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A Real Thanksgiving!
Thanksgiving weekend generally finds Canadians
driving madly off in all directions. Thanksgiving Day
itself is usually hubbub on the highway. The glory of
green trees turning to scarlet, russet or gold draws us
to the woods, the lake, the river but this Thanksgiving
let's pay our beautiful planet a tribute by NOT crowd-
ing highways and polluting the air unnecessarily. Un-
less you have to close up the cottage, leave the car at
home.
Enjoy the changing colours of nature as close to
home as possible - walk through the parks, along the
river, or out into the country; ride a bicycle if you
have one; or if transportation is necessary, share a bus
ride with others to the nearest conservation area or
nature trail. Plan a simple picnic lunch of sandwiches
and a hot drink from the thermos instead of polluting
the air with barbecue smoke.
A stroll through the park or along a nearby river-
bank can be your gesture of appreciation for nature's
bounties and can be just as rewarding as a campsite
miles from home. Engage the family in a little listen- -
ing to nature - to the birds, the little wild animals of
the woods, busy insects, rustling leaves.
Let us try this one day to hear and understand a
little of what nature has to tell us when we have time
and patience to listen - that on this beautiful planet
each creature has a place and a purpose, no more or
no less important than man's. (Unchurched Editorial)
Gratitude is Not Outmoded!
When headlines scream about pollution and violence
hijackers and overpopulation, there's a tendency either
to panic or play ostrich. Not much can be done for
those who are wilfully blind, but for the more rational
among us, Thanksgiving Day is a good time to rememb-
er that our corporate woes aren't the whole story or
even the most important part of it.
The seasons still march past us in all their beauty
and variety; in. spite of Women's Lib and other rumbl-
ings, the family circle still holds its steadying power.
Thomas Hardy ("In the Time of the Breaking of Nat-
ions") reminded us of elementais when he wrote,
"Yonder a main and her weight
Come whispering by,
War's annals will cloud into night
Ere their story die,"
In spite of technology, the human mind and heart
are still the most significant elements of the whole
social complex. Nobody has pointed this out more
clearly than A. Whitney Griswald, President of Yale
from 1950 - 1963. "The spark from heaven falls. Who
picks it up? . The crowd? Never. The individual? Always.
It is he, and he alone, as artist, inventor, explorer,
scholar, scientist, spiritual leader or statesman who
transmits its essence... There is no such thing as gen-
eral intelligence. There is only individual intelligence
communicating itself to other individual intelligences.
And there is no such thing as public morality. There
is only a composite of private morality." In other
words - we count ! Surely this is a cause for gratitude.
(Unchurched Editorial)
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KEEP THE
BRAS ON, GIRLS
by Bill Smiley
With Thanksgiving in the air,
perhaps it's as good a time as
any to give thanks that all our
women have not joined the
lunatic fringe of the Women's
Liberation. Movement.
I'm not knocking the Move-
ment. The majority of those
who belong to it and work for it
are mature, intelligent women
who believe there is discrimina-
tion against women in some
areas and want to abolish it.
I agree with them about the
discrimination in some areas,
But I want no more to do with
the screaming, bra -waving,
instant -abortion parodies of
women who haunt their ranks
than I do with the hard core of
Maoists who turn every peaceful
protest meeting into a riot.
'Twas not always thus. A
look at history shows us some
remarkable women who had
tremendous influence without
ever waving a placard or scream-
ing epithets at policemen. Back
to Greek mythology. Hera, wife
of Zeus, was a wicked old
dowager who repaid him in
spades every time he strayed
from the straight and narrow.
Venus and Aphrodite did all
right for themselves. Among
mortals, Helen of Troy launched
a thousand ships. And she didn't
do it by flaunting her girdle on
the end of a pole. She did it with
her face.
Moving up a bit, we come to
another majestic figure — Cleo-
patra. She managed to diddle her
brother out of a kingdom
(yay! ), get herself an illegiti-
mate son (yay! ) by the great
dictator Julius Caesar (boo! )
and bring the magnificent Mark
Antony, conqueror of hundreds
of women (boo! ) to his knees, a
quivering wreck. She did wind
up clutching her asp to her
breast, which made for a rather
sticky end, but she had a lot of
fun. I wonder if she wore a
brassiere?
Isabella of Spain overrode the
quibbling of her husband and
gave that lunatic who thought
the world was round, Columbus,
some rotten biscuits and meat,
some rotten jail -birds and three
leaky ships to find the New
World. Oh yes, they've always
been tight with a buck.
Moving quickly, look at the
two English queens who had
entire eras named after them:
Elizabeth I and Victoria. Liz had
most of the male royalty of
Europe desperate to marry her,
and dallied with the lives and
loves of such robust chaps as Sir
Francis Drake and Sir Walter
Raleigh. The handsome, virile
Earl of Essex was in love with
her when he was about 20, she
in her fifties. What woman could
want more? And with womanly
logic, she chopped off his head
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Our camera records a child's
First Smile . . . makes an
official report on the bride's
radiance . . .
Commemorates a trio posed
for Dad's birthday surprise.
Moments like these can never be
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when he got too big for his
britches.
Victoria was 'a stick, but
nations trembled when she
spoke, and she had so much
influence on, manners and morals
that we are just now shedding
the double morality of her age.
She'd never be accepted by the
Women's Lib.
With another leap, let's move
up to another Liz: Taylor, the
royalty of this century. She is
married, for the fifth time, to a
brilliant, sexy man. She has
made millions. She has been
envied and admired by millions
(of women).
Certainly, this is a superficial
view of women. But it does
prove that if you've got what it
takes, you can get where it's at.
To confirm my suspicions, I
made a rough and hasty survey
of female opinion. My senior girl
students are all for Women's
Liberation, but deplore the tac-
tics of the far-out wing. They do
point out the soft spots, particu-
larly in industry and business,
where women meet a stone wall
at a certain stage.
True, and something should
be done about it. But in the
professions: medicine, the law,
teaching — women get the same
fees as men. Why aren't there
more women engineers and dent-
ists? One would think their
practical common sense in the
one case, and their gentle touch
in the other, would be invalu-
able. Maybe they have a thing
about peering into canyons.
My wife thinks things are
O.K. as they are. Like most
women,, she controls most of the
money, can ruin her kids by
spoiling them, and has a wailing
wall (me) when things aren't
going right.
Well, the Women's Lib likes
to set up straw men and knock
them down. I've set one up for
them.
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 8, 1970
The day on which Mae West
tears off her brassiere and starts
waving it (the brassiere, that is)
I'll apply for an associate mem-
bership in the W.L,M.
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Bowling Scores
SENIOR BOWLING
Hawkeyes - E. Gascho (599)-7
Hi -Hopes - C. Geiger (620)-0
Varieties - J. Parkins (586) -7
Whippoorwills -H. Stade (501)-0
Newcomers - D. Schilbe (656)- 0
Ramblers -J. Turkheim (607) -7
High Single - C Geiger (287)
High Triple - D. Schilbe (656)
LADIES BOWLING LEAGUE
September 21
Night Hawks - M. Robinson 668
Dominionaires - M. Gelinas 575
Left -Overs - D. Rood 690
Happy Gals - P. Miller 652
Packers - M. Clarke 590
Starlites - P. Schroeder 602
Ups & Downs - L. Riddell 585
Mix-ups - A. Faber 553
Pin -Poppers - M. Roosenboom50
Scamps - D. Lesperance 516
Alley Oops - M. Laporte 514
;ally -Six - M. Campbell 589
SEPTEMBER 28
Night Hawks - M. Robinson 587
Domiaionaires - T. Thiel 625
Left -Overs - L. Vanderburg 701
Happy Gals - E. Miller 555
Packers - L. Rader 646
Starlites - D. Finkbeiner 589
Ups & Downs - V. Miller 590
Mix -Ups - A. Faber 670
Pin -Poppers - M. Rooseboom 484
Scamps I. O'Rourke 673
Alley-Oops - M. Laporte 551
Jolly -Six - D. Bettke 628
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CORN DAY
Also of interest is the Corn
Day, Thursday, October 8,
at 2 p. m. , at the George Proct-
er Farm, 1 3/4 miles east of
Belgrave. Of special interest are
the two acid preservation syst-
ems for wet corn and their ap-
plicators.
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