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Nothing trivial this week.,
I'm going to ask, and answer,
some questions about the more
profound aspects of life. If you
don't like the answers, supply
your own.
When is a politician, during
an election campaign, going to
promise the populace the
moon, and then remind us out
loud that it is we, not some
other-worldly , essence called
The Government, who will
have to pay for it
Answer: When we find out,
which may be any day now,
that the moon really is made
of green cheese, after all.
Why are teen-agers so often
so unbearable? Because, like
babies, they have learned
quickly that the best means of
getting attention is to raise a
"Stink-;,litelXy, alicr fignatiVely.
What -happens miO my socks?r
Every time my wife washes, I
lose one sock. Never a pair;
always singles. • Just checked
my drawer, and I have nine
single socks, no two matching.
They're about as useful' as an-
tlers on a rabbit.
Answer: There is a little man
with a bizarre taste in socks
built in to these new-fangled
automatic washers or dryers. It
never happened with the old
upright and the clothes-line. At
least the dealer could tell you,
before you bought the ma-
chine.
Solution? Buy all my socks
the same color. But this would
spoil my image. I've always
been noted for my dashing
socks: gray, light-gray, dark-
gray, dark-blue or black.
Where did this vile canard
begin that men are babies
when they are sick? They're
supposed to be whining, queru-
lous, demanding sympathy.
This is poppycock, at least in
our family. Hugh and I want
only to be left alone when
we're ill. It's the females who
talk endlessly about how they
feel, discuss every twinge, de-
mand fresh tea every half-hour
and complain about the slow-
ness and sloppiness of the
service. After three weeks of
it, I know.
Why do black people loot
during riots? For the same rea-
son white people do: partly to
Kow4s4t, NovaScotia mink ran,
Pliers, who shipped thein to
western Canada. The cane was
valued at $12,000.
I suspect that Mr. and Mrs.
Kowalski Were among those
who in 1965, Pegged the Mullen
brothers to sell thembreeding
stock, of this newly discovered
Strain efJet black mink.
For five, Months after their
first discovery, the Mullens
quietly bred and experimented
With their stock. It all began
when they discovered two black
male kit! in their herd, Just
how valuable their success
obtaining a pure strain proved
to be, became evident when in
1965, they sold five trios, one
male and two females, for
$2,000 Per trio. The herd of
some 200 was soon specu-
latively valued at more than a
million dollars by leading mink
breeders.
Soon after the news of the
Mullens, discovery broke
among mink ranchers, one of the
top breeders of this continent,
John Adkins, Utah, (he tops the
world in prices paid for his
mink pelts - $160 at the 'New
York ,sale in '65) visited the
Mullen ranch. He went away
convinced that the Mullens had
discovered and bred in quantity
mink with a dominant black
gene, unlike any in the world.
get something for nothing;
partly for the sheer hell of it.
What has Pierre Elliott Tru-
deau, who is older and has
even less hair, got that I have-
n't? Not much, really. Except
a million dollars, a brilliant
mind, bags of charm, no family
shackles, and a couple of mil-
lion females who would like to
be his mother, wife or in a
pinch, sister.•
Why are so many draft-dodg-
ers coming to Canada? First,
because they don't want to de-
fend the U.S. and rot or be
shot 10,000 miles away in a
jungle. Second, it's too hot in
Mexico and they don't know
the language.
Why is it warm and sunny
all week, cold and rainy on
weekends? Because the week-
endja the only time, you have a.,
chance! toli golf , or. fish; .that's
why.
Why all the fuss and admira-
tion about the teen-agers
marching for money on May
4th? They had a ball. Try to
sponsor one into marching
around behind a lawnmower,
with proceeds going to the un-
derprivileged of the world, and
see what response you get.
When are the clots in this
country going to stop cutting
down avenues of beautiful
trees in towns and cities in
order to widen roads and cre-
ate speedways? Never, unless
we non-clots start a holy war
about it.
When are governments
going to get rid of that vast,
strangling afterbirth of a bu-
reaucracy? Answer: When there
are only 300 people left in the
country who are not working
for the government.
How many people would
stop smoking if weeds went up
to $2 a pack, or drinking if
booze went to $12 a crock?
About as many as a one-armed
man with a wooden leg could
count on his toes and fingers.
Why is teaching school like
washing dishes? There's al-
ways •another stack coming
along, unless you want to stop
eating.
Any more questions? No?
Well, I guess that clears up a
lot of, things that have been
bothering you.
loss, which was not insiired,
might have been. It slowed doWn
the process, for a while, of
developing black mink for the
indlistry,
If telegraph And telephone
wires Were kept hot 111 1965 by ranehers pleading for breeding
stock, I wonder how the Mel.
lens and their herd are keep.
ing up with the demand today!
Fortunately at least, it is
apparent the shipping problem
for transporting such delicate
and valuable stock has been
solved.
HOLDS RECORD FOR GROWTH
Municipal rivalry is a healthy
state for any city to find itself
in, This has happened in the
west, for example, where since
the end of World War Two,
Edmonton has maintained its
lead over Calgary as Alberta's
largest city, Edmonton also is
one of the most progressive in
the western provinces when it
comes to redevelopment.
It is hard for those who
have never travelled west of
the Great Lakes to visualize
what is happening in this foot.
hill area. There is a tendency
to associate Edmonton's citi.
zenry with Indian tribes and.
Eskimos when, actually, the
city numbers among its popula...
tion some of the most sophist-
icated people in the country.
• It wasn't too long after Donald
Gordon, then president of the
Canadian National Railways,
presented a plan to his board
of directors for the rehabilits
ation of the company's real
estate holdings in Montreal,
that Edmonton seized the op.,
portunity to almost completely
rebuild the heart of its down-
town area.
Down came dilapidated old
buildings and up went the CN
Tower which:houses as well
AP offices, a modern new
station. Titelewer looms over
the 'new' city 1411 and stands
rather like 8 sentinel over the
entire area, of re-deVeloPMent
I have legged a good Many
miles on the several city blocks
between the Macdenald Hotel
and the CN tower en my visits
in western. Canada. During my
stay I haye watched this muni.
cipal metamorphosis taking
place with keen in
City Hall and the area that
has become known as Civic
Centre is evidence that the
nomenclature that is constanly
being associated, with Edmonton
as a 'swinging city' is not at
all far fetched. With its wide
streets, mid-city park area and
cultural centres, its eager and,
imaginative town planners and
civic management, the spirit
of Edmonton is contagious.
I think I became thoroughly
Mnoculated with its civic pride
when I visited its Centennial
Library, one of the buildings
in the complex rising from the
rubble of old structures.
P. T. BARNUM WAS RIGHT
A book could be filled with
quotations attributed to P. T.,
Barnum, but none more true
than: "There is much to be
learned in a country store."
A century ago around the
cracker barrel, or the potbel-
lied stove, there was time for
talk and time to listen and
much time for endless and in.
tense debates on politics and
local disputes about such mon-
umental problems as line
fences.
The merchant owner was a
man of substance, a leader of
the community. Usually he was
postmaster. Often he was a
temnorary banker and a shrewd
. dealer in mortgages. His store
was not large, but was well
and solidly built. If there was
a cellar, it contained extra
stocks of goods and often a
spacious attic was crammed
with merchandise as well.,
AUTHENTIC COUNTRY STORE
The G. E. Barbour Company
Limited, to celebrate no only
Canada's ;100th, birthday last
year, but. also the ,PcOppy.'§
CetiteearY, .P9Vect PeiltUrYI
pld country store by barge frpm
the 'banks: of the Saint 4Olta
AiVer, 80 miles .upstream from,
Saint.` John at Sheffield, to a
Site in the city. Here thenginde.
of tourists :4'04PP4..P.494K its
Anthentic. merchandise -Ieet
summer.,
The building itself is aspienl.
did example .9f local architec.
toreof .the
Peried. Craftsmanship in wood
was a high art in .New. .preaLe•
wick, a seafaring province that
bitilt. ships by 'the hundreds,
and excellent craft with.
handSoniely carved figureheads
4110..eiern Orn4niente,
The 'store's stock ;and
but .one or two minor bits of
equipment, .are genuine, not
cOunterfeit, polished and re.
stored when necessary t"? as
near-mint conditon as pos.
sible. The remarkable and corn.
plete variety is a result of tire.
less. detective work of .Saint.
John writer and furnitgre
torian Mrs. Huia G. Hyder, who
directed 'the collection and re,
store tion andp erso nall y
searched the attics and back
shops of .the Maritimes with
truly remarkable success.
The .first Barbour store of
1867 was on South Wharf, .fac..,
ing the Market Slip landing
'place of the United Empire
• Loyalists, and directly opposite'
the . company's present Saint
John head officeandwareliouse.
I found Mrs. Ryder an enthus-
iastic and charming hostess in
• the quaint old store. She told
of the co-operation she had re-
ceived when a leaflet was dis.
tributed by the salesmen of the
G. E. Barbour Company asking
for suitable contributions to
stock the shelves; also from
those who offered their tree.
sures, mostly for sale, but often
• as a gift. Items offered on loan
were not accepted. As an his-
torical consultant and author
of "The History of New Bruns.
wick Furniture and Cabinet
Makers," Mrs. Ryder found the
eight years she spent as art
curator of the New Brunswick
'Museum was invaluable train.
ing for this tremendous job of
collecting which she 'Undertook.
:There were chuckles ,and.
Often gasPe of, wenderinent
.heard Within the WallS of this
interesting emporium. Maybe
oar grandParents are net too
far removed from the day of
the country store to encierSe
;the authenticity of such items
as ,McDonald'. Twist; canned
hare with gaudy lithographed
labels; refined sug4r cane! and
elay PiPes at A nickel, A piece.
Inthe attachedbarber shop
the ancient ,price list reads
"Hair cuts 15c Shave I9 M" "Blackened eyes cured with
leeches.P
POMP doubts were ei:Pressed
that the G, E. Parbour Corn!,
,party would continue to•provide
funds for keeping the museum
store open during Suture tourist
seasons. Surely the city ofSaint
John will realize it IS a great
asset and not allow it to, be
barged away to another location
by a would-be purchaser in
search of an unusual tsarist
attraction.
YEAR-ROUND USE
One novel idea that has net
been passed on to Ottawa is
the mayor's for all-year-round
use of the site. "It seems a
shame that our beautiful site is
only to be used for five months
of the year. Thus we aim to
create a winter play-ground
for three months in the winter.
There's no reason why a family
should have to leave the city
just to find clean snow. Here
they will be able to ski, skate
on the lagoons and canals and
practise their snowshoeing."
The mayor plans on three
months for the winter, five for
the summer and two months in
between to get things ready
for each. He hopes to inaugurate
the new program next winter.
BLACK KITP MINK HERD
Maybe, the Mullen brethere,
Wallace And Edael, Of NeWTiis• ket, Nova Scotia, couldn't at
first believe their eyes when
Hoy discoVereci "Plack gold!'
among their minks. That was
in 1990. But they certainly p.p.!.
predate their value now, since.
Continued success in breeding
has established that their early
discovery was net a freak of
nature that would vanish with
future litters.
Early •in February, a val,u.,
able shipment of these live
mink arrived in Melville, SA*.
atchewan, via Canadian National
Railways' Panorama. It re.
ceived special handling by rail,
way employees during its
lengthy trip from Sydney, Nova
Scotia.
Unloaded from a heated ex,
press car were 252 black mink
of a unique Nova Scotia strain
which recently created history
in fur breeding circles. From
Melville the animals were ship.
pod by • truck to the farm of
Duane and Morris Melby, at
Canopus, Saskatchewan, south
of Moose Jaw.
Each animal had its own
separate cage in the express car
and personal care en route was
given by Mr. and Mrs. Victor
black kits perished before the
fire was brought under control.
The losS at then current Prices
was estimated, at around the half
million dollar mark. It will
never be known how much the,
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