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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1976-07-15, Page 4AnfRe WANTAP FAA EXT0AT.111 tint TAKE INVO 10lAtUstart IMESTIORIL tot.kiseais stists$350 MY son's van itkEpottocALKNow 1110 TIMM CfltOT AIM EN? ‘40t V OM 17 MITO0 JoUtkiterp, ^.4,1•111,,,VIAWYM.WtteeerMIWAVALIALICAtniVorMVAVert{{112%.,,,,,,,,tvo.,--: Caring and praying • Get back to nature Concern is iustified Indications are that several senior members of the community are upset at the prospect of following council's edict to hook into the sanitary sewer system by this November. Their concern is to be expected. Installing a sewer connection is' a mess and in some instances can be costly. It's a situation that can be upsetting, particularly for people unaccustomed to coping with modern technology. It is therefore most encouraging to see that members of council understand the predicament faced by some members of the community and have taken steps to give a sympathetic hearing to those who feel they should be excused from the sewer edict. In situations where money is the major concern there is financial assistance available. This fact should be made abun- dantly clear to local citizens so those who qualify can avail themselves of the assistance. Where people seek to be excused solely on the grounds of not wanting to face the upheaval of sewer connections, council's social services committee will have to weigh each situation carefully. In many cases, sewer connections create more im- agined fuss than what actually occurs. An explanation of what has to be done may suf- fice to soothe some. It is important that all residents avail themselves of the services of the sanitary sewer system, while it is also important that the individual needs of some special cases be carefully considered. Council members have already in- dicated their desire to be as compassionate as possible and their leadership in that regard is highly commendable, Must be selective "Let's hope the damage is under $350!" "We may want some information some day!" That was the comment of Reeve Derry Boyle when Exeter council last week agreed to pay the $50 membership fee to join the Association of Municipal Police Governing Authorities, The Reeve may be correct. But when was the last time Exeter council asked the Association of Municipal Police Governing Authorities for some information? We'll bet the answer is "never". Ontario is over-populated with municipal organizations. Some are valuable, while many others are questionable. Membership into each should be carefully considered, particularly at a time when most municipal councils are fighting a losing battle against increasing costs. Many people in today's society are "joiners"but end up with little input or out- put from the groups with which they become associated. The value to the group and individual is negligible. Few members of municipal councils can keep up with the vast amount of printed material coming into the office at the pre- sent time and they do little but encourage the waste of time, talent and money by merely joining for what "may" be an avenue of assistance "some" day, That assistance is probably available from other sources anyway! Pro and con of tight facing Baby, you've slipped Nearly everyone needs a few other people who really care about them and with whom they can share their doubts, their fears, their failures and their successes, This can't be &Ile with someone they don't know, It has to be with persons they love and trust. For several years, now, small prayer groups of all denominations have been spring- ing up all over North America with the concept of sharing, car- ing and praying. They are made up of people who want to receive God's healing for the deep and often hidden hurtings in their lives, They want to be with others who can listen without condemning and know that no one will even want to gossip about what they've heard. A small group is not for self- indulgence, it is for healing; and successful groups are usually comprised of people who don't want to sit around discussing the existence of God or any theological doctrine, but who want to find out how each might get to know God personally and how He can become the centre of their lives. They have found that one way of doing this is to open up to each other, daring to ask questions and taking the risk of telling others of their unmet needs. It is, of course, a growing ex- perience, and at first, anyone coming into a small group may not be able to communicate because basically we are all afraid of each other somehow, and don't know how to reveal our true selves without being em- barrassed.Butdiscovering the art of group conversation does break down many barriers, However, this type of fellowship is no meringue pie. It's tough and sometimes costly. It's much easier to get people together to discuss theology. Everyone likes to kick around ideas. You may even get a few together to pray, but you may not find too many people interested in baring the growing edge of their lives. But for those of us who have stuck with it because we needed it, we have seen how God works wonders when you open yourselves to each other amigo Rim. For us, at least, it is an ex- perience beautiful but hard to ex- plain. The small group I belong to started with just three people who committed themselves to meet one night each week to try and discover what God wanted from them. They didn't adver- tise, they didn't even talk about it much, but they've seen the group grow to 16.20 people in two years. One by one, and sometimes by two's, they've welcomed the people God sent to join them. Many came warily, hesitantly and sometimes dragg- ing their feet only to find they weren't devoured and there was nothing to scare them there after all! What they did find was a place where ordinary persons like basis of acceptance, where ni themselves meet together on one condemns or gossips, where there is naturalness, love and gaiety and where the masks can come down, What do we do at these get-togethers? Well, at ours, we usually study a passage from the Bible with everyone, who wishes to, sharing their thoughts; then, we break into smaller groups (two or three persons) for a sharing and listen- ing time. Before we close, we ask if anyone should be on our prayer list, and then we have audible or silent prayer. Small groups are Biblical and part of our heritage. We often read in the Bible of Jesus draw- ing apart with three others...Peter, James and John, and of course, we know He spent much time in the company of just his twelve disciples. Our forefathers sought council from each other in the Spitit of Christ, There are some small groups that fail for several reasons. There is the danger of becoming a pious clique that mirrors its own goodness under the guise of Bible study. Others flounder in the stagnant pool of their own in- growth. They withdraw from the world rather than seeking to do God's will in the world. — Please turn to Page 5 Ann Landers may be among the world's best read columnists, but her type of advice columns are not new to newspapers. A copy of an 1883 Toronto Mail was recently passed along to this writer and among the interesting items were some letters on the women's page. Indications are that an article had appeared in an earlier edition of the newspaper on the subject of small waists and corsets. As even Ann Landers would suspect, the article drew both pro and con replies from the readers of the day. We reprint a couple of them for your amusement, or edification if you happen to be interested in having a smaller waist . + + + Experience of a Tight Lacer Madame,—I was delighted to read the sensible letters of For all those starry-eyed souls who say of women — "you've come a long way baby;" here are the facts. Montreal economist Dian Cohen finds from the Women's Bureau that women workers are slipping — in the amount of pay they take home, as compared with men. Although more women than ever are in the labor force, one out of every three women are bearing more ,of the over-all burden of unemployment than in the past year. In the clerical field where more than a million women work, men earn 57 percent more than women, averaging $7,769 yearly to a woman's $4,962. The salary difference for men here is INCREASING. In the service sector men made 157 percent more than women in 1972. Back in 1967 men service workers earned only 121 percent more than women. Again the gap is INCREASING for men. In the sales field things are going from rotten to worse, In 1967 salesmen averaged OTTAWA and Small Business $6,096 — women $2,292. Six years later in 1972 salesmen were up to $9,567 while sales women made a whopping $3,771. But the gap is narrowing in favor of women in the professions. In 1967 male professionals earned 87 percent more than women. By 1972 they earned only 72 percent more than women professionals. In the clerical field where 97 percent of all secretaries and stenographers are women — male secretaries earn between $2,300 and $12,000 more than women. Even babysitting is not sacred, The average 60-year-old male full-time sitter made $5,536 yearly — compared to the woman sitter's $2,099! When men are outstripping women at such traditional work as looking after the baby all that can be said for the women of Canada is "you've slipped a long way baby." Risk must be recompensed By KENNETH McDONALD —Listowel Banner According to Funk and Wagnall's dictionary, an entrepreneur is "one who undertakes to start and conduct an enterprise or business, usually assuming full control and risk." In other words, a self-starter; someone who makes things happen. • • • On a recent evening, I watched on television two elderly gentlemen being interviewed. In both cases, the result was an ex- cellent testimony to the human spirit. And in both cases, the old- timers echoed something I've believed for years — that Canada is the greatest country in the world in which to live. First of these indomitable elders was Conn Smythe, widely known for years in this country as the irascible, out-spoken Manager of the Toronto Maple Leafs, when that hockey team was a by-word in Canada. Smythe is 81, and he hasn't lost much of the tough, blunt attitude that made him respected by many, hated by some, and almost. revered by others. He detests whiner and layabouts, as most of us do, but he doesn't mind saying so in public. lie doesn't like a lot of the things that are going on in this leVairME ...................................................... • •„,i•Nimv.MEME.MMURRIVISIKONSMINAIMMOMMI pants over the shoulders, thus leaving the abdomen free, 3. Female clothing is not hung over the shoulders, but around (he waist; so a well-constructed corset giving ample chest breathing room, and only yielding sufficient support to obviate the cutting of petticoat strings or the buttoned top-band, throwing the entire weight on the hips, is a good institution but any attempt to reduce the waist abnormally by tight lacing is contrary to all physiological laws and the laws of nature; is in fact as much an act of barbarism as the small feet of the Chinese lady. Let girls be well developed, using all proper means of sup- porting their clothing where they are most fit to bear that weight, viz:-Over the sacrum and illium, help that by a well made corset, but avoid all contraction of waist. Small waist means pot belly, Query--Which is the more fashionable. Yours etc, Medicus, + + Temperance, of course, was another subject of public debate and the Mail carried a notice that it suggested would be "good news for the friends of temperance." It indicated that the Inter- colonial Railway had issued orders that any officer or em- ployee who is known to be in- toxicated will be at once dismissed from the service. That may not prove too sur- prising in today's society, but the clincher is that the rule applied "whether on duty or not". + + + Of course, there were the bitter editorial feuds between the Toronto papers, each supporting one of the major political parties. The Mail editorial on April 21, 1883 to this effect was as follows: "The Globe's correspondent makes a foolish attack on the manner and style of Mr. Wood- worth. It so happens that Mr. Woodworth is an excellent la'wyer, an accomplished man, a speaker of unusual ability, and a man with a fine parliamentary career before him; some man less promising will have to be taken by the Grit organ as an experiment for its clumsy wit". "Staylace" and "Small Waist," and I hope you will allow me to join your charming con- versazione. I had an experience in tight-lacing that may be in- teresting. My education was finished in a boarding school near London, Eng., and figure-training was strictly attended to. Soon after my arrival the principal examined me, and decided as to the size to which my waist should be reduced. I was quickly encased in a pair of stays, filled with bones, and with an almost inflexible husk, and before many minutes were over I knew what tight lacing meant. Each evening before going to bed, and each morning as soon as I got up, one of the undergovernesses drew the laces a little tighter, so that in a week my waist was reduced five in- ches. After that, I was only reduced half an inch a month till When I left, I measured just seventeen inches. For the first month the pain from the continued com- pression was very severe, but nature soon accommodated itself to the pressure, and I began to enjoy the sensation of tightness. I have continued tight-lacing ever since and my health has in no way suffered, and the charm of my figure is more than com- pensation for the amount of suffering I had to undergo." I have not been without a pair of stays, excepting the few minutes I spend in'the bath, for over seven years, so I think I can speak with some experience. Yours, etc, A Tight Lacer + + + A Medical Opinion In your issue of 12th instant the subject of small waists and corsets is broached in answer to the mother of two girls, aged nine and twelve, with unfashionable waists. Let me say:- 1. As girls breathe entirely with the chest and boys with the ab- domen, which is a wise physiological arrangement, as girls will in all probability become mothers. 2. As boys breathe with the abdomen it is well to hang their Wrn the Canadian identity if it sneak- ed up and bit them on the backside. They'd think it was an American yellow-jacket, or at least a CIA plot. One of the most persistent critics of Canadian manners and mores is yours truly, but I sure don't go around worrying about, or losing any sleep over, the Canadian identity. Nor does anyone else who real- ly knows anything about this country, or who has fought in one of the two big wars. The Cana- dian identity is just as real, and present, and prickly, as thorns on a rose. I haven't much of a punch any More, but if anyone suggested I Was a Yank, or a Limey, or an Australian, I would be inclined to give him a punch on the nose. And I think most Canadians feel that way, Whether their background is Anglo-Saxon, or Japanese, or Ukrainian or Entrepreneurs can be found in government, in big and in small business. They're needed every- where, but Canada, especially, needs them in small business. In a com- munity of 1,000 people, three or four entrepre- neurs can make the difference between depen- dency and prosperity. The businesses they start and the jobs they create are like widening ripples in a pool. Their successes will inspire others to emulate them. country, and makes no bones about it. But when he was asked whether he thought Canada, as such, would endure, he just laughed, and said, in effect, that of course it would. It was too great a country, and we had too many fine people (although there are a lot of "skunks”) for it to disintegrate or disappear. What a refreshing change from the purveyors of woe who fill so many columns of our newspapers and magazines, and so much air time, snivelling about Canada's loss of identity, or search for it, or attempt to re- tain it, or something. There are the Same snivellers who have been with us since Confederation, warning us that the big bogey to the south is tak- ing us over, and that we'll wind up as a banana republic, or a satellite of the U.S. These carpers wouldn't know ("AI" mem()arm.) • • 0 Times Established 1873 Advocate Established 1881 Amalgamated 1924 toteleaimesatfuocafe What they have in com- mon is an attitude. Behind their driving force is the personal conviction of success. But entrepre- neurial qualities can also be acquired. Students,inay develop ideas from sum- mer work with small firms. Regular employees of small firms are themselves a natural source of such qualities. Entrepreneurial courses should be part both of formal education and of government re- training schemes, formed in Exeter Friday night in Trivitt Memorial Parish Hall when about 75 members of the order from district centres gathered for the occasion. Thirty underprivileged children from London and their pet white rabbit were treated to an outdoor picnic at Riverview Park, Exeter by members of the airmen's lounge at RCAF Station, Centralia, Saturday. Possibility of a steel strike in the United States may halt production at Genera! Coach Works and may hold up con- ,st ruction of the addition to Exeter Post Office. whatever. We're not less boisterous Americans, or less obnoxious Englishmen, or less' excitable Italians, or less phlegmatic Ger- mans. We're Canadians, warts and all. There's nothing I'd rather be, and there's no country in which I'd rather live. And if that sounds like chauvinism, so be it. We have our faults, and we bicker like hell among ourselves, and we may be a mongrel race, but ask 99 percent of us if we'd like to be something else and live somewhere else, and you'd get a resounding "NO!" Second old-timer I mentioned was "Jackrabbit Johnson." So named because at nearly 100 years old, he was still cross- country skiing, living alone, proud and independent. He's a Norwegian who came to this country as a youth, and loves it deeply, He was asked what were the most important things in life. At 100, you aren't too much worried about what people will think of your opinions. His answer was, more or less, clean air, clean water, nature, feeling good by keeping fit. Nothing deeply original. But he added-that Canada was the most wonderful country in the world. That our young people, on the whole, don't know it. That the big cities — Montreal, Toronto, Van- couver — were not Canada. I couldn't agree with him more. Our cities are carbon copies of other big cities, or of each other, Don't expect to find the Canadian identity in them. Don't huddle in a highrise, fight traffic, fence yourself in with television and concrete, and expect to get the feel of this country. If you do, and? aside from the language, you might as well be living in Tokyo or Frankfurt or Glasgow. Get out into that clean air, and that clean water. Breathe Canada in (not, please, while you are under water). My kids could hardly wait to get away from the Small town and off to the City. Now the phone rings only once before it is snatched up as they hope for an invitation to come "up north," away from the city. Why not be like my wife and me? Stop relying on the plastic life, and get back to nature. SERVING CANADA'S BEST FARMLAND C.W.N.A., O.W.N.A. CLASS 'A' and ABC Published by J. W. Eedy Publications Limited LORNE EEDY, PUBLISHER Editor — BIU Batten Assistant Editor — Ross Haugh Advertising Manager Jim Beckett Plant Manager — Jim Scott Composition Manager-- Dave Worby Business Manager — Dick Jongkincl Phone 235.1331 • 11 • CCNA RIUI ARON AWARD 10'74 +CNA Published Eath Thursday Morning. at Exeter, Ootario Second Class Mail Registration Nittfiliet 0306 Paid in Advance Circulation- September SO, 105 6,420 Canada $9.00 Pet Year; USA $11.00 SUBSCRIPUON RATES: Entrepreneurs may get started for negative reasons, too, such as plant closure or bring passed over for proitiotion. Job alienation and the absence of a sense of achievement will often motivate people toward independence. However, though money is by no means the dominant motive, the survival of new enterprises requires an adequate cash flow in return for the investment and the risks assumed. • • • The individual is the key. If he can get 10 per cent, risk-free, from Cana- da Savings Bonds, he must recover more than that from a business to make up for risking everything he has. Moreover, public policies must be directed toward removing barriers to the formation of new enterprises, particularly the lack of manpower availability as a result of inadequate national ap- prenticeship programs. • • • In its representations to federal and provincial governments, The Cana- dian Federation of Inde- pendent Business has Made specific recommen- dations stressing the need for incentives to indivi- duals rather than to banks, venture capital companies and other institutions. ••• Entrepreneurship is an affair of the community, matching men with experience and capital to the newcomers. Almost every community has a small, inconspicuous group of local businessmen and professionals who back local ventures, often in real estate. These groups are the natural channel for creating new enter- prises. All are motivated to succeed because they're fishing their own money. That's the secret, It's a local, self-generating process. Venkini. This year, vatatiOn closer to home 30 Years Ago Mr. Wes Witmer picked his first ripe tomato on July 11. About 400 people from Staffs, Cromarty and the south end of Ilibbert Township attended a community reception in Staffs Ball Friday night for Mr. & Mrs. John Norris, Mrs. Norris, a British war bride, arrived in Canada recently to join her husband. ' Orangemen from Huron ,Middlesex, Perth and truce Counties celebrated for the first time since the war with 5,000 people attending in Blyth. 5 Years Ago Roy Ratz a well known Stephen Township farmer was killed Thursday afternoon when the tractor he was driving over- turned, He was attempting to cross a ditch. Mr. & Mrs. Kenneth Johns have received word of their son Stanley's promotion to Sgt. He is stationed at Shearwater, N.S. Two Lucan students Who at- tended Medway High School last term have been named Ontario scholars. They are Peter Tim- mermans Jr. and Allan McPhee. 15 YCarS Ago Exeter Lyric Theatre Closes this week for alterations. Manager Ron Home said ex- tensive decoration will be ef- fected and that the theatre will re-open August 28, Fifteen neighbors staged a bee Monday on the farm of Gordon Prance to bale and store 18 acres of hay, Mr. Prance has been in the hospital Seven Weeks, Carson and Barnes Circus played a one night stand in Exeter last week. Local Lions club members sponsored the performance, - 10 Years Ago A new Orange Lodge was