The Goderich Signal-Star, 1969-10-30, Page 4ti.
" if all printers were cietermin¢d .not to print anything
they were sure it would offend no one, there would be
very printed... Benjamin Franklin
Time for re�rganization
• The Goderich Junior B Siftos have
been disbanded. The • announcement. has
shocked hockey fans in Goderich and the
toss of the team could be considered a
disaster for hockey here with possible
far-reaching effects.
There could be a number of .reasons
given for 'the loss of the team and, in fact,
many unfounded . rumors have already
started to circulate." Let it suffice to say
the Goderich Booster ' Club statement
carried in this issue of the . Goderich
Signal -Star should clear up any
misunderstandings.
What is needed now is hot
recrimir ons - although lack of support
by locals fans should be decried — but
careful thought for the future of hockey
in Goderich, the home of Young Canada
Hockey Week, -and of three N'atitnal
Hockey League stars.
As can be seen by the story on page
one,• the major reason for the loss of the
team has been the lack of players of the
•uired calibre. The tack of support from
ns may have been due in part to the
mall number. of local boys of a -
suff'yeientiy high calibre to he placed on
the"team if that team vas to be
competitive. This is only reasonable
thinking on the part of the Booster club.
No organization that operates a sporting
team is going to put out a team of inferior
quality if better players are available.
So if quality and the lack of
home -town boys is a major factor in the
establishment of a competitive hockey
team followed by a strong supporters'
galary, then, obviously it is time to look
to,the future and attempt to start building
such a team of local players.
We think it is time for the formation of
would combine all present associations
and could set about, drafting a program
that would produce players of the right
calibre.
if Goderich is to retain the name — or
should we say re-claim the name — it has
had for being a hockey town, the time to
start working with the young folk is when
they are VERY young folk. A
combination of- the Goderich Minor
Hockey Association and the Goderich
Booster Club, ' together with help from
other organizations and new members,
could produce a program that would
guide the hockey players of Goderich
through the minor leagues to intermediate
and from junior to senior.
And speaking of intermediate hockey
players, there are rumors circulating now
that an intermediate A team is being
considered for the town. If these rumors
are true, and we hope they are, it could
mean the start of a new era for hockey in
Goderich.
With • a combined association; with
minor and intermediate teams, the
number of years before Goderich can
once again put'a winning Junior B team
on the ice would be cut considerably. In
addition; the time spent in the
intermediate league would help all players
to deyelop their skills and would' enable
the members. OT the combined association'
to weed out the chaff from the straw and
• concentrate on first class performers for
an All Star team heading for Junior 8.
Perhaps we are. dreaming of things
beyond our reach, but we know it is a
dream shared by the majority of hockey,
fans in the town. We have sent 'hockey
players to the National Hockey League in
the -past and they are .doing reallywell.
Why not make plans now to send more in
Why carry a UNICEF box?
By their nature children are inquisitive,
they constantly ask questions. From the
answers they get, from the examples they -
are shown will grow their= attitudes in later
life.
•
• Actually our education programs are
trying to teach our children to respect
their neighbours, their friends.
We profess that all within our, society
must be given equal opportunity aTid we
contemplate happily the tolerant and free
world we live in. Can we in all good
conscience. though, draw a geographical
line and say to our children — "It's just
North American children we are worried
about: Let other countries look after th€ir
own?"
It. has become acutely uncomfortable
to live in a comparitively affluent nation,.
next door to starvation, degradation and
want. Therefore, we want to give our
children a sense of commitment to the
world.
On Hallowe'en night if your son carries
a Unicef box he will feel that he' is part of
a society .that he cannot ignore. If he
understands this as a child he will reach
manhood, without effort, ready to make
the world a better place to live.
is not that a good reason to carry a
Unicef box on Hallowe'en night?
The path of insanity
The international Red Cross estimates
that wars this century alone have killed
90,000,000 people. The world's nations
have spent some $2,000 billion on
armaments in the 20th century, and 130
wars and conflicts on five continents have
caused damage several times this amount.
It is indeed a sorry record for modern
man who considers himself the wisest and
most civilized of the world's creatures,
-who truly • - -ves he is one better than
his forebear ' •f past centuries.
Despite the repeated warnings of the
past seven decades, the world is moving
"-Coward" C1T 1970s -with this--b-as ritiestton
of disarmament far from resolved. On the
contrary, in the fearsome arsenals of the
super powers, weapons of , mass
destruction are piling up at an alarming
rate.
Annual defense expenditures by the
great powers • and other nations are
• heading toward the $200 billion mark, so
it will take barely another decade, to
double that total the world has spent on
arms ,and on keeping enemies away.
Unless the arms race is halted, future
generations may well look back to those
90,000,000 killed in 70 years not with
horror, but with some surprise. For if ever
the super powers start hurling their
nuclear weapons, far ,more than
90,000,000 probably will be killed in the
first hours of the next global war. Today,
the United States and the Soviet Union
already have thousands of •atomic -
warheads and ; intercontinental missiles
which can be fired at a moment's notice.
For' mankind to keep racing along this
...—path is not just dangerous. It is insanity: ,—
Unchurched, Editorials, United Church
Board of Evangelism and Social Service.
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TEMPORARY GENTLEMEN
John, St. John served with the "First Hundred Thousand" of
1915 fanewith Evelyn Waugh in the Marines. Ile relates how, after
one of the u. ual conferences, "...the C.O. asked: 'Any,questions?' It
was a solemn moment and the inquiry itself,was clearly rhetorical,
but Evelyn was undaunted: `Would you agree sir, that it would be
ever so much nicer if there were no Marine soldiers and if everyone
could be an officer?' Our C.O. was a very tolerant man with a sense
of humor, but this kind of provocation was difficult to take.
"Evelyn card tiot'rrsist the-teinptationtto pokef'trn: I once -heard
him innocently enquire to the perplexity o1; a pompous brasshat; if
it were true that in the Roumanian Army no one beneath the rank
of major was permitted to use lipstick?
"At a dawn landing at Scapa Flow, when we carried iron rations
and our equipment had been scientifically scaled down so that it
could be stuffed with the maximum amount of ammunition,
Evelyn's batman's knapsack contained two excellent bottles of
Chateauneuf du Pape."
TWO GOOD QUESTIONS
Where is the incentive for business to deal more honestly with the
people when Ontario's Revenue Minister blandly announces that the
government is going to stop over -charging the people on the meal
tax? Where is the incentive when the Minister of Health in the same
government admits that the medicare and hospital services for which
the people are beingcharged now, will not be available for some
time to come. As Oliver Cromwell said: "Depart I say and let us have
done with you. In the Name of God, GO!"
258 RECOMMENDATIONS IN SEARCH OF TRUTH -
The Hall -Dennis. Report on Educationwas printed over a year
ago. • Possibly its cost ($9.00) prevented it being read until now
when, suddenly, educators and uneducators alike are diseovering the
truth of what was said in this column on' August 22, 1968., namely:
"No one is left out •(of the Report) save perhaps the student." Later
it was classified as "the most monumental example of
microrecommendation the world has ever seen." "Nit-picking in
excelsis" was another accolade, Now, at long last, the professionals,
the educated professionals that is, are darhrling it in heaps. Quote
from the letter in the `Globe & Mail' for 18/10/69: "If then, we
need to make improvements in the way our children are being
educated, let's not fool around with educational platitudes and
unproved idealistic directives, foisted upon us by a royal
commission. Let's get down to the nitty-gritty of the educational ,
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traiping. A wise, dedicated and intelligent teacher is worth his weight
in Hall -Dennis Reports." °
Remember When ? ? ?
55 YEARS AGO
Rev. AleX MacMillan recently
received a letter from his son
Ernest, who is being detained in..
Germany. He says that he is
allowed his liberty so long as he
reports himself once in 24 hours,
but he dare not attempt to move
. out of the city or he would be
shot. Mr. Ernest MacMillan, is a
student of the University of
'mon t g -co
in musical composition in
Germany before the outbreak of
the war. When war was declared
he attempted to leave for home
but was detained as a potential
enemy. Rev. Alex MacMillan was
formerly pastor of the Smith's
Hill Presbyterian Church:
A musical treat awaits the
citizens of Goderich when the
famous Hambourg family of
Russian musicians appear in the
Victoria opera house November
30.
An ornament for women's
hats which can be made of as
costly material. as desired has
been patented to hold .a feather
at any angle. �
Although it is pretty late in
the season for bowling on the
green, the Blyth club is still
enjoying its favorite pastime and
some interesting games are being
played.
There was a good attendance
in the Blyth Methodist Church
Thursday night to • hear C.
Mortimer Bezzo under" the
auspices of the Huron County
Children's Aid Society. The
superintendent, Mt- ; G. M.
Elliott, Goderjch, was also' in
attendance.
The evaporator at Blyth is
now very busy with a large gang
running day and ._ night
evaporating the large number of
apples coming into them. The
proprietors have no trouble
getting all the fruit they want
'this year, as the apples are very
plentiful with little demand.
At Hodgens Bros. Direct
Importers, English Flannelette,
imported direct, extra wide and
heavy, pure white, special per
yard, 121 - renter; - Scotch
linoleum of extra quality at 60
cents per square yard; coats at
$8.50; suits at $12.25; Penman's
hose at 25 cents.
25 YgARS AGO
Goderich as a post-war project,
with a vision of the present
Victoria School being used for
the junior grades and a modern
school to be . built with
gymnasiutn and auditorium for
the senior grades and the
possibilities for its use for
evening activities and adult
education. •
The overseas box committee,
Mrs: R. J. Phillips an:d Miss
u-rs---Josephine----Weir, fins
form a badminton club- here
under the auspices of Goderich
Recreation and Arena
Committee.
Douglas Squires, Toronto,
was home for his brother's
wedding and also played for
morning anniversary services at
Dungannon.
Ors. harry Arthur, Auburn,
entertained in honor of her
daughter Judith's.10th birthday.
shed --I
In a letter from W. C.
Attridge, president of the
Dominion Road Machinery Co.,
enclosing a cheque for taxes on
the balance of the Company's
property at the old plant on St.
David's Street, it was stated that
one of the buildings. had been
sold to John Pinder and the large
cement building with the vacant
lot to William J. Mills.
There was a 4pigndid
attendance at the meeting of
Victoria Home and School when
the topic was "The Lighted
Schoolhouse." There was some
discussion about the possibility
of schools being used for
activities outside of school
kers. There was some wishful
thinking about a new school. In
gshose -present—wer
week sending- thirty Christmas
boxes to the -local boys overseas.
Boxes went to Morris McMillan,
Harold Asquith, Keith Arthur,
Ray Vincent, Leslie Rodger, J:
M. Houston, Leslie Nice,. Harry
Arthur, Reid Sheppard, J. S.
Ferguson, E. H. Whightman; C.
R. Cook, Clifford Carter, Elwin
Lee, Norman. Rodger, Kenneth
Campbell, Graeme .,Chamney,
Wilburt Lawlor, Douglas,
McMillan, Stanley Ball, George
Straughan, Robert Govier,
Albert Govier, Earl Mugford,"
Elmer Schultz; .Carmen Schultz,
Eldon Yungblut,' Everett.
Yungblut, Kenneth Scott and
Stewart Ament.
Miss Nora .McPhee, Carlow, -
has left to take a position. in
Toronto.
A tragic accident in which
two English airmen from Port
Albert Air Navigation School
lost their lives occurred at 11
o'clock Sunday morning on the
farm owned by W. J. Todd, one'
and a -half miles east of St.
Helens. The plane, an Anson
bomber, crashed and, then
exploded, -scattering • the
wreckage for some distance
around.
10 YEARS AGO 1959
There will be no telephone
operators located in Goderich
after the dial system goes into
'operation next Sunday. All local
calls will in future be handled
mechanically by intricate dial
switching equipment and long
distance calls originating here
will be connected .by operators
Q
located in Clinton.
William A. Kirk, Toronto,
president ' Qf ... the Ontario
Association for• Retarded
Children presented the Goderich
association with its charter
Tuesday night •• at a -banquet
meeting held at Si. George's
Parish Hall. Dr. J. C. Ross,
president, accepted the charter
on behalf of the Goderich
hi
Association. -
Mr. and Mrs. Vincent Austin
of the Kingsbridge area •were
patien.ts in the Goderich hospital
last Friday from injuries
sustained in an alleged Thursday
evening attack. Pirlice said a
Windsor man gained entry to
their home and as a result of the
,fracas which followed, is charged
-with assault.
The annual Hallowe'en party
for the youngsters staged by the
Lions Club in Goderich is all off
for this year. Because of changes
being made in the artificial ice
making' machine, the arena will
not be available on Saturday
evening.
Efforts, aro being made to
Y.1 .1
Anderson, Barbara Sanderson,
Carole, Ronnie and Nancy
Brown, Brigette Schlichting,
Barbara MacKay, Rose Marie
,Haggitt, Linda Bean, Gail Miller
and Laura Daer.
Irene Harnack was installed
recently as Noble Grand of
Goderich Rebekah Lodge.
ONE YEAR AGO,
The valedictory address was
delivered by Andrew Pirie at the
annual commencement exercises
at GDCI.
Goderich • Siftos won their
first game of the season Friday
when they edged the Kitchener
Greenshirts 4-3 in a hard-fought
battlein the local arena.
Free skating for Goderich
elementary school children will
begin November 5 according to
James Coulter of the Goderich
Lions Club.
• Steve Allen, 199. Strang
'Court, Goderich, won first place
in •a competition at the London
District Cage and Bird
Association ,competitions held
Friday and Saturday. His albino
hen budgie was judged the
winner of the,Albino and Lutino
class.
It looks as though yet another Royal Commission, set up at vast
expense, has proven not to be worth the cost of printing its report.
THE WEST INDIAN
West Indians number 600,000 in England. Prior to arrival; they
thought of themselves as extensions of the might and majesty of •
Britain, and many find it odd to be"called "immigrants." The
romanticised picture of Britain conjured up . in the Caribbean has
been changed by the reality of the back streets of Brixton, so that
half of them have found conditions worse than they expected. As a
result, they are the most disappointed of the immigrant groups.
They are not the "cohesive social organisms found in the Asian
settlements. They are individualists.
Their aspiration is simply to be "Black Englishmen." They tend to
live in areas where the -crime rate is highest, yet crime among them is
far below sthat for the population of Britain as a whole. In the
Caribbean illegitimacy carried no stigma,- but in Britain they show a
desire to formalize relationships. Evidence- both in Birmingham arni
:. ' •. • "ting them-faa-ni iEas, vKh'ilec'-zzr viz: tvL —on a
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model housing estate with a proportion of West Indians, a pattern of
integration has been observed. They still feel they are a migrant
group with the most claims to a fair deal. .
In sum then you have the° Pakistani self -segregating; the Sikh
developing an Anglo -Sikh culture and the West Indians wanting to
become "Black Englishmen." It would seem that the "White Man's
Burden" is still with -us.
PATTERNS OF IMMIGRATION
It is not news but rather history to say that England has an
immigration problem, and quite probably as the years roll on, other
countries will experience a similar problem. In the -result we ought to
be able to learn a few lessons from British experience which has been
the subject of a five-year survey by E. J. B. Rose and Associates,;
published as "Color and Citizenship."
England now has 1,250,000 colored immigrants a• nd of these,
150,000 are Pakistanis. They differ from other groups (Indian and
West Indian) in that they have not brought their wives. A typical
Pakistani- residence in England is the all-male dormitory. The
Pakistani sacrifices material comforts for economic objectives. For
example, food is bought on a co=operative basis; many remit home
half their earnings, which in 1963 amounted to $650 million.
Compared with this Indians and West Indians only remit one sixth,
while the average Britisher saves but five percent of his income.
In Bradford there are 50 Pakistani grocers, up from two in 1959.
There are 50 Pakistani schools of motoring, - five banks and two
mosques. The Sylhettis from East Bengal were the first arrivals and
many married English girls. Now they are all in the restaurant
business. But the impression all Pakistanis give is of a transient group
which is hardly surprising when you remember the powindahs w•hb
would travel from Afghanistan to Calcutta, some 2,500 miles, before
they would unload their camels and sell you a rug. They adhere
rigidly to traditional values; but very few intend to return, for
Britain tothem is an El Dorado.
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