Clinton News-Record, 1969-03-20, Page 22 linto.n News -Record, Thursday, March 2D, 1969
An editor's notebook
Spnneone who wished, tq be known
Only as "disgruntled. Clinton resident" has
sent us a letter and asks that it be
published, but refuses to give his or her'
name for fear of being ridden out :of town
on a rail by the town council.
We don't like tq think the councillors
Would react to criticism in quite that
fashion (if so, we might have to worry
ourselves on occasion), but we are willing
to withhold the name of any letter -writer.
We welcome letters whether or not
the views expressed are popular ones or
ones with which we agree. But we want to
provide a forum for responsible public
opinion and we don't equate
responsibility with unsigned letter, or
anonymous phone calls.
And we can't say our opinion is at all
original. It was before our time when
writer Finley Peter Dunne ("Mr. Dooley")
said of something he didn't like, "It isn't a
crime exactly. Ye can't be $int to jail VI-
it,
'rit, but it's kind iv a disgrace. it's like
writin' anonymous letters.''
We should add that "disgruntled"
won't have any better luck with our
advertising space (he or she offers to have
a cheque sent to pay for publishing the
letter es an ad) until our advertising
manager knows with whom he is doing
business. 9
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Podunk Center, a mini -town in the
U.S. Midwest and the subject of many a
joke, has been in the news recently
because it is up for sale.
We were thinking of that town when
we happened to pick up the current issue
of Ontario Housing, the Ontario Housing.
Corp. magazine.
In an article on student housing at the
University of Guelph, the author seems to
have latched on to Clinton as the
Canadian counterpart of Podunk Center.
We hope OHC hasn't started something.
A committee, says OHC, found
that many freshmen in traditionally
designed and administered residences go
through a Kafkaesque experience of
alienation and lost identity.
"It is not," the magazine says, "in'
other words, a cheerful aspect to get off
the bus from Clinton, Ontario and start,
right off, practically before you're
unpacked -- trying to relate to a massive,
institutionalized standardized,
-d sit new ho
high en y, me=os-
"...Tile ""traditional residence, at its'
worst, seemed -- when you just got off the
bus from Clinton, Ontario -- to be
designed arbitrarily to replace the context
which gave you an identity (Clinton,
Ontario).,.." See what we mean?
Before we leave the subject, the new
dorms pictured by OHC, with their bare
concrete block wall, may not be
traditionally designed, but neither are
they, as the magazine says, "attractive."
Gleanings
Welfa re's
The new Huron. County Board of
Education spent several months choosing a
site for the school system's .central office
and the chore was not an easy One,.
especially not when changes in,
government and education are announced.
almost daily and with no warning in many
cases. At one board meeting .someone
said that predicting the changes and, in
effect, trying to outguess the provincial
government wouldn't work „ all the board
could do was to wait until a minister gave
a speech somewhere and revealed the next
new plan.
At a meeting on the first Monday of
this month, the school board deliberated
for a final time before deciding to locate
at Central Huron Secondary School in
Clinton.
In doing so, they re1ected a county
council offer to rent the second floor of
the county assessment building at
Goderich and endorsed the idea that the
school board, as an independent agency
not tied to county government, should
chart its own course.
Without knowing how prophetic his
words would turn out to be, John Lavis of
Clinton, board chairman, said there was a
danger that county councils would be
phased out before county school boards
as regional government schemes are put
into effect. "That, he said, "would leave
us in a rather bad predicament"
Less than 24 hours later, Charles
MacNaughton, treasurer of Ontario and
minister of economics, delivered his
budget address on television and disclosed
a plan for the province to take over all
assessing duties, including Huron
County's.
And now, Clinton Reeve James
Armstrong, a member of county council's
property committee, confirms that a
representative of the Dept. of Municipal
Affairs has already visited Goderich and
said the province wants to take over not
only the county's new assessing operation
and the one floor it occupies in the new
county building, but will probably require
the entire building by January 1 of next
year.
*
We would like to compliment the
Fraser Valley Milk Producers' Association
for taking time out to write a letter of
appreciation to municipal snow clearing
crews.
Would that-thissort-of thing is done,:
. more, often.
• - •F.ar•too rimany godod cleeci grid4a!r`°ftia.
much good work goes by with little if any
appreciation from anyone.
Man has always been too eager to snarl
and too hesitant to commend. it should
be the other way around. If it can come
so easily to •damn, surely, it is just as easy
to praise. Try it some
time -Abbotsford (B.C.) Sumas and
Matsqui News.
role changes
John Munro, national minister of health and
welfare, in a recent speech to the University of
Toronto Liberal Club seminar on the future of
welfare in dealing with urban poverty:
"There will be many things different
about the role of welfare in the future. So
much so that I don't think even the name
will survive. The welfare of the future will
come to be thought of in such terms as
community development,' social
development and human resource
development. Its main thrust will be
developmental.
"Preventative programs, remedial
programs — programs which involve the
recipient constituency • in an, active,
participatory role will predominate.
The well-defined roles of the professional
social worker and his client will be
deliberately blurred — as they have been
in the New Careers program in the United
States.
"This program trains welfare
recipients for careers by involving them as
supportive personnel in social service
McG.
centres. Thus, for example, welfare
mothers become assistants in day care
centres, in community health programs
and other neighbourhood service
programs.
"The welfare recipient becomes a part
of the neighbourhood service
establishment while being trained for a
career which will enable him to move out
of the welfare situation. It not only
enables the recipient to feel useful -- and
be useful — while training, but also
provides the provision of service with a
neighbourhood self-help orientation
which transforms its character in the eyes
of the indigenous community.
"The future role of welfare will be
both different in conception and different
in execution from what it has been in the
past. Participatory and developmental, the
welfare programs of the future will mark
the final philosophical break from the
concepts of welfare in terms reminiscent
of the .days of noblesse oblige and
Elizabethan charity."
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THE HOME
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W. Jene Miller
the empty pew
John Braden, an 18 -year-old
boy in London, England, has
said: "There is a lot of hate in
me. I accept that. Why be a
hypocrite. O.K. Sometimes I get
worried about it. But what can
you do? The thing I hate most is
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This is the chorus of "e nel
anarchists. Anarchy is iii ancient
philosophy based on the belief
that if everyone was allowed to
do what they wanted to do,
everything would be better. It
presupposed great nobility inate
in human psycholigical
structure. It •was first leveled at
the arbitrary rule of kings and
emperors, but is now turned
against all government.
The right-wing powers use it
to destroy present authority and
respect for law in order to set
themselves up in control. The
Communists preach it as the goal
of all societyand do everything
but practice it.
Yet this is the great age of
government by laws rather than
men. It is the generation in
which kings '114' 'potentates
t ldail k the people'
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#d r"riiiifdlthe,'Bial alittrehnfienki
their own lives.
Anarchy's fatal flaw is in its
understanding of human nature.
Scripture speaks of the fall of
man from any such high and
noble capacity. Even the perfect
Garden of Eden could not
containman's desire to be God.,
This is just the basic
difference between the Christian
doctrine of man and all other
philosophies. Christianity claims
that all men are potentially
sinners. Even their goodness is
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based upon selfish desires.
'Christianity accepts that
under the right circumstances
any ,man can .be made into a
thief, a. •murderer, an anarchist.
This is why churchmen so
heartily endorse, , the American
program of war on poverty. Who
could real! y.respeet a faller whin-
w •d, et his,, 'ldrg . sta
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death when he could feed them
by stealing.
The• hope of- peace,and
prosperity eventually rests .pon
establishing the kind of world in
which stealing'and killing are not
necessary. We must have a world
where those, who. want, to earn
their bread can find work, rather
than look for chances to steal
the bread.
We may not succeed. But, if
we. fail; let those. who poke
through the ashes of this planet
find that at least we tried.
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75 years ago
March 23, 1894
Mr. McLean of the Collegiate
has purchased the Whitworth
cycle • which has been on
exhibition in G. F. Emerson's
window for the last few days.
Miss Robb of town has taken
a position in a large dry goods
establishment at Toronto.
Mr. Ab Nott, who lost a pair
of boots lately, found them in
the possession of a person near
Varna.
Messrs. W. Wheatley and A.
Scruton have gone into
partnership in the butchering
business, and have put up avery
neat sign, the work of Mr. John
Fisher.
55 years ago
March 19, 1914
Miss Jessie O'Neil is spending
a few days in town at the
parental home prior to her
university exams, after which
she goes to teach for the summer
near Calgary.
Mayor Jackson, ex -Mayor B.
J. Gibbings, and Dr. C. W.
Thompson attended the Hydro
Radial meeting in Stratford last
Friday night.
Miss Tillie Akani has accepted
a position as milliner in Arcola,
Sask.
Mr. Adam McKenzie, Orange
Street, is ill with typhoid fever.
The patient is doing as well as
can be expected.
40 years ago
Match 7, 1929
The Chancel Guild of St.
Paul's Church has just had a new
oak floor put in the chancel of
the Church. It is a fine job, the
contractor being; Mr. R. Tasker.
The firemen tried out the new
floor lit the town hall on
Tuesday evening, hblding the
first dance on it. The dancers
report it was alright.
Mr. A. J. McMurray of
Harriston was in town this week
in connection with the
International Tractor
demonstration.
Mrs. Joseph Clegg and Master
Jack of Brussels spent some days
as the guests of the former's
mother, Mrs. M. Farquhar, last
week.
March 21, 1929
Mr. Frank Glew has
purchased the Stothers' cottage,
Huron Street, which • Dr.
McIntyre has been occupying.
Mr. R. B. Higgins reports
thirty claims for wind insurance,
the result of our last Little blow.
The claims ran from three
dollars to $90.
Mr. and Mrs. Wilbur Welsh
and little daughter, Lenore, are
visiting with relatives in Toronto
and Hamilton this week.
' Mrs.' A. Lucas and Mrs. S.
Taylor and little Miss Margaret
Taylor are spending a few days
in Brantford this week.
25 years ago
March 16, 1944
Spr. Clark Ball and Mrs. Ball
have returned home from Camp
Dundurn, Sask. to visit their
parents, Mr. and Mrs. Cornish
and Mr. and Mrs. Norman Ball.
Warrant Officer Percy Brown
Who has been invalided home
from overseas following injuries
received in a plane crash in
Scotland in which other
Members of the crew were
killed, visited in town last
weekend.
Mrs. A. C. Brandon returned
home Iast week after spending
the past six weeks with her
daughter, Mrs, A. J. I)eseck, in
Clareshoinie, AIberta,
Pte. and Mrs, Carman
McPherson of : Stratford were
visitors at the home of Mr. and
Mrs. • William Hoggart. Pte
McPherson has recently returned
home from overseas.
15 years ago
March 18, 1954
Wilma Dinnin of the staff of
the Clinton News -Record left
yesterday for a motor trip to
Los Angeles, California.
Miss Shirley Sutter, Guelph,
and Mr. and Mrs. R. P. Robbins
and two children, Ronnie and
Linda, spent Sunday with the
ladies' parents, Mr, and, Mrs.
John A. Sutter,
Mrs. R. J. Larson, Bayfield,
accompanied by her daughter,
Betty Lou, who is on holidays,
left on Tuesday to spend a few
days with her sister, Mrs. Harold
King, Sarnia.
10 years ago
March 19, 1959
The Mhay Mee. Restaurant
opened its' doors to the eating
public last Tuesday morning
with the owner, Nip Honfonged,
in charge.
Mr. and Mrs. F. P. Arkell
accompanied by Mr. and Mrs.
Alf Scothmet Jr. of Hayfield
spent the weekend with the
former's son, Thomas Arkell and
gamily, Bay City, Michigan.
Bev Boyes, eldest son of Mr.
and Mrs. Bert Boyes, • won the
Kiwanis CIub of Stratford
Scholarship 01 $25 last
Wednesday in competition in the
Kiwanis Festival. The award was
for receiving the highest mark in
male vocal classes.
One bf the things to be
thankful for is that We don't
get as :much government as
we pay tot, Charles l{
Kettering
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Pastor: REV. GRANT MILLS, B.A.
Organist: MiSS LOIS GRASSY, A.R.C.T.
* » SUNDAY, MARCH 23rd
.9:45 a.m;—Sunday School.
11:00 a.m. — Morning Worship
The evening unit of the U.C.W. meets
Monday, March 24 at 8:30 p.m.
'EVERYONE WELCOME
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MR. LORNE DOTTERER, Organist and Choir Director •
SUNDAY, MARCH 23rd
WESLEY-WILLIS
9:45 a.m:—Sunday School.
11:00 a.m. — Morning Worship.
Sermon Topic: "BORN TO THE PURPLE"
8:30 p.m. — An evening of films featuring the
Science -Religion Film, "CITY OF THE BEES"
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1:00 p.m. Worship Service — All Welcome.
2:00 p.m. — Sunday School.
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SUNDAY, MARCH 23rd
1.0:00 a.m.—Morning Service.-- English.
2:30 p.m. — Afternoon Service — English.
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listen to "Back to God Hour"
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9:45 a.m. — Sunday School:
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PENTECOSTAL CHURCH
Victoria Street
W. Werner, Pastor
SUNDAY, MARCH 23rd
9:45 a.n1. Sunday School.
11:00 a.m. Worship Service,
7:30 p.m. Evening Seevite.
MAPLE STREET
GOSPEL HALL
SUNDAY, MARCH 23rd
9:45 a.ni. — Worship Service.
11:00 a.m. Sunday Schvo
Thursday, 8 d -m. y Prayer
meeting and Bible Study.
Speaker: JOHN MARTIN
Hawkesville