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Clinton News-Record, 1960-10-06, Page 2Page 4 Clinton News-Record---Thusse Oct. 6, 1960 Editorials ► SUGGESTION RE; EDUCATION COMPETITION in this modern age, .seems to be something left in many cases to the world at large, not to the classroom. When we were young, there was a top- of-tire-class and a bottom, and there were multitudes . of ways in which. to work at the task of moving up a peg on the ladder. Though in early years we fell way down in arithmetic, we made up for it in reading and literature, The opposite was true for some of our classmates, In high school, under the tutelage of a wise old master at Mitchell High School, we learned in his room, that the tap of the class was a position to be won by utmost diligence, and only by being very sharp were we allowed to remain. there long, When teaching, we applied similar rules, and we hope some of our students at least learned thee value of competing with those about them. We hope they learned to take defeat with a smile, knowing that the next day, perhaps in another field, they would have another • chance. This seems to be lacking in a number of sections' of education. In London, England, we understand the children move for four years through a course from 11 years to 15, without examinations, How can they learn how they stand with their fellow-students, and with those in -past years, or with those in other schools? In Ontario our youngsters move right up to Grade 13, and age 19 before they are confronted with an examination based on pro- vincial standards. Before that they write exams, and tests set for them by the teacher who taught them. How can they know bow they stand, except with their own classmates? Where is the yardstick by which, they fan rate themselves? We are familiar with the jingoistic,: state- ment that "they must measure themselves against themselves; all that we ask of stu- dents is that they compete with themselves, and continually try to progress." We heard that when we were being taught to be a teacher, and we accepted it only on trial. In school that idea may work. It certainly does not work in the outside world. WHERE'S YO UR SUPPORT? FARMERS are a funny lot. stitutes", in an attempt to lay down the They work away steadily, wondering why facts before everyone of just what these their market is not larger; why their revenue things are doing to the Ontario farmer. He is not better; why it costs so much for did a jelly good job of it, too. machinery, and then they do precious little Then. two weeks ago, a lei ter was sent about it. to him, and to us, and to a neighbouring Sure, they let the farm organization work weekly, contradicting what he said, blaming for them. The dedicated few who spend butter for being high in cholesterol; saying hours thinking out ways and means of beat- that farmers eat more margarine per family ing the problems, are permitted to do so. than city people; grumbling about the poor But where's the farmer's support? The sup- taste of storage butter; accusing the fieldman port of the ordinary "grass-roots" farmer, of being a vote-getter. This letter came the leaders are trying to assist? from a lady in Toronto. Every week in this paper, and in others Farmers let that letter go by unanswer- in the county, the fieldman of the county ed. We had hoped for at least one letter in Federation of Agriculture lays out for all to support of Mr. Hemingway's stand. see, various aspects of the farm situation. If you agree with him; if you don't agree He goes to the root of the matter and ex- with the city lady; then for goodness sake, say plains why things are as they are. Some- so in writing. If farmers as a general rule times he comes' up with a solution. Some- do not take up the gauntlet for their own times his ideas are so good they are pirated cause, then all of the farm leaders are merely by other farm leaders, and opponents of farm- jousting at windmills, like the Don Quixote ers; for their own uses. of the story book. Recently he wrote "blasting butter sub- NOW CHURCH-GOERS ANONYMOUS (Hensall Observer) CRITICS OF churchgoing often- -argue Thus it is good to learn that the pastor that the churches are social centres whose of a Los Angeles Methodist church has set members attend more to see the new harts aside a section of pews, with a private en- or chat with friends than to seek spiritual trance, for those whom he calls "Churchgoers refreshment or learning. Anonymous." There is perhaps some justification for It will be interesting to learn what use this complaint, although no person shoeld is' made of the special pews. It may well hap- question another's motive in -attending church pen that what their users lose in fellowship services. Some -people, however, find the they will gain in the chance for contempla- highly-organized system of greeting strangers tion. • in many churches a bit overpowering. -eieesese, THE NOT-SO-WEAK SEX 40 Years Ago CLINTON NItIW ERA Thursday, October 7, 1920 An auction sale of the ef- fects of the late Annie Roes, Kirk Street, was conducted by auctioneer Elliott, The house was sold 'to Thomas Herman, Clinton, for $800. Nut coal was selling at $21.50 a ton. Very little coal was be- ing received, although Mr. Ward, local dealer, thought he had a couple of cars some- where on the road between here and the mines. The demand for glass was very great and the price ex- pected to remain high until spring. John Watson, Wingham, was fined two dollars without costs for blocking the road. He had stopped his heavy team and wagon on a narrow piece of road' to talk to a friend and refused to give an inch of road to a motorist who wanted by. Considerable tooting was done before he agreed to -move. The fine was a nominal one to serve as a warning, Mrs. McMichiel visited her daughter, Mrs, Milton Wiltse, on the London Road. W, R. Counter renewed old acquaintances at Simcoe and attended the fair. A. Miller, who had been a guest of his sister, Mrs. VI?' R Ceenter, left for Brantford and Simcoe be- fore returning to Chicago. . 40 Years Ago CLINTON NEWS-RECORD Thursday, October 7, 1920 Fall strawberries were on the market in Clinton. They were homegrown, coming from the Andrews' garden, and of fine flavor. A car climbing the hill west of Holmesville suddenly took a notion to back up. In spite of all the driver could do, it kept on backing until it reached the bottom of the hill, when it turned and ran over a wire fence into Holmes' field. The occupants, from Stratford, were not hurt. The making over of the road between Stratford and Gode- rich was discussed -at a ban- quet in Stratford, but the mo- tor hike, which was to have culminated sin a luncheon for 500' at the Sunset Hotel, was called off because of unfavor- able weather. The Minister of Public Works and Highways and Mr. Home Smith of the Good Roads Commission, were in the party. Several Clinton ple were to have joined the ike as it passed through the own. Hugh Cameron moved his family up from Brucefield occupy the residence in connec- tion with his shop on Huron and Orange Streets. A. M. HARPER and COMPANY CHARTERED ACCOUNTANTS 33 HAMILTON STREET GODERICH TELEPHONE JA 4-7562 • INSURANCE H. E. HARTLEY All Types of Life Term Insurance — Annuities CANADA LIFE ASSURANCE CO. Clinton, Ontario K. W. COLQUHOUN NSURANCE & REAL ESTATE Representative: Sun Life Assurance Co. of Canada Phones: Office HU 2-9747 Res. 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V ty, 10 Years Ago CLINTON NEWS-RECORD Thursday, October 5, 1950 Knox Presbyterian Church, GodPrirh, was destroyed by fire with damage estimated at $300,000. Clinton Fire Depart- ment, led by Chief Grant Rath, answered the call for help and gave all possible as- sistance in the losing battle. Gordon R. Hearn, optomea, rise, 'arranged to continue the practice of his sister, Miss Ruth Hearn (now Mrs. Murray Roy) at the same location on Huron Street. In the fine new housing de- velopment at RCAF Station Clinton, 125 houses were oc- cupied' by Air Force personnel and their families', leaving only 20 houses still to be filled. John A. Sutter was re-elect- ed president of Stratford and District Hardware association at the annual meeting in Mit- chell. Cameron Maltby headed the Student's Council of CDCI. Vice-president was Bill Nedig- er, and treasurer Bill Shearing. Teen Town began weekly activities with Harris.Oakes as mayor. (Walkerton WE HAVE long harbored the suspicion that in Canada at least the weaker sex is not the one most of us like to think it is. Now, official statistics under four different heads• would seem to put the matter beyond all reasonable dbubt, hard as this may be on the male ego, The infant mortality rate for females We note, is 25 percent lower than that for males. On the other hand, the male suicide rate is 11.8 per 100,000 of population compared with only 3.0 for females. In mental institutions, males outnumber females by 15 percent. Finally, the life ex- VAUGHAN DOUGLAS, recently return- ed from a new of Russia and several other European countries, tells us that nothing could have been finer that the hospitality ex- tended to himself and his party by the Russians they encountered in the farming areas. He said it was immediately apparent that they love good humor and pleasant living in exaet- ly the same way Canadian people do. What a great thing it would be for the peace of the world in general if the races and nationalities could Mix more freely. Certainly if enough Russians and Americans: or Canadians could sit down to dinner to- gether and so discover one another's human qualities there would. be Much less danger of THE CLINTON NEW ERA Est. 1865 %I" A *L At e Herald-Times) pectancy of the female of the species in this country is a good five years greater than that of mere males (71 years against 66). To sum up: The Canadian male is more likely than the female to die at birth; enter a mental home; commit suicide; and fall short of three score years and ten. All of which should cause us to revise our ideas about which of the sexes is basically stronger, at any rate, in terms of capacity for survival. More tender (we will not say more dead- ly) than the male, the Canadian female may be; weaker she obviously is not. (Order- clearl y : "Goode of the description or classes re- ferred to in, the -schedule hereto, imported into Canada, shall be marked, stamped, brand- ed or labelled in legible English or French word's in. a conspicuous place that shall not be covered or obscured by any subsequent at- tachments or arrangements so as to indicate the country of origin; and said marking, stamping, branding or labelling shall be as' nearly as indelible and permanent as the nature of the goods will permit." Too much printed matter is entering Canada without protection to the Canadian printer, and too much of it is breaking this law in the process. war. Nothing, apparently, is as dangerous for the human race as the threat of the unknown. Murder (The Toronto- Telegram) CONSIDERATION could be given to the question whether persons who kill on the -highways while disobeying the law might be charged with murder. A man who kills while committing a felony, Such as holding up a bank, is aUtomatically charged with murder, Why not a man who kills while wilfully breaking traffic laws? '' The only communication be- tween the sexes during the eve- ning, claims My Old Woman, occurs when one of the men hollers across the abyss: "Hey, Mabel! What year did we get married?" in an effort to prove his point about which year Ot- tawa won the Grey Cup. One other point of contact is made between the segre- gated groups, says My Girl, when the hostess serves the food. Weaving among the flail- ing arms of the men to pass the pickles, she receives less at- tention than a waiter in, a bev- erage room, she avers. The way she sees it, the sexes- should mingle freely. The wo- men should stand about dec- oratively, looking slightly sed- uctive, To them should .coni5 a steady procession of men,' who indulge in fierce discus- sions of art, politics and relig- ion, in the process bestowing on these mysterious and desir- able creatures an occasional deep, longing look, or a whim- sical, frustrated lift of eye- brow. * * Well sir, fellows, you'll be glad to know that I didn't just sit there and swallow all this stuff without coming back with some pretty good ones of my own. First of all, I pointed out that this is a young country. It's only a couple of genera- tions since the men did all their drinking out in the har- ness shed. Already, they've got inside, into the kitchen, and they don't even spit on the stove. I also suggested that Cana- dian men are hag-ridden. All they hear from their wives when they come home from work is about how there's some- thing wrong with the washing machine, and that darn milk- man only left two quarts, and the kids have been awful today, Joe, and you've got to do some- thing about them, and the church is after me again for pies and I don't see how you expect me to keep this house up without a cleaning woman and if you think you're going fishing on Saturday . . . Not a sensible, kindly, 1111- man expression in the entire out-pouring, Not a trace of a feminine wile, a dab of per- fume, a black negligee, or a soft look. Not a suggestion that she's glad to have him home, Not a hint that he might have had a few things go wrong today at work. Not the slight- est admission that she might be a bit of an old bat. Net even one lousy cold beer in the icebox, because she split the last one with the other female martyr front next door, this afternoon, :I. 4, 4, Thirdly, I observed that we Canadian males are not to be compared, even by the most wildly romantic woman, to the princes, the intellectuals, and the waiters of Europe. I'd like to see one of them fix a kid's bike, put on the storm win- dows, or stand calmly up to his boearn in fey water, fishing SUGAR SPICE W, B. T. SMILEY) Canadian males, in general, are agreed on one thing. They nod judiciously when they hear that delightful song from the musical My Fair Lady, which asks the question: "Why Can't a Woman, be Like a Man?" They realize, reasonable chaps that they are, what a pleasant, placid world it would be if wo- men could, by some miracle, be transformed into sensible, kind- ly, decent, regular, jolly, good- natured, easy-going people like men, Canadian females are just as mutual on a gripe to which my wife. gave vent the other even- ing, for perhaps the one hund- red and eleventh time, "Why is it," she fumed, "that Canad- ian men never treat a women as a human being?" • "Wuddaya mean?" I asked in my courtly, Canadian male fashion. She told me. It seems that Canadian men lack, among other things, gallantry, good manners, and a good, sound leer, A woman, she says, goes to a party with her husband. She has a new dress, a new hair-do, and reeks of "Treachery" or "Pure Vice" or something sim- ilar for which she has shot $5. Three minutes after she arrives she is sitting with a circle of other women, babbling of bab- ies and bathrooms, dryers and drapes. All the men are out in the kitchen, drinking happily or huddled at the other end of the living room, haggling over politics and football. From Our Early Files Business and Professional Directory 25 Years Ago CLINTON NEWS-RECORD Thursday, October 3, 1935 The canvas on the spacious lawn of E. Paterson, local man- ager of the Royal Bank, grew and grew as no camas were ever known to grow before. They reached the luxuriant height of seven feet, but had attained only one small bloom when frost came and cut down the stately growth, Mr, Pater- son decided that the rank growth without bloom was pro- bably due to a too lavish use of fertilizer when the bed was worked up. Fire from overheated pipes resulted in the partial destruc- tion of a cottage on Mary St- reet owned and occupied by J. Steep. Frank Layton took over the Supertest station on Victoria Street, and Lorne Brown the station on the Huron. Road va- cated by Mr. Layton, CDCI students going to Stratford Normal were Elva El- liott, Jessie Cameron and H. McGregor. SKIRTING THE STAMPING ACT (Canadian Printer and Publisher) THREE ILLUSTRATED travel booklets The Marking of Imported Goods about Canada came to attention recently. in-Council P.C. 1958-205) says They were pictorial souvenirs of our nation's capital city, a picture book of all Canada and scenes of Toronto. They were effulgent in their praise of Canada, splendid lures for foreign tourists. That they were all printed in the United States is reason enough for ironic comment. What is more important: the country of origin marking was concealed in direct con- travention of the law. In these booklets, Printed in U.S.A., in type not exceeding 5 pt. had been stamped on the inside of the backstrap on the cover. When bound around the handful of page8 the booklets contain, the country of origin stamp was completely invisible. HUMANS LIKE OURSELVES (Wingham Advance-Times) Clinton News-Record SUI3SCRIPriON RATESt PaYahle In advance u- Canada and dreat Britain: $3.00 a UMW States and rorbight $4.00; Single CoPlea Ten Cents Authorized iilA aeoolid ems' Poet Deportsttent Ottaw* Lillikedesse rainbow trout, for eight hours, without getting a bite. We are as I mentioned, iron men com- pared to those hand-kissers. Another thing. Time after time, I have tried to engage a Canadian woman in a continen- tal-type conversation. "You're looking particularly delicious tonight, my dear," I purr. "Hop", she giggles, "Diane is doing far too much homework for her age." Or: "Well, you've certainly been busy at the punch bowl," she titters. Or: "Oh, this is just an old thing I picked up in Eaton's," she blushes. Trying to get a Canadian woman into a sexy, scintillat- ing conversation is about as easy as trying to convince a 'millionaire that he can't take it with him. But don't be dis- couraged, girls. We're coming along fast. Every so often, you'll see a couple of us rise when you enter the room. But don't be annoyed if we manage to do it Without looking at you, and without missing a single adjective in our description of the golf game we turned in last Sunday. BACKACHE When kidney% fail to remove mese add! and Nantes, baokaoho, tired feeling, dletutbed rat often follow, Dodd'e Kidney Pille -stimulate Year kidneys to tiotnial claw, You feel bettef ,4-steep bet- ter, work better-, ,