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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance-Times, 1985-11-06, Page 26Page 6A—Crossroads—Nov. 6, 1985 c Are you frozen with terror, these days? You're' not? Then wake up, you vegetable. You're supposed to be. Frightening, isn't it? about Communists and cancer; birth control and bingo; high school drop -outs and homosexualism. Haven't yoy: the re -Simultaneously, I'm sup- noticedlentless campaign to scare gra tion and insulation. If I'm poste to be stricken by l'm the living daylights out of us ordinary souls? There seems there'll favor of ribthe fole b blood - to be a conspiracy, in the bath. If I'm agin the latter, communications media, to my heating bill will soar. put you and me and ous Sometime during the day, wives and kids into a per- I'm supposed to be whimper- petual state of fear. ing in a corner because of: Advertising is the most high-priced funerals; the prevalent, though not the computer, which is going to most powerful, weapon of put me out of a job; the un - the scaremongers. It is sug- fulfilled housewife and all gested that if we ffave greasy that leisure time I'm going to hair or a greasy sink, we're have next year,when auto - sunk; that if we don't use a . mation takes over. You'll no - certain soap, we stink; that tice I haven't even mention - if we don't drink a man's ed nuclear fission, which is beer, we're a bunch of you- old hat, nor the squirrels in know-whats. - my attic who," at this mo - Well, all this .is enough to merit, according to an ar- set up a certain nervous ten- ticle, are chewing my wiring sion in the ordinary amiable to start a fire in which we'll chap. What man wants to ad- be cremated, and do we have mit, he's a failure because he enough insurance? can't rush out to his friendly If people weren't basically neighborhood dealer and snap up an all-new Super so tough, sensible and mean, snapAurora Borealis ShootingSupthey'd all go to bed and pull Star Sedan,Bowith the covers over their heads. Sear? Or danwithff? safety Fortunately, we're as sensi- tive as an old rubber boot. But this is for the morons. But, in case the scare-distri- You know, all the people who butors are bothering you, let don't read this column. If me give you a formula that is they want to wind up with guaranteed "to steady the acid stomach, upset nerves, nerves. One thing at a time. migraine headaches, and it-. Communists — most of us regularity, as constipation is are twice as scared 'of our now known, serves them wives as we are of the Red right. Anybody who is fright- enedened by that kind of adver-• menace. deserves i Juvenile Delinquents — hit But it is not. on the humble them on the head. Hard. corn mercia1-watcher tha tCancer — you want to live forever? the big guns of the horror- Creeping Socialism -'- bet - brigade are trained. It is on ter.than the galloping type. the serious reader -viewer.. The Computer — so who Tey have. moved, lock, wanted a job in the first stock and frightfuls, into the . place? newspaper, magazine, book Leisure Time — be happy and "serious" TV field. to have a chance to sit on Every time I pick up, leaf . your butt. through, or switch on one of Unfulfilled Housewives — these media, somebody is fill them. trying to frighten the wits out Population Explosion — of me about something..It's a see Birth _Control; also bit hard for a fellow to cope Nuclear Fission. with. High -Priced Funerals Rlack headlines or graphic you don't have to pay. pictures suggest that I'm And s'o on. supposed to be shaken rigid HEY 10081 LEARN TO DRAW WITH DANNY COUGHLAN /14-0411-7. I/„A\ un•ii' %2 IE* F 1. Here's Danny's complete drawing. 2. Finish what Danny started. 3. Now try it yourself! Theo �. p ppy.®.the flower of remembrance On November 11 th, Canadians across the country will stop and remember the men who were killed in wars. There will be parades to memorials in cities, towns and villages. Then everybody will stand in silence as they remember the more than 1 12, 000 brave Canadians who were killed. - That is why November the 1 1 th is called Remembrance Day. On that day everybody wears a poppy, a reminder of the blood -red flower which grew in fields where many of these men died. Much of tAe fighting was done in a place called Fl theanders. This was during the war of 1914-1918. Every spring, the soldiers fighting in the trenches noticed the red flowers blooming on the battlegrounds. And as more and more of their friends were killed, the soldiers noticed that the thepoppies e graves. When the war was over and when the soldiers bloomed home,er they still thought of l who were buried in Flanders. Each time they thought of the graves, they thought of tooppies rids which grew around the graves. Then the men who came back from the war decided thatK th would wear a poppy each year to show that they still remembered their friends. ey November the 11 th was the day on which the fightingsto been in the ware picked that day each year to wear a ped in 1918. The men who had the war, but who loved the soldiers who had been killed, also wanted toppy. Other people showothatt thehadt been in remembered the dead. So they also wore a poppy. y This message is sponsored these community by mindled businesses: In Flanders Fields In Flanders fields the poppies blow Between the crosses, row on row, That mark our place; and in the sky The larks, still bravely singing, Scarce heard amid the guns below. We are the Dead, Short days ago We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow. Loved and were loved, and now we lie In Flanders fields. Take up our quarrel with the foe: To you from failing hands w throw The torch; be yours to hold it high. 1f ye break faith with us who die We shall not sleep, tho poppies grow In Flanders fields. Lieut. -Col. John McCrae ZILLIAX FURNITURE & APPLIANCES Listowel - Port Elgin Goderich Lambert's Garage Repairs • Car & truck sales Collision and towing 638-2950 Box 163 Drayton CLARKWOOD ESTATES NURSING HOME From the Residents & Staff Palmerston 3431-2611 Ontario Compliments of tinth�o Jauirzr "The Best in Country Food.'" 4. King Street W. Linwood 698-2200 Kleinknecht Insurance Brokers Ltd. Fire, Life & Auto Linwood 698-2215 Compliments of Rothsay Division of Maple Leaf Mills Ltd. RR 1 , 'Moorefield Linwood "Peace to All" 698-2320 Teviotda Ie Truck Stop Good home cooked meals 24 hours a day Restaurant & Gas Bar Open 24 Hrs. A Day Teviotdale 343-2378 Maitland Woodworking & Refinishing CUS'r4M FURN ITUR . 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