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issolves drivel
It was a meal fit for a king when it was
over, I setback with my coffee and felt the
contentment of unhurried thoughts wash
over me.
Nine of us had polished off a fine roast of
pork along with great quantities of
trimmings, but now there came the
reckoning. Every plate, glass and pan in
the house had been used to prepare the
feast and with no automatic dishwasher in
sight, a long period of cleaning up awaited
us. It was' b prospect no one anticipated
with joy, except for me.
love-lives, their careers, their plans, their
disappointments and sometimes, their
neighbours.
NO BIG DEAL
Perhaps it's the faCt that people don't
have to Irk at each other while they're
talking. And neither one dne-to the other
and said, "I would like to dliCass-my
problems with you." There's no big deal. It
just happens.
In fact, people seem to talk more freely
when they are first engaged in some other
activity.
One day at a time
by Jim Hagarty
t offered to dry.
The women, of course, instructed me to
take my coffee and go Sit in the living room
but I protested that I wanted to help. They
finally relented and I was thrown a towel
Now, I am oot one of thoserare creatures
who simpl y loves to work but I' do enjoy
drying the dishes after a meal.
CO-OP EFFORT
It is not the actual process of tdwelling
off wet dishware that I find so appealing.
Instead; it's the strange effect that a
co-operative efforrat the kitchen sink has
on people. It opens them up and allows
them to say things they'd never say under
illy other situation.
Many a personal problem has been aired
and thus dissolved while the dishes were
being done and how that the automatic
dishwasher is faking over the Idtchr of
mote and more homes. I wonder where
people are doing their talking.
If you took two people, sat them down at
a table across from each other and ordered
them, to talk* about things that really
matter, they'd be bound to drift into drivel
within seconds. 'But positioned at the sink,
with cupboards fttli of dishes to clean, the
two would' sdon bet discussing their
"Wanna gofor a walk'" is an open
invitation for some meaningful convers-
ation because the worlds seem to flow more
easily as you stroll by the storefronts
downtown. People think of things to say
that they wouldn't have thought of under
any other circumstances.
The atmosphere In a typical psychiatric
hospital often induces craziness in many of
its patients who may have been only mildly
ill when'they were admitted. Over-zealous
psychiatrists, who sometimes tend to
forget that they ate experimenting with
actual, living human beings, seat- their
Subjects in uncomfortable armchairs in
beige, sterile rooms, place a tape recorder
on si table in front of them and order them
to express What it is that's bothering them
while behind a two-way mirror in the room,
a group of psychology majors witness the
exchange for their university projects.
The psychiatrist is puzzled when his
Patient fails to open up and another round
of "talks" is scheduled for next Thursday
at 10 a.m.
The well-meaning. doctor might achieve,
more results were he to invite his patient
home to upper and throw him a dishtowel
after the meal.
SEAFORTH. ONTARIO. DECEMBER 2, 1981
Strong, united "No"
Huron County, Ontario's toxic waste capital?
That's not a joke, It—could be reality, now that the provincial
government has come to the conclusion ,(after a year of wrangling and
millions spent) that South Cayuga is not a suitable site for Ontario's
poisonous chemical toxic wastes.
Number two on the list when the site was announced last year was our
own Ashfield Township.
We support 100 per cent theHuron County Federation of Agriculture's
stand that Huron is not the place for toxic wastes from our cities. We
agree with Tuckersmith farmer Jim McIntosh that since Huron farmers
don't send manure to Toronto, the cities have no right to expect Ontario's
rural municipalities to take care of their offal.
We said in an editorial last year that the problem of toxic wastes is one
that can and must be attacked at the source. The plants_ which produce
toxic wastes , as by-products must develop ways of making those wastes
safe and neutral, instead of expecting the province as a whole to pick up
the tab. The costs of disposing of such-wastes have to be included in
those company's products. If that makes them economically unfeasible,
then we'll have to do without.
The toxic waste disposal dilemma is an offshoot of the consumer
society. Produce what we think we need, and to hell with the
environmental and social consequences, the philosophy goes. That's not
good enough in 1981.
Instead Ontario must adopt a policy that makes the industries which
produce them responsible for their own toxic wastes. It's not a case of
"Not in my backyard" so much as a .corporate and governmental
responsibility to see that toxic wastes are eliminated or at least
neutralized and contained, as close as possible to their source. That's the
way farmers operate and it's a conserving way of looking at life that big
industry and government is going to have to copy.
There are those who'd applaud the coming of a toxic waste disposal
site to Ashfield Township. It would bring jobs, the argument goes, and
that land isn't much good for farming anyway.
To them we say the enormous hazards involved in transporting
life-threatening wastes from the cities where they are produced away up
to Ashfleld Township, over often treacherous snowbound winter roads,
outweigh that argument.
The solutions to disposing of industry's toxic wastes do not lie in rural
Ontario. Anywhere, That's what we have to say and keep repeating with
a strong, united voice.
Tot a nice story
It's not a nice story for Christmas.
Charities in Winnipeg whqoperate depots offering free clothing r the-
needy report they've had to turn people away because they've run, out of
winter clothes to giveaway: Long lines of needy people are standing in
snow for up to three hours waiting for the depots to open.
When they open, sometimes, the cupboard is bare.
Hard to believe isn't it at a time when perhaps 75• per cent of the
population is discarding perfectly gOod clothes in favour of the latest
fashion?
Hard times, and an influx of people into the city looking.„ for
non-existent jobs are being blamed for the need for more warm used
clothing. Mothers with babies arein the line-ups, people one worker said
"who haven't had anything new for years". There are also a lot of older
people living on fixed incomes, sorting through the used clothing recks.
City welfare provides between $13 and $17 a month per person,
depending- on age, as a clothing allowance'. That won't go far to buy a
winter coat for anybody. But in any case, this clothing allowance often
goes for food.
It'-snot a pretty story and we who live in relative affluence don't like to
be reminded of others who might be both cold and hungry this winter.
But they are there. They are in Winnipeg ad likely they are in Huron
County too.
There's not a lot we can do from here about Winnipeg's lack of warm
winter clothes.
But here in Huron there's a Christina& Bureau operated by the
countyrs .family and children's services. Think of it and the people who
need what it .has to offer when you're sorting through the clothing your
family has outgrown.
The fact that some people face Christmas 1981 without warm coats
should be enough to make us all shiver. And to make us act.
dharity_begins at home and in Seaforth that means the Christmas
Bureau, right On Man St. It opens on Monday, December 7.
DEC., 2, Mil
The Rev. A. W. Hartley of Hensall. had the
misfortune lately. to lose a valuable cow and
Mr. Rodgers of Rodgerville. with his
characteristic kindness went among the
people and raised the sum of $60 to make up
the loss.
James McEwing of Tuckersmith has sold
his farm, farm stock and implements to
Edward Aubrey. The farm. was sold for $7.000:
andthe stock and implements $l.000 making
SliQ09 cash down, for the whole. The faun,
contains 100 acres and is situated-on the Oh
concession.
J.J. Fraser, who. has been a resident of
Hensel{ for some time, left on Tuesday for
Centralia. On the evening previous to his
depirture he was treated to, an oyster supper
by a num* of his friends.
We understamil that Wm. Grieve. has-
definitely determined to be a candidate for
the Reeveship of Maintop at the next
election, the present reeve having declared
his deterimination that .he will not again
accept the position.
J.P. Brine_ held a very successful auction
sale on the farm of Alexander Forsythe,
Tuckersmith on Wednesday last. The attend-
ance was large and the auctionees succeeded
in keeping up the interest throughout the
entire sale, and consequently bidding was
spirited and animals and articles brOught
To be or not to be? Retired, that is. Tiii?
is the question that many codgers of my age
or near it grapple with in those lonely dark
hours of,the night when you've had too much
coffee and can't getinto the ravelled sleeve of
care, as Shakespeare put it. Or get to bloody
sleep, as some of his less flowery countrymen
would put it.
It's a question that has also stirred a great
deal'of agitation among sociologists, medical
reporters, and old guys who are healthy as
trout and are about to be kicked out at the age
of 65 _with 'a speech, a „copper watch, and a
pension that\will have them eating dog food
by the time they are 68. It used to be a gold
watch. Not no more, not with gold hovering
around the $400-an-ounce mark.
In fact, just the other day. I dug out ms
father's.gold watch, whiph was-give me on his
death by My mother, because I was her
favorite. I have never worn it, because I don't
wear vests, and it's a big, heavy brute that
must be slipped into a vest pocket. You can't
wear it on your wrist. or put it in your hip
pocket. It's as big as an alarm clock.
I took a long look at it, and if it hadn't been
Sunday, might have hustled down to my
friendly gold buyer. But roots, or conscience.
or common seise, took over. and I sadly put it
away again, with such other memorabilia as
my war medals, my hip waders, and a fading
picture 9f my first real girlfriend, in a box in
the basement.
Roots told me it was a precious symbol that
should be passed on to my eldest son, of
which I have Only one. Conscience told me it
was a rotten thing to do. And common sense
told Pte that there was probably about
one-eighth of an ounce of gold in it.
I am, however, holding in reserve,a broken
tooth with a gold inlay. When I came back
from overseas and was discharged. I was
given a form to present to my own dentist.
listing the dental work to be done, at
government expense.
He was a typical WASP. Hi looked at the
list of work, which was quite extensive, after
a term on short rations in prison canto, and
laughed. "Ho. ho, Bill. You don't want all
that gold cluttering up your mouth. This was
Signed by a French-Canadian. They're great
for gold in the teeth." it that dentist is alive
today, I would be quite happy to strangle him.
I went along with him, while noting his
prejudice, and instead of having a mouthful
of gold. I got one little inlay. If he'd followed
directions, and counting the teeth that have
been pulled, or fallen out, or broken, my
mouth would have been worth about $4.000
today. instead of maybe $6.
Well. this hasn't much to do with retiring,
which we started on way back there. but it
does show what inflation can do to a man.
high prices. The cattle sold amounted to
$460; horses $865 and other articles; $530.50,
the total amount realized by the sale being
$1855.50.
DECEMBER 7, 1906
Thomas Murdock. flensall's old, esteemed
and enterprising livery proprietor, is. drawing'
stone for the foundation he intend$ putting
under his dwelling prepatory to brick
veneering it.
, Wm. Gosentock has disposed of Hill Side.
the handsome residence property of the late
Dt•cQ1Citin. The price paid was $.5A0- The
purchaser, is Hugh MeGammend recently
frOm Scotland and he has, taken up his
residence -there. We have pleasure welcom-
ing Mr. McCarnmond• as a resident of
Seaforth and we trust his stay with us will. be
long and pleasant.
Messrs. EcEwen and Goletthorpe of
Goderich were in Seaforth on Saturday last.
Both gentlemen are interested in --the
Maitland River Power Co. and were here on
business in connection with the 'Company.
Mr. Goldthorpe is a hustler and now has a
scheme for building electric railways
throughout the country. He says ,Goderich.
Seaforth and Stratford' are undoubtedly going
to be the big places in the part of the province.
eye because "There will be a lot less children
to play_with this Christmas". The ad then
quoted the number of therapeutic abortions
given the past year. Immediately when me
word • about . the plans leak out the
pro-abortion lobby began to scream loudly.
The ads were in bad taste, they , said,
although the ads seemed; downright subtle
compared to previous anti-abortion ads
seemed downright subtle compared - to.
prevous anti-abortion ads which showed an
aborted fetus. The ads woytt cause -some-
women svho had had an abortion to be filled
--with guilt at this time of 'the year, when love,
should be in the air. It would depress women
who had lost a child through more natural
muses.
Mr. Lewis in his radio column brought up
all these things plus taking on the English
grammar in the ads. He spent about a minute
What about retiring? I look around at
colleagues who have chosen early retirement.
or who have been forded to retire because of
that magic, arbitrary number, 65.
Some are happy as hummingbirds and
swear they would' not even put their noses
' back into the old shoe factory (high school).
Others are miserable, plagued by illness and
a feeling of being useless. The latter drive
their wives out of their respective minds,
hanging around the house, getting in the
way, edging into senility.
Thus I waver. I thought sew years ago
that I would soldier on until 60.- Surely 40
years of work is enough. Then I am swayed by
my father-in-law, who recently retired at •86.
and my wife, who cart barely stand` me at
home for a weekend.
If we lived in a decent climate. I'd probably
be retired and happy. There's 'nothing
would like better than to saunter down to the
square, play a game of chess with Some other
old turkey, drink a little vino, and watdcb the
girls go by, with cackling. remarks.
Try that in the local square, and they'd be
carting you off to the last restingplace, frozen
solid in a sitting position.
Why don't we all give up, we old gaffers?
You know why? Because we are not old
gaffers at all. In my chest beats the heart of a
15-year-old maiden (who has been smoking_
since she was two.)
In the old days, we'd be retired, happily
playing chess or shooting pool, because our
sons would be looking after us, and our wives
would feed us well, and know their place. and
our daughters-in-law would be producing
hordes of grandchildren to light us on our
way.
These days, we are still looking after our
sons, and our wives are avaricious and
spoiled, and oiiiedaughters-in-law are alrtady
separated from our sons and not keen on
having more than one and a half children.
Oh, I keep my staff on its toes. One day I
announce firmly that I'm going to retire next
June. Their faces light up and they say, "Oh,
chief. how can we get along without you."
Another day I say, "Well, haven't decided
yet. What with inflation and all, y'lctiow„.."
And their faces drop into feet. and they say.
"that's great, chief. How could we get along
without you?" And I smile. To myself.
I've fintly figured out the solution. Retired
men, unless they have some insane hobby.
Aikeirokitigyose trellises, drive their wives
crazy.
If my wife will sign a written agreement,
duly witnesied, that she will go out and get a
job (she once was a waitress, shouldn't be any
trouble) the moment I retire, I'll do it.
I don't want her hanging around the house,
spoiling my retirement.
Freedom of speech is a wonderful thing,
something every Canadian agrees with: until
he has to listen to somebody else say
something he thinks is wrong.
The thought came to mind a couple of
weeks ago on listening to a radio commen-
tary by Stepehn Lewis on the subject of some
infamous anti-abortion ads in Toronto. Mr.
Lewis today is a media person but earned his
fame as leader of the Ontario New
Democratic Party. Both he (and his father
David, leader of the federal NDP) spent
many years working for left-liberal causes.
He fought or equity, for the underdog, for
openessiti society. He battled for honesy in
governmenty-ahattlethat oft brought-him- t
hard against the sometimetocratic nat-
ure of the Bill Davis blue achine. Pew--
people would be stronger advocates of the
right of free speech than Mr. Lewis. That
was before the anti-abortion ad issue.
The ads in question were prepared for
use in the Toronto subway and bus system.
'They showed a toy soldier with a tear in his
Grappling with
codgers' question
Sugar and spice
By Bill Smiley
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Kindness makes up for lost cow
In the years agone
Hoegy Bros. of Walton are doing good
work with• their chopping mill. They will run
Monday. Tuesday, Thursday and Friday of
each week. We wish them success.
Mr. A. G. Smillie of Tuckersmith attended
the sale of imported horses of Mrs. S.J.
Prouse, at Ingersoll, a few days ago and
ptirchased a very, handsome Clydesdale Oily.
She is *bright bay, eighteen months old and
Mr. Strtillie paid $225 for her. He intends to
keep her for breeding purposes.
DECEMBER 4, 1931
Mr. and Mrs. Melvin Bedard and family of
Detroit visited last week at the home of their
uncle and aunt, Mr. and. Mrs. Joseph Mero of
Seaforth. They were accompanied by J.
Bedard of the Bluewater Highway. a brother
of /Ws. Mero's.
Warden Beattie of Seaforth and Reeves
Thompson of Tuckersmith and Eckert of
McKillop._ ire io Goderich this week
attending the December session of the Huron
County Council.
On Saturday night, Hensall's villagers
noticed a reflection of fire a little to the
northeast of our village, when it was learned
that one of the barns of Robert Cooper, Of
near Kippen had been completely destroyed
by fire originating from the explosion of a
lantern that was in use and as only one of the
sons of Mr. Cooper was at home, the fire
spread quickly before anything could be
done.
Howard Leary spent Sunday with his
parents, Mr. and Mrs. John Leary of Staffs-
Mr. and Max. John McCarthur of St. Marys
spent the weekend with relatives at Walton.
DECEMEI1 19$6
• Possibility of thererection of a new bank
building in Hens.all was seen as the flank of
Montreal purchased the bowling: green
property from the village, The olo was
approved by HenSall CoUeeil •Monday night.
S.!atPrthrolige ate lOvestigiting en assault.
which occurred uesday about 6 &Clock when
$70 was reported siOleo.
George De Jong, caretaker at St. James
Church was leavin$ to go home he told police
when an assailant attacked him-and stole $70.
- Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Lovell of Kippen spaiit
the weekend in St. Marys, guests of M.. and
_Mrs. Thomas R. Graham.
Mr. and Mrs. J. Gordon. ‘.'sio arrived in
Walton last week from Httinilton have taken
up residence in the Hoy apartment. Mr.
Gordon is employed'in the C.P.R. section.
Mr. and Mrs. Louis Krauskopf and Billie of
Ferndale, Mich.. and Mr. and Mrs. Jerome
Nicholson of London visited with Mr. and
Mrs. James KrauskopL
of the three or four minutes talking about how
it was incorrect to talk about "less"
children, that it should be fewer, that the only
way to have "less" children was to have each
child smaller. It proved to him, he said, what
kiod of uneducated, primitive minds support-
ed the anti-abortion campaign. Leaving aside,
the fact that there are doctors, lawyers,
university professors and artists who are
against abortions, whatever happened to the
Stephew Lewis of political fame standing up
for the poor, the uneducated, the little guys?
HAD THEIR WAY '
Well Mr. Lewis and his fellow abottionists
had their way. After a vigorous campaign of ,
pressure the Toronto Transit Commission
cteversed its decision to -accept the 'ads.
Justice was done from the, liberal, right-
thinking point of view. Of course had it been a
pro-abortion-on-demand advertisement that
had been cancelled it. Would •have been a
denial of freedom of speech.
• Simlar inconsistencies in liberal, modern
thought can be detected in the reaction of
many liberals to the Western Guard, the Ku
Khtx Klan and other neo-nazi groups.
Freedoni of speech; freedom of assembly,
freedom of the press, these freedoms taken
for granted in our society liberal thinkers are
often willing to withold from such groups
because they don't like what they have to
say.
In London these days there is a bitter
dispute over what should be taught in the
schools. Here in Huron.County liberals tame
out fighting when some people wanted to
limit' access in the schools to some books
which they felt weren't fit for students. The
liberals said that the students were capable
of judging for themselves. But in London the
same kind of peOple who were in favour of
students judging for themselves are now
against it. The debate has been on whether
.or not to give the " creationist" view of the
beginning of the world equal time with the
"evolutionary" theory. Fifty years ago the
battle was-to get the "evolutionary" theory
into the schools against the "creationist"
view so things have exactly turned around.
Leading opponents of this new move have
been the professors of the University of
Western Ontario. So much for free thinking.
Intoleance is intolerance whether from
the left of the political spectrum or the right.
Trouble in this world comes when people
feel that they have found the only secret of
the universe; what they know how the world
should be run and no one else does. At one
time only the Pope Was supposed to be
infallible. Today it seems half the population
is. The new religious converts, those"
struck-by-lightning, born-againers are ready
to force their way of thinking down anyone's
throat because they have the only true
answers: The educated, left-liberal elite are
I often just as bad because they have seen the
light that hasn't come to the lesser types.
Such thinking is dangerous no matter who
it comes from; no matter-how well-meaning
people are. Movies-like the James Bond type
tend to portray great dangers to the world
that come from evil men plotting to take over
The world, Yet the greatest tragedies have
come because of people who were convinced
they were right, that they had a cause.
Hitler, Stalin, Idi Amin and the Ayotollahs,
Richard Nixon, all thought they knew
something that other people didn't, that they
" had to put the world in its proper order
because nb one else was -capable of it. The
day we think that we have the right to shut
off the-other guy's freedom of speech, no
matter how little we like what 'he is saying,
we are heading down a dangerous road.,
Listening part of freedom of speech
Behind the scenes
by Keith Roulston