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Home My WebLink AboutThe Lucknow Sentinel, 1979-06-06, Page 6roes 6—bsilosow $ectisel, Wednesday, Joao 1979 The.. ‘A. • • • 11. Letters to the editor LUCKNOW SENTINEL Criticizes newspaper's quality .LuticRow, ONTARIO: "The Sepby Town" Established 1873 Os the Huron -Bruce Boundary Published Wednesday Published by Signal -Star Publishing Ltd. Sharon J. Dietz - Editor Anthony N. Johnstone - Advertising and General Manager Subscription rate, S11 per year in advance Senior Citizens rate, $9 per year in advance U.S.A. and Foreign, $21,50 per year in advance Sr. Cit., U.S.A. ai1dF1oreign S19.50 per year in advance 1 •• Busincatand Editorial Office Telephone 528-2822 Mailing Address P.O. Box 400, Lucknow, NOG 2H0 Second class mail registration number - 0847 0 eu4o,'s I • • Women volunteers Pauline. McGibbon, Ontario's Lieuten- ant Governor, addressed the Ripley Women's Institute on Wednesday, May 30: In her speech she told the ladies she was glad women who chose to do volunteer work in their community were being hono ed for their years of service. Several mejzlbers of the institute received service pins for their years in the institute :and their contribution to the volunteer work of the group. The women who over the years have given days and weeks of time and- effort Without financial return. have contributed much to our society. Even today with many women returning to the work force after their children ., are raised and remaining at work through the years their family is in the home, there is still a place for, the non -working woman who works as • a voiunteer. Perhaps her service is greater now than ever before. They are the mothers who can assist in • the classrooms of our schools, supervise school outings and bus:trips. 'Th -ere the • Brownie, Guide, Beaver and Cub leaders, the Sunday School teachers, the baseball coaches; the hockey mothers who raise money for minor - sports, the skating mothers who assist skating clubs as ice captains., badge, carnival and test chairmen. . . They are the women who serve on the executives of various fund raising cam- paigns including the cancer, society, the arthritis society, and the March•of Dimes. They belong to church groups, wornen's -. institutes and women's service Clubs. They make clothes and quilts .tO send overseas, they paint playground equip- ment and they adopt children from poor countries. They hold various fund raising efforts to support community projects. An inereasing number of these volun- • teers are working mothers who take some • time from their busy schedules to make a Contribution to their coMmunity. As more women choose to work, the role of the woman who chooses not to work outside the home is even mere important. Her volunteer services prov- ' . idle a support in many ways for the working mothers in the community as they provide child taifor working mothers, and supervise children's activit- ies when working mothers cannot be- cause of time restrictions. ... Mrs. McGibbon spent many years of her life in Noluriteer service and at the time she was chosen Lieutenant Governor she was serving as chancellor to the University of Toronto. A very gracious lady she is an excellent example to all 1 r Canadian women. It is reassuring that •she recognizes the contribution made to society by the volunteer work of women. This service should be recognized by everyone. • A service pin is pittance for the worth of the volunteer work done by women, some who have worked in service groups as many as 40 years. But many women receive this' little token of recognition gratefully, as if it • were a medal. Women have contributed voluntarily to society throughout our country's history and their service will continue to be a great concribution in the future. May 30, 1979. The Editor, The Sentinel, Lucknow, 'Ontario. Dear Sir, ' • Thank you for yours of May 28, 1979, in response to my recent letter re the incidence of error in the usage •of English in the Sentinel, and many other publications, and your thanks for my concern. It should be pointed out, however, that no complaint was made re content in the Sentinel, which we consider to be a fine, community paper, serving the needs and intersts of the community. I am 401 blinded to the content by the lack of editorial ex- cellence, and do not read the paper to look for errors. However, when, by their very volhme, they jump from the pages and bite me, it eventually becomes difficult to remain silent: • K. Smith, in today's issue of the Sentinel, has com- pletely lost the point being 'made in my letter by maxim- izing content and minimizing quality of producting..(Incid, entally, I was most surprised to see my letter in print when I intended it for your eyes, and guidance, alone) Smith is apparently saying: "as long you can under- stand»: the • message, forget how poorly it is written down" • . : "throw excellence of per- formance out with the bath water" "be content with shoddy workmanship" • "don't take pride in turning out a well -finished job" "let our standards of excellence slide into the muck and let us put up with unacceptably inferior goods and services" "as long as the public will continue to accept as little as possible in the way of quality goods and services, • that's what we will try to get away with" "whatever you do, don't complain aloud how poorly things may be done; accept gratefully what the poor workman allowed you to have" Today's society is more and more being forced to live with inferiority and ,medioc- rity because of declining standards of excellence, mo- tivation, or whatever. We are constantly doing battle with providers of goods and serv- iees to cash in ori warranties to correct things that should have been done properly in the first place to meet just an average standard of excel- lence. Is the • latest air disaster in Chicago a product of low performance 'stand- ards in making airplane parts? What would K. Smith's reaction be if he (she) had taken an automobile -in for repair of structural damage, 711rt:, the mechanic, only being concerned with getting away with a job that just might pass minimal inspection, made minor repair and paint- ed it over or otherwise hid it, and he (she) was invalided for life or killed in an accid- ent resulting from failure of the repair by a mechanic who .followed K. Smith's philos- ophy of "don't be concerned with excellence of perform- ance, just be satisfied with inferiority"? ' How many times -do we hear "they don't make things like they used to"; or "you can't find many today who do a good job anymore"; or "today we pay an awfully lot more for an awfully lot less"? If we, as a society, con- tinue to be martyrs without speaking out, we will con- tinue to get what we deserve by way of increasingly low standards of mediocrity and inferiority. Somewhere along the line we must become • concerned enough to make our collective voices hear in an effort to halt this down- ward slide to general infer- iorty of our whole way of life. If not, the wheel may make a full turn and put us back in the stone age. Yours very; truly, Pinecrest Manor Ltd., George A. 'Newbold; President, ,,,,, .444 ei, ,.... O. o• •P• ,,,, , ir A A el ... 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Minnie Lock, right, chaired the meethig. • • [Sentinel Staff Photo]