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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance-Times, 1973-01-11, Page 4tial opinion Thursday. A Y Ann. '4GM1A Ay n i ti'V+t�,, A ti•• hY: .ti • Off the deep end Ceof the sillier edicts wehave heard of recently was presented to the Toronto City Council last week. Just to make sure that i' there t�ras�'�no• possibility of discrimination) ) against either women—or men, the latest rule confronting that august body forbids the use of the word "man". AS a cOnSequence, when: =the works de- partment needs an individual to shovel snow off the roof of city hall the personnel depart- ment Will have to request' the services of a "person". It then follows that no reference can be made to a man in any way, shape or form. Members of thecouncil will hence- forth be known as alderpersons. The people who man the big red trucks with their loads of hose will became firepersons. The human who sits at the head of a conference fable and presides over a meeting will be a chair- person (it's just as wrong•to say chairlady as chairman). Unctuestionably the status of women did need looking•`into, particularly_ where Wages, andworking conditions were concerned. But in this day of all-out rights for everybody we have certainly lost -Our sense of balance. In fact a great marl* people in public posts seem to have lost their marbles. • Not long ago there was a fresh .edict from the Ontario Department Of labor Mops!' Sli there. It's not a department anymore --it's a ministry). However, those wise men in Toronto re -warned all the news- iai yr publishersabout carrying any dis- criminatory wording in, their "help wanted" -ads. It is no longer lawful to use the phrase NOW It's FourTimes "of Interest to men" (or women). Mind you the person who places the ad doesn't bear the blame. Responsibility rests with then news- paper. Never mind that he has three or four new girls at the ad desk who have never heard of the new regulations. The boss Is liable to horrible penalties if he permits pub- lication of a little three -line classified asking for a woman to do baby-sitting or a man to dig postholes. We have always suspected that many politicians are stupid and these regulations certainly confirm the theory. They are not concerned any more than the next guy about fair play to women. They are making a grandstand play for votes at the next elec- tion. Government wants to look like . big'' daddy to all the downtrodden in the land. The whole thing is a silly farce from the outset. If an employer wants a man for a certain job you can rest assured he isn't going to hire a woman --regardless of the wording of his help wanted ad. When the fe- male applicants show up he is simply going to decide against them because they do not have the experience he required. Nevertheless,. you- would do well to be cautious. Next time you go to a Toronto hotel don't ,forget to be pleasantto the door person who swings the portals open with a smile. And that' figure in the red . jacket carrying , is. a bellperson. your wife's four suitcases person. in fact, maybe you'd better forget that word "wife" ' It's' stroncily suggestive of, a distinction between sexes. Start right now and be on the safe side. She's•a houseperson. will - come . The recent announcement of hearings on, the new, boundariies. for 'federal =voting con- stituencies is a'` to reminder that•the voting pat- terns, of Canadians tyre ba�urld be altered. :�. continuously as 'time goes 'on. The nation's rural population is shrinking and its large metropolitan areas: arg growing. • . ',although the • latest' figures show that only a utile over silk per cern of Canadians are engaged- in forming, the rural, ridings actualf hold the balancesofpower—a situa-* the farm i .to 1 leas t •i fain r1 itch ser t Jnr 5 .oxi"i, voters but -is. s`ca fy a fair division of rep , . ,resentation. ' As an example, there ,are more people resident in a couple of Canada's cities than in • all three prairie provinces. Yet the "western vote'' is irivariably.wa deciding factor in any federal election. The plight of the western • farmer is discussed to no end in. the House of ;Commons, but theneeds of the large cities ° are largely Teff to committees and sub -com- mittees for decision. • G" 1 • itis quite true that the economic welfare of farmers, not only in Western Canada, but throughout the entire nation must receive sympathetic attention. So also should the `needs cif • Indians and Eskimos ; in the far, North;. Newfoundlanders who live in an im- poverished and isolated province which is• also a part of Canada; tenement dwellers in Montreal and slum citizens in Toronto and Vancouver. , Redist ibudor�., ,e 1i9a1[tintinggit79 ale -. toral districts is called officially, is always an opener for charges of political manipula- tion. °Opposition members always see the government trying to strengthen favorable voting patterns. No doubt that is sometimes the case, but the commissions which make the decisions in each province aresupposed to be .impartial, and for the most part they are just that. Redistribution will Continue to 0 As 1 recall, my last cailtuan, was a tale of woe, relating the dread- ful things the gods had done to me in 1972, 1 should have kept my mouth shut, The sante, gods, annoyed at my tiny protest, decided to show me what they could really do.. Take a cat, Go on. Any old cat, Take a freshly -waxed, floor. Take a guy with air armful of milk and eggs. Take a wife' who is upetair s watching TV when she should be helping that guy with the grocer- ies Q.K. The guy comes in. Re takes off iris boots so he won't make a mess on the newly - washed -and -waxed kitchen floor. He is in his sock feet. Right?. Out of the grocery bags he takes two quarts: of milk, a dozen eggs and a case of plop:. He heads for the kitchen counter. . At that very moment the cat, unfed, hurls herself' at his legs, meowing and rubbing. He lifts his right foot, gently, to turf her out of the way, spins `Smartly on his left metatarsal, and goes down like Niagara Pa. He fails to eject the gam►,, Oa Of some dim, primitive idea that you: hang onto the grub at any cost„The first thing that huts any- thing ny'thing is his noggin, which tries to tear the copper of the cupboard door handles. The next thing that strikes hard -pan is his nose, which, bounces off the floor in a spray of blood and milk, Yes, he's still holcling onto the milk. He loses only one quart of blood, two of -milk. His erstwhile wife. and protect- or comes down and finds him sit- ting in something like a Masai wedding, two. parts milk to one part blood, a cold cloth on his torn scalp, eggs all over the place, and his nose going up like a balloon being filled with hydrogen. But there's no fret, no sweat. He's had his nose broken three times before, and by far better people than a cat, or his wife's waxing. Sitting there among the egg- shells and milk and blood, he re- members 'fondly : the time his fu, Lure :brother-xn4aw gave hind an elbow and cracked the old boar during football practicer And then he thinks of that beau- tiful free-for*111 with the Royal Marines, outside that pub in Wrexham,.North'Wales, when the fighter pilots prayed only that. they could not fight. And he• remembers, almost with pleasure, . the day was being beaten up by the :German guards, and nobody had even brroken, his‘nose yet, and then the little guy who was engineer of the locomotivecame rushing into the circle and kicked him right in 'the moot. - And I'd like to say this mutt sat there happily '.for ever after, thinking about the other times his nose hadbeen -broken. But she wouldn't let him. Her first thought was pure Florence Nightingale. "Every- body will think I did it,” she wailed, "Yes, i would think they would," I ;countered. "Knowing you.►, "They'll think you : were dru k " was . her next contribu- tion. "Well, that's what I'd think, if someone told me held lost a. one -round bout with a cat," f slug, Beted. • "How am I going to get the blood out of that towel," she queried. "Well, .you might pre- tend you. were _a vampire and suck it outs" ",People will think you've been beaten, up," she worried. "Yes," 1 rejoined. Smugly. No answer. "I'm going to lock the door, so nobody can see you." And I re- ,. plied, "I'm going to call a press conference, and admit it was all your fault, because you'd waxed the floor, andyou:cynical, alitnost vicious hadn't put the cat outand you weren't down to help me with the groceries,,, All, heck! I shouldn't puther through all that. It was not her faulty except that she'd waxed the floor "and hadn't put the cat Out and didn't come,.down to, help with the groceries, and insists I lake my boots off when 1 come in onto her rotten polished floors. It's not so bad, really. .Apart from the tuts on niyAose, which look as though a gang Of Glas- wegians. had wo.. ; ,' me over, there are only the es, For some reason, when you -break your nose, there's a great sympathy from your eyes. They don't weep, except for the first six hours. They swell up and '.up and up. At first they are red. Then they begin to look like a couple of tea -bags that have been on the booze. 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LL • .. +�' .. u..'L}.��•:1:1..}C•1-'.�LL,arL.LNLs..ii'LY.LL..L.:•.. .r �.. 1r..L �.. lYA....•a. ., . ews Items from JANUARY 1926 The Whitechurch and Wingham communities were greatly shock- ed to hear last Wednesday of the sudden death of Mis Greta: Fox, eldest daughter of -Mr. r. and Mies, • Andrew Fox, who passedaway at the age of 27 years. Miss. Fox trained as a nurse at the wing-. ham' General Hospital and at the time of her death was Assistant Supesintendent there. Th' annual Vestry meeting of St. Paul's Anglican Church was held Monday night with R. Van - stone, T. J. McLean, C. P. Smitthi, William Booth- and Dudley Hol- mes being named officers 1pr R 1926. -• I } a.' k W., c ch el`„` oca Mr, 3', ;M Nix a , t x'�- sentative of the Prudentialflsur- ance Company, is to be con- gratulated on his success in win- ning a silver cup for the 1925 sales ,contest. This is his first season in the insurance business and he came in fifth place. While driving along the Bel- grave-Wingham gravel one' day be a requirement in &.land which is changing as rapidly as ours. way was better There was:a time when alt skilled work- • men were .trained "on the job” as appren- tices working under the watchful eye of vet- eran employees who knew their trade inside out. Today we have a new training system and from what we have seen so far it should be scrapped. 'Successiveincreases in minimum wages, with very little regard for the short- age of skills inherent in a trainee, have made apprenticeship too expensive for most em- ployers. At today's astronomical wages the man who signs the pay cheques has to get full production from his employees if he is to keep lis budget in balance. It is true that provincial and federal governments do have plans whereby an em- ployer Canbereinbursed for some of the cost of training beginners, but most of these ar- rangements are so hedged about with rules and, regulations and time limits that on-the- job training has become a joke. Added to the leg'aI difficulties is a shortage of easily-• available information about the training plans. True, you can find out by writing to the appropriate department if you happen to be aware that there is a plan to cover your particular need. , New -type training schools have sprung up all over the place. Some of them are doing an adequate job—notably in the creative fields such as journalism. Others, however, are simply not turning out the• standard of person who can take a useful -place in the world of business. Worst of all are the ten -Month retraining courses, designed to provide knowledge in new skills for those .ra whose regular occupations have been phased out by changing technologies. We have had experience with several of these "graduates", and frankly, don't intend to waste any more time on them. In many cases the fault does not lie with the students themselves, but rather with the teachers and administrators. There was the classic case of the very presentable young fellow who spent a week with us as an advertising sales- man. A major part df his job was designing and writing copy -for merchants' advertise- ments. When he persistently failed to spell even common words correctly we asked what his level of education was when he was admitted to the advertising course. The reason for his inadequacy became apparent when he told us he had left school in Grade Eight. It is time that apprenticeship training was re-established so that young people can have an opportunity to learn from those who whatdoing. actually know they are do g Equally important, they should be allowed to absorb a sense of pride in good workmanship which is totally lacking in schools which are set up for the sole purpose of keeping a few more ;young people off the unemployment rolls. Canada is 44a sad fix right now. Nearly seven hundred thousand of her citizens are listed as unemployed. At the same time there is such a desperate shortage of help that many businesses are operating much below their capacity in both space and equipment. If we intend to survive in a world of highly competitive production we had better do something—and fast. THE WINGHAM ADVANCE -TIMES Publisied at Wingham, Ontario, by Wenger Bros. Limited. Barry Vi nger, President a Robert 0. Wenger, Sec.-Treas. Member Audit Bureau of Circulations. . Member Canadian and Ontario Weekly Newspaper Associations Subscriptfon $10.00 ,a Year $5.25 for Six Months, in United States $12.50 in Advance Second Class ))fail) Registration No. 0821 Return Postage Guaranteed recently, Mr. W. Joseph Hender- son was surprised to observe a beautiful, large, golden pheasant walking proudly along the side of the road. Mr. GGolley , whose farm it was near, states that thisbird has been seen quite near his' house, picking up -food- with his poultry on different occasions. Capt. W. J. Adams, wife and family have -moved-their house hold .effects' from Orangeville to Wingham, and are now getting settled into Mrs• Copeland - Heath's :dwelling on Shuter St. A number of girl friends of Miss Aileen Kennedy surprised her at the home" Of Mentie Du,Val' and gave he r a r -nu tieshower., l pe li IT. G. Hemphill'of Wroxeter: Ji$ installed a nine -tubed Northern Electric radio: This is probably the best -equipped radio in the village. Robert Henderson of Kincar- dine has accepted the position of operator at the Wingham Cl1R station, succeeding R. E. McKin- ney. IODAY'S CHILD BY HELEN ALLEN You'd think this young lad with the twinkling eyes and the freckles was Irish because he reminds you of a leprechaun; but Ross is Scottish in descent. This nine-year-old is slight and healthy with blue eyes, dark blond hair and fair clear skin. Ross.is a happy youngster with a personality to match that delightful smile. He is kind, considerate and gentle as well as being active and -sports -minded. He is so keen on hockey that he takes his hockey stick to school every day in case there should be a chance to shoot a few pucks. He also plays on a team. A dedicated fisherman. Ross is immensely proud of a picture showing him with his best catch, the biggest bass caught last summer in the area where his foster parents were holidaying. Ross is a slow learner and will go through school in special education classes. Ile does well in the non-academic stream and works hard. Math is his favorite subject. He is clever 'with his hands and will learn a trade later on. With his happy disposition Ross gets along well with both children and adults. He has many friends in his own age group. Ross will be a lovable son for a family where academic achievement is not a major concern but where qualities of character and personality are. To inquire about adopting Ross, please write to Today's Child, Box 888, Station K. Toronto M4P 21{2. For general adoption information, please contact your local Children's Aid Society. LOVES HOCKEY AND FISHING.. JANUARY 1938 `, Mrs, D. Benedict was named Worthy Matron and Dr. J. A. FOR Worthy Patron at the meeting of " the Order of the Eastern Star, Huron Chapter 89. Other officers are Mrs. James Gilmour, Mr. Thomas Gilmour, Mrs. E. Web- ster, Mrs. G. Williams and Mrs. F. Fuller. F. W. Spry of the Western Foundry, has purchased what was formerly the Swartz proper- ty on Diagonal Road. On Monday a robin was seen on Main- Street and on Friday three grosbeaks were seen on Shuler Streeet. Can this be a sign we will have an early spring? - rin ? • F ti.amen hadtwo calls to - e chimney. fires during the , past week. On Saturday. they were called to Peter McLeod's home on "Minnie Street, on Sunday to Mrs. R. D., Mason's, William Street, No damage resulted from either fire. Miss Lorene Haller' entered St. Joseph's Hospital, Guelph, on Monday where she is enrolled as a student nurse. Receipt of a $2,000 grant from the novincial Government through the Department of the Minister of Agriculture, will now permit work to go ahead in com- pleting the interior of the new Lucknow Community Hall. The cheque was received from C. A. Robertson, MLA for Huron -Bruce who personally' delivered it. Miss Edythe Martin of Wroxe- ter has enrolled as a student at Bursar Hall in London. Whitechurch. United Church was wired for hydro during the past week. Miss MacDonald of Lucknow, OXFAM sends third Managua drug shipment OXFAM -CANADA last week dispatched a shipment of anti- rabies serum and 800 units of gas gangrene vaccine to victims of the pre -Christmas earthquake in Managua, Nicaragua. This is the third shipment of drugs OXFAM has sent since the disaster. Numerous suspected rabid dogs and at least 10 diagnosed cases of rabies . are reported. Lack of adequate medical treat- ment has produced alarming numbers of gangrene cases. A Canadian spokesman in Nicara- gua predicts the aftermath could reach disastrous proportions within 6 to 8 months unless mas- sive rehabilitation operations be- gin immediately. • OXFAM has purchased the vaccings from Toronto's Con- naught Laboratories at a cost of $8,500 and CP Air will fly the goods at no cost to 'OXFAM. Upon arrival in Nicaragua the supplies will be distributed through OXFAM's Field Director on the site. Field Director Regin- ald Norton further reports that cases of tetanus, typhoid, and measles are on the increase. The Nicaraguan Ministry of Health is requesting relief for this emergency situation. You can best help the people of Nicaragua by sending your dolts tions to OXFAM -TORONTO now. who has been teaching. music in many Wawanosh;. schools, com- menses this week at SS 14. This instruction is a splendid step for rural schools. • JANUARY 1948 Mrs. S. Hiseler was , named president of the United Church WMS at its annual meeting. Vice presidents are Mrs. N., Under- wood, Mrs. A. Orvis and Mrs. E. Lewis,; treasurer,is Mrs. W. Van- Wyck and secretaries are Mrs. L. Hingston and Mrs. C. Hopper. The Wingham .branch of the iced Farmers', Co -ova shipped a caloa<cfiof eigstttr ,Brit= ain o teas ..e"s . tb. y hh 9800 dozen 1 , arid_ this is :.the: first carload shipped to England`from Wingham, The .United Farmers are. prepared to ship a carload each week. , . The `Ladies' Auxiliary to the Wingham General Hospital has completed another successful year. Named officers for 1948 are Mrs. W. J. Adams, Mrs. W. S. Hall, Mrs. Snell, Mrs. W. Van- Wyck, Mrs. Charles Hinde and Mrs. W. J. Greer. Wilfred Walket has bought (the farm formerly owned by the late George Cunningham on the 8th concession of West Wawanosh. Whitechurch people are looking forward to having their streets lit up with hydro within the next few weeks. This has been a long -felt need in this community, es- pecially at the CNR station. Another large wolf, the second in this area this year, has been shot in Howick Township, on the farm of Mr. Cleve Vittie, 12th concession. The animal,, was trailed almost . a mile before it was shot by Wesley Gallaway. Whooping cough is prevalent in the area at the present time. The Gorrie area is especially hard hit. Two Belgrave men have secur- ed new positions. Trevor Moores is working with the Rural Hydro Commission and Gordon Nethery is with Wingham Co-operative. Floyd Campbell and Glen Van - Camp, also of Belgrave, are at South River where they will truck logs for the winter. JANUARY 1959 Mrs, Norrinan: Cameron was again elected president of the Ladies' Auxiliary to the Wing- ham General Hospital. Other of- ficers f ficers are Mrs. 0 1 • Hamilton, Mrs. D. C. Nasmith and Mrs. W. J: Greer. ,'4' Ross Vogan was installed as worshipful master of the Wing - ham Masonic Lodge, last week. The first baby of 1959, born at the Wingham General Hospital, arrived on January 5th and was a son born to Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Cerson of Teeswater. The Cer- sons have two other children. Roy B. Cousins of Brussels was`" elected 1959 chairman of till High School Bard: He succeeds R. S. Hether- ington. Leslie ` Fortune of Turn - berry was named vice chairman , and Miss Yvonne McPherson, 1 secretary -treasurer. Town of Wingham officials have announced that Police Chief T. W. (Bert) Platt will resign his position here shortly' to return to his farm home near Orangeville. ;! i Ktchener office aids industry Businessmen with problems can bring them to a . new office opened in Kitchener at the new year by the Ontario Ministry of i; Industry and Tourism! Located at 305 King St. W., it is managed by Robert Halfnight, an industrial development consult- ant. with wide experience in general management and manu- facturing and specializing in in- dustrial carbon, sintered metals and plastics. His duties are to advise, assist and counsel industry and muni- cipalities to stimulate employ- ment and income opportunities in such fields as plant expansion, location and relocation, expand- ing exports and marketing, and assist with joint ventures and licensing arrangements. 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