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SUNPAY,4ANQARY 4th
9:45 a.m. — 9tiriday School.
11:00 a-m, Morning Worship,
Sermon Topic: 'CHRI$TIAN 1,1/5 RTY"
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The Dept,. of National Defence deCision
to do away With the three batteries of the
1st Field Regiment headquartered in
Wingham ends the history of a militia unit
Which has reason to be proud of its past,
the Wingham Advance-Times commented
last week. Since a number of Clinton and
district men are and have Peen members
of the 21st, we reprint the rest of the
A-T's opinion:
Qrganized in the early days of this
community and serving under various
names throughout the passing decades and
two world wars, the men -who received
their first military training in the local
armouries have served their country at
home and abroad and not a few have
given their lives.
Many chapters could be written about
the men and officers and the great spirit
of comradeship which has pervaded this
militia unit but our thought at the present
moment is of the loss to those who are
Presently members ,of the.• regiment. In a
day when young people have been
streaming off in all -directions to follow
every passing and inconsequential fad, the
• Obviously the experts i?elieve that the
threat of a future war is remote, Once ,
they see no further need for so many of
the military units which would provide
the nucleus of an army in time of need.
For that much we should indeed be
thankful. If there iS any hope for' the
world of the future we should be lOoking
forward to the final disappearance of all
military formations,
The nagging worry arises from the fact
that military establishments of the sort
represented by the 21st Regiment are
extremely difficult to re-form when need
does arise. We pray that the nation's
leaders are, indeed, correct in their sense
of security.
There is little left but to bid a
respectful farewell to a regiment which
has served its country so long and so
faithfully.
boys who have joined the ?1st have been
provided with a disciPlined focus of
activity, The regirnent has been . of
inestimable value in the development of
sane, responsible young citizens.
The happy balance
In a world where food supplies have
never quite kept up with rising
populations, the need for birth control is
self-evident, Unfortunately, mankind still
finds it difficult to strike a happy balance,
In nations like India and China, across
the backward regions of Asia, Africa and
Latin America, the well-educated and
better class families are the ones who
restrict the number of children they have.
The vast majority, however, remains
relatively unimpressed by population
control measures.
The hundreds of millions of peasants,
most of whom consider large families to
be an economic necessity, are still
multiplying at far too rapid a rate. The
result is that the men and women with
brains, who not only should be having
more children but who can afford the
expense of larger families, are holding
back whereas the illiterate masses still
have huge families whom they can neither
feed or educate adequately. This is true
not only of individuals but of nations.
The Japanese population, for instance,
is fast growing too old. This is a classic
example of unbalanced population
control — in reverse. Soon there will be
too many old people .in Japan because
-birth control, and legalized abortion is
practised so widely. By Asian Standards,
Japan is extremely affluent and its people
highly literate.
Japan's birth rate dropped from 34.3
per 1,000 in 1947 to 16.9 per 1,000 in
1961, and eventually to a record low of
13.7 in 1966. As a result, one of every
five Japanese will be 60 years or older by
the turn of the century compared with
the current rate of one in 10. To avert an
eventual economic crisis, some • are
advocating more babies, and others
greater opportunities for the-elderly, in the
productive life of the nation.
Mankind still has much to learn as
regards population control. The main
needs , are better:- Fanning and more
accurate analysii,1L f9idre'trends ,
— Contributed.
Many experts, and a good
few non-experts, like yours tru-
ly, are , pounding out millions
of words these days looking
back over their shoulders with
horror at The Sixties, and look-
ing ahead with terror, at- The
Seventies.
I don't know what the last
decade did to you, but it aged
me about 20 years, Or maybe
it only feels that way because
I've spent it teaching school
and surviving two teen-agers.
In the history books, this
past decade will receive a few
paragraphs as one of turbu-
lence and social change. But if
you've lived through it, you've
been through the wringer,
Sam, and you know it's been
one of wrenching, chaotic, vi-
olent revolt.
It produced assassinations,
ugly and stupid wars, a deep-
ening of racial hatreds, and a
feeling of impotence and de-
spair among ordinary 'people.
It produced a new breed of
music, and a new breed of
young people; a breed that
questioned everything, but
supplied few answers; a breed
that turned away from the
church and turned on to drugs;
a breed that suggested "work"
is a dirty word and ditty feet
are a sign of moral purity.
The decade produced dozens
Of heW "democratic" eciuntries,
with dozens of neW dictators to
rue them. It brought forth the
pill and a sexual revolution. It
gave birth to new highs, or
lows, of pore.ography, printed
and filmed.
We experienced vast strides
backwards . in inflation, pollu-
tion and population control.
We saw the inevitable rise of
black, red and yellow power,
with its inevitable violence.
We saw the paradox of a
steadily increasing Materialism
battling it out with a steadily
increasing spiritualism in the
direction of all weird, exotic
and far-out cults,
We drank more and smoked
more, despite the huge hikes
in prices. And narcotics swept
the western world Iike the bu-
bonic plague.
We saw the vast, venerable
and rigid edifice of education
attacked from within and with-
out, and now have an educa-
tional system with one foot in
"the grave and the other being
gnaWed by militants who don't
know anything, but know that
what they don't know is right.
We have had race riots,
strikes galore, "confronta-
tions," peace marches in which
a let of people got elobbered,.a
'Steadily growing eritne rate,
and the sundering of in-
numerable families because of
the 80-called generation gap.
I could go on and on, paint,
ing a grim, black picture, But
it's not all black. The yahoet
have not quite taken ever yet,
The, Establisinent, another
dirty word, has been forced tb
take a good, straight look • at
itself, and what it saw was not
always pretty.
A great deal more is being
done for the' socially deprived.
People, as a whole, are becom-
ing generally concerned with
pollution at last,
The Christian churches have
taken slow and halting, but
definite, steps toward unity.
The Pope is no longer infalli-
ble in some circles,
Canada is still intact, after a
decade of talk about disinte-
gration as a nation.
Individuals have taken a
stand, as witness Dr. Alcorn on
'peace, Stanley Burke on Biaf-
ra, and Bill Smiley on snowmo-
biles.
The Yanks took two shots at
the moon • and made it both
times. There's almost a certain•
ty of a minimum family reve.
nue. • Medicare and similar
schemes protect the aged and
the poor from financial Was.
trophe. The list is long.
And you must remember
that you can't make bread
without yeast, The young peo-
ple, the rebels, have provided
theyeast. But there is all that
dough that must 'be prOduced,
And the rest of us make the
dough and the "bread," in
more ways than one.
I have faith in the human
race, though goodness knows
why, I'm willing* to give it an-
other decade. if you are, And if
things don't improve, I Will
resign from said human race at
midnight, Becember ' 31st,
1979.
The pundits, I see, are still
brooding over Prime Minister
Trudeau's prophecy to the
Liberal think-in that "genetic
engineering" will be a necessity
in the not-too-distant future.
I hadn't given it much
thought, myself, until last week
when. I went to pick up a teacher
friend at the high school. I was
there early, as it happened, and
the students were changing
classes. Suddenly , I was Jack
Pygmy in a land of swarming
giants. It came to me then that
•,,,e're rearing a new generation
of Goliaths and that something
is going to have to be done
about it.
Oh, I've read the statistics,
you understand, I've seen those
charts demonstrating the steady
increase in the size of each
succeeding generation — a
growth rate so remarkable, in
fact, that the average man of
today is nearly four inches taller
and 30 pounds heftier than the
knights of King Arthur's court!
But until I gazed into all those
Adam's apples in that high
school corridor' I never quite
realized what the affluent life,
cod-liver oil, Wheaties and
orange juice,have wrought.
It occurred to me that it may
not be over-population that we
should be worrying about, but
the actual dimensions of our
future inhabitants.
Even if this did not involve
the stark question of how to
feed an over-populated world it
now seems evident that the
human being is a creature
completely unsuited to modern
living.
It's awfully hard to find any
justification at all for the
King-sized homo sapiens in a
digest-sized world. With the
possible exception of basketball
players or football linemen the
big man or the big woman serves
no practical purpose whatever.
Physical proportions are-
meaningless in a society where
machinery does the work. What
need is there for the long, strong
back when there's' almost
nothing that can't be done by
daintily pushing' a button with
the index finger?
We're on the way to creating a
human being measuring six
cubits and a span and, at the
same time, space is steadily
constricting.
There's hardly room in our
cities for the bodies thatpeople
them. In the suburbs our houses
grow tinier On smaller plots of
ground. Have you ridden in a
bus lately? They are already
proof that We're in an age of
elephant-people.
What's more serious is the fuel
required to stoke these great
furnaces of flesh. While we're
creating bigger and bigger
behemoths to devour the earth's
fOtider more than half the
population of our planet gods
hungry.,
"Genetic engineering," of
course, could solve this simply
by reducing the birth rate: But
there is another way, namely by
some slight engineering of the
pituitary gland.
B.
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The pituitary gland is a little
doo-jigger about half an inch
!Ong, lying in a tiny hole at the
base of the skull. Experiments
over the years show that it may
be adjusted to regulate growth.
Indeed one recent report from
London states flatly that
medical science is at present
capable of making men and
women to measure. Men and
women made to measure! If that
isn't a prospect to fire the
imagination my name isn't
"Shorty."
It means simply that the
human being, who has always
been a misfit one way or another
in his changing environment,
may now be tailored to be
altogether functional.
Just stretch your imagination
and picture a world populated
by humans of a workable size —
say about one-third of the
average dimensions of today.
Imagine the delightful,
practical results of a race of
perfectly formed two-foot
LilliputianS.
The curse of over-erowding,
the slums, the • bursting
schoolrooms and hospitals, the
claustrophobic housing, the
terrible drain on the world's
diminishing food supply — all
these could be wiped out in one
short generation.
Naturally there would have td
be some lowering of shelves and
tioer.knobs and such, but the
economy-sized man would get
along as well as he ever did and
have a 11011yWOod bed in the
bargain!
• Wesley-Willis -- Holmesville United Churches
REV. A. J. MOWATT, C.D., B.A., B.D., D.D, Minister
MR. LORNE DOTTERER, Organist and Choir Director
SUNDAY, JANUARY 4th
WESLEY-WILLIS Sunday School — 9:45 "a.m.
11:00 a.m. — Morning Worship,
Sermon Topic: "They Travelled from Afar"
HOLMESVILLE 1:200;00 p.m.
worships Shery lice,
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Mr. Lorne Dotterer
11:00 p.m.— WATCHNIGHT SERVICE & COMMUNION
REV. I-I. W. WONFOR — Preacher
— ALL WELCOME —
CHRISTIAN REFORMED CHURCH, Clinton
263 Princess Avenue
Pastor: Alvin Beuhema, B.A., B.O.
Services: 10;00 a.m. and-3:00 p.m.
(On 2nd and 4th Sunday, 9;30 a.m.)
The Church of the Back to God Hour
every Sunday 12:30 p.m., CHLO
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ST. ANDREW'S PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH•
Me Rev. R. U. MacLean, B.A., Mkster
Mrs. B. Boyes, Organist and Choir Director
SUNDAY, JANUARY 4th
9:45 a.m. — Sunday School.
10:45 a.m. — Morning Worship.
A NEW YEAR
BAYFIELD BAPTIST CHURCH
Pastor: Leslie Clemens
SUNDAY, JANUARY 4th
Sunday School: 10:00 a.m.
Morning Worship: 11:00 a.m.
Evening Gospel Service: 7:30 p.m.
Wednesday, 8:00 p.m. Prayer meeting and Bible study,
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