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THURSDAY, JULY 1, 1971
Bayfield Liens
Pick New Slate
Joe Mayman, of Bayfield was
installed as the new President of
the Bayfield Lions Club at the
last regular meeting of the seas-
on held at the Little Inn on
Tuesday night.
Zone Chairman for Region 3
South, Orville Wassman, instal-
led the officers who, with in-
coming President, Joe Mayman,
were:
Immediate Past -President,
Eric Earl; First Vice- President,
Ernie Hovey; Second Vice -Pres-
ident, Gordon Graham; Third
Vice -President, Jack Merner;
Secretary, Pat Graham; Treasur-
er, Gordon Graham; Directors
for one year, Murray Garrett
and Clare Merner; Directors for
two years, Ken Mackie and
Lloyd Westlake; Tail Twisters,
Fred LeBeau and Murray Garrett;
Lion Tamer, George Clark; and
S ong Leader, Clare Merner.
Outgoing president, Eric Earl,
initiated and welcomed new
member, Don Johnston, into
the club.
At the meeting that preceded
the installation and initiation,
plans were discussed re the var-
ious activities of the club memb-
ers for the Bayfield Lions Frolic,
which will be held on Friday,
July 23, commencing with a
parade starting from the post
office at 7:30 p.m.
Regular dinner meetings of
the Bayfield Lions Club will re-
sume in the fall. However. it is
hoped that all Bayfield Lions
will attend a meeting to be held
at the Fire Hall on Tuesday,
July 13, to finalize plans for the
Frolic
ZURICH CITIZENS NEWS
rom my window
By golly it is the first of July,
and 1971 is officially half gone,
Isn't that a unique way to start
a column which has to do with
smoking?
I was leafing through the morn-
ing paper today and discovered
the picture of a 17 month old
child from Normanby, England.
The baby...I'm sure most moth-
ers will agree that he is still
very much a baby at 17 months.. ,
was photographed as he puffed
away on his pipe'full of tobacco.
The accompanying lines told
me the little guy had been enjoy-
ing the smoking habit since he
was just 12 months old. What do
you think of that?
His father is the secretary of
a pipe smokers' club. He feels
it is better for the little fellow
to be smoking that to be eating
candy. I'm surely enough of a
fool to say the youngster would
benefit more from meat, milk,
vegetables and fruit and an aft-
ernoon nap in the, fresh air than
either pipe smoking or candy.
I really cannot imagine any
mother or father teaching a
youngster such a bad habit as
smoking. True, pipe smoking
is not considered to be as dang-
erous to the health as cigarette
smoking, , but why on earth would
any parent get pleasure from
seeing a toddler pulling on a
pipe stoked with burfling tobacco
any more than he would method
ically teach him profanity in-
stead of ma -ma and da -da? It
just isn't natural.
Our 15 -year old son said he
would dearly love our permission
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to smoke. He is no different
than most boys his age I suppose.
We know he takes the occasional
cigarette and I'm convinced
, that when he is particularly flush
on payday, he may even purch-
ase a pack of the obnoxious weed;
Whenever I converse with him
concerning the smoking habit,
I tell him what I discovered abou•
it while I was hooked on tobacco -
it is dirty, expensive, offensive
to others and unhealthy. I remind
him it is much easier never to
start than to stop once you've
begun... and he listens and nods
knowingly.
Then he tells me that at school
there are plenty of films and
piles of pamphlets available to
tellyou all about the ugly smok-
ing habit. He says that his teach-
ers and the school medical auth-
orities save no effort to discour-
age him concerning smoking...
but he persists.
Why? No beicause he enjoys
smoking. Not because he needs
something to do with his hands.
Not because he is prone to over-
weight. Not because he is nerv-
ous and tense. Not even because
all his friends do.
Would you actually believe
•that our son smokes because it
makes him look older? That's
rright. Our mature and well ad-
justed .boy who is tall and mus-
cular smokes to give the impres-
sion that he is older than 15 years.
How's that for common sense in
the face of all the knowledge
about the harmful effects of
smoking which are available to
the kids these days?
I decided that since the kid
was smoking anyway, he might
just about as well smoke at home,
Some folks are not in agreement
with that thenry but somehow,
I thought that was the best way
to deal with a situation like that.
So I re -opened the smoking
subject one day with out son.
I told him that if he insisted on
ruining his health and fouling
up the air; he night as well
smoke at home in our presence
than sneak around in restaurants
and side streets with his fags.
Be looked at me with a wide -
eyed stare which bordered on
terror., In that instant I realized
that our son did not really WANT
to smoke and that by inviting hin
to enjoy his vice in our home I
was actually encouraging him
daring him if you like - to cont-
inue the habit against his better
judgement. I was being no help
to him at a time when he really
needed assistance. On the cont -
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rary, I was giving up and making
it more difficult for him to
break off.
And that's what I think about
the father mentioned in the news
paper who is teaching his little
lad to smoke. It may seem like
the cute and harmless thing to
do today but someday, that boy
may be sick or physically or
mentally weakened by the habit
and he may learn to hate his
father for letting him down when
he needed him most. And that's
when old pop may wish he'd
given his son a teething biscuit
instead of a pipe.
, PAGE FIFTEEN
Lifeguard at Bend
Bill Dinnin, a 25 -year old
London public school, teacher
with four years experience in
life guarding at the summer re-
sort beach will be the chief
lifeguard and will receive $2
per.hour.
His assistant will be Sandy
McPherson, 23 years of age at
$1. 90 per hour, Completing the
staff will be Mary Lattimer of
the physical education staff at
the University of Western Ontario
and Janet Lochead of Forest who
will each be paid $1.75 per hour.
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