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Clinton News-Record, 1971-08-05, Page 44 Clinton News.Record, 'Thursday, August 5, 1971 Editorial comment We don't care if you think we're right or wrong only that ,you think The search for jobs In Canada, hundreds of thousands are searching for work. In Asia, the situation is much worse. Many millions are unemployed or under-employed, and the prospects for the future are bleak. According to the Economic Commission for Asia and the Far East, which recently held a seminar in Bangkok, the countries of Asia will have to find an additional billion jobs for their working population before the end of the century. Today the Asian work force, aged between 15 and 64 years, totals . 1:15 billion. It will exceed 1.6 billion by 1985, and raise to about 2.3 billion by the year 2000. There is a drastic difference between unemployment in the West and in Asia. In Canada, this economic disease comes in waves and sometimes is only seasonal. But in Asia, it is a way of life. And there are no generous welfare payments to Asian families whose breadwinners can't find jobs. As Canada and the United States try to cure their economic malaise, they must also remember the far greater problems of Asian lands. For there exist terrible dangers in Asia. If Western lands, admittedly beset by their own problems yet affluent by global standards, become introverted and ignore the far more acute ills of the poor nations, •the chances of building an integrated and just world community are very dim indeed. — Contributed. Blood money could ruin health If you need blood in the United States, the chances are you'll have to pay for it—as much as $50. a pint in some places. In Canada, transfusions cost the patient nothing because donors give their blood for nothing. That's something to be proud of and a difference worth preserving. But unless the public attitude to giving blood changes dramatically, it's likely that Canadiahs will have to start paying for transfusions too—with all the unhappy consequences that a system of money for blood can bring to public health. In the United States, at least 50 per cent of the blood used in hospitals is handled as though it were commercial merchandise. The donors receive up to $25 a pint for it and the patients pay more than that. Here, the Red Cross and the hospitals pay all the costs of collecting and storing blood. When people are getting paid for blood, they tend to forget th,ev have had such diseases as hepatitis that would disqualify them from becoming donors. They don't want to spoil the sale. The chances of getting a disease along with a blood transfusion are just that much greater when the blood has been paid for. Even with the payment system, American hospitals have often found themselves short of blood. And in Toronto this summer the blood banks are beginning to show some alarming symptoms. Our system works only if enough people voluntarily give blood on a regular basis. And the number of uses for blood has- been increasing steadily while the supply of blood has levelled off. Doctors are doing more heart surgery and keeping leukemia victims alive longer and these medical advances require fresh blood. And this summer, the blood is just not there. The public can usually be counted on to fill blood banks in a crisis. But Red Cross officials don't like to be always talking about emergencies. They need a steady stream of donors keeping the blood banks full and operating smoothly. Their great fear is that people have become apathetic about giving blood. There have been so many emergencies and so many blood campaigns over recent years, that people are perhaps growing weary of them. Possibly they figure enough older people are giving the blood now or the Red Cross must be collecting enough blood anyway. But the Red Cross does not have enough blood and not enough people are coming out to donate more. If we are to avoid the deadly dangers of a blood money system, 'then more and more people must take it upon themselves to give blood regularly. We trust that people will respond to the Red Cross emergency appeal now and will come back again in the fall and winter to help keep the blood banks full. The free blood system is one of the best protections for public health that we have. It's worth a little time and trouble, from everyone qualified to give, to keep it running well. — FROM THE TORONTO STAR "They're all drop-outs alienated from Society until they need a ruddy lift." THE CLINTON NEW ERA Amalgamated 1924 Clinton Established 1865 THE HURON NEWS-RECORD Established 1881 ews Record A -member of the Canadian Weekly Newspaper Association, Ontario Weekly Newspaper Association and the Audit Bureau of Circulation (ABC) second class mail registration number — 0817 SUBSCRIPTION RATES: (in advance) Canada, $6.00 per year; U.S.A., $7.50 KEITH W, ROULSTON Editor J. HOWARD AITKEN — General Manager Published every Thursday at the heart of Huron County s Clinton, Ontario Population 3,475 THE HOME OF RADAR IN CANADA The bright wife I see by the daily journals that (a) the Canadian divorce rate is still galloping on the upgrade and (b) the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, in the course of compiling statistics on marriage, has discovered that the more education a girl has the slimmer are her chances for matrimony. Let us examine these two apparently unrelated items. By putting (a) and (b) together we co Me inexorably to the conclusion that the mentally superior woman can louse up a marriage right quick. I venture to suggest, in fact, that there must be millions of men right this minute who are searching the TV commercielk'. for some magic lotion as effective in keeping the feminine brain as soft and young-looking as the feminine hands. I, myself, know an appalling, number of nice fellows who married the little lady because she'd big, brown eyes and a fine, firm figure and maybe could cook a little, only to discover, when shackled for eternity, that she'd suddenly become The Big Thinker. I was at a fiesta only the other night where there was a newly-wed couple, not more than six months in harness. The bride of such recent vintage said "Poppycock!", by actual count,seven times as comment on her mate's profound convictions. Go ahead, Tell the that this is modern. Tell me that the female has every right to her opinion and that there ought to be equality of expression in marriage and all that. But something was dying in that poor fellow's eyes. I suspect it was both confidence and romance. What is there about the female that causes her in the courtship period to treat the man of her choice as if every opinion was a gleaming gem of wisdom and erudition and then, hot from the altar, set herself up as prosecutor, judge and executioner of his every passing thought? You'd think that a woman, if only for her own ego, would at least put on a front of being pleased or even satisfied with what was, after all, her own selection. Instead, a great many of them seem to look on a husband as they look on a bargain dress—a steal when it's on the rack, my dear, but nothing at all when you get it home. This expresses itself in many ways. None is so hideous as the wife who lets it be known in a public place that her man is a failure. Show me a woman who reminds her husband that he can't tell a funny story, just as he's trembling on the verge of it; show me a wife who takes inordinate delight in recounting her husband's ineptitudes; show me any gal who absorbs strength of personality through the destruction of her husband's; show me any of them and I'll show you a marriage in the glue. Some husbands simply can't win. I know a matt who spent his first five years of wedlock tormented by his wife's accusation that he lacked ambition. He went to great pains to correct this. Now his wife says, "Oh, Ernie doesn't care about anything except his job," She'd say it coast to coast on the CBC if they invited her. Mind you, most men marry for the most unlikely reasons, like children 4o a candy shop, and most men accept what they got philosophically enough. But some never quite recover from the shock of discovering that the sweet little baby doll turned out to have a great big horrible mind of her own. It is true, too, 'an spite of the Metropolitan Life's statistics, that some men marry for brains, that they actually seek an educated girl as an ideal. It's just that I never met any of them. Usually the male recoils from any pre-marital hint of superiority in the cerebral department or any suggestion of authoritarianism to come. He is sensible that way. He knows that if he wanted to debate lie could join the YMCA,that if he wanted to be analyzed he could see his nearest psychiatrist. The female knows it, too. It explains why she laughs so musically at his jokes before the register is signed and why, in that same happy time, she fortifies his opinions so proudly. Only after that, the deluge. It is all part of an age-old deception and at least one cause for divorce which cannot be charged against the hapless male. The editor, I would like to comment on the current dispute between the Huron County Board of Education and the county's secondary school teachers, The teachers are asking for a raise —again. They recently rejected a six per cent salary increase, and since nearly all have resigned, it looks as if the county's high schools will not open on schedule in September. I heard a student remark recently that the schools won't be open the first week but for sure they'll be open the second. A very perceptive observation, I thought. We all know that the board is primarily concerned with keeping the students in the schools. And when September comes, the board will get scared and settle the dispute, with the teachers coming out on top, as usual. Now, come on, Board, when do you intend putting down your collective feet and stopping the spiralling costs of education? When are you going to stop all this nonsense of letting the teachers push you around? The teachers of Huron County are receiving quite reasonable pay. I know they are because I've seen the salary book. In most cases the pay is very generous. In many cases it is too generous. Because the fact is, most teachers do not attempt a fresh, original approach to their subject material. They are not giving the students a chance to get involved and interested in the aspects of a particular subject which is of interest to the students. These teachers turn out kids with a narrow approach to life. They look only at the most obvious side of things. Siime teachers care only about classroom discipline. Some care only about marks. Some don't even care. Often students fail or achieve only "fair" marks in a subject because the teacher can't handle it. He doesn't know where to begin. The kids need protection from such teachers. But there is no help available to the students in this type of situation. There are no Student Advisory Boards Ed meet with the school administration and county board to air problems and find effective solutions. No one would ever dream of setting up such a system. No one would ever dream of permitting a student to criticize a teacher. Well, who can, if not a student? Surely the pupil knows better than anyone else the worth of an instructor. But everyone thinks that when kids criticize a teacher, it's just normal, healthy student-teacher hatred. Well, if you continue to ignore the problems of the lack of trust and (Beth McConnell) From the top storey window looking across the broad green fields, Where once there was a dwelling, though its many many years, communication, and, instead, perpetuate the present Staff Superiority Complex, you will perhaps one day not so far off see the college riots moving to the high schools, Teachers should have merit pay or (in many cases) DErnerit pay. A letter of recommendation from the student board should accompany a good teacher when he switches from one school to another. And a bad teacher should be removed from office at the advice of the students. This increase in power to the students should not be cause for alarm that it will be misused. The advantages far outweigh the drawbacks. The school curriculum must be widened. But even if it is, nothing will be gained unless the teachers change their indifferent attitudes and sloppy approach. They have a responsibility to do a job which requires patience and dedication. And from all the teachers I have met, I doubt if over 10 per cent of the • secondary school teachers in this county are really dedicated to furthering educational standards. And the parents—do you really care about what goes on in the schools? Are you content to visit three teachers on Parents' Night and examine and sign report cards? Do you consider your duties end there? Do you complain about all the money spent on education, but do you only complain? How do you expect the teachers to care what they do if you don't? Why should they? They get paid anyway. So, county board, will you put your foot down or will you admit defeat and give in to the teachers? Their salaries, they believe, should increase. Why don't you ask them how many of them can honestly say that their general usefulness and popularity have increased in the past year? If the Huron County Board of Education settles the present dispute, things will go on the same as before. The state of educational affairs will remain unaltered and unbettered. The board. will be largely to blame for a mass murder of high school pupils. Why, hundreds are being bored to death every day of the school year. If the board allows things to remain unchanged, it will be guilty of inflicting mental cruelty (with intent to maim) upon the county's secondary school students. I had rather my children be illiterate and WELL-adjusted than risk permitting the school system to get hold of them and work its hideous wonders. Regretfully but truthfully yours, Reg. Thompson Someone walked in those green pastures in the days of long ago, Wandering in their days of childhood in the meadows to and fro. Some old place Well, here we are half-way through the summer, and I've been having a whale of a time on my holidays. The farthest I've been away from home, with friends scooting to Europe, the west coast, the, east coast, is out to the hotel to deliver or pick up my daughter the waitress, ten miles. I've played five holes of golf, been in swimming once, and haven't even got my fishing rod out of the trunk of the car, where it's been since last summer. If that makes you think I must be a pretty useless tool, you're dead on. Somehow, the days fly by. They remind me of tracer bullets, which come screaming straight at you and for some reason, miss and disappear. Good old tracer bullets; may I never see one again. But that reminds me there is one bright spot ahead. The Canadian' Fighter Pilots Association -is having its biennial gathering at the end of the summer and I'm invited to go and poison myself for three days in the company of other sprightly, sagging, balding, paunching chaps, 99 per cent of whom I have never met. It might be fun, but I think I'll pass it up. These re-unions are more saddening than joyful. rd get more fun out of taking out the old album and looking at what I was in those days: sloppy ha t.t op button undone. handlebar moustache and a devilish twinkle in my eye, My daughter says the twinkle is still there, though my wife lifts her eyebrows. I just snort. That's the best answer when you're not sure of your ground. Perhaps the real reason I won't go is that for one of the dinners, there is a note raying "Black tie optional". Actually, I look pretty clanged distinguished in a black tie, 'but I detest everything the phrase stands for: pseudo-sophisticated middle-class snobbery. I'm not knocking the old fighter pilots, Most of them came from pretty humble surroundings, as I did, and have done well in life. After all, we were the pick of the crop (and no snorting, please, from the army and navy, who gave us a hand occasionally and got in our way frequently). But "black tie optional" is a bit rich for my blood. And I can hear all the dead ones hooting with laughter at this innocent bit of pomposity. And I wonder how many of the alcoholics and the failures will be there, blaek tie or none. And there's another reunion. It's a prisoners-of-war (air force) deal. This, to-o, I'd enjoy it I knew anybody. But I tried one or 'two of these and wound up as lonely as a lobster at a clambake. All these fat, red-faced Canadians pounding each other on the back and re-telling ancient lies, while I looked for one familiar face, All my trends in prison camp were Czechs and Poles and Norwegians and Rhodesians and South Africans and Irish and Welsh and Scota. Must have been in the wrong camp. And of course there's the annual convention of the Canadian Weekly Newspapers Association coming up. I still have a special relationship with the weeklies, and many good old friends among their editors. At least I don't feel like an outsider at their conventions. But I probably won't go. Who would drive Kim to work? Who would settle the fights between her and her mother? Who would continue to fail to put up the new clothes-line and repair the handle on the bathroom door? No, I'm essential right here, at home. It's not that I'm antisocial. I'd thoroughly enjoy mixing it up with old fighter pilots, old p.o.w.'s and old editors. And I could probal•% arrange a Aide for vile And the clothes-line can lie there and rot, for all I care, And the bathroom doorknob can wait, as it has done for six months. It's just that 'my wife takes two hours to get ready for a swim, 'three days to get ready to go 'away for 'a weekend, three weeks to get ready for a convention, it ain't worth it. Maybe I'll take a day off'and go down to the dock and catch some 'perch. 10 YEARS AGO August 3, 1961 There were a half-dozen students at the Clinton Community Pool last Friday who passed their senior water safety test successfully: Kristen Engelstad, Ricky Grigg, Rolphe Cook, Carol Thompson, Dianne Currie and Alan Clarke. R. David Beattie, son of Mr. and Mrs. George Beattie, Clinton, has received word from the Ca h a d i an School of Embalming, University of Toronto, that he was successful in passing all subjects: medical science, embalming, funeral procedure, anatomy, physiology and first aid. Goderich Bantam baseball team plays the second game of a best two out of three WOAA Bantam 'B" playoff series at the local park tonight (Thursday) at 6:30p.m. Clinton won the first game in Goderich last Saturday by 7 to 5. 15 YEARS AGO August 2, 1956 The most noticeable change so far in the look of the town hall is the removal of four chimneys. Actually the four which Were removed have not been in use for an estimated 40 years. Fifteen tons of brick were taker' fiorn the roof. A swimming pool in Clinton — although still a dream is rapidly becoming a plan and will, if all goes well, start to become a reality in the very near future. Soil samples that were sent to the University of Western Ontario to be analysed, have been returned with satisfactory reports. Corporal Anthony (Tony) Broom, RCAF Station, Clinton, was among graduates of Air Force Police Course 51, at RCAF station Aylmer recently. He and his wife Betty, live at 30 Quebec Road, Adastral Park, Clinton. 25 YEARS AGO August 8, 1946 By motion, Council authorized payment of furnace account to Sutter and Perdue when installation is satisfactory and approved by the Gilson company, and the conductor and heat chamber pipes in the basement are covered. The last of the 'servicemen to return to the Dungannon area, Petty Officer Gordon Montgomery has arrived. Gordon who was born in Ripley, has been stationed in St. John's Nfld. for the past three years. Mary and Billie Anderson, St. George, grandchildren of Rev. and Mrs. C.C. Anderson, are spending a couple of weeks with their grandparents. 40 YEARS AGO August 6,1931 Mr. A. Benson Corless of the Bank of Montreal, Brantford, with Mr. and Mrs. H. Beasley spent the weekend and holiday with Mr. and Mrs. M. Corless. Miss Dorothy Carless returned with the party to spend a week with her brother in Brantford, Mr. and Mrs. Shaylor of London and Mm, Wm. Henry motored along the Bluewater Highway over the weekend and Mr. and Mrs. Shaylor returned to London where Mrs. Henry will make them a short visit. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Moore of Toronto, Mr. and Mrs. Hinise of Coburg, Miss Roe of Oshawa, and Mr. and Mrs. F. W. Keen of Toronto are guests of Mr. and Mrs. Wesley Shelbrook, Clinton. 55 YEARS AGO August 3,1916 The weekly band concerts by the Clinton Kiltie Band are missed by the citizens this year. Let us hope that next, year's Council can see their way clear to make a suitable grant to the band. Mayor Thompson has issued his proclamation that Monday, August 7th, is Clinton's Civic Holiday and asks all citizens to observe it as such. The Bank Act has been amended to permit the Minister of Finance to claim from all the Banks of Canada the balances unclaimed for more than five full years, the monies to be used for the Patriotic Funds or in the public interest. Maybe in the bright June seasons When the hay was getting ripe, Someone played in those same corners or a swing was hung up tight, Or from the playroom window where the sun came in so bright, Where the days of many childhoods were spent before the night. Now the house is gone to ruin and the barn is tumbling down, And the child is far away in some far and distant town, And the parents they have gone where no ruin can be found, In a better land of being where the sun ne'er goeth down. — The Dreamer Black tie fuss leaves Bill cold