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I know I have no more chance of reversing
dirty grey background that is Canada's .
the metric thing than I had of another of my
lost causes: that pale pink maple leaf on a 1E LONGSTAFF
national flag.
But I wish the AMC luck. And I'm going to
use my bumper sticker, if only to annoy my
neighbour, a math teacher, who has been
flaunting a "Think Metric" sticker for
several years.
My sticker is bigger, white printing on
red, with a big hammer pounding down on
the slogan, "POUND OUT METRIC."
The organization also has a stubborn little
war-cry I rather like. "We won't move our
feet an inch."
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-- THE BRUSSELS POST, FEBRUARY 7, 1979
Sugar and spice
By Bill Smiley
Anti - metric Canada
13elgrave UCW
hears about
Toc Alpha
RESIDENTIAL I
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Call GARY DILL After about 10 days of solid blizzards and
bad driving, low temperatures and a lower
temperament, my social, intellectual and
emotional life hovering around zero
(Fahrenheit), I wondered what to write about
this week.
Came home from work, picked up the
mail, and there was a fat package from
something called AMC, Ottawa. I turned it
over a couple of times, wondering whether
the initials meant Ancient Military
Curmudgeons, from some veterans' outfit,
or All Men Cowards, from some rabid
women's lib crowd.
Not to worry. Democracy is still rearing its
bruised and battered head here and there in
this our native land. The package was from
Anti-Metric Canada, its single and avowed
purpose the stamping out of the metrication
of our fair white country.
It contained: an honorary membership
card; a bumper sticker which shouts,
"Pound Out Metric"; a newsletter with a
number of spelling and grammar errors; a
personal letter from the president; a petition
to send to my M.P.; a full page of anti-metric
propaganda; and a quiz or survey loaded
with questions.along the line of, "When did
you stop beating your wife?"
Sample question. "Do you realize that
under the metric system that (sic) the
farmers will lose )(sic) money and the dairy
cartel win?" Answer yes/no.
How can you answer a question like that?
With a yes or no? Personally, I think it's high
time the farmers were 'pried loose from
some of their money, and the whole thing is
putting the cartel before the cow.
Another sample: "Do you believe that
people come before computers?" Well, yes
and no. We were here before the computers,
out when it comes to arguing with one over a
boo-boo on your chargex, it's obvious that
they come before us. And I have a secret
hunch that they'll be here long after the
human race has disappeared, chattering and
giggling away among themselves about how
they so finally, and so easily, got rid of us.
Just one more sample. "Do you want the
Canadian public to pay $2.00 a gallon for
gas?" Answer: depends on whether you
think a gallon of gas is more important thvii a
pound of beef. If the Ay-rabs can get $2 a
gallon for it, and you don't have any, that's
what you'll pay. If the beef farmer can get $3
a pound for sirloin, and you don't happen to
have a steer tied up in the garage, that's
what you'll pay. Elemental.
These questions are being sent to M.P.'s.
Migod, I hereby resign my honorary
membership in the Anti-Metric Canada
organization.
I am much more sympathetic with their
Urns than their means. (But I wonder whe) c
; hey were when I was carrying on a lonely,
singlehanded, but valiant fight against
metrication a year or so ago?)
I detest metrication and all it stands for:
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conformity, unification, anonymity, and
confusion for everyone over thirty years of
age, Ask any shopping housewife what she
thinks of it? She will probably, if she has
thought about it, reply that it's a lovely
opportunity for the food barons to rip
everybody off, except those equipped with a
pocket calculator and endless time on their
hands. A gram here and a millilitre there
add up to millions, over a year.
And now let's hear from industry,
According to it, changing to the metric
system was going to make Canada much
more competitive in the world market. We
are about as competitive as Greenland, and
our single biggest customer, the U.S., has
not gone metric though it is toying with the
madness.
When I want to know how cold it is, I tune
in to an American TV weather report, get it
in Fahrenheit, subract another ten degrees
for the difference in latitude, and say to my
wife, "Holy Moses, woman, no wonder the
pipes froze. It was 12 below last night." And
she knows I don't mean Centigrade.
Math and science teachers to the contrary,
the world got along very well when every
nation had its own terms of currency,
measurements and weights. In the days
when the sun never set on the British
Empire, the British pound had a solid ring to
it, anywhere in the world. They didn't give a
diddle about changing it to annas, or yen, or
marks.
Same with the American dollar, for a
century or so. It was worth a dollar, not
whatever the Swiss and Germans and
Japanese decided it was worth.
There was a quaintness and a difference
and an individuality about currencies and
measures and weights, that is being lost in
these days of international conformity. If a
British horse stood 40 hands high and
weighed 14 or 44 stone, in a British novel,
that was good enough for me. He was either
a big horse or a little horse. I didn't have to
get out my calculator.
If Bassanio wanted to borrow three 3,000
ducats from Shylock, I knew that was no
$78.50, and was satisfied.
At 12 Noon
EDIBLE ANTLERS
If adult male deer shed
their antlers each year, why
don't we find them lying in
the woods occasionally?
For two simple reasons.
First, Mother Nature doesn't
waste anything: antlers, like
dead trees, eventually break
down and are returned to the
soil to be used again. Second
antlers are quickly found by
rodents, foxes, wolves or
coyotes are are eaten for the
minerals they contain.
If you are fortunate en-
ough to find an antler, exam-
ine it closely. You Will prob-
ably discover the teeth marks
of one of these animals.
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A very enthusiastic report
on the Toc Alpha Conference
was given by Joanne and
Karen Coultes and Kim
McIntosh and Diane Scott,at
the con-
clusion of their comments
Diane accompanied the girls
on her guitar for their
singing of a number of songs
they had used at Toc Alpha.
Mrs. Cliff Logan and Mrs.
George Michie reported on
the Huron-Perth
Presbyterial they had at-
tended in Exeter the day of
our meeting.
Mrs. Ross Anderson and
Mrs. Jack Higgins conducted
the worship service , the
theme being "We are re-
sponsible for the way we use
our time."
Mrs. Higgins read from
Philippians 4: 4-9 and Mrs.
Ross Anderson gave the
meditation, "Time to Spend
advice for beginning of a new
year.
Mrs. William Coutles and
Mrs. Cliff Logan presented
the Lord's Prayer in a way
to make us think of its true
meaning by questions and
interruptions by each as each
clause was given.
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In 1977, Ontario waters
weie stocked with 7.7 million
fish eggs and 8.3 million fish
by the Ministry of Natural
Resources. Five per cent of
the eggs and 31 per cent of
the fish were released into
the Great Lakes and their
tributaries. The remaining
eggs and fish were stocked in
more than 1,100 inland
waters.
Hymn, "He leadeth me
was sung" and Mrs. Ross.
Anderson concluded the
meeting with prayer.
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