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."
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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