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'BLUE THUMB
BY G. MacLEOD ROSS
Part 2.
- ['rout time to time the
question is asked'W'hy do you
like ^ South Carolina'?" .\part
from sun, sea, in odorant!
temperatures, pleasant
accommodation and good
cuisine the reason are many and
varied. The . coastal belt is
steeped in English and Scots
history, for it is among the first
areas settled by those races. As a
result, and not surprisingly ,
something of the British sense of
proportion has survived. For
another, the impression is gained
that the government or South
Carolina is not so subservient to
organized minorities. They
appear more broad-minded and
still see to try to provide the
cliniatE. in which all men can live
their l es according .to their
several abilities.
In the local paper, published
in Charleston you find such
admirable opinions as these:
The Chief Highway
Commissioner will not 'allo\%
trees to be cut down along the
highways. ('ompare'this with the
Weekend with Smiley
I never want to -wish my life
away, but some weekends I
could do without and 'be per- •
fectly happy to have my life
cut short by three days.
It started Friday. Somebody
-called the principal at the
school at 8 a.m. and said there
was- . a bomb planted in the
building. -
Very sensibly, • be kicked all
the students out of the plant,
and kept all the teachers in it.
It was a ,rather brutal, but
efficient, way of pointing out
who ' was dispensable in the
system. '
Hordes of police and fire-
men added to the excitement.
•The teachers were twittering
like swallows, making bad
jokes about ticking brief cases'
and other hilarious objects.
As an old fighter pilot, who
had bombed, and had been
bombed in moreways than
one, 1 thought I should set a
good example, so settled my-
self in a. corner of the staff
room and read poetry. Nota
'soul was impressed, which was
rather depressing.
The kids had a ball. It was
like being locked out of jail.
The smokers gathered in their
outside smoking hay and
reefed away on the weed as
bawled out the day ;before?
Was it a crank? Was it `a tax-
payer driven beyond the
brink? Nobody, knows, but it
will come out some day.
Well, nothing wrong with
that, you say. Just a little extra
excitement, and no harm done.
-But I knew what was coming.
These things all run in three's,
as any old pilot will tell you.
Saturday, I played my first
golf game of the season. I dis-
covered that either I'd gone
blind, or Old Nick was moving
the ball just as I swung. Talk
about a lack of communication.
-I was right. Sunday morning,
at six sharp, I was visited i,by
the lightning flu bug that 'has
been decimating classes lately.
I barely made it to the bath-
room,
where everything' came
up except the traditional kitch-
en sink, and a couple of times
I was sure the sink was com-
ing.
It goes without saying that
that was my Sunday to take up
the -collection. Shivering and_
sweating and tottering, I made -
it through the service. And if I
don't get to heaven, on that
performance alone, somebody
is'going to catch hell.
Sunday, our new kitten
though it were going out ofwho had been perfectly trained
style A number . of young -.:from -the da we brought him
home; going to his litter -box as
though he's been doing it -for
years, suddenly decided to join
the teen-age revolt or some-
thing, and found a corner,
right at the hack of one of the
kitchen cupboards, where you
couldn't quite reach him,
,which was more to •his liking.
ladies, locked out of the school
on a cold, windy day and light-
ly clad, climbed into cars with
their boy friends to "keep
warm." The pool -room crowd
headed straight downtown.
Eventually, the school was
cleared and we got a sort of
half -holiday, while the police
searched the building. Every-
one rather enjoyed the break
in routine except myself. To
someone who is perfectly or-
ganized. such a disruption is
very disrupting.
-It was a fairly hair-raising
day for the teachers in charge
of the school's annual musical
comedy, to be presented that
night. Would there be any
audience, with • the local radio
station announcing, hourly,
that there might he a bomb in
the school? -
Needless to say,- there was
ho bomb, and there was,a huge
audience, and the musical, for-
tunately, was anything but a
bomb. Happy ending.
Who made the phone call?
Was it ,a kid who had heen
Sunday evening, after being
assured by four different ex-
perts that Pip,'the kitten, 'was
a male, a lady dropped in and
dropped a pall by announcing,
with proof, that he was a lady.
A big, ugly. yellow tomcat Ioi,
tering--fn the -vicinity- when r
threw the little monster out-
side in the morning underlined.
the point.
We had a visitor Sunday
night who stayed up talking
-until 3 a.m. I arrived at work
Monday morning- physically
and emotionally ravaged. And
who was there? A sweet young
woman, a former student,
-who's going to be a teacher,
and wanted to "observe" me in
action. Some action.
World you. pay..
$1.75 a month
to never have to wordy
about running out of
hotwater?
That's all it costs you to rent a standard size
Natural Gas Water Heater. Or, for, $1.95 a
month, you can rent an even larger Natural
Gas Water Heater.
And if renting is not your style, buying a
Natural Gas Water Heater is as simple as
making modest payments on your regular
gas, bill. Whichever way you choose, you're
not going to have to worry about running out° Tr
of hot water.
A Natural Gas Water Heater is easy to install
, and keeps your home in continuous, abun-
dant supply of hot water because of its •tre-
s, mendously fast recovery.
For the low price you pay, it's difficult to
think of an energy source that can heat water
faster than natural gas.
If you want the assurance of lots and lots of
hot water for a little, little amount,of money,
run out to your plumbing dealer, department
store or Uniop,Gas right now.
And never run out of hot water.
,Warn was
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scorched earth .policy which the celebration to be cut to half a- have a building; that staffing it is
Ontario Dept. of Highways has million. the major problem, with seven
followed over tale last few yearsI n South Carolina yew , to turn out a general
and which it is continuing.practitioner.
"education"is not arrayed in , ,
They love" their old buildings, 1 hey have made a- discovery
and preserve them. 'the buDrildings.
Davis The 11igh school in the essential methods needed
Georgetown Police Det. buildings. 1 he err�phasis is on to treat the aged, poor and the
p teaching. //
building is not to be razed; but
uch
hungry; that it Is not food,
turned into a Museum: The They have learnt another stamps, or boxes of groceries
County Rice Museum. Why? lesson: That programs based on delivered to the door. Many old
Because in the 1850's matching aid grants from
Georgetown was the largest superior governments will
exporter, of rice in the world.
With us here, the authorities
cannot wait to pull down an old
building and replace it with
some"' monstrosity. Here in
Huron County the old Gaol is
threatened; one of the oldest
buildings. In Horry County, S.C.
the gaol of the same date, 1828,
is to become the . County
Historical Museum, and you can
ha `your ,bottom dollar that it is
not going to be' filled with junk
hich has little or no
rtslalionship to ' the County.
Horry County has ..an Historical
Preservation Commission, which
is ' something Huron' County
could use.
The City of Charleston
balanced its budget for 1968.
The State is very jealous of
,the -grammar used by its citizens.•
In a Public, Library in Columbia
-hang two signs.: "Read it like it
'rs." The `like' is crossed out and
'as' substituted. The second sign:
"Where is it at?" and the-•-`at�' is
crossed 'out. There are numerous
other offenders. "Gotten" ought
to be publicly expunged, to
mention only one.
In' 1970 the State celebrates
its Tricentennial. Are they going
,hog wild, like the Robart's;
,government in Toronto, with
their Science building and '
water -front project? NO! Lots of
people are howling for the $2
ra i l l i o n' ; allotted ' for the
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Witnesses
attend .
Convention
u1tj,rrrrately bankrupt the State.
These people. seem to 'have an
outlook based, not on what can
be accomplished in one or two
years; they look much further
ahead. There is less feeling that
votes have to be bought by one
method or another. A Carolina
treasurer would not last a day if
he admitted publicly that his
finances were "uncontrollable."
Medicaid is only, for the poor
and is not universal as in
Ontario. Even so South Carolina
is worried as to Pow to find the
doctors, nurses, dentists,
hospitals and nursing home beds
for its 275,000 Medicaid
eligibles. This worry is occuring
before any question of increased
funds is mentioned. Their
caution and care is almost
laughable compared to our
On tario=po•-nditioned
devil-may-care ' attitude ' to
"uncontrollable" finances. It is
just another example of the
practical outlook of_ g& these
people, who realize that you
have only just begun when you
Law and Order When and
How? A puzzling question that
literally millions of people are
asking in these perilous times. A
logical and coherent Bible
answer was given by Mr. A.
Po'ley, . distript supervisor for
Jehovah's Witnesses at Wingham
on Sunday, May' 25, at the E. E.
Madill Secondary School. It was
received by 831 delegates. .
N. Donaldson, convention
chairman, • described' this
Christian gathering as "...one of
the biggest -and most successful
ever held in Wingham and
.surrounding area.".
Because of ° the urgent times
in which we live and the loss of
true faith by many, emphasis
was placed on the free six month
home Bible study course that is
conducted in the privacy of a
person's home at a suitable time
for the individual . or family.
Questions such as, `Where are
the Dead?' — 'How to Build a
,Happy . Family Life' are
° discussed and answered fron ''the
Bible.
Approximately 61 delegates
attended from the Goderich
area.
The Easy -Handling
MAPPER
persons are incapable of
preparing their own meals. They
have decided that what is
required„ is "custodial care";
government refuges, organized
tor the care and feeding. of
citi;:ens unable to make a living
and unable to Book their own
food.
On the educational side they
are starting public kin ergartens
as an adjundt ,to t lic
education; something we could
well consider if only we could be
content with buildings which.
were not so gorgeous.
They seem to have learnt a
lesson from the vandalism of
"students" ' and propose a
screening process- before a
student is accepted for
admission to a university. They,
have realized that ALL boys and
ALL girls are not necessarily
educateable in schools of higher
learning; that when they are not
so fitted, they merely serve to
disrupt the legitimate- studies of
those who can benefit from
higher education.
hey seem to have convinced
selves' that` charity will
t
not
clear slums. The only
wof#.hwhjle aid is to give. the
depressed a trade of some sort,
so that they may some
contribution to own
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make
their
livelihood and thus achieve some
tf respect. • ,
Thus, when you think of
South Carolina (and no doubt
other States qualify equally)
,something all -
Newlyweds should know
... about financial success. The first step towards
this muclt-sought-after k;oal is the basic pt'otection
of the family through Life insurance.
Should you buy now? Or can- it be ptit-"off safely
if both husband and bride are vo bin ;? The wise •
thing is to buy nov.•. Postponement till you're older
means higher premiums and the risk of poor -health
striking in the meant,ime,Someday too, that second
income may stop, making it doubly important that
a new mother be guaranteed a., living income—an,
income enabling her to`devote full time to raising
that precious new addition. '
The best buy for the young family is permanent •
insurance. It provides that most important guarantee
of family income. 'In addition, it's- a savings plan
providing cash in an emergency and funds for long-range objectives such
as..a university education for a son.
Call the Man from Manufacturers about financial success through
insurance..You'll find him a competent and friendly adviser. •
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remember it as cultivating some
of the sane ideas and practices
which we in Ontario have seen
our government cast to (be
winds.
{... #bi.a d• •K
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Representative
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