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Clinton News-Record, 1972-03-02, Page 12You Get a Good Feeling... . . . any year—and especially this year—when your most. important crop is planted to hybrids developed by the world's most productive hybrid research team. • For 1972, this team has even better NEW hybrids all ready for you—all 100% normal cytoplasm for 1972—every acre detasseled. Every hybrid farm-field- tested under varied growing conditions and PROVEN for at least two growing seasons, And, you'll be glad to know, many 1970-71 profit favorites will be again available for 1972. Hybrids that proved their 'superior yielding capacity in the rugged competition of 1970 Project :200 with 35 entrants topping 200 bushels per acre I Hybrids that won the 1970 Iowa Master Corn Growers Contest, the 1970 National Corn Growers Association Contest for non- irrigated corn. And—more important--on yours and thousands of other farms won the "yield contest" you enter every time you plant a field to corn. For 1972, do not settle for less. 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Cascade, the clean, safe, efficient, electric water heater. your hydro C82!.5206WK 2A—Clinton News-Record, Thursday., March 2, 1972 years of service to Ontario's crippled children 1171 rom my window. BY SHIRLEY J. KELLER, Not too long ago now 1 picked up a book Which my teenaged son was reading for an English course at the high school he attends. I opened the book at random and began to read. I had only digested a couple of lines before the hair on the back of my neck began to bristle, I slammed the book shut and paced the floor up and down to calm myself. Why? Well, in the few lines I'd read of the book I saw God's name taken in vain about ten times in one paragraph. I'd scanned through some of the most obscene word pictures ever put before the eyes of a high school student and I'd been thoroughly and completely embarrassed. The most frustrating part of the whole thing was that there was nobody to blame for this dirty book in the possession of my son. It wasn't his fault. It was the required course of study! It wasn't the school's fault for it was a part of the course approved by the Ontario Department of Education, It wasn't the Department's fault because it was only an example of modern literature (?). It wasn't the author's fault because he was only putting onto paper what most people wanted to read. I suppose if anyone is to blame it has to be me, for I amapart of a sick society which has lowered itself to enjoy literature (?) of this calibre. My son, unhappily, is reaping the rewards of my misguided morals. Is it any wonder I felt frustrated and angry? Not long ago I sat in on a discussion by some persons interested in education who were attempting to decide whether or not they should strive to maintain a higher moral standard for the students coming through our educational system. Believe it or not there was some question about it. These people just could not decide whether moral-building was in their jurisdiction. I suppose it takes an idiot like me to stand up and be counted in this regard. It takes someone like me to state openly and publicly that the rotting moral fibre of this nation is a concern of mine and that I, for one, would like to see some semblance of decency restored before it is too late for all of us. '`ALEX TRIC/AN"sAYS WE GLADLY STUDY TILL THAT LATE-LATE-HOUR, 'To INCREASE OUR KNOWLEDGE OF ELECTRICAL POWER" WERE RIGHT uP-TO -.Ail DATE 7 ar 4141.... HAROLD WIS,E LIMITED Electrical - Plumbing And Heating Contractor 262 Bayfield Rd.-482-7062 tfn You may be one of the hundreds of people who feel that books should reflect the times in which we live. Can you tell me why? Can you explain why we must preserve forposterity all the hideous sins of our age which are committed in the name of truth to oneself? You may be one who agrees that our students should be exposed to all kinds of literature (?) no matter how bad,. how sick, how obscene. You may believe it is wise to tell it as it really is—no fairy tales. But how does one turn the tide to something different? Why must we perpetuate everything that is ugly and suppress all those things which are fine and good? You may be one who sincerely accepts the premise that it is better for young people to read questionable literature (?) under the guidance of a qualified adult teacher rather than to consume the same material in the dead of night under the blankets with a flashlight. I wonder about that, At least by using the latter method one realizes the reader knows his choice of book is not widely accepted. He obviously understands the book is naughty when by reading it in class, he is led to believe the book is not only proper, it is of such distinction that it is selected reading for him. You may be one who laughs at all this because you may be one who imagines that most young people learn by example and not from dirty books at school. You may be quite right. But tell me, friends. Is it wise to cement in all the bad things a person learns just because he's learned them? Is it good for the schools—the nurseries of education—to build on the bad just because it happens to have infiltrated our nation's very foundation? 'There's only one way out, you know. That's for society—you and me—to rise up all over the place and demand that better books be sought for our schools. The solution isn't to ban the bad ones but to promote the good ones. Surely if that were the case, more and more good books would be written; there would be more available for our schools; and there would be a slow but steady return to the kind of morals which keep people happy and truly content. to base them on the potential productivity of land. Several European countries have successfully operated land taxation in this manner since the turn of the century. In Germany, for example, rural lands are divided into arable agricultural lands and grasslands (nonarable) with different taxation rates. A rating is arrived at via a point system based on soil and climatic characteristics, proximity to market, and a corrected market value of land to account for land speculation. Benchmark soils are chosen and other soils are rated against these. In essence, the soil capability system based on the ARDA classification could serve a similar function. The' ARDA system used in Ontario expresses the relative capability of soils to produce, based on climatic and soil factors. Recent work in the Department of Land Resource Science at the University of Guelph has demonstrated that the soil capability classes can be expressed in terms of yield potential for the common field crops. Work is currently under way to extend the ARDA system to cover tree fruits and vegetables. For such a system to be applied successfully, however, farmers must recognize that some form of zoning law is required to zone land for agriculture. This not only prevents land speculators from ,buying up land but it also prevents 'the farmer from selling land to developers at inflated prices. Well, what do you think of the CBC's widely-touted Jalna series? Please don't answer that aloud. There are ladies present. Ah, with what hOPes we looked forward to a truly brilliant, all- Canadian grand slam in the world of television. All-Canadian cast, all-Canadian material, and a decent budget. It would astonish the world, dazzle the screen, and all of the world's great networks would beat a path to the CBC door, clutching millions of pounds, francs, dollars and lira, begging and pleading for the right to reproduce it. So much for hopes. The result merely shows that you can have on hand champagne, caviar and filet mignon, but if the cook doesn't know what he's doing, it ends up as watery, limp and lukewarm hash. We have the champagne in the shape of gorgeous sets. We have the caviar in a collection of first- rate actors. And we have the filet in the rare beef of the original Jalna novels. But what emerges on the screen is the most ham-fisted, club- footed, distorted, downright dog of a series anyone could dream up. Or nightmare up. The champagne has been watered, the caviar has been fired from a shot-gun, and the rare beef has been minced into hamburg. I warned the CBC, before the series began, that I would roast it if it weren't at least reasonably good. It's not even reasonably, bad. Can you roast hash?. I watched the first episode with a mixture of disbelief and horror. The second was a little better, and hope sprang eternal. The flame was quickly smothered by the succeeding wet blankets. I thought I knew the Jalna novels inside out. But the series is so baffling that, were it not for the names of the characters, I'd be willing to admit that it was the Bobbsey Twins series I was thinking of. The most coherent parts of the Sunday night show are the commercials. But even here you're not quite sure they aren't part of the plot, so dense and unwieldy is the latter. Those faint screams you hear from your set are not static. They are Miss Mazo de la Roche, author of the novels, shrieking epithets at the CBC, the director, and everyone else connected with the mutilation of her manuscripts. Perhaps the most appalling aspect of the whole dreary business is that the CBC has actually sold the series to some retarded British network, on the understanding that it (the CBC) will produce another 13 episodes in the series. This is not just flogging a dead horse. It is giving castor oil to someone who is dying of dysentery. You may have picked up the misconception that I don't like the Jalna series. Quite wrong. I love it, It's the best comedy-mystery hour on the air. Mind you, the comedy is of the black variety. It's rather like making jokes as the British Empire, on which the sun never set, sinks slowly into the sunset. But the mystery, though there is obviously no solution, is fascinating. Sorting out the characters alone is more fun than reading a Russian novel. Who is married to whom? Why? When? Which are brothers, which cousins? Is Rennie's second wife Eden's first mistress? When is Rennie going to get a new nightie- gown? The ramifications are endless. And hopeless. It's a soap opera with a schizophrenic at the helm. I wish they'd sell the dam' estate and put Gran in a nursing home, and give Ed Sullivan a ring, •Even a very small amount of burned wood when mixed with sound fibre will show up as a black spot in finished paper. • The engineer watched horrified from the cab while his heavy diesel locomotive, unable to stop in time, rolled over an 8-year-old boy on the tracks near Timmins and severed, both his legs below the knees. Had this accident happened half a century ago—instead of three years ago—Denis Lapalme might have died, or at best been doomed to a wheel chair for life. But today, because of Easter Seals and the Ontario Society for Crippled Children, which is celebrating its 50th anniversary, Denis climbs trees, rides a bicycle, runs with his dog, plays hockey, football and baseball and has been returned to the community as an active member, Denis is just one case. There are 14,524 other crippled children across Ontario who need your help and a similar promise of hope through your purchase of Easter Seals during the month of March, This year's goal—an all- time high one—is $1,62'7,500. It was a snowy day in November, 1922, when a dozen men—some of them physicians and surgeons and others representing 10 service clubs— met at the Prince Edward hotel in Windsor under the auspices of the Rotary Club, After a long discussion the 12 men realized the tremendous number of uncared for cases of crippled children across the province and were appalled. They realized too, the special skills some of them had acquired during World War I in dealing with severe battle casualties. They decided to employ some of the almost miraculous techniques of orthopedic surgery which was then developing rapidly, So they did something positive "IF Vol/ REA LLY wAnyr To G5T LOST, READ A COMF'455 CLOSE TO METAL OB.TECTS , DEVIATION CAN BE DISASTROUS . EVEN A KITCHEN KNIFE CAN THROW IT oFF 2.0 DEGREES, TRH IT UV THE KITCHEN A EluT NOT CiyiAL-r9 IN THE WOor.5:9 ... about it and formed the Ontario Society for Crippled Children. In the first year the 10 service clubs looked after '75 handicapped children, Today 230 service clubs are affiliated with the Society in the tiniest villages and largest cities of Ontario and ,wherever crippled children need clinics, braces, artificial limbs, wheel chairs, summer camps, cerebral palsy clinics or transportation, As the number of children needing help continued to skyrocket towards today's 14,524 caseload, service club members such as Kinsmen, Lions, Kiwanis, Rotary, Richelieu and others have raised through the sale of Easter Seals—$20 million since 1947. And now it's no secret. In the past decade, world leaders in the treatment and rehabilitation of handicapped children have flocked in large numbers to the Ramsey Rd. "Mecca", which is the Ontario Crippled Children's Centre, They acknowledge freely that the Ontario Society for Crippled Children's program of treatment and research there is one of the best in the world. In the beginning, the service clubs were the backbone of the infant Society. Today they are more involved than ever, Without them the Society could not function. As well as backing the Society with generous donations of time, skill and money•the year round, service club members begin well before Easter to organize their intensive Easter Seal mailing and publicity programs. Many service club members are medical and orthopedic specialists and several of the clubs they belonged to have initiated the formation of summer camps and clinics in hard-to-get- at places.. ,all to help handicapped children enjoy as normal a life as possible under their special circumstances. Many of the most pathetic cases of crippled children are discovered in backwoods country by the Society's 37 travelling and specially trained District Nurses, You will not always find this particular brand of nurse in a starched white uniform and driving a shiny car, She often wears a parka, slacks and snow boots and trudges through Northern Ontario's mud and bush country. Society nurses have travelled on skis, in helicopters and by canoe to reach the, crippled child. They can all swing axes and build their own camp fires, too. The nurse acts as liaison between doctor and parents. Specially trained in the care and treatment of physically handicapped children as Well as being a graduate in public health nursing, she interprets the doctor's orders and sees that they are followed. Verdict in: Jalna's a mess Productivity better base .for rural land tax Rural land taxation in Ontario is based primarily on the market value of land. For this reason, land taxes seldom reflect the productivity of land resources although productivity is, in theory, the basis of an annual land tax. For example, agricultural lands close to large urban centers 'are assessed abnormally high taxes due to inflated land values brought about by land speculation. One way to overcome inadequacies in rural systems is Applications AND Tenders Regarding Warble Fly Spray Programme in the Township of Hullett 1. Applications for Warble Fly Inspector at the rate of $2.00 per hr. plus .08c per mile. 2. Tenders for Spraying at price per head per spray. 3. Tenders for supplying Warble Fly Powder, to state price per pound and brand name of product. Seven hundred and five pounds in fifteen pound bags, and forty-five pounds in one pound bags. The above Applications and Tenders to be in the Clerk's hand by 4;00 p.m. on Friday, March 3rd,. 1972'. 1, "Lir...:=1:14.t.11.SVi d'"Clarel thdeli Clerk-Treasurer, Box 293, Londesboro. 8,9b • -op As. ie.; low .sw -ow 1110 THE McKILLOP MUTUAL FIRE INSURANCE CO. OFFICE'-- Main Street, &Worth — Phone 52741400 Mrs, Margaret Sharp, Secretary-Treasurer FIRE, EXTENDED COVERAGE, WINDSTORM, THEFT, PROPERTY DAMAGE, LIABILITY,'ETC. — COMPLETE FARM COVERAGE, including Machin-ery •and Livestock Floaters, — URBAN PROPERTY — We .now offer Composite Dwelling Insurance as well as Homeowners In-surance, — SUMMER COTTAGES, TRAILER HOMES CHURCHES, HALLS. AGENTS: JAMES KEYS, RR 1, Seatorth; V. J. LANE, BR 5, Seaforth; Mkt. LEPER., RR I, Londoshoro; SELWYN BAKER, Brussels; HAROLD SQUIRES, RR 3, Clinton; K, J. EWE, Seaforth; DONALD G. EATON, Seaorth.