The Huron Expositor, 1981-04-02, Page 2Any,olic 'w,ho's read this
column with a semblance Of
regularity over the years may
have just a slight inkling that
I'm not 'a well organized.
.porson. That I hate house•
work: tend to drv•am- rather
than do: and never ever
finish today what can he pia.
off until tomorrow. "-
, .And • they're right.
But its just conic to my
attention that there's help
available for peeple like me
and that people like me are
becoming .more common' all
the time. -
The help is in the form of a
'professional .organizer. Ron ,
ni Eisenberg is one and
people in New York arc
lining up to consult het , at
S50 an hour.
. She doesn't clean up for
the . disorganized. yoe won't
lear,p how that way' instead
sy diagnose's. helps you
make out a list of priorities
and then leaves you alone to
get at it. • Fiftcen_minutc.
followup phone calls and
MIMI 110U n.:et.1 check up visits
are also available.
Hearing about some of
Ms. Eisenberg's clients will
'Make the rest of us feel good.'
One woman's apartment got
so messy. she had to Move
oat. Another, a small hi:mi..
less owner worth $200,000 a,
year, stuffed invoices in her
much. so she'd know where.
to find them.- •
'One woman went to work
in one green qi-be and one
blue one..,.she couldn't find
a matched pair. Another
knew it was time for help
when site sat tit the middle of
her living room floor. sur-
!minded by frixes., all intut-
miseellancinis.
Yes. gentlemen it seems
that most of those who
require Ms. Eisenberg's ser-
sices are women but she says.
there's a reason for that: "I
think men hair always had
had 5 Sundays in the 100 years; and Grey
Township is this year celebrating our 125th
Anniversary since its organization in 1856.
If any one has any old sayings and
happenings of the earlier. days .e mad you
please write me a note as.rei where and when
=dhow it happened.
bt. We are else, trying to put together a
History Revie*of all ther petTlelluit helped
pioneer this Toivnship.',„tust5yrite or phone.
George Wesenberg,
A Brussels
getting rid of the' clutter in
your life (husbands, boy-
friends; kids are not included
under this heading):
Ask yourself "What's the,
worst that could happen if I
throw this out?"
Then pitch it. But On the
other hand, listen to your gut
instinct. If ,something really
is precious, ,rescue if from
the garbage can. (Personal
List your priorities. Do
what you really want to do,
not what t you shoold be
doing. •
Don't say' "I'll put this
junk mail on the desk til
have to go through it";
you're lust delaying decision
making. The same thing goes
for leftovers. "Shotild we
throw them out new or wait
til next week" is what you
To the editor:
Chaperones need appreciation
Being one of the adults on the band trip to
Myrtle Beach. I do hope the parents of the
girls realize how hard some of the chaper
ones worked on .the trip. Most of the
chaperones were available tetheir girls day
and night which means they got very little_
rest. Patrolling was a problem as tney had
three flights of stairs to cover and very time
consuming. I do hope you show your
appreciation in some small way. '
Respectively,
—01-ave Little
Constitution and unborn
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‘ouneti with the cement tile non to and to 41AmAt his parents in thy , W,, ,t, wa tityt c.
replace tit, old Wooden box his possible the funitalte stere•
work will be gone on wit,tt at-once. 't • J. A. -Wilson is taking a week's- holidays
Dr. H. 14. RoSi'. health ()Meer. has issped andthe Seaforth clerk's office will be t.lOsed
.1 umely warning to citizens to have their next week. Mr. and, Mrs: Wilson will spend
,iiinual spring cleaning of yards andyleans- • the holidays at the home of their son in
mg of outhooseS and drains,and their failure Detroit.
ni'do so renders them. liable to the pains and Veronica Dill. of
penalties of the law which Inspector Gilles- Guelph-is holidaying
me is instructed to rigidly enforce. and Mrs: Peter Dill.
dispho of flowers for the Faster holidays. APRIL 3. 1931
the large crack in the sidewalk in from Of We understapd the Supertest Ges
li d Guon's store. Seaforth. eatistri to the Company. of London. recently purchased a
frost heaving the • foondation, is being lot on OW turner i)f Queen St. and Ionian),
iyilaired,
lirdcrson 0:500ot:A were opt on 1111 /4 71(br•- ;
street.Ceittniissioner Broderick ;put Matnr • arage, nritielt be rim b' (144u'llt
afire threat in 1
In the years agorae
- - :Retail;.. f4.4ttrin$, -iitte0011-tjtt
risiards he gets for those things he doesn't
do w ell. But by liking for the best -possible
deal for himself at all'times. each Individual
becomes part of a whole that Will bring out
thy best for the most in society. Smith ;
managed to overlook the fact there would be
sonic who would get the worst out of his
s,sietn.
While Smith based his economic system
un the' selfishness of mankind, Karl Marx. in
reacting against this system in which a few
sera slued selfiSh people' had amassed
fortunes while taking advantage of those'
wtto didn't have so moghpower, saw---a-thew'
evonomic system to be set up after the t
workers had siverthrown their exploiting
bosses. His was a world where the common
goad would be served by everyone working
thgether..,
A LIBERALNIEW
Vow inany things have-changed the free
enterprise System of Smith over the -years;
not the least being the infiltration-of some of
Marx's ideas into western life..M any of the
charges. however, have conic because of a
differing way,of life, a more liberal view of
you th
women - secretaries, wives,
mothers - around to help
them get organized. So they
don't think they need to learn
it."
So there you- guys, it's not
that you're organized; it's
just .that you've got the ,
well-organized women on
,your side. As the sayieg
goes, we all need a wife.
My instincts tell me that if
1 giye away t Ms. Eisenberg's
tips for self-organization be-
fore I've quite mastered
them myself, 'I'm going to be
lower than ever on the totem
pole. However.lf we practise
together maybe we can en-
courage sand check up on
each other. (And that won't
cost us $50 an hour.)
SO, here are some tips for
for, but were careful to shout it only when
others were doing the same, so that they
wouldn't be singled out or humiliated by
sounding emotional.
There were no women candidates,
naturally. A women's place is in the home.
or out rounding up candidates (male). or
providing the lunch.
There were seven candidates, only two
of them with a hope of winning. Some of
than might have seen themselves as Joe
Clark's, winning on the fifth ballot, after the
big shots have knocked each other out.
es
First,
SEAFORTH, ONTARIO, APRIL 2, 1981'
Cutting for what?
We wonder if the priiiiinciel authorities who are cutting out courses at
the local, Clinton branch of Conestoga College, and the. federal policy
makers who are withdrawing funding from adult job training programs
read the newspapers.
'And we doubt
For, fast on the-heels of the announcement that federally Supported
retraining and a number of courses would be dropped at Conestoga,
comes the annual graduate placement report of Ontario's community
colleges. •
It shows that 91- per cent of last year's community college grads have
jobs. The report also says jobs appear to be expanding in the hospitality
industry, data processing and in civil, electronic, mechanical, indUstrial,
electrical and other technologies.
This is in line with a report from the Huron County Homemakers
agency which says demand for trained homemakers outstrips supply by
two''to one. The course that trains care workers has just been, cut at
.Conestoga, Clinton too.,
Makes you wonder doesn't it? There are jobs in technical and helping
fields, so the powers-that-be drop the courses that teach those skills.
Instead of making use of eager learners government and_ educatienal
authorities are telling our young people, and those who want to retrain
and get jobs, that they might as well for'get
Instead decition makers are, creating an. ever larger pool, of people
withouljobs orthCskiTls-to get jobs, angry, frustrated and'berred from
Life's mainstream. Some future.
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To the editor:
Old sayings wanted
Novi/that Spring is here and the robins are
hopping around on our lawns. we can shed
our woollies and enjoy thc•green grass and
leaves also the early flowers after being in
the house for over three months just looking
out of the windows. I do a lot of reading and
writing and I came .across :a bit of
information that maybe our readers would
like to share.
Did you know that in 1866. thi;re was no
full moon duritie February-- onrein a million
years event and in 1880.•1920. 1948' and 1976
were the only years that the month of Feb
Went to a political meeting recently ,
first in years. It was .a nomination meeting
to select:a Tory to run in the next election.
And, despite my tather jaundiced view of--
politics and politicians. I was able to
Mutter a little ripple of the old feeling that
politics- is exciting, and the democratic
process is far front perfect. but better than
most systems devised by civilized man.
As an old weekly editor, this was nothing
-new to .me. I published a weekly paper in a
paper. But I-enjoyed-every of it,
even When my man lost, which he
frequently did, because I lived on the
water, and the farm vote would almost
.always lick us.
Farmers are thicker than thieves, when
it pomestopollikt. if a Liberal riding.
they vote a solid Liberal. If it's Tory, they
go Tory. if it's NDP, they're crazy and must
live in the West, according to Liberals and
Tories.
As a newspaper editor -and quandem
writer, I have been wooed by all parties.
And, as a human being, I like to be wooed,
whether it's by cats, grandchildren, beauti;
women,ful or politicians.
As a result of this personality weakness,
I have worked, and written, politically, for
ill three major parties in Canada. I felt
tither hidly.„thet the Social Credits did not
W,00 Int.
1 have written speeches, radio scripts,'
Perhaps the paradirses of the world make
life interesting bin...416 're strati to, make it
hard to understand '
Fur ins t all er: the world today is donitnated
by two distinct s ot how things should be
run. the 'capitalist s test of western countries
and die eimmitintst s lea 01 the eastern
block..l - he belies yrs at each system struggle
to coils ince the test titthe world that theirs is
the only true stay .• hat's about the only
uncontusing thing about the two views.
From then on it all gets muddy.
'Me basis for capitalist philosphy all goes
back to a British ceononlist more than 200-
years ago. Adam Smith set dowli the rules
that have generally goserned the economies
of capitalist countriese'er since.
was that self-interest.,Nou might say greed)
made the world go round. In his .every-man-
for-himself-world. Smith sass .an intricate
system that would on balance provide the
common good. Pure economic theory based
on this thought holds that if .011l2 merchant
offers something two cents cheaper -Mail
another on the other side of the street, 'die
buyer w ill cross the street to save the two,
cents because hesout to look 'after himself:
lf everyone crosses the street. the merchant
who is selling tii dearer item a ill reduce the
cost and. • 'yoke wilrbe able to specialize „
does'best and trade the monetary
lite than the rather vicious, view Smith had.
Much of the liberalization came from the
teaching of the church, based on the
philosophy of Christ. It was Christ, after all,
who told the...rich man to give away all he
had if he wanted to follow him. This
liberalization saw' the potential of man, not
just his selfish past, and, thought that by
following Christian teachings a more human-
'way of life could be found.
• Now if would seem that this is closer to the
ideas of Marx than the capitalists. And yet
Marx saw his society based, on sharing as an
atheistic. one. Theie was 110 Inum fora-orritt
his nciv world. Materialism Was the only
god.
And so today we have one system. which
in its ideal form seems closest to the
teaching of Christ, denying that there is a
• god and closing down churches ire, the
countries that have accepted the belief.
Meanwhile we'. have another society which
has an economic system which in its pure
form is based on the basest desires of
mankind, which claims Christianity as one of '
the superior things it has 'over the
.1 There its no .cornering of delegates last Betty O'Dottnell., select group of nine (9) Men who are not
subject to public pressure and who would
have final say in regard to any legislation
passed by Parliament.
The majority of our Provincial Premiers
are against the Bill of Rights buts it is not
what it contains that has them worried.
rather what it leaves out. Arc you, the
reader. concerned also? We hope so.
The "Charter" contains the basic demo-
cratic and political rights such as free speech
and of course, language rights. However, no
mention is made of the right to life. To
millions of Canadians no Constitutional
Charter of Human Rights is acceptable
unless it includes the Right to Life of all
Canadians; the strong. the weak, the ill. the
handicapped, the retarded, the aged, the.
conceived but not yet born who are God's
gift to us for the future.
In 1969 a previous Trudeau government
was able to take away the Right to Life of the
MARCH 30, 1956
Norman- Long,--7 of-Kippen.t wiltobserve.-
21. years as mail courier of R.11- 2 Kip pen on
April I. Healso has carried the mail from the
C.N.R. station to the post office at Kippqn
for the same number of years and recalls
having been late only once.
Costs of operating'Scott Memorial 11..usEti-
tat, SeafOrth during 1.955 inereaCtrin
almostevery departmentitire arturottketitig
at the 'nktrSeS reshience-
Frithlyevvning learne4. Oespitt inciVases
revenge and, increases, to -thc nOtheti
Bdward Roberts, Rif ticilOPert
linesman, "Fie suceeds Johni<ollar. who
resigned;
John Thompson ot McKillop, and ;
Jamieson of Hullett, have returned from an
extended visit through Mexico and Califor-
nia. They visited Death Valley and the Grand
Canyon. Painted Desert and the Hoover
Dam. travelling 11..000 miles.
Communists.
, The same trends are evident within our
ow ii country to a lesser extent. The political
parties which are the most humanist in their
thinking, the left of centre parties. are also
most often to be 'those which arirru,n by
intellectuals who see no logical existence of
God. Yet those one the right wing, which are
most loud in their defence, of Christianity,
are also those most likely to follow air:,
every:inan-for-himself philosphy sfarAtint,,
the teaching of Christ.
FUNDAMENTALIST
Likewise the farther to the right wing you
go in thinking the more fundamentalist
becomes the religion people are, defending
trom -the godless communists and socialists.
The God of extreme right-wingerstifOre-
likely to be the revenge-seeking God of the
old testament than the kind, self-less,
all-forgiving God depicted by Jesus in the
new testament. EconoMists and business-.
men of this persuasion May argue"
the teaching of the theory of evolutiOn lath
iiehools, yet take Darwin's the surviiiitnict
fittest theory as a • rightful tene t of the
capitalist system.
Wit is in our modern world' where ironies
abound. But perhaps it is the greatest iron: •
of all that few .people oateither egrontet:ten,1
'Sec the irony of their position.
say when you're loading -the
`fridge,.
Set realistic deadlines on
how long it takes,,:to
things, ',add time for the
unexpected. Start with the
thing you like doing best.
You might just get it done,
and within the deadline toto.
And last but n•nort:teast
here's another organization
11.- placed - up from a
magazine article: lf, you do
get to be reasonably welt
organized, hide it. Your,
friends will hate you if they
ever find out.
March mays thanks
Thank you citizens of Seaforth. Egmond-
ville and - Harpurhey for your generous
support during the recent campaign for the
Ontario March of Dimes. We sincerely
appreciate the willing effdrts of all those who
made the door-to-door canvass a success.
Through your dedication thd Matel; of
Dimes is able to assist our naudigappea
people including one of 'our local residents
who just received a new wheel chair. If for
some reason you Were not able to contribute
you may still do so by sending your donation
to Box 142, Seaforth, Ontario.
- Thelma Coombs,
Chairman, Town of Seaforth
Ontario Mareli of Dimes.
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Behind the scenes
-by Keith Rou4ton
A
Member Canadian Community Newspaper Association, Ontario Weekly
NewSdaPer Aesociation and Audit Bureau et Circulation
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advertisements, and many "nett s re-
leases." a euphemism for political pings
the editors just might run for free, for all
parties. t
I never felt that. 1 was prostituting' ,
myself, even though I didn't intend to vote
for the guy I was working.for. I was simply
the"talent or'the time to do it himself.
There's ariotherreason I didn't feel like a
proititute. My total reward for all this was
one bottle of Crown Royal. and fi fty
dellars, deductible for the candidate, And
in every case, I voted against the guy I was
promoting, which made me feel sort of
virginal.
Well, you don't want to read about my
deviOus path as a political fink. Let's get
back to that convention I went to the Other •
night.
It was a typical -Canadian nomination
convention. I figured, as I wandered off
into the winter night with some young
neophytes who had never been to one.
Cigar smoke, a lot of red nos,cd guys
whispering to another lot of guys with
whiskey on their breath. A series of Wring
speeches, in which every candidate
pledged virtually the "same thing. and
invoked that•I'ig name in the sky. the
APRIL I, 1881
the SO forth Draught plc\ cis go m ,
Guelph todai lo p11.1‘ a tau mil% MA01 44 1.111
t he draught dub ot that I.1kk
1 tit: 111..1 addition bt•Itig k I d [ht. real
ot Pv1a..1“.. s s bloc k S,...i14 11 h look. tali itlut'h
like .k %ligation of the }ilt Iimos tit Litt
We understand that hit t ..1 Seaforth
intends establishing halliard and bow ling
abet% rotrims in -his Nosh actioninto
,Hitall.•11rottlets,Zit,V1*. the ttititittig,s to! 114
:are noWt lit evntisr,‘ etrei Mot •
' (ha Niet of • Winthrop lias ttehttt
PegKile?"
Ntii aro' hopped. spin And piled sits cord*
ad in nine hourS he work v% as donc,int
the farm ot Shiny° on h t. ttowt . •
uckereintoth These men most be equal to. a
sawing machine. but this is the kind of stuff
soung Canadians air.'made of
APRIL 6, 1906
W Harhurn of Hensall, our cutci prising
oteenhousit proprietor wilt has e a tine
A less. dap. ago. in Sow lair atuttt oho
all_ 3
d spi
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Sugar an spice
By Bill nliley
through a smoke-filled nominating conyen- . , siib2$1 to_mitc,,,nregort„Whr„ italtell)c . c 9,
provincial leader. And assurance -that we
must a ll pull together for the part.., no
mattcr.who won.
But what's this, when I walk in? A rock
group whacking out sonic deafening stuff.
Banners, sign s,. on sticks , silk, scarves
denoting your voting preference. A kilts
1
MacDonald College.
with, her parents Mr.
thin row
liet(tiu t.the. s,iiora ,!: t‘ reel, fivrrel-t p .:aiGnotts imrtier tail , the. . tpinittg g-)tny,,tithitli,tnittor ftieflgk,tp, ,vitoripi,„,1954 deficit. bt it'et*N 141V Of 414 s ivk lot a bill drain on the s.v.st tiiffc of At 1:111 these. it., ,s 4)141014 Ittalitc st4tttilp till ' 'etti or# t9t46•4;49418.1•W ,T01;' Cia*P4r" 4`41ti tlfu
tic's irA114' I sly licit .+till tlfg!'t and l'Toni kruse twilkvs: to off'parties. , 'Co-11111114$101eti of the Me10011. Mott10-
i,grfrit,foto9to, the.ani,,4,t of thcstile reqtfilVtt, •, • Mervie Lone oft Tugltersniiihts bus)* 9411P(S'" the rear ,ended with deficit which
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pelf-interest and the public good
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Soet w_ ing to say
by Susan White
note: or listen to your hus-
band tell antique dealers for
the next 20 years that you
pitched . his silver whatcha-
inacallit).
How many Canadians realize the implica• unborn child though changes made in the
tions of the proposed new Constitution which Criminal Code because of no widespread
will include an entrenched Bill of Rights? opposition by Canadians. Eleven years•later
This change. if implemented. could give rise we have the , lives of 600,000 potential
to the most, fundamental changes that Canadians destroyed because of our apathy.
Canada has experienced since Confedera , Come on. fellreiv Canadians. let us 'not noise
ttion! have a new Constitution which ignores
rural riding, and had to go to the Bang completely our unborn brothers and, I An entrenched sill of Rights would result ,
things. Often had to drive 'fifty miles, sit in a shift of power front Parliament, whith is "understand, even God's (holy name is .
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using a skill for someone, usually a friend lis*-.4 ,,-4,,N,,,,,-.0.S1100*193114* ...410/11.1gAZIALZ,041s-004.----R.-- . A..." ft.e•--tt,,,V.! - -,tt.s4,',1,,,tit.'"'I'''"•a,t-h.,,tbNaartjt-W-2t-g-t-a-tt3J-htc-8r;itPg4"'"'"'—'"T'hi5'4Gtfr'll'''t4.aPrt'7''''sw'i/rgl"*'rOuri'iir Canada which is composed of a , - Submitted Hopefully,
w-o as e me, 'Maus(' ne oidn t n have Us write the.story for neap morning's. a‘e Holy Old Ncliy. I thoiight. what is the
sober Canadian voter coming to? minute deals and promises. The candidates Lucknow ,
And,when .1-took a look at the size of the all stand up near the front, smiling •
crowd, I was shaken. I was used to two or desperately.
three hundred of the old party flacks. the The wives of the turkeys who ran without
people who handed out jobs iti the liquor ,a• hope are whispering harshly in their
store, gave the nod to the contractors of the hSubands' ears about: all the money down'
right persuasion for construction work -a , the drain. But their husbands are euphoric
post office here, a new dock there. in the knowledge that they can some day
But It needn't have worried loo much. say they ran, and were narrowly. defeated,
Despite, the effect of American political for parliament.
conventions on TV. we Canadians behaved The candidates all said the same thing,
with decent de, in different words. My man made the best
There were no demonstrations. No speech. came second on the first ballot and
fights. no marching around the hall. stayed second until the last ballot, when he
fiercely cheering their candidate , except soared to second. It was all over,
for h few teenagers who embarrassed We elected a possible back bencher
everybody, instead of a potential cabinet minister. But
Those honest Canadians wiggled their it was democracy at work. You can't beat
banners a bit. even held them up. A few them there farmers, whet they get
uninhibited souls, with nosense of decency together. Why don't they do it more often?
or decortrin, actually shouted aloud ' the Because they are stubbprn iiidividualists,
name of the man: they were going to vote that's why. 'And good fiii them,
•