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The following letter to the editor appeared last week . hi
the Huron Expositor : It is written.:ln reference to editorials
which appeared in the Expositor ,eimcerning the deathsof.
Seaford' area : teenagers in -traffic " mishaps; The editorial
'refers to the young people in our society who complain they
have nothing else to do but drive around,, The letter makes
several suggestions to the teenagersand the .first is "Go
home",
To . the ,Editor:
After reading the ;two previous issues of the Huron
Expositor, it becomes apparent that some in our adolescent
soclety have adopted. e "nothing to.'do" ' :attitude Which
seemingly .will become more prevalent ilduring the winter
ahead in the absence 6f our local arena, Perhkps it is an
>iappropriate :time to share' with: the . young readers, some
advice aaexpressed.hy a jt dge.rccentiy to the young people
MINS community, in response to the age old questions of the
young " Whsast can we do 4 where can we goy" (from the Him,
Crenestoga. College, Waterloo Centre),
'Said the judge, "Go home! hang the storm windows,
paint the woodwork, Rakethe leaves, mow the lawn, shovel
• snow, wash the car, learn -to cook; scrub the floes, Repair
. the sink, build a boat, get a job, .Help a minister„.. priest tor
rabbi, Help the poor, Study your lessons, And when you're
through and if you are,:net too tired, read a good book,"
"Your parents do notowe you erncrtainnient. Your city or
village does not owe yeti recreatioml facilities, The world
does not owe you a living, You owe the world something,
You owe it your time and energy and talents so that no one
will be at war or in poverty or sick or lonely again."
' "In plain, simple words, grow up, quit. being a cry-baby,
get out of your dream world and develop a backbone, not a
wishbone and cart acting like a mean or a lady. You're
supposed . to be mature enough to accept *some . of the
responsibility your parents have carried for' years, 'may
have nursed, protected, helped, appealed,begged, emus..
ed, tolerated and denied themselves many things so that
et' amid. `have . every bencftr," '
"This they have done gladly, for you are their dearest
treasure, And now, you have no might fir, expect them to
bow toevery whim and fancy, just because sseeltrsst ego
instead of common sense dominates your ,peratmality
• thinking and requests,
"In. Heaven's tome, grow up and go house."
Can you in all honesty still say there is nothing to do BUT
drive around y nowhere to go DOT to the hotel, The 'list of
alternatives is endless, isn't it? Several additional thoughts
e to mind - wash the windows, teach yourself° to play a
musical instrument. , clean your bedroom, empty the
garbage, Coach a lith kids hockey or ball team, Visit
someone living aline, disaabledd or handicapped,
someone. sick, A -resident in a nursing home would be
thrilled•to ecce your smiling fate,.A busy mother would enjoy
• as occasional hour ewer a cup of epee with a friend if you
volunteered yowl rr babysitting services, *Probably you can
think of many more, •
• Wouldn't it be great to consider that the world you live in
cis adults is a much better one than the world your parents
knew and all because you are in it, A safer world because
everyone cansiders it a privilege, not a right to have been
grantee a 'driver's licence and nye sociable one because.
yrou has some respect for alcohol, Perhaps .les too late fie
the caul generation but you can help make a new world,
To those (and •we're. ,sure it's a' majority) who do
mol-idertti y with the "nothing to do" trend and carat
sincerely say that this advice steed not apply Cortgraitula-'
tions! You are to be commended and should not be ofeaaded
yy it, And 'o those (we trusgt-you will recognize yourselves)
who have allowed yourselves to become needless victims of
the "Hothl ig to doo ' Mentality - you . have no right to be
MO* t OAP 1.
With the 'sudden. disoppe armee of
the -boy, Award°MacQueen, the wed= •
ding celebrations, hi &Mout Ofiiaimlsh
and: Kate .Murdoch (nee MacQueen),.
were abruptly terminated, The
Friend% of Skye combed the streets df
Toronto, systematically searching ev
ery place where . the boy might be.
hiding, but Without resulte They etre
searched along the waterfront, am=
onget the warehousess and slipways,
enquiring from the poassers by if
anybody had .seen "A wee lad in a
brow new .suit • s young laddie who
Spoke mete Gaelic than the Sessenkch
tonguel"
When .at lest they returned to the.
whole Hell, tiered and disappointed
from .their fruitless ,task, they ate the
now cold wedding breakfast in silence,
not knowing. What to soy. Within their
hearts they . feared that -Edward
"IllacQueen had. run awe_ y from 'his
Mother fewer,
Doctor Cameros drew Duncan Mari
mrd: to "lane: side and told him the
people should dispersetv their homes
andthat he Would continue his: search
for the. lad, :it' was a dune . when the
'minister's leadership. roe: to the
occasion, He stood at the head of the
table and' addressed his people.
"My ends, we have encountered
and endured many hardships togeth-.
er: This. is not a time to concern
ourselves -too greatly with the head.
strong actions -of a naughty boys Every
laid at some time in his :life has an
inkling to run away from his parents," -
He smiled and centbused.. "They ere
all found usooaer or later and, perhaps,
are a little more easy toe deal with after
thea experience, We all hove to con-
' tinue with
on-'tinuewith our:daily lives, end I ask our
newly married friends.;to make their
r,.
journey to kkhmond Hill.. to the
meantime Dotter Cone* and l. will
continue to�sestch :for. Edward, aid 1
, nm mitre that God will lead us to the.
boys
In spite of the reassurance of the
minsiter, it was a sad and broker'
hearted Katie Murdoch who Sat on the
• wagon seat beslde her new husband,
as they made their way nopiwards, to
their future home.
Little Anne MacQueen did not seem
as distressed as her Mother, She sat
quietly 'at:the end of,the. seat, lest in.
thought end. watching the bush which
flanked the road: There was a large
woollen shawldraped around her
shoulders to shield her from the. chili
of the Suddenlyjourney,.she broke the
silence. •, .
"Och, diens fish ye set, mamma.
Teddy will •come back!"
There were . many who:. returned to
their homes with the thought of
tdwkrd MacQueen 'still' Upon their
minder, tun beard the ship whit'', took'
hint sway Brom tipper Canada, Chippy
Chisholm felt a' deep sense of 'regret
that he had left : his friends int such
troubled ciritumstances •
The : h schooner, "Masala of
Nur, sir ' quietly out of Toronto
Without, her sails billowed to a gentle
south West wind and gulls hovering
and screaming above her decks,
Chippy .watched the 'shoreline slowly
-disappear., un,.Toronto was just a
break In the green line of the water..
front bush. .
`Dere would be no passengers upon
this ship, She was a merchant vessel,
plying her trade across the Atlantic
Unlike the "Moils", there was no
smell of human` suffering below her
decks • no presence. of the angel, of
death so .apparent in the immigrant
ships of, those. .days. The atmosphere
was one .of clean -and freshly cut wood
mingling with the scent ofher last
cargo, a mistutre of rum, tobacco. and
theeternal odour of tar, Chippy had.
. -signed on as ship's carpenter for the
journey to the Clyde, : paying for his
passage by theservices s he had to
offer
When there -was nothing ,\ more ' to •
see Chi wait to the crew's
tpuartcs below the %"castle• It was
quiet on the deck. The Mew were still
• aloft in the rigging, making fast ropes,
or battening down. t11e hatches, The
quarterswere simple and clean; two
rows of double bunks, a plain . table
with bench seats, over which the oil
lanterns swayed to the movement of
the ship, There were a few sea chests
near the bunks, and len one corner,
Borne bales ofcanvas and a few coiled
rC►i pee,
Chippy walked over to a .bunk and
sat down, He pulled an old sea bag up
from the floor beside him and run,,
staged into the contents to find his
Woking clothes, Suddenly he heard a
sound behind the bales, but quickly
dismissed it as beingjust "beasties"
Outs), the permanent occcupants of
every ship.
His surprise is difficult 'to imagine,
when the figure of a boy emerged from
the back of the bales, He was dressed
in a new suit, although it had become
creased and tilthied by the lad's
hiding and his many attempts to creep
aboard the ship without being seen,
the boy was pleased to See Chippy,
"Oh, Uncle Chippy, 'i'm: sae glad
Inc see ye; --Veer a. wee while I thought 1
had stowed siva on the wrongshipf"
one foot in the furrow
by',cob trotter
It could be a record harvest across
the natio this year but by the time
everything is snugged down for the
winter, it may be s harvest of red i
Farmers ore notorious gripers,
complain when the crops are good
because a burmpeir crop. depresses
-prices, They r, complain when the
harvest is bad because they cannot
make enough money to remain in
business,
They complain when it reins, They
complain *hes. it doesn't renin: .
This year, I suggest, they have
great cause to pipe,
Western farmers lose NO million a
day when a handful of grain handlers
go on strike in lininder Bary, Vest.
table farmers watch helplessly as two
weeks of rain destroyer a summer's
work,
Por ihotisands of years, fainters
have met these vagaries of suture sod
the marketplace'with. 'their share of
bitching, ,They have accepted it,
gritted their teethe, anad gone one with
the john 01 feeding the would,
However, a see of deep malaise is
apparent hi the hearts of Canada's
Tamers today,
The status of the nation's tamers is
the result of tinrtaataral events this
Year, They have oreereome dittight4,
floods, strikes, erg proms,
screaming MIStifilet§0 itttee rtaatronal
enapanies, chain steres, kickbacks,
surpluses and shottages,
They have fought for or
marketing in some commodities a
the fight continues for others, -
Out fallout from the combined
.effects of decreasing income, rising
costs and Skyrocketing interest rates
has hit them harder than anything
since the Dirty Thirtiets,
Pam implement and equipment
sales are down, The small, faarm,relata
ed industries throughout ruralCanadaa
are suffering, The credit of ,famets
has beet stretched to 'the breaking
point, Many had to borrow to ` meet
higher operating costs this spring,
Credit costs were so high even then,
profits were hard to hard,
Now, with costs for p+roehuctfone
higher and interest rates at the usury
level, the Mimeo in becoming`
terminal,
Who an afford the interesse rates otic
A $50,060 traactorf Who aut keep it
feedlot going when loons fit the areas of
$20606100 a are n sssary to keg, the lot
stocked/ And the poor cowif farmer
is getting it from bothasides, He has to
kap his stock even langur,
its not the low farm pikes so
much as them killing Wawa rates,
an implement dealer told me this
week, "Parana* Whoa they " .reatiyr
teed a plea of ttmettitteryi, could
meaty fiat the matey y. to final; it,
gust to
now Wath interest tats killing
the parchtse before it leaves the lot."
'41416%4 know how much longer we
can go on," said as respected feed
dealer to me the other day, °We just
cannot ell/tend credit to some of our
best . customers, . We 'can't get the
credit" ,
One of the biggest feedlots in our
area, that of Gerald Cavell near
ftasrriston, went into receivership this
month. They paid interest • interest
alonerf +'' last year of $2000060, This
year, they faced loan costs of $400,000
at 25 per cent.
"The whole industry is going down
the drain, not just our fame," Coven
said, "You can't pair 25 cents out of
every dollar you get to the bank and
make a living raising beef,
Bankruptcies in Canadian *ea&
tureewere tip more that 25 per cent at
the end ofJaly and going higher every
week, As farmers give up, more esttle
are going to market which, in turn,
Onto the market and forces prices
down for those still rtes busittess,
It is a vicious, hattl-renrding .circle,
I attended aan each sale only two
weeks ago, It was a thirdegetterotion
fats. The soar was a solid, hard work,
ing farmer but gotcaught its the high
interest rate squeeze,
His 'father, one of the finest
Christian g I k have ever
known„ wept when the neer
sadly gilded Itis' spieyi
116W long am this go ore
I cat: right along stfth ltt,