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SEAFORTH, ONTARIO, OCTOBER 11', 1979,
Is it a doss?
A
Should Canadians really regret the fact our government has lost the
$1.5 'billion nuclear reactor sale to, Argentina? Both former .Liberal
minister Allan MacEachen and Ross Campbell, chairman. of Atomic
Energy of Canada Ltd, says yes, but when we examine the issue In
moral terms, we can't help questioning their <response.
Argentina, a South American nation which is one of the most
politically Volatile states on that continent, has already refused to sign
a nuclear nonproliferation treaty. That's a pretty fair warning that the
military dictators may be using a nuclear reactor as a defense weapon,
as, much as a means of producing nuclear energy to be used by the
country's citizens, Canadians should remember that another Third
World country, India, has.already purchased one of our reactors, only
to use the nuclear technology to produce an atomic bomb. Pakistan, a
neighbouring country, and sometime enemy of India, will have the
technology available to create their own bomb by. the end of the year.
Before. Canada sells any more CAN DU reactors, we must have some
strong nuclear safeguards in effect. Both the. Liberals and
Conservatives have advocated this, a fact Mr, MacEachen shouldn't
forget.
Unfortunately, Canada's hesitation in selling the reactor won't
prevent Argentina from obtaining nuclear capabilities. instead, .the:
West Germans and Swiss have already combined to offer' an
alternative -more expensive, but a reactor that doesn't require the.
stringent safeguards of the Canadian model.
It's too easy for people like Mr. MacEachen or Mr. Campbell to look
only at the $1.5 billion sale Canada's lost, without taking'a hard look at
our responsibility in the sale.
Argentina, as External Affairs Minister Flora MacDonald . recently
pointed out in the United Nations, has already demonstrated a lack of
concern for the human rights of its own citizens. How can we believe
that this same lack of concern might not be demonstrated in, the
country's use of nuclear power?
How ironic if a nuclear war broke out someday -not between' the
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super powers like Russia and the Western nations, but between
underdeveloped nations who bought their reactors from us
Sugar end spice
By BiI) Smiley.
Rolling with the punches
Some people, like me, believe in rolling
with theo
unches, rather than sticking`ut'
P
our chins to show how many we can
absorb. I havefound that, in general, if I.
avoid trouble, trouble avoids me.
If I know that someain in the arm has
p s
been trying to get me on the phone, I also
know immediately that he or she wants me
to do something that I don't want to do.
Therefore, I:take the phone off the hook
and leave it off until the pain has :found.
some other sucker.
Another invention of mine to stay out of
trouble is patented as Nega-Prod. This is
short for Negative Production. The theory
is simple. The more you produce, the .more
problems you have, whether it is children,
manufactured goods, or farm products.
The more children you have, the more
emotional and economic problems you
create for yourself. The .more goods you
produce, the more you have to hustle to
find customers and meet ,payrolls. The
more farm stuff you raise, whether it's beef
or beans, the greater your chance' of being
caught in a glut en the market:
' Our great national railways caught on to
this years ago. When they had lots of
passengers, they had lots of problems.
People wanted comfort, cleanliness; decent
meals, and some assurance that they would
get where they were going on time. There
was much more money to be made, . and
fewer problems, by transporting wheat and.
lumber and cattle.
So the railways began. treating people
like cattle. Passenger trains became un-
comfortable and dirty. Quality of the food
dropped, like a stone.. And they never
arrived on time.
Presto. End of problems. No more
passengers. So the railways were able to
cut off non-paying passenger lines, get rid
of all those superfluous things like station
agents and telegraphers and train conduct-
ors, and concentrate on taking from one
point to anothdehings that paid their way
and didn't talk back: newsprint, coal, oil,
wheat.
Perhaps this is the answer for our
provincial governments, which are quickly
and quietly building massive mountains of
debt for future taxpayers.
Perhaps they should just stop building.
highways, and repairing those already in
existence. We'd all be sore as hell for a
while, but as the roads got worse and
worse, most of us would stop driving our
cars. The governments would save millions
of dollars now spent on highways, and they
could fire two-thirds of the highway cops.
I don't quite see how the governments
could use Nega•Prod to get out of the liquor
business which hi h certainly
reduces lent
of problems. The boze trade is so
profitable thatasking government to
abandon it would be like asking a.
millionaire to forsake his country estate for
a run-down farm.
Perhaps if they had a Free Booze Day,
once a week, every week, say on a
Saturday, it would solve a number of
problems. It would certainly reduce the
surplus population. This, in turn, would cut
down, drastically, the unemployment fig-
ures.
Should the provincial governments find
that Nega-Prod is all I've suggested, some
of it , might spill over into the federal
government, usually the last to catchon to
what the country really needs.
Instead of the manna and honey flowing
from Ottawa in theform of baby bonuses
and pensions, we might get some terse
manifestoes:
"People who havemore than one and a
half children will be sent to jail for four
years. • Note: separate jails."
"'Persons who plan to liveP ast 65 and
claim a pension will be subject to an open.
season each year, from October 1 to
Thanksgiving "Day; Shotguns and bicycle
chains only
"All veterans of all Wars may claim.
participation by reason of insanity, ' and
may apply to Ottawa for immediate
euthenisation."
These might seem slightly Draconian
measures, but they sure would put an
to a lot of our problems and troubles. Think
of what they would do for such sinful
activities as sex, growing old; and hanging
around the Legion Hall, playing checkers.
But we must also think of the economic
benefits" With a plug put into that river of
paper money flowing from Ottawa, taxes
would d p„ inflation would vanish and
• undoubte
v separatism would
�i P
m o wither
on
the vine. PL would ould be lined up six deep.
at the U.S. border trying to get across, and
that would solve, in one swell Poop, our
unemployment difficulties.
We could go back to being hewers of
water and carriers' of wood, which was our
manifest destiny before the politicians got
into the act. Fishermen or lumberjacks, in
short, which most of the rest of the world
thinks we are anyway,
Nega-Prod may seem a bit lofty and
abstract at first glance, but it works. i know
from personal experience. Every time I try
to make something, or fix something, it
costs ine a lot of money, and I get into a lot
of trouble.
So, i have a policyof never trying to fix
something or make something. It's a lot
less trouble to put up signs: "Beware of
falling brick • Not of re '"lite for s ivf`"'i
$pons: o r
on picnic table." And so on.
OCTOBER 10d11 1879
Frank Kitty of Hullet met with a painful,
accident on the High School ground of
Clinton. A football match was in progress,
when one of the players accidentally jumped,
on Kitty's leg, cutting the cords and this has.
since confined him to bed.
The; new curling,
rink isnow in course of
eret:tton and when, completed it will be the
best establyshnlent of its kind to this part Qf
Messrs, A,Y, McDougal, and D.D, Wilson;
are doing • a large businessin buying and
shipping apples.
1.rthur Wanless of Stanley has disposed of
his steam engine andthreshing machine.
Mrs. D.D. Rose was crossing the railway
track when the wheel of the vehicle got
caught in the track, bringing it to sudden(
stop. Mrs. Rose's arm was broken when she
was thrown out of the vehicle and Miss Rose.
a passenger also had her arm broken.
OCTOBER 14th, 1904
The excitement of another electionis now
on at Walton though the battle will be short.
It is expected that Dr. McDonald will
address the election in the workmen's hall .in
Walton.
As a result of the recent severe frosts,
some farmers report serousinjury, to the
marigold crop.
A very distressing and painful accident
happened to Nelson, son of Robert Reid. He
was,going to school and while playing along
side of a wagon, laden v; ith cedar posts he
fell under the wagorffhe wheel passed over
his leg, breaking both bones and making "a.
cut about six inches long. 1
Harry Mcardle Jr. of Beechwood has
secured a good position in Detroit.
Wm. McDonald of Kippen has sold hist
heavy team of horses to a buyer from Ailsa
Craig.
Those with sugar beets at Kippen are now
having them harvested..
Beattie Bros. of Bruc field, who have
been carrying on a general store business for
some time have disposed of their business. to
J, T. Re.
Wm Midi Queen of Brucefield arrived home'
from Edinburg Scotland and has engaged
with James McDermid for the winter,
The frame work of the new Methodist
Church parsonage is being rapidly pushed
forward.
The Robert Bell Engine and Thresher Co,.
of this town have just shipped a large high
pressure stationary boiler, to Galt.
During the electrical storm on Friday
evening a valuable team of heavy, draught
horses belonging to. Wrn. White. of Hensall
was killed by lightening.
The farmers are busy securing their apple
crop tOich is quite large in the Hensall
vicinity.
Geo. McMann of:town has left to complete
his course in Dentistry at the Chicago
College.
OCTOBER 11th, 1929
A very pleasant evening was spent at the
home of Mr.' and 'Mrs. John McLean, of
Tuckersmith, when a large number of the
parents and pupils of S.S..6 Hibbert, met in
honor of Miss Grace McLean, a bride -elect.
An address was read by Wm. Kaj'and little'
Marian and Agnes Scott presented their
ex -teacher with a silver sandwich tray, silver
cream and sugar set and a cut: glass bowl.
Mrs. N.L. Carter of Constance was a most
successful exhibitor at the fall fairs this
season.
Mrs. Robert Kirkby of Walton, who has
been suffering with a sore thumb for
sometime from the effects of blood poisoning
underwentan operation and had the thumb
Something to say
by Susan White
At the first superficial
glance, there didn't seem to
be a whole lot to be thankful
for over Thanksgiving week-
end. The weather, to start
with, was lousy.
The cold driving rain sent
shivers of foreboding about
the long winter to come
throughout my body. Our
big plans to clean up the
garden and the yard were
thwarted. And the furniture
refinishing chores we had
scheduled hadto be moved
to the confining clammy
basement, when I'.d had
visions of getting a little sun
and fresh air while I. sanded:
away on the cherry cupboard
• that was supposed to be in its.
placeof honour in the dining
room years ago.
No, there was no sun and..
the air wa a might too fresh,
and wet on Thanksgiving
weekend for my tastes...'
And, like many other
women, I, spent a lot of my
A lot
time . over Thanksgiving.
weekend cooking and
cleaning up the kitchen. And
keeping. our daughter
occupied during what she
regarded as a three day
sentence served inside the
house. She's the original
fresh air kid and quickly gets
boredwith the indoor
pleasures, her crayons, her
shelf in the dining room and
emptying mother's kitchen
cupboards..
No; complaints, not thanks -
came too quickly to my mind
when I surveyed the week-
end's activities.
How soon we forget how.
lucky we are.
All it took to bring me
around to the realization that
my complaints are meagre
was :a • glance at _ Tuesday
morning's paper when I.
came into work. There on
page three was a photo
of two mothers with their
starving children, refugees
Odds n' ends
by Elaine Townshend.
to
from Cambodia who were
about to be turned away from
Thailand which till recently
has provided refuge of a sort
for people who are fleeing
disease and starvation in that
war torn country.
The eyes of those kids
haunt me. How 'would you
like to be the mother of a
child who is literally wasting
away in front ofyour eyes?
One of the children had the
big belly, that's the first sign.
of severe malnutrition.
Anotherchild, in her or his IJe hin d
the scenes
mother's . arms,was as thin
as a concentration camp by Keith ROulston
victim and almost certainly
won't live long. All of the
children in the photo, and
they can be multiplied by
thousands in Cambodia, will;'
have suffered the brain
amputated at the first joint..
Mr.,and Mrs. John Marshall', are settled in;
their new home just south of Walton.
Farmers, and gardeners as well, are
taking advantage of the present fine weather
,to finish, up the .outside work and to 8et in
good shape for winter.
"Oliver Pete" owned by Leonard Guy has
had a very successful season on the racing
circuits. Qut, of 21 starts, he has won seven
firsts, two; Seconds, three thirds and one
fourth, and. has, never been, oytside the
money.
The Wolverton Flour Mill here which has,
been undergoing extensive improvements is
now in operation and on Tuesday' turned' out
200 barrels of flour in 10 hours.
J. M. Eckert of McKillop has been
confinedto his home with an attack of
pleurisy but expects soon: to be out with his
threshing outfit again,
Miss Margaret Cleary R,N. left for
Rochester to resume her duties in one of the
hospitals in that city.
Mrs. J.W. Free of town won the silver cup
at Brussels Fair for the best loaf of
homemade bread. This is the second year in
succession that Mrs. Free has won the prize
at Brussels. ,
OCTOBER 15th, 1954
Like his father before him, John McGavin,
son of Mr. and: Mrs. Gordon McGavin
McKillop has a way with a plow, Twenty-five
years. ago, McGavin Senior was a Canadian
champion, and at the north Huron match in
Goderich Township, son John entered the
senior class and took first place in the glass.
Although he is young enough to have
competed in the Junior class, he was able to
earn a place on the two main, teams
representing Burnt,. ;at 'the international'
snatch at Breslaw.
A champion many times, James Hogg.
McKillop farmer, didn't compete in the
north Huron plowing match. Instead he
helped coach some of the younger .com-
petitors and showed some fine points to John
Alexander, R.R. 4 Walton, who placed
second in the green class.
Paying a ,surprise visit, some forty
relatives of Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Richard-
son of the Mill road helped mark their '25th
wedding anniversary,
Mr, and Mrs. Irwin Trewartha, of
McKillop entertained 40 of their friends, the
occasion; being, their 25th Wedding anniver-
sary.
Russell Bolton read an, address and!
Harold Pryce and Joseph Little presented
them with a large bevelled glass mirror.
Miss Betty Blue, of Egmondville hasleft
for Peterborough to attend Eastern Pente-
cost Bible College.
Rev, John B. Fox, minister. of. Carmel
Presbyterian Church Hensall, has accepted a
call; to Sandwich West.
As far as we in town are concerned; it
doesn't matter, much whetherr it rains or not.
Certainly continued rain is unpleasant and
probably prevents us clearing up odd jobs
around the yard. But the down pours don't
really bother us, not as the farmer.
Excessive rainsmean the difference be -
tween good harvests and bad ones or for
that matter, no harvest at all,
The Seaforth Women's Institute met in
the Community Centre when a memorial
service intionor of a departed member, Mrs.
Paul Doig, was conducted by the president,
Mrs. Elmer Cameron.
thankful
potential, should they be
lucky enough to live until
their country's fortunes
improve.
Those, children and their
mothers have almost nothing
to be thankful for. They are
victims • of politicial and
economic squabbles over
which they have no control.
'Ake misery is suffered by the
children of the boat people,
the Palestinians, and by most
poor people in the world's
developing countries.
Their lives are not im-
proving: In fact well known
humanitarian Dr. Lotta
Hitschmanova of the.
Unitarian;Service Committee
(who spoke to students at
'SDHS a year or so' ago) says
she was shocked on a recent
trip to Africa to realize that
the standardof living for,
some ordinary people had.
actually gone backwards over
the last few years,
Terrific news, huh?
Face to face with the kind
for
of agony that photo on the.
newspaper page represents,
I realize that my.
Thanksgiving,and likely
yours, was a weekend in
paradise in comparison. But
that recognition does
absolutely nothing for those
starving children and their
mothers and fathers.
I know now how lucky we
Canadians are. You do too.
But what are' we going to
do about the rest of the
world?
What's most I1,i9!1I?
damage that results from' The price of' gold has been setting
prolonged starvation and will
never reach their : full
The fluhugsu;rikes
This week I dedicate this space to all my
comrades, who are shivering under ten wool.
blankets with heatinBpads at their feet and
their heads g8 hanging over'the edges of their
beds just above pails:
The flu bug has struck. I've heard people
talk about the flu season I'm not sure
whether this is in season, but who cares?
As far as each of us is concerned, it's an
epidemic of one and that's serious enough
for us.
Does this sound familiar?. Rolling over is
an ordeal for your aching muscles and
joints; Gettingup seems out of the
question , but sometimes you have no
choice" Through the day and night, you
wear a path from the bedroom to the bath-
room. Sometimes moving faster than other
times; sometimes not moving fast enough:
You crawl back into bed feeling ex-
hausted. Sometimes during the day, for a
change, of scene, you move to comfortable
couch taking your blankets, kleenex and
pail with rth you. You watch TV or listen to
some music trying to take 'your mindoff
your churning stomach. You: drift in and.
out of sleep"
The phone rings: "Will I or won't I?"
you ask yourself. You decide you'd better.
But by the time you pick up the receiver,
the caller hangs up.
You drag "yourself back to the couch.
Half an hour later the phone ringsB again,
Oh to heck withitl" you. mumble, You
bury your head under the covers.
Time passes slowly and you growrest-
less. Maybe your stomach would feel
better if you had something to eat, you rea-
son. Nothing goes better on an upset
stomach than a nice hot bowl of soup with
crackers or a slice of plain toast.
Your stomach says no, but your mind,
even thoughit's foggy, thinks it knows
better. If no one is around or if you can't
con anyone into.. serving you in bed, you
limp feebly to the kitchen and do it
yourself. It takes three times longer than it
ordinarily would. The can opener won't
work; you drop the spoon; you turn on the . >A
wrong burner and wonder why the darned`
soup isn't heating.
You rest several times, leaning on the.
cupboard or saggingon a chair. Finally you
sit down at the table in front of a steaming
bowl.' You look at the soup. Your stomach
says it doesn't want it, but your common
sense persists•You force the liquid past the
lump in your throat, and you keep telling
yourself it tastes good.
You dump ;the dirty dishes into the sink
tnd head for the couch. Suddenly you make
udetour as your stomach tells you, in .no
ncertain terms, it didn't want -that soup.
At night you drift off to sfe p, assuring
yourself that your flu is the twenty-four'
hour variety and in the morning you'll feel
as good as new.
If you don't feel any better next
morning, you wonder how long this can go ..
on. You're not even sure you can survive
another day like the last one.
I don't want to discourage my fellow
sufferers any more than 1 want to discour-
age myself, but I can't help remembering
my brother-in-law had the flu for two
weeks.
Usually when asked how- he Is, he
replies, "60/40". During the flu seige, he
described his condition as 10/90. And now
we know what he meant.
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record high, prices lately but there is one
commodity even more precious that's
virtually ignored these days. It's called'
wisdom. •
Have you ever stopped to think you just.
don't hear much about wisdom any more?
When was the last time you heard someone
referred to as a wise man? A person might
be called smart or he might be called'
well-educated but the word wise has,
virtually passed from our vocabulary.
But wisdom is something quite different
than intelligence. It is something that isn't
as easily gained as education. Over the years
I've met many intelligent people, people
who could learn quickly, who could tell, you
how a computer worked or speak several
languages but who were not wise. I've' met
many people with College educations
Who
were anything but wise.
Wisdom is something that many be.
obtained by someone without a high degree'
of education. Usually a wise person is
intelligent but 'an intelligent person isn't
necessarily wise. .
Perhaps there are several reasons for
wisdom being almost ignored in our time.
One reason is perhaps that wisdom is
traditionally associated with life experience.
Wise men (or women) have generally been
thoughtof as old men. Wisdom came from
taking a detached view of what was .going on
around you, of being able to see beyond ther
particular to the general. Some people had
this ability to see things over thelong term
better than others
and a
she
t grew older
y
and experienced more, they became wiser.
They knew that the problems of today were
just part of a larger pattern.
But today of course the emphasis is on
youth, not ` age. We're concerned with
chance with "progress''. Old people aren't
people to be held in high regard because of
their accumulated knowledge of living. They
are instead people with old fashioned ideas,
people caught in a time warp, still living in
an age before the latest technological
changes. They're obsolete human beings.
Similarly we don't hear much about
wisdom because we're in a scientific age.
We like to be able to measure everything
and you just can't measure wisdofn. It isn't
an absolute. You can't teach wisdom in a
university course and grade your students on
;how much they have learned. You can't have'
a specialist in wisdom with fancy gr do es and;
a guarantee he 11 have a good income for the
;rest of fits life by sharingchis wisdom with
others.
Probably the downgrading of religion also
has a lot to do with the fact wisdom is seldom
•
mentioned these days. Nearly • all religions
have a large dose of wisdom involved. The
Christian' religion is based on long centuries
of accumulated wisdom of both Christians
and Jews. The far Eastern religions of. India
and China also depend on the musings of
wise old men. They give an overview of life,
life not bogge d down in the problems of day
to day existence.
Yet one of the greatest gaps in modern life
Is the lack of wisdom and the lack of respect
for wisdom. We're assaulted with
information on every subject under the sun.
No generation of mankindhas ever has
access to as much knowledge: But what is
knowledge in itself: Knowledge is only the
raw material for us to make decision s and
confronted with, so much information, how
' • do we choose?
Well there are plenty of people willing to
tell us. If we have more informationthan.
ever before, we also have more "experts"
than ever before, In the newspaperor on
television we have columnists ready to tell us
how they thinkwe should interpret the news.
We have experts to tell us how to choose a
house, how to decorate a house how to fix
the plumbing, how to fix a car how to cook
marvellous food even how to jazz up our sex
lives.
We have experts telling us this food is
safe to eat only to heart some other expert
telling us that it isn't. We have people
telling us that we must make the water, and
air purer only to hear others tell us that if we
do we'll have to take a reduction in our living.
standard.
We have experts on everything.
P ryth ng:
And in case all these experts just get you
more mixed up, you can go to an expert
psychiatrist to get you straightened out.
But what we really need in this confusing
world is not more information but more
wisdom'. WC need wisdom to make sense out
of our complicated modern world. We need
people who can look beyond the a
w Y day to day
orries and realize that in 50
most of our "problems" Years from now
P will only be trivia of
history: We need people who can show us
that the problems we are having are part of
the eternal struggles of the human race.
We
need people to remind us that things runthi
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: to
cycles and that if we're worried for instance
abot too much freedom,,: in sex today then
likely 50 years from nowt pendulum will
likely go the opposite wa to too much,
repression no matter what: th `'ex erts"'
toteP thin
tn'1
tell us.We need Wisdo to
tti� ut all a
in perspective, �
Wec
need
to
res'
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ore
wisdom
to
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vocabulary and venerate the wise pe
rsolti
again. It would' add so much peace to war
lives if We dId,
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