HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance-Times, 1975-09-11, Page 23�04 had the wot'1d
thetic serve. At
VP: 'Kong wit
never ableto hit the hill Sao.
or than 141` milet an tour,
When by followed, it into the
het,you could,alinoptituocit it
; throat:
The problem with Mr.
Kong's serve was his over
lowering, strength, Tis,
couldn't relax.. As he dropped
the racquet behind his back,
be slue `the grip 80 tight
he made sawdust. He couldn't
endthat to hit
a fo `+ tri serve you dont
eve 'tQ force it.
91100 Old aptly
that you moat let the serve
serve itelf." The ser erss re;
WoasibilitY is ,just to start It
prope � y.
Mos everyone is familiar
with thio ps tch Mile racquet.
head should take. Some pat-
tern it aftera " flg v D" or a
10 throw. There's sup-
.
ho
to be a loop,behind the
lack that bas so iething to do
with rhythm and pQtentiai
power.
you make itgh this
magical patted... ,y u're
guaranteed 8 $;o :fie J3ut
try as you van, Yin ( 4
Kong), can't get the feel of .
Ail youeai manSge
is a "se ioQp" - a grunt,
andia posh..
Try the "three finger
serve." Thisp e
romises to
£fit " rent cer" arms.
Hold the ' of r d' of the so.
racquet with Your fr, finger,
middle -finger and thumb.
Pretend the 'racquet is the
pendulum of a grandfather
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must be 4S letters stacked here
unanswered.
First of all, there are two piles
of letters about the metric -Cel-
sius nonsense.
Those who agree with me Poon a
much deeper pile. But; in
fairness, those who disagree are
much more - literate. Does this
have any significance?
The more literate letters are,
on the whole, much duller than
the emotional ones. They,treat
me as a backward child,' or, a
senile old man. I am neither.
Sample, from Win,. Gary Whar-
ton of Unionville, Ont. ;'dere are
things occouring (his spelling) in
this world that from the sounds of
your column you couldn't even
begin to comprehend. Things are
dealt with on a World-wide basis
now and in doing so we need- a
common unit of measure,, weight
and volume." And so on.
Baloney! If that is so, why don't
we have a common world-wide
language, and a common unit of
currency? We have neither.; The
argument holds no water.
On the other side, Earl F. Gil-
christ of Perth, Ont., is equally
lacking in logic. "The metric sys-
tem should never be introduced
in Canada because it isn't Cana-
dian. I want my children to grow
up in a Canadian Canada not a
Foreign Canada. Any Canadian
that accepts the metric system
isn't a Canadian."
• Well now, I wouldn't go that
far. That means that I could
never enjoy English fish-and-
chips,
ishand-chips, French fries, chicken chow
mein, lasagna, southern fried
chicken, and would be con-
demned for life to drinking Cana-
dian — ugh! .— wine. That way
madness lies)
There's a letter' from Mr. and
Mrs. C. Knott of Rorketon, Man.
"The guy that invented this stuff
(Celsius and metric) died so why
doesn't it die with him as it sure
doesn't make any sense ... We
are only two out here, but I know •
there are many more in this area.
Go to it., Bill, send out petition or
-"whoteve» jt,* , to o y-as:it was
before. _ � • '
A June editorial in the Waterloo
Chronicle by Mike Roy is headed
Some Facts, Please. He then at-
tacks my "half-baked ideas"
about the metric system. He goes
on to state,a lot of facts about the
world's population, makes a
desperate attempt to link these to
the need for a metric system, and
ails. 1 just take back my remark
that letters urging a metric
ystem are more literate than
those against.
Here's a long, witty, oft bawdy
etter from Harvey Malcolm, a
farmer, municipal politician and
ews correspondent from Janet-
ille for the Bowmanville States-
man. He wants metric. "Have
ou ever tried from scratch to
figure out in the twinkling of an
ye with a ratepayer breathing
ver your shoulder, how many
ots 99' x 133' or such like can be
found in an umpteen acre field?"
'No, I haven't, Harvey. But I
magine it could be done with a
alculator in about three minutes
y a teenager of average intelli-
ence. What's the big rush to find
out, anyway? Somebody only
ants to make a buck. Let him
alt.
B. C. Leaden of Rosedale, Brit -
h Columbia, says that he often
isagrees with me wholehearted-
, but on this, is on my side. In
art, he says, speaking of politi-
ans : "They take our money and
ey screw it all up until you can't
11 one bill from another, except
✓ the good old deuce, and I
ppose they'll soon get rid of
at. They shove French down
e English throats and English
wn the French and now they
This
ishs. nonsense
n
• drop b� t `.' `els) ps bit t
i on us lir
-long-suffering 'bastards. What in
9
. hail dovl►e want that h t fo r. Celstl8s
Bounds more like a disease than a
• degree of temperature." e
Another brief letter from
a
Western couple, stamped en-
velope enclosed, says: "Tell us
.what to do,` write our M.P. or
what, and we'll do it." Well, folks,
that's a good place to start; but
don't be Surprised if you get a po-
lite brush-off. '
To try to sum up my own feel-
ings would require another whole
column, and would. just touch on
the subject. Firstly, 1 agree that
metric is .easier, Any idiot knows
that.
But don't try to snow me with
arguinents that Canada's econo-
mic future depends on the,metric
system. Our ;'economic future,
like it or lump it, is tied to thatof
the U.S., which is not metric.
The metric system should have
been introduced 50 years ago. It
wasn't. Now is not the time to do
it,- when inflation is making ter-
ribleravages on our economy.
Maybe it's 15 years too soon. We
Just clearing off my desk be
fore heading to Saskatoon for a
convention of weekly editors
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just can't afford it right now.
Celsius is silly. I don't care ,
. what the temperature. is In outer'
Mongolia, or what system they
use. I want to know whether it's
10 below or so above — Fahren
hest. The U.S. useti' Fahrenheit.
The radio and T'V'~''stations along
the*order use both. The news,
paps report British and conti-
nental temperatures in Fahren-
heit.
The changes to metric and
Celsius seem to reflect that old
Canadian tradition, which ap-
plies in eirerything from styles ito,
education,' •
It goes something like this;,
"Let's drag our feet for a while,
until:everybody else bas'tried this
thing out. Then -we'll jump in and'
go the whole hog, whether i the
thing worked or not."
Heck with both of them. I only
hope that when; Iiget to Saska-
toon, . it's been a good summer
(Fahrenheitally speaking) for
wheat, and that those fish I don't
catch in northern Saskatchewan
will not be less than two metres in
length.
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You and Sheriff Dan Regan
examine closely the bullet
hole in the lower pane of the
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Sheriff Regan nods his head in
confirmation.
You have found the shades '
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It is now 11:35.
After examining the .45
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"And here's the bullet,"
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Down in Meadville, Pennsyl-
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cattle, like any other, were quick
to take advantage of the fact.
About 50 of Herb's cows got out
and started off in the direction of
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called Bootsie, and Bootsie was
called out of her favorite parking
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with the roundup. She answered
the call immediately, put the
wayward cows, back where they
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woodshed again. Meanwhile
Herb's wife discovered that
Bootsie had left four newborn
puppies to chase those cows.
When Bootsie returned, she gave
birth to five more.
Bootsie, as you may have
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bred with an uncanny ability to
make other farm animals do
exactly what his master wants
them to do. While he is a favorite
with cattlemen everywhere, the
Border Collie is equally capable
of herding ducks or geese or any
other fowl being raised on an
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Border Collie will herd 1,000
turkeys as lovingly as if he were
daddy to them all, and woebetide
any fox or mischievous boy who
sneaks onto the property with
malice aforethought.
But it is with sheep that the
Border Collie seems most at
home, and the way that he can
understand what he is supposed
to do with a flock has to be seen to
be believed. Over 400 years ago
Dr. Johannes Caius, the English
physician who wrote the very
first account of the dogs of Bri-
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amazing shepherd's partner.
"This dogge either at the hearing
of his masters voyce, or at the
wagging and ithisteling in his fist
bringeth the wandring
w• eathers and straying sheepe,
into the selfe same place where
his masters will and wishe .. .
whereby the shepherd reapeth
this benefite, namely, that with
little labour and no toyle or mov-
ing of his feete he may rule and
guide his flocke, according to his
owne desire, either to have them
go forward, or to stand still, or to
drawe backward, or to turne this
way or to take that way."
Today's Border Collie is, if
possible, even more skilful in
handling his master's sheep. A'
few years ago when the town of
Truro, Nova Scotia celebrated
the approach of Christmas with a
parade, citizens were astounded
to see a flock of sheep in the
procession. The sheep travelled
at the exact speed proper to keep
them in formation, they made the
right turns at the right time and
they neyered wavered from their
position in the centre of the
street. Three Border Collies
managed them perfectly.
The marvel of all this is that the
Border Collie starts life with a
curse upon him. For the same
intense fascination in sheep
which is instictive in the Border
Collie is apparently akin to that of
the wolf. Certainly if the Border
Collie should be allowed to grow
up without training and guidance,
he would raise havoc with any
sheep he could find.
How then does a shepherd
change this evil urge into some-
thing so gentle and marvellously
useful? Well old Dr. Caius had the
answer for that. "To transmute
this instinct which would other-
wise be destructive, yea even
murderous," he said, "the shep-
herd must first own the love of his
dogge so utterly that it will gladly
leave the choicest of meates to
follow him, Only then can the
shepherd proceede to the second
step of learning how to signale to
the dogge what is good and ac-
ceptable and what is bad. Then
the shepherd trusteth the dogge
to think for himself, and with
scarcely any direction ..."
Seems to me that for those of us
who are worrying and wondering
how in the world to cope with a
boy whose basic urges all 'seem to
point him in the wrong direction,
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