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The Goderich Signal-Star, 1972-04-06, Page 23Goontic Barb ra W, Tuchman who and dilapidated G I 'with two triumph for Stilwell, thorigh it missed being complete becanse Stilwell himself .could not be . everywhere at once andit was his actual presence that imparted real drive to his troops. When he overestimated his own indispensability to Chiang and was recalled, the idea of building up a treat American -led army to March to the sea vanished. Those I who cro§sed swords with him \ once or twice remain proud to have known him. + Sand against the Wind by Barbara Tuchman. Macmillan. 621. $9.00 , . , wrote The Guns of August" weeks' whiskers and a barnyard dealing ' with the first days of aroma On him I don't know. That's, World War I, has just published, their job andthey had better work .• "Sand againSt the Wind"( + ) the at it orcirculation is going to 'fall' biography of General Joseph off. There are going to be a whole Stilwell, uildoubtedly oneof the , lot of these lads who won't cheer most colourful characters in every ti Me they read the South East Asia durin.*World War magazine story about how, the II. Born in 1883, he went to -,c4140.inaviator made off with the West Point in 1900 where he gal. They will Want the Bazooka 44*a showed great aptitude for ma4 or the Number two scout to witi4.-MO The avera e G I is a - ' languages. He got his first sniff of China it -0911W spent the years, 1919 to 1923 there, learning the Janguage."From 1926 to71929 he served in Tientsin where he made a lifelong ally of. General George C. Marshall. Here too he will have got his .third and most pungent sniff of China fromthe seviage officers getthb mostOfthem.' His anal which to-oklhe effluent of the next-coridernrsid-dortie.horne ahcl • city of .3 millions . through the get back to thebld familiar. scene. International Settlement on its Whenheildei;dandteXpectto-gde way to join the river Hai -ho. From the same man who went away. He 1935 te 1939 he was • military will,begrown up; developed. He attache in Peking and it was hasIbeert'ilandling men; living, during these years that he game to intiihrXelir with • death and know -such characters as Chiang destructionand thinking about it, Kai-shek, T.V. Soong, Feng, "the and helc, will bring backnowledge Christia.n .-General' ' -and even thatcan't be Oiled imam,- other Chou En-lai. • way, His prithary Concern when It Was on account of these he gets home will bet° land a job. experiences that when 19/2 came He'll have smile gripes of course. along Stilwell was the • obVibiis He'll wonder how it is that So -and - choice to. be the ,.Arnerican So could stay at home and make representative cominanding the I .money, while he was being shelled Chinese formations earmarked and gliot at and bombed. He'll for 'service in Burma. Stilwell . wonder how it was that therecould trusted no one and was Partly to be strik'es while he was fighting, blame for the tortuous intrigues, and he'll feel lost at being by both Chinese and American, himselfagain; away from the lads designed to unseat him,, for he shared so many dangers with. Stilwell himself was an intriguer, Re's homesick for home now; • as well -as being a brave soldieras he'll be homesick for his outfit ever was; but- he Could not then. We must get ready for him, -delegate. H.e was oncediscovere.d li becauseedeserves all w.e can do personally comman,ding. a for him." g • • pretty intelligent person. We, try to eliPlain the why and wherefore, Of war to him but he remains a realist. Pritharify his concern in actibn i indicated by his daily - prayei:' Ldrd, distribute the bulletSis You doth e pay. Let the Chinese company in an abortive Mrs. Tuchman's book supplies attack on a lightly -held Japanese rna.ny.of the anSwers as to what' stockade; hardly the task for the. made Stilwell --tick, but sheis not .Deputy Allied Commander. As for an infallible witness. She writes hislack of diplomacy; what other of Field Marshal Wavell's Pgeneral wou1d have insisted on -"defeatism"; surely the, firs -it personally delivering, to Chang - person toascribe that trait to -the inia urn tranr----com-mander who., "when no, Roosevelt to the. 'effect that' he,'victories were *I -sight, -plucked- Stilwell, must be put in command them oiit of the desert", for there of all the Chinese or 'Ainerican were many strong political armies', otherwise American aid, reasons against deploying too, .would be -cut off? Who would have Many Chinese troops in Burma, written the following verse'about .For. one, thing the troops were the same occasion, the -Peanut' -very brave, but their leadership' was s� bad they, did not stand a chance. They were.yery ignorant also and had no fear of death: - When they were being supplied by air in Burma, the fragile articles were.dropped by ;parachute, but things like 90 pound bags of rice were -dropped free. The Chinese being his nickname for Chiang? . "I've waited long for vengeance, At last I've had my chance,. I've looked the Peanut in the eye And kicked him in the pants." . When Stilwell was eventually returned to the U,S.A. he was appointed head of Army Ground Forces andimmediately the great difference between him and his • predecessor, General Lear, was remarked.°L.ear required a guard of honour to be oh hand the instant ' he stepped out of his aircraft. ' 'Meanwhile the whole post stood to would run out and try to catch the ricebags as they fell, and whilSt they usually missetl, on occasion they caught the bag and were °killed. The C54 aircraft in which they were transported had no doors. attention. Stilwell on2the 'other .0n one flight four Chinese pushed hand, arrived in ,the mpst a fifth out of the door and spent the disreputable uniform and would rest of theflight in gales of permit neither guard of honour laughter. On another Occasion, nor anyone else to meet hiin. As one of them became airsick and soon a.s he was out of his.plane he, .the Chinese N.C.O. asked the removed , his blouse .(jacket) on AmeriCadpilot What to do about it. . which there were no ribbons and Facetiously the pilot replied: only very Small stars, For the, "Push.him out!" When he landed blouse he substituted • an old he discbvered to his horror they • waterproof bush -jacket and hat •had done just that. whichheworein 13trrhla, 'Oen he , Stilwell had r,nany enemies but - looked exactly like a dpwn-at-heel. the worst waS his pwn crooked farmer. But he got much closer to temper. Lord Slim said ofshim: "1 reality than did Lear, and had an liked him. He was over sixty.but„, ear close to the ground as well as he was tough, mentally and being interested only in the things physically; he. could be as 41. that mattered. obstinate as a Whole team. of Towards the end of the war, mules; he could be downright rude whenpeople were worrying asto to people, -but when he Said he how the demobilised serviceman , would.do a thing he did it. I ,think it would settle down to work,,amused him to keep up ih public General Stilivell . `wrote the the. "Vinegar Joe, Tough Guy" following article: "Now that we attitude, especially in front of his are getting this more realistic staff and he had more enemies viewof the all-important role of. 'among Americans than .-among the Ground Forces, I hope to see British. No one else I know could more attention paid to th'e lads have made his .Chineset,do what wir-o; are carrying the ball. How the they did. The 1Vlaingkwan- writers are going to make a Walawbum battle was a personal glamorous hero out of a muddy Do yOu have something to siill? Put you message before 11,800 households in Huron County in the HURON' SHOPPING NEWS -CtASSIFIED- PAGE Phone the Clinton News.RecOri.l. at 412.3443 10 -place your ad. L. • 1 # 111tORELL BROS. GODERICH SELLING OUT " SALE & PAINT MUST dO TO TNE BARE WALLS, We Are Ouitting The Retail Hardware Business. A poem Memories pp In a quiet sumnier evening -when I sat upon the Steps Di my lonely days ef childhood and the eyening sun had set Andin the Very distance that made you want to roam Was .the sound of the clip,clip,clip,clip, of the horses hoof Along the gravel road. And other sounds that follow was the noisy tractors EiTri— You Would hear it in the evening when the closing down had .ceme Or even in the 'distance a cow would maybe bawl or a sound of a wagon with a load of 'hay to haul . But far away you hear ;the old familiar sound • of the clip,, clip, clip, clip, of the horses hoof , Along.the gravel road. , So another thing I remember when I was very small • . of .a classy looking driver as he pulled up at your door wwith-his'niane tied up in ribbons and alSoliis-`tail he *ire ; The same red coloured ribbon but , our eyes will see no more • Or our ears will never hear the clip, clip, clip, clip of the horges hoof Along the gravel road.- The buggy wheels were shining and the box was painted toe His legs he lift sograceful and 'his ' knees bent to the tune ,And you'd hear the wheels, aturning as you watched the' harvest moon , In the shadows of the evening in the distant as -of zore You would hear the clip, clip, clip, clip, of the horses hoof %Along the gravel road. And many a horses mane was - braided and his tail was also more HiSfeet were light in stepping as .the feet on the ballroom floor And his legs were slim and dandy and his feet were hardly sore But the dying clip, clip, clip, clip, of the horses hoof Along the gravel road.' The Dreamer By Beth McConnell Nalr inclustric$1 • Fcarrwi Goderich and District Collegiate Institute grade 13 student Tany McQuail, left placed third last week in the Secondary School Prepared speech' •section of the forty sixth annual, Oral Communications 'Final ,herd at Toronto. He is Seen -With other w -winners Bonnie Blackwell of Paris, Ontaria, left and Tara 'Jane Golteof ,Espanola. D. Arthur Evans, vide president of Ontario ,Hydro, who co-spensored the event, presents awards. -Ontario Hydro Photo - • New. our* .depend New courses -sortie of them • entirely different to *hat has previously been offered in Huron, County -have been,approved for th.e'five.high schools for. September 1972. All, courses, ; however, are subject to budket limitations and may still be deleted from the sc,hedule if funds cannot be made available. At Clinton, anthropology. for students in years 3 and 4 and art' for students in years 1 ancl2 Will- - be offered; At F. E. Madill Secondary School in Wingham, art will be taught at the first year level with a further course fora. more senior group; drama will be Ven to any student; welding will be offered to students arthird year level; and machine shop will' be availffble to students_ta,king the auto major 'course. At GDCI, art w,ill be open to all students; consumer education willbetiught at theyear 4 level; instrulnental Music has been approved for all students; and business org'anization,' world -.politics and Modern Literature will be given to third and fourth, year students on alternate years, Seaforth District High School will have film arts -for third and fourth yearstudents; and German. for students in yeaF 3. Decision on a course entitledLLMedia' 'w.fli le reserved until, new %enrolment figures are received for art. Art will be given at two levels in South,fluron DES; .marketing will be made available to students at year 3 level; andtheatre arts was approved for students atthird and „fourth year leyel. Goderich staff will increase 'by one; South Heron by 'twe; F.F. by. three; Seaforth. will have no change; and .Central Huron will have 1.5 teachers less. Britain produces and consumes more chocolates than practically • any country in the *mid, and it is rather like taking "Coals to Newcastle"for Laura Secord to; sell its own inclividualbrand in the United Kingdom. But the Toronto- based company is doing, just that -and finding a good response_ from consumers, +'+'+ • In recent years, there has been a significant growth in consumption of fruit- juices by British consuiners, and taste , tests at the Ideal Home Exhibition will help to .show marketing ptospects. for Ontario produced juices. SAVE up'296 TO •.-- ; Re -color your living et crafty prices., With Crown Craft PAINT Gal. • r relAt5hAt * Bibauliful edwirlho p6w*I. * Meditat•ly priced • „ SA VE CROW* DIAMOND, the Mike» eV frmOtta "4416 WhIttZ. Now INTERIOR 2.16 gal. en LATEX —444 9 GAL. :t2i7:1-111t-'61WSEM1MLOSir==1-409-. r- 2096 gal. on GLOSS 8.6 9 GAL, - JOHN jEFFERY itik SON t.DIVIEtER AND EUR,DEA'S.SUPKIES oidi.4171 All these staff changes .,are also, subject to budget limitations. Subject to budget limitations .as well, the hoard will hire' -one psychometrist, one speech correction teacher, one specific learning disability teacher, the equivalent of 3.5 remedial teachers for elementary schools and One guidance ancl counselling teacher for secondary school. In other pusiness, W. Donald' -Ken-well was. appointed ..superintendent of operation, effective August 1, 197Z, There will be three assistant superintendents, one to f)e qualified in special education. The executive council of the board will consist of the director of education, the, superintendent .of business affairs, the superintendent of opeeations and superintendent' of program and' planhing. As well, decision was reached on at the meeting to pass policy whereby the di rectdr of education may . approve,, in advance, 'payment of tuition fees to other boards Thr Hdron County Resident Internal pupils to take,.secondary school plibitainS study that lead to institutions of advanced. study beyond secondary school or to a specialized type of employment when such programs of study arenot offered in a Ifuren_ County Secondary School 1 Approval was given at the meeting for four Huron County students to attend. H. ,B. Deal Secondary School in London •'in September. The Huron board will pay their tuition fees but the students will probablypi ve to live away from home, or find their Own means of commuting to and from school daily. - In the past, such approval was given by the board. Now under the new policy, the director ef budget education may make the decision and report to the beard at the first meeting following that decision. -40 Facto,ry Plain or safety Joe, Choice of seven sole materials:, SHOE SHOP 142 The Square Goderich, Ont. 17tf ..SPORTI:-OOODS LCRMTS SPORTING GOODS 524-6985 73 Hamilton St. • , • • the Be •.•