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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1972-04-27, Page 4••ataaaelartatatt.tacc: The plot against schools toreferZintesabuocafe "I'd like to see the ten thou. sand pairs of shoes you advertised were on Wei" SERVING CANADA'S BEST PARMLAND C.W.N.A., o,W.N.A., ;LASS 'A' and ABC Editor -- Bill Batten — Advertising Manager Assistant Editor — Ross Haugh Women's Editor Gwyn Whilsmith Phone 235.1331 Published Each Thursday Morning at Exeter, Ontario Second Class Mail Registration Number 0386 Paid h Advance circulation, September 80,1971,5,175 SUBSCRIPTION RATES: Canada NIA Per Year; USA $10.86 • K., i 'My aAugmft.6 Naby.gittifIg ton..rt.A, melt hod oho Ackod me to ottOok your cot " Wm. J. 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Premier William Davis and his colleagues are laboring under a rash of criticism ranging from plans to purchase a two million dollar jet plane to indica- tions that funds are being squandered by various departments, On top of that, there is the all-revealing inquiry into the Workmen's Compensation Board. Some of the statistics coming from that have heads reeling. Ironically, all these things have Special Garbage Pickups surfaced at a time when the Provincial Government is supposedly embarked on an austerity program. To date, the people who pay the bills have accepted the challenge of digging a little deeper to pa extra taxes and costs to help the provincial coffers. but that willingness will quickly wane if many of the accusations coming out of Toronto are proven true. Premier Davis may well have justification for wanting a speedy jet plane. It may be the only way he can escape the wrath of Ontario taxpayers. Residents of Exeter are asked to take notice that special pickups of tree branches, garden refuse and other large materials not picked up by the regular garbage pickups of McDonald Sanitation will be at the following times during the coming months: Take another look 11 11 1 1 11 1 1 11 1 1 11 1 1 11 1 1 11 1 1 11 1 1 11 1 1 11 1 1 11 1 11 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 11 1 1 1 1 1 11 1 1 11 WEST SIDE First Thursday of Each Month EAST SIDE Second Thursday of Each Month "Another opponent ol the Village ,Lake Louise development is here to see you, Mr. Chretien!" GLENN KELLS Works Superintendent gaN s-t;03siE:::1: Historians looking back on the Seventies, if history is still studied in the future, may call this the age of violence by minorities. The governments of the world do not know how to handle violence by minorities except by sur- rendering to blackmail threats of killing hostages, blowing up airplanes, or cutting vital services. The veneer of civilization is wearing very thin. Canada, where only a few years ago, kings and queens could walk safely among the people and no one had to lock doors, has caught up with other nations and can show a record of kidnapping, hijacking, and violence to match any other. Vancouver has again had a work stoppage by its 2,800 civic employees and the threat of further strikes. Toronto has its garbage piled up and management looking after essential ser- vices, Halifax a strike threat involving police, firemen, teachers and bus drivers. The Quebec strike seems to be the most frightening, with doctors, nursing supervisors, and volunteers trying to carry the load usually shared by many times their number. The strike is endangering the lives of patients. And even worse pickets have made threats to do violence to any workers who did not strike.The threat was to break their legs. Such threats must cause mental strain to those threatened, but what effect do She'll 'rise' to the challenge they have on the strikers who make them? Another frightening aspect of the strike is that some workers have refused to- obey the instructions of the court to remain on essential jobs, and others have ignored their own union officials direc- tive to stay on certain essential jobs. The public is completely at the mercy of some groups. NABET has been striking off and on since last November, getting paid to produce programs and then not putting them on the air, interfering with popular programs in order to obtain their demands for increased pay, reduced working week, and total job security, under which no employee would be laid off even if his job is abolished or there is a surplus of personnel in any location, if the Canadian public pays up, they will have to put up with another tax increase. This idea that anything goes as long as it is the government that pays, is probably not the idea of the rank and file of ordinary workers who realize that they too pay taxes. It would seem that the old typewriting exercise should be changed. to read "Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country". Ridgetown Dominion Teachers are being lambasted from all quarters these days, poor things. As a species, they are practically harmless. But then is not that one of the im- mutable laws of our society? Attack the harmless, and tread warily with the powerful and the ruthless. According to their critics, all they are interested in is more money. This, of course, is not true of plumbers, policemen, doctors and dentists, lawyers and even Indian chiefs, garbagemen and garage operators. Sure they're interested in more money, at least enough to keep up with the galloping cost-of-living index. But it's a lie that money is all they are interested in. The great majority is interested chiefly in doing well what they are sup- posed to do — educate our children, And I can't blame them when they get a little sore at the con- stant, usually ignorant heckling of people who don't know what it's all about. Nor can I help feeling a certain kinship when some of the more militant young teachers start talking about strikes and such. A garageman can go on strike, a teacher can't. The logic eludes me. The whole business bothers me very little, personally. A man who has been through a war and a decade as a weekly newspaper editor has developed a pretty tough skin. But there is something a little sinister in the growing influence Democratic presidential presidential nomination south of the border. Reports filed this week show that Hubert is already $684,000 in debt and he still has a long way to go before winning the nomination. If he does, of course, his ex- penses will get even more substantial as he pours money into a campaign to unseat President Nixon. One of the unsettling aspects of the situation is in trying to determine how Mr. Humphrey or anyone else would hope to get a return on such an investment, or how his backers would get a return on their investments in him. • + + + When. the new pernianent licence plates are issued in 1973 they will carry the;,message "Ontario-Keep it Beautiful;" Environment Minister James Auld announced this week. This theme not only reflects the widespread and growing concern for our environment, it will also serve as a continuing reminder that a clean environment is an individual responsibility, • We concur with the idea, but think it will look a little ridiculous on the back Of some oil-burning relic chugging along the highway in a cloud of blue smoke. years of operating the hospital. Actual statistics are unavailable, but it is safe to in- dicate that the area's death rate is now on a par — or even greater — than the birth rate. Obviously, it is a situation on which one must keep a wary eye, and for the edification of the women's editor, the day may come when even she will be encouraged to add to the area's population once again, We can hardly wait until she comes humbly knocking on our door to see if she can buy our baby buggy and bathinette. Heck, we may even give them to her! Knowing how keenly she responds to community projects, we can envisage her providing this newspaper with some great stories in the years ahead, culminated in a headline such as "72-year-old . ladies'. editor ., Shushes Masse family record with 22nd offspring." So, dear readers, keep your subscriptions renewed to follow her productivity record attempt. + + + What would it be worth to you to find yourself in a continual "hot-seat," being subjected to repeated criticism, having little private life, etc, etc.? Probably not very much. In fact you may spend a great deal of money to avoid it. But not Hubert Humphrey, hoping to win the bid for the When many people think of finance companies, they think of high rates of interest. To counteract this type of thinking, the federated council of sales finance companies publish a newsletter and in their current effort they report some Canadians are paying interest rates up to 36,000 percentper year. That, they point out, is what you pay when you only have $9 in your chequing account and the bank receives a cheque against it for $10. If the bank honors the cheque, they charge you a flat rate of $1 for this service. If you then make your deposit to cover the deficit one day later, you will have paid a credit charge of $1 for the $1 you were short. That works out to 100 percent per day or 36,500 percent per annum. Another "horrendous" rate of interest you may face is that charged by the public utilities commission. If you happen to miss the deadline by one day and have to pay the gross rate rather than the net rate on your bill, the rate is 10 percent more. That works out to 3,650 percent per year interest, The newsletter draws the rather obvious conclusion that compared to the late payment and overdraft penalties charged by public utilities commissions and savings institutions, finance company rates look mild. + + + Some more prophetic words have come flying in our direction from the women's page editor, in a column she appropriately heads with the words "fancies." Seems our show of confidence in attempting to sell a baby buggy, bathinette and other assorted necessities for rearing small children has her chuckling to herself. Experience, of course, is a great teacher and she may well have good reason for predicting we'll be out trying to buy back the whole kit and kaboodle again a year from now. Actually, we cancelled our advertisement before her column appeared, primarily because of the ominous statistics revealed at the annual meeting of the South Huron Hospital Association last week. We're in danger of extinction! The birth rate at the hospital in 1971 was a mere 153, compared to averages of over 350 in the first 10 ministrators. The latter, in turn, work hand in glove with the provincial Department of Ed. It, in turn is responsible to the party in power. A nice little ring-a- round. So who is running what? When this was first proposed, I prophesied the result: increased costs; decreased efficiency. And I take back not a word of it. Ask any teacher. Then the government, with pious rectitude, after a period of spending untold millions on education, and almost suggesting that everyone who makes it in Grade I should graduate from university, takes a sidelong look at the taxpayers, and decides to play Jack the Giant Killer. Via spending ceilings on education, There don't seem to he any spending ceilings on health or welfare. But out of one side of its mouth, through its tame Department of Ed., government says, "Let's have more innovative, daring, relevant courses for our students." Out of the other side it says, "Sorry, we can't afford that . , . or that . , or that," Something stinks? To me it does. Oh well, let's raise the taxes on booze and smokes and build some more highways and airports, Let's raise tuition fees and cut down on government scholar- ships, and maybe the universities won't be so crowded. And let's get out the whips and show those ungrateful teachers where they belong —. back in the cages, Mr, Donald Jolly has com- pleted his radio course in Toronto. 75 YEARS AGO Two burglars gained an en- trance to Messrs, H. Bishop & Son hardware store Friday night and stole a large number of razors, several revolvers and other small articles. The entrance was ef- fected by prying up a rear win- dow with chisels that had been procured from Mr. W. Kuntz's carriage shop. They escaped when they were frightened off by the approach of the night watch, Mr. H. Parsons. Dr. Rollins, Messrs. H. Spark- man, D. Mill and W. H. Levett left Tuesday for Sylvan, the scene of the oil explorations. John T. Westcott on Thursday was appointed a county constable by Judge Edward Elliott. Mr. John Taylor, Deputy- Reeve of Exeter, and Councillor Rollins were in Mitchell this week inspecting the electric light and water works systems there. Exeter is going to adopt a system of fire protection and light the town with electricity. of politicians on education, for purely political reasons. And I feel a tremour of alarm when I see a few so-called responsible daily newspapers frothing at the mouth when the simple word "Teachers" emerges. I am grinding no axe. In fact, I don't even have a hatchet for chopping kindling. I lost it. But it appears to me that a few Machiavellian characters have put their pointed heads together and decided to destroy, deliberately, our educational system. The system, when you and I went through it, dad, was far from perfect. But it needed reformation, not healing medicine, not mad, massive surgery. The first political step toward chaos occurred when many of the local school boards throughout Canada lost their autonomy. The Boards were made up of men and women who would bust a gut, literally, to get the best possible education for their own, local kids. It was far from perfect, but it worked. Then the provincial govern- ments decided this was archaic, Of course it was. So is the Bible, So is democracy. So is the con- ceiving of children, Next step. In Ontario, for example, county school boards were formed. Administrators were appointed who knew nothing of strictly local con- ditions. In many cases, not all, the School boards became mere rubber stamps for the ad- 'Z::'%1;1/ Tirnes Established 1873 Advocate Established 1881 15 YEARS AGO Miss Mary Van Camp has accepted a clerk's position at the Headquarters Orderly Room at RCAF Station, Centralia. Mrs. Roylance Westcott was elected president of Hurondale Women's Institute at their annual meeting, Wednesday. The first Hobby Fair to be held in Hensall was well attended and had 82 displays. It was sponsored by the Committee, Wednesday. Carol Fletcher, Grade XIII student, who plans a career in public health nursing, has been selected queen of South Huron District High School. She will represent the school in the Western Ontario School Queens Club, sponsored by The London Free Press and UWO. Drama critic J. Burke Martin, adjudicated at a one-act play festival in Exeter last week. Drama groups from Hanover, and Listowel competed with the Exeter Drama Guild at the event, Amalgamated 1924 25 YEARS AGO Crediton Evangelical church Will henceforth be called Evangelical United Brethren. Church. Mr. & Mrs. Lorne Xleinstiver of Bowmanville have moved their household effects . into the apartment above Koehler's Bakery, Deshwood, ngineets from Armstrong & Co. ate nOW engaged in making a survey of the drains of Exeter and compiling information in reference to the sewerage system. Twenty seven members of Exeter I0or motored to London Friday evening in a chartered bus and were initiated into .the mysteries of the Samaritan Lodge, A deputation from the High School Hoard have an ap- pointment Saturday with the Department of Edlication in Toronto with reference to plans for a new high school, 10 YEARS AGO Rev. Jahn C. Boyne, BA,BD., is the new minister of Caven and Cromarty Presbyterian chur- ches. W. G. Cochrane, QC, an- nounced this week the sale of his law practice to two London. barristers, Charles Madkenzie and Peter L. Raymond. The mercury rose to A high of 78 Wednesday, the hottest day so far this Spring, `Elsie Mae 11' crew at Grand Bead caught 42 sturgeon, Saturday, when they pulled in their nets off Port Pranks. The catch dressed out a total of 819 pounds which went to a Brooklyn buyer at $1.60 per pound, Mrs. Art Clarke has been named president of txtter kinettes for 1962-0. ,