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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1976-10-07, Page 2the human body at early stages of pregnancy. It has been my experience while I was working at pro-life booths that children looked on with wonderment and expressed surprise at ever having been so small. Many mothers, lead their children by the hand to explain our display.. -Th is is a• wonderful learning situation for children and, indeed, for many, many adults who never knep before 'that the . human being is so well formed so early in its development.. As for the picture of the fetuses in a• garbage bag, allow me to point out that this picture shows the result of onemorning's work at a Canadian teaching hospital. Yes, terrible things are going on in our country. Abortion deprives the hunian being of the most basic right, the right to life. The abortion issue is a civil rights issue, so' fundamental and so crucial to society that other issues take second place to it. Can we sit back and allow this evil to continue? S. Campeau, Wingham. Maybe I should not answer the letter to the Editor by R. Hamilton but I feel sorry' for a man with so much anger in his heart and so little knowledge of the facts. If Mr. Hamilton could• be with .us for awhile or read up on same of the facts on abortion, 'he would soon find out that we are the opposite or hypocritical. We do care and are a hard working gicitiP 'of people,. ded icated to .preserve the sanctity for life and the dignity of mankind. If Mr. Hamilton had been with me on Sunday morning inBlyth, he would, have seen a group of children studying .the 10 week old fetus and marveling over the fact that they themself were at one stage that small and yet fully formed. We pro lifers are not out for sensation. , We are there to educate for the ones that believe in abortion and think they...are getting rid of a blob pf tissue,.it must be shocking to find out they are 'doing away with a real human being. We deplore the misuse of those tiny bodies. Adrian Keet • Wingham On xpoesitor Since 1860, Serving the Community First . 1.44101j-ed at SWORTI-I, ONTARIO, every Thursday morning by MCLEAN BROS. PUBLISHERS LTD. ANDREW Y. McLEAN, Publisher, -SUSAN WHITE, Editor DAVE ROBB, Advertising Manager '- ,Member Canadian Community Newspaper Association Ontario. Weekly, Nespaper Association and Audit Bureau of Circulation Subscription Rates: Canada (in advance) $10.00 a Year Outside Canada (in advance) $20.00 a. Year -- SINGLE COPIES — 25 CENTS EACH Second Class Mail Registration Number 0696 Telephone 527-0240 1;4.. the 'Yet.rs' .41ohe • • OCTOBER 011,876 The new Methodist Church en the 9th concession of McKillop, pear Winthrop was dedicated for divine worship. W. J. Shannon of Mc4illop, has raised 40 bushels of barley to the acre upon a portion of his farm. A son of Alex Barron of McKillop met with a se rious accident two weeks ago. While on a tree picking apples, he fell from near the top, breaking his leg. W. N. Cresswell of Tuckersmith was to the front as usual with his paintings in oil and water color. Messrs. McQuaig and Mc/vIordie of Tuckersmith, lectured on the Grange question in the schoolhouse, Thoe, Stephens of town has let the contract for the brick and stone work and plastering of his n ew hotel to aAlr. Mullen from near Belfast. Thos. Foster commemorated his birthday and made it lively for the young people by,giving a. party, 'The worthy host was taken by surprise by being presented with a Meerschaum pipe. SEAFORTFt ONTARIO, OCTOBER 7, 1976 Are we lying to our kids? In yoke at the Plowing Match To the editor Drop in club invites members I happened to notice in the London Free Press last week that the city d'f Stratford is thinking of organizing a Drop-In Club for adults, where they can sit and visit without atmosphere of alcohol. • I wonder how niany of your readers"(now we have a small club star ted in Seaforth earlier this year? Every Wedqesday afternoon the lower library in Seaforth is open, (with tea, or coffee available) from 2 p.m. - 4 p.m. The opportunity is there to get out and chat with other adults, Compare crafts, exchange recipes and maybe plan car trips, bus tours; etc, etc. This for men, too, so bring your , cards and dominos, and come and have a cup of tea with us. The Wednesday Drop-In Club. A registered nurse Is clerking in a shoe store because there are no 'openings in area hospitals. A number of other newly graduated nurses from the SeafOrth area have left for hospitals in Florida, because they couldn't find jobs here in their own country where they really wanted to work. What is this, the depths'of the dirty thirties?No, it's our country,and our province in 1976. There are just not enough jobs for the young people who left Seaforth to further their education, not just in nursing, but in, other fields too, with such high hopes a few years ago. What kind of a nation educates its best young people and then hai no jobs-for them? Why are we denying young people who want to work a chance to contribute to Canadian society? We don't know the answers to 'these questions• and we aren't sure anyone else does. But we are darn sure that something is very wrong. . I's every one in Canada now getting the best medical care 'we can afford? No. Then why aren't, there jobs for nurses who could help improve that care? ' Bright young engineers who might be able to shed ,light on the 'energy crisis are driving taxis. Students who haVe been trained - to do •• medical That strong gust of wind you felt in early September, as the nation's schools reopened, wasn't warm front moving in from the west. It was hundreds of . thousands of mothers giving a , simul- taneous, sigh of relief 'at getting their offspring out of "the house and out from underfoot for five days a week out of the next 16 months. - There was another gust of hot air at the same time. This one came from the critics of 'educatien,- who are numerous • as the sands of the desert, and who wonder, in print and aloud, what the taxpayer is getting for his education dollar. Well, for One thing, he or she is getting me,. For the next 10 months, I will devote myself, at a nominal remuneration, to the task of trying to teach y oung people how to read, write and speak their own language with some degree of accuracy.„ Like, you know, it's crazy man, but that's the way the frisbee flies. Far be it from me to bite the hand that feeds me, but most of the critics are all wet. Some, with' extra-bright children, are furious that the public school system does not provideenriched courses for their kids, so that they'll emerge from high school • with the equivalent of a private school and a university education. But they don't pay any more school taxes than I do, and I have no children in school. I'm helping pay for their, kidt' education. Others, too lazy or geared to discipline their own kids, expect the schools to do it, then are the first to sue a teacher who finally, being human, can't resist giving their darling a whack on the head. A growing, number of critics take up the chant. of "getting back to the basics," When they find that their kids can't do long division without a calculator, can't write a :servile letter, and know more about sex . ;,than they do about science. What these people really mean is: "Why don't theni there teachers give the kids'a teal good training in the bask elementals like what• I got?" • Those are people who can't do short division, unless it's two into font', use the Aash as their only punctuation Mark when ';Wkiting a 'letter-rand know nothing about • either science or sex. There's ituithettype of critic. This is the e who"deals in figeres. He is infuriated ,,:toper, he sees that the town 'Council spent -`46 per cent of its budget On edikition and only 22 per cent on the Woiks DePartittent :tied rather Sperid,monty on straightening'. onf roads than on Straightening out his kids' heads. • There is- one critic for whom I feel some 'tyrnpatity,„ Thik is the mis=named. Seeler Fief ,or. ;site; Ate,- nevet got: much tledueationi•bedauSe in these days you had, :th go to WbrIt t arid 'drily the elite; the ttinS fr research are looking for jobs in the U.S. where there is more security than in Canada where funds for research have been slashed. Would-be teachers who graduated with the anticipation of teaching work away at odd jobs, interspersed with bouts ,,on unemployment insurance because there are too many teachers, • including experienced ones, looking for the few jobs that are open. Perhaps . the answer is to cut everyone's work week and spread what jobs there are around. Maybe we'll have to spend money to create jobs for our new graduates, in places where they are needed but there's no --money lto pay for them. Or maybe we should stop educating our young, people and giving them the expectation that once they are trained- they will. be able to. 'get responsible jobs. Should' we tell them to drop out of school early and take what they can get? We have to come up with alolution because wasting our yound` people and denying them a chance to use their training is a crime. If we clOn't have jobs for them, we should at least stop lying to them and tell it like it is.. YGo ahead for further education but your chances at a job are slim", we'll have to telt them, early in high school. doctors and lawyers and such had a h ope of going to college. These people feel a righteous indig- nation that their. moderate incomes are taxed to support those overpaid teachers and those expensive buildings and all those young layabouts who- should be out' working, when they, themselves, get absolutely nothing out of their education taxes. Well, tough toenails, Oldtimers. You helped elect the governments that are bleeding you. And another point. We all have to pay, sooner or later. You and I are leaving these kids so far in debt they'll never get out. The critics don't bother me. I work hard at my job, and 99 per cent of the teachers in the country do the same. We are not all either a Socrates or a Jesut', but we do the best we can with what we have. You know,' we're not turning out pulpwood or sausages or cake mixes. We are not producing a product, whatever the Manufacturers and business people think we should to doing. We are d aling..every day, for several years of their lives, with that most intricate 'of mechanisms, a human being. And. we are doing that at the most sensitive and delicate stage of its metamorphosis into adult ; Try that on for size. " And wer're n of doing it that badly. The old, mindless authoritarianism, which attracted the weak and the bullies into, the teaching profession. along with many first-class people, is gone. That's good. The old system, under which kids from profess' cal families went on and kids from poor families went into service or factories or common laboring is gone. That 's good. We're trying to offset the mindless garbage of television by teaching kids to be curious and skeptical and challenging of the shoddy and insidious. And that's good, Let me give an example. was in fhe • bank during the summer. Right behind me was ed. a boy I'd taught about thrje years ago. He'd been caught drinking beer in a car in the school grounds, and was expelled fOr a week. Asked him, how things were going. "01^, pretty good, Mr: Smiley. I'M a in construction with Moie. Remember Mose?" I did. Mose was a large, good-natured fellow who had staggered 'through the two-year course in high school. lid showed me the cheque he. WAS cashing, I almost fell on the floor of the bank; Those two guys were making, each, Arida as moth as I was, after years of education and ekperiente. ' Thirty years age, they'd both ( haVe wound up tot .the end of a pick WO said. Wino he costing you air boi, and 'a leg; hut oducation today is 4614 Morethari churning out cheap labor for the x. ttiattere Of stielety .Defend. ,display of fetus'. I am writing this letter in response to a letter by R. Hamilton in the Sept 23 issue of your paper. I wish to comment on three points made by the writer. R. Hamilton said "I believe abortions should be decided freely upon between a patient and her'doctor". In answer.to, this, may I say that in our western civilization, no one has ever had the right to decide privately to take the life of another human being. (The humanity of thecinnborn from the .moment of conception a scientific , and medical fact). •• Abortion ends a human life. Abortion is a terrible injustice to one of our neighbours. Abortion ,is not a personal choice but a question of social justice. Secondly, R. Hamilton voiced, objection to the display of fetuses at fair booths.The purpose in showing a fetus is a noble one, ' that of education, In a way, we could compare the use of a fetus with the use of a human cadaver at a medical school. Cadavers are used for the purpose of educating medical students and increasing their understanding of,she human body. Likewise, the purpose in showing a fetus is to show the public' the perfect formation of Seems as if I've. been in the burying business lately. One week it's about burying me. Next week it's burying time capsules. Well, I want you to know I saw a proper burial last Friday in Toronto. It wasn't for Me, but it was for a time capsule in the C.N.Tower -- 1,800 ft. up in the air in an interior wall of that famous cement giant, the tallest free standing structure in the world. The fog all day pressed in on th,e tower and hid it--keeping it in wraps. But by the time it came for the burial ceremony, the tower .had pushed off the wraps. The cement needle soared against a blue sky. _The tower.was magnificent -- rising from a green launching pad of inlaid grass and transplanted trees and bubbling fountains. The sight made you forget the desert that surrounds it: twisting railroad tracks, round houses, repair sheds and the St. John yard station. What a way to got For that time capsUle. I've always thought some people go out of this world in grander 'style ,than they ever lived. That time capsule sure did; It was a . little midget of a container-r somethinglike a farmer's-fat cream can. All of three feet tall, Gray and dull but sturdy. For it was well wrapped in/outer steel and inner plastic. Double vaulted' good and tight as every decent burial should be The Rev. Donald Anderson said a prayer'of praise and blessing. And no, he assured inc later, the C.N. tower wasn't a modern day tower of Babel. This tower wasn't confusing language. One of its main jobs was to enhance language by its' transmission signets, Sure it cost $57 million donate, but the parson said it waee grand.folly fun folly— and he was there to enjoy it, Thee dame all the eulogies recitals of the dreams and hopes and wishes of the people Who were burying them in the time capsule.The words of praise came net only from, the big iMp,ortant people, hutilfroin the little People-,children who wrote' rind Wen prize essays and t?ettts. • like:anyModern burial, the eitibalin111 8 elaborate, Silica gel coated the hi'side+ Of the capstile. All metals were sealed in incite arid, papers, fikn and videotape in, chemicals - everything put into preservation to wait for the final resurrection on hundred years from now. ., Then came the burial, The Prime Minister helped lift the capsule into the hole in the wall. He was in good spirits as well as all the other pall bearers. "Do I need a union card?" he kidded, "Anyone got any gum?" He got instead a trowel frill of plaster. And he patticaked it on. "My kids would love this," he said. And like any other burial, those gestures were symbolic: a spade of earth, a cast of flowerpetals. The real 'job of burial is left to the workmen who arrive a few minutes later to finish up the plastering and seal the capsule tight. Then the marker„ The setting of the grave marker.To record the name and date of Time Capsule. 'Po let it rest in peace for the next one hundred years. Every funeral needs eats, doesn't it? This one did too. This time it was ice cream and cake -• layers and layers worth made especially for the occasion; And like some funerals I go 'to, this one wasn't sad at all. We ate and joshed and talked. None of us were in the mood to stretch our minds, to the year 2076 and wonder what the world would be like. then. How would the dreams and wishes in that time capsule match up with the realities? Would there be, in fact, a world around them? Would the C.N. tower survive wind and storm and airplanes and stolen helicopters? But this was toe Much idle speculation on such a happy day as this. This is now. We were here to enjoy the day, -This marvel of technology to take its place next. to, other Canadian, firsts: the longest inland .seaway, theiengest gas and oil pipelines in the World, This Was a dayetif Celebration, Wo were in 5 no mild to contemplate. Just like the ?Pyretnids of 'ancient Egypt, we worilti let 'future earthlings rurnMage thittigh, the remains—or ruins?—.Andlei them try to flko0' 115f 4ss apleoiv all out. 'oft t.tel js,t them fry to put sorrie SEPTEMBER 27th, 1951 Rev. D. Glenn Campbell conducted an impressive service on Sunday morning in First Presbyterian Church when a gift of 30 new hymn books were presented to the choir by Mrs. E. L. Box, in memory of herbusband the late E. L. BOX. James T. Scott received , the gift after he was assisted by F. E. Willis in presenting each member with a book. A pleasant event took place in Sproat's School when neighbors and friends gathered to tumor Ruth Wallace and presented her with a miscellaneous shower. Bingo was enjoyed during the evening,. Miss Delphine Dolmage 1 Seaforth, was the winner of a new Westinghouse radio in a contest held in Kliegs store. is Miss Doris Pullman graduated from Stratford Normal School. Condition of Geo. Mogk, Brodhagen,' continues serious. He is confined to Scott Memorial Hospital, Seaforth , suffering from head injuries and fractured ribs. Miss Betty Addison of Constance left for Stratford where she will train as a nurse in Stratford General Hospital. A resident of Winthrop for the long span of his life, John Andrew Montgomery passed away at his home. Born in McKillop Twp. he was in his 77th year. Donald Stephenson, who h as been on the staff of the National Research Council, Ottawa, left here for Quebec-City from where he will:sail on the Empress' of Scotland, for London, England, where he will study for two years at the Imperial College of Science. Following a long illness, Rebecca McClure passed, away in Scott Memorial Hospital. • * - Joseph Kelly and son of Detroit were renewing acquaintances in town. Mr. Kelly was a former employee of the Huron Expositor. OCTOBER 1, 1926 Miss Ada Reid, Anna M.Haugh, and Carman Toronto. htoof Brucefield, left attend the .University of The choir of Brucefield 'Church under the leadership of Miss Jean Murdock sang at the Rally Day services in the charch. Roy McLaren of Chiselhurst who went' west was obliged to return home owing to a severe attack of blood poisoning in his hand, , Work has started in the widening of the Zurich road —through the big swamp. Mr. and Mrs. Ivan Forsyth of Tuckersmith are sporting a new Chevrolet car. • James Medd_ of Constance left for the west. He intends to bring back some stock cattle. Clifford Britton, Constance, left 'for Victoria College, Toronto. Mrs:. Adam Nicholson of Constance had the • misfortune to fall and break her wrist. Miss Bristow of Egmondville received word that her • brother Leo Bristow and his family were safe and had not suffered any of Florida damage during the storm, Miss Margie. McQuaig left for Toronto 'to take a position, James T. Scott of Roxboro has rented his fang to Th omas. Appleby of Harlock. 'Mr. Scott is gding to Windsor. J. W. Beattie, the Misses Ethel and Florence 'Beattie and Mr. and Mrs. W.A.Crich attended the Western Stampede in Toronto. E. Dowson Reid, of town, has received official notice that he had received the appointment of Custom Officer in town. He is a graduate of the Seaforth Collegiate Institute and has been assistant postmaster for 2 years. OCTOBER 4, 1901 While playing in the barn, Master Shedden -Townsend of Tiickersmith, fell through a hole in the floor breaking his arm at the wrist . A joint meeting of the congregation of St, Andrews and Hillsgreen Churches was held for the purpose of calling a Minister. Rev. E.A.Sowert of Brucefield occupied the chair. Rev. Mr. McLennan received the majority bf vote's. During the thimder storm on Tuesday night, on • farm of David Schnell of Zurich, was struck by lightning and completely deStroyed by fire. J. B. Foster of Zurich has started to put up a brick house, F. E. Karn of Hensel!, manager of the Molsons Bank carried off two first prizes at the Seaforth Fair,' for gentleman's best' driving outfit. Wm. Rae of Leadbury has accepted a position as principal of the school in Edmonton. • Joseph Hackwell of Leadburybas gone to work in the car shops at Stratford. Another of the pioneer residents and oldest business men of Seaforth, John Killoran died early on the morning of Tuesday. He was .a native of Sligo, Ireland and was 65 years of age. ,"Joseph Watson of town has disposed of his residence in the north ward, to John Morrison of McKillop. The price paid was $1,050. . • 41 Fred Gales of town has disposed of his butchering business and plant tom Robert Winter. , A. K. Chittenden has leased. the residence at present occupied by Dr. Beldon. Willis of town is doing an unusually large business in the . manufacture of leggings. Wm, Buboles auction sale on . his farm near Egmondville was largely attended. Thos, Brown was the auctioneer. Wth. Chesney, of Tuckersinith, has a good crop of -apples. lie soPsfie .makes a practise of sprinkling wood ashes .orishit 'trees when -the leaves are wet. John thirik of Blake has his apple butter and cider mill running at fall blast, • .Tarnes,golget 'of Walton, has pttrehasedthe farm gto estate Of the late David knightt fOr $31/11t0:' home' a fine new litifte Which-be- ptirehqSedin Ohio. It is "Electric -y " Wore, M bho.gattehbit/if.i" elintUk'% Walteinaird Aleiatidee B.aird feaVe soolll 444. foi Toronto where they will be in the Volunteer Corps to Wekente the .Duke arid Ouches,',' • tt. Sugar and Spice by Bill Smiley School critics all wet Amen by' Karl Schuessler Burial at CN tower