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I am reluctantly coming to u
the conclusion that Canadians
are turning into a nation of.
crybabies. It hurts, . because 1
, _We this country and want to
out of the arena, muttering;
grasping f °r excuses,. dazed.
They hadn't Md' their . blood.
The ' toreador,, had not been
tossed by the bull, and the bull
had not even been neatly dispat-
ched, just sort of , stunned.
Crybabies.
In the next morning's papers,
it was rather fun to watch the
experts 'and the sports 'writers
tearing at,their own entrails like
wounded' hyenas, a species
which sports writers resemble in
some respects. Crybabies.
To be fair, the players and.
coaches were honest. They' d
been well •and thoroughly whip-
ped, and admitted it.
Since then, ,of course, things
have changed • and ' our
businessmen on skates are
showing why they ,are so well
paid. But the fact ,is that if it
had been a one -game shot, the
Russians would be truly world,
champs. And if it had been a
two -game series, total goals to
count, the. Russians would be
winners,, 8-7.
Somehow, the whole thing
was a little saddening. I knew a
number of people who felt that
their personal honour had been
smirched. There ti were
aggravated ulcers, endless
d"P -robaii1y so"rff
attacks ''across this fair land,
Over a game!
I chose this single incident to
illustrate this sinking feeling I
have that many Canadians have
their values all turned 'around.
We whine endlessly about the
Americans taking over Canada,
and do nothing about it. Except
warn stridently that something
must be done about it. And -then
run to Washington, hat in`hand,,
when the Yanks suggest any
'form of tariff that might cost us
dollars. Crybabies.
We virtually ignore ,, our
writers, actors, artists,
musicians, until they have made
it big somewhere else. Then iye,
can't understand why they don't
corn.: home and work in their
own. vineyard, ' at labourers'
wages.
Same with our athletes. We
sneer at their olymp,` efforts.
"Yeah, we finished twent '-third
again."" Smarmy sportscasters
find a-11 kinds of excuses for the
athletes. Admirably, most of the
latter are much more honest.
The best of 'them bluntly say
they did the best they could, put
it wasn't good enough.
Oh, we're great at spending
billions on building: highways,
dams, high-rises; and on
welfare, medicare, secondirate
education. But when it comes to
spending something .,on the
development of the human
being,' in this case a strong
respect -and admire my' fellow/
citizens.
But , the feeling lhaa been
growing for some time and
neared full flower after the first
hockey game, against the
Russians.. ,t
What an edifying spectacle
that was! There were our finest,
• giving up everything — except
salaries, insurance, expenses
and other fringe benefits — to
defend our national honour
against those( dastardly
Russians who'd had the nerve to
think they belonged. on the same'
ice. ,
'And there was a huge and
happy crowd of hockey fans,
..,almost slavering 'over the an-
ticipated slaughter. ,
' And there, were the poor old
Russians, walking into the lion's
.den, some of them sopint-sized
• to our hulking
menaces that they looked as
tHbugh they were fairly.�,large
Peewee players.
Whack! went.the puck into
the net and the roof nearly went
off the Forum. Whack!. again,
lo and across the nation people
winked at each other and settled
back to speculate on whether
the Russians could score a goal
before our heroes got into two
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they gi'e the Russians, a stan-„
ding ovation, or• eve' na hearty. .
round of' applause for toppling,
the giants?
But then something' began to
• happen that turned strong men
across the country •a pale gray.
Those dumb Russians, didn't
know enough to quit and go
home and forget_the whole thing
as a bad dream. They just kept
skating and passing and
shooting and every so often,aone
y of their shots would go into the
Canadian net.
The happy crowd in the
Forum grew^glummer and gluin-
mter. Team Canada, the
greatest, and most expensive
collection of hockey talent ever
gathered under one roof, looked
more -and more like the Hayfork
Centre . Midgets. But just wait
until the third period. After gall,
these guys are pro's. They'll get
organized and come back to win
„the game with a bang.
• ,,,.Upforturiately, the game en-
ded, not, with a bang, but a
whimper. Toward the end, the
visitors were toying with the
Canadians, as a',toreador plays
a bull. And t�ward the end our.
boys began to resemble bulls,
rushing wildly' at anything that
moved, only to° find it wasn't
there.
Not content with looking like
the Ladies' Aid on skates, some
Canadian players showed
anything but professionalism
and began swinging sticks,
throwing elbows, and such.
Crybaby stuff.
What about the fans? Did
Not they, Thu: filed sulle 1
national team of athletes, we
pinch the purse until it hurts..
This is written more in sorrow
than in anger. let's wipe °away
'? the �tert�-,aisld�.d
true north, strong and free.
Coyne on, Canadians. Let's not
be crybabies. ,
Piowiflen name
draw winners
Winners of Huron County
Plowmen's Ass.ociation Beef
draw held in connection with
the recent Huron Plowing
Match were: first prize, half beef
carcass won by Wayne McBride,
Kippen with ticket no. 754.
Second prize, hind quarter .won
by Ross. Eedy, Dungannon, with
-'ticket no. 1834; third prize, front
- quarter won by Alex Glanville,
Blyth no. 1, ticket no. 586.
Huron County Plowmen who
will. be representing Huron
County at the International
Match at, Sebringvblle will be:
Marilyn Robertson,-
Wingham, in the Queen of the
Furrow contest; Marty. Becker,
Dashwood, in the Junior Cham-
pion Inter -Branch ,competition
and the T. Eaton Jr. Champion .
class; Tom Leeming, Walton in
the Inte4mediate Champjon In-
ter -Branch competition.
r„„Barry, Go don, Se�,afo th ni.,,
John Leeming, Walton, will be
co npeting in the Junior Farmer
Inter -County competition and
will represent Seaforth District
High School in the Inter -
Secondary School competition..
Courtland. Kerr, Goderich and
Ed. Davies, - Auburn,- Harold
Carter, Goderich and Jim Ran-
dall, Hensall, will represent
Huron in the Horse Shoe pit-
Ching contest. '
-Huron .is co-operating .with
the International and will hold
a match at Sebringville on the
first day, September 26.
Dear Ann Landers: My'.
husband runs around 3the house
nude in front (lour ten-year old
'son and six -year -o14 daughter:..
' By, "runs around" I mean he
watches TV in the nude eats
dinner that way and goes out of
his way to flaunt his nakedness,
;.I' -y old bi a- I. don'!,4ik0 4L
but he pays no attention. 1 live
in fear that my mother will
walk in unexpectedly and , get
the surprise Of her life. The
Minute he comes from work I
must draw the draperies. We
have a large picture window"ii
-the living room and he 'never
bothers to pull down a shade.
The reason he goes around
naked, he says, is because he
wants our children to grow up
with a healthy' attitude about
the body. He says the . body is
beautiful (his isn't all that great
by the way) and that the normal
condition of man' is nakedness
and, clothes are something the
Puritans thought of..
I am not dirty -minded, Ann,
but I don't like his parading
around nude all the time.
Both of our children have
asked hijn why he doesn't put:
some clothes on. Apparently
they' don't like it _either Please
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WET PLASTER FALLS,
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• The rewarding art-
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equipr'ient against job'
accidents is already yours-
your eyes, your ears,
.your brain. .
Kee
defensively, an
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Self-defence is the
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defensively, and enjoy'life.
alert, work The sure
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express yourself on this topic.
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• Dear` aver: - There's: -nothing
"normal" about sitting down to
'dinner naked . as a radish, at
least not in OUR culture. And
parading nude befnre a six-year-
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ix-year
id
airl is ecu is . avis/ fAr
a father `('`seductive'.' is the
clinical word). Your husband
sounds compulsive about hid
exhibitionism and 1 suggest that
he talk to someone who,
specializes in behavioral
problems
Ladyb.ecause, he's sure got
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Dear Ann f,anders: I wonder
how many people in your
reading audience have been
stuck on the phone indefinitely
because they are afraid of offen-
' ding a caller by ringing off too
soon.
Please Ann, suggest that they
keep a clock handy and put a -
time limit on calls from people
who just LOVE to talk. These
phone-a-holics always have a
mess of problems. No matter
how long you listen, it's never
,.enough.
•1 shave learned from ex-
perience that anything worth
saying
„gets said within' the .first
fifteen minutes. After .that, it's
a waste .oftime.
Some ,,people. are d >i tisfied'.
no matter how long you talk to
them. So I've decided that I'd.
just as soon have them mad at
me after 15 minutes as one hour.
Incidentally, none. of them ever
-- et.: Aa::t ;d, 1Lthey-don' all .
again. —Calluses' On My Ear.
Dear Cal: ° Individuals . who
suffer from Black . Cord Fever'
(phone -prone) are incurable.
Your. advice is excellent I "en-
dorse it. ,
Dear Ann Landers: Our
darling young daughter passed
away less than a year ago. She
was the Iight of our lives. We
are trying hard to recover from
her death but so far we have not
done very well.
The -wonderful, young man
who was our son-in-law is get-
ting married in a few weeks.
The bride is an attractive, lovely
girl and this will ' be her first
marriage., We have been invited
to the wedding and reception
but I don't see how we can go.
We are still grieving for our lit-
tle girl.
I know we are' not equal to
witnessing the ceremony but
several friends have suggested
that we attend the reeeptfon, 1
would rather just send .4 gi t,, .
along With. oar e.Pets,, J11� w,
don't want to Offend anyone,
Sarne guidance from you would
be appreciated,' — H:Ieartbt'oken
Mother -
Dear Mother: Ignore the well -
`”.
=meaning. -suggestions-- of,
friends and do what wakes, you,
comfortable. Anyone who' would
not understand is too den:§e to
be concerned about. ,,• '
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At the Berkshire Nursery it's 34 genuine originals to
No, that's not a
• teacher's score.
34 out of 39 is really the number
of nursery kids ih Miss Dorothy's
Berkshire Village Nursery who come from
warm cosy homes heated by natural gas..
And that's ,not far from
the ayerage for ail the rest of London, too.
Where 77% of all homes
and apartments have clean efficient
natural gas for heat, or hot water
or appliances. ,
And when you ye been
working with a paint brush all morning...
that's Important. ulionGfas.
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