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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Goderich Signal-Star, 1976-09-16, Page 134.4 a Despite his. name, Henri Tartiniere ,hates the Franch He also itates W.ap;s •:Spic"s`;'''Iais', blacks and' " just abou anybody who isn't a WASP.. Most of'al though he hates the French, mostly because they seein to be closer at hand, Not that there are any in°his neigh borhood, heaven -forbid, but they.; seem right next door just the same, They show up in the papers., on television and on the radio all the time. Henri could tolerate •the- intrusion of. a French., announcer when- he watched •the NI -mistreat Canadians ..home gime but when the me -thing -happened -la t -w citadel of. the ,Pl+nglophone, .Maple Leaf Gardns,Henri nearly suffered cardiac arrest. When Torontq hopkey `fans booed that announcer during the Canadian -Swedish Canada Cup hockey game Henri was ••right there adding hi§ own chorus of boos, ca'tcalI and bronx cheersin front ctf the TV. Insult was `added to unjury :the fblliavuii, n 1n.Fren.n. read in . t the paper Tea Canada, centre 1• Peter M'ahovlich had said that the y .Toronto fans were "second class'. when . asked about the incident, Henri would have wrl•tten Mahovbch' off altogether fon that comment had' he not redeemed himself, at least iii part,.by criticizing the same Fans for giving Swedish,player Borje Salrning, a;standing ovation, Henri hates Swedes too: Iri tfivv:-afterzna h1 of these terrible - shocks Henri •was just about.convineed ihWVthe whole world was goingtit4 heIl'in a handbasket ,when his. buddy Leonard down- at the plant handed hien an ap_ • plication ,to join the "Alerted Canion . Alliance";(A-C-A); • N.ow,we all know how,Henri feels about r' • `politics and political, organizations. He couldn't beli•ev.e' it of hisold' friend Leonarthwheh he suggested joining the group.. The -information portion of the CoDERjCtI cwsrA r.: 9 A• far.>xt vitasload€d4ith.foiiti+cad ieh ."Another step is nation building";.'=`''co-. operating citizens", "action by public - •.spirited persons'',• ''preservation . of de mocratic'precepts." Then he saw it, a catc"hline Which • made even.. Henri's dull' eyes light ,tip With - understanding and . enthusiasm: ' "Stop -bilingualism Movement" Under that catch line the form. noted ,- ".Terming itself a ;non -Partisan--- !rsrrrrei 44 4 r. ds. f ipulat fir • self proclaimed elite;" Henri didn't undarStaril• that toe clearly but when Leonard explained it as being in reference to the French he could hardly contain his enthusiasm, • Not only did florid .sign up na sl. member of Al -C -A but -he went se far as.to:: write out a $10 cheque { That night; -as he 'finished his last beer —before bed, the get to wonder og left what the -A -C , .,Was .gging•:_tu that French .annouticer down at Maple Leaf Gardens.: .For that =atteir. • he..:• wondered; just Ytow did' hey plan to stop`; this ,"bilingualism'' garbage. The ` form • had said something about the nmajority_ must govern" but Henri didn't un- derstand just how that was supposed to.. ;1976.4% -o; ' . organization . tU :preserve democratic ' • precepts, the newly, fbrmed, Alerted ".' Canadian' Alliance invites every citizen -- eress--t-he country to indicate "yes" or . "rio" . • to. questions concerning bilingualism and Quebec separatism." inanother place the form • said, "Government by:. any minority .or in terest must not be permitted, and "In recent years a, minority, group of . . fanatical. ,racist has systematically .. sought key positions for. the purpose of eventually 'gaining control of vital in- stitutions so the economy can be • work. With a sigh he drainedhis beer, turned out the rights and started upstairs, All these organizations were so confusing. . But then at least they had the right idea, INFORMATION, BACKGROUND AND OPINION • The 'Ministry of Cultureand Recreation has approved grants from. the proceeds of the Wintario Lottery totalling $31,229 for nine projects in • Huron County. Amounts of the individual, grants range from $10,000 to$504. A The Van Egmond • •Foundation in Seaforth-is eligible for a grant of $10,000 to complete the restoration of .the historic Van Egmond°House. ° A .community bowling green and clubhouse will bethe result of a $10,000 grant to the Blyth Lions' Club. A grant of $5,606 has been approved for the Township of Stephen and will pay for The Ontario Food Council will begin - consideration of loss leader sales sometime this month. The meetings are a result of a letter. from Do a.ld,• ---- s'n--r'IawDoti'afil"M 151OFYork S toil tto'D.A. • Williams, the council's chairman, asking if anythifig could bedone about supermarkets_ 'using.:•.bread . as a loss leader. The use of loss leaders is a common practice in most food chains and in- volves an item (often bread) which Would be advertised and sold at less than •cost to induce shoppers into'a=particular renovations to its athletic field. The Goderich-Lawn Bowling Club will receive equipment valued at $1,670 from the Wintario office, and 'the Wingharn Minor Lacrosse Association will receive equipment worth. $1;11.6. ' The Board of the Huron Historic Jail in Goderich has' been granted. $1,000 to catalogue items and artifacts in the jail. • The. Precious Blood Parent= -Teacher Association in ins Exeter is eligible for a•• grant of $691 to construct' a creative playground. • The Ashfield . Recreation Committee • will receive softball ' equipme. .,,.worth $642, and the Seaforth Minor Soccer Association will receive equipment valued at.$254, plus a one time -activity grantof $250 for in province travel. • Culture and' Recreation. :Minister Robert Welch termed the announced list. ,of grants • "part of the ongoing Share Wintario programfor the support of cultural and recreational activities". To date Mr. Welch's ministry has allocated $55.9 million -_to_more than 3,565 groups and projects across the province. Wintario will be continuing its support of such projects despite the introduction PR - VINCIAL store. In the view of Mr. MacDonald the practice should be curbed. 1VfacDonald a so call_eel for ;res on a statement'.'b J Y Wygant; president of General Bakeries, that the amount of stale :bread dumped from store returns has doubled and is greater than that eaten in some countries. In preparation for their meetings on the subject the, Food Council has asked for submissions fromproducer groups, processors, the, food :trade and from consumers. In response to that announcement, Mr. MacDonald said it was "all very well, but what did it mean." He noted that since the council had : expressed op- 99S_it n°th-10 s.I:e.ader&On-ma rykprse=viorfs occasions; "presumably it has already investigated them before pronouncing itself. What new is there to:be learned?" Even if the 'council does reaffirm. its earlier conclusion that loss leaders were undesirable as sales protnotions, it is, questionable whether or .not it has any power or would even seek the necessary power to do anything about it, according to Mr. MacDonald. Canada plans to declare war! Before you rush out_an.d grab your tin hats, rifles and gas masks though, it's only fair to warn you that this war will be • fought with the --weapons' of detection, prevention and medical treatment: The enemy is, and has been for too long, sexually transmitted diseases. _. Dr. Maureen Law, a top federal health advisor has 'said. that the first fronts of this battle could open next year, especially in the area of Young people.• - , Dr. Law said the new •program is' dependent on agreement among federal and provincial healtlroffi^cials. The basis: for. their agreement is to' be recom- An era is ending, or has already ended, for ''thee people of the world's most populous nation. Last Wednesday Mao Tse-tung, Chairman of the Communist Party of the People's Republic of China, died at the age of 82. That not only ended ari'era for the Chinese but possibly for. the whole world. There is a complete generation who can rememberno other `Chinese leader. His passing leaves China with a most uncertain political future. at best, and could •°plunge' • that nation"into another civil war at worst. The Central Committee of the Com- munist Party has appealed to th Chinese people Y forunit acid has pledged mendations contained in a report written by a cornmittee of.experts established in the fall of 1974 "in response to concern_ over the rising increase in.. venereal`` disease, especially in the 15 to 24 year old age group." • That. year the.. federal- health depart- ment's annual report • CM Venereal disease reported that gonorrhea in- fctions had climbed close to an all-tiriie •high and that a significant increase in syphilis had occurred. • Last December a federal study was released -and: it described the:•incidence of an all new lottery in Ontario called. "The Provincial". • • The new „lottery :will. offer ticket holders five chances at $1,000,000 and five chances at $250,000 with thousands of oth or riz es p , all for $5.00. . The fir';t draw bf The Provincial will be televised from Casa.Lorna in Toronto on Halloween night, -October 31. Revenues. from The Provincial willbe used to support medical research and. health related environmental -•programs in. Ontario. The new lottery has been introduced in an effort 'to broaden the type of projects supported by the lottery' schemes and because the provincial government felt there was a market for the:sale of more lottery- tic ets, particularly tho%e of- feringlag prizes..• :There se erns ground for argument with the reasoning. The-, in- eredible success of first the Olympic. Lottery (now. Lotto Canada-)- and -then Wintario•is as clear an indication of the acceptance given lottery•scheines by the public as any. The prize money offered has zed to the response but more im- portant the programs • represent a INTS MacDonald seemed unimpressed by the Council's' announcement of meetings and further s,tud. on the in• tter . rtiT'et;ttciihes-Cali"beta' '" i ". , `.° or oneoftwo. purposes; he said. • One, he claimed is to decide what can be • done to eliminate this undesirable trade practice and the other is an excuse to keep putting the matter aside. . We .can only wait and see what May come out`of the Food Council's round of meetings on the subject. Perhaps they will endorse their 'opposition to the IN SEVEN. ofreported cases of •gonorrhea as "reaching epidemic 'proportion" with 215.8 cases per 100,000 population. This represents a five 'percent increase over 1973. That 'report was submitted to a con- ference of deputy health ministers -last spring but not all the members (of the conference) were there and there was some . disagreement on •the recom- mendations in the report so, it was referred to the provincial experts for ' assessment.• These ministers, who meetas the federal-provincialadvisory committee on community health, are due •toi deal.. •.with: the recommendations again at .a meeting set for November. Dr. Law has said that the recom- mendations are still under dispute and study so,the content of the report is not being made public at this time. However, . everyone involved with it does• admit that venereal disease is ihereasing and greater -efforts to fight it will be;'iiecessary. Dr. Law�---- indicated that the ministers would not aim fof a uniform program because of differing circumstances in each province but that agreement should. be forthcoming on'a common minimum standard for the country as a whole. The first job win be for the advisory to • carry on the cause left behind byy. Chairman Mao." In that pledge may lie the very seeds of an unhappy immediate future. One. of Chairman .,Mao's • central revolutionary and political precepts was that of an `ongoing revolution,' Mao.sa�v�. • political and national progress as the benefits of instability rather than stability. It was 'has opinion that unless the revolution continued inside the very party itself officials ;w'ould •become Complacent and graspingafter personal power. His best known quote, front the famous " Little' Red Book,' was t'Political power 'grows out of thebarrel of a gun." 44'4 4.44,t1V44 Mao's death was also the third this ,year •amongthe founders of Communist China: Chou En -tai died in January and Chu Teh, founder of the Red Army, died in July. This leaves Yell Chien-ying as practically the only surviving leader•.of hose who led thewar in•1949. • The disappearance of the old guard maybe a good thing for China in the 1png run but its hiss, in such a short period;of time, is bound to leave a certain vacuum in,the upper.lendership. " Whatever. the. results of hispassing, his life stands •as a. ,monument to soldiering, ideMegy and'politics. Mao Tse-tung Was'a soldier, classical poet, historian and Mara'tist .hilus r d�,l.:1.•mreY VY RI • who placed his faith in China's peasants. A peasant's son himself, Mao put them in the vanguard of the Chinese Com- munist revolution. Raised and operating from ,rural •-over their heads. bases, . his armies crushed the ' Chairman Mao's private life was Nationalist forces of Gen. Chiang Kai- every bit as turbulent as his public one. shek in a bloody civil war, clearing the He married four times and is the father way for the proclamation of the Chineseof at least seven children: People's Republic in 1949.His ma In°'. _ rrtkg�es reflect the.tthanges in the years that followed he continued China during his. lifetime. Thenfirst was to build On' his 1peasant base, pouring 500 when Mao was only million of thetn into rural communes.. 14 and it' was tom' relatively painless way of raising extra funds for. deserving, , projects which wouldotherwise' to unsupported. An - increase in taxes to raise equal amounts would be u ' nli kel t 0 mot with the e same enthusiastic response, As this weeks announcement •of grants for : projects • in Huron County , • indicates, the money is now available for • , These recreational and cultural'. schemes: you would like to establish and expand; It is to be hoped that applications from this area will continue to find their way to the Wintario offices and that many will continue to be granted. • , • practice and go so far as to institute curbs. Loss leaders can be deceptive in, as, much as az1 oss mybincurr the ivprbd"uc£'�ea�nthis.case; tthe whole object is to make it up elsewhere and there is littledoubt this is done or the practice would not be continued.., ... As a result. 'of 'all this the . average shopper may not be getting the most for his money on other products when' even the meat he or she buys is marked up to cover the cost of the loss leader. The supermarkets may well be un- fairly singled. out in this dispute, Other. retail stores use the same system, drug committee to determine how federal and provincial efforts can •be .co-ordinated. The federal government will play the. role of consultant, advisor and educator while the provinces must implement programs through their health`services, community clinics_ in the case of - venereal disease. • The• committees .._report- contains 'a review of 'statistics on sexually. tran-• smitted disease, comments on the sociab° behavior it' is marked by and recom- mendations for defeating it. Some of these are based on the views of students • y., chains for instance. - While the Food Couneil is considering 1e. {,Sue_.aPeF?Ps • &�rgtu'rNeiI government departments would do well to look at the question and jointly develop an overall policy ;through Consumer Affairs --•. . • They "might even choose to look at the thratre industry. It has beensuggested that the . very pictures themselves are often • a loss leader to the candy counter and anyone who has been .to. the movies lately may tend to agree with that assessment. the age group most affected. - While the federal government has distributed hundreds ' of thousands .of , .. . pamphlets about '. `venereal disease, • governments must go beyond public , education and take "innovative steps" Dr. Law says. - • One of the' recommendations of . the 'group is to changer the term VD (which they feel is outdated) and use `sexually. transmitted disease' in its -place. • The immediate problem will be to get through-'fh-e bureaucratic -wrangling ,as quickly as possible se a:concerted.attack can be : launched` on the problem im- • mediatel' •„,.. . Y• to ave a Bated famine, disease and unemployment. While 'still poor its 800 million people- now ,have enough to eat,. .are adequately clothed and have roofs four year old girl as per an arrangement Twenty years later he put thosesarne..',thr ugh "their.arri arents. The Marriage g p age peasants in the forefront of an ambitious wa never consummated and was soon- pro141 gram to industrialize. China. rep dieted by Mao. kis last Wife was the 4y the time of his death ,China seems for er nioyie actress Ii Chung -chin• (renamed Chiang Chingt who became a fiery revolutionary leader in "Her own ° right. Through the greater.. part of. Mao's lifetime. China was .a closedcountry, only opening its doors slightly to the west in the past few years. How much of this was the doing of Mao,.and'hbw much due to other Communis leaders Within the countryis impossible le to say. Western leaders say •they are hopeful the' or will not be reversed due to Mao's death. Whatever .one's personal pollittal leanings, there can be no deny ng tttat the world has lost one df 'its great. national leaders. .