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The Huron Expositor, 1984-02-08, Page 2JOCELYN A. SHRIER, Publleher un , RON WASSINK, Editor ys3 KATIE 0, LEARY, Advertising Representative BLUE RIBBON AN 1 Since 1860, 8erylnp'rhe Community, lir* Incorporating ' Btl'11154eIti Pta`ts. founded 1872 12 Main St. 527-0240 Published at SEAFORTH, ONTARIO every V�lednesday morning W Member Canadian Community Newspaper Assoc Ontario Community NewspaperAssoplation and Audit Bureau of Circulation A member of the Ontario Press Council Subaorlption rates: Canada $18.75 a year (in advance) Outside Canada $65.00 a year (In advance) Single Copies - 60 cents each SEAFORTH, ONTARIO, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 8-, 1984 Second Class mail registration Number 0686 Fallout ter? she1 e At a time when the world's superpowers are building up.thelr stocks ofnuclear weapons and Prime Minister Trudeau Is pursuing a peace initiative, many Canadians can think only of building bomb and fallout shelters. Recently a committee in Toronto spent considerable time researching possible locations which could be used as fallout shelters In case of nuclear war. The subway system was ruled out, but the committee located many deep basements and various other underground sites which they felt would be a safe haven, for the day after. But are the survivalists using common sense? To house thousands of people (let's hope we never have to) underground, In confined quarters seems unrealistic. After all, we're told, w.e'li only have seven minutes warning in case of nuclear att ck,, • The mind conjures up many uestigiis';Nhen talking of fallout shelters. Hew are the people fed? Wttat, beiglell4tsl or for that matter, running water? What, about the, st�iplpedi ig; crusta,. of human bodies entering a shelter? k, In our modern society, we "rely. heavily on the use of electricity. Electricity pumps U e•gasoline to run the standby generators. Electricity pumps the water We drink and provides lighting and heat. ,H tN can we operate the generators and have running..water if In the event of .nuclear attack, main electrical stations are knocked out? As Canadians; we shouldn't be concentrating our efforts on fallout shelter's, but should be promoting peace and nuclear arms reductions among the supe%powers. It may be too late, but we have to try. It may be our only answer. - R.W. Mtiinly because of meat No store is a good place to sell pornography but one of the Worst places would be a grocery store where the majority of customers are women and children. Dominion Stores Ltd. recently discovered that fact when pressure from customers stopped the company from renting Playboy video cameextes in 17 Ontarle,stores, Tlie tapes, which were rented out for $2,49 a day since Octdber in some stores,lyere not displayed In the store and were available only to those who could prove they were 18 or older and had a major credit card. The company's vice president said that since the cassettes showed nothing more provocative than mud wrestling, they were harmless. But members of the Canadian Coalition Against Media Pornography disagreed saying the tapes were offensive to many women. They planned a boycott of Dominion stores. Selling the tapes In grocery -stores was especially upsetting since there are many other places to buy them, the group said. T,he:-tapes are readily available in many other stores without having th in grocery stores. Large grocery stores have already become a combination of bakeries, butcher shops, hardware stores and pharmacies. The last "convenience" to go Into a shopping cart with bread and milk (and probably a child riding In the seat) should be a pornographic tape. Public pressure has succeeded In confining the Dominion slogan, "Mainly because of the meat" to the meat of cattle, pigs and chickens, not to the meat of human beings. - S,H, Is AgriNews necessary? Government intrusion into competition with private enterprise appears to be increasingly popular these days, despite the fact it Is highly questionable as taxpayers have to compete against their own tax dollars. The Ontario ministry of agriculture and food is the latest government wing to reach out into the market place as it Inaugurates a new tabloid --Ontario AgrlNews. • It will be distributed free of charge to 82,000 Ontario farmers, thereby competing directly with numerous newspapers, magazines and periodicals which currently serve the farm population. There is little eVidence to indicate that farmers are in need of this new government service. Not only have the number of farm publications increased in recent years, the quality and depth of coverage has Improved tremendously. Unlike Ontario AgriNews, the other publications don't merely tell farmers what the government wants them to hear. They balance the news coming out of the minisfry public relations departments with views from industry spookeamen and opposition critics. They give both sides of the story and allow readers to intelligently reach their own conclusions. There'll be none of that In Ontario AgrlNews. It will stick strictly to the government line in all its self -glorification. In short, a publication by the government and .for the government. So take heart farmers. Some publishers and their staff Members will soon be joining you In your current economic woes while the ministry of agriculture and food undertakes projects to spend dollars in every way but good. —From the Exeter Times -Advocate Agri news is unacceptable �O i @ @dei ©r? n Letter to The Honourable Dennis Tinibrell, Minister of Agriculture and Food,' 801 Bay Street, I1th Floor, Toronto, Ontario M7A 1A3 Dear Dennis: 1 am writing to you in protest over your recent "Big Brother" tactic designed to control the flow of information to the public. 1 refer to the introduction of your new tabloid entitled "Agri News". While this publication has been styled in newspaper fashion, it is in fact not a newspaper and it lacks the essential feature of all news- papers, namely that of unbiasedg• i must object most str'enuously�on philosophical and ethical grOntids'to your intervention into the newspaper industry. Your government, indeed any government. in- aactivity.mdeocracy, has no business to this - The projected $160,004Jyeatly cost dais publication which U to be mailed to some 85,000 farmers aarose the province is a blatant misuse of tatiplyers' money, a SEE AGRV PAGE THREE A Be my valentine! HOMEMADE HEARTS—The grade 3 and 4 glass of Mrs. Van den -Akker of Seaforth Public School spent ' Monday afternoon making Valentines. Shown above are Susan Rowcllffe, Karen Coleman, Michelle Murray, Paul Dolmage and John McKercher, (Hundertmark photo) How do you address a woman priest? When! first learned about women wanting to enter the priesthood. !just about choked on my coffee. I think that was the first impression of many, especially men. But the more I thought about it and of the accomplishmentsof women in this century,,it was then i realized' they have made 'wept strides so great, that it's time for the mento take notice. The movement toward equal rights' for women started early in the 1900s when protests. and hunger strikes by women new them included 'on the voters lists. They achieved the right to vote. The movement has snowballed since then, but women continued to battle for the right of equality. In many cases today, women are awarded 50 per cent of all assets in a divorce. Let's hope the same holds true when it•comes to debts. Women have even reached glorious heights of supporting their family and even supporting husbands, whether the husband is unemployed or In school. But women entering the priesthood is quite another challenge. Female priests or priest- esses is not t1 niw. tnOve, it's just a step women are taking to regain a position they held, but lost in the church during biblical times, but lost. Yes, there used- to be high Priestesses. It's obvious the Roman Catholic church isn't going to change the all-male role of the . Um@ awe by MIR '9aa9dinill 4hirlest to' inNltrde worhen " overnight. A supporterof women'sordination slid there is a shortage of Roman Catholic priests. She felt lay men and women will take more responsibility for serving the church. True, there is a shortage of men entering the priesthood, but there is also a shortage of women entering convents, to live the life of a nun. if all is fair, then those who wish to become priests, should have no objection to men becoming nuns. But that would probably be unheard of. LOOKINGTOPUTURE The possibility of women priests should make men Stand up and take notice. It shows that not oily are women taking over roles usually held by men. but are looking to the future for job guarantees. Women have the foresight and intuition to look to the future an in the case of secretaries, they realize this traditional female role is being replaced by computers and word processors. But women aren't standing by, watching their jobs disappear. They're enrolling in computer courses, because they want to be the ones program- ao615@wg@ ming computers' and operatieg word prdces- FEh3INLSTS Once known as women libbers, they now call themselves feminists. These are perplex- ing times for women who call themselves feminists. What was unthinkable, such as bra burning in the 60s (I didn't mind) and politicized in the 70s, has become a calculated, why not, today. Feministsar continual) calling for equal rights, which is fair, but iftheywant to talk equal rights and equal work fon equal pay, they should talk to the rural women. There are many who work alongside husbands in the barn and the field. The work is tong and hard and the pay isn't great and the same is true for the husband. Rural and urban women, however, enjoy much of the work done by themselves and feminists groups such as ;nformation meet- ings about wife battering rape, nancial matters, day care, pornographyfi and divorce. Unfortunately the feminists have to deal with internal bickering. There's a group called REAL Women (Realistic Equal Active for Life) who plan to battle radical -feminists. Then there are the women' who denounce feminism. But an editorial in the Ii'frron County newsletter of the feminists group, Women Today teils'vvtiinen, allieililit time you put down femhllsbn took' in titb'tliftt'or - you are really Cejecting yourself." I agree with the editorial that "Feminism is a very misunderstood word-" The writer says k evokes visions of women returning flowers sent by men and women refusingmen to open doors for them, "worst of all, uncrossing their hearts and snapping their bras into burning bonfires." in fact, many women who have fought their way to great achievement in a man's', world are the first to admit they're not women's libbers or bra burners." The vision of women burning bras was a dramati, in the60's. But men took notice of 'the g movement, whether it be women bbera or feminists. i can live with equal rights and with women ministers, as is the case in some Protestant ' churches. The addition of women priests would indeed be a change. Men will surely notice. Men are Fathers, and nuns as Sisters, Mother Superior. My question Is, how do you address a woman priest? Reagan is the bad guy to Latin American people A one who does not enjoy the prospect of a wide -spread takeover of Carribean and Latin American countries- by Communist dictatorships can only despair the continued short-sighted American policy In the region. Twenty-five years after Fidel Castro took over Cuba to set up the first communist state in the western hemisphere, Ronald Reagan and his advisors seem to be out to grove the Americans haven't learned anything in a quarter century. Over the years it has been proven there is only one way to defeat communism: give the people of a country a standard of living and the freedom of denoocracy that makes them uninterested in any Utopian dreams spun by the radical left. But take a look at the countries Mr. Reagan is trying to save for democracy. They are often among the poorest nations in the world. People are so poor that ieveo Leech water seems a luxury; Children die young from disease and hunger. And living so closely to by KM4h.LlatiOgfta the richest nation in the world only mates people see the disparity more clearly. Now take a look at Cuba 25 years after the revolution. Average life expectancy has risen from50years in the 1950's to 73 today. Infant mortality has dropped from 60 deaths per 1000 live births to 16. In the last 10 years there have been no cases of polio, malaria, diptheria or infantile tetanus, ailments that used to kill thousands of Cuban children. Massive innocuibtion campaigns, improved diets, sanitation and living conditions and three times as many doctors and hospitals have all contributed to not only a longer life, but a better one. Compulsory education to the grade nine -level puts Cuba on an educational level with many advanced industrial coun- tries. Ali this would be tempting even for poor people who had the freedom of a real democracy. Yet many of the governments Mr. Reagan tries to prop up with force of arms are not free. People live in fear of death squads and arbitrary government arrest, torture and execution. Given the choice of no freedom and abject poverty versus pi freedom but a decent standard of living is it any wonder so many are finding communism attractive? Yet the Americans continue to go along with their short-sighted policy of trying to beat back communism with guns. History has shown that there is only one way to defeat communism: a two handed policy of fighting the rebels on one hand, while instituting massive reforms and upgrading the standard of Iivine of the oeonle on the other. The Americans have had 25 years to do something for other countries in Latin America in order to head off the threat of communism. They have chosen to ignore the threat until the rebels had already made great headway. And given the success of a rebel movement, the Americans immediately say the rebels must be communist even if they have not said they were. The Americans turn against the rebels and drive them right into the hands of a Russian or Cuban government who are quite willing to help out. To the people of the region, the Americans are associated not as the good guys but as the bad gays. If Mr. Reagan, the former movie good guy, wants success in Latin America, he's got to. see that he's not wearing the white hat for these people but the black. The rats have left the freezing ship This Mn time of when we get.:n..s This is the time of year rid of all the undesirables in the community, 13y undesirables, 1 mean people with more money than I. They leave our northern community for Florida, Mexico, the West Indies. In one fell swoop we get rid of all the softies, the cowards, the sybarties. in short, the rich whit trash. It's as much a part of our heritage as the Saturday night bath, or spring cleaning. And I think it's a good thing, When the last barber or bricklayer has bragged about being off to the Bahamas when the last druggist or doctor has informed me pompously that "We'll probably take in Acapulco this year," I feel a sense' Of relief. ' The rats have l the 'fretting ship, and there'sonty the haOki. the Sturdy pioneer types, the rugged ltadividualist and the poor people left in the tettipetate'(habl) zone, 9 he rest of us, the best of us, can get down to the real glory of winter living, without stumbling over a lot of sissies who are better off down there getting sand in their navels. Sugar" awe zpc @ by DE dil® y As one of the old true-blue breed, fighting And here's u.,. tiu, in Mexico, just getting it out with the elements,) am inclined to scorn up at 10:30. He hasn't paid last year's income them. As a humanitarian, I can only pity tax yet, but he's borrowed 51,500 from the them. Think of what they're missing- bank to make the trip. He has a hangover from those six -ounce, forty -cent Mexican drinks, and a twisted back from trying to tango. His wife, in the other twin bed, looks like an inmate of Belson, because she's had Mexican complaint, commonly known as dire rear, Let's take a look at a couple of these ever since they crossed the border. She hot -weather hounds. Look at this bird in whines, he snarles. They totter out tato the Florida. Gets outofbedandthere'sthatsame muggy heat. And another horrible day in old crumby, monotonous sun blazing down, Acapulco has begun, fust like all the other days. Same old routine. Its not Wee that around here. Down to a The inevitable patio• the inevitable trip to the •oily breakfast: vitamin pills, coma tea and beach whir the inevitable obscenely fat half_ slice of toast. There's the thrill of variety softies ly"nag= aB stoand. Or the inevitable as you prepare for the day. When dawn sareahnggitOut entire :golfeoursewith alot of comes, will the sun be shining, the snow other middle=aged Sara. falling, qk a blizzard howling? What is there in the soft and senuous south to equal that crunch of toes breaking off, that crack of bursitis in the shoulder when you throw that first curling stone, that snap of thigh bones on the ski hill? Out into the wild white yonder. Grab the shovel and make the snow fly, chuckling heartily all the while as you think of those poor slobs in the south, with nothing to do every day but the same old things The" clean, fresh, northern air hits your lungs like a dam-dum bullet. Bark seal -like greeting to neighbor, whose ,head is just visible over his snowbank. Off to the garage. Excifeent of wondering whether the car will start. The sheer, demonic joy of belting out the driveway backwards and trying to smash through the bank the snowplow has thrown up. Some- times you make jt. The skidding, slithering adventure of the drive to work. Wheels splinting, visibility twelve feet, every man for himself. And another day of gloriourwInter living has begun. Don't try to tell me about the seduction of the langubus southland. Just give me the crisp, virile :challenge of living where men are men. And you can tell them from women. When they get them thawed out. a