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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance-Times, 1972-07-06, Page 13A page of editoriol op:Oki'?" Thursdayt, July . Earmtiffs foi' everyone Pollution Is the big topic these days. From a nation who collectively and blithely dropped its garbage into the nearest ditch ten years ago, we have become a very tidy bunch of people—at least as far as oUr,,neigh- Ors are conCerned: We may be. a bit care- less individually, while we think nO one is watching, but we sure can get riled up In a hurry when the other fellow starts tossing his ieft-overs around the landscape. More anti -pollution laws have been pass- ' ed in the past five years than the human rate ever thought of in the' previous five cen', furies. The legislation covers everything from burning leaves in one's oWn back yard to dumping fuel oil in the Great LakeS. Where to put the town's garbage, what to do' or about the infiltration of sewage into our rivers, the problem of industrial smoke in the atmosphere—all have become matters of grave concern as the human race suddenly' awakens to the fact that the earth and its lite- • giving envelope of fresh air are much small- er than we thought. One form of pollution that seems to es- cape comment and realistic action is noise. Human lungs can be fouled and lives can be destroyed by the pollutants we inhale, but so far we have failed to recognize the need for 0' protecting human ears. SpeCialists in the. hearing business have long since warned that the average pair of ears and the nerves which make.them operate can stand only so much over -use before they begin to wear out. Individuals who have worked for long years in very noisy industrial plants usually have suffered considerable loss of hearing. . Noise, of course, is one form of nuisance 0' to which we readily become accustomed. It's all in what we're used to. A few years back we recall riding in a taxi from Manhattan to Kennedy International Airport and laughing at the comments of the driver. Asked where we hailed from, it seemed simpler to say To- ronto than to explain that home was really in a quiet small town a hundred miles -farther on. As a matter of fact he was hard of hear- ing and the necessary shouting made con- versation difficult. • with my sister there one time, but I didn't Inquiring about his hasty departure we discOvered he had 'nothing against Ontario's capital in particular. except it was too quiet. He couldn't sleep nightS because the silence got to him. We asked him where she lived in the On- tario city. "I think they talied it Bloor Street," lie said. Our puzzlement at how anyone could think of the cauldron. of Bloor Street as quiet lfound its answer when, a few minutes later the cabbie pointed to an apartment building s.lap-dab beside an elevated railway line in Brooklyn and said, proudly, ",That's where I live." Poor guy had been brotight up on so much •noise that his norm$ were all out of whack. A few years back we• could tell city friends with fride that where we lived it was 'so quiet a dog.barking way out in the country' -would awaken us on a summer night. Nowa- days we don't have to depend on anybody's dog, Almost every warm night the scream 9f hotrod tires will do the trick. At any hour up to four in the morning the gasoline cowboys rend the night with the torture of their ve- hicles. And it goes on hour after hour with never a pause: No one interferes with their idiotic horseplay. Trucking companies are among the most flabrantly guilty when it comes to pro - &icing nuisance noise at high level. Have you •ever noticed, if you stop to talk to a friend in front of a downtown store, how bften you have to give up the effort because a passing 'transport has made conversation impossible? In fact you don't have to wait for a truck. Many of those annoying little imL ported motorcycles, with their nerve -rasp- ing whines, can do just as good a job of as- sau:Iting the ears. And so it goes. Dozens of times each day unneeessary noise cask add a few more grains of irritation toTheNrcumulating load 'of noise pollution which, in the end, will add up to serious trouble for thousands of us. The sad part is that 90. per cent of this nuisance could be prevented by properly enforced legislation. Instruments for the measure- ment of sound levels are inexpensive. Every cheap tape .recorder has one.. If our laws stated' clearly how many decibles are ac- ceptable from given sources, particularly motor vehicles, it would be 'a simple matter tO tag. the offenders. Or would .it?. Nothing ieems to be simple The image is in danger The reputation of the dediCated family physician, built up through sticceeding • generations,of selfless men, and women, who were always on hand when illness struck, has suffered some nasty set -backs in recent years. Over the years the very -word. "doc- tor" had gained so much respect that the 10 right to use it before one's name became .a Inatter of closely -guarded legal decision. Even the medical doctors themselves recognized the factthatotheir collective halo was slipping and on several occasions in re - tent years their associations have made par- . tially-successful attempts to do something about the erosion of prestige which was threatening their unique position 'in our so- ciety. • Many pages could be devoted to the causes of this general decline in the doctor image. Certainly it was due, in part, to an in- creaSing contempt fOr the elite in our society which ran a 'close parallel to student unrest and the growth of violence. Yet it was some- thing More, because it found response not only in the young and the irritated, but in the solid middle generation, as well. More likely . it was hinged to the high charges which the * medical (and dental) profession decided to charge for its sen.fices. Certainly the underlying reasons could not have been Created by all doctors for 'a majority of medical men remain,ed dedi- cated and selfless as their forebears had al- ways been. • Whatever the reasons, the pulse of -the public has been taken by government. Now a health disciplines board is to- be established; witty representation ' from . the citizens at • large, to supervise and undoubtedly to con- trol in one way or another, the behaviour of all phases of the healing arts. The govern- ment has announced that the board will not displace the various i'colleges" which have traditionally provided .self -policing. powers for doctors, surgeons and dentists. The con- tribution of these organizations to the quality ot health care provided In Ontario has been applauded. Nevertheless the intent of the new.legislation is clear: the patient and the taxpayer are to have a say in the standards of service and practice provided .,by every sectorof the health care field. Naturally some doctors, dentists and ' nurses will resent this intrusion of govern- ment , into their profession—but the good ones, to whom quality of performance is paramount, will have little tO fear. Left - but not too far The history of socialistic parties in this , country has not been one of uninterrupted success. After years of 'struggle a mildly so cialistic party emerged in the form of the CCF, to be succeeded a few years later by its newly -organized child—the NDP. Recurrent efforts have been 'made to mold the Canadian lett-wing party along the lines of its more militant counterpart in Brit- ain, the Labor party. However, so. far, the moderates have prevailed. The resUlts of an NDP convention in Orillia a week ago would 'indicate that party, members, in the major- ity, still believe that Canada is not yet ready for the extremists. They voted to wipe out the "Waffle:1 group—that sector of the NDP which openly faVors nationalization of major business and industry. James Laxer, who was defeated (but seriously listened to) in his bid fOr the On- tario NDP leadership a few months back, is still an outspoken advocate sof extreme left- wing tactics, and being a man of consider- able education and ability, has -been instru- mental in convincing a sizeable following that only state -oriented socialism should be his party's goal. Stephen Lewis, who defeated Mr. Laxer for the leadership, made it clear at the Oril- lia meeting that either he or the Waffle had to go. He vowed that he could not continue the leadership of the party with the encum- .brance of the Waffle hanging about his neck. And his demand for a show -down spelled the end of the Waffle as an official wing of the Despite high unemployment figures and inflation, the bulk of Canadians, particularly those who live in and earn wages in Ontario, are far from convinad that state ownership would, of necessity; better their lot. The whole truth is that most of them never had it so good before and they have no very pointed reason to believe that government -operated business and industry would improve on the sorry performance records of those state- owned enterprises with which they are al- ready familiar. Published at Winghilm, Ontirio, by Wenger Bros. Limited. Barry Wenger, President Robert 0. Wenger, Secretary -Treasurer Member Audit Bureau of Circulations Member Canadian a'nd Ontario Weekly Newspaper Associations. Subscription Rate: Sibatuiption $10.00 a year, $5,25 for idx months, in United States $12.50 in advaboe. Osmond Class Mail, Registration No .0821 Return Postage Guaranteed what You Won t See From a DC -8 TODAY'S 'CHILD There's nothing more '141nen/, ing for an old pilot than to betty7 ing with somebody else. rftko pecially somebody who he thir*, could not come in fourth in, 44. three-legged race. , And that's exactly the sittlatieW I found myself in last SattirdaY morning. I was just, gagging ever • my first cuppa when the phOne rang and a cheery voice, se:wild- ing as though it had been up14.01 the cows, informed me thatig VMS going to fly over and see • For a minute or two I thought was going to have to go out iirthe backyard and wave a sheet, 'see, my mother used to do -When her sons were flying in the vicinity Of our home town. Strangely enough, that worked, and my. 1,0 brother would do a loop and couple of slow rolls to prove that he'd seen dear old Mom out there 'waving her second-best sheet. - However, it turned out that my caller was serious. He owes in't some money and wanted to find out how much, before his mort- gage ran put and I jacked up the interest rate. He hadn't had a statement for two years. Well, I pulled myself together and agreed to pick him up at the local airport. I knew perfectly well what he was trying to do. He was trying to impress me. After all, any guy who has a pilot's 11- cence and can go flipping around the country is going to convince somebody of soniething. . Looking about as sly as Peter Lorre, he asked, "How about a little ride?" I knew wasn't going to get any money mit of him, so I thought I might as well burri up some of his petrol. • We got into this flivver. I looked' around for a parachute. None. I looked around for safety belts to strap myself. in like a mouse in harness, as we did in the old days. Nothing but a seat belt. p ° We lumbered off the ground. It was like riding in a ten -ton truck after driving a Jaguar. The scen- ery was. fantastic; , lakes and . swamps and islands. I even: looked like a deVastated area. My wife wasn't out in the yard wav- ing a sheet, SO I missed our house. jviv 1937 • But we lumbered. Nary a loop. No slow rolls or steep turns when Miss Kate King is taking a your guts go 'down into your course in music during this sum - crotch. Sedately, I think, is the •mer. Miss King has aceepted a word that would best express our position on the Sarnia Collegiate flying. Rather like an old lady Institute staff, duties to com- running a washing machine. mence in September. - Don't think, f didn't enjoy it. The barn at I.,eslie •MclDoug- There's nothing quite so exciting all's, Lower VVingham, was ,com- as hurtling along at 130 miles an pletely dOstroyed by fire shortly hour and 3,000 feet. It's almost as after noon on Monday. thrilling as a game of euchre. T. R. Burnett has a garden that The only thing that reminded takes some beating and we be - me of the good old days was lieve he has set a record for this when, after we'd jogged about for year as he. picked a fine ripe half an hour, he said, "Where the tomato last Sunday. hell's that airport?" Miss Hazel Wilson has been en - That was always one of my gaged to teach the junior rooms troubles: finding the airport. 1 at the Lower Wingham School. said blithely, "Oh, I think it's Miss Logan who has been teach - over there somewhere." And ing the junior rooms, will teach = sure enough it was. • the senior classes. We landed, after a fashion, and Miss Velma Lennox will take 1 was pleased to see that modern pilots at least know enough to land into the wind. In my day, we used to land downwind, and got quite exasperated when the con- trol officer -kept shooting off red flares to tell us to go around again. Well, I took our guest home for lunch and we figured out some kind of financial arrangement - that would' baffle a Philadelphia Took him back to the airport" and saw him off. As far as I know, he made it, though a bit wobbly. Then we spotted some piling fellows preparing to do some sky- diving. One of them, an old stu- dent of mine, rushed uP, said hello, and volunteered that this was his first jump. So we decided to watch. We'd known him since he was a bi( of an altar -boy. I tried to reassure him by asking which leg he thought he would break, whether he wanted cremation or a regular church__ service, what kind of flowers he liked, and Such. Bill Srniley BY HELEN ALLEN He took it very well, face grow- ing whiter, sweat streaming. After a great deal of muddling around, which seems inevitable when rieople play with boats or aircraft, they took off, three of them. We watched the perfect blue sky as the aircraft climbed to height. Then mit came a brilliant- ly -colored chute. It even opened,. And it descended into a thick bush, about three miles away. Two more chutes blossOmed, drifted down, and both landed right in the middle of'the airfield. When the first one went into the bush, I bet my wife $50 to a filter - cigarette that it was John Card- well, our young friend. It was. 'A rescue force went out and after half an hour found him dangling from a maple tree. By some strange alchemy, I knew it was John. I'd tried to teach him Eng- lish. He wasn't hurt, and it was a fine Saturday, and I think I'll take up flying again, and maybe even sky -jumping. Ypung's teeth can be reset if knocked out Did you know that if your child suddenly had a tooth coMpletely knocked out that a dentist could reimplant the tooth into the place frprn where it came out. Although the tooth will, with a few excep- tions, eventually loosen and come out,it is considered worthwhile as it gives the child that much more time to have and use his own tooth. The important factors in the success of this, treatment are to keep the tooth moist and to get to a dentist as soon as possible. The child should be given the following instructions. If he has an accident and one of his teeth is knocked out, he should try to find the tooth. He should then keep' it moist by wrapping it in a wet cloth or tissue. If nothing is avail- able, he should be told to hold the tooth in the side of his mouth. Ile should either get home as quickly as possible or, if he is old enough, go directly to the dentist's office. The dentist will seal up the centre of the tooth where the live tissue is, 'then implant the tooth* back in the socket, and splint it With wires or plastic until it -heals. In most cases the tooth will re-attadh and render useful semi - ice for a while. A FRIENDLY BOY You can guess Malcolm's perS.onality from his picture. This nine-year-old Indian b9y is pleasant; cheerful and outgoing. making friends readily with people of all ages. Malcolm is a good-looking lad with,dancing dark eyes. black hair and medium complexion. A healthy youngster, he delights in outdoor activities. He enjoys camping and is keen on sports. Malcolm is an average student in Grade Four. His special interest is art and he draws outside.the classroom as well as in. He is a good mixer with many friends both at day school and Sunday School. _Foster parents and teachers agree that Malcolm is. cheerful and co-operative, and his Children's Aid Social Worker adds that he is quiet,' likeable and well -adjusted. He will be a happy addition to a family which has a welcome for an active son. It will be best if there are other childrenin his adoption home. . To inquire about adopting Malcolm, please write to Today'.s Child, Box 888, Station K. Toronto. For general adoption in- formation write your Children's Aid Society. ews items from our old files /taw the educational sunimer course at Western University. A. E. McKim of Lucknow has been elected to represent this dis- trict on the executive of the On- tario Retail Druggists' • Associa- tion. Lieut. Harry Town left to at- . tend the military camp which is being held at Thedford this week. Lieut. R. S. Hetherington is also attending.the camp having left on Tuesday evening. Three of the high sehobl teach- ers are taking summer 'courses. *W. S. Hall, history of education; E. L. Stuckey, completing his commercial specialists' course and Frank Madill, comme.ncing his course for his commercial specialist's certificate. Miss Hargrave of Goderich has been engaged as teacher for S.S. 10 Morris, for the coming year. • • • • • "HOW cave, You *6- PuidiNG YouR sromAal /AI WHEW 4 LADY PAsSES >air . William J. Scott of the 2nd line of Morris, has a field of wheat of which he is justly proud. sample of this wheat Is five feet, 13V‘f in- ches and is Still growing. - A large crowd enjoyed a game of donkey baseball. in the Town Park Monday evening. The induction service for Rev. T. S. Hutton as minister, of Gorrie and Molesworth Presbyterian Churches, was held at Molet- George Copeland, was. success- ful in passing his second year Honor course in Business Prac-* tice at University of Western On- tario, London. A large balloon drifted across Lake Huron after getting loose from its anchor at Flint, Michi- gan. It came to earth. at Amber - ley where a long cable trailing froin it disrupted telephone and hydro service. Souvenir hunters carved pieces but of the bag. James Hall, Barbara Gaunt, Roger West, gleanor Wightman, Catherine Keating and Mildred Cook were among those. passing piano examinations at the Toron- . to Conservatory of Music. Gil- berta Howes and LaVonne Rapp were successful in singing exam- inations. Miss Edna Jenkins, daughter of Mrs. Irlma Jenkins of RR 2, Wingham, received her. Reg. N. degree last week at St. Joseph's Hosiiital, Guelph. Jim Renwick of RR 1, Clifford, printed his name and address on an egg before hii father took it to the creamery for shipment to England. The egg was received by Mrs. Maud Phillips of Birm- ingham, England, who replied recently. The blind genius and Christian orator, Envoy William S. Clarke, who has been' assisting Lieut. Gagnon of the Salvation Army in Wingham for the past two and a half months, gave his farewell message at the local citadel on Sunday Mr. and Mrs. John Linklater are leaving Teeswater soon to take up residence with their son and daughter-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Linklater at Kincar- dine. Harold Kaake of Wroxeter suf- fered serious injuries when his truck overturned near Yuill'S farm on the Brussels road. He was taken to London where he is still in critical condition. holy 1958 Five cadets from the Wingham District 'High School and one from Lucknow are taking a seven -week course at Camp Ip- perwash on Lake Huron. They are Ken McDonald of Luckncrw; Mike Harrison, Jerry Foxton, Malcolm MacKay, George Jones and Barry Fuller, all of Wing- • ham. - Brick Church. in East Wawa - nosh ToWnship was used for serv- ice on'Sunday for the last time. The congregation has purchased the former Calvin Presb erian Church which stands just across the road. Members of the' Wingham Fire Brigade put up six life preservers which were *recently purchased from the Red Cross water safety division by thelocal water safety committee. Three pf the rings . were placed at the Lower Town dam and mill race, two set up at the Howson dam and the sixth was placed at the, MacKentie bridge. Rev. Don Sinclair, pastor of Slate River Baptist Church in the Port William district for the past four years, commences his min- istry on Sunday at the Wingham Baptist Church. • John Gi Berry, who has been assistant clerk -treasurer of the County of Huron kw some years, was last week named to succeed the late Harvey ErOne as c erk- treasurer. - There was great excitement in the Ken Mason family on Thurs- day morning when Mrs. Mason spotteitPa bright orange -colored object in a field back of their East showed it was a weather balloon from a station,at Flint, Michigan. John StrOng was winner of the gold medal and. Jean Gurney is winner of the proficiency award at the Wingham Public School. Paul Groskorth of Whitechurch has taken a position with Henry Johann of Belmore and started work there last Wednesday. Mr. and Mrs. T. V. Edgar who moved recently from Gorrie 'to St, Thomas, were honored at a large gathering in the Gogie Community Hall. Dr. Alexander and Mrs. Nim - mo left on Wednesday for Mont- real and will sail from there to France. They will also visit Bel- gium and the World's Fair, Hol- land, England, Scotland and Ire- land. Wisdom is knowing what to do next. Skill is knowing how to do it. Virtue is getting it thme.