Times Advocate, 1991-07-31, Page 4Page 4
Times -Advocate, July 31 1991
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EDITORIAL
Better to keep quiet
There were some pretty grim
faces at the Zurich Fair dance
Friday evening. It seems that
more than a few people were not at all
pleased with how the Fair Ambassador
contest was handled by the judges.
The judges announced to the audience
that after having selected the overall
winner, they were at a loss to choose
the first and second runners up. To
solve the dilemma, they had placed the
names of the remaining four contest-
ants in a hat and picked out the two
runners up. Problem solved, they
claimed.
Unfortunately, not everyone saw it
that way. What began as a contest
ended up as no more than a lottery in
their eyes. The contestants had spent
hours of preparation for ,the questions,
public introductions, and other require-
ments needed to choose the Fair's rep-
resentative, only to have their names put
into a hat.
Surely, it is a little hard to believe
there was no way to distinguish between
the four remaining contestants. _Grum-.
bles from the crowd indicated that many
believed the judges had simply chosen
their overall winner and then just given
up on the rest.
With this the first year as an Ambassa-
dor contest (other local Fairs will be
changing over to the Ambassador desig-
nation within the year) all eyes were on
the Zurich event. This was probably not
the best way to usher in the new era.
If indeed the judges felt it absolutely
necessary to drawing lots for the runners
up to the Ambassador, then perhaps they
should have made their selections and
then just kept quiet about how it was ac-
complished.
A.D.H.
Purity and corn --flakes,
This is the fourth and last in-
stallment in a series of excerpts
from a book by J.H. Kellogg,
M.D. He worked as a surgeon in
Battle Creek, Michigan, but I
guess things were a bit slow in
the hospital's operating room.
Since the good doctor had some
time on his hands, he dabbled in
inventing and writing things. His
books are largely forgotten now
,but his corn flakes -- which the
passionate vegetarian introduced
as a health food -- made him im-
mortal and immensely rich.
The excerpts are from his
"Address on Social Purity"
(1895). Just think: he was talk-
ing about the good old days!
The American slave trade
My recent personal investiga-
tions have shown that an immo-
ral traffic in human chattels for
an infamous purpose is carried
on everywhere. Girls are bought
and sold, traded, imported -and
exported, shipped, reshipped,
imprisoned, and regularly trained
for the business of vice.
Cab drivers are often in league
with the keepers of houses of
shame. Massage parlors and bath
houses are also a means by
which unsophisticated young
girls are entrapped. Parents who
send their sons and daughters to
the large cities should be warned
of these dangers and should pon-
der the question whether an ob-
scure but useful career upon the
farm, or an honourable position
in some country village is not to
be preferred to a possibly bril-
liant career in the city with all its
contamination and degradation.
Consequences of vice
Only an educated and experi-
enced physician can appreciate
the horrible consequences which
follow in the wake of social im-
morality. Upon this vice are
founded the more than 20,000
brothels which exist in this land
of Christian civilization. 10,000
depraved, wretched and aban-
doned women have become out-
casts of society, despised by
their own sex, looked upon as
more debased than the swine
that wallows in the mire, or the
loathsome reptile that haunts the
slimy pool. They have offered
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Peter Hessel
themselves upon the alter of
vice, ministering to man's
beastliness, gratifying unhal-
lowed impulses which was
against the soul, which sap the
life blood of all human feelings
and sentiments, which will con-
vert the whole earth into one
vast Sodom and Gomaorrah...
Wild oats
Mothers of dissipated sons of-
ten seek consolation in the
thought that "by and by, when
they have sown their wild oats,
they will settle down and be-
come steady and exemplary
men." And mothers of flippant,
disrespectful and giddy girls say
to themselves: "Oh, they will
steady down after they are mar-
ried and make first-rate wives
and mothers.
But wild oats are a very bad
crop to sow. There is not a sin-
gle good seed in a thousand bu-
shels of wild oats. One of the
most alarming tendencies is that
decent people look with compla-
cency upon the waywardness of
the young. It is high time that a
different sentiment was cultivat-
ed. The idea that not much harm
Part 4 (last)
is done a young man woman
by a few years of fast living is a
most dangerously mistaken one.
Many a man who has been led to
a change of life has torn his hair
and gnashed his teeth in anguish
as he has exclaimed when haunt-
ed by the horrible recollections
of the years spent in dissipation:
"Oh, that I had never been!"
The effects of bad diet
Bad diet plays a significant part
in the abnormal development of
the animal instincts. Our organs
of digestion are plied with highly
seasoned viands, stimulating
sauces, sweetmeats, and dainty
tidbits in endless variety. Tea
and coffee are added to the list.
Pepper, ginger, mustard, condi-
ments of every sort deteriorate
our daily food. Overeating, eat-
ing between meals, hasty eating,
eating indigestible articles of
food, ices, late suppers, and var-
ious other dietetic errors all con-
tribute 10 the establishment of
morbid conditions which en-
courage impurity.
Purity of mind is a condition
quite incompatible with glutto-
nous habits in eating. The pages
of history are crowed with facts
which clearly show that the suc-
cessive degeneracy of the na-
tions which ruled the world be-
gan with luxuriousness in diet.
The answer: Corn Flakes
The doctor had the answer to
all the worlds ills: stay away
from meat and other stimulants,
and stick to com flakes. They're
wholesome, safe, bland, eas to
digest, and cheap. It was just 8
coincidence, of course, that Kel-
logg's company (the Sanitarium
Health Food Company) hap-
pened to manufacture and market
the product. In the very first year
he sold 100,000 pounds of
them. There was nothing corny
about that.
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"We can finally keep up with the Joneses --- he got laid off today."
Down memory lane
Yes, I realized as I eased the
car down the off -ramp, this is
probably the first time I've been
back in Huron County in nearly
40 years. Things certainly don't
look much like they did back
in....well, it must have been the
late 1990s anyway. In fact, I
probably hadn't seen Huron
County since before the lan-
guage riots.
As luck would have it; / hap'
pened to be in Ottawa when the
riots broke out in 1998. What
had started as a debate on
whether Canada should have
one or two official languages
went wild when the extremists
entered the fray - those who in-
sisted Canada should adopt all
languages as official, and those
who insisted official languages
were politically -incorrect and
demanded no language oppres-
sion at all. Those were the days.
Nobody cared much about that
kind of thing anymore.
Looking west from the high-
way, I could just see farms in
the distance, between the trees
and far beyond the rows of
warehouses.
The fuel gauge on the Dae
Woo Environ was showing emp•
ty, which wasn't bad considering
the car had been only three•
quarters full when I rented it i:
Toronto. Anyway, I rather
looked forward to stopping at
the next station for a fill up.
I got out to stretch my legs and
watch the attendant attach the
hydrogen coupling to the car.
He looked to be about 17 or 18,
but then when you're 70 every -
Ione under 30 begins to look like
a teenager. I felt compelled to
make conversation.
"I used to live in these parts," I
began, wondering if I sounded
like an old 'geezer to this youth.
Hold that
thought...
By
Adrian Harte
"Back in the 1990s."
"It must look a lot different to
you then," he replied.
"A bit, but it's still the same
countryside; although there are
more trees now. This was all
farmland back then."
"Yes, i've seen pictures. It
seems hard to believe," the at-
tendant said.
"This was the best farmland
anywhere," I went on. "Only no
one could make it pay after East -
em Europe got into the.game."
"Do young people still go over
to Grand Bend?" I added quick-
ly, realizing i was losing his in-
terest.
"Only when I can afford the
monorail," he answered. "It's
still the hottest spot around, but
only the rich Americans who
come over by boat can afford it
now. The cottages, food, every-
thing are still much cheaper than
in the States though."
"Yes, it's getting that way all
over," I commiserated, feeling
Letter to Editor
sorry for the generation who no
longer knew what it was like to
travel at will. Even if he could
afford the ticket, the environ- :
mental travel restrictions prob-
ably kept him inside county
boundaries =11- months of the :
year.
The attendant handed back my
credit card and fuel license
along with the bill for $517. I
thanked him and squeezed my
stiffening frame back into the
car's cabin.
Moments later I passed the
sign welcoming me to Exeter,
population 4,700, but then I al-
ready knew the town's boundar-
ies had been long frozen. Com-
mercial and subdivision
development boomed in the
county when the monorail lines
came out at the same time Lon-
don real estate skyrocketed.
I suddenly thought to look
down at the car's display screen,.
and sure enough the Times Ad-
vocate news channel was now
being received. So the T -A did
survive the censorship crisis of
2011, I thought. I would have
liked to stop and read for a
while, but my travel permit did
not allow for any extra stops
along the way.
At least Main Street hadn't
changed that much. Behind a
plexiglass wall, several couples
my age were playing lawn
bowls - which is where I ought
to be on a day like this. It didn't
matter though, it felt good to be
back in Huron after all these
years. The best things don't
change, I decided.
__.._ Golfer upset with treatment
Dear Editor:
Recently while visiting relatives
in Exeter, my father-in-law and I
decided to play nine holes of golf
at the Ironwood Golf Club. We de-
cided to play after 5 p.m. as it
would not be very busy. My five
year old son accompanied us to
the club where we purchased two
green fees and an electric cart. My
son was with us when we entered
the pro shop and I explained he
would not be playing but just rid-
ing the cart. After playing 6 holes,
a red pickup truck seemed to be
weaving in and out of the fairways
from hole to hole looking for
something or someone. As we
were parked by the seventh tree,
this truck drove onto the side of
the tee where we had our balls
teed up ready to play. The owner
of the course got out of the truck
and questioned "are you the ones
with the kid" as my soil sat on the
cart and we on the tee. We an-
swered yes. He walked over to the
cart; took the keys out and asked
us to leave the course as he drove
off. I appreciate there is a rule of no
children under ten yes but nothing
was said to us at the pro shop or as
we teed off. I assumed this meant
no children could play the course
under 10 years of age -why I do not
know. It is the manner in
which we were
treated that ap-
palls me. We
walked back to
the parkin* lot af-
ter removing our
balls from the tee.
My son questioned me all the way
back to the lot as to what we had
done and was it his fault we had to
leave.
Meanwhile, there was a group of
five playing ahead of us. They had
carts and I'm sure the owner would
have loved to see them racing down
a hill on no. 5. incidentally, they
split up when the red truck was
coming down the fairway.
As pest president and director at
the Blenheim Golf Club and mem-
ber since 1969, it has always been
our policy to encourage junior golf
and promote younger players at
any age. Enclosed is an article
from our local paper of the junior
golf clinic that was held the first
week of July. As stated, 170
youngsters attended this free clinic
with the participants aged 4 to 16
years.
It's a shame that a golf course is
run in this manner and in view of
the way we were treated, l certain-
ly will not return to Ironwood
again. The residents are fortunate
that there is another golf course
where family golf can be enjoyed
in Exeter and I hope the policy
there would encourage junior golf
the way it should be. Afterall, we
were all "kids" at one time.
There was not even a gesture as
to a refund in all or in part by the
owner and we did not ask or try to
provoke any confrontation.
Respectfully yours
and upset in Blenheim,
Dave O'Brien
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