HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1976-10-28, Page 15Sugar, and $pice
by Bill Smug y
fall notes
A few fall ,notes of superlative
unimportance, My elder grandson, Pokey,
is now, at two and a half years, in the
pre-Kindergarten Class at the day-care
centre he attendsHe gets very 'annoyed
when someone, needling, says: "Oh,
you're in the Senior Toddlers' class now."
With a curl of the lip, he retorts
Nehemently, "Nol I in pre-Kindergarten."
Even at that age, there's an immense
concern with status. To the Senior
Toddlers, the Junior Toddlers are. just
punks. To - the pre-Kindergartners, the
Senior Toddlers are practically babies.
You remember how it. was? If you were
in Grade 9 at school, it was the supreme
insult if someone asked if you were in
Grade 8, back with all th ose little kids.
Ilwas the same in the service. When you
joined, y ou were a raw, ignorant rookie. -In
six months, you were looking with tolerant
scorn at the new recruits. When you finally
got your wings, y ou looked down from
Olympus with those mere children who
were starting their training.
Then you went overseas, and were
suddenly g raw, ignorant rookie again.
After operational training, which et-moire/1
that you were a dashing fighter pilot, you
were posted to a squadron and learned to
your dismay that were just a "sprog," the
term for a raw, ignorant rookie.
Same thing es a prisoner of war. Y ou'd
just been through a fairly traumatic
experience, and a very dramatic one, being
shot down, captured, perhaps being beaten
up. You got to a prison camp, and were
looked at with the utmost contempt by
old-timers (of perhaps 23) who had been
shot down in such exotic places at Crete or
Yugoslavia or Norway, and had been "in
the bag" for three or four years. You felt
like a five-year -old on his first day at
school.
Back to Poke, A t' day-care, they gave
him a psy .chological label that mildly
amused his mother, infuriated his gran;
and delighted his grandfather. It was
"Sneaky Aggressive." It doesn't sound too
nice, but he's tiny for his age, and has to
look after himself somehow. What it
means, I gather, is that when some bigger
kid has pushed you around, you wait until
he's not 'looking, then sneak up and bite
him on the ear, or anything else that's
handy. * ** * **
Well, the postal workers are at it again.
After one of the most futile strikes ever
seen in -canada, they settled, a year ago, for
a 29 per cent package, far above the
maximum allowed by the AIB. Others,
teachers, mill workers, were rolled back,
..while the uncivil servants of our postal
system lept their loot.
Xi NV-rife, IlieY:areltolding rotating bind
illegal) walkouts, cocking a snook at
government. in junctions, and acting like
the spoiled children of rich parents. Maybe
they've been coddled too. long. I'm not yet
at the point where I would single out every
tenth man or woman in the postal
department and shoot the person. But I'm
ge tting there. If Trudeau were smart, he'd
call back Bryce Mackasey, eat humble pie,
and kill two birds with one stone.
I am ambiguous toward the postal
people, which takes some of the sting out
of my attack, Most• of those in ,small towns
are friends and sometimes neighbors of the
people they serve. They're friendly ,
reasonably courteous and as efficient as
the system, one of the most inefficient in
the country, will let them be.
It's in the bigger towns and cities, where
there is no personal contact between
servers arid' served, that the militancy
among postal workers if fostered. The
workers feel themselves mere cogs in a big
machine, not individuals. The public
doesn't give a damn about them, as long as
it gets its Mail on time. Therein lies
revolution, and always has.
But I'm getting a little ticked off with
labor in general in this country, along with
a hell of a lot of other people who once
supported it. We have one of the rottenest
histories of strikes in the world, over the
last few years. •
Even the British working man, for many
years a real-bearcat when it came to unions
and strikes, has realized there is a point of .
no return, and is co-operating with
government iman attempt to slow inflation
in the 11.K., by limiting demands for pay
boosts. •
Not so Canadian labor. It's "Gimbel
Gimme! Gimme!" Maybe I'm old
fashioned, -but I thiqk there's something
wrong with the values of a country in which
a plumber makes more than a public health
nurse, a meat-cutter makes more than a
minister.
In fact, I'm so 'fed up with labor that if
my own union, the teachers' federation,
asked me to go on strike over some real or
fancied grievance, my .first reaction would
be "Drop dead".
Where there is injustice, it must be
rectified. But where there is only greed,
getting as much as you cans, and giving as
little as possible, I've had enough. And
that applies to sex and sympathy, as well
as labor.
* * ** **
Last item in these futile fall notes. For
two weeks I've been wearing a magnetic
bracelet which is supposed to relieve my
arthritis.
I'd have been just as far ahead to' stick an
onion in my ear, and go out and swing; by
the tail, a dead cat at the moon, like Huck
Finn. A colleegue suggested this. He's
right'
And a happy Remembrance Day to each
and every one of you, too.,_
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the right place when his car's electrical, system caught fire when he was passing
through Seaforth Saturday. The car, a Datsun, caught fire in front of Gerald's
Datsun on Goderich St. West. Firemen were able to put it out quickly. Aboveare
Harry Hak and Torn Phillips of the- Seaforth Volunteer Fire Department.
Varna
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Mr. and Mrs., Ralph Goudie
and Grace from Coronach, Sask.
visited last week with their
cousins Mr. and Mrs. Mervyn
Hayter.
The sympathy of the commun-
ity is extended to Mr. .and Mrs.
Paul Stephenson in the loss of her
father, Orval Beuermann, who
passed away last Friday in
University Hospital.
Mr. and Mrs. Grant Webster
are adding a new kitchen and
bath to the west side of their
house.
Little Krista McAsh came home
from hospital on Friday, but had
to be re-admitted on Sunday. We
hope she will Soon be well.
Joyce Dowson and her brother
Ken Jewitt were in Saskatchewan
for a few days last week to attend
the funeral, of their aunt, Mrs.
Alma' Banks of Hazenmore. The
weather was very cold while they
were there.
We're sorry to hear that Harold
Dowson is in. University Hospital.
We sincerely hope he will soon be
well enough to come home.
'1 14r. and Mrs. Alex Taylor and
their boys Sandy and Andrew of
Trenton, spent the weekend with
Rev. and Mrs. Taylor. •
The contractors finished install-
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Interrac~t Iona
Winthrop lady is guest at Woodbine race
ing the new furnace in' the church
a week ago, and some of the men
have been replacing the black ash
ceilitig boards in the kitchen.
Congratulations to Mr. and
Mrs. John Ostrom, who
celebrated their fortieth Wedding
Planning for the 19713. Intern&
tiOnal Plowing Match is well
underwaY, slto- for the Match is
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Highway 08, cliukr*On for all
vothmitteogEhavChe0114410 as
follows:
General chairmon, ifOwnYcl,
Datars, RR 1, Pagbw0941 vice
chairmen, Allan CatlIPbe4; 'RR I
Seaforth and Roy Pattison, RR 2.
Wingham; treasurer, Earl
Hilderley, Clinton; secretary-,
Don D Pullen, Box 159, Clinton;
OPA director; Japes Armstrong,
RR-4 Wingham.
Publicity, Ray Scotchrner;
Bayfield; parking, Hugh Flynn,
RR 1,- Londesboro; gates -and
tickets, Earl Hilderley, Clinton;
tractors', Neil McGavin, RR 4,
Walton; ladies' program, Carol
Armstrong, RR 4, Wingham ;
team and horse show, Jim Aitchi-
son, RR 2, .1410110W; county 1SP.
hiptts, gperite Clut1110$#, Clin-
ton; barijuet,:Gibson,
rte.; Flying farmers, Bill crow,
qban,k,114.2,.Wingbal.0;lunches,.
liabaj paten, ga 4, .Nifingbapl,;
Audrey Edgar; .:RR 4, wingharn,
!rands, Parry :Mulvey, 141
Wroxeter; Tented- City, 41q11
Robertson, Wingbern;: „wagon
tours, Bill Armstrong, .Rft; 1,
.W1101.0111;: farmstead And how,
improvement, glen Miller,
bands and patadpa,
George 0ildekrancl, Segortii; -
special'events,, Bill L,eeming, RR
4, wnitonkr billeting, "Peorge'-
Underwoc4,. RR 1, :Wiagh4111;
historical, Ernie Talbot, RR,
Kippen; health and sanitation'
(Water), Doug McNeil,
Goderich; demonstrations, Don.
Martin, Ethel; trailer park, Ken
Johnson, Old Homestead, RR 2,
Bayfield.
Anniversary last week. On
Wednesday evening,' their sons
treated them to dinner at the
Benmiller Inn. When they
returned, they were surprised to
find a houseful of relatives there
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Sympathy of the community is
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Beueroaan and family of the death
of a husband and father on Friday
afternoon. The late Mr. Beuer-
man had been in Seaforth and
University Hospital, London .for
past two months where he--
underwent surgery. He was in his
sixty-third year.
Mr. and Mrs. Earl Rock, 10th
Conc. of McKillop were, the
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