HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1976-09-02, Page 4At a time when the economy presents a
rather bleak outlook for many people, it is
encouraging to note that an Exeter firm is
doing more than its fair share towards
brightening the picture in Ontario.
That's basically what is signified in the
bright gold and blue "A" flag flying so
proudly over the office at Kongskilde Ltd.
The firm has been one of seven or eight
to be singled out of the 14,000 secondary
manufacturers in Ontario for outstanding
contribution to the growth of the provincial
economy over the past three years.
The award is obviously the result of a
joint effort shared by management and
staff all along the line and one for which
they must be highly commended.
While the firm was recognized for an
achievement that is province-wide, the
benefits to the local community are even
more noteworthy.
It's do or die
It's rodeo time in Exeter this weekend,
and while that has been the situation for the
labor day weekend for several years, this
year's event is being staged under different
circumstances.
Basically, it's a "do or die" situation
for the rodeo. Those enthusiasts who
rallied to back the event this year will ob-
viously be willing to carry on if it generates
the success that their work deserves. If it
fails, they too will lose interest and Ex-
eter's best known promotion will probably
fade from the scene.
It therefore behooves everyone in the
community to give the event some con-
sideration. The people who grabbed the
reins to give it one more try deserve some
support. They've been working for no other
purpose than to aid the community and sur-
ely their efforts should be rewarded by that
community.
The proceeds, of course, are all ear-
marked for the recreation centre, so your
support brings double benefits.
Many people believe the rodeo is a
worthwhile venture for this area. Give
them an opportunity to prove it to you and
join in the fun and excitement.
Watch the parade
Parades can cause a lot of headaches
for the motorist . . . particularly if you've
forgotten the event and get caught in the
accompanying traffic jam. It's frustrating
waiting for all those marching crowds to
pass by, even more so if you have no in-
terest in the event being heralded.
There is one parade held each year,
however, in which we all have an interest,
It's the Annual Back-to-School Parade.
Thousands of children across the province
participate. They are excited and eager,
rowdy and rambunctious, and some, facing
the experience for the first time, tearful
and apprehensive. Is it any .wonder that the
safety rules many of them have learned are
forgotten in the excitement of the moment?
For the motorist, this sudden youthful
pedestrian activity means extra care.
The Ontario Safety League reminds
you that the back-to-school parade begins
early Tuesday morning, September 7. Ex-
pect excited children on every street — not
just in school zones — and expect the unex-
pected.
Remember that adult school crossing
guards are now permitted to use stop signs
to signal traffic to stop on roads with speed
limits of 40 mph or less when directing
children across the highway. Where a
school bus is stopped on a highway to pick
up or deposit children and has its signal
lights flashing, traffic in both directions is
required to stop if there is no median strip
or barrier. Where there is such a barrier
dividing the highway, only traffic travell-
ing in the same direction as the school bus
is required to stop.
We're all concerned when it comes to
child safety. Drive carefully — don't let an
accident rain on our back-to-school parade.
Distractions of a summer day
"Want to bring him back later? — I'm in the middle of 'Edge of Night'!“
Cruising down the river
Ike exeleaimes-ibuocale
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 — Bill Batten
Assistant Editor — Ross Haugh
Advertising Manager — Jim Beckett
Plant Manager — Jim Scott
Composition Manager — Harry DeVries
Business Manager — Dick Jong kind
Phone 235-1331
+CNA
SUBSCRIPTION RATES
CCNA
RIUf RIRRON
AWARD
1074
Published Each Thursday Morning
at Exeter, Ontario
Second Class Mail
Registration Number 0386
Paid in Advance'Circulation
September 30, 1975 5,420
Canada $9.00 Per Year; USA $11.00
... " .... '
Tax costs, notprofits
Page 4
Times-Advocate, September 2, 1976
• i..V.r.vorere...11,,,RWerromee.sr.,,, • qs...v..nte •
Noteworthy achievement
We're too serious
Boy, I can't think of anything
more harrowing than trying to
write a column sitting at the pic-
nic table in the backyard on a
mid-summer day.
I envy those writers who have
a nice; quiet study, preferably
without windows, in which to do
their work. No distractions, no
• disruptions. Just the writer and
his machine, the words pouring
onto the clean white paper like
sparkling wine onto a white linen
tablecloth.
It's almost impossible for me
to concentrate on turning out a
piece of taut, fascinating,
creative prose for more than a
minute or two, sitting here to-
day. Too many interruptions. •
Not only do I not have no win-
dows, if you'll pardon the triple
negative, it's just one big win-
dow, and I can't stop looking
through it. If it was possible to
turn my head in a 360 degree cir-
cle, I would see an entire world,
mostly green, in miniature.
There's my neighbor, Helen, at
the clothesline. Uh-huh. Looks
like her granddaughter. was here
for the weekend, Ten diapers on
the line, among the towels and
sheets. Doesn't believe in dis-
posables, I do.
There's a sawing sound across
the fence. Wonder what my
neighbor, Jim, is working at this
fine, sunny day. Better saunter
over and check it out. We'll have
a chat about the iniquities of the
town council.
Here comes Patsy Woods, a
third side neighbor, with her lit-
tle brother. Bad news. One of my
INESMZEZMEZZaLgaSEN
Times Established 1873
huge oak limbs, about two feet in
diameter, the one that hangs
right over their house, has a split
right up the trunk. Have to go
and look. Yeah, that's bad, Pat-
sy. I'll have to call George, the
tree man, and have it taken
down. Pity, but it will provide
some excitement for the
neighborhood.
Right behind me is the big,
square, brick house in which
lurks my old lady, suffering from
the mummy of all sunburns.
Nose like an over-ripe cherry,
chest like a peeling boiled beet.
Furious because of the way she
looks and feels.
I don't burn. After a dreadful
experience as a kid, when I had
to sit for two days and nights in a
chair, plastered from head to toe
with some concoction of my
mother's for sunburn (was it
baking powder or baking soda?),
I keep my lily limbs covered. Oh,
I get what we call a farmer's tan,
forearms, face and neck, but the
rest of me is white as the driven
snow.
I don't turn around to look
behind me at that house. Aside
from my suffering wife inside,
there is the outside. That
beautiful green vine, so much ad-
mired by visitors, is climbing the
brick wall like a giant squid, pull-
ing the bricks loose one by one,
and occasionally hurling one
down, just above the back door,
At today's rates for repairs, that
brickwork will likely cost me
more than it cost to build the
house, 70-odd years ago.
Let's change the subject. In
Advocate Established 1881
fact, I. think I'll break off for a
moment, it's so painful. There's
the garbage can to bring in.
Maybe I'll get my seven iron out
of the car trunk and cut some
weeds. That's what I use instead
of a hoe.
There, that's better. My swing
was right on today. Kept my
head down, my eye on the weed,
took a slow back swing, and one
whole flower bed is weedless.
Also pushed the lawn mower
under the spruce tree, to keep
the rain off, and picked up the
grandkids' inflatable swim pool,
which, after a week sitting there
full of rain, grass and bugs, left a
big round dead patch in the lawn.
Good work, Bill.
More distractions. A cheeky
black squirrel, looking for a han-
dout. Dumb cat rubbing against
my leg, looking for the same.
Three ugly grackles, striding
splay-footed and insolent, across
my lawn, pecking up the fresh
grass seed.
Ahah! What's that noise, down
the lane. Better stroll down and
see. Great. A Bell telephone
truck and two young fellows
digging a post hole. Entire
neighborhood watches.
Machinery digs hole, erects pole
with ease. Old timers comment
scornfully. Remember when you
dug them by hand, with a spoon
shovel. Brutal hard work. •
There's the fire engine! Better
jump in, the car and follow. Holy
old jumpin'! Why do they let all
these crazies follow the fire
truck through town at 50 miles an
hour? Somebody might be killed.
nEERMENZr•al
Amalgamates, 1924
Ever notice how easy it is to
prove you're badly out of shape?
It can be as simple as having to
make two trips up the cellar
steps, running half a block to
catch up with someone or jum-
ping on your kid's bicycle to ride
up to get the mail.
However, despite problems
some of us have in catching our
breath after such "strenuous"
activities, we still tackle the
periodic challenge that is absurd.
That was our experience
Friday night when we showed up
to view the canoe racing and
jousting at Riverview Park.
No sooner had we arrived on
the scene than someone had us by
the arm heading towards a
canoe. His grip on the flab should
have indicated no muscle, but
Walt Tiedeman persisted that the
writer engage as his partner in
the canoe races.
He pointed out that the com-
petition wasn't too tough. This
was quickly verified by noting
that Mayor Bruce Shaw and
Councillor Harold Patterson had'
just won their heat.
So, we gingerly stepped (it's
the only way) into one of the
canoes and headed, for the
starting line to face the test of a
couple of strapping young men
attempting to hide their smiles in
the opposing craft,
With the crack of the starting
gun, we were off, zig-zagging
down the river like a pair of
drunken sailors. This was due to
the fact that yours truly had been
assigned the rear seat and was in
charge of steering. But, they
don't even have steering wheels
in canoes.
With some good fortune, we
managed to win. The good for-
tune being the fact that our
competitors tipped their canoe'.
However, the good fortune
quickly turned out to be just the
opposite-Shortly after crumpling
to the ground in a state of
exhaustion, the starter advised
that Batten and Tiedeman were
now facing the semi-final heat of
the races.
This time, Walt used his head.
He took charge of the navigation,
"You sit up front," he ordered as
we approached our craft. This
sounded easy, except for the fact
that we never knew there was a
front or a back to a canoe. They
look much akin to those
Studebakers and you never know
which way they're going.
At any rate, Walt pointed out
the front end, and we were off
again, only this time we were
going in a straight line. Good
fortune prevailed and our
Wasn't much. Just some dumb
housewife let the fat boil over on
the stove while she was watching
her soap opera. But it might have
been a good one, like the old
lumber mill last week. That was
a dandy,
Should get back to the column.
Oh, no. There's the old battleaxe
at the back door, wailing, "What
are you doing out there, just sit-
ting around enjoying yourself,
when you know I'm in agony?
Least you could do is put a
washing through and sweep the
kitchen floor, it's filthy. And you
haven't brought me any fresh tea
for two hours,"
Oh, lardy. Who's this pulling
up? It can't be. It is. It's those
people we met at a party two
years ago and insisted with great
fervor and sincerity that if they
were ever in our neck of the
woods, to look us up. Look at
that. Three kids and a dog. Oh,
dear.
Perhaps you can understand
now why I hate being a
schoolteacher and having the
summer off and having to write
my column out under the trees,
instead of writing it at my desk
in mid-winter.
competitors had trouble
navigating a turn and we
managed to coast back to the
finish line.
This, of course, put us into yet
another battle, although already
an aching body was trying to tell
us that another effort would be a
disaster,
Our young competitors gamely
offered a good head start, but the
starter would hear of no such
thing. Again the gun sounded and
our paddles dipped deep in to the
muddy Ausable waters.
Unfortunately, an alarming
sound echoed from the
position of the navigator's seat.
Walt's paddle cracked on the
second stroke.
He managed a few more
strokes with the damaged in-
strument, but again another
crack rang out. This left us with
one good paddle, but it was in the
hands of one poor paddler.
However, by reverting to some
devious tactics (cutting off our
opposition) we managed to nose
them out at the finish line to
claim supremacy of the water.
+ + +
That should have been enough!
But no Walt was looking
longingly at the dry clothes of
Rob Grant and John Stephens
who were obviously enjoying the
job of dunking their young op-
ponents in the canoe jousting
competition.
Before we knew what was
going on, Walt had pushed us into
a canoe and we were heading out
to take on the culprits.
30 Years Ago
Mr. W. E. Middleton has sold
his bakery business to Mr. E.
Dorey of Stouffville. The new
business will be known as
"Mayfair Bakery,"
An enrolment of 475 is reported
for Exeter' schools. 265 in the
High School and 190 in the Public
School. The High School staff has
been increased from 8 to 12.
Miss Helen Penhale left for
Toronto on Sunday where she will
attend Osgoode Hall taking a
course in law.
20 Years Ago
Greta Pfaff, 16-year-old
daughter of Mr. & Mrs. Nelson
Pfaff, RR 1 Cromarty, was
chosen first queen of Ontario
Bean Festival at Hensall,
Monday,
Sixty-five Junior Farmers
from Huron County have entered
the livestock judging competition
at Western Fair this year,
Jack Boa of Hensall and Fred
Bottum), Cromarty, won open
titles at the Western Ontario
horseshoe pitching contest at the
Ontario Bean Festival at Hensall,
IS Years Ago
Wednesday afternoon, Mrs.
Thos. Pryde, wife of the late Tom
PrYde, former MPP for Huron,
and Premier Frost laid the
Our confidence was evident.
The life preserver was tied more
securely and anything not
waterproof was removed from
pockets.
The battle was soon underway.
A quick jab sent Walt tumbling
onto the seat, but we managed to
stay afloat. The canoes were
moved into position again, and
this time Rob went down, but he
too managed to stay afloat.
The third jab sent Walt
sprawling and noticing the
bruises quickly appearing on his
legs, he advised that "this is it,
someone's 'going to go."
We closed our eyes waiting for
the plunge into the waters, but
the sound of splashing was for-
tunately not accompanied by a
wet sensation. Rob and John
instead were forced to take a
shower.
Challengers were quickly
heading for canoes when we
slowly paddled back to shore, but
mercy prevailed. The corn
husking contest was announced
and the challengers had to drop
their ideas of sinking the tired old
editor to the muddy depths.
+ + +
The night was most enjoyable
for everyone involved and the
corn husking contest was well
worth the admission alone.
Councillor Lossy Fuller showed
the female supremacy in this
ancient art as she easily whipped
Mayor Shaw, Councillor Pat-
terson and the reeves of Hay and
Usborne, Jack Tinney and Walter
McBride.
Mayor Shaw thought he was a
close second, but ended up in
almost last place when it
was notedlie had overl000ked one
of his 10 ears of corn. No wonder
our taxes are so high!
The dance too proved to be
popular, with the mosquitoes
encouraging the performers to
keep moving briskly about the
pavilion floor.
The corn served by the Kin-
smen was delicious and for-
tunately was better engineered
than their entries in the bath tub
race.
Unfortunately, the program did
not draw as well as it should
have, and people who missed out
on the' fun were the big losers.
cornerstone for the new $3,500,000
Ontario hospital building near
Goderich, Tributes were paid to
Mr. Pryde for his energetic ef-
forts to have the hospital become
a reality.
Mr. Douglas Gould has pur-
chased the home formerly owned
by Mrs. Audrey Green,
Kinsmen Governor Bill Mickle,
Hensall, and his district 1
executive climaxed a successful
year over the weekend by win-
ning a record number of awards
at the National convention in
Toronto.
5 Years Ago
Monday night council approved
in principle a plan to install
traffic lights at the corner of
Main and Sanders Streets. Total
cost is expected to be about $4500.
Elaine Powe who was in
Hungary and Austria taking a
course in Music during the
holidays visited with her parents
Mr. & Mrs. Elmer Powe before
leaving for St, Catharines to
resume her teaching duties.
Officials of the Exeter Pair
Board who were in charge of
admissions at the weekend
Midwestern rodeo reported
returns were the highest ever
obtained. The rodeo committee
estimatedithe crowdjin excess of
10,000 at the three performances.
'We would worry less about
what others think of us, if we
realized how seldom they do',
says an old adage.
No doubt about it, we take
ourselves too seriously. We need
to look at ourselves with some
amusement or else we may be
endangered into thinking we have
the last and final word on
everything, including God.
'You're so beastlyopinionated,'
one man stormed at another as
they discussed religion,
'especially when you don't agree
with me!'
Ah so. Many of us like to think
we've found the only road leading
to heaven .. . and if perchance
there are a few others, not of our
thinking, who do make the grade
(to heaven, I mean) .. . well, we
still feel our 'enlightenment' is
much greater than theirs.
Let us never be fooled into
thinking that there are not a
number of ways in which
Christians can work out their
faith.
God, thank goodness, is not
interested in dull uniformity.
Remember how Paul handled
diversity in Christian practice in
the New Testament church. Some
of the Christians at Rome and
Corinth would not eat meat that
had been offered to idols for fear
they would seem to be sanc-
tioning idolatry. Others said
since the idol gods didn't exist it
wouldn't do any harm.
`We have one Lord and
Master,' they insisted, 'and He
has given us food for our good. I
shall eat it and be grateful.'
So here we have a difference in
Christian practice from people
By KENNETH MeEONALli
The Communist Mani-
festo of 1848 contained a
10-point program for sub-
verting capitalist econo-
mies and destroying pri-
vate property. Second on
the list: A heavy progres-
sive or graduated income
tax. Don't look now, but
we've got it. And it's
working as foretold by
Marx and Engels.
• • •
Like death, taxes are
inevitable. But the method
of taxation is subject to
change. We may think that
because former Finance
Minister Edgar Benson's
"reforms" are only five
years old it's too soon to
change them. On the con-
trary, it's almost too late!
• • •
We've become so ac-
customed, though not re-
conciled, to taxes that
we're concerned less with
changing the system, than
with finding ways to beat
it. A great army of accoun-
tants and lawyers is de-
ployed to help business-
men make the most of tax
"incentives" and special
allowances. There is no
such thing as a tax incen-
tive, Each and every tax
is a disincentive. There
are only forms of relief
from tax disincentives.
• • 0
In a profit-oriented
economy the emphasis
should be on cutting costs.
But when profits are taxed
at 50 per cent, the in-
clination is to spend more,
because business costs
"are only 50-cent dollars".
Our whole economy is no
longer profit-oriented but
tax-oriented.
• • •
A positive, alternative
approach is proposed in a
who interpret the will of God
differently, Take note of how
Paul handles it:
'Don't criticise a brother
Christian for having different
ideas from yours about what is
right and wrong. For instance,
don't argue with him about
whether or not to eat meat that
has been offered to idols
, . . Those who think it is all right
to eat such meat must not look
down on those who won't. And if
you are one of those who won't,
don't findfault with those who do.
For God has accepted them to be
his children. They are God's
servants, not yours. They
are responsible 'to Him, not to
you.'
He goes on to say that God is
pleased with both attitudes
providing they are held con-
scientiously. 'The man who eats
Lord, and he thanks God for it
meat eats it as a gift from tip)
The man who refrains from
eating does so out of anxiety to
please the Lord, and he too is
thankful.'
What a wonderful, liberal and
humane approach. It vividly
points out the priceless gift of
Christian freedom. Christian
behaviour, in all its variety, is
cemented to pleasing God, which
is the supreme pattern for all of
us,
It frees us, then, from taking a
last stand on our own attitudes
and from the necessity of
criticising how other Christians
work out their obedience.
And it forces us to admit that it
is just possible they may
sometimes discern the will of God
even more clearly than we do.!
private research study by
JRF Financial Consultants
Ltd. of Ottawa tJohn R.
Ferguson is also a director
of the Canadian Federation
of Independent Business>.
Business enterprises would
be taxed not on profits
but on the basis of Net
Business Costs.
• 0 •
Then the incentive
would be on cutting costs
in order to increase profits.
The tax system would re-
inforce sound business
principles rather than
distort them, as it does
now.
• • •
Instead of making
business decisions for tax
reasons, businessmen,
would make them for
business reasons. Taxing
profits favors inefficient
companies at the expense
of efficient ones—the more
efficient, the more tax, In
a final absurdity, the state
then uses tax monies from
efficient companies to sub-
sidize failing ones — the
free lunch philosophy
again.
• • •
Taxing costs would put
everyone, including Crown
corporations and foreign
branch plants, on the same
competitive footing. The
study indicates that a tax
of five per cent on net
business costs would pro-
duce more revenue than
taxing profits; enough to
reduce personal income
tax and eliminate sales
taxes.
• • •
Our whole inflationary
mess is tax-induced. The
way out is to turn the
system around so that it
stimulates, instead of des-
troys, the economy.
O
.........................
;
T/ME TO OZT 0041f"
2?A'arro SICW001
yt ,k .f..}
4