The Huron Expositor, 1973-07-05, Page 2ur
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but includin
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of the tax-
student ma-
if the average
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a dance, subject
restrictions
other facilities
g accepted
-why should
able to use
d comfortable
oriums?.
Increasing administra-
tive costs, combined with
the increasing remoteness
of school boards as they
continue to exclude the '
public from even their
routine deliberation, too
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burgeon
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lic uses, combined with
an end 'to the isolation of
education'from the main-
stream of community life,
in essence what the Com-
() mittee re OmMends, would'
help head off the conflict.
often,using public
meetings only as a
stamp",are putting
ers and Ont ario's
ing bureaucracy on
lision course.
Sugar and Spice
By Bill Smiley'
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Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II made an unexpected tour
of the Black Creek Pioneer Village display at High Park
last week during a whirlwind visit to Toronto. The theme of
the eXhibit ',chores-and skills" of pre-Confederation Ontario
featured sauerkraut making, blacksmithing, cider making,
spinning and other demonstrations depicting the life-style of
a rural settlement of the times; The Queen, Prince Phillip
and the royal entourage Witch Village Broom4;maker John
Adams at work. To commemorate the occasion, The/Queen
received a hand-made corn broom and was presented With a
copy of Eustella Langdon's book 'Pioneer Gardens at Black
Creek Pioneer Village'.
By Shirley J. Keller
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But when the children are no longer
a consideration for me, I'm almost cer-
tain I'll still want everything to be in
apple pie order bef6re I stray too far from
my home.
▪ For instance, I want to be able to say
that I have everything I need and some
things I want for my fulitime household
before I indulge myself in the expense
of an extended vacation. I wouldn't feel
right about a .yacation if the frig needed
to be replaced, or the furnace was meat-
: end'3ovW4"gelaktrie sus-
picintri zif WYE bie""Ctimitd betWigi have
that kind of security. . . so the trip
gets further and further in the future.
And finally , when I do go I want to go
first class. None of this penny-pinching
for me. If I have to economize every
mile of the journey, I'd rather remain at
home and do it in the comfort of my own
livingroom. As you can probably guess,
I'd not likely be going far for the kind
of money I have to spend on a vacation.
I've known folks who brag about en-
joying a trip to Vancouver for three
weeks for $500. That may be fine for
them. They may actually enjoy shopping
for accommodation and sponging off re-
latives or camping in the rain and eating
smokey wieners and beans.
Not me. Not on your life. So I
guess I'm confined for a few more years,
having nothing tocontribute when the
conversation gets around to last year's
vacation trip.
end table and a lamp. The presentation
was made by Mrs. Robert McMichael and
Mrs. Duncan McNicholl while the address
was read by Leonard Leeming.
Four displaced persons from Europe
arrived in Seaforth and are on the staff
of Scott • Memorial Hospital. The party, all
women, arrived by boat, docking at Halifax.
A. R. G. A•ment, son of Mr. and Mrs.
W m. Ament, Seaforth, has been appointed
assistant treasurer of Brazilian Traction
Light and Power Co., Toronto. '
Accidents occurring in hay fields dur-
ing the past week resulted in serious in-
juries to seven persons, JOseph Forrest,
Tuckersmith f arnier died in Scott
Memorial Hospital, Clarence Malone, dis-
located his shoulder, Michael Eckart,
fractured his arm and nose, Arthur Murray
suffered rope burns to his legs andhands,
Gee. Mann fractured his hip When a load
of hay on which he was riding overturned.
John McDonald, Grey Township, broke
his shoulder, Mrs. John Strong fractured
her knee and Gordon McGavin,
suffered severe lacerations to •his
forehead.
Twin Shorthorn calves were born on
the farm of 'Wm. Anderson, McKillop.
Rev. John F. McConnell, M.M. Mary-
noll, N.Y. will teach a summer Course in
New York alter which he will go to South
America and his itinerary will include,
Brazil, Peru, Ecuador, Bolivia, Paraguay,
Uruguay and Argentina.
Death came with startling suddenness
to Geo. Lowery, well known resident of
McKillop in 'his 65th year.
The Hodgert picnic was held in Strat-
ford, with an attendance of 45. and Mrs.
Wm. Hodgert,. of Exeter, was the oldest
member present, while Ronnie, son of Mr.
and Mrs,. Ray Clarke of Woodharn, was the
youngest.
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Using the schools
blishens
A
That's all changing, of course, and
teachers are actually being regarded as
people, with feelings and faults. But the
old, straitlaced hangover of our pioneer
society is still there.
"Teachers are a timid lot," the '
politicians say to one another. "Let's
make them the goats." And so they do.
But perhaps the politicians are not
going to be able to walk so easily over
their latest patsies - the doctors.
After creating a medical health plan
that is iniqiiitously expensive, the
politicians, as usual, respond to the cries
of outrage by looking around for a goat.
They have chosen the medical profession.
Now, everyone who isn't blind and
deaf knows that a doctor today, unless
he's a bumbling idiot, enjoys a fat income.
What's wrong with that? Just because
you and I didn't have enough brains and
guts to slug away at medical school is
no reason to envy those who do.
A doctor spends about six years drud-
ging at pre- meds and medicine, a gruelling
course. It costs him roughly $12,000.
Then he has a year or two of internship
in which he is paid about as much as a
lifeguard.
After eight years, he has a few books,
some skills, and is probably heading for
the age of thirty. And he must start at
the bottom again, to establish himself.
He will work about 60 hours a week,
snatch the odd holiday, neglect his family
and often destroy his own health. By the
age of fifty he's an exhausted man, unless
he has learned to pace himself.
Sure, he's well nff, by most standards.
Big car, house, expensive holidays. But
he hasn't time to enjoy much of this. And
he's also paying big taxes on that income.
• Let's take a look at a friend of the
doctor. They, were in school together.
The other fellow dropped out in Grade 10.
He's now making $11,000 a year.
But in the intervening ten or eleven
years, the doe's friend has made $60,000.
So, plus the $12,000 it cost for the
medical education, friend is$72,000 ahead
and has his family half-raised and has his
mortgage in hand.
It takes the doe a long time to catch
up, and when he does, he's earned it.
• A few doctors might cheat, but most
of them are honest, dedicated, and mighty
hard working.
The' politicians' attempt to regulate
doctors' incomes is a Shoddy plede of
work.
wider community access
to the schools is good.
,The Committee might also
provide us with infor-
mation on the long sug-
gested possibility of year
round, or at least exten-
ded, classroom operation
in our schools, which now
contain students for only
about 190 days a year.
In a recent weekly
column in which he tells
of activity in the Legis-
lattfre Huron M.P.P. Jack
Riddell reports that the
provincial legislature's
Select Committee on the
Utilization of Educational
Facilities wants to break
down the barriers it has
found growing betWeen
schools, with their cen-
tralized boards and highly
paid administrators, and
the communities they are
supposed to serve. The .
Committee would have the
responsibility for the use
of school facilities taken
away from the boards and
given to local communfty
action councils.
School buildings could
be used for dances and
wedding receptions -where
liquor is being served,
the committee adds, criti-
cizing the "stuffy" atti-
tudes which isolate schools
from their communities.
We have some doubts
about the Committee's
proposal that the respon-
sibility for decisions on
use of school facilities
be given to community
action councils. Surely
the elected school boards
should be in closer touch
with' the .wants and needs
of t4#4,,:f4plimmeltieA-thaRnim,
Jflunit046264"ratincils.
There already is , enough
bureaucracy between the
schools `:ana l. the people
and such a council as that
proposed would provide
another layer. '
But the principle of
Have you ever noticed that when poli-
ticians get themselves' into a bind, they
look around -for a-patsy, or scapegoat?
They did this with education in this
Country. When the big space race began,
the politicians rode the wave of public
demand for more schools, more school-
ing, and practically whipped the system of
education into spending more and more
money on bigger and better schools with
more and more expensive gadgets and
facilities.
Then the taxpayers, reasonably enough,
began to howl about the sky-rocketing
cost .of education. I don't blame them.
So what happened? The politic ans made
a 180-degree about-face and stated sternly
that they were going to hold the line on
education costs.
They should have held the line a little
more firmly in the first place, instead
of feeding a fish until it was big and
strong and then letting it tear all over
hell with the spoon in its mouth.
Natural patsy for this political man-
oeuvre was the teaching profession.
Teachers were preSented, with the aid of
some of the politicians' tame journalists,
as greedy, grasping people whose chief
interest in life was wresting higher sal-
aries from the .down-trodden taxpayer.
This, was patently untrue. The average
teacher would be reasonably happy if he
got an annual increase sufficient, to keep
even with inflation, and a reasonable raise
to recognize his increasing skill and ex-
perience. Exactly what happens in most
businesses and professions.
Bill teachers are born patsies. In
the first place, they aren't very militant.
They are more interested in teaching than
in going on strike.
In the second place, for generations in
this country, they have occupied an ambig-
uous position in our society. They are
accorded a certain respect, but at the same
time have been looked on with a certain
scorn, as rather shabby professionals
viito-rieedvtel kept in their place by the
people' who pay their salaries.
BUSinets men could whore and drink
and practise shady dealings, but teachers
were to- be an example to the community.
They mustn't garilble, drink, smoke
or OW bell late. They could Own a ear,
but it should be second=hand and a certain
'Vintage.. Yhoy tatitato tOttaittit Wet*
iii the choir, lint they .dititildn't 04 10 the
tavern arid Sing in ithe-bar.,
As I sit,_ here at my desk, I am
looking at a Pile of colorful• postcards
from a good friend who is travelling
in Europe this summer. To me, the
cards are like glimpset of a dream
for I've never travelled abroad to date
and do not have any immediate plans
to do so. •
Travelling. How dogs one do it? That's
what I'd really like to know. How does
•
one put together thelsortzioimlleintasn,os,tpdwadeeeooniiiirr.
• ese
nte erself knowing thaOl''
the money is being spent and there will
be nothing 'to shOw for- it next month but
a pile of picture postcards and some
memories?
I'd like to travel to distant places.
I'd like to see the world as much as
anybody . . but conditions have to .be
just right before I'll leave, my home and
family for anything as luxurious a s a
holiday of that magnitude. Yes t things
would have to be A-okay. •
First of all, my kids would all have
to be perfectly safe. In fact, my children
are' probably .the biggest reason I've not
attempted more holidays further away
from home. Somehow if there is the
slightest doubt in my mind that my child-
ren are less than absolutely well• cared
for and happy, I cannot enjoy even a
weekend away from home.
It used to be, when the children were
much, much younger, it was a simple
matter to travel. I simply packed the kids
into the car and took them along or I
JULY 8, 1898.
Miss Wretha Snell of the gravel road,
Hullett, has attended school No. 2 for four
consecutive years without being absent
a single day.
During the severe thunder storm the
buildings on Dr. Scott's farm at Bar-
purhey and which are occupied by Wm.
Habkirk had a close call. Lightning
struck the roof of the kitchen. It came
down close to Mr. Habkirk but did not
injure him.
Mr. Thos. W. Adams, 3rd concession
McKillop was assisting at the raising of
James McIntosh's new barn, when he fell
from the building, striking on the stone
wall underneath. His back was injured.
John Malone of Beechwood was working
at the new building and fell 9 feet onto
a pile of. stones. James A. Anderson
struck his thumb that was intended for the
head of the spike.
Geo. Murdie of McKillop has sold his
fine herd of heifers to a Toronto buyer
at 4 1/2 cents all around, to be shipped
in July.
George Turnbull of town 'shipped a car
load of extra fine heavy horses to the
Old Country. Thos. Broomfield, Brussels,
was in charge.
Geo. Murray was working his grader
in McKillop, when the scraper got-stuck
on a stone and he was thrown off the
machine, injuring his knee.
The volunteers accompanied by the
33rd battalion band, returned from London
and report having spent a very pleasant
two weeks.
JULY 13th, 1523 -
-The Plymouth Brethren, Who held
meetings at Chiselhurst latEritimiater have
hired a reliable babysitter to attend to
their wants and needs at home.
It is a different matter now that the
children are older. In the first place,
they don't want to travel with me any
• more. Ten years ago the children bawled
until I felt like a heel for leaving them
at hoMe. Today it is sheer hell to drag
my kids away from their friends, their
activities, their plans for more than a
- few hours . . and even those few hours
,Must be clearly and carefully defined
eceSsary alitiWorthwhilc.,
Ab* chikeenalfe' at the horriblei
age when they are too young to be on their
own for periods of any great duration ...
and too old to have a babysitter. What
do you do? You stay at home and wait .
for better days.
The children do not understand, my
problem. They insist I'm making too
much of the whole thing. They feel I
should go without a worry in the 'world,
knowing full well that if there are prob*-
lems, I can dearwith them when I arrive
home.
"After all," my kids chide, "what
cab possibly happen in a Week or ten
days with you away? Does anything happen
while you are here?"
No there's no way I can explain to
my children how I feel about leaving them
for any length of time. So I don't even
try. I simply stay at home without ever
letting them know I've had a longing to
get away for a while.
A martyr? Hardly. I'm just a mother
and I suffer happily and contentedly.
returned and intend holding meetings for
the next few months.
The annual picnic of Cavan Church
Sunday School was held in the grove of
Melvin Blanchard, at Winthrop. Among
those who took part on the programme were
the male quartette of the church, Miss
Bessie Blanshard, Hiram Shannon, Russel
Bolton, Mabel Pethick, Isabel Eaton and
Angus More.
A number of the young people of Kippen
gathered at the home of Wm. McDougall
and presented Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Det-
wetter with two rocking chairs.
Miss Emily Morrison, accompanied by
the Misses Cluff of Clinton, and Miss
Mattie Ellis of Hensall left or Detroit,
where they intend spending a few days,
going by motor most of the way.
Elton Umbach of town is in Toronto
attending the Druggist's Convention.
Geo. Israel of town has purchased a
new Maxwell coupe from the local dealer,
Mr. Regier.
Wm. Black, M.P.P. and Mrs. Black
have left on a trip to the coast.
Frank Schueler of town has erected a
fine garage at the rear of his residence
on East William Et.
Chas; Holmes met with a serious acci-
dent when he was doing some upholstering
and the knife slipped and cut his arm. He
had to be taken-to the hospital.
Arthur Eoutledge hat purchased the
residence of Mrs. James MeltaY
in Egmondville.
ArthUr Ament left here for Port Me-
Nicoll, to talce a position on the C.P.R.
steamer Assinboin.
JULY 1:0th, 1948.
Mr. and Mit. deo. Uuticlas of Walton,
were guests at a picnic at the Lions Park,
Seaforth. They were presented with an
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