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DO you ever wonder at this idiotic world we so readily accept as normal? Do you.


understanding of nature. There is beauty and


like myself,


marvel at the simplicity of humans who can master space yet cannot even solve the basic principles of life? How wonderful that we can photograph the earth from the sky and yet, cannot see across the road on a foggy day. And do you ever consider the bankruptcy of the various systems which the poli­ ticians call for and which, when in operation, fail to work?


To take a ease in point.


Tlie other morning I heard a discourse on the days whop children went out to work at a very early ace. When adults worked in the mills for 10 hours a day. when children were laken out to be nursed so that mothers could earn a few shillings t,o keep the home going. ’ll all seemed so cruel and far away in the Victorian times.


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reported that babies and toddlers were being left in nurseries, one of which was in a. garage. If was stated that, if had been known for children to be tied to table lees in these places to stop


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bad old days and bow con­ venient to overlook the present.. Wo know in those dark timeK people worked long hours. But even now many work six days a week or more, not for luxuries but for the essentials of life.


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FOR. 23 vears Mrs Stella Smith used to go to church mainly, she admits, because she enjoyed singing in tlie choir.


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church service itself, and the Bible readings meant very little to 33-year-old Mrs Smith, of Coolliam, Twiston, until recently a “ calling ” to God prompted her to volun­ teer for training as a pas­ toral worker in her parish, St Leonard's, Downham. And Mrs Smith's sudden


r6und& about


student by nature, Mrs Smith began to read everything


for all these years." So although she was not a


about God and the Bible. “ I was reading late at


calling manifested itself in a. very clear way. " I t all started when someone was n e e d e d to represent the choir at Bible r e a d i n g classes run by the vicar, the Rev. Eric Chard,” she ex­ plained. “ Somehow, I got the job, and at the meeting I was surprised to find that; I did not really know why I had been going to church


night beside the fire, with the room dimly lit, when suddenly everywhere was lit up. I t is difficult to explain, but I had the feeling that I would have had ir someone had walked in and said I'd won £50,000 on the pools.” Then, she said, she felt an


urge to tell someone that she had "seen the light’’— but there was no one with­ in miles of the remote farm­ house. “When I awoke the next morning the feeling was still there,” she added.


he suggested that she put her name forward for con­ sideration as a p a st or a l helper. This she did, and she was accepted for training after an interview at the Blackburn Diocesan office.


So she told the vicar, and % 3 1 t i Her duties as a parish


worker will be many a.nd and varied. She will visit the sick and e l d e r l y of the parish, and couples with children that arc to be bap­ tised.


of training throughout the diocese, will be responsible


Mr Chard, who is in charge


for Mrs Smith's training. Tilts will consist of “ on the job ” instruction, as well as further study of the Bible, and essay writing. Training nomally takes four to five years, and although she has a young family, Mrs Smith is ’determined to devote all


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JUMBLE CITY! Whalley ~ is in danger of being rechristened if present trends continue. As I write, every week for the past couple of months, there has been a rum­ mage sale somewhere in _ the village and i f they had been in business in this particular area the well known firm of Step- toe and Son would have had a marvellous time.


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some of whom travel quite a distance, and they and other customers have helped


to raise over £400 for various local organisations in recent weeks. Tlie doyen of our patrons


is a rather stout lady from Blackburn,


rubicund of


countenance, and invariably wearing a man’s mac. One assumes she wears other clothing underneath, but wc cannot be absolutely certain for the garment buttons right to the neck and reaches almost to her feet. She arrives armed with a variety of string bags which expand to enormous size when crammed with her assorted purchases. She is always welcome, has a keen eye for a bargain and a particular penchant for men's suits. (Perhaps she wears one underneath that


mac). The other week the lady


arrived at least two hours before the opening time so determined was she to be


first in the queue. “Don't you worry about


me, luv.” she said as I locked the door before leaving for lunch and to prepare for the battle ahead. " Ah’ll be all right ’ere," and she settled down on the step (a rather difficult operation


for a lady of her advanced years and obese stature) and pulled a large packet of sandwiches from her capacious pocket.


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good time, luv,” she con- fied, "before yon other lot fray Blackburn come, t’cost o’ living being what it is.” “ I t ’s certainly no joke,"


I said and she grunted her agreement. “ Joke! All’ll says Its not


ond it’ll be worse when yon FAT comes in.” “ VAT,” I corrected her. " I don’t think it will affect jumble sales, you know.” “ All don't know,” she


said. “ You'd think it'ad started already,


some of ’em is charging. Charges too much some of ’em does. Look at it this way. Ah went to (she named an adjacent village) last night. Had to get a couple of 'ours off mi’ work to get there. Cost me nearly nine shillings in bus fares, it did, and then they’d chock to ask fifteen bob for a man’s suit. Weel — you can’t mek a living that way. Nobody can. Ten bob’s enough fer any suit — too much by ’t time it gets to a jumble, and five bob near to closing time.” I bad to agree with her.


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1 dqn’t know very much about the subject and per­ sonally patronise a some­ what ‘more expensive tailor. “ Ah ’opes you’ve got


plenty of ’clpers, luv,” she resumed. ” Ah know, ah come fray Blackburn but some of ’em fray that way on needs a bit of watching. Not content with getting tilings cheap, yon lot isn’t. They want things fer nowt and they’ll ’ave ’em fer nowt if they gets ’alf a chance. AlYve no time fer


that lot.” Well, the sale was a great


suocess my friend bad


a satisfied smile on her face as she dragged her well filled bags to the bus stand. " Have you done well?” I asked her and she nodded.


“Ah’ni not complaining,”


she told me. “ But watch yon cost o’ living and FAT.; I must say I shared her apprehensions on the former topic. A few days ago local reader passed me a handful of bills (all receipted. I ’m glad lo say) for goods bought in the summer of 1938; just 35 years ago.


Just look at some of these


prices charged by a Clith- eroe butcher:


ljlb. flat bacon Is. 9d.,


lib. ham Is. 8d., 31b. pork 3s. 9d., lib. best steak Is 6d„ 811b. round of beef 10s. 7d.


Lancashire Associated Col­


lieries delivered 15cwt. of coal , to a remote rural address for £1 2s.- 6d., and the following arc. sample prices charged by a local fish and fruit salesman (all delivered to the door): 101b. potatoes lid., six


bananas 7d., lib. tomatoes 9d., one cauli 6d., one chicken (31b. lloz.) 4s 8d. Only 35 years ago! Makes


you think, doesn’t it? To end on a different


note, in that lovely spell of weather in- mid-March we took a walk in Spring Wood and were thrilled to see a great cluster of daffodils on the border or the little pool beside the waterfall. They made a gladsome


sight and, the fine weather continuing, two days later we could not resist tlie temptation to visit them again. We were too late. We,


and doubtless lotes of other people, had been deprived of a great deal of pleasure by some thoughtless, selfish individual. Not a single daffodil


remained. Which is something else that makes you think.


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MRS STELLA SMITH . . . lea rnin g about th e Bib le . the time she can to her new


task. She finds that close friends


tend to be rather sceptical of her new-found f a i t h , treating it as a passing phase. “But it is here for life now,” she said. “ If I were to move to another parish, I would still want to carry on my work.” Mrs Smi t h , Downham’s


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by “blue-caps” (so-called from the blue cloth caps and quaint dresses they wore) They were also known javelin men, were armed with halberds and assisted in keeping tlie peace.


Ancient


only pastoral helper, has three children, Janette (11), Diane (nine), and three-year- old Stella. Her h u s b a n d . Derrick, works as a fitter at Atkinson's, of Cl i t h e r o c . •


Announcing Mm Smith's


acceptance for training in his monthly newsletter, Mr Chard describes the event as “ one of the most important that has happened in our diocese.” “ Times and people being


toast Tlie blue-caps appear to


tical to begin with, he now fully supports me," said Mrs Smith.


• After being rather scep­


have acted as a bodyguard of the bailiffs and to have attended them on all State occasions. Though the Municipal


what they are, there can no longer be any guarantee of a resident priest in each p a r is h for evermore,” he


said. “ The work of the Chris­


tian ministry is as wide in its scope as lire itself. I t is not a work which one can take ui f or put down at will. I t is a lifetime commitment to a vocation or calling. To have one t r a i n c d local Christian worker in each parish is desirable now. I t may soon become essential if anything like the tradi­ tional pattern of pastoral ministry is to be preserved.”


Mayora!


procession SHOPPERS who paused on Tuesday to watch the civic processions to and from tlie Town Hall were witnessing a ritual that dates back probably 300 years. Before the Municipal


Corporation Act of 1835 introduced for the first, time a Mayor and Town Council, the chief officers were two bailiffs elected annually on the Friday next after the Feast of St Denys which was on October Dili. There was no common


council, or other select body and the affairs of the town were managed by the bailiffs with the aid of the Jury at Courts ot Inquiry or at the Court Leet. A procession took place


op tlie day of the election of bailiffs from the hotel, where the dinner to cele­ brate the election was to be held, to the Moot Hall. 'The bailiffs were atended


Corporations Act, 1835 swept away die bailiffs and the enquiry jury the feeling in Clitheroe evidently was that a procession and dinner were old customs worth keeping, and so they wen perpetuated on the. day of the election of the Mayor. I recent times, a Mayor


lias served two years, and it has been customary for the. dinner to be held on the evening of the day of liis first election. At tlie dinner, the ancient toast of "Prosperation to


the Corporation” was drunk by the “colts” — those attending for the first time. And now that Clitheroc


has entered upon its last year as a borough, some verses printed in support of Richard Fori. Liberal, at the 1822 election have an aptness that is all too real:


Farewell to Corporation feasts.


Tlie punch and venison are gone:


Fled are the lawyers and tlie priests,


Reform has robbed them of their bone.


The Burgesses and Corpora­ tion


Are likely now to disappear: And the old cup of “Pros peration,”


I doubt we never more shall hear.


Going to


conference HEADMASTER of Whalley C. of E. Primary School Mr J . S. R. Shaw will represent Clitheroe and 'district at the 76th annual conference of the National Association of Head Teachers this com­ ing weekend. Held at Folkestone, the


conference will be attended by 17,000 head teachers from all types of schools in Eng­ land and Wales.


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vinced we arc making great progress, and the politicians can solve all your troubles, then consider carefully what your savings < if any) can buy in comparison to when you put them in the bank. Any housewife will con­


firm they buy less and less. In fact, you do not need lo put. the money away to see it grow. On the contrary, you only need to keep it a week to see how its value depreciates. Consider the question or


lesson in building construction.


we arc told as being Gospel. The scientists, politicians


soon be left to starve and there are so few Good


and economists arc supposed to have the answers but it


would appear they arc blinkered or utterly in­ capable of seeing the con­ sequence of their beliefs and actions. Strange indeed, following trend,


naturalist-philosophers arc this


value and quality. In fact, what; you buy has a far shorter life than the goods you bought, five or 10 years ago. Twenty years ago a ear. household goods, clothing of


every description, had last­ ing qualifies. Now they arc produced to perish, and the quicker the better. And iT you still think the


political economist has solved the problem, consider llie amount of pills and sedatives taken today lo relievo pressures. Men and women continue to work long hours, tense and filled with worry which even con­ tinues as they dodge the traffic, deafened by noise, fumes and discord. T a'1' sorry to go on like


that the


looked upon as a. race apart incapable of suggesting a better alternative. May if not be that- those who for so long have been leading iue. in fact., in a. world of make-believe? Of course, much or the


Samaritans. We must, therefore, get


our priorities right and, before it is too late, realise the appetite can destroy, for we arc certainly over- indulgent. Much of what we believe lo be essential to a. full life is really not vital


thoughts. On the contrary, no matter what, the objec­ tive. be if health, happiness, work or pleasure, the simple things are best. There are signs today


fuller life. T am not. alone with such


blame can be attributed In ourselves, our education and strange code of values. ,Wc cannot blame if all on “ them ’’ when " we ” are guilty with our selfish and false' values. Granted, money is a vital essential but. it is not required to buy the vital necessities of the soul nr indeed tile happiness of the mind. More and more people


the truth


among many young people that the search for truth and happiness is not to be found on the path we arc following. How often do we find members of the younger generation practising strange forms of meditation even after they have amassed a fortune? Most have no belief and. as nature abhors a vacuum, their minds arc


seem to see heaven as a. place where they can gather more goods and property. They forget


this, but it is so common for the learned elite to tell us we are progressing and ever so easy to accept what


behind the words " You do not own property—it owns you." Do not throw it away for in this inconsiderate acquiring world you would


filled with alt sorts or rubbish. Just, ponder, there­ fore. on your blessings and the number of things avail­ able and costing so little. Richard Jeffries was of the opinion that " of all sweet


Utiufjs thono is none so sweet- as fresh air. Ancl this. I feel, was intended k> be free. Others have found many solutions in a better


satisfaction in the simple things although many seek it in the exotic. Just as some travel abroad, so others are


satisfied with less trawl. I is a matter of indulgence. Some require more drink and food, others are amply repaid by less quantities.


I agree with the late Lord


Avebury and rejoice in life belief that “ Scarcely any part of the world affords so great a variety in so small an area as our own island. And. I would add, par­ ticularly at this time of year when cverv prospect pleases.


In field, hedge and woodland there is such an overwhelm­ ing surfeit of beauty. So we find a continuous


desire to return to the very basic reality of the counti f - side which alone can provide a satisfying answer to that inherent search for truth.


marvellous powers, are com- nlctclv divorced from this basic' principle. They can never give & satisfactory


their


The scientists and poli­ ticians with all


tive when seen in such sqr. roundings than at the bird table. I went along the woodland path fringed with anemones


and golden celandines Above, chaffinches filled the air with their rollicking song and dippers gave forth their shrill notes as they sped upstream. Not far ahead we found a


newly-cor\?leted nest of the long-tailed tit in a mass of brambles at tlie foot of a


hawthorn and marvelled at the wonderful. delicate architecture in the ball-like structure.


construction and the art of camouflage. To the touch it


What a lesson in building


was as soft as thistledown, yet it is quite capable of withstanding all tlie stress and strain of wind and rain throughout, the weeks ahead when, in that liny dwelling, a family will be reared. The entire surface js


answer to life. This I am firmly convinced


is in the hands of the. naturalist-philosophers who.


down the ages, have at least pointed the way. Happy anfi indeed rich is the man whoso wants arc few. I was repeatedly re­ minded of this the other day when sauntering in the


Doeford area. Here is a haven of great,


beauty where Hodder presents her fair face as she passes through woodland and lush green pastures. I sal. bv the wayside watching a pair of active blue-tits busy in the newly-opened leaves of the hedgerow. In the morning sunlight the colours were a delight to behold. Tlie bright yellow waistcoat, blue wings and crown are even more attrac­


covered in fine moss, spider's web and hairs daplcd with a liberal supply of grey lichen. Amazingly they have never received any instruc­ tion in building yet such a, nest is a masterpiece of ingenuity. In tlie moist places


mosses, liverwort, and golden saxifrage spread as a gold and green carpet. Then there is the most,


gladdening sound or all-tlie song of a willow warbler once more returned to Hodder from far away Africa where they spend the winter. As T listened to what has


oi norary accommodation


aFTER spending periods f up to six mont1ls ln


'T i e S i r council houses Kemplc View and


Central Avenue have been C J»rnised.


t e n a n t s m°M not wait to get back


•nTd lheir neW' 100'' homes. uut when the tune came


. Bmove back in, a number W


£ ,e™t, very disappointed. 37 houses, built just


f them have been, to say


I r e included by the coun- • T a, £ 71,000 modermsa- cl „ scheme. But tenants ’"fumln" home during the re,T few weeks did so to Pf-nv complaints about Swddy workmanship.


T»fr the First World War,


been described as a '' tender, delicious warble with a


dying fall" I wondered why and how this morsel or a being, less than an omice in weight, battled hundreds of miles to be by Hodder. And again I was reminded


it had no compass or com­ puter to give assistance.


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IF1 care was not taken there was a danger that visitors to the Bowlancl area would destroy that which they had come to see and admire, Coun. J . Porter, chairman of the Bowland Council, com­ mented a t the annual dinner for the council members and officials.


As countrymen they appreciated the beauty of


1 the district and while they I had to get their living out } of the land they understood


the attraction the area had lor its many visitors, lie said.


The car had provided


people with greater mobility end industry had provided them with even more money and leisure,


REASONS " Part of their leisure


time will be spent gome through our valleys, visiting our villages, admiring vistas and, if we are not careful, destroying that which they


have come to see and admire,” he sa.icL “ I am not asking to he


left in peace, because t.ha t is not going to happen any­ way. But we need to think of the consequences of heavy traffic-using the roads


Woman


CALLED to the scene of n| Chatburn Road, Clithel


toad, police ga ve a. worn a f which proved positive.


Appearing before Clitheroe


Magistrates on a. summons of driving with more t.ha-n t.he


prescribed level of alcohol in we blood. Elsie Ha.vbursv. (56), of Millthorne Avenue, Clitheroe, was disqualified uom driving for 12 months,


“he was also fined £25 with endorsement and ordered to doctor's fee. She


Pieaded guilty.


tw Sp' T- J - Sumner said enat Mrs Hayhurst's car i eonided with traffic bollards


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