HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1968-09-05, Page 4A ttitude is the thing
It is seldom that editorials are
written specifically for the young—but
this one is.
Maybe it was brought on by the.
"first week of school" fever which has
gripped the entire community. Or maybe
it is simply that we feel strangely
compelled to address the youth of the
area.
No matter our reason, The subject
is attitude—the attitude of the young
toward everything that figures in life as
we know it.
Too often, it is a misunderstanding
of attitudes which causes the turmoil
between young and not so young.
The attitude of mother and father
toward living may seem entirely opposite
to the attitude of son or daughter—yet
both parents and children hope for the
same result, a happy satisfying future for
the boy or girl involved.
Let's say it another way. In the
final analysis, it is the' attitude of the
student and not the number of
chemistry equations committed to
memory that will mean the difference
someday—and that someday, near or far,
is the prime concern of teachers, parents,
employers and all adults.
Development of proper attitude is
by far the greatest lesson to be learned
by the young. Whether in school or out,.
young men and women have the battle
half won who understand that an all-out
effort in everything is the only short-cut
to success.
To give all to a project, one must
have a personal inner drive. To work to
please father, mother, teacher or society
is to miss the boat entirely. You, the
young, must have your own ultimate
good as a goal.
The world's a big place. Only your
own determination and will to succeed
will save you from being swallowed up in
the huge average mass. It's attitude
toward work, play, home, community
and man that will mean complete
fulfillment some day.
And now—today, while you are
young and impressionable—is the time to
develop proper attitudes.
Adults merely point the way. You
have to travel alone.
Every year 1 have an affair
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That takes some. courage
At a special .WSSiQt1 last week,
county council approve d on expenditure of
$134,378 for an assessment building
Huron,
13y today's standards, the cost of
ConstsUction is probably not out of line,
although it is 50 percent higher than
previously estimated.
The tlistqrbing fact about the
building is that county council members
don't even know what use will be made
of it as yet. The bottom floor will be
used by the new assessment deParttnent,
but the second storey will be vacant.
There were some suggestions as to
what this vacant Office spac.le will
accommodate, but no one had any
definite ideas.
Clerk John Berry listed some
county departments which "might" be
moved if more space is required, while
Exeter Reeve Derry Boyle pointed out
the building "would provide facilities for
future expansion of county services".
There is nothing contained in either
of those two statements to suggest the
Building empires
second floor of the building is needed ,at
all. This naturally leads us to the
question of why county council
approved such a building when in fact
they up with any definite
reasons for the extra space,
No doubt the space will be
used—and probably very quickly.
Following the thinking outlined in
Parkinson's Law, someone will decide
they need more space than what is
available to them and will ask for a Move
into the new building.
Members .of county council will
probably quickly agree with the request
on the basis that space is available.
This will settle the issue except for
the gnawing question of how a group of
men can spend $135,000 on a building
without having any definite idea of why
a fair portion of that building is even
needed.
Are there, perhaps, a few "empire
builders" sitting on county council
squandering the taxpayers' money?
Every year about this time, I
have an affair, whether my wife
likes it or not: I fall in love and
let the chips fall where they
may. I have my September
Affair.
In movies and novels, that
title means that a man, or
woman, falls in love in the fall of
his or her life. It has a sweet,
nostalgic note, with a touch of
sadness in it.
But I've had a September
Affair since I was a sprout.
Every year, I fall in love with the
month of September. And it is
sweet and nostalgic and a little
sad. And achingly beautiful.
As a tyke, it meant coming
home from two months of wild,
free running about at the
cottage, one of a big family. We
were sun-burned and
bramble-scratched and just a
couple of jumps ahead of the
gopher or the ground-hog
socially,
What a thrill to be home! Flip
a light-switch, flush a toilet, in
the big, old house with the high
ceilings and tool rooms, after
eight weeks of grubbing it.
Arid then , the magic of
modern living re-discovered, it
was out into the streets to find
the "kids" and race around in
the glorious September evenings,
playing Run, Sheep Run, and
Redlight and Hide and Seek,
Mothers called, but nobody
came. ft was the first fascination
with the September Affair. Our
mothers seemed to sense it and
let us have a last fling before life
became serious and autumn
dimmed the lamps. •
As a teenager, working five
hundred miles from home in
September, I had my Affair.
There was a churning yearning
to get back to school, friends,
football and the interrupted
romance with the brown-eyed
girl. It almost hurt physically,
As a youth, there was the
headiness and tension of going
off to College, a big word, in
September. A strange and
frightening place. A small-town
boy in a big puddle. New people.
New manners. New everything.
A September Affair,
And at college, first year,
there was the wrenching affair
with a South American wench.
Sylvia, We met by chance and it
was wrenching because she had
to go back to Rio in four weeks,
and I was really gone, and I
knew I'd never see her again, and
we wandered in the soft,
September dusk, hands clutched,
and my heart turned over in its
grave,
Then came the war years and
there were a few memorable
Septembers. One on the Niagara
Peninsula, with the grapes and
peaches lush, and the thrill of
knowing I had passed
elementary flying" school and
could put the white "flash" of a
pilot in my cap.
One in England, hot and hazy
and languorous after a cold, wet
summer. And the weekend leave
in London, twenty years old and
a pretty girl on your arm and
death lurking in the wings, and
caring not. Too fast it went.
One in Normandy and jump
to Lille, and jump to Antwerp
and life every day on a tenuous,
white-hot wire, and the beautiful
weather and the terrible daily
disappearance of Paddy and Mac
and Taffy and Dingle Bell and
Nick and Freddy.
And that long, hot September
of 1945. Home. Alive. Unreal.
Really unreal: the family, the
places, the peace, the boredom,
and then the silly young people
back at the university. But the
September Affair with the trees
and the cool blue sky and the
long dark hair and yet another
pair of brown eyes, browner
than ever.
And the next September.
Marriage to the brown-eyes and
a wonderful week at the old
cottage in Quebec, with this
strange woman. Canoeing and
swimming and me teaching her
how to cook. And she's just as
strange today, twenty-two years
later, And just, as brown-eyed.
And a lot of Septembers
since, golden and blue, with the
last breath of summer in the
green trees and the first kiss of
fall in the cool nights, and the
magic that makes me fall for the
ripe charms of that ripe lady of
the year, September, oozing
with plenitude, gorged with the
fruits of summer, yet wakening
with a sigh to the brisk business
ahead.
I have a bad crush ori the
lady.
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You can talk most people
into attending an event once,
but when they return the second
time you know they enjoy it.
Based on that assumption it is
probably correct to say that the
Mid-Western Rodeo has found a
spot in the hearts of a great
many people in the district and
its continued success appears
certain,
We found this year's
performances much better than
last year, and Sunday's show in
particular was full of action with
very few time lapses between
events.
The addition of the Brahma
Bull riding contest was enjoyed
by all and we still fail to see how
the cowboys could muster up
enough courage to get on the
backs of those wild critters.
While many of the performers
have ridden wild broncs and
bulls many times, we had ample
evidence from our vantage point
near the bucking chutes to see
that each ride requires a
considerable amount of
concentration and a buildup of
courage.
Beads of cold sweat were
noticeable on some of the men
as they eased their way from the
boards onto the backs of the
animals and their cohorts were
rubbing their neck muscles in an
attempt to get them more
relaxed before the gates swung
open.
Nearby cowboys shouted
encouragement to them and in
some cases made statements
about how quickly the rider
would bite the dust. We
presumed that such statements
were made in an effort to get the
, cowboy angry enough to
increase his determination.
However, in most cases the
claims were quite true and only
a few of the riders managed to
last out the required time to get
a score. Others had nothing to
show for their efforts but dust
on the seat of their pants or
aching musclee. A couple even
ended up with sore ribs when
they glanced off bull horns on
their descent to the rodeo ring
ground.
The bulldogging event is also
a dangerous sport and our
vantage point provided us with a
close view of what the rider sees
when he comes hurtling off the
back of his horse on his way to
grab those large horns of the
steer.
Jumping off a horse at that
speed is spine-tingling enough,
let alone attempting it to jump
onto the back of a badly
frightened steer,
Exeter is indeed fortunate in
the type of cowboys attracted
here, because they certainly all
gave it an honest effort on
Saturday and Sunday.
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While the weekend's
successful show suggests future
successes, it would be incorrect
to assume that there was little
work involved in maintaining
that, success.
The local rodeo committee
worked almost as hard as they
did last year in their
preparations and probably will
be the first people to point out
that such work will have to be
maintained each year to keep
the event on its present, level,
There are a hundred and one
details to handle in addition to
the extra Work undertaken this
year in installing lights, putting
on a new coat of paint, erecting
More seats, etc,, etc,
Each member of the
corritnittee and all those involved
With the event had assigned
responsibilities and the manner
in which the event Was
Conducted suggests each
performed his duties as required.
While the attendance at the
event is the only thanks these
gentlemen ask, we certainly do
add our commendation to them
in staging their second exciting
show and we know that it won't
be very many weeks before they
are back at their regular
meetings planning next year's
event.
We expect it will, be bigger
and better than ever and we wait
with anticipation to hear some
of the details as they are
presented.
In that regard, we think local
merchants are missing a good bet
by not taking advantage of
Exeter's reputation as a hot-bed
for enthusiastic horse shows and
rodeos.
Except for some posters,
there was nothing downtown to
show that a rodeo was scheduled
for the weekend. A rodeo
weekend promotion would have
been appropriate, not only for
boosting business perhaps, but in
giving the rodeo some Odra
advertising.
Perhaps this will change in
future years.
They say it's a difference of
- opinion that makes a horse race,
and the same can be said for
making newspapers. Shirley
Keller recently wrote an
editorial for this newspaper
regarding Prime Minister
Trudeau's recent swimming
escapade in St. Marys and
Winnie Nute, a columnist for the
Renfrew, Advance took
exception to Shirley's
comments.
Winnie, by the way, is a sister
of Wally Burton and a frequent
visitor to Exeter.
We have no intention of
getting mixed up in the
difference of opinions between
two ladies, but we will print
Winnie's comments on the
editorial. It is as follows:
50 YEARS AGO
Mr. Nelson Sheere, who, for
several years, has conducted a
tailoring business in town, has
closed his place of business and
has taken a position with Jones
& May.
The boys in khaki, who were
granted farm leave, have had the
time extended to the last of
October.
Ki rkton Fair marked its
fiftieth anniversary Friday when
the exhibits,,crowds and
membership brok all records.
Owing to the epidemic of
influenza the dental office of Dr.
G. R. Roulston will be closed
until further notice.
25 YEARS AGO
Mr. W. Layton, treasurer
of the Red Cross, acknowledges
the receipt of $581 from Mr.
Eric McBroy of the Lakeview
Casino, Grand Bend, the
proceeds of a benefit concert.
At an emergency meeting of
the Board of Education Tuesday
evening it was decided to
postpone the opening of Exeter
High School for two weeks
Opening September 20. Canadian
Canners asked for the students'
help in their corn pack and in
making elderberry 'Jett,
Cpl. potiglas Gould is in
hospital I in England suffering
With a broken leg, He has been
in England almost two years and
WaS riding a motorcycle when he
Wat forced off the road by an
army truck.
Groundhas been broken in
Exeter by the Exeter Branch of
Canadian Canners for the
erection of a new dehydration
plant for the processing of fruits
and Vegetablet. It is hoped to
have the new plant iri operation
by November 1.
Concern over the type of
news stories being written about
Prime Minister Trudeau was
expressed editorially in a recent
issue of The Exeter
Times-Advocate, (That was
before the stories of his possible
marriage were splashed all over
the front pages),
The "romp in Stratford and
St. Marys" was singled out as an
example of "the kind of
tomfoolery which follows" the
PM wherever he goes. The writer
suggests it is about time
"newspapers do what they can
to put down the frivolity which
has been associated with Mr.
Trudeau since his rise to political
prominence."
I presume what is meant is
that the news media (we get
more of this sort of` thing on
television than 4 in- the
newspapers) should conceal Mr.
Trudeau's lighter moments.
I couldn't disagree more. I
thought the television coverage
of his swim at St. Marys was
delightful. I saw it twice and
laughed even more the, second
time 'round.
Not many of us can identify
with , Mr. Trudeau on the
intellectual level. We are awed
by his academic
accomplishments in the field of
economics, his experience in
world affairs, his travels to so
many out-of-the-way countries.
He is not of our world.
But when we see him entering
with zest into a moment of fun,
frolicking in a swimming pool
even as you and I, calling to a
teen-ager frozen with fright on
the diving board, "Come
on jump—come ON!", he's one
of us. Isn't that good?
15 YEARS AGO
Exeter Public School teachers
include Principal C. H. Blowes,
Junior Principal Mrs. H. Jermyn,
Clifford Reeves, John Gunn,
Miss Doris Robinson, Mrs.
Douglas Hughson, Miss Kaye
McGill, Mrs, Lois Porterfield,
Mrs. Elva Turvey, Mrs. Howard
Pym and Mrs, Frances Mickle.
Seventy four have registered
for the Exeter Public School
kindergarten classes which are
being held in the gymtorium this
year.
Seventeen babies were born
in South Huron Hospital from
September 1-9.
Mr. and Mrs. George Wright
and sons, Billy, Peter and
Johnny left Monday for their
future home ih Pinellas Park,
Florida, Mr. Wright has
conducted a clothing store in
Exeter for 20 years.
10 YEARS AGO
Kinsmen Deputy Governor
Bill Mickle of Hensall inducted
the officers Of Exeter Kinsmen
and Kinettes in a joint ceremony
at ArrestrOng'S Restaurant
Thursday night, fiord taynharri
end Mrs. Ray Frayne will lead
the respective clubs during the
Coining year.
Cpl, George E, Noseworthy
NCO iii Charge of the
photographic section, RCAF'
Station, Centralia, won second
prize at Western Fair this week
for a spot news pictere of
Princess Margaret during her'
reeent visit to Stratford.
Pat. Lovell proved this week
that city girls have nd thonopoly
on pulchritude When the won
the Mist Wettern Ontario title at
Windsor'. She can plow a furrow'
as straight as Most Men,
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