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Home My WebLink AboutThe Wingham Advance-Times, 1975-09-04, Page 174 ti lw D W. LEE MINIM, 31le mast creative mai 'I lthow is over 90. He istiohert Kramer, a world faMourart historian, lecturer and hurnocist. He has willed to un versity llis priceless paint- ings, and his incomparable li- brary .he now has in Venice. The man is electrifying, and seems to'be bursting with energy. I wanted -to under- stand as much as possible in the short hours 1 had with hire, to find the. secret of his achievements and his happi- ness. The answer, was quite simple: he is so absorbed by life, he has no time to waste. When I saw him last., he was one of the youngest teen at heart I have met in some 'time. Refecting on what he had shared with me, I found that he was a master of the • greatest art at all; the art. Q i living,, • " -. in abort, he had the .404 of -getting 60 lutea from, the hour and 24 hours from. the day, Never ,wiilling'merely to add years to his life, he has always insisted on adding life • to his years. He does it by an everlasting? insatiable inter, est in the world around him Each minute of his time is dedicated, disciplined, undis- tracted. In this, his ninth decade, his agenda of orifi n- 'shed business is shockingly huge. He confided that he is working on five books, one of which is a vast and compre- hensive catalogue of R,enais- .sance art. He is still enjoying the tastef - joy and fulfill- ment of getting things done. In his classically beautiful villa. "I Tatti," amid the For FARM, TOWN and COUNTRY HOME OWNERS! Can You Use $1,600. to $20,000.? If you can afford monthly payments of: $21.12 you may borrow $1,600 $39.58 you may borrow $3,000 $65.96 you may borrow $5,000 $92.34 you may borrow ' $7,000 The above Loans based on 16 per'ent per annum 5 Yr. Term — 25 Yr. 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HOURS — Mon. to Fri., o.nn. to 6 p.m. Sat., 8 a.m. tol`12 Noon olive and ORM O roe hl of Tl any,* 'rouuc ed by iottos a ►+ .7(intorettos which he 1 {self *covered and authe ited, 'When '1 spoke there,, I know he , ,rules. rays' .t ,Mediterrean realm of scholarshipland the visual arts It not that he -is content to be one the world�'s;gl` eat art. :crines,, he has a passion to tech life ,at all points. Be. jetting at 90 all specializa- tion,, hetakes allthe humani- ties' as his providence, and that is why he has , no time to sPere• When my wife and I saw him at his villa, he was Steeped' inl "work and progress" that he wanted to.. stand an the street corner, cap in hand, like a merchant begging the idle passersby for the hours and minutes they were wasting. This is an image that is hard to forget. It is one whitth may make us all stop and think again, whenever we are tempted to say we are bored or we -have "time to ]till:" It may help us to remember that the happiest people are those who have "no time to spare," and 'stand on their tip toes looking at tomorrow with enthusiasm and excitement. U.S. nuclear scorecard for '14 During 1974, nuclear power stations in the United States produced 125 billion kilowatt- hours of electricity, roughly equivalent to all the elec- tricity used last year in the states of Illinois and Wiscon- sin. In terms of conserving fossil fuels, the, kilowatt- hours _made from uranium during 1974 displaced almost 230 million barrels of oil or 64 million tons of coal. A, friend, brought to my news story theother wanted my opinion to tents. The story was beaded: Former' War Prisoners Hold Prairie, ;Rem Won. It stated that. more than ' 500 fortifier prisoners of war fr Britain., the United State* Canada gathered at ,M90430 Je recently for a 3001 reion, The rest of the story WaS 4 little nauseating. The reunion was held in "an atmosphere not unlike the, prison camps they survived wartime." There was barbed` wire, a bazooka,. twomach e' guns, a German flag, pldoe dressed up in German utiiiorms,, and caricatures of war -time ,Ger- man officers.. I gave my reaction to ply friend: "A bunt of of middle-aged:. boys clinging to the only ::real, thing that ever happened to them." That sounds harsh, at first;:' glance, if it's possible to glance ate something and hear it. But.-.,Irti satisfied my friend "It's incredible," he said. "I, too would like to see some of my old friends from prison camp, but; to talk, not to play games." I agreed. I would like to see some of my old friends from pri son camp. For about half an hour Not for a'three-day reunion, with wives tagging along. And perhaps this is why I don't attend the annual reunion of for- mer prisoners -of -war, though ; I am invited every year, And I„ guess I'm not the 'only one. There were 500 at this re- union, from ti*ee countries. Where are all the others? There, were 110,000 airmen in the camp, was in, only one of many. A couple of • other jltetns emerged from the news: story, Guess where the chaps were en. tertained? In the officers' Mess at Moose Jaw. Secondly, it was the first re- union of POWs in 30 years to be held outside Toronto, What does this suggest? To me, a little clique of Toronto-based ex -officers who have kept the thing going for, who knows what adolescent satisfaction. Whatever you may have heard of read elsewhere, prisoners of war who were officers didn't suf7 fer all that much.. T know. I was there. We were not required to work• in factories or mines or on farms as were `other ranks. I know of no Canadian officer who starved to death, though grub was mighty slim in the last few months. Perhaps one in 1,000 was beaten up for some misde- meanor. I was one of them, and it was my own .fault. It was no bed .of roses, and 1 don't minimize the skill and dar- ing of those who tried to escape, but, looking back, it was all juve- nile and Boy Scoutish: lookouts, secret passwords, disguises, cav- ing -in tunnels, interminable plan- ning, and end results about as dramatic as one degree Celsius. There was suffering. of course, but it was not beatings and tor- ture and starvation, not for Cana- dians. It was not physical, but psychological. As far as military discipline went, most of the bodies had far more freedom than they had had Service Di.rectry GUNS, AMMO, REPAIRS AND ACCESSORIES ABC r-- SPORTING GOODS 350 Minnie St. WINGHAM, ONT. 1 . E. SHANTZ FARM EQUIPMENT Large Variety of TILLAGE, FORAGE & HARVESTING EQUIP. 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There was the fascinating meet- ing of different ideas and cul- tures, 4 great and almost im- mediate education in itself. Throw into one room the fol- lowing: a young actor from the Landon stage, a kid from a prairie farm, a Glasgow toughie, a Dublin hooligan, an Australian sheep farmer, a Welsh poet, a Rhodesian schoolboy, a Norwe- gian railworker. That's a bare sample. Toss in an American from Cali- fornia and a West Indian singing calypsos and a Belgian book- maker and a Polish count and a few other assorted -odds and sods, and you had a typical group — at least in my camp. I wonder where they all are? Most of them, certainly, are a long way from Moose Jaw and a small group froin Toronto whose members can afford to fly to a convention and try to recapture something, that is gone forever. For the same reason, I have stopped going to reunions of old fighter pilots, I went to a couple. Enjoyed them. But there is a ten- dency to maudlinism, exagger- ation and downright lying. about long -gone days. These pot-bel- lied, bald, wife -ridden, right - leaning, class-conscious, middle- aged poops are my • old com- rades? No way. My memories of prison camp and fighter piloting are far more furl that, heeti,;ng,sonle red-faced paunch who roars over' tIie noise from the bar: "Hey, yeah! Aren't you Jack!? Jack Wiley? Yeah! We were at Sagan together. (I was at Barth). Wancha tameet the wife." • All "the wife" wants is, not to meet me, but to be sure that George is on his feet for the final evening's ball, at which she will peer, with her sad, crumpled 50 - year old face, at all the other sad, crumpled 50 -year old ladies and wonder what the hell the kids are up to while she's hoofing it up in Moose Jaw. I told a little of this to my friend. He understood. He was a German officer with Rommel, badly wounded in North Africa, spent three years in a U.S. prison camp, and is now a Canadian citi- zen.- Where 'are the snows of yester- year? THIS LITTLE PIG could. grow up to becameone of ;the growing number of boars used in the develop)ng, *Wine artificial insemination industlry. Sire loan Agriculture Canada's sire loan policy places top studs in the hands of approved, organized groups of farmers and ranchers, , where they are used to upgrade' the quality ,of small and develop- ing herds. ' The federal government was in at the start of herd improvement through artificial insemination "At'one time, we owned n an) of . the dairy hulls in. artificial µn - semination units," says W. A. Gillis, of Agriculture Canada's Livestock Division. • Artificial insemination was '`so successful in upgrading darty cattle and gained sufficient—in- dustry support that the govern- ment phased itself out of dairy - cattle Al and left it in private hands. The government still owns a few beef bulls in artificial insemination units, but most of its • beef bulls are on loan ' to groups. of farmers and ranchers. "The sire loan program was set up more than 25 years ago with. three objectives in mind: to pro- vide good sires in frontier areas where livestock industries were developing; to' help small• pro- ducers, who were just getting started, . to upgrade their stock; 'and to help artificial insemina- tion get underway by providing. good studs," Dr. Gillis says. Artificial insemination of swine is just beginning and the govern- ment is providing the AI industry with boars. It has about 25 boars on loan to units in Ontario and Quebec. "We buy high quality animals. Our emphasis is on performance and structural soundness. We own some of the best boars in the country." The pioneer boars in the- swine AI units were chosen for lean- ness, good growth rate, and good feet and legs suitable for confine- ment- rearing. Breeds chosen were Yorkshire, Landrace, Hampshire, Duroc and Lacombe. Agriculture Canada is also playing a part in sheep improve- ment. It has lent about 20 rams to farmers in the Atlantic Prov - H. CORDON GREEN A day or two after the Metric Commission declared Fahrenheit themometers officially extinct, I went into a Montreal supply house and asked to buy one. "Why Fahrenheit?" the man asked me. "Because I refuse to accept government by bureaucracy," I said, "and because if the radio announcers are not going to giYe us the real temperature from now on, I'll read it for myself." The man smiled and told me he had had so many people looking for Fahrenheit thermometers lately that he hadn't a single one left. "But I'm reordering," he told me, "because I don't think this Celsius deal is going to go over so big." He was quite right of course. Canadians are notoriously slow andcautious about rocking the boat, but as they are beginning to realize that the new thermometer forced upon us is only the begin- ning of a program which will cost us untold millions and for no benefit to anyopne except the multi -national corporations who are the real instigators of metri- fication, they are no longer mere- ly irritated. They're getting damn mad about it. The fact that the U.S. Congress has turned thumbs down on the plan, and that American labor organ- izations are lined up so solidly against metrification that the matter is not likely to be brought up again for a long time, can only add to our indignation. Why pre- tend that Canada can go metric on its own? Seems to me that if Messrs Trudeau and Turner were really serious when they told us they were going to insist on tightening belts in the Civil Service, there is a logical place to begin. The face- less men in the Metric Commis- sion should now be asked to find employment elsewhere. Useful employment. Getting back to this matter of where to find a Fahrenheit ther- mometer, if you have as much trouble as 1 did, here is a hint which will help you at least through late summer and early 'fall. All you need is a cricket. You may either listen to one outside in your garden or put one in a match box and bring him into your kitchen. A bit of bread and some raw wool will keep him happy all winter if you get to love him that much. How do you tell the tempera- ture with a cricket? It's very simple. Just count the number of cricks he makes per minute, di- vide by four and add 50. And that will be the tempera- ture of whereeveih your cricket happens to be fiddling, in Fahrenheit. He's ignoring Celsius too. traces. g . , a The maaori4' ofr the program's` 00 beef `,b western herds "We'bave a ot.:of' bulls now the Peace.' 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