The Huron Expositor, 1976-12-02, Page 3stteatnothe $900 life in the city,
that we can seeso TV but know
we'll never experience ourselves.
The doctors say there is a trend
back to country living but those
who took to the country as an
escape from traffic jams and other
urban pressures don't consider
the "harsh reality of rural life."
Our harsh reality includes, they
say, discomfort, isolation,
dependence on the whims of
nature, the bare revelation of li fe
and death, the need for, social
intercourse but the treachery of
social pressure and the
unrelenting rhythm of hard work.
And we thoughtwe were happy,
not blissful but getting along
You're ki •
Invited
The next meeting of the
Hensall Women's Institute will be
held at the Bluewater Rest Home
following the Birthday Party held
there at 7 p.m. on Wednesday,
December 8.
Two hurt,
at work
Two Egmondville men are
recuperating at their homes as
the result suit of injuries they received
in two separate accidents while at
work.
Bob Doig suffered a fractured
heeland instep to left foot, when a
ladder he was working on,
slipped. He fell 18 feet. Fie was
working in Dublin for Geo. A.
Sills and Sons at the time of the
accident on November 15.
Charles Wood has a cracked
pelvis and head injuries when he
was struck by the end wall of a
trailer while at work at Bendix
Home Systems Ltd in Hensall on
November 19. He was knocked
out of the trailer he was working
on to the plant floor.
Both men will be off work
indefinitely.
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The expositor apologizes for
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bytSu.gArti: White
Maybp you draught, like I 014
that life is less stressful, and. more.,
easy gems for those of us who live
in the country and small towns
than it is for our city cousins and
But, onciagain,, a study has
` friends.
come along to prove that we're
wrong-The study was done in
New Zealand but the two
sociology profesa/ors responsible
for it say the same conclusions
can be drawn in Canada and the
U.S.
"We were trying to
demonstrate that stress was
greater in urban areas.
Everything caine out just the
opposite," one of them says.
It seems amazing to me, but
the doctors found, that the use of
prescribed mood modifying
drugs, like tranquillizers,
antacids and antidepressants was
twice as high in rural areas as in
high population areas. In other
words "it's really nice out there
in the country 'because everyone
out there is doped up," one of the
professors is quoted as saying in a
Canadian Press story.
Isolation and at the same time,
lack of privacy because everyone
knows everyone else, are cited as
two of the main stresses of rural
life. Studies in the U.S. show that.
'physical health is much poorer in
rural areas. Unemployment and
poverty are often more wide-
spread. The suicide rate in the
rural U.S, is higher than it is in
the cities.
Sounds bleak doesn't it? But
there's more.
. The sociologists figure that
rather than being unused to
change, rural people are exposed
to more change , than city
dwellers. That's because, they,
,theorize, rural and urban people
are exposed to the same Mass
media. But the media is urban
based and through it rural people
"may be exposed to life style
aspirations beyond their reach
and their relative deprivation may
engender feelings of frustration,
alienation and isolation."
In other words, - we have-nots
out in the country are ' slowly
.going crazy, cut off from the main
, quite well thanks, out here in the
Sticks. *****
I don't know about YOU, but
the main stress in 'my liIfe right
now is winter driving. It's too
early and it's 'too much, all this
snow, arid I'm fed up with driving
on slippery, snow packed, and at
times, invisible, roads.
If I could cross country ski into
work every morning I'd be happy
but' unfortunately, morning and
night, I have to put my limited
winter driving skills to work.
In the first two weeks of winter
I've been in the ditch twice. At
first I thought I'd like to thank
Clarence Maloney in my column
for getting me out of my lastest
ditch.
But what I'd better do, I think,
is save up all the n ames of the
good Smaritans who 'help me out
this winter and take out a full
page ad to thank them all, come
spring.
It's no wonder we have a h igh
suicide rate out in the country.
That's one statistic I understand.
******
Follow-ups to our hot news item
earlier this ' year on church
outhouses continue to flow into
the Expositor office. The latest
comment along t,kose lines comes
from reader W.G.Strong in
Ottawa, Mr. Strong is the author ),
of the popular "Remembering"
features that appear from time to
time in the Expositor.
Our bit about the Goshen
United" Church outhouse
reminded him of a story, Mr.
Strong writes and the story goes
like this:
In a story in last week's
Expositor about the Huron Perth
Roman Catholic Separate School
Board, trustee Vincent Young of
Goderich was incorrectly
(Continued from Page .2 )
the case up to a point, the theory of
diminishing returns comes into play — the
higher prices, the less prodOt IS' sold,
resulting in lower profits from wl1ieh to pay
taxes. It's as simple as that! '
Right now Aldborough farmers are paying
taxes, half of which will be refunded by the
, provincial government. So at today's 128-mill
rate, township farmers are only paying land
taxes on the basis of only 64 mills, which was
about the mill rate they were paying in 1968,
However, farmers pay 128 mills on their
residences. Likewise, village homeowners pay
taxes on the mill rate in effect there, which is
fair. What is unfair, is that business and
industry not only have to pay the full property
mill rate, but an additional 50 percent which is.
called **business tax". So if businessmen and
industries have to pay business tax, why don't
farmers who are in the agricultural business?
Obviously, if"farmers had to pay 100 percent
of taxes on farmland, plus an additional 50
. percent "business" tax, they would be out of
business, They might have been able to pay
such high taxes twia and three years ago, when
farm profits were high, but they wouldn't be
able to this year when 'corn, meat and other
prices are low. But businessmen have to pay
their taxes despite how poor their years. Not
only that, but business tax, the fruits from
which originally were designed to serve
Police Chief Stewart Stark wears squeaky
shoes.
I heard them while he walked his beat one
afternoon through . Mitchell. At the time I
wondered if I should run am and give him a
can of oil. Because how could he sneak up on a
culprit with old, squeaking shoes
approaching?
But all this was six months ago. By now
Chief Stark has worked the squawking out of
his walking--out of those new shoes of
his-those size -15's. yes, that's what I
said, size 15. '
Stark needs big feet--to carry all'of his 6ft 4
inches and his 235 pounds. And he. has more
than enough maturity to match his greying
'hail on top..
But there's another reason for those big
feet. He has big shoes to fill--keeping the
peace in his town of 2500. And now, with two
of his constableS recently resigned, the job's
even bigger. But it's better with the OPP
helping out until he gets yeplacement.
Stuart Stark is used to policing a town
almost single handedly. For seven years he
was the one man police force in a northeren
Ontario town of Thessalon. And the town was
not without justice.Thanks once, again to the
O.F.P. and a certain judge. That ode judge
acted as judge, crown attorney and defence
lawyer --all rolled up into one.
"I dare say more good common justice was
handed out by that judge than in many a city
court," says Stark.
Cheif Stark grew up on a farm. He was
raised on basic and simple honesties.
"Let's face it," he says, "our whole North
A merican system is •set up on a reward and
punishment principle., If I do a good job,
rewarded with a Steady job and decent
paycheck."
He thinks it should be/this way with criminal
1, justice. "We should callat spade a spade.
Treat that small hard bore element of
criminals for what they are...criminals."
"If you reward their cruelty with kindess,
then what do you reward kindness with?" he
asks.
A few years back he 'Says the experts though
you could rehabilitate everybody. You could
reform everyone,who went to jail. "But" he
says, "It just hasn't. worked out that tiay.
Today the prison system neither punishes nor
reforms."
Now, don't get Cheif Stark wrong. He's not
a cruel, vindictive than. It's just that he's
concerned With the good people.
He kriovk he's no Messiah-out ready to
I
business and industry, is a tax to serve
business— keep the business sectioVn good
condition, provide customer parking, nutting
other things. But so much of the business tax
dollar is eroded away to education, county,
and general village expenses, thereis little, if
anything, left to spend on the business
section.
There are many other inequities in the
provincial government's new tax reform
proposal which will be dealt with in future
editorials to better acquaint readers with tax
problems ahead of them.
Some are taxing schools, which will only
result in &letting taxation to schools from
somewhere 'else, with all taxpayers hay ing
t o pay, so where is gain there? There isn't
any, other than the provincial government will
pay some of the tax. But where does the
government gJt its money? From you, of
course!
The Blair Commission study was made in
the '.regional government area. of Niagara,
which will prove not an average area in the
province, so many more inequities will result.
If the examples of assessment in the Niagara
area are applied across the province
residential taxes will increase greatly.-
' Before the Davis government implements
the Blair Commission's report in 1978, when
market value assessment comes into being, it
had better consider the consequences which
will arise because of inequities.
save the world. But he wishes more people
would think about the rights of the good
people--the rights of the victim, instead of the
criminals.
"I'm getting sort of tired," he says, "Of
people taking •about their rights. I wish
somebody would start talking about their
responsibilities."
itilaybe police work , wouldn't be so
frustrating. For: it's so easy for some
policemen to feel they're that thin red line that
separates the good people from the
barbarians.
Stewart. Stark wants to police in a small
town. "It helps so much to know the people
you're dealing with."
And when you're in a small town, his 'arm of
the law touches everyone he knows--a
neighbour, friend, yes, even his own son.
"Sure," he says, "It hurt when I had to
charge my own son, but I don't want myself,
my wife, or my family to think we're above the
law."
In all of his sixteen years of police work,
Chief Stark has never pulled a gun on anyone.
He's never shot at anyone.
"I think our biggest problem by far is' still
alcohol. It's the biggest curse in our society.
And once you mix this alcohol with a car, you
have all kinds of problems.
"A motor vehicle seems to bring the beast
out of a human being."
In his Mitchell area alone, the community
averages about a half a dozen--mostly young
people--killed on the highways each year.
Stark feels our society has made heroes out
of the bad guys. If someone breaks the law
and doesn't get caught he's a hero. Sameway
with someone who outwits thepolice or comes
home from jail--heroes all. '
But Stark is some what of a hero himself.
Absorbing all the small town talk and2ossip;
handing out justice among the very people
who employ him; practicing good common
sense and using his own best judgement
whether-to lock the drunk up or chauffeur him
home in the police cruiser.' He's ready to give
many people the benefit of the doubt. He's
-ready to, talk, convince, coax and
"peacify"fwhenever he can. And if he has to,
he can giv4 out a Stark specialty-kneeing the
guy in the' rear to make him come around.
But what really convinces me about Chief
Stark, are these squeak y size 15's. If a police
Man will let his Shoes warn you he's coming
up on you, then he's probably one of the best
things that could happen to any small. town,
MANY MORE PENNIES — The Seafollh Lions added more pennies to the master
penny pot in the Toronto Dominion Bank on Monday. Here Lions Bill Hodgert and
Stue Coupland, manager of the TD Bank add some more. About 120,000 pennies or
$1200 has been collected so far. What do 120,000 penniet look like? Take a look in
the TD Bank window and see. (Expositor Photo)
Corrections
The landlord- gild not. PIAPArAt- the habit of going feiguiatiy„ :ypu.
and what W,P• meant, Mgt will be 04d. know that a great
thinking it over for a tune, he many persons take.their 1440
came to the couch:Wen that W,C, With them and; pl4k04.#0,.of
steed* Wesley's Church and he Others,,whn,.eaturai spare. die -
replied as =follows:? time, take Ora. 44111vIngOere just ;
in tittle,* last tittle nlY .3Vife and
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have the pleasure of-telling you 41.0 to be able to $0 mcge often, It
that the W.e. is located about may ,a4o interest you to, know that
nine miles from the house and is a lbazaar is IQ by /WO to furnish
capable of seating 200 persons -at the W.C. with pins, Rats as this
one sitting. The distance is has been a lmj4 felt peed,
unfortunately far, but if you are in Yews very truly , S;13."
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Opinion
Farms are businesses too
cAmen
by Karl Schuessler
The chief has squeaky shops
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"A young couple about to be
married were looking for a house
in the country. After satisfying
themselves that they had found a
suitable one, they started home.
During the return journey, the
young lady was very thoughtful,
and, when asked the reason for
her silence, she replied, "Did you
notice the W.C. anywhere?"
Not having noticed it, the
prospective groOm' wrote the
landlord asking him where it was
located.