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HomeMy WebLinkAboutTimes-Advocate, 1980-01-09, Page 4f ainstream Canada Pap* 4 Tim*Advocate, January 9, 19$O. Timpsf$tabltthotc1117.3 Advocate Wolptixhe418gt1 Amalgamated. 1924 Composition, Manager — Harry DeVries Business Manager •,•-• Ditk Jongkinti. Published Each Wednesday Morning Phone 23S-1331 at Exarar, Ontario Second Clair moil Rigistration Number0306. SUBSCRIP1-10ta RATES: Canada moo POT Year; USA $30,00 tiAWAWIISAfs*.114SMOASAUSAafSMRWSSe.MIZ,7f=ZTZrZ'Vzti.C,:tz-W:rztK*a $E11V1NG. CAN Al:WS 'BUT FARMLAND. C),W,KA, COM. 'A' ctuti ABc Published by J. W. Poly .Publications Limited 1-0/04E.E.EPY, PUBLISHER Editor — Bill Batten Assistant Editor — Ross Haugh, Advertising Manager Jim _Beckett +CNA By; Roger Worth The true story is finally known, and it's an ugly tale indeed. The fact is, Canada's fed- eral government has been hor- rendously over-taxing more than 100,000 hard working husband and wife teams run- ning small businesses, farms, and fishery operations, to the tune peryear, omore than $160 million What's just as bad, Ottawa has blatantly discriminated against women, in a country Enough is Roger Worth is Director, Public Affairs, Canadian Federation of Independent Business. As the nation's automobile manufacturers suffer through some turmoil, they sould not only be con- sidering the size of their product, but also the quality. The consumer affairs division of the department of transport in Washington received a letter from a woman in Pennsylvania who had learn- ed the hard way just how today's cars are constructed. She had been shopping at a super- The editor of The Glengarry News isworried about the number of trees be- ing cut in his neighborhood. He shares the views of many 'towns people in On- tario, He writes: "We received a phone call from a very concerned citizen last week. He was lamenting the demise of some very old, but very healthy trees in his neighborhood. It seems they fell victim to the wood-heating craze. "His point is well taken. We have noticed that wood cutting is on the increase. As more people join the wood- heating set there is a greater demand for the resource. As demand goes up, so does the price. Entrepreneurs are now buying bush lots for the express pur- People are not totally reasonable. Those who like to perpetuate the semi- rationalist notion that people will change their behavior if shown the fact, would do well to look at those who serve the dictator Tobacco. No major medical or health, agency questions the fact that each year 30,000 Canadians die prematurely from the effects of smoking. If some new food additive, automobile defect or drug - except alchohol, of course - could be linked to emphysema, chronic bronchitis, lung cancer and heart dis- ease as closely as has cigarette smok- ing, a public outcry would explode and perhaps even the government would be sparked into action. But still the dollars turn into cigarettes which turn into smoke. Please, don't confuse the facts. In the late 1960's and early .1970's smoking rates began to drop, except for teenagers, especially those in their ear- ly teens. Not yet old enough to sense their mortality, those who straddle childhood and adulthood seem immune to the endless stream of scientific Dispelling myths Try eggshells Must they go? market and had packed a carton of eggs among the other articles in her shopping cart. As she neared her car, a gust of wind caught the shopping cart and she lost control of it and it ran into the side of the vehicle. Not one of the eggs was even crack- ed, but it cost her $84.50 to have the damage to the car body put right. In her letter, the lady suggested that auto manufacturers try building car bodies out of eggshells so they would stand up better. pose of cutting the trees. If this is done in an organized fashion and a bush is thinned rather than levelled, little harm is done. "On the other hand, it takes many years for a tree to grow. It is surprising just how much the character of a neighborhood can be altered when even a few majestic trees are felled. "Some municipalities are in the process of putting controls on top soil removal. Will we have to put similar controls on tree cutting to protect our environment? Should a person be free to cut whatever he wants.? "These are sensitive questions. Some day, very soon, we may have to answer them." evidence, while being supersensitive to peer influence. The litany of chemical substances associated with cigarette smoking - nicotine, tars, carbon monoxide, cad- mium, nitrogen dioxide, ammonia, for- maldehyde, hydrogen sulphide - fail to dispell the compelling power of those heroes who suck smoldering leaves. Tobacco land has succeeded in creating an image - that hot smoke is cool, macho yet super-feminine. Nonsense! That image is distorted! Smoking should be linked to disability and death, to ugliness, rasping coughs, dragon breath, dried skin, squinting, eyes, yellowed teeth and finger and blackened lungs. But the counter-offensive is under way. Tired of being lost in a bleary- eyed haze, many non-smokers are becoming downright aggressive, punc- turing myths and demanding their right to breathe clean air. As the puffers wheeze and rasp their way toward the back of the bus, perhaps those short on height and years will get the point and prove that they at least are not short on brains. where rights for the many times fairer sex are supposed to be a major concern.., The situation is shocking and shameful, even scandalous. The issue: taxpayers who employ spouses in unincor- porated businesses in Canada have not been able to claim the salaries paid for such jobs as a taxable expense. in Ottawa's view, such spouses do not really contri- bute to the health of the small enterprise, or, if they do, the deep thinkers in the tax de- partment believe they should work for nothing. The Canadian Federation of Independent Business has waged an eight-year battle to have the inherently discrimi- natory tax legislation changed. S5 Years Ago Jonah H, Pedlar aged 90 years and 5 months died at the home of his brother John. Miss Fannie Hatter of Chicago has returned to her home after visiting in Exeter owing to the serious illness, of her ,brother 'Will. Garnet McFalls who recently .underwent an operation for appendictis returned to his home Thursday. Miss Ann Allison who had been visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. J.T.Allison returned to New York. Caleb Heywood suffered a paralytic stroke while in the barber shop of Norman Hockey. 30 Years Ago Mr. C.S.MacNaughton is in Chicago to attend the mid- winter meeting of the American Seed Trade Association./ Provincial Constable Charles Salter has been transferred from Blyth to Kitchener. Mrs. Salter and Jane will move shortly. Two smart new arenas were officially opened last Friday night, one in Hensall and the other in Zurich. Over 6,000 pullets were smothered to death Monday evening in a fire which broke out at the Lakeview Hat- 5hery in Exeter. 20 Years Ago Dial telephone is coming to Crediton, W.W. Hayson, Bell manager announced this week that plans are un- derway for the opening of a new dial exchange in By SYD FLETCHER Scott played football and did a splendid job of it. The noise level at high school games always loud, would rise almost to hysteria when the quarterback passed him the ball. Moving with a free, easy grace that almost made the girls swoon, he rarely failed to score a touchdown. He was a popular boy, partly because of the football games perhaps, but also because of his appealing grin and infectious laugh that could bring good humour to any class that he was in. Somewhere along the line he had not learned to read very well. As a result most of his grades were poor. Though he was not stupid, there seemed to be a mental block there that stopped him from deciphering the mysterious wiggly lines that make up words. Rather than giving up, as most seventeen year olds would do, he kept at it, struggling with every technique that we, as English teachers, could possibly come up with: reading machines, special books, and all kinds of in- dividual help before and after school. Although the gains were not spectacular, there were gains of various kinds. Progress was being made and Scott felt good about being able to read a basic list of sight words. It was more than he could have done before. He wanted to get into Perspectives 7.12:VA4a.M.-0:NE,arZ the army after school and knew that he would have to pass a literacy test. For his teachers and himself it became a real challenge to get him to absorb as much knowledge as possible in the time available. Everything seemed to be working out well for Scott. Then, right about this time of the year, nine years ago, a week after Christmas, the principal came over the P.A. system to announce to a hushed student body what many had already heard on the radio and TV, that Scott had died in a car crash the night before, Sotnehow, there seemed to be no justice, no rightness about a world that kept on turning even though one seventeen year-old's life had so suddenly ended. Dear Editor; Attention all adults. Re- Meeting at Exeter Public School. A child is walking down the street or just playing, a car drives up and the driver offers the child candy or something good, the child gets into the car and is never seen again - alive. A child playing is accosted by a bully who takes away his toys and threatens injury - where can that child run for help? An accident occurs when two children are playing. One child is unconscious. Where can the other child run for help? These are things that can happen anytime, anyplace. This is the reason many communities have a BLOCK PARENT program so that • children, in time of need, recognize a symbol of help and protection. A BLOCK PARENT need not have children of his or her own. It takes no involvement other than putting up the BLOCK • Having made it successfully through the year of the sheep, on which this writer wouldn't hazard a comment for some obvious reasons, we are now into the year of the monkey. That's a moniker with which many people can readily associate, some of them not having progressed too far from their antecedents of that species. When it comes to monkey-business, many merchants are apparently of the growing opinion that it is being per- formed more and more by consumers. Pat Tallman, general manager of the Better Business Bureau of Waterloo region recently noted that consumers are making unreasonable demands and want something for nothing. They are described as being bullheaded, can- tankerous, greedy, demanding, irresponsible, and unreasonable in that they expect storekeepers and business people to break contracts at the snap of their fingers because they have chang- ed their minds. They expect stores to take back items they've used for weeks and replace goods that have stopped func- tioning, regardless of the fact the warranty period has expired. ,,, As the competition among businesses increases store owners are caught in the predicament of either meeting these demands or facing some mean- mou thing which often results in losing more potential customers. On the surface, it would appear to be a problem that has to be handled solely by the merchants, but that is unfor- tunately not the case entirely. When they meet these irresponsible ar an by Smiley I will not think about the election. I will not write a word about the elec- tion, I will put the election right out of my mind. I am not about to let an elec- tion spoil my new year. There. How do you feel about another election? Probably much as I do, Another sixty million dollars out of our pockets to pay for the damn thing, and when it's all over, we'll have another bunch of liars, or the same ones, back in the House. It makes one puke. Silly sods, Our glorious leaders. The arrogance of those in and the lust for power of those out, is no new thing in our Canadian political history, but nowhere has it been better focussed upon than in the past few weeks. Clark's Tories, whose favorite epithet for the past decade has been "arrogance", walked into the House of Commons, after six months of non- government, stinking of the stuff. As though a divine light had suddenly fallen upon the party, they immediate- ly broke most of their election promises, and superciliously informed the nation, and parliament, that it was going to have to bite the bullet: more inflation, more unemployment, more taxes. A little power is a dangerous thing. Like a toothless lion, the Liberals, leaderless, in disarray, and informed only last May that nobody wanted them to govern the country, or at least that a great many didn't, cuffed the new boys with its clawless, but powerful, paws. Like jackals, the ND?, with nothing to lose, ran yelping in to tear off some choice bits of meat froth under the nose demands and bear the cost of replacing items, those costs have to be passed on through higher prices to all consumers. So, the next time you hear some shopper laughing about how he/she duped a merchant, don't laugh too hard. Chances are you're going to have to help pay for that little rip-off wh'en you visit that store. Judging from comments from some local merchants,' the problem is cer- tainly not entirely related to the Waterloo region. It is becoming more prevalent in this area as well. Oh for the joys of being the middle- man between the consumer and the manufacturer! won't know how profitable it was until their auditors have had an opportunity to go through their books, but sales were reported as being on the increase. Inflation, of course, makes that a prime requisite because those who are only holding the line on total gross sales, are obviously falling behind, Many shoppers have noted that with the addition of several stores in Exeter this fall, their entire shopping could be handled locally, even to the point of - some specialty items for which they previously had to trapse off to the city. As gasoline prices continue to spiral and supplies dwindle, area shoppers are indeed fortunate that Exeter has become such a complete shopping cen- tre in which all but the most unusual pice of the toothless lion. Like looters in a riot, the people who sell gas and cigarettes, and everything else that would raise taxes, joyfully hoisted their rates, before the budget had passed, adding the tax and a little more, to make it come out in round figures, a favorite game for years. Like so many hyenas, the stock markets of the country, rejoicing in a swing to the right, sang hosannahs while stock prices soared. And went to the wailing wall when they collapsed, after the so-called "government" fell. If you feel like me, you'll be mutter- ing' "A curse on all their houses." So, exhausted politicians will stagger back into the harness of the campaign trail,mouthing the same old cliches, try- ing to stir something in the dull, sullen pond of the Canadian voter, who has never been more disillusioned. The media, which feeds on disaster as cancer feeds on cells, will have a field day. And you and I, Jack, when the smoke has cleared, will pick up the tab, as usual. Every vindictive bone, and he had a lot of them, in John Diefenbaker's buried body must be chuckling, as he watches Joe Clark make an ass of himself. Even the dust of Mackenzie Xing must be stirring a bit as he overviews his beloved Liberal party putting sticks between the spokes of the government's wheels, a tactic at which he was a master. Mike Pearson, wherever he rests, will be chortling and relating the whole needs can be found. The service, of course, was always better than the city plazas and the prices will certainly be in line with any area due to the in- creased competition. * * * During the next few weeks, Canadian will be bombarded by a tirade of ver- biage as they are wooed by candidates in the upcoming election. Unfortunately, many of those can- didates will attempt to make up for their lack of quality in presenting their ideas by resorting to quantity, which of, course is always 'a poor substitute although many people are swayed by an eloquent tongue. short and to the point if candidates could only follow the sage advice of David Belasco, the great American theatrical producer. He once said, "If you can'twriteyour idea on the back of my calling card, you don't have a clear idea. Wouldn't it be wonderful if speech writers could somehow be convinced of the value of that theory? Unfortunately, too many speakers base the content of their addresses on the time allotted to them, rather than more properly considering what they have to say. A great number of speeches have been ruined because those on the podium have not had enough sense to sit after making their point. thing to a baseball game he once played,in which the biggest bat on the team struck out, with the count three and two. Rene Levesque is probably smoking eight packs a day. furious because his tame pussy-cat, Joe Clark, has upset all his referendum plans by turning into a mouse. Robert Stanfield must be weeping into a pair of longjohns, and shaking his head, slowly and sadly, as he con- templates the asininity of the party he once led with grace and dignity. Ed Broadbrow, the people's hero, who was thoroughly rejected by both farmers and industrial workers in the last go-around , is probably and desperately searching for a formula that will get some votes from the mid- dle class. Pierre Trudeau, picking up the torch that everybody else dropped when it burned their fingers, is probably think- ing, "I 'wonder what that bloody Margaret is going to say to screw up this one." If nothing else, the election fits the season. January sales are up for grabs, along with cheap power, political. Oil prices rocket, while our "leaders" tell us that we have lots, or there's going to be a shortage, whichever fits the matter of getting Votes. And worst of all. We're going to be subjected to a winter of lies, hot air, cold comfort, and a complete stagna- tion of our country. Enough The result: just such a pro- posal in the latest unpassed federal budget. What's stunning, though, are Finance Department esti- mates of the cost of the mea- sure - a staggering $160 mil- lion. This is the annual price that unincorporated corner store operators, retailers, small man- ufacturers, service organiza- tions, farmers, fishermen, and other entrepreneurs have paid to operate as independents. Hundreds of thousands of other more sophisticated Cana- dian couples have been forced to pay Useless accounting and legal fees so they could incor- porate to "beat" the discrimi- natory tax law. Enough is enough. Every candidate in the upcoming fed- eral election should support the overthrow of this iniqui- tous tax regulation. Those can- didates who oppose the change, should explain why. Canada's legislators should be backing the husband and wife teams that work long, hard hours to create a viable business. They're the backbone of the economy. Small businesses are creating at least 70% of the new pri- vate sector jobs in the country. While patience may be a vir- tue, the time for patience on this tax issue is long past. Hun- dreds of thousands of Cana- da's small time "job creators" want action, and fast, fast re- lief from the discriMination that now exists. Creditors in 1961. Conklin Lumber Ltd., Kingsville announced this week to erect two large retail lumber stores in this district as part of a half million dollar merchandizing program in iz iluron County. Ronald Horne, Exeter, has „ been appointed manager of the Lyric Theatre in Exeter, it was announced by S.L. Berman of Onyx Theatres Ltd. At the AOTS supper meeting in James St. United Church , W.H. Pollen was installed as president for the coming year. 15 Years Ago One of Exeter's most prominent business and church leaders J. Hubert Jones died suddenly as the result of a heart attack. Born in Winchelsea Mr, Jones moved to Exeter and in 1911 started full time in the dry goods and grocery story of Jones and May which his father had founded. Fire did considerable damage to the William Street welding shop of Don MacGregor when it burst into flames at noon Monday. Damages were estimated at $3,000. Skating at the Exeter arena attracted a record high Sunday afternoon when 382 paid admission. Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Turner of Kippen celebrated their 50th anniversary. A survey showed that there would be 450 more students in the area served by SHDHS by 1972. PARENT sign in your window when you are home and taking it down when you are away. There are no set hours. The only time you report to someone is if a child comes to your door in need of protection and help - then simply call the police or parents - nothing further. Come to the Exeter Public School on Wednesday, January 16, at 8 p.m. We have a film entitled "Where Can You Run?" and a complete explanation of the BLOCK PARENT program. It will cost you a nominal fee of 50 cents to be a block parent and all you provide is a place where a child in need can run. (This is only for emergencies - not for washroom or cookies.) PLEASE HELP PROTECT OUR CHILDREN - BE A BLOCK PARENT. Bring a friend, See you there, Xi Gamma Nu Chapter of Beta Sigma Phi. Monkey business flourishes Putting election out of mind * * Despite a slow start, due in no small ,/way to the unseasonable weather,local merchants up being comparatively Election rallies and other political happy with the Christmas trade. Many ' meetings would be kept comfortably