets will help anyone who
desires it to win better health for himself
'and for his children. The response to Health
Week appeals will provide a useful intelli-
gence rating. What the parents, teachers and
youth leaders do will ' show the extent of
their understanding of the opportunities medical
science has given them . to secure health for
themselves and for children under their care.
In many campaigns the writers and speak-
ers seem to be aiming their shafts at someone
else, not at us. In this health campaign we
cannot dodge them—every word urging meas-
ures for better health is aimed at every Can-
adian man and woman.
HEALTH IS A STATE of complete physical,
mental and social well-being.
Our children -and we ourselves, for that
'matter -have a better chance to live healthy
lives than has ever before been the lot of
mankind. We wonder, however, if we are
making the best of our opportunity, paints
out the Monthly Letter of The Royal Bank
of Canada for January.
There is a lot of "doctoring" going on,
it is true. The production of medicinals and
pharmaceuticals in 'Canada, increased from
$171/2 million in 1938 to $55% million in 1947;
we imported another $31/2 million and $111
million worth in these two years, and our
exports amounted to only $11 million and
$41/2 million.
But that kind of "doctoring" is not our
Concern in this Monthly Letter. We wish to
examine what is being done effectively to cope
with the present scale of illness and, more
important, to inquire into the steps being taken
to prevent disease and bring about the happy
condition pictured in our first sentence: com-
plete mental, physical• end social well-being,
What effect has illness on a child's edu-
cation, for example? A survey in Canada by
the National Committee for School Health Re-
search shows that the average number of days
lost per child is greatest among retarded pupils
and least among advanced pupils. By "re-
tarded" the committee means failure to pass
from grade to grade; "normal" means advanc-
ing regularly year by year; "advanced" means
skipping a grade.
Here are figures which show the state of
(Toronto Star Photo by Gordon Jarrett)
Shown above is one of the earliest Bank of Montreal bills,
issued soon after the bank was founded in 1817. Below it is
a five -dollar bill issued in 1942, the last year the B of M
issued its own money. "
The old bill shows a picture of Montreal harbour in the
early 1800s, while the recent one carries pictures of the late
George W. Spinney, president, and B. C. Gardner, then general
manager, and now president, of the bank 7
' In case it's not the bank -notes that interest you, her name
is Patricia Plant, of the B of M's head office in Montreal.
bury, Stewart -Jackson, Ernest
Lawrence, Miss Grace Cluff,
Doreen Murdock, The Phelan
Orchestra, T. Jackson, Jr, Dodds
Holloway, ike Rattenbury, Fred
Thompson and Clifford Harland:
Among those who have been
entertaining during the Christ-
mas holiday season are Miss Edna.
Cooper, Misses Hazel and Jessie a
O'Neil,. Mrs. G. D. McTaggart in
honour of her sister, Miss Elean-
or Broder, Mrs. Robert Miller,
Sr., Mrs. H B. Chant in honour.
of Mrs. Sim Murch, Misses Cluff,'
Miss Jean McTaggart and Miss
Helen Fair.
Results of the local election
were: mayor, Jacob Taylor; reeve.
W. G. Smyth; councillors, ' W. �
Paisley, T. Jackson, A. T. Coop
er, T. Mason, T. Beacom, B. J.
Gibbings. H. E. Rorke was el-
ected to the school board. The
vote for Local Option was: for,
322, against, 260. However This
was not the required two-thirds
majority, so the present ruling
will remain in effect.
A. Conliff, B. Kerr, Edgar East,
W. H. Ford, F. C. Ford, T. Mc-
Kenzie, William Johnson, Miss
M. V. Deverall, Miss Stella Copp.
Among those from "Clinton
attending the 33rd regiment mil-
itary ball in Seaforth were: Mr.
rid Mrs, McLean, Mrs. Armour,
Mr. and Mrs. M. McTaggart, Miss
Broder, Miss Cameron, Dr. J. W.
Shaw, M. Dowding, Mr. and Mrs.
II. B. Combe, Miss Helen Daher-
From Our Early Files
25 Years Ago
THE CLINTON NEWS -RECORD
Thursday, January, 8, 1925
N. W. Trewartha has resigned
as manager of the local plant of
the Gunn Langlois Co. Before
leaving he was presented with a
Masonic ring, Miss Mary Argent
reading the address and D. W.
L. Cantelon making the present-
ation on behalf of the employees.
Miss J. Freeman has bought
the house on Ontario St., owned
by the late Mrs. George Nott.
James Livermore has been con-
fined to the house with an at-
tack of the grippe. This is the
first time in 17 years that he has
been forced to knock off work
for illness.
Historical Sketches of the County of Huron
(Continued from Page One)
829,430 acres (of Clergy Reserv-
es), His Majesty's Government
will grant and convey to the Can-
ada
Company for the same price
. 2145, 150 is: currency) a bloc,
of land containing one million
acres in the territory lately pur-
chased from the Indians, in the
London and Western . Districts.,
One-third part of the before -men-
tioned sum of £145, 150 5s. curs
rency shall . be expended by the,
Canada Company in public works
and improvements within the
said block of land; and the re-
maining two -third parts only of
the said sum of £145, 150 5s. cur-
rency shall be actually paid to
His Majesty's Government. By the
terms `public works' and 'im-
provements' will be understood
canals, bridges, high roads,'.
churches, wharves, school -houses
and other works undertaken for
the benefit of His Majesty's sub
'jects resident within that part of
the Province of Upper Cdnada,
in contradistinction to works in-
tended for' the use and accom-
modation of private persons."
It should be here mentioned
that the new arrangement did
not interfexe with the original
one in respect of "Crown Reser-
ves," which, to the extent of
1,384,413 acres, scattered through-
out almost every county then sur-
veyed in Upper Canada, the Com-
pany still retained, as formerly
agreed upon.
Actual Setticemnt
It is only our design here to
bring the history of the county
to the point at which actual sett-
ty, Miss, Daisy Middleton, Miss
Margaret Wiseman, Dr. Gaudier,
Dr. Clark, W. Middleton, H. Hues -
ton, Miss Pearl 0' Neil, Miss
O'Neil.
Jack Steep had the misfortune
to fall while skating and break
a bone in his right leg.
Mrs. Trouse has been appoint-
ed collector for the Upper Canada
Tract Society for the whole of the
town of Clinton, Mrs. Chambers,
who has been her assistant, has
resigned.
Miss Ruth - Jackson, Elmer
Robertson, Elwin and, Miss Edna
Raithby were the winners of
prizes in the Baptist Sunday
School for learning the most
verses of Scripture during a year
W. D. Fair Co, has presented
the hospital with several hand-
some
y t
whicheswere
nur great-
ly
appreciated
THE VOICE OF
TEMPERANCE
Colclough—Martin — At the
home of the bride's mother, on
New Year's Day, by Rev. J. E.
Hogg, Annie McWilliam, daughter
of Mrs. James M. Martin, to
George Colclough, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Joseph ofrlough, Goderich
Township. Miss Jean Murdock
was pianist.
Mrs. W. D. Fair held a delight-
ful reception in honour of Miss
MacDougall, a former well -loved
teacher of Clinton. Quite a
number of former pupils took
this occasion to call and enjoy a
few minutes chat with their for-
mer teacher.
Markets were: wheat, $1.50 to
$1.55; oats, 50e to 52c; barley,
85c; eggs, 46c to 55c; butter, 30c
to 33c; live hogs, $10.
R. E. Manning will give the
message at the Brotherhood meet-
ing in Wesley Church on Sunday
morning. Dr. P. Hearn is to
address the Young People's Leag-
ue of the same church, giving
an address on his war experiences.
Visitors in town for the New
Year's holiday included: Miss
Gladys Chowen, Toronto; Dr
Blackalil, London; Mrs. Softie
and son, Burford; Mr. and Mrs.
Bert Jervis, Toronto;. Mr. and
Mrs. George Tomlin, Stratford;
G. M. Elliott, Toronto; Alex
Agnew, Toronto; Miss Kathleen
East, Toronto; Miss May Bell, Sea -
forth; Mr. and Mrs. Ray McCon-
nell, Woodstock; W. Anderson,
Toronto; Mrs. Logan, Saginaw,
Mich.; Mr. and Mrs. Richard
Peck, Seaforth; Miss Edna Wise,
Toronto; Miss Pearl Hanna and
Harold Bell, Port Huron, Mich.;
Isaac Stirling, Consul, Sask.; Miss
Dorothy and I. Rattenbury, Peter -
bore; Mr. and Mrs. N. E. Cole-
man and two children, Stratford;
Fred Rumball, Toronto, and Mr.
and Mrs. Ray Rumball, Windsor;
James Hodgins, Estevan, Sask.;
E. Phillips, Sarnia; Mr. and Mrs.
Owen Savage, Buffalo, N.Y., Miss
Mabel Livermore, St. Catharines,
and John Livermore, Detroit;
Harry Morrish, Oxbow, Sask.
Sparks—Mahaffy—At the home
of the bride's parents, Isaac St.,
on Wednesday, December 29, 1909
by Rev. Dr, W. Stewart, Ethel E.,
third daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
James Mahaffy. - to William
Sparks.
Miss Alvira Marlowe passed
away at the home of her broth-
er, Walter Marlowe. Rev. C. R.
Gunne officiated at the funeral
and the pallbearers were T. Bea-
com, J. Harland, J. Hunter, P.
Cianteloer, H. W. Cook and H.
Hunt.
Mrs. N. Fair supplied the or-
gan in Wesley Church on Sunday
last in the absence of Professor
Brown.
bloc, under the terms of the sec-
ond agreement with Earl Bath-
urst, were Bosanquet, ... in the
County of Lambton; Biddulph,
McGillivray and Williams, in the
County of Middlesex; Blanchard,
Downie, Easthope, Ellice, Fuller-
ton, Hibbert and Logan, in the
County of Perth; and Colborne,
Goderich, Hay, Hu/lett, McKillop
Stanley. Stephen, Tucker Smith
(as it was originally and for
many years called, but now
Tuciccrsmith), and Usborne in
the County of Huron.
Credit or Discredit?-
.Opinions are as varied as
those who form them as to the
particular
discredit which creditunt of
the Canada
Com-
pany earned in the operations
which followed their occupation
of the "Huron Tract." It should
be remembered by those who
offer, as the chief argument in
their favour, the fact of their
giving the people so many public
improvements, etc., that they
were spending thereby only the
one-third share of the price of
the land, as they were bound by
the original agreement with the
Government to do, and that a
very large proportion of these
works were paid for by the sale
of this very seine land which they
had boughf for 3s 6d, per acre
(payable, one-third in improve-
ments, and the balance in money,
in sixteen years), at prices rang -
ing from $1,50 to $2,50 per acre.
The balance of evidence, in fact,
which we have been able to ob-
tain goes to prove conclusively
that the "Cenada.Company" were
through and through, the most
unconscionable and unscrupul-
ous ring of "Land grabbers" which
this country at least had any
knowledge of; and it is the opin-
ion of all candid-ininded men
acquainted with the circumstances
that the great success attending
the early settlement and subse-
quent development of the "Huron
Tract" as due solely to the great
natural advantages of the territ-
ory and enterprise of the settlers,
lenient commenced under the and was accomplished rather in
monopoly. The townships which 'spite of the monopolists than by
they became possessed of en their aid.
A, * .
THE CLINTON' NEW ERA..
J. H. Short has purchased the
barber shop which was run by
W. E. Duncan. Mr. Duncan is
retiring on account not Mrs. Dun-
ce -la's ill health.
Those who have been picked
for characters in a play to be
presented later, although all may
not- be able to accept, are: R. A.
Downs, Albert Fremlin, E. J.
Howard, J. B. Hoover, F. A. Axon,
It is not to the_ credit of any
community that calls itself Christ-
ian that during the Christmas
season more liquor ispurchased
e
and more drinking goes
on at any other season of the year.
It is nothing short of blasphemy
to mark the birthday of Christ
with an excess of drinking. Shame.
on all so called Christians who
turn the beautiful Christmas
festival into an occasion for a
special debauch. The Huron
Temperance Federation protests
against such degradation. 1-b
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Forms have been distributed to
residents of the town to fill in
the names and addresses, of rela-
tives and friends who would like
to come to Clinton's Old Home
'Week this, summer.
40 Years Ago
•
THE CLINTON NEWS -RECORD
Thursday, January 6, 1910.
Those assisting at the Boys'
Association Concert on New
Year's night were Douglas Stan -
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BRONCHOZONE 50c
SCOTT'S EMULSION 1.18
KEPLERS . . 1.35
PARKE DAVIS 1.35
COD LIVER OIL
PARKE DAVIS
HALIVER CAPSULES .. 1.50
Thermoge-59c Vick's Vapo Rub -45c
Certified Chest Rub -39c
Capsoline-35c Musterole-39c
at
YOUR REXALL DRUG STORE
W. S. R. HOLMES
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• STUDIO COUCHES
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