HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1969-05-22, Page 4MANY EXCITING DISPLAYS LIKE THIS—Over the weekend fireworks displays were held in Grand
Bend, Hensall and Lucan that drew large crowds. Shown above is a double-barrelled feature at one of the
recent events taken by an accidental double exposure by the photographer, T-A photo.
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Generating enthusiasm
Most people living in this area pride
themselves on the enthusiasm generated
at most community activities, and few of
us have forgotten the monumental
achievements accomplished during
Centennial year.
However, indications are that many
people in the area are becoming lethargic
in their approach to providing
worthwhile projects or activities that
provide opportunities for community
goodwill and pride.
This is the season of' those
walkathons, and while most
communities stage one walk in which
everyone gets enthused and participates,
we have fallen slightly behind and have
to rely on individual groups to keep pace
with some of our neighboring
communities.
We read items each week
from neighboring communities that
make us rather envious that they didn't
take place here.
In Preston, the residents staged a
Police Appreciation Day and it turned
out to be a large success and the
policemen of the community were given
due recognition by the people whom
they serve so faithfully each day. Our
policemen are obviously just as deserving
as those in Preston.
Strathroy residents got together
recently to hold a night to save the Don
Messer show from the axe, and again this
was a success. People in this area were
just as concerned about the future of the
show, but nothing was done to clearly
indicate that conern in a public manner.
The Chamber of Commerce at New
Hamburg staged a clean up campaign a
couple of weeks ago and kept three
trucks busy for an entire day hauling
away junk as residents took advantage of
the chance to clear away old debris from
their properties, including junked cars.
Closer to home, the residents of
Zurich have planned a trip to their
namesake community in Switerzerland.
We could• extend the list to great
lengths, and no doubt many readers have
read of interesting activities in other
communities which sound most
beneficial or are just plain enjoyment.
All of these events require
leadership and people prepared to do
some work in organizing them, but the
results are well worth that effort.
There are still many valuable
projects and events in this area, but
perhaps we would all do well to keep
abreast of what is going on in other
communities so we can continue to
generate community pride or provide
avenues of entertainment so necessary in
this hectic society in which we live.
A word to the wise
We trust area drivers will take note
of the fact Judge Glenn Hays levied a
$100 fine against a young driver last
week who put on a driving exhibition
around the area of SHDHS.
This has been a problem area for
some time as young drivers put on
erratic, displays, apparently in an effort
to entertain students.
Obviously, it is difficult to
understand these antics and it is far from
entertaining when one thinks of the
number of youngsters from both schools
who frequent the area.
While it is impossible to condone
this type of driving in any area, this is
obviously the last place in which it can
be tolerated and we commend the local
police for bringing offenders to court
and Judge Hays for his judgement in
realizing that stiff fines are apparently
needed to curtail such activities.
Where has democracy gone?
Nothing is so disconcerting to the
average voter today as the realization
that he has lost control of his
governments. Bit by bit he has been
squeezed out of the decision making
process until he now finds he has
nothing left but the problem of how to
pay the taxes.
School board members are
presented with lists of teachers already
hired; county councils discover
bureaucrats have raided and carried off
their assessment departments; local
councils have their power to borrow
suddenly cut off by appointed officials.
Almost no decision by locally elected
people is valid without the signature of
an appointed government official
somewhere. They cannot build a street,
lay a sewer or grant a building permit
without it.
What went wrong? What makes
people at one moment think they live in
a democracy and the next that they are
in a totalitarian state?
The problem is very deep. The
answer does not lie in centralized school
boards or regional government or any of
these grand administrative techniques. It
is the problem of educating an entire
electorate and leadership in the ways the
world has changed.
If we ever do decide to return to
democratic government, it will be when
we start electing men who offer not
solutions but understandable
philosophies aimed at letting free men
work out their own problems.
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A long and hot summer
This is going to be a long, hot
summer. And not only for those
U.S. cities with their
kerosene-soaked black ghettoes
just waiting for a match to be
struck.
It's going to be a long, hot
summer for a lot of Canadians.
High among their ranks will be
parents, policemen and resort
operators.
Why? Because the supply of
summer jobs for students is far,
far below the demand, and there
are going to be thousands of
restless, bored young people
looking for excitement.
It's a natural for an eruption
of rumbles, hassles and
vandalism which could make the
summer a nightmare for the
already-harried victims listed
above.
For the last decade, there has
been a steadily-growing
population of young bums of
both sexes. Summer-time,
warm-weather bums.
These are the kids who don't
really want a job. They live from
hand to mouth, sleeping on the
beaches, or in the old cars that
are part of their scene. They are
not necessarily evil or vicious. In
fact, most of them aren't
But they're aimless and
irresponsible and rude and
selfish and dirty, and lazy as
cats. Cats that aren't
house-broken.
They're bored, and they're
boring. They talk in endless
circles about nothing. They even
bore each other. But they're
united in one thing — their
contempt for the adult world.
High on their list of interests,
which are extremely limited, are
sex and drugs. On weekends,
they are infiltrated by the
"pushers" many of them
amateurs, who arrive from the
cities with their little packages
of pot and speed and LSD.
Lurking on the fringe of this
bundle of bums is another group
— the teenie-boppers. These are
not kids — they are children —,
who are just beginning to make
the scene, who find it
fascinating, and who want to try
anything that's going.
In the cities, same thing,
except that it's shopping plazas
and public parks and the streets
instead of the beaches.
Well, add to this parasitic
swarm all the kids who wanted,
and needed, jobs this summer,
angry, frustrated, and you can
see what's coming. I hope I'm
wrong, but two and two still
make four.
Permissive parents, an
inflationary society in which
even young people need money;
give masses of them nothing to
do but look for kicks all
summer, and the old crystal ball
looks pretty muddy.
Any minister, we suspect,
must be discouraged to have
people indicate they "enjoyed"
a sermon in which he was
attempting to scold them for
their practices or failure to live
up to their responsibilities.
In that context, we trust
there will be many people who
didn't "enjoy" the talks
delivered by the young people at
Caven Presbyterian Church last
week.
While we didn't agree with all
the opinions expressed by the
young people, we did admire
their fortitude in expressing
them, and we have no doubt but
what they were most sincere.
Peggy Pryde's comment that
the youth of this time has a right
to be optimistic was particularly
thought provoking.
She admitted that her elders,
who have come through the
Depression, two World Wars and
a couple of other conflicts have
a certain right to be more
cynical in youths hope that
they change things for the
better.
We hope Peggy and her
contemporaries will never lose
that optimism, because
obviously it is much needed by
those who, in the not too distant
future, will have the chore of
running this world which those
who have gone before have
allowed to fall into such a mess.
It brought to mind the fact
that adults must be guarded in
their cynicism for fear that their
comments will dull some of the
optimism of young people.
There's no faster way to
discourage someone from trying
to reach an objective than by
repeatedly telling him that his
objective is impossible.
These are young people who
very soon will see a man land
upon the surface of the moon,
so who are we to tell them what
is impossible!
* * *
David Foreman tackled a
tough subject when he discussed
responsibility, and obviously this
is one of the main problem areas
in adult and teen relations
today.
When I was a teenager (said
the boring middle-aged man),
summer jobs were even scarcer.
He who nabbed one was deeply
envied. My first job, at 17, was
working on a Great Lakes
steamer, 12 hours a day, seven
days a week, $1 a day. And
every other kid in town thought
I'd hit a bonanza. Boys who
couldn't find a job played
baseball and swam about eight
hours a day. Girls did whatever
girls do, giggled probably, and
swam and picked berries.
Today's jobless youth barely
muster enough energy to have a
swim. In the day-time, that is.
At night, they flower into some
sort of life and go to bed at
dawn. And wake up. Bored.
There are a couple of villains
in the piece, of course. One is
industry; the other government,
Industry could absorb twice as
many students as it does, at
comparatively little cost.
Industry is the first to whine
about the "products" it gets, but
does little to help produce a
first-class product. One or two
future employees of high calibre
from a summer group would
easily repay the cost. And it
would be good public relations
on which industry spends
thousands, mostly on whiskey.
Governments could, and
should, plan work projects to
absorb most of the surplus
students. They'd get it all back
in taxes shortly. But if they sit
bn their behinds and allow a
generation of bitter, lazy,
alienated bums to sprout, it will
cost them plenty in the end.
(That's quite a sentence, but
no puns intended. Behinds,
bums, and end, indeed.)
Hope your kid has a summer
job. Better still, hope you're not
a parent or a policeman.
Perhaps he hit the nail
squarely on the head when he
opined that many parents were
afraid to hand out
responsibilities to their offspring
because they were afraid their
children would make the same
mistakes as they did.
The whole concept of the
church service was an example
of how young people can handle
responsibility, and we imagine
there were many in the
congregation who must have
been very much surprised at the
end result obtained in extending
youth this opportunity.
Any church officials
wondering about the merits of
church union would do well to
study the comments of Judy
Burke, if in fact her opinions
were representative of her
contemporaries. We have no
reason to doubt that they aren't,
by the way.
Her criticism of an over
abundance of church structures
in Exeter is one that has been
expressed in this column before.
Her comments about church
people being biased is difficult
to refute in some cases, but this
is fortunately changing at a
commendable speed and perhaps
Judy will see the day when most
of it has entirely disappeared
except in extreme instances.
Coupled with her opinions
and Philip Moore's contention
that young people want to
communicate, we know that
area church officials and leaders
in all other endeavours will do
well to accept the invitation to
discuss current issues with young
people.
Too often we make decisions
which affect young people,
50 YEARS AGO
Sergt. Hilliary Horton, who
went overseas with the 161st
Battalion, arrived home last
week. During the most of the
time he was with the blacksmith
service.
Lance Corp Milton Pfaff, a
former employee of W. S. Cole,
and whose parents reside on the
Lake Road, arrived in London
from overseas and he is now in
the military hospital suffering
from injury to his hip.
Mr. A. E. Kuhn, manager of
the Exeter branch of the
Canadian Bank of Commerce,
who has been ill for several
weeks following an attack of
influenza, has been given three
months leave of absence.
Hon. Melville Martin, Premier
of Saskatchewan, and his mother
of London were visitors over the
weekend with Mr, and Mrs. F.
W. Gladman.
25 YEARS AGO
Mr. Claude Blowes, principal
of Hensall Public School, has
been engaged as principal of the
Exeter Public School to suceed
Mr. Ray Waghorn, who resigned
to take a position on the
teaching staff in Hamilton.
Sgt. Andy Easton has
purchased from Mrs. Sam Martin
her fine brick residence on
James Street.
Three members of the
Schroeder family now with the
RCAF have been visiting with
their parents, Mr. and Mrs.
William Schroeder: FO Gerald
Schroeder from Prince Edward
Island, FO Leroy Schroeder
from Montreal and LAC Orville
Schroeder of Belleville,
The Exeter Municipal Council
have proclaimed Wednesday,
May 24, a public holiday.
The Misses Huston of town
have purchased the red brick
residence of W. R. Goulding on
Main Street. Mr. and Mrs,
Goulding and family intend
moving to London in June.
without ever giving those young
people an opportunity to
express their opinions.
It's an oversight we would do
well to correct at every
opportunity, because it is clearly
evident that young people do
have many worthwhile thoughts
to contribute on most subjects
and if the frankness and honesty
displayed at Caven last week is
an idication of what we can
expect from the majority of
young people, then we should be
listening to them much more
than we do at present.
* * *
We rather hesitate to mention
the weather of the first holiday
weekend of the summer season,
but we certainly trust it isn't an
indication of things to come.
Those of us who planned to
spend the weekend getting the
garden into shape were
thwarted, and we can only
imagine the miserable time you
campers had.
If this coming weekend
proves more enjoyable, there
will be many who will want to
start a campaign to have the
holiday fall as closely as possible
to the 24th of May.
Next year the 24th is a
Sunday, and if it reverts to the
preceding Monday that will
make the holiday a day earlier
than this year, and that may be
rushing spring just a bit.
However, May is a
tempermental month at best and
it would be our luck to have the
holiday changed to the Monday
after the 24th and find that that
weekend was even more
miserable than the one just
passed.
15 YEARS AGO
A. J. Sweitzer, former
president of Exeter Lions, was
elected Deputy-District
Governor of clubs in this area at
a Lions rally in St. Thomas
The Exeter Boy Scout troop
after being inactive for several
years has been re-organized with
a membership of over 30, The
troop holds the first charter in
Ontario. Harvey Pfaff is
Scoutmaster with Bob Luxton,
assistant, and Glen Northcott
troop leader.
Over 100,000 trees are being
planted in the Ausable Forest in
Hay Township this spring. The
big planting program is part of
the reforestation scheme of the
Ausable Valley Conservation
Authority.
The cornerstone for the new
addition to the Huron County
Home at Clinton was laid by
Thomas Pryde MLA at an
impressive ceremony Wednesday
afternoon.
10 YEARS AGO
The Exeter Kinettes plan to
purchase a cart of their own
through South Huron Hospital
channels for the purpose of
selling confections and sundry
articles to the hospital patients.
They have been doing this for
some time but used a hospital
cart.
The Clandeboye station on
the CNR railway has been sold
by tender and is to be removed.
Between campaign speeches
at Wingham and Stratford
Premier Frost attended a
luncheon meeting of party
workers at Armstrong's
Restaurant, Exeter, Wednesday
afternoon,
Joanne Mair of Exeter and
Audrey Rhodes, an outstanding
Stratford athlete, whose parents
now live in Exeter, were among
the nurses who graduated from
St. Joseph's Hospital School of
Nursing, Friday.
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