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Clinton News-Record, 1970-07-30, Page 4TIE UP AT EVENING Photo by Eric Earl 4 Clinton News-Record, Thursday, 30, 197 0 1001141 comment We don't care if you think we're right or wrong We care only that you think. imilu(1ioneuguionit81181816111611110111111IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIM111111811111aineineigigigouingoeugioiougagiainaginauguisonaninagagailiami Economics and ethics Can a course of action be both sound economics and bad ethics? The question assaults us from more than one angle at this present time. To curb inflation, which most economists assure us is a bad thing, we are asked to accept measures which are increasing unemployment, with consequent distress to those in the lowest income brackets. To improve the market for Canadian wheat, the federal government, presumably on the hidhest-priced advice, is offering cash incentives to farmers to allow substantial acerages to lie fallow this summer. In Iowa farmers have burned their potato crops to protest the poor prices they are receiving. Is it right in a hungry world to destroy good food or prevent it being produced? Economic considerations have obviously over-ridden those of ethics in these instances. Those who hold that moral standards apply as much to groups, industries and governments as to individuals may not have been sufficiently vigorous in asserting their views. They should speak up now for a moral content in economics, telling the economist to feed other things besides impersonal statistics into his computer; that "right" means something more than a profit item on a balance sheet, that there are things far more wrong than red figures in a ledger, Scripture enjoins us to "seek first righteousness" and "all these things"....the tangible commodities and services with which economists calculate... "shall be added unto you." With this priority duly given there might' quickly be found to be no real . conflict at. all \between sound economics and good ethics.—contributed In Hitler's Shadow About a third of a century has passed since Hitler started his campaign of terror against the Jews in Germany, yet man's inhumanity to man continues unchecked in many areas. Because totalitarian governments seem to have the right to do as they please, little is heard about the atrocities committed by the military regime in Brazil, for example. Yet occasionally, from Mexico and the United States, one hears well documented accounts of men, women and even children being tortured and killed by the Brazilian authorities because they disagree with the way the country is being run. Electric shock torture, children being mutilated before the very eyes of their helpless parents, dissident priests being terrorized and murdered are common occurrences, ik,:brazil whose brutal regime gets more U.S. aid than any other country with the exception of Vietnam and India, According to Christian churchmen, the Brazilian regime tortures then releases people as effective method of subduing the entire population to its will. Similar tales of torture come from Iraq, where scores of so—called traitors have been hanged and shot in public ever since last year, and from Greece where opponents to the junta in Athens have given'detailed descriptions of atrocities—some of them involving even pregnant women. The regimes in Greece and Brazil are so—called allies of the West, though fortunately Greece has been pushed out of the Council of Europe because of its treatment of intellectuals and political opponents. Nobody is supposed to interfere because even torture is said to be the internal affair of each particular nation. But the. United Nations, the Organization of American States and all the world's thurche'S should .raise their voices much more loudly against the monstrous acts of these military regimes. For if the West has to depend on 'allies who walk in Hitler's shadow, such friends in time can become only a liability. The door is always open Business and Professional e• Directory • N. N NSN.N.S.N.N.\\SN.SSN.SSN.\\S N N. N. S S. N. S NS'S\ 5 N. N. N. SEIVVICES ALL SERVICES ON POI-Will TIME e ONTARIO STFIEEir UNITED CHURCH .4. .*-# "THE FRIENDLY CHURCH"' , - Pastor: REV, H. W, WONFOR, tr, RQ BSC-, B-COM., B.D. Organist:. MISS t-OIS GRASBY, ,A.R.C.T. ..% cZ \ . 9 SUNDAY,AUGUST 2nd The congregation will worship at the Wesley-Willis Church during the month of August with Rev. H. W, Wonfor Preaching, Wesley-Willis -- Holniesville United Churches REV. A. J. MOVVATT, C.D., B.A., B.D., D.D., Minister MR, LORNE DOTTERER, Organist and Choir Director SUNDAY, AUGUST 2nd WESLEY-WILLIS 11:00 a.rn. — Morning Worship and Junior Congregation. (Ontario St. Church will worship with Wesley-Willis Church during August). • Rev. H. W. Wonfor, preacher. , Mrs. Mary Hearn, soloist this Sunday. 1 CHRISTIAN REFORMED CHURCH, Clinton 263 Princess Avenue Pastor: Alvin Beukema, B.A., B.D. 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 — Everyone Welcome — ST. ANDREW'S PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH, Interim Moderator Rev. G, L. Royal. We mourn the passing of Rev. R. U. MacLean, B.A. Church and Sunday School discontinued for the month of August. BAYFIELD BAPTIST CHURCH SUNDAY, AUGUST 2nd .. , 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. . PAUL"S.• ANGLICAN ROHMWHiiI -giii22,Hilt, 1 ,,,, ,t ST.:. : , , „ Clinton SUNDAY, AUGUST 2nd TRINITY X The congregation is asked to worship at St. Thomas Church, Seaford!, Matins and Sermon. CALVARY PENTECOSTAL CHURCH 166 Victoria Street Pastor: Donald Forrest SUNDAY, AUGUST 2nd Sunday School: 9:45 a.m. Morning Worship: 11:00 a.m. Evangelistic Service: 7:00 p.m. .• THE CLINTON NEW' ERA Amalgamated Established 1865 1924 Clinton News THE HURON NEWS-RECORD Established 1881 Record A Member of the Canadian Weekly Newspaper As.sociation, Ontario Weekly Newspaper Association and the Audit Bureau of Circulation (ABC) SUBSCRIPTION RATES' (in advance) Canada, $6.00 per year; U.S.A., $7,50 KEItH W. EIOULStOfq Editor J, HOWARD At tl<EN General Manager every Thursday at of Hilton County Clinton, Ontario Population 3,475 110)14E OP RADAR IN CANADA Published second blast,' mail the heart registration number — 0817 W. G. "BILL" RIEHL ADVERTISING SPECIALTIES "Display Showroom Oh 24 NORTH st: Calendars & Gifts Magnetic Signs For Cars & 'trucks Wheels" — CLINTON SS\\...\\•NSSS5S\SS\SS.N•S‘S•S\NSN•SSS5 NSNSS‘%%'• ,z;thltk This is going to be one of the most difficult columns I've ever written. Don't worry, there, hasn't been a death in the family or anything like that, although I did offer my wife a divorce on Sunday morning and it was a solid deal for five minutes. No, this is purely physical. When you play with fire, you're likely to get burnt. I did and I was. Trouble is, it's the two typing fingers on my right hand. Each has a blister the size of a dime, and a quarter-inch deep, right on the tip. So I'm trying to type this with my knuckles, and it's heavy weather. Not that I'm merely a one- handed typist. I .use my left hand with incredible dexterity, forefinger for hitting keys, thumb for hitting the space-bar. Well, soon after burning the right-hand fingers, I tripped over a rook, shoved out my left hand to save myself, and sprained my thumb. It looks like a puff-adder with a toothache and feels similar. However, when I think of my neighbor, my troubles, while painful, are trivial. On the eve of his summer' holidays, he racked up some discs in his neck. He is in hospital, in great pain, and in a. huge neck-collar, My wife has a pain too, and it's also in her neck. She's sick of running a motel, of changing beds for transient visitors, of doing great loads of laundry. Kim will arrive home with big green gifbage bags so stuffed with laundry that they look like pregnant whales. Hugh does the same. And they invariably bring friends. The whole mob has the same characteristic. They tromp around in their bare feet. They go to the beach, track in about a pound of sand per foot. You almost need a shovel and a sand-pail when you're changing the sheets, I tell my wife she's crazy, that they probably never get to sleep on clean sheets except at home, One can infer that from the state of the laundry. But she's of the old school, which believes that even bums should have clean sheets. My advice to her has all the effect of writing on water with chalk. The idea is that Kim will do the laundry. But she's working at a job where she must be up at 5 a.m. to be at work by 7. So when she's home for a day, she sleeps until about 3 p.m. And Momma, knowing she's a sucker, does the laundry, muttering steadily, There is a point at which you think you can see your kids looking after themselves. They're going to be out of your hair, independent. No more handouts. No more paying of bills. No more looking after their documents and the countless forms to be filled out, But that point recedes steadily into the distance as you plod steadily toward it. I was warned about thiS by a friend, spine years ago. He had three grown sons, all doing well, all married. all with children. I congratulated him on his fine family and the fact that they were on their own. He laughed bitterly. • "They're on their own," he snorted, "when they've all bor- rowed enough from you for a down payment on a house, at two per cent interest. And even then, unless they're in Zanzibar, they're home every second weekend, expecting to be wined and dined and baby-sat." And he was dead right. The only solution I can see is for parents of grown-up "children" to sell the family home, with its three or four bedrooms, and move into a one bedroom apartment, preferably in some place as handy to get at as Aklavik. I don't blame the kids much. Our two are both working in the hot, stinky city, at fairly menial jobs, and living in pretty squalid rooms, because that's all they can afford. We live in a lovely summer area, with beaches, clean air, a big, shady lot, and a built-in cook — their morn. They still think of it as borne. Clean sheets, real meat in- stead of rice and macaroni, showers galore, a doting mother to pick up after them, and a real mark 'of a father, who is always good for a small "loan", What more could they want? And I must admit, against my will, that we're pretty glad to see the red-head with the big brown eyes, Or the young man with the trim beard, and hear, "Hi, Morn, Hi, Dad." The. perils of travel One way or another, I suppose, life is really just a series of waits — well, what are you waiting for? — but this never seems as clear as when you travel. Take air travel, for example, and welcome to it. You buy a ticket on an aluminum monster that will carry you to where you may be going at better than 500 miles an hour, but first the air line insists that yeat_sit :down:, for a very long time and think about it. There's no apparent reason why a passenger shouldn't get right on the airplane and go, except that it just isn't done. Air lines like to have you around, presumably to give their waiting rooms that lived-in look. It can be a most depressing experience. Few people know how to wait. They do it badly. Everyone suffers. A friend of mine was doing his waiting at Toronto recently, one day after that tragic crash. It was a melancholy group, he tells me, made even more gloomy by repeated delays. So he, rather welcomed the company when a Catholic priest sat beside him. "Nice day," said my friend. There was no preamble, no introduction from the priest. He merely said, "Son, have yoU ever really though about all the things that can go wrong with an airplane?" A lot of this enforced waiting, of course, is not the fault of the airlines, but of customs and immigration people who, almost 75 YEARS AGO The Huron News-Record July 31,1895 Mr. Geo. Emtnerson leaves today for the old country on the Allan Line. Mrs. Homer Andrews and children and Mrs. Chambers were visiting friends and acquaintances in Hensall on Friday last. An Indian war has broken out in Idaho, and, after a white family of three had been killed, the settlers pursued and slew six of the Indians. Buttes. — The market was quiet and little business was done by either shippers or buyers. Finest creamery is quoted at 17c and townships at 15c, Eggs — Fresh candled is quoted at 12c. 55 YEARS AGO The Clinton News-Record July 29,1915 Tuesday evening the Vinegar Hill bowlers and the Downtown bowlers had a game. The hill tomb Won by a score of 22-15. The players were Vinegar Hill, Morrish, Hunter, Axon, Roberton (skip); DoWntoWn, McEwan, Gregg, Wlltse, Hovey (skip).. Harry Twitchell left on ti holiday trip to the West, and Will spend a Month or SO Mit there. Fred"Nett has improved his anywhere in the world, wither your regard for the human race. Going through customs in any Latin-American country is a particularly awful experience and two years of it, as a South American correspondent, left me a broken man. As soon as your bags have been placed on the counter, ready for, inspection, the Latin American customs official turns to a companion and begins to -tell him some very long joke. It is his way of showing contempt for the visiting gringo. When, at last, he decides to favor you with his attention there are two things he will do. First, he will lift some object from your bag — a camera, a bottle of something, a worthless trinket that you've bought as a gift — and he will look at it for what seems several minutes. His manner is that of a man who has come across a hundred pound cache of heroin or a sack of black widow spiders. The traveller finds himself babbling explanations where none at all are necessary. Secondly, the official will lower his huge hands into your bag and with a quick, professional gesture, will instantly re-arrange everything so that is impossible to close it without re-packing everything. You then have a very long time of waiting to really think about this, thus ruining an entire day: The worst thing that can happen to you in an air terminal house by adding a new summer kitchen to it. Mrs. W. Cooper has had her house reshingled. 40 YEARS AGO The Clinton News-Record July 24,1930 Mr, and Mrs. Frank Fingland have become settled in their new home, the residence of Mrs. Chant, Rattenbury.St. Miss Cora Jervis returned from Toronto on Saturday, having spent a fortnight making papers for the Department of Education. ' Reg. Cook and Misses Lillian Manning and Helen Swan are in Goderich this week attending the United Churn Summer School, Edward Floody, founder and former editor of the News-Record was amongst those who petitioned for the incorporation of the Grand Orange Lodge of British America in 1890. 25 YEARS AGO The Clinton News-Record July 16,1945 Norman Lever's new fish arid Chip stand Will be opening on ilurOn St, next week. At present he is just selling hot dogs and old drinks, Mrs, Beaton and IThirries returned on Monday froth a very waiting room is to permit anbody at all to engage you in conversation. The really seasoned travellers always hide behind a newspaper or assume a mask of such open hostility that strangers will be kept at their distance. You would think that at these cross-roads of the world's airlanes you'd meet all sorts of interesting people. You don't. You meet Caterpillar tractor salesmen who want to tell you about gear ratios- and lubidar frame construction or missionaries of obscure faiths who are eager to prove to you that the Bible prophesies the end of the world this very afternoon or second assistant British embassy officials who have theories on new tarrif restrictions on the import of Chilean cheese or retired school teachers from Boise, Idaho, with case histories of their sinus troubles. The cross I bear is that I seem to have a face that invites such confidences. Only the other day, in Edmonton, I was grasped in the death grip by a sweet old lady who talked, non-stop, for an hour and a quarter about her grand-daughter and continued the monologue on the airplane right up to the point where she was suddenly sick all over -the place, just as she'd predicted she would be in the waiting room. The waiting, of course, is the price you pay for the going. The older I get the more I Wonder if it's worth it. OPTOMETRY J. E. LONGSTAFF OPTOMETRIST Mondays and Wednesdays 20 ISAAC STREET For Appointment Phone 482-7010 SEAFORTH OFFICE 527-1240 R. W. BELL OPTOMETRIST The Square, GODER ICH 524-7661 DIESEL 'Punip's and Injectors Repaired For All Popular Makes Huron Fuel Injection Equipment hayfield Rd., Clinton-482.7071 this summer representing act at the Ontario Athletic Leadership Camp, at Lake Conehiehing,ELOkns ogfAordOMillS, m 'YEARS The Clinton News-Record July 28,1960 Fuhlic Works Minister Ray Connell and Charlea MacNaughton, MPP tot Huron INSURANCE K.W.COLQUHOUN INSURANCE & REAL ESTATE Phones: Office 482-9747 Res. 482-7804 HAL HARTLEY Phone 482-6693 LAWSON AND WISE INSURANCE — REAL ESTATE INVESTMENTS Clinton Office: 482-9644 J, T. Wise, Res.: 482-7265 ALUMINUM PRODUCTS For Air-Master Aluminum Doors and Windows and AWNINGS and RAILINGS JERVIS SALES R. L. Jervis — 68 Albert St. Clinton — 482-9390 today announced calling of tenders for construction of a new Mental hospital at Goderich. There's a sparkling new front on the egg grading station White Stucto, with two huge big windows:" Livermore "Shire has done a tine job of Modernizing the front of his building. pleasant two weeks visit with the former's daughter, Mrs. C.E. Moffatt, Pickford, Frank MacDonald, who has been working at the C.N.R. station has now been moved to Brampton to do relieving work. Pte, Alvin ("Nig") Reed, Dungannon, who worked in town for some time with his brother-in-law, Joseph Petrie, at , the feed mill, landed in Halifax on the "El Nil" on Friday. 15 YEARS AGO The Clinton News-Record July 28,1955 Hugh R. Hawkins will today complete a move of his hardware business from the well-known location on Albert St. between Herman's arid Aikens'. He has moved to the store once occupied by Stednian's Store on Victoria St. Robert Thomson, Kippen, While assisting his son Bert With the threshing, suffered a fractured arm on Monday afternoon. Brick work On the neW Bell Telephone dial exchange building on Rattenbury Stn has jug begun. In about One Week the workmen have reactiet nearly to the second floor on two sides of the building. Leaders in their school sports MisS Marjorie Goldsworthy and high Colquhoun students at Clinton Distriet Collegiate ate