The Huron Expositor, 1971-08-19, Page 2A Study In Reflections
ViMine'l.M.MilikatIMMEMARMA
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Mr.Reid revea
the eleven yea
1959 and 1960
which Premier
headed the Dep
Education - th
employeesi 1n t
meat had mare
from 1461 to 3
In 1960 but
ployee was in
-more than $15,
1969 the numbe
to 622. There
ing off of nea
the next year
presumably rep
those departme
whIch were inh
county boards
across Ontario
----m-o-s-t-----sas-the-ys..--contilnu-e-d,----
-,to, carry out the-same re-
's'Ol ensibilities they now
are the employees of the
local boards rather. than
..of the province and their
salaries no longer are
included in.Arovincial
toltals.
led that in
rs between
- years in
Davis had
artment of
e number of
he Depart-
than doubled,
110.
one em-
receipt of
000 but by
3 had grown
was a fall-
rly 100 in
but this
resented '
ntal people
erited by
of education .
▪ While in
From My Window
— By Shirley J. Keller —
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MY
WINDOW
By Shirley Keller
mtalfROMPKOMOIMMAM
uron (Firpositor
tr Since 1860, Serving the Community First
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In the
Years Agone
4EMOSSAVISSOMMOMMMOSSMIIIMMYAMMAMIRs
AUGUST 26, 1921. home from Overseas on the Aquitania.
Clinton and Seaforth lined both sides of
the villagers and summer residents,
together with visitors from Goderich,
the harbour to witness the interesting
events.
Bayfield held its, Mit regatta when
burned.
troublesome for 10 year old,Dorothy Mc-
He had served in, the Mediterranean and
a tank in Italy he had his hand tadly
some months in Holland. whoa driving
A • new pair of roller skates proved
Clinchey, Hensall. Trying the skates
A Liberal Rally was held in Victoria
on the Main Street she fell and re-
Park, Seaforth, when Hon. W, L. Mac-
ceived a severely fractured arm.
Kenzie King, Leader of the Liberal
LAC Harry Scott returned home after Opposition, Hon. Dr. Beland and w, spending eighteen months' service with Kennedy, M.P., North Essex spoke.
the R.C.A.F. in Great Britain.
Messrs. Herbert and Ira Toll, Robert
Mr. and Mrs. David O'Connor, Hib- Smith and James McClure of Harlock
bert, celebrated their 40th wedding an- . took in the excursion to the west.
niversary and held a family reunion at
The Kippen Road Sunday School held
their home. All the members of their
their annual picnic in Thos. Shillinglaw's
family attended and presented their par- maple grove.
ents with a studio couch.
Harry Jacobi. of Chiselhurst met with
Little slips of paper headed "National
a nasty accident when a manure fork
Registration -Regulations" which, penetrated his leg.
Canadians have carried in their pockets
W. B. Kerr, son of Mr. and Mrs.
since 1940 no longer are in effect. • James Kerr; and a former graduate of
the Seaforth collegiate Institute The annual gathering of the -garage,
operators of Huron County, with their returned from Oxford England, where
employees and friends, numbering 400,
he spent the past two years, studying in
was' held at Jowett's Grove, Bavfield. that famous university.
Angus Kennedy of Tuckersmith left
• AUGUST 21, 1896. for Toronto where he will take a course
Wm. Sleartion of Usborne, more than in barbering.
a year ago placed an elm pole for part James Hays of town has sold the
of a scaffold in his barn. This year it
residence on Goderich Street ,now oc-
has branches growing on it eighteen
cupied by Sydney Deem to Chris. Cheoros
inches•long: - of the Olympia Restaurant.
John Miller of the 13th concession of
Chas. Neely of town has taken a
Hullett, who was seriously injured re- position with the C.N.R. cently by being thrown from his rig in W. B. McLean, of Egmondville, has
a runaway has died. a red and gold New York sunflower
John Waugh, well known resident of plant that measures 12 1/2 feet in length.
Miss Vera Eckert; 'of Manley left Seaforth, met with his death in a very
sudden and tragic manner. During the
for Plunket, Saslc. to take a position as
severe thurider and lightning storm which teacher.
prevailed he was standing in the office AUGUST 23, 1946. of the .flax mill when a bolt of lightning
came down the side of' the building and Work commenced this week on the
struck him on the side, killing him in- side of the Tuckersmith Township garage
construction of which was recently author- stantly.
ized by the Tuckersmith Council. The Geo. A. Sills and his two sons left
to 'spend a few days at Benmiller crnp- township. power grader is levelling the
illg and fishing. site in Egmondville and the necessary
fill is being trucked in. Chas. Donaldson of the Bronson line,
The second annual Lions Club frolic Stanley, has growing in his garden a
of Zurich was held with an attendance Scotch thistle 7 1/2 feet in height and
of over 2,000. bearing 95 blossoms.
A family reunion was held at the Wm. Kyle Sr. of Kippen, had a very
home of Mr. and Mrs. Edwin Hunt. close call from having his season's crop
Oats and barley are above normal and barns in ashes. During the severe
102% and •105% respectively according storm the lightning struck the corner
to the monthly crop report of the Ontario post, splitting the post and tearing off
Department of Agriculture. the boards.
James, McGill of Hullett has a squash
Mrs. Herald Lawrence entertained in that promises to surpass all former
honor .of • her daughter Maid ne. Miss monsters of that species of vegetable.
LaVrtenee. received with her mother and When he measured it was six feet and
poilring tea was Mrs. B. M. Francis. it is still growing.
Rev. Arthur R. Looby C.S.B., son Miss Dorrance of town has removed
of Mrs. A. M. Looby, Dublin, was 'her fancy goods store to the premises
Ordained at St. Basil's ahurch,Toronto. recently vacated by J. S. Roberts in
the Cardno block. 30h11 Adams, of Winthrop returned
I don't know how you've fared, but
so far it's been a rotten summer in
these parts. Instead of the "sunny with
scattered showerS", it has been, day
after' day, "rainy with scattered sun-
shine".
Usually, by now, municipal councils
are begging citizens to go easy with their
lawn sprinklers, or flatly threatening
householders with a fine if they use them
at all.
Brown, burned-crisp lawns' are
common by mid-August. -Not at oar place
this year. we haven't used our sprinkler
since the firstv-rfeek . in July and the lawn
is ',alarmingly verdant and growing like
weeds, which o f course a good portion of
ours is. •
Not much one can do about it. But
my heart goes out to the poor devils
who are tenting.
Tenting is 'great fun under ideal con-
ditions. It's about' as "close as we can
come to really getting back to nature.
There's the pleasure of finding that choice
campsite with a mere 30-degree list,
the solid satisfaction of getting the tent
up on the 'fourth try, the adventure of
exploring• a new camp and its adjacent
waters.
There's .the long day of puttering
about in the sun, fishing, swimming,
gathering firewood, relaxing. For the
men and children, that is. There's the
long day of puttering about with dishes,
conking—meals;-fouling—with balky gas
stoves, and administering first aid to
sundry scrapes, cuts and bites, for the
lady. Few women like `tenting.
' But even for them there are joyful •
aspects. When the last pot his had its
black bottom cleaned with sand, when the
last 'child has been tucked away, milady
can perch her weary tailbone on a stump
or a stone by the campfire, look into the
blue-red-orange flames, and dream of the
glorious day when this ghastly trip is
over and she'll be back in her castle,
with a proper stove, refrigerator and
automatic washer . She sits there, count-
ing on her fingers, with a dazed smile.
When the campfire is dying, Mom
has her supreme moment of the day. She
can crawl into her dampish flan-
nelettepyjamas,' dtavvi into the tiaddle
of blankets on' the camp cot which is
tilted toward her head, and shudder for
hours with a combination of cold and fear
of the things that go bump in the night.
What 'tops it all is that about 3 a.m. she
discovers that she has to go to the bath-
room. It's purely psychological, of course.
But it's quite an ordeal. The flash-
light doesn't work, and the little house
with the facilities 1 s 80 yards away,
across ground that is crawling with snakes
and spiders, with a bear behind every
tree. This is where she gets her revenge.
Whining and whimpering, she rouses her
spouse from deep, sweet siuMbrt and
issues an ultimatum: either he gets up
and goes with her, holding her hand all
the way, or she starts packing and they
head for home right now. This is
known in some circles as wedded bliss.
But nothing could be better calculated
to put another nail in the coffin of their
marriage.
I've portrayed so far only the good
side of tenting, when the weather is fine.
But put yourself in the boots of the'
miserable male Who has rented a tent
,for his two-weeks-with, takes the wife
and , three kids, and gets one half-sunny
day, the rest cold or raining.
On the third day the guaranteed water-
proof tent begins to leak. The firewood
doesn't even smoulder. The kids are
going hairy with boredom. There isn't a
piece of dry clothing to be had. The wife
has stopped speaking entirely. The tent
is full of ants who are smart enough to
get in out of the rain.
What to do? If he packs and goes
home, it is obvious 'that the sky will
clear and there'll be a heat wave. If
he insists they stick it out, he will earn
the undying hatred of his wife and the
sullen contempt of ,his kids.
Give Inc the tenting life any day: the
sizzle of frying bacon, the scent of wood
smoke, the clean, cool air for' sleeping,
the murmuring talk by the campfire.
But don't give me tenting on the cold,
damp ground, as Stephen Foster didn't
put it. I'd rather spend my tuzlidays in
jail.
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SEAFORTH, ONTARIO, AUGUST 19, 1971
The Costs Of Education
• No taxpayer objects to
government having available
to it sufficient staff to
carry out in an adequate
manner its duties to .the •
citizens it serves:
Nor is there objection
to the payment of adequate
salaries - salaries com-
mensurate with the respon-
sibilities and abilities
of each civil servant even
though, to some, certain
salaries may appear unduly
high.
-The test must continue
to be. the manner in which
an individUal carries out
his or her duties and the
salary which similar res-
ponsibilities would demand
service. ' ......
What does cause concern
to taxpayers is a steady
increase in. the number of
government employees with
a resulting increase in
salary expenditures - in-
creases which appear to
have no, relation to demand.
Such a situation is that
existing in the Department
of Education which was
brought to -light by the
Liberal 'education
in the Legislature Tim
Re)d,.the member for Scar-
boro:ugh East.
After a continued pro-
bing of the Davis govern-
ment, figures produced for
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Thin is in but fat is where it's at.
That's the newest saying to brighten
the day for a gar like me who totes
more weight around than she should.But
more than that, a recent book written
to put down the too fat theory is just my
cup of tea . and I'm whole heartedly
behind the author Llewellyn Louder and
his' book entitled Fat Power: Whatever
You Weigh is Right:
You isee, all my life I've been over-
weight. As a very tiny baby (and there
are pictures to substantiate this) I was
a real butterball. Then as I grew older
and other little girls were wearing frills
and laces, I was always dressed in stripes
and plain .colors on straight' lines. -As-a
teenager, I starved myself until I was
the meanest tempered little monster any-
one could have in the house . and I
was still two sizes larger than my neat
little classmates.
After marriage, I started to blossom
again . . . and three pregnancies and 17
years later, I'm my old rotund self and
aside from the fact that everyone feels
sorry for me and makes me self-cOnsc-
ious trying to ignore my weight, I'm
relatively happy and content.
,, No, I don't like being fat. Who would?
But then; the way I look at it, I could
'''' have a whole lot of other marring fea-
tures . like a bald head or a hairy
chest which would be much more embar
rassing for me, so I tell myself that I'm
reasonably lucky to have such a small
burden to bear.
Now -sorne---fellaw conies alblig• and
the world that unless fat people
are sick, they shouldn't always be diet-
ing and fussing about their weight the
way everybody seems to be these days.
I know doctors who hold that same
.theory ... but then, I know more doctors
who believe dieting will cure everything
except death.
But the people I hate most are the
willowy thin, skinny-legged ohes who are
picking like birds all the time just to
maintain a weight which fits into a size
i0-or 12.' 'You know, there are actually
some dress shops (more than I could
care to mention here) where you are
looked upon as something obese if you
wear any size over a 161
" I'm ready to admit`that slender people
look better in clothes and can wear
things which are much smarter than the
average, but fat people have to be clothed
too and it is high time that more manu-
facturers took that basic fict into con-
sideration.
But the article I read tells me' that
overweight is big business becauie every-
body's thinking up new and sure=fire ways
to help the fatties loose "weight.
There are low-cal foods, exercisers
- of all types, diet books, reducing salons,
slimming ,girdles",,,pills and urgers-
you -know as well as I do just what some
people prescribe for others but wouldn't
touch themselves.
Well,,2as far, as I'm concerned they
can all go plop to the hot spot. I'm going
to struggle, along as I always have -
dieting from time to time but never for
very long. I'm sick to death &Worry- ,
ing what' people will say or how they will °
react to me. Let the chips 'fall where
they will, I say.
And 'according to the latest article
in the series I've been reading, I'm on
the right track.
I agree that '"fat people will have to
learn to view obesity, not as a form of
leprocy or sin; but for what it actually
is: a mere physical characteristic totally
ItreleVent to any significant measure of
--performanee-in life."
The article warns that a person's
whole personality can change-because he
or she worries-about being overweight ..
and man alive, I've got enough worries
without adding another.
And there must be some truth in that
statement. I've been reading lately about
a tribe somewhere in the middle of no -
where where everybody is overweight .
and although it is considered one of the
most primitive tribes in the world it is
the least warlike and most good natured
of any of the uncivilized groups. That
speaks well for fat, doesn't it?
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