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Community copses
Those who canvass for such
community causes as United Appeal, the
Red Cross and Cancer Societies and the
needs of the retarded learn a lot about the
human species in the process of picking
up — or failing to pick up — the required
cash.
Reports from most parts of Canada
indicate that response to these causes is
dwindling. One can blame inflation, tight
money and so on but collectors see
sobering signs of callousness and
irresponsibility.
Though most householders are pleasant
enough, many — clearly visible in this day
of picture windows — simply do not open
their doors at all.
Prominent among the non-givers are
single men and women in the 20 - 30 age
group, this in spite of all the talk about
the "social concern" of contemporary
youth. Volunteers note how many of
these, approached as they emerge to enter
late-model cars, refer the solicitor to their
parents inside, or if they open the door,
meet canvassers with, "my parents are
out."
Older people have their alibis too; "too
many appeals;" "no money in the house;"
"come back another day."
Attempts have been made to analyze
this collective indifference. The falling
away from religious observances may be a
factor. Churches have always stressed
sympathy for the less fortunate, and
taught systematic giving. (Donations to
Biafran relief through congregations were
six times higher than those collected
through banks.
Already some services, in several cities,
have been dropped. Others, which are
indispensible, may have to be supported
in future by an imposed tax — not an
attractive prospect. — Unchurched
Editorials, United Church Board of
Evangelism and Social Service
A pollution lesson
In Ontario the government is growing
ever more concerned ,with water
pollution. The new minister who is
charged with the responsibility of
correcting the mess,. has put into words
his determination to get tough with those
individuals and• , corporations who
contribute to the pollution. The public in
the province will be remiss if full support
is not given to a program that will deal
effectively with the polluters. •
Evidence of what can happen without
strict controls is mounting, For example,
take the Cuyahoga river, a meandering
stream in Ohio that empties into Lake
Erie. Last month that river caught fire!
It was supersatuated with pollutants —
mainly unreclaimed oils and other gooey
wastes from the big steel mills and other
industries lining the river's banks. Spot
fires from oil slicks 'and other flammable
j4-Ink floating in the river are usually put
out quickly by patrolling fireboats.
But this time the situation got out of
hand, owing to an enormous
accumulation of oil that apparently was'
dumped into The river. The slick ignited.
Shooting flames upward to 200 feet, it
floated downstream under two railroad
trestles. The wooden trestles caught fire.
Both tracks, curled by the heat, had to be
closed. Fire officials estimated the damage
at $50,000.
Both state and local laws prohibit
dumping of industrial wastes into the
Cuyahoga. But the laws are rarely if ever
invoked.
There is a lesson in this for Canadal —
Elmira Signet
Alcohol and drugs
In spite of, or perhaps because of, all
the articles and television programs on
drugs, most parents have evidently missed
the first point regarding drugs and the
young. Not the only point, but the first
one.
The more most adults warn about
marijuana, the more their hypocrisy
shows.
Many young people are aware of the
dangers of marijuana. They have also seen
the dangers of alcohol. They consider
them both to be mood-modifying drugs.
One is not "alcohol" and the other "a
drug." Both are drugs. Many have
experienced both, know the differences,
know the similarities.
Then what? Along come their parents,
anxious, puzzled, righteous, to lecture the
young about the "terrible dangers" of
marijuana, which the parents have never
experienced. In the next room is a bar
stocked with powerful drugs in quart
bottles.
The hypocrisy is so loud that it drowns
out the parents' words.
And that is the first point. It must be
dealt with before there can be useful
discussion, between adults and the young,
on mood modifiers whether inhaled or
imbibed. — Unchurched Editorials, United
Church Board of Evangelism and Social
Service.
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A 1923 behemoth built in Minneapolis powered the belt —6• tWeliiing operation at Huron Pioneer
Thresher and Hobby Association's eighth annual steam thresher reunion in Blyth last weekend.
it's a woman's choice in a new home
Busine..ss and ProlesSIona
Directory
Why don't girls just get mar-
ried, the way they used to?
What is this desperate thing in
modern society that insists a
girl must get a degree or be-
come a nurse or learn a skill,
such as punching an adding
machine.
Frightened, frantic parents,
with the shadow of The
Depression' peeking over their
shoulders, are ramming their
daughters, willy-nilly, into
something they can "fall back
on."
The irony. Of course we
want them to get married.
,Eventually. To a nice boy with
a nice job and prospects; a nice
home, nice children, a nice
neighbourhood and at the end,
a nice pension.
But first we want them to
have anywhere from 13 to 18
years of "education" so they'll
have something to fall back on.
We are tacitly admitting that
if they do get married, they're
going to be abandoned, di-
vorced, or their husbands are
going to die at 28. So, they
have to have something to fall
back on,
Why 'don't we just let them
get married and fall back on
their husbands for a living?
My wife has been falling back
on me for almost 23 years and
I'm still in reasonable condi-
tion. Even though my back has
fallen a bit into my front,
I suppose you think this is
just a diatribe, Well, you're
right, But there's a reason for
it,
My wife and I have nursed
and cursed and wheedled and
needled our daughter through
high school. She hated it in
Grade 11, loathed it in Grade
12, and abhorred it in Grade
13,
But by a combination of
blackmail, bribery and piteous
whining, we made her stagger
through the process.
I promised, "If you just get
your Grade 13, you can do
whatever you want. Go to col-
lege. Get a job. Drop dead. But
you'll never regret it."
Already she's regretting it.
Now she has to go to universi-
ty, which she's about as much
interested in as she is in catch-
ing leprosy.
This whole column is in-
spired (or uninspired) by the
harrowing effort of getting
Kim organized at university.
She thought she might be
able to hack university if she
had a pad of her own; a grill to
burn beans on and burn toast
on, and maybe a sleeping bag
on the floor, and a few psyche-
delic posters and a few cock-
roaches and her cat for com-
pany.
This was all right by me.
I've slept in barns and box
cars. This was freedom from
home and parents and all the
awful things they represent,
such as cleanliness and godli-
ness and so on,
But her mum had different
ideas. And her mum, as I have
reason to know, is a domineer-
ing, forceful, overpowering
and illogical woman, like most
other women,
Se Kim is going to stay in a
nice home, with a very nice
middle-aged couple. As far as
she's concerned, it's getting
out of purgatory and into hell,
I've never heard of anybody
being kicked out of hell, but I
imagine she'll manage it with-
in about three weeks. If you
have a teenage daughter, you'll
know what I mean. They're
absolute slobs until they're
married, when, by some
strange process, they go
around emptying ash trays be-
fore anyone has used them,
But three weeks of dirty
bare feet and a bedroom that
looks like a Salvation Army
old-clothes depot and a bath-
room that looks as if it went
down with the Titanic and
even that charming, calm land-
lady will be screaming, "Out!
Out!"
However, I guess the trip
was worth it. We met a nice
lady in the registrar's office
who reads my column (hello,
nice lady, keep an eye on my
beloved). We had a couple of
roaring fights with subsequent
tears, which is good for every-
body.
And we got home, after a
fairly disastrous stopover with
friends, to be greeted by our
other rotten kid, the vacuum
cleaner salesman, who has de-
cided to go back to university
after two years of drop-out,
who has made $3,500 in the
last eight months, who has
"Maybe enough money to pay
my fees," who was just drop.
ping in at the old oil well to
see if it was still pumping.
Somebody said, "Life is
short and life is sweet," Thank
goodness it's short.
A woman is never prettier or
more aggravating than when
she's trying to adjust herself to a
new home or, more accurately,
to adjust a new home to herself.
I've been watching the
process now for the several
weeks we moved into our
beach-side cottage, Offhand
Manor, and marvelling at it.
A man, you see, may feel he
belongs in a place from the
moment he moves in. If there's a
fire in the grate, a pilsener on
the ice and a book on a shelf,
I'm home. We react to
atmosphere, as the interior
decorators call it, but we're
seldom aware of missing it when
it isn't there. The female knows
when it isn't, wants it and will
move heaven and hell to get if.
Hotel rooms, for instance.
When we check into a room I
walk over to the window and
stand there looking out. The
room is, to me, simply a
geographical point momentarily
fixing my position with the rest
of the world and the solar
system. But my wife will always
sit on the bed or stand at the
door, looking inward, absorbing
color, furniture arrangement and
lighting, testing the accumulative
mood and finding it good or
bad..It had better be good.
• Nothing demonstrates this
mystique• of woman more
dramatically than the business of
Placing the Furniture. It is
Placing the Furniture that
accounts 'for these great, sooty
satchels beneath my eyes and
that subtle fragrance of linament
75 YEARS AGO
The Clinton New Era
September 14, 1894.
The Clinton Foundry sent '
fine specimen of their famous'
threshing machines to Toronto
Exhibition on Saturday.
On Saturday Messrs. Ab,
Cooper, E. McLean and E,
Coombs eycled to London and
back, making a century run; the
actual riding time was 6 hours
and 55 minutes.
Mr. James Cottle, who has
been visiting in Muskoka,
returned to town this week,
owing to the 'fire on his fatm,
which destroyed his barn, His
insurance was $400, He say's the
crop prospects in Muskoka were
very good, although just as dry
there as elsewhere.
At Toronto Exhibition Mr.
Jas. Snell succeeded in carrying
off the 1st prize ter his
two-year-Old imported stallion;
this is no small honor
considering the competition.
55 YEARS AGO
The Clinton New Era
September 10, 1914.
Mr. Ken Chowen of the
Jackson Manufacturing
Company is in Toronto this
Week in the interests Of the
company.
Mr. Fred Rumball of the
Royal Bank staff, London, was a
Weekend visitor with his mother
and other' friends.
Mr. A. J. Holloway returned
from • his holiday trip to
Sturgeon Falls and other points
in New Ontario.
Jai. Sturgeon of llayfield has
completed a new addition to his
house,
that follows me wherever I go.
It seems so simple. There's a
good place for the chesterfield.
Put the desk in that corner. The
coffee table there. The chair
over there. And Bob's your
Uncle. That is the masculine
way.
But, no. My wife must
actually try the incredible
number of arrangements that are
-possible with six pieces of
furniture, then survey them
mystically through half-closed
eyes to reach her intuitive
decision.
My mother was the same. My
boyhood memories are crowded
with the image' of my father
obediently staggering about
under massive weights while my
mother stood off to one corner,
hek Irideklfinger drettilie' to her
lids, 'her head cocked slightly
one side, trying to work out the
one perfect placement that
eluded her forever.
I'd be more tolerant, I think,
if I'd even the slightest clue
about what my wife has in mind.
Arrangements which seem to
satisfy every practical or esthetic
demand fail to please her. "It is
not Right," she will say. "It is
Wrong." But why, I keep asking
myself. What precise quality of
symmetry or harmony or
convenience does she have in
mind? She doesn't know. She
only knows that when ' it is
Right. Even more remarkable
any two women will almost
always agree when the desired
effect is realized.
40 YEARS AGO •
September 12, 1929.
Mr. Elmer Paisley is spending
this week -at • Elgin House,
Muskoka and later goes to
Toronto to enter Osgoode.
Mr. and Mrs. R. Dalrymple,
who have been visiting members
of their family in Clinton and
vicinity, for the past couple of
months, left yesterday to motor
to their home in Moose Jaw,
Sask.
Mr. and Mrs. Mowat Chowen
and family of Kincardine visited
at the home of the fornaer's
parents, Mr. and Mrs, J. G.
Chowen, on Sunday. They were
accompanied by Mrs. Babb of
Teeswater.
Miss A. Bartliff left this week
to resume her duties as nurse at
the Aurora Boys' College after a
holiday spent at her home in
town.
25 YEARS AGO
September 14, 1944.
Mr. J. B. Lobb returned to
town last week from his
extended tour of the Maritime
Provinces. He is now visiting Mr.
and Mrs. H. L. Wise for a few
days.
L. A, C. and Mrs. Bill Reid
and tittle sem of Hagersville ate
spending a few days this week
With the lady's father, Mr, Win.
Wizen,
Mr, and MrS. Frank Andrews
received a letter dated July 4th
from their son Deng Andrews,
from India. bong expects to
remain on Service in the Far East
for some time.
A new course hi educational
guidance has been inaugurated in
First Form at the Collegiate
Institute. This new mute will
give the students some idea of
the requirements for the eotutes
The pictures are even more of
a problem. We happen to possess
a 'wild assortment of oils and
water-colors, accumulated by
whim and accident over the long
years, ranging from French
Impressionist to Siwash
Primitive.
For what seems the better
part of a week I've been leaning
against walls holding . these
pictures like Liberty holding her
torch while my wife stands or
sits across the room in moody
contemplation, slowly shaking
her head. Utrillo and Dufy
would be spinning in their graves
if they but knew the purely
ornamental purposes to which
my wife is putting their
masterpieces.
But is all this in vain?
t Certainly not, 'as - every
house-brokeir husband well
knows.
There's sure to come that
moment — 8:40 p.m. yesterday,
in this case — when, having toted
the chesterfield to yet another
position you look up wanly and
find that your wife's vexatious
expression has been magically
replaced by one of certainty and
contentment.
Then, looking around you,
you'll find that suddenly
everything looks as if it were
meant to be exactly where it is,
that the room is friendlier and
warmer than it was before, and,
if you've my brains at all, you'll
swiftly acknowledge the infinite
wisdom of woman and her own
way of making a house a home.
of study and to help them enter
the right courses.
15 YEARS AGO
Sept. 9, 1954.
Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Crooks,
Vancouver, B.C. are visiting with
Mrs. W. M. Aiken and family.
Mr. Crooks is renewing old
acquaintances here, where he
was once ih business.
WO and Mrs. J. W. Bruden
and son Billy have returned to
their home at Comox B.C. after
visiting the latter's parents, Mr.
and Mrs. John Mulholland.
Mrs. Cook is visiting with
Mrs. Fred Sloman for a short
time while her son-in-law and
daughter, Mr. and Mm, Frank
Mutch are away on vacation.
Mrs. 0. L. Paisley, Alex
McEwen, Mr. and Mrs. John FL
McEwari and Stuart McEwen
and Mr. and Mrs. Stewart
Middleton were guests on
Sunday at a fatnily•diriner at the
home of Mr, and Mrs. Will
Tebbutt, Goderich.
10 YEARS AGO
September 10, 1959.
Mr. and Mrs. William Wells
have returned from a twd-Weeks
vacation in Mississippi and
Alabama.
Weekend Visitors with Mr.
and Mrs. Fred Sloman were their
daughters, Jean, Margaret,
Fredda and their soh Bill.
Fredda stay'ed for the remainder
of the week. Fred Sloman left
Tuesday for hit school work in
Capreol,
Mr, and Mrs. Harry Olkle and
Pamela, Gananoque', spent a feW
days recently with Mr. and Mrs,
Gordon Herman.
L. Weridorf left this morning
for Kingston, Neva Scotia, to
visit daughta, Mrs. barviller
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