The Brussels Post, 1978-02-22, Page 13110
ANNUAL MEETING
Howick Farmer's Mutual
Fire Insurance ,Company,
Wroxeter, Ontario
The 105th annelid Meeting of the Company will be held
at the Company Head Office, Wroxeter, Ontario.
FRIDAY, F.EBRUARY 24...
1978; ,at 1 .•30 p.m., to:
1. To receive the Annual Statement and Auditors Report.
2. To elect two directors to replace Clare Hutehison and Ron
McMichael whose tenni of office expires, both of whom are
eligible for re-election.
3 To appoint an Auditor for 1978:
4. To amend the following by-laws: No. 33 Remuneration.
S. To transact any other business which May -rightly come
before the meeting.
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THE BRUSSELS POST, FEBRUARY -22:1978 —13
Perth. favours new
hog grading system
Sugar and Spice
by Bill Smiley
Another election
Well, who are you going to vote
for when they call 'the election?
The youthful, righteous, quiver-
ing jowls, or the aging but still
elegant shrug?
What a choice! One of the guys
is so hungry for the big job that he
looks as though he can already
taste it, The other is so mesmer-
ized by failed bilingualism, and his
personal feud with Rene
Levesque that he wouldn't know
an ordinary taxpayer if he climb-
ed into bed, with one, Of either
sex.
If Joe Stalin were alive and well
and living, say in Moosejaw, he'd
probably garner more votes than
the other two put together.
That other Joe was chosen leader-
of the Tories by a handful of
votes Approximately 49 per cent of
the convention delegates didn't
want him. Since then, one of the
latter has become a Liberal
cabinet minister, another, his
Quebec "lieutenant," has faded
into the woodwork.
His opponent, the ubiquitous
Pierre, bedevilled by domestic
troubles, a sagging- economy,
_high unemployment, a feeble
dollar, and an apparent lack of
touch with reality, looks and acts
every one of his nearly 60 years:
What's a million? This famous
line, spoken by the arrogant but
extremely competent C. D. Howe,
builder of Canada's industry,
almost toppled a government a
couple of decades ago, when he
uttered it in the famous Pipeline
Debate.
Red-blooded Canadians across
the land shuddered in horror at
this scornful attitude toward that
magic figure.
Today, a politician could stand
up ii Ottawa and say: "What's a
billion?" without raising a ripple.
A minor example: the govern-
ment people in charge of unem-
ployment insurance: have
launched a $1 million advertising
campaign to warn cheaters of the
system of the dire consequences
should they be caught. What .a
farce!
The system is so fidl of holes
that it is being ripped off legally
it must be added - to the tune of
millions, and we all know it.
It's a nice commission for the
advertising agency handling the
account, but they are the only
bodies who will get anything out
of it. Who is going to read 'the
ads?
Certainly not the people who
are cheating. They already know
all the loopholes and fine print.
Only the very stupid are caught.
Certainly not the employers
who also cheat, "laying ,off" a
skilled workman when things are
a bit slack, with a tacit agreenient
that he go on unemployment
insurance until things pick up,
when he will be "re-hired."
-ertainly not the millions. of
people like me who a) pay into
the fund and b) will never get a
nickel back from it.
That leaves, as readers, the
guys who dreW up the ad, the civil
servants who authorized it, and a
scattering of pensioners who can
afford a newspaper and read
everything in it, for want Of
something better to do.
But what's a million, if it keeps
some advertising types and civil
servants happy, and makes the
blood of a few pensioners boil?
Unfortunately, those ads and
that million, along with many
more squandered on such petti-
fogging piffles, don't mean a
thing to the man or woman in.
Glace Bay or Sudbury or Chilli-
wack who has been out of work for
a year, and has no prospect of
being in it in the near or distant
future.
Clark carps and Pierre pontifi-
cates and Broadbent issues
broadsides. And factories close
because Canada's prices are too
high because Canada's wages are
too high and because Canada's
production is too low.
Many people -- mostly young
people -- rejoice at our' release
from the slavery of the, "Work
ethic," even though they don't
really know what it means. To my
generation it merely meant doing
an honest day's work for, a day's
Pay , •
Today's generation ranks the
work ethic with slavery, racism
and having a bath Saturday night,
whether.you need it or not, all the
trappings of a' vicious, misguided
past.
So be it. `It's their funeral, not
mine. They are the ones who will
be paying the horrendous taxes
for welfare, medicare, unem-
ployment insurance and indexed
pensions for civil servants when 1
am sporting about in the Elysium
Fields with a couple or three
nymphs.
What with the half-hour coffee
break twice a day-, the calling in
sick when you have a hangover,
the sneaking off at noon Friday
for the weekend, and various
other little games; which you
know about as well as I, we are
turning into a nation of layabouts.
And we're already beginning to
pay the price.
Add to this incipient separa-
tism and the stranglehold of the
mandarins on the wafflers at
Peking-on-the-Rideau Canal, and
you can see why 1, and many
another honest Canadian, look
forward to another federal elec-
tion . with a certain lugubrious-
nesS. It seems to be a question of
"turn the rascals out" or "turn
the turkeys in."
Nuff said. Don't think me a
gloom-pot. It's 2 a.m.,- and I've
just put NO. 2 grandson to bed.
For the fourth time.. He loves
those lath movies.
The new hog grading system
for market hogs in Ontario met
favor with the majority of
producers attending the annual
meeting of , the Perth county
association ;held at Stratford on
Wednesday. Sid Fraleigh,
chairman of the Onitario Pork
Producers' Marketing Board,
explained the ,system, pointing
out that the major change lifts the
maximum weight of a market hog
from 180 to 200 pounds, before a
deduction is made owing to
overweight.
Willy Keller, R.R.1, Mitchell,
Perth director on the provincial
board, informed the gathering
that the provincial organization
will be opening the first of their
proposed chain of pork restau-
rants in Toronto in June. Pork
dishes will be offered exclusively
on the basis of an cat-in or
take-out basis.The association .
has spent the past two y ears in the
planning of such outlets.
Robert Mitchell, R.R.2, Dublin,
was elected as county director,
representing Hibbert Township.
All other directors have a portion
of their terms to complete. Hans
Feldman, R.R.3, Listowel,
continues as president until a
directors' meeting to be held
within the next few weeks. John
Lichti, Shakespeare, is vice-pre-
sident and George Lupton, R.R.2,
Stratford, is acting as secretary.
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