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Clinton News-Record, 1972-01-27, Page 4Canadian women are vastly underpaid and under-employed. Sylvia Gelber, director of the Federal Labor Department Women's Bureau, outlined the dismal dimensions of discrimination. Whether in industrial, professional or academic sectors, women draw lower pay than men for the same job despite legislation forbidding such practices. Men machine operators in the women's clothing trade get 74 per cent per hour more than women, women spinners in the synthetic textile field get 41.6 per cent lower wages than men, male assemblers in the motor parts trade get 63.8 per cent more pay than women, men machine operators in the motor trade get 64 per cent more than women operators. From "these figures it is evident that unions have failed women, consequently women will have to help themselves. Annual earnings of women engineers and scientists drop 41 per cent below men in those professions. Male professors earn 8 per cent more than women, assistant professors get 5 per cent more, lecturers and instructors up to nine per cent more. But recent patterns of labor unrest show that women are finally beginning to value their services more highly. Nurses and teachers who would not have dreamed of inconveniencing the public by strike five years ago have grown increasingly militant. Recently 8,000 telephone operators demanded more pay and an end to "male exploitation" which raised two women to executive rank in a company where 22,000 of its 35,000 employees are women, A growing sense of awareness and self-worth among women indicate they are organized and angry enough to fight for their rights -- at last. Why kids take drugs Discussion on drugs has reached the ludicrous stage where parents are full into a "guilt trap" egged on by numerous studies, surveys and pontifications of psychologists and psychiatrists. Studies reveal that kids take drugi because Daddy or Mummy take tranquilizers, or they drink, or they don't go to church, or they are too busy with business, or Mother works. So what's new? Humans have had their frailties since Eve plucked the apple and Adam ate it. Kids take drugs for the same reasons adults take tranquilizers, drink, or overwork -- they are lonely, scared, disappointed, have failed, are experimenting or trying to find out who and what they are. The sooner adults stop flailing themselves with guilt about where the kids are at, and begin to act, the sooner ways Will be found to cope with drugs. Use of drugs is not going to be stopped by guilt-filled adults stiffening laws, lengthening jail sentences and asking the police to do their work for them. Parents first have to lay down a few ground rules for children: like getting home on time, revealing where they were and with whom, helping chores of running a home and a family. Next, parents should try talking and listening more. Tonight would be a good time to discuss with the children why some parents drink, smoke, are busy with business, don't go to church or why Mother works. Then the subject could move on naturally to the children's ideas, thoughts and responsibilities. It could be a beginning. hat's new at Huronview? immiremmlimasztaxerf What kids say about snowmobilers Escape e l hy. noi? THE CLINTON NEW ERA Established 1865 Amalgamated 1924 THE HURON NEWS.RECORb Established 11381 Clinton _News 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, $8.00 per year; U.S.A., $9.50 KEITH W. ROULSTON — editor J. HOWARO AITKEN General Manager Published every Thursday at the heart of Huron County' Clinton, Ontario Population 3,475 THE HOME OP PADAR IN CANADA 4—Clinton News-Record, Thursday, January 27, 1972 Editorial commeis t Women's pay Why come, 4Dorie\\)411) over \D'it.\Y‘ P Se i n Sane onc' e Letters..„ to the Editor That gorgeous, hour-long television documentary on the Caribbean last week had a predictably depressing effect on me that may interest you, the good Lord willing. My companion in front of the magic box happened to be a man of 55 who has been my closest friend these past 20-odd years. Some five years ago he'd a heart stab that scared the bejabers out of him, he was warned by his doctor to slow down and began analyzing his life. I have often served as a sounding board for' his unsystematic self-search. It happened again when the Caribbean picture was over. "That beach they showed in 'Trinidad," he said over coffee,.,, ,z "That's where! Want to be, Jack. I don't want to be here. I want to be there. Could be, too, you know. If I packed everything up I could scrape together a least $60,000. I could live down there nicely for three or four thousand a year. I mean, I could literally spend the rest of my days in that paradise. "If I keep on the way I am," he went on, "I'll be lucky if I reach 65 and, even if I do, I won't have enjoyed it. Do you ever feel this way? Do you ever feel trapped? It would be so easy. I could be on my way in a month or two it I could just make up my mind " So he niggled on and I thought to myself, old buddy, I thought, you ain't gonna go and you know it. You're going to have a nice, quick seizure at 65 and you'll have a swell funeral and everyone will agree that you were a fine, sensible fellow who never did anything foolish in his, life. Monday, January 1'7 old tyme music session saw Mrs. Mary Taylor, who plays the mouth organ, absent. However, though Mrs. Taylor was missed, Mr. Norman Speir and Miss Della Peart handled the unexpected inconvenience very capably. On Wednesday, entertainment Memories of the A tot of people would give their eye-teeth for some free publicity in this column for whatever they're selling. In fact, I have a large case of mounted eye-teeth which I haven't bothered returning. For once, make an exception. In this case, it's a plug for a television series. Du not much of a T.V. hound. Most of the content is aimed at the 12-year-old mentality; and this is an insult to a bright 12-year-old. Three BBC series, however, were well done enough to interest me. They were The Wives of Henry VIII, this year's Elizabeth R, and The Forsyte Saga. In each case we had superb entertainment, without the violence, off-colour jokes and utter inanity which characterize so many well-known and avidly followed shows. I might add that one reason they appealed to me was that they were not trying to be "significant", merely good drama. I remember saying to my wife, during the span of the Forsyte family, "Wouldn't the Jalna novels make a wonderful series?" She agreed, whereupon I put a nick in the doorpost, I do this every time she agrees with me, There are three nicks there now. Of course, we've only had this house for ten years. Now we have it. A Canadian series, produced by the CBC, which can turn out first-class stuff when the creative people manage to wiggle out from under the meaty, far-from-green thumbs of the administrators, The Jalna series, Mazo de la Roche, creator of the Jaina novels, will never be ranked with Shakespeare or Dickens, But she was an excellent craftswoman, with a shrewd knowledge of the reading public, able to blend romanticism and realism into a for the monthly birthday party was provided by the Huronview Ladies Auxiliary With Mrs. Colclough serving as master of ceremonies, A great variety of numbers highlighted the program, A sing song of a few old tyme favourites got the party off on the right foot and the whistling Jalna books mixture that had a' universal appeal. It was the same old story. Practically unknown in Canada, she submitted her novel Jalna to a U.S. contest and won the Atlantic Monthly prize of $10,000 (I believe), for best novel of the year. She had found a rich vein of gold, Like Ian Fleming, who wrote the James Bond nonsense, and that character who churns out the Carry On Doctor stuff, she mined her lode to the depths, extracting every last nugget, and even panning for grains toward the end. Don't mistake me; she was a far better writer than the others mentioned. The novels deal with a large, extremely complex family, the Whiteoaks, living on a big farm near Lake Ontario, and it covers several generations, Our pioneer ancestors were about as much like the Whiteoaks as Pierre Trudeau is like me. And Jalna is about as real in rural 19th-century Canada as Camelot was in the barbaric dark ages. But this is part of the charm. They're escape novels, in the best sense of the word. Yet, the author creates characters who are not only attractive but memorable. And the love-hate relationships within the family are believable, because they are familiar. I predict a tun on the Jalna novels, if the TV series is any good. Regardless, treat yourself. They are available in most public libraries. A little incident during the War proved to me that, despite theft regionalism, the novels have an international appeal. It was about May 2nd, 1945. The Russians had just, "liberated" our prison camp.. They were pretty drunk and disorderly, still eelobrating Mav solos and step dance by Mrs. D. Heard and Mrs. D. Sutcliffe respectively fit the atmosph6re and pattern of the program perfectly. The most unusual and very evidently enjoyed by the 130 residents and guests in attendance were the dancing Please turn to Page 12. 1st, one of their big holidays, and they let us out for the evening. (Next day they locked 'us all up again.) But we had one glorious spring evening of freedom. I set off for the little town near the camp with Nils Jorgenson, a huge Norwegian who spoke German. We watched the Russians still pouring into the town, a motley and colourful crew. I remember a huge Cossack-looking type, with vast moustaches, riding a stallion. Slung over one shoulder was a machine-pistol. Dangling from, his saddle was a balalaika. On his other shoulder perched a tiny monkey. So help me! We drifted into town, watched the Yanks picking up German girls, or trying to. We saw a big house, set back among the trees. Went up and knocked, out of curiosity. A frightened old woman finally opened the door a crack. Nils spoke gently to her in German. She scuttled away. After a few moments, a stately, white-haired lady with great poise appeared, and imperiously demanded to know what we wanted. Nils said we were just visiting, told her we wore P.O.W,'s, a Norwegian and a Canadian, She turned to me., and in Stilted but grammatical English, asked eagerly, "You know ze Vlliteoaks of Jalna'?" I confessed that I didn't know them personally, but we had a lively conversation about Rennie, the old uncles, Fineh, and the other characters, followed by a cup of ersatz coffee. Just a little incident, but one I'll never forget. All this free publicity should gratify the CBC. But, I warn them that if the series is rotten, I shall sear them, scorch them, fry them, and boil them in their own oil, yon. 75 YEARS AGO Thursday, January 29, 1897 A meeting of the Stavely Estate Committee was held in the Clerk's office on Friday evening. Several schemes were suggested for the disposal of the money, but it was found that the act restricts the committee to certain lines: the erection of a building for the use of the public. The two suggestions then considered by the committee were the erection of a County Hospital or a stavefy Memorial and Hospital. The Stavely Memorial and Library was considered the most feasible and the committee decided to report to the council in favor of the erection of a building of that nature. ,56 YEARS AGO Thursday, January 25, 191'7 A fast game of hockey was played here on Wednesday between Clinton and Mitchell in the juvenile league and the Clinton boys piled up a 10-6 victory. Stanley Township residents regretted to hear of the death of an honoured reeve in the person of William Glenn. Reeve W. J, Milne, M. D., Blyth, was selected as Warden of the County of Miran, on Tuesday of this week at Goderich. C. E. Seeking of the Molson's Bank staff has been transferred to St. Thomas and leaves for that city today. • 46 YEARS AGO Thursday, January 23, 1932 Connell and Tyndall opened their meat market in their new stand, west side of Albert Street. I couldn't resist saying it aloud, since that's the kind of friendship we have. He sighed and said he guessed I was right. I think every man reaches some point in his life, early or late, when he has such. thoughts, a syndrome particularly of middle- ago expressed in the sentiment, "Stop the World, I Want to Get Off." Perhaps I hear it more often than most, having written such an awful lot of stuff about various Edens of escape and, indeed, at this red hot minute there are a dozen or more men scattered on various idyllic strands whom I've fortified in making or ruining their lives. These .are, ,rare exceptions, Few men do 'go,- even men of considerable wealth who could make it painlessly. I once asked Jimmy Durante, who is a millionaire, why he kept working almost desperately when, by his own admission, there were so many private, personal ambitions of sloth and pleasure he craved, "Too many people depend upon me," Durante said. "I can't let them down," This is a genuinely selfless reason. Durante being that kind of bird, but usually men volunteer a variety of rationalizations. All of us, I think, become so oriented to a sense of duty, so anxious about the inevitable prospect of being dispensable, that the notion of stepping off the carousel of our daily lives, voluntarily, becomes as terrifying as the fear of being shoved off against our will. Reeve L. B. Racier, Hay Township, was'selected warden of Huron County at the opening meeting of council on Tuesday. George MacCallum, who has been teller on the staff of tbe Bank of Montreal here for the past two and h alf years, has been transferred to the Leamington Branch. Night Constable Grealis, on his rounds, discovered a fire in Elliott's garage this morning a few minutes before five. It was found that a car was burning. Firemen speedily extinguished the flames without loss other than that of the car, 25 YEARS AGO Thursday, January 23, 1947 The worst blizzard of the winter season to date swept across Western Ontario this week, tied up traffic, put untold numbers of cars and trucks out of commission. B, J. Gibbings has been elected Chairman of the Clinton Public Library Board. The Public Library re-opens after being closed for more than three weeks for necessary repairs and remodelling. Miss Evelyn Hall is succeeding Miss M. Rudd who retires at the end of this month after' more than 40 years service. 15 YEARS AGO Thursday, January 24, 1057 Clinton industrialist,. C. F:pps, took part in the "M'Lady" program over CKNX—TV with Margaret Brophy, on Tuesday afternoon, Jan. 22, The subject of Ile program was "water soft env rs " DAVID LANDERS R.R. 2, ORANGEVILLE AGE 11 What we actually contribute may be worthless to society and may offer a minimum of satisfaction, or even none at all, yet we cling to it as a form of assurance that we're needed. The subject came up when I talked recently with Eartha Kitt, a woman whose perception is shattering. We had discussed a wider field—why men and women do not obey ennobling or rewarding impulses of the heart—and Miss Kitt had said, "It is guilt. We would rather be miserably unhappy than feel guilt, even when we're innocent." I think a lot of men must feel this without really isolating it, eapecially when, in later years, they may develop a child-like hunger for a respite from responsibilities. This is what my friend really has, you see. It is really just a long delayed appetite to live like the Swiss Family Robinson, absolutely carefree and self- sufficient and independent of the conventions and the rest. Nothing to be ashamed of at all. Happens to most men. But we live in a civilization that frowns on sloth and worships industry, in which we're all pressured into marching shoulder to shoulder to a common goal, whatever it may be, instead of wandering off to pick hibiscus flowers or paddle in a blue lagoon. So there's guilt, it seems, in any dream of escape and men put it aside and wistfully watch images on a television screen. Oh, dear, it is all quite sad. The Harbouraires, the male choir from Goderich will make another appearance on CKNX— TV channel eight,• Wingham, on Sunday, Jan. 2'7, The choir will appear from 5-5:30 p.m. An informal get together over coffee in Bartliff's Restaurant Monday morning, proceeded the annual sale of membership tickets in the Clinton and District Chamber of Commerce, as directors sat down to lay out lists of persons to contact. 10 YEARS AGO Thursday, January 25, 1962 Dinner for 250 ladies, and Ontario Street United Church completely filled for the afternoon program, marked the inaugural meeting of United Church Women in Huron Presbytery. Mrs. G. W. Tiffin, Wingham, was named president. Mrs. W. Brock Olde is secretary. The Editor: In view of the fact that you submitted about a half-page of censure directed against yourself from "many members of the Clinton Reformed Church" (the signatures of many of the letters revealing such), it is quite fitting, I believe, that some facts in connection with "Christmas" be made known. Here are some quotes from the letters: "Jesus, the real meaning of Christmas"; "Trudeau's baby will not be like Jesus just because he was born on Christmas."; "Peace on earth can not come because he was born on the same day Jesus was."; "On the very day Jesus Christ was born." But no one seriously claims that Jesus was born on December 25. In fact, it is quite evident that He was not born in December. Though the actual date of Jesus' birth is not known, the fact ,that the shepherds were spending the night in the fields would eliminate December. The autumn would be a much more logical time. The celebration Of Christmas is not as old as one might think. It does not go back to the time of Jesus, his apostles and disciples. The writers of the Sacred Scriptures never mentioned the date of his birth, though they obviously could have known it. What they do state is the date of Jesus' death. That date is specific. Jesus commanded his disciples to celebrate the date of his death, but neither Jesus nor his disciples ever mention celebrating the date of his birth. In his book "Les Origines des Fe'tes Chre/ tiennes", Auguste Hollard says: "The first Christians did not even have the idea of celebrating the anniversary of the birth of Jesus: the anniversary of his death interested them much more, as well as that of his resurrection, that is to say of his victory over death." Both Catholic and Protestant authorities are agreed on this. Oscar Cullmann, Protestant, Doctor of Theology, connected with the Universities of Strasbourg and Basel and with the E'cole des Hautes-E'tudes in Paris, wrote: "Our Christmas holiday, celebrated Dec. 25, was unknown to the Christians of the first three centuries. Until the beginning of the fourth century, this day that, afterWards, would be a central date in the Christian Church, passed unknown to the Christians." He also said: "Dec. 25, anniversary of the birth o Christ, is attested at Rome from 336 and should already have been celebrated as such earlier, wider Constantine the Great." Why since Constantine's time? Cullmann gives us a very important reason: "The fact that in the pagan world Dec. 25 w celebrated as a particularly important holiday in honor of the Sun, and that the Empero Constantine4he Great purposel intended to unite Sun worship to Christian worship." While the Church says it chose the dates of such pagan celebrations "to compete with the pagan worship" Constantine, gifted with a strong political sense, wanted unity within his empire, not division. Thus he wanted practices that bore Christian names, not to compete with pagan ones, but to unite with the'. This emporor, who had enough influence that he personally could call the first of the Catholic church's list of 20 general (or ecumenical) councils — a power that is this 20th century was reserved for John XXIII himself! — was not in opposition to the pagan celebration, but in agreement with it. "During all his life," Cullmann says, "he did not cease to favor the worship of the Sun." This celebration did begin in Constantine's Rome but not in one of the other seats of the early church, such as Antioch, Jerusalem or Alexandria, as shown by a fourth century writer. The Abbot Duchesne explains: "The celebration of Christmas was at first a celebration characteristic of the Latin Church. Saint John Chrysostom testifies in a homily pronounced in 386 that it had been introduced at Antioch only about ten years earlier, or about 375. At the time he spoke the celebration was not yet observed at Jerusalem, neither at Alexandria. In this latter metropolis, it was adopted about 430." In the days of Pope Leo the Great (440-461) there were Catholics who still celebrated, on this pagan date, the birth of the sun instead of the birth of Christ. And even now this pagan celebration of the Natalis Invicti, or "birthday of the unconquered sun", has perpetuated itself in many customs, such as lighting of fires, and so forth, that those who celebrate Christmas still follow. Anyone who is familiar with the Sacred Scriptures knows the condemned place that sun worship occupies in God's sight. Almost universal among the pagans, whether they be Romans, Africans, Asians or even American Indians, sun worship was categorically forbidden for God's people. Every time it is mentioned in the . inspired Scriptures it is condemned as being one of the ways Satan draws the worshhip of men away from the Creator and directs it to some created thing. The prophecy of Ezekiel tells of "Twenty-five men" with their backs to the temple of Jehovah; "bowing down to the east, to the sun." Yet this sun worship, passed on down to the pagan Romans of the third and fourth centuries of our Common Era, is the basis for today's Christmas celebration! C. F. Barney„ Clinton. (4174171111: if /1/123' co, rurrp Dear Editor: I read the poem about the Trudeau son, and I have read the vast amount of mail you received. Perhaps it deserves some question, but I do not believe that it deserved the kind of 1111'• Christian assault upon you which seems to be reflected in much of the mail The Jesus-story which the poem reflected was intended to emphasize that every child is, indeed, a child of God, and every birth deserves to be celebrated as such, If you read Matthew 55:40 and ask where God was at My Lai, South Vietnam, you will discover he was in the ditch with a bullet hole. "...unto the least of these you have done it unto me..," The church people do well to protect the sanctity of the story they tell about life in Christ Jesus, but they also do well to develop a sense of humor. Even God is said to laugh. Just recently a man pointed to a fellow in our midst and said he was worth a million dollars. My only comment was, "Do you know anyone who isn't?" If you did wrong, we forgive you, because you certainly do a lot that is right in journalism, in community spirit and in business promotion! Sincerely, Rev. Jene Miller