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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 GREEN PLANTS We now have a large assortment ARTIFICIAL ARRANGEMENTS Made to compliment your living room WEEKEND SPECIALS One Dozen Glads Mixed Bouquets.. . . . $125 $100 Exeter R., . 235-2603 der's Florist THE CANADIAN CANCER SOCIETY HELPS THOSE WHO ARE ILL WITH CANCER AND IN NEED OF ASSISTANCE *TRANSPORTATION TO TREATMENT CENTRES *DRESSINGS *PAIN RELIEVING DRUGS •HOME AND HOSPITAL VISITING .11F, *HOME NURSING SERVICE • HOUSEKEEPING SERVICE 'LODGE ACCOMMODATION • DIVERSIONAL ACTIVITIES ROBERT LUXTON President Exeter & District Branch MRS. 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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. corn-win-it y oe*$popbrs 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. * * 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, HUNTLEY'S eta . 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