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Times-Advocate, 1978-08-03, Page 4 (2)Times -Advocate August 3 1978 System is wrong? Fruit and vegetable harvesting is in Nil swing throughout Ontario. and while the lack of moisture has reduced yields for many products. the lack of labor is also creating concern for many producers. The lack of people looking for jobs would be easy to understand' if the nation's economy was at full peak. but, the fact is, over 1.000.000 people are'out of work. It just doesn't make sense. . The farmers are in a, squeeze. because the federal government has also placed a freeze on the number of foreign workers in an effort to en- courage the use of domestic help. Many of the unemployed just won't consider the back -breaking job when the pay isn't much over what they collect from unemployment insurance However. the fact remains. that the system is wrong when crops are allowed to rot in the fields while people who could capably fill the jobs sit at home and draw ,unemployment payments. Pot is boiling The educational pot is boiling across Canada. What is happening in Ontariais suggestive. __ _._. The Supreme Court of this province recently said- "no'. to North York's plan to set up a Jewish school with compulsory -rel igiou s- -classes The Board of Education — in a policy switch from the sixties — wanted to in- tegrate a private school into the public system. About 400 junior high school students at the Associated Hebrew. Schools would have been involved Having rendered this- verdict. Judge John Holland. in a personal com- ment, said "Religious instruction of all denominations would appear to have merit from an educational viewpoint." 'However. he noted that this would re- quire substantial changes in the legisla- tion. ' The fact is that a system. conceiv- ed by men like Rev Egerton Ryerson. is -dead. We . now have a concept 'of public education that is neutral or agnostic: So the pot is boiling. Ryerson travelled 'abroad to get ideas. -.We would do well .to take a good •Look at the Netherlands - • The constitution of Holland .lays %down that the cost of voluntary schools (fulfilling certain conditions imposed -py law) is to be defrayed from public funds. on the same scale as public schools. State prim-ary schools -are run byrtiunicipalities, voluntary schools by Dear Sir, the organizations that set them up. State supervision is exercised by the schools' inspectorate. _. Suffice it to add that in the Netherlands. although state and volun- tary schools are not on the same finan- cial footing when it comes_ to higher education. even at the university level voluntary institutions receive state aid 4 -c'arv'ing from 70 percent( 90 percent. Those who cherish the spiritual heritage of our own country. a heritage affirmed in the opening words of the Canadian Bill of Rights which acknowledges the supremacy of God". should -be prepared to do some very careful and vital thinking. - Those who would not hesitate .to in- voke this statute if they felt deprived of justice even in an area under provincial jurisdiction. should also be ready for vital and careful thinking about im- plications of "freedom of religion". There may be separation of church and state in Canada. But this does not mean that there is or should be separa- tion between God and government. between religion and the state. between people and public support to band together .for education according to the dictates of conscience. ft is an historic position which is at stake in. a new ecumenical climate. is a primary position which is bound be attacked by various individu or groups for a variety of reasons. ' . Contributed The readers write r.... The chief focus of media - and public attention since the release of the - Government's Constitution-. al Amendment Bill has been on the provisions in regard to the Supreme Court and the Senate. However. f • believe that citizens should be aware that the Bill proposes revolutionary changes in the Constitutional Monarchy. .changes which are in m_anr- ways more important -10 the - average Canadian than any other Of the Bill's proposals The Bill presents a monarchial facade. behind lurks a •republican reality which removes the Queen from being part of Parlia- ment and which concen- trates power in the hands of the Prime .Minister's ap- pointee., the Governor General The Governor would exercise power in his own right. giving way to the Sovereign only when she was present in Canada. Not only is this a gratuitous insult to .the Queen. whose labours and interest have been directed so evidently to Canada. but it also would allow for a government to consolidate • its own power. without checks or balances by keep- ing the Monarch out of Canada. The deceitful danger of . the Bill is that it maintains many of the Crown's trap- pings. while these symbols would in fact stand for altered ideas and a quite different institution. Equal - l•. it would preclude Prince - Charles or Prince Andrew from serving as Governor Gerferal. it would eliminate • reference to the Queen's Canadian Forces and it • would abolish the happy status quo whereby both Queen and Governor can ex- ercise their powers fully. within and without Canada Canadians determined to preserve their institutions should write their provincial and federal legislators to protest the Bill's provisions. A detailed statement outlin- • ing its threat to Canadian • Constitutional Government may be obtained by writing the Monarchist League of Canada. -2 Wedgewood Crest . Ottawa. Ont . KIB 4B4 Yours sin rely, John L Aimers. Dominion Chairman Dear Editor • It is with a sense of urgency that we approach you for help in the dramatic fight to save Niagara foodlands As you know these lands are under escalating pressures of urban • development from municipalities wishing to; expo nd THE PRESERVATION OF AGRICULTURAL LANDS SOCIETY has been the driving force behind the fight to - save this irreplaceable resource. For the past few years we have been •actively working towards - our goal by presenting briefs and rasing public awareness wherever possible. We have had some very good news coverage including a TV documentary and radio interviews. • A lengthy Ontario • Municipal Board Hearing into Niagara Regions Urban Boundaries brings a new element of emergency to the issue and forces PALS to an order to fight the case properly to raise funds to obtain legal aid and expert witnesses to fight for urb;,:i boundary reductions. Therefore - we must escalate our efforts to arouse public •opinion and need all' the help we can get at this time to da- this properly. Your publication could make a valuable contribution towards this end by allowing us to either place a„ free advertisement in your next edition or .by allowing us to write an editorial or article for lou. Another possibility would be for us to git•e you enough background in- formation on the issue for you to write an article or editorial We feel that this latter method might be most effective Thanking you for your considerate attention to our request we remain confident that you will help us in some way. to fight for the best land rn Canada for ours and future gnnerations- mingtoomerwsommornemmintawa- <,ss Tun.s Established 1173 Ad.orar. Eton.'shed 1881 dvocate SERvIN(i CANADA'S BEST FARMLAND C W N A.• O.W.N.A. CLASS 'A' and ABC Published by J. W. Seely Publitatiens Limited IORNE EEDY, PUSUSHER • Editor — biM batten Assistant Editet — Ross Haugh Advertising Manager — Jim Beckett Composition Mondger Harry DeVries Business Monoger -. DIaJengkind Published Each Thursday Morning Phone 235.1331- • at Exeter. Ontario S.cond Closs Moil R.yittrofien Number 0386 Paid in Advance Circulation September 30. 1975 5,409 SUBSCRIPTION RATES Canada Si 1 00 Per Year. USA S22 Sincerely Robert Hoover Chairman PALS Amoigomoted 1974 BATT'N AROUND ...1... with the editor A summer potpourri While summer is not -the ideal time - in which to test your ability with com- plicated puzzles. some area baseball fans may have fun trying to figure out one q which we ran across lately. All 'you have to do is sit 'down and figure out how a team failed to score a .single run while being credited with three triples. one double. two singles and two stolen bases in a single inning. Give up? Well. here's how it was ac- complished. - - The first batter hit a triple. He then took too long a lead and was picked off third. The second batter smashed another triple. and he too was picked off. Two out. and nobody on base. The -third batter doubled. Number four hit a single. but the baserunner was held at second These two then engineered a double steal. putting runners on second and third with two out. The fifth man at the plate got a , single. but again the base runners were held at second and third. The bases are now full. The final hitter slammed what looked like an • inside -the -park home run and all runners came in. However. the man from third failed to touch the plate and was tagged out, ending the inning -with no score. The last batter was credited lath a triple. Can't you just imaginee brawl that would take place in_.the dugout if_that happened to the New York Yankees' • Quebec's "language police" are hard at work enforcing sign provisions of the province's new official language act. The aim is to purge the province of public signs on commercial. property which contain non -French words. Some companies have had to drop the apostrophe I Eaton's) from their stores: ,because the language police have ruled that an' apostrophe is an English construction which cannot be 'permitted on a Quebec sign. - At the same time. reports have been received from some parts of the na- tion. that federal bilingual signs are be- ing defaced. A favorite method appears, to be spray painting over such words as "Bureau de Poste" on the bilingual signs in front of post offices. We are not alone in this kind of non- sense-_ In Wales. the minority who can still speak the Welsh tongue are carry- ing out similar depredations. The number of citizens 'who can speak Welsh fell from 26'percent-to-2g-per=-- cent in the last 10 years. yet the nationalists have begun overpainting or smashing English signs. When the government installed bilingual signs. these in turn were van- dalized on the grounds that the English words should be in second place or eliminated entirely. It's hard to believe that some people have salittle to do with their time. • • One of the "duties of some vacationers who travel to distant parts of the world is to bring home some souvenir for the people back home. So, we -get miniature lobster pots from the east coast, oranges from folks--retur--- ning home from the south, etc. etc. However. most readers will be able to sympathize with a Iaiiy from Hong Kong who wanted to send her grandson a truly Welsh item during her vISit-to the old country. >� Finally, she foupd just the thing to make the boy homesick at a local all - Welsh shop - a floppy hat with a patriotic emblem and a Welsh slogan on it. • She was about to wrap it up for mail - Sugar and Spice Dispensed by Smiley Preoccupation with death Canddians have a great pre- occupation with death. it is common knowledge that we carry more life insurance thap any other nation in the world. on a per capita basis. I wonder why. - it•must be a great country in which to be selling life insurance. Even Simp- sons -Sears. -Limited. is getting into the business. Only in Canada would a big department store be selling insurance. Pity But it's a fact in my wife's last computerized. machine -signed letter from that august organization, one L. Visosky. General Credit Manager, talks earnestly about an occidental death policy, exclusively for Simpsons - Sears account customers It.pays up to $100,000 in benefits and "protects you while you're driving, riding, or walking — even when you're at home or at work — everywhere in the world' NO MEDICAL EXAM' NO AGE LIMIT!" Well. 1 don't do much driving. riding or walking when I'm at home. or at work. but perhaps it's a good idea. It costs only S3.50 a month for a family.. Does it mean that children under.five can be insured for up to 100 grand for accidental death' Does it mean that people over ninety who decide to jump in front of a bus. accidentally. can leave their heirs set for life' Somehow. l doubt it. it's far more likely that Simpsons -Sears just want to be dang sure they're paid off.. if you've. managed to get into them for a few hundred dollarSon your chargeaccount Perhaps Canadians are not so foolish in their concern about death. A pretty good English playwright,- Will Shakespeare, was fascinated by the subject and speculated upon it in Hamlet's soliloquies. And a thousand thousand other poets and playwrights have attempted to probe Into ;the- meaning of death. A quick look at Bartlett's Familiar Quotations shows more than three solid pages of references to death. Thus' we learn that Death among other things, such as the end of Life, "borders upon our birth, breaks every bond. is only a' horizon, is the fatal asterisk. is like a friend unseen, is the end of a journey, is but the long, cool night; a debet, a trumped ace, a boat- man, a road We all•must go." And so on. They all sound like cliches, don't they? Brother Death becomes more familiar 'as you grow older. Children are completely unaware of him, young people are barely so. it's a rather distasteful thing that happens to other people, mostly old ones. When I was a young fighter pilot, i was very close to death, fairly often. But i didn't even feel his cold breath, nor smell his slightly mouldy scent. A few times i was almost literally scared to death, but not of death. When you begin seeing school friends in . the obituary columns, when a brother dies, when a colleague dies, all of them in their prime, you begin to feel and smell the Old Boy. It's not par- ticularly frightening, merely a bit disconcerting. in your heart, you are twelve years old, with a little sophistication plastered on the outside. in your head, you're a couple of years away from retirement, a decade or so away from senility, certainly on nodding terms with Brother Death. Holy Smokes! i hope this is not too lugubrious a column for a family journal. It was that thing from Simp- sons -Sears that got me going. And then my wire suggested I make a list of my insurance policies and the junk in my safe deposit box, and leave it all in the hands of my brother-in-law, the lawyer, before we embarked on our trip. What a gloom -box way of com- mencing a summer holiday. i told her i would,. but never got around to it. If we're hijacked or go down in the Atlantic or die of sea- sickness on our voyage down the Rhine, let somebody else sort out the mess i've left behind. I've been sorting ing. when she noticed the tell-tale label: "Made in Hong Kong". Come to think of it. where can one find a sQuvenir to take home to someone in Hong Kong or Taiiwan that they couldn't buy by •visiting nearest trinket factory? • Speaking of ho idays. a couple in Dorking (you 1 it ups were happily __married for 35 ve without having__ been separated for much as' a weekend. They decided to take separate vacations and the wife now reports, "we enjoyed being apart so much that we are now getting a divorce". A British union leader has come up with a make-work proposal so breathtakingly impractical that it's a wonder no one except teachers and un= iversity professors thought of it before. Terry Duffy wants to give workers every 10th year off on full pay,reason- ing is very simple: it would mean more jobs, especially in companies with a number of long -service employees. Knowing the way most employment contracts are negotiated. one editorial writer has suggested that the next step in the program would be a sabbatical after working- for nine years. then eight. and so on. until every new employee would start work by haying a paid year off. Soon. everyone would be doing nothing on full pay. Some employers would suggest they already have some staff -members in that category. but it surely would lick the -unemployment problem. out their messes long enough. Let's see, now. There are two in- surance policies in the bottom drawer of the dresser, beneath my thermal underwear.There's another with the county school board. There's a stock certificate somewhere in my desk drawer, worth $94.00. There's a house,. paid for. and two cars in the driveway. worth $250 each, on a good day. As for my safe deposit box at the, bank, l lost my key the first week i had it. and the girl told me they'd have to have a chap drill it open. with me present. We were to make a date mutually agreeable. That • was six months ago. I don't know wttitt's in the thing anyway: . My wife has a sewing machine that's worth more than our two cars. The color TV is ten years old, but going strong, ever since we had the TV repairman put back new knobs where the grandboys had ripped all the .originals off. . My colleagues in the English department are perfectly welcome -to split up my reference books, my filing cabinet. which has not been opened in ten years, . arfd my picture of the Queen, the one with the moustache drawn in. Any left-handed golfbr with arthritis may have my clubs and cart, which are so old and shabby they almost qualify as antiques. There's a pretty good fishing rod down in the basement, with the Christmas decorations. A few patches and there's a dandy pair of hip waders to go with it. They're in the trunk of the old Dodge, along with a case of beer that froze last winter. There, i think that pretty well clears the decks. if Brother Death gets over - friendly, my daughter won't need a job for the next three years. it'll take her that long to sort out the estate. Bum Voyage. ThiflksmaU 1 by Jim Smith The Power of Positive Thinking ~There are p!iople poor. deluded people, as we shall demonstrate who believe ilial 011awa's policies are de- termined by tltel'lirne Minis- ter. There are also people equally wrong who think that the opposition parties have some influence over the course of the nation's huci- ness. And then there are the outer folks who mistakenly suspect that the civil service controls our destine. ,The true facts about pow- er in Ottawa are only now beginning to seep out. Inves- tigation shows that"the true leader of our federal govern- ment is, in fact, Noonan Vin- ce`nt Peale. Countless politi- cians and ureaucrats now base thei ecision-Making on bell in the power of•posi- tiv thinking. 1fe've already seen how th weer of positive think- ing has been -implemented in --- the anti-inflation program. And -there's been no end of positive thinking (and re- markable little else) in the: unity campaign. So it really shouldn't come as any sur- prise to disc -c f. r -that Jack Horner. Minister oflndustry, Trade & CAmnerce.has pi;:k- ed up on the:same philoso- •phv. The result of Horner's conversion is something call- ed "Shulr Ca adi n __ "Shop Canadian" isn't an entiiely new concept. For years, government has been admonishing us to "buy-Ca- nadian"and this is essentially the same thing. The only dif- ference is that Ottawa is now recommending that we care- fully investigate price and quality;buying the Canadian - made -item where other fac- tors are the same. In other words, "Shop Canadian" -is a watered-down version of. an old favourite. Nell, you'd never know that we've had this kind of program for y ears 11 you'd attended the Il &C press con- ference whew Itomer unveil- l cd his hraulchdtt' "Purchas- ing competitive Canadian - inade good,." Mr. Horner said. "will provide more jobs, huild a stronger Canada where all Canadians share in higher living standards and help increase the irfdustrial strength of all our regions." • Horner, of course, is quite right - if Canadians were buy- ing home -produced goods and ij our producers could somehow manage t_o keep prices competitive with . those of foreign manufactur- ers. However, there's noth- ing in the "Shop Canadian" program that is gains to bring that idyllic state of af- fairs to pass. Once we get•past the positive thinking, "Shop Canadian" is intellectually bankrupt. It merely adds 51,715,000 to the govern- ment's annual advertising bill and creates the illusion that Ottawa is actively-helpingCa- nadian manufactu"ring. • The trouble with "Shop Canadian" is -.that the mes- sage doesn't appear to have __sunk in back in the nation's capital. Loto Canada recent- 'ly ordered many millions of dollars worth of 'computer equipment - front the United States.- Canadian firms were - not even given the oppoitu-. to tender bids. Ottawa is rim w ith�intitar tales: And even the -Council For.Cai :;- • dian Unity, a private subsidized by Ottawa. went to Japanese -made scarves fur a unity program because there was no -comparable Ca- r adian product. Advertising gimmicks are desirable in their place..But the tragedy of "Shop Cana- dian" is that1T&C'sthinkers• were wasting time on window _dressing when they should have been tackling the fun- damental problems of Cana-• dian industry. Tank smai s an ed,torial message trorr the Canadian Federal•or o' Independent Bus,,PSS SS Years Ago The hearts of the 'youngsters of town have been, made happy the past week by Mr. W. F. Abbott. who has installed on • his playgrounds near his home • teeters, slides and swings for the boys and _ girls. Mr. Abbott is laying out ball grounds and a tennis court. Harvesting of the Duch set onion crop is in full swing. The crop on the whole is not up to other seasons. The Exeter Bowling Club held their annual bowling tournament on Wednesday of last week. R. N. Creech's rink, comprising W. E. 'Sanders, T. R. Ferguson and W. J. Neaman, won • the Heaman Trophy for the third time. The annual Ford picnic at Grand Bend on Wednesday of last week in which Ford. dealers and their friends from all parts of Western Ontario was, an -unqualified success. Thweather was ideal for the thousands who crowded the village. 30 Years Ago Mr. W. R. Goulding was_ adjudicator at the juvenile contest conductiat the Kirkton garden p y. District men went on an old-fashioned bear hunt Monday afternoon and beat through an eight -acre bush in Usborne township north of Exeter looking for a mother bear and four cubs seen by Bill Rowcliffe at the edge of his farm. A.teacher in 1887 in Dash- wood, Mr. 1k..1. Styles, has returned to Seaforth from ' Hollywood, California to visit boyhood scenes. Exeter_ council voted to call for tenders for a new Exeter District High School. At magistrate's court at Goderich Thursday, tribute was paid to the late magistrate J. W. Morley, K. C., of Exeter, 20 Years Ago Brewer's Retail store at Grand Bend was the last in Western Ontario to close after'a province wide strike created a beer drought this week.. Fire started by lightning destroyed two large barns. over 2,000 bushels of grain, 3 000 bales of hay and con- siderable machinery .in the farm of James Gardiner, Thames Road early Wed- nesday morning The loss is estimated at $30,000. Usborne Township school area this sumthrer completed the installation of oil bur- ning air conditioning units in all its schools. in addition to the tri - service drill squad which formed the guard of honor for Prime Minister Diefenbaker at Wednesday s CNE opening, Centralia fil�f contribute a smoke -writing team foa the afternoon air show September 5 and 6. 1S Years Ago John Anderson, Hensall, broke 97 out of 100 targets in the handicap event at the Quebec provihcial trap- shooting championship. His score equalled that of the winner of the event, but as an out -of -province competitor, he could not qualify. Recreation Director Don "Boom" Gravett is one of 50 candidates who has been chosen to attend the CAiIA Hockey Leadership institute at Kingston next week. Helen Shipway won the most Lucan Awards at the swim meet Friday night. She took part in four events. Gar Myers, superin- ten,Ient at the Pinery Provincial Park estimated this week that about 156,000 people visited the park in July. That's about 3,000 cars and 12,000 more than. last year. 1 .)