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NORTH LONDON, ONTARIO STOCK-FEEDER SALE Hensall livestock Sales Monday, May 7th 7:00 p.m. 850 HEAD Consisting of Steers, Heifers and Calves Anyone wishing to consign cattle to this sale should contact the management: Victor Hargreaves Clinton 482-7511 William Livingston Dungannon 529-7521 Auctioneers HECTOR McNEIL LARRY GARDINER Barry Miller Exeter 235-2717 Kirkton 229-6205 ant Kg Nflug (1 MOTHER'S DAY MAY, 1973 "God could not be everywhere and therefore he made Mothers." Old Saying "The future destiny of the child is always the Work of the Mother." Napoleon "The Hand that rocks the cradle, is the hand 'that rules the world." William Ross Wallace "All that I ant or hope to be, I owe to my angel Mother." Abraham Lincoln "Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of Little Children." W. M, Thaekeray "A mother is a mother still, the holiest thing alive." S. T. Coleridge Il R Bob Middleton, Phm8 Stan Harrell, PhmB !DOLE TON Drugs /z7,, ---tirf-7-gte_d_wj:Ltf_„Ayn_ef PHONE 235-15 70 EXETER R,01i5RVRORgRVRCIR .4q 13, P Pt We too, want to add our tribute to mothers. We know them well. When they visit otir phar- maey it is usually to obtain something fOr the better health Or comfort of their loved ones. We are proud of the fact that Mothers often call on Os for help. things (To better. with... In joy Oa& He's the real thing! "To all who receive Jesus, He gives the tight to become the children at G od. All they need to do is believe He (Jesus) would save them (from their sins)." John 1:12 (Living 1AG Version) Exeter Pentecostal Tabernacle Phone 235-2991 Pastor Austin Gedclo - Phone 235-0994 Page 17 Times-Advocate, Moy 3, 1 973 Speaks out against custom of choosing school queen FRENCH SPEAKING WINNERS - Students from the five secondary schools in Huron County participated in an oral french speaking contest at South Huron District High School Friday, The winners'are shown above, Frpm the left, they are, John Deneau, Wingham; Jamie McEwan, Wingham; Ron Shrier, Goderich; Larry York, Goderich; Cathy Dejong, South Huron; Ben Miltenberg, Wingham; Tony Kyle and Chris Cann, South Huron T-A photo Letters to Guardian editor Comment on justice, food By JOHN D, BLACKWELL. (Civis Anxius So)licitusque) At the risk of being "crucified" by the lovely contestants in this year's school queen competition, I fear that I must state my views on this quaint custom. South Huron has for many years elected a school queen to reign over the spring formal. The whole idea of this degrading, archaic and falsely-glorified tradition is disturbing. I believe that there are solid reasons why this peculiar institution should be given an immediate death sen- tence. Each year a small number of (supposedly) deserving senior girls is elected to contest the position of school queen, Such osooion1111 ....... 11111110 iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii 111111111111111M Fertilizer • Bulk or Bagged • Custom Mixing • Herbicides • Insecticides For prompt service contact THAMES VALLEY PRODUCE RUSSELDALE Phone 229-8950 10 llllllllllllllll,, unu,uu,nu,ua,umUmnn mono nomination is considered to be a great honor. But why do we select these girls? Is their goal merely honor, Surely this is the only legitimate end of such a prac- tice? But if honor is the purpose, for what is the honor? Here again, there is only one plausible answer - outstanding con- tribution to the quality and richness of school life. If this is the case, but I fear that such cannot always be so (and may I state that I make no specific reference to any of this year's contenders), then I must say such a plan is quite ac- ceptable if not taken past the point of selecting a group of these girls. It is only right and fitting that we should honour the school's outstanding members who contribute freely and un- selfishly to South Huron's bet- terment. This group could be much larger and include many "little people" in the school. Most persons give "something" to school life, Actually one could argue that a plan whereby only the feminine element of the school is honoured is quite sexually biased. Why not have a king, if there must be a queen? After all, we should have a proper royal family. Of course, I should really be stomped into the dust for suggesting such a revolutionary and anti-social idea. I mean "it just isn't done, is it?" As I said before, this "honour system" has my blessings as long as it remains in the group stage. but When honour is bestowed upon one and only one specific person, we are sailing our shaky raft on sacred and roughly- charted seas. Who are we to decide which person among us is the "greatest." Surely to properly make such an evaluation, we would have to be as "perfect" if not more so than the person being chosen, Yet, we say that the "chosen one" is the best, Therefore, this situation is a contradiction. We are not, for example, simply chosing someone ac- cording to his/her political abilities whom we think can best represent us in government. We are going beyond this point and, in fact, saying that, as a person (that means in every aspect), you "Miss Queen" are the best among us. This godlike (or should I say goddess) appraisal of people as human beings is in- deed a serious one, Our school queen is not a typical elected official who will serve in a specific capacity. She is a chosen person worthy of honour because of past contributions. If the idea of selecting a single "chosen one" out of the "chosen few" frightens a person, one will surely be horrified when one takes a close look at the way in which "Miss Queen" is picked. The week of electioneering is certainly an educative spectacle to behold if one is contemplating entering the "dog-eat-dog" world of politics. The "chosen few," who have been nobly honoured by their fellow students for outstanding and selfless contribution (forgive my repetition) to school (which, in fact, is us), turn into a group of Dr. Jeckles and Mrs. Hydes. No longer is their main concern what they can give, and in doing so, achieve an inner sense of per- sonal self-satisfaction and achievement, but rather the glory that they could get out of being the "chosen one." The whole scene becomes a picture of "look everybody; see how 'good' I am, how much I have done,and how much I deserve to be queen." - Please turn to page 18 for Guardian By DEB HILLMAN Well, it's almost the end of the year and I can truly say we have done a rotten job on the newspaper this year. The paper was supposed to be out every two weeks, but as usual, we had a small staff and couldn't dig up enough to have a decent paper. The kids around here come to the staff members complaining but did they do anything? No! That would be too much like work. Looking through old year books depresses me because I see that not so many years ago there would be from 20 to 40 students on the Guardian staff. Now we are lucky to get 10 who contribute anything! The newspaper is a school project and it is your concern. Anybody can join and even if you don't show for the meetings write articles in your spare time, Next fall come out and join The Guardian. It won't kill you but it might give the paper the boost it needs! Sir: I wish to thank you for your article which told the people the farmers were finally getting a fair price for beef, For the first time farmers are beginning to make some money without having to invest it back into their farm, or at least not all of it. Apparently, Mr. Kyle does not believe the fact the farmers have been and only to lesser degree are still being 'ripped off'. Farmers get about 30-45 cents per pound for their livestock and then have to invest it all in seed to grow cattle feed, machinery to plant and harvest the cattle feed and barns for both cattle and machinery and silos for the cattle feed, Even after that, he still has to buy and care for the cattle, Of course this is not expensive or at least Mr. Kyle doesn't think so. The farmers don't blame "Bossy". They can't; Bossy's their bread and butter. An Agriculturalist (BThowcliffe) Sir: I have written to you so you can hear my views on court justice, Cases involved in Supreme Courts quite often use references to other cases, while in com- paring cases I have known it must not be done in lower courts. I think this is unjust. Everyone knows that quite often it is "who you are" rather than "what you are charged for," Local courts which are small, vary the charges' mostly ac- cording to the judges humor. I have known cases when a repeated offender of impaired driving received a three-month suspension, when a close friend of mine received a $125 fine and nine-month suspension for leaving the scene of a $30 ac- cident. In the court case they changed it and said the damages were $150. Neither car was repaired because of lack of damages. Most fines for having liquor on a place and in public are around $40 while I know of a case where a drug offender received only a $75 for a serious illegal drug commonly known MDA. Each case should be an in- dividual case in itself and not be a numbered one where you more or less look on a chart for the of- fense. The person who had the damages done against him told Education is discipline for the adventure of life. No mean women can cook well, It calls for generous spirit, a light hand and a large heart. the accused that he would leave the case in the hands of the police. After he heard the charges he said he felt bad and thought charges would be dropped. It must have been one of the judge's hard days, so if you have to go to court go on the judge's birthday or some other happy day for him. Yours truly, Randy Gilfillan Sir: I would like to comment on the article that was placed in the paper (letters to the editor) by a person who described the smoking conditions at South Huron. I agree in one way that students should respect other people's property and try to get the litter to garbage cans. However, when Mr. Wooden said, "No smoking," I think he meant on school grounds only. Students should be allowed to smoke across the street without being suspended. I think there are the same number of students now smoking across the street as there were before smoking on school property. The student who wrote the article is obviously a non-smoker. If he or she were a smoker, it would be a different matter! Take me, for instance. I smoke once in a while, and I see a definite need for a place where students may smoke without fear of recriminations. I agree that if students wish to -keep on smoking they should keep the smoking area clean, If students are not to smoke within a mile radius of the school (or some other ridiculous restric- tion) nearly all of the students who smoke will go down town and smoke there, This practice will probably result in students being late for class or skipping class. Let's be reasonable! Regar- dless of threats or restrictions, students will not quit smoking. Isn't it time that something positive was done about the problem instead of the same old negative things. Name withheld on request. Sir: This is just a comment about the Heritage Travelling Society of Canada. We (17 of us) went on a trip to London, England from March 18-26 . Our group leader, Mrs. Brooks didn't receive definite imformation about the trip (flight number,hotelaccom- mode tions, etc.) until one week before we left. When we finally arrived in London, we were taken to a different hotel than we had planned for. With seven days available for sight-seeing, we had only five tours arranged for us to attend as a group - three art museums, a tour of London by bus, and a symphony. If we hadn't toured the city on our own, we wouldn't have seen any of the sites. One of the members of our group got sick and had to stay in the hospital while we left to come back home. He bought the Heritage Insurance, but still had to pay his own fare back home. It is my opinion that the trip was very worthwhile, but-it-could: have been more so if it had been better organized, Val Regier REAR TRACTOR TIRES HEAVY DUTY HI POWER LUG WIDE BASE Wanna gave A BUCK? 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