The Wingham Advance-Times, 1975-04-10, Page 17.
cane
This Bell n is being written.*
considerable pain. It isvaused by
one of three things, but I haven't
time to see a doctor because I
have to write my coiamn. So
don't be surprised if it breaks off
in the middle.
It's a sharp, biting Dain in the
0 chest. But don't worry, gentle
reader. It only hurts when I
cough, laughs, blow my nose or
take a deep breath.
Possibly it's a heart attack,
Which seems to be the current fad
among my peers these days. I
hope it's not, because I dislike
chasing after popular 'trends.
On the other hand, it may be all
attack of pleurisy. I have a cough
like a lion, and am spewing oys-
ters into tissues, toilet paper and
the snow, depending on when the
fit strikes me.
A third possibility is that I
twisted a muscle in my chest yes-
terday when I fell on a ski slope
and decided to plow the last 50
yards with my nose, winding up
in a contortion of limbi that
would have made Houdini green
with envy.
0
s
•1
Personally, I :subscribe to the
third theory, mainly because it
inakes. mo seem► like a clean -liv-
ing chap, and .secondly, because I
don't like the sound of the other
two. Each is a bit fraught.
At any rate, this ominous—or
silly—little pain OUCH! (I just
sneezed) has made me give seri-
ous thought to a topic that is all
the rage these days—corporal
punishment in our schools.
It's almost as popular as capi-
tal punishment for criminals, and
is even morewidely discussed,
for, while criminals make up a
comparatively small segment of
our society, rotten kids are al-
ways there in great numbers.
Usually, the business of beating
kids is seen in black and white.
On the one hand, you . have the
fundamentalists, who go back to
the Bible with that old chestnut,
"Spare the rod and spoil the
child." These people forget that
several of the disciples were fish-
ermen, and that what this par-
ticular one meant was, "If you
don't let the kid use your spare
rod once in a while, he'll grow up
tobe a lousy angler."
On the other side are the other
crazies: psychologists, who think
a ldd who is thumped will be
warped for life; mothers who
read articles by -psychologists;
and former childrbeater$ who are
now school principals.
And in between, as usual, are
all the confused, decent and sen-
sible people like you and me and
the Moderator of the United
Church of Canada, who thinks the
strap should be brought back.
Both the extreme camps, of
course, are full of crap. In the
first group, we have people who
were whipped unmercifully when
they were kids, and by some
weird type of logic, now claim it
was good for them. They can
hardly wait for a chance • to get
their own back.
And in the second group are all
the other people who were
whipped unmercifully when they
were kids and are trying to prove
that that is what made them
queer ever since.
I despise both groups, and will
stick with the great mass in the
middle. Mootiof us Were whl
at one time or ill10+ ",..Pet
unmercifully, and we.
every stroke Of the ha,
S elp of the yardii e,,k as nd; a
of the willow -switch.
It didn't warp- us, peyC*
cally or physically. It to t*
something about the moiety
would be living in—that the
certain limits, and if You ,`�r
Kress them, you take your `1IC V
My, mother used to work OM
my kid brother and ine about
once a week, whether we needed`
it or not. She used`a fly waf ter
which has a sting lik cortdan,
or a yardstick, if we got (nd!er t
bed, and the fly -swatter wouldn't
6. T6 did
ha= 4{, t_
i cacti. a6 did e.W ran, CI. I qpR .rAga+..R
ever, and probably saved her
sanity.
The same brother and I were in
the same class in school, and
once a week our teacher, 'Old
Mary Walker, would give u a
good strapping, along with a
buddy, G. G. Relyea. We thou
the world of her. The strappingg
stung, but once in a while, we'd
jerk back our hand and she'd hit
herself a good crack on the thigh,
whichdoubled the number on
each hand but raised our status in
the class.
There are only two reasons for
a teacher to use a strap: 1) he or
she is a poor teacher, and 2) to
add a little drama to the
monotony of the classroom.
A word to the bleeding-heart&.
There are a lot more insidious
ways to warp.a rsonali,
ty than physiea1 p sbment. The
real sadists of the ci OW,' and:
they are few, thallk VfigiBeSS, are
those who ' per m, barassa
rnent, hectoring, and sarcasm.
These caaa do far more 'permaa�-
nent damage than a good thump.
Naturally, my sympathies in
this affair are with the teacher. I
have no time tot the bully. The
teacher with strength of Charac-
ter has few discipline problems.
But what about the sensitive
young lady teacher who asks a
lout to do something, and he
says: "Screw you."?
So the punk gets a "suspen-
sion" for a few days (translation:
holiday) .
If I had the say, Fd turf him out
of school for a year, and let his
parents put up with him. It would
serve both parties right.
Many wires
will be widows
When a 20 -year-old woman
marries a 22 -year-old man,
the bride can normally ex-
pect to outlive the groom by
an average of more than
eight years, according to the
Institute of Life Insurance.
A woman who reaches age
65 can expect, on the average,
nearly 17 years of life while
one in three women at that
age can expect to live another
20 years.
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Quebec, founded in 1900, has since moved to a larger building where it is celebrating its ,
75th anniversary this year.
Canada's first credit union
marks, 75th anniversary
This year marks the 75th anni-
versary of the founding of the
first credit union in North Ameri-
ca, the Caisse Populaire of Levis,
Que.
More than seven million Cana-
dians are members of credit
unions acrossthe country. and
these organizations have assets
of more than $8 billion.
"The role played by credit
unions, and 'caisses populaires' in
Canada has been one of very
great importance, especially in
rural areas," says Agriculture
Minister Eugene Whelan. "The
institutions are part of the
co-operative movement which
has helped make Canadian agri-
culture one of the most prosper-
ous in the world."
Commenting on the 75th anni-
versary of the Caisse Populaire
in Levis, Mr. Whelan says:
"I want to pay homage to
Alphonse Desjardins, the clear-
sighted man who, in 1900, estab-
lished our first credit union to
stimulate in everyone the spirit of
saving and sharing. I congratu-
late all those who have carried on
the work of Alphonse Desjardins
and wish every success for all the
celebrations marking the 75 b
anniversary.• -
Alp'honse hes, jardins was born
in Levis in 1854. He served for
several years in the, army and
then worked as a reporter for the
legislative assembly in Quebec.
Later, as a stenographer m the
House of Commons in Ottawa, he
witnessed debates which made
him sensitive to the hardships
high interest rates Caused for
poor families. "
After corresponding with the
Eurdpean pioneers of the co-op-
erative credit movement, Mr.
Desjardins founded the Credit
Union in Levis. Subsequently, he
founded others m. Canada and the
United States.
A number of special events and
activities will be held during 1975
m connection with the anniver-
sary of the founding of credit
unions in Canada.
In Levis, near Quebec City, a
permanent exhibition has been
set up in the Caisse Populaire to
commemorate Mr. Desjardins.
There will alsobe a civic cele-
bration in -Levis later this year to
mark the historical event.
The Post Office mill be issuing
an 8 -cent stamp bearing a like-
ness of Alphonse Desjardins.
In May, there will be meetings
of the National Association of
Canadian Credit Unimw
(NACCU) and the Canadiah
Co-op Society (CCCS) . The Cana-
dian Council of Co-operativeA
(CCC) and the Co-operative
Union of Canada (CUC) will meet'
in June. All of these meetings will
be held in Quebec City.
In October, an international
. symposium on the role, the prob-
lems and the objectives of sav-
ings and credit unions will take
place in Montreal.
Alphonse Desjardins, founder
of Canada's first credit union.
Agricultural Tidbits
With Adrian Vos
We have all heard a lot, lately
about the preservation of agricul-
tural land, land use planning and
the restrictions that can. be
placed upon the livestock farmer
by the encroachment of urbanites
in rural areas. It seems that
many farmers themselves don't
see the danger of this encroach-
ment. Often they are the ones
who want non-farm residences
built on their land in order to get
a fair sum of money which will
benefit them in the short run so
they can pay off a good part ,of
their mortgage or pay for an ex-
pansion they have in mind.
In other cases it is the retiring
farmer who wants to stay close to
the place where he has lived most
of his life and wants to sever a
piece of land to build his retire-
ment home.
Both cases are shortsighted.
The farmer who wants the money
for expansion is really painting
himself into a corner. It's pos-
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the first place won't object to the
odours from their, livestock, but
who can promise what the next
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