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HomeMy WebLinkAboutTimes-Advocate, 1978-07-27, Page 4 (2)Page 4 C Times -Advocate, July 27, 1978 CI rbsistiONj Subject to proof . "Sincerity is -always subject to proof." John F. Kennedy said in the ad- dress he gave at his inauguration as President of the U.S.A. Was Kennedy being just a little cynical about sincerity? Or was he be- ing realistic. saying that we should be suspicious .of declarations of sincerity and appearances of sincerity? He had learned, as we all learn. that sincerity is an ambiguous notion. that an image of sincerity is not •a guarantee of honesty and integrity. Most of us have had the experience of being conned--by._slickers who exude sincerity like cheap after -shave lotion. The late Lord Thomson. the Cai1 - dian who became a press lorin Bri- tain, once said this. with a twinkle in • his eye: "I'm frank, brutally frank. And when I'm not frank, I look frank." What would you make of that? A man being sincere about his own occasional insincerity? AS the popular saying has it, "Whether you mean it or not. be sincere!" Some expressions of sincerity are calculatingly deceptive. And sincerity also has o_ ther - popular aberrations. There 'is the sincerity. the quite genuine sincerity. of the fanatic. There - is the sometimes dangerous sincerity of the person who believes that he. -along with those who think as he does. has a monopoly in -some significant eg- .ment_of truth and wisdom: he may be intolerant. bigoted. hating those who disagree with him and sometimes cruel toward, them. but you've got .to- give him credit for complete sincerity. • 'Then •there is the dangerous sincerity of the person who combines initiative -taking. self-confidence. and gross incompetence. if you have much .to do.with such a person you learn that sincerity carr sometimes do more harm than malice. But many of us from time to time fall into that trap ourselves. We excuse our folly and ineptness by assur- ing -ourselves that we are sincere anyway. We "gorttetimes assume that our sincerely good interitions-avow us to be incompetent and foolish in their implementation. We must not. of course. fall into the easy cynicism which assumes that all appearances of sincerity are decep- tive. But we do need to be aware that • sincerity'. no matter how genuine it may be is not in itself a guarantee of truth. never. a substitute for knowledge. never an excuse for un- necessary incoTpetenge. Our sincerity is -always subject to prooh' - • -- Eontributed Make decision now d Each year'. a difference of opinion evolves when Exeter's sidewalk sale days are planned. Some want the Math St. closed to vehicular traffic and others don't. - That debate- in the past has in- volved both downtown merchants and council and 'few events have been held without some problem' arising out of the street closing question. - This year. the street was left open because a suitable detour route could not be provided in view of reconstruc- -tion on William St. While there were thoughts' or dela-}ing_ the sale. the record. Several who have fought strenuously to have .the street closed each year are now hinting that it may be•better to carry on as they did this year with'only parking eliminated. ' It reduced the antics of youngsters . on bicycles 'to a considerable extent and some report that motorists passing through town took ttime to stop..and shop when they salt-, what wast taking place. In view of the fart-.somjopirtions now appear to be changing in regard to the street closing, the Downtown Business Ihaprovement Area board merchants decided against tha eOlIrse---:should_conduct an informal poll among of action and proceeded as planned. Members to deterine the course o with traffic using the Main St. . action for next year.It should be don -"Indications from most merchants now while memories are vivid and\ this week are that the two-day event should involve the police and works was one of the most- successful on department to determine their views - It could happen here At last count 145 tourists and towns -people were dead in a small Spanish seacoast town. Some 140. more are so seriously injured that they are expected to. die. Why? All because a truck carrying- liquid -gaseous fuel ran amuck and exploded. Spain is a long way from here - but the very same thing could happen right on the main street of any Western Ontario to tomorrow. With every .passing ay two or three . of these rea -made bombs pass directly t ough"the centres of our com-_ munities. In fact a fuel truck did start a fire in a town near Lake Erie a few years ago. and' if we recall correctly some five or six business places were • wiped out - and that with no explosion. Only last week there was a train derailment which necessitated the ' evacuation of many homes in' an American town because the overturned 'railway cars spilled -a .toxic substance. - If there are anypecial regulations which impose_traordinary . safety mea'sure,ortthe carriers for such -danger -Oils cargoes we haven't heard of -them. Are the drivers •of these trucks- all mature men with especially long ex- - perience and unusual "safety records? Do the trucks have more than the usual safety devices or are they the same_as the one in the doomed Spanish town which simply ran away while it was unattended' - Perhaps our Ontario laws do re- quire more • than the. usual safety precautions for carriers of dangerous loads. but if so it would be a relief to know what they are. When a big tanker carrying thousands of .pounds of ex- plosive fuer roars through town it doesn't take much imagination to visualize what would happen ifanother vehicle ran a red light into its path. Wingham Advance -Times •Dear • September and we are trying • .-I ould like to bring your to determine which ,.readers up to date on the workshops and activities to Energy Conservation • repeat or new ones to un - Centres serving Huron - dertake before this ending. Bruce County. Its been four To. date, we figure_ we Months since the Energy have had contact with Conservation Centres around 55.000 peopje through opened in Goderich and our. activities. Lucknow. _ We would appreciate We have -run workshops on hearing • from readers Solar energy, wood heating. regarding the variolas and insulation. Weave programmes we have run -4 collected a godd library of have they been useful? What books on energy con- have we done that was right? servation and alternate What have we done that energy sources.. We've done could be improved? And presentations on- energy most importantly. what topics'to a variety of groups programmes would your and schools. We've done readers like tosee run -before mall displays and a vas'iety of other, programmes. We've tried to help with individual - questions and we've distributed. literature on a number of energy . con- servation topics. Our upcoming the project ends? Sincerely Tony McQuail Pfoject Co-ordinator Gentlemen - programmes include a wind_. - energy seminar, in Goderieli 'As a means- of obtaining and Liicknow; a play: ealled="un-dS -in order to cont] inik_ our services to Huron County, the Town and Country Homemakers -will tie collecting Kraft labels in all grocery stores in this area. We have been in contact with Kraft Foods Limited • • "The Wiser of Off''; displays at fairs and festivals; film nights and a tour of alter- native energy Nimes and projects in Huron County. The Conservation Centre programme will be coming to an end in the first week of and for each Kraft label we obtain, they will pay towards our cause. a sum of money. The labels we are collecting argil all the Kraft salad dressing labels and the Kraft Miracle Whip labels also. Boxes will bepresent at all the grocery stores in Huron County for the convenience of. all in this way. we are able .to ensure that as little inconvenience as possible is placed upon our supporters._ Later this year, we also intend to organize rummage sales in Clinton, Wingham and Exeter; therefore, if anyone hasany donations for our sale, please call ttie Wingham office at 357-3222 or myself at 482-7609. Through these efforts. 'the Town • and County Homemakers will remain in existence next year and we wish to state now, that.all of - the fundal obtained through ,your assistance -Will be greatly appreciated. For this. _reason,.-wac. surceiefy -Rape the people of Huron County will not only support our organization, but assist t sr cin our cause also. . Yours truly Mrs. P.C. Gonie-Tak Development Officer "I1 ural a injured haruelJ when. as an .IIP. /w tried to keep -his ear 10 the ground while sit. ling on a fence. • BATT'N. AROUND F .. . e . with the editor Are you missing out? • The theatre season is off and run- ning. affording area residents an ex- ceptionally -good opportunity of enjoy- , ing some light simmer entertainment. - Staff members_ have attended most of the productions being offered at the. Huron Country Playhouse and at Blyth. and the,gerferbl consenstfs of opinion is` • that the performancesareup to the usual standards of previous years. While none of the productions has _resulted in people rolling in the.aisles. there are enough good laughs to keep 'For mind off the hot. dry weather: . The�Huron Country Playhouse appears headed for.a record year as far as attendance is concerned. Last week's play featuring London weather gal Judy Savoy was SOW put and the up- coming production, of -Oklahoma appears headed in the same dire'tion. Most of those audiences are repeat customers who have enjoyed their past visits to the barn on the B -Line and ob- viously that in itself indicates the rewards -they have been receiving through their patronage. If you're among those who have yet to be initiated into the fun of summer stock theatre. you're missing more than you may think No doubt most Canadians were reassured by statements made recent- ly by Prime Minister Trudeau during his visit to West Germany. After being handed a 12 -million -year-old fossilized fuel maple leaf. the PM commented: "twelve million years old. that's how long Canada has lasted and will last". • Ironically. at the same time. a study report from the Joint Commission on Great Lakes pollution was advising Canadians that.the world's largest in- land fresh -water system may be dying. . The doomsday.report suggested that within 200 years. sizeable portions of the 'lakes could be little more than swamps due to the pollution being fed into them daily through industrial, farm and. community sewage waste material. • Although Canada and tilt/U.S. have been working on pollution -controls for several years. it appears that the ef- forts have done little in some cases other than reduce he increase in the • pollution content' - It becomes rather obvious. that more stringent controls will have to be en- forced if the :I rime Minister's predic- tion of anosfier 12 million years for Canada's lip -span is to come true. The Jo"' t Commission has been giv- ing us a same sad story about the conditi of the lakes fpr several years. eople lament how 'terrible itis and w• nder why somebody doesn't do Some ing about it and then go on abou their business of polluting .the - .ova even Mee: — W ile big industries are amoog the leading culprits. practically everyone living in the Great Lakes tpsin is con- tributing to the problem. Farmers pour chemical fertilizers into the soil which • in time find their way down to the water table through drainage system$ into the lakes. Towns and villages such, as Exeter maintain sewage lagoons which eaeh spring let loose the effluent Sugar and Spice Dispe sed by Smiley Making plans for a trip When you are going on a trip. your first hope is that you will get there in one piece: preferably the fairly large piece in which you began the trip Not a lot of little ones. Your second hope is that you will net be hijacked. Or. at least if you are. that the hijackers will insist on landing on the island of Bali. where the terrified hostages will be comforted by nubile. young bra -less. topless ladies. waving fans and things around to keep them the hostages I cool. Another vague hope_ is that the air. plane gets off the ground. It didn't help our frame of mind when one didn't recently at Toronto airport. and in- stead wound up in a .ravine Then. of course. -it is to be hoped that once the thing gets into the air. it returns *to- terra firma. This islairly important: they tell me - Next. it's rather essential that you have • a place to lay your jet -lagged head when you get there. Marcia.ges are made i•n Heaven.- it says some.whei'e 'Divorces are made when the room clerk says. "Sorry. sir. Your reservation definitely states August 15th. and this is July 15th. We haven't a thing for the next two weeks." This ex- perience is far. far worse than being left at the alter. It's basic -that you should leave behind instrut:tions for the disposal of your property, in case. you are kid- napped in the red light cjjS.Uict.of-.Ham-•- burg. or,.in•th-e.ase of wives. decide to rutreff with the one -eyed Afghanistan pilot you met in the discotheque in Rome. We've drawn up a list for just that purpose. Kim gets the -grand piano. Hugh gets the lawnmower and' the -color TV (they have some great programs in the jungles of Paraguay' A.1404111077"., Timer Es'ohl,rhrd 187) Imes - Kim gets a lawn sprinkler for The Boys • to run through, their. favorite sport y. sisters get the old beds we outfumbled them for when my mother's estate was being divided. My wife's sister gets the huge linen tablecloth with the wine -stains that won't come out. And so on. • Another thing you should look after before you commence a trip is to get well rested. Maybe that's why I'm tak- ing.off this afternoon in a bus with a lot of hooligans to drive, round-trip; 200 miles ,and watch a • double-header baseball game featuring the worst major league team in the world, Toron- to. and arriving honie at 2 a.m. Four hours on the bus. Four hours' in the grandstand. After a day's work. "You're crazy", -my .wife said, une- quivocally. She's right it's extremely important. when you are packing. not to leave out anything vital to your well-being. Make a check- list: laxative pills. tranquilizers. stuff for athlete's foot. .piles.ointment, dan- druff killer. a travel iron to press out the furrows on your forehead. And so on. Naturally. you need six dictionaries: Canadian -cockney; English -French French -German: Schweitzer -Deutsch; Toronto -Italian; Joual-French. And so on. Let's see. Oh. yes, you need money. •Wherr-the'Etrrepeati "came 'to -Cana da first, they brought lots of colored •beads, and received in return for them prime furs, good as gold. •'When Canadians visit Europe, they take choking great rolls of banknotes, and receive in return for them-- you guess- ed it - colored beads. Seems fair enough. Let's have another look at that list. Advocate Esrobhsh.d 1 88 I dvocate la.nom Wee On SIRVING CANADA'S BEST FARMLAND C.W.N.A., O.W.N.A. CLASS 'A' and ABC Published by J. W. Eedy Publications Limited LORNE EEQY, PUBLISHER Editor - Bill Balton Assistant Editor - Ross Haugh •.� Advertising Manager - Jim Beckett ' • -.Cttropeeisior*Monags♦r "lftnsythiVne Manager _ Dick Jongktnrt publt.hed Each Thursday Morning Phone 235.1331 at Exeter, Ontario Second Class Moil 386 CNA rteyntradvanc. Circ lati Paid in Advance Circulation September 30, 1975 5,409 .SUBSCRIPTION RATES: Canada Si 1.00 Per Tsar; USA $22.00 . :• during high run-ott so tnat the sewage can get away quickly,to the lakes. There are' indications that we can't get away with it much Ionger..Nafure. has called a halt. Nature can no longer • handle the amount of pollution people are pouring into the lakes and if there is no immediate move to desist, we will • lose the most precious commodity on earth - fresh water. - It's a legacy our grandchildren can do without! ' Coroner Stanislas Dery, who heard the evidence in the tragic case of the 12 boys and one adult who perished recently in the frigid waters of Lake Timiskaming, has branded the entire expedition as "an exaggerated and pointless challenge". Selected to preside over the inquest because of. his extensive experience in - marine inquests, he suggested that if . the accident had not taken place in the early stages of the trip it would have almost -certainly -occurred -some time before its conclusion. Evidence indicated. the 12 to 14 -year- olds were not trained for the rigors of such a trip. nor had the expedition been suitably planned. The whole concept of the trip - appeared to be- an attempt to make men out of boys. It points out the com- plete folly of the too frequent in- terference by adults. When will people learn to let -kids be kids? • Uh. Yup. Electric toothbrush. Extra • dentures in case of breakage. Hair dye. Three quarts of underarm deodorant. Toilet paper, 12 rolls. Adhesive tape for blistered heels. Seven -iron to practise golf swings while waiting for audience with Pope. Booze. Hey. where's the booze? Heard a guy had to pay $45 for a quart of rye when • the Old -Timers played hockey in Holland last winter. 'Wait a minute. now. Have to call the, cops and listen to their amused snorts when I ask them to keep an eye on the house while we're away. Leave the house key under the eleventh stone on• the.patio. We'll never find it -when we get home. Cut off the newspapers - sure sign you are not home when there. are forty-two of them on the porch. Put out some ant traps to make sure' they haven't demolished entire house while we're away. And so on. You know something? My wife may be crazy, as I suggested here recently. but she's not dumb. She never wanted to go on this trip in the first place. All she wanted. to do was have a normal summer: swimming; playing golf; picking berries; enjoying the grand - boys; nagging me about the weeds. Well, by George. 'We're -going anyway, and she can Ipprp it. As. .long - as ecce doesn't lump ine. you're nobody unless you've been to Europe. That is, of course unless you've been 10 Newfie. Then you're O.K. ' My greatest consolation is a line from a letter my 'son wrote on my birthday, "Tribulations, frustrations, rotten kids and • neurotic spouse. All these things shall pass away." Thanks, Hugh, i needed that. Amalgamated 1974 Think small by Jim Smith 1 No Time for -� • TYaditionalists Bartley Danson, Ottawa's \tinister ut Defence. is a bright guy who doesn't have much patience for the died - in -the -wool traditionalists • who want to run contempo- rary Canada just as it opera- ted at the tuns of the century. That may'explain why Dan- son has not heconu.one of the most prominent spokes- men for the federal cabinet. Danson being a clever guy. it's a good idea to pay -atten- tion to his remarks. Such as his belief that Canada is the nation with the golden eco- nomic future. We've got re- sources galore, Danson has been arguing. at time when the rest of the world is runty ning out of the raw materials needed for manufacturing. Sooner or later, the rest of the -world must come to us for our oil, water, trees'and all those other natural won- ders God gave us. - • Danson's blatantly Cheer- ful remarks stand out in pes- simistic Canada like Rene Levesque at .a Liberal rally. - Untort►urately. they've been largely ignored by the press. and hriradcasteis. Danson and all Canadians deserves better. The -1970s crave not been good ones for the Canadian economy. We've lost money and jobs to OPEC,the Ameri- can sunbelt states and the non -oil Third World nations. But now the balance of pow- er is ready tit start swinging bark. OPE(',-for instance, aF ready worries about what happens when the oil is gone 1. in. perhaps. another 15 years). Saudi Arabia, for ex-. ample, is seriously consider- ing tloating icebergs from the Arctic to provide drinking water. How can the nation hope to attract mannfactur- ing when it lacks water for the production process? The sunbelt states already ration water in rirany regions; future expansion there is limited.- And the Third World, cur- rently booming because of ruck-hiottoni wages and -taxes, will be forced to•raise both wages and taxes over the next few years; their workers will expect better compensation as the countries acquire more and more industry. Yes, Canada's future is potentially bright. However, it isn't enough to compla- cently fall back on resources. New mineral deposits have a disconcerting tendency to pop up where they are least expected • -- and providing fierce competition for Cana- dian suppliers. Ih our life- times, the sea will undoubt- edly become a fantastically rich Source of resources - far richer than anything Canada. can claim now. ' The real implication o'r Danson s glowing predictions for our resource industries is subtle: our enormous re- source wealth - should he used to develop technologically innovative Canadian -owned industries as opposed to mass manufacturing which can he carried out in any country. 11'e would be naive to allow others to use our_JeSourCeS as a basis for their own Indus= trial expansion.411orcover, although resource exploita- tion creates only a few jobs, -the tnanu-factu-ring-that could spring from our wealth would create countless jobs. The future is ours - if we choose to take it. •'Think small" Is an editorial message from theCanadlan Federation of Independent Business fiD now •n memory lane' 55 Years Ago Mr. Wes Dearing organized a pienic for the Trivitt Memorial choir and assisted by Messrs. Isaac Dunsford, Wm. Taylor and Jas. Stanlake, motored the choir to Goderich. After spending several hours there, the choir went to Bayfield where supper was served. The evening was spent at Grand Bend. The Boy Scouts held their annual service in Caven Presbyterian. Church on Sunday morning last. There was a splendid congregation present. Rbv. Telford, of Blyth, Scoutmaster of the Blyth troup,•occupied the pulpit and preached -a ..very inspiring . sermon. On the platform with him was Scoutmaster T.• Pryde. The Box Scouts, along with •the ' male members of the choir occupied the choir loft and sang a very suitable anthem. A quartette was sung by Tom Pryde, John Pryde, - Kenneth Stanbury and Roy Batten. ' A number of Boy Scouts left Wednesday' for "Ban- nockburn Farm", the horf1 of. Rev. Jas. Foote, near Varna. . - ... 30 Years Ago Over 400 invitations have been mailed 'for Winchelsea Old Boys and Girls Reunion to be held,August 2. L:V. Hogarth and Jack Weber leave Saturday to attend a school. of poultry diseases' at Dr.Salisbury's offices at Charles City, Iowa. A large water tank,brought from Port Albert airport is . being installed at Zurich. its ( ,gapacity is 65,000. gallons. Work on the new runways at Centralia RCAF Station is prbgressing rapidly. The • landing strips are being doubled in length to give one mile runways. Newton Clarke, Woodham, was winner in the field crop competition in barley. 20 Years,Ago Hensel] children are taken to Turnbull's Grove every Wednesday afternoon as part of the summer playground program sponsored by • the Hensall Recreation Council. Two district youths were fined 550 and costs for throwing beer bottles from a' car Saturday evening. Sale of the old Hensall Public School to Fred.Haist, London; has lowered village taxes this year by almost two mills.... IS Years Ago Over 300 former pupils of Whalen public• school an- swered the call of the bell Monday for a reunion which marks the closing of the building for educational - purposes - .but not for community gatherings. The, school has been purchased by a local group to serve as a public hall. About 3,000 bales of hay, 400 bushels of - newly- •barvested-•balrley, and number of implements were destroyed when the barn of Arnold Westlake; - R.H. 1, Cromarty was struck by lightning and burned to the' ground. • Formation of a centennial committee to make plans for the celebration of -Canada's 100th birthday in, 1967 was proposed Tuesday by Mayor W.E. Simmons. Construction of the $200,000 hockey and skating rink at RCAF Station Cen- tralia is proceeding on schedule. Completion is set , for the end of September. r s', •J •1 •• •)