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Clinton News-Record, 1983-02-16, Page 4PAGE 4 - CLINTON NEWS -RECORD, WEDNFSA)AY, E'EBRUAk(Y 16, 1983 Dna Clbo ,o, reows-Dasard lm pais009 aad aasA 'Wo oO day of p.O. Dam EY, CVBneon. Ontario. Canada. COM et®. Val. 4192-5972. ®aubm¢sapraan Sato. Canada '79-99 Sr. COeaeon '15.60 par yam. U. .A. 6 7arrdaDn '89.60 gybe %mom 11 am raulator®r7 am er nsaued does 99002 by Mho pawl orfa¢o aendeor rtas Forma, oucw ,bog 8827. 7190 10awa-Daso.91 on¢arpor®tod an 7'989 the Nora. /lames-Da¢aaNt lo, o od In 796V. and Ma CVOnton 109.mm Gem. eamrredc d In 1985. !Demo poste roar/4288. Incorporating (THE RMYTH STANDARD) r SHELLEY idePHEE - Editor GARY IHAISTbAdnertisIng Manger {.JANICE AUDI - Advertising PEGGY Glee - Office Manger MARY Alef NOLLEPIRECK - Subscriptions J. HOWARD AITKEN - publisher A MEMBER MEMBER Display admerrasing ratios awallablb on rogmos/. Amts for Dago Card 92o. 12 o6/o¢tilvo O¢r. 1. 1981 Setting a firm example It's easy to talk restraint. But what really counts and what we'd like to give two local elected bodies some credit for, is to practise it. The trustees at the Huron Perth Separate School understand that and they deserve a pat on the back from all of us for their common sense attitude towards their own salaries. They rolled them back and an 11 percent increase granted last year became a five percent increase. Tuckersmith Township council showed the same sort of leadership and gave itself no salary increase for 1983. That council also gave its employees a flat $750 a year pay increase, much less in the case of top employees than the provincial guideline of five percent. When fighting inflation, when fighting tax increases, when fighting the depressed agricultural economy, one principle applies: somebody has to set an example. Separate school board chairman Ron Murray of McKillop understands that and we applaud his short sum -up: "If we don't take less how can we expect anybody else to take Tess? The board's action certainly could serve as an example to the Huron County Board of Education, whose members voted themselves a 100 per- cent raise last year; to the teachers and other staff that the board will negotiate with and actually to all public boards and councils. Although the dollar amounts taxpayers in Tuckersmith and Huron -Perth will save are in boith cases small, the principle is not. It's admirable to see leaders who lead and who are not afraid to say "the buck stops here." from The Huron Ex- positor Strong protest greets pornography ODTAWA - February 9, 1983. Murray Cardiff, MP (Huron -Bruce) has sent a letter to constituents pro- testing the planned showing of erotic or pornographic material on recently licensed Pay Television channels. "This is one of those issues t t people feel very strong- ly a'f .gut," Mr. Cardiff said. "My mail on this issue has been heavier tl .'n on any issue since the MacEachen budget of 1 l (1. I'm glad to say that 1irt, per cent of those who have written to me about the Pay TV por- nography issue are op,. a sed to allowing such material on any Canadian television channel." He added t :.: t protests against pornography on Pay TV have come from all parts of the riding and are heaviest among church - related groups. Mr. Cardiff stated, "The reason I am releasing the text of this letter publicly is Thehind the scenes Is science destroying us? The arrest of former Nazi Gestapo chief Klaus :,arbie focuses attention again on a period in history when men had the ultimate power: the ability to play God with other persons' lives. Ti 's reminder of the horrors of the Nazi death camps, the hospitals where scien- tists experimented on human guinea pigs and the other atrocities comes at a time when our modern society as a whole has more power to play God than at any time in history. The comparison should not be made too strongly because obviously we are not seeing the tyranny of the few in North America today that took place in Europe under Hitler, or Manchuria under the Japanese or, more recently, Kampuchea under Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge but we are, as never before, making life and death decisions with other people's lives. it is not any politician gone berserk who is making these decisions but ordinary human beings. Through the miracles of modern medicine we are faced with decisions mankind has never before faced. The case of Karen Anne Quinlan first brought one ,tpf these dilemmas to public notice. We saw that modern science had the ability to keep a person alive when they were no longer really alive. Humans suddenly were placed in the awkward position of having to decide what con- stituted life and when did people have the right to pull the plug on the machines that keep a person "alive". Since then we have had a spate of cases where people demanded the right to "die with dignity", wanting not to be kept alive longer than they would have lived if not for modern medicine. Today in several cities around the world, clinics are being set up so that more "test tube babies" can be horn. The process calls for the removal of eggs from women who cannot normally have children and their fertilization in laboratories with sperm from the husband. Once an egg is fertilized and growing it is implanted back into the female again. The process is, of course, costly but the feeling that people should have the right to have their own children is so strong that our society is happy to pay the price. Anoi her costly process along the same line is the special prenatal care units set up in some large hospitals to help women who are having trouble carrying a child full term. There are children being born today that would have been naturally that many who wrote me did not include their addresses. II am therefore unable to write back to them directly. In any case, this is a community issue that deserves to be discussed widely because it affects and concerns all of The letter reads: Dear Friends: During the current con- troversy surrounr i g Pay TV programming in Canada, I have received a great deal Torn to page 5 aborted until recent years and no doubt providing happiness in many households. But at the same time as we are spending tens of thousands of dollars per child to bring children into the world for people who want the happiness of having their own children, not adopting, we are spending millions across the country to terminate the lives of thousands of un- wanted fetuses. Where once, the Lord giveth and taketh away, today modern science does it. And around the corner lies another area with potenti.r i for even greater god -like power for man. Scientists have already learned how to manipulate the very essence of life: the molecules that make us what we are. Science fiction movies have lived for years on the ability of the mad scientist to create strange new monsters. Today, the fiction portion of the science fiction has been removed. We have the ability to create whole new forms of life. Because of the enormity of the new situation, the questions of morality, the lack of ground rules, scientists for some time didn't proceed with their ex- periments. But the ability to manipulate genes to, for instance, create new, more prolific crops or to eliminate some dangerous inherited diseases is too much to keep the scientists from moving into this new world forever. What then is the next step? Can scien- tists resist the temptation to create a superior human race? Hitler's visions of grandeur took him into the field of breed improvement for his master race although his techniques were simply those used by farmers for centuries, breeding the best male to the best female. Scientists have much more sophisticated and direct ways of doing the same things. In recent decades science has won from society the recognition that if something can be done, it should be. Someday soon, despite our infatuation with science and the power it gives us, we are going to have to stop and ask ourselves just how much of this power is good for us. We can, after all, build cars that go 200 miles an hour but we realize that on or- dinary street conditions, human beings cannot handle a car going faster than 100 kilometres an hour 1 and often not even t hen in the Biblical story of the tower of Babel, God came down and ended man's love of power by scattering people around the world speaking different languages That doesn't seem to be a solution these days though it might be preferable to another possible solution man falling victim to his own ultimate god -like in- vention, the atomic bomb. Winter's flight by Rod Hilts sugarand spice Who's fora boom? Isn't it kind of nice to see the govern- ment putting the boots to some financial wheeler-dealers for a change, instead of bluntly telling us common chaps that we must toe the line with 6 and 5, with infla- tion, that the working man and the farmer are greedy and should be happy that. swollen rates of usury have come down, and that there's a :,ig • ock Candy Moun- tain in the Sky, if we just continue to trust in it (the government) ? Isn't it kind of sad that a government should sit around on its big, fat tail, con- templating its big, fat navel, practically turned inside out because the comfortable pot -belly has so grown with pats on the shoulder, campaign contributions, and suggestions that, whatever happens can be covered up, or obfuscated by comforting stuff like, "You're doing fine, Jack. 11 love ya. Just don't get caught."? Isn't it nice that, once in an ice age, democracy actually works? That a placid government, even a majority one, which usually turns over every controversial issue to a Royal Commission which re- quires three years and millions of dollars to produce a report that nobody reads, can be forced into taking strong measures by an intelligent, well-prepared and deter- mined Opposition, and actually has to get off its butt before the fandango is danced to its last note? Isn't it amazing that government, with its huge staff of "experts" in practically everything, doesn't have a clue that: some trust companies are shaky; people are polluting other people's water; we are building national and provincial deficits which will put our country fairly quickly in with the Third World countries; our defence forces are a snigger around NATO; our industries,, in general, are still in the 1950s, as far as equipment, manage- ment and production are concerned? Wouldn't it be wonderful if someone could put the boots to the government, as the latter has done to private enterprise? "a The only person who can is the Auditor - General, and after a couple of front-page stories which prove that the Canadian public is being sold everything but the rooklyn Bridge, he is swatted off like an annoying mosquito. Wouldn't it be great if people actually read the statement of the Archbishops, that people are more important than policies, rather than snacking, "Why don't they stick with their beads?", or, "If they're right, why don't they let the Cana- dian Manufacturers Association re -write the Ten Commandments?" Wouldn't it be simply splendid if some "non -working" housewife, who has been putting in 16 hours a day, seven days a week, for 25 years, walked up and gave cabinet minister Judy Erola a tax allowance for non -working spouses? This is the worst column I have ever written. Nothing but questions. Maybe it's because I'm becoming con- fused, like everybody else in this country. But who, normally a decent, responsible citizen, willing to share, to contribute, to work out something better, can be anything else but confused when he finds himself surrounded by veniality and odds 'n' ends Advice from mothers Most daughters have, at one time or another, turned to Mother for advice for problems large and small. Mom, I think I did something wrong on this sweater I'm knitting. One sleeve is six inches longer than the other. What should I Do? Mom, my homemade strawberry jam has the consistency of glue. Do you sup- pose it's safe to eat it anyway? Mom, Fred says I can't even make de- cent coffee! What should I do? Morn, Tommy has a fever. What do you think I should give him? Mother always comes up with answers, and to daughter it seems as though she apathy in high places, anger in middle places, fury in low places and whimpering from all directions, can keep himself look- ing at the plateaus, rather than the valleys'? There 1 go again. Another rhetorical question. Another rambling sentence. Getting rid of Trudeau is no solution. Nor is Joe Clark, who would sell his aged grandmother on the slave market to become prime minister again. Even for two weeks. What this country needs is another baby boom. It would take a couple of years to get it going, but if the whole nation got down to it, or up to it, the economy would soar once again. All our industries were geared up to the fantastic boom of babies after World War H. Everybody needed diapers, booties, baby buggies, toys, smashed spinach, soothers, talcum powder, maternity dresses. Then, a little later, shoes, snow- suits, tricycles, orthodontists, TV sets, records, jeans, six -dollar hair -styles, gran- ny glasses, mini -skirts. The economy was booming. The Post Of- fice was delivering the mail. Politicians were paid about what a plumber makes to- day, and they were worth every cent of it. The national debt was just a tiny cloud on the horizon. Unemployment was a bad word from the '30s. Every kid was going to go to university and be rich ever after- wards. There. That's my solution. It's as sound as that of any economist i've read. Who's for a Baby Boom? Speak for yourself, of course. Include me out. But let's get the country back un its knees, at least, if not on its feet. always had the answers. But did she? To some daughters, the answer to that ques- tion is a shock. �8 The Mother, who is now famous to flaky pie crust, used to be tempted to give her guests chisels instead of forks. Her muf- fins would have made excellent baseballs, ani her cakes could have been mistaken for pancakes. During the first months of marriage, she feared her husband might be stricken by food poisoning. The Mother, who used to feed threshing crews that numbered from 10 to 20 men, can still "throw together" a feast for sur- prise visitors, but at one time, she panick- ed at the thought of feeding one hired hand. A daughter, who grew up on a farm, wat- ched mother fork hav into mangers. feed calves from pails and handle milking machines with skill. Could it be true that, when she married Father and moved from town, she hardly knew one end of a cow from the other? As long as daughter can remember, Mother could plough, plant and scuffle ex- pertly. Surely Father is only joking when he says the first time she got on a tractor she backed halfway across the field. It seems incomprehensible that the Mother, who is always so calm in times of illness or injury, panicked the first time baby sneezed. Could it be true that once upon a time mothers were as uncertain as daughters? If so, how did they come up with all the answers they new have" The answer is simple. They learned from experience - and a few calls to Mother. the readers Opposed to Bluewater closing Dear Editor The Huron County Medical Socie%y w ish to register their protest to the Miner, regarding the proposed closing of the Bluewater Centre for Mentally Han- dicapped. The present centre is providing excellent facilities for treatment and lung stay care The program encourages group in- teraction and occupational therapy that is not available in the present nursing homes. We feel that a mass discharge of these patients to facilities with poorer super- vision will adversely affect these patients. Yours truly, Dr. Brian Baker, Secretary. Huron County Medical Society Coverage complaints Dear Editor: It is with a deep feeling of disappoint- ment and regret that we the executive of Clinton Minor Hockey deem it necessary to write this letter. A very successful Minor Hockey Day was held at the Clinton Arena on January 20. For that day, as a fund raising project, tickets were sold on upwards of 25 prizes donated by local merchants and citizens. Minor Hockey requested a letter be published in the Clinton News -Record publicly thanking these people. Your paper denied the request. The reasons given we find quite dubious. Firstly, suggesting that you want a limited sports section indicates to us that you underestimate the importance of sport and recreation in today's society. Second- ly, saying that the peewee write-up takes up most of the available space seems unreasonable when just a year ago a re- quest was made by the Clinton News - Record to have a report from each divi- sion. It should be made known to the people of Clinton that it takes approximately $20,000 annually to provide hockey for the 170 boys that are playing. Less than one half of that ($8,500) is realized through registration fees. This leaves a balance of $11,500 to be raised through other means. Our service clubs donated generously to reduce the balance. However, a substantial amount remains to be raised. An alternative would be to double registration fees. Obviously, many young boys would no longer be able to enjoy the game. The other alternative is for the Minor Hockey Executive, all volunteers by the way, to beg, borrow, raffle, sell, wheel and deal and raise the balance. This is a difficult and onerous task. it's a shame that we can't publicly thank those who help us. Your Truly Clinton Minor Hockey Executive Editor's note - Local sports and recreation coverage is vital to the success of the('linton News -Record. Contrary to the understanding of the 1'Hilton Minor Hockey Association r'MIiA1, the newspaper has made a conscientious effort to promote and ex- pand the sports section. ')'his means in- cluding reports, pictures and happenings from a wide variety of sports activities in communities the News-IZecurd serves. Although it is impossible to cover ever) i'er(1 on a weekly basis, attempts are made to include minor hockey, figure skating, soccer, broornball, curling, horse racing, industrial hockey, school spurts and other community athletic events on a regular basis. 'i'he Feb. 2 edition of the News -Record included photographs, game results and a letter of thanks from the ('MIIA her the successful Minor Hockey Day. Unfor- tunately we were unable to publish a list of local sponsors and draw prize winners, This decision was made, not to discredit Minor !Jockey 1)4, but in fairness to other organizations who submit similar reports. In that week we also omitted donor and prize lists from the i;lyth hrooniball tournament and the 'tractor fullers' Association banquet. There simply wasn't enough room to include all of these lists. instead general notes of thanks were published and in the future we will he making the same editorial decision for other organizations. The News -Record encourages and supports .Minor Hockey in Clinton, We appreciate the assistance given to us in gathering the game results and help with photographs from Minor Hockey Da) We s1111'ere1'. huge this co-operation will continue and we regret the rniurl- ferstanding that is Voiced 111 this letter 'rh'ith c1 (rage by our sports reporter ;Ind your contributions of game reports incl scorelxrards the News -H 'crlyd sports Rages will grow and local sports and recreation will receive the support and relit i1 deserves A reader writes, "A rotten spot can spoil the apple." Dear Editor. After reacting the minister of educat ion Bette Stevenson's report of the different subjects that was a must to pass and French was one of them I'd like to give m1 opinion on who is to blame for this French being jammed down the English speaking throats. who is the blame for the English speaking people being discriminated against not only the English whose mother tongue is English but all the other ethnic groups has to learn French in order to get a good job. Here is some of the bills that was passed with a large majority of English speaking members 1 bilingual hill, which has cost us now over a billion dollars and has created thousands ,,t lobs for Franco -phones all across English Canada and which means thousands of English can go home because he can't speak French. English Act, making the French language official Now their language is more official than English. They allowed Trudeau to set up radio ;incl television stations all across English r ani la and they had lots of agitators on the French pay roll, big salaries to stir up the French to holler for their minority right.! 1 1 hey got rid of our RNA Act which we wilI never have as good a one again for Trudeau's self-made one which has everything in it to jam their French right down our throats, the printing of French on 'ver)1hung on 00r store shelves. ever) thing we make has French printed 00 it as well as English or the) can hi' fined All these things has cost the English taxpa}er not millions, but billions of dollars Our English members also changed our miles system to kilometers, the weight system to metric. heating s) stem to relcius, not for the good of the country, but to please Quebec We are a forgotten race now only when there 1s an election on Ontario's French education budget was WI 7 million, the national budget $16R 7 111111100 We have French law courts, our government builds French separate schools, French high schools, French emersion schools They have built 1 don't know how many French bill hoards 1 he Quebec h rench population all told is 25 per cent. 20 per cent are in one province Quebec So we are spending all this ni0ne\ for the five per cent scattered from coast to coast dnd the biggest part of thern can speak l nglish A university professor in Montreal, giving evidence at a court case compared the English language to pollution in the rivers and lakes when mixed with French society 1 compared the French language with a little rotten spot in an apple. if ‘0u don't cut it out conipetely, it will spoil the whole apple and that's what the French is going to do to English Canada Mr Asa i>eel:es, Hensall