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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance-Times, 1975-02-20, Page 22they are exposed to and are at the mercy of the elements of land and sea and the harsh climate of Lab- rador, and to the tremendous strength of character with which they have responded to their difficult situation. Mr. Johns is bringing an accor- dion player with him called Norman Rice from White Bay, Newfoundland )4e is a young man who has just arrived on the mainland from away in the north of the island and was trying out in a talent contest at the Horseshoe Tavern ( a sort of Country Music Palace In Toronto) . It should be a good way for him to meet the people of Southern Ontario and people will enjoy his Music. Ted Johns in Naked on the North Shire. 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Ever since I met her, she has been, not removing her chains, but apply- ing mine. I clank when I walk. e don't need to be liberat- She needs to be tied up. She has made Vit quite clear that she is: smarter than I about everything from making,,out- the income tax return'to Screwing in a light bulb; better Is)oking than I (and all we have to do is look in a mirror) ; more artistic than I (she's always frigging with the color thing on the television while I bellow 'I don't care if it's all purple, shut up and watch the program') ; and in better shape than I. I always concede the last- named without a fight. I invari- ably say, "Boy, I could never scrub the kitchen in half an hour, like you, dear. It would probably take me half the afternoon." And I'm right. So there's no conflict of interest there. She also has a joint account, the house is in her name, the car is in her name, and if I dropped dead tomorrow, she'd have so much insurance she could give Jackie Onassis a run for her money. Liberation•my armpit! My daughter is in the same boat, or category, She alternately bullies and wheedles her father and her husband. She takes nothin' offa nobody;- especially male cops. She is in a career course, and she is using, or kicking out of the way, every male who stands in her path. With one exception. She is being used and pushed around by the only male who could do it, her year-old, Sulking son, Pokey. And there is the only hope I see for the future of the • male. • Looking further afield, I re- member two dames who were so liberated you wondered who, was wearing the pants in the family, in both cases. One was my mother. She called the shots in our family from the time she put on her wedding ring. She decided which of the kids would be licked, and she did the licking. She decided what speed my , dad should drive at. She pulled us through the Depression. My dad was a sweet, gentle` chap _ like myself and always sat in the rumble seat on each new family enterprise. My mother-in-law was the. same. With a combination of tempers, tirades and tears, she made( my father-in-law walk on eggs until he didn't feel comfort- able unless he had an egg under- foot. Ditto with my sisters and sisters-in-law. They bully and needle and haggle their men un- mercifully. They continually make them feel that they (the women) had poor luck in the draw, and make veiled and usu- ally imaginary references to the great chances they had to marry someone worthwhile, who turned out to be somebody. And this phenomenon is not something new, something of the 20th century. Queen Boadicea, if anyone remembers her, had a great time smashing up Roman legions until she died of an over- dose of woad. Lady Macbeth was no shrink- ing, unliberated violet. She was more of a shrieking, liberated violent. Queen Elizabeth I diddled her would-be lovers for years and ran a growing empire with a velvet glove in an iron- fist; Madame de Pompadour liter- ally ran the French empire in the days of the 15th Louis, and she wasn't even married. Nobody is weeping over Jackie what -ever, who bounced from a U.S. president to a Greek billion- aire. Nor are many tears shed over the way poor little, helpless Liz Taylor has been •mistreated by five or six or seven husbands. Of course, all these women had charm, and drive, or both, and weren't too much' concerned Let them eat wheat Agriculture Canada scientists at the department's research 'o station at Regina are well known for their work in weed control. All manner of weeds that have hin- dered grain production in the prairie provinces are being in- vestigated through laboratory' and field work conducted therb. But even scientists have prob- lems sometimes, And Dr. Jim Hunter was no .exception last spring when, as part of a long- range project aimed at learning everything there is to know about the Canada thistle, he decided to plant 20 acres of the weed for future study. Cultivation was completed, and the weed seeds were painstaking- ly planted. Then the problems started. As soon as the tender thistle shoots reached the surface, marauding rabbits snipped them off. A fence was not the solution, so several rows of winter wheat were, planted around the edge of the site. The theory? Wheat seedlings are more succulent than those of the thistle, so the rabbits have since been munching on these. And the 'thistles? They're now well established on the site and research is continuing. Channel 13 Entertainment THURSDAY MIDNIGHT—"THE PERILS OF PAULINE" starring Terry Thomas, Pamela Austin and. Pat Boone. FRIDAY, 7:30 p.m.—"THE LOST MAN" starring Sidney Pottier and Joanna Shimkus. FRIDAY MIDNIGHT—"RITUAL OF EVIL" starring Louis Jordon and Ann Baxter SATURDAY, 8:00 p.m.—"THE TRAIN ROBBERS" starring John Wayne, Ann -Margret, Ben Johnson ° and Rod Taylor. SATURDAY MIDNIGHT—"HOUSE OF CARDS" starring George Peppard and Inger Stevens. SUNDAY, 1:00 p.m.—"THE IMPATIENT HEART" starring Car- rie Snodgrass aend Michael Brandon. SUNDAY MIDNIGHT—"THE BIG COMBO" starring Cornel Wilde and Richard Conte. TUESDAY MIDNIGHT—"CRUCIBLE OF TERROR" starring Mike Raven and Mary Maude. WEDNESDAY MIDNIGHT—PIN ENEMY COUNTRY" starring Tony Franciosa and Anjanette Comer. Channel 10 Entertainment THURSDAY, 12:45 p.m.—"FORT COURAGEOUS" starring Fred Bier and Donald Barry. The battle for the Western frontier as cavalry troops defend themselves from India' attacks. FRIDAY, 12:45 p.m.—"FORCE OF EVIL" starring John Garfield and Thomas Gdmez. Two brothers come to personal conflict in the numbers racket. FRIDAY, 11:45 p.m.—"THE ' CHALLENGE" starring Darren Mc- Gaven and Broderick Crawford. 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America's favorite singing star swings ', a storm with his guitar and his teen-age bride. about the cost of hamburg. That's what the Women's Lib is going to hit me with, among other things. One last example. I know a lot of women teachers. You think they need liberation? Like hell. They smoke and drink and swear like sailors and swagger around in comfortable pant suits while the men strangle in shirts and ties. And the real clincher is that they make as much money as men, and frequently more. Top administrative jobs are open to them. They don't want them. Why? Not because they can't handle them. Most of them would do a better job than the dim- - witted males who now inhabit these posts. No. It's because they don't want to give up their femi-, nine perks: staying home for two days with a sniffle; shooting off to the hairdresser once a week; breaking into tears when every- thing becomes Too Much For Me. I have always treated a woman as `i womeg first and a person second. I have used the same treatment with old men and little kids. If I have to start"' treating women as people first and women second, I know who is going to complain the loudest. The wo- men. And the second loudest complaint will be from yours truly. It will destroy all the mys- tery and glamor and excitement which are the only things that make life worthwhile. Men, rally around. For years, both sexes have been equal, but women have been more equal than men. Now, all they want to do is widen the gap. Some of my best friends have been women, but how would you like your son to marry one? I once started a national cam- paign for PORK (Parents Of Rotten Kids) . It was fairly suc- cessful. Once more I appeal. Last time most of the joiners were women. This time, I want the men of Can- ada to stand up and be counted as members of my new organiza- tion. Don't nobody be scared. It will be called: Men! Attack Female Independence. Anony- mously. In short, MAFIA! i . 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Down- hill „and cross-country skiing, snowmobiling and tobogganing. Special rates on season's tickets for families or clubs. MINTO GLEN SKI CLUB, HARRISTON, Dial 338-2007 •or 338-2722. rrm "Naked on the N©rth 3kore" gives insight into isola.tion The one-man show, "Naked on the North Shore", to be presented by Ted Johns, a native of Mit- chell, is scheduled for FebrtaaLy 27 and 28 at the Listowel Sales Barn and in the Old Opera Hall, Drayton on March 1. Sets for the production were designed by 'Bill Acres of RR 1, Gowanstown, who visited Old Fort Bay before doing his work. "Naked on the North Shore" was directed by Paul Thompson. Ted Johns has appeared in two Theatre Passe Muraille produc- tions in the area : The Farm Show and The Donnellys, Old Fort is a small village of about 300 people (over half of whom are children) situated just off the Strait of Belle Isle about forty miles below the Quebec - Labrador border in the province of Quebec. It is extremely iso- lated with no police, no church, no telephone, no hydro, no road, no stores, no sidewalks. Commu- nication is by air, boat, telegraph and snowmobile. It is very old — "When Jacques Cartier come tru dese straits 1534 the fellers from Old Fort went out, told him where he was to. And he took a pencil? And he wrote into his diary all the things what time fellers told him.'° The show, "Naked on The North Shore", runs about an hour and a half in length. It includes por- traits, and the actual words, of the people who live there, and shows how they make their living and their opinions of the govern- ment, the church, their past and future. Sections of the play deal with their adventures in the "out- side" (i.e. Ontario), their parties (Sports Day), and with Ted Johns' difficulties as a person from the south trying to adjust to the north. Some of it is quite serious, some is funny, and a few of their songs are woven in. Ted Johns spent a year as a teacher at Old Fort Bay. 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HOURS — Mon. to Fri., 8 a.m. to 6 p.rc Sat., 8 a.m. to 12 Noon HOURS — Mon. Fri., 8 a.m. 6 p.m. Sat., 8 a.m. to 12 Noon H Cil, LL HOTLINE 'Star Trek' fans will convene By NANCY ANDERSON HOLLYWOOD -- "Star Trek" fans, still fanatical though the show was canceled by its network several years ago, will convene in Sari Diego, Calif., in March, and George Takei, for one, plans to attend, his schedule per- mitting. George, who played Lt. Sulu in "Star Trek," says he's "still flabbergasted" by the popularity of the show which inspires several conventions a year, not only in this country but abroad. "Eighteen thousand people attended a convention in New York last year," George says, "and 10,000 were there the year before. "There'll be a convention in San Diego in March, one in Springfield, Ill., in May and another in Palm Beach in June or July: "'Star Trek' has subculture of its own. It created a whole separate world. "Some of the fans know more about the good shirPEn- terprise' than do any of us who were on the show. "People became 'Star Trek' fans on different levels. Some enjoyed the series as an action -adventure show. Others got caught up in the technological detail, and some became fans on a socio - philosophical level. "These fans are of all ages and from all economic back- grounds and from practically all over the world and seem to have no common denominator except their devotion to 'Star Trek.' "But I think the.. conventions Service are a good thing, because, by bringing people together, they create at least one faun of international goodwill." Takei may have set a Prece- dent recently when he played an Oriental American in a starring role in a television drama, "The Year of the Dragon " for PBS, because Takei y is an Oriental Ameri Usually, as you'll realise if you think back, Caucasians play Orientals and Oriental Americans in stellar roles. For example, not only have Loretta Young, • Paul Muni, Edward G. Robinson, Warner Oland and Marlon - Brando pla3ged Orientals on the screen, but even all-American Jimmy Stewart was tested for a Chinese role in "The Good Earth," Takei is a Japanese-Ameri- can apanese-Amencan who spent early childhood in an American concentration camp during World War II. Yet he says he identifies more closely with England than with Japan. "Perhaps because I've al- ways loved Shakespeare and have read and performed his plays, the first time I went to England I felt that I was going home," George says. "I'm quite an Anglophile as was my father who was so enthusias- tic about England that he named me for King George. "On the other nand, the first time I went to Japan, I felt strange. My grandmother had told mea great deal about Japan, but the one she'd de- scribed was gone. I only began to find it when I got out of the big cities and into the country." 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