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Home My WebLink AboutThe Brussels Post, 1978-05-31, Page 3A -1 C RAWFORD %N. MOTORS WINGHAM ,ONTARIO 1977 TOYOTA 2-1977 CHRYSLER NEW YORKERS 4D-HT 1976 CHRYSLER CORDOBA 2-1976 • PLYMOUTH GRAND FURY 1976 PLYMOUTH FURY 4D 1975 PLYMOUTH ROAD RUNNER 1975 CHEVROLET BISCAYNE 1975 OLDSMOBILE CUTLASS 1975 DODGE MONACO 1975 PLYMOUTH SPORT 2D '1975 BUICK'ESTATE WAGON 1975 DODGE 'A TON TRUCK 1975 CHRYSLER CORDOBA 1974 PONTIAC• LAURENTIAN 1974 PONTIAC ASTRE 1974 CHEV AL :AMINO 1974 CHEV 4 DOOR 1974 DODGE 3/4 TON PICK-UP 1974 DODGE MONACO 1973 'PLYMOUTH FURY 1972 'PLYMOUTH FURY 1970 CUTLASS 1969 GMC V4 TON PICK-UP 357-3862 Hedge Trimmers Weed-Eater Trimmers Handclippers LAWN SPRINKLERS HOSES 25 and 50 feet BRUSSELS• • j & K SHOES'N JEANS Brussels sizes 5-13,11=3 Carhartt ‘`.Water baby" Prewashed CUT-OFFS. $1 2 95 Open Fri, Meg- ttntitg Member 50 Phone 887-9497 C. B. RUNNING SHOES $7 THE BRUSSELS POST, MAY 31, 1918 — 3 G Cou;,ins wins pony Sugar a nd Spice by Bill Anybody got a job for my kid? She's 27 years old, has three degrees, is three times as bright as her old man, can, charm the birds right out of the trees when she feels like it, and is an outstanding fund-raiser (from me). She plays the piano extremely well, the guitar rather rustily. She composes music, raucous rock or contemporary classical. She can cook up a storm when she's at our place, although I've never had anything more substantial than a cup of weak tea and a burnt brownie at hers. She has an erratic but brilliant academic career, liberally sprinkled with As for essays and glowing tributes from professors. That's 'mainly because she can write rings around me, and comprehend abstract theses in one-quaker the time I do. She is completely versed in all the modern psychological jargon of child-raising, but despite that has two happy, healthy children. Despite the fact that she's an ardent Women's Libber, she's still living with a male chauvinist husband and gets along pretty well with a male chauvinist father, or at least what she thinks is one. She can type at a hell of a clip, self-taught. She has worked as a waitress, a bartender, an organist and a helper at a day-care centre. And finally, she's a consumate actess. You should hear her conning her mother into taking the kids for a week. Now wouldn't you think that with all these attributes, she could hack some kind of living out of our economic jungle? But, no. Her problem is that she. is ready, willing and able to go out and conquer the world, but she's walking right into Canada's worst unemployment situation since the Great Depression. An added difficulty is that she is specially trained to be one of those pariahs of today's society — a teacher. Being a newly graduated teacher today is like being an undertaker in some Utopia where nobody ever dies. Every occupation has its day in the sun, I guess. Fifteen years ago, it was the turn of the teacher. If your body was watm and you were still breathing, you were likely to be snatched off the streets or out of an office, and propped up in front of a classroom. With the post-war baby boom over and out of the schools, and the reluctance of so many young people to have children, for whatever reasons, school enrolment has shrunk drastically, and will go on doing so for several years. Smiley The huge educational, empires created during the boom years are shrinking, and attrition is fairly savage. Thousands of young teachers are unable to get jobs. Hundreds are losing their jobs because they are redundant. It's nobody's fault, particularly, just a matter of execrable management by our leaders. Nothing new in that. They're the people who study all the charts.' examine all the facts, and invariably come up with the wrong answer s. Day in the sun for the teachers is over. Morale of those already in the profession is low, for various reasons. Morale of those trying to enter it is depressive. I reckon doctors got the next day in the sun. For years, along with the dentists, they carried thousands of dollars on their books, of • people who could not or would not pay their medical bills. Then came health insurance, and suddenly young doctors were making a fantastic living, because they were paid for everything they did. Now they've had their day too. They work incredible hoursi often in rotten little offices where they scarcely ever see the light of day. But their expenses have shot up, they pay a whacking income tax, the government is always creating more paperwork, and sud- denly it's become a grind. Who's having his day in the sun in the sick 70s?' I'd say the service people: garage mechanics, TV repairmen, plumbers, electricians. It certainly isn't nurses or construction workers. So be it. But there must be something awfully wrong with a country when thousands of highly dedicated, highly educated young people simply cannot find employment in what they were trained for. Maybe my son Hugh 'had some psychic foresight. He took off for Paraguay, a a 13a-hai pioneer, three years ago, and is living happily, hand to mouth, without having to go through the humiliating search for a way to put food in his mouth. - • Max Braithwaite, whose Why Shoot the Teacher has been made into a popular movie, perhaps should have stuck a "not" into his title. Shoot the poor young devils, and 'put them out of their misery. Or shoot a bunch of us old codgers with our stale ideas and antiquated teaching methods, and give the jobs to the young ones. Anybody got a job for my kid? cars get check Historic The Maitland Valley Region Antique Car Safety, Check was held May 13 and 14th in readiness for the summer tours. Twenty- one Antique and Classic vehicles were examined by J.C.M. Neil of Brussels and • John Kaufman, Elmwood. This inspection is more exacting than a used car govern- Wingham Voice for Life group met at the Wingham Bible Chapel and heard Mrs. Sally Campeau's education report. Mrs. Campeau told about three speaking engagement in the past month. The first Was at the home of Mrs. Mary Stapleton of Wingham where she showed the slide and tape presentation "Abortion How it Is", by Dr. and Mrs. J.C. Wilke. During the question period Mrs. Campeau quoted from a lecture presented at the Annual Meeting of the Royal College• of physicians and Surgeons of Canada. The lecture was given by Dr. Jacques 'Genest Director of Clinical Research Institute of ment check and in other areas is different because of particular design features of some of the early built autos. Of the vehicles. checked only three failed to meet the criteria accepted . as Historical Auto- mobile Society of Canada stan- dards. All these owners exp- Montreal and Professor of Medicine at University of Montreal. Dr. Genest said, "It must also not be forgotten that the most widely ' used con- traceptives such, as thepill and the intrauterine devices act mostly by producing abortion at a very early stage ,and -not by preventing conception as was first thought". A second engagement was held at the Exeter., High School were Mrs. Carnpeau and Mrs. Connie Osborn, Education Chairwoman of Goderich .Pro-Life presented the Canadian film, "Two Is a Crowd," one of the finalists in American Film Festival- to teachers of Physical Education, pressed appreciation for being made aware of possible problem areas in their cars: Recently new members arc becoming more. active than ever before. The third annual Brussels Flea Market and Antique Car Display will again include an. Antique Aircraft Show orfJ une 10 and 11th. Science, Man in Society, and. Guidance. Mrs. Campeau said, "Two Is a Crowd," is a contemporary film drama, about an unmarried news- paper woman, Jenny Baker who finds herself with an unwanted pregnancy. The film follows Jenny through her lonely strug- gles with the' pressures for and against abortion and her final decision not to have an abortion. On two succession days Mrs. Campeau spoke to a grade 12 & 13 Sociology class at the Kincardine High School. She was accompanied by Rev. L. Van Stoakluinen, 'a Lucknow; George Brophy, Lucknow; Dr. Clare, Kincardine; and Mr's. Annie Gibson, Kincardine. Gwen Cousins was the winner of a pony when the Brussels Business Association held its four lucky draws on Saturday night at Carnival Days. • Other winners were; Greg Wilson, second prize; W. Larrich, third prize; and Doug Sholdice, fourth prize, Councillor Malcolm Jacobs made the draw. Voice for life has busy month