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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1973-01-11, Page 4Would create many problems Up to opposition Early indications are that last week's throne speech to open the 29th Canadian Parliament may meet with enough support from the NDP to allow Prime Minister Trudeau and his Liberal government to continue in power for some time. However, politics being what it is, the contents of the throne speech are not as important it appears as the contents of the NDP election fund. The latter is rather flat at the present time and it can be expected that the Liberals' policy will be supported only until such time as the NDP have enough money to go back to the people for an election or until such time that the NDP find it most convenient from a popularity standpoint. One of the main problems with the present status in Ottawa is the fact the government is placed in the position of having to appease the most number of people as possible. That situation can be costly; 'a fact already borne out in the Liberals' policy statements in the throne speech. It contains promises of help for many facets of our society and economy and obviously the government will find it necessary to come up with the cash for those programs from some source. The sources may not be known until the budget is presented, but the Liberal party faces the prospect of a large deficit or raising taxes from many sources. Many of the ideas presented by Prime Minister Trudeau are warranted and in- dicate he found out—belated though it may be — that many Canadians are unhappy with the status quo. But the promises in the throne speech can not be fully judged until the budget is presented. Meanwhile, the whole setup depends entirely on the opposition parties. The programs of the present government will remain satisfactory until the opposition feel the time is ripe for another election. 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The Store With the Stock EXETER Canada has accepted numerous im- migrants from the United States who left because of current conditions there. These include draft dodgers and deserters from its armed services. They have aroused deep resentment in the U.S., to which some cannot return under present laws without risking arrest. A segment of public opinion in Canada likewise believes we erred in admitting them. Some encounter prejudice and un- friendly attitudes. North American history however reveals that U.S. to Canada population movements for political reasons are nothing new. A very influential element among Canada's inhabitants, the United Empire Loyalists, came here in one such move- ment. Again, in the nineteenth century, ten- sions that culminated in the American Civil War caused many south to north border Bomb threats, skyjacking and recent air catastrophes are making many people skeptical about air flight. Their fears are warranted and it is rather obvious, that new and stringent measures are required to provide safety for airline passengers from all countries. Indications are that President Nixon will asK the United States Congress to make the death penalty mandatory for skyjacking and many passengers who have spent the trying hours during such an occurrence will be among the first to lend their support. We are all immigrants Must be stopped crossings These included escaping Negro slaves also draft dodgers who "sked- adled" to avoid service in the Northern Army, Even when free to do so, few of the recent crop of immigrants evidence much desire to recross the border. As did their predecessors of the past two centuries they seem more likely to become permanent Canadians. But no one knows what the future will bring. During Hitler's regime a young man fled to Scandinavia, taking an assumed name which he still bears, to evade the Gestapo. It is that of Willy Brandt, just re- elected Chancellor of the West Germany from which he fled for nine years of volun- tary exile. Among those who fled from the U.S.A. to Canada in the last decade could possibly be a future President or Prime Minister. However, it would appear that measures to stop skyjackings before they start would be more appropriate. Surely scientific know-how has reached the stage where it is impossible for anyone to place a bomb on an airplane or to boaM a plane armed with a small arsenal. As Flip Wilson may say, if instruments can be designed to enable pilots to fly safely through all kinds of weather at high rates of speed, surely they can come up with something to detect bombs. Four times thanks to ca As I recall, my last column was a tale of woe, relating the dreadful things the gods had done to me in 1972. I should have kept my mouth shut. The same gods, annoyed at my tiny protest, decided to show me what they could really do. Take a cat. Go on. Any old cat. Take a freshly-waxed floor. Take a guy with an armful of milk and eggs. Take a wife who is upstairs watching TV when she should be helping that guy with the groceries. O.K. The guy comes in. He takes off his boots so he won't make a mess on the newly - washed - and - waxed kitchen floor. He is in his sock feet. Right? Out of the grocery bags he takes two quarts of milk, a dozen eggs and a case of pop. He heads for the kitchen counter. At that very moment the cat, unfed, hurls herself at his legs, meowing and rubbing. He lifts his right foot, gently, to turf her out of the way, spins smartly on his left metatarsal and goes down like Niagara Falls. He fails to eject the grub, out of some dim, primitive idea that you hang onto the grub at any cost. The, first thing that hits anything is' his noggin, which tries to tear the copper off the cupboard door handles. The next thing that strikes hard-pan is his nose, which bounces off the floor in a spray of blood and milk. Yes, he's still holding onto the milk. He loses only one quart of blood, two of milk. His erstwhile wife and protector comes down and finds him sitting in something like a Masai wedding, two parts milk to one part blood, a cold cloth on his torn scalp, eggs all over the place, and his nose going up like a balloon being filed with hydrogen. But there's no fret, no sweat. He's had his nose broken three times before, and by far better people than a cat, or his wife's waxing. Sitting there among the eggshells and milk and blood, he remembers fondly the time his future brother-in-law gave him an elbow and cracked the old beezer during football practice. And then he thinks of that beautiful free-for-all with the Royal Marines, outside that pub in Wrexham, North Wales, when the fighter pilots proved only that they could not fight. And he remembers, almost with pleasure, the day he was being beaten up by the German guards, and nobody had even broken his nose yet, and then the son or daughter. Dad would want a Bobby Orr while mother would probably pick out a Mario Lanza type. There would be constant squabbles. Every time the kid did something which displeased a parent, he or she would throw it up to the parental partner that "you were the one who picked him out". The kids would be upset too! The Bobby Orr type would go through life wishing he'd been produced as a Mario Lanza and vice versa. All parents would be choosing offspring with unusual talent capabilities and we'd end up without anyone to do the work as all would feel this would be below their calling. In short, the whole system would be messed up to an even greater extent than it is now. The obvious drawback is that no human has the capability to determine what type of children should be produced. Man is not yet capable or fit to control his destiny to such a promising degree and we suggest the whole project should be scrapped for more worthwhile projects. Technology, in many instances, appears to roll along its course almost unchecked and its, pur- poses are not always the best for mankind. Witness our present pollution problems and the possible threat of nuclear twar. No one would deny the geneticist the role of preventing •-- little guy who was engineer of the locomotive came rushing into the circle and kicked him right in the snoot. And I'd like to say this mutt sat there happily for ever after; thinking about the other times his nose had beenbroken. But she wouldn't let him. Her first thought was pure Florence Nightingale. "Everybody will think I did it", she wailed. "Yes„ I would think they would," I countered. "Knowing you." "They'll think you were drunk", was her next con- tribution, "Well, that's what I'd think, if someone told me he'd lost a one-round bout with a cat", I suggested. "How am I going to get the blood out of that towel", she queried. "Well, you might pretend you were a vampire, and suck it out." "People will think you've been beaten up", she worried. "Yes", I rejoined, Smugly. No answer. "I'm going to lock the door, so — Please, turn to page 5 50 Years Ago The newly organized adult class of James St. Sunday School composed chiefly of young married people met at the home of their teacher,, Rev. M.J. Wilson on Wednesday evening for the purpose of organizing and spending a social evening, The class is to be known by the name of "Comrades". The young Ladies' Bible Class of the James St. Sunday School held their annual banquet and social evening in the basement of the church. The teachers and officials of the school were in- vited guests, Over 100 sat down to a very appetizing menu of oysters, cake and ice cream. This section has experienced several snow storms during' the past week. The automobiles have been practically tied up. 25 Years Ago Thomas Pryde was nominated on Wednesday as the Progressive Conservative candidate in the forthcoming by-election for the Huron riding. W.E. Middleton was elected chairman of the Exeter Public School Board. Mr. Lex McDonald, distributor of Supertest Gasoline Co. in this district, moved his family to Exeter from Glencoe. Exeter Rural HEPC workmen were called to Kingsville where the recent sleet storm did so much damage. W.G. Cochrane was elected chairman of the newly formed male choir, ments are becoming more urban centred. Geographically, rural ridings such as Huron take in as much as 60 square miles while some ridings in metropolitan areas may be less than six square miles. Obviously, this puts an added strain on rural MPs to keep abreast of all the problems within their constituency and may make it more difficult for riding associations to generate interest in political affairs over such a wide-spread district. Certainly MP Bob McKinley is correct in his suggestion that the name Huron no longer designates specifically the area covered by the local federal riding and some change is warranted to make the designation more applicable. The electorate are still more fortunate in this riding than in some because, basically, the area contained within its boundaries is much the same from an economic and social standpoint. . It is far better than some of the rural areas which have been pegged onto the corners of urban ridings where their problems are much different than the large majority of the voters and therefore do not always get the consideration they should from an MP who, must by necessity, consider the majority over the minority if he is to retain his seat. + + + All marriages are happy . . . it's living together afterwards that causes all the trouble. 15 Years Ago B.W. Tuckey and W.G. Cochrane of town and Ivan Kalbfleisch and George Deichert, Zurich, are attending the national Liberal convention in Ottawa this week. Effective immediately, Huron Inspectorate No. 3. with its office in Exeter under the supervision of John Goman will be enlarged by the addition of the township of Hibbert. At a meeting of the Ladies Auxiliary to South Huron Hospital Tuesday afternoon, it was voted to undertake the furnishing of the main living room of the new nurses' residence of the hospital. Stephen Reeve John Morrissey won the tightest election battle in Huron County's history when he became warden Tuesday. 10 Years Ago Two escapees from the Ontario Hospital in Hamilton were picked up by town police here Monday. One was 22 and the other was a 14-year-old-boy, Exeter Kinsmens Club has pledged a $1,500 donation toward the swimming pool project. Provincial honors were awarded to three 4-H members at the Perth County Achievement Day held in Mitchell recently. They were Hazel Crago, Kirkton, and Joyce Kerslake and Margaret Wallace of the Staffa Club. Former councillor Stewart Webb took over the Reeve's chair at the recent inaugural meeting of Grand Bend council. "That reminds me. The driggist phoned . . . something about the prescription he gave you being recalled." — Contributed A California scientist has predicted that by 1983 we will be able to produce human beings with whatever physical or mental ability personality we choose. The method is called "cloning", the artificial production of human beings. Genetic engineering would make it possible to create a person with the brains of an Einstein, the physique of a Bobby Orr and the voice of a Mario Lanza. The same process would eliminate all possibility of genetic defect and disease. That, of course, would be a tremendous benefit, but there are date we have heard no many obvious perils in having a complaints g regardin the choice as to what attributes,_ planned redistribution of the talents and personalities people local federal riding which will see could choose in children. Huron jump from a population of Imagine the arguments that 59,000 to 74,000. would ensue when parents The Electoral Boundaries arrived to pick out their chosenli,., Commission has proposed that Huron be enlarged to include three more municipalities from Middlesex and five from Perth. These include the Town of Parkhill and the Townships of East and West Williams in Middlesex, while from Perth we will be joined by St. Marys and Mitchell and the Townships of Blanshard, Fullarton and Hib- bert. With population being the major consideration in electoral boundaries, it comes as no sur- prise to anyone that the rural ridings are being extended in area to get nearer the minimum requirements. It also points up the fact that rural Ontario is slowly losing its political strength and govern- birth defects, or of the scientist producing new schemes to preserve our natural resources. But it is becoming apparent that we must not assign to them, by default, the vital decisions on test-tube babies and gene manipulation. We'll heartily endorse any program for better humans, but not artificial ones. + + + They say women are smarter than men, but didyou ever see a man wear a shirt that buttoned .up the back? + + + To