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The Exeter Times-Advocate, 1977-07-21, Page 4Page 4 Times-Advocate, July 21, 1977 Canadian unity message How fortunate we are to have been born Canadians,. How lucky are those of us who are not born in Canada, but found her by choice and made her their Shangri-la. The question, "What do we want as Canadians?" could be answered from as many points of view as there are different kinds of Canadians, A far more potent ques- tion, and one that we all are least likely to ask ourselves, even though much more might be gained by this kind of self- assessment is: "What do we already have as Canadians?" How, for example, do we compare to other people and other life styles in other lands around the world? So much is so readily available to each and every one of us, either provided by our own hand out of opportunity or by nature alone, that one must stop to contemplate what our standard of life might be, should we be so unfortunate as to lose even half of the many things we take for granted every day. How grateful we should be that we are free to do what millions around the world are not free to do. No country in the world is more envied than we by people outside our borders, for what we have, what we have done and what we have to look forward to in the future. Our forefathers, through their courage, loyalty, hardship, sweat, tears and a sincere desire to build a better life for their children than they had for themselves, have left us now with so many oppor- tunities and too many hours of leisure, that we find time outside our many pleasures to dwell on discontent and misplaced ambi- tion. How many millions of people around the world could ever, in their wildest dreams, hope someday, to be in a position to choose between two such beautiful places to make their home, as Ontario and Quebec, or to awaken in the morning to the waving majesty of the prairie grain fields of Manitoba and Saskatchewan, or see the peaks of the Rockies towering defiantly between the two most magnificent of nature's creations, Alberta and British Columbia? The provinces of the Eastern Region and the Maritimes from New Brunswick to the wind-swept shores of Newfoundland, with their matchless tran- quility and never-changing enchantment will forever defy the reason you cannot go home again. Why then, with relative utopia within our grasp, have we allowed the linkage that binds us together to wear thin? Is it because as a people we have not been considerate of each other and each other's needs? Have we taken advantage of each other when opportunity was there and forgotten that we were sisters, or is it simply that the constant wrenching of the chain over one hundred years of Confedera- tion has weakened the linkage in the most critical areas due to a lack of proper maintenance and thoughtful surveillance? It is incumbent upon our leaders today to find a way to end the twisting and wrenching of the chain and pull together in a straight line toward a common goal and for the common good, and to heal the wounds that have been inflicted, however bloodless. There is little difference, if any, between a people without a purpose and a country without a cause. As Canadians, it is time we realized that we have an obligation to each other, that we have an obligation to people outside our country; that we, while depending heavily on our neighbours and friends across the ocean for our economic stability and national security, have alsOtheir loyal- ty and respect, out of gratitude for our priceless contribution to their return to freedom through our participation during the years of global conflict and the uneasy peace that followed. By Earl C. 1VIcDermid Unity Council of Canada Committee How can we now so easily forget the sacrifices of two world wars in which young Canadians, both men and women, rallied to the cause of country and freedom and fell as lonely comrades far from the land of their birth for which they so un- selfishly made the ultimate sacrifice. The blood they shed was not French blood or English blood, it was not Polish, Ukrainian, Irish, Scottish or any other. It was Canadian blood all the same colour and all the same worth. It was not spilled on Canadian soil, but for the sake of it and for the freedom of it, as much as for the land in which they now rest, It has been said, rightly or wrongly, that if history teaches us anything, it is that history teaches us nothing. Let us, as in- telligent people, prove that those who believe that history teaches us something are right and those who believe to the con- trary are wrong. Never in this country's history have we had so much reason to feel concerned for our future. Never has a generation been so close to betraying the trust placed in them by those who have gone before. Now that the whole world is watching us, let us play out our roll from centre stage to show our ability to be resolute, to overcome adversi- ty, to be a valued and dependable link to the free world, a shining example of freedom and democracy at its very best, and that common virtue is immortal. Do not, as Canadians, underestimate your value in the world community and make no mistake, any kind of disunity that divides us or threatens our polarization as a nation, could very well be celebrated by people of other political philosophy, as the first crack in freedom's North American armour. There are powers in the world poised and ready to take advantage of such weakness. If we cannot stand together and understand each other as a people, can you imagine the awesome consequences we must be prepared to face? Who are we as Canadians? Were we not, from the very beginning, a people spawned from the very spirit of mankind, out, of adversity, conflict, oppression ,and,, an Unyielding passion to stand, alone as in- dividuals from a desire given to adventure? The French-speaking people of Canada are proud of their heritage, as well they should be. The courageous early French ex- plorers, now honoured by history, are heroes not only to French-speaking Canadians, but to all who marvel at the stories of their exploits and adventures. Cartier, Lasalle, Frontenac and Champlain, just to mention a few, are still and forever will be, a part of the Canadian image. Anyone who has ever climbed to the summit of Montreal's Mount Royal to stand with the spirit of Cartier, or walk the ramparts at Quebec City out on to the Plains of Abraham, cannot help but feel the lingering presence of history and belong- ing, regardless of your birth place or mother tongue. Is it not time now, to realize that we are no longer individuals, but an influential and strategic part of the world community; that we are not only a bilingual country but a multilingual country and have in our short history evolved into the greatest and most viable multicultural population anywhere in the world. If the hand of God has spanned and blessed this land from sea to sea, can we not, in gratitude and thoughtfulness, reach out to one another in union and fellowship. My wish for Canada is a wish for her people, that we may find a new warmth of belonging to each other regardless of our heritage. My hope for Canada is inherent "That I may see while m'y children live, my father's dream" Times Established 1873 Advocate Established 1881 Amalgamated 1924 Irite torefeamesaireocafe 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 Jongkind Phone 235-1331' +CNA Published Each Thursday Morning at Exeter, Ontario Second Class Mail Registration Number 0386 Paid in Advance Circulation Septeinbef 30, 1975 5,409 SUBSCRIPTION RATES: Canada $1 1.00 Per Year; USA $22,00 CCNA RIM CONN AWARD 1974 4X.WatKa MY WVES MI DM 32 Mt TO A Malt One of the continuing com- plaints received by most weekly newspapers is the slow delivery being experienced by some readers. Some subscribers ad- vise that it takes up to four or five days for, their papers to reach a destination of a couple of hundred miles. That's why many publishers are looking forward to a contest which will take place in Manitoba this week. Postmaster-General Jean- Jacques Blais has accepted the challenge of the Manitoba Com- munity Newspapers Association to a delivery race against a pony express system to be set up for the occasion. Copies of weekly newspapers will be picked up by the pony ex- press in towns along the route from Melita in western Manitoba and delivered at Morris, south of Winnipeg, a distance of about 200 miles. Duplicate papers will be mailed at the respective post of- fices at the times of pony express pickup. The newspapers will be ad- dressed to the national president of the 'Canadiarr Community' NewSpapers Association, will be attending,,a itampedera Morris, prior to -the opening of' the national convention at Win- nipeg. There's an air of romance to the whole event and one of the most interesting aspects to the situation is the fact that weekly newspaper people and their readers have to be the winners, regardless of the outcome. If the pony express riders reach their destination before the post office, surely the em- barrassment alone will prompt Mr. Blais and. his officials to solve, once and for all, the. problem of slow delivery of newspapers. If the post office wins the race, it would indicate that they should be able to duplicate the feat every week of the year and therefore stem the flow of com- plaints. We'll keep you posted as to the outcome of the battle in Weddings are for women. Dur- ing the entire ritual, as practised in our society, men are inar- ticulate, inept, and in the way. This was my conclusion after attending the recent wedding of a niece. Not that it wasn't a lovely wedding. It was, She's a grand and beautiful girl, Lynn Buell of Brockville, and with the aid of her ,young sister Pam, her remarkably calm mother, and her fairly distraught father, she came through the ceremony With flying colors. She even "did fairly well for herself," as we used to say. She hooked a doctor, Well, at any rate, a medical student. All she has to do is support him for three or four years, and they'll be roll- ing in medicare. He seems like a decent, in- offensive chap, like all the other males at the wedding. At least he had on a shirt and tie, and didn't want to get married in jeans and beads and a caftan, like so many young punks these days. He doesn't even have a beard, so he may be OK. But he was practically un- noticed, there was such a cran- ing of necks among the women, to see what and why each other was wearing. Please don't get the idea that I'm down on weddings. I think they are fine, and I'll go down to the church on a nice summer day with the best of them, and get a prickling at the nape of my neck, and reach over and hold the old Manitoba and hopefully all our readers will see some improve- ment in their weekly delivery in the future. It should be emphasized, of course, that the problems ex- perienced with the T-A do not reflect on the staff at the local post office. All the out-of-town papers are distributed from 'Lon- don and that's where our com- plaints have to be channeled. * * Just a reminder that tickets are now on sale for all the special events being planned for the grand opening of the South Huron Rec Centre over the Labor Day weekend. Most, area residents will want to attend several of the func- tions, but they should be warned that leaving their ticket purchases until the last minute will result in a sizeable expen- diture that could play havoc with most budgets. It would appear to be a sensi- ble suggestion to pick up tickets over the next few weeks so the expense doesn't all come at once. But keep an eye on the situation, because the popularity of the bands' coming for the dances could mean that tickets will become scarce as the weekend approaches. * * * Times do change and an indica- tion of that is contained in an an- nouncement of one of the topics to be included on the agenda for the 28th general synod of the Anglican Church of Canada. Common-law relationships, once frowned upon by most clergymen, will be recognized in an amendment proposed. in the church law dealing with pen- sions. "For pension purposes and to comply with Part 10 of the Employment Standards Act of Ontario a spouse shall also in- clude a person of the opposite sex, who to the satisfaction of the pension office, resided with the member for seven years im- mediately preceding the lady's hand when the parson in- tones, "for better and for worse, in sickenss and in health, for richer and for poorer," and all that stuff that makes your hair stand on end with hindsight. And I don't mind the two or three hundred dollars it cost me to attend. Not at all. The last wedding I was at. — my daughter's — cost five times that, and all I've got out of it is two grandbabies and the es- tablishment of the Bill Smiley Benevolent Fund which caters to indigent daughters, their husbands, and any offspring they may have. Nor did it bother me in the slightest that I had to drive 600 miles, round trip, to see my niece given away, There was a torrential rain all the way there, and heat and a hangover from a magnificent reception all the way home, but that goes with the territory. What I did mind, just slightly, now, was the frenzy of prepara- tion during the three weeks before the wedding. Right from the beginning, I was aware that I was going to be stuck for a wedding dress, one of those creations that women can wear once and never again, un- less they have some sense, which most women don't have, when it tomes to a wedding. However, I just shrugged this off. You can't take it with you, no matter what route you choose to go. • member's death and has been publicly represented with the member as husband and wife". The former definition of a spouse was "a person of the op- posite sex joined in wedlock to the member". * * We were interested in the com- ments of some members of the Lucan Women's Institute follow- ing a recent visit to a production at the Huron Country Playhouse. Several of the ladies, it appears, found the language "lacking in good taste". The ladies have apparently lost touch with reality. There is no such thing these days as good taste. Profanity abounds in modern literature, theatre, movies and television. The interesting part of the situation is the fact that while people are offended, they fail to stick up for the courage of their convictions. The same report noted that some Lucan residents planned a return outing to the Playhouse in August, and while they hope to find the language more accep- table, it is questionable if they will. If they are really concerned, why not write the Playhouse and say they will cancel their visit unless the language is accep- table? That's the only way in which changes will be brought about. As long as people continue to attend plays, go to movies or read books in which the language is offensive, there will be no changes. It is only when the theatre finds it is losing out at the box of- fice that it will see fit to clean up its act for the benefit of patrons who do not enjoy listening to language they find offensive. To complain about the language and at the same time continue to patronize the box of- fice will never result in any changes. But little did I realize that my wife was going to do three things simultaneously: create her own costume for the wedding; lose 10 pounds; and get a tan. Just try it, ladies. She is one of those people who don't know their own limitations, demand perfection, and drive everyone around them straight out of his skull. Since she started sewing a year or so ago, she thinks she can tackle anything in the ahute couture line. I granted that she could whip out a golf skirt or pair of smashing slacks in a day, and knock off T-shirts for the midgets in the family while the dishes were soaking, but I was leery about her tangling with a wedding dress, First week was sheer hell. I told her to knock out a "little, white dress" for the wedding, and she /came up with some old wives' tale that you can't wear white to a wedding — that's reserved for the bride. In addition? the sun didn't shine for tanning, and the diet seemed a dead loss. Second week was a repeat. But she did make a panic, trip to the city to buy material, the sun shone for one day, and she lost a pound and a half. Third week. The material she chose was raw Indian silk. Great stuff to work with, Look at it sideways and it resembles a 55 years Ago Rev. A. A. Trumper, rector of Trivitt Memorial Church, left this week for Winnipeg, where he will supply the pulpit of Holy Trinity Church for the next six Sundays. This is one of the most important Anglican churches in Canada. Among those from town who were successful in passing their Normal School exams were: first-class, Gladys Harvey, second-class, A. Hogarth, May Ford, Vera Jones and Lillian Walker, The open ditch on Ann Street which runs along the south side of the old Commercial Hotel is to be closed in for one block west of Main Street and a six foot walk laid along the top. Mr. John Hunkin has the contract. Mr. Wm. D. Davis, teller at the Canadian Bank of Commerce, has been transferred here from the Queen Street East, Toronto branch. 30 Years Ago It was estimated that 2,500 persons attended the annual garden party at Kirk ton Wed- nesday evening, The work of redecorating the interior of the post office is almost completed. Irvine Armstrong, who took a course in embalming in Toronto, will receive his embalmer's license. Ken Hockey and Gordon May were at Goderich Wednesday defending the Hunt Trophy which they won in a Scotch Doubles Tournament last year. W. F. Abbott, local apiarist, says prospects for a honey crop are the poorest there has been. Excavations at Port Franks by Wilfred Jury were shown on a film at Westminster Hospital — the first such film made in Canada, 20 Years Ago Bethesda cemetery, officially 100 years old on Monday, received a cleaning when families in the Hurondale district Mr. Mayor and Members of Council: We are not certain if all present are aware of what happened at the end of June when the Police Department was moved to its new quarters. Not only were all the effects of the Police Office moved, but the large oak board room table, two smaller tables, some chairs and e'''ven the ash trays were removed from the old Council Chambers. These items were not part of the Police Office furniture and they were in constant use. For example, they were used every Monday by the Transport Department and their removal without notice placed the Heritage Foundation in an awk- ward and embarrassing situatiopn. The loss was discovered late Sunday evening when the room was checked in preparation for the arrival of the Transport people on Monday morning. This delegation would like it understood that we do not represent any organization. We came only as taxpayers and voters disappointed in some of the people we elected to run the affairs of our Town. The Councillor, or Councillors, responsible for removing the furniture without giving the Heritage Foundation proper notice must have absolutely no conscience. We did not come here to dispute the ownership of the furniture because we have always been newspaper that's been left out in the rain. But the sun shone. She stole a half-hour a day from her 10-hour sewing stint for sun-bathing. And suddenly the scales began to work, instead of sticking, as they had been for two weeks. In the midst of it all, so wound up about weddings are women, she found time to dash out and buy me a pair of pants and a fine new white shirt, I was going to wear my old gray flannels that I bought three years ago for $18 and a clean golf shirt. The pants are a bit lumpy around the pockets from carrying keys, $6 in change, and golf balls, and the shirt has a cigarette burn in the collar, but otherwise they're fine. There was no way she was go- ing to get me to buy a pair of black shoes, so she said I could Wear my hush-puppies and she'd say I forgot my dress shoes, Not only did she finish a real zappo of a skirt with a matching vest, but a polka-dot blouse to go under it. Nevi shoes, of course, a tan, and — believe it or not — a brand new figure with almost 15 pounds vanished into thin air. She was a knock-out, Why don't women put all this creativity and will power into something besides a wedding? held a bee on the burial ground, lot 26, concession three, Usborne township. First temporary approval for operation of a cocktail lounge in Grand Bend has been received by C. R. Chapman, owner of Green Forest Lodge. Cottagers at Ipperwash beach rescued and revived 11-year-old Joyce Margaret Down, Cromarty, Tuesday when she was knocked over by a wave and dragged off shore by an undertow in rough water. Kirkton's Paul Brothers act, and the Hansen sisters, Florence and Andrea, pretty blonde musicians who have starred on a , number of TV shows this year, were two of the numbers featured at the Kirkton Garden Party last week. Over 5000 people attended the 12th annual show. Winner of the amateur contest was Larry Lewis, Granton with his rendition of "Yours is My Heart Alone." 15 Years Ago Workmen began pouring the cement foundation Tuesday for the $40,000 Christian education extension to Hensall United Church, The addition will provide classrooms for the Sunday School, an auditorium, kit- chenette, vestry and choir room. Dashwood businessman, Joseph Zimmer, suffered his second loss by theft Monday night, when nearly $1,000 of transistor radios, radio and TV tubes was stolen from his elec- trical repair shop on the main street. Wallace Stephenson, Toronto, has accepted a call to be the first pastor of Emmanuel Baptist Church, Exeter. Dashwood community centre project moved another step toward reality Friday night when negotiations were completed with the councils of Hay and Stephen townships. Both agreed to accept joint responsibility for the property and both passed bylaws appointing the same board to administer the operation of the centre. aware that it belonged to the Town of Exeter, but we assumed since the Foundation had been using !Vol. more than a, year that it had been left in their care and would contipue to be part of the building. The reason we are here is to protest the despicable way the furniture was taken. Since this was prepared, it has come to our attention that the large oak board room table has been cut in two lengthwise and one part is in the new Police Office. We do not begrudge the police the use of the table, but we do deplore the way it has been butchered. This table was worth over $700.00 and a counter for , the police office could have been made at a fraction of the cost. The person, or persons, responsible for this mutilation must be completely irrespon- sible, Mr. Mayor: Would it be in order to ask if the furniture was taken from the old council chambers with your knowledge and or the knowledge of the council as a whole, also if there had been any discussion of the cutting of the table by the council or property committee — on whose authority were. these things done? Jenny Huntley Bonnie May Bev. Read Marion Bissett * * * Dear Editor: In a recent edition of the Times Advocate, I noticed some pic- tures of the Kirk ton and Cromarty Boy Scouts return from the 1977 World Jamboree held this year in Prince Edward Island, Canada. However, many of the readers may not know what a Jamboree is all about. The origin of the word jamboree is unknown, but is defined as being a spree, a frolic, a social gathering specifically of boy scouts. It has been somewhat exploited lately by the C.B,'ers and other groups who hold jamborees. I am somewhat disappointed that an editorial explaining what the 1977 World Jamboree was all about did not appear, It is also disappointing that Hockey, figure skating, baseball, soccer and bowling should receive the publicity they do while the Scouting movement slowly fades into oblivion. I feel that Beavers, Cubs, Scouts, BroWnies, Guides, Venturers and Rovers should receive the same platonic relationship with the media as do the Spatting and social events of the area, Yours in scouting, John Merging Should be interesting race Weddings are for women