Times-Advocate, 1979-11-07, Page 4By W. Roger Worth .
"Why do some retailers of
fly spray require a license and
not ethers?"
That's one of the dicey
little questions now being con-
sidered by the Ontario govern-
ment as a result of 0 national
campaign by the Canadian
Federation of Independent
Business to cut the excessive
paperwork, red tape and regu-
lations faced by small busi-
nesses.
The Federation is asking
each of its 55,000 members for
specific comments on paper-
burden, and sorting the replies
for presentation to the ten
provincial governments.
In Ontario, the first prov-
ince tackled, the organization
received an amazing 5,000 re-
plies, These have now been
forwarded to various govern-
ment departments for action.
The program will be extended
to other provinces shortly.
Roger Worth is Director,
Public Affairs,
Canadian Federation of
Independent Business.
"The specific comments
allow government depart-
ments to deal more realisti-
cally with the problems,"
said Ontario Premier William
Davis at a recent press con-
ference.
This is not the Federation's
first attempt to do something
about the paperburden issue.
The organization helped con-
vince the federal government
to set up a paperburden re-
duction office which has been
responsible for saving tax,
payers and business people at
least $100 million per year.
Paperwork and govern,
meat red tape is a major
problem for independent
businesses, particularly when
seemingly useless forms have
to be duplicated for various
departments.
Here's an example of the
depth of the difficulty ex-
pressed by a member:
"We have a small business,
myself, my husband and two
part-time people, I estimate
that the paperwork I must
keep for government (at all
levels) takes up to 10 hours
per week . . . for this there is
no compensation . I cannot
afford to hire someone as this
is a relatively new venture."
That plea for help is indi-
cative of the situation facing
small and medium-sized busi-
nesses nationally.
Some other comments: '
"Retail bait handling li-
cense (minnows). A person
would have to be a biologist,
mathematician, accountant
and a plain genius to accur-
ately complete this form."
"The overlapping of areas.
Within three months we had
two separate inspectors go
through our merchandise from
the same government agency,
neither of them knowing the
other had been around."
No wonder the small busi-
ness people creating a major-
ity of the new jobs in the coun-
try are upset. Government red
tape allows them less and less,
time to run an efficient oper-
ation.
55 Years Ago
The Times-Advocate
received a letter from Lorne
W. Brown of New York City,
formerly of Crediton,
congratulating us on the
amalgamation of the two
Exeter papers. Mr. Brown
was in Europe this summer
attending the World's
Sunday School Convention at
Glasgow.
William Statham and R.
Welsh of Exeter, and John
Decker, of Zurich, bagged a
large number of rabbits
while on a two-day hunting
trip at White Church in
Bruce County.
Miss Lila Taylor, a
promising artist of Usborne
township, has had her work
recognized by having one of
her paintings "The
Homestead" hung in the
Canadian Academy at
Ottawa.
30 Years Ago
A bronze plaque in honour
of Sir John Willison, jour-
nalist, author and publicist,
who died in 1927 and who
began his career as a printer
with the Exeter Times, will
be unveiled this month at the
Huron County Court House.
The Huronia choir
motored to Hamilton
Saturday and carried off
second prize at the Hamilton
Music Festival.
Dr. Harry Seldon, a native
of Exeter was elected
president of the American
Anesthetist Society, last
week.
The first monthly meeting
of the Exeter Home and
School Association was held
in the school Friday evening.
Mrs. Ernest Jones is
president,
20 Years Ago
Elston Cardiff, Huron MP
was named parliamentary
secretary to Agriculture
Minister Harkness last
week.
Preston Dearing and son
Gerald, RR 1 Exeter, cap-
tured every major prize in
the Dorset Horned sheep
competition at the Royal
again this year.
Mrs. H. Cleven of Win-
nipeg is visiting her sister,
Mrs. C.S. MacNaughton and
her brother Jack Fulcher
and their families.
Old Orchard Lord Vern
24L, owned by Whitney
Coates and Son, RR 1 Cen-
tralia, captured highest
honors • for Canadian
Herefords Thursday when it
won the grand cham-
pionships ribbon at the
Royal.
15 Years Ago
Reform Institutions'
Minister, Allan Grossman
urged consideration of the
replacement of existing jails
in Huron County with
regional detention units.
Huron County's home for
the aged is to have another
addition, possibly providing
100 beds. This is an estimate
of need based on the rise in
population at Huronview
from 105 in 1960 to 244 on
November this year.
Two veteran" members of
the Exeter School Board
announced this week they
would not stand' for re-
election for another term.
Retiring after 17 years- is
W.G. Seldon, the senior
member of the board and
also Ray Frayne who has
served for the past seven
years.
same, She was so lonely she could scarce hang up the
phone.
She has to walk a mile and a half, in windy weather, to
get anti-biotics from the doctor, She is horrified that she
gets only a little more than half her pay cheque, when all
the deductions are made. Hah! After years of being a stu-
dent, living on loans and grants (and handouts from us) she
has entered the chill world of capitalism and income taxes.
But it wasn't all black. That one-legged chicken didn't
taste bad, if you'd had enough pre-dinner tranquilizer to
destroy your taste buds.
We did find that the damper on our fire-place works,
after years, and we got it closed to save heat dollars pour-
ing up the chimney,
And thanks to the town work crew, who cut down one of
bur maples, the boy next door, and a double saw-back I
have my winter's fireplace wood in the cellar. And I know
my daughter, tough stuff, will whip those kids into shape.
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adoption. As she said that
her voice broke, and more
than one eye in the
classroom was wet. I felt
that she had a lot of courage
to get up and tell the class
about something many of
them probably were aware
of, yet had never dared ask
her about.
A similar case happened in
a grade 11 English class
which I was teaching. One of
the girls, very attractive by
anybody's standards, and
one of my top students hi a
class which was one of the
School's best, became
pregnant in the fall of the
year.
Not that many years ago
the whole situation would
have been hushed up com-
pletely. She would have
either quit school altogether
to get Married or like the girl
above, gone to an Unwed
Mother's Home to have her
baby.
Not so.She kept on in
school. It was surprising how
that particular class rallied
behind her. They were only
together as a class for that
one period of the day yet they
constantly gave her en-
couragement and friendship.
One day a group of grade
10 boys were going out and
greeted her with snickers
and a couple of rude
remarks, leaving her red
with humiliation and almost
in tears. Well! About four of
her classmates lit into those
boys like a tornado making
them scurry for cover down
the hall. TO my amazement
one even apologized the next
day to the girl,
Easter holidays came and
then winter break, and the
baby obligingly was born
then.
With only two days of
school lost over the whole
year the girl attained over 80
percent in all her subjects,
and as far as I know came
back to finish her Senior
year. She had kept the baby,
and eventually married the
boy who was father of the
child, after he and she both
graduated.
Two entirely different
approaches. I leave you to
make a decision as to which
was the best.
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More good news
of 50,000 refugees by the end of 1980.
This figure could go even higher.
Japan has shown shocking
resistance to the establishment of a
meaningful program. About 400,000
refugees wait in camps in Southeast
Asia - in Hong Kong, Malaysia,
Thailand and Indonesia - wondering
what their fate will be. Fortunately the
United States, which already has
accepted almost a quarter of a million
refugees, has lifted its monthly intake.
It is true that some of the refugees
have few skills and limited education.
Many are well educated. Yet they all
need our help. Many are well educated
middle class people and a good number
speak English. The number involved is
small when compared to the millions
who needed resettlement at the end of
the Second World War - the im-
poverished displaced persons whose
cities and homes were razed first by
the advancing nazi troops and then by
the armies of the nations who repulsed
Hitler.
Unless the Southeast Asian
refugees are received with more
kindness, generosity and understanding
by the rest of the world, this will be yet
another occasion when humanity will
not deserve its name.
production, the area continues to show
growth that is well beyond that of the
nation as a whole and indicates that the
phenominal commercial growth which
is also taking place within the com-
munity is not as risky as many would
suspect,
The investment in the community
by Kongskilde Ltd. shows a positive at-
titude for which the firm and its local
management are to be commended.
absenteeism. Ten times as much
production is lost because of
absenteeism than because of organized
work stoppages.
Researchers found that alcohol
abuse, domestic unrest and sheer
boredom is causing many to stay home
from work. At the present time there
are 6,000 jobs unfilled in the food in-
dustry. Skilled machinists are scarce.
But there is no way of forcing those on
welfare to accept jobs they don't want
to take.
If we want to be prosperous there is
only one formula and that is good, hard
work. That is not a new idea. Thomas
Edison said "There is no substitute for
hard work".
Ridgetown Dominion
rriqteci 1924
Machines have more sense
"Don't complain — we saved you, didn't we?"
.1.1.4ainstrearrt Canada
Why Business is Upset
More help needed
Little honest sweat
Researchers commissioned by the
federal government found that neither
strikes, nor lockouts are causing the
country's declining productivity, but
WeiaMEcoMASIV.
This area received further good
news this week with the announcement
of a $1 million dollar expansion
program at Kongskilde Ltd.
President John Burke advises that
within two years, the number of
production employees will increase
from the present 40 to 100.
Coupled with the recent announce-
ment that Bell Aerospace at Grand
Bend would get back into major
The question of Southeast Asian
refugees is one of those issues that
reminds mankind just how far we are
from an ideal world. Unfortunately, it
proves that we live in a world that at
times is very brutal, During the past
four years almost a million refugees
have fled Vietnam for a variety of
reasons. With four billion living on
earth, this may seem a small percen-
tage.
But nations have not opened their
arms to these wandering families. Far
from it. The ships in which they es-
caped have been shot at and sunk. They
have been arrested and deported. If
they are able to reach a haven - they
are forced to live crowded together in
conditions often little better than
animals.
So far, Canada seems to have
accepted roughly one per cent of the
refugees. To give Canadians their due,
they have welcomed more refugees
that the United Kingdon, Switzerland,
Belgium, Norway and New Zealand put
together. In fact, these five nations
have taken fewer than half the 12,000
refugees that are said to have settled in
Canada so far.
At the end of August the govern-
ment had agreed to accept a maximum
Prime Minister Clark has stated
that one of the nation's paths to a
sounder economy must be a more
productive work force in the public sec-
tor. With that we agree. Canadians in
general have adopted a national at-
titude of expecting every luxury as
recompense for doing as little as possi-
ble.
Modern malingerers simply stay
home, or go fishing. Absenteeism - the
fine art of "goofing off" is costing
Canada something over $20 million dai-
ly, or about 5.2 billion a year.
By
SYD FLETCHER
Listening to students make
speeches can sometimes be
less than interesting as they
ramble on about the working
conditions of the South
American artily and or "My
Trip to Outer Mongolia last
Summer Vacation". I
remember one high school
class that suddenly woke up
and came to abrupt attention
when a particular girl stood
up to give her impromptu
speech. She was a quiet lass
who sat near the back of the •
room and rarely commented
about anything.
"I didn't really know what
to talk about," she said
quietly, "so I decided to tell
you about the time I spent in
aborne for unwed mothers."
Withouttiny obvious em-
barrassment she went on tO
say that she had decided to
have her baby away from
her own community, then
had given the baby up for
As we head into the busy festive
season with its never-ending line of of-
fice, home and community parties,
there's a natural increase in the
number of people who get behind the
wheels of their vehicles without the
sobriety which is necessary to safely
reach their destinations.
However, there may be some help
along the way if a device recently in-
vented by an Australian taxi driver
reaches the local markets.
This device not only warns a motorist
when he or she has had too much to
drink, but actually prevents the driver
from putting the vehicle in motion
when the blood alcohol count is higher
than the legal limit.
The inventor has christened his crea-
tion "Boris", an acronym for Breath on
Recirculation Ignition System, and it
consists of a small box attached to the
underside of the dashboard, with an in-
strument like a microphone attached to
it by a cord.
If the driver has any doubts about his
fitness to drive, he merely picks up the
attachment and breathes into it. If he
has been too heavily into the grape or
the grain, a red light glows on the
dashboard. Furthermore, Boris
automatically cuts off the car's ignition
system so that it cannot be started.
The major loophole in the instru-
ment, of course, is the fact the driver
has to have enough doubts about his
ability to drive to implement the
system.
Unfortunately, most people who are
impaired appear to,have a few doubts
about their ability behind the wheel,
and in fact often take on an attitude of
being more proficient than when they
are sober.
Even with such helpful gadgets,
many impaired drivers would already
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Dispe sed by Srilitey
Remember that column I wrote last
week about the glories of October?
Forget it. I must have been in an
euphoric,mood. Reality has returned.
Caught one of those deep and heavy
colds that make you cough up stuff that
gourmets pay for and call oysters. Had
to take two days off work, first time in-
two years, and went back far from
well, but driven prom the house by my
wife's solicitude.
Had the turn signals and the heating
fixed on my car, reached into my
pocket to pay thebill- maybe thirty-five
dollars - took a look at the bill, and had
to be helped into the front seat of the
car. One hundred and one dollars, plus
change. Approximately 30 per cent of
the entire Value of the car. You could
buy a pretty good jalopy for that sum,
not so long ago.
This morning, when I looked out the
Window, I nearly keeled over. I can see
six roofs from the bathroom, and every
one of them was white. Snow, on the
day after Thanksgiving.
Today, when I got home from work,
it was hailing, And I'd forgotten to put
the garbage out.
Thought I'd give my wife a treat and
cook the Thanksgiving dinner. She
wasn't keen on a bird, as there were
only the two of us. But you have to keep
up traditions, like the British dressing
for dinner in the jungle.
And that's just what it was like.
Dressing for dinner in the jungle. On
the Saturday, I picked up a nice
be on hospital operating tables before
they would admit that they should have
tested their driving abilities.
* * *
"Don't blame me, I didn't vote for
him" is a popular bumper sticker show-
ing up these days as Prime Minister
Joe Clark bounces from one problem to
another. During his short stay in office
to date, his major claim to fame
appears to be his ability to change his
mind.
Despite the problems being faced by
Clark as he is forced into changes on
such things as interest rate increases,
ail prices and the location of Canadian
eMbassies, there is a light side to the
whole thing as a number of Joe Clark
jokes are appearing on the scene.
In fact he appears to be replacing
Newfies and Polish immigrants as the
butt of the Canadian jokesters.
One wag suggested last week that
Canadians deserve some special award
as having done more to recognize the
International Year of the Child than
any other nation in the world ... we
elected one as Prime Minister.
After the disastrous fire on Parlia-
ment Hill recently, there was a report
that Joe Clark's total library was
destroyed. Both books! "And he wasn't
even finished coloring one of them,"
another pundit exclaimed.
Then there's the item from our,
associate in the next office advising
that Thanksgiving had to be cancelled
in Alberta this year. Their turkey mov-
ed to Ottawa!
* * *
While some people would denounce the
attempts at making light of the
political leader of the nation, there is
every evidence, that Canadians need
some humour in their daily lives these
roasting chicken, about four and a half
pounds. Didn't pay much attention, as
it was 'in a plastic bag, and teat fat and
juicy.
Got up a bit late on Thanksgiving
Day, and the stuffing was made. I
usually do this, because I love ex-
perimenting with seasonings, A shot of
this, a dash of that, a soupqon of
something else. It usually turns out to
be either pretty exotic, or inedible.
Anyway, she'd beaten me to it, not
wanting to feel beholden, Feeling
beholden is when your mate does one of
your jobs, and reminds you about it for
the next three years.
Well, I didn't mind, But that's the
easy part — the stuffing. The tough
part is getting it in, and wrestling with
the bird, and trussing it. You usually
wind up with a mixture of butter and
dressing all over you, up to the elbows
and doWn to the knees, and a 'bad
temper. Often you have to scrub the
kitchen floor, there's so Much goop on
it, once you've got the beast in the
But I didn't mind. I've been through
this sweaty struggle before, and know
well the sense of triumph when the
slippery Monster if finally in the oven,
basted in Nitta, readY to Start Sen-
ding out that ineludible odor of
roasting fowl.
This titre, however, I was rather
shaken when I pulled the bird out of the
plastic bag and prepared for battle.
It looked as though it had just come
irlssi
days because it is certainly an element
that is difficult to find as economic and
social woes pile up against them.
The majority appear to have the idea
that our political leaders should have
some magic wand that they can wave
and dismiss the problems that have
been brought about by decades of
affluent living and a decline in in-
itiative and responsibility.
Well, there is no such magic wand
and there is increasing evidence that
the situation is now so complex that no
one can clearly indicate how to escape
the tangled maze.
In fairness to Joe Clark and his new
PC government, it should be
remembered that he didn't get us into
the current mess and unfortunately
there is now growing pessimism that he
can get us out.
* * *
Once in a while you come across an
act so selfless, so completely free of
any taint of commercialism, that it
restores your faith in the human race.
The mob that runs gambling in Atlan-
tic City has decided to set aside 23 slot
machines as "handicapped preferred".
Themachineswill be built low enough to
the ground to enable investors in wheel
chairs to reach the handles and lose
their money just as quickly as their
more fortunate brethern.
Not only that, but ramps will be built
to the one arm bandits and the designs
on the wheels-those pretty plums,
cherries and bells-will be embossed in-
braille.
The story is so touching it gets a
fellow really choked up; or is "throw"
the correct word.
through Grade 1 of Butcher's School,
All the skin was missing from the left
side, It had one leg, one, stuck up at an
obscene angle. The neck looked as
though Jack the Ripper had been at it
on one of his bad nights. And all the
good guts - liver, gizzard and heart, had
been stolen. These, along with the neck,
are what I maikelny magnificent gravy
from. The neck was there, all right, and
as tough as the neck of a vulture.
Did you ever try to truss a one-legged
chicken, semi-skinned, and make it
come out like the usual work of art?
Don't. Your heart won't be in it,
I was so disturbed that .I had to resort
to a preprandial nerve relaxer, and this
led to further disas.: the pot with the
vegetables burned'mblack, because I
can't smell smoke, and my wife was
upstairs, staying away from the blue
air that often fills the kitchen when I
am cooking. It was doubly blue this
time. It will take a week of scrubbing to
get the carbon off the inside of that pot.
To further the jollity of the occasion,
we got a call from my daughter who is
teaching a thousand miles away, in the
north. It was a bit like getting a cell
from Hades. She had a WrackingcOugh,
and had been off work for a week, her
students are "hard as nails", and there
were dark rumours of wild-dog packs
that will attack if you slip and fall on
the ice, and wild-dogicids Who wind° the
Reality has returned
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