The Lucknow Sentinel, 1993-12-08, Page 4Page 4 — Lucknow Sentinel, Wednesday, December 8, 1993
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NAFTA: plan and prepare
today for tomorrow
Canadians are deeply divided on the North American 'Free Trade
Agreement, (NAFTA) among Canada, the United States and Mexico.
The problem is one of vision. Critics are mainly concerned about
today's economy and the immediate loss of jobs to Mexico while
supporters argue that NAFTA is a crucial building block needed to
construct jobs and security for Canadians in the future.
It's time for Canadians to understand that the world is changing.
Whether they like it or not, they are living in an international economy
where citizens in every nation on earth must 'see things in a global
context. Protectionism is dead. It won't save Canadians any more.
The only way to ensure employment and prosperity for Canadians
tomorrow, is to plan and prepare today.
The bottom line benefit of the NAFTA is simple: when you put
money in the hands of the poor in Mexico, you create more sales
opportunities and job openings for Canadians.
It won't happen overnight. Nobody promised it would happen
overnight.
But it will happen during the next 15 years when almost all tariffs
among the three countries involved in the NAFTA are dropped. It will.
happen when developing regions of Mexico require Canadian know-how
and innovation to construct pipelines, install telecommunication
networks, provide financial services, design health care infrastructures.
Remember the horse -and -buggy advocates who said the automotive
industry would wreck the North, American economy?
Canadians must accept the inevitable. The Canadian assembly -line
worker with the high school diploma who works for seven -and -a -half
hours a day four or five days a week inserting Part A into' Slot B and.
gets paid very well for doing it, has no place in the new world of the
21st century. Those jobs are already diminishing and by tomorrow they
will be gone.
This transformation wasn't caused by Brian Mulroney or the
Progressive Conservative Party or Bill Clinton. It wasn't even caused
by the NAFTA. It was inescapable in a world where men fly faster than
sound, where light. travels through cement, where human life ban be
cloned in a test tube.
Fear can stifle progress. Faith can ignite it.
_Canadians need to believe there's more to be gained by stepping out
in confidence than hanging back in trepidation. - SJIC
How the Japanese view
Canada and its people
The Japanese are watching. They are watching Canada. They are
watching Ontario.
They are interested in Canada and in Ontario. They have
investments here.
And according to Kenichi Ohmae who is the author of several
books on global strategy, Ontario is pretty much on its own now. In the
Japanese view, says Ohmae, Canadians ha•,'e shot themselves in the
foot. They voted for regionalism in the recent federal election and must
live • with the consequences. Now, with different political parties
representing different regions of the country, Ontario should not count.
on a working arrangement with any one of the other provinces. Rather,
Ontario should be looking outside the country and beyond North
America - to Asia, Latin America and Europe - for partnerships.
He may be right, although it pains us to say so.
But Kenichi Ohmae may see more clearly from a distance what
Canadians cannot from here - that in Canada right now, it's every
province for itself and may the best one win all the marbles. It's just
one more symptom of a changing Canada that is less distinct and more
divided. - SJK
The .Sentinel Memoirs
Fire destroys Ackert barn
70 years ago
Dec. 6, 1923
Big blaze at Holyrood - The .biggest barn fire
which ever occurred in Kinloss Township, was
on Monday afternoon when the barn on Almer
Ackert's farm, just west of Holyrood corner, was
completely destroyed in a few hours.
The bam was filled with the season's crop which
was threshed about three weeks ago, everything,
having been put in order for the wintering of 70 or 80
head of cattle.
The barn was one of the best equipped in the
province, even to a Delco lighting plant.
Sixty-five head of cattle were in the basement, most
of them in single stalls, but by quick work these were
all gotten out. Four pigs were burned.
We understand that the contents of the barn were
well insured, but there will be considerable loss on
the building, which, like all other farm barns, had
greatly outgrown in value the amount of insurance
carried.
The help of neighbors who soon gathered about was
effective in getting the cattle out. It was only by the
most strenuous efforts that the implement shed, the
dwelling and the Methodist Church building were
saved. These buildings were many times ignited, and
a number of men were. severely burned and had their
clothing on fire in their efforts to prevent a
conflagration.
50 years ago
Dec. 9, 1943
oncert off due to flu - The Lucknow Public
School concert has been indefinitely postponed
due to the flu.
There were some 44 pupils absent from school the
first of the week, which made it practically impossible
to carry on concert rehearsals, with the possibility
also that others might be ill by the night of the
concert.
A Sunday school supper that was being considered
in the United Church is being postponed until after
Christmas.
Rural school attendance has dropped un some
localities to a point where the school was closed.
Black gold arrives - A car of Mack gold ar-
rived at Ripley recently - 65 tons of it.. A
variety of vehicles were on hand before
daybreak and before the noon hour, the fuel hungry
folk of that community had "gobbled up" every pound
of it.
25 years ago
Dec.11, 1968
hitechurch post office to close - While no
official word has been received by
Postmaster Doris Willis of Whitechurch all
indications presently point to the closing . of the
Whitechurch post office by the end of this year.
Whitechurch has close to 50 boxholders who
depend on the post office for their mail service and
these people, with a few exceptions would be served
on R.R. 3, Wingham if present plans go ahead.'
Douglas Point announcement - Ontario Hydro
will build a 3,000,000 kilowatt nuclear power
station on a 2,300 acre site adjacent to Douglas Point,
Canada's first full-scale nuclear power plant, midway
between Port Elgin and Kincardine. The station's four
750,000 kilowatt units will be powered by nuclear
reactors using heavy water and natural uranium - the
Canadian concept.
Cain House
ZION SCHOOL 1914 - Back row, from the left: Myrtle Ritchie, Ada Heim, Verna Stroud, Lizzie
Helm, 'teacher Mary Culbert. Third row Eva Gardiner,•Gertle Stroud, Margaret Webster, Edna
Ritchie, Pearl Beaton, Jane Rltchle, Essle Ritchie.. Third row, Harry Hackett, Camian Beaton, Alf
---Andrew,-F-red-Ritchie,-Wat:.Webste Ahrin Beaton, Bill Webster. Fourth row, seated, Mac Webster,
Beverley Beaton, Carl Gibson, Ewart Webster, Marsf>Il-GIbn,-Blll-Stroud; -Melvin-Webster:
(courtesy Mel Webster)
The legend of Robert .Service
by Marsha Boulton
WHITEHORSE, YUKON, 1906 -
- What Canadian poet claimed to
have been shot at while writing one
of his most famous ballads?
Robert Service was a bank teller
in Whitehorse when he was invited
to prepare a reading for a church
concert. It was a rowdy Klondike
Saturday night when he thought of
the line: "A bunch of the boys were
whooping it up."
After returning to his apartment
above the bank office, Service says
in his autobiography, "Ploughman
of the Moon," he crept downstairs
to the quiet of his teller's cage and
commenced work. A sleeping guard
awoke and assumed the midnight
author was a burglar.
"Fortunately, he was a poor shot
or `The Shooting of Dan McGrew'
might never have been written,"
wrote Service, "With the sensation
TH
of a bullet whizzing past my head,
and a detonation ringing in my ears,
the ballad was achieved." More
than 50 years later, Service finally
admitted the story was pare hokum.
Service emigrated to Canada from
Scotland in 1894 with $15 in his
pocket and'1+isions of becoming a
cowboy. He tramped about and took
all manner of odd jobs, before he
began a career in banking which led
him to the Yukon.
His fust book of verse, "Songs of
a Sourdough," was an accidental
success. Service had intended to
print a slim volume of Iris poems as
a souvenir for his frieiids, and his
father forwarded the material to a
publisher of hymn books in New
York for printing.
The book sold itself when
pressmen were discovered laughing.
and reciting Service's verse,
including the classic "Cremation of
Sam McGee." The book sold over
two million copies and made Ser-
vice one of the best-known and
wealthiest writers in Canada.
In -1908, Service was transferred
to Dawson city and he settled in a
rustic cabin, which is now a
museum. He wrote his first novel
here, "The Trail of '98." When it
was finished he decide to deliver it
personally to `his publisher in New
York.
"We expected you to arrive in
mukluks and a parka driving a dog
team down Fifth Avenue,"
exclaimed the publisher, who was
surprised to find Service rather
unassuming in appearance. Far from
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